Scottie Scheffler absolutely dominated at the CJ Cup, shooting 31 under and boat racing the field. Bryson DeChambeau captures a win on the LIV Golf Tour in South Korea. Davis Riley gets the award for integrity of the year, plus WTF Wednesday.
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Big Drive Energy Wednesday edition. We’ve got a hell of a PGA Tour schedule. Coming up, we’re going to talk about Scotty Sheffller setting an all-time record here at the CJ Cup. Just completely boat racing the entire field. We’ve got a major next weekend, the uh or excuse me, a major or a signature event, Jesus Christ, this weekend, the Trius Championship, Philadelphia Cricket Club. Great spot. And then we’ve got a major next weekend, the PGA Championship. We’re going to hear from Eric Van Ruan. He had some interesting comments regarding this. And then we are also going to discuss um just anything else in the golf world. And I have a fun little exercise for Mitchell to do today on the show. He’s going to grade me on my PGA Todd Fippers Media Award ballot. So he’s going to grade that. We’re gonna do that all right after this on Big Drive Energy. [Music] [Music] [Music] big G Drive Energy Wednesday. We’ve got a banger of an episode. Um I believe it was a Dylan Deier tweet or whatever you sent me, but incredible PGA Tour schedule coming up in the next six weeks. Basically, it’s just I just a bukkakei of great PGA Tour events and I am looking forward to it. I know you are. We will be live, at least one of us will be live for sure this coming Sunday for the Trius Championship. I will be in at on parade. So, we’re going to figure out what my story is. But there’s Spencer just hits me with the I have a pool party I can’t miss text. That’s uh it’s part of a wedding, brother. It’s not like I’m just like, “Hey, I’m It’s a required pool.” I don’t think there’s anybody that’s like taking down RSVPs for a pool party. Like, you just kind of [ __ ] rent the pool out and whoever shows up. You’re not like, “Do I get a plus one to this pool party? Will there be appetizers? Open bar at this pool party?” Like, you just [ __ ] show up or you don’t. And I think you could probably leave for like an hour to watch a little golf and talk golf with me. Especially because you’re at an all-inclusive, I assume. So, this is going to be it would be an alltimer if you’re just [ __ ] hammered in the middle of the pod like kind of like I was at the bachelor party a couple weeks ago. Maybe I’ll do it tarps off in a swimming. Get the people. Oh god, that we don’t want to get [ __ ] cancelled. That’s That’s We don’t need your personal paying pizzas on screen. We’ll have to make people pay for that [ __ ] Hit my Patreon. Um put it behind a payw wall. Yeah, exactly. All right. So, we’re going to start this pot off today with an exercise because I am a nominated, as you can see by the sick PGA sign. Still a PGA member until at least this June for sure. Haven’t decided if I’m going to continue that route, but either way, I’m still a PGA member and I got nominated for the Todd Fipper Colorado PGA Media Award this year. I don’t know who nominated me. Have no clue what’s going on here. So, I did my due diligence and filled out my sheet, and I want you to grade my answers based on the questions that were asked for me to fill out um my ballot, if you will. My why should I win the Todd Fippers Media Award? All right, so here we go. Um All right. B first question. Please brief briefly describe how the nominee grows the game of golf at the facility, in the community, and throughout the section. me. I host a golf podcast with my brother who also teaches golf and we talk about all facets of the game from our unique perspective of being former pros at a green grass facility. We talk about the golf swing PGA Tour and interview others in the game of golf including PGA Tour players player cornfairy tour players player long drive champions champion merchandisers fitness instructors tournament coordinators and superintendents to give our audience perspective on how golf works from behind the counter. I also host multiple community golf tournaments for DNBR sports, allowing the community to come together to play golf a few times in all different cities throughout America and support specific golf charities like Backswing Golf, which raises money to pay for inspiring women professionals to live out their dreams of playing LPGA tour events. We’ve also covered various PGA tour and corn ferry tour events as media in the past, giving our following a look behind the scenes of professional events. grade me on a scale of one to five. One being terrible, five being at the top of how I did answering that question. I I think that that was a five. Like you absolutely put whipped cream on dog [ __ ] with that answer. You’re like the kid whose resume, you know, you volunteer for one a couple hours at like a Boys and Girls Club and all of a sudden you’ve got that on the It’s basically sounded like an overdone college resume, but it was very it’s all of it’s true, I guess. And it’s kind of the thing when you hear it yourself, it sounds really impressive, but then you think about actually doing it and it’s just not nearly as impressive uh in your head as it actually sounds to other people. But I thought that was phenomenal. I thought you did a great job. I can tell you’re [ __ ] trying to hold back laughter there with your your [ __ ] tears you got coming, but that I mean, yeah, it’s all true. It’s It is uh the I would never falsify any documents. Come on. I I’m not going to lie. Yeah, no [ __ ] You’re You are the king of like the resume builder. You knew how to do that. You can spruce up anybody’s resume. Um, I will say that the back swing golf thing uh that is at the tournaments, I definitely felt a little taken advantage of the first time that we did that. Just full disclosure, like you end up shelling out like $50 to $100 and you virtually get nothing out of it. I’m kidding. You can win like a rangefinder. It just depends on who where you’re at. But the the cause is amazing. It is just kind of demeaning though because I’m also a pro. So, if the chick hits it closer than me, then I it just makes me look like [ __ ] Um, and they also kind of talk down to me like they they like know that they’re better than me and I don’t appreciate that either. So, maybe that’s what had me [ __ ] up. Like the girls like, “Oh, that’s okay.” I’m like, “Don’t don’t talk to me.” Like, don’t that’s okay me. Yeah. Yeah. No [ __ ] Um, but no, I think I think you did a phenomenal job. Yeah, we uh all beat the pro this past week uh at our tournament on Friday. She hit a pretty bad golf shot. I felt kind of bad for her, but then I just I ripped one to like 10 ft. So, no problem. All right. Um, please briefly describe your service to the Colorado PGA and the PGA of America. Briefly, this is very brief. I am a 10-year PGA professional starting as a first assistant in 2015 to become a director of golf in 2020. Doing that in until 2022 when I took my career to the media side. You don’t really have to give that a grade. It’s more of just a fact of my sad 30-year-old life, right? No, I mean, it is insane that you graduated 10 years ago. Like, you’ve been in the PGA for a full 10 years. It feels like you blink and and we’re here. Like, we’re both in our 30s now. It just [ __ ] me up to actually hear that you’ve been a PGA member for 10 years. Yeah. It’s banana lands. Yeah. Okay. uh what is your backs or background/experience in media and what types of media have you worked with? Print, broadcast, online, etc. I said, I’ve always wanted to be in sports media and while becoming a golf professional, I hosted a more general podcast. In 2020, we reached out to D&Br Sports to see if their media company was interested in hosting a golf specific feed and Big Drive Energy was born. We do the podcast on both YouTube and audio weekly and bi-weekly and turn around around bigger events and create online content via Instagram and Tik Tok. That’s fair. I I think you forgot our golf course reviews that we did years ago while we were still at our golf course that you would hammer on me to write. Remember when we did those? The I love those. The the five stars, four stars, that [ __ ] was electric. I didn’t do that. No, I it was fun. It felt very underappreciated. I feel like it’s something we could look back on and be like I think that would actually be of use to the general public, but it just really probably like four people have seen those. though. Yeah, I think we do them again, but we do them in video form and like with actual pictures in like a real form of like, hey, here’s what the snack bar looks like. This is why it’s getting five stars for amenity, you know? Something like that, I think, in video form would would do really well. Yeah, maybe we can just do like a rate this course. It would actually I’m just think uh think tanking it right here on the pod, but we could do like