Subpar - J.T. Poston talks ESPN confusing him with Justin Thomas, the fallout from his bet with Max Homa

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, two-time PGA Tour winner J.T. Poston joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive interview. The Postman talks the fallout from his Braves-Dodgers bet with Max Homa, not realizing he had earned his Tour card after a playoff loss and ESPN confusing him with Justin Thomas.

Hello world. Welcome back to golf subpar. Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz. The Sony Open has concluded and Seawu Kim shook his ass all over Wile Eye Country Club, picked up his fourth PGA tour win. I love this dude. I've told you many of times. He's one of the funniest guys there is. I wish he speaks pretty good English, but I wish he could speak just a little better so we could get him sitting right here between us and do an episode of Subbath. That should be the motivation for him to just dial up the English a little bit more because everyone on tour loves this guy. He's super fun. And then his interviews, like, after he won, after Buckley didn't bury the 18th, it's like, you know, I don't think he's saying what he would say if he was comfortable speaking English. But what a win by him. That leaderboard, you know, going on the last day, wasn't the most exciting, I get a lot of guys trying to win for the first time. But that tournament ends up providing drama as it always did. How about the marvels on Siwu on 18, tied for the lead, teased up the three wood like it was a driver.

And I was like, that's an easy dummy mark situation right there. Thursday, Friday does it. All right, I can see that. But last whole of the tournament tied for the lead, I was like, damn, that takes some balls. I'd say what was, we'll see what it's either feast or famine. He plays really good. This is his fourth PJ Tour win, his fifth worldwide win. Not scared to miss some cuts.

Not scared to dub D. Not afraid to break some putters. Don't. Putted the back nine of the masters with the three wood. When he was playing good. Yeah. By the way, he ain't afraid to snap a wand. He tends to lose a little bit, but we saw him go, you know,

toe to toe with Justin Thomas in the first match off Sunday at the President's Cup, took him down, won a player's championship. I mean, he's not scared of the big moment. His good golf is really, really good. It's ebbs and flows, but when it's good, I mean, this is fourth wind, dude. He's also, he's been out there for so long, you kind of forget. He's a kit, like, he's young, super young. He got his tour card when he's 17.

17 years old, he got his tour card. I mean, he won quickly. He hadn't won on the PJ tour since, what, 2021? The Amex, it's been a little, it's been a minute, but like, he's fresh. You just, there's so many young kids coming out, you forget about. I think he's just continue to get better and better. The one thing, though, he still has to do his military service in Korea,

which is two years. I can't remember the age before. I believe it's 28. So he's coming up on that pretty quickly. The only way around that, you got a medal at the Olympics, right? You can do that or win a major championship. Okay.

Players should count. That's nerves at a major. Everyone's nervous trying to win a major when it's like this matters. I don't have to take two years off of what I do for a living and who knows how I come back after that while everybody else is still playing. Different.

It's a little different. Yeah, but congrats to him on his fourth PJ Tour win. Tough one for Hayden Buckley. Had a great chance to win, but just didn't birdie the 72nd hole like Siwu did. A little bit of a squirrelly lie he got there. Kind of a bad break. Hard to get the club on the ball. He's going to hit a little squirder up there.

It went right, probably the one place, short right, one place that's the toughest to get up and down from. Had a chance. Hit a pretty good drive there, too. Just, I mean, stops two inches shorter. I think it's a completely different shot. No doubt. Well, I just got back from the Latin American Amateur Championship over in Puerto Rico. Is that all right?

Bienvenitos. Yeah, Rico. There you go. That's pretty good. Roll that thing. But what an event this was, the Masters, the USA, the R&A, got to throw a big shout out to them for everything they do for the game of the golf. It got announced this week, Thursday during play, actually. The USAGA announced the winner of the Latin American Am gets in the U.S. Open from now going forward.

So the winner was going to get a spot at L.A. Country Club this coming year to go along with the Open Championship and the Masters. Three of the four major champions, you win this tournament, you're in. and at the end of the week, Mateo Fernandez Di Olivera from the University of Arkansas and Argentina. Pig Sue is your champion. Put on a clinic, 22 under par,

one by four, Saturday, 63. It was something special to watch. He was the 34th ranked player in the world amateur rankings coming in, 15th in the PGA tour of you, so obviously has a lot of game.

And he went out and showed it. This kid, I can't wait to see what he does once he turns professional. He's not one of those guys where it's like crazy flashing. You're like, oh my God. look at this guy, do that. But he's just steady,

and he drives it all right, great iron play. His short game is fantastic. He's one of those guys, like, I don't know if he'll be a top 10 player in the world, but I can just see him being

that guy that's 50th in the world and just print and check after check. Like a Tom Hogi type. Just making a gazillion. Yeah, I can do that. Yeah, I can do that except, guess what?

You don't do it every single time. Just one after another. He's got to be a complete, I mean, you got to be a complete dumb dumb to pass up the Masters, the open and the, you know,

and the U.S. open and the open, don't you think? That'd be just about you'd regret that forever. It's funny. You say that because, you know, after we finished on Sunday, I was sitting there having lunch and I was fortunate enough to win the US AM, which gets you in those same exact three tournaments.

And I obviously chose to bypass them for other reasons. But Martin Slumbers, the chief executive officer of the RNA was there. And we have a great relationship. He's super nice. Know the guy, say hi. Every time we walk by, share some stories. Comes in afterwards and I'm sitting there and he's like, do you think the kid will stay?

because he plans on turning pro next week. I was like, oh, he'll for sure stay. I would think in all of his interviews, he talked about how excited he was to tee it up and all three of them. He's like, yeah, man, you got to stay. Like, you'll regret that for the rest of your life if you turn those down. You got to be a fucking idiot not to do that.

I mean, I like, well, see you later, buddy. Have a good one. All right, cool. I have no idea if you have actually had any idea, like if that was on purpose saying it to me. But either way, I found it hilarious. It was really fun. That's something you'd kick yourself for forever. All right, got to go.

But congrats to Mateo Fernandez, Elvera on the incredible play. All the kids. It was a hell of a tournament. Some really good golf. Got kind of tight there on the back nine, but Mateo ended up pulling it out. But once again, to all three of those organizations who they foot the bill for this entire championship, they get the players there. They put them up. They fly them home. I mean, it is first class. There is not a better run golf tournament in the world. I'm not talking amateur, professional, or anything. Latin Am, Asian Pacific Am, it is a treat to be there. And I just can't thank them enough for all they do for the game of golf.

And good to have you back, bud. You look well bronzed, well rested, everything. Probably shaking that ass like Siwu over on the salsa. Yeah, salsa big down there, huh? 83 in Puerto Rico. Come home to Scottsdale, it's 48 and raining. Yeah. We took over Seattle while we were gone.

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Let's get to it. Here's James Tyree Poston on Golf Subpart. Folks, we got a two-time winner on the PGA tour with us here today. He is a proud Western Carolina Catamount. Been known to go 72 holes without making a bogue, and he's got a budding superstar as a caddy. The Postman, JT. Post and how are you, brother? Good, good, thanks, guys.

