For the second time this LIV Golf season Joaquin Niemann is a winner. After the 2 LIV wins plus what he did over the winter, Niemann is now a Top 10 golfer in the world. Anthony Kim struggled a lot. Once again we get another Kim DFL on the leaderboard, Siwan Kim to Anthony Kim. Paul Azinger came out and said the PGAT is now the feeder tour for LIV, is that true?
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Welcome to 54 live I am your host diggies and I’m joined by my co-host Jake Jake what’s up buddy life is pretty awesome right now I mean it is finally the time of year where we start to golf the uh the flowers are starting to emerge Augusta National is waking up
Slowly and surely and yes there are some people who are not going to be making the trip to to Augusta Georgia this year but there are plenty of livers who are and they’re going to be out there and they’re going to dominate like they know they can yes ladies and gentlemen jeda
This past weekend what a tournament yeah it was great and before we get any further just want to let you guys know that uh today’s episode is sponsored by birdy.com if you follow me on Twitter and Instagram you see I posted a video this weekend they sent me uh the new box
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Tor balls you know they work really well they uh held up throughout the round I only played nine holes but they held up so go to birdy town.com to get those and second note I feel like garbage so if I sound weird that’s because I’m sick so
We’re gonna let Jake do most of the talking but yeah wait so you’re telling me right now that these balls made the cut they made the cut the cup BS made the cut so they are your weekend play play things yes it was funny we had a
Lot of jokes me and my buddy about them like oh let’s let’s see if the the cut balls cut and like oh look at that cut from the cut you know so it was a lot of good jokes with them but hey first first first hole par five like 400 something
Yards um I made a par I haven’t swung a club in three months I wasn’t thinking I just went up to the ball hit it driver pitched out down the uh a little left on the rough pitched out onto the Fairway about 150 yards had a nice 100 yard gap
Wedge in there stuck it right next to the the pin left the birdie putt short tap in for par but hey not playing in three months first whole par I wish the I should have quit there and been like you know what 2024 one hole one par
Right we’ll call it a year because the rest of the round didn’t go too good once I started thinking I’ll tell you this I was playing in a tournament this past weekend Saturday and I was so irritated I missed out in the money by one shot 18 pars really yeah just 18
Pars was one birdie yeah and and I couldn’t get it I could not it was it was it was bad it was you know it was one of those where I think I had seven to seven shots that were you know within within that they were between 10 to 20 feet putts I
Couldn’t make one and I was just like just I don’t know what to do today just it happens it happens it makes your makes your heart like hurt yeah before we get to jedha my T hat came just in time time it came this weekend right as Waco Neeman was winning
Another tournament and he’s he’s the Top Dog on live right now he just got invited to the PGA Championship he’ll be at Augusta he won jeda by four strokes over Louis usen and is there anybody in live playing good as good as walk mman right now there is not you know he he
Took this off season and you can tell that he did he did two things very well he’s he’s a little bit older now and he’s starting to reach the peak era of his testosterone um if you guys don’t know we’ve talked several times is that as a man your Peak areas of testosterone
Are ages 27 through 34 that’s kind of your Peak zone of testosterone um that’s why you see a lot of these guys who are you know not really anything special muscle wise at age 22 and all of a sudden you see them at 30 and they got great shoulders they got good definition
On their arms and if you look at Neiman you can see it especially in his arms and his shoulders they’re much more defined this year you’re not going to see it so much in his butt or his legs but you’re going to see it a lot more in
His should shoulders and it’s paying off dividends he’s hitting the ball a lot farther he’s not he’s pretty much up there with Bryson to Shambo as far as distance goes really that’s saying a lot they were saying it on the broadcast I think he hit his drive on number 18 on
Sunday 430 yards wow yeah now granted that hole is designed to be like that so but at the same time he still beat the bricks off that ball he’s killing it man and honestly I think if you want a bet on the mes go put a bet on him now if
You want to cuz right now his odds are 31 to1 and you know he should be in the 20s you know cuz honestly I would say he’s he’s he should be in the top five favorites to win Augusta because there’s nobody else like look on the PGA tour
None of their guys are playing well this year you know like look none of the big guys won sheff hasn’t done anything Rory looked like he was gonna have a chance to win of course I bet on Rory again because I’m constantly bet ask Jake how
Much money I’ve lost on Rory maroy in the past two years of us doing this podcast not to mention the few years before that I bet on every single major that comes up I put money on Rory to win the major because I’m like he’s eventually gonna it just started with
The Masters because I’m like there’s no way he’s not GNA win a masters then I started doing every major and I’m like he’s eventually gonna win a major sometime soon and now it’s at the point where I can’t not bet on him because the one major I don’t bet on him he’ll end
Up winning you know and well if you were truly a fan of Roy maroy I get bet on him I know I know that’s your problem you’re just too much of a fan I know but uh I want to win my money back I’m I’m like two three grand in the hole from
Rory right now insane the real issue with it is is that you’re absolutely right the uh the PGA guys they’re not showing up when they’re there um you can only have so many Cinderella stories for for the PGA tour in a year before you have to ask yourself why are there so
Many Cinderella stories why why is nobody Jake naap winning a tournament um why is the guy this past week was another Austin Yeah Austin Oklahoma State Cowboy you know he’s he’s been around I know he’s been around he’s not a nobody he’s not like a nobody like n
He’s still a no he’s still a nobody he’s not this is like this is like a guy doing his the Casual fan won’t know who he is the Casual fan won’t know who he is and the thing is that that tournament was also a big enough event where you
