**🏌️♂️ Collin Morikawa Changes Caddie & Putter AGAIN + Padraig Harrington Wins US Senior Open! | Golf News Update**
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🔥 **Collin Morikawa splits with caddie Joe Greiner after just FIVE tournaments** – Is this a sign of trouble, or is Collin searching for the right fit? Full story: [Golf Digest](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/collin-morikawa-splits-with-caddie-joe-greiner-after-only-five-tournaments)
🎯 **Morikawa switches putters AGAIN** – Will this be the key to fixing his struggles on the greens? See his latest setup: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DLdiotexVZm/?igsh=MWM5bWlzY3I0amptYQ==)
🏆 **Padraig Harrington wins his 2nd US Senior Open!** – The Irish legend continues to dominate the Champions Tour. Recap: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/DLf2l7ETeUK/?igsh=MWNmdGxnZzJldmtqdA==)
⚡ **Harrington argues with Roger Maltbie over a lost ball** – Tense moments on the course! Watch the drama unfold: [Instagram Reel](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLciqyTs6fS/?igsh=Yjh3NGk1a293NHB3)
👭 **LPGA Team Event Winners: Somi Lee & Jin Hee Im take the Dow Championship** – A thrilling victory in this unique format! Full story: [LPGA.com](https://www.lpga.com/news/2025/somi-lee-and-jin-hee-im-win-dow-championship)
🛠️ **Aldrich Potgieter’s WITB (What’s in the Bag)** – See what clubs the young star is gaming: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/clVsUH77LZk?si=6MF7Bqs-UvXxueCS)
🏆 **Potgieter (20) wins in a 5-hole playoff at the Rocket Classic** – Beating Max Greyserman (30) and Chris Kirk (40) in an epic battle!
❌ **Cole Hammer DQ’ed after reporting a rule breach** – A rare and controversial disqualification on the Korn Ferry Tour. Details: [Golf Digest](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/cole-hammer-reports-rules-violation-DQ-nelson-ledesma-korn-ferry-tour)
🌡️ **LIV Golf in Texas plagued by extreme heat** – Players struggle despite extra resources. We called this last year! Full story: [Dallas News](https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/golf/2025/06/28/sweltering-heat-causes-issues-at-liv-golf-dallas-second-round-despite-plenty-of-resources/)
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Hey y’all. Back at it again. Beard Bros Golf Show. I am Rod
and I’m Marcus. Um, welcome back to the show. Um, interesting week. I mean, I don’t know. I watched a lot of the uh Rocket Mortgage Classic. The uh older gents were out there playing. Caught a little bit of that drama with uh Patrick Harrington. I I don’t know, man. We We’ll get into it, but I’m starting to feel a certain way about Mr. Harrington. Um, let’s get started on the PGA tour. Uh, Mr. I’m gonna have to look at it every time I say it. Aldrich potter. Um, 20-year-old Husky man. Uh, not that I can say much, but uh, beefy boy, you know, bringing out the big stick, a long hitter. um South African finally able to get across the finish line. He’s he’s scared the uh trophy stand quite a quite a few times early on in his career. So, finally crossing the finish line, five hole playoff, threeman initially to start with Chris Kirk and um Max Greaserman, a 20-year-old, a 30-year-old, and a 40-year-old going at it in the playoff. And um after some kind of hoham golf, which I think we’ve been seeing quite a bit from playoffs here as of late, um Podiger was able to cross the finish line and get his first profession first PGA Tour win. What’ you think about it? Uh how much of it did you catch and did you get to see the playoff live um in person? Yeah. Um I saw the playoff um I saw no I guess I didn’t see that much of the weekend golf but I saw Thursday Friday quite a bit. Um so knew it was going to be a hot a barn burner. It always is out there but I mean it’s a fun course to play it. It present I mean it’s like I mean it’s like a a spin-off of the travelers. It gives you like a you know a refreshing you know difference from the hard ass courses you usually see or had coming out coming out of with the memorial and the US Open back to back. So uh gave the boys a chance to go out there and go low as possible. Um you saw that the first couple of days you saw 61, you saw a 62. So yeah, the boys were out there firing it and um you know, Pagar, it just seemed like he had it um you know, kind of was in contention from the jump. Uh he shot the original 62, the original course record before Jake Knap came and uh nipped him on that on Friday. But uh over overall, I mean, the course presented well. I mean, I always enjoy when the players come out and get a chance to pull the driver out and just go deep as possible. Pause. Um, but it it definitely was fun. Um, the playoff it really just proves like I wanted to text you multiple times and just tell you that yeah, golf is hard, bro. Like these dudes was I mean the pressure is, you know, insurmountable. I could only imagine what they were going through. Chris Kirk hadn’t won in a while. Max Griezmann hasn’t won at all. Pager has been in a situation before. So, three different levels of pressure and three different avenues of getting there to the playoff. Um, all of them had opportunities down the stretch to kind of, you know, take it by themselves in regulation. Yeah, Chris Kirk had the first chance. Um, he shot um a 67 on Sunday, but could have been a 66. He just didn’t even give it a chance. But, you know, everybody can’t read greens. I mean, that like I think that’s really like what I’ve like realized week in week out is people’s ability to read greens and be like a substantial good putter. Like I think that is a talent in itself. Like I think that’s something that people take for granted. being able to read greens, being able to, you know, read pace and grain and all that stuff incorporated in the same um, you know, jargon. So, um,
I mean, I think it’s it’s the separator. I mean, you don’t get to the PJ tour
being a ball a bad ball striker. I mean, even though there may be different levels of how well they strike the ball, there’s there’s always going to be, you know, separators there, but none of them are bad at striking the ball and can get the ball on the green. And so then it’s like proximity and then making putts at the end of the day, right? Taking advantage of the holes that you can. Um, the course actually played longer than I thought it
there. I mean, there’s some shorties out there, but it almost it played just short of 7,400 yards. So, that’s a pretty pretty nice pop. It’s not like they were playing uh the Travelers was under 7,000. So, yeah,
you know,
stretched it out a little bit there in in Detroit, you know, a little bit old school style.
Um, you know, but they were able, like you said, to whip out the big stick. Not a lot of gearing down where they were having to go threewoods off the TE’s. you see it here and there, but it’s not like that was the bulk of of the round. So, I mean, I like I said, I always like watching that course for for whatever reason. It’s just it’s a bit of a change up. I like the the finishing hole gives folks a chance to score. Um, it’s a it it looks weird just even on TV the way from an eye view standpoint. So, I can’t imagine how it feels in person to hit on that 18T out there.
Um, in the playoff corners, cutting corners and stuff like that. Found it interesting on that par three um that they were playing um that was in the rotation or during the playoff, the different clubs that they chose. So, um, pot gator went long the first time with a nine iron, pulled it again on the second, um, time around on that hole and then just kind of like slapped it up there. Um, versus Grayerman. Um, hit like a a wedge the first time and then went nine, perfect wedge, hole high. Yeah.
