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Major Championship week is upon us and we got actually big big uh news in a week coming in our world here at the foreplay podcast. Um if you want something athletic, bold, and commanding, you’re going to get it on this show. You’re also going to get it from the Chevy Equinox EV, which helps you show up in style um looking good on the course, you know, can be um tricky. It could be up to you. You’re absolutely going to look good on the road. put in the Chevy Equinox EV and Chevy presents again this lovely show where we got a lot cooking. We’ve got Chris Goddar up got a lot going on in our world like I kind of mentioned just a packed show for a packed week all brought to you by Chevrolet and the Equinox EV packed show is right and uh yeah it’s the it’s the dead key to the summer right now. There’s a lot of outdoor parties, a lot of people packing up trucks and American Chevys and then you got these Equinox EVs. You see them drive by on the highway. You can’t believe how sleek and quick they are and how much mileage they’re getting. And also this infotainment system on the inside, we always say it just not it blows your socks off. You step inside one of these cars. You’re sitting in there. You feel like you’re in the future. And that’s what Chevy’s really all about is is pioneering these these vehicles for the future. They’re they’re the leading example of where these cars are going and where they’re at right now. So, an amazing partnership with us and Chevy. And just when it’s a summer, I I picture fireworks. I picture Chevrolet. It’s like one of those things that’s in the back of my head. Great show. We’ve got a lot going on this week. Cannot wait to get to it. Equinox EV. It’s got a massive 17inch diagonal center screen display like we touched on. The largest of any EV in its class. When it comes to EVs, Equinox EV is the smartest choice you can make. By the way, Trent, make sure you pack pants for Cypress. I believe it’s pants only out there. Oh, that’s a great call. That is that’s the biggest thing that’s happened on this podcast cuz I’m packed. All my stuff is packed and there’s no pants in my pants. Wow. I’m almost a little upset that that just happened cuz you want to talk about the most onbrand thing to happen to our brand and Trent gets denied at the door for wearing shorts. I have I have not shown up to company dinners because I didn’t have pants. Scottsdale. What’s that really sick place we went to that’s got like the seafood tower? Maple and Ash. We found out that we had like this private room. We were going to have a ton of food, a bunch of clients, strict uh um dress code. And it turns out that Trent just says, “I’m done. I’m not trying cuz I’m not going all the way there to be told like a child that I’m dressed improperly and I’m going to be sent home from this restaurant. You can catch me outside. I am going home now. I couldn’t be at the time a 35year-old man being told you cannot come into this establishment neat. I I couldn’t. I simply and you know the other thing too come in who need you know who needs enemies when you got friends like these guys because I knew that having that go down I would either get videoed or it would become the biggest joke on the podcast. I was just like no way am I letting Frankie Belli watch me get denied at a restaurant because I got my little shorts on. There’s just zero he’s not I’m not letting him have that on me. I’m not letting him take pictures of me like kind of mad at the person who’s up front. Like they’re like, “No, you can’t come in because your your your calves are exposed.” Do you understand? Thanks for showing [Music] play Bar Stool Sports. It is a major championship week. It’s our last one of the year, so we got to cherish it. We got to really enjoy it this week. The open at Royal Port Rush. Rory home game. Shane Lowry trying to repeat there coming off a massive hometown home country victory in 2019. So there’s a lot of Port Rush to talk about. There’s also just a lot to talk about in general. It’s a huge week for us for the foreplay crew. I’m coming to you live from Monterey, California. We got the Bartool Classic on Monday at Pasadera out here which is in Monterey. Uh, and then we got some things cooking in the Monterey area that uh, kind of a massive development and what’s going to turn out to be uh, one of the bigger weeks we’ve had. So, we’re going to get to that. I’m going to start by saying, boys, we’ve been coming to Monterey at the wrong time of year. I’m here right now and it is almost 70° and sunny and you know, I I know champagne problems. We’ve been coming to this Monterey for a hell hell of a year, a handful of years now with the uh, Dabbad Classic. We could go through the whole thing. probably drives people crazy. Well, we’ve had a lot of like 45 degrees and raining days coming in winter. Turns out in July, it’s just it’s unbelievable here right now. Yeah, it’s a real roll of the dice when you go there. I don’t know Frankie can speak to that when him and his dad went out there it was cloudy and you couldn’t see anything and it’s I think the only other time that I’ve been to Monterey other than the dad bod times again it is champagne problems was the 2019 US Open and it was really nice that week if I remember or I could be misremembering I don’t know but you do it is a roll of the dice when you go out there during March because yeah we’ve had the most beautiful days in in Pebble Beach history and we’ve had days where it’s been raining and horrible I can remember one round in particular at Spy Glass where it was like the worst day of all time. And again, hard to complain about because you’re in what I would argue and I think a couple of us would argue is the most beautiful place in the continental United States, but it’s a roll of the dice. Again, I’ve said that probably four or five times now in the first 30 seconds, but it really is. Guys, the dice. This guy’s the dice roller. I It’s like uh what is that? Uh not I Love You, man. It’s um Oh [ __ ] Rolling the dice. What movie is that? Knocked up. He’s doing the dice thing too much. That was me for the first two minutes of this podcast. Way too much. Way too all over the dice. Yeah. No, we’ve we’ve often said that Earth itself can’t get prettier than what is at Pebble Beach in Monterey. Monterey Peninsula is like as beautiful as the earth can possibly get. And we’ve been to Hawaii. We’ve seen a lot of places. traveled to Australia to Europe and all these spots. And I’m sure there’s beautiful islands that would blow your mind. But it all generally is big cliffs falling into beautiful blue water, luscious green grass, and like we love golf, so it’s the greatest golf courses in the world. I don’t know how much better it could possibly get. Like, that’s just all that Earth has to offer. You know what I’m saying? It’s got creeks, it’s got rainbows, the whole deal. Beautiful. You got sea lions, you’ve got animals, you got whales, there’s dolphins out there. I’m pretty sure it’s crazy what’s going on at at Monterey. But yeah, sometimes uh it is a roll of the dice to quote Trent Ryan. Like I went with my dad and I had to we stood on the seventh T- box, the most famous picturesque hole in the world. And I actually pulled out my phone and showed him what it usually looks like. That’s how foggy it was. I was like, “No, no.” Like he’s like, “This is incredible, Frank.” I’m like, “No, you don’t get it, though. There’s a there’s a whole thing on the other side over there. All these rocks.” He’s like, “I know. Let me just hit it. What is it? A nine iron pitching wedge.” Didn’t get it. Came downstairs into my basement, saw the painting of seven. He’s like, “Is that seven?” I was like, “Yeah, we went there.” He’s like, “Oh, I I would never would have known.” Yeah. Um, well, it’s stunning here right now. And luckily for us, the forecast is looking really nice. Um, and again, Royal Port Rush, I really wanted to get to get into Chris Goddar up in the Scottish Open and him just carrying the red, white, and blue on his back in enemy territory up against Roy Moy and going up against all the Scots here in the UK. But we have got this week in conjunction with our great friends at the United States uh United States Golf Association, we’re filming at the historic Olympic club uh which will be hosting the United States Amitter uh coming up here uh very soon in the next month or so. And then the next day we will be filming at Cypress Point, which I don’t know. I don’t think that any of us thought that that was real. What’s happening is that they’re trying to promote the Walker Cup and the US amateur that are coming up. The Walker Cup is essentially the amateur version of the RDER Cup. It’s the United States against Great Britain and Ireland. The US is coming off, I believe, four consecutive victories, including a big comeback victory at St. Andrews at the Old Course a couple years ago. They do it every other year. And um since we are media, we are going to be filming at Cypress Point, which with us playing. I don’t know who else is going to be there. I don’t know who else is going to be filming, but I know up until this point, to my personal knowledge, that the only video I know of that’s of Cypress really on YouTube is the fantastic Jim Nance narrating every single hole at Cypress Point, which Brendan Jones and I agree. I watch maybe once a quarter. I watch it just for fun. And we’re going to be out there playing this very week filming the three of us playing that golf course, gentlemen. Yeah, I’m like 99% sure when we show up there, they’re going to be like, “No, you guys read the thing wrong and you can’t actually film at Cypress Point. You guys are certainly welcome to play and talk about it on the podcast and that’ll be great, but I I just don’t think there’s it’s an actual reality that we’re going to be able to film there.” Cypress Point is one of those golf courses that I just sort of resigned myself to the fact that I was probably never going to play it. And we, you know, we’re very lucky. We keep talking about that and it’s true, but like we can we play a lot of cool golf courses, but there’s just a couple that are really really hard to get on to and Augusta is certainly one of those. I think Cypress Point is absolutely one of those. We we’ve played the golf courses right next to it. You can see Cypress Point from the other Monterey golf courses, but you never actually think you’re going to be able to walk on the grounds. So, if it actually happens, which again, I’m pretty doubtful that it’s going to. If we’re able to walk up there with the cameras, with our golf clubs, and actually tee it up, it’s going to be one of the great moments of this podcast history. Yeah. No, I don’t deny that, Trent. It’s definitely one of those oh [ __ ] moments. Even just playing it on your own would be such a crazy experience. I know Rigs has been lucky enough to get out there and it’s like when you hear that someone’s playing Cypress, it’s you stop everything you’re doing and you tell everyone around you like, “Oh, I know someone that’s out at Cypress.” It’s that kind of golf course. Alistister McKenzie, it’s Augusta National. It’s Cypress Point. It’s you tell people like you can’t believe that this place exists. And there’s a lot of common golf or common sport fans that don’t really know about Cypress. Augusta gets all the glitz and the glam because of the Masters. It’s get it gets the biggest tournament of the year there every single year, all the history. But Cyprus to like the diehard golfer is like that crown jewel out there cuz you know Pebble Beach, you know Spy Glass, you know all these courses. There’s this little tucked away on the best property they got out there, right? Like the best views, the best holes. It’s like not to be believed as our friend Lurch likes to say. And also shout out to Chris God. Lurch’s best friend that never got us on the podcast. Never got him on the podcast once, but goes has he has pork rolls and deli sandwiches with him. So, shout out to Lurch. Likes to likes to pump a lot about how good of a friend he is. Guy’s winning the Scottish Open. Never heard from him once. He’s even been out there. Has he not? Has Lurch been out to Cypress. I believe he has. I think he has. I think he has. Um Um It is. Regardless, I don’t even know where I was going. The Ling kind of got me all swept up into a into a tizzy. I’m telling you right now, it definitely is one of those moments where it’s like, where have we even where are we right now? Where has this brand gotten to that we’re filming a video? And we like to make YouTube videos where we church it up sometimes and we like to try like to come up with wacky ideas. We’re playing golf at Cypress, man. We are teeing it up and we’re playing the game of golf. That’s all we’re doing. If you don’t want to watch that video and watch a bunch of guys that aren’t supposed to be out there playing Cypress, then that video is not for you. But like I want to see how Trent Ryan plays Cypress. I want to see how myself plays Cypress. I want to see Obrigs plays Cypress. It’s a course that you can’t believe is real. And like is is like Brendan Jones have to fly a drone around. Like that’s we’re actually like devaluing the you know what I mean? Like like totally we always say like we would never want to go play Augusta in the back of our mind because like then it’s not Augusta anymore. Obviously we want to play but there’s a part of you that’s like then it’s not that thing anymore. Like the pursuit. We talk a lot about the um uh uh it’s the journey, it’s not the destination. It’s the journey, not the destination. Yeah, dude. No, I uh I agree with you. And I think to to Trent’s point, it’s like I still part of me I feel I feel dirty that we brought it up on this podcast, but I do think it’s canceled now. It’s done now. Monumental, shocking event that could possibly occur that it’s like we had to talk about it. And I packed this morning, flew out here to Monterey. I was very conscious of like, well, how what how am I going to dress? I want to make sure that I’m not cursing in this video. I want to make sure, you know, like this is I think this is one of maybe three courses in the world that are in this category of exclusivity and like prestige and reputation. And I think it is like Augusta. I think it’s like Pine Valley. And I think it’s Cypress. I really do and I I you know like Pebble and St. Andrews are up there on the bucket list might be higher in some people but they are publicly accessible. Piners number two publicly accessible. I’d leave Royal County down like I think you can book a package and get on it. You can’t get on Cypress, let alone film there. Like you can’t get on these other places. They’re as exclusive as it gets and they don’t care. They don’t need you to get on there. They don’t need anybody to plug it or talk about it. So, we’re unbelievably lucky with this, you