2023 was quite the year for not only amatuer golf, but a revolutionary one in the professional world. The Big Drive Pros recap the best from a year that was- including best social media feud, biggest villian in golf, and the best win of the year
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Big Drive energy F 23 much like the Russy Willy era for our beloved Denver Broncos 2023 is over let’s hide let’s hide but we’re not going to hide today from the year that was we are going to talk about all the Great Moments in the
Golf world live PGA Tour uh you name it it happened in golf this year we’re going to give our awards for the 2023 year uh get into some good Twitter follows talk about some great wins some surprises of 2023 uh and kind of wrap up the year for you
All I am your host at Big Drive Spence here with at Big Drive Mitch our lovely producer Marissa finishing out the year well we do have one more episode uh festive Friday make sure to check that out that is our last festive Friday so check that out on our YouTube on Friday
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You know the older we get the quicker time go quier time goes and I don’t know how to exactly explain it but obviously you know when you’re one a year is your entire life yeah when you’re 50 one year is 2% of your entire life and so on yeah and
So it just is a constant Battle of battle against time yeah years go years going by quicker father time is undefeated as we’ve seen throughout all sports um I thought it was a great year though I mean we’re going to recap the golf year uh lots of good things do you
Know what is just crazy to me is you know dayto day week to week it doesn’t feel like life changes that much and then you look back on a year and you see like all that’s changed and you’re like holy [ __ ] like what a wild year yeah it
Just goes by and then you will start 2024 and we’ll be like oh my God I can’t believe it’s 2024 and I still like if somebody asks me what year it is like it’s like 2018 yeah there’s there’s like those years that stick in your mind of
Yeah it’s always that year and I think yeah 2018 maybe 2019 and then maybe it’s the co thing where 2020 through 2022 was kind of all a blur but how are we almost four years removed from the start of covid that’s insane to me that is
Insanity to think like I but it’s so crazy too like since Co I bought and sold a house I moved States I we both quit the golf course like so much has changed we’ve made career changes we’ve made Lifestyle Changes we’ve like so many [ __ ] things have changed yeah
365 days it’s just [ __ ] blink of an eye and it’s gone before we talk about the golf year though uh let’s get into your week we’ll ask Marissa how her week was Christmas has come and gone again how was it how’s your Christmas being out here living at my house again what
What’s the what’s the story like our bathroom scenario is kind of a disaster in the morning the bathroom is the toughest we’ve touched on it before but of course it’s going to be a bone of contention um um Spencer immediately was like you need to learn some bathroom
Etiquette again I’m like dude you want me to pack all my [ __ ] up every time I brush my teeth like I’m going to leave the stuff out on the counter and plus you only use that bathroom to shower you don’t use it for everything else I use
It for everything so you and I get that it’s your house I need to respect your space but at the same time I feel like when I’m staying there you know it’s kind of my bathroom a little bit yeah no it is it it is your bathroom and you and
Your girlfriend are staying down there so I try to respect that space But I think my biggest not problem but like oh I almost pulled the [ __ ] uh oh yeah I almost ate [ __ ] coming trying to get in the in the shower because you have the
Big standup tubs like you know those big tall deep tubs and somehow I’m supposed to shower in that and I got in and like my foot slipped and I immediately reach out and grabbed the bar on the wall likei I didn’t rip it fully out of the
Wall but it’s like hanging there um and it’s just dude it’s it’s tough like I’m not the tallest person in the world so that helps uh or doesn’t help and same with my girlfriend like honestly there’s a few times where I’ve like helped her into the shower like she’s an old lady
But she’s just if you have nothing to grab on to and you’re not a tall person you could just go ass over teac Kettle like before you know it I I’ve almost slipped on it multiple times and had to grab the I’ve never grabbed the the towel rack Rack but I’ve grabbed the
Shower curtain which isn’t the best idea because that could come down quick but that thing’s screwed into the roof is there a worse feeling in the world than that moment your one of your feet goes out like you just feel it and you’re either going to do the splits or you’re
Going to fall over backwards like I have a bruise the size of a [ __ ] melon in on the inside of my leg it it hurt cuz I hit my leg on the inside of the tub when I was slipping so I had one foot in in
The tub one foot put out of the tub and I had to like get out and walk it off I was I was heated I was not happy yeah it it’s a definitely I it’s a choice um obviously we’re renting the house but I wanted to ask the guy the owner came
Over like two weeks ago to fix some stuff and I wanted to be like dude really two like both of our tubs in our house are like the Deep full Soaker tubs which great you know if you have like a master bath or M yeah master bathroom
Like a true master bathroom and you have a standup shower have one of these you know super nice addition to like a house but I those Soaker tubs should not be the only option in a home correct yeah especially downstairs where you know usually it’s just company I guess they
Kind of maybe built it to have people upstairs and downstairs so that may be the the thing there’s basically two apartments in my house but enough of my [ __ ] architecture I mean we’re I got to ask Marissa because I know neither of us are bath people but is is there any
Upside to like do you take baths no no they’re gross regular people don’t take baths I think they’re gross yeah you’re just sitting in your own water no yeah Kylie takes a bath actually fairly often but she just like sits in there and it’s almost like she doesn’t even like it’s
Like not really a like clean yourself yeah it’s like a therapeutic type of thing yeah but what’s the point because then you soak yourself you’re sitting in there forever and then you have to shower rinse off yeah I’m like that’s too much effer maybe you’re already in