Just didn’t make the putt. then went nine and ended up very front of the green. So, yeah, like you said, pressure is a mother and you could tell uh similar emotions from Grayerman that we saw from Tommy Fleetwood last week, just, you know, being close again and not being able to cross the finish line, you know, hopefully learning the lessons that they can bring back to the drawing, you know, from the drawing board.
Yeah. and uh figure it out the next time they’re in that position. So
definitely I just wanna I just want to input um as we transition to the next point. I was playing this morning with uh one of our you know few remaining members at my golf course that I work at and um you know he said something that kind of not tilted me but like it was kind of like confusing cuz he was like not a lot of big names this week on the to on the tournament and I’m like did did you watch at all like the next upand cominging product is already here plus names that are very familiar with Like I’m not sitting here discounting anything Colin Morawa’s done as a major winner. Like let’s just put that on the forefront right now. Like we’re not going to just disregard what he’s done. Keegan Bradley played this week. Like that’s two names already. That’s Captain America and then a guy that’s been in golf news for like four or five months in a row. So not only that, then you got Maxoma. Then you got the Gary Woodlands, you know, you got, you know,
I mean, Jake Jake Map’s been making a name for himself the last couple years,
right? It’s just it it really baffled me that he would say that.
Well, I think casuals, right? I mean, there’s there’s different
Yeah.
Um, folks out here who just don’t watch, I guess, as much as we do or pay attention to the names. Um, I mean, I I don’t know. I I I mean even before we started doing this
and one of the motivations to actually do it was that I we’ve always paid attention, right?
It’s not always about the stars. I mean, these guys are are highly talented like you said. Um Matt Fitzpatrick, major winner. Hideki Matyama, Menu, you already mentioned Menu Lee. Ben Griffin, who’s a two-time winner this year.
Um
so many names.
I’m a I’m a weirdo. So, like this is how niche it gets for me. Like I always like to see Mark Huard out there
because he’s a character and you know I think he’s a good player and his time you know he’s getting older and long in the tooth but he’s a good you know guy and and I like to see him you know pushing leader boards. Cam Champ trying to make a resurgence this year with the top 20. Yeah.
Um Ash Batia who’s had a quiet year. So many names. Yeah, Camille Vagis. Uh the the live guy, James Patt, you know, I mean, there’s so many names. Adam Hadwin, um let’s see, the guy with the Nike irons, Paul Peterson, Cam Young was there. I mean, bro, it it come on, man. Michael Kley and Patrick. I totally forgot about the Piatt story. Um I mean, so many people made the cut. I think this was the highest amount of players that have ever made a cut on a PJ
75 or something like that. It was crazy,
right? So, if you went home, uh, actually it was 86. 86 players
made the cut. Cut probably.
I know. So, if you went home, you probably felt real bad about your week if you had no um, you know, no solid.
And you had to shoot six. You had to shoot at least six to make it. Right. I mean, but you know, with those three course records essentially, right? Two on the first day, then Jake uh nap resetting it completely. I mean, you could go low, right? And you you almost could think that, you know, that it would be mid20s in terms of the final number, but
yeah,
you know, the guys in the playoff went to 22 under respectable. It is a score scoring course, but it didn’t get out of control. It wasn’t near it wasn’t pushing 30 like the uh the Byron Nelson out at TPC Creek Ranch. It’s it just you know it’s got some challenges to it. It’s got some teeth. Uh the rough roughing.
Yeah. I mean that’s crazy cuz TD Craig Ranch is is pretty tough for like just like some some amateur regular low to mid handicappers and they was just going out there eating it for lunch. I think the length it messes with a lot of amateurs and you know I mean that’s that’s the biggest thing. But um let’s get into the kind of a an abbreviated uh version of Aldridge Poters what’s in the bag that he filmed with another channel. So I’m going to pull this up really quick. um don’t get the full bag and all the deets, but um just enough to get an idea of what he’s got going on. And then moving on to your irons, you’ve got four to
four to 99 in the new in the new T150.
Okay, awesome. Let’s have a look at those.
Yeah, they’ve been great. I hit those last week as well. They’ve been awesome. Just lost the tea. It’s just very consistent. What shaft have you got in those as well?
That’s the KBS, the V10,
right?
130 g.
So you’ve got one, two, three, four, five, six wedgies in your bag.
Usually I would have five. These are
You always have five. And you’re just testing these two at the moment.
Yeah. So the 46 is a 55. Yeah.
So it’s been bent, one stronger. I had a lot of gaps that I needed to fill. They were pretty big. And I was struggling to kind of
soften that shot maybe to a front flag. So, uh, we changed that and made the 50, I think that was a 51,
right?
And then that’s gone to a 56 and that got to 54. So, it kind of gets the gaps, um, a lot better. Got two 60° wedges in the bag today. So, what’s the difference in those two? And what you working on? What you trying to find in the difference? What you working out there for that?
Yeah, I mean, the K grind, I would say if you’re opening it up, it has a it’s very it’s a lot thicker.
Um, with the T grind, it’s got very little bounce. So, um, this one has basically three angles. When you’re keeping it straight, it’s sitting flat. When you’re opening it, it’s kind of a bit more bolded. Where this one’s kind of got just a big V edge in the middle. See? So, you can see almost the three steps there, if you like, and the difference in the bounce. Whereas with this one, you’ve just got the two there. You got the sole and then it sort of fades away there. So, you’re just trying to get a little bit more versatility maybe out of that one.
Yeah, this one be firm bunkers. So, um, maybe firm surfaces. That’ll be a a big
They’re saying this one and that one, but not mentioning if it’s the T grind or the this one with a bit softer. You’re going to get more forgiveness with that strike.
And is there any sort of particular personalization you like on these? I’ve just seen obviously there’s the AP on those. You like it pretty clean and you’ve got that kind of
rusty finish. You prefer the rust all the time.
I like it. I mean, I wouldn’t mind playing with just the regular finish. Um, but the rust makes it look a little bit cool. So,
all right, then. Let’s wrap up with looking at the putter. So this is 009. I got this a couple years ago in California made for me. So that was pretty special after I won the British Am. So
that was a cool present from them. And um I’ve
used it probably since December last year. Um had a good finish with that.
Which golf ball model do you use and kind of why?
So this is the Pro1X Plus ball. So I think it’s more spin, a little faster ball. So with the driver, it kind of keeps it in the air in that right window. Um, and with the irons, it spins a little bit more. Well, thank you so much for talking us through your bag there. I really, really appreciate this. It’s golf month, right? Um, no, this is golf a lot.
Okay,
so shout out to them. Felt weird.
Felt weird seeing that. I don’t know. I’m I’m I don’t know why, but it made me uncomfortable the way he was grabbing the man’s clubs rather than just letting him show the clubs. It’s kind of like come on, man. It’s weird, but um
yeah, our other guy, uh
our other guy, Ted Talks, he had like he did a he did a run through. I actually meant to send you the send you the video. So, he did um a full bag. He did the 009. He’s playing I think just recently he’s playing the four wedges I think. Um
he took one out. Yeah, he took one out. Um four and five are the T150s and then I think he’s playing six, seven, eight, nine are the T100s and then the rest are the Vokis. Um V10 is a stiffer, bordier shaft is what they were saying. in the KBS shop is what uh equipment junkie tests will say.
