Farmers Insurance Open 🗣️ Anthony Kim’s comeback, LIV Golf + more | Status Update No. 4

Patrick walks through the most important headlines to come out of the fourth week in golf including Anthony Kim’s possible comeback, the start of LIV Golf and a gripe with the PGA Tour’s signature events. #pgatour #golf #livgolf

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What’s going on you guys welcome to status update number four I believe my counting Is Not Great despite my bachelor’s in finance I’m recording this on Sunday because well there’s no golf in the United States and I get the day off I’m gonna gonna have a little fun

This afternoon watch a little football watch the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Ravens watch the Lions despite Dan Campbell go on the road and beat the n ERS those are my predictions we’ll get into my Super Bowl predictions once those two predictions are incorrect because that’s the way I have been

Trending so far this year but first I just want to thank you all for subscribing we’re up to 150 on this channel 150 idiots are listened to this I’m very appreciative I’m appreciative of the comments and the questions some some more than others in last week’s episode we have a

Pretty normal one a lot of rumors flying around not a ton of verified news um but a lot of this news is about 90 90% true uh type of week and I think it starts with Anthony Kim remember that old fella Anthony Kim nearly 40 years old Dylan to chair of go golf.com

Reported kimster is back he’s talking to the PGA Tour he’s talking to live golf about a potential return after 12 years a way many know Kim dealt with numerous injuries and stayed away from the game because of a$1 million insurance policy well Kim left a new rival league with a

ton of cash came aboard and uh guess what they can pay that 10 million insurance policy to Anthony Kim uh and it makes a lot of sense if you’re Anthony Kim Monday Q posted a video of him swinging you could clearly hear Phil Mickelson talking in the background

Never one to hush his voice is Phillip and the way I’m G to view Anthony Kim and and I started watching golf when Anthony Kim was on the up and up right 12 years ago really like 15ish years ago that would have put me in middle school I was at that tournament

When he won at Congressional the AT&T National hosted by Tiger Woods loved him on the Ridder cup loved what he did at Augusta 11 Bird’s one round nearly caught down or tracked down Phil and Lee Westwood that one year but the way I view Anthony

Kim and there’s kind of two sides a lot of people are excited a lot of people are like dude Anthony Kim might just be a guy was he really ever that good I I think he was phenomenal the belt buckle come on Bad Boy a great personality but the way I view Anthony

Kim is the way I kind of view Snow Yeah snow when you’re a kid you wake up you see fresh pow on the ground your mind goes no school we’re we’re sledding all day we’re building forts we’re building eggloo snowman out the Wazoo you don’t have a care in the world it’s amazing

You see it it’s amazing you see Anthony Kim on a golf course it was amazing but as you grow up I’m in my mid 20s I look outside I see snow I think oh gosh I got a shovel today oh God how am I going to how am I

Going to get to work are the trains delayed are the roads backed up black eyes I don’t want to deal with that and so I think that’s the way I kind of feel about Anthony Kim as a kid The Nostalgia factor I loved him he was

Awesome he was the he was the next guy it was the Asian Tiger Woods I can say that I’m Asian you probably cannot but now it’s like okay buddy is 40 years old he’s going to try to make a 12year comeback a Revival tour and it’s

Going to be a lot of fun week one if he does choose to play and live golf myoba which I’m hearing could happen it might be fun week two Las Vegas week of the Super Bowl Liv golf’s going to ball out they’re gonna ball out in two weeks

Time but what if he like shoots like a you know few rounds of 77 doesn’t really factor in the tournaments okay we still got the name factor it’s still going to be fun week three okay and then you kind of go okay uh do we really need this Anthony

Kim right now that’s obviously the pessimistic view worst case scenario he could come back and he could be great but 12 years is a really long time to make a comeback so I’m excited for Anthony Kim to return potentially seems like his move to live golf is going to happen and

It’s perfect for him laid-back atmosphere he wasn’t totally enamored with some of the PJ Tor Big Wigs when he was playing and so that this is probably a much better environment for him and the golf might just be gravy on top right they’ve got the name he’ll drive

