No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 570: Saturday US Open Recap

Episode Date: June 19, 2022

Hunter Mahan and Kevin Van Valkenburg join the show to recap Saturday at the 2022 US Open. We chat about The Country Club, Rahm, Rory, Zalatoris, Fitzpatrick, the rest of the leaderboard, a cathartic ...Hamsterdam section, and a lot more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm going to be the right club today. Yeah! That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different! Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to live from the Kill House, Sully here, Neil is here, hello, Neil. Hey, just finished cleaning up the grill. It's quite a day.
Starting point is 00:00:39 DJ Pies here, hello DJ Pies. Hey, what's going on? What's going on? Happy to be here. Butthurt Randy is here, hello Mr. Butthurt. Hey guys, Neil did you guys kid DJ. Hi. Hey, what's going on? What's going on? Happy to be here. But hurt Randy is here. Hello, Mr. But hurt. Hey guys, Neil, did you guys kiddin' noise violation? Yeah, man. He said you were coming. I mean, we were having a ball, you know, Yeah, it was raining. I just we had other plans. All right. Well, you know, DJ's cousin is kid. Got messed up. What's long story? We'll get into it in a minute. We got the serge who's going to be on bot patrol tonight. You'll be here in him popping. We got his guest lined up.
Starting point is 00:01:06 So I'm not expected guest tonight. We're very much looking forward to tonight's show. And in honor of NBC and what we just witnessed, we're going to front load, okay? All right. We're going to talk about first of all, can you give us a quick ice update? Ice is holding strong. Honestly, ice kind of looks like the rib look after us. That's what I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:01:22 It's very apropos. It's, they're both tied up. We're not out of it. We're not out of it. We're not out of it. But it's it's getting a little watery. I don't think we sealed it last night with the clips. So the vacuum seal was off, but you know, we also should bring to your attention that the tonneur 45 you may not know what I'm referring to, but when I say it's the the iconic Yeti cooler, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You've seen them. It's the big cooler. It's perfect for the beach. It's durable. The ice retention. You know exactly what I'm talking about. You've seen them. It's the big cooler. It's perfect for the beach.
Starting point is 00:01:46 It's durable. The ice retention. You know about the ice retention. We don't have to tell you about that. You can pick a myriad of colorways, including the alpine yellow looks amazing. Yellow sick. Yeah. They've incredible stuff at Yeti.com.
Starting point is 00:01:58 So a big shout out to Yeti. The whole thing you'll say is that's the official cooler of the franchise. You can't go wrong with the tundra. Also, we're going to give shout to our friends at rowback. We got a lot of green going on here. Niels got the gray hoodie going here, if you will. We've been wearing their gear for a while. They've been huge supporters of our show.
Starting point is 00:02:15 Everywhere we go, we're seeing rowback. I see it in the airport. A lot of shout outs for cooking with Darrell. Apparently, a lot of fellow cooking with Darrell fans in the comments after I gave him a shout out last night. They got performance polos with incredible fit. They got performance Q-zips, which I'm wearing. I actually brought a different one, but the camera really hated this thing and it was mega glitching out.
Starting point is 00:02:34 So I had to change out of that one. And then the hoodies. The stretchiest softest hoodies in the game, as I mentioned, you can wear multiple times. How many times have you worn that? A lot. Yeah, it's one of the things I'm saying. Before washing, I'm saying. I'm getting you to reach for in the drawer like after the laundry's
Starting point is 00:02:45 done, you're like, where's that? I think I washed the hoodie. I'm going to put that on. They're gaining traction everywhere. And you can use code NLU at roback.com for generous 20% off your first order through the end of this week. That's r-o-b-a-c-k.com, 20% off polos, quzips, hoodies, anties with code NLU. The green kuzis as well. You're getting so much run out of that green one. I mean, you were for Cadi and for Lauren. You're wearing the, you know, it's like, when Randy finds something he likes, he sticks with it for a while.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Many people are tipping me up to the, the, the, the rowback nod as well. You see some other rowback in the, in the wild. And you get the, you get the nod, Randy. I don't know if you've experienced that. He did on flight. He said last night, he gave some guy a code. He influenced the guy on a plane. How about that?
Starting point is 00:03:26 Yeah. Proper major champion. I give a nod to every dog I see out here in Denver. A lot of nods just fit. Yeah. Proper major championship golf today here at the country club, if you will. What was what was your guys biggest takeaway from the day? DJ? Man, is that a tourist for me, right? I know that's easy.
Starting point is 00:03:47 We're starting at the top of the leaderboard, but God damn, it's just, it's really hard to be the guy that, you know, coming in has all the stats going their way. All this guy does is play major championships. All this guy does is play these big ass events when the lights get brightest. He shows up with his best golf and he did it again on by far the hardest day that we've seen in this championship. So, Guy, I just, I'm still, of course, rooting for Rory. I, you know, we'll get into that in detail later, but it is so freaking impressive what Zalathoros has been doing in the majors and
Starting point is 00:04:17 it continued today. And maybe the most impressive, I think we've seen him today. Like KVV was on site and basically said that felt like 63 or 64. What he did out there today. I don't get a lot right, but I think like throwing a alarm bells up in the preview of like dude, his odds are not right. And I said this before after the PGA was like, he should lead the conversation for the US open. You must have bet all your all 200 of your draft.
Starting point is 00:04:39 You know, it's not a big deal. I put 80 on them. Let's talk about. I'm riding right there with you. I'm sure that's who that was. I got fits too. So don't be. Yeah, duh. I just cut the game both with. Well, I like where on them. Listen up. He bets who I'm riding right there with you. I'm sure who that was. I got fits too. So don't be. Yeah. That's gonna just cut the game.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Both win. Well, I like where I'm the game. I'm a headger. So it's it's it's Supreme ball striking. I think I mean based on what I what I was able to see on the US Open website. He hit the ball really well. That's just looking at the shot tracker. I didn't see where you're going there.
Starting point is 00:05:01 But I got you. I got what you go. It took you a little minute. But what stuck out to me today was watching three, let's say four of the games top players, the tippy top players, the volatility, watching Sheffler get to six under and then, oh my god, he's at one under like and it happened very suddenly rom on the last hole. Like I think the course held up really, really well. And almost lulled some of these guys
Starting point is 00:05:27 into a false sense of security early in the round or kind of midway through the round because the first four holes were tough as well. And then the minute they kind of relaxed, like, like, Sheffler gets the 11T and he's, you could tell he was feeling it and he just, over the green and then just rattles off three, a double and three bogeys in a row, I think.
Starting point is 00:05:45 And it's like, man, that changed quick. And I felt the same thing with Ram on 18. And Rory was more of a slow bleed. We'll get to that later. More Kawah though, same thing on the front nine. So say what you want about this setup and I do not mean you, Randy. I, it's out there in terms of as soon as you make a mistake,
Starting point is 00:06:02 you're gonna pay a price. It is out there for everyone. There's no cruise control, there's no, he's got it. There soon as you make a mistake, you're gonna pay a price. It is out there for everyone. There's no cruise control, there's no, he's got it, there's nowhere to make a mistake coming in. I mean, Ram, I would have thought was gonna get it in the house, boom, missed in the bunker, double bogey to finish. It's everywhere out there.
Starting point is 00:06:14 And that's what I was gonna say about Zalator, which is reading some of his post-round quotes. It's so freaking impressive again that he's 25, and we've talked about this with Max before, where it took him a long time to do, like everybody says the cliche of like, you gotta really be patient in a major and you don't have to fire at flags
Starting point is 00:06:30 and you gotta, you gotta pick your spots and then we talked about like the, you know, we joked about the Max, the Pro 2.03.0, all that stuff, where you actually have to experience it in real life, right? Like you do have to get your doors blown off and then you have to see the ball go through the hoop on like, oh no, I can be patient and I am gonna be there on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:06:48 I'm gonna be there on Sunday. And is that what's yours again? Like reading at this afternoon, he's like, no, I didn't fire at a single flag. Like not one, even with wedges. And you know, you just, you get some pups to go in and like doing that for 72 holes has got to be so hard. And you saw it with Scotty a little bit, right?
Starting point is 00:07:04 On 11, where he's trying to fly to that back shelf and gets caught with a hand in the cookie jar and then you know You kind of it's almost like once it gets off the track Then you you start pressing you saw it with Rory Well again, we'll get into that again, but I'm 13 He had some good stuff in the post-round about how he wanted to hit four iron through the tree and Harry was basically like Yeah, you might do that I would Yeah, he said four in the press room. He's like, you know, you might, yeah, you might pull that off, but you also might make
Starting point is 00:07:29 eight. So why don't we just go out to the right and like keep this thing in front of us and just constantly, constantly, constantly checking yourself on like, don't be, don't be too aggressive. Don't be too aggressive. Don't be too aggressive. He's got to be so freaking hard for any player. Let alone a guy like Zalatoris who has never won on the PJ tour Who is trying to get the monkey off his back who's 25 years old like it's just you can't say enough impressive things about him
Starting point is 00:07:53 Randy, what's your what's your biggest takeaway from today? Well, I want to see some comments actually in here too So if you can guess who our first guest is a guest is gonna be I bet you won't be able to guess it But he'll be joining us shortly. But Randy biggest takeaway from today It was fun great take off guys. We're getting beat up guest is going to be I bet you won't be able to guess it, but he'll be joining us shortly. But Randy, biggest takeaway from today. It was fun. Great day golf guys. We're getting beat up. You know, big, big numbers were out there. I thought it was a lot of fun. I'll let go with DJ said, extremely impressed with both Zalatoris and Fitzpatrick. I just, I spent some time thinking about Zal Taurus after the PGA Championship.
