Wyndham Clark take’s the 36-hole lead at The Players. He shot back to back 65’s and we got to ask… does a win this weekend make him elite? Scottie is dealing with neck pain, Rory is up and down again, and the LIV Golf boys are balling at the International Series Macau.
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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 it’s Friday in the hood let’s get with it the progress is here both in the players and in the international series maau event we are seeing some good golf we are seeing some
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Long Island golfco co.com to get yours today and use the promo code 54 live for a nice little discount but straight to business wendam Clark is currently leading the players there’s only a few guys left on the course I think there’s one whole left but 14 under over Xander
Schley who’s at 10 under and then some guys that are at nine including Fitzpatrick and then Scotty Sheffer at 8 on you see Scotty Sheffer getting some uh work done on his neck in between on on the 13th fway or the 13t man that guy I I’ve been wondering
For a long time with him how his body’s gonna hold up to his bizarre mechanics of his swing obviously the results are in we can’t we can’t blame it I mean the dude is the best player from T to Green in the PGA so we can’t we can’t argue the
Mechanics but we can argue as far as the results go but we can argue what what it’s going to do long term and we know he has some wacky movements the sheffler shuffle and it’s one of those where the sheffler shuffles looked really strong this week as far as yeah
There was one that was out on Twitter I commented where he like completely came out but some guy took a snapshot of him at impact and he is in the perfect impact position so honestly once he hits the ball it really doesn’t matter what he does because at impact there’s only
One way to hit a golf ball at impact you know that’s the right way he’s perfect at impact whatever he does with his feet afterwards who cares you know well and the only reason we do care is not because of the result but it’s because
Of what he’s doing to his body in that process so if he’s starting to get physical work done in between the rounds that’s a question mark long time that is a question mark But Windam clock killing it backtack 65s I posted something now this is this is going to be a long
Discussion so we’ll save this to for Tuesday’s episode but I just want to put it out there is wendam Clark becoming Elite now we don’t know will he close this out it’s only right now he only has a 36- hole lead will he be able to close
This out now someone said oh he won the US Open of course he’s El lead I don’t think if you win one major you automatically Elite you’re not like there needs to be a period of domination where you win multiple times don’t you agree correct and that and that and that
Transition from uh a guy on tour to an elite guy on tour may only be that you only have one year of of clear Domin domination and domination understand we see domination as roughly now it’s arbitrary we can we can debate what it actually means but let’s let’s just say
If we’re going to give it like a base analysis I would say domination or like putting yourself into that Elite category equates to in a season roughly five five top 10s and at least two to three wins three I I would say three wins in like a four five month period
You know like you could you that’s that’s number one in the world quality yeah like what Rah did in in California last year what havin started doing at the of Le year and you need to contend at the majors or win a major like you can’t be considered elite elite until
You win a major so Windam Clark has that like he won at Wells Fargo won the US Open won Pebble Beach which was only 54 holes remember that and if he puts a players on that you know what that’s four wins in 12 years he’ll probably be
Volted to what maybe fifth in the world rankings fourth yeah something like that he’s like seven right now that now he’s starting to be in Elite category yeah and he may be a douchebag and he may be a guy who we don’t believe has the right mentality he he’s number one on diy’s
Douchebag list we know that right and this is all because of his mentality back back at the uh Pebble Beach open where you know he won for a 54 hole event where it was cancelled and he had every attitude that wasn’t about a championship mentality he didn’t want to
And talking about Rory especially last year at the US Open too but he currently he’s fifth in the world right now yeah but if he wins you know congratulations if he wins he’ll go I don’t think he’ll overtake Rah cuz Rah is has 1.3 points on him he might um but
He’ll probably get the fourth possibly third he won’t overtake Rory at second so he’ll be a top four player in the world we’ll see let let’s see you know the big man that talks a lot of let’s see if he could back it up because he has some dogs on his Trail Xander
Sha’s fullback Fitzpatrick’s fiveback Fitzpatrick is a major winner the best in the world Scotty shuffler is right there and even though he’s you know uh even though he’s eight back right now Rory’s lurking you know not going to shoot 65s all weekend so he’s going to come back to the field
Rory could go out and shoot a 65 and then Rory’s Back In Contention the big question with wendam at least going forward for me really comes down to you’re right how is he going to compete at majores how is he going to compete at other events because wendam has you know