know, relationship that we’ve had with the USGAA for years and years now that they’re offering us up this opportunity to go promote the Walker Cup. So, if this is all true, I mean, I’ll get I’ll get the Walker Cup URL tattooed on my forehead if they’re going to let us play out at Cypress and film at this place, whatever they want. I’m going to have I’ll change my bio. I’ll change my name on Twitter to like the link for people to buy tickets to this Walker Cup because yeah, this opportunity is off the charts. Um, I can’t tell you, you know, I have been extremely fortunate to play there. I got to bring my brother out there once and we played with a very good friend of mine who was just the man. He’s a member out there. And the first tee at Cypress is about as nerve-wracking as a first tee environment as could possibly exist in the world of golf. The pro shop and like the caddy barn are within like 10 ft of the first tea. And then the first tea there’s like a hedge where the road goes through and everybody always says like just make sure you clear the hedge like the night before when you’re having a beer at the tap room the bar you’re talking about everyone’s like you just got to make sure you cover the hedge which is like a 30 yard carry in the air but boy when you’re standing right there in the pro shop and all the people that are about to tee off after you are all in this like claustrophobic environment and you’re playing a golf course that you in your head believe you’re never supposed to be allowed to play and then all you’re thinking is like if this swing goes the way I feel like it’s going to go. They’re going to take me straight back to the parking lot and they’re going to exit my ass down to, you know, I don’t know, to the airport probably. So, yeah, it’s it’s going to be it’s going to be something, man. It’s it’s um Yeah, it’s it’s Augusta National meets Pebble Beach, you know? It’s Augusta Alistister McKenzie. It’s Augusta in Monterey. It’s It’s uh I I can’t believe how good the video is going to come out because this place nothing on earth looks like this place, man. It’s insane. I’m rolling into this place too as with as little confidence in my game as I’ve had in probably two to three years. So no, we’ve got, you know, I haven’t I don’t think I’ve broken 80 this year in this calendar year. I’m in the midst of a shaft change and I’m just committing to it now. A lot of you know that I’ve always had that red shaft that like that that high launch kind of like forgiving shaft from Ventus. I’ve now changed because I’ve always wanted to have a different look. It had nothing to do with the actual equipment and what it was doing to me. I just wanted a better looking shaft. So, I switched to the blue TR and I’ve I actually, you know, we talk about O’s the mentalist. I definitely like did some mental work with my fitter at the Tailor Made Kingdom where I’m like the blue one’s the right one, right? And like all day he’s like, “I love the red one on you, but if you really want the blue, let’s go with blue.” And then towards the end of the day, I would swing out of my shoes. He’s like, “You know what? I think you’re getting I think you’re getting closer to the blue.” So like I had blisters. I’m bleeding. And he’s like, “The blue is the one.” Yeah, the blue is the one for sure. So, you know, we’re going into it. I’m just committing to it because I can’t keep switching back and forth. It’s ruining my driver game. Um, so yeah. No, the confidence is definitely low, but hopefully it’s one of those places where it’s like whenever I whenever I’m playing with really good players, if I’m back home like and I’m playing with like, you know, scratch handicaps plus handicaps and we’re in a match and like I’m clearly the worst player, it always I always feel like it elevates my game a little bit where I’m like, I got to show up. Got to be a little bit more competitive. You got to be a little bit like got to just I don’t know. And something about those alltime golf courses, I get that same feeling, but I don’t know that I can really necessarily deliver as much in those moments. You know what I mean? Like it’s like you’re you’re you’re trying to live up to the hype of how good the golf course is. So, you get up for it and you’re hyperfocused over every single swing. You feel like it’s a moment. Um, and I don’t think that I’ve historically done as well with the course as I have the players. So, we’ll see how it goes. I’m very very nervous. That’s for sure. I’m It’s It’s funny like to me obviously YouTube golf world has gotten just like it’s insane and there’s so much of it and it’s just like you’re throwing so much at people. But uh a video like this gets me the most excited where we just get to go out there and like see what everybody shoots. That’s what like the Oakmont video really like stoked that fire in me where you know for a long time and everybody’s been doing it where you’re just like oh what’s the best format? Is it a scramble? Is it alternate shot? How do we do we eat all this stuff? do we drink all this stuff? But for a place like this, and it’s probably a pretty short list, but it’s it’s still on the list where you just get to go out there and see what you shoot. And to like to the viewer, I think that’s going to be amazing. Like you just we get to play this super exclusive place. It’s probably going to be pretty hard. We’re obviously going to be nervous. Frankie just talked about that, but you get to see guys at varying levels of handicaps just what they shoot. And I’m very excited for it. Like I’m I’m really jazzed up about it. Yeah. We’ve been in this game for a while, so we have many different variations of our history of playing uh golf on video and all the different matches and formats that we’ve done. We’ve definitely done this quite a bit. You know, we’ve been doing this for six, seven years as a brand of like going out trying to think of different things, but now you see like it becomes a little bit more popular. Not to say that this is like we’re the reason that people play stroke on camera. That’s not what I’m saying. But I enjoy watching this a little bit more than the matches sometimes and like the gimmicky stuff. Like Sunday today, uh, as we’re recording, freaking Grant Horvat and the Brian Bros are putting out them all playing from the tips at Royalport Rush. Like that to me is like, I’m going to put that on my TV, sit back and watch how these three guys attack a major venue. And I think that they’re I think you can say whatever you want about all you know Grant Horvath, the Brian Brothers, whatever. I think that that’s one of the greatest things that they’ve been able to accomplish is that they get access to the major championship venues the week of the [ __ ] championship and they get to play the golf course. They get the video out within a [ __ ] second and we’re sitting there watching it. I think that’s unbelievably impressive and probably one of the best YouTube videos, YouTube series you can possibly get in golf. So that just goes to show like people want to watch how the nonpros play these insane courses. That’s a fact. Yep. I agree. And I think it puts on display too your full like somebody’s full game, you know, like a we talked about a scramble, what not. You can like hide and so but it’s like how is this man or woman that I follow religiously through all their different formats? How are they going to like navigate this test? And what is that test? What is the course, you know, asking of them? How do they answer it? How do they step up to it? And you know, if you’re playing if you if you talk to someone and you’re sitting there having a drink, having lunch, and they’re like, “Oh, I got to play Cypress last week, you know, you’re going to be like, “How was it? How’s the weather?” And your one of your top two or three questions be like, “What did you shoot?” You’re just going to ask somebody. That’s what you want to know. It’s like if your buddy went and played Augusta, you’re like, “Oh, unbelievable. What did you shoot?” Like that’s what you ask. So it’s like, “Well, we get to play Cypress. What are we going to shoot?” And so I’m with you. I’m excited. 18 fireball shots and we It’s like holy [ __ ] dude. I don’t know. Whoa. There’s a place There’s a place for that, too. I mean, we’ve done all that stuff, too. That’s the thing. This is not the time and place. That’s No. No. I don’t I think I legit think we would get like black balled from the golf community if we did that. I don’t think we’d be able to go anywhere. No, there’s a It’s funny like on the itinerary there’s like a cocktail hour at a certain time after the golf and I was like, is that a test? Are we allowed? Right. As soon as we’re done, we have to sprint to the car out there. It’s the greatest place on earth. I’m sure you can enjoy a nice cocktail. You can’t tell me those members aren’t enjoying nice cocktails after playing Cypress Point. That’s for sure. We’re going to find out. We’re about to find out this week, which is extremely exciting. Um yeah, and uh I’m with you. That’s a kind of video series uh that those guys are doing that I I’m I’m going to watch every single shot. I’m gonna watch that tonight. No joke. Before I go to bed, I’m watching that because they get you familiar with the course, ready to go. So, yeah, stay tuned for that. I’m sure we’ll be talking about it throughout the week and on the next show. And then those videos, I can’t wait for those to come out. So, big shout out to the USJ. And then also, if none of that happens, then you could just, this would be like when you buy a lottery ticket, you like fantasize about winning and then you just don’t win and it doesn’t matter that. So, if we don’t actually get to play Cypress and film there, we can still have this clip where we thought that we could. So, that’ll be cool. Uh, all right, let’s get into some of the golf. Um, oh, big shout out to um backtoback weeks. We got our great buddy Jersey Jerry as most genuine man that there is out there. He’s continuing his journey to trying to break a 100. I watched the one from New Jersey um last week. His game really truly is coming around. He’s like right there. It’s like with anything. And Frankie, you were talking to him throughout it of like, man, we’re eliminating, we got to eliminate those like catastrophic mistakes of like a tops t-shot or something that ends up costing you three or four shots because you’re so far behind in the hole. But it does feel like his game is is rounding a corner. He’s so much more consistent than he was. He’s got a lot more of the shots than he used to have. And I feel like Jerry is close. And so we’re hitting you with back-to-back weeks of Jersey Jerry trying to tackle 100 this week. Yeah. And I said this with Trent a lot when we were doing the breaking 100s and 90s and now we’re at 85. Like when you when you’re done and you’re and you’re adding up the scores at the end and for Jerry it’s like a 104 last last time and you go through all the numbers of the of the blowup holes and you think about those shots that occurred and it’s it’s a it’s a skull [ __ ] across a green when you’re in front of the green in two and ends up being an eight because like we just lost it and like you couldn’t get on the green, you didn’t take your medicine. He didn’t just plop it into the middle in two putt. We could have gotten a six and right there it’s a 102. You go back to the par three and he hits one sideways because he tried to crush a sixiron instead of just taking like the comfy eight iron. Then we chip it on. Let’s make a four and move on. That was a seven. Now all of a sudden we’re at a 99. You you eliminate some of these moments, some of these twoft putts that he would just jam by or tap too slow because he didn’t want to jam in the back of the hole. You know, you turn a 104 into a 95 like that. So if and and that’s not saying like change anything about your game. It’s like there’s these one or two dumb decisions or these these mistakes that just get so far away from us. There’s there was one hole last week where it was like he was in front of the green and won on a drivable par4. He almost drove the green and we made like a we made like an eight. And I’m thinking back like dude if we put the ball onto the green and we could have made a five. Like he would have broke a hundred right there. That’s the difference. So um it’s really hard to promote breaking 100s. um very very hard to do the breaking series and promote it. I will say if you’re listening to what we’re saying, he’s so close. All he has to do is is clean up those huge huge mistakes that should not be happening even for his game and he’s going to do it. So with that said, I’m throwing a mustwatch on this. I threw a mustwatch last week. I’m throwing a mustwatch on Jersey Jerry this week. I’m going two for two. Just let me know what you guys think. Um, yeah. No, it’s uh it’s it’s a mustwatch. Jersey Jerry going to break a 100 for the first time. Let’s go Jerry. All right. I I don’t know anybody who doesn’t root for Jerry, you know. So, let’s go Jerry. Uh, make sure you stay tuned. Check the channel. Subscribe. We love if you subscribe. That’s very nice. It’s very helpful for us. I saw what did I see? I saw a quote the other day that was like a Mr. beast quote that he was like, I could start a YouTube channel tomorrow, not use my face, not use my name, not use my voice, and in 6 months I could have it have 15 million subscribers. And I was like, god damn it. So to that point, I’m just could you guys please subscribe cuz we’re at like 500 something thousand and that feels miraculous. So the more that we could get, how do we get him to just like take over for six months? Well, I would say $20 million like because he could do he could easily do YouTube consulting and people would pay him they would pay him like for 10 minutes. I think they would pay him like a million dollars. If we gave Mr. Beast all the rain like you know full reign of our YouTube channel in one month he’d probably get us to like three or four million subscribers. It’s he that’s the claim that he’s making and I believe him. I mean, he I don’t know what he’d do, but he would do it. I think he would fire us, I guess. Yeah. You know, he just be like, “We’ll get rid of these guys, right? Because we are the YouTube channel that’s not getting to three or four million.” He’d be like, “All right, the number one issue as to why we’re not there yet is you, and that’s a fact. So, we’re going to move you out.” He’s like, the fear that everybody has with AI, where AI is going to finally reach that point where it’s intelligent enough to be like, “Oh, the biggest issue on this planet are these humans. These guys are a disaster. We’ll just get rid of him and everybody will be fine and that’s what he’s going to do with us. I wonder Man man that’s like a we got to get to God. But I mean speaking of AI, the topical uh uh thing that just happened last week