Subpar - Xander Schauffele recaps the dramatic finish to his first major championship

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

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Cheers to the pursuit of greatness on the course and in your glass. Speaking of greatness, here's Zander Shafle, on Subpar. Ladies and gents, all right, no need to waste time with a long introduction here. Only one thing needs to be said. We have the 24 PGA champion with us, Xander Shafle. Congrats.

How does that sound to you? It's nice. It has a nice ring to it. You look like your shoulders are down a little bit, like something jumped off your back. Feeling pretty good, I'm guessing, huh? Yeah, yeah. No, yeah, yes, big monkey off the back. Hard to describe.

It's been, you know, I've been removed a couple days now. Still wake up pretty happy. Still tired. And I'm not really sure if it's all sunk in yet, but it's a, it is nice to wake up. up and, you know, when I walk around the corner, I'm like, oh, good morning. You got a trophy wife and a beautiful big trophy next to you now, which is fantastic. I hate to give your man, Austin Kaiser, any credit at all. You know me and him like to go at it pretty good. But we were on the range at Hilton Head about a month ago, and I told him

I had to go do this CBS preview show of the PGA championship. I got to make a prediction. He looked at me and he goes, it's Zoya Fairway's a big boy golf course. We're a lock. I said, that's good enough for me. And I went with it. So shout out to him for making me look somewhat intelligent on CBS. Oh my gosh. Now we're going to take the recommendation of every caddy going forward who's always picked their guy. So it'll end up kicking us.

I know that hurts you to say that on this podcast right now. It did. It really did. But I saw he did an interview and he actually said that when that moment happened. So shout out to him. Yeah, he did. What a call. But let's go through that final round because obviously you started off the course record.

It was incredible. You've been playing great for several for a very long time. but just haven't been able to cross the finish line. Take us through like that the night, Saturday night, Sunday morning. What were the emotions like heading into that final round? Yeah, I mean, it was actually coming off quail. I, you know, I had, I've been in the hunt a lot. And so quail was just the week before.

And, you know, I came up short. So I actually had some sort of idea of how I was going to feel at night, how I was going to sleep, what my thoughts were going to be. And I think actually that helped me a lot, just being in contention the week before. And yeah, I mean, I felt, you know, once I saw actually, you know, Lowry and a few other guys shoot nothing on Saturday, I was like, you know, with the weather we didn't know, I was supposed to, I was like, is the sun going to come up?

Is the course going to dry out? How's this going to play out? And, you know, Larry almost shoot 61 on Saturday. So I was like, the course isn't firming up and there's not that much wind. So going into Sunday, I remember kind of at night on even on Saturday. I was like, this is going to be not a shootout, but like, I'm going to have to put my foot down here. Like, I need to get going. Like, I can't.

There's been times on Sundays where I've sort of sat back and I wanted the round to sort of come to me and I wanted to be like patient and calm. And I was all those things this last Sunday, but I had this sort of goal in mind to get every put to the hole to start, you know, tighten up the, even from 225 yards, like start aiming at the flag if you can. Because if you do hit a good shot, you're rewarded for it. So I think there was a certain mindset of aggression that I came in with just knowing that I had to shoot something low to win. Yeah, and you mentioned Quill Hall the week before, Zander, like you slept on the lead for virtually like two straight weeks, every single round more or less. How much more stressful, if at all, is it for you, to lead a major championship, wire to wire as opposed to trying to chase? Does it feel different? Like, when you're off the course, you're thinking about it?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, every shot just feels so important when you're in the lead. You know, you just, you feel like you want to protect the lead. You want to increase the lead. You know everyone, there's a huge target on your back. So, I mean, it's different. It's definitely, you know, probably more stressful than if you're just chasing, you know, you kind of are like, you know, hopefully I catch fire early.

I shoot something low and I have nothing to lose because I'm chasing. And when you're leading, you're like, I have everything to lose because, you know, I've been in this circle before and it hasn't gone my way. So this is just going to add to the pain if I don't make this thing happen. Yeah. You had a great front nine there on Sunday, but a couple groups ahead. Victor Hovlin, Bryson DeShambal were making massive moves. How aware of you with what was going on out there?

Were you watching the leaderboards? Yeah, I mean, I've done it all. I've literally tried everything. You know, not winning for two years. You start to do some weird stuff. So, you know, I've done like the whole, I'm not going to look at the board until late. I've done the whole, like, I'm not going to look at the board at all. I've done the whole.

