The Herd with Colin Cowherd - GoLow - PGA Championship Recap

Episode Date: May 22, 2023

John recaps the The PGA Championship, including the remarkable performance by PGA teaching pro Michael Block, Brooks Koepka entering legendary territory with his 5th major win, and the impressive show...ing by the LIV roster. Follow John on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for the latest. Check out Gametime - the fastest growing ticketing app in the US, and the official ticketing app of 3 & Out and GoLow -  for tickets to all of your favorite NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA teams. Get concert and comedy show tickets, too. Go to Gametime now to create an account, download the Gametime app and use code GOLOW for $20 off your first purchase. #volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:33 What a weekend for Rochester, New York. Josh Allen, Vaughn Miller. heavily involved, and just an awesome four days of golf. So I watched it all. Going to react to obviously the two biggest stories, Block and Kepka, and then hit on a couple other things. Nice week for Liv, some of their guys. Obviously, Kepka won, Kamm Smith, Bryson.
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Starting point is 00:04:05 PGA championship from start to finish all week long, the ups and the downs of the weather to a Sunday that was pretty majestic. Not trying to get my Jim Nance on here and be too hyperbolic, but that Michael Blockshot, I think I got to start with him. Then we'll get into Kepka and then we'll hit on a couple other things that, you know, I thought really happened this week. But I think the unique part about the sport of golf, and I tell this to anyone that I talk to, I try to talk about this,
Starting point is 00:04:34 those of you that listen, is listen, football is the biggest sport in this country by a wide margin. I love the sport of football, just like many of you do. It literally pays my bills. I've dedicated a large percentage of my life to it. But like most people probably listening,
Starting point is 00:04:52 I have not played the game past high school. And there is a small percentage of people that do. And then there is less a small percentage of people past college that are able to play the game. professional. But that is not the case with golf. And unlike basketball, I used to love playing pickup hoops in my 20s. I'm 37 years old. I can't afford to tear an Achilles, to tear a knee. Hell, I don't even ski anymore because I don't want to get injured. I don't even have children yet. The one thing about the sport of golf is it's probably the one sport slash activity you literally
Starting point is 00:05:26 can do until you die. It's why any of you guys that play golf regularly and whether you are a member at a country club or a member at a local muni and you go out there during the week or the weekend, you will see everyone from a five-year-old to someone that's 75, 80 years old. It's the special part about the sport. I remember being a kid. My dad loved tennis. But by the time I was like 10 years old, you know, it was 50, he didn't play anymore. Like most activity sports beside the main ones, basketball, football, and baseball that most of us stop playing really at the longest in our 20s, you can't do as you get older. And that's the one special part about this sport.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And I've loved it from a very young age because I started playing it young. And I'm, you know, quote unquote, addicted to the game. I have a passion for the game. And not even just me playing it, talking about it, watching it, discussing it with other people. Because I think it's so you. unique to all the other sports. And if you're a member at a club or you play consistently at a course, you know a guy there that's probably really good.
Starting point is 00:06:35 I have played with players that have played in the U.S. Open or played in PGA tour events. And I can play them straight up. Obviously, they got to give me strokes, but like you literally can play against them. I ran into Larry Fitzgerald. They didn't talk to him or anything, but I was having breakfast last week. And Larry Fitzgerald was there. He's a big dude. And I was thinking like, I was thinking about today watching Michael Block and Kepka, you know, separated by a couple holes, right?
Starting point is 00:07:03 And getting similar celebrations down the stretch is I couldn't have gone up to Larry Fitzgerald and be like, hey, let's take a little Billy over there in the corner booth. Give him a football. I'll play linebacker or DB. You just play your position and let me see if I can cover you. But you got to give me a couple, you got to give me a couple steps, right? You can't do that. I can't play J.J. Watt one on one. I can, there's no point in playing an NBA player one-on-one basketball.
Starting point is 00:07:30 It's not the way it works. But in golf, I could run into Tony Fienow or John Rom or anyone that lives in Scottsdale and I can play them. They have to give me whatever said strokes are in my handicap and I can play them at the courses in which they play. Now, some of them clearly private courses I or you would not have access to, but we can go to TPC Scottsdale. I can pay $550 and play Pebble Beach.
Starting point is 00:07:57 I can't go play a pickup football game at Lambo Field, right? Or SoFi Stadium. That's not possible. And on top of that, no one does it. It's really what makes the game of golf so cool. So when you see Michael Block, a PGA teaching professional, having the success he had, he destroyed our entire Ryder Cup team.
