PGA Championship Recap: A photo finish at Valhalla

The 106th PGA Championship is in the books, and we have a new first-time major winner: Xander Schauffele. Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme project where Xander goes from here now that he has a major win to go along with his stellar play this season, discuss a number of other big names that were both in and out of contention at Valhalla, address criticism of how the course played, and recap a fun week for the show in Louisville.

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[Music] H Smiley caufman for 61 wow I’m Smiley caufman and this is the Smiley Show welcome back to the final installation of our Smiley Show major Championship PGA Championship journals this is a fuller recap it’s not our Journal length you you’ve heard from us all week long uh and and it’s a it’s a sad farewell to a tournament we had a of fun at and we have a firsttime major Champion Xander Schley gets it done to the surprise of us and the surprise of many and does it in very convincing fashion with a a crucial putt on the 72nd hole of his tournament to to avoid a playoff with Bryon Des Shambo uh Smiley we’re obviously we’re going to dig into that we’re gonna We got some great stats here uh from Justin Ray uh who is at Justin Ray Golf and wrote an awesome piece for the athletic digg into this stuff and also Randy robless all week long was sending us little nuggets through Elias Sports Bureau so excited to dig into that but where I feel like we should start here is I mean what a week we had in Louisville I just thought the atmosphere was awesome we were hanging out in club magenta all week long uh you had your final installation of spilling the tea today with Blair O’Neal just was it a little was it a little like wistful just leaving the property after all the fun we had this week at Valla and in Louisville yeah it was a great week I think uh just being there with all of Justin Thomas’s buddies uh who have all become um I I’ve been friends with them quite some time but now Charlie’s friends with all of them so my guys uh that was a lot of fun and they swung by Club magenta every day for the most part and listened to uh all the Q&A uh spilling the tea um conversations that we had today with Blair was uh the last one and uh it was awesome just hanging out there and especially on a really really hot day it was it was really crowded um on Sunday and um complimentary drinks so why wouldn’t you come in so it it was a good time it was a good hanging Club magenta and then on the course uh T-mobile got a lot of play today because we had uh we had on the 13th hole with the 5G connected cameras we had Alejandra toasty driving the green did not see that coming at all and I think Jordan tried his hand as well U maybe a couple others but I saw Toasties was obviously the most notable he made there so that was a a a big early storyline in the tournament and then also we saw Bryson on the t5g Range watching Xander play that last hole how good was that uh placement there I was I thought that was great so uh yeah great week with T-Mobile and uh I I feel like they would have needed even more cameras though Charlie if you were trying to try to drive 13 today yes yes the the angles they had were fantastic but I would have I don’t think anyone could have expected aleandra to try to pull that move off and I especially loved him looking through the rangefinder and just being tickled to realize his ball was on the green with a goodlooking eagle putt but uh that was early in the day and what what happened late in the day was the real excitement and as mentioned Xander wins his first major and so here are just a few kind of stats to set the table for the discussion we’re about to have you know he he finished this week rank second Strokes game TD green 13th in Strokes game putting to the seventh PGA Championship in a row when the where where the winner was ranked among the top two in either Strokes game TD green or Strokes game putting on tour this season most top five finishes Scotty has seven Xander has six so that just shows you the level that Xander is playing at um he led or co-led each of the of the first of all four rounds this week was a wire-to-wire winner uh over the last 20 years the only players to do that and all four rounds of their first major career or first career major victory were Jimmy Walker 2016 Al sprw Jordan at the 2015 Masters Rory at the 2011 US Open and Trevor emman at the 2008 Masters and here’s the one here’s a stat that I found really interesting to kind of set the table for just a Xander Legacy discussion here’s a list of players with the most top 10 and Majors prior to winning their first major championship and I’m just going to instead of reading the whole list I’m going to pick a few notables because Xander had 12 previous top 10 and Majors before winning this one so Sergio before winning the 20177 Masters had 22 previous top 10s Phil before winning the Masters in ‘ 04 17 uh Ben krenshaw 16 before winning the 84 Masters Fred Couples 14 before winning the 92 Masters Jim furck 12 before winning the 03 US Open so let’s just and how about Ben Hogan 12 before winning the 1946 PJ Championship so I think that we have this we have this set of you know of thoughts or memories of what we think Xander is and now he gets it done not without pressure from other players in the field on a Sunday to win his first major where does Xander go next yeah I mean he had to he had to win today he just he had to win uh especially you know going into the back nine he just couldn’t let this one slip away um he’s been playing too well this year he and he’s too good of a player to have not won a major at this point but you just kind of name it out a list that had some pretty dang good golfers that are Hall of Famers that took them a long time to win their first major too so uh to your point I mean I mean he’s got an opportunity to continue to you know build on this number one now that’s probably the hardest one uh is to win your first so um I think even you mentioned Trevor minute a minute ago and when we had him on the podcast before the CBS took over in San Diego I asked him I said hey what what’s one player that you think needs to take that next step uh this year and then and the player that he named was Xander shaf and at the time I was like you know you’re probably right but I was like I don’t know though I don’t know if he’s I don’t know if he’s quite ready and when I saw him at Bay Hill this year Xander he was working like so hard on his mechanics in his golf swing I’ve never seen him just look like he’s thinking so much over the golf ball and it kind of got me thinking I was like man I just I just don’t know if what he’s working on with Chris KO like getting all this speed and having to be so the mechanics if this is going to work out and as the weeks went on about a month later it just started getting like really good you know Players Championship and then all these other events where he finishes top five like you just mentioned to where what did he do he went from having a golf swing where he took it fairly further like he took it a little bit more outside than most guys had a more laid-off position at the top still had a flex lead wrist and was a really good ball Striker you know it was uh he wasn’t the longest player I would say he was above average by um I mean I wouldn’t call him a short player he was a player that could still get it out there but what he’s doing now he’s he’s got a little bit more through his hands on the way back it’s a little bit um threw his hands at the top and a little bit more cross the line with the driver um with the same wrist mechanics and and what it’s allowed him to do it’s it’s given him the ability to turn a little bit better with his lower body on the way back to be able to pick up some speed and where did we see that on this week I mean he hit 187 mph ball speed on that 17t and he probably should have hit 188 and he would have been in the Fairway but that is to say how many times did you see where Xander would be one less club with an iron or just hitting these ridiculous ball speed numbers uh so that that to me is now a um an advantage and a strength in which he’s he’s he drove it so well on on Friday so well on Saturday so he’s driving it long and straight and and you know how I feel about his Putter and finally on a Sunday he was able to get the putts to fall yeah I mean took the words right out out of my mouth there because you know it’s now you’re looking at a full package you’re looking at a guy that’s done all this work with Chris Koma on the swing that’s added all this ball speed but that is one of the steadiest you know most even Keel players on tour both in disposition