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Be the right club. Be the right club today, Johnny. That’s better than most. How about in that is better than most. Better than most. expect anything different. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Layup podcast presented live our open championship preview here on the No Langup podcast YouTube channel. Sie here. Best week of the year. T1 for best week of the year. I think it’s this is a tie with Augusta here with DJ Pie. Hello P man. Greetings guys. It’s great to be with you. You know what? I was just thinking about that as we come on. I was like, it’s either the best week of the year, it’s my favorite week of the year, or sometimes it alternates, sometimes it’s both. I don’t know. But either way, I think that’s a great position we find ourselves in. Can’t wait for the open. Can’t wait to uh talk about it. Good to be with you. Mr. TC is here. Hello, TC. Hello. Hello. I would say it’s favorite, not best. I think best week of the year is probably the Masters. I think favorite week of the year is is the Open Championship. It It’s my favorite major, but it’s not the best major of the of the four. I think you know what? I see where you’ve been going with that back and forth each way. I know. It’s the best golf. Like, it’s the best style of golf. It’s the merging of so many things. I’m I’m I’m absolutely stoked. We are going to uh do our famous uh storyline draft to kick off that we that we’ve used to kick off preview episodes here in recent years. Uh followed by a little bit of stuff you should know, need to know about Royal Port Rush. DJ’s going to give you a little history lesson as well on the club. Uh, I am going to take you on a a mini dive, not a deep dive, but a look back into 2019 in case you forgot what happened that week. I think everyone did. Almost everyone I’ve talked to has been like, “What what happened in 2019? What? I don’t remember.” We’ll talk about some of that as well. 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Use code NLU at checkout for 20% off your first order through the end of this week. That’s rhac.com. Print polos, shorts, hoodies. Rowback’s got you covered. Opening question to today’s show. Max Butler 1018. Excitement level compared to the other majors this year. DJ, I’ll start with you. Really good question. Um, I don’t I don’t know, you know, and I I know that doesn’t necessarily make for good podcasting, but I’m going to sus it out here here with you guys. I feel like the open kind of snuck up on me a little bit. And Sully, I I feel very grateful to have seen Royal Port Rush. We’ve got a video coming out tonight. Uh, we had a podcast that went up last week talking about our experience and just being able to draw on a little bit of a sense of place, I think, ratchets up the excitement for me. But I think that blind spot from 2019 and just a just a busy year, I think, has kind of uh it’s kind of helped this one sneak up on me a little bit. I think it’s really hard to expect we’re going to surpass uh you know, what we saw at at the Masters and the Career Grand Slam. Like that’s just such a that just kind of feels like what 2025 is going to be known for and and the rest of the year I think is going to be in for kind of an unfair comparison uh in relation to that. But at the same time, we’re going to a wonderful golf course, a scenic golf course, a unique golf course. We’ve got a great feel. We’ve got a lot of great storylines, and it’s the open. So, for that reason, I’m much more pumped than I was for, say, the PGA or something like that. But, it’s like, man, I was pretty pumped about Oakmont, too. So, it’s it’s been a really good major year, I guess, maybe is the quick way of of saying why I think uh I think this one snuck up on me a little bit. TC, what about you? Uh, I mean, it’s certainly better than than the PGA. Sure. That’s for sure. Uh, similar vote though, d I forgot I had to remind myself where the PGA was this year. Uh, similar thing. I don’t I’ve never been to Port Rush, never been to Northern Ireland. Don’t, you know, don’t have like all that strong of memories from the previous time I was here and and when Lowry won. Yeah. And it’s kind of just, you know, I was like, “All right.” Like it’s kind of how I feel like when St. Georgees has has won and and I’m, you know, am I, hey, is this a better golf course than it is championship venue? Possibly. But I’m going in with an open mind of no, you know what? It’s a me problem. I was wrong about about about Port Rush. Let’s let’s let’s give this a fresh set of eyes. So, I’m stoked. And then there’s just all sorts of storylines. This week, honestly, might be kind of a post hype sleeper a little bit. Yeah. you know, where I think I think everybody kind of tuckered themselves out getting all pumped up for 2019 and it’s weird weather and kind of a a week that that was a little strange that I think it’s sneaking up on people, but it could be an absolute banger. Who knows? Sie, where you at? Well, it’s so weird, I guess, in all of our golf history fandom. Have we I’m struggling to think if have we welcomed a new course to the Roa? I mean, I know some courses kind of come in and out uh you know, over the years, but this is a new thing. I mean, US Open, you know, we welcomed Chambers Bay, we welcome welcome Aaron Hills. Don’t think we were going to be go going back there for US Open. Those weren’t ROA, though. Well, they they failed the test to get into the ROA, I guess. Yeah, they made appearances, but so there’s so many of these venues that we have