No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 581: Friday Open Championship Recap

Episode Date: July 16, 2022

Max Homa joins the show to debrief on his experience playing with Tiger, Cameron Smith jumps out to a lead, Cameron Young hangs tough, and Rory posts a 68. An eventful live show as we debrief the day, chat about the Old Course, Rory, DJ, and the rest of a stacked leaderboard. Michael Wolf also joins us to tell some historical stories about St. Andrews, Cash App game, and a ton more!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm going to be the right club today. Yeah! That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. Happy to be here gonna be doing an ice check here very shortly TC is here warm He's been warming up in the bullpen. He is come in. We've called for the righty. He's here. Hello TC Hello, glad to be here excited

Big Randy is calling in as well from Denver. Hello, mr. Big Hey guys, how are you? Oh doing absolutely splendid great to see you big man delightful couple of days you guys are never Never gonna guess what guess we have lined up here to come in and talk to with us shortly. You're never gonna guess it. No way, no way. But, you know, why don't you give us a little update on the ice situation and tell us about your

hundred hole hike as well. Yeah, well Cody, why don't we flash it up there? I think this is what we've been using for RSVPs for the block party tomorrow. It looks like it's gonna be a big turnout. People think we're always gonna get it done. The ice I can promise you looks very similar to this, so I was gonna provide a weekend update.

I'm a little worried there's gonna be a lot of people in the cooler, latch security is gonna be a problem tomorrow at the party. And one other thing I want to point out, make sure you hydrate if you're gonna come to the Rory block party tomorrow. Suggest checking out yeti.com for some water bottles. What are you working with T.C.? I got the big boy. The jug is the 30 something ounce.

You got the tumbler. This the rambler. I really like the, uh, they got these like hot shot tops. They got all kinds of accessories that I love. So yeti.com, shots tops are money for, for coffee. Uh, and we're also going to have to monitor Sally and his latch security back here.

I'm actually looking at the latches and they're not secure. Um, well, that one's going out to Chessfest. Yeah, but you still got to, air is the enemy here, guys. We got to keep the ice cold. So that's the problem. You were the last one in it. No, I wasn't.

So T.C. Latch Security. I didn't. You were the last one in it. I think we could check the tape. Okay. They've been in it all day. Anyway, shout out to Yeni. Sally back to you.

Thank you. All right, what's the biggest story of the day? T.C., I'll go to you first. What's your biggest story of the day? Can'tC. I'll go to you first. What's your biggest story of the day? Cam, baby. I mean, it was almost a disappointing 64 with how he finished. I mean, he's so freaking good at golf. Like, he's a proper golfer.

He's such a superior golfer to Rory. It's crazy. I get the right to do that. What's the measurement? What unit of measurement are you using for that, by the way? Okay. I derive so much enjoyment from watching cam Smith play golf like even on a couple that holes on the back nine today Trying to think which ones come to mind a couple spots where the pin was just above a little ridge

He missed his spot by like eight inches and it goes just over a little mound Or like on on, he comes up, Josh, like maybe six inches short, rolls back down. That could have been a 61 or a 62. But how's it be putting? I mean, God, you know, what a... Mauritius putter of all time. It's unbelievable.

He's rolling in these 30 footers, which when Cam has it, has it going the microwave, man, it's, you know, it's tough to beat, but does that run out over the weekend, right? Or does he just keep pressing and, you know, I just, we were talking about it last night, worry a little bit about the aggressive play and whether that's gonna, you know,

that luck's gonna run out a little bit over the weekend. But he's not a great driver of the golf ball. That's kind of his one weakness, I think, and that's a little bit mitigated here. Sure. And to the putter question, I mean, you look what he did at the players' distance.

Yeah. And the only time I've really seen him struggle with the putter was at Southern Hills. And that wasn't like those greens were weird. I love Cam too. I'm just devastated that TC's got like 950 nuggets on him this week. So that's just tough for the boys here

to a very conflicted thing to be rooting for. How did nobody else make a play on it? I, that was one of those became very apparent to me after the fact situation. He hasn't been playing great. I mean, I looked at it. He had a good week to Scottish, but he's been playing very poorly

over the last month leading up to this. I think this is something that he's been trying to peep for very much. Could be. I'm a little, I don't know if I want to get sucked into the rabbit hole to address that He's by far in a way a better golfer than Rory or if we just move on from that But I just want to I want my I'm the throw my objection in just for the record so it's noted in there

We don't have to he's a thrower No, no, no, no, he's learning to locate he's learning the low kid and he's he's added a couple other pitches to the arsenal He's come back in shape ready to go this season. I love the way he loves. Yeah, that's what I'm John. Exactly. Randy, what was the best thing that you saw today? We're going there already.

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, not that segment. But like, what stuck out to you today? What was the storyline? We were in a great spot going into the weekend. The six holes, unleared lots of different storylines. I mean, I don't think it's much more complicated than that, is it? I feel like my spidey senses, we've been here a few times with CAM.

So I guess I want to maybe throw some caution that we have a lot of golf remaining, but should be a very fun weekend. I think, you know, I'm not sure it's got to be any more complicated than that, I guess. Guys, takes are so hot, they're just getting throttled by the Wi-Fi gods in there. But we do have a little debate on the show last night about a friend of ours that, you know, he hit his opening T-shirt, whether or not it was intentional, you know, whether or not he was trying to do what he did off the first t-e yesterday

he went out did the same thing again today we might as well bring him in and ask him about that maybe some other things that may have happened today but uh... we can welcome into the show mister of course mister max homahello max hello pro i didn't know you guys were were dog me like that no no no question what wondering was it a shanker stinger off one on Thursday? Skank a skank Skank excuse me a skank. We was it it was a

It was a stinger. I love it. All right good. We've answered the question sounded really confident What I was very confused by by the line of questioning. Well, the shot tracer didn't like look great on it. It was kind of like a, oh, look, okay, we thinned that one, but okay, it's out there in the first fairway and we're off. I mean, it was the one I hit today was definitely more out of the middle, but yeah, your goal there, I think playing with Tiger nervous as hell is just to move it forward. Matt, Matt just chunked the hell out of his seven wood right before I went. That was a guy, all right. Well, as long as I kept the scene, we said, bottom three grooves, it'll never stop rolling out here. So it'll look good. But I hit it all right. But the one I hit

today was definitely cleaner. But I was not, I didn't think that I was under, under fire. I was surprised, I was surprised of people questioning it that I was under under fire. I was surprised a Surprised of people questioning it. So this is news to me. Don't be dramatic What more of just an unanswered question and we wanted to go to the source with it before we speculate for the record I was not on the I was not on the show last night Don't don't lump me in with these guys and for the record. I sounded like you confirmed it like it today was more out of the middle It sounded like that was not not not so tell me about you said skanky. I've said.

What so you said you mentioned your little nervous playing before the cat. What was that emotion like before you put the peg in the ground and how much The tiger have to do with that. Yeah, it was it was odd because you know right when I had the tea time Joe laughed left, or maybe he laughed because, you know, we were playing at three o'clock and he goes, well, at least you don't have to think about it, you know, for a full two days. So I thought, you know, the lead up was a lot, but I split up my morning pretty good yesterday

and worked out and like made it feel like I wasn't just sitting around all day. And I felt actually oddly normal all morning and all warm up and then we have to take a shuttle from the range back to the first tee and that putting green by it. And when we got over there and it was just me Matt and Tiger, it was like holy hell,

like what is this? Fortunately, talk to Tiger before we walk to the tee and then, you know, obviously you guys have been there. And that first tee shot obviously is easy, but it's also oddly like the tee is pretty far from everybody. Like it's far from the grandstand on 18. It's far from the right, the people on the right. It's far from the grandstand up the right fairway.

You feel kind of like on an island. And that's already like an eerie thing, whether you're playing with Tiger or not, I feel like it would be eerie, you know, in 60th place on a Sunday. And I wasn't, you know, thinking too much about that until when they announced Tiger, like I realized how many people there were.

Like it was lining, it was the hotel, the Russics Hotel, it was the stands behind was lining it was the ho the rustic hotel It was the stands behind 18 it was a stands right a one It was all the people lining the putting green it was all the way up by the green because they do it on a microphone And everyone can hear it and all of a sudden like holy shit. This feels like it feels like I'm on like a stage And I went by the time I was able to like walk out to the tee, it feels like you're just so alone. It feels like you're so alone. And it's almost, I told Joe, it's almost such an easy t-shot that it like, we all, like I was talking to Matt about, we saw Polter's t-shirt almost got a bounce and we both said

I really wish to God I had not even seen that because it didn't even seem possible and then all of a sudden it gets in your mind. So it was weird, but I mean, great. And if you're going to be nervous, that's the easiest hole in the world to play. You can hit whatever you want off the tee and then just go way long. But man, that is, it was just crazy. The amount of people was the most nutty thing about it to start the day. That was the first thing I noticed and then being in start the day. That was like the first thing I noticed

and then being in front of Tiger. You know, that was really cool, but I'll say this man, he is really easy to play with. He was super friendly. Obviously didn't get off to a great start, but he was super friendly and made it easy. And that part was, the cool factor never wore off, but like the freak out wore off a little bit.

Was, so tell me about today, you know, coming up to 18, you know, you, where are you adding your round? How focused are you on like what you've got going on versus like the moment that's unfolding right in front of you? Yeah, you know, we thought about it yesterday when we got to the 18th hole because obviously it was just Thursday, but like you know when you go over that bridge, it's like signify something and Like engulfed Laura, I guess, but I was like oh, you know, I should probably let Tiger just go first him He got like a ovation walking up 18 yesterday, too Obviously nothing like today, but he did so like lag back a little bit or whatever And then I was thinking about that for today because obviously didn't play well yesterday

and to make the cut today would add a ball out. So for the back nine, it was in my head that at some point we were gonna have, we're getting a lot of ovation for him. Like he was getting a lot of ovation. So that was cool. You get to the popular holes and people are really cheering for him.

It was cool. I was in full grind mode all day today. I got to a bad start, which was actually kind of cool because I felt it felt very normal playing with him because I was just like doing my thing. And then yeah, on 18, I needed to make eagle. So, you know, I hit it, I hit a t-shirt down, down the fairway, and then I just stood to the side, and we just like waited and he like kind of lagged off the tee which was funny and am I still here yeah we got through all the all froze but yeah so like I lagged off the tee and and Matt

lagged off the tee and then the caddies all went right and Tiger was like slowly I was like you need to walk because I'm not walking in front of you. Look at you say that's who walking. No, no, just like just please start walking because I will sit my ass on this tea. And like he so we started walking up in like LeCov, like even tap mat I saw on the shoulder and said walk like go ahead and he we're like like no shot. So we were wonder if he was going to stop. Joe and I were wondering if he was going to stop on the bridge or do anything.