just pictures of the course, like short snippet videos of different areas of the course, and we don’t even really need um like any audio or any specific video. And then we could just throw up like amenities, course condition, greens, views. Yeah, views, [ __ ] like that. And and just kind of get short snippets and do course reviews that way. That’s a good uh content idea. I like that. Yeah, we we’re just [ __ ] workshopping content mid pod. Love to see that. All right. Uh please list any section or PJ America awards you rece received and the year received. NA. Well, you you won the uh I mean you won the scholarship as a college kid. I don’t know if that counts as being PGA, but you what was the scholarship called? That was a pretty big deal, right? I don’t even remember. That’s how big of a deal it was. No, the big scholarship for the UCCCs PGM program. Oh, maybe it was the Ed Kellb award or now? Yeah, the Ed Kellb award. You You forgot that. You left that out. That’s big deal. You’re the neediest kid in the entire PGM class. You You know how to [ __ ] pump up a a Saab story. That’s for sure. He [ __ ] got that [ __ ] working good. Don’t honk at me. My dad died. That is an alltime bumper. That is an alltime bumper sticker. That That [ __ ] cracks me up. Well, that’s it for my application. So, I just want to go through that little exercise. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll have to go to the P I’ll actually have to attend a PGA meeting if I’m getting awarded the Todd Fippers Media Award. Be pretty electric. I don’t know how many people are in it. Um, is this a black tie event? Do they uh I It was funny. you’ve never watched the show Frasier, and I doubt that anybody that listens to this podcast has watched the show Frasier, but they do this media award, and they’re like, “Oh, it’s a it’s a breakfast award, not a dinner award.” So, it’s uh pretty funny that they’re like doing a breakfast buffet and also eating uh or doing an award show during breakfast and you’re like clearing out by 11:00 a.m., but I would love to see you do a little a little black tie. It looks like Spencer uh has left the stream for a bit. Okay. Looks like he’s back. I was No, I’m back. I’m uh was wiping my eyes, but I’m also trying to do a little production value. So, like if you’re just talking, I’m going to give you the whole screen. Like, that kind of [ __ ] me up. It feels like I’m looking into the abyss like nobody’s listening to me. Well, just know that I’m here until I’m not. So, luckily, I’m really good at talking when no one listens. Just ask my girlfriend. She’s not [ __ ] listening to me like 99% of the time. and I somehow just [ __ ] keep firing off random facts about nothing. So yeah, I think I want to do that more often. Give us a little p value on the scenario and and like hey like Mitchell’s talking he’s going to have theor and then we can do it that way. You know what I mean? Like I think that’s it. Yeah. I mean well it also shows it also shows the the messy bed that I have back to my right. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. Me on full screen would not be ideal with this [ __ ] show I got going behind me. It looks Yeah, exactly. Yes, exactly. This is This is ideal. This is how I’ve built it. So, let’s just keep it here. Let’s Okay. And all Thank god it doesn’t go down because you don’t need to see. I just turned on the AC in here because I’m starting to sweat my tits right off my body. So, it’s actually Is it hot there? It’s not hot, but it’s like in the mid70s and it’s definitely getting humid. So, it’s it’s a [ __ ] sweat pile in here. Uh like yesterday, so I’m going to be real. Yesterday I had a couple lessons and I’ve been out of town for 10 days. We were in Colorado then Arizona. It was great. But you know when you’re out of your routine for a while, you look forward to getting back to it. I think our mom kind of instilled a routine oriented mindset in us at a young age because she’s very routine oriented and I think you and I both are pretty routine oriented. So, I was just ready to get back to my routine of, you know, waking up, checking the stock market, getting ransacked by the stock market, uh, you know, going to the gym, going to the golf course, teaching, just getting back into uh, okay, more production value here. Thank you. Um, but I I was trying to get back into my routine yesterday and so I headed down to the golf course and it was one of those days where it was probably high 60s in temperature, high 60s, low7s and a little overcast, but it was just nice and cool and there was a little breeze going and it was just the most perfect weather day. And I was standing out on the driving range teaching and I was like, “Wow, I’m pretty lucky to do this shit.” Like I actually took a step back for a second and realized that my job is standing on a driving range helping people improve their golf game. And just being outside in the gorgeous weather and when it’s 95 and I’m sweating through my shirt this summer, I might not feel the exact same. But sometimes you just got to, you know, smell the roses. And yesterday I really enjoyed it. So it just it uplifted my spirit. Like it just felt really good. And it it really does feel like this is the beginning of summer. And not going to lie, New Jersey in the winter isn’t terrible, but you kind of forget like what’s so attractive about it. And then now this week we came back, everything is blooming like crazy. It’s super green. It’s super pretty. And I’m like, “Okay, this is this is why I remember how I felt last summer about just going to the beach and how stoked I was for the summertime. And now I’m starting to feel that way again about playing golf and and just doing a bunch of fun summer [ __ ] Like you you know just as well as I do, the majority of our time as actual green grass golf pros, the summer is the thing you look forward to the least because that just means you’re there 50, 60 hours a week. It just is a slog of dog [ __ ] basically the entire summer. you look forward to October, November, getting away in the winter, you know, not having people in your face 24/7, but now that you and I are in different fields, relatively speaking, uh, summer is something that we can truly look forward to. Like, I already can’t wait to come back for the member guest. We’re going we’re planning on going to the Travelers Championship again next month. You guys are coming out here to New Jersey next month. Um, we’re coming back or mom’s gonna come out in August. Like there’s just so many fun things. We’re going to Chicago in August. Uh, so I’m just very excited and the stretch of golf which we’re going to get into is it feels like it feels like the middle of August relatively for football season where now we’re really ramping up into the heart of golf season. We’ve got a signature event, then a major, then a couple other great events, and then the US Open. like it’s just Yeah. So, it’s going to be I’ll just back you up on that. So, it’s this is the Matt Vincenzi at Matt Vincenzi PGA. This is the tweet you sent me. Best stretch of the PGA tour coming up in my opinion. Philly cricket club for the Triest, which is a signature event. Wait, can I stop you real quick? Are you saying Triest or Truist? Triest. It’s truest S. Is it? Have I been spelling it wrong? [ __ ] are you spelling it t r e i s t? It’s t r u. Triest. Oh god. True. Truest. Truest. I think you’re wrong, brother. Am I Am I smoking truest? Oh, you’re right. Ah, [ __ ] I spelled it wrong in the title. Oh, well, that’s an out. How did you spell it? Anybody looking for the truest is going to find us. Anybody looking for the truest is not going to find us. Oh my god. Sorry about that. That’s an alltimer. I was just curious cuz I’m like I’m like are you saying triest or you is this like a pan pam dilemma? I can’t fix the pan pam dilemma. But no. Oh, you spelled it tr i s instead of tr u i s t. I thought you spelled it like t r e i s t. I’m like where the [ __ ] did you get that? No. No. Okay. Okay. So, Philly Qriket Club, PGA Championship, then Colonial, then Memorial, then the Canadian Open, then the US Open. Electric stretch of golf here in the And after how the last couple weeks have been, I’m ready to get back to it or at least this last week. And let’s You want to hop into that? You got anything else that you want to uh any housekeeping notes before we get into Scotty Sheffler and his performance? Um, yeah. I made the grave mistake again. So, we were laying out by the pool in in Scottsdale and my belly button once again fell victim to the big flaming ball that is the sun. Uh, I torched my belly button. I had ice and my shins. Like you you would think that like when I put sunscreen on, I obviously cover my chest, my upper arms, things that don’t always get a lot of sun, but my my calves are one thing that I feel like gets a lot of sun. And so I was like, “Oh, I’m going to be fine. I don’t need to put sunscreen on my calves.” And