Bubba Watson Roasts Pat McAfee’s Golf Swing, Opens Up About Anxiety & Mental Health Issues

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Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is an absolute legend in the golfing world. Traveled out here to Indianapolis, Indiana to not only chitchat about an event that’s happening in August here, but also to go see the Indiana Fever. Oo. A guy that everybody wants to be friends with, a guy that is currently the captain of the Range Goats Golf Club in Live Golf. Two-time Masters champion. Ladies and gentlemen, Bubba Watson. [Applause] We got to get you a boba head. Yeah. Oh, I will actually. The pink driver whenever it came into existence, we all loved it. Electrifying cuz you were hitting the [ __ ] out of that thing with no swing coach, right? Wasn’t that the big story? lessons. That’s still the same story. Yeah. Still the same thing. I can’t afford a lesson, man. I can’t. They’re expensive. Uh I think now you can we Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We all Yeah. But just for the record, if it was a 100red million or whatever y’all said yesterday, I watched your show. So whatever y’all said yesterday, if it was a 100 plus million, I wouldn’t even have read the contract. I would have signed that thing so fast. So it wasn’t even near a hundred million. You get hundreds. It was even close to 100. So real quick. So were all of those numbers gassed up a little bit, you think? Well, the internet’s not always true. What? Hey, by the And by the way, I really want to talk to you about this. He wasn’t eating that popcorn. What? He’s on the show tomorrow. You don’t want that smoke, brother. Yeah, y’all bumped me for him. I had to come in a day earlier. He did. Yeah, you’re on. I would have bumped me, too, for Yeah. Bubba was supposed to be on the show tomorrow. Bubba made an earlier trip. We got Tom Cruz. Bubba is going to be a little bit He is certainly eating. There is no chance he’s eating. That’s why the first fell because he he hit his mouth. He closed his mouth early and it fell and then you could tell that wasn’t his hand never moved open. He was No. What are you talking about? He was just like Q Rich. Q Rich said once he kind of figures out the room and the the wind then you’ll figure it out. He was just trying to figure out the room right there. That’s that movie magic. You don’t you don’t look that good at 82. What? How old is he? 62. 60 something. You watch your Bubba. Yeah, I honestly I want to remove myself from this stage to be completely honest, but I won’t. He doesn’t have 100 million, but it’s close. Uh, all right, Bubba, let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about the golf. Let’s do it. Scotty Shuffler is the man. Okay. So, boring. He’s boring. No, I don’t think so. I think his game is so good. I think his game is so good it takes up for everything else. Wouldn’t you love it if he just started yelling at people? We got to [ __ ] you out of him. We got to [ __ ] you out of him on the on the hat sl uh the hat throw afterwards. I think it’s because his driver was not doing well. I think he feels like he probably grinded out that Sunday at Quo Hollowo. But how long do the people in the golf world, you guys, do you talk about him goats that like when does that start happening? Because obviously you got you got Jack, you got Tiger, and then Scotty is the conversation at this point. What does he need to improve? What does he need to do? And why is he so good? Is it just his ability to focus? What is the difference? Well, first of all, I think that, you know, he’s only been around what, four years as a pro. So, he’s got 16, 12, 18 wins, whatever he’s got. So, I think um he’s getting there to the GOAT status, he’s gaining on it, but he’s still got a long way to go. Um I think his year last year, when you count even the the event he had in Vegas, nine wins, I think that was the best year we’ve ever seen as a golfer, uh with the competition around the world, now the world’s playing. Um so, yeah, I think he’s definitely on his way to GOAT status, but he’s still got a long way to go. I mean, you got to get to 80 some odd wins, right? So, um, and what was the other part you said? Why is he so good? It’s just his ability to concentrate. I think he Yeah, his ability to he trusts himself. He’s he’s only focused on golf. Um, he has a great man on the bag, Teddy, who cattied for me for 15 years. Um, and then he and then he believes in himself. He he putts unbelievable. Um, but his ball striking, he’s swaying on the ball, he’s doing all this stuff, but he knows what his golf swing is. He knows what he wants to do and he’s and he’s not, like I said, he’s boring. He’s playing boring golf. So, his heart rate is just staying right here, even under pressure. So, he started pulling a driver a little bit and then we heard uh Saturday night he stayed he was at a fivestroke lead and he stayed for multiple hours fixing his grip. Are you guys constantly adjusting things during the tournament? How how normal is that? Well, I think for him, you know, he came out and said that his driver was was tested as well. And so, I think putting in a new driver, your baby is now gone. So, he’s trying to figure it out. And every time you put a new grip on or a new shaft in there, it doesn’t line up the way you want it to. You haven’t got the grip worn in the way you want to. So, he’s trying to figure it out knowing that Sunday is going to be one of the hardest rounds that he’s going to face, right? I mean, he even came back to tied for the lead. They went back up to leading. Um, so it’s a hard round of golf when you know you’re winning that big. How do you stay focused and committed and, you know, not try to just par, right? Yes. He has to attack. Yeah. And he does. He continues in on 18. and he puts one to what like four feet or whatever with the water to the left. He had already locked it up because Rahm had his run and then he kind of disappeared 16 17 and 18. A lot of conversation about Rom is you guys only played 54 holes at Liv. It’s a little bit different. Is it different like having a Sunday for Rom? Because Rahm mentioned afterwards he was like I haven’t felt that in a long time. I I haven’t felt that type of thing because obviously Liv different style of golf, different form of golf, different environment of golf. I I can’t wait to talk to you about what the future is. you guys all think uh for Liv that are in it and living it. But do you think that is a little bit working against some of the Liv guys those Sunday days uh in how long these tournaments are? No, I I think what I what I got from Rahm’s interview was was more of of he he loved to chase. When you get in a major, it’s different than any other event in the world. I mean, you’re playing all around the world. You’re playing on the PJ tour, but a major is different. You’re you’re dealing with your you’re you’re fighting yourself cuz you’re thinking about interviews. You’re thinking about this could be my next major. This could be my first major, my eighth major, whatever it is. And so you’re thinking about that and then when you’re thinking about chasing, he had to attack 17, especially after he bogeied 16. So it is it’s a birdie double. I mean, that’s how fine line it was. So I don’t think it was anything of energy. I mean, he works out. He’s young. Um, you know, it’s just one of those things where he just that wasn’t his day. That wasn’t his last few holes. It was awesome to watch Ron back in there. De Shambo back in there. It was nice to see the big names. How do you think Liv has gone? How how have you enjoyed your experience with Liv? Because we can talk about it from a golf fans perspective where the majors, it’s awesome to see everybody back together. I assume you guys have similar thoughts about it all. Yeah, for sure. When I looked at it from a business standpoint, you know, the contract and what where Liv wants to be in 10 years, it goes back to yesterday your point. Your point was talking about it’s a new business. I mean, this is a new adventure. Uh most businesses don’t really aren’t successful after a few years. And so, you have to have the growing pains. You have to develop. And we’re a worldwide we’re we’re F1 racing. We’re we’re worldwide sport. We’re trying to bring golf to the masses around the world. PJ tour. We’re not fighting with the PJ tour. The PJ tour is America. It’s PJ Tour. And we’re trying to bring around the world. Everybody’s watching around the world. Just US hasn’t got in there yet. And when you think of F1 with the team aspect where you’re playing against your teammate, but also you’re trying to win the the constructor’s cup. Um you know, that’s the same thing we’re trying to The Range Goats are trying to win the championship, but also you’re trying to win individually. I enjoy the team aspect of it. I I think they’re I enjoy the team aspect of I think you guys got sick merch, too. Range goats. Great name. Well, we you know, we actually put some thought into it. You know, the golf ball, the golf tea is I like that. And then you got swamps. Then you got that’s that’s the irons. If you can see Oh, yeah. The bits. Yeah. And then you got hooks and slices as the horns. Oh, and then you got the the rough is like the goatee. the we actually think wow good logo Bubba good logo and then and then when you think of goat we think of greatest of all time and for me it’s it’s twofold I had going through some mental struggles so it’s grow on a team and then it’s golfers on a team so goat stands for something else to me and then a driving range was the funny part because the range is like where I don’t like to go I like to go play golf so I hate going to the driving range so it just it just tied in some funny parts as part of the team logo. And you talked about some mental stuff. What was that? I assume golf is a tough game. I I was a punter, obviously, kicker in college. A lot of in between the years. I think pitchers experience a similar type thing. It’s a lot of or shooting a free throw. Yeah. Free throw. It’s a lot of in between the years. Is that what you’re talking about? Mental stuff? 