way more depth of memories at that is part of what goes handinhand with this championship, I think. And um I I I I’ve been thinking about this a lot too, like I don’t think open championship golf courses are all that separating and unique from each other aside from the old course. I mean there’s there’s different things to love and there’s some to not like. But I think that like the stretch of that scale is a lot different than it is say the US Open. I mean there’s some US Open venues I don’t I just don’t like straight up. There’s not one Open Championship venue that I don’t like. I think St. Georgia’s gets the gets the kind of the snippidiest comments I guess but I think that’s still a great golf course and it’s not uh you know Jack Nicholson’s quote of the the open road of courses the get worse they they get worse the further south you get probably rings true but at the same time like oh this is a really long-winded say way of saying I don’t think Port Rush if you’re expecting this golf course to blow you away this week it’s not going to it didn’t in 2019 but is it a very solid excellent championship golf course that should promote a I mean part of the reason it goes here is because of the ticket sales they can do and the records they set in 2019 and the records they’re going to set this year. I mean it’s going to be wildly well attended and I just I hope that comes through on television. That’s probably something that uh gets on the the you know it’s on the action a little bit but on the on the broadcast partners as well to capture the atmosphere of why they’re going to this place. Uh and I think they can do that. I really do think they can do that and I think with a little bit weather better weather this year some of that atmosphere might shine through. Is the weather going to be better? I I mean, it was bad over the course of that weekend. And and I honestly not like the fun bad. I mean, I know people kind of root for rain at the open. I root for wind. I think that’s way more entertaining than than rain. Wind and some a little bit of moisture in the air, but like enough to just add a variable not to make the guys completely miserable. Right. I think that’s right. I I think there’s also something a little bit to the golf course specifically, just thinking about it more since we were there and and reading more about it and watching more about it. And I think one of the the hallmarks of the Open Championship and why it’s so fun to watch, particularly as the conditions get worse, is just the ball on the ground and how much how much fun it is to watch the ball bounce around. And at Port Rush, you do have a lot more the greens are it’s so cool when you’re there, but it’s it’s they are kind of more protected by like hills and humps and bumps and taller grass than they are, you know, just like really deathly bunkers and there’s less running shots up and it it’s a little bit smaller greens. And in a way, I I I don’t I mean, I’ve only played the golf course once, who knows? It’s like it almost feels a little bit more like an aerial sort of test than a lot of the other Lynx golf courses. And I I was just trying to think of ways uh to square why it didn’t translate on TV quite as much. And I think maybe that’s maybe that’s part of it. S you think there’s anything there? I 100%. I think that’s really well said and and was going to be one of my things to to look out for uh for this golf course in particular, especially re-watching 2019 just like the iron. There was a couple moments Shane Lowry had some, you know, got into some trouble off the tea and used some bumpers around the greens. I think back to the 10th hole. I believe that was on Saturday. He hit this really awesome punch seven iron out of the, you know, used used a couple bumpers and flipped it up there and made birdie. Like that was a really special shot. the rest was just like target practice just firing at flags and it played, you know, the scores got pretty low there at a certain point because it got soft, but yeah, you don’t you didn’t see a ton of like but that that also goes hand in hand with wind. I mean, a lot of times you’re going to see running shots when it’s downwind and you got to play it short and you got to bounce it up. But yeah, the golf course has a lot more elevated greens, a lot more crowns, a little bit more um runoffs that I think do promote that more aerial style game. It’s still like a classic Lynx course. It’s not a new links course. Uh it’s been there for a long long long time aside from seventh and eighth holes, but it is uh it’s what it’s what makes it it’s another thing that makes it different. Like this is it’s an Irish golf course. Like it is not a classic Scottish or English links. It’s it’s a very different style and it’s a different muscle that they can flex. And uh I’m I’m excited to see it the second time around because I think this one’s going to be more memorable. I think the Yeah, it doesn’t look like we’re going to get the fun conditions either. like I like if if we’re not getting conditions, I just want it to be like kind of sunny and crisp and and that sort of thing. Um, and I don’t know, I kind of kind of take some issue with with Nicholas’s the farther south you go, the worse they get. I think uh I don’t like Burkedale’s sick. I love Burkedale. or uh I’m a little bit worried that with the McKenzie and Eert stuff and just generally speaking the RNA, you know, some some of these courses getting like like rhythm getting squeezed out of the ROA uh or Mirfield getting squeezed out of the ROA that they’re they’re