lo and behold, they just get torched. And then I did put sunscreen on my feet. So it was kind of like the uh I mean, it was definitely a golf tan looking where my feet are a little bit wider. I actually did get a little bit of a tan. Um, and let’s see. The the peaks of my forehead have now calmed down, but I also kind of torched my forehead as well. So, it was uh it was just a grieve experience. I had ice on my belly button as well as both of my calves laying on the couch down in in Scottsdale. So, that was fun. Uh, but just making the mistake like I do occasionally think I’m tougher than the sun and it inevitably comes back to bite me directly in the ass or belly button. Um, so that that was kind of all I had. Uh, I I guess other housekeeping, the Nuggets are good. Let’s just The NBA is just fun right now between the Pacers, the Knicks, the Nuggets. I mean, it it is just kind of all around just a fun time to watch the NBA. Like, I look forward to every game every single night. So, I think What are you doing here, Chief? Yeah, all the Nuggets are good. They’re absolutely cooking. That game on uh Monday night just had me juiced to the moon. And I was I even told you like we were texting during the game and I was like, I’m so frustrated by this loss even though I shouldn’t be because they were just They’d get it from 13 to eight and then it’d just be stupid play. Three, two, you know, layup 13 again. Then they get it to five and then dumb play, dumb play, turn around, turn over, [ __ ] it’s 11 again. And they were just like the Thunder were just like the guy with the longer arm that was just holding our head that we’re we’re swinging away below, but we can’t get to him. And then finally at the end, I mean, just an alltime comeback from the boys. And I think Ryan Rico maybe was on the call, I want to say, which I really like him. I don’t remember who it was on the call for sure, but I just know it wasn’t Van Gundy or if it was I was I was pretty high to be honest when I was watching the game. So I uh um whoever was commentating just kept saying championship pedigree and it felt so good to be the team that has that and be like the [ __ ] yeah, we’re we’re the ones that are ready for this, not you guys. Yeah, it is just so funny. the I was listening to the Bill Simmons podcast talking about all the basketball because he had Zack Low on and Zack Low is is just a very good like NBA reporter. I like him a lot. But they were like, “Yeah, every single year we do this where the Rockets are a favorite. The Thunder are a favorite. These teams that are young and haven’t been there and they look great in the regular season.” But that is one of my favorite things about the NBA is it truly feels like the NBA is still like the last sport where experience really trumps anything else where if you have a guy if you have a group of dudes that have been there and done that against a group of guys that haven’t like look at what the Warriors are doing like I mean and the T-wolves just looked like dog [ __ ] The T-Wolves are the most mysterious team in the entire NBA to me because they can just look like the they have the lowest floor and the highest ceiling where when everything is clicking for them, it’s like 96 bowls. It just feels like nobody can [ __ ] beat them. And maybe they just do that because they get up for the Nuggets, but like Jaden McDaniel and Alexander Walker and Nas Reed look like [ __ ] LeBron Cabbos and Dwayne Wade against the Nuggets. And then last night they had like six points and like a million turnovers. Anthony Edwards was like one of 10 from the field. Like they just the [ __ ] Warriors lost Steph Curry in the middle of the second quarter and still beat the Timberwolves. Like the Timberwolves I think had like 35 points at halftime. It just I don’t understand how a team can be that bad. Well, I guess uh you know they won game six against the Lakers or even five I think game five against the Lakers. But in the past two games the Timberwolves from three are like 12 of 70 something and they’re just firing and missing. And against us they’re like 12 for 12, 12 for 14. It’s it’s insane the difference that they the level that they play at against us. And um obviously this, you know, Denver OKC series is not over. If we win tonight, it’s over. And I’m actually will say that like if the Nuggets somehow win both games in OKC and come home and have three of the next four with a chance to win just two of them to win the series, I think it’s over. But the if the Nuggets end up playing the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals, first of all, electric matchup. We we need some get back on them from when they were the six seed and took our three seed out before the whole Yokic era. I still want I’m still mad about that. But Nuggets verse Warriors would be I think a TVwise a pretty damn good Western Conference Finals. Yeah, it would kind of be like a Steph Curry’s last ride. Um versus Joic, you know, getting to the mountaintop again. Joic is the best player in the NBA. They just need the rest of the team to show up every night and they will get back to the finals. They just announced that Bednar is is locked in. They did fire the uh the power play guy, whatever whatever his name is. Um but I I don’t mind Bednar staying. I it was so hard. Like when we sat at the bar that Nuggets and ABS game seven back toback simultaneously. Yeah. I it was just coming from both directions and and one was really good and one was absolutely terrible and I was starting to get a little toasted at the bar by the time when the AS went up two nothing. I was like I was that Randy [ __ ] uh Randy from South Randy Marsh South Park just painted the whole room like I was just in such shock that and in the back of my mind I know it just sounds pessimistic but I was like I I think we’re going to lose one of these games. I don’t know which it’s going to be. And obviously I was dead wrong cuz the Nuggets blew the Clippers out. Like that was the biggest surprise to me. But then the ABS turn around and just piss down their leg in the third period. So that’s I I don’t even want to get into it because I can’t listen to any hockey media now. It just pisses me off just thinking about it. Um but the other series in the NBA are fun, too. Like what I didn’t realize last night is the Cavaliers didn’t have Garland. They didn’t have Mobly. And they didn’t have Hunter. Like I didn’t even know that. And if if so, I probably would have bet on the Pacers. The Pacers were still down by double digits for the majority of the game. Came back and won. But I did not realize that they were missing basically three of their top seven guys because that that makes a huge difference. Yeah. The NBA, dude, just in general, I mean, you you see two teams in both the East and West that had by far and away the best regular seasons of close to all-timers. I don’t know where they ended up finishing in terms I think the Thunder won 68 games. So I don’t know if that’s the third best regular season ever. The Cavaliers couldn’t be beat by anyone at any point. I think they won 60 plus games. And then when you get 64 64 so yeah once you get to the playoffs these scrappy teams like are the Nuggets and the Pacers on the same level? I don’t think so because I’m a homer and I love the Nuggets, but I they’ve also have that championship pedigree and they have the same starting five or five of the same six main players that they had during the championship run. So, they just have the pedigree, but like these comebacks are nuts, dude. I And speaking on like the Nuggets being up 30, I was still a little bit worried because of how insane some of these comebacks have been. and Pacers have done it. The Nuggets have now done it to OKC where they were down I think 15 at one point in the third quarter and everything I was like slamming my phone. I was it looked bleak and then they just they it tightens up towards the end, dude. And teams make either stupid mistakes or they can’t make shots or Yoke takes SGA completely out of the play and just dominates. Yeah. And makes Chad miss two free throws. Like how incredible, dude. Have you ever seen a guy’s face in real time that could would rather be anywhere else than that free throw line than Chad Homegrren? Like I I turned to Missy when we were watching it in his face. I was like, he’s missing one of these at least. I knew it. And then he missed the second one and I was shocked. Like that missing two like that basically lost them the game. I mean, let’s be real. Dagnalt or whatever the [ __ ] his name is lost them the game. Joic was that still is just like if I was a Thunder fan, I wouldn’t be able to sleep that night. You have Nicole Joic subbed out for defense, we have no timeouts left. There’s a good chance he they could not let him touch the floor again. That and then talk about an all-time [ __ ] fumble on the Nuggets coaching staff’s part. Like you take him out for one defensive possession