Subpar - Kiradech Aphibarnrat: How he spent his first professional golf check, Going shirtless on the range

Episode Date: February 25, 2020

On this week's episode, the first Thai PGA Tour member, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and his long time friend and on course rival Drew Stoltz for an exclusive, in-studio interview. Asia's John Daly dives into a wide range of topics including the story behind him going shirtless on the driving range, how he spent his first check in professional golf, and getting in trouble at home for renting an apartment just to store his shoe collection.

Welcome to another episode of Golf Subpar. Sleazy, we got a lot to get into today. Big WGC this past week. Correct. Puerto Rico Open. Victor Hovlin, Champ. And possibly our favorite interview of all time, Kira Deck, Offa Bonner.

I don't know where we go from here, dude. For me personally, this is the guy. This is the one dude. Hey, do you want to interview? I want the rat. I want them in studio. And we got it in week three. So a lot to live up to.

I mean, I've known Kira Deck, but I'll have pretty much said hi to. him right and for him to come in and sit down was just was awesome you're a starstruck oh like tiger could have walked in and i would have hey what's up and then the rat walks i was like oh my god it's the rat he came in like glowing lights it's like seeing jesus come in so we have a great interview with him and then afterwards we're going to get into our gambling picks for the honda classic the debut of our gambling picks which this is going to be very intense we've decided we're going to make four picks correct okay we're going to add up money for the whole year total

money won for the whole year ending at the end of the FedEx Cup. Loser. Loser. Catties for the other guy. 18 holes. No rules. Video will be involved. This is one I don't want to lose, dude. Like, honestly, I'd rather hand you some money. There's a lot of other things I'd want to do than be your little butler, your little club butler for 18 holes. Are we forecadding or am I actually, one of us actually carrying them? If I lose, I'm definitely not forecadowing. You don't miss any fairways. But if I win, which I will, you're going to need to get your ass out there and look for my ball because it could go a number of directions. Do we get to dress each other? I think that's appropriate. I think a bib with a name on the back of the other person's choosing

to. Like this is more than money. This is, this is, I would much rather hand you over some cash than lose this bet. To be under your employment, to be employed by you for four hours with a camera involved, I got sweaty palms just talking about it. I can't. I want no part of this. It's going to be exciting. I think we have to settle up at Whisper Rock so we can have all our friends and people out there. Part of it is the humiliation that goes along with it. Yeah, exactly. So that's going to come after the interview. But Slee's right now. We got Patrick Reed

winning the WGC down in Mexico City. Correct. Eighth tour win. Second World Golf Championship event. He won this event when it was played at Durala a few years ago. What do you, I mean,

with all the stuff that's been going on, okay? I don't know if you know, but he's been accused of a few things lately. Fill me in on that. So we have the whole, you know, Brooks telling him he was building sandcastles. Yeah, I got that.

Down in the Bahamas. Peter Costas comes out and just says he's seen him move his ball four times. Yeah, a bit of a gash to the reputation. But none of this seems to phase Patrick Creed. Like, if I was accused of cheating, I would go, like, I'd be embarrassed to go in front of my peers. Crawling a hole. I mean, that's like the worst thing you can be called.

It's one of those, it's one of the only things I think that can happen to you that never leaves you, right? Like cheating in the game that you're playing. You can do a bunch of stuff off the golf course. We've seen it with athletes across sports, any football, baseball, baseball, basketball, all kinds of off the field stuff that goes on. are quick to forgive and forget. You own up to it, boom, it's over. Cheating in the game, especially in golf. Like, it's different than baseball, steroids, right? That was almost part of the culture for a while. Golf cheating. Like, dude, I haven't, I mean, can you name another person that's been accused of cheating by other players, media, basically everyone

in golf, I can't. Yeah, but publicly. Yes, not publicly. Right. There's some chatter around some players that like, hey, this guy or that guy, but, like, not to the point where it's, like, every TV show, every golf talk show you go on to. It's all Patrick Reed. Players are coming, out. Tours getting involved saying, hey, stop talking about Patrick Gritty. They're almost like defending him. It's gotten that big. So, I mean, you got to give him props for the way he's played. I don't know many guys in the world that could come into that amount, that level of scrutiny and come out and win one of the biggest golf tournaments in the world. You got to tip your hat to the way he's playing golf. But like, man, he thrive. I don't think there's anything from this point on that can be said about the guy that's

really going to hurt him if everything up to this point hasn't. Yeah. I mean, he plays with a chip on his shoulder. There's no doubt. I mean, an impressive, impressive win. One shot over Bryson DeShambo. The guy's short game is absolutely ridiculous. Like, he doesn't hit it that great. If you look at his numbers, I mean, to be honest, he's over 180th in driving accuracy, like 170 in Greens and Regulation. He hit something like 60% of his greens for the week down in Mexico and won the golf tournament. Yeah, you look at every other big name dude, the guys win in all the tournaments, or Rories, or DJ. Like, they're the best with the driver. That's like the thing that everyone's trying to get to, like they hit bombs, right? Don't even worry if he hit it straight, just hit it

super far. Patrick Green, not the longest in the world, but he's definitely not the most accurate either. His ball striking stats, not great. He's doing it a way that most people say you can't win on tour these days by chipping and putting it. You know, that's kind of the old school way. But you've proven people wrong. That's what's so cool about the game, though, is like him and Bryson DeChambo arguably play like the most exact opposite game. Like Bryson hits it far, hits it pretty solid, doesn't chip it that great. And the putter is probably his weakness. Right. And yet these two are battling it out, coming. down the stretch on a Sunday. It was cool to watch. And Patrick Reed made a huge birdie on 17

to basically take a two-shot lead into 18 and was able to make bogey on the last to wrap it up. Nice way. Two-shot lead going in 18, a lot nicer than one. But yeah, that's a golf course too. When you look at that golf course, all the dog legs, the trees and stuff. Like, that's not a place in theory that you should be able to not drive it straight and win. Because you don't even really need that many drivers, dude. There are trees everywhere. It's everywhere. You saw guys punching out, Justin Thomas hitting left-handed, you know, bades out of the trees. Like, if you don't hit it straight there, that's stress. And he didn't necessarily hit it. it all that straight still won he putted it better than anyone in the field by a mile there you go yeah

i've never been there but i i love the golf course because it's there's trees and dog legs like you said but it gives you so many options like you see guys blasting it over the corner and hitting it 400 something yards in altitude and driving it up right in front of the greens and then another guy in the group will hit a in a three iron and be 120 yards behind him and there's just so many different ways to play and i love golf courses like that yeah like number 10 i remember like you know that's one of the holes you need to like slice it off that tea basically but you can drive it right up by the green if you do that Patrick Reed not a guy that fades the ball really well

only guy in his group pulls on an iron and hits it down there's so many options but if you if you take the driver take the aggressive play and miss it it's stress it's problems there's O B there's trees and things like I like courses that give you options and that course definitely does it it does so big congrats to Patrick Reed on his win shout out to our guy John Rom finished third guy plays good every week standard issue pretty pretty awesome I'll tell you another thing that's kind of

interesting about this last week is Justin Thomas took the 54-hole lead into Sunday once again and did not convert. That makes him, he's 8 of 12, I believe now with 54-hole leads. Pretty good clip still. It is very good. But two over par Sunday ended up finishing 6. What do you make of his performance on Sunday? I don't know. Like you just mentioned, he's closed eight of the 12, 54-hole leads he's had. That's a pretty damn good clip. I think we just expect too much these guys, these world these top five guys every time they're in the hunt like oh there's no way he doesn't get it done on sunday it's just so hard there's always somebody coming up behind you somebody's going to play a good round just not that easy to close out a golf tournament and i think we set these top tier guys to a different

standard we're so used to seeing tiger do it for so long right like it just became the point if if tiger's in the lead or near the lead on sunday like he's going to win that thing and now we're trying to hold everybody else that same standard we see with rory all the time right why does they have the sunday problems well he's in contention damn near every week he plays you're just not going to get all of them done. So I don't put a whole lot of stock into that. Like, oh, can Justin Thomas not close or anything like that? I got no different view or outlook on Justin Thomas's game going forward after this week than I did before. He's still a beast. He's still going to be in the hunt. He's still one of my favorites to win the Masters. I just say like, it's a tough game to close,

man. It's not easy to win out there. And he loves that golf course. I mean, it's just, he prints money down there. He kills that place. He had a disappointing week. Finishes like sick. You know what I mean? He's there every single time. And he hits driver all over the lot there. He plays that place aggressive. He does. But once again, big shout out. Patrick Reed, congrats on the win.

Hopefully he kept it fair all week. If he didn't, we're going to know it because he's got a microscope under him the size of the state of Texas right now. There ain't nothing he can do now that there ain't going to be 55. I see him on 18 where he drove it right and he was in the, I felt like there was like 75 tour people, like just staring at his golf. Like I'm watching. You know what I mean?

There ain't nothing he's going to be able to do from this point forward that isn't going to be under a close eye. Well, speaking of great. golf course is sleazy we got another one this week pGA national down at the honda classic much much different than the course they just play this place is much more open water it seems like everywhere every hole uh normally brutal rough i haven't seen the conditions and win this week just everything oh it is terror i told people it's i mean there is disaster waiting on every hole out there but they start you off on the first hole with a little 360 yard hole right nice you just low you to sleep yeah

and then all of a sudden it's just like boom you Boom, boom, boom, slap you in the face for the next five hours. Yeah. And it does take five hours to play that joint. There is just trouble. There's just no like hole where you're just like, ah, okay, like easy hole here. I'm going to make birdie here. You know, there's none.

