My BIG Win, Ben Griffin Does It Again, LPGA Goes Into Business With Saudis

We’re back with a mini show from the DOGHouse. Dan recaps his Club Championship victory, Ben Griffin’s third win on TOUR, & the ongoing Race to Dubai on the DP World Tour.

What is up, golf sickos? My coffee tastes extra delicious this morning because I’m the champ. I’m the club champion uh at my beloved Brentwood Country Club. I won it yesterday. 36 hole final. We’re going to talk all about that. It was a two weekend ordeal. I didn’t know I had it in me to be honest with you. Uh we’re also going to talk about what’s been going on recently uh with golfers who are a lot better than I am. Uh Ben Griffin winning uh in Mexico, his third win of the season. Extremely impressive for a lo mortgage loan officer. That’s a joke because he uh hates how people just think of him as like a mortgage loan officer. It’s like I played at UNCC. I was pretty good at golf. We joked about that when we had him on the show. Uh really good tournament over in Abu Dhabi. Uh Aaron Ry beating Tommy Fleetwood who is just a mainstay on the top of leaderboards right now. Uh Rory finished tied for third one shot out of the playoff. uh he’s in good shape to win another race to Dubai, which I think would make a very interesting uh player of the year conversation. We’re going to get into that. Going to react to some of the Liv stuff that’s happened in the last uh week or two. Namely, them switching away from 54 holes to 72 holes despite the literal name of Liv Golf, LIIV being the Roman numeral for the number 54. We’re also going to talk about uh what they’re going to do as far as signing players this offseason. and then some of their dealings with uh with the LPGA and how we’re kind of seeing the uh control group in real time as far as this is what the the way that the Saudis and that the the public investment fund have been able to get their their feet into women’s golf is the way that they wanted I think to go uh with the men’s game but it obviously has not. All right, but let’s start with a little little pat on the back for myself because, you know, I’ve got an interesting relationship with the game of golf. Obviously, it’s a huge part of my life. Um, I’ve been covering the sport at the highest level for a long time now, and I feel very fortunate to do that. But I also play a ton of golf, and I love playing golf. And it always was very strange to me when I would be in media centers and I would talk to other people uh you know other writers or whatever it might be and and they’d be like yeah I don’t really play much. I’m like what do you mean? Like what how could you watch this sport all day every day and then just like not want to play. All I do when I when I see a tournament when I go watch the best players in the world is I want to use some of that stuff for my own game. But you know I’ve always been a very a good player. Like when I was in high school was around scratch but I was kind of a soft scratch. you know, I’d hit it really wild and, you know, I was kind of a mental nutcase out there and, you know, didn’t like putting three-footers and and I’ve the last couple years, really since I moved home to LA, I’ve I’ve gotten a lot more solid. Um, you know, my index has only dropped like a shot and a half or two shots, but you you know, like my game travels better. I’m I’m tougher, but I’m in this kind of I’ve been in this kind of weird in-between in golf where, you know, I’m not good enough to make a run in the US Midam, especially when it’s the failed former Tour Pro open when it’s all former touring professionals like it was this year. Six out of the eight quarterfinalists were reinstated uh former tour pros. Bobby Jones is rolling over in his grave. We got to save the mids. That’s a whole other tangent that I’ve made and will continue to make because I think it’s an epidemic and I think we need to sort it out. So, I’m a very good golfer, but I was not good enough to play division one golf really. I was not, you know, I when I did my mid qualifier earlier this year, I knew I had to play my ass off to just, you know, make it to the mid and that would be incredible. And then, you know, making it to match play was, you know, it’s just not in there really right now at least. Maybe it will be soon. I don’t know. Belief is a hell of a drug. But I was in this weird in between. But the club championship is sort of like my masters because I felt like I could actually win it. a guy uh who’s, you know, probably the best player at our club was not playing this year for whatever reason, but you can only beat beat the people that are in front of you. And, you know, for people like me, the club championship is the Masters, especially at a place like Brentwood Country Club, which I grew up at. My dad was a member there before I was born. Uh, I live right next to the course. That’s where I’m a member. I’m there all the time. I work out there often. I eat lunch there. I play golf there all the time. I have the original logo. I’m going to show you guys tattooed. How do I get that? That’s the Brentwood Country Club Crest, the original one. So, I started getting really nervous ahead of this club championship because I felt like I actually had a chance to win because I knew my game was solid. I played my home course really well and you know, the best player wasn’t playing. But again, you can only beat who’s in front of you. Um, and it was a two two weekend ordeal. So, the first there was a stroke play qualifier. 