Eyeballs I think and they’ll go from there but we do have to talk about live golf and it’s third season now and the lack of communication from the league we’re sitting here on Sunday they have a tournament on Friday and we don’t know the format of the league I’ve been told that it’s

Going to be 13 teams plus two wild cards I think that’s pretty well out there uh that comes from the league so we do know that they’re going to have 18 T times 183 sums fill out the whole course I think from a viewing experience that’s actually fantastic if you’re able to get

Out there park your ass on a on a hole and you get to watch 18 groups roll through that’s great but the communication from the league we don’t know all the rosters it’s reported adri Moran is joining the cleaks big boost for him DP World Tour

Player of the Year John ROMs team team we don’t have a full roster we don’t even have a name uh there’s a player in it’s like pretty well known Terell hatton’s talking to them and the announcements coming early in the week so John ROM Terell Hatton I think

One of the qualifiers from live golf promotions and perhaps the kid from Tennessee I haven’t heard a ton of noise about that but that seems to be roh’s team for the moment but I understand they had to go through some contract negotiations Hatton was tied up in a contract with a different

Team the Boston Common tgl the bubble that bursted and they had to get him out of that get him into the new one and so I understand kind of the uh the rushing the cramming for the the test so to speak but it is very very bad to be honest with you the

Live golf’s Communications thus far I think it might be part of the startup aspect of the league like I said it’s still only year three there’s still a lot to learn there’s still a lot of things that they need to figure out and this just seems to be one of them the

Fact that they haven’t even rolled out haven’t announced your biggest signings team team name roster anything you haven’t promoted it they had a media week John Ron was there but they couldn’t they haven’t released any of it yet I find a bit head scratching I’m not a Communications professional they

Obviously know better than I do but if you’re trying to build up hype for your league for your half a billion dollar signing I feel like you should probably release information instead of withholding it this entire time maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think I am and

So what Liv golf is doing this year is they’re going against the Big Daddy PJ tour events which is a brand new uh brand new Endeavor for them they typically wanted to play against no offense to some of these smaller PJ tour events or shitty PJ tour events like the

John Deere classic the 3M open they wanted to play against those but instead they’re taking live golf mayakoba going against AT&T Pebble Beach proam the first signature event in the continental United States this year they’re going next week to Las Vegas against the WM Phoenix Open which

I will be at so if you’re out there in Scottdale if you’re out there for a bachelor party seems like I know about 10 people going to Scottdale on 10 different Bachelor parties so a lot of dudes are going to be out there in Scottdale a lot of unoriginal

Dudes to that point but you’re out there come say hello I’ll be out there Tuesday through Friday and they’re going against The Travelers Championship they’re going against I believe uh maybe well as Fargo they’re going against another one they’re going against four total four out of the eight

And it it kind of comes off as a sign of strength sign of hey we might have better feels than you guys at the top at least John Ram Brooks keco Bryson dambo Terrell Hatton DJ Phil Cameron Smith the top of the league is is very

Good it is very very good I don’t think that’s in doubt I don’t think anyone can deny that so it’s a fact and so it comes off as them flexing a little bit against a really good field at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro him Rory mroy is making his

First start on the PGA tour you got Victor havland Jordan SP is coming Justin Thomas is in the field col Mor CWA Patrick Klay Xander Schley Terell Hatton was I assume he’s not going to be here in the next couple days and the one Bugaboo I have about this AT&T Pebble Beach proam

Are the four exemptions they gave out Adam Scott a player director Peter Mona a player director Web Simpson a player director and Maverick McNeely AT&T sponsored born and raised in Pebble Beach very rich father I get that one but the four sponsors exemptions that each tournament has each signature

Event has I think could be used in a better way Gary Woodland coming off brain surgery one of the best early season stories on the PGA tour is Gary Woodland doesn’t matter how he plays him playing at all is a fantastic story where did he win his major

Championship oh the 2019 us open at Pebble Beach Golf lengths no sorry web Simpson wrote us a letter we need him in the field we’re going to take that US Open Champion instead okay okay fine what about Daniel Burger 18 months away from the PGA Tour due to back

Injury slowly but surely returning a a former top 25 player in the world where had he won before Pebble Beach yes that’s correct he won at Pebble Beach what if we gave him one of the spots in the field really jump start this comeback for him now