You get the first hole, easy iron wedge for most of these guys. After that it's like, here we go. Saddle up. I've always said that it's one of the few golf courses you play where you can't just like lose your focus for a second. There's just so much trouble everywhere. Well, I'll give you a little story about losing focus. We should get to that because it's time for our segment.

Money money. Funny money. We always share stories. This is not funny for me. This is more like painful death money. Yeah, this is like, this is, I'm getting sweaty palms right now. I'm just talking about it. This course, it's a tough week for me, Colt, because of this.

This is where my career, my golf career, which could have been massive, as you know. This is where it died. This was, I'll take you back to 2014, I believe, final stage of Q school. Boom, I'm finally here. I'm going to cruise through, get my web card. I'm going to win that tour. I'm going to win majors. Here we come.

Everything. Everything is on the table at this point, right? show up to that course. First day, playing the PGA, playing the main course. There's that course, there's a secondary course. Play the main course. Cruise around the front and on an even par. Not bad.

Early off, cold, little breeze. It's like, oh, even par. Perfect. We don't got to go low on this thing. Get to the 11th whole level par for the day. Left rough. Long par four, dead into the wind. Lake in front of it.

I hit it in the left rough. And I'm blaming my caddy for this. I'm going to take no blame on this whatsoever. Hit in the left rough. Should have just been a layup. Hit a wedge on the green, make five at worst. Keep it moving. But I was like, nah, dude.

I think I can hit hybrid long here out on the left and just get up and down. Long story short. Soup, drop, green, three putt, triple. It was like I got punched in the, I just got caught one time. You know, I was sparring for a few rounds, got caught once in the nose and just took a knee and laid down and died for the remainder of the week. It was just, and that's when it was six rounds, dude. There was no like, let's get out here after four.

All right, I don't have it this week. Let's get out after four. I had to march around that joint six times, that one and the other one, and just gradually watch my hopes and dreams disappear. year so I will not be watching any of this course it's like it's just a brutal reminder of like hey this is where everything stopped for you nightmares for you oh dude it's the worst place it's like if there was a video of a girlfriend breaking up with you would you want to watch that over and over again no so never been no no you never been done you never had a girl friend bro you never dated anyone

bro so I can't stand the joint and it's hard for me to watch you've been around there too yeah I've played there quite a few times in the Honda I think I think the best I ever finished was like 20 something that's incredible by the way but I was telling you Before, 2016, I was in like 65th place, you know, went off super early. And I remember Ryan Palmer was in the group behind me. We finished. I shoot 3 under. The wind starts, I mean, we're on 18.

The wind starts blowing 30. It's great. We shoot 300, 67, finish 25th. Nice. Ryan Palmer. By the way, they have a great bar in the hotel there. I frequent a bit. Yes.

Awesome. They set up a huge bar in the middle there. It gets rowdy. So we were staying because Ryan Palmer and our, playing the member, uh, member, uh,

member pro down at Seminole the next day, which is always the Monday after the Honda. So me and him are just sitting in there, having cocktails, watching the leaderboard. We just keep, refresh, refresh.

Yeah. Ryan would just look over me at every 10 minutes and he would just give one of these. We're just climbing up a ladder. So I went from 60 something to, uh, almost top 20. It was great.

But, uh, that place, I tell a lot of people, you could be even par through 14 holes there and shoot 80 so fast. Easily. A couple, one or two, a couple bad swings all of a sudden,

just avalanche. Avalanche. Avalanche. It's one of those weeks where you almost feel like it's a major just because the golf course is so hard and you're so exhausted at the end of the week. If the wind blows, dude, it's a different. And there's no hole where it's just like, I feel like the more conservative you try to play like, hey, I'm going to eliminate this. I don't want to hit it over here and make a big number. So you play ultra safe.

No, now I'm in the left rough. Like you're just making bogey. All you doing is just add enough bogies. You want to just play safe all the way around? Cool. You can go boge 16 holes. I said it's probably the least amount of pros on the range after a round. They're all just dead.

Everybody's just so exhausted. I just get me out of here. Yeah. I want to go. If that wind blow, if it doesn't blow and you drive it well, you can get after a little bit, but if the wind blows, that whole place changes. I mean, 15, 16, 17, just get the hell out of there, try not to ruin you around and keep it moving. It is a beast.

I hate it. I will not be watching it. And I refuse to acknowledge that golf course existence after this podcast. So good luck, everyone. Yeah, best luck to you. Enjoy. Yeah. But now it's time for Colt versus Drew.

I believe it's one to one. One to one. So far. Dead heat. You slid. Mark 100 last week to get the W. Hey, if ain't cheating, you got to do what you got to do. You know what they say. Patrick Reed philosophy.

A lot of cheating going on in this world. Sleez is a part of it. Hey, if everybody's doing it. All right, producer Mark, what do we got this week? Speaking of cheating, bigger sports villain right now. Patrick Reed or the Houston Astros. Ooh. I would say the Houston Astros just because they're on such, I mean, Patrick

Reed's obviously a phenomenal golfer, but to have a whole team organization be accused of cheating in. for it to go like i mean having these other players like mike mike trout who never says a bad thing about anybody this guy in the world and just rips them and um you know all these other players saying they need a beating some i mean they've already set the over under on how many people are going to get hit on the houston a half over on the over dude little league teams like in california are banning the name astros from their little league league you know what i mean like that's how bad it is so i'm going with houston astro i would tend to agree with you here for the sake of argument i'm

to go on the other side. My argument would be this. We're used to cheating in baseball. Cheating in baseball has been around for forever. Steroids. Shulis Joe Jackson rigged the World Series back in the day. You know what I mean? Like everywhere you look, there's cheating going on in baseball happens every year. Somebody gets suspended. So cheating's more a part of the culture in baseball than it is in golf. For the first time since I can remember, and I'm not a historian, I can't go way, way back. I can't remember another golfer openly being called a cheater publicly by players, media, everyone, basically, to the point where, like, it's the only thing people talk about when they bring up his name, right? He's winning all these golf tournaments right now. We're not sitting

here. Most podcasts aren't sitting here talking about how great of a golfer Patrick Reed is. Wow, he's playing so good. Talking about cheating and all the things that are being said about him. He's a cheater. He's a cheater. That's what happens. So just for the sake of argument, I'll go Patrick Reed. The biggest villain I can remember in golf since I've been old enough to know what's going on in golf. Good answer. Good answer. All right. We'll take this one from the facilities and course perspective. Better tour swing, the West Coast or the Florida swing? I'll go West Coast times 100. I can't stand Bermuda grass. I'm terrible in Bermuda grass. I don't like it to blow a million miles an hour. I always played horrible in the southeast, so I'm going to go west coast.

Plus, when you look at the course lineup on the West Coast, Pebble Beach, one of the best places ever. Riviera, arguably the best golf course in rotation on the PJ Tour, minus Augusta National. You could throw the majors in there as well. They're just historic venues. The weather is typically great. And I'm a West Coast kid, so obviously I'm going to say the West Coast. You're from Colorado. Well, where do I live now? It's true. You're not a West Coast kid.

Well, it's closer to the West than it is the Southeast. It's fine. Okay. I love both. I love the West Coast. I always enjoy the Florida Swing, obviously because Players Championship, favorite one. My biggest check ever, too.

Right. Makes sense. I kind of like the places I play well. I do love the West Coast, but for this situation, I'm going to go the Florida Swing, just because I've had more success, I would say, out there. Fair. I'll allow it. All right.

What would you rather see next? Fury versus Wilder 3 or Fury versus Joshua? I think we've got to move on to Joshua just because Wilder, I mean, that was just a beating the other night. Kind of like when me and Slees go out on the golf course. You're right. It's an absolute hammering. I mean, throw in the towel.

If there was a towel in some of these things, that Colt will be throwing it. No, never, not me. but I think the Joshua one would be awesome. I don't see anybody touching Tyson Fury right now, but I'm ready for the next opponent. I'm going to go and agree with this, just because I don't even want to take the other side of this.

We've seen them twice now. The first one was close. The second one was an absolute thumping. Give me something different. The third one now is like what happens if Wilder goes out and somehow catches them and he wins? Like, all right, now what? Four?

You know what I mean? Now it's one to one to one. Like I want to see something different. And the primes of these guys' careers are so short in boxing. Got to get the big fights while you can get them. I want to see Joshua too. And I think Fury thumps him.

All right, this is a little bit of a sneak peek to the interview, but more impressive feat on subpar. Kyridic's vaping or ROM's rapping? I'm going to go with ROM rapping because as far as I know, as far as I know, Rom has never wrapped in the history of his life, much less publicly in a microphone. And that was great for us to come out of the gates with ROM rapping. The vaping for Kyridak is part of the reason why everyone loves him.

He's one of the most likable dudes in the world. to get that in close and personal for me, bucket list moment. But I think the ROM rapping was more of an outlier like, oh, my God, what's this guy doing? No one knew he listened to rap, much less Kendrick Lamar and was willing to do it in front of a mic. So I'll go ROM rapping. They both were fantastic. I'm going arm doing his bait. First off, I've never seen you look at your wife the way you look at Jared.