20 guys signed up. Top eight uh would get to match play. That was last Saturday. So, nine days ago, I shot 78. I had no idea where the ball was going. I had two hands on the wheel is the way I describe it. Just squeezing, just trying to get the ball in the house. I felt like I had no control over it. Uh but I qualified fifth, I think. And then first round, the quarterfinals was last weekend on Sunday. I won two and one in a match where I again shot like 76. Was just really not playing well. Had no idea where the ball was going. Two-way miss. You know, I was calling my golf swing a random number generator at that point because I would just swing and it would go where it would go. I didn’t have a feel. I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a shot. wouldn’t have an idea, but I I got through. So, I was into the semis. And then this week, this last week, I was like, I got to figure it out. I got to figure out my ball striking because I’m I’m in the semis. I feel like I haven’t played my best, but I know I’m going to need to reach another level uh to win this tournament. And I did. And I have to give a ton of credit to Brady Riggs, who I just saw was named golf 100 top teacher. He’s been on a bunch of those lists forever. Uh I got a lesson with Brady on Friday, so the day before my semi-final match. And and you know, turns out it was just it’s all set up. You know, you watch the best players in the world. Scotty Sheffller, I guess, is the best example of this. And what does he what is he constantly checking? His setup. He wants to make sure his alignment good. He’s got that grip tool that he always uses that he’s checking his grip. You know, I know how to swing a golf club, but if you put yourself in a terrible position in the setup, and what I do is I get super left with my shoulders, and then I I don’t turn my lower body, and I get really steep, my hands get really high, and then I get really these choppy divots, and it’s really quite gross. Like, when I play bad, it’s it’s it can get kind of ugly. Some mis hits in there. Um, but we fixed my setup and it and it changed absolutely everything. I mean, I played with Patrick Rogers, not last week, but the week before and he shot 64, his first time seeing the golf course. I shot 76 or something and I played there every day and I’ve never felt worse at golf in my life. Patrick’s obviously amazing. He finished six this week in Mexico and an awesome guy, but I just felt like a chump. I just felt like I had no control over the ball. It’s just amazing how the the smallest tweaks in this game, just putting your body in a a better position to make a more efficient motion can’t change everything. And it changed everything. So, I woke up Saturday, my wife’s out of town this weekend. She was at a wedding in Bermuda. So, I was home alone um just thinking about it all weekend. Woke up on Saturday and played maybe the best round I’ve ever played um considering the circumstances. Uh I was I made six birdies and 13 holes. I was five under through 13. And obviously, you know, in these club championships, you’re playing the course as hard as it can play all the way back. Uh and I won seven and five on Saturday. So that got me through to uh the final 36ole final against a guy uh who’s won it eight times. He’s like 35 36. I’ve known him since we were kids. He’s an amazing player. He’s he’s accomplished a lot more in golf than I have. I haven’t won anything in golf before this. And that’s what I think makes this victory so like I haven’t won anything going back to high school. I didn’t win. If I had a good tournament, you know, it was Southern California, I’d finish in the top 10. But like winning something, it doesn’t happen in golf. And this is what you hear all these guys, they say, you have to savor the victories because they’re so rare. That feeling I had after winning the match, I really feel like I won the Masters. I genuinely feel like I won the Masters. I’m so incredibly like happy and proud of myself. I didn’t know that I had it in me, especially I was four down after the first 18. So I shot 75 the first 18, only made one birdie. He shot 69. I I was uh I had a putt on the 18th hole of the day uh before a lunch break to get to three down like a sevenfooter for birdie. I missed it. I was like, “Oh my god, I need, you know, I would have felt like that would have given me such momentum going into the second nine or going into the second 18.” Missed it. Uh luckily I live really close to the golf course, so I was able to drive back home, take a shower, let my dogs out, change my clothes, just sort of reset, and uh won the first, third, and fourth holes, and and it was game on. and uh made a long putt on the seventh pole. I think this is the only one we have on video. Uh which is kind of amazing cuz there were a lot of people out there, but everyone was just locked in. Um that that got me to one down, I think. Then I won nine with a birdie to go one up and then I won 11 with a birdie. I can’t remember exactly what happened, but I I remember I birdied 7 9 11 and then I parred the rest of the holes. Uh only missed one green and