Peter Mady has a really cool bucket hat ah I forgot about that also will Alat torus coming off a great start at Tory Pines top 15 finish there one of the best major championship competitors of the last four years what if we gave him a sponsor’s

Exemption no can do Adam Scott he wears tan pretty well and so I’m disappointed I know will zator got W for the Genesis Invitational which I’m very happy to see but it feels like these could have been used in a better manner instead of just lining the

Pockets of the guys who are in the meetings all the time I understand it’s kind of what you got to do but it’s a little uh a little disheartening I think that you aren’t really giving them to to players to guys that would drive eyeballs people would love to watch Gary

Woodland there is high interest in Gary Woodland right now there’s interest into how will zotus is playing or how Daniel burer is playing I can say with 95% confidence no one cares what Peter Mady is doing and no one cares what Webb Simpson is doing it is no offense to those guys even

Though it comes across very offensive but it really just is a fact so we’ve talked about AK talked about live golf poor communication strategy thus far players leaving there Adrian Moran DP World Tour player of the year I’m assuming these guys are probably going to keep their membership just because

Eligibility for the European rouer Cup team you still need DP World Tour membership but that’ll uh that could change once the events start because you do get fined I believe it’s 100,000 pounds for each start on live golf uh so 1.4 million is that worth the rider cup

Eligibility we could see maybe for John ROM maybe for Terell Hatton I assume his deal is probably going to be I don’t know like 70ish 75 million if I had to guess and then Adrian Moran I don’t know you didn’t even make the team this year so and you were the

DP World Tour player of the year so maybe you you’re just not destined destined to be on the team despite despite my love for Eastern Europe you guys know I love you you guys know I love you if we want to talk about the actual golf this past week Matthew

Pavon beats Nikolai hogard Stephen joerger just a a cluster of uh of names you could say Xander shafley was in the mix but I I I want to talk about Tony feno and I want to talk about his putting this week every time he turned to Tony Fe now on

The golf course it seems like his hands get lower and the toe of his putter gets higher and CBS Sports had a great stat while he was putting during the back nine Tony fenel by tournament’s end assuming only on the three courses that had shotlink data not the North Course

Made 10% of his putts from four to eight feet he was one for 10 on the week one for 10 from 4 to 8 feet Tony fena was the PGA Tour average from 8 feet the upper range is 50% 10% 10% he lost by three and where Tony Fe now goes from

Here and I think it it is probably needed given his inconsistency on the greens I’m not sure he will ever do it but we’re seeing more and more guys do it bring out the lab broomstick it’s time to do it drop your ego like OA batia like will

Zotus and try something new will xur’s stroke looks much cleaner much smoother overall much better Tony feno’s putting stroke is just jabbing jabbing the ball sometimes it goes in he had a great front nine on the greens Sunday or Saturday gained over a stroke and a half

And then he misses five putts inside eight feet on the back nine as a professional golfer as good as Tony fow is from te to Green you just have to be better you have to try something new it is almost required of you to go searching down a

Rabbit hole for answers I think Tony feno try out the broomstick why the hell not if you’re just average on the greens you’re gonna win a ton of golf tournaments it’s almost the Scotty Sheffer effect maybe Scotty should do it too but I don’t think we’re quite there

With Scotty yet we might be there with Tony feno all right you guys that’s all I got today like I said I got to go out I got to have a little fun I hope you like this video I hope you subscribe I hope you

Comment and I hope you have a great day we have the AT&T Pebble Beach pram this week congratulations to the winner col morawa he’s goingon to bounce back from the miscut at the Farmers Insurance open I think anything north of 25 to1 you hit and congratulations to Liv golf myoba winner Wen

Neeman uh the Chilean has been playing some really good golf trying to get inside the top 50 in the world for the Masters he’s been everywhere he was in Dubai playing with Rory on moving day there he’s been on Australia where he just won uh so I like that he’s got some

Reps so give me Wen give me Colin give me I’m a ripper GC fan our fourth player has not been announced yet either live golf come on throw a dog a bone uh and you guys have a great day because we’ll be talking soon