100%. And what I my struggle was I was putting I was putting when I played golf in 24 hours of Golf Channel. Um, when I was playing golf and I’d shoot bad, it it it made me think of that’s they were judging me as a person, you know, because I shot 75 or I or I double bogey the last hole to lose or triple bogey the one of the holes. And so I was letting that define who Bubba Watson was. Um, and so I was going the wrong way. It took many years. It didn’t, it wasn’t overnight. It was started from like 200, we’ll say 2009 all the way up to like 2014. And um I went from 200 lb to 160 lbs. So I went to the doctor. I did all these tests and the doctor said, “There’s nothing wrong with you.” And I said, “Well, there is. Look at me.” And um it was just anxieties and stress were eating me alive. And I was just I was eating foods. I wasn’t changing my diet, but I was losing weight. That’s when we realized I was just battling anxieties and stress and um letting golf dictate who I was as a person. Yeah. Control your happiness. Uh the outcome of something that’s might be out of your control in this entire thing. Did you have imposter syndrome out there? Um, you think that led to I faked it. You’re saying? No. Do you like imposter syndrome is whenever you um you basically think to yourself, I don’t deserve what I am currently doing right now. You you start to question whether or not you’re supposed to be where you are. For sure. 100%. You you you think about all I had that I want to let you know. I had that as a punter. I have that on a very regular basis in this current life. It is something I think a lot of people battle with. I think we all do it, right? especially as men cuz men don’t want the first thing I had to do is when I I fell to my knees when I finally realized I have to change I went to my wife in 21 years of marriage I had to go tell her the truth right like I mean I she knows everything about me like 98% you know like and so so you have to tell her the truth who you are you’re weak you’re not this man this great man that everybody thinks you are or you think you are you’re weak and so I had to go and talk to her and share her my true feelings and my thoughts and then I’d go talk Teddy. Teddy was on my bag at that time. Now it’s better a gig with with Sheffler. But um I think everybody goes through it, brother. Right. And so that’s what I’m saying. I think as in men in general have that problem. Come on. Way to battle. Yeah. For sure. That’s not easy, man. That is not Especially in the sport of golf. I’ve actually given up the game. So is Connor. Yeah. Conor. I don’t know. You got that new swing now. Whatever. Whatever that elbow thing was. That was tough. I got a pool, brother. I got a pool, bro. Oh my god. You got a video. I watched that video. It’s a good social the pocket. Thank you AJ. AJ get in the slot. You got to get in the slot. I’m out here in whatever the hell that is. Yeah. What? Yeah. Whatever that is. What’s your guys? You don’t pull with this, man. This is the I’m I’m even showing you righty. And And this is what you come through with. This just going to react to it. God, I hate the sport. Thought you had it. I thought I figured out. Watch this. Look at this. Look. Put Can you put it up back here? Look at this. Just like me. They’re pulling. Yeah, but what’s leading it? The shoulder. That front shoulder is leading it all. So, I’m pulling. I need to pulling like when I’m when I’m axing. Don’t do that. Go put them put them wrist down a little bit. Yeah. It’s too far out. I see. What What’s the uh what’s the uh the golfer Kiwan? Uh yeah. Yeah. With with the Japanese I believe the shallow swing. Have you ever seen this guy? He’s Instagram. Haven’t told me a name yet. Huh? Well, that’s the issue, man. That’s kind of some Japanese guy. He’s a Japanese guy. He’s at a driving range and which is not just a driving range. Mountain beautifully. Yeah. Gorgeous. And then every time he he just has this nice smooth just like easy swing and it’s a draw every time into the sky. He’s so cool. And then he says just do the shallow swing. It’s like I’m trying brother. Okay. I watch every video you got. I watch this BJ tour one. I need to pull that thing into here. Bubba, you want no lessons? No lessons. No lessons. So, do you think that’s potentially a part of the problem that you were having? Because I think um you rely on your fundamentals in the high pressure moments. I think No, I think if you look at if you look at um the greatest golfers, right? I think that they have something unique. Arnold Palmer, you’re not going to teach Arnold Palmer swing. You’re going to teach Jack Nicholas swing, Scotty Sheffler. Um you’re not going to teach that. And I think some of the some of the there is some robots, we’ll call them robots on golf swings. Nick Faldo was one who who was um very good. He could get in that robotic mood and just play golf to the best ability. Um but like Scotty Sheffler, I mean he’s moving everywhere. His feet are dancing everywhere. But you’re not you don’t teach that. That’s kind of self-taught, but then he’s worked on the fine details. We are wrapping up here on ESPN. We’ll continue on YouTube, ESPN Plus, Disney Plus with Bubba, an absolute legend. And uh remember Tom Cruz is on our show tomorrow. Bubba got bumped today for Tom Cruz tomorrow. Yep. Everybody understands. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. Might change your life. Goodbye. All right. We’re still live, obviously. Okay. So, what do I need to work on? You think I don’t want to quit the sport entirely. Okay. I like the sport. At one point, it was my goal to work enough. All the boys can become rich. Got a bet. I can disappear. Yeah. I got a 30-year bet with this guy. I got a 30-year bet with this guy. Bubba thinks about that. Yeah. He owes me 10 million bucks. I make the cut. I thought it was 20. I think it’s 50 now. Inflation. Who knows? Tariffs. Yeah, you’re right. Yeah. All of this. You’re 100% right. 100 million. This guy owes me 50 million bucks if I can make the cut at a senior PGA event. So, I got what 30 years or whatever to make that happen. What do I need to work? How old are you now? 38. Okay. Got to make a cut. Got to make a cut. If you do that, whatever that wing thing you’re doing, but a champions tour doesn’t have a cut. So, that’s a good point. Yeah. Give me an exemption, brother. Top 20. You get a top 20 of a champions event, then you go then you count. That’s different. We never said that. Never said that, brother. But what is what is the number one thing you see amateur golfers doing that you think to yourself like doofus? Like this is this is so simple. Like what I know you I don’t know how often you get to play. Maybe proams or something like that. You get to see I play all the time at home with amateurs. Oh yeah. I play with the members all the time. I love it. What is the biggest thing? Obviously I hit a massive slice of the biggest thing is chipping and putting. That’s what changes the game. Yeah. My putt, my flick is the worst. But but nobody But what what do you think about when you’re putting just a person wants to go putt and chip? They want to hit the driver. Amen. We want to hit it hard, right? We want to fly it. Yeah. Far long, too. Yeah. Won’t hit that thing long. Exactly. Talk about good wood. Yeah. Great wood. Big wood. You’re telling me I need to putt a little bit more. Yeah. Putting chip. That’s where the That’s where you’re going to lose the most strokes. You’re only hitting a driver at most 14 times. So, you’re chipping and putting a lot more than that. You’re putting what? 30 times at best. So, you got to practice putting and chipping. We’re putting a lot more than that. Bubba, well, I was trying to let you know we’re putting a lot more than that. Debb has a question for you. We kind of talked about it the uh the team aspect of live and I don’t I don’t know specifically through your journey how many teams you played on golf up until that point. But how long did it take you to get used to that? Because golf is such an individual sport. Most of us played team sports up here. And some of those days when you may feel like [ __ ] or you don’t have your best stuff, you got a teammate to kind of lean on and pick you up. So, how long did it take you to get used to that aspect on the professional level? Yeah, so it’s it’s interesting. Um, high school golf is team. You have five guys, four scores count. So, then when you go to college, same thing. Five guys, four go four scores count. And um, so I’ve I’ve been at every level. I played on the team and then Ryder Cup and President’s Cup are our two biggest events um throughout the year. Um, and so for me when they brought this to