Had you had Rory you had Lowry you had you had enough of the big guys there you had Fitzpatrick Cameron young Ricky which so you had enough of the of the the bigger guys that are left in the PGA Tour and you got to say it like that
Because most of that talent pool is just depleted at this point yeah and I’m not saying that the guys that are there aren’t good we know that they’re good okay we know that they are good but they are not they are not guys that you expect to
Win no that’s and that’s the reality and we saw Paul ainger he came out you know he was the lead analyst on NBC for the past 18 years he came out and he said that the PGA Tour is just a feder tour for live right now you do well on the
PGA tour that means that you can go get a bag on live and that’s what’s happened ROM and we saw Rory’s talking about it you know and honestly I made a a comment on Twitter with your post as as you know if you follow uh Jake what is it Jake
Unor span or Jake span Jake unor span spnn on Twitter every week he releases his rankings for live golf franchise you know value and the cleaks have like a four four points and the legion 13 has 10 points and Legion 13 has only played two events ever in the history history
Of Legion 13 and clicks has played every single tournament since Liv has came out so clicks are horrible and it’s the perfect franchise for Rory to take over let Rory take over the clicks let him rename it to something to do with Ireland you know bring Shane Lowry over
Bring over some other irish guys and call it a day well and even if they just give him a brand new franchise they’s still opportunities to be had there but you’re right the there spot for one more team you can’t go above 60 you know so
One more team that would be 56 players on a team and then you could have four Wild Card spots I think so I think it’s probably a fair aair place because there’s two things that Liv likes to focus on especially right now and that’s pace of play and just the overall F
Experience so the the additions that they made to the roster because they added you know uh six total spots this year two more groups on the course and that I believe has filled out a lot of the gaps that were on the course that were happening at previous events we we
We noted several times when you went to an event there were with 48 players there were there were some gaps that you if you were a big enough fan you didn’t mind but if you were a casual person there you would mind it was like when I
Went to bedmond there was a at least 45 minutes to an hour I was sitting on a hole that no nobody came through correct and that’s not great um uh but anyway the the you’re right though the the overall history of the league is is developing pretty heavily right now and
It’s basically Paul ainger is right it’s turned into a feeder tour for for Liv and you say that well look at the Top Field of Liv because not only are the top guys playing they’re the top guys are winning on Liv look at the history of Liv golf only one
Scrub and I say it like that scrub from Liv golf that’s the PGA Tour Fanboy words Danny Lee no not even Danny Lee uh uh chakara Eugenio chakara and that was during season one in Bangkok where everybody had loose butthole MH every single person had the runs that week
Yeah that was sick yep yeah everyone was sick uh Brandon Grace left with an abdominal injury due to dehydration I mean it was a bad week yeah and and he won that event uh and that was the only scrub Victory by anybody on Liv golf if
You look at live golf the big chickens are winning yeah the big chickens are motivated to Dustin’s winning on but Dustin honestly since going back Dustin has always won a tournament every single year even on the PJ tour he had this longest streak like I think was like 11
Years in a row no matter what no matter what type of form he’s in no matter injuries what have you if he’s playing he’s winning at least once a year yeah and that’s a thing that you expect from the big guys yep Brooks won a couple times Cameron Smith won the only person
We had is Ron but he’s only played two tournaments Ron will get a win this year oh absolutely um and yeah you’re right if you look through the history of Liv’s annals uh Taylor G three wins uh cam Smith three wins inside live Dustin Johnson three wins inside live
Brooks Kea four total wins since joining Liv uh three of those being uh Liv tournaments and then one major yeah so you know we’re seeing the big guys are here they’re ready to fire they’re winning NE now as too nean now has two and and he was somebody who honestly we
Knew was going to break through at some point he was too talented and too young to not break through and it was frustrating last year I think the biggest difference this year between this year and last year uh extra muscle mass he finally has his or his back room
Organization sorted out and I really do believe that I think last year he was trying to handle travel Logistics a little too much or maybe be a little too Hands-On as a coach or a leader uh and that was distracting him from his own play uh but this year he’s just he’s all
In it for for Neeman and and he has confidence he has conf yes that’s the most important thing and you know there’s two and not only that but us is in man the dude is looking smooth he could he needs to get honestly like I know everybody’s up and arm saying gu
Needs it honestly I don’t I don’t think like gu’s play on Liv last year he does deserve to be in the Masters but they’re not going by that like he didn’t go to uh Asia and play he didn’t play outside of Liv gu only played on Liv these other
Guys played on the Asian tour to try to get the world ranking points to get into the majors so it’s like did gu really if gu wanted to make the Masters he could have played what did he do all winter long there was like three months where
There was no Live Events he could have went and played two or three events well not only that uh you’re absolutely right nean has uh first off offseason look at what nean did he officially joined the DP World Tour which you know Live players do have the right to do that
Right now they have the ability to join the DP World Tour to be able to you know get into more events blah blah blah blah blah All That Jazz quick tangent I think it would be smart for Liv to take over the DP world I don’t know what the deal
Is I don’t know when that PGA I know PGA Tour and DP World Tour have uh an agreement I don’t know when that’s going to run out because the PGA Tour pretty much is saying they’re going off on their own so if I’m live I’m taking the
DP World Tour and I’m having live DP World Tour Asian tour and you know what live in those two tours are the world tour the PGA Tour is the US tour like that’s how it’s going to be because I really don’t see like I personally I’ve
Said it over and over again I want the PGA Tour and live to come to an agreement because I want the live guys to be able to play certain PGA Tour events I want the PGA Tour guys to be able to gain status on live I I want
