Geremy and Nate recap a jam-packed weekend across the golf world—from a clutch playoff finish at the Rocket Mortgage Classic to team drama at the Dow Championship. Plus, Patrick Reed picks up a win in Dallas, and we break down what it means for his current trajectory.
We also get into the latest caddie shakeups involving Max Homa and Collin Morikawa—what’s really going on?
With golf heading overseas, we ask: which golfer are you most concerned about right now?
And to cap it off: is golf actually better as a team sport? Tune in for a lively and faith-filled conversation on Golf and Gospel.
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1:14 Giveaway winner
1:57 Caddie issues
11:59 Hitting a Bad Shot
12:49 Rocket Classic Recap
21:01 Jake Knapp
23:52 Andrew Putnam
25:47 Losing Tour Card?
30:20 Missed cut surprises
33:54 John Deere Classic
39:00 Patrick Reed is the Answer
43:05 Changing the perception
47:38 DeChambeau Caddie
48:39 Sergio Garcia
48:52 Is DeChambeau playing good?
53:58 More Team Golf
1:00:55 I’m worried about this Golfer
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1:14:40 My Thoughts on Women’s Golf
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What’s good everybody? Welcome back to Y’all know what it is, Golf and Gospel podcast. First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who listens to the Golf and Gospel. If you’re at work or you’re in your car or you’re at the gym, man, I sincerely say thank you. And it’s not like one of those formalities where people just say like, “Oh, thank you for liking and subscribe.” Like man, if you’re listening to this right now, I want you to understand you are a very, very good friend and we highly appreciate you, man. The second thing I will say, a lot of you guys always like text me or Nate saying like, “Yo, that was cool.” We are happy to hear that. But dog, say them joints in the comments, bro. Them algorithms, it helps, dog. It helps. So don’t don’t only text us. Say it in the comments if it’s on Spotify, YouTube. But again, also rate us on Spotify, YouTube, do all that stuff, dog. But again, um, back here with Golf and Gospel. I’m Jeremy Davis, former NFL player and host of Golf and Gospel. And guys, if you’re trying to return back to play, that pinky hurt, that ankle hurt, and it’s not healing up fast enough. You know why? Cuz you’re not seeing the best BT in Arizona, dog. You got to go see my dog Nate Wong, bro. Former college golfer at the University of Nebraska. Um, but first, also, let’s get to this giveaway winner. This guy also, I’mma give him his flowers. He’s a loyal friend and he’s been supporting Golf and Gospel since the Genesis when I was just doing it on a camera phone. U we had him on for the US Open. All of his picks got eliminated unfortunately, but he is a great friend, all-American swimmer from the University of Arizona. Hey Norah Reed, shout out to you dog. You won the the Caddy Splash dog. So, I’ll be sending that joint to you in uh Kansas City, Missouri. But also other people that participated, we thank you so much. If you want a Kylie Splash, just go to ksplash.com, type in the promo code golf andgos gospel 10, get your discount off. But dog, Nate, let’s jump straight into it, man. The PGA. Before we get into um the most recent tournament, why am I blinking on the the uh
Rocket?
Yeah, the Rocket Classic. I got a question, man. So, not trying to stir anything up, but I wonder if Caddies are nervous to work with Max Homer or Colin Moral. And this is no shade to him at all. But both of them dog will be on their third caddy. Technically, I mean, you could say Colin is going to be on his Yeah, he’s going to be on his third. I think Max has been through three. The person that catty for Colin last week was his college teammate. Um,
college teammate. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, what’s his name? I got it right. Yeah. KK Lyn Basset. Something like that. Dude, that’s so funny cuz there was a shot where he like missed a green
and then Trevor Trev Trevor Imlman was all like
those cow guys. He gave him the recommendation. Those were smart. Yeah, teammate
and Maxwell went to the cow too, right?
Oh yeah, they both went to cows.
Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know at the same time, but yeah, they both they both went the cow.
They were teammates. They were Yeah, they were teammates at the same time.
Oh yeah. Oh, they’re going through it then. I don’t know what’s going on with cow golf. But yeah, but do you think caddies are nervous to work with Max and Colin or do you think it’s more of like I want to take on the challenge and see if I can obviously be conducive to their game?
I don’t know. I just feel like it’s it’s just like what I do now as a physical therapist. It’s like sometimes your plan of attack or your approach to an injury and I guess in in the golfer’s case is like a a shot might not be the same as the player.
And that’s where it’s got to really mesh really well. Um, so I think like if you fail, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad and it’s just like sometimes if
maybe I just tell myself that a lot as a physical therapist. If I fail, it’s not cuz I suck. It’s cuz there’s a personality mismatch. But yeah,
uh, like I feel like that’s like got to be the message for guys like Joe Grryer is like, dude, you know,
it’s not because you stink as a caddy. Like he obviously won with JT, you know.
Yeah. after two weeks.
I’m sure he had I’m sure he had a lot to do with it. I mean, obviously JT had more to do with it, but Yeah, for sure.
I’m sure he had allers with it.
Mhm.
Yeah. Um but uh yeah, I just think, you know, you really have to mesh well with these players and that’s probably why like Morow did well this weekend with his teammate on the bag because it was just like a good personality. They got like I know you really well and I know that kind of like they probably talked about
how they game plan for each tournament when they were in college and Yeah. Yeah. his teammates probably like, “Well, I’m just going to go with this approach, you know.”
Yeah, I think that’s a good take, bro. I mean, I think I think Catty’s already feel that they’re confident in their skill set to help, you know, if that’s encourage a player, give them the right, tell where the break is and stuff like that. It seems like, you know, picking a caddy is almost like dating, per se, like you want to find someone that meshes really well with you,
you know? Um, even if there’s conflict, like we know how to come to a resolution. I remember Ted said this too, man. And like he Ted was talking about like he can give Scotty all the suggestions but if he chooses not to take it then you know he doesn’t take it but there are sometimes like C they might take it. Caddyy gave him the wrong suggestion. I think that’s just part of the game.
Um but yeah both Colin and Max never said there was anything wrong with their previous um Caddies. I know Colin’s old one was JJ Cavic I think and then obviously Joe Grinder but they said they’re great guys. They just need something new. So, and and obviously with everything that Max Homa has been going through with swing changes and all this other type of stuff, maybe Joe is just used to the old Max and how he used to play versus the new Max that he’s trying to mold into. Maybe. Maybe.
Um, but hopefully, you know, they they find other golfers to jump on too quick, man. But in reality, Joe has more wins than both Max and Colin this year. I’m just saying.
I know, dude. Technically,
he just has the one, but
yeah, but still
one more than both of them.
I know. I mean, I I I would be scared to caddy for them just like knowing that they like the Well, this Yeah, the thing is like you don’t want to be walking on eggshells around your player if you’re a caddy. I think I don’t know. I I’d honestly be curious to see like hear what Ted Scott has to say. And like dude, he’s got crazy experience cuz he ced for someone before he catted for Bubba
Grant
and
Yeah. And then I I I don’t know. And I I I’ve tried to find like these interviews and stuff like that, but it doesn’t But Ted Scott had like a falling out with with Bubba if I remember correctly. Like I think he got fired on the course.
I think they probably got into it on the course, but I don’t think it’s I think I think it was a mutual split up though. Um
I don’t think it’s Yeah. Yeah. But I I mean I I I I can’t find this video on on YouTube, but there was there was a clip and I saw it like a while ago and it was like more closer when it happened,
but it was like Bubba being like, “You are completely useless right now. You are completely useless. What is the point of having you here?”
Wow.
Yeah. Like
wow. Wow. Hey, anybody who’s listening to this, man, first off, I’m team Ted Scott first off. Yeah. But find that clip, man. That That’d be crazy. I’m pretty sure it was Ted Scott on the bag at that at that tournament. I’m not I don’t quote me though.
Well, I will say if it was Ted on the bag and Bubba was talking to him like that, Bubby gonna have to see me, bro, cuz Ted is a cool guy as we all know.
I know. Well, like and if you watch like old Ted Scott and Bubba interviews, they’d be like, “You guys get after it a lot and stuff like that.” And there’s a lot of those questions like Anyways, I don’t want to cause any rumors on this gospel.
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. No, man. I think uh I mean I think that’s normal like I said it’s like a relationship at some point there going to be some you know some conflict too um but it’s just all about how do you come to resolutions in those conflicts when it comes to
Caddy yeah I was just say like you know you don’t want to be walking on eggshells but I also understand like hey if a player kind of blows up on you it’s kind of normal because it’s it’s cutthroat like it’s kind of like if it’s like in these cooking shows like my best analogy is like these cooking shows it’s like these these chefs get very intense because they want like tiptop top quality service because it’s their name on that plate that goes to the customers.
So these a lot of these top chefs like Gordon Ramsay like are very cutthroat. Yeah.
And they’ll scream in the kitchen and stuff like that. And I kind of feel like in golf it’s like
well if a player screams at a caddy you know I can kind of see that like hey this very cutthroat you know my livelihood is on the line. I mean, so is yours, but
l on the line, don’t mess it up. But
yeah,
I I do think like if you get yelled at enough, like you might start to be tiptoeing and and and and walking on eggshells. And then at the same time, like as a player, you probably don’t want a caddy that’s apprehensive to give you sound advice, you know? You want them to be able to speak their mind.
So,
yeah. I want a Yes, man.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I I don’t know. Like I I I would hate to I don’t want to say I would hate to caddy for I I if Maximum would call me, I’d be like, “Yo, let’s go.” But um
yeah,
but uh like I would be a little bit nervous and probably not be giving all my advice. Uh not completely speaking my mind.
Yeah, I think if I was in that Yeah. Obviously, I’m not built to be a caddy. Um especially from a tour perspective like I have cattied on the Epson tour, which is fun. Um for the homie Nicole Rup, you know, I just made sure I encouraged her. I kept her mind distracted. Um, I gave her numbers on occasionally. She had me doing math a lot cuz she she’s from Denmark, so she does everything in meters. So then she’ll like do this thing in meters. She’ll be like, “Hey, so what’s 27 plus 13?” Cuz we’re looking at the the size of the green from the edge like
you know how the uh the green sheet. Yeah. Yeah. So she’d be like, “What’s 27 + 13?” I’ll be like 40 and stuff like that. So I had to play a huge part in that. Man, cat ain’t super fun though. I think for them too, I probably would be a little nervous too cuz it seems like everyone’s on a short lease and like again not even not like intention like obviously we’re not saying that Max Homer and Colin are bad guys but it’s like
you wonder why like no one’s able to hang on right now and it’s it’s nerve-wracking at this point. Well, I I I think they’re just going through a slump too and they just want to I mean at least for Max like they just want to change his scenery but I also
calm this a little bit too cuz he’s not even in the top six anymore in terms of FedEx Cup points.