Looking forward to it. Good to have you. Thanks for joining us. First off, I ask you this all the time, and I don't understand. When your name's James Tyree, how do you not go buy that? I mean, come on. James Tyree Post.

I might have to start. I mean, the number of stuff that I get tagged in that are videos and pictures of Justin Thomas and I get tagged on social media, I'm going to have to, I mean, I'm going to have to change it out for something. If you could scoop in on some of them royalties maybe, then okay, let's stay JT. Oh, yeah. I mean, look, I'm on board, but when it's just social media pictures and, I mean, it'll be people that have taken a selfie with Justin Thomas and tag me in it. It's not the same person, you know?

You show up to one of those speaking gauges. JT's here, boys. Where's that 100 grand? You got the 100 grand? We're ready to go on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And count me in. I think you just dropped the James. Just go with Tyree. Tyree post, dude, ain't nobody for getting that. Hey, I'll answer to all of it. If y'all want to start it, I'll answer to it. Tyree? You say it on air one time, and I'll be off and running.

Don't tempt me with a good time. From now on, your James, Tyree or Tyree to me going forward. Perfect. Done. Done. Done. I want to talk a little about this Western Carolina because first of all, I actually have no clue.

I could have Googled it, but I figured I would just ask you. What is a cat a mountain? To be honest, I've never seen one in person. I would say, like, when I was in school, that question would come up a lot. It's basically a mountain lion, bobcat, something in between, somewhere in there. some sort of mountain cat would be the best description, but I can't say I've actually seen one, so it may not even be real.

Is it like a Sasquatch cat of the Carolinas? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'd say Sasquatch type cat scenario. I mean, it's in the cat family, I guess. We'll get them a cord on that. He'll find them. My high school was the bear cats. Those don't exist either.

It's not a real animal. It's not. Yeah, it's combining two animals. Yeah. It's the tiger lion. It's the tiger lions. You went to Western Carolina, like we said, not, I wouldn't say known as a golf powerhouse, but while you're there, I mean, you win six times while you're there.

You won the North Carolina State High School Championship on your way up. Were you not recruited by like the Carolina schools or how did you go to Western Carolina? I was, yes, I was kind of a late bloomer in the whole junior circuit. And I grew up a big Tario fan and wanted to go to Chapel Hill so bad. And I went on a visit, did the, whole thing toward the campus. It was great. And basically it was like, I'm ready. Like, I want to play here. And coach pretty much told me I wasn't good enough to be on his roster. And, you know, at the time, given my resume and some of the other kids, like, I couldn't

blame him. But it was probably one of the, probably one of the best things ever happened to me because it gave me a chip on my shoulder the rest of probably my junior and college career. And at the time, other options were ECU and Western. ECU. I could have been teammates with Harold for a year, which would have been fun, would have been cool. But I tried to make the smart decision, and I knew I wanted to go into business school

and if golf didn't work out. So I went Western. And I honestly went into it thinking I'd go for a couple years and transfer, but I ended up liking it and kick those Tar Heels ass all the time. But that's one thing I tell all these, like junior kids getting ready to go to school. It's like, hey, you wanted to go to North Carolina.

You probably could have gone, but you might not have played. And for professional golf, it doesn't matter. There's no draft or anything, so just go where you can play and get better. The number of reps and the tournament reps and, you know, where we play in the best college tournaments every weekend and week out, like the Georgia's and the Vanderbilts and so, no. But it's tournament golf. I went into it, and, you know, I got a lot of good experience and exposure.

And it definitely kind of built my confidence up, getting ready for, turning pro, which I knew I wanted to do going in anyways. Real quick, he did make the notable alumni on the Western Carolina Wikipedia page. And also one who I did not went there, one Mel Gibson. Yeah, Mel, I saw that. Different Mel Jackson, apparently. Not the same? Because you share any of the same beliefs?

Not the one that you're thinking of, I think. Mel Gibson of the L.A. Lakers. People always ask. He's a multi-talent, that guy. Didn't know that. Yeah. Passion of the Christ, the Lakers. signs of shit from that guy.

How are you still a diehard Tar Hill basketball fan? I feel like you would hate Carolina after that experience. Like, oh, I can't go here. Screw you. No, I think it's just, I think I just, from such a young age, I was such a big Tar Hill fan. And so, and it was always more centered around basketball. I never really grew up watching a bunch of Carolina football.

It was always just basketball season. And so, you know, when basketball roles around and still pull for him. But from a golf side, I just basically took it as more, maybe more personally towards a coach and not necessarily the university. It was more like, he doesn't think I'm good enough and I'm going to beat all his guys' ass that he's taken ahead of me. And it was, again, it was like, it was probably the best thing that could happen to me because if he said, great, we want you to come on and play, then like you said, I might have played half the events. I might not have gotten in the lineup a whole lot. I might

have played here or there and then who knows. But I went to a place where I started and played every event all four years, and that was a big difference. Yeah, it worked out. I don't agree with. I got to ask, have you been to Duke, North Carolina in person? Yes. Probably the greatest sporting event I've been to in my life. At Chapel Hill?

Which one? Both? At Chapel Hill. Both. I'm trying to remember. I have not been to Duke. I have not been to Cameron Indoor, but I've been to. Chapel Hill when they played Duke.

Both teams were, I think, top 10 at the time, and Chapel Hill won by maybe 8 or 9 or something. Like it was, they brought it. And it was, I mean, I've never been in anywhere so loud my life. It was nuts.

That's a bucket list if you're a basketball fan. What year was that you went to it? Even if you're not a, I'm trying to remember, I'm drawing a blank off top of my head. I can probably find it, but it was, it was probably five years ago or so four or five years ago um that's so sick all right bonus question this is kind of an e-9 type but give me your all-time top one or one two

and three corneous duke basketball players ever just corneous most hated i mean j jreddick Kyle Singler. Singler, yeah, he took some. And what's the, I'm drawing a blank on the guy that he's the head coach now. Oh, Grayson Allen? Yeah, I would say Grayson Allen. Grayson's got, yeah. I forgot about Grayson.

Gets a lot of hate. That did was a pump. Yeah, he was a pump. I mean, as a Tar Hill fan, like, there were some cheap shots and seemed like in there. And from our point of view, it didn't look too. JJ Reddick? Reddick was like hated. That Duke, and now I feel like everyone loves it.

Like he's come a long way. Yeah. If you're white and shoot good at Duke, you're just going to get blasted. That's just where you go. If you're white and shoot good, you're going to go to Duke. They kept, I should have gone there. I heard a podcast with him. He had to change his phone number like 12 times in college

because they kept giving out his phone number. Yeah. That's incredible. Didn't they do something like that with Stetson Bennett? Yeah. Georgia, they, where was that? Was that the Tennessee game? And he did the call?