I've never. I was a puddle in his hand. He got it down with me whatever he wants. You had stars in your eyes the whole time. You're just mesmerized by this guy. I was looking back at some of the pictures. Like, I've never been so happy. I have wedding pictures.

I don't look that happy. I mean, I will say, like, we can probably get another guest to wrap on here. I don't know if we can get another guest to vape the way Kyridek did. Well, if they do, it's like, it's not even their thing. This is Kieradek's, like, staple thing. You know what I mean? He's known for it. So I'm going with our guy, Kieradek in the vaping.

That's the only time I'll ever vote against Kierdeck in my life. If you're watching, I love you. You're my favorite player in the world. All right. Last one for you guys. better at getting in your head before a big shot. Colt or Drew? Well, I think we know how we're going to vote here.

Go ahead. How are we going to vote? Are you going to vote for me? I think we're both very good at it. We both are very witty, I would say. Yes, keep going. I like this. Quick on our feet.

I like this. And we're both very, very good at trash talking. I honestly will probably say you are probably better at it because you don't have any respect for the other players out there. Zero respect for anyone. I have a little bit of respect for them, so I kind of keep it to myself. I throw a little jabs here and there. You just from the first team. Paymakers.

The rest of the way. You're in it all day. Well, this is why it's different. I always say me, but you can beat a lot of guys just by being better at golf. I have to bring people down. I got to bring people down to my level, and my only way to do that is to chirp a lot and often and at opportune times. So I lean on that's like my main method of defense. You know what I mean?

I got to get on people quick. You can just go out and beat guys. I got to come in. I got to bring people down to my level. That's a good point. It's a bigger weapon. and my i got to have it you know i mean if i go out there and like hey you're not allowed to talk today i'll lose a million times listen if if i'm going to shoot 80 i'm going to bring you down

i need all i need is you to shoot 81 dude that's all i need and that's my philosophy all right very close this week oh but because of the fact that drew spent the last three weeks talking about how much you love kyridic and then went against him colt is your winner oh god two to one the only time i'll ever go against the rat in my life and it calls you You will see the love coming up in this interview right now with the rat. This is the one dude that gets, I've loved him for forever. Let's talk about him real quick before we get in this interview. I love him because he's like the anti-modern day golfer, right?

He doesn't travel around with a teacher, not super technical, doesn't have a swing coach, doesn't have a nutritionist and doing all this stuff, right? He's just a dude and you'll hear it in the interview. I like to hit driver as hard as I can. I like to have fun playing golf. Guess what? I'm going to vape around and oh, every dollar that I get, I'm going to spend it on cars, watches, and shoes. Ah, that's called dream life right there.

You can't not love this guy. As he says, I like to hit the big stick. I love to hit the big stick. But no, he is a character. He's awesome. He opened up. He was one of my favorite interviews I've ever done. I'll never forget the first time I saw him.

Like I knew of him playing over in Europe and Asia and stuff. And he came over here and played Bay Hill several years ago. And he walks onto the range and I'm like, oh, my God, there he is. I love this guy. Yeah. And I look over and he's got his big vape pin, ripping vape, and then drinking a protein shake. That's it. Love this guy.

That's how you get right. That's how you get right. You can't not love him. Everyone's got a little. He's got like a mini cult following. That's why I'm so excited about this interview. And by the way, props to him because he came in here. We got set up with his people.

It was kind of a one-off thing, even getting him in the studio. He didn't know us. He didn't know me. Obviously, he didn't really know you. You guys had really never had a conversation. He came in here. He's super willing. He's a little timid at first when he first showed up.

He showed up with an entourage that looked like he was a rapper. He had like 12 guys. We're like, yeah, what do you do? He's like, oh, I'm the shirt guy. What do? the shoe guy. Like he had a squad. He had a squad with him. Came in here. Opened up. So nice. Doesn't know either

of us from anybody. He came in here and gave us an hour and he was gold. I love this man. I will never stop loving you, Kyriduk, no matter what. Now is the time. Here he is. Kierdeck Alpha Bonrott on Golf Subpar. We are very excited to welcome our next guest to the Subpar podcast.

He's the 120th ranked player in the world with 11 professional wins worldwide and a man who can blow the biggest Vap Cloud I've ever seen on planet Earth. You know him well. His name is Kyrdeck Alpha Barn Rat. Welcome to the podcast, my man.

Kyrdeck, thanks for joining us. Oh, I'd love to be here. Before we get too deep here, I know your friends and your family, they call you Arm, right? That's your nickname. Is it cool if we call you Arm? Yes, we're big nickname, guys, so we need a little something short to call you. So Arm. What about Barn Rat?

Do you like Barn Rat, or do you prefer Arm? I mean, anything. I'm going to go with Arm, because I feel like we're friends now. I'm at least going to tell people we're friends now. Sounds great. Your arm, he sleighs. You can call me Sleece and I'm gravy. Carrying sleep.

Yeah, we're big nickname guys here. Gravy and Slees. All right, first real question. You've only been playing on the PJ tour full time now for a short period of time. But in that short period of time, I feel like as a fan, you've become one of the fan favorites out there. Like people love you, people know you, people root for you. They see out there, like you somehow just become like a fan favorite on the PGA tour. Are you surprised by that or why do you think that is?

Well, I'm really surprised and I have to thank all the fans out there every week. They're amazing. I mean, it might be because my game is just, I just love to playing this game. I love to have fun with All Spectator. And my game is kind of fun. If I win, I win. If not, bye. I'm serious.

You know what I mean? I love that. So that's why I have a couple friends on here, which is fantastic. Yeah, and I think you can see it when you said your game is fun. Like, it shows. You take a big back swing. hit it hard, you go find it. And if it ends up at the end of the week, I got the lowest score.

Great. If not, cool. You don't seem to get too worked up. Exactly. It's awesome how you embrace the fans over here because, I mean, you don't know many people. We were talking before the show. You just recently moved to Orlando or rented a house in Orlando. How are you finding everything?

Is it starting to get comfortable here? I mean, this year, start to feel like home, but nowhere it's feeling like home, home, you know, I mean, but it's not many Thai players. It has to say just one, just myself in the, on the, on tour. If I meet area and Moria, so it feels like more families meet more Thai people, just start to feel like home

and I'm enjoying it so far. Do you spend a lot of time with Arya and them? Oh, a lot of times. They are a best sister ever. Area are going to show up this week. Moria was a bad cooking. So she cooked

like three times a day. I eat a lot. I like your style. You know, I've actually never really had Thai food. Oh, you miss the good food. Yeah. You, I mean, you miss the good food. Maybe we'll have to go try it. Yeah, people rave about it. I'm not familiar with it. What, if we're going to go get one Thai dish, what should we get? I would say Tom Yum. It's the soup. It's like sour, a little bit spicy. Yeah. See, I feel like you can handle way spicier things than I can. Oh, like, I got a failing. That's true. Like, I don't feel like. Milk is too spicy for me. He's soft. He's very, very soft. What's the thing you miss? Like, now that you're

spending more time in the States and you know, you're kind of back and forth between here and home. What's the thing you miss most when you're over here that you have at home? I would say families. My mom and my dad still back home. My sister still back home in Thailand. Just me and my wife over here. Yeah, I think his family is really important for me and some friends back home. But now the social is really get through everyone to connecting. So I'm talking to families almost every day. Well, I have to say every day before bed. But the time is opposite, 12 hours.

So when I bed, he was wake up. There was wake up. So it's perfect. Yeah. Does they get a chance to come over here at all and watch you play? Or is it strictly when you go home? My dad doesn't want the traveling much. I mean, if you have a time machine, he will come.

You take like two hours from time, but it takes like 22 hours. Yeah, that's a big trip. Which is once a year. In last five years, he will be in Augusta. Oh, good. But this year, I was out,

but I still have my way. I'm trying to get my way to the master. I don't know. It might have to win four week in a row, but still possible. You only need one week.

It'll get you there. But you're a very big family guy. You're very close with your family. Do you all live together over in Thailand? Yes. And like one kind of big place? Yes. I always think because my mom and my dad

will give me a chance to play this. game and how I success so far. I don't want to walk away from all of them. My dad's getting old. My mom's getting old. I don't know how long we're going to stay together. So I want to spend much time as I can right now. I still have to look after my sister and my wife. Yeah, like we are not a big family, but we're keeping tight. So who's the best cook in the family? Mom, for sure. Mom? You have to say mom. Yeah, but my wife was improving. and she improved a lot because send me moved to here

at the beginning of last year there's no one cook so she started to get to work on her cooking skill but then she improved like I was saying 50% that's awesome 50%

that's good improvement I wish I could improve my golf game 50% I wouldn't be retiring settle for anything you improve this week that's true could change

that's right that's right when you're back home you mentioned family being so important you're still practicing at the course that you grew up on. Is that right? Driving.

The driving range? Yes. The double deck, it's a double decker with the turf and all that. Where you have the picture, the shirtless picture of you hitting balls. That's my favorite. That's like Nicholas raising the putter at Augusta. Those two are my two favorite. Nicholas.