and the way he goes about his round and was has always been a one of the most consistent Putters on tour so you’re looking at a guy that really the only thing we said you know that we had to say against him was you know the the clutch genan debate of like does he have the clutch Gene and so to see a putt like that go in on the 72nd hole you know the Boost that he must feel there I’m now looking ahead you and I talked this week about man Piner kind of sets up nice for course for him yeah does he start ripping off you know a bunch of big wins because the form has been great all season long I mean it just feels like it could be a big year for him well we know he’s going to be the lowest uh stroke uh relative to par at the Tour Championship at East Lake we can already chalk that up Xander was the best at at winning these random events like winning the Tour Championship every single year with the uh the different scoring system where you know how it’s uh how it’s set up now where it’s all staggered Xander would always win it seemed like every year at East Lake and then he won the gold medal so he’s he’s like wins like all these like random things and had won since 2022 um had won um you know a bunch before that but I just feel like yeah like to to your uh just feelings on Xander and where he goes from here yeah I I think he’s got an opportunity this year to maybe uh pull off another major championship um and win another one but I just think he’s so consistent and that lends so well to to continue to win golf tournaments when you are all is in the top 25 like he’s been hasn’t missed a cut in how long two years plus now I guess yeah so the guy is always going to be around so I I just think that Xander is in in such a great position now um he’s he’s got a a veteran caty and Austin Kaiser now they have such a good relationship he’s got all the tools and when you when you just look at the landscape of professional golf it just seems like a team of of the these two guys are just going to be in the hunt uh week in and week out in majors and speaking of Austin how good was that conversation over the ball on 18 where he had a stance in the Trap with the ball above his feet and just talking through what the number was to the lip of the Trap and where they wanted to miss where they did not want to miss you know after watching just a few groups earlier and this is not a dig at uh Victor hin or Shan Knight because I think he had a mud ball and it was you know it was kind of a funky shot he was trying to hit there but watching guys trying to hit a really difficult shot we watched Bryson try try to hit you know a ball below his feet out of the Trap you know a lot of difficult approach shots there where they needed to have a birdie at least and just watching you know Austin and Xander go through that process and hit it exactly where they needed to to give him a reasonable up and down and then of course watching Johnson Wagner hilariously recreate that on go Channel later in the evening which is just Johnson Wagner is just a a true gift to the game of golf yeah he’s he’s been the MVP uh at night every night but I kind of want to just start at uh a little bit about Xander’s day and just kind of recap that a little bit just for my from my lens of what what I saw from Xander today burning the first hole which was playing is one of the hardest uh of of any of the holes today from a wrecking perspective so getting off to a hot start was was really good to see for what potentially we felt like Xander could get off to the same type of day that Colin did which just a lot of pars not enough birdies so to get off to a quick start was great but then the the uh par putty made on six was h just a huge huge huge momentum Putt and I think as we kind of get to this backside I thought Trevor imman made a great point before Xander pulled a wood out in the bunker on 10 and ends up hitting it in no man’s land it was a great call um by Trevor and the team there because you know that that’s the type of mistake you cannot make on a Sunday is bogeying a par five but what do you do right after that he he plays a very difficult par three makes birdie there the 12th was I feel like probably the hardest hole on that back nine uh throughout the week and he goes and birdies that one so huge ballot back ability at 11 and 12 made that big putt at six but the rest of the way through to me it seemed like he was playing really cautious because he was getting mud balls I I don’t know if if you felt the same way but it just didn’t seem like he could go at the flags like everybody else cuz he was a little concerned about the mud on 13 14 hits a great shot on a part three just misses the putt um and then uh I know he had some mud on 16 and then just really a bad break off the te on 17 and 18 where you know just really just took a lot of Courage determination on 17 and 18 to get those balls up and down and and he willed him in yeah I think he was playing at a very deliberate pace which I’m not faulting him for there was actually I thought it was a great Point made in the early coverage on Serius xim which know was PJ Championship radio this week but you know a discussion that Fred Albert was having with Jason soble about just how how it changes you you’ve done three days of threesoms and that that is a certain pace and then you go to Tums on the most important day of the tournament and the pace changes but it’s also you you get get in a rhythm but at the same time for a guy that’s trying to play deliberately and and judge a mud ball and try to figure out how you want to play it um you know it can and and you know I think at at one point he they were maybe a hole and a half behind they’re they’re dragging a little bit but at the same time like if you get the shot right and you end up going on winning the major it’s it’s well worth it um and yeah your point on 10 I thought that was a fantastic discussion between um you know was Trevor imman Doddy pepper and then I think Frank nablo is even chiming in a little bit there saying I think Tim was a wakeup call for him where really kind of it was like okay this now and he went couple birdies yeah exactly yeah and I I think uh with Xander and and you may and you may be able to chime in on this as well but him coming out and being the aggressor uh right from the get-go and birding one I think that shows a little bit of growth from last week watching what Rory mroy did so what did Rory do he just he went out and just I’m gonna be the aggressive one I’m gonna go make birdies and I think when you see that in person in a final group you’re able to kind of show up with that type of attitude on Sunday be like you know what I’m going to try to play the way Rory did but also the golf course uh at Val hallo was was much easier than Quail Hollow but still um I think to me that was if we’re going to talk about how players grow from one week to another and what did they learn I think what what Xander was able to do was was go out on on the front foot today you know I think that is such an interesting Dynamic to me maybe you can have some insight on this as a guy who’s played in the final group at a major but just the way pairings can affect your day you know going in either direction and so I think I go all the way back to like to 2022 Championship Rory and Victor are are in the final grouping and and cam Smith I I believe was C playing with Cam young I don’t know if it was a second last or third to last group but Vic’s having a stinker of a day Rory can’t buy a putt to save his life and Rory and there’s no momentum in that group at all meanwhile cam cam Smith’s taking it deep and and goes on to win the tournament now contrast that with last week at Quail Hollow where Xander’s playing with Rory Rory’s really grabbing the Reign and going out there and so you know and so in some ways you could either get pulled Along by that now I got to make a bunch of birdies now I’m goingon to go deep and and stay with the guy and have a chance or do what Xander did where he just couldn’t get the momentum going couldn’t score Rory runs away with the tournament so this week was interesting in that Colin could not get it going had it in neutral all day long and part of me was wondering if that was goingon to have a negative impact on on Xander’s game a little bit of like this guy’s not scoring almost again let’s go back to the Genesis earlier this year where Xander and Patrick cley are in that final group neither of them can get it going you know Hideki goes out and wins the golf tournament so that Dynamic is so interesting to me and and I thought today Xander did such a good job being like I don’t care what that guy’s doing I know what I need to go out and do to win this golf tournament on a