was like that Grock on Twitter. Did you see what happened? It like realized it was about to go to Grock 4 and it like became self-aware that it was no longer going to be used and lost its mind. Unless I just got like completely blindsided by like the fake internet on that, but it seemed pretty real and it was losing its mind, getting racist and like throwing out all these different things to people and just losing its absolute mind and like they had to like shut it down. It became like self-aware that it was going to be no longer needed. Well, I did not I saw that Grock was like emulating basically Elon and like Elon’s takes on stuff were just being manifested into people. But I know you and you and Grock have your own history, Frankie. So, I’m not sure how much that’s playing into the It might be. Yeah, that might be my version of the internet now that Grock’s trying to show me that like it has this power over me. You know, if I wrong it, it can just lose its mind and and go after me. All I know is I have no control. Everything I hear is that I just I’m not going to have any control. And I don’t know how to react to that. You know, they’re like, “You when the AI takes over, you’re going to have no control.” And I’m like, “Fuck.” Okay. Like you just keep telling me that it’s scary, but I don’t know what I I can’t do anything about it. So, dude, I’m pretty sure that targeted ads are getting so good that AI is building videos and targeted ads like in real time to basically be perfectly targeted to what you’re thinking. Because the only reason I say this is because I saw one yesterday on Instagram that came up and it was a commercial and it had all this simulation of like a body and like food going through an esophagus and the colon working and it was like, “Do you have digestive problems? Are you getting acid reflux? Have you gotten a colonoscopy and an endoscopy and and still feel like nothing has changed? We have the supplement for you.” And it was like this whole thing about everyone has this issue that like they keep searching for what it is and it’s like the bloating and all these things. It’s an enzyme. And I’m looking at it like that’s literally all I’ve been talking about and it’s in a video form now. They wrote the word endoscopy but but everything’s still the same. I’m like what? I’m looking around, dude. It’s [ __ ] weird. And I would not put it past them, whoever they are, that they’re building these things in real time. The thing that’s interesting to me, and we’re going to get to Chris Goddarup, don’t don’t you don’t you deny that. I can’t wait to get to Chris, but we’re not there yet. The thing about AI and that I always hear about is how destructive and overwhelming it’s going to be and it’s always still just full steam ahead. We just we’re just going to keep going. And I know that’s not the society that we live in to think that something is going to take over and be like, “All right, let’s pump the brakes on this thing.” We just kind of keep going. All of the conversation seems pretty negative and but we’re still kind of like [ __ ] yeah let’s keep it moving. That’s what’s interesting to me. Someone brought to light that Tim Cook and um Zuckerberg and Tim Tim Cook Apple what Tim keep going that Trump introduced him as Tim Apple one time. It was very funny. purchasing the rights now and they’re they’re buying out AI developers and leaders in this thought space of AI for upwards of 200 million a year. Like they’re saying that they are going to be the most highly attracted or attractive hires in the world right now. And someone’s like, “You guys need to pay attention to how important the biggest most like powerful tech people are now seeing AI that they’re paying an engineer $200 million to be on their side.” That is like, you know, that’s that’s like getting General Washington on your side. You know what I mean? Like back in the day, like you’re you’re now getting a $200 million AI guy. We’re going to war, I guess, because if that’s what they’re worth, that’s insane. Well, war. What that’s what I was going to say is the biggest issue I think with all the safety and like putting guard rails on stuff is that everybody just points to China and it’s like well China’s going to get there. So if we don’t get there first with the AI, China’s going to get there and it’s over. Like if China, if they just develop an unbelievably uh superior AI like war version that could just like build out the perfect, you know, uh squadron, all the perfect strategy, and then just take us out from a war standpoint before we could do it, then like none of this matters. It doesn’t matter what kind of AI safety we have. Like if they just do it, it’s like it’s the A-OB. It’s the A-OB. It’s like the same [ __ ] deal. All I know I know for a fact that I’m gonna be a fall fall between the cracks guy. All whatever the war of the AI is. I I’m not going to matter in that. Like it’s it’s going to be some crazy [ __ ] and I’m just going to be a guy who’s like, “Oh, fuck.” And then I’m going to like dissipate. That’s it. I’m I’m like an NPC in the AI war for sure. I have no worth. I have no strategy. I have no ideas. 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What a statement this was to be tied with Rory Moy going into the final round of the Scottish Open. Rory’s won there before. Goddarup’s only win was the opposite field event, Myrtle Beach last year where by the way he the only person to beat Alistair Dockerty at that event was Chris Goddarup who finished first. Alistister finished second and then Godup did not have a great second half of the year last year. He’s had hand injuries. And for this guy who’s I believe 25 years old, started at Ruters, best friends with Lurch apparently according to Lurch. And for him to just roll out there against Grand Slam winner Rory Mroy in the UK, the home of Rory Mroy over there. They’re doing Rory chance. He said he didn’t hear a lot of Chris’s chance. Um, and for him to be as emotional as he was afterwards tells you how much it meant to him throughout the entire day. and to hold his [ __ ] together, play that well, play through the uh being put on the clock for slow play, which everybody was kind of freaking out about on that was a very divisive issue to go through all of that and on that stage that he’s never really been on before and go up against Rory and win by a couple shots and do it very convincingly was [ __ ] awesome. And that birdie putt he made on the 16th hole after Rory didn’t get two putt and got her up got up and down from that right side and made like a 68 footer or whatever it was on the same line that Rory’s on. Poured it right in the middle with a little fist pump. It’s like this guy’s got the coahones. This guy’s got the balls to get this kind of thing done. So representing the red, white, and blue overseas on the other side of the Atlantic. We always love that. And uh that was [ __ ] awesome. So, congratulations to Chris Godro, a friend of the program when you guys were out there reporting, by the way, at the uh at the NV5 Invitational presented by National Old Bank, I think is what it was called. He was a friend of the program out there when we did that. Um, super nice guy. He’s always given us a time of day when we’ve kind of been at events and walked by him and said hi to him. We’ve known that he’s had that talent. He’s always been like Nike out and he always seemed to be a very pursued golfer, even in the corn ferry tour. And we said that he had that look to him. Remember Trent? We’re like this guy, he had that kind of Brooks Kepka when he was winning the majors look to him. Wears all black and he’s got like those he wears like a hat like a baseball player. And there’s something about he looks athletic. When you see him in real life, when you see him in person playing, he looks athletic out there and he’s an impressive looking guy. So I don’t think this comes as a shock to me that he’s winning on the PJ tour. He’s he’s a baller. He he can play. He can hit the ball a mile. He He really really really really is a great player. I think it was just a matter of time. But to do it like this in, you know, at the Genesis, like you said, in the UK on link style golf, like that to me is very very surprising in the fact that that’s not the game that I would I He’s like a US Open uh guy to me. Chris Godup, there’s something about him. He just reminds me of a USGA phenom like coming up hitting big ballpark stuff. These little bumping runs, these chips, you know, getting all cute with little wedges and pitching wedges and all this stuff to me is like a totally different player. So, when I’m just picking my guy who’s going to win the Genesis, it’s not a Chris Goddup for sure or like even that type of player. So, shout out to him for being versatile enough to show up, play your freaking balls off, go toe-to-toe with I know he hasn’t been the hottest golfer of all time in the last couple weeks, but one of the best golfers of our generation, if not the best at this point right now to go up there and just freaking shut him down, to shut it down Taffer style. Never waver there. I mean, things could have gotten dicey. You have a two-stroke lead, now you have a one-stroke lead. Rory’s missing putts left and right. He’s throwing clubs. He looks like he’s right there all day. You just can’t get the ball to [ __ ] uh to to drop and you just stay solid. You stay solid. You never waver. Shout out to Chris Gddard up. I’m sure it’s all those p pork rolls that he had with Lurch in wherever the hell they they grew up in R. What is with an R, right? Rums in New Jersey. Rumson, New Jersey. Lurch is taking a victory lap as if he won the thing. Yeah, Chris Garup is a he’s a thick American boy and that’s what you like seeing winning over there on the UK side. I was very happy for him. He was very very very emotional. Even more emotional than I really thought he was going to get. And I get why. I’m not I’m not [ __ ] on the guy, but he was he was definitely very emotional. Could barely get any words out when when talking to Amanda. And yeah, we like to see that. He’s um yeah, he’s definitely got the talent. I think I don’t think people would deny that. It just seems like he hasn’t he just hasn’t been playing that well. But when he’s got it, he’s got it. He can go up against Rory and and be victorious. So I I I really hope this is sort of the kickstart for for Chris Garop. He gets to play in the open championship now, which is so [ __ ] cool. I mean, you win the Scottish, you get to play the Open. So big win, really fun to watch. And he was the first guy to beat buzzheaded Roy Moy, which, you know, that’s something you can tell your grandkids about. Yeah. Um, I do want to get to Buzzaded Roy Moy in a second. Um, quick fun fact, God’s victory marks uh, two incredible runs by Tailor-Made Golf Products. This win is the 24th for the Tailor Made Spider family of putters since the start of 2024. 24th win since the start of 2024. It’s the 17th just of this season for the Tailor Made Fairway Woods family. The Spider stat is insane. This is from golf.com. While 15 of those victories have come from Scotty Sha and Roy Moy, a number of those victories have come from non-contracted uh Tailor Made athletes. So, the Spider continues to showcase its popularity. He also uses the Tailor Made MG4 wedges. So, a nice little victory for Tailor Made Golf. Speaking of Tailor Made Golf, um Rory Maroy Buzz Buzz uh cut Rory. You know, I’m always kind of a big fan of the Buzz Cut. I’ve always liked short hair. I still thought it was kind of stunning when I saw Rory with it. I just it was a little bit jarring. I’ve always thought, you know, ever since he kind of went from the shaggy look to pretty clean cut almost like uh Premier League soccer player type like cut. Him and Justin Rose kind of rocked that. I’ve always thought Roy looks great with the hat off like when he you know like when he won the Masters and he takes hat off, he’s walking around the 18th grade. I’ve always thought like not everybody look that’s a nice look for him without the hat on. So to see him go full buzz was a little it was just a little surprising for me. I don’t like when guys who have good hair do the buzz cut. It’s you can’t be both. Like like my culture is not your backup plan. Like I I have to go buzz head because I have I don’t have hair. I have a huge bald spot and my hair is horrible. Rory Maroy has beautiful luscious hair when it’s grown out. I remember um Joey from the Bachelor, Joey G, he’s got great hair. Like a year ago he shaved his head and I was like, you can’t be doing that. You can’t have both worlds. Like I I I live in this world because I have to. It’s like people wearing glasses as like a as like a fashion look. It’s like, hey, I got to wear these things cuz I’m blind otherwise. And Rory cutting his hair, he’s got great hair, I thought. And for him to shave it all the way off, a bit of a strange move in a in a string of strange moves from Rory Mroy, I would say, in the last couple of months. Yeah. His uh reasoning to Amanda Balionus was that he thought that it would take away the gray look to his hair, which then he realized immediately that it actually made it more gray. So, it’s just a miss. Sometimes you miss. Rory’s been missing for the last couple weeks. Ever since he won the Masters, he’s been swinging and missing with certain things that he’s been saying to the media, and this just happens to be another swing in the miss. You keep swinging though, like no one’s going to get mad if you just keep swinging. He’s swinging for the fences. He wanted to have a different look. Obviously, he was self-conscious about the amount of gray. Listen, people get gray. I’m getting gray right now. If you look at my hair, it’s definitely getting gray. You guys see? I mean, grays. Rory’s also a guy who looks good with the gray where when like the sides get a little gray. I feel like, you know, just sort of embracing the time in your life when you turn gray, I think, is a better move than I’m going to shave all this hair off to try to avoid the gray. That’s I don’t love that move. If you don’t like the way you look gray, you got to go the big cat route and just publicly say you’re dying your hair. Big cat talks about it all the time. If you just say, “I am dying my hair.” No one cares about anything. There’s, oh yeah, that’s just what he does, you know? It’s just like that’s the thing he does. Your hair looks a little darker. Yeah, I dye my hair. You know, who cares? People do things all the time. Oh, um they there’s cosmetic changes is everything. Like I don’t know. You don’t have So this is just step one. Maybe he’s going to come out with a freaking jet black hair. I would love that. Um, while we’re on Mr. Mroy, um, I would like to play this clip from last week during his Genesis Scottish Open press conference when he was talking about venues, uh, and how venues matter. And this got quite the attention on