Is he really? Wow. I think he’s probably like at seven or eight. Yeah, he’s up there though. He’s been playing okay. Like he’s been in the running for a few events.
Yeah. Let me let me make sure I about that, man.
No, I I looked at it earlier today and I think he’s he’s in the top 10, I think. Yeah, he’s top 10, but he’s not in that automatic. Um Yeah, he’s seven now. And I say he was seven eight cuz uh
Oh. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Jason J. Uh just Thomas Hopped him.
Oh, really?
Yeah. And this is updated June 30th. So yeah, it’s it’s Scotty Xander, JJ Spawn, Russell Henley, Bryson the Shambo, Justin Thomas.
Dang.
Yeah.
Yeah. I also think good caddies can recap rounds really well.
Like that’s another thing. But I don’t know. Like some players might not want like I don’t want to hear about it. Like it’s one of those like
I don’t know. But I I feel like it’s always helpful to recap a round, but there might be some players that might be like, “Yo, that entire round was an interception, so let’s just forget it, you know?”
Oh, yeah. Short-term memory. Yeah, short memory. Yeah, I
I think maybe Caddies were probably like, you know, um Caddies are more so like uh yeah, they’re more receptive. Like if the player wants to know a recap, okay, I’ll give you a recap. But if you don’t, they’re like, “Yo, I’m just let my player go through his routine. If he doesn’t want to talk about it, he doesn’t want to talk about it.” But I think it’s it’s I think it’s always better to in terms of football, like we have to go back to the film and see what we did wrong, so we won’t do it again,
you know? Um but but typically, I know with football, we had a 24-hour rule. It’s like we don’t complain about it. we we we we talk about it for 24 hours, we move on and then we also celebrate for 24 hours and we move on too.
So um yeah, so don’t let that be um don’t let that transition to the next day and stuff. But at the same time,
we have to watch that film before we can move on,
you know, to see what we have to do better and also what we did good. So yeah, depends.
Yeah. And it’s weird because like in golf it’s like sometimes you just hit a bad shot, but it’s like other times it’s like your plan for the shot was faulty. How can you change that so you don’t mess? So then
you know like I’m trying to think of an example like one time my buddy had for me
in a tournament and it was just like
why did you on one hole I hit it like way left of the flag and it was like a par three and he’s like why did you hit it or why did you hit it way left
and I was kind of like I just blocked it. He goes, “Oh, okay. You weren’t trying to hit it to the left side of the green because of some reason and it was like, no, it was just a bad shot.” But it’s like, “Well, it’s good.” Like,
if you have a plan, it’s what’s not acceptable is not having a plan. Hitting a bad shot is fine. Everybody hits a bad shot.
Not having a plan is that’s where it’s
it’s fine. Having a bad plan.
Yeah, that’s a great point. It’s a great point. But, uh, yeah, let’s move on to again the Rocket Classic, man. Shout out to Aldrick Potater for getting his first victory on tour. He’s been close, I think, in uh the Mexico tournament. He was close. He lost. He got second place. I forgot who he lost to. Yeah, he he was close before, man.
Yeah,
exactly, man.
That one.
Yeah. So, now it’s like, dang, it’s a little PTSD coming up for him, but you know, he obviously finished he finished off the job, but yeah, five playoff.
Um, and it’s funny they said at the Rocket Classic, three of the last four have come down to either the last shot or a playoff, man. It wasn’t no different for this year. Uh, again, you had Pot Eater, Chris Kirk, and Max uh Gracand Dog. So, um, what were your thoughts looking at the playoffs, man? 50 playoffs was a long time.
Dude, that was a long time. I felt like it was never going to end, especially cuz like they everybody birdied the par five and stuff. Um,
but dude, it was crazy cuz it was all three of them are a decade apart. Do you know that?
Yeah. Uh, yeah. Chris Kirk’s old. Yeah. Chris Kirk’s 40, Maxerman’s 30, and then Aldrich is
like 21. Yeah. 20. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. And Max Grezerman hit the ball far. He hits the ball pretty far. And on the first playoff hole, he was the Yeah, he’s Well, Aldrich hit it right, so he was further away from the hole, but
Yeah,
I think Aldrick hit it further, but
but still, dude, Aldrich, dude, he hits bombs and he hits
the other thing, too, is he spins it a lot because the camera would do this a lot. like they would aim the camera where his ball was going to land
and then they would like anticipate the roll out and it would just kind of like zoom forward, but then it’s like, “Oh, wait. The ball’s back there.”
He had like he had like almost 3,000 RPM on his on his some of his shots. Yeah. On his drives.
Yeah. So,
yeah.
Um and from what I know, that’s that’s really high. But
that guy is
that guy is very impressive. He hits the ball a mile and I feel sorry for his clubs. Uh
that’s fine. He gets some new ones no matter what.
I know, right? Yeah, he’s going to be fine. I think he was a titleless guy, but it was very impressive. He I I honestly thought he was going to slip it away cuz like the announcers are kind of jinxing it. They’re like last time
I think historically Yeah. Yeah. Historically he does that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So, it was very impressive. He helped like because he like lost the league for a little bit and then made a few birdies to kind of come back and then the playoff was kind of intense and
um and there was the whole thing with with Max Grazerman and his his spike, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the part I missed, man. Yeah. Further explain what they were talking about with that spike. I mean, I know it wasn’t a big deal, but it almost was presented as if it was a big deal. It w it was like going up to hole 18, but like what happened was when he was scoring, he like got up and he clipped his spike and then a like one spike on his shoe fell off.
Uhhuh.
And uh they just pointed the camera at his shoes when he came back out on 18 cuz he was like the last guy to get up to 18 and they’re pointing the camera at his shoes and then there was I don’t know. I couldn’t tell like it was still white shoes. So
yeah. Yeah, that’s fair. But like, let me ask, would you would you change shoes if it was if it was you or would you just get it respiked or just go no spikes?
You know, it’s funny. I I I feel I one I lost one spike so far in my one of my golf shoes and I I didn’t fully feel a difference. Um maybe because the terrain was dry. Like maybe if it was like wet and I feel myself kind of losing posture coming out of my swing, then I’d be like, “Hey dog, we gota we got to switch
spikes.” But I think the the terrain was fine, especially on Sunday. And I know I think it was Thursday and Friday they were doing um lift and play I think or prefer lie because it was wet.
Oh, they were
I think so on Thursday and Friday but I think when it got to Sunday it was dry. So it all depends on how it’s affected my swing but I guess I wouldn’t know until I teed off or something. Right. Um so yeah I I think I would have been fine. Like right now I’m still well I put the spike back in the in the uh in the shoe but uh it didn’t affect me when I realized my spike was gone. At least to my understanding, it wasn’t.
Yeah. Yeah. I’ve lost a spike before, too, and I’m like I don’t even didn’t even know really. Yeah. Yeah.
Um it probably also it’s depending on what spike is lost, too, which probably plays a
Yeah. Depends like where your if it’s like the spike where most your pressure is, it’s like, “All right, I got to get that one.” Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. But one thing I when I watching the playoff, too, man, Pot Eater for sure, he won, but he he I think he could have ended it at whole 17. He had an opportunity for an eagle which it was kind of like makeable there.
Yeah.
Yeah. And he he missed
he n iron into that green. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. He he had an opportunity to not even get into the playoff and that’s when I started to get scared for him cuz I’m like man historically you don’t finish well. So I don’t know how you’re going to do in a playoff against two savvy vets. Now grant grant I think Chris Kirk has what is happening every time I do something bro? I don’t know how to turn those things off you know. Yeah. But you’re going against two savvy vets. Um, and I’m just like, bro, you can’t afford to do that. But even looking at the playoff dog, I think, uh, dog, when I mean Grazerman was just keeping P Eater in cuz Chris Kirk uh, he missed that that uh, that one putt and got him eliminated. So, they had to go play whole um, they had to play playoff four and five, just them two, uh, Matt Griezmann and uh, Pot Eater. But Matt Griezmann was just kind of like burning edges, bro. Cuz I’m just like, bro, you’re keep cuz
dude, he was Yeah. Pot Eater was never really like really scared anybody with any putts except I think maybe the fourth playoff he was like ah he was so close to like doing but other ones it was like that’s not close at all
hitting it that tight in the playoffs either.
No he was not pinseeking at all. So I’m like Grayson man you can end this now bro but he was just burning edges
edges
a lot bro I’m like bro into playoffs. Yeah, he burned one going into the playoffs, I think, because he was in Pocket’s group.
Yeah,
he hit it close on 18 on the 72nd hole.
Yeah. Yeah, dude. That was You know what was crazy was on 18, the 72nd hole, Pock Eater hits his his approach shot
and then they’re all like all the announcers are like, “Oh, that’s if that’s got the number, it’s going to be good.”
Yeah. And and he’s all like he goes, “Sit down. Sit down.” And then it lands like way short and then it like zips to like the middle of the green and I was like a dude on a back pin you need that he didn’t even look at birdie like he was just like dude I I just got to lag this close to get you know.
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah.
Yeah. I feel like like honestly that’s like the thing I would take back is like cuz the eagle on 17 was like he hit it really close you know
on 18 I’m like dude I expect a closer approach than
than what he ended up with. You know, like I expected like a Matt Grazerman man approach like, “Hey, you’re within 15 feet.”
Yeah.
You know, because he was like 130. I think he was it was it was like a getable distance, you know.
I think they said he was contemplating. I don’t know how aggressive the win was, but they say it was contemplating, but they said he needed to just pick a club and be confident with the shot. And I think that might play the part in why
Oh, yeah. Yeah. The shot wasn’t like
the stands blocked the wind, so they couldn’t find it. So, that’s why there were like those flags.
Yeah. Same thing with uh was it 14 or 15 the playoff the par three playoff hole
they had like the flags up so then people can see the wind better.
I think it was whole 15 cuz that’s where that’s where uh Pater closed it closed it off. Yeah
par three. Yeah.
Yeah.
But like the ones with the stands they had flags up so then they can guess the wind and
but so maybe that was just like a like a misjudgment of the wind, you know.
Yeah. And I think that’s always tough when you look up and you see, you know, the flags moving, but like it’s so blocked off like it doesn’t affect this elevation. Yeah. Yeah. It’s weird. Super weird. That was my whole commit to that. Yeah.