And Arm, right? Those two will go. You can take your shirt off if you want to do this podcast if you'll feel more comfortable. Yeah, we'll get to that. That's normally like 20 minutes in, dude. We got to wait into that. We got to wade into that. But you still practice at that same range, right?

Yes, exactly. I mean, at the start, because I start playing golf on the range, and my ex-coach that he passed away, always teaching on that driving range. So I want to keep the memory. I want to keep everything to where I'm starting until now. So I look after my range. I have my golf academy, mainly for a kid.

So from like 8 to 14 years old, we want to pushing them to this game, try to learn what on tour, what we have on tour, get them to love this sport, not just want to play, and then one day they skip, they walk away. That's awesome.

So obviously I know one of your idols growing up was Tung Chai J.D. from one of the most successful guys to come out of Thailand. What has y'all's relationship been like? Has he been a huge mentor for you? And what kind of advice has he given you for coming over here and playing the PGA tour?

Well, one good thing in Thailand, we support each other quite well. Start from Bun Chu. We used to play on Champions Tour. Bun Chiu and Tongchai. Both of them try to give all the experience to the kids to the new generation. So when I started like 10 years back, I played in European tour. Song Shai was giving me a lot of advice that how you handling the pressure,

how you're handling the golf course, handling the weather. And then I'm getting used to it day by day. Until now, I still talk to Bun Chiu and Tong Shai is a lot. Sometimes, you know, golf is like up and down. Sometimes you've got a hard time to just beat this game. Just stay focused. stick with it. One day, just show up. It's true. Never know when it's going to turn around. Exactly. Never turned around for me. I'm still waiting for it to turn around, bro. But I'll take your word for it.

Don't give up. I'll never give up, Arm. Not for you. I got to get to this story because it's one of the best, when I first read this story, I thought it was one of the best stories I'd ever heard in golf. And you know the story. You've told it a few times, but not a ton of people over here know it. And it's the first time you got a real check in professional golf for $15,000. I know you told it before, and I want you to tell, but you go out, you get the first check, 15 grand, right? US, 15,000 US. What do you go to? Most guys go put it in the bank.

Hey, I can go get a few more entry fees. What do you go do with that 15? Well, I have to say that before I get the first check, I was driving with my dad to seeing the nice Mercedes showrooms. Then I stopped by. I tell my dad, like, I need some pressure. Just go in. I need some pressure.

Just go in. I love that. Buy the car. Just pay $5,000 up ahead. and then the deadline was next month I have to keep playing playing playing so my first check get 50,000 I hold the check and go straight away to the showrooms

and then I came back to see my mom as like how are you doing where is the check I spend it I spend it all not even 10% I spent it all how mad was she in an hour a whole man

you can't imagine you can't imagine that I mean me and my dad we doesn't have dinner She never cooked. You just walk away, go out to the room and shut the door straight away. Figure it out yourself. I love that.

Hey, Dad, I need some pressure. My dad's like, you're going to need a place to live, kid. You know, Cheaper. Well, that's why I just said. I need some pressure so I can play good. I need to buy something. I need the pressure to push my, to push me up. I mean, if you want to buy Slees and I something really nice for some pressure this week,

we could spend a couple million on us right now. You have back to the wall again, you know, never know what nice thing. What was the car that you got? Mercedes E 250. You got it went out. First check, I need a Mercedes. I'm going to put my back against the wall. I'll go around the money.

You have what had 90 days to go to pay it off or something like that. 40 days. Put a down payment and said I'll be back within 40 days. You have to understand that in Asia, the total price money is 200,000. So you have to win two at least to cover all the expenses. I win once and then finish another like four top five. I cover 40 days by one win and four top five. just one car.

You do that over here. You make $4 million. You can buy the whole dealership. That's why I keep working hard and move over here. Do you want to play here full time? I love to play here full time. Like I'm saying, I love the friend, love people around, and feel like families.

I mean, all the play on tour was nice. I don't want to traveling much as I used to do before. And I want to traveling like 30 hours before. But now it's traveling by a city, better by the country anyway. And for me, it's like way away. So not to change the subject, but we were talking about cars there for a second. And I want to know, how many cars do you actually have?

That's a good question. Right now. My car will be like nine or ten. Yeah. Nine or ten? First off, how do you not know the exact amount? I was just about to say that. I have one.

I don't, dude. Well, carry the one. One more is still under the letter. If my wife, my mom doesn't. know is keep under the later. Oh, under the rail. I'll still, like, modify the engine and no one know it yet.

Are you going to trick this car out? No one knows about it yet. Soon, I was saying next six months, everyone going to surprise about my new, my, my, all new car. I heard, you know what I mean? 1,600 horsepower or something like that. Exactly. Oh.

Is that real? I've heard. They make car, you can make a car. That's like a rocket. Is that a NASA spaceship? How fast? I mean, that scares me. I can't imagine.

I just want to, but it's not the track. car it's just the street use so I want to on the cover of the like car magazine in Thailand yeah which is doesn't use my name to be like you know please take my car to be on the on the book on the cover but I want them to come to the car to see the car yeah it's going to be the fastest car in Thailand maybe the world well I mean the old car it's 1992 which is like 20 years ago but you're ripping it up and putting in some sort of everything rocket ship engine the car. Whole piece engine.

I mean, a bunch of stuff in the car. I would say the price would be over a supercar. Wow. That's cool.

I love that he says he didn't want to give us the real number because his wife and his mom don't know about the car. All right. They won't hear this,

dude, trust me. Tell me this. You're just going out to dinner. I don't know if you ever go to dinner at night or the grocery store. Okay. Which car are we taking?

Yeah. I would take my cayenne Porsche Cayenne to the grocery to buy a lot of stuff Yeah that's a good question I love to go Every car I drive

I just have to think Where I'm gonna park Which group that I go in with So that's a good question So if I go out to the grocery store To buy some stuff I will drive me my Porsche Cayenne You need some space for the groceries

But if you're going somewhere else If you're going to dinner or wherever You don't need the space And you take some a little flashier Depends how I dress Yeah You always dress I match the car to my clothes.

That's the dream. That's the dream. If I have my suit on, I might drive them Ferrari. Yeah, that makes sense. If I got my short, I might drive GTR, Nissan GTR. Yeah. Flip flop, I might go with Honda, civic, Thai R, something like that. He knows.

He knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. Exactly.

He knows exactly. But don't make me like five appointments for a day. You know Thailand, the traffic was the worst traffic in the world. So I can't go back home and change five cars. It's going to take forever. Yes, that's true. So I've never been to Thailand. Okay, I played in Malaysia three times in Kuala Lumpur and the CNB over there.

You've never seen traffic like this. Like, we have a police escort to the golf course, and please tell me that's nothing compared to Thailand. That's ridiculous. We have a police escort to the golf course, and they just split traffic and we go to the side. Otherwise, it would take four hours. Yeah. It takes 20 minutes. Well, I have to say if no car from my house to the rain is going to take 15 minutes, 20 minutes.

But if you have traffic, it might can cost you three hours. With 1,600 horsepower, though, you could probably just fly over them. You get there a little quicker. If you can't get there with 1,600 horses, you can't get there. I'm scared, you know. No. I mean, every time I think it's just scared of shit over me. This is going to be a hard question for you.

now passionately you talk about your cars. End of the world's coming. You can only take one car with you. What do you go with? I would say Nissan GTR. Wow. Is that the fast one? It's,

or why that one, I guess. Bit one golf back for sure. You can play and go out with it. Yeah. And everyday car is powerful. It's not really, really like a super, super car. It feels like a muscle car.

You can drive it every day. it fast when you hit the power straight away and it's nice. I thought you were going to say the Mercedes because that was the one you bought with your first check. Well, it's not belong to me now. It's going to my caddies. Belong to my caddies.

Oh, you get, that's the guy. Are you the best guy in the world? Yes. All right, so I got a question. So like, over here in America, you know, Tiger Woods goes out in public. Michael Jordan goes out in public. They get mobbed.

You go out in Thailand in public. Do people come up to you all the time? Not that much. No? Not that much because in Thailand is a lot of athletes, a great athlete. But you're arm. They know me somehow sometimes, but I'm like, I'm really friendly. Just walking and say hi to them.

And sometimes we have fun together. I'm not like show up once a year. I'm show up every day. So every time I go to Thailand, I go to the town, I'm going to public. I'm doing a golf clinic. So everyone's seeing me often. So if you want to say hi, just all. take photos, just walk straight to me.

Or if you see someone feel like you try to pull the phone out, I walk straight to them. Yeah. Come on. Just do it. Don't try to sneak it. That's a little different than over here. Who's the most, where do you rank?

Who's the most famous athlete? I was saying it's soccer. Soccer in Thailand is popular. It's number one spot. I know we're not success on soccer in Asia, but still a number one spot in Thailand. So you've been spending some time over here. living in Orlando.

Do you watch American sports at all? I watch American sport, including golf. Yeah, golf. I was thinking more like football, basketball, baseball. No, not much. I've watched a little bit of American, no, basketball. Yeah. But American football, baseball, we not,

I'm not understand how they're playing. It's not really popular in Asia, so I don't know how it works. I didn't know if you'd like fall in love with football because it's so different than anything else. Well, it's kind of fun, but it looks. Yeah, I feel like football would be tricky. If you haven't grown up with it and don't know the rules,

I got a tough thing to... We need to get you into it because I think you might love it. It makes no sense it's called football because they throw the ball. That's American. That's what we do. We change names. We mess everything. Pretend it's our own.