uh and I did it. I won the club championship at the at the course where I grew up. I prove to myself that I belong at this level. Like, you know, I’ve been saying this about not taking gimmies. It paid off so much. I I missed one short putt over five rounds to win this. And you know, one of the things about no gimmies is I wanted to see like what my level actually was. And the only way you can see what your level actually is is if you play golf every round and you turn in your score. And if you hit one out of bounds, you hit the third one from the tea. And if you miss a three-footer, you miss a three-footer. And you know, I finally feel like I’m a legitimate plus two, which has been my goal. and uh to shoot. I think I shot 70 in the in the afternoon. Second 18, down four. Uh ended up winning it on 16. So I was two under through 16, I should say. Um I’m just overjoyed. Again, you know, you don’t win things in golf, especially at my level. Like, you know, I’m not going to win a net event because my handicap’s too low and I, you know, in the past hadn’t won gross events because I hadn’t been good enough. If I finally won a gross event and I I I know that I I might not ever win this again. There’s kids at the club who are getting better. You know, maybe the best player who guy was won a gazillion times recently, Danny Wax, maybe maybe he plays again next. I don’t know. But my name’s on that trophy uh forever. And the course has been around since 1948. We actually have a champions dinner. They started this year where all former uh club champions have a dinner. I’ll be at that for the rest of my life. I I genuinely feel like I won the Masters. And uh it was a weird one. I got back last night. My wife was gone. She was in Newark flight hell and I just got to delay like 6 hours. So I just came home and drank by myself. That sounds really dark. I was on FaceTime with people most of the time. So it wasn’t really by myself, but I wanted to celebrate. Uh and I did. So dog mentality. I’m telling you guys, we’ve been talking about it all year. No gimmies, no mulligans. I knew it was going to and just having like a better relationship with golf and with myself and with my own golf game. I knew like being honest was going to pay off and it’s paid off massively. This is this club championship. at Pro Country Club is the one tournament that I’ve like actually dreamed of winning because it’s one I actually can win. Like do I dream of winning the US mid? Yeah. Am I good enough? No. But the stars align this week and I won the club championship and I proved to myself that I can do it under pressure that I can play my best golf under pressure. Um and there was a lot of people around, you know, I’ve grown up there. So people who have known me since I was seven, eight years old, uh told me how happy they were to see me win it for the first time. just never won anything before. I’m I’m I’m so gassed up, man. And I found myself yesterday just getting these like pangs of emotion being like, “Oh, did I close it out?” And then I’d wake up be like, “Oh my god, it’s over. I won.” This isn’t like a, “Oh, if I win the next, it’s over. I did it.” Uh, and they’ll never be able to take that away from me. So, confidence is at a skyh high right now. Speaking of confidence, how about Ben Griffin? So, he shoots 63 to win the Worldwide Technology Championship at Diamonte in Cabo. He’s got three wins on the year. Uh the only other two players who have three wins on the PJ tour season, Scotty Sheffler has six. Rory Maroy has three and Ben Griffin now has three. and and these years that we’ve seen this year really that we’ve seen from Ben Griffin and and to some extent from JJ Spawn winning a major losing in a playoff in the players and you know Andrew Novak being up there so much it’s uh it’s it’s highly motivating for the nonblue chip tour pros the guys who were not 25 and PGA Tour number one but guys who have been out there for a while and feel like you know my breakthrough is coming and Ben Griffin was not really on anyone’s radar coming into this year now he’s got three wins in the Ryder Cup I think he’s won like 11 or $12 million this year. So, his financial future is completely changed. This is why these guys keep grinding. It’s why these guys keep grinding. They they just they they believe and whether it’s right or not that they can have a Ben Griffin year, that they can improve marginally in certain aspects of their game and that that will take them to, you know, the top 10 level that Ben Griffin’s been at this whole year. So, uh it was an interesting tournament. Uh a bunch of 61s on the first day. It was you you see you get these guys on resort courses and they just absolutely beat it up. I mean the best way I can you should go watch the video that I did with Jake Knap where we went and played nine holes at a resort course and he shot five under like breathing. I mean get these guys to a golf course that has fairways that wide and they’re going to absolutely take it down. Um big second place finish for for Chad Ramy. He went from 123rd to 89th. Now there’s only two events left. So top 100 is that magic number for a guy like Chad Remy to keep his card. Also Sammy Valamaki. He went from 103rd to 76th. So basically locking up his cards. Uh Nick Dunlap shot 24 under. Uh remember wasn’t that long ago that he shot 90 in the Masters and uh drove the ball insanely poorly the whole year. A lot of people were touting him this week because you get Nick Dunlap on a course where you almost can’t miss with the driver and uh and he’s pretty dangerous. Shot 61. He was actually 18 under par through 27 holes and then only played uh now I got to do the math. What’s 72 minus 27? 