I had never I had never heard of that version the V10. I mean I’ve heard a lot of different
KBS. So essentially what it is is they want they have since you can only go a certain stiffness on the shaft like the only way past that is to thicken it thicken the shaft or widen the diameter to make it a little bit boardier and stuff like that. So that’s essentially what the KBS V10 is. Um he played the X the T 100 or the the X100 the true tempers for a little bit. Didn’t work out. Went back to the V10s. Um so yeah, I think he plays probably the stiffest clubs uh on tour right now. Um driver is the GT2. recently changed from the GT3 Venice Black 8X uh Ping G440 3-wood. Um I think he’s playing that standard 15° but again just another just crazy um hard stiff uh shaft and then I think he goes two iron into his four or five and his two iron
on the wedge setup.
Correct. And then his two iron is a 90. It’s the the new T250 and it’s a 90 Torx something or other. I mean, it’s stiff. It It’s It’s boardy as hell.
That’s a That’s a heavy um kind of driving iron shaft, but usually see that at like 80 grams.
And he just whips through that [ __ ] It’s just too easy for my man.
It does. So, he’s also bucking the uh the trend of skinny golfers. He said, “Uh, hey, Wills Alator, hold my beer.” Who needs who needs that little, you know, who needs a flat stomach and uh you know, workout program?
He is.
Yeah. Yeah. Flex. He’s flexible. He’s got a big turn. I mean, he’s like
to me, he honestly is like John Dailyaly re reincarnated for this gen current generation. But, you know, probably without, you know, the other trouble. The
No, I was I was going to say he sounded very mature. You can just kind of tell um that he’s got a good head on his shoulders. Um very thankful of his parents and all the sacrifices um that they’ve made. Seems like they’ve left South Africa, went to Australia, and then uh kind of over here to the US is where he’s been based since then. So, um yeah, shout out to the kid. Hopefully, again, we always good wish good tidings for first time winners that this is not their only stop in the winner circle and they can continue the momentum um and find something in their game. But looks like a highly talented kid that we’ll see him around for quite some time, especially with that distance off the tea. If he can stay healthy, um I think he’s going to have a bright future.
Yeah, absolutely agreed. Um let’s see. Also from the PGA week, Colum Morawa making news early on in the week. Um, let’s get through the drama first. So, again, rehashing stuff with the media. I mean, I don’t know. I’m becoming quite annoyed with Colin because he’s not very I mean, he kind of went directly at a a reporter this week just saying, “You’re not going to take shots at me, but still being vague.” So, it’s like real inside baseball type stuff where you just don’t know all the ins and outs, but he’s addressing it publicly. He doesn’t look great because as we’ve said, um, always doesn’t do a great job of verbalizing his issues. Um, we’ve seen and come to appreciate Scotty being able to have a real issue, describe it vividly, have us all understand where he’s coming from. Colin, however, just sounds like a whiny kid, especially now that he’s not playing very well. Um, you know, in addition to the Caddy drama,
you know, that he’s just he’s on second caddy of the year. Um, just dropped uh Joe Grinder, who was Max Hom’s Caddy earlier on the year. So, I don’t know if is Joe is Joe the problem? Is are are Max and and Colin the problem? I don’t know. But another caddy change for Colin. Looks like he uh had an old college teammate on the bag this week. Tough first round. I was able to watch quite a bit of that on the ESPN coverage in the first round. Made the putter switch to a really nice They’re calling it a spider, but they’re calling it a spider, but it’s Yeah. But it’s one of the sexiest putters I’ve ever seen. My goodness, that thing was Oh, Lord.
So, so tell me about the give your thoughts. I’m gonna pull up a picture of the putter.
Yeah. So, uh, well, first of all, Colin being Colin, um, again, with the media, you know, they’re going to say some stupid stuff. You just got to kind of brush it off. He tried to come at this angle that, you know, you’re not going to keep just, you know, throwing shots at me and I’m not going to defend myself, but I’m going to defend myself. But all the media did was continue to ask guided questions. He skipped right over what was happening with the Rocket Mortgage, what was going to happen with the John Deere and upcoming events that way. The Scottish Open, I mean, we got, you know, two weeks left before they opened. He went straight to the open and was like, “Who’s going to be your caddy for the open?” And of course, it happened to be the guy that, you know, apparently is writing articles about him and, you know, throwing, you know, sly comments about him or whatever. And he’s like, you know, yeah, he nodded at he nodded and was like, you know, trying to hear and then just went straight off on a tangent and went straight for the dude’s neck. I’m like, I didn’t really get it. And I’m not gonna sit here and Google Colin Morawa Allen reporter and try to figure out what interview and what uh article they talking about.
Like if you going if you gonna talk about the issue, talk about the issue. You just talking about the man’s and what he said.
We don’t know what what that is. as niche as this sport is,
please give us some type of guiding light to where we can go search that out cuz you know we will if we have an opportunity to. He he’s just he looks like he’s flailing. He looks like he’s really out of control right now.
This is kind of like the hit dog holler thing going on cuz like you don’t really even need to address that. Just say some smart ass comment back and be like I don’t know. we’ll know when we get there type [ __ ] and then move on. Like I don’t like I don’t know why you made that a big deal because you you you could feel the tension as you saw just the little small clip that we had. I mean you could tell just everything
all the other reporters just probably looking around like you see him should we record this like what what’s going on? You know what’s going on? I don’t know. And then let me pull this and then go ahead.
Yeah, but anyways, that’s neither here nor there. Kamorawa ended up shooting a decent round in the second round. And we’ll just hope for the best and see that if this new putter brings him some joy. But man, I mean, oh, the then the aluminum sole on the on the I mean, I didn’t think I’d be this much of a fan of the plumber’s neck, but it is definitely definitely intriguing me now. It is. But I mean, that is one of the coldest looking putters I’ve ever seen. You know me, I love a I love a blacked out putter. That’s like a 105 gram shaft or something like that. The Diamana putting shaft. Um, as they went through the specs, I mean, it’s just amazing, bro. Yeah, but that that matte black looks really good. seems like he was he said with the um more bladed style putter that he was having a hard time getting the face closed and completing the stroke. So, he was leaving quite a few putts out to the right pushing them. So, you know, you that’s the thing. We we’ve been saying this since Scotty put the uh spider in the bag a couple of years ago. If if putting is where the money is made, as we discussed earlier on in the show, that is the separator.