getting a little homogenized in the presentation. Am I wrong in saying that or I think it it really is just it’s a ticket selling thing, man. Like that’s that’s that’s where I get I get the why. Yeah. That’s where I get nervous. Yeah. Yeah. But like or like hey what does this look like if they do go to if and when they do go to uh Port Marik does this get you know taken down to once every 10 12 years in Port Marik being right near Dublin that you want to talk about ticket sales and yeah big corporate spend there that’s you know that supersedes this then you know. Yeah. Yeah. I’d be surprised if this if they continued to go back every six years to to put I mean this is an endorsement man like that not a lot of courses get get this kind of level of treatment. But let’s get into some storylines that uh from the actual golf tournament. Uh we’re going to go around the horn twice. Take any anything that you’re most keen most excited to find out or looking forward to the what are you going to go check on your phone come Thursday? Uh you know what what result are you really really sweating out right now? Pie man. What’s What’s I’m going to give you first draft pick. Top story. I know. Top story. I don’t want I don’t think this is a draft class where you want the first pick, you know? I just It’s more about depth. Yeah. It’s more like MLB draft last night. Exactly. Um you’re going under you going under slot then to to come back bigger later. This is this is crazy. And I I don’t think that I even saw myself going here first. I mean I I a lot of directions you could go. Uh you could talk about Rory’s haircut. You could talk about you know pull a TC here. All kinds of things. This is this is crazy. This is my first pick, but I’m going with John Rom. Okay. Uh I think John Rom is deeply under the radar. I think his odds I saw were something like plus 1,200 or something. He’s got maybe the best open championship record of anybody that’s never won the tournament uh over the last five, six years. Uh he’s got a little tiny bit of history here. I know he played in the in the amter when it was here in 2014. It’s he’s plays Lynx golf really really well and he he obviously has that you know kind of perennial chip on his shoulder as the uh you know has this guy’s game falling apart as he’s gone to live. He’s been totally irrelevant. He hasn’t finished worse than like what 12th or 14th or something at the majors this year. I think it was like T14 at the Masters and then like T7 T8 at the other two. I mean he’s been he’s kind of shot himself out of it uh in a couple early rounds, but man, he’s been he’s been there. He’s hung on. I know some of them feel a little back door, but he’s still playing really, really, really good golf. And I feel like, you know, kind of everything I was saying about the golf course. I feel like it suits him really well. You know, I feel like he’s it’s a good mix of a place where you have to drive it long and straight. I think he’s his driving’s almost become like underrated over the last couple years as we’ve we’ve seen him less and less. Uh, but it’s a place where you got to drive it long and straight because that off the fairway is going to be really tough. It’s a place where you got to strike your irons really well. there’s enough creativity there that I think it can it can shine and he can separate himself. Uh, and I don’t know, just feels like a great fit for John Rom to kind of reestablish himself as one of the best players in the world, which he he quietly still is. That’s well said. I mean, is that does that have to be the number one like, but I don’t think he’s going to be there in round two, you know? I think he he’s probably a a two and a half three pick or something. I just I got to take him now. He’s coming off a solo second. He’s coming off of he’s probably pissed that he had to go play Varama this weekend. I know that’s made him mad in the past that they’re not I think they’ve they’ve gone away from that for next year where they don’t have a tournament the week before a major. Um yeah. No, I think Yeah, I think Rom is just like this is a post hype sleeper. Rom feels a little bit like a post hype sleeper and that’s kind of as like a third favorite on the board sort of thing. It’s like I don’t know. I think there’s a little bit of little bit of value there. He finished T11. I was like, I thought he top 10 here in 2019. T11 uh back here here in in 2019 for the record. And if I may, since then, T11 in 2019, T3 in 21, T34 in 22, T2 and 23, and T7 uh in 24. I had to mention that 2021 T3. That Sunday 64 cost me like tens of thousands of dollars in a daily fantasy pool. It was so unlucky. Who’s who’s next? TC. TC. Wow. I mean, it’s a hard draft, man. Tough class. Yeah. Uh do you want me to go because Wow. Trade. We’ve never had a trade in the story line draft. I think you’re going to be thrilled with where I’m going or or horrified by it. Go ahead, Sally. I’m getting I’m getting Mike Ty here. I do not have my envelope ready. TC I’m in. I’m in on the whole thing, dude. It makes a lot of sense. I It makes so much sense. Makes a lot of sense. We’ve been talking about it for 18 months. This is I’m ready to ride it out. I’m ready to I’m ready to experience it from a Thursday on. I’m not like I I I think this is this is a this is a time for our boy, our beautiful boy. Runner up here in 2019. Yes, we love him. We just some of us view him more objectively than than some of the the rest of us. That’s that’s all it is. We still love the guy. We still root for the guy. Want to see him win. Should we