Starting point is 00:08:25 I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but in the moment after that, he was nothing but confident. And he said himself, it's just going to be a matter of time. I know I'm going to win one. And for a guy that, I don't know. I wasn't admittedly like a huge fan or, you know, he didn't do a ton for me. I am growing to really appreciate Zalatoris
Starting point is 00:08:52 and I really, really enjoy watching him in these tough conditions, these major setups both at Southern Hills and now at Brookline this week. He's winning me over, and it's fun. I really, I truly hope he pulls it off tomorrow. It breaks through. Well, our guest is ready here. We're going to be calling him in from the green room here,
Starting point is 00:09:13 and we're just going to keep it going here as we welcome Hunter Mayhem into the show here. We're going to call him in from the pool. Hey, shades, man, you just get off the ski lift coming straight out of the bullpen. Straight out of the beach and Dallas here, Yeah, surfs up, bro. What how much golf did you watch today and what was your biggest takeaway from today? Um, you know, I watched kind of as much as I could. I was kind of hanging with the family this afternoon and we were home hanging out and I was kind of
Starting point is 00:09:39 watching on the computer because when you have a bunch of kids, they get to watch what they want to watch on the TV. So I think goodness for YouTube TV. But yeah, I mean, I thought, you know, the US State deserves credit when they do a great job. And I think they've done a great job this week to have four under being the leaders in the clubhouse. I think it's exceptional. I think the golf course being really not that long, but still having a plenty of opportunities
Starting point is 00:10:06 To make birdies and having tough really challenging goals They have a great blend the court. I clearly the players are raving about it And going into tomorrow. I feel like this is First greatest will play today. I mean a 67 in those conditions is phenomenal It's when I when, when I watched, I felt like John Rom should be leading by about three or four shots. And I don't know how he's leading,
Starting point is 00:10:30 how he's down by one right now. I mean, he's, I feel like he's the best player this week, but we'll see who wins. Help us make sense. When you're watching this, our jobs here, which we're but one bunch of idiots, we have no business having this job, is like trying to figure out who's gonna be rising and what skills are going to separate out you can identify that a
Starting point is 00:10:48 lot clearer it to these leader boards this leader board make a ton of sense to you when you watch major championship golf as far as the dudes that are able to survive a tougher test. bulk striking travels you know people talk about you know you gotta draft a show and putt for dough putting is sort of cyclical. We see guys who are great putters kind of struggle at times with them make a lot of putts. Ball striking is what is gonna put you in these tournaments and that's why Will's Outdoors has been in these majors
Starting point is 00:11:15 is because he's an exceptional ball striker. He's one of the top probably five on the world right now for what we've seen the last couple of years that he's played really well. He just seems to hit everything extremely solid, almost like very David Devall, like when he was in his, and his hey, he just seemed every shot was perfectly pin high.
Starting point is 00:11:34 It was kind of one of me was looking for. It seems like he never hits it out of interesting wayward shots. He's just always in play and putting clearly has let him down, but the fact that he's been in all these majors in such a short amount of time tells you he's gonna have to make it for you to win, but box tracking is gonna give you all those opportunities. I'm super impressed with his pace on his putting.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Like I know he's gotten a lot of shit for missing shorties rightfully so at times and sometimes he shakes him in, but it seems like his pace really has traveled in these majors, which you were talking about you were talking about speed earlier and it seems like he hasn't had the right pace at a major in about five years now. But that always sticks out to me. I'm just curious, Hunter, do you spend much time with him at all in Dallas? Do you have a know him at all?
Starting point is 00:12:15 I still feel like he's up there in every major and I still kind of don't know anything about him. Don't really feel much towards him, you know? That's kind of a great comment and so true. I remember I got to play with him at Pubble one year we got paired together a few years ago. I met him, I think he had his title as a back in the wake force. I know how's it going while I knew he was from Dallas and he said, I said, you know, what year in score are you?
Starting point is 00:12:45 And he's like, I just turned pro. And I think I think he turned pro. I was like sophomore year or he really, really early on. And I was so kind of confused. He said, well, there's so many guys coming out. My opportunities are going to be kind of tough. So I figured I just turned pro now. This is what I want to do.
Starting point is 00:13:00 And this is, I mean, this is, this is my life. And so I'm going to dedicate myself to that and sort of get after it and hopefully get some opportunities and we'll see, you know, what happens. But, I mean, that was a few years ago. I mean, he is, I think he's the epitome of someone who's all in and off and he's a complete grinder and he's someone who really, really wants it. And he's turned himself into an extremely solid player who, I mean, we're just going to camp down the second until he rolls off three, four, five wins in a calendar year. So Hunter, I question, we were talking before about patience with the open and how, you
Starting point is 00:13:36 know, Zalatoris is going for the middle of the green. He's not firing at flags. Do you feel like it's a lot different here than it is at a regular Torstop week to week? Did that take you a few years to learn when you were playing in the open yourself? Like, what's the, how hard is it to be patient out there? Oh, it's an, it's an extremely strong mental grind. I mean, you really have to prepare yourself and understand sort of what you're walking into and understand that powers are good.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Middle of the green, let's be smart about where we're hitting our second shots and where we want our puts to come from. If we do miss a green, what kind of angles do we want our chips on? You saw, it seemed like 11 was a perfect example. That today is, it's 140 yards. It was a perfectly placed back pin for those sort of conditions.
Starting point is 00:14:24 And you saw there so many really smart good players were hitting it 15 yards short of the green and allowing it to bounce up there. And then you saw a few guys get a little bit to aggressive and fly it over the green. And I mean, it was like an automatic double today. So you have to think so hard on every single hole and then every single shot. You can't just be super aggressive and just kind of fire up pins, knowing that the ball's gonna hit and just stop there. I mean, it's a mental grind on every single shot
Starting point is 00:14:52 and you see that when these guys have 20 footers and you can tell they're thinking, okay, I can see this going in, but if I put a miss of the hole, it might gonna have six feet left. I mean, John did that a few times today where I felt like he was a little frustrated and he was trying to make something happen
Starting point is 00:15:09 and he hit six feet by luckily he made a lot of those. But I mean, it could happen so fast and you can go, you know, bogey bogey, make a double here or there and you feel like, you feel like you lost 20 places and you're out of the tournament all of a sudden. What do you have? Do you have a good example that springs to mind
Starting point is 00:15:23 of getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar at a US Open and just kind of, you know, not learning that lesson or just really, really kind of getting blown up? And along the same lines as that, I want to know what the worst or hardest or most diabolic or even unfair US Open you've played in is. Oh, that was Oakmont when I think on hole one. seven I think I I mean I felt like I think you I was it a playoff I think you want to like five or six over or something I think I was like at 13 over and finished like top 15 you know and I mean we were playing and it was like it just felt like there were no birdie holes and you're like I don't know where we're gonna make a birdie today like it
Starting point is 00:16:03 just felt like it was impossible and I holes. And you're like, I don't know where we're gonna make a birdie today. Like, it just felt like it was impossible. And I remember I played, you know, Marion, Marion and, yes, I think we had driver on a part three. And, you know, I think there's a clip that's somewhere on YouTube me saying, you know, what the hell is this? What are we doing on here, guys? Like, what's going on here? I mean, I can't think of any like blow up moments
Starting point is 00:16:23 where it was just sort of a disaster. I mean, I just, I remember playing, you know, my first as an amateur and it was just like stepping to a US Open Golf Force. I think this was an O3, a Chicago and it was just like I entered a different world. I never seen golf courses like this set up that way green so fast You're just looking at every pot thinking I mean how do I to put this? I mean, it's just so I can't think of a moment where I kind of blew up But I'm sure there were plenty of those you know on those golf courses What do you have a pick for tomorrow? You're and we'll get you out of here on that if you have anyone that's sticking out to you
Starting point is 00:17:02 It sounds like you liked ROM after today, even despite the double, but who do you like, Mark? I've kind of liked ROM all week. I just kind of feels like it's time to win another major. I feel like we haven't seen the best of John Rom, and it's golf. I don't see really too many weaknesses in this game. I think the only thing that holds him back sometimes,
Starting point is 00:17:23 just kind of watching him on TV is Just his emotions get sort of the best of him and they come out sort of and put some certain situations Because I think he just I Think he's so good. He expects to hit better shots Then the results you get sometime. Yes, and in the US open, and then when you play the opens and you play these majors, you're just not gonna get the results that you want. Even though, I mean, there's so many times that it seemed
Starting point is 00:17:52 like I saw him hit a shot and he just was so frustrated with the results. And that sort of carried over to some of his puts and he slammed him too hard. I think when you just step back, I mean, he's very furious after 18, but he gets plenty of time to kind of cool down tomorrow and get after. I think he's played the best so far.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I think he is the best player. But you know, it's hard to count. A guy like Willie Z. I feel like he's just not going to do anything to hurt himself and he'll be there all day. Oh, for crying out loud. I love watching Rob. It's an emotional roller coaster. I love it too. I mean, I love it too. I love I love watching Rob it. It's it's an emotional roller coaster. I love it too. I mean I love it too. I mean he's so good.
Starting point is 00:18:29 I'd like to say we haven't seen the best of John Rob and I feel like he should be leading by three or four shots here. And I think he's the best player. I think he's gonna he could easily run off six seven majors in his career. That's scary stuff. So hey thanks for being available. And short notice man. Great catching up. We need to have you back on the pod for another full app. You were an awesome guest here. I think a couple of years ago now at this point, but it seems like it. Yeah. No, I think I love what you guys do. Keep it up. Thanks, man. Take care. Thanks, Hunter. Thank you. I should have let you get, let's get some questions in there, Randy, about, about US Open
Starting point is 00:18:59 setups and what you, what you probably loved about the era that he played in. Mayhem, the freaking one man thrill ride. He's a hot, really dilly. I love it. I feel like, what more did Randy need to say when he said, yeah, oh, seven. I mean, it was unfair. He said, the Oak Mall.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Oak Mall said, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was unfair, you know, it's impossible. I mean, what else is Randy got at? I will say, and we had more time with Hunter, I, this is what I would have maybe asked him or at least said was, I'm not sure how much we need to be patting the USGA on the back. I think this week is more reflection of Brookline just being a superior golf course.
Starting point is 00:19:37 And it producing a great championship. In my opinion, more so than anything the USGA has done. Yeah, I mean, they chose to go to the course. We got to give him a shout out for that. And they set up the T's and they set up the pins and charge the greens and all this. Well, let me put it this way, Randy. Like, I don't think that they've, I think they could have pushed it harder the first two days, sure.