with no timeouts and you can’t get him back on the floor. Like unless they knew, and that’s what Simmons and uh Zack Low were kind of talking about, like was was Adelman going big brain energy knowing that Dagnal was going to foul immediately up three so he’d be able to get Joic back in or did he make a grave [ __ ] mistake and he’s looking around for a second like there goes any possibility of me earning this job and then Dagnald just bails him out and gets Joic right back in the game. Like that that was blasphemy to me. Yeah. just the whole it the screws just tightened up so tight at the end of that game and it was that’s so much fun win or lose obviously you know AG knocking that shot down like even if he misses that shot and the Nugs are down 01 I still feel really good about how they played and how they fought towards the end and when the when the t game got tough and tight they didn’t they didn’t blink the Thunder [ __ ] blinked yeah they just they’re just gamers they just have heart um and one other thing that I’ve tweeted about a few times and I just feel the need to say this because Jaylen Brunson also is he’s been called the best closer in basketball this last week and I just think that’s absolute poppyccock. I’m also a homer for Jokic. But Jaylen Brunson has directly modeled his game after uh James Harden. Like they’re basically the same player and it is the worst brand of basketball in my opinion to watch. And I I just there’s nothing makes me happier than watching James Harden, Shay Gilders Alexander got couple time got caught a couple times throwing his head throwing it off the [ __ ] backboard looking like a complete idiot. No foul call. Jaylen Brunson breaking his neck, [ __ ] throwing his head back so many times. And nothing sat satisfies me more than watching those go uncalled and just rubbing their nose in the fact that they’re just trying to bait you into some dog [ __ ] foul call that they’re not going to call in the playoffs. But I was talking to one of my golf buddies out here, his name’s Rohan. We’re actually playing together on Friday. Um, but he we bet our we meet up like every other weekend and have drinks and and just [ __ ] about basketball and it’s it is a blast in golf. Um, but we bet before the Clippers series, he texts me and goes, “What do you what kind of action you want? I’ll take Clippers, you take Nuggets.” I was like, “How about our next bar tab is on this series?” And so we were texting back and forth after the series. And you know what’s funny is he goes, “Zubots is so bad.” I’m like, “Brother, he’s second team allNBA. Like, he’s” And then I texted him after game one. I’m like, “Does you think Zubots is still bad?” Like that literally nobody can defend that Jokic. So, I just thought that was pretty funny. But this the sad part is is Brunson and Shay Gildress Alexander and James Harden, they’re going to make hundreds of millions of dollars. And Brett, who knows if the playoff says success is going to come or not. You know, it’s to be seen, but these guys make hundreds of millions of dollars stabing during the regular season, shooting a million free throws and averaging 35 a game when they’re making 12 free throws a game. Like, that [ __ ] is just not basketball to me. So, when they go to the playoffs and none of these calls get made and they just look like complete [ __ ] idiots, there is nothing more satisfying to me than that. Yeah, that I think we’re talking about the same exact play. I think it was four or five minutes left in the game and Shay threw that one up off the backboard and it was like hoping for a foul and they just swallowed the whistle. And yeah, it it it is great in the NBA how even though we get tired of the product and and the national media and everybody that doesn’t love the NBA is like, “Oh, look at this [ __ ] [ __ ] that they call all the time.” If you watch playoff basketball and especially if it’s in a tight game, it’s very much a it’s a much more watchable product and a much more consistent product versus the foul baiting and the [ __ ] grifting that happens for 82 games from, you know, October to April essentially. Yeah. And you watch the regular season and then you watch the postseason and it’s two totally different sports and you just wonder why the hell they can’t do this all season long. Maybe because everybody just gets so physically beat up and the the the 82 game season if these guys played like this the whole time uh the quality of product would go down. But it’s kind of a double-edged sword. Like is the quality of the regular season good right now because of like they’re protecting the players? No, it’s not. It kind of [ __ ] sucks. But if they don’t protect them and and the superstars get injured or whatever, they just don’t have enough gas to to play the postseason, then uh you have a shitty product as well. So, I really don’t know. I mean, obviously the answer is less regular season games. Uh but that’ll never happen because there’s a reason these guys make 50, 60, 70 million a year. So, and I’ve been saying it for a while. It is so crazy to think that star NBA players if they play 20 years in the league they will be billionaires on paper. Like who would have thought you could make a billion dollars playing a sport and that is strictly onc court money. Like that is you know Tiger Woods is a billionaire. He made he’s made hund00 million on the course. He’s made you know over a billion dollars off the course. It is so hard to be an athlete and to make that kind of money. But it feels like the NBA is the perfect mixture of it because the NFL, if you play 12 years, that’s a long ass career just with injuries and all that [ __ ] Even if you’re making 60, 70 million, which they probably the quarterbacks will be here in a couple years, but the NBA feels like that perfect sport where you can have dudes play 17, 18 years. Maybe not at that high level where you’re commanding 50 million a year, but look at James Harden, like six years old, I want to say, and he’s making $40 million and he’s been making 30 to $40 million for the last decade. Like, it just blows my mind. Yeah. So, we’re going to take this uh bullshitting from the NBA and the NHL playoffs, which we are not no longer talking about, and we’re going to talk about a little golf. So, this is the point where we talk about the PGA Tour. We talk about some things that have been said over the past couple weeks. We’re going to preview the truest championship this weekend at Cricket Club. All right, let’s start with Scotty Sheffller. Maybe the, you know, we always say since Tiger, I think maybe the most dominant tournament performance in 10, 15 years, 20 years. I don’t know. I don’t know what it is. And and yes, the field was obviously a little shot, but overall it wasn’t like this wasn’t a a straight up opposite field event like we’re going to have this week to the side of the truest. Look at me. I’ve got a [ __ ] but like just an alltime performance from Scotty. I was looking up some uh like bets and guys, you know, the six best picks for this week and whatever. Just doing a little research before my picks and they always had they have the six writers and they say what they’ve hit outright and somebody and one of the guys bios it said hit Scotty at plus 240 outright at the CJ cup and I was like sick which plus 240 if you can hit any bet at plus 240 it’s still solid but kind of insane that he goes in with those high of odds and then I think after day one he was like minus 550 because he shot the course record day one and then was just absolutely cooking. So, shout out to Scotty. And the people are asking, is TPC Craig Ranch too easy for the PGA Tour or is it just too easy for Scotty Sheffler? Well, I mean, Eric Vanroyan kind of put on a historic second place performance as well. Uh, so I think that course in general is just uh maybe a little too easy for the PGA Tour, but what Scotty did is nothing short of amazing. and you you look back at the tournament and it’s just throw the fast ball like it hindsight is 2020 but Scotty against that field you’re like what could go wrong and that last week it did not but that is why he is still one of the best players if not the best player in the world because he’s got that extra level and I’ve mentioned this a few times but I think it is hard to put into words when you watch Scotty Sheffler in and Now, week after week after week, he hits his number on irons and wed irons and wedges so often that it it is like otherworldly how good his distance control is. And I truly think that is what makes him like as elite as he is because he is constantly hitting his numbers. Even if it’s 10 to 15 feet offline, he is directly in like he it just blows my [ __ ] mind. and his proximity to the hole and his his ability to control his distance is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. And then you look at a guy like Rory that feels like he so rarely hits his number that feels like he’s flag