Why would you put
a harder tool in your bag? Leave the ego aside. Get some help. Use the technology that’s available. I mean, um, we’ll I will mention it, I guess. I didn’t watch much of the DP World Tour. I kept falling asleep. I would watch it fall asleep um throughout the weekend. But one thing I did notice is that that dang lab DF3 is going worldwide. It’s everywhere. It’s a lot a lot of guys on the DP World Tour were playing it. Um I’m seeing amateurs with it. Um I’ve seen it at least three times now out on the course. So I mean even if that thing can get run, use the technology. It’s out there,
right? If people got $800 to spend on that thing, go ahead, bro. You Listen, I am not right gonna hate if you got upgrades, right, bro? It It’s insane to me. The the recent The recent one where they have the Hisle on the what they’re calling the little offset and not center shafted. That kind of appeals to me, but I mean, I just don’t get it. But like I but but like we were saying about putting um again when people are trying to make a you know just a more defined and disciplined straight back straight through stroke or a lesser arc on the putter. The blade is not going to help you with that. The blade is for you to open it and close it. That’s the stroke that it wants you to make. It’s a traditional towh hang. So everything wants to fall that way. So, if you’re trying to hinge the wrist and hold on to it, you’re going to wipe it. You’re going to miss it right every time. The mallet putter is literally built to be straight back straight through and have as little toe close as possible. So, it’s going to set up, it’s going to set up square, and it’s going to return the square easier than a blade ever will. So again,
technically speaking and teaching while speaking, the mallet putter is easier to teach and it is easier to game. So why people want to be cute and think that they’re better with a blade and stuff like that, to each their own, but listen, you got to match the stroke with the putter that you have. So just keep that in mind and I’ll keep reiterating that every time we get into this.
What do you think about the caddy change, though? I mean, we’ve touched on this quite a few times this year because there’s been an unusual amount of caddy rotation, high-profile, right? I mean, technically, we don’t see the top name guys go through this many changes within a short period of time. We’ve seen JT go through quite a few changes. Um, we’ve seen I mean, Patrick’s been stable, but he had a change. clearly Max Homa, clearly uh Colin Morawa as of late. There’s been a handful of others where you’re just like what’s going on? And we also see on the on the opposing side where there is stability, where there is a matchup that works.
Um Scotty Sheffler comes to mind soon as he matched up with Ted Scott. We saw uh Scotty ascend, right? It was a pretty clear like, hey, this is my guy and we we were aware of Scotty, but he really took off and started winning at a different clip at that point. So, what what do you think about the uh the Caddy struggles? Do you think it’s coming from Colin and he’s been I mean, we know what we see publicly. Do you think that that is what’s happening in the background and why he couldn’t get along with um you know, Grinder? I think um unfortunately it has to do a lot with personality matchups, especially when you’re talking about this amount of money being being thrown around for a game that everybody can play at the highest but not at the highest level. I think it has to do with kind of what matches up best with your personality. Doesn’t matter the skill level. It doesn’t matter like the wisdom that you bestow upon somebody as a caddy. If y’all not vibing, it doesn’t matter. And I think again, we’ve talked about this with Rory. I think a guy as cerebral as Rory didn’t need somebody that’s going to be in his ear and tell him, “Hey, it’s 165 to cover this bunker.” You know, he didn’t need all the technical thoughts. He needed somebody to encourage him, know his game personally, know him like, “Hey, like I know you’re a little bit juiced up. Hit this seven. I think you’ll be able to get it there.” And kept it basic. I think Colin Morawa has ascended mentally to where he just is kind of in his own world and feels a little bit more, you know, puffed up and a little bit more, you know, swaggy than usual. He He’s a major He’s a major championship winner. You can’t take that away from him. He’s one on ECA tour.
I know he’s out.
Yeah, we’re getting further and I’m I don’t want to discount it because it sounds dismissive, but we’re getting further and further away from that success.
I know. I know. But I still think with that with the wins combined to what we would call sustained success on the tour, steadily in the top 10 world rankings, you know, always in the money list, always in the playoffs. So even though he’s not winning, still, you know, success, still in the headlines and stuff like that, you know, just like per prime example, we didn’t have anybody in this tournament. We had Colin Morocawa in this tournament and he still brings people to the to the gates. I I would still say he has his own fansship despite what he’s got going on with the media, but I think his battles with the media con added with his, you know, success has really got him a little bit head. So he doesn’t necessarily need somebody that’s going to be combative on the bag like a Joe Grinder because Joe Grryer him and Max had that rapport.
Not I mean maybe combative isn’t the right word but I’m saying maybe Joe Griner is giving him too much information and Kakawa wants to think for himself like this is completely different. He provided comments and he just said their their approach to things were was different. Right. Right. Like preparation. He spoke more about the preparation side of it. So I don’t I mean I don’t know what that looks like from a uh going out and scouting. Um you know may you know clearly each player wants something different in terms of information that’s provided to them. Maybe somebody doesn’t want um as much information. Who knows? Like you said with Rory, wanted something simpler. Maybe someone that isn’t into the weeds as much as uh his previous Caddy was, you know. Um same thing we saw with uh uh gosh, Jason Day and Colin Swaten, right? They just kind of outgrew each other. But I don’t know. Five tournaments uh doesn’t seem like long enough to me to figure out whether that’s a fit or not. especially when I think the first tournament that they were playing that they played together was actually pretty successful for Morawa. Um so I don’t know he it
but also I’ll say one more thing and then I’ll let you finish up. the communication that I see and his lack of his inability to communicate his ideas clearly like to the media and the issues around the media to me speak to a deeper issue in the background that he’d also probably have issues communicating with a caddy especially if it’s not just perfect and natural that him saying what he needs to get out of that caddy seems like it could be difficult from Collins perspective. That’s just my viewpoint on it. I think you got to look at a guy like Max Max who’s certainly trying to find himself right now, right? New new swing, new clubs. Joe Grinder’s probably just in the mindset of let’s grind it out. Let’s go to the range. Let’s hit some balls. Let’s figure out some numbers. Let’s get on the uh let’s get on the GC quad. Let’s figure it out. Kamora don’t want to really He probably had, like I said, he probably at the stage right now that he don’t really need to know all that stuff. He’s been playing he he’s been playing his um his tailor made his tailor made prototypes for the last few years. He’s got his numbers dialed in. He not really doing too much wood changes. They not testing his clubs because he not really winning. he really not up in the hot seat like that as well. So, you know, he probably don’t feel like he needs to be on the range like that. And you know, if we’re talking about preparation, Joe G, he probably like, “Yo, let’s hit the range. Like, let’s get it in.” M Colin Moro’s like, “Yo, let’s hit a hot nine. Let’s figure out like how we gonna go about the course and then I’mma just chip and putt and go on about my day with the wifey or whatnot or however it may be.” But that’s probably the the preparation that he’s talking about. But I think Max needs somebody in his head like a Jo. Kamorawa probably doesn’t. And that’s I mean, you know, you’re talking to an over we we’ll we’ll agree to disagree cuz uh homeboy ain’t winning. So until he uh start I mean he had a T8 this week. Cool. Super cool. We saw he caught fire. He wasn’t playing that well in round one.