Starting point is 00:19:57 But they haven't messed it up to me if that makes sense. Like, I think some of the, you know, they clearly have a strategy of graduating the difficulty day over day and you may disagree with the strategy, but I think they're executing the strategy. Would you agree with that? For sure, for sure. And we don't need to belabor it again, but I think that's where I take issue is I would like the strategy, like let's have a four day championship that's brutal and they see
Starting point is 00:20:23 it a different way. I think when Hunter talks about Oakmont and some of our past US opens, that's kind of what we thought of as the US open brand, right, was just four grueling days of golf and I don't think it's quite that anymore, which you know. You had agreed a disagree. We gave you 24 hours to come up with a 36 hole us open setup that was two You're liking did you the demand just come up with one? Me yeah I oh What's the question what do I maybe I don't understand? I'm saying like the that's your that's your dream us open as far as the first two days were perfect at
Starting point is 00:21:01 At Oakmont oh He's trying to trap you, right? He's not making a pose in you right now. He's done playing the fifth, right? He's the posing yet. I don't know it yet. I'm just asking. Senator, I do not recall the first two rounds.
Starting point is 00:21:17 He mentioned Marion too, and I did look at this yesterday, so I know for a fact, I think one guy was under par, Mikkelsen, through 36 holes. I think it was one under. So it's been done before where there just aren't like 67s out there. But again, I think everybody enjoyed the golf today. I guess my overriding point is like,
Starting point is 00:21:38 hey, what if we had two more days like this? How would that be fun? Yeah, I think that could have done this yesterday. I'm with you there. Like the way it played today was just like, primo for me. I wish I could have seen more of the golf today and felt like I was, you know, in it a little more,
Starting point is 00:21:52 but that's not the course or the USG. Well, maybe it's the USG as far a little bit. I'm actually with the utmost respect, with the utmost respect. I'll disagree slightly in that. I don't mind the first two days being a little easier because I think they get a little gun shy on the...
Starting point is 00:22:06 There's some shitty players. There's a lot of bad players. That's true. The grounds are very, very slow. If they have any kind of weather that moves in, they get delays. I mean, I get that... I thought today was a blast. It was great to see guys make doubles and triples, and it was great to see guys have
Starting point is 00:22:20 legit chances to make birdies if they hit great shots. We got the little boys out yesterday. Exactly. The little boys that we did that. And it was stalled only today. Yeah, yeah. They opened the, yeah, there was a, they opened a couple of the kennels up there today. Yeah, they did.
Starting point is 00:22:30 Oh, but that's the whole thing. Let's not give these little boys false hope. We all knew they were little boys. We all knew they were going away. Well, that's why they got cut. They're out. They get out, get out of here. But you gave them there two days, you know?
Starting point is 00:22:42 No, you got to have some weaklings and some runts still in the, in the field in the field when when when we come to the weekend, you know, it can't be all dogs, right? It's got to be a blood bath. Yeah, I mean, it'd be crazy. They need someone to gang up on. That's right. That's right. My last point on the setup, which I think we we won't really see with this graduated difficulty is, there's just not as good of a chance anymore to see guys mentally break. I would point to your boy, Kalamore Kalamore, but that's another conversation. And if you saw the picture of Rory walking out of scoring today, I would say he was pretty
Starting point is 00:23:17 close to breaking today. Rory was the embodiment of pee, pee, pee, he blinds you weren't in France. These guys go through one round of this. I mean, you know, talk to Johnny Miller, talk to A's and they used to have to do four days of this. Talk to Kurt Strange. I just don't know if that's historically accurate. I really don't. Yeah, that's a bit of a, it might be aggressive.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Oh, those guys wanted more back at the day. Trust me, man. Play with Per Simmons, man. Exactly. There's about the love of the game back then. Tell him how it was about the love of the game back then too, man. Play with Persemin's, man. Exactly. There's about the love of the game back then. Tell him how it was about the love of the game back then too, big. These guys are getting catered to its gross. Let's have a four-day psychological examination.
Starting point is 00:23:55 That's what I want. Matt Fitzpatrick shoots a 200-par 68 today. Drives it over the road on 15. Is Fitzpatrick stunting on everybody right now. It's absurd. Yeah, it's outrageous. I think we might have to start some testing on the tour. You put it out a call.
Starting point is 00:24:12 I don't know, man. I see hanging with Victor Conti. I mean, the speed's unbelievable. It's crazy. I mean, good for him, but it's just jarring to see. He's the only guy that hit it over the road on 17. It's 17. 15. As far as I can tell, they don't do a shot chart that you can actually see on there, but Fitzpatrick's time for the lead at the US Open ball, basically being neutral and
Starting point is 00:24:32 putting for the week. He's plus 0.34 in putting. He's gaining a shit load around the greens, but gaining three and a, three and a half off the tee and over three shots approaching the green over five shots around the green. So basically, he's chipping his ass off. Cross-handed. Yeah, cat-handed, yes. Cross-handed as well. That's worth noting, yes. He is leading the field and strokes getting
Starting point is 00:24:52 around the green, cross-handed. God. I mean, it's awesome. I'm rooting for him. I'm enjoying when they have showed him. I think I saw him three-putt the first green and then we picked him up again on 14 or 15. Yeah, when he made the birdie on 14 or 15. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:13 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:21 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. because he's a little guy, right? We assume that maybe I've assumed that Fitzpatrick isn't long. Is this new? It's new. It's new this year. I'm just making sure I didn't miss this
Starting point is 00:25:28 for the last five years. He was like 112th or something like that in ball speed last year, and he's 40th on the PGA tour this year. Like over five mile an hour, ball speed gain in average in a year. That's not insignificant. So I know you're a big stats guy.
Starting point is 00:25:43 I don't know if you have this top of mind if we need to reach out to Justin Ray, but could you tell me the last US Open champion that was also a US Amateur winner? No. That also had braces that also chipped cross-handed. That was that was Jamie Weir tweeted that earlier. Actually, it was that also worse catcher. Bryson, I think, is the last US Amateur. I had to look it up. But before him, it's pretty bleak, man. I don't know who it would have been. And I mean, look, this is gonna be pounded and pounded and tigred and pounded into a bias tomorrow, but this is pretty absurd.
Starting point is 00:26:12 This is where he won the USAM. It's awesome. And maybe win another USGA event. And massive credit to him on, you know, kind of exactly what I just got done saying about Zalatoris. I mean, he's a guy that everybody expected to play well and it's really hard to play well
Starting point is 00:26:24 when everybody's expecting that. And, no, he played by his own admission, very, very bad on Sunday at Southern Hills, which was not long ago. And to bounce back the next major and step up and take the 54-year-old leader or tie of it is awesome. Man, it's so impressive. Just, I'm not gonna lie,
Starting point is 00:26:42 I just looked up if productivity was supplements. It's not, it's management consultant, but I was just wondering if he's been, you know, garden life, herbal stuff going on. I don't know, but that kind of ball speed, that's crazy. He just completely transformed his game. Yeah, I don't know if it's workout stuff,
Starting point is 00:26:59 I don't know if it, I, he documented some swing changes on Instagram when it happened. And we've been, I mean, we've mentioned this several time on recap I was just how often he's popped up and actually yeah in top 10s and how well he's hit the ball And he's played the best golf of his life coming into this and yeah was that on the I would have thought his odds to win this week Would have been lower than plus 3000 which the worth the beginning. I mean and they'realtor is. Exactly. Those are the two that were sticking out the most. And T times R out, they're going off at 2.45 tomorrow, him and Zaltor.
Starting point is 00:27:31 It seemed like it got V-Dark. Yeah, that's the R earlier tomorrow. Well, they got a lead for playoff. Leave some wiggle room for a weird two-hole playoff for the US Open. This is a, which we can talk about it tomorrow, with these two. That's a disgrace, right?
Starting point is 00:27:44 Yeah, I agree with you I think it should be 18 36 Thrilling for me thrilling final group Like I'm really I'm very I watch both these guys play. It's gonna be a lot of fun Rainy let me just let me just double check this here You want an extra day of watching golf you want an extra day you want to go to Monday for a full playoff That means yeah, this is good golf. I'm like, back golf, I have to watch it.
Starting point is 00:28:07 I really get it. At least give me an extra day of good golf. That's true. Got them. The Monday finishes had to be such a bad rating. Just throw everybody off through the networks off. Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Imagine how much money it costs just to get the truck out there. That's what the truck's out there. Yeah, get the volunteers back out there scrambling for all that crap. That would, that's got to be a tough business business case for the Monday playoff. I hate. I've got to feel like I should know this. Like your Rocco the last. That's what I was just going to ask. That's the last playoff. Last one. God, that's insane. It's kind of makes sense, right? I mean, like let that one be the last one. No, that's great. I just mean like playoff in general.
Starting point is 00:28:42 They haven't had the two-hole playoff yet, right? No, have not. I wanna give a shout out to our friends at Precision Pro Golf, the official rangefinder of NLU, the Precision Pro, NX10 is here. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to, the first customizable rangefinder in golf, an interchangeable sideplate and front plate, and you can personalize the look of your NX10
Starting point is 00:29:00 to fit your style with PPG's ever growing collection of designs. My jaw dropped when I went to the precision pro site, went to the products, the NX10. You go right in there and you can do the no-ling up or the strap design on it. It looks so good. It's incredible. Yeah, it's got flames on his to express himself. It looks a little bit like the interstate rest stop.
Starting point is 00:29:16 It does. The motifs, which I'm cool with. My jaw dropped, honestly, very, very earnest. My jaw dropped when I hit the button on the NX10. And it locked on. So to the point where I was like, that's way too quick, that can't be right. It's awesome.