hunting but he’s especially with the wedges. Like Scotty is miles ahead of of Rory with the wedges. And that’s what is so funny and it’s kind of the the um anatomy of golf is that Rory just hits it 30 yards by Scotty. Can’t wedge it close. Is hot and cold with the putter. Pretty decent around the green. Scotty just hits it dead straight off the tea. Nothing crazy distance-wise. Hits the irons proximity-wise closer than Rory. Has a great short game. Can’t putt for [ __ ] at times. like the the sectors of their game that they’re good at are so different, yet they’re probably the two best players in the world right now. And then you look at a guy like Bryson who just hits it 30 yards by Rory and not probably not 30 by Rory, but hits it longer than anybody and kind of just calculates his way around the golf course. It’s they all play such different games and that’s what is so fun to me. I mean, Scotty is now considered a shorter hitter, relatively speaking, for PJ Tour terms, which is kind of insane because he’s honestly averaging SE 175 to 180 ball speed consistently. But that is not long for this this tour standard that is 185 to 190. Um, but just the fact that he can do what he does and when he gets hot, it’s just otherworldly. It’s it does feel tiger-esque where and similar to Rory, you know, not recently, but when Rory first came on the scene, when Rory was winning, I remember the US Open, he won by like eight strokes. And I remember watching at Congressional, I think it was 2014. Um, he was I could tell in the middle of Friday I’m like this is Rory’s winning. Like it’s there’s no question. And since then, you know, obviously Royy’s career has gotten derailed and kind of come back onto the rails here recently. But, uh, when Scotty’s on, like you said, the middle of Friday, you’re like, you could bet the house on him winning this event. There’s nobody’s he I don’t know if there’s anybody better with a lead than Scotty. It just feels like he steps on your throat time and time again. He shot 63 on Sunday. Like Van Royan, I think, shot 66 on Sunday and lost lost three strokes to the winner. Like, that’s bananas. Yeah. What was the I’m gonna find what you sent me, but I think it was just Scotty on the par fives and threes. Oh, yes. Where was this? He was 22 under on the the par 3es and fives. And Van Royan was he would have won the tournament by one just playing the par threes and par fives is what it was. No. Oh, so no, sorry. It was if Scotty Sheffller only played the front nine this week. He was minus 22 and Van Ruan was minus 21. I mean [ __ ] insane. And what you spoke to is just so like nails between can you really say who’s the best player in the world right now? Is it Scotty or is it Rory? I think it’s a clear-cut 1A 1B scenario, but they’re both so different in their games and they’re both so different the way they win tournaments. Rory can get the big leads or have the course records or the low rounds, but he’s going to give it back. Scotty is not the one that is going to give anything back, but Scotty has to have a good Thursday, Friday in order to win a golf tournament. He’s not going to come from behind six, seven shots on a Saturday, Sunday and win an event. Whereas Rory, even if he’s seven, eight, depending upon who the leader is, you know, seven, eight out of it on a on cut day on Saturday morning, like he still has a legitimate shot. Not that Scotty can’t go low, but we’ve seen it time and time again where 90% of Scotty’s wins are just wire to wire or he’s within one or two of the lead going into the weekend and then just outlasts the entire field essentially. And Rory’s the guy that’s like, “Oh my god, he’s up by 12. Oh my god, he’s he’s up by three in the Masters. Two holes in, oh, it’s tied or he’s down one.” And then he comes back again. So he’s he’s the roller coaster and Scotty’s more of just the train where he just rolls along and continues at his own speed and exactly how he’s going to do it. And sometimes it’s faster and better than everyone else and sometimes it’s not. But he’s not catching up to anybody usually in in an event. But when you go out and shoot 60 what one on Thursday, just continue to fire every low 60s you can find. You know, TPC Craig Ranch got opened up this past weekend and that won by I think what was the total 10 shots. He was 31 under and Rean Ruin was 21 under. I think he won by nine. And I think he was maybe 30 cuz I think he needed par par to have the lowest PGA Tour score of all time to in relation to par for a 4-day event which is now famously every year at the Century Tournament of Champions or whatever the [ __ ] they call it. The first tournament of the year in January in Hawaii where guys are just shooting 35 under, 34 under. John Ramsh shot 33 or 32 a couple years ago. That’s like the event where people just go insanely low and everybody thinks it’s the John Deere but and which is somewhat similar to that but that’s more of a 22 to 26 under. If you’re not shooting 66 every day you’re kind of behind the field but Van Royan was 23 under for the week. So he won by eight. Oh, okay. So that maybe that uh that front nine basically they’re just saying the front nine was easy cuz Van Ruan on the back nine was only two under the whole week and Scotty was seven was yeah seven. Right. Well, so the cra another crazy stat is um if you finished in the top five, you finished 14 shots behind the leader, the winner. Um which is so let’s see if you Okay, so T5 and then it went up to T13 at 16 under. So there was a big stack of guys in that 15 16 17 under range and including our boy Hubs. Shout out to the boy Hubs. Little top five. Yeah. make you a quick 400 grand in a week. That’s not too shabby. Um, and then you had Sam Burns T5, which I really didn’t even uh didn’t even notice. And then Jordan Speed had a good week as well. Uh, and Sam Stevens played well. Eric Vanroyan. Uh, but actually Jordan Speed, I want to talk about this quickly. Did you see that they Amanda Balionus asked him about his chances at the uh career grand slam at the PGA and I guess he was talking to Rory about it on the range. It was like on a hot mic or something this week and uh he goes, “Yeah, we’ll see if uh so we’ll see how it goes. I mean, I have a chance, but uh Rory Maroy Country Club is pretty pretty tough.” like he basically called Quail Hollow Roy Moy Country Club. So, does that just mean that it’s obviously we got another week and we have a signature event, but is Rory just far and away the favorite next week? Is should it just be similar to Scotty at the CJ Cup? Like, is this just Rory’s to win or Rory’s to lose and everybody else is chasing him type [ __ ] Well, let’s do this. Let’s guess. Let’s go. Whose line is it anyway on the lines for the PGA Championship next week? I’m going to say Rory’s plus 300 and Scotty’s plus 340. That’s my guess. I was going to say I was going to say Rory I think would be plus 350 and Scotty would be like plus 420. Okay. Do Do they already do they have odds out yet? Oh, I guess maybe they do. I I shouldn’t have even I should have thought about that. If it’s a major event, I’m sure they would have the odds out. Let’s check in on the DraftKings sports book. Shout out to DraftKings. They do not sponsor us, but if they want to, we’re here. We’re here for the taking. We are available. PG. Oh, yep. Odds are out. Oh, interesting. We were We were What did you say for Scotty? I said plus 420 for Scotty and plus 350 for Rory. Okay, so Scotty is plus 400. Rory Mroy is plus 475. Oo. And then who uh let’s play a little fun game here. Who do you think is third, fourth, and fifth in odds at plus400,600 then 1,800? I’d say Bryson. Bryson is plus400. He is third shortest odds. Uh Colin Morawa. No. Xander. Xander Shalay is plus 1,800 and there’s a guy in the middle at plus 1,600. Ludvig Oberg, he is 2,000. Um, who am I missing here? Justin Thomas, he is way down there. The PGA merchant. Justin Thomas, where is he at? Oh, he’s plus 2200 right behind. Am I just having a brain fart here? Who am I missing? It’s It’s kind of a surprising He’s not a PGA Tour player. Let’s put it that way. Oh. Uh, who’s on live? Uh, Brooks Kepka. He’s down there as well, which he’s kind of a PGA walk. No, come on, brother. Who was number one in the world for like two years? Mito Pereira. He had a good run at the [ __ ] till he [ __ ] one in the in the water to the right. [ __ ] didn’t finish his golf. Oh, he swung it 30 degrees left into the [ __ ] Oh my god, dude. Why do I always have this brain fart about who’s on the [ __ ] live tour at this point? I Spaniard. Oh, uh, John Rom. Okay. Yes. Why do I I I keep forgetting John Rom plays golf. Like it is it is the weirdest [ __ ] thing where he’s been a top five guy in the entire and I guess he just hasn’t done anything in what, two years. He won the Masters two years ago or three years ago. Um, but it just feels like he hasn’t done absolutely [ __ ] all since then. So, yeah, I wouldn’t touch that