He's like, they scored first touchdown. I think it was. Yeah. They got his number. touchdown you did this blue is like 500 missed calls from like midnight till six all night it's a good move yeah i would have talked to all of them that's a kind of genius yeah i like respect um let's talk about early on in your pro career because i mean you won six times in college you get ready to turn professional and it didn't really go that well you missed a cue school you actually

missed a canadian cue school and one thing i don't think people know is you monday qualify into the event at victoria national which is one thing and on the corn fairy tour you top 25 you get into the next week. But your situation was rather odd because there was an interesting weather situation that happened on Sunday. Take us through that. Yeah. So like you said, I had Monday to him and it was my first like first web event, never played a tour event, never played a web event. So I made the cut on the number squeaked by and then played okay Saturday to be in like maybe 40th place going into Sunday. And um, so I'll start. on the back and Sunday I'm a couple under going in the last hole. Nine is a 30 hole. Not many of them on

Victoria National. It's par five reachable. I hit a good drive, hit a second shot down there just in front of the green, probably like a 20-yard chip and they blew the horn for a thunderstorm. And so I knew like there's not many leaderboards on the front nine. So I knew I was playing well enough to probably be close to that top 25 number, but I wasn't exactly sure where I stood. and the whole weather delay I'm just kind of grinding on my phone going over this scenario I'm like birdie

where do I go do I need to make this and I think if I get it up and down I would have gone to T25 but there was a guy behind me that was in the fair way and if he was at T25

he makes birdie he bumps me out and so I remember kind of going into it thinking I probably need to make it but I definitely need to get it up and down And I mean, it was probably an hour and a half rain delay and came back out and everybody's hitting balls. I just went and hit 20 yards chips for about 15 minutes and then go out there and sure enough hooped it. Wow. Which got me into the next week, which was huge.

And then finished third in Raleigh. And that got me enough money to have status and starts the rest of the year and parlayed it into a tour car. That's the sickest. That's incredible. Yeah, that's the sweetest thing about it. Imagine if that doesn't go in. Because you do go through the phone. It's the best.

I mean, yeah, I mean, people have asked me like, I don't know, like most clutch, maybe, but it was definitely the biggest shot of my golf career, like, as far as changing kind of the direction and trajectory that I was, that I was going. I would say there's probably some other shots that felt more clutch to me, like in certain scenarios now, but because at the time, I just didn't, I was so naive. You know, I knew I wanted to make. I knew it wanted a top 25, but there's no way I would have known that I was going to go on the run that I did and what it would mean.

But yeah, now looking back, it's pretty wild. I mean, imagine that, like just same chip, lips out, hit something, hangs on the lip, whatever. All right, the guy makes birdie behind you, 26. Now you got to go Monday the next week. That's hard as shit. You maybe don't get in. All of a sudden, you're back to Q school.

And then you took that and just parlayed the hell out of it. And what? I mean, that event was in, what, July at the time? pre-playoff stuff? I think it was April. I think it was April. Yeah, it was early because it would always be cold and it could play hard.

It moved, yeah. It was, I remember it playing hard because I think that, I think I shot four under Sunday and I want to say like, I remember, I think Seamus Power Model 1, he shot like seven or eight under. It was, it was playing tough.

So it was, it was wild. I mean, just got, I mean, one of those scenarios, you get hot. and you start playing well and the stretches of golf and luckily it just lasted about four or five months. Yeah, you played incredible and you rallied it right into a PJ tour card. But, you know, I heard this from Keith Mitchell and your caddy Aaron Fleener. So I want your side of the story because the rumor has it when you lost in a playoff in Kansas City,

y'all got in the minivan to go to Springfield, Missouri the next week and you were rather pissed off about losing. And Keith was like, dude, what are you so upset about? You're like, man, I lost. He's like, well, you got a PJ tour card. Rumor has it. You didn't even know you locked up a tour card when you lost in that. playoff. No, I didn't. So I thought, I knew at the time I was, I mean, it was kind of late in the season. And so, and I was one of those bubble boys where like I was 23 to 26 for so long. And I ended up

playing eight events in a row to kind of finish off the year because of that. And but yeah, going into the week and going into the playoff, I knew if I won, then I was going to be good. I knew, I knew that that was going to get me enough because at the time it was still money list. It wasn't points. I knew it was going to be enough money to get me across that finish line. But yeah, I remember walking off the green piss because I like, I buried the first playoff hole. Like I did a lot of good shots and just didn't just didn't happen. Whatever, Wesley won. And, yeah, Keith was like, greets me right off the green and Fleener too and just like fired up. Like so pumped, like yelling. I'm like, dude, what I lost? Like, what are you, what are you talking about?

like did you just see any of this and he said dude you locked a car and like flipped a switch could care less about about the tournament it was just dream come true and like we we celebrated accordingly as you should as you should yeah there's such thing as a as a good loss sometimes and that's one yeah that was yeah for sure when you got your first tour start like did it ever just set in and be like dude five months ago i didn't have a canadian card like i was playing the Jix and now all of a sudden here I am first PJ tour start from from no status to tour card that quickly doesn't happen too often yeah there was definitely um like getting on the range early in the week not necessarily Monday because not many people were there yet on Monday but like

Tuesday and Wednesday early in the week and you're starting to see some names that are playing in Napa that I'm used to watching on TV and and you know following closely and now all of a sudden and I'm hitting balls next to him on the range. And it was that, that was kind of the first, like, pinch me kind of moment or starstruck, whatever you want to call it, where I was like, holy cow, like, I'm on the PGA tour. This is not, you know, this is going to be me for the rest of the year. This isn't just one week. And so there was definitely a little bit of that feeling.

But luckily, I was able to kind of set it aside and go play okay that first week. Yeah, you made it. And you obviously, I mean, you've got two. win so far and don't see you slowing down anytime soon, but I got to talk to you about your putting a little bit because in a day and age where everyone strives to make everything look so perfect. You know, you got the track man, you got the video behind you. Everyone's trying to look like Adam Scott swinging it. Everything wants to be perfect. And then you look at your putting. Yeah. You're a great putter. But you do things quite differently. I mean, you got the 10 finger grip,

the right arm's higher than the left. You know, it's not the most conventional stroke, but it works. why do you think so many people try to teach like this perfect putting stroke and everything and I when I was talking to Keith this morning I used you as an example and Brian Gay who's one of the best putters the PJ tour has ever seen and if you broke it down he does everything they don't teach so yeah it's it's made take us through your putting though and like how as it just always been that way yeah I don't know if I have an answer for why everybody wants it to be so linear and perfect and whatnot but I would say my philosophy and my method it and I would stand by this for my whole career. And it's how it's been my whole life. Part of it is I'm a field player. So like even in my golf swing and how I play the game, it's very field-based. And I just kind of know what shots, what feels, does what. And so with my putting, my biggest thing is I want to get all, I don't want to have any tension.

I don't want to, you know, I want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can over, over the ball. and from there it's just it's just reps. I mean, I just, I hit a lot of putts. I hit a lot of putts growing up as a kid. I never saw a putting green I didn't like, and I would just go out there for hours and hit putts with short putts, long putts, you name it. And just got to a point where I was comfortable,

and I just, I couldn't, I know when I set up to it, wherever my putter's pointing is not where the ball is going to start, but I know where the ball's going to start. And it's just, it's just a feel thing. I don't, it's hard to teach because I've had, like, I've sat there and watched Keith putt, other guys putt and tried to offer, you know, my advice. And, but my philosophy is like, I'm just going to get comfortable over it. And I'm going to, I know where the ball is going to start.