He’s showing up at a lot of good events and this is a great event for him to show up and show off at but it’s been so weird because the guys that I think that we had in that cat category above him that were still on the PGA tour um just
Have not shown up you know the yeah of the all the guys that I would say are above him in my mental image and remember the mental image of what a player is always lags behind the reality the reality is always way in front of
What the what the mental image is so the guy has to be the guy for X period of time before the the social Consciousness becomes aware that he is the guy yes so for all we know winham Clark already is that guy but he has to still drag his
Social status up to that level yeah if he wins this week at the Players I’ll put him like he’s on the he’s knocking on the door to be elite maybe Elite depending on what he does the rest of the you know if he goes out and wins the
Masters or gets the top five in the Masters then he’s Elite you know well think of this way that’s already two wins this season and nobody else on the PGA tour that should be winning is we we talked last on on Tuesday last week about the PGA Tour trying to force feed
Of stars the one guy that is really stepping up to the plate and taking advantage of the guys leaving to live is Windam clock did it last year at Wells Fargo the US Open you know even though there was live guys in the field but Pebble Beach now the players you know
He’s they don’t need to make make him a star because he’s he’s doing it on his own now here’s a real question for you arguably does he we can we can say that he would still have the US Open but does he have any other wins professionally
Without the live guys leaving yeah you think he gets you think he gets there yeah I think he does yeah he’s not he’s not he’s not I don’t think he’s a flash in the pan type of guy Got Talent man you know and like we we saw the guts at
The US Open trying to hold off you know everybody was rooting for Rory and Ricky nobody was rooing for him weird though because like you look at you look at shley now shley is in the mix this week you look at shafley you look at Thomas
You look at spe Matsuyama Adam Scott you look at fow fow especially and you look at these guys and you’re like Patrick even Fitzpatrick and you’re like you should have had more wins Klay yeah Klay especially yeah when I was talking about being Elite some guy said
Do you consider Xander and can’t Ley Elite not yet they’re they’re on the doorstep but those guys they’ve been they haven’t been dominant but they won enough they need to win a major to be it’s like with baseball nowadays you know like the Hall of Fame used to be
Just the great players but now it’s not the Hall of great it’s the Hall of good you know like they’re letting everybody so true like Scott Rand Scott Rand no Scott Roland deserves but Harold Bain doesn’t Scott Rand Scott Rolland was a dog at third base man and he and he played
Long he was a good person but he wasn’t like he wasn’t Hall of Fame worthy I think I think Ro but like someone like Harold Baines you know like they’re let they’re letting people in because they’re nice you know like Adrien Bel made it on his first time this year he
Deserved to you know he are you kidding me he never won a World Series he never Adrien Bel hit like over 500 home runs the guy was just crushing home runs and played like 22 years 500 home runs it’s a golf podcast we we we’ll create a baseball podcast
You know but let’s go to the international Series in Macau David pugge uh David pugge leads at 11 under with uh JBE Krueger I don’t know who that is but two other live guys are right on his tail three other live guys oh well four live guys are on his Trail
Carlos Ortiz Pat Perez Jason CRA and Meo Pereira they’re knocking on the door and Meo and Carlos man I I I sent the Tweet out to torque because they posted the leaderboard these guys on T they love playing these International series events Neiman one few Meo and Carlos’s
One1 earlier this year and Meo he doesn’t play well on Liv but he plays well on the international series it’s it’s strange well and the international Series in my opinion when live guys decide to go out there it’s incredibly important that those guys show up and
Show out and dominate okay we don’t we don’t want the live guys going out there if they can’t Dominate and the fact that they go out there and they do dominate post up and really control the leaderboard to me is a positive thing um because like I said if they went out
There and they were just struggling for wins or whatever that’d be a horrible look for Liv yeah and it’s nice to see the guys building their confidence out there David poog especially that dude on the Asian tour International series is averaging like what like 66 right now
Per season yeah he’s out there killing it he is killing it and the fact that we got five guys right there in the mix and several other guys in the chase party uh for instance don’t count out Sergio Garcia who’s all the way back at five under he was going
To missed the cut he was two over after round one he com up there yesterday and shoots 63 uh gets in on the gets in like by Two Shots Sergio is is playing really good golf this year really good golf like he’s like he like you remember