45. Played the last 45 holes in six under. So, a little bit of a dis disappointment uh coming in. Uh Joel Damon, who we’ve talked about in another battle to save his full card. Uh he finished tied for 40th, so he’s 111th. Uh he’s going to need a a couple huge weeks um to avoid the conditional status and a conversation that he doesn’t want to have. Uh Luke Clayton finished tied for 46th. So, little little struggle for Luke. I mean, he’s had 11 starts as a pro now after that incredible run as an amateur on the PJ tour where he had two seconds. His best result in 11 starts since turning pro is a T29 at the Sanderson. So, uh, a little bit of a slow start. He gets all year next year because of his PJ tour you accelerated. That’s how he got to the tour. So, he got the rest of this year and he gets all next year. Um, but definitely a little bit slower start than we anticipated. All right, moving over to the DP World Tour. Uh, the Abu Dhabi Championship was won by Aaron Ry. It was at Yas Links. I always love that name. Like, Yas Queen. Yas links. Oh, that sounded terrible when I said it out loud. That’s really bad. That’s really bad. I’m a little hung over. I won the club championship yesterday. Give me give me a little bit of a break. But uh Aaron Ryan maybe the nicest I would say kindest guy on tour. Uh any conversation with him. He’s so softspoken. You know, humble beginnings in Wolverampton. He’s a Man United fan though, not a Wolves fan. And uh another kind of a late bloomer. And you know what I like about Aaron Rise? He does things his own way. He wears you we got this this tweet from Jamie Kennedy here. He’s got the two gloves on. He’s got iron covers, which is an amazing story. His dad saved up to get him blades when he was a young kid. Uh I don’t know if they were blades, but saved up money to get him, you know, this this brand new set of irons and he that he really couldn’t afford and and he really wanted to take care of them. So, he put iron covers on them and it’s a reminder of of of his youth and and of a time when he didn’t just get free everything. And it’s it’s kind of gives him a little bit of perspective, which I think is uh which I think is fantastic. and he’s got these pink TE’s that he was using, you know, the Jo he look he’s the most 20 handicapper top player in the world. But a great victory for him and he beat Tommy Fleetwood in a playoff. Tommy’s been a menace this whole year. Uh he’s number up to number two in the data golf rankings. Won his last start on that crazy treelined course in India which was super fun to watch and then losing in the playoff here. Uh one shot further back was Rory Mroy. So Rory is looking good to win another race to Dubai Championship. He widened his lead over number two Marco Penge. Also, I noticed they were trying to do this like rivalry thing with Rory and and Marco Penge. You know, who hits it further and tail of the tape and, you know, they paired them together. Very flattering for Marco Penge. Um, but I don’t think Rory Maroy is really thinking about him before he goes to sleep. Uh, so the scenarios are as follows. Uh, Penge has to finish no worse than a three-way tie for second, even if Rory finishes 50th. A pen win means Rory would need to finish solo second to stay in front. So that could be interesting. The only other possibility is Turtle Hatton. He would need to win and Rory to finish below 10th. So if Rory just beats those two guys, he wins another race to Dubai. Wow. So Rory’s won the race race to Dubai six times, including each of the last three years he won in 2022, 2023, and 2024. So if he wins it again, it would be four in a row. It would be his seventh race to Dubai. And it sets up an interesting player of the year conversation. And and we’re talking beyond just the PGA tour here because if it’s PJ tour player of the year, Scotty’s going to win it. But the world is bigger than the PGA Tour. And Rory Mroy has done incredible things in the game this year. So Rory, if if he wins the race to Dubai, he’ll have won the Masters to complete the career grand slam. He’ll have won uh the Players Championship. He’ll have won at Pebble Beach. He won the Irish Open in an incredible scene at home, best crowd roar of the year. uh he starred in a a winning RDER Cup team on the road. Can’t really say he won the RDER Cup, but he was a big part of that team. And then it would be another race to Dubai. And on the other end, you got Scotty Sheffller, who won six times on the PJ tour, including two major championships. So, it kind of gets down to what you value. If you value the week-to-eek consistency, Scotty’s the guy. But that’s not what Rory values at this point in his career. And he said this, you know, if you just kind of connect the dots, and he said it pretty explicitly, like he’s not going to be the guy who shows up every week at 100% capacity with the same energy for every tournament like Scotty Sheffield does. They’re just