Everybody playing with each other that’s the best for golf like I think that’s the best you know product that golf can give you the best vers the best every single week or at least 15 times a year that’s not going to happen right now so the next best thing is Liv takes over
The DP World Tour and the Asian tour so on the weeks that live only plays 14 weeks you know these golfers they want to play 25 plus times you know the other 11 times they want to play they could go play on the Asian tour they could go
Play on the DP World Tour and there’s a lot of Premier Events on the DP World Tour that they could go play you know the Spanish open the French Open you know like all these events these Signature Events that I think these guys should play and I think they should be
Able to you know earn that you know the guys that aren’t onli should be able to earn their way on to live by doing well on the DP World Tour well and I think I think we’ve seen that that happen in its own ways I mean yeah more importantly
You know know we look at what’s happened this past winter you know the live guys said hey we’re going to take the uh the Australian swing we’re going to take the uh South African swing and we’re going to go for it yeah the Stinger GC players
Went over to the South Africa swing that that’s their territory that’s their Turf um and and they stake that flag in there and that’s why I think usen deserves if anybody on live deserves a Mass’s invite other than nean it’s us in because he’s performing on Liv and he went out and he
Won outside of Liv and he’s playing outside of you know yeah and so that’s to me to me it shows a dedication to World Golf and you’re right gu has not shown that in the same kind of value now granted he did go from being a regular golf millionaire to
Being a big chicken this past year so I understand why he didn’t necessarily go and play elsewhere I mean the dude won $40 million last year playing golf I mean yeah I mean if you’re not if you’re not going to have at least one barn
Burner of a party you know when are you going to in life you know yeah but there’s three months how you know I know I know that’s a lot of time you could have a whole month Bend there and still have a month of recover and go play two
Asian tour events you know hey man you saw what Dustin Johnson did after season one yeah he he did he he did the exact same thing that gu did last year y but anyway um it’s gonna be interesting to see how this works out I mean yeah um I
Do think that usen and gu both deserve an invite um I I know there’s a few more Asian tour events between now and the Masters will we see a late term invite I really hope so uh I just think it’s fair I don’t see a masters with usas and not happening
Like I I I really do think that that Lou is gonna get an invite he has too many top major finishes he’s healthy clearly he’s healthy last year if you guys don’t know the Stinger GC were beating the hell up but those guys are some Warriors okay because right and Grace kept having
The ab the abdominal injuries uh you uh uh Charles schwarzel had an issue where for whatever reason he had like a blood problem where his left arm would go numb during the round literally numb the whole entire round is is playing with a with with a numb left arm uh Louis
Usasan has had uh elbow is issues for like the past two years since joining Liv they are all clearly healthy right now and playing some good golf um so yeah Louis needs to be at at the Masters um you know who else I want to see on
The Masters who’s playing really good in South America right now anhel Cabrera former a right to he actually has a right to yeah former Masters champion they said that they’re not gonna stop him from from you know playing the Masters if he wants to play
He can play I think he just needs to figure out some Visa issues and you know I’d love to see him and that playoff in 2013 with Adam Scott that was a great M that’s like one of my top five favorite mes of all time he’s an interesting guy I his his
Situation with the legal trouble was very disgusting and um you know there’s still a lot of things that are going on with that he’s obviously done his time yeah um so I I I don’t hold anything against him Beyond time served um we’ll see what happens I mean he’s over 50 now
So you gota be mindful of that but we’ll see what happens with him long term it’s contention and in I forget what tour he was playing is it the Latin America Tour or whatever but he was in contention yeah something like that I don’t I think he’s still somewhat
Barred from the PGA Tour Champions or something like that I don’t know speaking about being in contention somebody that was not in contention Anthony Kim once again we have another Kim that is dfl dead last on live golf and Anthony Kim 16 over I think he was is
Last by 13 shots right he was last by 11 shots at final Bell sord the other yeah these wild cards are really killing it let me tell you Lori K had a good good week but Lori K didn’t play this week that’s that’s another conversation he should Beed I really I
Really think that Lorie caner should be out there I know Lori caner doesn’t turn heads and I know that they’re putting a lot of hype behind the Anthony Kim situation but he looks like he looks he looks like a beat up party animal he looks like David Lee
Roth did in the Behind the Music he looks like he looks like Vince Neil and and Axel Rose you know 15 years after their big their big days and they’re just trying to talk to them and and they just look beaten up because he topped he
Topped the drive he shanked the ball and he’s just he doesn’t honestly I was I said hopefully he goes out and shoots even Paul I was way off like this guy he is not close to cont well well he wasn’t way off but he was off by far enough to
Where you don’t think it was fair to give him to give him the the opportunity I’m saying but when you have someone like nean or like topnotch guys best in the world like John Ram Dustin Johnson Brooks kep Cameron Smith like this guy has no chance to beat those guys so my
Big thing with him is that and if you watch the actual broadcast I this is the first time I actually watched him play the uh no I watch watch it live all the time but this is the first time that I watch the uh the WB the CWS okay
Broadcast instead of live golf plus I just didn’t want to go to my computer so I just watched on my television um they were showing him way too much for somebody who was nowhere any kind of conversation Phil Nicholson had the the had his best finish in his history at Liv
Golf and and and he got shown once on the on the CW Sunday broadcast one shot they showed at least 20 Anthony Kim shots insane and and that’s to me is just I get it they had a dedicated camera out there for Anthony Kim’s return yada yada he I think he showed
Enough quality to Showcase that there is an opportunity for a game to return but I really think it should have been an Asian tour International series card than a live golf cart yeah he should have tun he should have played a few in the Asian tour and tuned up but
You know his or have him on site as a reserve player for Liv yeah because then you know he comes in like this week uh Matt wolf has an injury I don’t know if it was a real injury or not you know you gota have to ask those questions from
Matt wolf his mental state looks better this year so I do think it was a legitimate injury versus the the the DC event last year where it clearly was not it was a mental thing um so uh way Ormsby comes in for him um and so to me way Ormsby
Uh good situation that’s that’s where I would have put Anthony Kim is have him as an on-site Reserve player yeah I feel bad for the team that gets him though well yes I understand that but that you know it’s it’s a conversation Point versus um you just having some guy
Go out there and take Lori Canter’s spot which he’s I’m sorry man like and I know I know there’s so many live guys like you know the live guys the live Bots that I’m talking about like the people that live can’t do any wrong PGA Tour
Can’t do any right like us here at 54 live at least me like I’m in the middle like I I’m still a PJ tour fan I I’ll critique Liv when they do something wrong I put up the post who has a better chance to win this year Tiger Woods on
The PGA tour or Anthony Kim on Liv GF there’s three hours remaining 263 votes 54% said Anthony Kim only 46% said tiger Woods the clear answer is Tiger Woods like what do you mean because he doesn’t even play though that’s the thing but but no I’m saying like if
Tiger you know Tiger’s not going out there shooting 16 over you know that is true when Tiger goes out there he’s still shooting at a scorecard to have a chance of making the cut I know yeah or either like you know tiger could go out and win one of these events Anthony Kim
Is nowhere near close to winning one of these events like granted I know he only asked to beat 53 other people but you know like both of them the odds of one of them winning this year is very slim both of them but if you had to pick one
Guy to win this year it’s obviously Tiger Woods so I picked Anthony Kim simply he’s play simply because he’s playing more events than Tiger Woods so mathema is he though Tiger’s still he’s gonna Tiger’s gonna play the Masters and you know Tiger’s not injured he just had
You know a stomach issue you know like exactly but you know he’s still you know tiger is still planning on playing a lot this year you know he’ll tiger will get at least six seven tournaments in I believe think you think he’ll get that many in yeah okay we’ll see I I know
He’s at least playing Augusta but you know and he says he’s gonna play I mean we’ll see we’ll see and also the Masters you know T you know tiger step on them like Phil did last year like you can’t count those guys out you know they could
Turn it on any week and win I will say that Tigers game is there way more than Kim’s um now the sad thing is also to me this was the best event for Kim to make a debut at zero f it’s the easiest zero fans U very windy so everyone’s GNA
Look rough um just uh zero alcohol if you don’t know how Saudi Arabia works that there’s I’m sure there is alcohol some I’m pretty sure like if you’re there as a vacation and you’re allowed to drink alcohol it’s like the whole thing where like women have to cover up
But like if you look at these women’s in Saudi Arabia they’re out there with the tits out and wearing thongs like like I think if you’re I think like if you’re uh if that’s where you live and like you’re a resident of Saudi Arabia you
Can’t do that stuff or if you’re in you know an Islam or a Muslim you can’t do that but you know if you’re a regular Joe Schmo going over there I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to drink that makes sense we’re not trying to talk politics here or or geopolitical politics we’re
Just saying that overall the jeda experience was the experience that was going to be best the best for someone like him to Showcase that he’s there bro he was 33 shots behind the leader 33 shots that’s insane yeah and then like said they show this is worse than C1 Kim
Last year worse than C1 Kim H I don’t know let’s we’re G have to look at the numbers and find out but it but but as I tweeted back to you this past week it just seems like Greg Norman was just missing having Kim at the bottom of the
Leaderboard Ken I know he needed to see Kim and honestly it’s a great marketing move like I I think it was smart for Liv to bring him over whether he was going to play good or not because look how many eyeballs he’s got like I saw some
Of the um you know Legacy Media guys the PGA Tour media guys that never watch live saying like go I set my alarm for three o’clock in the morning to wake up to watch live just to see Anthony Kim play they weren’t watching John ROM or Dustin Johnson or Cam Smith when they
Came over like he Greg Norman made a great you know move and he got plenty of eyeballs on Live this week because of Anthony Kim so in a marketing standpoint that’s great but in the aspect of respect for the game like how how many more weeks you going to give this guy if
He goes out in Hong Kong and shoots 10 over again what do you you know you’re right and I feel bad for the situation with Hudson Swafford also because Swafford was somebody who was supposed to have a full a full-time position last season um he didn’t he was injured the
Whole year for and didn’t play so he lost his spot in range goats I think his contract dictated that he’d be on live golf through this season uh when he originally signed back in 2022 so Anthony Kim took Lori canther spot this week yes this past week so they they
Actually pushed out Lorie caner because Hudson Swafford has guaranteed starts throughout the entire season and Lor out of all of them Lorie can is playing the best right and and if you look at it Lorie caner did compete in in Maya COA he did compete in um you know in uh he
Did compete in Vegas I mean if you look back at Vegas numbers uh Lorie caner I mean he’s not out there you know Barn Burning but he shot he shot one under six under three under finished tie for 21st which gets you live golf points by
The way not very many but it gets you points you look back at his his result in mayakoba uh mayakoba he’s tied for 15th he shoots uh five under two over one under tied for 15th with Taylor G and if you look at Hudson Swafford
Swafford you know 36 at Mya cooba uh if you go to Vegas you have um him all the way down at 51st and then you have a 53rd or sorry 52nd in in jeda yeah I I I just don’t like that they’re benching somebody who’s been loyal to live the
Entire time been good to live the entire time and is showing to be competitive I know honestly what’s the what’s like so you got 54 guys I know it it’s even with like the three per you know each hole but like you know what the wild card you
Know what have an extra guy and send two groups out with two you know like you know they do the stagged start on Sunday you know on the first te like is it really gonna hurt to have Lor k out there let him go play by himself like
You know like it happens on the PJ tour you know players go out first in the morning by themselves you know let Lori can te off 10 minutes earlier than everybody else and you know like here’s a big question for me though is they have three reserved players on
Site every single week um I don’t know why it’s just three they should have honestly more than that yeah but the chances are you know Chan of three yeah you say that but it happened in DC it happened in DC last year um so anyway we
Have you know Lorie caner um who I assume is out there I I I don’t know for sure but I assume that he was out there why didn’t he take spot yeah well because the captain’s rank the the the reserve players really on a scar on a
Card so who’s dranking ORS over can with the can’s latest play Bubba Watson he’s he’s whack that guy sorry sorry Bubba I love you but sometimes man yeah like what are you doing ranking Wade armsby above above he’s probably he’s probably friends with wsby you know maybe grinder mustache I don’t know yeah
It’s probably part of his prayer group or something you know prayer group uh but no no I I understand what you’re saying but it’s just it’s just one of those where that didn’t make sense to me because you took somebody who has proven this season to be competitive and
Granted way nors you know he didn’t shoot a bad number he shot two over which that should be ranked first from everybody from the reses absolutely simply because of the fact that he’s been playing on lib this season and second off he’s playing well yes when he’s out there he’s competing um and
That’s the big thing for me is that that that’s where he should be yeah last thing about Anthony Kim he said um they did like a little preview and he was uh they were walking with him on his practice round and he said I’m here to play golf he’s like eventually I will
Speak about you know what’s happened and tell my story I have a story to tell eventually I’ll tell it but right now I’m focused on golf man how great is that going to be when David farer sits down and does a one-on-one interview with Anthony Kim like that’s gonna get
Numbers man when they finally when they finally do that it needs to be about a 20 to 30 minute oh yeah cuz like there’s there’s some like there’s some like signals and like some like there’s some Clues like he has that thing around his neck he looked like he was choked with
Like something um you got when you see him he looks like weathered he looks like a beat up rock star at the end of his career yeah David far and Greg Norman on the broadcast they were talking about addiction and bouncing back and getting clean so obviously you
Know we could all read between the lines and we all heard the rumors for the past 10 years whatever but it’ll be nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth but it’s good to see that he’s you know getting himself he has a daughter who’s looks
Like she’s around like two or three and he straightened himself out and he wants to walk the right path but and understand guys our our critiques of Anthony Kim have nothing to do with him personally no our critiques have to do with his situation in the golf game in
The live atmosphere that’s it I want Anthony Kim to do well I think if Anthony Kim goes back to 2010 Anthony Kim it’s great for live like he was entertaining polarizing on the course I want to see Anthony Kim content and win even even if he gets himself to just Pat
Perez status no you want him to be more Anthony you can’t that’s like saying tiger oh you having a Tiger Woods that’s just going to make the cut every once in a while you know like you if you if you watch tiger you want tiger out there winning you know Tiger’s different
Though because same thing with Phil you know well Phil is Phil doesn’t matter he’s just he he’s just fun to watch whether he’s winning or not just because he’s all over the place you know yeah tiger is a different situation because tiger was somebody who up until the
Recent string of injury madness he he placed he podiumed 33% of his of his starts exactly podiumed yeah and so that’s different because you don’t want him tarnishing his legacy by being mediocre Anthony Kim was never that guy he was somebody who had the potential to
Be that guy he was on his way to be that guy you know but to me if he just goes out there and ends up being a pat Perez somebody who’s entertaining but can still have the good shots isn’t going to compete but is still somebody that’s fun
To watch that to me is a win but or if he if he could go out there and shoot a couple under and help A team out you know but he can’t be irrelevant he cannot be out there and be irrelevant like that he can’t be he can’t pull a
See1 Kim he how many how many tournaments do you give it before you have to have that that serious conversation with Greg Norman and say hey man like homeboy like what’s what’s the deal why do you insist on having a Kim at the 14 tournaments in the year okay he
Miss he missed two he missed two so that leaves 12 I’m giving him six half even have six yeah if by the summer he’s still shooting like this I’m like sorry man like you know like go play in the Asian tour and it’s who knows how much
How much did they pay pay him and how much was he guaranteed you know did he have a downside if I was Kim by the way I would definitely make sure I I I sign up for every Asian Tour event as you know when you are a member of live golf
You have a right to sign up for every Asian tour I don’t think he’s gonna you don’t think he’s gonna no that would be the smart thing to do for him just for real he’s 38 years old you know like like does he really want to grind and
Get himself back on top or does he just want to make money and and get in the spotlight a little bit that’s the question we need to ask which Anthony Kim are we going to get he looks so weathered and so beaten up that he does look like he’s just trying
To get himself afloat yeah that’s what it looks like it does not look like a competitor it looks like somebody who is just trying to keep himself from drowning yeah that’s what that’s what he looks like to me who knows who knows and another thing too about the the the clothing like I
Know people are like oh it’s so cool you could wear whatever you want like get a be a little bit more Prof professional out there I think he definitely did I think he I think he definitely took the a little too yeah way too casual exactly
To me the the dress um the the like I know we want to make our fun again and stuff you know like you wear untuck shirt but like you know I think he’s wearing like sweatpants shorts and and untucked like t-shirt yeah yeah it to me
To me it looked very it looked very much like I’m he’s trying yeah and the off-white golf shoes like he’s trying too hard I feel like trying too hard to look he doesn’t care or trying too hard to look cool oh I I don’t even know if
It was that to me it just felt like it felt like the dress mixed with the visual components I think I think the dress added to the visual of he just looked like he just got out of rehab yeah he looks like he’s on the corner trying to
You know cop a couple of bags of meth or something you know but hey we want him to do we want him to do good we want him to do good we just think that we’re just talking sorry AK we’re not even really talking we’re just talking
What we saw what we saw confused us and really concerned us because this is somebody who again he had the spotlight on him and and one of the I forget which reporter said it one of the reporters said that what’s going to surprise you the most is
His face like his face is going to surprise you and people were like speculating oh man maybe he has a face t or something but no it wasn’t a face T he just looked beat up and was yeah sad sad it is sad but you know what’s not
Sad is how built for success with crusher GC is I mean 20 under par on and I mean Bryson Bryson when he when he wakes up it might take him a few days he might have an off day or whatever apparently he had to get a new driver
Head on Sunday he uh what is he using the crank he’s using the crank yeah now now I don’t know what happened did you see the video with Phil and Phil was just like like he was like oh it’s a crank it’s like with the long drives and
Phil’s like H looks like it’s working out for you you know Phil’s the gears are rolling in Phil’s head Phil’s like calling up get me a crank well you know and Phil has Phil Phil’s biggest thing is that he won’t commit to a shaft um he he continuously messes with whatever
Shaft he has in his driver whereas Bryson limits it to just the driver head Phil is messing with the shaft he’s messing with grips and those can INF can create I believe way more chaos into whatever’s going on because a la the launch angle the bend the bend point on
Your shafts can be so different from one to the other so one week I’ll see him out there with a Ventus TR red the next week he’ll be out there with a Ventus TR blue the next week he’ll be out there with with a with just aventus regular
And then he’ll have a tour series one and then it’s just you keep seeing him swapping all these shafts around and it’s like bro just let’s focus on the head man you know but Phil Phil’s always been a tinker you know Phil has been but remember when it went to Augusta with
Two drivers you know like well at least he’s not doing what Bryson is where his three-wood is a driver yeah yeah but people have done that you know ston won so much with his three-wood being a driver you know yeah well no no I mean uh Bryson actually has two drivers in
His bag he has a three-wood yeah his three-wood is actually like a regular stock driver and then and then he has this crank which like a fire yeah okay yeah uh but anyway so Bryson Bryson apparently on round two something was off with his actual driver I think it
Was it could have just been like the head popped or something because you know you gota you got to watch the the curvature on the front on the front of the face if the face stops having a curvature on there you get way less of
The pop or the might push the ball in a different direction when you play golf as much as these guys do and you train as hard as Bryson does you know that dude is wearing faces off like way faster than even players like myself who play in practice you know pretty pretty
Often um probably four to five times a week is what I’m practicing at and you know I my a driver will last for me AE will last me maybe two years you know what will fix that problem weed no you go out and get a cut box of cut gray
Golf balls because they’re really really soft that’s that would help that would help because uh yeah I’m tired of these titlists smashing my face up yeah um and I actually do need to get a new face on my uh for my driver because I I have a
Actual like uh like a slash mark you should buy a driver just for practice the amount of time you practice you know you got you got a good point I should do that I I I should because if you’re hitting the Range four times a week like
You know and you’re playing what twice a week um yes usually two to two to four times a week depending on what’s going on yeah especially now we’re getting into now that we’re getting into season probably going to move up to six to seven times you should buy two Drive the
Same two drivers and have one you know just go to eBay and buy used one for practice you know and then one for practice and one for when you’re playing I should um one thing I’ve been struggling with quite a bit this past this season so far though is the winter
Was so boring that I actually started back a gym habit I’m not a gym person and I just started a gym habit and I’m seeing great like overall strength gains that you not as flexible no uh still as flexible but it’s just um like for instance uh uh no
No no joke with you man I uh we had like t- boox to first T boox this past weekend s Saturday if I’m if I’m hitting into the wind normally I can expect I’m hitting into a 20- mph hour wind I usually expect you know 245 carry if I’m
Into a into that kind of wind m with you know maybe 15 yards of roll out tops I don’t I don’t usually roll very long I just kind of just and just hit the ground 283 off the really yeah and I’m not even and this is into a 20 M hour
Wind yeah um so I know the distance is there for whenever it actually gets to hot weather because where this is like 50 degrees yeah you’ll be way over 320 I I mean it it kind of makes me nervous but at the same time it’s very
Exciting because I know that I know it’s coming whenever this summer hits homeboy going to be out there just just especially once it gets the Oklahoma baked out Fairways sh’s going to roll man you’re going to go 350 girl I’m telling you I I had one of those last
Year at Gardia and it felt so good where you’re just like you’re just like you keep you just keep driving the cart you just keep driving the cart and it ain’t here and you’re like you just keep driving the cart it was Sunday when we played it it rained so much on Saturday
Sunday it was so soft where any any drive just plugged right into the Fairway and I hit I was hitting a few like 235 240 that would just plug in and that’s good for me because like I’m happy if I go out and I just hit if I