Starting point is 00:29:29 It feels like a really good tool. Yes. It's got some substance and girth to it. I'm into it. Very, very good. Fathers Day Sale, you can save $20 on your NX10 from now through June 19th, which is tomorrow. They've got industry leading customer service,
Starting point is 00:29:43 free lifetime battery replacements, 30 percent trade-in program in a warranty for each product you will not find a better team to join again that ends tomorrow so hurry up on that uh... and save twenty dollars that precision pro golf dot com play with style and hit more greens with precision pro golf ranny let's talk about more college we would love to what what your uh, you're opening statements, please. Yeah, it was super keen to see how he played today. I think if I could just read into the record,
Starting point is 00:30:13 I think you said, quote, we're gonna learn a lot about more cow in today. And quote, I think we did. Why don't you tell the class what we learned? Yeah. Could be a dome golfer, you know, I think we had we had wondered about that. I wasn't ready to declare it But man he he looked really bad today Can't help but notice, you know in tough conditions. He really wilted and went away
Starting point is 00:30:44 I you know until it the onus is now on him to prove that he came in tough conditions, he really wilted and went away. You know, until the onus is now on him to prove that he can play in conditions, because I think after today I'm ready to admit he's a dome golfer and that, you know, that's a giant red flag in my book. I hate it. I'm pissed off. I'm mad as hell. If I wanted to go this way, if I may challenge
Starting point is 00:31:05 that Randy, the only thing I would say is does he need to be a great golfer in conditions? Or could he just rack up major wins when there's not conditions? I mean, does he get a little bit of a pass for winning two majors? And I know there wasn't a whole lot of shit that went into those and the the open that he won was a very winless one. But of course, he gets to run away. Just a major WGC's, you know, things of that major. But a two time major champion is, you know, we can't declare him dead just yet. No, no, but I, I, I think what today does is he,
Starting point is 00:31:33 he's a lot more rory, rory McElroy than he is, you know, somebody like Tiger Woods or like a true generational talent that can win anywhere in all conditions. I think that's It's just disappointing, you know, I really wanted Morokawa to be that guy and You know, it looks like maybe he's not you know, I was very frustrated with the fact that we didn't see him at all From I think like basically the whole back nine until 18 and I know you got a drop a guy from coverage because It was just and that brings me to my next point. Maybe you don't know that's my and my point is like it would be nice
Starting point is 00:32:10 Like if you if you could actually sink in and figure out what's going on Yes, I feel like I'd have no idea why he shot what 78 today. I have no idea why no clue And that bothers me like that's that's annoying because you you built him up as a storyline All morning and last night and now I can't see any of it. There will be a answer damn sections tonight Believe me. Oh believe me. There will be this was the worst golf telecast. I've ever watched there will be a hamster We will have I'm gonna put that on the record right now, and it's not any commentators fault But that was a fucking disgrace. I think you're underststating it but we will get to that i think it was a it's one of the worst things i've ever watched on television
Starting point is 00:32:49 i i i i don't want to you know i don't want to squirm out of this please you know add add to calling i i i i want to own everything i need to own wow that is the jay or that's great that's very cool what am i what am i missing or not convec no i i i think you're i think it's I think you're you're being too hard on yourself I think more kawa bad majors are gonna happen. It's gonna happen
Starting point is 00:33:11 And also also I think you know give them a little pass I know it's very over talked about but like clear this swing's not there He wasn't having good form coming in and you know probably faked it a little bit the first the first two days But he's one of those dudes that the kind of when he's off like he's still not at the, what's the right way to say it? Like he's he's still not of the pedigree where like like Rory or like spieth or whatever when you notice like, oh, God, he shot 75. The world's over. Like he kind of toils an obscurity a little bit still and and he didn't do that today because he was in, you know, in the lead cone into today. Leave politics out of this code. Come on.
Starting point is 00:33:47 This is for the story. What are you doing out of here? Come on man. I'll say I saw enough. That's good stuff out of more cala today to be like, oh God, he does make a shitload of sense for majors. Like he, you know, again, we didn't get to see this part where it went very wrong, but like pouring puts in the middle like he does, hitting the center of a lot of greens,
Starting point is 00:34:06 like very good success in majors is ahead for more. I have strongly strongly believe that. But he's a good player. He's a very good player. I it's big of you. It's always disappointing to me when, you know, we're all searching for the next big thing that the true generational talents and, you know, this was a big opportunity for them.
Starting point is 00:34:27 Get three-fourths of the way to the Grand Slam. I think it's calling a Mr. Bigel's worth. I'm not really sure he means by that. I think he also, I stand by everything we've said, but I also think you might win two masters. Is that, or okay. Now it is a draw, I definitely think. Yeah, exactly. Well we have guest number two further than night waiting in the green room here.
Starting point is 00:34:44 And if you go ahead and bring him in here, Cody, he has been on site today at the country club. Oh, Mr. Kevin Van Volkkenberg from ESPN and ESPN.com, KVV. I know you haven't heard a lot of the show leading up to this point, but where are your big takeaways from what you saw today? Wendy, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy. I was fun out there, man. It was really, you could tell that some dudes just did not have it. They were pretending, um, or it would be the top of that list, uh, and, uh, guys, well, he was living in the bandie spot Obama knew behind you. I already bombed their podcast earlier. so this is the second precision pro podcast that I've been bombing. So, you know, yeah, I mean, as always,
Starting point is 00:35:29 Kyle and I were drawn to Rory because why would we be drawn to anyone else? So we got to see a lot of Rory up close, but, man, it's a proper golf course other than the TIO bullshit that's everywhere. Tough. And, yeah, I mean, I think it's just, it's fun to watch guys get in the trouble without like a bunch of kind of dumb hazards involved. Like there's no, you know, waters and come into play a shit ton on this course, but it's just hard to like leave your golf ball
Starting point is 00:36:01 in a safe spot. And so there's always kind of trouble lurking everywhere Take me to the TIO on 18 because listen up We talk about this a lot But it certainly seems like what's gonna happen to at least tomorrow is gonna be the 72nd hole of a major championship And it really really seems like the further offline you go on 18 the better off you are because John Romm was barely off and Rory Was way off and was able to hit the green very easily both directions as well correct yeah why would you not just hit it into the tent intentionally at this point either direction yeah i mean you're the only place you don't hit it is in those bunkers which is where wrong
Starting point is 00:36:36 did which is kind of disgusting right like i'm sure Phil would have loved to have ten club links of relief uh... wing foot which if i if I may say, the sickest way to troll fill would be to do this. That's true. That's actually kind of sweet. It's all on a labyrinth plan to stick into fill. The USJs is kind of epic with them one more time. Yeah, I mean, it was, look, there's a big aurora stan as there is, but that seemed a little bit like, you know, I never quite have understood like being the difference between,
Starting point is 00:37:06 think about like, just a Thomas Noggetting relief from that drain earlier today, which is clearly like screwed him in every way, but like being able to say, yeah, the TV tower is like mostly in my way, it's all kind of just an honor for a thing, right? I mean, it just, it feels a little bit gross. It does.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Well, and I think we have a picture of where the ball was, Cody, if you can run that. Yeah, his ball is underneath a tree. But I guess the fence from the drone or the blimp shot, it looked like the fence cuts right in this picture. So, it's like, oh, it's impeding his view. You know, but it's like, did he have a shot at that? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:37:44 I'm so frustrated to me that, to me, it's simple, they could just have a, you could take line of sight relief and take a stroke, or you could play the ball, right? Like you could in a hazard, you know, or a penalty area, whatever you want to call it. I just feel like this is so, this impacts every tournament I watch in some way, either strategy with guys going for it, you know, and they know they have a backstop
Starting point is 00:38:04 behind the green, or just like hitting the worst shot of the day and getting like a hundred yards of relief for line of sight. What the fuck? Not good. And Neil, I think, Neil, I think you made the best point of all. It's like that masters TIO that shall forgot that scoreboard is always there. How can it be like a great, some guys court doesn't. Katie, some guys, no, no, no, I worked out there though They take those scoreboards down and the I don't care that that looks like a pretty permanent Abstruction to me like come on man. I'm with you. It's it's awful. What a I kind of I think that there should be no relief except from Casual water. That's my or maybe maybe
Starting point is 00:38:42 no relief except from Casual Water. Well, that's my or maybe maybe this week it could have been a local rule where you either play it as it lies or you can shotgun a Fernando and then and then you can get line of sight relief or do what the RNA does they make you drop in like a really shitty drop area like you don't have special relief areas are like here's what you get like this is what you get from this but you hit up the shitty shot it should not be advantageous for you to get a drop and i hope seems like a simple thing i hope the championship is not decided that way tomorrow and it very very very well could be uh... what uh... you what did you see out of rory today i i i is it like the best or the worst seventy three we've ever seen it's it's one of the two or maybe a mix of both and follow
Starting point is 00:39:22 up can you quickly write a piece for us being about how he didn't you didn't want the smoke and he's not going to win tomorrow because that seems to be seems to be the only way we're going to get a double the tomorrow. Come on too many multiple too many multi-part questions KVV doesn't like that. Yeah I would love to crack that joke with him but I'm not sure that he could quite follow the plot. Yeah I punked you and Justin Thomas but it only worked with you with the BGA and then Justin Thomas dunked on me. So
Starting point is 00:39:46 Yeah, I think Honestly, it was super gritty. So I was thinking about this remember that stretch when Rory like just seemed like he was a full ejection mode at all US opens like yeah that Aaron Hills What was a neck of gawk mont it was just bad? It was it was never even like he missed three straight cuts Now he's like a pretty consistent pretty Gritty us open player. I mean, there's to be honest from some of the spots where he was hitting it And there's no way he should have shot 73 today But he just kept sort of figuring it out and like how to get up and down from weird spots
Starting point is 00:40:18 Kyle and I got to see like a pretty cool sequence when I sure you didn't see this on TV because Judging from my Twitter account it was not no one the NBC had no clue that all this was going on but on 13 he yanked it really far left with an iron and we couldn't even believe it was Roy's ball we thought for sure it like had come from another hole and so we were standing like right there way left in the trees we came over there and Roy's you know three feet from us. He's talking through all his options with Harry. There's all these drunk and idiot fans who are, you know, you're going to do it, bro. Come on, bro. Those are trunks, the smartest fans of golf.
Starting point is 00:40:57 Yeah, I'm just really educated, clapping for layups. I mean, those are the best fans in golf. So there's like a tiny window. I'm not kidding. Like looks like this big, like maybe 70 feet in the air. And we're always like wanting to hit five wood. He's taking out five wood and he's like going through the motions and you can just here he's doing that thing that like bones used to do is just like. And he finally kind of convinced us like, Hey, you know, just just chip it outside ways. You know, get up and down from there. We can make this where we kind of, you know, find slunch of
Starting point is 00:41:30 shoulders, pitches outside ways. It's an unbelievable approach to like a ridiculous pin that was on like a little shelf. Makes a 10 footer for par full on like fist pump. Goes the next tea, absolutely just annihilates his drive and it's walking after it and Harry's kind of like jogging a little bit behind and he was like right next to me and I was like wow and he's like yeah I was like good thing you talked
Starting point is 00:41:52 about of that one and he's like yeah he wanted to have five wood through that. Yeah you never know where you're going to go with the accents man but you got range it's incredible. Yeah he got next to me shout nearer saying I'm being too loud so I got it I got a ton of thought. You never know where you're gonna go with the accents man, but you got range. It's incredible. Yeah, he Rory is yeah, never mind. Mom made comment. Rory's leading the field and putting to this point He's gained seven point three strokes on the field in putting and eight one puts on the back nine Yes, something was unbelievable. Every time he thought he was dead. He was rolling on. I'm so proud of him I he just he's still in this thing, you know, it shows a grit Randy, you know came back
Starting point is 00:42:31 fell out of the bounce castle at the at the block party and how was the block party today? It was we battled the elements get taken to the garage for a little while When he hit that bomb on 14 that's what the neighbors kids started DJing for the party, the sun came back out, it was great. And then for a long time, it was one of those parties like somebody's, somebody I don't know that well is like showing me photos of their kid on their phone. I'm like, I should have stayed home.