my attention about how people are following teams and and that’s where sports are going. Um, it was a no-brainer for me. And then it go back to the mental side. For me, it was I get to help people when I when I’m done playing and somebody’s taken my spot and I’m still the owner um, captain and overseer of this team. I get to lay into these these boys trying to teach them, try to help them. Right now, Matthew Wolf’s on my team who went through some struggles. And so, I’ve been able to put my arm around him and talk to him and and show him even younger than than I went through it. He’s even younger. So, he’s 26 years old. So, I get to try to help him going forward. Um, the team aspect, I know that now I’m playing for the guys next to me. So, I’m going to not pout as much. I’m going to try to save as many strokes as I can. It might be a it might be a one over that day or overpar that day, but it might be better than somebody else. So, I’ve got to lead by example and show that I’m not a quitter and I’m going to fight through even my struggles. Um, but then at the same time, you’re watching three other guys and hopefully you’re watching them and you learn from them or or or want to uh battle with them, especially our team championship at the end of the year is when you’re where it’s match play. Um, so yeah, you don’t want to let them down. And now golf finally it’s like football. The guy next to you, if he’s working 100%, you’re working 100%. Your team has a chance to pull it out or win that day. Yeah. team. Rder Cup’s always been sweet to watch in the golf aspect and the idea who’s up, who’s down, who who do we need, everybody rallying around it. And I think that was a fascinating thing whenever Liv launched that, like, hey, we’re going to make a a solo sport, a single sport into a team sport as well. We think it’ll be fun. Then obviously the music, I don’t love it, the music, but I appreciate what it is. It’s like a sign of like, hey, you can do golf differently. Then obviously the shorts, I think I That was wild. We went away from shorts, by the way. Pants only. pants and pants now in golf unless it’s over 90° but then it’s still subjective. So basically pants. Okay. So we went to the pants. So we’re still evolving trying to create this which is kind of what Debbuds was saying in the entirety. We’re not at the finished product of live from what you understand of the inside workings of Liv. This is going to be we we got runway for this thing to continue to grow 100%. So the live PGA negotiations that have been chat about I don’t know how much you know I’m not going to ask you to be on the inside of a massive negotiation international negotiation with a lot of political play well as well but do you think Liv would need a PJ partnership to continue or is Liv saying we’re going to continue for the next 10 years regardless of what happens? I I live is here to stay. Liv’s not going anywhere. Okay. Uh the people behind Liv is is it’s not going anywhere. Um, you’re looking at changing uh culture. You’re looking at changing uh the game itself. America is a is a small piece of our world and golf is global and golf is getting golf is getting global more and more. So, we’re going to places that the PJ tour is not or European tour is not. So, we’re trying to show golf in different areas. Um, it’s just like soccer or or football is now played in the United States. We never really watched it until now, you know. Um, now it’s shown on ESPN. We’re watching, you know, the Euro Cup and all these different things. So, it’s just sports is going global now. And so, we’re not battling the PJ tour. The PJ tour um is here to stay as well. Um, our viewer, we have 30% of our people that show up to our events are um have never been to a professional golf event. So, that means we are growing the game outside of the PGA Tour or or outside of our country. Um, and so that’s what we’re doing. We’re trying to just show it in a different light and get more people to watch and play. And that’s kind of what we’re doing. And it’s it’s global and not just America. Yeah. I uh I appreciate that the you know, the mission is a lot different than how we view it cuz we’re just like, where the hell is this? We have no idea where we can watch this. We know there’s a lot of superstars over there. We’re big fans of yours. We’re big fans of Brooks. We’re big fans of DJ. We’re big fans of Rombo. We’re big fans of Comm Wolf. Oklahoma State kid. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Big fan of him. There’s a lot of guys we’re big fans of, but we can’t find it. For you guys, the mission isn’t just like, hey, we need everybody in America watching this right now. Right now, it’s we’re trying to grow the game globally. We’re trying to captivate audiences and uh maybe markets that haven’t been touched before. And then inevitably, America’s going to come is the assumption. That’s the hope. That’s the dream. Um we don’t it you want it to. Do you need it to? Not right now you don’t, but you but you want it to happen. Yeah, 100%. Um F1’s what got three didn’t have races before. now has got three races in the United States. Um, we have a few events in the United States. We’re coming here uh August. Yeah. August 15th through the 17th. And by the way, I’ll give you a prom. Y’all want to play in the ProAm? I I haven’t asked anybody, but I’ll make y’all play in the ProAm if you want to play in it. Hey, I think I’ve quit the game, but some of the boys here. Yeah, you got new swing now. You’re you’re going to be chipping and putting. You You said my swing is ass. That’s why I said chip and putt. Okay. All right. Yeah, cuz we need to get to the green. Okay. August 15th through the 17th, you guys are going to come to uh Chattam Hills Golf Club. Yes. Which is a beautiful place. I assume every course you go to is beautiful. That’s why golf is so awesome. Such beautiful views, such beautiful scenes, such a beautiful sport. Uh which was why my goal was to get enough money to be able to go to a place. I wanted a gated neighborhood on water golf cartable to three different golf courses. And that was just going to be my that was it. That was that was going to be my retirement. That was going to be my entire life. Is there a place like that that exists? You tell me. The villages, old people. That’s where I’m trying to head to. That’s That was the goal. That is Yeah, that’s where Florida somewhere. This exists somewhere. Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has a place. Uh I was there this It is basically what I’ve been looking for, but I quit the game. So now I don’t know. Now I don’t know what the future is. And with your motivational tactics you just tried to give me here, it wasn’t the right play. You telling me it was ass was not going to challenge me to get better. It actually It was the universe telling me I need to [ __ ] quit sporting. I agree. So me and Connor will definitely come to the prom. Foxy needs to be in that though. No, no one wants to watch me play in that. AJ needs to be in there. AJ’s a player, dude. This guy an actual player. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Bubba. I a question I’ve always had for professional golfers. Does it help to almost be dumb out there or naive to everything going on around you? I feel like that’s why, you know, the weekend warrior golfer drinks 10 12 beers, gets catch a little buzz, and he starts playing his best golf. Like I feel like sometimes it’s very easy for people to overanalyze every single aspect of their golf shot. Is that something that professionals struggle with? 100%. I I think that the the greats of the game know how to block everything out and focus or or refocus if they get off for the first couple holes. Um, that’s one of my struggles is is trying to get away from all the stuff behind the the ropes. Um, I’ve been able to do it a few times, but when you get in the zone, um, you don’t even realize what people are saying, what people are wearing, or what people are doing. Um, but most of the time I fail because I’ve only won 12 times on the PJ tour. But lost 300 plus 12. That’s a dozen, brother. Yeah. Yeah. But I’ve lost what, 300, 400 times. So, uh, mentally I was going to do the math there. percentage on an egg. That’s But mentally though, like Tiger Woods, um Cory Paven was my idol when it comes to mental stuff. Um he’s an old player. I don’t know if you know who that is. I know the history of the sport. Exactly. And then um and then now you got Scotty Sheffler. Scotty Sheffller looks like he’s just he’s not even paying attention. He’s barely talking to Teddy when he’s out there. So So you are trying to lock in. You’re trying to because you’re it’s it’s like you said, it’s punters. It’s pitchers. You’re trying to stay in your moment and and try to pull off that that that kick that that that throw. I mean, you’re trying to hit that swing. You’re trying to get in the slot, you know? Yeah. Come out of the pocket. Get in the slot. I want to get in that. Damn. You got That looks good, man. Thank you. You guys looking better, Bubba? I already quit the game. I don’t need to hear your [ __ ] Go ahead, Connor. Also, quit the game. Yeah, I did quit the game. No, no point to play. But, uh, speaking of like kind of getting out of that mental rut, as a two-time Masters champion, when you see Rory kind of get it done this year at Augusta, obviously we all saw the massive, you know, weight off