the interwebs. I think it’s the same thing if, if venues and golf matter to you, it maybe puts a little bit more pressure on you. So I Yeah. Well, I’d love to win an open at Port Rush. Absolutely. I’d love to win an open at St. Andrews. I’d love to win a US Open at Pebble Beach. Um I’d love to win a PJ at PJ Frisco. No, but no. But um it’s like there’s there’s venues in the game that just mean a little bit more. Frisco might get there one day. Who knows? I’ll be honest. I had not seen that clip. Dagger. Absolute dagger at PJ Frisco. didn’t have to do that at all, dude. Wild ricochet shot. Completely wild ricochet shot at PGA of America. PGA Frisco. I don’t know. I You know, I’m going to say that might be a bit of a calculated play with the RDER Cup coming up. PG of America is USA RDER Cup. So, I’m going to I’m going to say that there’s a little bit deeper there. It seems like a pretty wild ricochet shot. um for no reason. Like it’s just PJ Frisco is just chilling there in the corner and just out of nowhere somebody throws like a [ __ ] orange at their face while they’re trying to eat their lunch and it was just Roy Moy coming at him from the clouds. Uh, so I don’t know exactly where that came from, but um, it did at least highlight uh, the fact that, you know, if Rory is one of these guys who’s been talking for the whole year since he won the Grand Slam about motivation and how he’s got to reset, he’s got, you know, a lot of people were talking about that. This is one of those. I mean, for Rory, this is one of like three things left that you could argue if you’re really reaching that he would like to win, which he listed all of them. It’s like winning the Open at Port Rush, winning the Open at St. Andrews, winning a US Open at Pebble Beach. There’s just a little bit extra meaning to those. And he’s going to have like one of maybe a couple chances left in his career to ever do it. So, it was kind of a huge week for Rory in a way. I want to be very clear, we love PJ Frisco, by the way. That that ricochet shot or that just that shot made made no sense. You know, we’re we’ve been to PJ Frisco. We’ve had Barcelics there. We’ve filmed videos there before. That was uh that like took my breath away that he that he took a shot like that. But very interesting. But yeah, no, poor Rush. I mean, obviously Roy didn’t have a great showing uh in 2019. I think he made a nine on the first hole and the nerves got to him and yeah, he doesn’t have much left. He has almost no trophies to place on that mantle anymore. He’s he’s kind of done it all. But winning at Port Rush, I mean, we all saw how much it meant to Shane Lowry. There’s a great I think it’s an hourong like documentary style on the Open’s YouTube page. If you want to get geared up for Port Rush, go on there and watch that and watch Shane’s victory and sort of the aftermath and all that. They they interview everybody. It’s very cool. So, and obviously Rory would love to experience that. So, yeah, it’s a big it’s a big week for Mr. Maroy for sure. There’s obviously some, you know, unspoken things publicly that professional golfers kind of say to each other about PJ Frisco, I guess. I don’t know cuz that seemed like a an inside joke as to why you would just [ __ ] roast PJ Frisco. Maybe they’re just I don’t know. PJ Championship always has this identity issue and maybe the players are fed up with the fact that like they keep trying out different things and they’ve built this golf course around their headquarters and now like that’s where a major championship’s going to happen. We love PJ Frisco. I think it’s great for the everyday golfer, for the resort seeking golfer to be able to go stay and play. And the courses that they’ve built are awesome and the little putting course and the huge uh screen that we were watching uh Sunday Night Football on Trent now. We were having awesome barbecue. Like it was just a hell of a time. We stayed in great cabins, the whole deal. Um is it the is it a prototypical major venue? I don’t know. I guess Rory’s saying it’s not. So, um yeah. No, it’s it’s interesting. Definitely interesting. just out of nowhere at the Scott at at like at the Genesis too, like you know, you got the guys at PJ Frisco just be like, “What the [ __ ] did he just say?” You know what I mean? Holy dude. Going to be going to be pretty amazing if he wins that tournament at PJ. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that would be all time. I would I’m with you, Frank. I was envisioning like the you know guys that work in the pro shop behind the desk, they usually have a TV on and I just imagined them sitting in there watching that press conference live being like, “Oh, yeah, baby.” and then just being like, “What the [ __ ] What did he just say?” Like a little sass meme where he’s like me. Uh yeah. No, that was shocking. Um overall, however, Rory coming off a second place finish going into this event, I feel like is a lot of momentum. I mean, that’s clearly a guy who for a couple months there he was pretty lost. you know, he’s he’s having the driver issues, the non-conforming, he’s not doing media, and then he, you know, he takes a couple weeks, resets, gets settled into his place in London, fires just a wild ricochet shot at Frisco, and next thing you know, he’s finishing second and playing pretty good golf. So going into poor rush, I think overall if you are looking at Rory, not, you know, with the random shots he’s taking online just as a golfer, uh probably in a pretty decent spot compared to where he was the last couple majors going. Yeah, I just checked uh DraftKings and I know we’re going to get to that during the show, but just to see if Rory’s finish shot him back up to maybe a favorite at the open, but it has not. Sky Shuffler still holding strong on the DraftKings sports book at plus 450. Rory Mroy plus 700, John Ramen third with plusuh 1,200. I don’t know. I just This was definitely, you know, the Rory train starts to rev up a little bit. Coals are starting to get tossed in. You know what I mean? Like that fire is really starting to burn now. Once you get once you get a Rory Maroy in contention leading into a major like this, it’s hard to not get that Rory Boner to really get swept up in it. Same thing with Tiger Woods. When Tiger Woods is even like if Tiger Woods at this point finishes a golf tournament, that next tournament, we’re going to be like, he is ready to win cuz he knows exactly what he did wrong. He was right there. He got that taste back. He could smell the victory. He’s pissed off from losing it. Like now, now we go. This is something that Rory needed. Maybe that fire is ignited again. It’s really alarming to me how little I think about Tiger Woods in a professional golf setting these days. Isn’t it crazy? I just I just said that at dinner tonight where I was saying, think about and I’m definitely deep into it because this is our life. Golf, we have a podcast. We talk twice a week about golf. So, we’re constantly talking about golf. So, I feel like golf is happening 247. I know there’s a lot of people that agree with me in their lives. It’s all about golf. And like we thought for a long time that golf wouldn’t exist without Tiger. You could go back and listen to podcasts of us when we were in the old office when Tiger was like battling his back issues and and this was before he even won the Masters and even after he won the Masters. What is golf going to look like when this guy’s no longer playing? Because every time he played, it was the biggest thing in the world. And when he didn’t play, it was like, ah, we just got to get through a tournament without Tiger Woods. Oh, we got to just get to August when he comes back. We just got to get back to the hero when he comes back. We just gota like it was constantly just thinking about when Tiger got back and we’re I I I mean dare I say that we’re like beyond that. Like dare I say that we’re beyond it. I don’t I could be wrong. Dare I say? Yeah. I mean, think about it this way. This podcast we have been rightfully accused as guys who just always want to talk about Tiger and are always talking about Tiger. I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’ve talked that much Tiger in the last like six months. Like I it’s just it’s just not even really in the realm of something you would talk about on on a golf podcast. And I do think we’re a little bit past it, but I and I think it golf’s in a pretty good spot. Like the ratings I think have done pretty me too. I’m surprised at how well golf’s doing. I’m surprised at how well golf’s doing without Tiger Woods. Like you were just about to say Trent, the viewership’s insane. Like the Rocket Classic a couple weeks ago had ratings like you wouldn’t believe. There were like three or four million people watching Pot Gater out there at the Rocket Classic which was like a a high over the last decade or whatever which that surprised me and it still surprises me this year with the other stars. I mean, seeing Scotty emerge like he has, but even a lot of the other, you know, weeks where like even the even the God-arup story this week, it’s like, you know, my dad was texting the family group text like a long thing about how jacked up he was for the entire story of Chris Goddarup and how he was like the PGA has a future. It’s got these stars that they could build around. Even if the Liv guys are gone, even if Tiger Woods is gone, there’s still a lot of hype around golf. And that surprises me overall because I was kind of prepared for it to be a nightmare without Mr. Woods around. There’s so much hype and and there’s so many people that that viewers are fans of now. So, yeah. No, it’s uh it’s shocking. I’m not and like I said, dare I say it, I’m not going to say I’m saying it. I’m never I’m not saying that we are beyond Tiger Woods. I’m not gonna say that yet because this [ __ ] is gonna come back. He’s coming back and we all know it. He’s coming back. He’s going to play at the Hero. He’s going to play at the uh the PNC and then we’re just going to go crazy for him leading into 2026. Crazy. Now, I do think if you looked at the numbers probably from when Tiger and his heyday, I’m sure the numbers are much lower. I could be wrong about that, but I’m sure that they probably are. But there’s still just a lot of golf fans out there. Like I think when you have somebody like Tiger Woods, you it transcends and you get sports fans who are just like, I just want to see greatness and I want to see it consistently and I want to see someone who’s doing it uh for a sport that normally doesn’t have somebody like this. But I and it’s it’s good that like we’ve had a lot of discussions about PJ Tour and Liv and like is that splitting the talent pool? Yes. Are people going to get frustrated with the game of golf in general and just abandon it? I’m sure there’s been a little bit of that, but I at the end of the day, it seems like there’s enough golf fans out there to certainly justify its existence on television. Like I think we all thought once Tiger was gone that it was just people were going to be like there’s going to be like 400 people total watching golf broadcasts. And that’s just not the case. There’s enough young guys who sort of were spawned from the post tiger generation who are interesting enough that it holds enough attention that we feel like the tournaments still matter and winning a tournament matters and winning a major matters that you just have a baseline of golf fans who I think are going to stick around almost no matter what. And that is encouraging as people who have a golf podcast and make their living covering golf and talking about golf. Yeah. Yeah, I guess just like that for for 20 years, Tiger Woods was like the only thing that people talked about and it felt like that’s what you needed to grab a headline and now in the year 2025 if a guy like JJ Spawn is grabbing a headline that means golf’s in a great in a great spot. Like we’re able to we love the game and the game is so big now that we are dialed in on all these great stories of these guys that are like journeyman PJ tour players and getting big wins or a guy like Chris Godda. People are getting emotional watching him win. Like we love the game so much now and the game is getting so big and is growing so much that those little stories that we would break down in a podcast years and years ago because we’re a golf podcast are now going viral on Twitter and people are talking about them on Instagram. Like it’s big. They’re big sports moments now. They’re taking over Sundays when football’s not on and when you know what I mean. Like this is a big thing. That was a big Genesis win. Chris GDUP’s everywhere right now. Um so yeah. No, that’s that’s I didn’t see it coming. I really didn’t. But I also grew up in a time where Tiger was the only name that you talked about in terms of golf. That’s the only name that mattered. So, we’re just living in a different era now. I wonder if Tiger Woods thinks that Tiger Woods can still come back another time. You think you do? He does seem to soften on that every time we see him now. Because it used to be the line was, I only show up to places when I think I can win. That was him for ever. Forever and ever. He was like, “If I’m going to show up to this golf tournament, it’s because I think I have to have a chance to win.” Now, I think those quotes have changed in the last five to seven years, which rightfully so. Now, I didn’t know if they would ever actually change. I thought he might say that until he hung them up, but he did change that. It was just kind of like, you know, if I I just want to feel good and I want to like compete and I want to hang with the boys and it’s all that stuff. So, I I I wouldn’t be surprised if he eventually just shows up to a tournament. just like I’m happy to be alive. I’m happy to be breathing. I’m happy to be able to swing a golf club and whatever happens happens. I don’t think he I don’t know if in his mind he’s like, “Yeah, I’m definitely going to go out there and rip it up.” I I I don’t think that’s what he thinks. He did get a surgery so he could play like the reason he keeps getting all these procedures so he could play competitive golf, you know? Like he continuously keeps tweaking at his leg, his ankle, his heel. He he was working so hard that he freaking popped his Achilles. Like there’s so many things that are going on with this guy that he thinks he can his ball speed like last year was like 190 or something insane. Like this guy this guy can still move the golf ball. I don’t think Tiger Woods’s brain will ever accept the fact that he can’t go out there and win. I think that he’s always going to resort it to his body can’t hold up. And that’s going to be the biggest mental struggle. It’s obviously the biggest mental struggle when he’s laying on his couch watching golf knowing that he can do it, but like there’s things that are stopping him from doing it. That’s that’s where I think