I'm only going to look at the board on the back nine. I've done the whole, like, I'm going to peek at the board. Like, I just, I didn't know how I want to do it. So this time around, I was like, I'm going to look at every board. I'm going to embrace it. I really want to, I just was like, I just want to take everything on the chin this week. Like, if I get nervous, I get nervous, but I just want to see where I'm at. I want to be able to embrace the moments where I'm at and really control the situation of the best of my ability because I felt like I was playing good golf.

So that's what I did. I looked at the board. I saw, I mean, I made bogey on 10 and I went to 11 and I thought I was going to be tied first. And I said, I was in second. And I was like, damn. So I was like, I need to get on my horse. So that's what I did. Can I ask about number 10 if you could go back and redo it?

Would you have just laid the ball up on 10? No. No, I would have bumped my chip. I just would have like hit a 56 or 60 to the left and it would have rolled down on the green. And I would have taken like a, I think the closest I could have gotten in if I bumped it because there was a sprinkler head in my way. It was like, I don't know, 12 feet, 15 feet maybe. But like it was always going to be a par. Like, let's say I bumped it and it didn't go far enough.

I would just put it on the green. So, like, five was, when I went up with it, I knew six was going to be a thing just because all the runoffs are so down, like, into the grain. It's kind of awkward. Austin wanted you to flop it is what you're saying. Winked twice. Yes. Makes total sense. That was the only hiccup.

That was the only hiccup of the day. You drop there. You say, you get up to 11 and look at the leader more like, oh, shit. I'm down one. Was there any, like, pump up talk or any self-talk to yourself or with Austin? Austin at that point? Are you guys like beyond that? You've been there, done that? Yeah, we're beyond that. I mean, I told, I told, I mean, I'm usually the one that has to calm Austin down.

You know what I mean? It's rare for a player to have to calm his caddy down in tough moments, but I have to do that. It's like a bit of a double role for me, but no, I'm just kidding. I put my arm around Austin at some point, like on the front nine when we closed up or maybe not my arm around it, but I was like, let's get to 22 is what I told him. You know, I was like, let's get, I've already nine and I felt pretty good. And I was like, let's get to 22. I think 22 is going to be enough.

And I just wanted to keep pushing forward. I knew I was really going to look at the board, but I knew I needed to set my own goal because I needed to keep pushing forward and not react to what everyone else was doing. And then, of course, I go on Bogey 10, and I was like, son of us. 21.

21 will be good. Let's just make another birdie. Well, before we get back to the 2024 PGA champion, Zander Schaftly, I want to tell you about Roebuck. I got the hoodie on right now. It's the most comfortable hoodie I've ever worn. They're soft.

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you hit the T-shot. And it ends up. I mean just a foot out of the bunker you got to be thinking like what the hell do I have to do just to like be able to cruise in and get this thing done yeah I mean it went to like you started on 17 even I yeah or even on 16 I hit this really good drive and there's like mud on the front top right of it and I'm like I got an eight iron in my hand and like I know I've been hitting it good so if there's no mud on this thing I was like I'm gonna if I hit a good iron I can hit this to tap in if I hit a solid eight iron I'll have like 15 18 feet you know and then I had to play to the fat side to like 30. 40 feet and I was like this is brutal and I get to 17 and I take an aggressive line and I hit it hard enough. I just didn't hit it high enough because of the elevation there and it hits the lip of the bunker and bounces back and I was like you know if it just flies like another foot it would have I would have had like a really good birdie look again and then so I was like all right weather the storm weather the storm like no one said it was going to be easy and I get to 18 and Austin's like you know it's three three 17 into the left bunker like winds off the right so I was like okay if I cut it and swing

kind of smooth. I shouldn't get there. And obviously I'm sure I was more jacked up than I thought I was. It ends up like, you know, right where it was. So I get there and luckily the bunker wasn't too, it was a flatter bunker. So it wasn't like too crazy where I'm just basically showing Hazzle the whole time. So I've hit that shot back in San Diego a few times where, you know, every golf, you know, I mean, you've had that lie at some point in your career where your ball doesn't go in a bunker and you're sitting there like an idiot, like trying to hit your shot. So I get there and I, I just, I knew I could advance the ball. Austin talked me into going a little bit more left versus right.