number with the [ __ ] 10- foot pole. Um, no. No, I would not either. But also, fresh off a win. Bryson’s fresh off a win on the at South Korea at the Jack Nicholas course here in Liv. And then Liv plays this weekend as well. So, a double ramp up until Where Where does Liv play this weekend? Do you know? Um, I want to say it’s at this is great. Great podcasting. If you’re watching on the video, it’s a little better than the audio currently. Live golf Virginia, Robert Trent Jones Golf Club. Okay, that that would honestly be kind of a fun watch. They had one last year in Washington DC. I think it was maybe Donald Trump’s course in DC. And that actually looked like a that was a pretty fun event to watch as well. So I might dabble, you know, a little bit of both. A little uh a little live a little truest championship, the truest in Spencer’s words. Um but do we do we just want to get into the the truest real quick because uh well let’s let’s talk about Eric Van Ruin’s comments about getting into Yes. Okay. Truest. Yes. Okay. I think it’s dialed. All right. So, Eric Van Ruin, this is from Brenley Roine, Brentley GC on X, the everything app. Eric Van Ruin was asked about qualifying for next week’s $20 million purse, no cut truest championship via the A on swing five. And he responded, how honest do you want me to be? I hate it. And then he laughed as well. Laughter in parenthesis. I strongly believe the strongest fields are the one with the most players in them. The guys on the PGA Tour are so good. It’s so deep. I get that you have the Scotties and of the world, the Rories of the world, and people want to see them. It’s entertaining. Like the PGA Championship coming up for example. I think it’s the strongest field in the game. Similar to the players. I love competing. So selfishly I want to compete against those guys. Again, really proud of playing my way into it. And then he goes on to say, I saw Windham’s comment two years ago he was in the 100 to 125 spot. He would have lost his card and now he’s a major winner and all of a sudden and Rory I know he said he wants the tour to be more cutthroat. Well, this is the most cutthroat sport there is. If you miss the cut, you’re gone, bro. You’re not making money. The NBA has over 300 guys playing. We have 144 guys playing next week at the players. This is from an earlier interview. That’s not a lot and more than half of them aren’t making money. So, and then it goes on to talk about the pre Premier League soccer players. And then he goes, I’m sorry, John Rom, you’re a fantastic player, but you’re not worth the zeros they gave you. You’re not worth more than what Cristiano Aldo Cristiano Ronaldo is making. I’m sorry. We don’t have the following. We’re not the NBA. We’re not the NFL. I get there a handful of really famous and good golfers, but how many of them have won tournaments so far this year? So, some pretty deepcut comments from Van Ruan who had the of course his signature win last year after his buddy had was in the hospital and then had passed away. So, he kind of dedicated that to him. Great mustache on the guy. Um, but what are your kind of thoughts on I think one of the interesting things is the fact that he said the PGA Championship has the deepest field. I mean, that’s got to be Michael Block. That’s got to be all Michael Block. Dude, that is the block party 10,000%. Like, I was actually just about to say, uh, I already can’t stand Michael Block’s [ __ ] face on TV. I The dude just hits me in the the worst of all spots. Like, I just cannot [ __ ] stand the guy. I am going to I hope they have a a bet. I hope they have a line on him to miss the cut because I will dig deep in my pockets and [ __ ] throw a couple a couple hundred shillings on him missing the cut. He’s going to [ __ ] probably going to be like minus 300 to miss the cut. I would guess minus 400. I don’t know. You know, any given, you know, if he hit it as far as Rory, he would win. Like that’s just no no questions asked. Like that’s that truly is the difference. So, um, I just wish this Michael Block story would be put to bed. It’s [ __ ] It’s not anybody else’s fault. Like, he did qualify on his own merit. So, uh, kudos to him, but I just I I can’t stand another week. You know, there’s going to be a a Golf Channel segment, an ESPN segment on Michael Block and and the hole in one and the Oh, it went in. Like, oh, I didn’t see it go in. It went in. Like, oh my god, dude. Just [ __ ] shut up. Like, holy cow. I I’m done with that guy already. As all uh you guys know, if you’ve been listening this entire year or you’re new, we are part of the Golfer Gang Network, they are doing a live show with a round table, if you will, on Sunday evening, I I believe 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Mitch will be on that getting all his Michael Block takes out. Was this the highlight of the last Masters round table, and I’m sure he’s going to be the highlight of this one if he [ __ ] figures out his right names, the the right people that he’s talking about. Um, but all right, let’s get into the truest. I really I just have one quick thing that you sent me that I want to get out in the open. Um, Bryson Desamon Brooks Kepka had dinner last night hosted by Keegan Bradley for those in the mix of the RDER Cup team from Todd Lewis GC. So, kind of interesting where that team is going to go. I mean, we’ve talked about it kind of at length, but Keegan’s really going to do his best job to put the best players on the golf course because yes, the US lost the last or did they win? They lost the last RDER Cup because it was on European soil. They got embarrassed and it’s kind of this back and forth between the home team is just dominating the Ryder Cup, which is fine. Um, but I think it you you you can’t lose the one at home. Like when you lose on the road, you’re like, “Ah, you know, we lost and and the Europeans are good and their crowd was crazy, but like Keegan Bradley cannot lose this RED Cup. He cannot lose at Beth Paige. We’re close to where he grew up. Blah blah blah. He cannot lose this Ryder Cup. So he’s going to do turn over every single stone that he can in order to win this Ryder Cup.” All right, let’s get to the truest championship from Rory Mroy this week. Interesting little take. And you know, I normally go back in years and say, “Hey, how did the this golf course perform the prior years when I’m picking my bets?” And there is no real um there’s no real history here. I mean, this golf course is awesome. Let me start out that Philadelphia Cricket Club sounds electric. How far is it from you? Um it’s like northwest Philadelphia, so like an hour and a half away. Probably an hour. Yeah, probably an hour and a half or so. Um, and it actually does bum me out because I wanted to go, but uh, tickets on, so Saturday, Friday and Saturday are sold out and tickets for Saturday on the resale market are over $250 general admission. Like maybe I’m just very disconnected because I’ve paid $250 for a sports event, like a a basketball game ticket or a football ticket or a hockey ticket many a time. like it doesn’t faze me, but I see $250 for a PJ tour event a non- major and uh it just kind of rubs me the wrong way. Like I’m not spending $250 to walk around and [ __ ] it it just doesn’t for 250 bucks I should have a seat. Yeah. Right. No, I feel that. I think it’s just a mixture of the fact that it is a signature event. So, you know, 70 players. It’s much like the event at Castle Pines last year where a smaller event in a city that doesn’t get a ton of PGA consistent PGA Tour events. I think that’s and and a new golf course like a different spot. I think that that formula is just what’s making it so expensive. And Rory’s quote on Philadelphia Qriket Club since there’s not a ton of history here. He said sort of quote it sort of to me feels like a smaller version of Oak Hill. Not a lot of strategy off the tea. just hit driver everywhere and then figure it out from there. That’s sort of the strategy of this place this week. And all I’m trying to say is that’s my strategy every golf course I play. Hit driver and figure it out from there. I mean, am I wrong? Um, I mean, I’ve seen you hit a handful of four irons, much to your dismay, or a hybrid off the tea that then you’re also searching for. But yeah, I mean, I I think that golf purists are are rolling in their grave uh or just throwing up if you’re if you’re with us still um at Rory Mroyy’s comments because that is the point of these old school golf courses. And this is the ultimate uh reason if you want to uh pick a a point to why the ball is being rolled back and why they want them to hit it shorter, it is these comments right here. Because this is an AW Tilling design, which is a legendary designer. A lot of golf courses, a lot of prestigious clubs in the Northeast here are an AW Tillinghouse design and just a very classic, well-made golf course with uh very precise bunkering, very unique greens. And you