Subpar - Chris Vernon Interview: How ’What’s Goin on at Augusta’ started, which Tour players have gotten involved

Episode Date: April 26, 2022

On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Grind City Media's Chris Vernon joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive, in-studio, interview. The analyst for Grizzlies LIVE! talks how 'What's Goin on at Augusta' came about and which Tour players and celebrities have gotten involved.   Subpar Podcast: https://linktr.ee/Golf1271 Birdie Juice Merch: https://proshop.golf.com/collections/birdie-juice-collection --------------- The TAG Heuer Connected Calibre E4, together with the TAG Heuer Golf app, is the ultimate companion for on and off the golf course; designed for performance, ready for everyday life. Visit https://tagheuer.com/golf to learn more. Thanks to our official sponsor Dewar's. Make sure to check out their page on Reserve Bar today: https://www.reservebar.com/collections/house-of-dewars This week's episode is presented by FanDuel Sportsbook. If you've never tried FanDuel Sportsbook, what are you waiting for? Go to https://www.fanduel.com/subpar or download the FanDuel Sportsbook app to get started. Be sure to sign up with promo code SUBPAR so they know we sent you. Disclaimer: 21+ and present in AZ, CO, CT, IA, IL, NJ, NY, or WY. 1st online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as non-withdrawable site credit that expires 14 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), Call 1-800-522-4700 (CO), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (NJ, IA, IL), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY(467369) (NY), or 1-800-522-4700 (WY).

Hello world. Welcome back to golf subpar, Colt Noste and Drew Stoltz. Coming off the Zurich Classic down in Nalans. Sleez, I'm over in Dallas, getting ready for a little charity event out here at Preston Trail. Bourbon Street got the best of me, my man. It can happen. It can happen. Four nights down there. It's like I said, it's like it's like Vegas, dude. It's like one night, great. Two nights, also really fun. Three nights, starting to be an issue. Four nights, I got to get the fuck out of here.

Just too much of a good thing. It's like a kid on Halloween, dude. You like to eat candy, but you get to eat candy strictly for four days in a row. It's a problem. But good to see you're still alive and taken and headed to the Motherland. Yep, I got to tee it up today out at Preston Trail from my man, Finn Ewing's charity event. So that should be very, very interesting after my last several days. But what a week down in New Orleans, man, fun event, the team events. It's very classic.

And Xander Shafle and Patrick Cantlay just put on an absolute clinic. I mean, I followed them the last two days. It was special, dude. I mean, they were one of the favorites going in. No surprise they hoisted the trophy at the end of the day. I mean, it's like when we were doing our gambling last week, I'm going through there, I'm looking through, all right, who do I want to pick? This team, that team.

I'm like, dude, there's a team of Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schaflat. Like, how do you not pick them? It's like, this is one of the ones. If you don't pick them, you're going to go back at the end of the week and be like, I'm so stupid. And sure enough, they come out, 59 piece in the first round. Never look back. I mean, they just, it got close.

I mean, I thought it was going to be a runaway, dude. going in the last round. It's like five shots. They break this thing open. There's only a couple teams even within shouting distance of them. And sure enough, it got close. Sam Burns, uh, Billy Horschel in there, but I mean, they just don't mess up. It's got two of the most solid players in the world who, A, love playing together, love playing with each other and neither of them are bad at anything. Like I was thinking about it yesterday. Okay, so, Colt, they're now two and O in the President's Cup down in Melbourne. They went two and O at the Ryder Cup in alternate shot format, right? In the foursomes. They went two, they're unbeaten. I was thinking about

in my head, I was like, if they were going to play somebody 10 times, who would you take any any other two-man lineup? I don't care what country they're from. Would you take over Cantley and Zander? And I couldn't really think of one. I mean, you can put some of the best guys in the world together, but I don't know that they have the, you know, the love for each other like Zander and can't they have. I think that's the best alternate shot team you can form in the world right now. And it's no surprise they've never lost it. And they just won this. Well, their games are just so similar. I mean, they hit at the same distance. You know, all their strengths are the other person's strengths.

It's literally watching the same person play. So they just go about and they just, like on Saturday when it was best ball, I started covering them on number eight. Neither of them missed agreed the rest of the day. I was like, in this format, like you've got to have, give yourself a lot of chances. And that's exactly what they did. I mean, they were playing with Aaron Ryan, David Lipsky in the last group. And these guys, I mean, we're putting for part, it seemed like every hole.

Someone would always miss the green. And these two guys, every single hole they had two puts at birdie. They just kept the pressure on the whole time. And then they had a little hiccup in the alternate shot in the middle of the round when it got close for a second. But then they just pulled away with just incredible golf. Like I said, no surprise. But this is big for Zander Schauffley in my opinion. He hadn't won on the PJ tour in over 1,200 days.

You know, it's really struggled to close out tournaments. And it was starting to slip a little bit there on Sunday. and I think for him to get across the finish line. I know it's a team event, but I think that was really, really big for him. Yeah, just winning in general. It ain't easy to do. And he's won, but they've been limited fields

or the handicapped start or the thing like, or the Olympics, you know, it hasn't been a tour of it. And I know that this is a two-man team, but damn, just to get the monkey off your back, 1,200 days is hard to believe for a guy like Xanders shot. When you watch him play each week, you're like, how does this guy go 1,200 days without winning a golf term on the PJ tour? It's hard to believe.

I mean, he did have eight runner, up. Yeah, he hasn't played bad golf. He's been beating around the bush a little bit. And talking about them being the same guy. Did you see the clip of them walking off the green on Sunday where they were both walking off? They were walking like stride and stride.

One foot was moving at the same time as the other. They both like twirled their putter. Then they picked up their putter. And it was like the exact, it was like watching the same human. It was almost like creepy watching those two. It was like they are the same dude. Yeah. You know, they spend a lot of time with each other.

They go on vacations together. They room, you know, they rent houses together on. the road. The team's just, it's, it's a no-brainer. But I will tell you that Saturday, so I picked them up. Last group, we get, we're on number eight walking down the fairway. And I just, I just give a little nod, say hi. You know, I stay out of the way. And all of a sudden, hear Patrick go, so Colton Drew flew all the way to Jupiter and interviewed every golfer on my street, except for me. I'm like, I was like, Patrick, you are welcome anytime you want. We are happy to have you. Patrick. You literally interviewed everyone on the street. We love you, dog. We'll come

back invite us that's it we're just going to show up and knock on the door now dude like hey dude we're here for the interview we're ready to go oh but it's a lot of i've had enough new orleans though i'm ready for a year break from there uh i'm heading down to mexico this week to cover that event which we're going to get to here in a little yeah port of i ardo be a nice little nice little uh rehab that's a good place to go just chill for a while oh my god it's going to be crazy but uh hey please i think you need to tell the people about uh our new sponsor or Tag Hoyer. Dude, you got to know about Tag Hoyer. You got to bring your golf rounds to the next level. Passionate about golf, Tag Hoyer is setting a new dimension in watchmaking through cutting edge technology

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It's become basically a social media sensation over the last few years with his master's updates. Chris Vernon does a radio show podcast out of Memphis, but it's really gotten famous over the last couple of years with what's going on at Augusta. And it is absolutely incredible. We had so much fun with him. Learning where this all came from. and it's amazing how many people have caught on to this, and they just love this guy. Dude, the players love it.