You know what I mean? We're talking a lot about your cars here. I know we're going to hit all your passions right now, right here in the middle of the podcast. Big into cars. We know that. You're also big shoe watch guy, right? So how many, roughly, how many shoes do you have? This is like your deal, right?

On the book will be about 200. On the books? You got any sneaky, stealth shoes? Secret stashes. Under the table will be another 200. So I'll tell you, Pat Perez, he just recently moved into a new house. He has over a thousand pairs of Jordans. And he had this whole room made just for his shoes, and they're all on the wall.

It's ridiculous. We got 500. You probably need a room, huh? Well, actually, it's about three to 500 pairs. Before, I used to buy two pairs. Every type of the shoe, I buy two pairs. One for keeping and one for wearing. Oh, so you keep them a fresh pair.

Fresh pair, yeah. And then last year, my lovely wife just found out that I'm wrenched another room in an apartment to just keeping the shoes. You have an entire, you rent an apartment just for your shoes? Because I'm fluent to here and they send the in-wide to the house. And then my lovely wife going back and see the in-wide. She's so mad if I paid a room for some girls. She'd think. I could see where that could cause a problem.

Okay, just go with me. I bring her to sooner up on the rooms. And she was like, wow. No girls just choose. Three days. She said, I give you three days. Get rid of your thing. Three days.

Really? Why? Why? These are my babies. But yeah. Let me have them. We'll talk off the record if you actually got rid of it. When you come to a golf tournament, like you're here right now, how many shoes you travel in with?

That's what I like that question. Yeah. Be honest. You can tell you. About four shoes. Only four. I thought you were going to say like I have an entire staff. No, it's only four shoes.

One for exercising. One just go out. Fashion shoes. You don't have to rest to the party. So about four shoes. All yeezy? You're a huge yeas for that, right? Like that's what your biggest thing.

Are you big into other stuff? Jordans, anything like that? No, strictly easy as you go to. Every model of easy I have. And you get all the off market stuff. You can't get them. If you want what arms got, you can't go get them, right? You get them pre-release all that stuff.

Well, sometimes I'm buying on the market as well. Okay, but sometimes you get the exclusive. Yeah, he's got that good stuff. You got that good stuff. You like, is that because you like Kanye West or is that just because you just like the shoe? The funny thing is, I have to say, I don't know about shoes, before in the last four years, four or five years. I got one of my younger brother, which is he's a singer, he's a popular singer in Thailand.

He got more than a million followers on the Instagrams and Facebook and everything. He said, hey, I asked him if I want to buy a new shoes, new sneaker, which one? He said, I have to go with this one, the first you see. And I was like, are you crazy to buy a shoe for 2,000 US? I mean, I just can't handle it. I don't understand. But he's saying you wear it and go in the town. Like a huge shopping malls, like really popular pays.

He said a lot of like young kid was expect the shoes more than your face. Yeah. No way. You're kidding me. Was it true? It is true. Then I came back to the house. I keep searching why it's so popular.

And then I'll get love to the story. and get into it. So what kind of music does he sing? Me? No, your brother. He's a hip-hop guy. Hip-hop? Is that your favorite genre of music?

No, I'm kind of pop. Pop guy. So you're over here in America, driving in the courtesy car. What are you listening to? A Thai song. Thai song? No American music?

I have to sing my English is not that good. Sometimes I'm not understand what they try to explain. I mean, I love the song. every song, but if I want me to understand and get into the music, into the song, I have to be type. American hip hop, probably not the easiest thing to learn English with it. I speak English pretty well. I listen to someone, I'm like, I have no idea what the hell they're saying.

So probably tough when it's your second language, I would think. And I also heard you, so you qualified for the Olympics in Rio, which has got to be an incredible honor. But you got a pair of shoes stolen over there. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. How mad were you on to tell that story. Tell us how bad you.

It was out of your locker, wasn't it? Yeah, out of my locker. That's wild. How does that happen? I finished my second round. I opened my locker. A lot of my shoes. I was bringing four, three pair that week.

But that day, I wang the NMD, which is not easy. I lost it. And then I feel like how lucky I am and not bring my easy today. But getting so mad, I just, I telling them I want to get that pair back. I know it's not so. expensive. It's not expensive, but I want that pair. It just feel a lot to me. I want to wear my old pair. But it's impossible. But the funny thing is

my shoe put on the top of the trackman. They stole the shoes. They keep the iPad and they keep the trackman. Trackman cost $25,000. Yeah. No big deal. We're going to leave that. But use use shoes. That's what I really want. Wasn't your wallet in there too? Some other things? They only took the shoes. They left everything else. I got wallet. I got cash in there. I have

These are not good thieves I have to say That guy just take Because they want the shoes You don't want anything else That's crazy Yeah Bad thieves by the way

I'm not a huge shoe guy I guess I mean I like George If you're gonna go through the The charade of stealing Breaking into a locker room Might as well get your money's worth And take everything That's got some value

Would you rather If the situation was reversed And you could pick Would you rather have them had Stolen your track man And your wallet And your laptop Or your shoes

well track man be going to cost too much right if they're going to take but you can get another track man my well i was saying i would love to keep the shoes right so yeah you would have had them you would have given them the track man the wallet all that and said just give you my shoes back they never found them no if you have any information on that please hit the subpar hotline and we want to get we want to get arms shoes back immediately big reward by the way for sure we got to figure out who took these shoes but i do want to talk a little bit about your golf career because it's fascinating to me. I mean, you know, you're a worldwide player,

which not many people can say that, to be honest. I mean, obviously you want to play over here as much as you can. You've played the Masters, I think, three times. Yeah, three times. Three. Give us your favorite stop. It can be Masters anywhere. Favorite PGA Tour stop in America?

The Master. Masters, like hands down. Yeah. What's your favorite thing about the Masters? I love the golf course. I have to say I love the golf course. I mean, that three years I playing, it costs all the way fantastic chip.

And I don't have, I didn't see any mistake that they make in the golf course at all. I mean, not a lot of people, not a lot of pitchmark on the greens. The rain was smooth, the putting green, everything was like so good. I mean, that's why I really love it with the golf course.

That's awesome. You seem like a really laid-back, just fun guy. Do you get nervous playing golf? Sometimes. Sometimes. Give us the most nervous you've ever been. I was saying the first year on the master. First tea?

I was on there on Sunday practicing, which is like not many spectator. I was saying about 10 to 15 per holes. And then I'm working, I'm practicing. Then you show up on Monday on the first hole is a little bit. more on the tea, but then you show up on a Thursday, first day, first tea. I mean, my hand was shaking. It was like, I can't miss lip and right. I'm going to hit one of them. And it's going to be a great story of the master. They kill one of them in that group. I was like, okay, I'll try to hit it high.

I'm not going to hit it low. Yeah. Try it high as I can to over their head. Over the gallery head. Just over the gallery head. For sure, I'm not going to like snap low hook to kill someone. That's the most us I get in this game. I love that world class players have that same because you see them on TV, like, all these guys aren't nervous. They're so good. They don't even worry about it. Like, I was so worried, like, world class players, like, I was so worried I was going to

kill someone off the first tee that I just teed it high and hit as high as I could. That's a nice thing to hear. That's a first year. Yeah, next time I see someone on the first theater, I guess I'm like, all this guy's thinking about is not killing somebody. So, I mean, you can, you've played the waste manager at Phoenix Open a few times now. Describe, like, are you nervous at all when you walk into 16? Because, I mean, it can be intimidating, a little scary.

I mean, 20,000 people. around one hole. I love it. You love it. So you go right at the pin. Well, because when you sometimes it's too quiet, you feel like you're lonely. Oh, that's a good way to put it. Yeah. I don't know. I love, I love laughing. I love spend time with friends. I mean, in golf, you can shout, we can do whatever it is in my in my golf swing, but make sure I'm not pooling my hand when I'm back swing because I can't. If you stop my hand, I can't complain. Yeah. So you can do whatever you want. I'm not in my mind when you, When they shout really long, I just, I love it.

Do you rev them up? Do you give them like the, do you like them to make noise while you're hitting? I will love it. You can walk out there and give it the this. I will. This year's, I will. If I'm there, I'm taking my shirt off. I'm going to go inside a riot for you.

I wish I was playing with you. That would be incredible. That would be good. That would be very good. We're talking to you on Sunday last, last group. Sounds incredible. Oh, God, I'll be there. Let me in the ropes.

I'll caddy for you. But we make sure we start on first tea. Yes. Not first. Last off 10, no good. I know that grouping. We were talking about, you were talking to Gusta, and you've had success in majors.

He's been in the top 15 a couple times. I think you played 18 majors at this point. Having played all these majors now, which one do you feel like suits your game the best? If you were to say, this is the one I think I'm going to win, or I can win. Is there one that stands out to you? I still thinking Augusta, the master,

because I know it's one of the best major, but top 50 in the world and some, like, past winner. I know that they still can play, but if you compare with PGA Championship or U.S. Open, it's more like around the world. Yeah, the field's much smaller. Yeah. Yeah. So I

feel like, and the golf course is always the same. Yeah. That in the venue never change. When you get used to it, it's always the same. That's the cool thing. But a lot of good memory for me at the master and Augusta until my

entry is coming from Augusta as well. What did you hear? The shot on 17, second round. The one hit around, the big hook around the trees. Then I fall down. I heard my right knee. That shot cost like six, seven months already. I almost getting back 100%,

but it still got me a little bit. It took that long to get back feeling right. That's really long. Well, I always talking to friends and family. If I chip it out, three on, make five, walk away from them. Healthy knee. I still top 15 after second round. It's really helped my knee.