say who you’re talking about for those that don’t know? I want to build up the drama just a little bit longer. Uh he he hit rock bottom. We we’ve seen so many guys hit rock bottom that have that just uncontrollably bad loss and look like they cannot recover from it and they they rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Roy Mroy at the US Open in 2024 turns around wins the Masters this year. Uh Kyle Stanley who could forget back in 2011 uh or 2012 of course when he lost the the Farmers and came back to win Phoenix. I think Tommy Lad is going to is going to absolutely bring it. This course fit couldn’t be better for him honestly. Uh he’s such an accurate driver. Accuracy is going to matter here. He’s not long, but he’s long enough. His iron play should play really, really well. I just need the guy to make some putts. And if he would have putted in 2019, he would have won the damn thing. And I just cannot wait to see what happens this week because uh I’m buying I’m buying everything you’re selling. I we’re going to go on this road together this week. TC, let me ask a couple clarifying questions. Uh because I think he’s going to play really well. Is is that does that matter? Is that what we’re talking about? Or are we only talking about like like if he finishes solo second, are do you feel good about that or is are we talking like win or or nothing? I I mean I’d feel very good if he finished solo second. Like that’s be a very very good tournament. Terrible. Terrible. I know you would. Of course you would, but I that that’s that’s where Yeah. You’re not you’re not actually in this to win this. You’re just in you’re just doing a psychological safe jiu-jitsu on me. like this this feels feels like you are trying to it’s Monday. I’m not submitting a winning pick now, but let’s just monitor the situation for Wednesday. That’s all I’m saying. That’s all I’m saying at this moment because you’re trying to load more pressure onto him early week. Absolutely not. Nobody wants this more than than me and you TC. I promise you. Okay. So, after all you guys have been there together at this journey TC, the second clarifying question, Hold on. Just third clarifying thing really quick is you got to understand there’s two things there’s two things at play here. We we had a trade on that when he traded up for the third one. We both love Tommy Fleetwood, but competing with that is how much we love needling you. Okay. That’s that’s that’s what’s at conflict with this. All right. Well, and that brings me to back to clarifying question number two. TC, you said a couple weeks ago that you were going to pick him was it you were going to pick him for Port Rush and if he didn’t win, you were never going to pick him again. Is that is that still the case? Yes. Uh that was the deal. So you guys were saying, you know, we’re buying what you’re selling TC. Hey, I’m not selling anything. Store’s not even open yet. Like Yeah. Like the line is forming this thing back private and we’re not selling shares. Everybody wants back in now. And and it’s it’s it’s a you know it’s a private you know like it’s a um I don’t I don’t know what you call that, you know, private stock, right? Um it’s somewhat illquid but I I think uh yeah I mean no I because next year Aronomink Shinikok No you we made a deal made a deal. Whoa whoa whoa whoa. We made a deal. We made a deal. Cody’s coming in here. We made a deal. Okay. We can we can we’re not going to need to do that because he’s gonna because he’s going to win this week. But I’m not selling anybody on that. Like that’s just how I feel. And he’s a number 10 player in the world right now. And you said it all yourself. This place fits him to a tea. You know, world class iron player and putter just needs to get a little bit hot. So he’s he’s number five in the data golf rankings as well. He’s not just you number 10 in the OGR. He’s five in the real the real stuff. He’s number one in my heart. Sally. Okay. One of your programs. I’ve got a you know got a trip planned next week. I do have a flight on hold if need be. that that vaunted Jacks to Belfast direct. It’s tough. A lot of logistics. There are many different directions we can go. We could take a ferry. We could take there’s like four different airports. It’s crazy. So, um but you know what? Maybe I just want to sit at home and watch it in the comfort of my own home as well. And and Sully, have you come over? We can break. I’m not doing that again cuz that that almost broke me watching watching the travelers over at your house. That was not uh not my favorite Sunday. But anyway, anyway, I think we’re belaboring the point. We do we do not need to talk about Tommy a lot this week, you know. Okay, we all see it. We all see it. Okay, we all got blue hair. What’s your top story line then? Well, considering what’s off the board. Uh, my top story line’s Rory just, you know, seemingly going with just reading like I’m gonna go and try to just experience the week and open my eyes and, you know, interact with the fans as much as possible, but also I think I can win. It seems very different from like him basically last time trying to just come in and almost be unprepared for it or or not think about it at all. it seems like he’s eyes wide open with it. Um I don’t know. I’m just fascinated because it’s, you know, he’s had such a weird last three months since the Masters and uh Do you find yourself rooting for him this week? I don’t know. It’s weird. I Right. I feel conflicted, too. Weirdly, I think if he did win, it would make all the other [ __ ] over the