He's getting reached out, you know, by everybody. I didn't know. I had never, I didn't know who Chris Vernon was, rewind a handful of years ago. Then that came up, and it was like the only thing I heard about. People were saying, you know, it's going on. And it's everywhere you went, and this thing has exploded. Now it's to the point where it's like two weeks leading up to the masters.

People are like, you know, anticipation for it. Like, yo, what's he going to do this here? He's got the little dancing animals in the back. Honestly, honestly, And this is the biggest tip of the cap I can give. The first time I saw him do it, I was like, why didn't I think of that? How have I not done that? This is brilliant.

People are going to love it. It's funny. It makes golf fun. He's added with the green jacket and the chains and the tattoos, which we'll get into. But this thing's a smash. I'm like, even the player, dude, like the players, how many times have you been around Tony Fienow out here in Scott? And someone says, like, where are you being now?

Or something like, you know, like, if you're looking for his, like, Tony Fienow, where are you being now, looking for his ball or whatever? It's like, it's just one of those things that sticks and he's done a hell of a job. And he's an awesome dude. First time talking to him, he's, he's, he's all time. All right. Well, before we get to Chris Vernon, we are proud to announce Dewers as the presenting sponsor of subpar in the official Scotch Whiskey of the 120nd U.S. Open at the Country Club in Brookline,

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Cheers of the week. And I'm going to throw this out there for you, Sleaze. I'm going to go, this is off the golf course. Okay. So yesterday I was on the broadcast. We get to the night toll, which is a very diabolical par three there in New Orleans. A lot of trouble can happen. And I actually just learned about this this morning.

So I was saying, you know, like, this is one of those holes that Patrick Cantley, and Stratle-Zander Shopf Lake could really struggle. You could make a big number there. And I was like, and we saw it earlier in the day when Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown made an eight in the alternate shot format. So apparently the coverage was on in the locker room. Kiz was already done. There was a bunch of people sitting around watching it. And I said that.

And apparently he just goes, fuck you, Colt. And the whole place just starts to die laughing. I don't know if we're allowed to use it. Is that for the cheers of the week? I just thought it was funny. Hey, dipshit. I'm right here. I can hear you.

All right. Well, here's Chris Vernon on golf subbar. Okay, folks. We got the biggest musical sensation out of Memphis since Elvis himself. He's triple platinum for his single What's Going On at Augusta. He also Moonlights as a radio host with the Chris Vernon show and host the NBA and NFL show podcast on The Ringer. Chris Vernon is with us. What's up, Chris?

Thanks for having me on, guys. I'm a huge fan of yours, so this is exciting. We appreciate it. First off, got to give a shout out. If you're watching on YouTube, you are definitely the best dressed with your Dallas Cowboy sweater. I love that. I didn't know you're a Cowboy fan. I am a Cowboy fan.

So my father, I grew up actually in New York, but my dad was born and raised in Tennessee. And, you know, I think that it's very common. You'll find fans all over the country that are a lot of Cowboys fans, a lot of Steelers, fans, a lot of Raider fans, because when the NFL started to get good, if you were in a market where you didn't have football to watch, you didn't have a home team, then that's what was on TV. Those were the teams that were good. And so my father was a, he was a, he was a, he was a Cowboys fan from like the 60s. You know, his favorite player was Roger Stalback and he loved Tom Landry.

And so it's all I knew when I was growing up, right? like and obviously I have a good relationship with my dad I love my dad so I like I think you can go one way or the other right you can either like resent it they go the other way and root against whoever your dad likes or you could just decide hey I'm going to root with him and still to this day he's now retired he lives a hundred yards from me and me and now my son go down and watch games every weekend well it's been disappointing for a while but I know but you could do it together you're disappointed together. That's true. Misery loves company. That is for sure. But yeah, you're in Memphis now. Give us the road of how you got there. I rattled off some of the shows that you're doing right now.

You're a busy dude. But give us a little background. All our listeners are going to know you from what's going on at Augusta, which we're going to get to. But how did you get to the point where you are with radio and podcasts and all that? Okay. So I'll try to do this quickly. I went to college. My parents are both from a very small town of Tennessee named Henderson, Tennessee. They're both from there. And in the summers, I would go to, like, church camp or basketball camp. And my grandparents and my aunts and uncles were all there. There's a small Christian school there named Fried Hardeman. And I went to school there.

And then when I got out of college, Memphis was the closest big city to where I'd been. I'd done internships and whatnot throughout college. And I had also, like, called the basketball games and did, had a TV show in college, all this stuff. I'd done a lot of media stuff. and I just was going to go. I had a couple buddies that were going to move to Memphis, and so I just moved there at the same time. I didn't know what I was going to do.

I got a job at the local sports radio station, and then I worked in radio from then until, I guess it was, I mean, pretty much on and off. I did radio, and then I actually left. I had gotten in trouble over something. I can't even remember now. And I left radio. and I went and did stand-up comedy for like, I don't know, six months, eight months, something like that.

And then I came back to radio after that. And when I came back to radio, then I was pretty well in Memphis doing the Chris Varnage show until 2016 or 17. At that point, Bill Simmons was starting the ringer. And I wanted, and I was going to do pods for him. there was no way I was going to be able to do podcasts and the radio show that I was doing because I was doing three hours a day. And so I ended up, the Grizzlies were going to start their own media company called Grind City Media. And they were willing to build us a studio with like cameras and everything and have the whole setup. And so me and the buddies I do the show with, we all just left, packed up and went over there.

And that way I was going to be able to do the Ringer podcast and I was going to be able to do. the Ringer podcast and I was going to be able to do. And that was, at that time it was crazy, but now it doesn't seem crazy at all, right? Because I just felt like at that time, I had gotten in a fight with the radio station anyway. And it was, I'm like, yo, if they're finagling about paying me, this is the wrong business to be in.

Because we were number one for four straight years. Yeah. And they're busting my ass. And I'm like, what's going on here? The money ain't coming in, right? Like, I mean, what is going on? And obviously, you know, I knew I wasn't going to be a radio star 10 years. So I tried to get to the Internet quick.

Well, it's worked out pretty well. I mean, Bill Simmons, the ringer has just been a huge success. What's it like working alongside Bill Simmons? I love him. You know, I actually met him years ago when he was on the countdown show on ABC for the NBA. and the Grizzlies made the Western Conference finals, and that's where I first met him. And we had stayed in touch.