He thought that up and down would be easier. And luckily, that ball ended up in the fairway and like not in the bunker there, that left bunker because that would have been a hard one. Still, it takes some massive stones to hit four iron on the 72nd hole of a major champion, you know, with a lie like that. That was, that was impressive. I was nervous for you. I was on the range with Bryson and we were watching it on the TV.

I'm like, oh, dear God, this could go terribly wrong right now. With water, sure. I mean, yeah, that's so easy to like just lose your footing. or something. Johnson Wagner, I don't know if you saw it. He went out there and recreated the shot, didn't have quite as much success as you, and he had hybrid. My buddy sent me a clip of Johnson. I mean, bless him. He's been a highlight reel himself, huh? It has been the chip. Just a fantastic disaster. The chips are all world. It might be my favorite thing that's happening on television right now, to the point where I'm like watching the rounds, like, you'll hit a shot.

And I'm like, that's the one, that's the one. Make Johnson go hit that one. I'm like, I'm trying to pre-planet. I'm like, do that. Yeah, we need to find the next time someone hits a sick flop. Yeah, we need like a long bunker shot, like a 40-yard bunker shot. No, he is. He has been great. Well, you hit, you had a really good chip under the situation. You got six feet there below the hole. Yeah. I know you said you went back and forth on which way you thought it was going to break, but like, I remember Max Holm at the Ryder Cup saying the putt he had to, for his match on the last, like his whole body was shaking. He said he felt like he had 50 cell phones taped to him that were all vibrating. What were you feeling like going over that put to win your first major?

Yeah, I was nervous. I mean, I was, I was shaking. Like, my hands were, my hands were, like, they were, I was, you know, it wasn't great. And I just, I told myself, yeah, I saw like a weird thing. One, I was really happy. That chip is not easy for some, but for me, like, I kind of like to breeze through my chips. And so, like, to hit this, like, divot down, like punch shot was, I really, it was like, out of body. I was like, just freaking smoke this thing, kid.

You know what I mean? And then that put, yeah, I saw a left edge at first. Then I was like, this could be right edge. And then I ended up playing it kind of straight. I pulled it. It started a little left and then, you know, lip in. But my hands were shaking. I just told myself, like, big muscles.

Stop breeding this thing like so much. Let's just hit this and commit to it. The longer you look at this, don't call Austin in. Like, let's not get all these opinions and freak yourself out. Like, I just, I didn't want to sit there and like psych myself out about, you know, an uphill six foot put. I was like, just keep it simple. We've done this all day. Just smoke this thing.

And I made it. any little self-talk right before you hit you have to no i don't care who you are they say like stay in the moment but you got to know like this is this is what i've done but my this my whole life's been leading up to this like this is the moment changes everything yeah i mean you are so much stuff is racing through your head i mean i was i was sitting there i was like you make this you win you make this you change your life this is what you want this is what you've wanted your whole life i was like change your life like let's do this and i remember i just like kind of like i was thinking so much crap while I was like going through my routine. That's why I was like the longer I take to

the more stuff I'm going to think. So I was like just let's get this thing in the house. Do you think you'll feel more comfortable around Doddy Pepper now? God, I love Doddy. Not today. Not today. The amount of people that asked me, sent me tweets, text that said, what did Xander say to you? Because I started dying laughing. And I was like, dude, it was such an awesome. I want to make t-shirts and say not today, Doddy. And you host, holding the Wanamaker. I think it would be a fantastic t-shirt. She's terrible. She texted me too. I mean, it's so good. Dian Ab, we've come a long way. We've come a long way since the oil hall last year. I mean, she's, she's been through the fire with me.

God bless her. God bless her. She loves this shit too. And by, um, is it now like, the monkey's off her back too. This is a big day for her. She's probably like, like, you got Xander again in the final eyes. Jesus, I want, you know, I wanted to win. Now she made me the good luck charm. She gave you the biggest double your career.

No, she is not. I don't, I mean, she's got one major. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like less on like the, I'm not as like, you know, I'm more of like track record, you know, Colts like, Colts like, Colts been concrete through a lot of moments. You know, you found my ball. Volatory. It all started there. Like a 66 score and average with that's pretty good.

Scotty doesn't want him anymore. He did break Scotty. He gave him the one bad round of his last like year. Oh, yeah. I had everything to do with that. The man was in prison. Look at him go. That's all you got to say.