very different people. They’re in very different stages of their lives. Rory has completed the career grand slam. Like he said, this is all gravy. I won the Brewood Club Championship. I can relate. It’s all gravy now for as long as I live. But Rory gets up for certain events and at this point in his career. And if we think of the the six biggest events in our sport, the the four majors, the players, and the RDER Cup. Rory won the players, he won the Masters, and he quote unquote won the RDER Cup. Scotty got two. So, it’s sort of three to two. Again, it just it just goes to what you value. If you’re a moments guy, if you’re a Hollywood guy, I think 2025 you could say is Rory’s year. He said the two things that he wanted to do before he retired was win the Masters and Win a Road Rider Cup. He did both of those things. If you’re a numbers guy, if you’re a consistency guy, if you’re sort of a I test week toe guy, then Scotty is your guy. But, uh, it’s an interesting conversation. It’s an interesting conversation that I, you know, felt like Scotty got his nose in front when he won, uh, that second major when he won the Open Championship and in dominating fashion, like truly Scotty fashion. But Rory’s had an incredible fall with uh, with the the RDER Cup and now in good position to get it done uh, over in the Middle East. So, let’s talk a little bit more about about Live Golf. Um, so Live Golf, they moved to 72 holes despite the literal name of the tour being 54. And, you know, it’s pretty clear why they’re doing this. They want World Ranking Points. Um, you know, this more aligns them with the other tours. The conversation of uh does this make them more or less likely, you know, does it have an impact on a potential merger? I guess it would probably make it easier if their events are already 72 holes, but I don’t think this is really uh with that in mind. I think it’s so that they can get world ranking points and appease their players a little bit. And uh and and almost dig in further to the status quo that we have where there’s two competing tours and the best players in the world are split. And then this is what I said initially. It’s like what are we even doing here anymore? Because these tour these two tours are sort of morphing into one another. Liv comes out with this massive big money events, no cuts. The PJ tour responds with their signature events which are limited fields, not as small as the Liv fields, but still smaller fields than we’re used to seeing in tour events and a lot of them have no cut and there’s huge money. And then Liv responds by, you know, going away from, you know, there are three sort of tent poles when they launched were 54 holes, shotgun start, and team golf. 54 holes is gone. Shotgun start, I think, is makes for brutal television on Sunday. There’s no like flow to the end of a tournament. You don’t have the dynamic of a guy trying to post a number early and then the leader seeing someone making a run but knowing, oh, he’s played all the par fives. They still have par fives to go. You got guys who are winning the tournament and there’s like no fans out there on the seventh hole. It’s just a weird scene. And the team’s thing four years on, I think is a miss. So eventually it’s just like, oh, this is a big money tour. What are we doing? What are we doing? 29 months on from the framework agreement and uh still nothing and these two tours are almost becoming the same thing which makes it makes it even lamer like at least you know live before it was like we’re super different we have the I I wouldn’t be surprised if they get rid of the shotgun start honestly and then at that point it’s like they’re really you know the only difference is they play a few more events outside the United States maybe that’s maybe that’s what we’re headed toward where you know they become almost sort of indistinguishable and and you know the the pain or the the sort of PR ramifications that we saw a couple years ago continue to be further and further in the distance and eventually they just, you know, make some live events that are international or or PIF sponsored international events. I don’t know. But it just feels lame and and Liv has to sign some players. They got to sign some players. So, you know, Liv does their player acquisition and stuff in the off season. Um, last year their class was headlined by Tom McKibben, who’s a great young player. He won recently. Um, but not a huge star, especially when you look at the the class before had Tier Hatton and John Rom. So, that was a little bit different. Um, so they gota they got to bring some juice because simply rolling out that same roster of guys um is not going to move the needle. I’m not sure anything would move the needle now as far as who they’re they’re realistic likely to get. Minu Lee was kind of the one who everyone was looking at and and reported. I don’t even know if there were solid reports or more just rumors, but he uh he shot that down posting like I’m not leaving. I’m not leaving with with a gif of Tiger and Adam Scott. The PJ tour leadership was very sort of very Minwoo. Um so he’s staying just going to be interesting to see who who goes because are they still offering that huge money? I mean the reason that people didn’t go last season um or the you know top quality guys I’m sure is