his shoulders, the emotion after he finishes that Grand Slam at watching it as someone who’s been through that struggle of a 4-day bender in Augusta trying to win that green jacket. How did you feel? And is there like a community of Green Jackets who kind of were pumped and excited for Rory and welcomed him in to the clubhouse and everything like that? And could you relate to him as he did? Cuz I remember when you won your green jacket. It was a very emotional uh scene as well. 100%. Uh when I won mine, I just adopted my son, my first child, u two weeks before. And then when I won, I was thinking about me becoming a dad and my dad being passed away in 2010. And so just a lot of emotions of battling to get to where I was. Um and with Rory, yeah, it’s a it’s a different kind of battle. I mean, he was up there. I mean, he was the cream of the crop. He’s still the cream of the crop, but he was up there. Had a chance to win the Masters a few times. Yeah. I sent him a text right away. Told him how um how awesome it was to see. Very good player, very good talented player. Um and he said, “I can’t wait to have a locker next to yours and I can’t wait for Tuesday night dinner.” Um that was his respon. How much do you guys judge how shitty the dinner’s going to be by who the winner is? And is that already happening? You know. Oh, that’s been h Well, for me it happens all the time. I try to eat before. Oh, so you’re not worried about their dinner? Yeah, I care with it. Oh, this one was good this past year. Scotty’s Scotty has the sliders. So, it’s kind of appetizer. So, he has the sliders and this year he put the French fries on top of the sliders. Oh, Pittsburgh. Oh, yeah. So, I I was I was eating that all up. Okay. So, you’re in a lot of wine, too, right? In kind of the the Augusta thing. Yeah. There’s some guys Yeah. that they they provide it. Um, some guys drink it, some guys don’t. Um, and then some guys because it because the past champion has to he has to pay for everything. So, guys are getting bottles of wine and getting him to sign it and so they can take it to their trophy case and so it’s just more money on the bill just there’s a there’s I don’t know I don’t know the place. There’s a wine thing down in the basement down Yeah, there’s down underground. They have a lot of secret rooms around that place. Is that right? Yeah. You didn’t hear that from me, though. No. No, of course not. And I’ve never been there either. Um there’s like some very expensive [ __ ] downstairs. Oh yeah, they got some they got some heavy duty stuff down there. I’m not know anything about they got some presidential stuff down there, I think. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they got some heavy from what I’ve been told. You ever been there? How about the the junior or the amateur crows nest? Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. It’s right above like Champions Locker is. So it’s right above Champions Locker. Yeah. Yeah. So you would go through there and then you would just go up there and then you’d walk down around. Yeah. four. It’s I think there’s four or five beds up there, but then there’s like no like it’s like um it’s like a dorm room. It’s like a dorm room. There’s no doors. Like you’re just a lot of research. Just random. Yeah. I just heard about this. Well, that Bennett kid when Bennett when the Bennett kid was in it a few years ago. We Yeah, that’s how we learned about There’s a card game up there, too. What’s the card there? They have like a table set up for a card. I wasn’t good as an amateur. I never got to stay up there. Have you ever gone up there? I’ve been up there, but I’ve never like stayed up there. I think a Manning uh the one that played for New York destroyed a toilet up there. Okay. That was sad. So they um this year I do know this year the amateurs got out of there on Tuesday. Um they stayed like Monday night, Tuesday night and then they got out like they then they go stay somewhere else. Yeah. Quinn bets. Yeah. It’s not it’s not comfortable. And then you want to go stay with your family. It’s your first masters as an amateur and all these things. So you want to go stay with your family and friends. I do think Liv um talking about staying in the week before leadup brought a lot of light to what life was like in a PJ tour before Liv that I don’t think any of us knew about. Nope. about how much you could lose money basically if you even if you’re a big star and then I think was it Jordan’s dad did some rating bonus thing because they’re like not making a cut losing a bunch of money but showcasing your downfall basically every Thursday and Friday so that the ratings would go up so the PJ tour would be making money it was like a one-way contract basically move the needle bonus yeah there that was basically what it was pretty sure like that is essentially yeah and if you were featured and how much and you get a bonus at the end of the season and everything like that social clips of of shots like if it was you and they went and it had a bunch of impressions or views or whatever that speed was like a statistician or something like that. Top 10 got paid that. Bingo. Yeah. Yeah. We had no idea that PJ was like a one-way road though. Like I I I my last year on the PJ I was top 10. I got a I got a little bonus. Hey Bubba must watch. That’s cuz this pink driver would be out there. We knew that the boy was going to be sending some big time big shots. But I didn’t know that was what the PJ tour was for so long. Obviously, everybody’s lucky to be a professional golfer and they feel that, but we had no idea like big stars potentially losing thousands, tens of thousands of dollars whenever they’re not making a cut. We just assumed that it was a part of a contract in that entire thing. So, I think that was good whenever Liv came out and I think that PJ tours changed because of that. I didn’t know that was your guys’ life in the PGA tour. Yeah. So, you don’t you don’t you have to prove to earn, right? Like you to make your money and so I know of a player now, a caddy um Paul Taori. probably shouldn’t have called him out, but he played on the PJ tour. He went to University of Florida, got his PJ tour card, lo missed every cut. 17 cuts in a row he missed. So, he never made a dollar that year. So, think about if you’re if you’re at let’s just make up a number back then, $1,500 a week to your caddy um back then. And then your hotel, I mean, you know, your flights, your food, if you have a trainer, if you have a coach, I mean, you’re you’re back then you’re probably five, five, six, anywhere from 5 to $10,000 down. So 17 weeks of $10,000 down. I mean, you’re in debt. You’re like, congrats. You’re a professional golfer. You’ve lost $200,000 on a season. Yeah, that was crazy to learn about. I I think that is something that live kind of changed golf for the future uh for the professional golf. the elevated events that started taking place with the more prize pools were good. Do you feel is there a sense of pride by you live guys that that has happened? Well, I mean for me you he was asking about the team earlier. For me, I wanted to I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and for me to have a franchise. It’s a golf franchise. I mean, it’s a dream come true to be able to be in the sport like that and own a franchise. Um, so yeah, I mean, I take pride in being able to to think outside the box and do something different. And if it does help the PJ tour players, great. Nobody’s trying to hurt the PJ tour players. Nobody’s trying to hurt professional golf. We’re we’re trying to help professional golf and grow it around the world. And so, yeah, it’s it’s it’s definitely better than it was for the PJ tour players. Um, but it’s still topheavy. I mean, the guys that are, you know, now there’s only what 70 or 75 guys keep their tour card instead of 125. So, there’s things that they’ve changed positive and negative on all fronts. Same thing with Liv. We’ve changed things positive and negative. are trying to figure it all out. Uh Q school still happen or no? And what does Liv have that’s like that? Cuz I know there is a we have we have guys fall off. There’s four or five four I think now six guys fall off our our our league. And so if you don’t finish in the top 48, you fall off our league. There’s a qualifier as of right now. Um where one spot gets on to live. Um and PJ Tour has a qualifier. They So like let’s say for instance, okay, I hit this golf sim up here. Okay, so you’re back into golf. This is a hypothetical. For instance, it’s a hypothetical bubble. But let’s say I figure out that slot. You know, I hit that shallow far from the deep end. Chipping and putting right down here. I can win a tournament and be in the live league 100%. Do you guys test for weed for you? No. Okay. Okay. Maybe we do have a path. Maybe we do have a path to professional golf in this entire thing. I think like the US Open, right? There’s a qualifier for it. I always like that. Like cuz I watched that um break make it break it. Uh it was on Golf Channel. Big break. Big break. I used to watch that. I love that. Tony Feno. Yeah. Was on the big break. Really? He break some glass. I mean the the the controlling. I love that. But I also love the fact that like you got an opportunity not to go do it, but then people would lose their cards and then they get back in there. Feels like a grind. Let’s talk about the schedule at the PJ and