But I just, that's the way my game is. I'm just trying to hit every shot through the pin to the target. Yeah, you're a very aggressive player. I love that. Let's look into the future a little bit, okay? Yes. You got a five-shot lead Saturday night going in the final round of Augusta. What are we wearing?

What color? Because you know you can put that green jacket on. What is you like? I love the green color. I'm wearing green color. You love white pants, too. I don't wear the white pants It's hot.

It's hot over there, dude. You got to have white pants. It breathes. Well, the good thing is white plans. It's going in matching with every shirt. It's true. Good point. And it looks clean.

I'm too fat to wear white pants. Yes. No, dude, you look perfect. And they make me nervous. You never know. And wear black underwear with them. I think that's a hot look that's not enough people utilize, bro. I buy that one.

Yeah, get you some of that arm. That's fantastic. All right. So here's a little follow up to that. You win the. green jacket. You're back home celebrating. They got a big parade for you. Everybody's cheering your name. What's the car? What car goes with green? What goes with Augusta green? You got one. You might have to buy one specially for that. The green.

Ah, I would say, I would be a Lamborghini. Yeah, of course, dude. That's what I was going to say. Oh, we'll be a Lamborghini. Yeah, it's got to be the Lambo for August. You got the green jacket on. It's a Lambo. You have to be like. What color is your Lambo? Yellow. Yeah, yellow and green. That's perfect combo. It's, have to be, like, really strong day. Yeah. I'm just going to go for it.

Yes. You got the green jacket. You can do whatever you want. Exactly. We can just, we keep this going. So you win. You know, you got your green jacket. Oh, you're a master's champ, dude.

Yeah. What's the party like? What are we drinking to celebrate? Yeah. What is arm like to get into for festivities? Oh, that's good question. I might go, like, out from the town, make sure I can drive.

and horsing all my friends that love car as well. And we jump in the pool with the suit on. Oh, that's nice. I like it. With the green jacket on. Yeah, with the green jacket. You swim with the green jacket off for a very long time. You tattoo that on you.

I don't sleep with it for a couple days. Yeah, for sure. You can get another separate apartment just for that too, and your wife ain't going to complain. If I win the green jacket, I will live live videos for two days. but everyone can see what I'm doing. I'll be tuned in to that right there. So you obviously, Augusta, is your dream tournament, dream win.

You have to be top 50 in the world or win a tournament to get there. You know, you were there at one time. What part of your golf game do you think you need to improve to get back? Is it just your injury mostly? Or is there something in your game that's not quite as good as it was? I think the injury is wall. I don't hit my good. Normally I hit driver, Abbey holes.

I love to hit a big stick. The big stick. I mean, every fair way, even it's tight or it wide. Even if it's short or long, I'm just loved to hit the driver. Then after my entry, it's going to cause me a lot. I just can't hit all the power to the ball. And somehow when it hurt, I'm trying to just like sneak off the shot. So I think my driving, my driving system, this stand and my driving Colise

was lost a lot in the last six, seven months. So my game was getting down a little bit. Well, hopefully I get back on game very soon as I can. It's funny you say that you love to hit the driver, love it, the big stick. There's another guy in America that you've been compared to. They call you the Asian John Daly, right? Do you like that comparison, A, and B, is it, do you think it's because you like to hit that dog, you got a long back swing, all that stuff?

Is that the comparison? To be honest, John is one of the great player in the world. You've got three major under his belt. I mean, I love his style Just playing this game Just whack it Rip it and rip it Rip it

That's right It's not overcomplicating He's nice guy I have chance to play with him A couple of times I do that was my next year I'm trying to get longer Back swinging him

But You keep working I keep working Yeah But Get that knee right Last time I'm trying I think I almost see my driver

Back You can see it This way I'll be maybe too far Yeah But it's nice Do you like that comparison? So you like John.

You've been around him. You like that. Yeah. I mean, he's one of the most beloved American golfers ever. You know, he's had his ups and downs, but he can't argue. He has like two group of fans, but one love him a lot. Yeah. And the people that don't like, I'm in the former.

You'll be in the middle. I'm right. No, I'm on that front end. I love him. I need more like him. So another one of your heroes growing up was Tiger Woods. Oh, yes. Have you had the chance to play with Tiger?

No. No. No? No. No. No. You haven't played with him yet? No.

And I have you met him. Yes, I have a chance to meet him. I can't imagine if I play with him. Nervous? More nervous than the first T of Augusta? For sure. For sure. I keep the eye on him.

I keep an eye on him. He's going to feel weird, I think. If I'm looking to him, every step that he walked, you know, it's going to be weird. Some guys keep walking with you. I think he's used to it, dude. I think he'd be fine. Yeah, but I started to play this game.

One lesson because of him, because he, when I grew up, like, 20 years, ago, 25 years ago, Tiger was a bad athlete in the world. He's more than a golfer. He made a lot of incredible shot. And I have to, I think he half Thai as well. His mom is Thai.

And in Thailand, he's one of the, like, magical guy. Yeah. So I growing up when best player in the world, I seeing him play, I see him win, shot after shot. and then I see him stop playing, recover the injury, and see him back again, have Chan to play the same event with him,

same putting greens, same range, but look forward to playing the same group. But if that day are coming through, I still don't know, I can't handle the pressure. Okay, if you get that sets up,

don't get in the gallery off the first tee next to arm because he's going to be worried about killing someone. I mean, you have an incredible track record at Bay Hill at Arnold Palmer Imitational. You play so good then. Yes.

As obviously he does. He's won there eight times. I think 2020, Arnold Palm Irvitational final round, Tiger Arm. Oh. Could you handle it? I'm trying.

I mean, I would love to play with him. Even I'm shooting 90 on the last round, no matter if I have chance to play with Tiger, and I'm going to wear his cap. I mean, the cap that he's signed for me, like, whole day. Oh, you have an autograph? Yeah.

Is there from him? Yes. I wear it last year's. Where did you get that? in that week in Bay Hill. In Bay Hill. You got him to sign something, but you haven't played with them yet.

If somebody's listening to this that has any affiliation with a tour event whatsoever, can we set this up? Sunday would be great. We'll settle for a Thursday Friday right now. Just let my boy arm get on there with Tiger, dude.

Let him mix it up. This is a hero. It's been long enough. You got to be able to coordinate like a practice round or something, don't you think? Yeah, but I don't want to discuss. Yeah, you don't want to go asking for that.

Yeah, it looks. He work hard. He worked on his routines. You don't want to bother him a man when he's working. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I totally get it. Somehow when he just walked pot and you're smiling. You know what I mean?

When you're seeing someone, when you like someone so much, when he walked pot and you just keep smiling when he walked. I've told this story many times. My first ever time playing in a golf tournament that he was in was Bay Hill in 2008. I'd just turned pro. I'd never seen him up close. And I was leaving the locker room and he started walking behind me. And I got out of the way and let him pass by.

I was so nervous. He was so intimidating. Yeah, and the good story is maybe five or six years ago, my first second major, maybe PGA Championship, when he just started to get back to play. I was the left side of the range, and I'm hitting balls, a lot of fans behind. Somehow Tiger just show up, walk across the bridge, walk down to the right side of the range. You see him turn around, see the people, was like, to the right. Everyone moves.

Soon that I see them, like everyone keep the eye on Tiger. I'm taking my shirt off. No one will even notice this. Yes. And me and Katie was laughing. Yeah. No one was seeing me for sure. I mean, I can get naked.

No one's seeing me. You should do that. For sure. I think they would notice that. It's amazing, like, how big of a superstar he is in the game of golf. Like a couple years ago, we're playing in Tampa. And Roy McElroy is the number one player in the world at the time. Okay?

Tiger's on the range. There's 10 people deep, thousands of people watching him hit balls. He leaves. 20 minutes later, Roy McElroyd, number one playing in the world comes on the range. There's 10 people there

watching pitballs. It's just like, it's absurd how big a deal this guy is. He transcends golf. Kind of amazing. Yeah, he transcends golf. There's just no other athlete like him.

We were getting into some of your personal stuff. I want to know this. Obviously, you love golf. You have a passion for the game. It's very clear. That's awesome to hear from a PGA tour player because there's some guys that talk about, I don't like golf and all that.

You're the opposite. You love it, and it shows when you play out there. But let's say you got two weeks off. You're not playing. in an event and golf clubs are off limits. You cannot play golf. Give me the ideal two weeks in the eyes of the arm. What do you do to fill your time other than driving 250 miles an hour in your Lamborghini? Well, my life is just golf and car. If you take me away from the golf club, then it's cars. Then it's car. Yeah. And then it's car. Just driving. I mean, I can't

driving a whole night. I can stay in the car. I can sleep in the car. Do you just get in the car and drive? Like, you just, you'll get in and be like, I just going to, I got nowhere to go, got nowhere to be. but I'm going to get in my car and just drive for hours. Just go range, go back to the house, see my friends. I can drive it around like a whole day. You just drive. Just drive. Going nowhere.