Right before he went to live they were he was having trouble with the rules official complaining he said I can’t wait to get out of here he has they live has breathed new life into him well several things happened that I think fixed his mental state um beyond what
You can explain and one of those is the shorts he was a big short component he was somebody who instantly was playing better the moment they let shorts on um and also just more comfortable you play better yeah not only that but like live Liv is consistent in their rules versus
The PGA Tour uh PGA Tour does a lot of BS drops uh not only that PGA Tour does not penalize for slow play they say they penalize for slow play they do not penalize for slow play yeah live they don’t they don’t mess around they will
Penalize you for slow play yep and I love that our buddy Anthony Kim did not make the cut we said we needed him to make the cut he didn’t you know but he but he did show up and shoot after a bad 74 shot of 70 the next round so yeah um
Overall his professional scorecard um that 70 is the second best round overall I was really hoping we’d see one round in the 60s just again to Showcase there is some confidence there but we have seen his second best professional round to date and 11 total sorry uh six eight
Total professional rounds so one round in the 60s out of eight if you look at it like you’re talking about handicap his handicap would be probably around at this point somewhere around about 1.6 in professional settings so I’m not sold but I’m also not mad I’m excited to see
What happens further I wanted him to make the cut so he would get more professional at bats it’s kind of like building a building a baseball career you have to take a thousand at bats to be able to get 300 that’s what spring training’s for you know this is this
This is Anthony’s Kim spring training you know and then he’s going to be able to rock I really want him honestly what a big conf confidence boost for him would be the first round in Miami in April to go out there and just shoot a great you know two three under don’t get
Anything crazy two three on you know and finish Miami on the par so you would like so you do you think Miami is the first event that we see him actually score points in like get Live points I don’t know if he’ll get Live points but
I think you know he could get on the bar for at least one round you know like like like he did Sunday in um you know uh Hong Kong you know like he’s good for one of those but now let me quick question before we wrap it up did
Anthony Kim want to play maau or did Greg Norman say hey man go get reps go play maau I think both I think I think Anthony Kim has people in the live camp that are working with him and saying like dude you know you know you know what you are you
Know let’s let’s let’s work this out and you know again if you’re traveling with the live guys you and I both know that a lot of the Asian tour uh people especially for the international series event and a lot of the actual live guys are running in the same crowds yeah so
There’s for instance D bu is the actual head commentator for the international series events uh versus um when he’s just a field commentator for Live Events so there’s a lot of overlap between Liv staff and international series staff so that’s a good thing because it keeps Behavior we got a little producer today
Yo what happened little little homie say hi say hi hey who’s winning this weekend who’s going to win this week is is wam clar G to win or is Rory M gonna come back okay okay okay yeah something will help me out all right little man noan
Producing the show Rory’s gonna win okay he says Rory’s gonna win he probably just hears daddy yelling for Rory all the time makes sense smart uh funny thing to talk about our three guys who got relegated off of live uh pyot and Jed Morgan made the cut this week at Ed
Macau guess who didn’t make the cut as expected who sewan Kim sewan Kim he actually tied Danny Lee o yeah Danny Le guys two guys that that Kevin Nas have a nightmares about when he closes his eyes yeah who I I wonder sometimes if Kevin n just wants to kill
His entire team and just restart over maybe he wants to go honestly he should he should relinquish his captaincy and just go be a fourth guy on another team because he he he’ll be enjoying it so much more wow okay pause what if he did that what if he
Went over said I’m tired of being a captain I’m going to go play for the High Flyers goes over there kicks one of them out kills it right yes goes over there kicks kicks like oal tree out iron heads Rebrand completely with a whole new Squad that actually has a chance and
A real Captain like a real number one Captain that’d be crazy yes that would be crazy that’ be crazy but we’ll be back Tuesday for episode eight enjoy the players enjoy the international and somebody on our Twitter X where can you watch the international series Jake tell
Us is the NBC Sports app so nbp Sports app if you go on there you won’t actually see it on the NBC Sports channel on on like the on like television but if you go on the actual application for it and you have subscription that allows for that um you
Will be able to watch the stream for it for all the rounds that’s you so you could wake up early watch some uh event for the uh International series maau and then finish with the players so make sure to follow follow our podcast on Apple and Spotify and we’re on YouTube
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Mid week time to eat!!!
Danny Lee had wrist operation during the off season. So could be rebuilding.
Let’s goo Wyndham Clark!!