Starting point is 00:42:57 There's so much shit I could have got done at the house. But then it cleared out and some of the like, kind of weirdos left, it was me and Neil. We had a great conversation, we're flipping some burgers. Well, and then it kind of was all worth it. A lot of the like kind of weirdos left. It was me and Neil. We had a great conversation. We're flipping some burgers. Well, and then it kind of was all worth it. A lot of the day ones didn't show up. Like I thought Randy, I thought Randy was gonna come. Like some of my friends said they were gonna come.
Starting point is 00:43:13 And they just never showed up. I was there, brother. Yeah, no, man. And I appreciate that. Guys, this was all day in the kill house. All day in the kill house. This is all I heard, the entire day. Here's what you should write about.
Starting point is 00:43:26 What when when when when we start giving Rory the you know that the congratulatory you know went went poopy in the potty treatment you know. Oh my god Rory you shot a 73 on Saturday at the US open we're so proud of you you hung in there. I mean Jesus what do we, is he not one of the best players in the world or not? Ready.
Starting point is 00:43:48 Ready. I'm glad you're here to hold this accountable. I mean, I know your standards are high, but I'm sometimes too susceptible to Roy's magic. Sometimes, you know, when I felt like I buried him on Saturday in the PGA that that was a little too harsh when it was probably extremely appropriate and as held up in some ways. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, like there was a lot of, Murray does get a little bit of a, I guess, a pass from some of the harsh criticism because we like him and want him to do so well. I think so much.
Starting point is 00:44:18 But I don't know. I mean, he didn't play like trash today, but it could have easily been like 77. So I think we would have established him pretty good there. So which part do you give him credit for? The ball striking was good enough to shoot 77-80, but the putting was unbelievable. And where I push back on that just a little bit, Rainy, I do see where you're coming from
Starting point is 00:44:36 and I agree to an extent. And I'm willing to admit, I've been very, you know, I've given him way too much leash on a lot of this stuff. My point, the last, you know, basically since Augusta, is that we're seeing a different guy than what we were seeing a couple years ago. And a couple years ago, we were not giving him that treatment.
Starting point is 00:44:55 At least I wasn't. I think that was very much when we were in the, like, yo, this is just another guy, territory. And really kicking off with probably royal port rush, right? When it's like, okay, this is the time he's gonna do it. He's gonna be the guy, oh, he made eight on the first hole. Like that week, and then the kind of like year and a half after that was very like, yo, this guy is completely irrelevant.
Starting point is 00:45:15 He can't get off the bus. He's just, he's not in it, and now he is in it, in like a, you know, he's looked fucking awesome all year at the majors. And yes, he's had his moments where he's slipped back, but like he's going to finish in the top 10 of a third consecutive major out of three this year. And like you got to like him going into the open as well. It's still I see what you're saying, but he is still like head and shoulders above nearly if not everybody else.
Starting point is 00:45:42 I'm sensitive. I think he's a more complete player than he used to be. That's what's hard is that the talent is more evened out amongst the whole parts of his game, but the results just aren't there. Maybe that's just a sense of the field is deeper and some of those young kids grew up and now, like the Scotty Shalver never exists. He won the Masters this year. So it's hard to kind of judge him,
Starting point is 00:46:06 figure out where, how to judge him at this point. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Dej, it doesn't feel like just another guy anymore, yet. He's outlasting the spits and a lot of dudes, the DJs, the Keppkas, more Kawa, like a lot of dudes that have just not had sustainable major championship performances this year. like it deserves worth noting, but everybody except Zaltaurus really, I mean, like, I don't know, man, it's a little bit like to like he's flight and wedges here, you know, we've been pretty critical of him, like not being able to hit
Starting point is 00:46:39 wedges and he's he's shaping different shots. It's not like he's just sort of slapping it up there, high end of the sky and praying like he used to. I think he's really learning to do different things. He seems very mentally engaged. And Porter said it last night, like we've been on him. You were just saying it. We've been on him for seemingly not caring. Yeah. And I will ride with him because I feel like he cares deeply.
Starting point is 00:47:00 This tournament the last two months, like you said. So it's fun to watch it's something I'm invested in so I'm you know we'll be out there grilling tomorrow anybody wants to come by doors open Randy I'll say it you're crazy if you don't think he's going out in 30 tomorrow to start like it's 100% happening like we all know it right but he 30 40 I might get 73, but he battled and he's literally what three back, man? Come on, like he kept himself in it, in your shot. That's impressive. For sure.
Starting point is 00:47:30 I think there's certainly a universe where he can win and does win tomorrow. But I just, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, more just DJ, I take your point. I, I think, you know, he probably has bounced back and he's better than what he was a few years ago. But it's fascinating to me, we just don't treat any other players like we do Rory in the sense of he's got everything he needs to win a ton of majors and he doesn't do it, but we still, you know, we're still rooting for him and we're pulling for him and we're saying why it's great and it's just very fascinating to me.
Starting point is 00:48:18 I think some of that might be, I don't know, it's probably another conversation, we need to flesh out a little more, but I think that might be more like generational internet, post-tiger, like, you know, adopting the guy and then just never going away from him type stuff. Having spieth gets a lot of that treatment as well. And a lot of it has just like, dude, we've been hard on him. Like we've scrutinized pretty much,
Starting point is 00:48:38 there's not all been pee in the potty stuff with Rory over the last four or five years. No, just recently. I did, it or five years. No, just just recently. It's just interesting. Let me ask you this. All suspending all bits, suspending all everything. Do you root for rory or do you root against him at this point? I don't root against him.
Starting point is 00:48:56 No, no way. I think Kim being in the mix is great. I honestly would, it'd be great for golf if he wins another major. So I would never root against him. Who is your pick? I think KVV, go ahead. So like you, I picked Al Torres at the beginning of the week and I didn't get to see him claim it much today because I was thinking if he does win, I want to write the crap out of him
Starting point is 00:49:22 tomorrow. But yeah, I still think that he's just, you know, he's hitting Niren's pretty flush. He's, the putting seems neutralized in some respects here because nobody's, other than Rory, is putting their brains out. And I'm just going to stick with it. I feel like he's, he's got the game and this is his moment when he can sort of close one off.
Starting point is 00:49:44 What are your thoughts on the Country Club overall? Is it a US Open test and how it's played to this point? It's pretty awesome. I like it a lot. I've seriously felt a couple of times like I'm glad that Tiger is not stumbling around the crooked rocks here because that would be make me hold my breath every time I'm so I'm doing it. But it's fun to watch guys Guys have to hit line shots. It's a cool atmosphere.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Especially when the wind is up, it's super hard test. It is literally weird to see wild turkeys like running around like one ran in front of Rory as he was walking off the 14-T today. Yeah, it's just a cool spot. I mean, I don't think that the membership would wanna have an open come here as often as we might like, but I mean I would love to see one here every 10 years or so. I think that'd be great.
Starting point is 00:50:30 Great question from Blake Hall. Have you had a Fernando KVV? I have not had a Fernando. I think I need to make that a priority. Let us know what you think. Overrated underrated properly, properly rated. Please let us know. I will do a 100% of Fernando tests tomorrow leave leave the leave my reviews in the comments KVV last question for me. I just curious how how cool it is to see I know you named one of your kids after Keegan Bradley Seeing him in the second last group tomorrow is guy. We really really cool, especially in Boston Yeah, the Andy Johnson declared it an absolute disgrace when people were chanting Kegan's name
Starting point is 00:51:05 hair. It was like a low moment for him in the history of golf. I told him that if my daughter who's just about to start ready to play a USGA events, if she grows up and becomes a good golfer that maybe they'd crowd can chant her name to kind of like equal out the universe here and sort of wash that room as memory. But I mean honestly like if Keegan got in the mix tomorrow as much as Keegan is sort of annoyed us all like it was pretty fun theater. I got to see any scenario where Keegan could hold on but maybe you know it would be you know how long has it been since we've had like an actual like
Starting point is 00:51:40 hometown favorite in an event you know it's It would be sort of a fun scenario. Not since Patrick Reed. Just being deering. Not since Patrick Reed at the moment. But my problem with Keegan is he's not explainable enough of it as a villain. Like every time it comes up, it's like, why do you think not like Keegan?
Starting point is 00:51:59 Like Reed and Bryson, it just makes so much sense. Like what it happens. Everybody knows exactly why people don't like him. And I feel like the story's not been fully fleshed out, baby our fault as well. I wouldn't say I don't have any vitriol for. No, it's not easy. Well, but it's the nervous energy. You know, you bring it in, you're like, oh, this guy's gonna, he's not gonna, he's not gonna make it. That's, that's good theater. Yeah, that's good theater. Yeah. So I don't think I'm ready for a two-time major winner, Keegan Bradley.
Starting point is 00:52:24 But KVV, we'll let you get out of here. Thank you for calling in, man. And I hope we get a great major championship someday. Greatly appreciate the time. See you, Kevin. Cheers. Cheers. I just said. Cheers. You just capitulated right there. Unbelievable. Scotty Schaeffler. We haven't really talked a whole lot about him to this point. He holds out for Eagle. keeping a real goes wrong. I saw a comment a while back said that Scottie's brother MuZone from the wire, which I've been thinking about that for about 15 minutes.