really have to strategize the T-ball uh if you don’t hit it 330 yards. But at this point, all the bunkers that would be in play for any of these dudes are really not in play uh for the for the long hitters. And that’s where uh everybody is kind of lost on this whole distance thing because it just takes a lot of the strategy out of the game. And I was actually looking at this scorecard and it honestly feels like this course is going to get torched this week. I just by looking at the distances, number one’s a 365 yard par4. Uh number two is 373. Number three is 170 yard par three. And then you get into a few longer holes, 427 for a par4. For your average player, decent length for Rory, he’s going to have sand wedge in. And that might be might be wobb wedge. Who knows? And then you have a 540 yard par five. very getable uh by many standards. Then you get into a few longer ones, a 450 yard par4, 435, a 4 or 240 yard par three, and then you finish the front nine with a 430 yard. Basically, anything under 430 yards I consider pretty short for your average PJ Tour player because they’re driving at 290 yards. So that means they’re going to have 140 yards in. Anything less than 150 yard approach shot I feel like is a birdie opportunity. Um and then I’ll just go through all of them real quick. So you have a 450 yard par4 tenth 490 yard par4 a 425 yard par4. 423 yard par4. Number 14 is a 122 yard par three which I absolutely love. I saw that. That’s incredible. Love a good short par three. And then you’ve got another par five that’s only 550 very getable probably iron in hand for the most part. And then you have the the finishing stretch I think will be somewhat of a challenge. These guys are probably going to have an 8 n 10 under round going at that point through 15. But then you have a 215 yard par three the 16th and backto back uh par4s 17 and 18 498 and 517. So actual decent length holes where Rory may actually be hitting an eight iron in to a par4 like that. I mean what what is 17 at Augusta? It’s like 490 now and Rory had nine iron in. So you know it you simply cannot make these golf courses long enough uh for these guys. But it just feels like this one in particular if you’re hitting if these guys are hitting driver everywhere I could see the winning score being 20 plus under. like it’s just and especially this last week there has been a fair amount of rain. There is rain in the forecast pretty heavily for Friday. So they might get a little bit of a delay. Uh but the course is going to be soft and these guys are just going to be aiming at flags left and right. So it’s basically going to be a wedge fest out there by the looks of it. Good old wedgefest. We love that. Um this is the only course in the United States of America that can claim three 18hole golf courses from three different centuries. The original layout evolved from 1895 to 1897 and called the St. Martins’s course is in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, 8 miles northwest of the city center. It held the US Open in 1907. That was won by Don Ross’s older brother. That’s how that’s how far back this goes. And then uh in 1922 that’s when this club opened the Wisah Hickin course designed designed by AW Tilling which you got out like you did not struggle with that name at all. Um but yeah just really cool old golf course. Like I’m excited to watch the players on this course just because it it is fun. Like, yes, the Masters is great, and yes, all these tournaments are most of them, relatively speaking, are great to watch each week, but it’s it is fun when you get the guys on a course that hasn’t been played a ton. And they did an entire kind of redesign of this golf course back in 2013. Um, they ha they hosted a an o a senior tour open here in 2016, but then there was a lot of issues with like players had to take a cart to the range. So, they did a whole rerouting of a lot of the holes in the golf course in order to make it championship ready. They also said there wasn’t enough room for corporate suites, you know, the the people paying all the money. There wasn’t enough room for those behind the green on 18. So, they’ve done a little bit of rerouting and redesigning in order to get this place where it’s going to be. And I’m looking and just the fact that it’s called the Philadelphia Qriket Club just makes me want to be a member there. It just it’s electric name. Yeah, it it is a very prestigious uh club. I actually think they have a headquarters like in downtown Philadelphia that’s just where they meet uh where they’re bored. like I don’t know exactly, but they have a separate like club that’s just the Philadelphia Cricket Club. That’s just a club itself without a golf course. Um, so it’s a very high-end prestigious Philadelphia area thing. Um, and yeah, the courses look [ __ ] unbelievable. Like I don’t think it’s surprising but uh if you know relatively golf you know famous golf courses but the Philly and into North Jersey area even South Jersey into North Jersey is some of the best golf in the world. Like it it it truly is crazy the amount of very very good championship golf courses that are in this area. Like I’m 15 minutes from Baltas right now and I’m 15 minutes from Liberty National or 30 minutes from Liberty National and and Bayon and it’s just the the courses. Hamilton Farm just hosted a USA amateur. You know, it’s it [ __ ] is non-stop. So, this is just one of the many very very good Philly area courses. And uh I think the weather is going to be perfect. Other than Friday, it looks like it’s in the low 60s with some rain. But other than that, it’s like perfect spring weather. It’s mid to low 70s out here. And it’s just it’s going to be a great week for these guys. The scoring conditions are going to be absolutely perfect. Like they they are going to shred this course. [ __ ] I can’t even say it. I was They’re going to absolutely blow the tits off this course’s body. said it may be one of those courses where they’re like, I don’t think that place can host a PJ tour event again. Like, we cannot we cannot have another course that looks this easy on TV, especially the week before. Well, I guess the PGA is by, you know, popular standard the easiest major of them all. But, uh, leading up into a ma or a major week, it is it does feel like a little bit of a cupcake. Yeah. And Scotty is actually not playing in the truest this week. And I also just looked it up. A Philadelphia Qriket Club initiation fee is only 2K. That is as of 2020. So I don’t know if that’s changed. That’s just what the AI overview gave me. I didn’t want to scroll too much through the website, but 20 $2,000 for initiation because they have the three courses. Sounds like a pretty electric place to be a member at. Let’s get our picks out there in the universe. Thank you guys all for tuning in to Big Drive Energy. If you’re watching this on YouTube, give us a thumbs up. We’d appreciate that. Here are our picks for the truest this coming week. I’m rolling with Victor Havland. Signature event. A lot of people are fading him this week. I might should I probably should be too, but I’m not going to. I Victor seems to win the events when he’s not picked. Like the more doubted he is, the better he plays. And I think like most of these signature events, you get the random Kurt Kittyamas or whatever that win. But I think most of these signature events, it’s going to be a pool of 15 to 20 guys that are have a legit shot at winning it. So, I’m going to go with Victor Havland at plus 2500. And then I’m going to go Cory Connor’s top 10 at plus 225. Just seems like a guy that against these bigger fields, like I have relatively no confidence in him winning this event, even though I did put him in my one and done this week, but I have a lot of confidence in him being a guy that’s like, “Oh, there’s Cory Connors at the top of the leaderboard again.” And then Mitch blessed us with his long shot this week, so we’re going to roll with that. Max Grezerman at plus 10K. 10K on the DraftKings Sportsbook app. I do like Griezerman because he is a North Jersey guy and I feel like uh it’s just a good vibe for him. He knows these kind of golf courses, has obviously been playing good golf these last couple years. One of those guys on the come up. Uh I don’t know why, but Patrick Hanlay just gives me a good vibe this week. He’s he only has two top 10s this year, but in nine events, he’s made all nine cuts. And he uh has finished like top 15, I think, in five of them. He’s finished right in between that 10 and 15. So, he’s had some good finishes. He hasn’t gotten it across the finish line yet, but this course, the way awilling designs a lot of these courses is for the greens to really be highlighted. and Kantlay is one of the best putters on the PJ tour uh pretty pretty much year in and year out. So, I feel good about him. If it’s a wedge and and putter game, I do like Patrick Can uh to emerge. And then Justin Rose plus 400. He’s a a classic golf course type of dude. He I think he won his US Open. Where did he win his US Open? Was it at Marian? Um that sounds right. Uh, or was that Dustin Johnson? Justin Rose. Anywh who, he he’s a you’re correct. 