And I'm just going to brush it in. Like, it's as simple as that. I'm not trying to start it on a perfect line. I'm not trying to make sure I'm lined up dead perfect. I'm just going to get as comfortable as I possibly can over it. And then just brush it in. and it's just kind of how I've always done it. I love what you say about getting comfortable,

because especially over a putter when it's the most stressful you can probably feel is that nervy 10 footer. You got to feel comfortable over it. Yeah. And I feel like that's one thing you do in your golf swing too. Like correct me if I'm wrong, but like you walk into the ball. You're not a guy that really lines up behind it.

You're beside the ball. You'd give a tug to your glove. And then I feel like you kind of just look down the fair way and kind of aim and feel it out. Yeah. I mean, again, like I'm a field guy. I'm very, like, very visual. I just, I mean, Plainter and I, a lot of times we're picking a specific shot with low fade,

high fade, draw, you know, hard draw, whatever. And I'm just kind of, I'm kind of painting the picture, but I'm not, like you said, I'm not a guy that's going to stand behind it and, like, pick a target and I'm going to hit it right there. I'm kind of looking out in this area and I'm just going to draw it. I'm going to look out in this area and I'm going to fade it. And same, you know, same thing with the putting. Like when I read greens, I'm not picking a spot out, you know, I'm not saying one cup out or two balls out or I'm not picking a spot halfway that I'm trying to roll it over. I just kind of see a path and see the ball going in the hole.

And I just kind of have a feel or know where that is and where that is and just starting it on that line. I love hearing that. I feel like the more really good putters we talk to when we walk through it, it sounds like that. It sounds like you said. And then you talk to the guys who struggle putting and they're the ones with 17. devices and lines and like everything has to be perfect and I'm like why won't you try to copy the guys that seem to be the best at it that's what they don't do all the and and I would say a step further like look at all the best putters in the world nobody does it the same really like you got

snedeker who pops it you've got Zach Johnson who was a great putter and he you know he's got a little different setup Jordan speath is a great putter he's cross hand like like there's so many different ways to do it it's just I think those are guys that have found what's comfortable to them and what feels right to them and they stick with it and then they just go hit putts and their confidence goes up and then they're off and rolling. I mean like cringshaw's stroke. I was going to say one you'd look at me like I want to stroke it like that. Well, I would. But yeah. I mean, but Brant Schnatterker could hit eight puts before like Lauren Roberts hit one. I mean, it's just that long slow. David Tom's very similar. There's just there's so many

different ways to do it. Yeah. That's that's really cool to hear. Stay on your feel for a month. Let's go to your golf swing because this past year started out. You weren't having your best year. You start off slow with some miscuts. And then, at some point, it was around Harbor Town, something clicked in your golf swing. And we talked to you about it a little bit before that. But you get a win, all of a sudden, you end up at East Lake and have a monster year you're headed to Hawaii. What was it that all of a sudden, midseason last year, like, oh, got it. I think it was the culmination of just working on the golf swing for a while.

I definitely had gotten into some bad habits with my swing and just getting it back to where it was in a little bit, some better positions and allow me to be more consistent. I don't know, there wasn't like a specific thought at Hilton Head that clicked, and it was just like now we're off and running. It was just, it finally just kind of all came together. I would say there were some weeks before that I had started to hit it good, you know, hit it like that for two rounds or three rounds. And Hilton Head was kind of the first time all four of them came together. And again, it's just, it's a confidence thing.

It's a trust thing. Like you can sit there and stripe it all day on the range and at home and shoot a bunch of low scores. but I just knew it was going to be a little matter of time before I did it, you know, on tour, on the road. And then as soon as that happened, it was like we're off and rolling. Well, Hilton Head was very good, but I think things really clicked when either you hit the fence or that tree left of number 12 at Travelers on Thursday.

Let's be honest here. I think I hit it. Yes, that was the biggest probably momentum swing. I didn't even see it. I hit it so far left. There might be a house over there that you can't even see what it hit. Because I didn't even watch it. I saw it.

I was trying to hit this kind of bleeder fade that I'd hit there all the time. And I just hit the biggest tomahawk draw, double cross. And as soon as I saw it get up in the air, I turned and I went over the bag to grab a ball. And Fleener saw it hit tree and kick out 50 yards or something in the fairway and hit a six iron on the green. birdied the next five after that, I think. So it was like, went from making seven to 500. And you finished second that week, and then you win the next week at John Deere.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's what clicked. Weird shit like that can happen. Yeah, exactly. That was literally. I mean, those are the types of things. Like when you look back, like, we didn't win that week,

but those are the types of things where you do something like that and you get an incredible break. And those are things that happen when you win or when you have great weeks. because you get some incredible breaks and you get, you know, stuff like that happens. We had something similar to that happen at Wyndham's second hole of the tournament. I kind of hooked one left and thought it was going in the hazard of the road on 11 and kicked in, hit a tree, kicked in the mulch, made par, and we're off and rolling. Didn't make bogey.

Yeah, didn't you look at your two wins. That's what I was going to say. Did not make bogey. Yeah. Bogey free at Wyndham. That's a joke. What was that first person since like 1974? 74.

Yeah. And then at John Deere, I mean, you're wire to wire. Like when you when you get up there, you know, less around. You go. Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, we're talking about college and like having success and winning. I think a lot of that comes to, I had a lot of good finishes in college and won several times. So getting to the top of the leaderboard, whether it's a college event or amateur event or BJ tour event, you're still just, you're trying to win a golf tournament.

And, you know, you know, like you guys know, it's not, you, it's, it's. just trying to close it out, trying to win. There's an art to that. I got to ask though, like for guys that have never gone that long without making a bogey, like I know you're trying to win the golf tournament, but at any point you're like, holy shit, I've gone 64 holes right now. You had to be aware of that. No, I definitely, and honestly, it was probably a good thing.

I, uh, because coming down the stretch on Sunday, like the last nine holes, I had a couple good par putts that I made to kind of keep the momentum of the round going and staying bogey free. And my whole mentality was not worrying about this is to keep me tied for the lead or to keep me one ahead or to keep me one back or where I stood on a leaderboard. My mentality was I want to stay bogey free and post a low number and just if I get beat, then I literally got beat. I didn't make any mistakes.

But I wanted to try and stay bogey free. And so like coming down the stretch, that was actually kind of my focal point, trying to close it out. We had Fleener on the following Monday on the radio show. and I think the first thing he said when he came on, he's like, you boys seen any bogeys? Yep, I haven't seen one. I haven't seen to find one. Can't seem to find one out here.

Oh, man. What a view. We didn't take us long. We got to talk about Fleener. We made, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, who, no, I think I was going to say it didn't take us long, Liberty National next week. I think we made like a dub on fifth or six hole.

Out of way. Just get it out of the way. Just get it out of the way. Too much pressure. I love it. That would be so cool, winning in your home state at North Carolina. It gets you an invite to the Masters. which I know 2020 was obviously a much different masters being in November and everything.