Starting point is 00:52:56 Yeah, maybe. Spoiler alert, does it head will create it. That's what I mean. That's an interesting take there and I like it. Yeah, enormously weird round of golf. I mean, he eagles number eight to get to six under and like literally everyone, it's kind of like Bitcoin. When it hits 45k, it bounces off of it and falls. Everybody that hits minus six automatically falls down.
Starting point is 00:53:18 I think these, but the third or fourth guy to hit that number and immediately retreated which I think is made a really cool element of this thing. It's like no one is on cruise control. Bitcoin's down to 18,000. It's getting crushed. Oh, my God. Scotty has, what one thing I've learned recently,
Starting point is 00:53:34 now that he's been much more in the news and on the telecast, he has a low key temper that I didn't realize was there low key Maybe a little opus Dave. Yes, like where they almost cut away whenever he's doing it But he's like cutting away. He's just beating the shit out of some bunker And whoa, no cut away now. It's a little the the Don Chula, damn arena. Yeah The gold man chill out man So he's got that defense put. Good.
Starting point is 00:54:06 I know. Jesus. What? The put on 18 felt significant to shoot to he's two back going into tomorrow. Number one player in the world and seems like he's going to be a part of the storyline tomorrow. I'd be surprised. I'd be very surprised if he was not part of the story tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:54:22 And credit to him, you know, not not Pup in the party type of credit, but yeah, dude, it was wild to see what he did. He made the put on 10 to kind of hang in there and then played the next, what, four and five over and to not let it completely fall off the rails and to end that way was, I'm with you, very significant without doing anything crazy in that stretch. Like it was not horrific. It wasn't shot 11 was bad. It was, I'm with you, very significant. Without doing anything crazy in that stretch. Like it was not horrific, it wasn't, shot 11 was bad. It was, but yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:49 It was, but like that, I'm just saying, like I've really enjoyed that part of the country club is like it's all out there. Like if you're rooting, cut, if somebody gets up there and you're kind of rooting against them a little bit, I'm not saying I am, you're rooting for somebody else, chances are that person's gonna give you something.
Starting point is 00:55:03 Which is where, you know, Gundam I had, do I think we're always gonna win tomorrow? Probably not. No, I don't. Hate that. But just don't come to the party then. You don't wanna be there, don't come. Gun against my head. You know, I'll tell you that I hope I think he's gonna win, but like if someone's gonna
Starting point is 00:55:17 shoot me, that's not a one big. But the point of that is, like seven people had the lead today, and he's what, three back, four back, three back? He's three back. Like a true Kevin Garnett, anything is possible. Sure. Out there. Oh, for sure. In a negative way.
Starting point is 00:55:34 He's in it. I felt like, Shephler's had such a heater the last two, three months, last six months, let's say, and it felt like, you know, the kid that finally hit his head on the diving board, like doing gainers, you know, he's been like fearless up till now. I was like, whoa, actually, yo, that hurt, you know, like that can happen, you know? Like, it's like, you know, it, like that shot over 11.
Starting point is 00:55:56 It's like, oh, no, he's had so many chip-ins and all kinds of shit. And it's like, well, no dude, you can, you know, you can't crack your head open doing that. Like, did that happen to you? That's so specific. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:08 I got, I got the kid on the kid. I got got on a diving board for sure. Look at me. No, but little kids are doing it. My point being little kids are fearless, you know, and it can be diving board, snowboarding, whatever. And then you fall really hard. And it's like, yo, I don't want to.
Starting point is 00:56:24 I'm not having a good time anymore, you know. I do want to at least mention Adam Hadwin sitting at T4 at 200 par. That was a sneaky 70 shot today. Allegedly, that's what the scorecard says. We will get to hamstown. Don't you worry. Joel Damon. Well, good for Hadwin too. Just like being up there through 36 and you see that a lot with, you know, your MJ Duffy's that your, uh, uh, talent, talent, talent, talent, talent, talent. I mean, uh, but you see that with like, you know, they, they, they peeked their head above the surface and once they go down, you just never hear from again. And, and had one would have been very easy to do that and, and hung, which he has not done
Starting point is 00:56:59 it major championship. So great dude. I, I hope he, hope he hangs around. That would be very cool. Um, and then Joel, Joel Damon, playing the final pairings did not have his day today. Shot a four over par 74 still sitting right there tied with the worry two seven going to the final round the US open thought. A lot of these guys have a lot to play for tomorrow. That's not, you know, I'm not saying Joel can't win. He definitely can. But, uh,
Starting point is 00:57:19 looking at the card, he, he had a very difficult front nine and then kept it between the Mayo and Mustard all the way in on the back. With just really, 10 straight bars to family. Really impressive. When it probably got pretty, pretty sad back there with him and Mark Howell. Yeah, like that shit is contagious. Not much crowd.
Starting point is 00:57:37 You know, a yo man, stay over there. Like, stay away from me, man. And also, I mean, he mentioned it on the show. I went back and watched it last night, but the 345 T-Time is a very real thing as well, right? I mean, he mentioned it on the show. I went back and watched it last night, but the 345 T time is a very real thing as well, right? I mean, that's so many hours to kill. He's clearly not been in this situation
Starting point is 00:57:50 very many times. So 74, like, was that the score? He was looking forward? No, but could it have been a lot worse? I think it could have. And he hit it good today. He was positive off of T, positive approach. He just putted poorly today, lost his shot and half
Starting point is 00:58:02 on the greens. If he shoots, you know, if he shoots 70 today, or 72 instead of 74, he's sitting there at one day. He's three back going in tomorrow. That's insane. That's totally in the mix. So Cody, can you throw the odds up on the screen here? We'll take a look at the DK Sportsbook odds
Starting point is 00:58:19 as we go into the final round. Will's out towards plus 300. Matt Fitzpatrick plus 330. Rom plus 360. the final round, Will's Outdoors plus 300, Matt Fitzpatrick plus 330, ROM plus 360, Sheffler plus 600, Rory plus 1,000, Kegan plus 1,400,
Starting point is 00:58:30 Sam Burns plus 1,600, and Hadwin plus 2,200. God, Rory. All right. Rory 10 to 1 tomorrow makes for a really fun day. That's literally where he started the tournament at. He's made exactly where he's supposed to be. That's a fun, fun, fun back.
Starting point is 00:58:44 Just sit on the couch and watch tomorrow. Yeah, you're nuts. You're nuts. But that's what I'm saying. It's 10 to 1. It's nice upside. Randy, feed us something crazy. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:58:54 Yeah. Come on. I, I, two things, two, two reactions to those odds. One, Keegan at 14 to 1 is probably my favorite value. And what immense respect for Fitzpatrick and Zalatoris being both favored ahead of a guy like Ram. I think that's a ton of respect being bestowed upon those two. Yeah, Ram looks pretty tidy at those numbers to be honest.
Starting point is 00:59:21 One shot, that he's only one shot back. That's not that much of a difference. God, it's going to be awesome tomorrow. I can't wait, but I think also it's time. I think it's time. We've managed to go an hour into the show and keep the coverage takes to a minimum of what's possible. And Jeff Shackleford said it well on Twitter today. It's a shame of what's happened to our national championship. And that's, that's what I felt today. I thought it was like a total disgrace of what this championship.
Starting point is 00:59:52 What happened to somebody cheat? I'd have been better. Oh, yeah. I'd have been better. Some, you know what? You're saying they did cheat. They cheated us out of it afternoon of what should have been very entertaining. I completely agree with you.
Starting point is 01:00:04 Don't worry. I'm just, it's just funny to me. It was the worst. The brands are out in the open field. They're bucking. Did she, they cheated us out of it afternoon of what should have been very entertaining golf. I completely agree with you. Don't worry. It's just funny to me. It was the brands are out in the open field. They're bucking. And I want to again, emphasize the broadcasters, shout out to Dan Hicks who gave us a shout out on the broadcast.
Starting point is 01:00:15 I don't know if that was meant to kind of mute us for today. It's not going to happen. Shout out to Tommy Roy. This is not blaming you for this. Like somebody signed on for like quite literally like two and a half times a commercial load of what it should be. And this championship when Fox held these rights, it was not anything like that Fox bottom for like a hundred million dollars a year somebody tweeted this out of earlier NBC picked
Starting point is 01:00:36 it up for thirty seven million a year. So they basically got it for sixty three million dollar a year discount and Fox ran a lighter commercial load than any of the other networks did for outside the masters and so when mbc picked it up i was like huh kind of hope they keep the same a lot of commercial amounts that have been contracted and they clearly just bought it for the discount and dumped more commercials in it than if you like they even do on a week to be basis it's it's unwatchable it's they can't follow any story lines they miss so much much of the action. I can't really report on the golf because we missed so much of it It was one of the worst the worst telecast I think I've ever watched was today and I would say
Starting point is 01:01:12 DJ Sully and I were sitting on the couch and DJ said it There's so many commercials and they're so abrupt like almost like after two or three or four shots They get me into it and I've been scrolling or whatever. I'm like, okay, cool the golf song. Then they go right back into a commercial and then I get back on my phone or my computer and then I don't even realize
Starting point is 01:01:33 when the golf comes back on, right? Because they come in with the intro music and then they hit me with a Boston, you know, some special about the park and whatever. And then all of a sudden, I'm like, I have no idea what's going on on the golf course. And I feel like in today's world with so many screens and so many other things people could be doing,
Starting point is 01:01:52 it's like you gotta give them a big chunk of like, yo, hook me. Don't look away. Don't look away. Like, find a time throughout the afternoon where you're just going to show golf. And hopefully that's towards the end or in the middle somewhere.
Starting point is 01:02:06 But we thought maybe the front loading muscles, they weren't. It was really tough today. It. Yeah. I, I both like, of course, I agree with everything you're saying. I kind of don't want to belabor it because we've said this for years and years and years. And today was another kick in the like ball sack that has been kicked just so many times that it almost just doesn't, you know, kind of resigned to the fact at this point,
Starting point is 01:02:30 but it majors used to be the break or the US Open used to be the break from this. It's just gotten to a point where like honestly, directed at the USGA, directed at NBC, all the grow the game stuff, all the like, we are trying to get people into the game, ring so fucking untrue when that's how you present the product on TV. Like go fuck yourselves.