Um if we see him I mean honestly since that what was it the Honda where he missed that putt pretty severely downhill um that’s where things really started just it was weird at that point. So I don’t know
whatever tournament it was. Yeah. Uh it was on the one part of the Florida swing. It was probably their own Palmer ended up three putting on 18. So to me since then I I don’t agree if if his mindset is that he doesn’t need to grind. Um I that couldn’t be that couldn’t be my player either. Like hey man, you’re not making putts. So we need to be spending as much time as we can trying to figure out your situation from a putter perspective. You know
like bashing balls and and just hanging out on the range. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Granted, I mean, I think to me, just again, perception, what I can see, Max, super laid-back guy. I’m assuming Joe Grinder is a very similar personality. I It’s kind of like I mean, have you seen the dynamic with uh Sala and his Caddy? Both both of those guys are from Cali. Laidback caddies, super chill. So, I don’t think Grryer is a like a pusher, but maybe he’s also very direct in his communication like, “Hey, man, where we’ve been losing strokes is on the the green, so let’s let’s get out there and, you know, like I said, test out some new putters.” I don’t think he’s going to force I mean, we know Colin Morau’s cut is reliable as the day is long. So, I don’t think the disagreement is about that. I mean, we don’t see issues with the ball strike and he’s still hitting greens. Um, let’s let’s just [ __ ] Let’s pull up the stats.
That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’m saying. Mar doesn’t need to be You can’t assume that. But you can’t assume that. We don’t know their relationship like that. So, I wouldn’t go that deep and say, “Oh, this is, you know, he’s forcing them to hit balls or whatever.” But to me, again, just super early to give up on the relationship. I mean even so let’s go let’s go to his stats right so from the rocket mortgage strokes gained off the tea 24th um approach again hidden greens he’s fourth um in strokes gained in approach to the green guess what no matter how well we thought he puted on Friday on guess where he stood in the stats so was a full field event roughly throw your guess out there where you I think he ended up with putting strokes game. I mean, it’s probably the top third, but when you go when you’re 155th on the first day, you’re not going to be anywhere near the top. That’s already 61st.
61st. I mean, but that’s who he is, right? I mean,
that’s who he’s been. So,
right. That’s even if you’re talking about
if you’re talking about practicing putting, my caddy doesn’t need to be there for me to practice putting. My co my putting coach needs to be there. It has nothing to do with the caddy.
Yeah. But okay. So again, where is the the disconnect? That to me it comes down to communication. Anytime where there’s a partnership, it comes down to communication. So essentially, Grinder is the employee of the player. Is that fair? Yeah.
Okay. So, the player is to be communicating, hey, as a caddy, this is what I need from you. These are the things that I’m working on. This is my approach to practice. This is my approach going into a week. like, hey, I like to really take it easy on uh Mondays, right? I don’t like to do anything after a tournament week. I’m not going to touch a club. Um or a very minimal, very, you know, short game, all that stuff. Tuesday, I’m going to start working into it, really putting in the work. Full day of, you know, work and then we go into the proam or whatever the case may be. This is on Ken Morawa to communicate the needs, right? Um, I don’t think the kid understands, and I think that’s worth saying, is that from an age perspective, to me, he’s still not that old, and there’s a lot of immaturity despite his early resurgence, 28 still figuring it out. Um, and I think his maturity level is actually lower than 28. Again, I’m just I can see per how he’s putting himself out there in front of the media. Not very put together, not very pinned down as it relates to the emotional side of it. So, I can see him getting into it with Caddies and not being able to kind of work through it. And if you go to some of the quotes about the incident, it points to some comm community. I wouldn’t say let me let me not over exaggerate, but I think there’s some underlying I can’t articulate what I need from you and so it’s better that we just split.
Yeah, that just go that just goes back to my original point though. He is probably so headstrong now that he just needs a yes man. He just needs somebody to hand him a club or somebody that’s going to be able to pat him on the back and be like, “You’re okay. Hit the next shot.” He doesn’t need somebody like a Joe Grinder that’s established, that’s a vet in a game that’s going to be like, “Hey, we need to be talking about this six or seven or we need to be in, you know, contemplation on what what shot to hit.” Colin College probably is at a point.
Do you think that’s the approach though? Okay, fine. Agreed. You say that that’s that’s his mindset, but do you think that’s the best approach for him? For him, I don’t know. I if he can’t putt, it doesn’t matter, right? Uh yes and no. I mean, if there is enough trust in a relationship, right? So, let’s just say this putter is the fix for the technique issues. Let’s just say that that is the case. if there is a level of trust there. I I don’t even know if it’s reads at this point as well, right? From an execution standpoint, do you let your caddy just kind of um take hold? I always I always go back to this story um because it it’s it’s one of the early ones with me listening to broadcast and picking up on certain things like Caddy and um player relationships. Ryan Palmer when he would come play the Colonial his cast as a member at
Yeah. So he would he would literally say hit it to this spot with this amount of pace and it worked for them and he you know I don’t think he ever won it but he had some really good finishes. So, do you get to that point in the weakest part of your game where you find somebody that you can say, “Hey, hit it to this spot with this amount of pace and just trust it.” And you take your mind off that part of the game.
Me person control.
I get it from a control standpoint, he’s not there. But I don’t know. I I these kids and I keep calling them kids. Anytime until you hit 35, I think you’re still a kid. Uh because there’s still a lot of learning to be done in life and how you handle situations. These kids and changing caddies is becoming pretty prolific and I I think there’s something to it. It’s probably around um kind of the environment growing up as an elite athlete, never being told no. Um another person that we’ve seen emotionally not do well with this aspect of the game is Cam Young flying off the handle. He’s had caddy changes as well. Yeah.
I just think that there’s something to be gleaned from us seeing it so often these days. It’s it’s not just a coincidence. I don’t think it’s just happen stance. We are we’ve been used to guys sticking with caddies for a long period of time. So we now see a lot of these veteran caddies that are out here kind of that have their guys have graduated to the you know champions tour or in the case of Caddy uh you know not Caddyy Tiger and Joe Lava. Joe Lava is like I still got to work. I need I need to find another bag to get on. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
So, he finds Patrick Kentlay, but he was with his guy for the longest period of time um after Steve Williams and now him and Patrick Kentlay, even though they’re not really finding finding the success, have still stuck it out, right? So, I’m interested to watch that with these young kids, especially when they have early success, high potential, but it doesn’t necessarily pay off, right? So, um
we’ll see. We’ll see. I think it’s worth coming back to. It will not be the last time we talk about a caddy change in 2025, I’m pretty sure.
Yeah.
Um, let’s move over to the Champions Tour. So, they had their senior open. Um, Patty Harrington ends up winning it his second time in like four years. So, I’m assuming he won it four years ago. um you know, good player, does a lot of online content, you know, a good teacher of the game, talks about the values of the game. Um saw some really good advice from him early on in the or late last year.