what your life was like. Now, Liv, obviously Dustin Johnson has spoke about it. Hey, it’s less work, more money. Like, that is clearly a business model for Dustin Johnson and part of his decision-m. You guys are on the road Tuesday through hopefully like Sunday. How does that work? Yeah, there’s no more cut. So, we’re we’re there for the whole week. Um, but I try to go in on Monday to get practice because nobody’s out there. Um, even if I’m traveling overseas, I try to get in there a little bit early. Um, now that my my kids are older, so now my kids come out and go to the tournaments with me. They’re allowed on the range with me. They’re um they’re allowed to do whatever. I’m the owner of the team, so they’re allowed to ride with me wherever I want to go. I’m Jerry Jones. Yeah, exactly. I mean, hey, our team sucks, but we’re trying to um We got a great logo. Yeah, exactly. The logo is the key battle. Yeah. And so, you know, I I love it. We’re We’re We have time off. PJ Tour quit having time off. we started going year round and so um being able to spend time with my kids and watch them play sports is a dream come true. Um and they love watching me play golf. My son’s getting old enough now he can walk all 18 holes and follow me and so it’s a blast out there like going to Spain and London. Uh we’re going to stop over in Rome, let him see Rome for a couple days and um Wow, I love it. But now going back to the PJ tour schedule, there was 40 events. Uh, for me, you pick you pick your top 20 courses you believe fit your game and so then you can do that. But now on live, it’s tougher because you got 14 weeks, you have to play in all 14. No matter if all courses suck for you or all courses are good for you, you have to change your game and try to figure out your game and how you can play and attack each course. Even though it might not be the courses you want to play at. And on the PJ tour, out of 40, you can find some that you can uh play well and perform at so you can keep your card. Okay. Uh, you said you’re walking your oldest uh are walking a What happened to hovercraft? What happened to the hover thing? Insurance. Oh, yeah. That’s dangerous. That thing’s dangerous, man. Hard to stop. Uh, no. It stops quick. That’s the problem. No seat belts. Yeah. 9 in of air. So, when you let off the gas, that thing just drops and it just digs in the ground. It’s a paper weight. If you’re over water, you better not let go. You’re going off. You better You better keep holding that gas. How? So, the golf boys, is that what it was? I think it was Golf Boys. Yeah. What a time. I’m thinking about going solo. I’ve been thinking about this. I still have my overalls. You look great in them. Yeah. Do you still have the hovercraft? Um I can I can probably pull it out of the garage. Do you got any bars because didn’t you guys sing and rap and this? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You’ve been writing songs? I’ve always got ideas in my head. Remember I told you I got mental issues. I got there’s always things. That was a great moment. Golf has been fantastic. You’ve been one of the trailblazers of it. Tai has a question for you. Speaking of courses that kind of fit your style, going back to Augusta, do you feel like anytime you show up there, are you in the mindset like, “Hey, I have a chance to win this week.” Like I always look at a guy like Boom Boom Couples who, you know, no matter how old he gets, come Saturday, he made the cut. He’s one under. Now he’s getting older, so he might, you know, shoot 78, 80 on Saturday and Sunday. But when you go back to Augusta, no matter how you’re playing, do you always feel like, hey, if I if I have it going, you know, early here, like I have a shot to win another green jacket. 100%. And Freddy is my example. Every you’ll see Freddy’s name somewhere on that leaderboard the first couple days. And maybe he wakes up too early and he can’t tee off at 2:00 the next day cuz that’s his nap time, but he, you know, he he’s always up there, right? And so I always believe there’s not much rough there, so I believe I can hit crazy shots and get out of the trees. This year is the first time ever I led the field in putting and it happened to be at the Masters this year. Um I’ve been working hard on my putting and and changing things. But um I can remember four shots that cost me anywhere from six to eight shots and those would you know I’d be I’d be about second place, third place somewhere in there and challenging for the win. Man, that’s golf, isn’t it? I’m happy to hear you go through this as well. Crazy. That’s golf right there. If I didn’t hit it, that probably Yeah. And that changes because that is golf. But it’s it’s like we talked about Rom. If that ball hits soft or or a little bit more to the the right on 17, he might tap in birdie and now it’s a whole different animal, right? But it it bounced into the water. And so it’s the same thing. I hit a ball in the water on 16. I hit a ball in the water on 13 on my drive. Um so those are the two that I know of. But there’s four swings that I went back and looked at that that cost me a chance for a top three are battling for for a win. Seeing what you just said is why me and Connor quit the sport. Yeah, exactly. No. Come back, boys. I mean, there there’s a chance that I can get back in a league. I I didn’t know there was a chance I could get into a golf a professional golfer, you know? I’ve been professional wrestler, uh, professional soccer player, professional football player, professional baseball player, WWE. Yeah. Right. It’s going global now. Oh, yeah. It always has, man. Okay. But think about if if the NFL network only showed 10 NFL teams, right? Like we’re we’re talking about a global sport. So PJ tour is is America and Liv is trying to go worldwide. I mean every sport now is going worldwide because there’s other opportunities out there. Football’s going in Germany now, Mexico. Germany Germany had like two million people waiting in a queue or a million people waiting. That’s what I’m saying. And golf is people are waiting. The people I saw that Australia clip, right? Wasn’t that Australia? Adelaide. What’s the What’s the best stop you’ve been on that’s kind of surprised you on the Ad Adelaide is getting is bigger and bigger. I mean, we’re we’re at a 50,000 people a day. I mean, and you’re just we’re talking about like we’re talking about the ropes. Some of the ropes are on the fairway. I’m like, how am I gonna hit this fairway? I’m gonna hit these people. Um, but they just I think Australians are down with it. They love they love their sport down there and all they want to do is shies. I just want to win so I can do a Shuy. I don’t want to do a Shuy, but I just want to win. Yeah. For the people to do a Shuy. Yeah. It’s very nice of you. You’re one of the guys. I just got shown a video that I did not know existed. Um, you had a jetpack as well. We’re talking about the hover. You had a jetpack. It wasn’t legal in the United States, just for the record. So international is I think we they tested it in New Zealand. Is that you? That’s not you. Tom Cruz. I do my own stunts, guys. I eat popcorn. I literally eat. So does Tom Cruz. Yeah. So does TZ. So does Tom Cruz. Bubba. There was no butter on that popcorn. You can tell that was fake. What? Don’t need butter. Are you You’re a butter guy. I can tell you. I didn’t get butter this morning, but I am a butter guy. He He was having popcorn at 7:30 this morning in honor of Tom Cruz. Amen. Okay. So, have a little bit of respect behind. I didn’t know you were in a jetpack. These exist. Did you feel safe in the United States? It’s illegal in the United States. Let me make sure I say that again. It’s illegal. Did you feel safe in that? Did you fly in there? No, I feel I’m scared of everything. I play golf for a living. I walk for a living. That seems pretty easy getting in and out of that thing for every shot you It’s not about the golf. It’s more about the look, right? It’s style. You’re right. You got I tell you what, you have a helmet on, take the helmet off, pull the club a whole like amusement, but it’s going to be hard to land in the trees where we’re going to be. At the same time, you want to do it, right? I’ve been looking for a jetack for years, bro. You play golf again if that was the case. You know what? Maybe two if I could. If I could throw the ball, maybe that is what I would do. That thing ain’t going to be able to land where I am. I just talked about the trees. That [ __ ] ain’t going to be That’s a fairway golfer. Good for you. Yeah, but you take a drop. I mean, you you fly that thing over the green. I would hit a little club. Yep. Out of the sky, let that thing drop down like one of those uh you know, whenever they do the ball drop on the green at those uh golf or whatever. Yeah, that’s what I would be like. Bubba, you’re an innovator, brother. The brain always going. I love that you’re running your own business. Good for golf. Let’s head over to hammer. Todd Ton Diggs has a question for you. Yeah, Bubba. There’s been a uh lot of talk about uh on our show about the difference between regular season and playoff and the atmosphere for that. And then there was a lot of talk at Quail Hollow kind of that it’s a regular season PGA stop, you know, and a lot of people were upset that a regular season PGA stop was was a major course. What is the main difference between a regular season event versus