How excited are you for this coming April to get to experience, you know, your first real master's, what it feels like. What feels like it's going to be a real master's. I can't wait. I mean, like you said, the November, it's still the masters. The November masters was great. It was a little eerie, you know, nobody out there. But it was, I mean, it's still a great experience you got to play in the masters. But April getting to do, you know, the practice rounds, having all the patrons back.

out there, part three tournament, like all the stuff that goes with it. And then, you know, getting a real look at what it looks like in April. So I'm excited. I'm pumped. I know Fleener's pumped. It's going to be blast. It looks great in that white jumpsuit. Who are you bringing out for the practice rounds?

He's going to. What's that? Who are you bringing for the practice rounds before? You got a list? I'm going to take my, I'm going to take my brother at some point. Last time I took my dad and I took Flaner. And then this time around, I'm going to take my brother. And then I'm not sure after that.

I got to find, I got to figure out when we're going to go. But I know at least my brother Bailey. Well, let's, let's, we got, we got to talk about Flaner. Flaner's the guy. Yeah. And I'll be honest. I mean, I don't know if I was the first, but I was one of the first times he ever caddied in a professional event.

And it was at a corn free event in Knoxville. But here's a guy. I mean, he played college golf, but. He wasn't, you know, he wasn't catting full-time or anything like that. And he worked his way right into a PGA tour job. Now he's got two wins with you. What's this relationship been like with the big cat, Aaron Fleener? Dude, he's the, he's the greatest human being alive.

Anybody that knows him, knows that, and anybody that doesn't know him or sees it from afar can probably tell or get that feel. Just, you know, I get asked a lot of times, like what, like, what makes Fleener so good at what he does, what makes him a good caddy. I'm like, you know, everybody, anybody can add, can add up the numbers and talk, you know, walk the courses. And, I mean, he's, he's had his, he's had his moments. We can talk about that if you want. I'm sure you know those stories. He's, he's, yeah, he's, he's just so good at being a good dude. Like, it's, and it's obviously because he is, it's so natural to him. But, like, we just have fun out there. And, like, he's so good at,

he's quick-witted and good at making you laugh and like kind of taking that stress away and like that you know if you're playing well like he's good at keeping you away from thinking about the leaderboard or whatever and if you're playing terrible then he's good at throwing a couple jokes or giving you some shit and saying you know forget about it like let's bounce back like it's he's he's a natural are you concerned at all that he might be signing a major record deal in the near future and leaving the game of golf behind I hope not. I hope he's thinking of that as his retirement plan. I'd like to think, you know, if you can sing, now you're always going to be able to sing. I mean, a lot of those artists, they're on tour till they're old as dirt. And, you know, I hope he wants to kind of walk those fareways with me for a long time. And then whenever we decide to shut it down, then he can pursue that. He is the best. We'll see how that goes. I don't know. He's getting big time pretty quick and everybody's figuring out how good he can sing.

So celebrity caddy dude look out for that you know I mean could be tough I know no no no you keep winning though you keep winning like you are I feel like he'll be around we keep playing good golf I'll keep him around a little longer That is true the more exposure he gets than the bigger record deal he gets I mean might be out there with Luke Combs on tour one day You never know play the long game play the long game go from caddy in for James Tyree to opening for Luke Combs sounds like a pretty good little story There you go that's a nice resume that is a very nice resume May. Should we get to the E9? Yeah, let's go. All right, we're going to get to the E9 here with you, JT. We asked us to everybody. You can be anyone for a day, dead or alive. Who would you choose? Get to walk in those shoes one whole day. This is supposed to be like rapid fire. No, you think on it. First thing, let me. Dead or alive. I mean, I think Michael Jordan would be up there. My first thought always goes to like an athlete. And I think I think MJ would be. pretty cool i thought carolina boy there was no doubt it was going to be j yeah yeah

becoming popular i think i think i think i think j and chapel hill would have been a little bit pretty cool yeah as a as a as a tariff first off mj anywhere mj present day's tomorrow it sounds pretty fucking good present day is pretty good i don't know what he's got but i bet it's good yeah yeah he's doing all right all right you're recently married all right so congrats on that but this so you have good perspective on this question who owns more Gucci Your current wife or your former roommate, Keith Mitchell. Get him. Keith Mitchell.

I freaking knew it. It's not even close. What a little boogey. I don't even, I don't know who owns what, but it's got to be Keith. I was going. Keith's got more bags. I was going through the airport the other day, and there was this guy going through security. He had a Louis backpack, a Louis suitcase, Louis belt, Louis shoes, and Louis sunglasses.

I was like, holy shit, Keith Mitchell's in Phoenix. It wasn't him, though. I was really disappointed. It wasn't him. Excuse me, sir. Where did you get that? God. Head to toe.

Where did you get that subtle outfit? Kevin. Oh, Kevin, Jeff, whatever your name is. Bonus ball. Give me the worst roommate habit of Keith Mitchell. He's not very clean. Not very clean. We stayed in some hotels together on the web.com tour, you know, saving some pennies here and there.

And he likes to leave his clothes all over. I mean, all over the place. And anybody that stayed with him will know what I'm talking about. It could be anywhere. Poor Keith. I mean, I talked to him for 20 minutes this morning. He had nothing but nice things to say about you.

And then we come on here and just shit all over. We love it. You're just giving me, y'allie. We're just tossing these up, dude. Just here you go. Finish that layups. He would do the same. He would do the same to me if you gave him some layups.

If we drag you on this show, it means we love you. That's true. If we don't drag you, it's true. You suck. All right. Exactly. Exactly. Next one. When I hear things aren't going too well on the golf course, you tend to say, I'm never coming back to this effing place again.

I need to hear your top three courses that you've said that the most at. The best one is definitely Travelers. I mean, I said it about Travelers. And the reason I said, I feel like I should play well at Travelers until this year I'd never made the cut there. and for some reason I couldn't pinpoint why. I feel like it's a good core set up for me. Couldn't tell you why. So that one's probably top of the list. I said it about Mycoba, Mexico,

because I love hitting in the mangroves down there and making sevens. You and Slay's got that in common. Probably a faulty driver. Yeah, I got that covered. One of the rounds recently, I shot 72 and made like nine birdies, just playing great. And then I just hit two just sideways drives on two holes and screw it up. Third one, I don't know.

Fleener knows them better. I mean, I'm good at saying it and I forget it. And I'm good. Plainer probably remembers them. Mycoba was on the list. And then Bay Hill. He goes, but Bay Hill's $20 million this year. We're going back.

Change from mind, boys. Coming back. Yeah. I mean, they don't pay any of that $20 million if you don't make the cut. It's true. We still got to decide on that one. So I don't, but yeah, Bay Hill, I have a hard time with Bay Hill. I was talking to Keith about that this morning.

I was talking about his schedule. And he was like, I'm trying to decide if I'm going to skip L.A. and play Honda or the other way around. I'm like, you're going to skip L.A. It's 20 million. He goes, yeah, I've never made a cut there and I've won at Honda. And I don't think anybody's going to play. I'm like, okay, never mind.