I mean, it was a wild week. Give us your thoughts real quick on Scotty and everything that happened with him. I mean, obviously a very unfortunate situation with the fatality, but him having to go through that. I mean, you're close to a lot of the guys. I mean, you know Scotty fairly well. He's a good dude. I mean, he's like, he is, there is not a bad bone in that guy's body to where he would want to hurt anybody or anything, you know. The only thing he hurts is a golf ball and other competitors' feelings most of the time.

But that's like, that's literally the extent of the damage Scotty Shephy's capable of doing. Like, he's solid guy all around. I thought it was a prank. It wasn't. And I, it sounds like, based on what I've read, he's going to come out unscathed, hopefully. and, you know, hopefully everyone's, hopefully everyone on both sides of that, of the parties are okay with what happened and we can move on in a peaceful manner. Yeah, but I was listening to Pardon my take earlier. You went on with the boys and they asked if y'all did have a little fun with him because y'all, y'all do have a group chat with your, with your physio Marnas.

Yeah. Who was the, who was the harshest on him? Or who had the most fun with Scotty? It was like, I mean, you know, we got some hitters on the table. I mean, it was, I mean, yeah, JT, Jordan, you know, those boys, it was like, it was a fun poke. It wasn't like a mean poke. It was like, it was fun. I mean, the mugshot was posted, you know, and then like the, you know, someone changed the name in the group chat.

Like, please make it tomorrow, Scotty or something like that. I mean, I can't. We kept it like, we kept it relatively light. Like most of us were in there and we're trying to think of something really creative and we just couldn't get there. And so, and we wanted to like, you know, we wanted to like, like. be peaceful. And then Scotty, so when he's with us, he's so chill, you know, like, if our table makes one of them, he's fine. But like, if someone else makes one of them, he'll kind of look at him. Like, you can't say that. You know what I mean? So Scott is awesome in that way.

Well, I heard, um, after you made the putt on the 70 second hold to win your first major, the group changed name, the group name changed once again. Who did you hear that from? I don't have got sources everywhere. You don't have to say it if you don't want to, but I thought it was very much. No, yeah, it did. Now, that was Gary Woodland. Who did that? Hard to believe. Something else.

Hard to believe. He just turned 40, by the way. Yeah. Did he really? Yeah. Yesterday. Get him something. Yeah.

What would you get Gary Woodland if you got him a birthday present? Yeah. Maybe like, I don't even know. I mean, last time we made fun of Gary was he rolled up in some sort of like Rolls-Royce SUV. and we all looked at them like it was like white all white and we're like I was like I love Gary so good that's like these umbrellas drive themselves you know what I mean you can just press a button there's maybe I'd get him like a custom like Gary umbrella you know

that he could stick in his Rolls Roy's side door beautiful when he gets his kid outside he could you know I was like I told Gary I was like you're not supposed to drive these cars yourselves you know that he's like no no I'm a chauffeur I drive jacks around I was like all right you saved yourself there. give a little umbrella. Farnsworth Bentley. Yeah, that's a little homage,

I think, to his high school days where he had the velour pants with the one leg rolled up and all that. It's still in there, you know? Oh,

100%. He actually just showed Austin didn't believe it. He showed Austin a photo of him. Oh, he's never going to show this photo on this show, but like there's a photo of him

like white tea, hiked up. Hopefully you guys can get a hold of it because he showed Austin. Austin's like, no, this can't be real. Like,

is this Halloween or something? Nope, that was every day. That's real. That was just literally every day. Bless Gabby's heart. That's real. What he's saying?

Like walk with the left and drag the right. He had the LL. He had the LL like velourg. Like Kangol hats, dude. He had the whole, yeah, the whole shit. I got one more real question for you.

Oh, 100%. There's no question. There's no question that he had. I got one more real question. Even though I'm pretty sure you're not a guy that really cares a whole lot. Well, like golf media is saying about you.

But it's got to be nice to just kind of put all that to bed. Like, look, boys. won the big one. What do you say now? Yeah. I mean, I everyone was, you know, the media where, you know, they asked me the question like, you know, you're the best golfer that's never one of major, you know, and I was like, you know, it's funny. I like, I thought that. I thought that before you guys were saying that. So like, you know, cats out of the bag, like this, this is, this is incredible. Now they can't, you know, part of my take was funny. They're like,

now we can't talk like shit about you for like, you know, you got, you stole like three, three, four years from us. Now we've got to go to now. Exactly. We've got to pick our next target. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Do you?