a major as far as the course go and the atmosphere goes? And then the uh upcoming our hometown, we got Oakmont coming up. Uh, how’s the setup for Oakmont? Well, I I first of all, they’re going to change the course a little bit. They’re going to set it up tougher. Um, they added TE’s. I mean, there was a bunch of holes over 500 yards, which I thought was silly. Number nine was one of the toughest holes they play on the regular season. And then to add, I think 40 or 50 yards u was crazy. Uh, the rough is up, the greens are firmer, tougher pin placements. So, they’re going to trick it up as much as they can. But then the atmosphere, the um knowing what it is going into it, you’re trying to win a major for the first time, second time, third time, whatever it is. Um the media hype behind it is is really where it just starts going in your head and your energy level and you start getting pumped up. But yeah, they definitely trick the course up as much as they can. I mean, is that how you guys describe it? Trick it up. They trick it up. Yeah. I mean, it’s putting these trick bins in this [ __ ] but it’s I mean, it’s the only sport. We keep changing the the field, right? There’s no other sport. You’re not you’re not changing three-point line is the only thing we’ve changed in what 50 years of basketball. So, um you know, Pebble Beach plays at the same place, but Pebble Beach when it’s a a US Open, nobody says, “Ah, it’s just a regular.” It’s Pebble Beach. I mean, it’s hard as can be when they set it up. And I think that’s the same thing they did with uh with Charlotte. Oakmont is Oakmont is crazy. Even on a regular day, Oakmont with the rough up. I finished fifth there in ‘ 07 um when Anel Cabrera won and um the rough was I mean the rough felt like it was a foot deep. There was nothing Pittsburgh brother. Yeah, there was nothing you could do. And now there’s no trees there. Like they’ve changed the trees. You can see the whole golf course now. Um but they’re still going to have the high rough uh without without rain. It’s going to be firm and fast like Lynx golf but then with high rough. Um so yeah, they’re going to like I said, they’re going to we call it tricking it up. They’re going to put the pins in crazy places where you’re gonna have to missing the green sometimes is better than hitting the green because of the the chip’s going to be easier than a long putt. We knew these majors were tricking w we knew they were out there tricking it up. Uh Bubba, you said you’ve been working on your putting and then there’s a uh potential proam here at Chattam Hills Golf Club August 15th through the 17th live golf event. Uh welcome to Indian Anna by the way. I don’t know where Chadam Hills is that in Indianapolis. I have no idea. I think I think Caramel. Yeah. Up north. Nice area. It’s one of It’s for us. It’s It’s here. It’s in Indiana. Indian Indianapolis. Yeah, Indianapolis. It’s in Indianapolis. It’s close enough. It’s north. It’s north of Indianapolis in uh Westfield. Okay. Westfield. Beautiful. Just for the record, there will be goats on the driving range for you. We always bring goats like Chicago and now we’re here. So, we’re going to bring some goats in. So, we have a petting zoo on the golf course. Oh, man. Little miniature goats or fulls size uh goats. I think they’re all small, right? But no, there is miniature. We had miniature in Chicago. You guys should sacrifice. Okay, maybe I can turn the team around. Maybe turn the team around. We did. You want to buy some goat meat? Slit one throat for a drink some of the black in Adelaide. We had on the sixth hole we had like a you know there’s a party hole and then on the sixth hole this year was like the the family the kids party hole and we had I think we had 12 goats. So there was like a petting zoo of goats and so that was their party hole. The kids Wow. So you guys are trying to make it. Yeah. So we met the range goats. We brought it out ourselves and we How do you feel about the music? How do you feel about the music? I think I live you you’ve been to some events live I think it’s okay on TV it doesn’t it it doesn’t mesh well on TV if there’s a way to get TV no music but live it’s fine you’ve been to a few of them for sure I mean and if the environment I feel like it’s kind of more upbeat you know Pn you still yeah you’re around the golf you still respect you know they’re teeing off and doing putting and [ __ ] but like it’s golf a lot they got little stations set up in different places for different vibes different setups concessions or whatnot. But, uh, I I liked it. I enjoy it. I’m a guy that’s new newer to golf. I got into golf like 2 three years ago. So, it was great for me to just have another option. Uh, obviously I want to see the best players playing against each other every week. Um, but it’s definitely a different version of golf and it’s kind of how I play golf. I’m out with the boys, we got speakers, we’re drinking, we’re doing our things. Definitely a different vibe for sure. Definitely. I I can’t golf without music personally. Yeah. Can’t. But you hate music. Yeah. I just don’t want to hear I love DJ Khaled. Yeah, I don’t need him screaming weed the best as somebody who’s trying to, you know, make a a tournament winning putt. It doesn’t translate to TV. That’s the issue. It’s hard for me to be like, “Oh, this is serious.” When uh it’s my playlist being played while Rombo Bombo’s about to throw his club into the dam. You know, it’s just uh I think there’s a couple things that golf has gotten right. Like, hey, golf has gotten right. But I do like that they’re exploring the space and we’re trying to kind of make it bigger. And uh what did you think about TGO? Did you watch? I thought it I thought it was good. I I’m interested to see how season 2 will go because they added the Motor City machine guns. That’s right. But not till 27. Oh, so they’re saying it’s going to be two more years. They got to get the team together. Got to be around for that. It might not even pop up. Um so Well, that’s what we were saying actually. I I was I was pumped that he got another season. Oh yeah. Whenever I heard Motor City Machine Guns are going to get a team, that’s the name. Yeah. Tenatively. Yeah. I thought it was like the Motor City Hot Dogs or something dumb like that. No, no, you’re talking about the Weeny mobile race. It’s got a year. It might change. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. But I didn’t know it was 2027 cuz I heard 2020. Like next season is what I thought. I’m like, “Congrats to TGL. We got another year is what I thought.” You’re saying they’re saying we got at least two more years of this, which I think is good. I enjoyed it. I think it had a lot of I think it had a lot of opportunity. Is that how you’re feeling? But I Yeah, I think that um it had great opportunities. It had a it had a great concept. I think that um but how are we going to do it if it’s the same in the same building in the same shots? And I heard rumor they’re trying to build one somewhere else right now. But if it’s in the same area, same shots, how are we going to change it up? And like I’m a part of it. How are we going to change it up? But um golf we won’t say we I would go um you might have to get some celebrities in there. See some shanks. I mean you got to you got to try to get something in there. golfers that are um not as good. You want some shanks in there? You want to I mean Tiger shanked one, I think, right? Got bladed one early. Not Billy Ho, brother. Best TGL player of all time. Won a championship. Hang his tarp. Yeah, he did. They do need to have more than one course, though. You’re right. It’s the It’s the same shot like so viewing it week after week, it’s like I’ve seen them do this shot. What do you want to do? Put windmills in front of the thing? Sure. They better. Or or like Actually, that would be a good idea. randomize. They make it like a putt putt operation like can you even get to the screen to get to the course and I was worried I was really worried about technology. How is technology going to you know work instead of have glitches but I think it worked pretty well. Our sim is the worst of all the worst. Not even a sim. It’s just a screen. It’s just I just hit into a blank screen. Don’t even turn the computer on cuz I know it’s not going to work. Is that how yours is? No, mine’s good at the house. That’s cuz you got that live money. Now, let’s talk let’s talk a little bit about uh August 15th through 17th as Live Golf makes its debut in Indianapolis, Indiana. I think y’all should go live out there. Just do this show live out there. Bubba, you’re a businessman as am I. There’s a chance. Okay. There’s the conversations are open. We are We are open for We’re starting a conversation today. Okay. Crown Prince. God bless him. We also like to uh talk to him. I just now like live golf and music. Mucus is great, you know. Not bad actually. Yeah. Morgan Wallen’s new album just runs right through. 