Um you know, about getting your kids into the game of golf, and I I really do value his opinion. Um, so early on in the tournament, you see a video, bad audio, so it really isn’t worth playing of him not making eye contact with Roger Maltby in an awkward confrontation, saying, you know, like asking Roger why he wasn’t helping them search for a ball, him and his uh playing competitor. And, you know, Roger’s like, I’m not the player. I’m not out here to be looking for, you know, I have a job to do essentially, right? I’m commentating. I’m not looking for y’all’s ball,
right? So, I didn’t know. Again, I’m I’m body language, not looking at the man while you’re confronting him. Very weird. I felt like Patty Harrington was way out of line for that. Um, I couldn’t find anyone other than I found so I saw like one or two random commenters on vid assorted videos where they were like, “Yeah, he should absolutely help them.” But again, that was very rare. What did you think of that situation? It was awkward and I felt Harington was in the wrong.
Yeah. No, agreed. Uh, worst part about it to me is look, Roger Mogby is hired and brought on to talk the game of golf. He is a former player established on the PGA Tour for freaking four or five decades now. For you to try to diminish him to ball watcher and spotter is ridiculous. Like, yo, excuse my language, but you got me effed up, bro. If you think I’m about to sit here like you you hear it on the commentary. Yeah, it should be good. That should be all right. I got it going down this line. It should be on the fairway and let the cameraman do the rest of the work with his ability to watch the ball in the air. It ain’t for Maltby and for spotters. You got a spotter per player. So you got three or four, you should have enough of a crowd that should be keeping an eye out on that. So for you to try to put that that burden on Maltby is just ridiculous. Just straight up.
Yeah.
But for him to try to confront him out post round,
you way out for that, bro. out in the open like in this kind of common area. It it was super it was bizarre and that’s where I think I mean yeah people get too comfortable of talking and I feel like Patty Harrington is like kind of reached that point where it’s like okay cool man you’ve been getting a ton of kudos everybody’s been on your program for a while
don’t don’t get a big head about yourself
where you have to have an opinion about every damn thing
it was just weird it was super weird
truly yeah I I really didn’t know where he was trying to angle that, but it wasn’t a good angle for him.
No. So, hopefully he can get his [ __ ] together, but congratulations on the win. Um, it’s like we’ve kind of had I don’t know. I wouldn’t call Anhal Cabrera a a youngster, but, you know, little bit of a resurgence winning two this year for himself, two tournaments.
Yeah. Um it’s like a lot of the guys that were good on the um Champions Tour years ago when we first, you know, really got into it are now starting to fade away. Kind of having a bit of a you know, a youth movement where the guys that are closer to 50 are winning again. Sink was, you know, competing as well. Um, I saw somebody saying, you know, PJ Tour’s got to let Phil back on that thing. I don’t even know if Phil would be able to compete with these guys at this point where his game is. Um,
true.
But
I said it too though. You said it too. You They should let him back on
last week. Last week I said it. Last week. Okay. Okay. I don’t know. I I mean I’m kind of down on Phil, but I mean if it would bring the ratings in because nobody’s watching Champions Tour right now.
Exactly. That’s it. It would just be a numbers thing. Like, hey, let’s go watch Phil. And even if it’s a hate watch, let’s go watch Phil suffer. Let’s go do it.
It would be a hate watch. No doubt. 100%. Um h he’s he’s been so bad. It’s interesting. you shot me the text that um Richard Bland, the defending champion of the US Open, couldn’t even compete because Liv had a tournament going on in hot Dallas Fort Worth. Um so he wasn’t able to defend his tournament. Uh which is kind of crazy. So
couldn’t even defend his own stuff, bro. Unreal.
Let’s Let’s see where Let’s see where Let’s see where you went. finish.
Yeah. Let’s see where you at. Um Richard the Pack T8. Um congratulations to Patrick Reed winning in Crispy Dallas, Texas. I mean, so you know, my my weekend round happened to be on Saturday as well, which was the hottest day of their tournament. Um, a little bit of breeze,
but it was a lot of humidity.
It was brutal. Saturday in te in North Texas was absolutely brutal. Um, I played on the course with a decent amount of tree cover so you’re able to get some relief. Merido has no tree cover. I mean, it’s wide open. You are exposed. um you know and I’m sure they have you know a couple little covers here and there but they struggled with um you know the conditions fans had to be escorted to the uh medical tent um young you know lady faded in front of another guy who was like oh yeah they this feels very well prepared I’ll be I’ll be real from my experience there weren’t a lot of um I mean accommodations and it see last year when we event. Um, while it was a decent event, it was in September, so it was actually hotter than it was this week. Um, I think they had some 99° temperatures last year in September. I I just I we’ve said this before. We said it last year when Liv played in Houston um around the same time Texas golf where you’re walking where you are walking in the summer after uh May
is pretty much off the table, right? I think we even said it
this year on the PGA tour the um Houston tournament
they were pushing
they they were pushing the boundaries of uh heat exposure and you know I don’t know June is is uh crazy work to put a tournament in Dallas Fort Worth in June late June almost July so man I’m going through the list. Oh boy look at these bottom feeders. So, uh, Lewis Luis Carrera, he shot a plus 14 in the two rounds that he played after switching out for Brooks Keepa after he wded. Mito Pereira played all three rounds plus 15. Peter Uline all three rounds 14. Iron Palter 13. Ali Schneider Jensen 12. Boy did he fall off the side of the planet. Phil Jack, Phil Mickelson, 11 over. Uh, newcomer Bastair just recently signed 10 over. Kevin Na nine, Matt Jones, Lewis Herbert, eight, nine, and eight respectively. Jose, I mean, Jason Kra just fell off this, man. I just I just don’t even know what to say about him, man. I really don’t. And then,
okay, so the let’s go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. I just want to say one last thing. The rest of these names I don’t you know you know a few of them but Danny Lee Danny Lee in particular really had the promise of Australia or New Zealand or whichever one of those countries really on his shoulders. He had all the potential. The swing is pure. I mean, when we’re talking about coming up and, you know, kind of taking over the reigns for Adam Scott and that whole, you know, that whole region just for him to just take the money and run and him to not even have any kind of success, any kind of success. We haven’t seen any nor win from him at all. Nor have we seen potential. You know what I’m saying? He taking this guaranteed two 80 90k or whatever and just going about his business and that’s fine but
but it’s just where players careers
essentially go for the most part right I mean when you look at this is not a crazy hard course um but you only had 20 players finish under par uh and the rest of the field is um over par so even or above par was 20 players and And like you said, some of these numbers are actually pretty high. Um, you know, they didn’t log a final score for career. I guess, you know, theoretically he took uh Brooks’s plus nine in the first n round combined with his plus five and then another plus nine. So,
I mean, the these are kind of crazy scores. These are guys shooting 78s, 79s. Carlos Ortiz, who we saw just playing in the US Open, shot a plus seven, then went two under and then, you know, plus three for a combined plus eight. These are crazy bad performances. And and I said it when when the kid um by a stair signed with Liv, what development opportunities is he going to have to improve his game over there? They’re not playing you know, often enough or really PGA quality courses. I think this is a highle course. I think Merido is great for college tournaments, kind of the offseason stuff that they do kind of in the winter rollound, but
yeah,
not a not a summer course. It’s just not it’s not built for that. So,
yeah. Hey, shout out shout out to HV3 for getting T5th. Only shooting one under per round and still got Tiff. Literally shot five under the first day, went even the next two days and managed to get a T5 out of that. Congrats, buddy.