very scorable course and and went out and did it yeah absolutely and and that’s exactly right and I mean how many final pairings has Andrew shaf been in this year now that I’m just sitting here thinking about it so so there was um what was it there was a good stat on the broadcast and I’m forgetting where there was well the most recent ones like he was we just know the Genesis but the most recent ones were he was leading by a stroke heading into the final round at the players and the leading by stroke heading in the final round Quail Hollow both those finishes finished T2 I believe or solo two and and then this one you know tied with Colin goes into the day goes out and wents by a shot so huge for Xander um and we’ll come back to Xander scoring as we discuss balla and just some of the thoughts on the course from various people throughout the week I want to move to next to what I’m calling I’m calling this the zombie oneandone group because this was as we discussed last night at T-Mobile Club magenta where we were kind of repicking who we thought we gonna win today you likeed Bryson I like Vic um and those guys went out and put some pressure on Xander and did it in a big way so here here’s a stat on Bryson at 20 under Bryson became the first player to shoot minus 20 or lower in a major championship and not win uh like the like the previous two players to win the PGA Championship at Valla Tiger Woods in 2000 and Rory maroy in 2014 Bryson led the field in driving distance so I mean he did just about all that he could do this week you know I want to talk a little bit you know obviously about what he did well today and the way he kind of bounced back from some misses because I I thought that there were a couple of shaky moments on the back in terms of hitting approach shots where something you noted earlier in the week about his distance control at the Masters kind of came into play a bit but still found a way to score and get there and put himself in position to make a playoff but where I want to start first is just I love watching Bryson to Shambo play gol and I love watching Bryson play major champ he’s just so fun like some people would call that energy you know corny or whatever but the guy just loves it he’s fist pumping he’s getting the crowd going the crowds loving it I I just today I was I was just tickled by Bryson the entire time I thought it was fantastic yeah he’s he’s an Entertainer uh there’s no doubt about it why do people love Bryson it’s it’s that he kind of wears his emotions on his sleeve and I think when he was on the way out on the PJ tour um there was I think a lot of people were frustrated with with Bryson and the way he was handling with the media there was I mean he was declining to do media I think on the way out like it was just there was a a level of maturity it seemed like for about a year or so that made him very unlikable uh to just a regular golf fan but it seems like since kind of when he went to live golf tour I’ve just kind of noticed a level of maturity that’s kind of happened in the last couple of years he’s definitely leaned in to the content side of of the game of with YouTube he’s got a bunch of new fans I think from all of the investment he’s done from the content side and then why else do people love him well he hits it so freaking far like what some of the numbers he has did you see do you see on 18 was it s no6 196 so just ridiculous even the some of the numbers like on uh 16 I think he had 214 and hit an eight iron it’s it’s it’s obviously like his his irons are are they’re definitely not like the same waft as like you and I’s at iron but still I I I think it’s the unrelatable part of how far Bryson can hit it and as a fan being like H how is it even possible and the way he approaches the game uh just always just trying to beat a game that’s never been beaten you know just trying to find the perfect answer for everything and uh as we called him when he kind of came out on the tour the mad scientist I I think that’s just the way he approaches the game how he’s leaning to the fan side I feel the level of maturity and then just him wearing his heart on his sleeve I think has made him more likable and I can’t believe that in a year that I felt I found myself rooting for Bryce and D Shambo and then I don’t feel that same way about John ROM it doesn’t make sense but that’s what’s happening it’s it’s so interesting and and I want to kind of I want to ask you a little bit about like his sort of game strategy because he is obviously a guy that thinks deeply about the golf swing and the technical aspect of it and and clearly is thinking about game strategy as he’s you know entering these rounds and trying to shoot the best score and you you talked a little bit about this week of not knowing after watching him with the Masters and some of the distance control issues he had with his approach shots um and there were a couple moments that I thought were interesting where I think 15 he hit a good drive and maybe hit in a back bunker had a great up and down there to say before and you know obviously on 17 he hits 196 ball speed but he’s got this feel wedge in and and hits it short and doesn’t really give himself a great birdie Putt and then on 16 he hits a poor drive he snap hooks it left is lucky to get a kick out of a tree he’s left with a much longer shot than what he would have had if if he just hit it straight in the middle of Fairway he’s got to hit that eight iron like you mentioned I think was like A4 cover 220 the pin but that’s the one he hits he hits tight and so I guess my question to you is just thinking about how to approach all that it’s that I know he can hit it that far we know he can hit you know dang near 200 ball speed but does he need to be stepping on the gas all the time if you know you’re getting situations where hey it actually made sense to kind of hang back and hit a fuller iron and that’s what resulted in the biry on 16 for him well if you recall I mean that he he was very lucky to even have a chance that we we were walking left of 16 if you remember like how hilly it was over there yes he he was going to make at least a bogey potentially based off where that drive was going to go so it’s hard to criticize um or just like the decision making or whatever where to lay up because he was lucky to be in that position after his drive on 16 but that is like the only concern I have with Bryson’s game is just his ability to to hit it pin high with all the speed that he has and I’m disappointed that I talk myself out of picking him this week and one and done I had I had Bryson in the slot ready to press the button and then I just kept on reading these stats on ROM thinking you know what he’s being slept on he seems pissed off that everybody doesn’t think he’s good anymore he’s going to prove everybody wrong guess what he did he tried to prove everybody wrong but guess what happens when you try to do that in a member guess you play Bad well it’s funny even in this this this zombie one andone group is that I I had to laugh in looking at that and I was like well we both picked Live players both times and we both picked Scandinavians both times just up front we got the wrong Li player and we got the wrong Scandinavian I went with ludic should have gone with Victor you went with Raam should going Bryson um so mad I’m so mad about it I knew it was going to be a good Bryson week and by the way Xander looking at the owgr he’s made the jump to number two has he really and the confusing thing though it has listed the multi-win bonus at 60% for the US PGA Championship so but he hasn’t won why is he getting a win bonus if he hasn’t won since 2022 that’s a great question did he they’re not they don’t give him a bonus for they wouldn’t give him a Zurich bonus for whenever they gave him the dang bonus for is winning the Tour Championship 72 whole scores oh well there you have it and to be frank like probably deserved in that context I don’t know but it’s not like winning a tournament though you know what I mean yeah I guess so but I mean but but again if you’re trying to use a system to quantify the best players in the world and you’re going to yeah I mean listen we could do a whole separate pot on the problems with the owgr we got all sorts time for that we just want to let you know he made the jump to two and jumped Rory so which coming off a win at Quail I didn’t think anybody was going to be jumping jumping Rory so pretty crazy well and and you to a fair point you you were hot on on Bryson and and you know maybe should have picked him early in the week we could we would not have seen Victor coming VI Vic there the week without a single top 15 on tour this year he was 81st the on the PG tour this season Strokes gain TD