37 of them. 37 songs. Actually, actually 35. I remember correctly. Somebody yesterday said 35. I watched the show, guys. Yeah. I think it’s actually 36 cuz I thought there was an intro. There is not an intro. There’s just an interlude. So, it’s 36 songs. All of them are currently on the whatever the top 50, top 100, whatever it is. Good for him. Absolute wagon. Um, shouldn’t he just I don’t know. Just as a business person, we could save some of these, can’t we, for another album? Yeah, maybe three albums. Yeah, people are putting out like eight song albums. He probably tour this for the next 20 years, though. I agree. And he probably will. But if he was to put out a 20 song album, people would be like, “Holy [ __ ] this guy’s got 20 songs. Old buddy just put out seven songs last week and thought it was a big deal.” And then he could drop a 17 song album on the back end of that. I just think because of how he’s he sings and how he I think he just is gonna pump out maybe a thousand. Is he gonna have a thousand bangers? Is that what the goal is? Well, I mean I guess cuz he’s young. Yeah. And just like golf, he can do that. Yeah. He’s on his way. You can do that long. He’s going to have a thousand bangers. Well, there’s going to be demand, too. You know what I mean? People will listen to this album, but then in like two years it’s going to be like But what if his next album only has like nine? But that would be a normal ass album. Exactly. You’re going to be like, “Well, where are the other ones?” Hey brother, we need you’re missing 30 songs here. But he there’s a chance he has a thou think Think about the song cataloges that people are selling right now. People are getting like 200 250 million for their cataloges, 300 million for the cataloges. If he has 500 songs that are all bangers. Yeah, that’s he’s going to be really congrats dude. Congratulations. Keep pumping out 30 I mean just Yeah. 37 hits. I don’t know how he does it. Now, speaking of hits, I very rarely hit the green, but if I get to the green, I can’t putt for [ __ ] We put this in here to try to tempt me into becoming a better putter. Okay? It’s right here. Walk across it every single day. Get some putts up. To your point, I hate it. I don’t do it cuz there’s seven balls out there. I’ll miss every single one. You should not though, Bubba. If you make five, you got a lefty putter. That’s fair. Yeah. Is five a good number? You think it’s got to be a ping. Do you have a ping? We don’t have a ping. Lifetime deal with ping, man. I got to use ping. You got to deal with ping. What is the lifetime? Make sure you say lifetime. Lifetime. That’s awesome. All right. How about this? Will you be able to put with the unselfable? Do we have I just put with a wedge? How about this? What is that? The alien wedge. I was watching the golf fix. Thank you very much. Had pool tubes. It was uh underneath my pool noodles underneath my arms. It was 2:15 a.m. and they put the undouffable on the screen. I said, “Shit, I douff all the time. I’mma buy that. Guess what you can do with this?” Three easy payments. You can Well, yes. And also, you can duff, Bubba. I have I have accomplished the impossible. Mission. Did you get your money back? No. You’re about to say mission impossible. Sorry, man. Yeah, that’s why you need to stop with cuz he didn’t eat the popcorn. He did. He did. No, he did. Let’s watch it again. Put it queue it up. Hold on. So, you literally can’t putt without a Do we have a [ __ ] I don’t think we have a ping. We have a lefty putter though. We do have a lefty putter. A lifetime deal. Boom. Right ping on Yeah. Just bleep it out. Okay. Boom. Five. You think? Five. I don’t know. You want to roll one? And then these golf balls right here. Yeah, they’re painting golf balls. Just nice shoes. They’re all about the money. Those are sick. Those are sweet. Yeah. Damn. Do you want to calibrate one first or do you want this to count? Let me see. Count it. Smooth butter, man. Count. All right. Okay. Smart. Let’s see. He said, “Yeah, we Okay. You got to make You want me to keep going or stop now?” Okay. Tone Digs at Hammer Downtown just said, “Do you gamble with Phil?” Do I? Yeah. I don’t gamble. All right, smart. I like that. I like that. I like that a lot. I like that play a lot. Stop gambling, too. I mean, this is easy. Did he? This is easy. Okay. How about this thing, Jake? Why? I’m going to I’m going to over here. Okay. Oh, it’s the undouffable. Please have a little respect for it. It’s righty. He said I’m going to give it to Duff. Okay. So, there’s five balls there. What is a good number here for you to make? Three with this. What? Chipping. It’s chipping. Oh, okay. So, two you got. All right. You got to go two out of these next four here. You got two out of Hold on, Bubba. Hold on. Jeez. In a groove. Darius is going to be at the ProAm, I assume, at Chattam Hills. Absolutely. AJ will also do the Chattam Hills Golf Club ProAm, right, AJ? I’ll do it. Yeah, we’re making decisions for live right now. Yep. Oh, no. Uh-oh. I was going to say if you make two out of this final four, I’ll play in the thing. But yeah, great news. All right, you Nope. Well, we’re not growing the game. Thank god I don’t have to play in that thing. I quit the game. I quit the sport. I was going to have to actually This tougher wedge sucks. No, it’s not a wedge. Unuffable. It’s undeuffable, too. Have a little respect. I bought that off the golf channel. Okay. They wouldn’t put that on the golf channel if it wasn’t the real deal. Yeah. I’m happy to see you suck with it, too. I I suck with it. You suck with it. We whack We whacked the wood. Exactly. Defense. All about defense. All right, Bubba. Thank you for coming out here. You’re going to a Fever game tonight? I hope so. Is that tonight? Yeah, it is tonight. Yeah. She’s electrifying. Oh, yeah. It’s unbelievable. She’s Steph. So, I I believe she’s My wife played in the WNBA. She played four years pro basketball. But it’s Steph Curry. She’s Steph Curry. She’s doing things. She’s running. She’s hitting shots. She’s hitting half court shot or just inside half court shots at ease. I have to like heave it to get it that far. Yeah. And her teammates are awesome too. This year the team is like team is Yeah. Leah Boston obviously great. Kelsey Mitchell. Dana Bonner. Yeah. Uh she just became a record holder. Third all time leading scoreer. Yeah. They got a good team. New coach Stephanie White I believe is her name. She’s from Indiana. From Connecticut. Yeah. Connecticut son. Former head coach. Yeah. Now she’s from Indiana. She’s back here coaching the team. It’s like uh it’s like I think the it’s where and that place will be packed out. Yeah. Place every place that she goes to packed out. She’s like the Beatles. She is literally the Beatles. They’re going to bigger venues so that she can come to town. Now, congrats on WNBA. I hope you have a good time tonight cuz you sucked with the undeuffable. I am not committing to anything in August and that’s great news. But Debbuck and AJ will definitely be there. Bubba. Perfect. Let’s do it. All right. That’d be more fun with them anyway. [ __ ] off. Hold on. Baba undouffable. Oh, here it is. Get the slot. You should just blast one. There it is. No, it would be kind of so far right. You should You should just [ __ ] blast one. You won’t do it. Try to hit this camera that’s looking right at you. Hit that camera. What? My front foot here, right? You show me. Bubba, you’re that Hey, that swing you just did would be so far. Yeah, you want to miss left. You don’t want to miss right. You’re here. You’re here with it. You got to come who? You’re You’re here with it. You got to come across your body. Got to get them hips to move, man. They look tight. This is a terrible idea. Aim aim aim for the net. No, you got it. Just see it. Yeah. Oh, hit it hard. Just right into the crow’s nest. Where are you going with it? Yeah, crow’s nest. He’s trying to go over that camera. All right, I’m zoomed out. Over the camera. Okay, hammer. Oh, that’s easy. Malarkey. Yeah, just blast it. Yeah. Send this thing. Oh my gosh. Boom. That was a heck of a shot. Good. Straight. Good contact. Dad, did you not? No, you don’t know me. You don’t know me. The undeuffable. Yeah. And it works. Tight line. I don’t see a hole either. Maybe I’m back. Uhoh. Uhoh. Who’s back? When’s the qualifier for you guys to leave? When’s the qualifier for you guys? It’s in December. All right, I got time. Okay. Football season. That’s going to be tough. And what day of the week? Monday. Okay. Before Monday Night Football in December, playoff football. I qualify for a golf league. Let’s go, Foxy. Let’s go. Uh, is it still raining outside? It’s still raining outside. You’re not a golfer if you’re worried about the weather, man. Okay, so we got two holes out back. Thanks. Can’t wait to see you hit him. Can I ask Bubba on that? You got a golf course across the street, too. Yeah. Who’s got a question? Sorry. Foxy does. I’m sorry. Yeah, this is actually a selfish question. On that note, Bubba, let’s say you’re 75 yards out. All right. Pretty straight shot. Pretty simple, straightforward. How many balls is it going to take you to make one shot? because I’ve been doing this for about eight months back there and I can’t make a single one. Longer than that. Well, I mean it there’s so many factors. It was going to take it’s going to take me what? How long have you been trying to do it? Eight months. Let’s see. I’m going to say four for me then. Four months. Yeah. I thought one day. What about you? Am I known for my How many hole ones do you have? You’re known for being six. Six hole in ones in competition or in practice? Um total a couple in competition, but total is six. First one is how old? Uh, it was 2010. When did you start playing? When I was six. Jesus. I got no shot. No. Guy’s got six since he’s six years old. Bruce. Bruce had one his first