Makes sense. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of, I mean, the way I'm looking at it, like Bay Hill. Yeah, the purse is great. But a week off before our biggest purse of the year is probably not a bad idea either. It's a great point. They don't pay if you missed the cut. Yeah, there's something to that. You don't get into that.

I can speak to that. We've got to sign a little deal with that. We have not. We have a lot. I think, I don't think we've even shot under Pear in Bay Hill yet. You ain't the only one. That place is. We got to figure that one out.

Yeah, it's hard. Yeah. It's a hard. It's a beast. All right, I'll tee up again to, I'll throw another oop up to you, let you finish this thing. You got a good rap with Max Homer, obviously. You recently posted his high school picture on Twitter. Okay.

Let's assume you. never met Max Homa in your life before and you saw that picture. Give me your first impression. Oh, God. I mean, he probably, probably looks like a douche to me. I mean, it's kind of what it is I'm not, I'm not sure. I don't know. Would we be friends? Maybe. Would we have a whole lot in common? Maybe not. I don't think I'd go the double stud earring. Personally, I don't have any of those pictures back in the day. But also, like, when I was that age, like, I looked like I was 11 years old, so I don't have a whole lot of room to talk. I was very happy when he did that, because he posted my, like, freshman college picture on my

birthday and just buried me. Tough. And so I was very proud of you when I did that. I did not, I did not realize the traction that it would get, but it was, it was good. It was pretty good. That had to be peak boy band era right there. It had to be. Oh, yeah. When Justin was doing it, like, oh, I do that. Or that other dude from the other one, whatever. Backstreet, yeah. Oh, yeah.

All right, we can stay on Max. It's a slid right in. Oh, there you go. Here's another one. Is it true that Max Homa is your mom's least favorite golfer on the PGA tour? No, she loves Max. But she still holds a grudge over the fact that, so that bet that we did, the Braves Dodgers bet, the first time we did it, Dodgers win.

He gets to take over my Twitter for 24 hours. And he did it. I got to give him props. He crushed it. He had some funny stuff that he threw out there. And one of the ones was like even my mom, I forget what, even my mom doesn't call me the real JT or something like that. Or my mom calls me the other JT. Yes.

That's what it was. And my mom saw it and she's like, what? Like, but she, I mean. Max said she came up. You're not the other JT, baby. I love you. Max said she came up to him at a tournament and like played it off really good. Like she was actually like, hey, I do not think that.

Hey, you little asshole. Yeah, yeah, she did. She likes to kind of egg it on a little bit. I like that. Has some fun with it, which, yeah, which was great. That's perfect segue into this next one because you've been nice enough to come on our radio show on occasion when we call you and ask you is the best part about coming on that on gravy in the sleeves is that we've never introduced you as former Alabama standout,

Justin Thomas as some other radio shows, nationally syndicated radio shows. That is incredible. What show was that? That was the perfect. It was ESPN. It was, I don't even remember. It was the day after the John Deere, I think. And I mean, I was, I don't know what happened.

I don't know where the miscommunication was, but they kind of, it's like the intro and it's like talking about something that Justin had just tweeted out or like that kind of went viral a little bit. and they were talking about it, and they said, Alabama stand out, and I'm like, no way. And I didn't know what to say. I mean, it was like 20 seconds in, and they say, like, how are you doing JT? And I'm like, guys, I don't know what to tell you, but this is not the JT that you guys think you're talking to. I wish you would have just played it off and acted like Justin Thomas and said just the most ridiculous things. I know.

I mean, in hindsight, that would have been pretty funny to do that. God, that's a good. I was caught off guard. I'm not going to lie, I was caught off guard. I was still riding the high of coming off a win. I thought maybe they would know that it was the right guy, but obviously they didn't. And man, it was pretty bad.

They all can't be professionals like season. Not everybody's so buttoned up with the research like we are. Should come in. You're going on. Hey, good to have me. Thanks for having me on, boys. Auburn sucks. Tiger sucks.

Rory sucks. Everyone sucks. I'm the best. Yeah. All right. All right. Next one, this isn't grammatically correct, but it makes it funny. What's wetter? A water park, or are you at Congary in 2021? Me? I cannot be wetter than I was at Congaree in 2021. Could not be. DJ, we were playing with DJ, and DJ is sitting there, and there is a puddle on the green. And I'm sitting there, like, it's like near my, I'm like, you know, we're trying to play. I'm trying to set my ball down, like, behind the mark. and, you know, get ready to hit this putt, soaking wet.

And I'm like, this is like, because it dumped rain. I was like, is this casual water? Like, do we need to, you know, get the brushes out or whatever and squeege you it? And DJ goes, no, bro, that's from your shirt. They're like, something like that. We're just like saying, like, I was so wet. And he's like, that's just from your shirt or from your clothes. I mean, I was with your group that day.

And I was laughing hysterically at you and Fleen are looking at each other. Like, are you kidding me? We don't have the umbrella right now. Yeah, well, I will stick up for Fleener. We talked, like, there was a 20, I don't know what, it was a 20% chance of rain, 30% chance of rain, not a big chance of rain for South Carolina in the summertime. And if anything, you know, I grew up in the Carolina as I live in Georgia,

I would have thought, if it's going to rain, it's going to be a thumbus storm. And we're not going to be out here playing in it. And so he was like, you think we need the umbrella? I was like, I don't know, probably not. And sure enough. like just absolute downpour for five minutes, 10 minutes. And so, so I couldn't have been more wet if I jumped in a pool. God, that was funny.

I felt bad for Fleener doing that. I was like, as a part-time professional caddy myself, I was like, damn, that's tough. That's tough thing. He got absolutely crucified on social media too. I might have married him on air on board, dude. Yeah. Hey, it's all right.

The boss says no umbrella. I ain't bringing an umbrella. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I was just as much to blame there as he was, but on air and to most people's eyes, it looked like he was in one. Tommy Armour the third will always tell you the umbrella's part of the bag.

Fleener's got enough fan equity. He could bounce back from that. I mean, some of those weeks after, he'd say, you know, 2%. That umbrella would be in there for that summer time. He's like, I'm not doing that again. Yeah, I brought snorkels, bro. We're going to be fine, no matter what. Yeah.

All right, last one from me. Give me the worst experience you've ever had with hitting a fan with an errant T-shot. Detroit, we were playing Sunday. We were in the final group Sunday the year that Nate Lashley won by like a million. I mean, I think we were in second, and we were like six or seven back starting a day.

But we get to par five on the back. I think it's 14 or 15. and I hit one left. And so, like, we're in the final group. There's a bunch of people. And we're yelling for, and apparently, like, we're yelling for, and everybody kind of ducks and some girl, like, turned around like this. And I hit her, like, right in the upper lip, like, busted her lip open, like, real bad.

And we're walking up there. And the volunteer kind of gives me a warning. Like, hey, like, so you know, there's, like, there's some blood. Like, you hit a girl in the face. and I get up there. And she's fine. Like she's like adamant about like, I'm fine.