because the offers just weren’t there. the same, you know, hundred million, $80 million offer, even $50 million offer for guys who hadn’t accomplished that much on the PJ tour. I don’t know that those are still there. So, very interesting times. But, you know, on the flip side of that, we are sort of seeing the counterfactual to the live PGA Tour debacle play out on the LPGA tour. So, the LPGA announced that it’ll be co-sanctioning an event with the PIF. Basically, it’s going to be it’s part of the PIF global series sponsored by Ramco in Las Vegas. So, it’s an LPGA event in the United States that’s just sponsored and and kind of has the Saudis name all over it. This is, I think, how they wanted to get involved with the men’s game. You we we heard reports of, you know, they sent this letter to Jay Monahan wanting to sit down and the letter was ignored and and then it became sort of like a you know what measuring contest um between, you know, Jay and Yasir and it became very antagonistic and combative. But, you know, the LPGA is not in a position to say no to an influx of of money. You know, it’s just they’re not in the same position that the PJ tour is in. There’s not the same cash running around. They’re not the same level of established. So, they’ve sort of tiptoed into an alliance with this with the Saudis. And and now that’s been formalized with this event. And um it’s just amazing how much all the PGA Tour players got for going over. Whereas with the women, it’s like, yeah, you know, take the check where you can get it. Um and I, you know, put my hand up. I was one of those who, you know, said some things that I regret about the PJ tour players when they went. Um, so hand up there. But it’s uh, you know, at a certain point these sports that are ar don’t have as robust an ecosystem as men’s professional golf like tennis. You see the Saudis are all over tennis. They’re going to have a tournament there. They just had this like Kings exhibition with Djokovic and S and Alcarz and the golfers kind of took one for the team. They really got the brunt of it. um where all these other sports, you know, Saudi’s involved in like basically every sport now. Um but it was the golfers who kind of fell on the sword for everybody else. Um one other thing I’ll put my hand up and say I was wrong about I used to be a big anti-rollback guy uh rolling back the golf ball. And I’m talking about this because there’s more proposed changes to the old course uh at St. Andrews, which is it’s the old course. It is sort of the barometer for classic golf, you know, the way it should be played. and they just keep having to build new TE’s and new TE’s and keep changing the course. And you know, I got to a point where I just kind of get it now, like we just we can’t keep doing this. Not every course has uh unlimited land or unlimited resources. And I understand there are other ways to to combat distance. Trees is a big one of them. I’m a huge supporter of trees, but it does seem like putting a cap on this uh or making sure that it doesn’t continue to get longer and longer because I mean I can see I’m getting longer and longer with it with all the new stuff, you know, drive bunkers at Brown Country Club where I am the club champion. Uh that you didn’t used to be flyable. Now you don’t even really think about them anymore. And I haven’t gotten that much stronger. So, um yeah, I just don’t like to see courses having to continually make changes uh to challenge the best players in the world. uh it seems like a much simpler uh and I know this is going to be difficult for the ball manufacturers and but you know other sports have limits you know there’s no metal bats in baseball um you know there’s there’s a limit or or you know rules on how much you can inflate the the football like there’s just sports change all the time um to to adapt to modern times and baseball’s done a really good job of it um you know I saw baseball the rating ings for game seven blew out the ratings for game seven of the NBA finals. You know, I I I just I think the simplest thing here is is the roll back that’s been proposed. So, I’ve sort of come around on that. Um not saying that there aren’t other ways to combat distance and not saying that the the current game is horrible. You know, I’m not one of these like uh uh all the skills been taken out, but I I just think the easiest thing is is to limit the equipment in some way now. whether that’s the ball or the driver head, but courses can’t just can’t keep getting bigger. Um, they can’t Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention about the LPGA. So, uh, the new chief sales and partnerships at the LPGA is a woman named Monica Fee who before this worked at Livolf. So, there’s clearly ties there. I expect those ties, you know, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Liv Women soon or some combined with the Liv stars and the LPGA stars. It feels like, you know, they’re probably not going to make money on it. um the Saudis, but that’s not doesn’t seem to be the goal and it doesn’t seem to be uh an obstacle because they’re losing money like crazy with Liv and yet they keep going. All right, that’s it for now. I’m the champion. Still hasn’t changed since we started this video. Just wanted to check in with you guys and uh yeah, I’ll talk to you all