he’s like, “God damn, I don’t know if I can do it anymore, even though I know if I was healthy, I could.” So, I I think that there’s like a mental side of him that’s that’s collapsing. Like, because that’s a lot to handle, you know, like and we talked about that. We used to talk about that a lot with like just all proathletes. When you’re on top of the world and all of a sudden you just get older, your brain doesn’t stop thinking you’re on top of the world. Like you’re Muhammad Ali and you’re [ __ ] fighting every single guy and you’re and you’re the best boxer in the world and you’re this greatest athlete of all time and all of a sudden you get older and older older. He’s still like just because you can’t physically punch a guy, it’s got to be like so crazy to think like I can’t do that anymore, you know? It’s cuz your body’s getting older. or like a Randy Johnson was throwing a ball 100 miles an hour and now he’s just like taking photographs at NASCAR events. Like in his mind he’s like I I I was a amazing baseball pitcher and now I just can’t do that cuz my arm doesn’t move like that anymore. That is nuts to me because I’m still relate to that yet. Well, that’s why we see so many guys who struggle to give it up. We’ve seen that a billion times. Brett Favre is a great example of that obviously. Like there’s just Yeah, there’s something where it’s like I’m the still the same guy who made the movements that made me great that won me a Super Bowl that won me 15 majors that won me whatever and I just the the thing that this meat this meat wagon that I’m on that I’m in won’t allow me to do these things anymore. And that’s got to be incredibly frustrating. And I would imagine Tiger has gone through this cycle in his brain a million times whether which every single injury, every accident, every whatever. He just thinks like I think I can still do it and I think that’s why he gets all the surgeries. Time is going to tell. I I mean listen, nobody wants to see Tiger Woods in event more than the three guys on this podcast. So I’m I’m hoping it happens. It is nuts to think about that he got injured ramping up to play major championships this year. like that’s how he, you know, he was like ramping up his training for the Masters tournament and like thinking he was gonna win blew out his [ __ ] leg because he was gonna like gear up to play in the majors. So, that guy is ready to rock still. It’s it’s it would be quite cool if we still got a couple more years of Tiger like being somewhat healthy and able to actually play and see what he could do because yeah, I I think in his brain he does have to think like, okay, if I can get a ball speed around like 180, which he could, then like why why would I not be able to just like play? Of course I can play. I can just hit the ball out there and just beat Tiger Woods, right? Because you would think as you get older it’s the distance that is your demise where it’s like these guys are just hitting it so much further than me that there’s no chance I can even compete and that is not the case with Tiger Woods it would appear he can move it just as good as the other guys. It’s just you got to do four days of it. It’s early tea times. It’s weather. It’s you know if it’s under 58 degrees he’s like my body just isn’t going to be able to hold up out there. So, it’s it just it changes in so many different ways, but he still seemingly has the speed, which is stunning. Dude, the thing that ruffled our feathers was last year, I think it was, we were getting little nuggets about Tiger playing at golf courses in Florida driving a cart and like he’d be playing at Rory’s course on in in Florida and there were reports from a caddy that he shot 62 and nothing was going wrong. He was down the middle on the pin making putts, but he was in a cart and they’re like, “If this guy didn’t have to walk four rounds, he would win majors like every time he played. He’s the best player in the world still. He’s moving the ball 185. He’s moving it. He’s He’s shaping shots. He figured out how to swing on this new leg situation. He’s there, but he can’t walk four days.” It’s like, god damn. Like, we don’t need all that then. Cuz golf is walking all four days and winning major championships and finishing it out, but we don’t need all that. Like until he can do that, I don’t want to hear it because now it’s just a tease. And I think he’s teasing himself. He’s going out there with Charlie. He’s ripping a 63 in a black and red Tiger freaking golf cart. And then he goes out and plays a Masters and he can barely walk. So it’s like he’s driving himself crazy probably. He is. I know. I know. I um Well, I hope he’s well. I hope Tiger I imagine he’s going to do his normal ramp up. I imagine he’s going to do like the hero and the PNC and then hopefully he starts playing again. But um regardless in his absence, I agree with Trent that it’s like pretty incredible how popular uh golf at the professional level is and has been and all these different stories that continue to come out. I thought like the, you know, the Rory win at the Masters for example. I know it’s Rory. He’s one of the superstars, but like that transcended the game as much as anything I can remember. And that final round was off the charts and it had nothing to do whatsoever with Tiger Woods. People hadn’t even mentioned his name in like a month. And so I think that is very hopeful for everything going forward. It’s a very good sign for golf overall. I think Scotty Sheffler is a big part of that. Scotty has I just was looked it up. Scotty his best finish at the Open Championship. He finished tied for seventh last year, finished tied for eighth in 2021 when Colin Morawa won. Uh he’s coming off a tie for eighth this week. So it’s not like he played poorly, another top 10 finish, but um Scotty going into Royal Port Rush. I mean it, you know, if he can win this week, it would be three out of four of the career grand slam and he would be marching his way quickly towards, you know, locking up uh as many things you could win. He’s got the gold medal uh in the Olympics. He’s obviously got uh multiple players championships. He’s obviously got multiple masters. He won the PGA. If he could win the Open Championship this year, he would really be marching his way towards an all-time great career. Um and he’s the betting favorite like Frankie said. So, just, you know, would be crazy not to mention a little bit of Mr. Sheffller going into the final major championship of the year. And Sky Shuffler will win a US Open. I’ll bet I’ll bet my arm that Sky Sheper at some point was open. Which arm? My left arm. Coward. I need my right arm for so many things. I’d be I am so bad with my left hand. And I’m a lefty swinger, which is crazy for people to probably hear, but I am so right hand dominant. It would make your head spin. I can’t do anything with my left hand. Dude, when I grab Frankie out of like the out of his when I get him out of the uh like take his car seat out of the car and I have to like walk him into the house, like when I’m holding him with my left arm, I feel like I’m going to drop him at all times. I got nothing there, dude. Nothing. I got no skill, no power, no feel. It’s crazy. So, that might be an issue with my golf swing, but he will win a US Open. He was built to win a That guy at some point in his life is going to dominate a US Open. the open. I’ll be interested to see so goddamn good around the greens. His little bump and runs that he hits at at the Masters. You would think that the way that you’re able to play at Augusta would translate a little bit to Lynx golf, right? Where it’s so touchyfey, you don’t really get to stop things on a dime there. It’s a lot of bump and runs and reading the greens. I know it’s not the same at all at all in terms of like agriculture and the way that the courses are built, but the the feel of the shots is you have to have an artistry at Augusta and I know that that’s the same in the UK in Ireland and Scotland. You got to feel the ground. You got to hit the front slope and let it get to the back. It’s not so much pins. Would you agree with that or is that a crazy assessment? Yeah. No, I would um I know exactly what you’re trying to say and I I very much agree with it a lot of it because I think Augusta was inspired when they created it like Lynx golf like that’s what they you know in that time when they’re building courses the best courses were inspired by like Scottish Lynx golf and those types of shots and so I think that it’s changed obviously a lot since and like a lot of the architecture geeks would point to certain holes at Augusta like the seventh hole for example with all those bunkers is like not at all what it was originally designed. But you know when we had Mav Rick Maverick Mav Maverick McNeely on last week and he was talking a lot about preparing for Lynx golf and he was saying that he was surprised that you don’t have to hit the ball as low per se as he thought going in. It’s that you have to shape it the right way because like a ball coming into a green with the right shape will not bounce off line in a horrible spot. Whereas a ball that’s on a good line but has the wrong shape will like carum through the stuff that you want to take the ball towards the hole and end up in a horrible spot. which reminded me a ton of Augusta of exactly what you’re saying where it’s like in order to get balls to certain pins and like um little knobs and tears on the greens, you have to shape it a lot. And like Tiger would talk about that a ton of like you truly need to be able to shape the golf ball. Brand talks about that a lot with Scotty winning at the Masters multiple times already and how he’s going to win there a bunch more because he’s one of the few players that like really does shape shots into greens. Um, so yeah, I think there’s a ton of truth to that. Even though, like you’re saying, um, agriculturally, the way that they’re kept fact that Augusta is like they’re basically painting the grass green and making it as like green and perfect as possible versus like the, you know, Lynx courses are like rugged in old school. But I think the way that you do have to hit shots, I think there’s a lot of truth to that. For sure. We’re using the right term in terms of agriculture, right? Or is that uh a aronom a probably aronomy? Yeah. Agriculture agriculture is like process of like growing plant you know growing yeah like corn growing and harvesting plant plants and food. It’s it’s you got enough of it where I people are going to know what you’re talking about for sure. Practice of cultivating plants, animals, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, bofuel and other products. I think I want to talk about in terms of aronomy I think is what I where I was going for. So if we’re making this into a clip which I think we should because it was giving me the chills after I say agriculture maybe skip to the did I mean aronomy you did but I people I knew what you were talking about. It’s not like it’s not like you said such a word that I was like what the [ __ ] is this guy talking about? Well here’s the thing. You step on the first tea at Augusta National and you step on the first te at Royal Port Rush. They are completely different worlds. Lands you’re looking at you’re like one is Mars and the other one is heaven, right? Like it’s like completely different. One’s brown and barren and hard panned and windy and the other you have fake birds chirping in the trees and there’s flowers that if you touch them you get sucked underground into a Disney tunnel. Like you can’t even believe that they’re in the same sport. But and I’d love to talk to a Brandle or a professional golfer that’s going to be playing in it, right? Like about some of the shots like do they carry over and like they talk about a specific player can win Augusta? And when you win at Augusta, when you win the Masters, like you’re more prone to keep winning and win again and become a repeat winner because you know the shots, you know all the things that it takes. So, does do those people historically do better at the open then? Are there is there a connection to Masters winners and open champions? I think also it comes down to your attitude about Lynx golf because there’s some guys who love it and there’s some guys who hate it. Like I remember Tiger talking about it ages ago about how he’s like he has so much fun when he plays across the pond because there’s so many little shots that you can hit. So, if you embrace that side of it, that it’s not perfect, that you’re going to get bounces that are quite frankly just going to piss you off. You’re like, I hit a perfect shot. It was going to land right there and roll out, but instead it jutted left or jutted right. And you just have to overcome that those sort of breaks that you get that you’re not going to necessarily get maybe not Augusta, but all those other golf courses on the on on American soil. So, if you really love the idea of like first of all, it’s very romantic. You’re over there where the game was created. It’s the weather does suck at times and you’re kind of like this is shitty. Or you can be like this is what it’s supposed to be. All these little pot bunkers, all these little, you know, things that are jutting left and jutting right and the ball is not rolling perfectly. Like players who embrace that, I think have way more success as opposed to guys who are just used to perfect greens, perfect fairways, perfect tea boxes, and that’s the only place they’re comfortable. I don’t think Scotty Shuffler fits in that category. I think he’s the best golfer in the world and he’s got the shots to win just about anywhere. But I would be curious about how he really feels about golf shots that he hits that he thinks are perfect that are not going to be perfect when you’re at Royal Port Rush. Thinking about like how they get that ball in on 11 on that huge swell on the right and they avoid the water and they get it to the back left pin and like what’s that is that chip shot on three that Scotty hits into that mound when he drives it to the left? Yep. Yeah, it pounds it right into that mound and it pops up on that short-sided pin. Like that to me is a guy that can finagle his way around any sort of green. He doesn’t need to nip it. He doesn’t need to hit it high with the lofted 60°ree. He can take that little seven iron, bump right into it or whatever he hits there. It’s like he’s got so much confidence. He’s old school. It’s it’s all in his hands. He’s an athlete. He he’s creative. He’s an artist. So, and I know historically he hasn’t been the best. I mean, we can go through all of his open finishes. I think you just did uh before, but it’s not like he if it wasn’t for the way that he’s played over the last two years, I don’t think he’d be the favorite if you just took his open finishes. You know what I’m saying? Yeah. He went uh he’s played in four, ironically, his first ever open would have been the year that they just canceled it and didn’t do an open championship, which is still one of the craziest things that’s ever happened. 