Starting point is 01:02:49 If that's what you think you're gonna do, you have the shining truly, the best leaderboard I think I can remember this side of I would say like the masters right was awesome to watch. But as good of a leaderboard as you can possibly ask for, as good of a golf course as you can possibly ask for, super interesting weather. Rory's doing stuff, young guys are doing stuff, old guys are doing stuff, live is popping off. Like there is so much interesting golf and that's how you want to present the telecast
Starting point is 01:03:14 like go fuck yourself if you're going to constantly kick us in the teeth and try to shove handicaps, rep the tag, like make golf your thing, Like hit me with two commercials about the US Open. While I'm watching the US Open, go put that shit on ABC and tell them to come over and watch. And that's where it's like, dude, you gotta pay the bills. I get how TV works, I get how contracts work. But like all the house ads, all the, let's look back at a signature moment.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Here's Payne Stewart. Like, dude, take it all the way and just show the golf. Otherwise, you don't believe in your own product. And like, I'm Dude, take it all the way and just show the golf. Otherwise, you don't believe in your own product and I'm not gonna take it seriously. So I'm with you in like, what's that workplace like efficiency stat about? Like when you get distracted, it takes you like seven minutes to get back into the task
Starting point is 01:03:56 that you're doing. Like that's literally what the commercials are like. Once I go back away, it's like, do you reset the clock? Once I try to find just for my block party, like it's good, take me five, 10 minutes to get back into the coverage, right? It's like, it's just really depressed.
Starting point is 01:04:10 I got a Conner Adam said, he saw more shots of the little kid try to be Tiger Woods than he saw. So that commercial's fire. Yeah, but you can't hit me with it five separate times. Like use it wisely. On top of the NBC house ads, like it's just America's Got Talent
Starting point is 01:04:25 and this thing and blah, blah, blah. And I added Mike Wann today and I asked him about this directly on the podcast last year because last year's in combination, this felt worse. And Mike Wann was just now just then taking over the CEO of the USGA and I said, like, you know, asked him basically about like this product, like the pride of your organization is this product,
Starting point is 01:04:44 is this telecast. What is your reaction to it? And you kind of said, I need to get back and watch it and we'll look into the commercial, though it was really that bad. It's gotten worse somehow. So fix this, this is a problem. This is an enormous problem.
Starting point is 01:04:56 All anybody could talk about on social media today was how bad this was. And it's supposed to be the best tournament. And it can't be if you treat it like that. It's my numbing because it could be it should It should be it like it's all the ingredients are there and you guys are just You know, you're not big robbing us. Yeah, like how good did it feel once they did get into a groove great? I'm like this is the best the best golf I've watched in so long
Starting point is 01:05:19 There was a stretch finally, but they had too many stretches of Commercial break come in with some set and there always let's like some hockey game Just ended so we have to do a big 30-second leaderboard update. It's like no man. We're in this already like nobody else is coming Right like everybody that's watching is watching and if they just join they're gonna have to jump in with us We show three shots and then we go back into a commercial break. It's on the back nine. What are we doing? Anyway, what'd you ask Randy? I forget what the question was.
Starting point is 01:05:50 No, I love hearing you guys fired up. I think we should join together. You guys with the telecast, me with the setup and let's build a coalition of the willing. That's right. But honestly, with all that stuff said, it's funny how fired up I am for tomorrow. That is like, I think I see where you're going with earlier, Randy.
Starting point is 01:06:12 That is the biggest compliment to Brooklyn. The USGA, almost despite itself, has got me more fired up for a golf tournament than I've been in a really long time, despite the fact that they've made most of the wrong decisions that they possibly could with how it's presented. I do have one recommendation for the USGA with I feel like every commercial break there is a USGA commercial. And I get it, this is your showcase,
Starting point is 01:06:36 you wanna try to build your organization. I feel like it would be very easy for them to work in the join the USGA. If you wanna throw graphics up on the screen while the golf is going on, for like, you'll have to grab a handicap. Like there's so many more creative ways that they could don't tempt them
Starting point is 01:06:50 because they're just gonna do that on top of the commercial. I know, but it's everything. It's the, oh, you don't know how, don't know how a ruling works and red stakes versus yellow stakes. Like, yeah, I'll just fucking Google it. I didn't, I'm not gonna pick that up from like,
Starting point is 01:07:02 oh no, I was watching the US open and I had my notepad there. Yeah. I wrote it down. I wrote down my five options. I ripped out piece, oh no, I was watching the US Open and I had my notepad there. So I wrote it down. I wrote down my five options. I ripped that piece of paper out, I laminated it. I put it in my golf bag and now I'm on the golf course ready to go through my options. Like dude, it's just such a fundamental misunderstanding
Starting point is 01:07:16 of how people consume their best product. And it is so much more about them trying to like, I don't wanna say like push their agenda because that makes it sound conspiracy-ish, but it's them trying to, like, I don't wanna say like push their agenda because that makes it sound conspiracy-ish, but it's them trying to push like all the ancillary shit through the packaging of like the thing that actually people wanna be there for. Yes.
Starting point is 01:07:34 And it's so fucking insulting and infuriating, and it is just such a, like, sand in the eyes when you're just trying to like sit down and have a nice, relaxing, you know, time watching the best players on the best golf course. What was the minions count today? Well, I did.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Like literally got to a point. I think around five o'clock where I started counting like, are we going to see Joel Damon Moore? Are we going to see the minions more? And they kind of whipped it back. They they showed Joel. I think because he he fucked up number eight and he rolled down the hill. So they showed him a couple times after that.
Starting point is 01:08:03 But it's good stuff. It's just and and we saw, I think Lexus title sponsor, car-wise and we saw five separate car commercials. There's the five founding car companies at the US. What do we have? We had Cadillac, Lexus, Genesis, Jeep, Hyundai. We're the five that I have. Waggeneer, is that one of the best Jeep?
Starting point is 01:08:19 Yeah, yeah. It used to be called Newport Country Club, now they changed it. Gotcha. And not enough of the yinling, we need more beer commercial. At least that keeps me hot, man, come on. And my, and Randy's boy, Keith Urban, we got a couple of those in today too. It's just honestly, man, if you want to own it and you want to be completely solace about, you know, we're just going to push, push, push, push.
Starting point is 01:08:40 You guys are the product, we're going to just sell stuff to you all the time. Great, like I fear up friends almost like the lift stuff. You want to be upfront, man? Cool. I guess I'll respect that a little bit more, but when you just get so high on all the other stuff and all the grow the game and we're just this, this, this national championship is just kind of really bringing so many people in. It's like, do you cannot have it both ways, man. And you guys are, the balance is so far off that it is like a joke. And it needs to be called out as such. That was cathartic.
Starting point is 01:09:12 There's only one way to transition out of that topic. Talk about Rory a little more. Talk about cash out. Hell yes. But with this segment, we are giving you cash. This segment brought to you by cash out. I don't know why they don't just give cash out. Yeah. Yeah. Easy as well. It's literally not that hard. Throw a barcode, a QR code up there. We are giving you cash. This segment brought to you by cash out. I don't know why they don't just give cash to anybody who's watching.
Starting point is 01:09:25 Easy as to wait. It's literally not that hard. Throw a barcode, a QR code up there. Give it away, man. Easiest way to send, spend, and save, and invest your money. You can request money from your friends, and they owe you for drinks, your green fee, your bets, literally anything. You can use code, no laying up when signing up for cash out.
Starting point is 01:09:40 You get free $15, plus they set aside $10 for each sign that goes to youth on course. You can buy Bitcoin at an extreme discount on there you can invest in stocks with this little as $1. We're going to do it yet again. We are going to ask you to put your cash tag in the comments when you do it and give us your three word summary of today. Cody, we're going to carry on.
Starting point is 01:10:01 You click on comments and throw them up there and we'll tally up the dollars here at the end of the day. You're going to get paid out on Monday. When you went over the weekend, you went Friday or Saturday, you likely get paid out on Monday just for the record. It's Patrick Batch reporting. Cody, I don't know if you can scroll back up, but if you can throw lane shards, it's coming up there. That was going to be the one I was going to use as well, which is a moment ago. That's the news before though. Yeah, we use it as a PGA, but we'll give it to him. Give Layne, we'll throw a game.
Starting point is 01:10:27 Layne is down on Bitcoin. I can probably give you that. I'm gonna show you that. Layne needs a little, he needs to win this one. Layne also gone last night. Oh, that's not even. Oh, never mind, never mind. Yeah, go fuck yourself, Layne.
Starting point is 01:10:36 You can stay, you stink. What would you guys as three words be? I got one. Ram the butcher. I don't know where this came from, radio. I feel like you really dig this. Just a real vivid image popped into my head while we were watching Robbie just reminds me of like an old school butcher.
Starting point is 01:10:59 I just picture him. Just sweaty, bloody pissed off at the the customers just working his ass off You know I have the best pizza town. What are you talking about you get at my store? You want some Toronto You want some I be Rico huh? Just breaking down a whole goat by himself back there Just sweat through it. We a deal we're laughing about that. No, no no no straightaway here, but you want some samples? The butcher of barica Straddle is here, but you want some samples? No, we don't have a liquorice. Yeah, I can lose my story. The butcher of Barika. It's good stuff.
Starting point is 01:11:32 I don't know why it makes me laugh every time. I think ROM is 100% going to win tomorrow. I think ROMs are going to win tomorrow. I think ROMs are going to win tomorrow. I think that makes a lot of sense. What are your three words for today? I mean, a moment ago was up there. I mean, probably little Willie Z.
Starting point is 01:11:51 It would be my three of the day, you know? I think that was what stuck out. What do you got? Ball striking fiesta thing, things of that nature. I was gonna say along those lines, big boys only. Yeah, yeah. No little boys. Yeah, awesome leaderboard.
Starting point is 01:12:10 I was the leader of the little boys. Something along the lines of age 18 minimum, abusing viewers trust. That's like what I take away from today. That was abuse. That felt like abuse. It was being held hostage today. I guess you were really good on big willy style.
Starting point is 01:12:25 You were discretion advised on both this leaderboard for tomorrow and just us getting taken advantage of. It's not good. Randy, what do you got? I guess you said big boys only. Yeah. Any other big moments from today that we missed or didn't, didn't
Starting point is 01:12:46 cover JT had a little drama around a sprinkler head earlier on in the day, which got her respect and playing the game the right way. That was great. I think it kind of even vended that one a little bit too much. Like, you know, it's a bad break, but it was also, it was, you know, all the guys would lie about it. JT can be a little whiny. We know that.