That tub at least so that’s you got a leg up there you don’t have to get out of it I’m sorry but if you’re like a dude and you’re taking a bath often uh yeah that’s a red flag yeah your your [ __ ] just like floats yeah not really
Your [ __ ] but yeah it’s like a buoy yeah in the water it’s like a little raft little life raft and I just like can’t like especially if the water’s like ricke actually did a bit on that um but yeah it’s yeah you’re just sitting there it’s too quiet um unless you know you
Got like a beer I did see a commercial where a dude was taking a bath with a beer and like watching a game I could get behind that but at that point it’s like just get a hot tub yeah like why you just sitting in a warm bath or you
Just sit on the couch and do that like you don’t need to be in water yeah I’m all good I’m all in on the hot tub scenario I think but also a TV in my bathtub will be a Thing Once I have my own house like that’s not that hard to
Install I could do it right now yeah in the house I’m currently in but it’s I don’t own it so I’m not going to waste my time that would be a good and I don’t take baths right now um we did get our tattoos this week we did we yesterday we
Finally fulfilled our what 10 years now our 10 year prophecy on this in probably 2013 when yeah when so when the Broncos lost the Super Bowl to Russell Wilson the Seahawks 10 years ago which feels like a lifetime uh we agreed that we would get every Denver sports team that
Won a championship we’d get a tattoo of their logo or or some major major four yeah the major four I’m not getting an Outlaws logo yeah or Rapids Miss um but the Broncos won the Super Bowl in 2015 so we got Broncos tattoos and then it’s
Been a while of course the Nuggets won the NBA title last year and then two years ago the ABS won the Stanley Cup I got my nuggets tattoo without you I was just kind of excited didn’t want to wait fair enough um but then yesterday we
Went down to uh the tattoo shop down here in Denver Bound By Design dope Tim art um yeah what’s his Instagram fish. Tim I’m pretty sure I think it is yeah um but he does a great job funny dude just to hang out with um but he killed
It on my abs tattoo and then Mitchell got both of the the Larry O’Brien Trophy and the Stanley Cup like coming out of some mountains that he already has on his arm and then the the year the Abes won it all three years and then the year
That the Nuggets won it um and I got the Abes alternate division logo um the triangle the triangle with the CA and the mountain in it and then uh looks very dopee though the three years around uh on each side that the ABS have won the cup so we’re going to
Be an interesting predicament once our teams win it again which could be this year I mean there’s no doubt that both of our teams are in the top five in Hock basketball that have a chance to win the title nuggets maybe number one still abs are probably sitting around three or
Four um but we’re we’re going to be in a predicament once they win one again but that’s a good predicament for us to have I thought about getting a Rockies one and just putting never under it like because we get the years you win championships we will never win a
Championship uh I disagree with that that’s a hill I will literally die on because I think I’ll die before we the Rockies win a a World Series I bet they win one before we’re 75 I’ll give them another 45 years okay yeah you want to shake on that yeah let’s do it okay
Before I turn 75 years old I this podcast is still going and we’re both 75 years old that would be out of pocket I don’t think anybody wants that that would be out of hand all right Marissa how was your Christmas break I guess it’s kind of suck
Christmas is on a Monday it felt a little weird oh like we went to the Nuggets game and won’t get into that anymore but basically it felt like a break and then kind of yesterday was like do you want to go to work this whole week is like everybody’s like
Should I go back to work Tuesday should I you know just take the week off but it wasn’t really a Christmas break I don’t feel like how was your how was your Christmas it was good I didn’t do much I feel like I’m always doing stuff like
I’m always moving around so I literally didn’t get out of my PJs I sat in them all day and that’s the best yeah and I ate a lot of food I did go to the gym so wow yeah I was dedicated on Christmas day uh not on Christmas day but on
Christmas Eve and then the next day so that I took one day off this week which is normal I’ve taken this entire time being in Colorado off so I can feel my heart rate just slowly Rising my resting heart rate it’s going to be beating out
Of my chest here before we know it um so you said you already took your Christmas decorations down I did take my Christmas decorations down I waited one day that’s aggressive see it just makes me sad like thinking about that I shouldn’t get sad but I do but here’s my reasoning we set
Up our Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving oh so we had it all the way from yeah like November first kind of to like Christmas Day and I finally I I’m not a big christm music person I don’t like the I mean I’ll enjoy it for clearly by by your draft I think we
Dominated we’ll get into that but uh you’re definitely not a Christmas music person no no no no not at all so I I I told Christian I was like I’m gonna do I’m gonna get rid of it and he’s like well it’s GNA take you a couple days
Like don’t worry about it it took me one hour that’s efficiency there I shoved them all in new boxes and bins they’re organized and labeled and they’re they’re stacked and ready to go for next year that’s locked in I love that it’s kind of like a rip the Band-Aid off type
Thing like how much longer were we gonna I was always kind of like the first week of January you take the stuff down well I think that’s like what you’re supposed to do it’s like technically like you’re supposed to leave it till then like I
Got a lot of crap from my family um and Christian’s family I got called The Grinch a couple times yesterday but you know no not you I’ll own it Miss all black yes hey I’m wearing brown today yeah no you’re very colorful outfit today I’m all black one not going
To lie I want to take my Christmas decorations down cuz it’s it’s over now and like it kind of just like waves on you yeah no like I said it’s like rip the Band-Aid off just get it over with I like seeing the lights but every time go
Inside when the when you’re putting Christmas decorations up where Christmas is in two weeks or a week you’re like oh this is exciting it’s coming you know there’s still decorations of there’s still the music but day after day after Christmas is all alltime worst day the