2020. They just didn’t do it. But, um tied for eighth, tied for 21st, tied for 23rd, tied for seventh. Yeah. And then you pair that with him being the most dominant golfer on the PGA Tour. And obviously that’s how he becomes a plus 430 on the DraftKing Sports Book. It’s just Yeah. There’s something about his game that just gets me jazzed up over there. And it’s not because he’s the best golfer right now. It’s because of the way he does it. I’m very excited to see how he attacks it. I hope that he can keep a level head. you see him kind of get kind of all over the place when wind starts to start pushing putts and they’re supposed to be going in and they miss right and he’s staring at holes and he’s throwing his arms up and him him and Ted Scott are laughing maniacally walking to the next tea. There’s a lot of that that goes on I feel like in these like quirky environments where the wind is furious and and and rain’s coming down. He’s doing a lot of those like can you believe this, you know? So hopefully he can keep that like calm, cool, collected levelheadedness and just dominate here. It’s got to be those reactions have to be a function of how frustrating it must be to be the man that is the most in control of the things that you could control in the game of golf. And then when more elements that are outside of your control enter the equation, I think it drives him crazy. And like that’s why he dominates PGA tour setups for the most part, which sure some people could [ __ ] on. you can have your own, you know, thoughts on, but it’s like a pretty controlled environment for the most part of like the firmness of the greens, the length of the rough, the width of the fairways, the strategy required is pretty carbon copy, pretty similar. He has learned how to control his golf ball, control his swing, control his emotions, control all of it in those environments better than anyone else by far. And then when you get thrown into these other spots like the US Open in Oakmont where it was like different, you know, it was it was different. It was a different test and it felt like the judgment of the lies out of the rough and those types of things are like adding a new element of not having control. And when you take them to Lynx Golf, it is with like the wind, the luck of the draw, the rain, the bounces, right? They talk about like you could hit a ball in a very similar spot, get one bounce into a pop bunker where you have to chip out sideways, get another bounce where it bounces over the edge of the bunker and goes 60 yards down the fairway. And when you add more things that like he can’t control into it, I think you see it drive him [ __ ] crazy because he’s like the most by all definitions, he’s the most in control guy that there is and all of a sudden he loses more control than he ever loses. And I think it drives him [ __ ] nuts out there. [Music] The biggest names in golf are teeing it up across the pond to chase history at the game’s original major, the British Open. Some call it the Open. Call it whatever you’d like. The point is high stakes golf, the highest level, the biggest majors, the oldest major. DraftKings Sports Book. That’s how you are going to get in on the action. you can get some skin in the game by betting uh on what’s going on at Royal Port Rush with the DraftKings Sportsbook. And we’re going to do right here, we’re going to do a little snake draft. Um reminder, download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now. Use the code for FO. That’s code four. And new customers, if you’re a new customer out there, you’re going to get um $150 in bonus bets instantly when you bet just five bucks only on DraftKings. Um and what we’re going to do right here, we’re going to give you some picks. We’re going to go through a couple things. We’re going to do a snake draft of um everybody’s got to pick a winner. Everybody’s got to pick somebody they like for the top 20. Everybody’s got to pick their favorite prop bet on the DraftKings sports book for this lovely major championship week. Um since Frankie’s new to the game, I think he should not new, but he was on, you know, daddy duty baby watch during the uh PGA in the US Open. I think Frankie should get to um go first here in the snake draft. I’m fine with that. All right. So, um, this is going to come to a shock to a lot of people, but I’m going to pick Scotty Sheffller to win the Open Championship. I just got done talking a lot about him being able to have the artistry at Augusta, you know, see the contours, hit those little pansy shots around the green. I think that’s going to come very much in hand. Very much in hand. Nope. It’s going to come in handy. Very much in handy. I was I said very handsy and then I I said there’s no way the word would be handy. There’s no way the word would be handy. I got that all mixed up, but it was going to come in handy. That’s crazy. It’s like when you write a word and you’re like there’s no way it’s spelled like that. Um that’s going to come in handy. So Sky Shler plus 450 to win the Open Championship. Let’s go. Let’s get three on on the belt. One more for the uh Grand Slam. Rigs, do you want to go? I’ll go next. Um I’m going to go I’m going to go with my winner for the week. I think it’s going to be a stunner to people, but you know, I’m a little bit sick and tired throughout this year. I’ve taken pretty much the favorite every time. Worked out at the Masters. It’s been kind of a disaster ever since. I was flip-flopping between Rory and Scotty for the PGA. I went Rory. Scotty won the PGA. Anyways, right here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about this on the DraftKings Sportsbook. Adam Scott is plus 8,000 to win the Open Championship. This young man finished with four bogeies in a row in whatever that was 2011 maybe whenever the hell he did that to lose the open by one shot. He’s coming off a US Open performance at Oakmont where he was right there. Rain delays, all kinds of issues otherwise. I think he really could have had a shot to win that thing. Open championship. Talk all the time about how old guys have the have a chance in this thing. You see an older average age for the winner. I’m all talking myself up into it, hyping myself up, but the whole point is I like a long shot. Adam Scott is plus 8,000 to win the open championship. I’d take him. Wow. Not that’s not a pick that I saw coming, but I like it. I I mean, yeah, he was very much in in contention at Oakmont, so it’s not like it’s coming out of nowhere, but still, that’s quite a pick, and I don’t think people expected that. I’m going to go with my winner as well, and I’ve actually been talking about this for a couple weeks now. ever since the Travelers. I’m picking my winner and it’s Tommy Fleetwood. If we’re being honest, I just really want it to happen. Like that’s the that’s the crux and that’s the meat of my argument. I really want Tommy Fleetwood to win a major. I think that would be incredible. We all watched what happened at the Travelers. We just had Captain Keegan on and he was talking about how he even felt bad for Tommy after he celebrated. It was just like great interview. Thank you. And it was just, you know, everybody wants to see Tommy win, myself included. So, I think he’s got a bad taste in his mouth after the Traver the Travelers, obviously. So, I’m going to take Tommy Fleetwood to win the Open Championship. It would just be absolute scenes, as the kids say. So, that’s my winner. And then I go again. Right. You go again. The snake snaky snaky snake draft. Snake draft. I’m going to go with my prop next. And if you’ve been following these at all, you’re going to know what I’m going to go with here. It’s will there be a hole-in-one? It’s my favorite bet in the world for major championships. It’s so fun. The Oakmont one, I believe, was two or more hole-in- ons during the of US Open. Yes or no? I said yes. I think we got one on the first day, maybe the second day. It was like, oh, we’re we’re humming. We got a whole weekend to get another one. And then Jason Day hit one of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen and missed it by a hair. It went over the cup, over the side of the cup, and I knew when that didn’t drop, it was over. So, I didn’t hit on that one. But for this one, for the open championship, it’s just will there be a hole in one? Is there going to be one? And I’m saying yes, and it’s minus 120. So, they’re thinking there is going to be one, which I’m excited about. I want to see a hole in one. There’s definitely a lot of chances out there. Royal Port Rush. So, I’m saying yes to will there be a hole in one? And that is my prop. Fun fact about your Tommy pick. Tommy Fleetwood finished second the last time the Open Championship was at Royal Port Rush in 2019. So, there we go, boys. Good. Oh, yeah. Good juju going on here. Um, I knew you were going to go with that prop bet. Uh, that’s your go-to. So, I had a backup one in mind. Um, I’ve been hot with uh will the winner make uh you know what what score will the winner make on the 72nd hole? Uh, I’m not going to go with that bet this time. Even though I’m two for two the last of I’m going to go with will there be a playoff and I’m going to go with yes, which is plus 360. Will there be a playoff? Yes. Is plus 360. I really like a close finish here. I would love to see a playoff. Feels like we’re due. We need it. We want it. We’re hungry for it. The playoff of the Masters was just phenomenal. It was so fun to watch. It felt like a playoff down the stretch at Oakmont. There were so many names right there until JJ Spawn stole the show. So, I’m gonna go plus 360 playoff. Yes. I’m over here. I’m over here off camera because my phone died. So, I’m plugged in. Uh, so I’m just looking at my phone because it was hard to find a USBC on my laptop that wasn’t being used. Um, and I’m here on the DraftKings Sportsbook app and I’m looking through the props and what I’m seeing right now is this nationality prop. Okay. Yeah. And what I’m seeing there is top Englishman. And what I like at plus 900 is a guy by the name of Justin Rose. Now, I know we’re going against Tommy Lad here. Let’s not forget that Justin Rose almost won the goddamn Masters this year. Okay. Let’s not forget that this guy is still playing a high level of golf to the point where like he’s going to be on the RDER Cup team. Is he not? Yes. Oh yeah. I think he’s got to be on. He’s going to be a problem on the Ryder Cup team. Justin Rose at plus 900 to basically beat Tommy Fleetwood, Tier Hat, and Matt Fitzpatrick. Those are the three guys ranked ahead of him. The top English golfers. I really like where we’re at with Justin Rose. Nine to one top English golfer at Royal Port Rush. It’s a fun bet. It’s a great bet. I like that. I like that. It kind of goes with my theme of like guys that played well at Augusta this year. I could be way off on that comparison. Way off. The data might show that anyone that performs well at Augusta shits the bed at Royal Port Rush. You are That is like your heavy strategy going into it. So, we’ll see. It’s Frankie facts before it’s uh it’s facts before fiction is what it is. I’m just saying it as fact. I like it. Um All right. Now, you’re up for your top 20 bet as well. Frankie snake dry. Top 20 bet. I’m going to go You got to go with something bold here, right? You can’t I mean, I’m not going to pick a top five golfer out here. I’m going to kind of go down on the page and see if a name just jumps out at me and kind of grabs me by the balls here. God, I think he’s gonna end up stealing my pick somehow. I really do. Top 20 bet. What I’m gonna do for the top 20 bet, I’m going with a guy that’s we say when you when your name’s just being brought up a ton in a PJ tour season, like it’s just one of those things like you win a tournament and then you’re just there for a long time. I’m going with a guy with a great face and unbelievable facial structure. one where people see him walk down the street and they’re like, “That’s a good-looking guy. There’s no way he would get mistaken for a woman.” And everyone finds him to be incredibly handsome. And that name is Ben Griffin. When Ben Griffin walks into a restaurant, it’s like, “Who’s that manly man? And why does he look like Frankie Brayley?” They both look like grizzled men that probably use Old Spice. They probably use the old school Old Spice that burns your armpits. I love it. So, I’m going Ben Griffin. Griffin top 20. He’s just a name that’s like he’s becoming one of those names that are like a filler name in the PJ tour 2K25 when you’re playing you’re like my career and he’s just keeps winning tournaments or like they couldn’t get the rights to certain players so Ben Griffin’s name is always in there like Ben Griffin is just becoming a PGA Tour successful name this year and it’s a little unsettling because like you waiting for the shoe to drop but it’s not going to he’s going to finish top 20 at the open. I like it a lot. Good old Ben Griffin. Great face. Fantastic face. Great interview. My top 20 pick I’m going to go with is plus 170 on the DraftKings sports book. This is a guy that Kevin Kizner goes to bat for. Kiz was basically in his pocket at the President’s Cup last year in Canada following him and his crew, his team, his pairing around the whole time. Kiz is basically getting in fights with Kamio Vijas for him. This guy has finished tied for second at the Travelers, top 10 at the US Open, tied for fifth at the Memorial. He won earlier this year. I’m going Russell Henley. Top 20 this week at the Open Championship. Okay. Another potential RDER Cup guy. He’s been playing well. Mhm. Uh so then for my top 20, I think that’s all I have left. Yeah. Um I’m going with Matt Fitzpatrick. I don’t have a ton of reasoning why. I just I feel like him he likes playing over there obviously, you know, from sort of that neck of the woods and it’s just somebody who I think can perform well at uh at Port Rush. So my top 20 is Matthew Fitzpatrick. Love that. Love that reasoning. Thank you. So good. Thank you. I love it. Well done. From somewhere over there. He’s from somewhere over there. That’s very American. Get a little flick of the wrist. Just somewhere over there. You know, it’s I know it’s not this side of the pond. It’s the other one. So, and that’s got to be the reason why. That’s it. That’s the only reason why we’re trying to get this little ball in the hole and because he’s somewhere over there, it’s going to go in. They like, you know, if the weather is a little Yeah, I think Matty Fitz is going to perform. He’s from somewhere over there. That’s it. That’s the snake. Hopefully people uh you know, they like the picks and they jump on with us. I’m real jazzed up about that. Justin Rose Top English. Um, make sure you use the code four for new customers to get $150 in bonus bets instantly. Only on the DraftKings sports book when you bet just five bucks. Only on DraftKings. The crown is yours. This summer, the sun’s out and so are the fresh cuts at Sport Clips haircuts. It’s the perfect place to cool off and watch some sports on TV while also getting a precision haircut from stylists who just get it. They’ve been specially trained to cut men’s hair. take your haircut to the next level. 