I thought he was such a robot. He might just keep going. But he took his hat off when he did. I slowed down. I even more. It was really funny. Matt looked back at me while he was getting over the bridge. And I was like, Matt, you are too close for comfort, right?

I was like, I was like like you could have the coolest picture ever if your head was just like kind of in the corner of someone's picture of like that bridge picture it would be so funny but uh no it was cool me and Matt actually had a lot of foam walking together up that fairway we got a he got across the bridge obviously got a great ovation but it was just the rest of the walk it was really eerie in a cool way like super surreal Matt's entire Fairway was just absolutely buzzing I'm just kind of watching him from afar really felt like I was in a movie You know, I had like the coolest view ever Matt and I were chatting it up and like having a laugh and

is I don't know I was I was telling somebody after like They asked me if it was inspirational like what I saw. I was telling somebody after, like, they asked me if it was inspirational, like, what I saw, and I was like, it's not really inspiring because his career is so unthinkable to touch that many people through the game of golf and to see it kind of in one hole was, you know, people say goose bumps or whatever, but it was like all those things. It's just like, you realize he's had an important part of my life, obviously, as a golfer, as your life is a golfer, but you don't realize just how many people

absolutely adore that man. And it was cool to see it all in like one kind of, 20 minute setting. What do you say to him after you guys finish out? Like, what can you say to Tiger after he's just possibly played? Like, I personally think he's gonna play again in St. Andrews, but what do you say to him after what's possibly his final round of the whole course?

Man, well, I wanted to say, why the fuck did you miss that pie? But no, I mean, I told him it was an honor to play with him last two days. And I think it was been really cool. I did, obviously, man, I were talking to him. We didn't know him back in 0506 when he was, you know, on top of the golfing world, you know, with his game, I mean. But like he's ever since I first met him in 13, he's been nothing but nice. He's even like a couple times gone out of his way.

I did his charity thing this year and he called me after to thank me. Like very, like, very cool. And so I feel like he has this understanding as he's, you know, seen, I guess what he means to so many of us that like, he's been really cordial and I think appreciative of even when he like he didn't play well at all this weekend. He grinded his ass off and he was very cool to everybody. Absolutely like, you know, just like most professionally you could imagine, no moping, no nothing like just grinding and like getting to go around with him for the two days, you

know, it was the one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. And, you know, that's why I said it was an honor to be with him. And I feel like he even like said something back kind of just like, like a sincere thank you, not like a blow by thank you. And I think he gets how cool it is for all of us. I know he knows we all want to beat the hell out of him. And he wants to beat the hell out of us. And I think that's also like, I think the fun part for everybody is like, we're all battling, but I think he knows that like,

it's also just a bucket list. I mean, it was to do it here and just the way 18 sits. It was like, it was silly, man. It was, I don't know, it was the next level. What does he call you? Okay. So always, always thought it was going to be Maxi my entire life. I always joke, I even joke with George Savaricus about it. I said, Maxi is not a cool nickname. You had a wide of most names and it doesn't sound as cool. Maxi is like, you know, this is not that cool. And so I'm one, or sorry, the first day on the putting green, walking by, I'm like I said before he went to the tee and he put his hand out to shake my hand,

he said, he said, play well today, homey. And I'm like, hell yeah, this will go. I said, I got a nickname and it is cool. I'm going with it. And then this morning, on Friday morning, we're getting the cards and Tiger had my card. And we're like, they handed us all our own cards and then we had to kind of swap them around.

So he's like, oh, I had Maxi's card. I'm like, fuck. I'm back. But I had a 24 hours, maybe a little less of homey and I'll take that. I thought maybe it's short at the homes. Or M, or H. M. I'm going to take all, I mean, I'll take that. I thought maybe he'd shorten it to homes or M or H. M.

I mean, I'll take Maxie. It doesn't bother me, but it was funny, man. It was exactly. He did. It was cool to be around. He did all the mannerisms. I was telling Joe, like we got to tell Sully that on 14 Tiger hit his drive left and he said, get left.

Get away. Get away left. And that was awesome. He had a lot of like just like the cool mannerisms like little stuff like that. I actually really got a lot of advice before I played from like older players and like people who played with them you know a decent amount in big moments and they're just talking about not getting in his world like you know don't watch him and I really felt like I didn't but there's times like you're obviously not going to miss it and at times like you just are you are watching a little bit I mean

I would watch I'm watching Matt play but you know I I don't know every waking you know tick that Matt has because I haven't seen him play thousands of hours of golf but I have seen Tiger play so it's funny to see that stuff up close. Joe asked a great question today. We're wondering if Tiger has more money in his bank account or if there's been more pictures taken of Tiger Woods and his lifetime. And I'm not really sure the answer. It's got to be pictures. There are so many freaking people here and everyone always has their phone up. It's crazy. He's like, he's's he's just a I'm going to go with pictures. If we're talking about straight money in the bank account net worth though, I'm going to

say that's what we were we're in dabbling, which one would be a better. What? So this was homey. What hole was this on it that you were joker. We're deep in this thought exercise. It's two I think two to this morning because when he's mad and I were talking about it when you stand on the tee so Tiger going first sucks because right when he hits everyone just like everybody but a lot of people just leave and which is I don't blame them but I thought they were supposed to be the best fans in golf they shouldn't be they are they're great They were quiet about it, but they, they do leave. And you hear them, you know, everybody does it. It's like when you

play with Bryson, Marori, and they hit a bomb. It's like everyone's talking about it while you're over the ball. Um, but like when Tiger was like after one of us, we would like stand to the side, obviously, wait for him to hit. And we, man, I were talking about like you just look into the crowd and everyone has their hand in the air with their phone. And's a sea of people like a sea of people it was crazy so it was fun to watch that so that's why I think Joe asked that we started talking about it because like man I couldn't get over to so many people are just fixated on them it's it's hilarious Max every time I every time I looked up I feel like you

and you and Fitz, you were thickest thieves out there. You look like, especially coming out of 18, you look like two guys, I'm like, I can't believe they let us do this, man. Like two high school middle schoolers. Like, oh my God, can you believe that we're out here with the cat?

Like, were you tight with Matt before, or is this a budding bromance? I've always really liked Matt. Like, you know, back back in the Walker Cup. He was on the team that we killed. And we like, we did like the exchanging of ties. Uh, it's like a tradition. It's very corny, but like we end up being linked up there.

And I so I got to talk to him that day. And I've always really liked him. He's got a he's he's kind of like to himself. And I like people like that because I kind of like being myself and breaking down a rough exterior. Because like when you just look at him, he really doesn't like, you know, he's a lot like Tiger in a way, he just does his own thing and he's a really hard worker and a tremendous golfer. But every time we've ever played together, I've enjoyed being around and we play practice rounds.

Practice round one, so played the PGA last year together. And I enjoy being around and he's funny. He's a good cool dude. But this is like the fun part about being around him this week was he's obviously a unbelievable player, top 10 in the world, major champion. In the mix this week. He's a tremendous talent and a really tough, tough dude.

And it was fun being able to have these chats here and there about like, how crazy this experience was, because he's played with him before. He said it's nothing like playing a major. It's like a whole different beast, walking a bait team with him and like laughing about what we're watching was cool. Because like, honestly, a tough part about this,

like this week, or at least least today like after not playing well is like so many people in like my DMs and all these people call me fanboy and like that we're like that's why we can't like I didn't play well or whatever it's like annoying and also like reaffirming that like me and Matt can like or at least Matt did go out there and like appreciate what's happening And then also go play like good golf Because you know we are like in a way a fanboy. I mean the dude is The dude these tiger woods

What are you gonna do just like not look and even like when we're walking up 18? When we're up by the green tiger hat is put And like I looked on the fairway and you know like JT, who do you play with? JT, Lowry and Hovland were like completely flipped around watching tiger finish. It's like he just, he has so much respect from everybody and everybody just wants to like kind of see and be a part of whatever he's doing in a way. So Matt and I were just enjoying kind of that experience and I don't know, it was fun. I had a lot of expectations getting to play with them this week and I feel like it lived up to it. Obviously we both didn't play great, but the fan stuff and all that.

It was really freaking cool. I'd let that stick with, I'd let the DMs from the random people. I let that be a lasting memory for the week. Yeah, the guys that are mad about their fantasy line. Yeah, really, I would take that away from this week. That's a big thing to carry with you for a while. What?

That one knowing. The golf gambling stuff is just the most annoying thing. That's what kept me out of DFS for so long and now I actually really enjoyed doing it, but those bros just absolutely. So I always got a whole different side that we don't see that. Yeah, Max, I do have a question for you though.

I was wondering this yesterday. The group that juju on Thursday, between the three of you, just felt like you guys were all grinding. And the cat's not playing well, all these expectations, they get some bad luck, he double bow, he's the first hole. Do you feel like that impacts your round?

Like the energy, or did you feel like it was the course was just playing really hard, and you didn't play as good as you wanted to? And tell us about St. Andrews, playing at St. Andrews in general, and what's happened over the past two days, and then how you see this tournament playing out? Yeah, I don't think that the Juju was bad in our group because I actually felt like part of the grind of all three of us was like everyone felt like they were kind of

rooting for each other, which like helps the group. Mojo, the problem was is nobody can make a putt. It was making puts. It was making puts. Nice. I've had no, no people to putt in for the whole day and it was hard. I mean, she was making cuts. Yeah. Nice. I've had no, no people to put in for the whole day. And it was hard.

I mean, we got, I'm not saying we got like some bad wave by any means. But like, it was, you know, the front nine played a bit windier. So we're watching all these guys, you know, in the morning, hit these shots in close. And when we get to the holes, Matt and I were talking about, it's like, you know, we saw seven.

He told me, he's like, I saw people like landed on the down soap and they kind of check it and we're like hitting balls that are just bounding to the back half of the green. So it was hard and then you had it and nobody was putting well and it, so that was tough. I don't think it was the juju, like,

again, like going back to like Tiger grind it and it was watching everybody grind was like good in a way because it is a major I mean you know I was watching the coverage and they're showing all these great shots and birdies or whatever as they always do and then they you know the cuts even par so it's like not like everybody's out there ballin but the course is hard this is a firm is golf course I've ever played I asked Joe if it was firmer than karnusty. And he says it was basically the same thing. And you know, those balls were rolling 100 yards.

He said that Karnusty is a little easier with the firm because the holes play straight downwind and straight into the wind more. So the balls, when they start rolling, they're flying. If you get it online, it'll just keep rolling. Here, here it was like, you know, there's a lot lot I feel like a lot of angles where certain certain t-shots just like 16 16 with this win would be my least favorite all out here and as we've already discussed in text like I I pretty much love all of them but like I didn't love 16 with this win but then I watched the guys coming

in this afternoon when the win switched a little bit and it would it made you know it makes sense on paper but when it's down off the right, there's nowhere to hit hit the ball really like the fairway slopes from right to left, there's OB right and it's just like even if you landed in the right half the fairway, it's, like today we laid back through the fairway left and then, you know, I didn't have a long shot in, but I still had no, you know, no angle, no way to spin it. So that hole was tough with that wind. 14 was brutal with the wind, like Tiger on Thursday, like, Fand a drive, like did not look awesome.

And it gets up there and went 410. And he had like a nine iron end. And it was up there and went 410 and he had like a nine iron in and it was like, man, the fairway like, some of those angles just made it so hard, but it was so cool because the firmness made everything fun. Like retisants last week, you couldn't run balls up to the fronts of greens because it's not like, you know, it's not really like a true links in that way. It's not good golf course. Yeah, exactly. Not a good golf course. Exactly. That's my favorite golf course. Don't say that guy.

So it was cool to be able to play this one where it's like you always had an option to bounce it up. And I thought it was like, that was, that was sweet. But yeah, I mean, it was hard because the, the T balls, I mean, we hit it on Thursday. We hit it in the FESCUE on purpose four times. That's awesome. Today we hit it in the FESCUE in the fest few on purpose four times. That's awesome. Today we hit it in the fest few like three times.

But I do agree. It's awesome. Like I said, 16 was the only hole that was like kind of it. It's just like that hole makes so much sense to me. Like I really like that hole, but with that wind, it is obviously not unplayable, but it's like it was pretty frickin hard to think about hitting the right fairway. I was like the first thing you said this morning. Well that pin just that was the one pin today that was kind of like dude there's not even

like an incentive to take on the aggressive line here because there's no good angle into this one, which that was the only one that's kind of like all right well we're just not letting you get to 16 today. Yeah, which would again like I totally find okay, but like It's just like it's a funky is funky like with that so I don't know But yeah the rest of the offers. I mean 17's a Lacey. Thank you. Lacey is giving me a tripod 17 is a really really cool hole Obviously

But damn it's a hard to shot today. Being like too off the cut, getting to play that hole is a lot easier. I took it over the L and Hotel and it was in the right center of the fairway and every other day, pracht run include them in the left fest view. But that's an amazing hole. The hole golf course is good. Links to so tough, man. Like, I could have played six more pracht rounds finally, like, maybe new, what was going on. I'm glad I have a really good caddy who works really hard because we pretty I pretty much told him Thursday or Wednesday night. I was like, you're gonna do the t-shots. Like just tell me where to hit it because it's it's a lot, but I like the picture of what is going on in front of me and

on these golf courses. You it's hard to because you can't see the bunkers, you can't see anything, which is sweet. But it's so hard out on like four, five, six. Like that's the part of the course I struggle with the most because it's so blind. But there's no frame of reference. There's nothing out there that you can look at. Whereas like coming back into town,

you can kind of pick out the steep holes in the town and everything. But I love it though here in like guys hit shots and be like, that's okay, right? Like to the caddy, like, is that fine there? Is that fine there? Is that cool there? Because you just can't, you can't retain all that information.

But, I've never, I've never played before, like ever, where you would walk up to the fairway and see three balls and have to check all three of them. Like, I didn't, you don't know where your ball ends up. There was multiple times, like to your point, solid like on six, I think the first day I hit one. And it was like five yards left in my line. And I was like, Joe's that all right.

And he's like, I think so. And like we're walking up and there's one bunker up there on the left that like, I'm like, ah, the ball might be in it. And we walk up and it's 25 yards right of it, totally fine. And I'm like, you know, you take like a big sigh of relief. And then today on 12, I thought I, I thought I drove the green and I get up and I can hear the guy in front of me that Marshall say, oh, you know, Max is balls in the bunker, Max is on the green and I'm like, damn, like, you know, you just, it's just the lines are so hard to get super tight.

And which is fun. But you could play, I feel like you could play here like 20 times and still not like fully know what is going on. Randy, listen, we've been, we've been, we've been pester, we've been peppering in here. You've become, it's our, our fire right now. People have been guessing what Randy's ordering bonsai trees online. Randy's got the call map going.

Randy's on loop. He put up a zoom loop. He's swiping trees online. Randy's got the call map going. Randy's on loop. He put up a zoom loop. He's swiping on Tinder. He's swiping. No, everyone's noteworthy doing, Randy. I've just listened into the Pro. I'm like everybody else. I'm just taking it in.

I, you know, I got some off course questions, but I figured now's not the time for him. So when we're done talking about the course, I'd like to ask a few. Go ahead, because we need to let him get to his night. Pro, I will say two questions for you. What, Joe Likava, let Tiger get onto 18th green with the tag hanging out on his, on his, on his vast or his shirt.

I thought that was absolutely unacceptable. Don't believe that's question, but yes, continue. Cool. What are your thoughts on that? And then secondly, what's out your window? Are you on the campground side of things? Are you on the the course side of things? I am on the course side.

I've been watching people come up 17 the afternoon. What are you? You're on the Canadian side. We can hear the roar of like roaring all that. So that was awesome. Yeah. Max, are you, uh, obviously you got some free time now this weekend. What are your travel plans?

And have you enjoyed the town of St. Andrews outside of, you know, have you been able to get anywhere, have you seen anything, been anywhere fun, you know, not necessarily golf related? I think that is like word for word, what, my mom texted me today. I've been good company that. Yeah, so we went to town on Tuesday,

Lacey and I we walked all over as cool. We went to the campus and Andrew's campus, which was awesome. I heard that some of the royals went there, which was, you know, pretty sublime. I haven't eaten out too much. We went to a nice Thai place one day. It's pretty busy down there, and it is a lot of chaos. But what a cool town. I'd love to come back here not during the tournament when it's maybe a little bit slower,

because getting in to eat anywhere is basically impossible. But yeah, we are going to stay here at least through tomorrow. Lace and I are going on a little vacation to Italy for a few days. We never got to do our honeymoon. So that's what we're supposed to go. So we're going to go do that. But I'm going to enjoy the town tomorrow. I'm going to try to play the Guinness game. I'm going to drink a fair bit of adult beverages probably tomorrow. I'm going to enjoy myself. Guinness video. I want to see I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think I think mark on the G. Let's go with that. Or between the harp and it could be between the harp and the words. That's right. But I've heard that's not actually it, but if that's your intent going in,

yeah, yeah, you got to declare what you're after, I guess. Okay, so I'll try for that once or twice. And yeah, just enjoy it. Like I said, it's been really fun being here. It's a pretty special place. I've told all my friends like this place I said, it's been really fun being here. It's a pretty, pretty special place. I've told all my friends, like this place it lives up to the hype and exceeds in.

It's like, the golf course is a joke. It's incredible. It's like as good as I could have ever imagined a golf course and then the town, it just seems like it stacks up to that too. So I'm pretty excited to have a, I mean, as a plan B to have a day in St. Andrews, this with my wife is pretty cool. Before you start drinking tomorrow,

get up early, get a coffee, walk down. You gotta poke your head in the main cathedral at the university and then walk down to the graveyard, take a little stroll around there. Yeah, so Lacey went to the graveyard. The friends, Randy loves graveyard stuff. Randy's a slim reaper. Cemetery, sorry.

And then she actually poked her on the cathedral. I didn't want to. It was a little, it looked very dark and haunted. So I, I refrained some dark souls there in St. Andrews. I'm proud of Lacey. What did you go Lacey? Well, we'll speak. We'll speak.

You guys are kidding that. Well, we'll speaking of Lacey, we've taken up Lacey? Max, good. We'll speak to you guys or can in that. Well, we'll speaking of Lacey, we've taken up 30 minutes of your of your night here in St. Andrews. And we'll let you get back to to your wife here. And we'll get on with our gig here. But thank you for coming on and and dropping in and tell some stories about pretty special pretty special week. So we greatly appreciate it, Max.

The promo. Thanks, guys. Enjoy watching the rest of golf as I will though this was a pretty special today so hopefully it continues it continues on with some exciting golf I see Rory Rory is in fact coming. Who's your pick? Always exciting. Who might pick to win it? Yeah damn T.C. I knew you were going to ask me that No, I should be called on TC. I really I really believe I think cam does it but Which one? Oh That was kind of the point ring gole. No, I think I can't think cam cam Smith does it but

I feel like it's between cam and Rory, which is it easy, you know kind of it the lolly pump But it does feel like Rory's played the best golf of blatant. I think Cam has the best, you know, imagination around the greens of everybody up there, and I do think that matter is when it's this firm. So I. It would be cool to watch them to battle, I think, so I think it'll come down to those two. Perfect analyst waffling answer the only way that I could possibly end this. Thanks, Maxi. Thanks, Tony. Thanks, Max.

Thanks, Tony. Thanks, Max. We lost. We lost. I have fun on your honeymoon. Thanks, man. See you. Thank you, too, Max, for dropping in.

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He's played really good golf in the majors and totally lit himself on fire. But it's, you have to acknowledge that. But it's a different story though, right? Like it, you know, didn't he let himself on fire at, that Southern Hills as well? Here's the one difference. I think Cam is, he's a good front runner. If you go back to Cap Allua and he plays well. Cap Allua. Cap Allua. He plays well with the lead, I think. And when he was behind at Augusta

and when he was behind southern hills, he starts to press and make bad decisions and get it all right now. And so it does worry me that he's got a three shot, you know, cushion or two shot cushion. It does. It doesn't. It doesn't. It It does because I think he plays well out in front. Like when he doesn't have to be, it's easy because you don't want him to win. Yeah, I want Roy to win. But I mean, I love watching Cam and I root for Cam. But right now I would, I just think I'm like DJ said it last night. I'm looking for the storybook.

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting down this Rory win. So like that's just my personal preference. But I think that Cam playing with a two shot lead is dangerous, because he's really good out in front. I just think there's a different thing here going on too, where he's playing the firmest, crispiest golf course in the world right now, which is similar to what he grew up playing on Australia.

Right? Yeah, that just has not translated to open championship success in the past. Versus this, yeah, I think he's still young. open championship success in the past versus this yeah I think he's still young. I think that's just kind of a fluke fluke Yanomaly thing but like with like versus a lush southern hills or a lush Augusta I don't know. I just this gets me so much more excited watching him on this Randy. What's it you? Well, sorry. I definitely hear you and I when I was laggy at the beginning

That was one of the things I'm like, I feel like we've seen Cam in this position before and it's gone other ways. But I do think what makes this time different and the more I think about it, the more I like them is, there just aren't big, huge mistakes to be had on this course with the plan pretty benign.

And so I think his aggressiveness is honestly going to serve him well. I mean, he can, he needs to pin his ears back all weekend and go get it. I mean, I'm looking at the leaderboard. There's not a guy in the top 25 today that has a six on their scorecard, you know, it's going to be who can make the most birdies. And for that reason, I think it's a little different than we've seen can at Augusta, where at a PGA or the US Open, where you have to bring in some patients and you can't go after everything. I think this tournament is different.

I'm glad to hear you agree with my take from last night. So thank you on that one. I just, I agree. I think the aggressiveness is not necessarily something that's going to cost him. Like that's been our critique of him in recent months. I just don't want to get the narrative out there that he's a big game hunter. Like he won the players championship this year, but he is that's like, and I need to give it a. Exactly. So I don't have complete trust in campsmiths. When he gets in one of those bunkers in a weird spot, like take your medicine dog,

which he's not good at doing. But like I said last night, it's like I feel like it's so firm as it is right now that there are certain total no go pins that he knows he can't get close to. So there's no reason to try. I think he gets in trouble when he can get close to a pin, like going at that back right pin at Augusta on Sunday at number 12. Like he's like, I can do this shot, I'm gonna go for it right now and didn't pull it off.

There's so many places around there where you have to go to the brake pedal and just go around the curve slowly. And I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I'm waffling on this a little bit. I just don't wanna get carried away of like he's gonna go run away with this. I haven't seen a huge difference between no go pins,

like whether you go for them and your ball kicks away into the rough or you hit an approach a hundred feet away on the green. It's still a difficult two-putter, a difficult up and down. I don't, I feel like the no go pins are, like they're no go for everybody and nobody's gonna get close to them,

whether you go at them or not. That's what I'm saying. I think it's gonna be fascinating to see how they set up the golf course tomorrow, especially. Like, I think we know what they're gonna do Sunday for the most part, but tomorrow is like totally blank slate, right? Like, I mean, shit, the pen on 11 today was, like, I don't think they've ever put it there in an open championship before.

Yeah, same torrents or someone said, yeah, I've never seen it over here before. But like, and Cam, I just, I feel like his distance control is like, absolutely dialed, which to me takes away a lot of the mistakes that you're going to make. A lot of the mistakes are going to be short or long. And when your distance controls dialed, like, I mean, then, and then he did like the big, thick player shit on 14. That was it. That was it.

That was it. The eagle sure. It all went right for Kim and it's gone right for two days. His putting has been like off the charts. So that's that's, but he, but he's, but he's, but he's, but he's, but he's, but he's barely in those seven footers. That's when he's hot. That's, uh, that's, but he's, but he's, but he's barely in those seven footers, you know, when he's hot, that's, that's not unlike him.

He was six strokes game putting today alone. Yeah, my God, man, he was making everything. It was, it was truly a pleasure to watch. Even if that regress, it was awesome. I think there's still like some, there's some low-hanging fruit. Like he parred 18 coming in. I mean, he par, you know,

parred 15 and 16. Like, I think he's got some, you know, came out digging today though. So. Very, very good. And we got a long ways to go in this golf tournament, but he's obviously in incredible position. But so, fellas, I have a question for you. I feel like this is the best leaderboard.

Like, I've ever seen or in recent memory. And I was trying to think like I don't have that much, you know, um, reference, right? But like I'm curious if you agree or if not like what do you think is a more stacked leaderboard from a world ranking standpoint. Guys, like fun, young guy, like a mix of young hungry, like a rookie up there that's that's proven himself that the world ranking, like you got what, three or four of the top 10, 15 guys right there. I mean, there's like, you know, you got Hatton in there, you got a couple villains, like,

you got to live, you got DJ. Yeah, yeah, they're stored like, right into you. What, what you were saying about storylines, just like the guy, you know, what if you get a DJ Rory pairing on Sunday, like, I think there's just like for a lot of reasons, this is one of the best leaderboards I've ever seen. Would you agree? Like normal me, let's get caught up in the recency, yes. But I'm just gonna say no,

probably cause there's some I'm not thinking of. Nothing comes to mind necessarily. I'll say it's shaping up earlier than we usually see in majors. Usually about like through three rounds or like once you turn it like get through 63 holes, like there's like the pretenders have dropped out. The like the pretenders dropped out early this week.

Just a test. The only pretender on the board right now is Cantler. No, well, we'll get to that. People have said to me on Twitter and in the comments, 2019 Masters, which I think is a great, a great comp. The difference is it didn't feel like there was the,, I mean, I guess Shoffley was kind of a young guy at that point. He had like Jason Day up there, DJ, Tiger, Capca, Moanari. But I don't know, there's something about this that feels...

It's more likely to happen at the masters like that though, just with the limited field. There's variables usually in these opens and the US open and there's just not that many variables up there right now, which is, I mean, yeah, and I'm glad we're not getting Roy DJ tomorrow. I don't want to see tomorrow turn into a live, you know, PJ to a proxy battle. I'm actually, I mean, even if they were paired together, would they actually show DJ? Well, that's another thing too, is I'm just in general, like I, like I said, this last night too, is I, I'm obviously quite anti-live, but I'm very not down with just like not showing the live guys. I want to see Bryson play the other. They're in the tournament.

Yeah. This is a major championship. This is not PGA tour. I kind of, I get what's going on in the grand scheme of things, but like you got it, you do got to treat them like they're anyone else in the tournament. Like kind of feel kind of under told that story that him being there this week as well. And man, I just kind of feel a little cheated at it. Like what. Like when we anticipated Bryce and playing the old course for a long time to see does this playing style fit at the literal home of golf?

He made the cut. He made the cut. He made the cut. Like, you know, it may not be right, but it's interesting. So I just feel like that's kind of an unnecessary, you know, if this was a PGA Tor event, they'd sued their way in.

Like a million percent understand how you don't show them, but this is not that. So, I don't know. I don't know if people agree with that or not, but. Well, another loss for, you know, just in the end, another bad thing for golf fans. Right? Like another collateral damage. Yeah. Randy, what does this leaderboard make you feel some things? Yeah, sure. It's a great leaderboard. It was a really hard question. I don't know off the top of my head,

second round, 2014 US Open is better or not, but it's a great leaderboard. I totally agree with that. I think the only nitpick I will have is I'm just worried from Cam Smith that in first to tied for eight that's six shots. I just we could see some separation. I'm not sure how much the, you know, the back half of the top 10 and getting into, you know, Fitzpatrick and some of the guys at 600, how much they're actually in the tournament. But we shall see.

How far back to see far back? Yeah, that's a good point because you're nobody's going backwards out there. You can, I mean, not too far, but you can. Not a single guy tomorrow. It's supposed to blow the tomorrow, at least to start the week was supposed to be the windiest day, right? Of the guys that made the cut three, four, did anybody make a double today? Five. Leech made a triple.

11, which I'll get out ahead of that. I'm going to formally apologize on the half of everybody on team leash. That's big. That's cool, man. That's really cool. It's that was really, really, really disappointing. I mean, looking at the top 36, the only guy to shoot over par was Kurt Kiyama. Shot one over.

Hate that for my top. Top 45. So of the top 45 guys Even guys that went low yesterday. Yeah, and that's a little self-selecting right? Yeah, but there's there's like there's like eight guys today That one right and today was easier today was definitely easier I before we you know we kind of we were late to the game on camera and young last night He rebounded from a slow start that dude He steps up and whale It's almost like before his cat. He can even tell him the line. He has just wailed on a driver as hard as he can.

He plays so aggressively. I don't know if that's going to come back to bite him or not. It through 36 holes. It has looked like, Hey, this is my weapon and I'm going to use it. That dude has hit the shit out of the ball for two days. He's leading the field and strokes getting to you to green. I truly don't know what's gonna happen, but if people are looking at his name, like, oh, he's gonna fall down, like he's gonna go away, I would not dismiss him in any way. This dude is not a pretender in any way.

He just plays fearless, especially off the tee. I mean, he just, like fearless not reckless. Yeah, fearless though. Like he swings with confidence and he goes at the ball off the tee and it's just on some of those, like he swings with confidence and he goes at the ball off the tee. And it's just on some of those drives down the back nine. It's like incredibly hitting this, you know, like really confident cut, which is.

That's a great take, Keith Battle. Cameron Young is who we thought Matthew Wolf was gonna be. Yeah. He's like 187 ball speed with like with actual control. And he's got a pro-joc in the back, not too. Which I feel like could have helped him out at Southern Hills and The models for tomorrow. Whether wise models are in agreement gfs icon euro

All of them are basically saying you know some wins more out of the south tomorrow The morning moving a little bit more to the south southwest but very west, but very benign. So South means they're into the win coming in more into the win coming in. Okay. Yeah. In off the right. Off the left a little bit. Yeah. Okay. So that's tough for with OB up the right for right handers.

That's. But Kim Smith had an interesting comment post round of like he almost was preferring into the win holes at this point because how hard it is to stop the ball with how firm it is going downwind. Yeah. I gosh. I freaked out. The change in the wind conditions today, all of a sudden making like nine unreachable,

12 taking a big strike to get there and making 10 drivable, that's just, that's so fun. Like one day, 18, and the same day, 18 can be like, pop a fairway wooden, it's gonna get all the way up there. It's all of a sudden like yeah, can't miss it's gonna lay up on 18 because you can't get there anymore. I think that's, that's so fun. It shows the

brilliance of like any way, any which win way the win blows, it adds a weird different element to that. That just you don't get in normal golf. You just don't. And this is like the most benign wins we could possibly have and it's still playing a huge effect, which shots the models to the models have nailed nailed the change of direction today i mean they were all over that tron can't or all over for us but i mean it's the models well i mean yeah it's a we appreciate you you bringing that intel but one thing i want to say one more thing about came young

is for a guy that that plays it exciting type of golf in the in the way that he you know he hits the ball long way and he makes, he seems to make big puts. He's in enigma off the course. I mean, he's just really, really, really dry, which is an interesting juxtaposition. I'm like, man, like, you got to be excited. He's just got, he seems like he's got that mindset where he can handle the pressure cooker,

which I appreciate. And it's, I find that very interesting. And we do have a guest in the green room, but I do want to get to before we get there. And I promise we will very shortly here, but we got to talk about Rory because we haven't really, we haven't, we haven't paused the ball on Rory yet. And we're, we're 50 minutes into. I have nothing to say. I refuse to believe that.

You should have. Keith, let's, let's save it because I want to give it, let's, let's bring the guest up and we'll talk about it no that's not right we'll get there to see what you bring our rush it all right uh... at bama bearcat on twitter michael wolf resident historian uh... bring in bring in him and for some some uh... some you know historical context for us chiming in from

you and burning hammer you up in northern michigan i'm chiming in from, are you in Birmingham, or are you up in Northern Michigan? I'm live from Boyne Highlands. Oh my God. Oh, how about that? What's that country? That's how you get the big guy all revved up. Come on now, that's happy. I'm glad I got that winner right there.

I can almost, yeah, I can almost see Randy's favorite home. Best, people talk about the 18th at the old course, but the 18th at the Heather at Boyne Highlands is it's a little bit more about the year. I think it's a little bit more about the year. It's a little bit more about the year. It's a little bit more about the year. It's a little bit more about the year.

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Yeah, so what you guys were talking about before, it is a front runners golf course for sure. Since World War II, so modern golf, there have been 15 opens at St. Andrews. Nobody's come from more than three strokes back after 36 holes in any of the 15 except Jack Nicholas in 1978 was four strokes back. So other than that, I'm bringing you got to be you got to be be a new leader at 36. Yes, I don't know. Anybody can get a seven or eight back, especially the wind forecast, your models, uh, Tron was we know they're always correct. So, uh, um, if, if, if it's what they say, it is, and there's not that much wind, I just don't see somebody coming from seven back,

especially with the names at the top. And talking about the names at the top, I mean, who do you think of the guys in the top five? We'll cut it off at Dustin. A really top top eight because Adam Scott, I think this would probably be talking about legacy and stuff like that. I mean, Adam Scott, this feels like it's probably the most important for him from a legacy perspective. It would totally change the. I think so. I mean, it's the biggest opportunity. You know, if he wins, now he's got more, he's got more majors than any other Aussie, except for Peter Thompson. He's tied with the shark, but he's

got the first green jacket for an Australian. So that's kind of the tiebreaker. He gets ahead of that whole group of IBF and Jason Day and everybody like that. And I think for what he would mean to that country, you know, what another one would mean. I think, and also what happened the last time, you know, he had legit shot coming down the stretch

against Ernie. I think he's got, you know, and he's kind of, you know, I always think the drama is there when you, you kind of feel like it's gonna be their last shot, you know, and they kind of know it's gonna be their last shot too. So I think, you know, who's probably got the most on the line and knows it is going to be, um, Scott. And then Dustin, right? I mean, that's a free catch leader board. Everybody forgets. DJ

had to lead the last time the open was insane Andrews in 2015. DJ had to lead after 36 holes. Um, he, he shot like 67 67. I think he was 10 under after 36 holes. His, his third and fourth rounds were the highest of anybody who made the cut on the weekend. He shot the highest score. He shot like 75 75. It was like 67 67 75 75. He went from, he went from a beaten, I think he was leading Danny Willett and, uh, and ZJ after 36 holes and the guy ends up like tied for 48th place or something like that. So I don't know Justin Johnson remembers that, but or if that like bothers him at all, but man, I would think, you know, I can care at all about your legacy. Let me testify. He does, he doesn't, we don't care. That's the, that's the DJ attitude.

When we add him on the pod, like several years ago, it's like, all right, so like which of your major like heart breaks like hurts the most yeah He was just like just golf man And like in most people I'd be like do that. You're bullshitting me But it was the look in his eye. I was just very much like do this. This should does not phase me in any way So yeah another guy who to where you know age wise and Guys are starting to catch up to them the distance and everything and you know How many more chances are you gonna get you know, age wise and guys are starting to catch up to them in the distance and everything. And, you know, how many more chances are you going to get, you know, again, and that's not the other DJ as much as most guys, but, but how many more go around you going to get, you know, nobody thinks it's their last shot, you know, as it's happening.

They always think there's going to be more opportunities and when it's over, it's over. And I'll say that's not like the DJ is dumb take. That's just like DJ processing things a little differently. It's like DJ is only a higher plan of existence. Yeah. Randy, where are you saying? No, I'm surprised Rory wouldn't be up there. I mean, I know we talk about him a lot and he gets a lot of oxygen,

but that jump from four majors to five is pretty significant. And he's on a big drought. Yeah, I think 12 of what we call modern players, he's like T20 for most majors ever, I think. But eight of them are guys who are in the 1800s and stuff. So I think he's like 12th and a win would get him to knock him through for guys off the list. And he'd take one step closer to the fowl those

and the ballastero and guys like that. So I'm sure that would mean a lot to him as well. I think Rory's pretty, I think his legacies, I think he's gonna try to win it for him, not because he thinks he got some improvement but he also I think he wants to do it. And it's gonna have a great chance, that's for sure. Wolfie, what's been your biggest takeaway

as far as the setup of the course this week? Just kind of pin placements, firmness, all that. I heard you talking about 11, I hate 11. I mean, that is maybe the part three in the world going back to longest. They'd extended the left hand side of the green, but when they do that, what made 11 so great was there was just no bailout. If you came out short, you're going to roll back into one of those bunkers, like Bobby Jones did, and if you go above that whole location, it's, you know, you go, God forbid, you go over the back of that green, it's death.

And by adding that area on the left, now they've kind of made it safe to play to the middle degree. And it almost kind of creates a little backstop. And so I kind of, I don't love that. It's the shortest hole in the course. And I just think, part of what made it so damn terrifying was that there was, it had to be perfect. And it was also one where, you had to have the trajectory. You had to have the distance and was also one where like, you know, you had to have the trajectory,

you had to have the distance and the trajectory and the spin. You know, and we don't get that Thursday through Sunday on the PGA Tour, right? It's, you only get that in major championship golf and it doesn't happen very often. And I just love whether it's, you know, the 11th hole at Chinatown or the, you know, or at St. Andrews or wherever, when you get a little one like that, that there's just so much that goes into 120 yard golf shot and you got to be able to do all of it. And it's something they don't practice. And so that pin on 11 to me was kind of a cop out a little bit. But I wonder if because of the three sums and the issues that they're

having in the loop, if they were like, I mean, if you look back at all the pins, they've put it, you know, on nine, they've been, I mean, nine was tucked on the left, but 10, you know, it's been pretty benign, 11, 8, pretty benign. I'm wondering if they're kind of like, all right, let us get through three sums because we know Sunday they're going to put it right behind the Strath bunker on 11. And I imagine it'll be, it'll be fairly difficult tomorrow on 11 as well on Saturday. Yeah. Looking forward to that one.

Well, I got a question for you. A very total story after Zander's bunker shot on 16 today about the Deacon, is it the Deacon sign bunker? The young slime life. It's named after Deacon who was at St. Andrews who wanted his ashes spread in that bunker so he could continue to spend eternity in it, which I thought was an epic story.

First thing, this is not the question. That's a new life goal for me. I would like to have a bunker named after me before I die. I'm curious, as the resident historian, do you have a favorite bunker or a favorite bunker story at St. Andrews? Or name? Or name? Well, Bobby Jones, bunker.

I think for American, I mean, I think that's pretty awesome. Sure. But, you know, when you're in there and you think, man, this guy, I think that's pretty awesome. When you're in there and you think, man, this guy went on to the greatest thing in the world, especially if you can get one out, you know, if you can hit one out. I don't love the current version of the road hole bunker. You know, it's like every time you watch, you know, they in the lead up, they had the 84 on and they had the 90 on and they showed Tiger winning in 2005. It's like every time it's a little bit different angle and a little bit different height of the lip and stuff like that.

So, well they built up that berm, right? Like they built up that berm kind of a round. Yeah, but it's, but it looks to me at least, I have not been to St Andrews since coronavirus, but it looks to me like there's a little bit more of an angle to it too.

And for people that have not had to play a lot of shots out of bunkers, riveted bunkers, even if the face of it is only like at a 10% you know, or whatever, an 80% tilt instead of a 90% tilt, it makes an enormous difference. And there were multiple guys today that like caught a little bit of the face, but the ball kind of kept climbing up and got over versus, you know, I kind of like when it, if it catches the bunker, it goes right back over your head, at least for these guys. But again, that's just picking it, picking it things. I thought, of course, look really good. I thought it played really good. I thought,

for no wind, there's not much else they can do. And I'm kind of glad they're not trying. 17T's getting a little bit ridiculous, but that's fine. You know, I'd rather see it like this and I think it'd help up just fine. I think it's testing who the better players are and the guys that came in off of form, Bryson or Brooks or whoever,

that you know, we didn't, you know, you didn't necessarily think we're gonna do very well, didn't. And yeah, I thought it was, I thought overall it was pretty good. I didn't see a ton of lucky breaks today. Somebody early, I'm trying to remember who, somebody early stopped on the little strip of grass right behind 17.

It didn't roll onto the road. It stopped on the grass. Was it huge? It might have been huge. I think it was huge. He stopped on the tape. On the tape. Just that little strip. He tweeted something earlier this week about some family that had a block of tea times. Can you tell that stuff?

So people run to the impression, and that's fine. There's a difference between the fact that it was a public course, right? And these were public lands, but the property was actually owned by somebody. So it was owned by this family, the cheap family, CHEP and they are old, they are old St. Andrew's family. I mean, there's families that go back, obviously centuries in St. Andrew's

and they tend to, and they're still around, and they tend to keep things close to the best. But the cheap family, they owned the Stratheum estate, which was a, you know, big estate kind of outback where the driving range is now in St. Andrews, the Linkstress driving range, and they kept doing these leases, but they wouldn't actually sell the land, and they were always long time members of the RNA. And I think one of them, I think, was the longest member. He was a member of the RNA for like 75 years. He got in when he was a teenager and he died when he was 90 years old.

But they retained the rights to this property. And it was on lease. And as part of their rights, they had the right to six T times a day on demand throughout the year. So including the days the open championship was being held. So in theory, if the chiefs were not getting along with the town folks or we're not getting along with the RNA, they could have strolled out there and teed it up right in the middle of the British Open. Game number 23. They had it all the way until 1992.

It's not like this is some story from 1885. This went on until 1992, until finally, I think it just made them nervous if there was some kind of tragedy or something happened and somebody had bought the estate, the Stratian estate. So yeah, they had the right to, they have the right, they had the right to T-time, 60 times a day, six fours and a day, and then they also had the

right to mine seashells, like go out on the middle of the course and dig, dig up seashells if they wanted to, which I guess you used to like for building walls and for building like sidewalks and stuff, but they could have gone out there with a spade and yeah, dug a hole if they wanted to, well, things were in the middle of the proceedings. So that went in a way in 1992, but I think it's awesome. I love all the little things that went on like that and the centuries, how they're always handed down.

So good stuff. Last question for you. There was a, the old course hotel, still one of the uglier buildings in the world. Don't antagonize me, Mr. Carter. Do not antagonize me. But it used to be far, far, far uglier. Correct?

Far uglier, do we have a picture? I think we've got to make it better. There it is. Oh my God. That's what it used to look like. And you were saying that it used to be a pool back there? There was a pool behind it. Roughly behind where the jigger in is,

the jigger in, I guess, was like the station master for the train station. But after the hotel company, that was like their first attempt at it. In 1968, they built that. And there was a pool behind that hotel. And it was like an open air pool. So number one, who builds a pool in San Andrews, Scotland? And number was like an open air pool. So number one, who builds a pool in St. Andrews, Scotland?

And number two makes an open air, and like aren't there golf balls like flying in the pool all the time and everything? So there's still a pool back there, but now obviously it's enclosed and sheltered from view. But yeah, you could have 1968, you could have done a little sunbathe. And Max could have done a little sunbathe

and during the, when he was calling into the show I'm unbelievable the architecture of that. It's simultaneously looks like a motel slash Soviet slash something you find Internoble some bop some ball-hoffs Somebody on Twitter was saying that that was like something you'd see in Cairo or I think I think I think Cody was saying that It was like something you'd see in Cairo by the pyramids It was a fad. I mean car Carnusti, Carnusti had a pro shop that was pretty darn bad. Westlinks still has theirs. Yes, that's one of the words.

Oh, God, that's a ridiculously bad company. I don't know the same guy building all these things or what, but yeah, quite a... Come on, distraught. Put that one out there. So not my favorite. And I don't like the whole. I don't like the whole either.

All right, that is now your Alright, thanks for coming. Well, we will see you around. No, no, it's great. Your tournaments when there's, and when you've got shot tracer and all that, and it's great, you know, if you've got friends and you're just playing socially, but if you're actually playing a game of golf, like if you're playing a match against somebody or whatever, it's a blind out of bounds. So you don't know until you get up there, if the ball's, so it's almost like every single guy that's playing

has to hit multiple provisionals if it's going to be close because you know, you have a sense of it. It's a decent argument without a caddy for pace of play on a public course. I get what he's saying. The locals like us that play matches there don't, you don't take out his youth carry him back. And we had a professional, if you had one right,

hit a professional, that's what the rules are for. Yeah, I'm all right with the road. I know, but every single person has to hit a provisional every time. It's like you have to hit coolest action in the world. Not bad thing. No, no, no, I would say this though,

I feel so differently about 17 after being there, after playing it, like seeing it in person made me understand it a lot more. Like on TV, it was always like, I don't get the big deal. Like that hotel's ugly, you gotta hit over a building, that's stupid. And now I feel different. It's like you're a local.

Yeah. I'm sorry, it's crazy for the tourists and it's great for professionals when there's spotters out there. But if you're a local and you're just carrying your own bag, it's a pain in the neck. Wolfie go get out. Go play crystal down.

Go play crystal down. You don't want to forfeit a hole because your balls out. Cody, Cody, don't let him sign out. Just let him kick him out. We're done. We done this. You were doing great until then. Thank you, Wolfie.

Thank you, Wolfie. I will say I've played the road, the road hole shot when you have a poor ish round going is super easy. Like, then I've had some rounds where I've got it going and it's like, oh, fuck, do not hit it right. And it is the greatest hole in the world. It's perfect. I just told, like, you know when you're flirting without a bounce and you know when like,

you go over to the hotel and you're clearly in bounce, you know when like you go over my catty did and you're clearly in bounds Yeah, you know, that's a bad take. Yeah, well, but I would say that I think the the the Brilliant to the roadhole is more on the approach than it is on the blind shot Like I think you could still have the but you have to take on the right to be able to have a That's what makes it amazing is just like it's just a hole It's just you can't it's such a hard green to hold. You really do improve your chances by improving the angle. It's the sight of the greatest shot I've ever hit.

All right, so one thing, I think we buried the lead and I wanna, I wanna get to Rory, but I just wanna, I just wanna acknowledge that Chez, Chez is leading the barracuda. So we're monitoring, I want everyone to know we're monitoring that, but a Chaz Rory double Randy, I mean that would be the stuff dreams are made of there concerns about chess fest taking away from from no I see it as like a jet, you know, a jazz fest

You got the concert and then they all go play the after party, you know down at the bars in New Orleans I think Chaz is how about if more is it is a After attending the block party tomorrow? I wanna know. I mean, I'm setting up, we're doing kegs and eggs in the morning. So 7 a.m. over here. Can I come? You know, I think what we did a poll on Instagram, a lot of people feeling like you shouldn't be allowed,

but I've been thinking about this a lot. And I think, you know, it's a kind of a come as you are, and I think over the years you've been there. And we'd like to welcome you back. But 70% of the people are saying no. Oh, I'm stunned. I mean, you should be allowed. You know what, from media, that they have a bad take.

Our neighborhood, it's a welcoming place. I love for you to stop by. I'm gonna need you to latch the cooler. I'll latch the cooler. I'm gonna need you to bring some stuff if you want to bring something to add to the party. And then, you know, Randy and T.C., you guys have kind of flirted with like, oh yeah, I'll come by, you know, I'll come through later, you know, how's the weather.

You guys are just, I can't get a firm answer from you. Nobody's supported Rory more than me. And I said, you know, at the mass, I just don't know. I just don't know. That's so much. I said, like he's a thrower, not a pigeon, call him a thrower for five or six years. I said, like he's on the comeback,

he's gonna win one of these. We're not there yet. I think we may be there, but I'm not gonna call it, he's gotta prove it to me. I'm not going on a long way. That's not what the block party's about. The block party's a watch party. It's like do you, do you want to root for this?

Do you, like I have, I'm ready to get hurt and I'm also ready to celebrate. That's a watch party. It's like do you want to root for this? Do you like I have a, I'm ready to get hurt and I'm also ready to celebrate. That's how I feel. I feel like I'm in the justice people that went on tour with the Grateful Dead for a long time and now you're like going to the John Mayer Grateful Dead. No, that's bullshit. That's not true.

I think you kinda got a little silly on Shakedown Street and got a little twisted and now you're rewired your brain. I'm going to be hanging out with the Australians at Bullbean tomorrow morning. Fair enough. And that's totally fine. Okay, that's totally fine. I do want to say this about before. I'll let Randy, I think we know he's kind of a maybe a loose yes for the block party. Where do you sit right now, Andy? It's weather dependent. I don't know if I'm gonna be up in time. We just got, we got a lot going on tomorrow.

I don't know. Maybe I'll stay high if I can make it. Okay. That sounds good. You're welcome to come through if you'd like to come through. I will say this about Rory's round and what I feel like is different. And I saw a little bit of this at Southern Hills

and I saw a little bit of this at Brook Hills. And I saw a little bit of this at Brookline is, it feels sustainable, it feels steady, it feels like there's some bad blips, there's a bad three put on 15, there's a bad bogey three put on eight, but there's nothing bad par on 18. Nobody, it feels very sustainable. Like he's not forcing it,

he's not capitalizing on everything. I don't know, it feels like his game's just like a long-term, passive investment strategy. He's going for compound interest, he's not getting caught up in Sally's Bitcoin. Leave Bitcoin out. There's no crypto Bitcoin out of this. He's gonna miss out on some pops in the market,

but he's tracking right now. He's tracking, and sometimes the market's gonna dip. And you know what, over time though, it's gonna come back. And I feel like over 72 holes, I feel really good about Randy or where Rory's sitting. Rory's like a Vanguard 25. That's exactly what he's like right now. And I think that if you told me that he's gonna be two,

what, three back and shoot 68 today, I take that, going into the weekend. Sign me up for that shit. I just wanna clarify this yet again. I would venture to say that I would challenge almost anyone except for Porter that as far as investing the amount of emotional energy in one single person. I've put it, I've put in a lot.

But then you broke up with them. And that needs to be acknowledged. All I said was I'm done for our draft Kings picks previews. I said when he wins one of these, I'm gonna miss it, because I'm not gonna predict it. I'm done predicting, I'm done calling that he's gonna win one. I'm gonna let it, I'm gonna let it surprise. So I was trying to be an unemotional investor.

Fair enough. Yes. Probably a good idea, but you know, we're not an investor. I'm too emotional about it, so I'm not invested. I did it on the sidelines, so I'm gonna be, I'm gonna ride the lightning, baby. I'm in i'm all in i'm all in i got rory cryptos i got rory going so i i i i just don't i don't enjoy the poll all you pollster the emperors a skewed poll the pollsters would have thrown that out

that that is very flawed everything that has to do with that and i am a resident party attendant. I just want to, like, I'm rooting for Rory. I would be, no, I would be so happy of Rory one, but again, I'm just not getting my hopes up because it's like that three pot on, like the three pot or the, like, it's just like, why do you know?

But that doesn't feel like a no show, right? Like in the past 16. That's what I'm saying. And the past Rory's second or third round, it's been just a total no show where it's like, dude, he's not even a factor. Like he's getting dropped from coverage. He's what I'm saying. And the past, Rory's second or third round, it's been just a total no-show where it's like, dude, he's not even a factor. Like, he's getting dropped from coverage. He's coming up 18 and he's-

And that's not a- He's not a gimmie up and down from the valuation either. It's not a 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4.

And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. And he made it 3-4. If this was like a bunch of, he had to hit a ton of really good iron shots for whatever,

I would feel way different than I do. You can just pound driver and then feel your way around it. And I like how all that is going. He looks to be in a much, much different headspace than he was even a year ago, right? He looks, the swing looks loose and free and it's like he's playing offense. He's not trying, he know, he's not playing defense. He's not guarding against anything. Even when he's laying back a little bit, he's still swinging aggressively. Like I'm, again, I'm rooting for him like crazy. I just

hope Cam wins. If I'm also looking at it, I don't know the fence. T.C. I don't think I definitely. What is that? What is that? Those two things don't thank you Randy if cam doesn't win. I want roe to win Okay, okay How hard is that to understand, but you can't say I'm room for room for you I yeah, I don't know if like I don't know if that works in this situation as I mean you got to kind of pick a pick one here I mean, they're not like mutually exclude like I want Rory to play well. I want Cam to play well. I want Cam to win, but if Cam doesn't win, I want Rory to win.

I just also want to address Cam and young beat Rory at the PGA. None of the other, Cam Smith, none of the other majors Cam hasn't beaten him in any majors this year. And and and and put it like no, no, no, no, you don't get to, you don't get to explain it away. I don't, I don't want wanna just hold Rory to the stand to the like, he always disappoints when like, he's beating, beating the guys that are above it.

Rory is hell doing a different standard because he's fucking Rory, man, he's one four majors. Like, like, that's the deal. You started the show off by saying that Cam Smith is significantly better at golf than Henry. He is. I so, but clearly then you're saying two things then. No, I'm saying golf.

It just doesn't beat him in golf tournaments. No golf, not like driving the ball really far or having massive swing speed, track man shit. I'm talking about golf. He's not better getting in the ball in the whole than rural, by any measurement. Last thing I'll say is back to what Wolfie was saying about legacy, I think that this has,

and Randy, you brought it up. There's something about Rory winning at the old course and the legacy of that and all the dogs. That feels too good to be true to me. That's the only thing. Yeah, but that feels like, man, I'm rooting for that too. Like that feels like the storyline that I want. Even though I do like Cam Smith and I, you know,

another tournament, it just feels like this is the spot where I want Rory to elevate and put this on his resume. That's a lifetime achievement. I want to see him in the highlights, five years from now, 10 years from now, the savvy highlight that we keep seeing, the daily highlights, like all that stuff.

It's just like, we're going to see it every five years. I want that to be Rory when I look back. I'm glad to see you, Hoveland, playing well. Well, I want to just to close this out. Do we have to keep talking about Rory? Yes. But Stroke's gained her last 30 days, Rory's second best. Stroke's gained her last three months, Rory's first.

Who's, who's, who's first? Stroke's gained her last 30 days. Over the last 30 days. Zander's softly. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, Cam, you don't want to see those for Cam over those 30. First, over the last six months, Rory McAroy. 30 first over the last six months. Roy McElroy first over the last 12 months Roy McElroy. He's played really freaking good. He's played really good golf. Much different golfer over the last

I like his squad the fact that he's got rotella just the facts all that shit. I like it. I'm on board guys I'm just not the captain of the ship. Okay I'm on board guys. I'm just not the captain of the ship. Okay. Fair enough. All right. Move on to Hovlin. I'm just like, I really don't have a whole lot. I think you got a little bit crowned by the whole out. That was great shot. Yeah, it was.

It was a blind whole out. I don't think you could see where it's going. But you know, Hovlin, like, it's like, it's time to shitter get off the pot and some majors and it seems like he's shitting. Which is, which is good. And then in this case, that's a good thing, right? Pupi in the potty, Randy, good job. Cody, can we flash up Hobbins outfit?

I think that's really the story today. Something I hear caught on the power point, the Microsoft power point. I feel like he's really leaning into the like grade picture day chic and it's really really good stuff It was working for me not only that the fact that he had the polo and the sweater with it He was playing it in a polo that matched that early on then put the sweater on that's commitment You don't have to sell it. Yeah, it was one of those it's so bad. It's good like if we're gonna do that pattern I love going you know like full purples like the hues like we got to do that pattern, I love going, you know, like full purples, like the hues, like we gotta do it all out.

Well, the thing is, I'm okay with this. Like that pattern's been used so many times, but in such a smaller deal, like the R-Gyle shit, like this is, I like this, this is cool, it's, it was provocative. It's all about what? It was, I was kinda like, he kinda won me over with this one, but man, he really does wear some questionable stuff.

So we got a lot of stuff to get to. We made a lot of money to wear some clothes. Yeah, he does, that's true. We still got a lot to get to, but first, we also got to get to, it's time for Cash App game. Cash App. Let's go. Easiest way to spend and save your money,

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it's a, it's a hold for me. I'm holding the amount of stuff back to Sally's point earlier. I don't feel like I saw a lot of DJ. I don't know enough. Yeah, yeah, I didn't see it. And in our DJ, Pihalski, you know, it was kind of like, oh, God, it's a lag putting contest. Like that's really, but he's also not potted that well this year. Like it feels like he's not, I just didn't see him play much today. So I can't really, I feel like I don't have any context.

Well, you ready for this one, guys? I don't know that this tournament's four rounds. He's used to playing three round tournaments get ready for a lot of those jokes. You people sent me that today, like, hey, you guys probably do a much better job with this. No, we're gonna abstain.

Well, honestly, I want to see one more day out of DJ, we'll see a lot more of them tomorrow and if he's around tomorrow, we'll talk about tomorrow. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I like that one. Chasing the dingo. I like that shit. Yeah, chasing the dingo. I like that shit. Yeah chasing the dingo from what live golf in Cody specifically asked that we don't read

them out. So we don't know. I'm sorry Cody. We want to talk about the TIO issue that we had with Zander today. Well, not yet. I want to hear. Randy, what's your three words for today? Putt.

God. Uh, put, uh, God, something about feet of putts made, but that's four. So I'm, I think how to shorten that. You know, you know, Cam Smith, unofficially, the most feet of putts made, uh, in the history of the PGA tour that, that they can, that they can track. Wow. Really. Yeah. That's incredible. That should be teeny tiny alarm bells.

That's what I'm saying, man. I mean, it's just not sustainable. He's about like three shots too high from what he's played. He's played really freaking good golf tee to green. He's probably should be about 10 under though. Mine's simple today, kegs and eggs, baby. We're getting started early tomorrow. So keeping it simple. I'm gonna go Fowlgs and eggs, baby, we're getting it started early tomorrow. So, keeping it simple.

I'm gonna go Fowdo, Zinger, Juice. Love the two of them together, we're fired. They brought out, it also shows what chemistry means like in the booth and why that matters. I like that one, T.C. I'm gonna go with, is it different? Question mark on the end. When it comes to Rory, is it different?

Is this different? How about is this different? Is this different? How about is this different? Is this different than anything we've seen over the last eight years? And I don't know the answer to that. I think we'll know more on that tomorrow. Cody, I know you hate it when we do this, but I gotta call out my guy Tim Sorenson,

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Held his ground completely and a very calm and classy way. Said I'm just not, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. But I've never hit out of this before. Yeah, but I'm just, I'm gonna call my associate. But I never hit out of this before. I just was like, dude, I don't know. I've never hit out of this before. That course, everybody, but I've never hit out of this before. Then you need to, then you need to trust when everyone's like, yo man, this isn't, I don't know. I've never hit out of this before. That course, everybody, but I've never hit out of this before.

Then you need to trust what everyone's like, yo man, this is, you can't have this. I don't know, I've never hit out of this. Those things are the gnarliest plants on the planet. They intercepted like 18 times while he's talking to the rules official. I thought I was like, there's, if he gets relief from this,

TIO relief from this course push, I'm gonna freak it. Zander wanted to talk to the manager. I didn't like that, but it worked out. He took it on playable. He got it up there and he made a five. So good for him. I think that was the play from the start.

If you try to hit out of there. And even if he gets TIO relief, like I don't know where we was gonna go. It was all course pushes on the clean line of sight. So it was 100% should not have been given to him and it was not. And Zander was not a dick about it at least. He was not not he wasn't trying to tell him like I could get that out of there He was very much like I think he knew he down he couldn't

And you know like but it's a fair thing to ask a rules official and there's been situations I've had internments where I'm like I don't know do I get relief from this and people been like oh yeah Absolutely and that can happen in a tournament. So I thought it went on a little longer than it should have. As you said, we kind of kept going back to the same argument that was just not a good argument. So it but shout out to my guy Roger for holding his ground. I love seeing that. And it sounded even better with that Scottish English accent just backing down these these pampered PGA tour players. What do you what say you Randy?

I love it Neil. I'm right there with you. Hell yes brother. When you say you would have freaked out I'm curious what you would have done. What would that have been Taylor? I well, Sally just walked in the kill house. I probably would have thrown a little you know, can't turn on the couch. He was despondent when I walked in. Literally as it was happening. Throw some nasty words up on Twitter. Would have bailed on my allegiance to Zander, which I'm already, I can't tell you what I got in me fired up. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I would have said some mean things. Here's where I'll join you, Neil. Old Course is freaking weird enough as it is. No TIO at the Old Course. No, it should be none Well, it's like one of the few Grandstands that's inside the yes, you know internal that's an obstacle now. That's like behind seven T I think is where you know, it's the old stones. You got all sorts of weird shit. No TIO with the old course You want to bang it over the green on nine? That's it's part of the course. That's part of your risk

No TIO the old we're gonna put a wrap on the cash app game just to give give you the sergeant break here and let him hone in on the box and be ready. DJ sent something over this afternoon. I haven't stopped thinking about it since. Scotty Sheffler as Jay Leno. Oh god. You stole my best thing I saw. Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll get there. I just want to mention saw him. Tagala. I love that shit. I just want to mention Sawhit Tagala. I love that shit. Trying really hard not to get overly emotionally involved with the Sawhit appearance on the leaderboard

and getting it as an alterment and staying in the dorms and all that. But he flashed up on the TV earlier. I've been in a massive battle with Comcast all day. TV finally comes on, Sawhit comes on, Freddy sees him and was like, Dad, that's the guy we met at the John Deere class. And I was like, yeah, it is. And I was like, he's like your favorite, right?

He's like, yeah, I love him. Man, Dad, he's the best. He's the greatest. He is, I said it's on Twitter, but he just has this like, he's incredibly talented. And it's really, really good player, but has this humble, like down to earth, like vibe to him. It's also just like him just,

he gives up this appearance of like, I'm just happy to be here. And I think I find that so easy to root for. He's just an exceptionally, like, emotionally intelligent, well-adjusted human being, it seems like. And it's, you know, proper player, right? He's, it's no surprise he's contending here. I'd like to see him break the tie with Cantleto, who's a little boy. Well, you want to address that? No, I think the argument

and a fair one that you guys have made to me is that Cantlet plays good on the birdie fest. You know, AMX desert challenge. That's what I'm saying. I think it's almost like, oh, dude, this is actually a pretty good fit for him, um, especially when the Candidys are low. He's a, he's a pin your ears back. Go, go make a ton of birdies guy. And, uh, so it seems to be working in his favor. Yeah.

I, I, I push back on that in two ways. There's only seven guys at eight under or better through two rounds. It's, it's not a total birdie fest, and it's not stock golf shots, right? You got to feel your way around it. So to that, I would say to Katelyn, like this is, that's pretty legit. And I, well, I would agree with that. I also think Katelyn puts it really, really good. And that's, that's showing.

I think it's showing that the, you know, proper putters of the golf ball are, are all over the leaderboard. I think he's in that, uh, in that class as far as putting goes. That being said, Katie, you can write the column. He's not gonna win. He's not gonna win. No, I don't think he's gonna win either. But I think it's a respectable showing so far.

So I wouldn't call him a little boy, like Randy's boy, Morokawa. I was gonna say, Randy, this is fun. I kinda like just calling out, like yeah, he's not gonna win. That's really, I see the thrill you get out of this. Are we going for it? Yeah.

True. Sounds like Randy's in a battle with Comcast over there as well, unfortunately. Guys, another one I'm going to shout out. Adam Scott, like one of the rounds of the day. Bogey Free 65 today started out the tournament three over through six holes. And he is. he's seven under. Well, yeah, and he's, let's see, one, two, three. He's 11 under in his last 20, or 28 holes.

How much like Tan and Brown, do you think he's gonna roll off to the tee with tomorrow? He might be so camouflaged, you can't even see him on the tee. I know, he's gonna, we lost him. We lost him. He's gone. Where is he? I can't see him out there know he's gonna that we lost man. Yeah, he's gone. Where is he? Where? I don't I can't see him out there.

Is this a safe space? Yes. Yeah, you're you're gonna shit out of like that. Shit on all of me. Adam's got does absolutely nothing for me. Could not give two shits that he's on this leaderboard. You think empty vessel for you, Randy? Yeah, like, you know, best swing in the world outside of Tiger and you've won one major. I just, I think he's a much more interesting person off the golf course than he ever is on the golf course. Well, the fascinating part is, I think he's gotten away with everyone thinking he's much more interesting off the course. And I don't know if there's a ton ton there. Well, he's just pod with, he was great.

It's great. And I would say, it's funny. We're talking about how the leaderboard stacked with good putters. I don't think I would throw Adam Scott in that like I wouldn't call him a bad putter anymore though. He's kind of in Randy the key sum of cheating this week. I think he's the one guy that plays the broomstick who doesn't anchor. Yeah. Everyone else is anchoring just to be clear. Yes. Let's get to the best thing we saw today and then we can maybe do some apologies. The only other thing I want to say is Taylor Gooch

like appears to be as suspected, like unfortunately really, really good at golf. Yeah. It's a bummer. Good for big heat keeps, if he keeps playing well, it's kind of a knock on the old course a little bit because smart players are supposed to play well here. I both, both of these brain cells are working over time this week.

So, you know, what was the best thing you saw today? Well, T.C. alluded to it. I think a friend of Mr. DJ pies called out that Scotty Sheffler has just an uncanny resemblance to Jay Leno. Is that Jay Leno or Scotty? No, it was the baby picture of Scotty. That's Jay Leno. I think that's Jay Leno.

And this and then it's like, okay, yeah, see it. And then there's a one more picture, I think, Cody. I mean, it's just, it's too good. I can't unsee this now. So, I saw that at about 8 a.m. this morning. That's kind of how I started my day. And it's been with me ever since. And I just wanted to share it with all the people out there.

Thank you, thank you. You stole mine, because I want to nominate that. TC was the best thing you saw today. Gosh, a lot of different ways we could go. Nope. We submitted these. I submitted a bar clay brown. I think he's, I've really enjoyed watching him play the last couple of days. Stanford guy kind of followed his career over the last, last couple of years.

He's got the bug at the Camo bucket hat on. Just absolute like putting the lights out. Just really, really interesting player. The other thing I wanted to shout out was the kid that won the the Massachusetts state amateur Connor Willett. He's a I think he's a sophomore at Georgetown. Father died

last Sunday unexpectedly, and he kind of came out of nowhere and won the tournament, and just kind of a remarkable story. So shout out to that. What's his name? Connor Willett. Yeah, that's Connor Willett, that's awesome.

So yeah, just really, really cool story, and I can't imagine going out and doing that after one of the biggest tragedies you're like. Yeah. So shit. Randy, do you have a best thing you saw today? Yeah.

I did it. I didn't see it because I wasn't up early enough, but I just wanted to give some shine to Mark Calcovechia. I think Tiger. Really? Taken the spotlight, but oh Mark was out there shot 83 82 this week and his last British open appearance of course the 1989 champion It just seems like a good good dude and an underrated player 11 13 times in the pga tour as one all around the world

And was out apparently, you know having some beers after his round today, just just living it up. So here's to Mark Calcovec. Yeah. Heisting some pints. Both of my best things I saw today got taken. I did not get a heads up. Really? We're calc.

This was calc. I thought it was, it was a very unceremonious like he went up on the bridge, his wife's on the bag. Pints of whiskey. Coco beans tweeted drinking pints of whiskey with mark kalka veckier right now uh... it was uh... i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i It's super sappy, like emotional, weird nostalgia, feeling touchy thing of the traditions of golf, and it just hit me a little bit this morning. There was not many people there, but like to this guy, that probably means the world

that he got to do one last walk, and he shot a million, and I'm sure he's, you know, he doesn't even care. Like he got to do this one last time. It's an honor of past champions that I just, you know, coincide that with the Tiger walk today, which again, it's not gonna be Tigers last open, it doesn't look just, you know, you know, coincide that with the tiger walk today, which again, it's not going to be tigers last open. It doesn't look like, but probably on, I would say on doubt at least last one at the open are at St Andrews. It just hit

me a little bit. Just like, it was very cool moment and they did a good job documenting that question. Do you think it's, it's better the way that they do it where you get how until 60, until 60 versus like with the masters, it's kind of like that they do it where you get, how old? Until 60, until 60. Until 60 versus like with the masters, it's kind of like, yo, like we're just gonna send the letter itself. It's probably until 60. It's about the same time.

So I think it worked. And I think it opened, you can compete a little longer than the masters, because of how far the ball goes. But Ryan Labr tweeted this earlier, that he was saying that the rumor, like the word on the street is that the, it's not coming back to St. Andrews till 2030. Like that's eight years from now.

And I'm, I don't know if they're trying to get back on the even year thing or every, I think that'd be a not smart thing to do or a silly thing to reason why to wait eight years because it usually is every five. This was supposed to be six so they could get on 150, you know, have 150 be the at St. Andrews. And then they ended up waiting seven because of COVID. Dude, go back to every five. Like, come on, like I would not support waiting eight more years. Maybe it's going to take him eight more years to roll back the ball.

That's another thing I thought of today. This is the last open probably at the old course before the ball gets rolled back or the equipment gets rolled back. A spinnier ball, like trying to fly to ball through the wind and figure out, because the ball spins more off of this turf, too, because it's so like, like, like watching the guys play those little 30 yard or 20 yard pitches off of those super bear lies, like that keeps me up at night. Yeah.

And doing that with a spinnier, like more similar to a wound ball would be just exceptional viewing. Shall we get to apologies? Any apologies we want to make through 36 holes. I kind of wrote down that I was gonna apologize for Zalatoris But he had a he had a gritty day. Look, I apologize for thinking he was gonna win. He's not gonna win. It does not look like I I don't think there's any apology necessary. Okay was vibing until he got bogey 14. He was green sign on 14. He got 67 today. Yeah, you guys, oh he made a birdie coming in. Any apologies for Keen, Randy T.

Yeah, I'm apology adjacent. He made the cut. Shut plus two today. What are you looking for here? Shut plus two today, really disappointing. Yeah, you know what, we're monitoring the situation. He could still easily, easily top 20 this thing. I, and I, I'll, I'll issue an apology for, for Zander, you know, threatening to take

that TIO. I think that was, that was tough to, I hated seeing that. So, you know, I may have called for there for me. Any a deep range, do you want to apologize for the old course? Anything you said about the old course? No, I was just thinking, I'm good waiting a 20, 30 to come back here. It's fun, but it's not my favorite open.

You want an honest opinion, that's an honest opinion. I don't know what you want me to say. What is your favorite location? Yeah, like, were you ranked? We're feeling so much better. We're feeling such a better test for the British open. I feel like this should be something to where like I was thinking about it yesterday when it started raining a little bit. Or it's like, Hey, like we can't play today.

We need to delay just wave the right condition. Yeah, like it's like in next Tuesday, it's supposed according to the models next Tuesday is going to be relatively windy, like 15 to 25 mile an hour. Once. All right, we play the play the Mavericks, once. All right, we play the, we play the psych mavericks, the surplus. Yeah, we play the second round next Tuesday, everybody waits around. That's a surf competition. We do that when it's at the old course. We wait for the swell and then you gotta be ready to go.

Randy, I would say for me, it's here, you could argue car noostee, but I think I really enjoy watching this because I actually have some personal context to it. So, you know, like, like, mirror field, it's like, I don't know. No, that's what I'm saying. So those are two that I'm always gonna be maybe

I think Berkdale. preferential to. I think Berkdale's awesome. I love Berkdale. I think Liddam's like so quirky and cool and like technical. It's like, bogal skiing. Hoola is gonna be interesting. Like, I think these guys are gonna rip Hoola apart.

Probably. I think you can tune in in St. George's can go for me and keep a little tighter rotation. St. George's isn't a real cool. That's the one they make the money on. So, I don't know. We got into Ireland, but let's expand. Port Marnick or something like that. Let's do that.

Rumors swirl in. I don't see it at Port Marnick. That is not the infrastructure place. I mean, there's a lot of reasons why it's like on a little estuary like I've heard some like rumors about that I do not think Port Marnick can host the open for all the other things you need to host it It is not jumping off the charts for me at all Randy. Do you need to apologize for bland? I mean, I will listen. I'll apologize for anybody you want me to apologize for. I that sounds sincere. Randy. Well, I don't know if I was necessarily like pimping Blandy. I think I'm gonna throw this out there when it's Randy, do you need to apologize

for Blandy? I think that's the end of the show. I think that's it. Well, no, let's bring Cody. Cody, we miss anything. Now, I think we're pretty clear, boy. Let's go. I got d-terplates. Outside of TC's pronunciation on the bridge on 18. I don't know if you want to roll that one back again, TC. The bridge on 18. The spoken bridge?

The spoken bridge? Thank you. I think you're pronunciation. No, people are on me because I called the spoken bridge a disgrace a couple of years ago. I think it is, I think it's, that's a little bit over rot, you know? Okay. All right, thanks for joining us.

Meal, do you wanna apologize for kitchen? For Stu? Yeah. Plus, plus five. Well, he already finished his business at the OpenChayation. I feel like everybody we picked to make the cut for Parley.

I will apologize for woodland. That was terrible in retrospect. I I thought do actually my block. You guys could pull I pick Cameron Young. So you guys I got I got Bob McIntyre who made the cut on the number. All right. So thank you everyone for for tuning in for yet another live show. Thank you to Yeti for sponsoring it.

Thank you to Cody for the ones and two. Thank you to Wolfie and Max. Our guests tonight. We will see you back here Saturday afternoon after the Bok Party and gosh, can't wait for this weekend. It's going to be epic. Oh, hold on. A poll. No, or a call it too. Or a call. Randy. Oh, okay. I'm very sorry for calling more of a call. Okay. Thank you, Randy. Thank you, everybody else. You're welcome. Have a great night. Cheers. Randy, thank you everyone else. You're welcome. Have a great night.

Cheers. Be the right club. Be the right club today. That is better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most.