Year in my opinion oh uh yeah probably especially this year be on Tuesday or the day of this the day after the Super Bowl that’s that we could rank worst days of the year like that would actually holidays yeah worst days of yeah I mean those are probably my least
Two favorite um or just the days when literally any day where it’s only baseball those are my least favorite days of the year a yeah that [ __ ] sucks I might need to get into some sort of soccer situation which is going to be effort for me but I just I can’t just do
Baseball at this point I’m I’m [ __ ] out on that yeah especially with no excitement in baseball for us and our our home team and our team that we GRE up watching maybe we just pick a different team I tried should we agree what about like uh what about like the
Mariners no they’re like even worse worse for wear than the Rockies are I wouldn’t no yeah you might be right um what about the Cincinnati Reds D they’re kind of a fun let’s at least pick a good team what about the Orioles they’re I be I yeah I can get
Behind the Orioles they’re not in the Rockies division or conference um they’re a fun story but I just can’t do it dude I can’t get myself to like another team I’ve tried multiple times I actually kind of became a white socks fan but that is probably the
Worst like they’re right there at the Rockies like why everything I I’m like Medusa everything I look at freezes and turns to Stone yeah that that’s a rough franchise to be I don’t want to be like Oh I’m a Yankees fan or I’m a Dodgers fan that’ll never happen my girlfriend’s
A Mets fan that’s equally terrible but at least they spend money at least they try to be good yeah there’s always would you rather root for a team that doesn’t try to be good and is not good or a team that spends money every year especially baseball is different because
No salary cap so you can literally buy a team you know and Steve Cohen the owner of the Mets is probably the richest dude in the MLB one of the richest owners if not the richest so it’s like if he could buy a championship or if your team could
Buy a championship and they just don’t like how shitty is that yeah it’s I it’s it’s expectations is all it is like if you we don’t have any expectations for the Rockies so when they exceed those there it’s a little bit more exciting when they win any
Games it’s semi exciting we were talking about that with Tim our tattoo artist yesterday if people just had lower expectations uh with everything a lot a lot of people would be less disappointed which is kind of a pessimistic outlook on life but if you don’t expect much
Then you know everything’s gravy on top yeah exactly expectations low you can always exceed them and that’s how you should live your life but um no I’d rather have my team spend money and and have some sort of expectations because it is it’s not fun when you have to go
Into every season and just not expect anything yeah no I agree yeah you’d rather see the effort there than than no effort than everybody just constantly saying sell the team and hating the owner and I don’t like the owner of the of our said baseball team but it’s just
Like a constant like this is what it is just like try to enjoy certain players or them winning games or whatever it is I feel like baseball’s the last Sport and we’ll kind of wrap this up I’m sorry I’m talking about [ __ ] baseball here but uh I feel like baseball’s the last
Sport that there’s still a lot of like old school family ownership like the M fors the there’s no there’s a few football franchises like the bears that are still owned by like an old family that’s it’s been in the family for you know decades and decades but for for the
Most part I think that uh baseball’s like the last sport where there’s still not like super loaded billionaires just coming in and scooping up franchises like one’s last I mean there hasn’t been very many baseball teams sold in the last five 10 years if I’m not mistaken I
Don’t believe so no I believe it’s just like rolling just rolling on because I would prefer if uh the Broncos ownership group would buy the Rockies imagine just having unlimited money and buying a team in a sport with no salary cap that would be pretty fire that you can we would be
Talking we would legitimately like have a shot at getting showy Otani which is now over like it’s done but it’s fun like thought yeah baseball in general is I’m kind of just out on it with the whole obviously Otani the Dodgers sucks for us but the amount of money that the
Dodgers spent and the no salary cap in sports is one of the dumbest things in the world yeah makes for not fair not even competition we were actually talking yesterday that hockey is like feels like the most proportionate salary cap to player salary professional sport out of like the major
Four yeah oh by far and well it’s it’s the salary cap is one thing but then the fact that like your best players in the world are making 12 to 15 million a year and then the rest of the team is the worst players on a professional team or
In the one you know maybe under just under 1 million that’s a big difference from guys in the NFL who make 550k I think is the vet minimum and you’ve got quarterbacks making 50 plusk it’s a huge discrepancy granted the position’s a little bit more important but it’s uh
It’s just yeah it’s not fair and it feels like hockey’s the most competitive year in year out like the parody it’s probably the hardest to create a uh a dynasty in just because the salary cap is so tight and you know you can’t just go buy a team like I mean the lightning
Have been very good the ABS are very good but the salary cap situation in in sports is just a frustrating thing yeah so let’s move to a sport uh that we talk about with no salary cap and it’s based on how you actually play no guaranteed money no guaranteed money and based on
How you actually perform and get into our 2023 Awards so we’re not going to do the lame you know the all the lame awards that you hear on the emys or you know best picture and this and that but we do have some good ones so we have biggest
Villain um let’s just start with biggest villain so go for it biggest villain of 2023 had to throw it out there there’s a lot of there’s a lot of mediocre level villains but this just dropped a couple weeks ago as we know John ROM is now on
The live tour and so John ROM is going to be my nominee for biggest villain of 2023 because not only is live obviously it’s very hated by the PGA tour players they talk a lot of [ __ ] about it but Rah was a guy that seemed to there’s a lot of guys behind the
Scenes and and it’s maybe because they’re not as popular they’re not as good you know I was looking through Billy horel yeah I was looking through the the 2023 wins um from the PGA Tour just kind of going through some stuff and like ROM won three of the first six
Events insane and so he was cooking he’s in his prime he’s from Spain he’s like he’s got everything and he like I was saying there’s players on the PGA tour that don’t necessarily speak out now maybe they do speak out more but their their voice isn’t really heard because
They’re not at the the popularity level of a John ROM but he has to go down as the biggest villain of the year because he there was so many quotes from his interviews of you know Liv is not for me it’s not just about the money it’s this
And that and then the format the everything yeah yeah and then two weeks later or three weeks later we see him live Letterman’s jacket and all doing interviews on CNN I mean the it was quickly dwarfed by the shohi Otani contract but that was like one of the biggest quote unquote contracts in
Sports and the something that Liv does differently than the PGA Tour which is you know also something to keep in mind of course the money is substantially more they’re going to make substantially more but it’s also for a midlevel player it’s guaranteed money it’s you’re signing a contract to play for this you
Can make more on top of that winning and doing different things but it’s the BGA tour is a true grind and you you can call people quitters for joining live like they don’t want to have to win to keep you know stay alive or win Q School
Like we talked about last week those five players that’ll be on the PGA t or next week but they’re signing a contract for now they still have to play decent but they feel like they’re going to get that amount of money which is a lot more
Than you can make on the PGA tour I mean there’s guys that won multiple times that I won’t bury I’ll bury the lead here and not talk about him right now but there’s a guy that won on the PGA to or twice this year back-to-back wins
Huge wins uh and he made $6 million and Rah is gonna make 10 times that in one year on the live tour now Rah and this player very different skill levels at very different points of their career but the guaranteed money has to be something that’s thought about by the
Players and that that makes around the biggest villain because Liv in PGA obviously still haven’t figured anything out yeah and he was so outspoken he he you know requested a few things that could make it better on the PGA tour which will uh come up here in a little
Bit as well but he was there’s like a if if you would have taken the beginning of the year in a a five of the 20 best players on the PGA two or five guys that you never thought would go to live yeah you’d have your Rory you’d have your you
Know Scotty sheffler doesn’t seem like a live guy but Rah probably would have fallen in one of those five yeah Rah to live was not on the 20123 bingo card no 100% no well like you said but he was like the wolf in sheep’s clothing kind of thing where
He vehemently you know disagreed with everything that uh Liv had to say Liv was doing this and that and then just so so quickly at least from the public perspective how he flips sides like who knows what was said behind closed doors and all this but he uh just just such a
Quick jump for everybody and like we said previously we won’t dive down the rabbit hole but he could ultimately be the bridge between the PJ tour and the Liv tour because he’s so well-liked um throughout the golf world but at the end of the day there’s still a big group of
PJ tour uh truther fans that are going to hate this guy no matter what so uh I that I would say that was the biggest layup like not not a shitty pick but that’s pretty much the most obvious and by the way um this PGA Tour live deal is
Supposed to get done by December 31st so we may be doing an tick tick tick tick tick we may be doing an emergency pod sometime in the next few days because if it doesn’t get done I mean either way it’s big news because that means then the PJ tour is uh Fielding
Calls from other investment groups which we’ve previously heard about to invest you know inject billions of dollars into uh the PGA Tour so either way it’s going to be big big news if the deal gets done or if it doesn’t get done um I think everybody kind of wants it to get done
All golf fans but at the end of the day uh whatever it is it’s going to be big news so we may be discussing that sometime in the next few days yeah just some sort of wrap up and Forward Motion from the two and maybe taking away some of the divisive but I
Think you know this has kind of just popped into my mind don’t want to go too deep down this rabbit hole but do you think it’s going to piss player PGA Tour players that have stayed true off more if this deal comes in and is like very cohesive and basically rewards all the
Live players for going to live and allows them to do things that they wouldn’t have been able to do originally and then what what are the PGA Tour players going to get back from that that were like steadfast I’m staying on the tour Tony fow we thought was basically
Guarantee to live you know you can’t believe in any everything you see on the internet these days even though I tend to uh sometimes but you know we thought him and Hatton would be announced any moment neither have been then Tony came out and basically anybody on tour right
Now that hasn’t openly said I’m not going to live even as we see saw ROM’s comments that were not directly that you have to expect they’re being offered something oh yeah absolutely and like we’ll get into but the Ian poter Billy horal exchange this weekend I think made
Everybody realize like if you didn’t already know uh everybody has a number you know everybody can be bought and if you’re if you’re denying that then you’re lying like let’s just be real uh but yeah I think they’re might be some sort of like PGA Tour set up for like
Back pay for some of those guys not necessarily they’re not going to get the big contracts that you know the guys that went to live already got but they they I think part of the money being injected into the Tour by whoever it is is going to supply more guaranteed money
And some sort of you know back pay in the form of compensating the current PJ tour players who have stayed steadfast in their loyalty to the tour yeah they there has to be or else everyone will want everybody looks like the biggest everybody’s kicking themselves it’s not
On the live tour yeah and Liv tour becomes immediately bigger than the PJ tour and all the players the best players leave and then you got Jed Morgan playing on the PGA shooting 85 um well I’m goingon to stick my villain of the year I’m gon to stick
With a live tour player I’m going Brooks kka uh he loves to be hated he does not give a [ __ ] what you think about him um and he him being the captain of the Four Aces I think is it he’s the Four Aces correct or is he smash smash he’s smash
Um I still can’t keep all those team names straight yeah well going into playing into this villain role he had Ricky Fowler Xander chafl all the dudes at the rider the US Rider Cup team in the smash shirts yep yeah I see I love that [ __ ] and uh it kind of started with
Him openly having an issue with Matthew wolf his teammate saying quote unquote he has wasted his talent because he was struggling with off the course like mental health issues and I mean I think that kind of came to light I don’t necessarily know the the sequences of
That but Matthew wolf took some leave for you know struggling mentally um but ultimately Brooks kepka sounded like he really didn’t care and just kind of tossed him and then Matthew wolf got traded uh and one of the most like lopsided trades whatever they gave up for him or
Whatever they got in return was going to be more than uh what they gave up for Wolf because he played like [ __ ] all year um but that’s just kind of Brooks like he’s not afraid to speak out against another player or whatever he’s the team captain and honestly like I
Could see him being kind of a leader in the locker room if he played a quote unquote team sport because he’s just the kind of dude that sets the tone he doesn’t really care if you if he hurts your feelings whatever um but then he
Goes out at the Masters has a lead going into Sunday can’t close it out or was he tied for the lead he was leading was yeah he was in the lead loses it uh John Ram ultimately wins Masters but then he turns right around and wins the next
Major at the PGA uh to keep this Major Street going when you know when we watch full swing we didn’t know if we were ever going to see this dude get back to the form he was in you know the last four or five years so to see him go out
Win another major he’s well within the fold of being a top five top 10 player in the world and just a big big game hunter like the can’t miss it Majors yeah it’ll be fun to see if half of the major winners from 20 in 2024 looking
Forward you know or looking back but just taking a peak into the crystal ball when we do this episode in 365 or so days is I bet at least two of the major winners in 2024 are Live players yeah just the top end talent and like you
Said the big game Hunters the guys like cam Smiths and the guys that have won plenty of Majors before four it’s it’s a I would say it’s a lock I’d say it’s one and a half is the maybe two is the number um you’re probably going for a
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Have not looked hard enough for it yet I have not bought any whiskey out there okay so you need to get back on the whiskey train I do it is whiskey and soup season right now for sure and it’s keep you warm everything when you go to
A bar or you know even a just a restaurant just a nice whiskey always sounds so good with a meal did have a little bra whiskey last night before dinner kept the stomach nice and warm yeah you were supposed to shoot it and you didn’t it was kind of it was on the
Rocks I like I like to sip it it’s good quality stuff it is it is good quality stuff from Breen Distillery check them out Breen distillery.com all right next award I will start this one off uh this is going to be the best social media follow now there’s
Obviously some great posts um and there’s great great meme accounts uh follow us on Twitter at Big Drive energy follow us on Instagram at Big Drive energy pod and on Tik Tok big Drive energy um Shameless plug but these are some of the best social media follows
From the PGA Tour or live golf um I obviously Max homo we know is kind of one of the there the obvious ones like the the Joel Damon is a pretty good one um yeah I I would say Max and Joel are the two kind of obvious but we’re going
To go a little bit off the beaten path with these ones um so I’ll start this one out this is a guy I just started following this year and he’s grown his following a ton and it’s not just one way or the other he you know Max kind of
Leaned into the like making fun of people swings which is great great content um but Michael Kim is GNA win my best social media follow and we have a tweet uh from him here if you’re not with us on the YouTube check it out youtube.com big Drive energy golf uh his
Tweet this time I need your guys advice because he does give advice which is a fun part of his Twitter um he’ll send out videos of him analyzing your swing but he says this time I need your guys’ advice I have a couple of Bachelor parties coming up and I’ve never even
Hit a golf ball drunk what should I expect and possible pitfalls of playing golf drunk um and there’s some great like responses to it and stuff where people are like I think one of the first ones was like you’re going to hit the ball like Prime Tiger Woods once that
You know you get to that does it surprise you at all now we don’t know Michael Kim personally I’ve tweeted him like 14 times trying to get him on this podcast he still hasn’t come on but Mike if you’re listening we need you um you want our best social media follow so
Why don’t you hop on to our yeah come accept your award exactly it’s right here for you um but have does that surprise you that he’s never hit a golf ball drunk yeah no that’s I feel like every golfer at some point has played drunk so that’s that’s pretty surprising
On honestly I respect the the restraint because I’m sure he’s had multiple opportunities to uh partake in the the drunk golfing and he just hasn’t but you know it’s also like a work thing for them like obviously nobody’s out there to tell them they can’t do it but takes
A little bit of self-discipline to treat it like work and and just uh take your job seriously which you know it’s not everybody does that yeah that that is accurate it’s funny to think too with like his friend group or a friend group uh a lot of Bachelor parties that I’ve
Been on mine included were golf Centric you know you kind of pick a place you want to play golf and then you you know it’s usually warm uh depending upon the time of year you go and um there’s actually a tweet that was like Bachelor parties are separated into three
Categories do you like doing drugs on the golf course do you like doing drugs in the woods or do you like doing drugs in the club and like it’s a perfect you know I’m a I’m a golf course kind of guy but I wonder what it’s like going to a
Bachelor party with a PGA Tour player when you’re playing golf like they’re just absolutely just you know dominating the whole field yeah and how have his buddies not gotten him so drunk to like even up the the playing field yeah that was the only way it’s even close yeah
None of his buddies are anywhere near as good as him unless he’s going out on a bachelor party with a bunch of PJ T players uh which I highly doubt but yeah that that would be the quickest way to even the playing field yeah and some of
His other tweets uh that I have here basically this is a good one my brother ran into a cooworker who’s a big golf fan here’s that his younger brother is a pga2 or Pro cooworker goes oh wow is your younger brother Tom Kim no is he
Sewu Kim uh no what’s his name Michael Kim oh I don’t know that guy so just he has he mixes in some comedy he mixes in some swing very informative informative uh content yeah and just a great all around round follow one of the other
Ones I have here it’s too long to read and I’m not going to do it but basically he goes into what it’s like to have a club deal on the PGA tour and goes through a full gamut a whole thread of what it’s like to have a club deal how
Many clubs you have to have you know a whole bunch of different options for the players and what it looks like um and so it’s cool he mixes it up he does a good job of mixing it up between comedy um talking about himself he compared
Himself the other day to Marquel folz on Twitter uh he said that they were both Marquel folz was a number one pick he won Player of the Year at Cal and then they both resurrected their careers in Orlando so I mean that’s pretty good I
Like that not a bad yeah I mean he won in 2018 but he Michael Kim’s a classic guy that’s just like very comfortably on the PGA tour but he’s won once in five years ago but you can make a living Kevin kizner style not winning on the
PGA tour for sure yeah oh absolutely he’s done a good job of that um so my follow of the year I’ve talked about him before uh he is a Englishman um I didn’t want to mess that up because I know he’s gonna watch uh Eddie peepol
He is my Twitter follow of the year um he just tweets about his dogs a lot which I like he is like a visha is that a you know what I’m talking about I’m not a big like the real short hair looking they’re kind of ugly but they’re
Kind of cute they look like wrinkled like kind of wrinkly um but they’re like hunting like hurting dogs anywh who tweets a lot of pictures of his dogs um always is super open about he tweets anywhere from politics to live stuff to uh you know just the weekly conditions
On the tour um and then he tweets a lot about his dogs so uh do we have his one tweet pulled up yes so this is uh him he just bought a house in the English Countryside it looks like this this is him mowing on his ride riding lawn mower and
What did he say it’s this thing slower than my club head speed uh got a new toy it’s about as fast as my club head speed but I like it others just find it funny he’s waving like the queen riding his lawn mower um and his wife is just
Losing it so uh one of the most self-deprecating dudes on the tour will be honest when he’s playing like [ __ ] uh will’ll be honest when he plays well so I just enjoy the follow and also whenever I read a somebody like a British person’s tweet I read it like in
A British voice and I just kind of appreciate that yeah it’s anybody talking in a British accent is immediately like up more interesting more interesting and way funnier they can say the same [ __ ] we’d say but you say it like that and it makes it and their terminology is just topnotch yeah
They they just sound so much more sophisticated than we do yeah like when I was in London some I was waiting for a beer and somebody asked me if I was in the queue I was like what the [ __ ] yeah I had to like take a second to figure
Out what he was saying and I said yes I’m in line mhm it’s classic American yeah when you came back I was like did you enjoy the bars you’re like yeah we hit the pubs I’m like oh my God just call them bars like they call them pubs
Yeah when it’s on the like front of the thing you gota you know it’s a pub whatever all right next we’re going to get into um the best social media Feud uh there’s multiple of these of course um honorable mention for Phil Phil Mickelson versus brandle shambley it’s
Always a constant battle and I was actually looking through some tweets from back in like 2016 and it wasn’t always like this sham B was talking about how great Phil Mickelson was how you know basically at one point he said I think this is when Phil went to live
He said that the PJ tour just lost out on what could have been one of the greatest commentators ever in Phil Mickelson so brandle chamine Phil I haven’t always always been um you know directly against each other and and feuding but that’s kind of our honorable
Mention we have a tweet here um that gets into the Billy horel and uh Ian pter Feud this is very recent so um Ian polter tweeted something about his Club head speed and then Billy horel quote tweets it uh with his stats from 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022 um basically
Calling him out saying his Club head speed isn’t as fast as he thinks it is um because Ian polter basically got into it with my golf spy if you haven’t heard of my golf spy it’s great follow great follow but it’s a what is it thirdparty independent scenario where they test all
The golf clubs quotequote independent I think they’re slowly being bought by Brands yeah we’ve the older you get you figured out nothing is independent anymore and and someone has a hand in something but my golf spy is a good follow and they had a tweet about uh the
Longest golf balls going into 2022 or excuse me 2024 Jesus see 2021 is just year I’m stuck in um and talked about the prov1 the Mizuno Vice and then hter quote tweeted it with this is so funny my own swing speed is 115 I carry it 290
To 295 so unless those yardages are set landing on a Runway or up Mount Everest they’re all wrong all numbers given should be carry and also launch condition need to be stated and then a bunch of people you know kind of went at him uh for what he said you know the
Majestics co- Captain if you will but then he quote tweeted it with uh quot tweeted the Billy horel tweet uh when he said he was exaggerating his Club head speed and said it’s all right Billy I’m normally okay with numbers so I got it wrong by about 9 million miles per hour
Difference that you asked for to come join live what’s a few numbers between friends so I you know is that true milon no he’s saying like he asked for 9 million a year probably to come to yeah okay that y that sounds correct and so a
Great tweet from PTZ there just to get a little shot in his boy Billy um that got almost two million views but they it was kind of fun but also a few digs in there which you know it’s like a little bit of a feud yeah yeah 100% And they’re
Probably still buddies but you know take your shots where you can um and polter is just an all-time good Twitter troll I also enjoy following him um my Twitter feud I would say uh is just Rory mroy against uh everybody on Twitter against all live fans against the p i I think
Rory’s kind of backed into a corner now where he’s pissed off obviously Liv tour fans but he’s also kind of pissed off PJ tour fans a little bit um because some people just don’t understand kind of the sacrifices he’s made oh Smooth Move didn’t break um you’re
Not even drunk uh so Rory a few of his tweets um he actually just tweeted in December uh this dude’s talking about how Rory is singing a different tune now that Rah is not going to be on the Ridder cup and Rory goes which is very
True we didn’t need any of the others in Rome and we didn’t miss them we we will certainly Miss and need Jon at Beth Page so all he’s thinking about is trying to win the Ryder Cup um and that’s why he’s now all of a sudden changing his tune
And then Rory uh taking a pretty um you know unwarranted shot at Henrik Stenson and if you follow us on Twitter I quote tweeted it but he said the best thing to happen to the 2023 Euro Rider Cup team was Henrik going to live um so I don’t
Know what exactly Henrik has done to Rory but I don’t think it’s uh I don’t think he likes I I I think he just feels very alienated because he stuck his neck out for the PJ tour and uh he is not getting really in return
What he uh thinks he should get so yeah Rory is in a corner where he’s propped up by the PGA Tour but when the PGA Tour Falls he’s no longer as propped up as he originally was so now he’s he his Empire if you will is starting to crumble a
Little bit and really he was always a fan favorite but that’s slowly becoming as more fans deci like decide who they want to watch and who they want to root for and they see where he’s at with his career in the PGA Tour yeah he he’s
Slowly falling off of that clip um a few more we’ll get into here uh best best sound bite of the year and um my my sound bite is from uh we played it a few weeks ago we have it here Eric vanran winning um his friend passed away just a
Few days later but Eric Van Ruan winning the um was it the 3M in Minnesota no no oh Jesus this is great that’s great this is good on our part um oh Spencer scrolling uh my sound bite we don’t need to play it was John Ram talking about
How there needs to be more toilets that worldwide technology Championship okay is what a vanine won we’ll play his Prestige Worldwide IM uh empowering speech here talking about his friend crying winning um his friend crying winning no his friend period crying comma winning and just incredible moment
Of also the gra must I was calm because there’s bigger stuff in life than golf um if you look at my ball we’ve got you know there’s a little music note it’s a little faded now but there’s a little music notes on there and and initials JT
And it’s for John trma our best friend who’s got mea and he’s not going to make it um and every shot out there today we can pause that bad boy but shut it down greatest sound bite for me was him winning with all that he had going on
And and then doing that interview and you know you re there’s times in sports when you realize that players and athletes are just humans too and that was one of those moments and so it just felt really good for him to win obviously but to do it right before his
Friend passed away then he went to the hospital afterwards his friend passed away a few days later so great sound bite that was some heavy stuff I went a little bit on the lighter note like I said we don’t need to play it but it was basically just John ROM uh complaining
About the PJ tour not having enough portapotty because he quote can’t control when he needs to go to the bathroom I think we’ve all been there we have multiple times especially with the like well around this time of year yeah it’s not it can happen at any time all
Right uh biggest surprise for me in 2023 was Lucas Glover uh winning back-to-back tournaments in August he won the Windom Championship followed by the FedEx St Jude he made just a shade under 5 million in those two events and made 6.4 million this entire year uh more than
Double on any season on the PGA tour so this is a fun little stat for Lucas Glover he began his professional career in 2001 what do you think his official money was in 2001 once again this year he made 6.4 million to stay on tour like
Just um I’ll say 2 million in 2001 His official money on the PG tour was $618 oh my God he made over a thousand times what he made on the PJ tour 202 22 years later but no way he kept his card well he probably already I mean I didn’t
Get that deep into it but that was his official money that’s what he made yeah like he could have had his card for two years or whatever but his official money in 2020 in 20 2001 [ __ ] 2001 was $6,185 point4 uh winning back toback tournaments as a dude that basically was
A forgotten looking through all his career earnings he was just down you know in the and he’s still making 700,000 a year but not winning tournaments goes and wins two back-to-back events right before the playoffs yeah just a incredible surprise um from a dude that everybody kind of
Rode off and now he’s going to ride the PJ tour for the next couple of years after his big dubs yeah he he got the putter straightened out and sometimes that’s all it takes uh my biggest surprises were two firsttime major winners Brian Harman at the Open Championship and our childhood playing
Partner Windham Clark winning the US Open uh hard def definitely different points in their career you know Harmon was considering giving up the game I guess Windham kind of was too you know diff but definitely different ages different points in their career but both to go out and win Majors this year
Uh Harmon dominated and kind of Windham dominated the US Open so a couple of dominating major wins for two two dudes that have never done it before very impressed yeah huge win for Windam Clark he won twice this year also how much more opposite could those two be like
Windham’s like the longest driver on the tour and Haron is probably middle of the pack if not below average um size-wise definitely Harmon’s you know uh smaller dude not very muscular surprised he didn’t blow away in that that English wind over there uh and windham’s kind of
Ripped like he’s he hits it long ways he’s jacked goodlooking dude man rocket got to give him credit yeah big big win for our home state of Colorado in the game of professional golf for sure uh my best win of the year is going to go to Nick Taylor winning the RBC Canadian
Open uh big for him because obviously winning on his home soil hasn’t been done in 20 plus years but they we kind of touched on a few pods ago they changed the entire logo of the tournament to him winning he hit a 72 y fre e go
Uh 72 footer excuse me Jesus 72 y would have been insane 72 footer for Eagle on the 72nd Hole uh to claim that title won us a 70 to one bet a lot of 70s in here kind of looks not like my Golf scorecard
At the end of the year um but maybe the front n he was he was definitely that was my best win of the year I like that um I would have to say my best my favorite win of the year uh besides those two majors I just mentioned was
Victor havin at the TOUR Championship um the dude I’ll just jump into it real quick he’s one of my emerging Stars along with ludig aberer Oar uh but those two are my emerging Stars definitely in different um different ways because Victor I think is now definitely a major
Contender um definite top three player in the world if not number one um and then Oar like coming from college to now being an established PJ tour guy with the capability of winning any week so uh definitely two names that people got familiar with this year in the game of
Golf yeah him the like our picture here on the thumbnail if you’re not on YouTube once again check it out um but ludvig and Victor Victor obviously winning the Tour Championship was huge you won back-to-back events but then dominating in the rer cup just being that you know that new guy like Rory’s
Always been the dominant guy and now he’s kind of passing that torch a little bit of course he’s still going to be the voice as as long as he’s just semi- pass his prime but guys like aberg and Al bear and uh there you go Victor hin are
Going to be the guys that carry the year uh Euros in the Ridder cup you know Weiss to mention not mention the Ryder Cup you’re taking it home but um is gonna be well sorry go ahead yeah uh Beth Paige is going to be fire my
Biggest heel this is just a quick one Patrick Klay Joe laava the whole Ridder cup situation um loved that just for us getting our [ __ ] kicked in the Ridder cup that was probably like the one moment for the US team that was like okay this is dope yeah if that would
Have brought back the win it would have been unbelievable huge Turning Point um you got anything else there no let’s finish this episode up with our Mulligan of the week all started off so uh as we talked about on festive Friday make sure to check those out every Friday we do uh
I I’ve draft did light shows and um we’ve been to a few light shows here in the last couple weeks brought the kid along uh he’s really into all of the lights but he we took his um we took his took him to the zoo lights and the
Botanical garden lights Zoo Lights um if you’re a new parent and you haven’t figured out the stroller do it before it’s dark because I’ll tell you what I was trying to get him out and in the stroller and it’s dark right around the zoo I couldn’t like get him in the
Stroller properly I uh locked the wheels and almost fell over said stroller um he almost got Buck bundled into the stroller got bucked out of it so test the stroller out make sure you got it dialed before you get somewhere where it’s dark or you’re in a panic
Situation where he needs to get in it he or she and you can’t [ __ ] put it together because that’s where I was that’s totally fair um my Mulligan of the week is me just constantly like trimming my own hair uh I need I’m getting a haircut tomorrow uh but it’s
Just one of those where you know if you can’t get a haircut you see random hair here or there and then you start trimming like I trim up by my ears and then it just gets to the point where I’m sure the lady cutting my hair is GNA be
Like what did you do like Spencer I had Spencer shave like the areas of my neck that hair grow down because I’m just gross like that uh but it’s just kind of a hodg Podge all the way around so I just need a haircut um the top actually
Looks fire if you’re on the YouTube uh look at that the lettuce looks clean but it’s more of the sides and the back that really just bug the [ __ ] out of me also the mustache looks great not going to lie not quite Eric Van Ruan but solid
Mustache I do I may say so myself thank you sir I’m glad you’re getting a haircut so you can clean it up a little bit on yeah at least one of us can uh have decent looking hair dude my hair is I Got My Curls today dud
It’s a good hair day for it is a good hair day for you Marissa do you have a a mulligan of the week this week I can be quick I uh I don’t own a cat and I’ve been taking care of a cat this week I’m
Allergic to him so I can’t touch him or anything I just go in and I feed the cat and then I run out really quick what a disaster um but I’m supposed to clean the litter box and no one told me that you just get a little shovel and you put
It into a trash bag and then you call it I took the whole thing with the sand and like tried to dump it into a trash can and it got everywhere oh and then I had to like call Christian to come help me and he’s looking at me like I’m the
Biggest dummy in the world because I didn’t know that there was a shovel that said shovel right here with instructions on how to do it and then I used the rest of the powder like the sand to put back in there and I used all of the ladyes
Sand that were watching her cat which appar so now you’re gonna have to go buy more yeah now I got to go buy sand so I hate cats at least you didn’t I when you started that story I thought you were going to say so I just started reaching
In there and pulling the [ __ ] out so at least you tried to dump the whole thing that was probably but it’s expensive like I didn’t even know that the sand costs that much I thought cats were supposed to be easy yeah I’m so glad I’m past the cat days never will enter that
Um scenario again no I’m good well we hope you enjoyed the last episode of 2023 the regular episode check us out on festive Fridays on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast make sure if you’re listening give us a rating um that always helps us out we appreciate you
Guys tuning in for another year looking forward to a great one in 2024 we’re going to be covering Live Events we’re going to be covering PGA Tour events um we’re going to be playing a lot of golf hopefully that’s the key uh going into 2024 and uh hopefully a year long for
The ride we appreciate you all tuning in we’ll talk to you guys next year [Applause] peace