Like don't worry about me. Like, and so I'm kind of telling her like, you know, reach out to me like, you send me a DM or something. I want to make sure you're okay. And then like I hit my shot and we're walking about 15 yards,

20 yards in front. And like another guy's like kind of laying down like woozy like about to pass out. And I'm like looking at Fleener and I'm like, did I, did I hit two? people like what what what you know i saw the one girl that busted up her lip but i was like even if i hit her how could i hit another i was confused by it and then come to find out it was the girl's boyfriend that was like the guy that was woozy and he like saw the blood and he like got kind of

you know whiteheaded and almost passed out just from looking at the at the blood the girl you did you did her a favor dude you dropped the dead weight there's no way that guy hung on I don't know if he's still around or not. I haven't kept up with her, but she did send me a DM and said she's okay, and I think I hooked her with some tickets next year. I only need one because I broke up with my boyfriend. Yeah, when somebody yells four this time, don't turn around and try and look for it. Here's some tickets.

Wear a helmet next time. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, back in the day, we had the golf boys, Ben Crane, Ricky Fowler, Hunter, Mayhand, Bubble Watson. Okay. We're going to switch this over to the caddy. version and obviously the big cat Aaron Fleener is the lead singer I need three caddy members to finish

off this boy band I mean Gino Benelli is an easy one He's the hype man I'm gonna put I'm gonna put Joe Griner in there And then like ZZ Top back in the day Yeah he could yeah he could You could pull that off I'm struggling with a four

Who else? Can I put I mean he's not a caddy but can we put Harry Higgs in there sure a little out a lot yeah I feel like that I mean you get the crowd going yeah other hype man two hype men yeah yeah I'd rather watch them than the original golf boys then you bring that back yeah yeah 100% if somebody's gonna get it going I'd put I I would put my money on cleaner and Gino they'll get it rolling yeah they'll follow all right obviously Fleener's known for Colin Baton Rouge I mean that's that's his that's his go-to do you have another favorite song that he sings so He sang my wife Kelly and I's first dance song at our wedding.

He sang, um, now you're putting me on the spot. You should know this, sir. It was like, it was just happened, though you put me on the spot. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

I got it. This is a steady heart. It was steady heart. Yeah, I know. Steady heart. This is going to be the clip that you're going to cut and say. That's going to be the first one.

Yeah. Here's JT. Post and he got married two weeks ago and doesn't remember his wedding song. You get a little blasted on those things. That's it. Happens. Daddy Hart. I like it. That's awesome, man. Yeah, it was cool. I mean, we had a couple of cocktails. It was great. I mean, and he crushed it for usual. There's some, there's some videos floating around on the internet of it for sure. Well, you crushed this, my friend. Yeah, thank you so much for

join us. That was a blast. Absolutely. Thanks for having me on guys. All right, that was JT. Poston joining us on golf subpar. Man, that was so much fun. First off, he just got married and he didn't even remember his wedding song. Hopefully the wife, he probably not a listener. That one's probably going to skirt under the radar. However, first fight. Maybe she gets informed by it randomly by a listener. Who knows?

Who knows what could happen? But, man, we mentioned his catty Aaron Fleener. We've had him on the show. One of my best buddies in the world. The man can sing. Look out. You better keep paying him well, James Tyreier. Keep winning, bud.

Might be heading for a record deal. Keep winning, bud. And then I also love that right after he won comes on the radio, nationally syndicated, ESPN radio. They introduce him. The dude, the host think he's Justin Thomas. And I'm like, God, that's just a pride of the university of Alabama. That's why you got to go by Tyree, by the way.

Nobody thinks Justin Thomas is Tyree. You start to say, nay, just call me Tyree. Easy. You're one. You've become a one name. You become Tiger, Beyonce, Madonna. All you need is one name. Tyree.

And we talked about his putting. You know, everyone that plays the game of golf wants to be perfect. They want it to look like Adam Scott. Well, newsflash, it ain't. Do it your way and make it work. And that's what James Tyree does. Like all the best putters kind of have that same mentality. It's the guy that tries to be like the robot with all the stuff that it's like,

dude, you're just stripping down all the field. That's why I like talking to guys like like Tyree or great putters, but it doesn't look like wouldn't necessarily walk into an instructor, but like do it like this. But guess what? He makes tweets. I might just go by Tyree. You're going to jack that? No, no, if I'm him.

Oh, that's what I'm saying. It would eliminate all the confusion. Your one name, Rory, people say Rory. They're not thinking about anybody else. Say JT. Like, well, that's my name too. And this will be his second master's this coming able. but his first one where he gets the full experience.

He played in the 2020 Masters, won by Dustin Johnson during COVID, where obviously limited patrons, very, very few patrons, played in November. He gets the full experience, and he is very excited about it. Yeah, why wouldn't you be? This is like your first real one.

I mean, I know going there under any circumstances is sweet, but like you're all hyped up for your first one. You walk out there and it's like, ah, where is everyone? And it just played so different. I mean, I was with DJ just bombed it around that joint. But really enjoyed sitting down with James Tyree. That was great. All right.

Let's get to some. gambling our specialty as we do here course jaggs how about i had jaggs last week never in doubt by the way easy some nitwit bet 1.4 million to win 11 grand on chargers money line at 27 to zero i obviously not listening to this show i felt better the next day than he did yeah i had a i had a bit of a bad run this week and that made me feel a lot better well i didn't burn one four what a stupid bet though If you have that kind of money throw around a second half live bet, does 11 grand move the needle enough to even wager that? There's no, I mean, that's nothing.

That's something we'll probably never have to worry about. Maybe I would love to imagine the feeling you get with 1.4 out there. But that'd be just on like a spread. The feeling. It'd have to win more than 11. A heart would be going to 9,000 RPMs and I'd be sweating and I'd be freaking out. You're alive. Oh, yeah, that's great.

That's all about. Responsibly, though. Remember when it was 27 nothing? That was cool. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Responsibly firing 1.4 million. I took the bills.

They lost to some quarterback. No one's ever even heard of. I think that's sneaky. At a K-State. Sneaky close. Skyler. Well, let's get back to it. By the way, my Cowboys,

well, I'm not sure at this point if they won or lost, but when this comes out, it'll be one or the other. So either I'm going to be a happy football fan. Oh, this. Or we'll be sad together. Reminds me because it's been a long time since we did. This is the first show back since the TCU.

You're in the same. We recorded that one the day. have TCU. Oh, yeah, they lost. And then, um, by a little bit. We, it was close. We just ran out of time. It was one of those games.

Like, we just need a couple more possessions. We were starting to figure them out at the end. They kneeled it on their last possession. They had enough. Couldn't handle it. We don't want any more throwing in the way. I was a big fan for it of Georgia when they went for it on fourth and five up like 65. Up a hundred to zero.

I was like, really? And then they bring in their second string. Oh, they're pulling their starters. Guess who their second stringers are. Just next year's NFL draft crop. And I was like, they're pissed. They're finally getting their chance to go. I was like just in this in this debacle immediately.

Keith Mitchell is trying to get me wear a Georgia hat on the show, which by the way was never part of the bet. So I'm going to probably fade that a lot. But he's been the, was it? He's been it was not part of the bet. I can go back and show all the texts too. But he's trying to lean on that heavy,

but I'm opting out of that. Not part of the deal. Okay. But good luck to you. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah, we'll find out. Real pissed.