That was that was my whole take with uh whole 16 waste management when I when we talked about like which
Yeah. Yeah. How’s it hardest? Yeah. Even though it’s not, but like that plays a factor because you got the stands up, but then the winds blowing up there. Says like how do you really judge this and stuff? But at the end of the day though, yo, shout out to Aldrick Pot Eater getting his first victory on the PGA, man. Congrats to that kid. Young guy, man. Yeah, way to go. It’s hard to win on the PGA tour. It’s super hard. It’s hard to win a golf tournament, period.
Um, really?
Yeah. Another thing I want to talk about, too, is uh I think this encourages people who are amateur golfers or just, you know, golfers in general. So, Jake Nap day one was 149th in the field putting. Day two, went to number one, led the course, and had the course record at 61. And it’s funny because uh yeah, it yeah, it’s hilarious because the course record just prior to that was 62, and it only lasted 24 hours. And this is the second time that Jake Knap has had the course record. He had the 59 at the Cosnet and now he had the 61 here at the Rocket Classic. But my reason for saying this to encourage the audience is uh when it comes to golf and every time we kind of at least me or maybe some of the people out there when we do something wrong or like the swing feels off or the putting feels off, it’s like I got to go change something. I got to do this dramatic change. They asked Jakenap, “What was the difference between what you did putting day one and day two? Like what did you change?” And he said, “Nothing. That’s just simply golf.” And like it happens. So a lot of times we just got to understand like maybe it was just a bad putting day. Maybe it’s nothing that need to be changed. We just got to make sure we just go in the next day with confidence. Man, I think if we see consistent like I’m pulling it too much over and over and over or I keep pulling my putts over and over and over, maybe then it’s like, okay, we got to try to fix this. But he said he went and changed absolutely nothing. It’s just that’s the game. That’s the game we play. Yeah. Yeah. And finished pretty well, too.
Yeah. So that that’s funny because like when I was in college, if I started hitting it bad, I wouldn’t be like, “Oh, it’s because I” because like if you practice a lot, you get tired and then you start hitting bad shots.
I wouldn’t be like, “Oh, it’s cuz I’m fatigued.” Or I or like I would be like, “There’s something wrong with my swing.” And I always ask my assistant coach or and and if I was back in town, I would ask my swing coach here, who was Matt Trimble at the time, like
Yeah.
I’d be like, “Yo, can you like take a look at my swing?” And I remember like this both my assistant coach and Matt Trimble has told me they’re like there’s nothing wrong with your swing. Just get out of your head. Just start to hit good shots and stuff like that. And it was as a young golfer it was hard for me to believe. Like I was like you just can’t find something.
Yeah. Yeah. You know. Yeah. And that’s and that’s my that was my problem with um Victor Havlin. Like at the time like he’s starting to play better golf now but like I’m like what you go tinkering for when you’re playing great. Yeah. So I love what Jake Knap said. He said, “There’s nothing I change. It’s just simply golf.” So, a lot of times, guys, your swing’s already good. Your putting is always already good. Just sometimes just missing a couple putts, which is it’s not okay, I get in regards to the score, but like it’s okay. Like, you’re still swinging and putting really well. So, I thought that
your game is still good, man. So, I love that Jake Knap said that because I think if he would have said any other thing, we might have took note like, “Okay, that’s what he went to go do. I’m going to start doing that now.” It’s just like, “Hey, dog, it’s golf. Golf is tough. They just weren’t falling.” But the next day, they fell. Now, he was number one in the field putting, man. So, good for Jake Knap, man. Other guy I want to talk about is my guy uh Andrew Putnham, man. Not a not a Yeah, just not a really good Sunday for him, unfortunately, man. But but props to him, too, man, because it was some big hitters out there.
And my guy was only averaging 270 a drive.
He’s only a 27 270.
I think that’s what his average was. He probably hit some like 301 and stuff like that. But I think I think overall definitely on PGA Tour statistically, I think his average is like 282.2 or something like that. So, he wasn’t really hitting it particularly far. Yeah. I mean, he’s 36. He’s older. Not to say anything is wrong with 36 because Royy’s 36 and he’s
36. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But to Putnham’s credit, bro, I would say the first two days he was still leading. So, he was scrambling well, but his first two days, greener regulation percentage was 66.7, but put per green and regulation was 1.4. So, he was leading in that department. And then after day two, uh putter got hot. He had the lowest driving average. I remember looking up. like, “Yo, how far is Put driving?” Yeah, he had the lowest driving average, but like I said, um, Pum I think Putin’s obviously aware of that, too. He’s not going to bomb it that far, but he made up for his green regulation percentage on day three going 15 to 18.
And, uh, he played really good strategic golf. Yeah, cuz he was in contention. I think he was probably
Greens. That’s it.
Yeah. I think the last T was 1155, he was 1135. He just didn’t have the best Sunday. It wasn’t a terrible Sunday. I think he maybe finished like T8. Like I think he was 18 under. I think the win was what 21 under outside the playoffs. 2200. No, 2200 under was what went to the playoffs. So he was four strikes back which wasn’t terrible but he didn’t have his best day. But to still want to give him his credit though cuz he hung in there man. He played really good golf and I hope to see Putnham start trending towards maybe some some victories like he’s playing in the John Deere Classic. You know that should definitely
um shorter course. Is it shorter? It’s short. Yeah,
it’s not long though. Yeah, it’s shorter. At least for PGA pros, it’s shorter. So I think he has another chance to go after it too. So, um, you know, shout out to Andrew Putnham. Now, I want to get into Will Gordon. Yeah. And you, you brought this up to me, man. So, Will Gordon, dude.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In Will Gordon in round two, Gordon was playing on a major medical exemption and need to make the cut to retain his PJ tour.
He carted three under 69, which was amazing. And thanks to two clutch birdies on the final two holes, um, including sinking the sixfooter on 18, um, he ended up finishing with six under to secure the cut line. The cut line was almost about to move to seven. It didn’t. So what that means by making the cut, Gordon earned, I think 644 FedEx Cup points needed to maintain at least a conditional PJ tour status and that’s 126 to 150 50th and that kept him eligible to play through the rest of the season, bro. But more thing I want to talk about is his postgame interview that you put me uh aware about. So do you want to talk about that right there, dude? Well, first off with some of these things, it’s like I think especially as fans like you like disassociate the person from the athlete, you know, you just like see this guy as an athlete and they’re kind of like a machine and like, hey, go do your job. But when you see stuff like that, it kind of like dignifies athletes a little bit because you see how much it means, you know, and it reminds me of like videos of like when uh remember that was it the former Redskins, they might have been the commanders at the time, but
yeah,
when that special teamer like made the Pro Bowl and he got called into Ron Rivera’s office and he’s like, “I’m about to get cut.”
And Ron River is like, “I’m sorry to break it to you, but uh”
and he’s like, “Oh, I’m going to get cut.” And he’s like, “I’m sorry to break it to you, but you made the Pro Bowl. Congrats.
He just starts crying like like breaks down right there and it’s you know
uh but like and the same thing with like Will Gordon like he like broke down and it was just so awesome to see. But you know I I talked about this remember I talked about this on my episode with you on the gospel thing but it
go check that out. That’s like early days of golf and gospel. Go check that guy. Check that out guys. Yeah.
But it was just cuz he’s talking about God’s plan. And it’s like, dude, sometimes, you know, if we wrote the story for ourselves, we would write an awesome story and we would write like Will Gordon, if he wrote the story for himself, will probably be number one play. He’d be like Scotty and he would just be dominating, win everything.
No worries.
And all that stuff.
But it’s these moments where it’s like, dude, you might miss the cut. You might lose yourself car
and then and then how does God come through for you in these moments? That’s that’s that’s how we can bring God glory, you know. And I think it’s just like God’s plan for us is better than any plan that we could ever write for ourselves.
Yeah.
And there’s like the there’s like that beauty in the conflict. And there’s beauty in overcoming
these these issues. And but if we wrote the story, we wouldn’t write in these issues. We would just it would just be smooth sailing. And
we have no reliance on the Lord either. Yeah. And we have no reliance on the Lord either at all. Exactly. Right. Yeah. And and it’s it’s just it’s also like that’s not the story for everybody. Like not everyone’s going to overcome
these issues, but it’s like what’s what’s the lesson? What’s
what’s the beauty we can still find in some of these things, you know? But
yeah.
Um but yeah, I think it was just so awesome and those are like the great stories that uh that fans kind of want, you know.
Yeah.
And I was I was happy to see that. Yeah, I was happy to see that too, simply because to I think uh Amanda Bon Junesh asked him, you know, what were you thinking if you didn’t make the cut? He said, man, I just wanted to trust God’s plan. I know his plan is better than mine. And the thing I liked about that is he didn’t let his relationship or God’s timing um he let he allow God’s timing to like be affected by his earthly circumstances. Like I missed the cut. Okay. Well, God’s not good anymore cuz I missed the cut. But since I made the cut, God is good. He said, “Even if I miss the cut, I know his plan is better than mine.” But he did make the cut and he kept his tour card. But I like how it wasn’t based on like the conditions of like what is going cuz we easily do that a lot, man. So um it’s it was awesome. It was an awesome thing to see that Will Gordon um he’s able to keep his tour card, get to play for the rest of the season cuz those medical exemptions don’t last, you know, as long as we would like. You know, I think Bud Collie did a good job, I think, at the players securing his car for rest of the season on a medical exemption and now Will Gordon has done the same thing, man. So, shout out to Will Gordon, man. Um, also shout out to him for, you know, sharing the gospel. Well, you know, professing the gospel um publicly too on CBS, man, which is just awesome. Um, next thing I want to get into, man, PGA missed cuts. The guys who missed the c missed the cuts at the Rocket Classic, excuse me, guys. Yeah. Ricky Fowler, who was a defending champion, did not look good. Uh Windham Clark, he probably off breaking something right now. Max Homa, Cam Young, and Tom Kim. Um who was the most surprising even though these not really any surprising names, but like who’s the most surprising out of these list of names? These are the names that people know,
you know? I wouldn’t say most surprising about this guy, but I was the most upsetting was Max because I was Yeah.
I mean, golf’s better with when a guy like Max Hom is doing well, you know? He’s he’s really good player. He’s really talented and
Yeah.
when he contends it just makes golf like
Yeah. He only wants to contend in majors.