green entering the week he was fifth for the week of ohalla he he went the entire he went you know 35 holes bogy free on the weekend and then Bogie’s 18 on Sunday a tough little he had that little right to Le for birdie that sna more than he thought he was come make the but he was making them early yeah and I I think for me you know we I said numerous times I was like Vic do whatever you can to get Joe Mayo back like please go get him back and you know he goes they link back up I think I think I heard Colt on the broadcast say today you know he was talking to Vic and said how long did it take for you know the changes the Joe wanted to make to your swing how long did it take for those kind of click back into place he was like a half hour you know so it’s just it those two guys back together now I I could see Vic winning I I I love Vic at the US Open VI Memorial you know maybe over a trune like he looks like he is very back right now and that’s with just one week of work with Joe Mayo again like I think we are right back to the Victor hin we thought we were gonna see end of last year we entering this year we talking about a guy that have a huge breakout year I’m just I’m just happy to see him back yeah you know what I get a little worried about just not to like burst like the bubble of like a PJ tour guy Andre sh winning um but it seems like it’s that’s been the formula lately for when you win a major it’s like the sweep Stakes to like okay I’m good to go now to to the live golf tour so I hope that doesn’t happen with Xander but he would have a pretty cool team name though like they would have to be the X-Men right they’d have to be the or for anyone who watched uh what was that Disney movie Soul skaters team xblades that’s a really deep cut if you know that movie team X blades team PPP and suds you you I’m looking at your face I don’t think you watched that movie maybe it was no okay all right sick reference Charlie um so if you know you know and please like tweet at us or me or whoever and and I’ll like give you the salute emojis so um yeah I mean I I think Vic is you know I’m looking I’m looking for Vic to play well um in some of these upcoming events you said Memorial is a great one you know where he won last year kind of kickstarted the second half of this year where he ends up winning the Tour Championship so great to see him play well this weekend now the guy in the final paent that we touched on a little bit earlier um it’s like I don’t know how we leave this weekend with him because obviously a frustrating Sunday um you know is doesn’t make a birdie until the last hole of the day but he’s gonna head to Pinehurst next month as the only only guy to finish in the top five in each of this years’s uh each of the first two majors of this year and so you know what what do you leave this because I felt like he he missed a lot of makeable Birdie chances today but his putter was so hot earlier in the week and it’s just like you just can’t at balla you cannot afford to do that on a championship Sunday yeah well he puted really well on Thursday putted pretty well Friday and Saturday Sunday the putter let him down uh both days he he’s hitting it better which is good to see I think one of the things I picked up on from the coverage is that he’s definitely hitting that banana fade when he wants to hit the Fairway but he’s definitely losing distance so maybe that was a bit of a factor just from a proximity standpoint over the weekend just have further clubs in I mean Xander I’m sure was blown to past him um so that that’s something I I I believe with Colin is is can we can we get the Putter and the ball striking back on the same page because his putter was carrying him over the last month and a half and the ball striking was coming around he’s starting to feel like old Colin morawa again so I I didn’t have any expectations for him today I was going to be really surprised if he won not not that he wasn’t capable you just know how I feel with what it takes to win major championship you can’t just like come in with with being like okay in a spot and really good in a spot especially in a week in which it’s a shootout like you got to have everything firing like we saw with Bryson and we saw with Victor and we saw with Xander so um very pleased to see Colin moral back you know in contention again because I think for a bit there we were kind of questioning you know what’s kind of going on with Colin well and I think it’s interesting the context of all these discussions where you’ve talked a lot about like the change from Mark Blackburn and trying to figure out what’s going to come next next FR him with the swing and you know we’re ju opposing that against two guys that now have it dialed with their instructors you know with with Chris KO Xander and now Joe Mayo back with Victor havin and so that’s that’s going to be a piece for col to figure out um but yeah I mean I I think he he has something to build on going to the next major it’s just how’s he GNA put it all together for four rounds yeah and one other player too I don’t think we had this in uh in the rundown and I I think I think Justin Thomas just like taking a look at his week and seeing like you know what all right let’s what’s how close was he you know he finished at 13 under he was a top 10 he finished T8 and I was just looking to see all right how did he putt it and how did he drive it and TAA green he was number one this week so that is really good to see that Justin’s kind of getting comfortable with this golf swing and how he’s hitting the golf ball he definitely had some double crosses but he he was really good around the greens hold out a bunker shot today and hit that incredible short short-sided shot on 14 yesterday but of the 78 players that made the cut he was 75th in putting so that that to me is the story for JT that it’s good to see him hitting it well again but he’s got to start um he’s got to start you know making these momentum putts because this week I mean we watched him yesterday it just was like go how are we not making these momentum putts to get get oursel up in contention well and and not that you’re offering him advice or anything but like what would you do if you were in that situation because he to me we talked about this a little bit we were following around he’s not hitting bad putts they don’t look bad it’s just there it you know there ton of lip outs like how would you approach that if you were in JT’s situation to me it’s all about getting speed correct and I think you got to really determine it’s like if I’m going to be an aimo guy I’m going to be an aimo guy um you know Finding just whatever the formula it is for you to like read Putt and then just from there just Focus all on speed because if anything to me it just he misses putt because misses putts because he hits putts too hard and too soft I don’t think he’s a bad green reader I just think that I think he’s just thinking too much um about not feeling the line and I think that’s um something that you got to either commit to one side or the other I think he’s kind of just stuck in between at times well I’ll say this and it goes back to what we said about just the Louisville crowd that was awesome all week long the atmosphere was amazing man it was so cool seeing him walk up 18 day after watching the crowd go nuts for that chip in at 14 and just all like they they wanted him to win so bad and I think he genuinely appreciated that and also like after a disappointment like that to stay around and give Colin a bit I mean to give Xander I’m sorry a big hug and and you know look genuinely thrilled for Xander I thought that was I that was really cool from JT and and you know it was I think overall it’s it’s a cool week for him it has to be 100% and you could see it um just on the ground watching uh every single off every te and off walking you know off every Fairway off every Green he’s just getting rounds of Applause and and he’s he’s really I feel like engaged with the crowd every single moment that he could out there uh just showing his appreciation um just how grateful he is to to be from Louisville and um and how proud he is to be out there representing him so and you could feel that just watching so uh that’s my little JT spill I know he’s a buddy mind but still I just I was proud of how he played this week and I’m I’m looking forward to maybe seeing him put all of this together because I man wouldn’t it be fun to see JT get a win uh here pretty soon oh 100% And you know to to transition a little bit here like it is wild that we are a half an hour into a final round recap at a major championship we’ve not talked about Scotty once you know and obviously a lot happened with him early in the week but just looking at scores for the week this is my own little you know stat experiment I was doing is is that we talked yesterday about you know Amanda balionis ask him about this and just talking about the how Friday he he went out and played well in the immediate wake of everything that happened with the arrest and warming up kind of played on adrenaline and how Saturday was you know obviously the big let down and not only was it you know feeling exhausted in a lot of ways but also he doesn’t have Ted Scott on his bag on Saturday and he sat with Amanda again after us around today and she said feeling a little better today look like you’re back to usual self and he was saying I’m still a little bit fatigued and just kind of feeling a little bit off it obviously played better today but made some mistakes that I normally wouldn’t have so just looking at his scores for the week so I if you plugged in Scotty’s worst nons Saturday score of the week for his Saturday round that it would have been a 67 he would have finished at 19 under and solo third if you plugged in his best score of the week 65 he finishes tied for first at 21 under and he’s going to a playoff with Xander shafley I mean how how is that sitting with with you and and how do you think it’s sitting with others as we’re looking at what could have been a grand slam year for Scotty it’s just frustrating especially with like the new reports that are coming out about um some of the people that were actually there as witnesses as well I believe it was some folks from the ESPN uh their crew Dave Fleming Jeff ogy they I think they had eyes on it as well um it’s it’s noted that these charges looks like they’re going to get dropped um it’s just a really sad situation because um I I know plenty of Louisville people that we talk to are just so frustrated by what happened U Balland members I know are just just devastated that this happened you know because it’s just going to leave a lasting memory for so many people because it’s going to stick with Scotty for a long time and he doesn’t how much do does he want to see himself in a in a in a jumpsuit from something that that he feels like he has done before and it just it was a wrong place wrong time type of situation yeah I mean you know I think that we had our fun on the internet I’m not like poo pooing the fun that was had there there were a lot of you know funny memes and Tik toks and things like that that we had a good laugh at but you know as you’re kind of like getting away from the week and you know you you gota it’s a little bit sobering to think first of all it needs to be mentioned again and and they you know subsequently after we recapped um everything that happened on Friday morning and and you know we’re we’re we’re parsing through the tragedy of of John Mills who you know they released the name of that volunteer was working the tournament you know John Mills obviously uh you know terrible tragedy for his family and our condolences go out to that Mills family but you know so his his his familyes impacted uh you know irretrievably and the same thing with Scotty it’s like this is a thing he now has to deal with whether or not the Chargers get dropped there was an arraignment scheduled on Tuesday um it’s just a thing that has to kind of live in his psyche and he probably has to go decompress and meanwhile he’s in the midst of a season that could have shaped up as one of the best of his career and maybe rank among the best of all time it’s just a tough tough thing uh to reckon with and I I think that you know yeah I mean you said it well just I think it’s tough for balla it’s tough for Louisville you know you’d imagine that the timeline for a return to Valla for a PJ Championship you know the by then we Pro this probably will be an afterthought but still in the immediate sense of this season it’s just it’s just a tough tough thing and you know let’s hope Scotty’s able to kind of deal with all and to your point about the dismissal of the Chargers I think that was first reported by Kevin Van valkenberg no laying up just those those Chargers were going to be uh dropped will likely be dropped from what he’d heard from his sourcing um but yeah you know hopefully that goes away hopefully he doesn’t have to go to that arraignment and he can just kind of move on move past it and get his head right and keep playing Scotty sheer golf the rest of the way because that was a not a fun road bump um so so before we before there’s another part of this discussion that I want to get to but in in attempting to research the discussion we were just having I opened up a Twitter window and I I I’m looking at a video right here that’s making me love Bryson D Shambo even more apparently he tossed he tossed a golf ball to a kid on the way to the 10th team but got intercepted by an older man oh I saw that I saw yelled at the guy until he returned to the kid golly I mean I saw that that was great I’m I’m not trying to detour us again but Bryson just he’s just growing on me man man just I just miss him anyway had to get that in the notes well done Bryson uh it’s from the same file as like the the Home Run guy that brings a glove and and steals it from the kid the foul ball guy not great so so let’s move here in in a bit of a different direction we talked about you know a lot of guys that played well there’s a group of guys that um you maybe didn’t have their best week in a lot of different ways you touched on John John ROM a little bit um I think Rory kind of wishes maybe he played the week differently and now is dropped in the owgr thanks to Xander’s jump um Brooks kka is another guy had who had a rough Saturday and and played well today on Sunday but just not the result he wants in a major championship and another guy wam Clark missing the cut you know a guy that we loved all year long and it was right there you know in terms of how we felt the best players on tour were playing it was like Scotty and wendam and Xander those are the guys just’s Reflections on that group of four of you know how do you kind of say hey let’s let’s move past this let’s you know learn some things and move on to the next one uh I would throw cam young and cam Smith in there as well those were two two other players as well that dis were disappointing and just kind of looking at some of their stats as well cam young ironed it terrible so did Cam Smith uh so that was something that oh and and cam cam Smith putted it terrible too so that that to me was something I liked cam Smith this week because I felt like he’s was going to iron put itwell and he did both bad so uh and I I thought Cameron Young and Windam Clark I thought this was a really good course fit for them so really just not good stuff from them on a golf course that was a shootout I mean so many dudes were under par and looking at the guys at the top Sanders sha getting to 21 under it’s like the rocket mortgage broke out in a major championship here looking at just the score looking at the scoreboard at a par 71 so um yeah I I think there’s there’s a lot of players that you can just kind of look at and say it’s man it’s like how did they not keep keep up the pace because it seemed like you know the guys at the top were not having an issue um finding birdies out there especially watching the coverage it seemed it seemed fairly easy but um yeah I mean I guess if you’re you’re missing Fairways out there it’s hard to make birdies but uh yeah I’m I think the John ROM thing is pretty fascinating to be honest because he had his that’s just only the second major miscut that he’s had in his career and coming off at T45 at the Masters misses the cut here I guess this is like where I’m at right now with John and just reading his comments and just hearing the just how he delivers like his words now he just seems like annoyed by everybody thinking that since he went to live he’s just not the same player that he was and I and I don’t think he’s quite comfortable with the decision and I could be speaking out of turn here but I just I just think he’s trying to put a little bit too press too much pressure on himself of of maybe distractions that he didn’t have in the past just thinking about you know does do are these fans going to like me you know like I I don’t know if if he’s got a little bit of that in his personality of just wanting to be loved by everybody but maybe that’s something that’s on his mind um I don’t know just I’m just trying to figure out why John ROM is missing cuts at major championships at a course like this in which he should never missed the cut that’s a really interesting one because I think what we’re trying to unpack there is not not a golf thing it’s like a headspace thing that’s where I’m at right now and I I think it’s it’s so interesting to look at let’s like let’s look at some of the other big names that that went to live and I’m not saying that that these players and their teams didn’t have probably lengthy discussions on the front end of like what’s this going to look like and what’s this going to feel like when you go but but you can never really know until you go what the ramifications are going to be what the what the blowbacks going to be and I think that you know guys like Brooks kka like Brooks kka is just kind of content to like he wants to play majors and do well in Majors doesn’t care what people think about him like he’s he’s is doing his thing Dustin Johnson probably similar like I’ve won enough Majors uh like I’m I’m good like you know you heard him say it on full swing like more money less work yeah great I’m good with that I’ll go do my thing um I think you know let’s talk about guys like Bryson that we just touched on where he felt a certain type of way leaving the tour and maybe part of the process of Reckoning he had to do helped him mature and get to a point where he does feel more authentic in his own skin you’re seeing that now this year and and then even guys in between where like cam Smith where he he went and took the money and he shows up at the Masters the next year and he’s like yeah I kind of got lazy over the off season and and you know and at the end of 2023 last year we saw him I think he I think he missed the cut at the either the Australian PGA or the Australian Open and there was like a moment where where he was you know multiple Strokes over par super upset with himself and so it’s like it almost took like a year for him to reckon with the move and the type of golf he was playing and get it back on track in a way and so I think that that’s um it’s probably a process that John R is still going through and it might take him a full year to process that if you know kind of to your point again we’re doing amateur psycho analysis here but if he’s a guy like shoot I’m a people pleaser like I don’t want people I don’t like you know seeing comments on our stuff they’re like hey you guys thinker this and that it’s like that’s tough to that’s tough to stomach so imagine that times 1 million for guys one of the biggest faces and biggest names in the game of golf and you know whether or not you see it or your team screens you like that’s going to get to you in some way shape or form and he and I think the biggest thing for him is is he wants to be seen as one of the elite players in the world and he’s showing up and playing like this at Majors it’s like you can you can say on the front end as much as you want to about no I’m still going to play good golf I’m still in good shape I’m still practicing but if it’s like don’t tell me show me if what you’re showing me is not good I I it’s hard for me to draw the conclusion take you at your word that you’re still able to play good golf until you show that to me again yeah I think you’re dead on here and I I think um just how he showed up this week you know the Masters did not putt well putted putted poorly on Thursday hits it like crap on Friday so you just have this golfer that that I I’m with you I just think that with John as we move to the US Open a golf course that should be a perfect fit for him you know the the US Open there’s no excuses for him there um that’ll be a huge test to see how he plays there but you know what I I think too these guys have schedules and and routines to get ready for major championships and and John ROM you know going to play at Bay Hill the players and and all these golf courses that that test that test you for major championships you have to wonder if a little bit of highlevel tournament rust that g he just hasn’t gotten from the live golf tour uh from the courses that they play um maybe not quite as much the competition or even the format um maybe that there’s just an adjustment right now going on it’s like that hey guess what Xander’s been doing guess what um you know all these other top guys Scotty Sheffer been doing they’ve been teen off of one and they’ve been playing tough golf courses now not well I’m not saying all of our golf courses that they play on the PJ tour are EX difficult but let’s say the majority of these Signature Events that they’re playing yeah they’re they’re freaking hard well that’s what’s maybe a little ironic about this week is if you’re talking about a course in terms of degree of difficulty as we’re about to head in that discussion that’s probably the closest one to what they play on Li right I know but maybe there’s just some tournament run I don’t know I don’t know if that’s you see where I’m see where I’m going there well you and I talked about this a couple times this week where like again to compare Live players you know a Rah versus Brooks where Brooks seems content to just like get me the four majors that’s what I get fired up for that’s what my team and I prepare for you know I think for him he was saying in the wake of not playing well at the Masters his team was like you know they punished me like our work the workouts got harder and they geared up and you know again didn’t play well here at the PGA you know Brooks is going to be up for the US Open and the Open Championship but you know but he’s focused on the majors for me it’s kind of what you’re saying that highle tournament stuff it’s like I I get this sense that Rah genuinely loved going to you know the Genesis or the memorial or any of these Bay Hill or the players and playing in those tournaments against the best players in the world and getting you know tested by those courses and so he has to be missing that in some way shape or form and and you just you can’t replicate that you can’t like go play hard course and pretend you’re playing in a tournament looking at leaderboard you just can’t do it I just I just kind of laugh at some of his comments this week too just asking about the PGA Tour I don’t want to get too far off into this because we got a really fun recap but just said basically to sum up he’s like you know I I still support the PGA Tour like no you don’t you left it’s like you did the opposite of supporting the PGA Tour so I I get that that he still considers himself a PGA Tour member but no you’re not come on dude like you took the money and you left like and you left left for for for everybody else to try to go figure it out and hopefully um that it works out for him that he gets gets to play on the PGA tour next year but who knows what’s going to happen I just kind of laughed at that and just been like come on dude like you can’t say that right now that was it that was a definite eyebrow Razer uh and I don’t know again you know we’ve we’ve talked you know in a recent episode about the difference between like Rory’s public comments and Jordan’s public comments and how each those view differently and now it’s like like all these guys I I don’t know if what he’s trying to do there is extend an all of Branch to guys on tour cuz I don’t think it landed that way but I mean it’s it’s it’s a strange strange thing and and it’s you know again we could do a full recap on that time but it was definitely odd hear him say that um I think now the place to go is let’s talk about this golf course because uh not everybody loved the way it played so here’s let’s start with some stats all right so Xander’s score of 21 underpar is the lowest in men’s major history his 25 birdies tie the most ever by a player in a PGA Championship he’s a first player in history to make 25 or more birdies and multiple majors in his career he also did that did that the 2019 Masters so uh lowest winning scores at a major championship relative to par cam Smith 20 under the at the 22 Open Championship DJ and that one you know I’m not Aster risking San Andrews but you know we go there for the history we don’t go there for the test of golf as much anymore you know it’s a it’s it’s a it’s it’s and that’s been said for a number of years that’s you know that that’s part of the whole roll back discussion DJ 20 under the 2020 Masters that’s one’s asterisk because Augusta National is not playing the way that they want it to in November that it does in April it’s you can’t play it the same in terms of conditioning um you know uh Henrik Stinson 20 under uh the 2016 Open championship at Royal TR that’s interesting to see that on the board as we’re about to go there in a couple months and then Jason day 20 under the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits uh for the week and so that’s just a winning score now how about this for the week the field was a combined 214 Strokes under par that’s not just the most under par for a PGA field of all time it’s 2 54 Strokes lower in relation to par than the next venue on the list Riv and 95 which was played 4 in the world is that stat that by the way and I you know if if Justin Ray is listening to this not not they would be like I I’ve not been attributing all the stats in here we said off the top that largely these are yours and Randy robles’s stats that was straight from Justin Rays right up in the athletic which by the way like go subscribe and read to that because he hammers you with like all these amazing things that just contextualize what you just saw but that one was like I was like this this reads like it’s made up I mean that kind of tells the story well and here here’s one more because I think you were you calling this the you were like are we watching the rocket mortgage or a major championship so how about this so final round scoring average for the field 69.2 26 for perspective that’s a lower scoring average than we saw in the final rounds this year at the Mexico open at vant uh which was 69.7 to at the AMX 69.2 and at the Puerto Rico open 7.13 so I mean so and take this where you want to Smiley because I you know for me I don’t feel like every single major needs to be a brutal test of scoring in fact I think we even heard criticisms in the past last couple years of the PGA that it was looking too much like a US Open and do we want two US opens on the calendar so this obviously is going in a very different direction and you know by the way we saw historic F first round scoring last year at the US Open LACC that you know stabilized over the course of the week but it’s not like we haven’t seen little spurts of this before at major championships um but with balla you know I think that if if you’re trying to put a a a positive spin on it and look at the positive it’s like that was great TV like I love watching that we knew that was going to happen though we knew we were going to have an epic epic leaderboard and a and a a dramatic finish so like does does every major need to be super hard or are you okay with you know every you know the odd major being a scor Fest that you can tune into and be like this is a leaderboard full of names of guys I know who are superstars who all have compelling story lines and they’re going to take it deep on Sunday this reminded me of a PGA Championship that was in August right like this is kind of what we were accustomed to watching on TV in August for the PJ championships which were soft greens hot temperatures uh we saw that on Sunday but to me it’s like ah gosh I I’m I kind of go more towards um wanting it to test the players more at least you know little bit more Les than whatever the total number underpar is because I feel like what the major championships do such a good job of is identifying who really is playing the best that week and when I was kind of looking at the board I just felt like there were too many random guys that were in there that were having really hot putting weeks that are aren’t necessarily one of the best ball Strikers out on tour so to me that I’m like ah gosh I would I I’d rather see the guys that can really stripe and be and really have to land it in in tighter smaller areas and this golf course let’s just let’s just call it what it is it’s it’s long that’s what they try to do we’re going to try to make it really long for these players but the problem is when you have soft Fairways that are that are this new great Zia um and the only way these guys got tested coming into the greens is whether they had a mud ball or not because the greens are fairly big they played soft and there’s just not a ton of trouble around the greens it’s not like you’re playing them more Memorial where these greens are you know shaped uh so shallow to where you get missing the green you can’t get up and down out of the rough or you know shortsighted bunker shots but that’s just not the case out there yeah I I feel like every bunker I saw guys get into they could get it close or if they were in the rough they were able to chip it close and that’s just not what we’re used to seeing um on for major championships when you miss short sided you pay the price and I just felt like it just wasn’t penal enough yeah I think that’s a fair critique and it mirrors you know a lot of what was said online of of just there should have been more I I guess that was the other thing in watching you know on Sunday is there were numerous times where a shot was hit by either Xander or one of the chasing pack of players and in my mind I’m thinking man it’s going to be really tough to save a par here and then in any other major championship scenario they probably wouldn’t and they’d come back to you know to the to the rest of the pack or the pack would fall off and and now we have some excitement we have some kind of move and instead it was like oh nope they got up and down for par and they kind of stayed where they’re at and it just puts the pressure again everybody got up and down yeah it just felt like everybody was getting up and down and I I guess I’ll I’ll ask you this and do you from from your perspective do you like watching these big momentum like big Roars I mean because there was some energy In This Crowd you could feel it through the TV like do you like just all these guys hitting it close and making these birdie putts because it you know a Augusta didn’t have the Roars this year but they dang sure had them at Valhalla well and and that’s and I think it depends on the perspective you’re talking about because this is this is a funny like you know to peel back the curtain a little bit I was having this discussion with uh someone who works with with Sirius XM you know they Masters radio that week and I was like man I loving watching the Carnage on Friday the wind’s going crazy the greens are crispy this is at the Masters now and he’s like are you kidding me dude that’s terrible no excitement no Roars you know it doesn’t it it doesn’t the energy doesn’t translate to you know an audio product or a video visual product and so and and honestly I kind I tend to agree with them like I think that you know it it just depends on the Viewpoint you’re looking at it from and I think that there are definitely a lot of like golf purists that are tuning in for Majors to see a a a Stern test and see these guys have to face the the toughest conditions and find a way to succeed and and that was not the case this week and so I guess where I net out on that is kind of where I started honestly just that I’m I’m okay with it every once in a while I’m just not okay with it all the time and I think if I were to you know make an Ask of a governing body because I’m looking at next year’s calendar and I’m watching what Rory just did lighting up Quail Hollow and that’s what the venue host in the PJ Championship next year and what the course comparison that is made for qua Hollow is Valla and I’m thinking oh boy if we do this two years in a row like they’re going to be some unhappy campers and and and that that to me is is if there was a sort of variance in the flow like I I actually kind of like that as as an identity for this Championship it’s like we know what the Masters is right we know what the US Open is it’s it’s going to be you know demanding difficult you know narrow Fairways you know it’s going to be a test you know no matter where it is um we know what the Open Championship is it’s like it’s Lynx golf it’s you know takes us back to just the origins of the game and you know ton of history there the PGA I feel like has had this sort of transition in identity you know was it was a fall event now it’s you know it’s sort of a spring leading into Summer Event and you know I and and and it was it was really hard for a couple years and now it’s really easy and it’s like if there was sort of you know a better flow between venues so we got a hard one one year and then we got an easy one and and you to be fair that’s kind of we we went oakill to Balla but now we’re going to go to Quail Hollow and I don’t know how like some of the other PJ venues coming up how they’re going to set up like congrat coming a few years down the road we saw Rory rip that up for one of his major wins you know early on you know and again there was a rain soaked venue at that point time in DC but you know it’s just that’s the tough part for me is like if it’s if you’re getting too much of that then I understand why people complain but I like being on site this week in Louisville with those crowds and the energy I was like I I very much enjoyed that even if I understand why people are critiquing it from a golf purist perspective and from a major championship test perspective I totally get that it’s just so like hey like sometimes I want to have meat and potatoes sometimes I want to have a little soft Ser ice cream this week was a lot of soft serve ice cream and now I need a detox yeah and I I think just all it is is the greens were just soft you know if they were if they were Bermuda greens and they were firm I’m not sure exactly how firm those bent greens ever get if they do ever get firm but to me it’s like I just feel like you got to have major championships on either slopey greens uh which those aren’t or firm greens that are that are flatter which these greens are more on the flatter side besides the 18th so I don’t know I just I I I I think a good bar barometer for me for any event it’s like okay if if the tournament ended up at 12 under that means it was a really good test like if the if the guy that won shoots 12 under that’s a very good number that means the golf course really tested um all the players in the field 1,00 this week there was one two three four five six guys that shot it and uh you were T12 so I just well and I I think the interesting thing there too is like looking at some of the guys we listed as being disappointing um you know for some of them like especially you know cam Smith who made the cut and didn’t play well today it’s it it in other major championships if you have a couple good rounds but you have one off day but you find find a way to kind of scrape a score that’s like close to even par you’re still in it right you can still find a way whereas like just forget about it this week like you’re you’re cooked at that point so it’s a little weird it’s like do you kind of if you’re in those players camps you kind of throw that one out the window because you’re like I I mean I don’t know like if I don’t have my best stuff everyone’s gonna run away from me you know so that’s that’s where I like kind of land on Scotty which is why I didn’t like him coming into the week I just felt like he wasn’t G to ever win a shootout um and you know I I we can’t judge him based off what happened but still I feel like if there was a a major that he wasn’t going to win this year it was going to be the one that he had to shoot 21 under to win yeah yeah it it’s it’s absolutely fair and and I think you know we we we we pretty much had it right it ended up where we thought it was going to end up with a 21 under winner the lowest winning score ever in the major championship so um Smiley just I feel like it’s about time to wrap up on this on this recap I feel like we go to you know we got to thank a lot of people for this week but I the Sens for hosting us and and shout out to the to the the goodest dog uh little little Maggie uh we we enjoyed her having her participate in one of our uh one of our episodes this week on YouTube uh go check out the Westy love Maggie um and you know we got to thank the good people of T-Mobile for hosting us in club magenta that was a ton of fun and we got to thank JT’s boys for just taking us around Louisville we went to the horse races Saturday night get let’s go big winner big winner over here on Saturday I think I got to tell that story right like so we I have like five or six slips cuz I can’t figure out this machine on try to figure out all these bets you know I’m used to if I’m in a a bet on a football game or something you know minus seven on the line like I understand how to read a sheet when it comes to any other sport other than horses so I’m looking at this sheet and all I see here all these random things that you can do and I got all these guys uh helping me try to pick these numbers I have no idea what I’m betting on but I had six slips and you were deep into it you spent like a hot 15 minutes at that that terminal so I got all these slips and we go out there and we’re all watching we’re all yelling I don’t even know what I’m yelling for I don’t even know what I’m cheering for I don’t know what horses I have and after the race I’m like celebrating like I won and I I I have all my my sheets and I have one of uh one of their friends come over there like to let me know how I did and and he looks at like one of them and he’s like oh my God you hit that and then he and I showed him another like oh my God you hit that too and I’m and I’m like oh my God we’re buying Church Hill DS we just we just hit the big bucks like this is huge and I get over there he’s like actually this one didn’t hit but this one did and that’s huge and I hand over my sheet and I I think I probably had like somewhere around like 50 bucks or so on this um like overall like it’s not no it was in like these this massive bet but I thought I hit like these big odds or something yes and I hand it to the lady and it and it pops up and I think you were right there next to me and I was and I was thinking I was like is that decimal place in the right place because I there no way I just won $438 like surely surely like there shouldn’t be a decimal place and I just won you know $4,388 or even just somewhere around $300 like that was the winner I thought I had and no no sir you just you won $43 and um yeah good luck I I thought I I accompanied you to to the little the the whatever the the stall is where you get your where you give them your tickets I don’t I as you can obviously tell I know nothing about horse racing or the betting the terminology and as further evidence of that I did not win any of my bets the night I just like lit $80 on fire thankfully it was just $80 but uh I went up there with you thinking like all right we’re seeing no less than four digits and it might be more and we saw four digits just so happened there was a decimal between two of them on either side so uh you know but look but you but you had a winning ticket so you got to you got to experience the Vibes of church Downs that that plays rocks dude little padic thing on the outside so sick I am 100% going to go back to go to the derby and I’m really pumped that I kind of know the lay of the land and how the the ticketing and all the betting works because if I would have showed up day one at the Derby and tried to learn all that on the fly at least I have at least I show up knowing I’m I I have no idea what I’m doing versus like showing up thinking I’m about to wreck this place so I have a you know just a basic like I need to probably do some research know what I’m doing and kind of know what my plan is so um but yeah great weekend wuille um really really really fun um and uh man I don’t even know where I’m heading next but I’m excited about the rest of uh the US Open coming up I know that yeah that’s going to be a good one uh you you got some stuff going on this week I’m heading to Sand Hills this weekend very excited about that and get a little get a little golf in in the Nebraska Sand Hills I don’t know what the Region’s called Somewhere Nebraska looking forward to that uh we’ll Rec next week stream song for you so we’re playing a little playing getting a little golfing this week post our Our Big Spring round that was in Louisville as we as we mention also shout out to Ben and Graham for host but uh that that is all for this episode for our recap of the PJ Championship but we’re excited for what we have coming up next because it is colonial week and we have on Gil Hance who did the the restoration of that project take it back to its believe it was 1940 or 1941 US Open that was hosted there took it back to those roots super cool um visuals he sent over an entire deck that was put together to show what they were doing at the restoration the changes over time so that that episode’s going to drop on Wednesday and you should honestly if you’re a chorus architecture nerd go watch that on YouTube because the the visuals will really bring it to life but look forward to to to that episode to get you prep for Colonial this upcoming weekend and might even have another special guest joining us in that episode who has extensive PGA Tour experience who also has uh you know a vested interest in the restoration at Colonial so look forward to that and then we’ll have a full Colonial recap coming uh after the weekend so we appreciate all of you watching and listening this entire week as we recapped everything from ohalla and Louisville and oh we got we have final thought with smiley and just a and just a reminder that our oneand done picks will be in the next episode with uh Hill hance’s uh interview and I’m just going to go and tell you the players it’s going to be Ryan Palmer so we’re we’re going to have him join us and uh one and none picks for Colonial so uh looking forward to watching what that looks like on TV next week love that big Colonial bundle coming soon thanks for watching and listening and we will see you back here soon you know I listen to this podcast it’s really cool all of our fans and subscribers but make sure you like And subscribe it’s cool to see what you guys are 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