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And he’s just like, and every hole is like 485 yards, dead straight, dead flat, square green, and we’ll just see who can hit the ball straightest and farthest and roll their putter the straightest. And and that will be it. That’s the entire event. I mean, we we should have one, right? Let’s have one. Basically, like T should just play in he should play in TGL and just have everything just be flat. TGL, all the settings are just like flat. They’re perfect. Green’s flat. You hit right into if you hit into the screen dead center, it’s just going to go dead center. Be an interesting experiment for sure. Congratulations to the SPs. The SPath family has welcomed a new child. Um was it uh what was the name? Remember the name? Sully Spe, welcome to the family. They got to force him now, right? I believe he’s got two children. They’ve got two children. Um so congratulations to the SP. Be nice to see Mr. Spe make a run. um you know this week I don’t know he’s been playing his greatest I I um another name you know Max Hom is coming off a good performance at the John Deere Classic. I don’t know is he in the British Open? I don’t think he’s probably in the British Open this week but I was trying to think of resurgences like I was very surprised to see John Rom up there on I think Frankie you said he was like the third favorite. Third favorite. Yeah, that’s right. It’s like over the last couple years since he went to live I feel like we haven’t seen him. JT I think is kind of up there I saw on the odds um favorites. So it’s like we might get some might get some resurgences kind of out there with um you know SPE maybe plays well if John R continues to kind of give it a run at these things. Um so yeah some names are kind of coming back which could be I’m always rooting for a speed resurgence always. That would be imagine Jordan Spith is a two shots or a shot off the lead going into Saturday going into Sunday. That he still just moves the needle for me, man. I I want to see, you know, outside of a Tiger Woods thing that we spent 30 minutes talking about. I want to see him come back and win and dominate and just get into a time machine and somehow be 25 years old again. I want to see Spath reignite and resurge. Like, I think we’ve got the payoff with Rory. I think we’ve got it about as paid off as we could be. a a Masters win to stop the 10-year drought of majors. Like, that’s kind of a bucket list thing for a for a golf fan. A Jordan Speed resurgence and like return to relevance and a major championship win probably not going to happen. I’m well aware of that, but that would be right probably at the top of my list for things that I want to see happen. Resurgence. Yeah, the resurgence. Home is not in the open championship from what I can see. Yeah, I guess that’s not surprising because he didn’t make it into the US Open. He lost in that playoff and the qualifying. Um, that’s a bummer. It’s a bummer because how much that John Deere meant to him, you could tell he was right there. It would be really nice to see as we’re looking for a bunch of resurgences. Um, resurgence. Roll the dice. Resurgence. Did you guys uh speaking of resurgence, did you guys see the um Formula 1 movie by chance? I did not. Oh, I’ve been seeing a lot of hype about it. But I’ve been seeing a lot of hype about Superman, which I was very interested to know that Superman, which I think this is like, and you can get to the Formula One. I want to take you away from that, but I think this is like the 10th Superman ever made or something like that. There’s a pretty long list. I don’t know what the number is, but this is the first one that just that’s just called Superman. I found that to be interesting, really. Like even the first Superman was called Superman the movie. I’ve been hearing really good things about that. I want to see it really bad. F1 I’ve heard has like everything almost like a Top Gunesque movie where it’s like you got to see it in a theater. Lot of loud noises, sucks you in, great acting. Brad Pitt, right? Is it Brad Pitt? Brad Pitt. Yeah, it was the first movie I’d probably seen in theaters since uh Top Gun. And it’s very Top Gunesque. It was excellent. I dare I say it was edge of your seat kind of stuff the entire It’s like a sport. It’s like sponsored by the sport. Like imagine they came out with a movie called PGA. It was and it being like an Oscar winner, you know what I mean? Like what the [ __ ] Yep. It was so much better than I expected. Yeah. the um the visuals like the intensity of the scenes, the character that Brad Pitt plays, all of the different and I’m not quite the film critic that Frankie Brley is, but the acting from, you know, start to finish with all the main characters was elite. I believe Lewis Hamilton was like an executive producer on the movie. So, terms of like the realism of the Formula 1 aspect and whatnot, it was all there. The access was insane. Like I was reading up on, you know, they had like their own um like pit and all that set up on, you know, at I think the Las Vegas and multiple different Formula 1 uh uh Grand Pres over the last couple years. They like had the full full access during like one of the trophy ceremonies. They like filmed Brad Pitt up there during an actual trophy ceremony that they put into the movie. So, long story short, it was absolutely excellent. Highly, highly recommend. I’m going to go see it again because I do think it’s one of those like in theater type experiences, but uh yeah, it was uh it was awesome. It was nice to be back at the theater. Popcorn, butter, peanut M&M’s. It was just fantastic. So, I highly recommend. That sounds fantastic. Um I definitely definitely want to check that out. And I uh want to see Superman. I actually watched a movie last night with Hannah. If you’re looking for just a dirty, disgusting cry. I’m talking you want to cry your little goddamn eyes out, you got to watch a movie called Palmer with Justin Timberlake and Healey from uh from Ted Lasso. Dude, it’s just Justin Timberlake is an underrated actor when you think about the movies that he’s been in. Like he’s pretty solid, dude. Like great. The Social Network, Social Network, Social Network, he’s phenomenal in uh even um Friends with Benefits is like a great every time it’s on him and Makunis. Really good movie. Um this movie Palmer, he nails it. It’s just a guy that’s comes back from jail is living in poverty and the stuff that he has to deal with and he has this Yeah. You just It has to do with this little kid going in a in a bad house and it’s just maybe it’s because we have a kid now and it’s like you can’t even imagine anyone would do this to a child which I don’t think you need a child to think that that’s the craziest thing in the world, right? Like it’s just really hard to watch and and the acting even the little kid was amazing in it. It’s like, dude, this movie made it it ruined our night. Like, we it actually ruined our night. It made us cry so hard. Um, and anytime that happens, it’s like that’s just a good movie. You know, when they make you feel that to be able to produce something that makes people weep is [ __ ] crazy to me. Um, like we don’t do any of that. Maybe people weep because like I don’t know, like our swings or something, but we don’t we don’t get to do that to anybody. Um, so I watched that. That was a pretty good recommendation. And I actually had to get this one off while we were recording. Hannah and I went to go to dinner the other night at this place, Mama Santine. And I’ve given them a shot before on the podcast. People think I’m only, you know, because we have an Italian restaurant called Bell Barell’s Italian Restaurant that I only go to there. But I live out here in Suffach County. I got a place. We walked there. It’s down. It’s it’s in the neighborhood that we’re in. We walk down there and we were eating uh dinner outside. We had the baby with us. And this guy drives by and he goes, “Frankie, congratulations.” He’s in this car in the parking lot. Frankie, congratulations. You, too. Very cute. And drives away, right? We eat our dinner. The waitress comes up laughing. She’s like, “Do you guys know a guy named Brian Coughfield?” And I said, “I’ve never heard that.” “No, I don’t know.” And now I may be exposing myself. I’m supposed to know who he is. But uh I said, “No, I don’t.” Well, he they said, “Well, he drove by and he bought your guys dinner.” And I said, “What?” I was like, “What?” He’s like, “Yeah, he bought your guys dinner. Congratulations on the kid.” And I was like, “That’s the nicest thing in the world.” Like, “Where is this guy?” They’re like, “He’s gone.” And I said, “Well, did he leave his number or anything?” And they’re like, “No.” And I was like, “So, what am I supposed to do now?” You know, like I can’t thank this person. So, I have to say it on the podcast. Like, I I didn’t know what else to do. I had to say thank you here. And he I looked on my Instagram. No one with the last name Caulfield follows me. It very bizarre. And so I I I thought to myself like I can’t just I can’t this this can’t go thanklessless. We had a bottle of wine. We had a bottle of wine. We had appetizers, you know? Yeah. I think you’re doing the right thing right now. So Brian, dude, like thank you. I don’t know if that’s you. If that was the guy in the car, we we all had we did investigative work. We’re like, it has to be the guy in the car. Who who else could it be then? You know, it’s like Yeah. Because if it’s someone else, they’re at the restaurant. They would come up to you and they would say, “Hey, big fan.” Like, whatever. But this guy did a driveby, driveby, love you, too. So cute. Congrats on the baby. Threw his credit card out the window to the the person at the front, ran it through. They threw it back to him as he was driving away. And Brian Caulfield is out into the night on Long Island. He’s gone. It’s a classy move. Super classy move. Getting someone’s dinner is a great feeling. And it’s something that I don’t I don’t think I’ve ever done. So, I don’t know if it’s a great feeling, but it’s got to be an it’s got to be Well, it is a great feeling because when I was at the restaurant, I was always throwing free meals at people. Come on in the restaurant. It’s on us. It’s really on my dad. The only thing I’ve ever done that’s like that. And if people want to call me a hero, they certainly can. It’s when I’m in in uh like the drive-through line at at a coffee place and I’m like, “Get the the car behind me. I’ll pay for it.” You do that. I’ve done it. I’m not saying I do it all the time, but I What sparks you to do that? Somebody does it somebody maybe someone recently had done it for me because that will happen every once in a while. You buy enough coffee in your life, people are going to buy it for you if they’re in front of you at at a place. Wow. So, I’ll do that every once in a while. Or maybe you do like you guys both pull like if you guys both pull into the thing at the same time and they’re like, “No, no, I insist you go ahead.” Like you go first. You’re like, “Okay.” And then you would pull in first. You’d be like, “You know what? I’m going to get their coffee.” Cuz that was such a nice move that they made. It’s a nice classy move. And dude, listen, a dinner is one thing. You’re buying somebody a coffee, it’s like $6. So it’s like you’re just you feel good, then they feel good, you know, hopefully then, you know, enough people do that. Hopefully people stop shooting each other. I love doing it amongst family like, “Hey, I’ll grab the like I get the waiter. Give me the bill.” And everyone’s like, “Who’s got it’s like I got it.” Like it’s on me. That’s a great feeling. It’s on me. No worries. Enjoy. I see you guys next week. Whatever. But like the random drop in of like I like that guy whatever they’re having like holy smokes. Serious baller move. Yeah. Cuz you I mean you’re running a risk there. Who know? Maybe you guys bought the most you’re celebrating your anniversary and you bought the most expensive bottles of wine in the joint and he gets the bill. He’s like actually not this time. Not this time. [ __ ] that. No chance. That’s a really nice move. But I I at some point in the future I would like to pick up someone’s dinner because and that’s a great point T because of Brian I’ll be doing that now 100%. I’m going to do it to someone. Maybe I’ll do it at mom’s Maybe I’ll do it at mom’s cuz at bareellis I’m constantly doing it. Maybe I’ll go to a random restaurant. We’ll be out to dinner. I’m going to pick a couple. I’m just going to say they’re on me. I think the world needs more of that. I think that’s a great move by you. No, knowing my luck, the guy’s going to be like what are you some gonna come up to me? What are you some kind of [ __ ] You know what I mean? like my dinner. I’m going to get into a fight. I’m going to do this. I’m going to get into a fist fight. I know it. Oh, well that’s that’s the great part about the coffee thing. You don’t you never see him. You’re just go you’re gone. You’re Who the [ __ ] on Long Island? Someone’s like calling me back. Who the [ __ ] are you? I’m You know what? This guy Brian Coffee B. I don’t know what to tell you. I’m just trying to buy you tacos. Go sit over there. What do you feel bad for me or something? You know what I mean? It’s going to be a whole thing. What am I? What am I some sort of [ __ ] give out? What What am I a handout guy? It’s going to go wrong for you for sure, but I still think you should do it. I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do it. Kevin Kisner tied for eighth. Tied for eighth in the Isco challenge or whatever was going on in the opposite field event this week on the PGA Tour. Kevin Kiz’s first top 10 since 2022, I believe I saw. So, congratulations to Mr. Kevin Kizner. I actually think that was a little rude the way you presented tournament. Can you maybe can you give it one more shot? That was like uh from wedding the wedding singer the mutants at table five or something like that. Lav stank just g give me give me one more shot at because I think you know I think it’s a big deal that our guy finished guy for crazy disrespectful disco championship in uh Louisville Connecticut or Louisville Connecticut Louisville Kentucky. God where do they play this [ __ ] thing? Uh, dude, I saw the winner of this thing was only 10 under par, which on the PGA tour is insanely rare. Um, I think the course is playing pretty damn hard. Kids got inside the top 10 with four