Hey, good good for him.
I mean, [ __ ] I mean, [ __ ] Reed shot three over on the on the last day. Oh, he had to go into a playoff with this Kazuma dude. Whoever that is. Whoever that is.
Their leader board is not very uh I see
Louis Hazen playoff. Paul Casey. They all shot six. What? That was a fourman playoff. Well, I mean, y’all want to get on live YouTube and I guess and try to see if you there’s any highlights or anything. Yeah, but the but the way that their leaderboard is set up on mine, it’s not very clear. It just shows battery on the playoff performance. That’s weird.
It doesn’t even It doesn’t even say It It doesn’t even say playoff. It just says one.
Yeah, it says one TC. So, I’m just assuming it was a playoff. No, no. At the at the very top here, there’s a Chiron that says playoff for first place. playoff hole number one or playoff hole. Yeah, the first playoff hole 18 they played
and it just shows Pat Pat Reed getting his birdie. Um but it does not show Kazuma Us Hazen or Casey um what they did. I guess they just didn’t finish the hole.
So anyway, enough blasting. I did think about putting together a uh why I live sucks video, but I don’t like I don’t feel like arguing with people right now.
So, I’m gonna I’m keep that one.
No need.
I’m keep I’mma keep that one. So, you sent this story uh earlier today. I had seen it but just kind of zoom by it and on the corn ferryy tour. I’ll let you kind of run it down. Um, I have pretty strong thoughts about it, but I’m very curious where you stand because we haven’t talked about it yet. So, go ahead.
Yeah. So, Cole Hammer, I I originally saw it just randomly, sorry to even admit to this, I was on Facebook for some strange reason and just so happened to come across it.
Did you get a golf digest? I did. It was a suggested It was a suggested article and I saw it and I’m like, “Oh, I know this name.” He had grew up in the Houston area. So, like, you know, I had seen him a time or two in Golf Galaxy. Him and his dad. Dad’s a really nice guy. Cole Hammer, you know, typical I’m better than everybody type amateur growing up. Then went to UT, you know, story program. But yeah, so Cornfairy Tour, he slept on it even, right? He slept on this score and this official and then woke up and told the the tour officials the next day that the caddy from his playing partner asked him did he hit a four iron and Cole Hammer nodded and said yes. So he said I couldn’t sleep. I was tossing and turning all night and I had to just go to the rules official. They interviewed him afterwards. He said, “I felt such a levity off of me after that from telling them that I did that.” So the rules officials got together, DQed both both playing competitors and nobody made any money.
Six hole, right? So um like I was telling you, I think it’s a re weird rule to have. Now, I will say it’s kind of nuanced because I feel like when me and me and Rod or me and my friends play and we’re on the the T- box of a par three, for instance, yardage is 170. Uh, no win, nothing at play, middle of the green. You know, you’re going to hit your chosen club. You’re walking back to the green. You’re walking back to the carts. Hey, what did you hit there?
Oh, I just hit like a little
after the shot. Oh, I just hit like a seven there. Oh, you know, I just, you know, I tried to yam a eight or I just played like a chill six. You know, your your your little range that you have between those clubs depending upon how you feel, how you’re striking it, whatnot.
These I I just don’t feel like it’s that big a deal. But when money’s involved, I understand why it is in the rules. So for him to feel like he needed to go to the rules officials is kind of
well, you know, further reading it seemed like he thought that he was going to be the one that would be punished for revealing the number
and not both of them for asking. But I mean, if you if you feel that bad about it, it also is worth, I don’t know, looking up the rule
to see what the the scenario would be or, you know, if it could adversely affect your guy from the day before, like you said, right?
Slept on it the whole night or badly slept on it only to have that other player. Imagine you not knowing what’s going on.
Um, just going about your rim. right? Probably not going to make the cut because I think it ended up being like five under. But um yeah, I would be pissed off. And then I I wonder now how Cole Hammer is going to be perceived in the locker room going forward,
right?
Do you just not communicate with him?
You know, because that I don’t know. It seems like a weird reaction.
Very weird. Especially since, not saying that I really like Paul McInley, but Paul McInley has even said that it’s just kind of like a a understood thing. I mean, we all see it. They’re all lined up in a line alongside each other on the T- boxes.
You telling me You telling me them guys ain’t they look down in bags all the time? All the time. like I’ve seen players do it in tournaments like all the time where they’re they’re like, “Oh,
okay. Let’s prominent example from this year
players uh the players play off with uh Roy and JJ Spawn. You saw him grab nine. uh not knowing that Rory’s hitting this kind of saw off nine and then JJ Spawn goes full nine and you know flies the entire green. Guess what?
Make your own decisions, right? I mean, you do you
you do that at your own peril, but we know that it happens all the time. We’ve seen it in person. We’ve seen it on TV. Players have admitted to it. Um so, I mean it it’s weird. Cole Hammer really uh in his head about that one for sure. Yeah, I think that’s one of the one of my favorite stories when we first started getting into golf of the Tiger lore. Tiger’s playing with Adam Scott. Tiger goes up first, hits this like high floaty iron. It’s like a, you know, 190ish and he hits a four iron and just lands it whole high. Just a perfect little floaty. Adam Scott sees the that he grabbed four and he’s like, “Shoot, if he’s got four, then I for sure need four cuz Tiger’s the best iron player.” And then you see Adam Scott fly the green with the same four iron. Right?
They don’t know the energy that he’s being put into this four or the loss that’s on these four. Mind your business. You can ask them all you want. It doesn’t matter because you’re not hitting the same shot. You don’t have the same swing and the same distance. So again,
weird rule.
I I don’t I don’t know if we exchanged it, but kind of on the Tiger thing. I don’t know if we exchanged video in on Instagram, but I saw where Tiger was on the range and guys like same club hits it like a low stinger and then turns around and hits like a high uh cut or something and it’s like completely different shots, but it’s like within two yards of each other. Yeah,
that’s Tiger. Everybody doesn’t have that in the bag.
Exactly. Exactly. So, like I said, play your own
play your own clubs. Strange. I guess kudos to Cole Hammer though. Integrity in the game.
If if he can if he can sleep better at the end of the day, kudos to him. Um, quick mention of the uh LPGA ladies. Um, G, Jen, Hem, and Somi Lee of South Korea win the uh the DAO the team event. I watched all of about 15 minutes of the event. It just wasn’t very appealing to me. Um,
yeah,
I it just wasn’t great. Format was I I wouldn’t I couldn’t immediately pick up on it because I saw holes where the other where the teammate wasn’t even in the shot or wasn’t involved in it.