Starting point is 00:08:21 Morikawa, Finaw, Zander, JT, Speeth, he fucking drubbed them. Now, this is a guy who is not some random golfer. He's not me or you. He's not some three handicaps, some seven handicaps, some 10 handicap. He has played in majors consistently. Several majors. He's been on a couple PGAs. He's played in U.S. Opens. He's a high-end golfer. He still teaches golf to help pay the bills. He's just kind of a working man, right? His profession happens to be golf. And I saw someone tweeted out during the weekend that his average score, his senior year in college, which was, you know, in the late mid-90s, was 77. Now, that's the other thing about goals. You can't improve as you age. In most sports, like we
Starting point is 00:09:07 listed before, you get worse as you get older. It's what to me makes the game so special. It's not like anything else. So do way more people watch football? Of course. Is football more important to me financially and just in terms of being able to reach people 100%. But my relationship with golf is because of guys like Michael Block. That just doesn't, I was glued. So we're probably you. And to go 70, 70, 70, 71. And it's one thing to just have a remarkable week.
Starting point is 00:09:43 It's another thing over the weekend to play with Justin Rose, who is easily one of the best players over the last 15 years. and Rory McElroy is probably a top two or three player over that period of time and shoot a combined one over par? Just an incredible accomplishment. To watch the guy having so much fun, it felt like you knew him, even though none of us probably do know him, but we all know a Michael Block.
Starting point is 00:10:10 And maybe not even a Michael Block who's that good, but it felt like, yeah, that's our neighbor. That's a guy that I've played golf with several times. Because the other thing in the sport of golf, whether you're playing with Tony Fienow, Michael Block, or your buddy, you play for 10, 20 bucks, you go after the round, go to the bar, get some appetizers and slam a couple beers, and bullshit usually about sports.
Starting point is 00:10:32 And that's what it felt like he represented today. It felt like he represented all of us that love golf, that love watching golf, that know we're never going to sniff any meaningful tournament, let alone a major championship. And it felt like he knew it. That's what I thought was so cool about it. It's another thing to know it and having this responsibility and this pressure.
Starting point is 00:10:54 It's another thing to kick ass and take names. The dude had a hole in one. When he said, I have a pet peeve. I have several pet peeves. But one of them, I hate living the dream. Because I think most people that say it, like they're kind of miserable inside. It's such a bullshit saying. It's your classic saying that like, no, you're not living the dream.
Starting point is 00:11:14 You would rather be doing something else. But he said it several times. I'm like, yeah, I kind of believe him. Because he even acknowledged yesterday on Saturday that it's probably never going to get any better than this. There's a decent chance in my golfing life. This is the best weekend of my life. And he's probably right. And then to get up and down on 18 to qualify for an extra PG championship, as Jim Nance said.
Starting point is 00:11:38 I mean, a whole one the day, he's exchanging scorecards with Rory McElroy and Jim Nance is on the mic. Like, you can't make that up on a Sunday in a major where the major, where the major, the winning score is going to be single digits under par. So it wasn't some just like, you know, some run of the mill major. I mean, this was a very, very difficult test. And he kicked the crap out of the majority of the guys are going to be in the Ryder Cup on our squad. Besides Scotty and Brooks Kepka, I mean, he drummed them all.
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Starting point is 00:14:55 And speaking of superstar player, what is not debatable now moving forward and as majors go, if he's healthy, like you just have to consider him now, Rob, Scotty, Brooks Rory. Like there are just some names of the top of the betting card.
Starting point is 00:15:10 And I was off the scent this week. I'm like, I don't know, man. But when Brooks Kefka is healthy, besides Scotty Sheffler, there is no American who's in his breath. When all the chips are on the table, and it's the reason we watch sports, right? It's the reason why so many of us with our buddies
Starting point is 00:15:29 or while we're watching games, make fun of guys like Kirk Cousins and Dak Prescott, or James Hardin, or that watch golf that don't like Patrick Cantley. I don't care how much money those guys make. James Hardin's going to make $400, $450 million playing basketball. He's never going to win a game that means anything to any of us. Cousins and Dack are going to combine, make hundreds of millions of dollars. And they're going to get beat every single year in the playoffs.
Starting point is 00:15:55 And listen, there's nothing. They're remarkable careers. They're super rich. But like we watch sports. What are you doing in the playoffs? Right. It's why we hold the Michael Jordans. Just watched that movie.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Fantastic. Tom Brady's, Patrick Mahomes. You know, what Yokic is doing right now, the Curries, the LeBrons, all the great players of my lifetime. Woods, Phil Mickelson, to such high regards, Lewis Hamilton, you name the sport because we judge you when the lights are the brightest, when all the chips are in the middle of the table, how do you react? And the one cool part about sports is there are clear lines of delineation. Certain games, certain tournaments, certain whatever the sport is matter more than others, right? In basketball,
Starting point is 00:16:42 the NBA playoffs matter dramatically more than a random game in January. I say it all the time in baseball. There's not one game that happened Sunday, May 21st, that matters at all. It doesn't. Yet in the middle of October, in Game 5 on the road for a pitcher, like that game could help define his career. Madison Bumgartner just got paid $35 million within the last month to leave the Diamondbacks.
Starting point is 00:17:09 They DFA'd them. Yet where I come from in Northern California, that guy will be a lifetime legend because he came out of the bullpen in game seven of the world series on the road he's a starting pitcher and shoved like six innings and carried the giants to their third championship in five years so i don't care how crappy and how derailed his career got after that moment i will judge him on what he did when everyone was watching when it mattered the most and in golf four times a year matter dramatically more. There is a gap. I don't know how wide it is. It feels like it's never been wide. The four majors compare, you can give me the elevated events and listen, they're cool. I like watching
Starting point is 00:17:52 them and they're playing for a lot of money. And it's fun to consume and gamble on and I watch them. But in terms of the importance of winning one of those tournaments and winning the other four tournaments throughout the year, the Masters, this, the U.S. Open and the British Open, as I call it. I know the guys across the pond call it the Open Championship. It's not even clear. I don't care how much cash they give to win the FedEx championship. What Kepka does in these tournaments is absolutely incredible because we thought like he was derailed because he was injured. Remember, he couldn't bend over.
Starting point is 00:18:27 And then you watch full swing. He was kind of being like, I don't know, my body might be shot. I might not have it anymore. He said that, not us. And then this year he's healthy to come back and to be right in position to win the masters. And, you know, kind of listen, he had a. He had a rough day. He had a rough day.
Starting point is 00:18:44 But it's not like he finished 30th. What, he finished top four? And then to come into this tournament and go 66, 66, 67, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And, you know, the leaderboard weren't reflected. He was in complete control. He was in complete control. And he had some moments today where it thought like Hovlin could, you know, at least tie him, but he never did.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Because that fucking guy makes more clutch par putts. Listen, he makes birdies. he makes, you know, huge shots when it has to happen swing times, but no guy in the modern era makes more 8 to 12 foot par putts on Saturday and Sunday in major championships. And this guy is now entered, you know, legendary status. He's past speed. He's past Rory with his fifth major. To me, it's not about the five majors. I'm going, when does he get six? because now at LACC, when we talk about the favorites, John Rom, Scotty Sheffler, Rory, those guys have been the clear favorites
Starting point is 00:19:43 the last several tournaments. This guy has to be mentioned there. The odds have not reflected it. And I don't even know if they will reflect it at LACC, but they better. Because there is no way, like his odds should be better than Rory McElroy going into LACC. His odds should be every bit as good as Scotty Schaeffler and John Romb going into LACC. And if they're not, we're all. morons for not betting it. Because you watch him today and you watch them at the Masters for
Starting point is 00:20:10 eight rounds this year. And I don't know if Zach Johnson's going to pick him to go on the Rider Cup team. Listen, it's his prerogative. You know, the OWGR points and the way they do it, he's not going to be an automatic pick. But besides Scotty Sheffler, he's better than them all. It's just a fact, you know, week in, week out, when it matters at these big tournaments, JT, Spieth, Morikawa, Zander, Tony, they're not Brooks Kepka. Like, he's got, I looked it up before I hopped on, 13 top tens in majors,
Starting point is 00:20:43 five top fives. And obviously the five wins. This guy comes through when it matters the most. And it's all we want out of our athletes. It literally is to just get it done when the lights are the brightest. Because, listen, this tournament might not pay out as some as well as some of these other elevated events,
Starting point is 00:21:02 but it create your career at a higher level by winning this thing. Like Wyndham Clark would easily hand in his win of a couple weeks ago for this championship. So would every single player this year non-John Rahm at the Masters, including Scottie Sheffler at the players. So Brooks Kepka feels like he's back. I mean, this was a big loss for the PGA tour. There's no way around it because if he's going to be healthy, you know, DJ was a little bit older, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:31 been playing at a higher level for a lot longer. Bryson was much more of a very fickle product. This guy was, now, you could argue he didn't care that much about the random tournaments, though he would win the waste. He would win events. But just not having this guy around kind of sucks. And honestly, not having the top, the high end of Liv had a good week. You know, having Bryson, which has gone through more body changes in anyone I remember.
Starting point is 00:22:01 like a three-year span, but it was fun watching him play well. Cam Smith, at one point in time, he looked up today and felt like, God, could he finish top five? What did he end up finishing? He was awesome today. Cam Smith, shot 500 today. Finish top 10. So you got Cam Smith, Bryson, Brooks. I think everyone misses DJ. I mean, those were the guys, right? Phil's just a name at this point, who's going to play well at Augusta. But that was the crew of guys that live lifted from the PGA tour that hurt. There's just no way around it. All the Sergio's and the Ian Poulters and the Lee Westwoods,
Starting point is 00:22:34 whatever. But that group of players were just big time, major winning box office level talents. And Kepka when it comes to the majors, even more than DJ. I mean, DJ is more accomplished given that he's been winning longer. I mean, he's older. But
Starting point is 00:22:50 Brooks is just the better player at the majors. Not really disputable. And today was, you know, an incredible accomplishment by him winning his fifth major, but I also think it speaks to like, when's he going to join Phil Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo at number six? Because I'll be honest, if he stays healthy, like that's the only thing that can derail him. Because if he's healthy, how does he not win another major? Honestly, I think like he's every bit the favorite. You know, I like John Rom a lot at LACCC. I think Kepka's got to be right
Starting point is 00:23:20 there. If Kepka's not 7-8-1, if you can get him 12, 13, 14 to 1, I think he hammered at LACC because holy moly, can this? guy play when it matters. Another guy that can really play is Scotty Sheffler. I mean, yesterday kind of imploded. You just thought like, oh, maybe not as weak. You know, he'll finish like 12th or 10th or 7th or, you know, 15th. What did you do today? Shot 65. He ties for the low round of really the weekend and was just awesome. Like I said, there are two Americans right now in these big tournaments that have separated themselves from the pack of awesome players.
Starting point is 00:24:00 I mean, multi-millionaire, winners, guys that have won majors. But Scotty Sheffler and Brooks Keppker at a different level. And he saw it today. I mean, they shot combined five, eight under par. Now, it was a little different. Scotty got to come from behind and just let it fly. But sort of Rory. And I got to give Rory credit because early on in this tournament, it felt like he could get
Starting point is 00:24:21 derailed. It felt like he could get derailed. I thought he battled. Like, I know Kepka can battle. I know Schepler can battle. Hell, I know Hovlin can battle. Sometimes with Rory, it feels like when he's rolling. It's like a football team.
Starting point is 00:24:32 When I got like a 14-point lead, I'm going to win the game every time. But some of those teams, you know, that are like can come from behind, all those Patriot Brady teams, that they could be down seven going into the fourth court and you felt pretty good about them. The chiefs are a lot like that now. They have a lot of mental toughness, a lot of mental fortitude. You know, a little adversity does not derail them. I felt for a long time adversity can just derail Rory.
Starting point is 00:24:55 And I do think these last two years, at no point this week could he have won this tournament, but he definitely could have mailed it in. And as a guy that mailed it in after the Masters, felt like he showed a lot of signs of life. I mean, he finished T7, but after kind of a really rough Thursday, 69, 69, 69, 69, especially in the weather.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Like when I think Roy McElroy, I don't think a guy grinding away in the wind and the cold, and he did. So I thought today was a pretty positive looking forward for Roarie. the rest of this season. You know, something to build on. And it would be awesome to see him right there with a ROM, Scotty, or Kepka. Like, seriously, not like playing three or four groups ahead on Saturday and Sunday,
Starting point is 00:25:38 but like in the final group with one of those guys at LACC at the Open. And I hope we get that because I thought this weekend was awesome. I really did. The course shine. And people often ask, like, what is the PGA championship? Right. I thought this week was a PGA championship. championship. Kind of has a U.S. open feel to it. You can say like, why don't they mix it up and
Starting point is 00:26:00 play courses we've never seen before? Or why don't they just play really freaking hard courses? It was very enjoyable to watch them play a course where at any moment, even Kepka had a two-shot lead, he could make a bogey. Like sometimes when they play some of these courses, especially in the majors, I mean, it doesn't really happen at the Masters, right? If you got a two-shot lead on the back nine, it's going to be hard for you to make a couple bogeys because there are several birdies, you know, coming down the pike. And today it's like, yeah, you could make a birdie coming down the stretch if you hit the fairway.
Starting point is 00:26:30 But if I miss the fairway, I've hit it in a bunker. I mean, look at Victor Hovlin on 16. He did the same thing Corey Conner's did on Saturday. And it was hard to watch. And you felt like Victor Hovlin's entire body fall out, you know, his heart fall into his stomach. He felt for him. But it's like that that's playing in a major championship. The line of, you know, being there forcing Brooks to go to.
Starting point is 00:26:53 extra holes and being tied for second with Scottie Shepler is that is the difference of five yards being in the fairway or being in a shitty spot in a bunker that has a high lip and uh i thought the course was awesome i really did i really enjoyed it a lot of people said like don't get your hopes up it's kind of bland i really enjoyed that type golf we don't get it that much anymore we get so many birdie fest we get so many places where you can spray it everywhere and the rough isn't that penal. I enjoy Longruff. I enjoy watching like if you miss the fairway, you have to chip it out. And there's some luck involved with how it falls. Well, so be it. It's golf. I mean, a huge element of golf is luck and things out of your control. Just because you hit a beautiful shot,
Starting point is 00:27:35 sometimes you might miss it by five yards and bounces the wrong way and you're in the bunker. You know, I never like where these guys, when they bitch and moan about saying, I don't get rewarded for a good shot. Like, who says you have to get rewarded? Where's that in the rulebook, especially at the highest level. I mean, us random midweek hacks, they're just trying to break 80 or trying to break 90. Like, we don't get rewarded. Why watch you? This is, you're an entertainment product. And I thought this weekend was very, very entertaining. And last but not least, I, the guy feels, and it's, this guy now feels more inevitable given the way he's playing than even like my guy, Zander and Tony, which I'm not going to gamble on moving forward for a while. Victor
Starting point is 00:28:16 Hovlin is just a better player than basically a lot of our top American guys. Now, this is three straight majors with him. Final group at the Open, T4 at the Masters and T2 today at the PGA. I think you got to hammer him for these last two majors. He showed a lot of metal today. I love his demeanor. He doesn't ever look like he's freaked out. I mean, really, the difference of him today was double bogey on 16. It's not like, well, you know, he ended up losing this tournament. No, he shot 68. If you shoot 68 on a Sunday in the final group at a major that is playing this difficult, you got a pretty good chance.
Starting point is 00:28:55 It just happens at Brooks shot 66. Obviously, Hovlin was one down coming in today, but I thought he was awesome. I mean, he's a ball strike in Jesse. His chipping is vastly improved. I mean, that was the thing that me and Sobel have talked about for years. It's hard to bet on guys to win these big tournaments when chipping is such a major question mark. That's the thing with Morikawa. putting is such a major question mark.
Starting point is 00:29:17 I watched hovlin basically every shot the last two days. I thought I was very confident, especially coming Sunday, that he was going to get up and down on all these shots. And he consistently did. I mean, he was putting himself, everything was seven, six feet and in. I mean, talking about tough chips, buried lies, short-sided. He was excellent. I mean, this guy, this guy's a young star.
Starting point is 00:29:42 He's going to win a ton of tournaments. he already has, you know, an incredible amount of scar tissue in a short period of time. Yet where it's not, there's difference in scar tissue, right? There's one, hey, I'm in the final group. I shoot 77. I finish T18. It's like, well, I played really good for three days and then I shit the bed on Sunday. That's not what's happening here.
Starting point is 00:30:02 That is not what's happening here at all. I'm 25 years old. I'm in the final group with a guy with four majors. I ended up not winning, but shit, I shot 68, right? Bryson shot 70. Roy shot 69, Roe shot 71. Fuck, I'm right there.
Starting point is 00:30:18 So I'm buying a lot more Victor Hovlin stock. I love watching him play, that butter cut, watching him strike those irons, makes a lot of putts, makes a ton of birdies. And if he's going to chip like that, he already was an ATM machine. Like,
Starting point is 00:30:32 to me, he's all like Patrick Cantley. Like every single week, bringing it, bringing it, bringing it. Now he's figured out the majors, he's nothing like Patrick Cantley. Like, he is way better. So a lot of respect for,
Starting point is 00:30:42 for Victor Hovlin, just awesome PJ Championship, led by Michael Block and Brooks Kepka. Okay, I will see everybody back on Tuesday with a football pod. Thanks to my guy, Holst on the audio, my guy James on the video. And yeah, let's have a good week. Maybe get out there, play a little golf, enjoy your family, work hard, got to pay the bills. Talk to everyone soon. Adios.
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