And in fact, oddly Grantland, which was the site at ESPN, had written about master's updates that I did. And he's like, yo, if you ever do anything like this, you've got to let me know. We'd love to put it on Grantland, whatever else.

And so we kind of stayed in touch over the years. And then when he started up the ringer, you know, that's when he reached out to me about doing that. But he's been the best. He's been great. It sounds like NBA is your big passion, correct? Yeah, yeah. Just because I, you know, when I moved to Memphis,

there's a college football guy, there was a Memphis Tigers guy, there was a, you know, there's somebody that everybody listened to for these different subjects, but I moved in 2000. That's when I got to Memphis, and the Grizzlies came.

in 2010 in 2001. And so for me at that moment, which was a very good decision, it was, all right, if I go to every press conference, I go to every game, I can be the guy associated with this. The people are going to listen to to hear about this team.

I'm going to have the institutional knowledge. Nobody's ever going to be able to say, even though I'm at that time in my very young 20s, nobody's going to be able to say that they went to more games or that they, and now we're all these years later and I've pretty well gone to all of them and I do the TV broadcast for them

now at least pre-game and post-games for ballet sports which is the local feed yeah it's been great and so I think that that's why I got very deep into the NBA then I was not growing up I didn't grow up in NBA markets I loved Michael Jordan like everybody else did

I love the NBA and I love you know the stars but it was not something that I, you know, lived and died with. But certainly it's become that way. Yeah, now you're the Grizzlies guy. You've been there since the jump. And you get a lot of those dudes I was looking on your Instagram in studio. So we got, you know, recurring guests that we love on this show that we love on the radio. Give me your guys that you know, like when these dudes come on, like, this is going to be a good one.

Um, I mean, look, the best, the best ever is Garnett. I mean, Kevin Garnett came in studio and he's, we had we got it only happened one time because he never does any of that stuff very rarely maybe if he's promoting something but he happened to come in town he was doing a thing for turner anyway i cannot tell you the amount of calls we got about that podcast from bosses NBA everybody else because i mean it's just the n word and the f words you're just sitting there in shock disbelief but it's just the way he talks and his story are absolutely unbelievable.

So he's for sure an all-timer. He came in with Tony Allen, who did Weekly Bits with me, and Tony's Electric, one of the most hilarious people that I know. I'm trying to think who else is like an automatic everybody's going to

love it. It's usually, you know, it's not, usually the athletes, I would say, maybe less so than some media members that people really love, right? Either some media members or, you know, we've had a lot of comedians in. Comedians are always big for people. But in terms of our regular guys, I would say Tony, by far,

the most popular. People love him. Well, I'll tell you what, I mean, the city of Memphis has got to be buzzing right now. We're in the middle of the NBA playoffs. You got John Morant over there. It's just, what's Memphis like right now? So now, I think that this whole season, just took everybody by surprise. This was not the expectation to be, the head, the second best record in the NBA. A bunch of young guys, they drafted really well. They've got a guy that we expected to be a star.

But like, you know, typically they got into the playoffs through the play in last year. And typically you go from like a play in situation to like, okay, now we're like middle of the pack. Maybe we could compete for half, a home court to then hopefully you're a contender. and they just skipped the middle step completely. And usually there's like an ascent to like superstardom where it's like here's a guy that everybody knows is good and thinks there's great things on the horizon

can be in the future one of the best players. And then, you know, he takes a step where he becomes a star player and then it becomes a superstar. So it all kind of lined up where it's like, Morant, but he skipped the star step and went straight to superstar. are and then the Grizzlies skipped the middle like, hey, we're in the middle of the pack. Maybe we can fight for home court advantage type stuff all the way the top.

So it's just been a dream the entire year that they're even in this position. At this point, you're just praying that nothing about it becomes a disappointment. No doubt. And you're the guy that's got the ear of all these dudes. You are the man in Memphis. What do we got to do to get John the dunk contest? What's it going to take? Can Chris Vernon make that happen?

never it doesn't sound like it that's tragic it well and you know what i i know i know that's tragic it's a it's a dunk time it's a dunk contest fault it's their fault you don't mean because it's not just him none of those young guys want to do it anymore you watch it this last year i mean it's a disgrace no it's the worst thing ever it was terrible it used to be like that was the thing you put on your resume. Yeah. Yeah. No, they need to pony up a million bucks. That would change things. 100%. Totally agree with you.

Right. If you are not getting the desired result, motivate people. All right. So what motivates them? You'd have a feel if you want to put some real money on the line. Yeah. You need a job. You need Zion. You need the guy, the young guys that everybody wants to see. And right now, it's like, that's the thing you just skip. Like, oh, don't contest. Let me go get a drink. It used to be like, hey, I got to be sitting. on my couch when this thing starts. Yeah, pathetic. Well, let's get in.

You're not going to see him doing. Nobody's going to risk that injury. Yeah, that's good point. The injury thing is a problem. I mean, nobody cares about a trophy. Yeah. Well, I feel like most of our listeners are going to know you for one thing, and it's not basketball.

It's for what's going on at Augusta, which you come out every year with the master's updates. I think you've been doing it since 2019, correct? No, no. We did it. Way longer? God. Yeah, way longer.

We became famous in 2019. Yeah, just, well, we had video. Yeah. We had video. And the 21, wait, is it 20? Whenever the, the one that blew up, so they always did pretty good and they always certainly got people's attention, but they weren't like mega viral. The one that blew up was the fall one. We just got very lucky.

So it's a good bit. It's funny. and it always did well for something. We've been doing it. God, I don't know. Probably a decade. I actually told it's funny you say that because I told my producer, I said, you know that book,

the Malcolm Gladwell book that everybody always quotes where it's like the 10,000 hours, whatever. Oh, yeah, become an expert, yeah. Yeah, I think I've done the 10,000 hours of master's updates, you know. And it's just like I became expert level where we were able to pull it off because we started. started doing it on radio and it was just a radio bit years and years ago and then we kept doing it and then of course a couple years ago when we got the studio with cameras that's when we turned it into a video bit and then the 2020 year was everybody's inside to all come and so everybody's quarantine and there's also nothing going on except for it had a gun of course. There's nothing going on and everybody's attached to their screens. And more importantly,

they were looking to laugh about something. I mean, it's hard to go back to that point in time, but there wasn't any funny. Nothing was funny. Everybody was miserable. Everybody stuck in the house. It was awful. And so I actually think like the one that, the one that came out because of quarantine and because the Masters was played in the fall, that's the one that like super broke through. And I have wondered if we, if it had always just been a spring thing, if it would have broken through in the same way.

I suppose it's possible, but I just think we were right place, right time. Yeah. When a lot of people saw it for the first time. I mean, yeah, now it's huge. I mean, you got people tweeting you about it, other players tweeting about you, but how did the whole idea come about?