Yeah. So I was just like, okay, it’s unfortunately swinging a miss on this. It just again, we’ve talked about this timing timing here. The timing was not well. You got the US seniors open. You got the PGA going on. It’s not the time for a teaming event because we don’t have the energy to even go over there and watch it. DP World Tour is playing. you’re in between coverages and stuff like that. You play that early on in the season next to like the match play or something like that when we’re sitting here, you know, kind of watching out for it. But I I don’t know. I didn’t I too caught very limited coverage of it. Um
and it was later in the day, so it was very possible to watch more, but it just wasn’t enough to grab my attention to just keeping it real,
right? Um, I don’t know. I saw Megan Kang and Lexi Thompson play pretty well together. Um, I don’t know. Stacy Lewis and Maria FSY tried this Arkansas teammate stuff again. Didn’t work again. I don’t know how much longer they going to allow Stacy Lewis on the tour. She ain’t did nothing.
I know, right?
But complain and miscut. So, I just don’t know how long, but you know, when you’re a number one player at some point, I guess they keep you on. I don’t know. I don’t know, Rob.
Crazy crazy timing. Um, so July is going to be super busy for the ladies. Um, not this week. So, they have a week off and then
they got the Evian Evian and then travel week or three. Yeah. Yeah. The women a women’s open is at the end of July. Um so a couple weeks so they’ll go this week off. Evian another week off. They’re doing the Scottish Open. So kudos to them for duplicating the same kind of setup as the men. A prep tournament in the similar conditions. Yeah.
And then um the AIG Women’s Open. So interesting July for the ladies. Hopefully, you know, they can get back on the, you know, get our attention back in in the early part of July. But, uh, yeah, this week was a swing in a miss. I guess it’s, you know what, it’s a swing in the miss for fans, but I guess for them, this is like that little just tuneup kind of like chill week for them. players that wanted to go over ahead and just go ahead and get acclimated on the European time timeline, I guess, or time zone could just go ahead and go over there instead of, you know, traveling at the end of the week.
But yeah, man. I that’s I’mma try to justify it as best as possible because otherwise I just don’t know why you would do that, bro. I just the July 4th holiday, John Deere Classic. Um, I’ll be watching because ain’t nothing else to do.
It really is. World Tour playing.
I’m positive they are. They they they go pretty hard. Let’s see.
Especially this time of year. Uh, so they have the Italian Open.
Yeah, this is the last thing.
Yeah, the BMW International in Germany. Um, it’s the last of their European swing. Okay.
That little six, six event thing that they do over there. Or eight of one, two, wait, one, two, three, four. Yeah, six events. So, now they’re going into the closing swing before they go to the back nine. I don’t know what these names are for these sections because why would you say the closing swing but then have more events and then call it the back nine?
I don’t know marketing bad marketing.
Why wouldn’t you?
Right. Why wouldn’t you say back nine then closing swing and then get into your playoffs? You know what? That’s not for me to judge. That’s not for me to judge. That’s my bad.
That’s my bad. But yeah, so they’ll be in Germany next week, so we’ll see them.
That’s it. That’s it for the golf this week. Uh, any quick thoughts before we wrap up on NBA draft last week? Other than it was a [ __ ] ton of trades, a lot of trades last week in the draft.
It was.
Any thoughts? Um, hopefully Cooper Flag’s the real deal. Uh, it’s seeming so. He’s got a perfect little opportunity and it it being Dallas where we already have established bigs and he doesn’t have to go out and be the star every night. He might catch a couple of starts. He might catch a couple of, you know, key moments where he’s in on in that fourth quarter when we need a winning time moment.
You talking about flag? Oh, he’s starting at the gate. What are you talking about? He’s not going to bench. He’s gonna start. You don’t put your You don’t put your first first pick first rounder on the bench. He’s not He’s gonna He’s gonna play immediately. Um I’m He’s going to play and he’s going to play a lot. He’s going to win rook of the year. Who is he starting over? He plays small forward, power forward. You’re not moving AD. He just complained all year that he doesn’t want to play five.
He’s four. PJ Washington ain’t coming off the bench. P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P PJ’s gonna be your two.
PJ PJ Washington’s gonna be your two. Uh
Klay Thompson’s coming off the bench. You pay him 18 mil a year to send him off the bench.
Yeah, that’s who Klay Thompson is right now.
D’Angelo Russell D’Angelo Russell. I have not caught that. What when did that happen? That just happened today.
Like this this evening, right?
Yeah. two years, 13 mil, you know, just a serviceable, just a serviceable guy until Kyrie comes back beginning of. The downfall is crazy for D’Angelo Russell cuz the money I I somehow I accidentally turned on all those sham alerts. So, I’ve been getting all kind of random alerts, uh, all the free agent signings and the money that they’re throwing around to guys who I’ve barely heard of. And so for him to only get like two years 13 mil, the downfall is crazy.
At at first I heard it was one year 13 mil, which is okay, which I think is about reasonable for DLO, but uh I mean it’s team friendly. They’ll probably, you know, have some bonuses in there, but he knows what it is. He’s a trade piece. He’s not really going to be the guy ever again. And I think they exposed him. They exposed how how off and on he is for LA. They traded him. He is a offense only guy. Like he just needs to like he’s got a lot of help behind him in Dallas. So that’s why he can make it work for us. But he’s a defensive liability and it’s getting more and more put in the spotlight because his offense isn’t as elite as it once was unfortunately for him. So, he’ll still be able to lead a offense and he’ll be able to do what Jason Kid asked of him on the offensive side of the ball and he just better hope Clay, PJ, AD, Flag, Dive, Gaffer behind him, you know, pick up pick up the scraps because defensively he’s a liability and that’s just what it is unfortunately.
Yeah. And he’s only 29 years old. That’s the crazy part. Still technically pretty young. I mean, old for getting up there for an NBA player, but still should have a lot of years left in the tank.
He’ll still have some years left. He’ll be he’ll become a specialist, spot up, off the off ball guard. But yeah, I mean, I mean, I think this is his 11th season. He only played one year at Ohio State and came right out. But
yeah,
hey, if we’re talking not, we all know what it looks like when we have like the high school mixtapz, but if we’re talking college mixtapz, D’Angelo Russell has one of the best ones for a one-year stint at a premier premier college. I mean, the passing ability is crazy. The scoring at every at all three levels, the breakdown off the dribble, he had it.
So, I think the He’s kind of crazy for him.
But he’s also been also a in addition to the, you know, no defense, spotty offense these last few years, he’s he’s been a locker room.
Yeah. He’s been he’s been a locker room issue
in multiple spots. So, it’s it’s not just,
oh, he had this one issue in LA. No, it’s it’s followed them around. So, that’s also part of it. like, hey, no one no one’s willing to to mix you in with their team where you can be a negative influence. So,
Right. Right. Right. No facts.
Yeah. We’ll see. All right, y’all. Um, we’ll see everybody after the July 4th holiday. Have a very safe one. If you’re celebrating um with alcohol, stay at home, stay off the road. Um, it’s it’s just advised during a holiday.
Get a damn Uber, right? Um, don’t drink and drive. Enjoy your friends and family. Come out of the weekend alive. Um, pop some fireworks. Don’t don’t shoot guns. I mean, we’re from Texas, so that that has become super popular is shooting shooting guns in the air. So, uh, keep it safe and, uh, we’ll catch y’all again probably on next Monday, depending on the schedule. What’s up? Yes, sir.
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