Consistently hit it over 250 I’m happy you know like I don’t I only play once a week if that like I’m not I’m not grinding like you so if I’m driving the ball 250 every time I’m happy so I was like you know 235 240 when it’s plugging
They’ll roll out I’ll take it yeah and that feels it’s those cut great golf balls got me such such more distance if if they’re if they’re feeling smooth and that’s really a big thing is that you have to have the right kind of finish on your balls
Um I’ve found that you know a dirty ball really is a big problem also also just if you have a ball that the softballs are better for players like yourself as well because they reduce they reduce spin rates yeah um so like I’ll play with with h Pro Plus balls which are
Hard balls for the majority of my stuff they do have cut blue which is a four piece which is more of a pro like they have balls for my swing speed and my level you know double digit handicap fors someone like you a single digit handicap well even that like I’ll be
Frank with you whenever it starts getting windy there’s plenty of days in Oklahoma where you are a fool to try to play like a A prov1x or a uh a Pro Plus or a TP TPX X or a chrome soft X you are a fool to play those you’ll just spin go
Way way offline right yeah unless you just hit a a dirty Line Drive every single time you are just asking for problems and yes I have my club set up to do that and I know how to do that but at the same time you introduce a wild
Swing and boom you know you yeah you you can’t do that and so we’re getting off we’re go finish we’re talking about golf ball these are important stuff this also talked about jeda you know because jeda for instance you know they had that wild wild that Red Sea was was
Swirling um but this week in Hong Kong man it’s gonna be interesting to see um Crusher GC like I said they they’ve got the power they got the moves um they’re going to show up I really really would like to see anaban leiri finally the bridesmaid he has so many good finishes
So many opportunities um it’s time for him to get a win I don’t think he’s there right now um I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the Stinger boys up there again Stinger boy definitely somebody in T is gonna be in the top five oh yeah somebody in T is gonna be
Up there y um telling you man when Liv started I wasn’t a big fan of the team competition and I’m still not a huge fan but it’s growing on me as much that I I’m rooting for a team now you know now you know who’s not you know who’s not g
To be up there right Anthony Kim well that that and of course you know Majestics GC I just I I know I’m a fan of Majestics and I I I think that this is actually going to be a tournament where they have a better chance because
Sten you say that every tournament bro I I do every tournament you’re like I got Jess’s got a chance this year well you know it’s kind of like you with Rory you know you’re out there you know guzzling on Rory and I’m out there guzzling Majestics man I love those colors yeah I
Know it’s just it is what it is yeah people have talked about cam Smith you know not he’s struggling yeah and I think but he’s always someone that starts off slow and ends hot like he doesn’t get going into the summer like you know like look what last time uh the
First year on Liv he won the Open Championship and then he went and he won in Chicago towards the end of the year you know like I wouldn’t worry about cam Smith until May you know yeah and also it depends on where they’re playing with Cam Smith he is not built for
Um he’s built for one style of golf course that’s Lynx golf yeah he built he’s built for he’s built for places without trees without without you know desert without you know um all the other things in the world uh he and when he’s playing these courses that have a
Billion jungles on every side of the Fairway when he’s playing these uh unlined holes he struggles yep when he plays courses that he can actually you know uh miss a fairway and he’s actually in a different Fairway which happens to him a lot you know he plays Bubba Watson
Golf but plays it where he actually hits the putts yeah and so when we start getting to those courses throughout the year that actually afford that he’s gonna be just fine that’s why he plays good at the Open Championship especially once they get and and once they get back
To the US like he plays well like he’s one in Chicago you know like he’ll be fine green I’m sure he’ll probably do well in green br you know yeah Green Brier is a course that I I smell is a good place for him obviously Bryson’s
Going to go in there with a bunch of confidence but you know we’ll see what happens with that event yeah any other points on Hong Kong uh bro last week you said I I put money on Brooks to win and I was wanted to bet somebody for first
Round leader and I was going to do Adrien Moran because you said Moran was gonna play well this week and I backed out and what happened Adrien M win and he was the first round leader I mean he played good uh come on give me
Give me a next pick to put money on this week next pick to put money on this week okay dude you’re going to hate me for saying this one I’m I’m really leaning toward Kieran Vincent for having a breakout week okay I’m being serious I think when it comes
To the international events I’m lost man I’m doing horrible and fantasy I’m like I don’t know these courses you know so it’s hard for me like when they get back to the US that’s when I could really you know put my mind into it but so you got
To ask yourself real fast asked who who has played in Southeast Asia more okay remember we’re in Southeast Asia we’re in Hong Kong um somebody’s going to screw up and not and not put in a good food order okay Bubba Watson’s gonna feel just fine because Bubba Watson eats
You know spaghetti ball Andes that’s all he eats whenever he’s he’s overseas smart yeah because because he knows his body can handle it he knows gonna have problems he’s not gonna have loose loose traction yeah but Eugenio chakara David puj um and and Kieran Vincent are the
Guys that I feel most confident about you know showing up this week that would show up imagine NE goes out and just wins again imagine NE has a GU like yeah yeah but as far as winning it goes uh you know Sergio had a great with mayaa
He had a good week in Singapore something tells me man you should you should keep an eye on him this week okay um just because he didn’t have a great week this past week but he’s he’s overall in form this is a this is an resting place because it’s again we in
Hong Kong so I’m just telling you right now I think Kieran Vincent shows up this week I think his ball speed is solid enough I think his confidence in Southeast Asia will help him I I sadly I don’t think the iron heads do very well so don’t don’t just