Like was it when you did it when it was just on radio, was it with that much energy, that much craziness going on? Yeah, there was a yes, yes. You know, well, at that point, like when you're doing radio, you're just trying to give people's attention doing everything. And so we had always done a bunch of songs, parody songs, or whatever else. But with that one, it really just began as making fun of it, you know,

making fun of the masters and how I think it, I want to say it might have been, what was the old dude's name that everybody hated that like he was like you remember when they were doing all the no women allowed and all that stuff what was that guy's billy billy pain really pain not who he was it before he hudy johnson that's who it was yeah hooty johnson that's who it was and it just seemed like so like buttoned up like i think it was when when it originally started it was like what would make the biggest mockery of how buttoned up how nobody else is allowed type of thing that this is. And golf coverage was even, you know,

it just had the, it had the whispering thing going on. And it, you know, it was, you know, that has actually come a long way as of the master's updates. Because at the time, golf was, you know, I think that there's a lot of people that are my age and y'all's age that have made golf cool. 10 years ago, I'd have never listen to y'all a golf podcast or any golf podcast for that matter. I listen to all manner of golf podcasts now.

I got on Malban pants right now. I've got on, you know what I'm saying? Like half my closet is these bad birdie Malban, like because all these guys that are like my age, they're all now like having companies and like Eastside golf and all these, they're trying to make golf cool again. And it's like when the master's update started, there was nothing cool about golf. And that is the kind of thing that when we're doing the update, like the true golf fan, they hated them. So it's like an evolution, right?

Now 10 years later, 10 years later, or how many every years we did it, now those guys, those are the guys I play golf with. Those are the guys I gamble with. Those are the guys that are starting these cool golf companies and whatnot. And so they grew up on hip hop. So they like that angle to it. And they're not like they're not stuck up. It's not their dad's club anymore. And so I do think that, you know, there's a lot of people now that are part of making golf so much more cool.

And like back back then there was nobody talking about golf on air or there was no like brands or anything that that I that I cared about in the least like in the in the in the least like Tiger had the Nike thing. And that was it. Yeah. Right. He was cool. But he was cool as compared to all those other dudes. You know what I'm saying? Like.

And so that's a weird thing about it. I've never really thought about it that way, but I think that's so. I think that now between all of these, you know, guys that are part of golf coverage and all these companies that are part of it now, that it's become a cool thing because the people that like it

are not just the buttoned, old rich white guys. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, it's changing. The demographic of golf and who's watching, who's consuming is definitely changing. But when your video first blew up in 2020, you said, even though you've been doing it a long time.

That's the one that really hit. Tons of people were reaching out to you. I mean, this thing was everywhere. Did you hear from anyone at any point where you're like, holy shit? I can't believe that person saw it, like a tweet or a text or anything like that. Jenna Sims. Really? What Jenna said?

I lost my mind. I mean, you want to talk about something getting screenshot and said to everybody you know. I couldn't believe it. You got Jenna's attention. It's not easy. I was like, this isn't. She. put out she had uh she put out an instagram story of her and brooks listening to it at some at

some place like wherever they were um and so yeah the jenna sims one that was just because then and then brooks tweeted about it yeah you know and that was that one was where i and then like uh you know as it got passed around, the Tommy Fleetwood's, Tommy Fleetwood hit us up. I saw a video of Paul Casey and Sergio Garcia watching it.

The golfers, you know, just the idea that like, the guys that so many of the names that we rattled off of the song either heard it or dug it, that was the craziest to me. In terms of like, I don't know, I mean,

there's like famous people that are musicians or there's people like that, but the ones I was shocked by were the golfers and or people associated with those. Yeah, and then you got the whole collaboration this year of Trevor Emmelman, Scott McCreary, Jenna Sims and their chef.

Scott Van Pelt is a huge fan of it. I mean, you randomly get the top 10 plays the week of the Masters, and it's always what's going on at Augusta. I mean, it's incredible. Yeah, all those do. I mean, I got to tell you an unbelievable story, too, about that. So I came up with that idea very last minute.

I was like, you know what? I got all these people that have hit me up about this. I was like, I wonder if I could just get them to say, that's what's going on, Augusta. We could put a mashup together and we could play it before we do the updates this year. And so I start reaching out to different people. Now, a lot of those people I know, like, personally. so I wasn't, I wasn't scared to.

Or I've met them in the past. And so I start getting like all this response. Like they're sending it back. They're like, yeah, of course, look, dude, whatever. And so I start getting all this response. And so one of my buddies that is actually a member at the golf course where I play here is he was college roommate with chef. with Scotty Sheffler. Oh,

yeah. Bobby Hudson. Bobby Hudson. No. No. No, no, no. They mentioned them on the broadcast. It's Jimmy Sexton's son.

Okay. He's like one of the biggest power agents, you know, that there is. And so I reach out to him and I'm like, yo, you've got to get Sheffler for me. Because I'm thinking, I'm going to be able to get this dude. I'm going to be able to get Shephler on this

deal. And so he reached out to him and he says, man, he hadn't gotten back to me yet, but he's one of those kind of dudes that he turns his phone off the week of the

the tournament. You know, he's that kind of got, and he only kind of responds, he only kind of responds to like family. He's not one of those guys that you can like get a hold of. And he's like, but I'm going to tell you what. He's like, I'm going to go through the wife. He's like, I'm going to go through the wife and I'll be able to get her.

And I was like, you know what? I was like, look, even if she can't get Sky to do it, I was like, get her to do it. I said, hell, she's in the damn winter circle every week. She's famous. Right? And so I'm like, all right, why don't you go ahead and get her? And so he tries again. And then by the time he, and I'm like,

man, I am so sorry because I didn't, I did not ask him in time. Like, it would have been a miracle to be able to get this thing pulled off. And so he gets back to me, he's like, hey, man, I'm really sorry. I wasn't able to get it, whatever. And then, of course, as I'm watching the tournament play out, I'm like, yo, are you serious? Like, what is happening? Like, I really, that was a hundred percent no-brainer.

Like, that was one of those, like, autos that I could have gotten. Because I know his guy's called roommate. Yeah. And buddies with him. That was incredible. If you'd have had him before he actually won. Oh, can you believe that? And then the other one, which I botched this too, is the guy who's Hovlin's coach just moved out full-time.

You guys probably know him. Jeff Smith? Yeah, he just moved to Memphis. Oh, from Vegas. Did he really? Yeah, he just moved here. He's setting up shop here. Yeah.

And so his guys come in town all time. So I seen Hovlin out. They all come through because they work with him. And I botched that too. I box it. So it's funny, you know, everybody always talked about, like, you know, the things that got away are the ones that bothered them rather than how awesome it turned out to be.