year of playing. My dad could barely break a hundred and he had one with a 3-wood from 189. Sliced a 3-wood in there. And he used to run his mouth to me all the time about how I got a hole in one. Does it count on par three courses? Yeah, it counts anytime you make a hole in one. on a sim. On a Yeah, cuz a sim is hard to make one. You make one on a sim. Fist bump. X Golf. Congratulations. Had a witness though. Really? Where was it at? On video, actually. Uh here. Noville Xolf. X Golf. Yeah. Yeah, I know about it. Yeah. Pretty solid. Yeah, he’s actually an investor in X. Mama told me it counts. So, it definitely does. What if you’re just hitting a hundred shots from one T- box at a hole? Is that more of a chip in or a hole in one? No. Well, if it’s not a real golf course, it doesn’t count as golf. Well, it is a real golf course. Thank you. Please. It’s outside back here. Thunderdome golf course. Yeah, it’s two holes. There’s two walks. Two holes. One T- box. We get tired after two. We got to Well, and we’re not walking to Here he is. Here he is. Here he is. That was yesterday. Was it really? Yes. Every day he has one of those. Golf gods are not blessing Fox. No, not at all. How many can we get the greens master out here? Small bucket is about 50 balls. Those greens. Those greens got craters in it. Looks like the fake moon. I think the turf needs gr uh sand. I I’ll get I’ll get Russ on it. We need to get those tree. Guys name’s Russ Green. Hands greens. Celebrity greens. He’s great. He came out here two days. Had the boys on it. We really got We got two back here. We got two back there. Bubba, that’s disgusting. I know. I saw him when we came in. All right, quick. So, you’re going to hit something? Sweet. You have your clubs? No, but I can Yeah, I think I do. Actually, we just landed, so yeah, I got them. Okay. Boom. All right, that’s where we’re headed. Look for a video here in a matter of moments of Bubba probably putting one in here if I had to guess. Uh, quick predictions. Tonight’s games, NHL, Panthers, Hurricanes. Uh, Panthers. Yes. Timberwolves Thunder. Oh my gosh. This is a good one. I don’t want to say it, but I’m going to say it. I think it’s going to be Timberwolves. Yep. Okay. That’s an Oklahoma City. Yeah. Oh, it was Anthony Edwards is he is a beast. He’s a dog. He’s a real deal. I’m not saying that Oklahoma City doesn’t have a dog, but he is this guy’s on fire. He’s I’m telling you, he’s kin to Michael Jordan somehow. He’s awesome to watch. They look alike and they play. They jump alike. They They Yeah, he is. And he’s he’s he is an old school player. You know, he talked to J.R. Smith talked to us. Golfer J.R. Smith. He’s trying to went back to college, Jim. Yeah, he’s in college currently. He’s a senior. He’s a captain of the team. I think he’s trying to get down to a zero. He said by the end of the season, he’ll probably be scratch golfer or whatever. Try to qualify for the US Open. He absolutely loves the game. He said for Anthony Edwards like uh they need to just let him do mid-range, take to the rack, do whatever the hell he wants as opposed to over coaching him. He’s like an old school player. I think that’s why all the OGs love Anthony Edwards. And I think that’s why we competitors, athletes love Anthony Edwards, too. It’s like he’s a dog. He can lead that team. Yeah. But that Oklahoma City place, Randle’s not too bad either, though. Randle’s helped him out. Randle’s helped him out quite a bit. Let’s go to the Knicks fan. Uh Matt Brown. Hey, Bruce. How do we feel about Julius Randall playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves? I absolutely love him. He’s uh one of my favorite Knicks players of all time. He came here when no free agents wanted to go to the New York Knicks and he basically built us uh into what we are today. Wish nothing but the best for him and I I do think that as a number two option behind Ann Edwards. Uh they they can take the Thunder to to seven games and maybe get it done. Okay, we got even a prediction from Bruce. I like that. I like everything about that. Uh how do you feel about Pacers Knicks? I’m going Pacers. And the reason why I’m going Pacers is August 15th live event out because of because Hallebertton is is unbelievable. Like it’s unorthodox. It doesn’t look right, but it’s it gets done. Yes. Yeah. It’s unbelievable. He’s flashy. Yeah. Flashy runs. Showman. He’s got merch on WWE.com right now. But it reminds me of um Oh gosh. Shawn Marion. Remember when he used to shoot three-pointers? It didn’t look right, but he’s Yeah, he would make it. That’s about what it looked like. Good. Good shot. That’s what it looked like. He made it for happy right here. Vote for happy Bubba. That’s on you. I can’t believe that happened. That was a lot, Bubba. More Cat Williams, I think. All right, Bubba. Uh, he was knocking those donuts. Check check back chest pass splash with either cat shooter or Cat Williams is a shooter. Really? Yes. Yes. You better watch. He comes to golf. When’s that thing? December. Did he lower the goal? No, he’s Cat Williams. He got him up there. Was he Lethal Shooter? Is that what? Yeah. Isn’t he short? Yes. That’s what I was just asking. That’s a fair question. No, it’s not. Cat Williams is a He’s a beast. He was with Lethal. You know, Lethal Shooter is Oh, Bubba content creator. He’s he would [ __ ] it. He would make a uh he he makes uh like little gummy bears into like the top of water bottles. That’s how good of a shooter he is. Really? Yes. real deal. You should look him up. I’m look him up. Lethal shooter. Lethal shooter. He should focus on golf. Oh, I think he’d probably be able to figure that out. Sounds like it might be too late. Who’s Who do you think is best sport that turns into golfers naturally? Hockey players, I think, very good. Shooters in basketball normally pretty good. Baseball. Yeah, baseball. Baseball. Um, pitchers. Smoltzy. Yeah, Smoltzy. Yeah, they’re always in it at Tahoe. They always have time off. They throw what? Once every two weeks. Yeah, good point. Yeah. Here’s Lethal Shooter’s last one. Toothpick into a straw. I understand it now. He misses on purpose. Then he makes Oh, so second try. It’s always I understand it now. Impressive. D does it. That’s unbelievable. Yeah. Lethal shooter. What? Welcome to the world. Mhm. And we’re going to go do a trick shot out back where you’re going to make it 75 yard shot in the rain in the wind. You’re not a real golfer yet. First take. Boom. That’d be awesome. Mhm. That would be so cool. Perfect standing now. Yeah. AJ, you think first take for uh Bubba? Yeah. No, absolutely. I mean, I don’t know what the conditions are like there, but I assume he can work it out. It’s drizzling. It’s a little breezy. It was gusted when we came in today. It’s Indiana. You need to know that for August 15th through 17th. It’s going to be windy here. Yep. Always windy here in Indiana. I was a punter drafted out here. Oh, you were? Yeah. So, played for the Colts. Uh punting a lot of wind. Did not know that when I got here. It was just Was it indoors? So, we had a dome uh possibility, but Jim Mercy liked to showcase also that he could take that top off and the window off. So, it actually became a wind tunnel. So, I was considered a dome punter by other punters and kickers. But, we potentially had the worst setup in all of football for about three quarters of the season. So, I got the dome in December, which was phenomenal. Great news. But, it’s always windy in Indiana because how flat it is. So, it created the Eddie effect, the wind. Is that what that’s called? Yeah. So at Augusta when it comes down 13 and goes to 12 and 11 creates an Eddy effect. So like sometimes you feel it’s downwind and then seconds later it’s into the wind. So that’s probably what happened. Eddie came into Lucas Oil for [ __ ] every time they open that side window. Exactly. The Eddie effect was all about that thing. Is that eight men you’re talking about there? Yeah. What how’ u You ever hit all one down there? No. I made one I made one on a practice round on 16, but I’ve never made one in the tournament. made one in the uh par three tournament. Uh does that count? Yeah. Well, yeah. It’s in the tournament. There’s a trophy and everything. It counts. Hell yeah. I agree. Yeah. My son, it was 67 yards, hole four. My son goes, “Dad, you don’t have that shot.” One hopped it and knocked it in. I said, “Hey, I got it now.” And he goes, “Just a dramatic.” Yeah. He’s like, he needs to do that every hole. Exactly. Kid on the bag. Dad, this ain’t it. It’s the worst hole. They’re forcing you to play this course. It’s not good for your play. All right, let’s get out of here. Bubba, we appreciate you, boys. Great work today. AJ, great work. Tone over there in hammer time. Great work, boys in the back. I can’t wait to go watch him hit these balls. Please make one, Bubba. I can’t wait to watch this. Yeah, those greens. Tough greens, buddy. Yeah, they’re they’re barely green. Tough greens. All right, be a friend. Tell a friend something nice might change your life. We’re in a sing together. Team on me. Oh, I didn’t know I was part of the team. You [ __ ] are, buddy. Aren’t you trying to promote team stuff anyways? Team on me. You have anything to say? No. Goats. Goats. Goats. Sacrifice one or two. Or two. No. [ __ ] it. 10 of them. Yeah. Whatever gets the goats on top. We hope that happens. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye.