Zurich Rookies Make History & LPGA Champ Can’t Swim?! | Dan’s Golf World Show #40

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From rookie domination at the Zurich Classic to one of the wildest LPGA traditions gone wrong, we’re covering the funniest, most surprising, and downright ridiculous moments in golf.

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Timestamps/Chapters
00:00 – Intro: Zurich Classic recap, LPGA madness, and the return of Marco Penge
01:45 – Zurich Classic rookies dominate – who the hell are these guys?
04:10 – Broadcast blackout during final putt — how does this happen on the PGA Tour?
07:35 – LPGA Chevron winner jumps in Poppie’s Pond… and can’t swim 😳
11:20 – Debate: Should this tradition continue if the champ can’t float?
14:00 – Joaquin Niemann is cooking on LIV — does it matter if no one watches?
17:45 – Bryson’s 700-yard drive and the myth of floating golf balls
21:00 – PGA Tour vs. YouTubers: Should content creators get inside-the-ropes access?
24:50 – Scramble cheats, fake aces, and the worst golf lies of the week
29:20 – Korn Ferry chaos: players sleeping in cars & paying locker fees?!
34:05 – Ben Griffin: PGA Tour pro or full-time content creator?
37:00 – Golf salaries vs. expenses: is the grind even worth it for most pros?
42:12 – Dan recaps the NFL Draft: photo pit, media buffet, and chaos with Goodell
46:30 – Steakhouse review: Vince Lombardi’s + elite Kansas City BBQ
51:15 – Bryson’s week: missed cuts, content wins, and Masters fallout
55:42 – Shark attacks, swing speed takes & Gary’s headwear opinions
01:00:03 – The Rory Text Line returns — but who’s texting now?
01:05:20 – Dan’s Augusta flashbacks and merch regrets
01:09:10 – The GolfNow Gopher finally gets called out (again)
01:12:00 – Fan submissions: worst golf etiquette stories we’ve heard
01:17:05 – Picks for the CJ Cup Byron Nelson
01:20:00 – Preview: “What Does Gary Think?” segment drops next week
01:22:55 – Final thoughts + DGW x Sports Illustrated shoutout

What is up everybody? Welcome back to the Dan Golf World Show, the official golf show of Sports Illustrated. We once again, as always, have an action-packed show here for you. We’re going to be taking a look at the results from our predictions as well as how the players did at the Zurich Classic, the one and only team event on the regular PJ Tour season. Also, we found out this week that the uh LPJ had a major and the winner apparently can’t swim. That’s uh uh some some tough news to find out once you’re already in the water. We’ll jump into that. Wim Neman dominating on live golf. The dude has won half the season. We’re going to take a look at him as well. And uh we also can’t forget Marco Peny. He was suspended for gambling. He comes back. Suspensions up and the dude kicks off with a win. Pretty phenomenal. I like that. Either way, we’re covering it all right here on the Dan’s Golf World Show. [Music] The Zurich Classic is over, guys. Um, unfortunately, I wasn’t around. I didn’t watch much of it. I was kind of keeping up on the PGA Tour app, seeing results. Uh, I was busy. I was up at the NFL draft all weekend and the Jumbotrons there weren’t playing much golf. So, I I did unfortunately miss out on a lot of the action, but it was pretty action-packed. I mean, Josh, what are we talking here? that’s going on out there at the Zurich. What What are some of the highlights we need to know about, dude? Uh, two firstname winners. Two firstname winners or never mind. First time winners. First time winners. All right, here we go. Here we go. Uh, Nikolai Nikolai and Rasmus Hogard actually lost by a stroke. The sucks to Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin. Ben Griffin. Uh, I don’t know if you guys follow him on social. Dude’s a great follow. He’s been like documenting his entire journey like onto the PGA Tour. He’s always giving like an inside look like he’ll do like a breakdown of like what it cost me this week to play on the PJ tour and it’s a lot of fun. Wait, that’s that guy? He’s one of the guys. There’s a lot of guys who do it, but he’s I think one of the only guys who’s an actual PGA Tour player who’s doing it. Uh there’s some Cornferry guys and other guys are doing it too. Uh but I don’t know. It it tends to be the most interesting from like the higher level players because their expenses are much higher and I don’t know, we all just want to peek behind the curtain at a PJ tour event and Ben Griffin has given it to us. I think he’s got like over a 100,000 followers. Uh here’s a question. Uh at what point are you a content creator or a pro golfer? Like is he a content creator gone pro golfer or just because you have a lot of followers doesn’t mean you are one. I think it’s the money of whatever you’re making more of that’s what you are. Oh, you know what? I actually really like that uh delineation, if you will. Like the Shambo is still a golfer. The Shambo is still a golfer. I mean, he’s clearly clearly There’s no chance he will ever make more money than he did from golf, which is live and stuff. Yeah. Uh Wesley Bryant, YouTuber. Oo, wow. That’s a hot take. That is a hot take. Well, especially now because he got kicked off the BJ tour. Uh, you know, um I guess I still can’t believe he got kicked off the tour. I was like, how do you how do you in the same week kick him off the tour and then have Grant come on and do another thing? Like, right. And the thing he was kicked off for aired on Grant’s channel. Yes. Like, that’s insane. I I don’t know. That’s That’s a little side clip for you. Seen what happened. Really short and quick. Um, well, Live Golf hosted sort of their own version of the Creator Classic. They invited a bunch of YouTube content creators, paired them with a live golf pro, two twoman teams, and uh it was an entire showdown before a live golf tournament. So, it was just content only. There was no uh you know, wasn’t part of like a a competition event. Wasn’t a part of the live golf tour. It was just using a course that they had set up prior to an event all for YouTube. And apparently this crossed a major boundary for the folks over at the PGA Tour. And um that egregious act of making more YouTube content, which he’s done for a very long time, this time got him completely kicked off the PJ tour. But he did say in a statement, I don’t know if you guys watched that, he put out like an entire video statement thing. And uh he said that his right as a PJ tour member is to appeal this uh violation. So he’s going to be going through that process. Um and he’s he’s he’s not happy about it all. I’m not a fan of him not being happy about it, but also at the same time still saying I have so much respect for the PGA Tour. Like I’d be pissed about screw them tactically coming back cuz like is this a Sandlot Forever ban or is this like a He’s suspended. Oh, okay. Well, they see he’s not banned. He’s suspended. So then then he’s cool. Well, you know, also what is he going to do? Say, “I hate the PGA tour.” But hey, wait, wait. Reinstate me? Like, of course, dummies. You got it wrong this time, you idiots. You stupid. God. Well, you know, like there was that thing at the at the Masters this U this year where Jordan Spe was talking about mudballs and by him talking about mudballs, we learned that they’re not supposed to talk about mudballs. Yeah. And he sort of like stepped out of bounds by like discussing something that’s a real part of golf, but apparently like the Masters doesn’t want to be known for having mud or something. I’m not sure. Uh but it’s a similar environment where people are like um my ball did strange strange things for unknown reasons that uh you know uh are still a mystery to me because I can’t use the term that explains what happened to it. So like the masters has like toxic egotistical illusions of stuff you can’t talk about. No they don’t. No, not at all. Absolutely at all. They don’t at all like the mock Gary get invited now. Yeah. You you’re out. You’re iced. I’ll be picking you up polos for the rest of time. It’s fine. I’ll tell you something. After getting all the results from the tournament this week, taking it back and is back on track. Thank you, Josh. We need to stay on the rails periodically. We sucked overall as a show with our picks this week. Do you want to take us into that? I think it’s important that we review the quality of the picks this week. All right. All right. Coming in fourth place, yours truly, me with Ash Ba, and then K. I love it. And then tied in second place, you have another tie, uh, Dan and Rich. Dan with Windham Clark and Taylor Moore, and Rich with Colin Morawa and Kurt Kityama. And then in first place, first time in a while, Gary with Rory Maroy and Shane Lowry. The sad thing is they only tied for 12th. So it’s not like we won. So you know what? Where where where were all the teams ranked at? Um all of ours. Yeah. Yeah. The ones we picked. Mine was so proud of it. Mine was uh cut with minus seven. Did not make the cut. Seven under. And then both you guys with the tie did not make the cut at minus 8. So you guys did one better than me. And Gary of course clearly his team did make the cut. T122 under. absolutely dominated the the choices that the rest of us made. That’s fantastic. That’s almost what we shot this morning. Yeah. But the problem is like we’re a scramble in their uh alternate shop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I I can’t see I can’t see the picture. Very good. But uh is that Keez in is that where’s is that Keez right over there? Oh, you’re seeing the mustache, aren’t you? That’s what I’m seeing next over there. Who’s that? That’s Carson Young. Carson Young. There’s You know what? I love all the different like overlapping names on the tour. You got like Carson Young, Cam Young, you got Cam Smith, Cam Newton. The Hoggard brothers. They have the Hoggar brothers and then there’s a guy with the first name Hoggard. That’s way too confusing. Yeah, you can’t take their weird last name and then use it as a first name. Yeah, it’s You know what? Suspend him. Suspend him right now. That’s just too confusing for me. You guys want to know who else missed the cut? Yes. Uh, Matt and Alex Fisk Patrick. Oh, we fell in love with them. They missed by one. They’re They’re cool. Full swing. Uh, and then yeah, the rest on the list are the two that you guys picked. Wow. So, well, Rich, so uh when we get into this week’s picks later in the show, you you and I are going to have to come up with some sort of a tiebreaker to decide um who gets to make their pick before the other. That’s fine. That’s fair. But there was almost Make sure the host of the show is not cheating. You know what? And when you win, you lose. I try to keep the utmost level of integrity and try not to let anybody know when I’m cheating. Exactly. Josh, you threw your pick perfect this time. I did not even throw a pick. I lost by one in fourth place. I knew it. No, Josh wanted a top pick for the uh CJ Cup Byron Nelson this weekend. You’re right. All the big names that are in that tournament. Yeah. Uh we know your game, Josh. I I don’t think Keegan Bradley’s even playing this week. No, he’s not on the list. He needs a week off. You know, he’s he’s been going hard since Easter, probably. I have no idea. I’m really debating on coming on the show. Just wiping the beard and going with the Keegan Stash. Do it. Oh, do it. Yeah. You know, Gary, you had it. I could do it. It It was important. It was beautiful. And you let it go. You You let us down. But Rich, you might be able to come and and bail us out, redeem the show, bring us back into mustache territory, right? Maybe that’ll bring him some luck. Wait, who? Gary. Oh, right, right, right. Keegan, of course. Thank you. Uh, all right, Josh. What else we got from the weekend? Oh, wait, real quick. I have this note. Ben Griffin, one of the winners. Do you guys know he plays a Maxfly ball? Nice. I heard I just heard about that. Yeah, he’s the only tour player who plays Maxfly and he won. Does that say something about the ball or does he have like a special one that’s not on the rack over there at Dicks? Not the arrow, it’s the Indian. Thank you. Well, remember a little while back when uh when who was it? Um uh Rory hit the ball and and on on camera on Mike says, “Wow.” And that was a that that was a off the rack ball. Oh yeah, that was at TGL. Yes. Yeah. He was like, “Oh, like this is the consumer model or something like that.” I was like, “Wait a second.” You know, roll his ball back kind of non-consumer models he got. I wonder if there is a slight difference between an actual tour ball and the ones you buy at the store. Uh, you know what’s interesting? I heard somebody uh Gary, were you maybe talking about it? I don’t know who. Somebody was talking about uh on the Titles Prov1s that you’re supposed to put the logo in a certain direction and all this and that. Um, when Bryson does the salty ball floating test, it doesn’t always come back to like a logo position. Correct. What’s he playing? Uh, he’s Provy One left dash. Okay. As soon as as soon as I heard somebody because I heard that this week as well, like you got to put the ball in the certain spot. I’m like, nope, that’s definitely not true cuz Bryson has proved that completely wrong. But Bryson’s going for center of gravity of the ball rather than like the ability to hit it longer by placing the prob symbol towards the target versus the title is vertical logo of getting a softer feel for par threes in my head. You know what though, golf is in all of our heads. So if if that’s where it lives in your head and in your soul, then it’s true. Facts. It’s facts without a doubt. Thank you. Moving on. There were uh weather disruptions and broadcast disruptions this week. We almost had a Monday finish. Um I saw like a news headline come to my phone when I was at the draft that said broadcast interruption. Was that due to weather where they have like it got a little rain on some of their wires or what? So this is the timeline. There was a power outage at TP at T Yeah, TPC uh Louisiana. Okay. Uh began Sunday at around 2:30 p.m. Okay. Uh there’s some backup generators or anything like that? And then play was suspended. guys are running around with those like red gas cans, you know, like panicking. Play was suspended due to bad weather at 3:40 p.m. Okay. Uh, power was restored shortly after 4:30 p.m. So, the weather caused power outages, but at 2:30, but not so much so to stop golf till 3:40. Yeah, it it’s it’s weird. Let me keep going with it. Okay, thank you. Let’s keep the timeline together here. Play resumed at 5:15 p.m. That’s late. Yeah. And then viewers missed live coverage during the critical phase of the tournament, including the uh decisive moments leading to Novak and Griffith’s uh victory. Dude, how annoyed would you be? First PJ Tour victory and like you know the broadcast goes out. It like cuts to you guys like hugging and cheering on the green and every Wait, what happened? Yeah. No, nobody knows. We’ll just believe. Imagine if that would have happened during the Masters. Oh god. Impossible. It wouldn’t have like never ever ever. Rich, that would never happen during the Masters. That’s correct. Well, what was it? They wouldn’t film the first half back in the day for the Masters. Like you didn’t get to see holes one through six. They always would start like on the seventh hole or something. Yeah. Like it was like a a partial broadcast back in the day. And now we get ball flight trackers from the range. You want to talk about a difference? That’s like that. No, but they No, it’s still somewhat partial because like they don’t show the mornings whole one who’s ever playing hole one they don’t show that you gota you’re like searching the app you’re searching everywhere and you can find it like the the featured group or something like that but you can’t see everybody right the uh whatever it is like the the 7:40 a.m. time is not on CBS. No. And it’s not anywhere. Minu Lee, they showed one time. Yeah. Jas here. I think we talked about it, but somebody tallied up all of the the strokes shown on TV by every player. And like for Rory, it was every single swing and putt and then, you know, went down from there. Down in Minwi, they just showed him hit the ball once. And an honorable mention, we’re going to broadcast him swinging the club one time. He had just won like two weeks before that. He’s worth following. I mean, he’s same with Bryson. He’s a content creator. Have you seen how many followers he has? Yeah, Bryson’s the same way, though. Everyone was complaining that they weren’t showing him. Well, I All right. Uh, I definitely think that that there was less video of nonPGA players. Yeah, there’s some politics there. Yes, for sure. Well, and and obviously the Masters is not a PJ tour owned event. It is a completely separate you know entity alto together but it sounds like they might be not being separate though you know like it’s I mean I don’t think like you know the representatives from the pith are you know sitting down discussing rules changes for the following year right that’s too bad I don’t know but I I do think it’s funny that when Bryson started going on day three it’s like well now they got to show all of Bryson now they’re like well we don’t want to like dude he’s in the he’s in the final group Right. Like, well, cut to Rory. But no matter walking, he could have been dead. Cut to Rory watching Bryson hit his ball. Yeah. All of Tiger shots. Did you see the record broke this past weekend? Record for what? Uh, the lowest round. There was like a course record at the Zurich or what do you mean? Yeah, the Zurich. Remember when before you left you were in here? I was doing, you know, production stuff naturally and I’m like, dude, look at this. These guys were like 14 under after 12 or something like that. So lowest for the Zurich only. Yeah. Okay, cool. Uh rookies and they were rookies too. Rookies Isaiah Selinda and Kevin Vo set a new Zurich classic record with a 14 under 58 in the fourball format. I’m curious, you know, whenever somebody sets a course record or ties a course record, usually like it goes up in the clubhouse. It’s like on a plaque and like they’re, you know, memorialized there for, you know, however long they hold the record. But in this format, like they broke the record for the Zurich tournament, but does like the clubhouse recognize that ongoing? It’s like, well, I mean, you didn’t like break the course record. You guys together played like a team event and did really well. Like, you know, it’s probably a separate plaque. It’s like it’s like its own side plaque. Yeah. Kind of like those guys who shoot 48 in those scrambles. You know what I mean? I saw one recently. That’s so out of control. The guy with the big red shirt. No, that was Was that the old one? There was a new one. Grabs the the money like this. Oh, no. This was a newer one, man. Okay. And this was bad. The best though. Go ahead. They called them out. Like usually those people get out and leave before they can announce like who won. These people were still in the group of like the whole tournament and they’re like, “Boo.” Do you guys ever notice those guys are always heading back to a minivan? Yeah. Yeah. Like whenever they catch up with him in the parking lot, it’s always like an old like Chrysler Town in country or something like that. You You’ve seen the one where they have a playoff. No. And then they like play these dudes and everybody’s watching and they’re shank top and they’re like, “Oh yeah, yeah, sure. 17 under, huh?” Okay. You got six Eagles and four hole ins, but now you can’t put a single hole together. That’s how you stop these guys. That’s how you stop them. You have how you stop them is you have either twoman tournaments and it’s 2v2 on the holes or you do eight eight 4v4. Yeah. I mean 4v4 because you got to and if you’re just running four by yourself. Yeah. They’re shaving points all the time. But if you got the 8v8 or 4v4 eight per hole that’s that’s the only way to get it. Well and Gary and I you know we played in some of those where it’s it’s two fourman teams on a hole. It makes for a long day but it also makes for an honest day. Sure. That’s fun. You know, it’s like and the group you’re with is random. So, it’s not like you’re all in cahoots here. You know what I mean? So, that’s all kind of spread out throughout the the entire golf course. It does make for a long day, though, because you know, you know, we all have to hit eight T- shots and then we all have to go hit eight second shots from maybe the fairway hopefully and like and so on and so on. It’s it’s a project, but I I do believe it is probably the most honest way to monitor a scramble style event. Dude, thanks. Well, Dan, the last remember the last round that we played last year, like so we ended up losing by one stroke with our group. It it Oh, Gary, you were on the team, too. Yeah, it it and our brother Joe. We ended up losing by one stroke. Yeah. And and we kind of sit around and wonder. We’re like, did we lose by one stroke because we wrote ours down first? Yes. They came in after us, right? Yeah. Yeah. Also, like I was at a scramble and my boss at one of the fitness clubs I worked at had his own scorecard and I had mine and he goes, “Here, turn this in.” I looked at it eight shots better than what I had written. That’s egregious. So, time comes, they announce it. He goes like this when they’re announcing and they go, “Another name.” He goes, “What? What?” I go, “I turn in the right score, bro.” I go, “Here’s yours.” There you go. We won’t play again together. That’s honest, Gary. That’s honest. Secondly, usually with those uh two fourman groups though, usually it’s like a high purse, I feel. So like every player’s pretty good. So like yeah, it is a long process, but like they’re pretty like an insane like some of these like charity scrambles where just like you’ll see like you know they’re all hitting out of the woods cuz that was the best shot. Like you’re like, “Oh my god.” Like I love it, dude. How are you in a scramble and you guys are playing the ball from the woods? Like from the other fairway, we were like, “Is that their third shot?” Like, “Jesus Christ, they’re not on the green as a par four.” All right. Well, well, and and it was funny cuz like I hadn’t played much golf with Gary. So, when we were playing that that le that uh the the group that we had that it was it was a charity event, you know, but I asked Dan, so I’m like, “So, is Gary gonna want to like does he want to play serious or are we just drinking all day?” You know, you’re like, “Does or does Gary want to win?” And I was like, “Or does Gary want to win?” Yeah. Gary always wants to win. Yeah. But he’s still drinking. Oh, yeah. It has nothing to do with it. Absolutely. Nothing to do with it. Gary always wants to win. God, we’re gonna get out the rails. We always are. No, I want to talk though. Uh, it was a great time. But I I want to talk about this. The LPGA had a major this last weekend. Um, and and Josh, what is this story that we discovered that the winner can’t swim? So, was there like a dunk tank? Like what what do we have going on here? No. So, um, cuz I clearly didn’t tune into this one either. Mao Sego, I think how you how you say I’m positive that’s how you say it. Of Japan won her first major. So, this is her first uh LPGA major. Okay. Right off the bat, the hoops on that trophy are too big. Yeah, you don’t need handles that big. I don’t know what we’re doing here. I I can’t hear. I need all the LPGA head majors. They have five. Okay. There’s a a US Women’s Open coming up and I’m going to be covering it. That’s sick. I’ll be there. It’ll be my first time. I’m excited. Good time. The tradition of this tournament, right, the chevron, uh, is when you win, you jump into Poppy’s pond, naturally. Nelly Corder did it last year when she won. Um, but the twist is she admitted she can’t swim. So, beforehand or like when she was, you know, like calling for a lifeguard. I don’t know if it was beforehand. It might have been beforehand. I think that’s why there’s two people jumping with her. Lot of handholding there for safety. Tiger Sunday Road. Do you think it’s like like a pond that’s like 31 feet deep with catfish at the bottom or do you think you just stand? Oh, well, here’s the thing. The lie that picture I Oh, sorry, G. I thought in that picture when I looked at that, I’m like, are they just standing and like she’s drowning and like holding her hand? No, no, you just stand. You all you do is just stand. You can see the look of like on her just paddic. People who don’t know how to swim there, that’s a fear, man. big thing, dude. Like I know people who like are really good swimmers that like big open water, like of course that’s not big open water, but like that scares the crap out of people. It’s just weird to me to think you can’t like swim. Like I mean all you have to do I mean like even like just floating on your back like you don’t even have to swim. You just like take a deep breath and like lay out wide and you’re just you go to the top that like panic attack thing hits and just your mind doesn’t allow your body Well, I know what you’re talking about. Like there’s a phobia of open water and like deep water. Yeah. But like I mean I I can swim. I’m a good swimmer. But you’re a great swimmer, Rich. There’s a there’s a couple of times where like we’ve been swimming out in the ocean and stuff like that and like have goggles on and then I look down and it’s like it like takes your breath away when you can’t see the bottom. Oh my god. Or it’s way down there. You know, even if you’re like a great swimmer and you jump into like a Hawaii ocean from the beach, you got to look cuz there’s like some serious rocks. What’s what what is more uh terrifying? Like swimming in very deep water when you look down just the bottom is impossibly far away or being in super murky water where you just can’t see anything. 100% murky. Forget murky. I don’t know. Wait, what am I? Is it murky like I’m in a pond not in Florida where there’s not gators? No, no. Like iffy things in there. You know, Rich, that’s a really good point. If I’m here if I’m here in Illinois and I’m swinging in a murky pond or something like I don’t care like whatever. There might be like a painters turtle that’ll swim by or something like that. There’s bull sharks in Illinois. What in Mississippi? So the bull sharks, they’re This is going to be I’ll make it quick. Bull sharks came from the Mississippi River. They’re saltwater creatures. You know, they’re sharks, but they were able to swim up in that Mississippi River, and now they’re kind of scattered throughout the country, like in rivers and ponds and lakes and stuff like that. Absolutely. So, and they’re they like murky water. Yeah. They can hide more, so they can bite you right in the foot. And that’s the most deadliest shark. The bull shark. Yes. Jeez. Most aggressive. Yeah. And will eat like anything like a tiger shark. Gary, you’re like the bull shark of this show. Yeah. which just goes everywhere. And I’m the clown fish. I thought the tiger shark was more aggressive than the bull shark. They’re both kind of aggressive. It goes the top three are bull shark, great white tiger, and fastest is mako. Wow. Hey, thanks for joining us for shark facts. Shark week. There’s like 400 different like shark species. But like in Michigan though, when you swim like New Buffalo, like you could be like 20, 30 feet and see the bottom, but it’s perfectly clean sand and like you might see a fish once in a while, but I don’t care if I’m in Lake Michigan or not. If I see like this giant thing swim by me, I’m going to be like, “Oh, no.” Yeah. Uh so the winner of the uh LPGA uh major this past week uh took home a grand prize of $1.2 million. Yeah, that’s not a lot at all. I mean, it’s kind of a lot for something nobody saw. Oh my. No, I’m I’m I’m not saying nobody. I’m just saying like not like I don’t know anybody. Nelly Carter was playing. Nelly Carter’s cool. Charlie Hall was playing. What day did you tune in, Josh? I tuned in yesterday. Oh, yeah. You caught the Monday round. Yeah, I caught the Monday recap. Nice. Uh, well, good for them. Um, so Dan, you mentioned earlier about uh the one guy who does the breakdown for the PGA money and stuff like that. Like you said their expenses are a lot higher, but why are PGA expenses so much higher than Cornferryy? Um, I think because they operate on a higher budget because they’re on a tour that pays more. I mean, there there’s stories of guys like on Cornferry tour like literally like traveling in U-Hauls and sleeping in the back. I mean like like straight up like like just roughing it, grinding it like like finding like home openers and like people who like welcome aspiring tour players into their home to sleep on a couch like it’s literally like being in like a punk rock band except for like less nose piercings or something. I’m not quite sure. That’d be sick to have like a winnebago and just travel by yourself and golf and like and like not even be on the tour just like just out there doing it just camping. That’s what that one guy did that did the uh the most uh rounds of golf in the year. Oh yeah. The uh you coning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Uh it’s it’s a rough life for some of those guys though. Well, and what I also find interesting too, like when Ben Griffin goes through like the breakdown of the expenses for the week, he’ll be like, “Oh, and then $25 for my locker fee.” I’m like, “Really?” like you know the PJ tour or whoever takes over this entire compound the grounds like they talk about the food they’re serving for these guys like you know and like there’s some places where there’s like sushi stations and like they’re making like wagoo beef stuff like that they’re like hey uh but I don’t know like are you going to do cash or check for your $25 locker fee like hey you you guys can’t throw that in could I sell you why can’t they do something like take it out of my winnings if I don’t win anything I’ll give you 20 bucks or give you the money that’s insane saying though. Come on. Like a locker fee. Well, I think it’s ridiculous that there’s a locker fee. If you’re in a if you’re a professional athlete, you know, cornfairy tour is still professional. Well, cornfairy, whatever. But PGA, whatever. You know, if you’re in the minor leagues of baseball, you’re still a professional ball player. So, I mean, unless you have too many followers on Instagram. Yeah. Then you’re an influencer. But, uh, it’s the Savannah bananas. Oh, yeah. That’s Yeah, like if you’re playing professional baseball down in Puerto Rico or something like that, you’re getting paid, so that’s professional. But they’re still driving themselves all across the island and everything like that, they’ll be two, three hours away, no team bus or anything. You just got to drive and get yourself there and back. Two super connective points. One was this guy did the breakdown like the one dude and he’s like, I spent 24 and I lost 23,000. No, no, no. I spent Yeah. So he lost a,000 for that year playing these tournaments and traveling. And the second thing was when they didn’t have jets, dude, like Jack Nicholson said that like he would travel with his family in the car to these places and like he had a baby and they didn’t have throwaway diapers. So there was a cloth diaper that they’d have to like keep in the car and wash. Like how bruised that one. You see tiger. We almost had to do that during co What part? Have diapers in your car? No, just like cloth for toilet paper. Oh, like and you share it. No, you wouldn’t share it, but like you go, “Hey, where’s the poop cloth? I gotta go.” Oh, man. Jesus, Josh. W Nean, huh? Dude, love it, dude. Dude, dude is He’s on an absolute tear. Solid. Um, here’s the question. Um, he’s he’s clearly dominating on on live golf, but yet at the majors, we see, you know, he’s not necessarily dominating. And then we also see Bryson Dambo not necessarily dominating on the live golf tour, but then when he shows up to the majors, he’s always in the mix. He’s like a Brooks. It’s very interesting. Well, he had a good week this week. Shambo did. Yeah, he took second. Good for him. I didn’t watch that either. Again, I was at the draft. I’m sorry. He was edited for hours. Like he I forget how long it was, but it was either a really long par4 or a par five and he made it on the green. Yeah. There was something like there was a like a 600 plus yard hole that he got to the green in two. Yeah. Which is insane. There was another hole where he hit a 7 iron. 740 yards for a seven iron. Wait, 740 yards for I’m sorry. 240 yards with a seven iron. Thank you very much for catching that. But him getting on and could sued 600 yards is like he probably hit driver lob wedge though which is the impression banana sandwich because him getting on is no big deal. I think his longest drive of the week was like 400 plus yards. Not seven not 700 400 plus yards. He’ll get there. He’ll get there. 700. Bryce will be the first guy to hit a 700 yard drive. See you watch what’s his what’s his longest um his longest in live golf is like I think was this week and it was over 400 yards. Well that one dude that got he’s not getting to 700. No I know. Do you think that would ever happen? Uh no they’re going to roll the golf ball back. Well depending on the elevation cuz that one everyone long drive dude drove the green on a par five was like 541 and then putted it in. You didn’t see that? Uh the long hair guy, I think. Oh, Bershire. Pretty sure. But yeah, he drove a par five, but is a huge undulation. Undulation. Thank you. And wind. Plus, he cranks it. Must be nice to be the more impressive. Longest ball hitter. Yeah, kind of works out. Uh what is uh Wim up to in winnings this year? Do we have any kind of account here? Yeah. three of the six events on the Live Golf Tour so far this season. He’s won half. Nice. Dude has taken just half of the tournaments down as a solo winner. Do we know how much earnings? Is it like 4 million an event or something like that? Oh, I have no clue. Which is insane. That’s the one thing I did not look up. Which like cuz you got your like buy in money, whatever. Yeah. Like your automatic guarantee. So like how are you not playing great? Cuz like you’re already like a multi multi multi-millionaire. Like cuz you’re just having so much fun. Yeah, it’s just like I got paid so hard already and now I just get to go out and swing free because who cares? Yeah, I know. That’s nuts. And also uh Fireballers have done the same thing. They didn’t win this past tournament, but uh they they have three wins under the three or the six tournaments this year too for his team with uh Sergio’s insane outfit at the Masters. Yeah. Crazy dude. I see it. Do we got a clip or no or like a of his outfit? Sergio’s outfit at the Masters. He looked like ketchup and mustard. I’ll pull it up. Yeah. And then hold your phone up for everyone to see. You could, you know, do the screen. I I didn’t think we’re going to talk about that, so I didn’t put it up. You didn’t know I was going to randomly bring that up, Josh. I can’t read your mind. So, D Champ, like we said, 412 this this weekend, right, in Mexico. Uh, his longest is 480 yards that he did in a uh long drive competition. All right. So, um the 412 longest sort of tour drive and then 480 is his longest long drive competition drive. Yep. That’s insane. Oh, speaking of long drive, I have something real quick. All right. Do you know how we had did the Kangri Jr. video last week? Yes. Long drive is the home run derby. Yes. Okay. Yes. What does that have to do with counting par threes? I’m just saying he said uh par three course is like home run derby. No, it’s not. It’s like uh in my eyes. But that analogy he was saying, do my home runs count in a home run derby? You’re saying, “Do par 3es count in a world long drive competition?” No, no, no. I’m No. I’m saying I’m saying the counteraction between par three courses and regular courses for the hole in ones and how he says uh home run derby is like a par three course cuz you’re just trying to hit that home run, but it doesn’t make sense. You’re just trying to hit the ball really far. Isn’t that the home run derby is more related to a long drive competition as far as like you’re just trying to hit the ball long every single time in a home run derby. That’s all you’re doing. And sometimes in a in a in a long in a long drive competition, you don’t always hit it long because sometimes you hit it bad. So, it’s the same thing. I like that, Josh. I’m 100% on board with you on that. We’re we’re using that analogy in terms of your your longest drive record. you would have your longest drive record on tour and then your longest drive record in the long drive competitions. Yes. Yeah, I would agree. But you know what? To go to the uh the par three hole-in-one thing uh this morning today, Gary and I were playing some golf and we were kind of hopping around. Um we were just kind of looking for open spots. It was early. We just kind of wanted to play quick and and they let us do that over there as long as you know course is moderately empty. And there was a few times we would just kind of hop over and around like a random par three and and somewhere and there was a particular shot that I hit. Okay, it was kind of going towards the pin. Wasn’t by any means a chance to go in. But I had this thought. I’m like, well then with this hole in one count, like if I just randomly pull up to a par three and, you know, we’re just out playing like random holes, you know, Gary played 36 holes. I played, you know, probably 24 holes today. Um, if I am hopping around playing hopscotch on a golf course and then I get a hole in one on one of these hopscotch holes, holy counts. Still counts. Without a doubt. I think it counts no matter what. Are you happy when you when you hit that hole in one? Would you be ecstatic and extremely happy? Oh, you found the ketchup and mustard outfit. I had to like restart my phone to He looks like a NASCAR driver. He kind of does. Um, Rich, I’m sorry. your question. If if today when you popped over the random hole three, whatever, you hit that hole in one, would you be ecstatic and extremely happy? Of course. I I totally Okay, then who cares? That’s all that matters. But I would I would also have this like question like this counts, right? Like like do we get to log this? Do I get to say like this is now my second holeinone? No caveat. I don’t have to be like, “Oh, it was an indoor hole in one. It was a par three hole-in-one. It was a day of hopscotch golf holein- one.” or does it just get to be like logged as a a proper holein one that goes into my historical record? Was your double bogey a double bogey? Wait, what? When you’re jumping around and you make a double bogey, is it a double bogey? Well, I mean, I’m not submitting the scorecard. So, yeah, the double bogey exists, you know. I’m not It’s not affecting my handicap, though. He got a natural eagle, too, today because we’re playing a scramble. He bombs this one like what 3:30. We had a pitching wedge in 125 into the number three blue course par five. He hits to what like 8 ft little right to left. I was like nice. I had to do anything. Drained it except enjoyed it. I like that little noise you made in the microphone. You know, Gary, I like when you uh postgame commentate some of my uh periodic super random good holes. Absolutely. Plus he chipped in for 45 yards and got a natural birdie on a par three. I did, didn’t I? with his new Cobra tailor made wedge like custom fit. Yes. Oh. Uh you mean like tailored to you? Yeah. I got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He tried to add some we don’t that I had made for me at the Masters. Facts on fact. Three of them. What a great time. U Have we figured out how much walking Nean made? We’re not looking. It’s We’ll move on. You know what? To be honest, a lot more. He minimum has 48 12 million. Um, but do they get extra money on live for winning? Yeah, it’s like a normal tournament. Like massive purses. Like their random whatever tournament has bigger purses than like any single event on the PGA Tour. And they got the big bag to go play. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They got paid to go shopping, if you know what I mean. Usually what the winner wins is like half the whole purse on the PGA tour. Jeez. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s uh it’s a good living over there if you know what I mean. Uh all right, Josh, you kind of you were digging into this a little bit. I’m kind of leaning on you for some of this news this week. Like I said, I I was a little out of pay this uh I was in I was up in Green Bay. I was having cheese curds, you know what I mean? I was having a great time. Um can we talk about that a little bit? We’re gonna We’ll get there. I’m sort of like pre-teasing it over and over. Yeah. You know, builds excitement coming up just after this. Uh so Josh, what’s going on here at the DP World Tour with Marco Peny? Yeah. So, uh the Marco Peni uh was suspended from the DP World Tour uh three months ago in December. I think we talked about it a little bit. I think it was on our final show of the year. We talked about stories of like the worst stories that happened throughout the year and this was one of them. I completely don’t remember that. He got suspended for gambling on golf. Nice. But he was gambling on events that he was not a part of. Why can’t you do that? I know you said the same thing. Rich, will you explain to me why you can’t do that? Because I feel like those these are the types of things, you know. Well, cuz I I had that that thought about like why can’t you bet on your own baseball team and stuff like that, you know, and you had good reasons why you can’t you really can’t do it. I I understand not being able to bet on your own game, your own thing, especially if you’re a coach, you know, stuff like that. I I can understand that. But I don’t understand why I I mean other than the fact of like you know if you’re how do we know you weren’t betting on your game you were just betting on other games you know so it just eliminates that gray area and and that’s it explanation would be that whoever you’re betting for like the other guy you have a buddy there that’s somehow affecting it like he plays with other players I swear I’ll play super good. Like that’s like with Bryson Dambo and so he can bet on him and and get him to throw the game or or you know do better. 100%. Yeah, that Yeah, that’s Yeah. I don’t know. You know what they need to do? They need to come up with like an API that connects your DraftKings account to like your PGA Tour uh registration account and you’ll just be grayed out like, “Oh, I can’t bet on that event because I’m playing in it. It it’s all set up. It already knows.” I don’t I don’t know how I feel about that. Looks like a Tommy Fleewood brother. Sort of. He does. And look, he his eyes are like piercing. It’s crazy. You guys really sucked on those guys. I will admit, Rich was on a hot streak. He was. But this week, the show took an overall L. I even had Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin this weekend. I saw it from a mile away. You buffoons costed the starving artist over there. He put all his money on Rory Maroy and Shane Lowry. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s hilarious. Welcome to the club you broke, [ __ ] Yeah, it’s true. Oh, no. I lost all my money that I’ve saved up from selling my art at the hollowed grounds of Augusta National. I thought it was a foreshore lock, as the kids say. Sorry, I’m new to this sports betting thing. I just thought that would be an easy way to make money without having to ask Dan. Even though I think he would give me whatever I wanted. True. Speaking of that, Dan, can you help me out? I love living here. I just need a few things. Oh god, we can talk about it off camera, but will you help me out? Also, Gizmo, can you stop calling me the b- word? It’s hurting my feelings. What? Clarence is sensitive. Got some sensitive. He’s an artist, bro. He’s an artist. What do you think he needs? What do you think are his demands? I don’t know. But I will say, Clarence, just, you know, when it comes to gambling, you’re you’re going to have your ups, you’re going to have your downs, but just tell me. You’ll be fine. Did he? Yeah. Like, uh, you know, you can follow people’s stock trades. Like, can we just follow your bets and and mirror them automatically? I mean, as far as the show goes, I’m crushing everybody here. Oh, it’s it’s it’s complete and utter domination. Yes. Oh, yeah. two two first time winners. It’s it’s it’s actually pretty unfair. Um so so the dude he he’s kicked out for gambling on a tournament he’s not even playing in. Rich comes back and straight up wins his first tournament back from his uh suspension. You know what I want to see? Uh I want to see the Brian Bros come back from their suspension to just you know full-blown win. I’m sorry tournament. That’s not Tommy Flee was brother. He won. No. Uh that is kind of like a nice like stick it to the man scenario though. 100%. Just come back and win. I’ll show you. Hopefully he bet on himself. You know what I mean? That’d be great. He’s like, “Yeah, well, guess how much I really won.” I will say I think in golf you should be able to bet on yourself to win. No. Why not? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Makes no sense. Well, I mean I think showing up is betting on yourself to win. Why not, you know, kind of juice the pot a little bit? Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I don’t think you should be able to bet that you’re going to like, you know, I’m going to come in second because then you can throw it and, you know, lose strokes and stuff like that, but you should be able to bet that you’re going to win. Uh, like I bet for the Masters that Anhel Cabrera would make the cut. Now, I lost money on that bet. Um, now if there was a way to bet that like I am not going to make the cut and then I’m going to put a ton of money on that and I’m going to go out there and just absolutely [ __ ] the bed, then you know, okay, I could see that there’s an issue here. But straight up betting on yourself to win, like what could you do? You’re like, you know what, I’m going to make sure that I I wear my lucky socks today and that’s going to really throw the match in my favor. Like, you know, like what could you do? How could you influence that other than just playing the best you can like they always do already? I don’t Do you feel like that would impact your game by betting on myself? I don’t think it would impact my game. I think it would impact my financial outcome if I win. Well, like no matter what, they’re going to play for money. So, like there’s that light at the end of the tunnel. But if say you’re not playing for any money and all of a sudden you place money on yourself to win, like I’m instantly like 10 shots better. Like it’s just this click where I’m like, “Oh, there’s something to like strive for.” Do you have that like extra gear when something’s on the line? Without a doubt. Like for four years when I was younger, I wouldn’t play golf unless it was for at least 50 bucks. Really? I’m like, I’m not putting all this effort in. I didn’t love golf like I did that back then. I’m like, I’m not going to put all this effort in for nothing. Use all these awesome shots. He was that guy who didn’t really like the sport, but just like Well, no, no, I loved it, but it was just like this transition period where I’m like, dude, I want to win. You just always wanted to win. You had that tiger blood to 20 what? Four. The tiger blood like Charlie Sheen was younger than me. What? What? He was younger than me. 19year-old. I’m not 19. 26. Josh, when’s your birthday? September 9th. Perfect. He doesn’t say the year though. 98. 98. I remember 98. 08. Hey, I was alive for Woodstock 99, baby. Fifth grade. Yeah, but you missed the Atlanta Olympics. I was like, “Shut up, dude.” I was so I missed the Atlanta Olympics, the final the final uh championship for the repeat the three repeat for the Bulls. I missed Mark Maguire’s uh his home run his home run derby or home run record. Yeah, I was My mom was in the hospital. She had me the day after. I missed so many cool things just within that year in 98. I still remember you were alive for Katy Perry becoming an astronaut. That is so true. You know what? And Pokemon. No, I was not alive when Pokemon started. Started in 93. I remember when Sammy Sosa hit his whatever home run me and my dad smoked a cigar together. I was in sixth grade and then he lost the next day. Sixth grade cigars. Absolutely. Wow. I was such a badass. Was it like a like a big dog? It was a big dog. Was it like a little Swisher sweet? No, that was it was Swisher sweets back then. Yeah, they started in 1991. You know, just not cool as you think. Of course they did. Started 91. Uh, all right, Rich, you’ve been hanging on pins and needles here for me to talk about this NFL draft this last weekend. I feel like I feel like we got to jump into it. Uh, Rich, you were you were actually watching it though, right? You were like tuned in. Is that true? As much as I could. I I had a crazy busy weekend as well. But when you sent that video of like when it was getting ready to start and you like sent the video of where you’re at, I’m just like, “Oh my god.” Well, because I was supposed to go with you, but I couldn’t because the stuff came up and I wasn’t able to go. So, I was so jealous of how close you were. All right. So, I’ll set the stage here if you will. Um, obviously, you know, I’ve been uh doing story contribution for Sports Illustrated, SI Golf, for quite some time. Um, but I had a little bit of a special request kind of come along my uh my desk, if you will, and it was from the NFL football side over at SI and they’re like, “Dan, we know you’re uh not terribly far from Green Bay. What do you think? You go head up to the draft. You cover it and uh kind of do your storytelling thing from there.” Instantly, I panic because I don’t watch any football at all. Um, you know, I don’t know. Just I got a lot of stuff I’m trying to watch. I don’t have time. And I So I was like, how what am I going to do? Like I don’t even know any of these people. I don’t I kind of actually don’t even know how this thing works. Um I I didn’t even know the draft was like a gigantic thing. Turns out it is. It’s a gigantic thing. They’re like, “No, no, no, no, no. What we’d like you to do is just kind of tell like what it’s like to go, like the experience and what it’s like to be there.” And I’m like, “Oh, perfect for you.” Well, yeah. I’m like, “I can do that. I could I can talk about going places and doing stuff easy.” Apparently, it’s a really big thing, dude. I’ve been like at my buddy’s house where all of a sudden everybody has a laptop. They’re sitting around the table. I’m like, “What are you guys doing?” They’re like, “We got the draft.” I’m like, “All right, call me when this Oh, that’s different. That’s their fantasy football draft.” Okay, there you go. Yeah, I don’t know how that works. Yeah, forget that one. But did you uh speaking of the draft and stuff like that, did you guys see the prank call that happened? Yeah, hold on. We’ll get there. So, part of uh me attending this and having Sports Illustrated credentials and one of the things that uh was added to my my credential was a photo pit pass. Okay. I don’t know what that is either. I’m like they’re like, you know, there was like details coming into my email like about the the the photo pit and how it all works. Um I I didn’t even know where it was. So, like I have this like credential to go to a photo pit. I don’t know where it’s at. And you know there like I think everybody else there like knows how this thing works because like they all like went to the said photo pit and there was like you had to wear like one of those like armbands that like said like photo pit pass like to show that you’re credentialed to be in there and they all go tearing off out of the media center and I’m like going I’m like trying to find my batteries. I’m like lost and confused and I and I go heading out. They’re all gone and I’m like I don’t I don’t know where to go and like I I go up to like this first gate and like you have the badge and you scan it. Everyone’s like, “You can’t come through this gate.” I’m like, “I don’t know where I’m supposed to be going.” And I asked like a security guy like, “Hey, I’m trying to get to the photo pit.” He was like, “What’s that?” I’m like, “That’s the same thing I want to know.” Trying to figure that out. And so I just kept going to like different entrances until my badge worked. And that took me to like backstage. I was like, “Oh, cool.” Like I’m supposed to be here apparently. And then backstage kind of led you like and the way it was there’s the the big draft theater. Um and and there’s sort of like a divider. there’s the massive sea of people and then sort of like um an open area for like people to walk through and you know emergency people and cameras and everybody to get through and then there’s inside the draft theater where there’s actual seats and the lights and you’re like kind of like in the thing. So here I am in this sort of like bridge way between massive crowd and up close crowd and still I’m like I don’t know where where the uh the photo pit is. And one of the things in the rules it said that the um media members and and photo pit access people, you can’t just wander around. They’re like, “We want you in your designated spot. There’s no wandering within the draft theater.” Well, how do I find where the thing is without wandering around and nobody knows where it is. I don’t know where it is. So, like I was trying to always walk like I knew what I was doing, but then I would just get to the other side and now I’m over here and not knowing what I’m doing still either. And uh imagine you like sprint walking, walking with aggression, power walking, got like my camera with the thing on your arm, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like you just see one person with that. Nope. That’s crazy. None of them. Um none of them. Yeah. So I was like, “Okay, well, I’ll like start going up different aisles with like authority, like walking sternly.” And I finally got to a spot. I’m like standing off to the side. I’m like, I’m I’m not in the right spot, but I feel like I’m out of the way enough where at least maybe I won’t get in trouble for like a minute while I’m like scanning around. And I look up like at the stage cuz there’s a bunch of stuff happening and some announcers coming on. And as I look at the stage, I see the armband people like pressed up against the stage like there like like literally like touching the stage standing at floor level like oh well apparently that’s the photo pit. And that’s what the photo pit is. It is this like little lane reserved for like the four feet between the like just coming off the stage with like a little half wall. And so I walk up there with authority and head right on up. And I go in and I’m like the stage is like almost eye level and I’m like I’m here. I’ve never been to a draft. I didn’t know what the draft is. I don’t know where it is. I don’t know what to expect. And of the they said there was like an estimated 700,000 people who came out to Green Bay for this entire event over the course of the weekend. And I impressed face first up against the stage like uh Roger Goodell as he would come down and like congratulate some of these guys like was like bumping into my arm, you know what I mean? And I’m just like, “Oh, how are you?” You know, I’m supposed to be over here. You could tell by my armcuff. Uh yeah, it was it was very knew who Roger Goodell was, Dan. They announced his name. He’s the dude that like announces the people. uh this next football player the head of the NFL. Huh? A he’s he’s he’s the main dude. Um he’s actually there in the picture. So like for the first round of the draft, he would like congratulate each person, give them a big giant hug, and then like hold up their new jersey with them. Um not New Jersey like the state um their new jersey that they’ll be wearing. Yeah. They’re new. Uh did you guys see that for each person as they came out, they had their name already on the jersey? like that they were just picked by and announced. Did you guys see any of the behind the scenes on how that all worked? No. But you caught it. Oh, it’s so impressive. I’ve seen it several times. It is so impressive. Rich should explain. Are you? So, this isn’t like a brand new thing. I thought I just discovered it. Question before you answer that, cuz you are a football connoisseur, Rich, and you always ask me about golf stuff. Uh, was Favre there? No, I I I don’t know for sure, but like probably not like he that No, no, he didn’t come over and see me. I didn’t, you know. Now I have two questions. Go on. First one is how long did it take for you to get comfortable? Because you know this is not your jam. This is I could tell you exactly. Well, here’s what I’ll tell you. And Gary, you can I will not let me know if this was what you thought. Okay. There were different areas to find comfort in not the hotel. Um [Laughter] Thank you. Are you terrible jokes? He with the the Michael Jackson Club glove is the best. Go ahead, leave me alone. Nobody knows what you’re talking about. Um, so like, so I go in and the first place I I do is I, you know, I have to find the media center. I don’t know where that is. I don’t know where to go. I’m asking questions. I’m scanning my badge. Finally end up in the right room. This is the biggest media center I’ve ever been in in my life. It was like part of like a like like a like an expo hall or like a convention center. Like it was like a corridor within that. It was huge. Like a thousand seats maybe. So, I go in there and it said, “Make sure you only sit in the photo work area.” Well, so I’ve got rules. Like, there’s only like certain places I’m supposed to sit. I don’t know where that was. Instantly, I’m not comfortable. But then I see a bunch of people with these armbands and kind of start putting it all together. I’m like, “Ah, that’s the photo work area.” I grabbed a seat. I sat down. I didn’t even unpack my stuff. I was just like, “Cool. I’m like in a place where I’m kind of supposed to be. I’m comfortable kind of.” Uh, there’s media dining. Eat a little bit, you know, whatever. Now it’s time to go out there. How did the media dining relate to like other medias that you’ve been to? Um TGL and like you know just other ones that you’ve been to. All right. Well, we’ll say like the the the peak the pinnacle is the Masters the the the food wise. Are you talking Mercedes Masters or just I’m talking about the the the standard media dining hall within the the media arena as they call it. That’s like the pinnacle. Um, and then I’m not going to name the names, but some of the very small market PJ tour events, it’s like boxed sandwiches like in a fridge that have been in there all day, kind of like 7-Eleven, you know what I mean? So, you know, I would say between those two, from box sandwiches at 7-Eleven and and the Masters where you have a sitdown restaurant with a menu and servers, it would be from a one to a 10, this was a buffet. Had some nice like roast beef on it. Had like some chicken cutlets, uh, little rice, little pasta, little salad bar. I would say it was like a 6.2 for media dining. That’s not bad. Yeah. All right. All right. Not to derail more, but how come? I’ve never heard that at the Masters you get sitdown restaurant with menu and ordering. Oh, yeah. They actually media guys like royalty. You told me. And there’s there there’s there’s several different places to consume food as uh Masters Media, which is all complimentary for coming to support and provide media coverage of the event. Um there’s the graband-go area, which is like a reachin cooler. Um, and that thing has the entire menu of the master’s menu that you always see that goes around all the sandwiches, everything. That’s grab and go. Then there’s like um a cafe style coffee shop where you can like, oh, can I do a latte, no foam, you know, half calf, whatever. They’re doing all that. Um, and then there’s like, you know, soda machines and everything. That’s just the quick graband- go area. But then next to that is a it’s only open certain hours. There’s like a breakfast serving and a lunch serving. And in there they’re like, um, how many? I’m like, “Oh, just table for one cuz I’m a weirdo and I don’t know anybody here.” And grab a seat, they hand you a menu, a server comes over. What can I get you to drink? I mean, it’s it’s like going out to eat. Like, except for there’s no prices on it. It doesn’t cost anything. And uh it is it’s I mean, just a fantastic media dining experience. Do you leave a tip? Uh so, what I found out is you’re not supposed to because you’re not supposed to tip on like Augusta property as non-members. It’s like a whole thing. um they’re compensated properly. A lot of them and what’s interesting is a lot of them are like interning for the various positions. So like they might be interning for hospitality. So on their resume I got to work at the masters in the hospitality department and and it’s just it’s a huge deal for a lot of these guys. And same thing like grounds crew that’ll be people like who are you know going to college for crewing grounds agriculture. Thank you. And uh same thing you know they come out and it’s part of their internship whole thing. Back to the NFL draft. Sorry. Maybe like a 6.2 for the media dining. Solid. Solid. Uh, so me being comfortable. Eat, hang out. Time to go find the photo pit. Instantly uncomfortable again. Wandering around, marching back and forth super quick. Trying to look authoritative when I’m walking. I don’t know if it’s working. I had game face on. Uh, finally find my spot. I get settled in. Within like two and a half minutes, I’m comfortable again because I know I’m like where I’m supposed to be. Now I’m having a great time. I’m like snapping pictures and all this stuff. But I tell you what, the other photographers were on like a whole other level. Like I I was like the new kid in class. I was like operating at like kindergarten level. So you’re like Gary at TGL. One of the things in there it said uh there’s going to be hardline internet for camera crew in the photo pit. I’m like what do you like bring your laptop or whatever? No. These guys here’s what they’re doing. I’m not even kidding. They have like their camera and then they’ll have like an iPhone like mounted to the side of it and they’ll have like a cable going into it and then they’ll have like they’ll offload the photos to the camera and then there’s like a dongle that they’ll put the Ethernet cable into for the iPhone so it gets maximum speed internet and like when a draft pick happens whoever it is like is so and so has chose for the Green Bay Packers, they’ll like snap a bunch of pictures and soon as the guy leaves stage they hurry up and hook all these wires up and send it back to their news organization so they can be the first people first people to post a picture of whatever pick just happened or whatever moment and like here I am over here like with my camera like I don’t get mine off like my memory card till like midnight you know what I mean like I’m like way behind I had no idea new tactic for like PGA tournaments and majors send it to Josh instantly that was the whole thing though I didn’t have this whole like setup where I could be uploading 100 images that I just snapped which could be like a gig and they’re doing it like immediately with all this high-speed stuff and all these dongles whole thing and there’s you know what so your most comfort level was um my my when you consecutively consistently felt it I would say my highest comfort level was when I was not in the photo pit and I was out just sort of like roaming the greater grounds like walking through the stadium and just like eating the food and just kind of cruising around like when I was far enough away from the area was with all the rules you know just kind free floating. The amount of bean bags to be played there. Oh my god. Oh, dude. You’d be winning cheese curds for days. Oh my god, the food. They call it cornhole though. Dude, the food is a great time. Uh Friday, sort of like the middle day cuz you know, uh Thursday, round one of the draft. Like that is like the biggest part of the spect spectacle that I, you know, sort of observed. Friday sort of was like this in between day. It was like raining. It was cold. the players like when they would announce them weren’t coming out on on stage like the first day and I’m like what are you guys taking pictures of like what what are you guys doing? You’re all in here mashed up against the stage to take a picture of a screen of the guy who’s at home in his living room like crying and you know like his like mom’s videoing him or something like that. What do we do with pictures of So I didn’t stick around Friday. You know what I did Gary? Do you know what I did? Hung out with the fans. Uh no I didn’t hang out with any fans. I went to the Vince Lombardi Steakhouse. Oh yeah, I treated myself. I remember that was fixed. Yeah. What what you were saying was not my idea of when you got comfortable. Perfect. Nice. Um you know what I wanted the full Green Bay experience and uh it turns out Vince Lombardi is pretty popular up there. I don’t think he’s around anymore. Vince Lombardi is he uh was one of like the first really important coaches for the Green Bay Packers. He won the first two Super Bowls and they later went on to name the Super Bowl trophy after him. All things you learned this last weekend. I learned it while I was sitting in reading the menu. Yep. Round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um that’s impressive. And there was actually a replica of the Lombardi trophy in Vince Lombardi’s steakhouse. Not going to lie, my not knowing I was about to be like and they named the college trophy after him, which is the Heisman, which I’m totally wrong. foot and mouth. Uh Heisman was actually his uncle. So it was all in the family, you know. That’s crazy. Was it Joe Heisman? I just lost my headphones. I got react. Wasn’t that Joe Heisman? Correct. Yeah. Uncle Joe. So, how was the food? Like, is it fantastic? Was like cheese curds on the menu, I’m assuming. Was everything just covered in cheese or There was a lot of cheesy items. Uh, but here’s what I liked about it. It was super old school. Nice. Like like super like dimly lit. Uh, and the thing was like like a museum, like a shrine to Vince Lombardi. Like every wall, every square inch of the whole place was covered in some form of memorabilia from like the moment you walk in, like aligning the walls. And then like against the walls were like these like glass display cases with like I don’t know like a pair of his like slippers or something from like the night he went to bed before he won something or whatever. Or there’d be like handwritten letters to his daughter because he’s like hey um when I he wrote I love this one. I read it. He he wrote her a letter to say that when he gets some free time he’s going to call her. Just kind of painting the picture a little bit when you say it’s like the old school. Is it like old school super high-end dark oak leather mahogany like that kind of high-end like or is it more like sportsy memorabilia sports bar? No. No. It’s like Perry’s an oak. Like if they were to try and make a a like restaurant vibe that feels like the movie casino, you know what I mean? Or something like that. like old school like mob mafia kind of movie feel like rich leather chairs that have been in here for probably 40 plus years you know what I mean like we’re not updating the joint we did it right once and we’re going to leave it this way we got the same we got the same cookware or you know serving dishwear from the whole time um so Chicago from the whole time the whole time in the lunchroom them guys the old Vince Lombardi’s uh steakhouse house. Oh, not this accent again. You guys want to know what I ate? Yeah. All right, go on. Um, I was going to try not to go as extravagant as I did at the Tiger Woods restaurant. If you guys remember that, I I I I went nuts. I I just went way overboard. I was eating dessert for lunch. Tiger that. We’ll get there. Okay. Um, here’s what I will say. This was definitely like a way higherend menu type restaurant. like um I think the stakes were between like 60 and $90. Oh. Um that’s not too bad. It’s actually cheaper than I thought. Yeah, but that’s not with anything. I mean, that’s for the steak alone to get like an $80 steak. Still cheaper. Oh, well, you know what? I don’t know what you were thinking, so I can’t tell you how this should be higher or lower than what you were thinking. And in fact, nobody even knows what you’re thinking. Uh Rich, do you feel like that would be a higherend restaurant for those prices? 100%. Even though Gary didn’t mean that’s a that that’s higher than like a Morton and a Gibson stuff like that. So yeah. Um well and also it was connected to a Hilton Hilton hotel. So I don’t know. Do we get like that little like hotel bump in prices? They’re like listen you’re you’re here on your expense account. You know this is coming out of your marketing budget. It’s fine. Um all right. First thing I had I wasn’t even going to get this. I wasn’t going to do appetizers. I was going to do like either a super salad steak. Couple sides. Get out of here. have a nice night. You know what I mean? I got a lot to do the next day. The server, she says, “You got to try the Wagu beef Philly cheese steak egg rolls.” I’m like, I am screwed. If I’m opening up with this as a solo diner, you know what I mean? Uh, we look here. This thing is surrounded. It’s swimming in a sweet chili oil. And then in the middle behind it is like a housemade ranch. Okay. And then we’ve got these uh these egg rolls just nestled right in top just bathing in all this juice. Um they were fantastic. Okay, they were absolutely fantastic. The sweet chili oil kind of working together. Getting some of that creamy ranch all into this Wagu beef. 22 bucks. Um that’s a good guess. I don’t remember the specific you so we’ll just take it. Okay. Okay. Love it. Uh very good. Very good. Okay. Uh, but then we got into what I wanted to order first. After that, I went back to the well. I’m like, I got to try the lobster bis. We did the lobster bis down at Tiger Woods restaurant. And they, but see this kind a little different. They have in the middle of the bowl, they put like the pile of of like the lobster and like some other veg and then they come out and they pour it around, do like the the whole waterfall thing right at the table. They’re dumping it right on there, which I mean that sounds fantastic, but like, okay, lobster bis in Florida, right there on the ocean. Lobster bisque in Wisconsin. Yeah, in northeast Wisconsin. You got to be careful how you say that. I just realized like what’ you say? He says, uh, veg. Oh, you got you got Well, it was all under the rug till you brought it up. I I’m still missing it, but we’ll move right along and I’ll see you after. I’ll be careful not to abbreviate vegetables anymore. Oh man, it’s offensive. It’s not It’s not offensive. It just sounds something. Moving on. All right. Uh, it was good. It was It was actually really good. It um it was a little thinner. Has a little more of like um a little more brothiness to it. It wasn’t, you know, sometimes it’s dense. You’re kind of scooping through it like a chowder, but you got the show. You got the show. Well, and it’s got to be able to flow. They can’t be, you know what I mean? They can’t be like like whacking the back of the ladle to get the stuff out. Are you spooning this thing or you got to like dip it in chips or Well, here’s what I’ll tell you. You can kind of see it in the top corner. Um, I didn’t even feature this in any of my photos. They came up with a bread basket with this like garlic herb butter that was like savory but like also a little sweet cuz you know what’s fun sometimes to get like a little sweetness in your dinner roll that was in the butter and so you slather that up on the warm breading and then you just dunk that right in the bisque. I am telling you that was like a top five experience right there. I mean listen, it could have been from a long day at the photo pit over there in the NFL draft. We’re finding it. Uh yeah, the chaos of finding my spot, not getting kicked out. Uh but it was fantastic. It was just a good bisque. Overall, very good bisque. We’ll keep it moving. I don’t want to be on this all day, guys. All right, listen. Everybody call back hoging the fan, too. Uh Gary, I brought my own fan. You’re welcome to It’s It’s 82 degrees in the studio. We have way too many lights. We’re so much nicer the pod to each other. We really are. Isn’t that crazy that this is the friendly version? All right, let’s keep moving. Josh, come on. What are we doing? Here’s what I went for. I went for the bone in ribeye with a dollop of umami butter on top. Umami. What is that? Umami butter. Butter. So, umami is this sort of like a flavor invention. Um, you’ve got like what are they like sweet, salty, sour, like whatever like like all the standard flavors. They came up with a new one, you know, a few years back. I think it was in like 98. I’m not sure. I love it. They came up with this this new flavor called umami. And so it was like all all the rage. There’s like umami burgers and whatever, but it’s this sort of like new flavor that that hits multiple categories. It it is a balance between savory and salty and sweet and all these things all at once. Um, soy sauce lives a little bit in the umami category. Um, isn’t isn’t umami like the beans that you eat like you get edamami. Close. And you always got to be careful which bowl you ate out of. You never want to go into the scraps. Uh, look for the ones that still have salt on them. You know what I mean? That’s that’s a telltale sign. This was fantastic. This steak was I mean cut like butter. It was uh it was prime. It was prime. They were ser serving prime beef, but but the butter on top was just an unbelievable treat. I I’ve never had umami butter on a $65 steak. And let me tell you what, it made it taste like 70 all day. Nice. All day. All right. What else? I had a couple sides. I did the mushrooms and onions with it. It’s a classic. I’m like, I’m in an old dark, you know, dungeonous sort of not dungeonous crab. Everybody calm down. You know, you guys, I’ve had enough. Uh isn’t that a crab? I love the reaction to the non reaction. Isn’t that a crap? That’s That’s not what I’m talking about. I was saying the place had like a dungeon vibe. Like a dungeonous vibe. God, I want to get out of this segment. I’m so miserable right now. Vados. No, here was the problem. Uh I had I had so many leftovers. My leftover bag wasn’t like one of the little doggy bags. This was like a Great Dane bag. Like this thing was I had like a It was like a like a grocery bag. It was full. We’ll get there. I’ll explain what happened. This was their whipped loaded mashed. Had to get some cheese in. This was the second occurrence of cheese. We had cheese back in the egg roll. Cheese over here on the whipped loaded mash. It was so light and fluffy. I felt like I was on a diet. Okay. And their butter. They’re known for their butter, too. Oh, the these guys are on on the next butter level. I will tell you, those are unbelievable. And then you start dunking the bread in there. It’s out of control. I was eating alone. No one was there to judge me. Rounded the whole thing off. I wasn’t going to get dessert. I walked in the place saying, “I’m not getting dessert.” And she goes, “Do you want to hear about our off menu dessert item?” I’m like, “Well, off menu.” Okay, Nancy. Thanks a lot. Um, she’s like, “We have That was her name, too, wasn’t it? We have a creme brulee flight probably.” I’m like, “I didn’t know there’s flights of creme brulee. I didn’t know. I didn’t know we were flighting this thing.” She goes, “Oh, yeah, absolutely.” Um, and there is a vanilla, a um, uh, like what is Nutella? A hazelnut. There’s a vanilla, hazelnut, an espresso, and a caramel. Is this like a pudding? Caramel or caramel? What What is creme brulee? Uh, it’s basically like the base layer is like a custard. It’s It’s a fancy word for pudding. No. Um, and then on top they they put like a heavy granle sugar like a like a white sugar on top. And then the brulee process is where they then take a torch and and melt that sugar that you sprinkled right on top of the uh the creme and it it’s hard like you literally tap it with your spoon. It breaks like glass. And so as you’re eating like the creaminess of the bottom layers, you get like this crunchy bits of of sugar shards that have been like sort of browned and caramelized a little bit. It’s fantastic. Josh is making a face. You don’t like pudding or you don’t like sugar? I just don’t I have a weird thing with sweets. Okay, Josh, you have a weird thing with everything. I do. I do. Like I I don’t like frosting on cake. So like I wouldn’t have the whipped cream. So what do you have like birthday bread? Yeah. Like whipped cream cake without frosting basically. Like I just flip my uh slice of cake over and just cut it right in where the divider kind of what I do though. Do you like chocolate pudding like a snack pack? Yeah. Oh yeah. Do you like vanilla pudding? No, never mind. Tapio, moving on. But do you remember your It’s not even pudding. It’s a custard. I do. Okay. Whoever gets closest wins what? Here’s what I’ll tell you real quick. Okay. I ranked him in order as this. It went the uh the caramel, the hazelnut, the vanilla, the espresso. Okay. Didn’t love the espresso. Espresso was last. I I didn’t. So, you ate a ball. Well, I’m not going to get a flight and only try two of them. You get to pick one of the four. No. Why would they know how this video Why would they make four of them just for you to eat two of them so they throw? I honestly thought it was the dessert tray in which you got to see which I love that. I love when they wheel out the whole thing and you get to hand pick. It’s a great time. Is that a thing? No, but this was a flight. That’s fair. But when you weren’t listening to Dan’s story, which said we have a flight, he’s like I want to get through the segment, but let me like pinpoint every All right. Do we want to move on to a price guessing? Yes. Uh before tip or after? Before tip. Before. Uh this throws to who goes first. Taxes included. No tip. Yeah. Yeah. You go. Who did land on? Gary won. So he’s got to go first. 135. 135. Uh I’ll say 94. Rich. Oh, I’m picking 136. [Music] 168. Oh jeez. Yeah. Nice. Way more. Nice job. Nice job. Terrible picking. I mean, that was that was quite the treat that night out to take myself out for $168 dinner. And that Nancy girl upselled you. So Oh, she’s she’s fantastic. I would have bought anything. So after tip, well, here’s what I’ll tell you. I had so much food left over. Like the egg rolls, like I there was like four pieces. I ate like one and a half. So, I had two and a half left over in the giant to-go bag. I ate um I I pretty much smashed the lobster bis. There’s no bringing that home. No. Um then we got into the steak. I maybe ate half. The mushrooms and onions I didn’t get close to half. The mashed potatoes, not even close to half. And then um of course I’m not bringing the dessert home. I tried some of each. Whatever. So I had these like huge to-go boxes. I take them. I bring them back to my hotel. I’m checking out of my hotel the next morning, but I still am going to be at the draft all day and then I am going to be making the three and a half hour, four hour drive back home from Green Bay. I have this sort of conundrum in the morning. All of these deliciously expensive leftovers are in my little tiny hotel room fridge. I’m not I’m still stuffed from last night’s dinner. Like, I’m not even like thinking about being hungry yet. I’m still so unbelievably full from this meal I ate. What do I do with all those leftovers? It’s going to be, you know, 62° out. What am I going to put them in my car? I left them. Yeah, I left it all behind. Or throw them out today. I left probably like $110 of leftovers in that that mini fridge. It was sad. What What else do you do? What do you do in that situation? Rich, do you have any advice here? What do I do in that situation? Uh, in that situation, what you need to do is make sure that I’m available to go on draft weekend and then I will just eat the rest of the food with you and it won’t cost you an extra dime. You know what? You bring up a great point and uh, next time I cover my very first NFL event again, we’ll make sure we coordinate that. Gary, you always finish your steak because that’s the most important thing. Hey, I saw Sports Illustrated at WWE events. If you ever get that call, you know who to bring. Oh, dude, he’s giving you like Hold on. This is uh si WWE. Let me ignore that. Could you imagine like three months from now there’s like that uh Yeah. Wow. Uh it was great. It was a lot of fun. Good times. Draft was a great time. Um I I made a video of the whole thing. I think it’s up on SI now. I I sent it over to watch. You sent it to me on tax. I couldn’t watch it. It’s kind of fun. I can’t wait. Did you hear anything about the shooter Sanders thing at all? Do you even know what I’m talking about? You know what? Because I I was like searching a lot of this stuff, trying to learn what’s going on. My algorithm flooded with draft material, which was surprising because this isn’t the first year there’s been a draft, but it’s the first time it made it into my algorithm. And I I I was hearing a lot of news on this Shadore Sanders situation or uh Shador Sanders gate, if you will. But Rich, give me a little bit of your insight as somebody who’s really following football and actually understands remotely what’s going on. What’s your take on that situation? So, I mean, it was pretty crazy, right? Because you had everybody was saying he was going to go top five and that that’s where he was going to go. is going to be one of the top five quarterbacks drafted and you know overall top five and then all of a sudden the the fifth goes six seven eight nine he starts slipping and they slipping more and everybody’s just waiting for somebody to draft him and then all of a sudden round one is over and he’s still on the board and everybody’s like wow this is crazy but then the problem is you got round like two and three and really like there’s no quarter quarterbacks really get drafted around two and three ever. They’re position players usually. So now he slipped all the way through two. Now he slipped through three then the next day and he slips all the way through four. And so he went now he’s in like a free fall at this point just oh my goodness Tom Brady standard didn’t get drafted on Thursday didn’t get drafted on Friday and then he’s not till round five of um on Saturday like it was Yeah. So for somebody to go f fifth overall and get slip all the way to fifth round, it was absolutely incredible. Do you feel like his quality of play deserved to be a fifth round pick? Do you think his quality of play he’s a first round pick? Like where do you think he he should have been picked? Take all the hype out of it. Who his dad is, all this other stuff, his rap career and everything else he’s got going on like that. Um, do you think he’s a firstround quality player? Where do you think that should have landed? Well, I mean, here’s the thing. You’re you’re a football player, yes, but you’re not just only a football player. You’re also behind the behind the scenes and and all that. You’re a teammate. You’re as well. You know, you you only play football for one one day a week, right? For 16 weeks and plus playoffs. What an easy job. No, no, not at all. But, you know, so all of your other antics that factors into it. you know, you got Deion Sanders, you know, one of the most electrifying players ever, but he’s also got a lot of loud opinions. So, now if he’s playing somewhere and now he’s a backup quarterback and or even if he’s a starter and they’re not winning now is Sanders chirping all what the coaches are saying and doing, you know, so writing a rap song about it, right? Well, but even his dad is his dad chirping about, hey, I’ve been to the show. I know what they should be doing and they shouldn’t be running these kinds of plays, you know? So that I mean that’s that’s a whole thing and that’s a real thing. And then when you add on top of it, he wasn’t playing in an SEC school. So he’s not in the big Alabamaas or Georgees or something like that, you know, he was at Florida or Florida State College, you know, like that’s FCU. Yeah. Florida college university. You didn’t go to Colorado. Colorado. Yes. Colorado. Thank you. But it’s like CU, whatever it is. It’s Colorado. CSU. CSU. Right. So the the thing is him going to that school like he’s not playing those big huge teams week in and week out you know so that makes sense like did he did he get drafted before Tom Brady because that’s the only thing about football really I know is that Tom Brady got picked like what six round 190 something. Yeah. Uh I do believe he because Yeah. because he went in the fifth round. So Brady went in the sixth round. But you got to remember though Brady Yes. I I’m not going to say he’s the goat. We’re going to I I don’t want to hear all it. He’s not He He’s He’s the most uh successful quarterback. He’s not the greatest quarterback. Uh but the only argument I need second hot take today. Second hot take. When he’s when started, he wasn’t that good today. He became better as as he got older and things like that. He he really matured and he did become better substantially better looking. Have you seen any of those like old photos versus now? like that avocado ice cream. Proof that Tom Brady being super duper rich does make you look better, right? That’s why I look like hell. You guys ever see Ted too? Yeah. The scene in Ted right there. Uh when they’re trying to get uh you know, they’re bas they’re basically trying to inseminate somebody’s girlfriend or something. They’re like, “Hey, go up there.” Like, you know, get it from Tom Brady. He’s like, “Yeah, dude.” He’s like, “You do it.” He’s like, “Dude, I I I got these little bare hands. You got real hands.” cuz he’s like, “You got a picture of this dude on your wall as an adult. Don’t tell me you don’t want this.” He’s like, “Okay, I want this, but I don’t want to mess up.” Speaking of NFL draft picks. Thank you. We got to get into our picks for the CJ Cup. Byron Nelson, formerly known as the AT&T TBC Craig Ranch, McKini, Texas. Back to golf. Did you have to read that? That was a lot. I totally did. Yeah. Thank you, Josh, for preparing all these nicely done show notes. Thank you. Uh the purse I think is like over $9 million and that’s a pretty good purse. 9.9 for everybody. And you could round it up to 10 if you’re allowed to bet on yourself, but you know you can. So it’ll be at 9.9 and we’ll leave it there. Uh well Rich, so we have to settle the uh the tie before we can um you know get into this whole thing. Josh, what do you got? Do you have any way we could settle a tie u amongst Rich and I? We can’t do Ro Shambo because of the delay. Correct. So, I have this random number generator here. Oh, we do little odds or evens, little odds or even or do we have to try and guess what number the random number generator is going to generate? We could do that. 768. Ah, I’m off. Okay. Go again. All right. All right. Here we go. Here we go. Let me let me Let’s do Let’s do odds and evens because let’s make the max 7 million. Yes. I don’t want it. Can’t be one through 10. No. No. One through one through a million. 7 million. 7 million. 9,900,000 for the purse. Um, oh, nine 9,900,000 is what we won through. All right. Thank you. Also, whoever said there’s no names on this tournament was a lie because there’s a lot of good names. All right. So, what are we doing here? Rich, you want odds or evens? Um, I’m gonna take evens. Evens. Perfect. And I’m an oddball. All right. Uh, wait, wait. Is there a practice generate or we just like best of three? No, just a one and done. Best of three. Best of three. Is there a bracket? It’s best of three. Okay. Well, there was a bracket and we’re already at the end. Got it. All right. Um All right. I’m odds. You’re evens. Best of three. Let it rip, Josh. Even. It’s terrible. This seems one and done, right? All right. Change the max. No. All right. All right. Let it rip again. Go. Go. Go. Go. Let’s go. One to one. One to one. One to one. One to one for Dan. Here’s the thing. Is this thing like in a cycle? Like it goes odd, even odd, even and I’m just automatically. I hope so, though. Oh. Oh, just because he’s stole Scotty for me. All right, here we go. Drum roll, please. Not a chance. God, that failed. Thank you, Gary. Even. I knew it. Go one more. If it’s odd, we’ll know this thing’s rigged. Yeah. All right. It was even. It’s not rigged. I was going to say the pencil up. So, wait, you won. You get to pick before me or you won, meaning you’ve lost less than I have, so I’m picking sooner. Well, I pick before we do last week. Did you rationalize it to work out for you? Kind of. No. Yeah, I think I’m No, because we did it last week. I won this, so I’m I I got second place in our overall point standing. It was Gary first, me second, you’re third. And uh Sorry, all right. Just tell me when to pick. All right. It’s my pick. All right. You know, there’s not a lot of people in the field this week. Oh, I Everyone has your own copy except for Rich because he’s not in the studio. Um, but okay, I am gonna It was emailed to him. I’m just going to use a shot in the dark here and go with Scotty Sheffller. Oh, dude. I thought you were really going for another shot in the dark. Yeah, that is my shot. So, Sheffller is heavy heavy favorites this week. He’s plus 200 or he’s plus 280 to win. Uh Jordan Speed is 1,800 22 25 30 300. So like just Sheffler is like like heavily favored to win this week. Very fair. Uh who gets the next pick? You. You do. I do. Yeah. All right. Oh, yeah. I won and lost. Um so obviously the number one golfer in the world is already out of the options list. I got him. Uh the number two golfer in the world is not participating in this. That’s correct. Um all right. What do you have any questions on what they’re what DraftKings is giving you? All right. Yeah. Who’s got the circle ones are the best ones? Probably. Who’s paying the least? Because that means they think they’ll win. Scotty. Well, Scotty Shoffler. They’re plus 28. Next. Then you got Jordan Speed. Oh, come. He’s at plus 18. The guys haven’t won in like five years. Honestly, because of that, I think maybe. No, but you know what I think? I think a bunch of idiots bet on him, so it just looks like there’s like a bunch of action on him. You should tell. I cannot I cannot even pronounce the next guy. It’s Sun Sanjaya. Oh, Sunjm. Yeah, but this is a Texas hell the vet. Then be surgery like 10 minutes ago. Don’t care. Tyler Pendr Su Kim, which actually I Su Kim’s been playing pretty good. Shake it ass. I don’t know what that’s from. The cup rider cup Tom Kim is pick one of those two. If I don’t pick Spith, are you going to pick him? He’s one of my two. Who’s your other one? Seed Rob pick, but I don’t want either of those guys. Tom Kim’s not too bad. He’s top 10, I think. Like two weeks ago. I love Kim 14. You got Joel Diamond. You got Aaron Bley who I haven’t heard of in forever. George Pete, Brett Sedeker, Vegas, uh you got Zack Johnson, Web Simpson, Matt Coocher are all my top. Ryan Palmer, Victor Perez, like those are all my tops from this list. You know what? I’m gonna go for another Texas pick. And I’m going to go with old Willie Z, Willis. You know what? Is it my turn? Has to be right. Yeah. No. Rich the tiebreaker tried to steal it. He’s 12. Yeah, I was I was sitting here quiet. I was hoping he was gonna give up his pick and see what he wanted. What do you want, Rich? Oh, I don’t know. Oh, that’s a great pick, Gary, but it’s not your turn. So, that’s exactly what I was going to say. I was sitting there waiting quietly. Teacher, uh, you didn’t assign us homework. Oh, yeah. All right, Rich. Go ahead. Well, I mean, Jordan, he is sitting there. You know, I actually I think I’m going to go with Seiwim. Nice. Or he’s he’s sixth overall. That’s where he’s favored. You’ve always been a big Seeu Kim guy. I mean, I don’t see why not. Like I like I like Se I mean Seu Kim’s played a He’s played a couple good rounds. I’d never trust what DS is anymore on this thing. Thank you. He’s so excited. What do you mean? What do you mean this thing? Like he’s always like that. Yeah. Yeah. But like on here it’s a little like different. It hurts more because it’s loud and you have headphones on and it’s going to be on air. We’re like way nicer. Moving on. All right. Rich got Seaw Woo. I’m picking Jordan Speed Texas, baby. All right. All right. Forever. Jordan. Jordan. All right. So, yeah, he’s two overall. So, we got one, two, five, six, and Dan was pretty low, weren’t you? Where’d you Who’ you take, Dan? You Oh, Willie Z. Will. I can give a rundown. Let me give a rundown real quick. All right, give us a rundown really quick. My first pick, Scotty Sheffller. Then Dan with Wills Altorius and then Rich with Cebu Kim and then lastly Gary with Jordan Spith. They’re solid picks. I I feel like you know I I feel like everybody’s got a you know a decent horse in the race here if you will. So Josh plus 280. Dan, you are plus 4500. That’s a lot. That is a lot. I’m plus 3,000 and Gary is plus 1,800. So lower better. So I’ve got the biggest long shot here. Yeah, the lower the number the better. And what’s the lowest number? 280. And who is that? Scotty. Scotty. Nice. Nice pick, boss. All right. Well, hey guys, I had a game all lined up for us, but but I’m just showing him. We’re out of time. I got to save it. But do you guys want like a little teaser of what the game is? We’re going to play it next week. Absolutely. Go on. The name of the game is called What Does Gary Think? Ah, I know. I know. But we got to save it. I We We don’t have time. We We We’ve used it all up. The internet’s going to be full with the the length of this show. So good. I know. That is going to be the name again. We’re saving for next week. Hopefully some people throw some comments in there questions we should ask. And uh we will truly find out what Gary thinks. And do I explain how it works, Gary? Do you understand how this game works? Uh um quick rundown. There’s random questions. Okay. And it has nothing to do what the real answer is. You I’ll ask a question. Um here I’ll give you I’ll give you just a little teaser. I’ll give you a taster. Little little little taste. Okay, here we go. When you win the Masters, you’re responsible for paying for next year’s champions dinner. How much does Gary think that bill comes out to be? Gary writes down his answer, doesn’t tell anybody, and then we all write down what we guess that Gary thinks that amount is. The real answer doesn’t matter. You don’t have to fact check. You don’t have to look. Yeah. It’s a total game. You have to pay for the master’s dinner. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You didn’t know that? I thought you just got to pick. No, they give you a bill for the whole thing, including like the expensive wines and like some guys will pay like getting whatever. Not rewarded, but like punished for winning like a whole one you got to pay for. Okay. Interesting. But you can afford it, but still. Yeah. Like your winning That’s so interesting. Your winnings from the year before are actually like predeemmed to pay for dinner the next year. Okay. Which I did not know that either. But the beauty of this game though is it doesn’t matter what the real number is. Doesn’t matter at all. We don’t matter at all. So we’ll say it’s $100,000 for the dinner. It doesn’t matter if Gary says 10 grand or if Gary says 200,000. It’s whatever Gary thinks. And whichever of the three of us are the closest to whatever Gary thinks, you win the point for that round. Great game. We are all here just trying to guess what Gary thinks about some super duper random stuff. We’re going to play it next week because we’re all out of time. Boys, is there anything else you got to squeeze in before uh we wrap this thing up? Also not looking it up. Huh? I’m also not looking it up. What? The answer to how much the master cost? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was just looking up. You’re for sure not looking at there’s not an answer. I would never. Yeah. All right. All right. We’re good. We covered it all. Yeah. Josh. Yeah. We’re prepared to press stop soon. Uh yeah, we’re good. Okay. Good. Good. Awesome. Come back next time on the Dan Golf World Show brought to you by the one and only Sports Illustrated. [Music]