I'm thinking of myself, the Masters champ would have been on there if my stupid ass would have just thought of it a week earlier. But now you get to wrap it. up for next year you guys you got to keep ratching this thing up people are like looking forward to this the week before the master's like oh here it comes we're going to get the next what's going on at augusta where do you where do you go from here to keep i mean you got the bumblebee and the walrus love those dudes by the way they're fantastic but how do you keep scaling this thing up so we've gotten a bunch of people that have we've gotten a bunch

of people that have reached out um in the past that like willing to be a part of it and um And this year I thought, like, you know what, we're not going to, I'm not going to have like a special guest come in. You know, and in fact, my boss offered to pay for like flights at hotels if I wanted to like invite somebody in to be in it. You know what would have been the most unbelievable is frigging Charlie Hoffman. Yes. Yes. Y'all, because y'all always shout him out. Where's Charlie Hoffman?

I mean, Scott M. Pelt even said it during the video. That dude, if we could have just, if he had just showed up in the middle of it. They could have him in and look around. Dude, you could have him in a Segal costume. I was going to offer this up. You got a Seagull into the mix because that's his nickname, the Seagull. You could throw that in the song next year.

You have a seagull out there dancing, pops the helmet off and bam is Charlie. People go bat shit for that. They go crazy. So, yeah, either a reveal where it's like either a celebrity or somebody like that. And but somebody, God, I don't want to not give them credit. I don't remember who told me this. They were like, yo, you know what one of the things you should do next year? They were like bringing a chorus.

Oh, yeah. Like an entire, like a children's choir. Yeah, like an entire children's choir behind me, like singing it. as it before it begins, right? You don't want to take any shine off your hype man, though. No, no, they'll still be in the congregation. Who is that guy? So this is what's crazy.

Oh, that's Rosa. He's been my producer for, God, I don't know. He's fantastic. What a producer. Mark, you listen to this, bud? Or are you going to get you decked out? 15, 15 years, at least. I mean, he dropped out of college because he believed in the show.

It's great. That's a great story. He was my intern at the radio station, and he was going to college and doing the internship. And I went to the boss, and I'm like, yo, will you make this guy, this kid my full-time producer? And I went to him, and I was like, look, they'll make you a full-time producer if you want to do it. And he just, he dropped out of school and started doing it. And so, yeah, he's the hype man. And then like the mascots, you know, that takes an incredible amount of endurance now.

And people love typically the bee. The bee was the official mascot for the Memphis Redbird. He's like a, like this is not a kid's game, man. That's a real trained-ass mascot. You can't put, you can't put some bozo in a in a mascot costume. and just think they're going to be good at it. He's real. That's awesome.

He's got like years under his belt. And I'm trying to think the dog. She, Corinne, who works with us in the video department, she's training as a decathlet. That's good training. So you've got to have real stamina to be in that costume. It's hotter than hell. You can't breathe.

And I owe it to them. I don't think that. If we don't have those, if I don't have my furry friends behind me, it's not the same deal. Is it all live or do you have to do like cuts and retake bag? All right. All live. Okay. That's one take.

Two takes. Okay. That's one take. That is, you got to be on your game, bro. That's filmed live. Do you all get together before it all and pick out like which players you're going to go at all? It's just all.

Boom. These rhymes or just whatever the leaderboard is. Yeah, you got to go on top. That makes it even better. And so I told you, 10,000 hours, brother. I hope Christian Bazadenhoot gets in the hunt next year. Oh, my God. See, now that's as natural as it get that one, right?

The Christian Bazet dude, right? Because I'm trying to say his name. Obviously, I haven't practiced it. I mean, that's not a bit. I don't know how to say this guy. Nobody does. Even a Brock, nobody. Yeah, nobody knows who this dude is.

And so, yeah, there's like, I'm trying to think, like, I mean, almost all, I would say that there's a few times ever, and I'm trying to think if I could think of one offhand, where I've told my producer, if this guy's at the top of the leaderboard, and I yell this, here's a couple ad libs.

You can choose from whatever you want. But very rarely, most always they're like, the ones that we, get the most response on like ad lib wise from him are things that he came up with all the top of his head and it's hilarious like the I think my favorite one ever

well it's up there at least I'd have to go through him but the we did not know who will's out of horse sounds like a store at the mall and his ad lib was next to lids

next to lids like he really almost made me laugh in the middle of the bit because that shit was funny to me next to lids i like that there's not a mall in the world lids and clairs are in every mall in the world i like the uh the homie max homa and then it's a bogey party that was fantastic when he was five over yeah yeah because we didn't know and you know what's crazy he's one of the few guys you guys saw him on the on the video he's one of the guys that i ended up i've actually stayed in contact with him i've known HV3 for a long time because we played in the pro

AM together and the Homa thing was I he had reached out on Twitter and whatnot about it and then we start communicating and then I went and met up with him in Memphis because he was in that FedEx last year. Yeah it's a

he's just one of the best dudes ever by the way. Oh the best. Our lead producer for CBS is from Memphis seller shy and so I was telling him the other day, he's the one who actually got me in contact with you. So we were talking about, I said, hey, I got him to come on subpar. And he's like, dude, you wouldn't believe in the trailer. He goes, like, when we go to different players, we use a lot of his sayings like Tony Fee now, where he be now.

And a bunch of the other ones, like when they're sending it to shots, they say a lot of the stuff you use. That's hilarious because, and I worried about Fee now in Memphis because, I mean, I was out there walking or a course and, you know, just trying to stay. discreet, but I could hear there's a bunch of drunk college kids. And people would send me like every weekend, somebody yelling at him. Kids yelling at him, drunk college kids, whatever else. And they'd send me these videos. He'd tee off and you'd hear somebody yell it or whatever from the back. And, uh, and I was like, man, I was like, I hope he doesn't like, they're presenting this. You know what I mean? I know. He's the coolest dude. But, you know, I didn't, I'm at the Phoenix open this year and they still yell where he being at, you know, like that, I don't think that'll

ever go away for him. But by the way, yeah, he didn't, that's like a feather in your cap. You know, there was one that somebody yelled and had nothing to do with our master's updates, but we had already done the master's updates. And I think it was at the final round of the masters. And I was like, oh my God. Again, it's always the ones that get away, right? The Scotty karate thing. God. How do you? I miss that. You know what I'm saying? I think we did something about everything in Texas is big or something for him, but Scott. Karate is good. Oh, what a blown opportunity. Another one he was using the CBS.

All Casey, he always smiling. Oh, he is always. What do he pull out for? He wasn't smiling. That's the only time. How often like when you're, he wouldn't smile about that, right? I'm having, all the people coming up and being like, what's going on at Augusta. Yeah, him and a lot of the, it was weird, like the three weeks. leading up to it, a lot of guys at the Grizzly games would yell it. Like when I was walking through the hallway or whatever.

Yeah, you know, Memphis is a, it's a small big city, right? So, you know, I think that it actually, people outside of Memphis probably, I don't know, it's hard to say. Honestly, like outside of Grizzly games, I really don't go many places. You know, I go to the golf course.