I know. Oh, and but it’s also like I remember watching Saturday and I was all like with with my dad and like someone hit a shot close to the hole and then Morow hit the shot close to the hole and then I’m like Morcow’s going to make that guy’s going to miss because Morawa is like a good a good freaking player, you know? Yeah.
And then sure enough,
I called it and it happens. It didn’t happen every time, but I was like make that putt because he’s really freaking good.
Yeah.
And that that like scoring kind of golf is a lot more exciting to watch. And Max Homo at one point was that good.
Yeah. Yeah. He shot only four under missed the cut.
I know. And it’s crazy that the the cut was 600, but like there’s just there’s just some guys that can like will together a birdie. They’re like, I need a birdie. I can make it happen.
And obviously the top the the better the guy is, like the higher ranked they are, usually they’re the more ability they have to just will together a birdie.
Yeah.
And Max, dude, Max had that. He was he was a he he could he could he could put it together and it that’s really fun golf to watch instead of like when you go into a playoff and you see guys make a bunch of pars, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That that Yeah, that would been boring.
Um for me man was most
like I said the term surprising is used loosely here because it’s almost like we’re not surprised. But for me man I would say Cam Young because he’s probably having the better season out of all these guys. I think Cam Young is one of my dark horses too, man. So, pretty disappointing to see he didn’t take advantage of this week with the opportunity that was presented to him. Um, I did kind of have Ricky Fowler, too, just because he won this last year and,
you know, you was kind of hoping he was going to defend it, too. And also interesting, and I’m not trying to start any rumors at all. We’re not about that. But the the tweet I sent you, or the X I sent you, whatever you want to call it, um, it was something about how him and his Caddy, not like got into it, but I think he want Ricky wanted to go pee wedge. Ki said nine and or vice versa and then the shot was way short. So I don’t know if there’s some conflict um or something that’s not meshing between them two where it’s like will Ricky be looking for a new cat? Again, we’re not starting any rumors man. We just looking at information we saw and stuff like that. Joe Grinder.
Joe Grinder man. Hey man, take you another job right now man because if if Joe if Joe can get Ricky to win, that would be crazy. That would be crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. He would have better PR than Bryson D Shambo, you know, if he gets Ricky to win.
That would be so crazy, man. But yeah, I would say, yeah, for me, yeah, Cam Young, Ricky Fowler, you know, I was hoping he was at least going to just contend to defend his title, but wasn’t even close to even make the cut, man. So, super super concerning for these guys, too, especially with um you know, the golf headed to um across the ocean pretty soon. But yeah, let’s move on from the Rocket Classic, man. Let’s go on to some quick predictions for the John Deere. Again, kind of like a middle tier tournament. You’re not going to see a lot of big names, but I like these tournaments, too, man, cuz it’s it’s not easy to predict. You can’t easily say Scotty. You can’t say Xander. You can’t say Rory. So,
they’re not in there. They’re not in it. So, it makes you really showcase like, are you really a golf head? Are you really watching the sport? Like, how how deep are you into the game, man? So,
um I don’t mind starting us off, man. So, we look at TBC Deer Run. Yeah. TBC Deer run Illinois again. Scorable course. We often see the winner at 20 under or better, man. Um, and it’s super heavy uh birdie scoring venue. So, the first person I’m gonna go with, man,
go with Kevin Roy. He’s actually a guy that had the the the course record before Jake Knap actually uh broke it 24 hours later. Yeah. Yeah. So,
I’m going to pick Jake Nap.
That’s That’s a good pick. Yeah. But, I’m going to say Kevin Roy. His last four tournaments, we see he he’s trending in the right way. Myrtle Beach Classic T-54, Charles Swap T46, RBC Canadian T18, Rocket Classic T8. So, we see he’s trending in the right direction. And again, in terms of scoring average, he’s ranked third. Ball Shark ball striking rank and green uh green regulation percentage is 16. And again, like I say, he had the course record there at the Rocket Classic for 24 hours, but that just shows. Yeah. Again, with where he’s trending in these tournaments, he’s moving
down, which I really mean up in terms of like percentage, but like his numbers are going down. So, I think Kevin Roy um is a is a good pick for this week to possibly, you know, win the John Deere Classic.
Yeah, I I think I’m going to go on kind of on the same token, I think I want to go with Jake Knap just because
Yeah. especially in these birdie fest, you know, he’s like the guy that can
at least make some noise in a birdie fest. So,
yeah.
Um,
so I’m gonna go with him. Uh,
yeah,
I think that’s solid pick, too. Man, it just my my fear with Jake Knap is um he kind of like you have
kind of Jake Knap is going to show up.
Yeah. Are you gonna get record-breaking Jake Nap or like h I just shot 75?
Yeah. Yeah.
He’s gonna shoot even and then you’re like, well, that didn’t really help my pick, bro. But yeah, but I think I think tournaments like this make it interesting because like it forces the golf head to really study,
you know, the field and stuff. Yeah, but I think JN’s a good pick as well as Kevin Roy. I think it’s a good pick. Obviously, I’m being biased towards my pick, but uh the next person I want to go with is Sunjm, bro. Um probably one of the higher ranked guy. Oh, here go this thing again. But again, Sunjm, probably one of the higher ranked guys. He’s ranked four in total eagles made. If we’re talking about a birdie fest, man, this guy is literally top ranked in terms of making eagles. Um, yeah. Go ahead.
I was going to say he’s been in the final pairing a few times, so
he has. He has. He hasn’t capitalized, though. But I think this field in this course is probably conducive to his game. Yeah. He’s also ranked seventh in birdies.
And do I want a guy getting greener eggs? I absolutely do want guys hitting greens. But he’s ranked number one in whole out. So if he doesn’t hit the green, I still have a chance for him to maybe chip in an evil, chip in a birdie. Yeah, I have an opportunity for that, man. So I think this is a good week for Sunjm. All right, dude. Yeah. Know, he’s a good he’s a good pick. He’s been making a lot of noise this year on on tour.
Yeah, for sure reason. But, uh, dude, I I think I’m going to go Luke Clan again.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead.
Yeah, it’s it it’s a short course. He played pretty well this week. I don’t know how he did on Sunday, though. So, I have the same pick as you, but yeah, I’m gonna let you I’m gonna let you. I got Luke Clinton, too, as my pick. But he played really well up until at least till through Saturday. How did What did he finish?
He So, so here it is. I guess we can both talk about this together. So,
well, he got he got
he shot 77. He shot 77 on um day three. That’s what hurt him.
Yeah, he shot seven. Yeah, he went 66 day one, 67, then shot 77, then shot 69. So, that day three was kind of an outlier day for him.
Yeah. Well, you know, hopefully he has some good film or, you know, some film study or some recap that he can kind of go over,
but it’s it’s still a solid solid performance by him, you know.
Yeah. Well, to even further my reason for picking Luke Clint, um, he finished T2 at this event last year under a sponsored exemption. So, I think really
Yeah. So, I think psychologically as a young player being back in a place where you played well, coming off a solid week at the Rocket Classic outside of Saturday, this can be some momentum that can help him get his first PGA tour. This year, he’s a rookie. So, last year was a sponsor exemption. You show up like this. Now, you got a couple top 25s under your belt. Did solid last week even though I think he like you said he finished T60. We eliminate that Saturday, which again is just golf days like that happen, but we can eliminate that Saturday. We’re talking about Luke Clinton in a different way. So
yeah, there’s still some momentum going into this weekend, you know.
Yeah. Yeah, I think that’s a good point. But guys, we’re not going to do any dark horses because this whole field is just filled with dark horses. But we’re just going to say those are our predictions.
Yeah, there’s going to be like Yeah, there’s going to be some undercard guy that probably wins it that we don’t even know. But
absolutely. Yeah,
I agree. I agree. That’s funny, bro. Um but yeah, I want to move on to live golf. I know you said you kind of dabbled in it. I watched I watched it pretty heavy. Um
you did? Yes, because excuse me, obviously as of lately and just truth be told, me just studying the game, I’ve been heavy on the Patrick Reed train, bro. And again, if y’all listen to Golf and Gospel, me and Nate talked about this Patrick Reed Ryder Cup thing way before PGA, Golf.com. If y’all could y’all can look up the news articles, look at the day they were posted and you go back and watch our episode last week, look when we posted it. We talked about it way before it got hot. So, I’m just saying.
But again, um, we started the rumors. We started that. We really did that. There’s probably someone out there that’s like, “You know what? They’re not getting as many views. We can steal something from them and people will never know.” But we know y’all stole it. We know y’all stole it. Yeah. But, uh, talk about
Exactly. Talking about Patrick Reed though, man. Um, and I’m going to ask you this question at the end of this. Patrick Reed got to win his home state this week in a playoff and only kept it at a one whole playoff. He wasn’t going to waste our time and go to five playoffs, almost three playoff holes. So, let me review his season for the people that out there listening or that are having problems with him getting a Ryder Cup pick. So, first off, let’s start with the majors. T23 at the US Open. Yes, he did miss the cut the PGA Championship, but the Masters, he got a solo third. Now, we move on to the
Masters cuz there was like a moment there was like, yo, if Patrick Reed birdies like
he can go to the playoff, he can go to playoff. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz he had hold out that eagle from like 140 something out.
They got him. Yeah. Yeah. But, um Yeah. So, Master Solo third. Now, we talk about Liv. He got a win this week in his home state. And with all these rider cut rumors again, again, I’m just saying he’s making a case a case. We look at the live rangers right now. Number one is Walkin Nean. Duh. Two, Bison Nambo. Duh. Three, John Rum. Duh. But guess who’s number four? Patrick Reed, everybody.
Patrick Reed. I’m just saying it’s Patrick Reed, man. So, four out of the 61 players on live, he is number four. And also Nate, you know, you like a good scramble player, man. He is ranked fourth on live with a 63.82% which would be good for the top 25 on the PGA Tour. And historically, his RDER Cup record is 73 and two. So, I’m ask you again because you didn’t agree with me last time and you can still not agree with me now. Do you think at least do you think Patrick Reed deserves a vote or a captain’s pick?
Yo, yo, yo, let me just say this. I was saying last week, I don’t think Keegan Bradley can will pick him, but I think if he gets picked,
I think that’s justified.
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
And and I hate to say it like
the reason why he’s not going to get he wouldn’t get picked is nothing to do with golf. Like he
he’s a good player. Kept it to a one whole who did he go into the playoff with? It was like Paul Casey.