I just enjoy every single minute I spend in the car. God, that's incredible. Even with the traffic over there. Yeah, because I spend time in the car. I mean, I just love every part. So that's the ideal two weeks off. I'm just going to drive around for forever. I love that.

Just drive around. Hey, that's fair. That's fair. It's fair. It's what he likes, dude. Why he is who he is. is. All right, Drew, is it time to get into Emergency Nine, or you got anything else? No, I think we're hitting it pretty good here. Yeah, we can get in. I got a few.

All right, Arm, we do this. It's called the Emergency Nine. So we ask nine questions, just random questions. You give us your thoughts, and we'll discuss some if we need to. All right, we're going to start with number one. What's your favorite American city you've been to? Orlando? No, there's got to be. Orlando's your favorite? That's your number one. He lives there, though. I live there. Yeah, you live there. So yeah. Have you been to New York?

You've been to New York, haven't you? I've been once. You like it or no? No. No. Los Vegas? Nope. You might like Vegas.

Have you been or not? I've been there once. You don't like it? Too busy. I mean, in Thailand was busy. Yeah. I got enough in last 20 years I spent in Thailand. Like, crowded busy.

New York was nice. But I'm not like shopping guys that walk into the town, walking around. normally I'm just sitting in the car I'm going to drive everywhere not just walk take a public time spot down and walk another five miles I mean I'm like perfect so Orlando

Orlando that's good all right it's hot there's no wrong answers in this no there's no these are all you favorite American food know you're big Thai food guy but do you partake in the American cuisine or do you keep it strictly Thai even when you're here

yeah keep it stickly tie but if I can choose one or she's Cheeseburger. I was going to say, have you been, if you said I didn't eat any American food, I was going to say, have you been to In-N-Out? Because there's one about a mile from here, and I need to go there, and if you don't like it, I'll be shocked. Is it McDonald's included?

Cheeseburger. You like McDonald's? It's like McDonald's, but way better. I never been to In-N-Out or any kind of, like, good, good burger that you're saying. Because I seen McDonald's when I've grown up in Thailand. So I know this is a burger place. Okay. So I love McDonald's.

Just. He does. I go there like six times a week. I go there all the time. I mean you go together. But in and out, next level up. You got to try that one time while you're over here. So, but saying that with the food.

So at the golf tournaments, we have player dining where there's food, you know, breakfast, lunch. You don't eat at all. So you eat at the hotel or home. I always arranged the house. Yeah? I mean, I don't think you can imagine that. What else you have in dinner? You can have like huge steaks or like,

lot of things. I can have that 4 o'clock, 4 a.m. Okay. So I eat. Steak it 4 a.m. Bake it 4 a.m. In Thailand, we eat rice every time. So I can wake up at 3.30 and eat rice, like, fire rice or like spicy things. What's the sticky rice? That's a thing, right?

Mango sticky rice. Yeah, sticky rice. Yeah, that's a dessert. Yeah, that's a dessert. That's why I like it. That's why I like it. So I can eat like a heavy, like, heavy, like, heavy. from four or five in the morning.

Incredible. That's incredible. All right. So I love this man. Yep. I'm on record. Stry Thai food. Yeah.

Okay. You have one more meal left in your life. What's, what's all on it? The final supper. It's obviously going to be Thai food. Yes. What are we going to have? It can be Thai food.

It can be anything you want. This is your last meal. So I was saying, green curry. Green curry. Yeah, green curry. Anything else or just green curry? No, I want to keep, just eat one thing with rice.

What green curry while driving is Lamborghini 250 miles an hour? That's the final supper. And what about this drink I hear called grass jelly? Oh, grass jelly, okay. Is it good? I don't know what it is. It's good. It's good.

It's grass jelly. Enlighten me. It's kind of dessert, but they have, they try to adapt to be like a drink, like sweet drink. I'm not in the last few months I'm not having that much because I'm trying to you know lost healthy

you're trying to lose weight are you into like the fitness everybody travels with a fitness guy and all right are you are you into that or no just start getting to that you seem like you beat to your own drum you do your own thing which is part of the reason why I love you so much yeah I mean I'm trying to enjoy life

I don't want to be honest and I want to wake up like five and keep doing everything the same thing getting boring about this game and one day I'm just When you're getting boring, you're not enjoying this game. You're going to walk away. Okay, let's say I love to hit balls.

Before, I believe, that's in my belief. If I spend six hours in the golf course and you spend three hours in the golf course, you spend another three hour on the gym, I'm going to improve the game, like, much more. You'll be more. Yeah. Because I spend more time on the golf course. But now one day, golf is now about power game. You have to

You've got the length You have to be like Staminar to playing this game So I'm just starting to get involved With the trainer Get stronger I'm trying to hit one on a par five

But that would happen So I'm trying to working hard Yeah don't change too much dude Stay you're perfectly I swear if I could build a golfer It's you All right We talked a lot about your shoes

We talked about your cars Another thing you're big into Watches God, he's into everything that's cool. All right, you get one watch. You got one watch art of collection. Same good question as earlier, but you only get to bring home one.

You got to take one with you. What do you go with? And B, how many do you have? Just because I find this interesting. Well, how many do I have? I think I have like 50. Yeah, it's a good number. 50.

About around. 50 is you can have 12 for every time zone. That's a good rule. Yeah. So I would like the one that I wang right now is Adventist Kiladetitian Tolbiong. So there's only nine pieces in the world. There's only nine of those in the planet.

And every piece is different. So some of them cast on the name, family name. You can put everything in the watch. You can design everything in this watch. So it's like personal watch. Yeah, you've got the only one. I got a good idea, Sleese. You love playing under pressure.

Give us that watch. If you don't finish top five waste management open, we keep it. We keep the watch. That seems fair, dude. You're good with your back against the wall. Well, I like it, though, but what about if I made in top five? You get it back. We'll give it right back.

It'll be fine, no big deal. Let me think about it. All right, that's fair. It's thinking about it. Did you get like a custom, when you got your tour card? You got some like custom watch or something like that. Isn't that right? What's that watch?

It's the same brand, Adventist, but it's now, it's still on the postage to make. It's got my logo on the bag. The cartoon? Yeah, my cartoon on the back of the watch. Got the green diamond around My family's names My mom, my dad My sister

It's one of one Nowhere else in the world Is there that watch? I just cast on my watch Everything I want to put the detail in I'm just put it in Cars Shoes

Watches Addiction to Nicotine Dude we're like twins I feel like I'm talking to my twin Right Same guy All right You obviously

You have a ton of cars Do you have your dream car Yes You do have your dream car Yes Okay, well, then that kind of ruins my question. I was going to say, if you could have any car in the world that you'd... I would think that this man would have the car that he wanted by this point.

If he's got 12... If he can't name how many he has, he probably has the one he wants. What is the dream one, though? I was saying the La Ferrari. La Ferrari? La Ferrari? What color? Yellow.

Yellow? Yellow? In Thailand, yeah, but in Thailand, you have to understand the tag was like 380% tax. Oh, God. So every car... It's reasonable? I mean, it's...

almost impossible to buy a laughful lottery in Thailand. It's something like almost 20 million US. Oh my God. Good heavens. I mean, it's a lot. Play well. Let's say that I have 20 million in the bank. I'm ready to spend.

I still can't imagine that I'm going to spend $20 million in one car. Yeah, all of it in one car. That's a little much. wealthing a little bit too much. I mean, 19, reasonable, 20 too much. I'm not going to keep, I'm not going to keep that 20 million. I mean, I'm going to spend that 20 million. You enjoy, but I'm going to spend all the money that you get and buying the stuff that you like or do you put money away? Are you just like, yo, I just made this month. I just made a million bucks. I'm going to buy this car, this watch, these shoes, and then we'll go figure it out from there. Yeah.

That's what you do. So you live basically how everyone in the world wants to live, who just don't have the balls to live like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's perfect. Simple, Dude. Next question. Simple. Was it me or you? I asked that one. You asked that one?

But I can go to another one. All right. All right. Other than the Masters, if you could win one PGA tour event. So no majors. No majors. If you could win one PGA tour event

that you've been to, what would it be? Ano Palmer. I love Bay Hill. Yeah, I know. I've seen that. Your bank account loves Bay Hill too. Your garage. I mean, the golf course fit my eye.

A lot of good story about Ano. I have chance to take a photo. with him once. It's a good memory is my dad going up when he's a best golfer. And I heard a lot of story about him that my dad telling me. So I loved his event a lot.

He was, I had a chance to meet him too. He was the best. So nice. Took the time out to say hi to everybody. Exactly. He was the best. The king. The king.

The king. If you had, if you had the chance to go to dinner with one person on the planet, who would it be can be anyone yeah anyone celebrity athlete

tie oh me and colt over some Thai maybe cold maybe cold yeah arm my guy

I would love to try it sounds fantastic that's a terrible answer there's so many people no it's a good answer we can just go in and eat everything we want everything we want

so that's the best thing and then go out and hit the big stick the next day what else is there in life I think sticks just it's just a stick. Yeah, it's just like, it's like an average, average stick.

All right. All right, end it. Serious question. Yeah. Drew and I go to Thailand. Who do the women like more? This is a big, this is a big dispute earlier.

Who's got a better chance? Well, stop to saying. Look at me right now. Look at me in the eye. You want to talk to me so bad. Look me in the eye. when you talk to me, dude.

It's tough to saying, I haven't go out so long, so I don't know how to speck that the girl in Thailand right now, but you guys got a chance. I like it. We'll take it. I'll take a chance. That's more than I've ever had a chance. Look, very political answer from the-

Very well done. Very well done. Any plan to go to Thailand? I would love to. I just need an invite. Can we got an extra car we could drive? Sure. I don't know if I can get transferred on the other side.

Cut this off. We can't hang out. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Cut this off. My wife doesn't know. Your wife might be listening. Done. All right.

We'll make it happen. But Arm, that was absolutely fantastic. We appreciate you so much taking the time to come on the Subpar podcast. And we wish you the best of luck this year. Thank you. Yes, dude. You're the best. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. That was our interview with our guy, the rat. Dude, that was fun. That was awesome. I promise I'll never get weird around any tour player that doesn't bother me. That's the one guy. And that was special for us here at Subpar.

I mean, I've always been a fan of him. Now I love this man. I strive to live my life from this day forward going forward the same way that the rat lives his life. You're going to have... Make a dollar, spend a dollar on a car. You can have 10 cars, but Marissa's only going to know about nine of them. I'm going to go home back. Hey, babe, I want to have my back against the wall because I feel like I performed better.

I just bought a Ferrari. So now I just got to go be successful somehow. I think she'll be cool with that. She'll be cool. We have a very interesting. You're right. He was awesome. And he is so talented, too.

Like the guy, he's going to do such big things. He's only 30 years old. He's younger. than you think. And he gets like more attention for how, you know, how different he is, right, the vaping and all the different, the Asian John Daly and stuff like that. People forget he's a big talent, big talent.

Like he's a big success in Asian. I think now that he's playing full time over here, I hope we see some of the same stuff because nothing would be better for golf. We got a lot of villain talk right now. If you want a guy to rally behind, that's the guy right there. Totally agree. He was fantastic and I hope we get to, you know, sit down with him again. I'll fly to Thailand to do it again.

Phil Havis. He already said he would. Done. We're welcome. All right, that's inked. Maybe I'll play like the Thailand open and you caddy for me. No, no, I'm not in for that. Maybe I'll play in it too.

Okay. We'll get you. Dust them off. All right, Sazy, what's time to make our picks for the week? Yeah, first time doing this. First time, we're going to start at the Honda Classic this week's PGA tour event. So this is what we're going to do. We're going four picks.

Okay. You get to pick one of the favorites, so 25 to 1 or better. Top tier, 25 to 1. You make one pick out of the middle tier, which is going to be 26. to one anywhere up to 50 to one okay i've followed we got to do two outside of 50 to 1 okay and at the end of the week we tally up total money one money we continue to do this through the end of the FedEx cup at that point whoever has most total money won wins the bet and i'm gonna keep track of this as well so you don't i trust no one in this building right now i will be doing all the

math myself mark will probably throw in a couple extra dollars for you to help me he's who got you winning colt versus slees every week that's true you know it's two to one for those yeah i know if anyone should be worried it's me all right so total money loser at the end of the year has to caddy for the other guy was brought yes come on boys come on guys we did a coin flip before the show to see who gets first pick and slees this will probably be your only victory daddy got it of course so i'm gonna i'm gonna look i'm gonna load up right now top tier 25 to one or better i'm going my guy english jesus Tommy fleetwood love him drives the ball incredible been on a tear over in europe just getting back to the states playing over here I'm going Tommy fleetwood

Well, this is going to be kind of problem. And he's the betting favorite. Because I have the same guy. Well, well, geez. You've ruined it already. No, it's going to be fine because there's no way we picked the same four. No, zero. So I'm with you as well.

Tommy Fleetwood, incredible ball striker. Very good in the win. I finished fourth here in 2018. Finished top 20 last week down in Mexico City. He's 10th and strokes gained off the T, which is a huge thing around. Big deal. Very wise pick of you. Got to be in the fairway.

So I'm going Tommy Fleetwood as well. well very smart of you to copy my pick i did not copy you copied okay middle tier i'm gonna upset you with this one because this is one of your favorites i know where you're going you're going all the time i know where you're going already sung j m 30 to one that hurts best iron players on the pGA tour everyone that plays with him just raves about this guy how incredible he strikes the golf ball so in windy conditions down at pj national with trouble everywhere i think it's going to be this is a perfect set up for him He also shot 64 here on Friday last year. Rather, rather good score around there.

And I'll say this. He took the cut. He took the week. He plays more than anybody. Correct. Took the week off a pebble. Comes back L.A., missed cut. Rusty, obviously.

Yeah, he's a good win. He took 12 minutes off of golf. Exactly. Okay. Finished 29th last week, so he's trending. He's rounding. He's getting better. He's going to be there.

He's 30 to one, though. I like Sung Jay. You don't got to sell me on Sung Jay. I love him. For the record, I'm let you have him this week. I'm picking him every week from this point on, so don't pick him anymore. more, but I'm going to go with another guy who is also 30 to 1 right now. I'm going with a little

Florida boy, guy with an experience down playing in that Bermuda, playing in that wind, very comfortable down there, and just been steady Eddie, steady as the ship goes. That's what they say. I'm going Billy Horschell, 30 to 1. I like him down there coming off a top 10 at the World Golf Championship, Mexico. I like him, and I like him especially in the southeast. I think there's an art, I mean, you play down there. It's different, right? I mean, there's guys that grew up on it They're wizards out of that Bermuda stuff, and there's guys that came from the West and go out there, and they're like, I'm clueless on this stuff.

I feel like if you didn't grow up on Bermuda, like so many guys struggle chipping at Bermuda Ruff and reading the grain on the green. So it's a great pick. He finished top 10 last two weeks. It's like learning a foreign language. If you start early, it's easier. If you start late, it's tough.

So I got Florida boy Billy Horshaw. All right. My middle tier pick. I get to go again. Correct. Okay. I'm going with the guy. So this is our, this is our bottom tier.

We get two out of this category. 50 to one we have to pick two because this is the hard these are the hard ones i'm going lucas glover okay ball striker extraordinary his stats are not good this year his ball striking stats are down but he's a guy that can find it anytime um finish fourth last year at honda 17th the year before uh just one of the best iron players on the planet just hits it so solid the wind doesn't touch it uh Lucas glover is my guy 66 to one i like it i like it and i'm going to do what you did to me in round two i'm taking one of your boys here and i'm to go Ryan Palmer, 66 to 1.

Another great guy. Texas guy plays great in the wind, can flight the ball down. Good putter has a very good course history at the Honda Classic. I really, really like him. The windier it gets, the nastier it gets out there, the more I like Ryan Palmer. I'm going with him at my first pick, 66. As long as he gets out of those bunkers, okay. He had little trouble.

He's going to need to avoid the sand, and there are some sand traps out there. So I'm going to let that go, brush that aside. I like him in the wind. I like him in the wind. Last pick, who we're going with? No surprise here, guys. Staying true to brand. Alfie Barnrat.

Alfie Barn Goat, our boy, if you have him on the pod, and he's on your pod and you don't pick him the following week, we'll never get anyone back again. I'm going Alfie Barnard. He's at a smooth 100 to 1. Might throw a little cheese on that anyways. Also good in windy environments. I just like him.

I love him. I got no logic behind the pick other than he's the greatest player in the world, and I want him on my team. He's the greatest player in the world. That's it. All right, perfect. Well, I am going with a guy who's a big fan of golf subpar. Okay.

Maybe a future guest. Oh, nice tease. Wyndham Clark. Okay. 54-hole leader last year. Yes, had a big week. Finished top 10, had a little bit of a rough Sunday. Coming off two straight top 20s.

Finish 17th in LA, 18th over and 18th of Pebble. Love the guy. Just drives the... Snot out of it. Snott is the word you're looking for. Fantastic putter. I think he's a guy, the tougher the golf course, the tougher conditions, the better he plays. He's an up-and-coming star, in my opinion.

He's the only guy, as I believe last year on the PGA tour, top 10 and driving distance, also top 10 in the stock game putting. So two pretty good stats to be in the top 10. So he's 70 to 1, so that's my guy. So to recap, I've got Tommy Fleetwood, Sun J.M., Lucas Glover, and Wyndham Clark. Okay. I got Tommy Fleetwood. I got Billy Horshiel, Ryan Palmer, and Barn Goat.

Team Sleys this week. Yeah, it's good. Let's maybe make that. He might like that. He might like. We should have tossed that out to him. Well, producer Mark, make sure you write those picks down. I'm triple checking these numbers, dude. Sleesia, another great show here on golf subpar. Another big one coming your way. Next week, we got the magic man. We got the magic man himself. Gary McCord, by the way, this will go down as the pod where you and I speak the least in the history. You don't have to say a whole lot to get Gary McCord fired up. He's got some stories, though, so we should never interrupt that man when he's speaking. Incredible stories. He is. so much fun.

Had a legendary broadcasting career. And like you said, I don't, we hardly talked. I can't even remember. Yeah, I don't even know what I'm going to say. But stay tuned for Gary McCord next week on Golf Subpar.