No, it's, it's, it is, it is an amazing. I mean, it's so much, so many things you need to come together to make it happen. And there's so many good players, so many good players that haven't won one yet that are going to win. And, you know, it's an amazing feeling that you can share with your team. It's awesome. During that winless drought, were you a guy like, do you, do you read the stuff people write about you? Not really. Good.

Smart. My wife, my wife has, she has, uh, Instagram and like some social media. So like, she'll kind of go through some comments and like start reading them. And like she started kind of like, she's actually, you know, she's asked me like a few questions every once in a while. And I would kind of be like, that's sort of like off script. Like, why would you say that? And so then I realized, you know, maybe she was reading some of the comments. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, what he got like lined up? I'm sure the last 48 hours has been wild. I'm sure you got a lot going forward. But like, what are some of the highlights of? you know winning this thing shows you're going to go on things like that other than subpar clearly obviously yeah dude i mean you guys i mean you guys know col knows you fairly well down i mean i'm

i'm like i'm if i could just you know win and then just go home and just hang out with like my crew and like not do anything that'd be like all world yeah but i don't you know i haven't there's just been media obligations for for time and people want to talk about it and hear about the experience and all that kind of stuff. So I get to live, live it, you know, I forget about it a little bit when I'm just home with my dog, you know, when you're picking up dog shit, you kind of forget about what you're doing. But then, you know, people will remind me of, of the moment there on 18. And then I'll get all, you know, happy and reminisce, I guess. So I'm still living in, my man. I'm still living it. That's awesome. Well, a lot of you should. A lot comes with winning.

What was a celebration like Sunday night? It was, it was fun. We had a Joe and Dave in, In Milo, they were there. They hung back because they were leaving on Monday. So they were awesome there to hang with. I had a friend from New York come down. Chris was with us. My brother was there. My uncle was there.

My, obviously, my wife was there. It was a small group. It was a small get-together. I ended up finishing up with media around like 9.45. I had dinner at the clubhouse. One of the members, Jimmy was awesome. He set up dinner for us there and then got back to the house around 11. And then we just started drinking out of the trophy.

and it was pretty low key, pretty laid back. I'm sure when I get to San Diego, there's going to be some more people that want to get dinner together and celebrate. But it was awesome to have everyone there. Joe and Dave weren't allowed to drink out of the trophy. Everyone was trying to peer pressure on my look. I was like, Joe, when Max wins, you're drinking out of that damn trophy yourself. Yeah, good for you.

That's awesome. Same thing with Dave, obviously, with Taylor. But it was cool. I've been friends with them for quite some time and play loads of good. golf with both of them for quite some time. So it was, it was nice for them to support Austin there and me as well. Well, I know you want to enjoy this one, but we got some pretty big events coming up. We got a memorial, Memorial, Pelletup, U.S. Open Travelers. I know you're going to be playing three weeks in a row. Like, how do you put this one aside? Obviously, I know you want to enjoy it,

but then get ready to go again. Yeah, I'm like, I'm weirdly motivated more, you know, not that I wasn't motivated before, but you kind of, I think it's just like a drug. You just want to kind of keep having the feeling i mean i've i've been fortunate enough to i think my favorite feeling in golf is to have to be in the hunt you know regardless of the outcome the result that rush you feel when you're in contention on coming down the stretch is is my is like why i love playing golf and why i love sport in general and uh i've had a lot of that feeling which is super fortunate for me so you know the result of winning is obviously awesome but you know getting in the hunt at these big tournaments is something that's awesome. So hopefully Dottie's there at Memorial to just kick me off right. You just kicking me and

Barb to the curb now? You know, you and Barb are my day ones. Grow up. That's right. Grow up. And you don't have to share it if you don't want to, but I'm guessing Tiger sent you a message after you want. Did he say anything special? Yeah, he, you know, he texted me and, you know, I think he was right. And I mean, he's, he's been through it all himself. But, you know, he texted me something along lines of like, you know, all those times you were close. Like, I think that hardened you for this moment. And, you know, I'm proud of you. Like, it's incredible.