You know, if I'm going to go have some fun. And then my kids are 12 and 9. So outside of work and then drive it. I'm just an Uber driver for them and whatever games they've got going on or whatever. So I'm not really out and about to where people could scream it at me all that much, but certainly at that golf tournament. I mean, that's my people out there, right? when the FedEx, when the FedEx comes, I hear a lot of it, a lot of it.

And it's funny because some of those guys, like say Zalotaurus, like they've become big names on the tour. It's kind of crazy. So I'm thrilled. I mean, I can't even, honestly, like this is going to sound like I'm kissing up to you. But when you, when you reached out, I was like, I can't believe this, man. I can't believe this guy even those who I am, like, or that he even saw this. Because I do watch, I'm that guy, you know, again, I'm that age.

So, like, I watch that stuff. I watched the PGA Tour Live and you were on there on the, I'm saying, like, morning rounds. So if I'm getting up, the kids go off to school with my wife, and I would watch those morning rounds on like Thursdays, Fridays, or maybe even Saturdays. And you were doing that stuff with guys back then. I remember there was one. In fact, you'll remember this. There was one that I watched, and it was Bubba Watson, it was a group weirdly with Bubba Watson and Wesley Bryant.

And they were obviously gambling on every single hole. They were like the first ones to tee off. They were so far out of it. And there's jokes about it. But I watched tons and tons of golf coverage. It's just become, you know, know, I don't know. I think one of those things where you become older and you find something that you latch on to. And so I watched tons of golf coverage and the idea that, you know,

you or any of the people that I watch all the time, right? And I told you, you were like, I have a podcast. I'm like, man, I know you all have a podcast. I've got it. You know what I mean? Like, in fact, you know which one I've saved of y'all's episodes? I love when you have on the golfers because they they keep it real with you guys like you know what I'm saying like they talk to you guys that's how people want to hear they talk to you like your friends right rather than it's like a straight interview I've saved it and I haven't listened to it but you can tell me if I feel like I'm going to get mad if you want to find out a lot about what's going on you'll like not listen to it yet I don't think so I'll find out but am I just going to be the

whole time I don't think it's that one I feel it's like an actual I don't want to hate it like that's not a dude's chopping it up, having drinks, telling stories type of deal. That was like, he made an announcement. Here's my new events that I'm putting out. Then we like ask him about those. It's not like, hey, give us the old war stories from Augusta. Give us stories from, you know, back days. That's more like informational. I know. Well, maybe just listen to the Pat Perez one again. I know what he's talking about. I don't want to hear of listen to Mark Grace. That's probably more up your alley. I love it. Well, as you know, then we got to get to the emergency nine before we let you get out here. We know you're a very busy man. We'll run through

this. E9 real quick. And we ask this to everyone. You can trade lives with anyone for a day, dead or alive. Who's it going to be? Oh, wow. Get to be them for a day. Trade lives.

It doesn't matter. Any day of their lives. They can be dead. Are they alive? You can be alive, though, being them. You don't got to be dead. Be weird. Yeah, that'd be a shitty question.

You know, it's going to sound crazy, but I, I think I would say somebody, like somebody that gave back in a massive way. It's one of those things that I feel like I need to be better about. You know how you all have those things that it's like, like, hey, man, I've got a platform now. I should be better about. Like enriching people's lives and not just, like, I try to use it to make people laugh, right? That's what we try to do daily. So I would say somebody that that brings that kind of value to people.

You can be Chris Rock and get up. Mother Teresa would be a good one. Yeah. Yeah, Gandhi. That's fine. Yeah, it either be. Yeah. It'd either be.

I thought you'd like a job for a day. And it'll be like, you know what I mean? Like, uh. And it just dunk on people's heads. Be job for a day. You would want. Yeah. That would be amazing for the, for those.

hours afterwards you don't want to be him. Not now. You get mobbed everywhere you go. You know what I'm saying? Like you guys are hung out with famous people. It's awful. Different world. It is. It's not fun. Yo, it is not fun to hang out with famous people because you see what it's like and everybody's got their damn cameras out and taking a picture of them and everybody. And like then they're forced to like be a prick to people. If they don't want to take a picture or got an autograph? I'm like, man, I don't know. So being famous, that's not like, or that level of fame?

That's, I don't know, man. Perfect. I got to be him for the whole day. That's not that intriguing to me, you know? Gucci, May. Maybe like Gucci Man. That's not what I thought we'd get, but I like that. Yeah.

Or Rick Ross, Rick Ross. I've actually, I know Rick Ross, because he owns about 10 wing stops in Memphis. So he'll come through. So he's like, Vanderholyfield's house. Yeah, it's right outside. You need to go look this thing up.

In Atlanta. Or something like that. And he, amazing. So he owns that. And if you follow him on Instagram, he feels like he's living the life. Like he bought, he'll buy like an ice cream truck.

And then he'll buy like an ambulance. And then he'll buy. Yeah. It looks so much fun. So I know Instagram's not real life. But it is in his, like he really. really is buying this stuff like a camel memory bought or no a cow i think it was a cow and then he bought

like he started he just has he wakes up in the morning and thinks of something he always dreamed to buy rick wrong that's a good answer i've heard radio a while back and he was like oh yeah i'm going to morocco and then Dubai and i'm like what the shit are you doing like how much stuff do you own bro like you make the music but damn like a she yeah that's a good answer i like that answer all right I'll give you the first one here. Which Memphis icon has been more important to the fabric of the city as a whole? Elvis Presley or Jason Williams? All right.

It's close. I mean, I don't think that's... I know. Jay Will just wasn't on good enough teams. That's Lee's his favorite player. I mean, he wasn't on good enough teams. He wasn't on good enough teams. He was one A or 1B with Nick Man Axel, but yeah.

Yeah. Also, a Memphis guy as an assistant coach. Here. He was a assistant coach for like three or four years. No, never been around Nick. Just my all-time favorite player growing up used to shoot free throws from four feet behind the line. And I shot 48 percent, but I did it just because of Nick. I'm being dead serious to you guys. I'm going to give you a little tip on this.

So I know Nick because he was here for years. Okay. He is addicted to golf. Cold. All you would have to. A, a guest, B, all you would have to do is invited. And he's a scout.

Okay. He's a scout. Okay. Get this done. Now, I, I, right? I just saw, I mean, I, I've seen him recently. But he plays. This is great.

All the time. Okay. All the time. That's done. We're doing that. We're doing that. Dude, this is going to happen. He would probably come on the, he would come on the park.

That's the only Jersey I own. Perfect. I'm being a ticket. Yeah, he loves that the more you know, right? There's so many of these NBA guys that are super into it. But Van Exel, he played all the time when he lived here, all the time. Penny loves him. He played with Penny because Penny's a big golfer.

Yeah. The guy I do TV with Brevin Knight, big golfer. There's a lot of them, a lot of the retired guys. Vince Carter was a big one that played with Nick a lot. Oh, we're going to link on that. Ben, excellent, that's an easy one. So Elvis gets it over, yeah, Elvis gets it over Jay Will, but I promise you, Benzsche would not turn out an invitation to play.

All right, next one. Memphis is obviously known for their incredible barbecue. Give me your favorite barbecue spot in Memphis. God, it is very, very difficult to choose. Look, all across the board, I love central barbecue. I love it. And they've got, but I get wings there as much. much as I get the barbecue stuff.

Yeah, that place is good. I love Germantown commissary. During the tournament, they always do rendezvous. It's amazing. That place is good. Yeah. Rendezvous is great. Rendezvous is great.

Like, honestly, it'll be okay wherever you go. You can't drive anywhere without there being a great barbecue place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll be okay wherever you go. But I think when people come in town, like, the sure fires are like central. You're not going to go wrong. They're not going to go wrong. Or if you send them to Terminatown Commissary, they're not going to go wrong.

I'd say those probably come. I eat those the most. Yeah, a lot of options down there. I'm going to stay with the Memphis theme here, okay? Because you got some rappers with some great names that have come out of Memphis, right? You got Yogadi, Juicy J, crunchy black, my personal favorite, kingpin, skinny pimp, which takes away. That was going to be my name, but now that's stolen.

I got to come up with something new. But if you needed a rap name for your Augusta track next year, what do you go by? You know, I've had like either like a screen name or like a, I even have it on my golf ball. Yeah, there you know, I have Elverno Diablo. That's great. Yeah. I have Elverno. Like, you know how like you could go to like, you know, like golf balls.com.

They send you like a damn email every day. Then it's like, hey, you know, 24 shriks on for 10 bucks or whatever. Free personalization. So I just started doing that like every time. Like, I didn't know what. put on the personalization and i couldn't think of anything funny so i just started putting elverno diablo on uh on these golf balls on the side so i think since i've already got the golf balls i use it as a screen name for some stuff that's hot name that's a hot name deablo exactly it's hot right and people

and people think i's latin but i'm not fair with that you appeal to a lot i love it all right next one those videos, you got the white shirt on underneath the green jack. You can see part of a tiger tattoo. I'm not sure if it's real or not, but in this case, we're just going to hope it's real. Who has the better chest tattoo? You or AJ McCarran. That's, I mean, that is a blood bag.

Yes, Bambo. My God. The Bamboi. No, that is. I couldn't believe that when I saw that. It's an outrage. It's, that is the most outrageous. Dude, he spent like 30 hours.

Chest tattoo. In the chair to get that. A quarterback? And it's worth it. And it says good look. Great look. He's going to be 84 years old with Bamma boy. What's your's all about?

Beyond his chest. Yeah. What's yours all about? Huh? Is it real? It's a tiger. Well, I didn't know if you actually, some of y'all are crazy. I mean, this guy put Bamma boy on it.

I was going to be shocked. Come on. I was going to be shocked. I was like, yeah, dude, I got a whole tiger mural on my chest. I was like, I don't, I miss read. this book by its cover. Diehard Memphis. I don't know. No. Hey, you know what?

I got that done at Amazon.com for $4. I just like that big, you know, big tiger tattoo. Because I just wanted, I wanted to put a huge tiger on it on my chest. This year I had two. I had two different tigers. So if you've seen, if you went back and watched it. past iterations of the matches update. It was originally one huge one.

It had cubs. It was gorgeous. I think you should get it permanently done. Yeah. It had two cubs. I've considered it, but I feel like it hurts. I don't really like needles.

Elverno Diablo doesn't need, he doesn't need gimmicks, dude. His lyrics speak for themselves. I don't need, I don't know, and I've made it this long, right? Oh, no. Are you guys ten it up with needles?

No. No. We're soft too Neither of you have But I grew up playing golf If I did get one It would be either Soft as I come

Bama boy or a tiger on my chest So I just haven't decided which Gotta be one of the two Yes Can't miss on that All right next one I've seen the video so I know you can do it On a scale of one

To Cardi B Where would you rank your twerking skills Oh I would say Now are we talking and am I male? Male division. Yeah, the male division.

Well, if I competing, if I'm competing with the females, it's a good point. It was one to Cardi B. So we'll say the cutoff for males is at five. Anything above five is female. Yeah, I'd say, I'm probably,

I'd say five. Top of the males. I'm the ape. I'm that. I'm the Apex Mountain. Mount Vernon. I'm the king. I'm the king.

I'm the king. Mount Vernon. There you go. I'm the king. I'm the king. You know what? My father, when I was a little kid, told us that that guy that Mount Vernon was named after was part of our family, like, if you did the lineage.

I don't believe that. I don't know. Yeah, right. I think you were just telling me that. So I believe in myself. That's a good gift that you got, or gift or jiff or however the hell you say that's out there with the twerking. That's nice.

That'll live forever. All right. Next one, you might, you might have answered this earlier. But you can pick any PGA tour player to make a guest appearance during the master. update in 2023, who's it going to be? Oh, shit. Okay, perfect. Over Charlie?

Oh, my God. What would you do if Tiger walked into studio? I'm talking to. Bro, if Tiger acknowledged that that thing existed, I would lose my mom. I was guarantee you he's seen it. He's a big social media acknowledge things guy. Look, I'm up in my office. Hold on a second.

I'm going to show you guys. Hold on. What we get? Here we go. These guys are. What's that chair? He's got. Gamer's chair?

It's got to be a game. Some sort of a gamer chair. Yeah. You couldn't see this. But there's hanging on the wall. Oh, yeah. That's beautiful. That's it.

Tiger at St. Andrews. The St. Andrews? Yes. Yo, I bet I have, I mean, this is like up in a game room. I probably have no less than 150 different tigers. Why don't you get that tatted on your chest? Get that different tiger. Yeah, I know.

I really should. But I, um, Yeah, man. Like, he, he hit right at the right time for me, right? It was like 96. I was getting out of high school in 96, right? And he was, and I still have, I have it cut out somewhere. It might be up here.

I had when he was first in Sports Illustrated when he was at Stanford. And he, yeah, man, he was, everybody my age just, you know, he's he's one of those very few so the idea he feels he's the only one that i would get starstruck we got to get tiger to respond we got i met a lot of those dudes i've met a lot of them but i would get starstruck by him uh more so than i think any of the other guys and by the way uh you guys and in fact it's funny i mentioned stanford it made me think of i'm going to give you guys a little tip. So at Stanford right now, that women's team is the best team, maybe ever in the history of golf, right? The girl that's on the team that's named Rachel Heck is from Memphis. She's

in the video, actually. Yeah, sorry. Right. So, yeah, I played with her last summer, and that is male or female, the absolute best golfer I've ever seen. She's got game, no doubt. I heard she. She's killing it in the NIL game, too. You guys. Yo, you guys have to see it. She is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like she has a chance to.

She wins everything. Yeah. Oh, she's killing her teammate, Rose Zang's unbelievable too. Yeah. Roseang, they got a big time team, but that, that girl is going to be like the face of women's golf and take that to a level. It's never been before. That's good to hear.

Because she's her personality's way to. That's what women's golf needs. They need a big American star. Yep. There's a void there. I didn't know she was Memphis, but now it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. She owes a lot to you, everything you taught her, paying off. She owes nothing. She owes nothing to me. All right, here's the last one for me. And this is more of a heads up than anything for when the time comes because it will eventually come. You need to be prepared for this.

But what rhymes for your next Augusta update? What rhymes with Alfie Barnrat? He's going to get a green jack. He's going to slide that thing on. Kyridak. Offi Barnrat. Yeah, so it's one that I have considered before, because I always look through all of the names. And we would not, we wouldn't do a rhyme thing.

We would do Barnrat with him, right? So we would do like Barnrat, where's the cheese? Barnrat, where's the cheese? Like something off of the idea that we can't really say his name. So now we're just calling him Barnrat, right? he would probably be yelling about the about cheese or something like that we would we would not I don't think we would try to rhyme that um you know he's a unless we did uh how that it's alpha bon rat right he's a he's a big spender so you can always throw like a always shopping

in there there you go it would be alpha no it'd be alpha right with the gat with the gat oh yeah yeah yeah barn rat staying scrap right you know uh something something something Something with Gat. All right, we got one year to prep for that because it's coming. It's coming. He's convinced. Oh, yeah. He's going to be.

Oh, yeah. He's coming. He's built for it. Really? Maybe not. He's just our favorite. He's just my favorite guy. We had him on here and it was greatness. He's right up there with Jay Will and Van Exel. He's fantastic.

He's the best. Oh, well, you guys weren't really going to owe me for the Jay Will or for the Van Exel thing. Well, that's sleazy. I'm happy to do it. That'd be great. Yeah. When I see a video, you guys playing golf together.

Oh, you will get anything you asked for it. We'll reciprocate. Yeah, I don't like like the biggest stars in the way. I like the off, you know, kind of one-off guys. I don't gravitate towards the biggest gun. Van Axel was always a dude, so we're going to get him. Yep. And before we get out here, I do want to give a shout out because I didn't say,

all I said was that he was Jimmy's son. He won't mind if I say his name. Parker, Sexton is his name. And he played it. He played at Texas with Scott. Perfect. All right. And it was just right there.

This has been incredible. You got to give us one what's going on at Augusta for us. All right. Hold on. Yeah. I've got it. Hold on. Let me get it.

And that's what's going on in Augusta. Yeah. That's absolutely incredible. Yes. He went into character. Damn, that's nice. Chris Vernon. You're the man.

Thank you so much for taking the time. We really appreciate it. Appreciate you, bro. Oh, thanks, guys. Anytime. Appreciate you. All right. Well, that was Chris Vernon.

and joining us on golf so far. What a beauty he is. Lise. It was so cool to see, you know, how this whole thing originated. They've been doing it for years, but it just recently blew up in the last few years. But I thought it was so cool, like the videos he got from Scott Van Pelt, you know, Scotty McCrary, Harold Varner, all these guys sending the what's going on at Augusta videos to him. But man, and by way, how much do they love Charlie Hoffman? They love Charlie Hoffman on that show more than we. We love him on this show, and we love him. He is primed, dude.

The Siegel is primed to make an appearance, whether it's a stuffed animal in the background or Charlie Hoffman in person. People are looking for Chuck that first week of Augusta, most notably on Thursday. But yeah, get Charlie in the building there. But that's how big that thing's gotten. Players talk about it. A couple weeks leading up to it, they're talking like, oh, here comes what's going on. I guess every day you wake up, you're on Twitter. Like, yo, where is it?

Has it come out yet? Like, it's launched, man. It's the real deal. it's so cool. I mean, how they just do it off the cuff and just roll through the leaderboard and start yelling stuff, it is just greatness. His producer on the mic with the ad libs too is super nice. Some of the shit they say after the names get shattered out. Like, I'm like, that's good.

That's really good. Charles Swartzel. Where's the ES? Charles, yeah. That was a lot of fun. A little different interview for us, but that one was a lot of fun. And now it's time to step up to the T and take a swing at betting the PGA tool. on Fandall Sportsbook.

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You got to know how to hoblaw a little bit. you get paid fast. And we are now on to the Mexican open. A new event on the PJ Tour, new golf course. So this one could be a little tough, but hey, we're going to stay positive. We're going to try to throw you some winners out here. Who do you like this week? Well, A, we're coming off a win, by the way.

So we're back in the building. Zander, Patrick, thank you for doing that. So we're back on the hot streak. We had first. Yeah, we had that thing covered. We had that thing. Will Zaltors and Davis Riley were right there too. We had a good week.

We're back on track. We're shooting a little bit in the dark here, Colt, because I don't really know this golf course. I don't know what type of player favors. So I'm just going with guys that I like. It's not the deepest field in the world here, but on my favorite side, going off at 15 to 1. I think he's a third betting favorite.

I'm going to go Daniel Berger. He's played eight events on tour this year only twice as he finished outside of the top 21. He seems to be just one of those guys that's going through fairly quietly, I would say, but just with rock solid play. Going down there, like I said, there's not a ton of guys that are, super high up in the world golf rankings. Daniel Berger being one of them. I'm going to go with

the, I'm assuming it's going to be windy kind of Florida-ish conditions there down in Porta Vyarton. Very hot. Okay. Yeah, hot, hot, probably breezy. I like Daniel Berger, Florida boy down there. So I'm going with Daniel Berger 15 to 1 as my favorite. All right. I'm going to go with two guys who I know have actually played the golf course, which I think is a big advantage. And they're from Mexico, which they just feel obviously going to be feel right at home. One of the betting favorites, Abe answer going off at 15 to 1. I really like him. Fantastic ball striker.

No surprise. I mean, John Romstein ended up. He's by far the favor. I think he's going off at like four and a half to one to win. And then if you look a little further down, I'm going with our man the princess. Carlos Ortiz at 50 to 1 as a dark horse.

I know he spent a lot of time down there. He's sponsored by the resort. I mean, it just all makes sense for him to play well. Makes sense. He just got to figure out, Colt, which way is the wind? Which way is the wind?

Which way is the wind? Yeah. Yeah, he might be asking you that. So keep your head on a swivel when it comes to the wind. All right. For my long shot, not a ton of great recent form except for this past week for this guy. He and his partner finished T4 down there in Norlands, but he's going off at 50 to 1. He's a guy that's going to win on the PJ Tour already came close earlier this year.

He's rock solid. I think there's a good place with not the strongest field in the world to maybe sneak up there and pick up your first dub. Davis Riley is going at 50 to 1. I like that. I just had breakfast. I just had breakfast with him. I agree, beautiful golf swing. Love Davis rally.

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