Paul Casey. I don’t know. I don’t even know those other two guys to be honest. But I love how he showed his veteran presence though. He didn’t like say I’m I’m not going to waste time cuz he just one putt it and got it over with. It was It was It went easy one putt. It was an easy one putt.
Dude, that’s the guy you want on your team, too. Like I hate to say it, but like
uh cuz I’m just not a Patrick Reed fan. Like I don’t dude I
I know I’ve I’ve like doubted a lot of players on this podcast and stuff like that more or less by by saying like yeah I’m not I picked this guy to not win
but I don’t I root for everybody. That’s crazy.
So here’s my question. Here’s my question I have for you and in the audience though. Do
we think that Patrick Reed can change his perception of what the audience thinks about him? Because we changed our perception of Bryson Shambo. Granted, guys, I know he’s not Bryson. He’s not like the fun guy, the exciting guy. He’s going to
And not to say Patrick Reed is bad, but he doesn’t have the personality like Bryson Shambo. But can he change can he change his perception
like Bryson did? Because Bryson was not liked for a long time. And now everyone loves Bryson. Does Patrick Reed not get that same
grace to change his perception of what we think about him?
Dude, I Well, I don’t know. It’s just I I’m sure I’m sure he could, but
yeah, it would takes it would take some work. It would take some work on his part and it would take a lot more than Bryson. And I don’t know. I don’t know how Bryson did it, man. He just started YouTube, I guess. And you can kind of look, you got to showcase his personality. Yeah. It’s just like when athletes got social media, like media, how the media presents athletes is so different because it’s like when Deion Sanders has the chance to show himself to the public, it was just through press conferences
when that kind of gives you a different side of Dion that you that you get behind the scenes because like he’s probably a lot less
of a prick is like the media is trying to get these like Gotcha headlines and he’s being more standoffish. But then like on the other side
like from everything I hear Dion is a great guy.
For sure. Yeah. Same.
Um and same thing with like Marshawn Lynch. But so anyways,
so so social media has like changed how athletes can present themselves and I think that’s why Bryson being more active on it is great. I just don’t know if Patrick Reed will do that and
if that’ll
and how much work it needs how much work that requires for him to like, hey, I really got to
change my image. Um, but
I I think I think I think there’s some things he has been doing. I mean, not as aggressive as Bryson Shambo and stuff, but like like when he made that putt, I think he said something about his putter. I think it’s the the head that he used was like his daughter’s putter and Yeah. And people love that story about he said before he put he was like, “Man, we got to make one. Like, baby, we can do this right now.” And he made it. So, he was like really trivial to his daughter. Um, it was a is a it was a very interesting thing he did. The the driver that he used, he went to Golf Galaxy to go get
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Get a driver head.
Yeah. So, I think of that or a new shaft. But it’s just like those are like fun interesting things, you know? But, but yeah, I mean, probably will take some work for people’s perception of Patri to change. Um, go ahead. You want to say something? I was just going to say like after this weekend though like you kind of have to put the the off the course persona and there it’s also a little bit on the course like he’s not the greatest to play with for
the rumors are like he’s not
he’s kind of like a Phil Rivers talks trash like yeah he’s kind of like the Phil Rivers of the PGA you know and so it’s it’s hard I don’t know it’s hard to like him but the At a certain point, you just got to put the golf or put the the persona stuff, the off the course or on course issues aside and just be like, “Hey,
he’s that good of a golfer.” And dude,
in the Ryder Cup, you don’t get five holes to win. You get like this hole to win the match, you know? So, like like let’s say if Pot Gater was uh Aldrich was an American, it’s like you’re not going to pick him over Patrick Reed based off their performances this weekend because you want the guy that can like I need it now, I’m going to finish it now.
Yeah. Instead of like, hey, I’m going to take five holes and play this out and finish it. So,
absolutely. Yeah. And in that case, yeah, it definitely makes especially when the competition doesn’t seem as threatening cuz if he was Patrick he was letting those guys hang along then it’s probably like dang bro like hurry up and finish you know but granted if he still would have won in five play hole it’s still an impressive win but Patrick we didn’t let it get there but I think he’s doing a good job changing his perception to us um not as well as Bryson because he’s not putting the is not to discredit him he’s not putting the effort that Bryson is doing with like YouTube golf and elevating the game and stuff like that he’s just trying show clean act, play some clean golf, play good team golf and live support his teammates and his interview process has been looking, you know, really clean where he’s coming off as likable. But, you know, I’ve been said I said if I was if I was picking for the US, I’d pick Patrick Reed. I went back, you guys look at previous episodes, I’ve been saying yeah and just and just based off him playing golf and I think his persona has been looking clean lately. Um, but next then uh Oh, go ahead. Y real quick, but just I just I don’t think Bryson is was trying really hard to change his persona. I think he just started to be himself and like he’s always kind of wanted to do YouTube or whatever.
And eventually like our persona our his his reputation changed and yeah but
yeah anyways
I I I’ve had this thought and I don’t know if I’m right at all. So, his caddy Greg Bodin Jibo uh loves Jesus. And I wonder if Jibo has been witnessing to him to a degree. I could be totally wrong. Bryce can just do what you just said or I wonder if Jibo’s like, “Man, I’m just I’m just encouraging him in the gospel.” Maybe if it’s not, you know, verbatim like scripture he’s telling Bryson. I wonder if he’s like what me and my buddies used to say in college. I wonder if he’s using like secular scripture like, “Hey dog, just love your teammates.” But he’s really saying love your neighbor. I wonder. I don’t know though. Um, I talked to Jibo, Greg Bodin, I don’t know him like that, but here and there, but I haven’t talked to him in a while. But I always wonder like I wonder if Greg is like witnessing to him and it’s like making Bryson curious. I don’t I don’t know. I could be wrong.
Yeah. It’s just like speaking truth into someone because no matter what like telling someone to be nice to someone, hey, try to like bury the hatchet with guys like Brooks. That’s like a
a gospel- centered, but that’s also just a great life
moral lesson. Yes. Yes. I agree. U other things in in Liv, uh Sergio Garcia gets an exemption for the Open. He was u top five in points on Liv and he barely got in over David Pug by 2.35 points. So shout out to Sergio Garcia is going to be playing in the open. Uh also in Liv news, I will say this talking about Bryson Shambo. Should we be worried about Bryson Nambo from a playing perspective? And this is why I asked the question. Um he doesn’t really dominate live and he really didn’t last year at all. Um but you hope that he was like be like the Scotty of Liv like man every week he’s scary but he’s never really scary when it comes to these lift tournaments at all. Um he does have the one win in Korea which was an impressive win. Uh because again it’s hard to win any golf tournament but he didn’t perform that well closing at the Masters. He missed the cut at the US Open and last year we saw on a link style course at the Open. It didn’t go well for him and he missed the cut. So, are we worried about Bryson Dambo’s play so far? Or are we living off the price of last year?
Yeah, the Pioneers performance. And I mean, he was still in the final pairing at the Masters. I think
he was he was
I wonder if Link Style cuz he wasn’t that bad at Valhalla, right? Like he was he made the cut at Valhalla at the
Oh, US Open last year. Oh, PJ Champion. No.
Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Honestly, yeah, he finished I think T2, but Scotty won by five strokes. Yeah, Scotty won by five strokes. It wasn’t close. It’s not a link style course. And like we saw him at a link style course earlier this year at the US Open.
Mhm. And didn’t make the cut.
We Yeah, we saw what we saw. Um
then last year they open link style didn’t make the cut. That was the only major he missed last year. Now that you say that, but I I will say this, there’s a difference between like long-term worried worry and like short-term worry. It’s like, yeah, like yeah, he might not do well in the open, but I think I think Bryce is going to be okay. Even if he doesn’t do well or doesn’t or does even if he does or doesn’t do well, I think he’s going to be okay.
I think he’s gonna still I still think he’s gonna show up next year at the Masters and and have a good performance
and next year at the PGA, guess if it’s not link style, you know? Yeah, there’s a chance.
Um, where’s Wait, uh, wait, Beth Paige Black isn’t link style, I don’t think. Um,
I don’t think so. For Rder Cup, I don’t I don’t think so.
Yeah.
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you idiots, you like you idiots, Beth Page Black is totally a link style course.
Yeah. Yeah. Say that to us, please. We’re okay with that.
Uh, my my thing with Bryson, bro. Um because again he’s the face of Liv and I think we said this probably in a podcast before too but like right now the PJ they have more players contending in majors but they are up in terms of major wins. So, you got to hope that Liv maybe gets one if you’re a Liv fan because we look at the Masters, Rory won, PGA Championship, Scotty won, uh, US Open, JJ Spun.
So,
live players have one one more opportunity to grab um a major. And, um, I mean, I think I think there
Yeah,
Sergio, that would be super random. Um, in terms of his current play, not like historically.
Um, but does Walk Nean finally show up at a major? Uh, does John Rom?
Come on.
I know,
dude.
I know, bro. I know he does. He has to grab one at some point. Or do we think John Rom finally captures him in open? Um, cuz I think he I think he has two majors. I think one’s the open. He won the Masters once
and Oh, no. So, you know, I think it’s the US Open and the Masters cuz he needs
I know the US Open once. Yeah. He need he needs a open and a PJ championship for career grand slam because we we ask that question like who we think is next but um but yeah I mean I think
yeah yeah so yeah I think maybe this is a shortterm thing for Bryson um but right now like he doesn’t he’s not he doesn’t look the same as Bryson last year of this year still really good still really good but like even last year he was showing up in every event except for the
at the open everyone is like Bryson can probably win this, bro. And now this year it’s just like maybe maybe because Masters
well and again this is very debatable. We can this is a tugar rope argument because then you go with the PGA championship he got second. You are right. You are right. But then the US
he was like yeah but he wasn’t like in it ever like he was never leading. Like that’s like a that’s because Scott it was up by so much. The only person that had a chance was uh John Ram. Well, yeah, but it’s still like, you know, if you play really well and then you accidentally end up second versus like you were first, second, first, second, first, second, and it’s like, ah, I’m I got second. Like, there’s a difference between like, hey, I just hit the ball around the course and, oh, hey, they gave me the second place money, you know?
Yeah. Versus like, yo, I was in this and then I freaking got second, you know?
Yeah. I don’t think anybody could have been in the PJ championship cuz again, Scott Kay won by, like I said,
Yeah.
four or five strokes. There was like not even a moment on during the weekend at least where Bryson was like
Yeah, it was wrong.
This is Yeah, this is Bryson’s uh tournament to lose, you know.
So,
yeah, great point, man. Um, last thing I want to talk about too in regards to live golf. Uh, there was a video of Bryson Shambo speaking about how the game of golf is ready for a change and he wants to see it move in more of a team direction and he knows that it’s an individual sport, but why not have more team aspects to it? What do you think about that,
dude? That like when I was in high school, that’s all I wanted was like team golf because I always played better in team golf than what I did for like individuals. So,
like like I had a better high school career than my brother, but my brother was ranked ahead of me coming out of high school because Hey, Aaron. Aaron, I need Aaron, I need you to comment on this, Aaron. I need to hear I need to hear this, Aaron.
But he was he was ranked. My brother’s actually top 100 player coming out of high school.
You said he beat Will Al Torres, too, right?
Beat Will Al Torres in a tournament in Scottsdale.
Yeah. So that so that’s why Wills Al Torres is Aaron’s favorite player because it’s like if Wills Alus wins the Masters. My brother’s like
Aaron won the green jacket. Yeah.
You might as well give me the jacket. So no, my brother Yeah. But he uh but I I always did better in in like team events and I feel like it I think it’s like mentally like there’s a bit of like a safety net like I can always fall back on my team so the pressure is a little bit off but then it also like meant more because it’s like I’m also playing for this guy you know that I love and it’s kind of like uh that’s kind of like another aspect of it. So um yeah dude I I would love for there to be more teams. I do I would love it if there was like this team has a home base and they have this is their training facility and like you know obviously they would like rent it out from like a golf course or something like that but it’s like
how cool would it be if there was like
the Scottsdale some something you know the Scottsdale Crushers and they rent it out out of uh
you know not Papago but like I don’t know whisper rock and it’s like
Yeah. Yeah. I would say uh Wigwam um because that’s the most no outside of TPC champ uh not champions stadium course. Wigwam is more of a a fan-friendly course where like you don’t have to like hopefully you got to hop in a cart and get all the way over to like, you know, to the next hole like cuz you cuz like fans want to be able to be like, “Oh, there’s the next T- box right there next to this green.” And I remember I remember a while ago when Liv had
Yeah. horses there too.
That too. But I remember when there was a live event in um Tucson, one of my friends was like um it just wasn’t fan- friendly because trying to get to the next hole was just it just didn’t make sense how the course was set up. It wasn’t it wasn’t fan conducive. But I think courses like Wigwam out here um uh Silver um uh Seville Golf and Country Club. I love that course down in Gilbert. That’s a good one. Whirlwind’s a good one. That’s family uh fan friendly. But yeah, but even to obviously continue to answer the question, I think there should be more team events. Like, yeah, a lot of us love the Zurich
Classic. We love the DAO championships like they have in the LPGA with the twoman team. Um, for the most part, TGL did really well. That was a what, four play, three, four player team that people really enjoyed. Um, people love the President’s Cup. People love the RDER Cup. We love team events. We understand, yeah, golf is is an individual sport, but I think they should mix in more team events, not necessarily eliminate individual golf. You know, I want to see Scotty go headtohead with so and so or, you know, um, Sunjm go headtohead with Coloro. Like, I want to see individual golf still, but I think they can implement more team things in the golf. And I don’t think PJ is going to do it. They probably just gonna keep stick to uh the Zerk. But um I think it’s pretty cool what Liv is doing because I think he wants to also make it intriguing like it’s going to take a long time. He said he said this is a beginning stage. It’s going to take a while but he said like he wants it to be like yo these are the Dallas Cowboys of golf or like this is like the Yankees of golf.
Yeah, that would be so sick. Like if I think like also just just thinking about it like now because it’s kind of going through my head when you were talking, but it’s like dude it would be so cool if like a course had like a home field advantage and stuff like that and then it’s like hey the crowd can make noise on fourth down or something like that third down like
um but I think I don’t know like the because like having a a team to root for can help you like get to know the player and then getting to know the player makes you like a fan of that player because
I think golf is kind of unique like that like people root for these players because of something kind of like UFC. It’s like
uh I identify with this guy because he’s like this he’s a family man and I can I really admire that or something like that.
Or this guy went to
went to FSU and I’m a big Seinals fan or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
But it like takes a while to get to know that because if you just see some guy’s name, you won’t
try to learn him. But if he’s like, “Oh, this guy’s on my team. Well, I’m gonna try to get to know a little bit more about this guy. And
and I think homefield advantage would be such a interesting thing. It’s like you can’t play the course at all
if you’re on the other team, but if you’re the home team, you could just play this course, you know?
Very well. Yeah. I think only thing that Yeah. Go ahead. Well, I was going to say, but then it’s like if you lose, then it’ll be like, “Oh, shoot, dude.”
Yeah. Yeah.
How did you lose?
Yeah. Yeah. I think only thing I I will respect that probably still keep the etiquette like not talk to anybody’s back swing but have more reactions like if they hit one down the middle like the weight team it’s like boo. Yeah.
Don’t ruin the game. Yeah. Don’t ruin the game. Yeah. Don’t ruin the performance. But like
Yeah.
Yeah. But if you I try to get in their head a little bit that’s that’s cool.
You know it’s funny too. We talked about this I think I think our last episode we talked about like man imagine what a team event look like here if we spoke about like how Liv versus PGA team event with Phil being the captain Tiger being the captain of the PGA team like
RDER Cup style bro like that would be super exciting bro like to see something like that
dude that’s what the golf channel needs is Phil versus Tiger Liv versus PGA RDER Cup style let’s go duke it out
on like an awesome course like uh
Sawrass or something like that or you know Beth Page like, “Yeah, go go go battle it out. Which which tour is better?”
Yeah. Yeah. And I would love to see that, too, because I know we did talk about this last week, too. Like, like I said, too, if you eliminate Scotty, like
PJ is not any better than Liv if you eliminate Scotty.
Oh, for sure.
Because the drop off between Scotty and then Rory is a huge difference.
Um, so yeah. Yeah. But let’s see if in the future do we continue to see team golf or
um or does it just stick to what it is
or how it grows? How does it grow from the live? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, let’s move on here. So, with the PGA headed across the Well, I guess golf, I was going to say the PJ because live golf are going there, too. But with golfers heading across the water for the British Open and the Open, which golfer are you most concerned with right now, dude? Great question. So, I looked at a couple things. I I there’s two golfers that come to mind. Winden Clark number one.
Yeah, because we all know about the kind of the outburst that he’s had this year. Didn’t do well this weekend.
No,
he’s 77 on FedEx Cup. So, he’s an outside looking in going into the postseason. Yes.
So,
gota be top 70, guys, if you didn’t know.
Yeah, you got to be top 70 to get into the FedEx St. Jude
and then and then there’s the
BMW
50. Yeah. 50 getting the BMW and then the tour championship. Yeah.
So, William Clark outside looking in. Um, and you know, watch if he doesn’t get top seven, he’s gonna go to live or something, you know. Yeah. I’m I’m Man, if dog, if we And guys, there are no rumors about that. We’re just That’s just a thought we had. If that happens, bro, they might as well just put us on ESPN, dog.
Dude, this you know the other thing, too, I just thought about because you talk you talk about Sergio Garcia, he had an anger outburst. Remember that time he like threw his shoe or something at the masters?
He’s had a he’s had a whole bunch of them.
Yeah, dude. That’s the That’s the live persona, I guess. Man, they got Patrick Reed there, too, you know. So,
hey, Patrick Reed, he’s cleaning up. He’s cleaning up, man. I’m I’m I’mma be I’m gonna be his defense attorney until he messes up again.
Dude, like like I am not hating on the the golf. Like, he plays great golf. Uh it’s just
I don’t know. I probably just like him. I probably root against him more than you root against Rory. So,
nah, good point. Good point. That’s funny. But, um,
Clark, Windham Clark,
and then and then Homer cuz he’s really got to get something going this this year cuz he’s on the outside looking in on lots of things. Ryder Cup, FedEx Cup. Um, and like dude, I like I still think he’s exempt for next year, but it’s like, dude, what if he’s what if his because when was the last time he won? You get three years exemption if you win. It’s been a minute, bro. Uh, yeah. What’s the point?
He won the Genesis, I think, like a couple years ago.
Six time winner. Last time he won was the farmer’s insurance in 2023. Not too bad.
Yeah. So, like, so I think he’ll have next year exempt and that’s it. But like I don’t know. Or is it like is it three years from when they win? I I don’t know how it works, but
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, like if he doesn’t do well cuz like the top 100 FedEx Cup rankings automatically get their cards again, full status next year.
Yeah.
Mhm.
And he’s 122. So like if his exemption ran, let’s say it did run out, like he’d be in deep trouble. And we all want Max Ho on the PGA.
We do. We do. We do. Yeah. Can’t imag Max on the corn ferryy,
dude. I know. We have to watch corn ferry events. He probably he’ll probably just dominate all of them, you know?
I would hope so. But I mean, think about I mean, and I say this with total respect, but like the field at the Rocket Classic, um, a lot of those guys are probably younger guys that have some exemptions or like PGA Tour University like number one players. Yeah, Max and M but Max didn’t even beat them. So until Max becomes Max again, Kornferryy probably would give him a little bit of trouble currently right now. Maybe
I think currently it would. I think I think it he wouldn’t win. That’s for sure. Right. the way he’s playing right now. He definitely dude cuz guys on the cornfairy and like I was just defending my buddy Chris Peish on this, but like dude guys on the cornfair they they’re having career weekends when they win and it’s just like you can have a career weekend too and get second or third or sixth, you know, because the guy who won just shot minus 30, you know. Yeah.
And the cornfair is just a a big birdie fest. And I think with with Max how he’s playing and like the Rocket Mortgage was a birdie fest course and yeah I mean I don’t know maybe minus four might have made the cut at the corn ferry but I’ I’ve seen cuts
I’ve seen cuts lower than that at on cornfairy which is ridiculous you know
right and this hurts me even more cuz like I said Max is my favorite golfer.
I just I just h I have nothing to talk about with him because he’s not playing well and I’m not going to jump ship because he’s not playing well. I’m still a Max Hummer fan. I just hope that he figures it out. But
I think that’s someone
that’s reasonable to worry about along with Windham Clark. Um but we’ll see if they can get like a middle to end resurgence in their game. Um for me,
I hope say I hope to God like Max Homo is one of those guys that like I don’t have to bet on to root for him. I just want Max Homo to win. I’m just such a huge fan of that guy.
Yeah. Yeah. I think too the the public eye and stuff. Yeah, there’s what can you say bad about Homeland? Nothing really at all. Um
but I would say for me, bro, um mine is Xander Shaveé. Shaveley, excuse me. Yeah, he’s a number three golfer official golf rankings for sure. No question.
But he’s having a super down year from last year. Yes, I get it. He came into the season with a rib injury and stuff. And I don’t know if his body is like pushing through that injury still or if it resurfaced because we see like a lot of guys like Wills Alto thought his back was good but then he had end up getting back surgery. We knew like Jordan Spe has the wrist he thought it was good then he end up getting wrist surgery. Not to say I don’t I don’t want Xander to get you know ri surgery but like
yeah but I don’t know if like that pain has resurfaced. He’s like, I’m just trying to fight through it through the season cuz I missed so much time in the beginning cuz the beginning you can kind of miss the farmers insurance, the American Express, Century, you can miss those tournaments. Like that’s no big deal.
But now like you don’t want to miss, you know, the signature events. You don’t want to miss when the playoffs are getting close and majors are coming up. So, but let’s look at statistically from 2024 to 2025. Stroke gain strokes gain off the tea. 2024 he was ranked second. This year currently mid June he’s 157th. Stroke Gang approach 2024. Yeah, he’s sixth. 2025 he was seventh. So he’s that’s the only thing that’s really hasn’t dropped that much. He’s Yeah, he’s still elite. Stroke gain around the green 24 36th. This year 165th strokes gain putting in 2024 was 12th 166th and then strokes gain total second in 2024. 2025 132nd. So there’s been a huge decline in his production. Yeah, he’s still making some cut. his cut streak is still active, but kind of what we said about Louvig. It’s like when he does make the cut, it’s like uh finish T48, something like that. He’s had a couple, you know, T12s and stuff, but like that’s the only person I’m really worried for because I want to be able to defend the open. I want to be able to defend the open. I want I want the PGA to be competitive again. Like I said, majority of time it’s always Scotty, Scotty, Scotty, which it should be Scotty, Scotty, Scotty, but I want to be like, we know because like last year, I think before the Olympics when we were talking about who’s golfer of the year, is it Scotty or Xander? You can make an argument. You can make the argument. A guy who has two majors and a whole bunch of like second places
or a guy who didn’t win any majors, but he he had like I think at the time Scotty might had like four wins or something like that and he was one.
He won the Masters, but yeah. And then and then after that he was pretty quiet.
Yeah. Oh, I’m tripping. He didn’t win a match last year. Yeah, I’m tripping. But yeah. Yeah, he was like really quiet. Yeah. Yeah. Um
so but this year it’s just like well I mean since Scotty’s hands like no like you don’t really know.
Yeah. And Rory is kind of like again we’ve talked about his identity issues maybe and just kind of like feeling too complacent after win the matches because he hasn’t been threatening
in a long time either because the beginning of the season Rory came out like yo he’s pushing for something
and then it just died off
it just jumped off a cliff dramatically bro.
So um but yeah mine would be Xander. Yeah.
Yeah. It it just dude it just you I want golf to be interesting again. Like that and that’s kind of why I think like the Rocket Mortgage was a little bit more fun to watch in the US Open. Like I was texting you all weekend but like
dude it was way more fun.
And I al I liken it to like this. Okay. A football game that’s 6 to9 is less fun to watch than a football game that’s like 35 to 27.
Yeah.
Right. And I think that’s the same thing with like golf and the Rocket Mortgage. Like the US Open was the 3-6.
Yeah.
Yeah. Bama versus LSU back in the day, you know.
I remember that. I remember that game. Yeah.
And then whereas the Rocket Mortgage was like, you know, all right, we got Chiefs versus We got the Momes versus Burrow. Yeah. Or Rams. Yeah.
That game. Yeah. It was like a Yeah. Yeah. That was a good game. This when golf this golf was on the golf was on the Rams. It was a night game and they played lights out. It was like a fun game. I think the Rams end up winning that game. Yeah. Well, I remember there was like Goff versus Kirk Cousins. It was and that was a great game. Like there they just had just a high-powered offense and
Yeah.
It’s just it’s a lot more fun. Especially when there when it’s close and there’s like changes in victories, but like when Scotty comes in and just hangs on to the lead all Sunday, you’re like, well, it’s like Bama versus FC. Yeah, it’s like Bama versus FCS school. Yeah, that that that game was also not fun to watch. A lot of scoring, but not fun. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
70 to 14, you know. That’s also not fun to watch, you know. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Last thing before we get into women’s golf, I’m just going to talk about this real quick. The PGA Champions Tour, I had the privilege of being there at the Broadmore in Colorado Springs, man. Beautiful course. Oh my gosh, man. Um like I said, being there in person was amazing, but Miguel Jimenez was close to winning his fifth one um this year. I think he’s won majority of the PGA Champions Tour games. Uh he g he gave the people a scare. He started climbing back. He got into one shot back, but he bogeied 18th and finished with a T3, nine under, and he was six under actually on that Sunday. So, he just started playing lights out and it was scaring the field. He was in the he was in the pairing group before the last pairing group. The last pairing group was Padre Harrington and my guy Steuart Sink, man. And I love Steuart Sink who I think should have been should have been the Ryder Cup captain. And I was talking to people about this. If we look at like the RDER Cup captains historically, they’re always like, you know, 45 and older
and Ke is only like 30. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s like, man, like he didn’t even he didn’t like pay his due to like earn that. And
you know there’s there’s rumors how like Keegan’s really Yeah. Keegan’s having an incredible year. We’re not judging his golf. He’s playing amazing. He might end up playing as a captain this year.
But uh people were trying to say how like they’re just trying to make up for what happened last year or two years ago with picking JT over him and like how do we make up for this? Okay, let’s just vote Ke the captain.
Yeah. And it’s just like bro, he even pay his due to get there and Steuart Stink was a vice captain in 2023. So, we thought Steuart was next, but then Yeah. But then also for Netflix, like who’s more flashy? Like a a quiet nice guy that has a really good golf mind and Steuart sink or like the revenge story of Keegan, young
39y old guy. And I think this is just happening in sports, man. Like everybody’s trying to go younger.
Keegan 39 football coaches. Oh, let’s go with the hot young go with the hot young offensive guru or the defensive minded guy. Yeah. as opposed to like let’s get a established older vet. Um cuz I think the way the trend is going now it’s like we want you know coaches or captains that can relate more to the players and Keegan is still in that field you know uh but but besides the point anyways I think it should have been Steuart Sink. Um maybe again maybe a biased opinion by me but I think a lot of the golf world has Steuart Sync next up too as well. But even in saying that, um,
um, Stewartync and Padre Harrington were going back and forth all day on Sunday, man. Um,
the back nine, they were both, they both shot 33 on the front nine, and I believe Patrick Harrington went bogey, gave Stewart the lead, and then Stewart went on to bogey a hole, and I think Patrick Birdie a hole, and then Steuart birded a hole, but I think hole 15 Stewart bogeied.
Yeah. And so down he was down one stroke going into 18 and Stewart out drove both of them by a long shot and he went for as a pro shot and it was a nice shot, bro, but too much spin and came back and got like to the front of the green. Pin was in the back. So Steuart ended up parring and then Padrick Harrington end up parring as well. So Padre Herring end up winning the it’s a major for the US uh for the Yeah. for the PJ tour. Yeah. So, um, he won with 11 under. Stewie, I mean, Stewart ended up going 10 under for the day. It was a really, really good match, man. I hope Steuart ends up getting one in the future, man. But it was it was really fun to be there and see that live cuz uh I wanted to go walk around, see other golfers, but I’m like I want to go see Miguel, but I’m just like this battle between Stuart and Pre Harrington right now is just it’s just too I can’t miss it. I can’t miss it. So, it was cool like getting those updates like live and stuff. But um in saying that um want to move over to women’s golf because here at golf and gospel we do respect women’s golf um even though that post with uh golf.com had of rigs from bar stool talking about how good he’s doing in promoting uh women’s golf and stuff. I’m just like guys this is nothing new. Uh this this has been going on here with golf and golf. I’ve been losing to these ladies for a long time. So essentially that post said that post said like uh man we love what Rigs is doing with women’s golf allowing there they should allow there to be like a hater series where amateurs who look down on women’s golf play against those amateurs. Now obviously I don’t look down on women’s golf but like I’ve been playing women’s golf the whole time promoting the sport. So golf got come like this is nothing new. We’ve been doing this over here at golf and gospel. I’ve been losing to Cristiana Sioska. These are mini tour. Christians, Cesley Overby. I’ve been losing to Matt McCrae of the Epson Tour. I’ve been losing to Emma. I’ve been losing to Amy Olsson. I’ve been playing against Tracy Hansen. Um so this is this is you know playing against you know women golfers and um lifting up women’s golf is is nothing new. Just Yeah. Go ahead.
Yo, so I play division one college golf. So like usually
I’m when I go to a golf course I’m one of the better golfers there.
I played against Stephanie Meadow. She was ranked like 60th in the world at the time.
Yeah, dude. She smoked me. It’s just like like people don’t understand like dude even so I mean I played her home course in in my defense but that’s still not like she smoked me because she shot like 68 and she was just kind of like it was an average day and it’s like
dude
even if I I played the black blue mix it was like dude even
even if I had a great day like I would I would have been lucky to shot to have shot 68. Yeah.
Um but yeah, dude, these women golfers, they’re especially the top top golfers, like
the Nellies of the world, she can really compete. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. But
yeah, and I agree and I’m just saying respectfully like I know Rigs is a way bigger name than me, has way more popularity in the golf world, but you know, playing against women golfers and supporting women golf, women’s golf is nothing new. that that’s been happening over here from the mini tours to the Epson tours to the NXXT tours, the LPGA. So, uh, and and reason why I’m talking about that too because I seen a lot of people that I know and they know what I’m doing support that. I’m like, why y’all supporting it when Rigs is doing it but not when I’m doing it? And I’m not trying to get like a a sap session for me, but it’s just like that just shows how like we love to look cool and celebrate the celebrity when like your peer is grinding to do this and it’s like, “Oh, it’s not as cool unless you were a celebrity doing it.” And uh
yeah, but in saying that, moving on to women’s golf. Again, we respect women’s golf. I like highly respect women’s golf over here. I want to go to the Epson tour first. I want to say I apologize to Gina Kim because each week I kept saying Grace Kim and there’s a Grace Kim on the LPJ but when every time I announced something for the Epson tour I kept thinking Grace Kim on my head but it’s Gina Kim. So Gina Kim or anybody from the Epson tour that watches this tell Gina Kim I apologize for saying Grace Kim each time man. Um but however Jillian Hollis with career win number four really coming out of nowhere on the Epson tour. She ended up winning last week and before this week the two weeks she finished no the throughout the season she has no better finish in the T4 and she has five cuts. So it’s like man where did she come from? But her last two weeks she finished T13 and then won this week in a playoff getting her first victory this year on the Absent Tour. So shout out to Jillian Hollis. Absolutely man the UG grad. And also I want to say shout out to Melanie Green. She had a nice little finish too as well and she is now the new leader leader for the race for the card in regards to getting your LPGA uh tour card. And the LPJA tour card goes to the top 15 on the Epson tour. And um she is now one dethroning Gina Kim who’s now at two and Riley Smite who’s now at uh three. Um now I want to talk about the LPJ’s Legends Tour this weekend presented by the Resort World. Catskill had a nice weekend with Mariah McBride winning shooting 69 and shooting 67. She already had 15 career wins, but she also just made it 16 win this week. So, congrats to her.
And now we move on to the LPGA. And Nate, you got lucky this week cuz if ne if if Lexi would have won, you’ll be you’ll be eating your words, dog. You’ve been eating your words, dog. Oh my god. would have seen me do a
actually I would have done like a reverse I would have done like a skip bis and just like doubled down like I’m still right you know.
Yeah, but LPJ just finished the DAO championships which is like the Zurich on the PGA for people who don’t understand. Yeah. And that went into a playoff too, man.
Um so congrats to uh Gen TM and Somi Lee for winning in the playoff and there’s both their first career wins
and um
Oh, nice. Congrats. There you go.
Yeah. So yeah. So good for them, man. They they beat Lexi, unfortunately. I still think Lexi to this day is going to get a win before Nelly. They beat Lexi and Megan King, man. Two really good studs when it comes to LPJ golf. U so shout out to them. But in regards to the Dow Championships, which again, the format’s like Zurich golf. It’s a team event.
Nate, I want to ask you this question. Give me three golfers you would pick as your teammate if you were playing in the Dow Championship. And here’s your qualifications. One has to be a rookie. One has to be a superstar and one has to be like a good player kind of like middle tier person which is subjective because someone might think they’re a middle tier player but they might actually be a superstar and so on and so on. So I would love to hear your three picks. Yeah.
Yeah. And no offense if I say someone’s a middle tier and they’re like wait
oh yeah yeah I’m sure a lot of these ladies have a ton of humility. So um
yeah for sure.
But dude the superstar I would have to go with dude I don’t know. I think after watching the uh uh KPMG
Oh yeah,
I think Miy Lee has to be okay.
has to be up there.
Um
it’s just like her being so like solid and not three time major winner.
Yeah, three-time major winner. Not wavering at all and just Dude, she never let go of the lead.
No.
Um
and that’s hard to do. That is hard to hold the lead a whole weekend. make she didn’t make a bogey in the wind on Saturday. She made she made two bogeies on the front n on Sunday and I can’t remember if she made one on the back n or not
but just the fact that she was still able to like hit amazing shots like in the middle of the wind in the middle with all these nerves.
I think that and I think her being very analytical would help me as a player like all right if I’m nervous hey how do I what what should my plan be? And then when you when you have a plan, it’s the nerves kind of become less noisy.
So um
should be my star right now.
Um
yeah, let’s see. Mid mid tier. I don’t know. I I think I want to go Kristen Gilman because
Yeah,
I feel like I know her even though I don’t. But
I go
Yeah, she’s had some solid finishes. I believe she was she Oh, yeah. So, she got 14th uh two weeks ago.
Nice.
And she’s, you know, number seven showing around the green. So, pretty solid showing. I
I hope she’s not offended. I I consider her mid tier. But
yeah, even if we say the word middle tier, these girls are amazing.
Even if you’re ranked last, if you’re ranked last in CMN points, you are
to the average amateur, you are a Nelly quarter.
So, this is there’s no Yeah, there’s no offense.
People know like how good these girls are. It’s
I’m I remember like people like commenting on like our my girl Dana Fall.
Mhm.
Like on her stuff and like how she hits it uh or on on what she was hitting into like some par three I think whole nine at the US Open.
Yeah.
And it’s like dude,
you just don’t know. Like this girl was so good and she was such a hard worker cuz I practiced alongside her at Ken McDonald back in the day and
she was just grinding and I mean
for for her for her uh all her hard work to be diminished to an Instagram comment like come on dude get out of here
for sure. Yeah trolls.
W all these all these ladies are just I mean all these athletes even on the cornfairy tour are just spectac. Yeah. And then I would say so anyways the uh the rookie like I obviously how can I go anywhere else besides Julia Lopez.
Good pick. Good pick. Yeah. Had a good showing at the Women’s US Open. The Sunday didn’t fit her too well.
Mhm. And she made the cut on the number at the KPMG.
She did.
Um and dude she hits it a mile. I think she has she dropped the third on on driving distance, but she’s up there. She’s like top five driving distance.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Um
Yeah. So now
Yeah. Go ahead.
Was if you play in a scramble and you have a girl that can hit it like close to 300 because I think she hits it close 290.
Yeah.
If you have if you play in a scramble, you have a girl that hits a 290, it’s like a huge advantage.
Yeah.
So
yeah, that’s a good I love that pick, too. I I think you you’ve been keen on her since the uh Women’s US Open. I think that’s a really good pick.
Yeah. Uh well, for me, man, obviously, if you guys have been watching or listening to this podcast, there’s no surprise if I’m picking as my superstar. Give me mouth seo, bro. Fourth and C points. Yeah. Major winner, leading in Rolex LPGA player of the year prediction. I And I’ve been said the whole season that she will be LPJ golfer of the year. It is getting tighter though. I think she’s only up by like four points now. But um
letting it slip a little bit.
A little bit man. But she in looking in terms of her ranking, she barely doubles. She barely bogeies. She just she lessen her her mistakes. And that’s what one thing as amateurs we got to learn how to do. Just lessen the mistakes if we want to see good scores. And that is something that Mount Seo does amazing. I love her actually off the tea and her tea to Green actually is just super amazing, man. So I’m a I’m a super fan of Mount Seo. She would be my superstar that I would pick to be my partner.
Yep. if I had to uh be in the DAO championships. The second person I I would pick as like my middle tier really good player. I said she had my favorite swing on tour. Give me uh Lyn Grant, bro. Yeah, Lyn Grant, man. She’s really good. Love her ball striking, man. Not having the best season.
So, well,
so well. Um short back swing, loopy swing, similar to mine. Uh well, I guess I’m saying similar to her cuz she ain’t resembling anything that I’m doing on the golf course. Although, she’s not having the best season. 11 starts, only five cuts made, but in the cut she did make, three of those five were 10. And again, like I said, I want a really good ball striker. She’s ranked 18 on tour in terms of ball streak, and she’s top 30 in driving average with a 272. And she’s fairly accurate. And unfortunately, until I learn how to use my lower body and my hips, right, I’m not driving as far as her. So, she would be a great person to be with in four ball for sure.
Mid she’s your mid-tier pick.
Yeah. Yeah. Mid tier. Again, guys, mid tier, we’re they’re still great. I’m just super star.
Yeah.
Well, she’s not ranked too high in terms of CM points. So, I just I just want to pick up again. She’s a really good player, guys. But like I just had to categorize it and to separate it from superstar. I just I didn’t know what else to say.
U and lastly for my rookie bro, I saw her on the Epson tour last year. Was a fan of her. I was a I was a fan of her. I was a fan of Madison Young, who was a rookie on the Epson tour.
You’re going to go with Madison Young. No, I’m not, bro. And Nassen, you my dog, bro. Um, I’m going with Ingret Limblad. Uh, already won this year on tour, which is more than Nelly Carter has this year. F you, Nate.
Uh, yeah. Uh, strokes game putting she’s four and she averages around under 30 putts in a round, which for me that’s that’s good. Yeah, you want to be under 30 putts if you’re if Yeah. In terms of golf, man.
And um, when we get to
What’s your average, do you know? Is it like 28? I think it was like 29.7 or something like that.
That’s pretty solid. Yeah, solid. Yeah, I think she I think she might be fourth in the rookie of the year race right now. But man, if I get a rookie who’s already won on tour and she knows what what it what you need to do to win.
I’m going England Lindlad, bro. And also when I did my episode with Riley Reneell on the episode tour, shout out to Riley. Um, we had I gave her um like a play like a little game. I was like, “Yo, if you had to take someone’s ball striking, someone off the tea, someone’s playing someone short game, who would you pick?” And one of the people she picked was Ingred Lindlad. So, I’m just like respected that cuz like in reality that’s like Riley’s pure. That’s not like somebody like I’m looking up to like that’s not like a oh a Nelly or she had mentioned like Christy Curry. Christy Kerr is like a legend on the LPJ. She said, “Yo, I’m going to go someone who’s an equal with me and I really respect their game. Give me Ingred Lindlad, bro. So,
that’s a high high compliment. Yeah, this one she said like Lydia Co short game, right?
Lydia Co short game. Uh Lexi Thomas. Lexi Thomas. I think she said Lexi off the tea. Lexi is a strong player. She’s super strong.
And I think she went uh I forgot what she picked Christy Kur for, but I think just mentally like her like Christy Ker is feisty. Christy Ker has over 20 wins on the LPJ. So, there’s there’s obviously some um some qualities you wanted to take from her, but yeah, bro. Yeah, I’m gonna go Ingret Limblad, man. So, um, yeah, guys. Uh, so next week we’ll actually have a special guest from the Epson tour to help us break down the women’s, uh, Evian, which is a major. So, you guys can stop hearing the opinions of, uh, me and Nate. You rather get some more of woman’s insight, who’s actually on the Epson tour, man. So, you guys stay tuned for that, man. But, uh, guys, I we would love to know your thoughts. If you’re a golf head, who do you think is going to win the John Deere Classic? Who are you most concerned for when it comes to, you know, guys going to play in the British Open and the Open and uh what do you think about our picks too for our partners in the DAO championship, which again is like the Zurich. Do you agree? Would you pick a different LPJ player? We want to know these things. Let us know in the comments, man. Uh unfortunately, no giveaway this week. Um but look out for more of those in the future. And again, uh I’m Jeremy Davis. This is the homie Nate Wong, best PT in Arizona. And we’ll see you guys next week breaking down again the Evian, the women’s major. Peace.
Peace.