Take they’re gonna pump they’re gonna Pro they’re gonna promote the iron heads a lot for this week because southeast Asia this is the most Asian esque team even though it’s not Kevin nd’s American Danny Lee’s New Zealand I know but they but I yeah yeah they they it’s just
That’s right live needs matama bad you know well they do have K Kuma right yeah J what is it janiro Jan Kuma Kuma yeah he’s that is that dude is happy as man anytime I I follow iron h on Instagram anytime they’re posting pictures that dude has a smile on his
Face 247 he is so happy to be on all the live guys like anytime you see pictures of these live guys you never see anybody upset every everybody’s happy yeah you’re you’re not seeing I mean you see frustration on course when they make a bad shot but you’re not seeing you’re
Not seeing just constant dread in their eyes you’re not seeing Shane Lowry almost breaking a club like he did at the cognizant that’s that that’s that I screwed up and didn’t take live golf money yeah all it’s coming Shane don’t worry buddy Rory’s gonna take care of
You Rory and Shane are gonna take an Ireland team and then di is going to have a favorite team to root for and uh and and what’s his face uh uh Mr smile Mr smile the uh his his his Fleetwood Mac Tommy Fleetwood Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick are
Gonna I if you get that fourman team that team’s winning a lot that team’s winning every single week if well I I say that they should be winning every single week in BGA and they’re not so but anyway that’s beside the point um I’m excited I hope that I hope that the
Cinderellas are ending because we’re getting into the real part of the Season y winter you kind of have to take with a grain of salt because that’s kind of where a lot of the the mid-level guys go from being midlevel to contenders that’s where Palmer Invitational man B like we
Need you know like there was one good event on the PGA tour I tried to get into it this weekend but the second R hit that ball in the water and then freaking tried to hit that flop shot out of it and it rolled right back I was
Like M you know yeah I was locked and loaded you know hopefully this week they get a nice leaderboard and a lock and loaded again but I’m just not going to watch you know Austin e Rd and like Jake like they don’t do anything for me I’m
Sorry like you know you know they’re good players you know they’re talented but they’re not they’re not somebody you have 10 years of investment with exactly and that’s the big thing is that these guys that are supposed to especially when I’m watching Liv that weekend you know if there’s no live that that
Weekend you know I’m not and honestly to be honest what’s pulling my attention away from the PGA Tour this year has been NASCAR like my three-y old Sons into NASCAR we’ve watched sever single race this year so Mak a left turn he’s making another left turn listen when you
Watch it it gets it gets you know when you actually watch week in and week out it’s interesting man well because again it’s kind of I’m gonna watch Austin acrot vers these guys on Sunday afternoon or watch Nascar I’m watching NASCAR right now well and that’s why I
Love the pylon feature of of live golf and the shotgun start because there’s like F1 right there’s constant motion yes there’s constantly shifts there’s like there’s so many shifts in the leader board that they can’t keep up with it and I love that about Liv you know because you got you’re over here
Watching C Smith hit an eagle an eagle chip then Bryon holes went out from the Fairway then then Pat Perez you know chunks went in the water then you know blah blah blah you know it’s going on there’s there’s action whereas a PGA Tour event they they they start they
Start the broadcast on the back nine of of Sunday half the players are already off the course and and the last three groups are the only ones in any kind of real contention because you played four rounds and so in three rounds it keeps the leader board much more closer versus
Four rounds there’s plenty of opportunity to separate exactly and every week you know it’s the same players every like you know the same 54 guys that are going to be in there you know so yes Liv is doing things right you know there’s a few things they could
Fix but hey it’s only the third season we’re getting better and better every year that goes by yeah and then this this week in in Hong Kong I think we’ll really start to Define how the season is going to look for a lot of these teams
Um you know if we look at the relegation zone right now I’m very happy um most obviously it’s still very early but if you look at the relegation Zone uh we still have a good number of players that have gained zero points a couple of surprises Harold Varner III has not
Gained a point best finish was tied for 26 uh Danny Lee no surprise there Martin kimer no surprise there uh Thomas Peters down there Meo Pereira down there which is very odd he’ll get that figured out yeah but most of the guys who were at
The bottom of that area are kind of the guys that we would expect be at the bottom of that area you got janito Kazuma down there Kieran Vincent um Scott Vincent as well Patrick R being 36 is pretty surprising and again the fact he at least has scored points though
That’s that’s something that you have to keep in in mind and and really kind of just you know uh tone out I guess that he’s he’s gained points yeah um whereas you know Westwood kimer two guys that we were talking about beginning of the Season being captains having those those
Exemptions they got to show up and and prove me something baby girl but this is what I’m talking about this is why how live is so is so good like listen to the top 10 nean Dustin Johnson John Ram Taylor guch Louis USIS Sergio Garcia Bryson dambo Peter Uline Charles
Schwartzel Brooks kka it’s the who’s who a golf like honestly like what’s the one name that people wouldn’t know there pdul line you know everybody else is you know other than you know gu is a major and and Uline are major winners like you know like seven out of the 10 win Majors
But yeah be a good week in Hong Kong we’ll be back next week make sure to follow us on Twitter 54 livep pod on Instagram at 54 live pod and on YouTube as all of our videos will be on YouTube now at 54 live podcast and uh yeah we
Should have another video out at some point this week a nice short to keep you updated with anything and uh yeah subscribe Apple podcast Spotify anything else Jake just keep your pants on let’s watch some stuff going happen in Hong Kong and uh I bet you on a scale of one
To good we’re going to see D just just eight miles of excited this week this is like his home course apparently yeah all right and Karen Vincent watch out later PE
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Great conversation guys , definitely one of the best channels to listen to for unbiased commentary