2013 at Marian clinching his first major championship title. Shout out. My god, look at that poll. That’s that is impressive. And look at what Justin Rose did at the Masters a couple weeks ago. I definitely think that he is playing some great golf right now. And plus 400 to top 10. A lot of these dudes like half of the field is under plus 400 to top 10. I’m like I I that just feels like you’re throwing darts at a board, which I am essentially doing every week anyways. So just take that with a grain of salt when I give you my betting picks. I am pretty hot right now. Uh oh. Oh, let’s let’s touch on this as well. Um our one and done for the PJ tour. I it’s broken down into segments and we are in this current segment and I am leading it. So you can address me as segment leader Mitchell Smith going forward until that crown has been taken. I would like to to be called by my government name uh segment leader Mitchell Smith. So I I did take Patrick Klay in my one and done this week. So I bet he shoots like 75 [ __ ] 82. uh make zero dollars and then next week you can just address me by my regular uh loser Mitchell Smith. Gambling sucks at gambling on golf. Mitchell Smith uh will be next week’s name for me. But I do I don’t know why like I am just the king of vibes. The king of go betting on vibes and Patrick Caitlyn does have a vibe to me like he could win this week. So love that. Well, we appreciate you guys all tuning in to Big Drive Energy this week. We will be back Sunday. WTF Wednesday? Do you have a Wednesday? Oh, yeah. We got to do a WTF Wednesday. I’ll start with mine. Mine actually happened about 6 hours ago at 5:00 a.m. this morning. I’m at the gym and there’s like a turf area where I go and stretch because I’m old. I like to get a nice roll out. Roll the calves out, roll the thighs out, back, all that stuff. That [ __ ] hurts, by the way. that rolling out your back and your leg. Oh, rolling out your back feels good. Rolling out your calves actually hurts if you put all your weight on it. But so this it’s early. I mean, the gym’s only been open for like 45 minutes, an hour or whatever. I woke up at 3:45 just on my own. And I was like, I’m not going back to sleep. I’m just going to go. Um, so I’m there. I’m there early. The turf is [ __ ] wide open. And this dude puts his goddamn mat literally three two feet from where I’m doing my [ __ ] I had to move him. I I gave him a look and then I had to move my mat over to the other side of the box that I was like doing some box jumps on. I was like, “What the [ __ ] dude? You have this whole turf. I don’t know why you literally have to get within two feet of me, but I could [ __ ] smell his cologne.” That’s how close he was. I was like, “What the fuck?” Oh god. Yeah, that’s uh There’s nothing worse than people getting in your personal space. Like that [ __ ] just bugs the absolute [ __ ] out of me, especially at the gym. Like I am, it’s well documented on this podcast, but I am very much a a get in and get out of the gym. I can’t stand the dudes that every person that walks by, they’re like, “Yo, what’s up?” Like, and maybe, you know, I’m just not a gym community guy. I I’m like I go to the gym so I can uh feel something for the day and then that’s why I’m there. I’m not there to make friends. Uh so just don’t don’t get in my personal space. So yeah, that that’ll piss you right off. Um well, my other WTF, my belly button was a big What the [ __ ] Like it just feels like it’s the closest thing to the sun, maybe. So that’s why it gets torched. But uh the other one was we were flying back from Phoenix to Newark. And if you watch the news or anything, you’ve heard that Newark airport is a giant nightmare right now. Um actually, I heard for a period of time, and I’m glad I heard this after the flight. Uh there was a 90-cond period of time where air traffic control completely lost uh communication with all the planes in the area as planes are trying to land and [ __ ] So that just generally made me feel very unsettled after I heard it, but we were already on the ground, thank God. Um so we actually Missy had a bunch of points built up that she hadn’t used in forever. So she used points to get us up to first class, which was great because it was a five-h hour flight. So, he sat in first class and uh everything just feels like it should go right. And I know I’m literally This is the epitome of of white people problems or whatever you want to call them. Uh but I buy the Wi-Fi, it immediately goes out. I have no Wi-Fi for 5 hours. And that’s right when the nuggets are starting to play, so I can’t watch the nuggets. And then I try to watch I try to pair my AirPods to the TV. Those won’t pair. And then they actually feed you a meal in first class. And we get around and we’re the last we were in the very last row of first class. They had no meal option left for us. They’re basically like, “You guys are eating this cuz this is all we have left.” And we’re like, “Oh, cool. Thanks. That’s what you know, that’s what this $800 a person ticket is for.” Like, “Are you [ __ ] kidding me? So I can have a dried out chicken breast?” I did actually. I wasn’t bitching about it, but uh it was just um a little bit of like how do you let the Wi-Fi go out? And that’s just $8. Just I might as well [ __ ] go take it out of my pocket and drop it in the toilet and piss on it. Like there it just you just light it on fire. I had Wi-Fi for like a half hour of a 5 hour [ __ ] flight. And they’re they’re not like let’s let’s try to get you your money back. They’re just like sorry it’s just gone. you you b of course it connected long enough to to get you to pay for it and then it’s like oh it’s out like holy [ __ ] So it’s just and it’s worse too when it kind of starts to work and you pay for it and get it and then you lose it. Like if you they just start you out you know no lube all sandpaper finish and say hey we don’t have Wi-Fi on the flight like it’s not great but you’re at least not hoping for it to connect when you think that there’s a glimmer of hope there and you’re refreshing the united wifi.com or whatever the [ __ ] the site is. You’re trying Safari, you’re trying Google Chrome. I’ve tried all the things and then it’s just not working. You’re like, “Ah, well, this is going to suck.” Especially a long like I don’t take a ton of long flights, but 5 hours, oh my god, I’d [ __ ] Yeah, that was that was like the longest flight I’ve been in on in a hot minute. I’ve been on a lot of like four hour flights and doesn’t make it much better. But five hours without Wi-Fi, I’m just raw dogging like a podcast and just sitting there doing nothing. And Missy’s the smart one that downloads her own TV shows and [ __ ] on her iPad. She that’s an appointment the day before a flight. And I’m just sitting there looking around like they did bring us some warm nuts in first class which was nice. I got a little I got a little warm bowl of cashews. I actually found out um you know the term soup to nuts. Yeah. So that actually is derived from uh like a full meal like you start with a soup, you end with like warm nuts. So, soup to nuts. For some reason, I I don’t know what where I thought that came from, but it’s just like you start at the mouth with the soup and you go all the way down to the nuts. Like, that’s kind of I don’t know. I was thinking more of a body part thing than a meal thing. But, I thought that was interesting. Yeah, that’s that’s a very interesting thing. I learned something new every day when I talk to you. Also, who ends their meal with nuts? Like that’s I’m never like let’s have a handful of cashews to finish this thing off like that. You’re you’re just not cultured apparently. I guess not. They did warm up the nuts too, which is not something I’ve ever thought of. Like do they do they make them more valuable if you heat them up? I’m like I’d take cold nuts as well. Like that’s I don’t need my trail mix [ __ ] in the microwave. Like that’s the weirdest [ __ ] thing I’ve ever had too. So Oh, that’s incredible. Well, we appreciate everybody tuning in to this episode of Big Drive Energy. We’ll be back Sunday afternoon evening once we figure out the tea times, figure out where I’m at in the pool party scenario. Mitchell will definitely be here uh to recap the truest championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club. Give us a thumbs up on your way out if you’re watching this on the YouTube or if you’re just listening to the audio version. Make sure to rate our show. We’d appreciate it. We are Big Drive Energy, part of the Golfer Gang Network. Enjoy your weekend. We are one week away from another major and we’re looking forward to it. We will talk to you guys on Sunday. Peace. 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