Like, I couldn't be more proud of more proud of you. So that was an awesome text I got from from T-Dub. That's awesome. Well, congratulations, dude. We're so proud of you. The hardening is over. Yes. You are fully hardened.

Give us one more. No more. No more context. I'm just saying you're all the way hard. Dude, you're as hard as it can be. Which is nice. That's a nice feeling. It's early here in Arizona.

I'm still, I'm still in the process of it. I'm not there yet. but you're there all right man well seriously congratulations we're so happy for you maybe just on our way out maybe one more not today doddy not today doddy that's beautiful you're the man ex thank you so much congratulations thanks boys appreciate you man all right that was the newest major champion zander shawflete joining us on subpar so cool with him to take some time out of his day and sit down with us so much fun um i wish we could have got to the bottom of the name change on the group chat but hey listen I get it, I get it, but I wonder what it could be.

A lot of fun, man. It's so cool. I'm so happy for him. He's one of my favorites to walk with out there, and this major championship was coming. There was no doubt about that. It was like watching it, you know, we know a lot of the guys out there. We're friends with them or whatever. I was like, this one's for him.

Like, it's time. He's earned this. He's been close so many times. And watching that put on him lining up that putt on 18. It was cool to get the inside on like what was going. He's like, I saw left edge, left center. Then all of a sudden, the more I looked at it was right edge, right center. Didn't call in Austin and just hit it.

And I was just like, please, because if this goes to a playoff, you know, it's a three-hole aggregate, but I'm like, Bryson's got all the momentum in the world. He's thrilled to be there. Zander would be pissed off that he's there. He got the terrible break off the T where he could have just sent it up on or near the green if that ball stays out of the bunker more. It was fun to watch him get it done. And you put the narrative to bet, dude. Done.

Now we've got to find the next dude. Now we go. Somebody else is going to get crushed now. And he's just 30 years old. I mean, his career trajectory is just skyrocketing. I expect him to win many more. he's one of the few players out there in my mind just he has a complete game there are no weaknesses

he does it all great he showed it and I expect him now that he's got the monkey off his back look out Xander Shafley is coming he contends like virtually every week and his major championship record is sickening it's very very right that he gets one and yeah there's no floodgate step but like Phil took to what was he 34

when he got one right Sergio took a long time like 30 to get your first major ain't that long it's just there's so many young kids out there now it's skewing the like standard lower and lower and lower. Yeah, they're hard to win. There's no doubt, but he's up to number two in the world. And just, like I said, he's going to keep coming.

He's got 13 top tens in majors in his career. And he has, I think he's played 28. And he's one of the guys, too, that's like, you can't pick. There's certain guys, I'm like, that's a U.S. Open guy. Or maybe that's a master's guy. Like, for him, it's like, dude, all of, like, I don't think there's a bad spot for him. All right. Well, he's number two in the world.

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Like, I'll never trust my boys. I've never trust my boys with those people. Ships, they pick them up from your house, they deliver them to the golf course, then you just ship them right back home. No stress. You can just check a bag. Don't even have to check a bag.

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Both of those get you 20% off your next shipment, game changer. Well, Zander got the monkey. off his back sleeves. Now it's time for you and Drew Kittleson to go do it. I've got the four ball coming up. And by the way, this Xander bonus episode

is also going to carry over into next week. So next week, don't get mad at us on Tuesday. We're going to put the Xander episode out again, but that's going to cover next week. But you got business to take care of at the four ball up at Philly Cricket Club. I'm competing in the third major of the year.

And there's an enormous orangutan, silverback gorilla hanging on the backs of myself and Kitty. Philly cricket, which I've heard nothing but rave reviews about. We're going to go up there. We practiced around Friday, Saturday, Sunday, stroke play. If we can handle that, match play starts Monday. So looking forward to it.

Mark's going to be up there. We might have a few videos giving updates on what's going on. But it's time to compete, dude. I had a great week in Louisville not doing shit golf-wise. But I got three days of grind leading up. Can't fix it in three days. It can't be fixed in my opinion. Yeah, three days is plenty.

We'll go get it done. We'll be rooting you on. Hopefully you'll bring the gold medal home this time and a trophy. And we can sit down with you and Kitty and go over it. all once again. But thanks so much again to Xander Shafle for joining us. I know he's been had so many requests. It was awesome to sit down with the 2024 PGA championship and we'll talk to you on next week's subpar.