Starting point is 01:13:02 Uh, do you guys, I mean, in honor of TC, who's not here tonight, should we go down the leaderboard? I think we did that earlier, I kind of caught myself of like, you're going down the leaderboard? You're going down the leaderboard? I was reading some scores. Just to read the name into the record, I know he's gonna want us to say the two words,
Starting point is 01:13:14 Nick Hardy made a very, he would be a lot closer, TC without the triple on 13, that was tough. He would be one back without that, which is a little scary. We would have had to save ourselves from the current draft king. I give him a shameless power shout out. Shout even part of the day. Is that one over T11? He seems to, he seems to continue to show up in big tournaments in the top 20. He's seen his name. I'll just say gonna say, if you guys are following
Starting point is 01:13:45 our draft Kings picks at all, and you need something to root for, if you want TC to get knocked from his perch tomorrow, DJ did put all 200 of his nugs on Will's outtores to win the USO. No, no, no, no, no, no. So this leads right into best thing I saw today. Cody, why don't you cue me up if you can
Starting point is 01:13:58 for best thing I saw. And then we'll put a wrap on the cash app game. Thank you to everyone that participated again this time around. We expect some cash. If your comment came up on the screen, you're getting some cash in your cash app on Monday. Best thing you saw today, Neil. Best thing I saw was, it was from our Slack channel.
Starting point is 01:14:17 And it was in relation to give a little contact. Our draft Kings game. So Tron is, is, is backtracking knowing that DJ might get him with the, to put 200 nuggets on Will's Allatourist to win it. 31. 31. So, DJ is gonna go from worst to first if Zalatorist wins. And so, Tron's already,
Starting point is 01:14:36 kind of setting the tone of like, oh God, it's gonna be. Tron is trying to work together. It's gonna be a glorious summer. It's gonna be like, so so McGuire. And then about, I don't know, 30 minutes later, Cody hit him with this picture. If you're listening on the podcast I know you can picture the photo he's got the red cowboy head on the floral kind of Marty Robbins t-shirt little bull o'
Starting point is 01:14:57 time. As you guys can understand with all the commercials today I just got a little slap happy with the butcher of Barika and then this picture just wrecked me. So that was, I wish I saw something better, but this, this is what I got tonight. Great, great question there from Fleezer Style 44. Randy should Sammy Sosa be in the Hall of Fame. Hell no. He's such a cheat. Just love. Dude couldn't stop using cork bats. Horses, ass, steroids, body, Everything. Maybe Fitzpatrick's been hanging out with Sammy Sosa. Get my bats, dude. To Chicago kids.
Starting point is 01:15:29 That's right, man. Unbelievable. Randy, what do you got? Uh, Justin Ray tweeted today, the scoring average jumped by over a stroke and a half from round two to round three, the fourth highest such escalation, I like the word escalation, and you know, it's open history.
Starting point is 01:15:49 That's a great, that makes people happy. Yeah, it was fun. Warned my heart. That's good stuff. Sorry, I believe you. I'm the best thing I saw today was Neil getting super worked up about coverage because it felt good to have a brother, have a brother in arms and getting very frustrated with this. Mine was a tweet from Sean Zock. I know this from golf.com. I know this is gonna be tough if you're listening on the podcast,
Starting point is 01:16:11 but if you can see it, I know this tweet was unbelievable. Why does Stuart Haggistad look more like Adam Scott than Adam Scott does? Just really, really made me laugh. If you're listening on the pod, I would recommend looking up their two headshots, you know, and I think RIP to stew our leader at one time is now 12 over after 79 today.
Starting point is 01:16:34 Hate that. Any interesting pairings tomorrow, I'll just go through them real quick if we're starting with the last ones, all tours and Fitzpatrick. And then we got Rom and Keegan, Scottie Sheffler and Adam Hadwin, Rory and Sam Burns, Nick Hardy and Joel Damon, Gary Woodland and Denny McCarthy. Denny McCarthy had an incredible round. That was one of those I said, market when he finishes, I think I texted you guys like, what's he going to be?
Starting point is 01:16:59 He was T24 when he hold out on 18. He's now tied for 11th. Mm-hmm. Sheesh. Matthew Nismith and Shamist Power at 134. Hayden Buckley and Aaron Wise, what happened? Aaron Wise at the end. I feel like I kind of missed that. That meltdown.
Starting point is 01:17:14 Truly who could. Very much in that thing. Double on 13 and then all powers and then bogeon 18. Wow. Okay. And then Menwu Lee and Sebastian Munoz, Hadecki and DJ Brian Harmon, Davis Riley, Callin Moore, Calupatrick Rogers, Speak and Cantlay, JT, Camtron Gale, and then, yeah, gets gets way back in there. I didn't
Starting point is 01:17:35 even realize can't let me the cut. He did. How, how far back is too far back? Got such a great question. Great question. What do you say? I think, I think, I think one under is too far back? Got such a great question. Great question. What do you say? I think I think one unders too far back. And I say that because under normal, under different circumstances, I think they would absolutely be in it, but the quality of player that is too under or better,
Starting point is 01:17:59 I just don't see a one under leapfrogging that many guys. I said even last night, I'm gonna go with even again again tonight just so I can still have hope with Rory. I'm with you. I feel like even, yeah. You kind of got me second guest in a little bit, Randall. I don't know, but look at the firepower at one under yet.
Starting point is 01:18:17 Sam Burns, Rory, but no matter the firepower, like nobody's going to go shoot 64 tomorrow. I mean, it's going to have to be like 67 is a awesome, awesome go shoot 64 tomorrow. I mean, it's gonna have to be like 67. Is an awesome, awesome, awesome round tomorrow. I want those guys to shoot 66. They go four under and the leaders like, you know, that's like, look at the scores today, man. Like there's nothing Adam had which, you know, 66 would what, tie the best round of the week.
Starting point is 01:18:42 Yeah, 66 from had one was incredibly so stunned Thursday for I day and it's only going to get firmer. It's going to be a little more wind tomorrow or not more wind, but they'll be a little wind tomorrow. I'm going to go, I'm going way further back. I think plus three is too far back. I think like, whoa, plus two.
Starting point is 01:18:58 There's so many double line out there. Plus two, if more Kawashut 65 tomorrow, I think he has a chance. And I think he can. But the, I mean, if Stewart shoots 54 reason in it, I think that's not the same thing. Matt Fishard asked me a question, what's the winning number?
Starting point is 01:19:15 I think it's five under. It was over under, was three and a half coming into the week. I know, which is crazy. Which is, it was so, it was very spot on. I just don't know what they're gonna do with the setup yet, you know? I mean, I don't know how far they're gonna push it. Usually Saturday they push it pretty good.
Starting point is 01:19:30 And Sunday, you have a little, you know, some interesting wrinkles. And it's not as hard. So I, Oh God. Why would you say that? I'm gonna be so pissed if it's easy tomorrow. I think it's a, we've not talked enough
Starting point is 01:19:44 about how hard today was condition wise. That wind was whipping out there. Almost everyone that I follow on Twitter that was there was like coming in to be like, oh shit, it's like really hard to convey how hard it is out there. So I think if the conditions get even a little bit easier tomorrow and I don't have TC's windy app up
Starting point is 01:20:01 with me right now. It's gonna be a little bit easier. It's gonna be a down a little bit. I bet the winning score is 600 then. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, five or six. No, I think Roy shoots 66 tomorrow, wins it five under.
Starting point is 01:20:13 I think it's a no-brainer. Book it. Yeah, easy. Book it. I could see that. I very well could. Taste it, Randy. I'm calling the cops on your ass tomorrow.
Starting point is 01:20:21 Don't do that. Don't be that neighbor. Don't do that. How are the good times hanging out? Yo, just because the kid and his band on the street are smoking weed in their forehub. Yeah. You know, they're just trying to play some music. Don't worry about it.
Starting point is 01:20:31 Yeah, I think some guys are smoking drugs across the street. They'll make it on the drums with the drugs. Hell yeah. Come on. Gotta show those high school or something. Play like some ACDC or something. Yeah. With the boys out there.
Starting point is 01:20:43 Well, petty, play a little petty with the boys. Come on. Cody, anything that we missed for tonight? OK, job going down the leaderboard. I agree with you, Chris. I think plus two is kind of where we're expecting you big day from the rib. I know that might shock not a lot of people.
Starting point is 01:21:02 And I'm sorry for that big. But I don't think that they're gonna have it as tricked up tomorrow as they did today. I mean, they want a good score. They didn't trick it out. And I don't think they tricked it up. I think it was mostly the wind. I don't think the USGA has made the course
Starting point is 01:21:16 necessarily that difficult. If they put water on it tonight, everybody should lose their jobs. That is a massive disgrace. Come on over the block party though. You're expecting big things out of the mail. They're putting water on it. And there's a decent chance of rain overnight too.
Starting point is 01:21:30 No, no, no, no, thanks. Come on over around noon tomorrow. And we'll start grilling out. We'll get everything ready to go. Bring the girls over. We'll get the slip and slide out. Come on, man. Bring your red cowboy hat.
Starting point is 01:21:47 Hell yeah. I know you got it in Puerto Rico when you got married. You wore that same outfit as Mr. Soza. I mean, yeah, you know, as you're kind of saying that, a little softer golf course, three back. Feels a little ribby. Let's go.
Starting point is 01:22:03 And I think you had some ribs from ROM's butcher shop that you were gonna throw a... You're making me throw on. We're gonna throw them on the smoker. We gotta get out there. Oh, you want ribs? You want ribs? Ah, you lined the best ribs in town.
Starting point is 01:22:17 Come on. I'm glad these two make each other laugh. I really am glad that they do. You come in here, you never pay. We don't be credit. You're finished with you. No, I'm done. You sent my pizza and bad, you're out.
Starting point is 01:22:30 I saw that thing that you tweeted. That's it. All right, that's a wrap on tonight's show. Thank you everyone for tuning in. We'll see you back here for recap tomorrow night. Cheers. It's getting right close. Be the right club. Be the right club today.
Starting point is 01:22:47 Yeah! That's better than most. How about it? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different? I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one.
Starting point is 01:23:06 I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one.
Starting point is 01:23:22 I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one. I'm gonna go to the next one.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.