All right. Let's get some football before we get to the golf. I'm going to start it off. You know, we're getting down to the nitty gritty. this is tough. Oh, you don't even have one yet? Oh, we don't know all the matchups yet.

As you're watching, we're obviously doing a lot of research, heavy research into our football picks. This is tough. I got, I really want to go with the Chiefs over the Jags. I think the Jags are a little spent, and I think the Chiefs are,

I don't, I think everyone thinks they're the real deal. But this Cincinnati Bangle team is on a Michigan. On a Michigan. Sorry, no, didn't mean that. Little Freudian slip. They are on, they are on a mission.

I love Joe Burrow. Jamar Chase, weapon, T. Higgins, all the guys. Going up to Buffalo, getting four and a half. I mean, they had, obviously their game with what happened to Mar Hamlin, didn't get to be played out. I'm excited for this one. This is a big time matchup. It's in Buffalo, which is going to be tough, but Cincinnati can handle the cold. Given Joe Burrow four and a half, I like it.

Ooh, a little dog play there. I like that a lot. All right, I'm just pulling this up right now. I'm just going to go off the top of the head. Our producer's not going to like this. The Giants have advanced knocking off the volleyball. Vikings are going up against Philadelphia Eagles having a bit of a year coming back should be healthy. They're catching seven in a hook. This is no offense to Mark, or maybe a little bit of

offense to Mark. I don't think New York's very good. I don't either. And I think Philly is really good. I didn't think they were at the beginning, but they've done it over and over and over. I'm like, that team's really damn good. I'm going to take the Eagles in a beat down at home. I mean, seven in a hook. You know, we're supposed to stay in the moment, not get ahead of ourselves. That's no fun. My God, can the Cowboys just somehow, I've beat the bucks yesterday when This all came out and then go to San Fran, somehow take down Brock Purdy, Eagles, Cowboys, NFC championship game. Oh, my God. It would be fun.

I think y'all beat. I'm going to go out and predict this. I could look like an asshole after this. I think you beat the bucks, lose to the Niners. I think Brock Purdy is going to. I think he doesn't have to do a whole lot with the rest of that team. I think it's got a pretty nice gig. All right.

Well, let's get to some golf. Yeah. Art. I mean, we're a golf show. And we're experts. We're on to the AMX championship last week. Okay, I took Jordan Speeth and Denny McCarthy. You were looking good.

They were won two after Thursday. Denny had a solid week. Jordan, a little MC. First round lead to MC. Don't know what the hell happened. Let's just forget about it, Jordan, and move on. It's rare, but it does happen. It happens on a PJ tour.

I've done it on the Jix. It's humbling, but it happens, even to the greats. So he'll bounce. You know what? I'm not worried about Jordan. Listen, he's going to bounce back. We're going to bounce back. We're going to be okay.

We're heading out to Palm Springs, the American Express Championship. but really good field. John Rom, Scotty Sheffler, Patrick Cantley, Zander Schaulay. It's a very nice list. Tom, you can. Yep. I'm going to go with the current number two player in the world who played well here last year, I believe,

and he's going off at 10 to 1, Scotty Sheffler. Yep. Okay. Scotty. I'm going to go with a guy. I'm staying high on top of the board this week. I'm going to go Patrick Cantley. Plus 950.

He doesn't really ever play bad. He hasn't played a whole lot this year. He was runner up in Vegas to top. Tom Kim. We've only seen him once since then. 16th at the TOC, whatever. No big deal. Kind of a vacation week or whatever, but it should be well rested, tightening up the game, playing close to home. Give me Patrick Cantley. Got to make a million birdies out there and he can fill it up just about as good as anybody. He lives in Florida. Yeah, but it's home, home, home, you know what I'm talking about. Home, home. Okay. For Dark Horse, I got two Dark Horses for you. a double dark yes guy that was got off to a nice start again last week but i feel like this kind of golf just suits him really well you know it's the stadium course is challenging the nicholas course is kind of whatever lequinta you shoot the grass off the place but cam davis going off at 48 to one i think this guy is just going to continue to rise in the world rankings played great at

the president's cup has picked up a pGA tour win i just really like his game and at 48 48 to 1 i'm I'm going to go with Cam Davis. And then just because I couldn't believe the number that was next to his name. Talk to me. He's off to a nice solid start this year, making his first start of 2023. He's going off at 65 to 1. Talk to me. Saw a swing on the internet the other day that looked pretty damn good.

Ricky Fowler, let's go. What do you think about that new action? I mean, it looks clean. I don't give a damn what Ricky's action looking. He was pretty good when people would say, oh, it's too flat. It's too laid off, all this stuff. He just is good at golf. I think the more he gets away from the swing and just hits shots, the better.

but it doesn't hurt when it's perfect and that looked pretty damn good. It looked as good as I've seen. We'll see what it looks like in an actual tournament. All right. 65 to 1. Sprinkle a little something on it. Yeah. I'm speaking of dudes that are hot and a number next to him that is attractive.

How about Taylor Montgomery plus 4,500? All he does is never play bad. Going back to Cornfield, he's on as good of a run as anybody has been in the last six months, any tour. He finished, what, 12th last week, which is like a ho-hum. I think that's for him. He was on the first page of the leaderboard most of the final round. I think that's eight events, seven. top 15s i mean he makes everything which you got to do in palm springs because people are

going to just go incredibly low it's desert guy i mean he's a vagus guy but you know kind of similar grass you know overseated rye all that give me i'll just keep riding taylor montgomery while they're throwing out odds like this i'm going to take a week off why would you as soon as he stops liking money probably he's a montgomery he's doing all right he's doing all right so yeah give me tm plus 4500 all right i like it that's going to do it for our picks for the amex this week before we go this podcast continues to grow and grow and grow. And when I was down to Latin Am, I feel like I've learned we have reached a new audience.

We're popular down in Barbados. My man, Simon. Is that where Rihanna's from? I don't know. Somewhere around that. Mark can fact check that. That's where I know my man Simon is from. Big listener of the show listens every single week.

Shout out. I met him down there. I want to give him a big shout out. He's a banker. Obviously, plays good enough to get in the Latin American amateur. So it was really cool meeting him. And just to know that subpar has made its way to Barber. Barbados.

Barbados. Maybe a great spot to do a live show. If you don't want to come, I'll just go. I'll handle it solo. Perfect. Do a little recon. Also, the thumb question. Thumb or eyeball got introduced, which is a great debate, by the way.

You're heavy on, you'd rather lose a thumb. I'm heavy on. I'd rather lose one eye. How about Jeremy, our champion blind golfer tweeting in at me, he's like, hey, dude, I'm the legally blind golfer. I've won this and that. I would much rather, he's like, I couldn't imagine not having a thumb. from a dude who golfs legally blind.

That should settle. I think that just settles the whole debate. Okay. That's going to do it for us. That's a dude who knows, bro. And we're going to keep asking people by all. All right. We'll talk to you on next week's subpar.

Have a great week, everyone.