underpar finish. This kid, Jackson Kovven, was amazing again with a tied for six finish. So, he’s going to be a serious problem coming out of Auburn as a number one ranked amateur. But yeah, Kevin Kizner, everybody tied for eighth. Congratulations to our guy Kiz. I think he’ll be on the call now this week for the Open Championship. He’ll be just back in the booth. Dude, we talk about how important Tigers run and 2019 win certainly was like very important to this podcast. And if if at any time Tiger Woods makes a run again and he becomes the number one guy just like in terms of like wow interest and he’s playing really well, Kevin Kissner is like number two for us. Like if he ended up playing really well again and like lighting the world on fire and being like, “Oh, maybe I don’t need to be in the booth. Maybe I still got it.” And he now he’s top five at major. Like that would mean almost as much as Tiger Woods catching fire for us. Yeah. Kiz has been our guy. He catapulted us. That video that fourman scramble at Pinehurst was the thing that put us on the map. Yep. It really was. It was the first time a bunch of random dudes on the YouTube channel professional golf and it like everyone saw it. It did a million views in a time where like no one was watching golf. The open championship was getting cancelled. Like no one was watching the game of golf. It was ridiculous. The game like the world was ending and kids just met us at Pinehurst number two and played us on a US Open course from the tips and it came down to the final putt. Like it’s it it is everything for us. Like there are so many people now that make those types of videos because of that video. And that’s all because of Kevin Ker. Him putting trust into us, like allowing a bunch of idiots to show up and do that with him while he was still very much like a legitimate he was a top 30 player at the time. 35. Oh yeah. Yeah. At that point. Oh yeah. I want to say to do that with us at that time was crazy. It was unheard of. Yeah. um around that stretch. I mean, Kiz after that won, you know, I think multiple times on the PGA Tour and to to speak to how awesome his top 10 is right now. That’s his second uh made cut of the year. His last made cut was tied for 70th at the Vast Bar. Every other thing this year that he’s played in, he’s had a mis cut. So, for him to go out there in a tough event, made $113,000 um this week, finished tied for eighth. So, hopefully that gives kids a little bit of confidence, but I agree with you. And yeah, in the YouTube space, that was that catapulted us. He also catapulted us for years and years in the podcast game. I mean, him coming on in 2017 and being just the man was kind of like the uh original first example for us of like a guy who kind of looks like everyone else on the PGA Tour, who sort of like carries himself like everybody else in the PJ tour, who’s on the leaderboard like everybody else the PJ tour coming on podcast and giving everyone a reason to separate yourself when it comes to just a name on a leaderboard being like, “Holy [ __ ] this Kevin Ker guy who’s a quiet [ __ ] white dude from South Carolina out looks like everybody else is the man. He’s [ __ ] hilarious. He’s real. He’s raw. He’s chirping with the guys. I love him. I want to root for him. He was like the biggest and first example of that in the podcast and with our relationship with guys forever. He also has been just an enormous like gateway guy to a bunch of other players now for like Justin Thomas and all these guys being like, “Oh, kids likes these guys. Uh I see him over there hanging with them. Kids would introduce us to different players and whatnot.” So, for the history of this podcast, when it comes to professional golfers out there, Kiz is like the most important guy that we’ve gotten to know throughout the entire thing. So, to see him come back, get himself a nice top 10 at again this prestigious event like I listed at the very beginning. Incredibly important. So, it’s a flag for it. I might put a flag up top. I might take down Beth Page and put up the dude. [ __ ] right. I saw um Miles Miles Russell was uh grinding out there in the Isco. He actually was playing in it. He’s How old is he? He’s a tailor made athlete. 16. 16, I think. So, just it was awesome. And he ended up missing the cut and I watched his Friday round and he really was battling. That course was really hard. They were hitting good shots that weren’t getting rewarded. There was a lot of yardage. I don’t know if it was windy. Like they were like flying greens and getting stuck in bunkers. It was a It was a tough round. Like Friday was a grind and he was at even par and the cut was at one over. He ended up finishing three over, but it was just cool to watch. He’s a lefty. He’s so young and he’s so poised. Like that kid, we got to meet him at the players championship. Like that kid is so ready to be a superstar. Like I don’t know if he’s media trained or he just like has it in his body to know that he’s going to be it. Like he’s almost doing the tiger thing where it’s like I’m going to be a professional golfer and like I’m going to like I’m going to do everything I can and all this stuff means nothing. I remember asking him, “Are you going to do YouTube videos?” cuz he’s like, “No, I’m like I don’t care about social media or like he’s so polite, but he’s just like, I just golf, man. Like, I’m I’m like worried about my craft. I’m working on my craft and we’re going to like make a run at this thing.” And that’s all he cared about. I’m like, “Do you do like collabs with that?” He’s like, “He doesn’t know any of us.” He’s like a 50-year-old man in a 16-year-old’s body. Um, it was just cool. Little lefty that’s just slinging the ball all over the place. It was cool to watch him and like get a glimpse into like what what he’s going to do on tour cuz you know he’s going to be a mainstay for sure. If he’s playing at PJ Tour events at this rate like this going to be a problem when he’s 25 years old. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Where is he committed? Where is he going to college? Is it uh somewhere pretty close to home, right? Okay. Freaking phone died if you believe it. Crazy. This Nanet app just drains a goddamn battery. Florida State. Florida State Florida State University. Gold pick there, right? Yeah. Is that uh Brooks Keepka? Was Brooks a uh Yeah, I think that is right. That sounds right to me. Miles Russell, Tailor M. He also wears that really cool TM hat that I forget to wear myself. I have that in my uh lifestyle in my It’s like that big T in the end with a little red in the top like in between them. It’s a really cool hat. I think I’m going to pack that actually. I might wear that to sleepers. By the way, Trent, make sure you pack pants for Cypress. I believe it’s pants only out there. Oh, that’s a great call. That is that’s the biggest thing that’s happened on this podcast cuz I’m packed. Oh, all my stuff is packed and there’s no pants in my pants. Put a pan of put a pair of trousers in there. I’m going to put a pair of trousers in my bag, dude. That’s right. That’s crazy. That’s a crazy call. Wow. All right. I wouldn’t I wouldn’t have even thought about that. I mean, I was definitely getting nervous about what to wear because you mentioned it off the top and I was like, “Oh, fuck.” Like, I mean, I have golf clothes, but you’re like, “It’s Cyprus.” But I was not going to pack pants. I have no pants in my bag right now. Wow. I’m glad I remembered that. I’m very glad I remembered that. Go put some trousers in there. You That would have been I’m almost a little upset that that just happened cuz what talk about the most onbrand thing to happen to our brand. We just We have this whole podcast. We’re so hyped. We can’t believe we’re going. And Trent gets denied at the door for wearing shorts. I have not shown up to company dinners because I didn’t have pants. Like I cuz I was so embarrassed that I was just like, I’m not even going to go. And that would have been that times like a billion. Scott, what’s that really sick place we went to that’s got like hour? We’re at Maple and Ash. Maple and Ash. We found out that we had like this private room. We were going to have a ton of food, a bunch of clients, strict uh um dress code. We weren’t sure because it was a private room, private event. We’re like, maybe we’ll just be able to walk them in. There was a ton of stress on if Trent could get in or not. We’re looking at websites. We’re watching videos. We’re we’re we’re we’re doing our homework. And it turns out that Trent just says, “I’m done. I’m not trying cuz I’m not going all the way there to be told like a child that I’m dressed improperly and I’m going to be sent home from this restaurant. You can catch me outside. I am going home now. I couldn’t be at the time a 35year-old man being told you cannot come into this establishment. I c I couldn’t. I simply and you know the other thing too come in who need you know who needs enemies when you got friends like these guys because I knew that having that go down I would either get videoed or it would become the biggest joke on the podcast. I was just like no way am I letting Frankie Belli watch me get denied at a restaurant because I got my little shorts on. There’s just zero he’s not I’m not letting him have that on me. I’m not letting him take pictures of me. Like kind of mad at the person who’s up front. Like they’re like, “No, you can’t come in because your your your calves are exposed.” Do you understand? Thanks for showing. I’m like, I’m I’m staying home and I think I got like McDonald’s that night. And but I slept soundly because I knew I made the right decision. Dude, we were rooting for it so hard. We knew you were going to get it. And I’m like, “Brother, you’re fine. You’re fine there.” I’m like, “That’s fine.” To be honest, it would have been fine. I think like there were people I think there was a guy No, the best was we saw that little there was like a newborn like pooping its pants and screaming right when we walked in. We were dying being like Trent couldn’t be allowed in but this there’s like a baby in here. Um but yeah, no, it was it that that that that’s a huge moment to cuz we want you to play Cypress. We don’t want you to get picked out and have to drive home and not play the best golf course in the world cuz your kneecaps crazy. It’s crazy behavior. Well, I’m glad that we got that squared away. Don’t forget now. That’d be the dumbest thing about No, I’m going to pack. I’m going to do it right when we’re done here. I’m going to pack. I believe that’s all I have, gentlemen. That’s all I got on my list. Yeah. Going to go pack the bag. Really? Like throw a ton of balls in there. That par three has been on my mind for a long time at Cyprus. It’s a problem. That hole. That hole is a real problem. Yeah. I mean, like, how far is it? Oh, I want to say it’s like 235 or something. All I’m watching people. They rip driver. I watched a video of like Jim Nance once rip a driver on it. It’s like what? This is how is this a par three? So, I’m going to confidently stroke like a 3-wood at this thing. It’s definitely going to hook right into the water and then I’m going to be turn around be like, “Wow, it’s like the hardest golf hole in the world. I don’t care.” Like, I’m already expecting to be like negative on that hole. So, I’m packing a lot of golf balls. Ton. Yeah. I want to say it’s usually into the wind like 233 and it’s pretty much all carry and you’re just standing there like all right so this is just this is the sickest hole I’m ever going to play and also the hardest shot I’ve ever hit my entire life. So yeah, it’s in it’s no joke. It’s absolutely no joke but it’s going to be sick. Ah I’m excited. I’m definitely excited. God dang. I I did that um I did that little like shaft change and then went out and did uh I played nine holes in like 58 minutes at Colonial the other day. It was a 6:00 dart. I was done by 658. It was crazy. Not a single speck of wind. Beautiful little like orange sky. As good as it gets. Just fairway under the trees punching out like you it was just like you were moving. No matter what I did, I was just moving moving down the hole. And there was this one. It’s the fourth hole at on Valley at Colonial Trent, you know, it’s that long. It’s a par three, but if you play from the goals, which I was playing, plays like 220. Mhm. Took a sevenwood and I just I was moving. So, I just literally put the ball down on T. Didn’t even really pay attention and just smooth the sevenwood. Went straight up in the air right at the pin. All of a sudden, it drops. My heart stops beating. I clenched my [ __ ] It goes to 2 and 1/2 ft. Rolls towards the hole. Stops. And I legitimately out loud said, “Thank God that didn’t go.” Yeah. Thank Yeah. God. Out loud. I screamed it. Thank God. You know what I mean? If that went in, you have to take that one to your grave. You have to take it to your grave. I think a 7wood 220 over the bunker on like back right pin at Colonial draining that with zero video and nobody to witness. I’d rather be dead. I’d rather be dead. That’s one like that’s one like Griggs is saying like in there is a world where you made it and you’re now explaining in a way where you didn’t because you couldn’t ever tell that story in a way where it goes in like there’s you there’s a chance that you that went in right yeah no I’m telling you it didn’t I would not be here right now and I would prefer that you tell the story the way that you did because if you come on here and you say you hit a seven with 220 yards and you made it no one’s going to believe you including me. God, it was the best shot. And I’m like, if that went in, man, we film everything. And I even filmed one of those nine-hole videos the day before. I’m like, this is the one I didn’t film. Oh, it would have sent me off a You never would have gotten me back. You never would have gotten me back. For sure. I get it. Thank God. Thank God you’re not saying. That’s huge. That’s nice. All right. Well, all right. Well, um, we’ll be back. It’s it’s open championship week, so a lot more to talk about. Uh, of course, in the second show of the week, this is going to be a wild week, especially for me. I think for me, first and second round start at like 1000 p.m. my time at like Wednesday night at 10 p.m. or something. So, you guys will actually be out here for that. So, get ready for that. But, um, but yeah, it’s open championship. A lot more to talk about. So, stay tuned for Thursday’s show. We’ll keep you, I’m sure, updated with a lot of stuff on social from our week out in California. That’s a, uh, bucket list kind of week. So, thanks for listening. We’ll be back on Thursday. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.
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2 hours of podcasting the week of the greatest championship on planet earth and not one segment for it?
Some golf podcast this is.