last two or three months just wash away or he really over the last, you know, similar to the Masters of like I fel I found myself rooting for him for the first time at the Masters on Sunday. I was rooting for Team Rose really, but I found myself like not rooting against him and just happy that he won and and it made me forget about oh yeah, like the stuff at Pinehurst or you know some of the media stuff. So, I I uh I just think it’s going to be a very interesting week. We’ll see how he plays and um you know, if if it’s not super windy, it seems like it, you know, should suit him. Yeah. Yeah. I I I think it’d be pretty tough if if he gets in contention Saturday, Sunday to not get swept up. Yeah. I think it’d be awesome. That would that would be the most interesting thing would be just the the you know just the ground swell of support and cheering and all of that. It would it would be it’d be wild to watch as a spectator. Just it would be highly entertaining. Yeah. All right. One more round of storylines. Dee, back to you. Um a lot of directions we could go. I I’ll I’ll go with uh Scotty Sheffller. And to put it more precisely, I’ll I’ll just say uh I’m just interested no matter what happens this week with Scotty. You know, I feel like we’ve seen him play unbelievable generational golf uh on, you know, pretty much everywhere in the United States. And I think that we haven’t still seen him really rise to it when we get some some nasty conditions and some weird bounces and some of the some of the variables. You know, I know his his record at the Open’s very solid. It’s just kind of a victim of uh his success everywhere else. I think that it that it stands out as as kind of a a down uh record compared to everything else. that I just the whole math equation doesn’t make a lot of sense to me in that he seems like the most mentally tough player on the planet. He seems like a guy that has all the shots. He seems like a guy that drives the ball in the fairway. He hits irons to the like he he’s the best at hitting the right trajectory, the right shape, the right pitch number, the right all of these things. And I don’t know why just like extreme success at the open hasn’t hasn’t taken shape yet, you know? And I I think it’s a it’s a weird hole that that is very interesting to to see what happens whether he plays well or or not. I mean is a I’m rooting for him to play well because I think it’s it doesn’t make sense that this hole is kind of on his resume so to speak and he hasn’t I mean he’s only played it what four times or something. It’s not like the the record’s all that that deep. It’s just like that that seems like the next thing that’s going to going to catch up here. It’s it’s it’s just like I I don’t want to pull on one moment and let that bleed into this week when Scottish Open is a PJ tour event and not nearly this, but like him yelling at the Greens at on 13 at Renaissance didn’t make me feel good about like handling the variables of all this, you know? It’s Yeah, man. When you play Lynx golf, I mean, and you’re playing the good Lynx Greens. Let me tell you, when you play Lynx golf, like the ball doesn’t always roll perfectly true. That’s kind of part of the deal here. And it just seems like too often uh whatever the deal is at some of these bigger tournaments like hey yeah when you drive it offline at Pinehurst you’re going to get some squirly stuff here and like the ball is going to get rejected on some of these greens and yeah the Oakmont greens are really hard. It seems to bother him like at times you know and I I hope that’s not the case. At the same time if he goes up and shows if he shows up with B+ game it’s night night for everybody. I mean, it really just has to uh stay out of his own way and play decent golf. And there’s nothing about this golf course that can stop him. But I don’t think he’s going to be my pick at the same time. I I still am kind of maybe somewhat foolishly just like wait and see with him in this championship in this playing style because there is just so many variables in a tournament like this and and it just feels less less inevitable um than than if you played literally anywhere else. So Scotty should start taking the the steam ship over. He should take the Queen Mary or whatever over. Just get get right, you know, take some time sim on that thing and Yeah. take some time to really think think it over. Yeah. Um we called this out last night as well, but I’m just going to go ahead and and and and just mention again the quiet defending champion is off stealing it. He’s Well, I was going to ask, did you guys even trade for the second round or was that still TC? Was that TC? Like I had I always go last on this. Let me have my time just going second here. Maybe you guys split him. Maybe one of you gets Xander, one he gets gets his dad. All right. Uh he’s quietly, you know, playing not quite full Xander golf, but uh you know, had a nice week last week and seems closer and closer and has turned it on to major championships before. Obviously won two of these things last year. And um his open record isn’t amazing prior to to winning. I mean, that was his first ever top 10 uh in an open championship, but I don’t know. I feel like we can kind of say this about all these guys at this point at a certain point, but it does seem like a golf course it should fit him. Uh the the playing profile, the the shot shapes, and all that stuff seems like it would make sense for him. And I’m very keen to see what he comes out with because it right now if you it’d be tough for me to choose like a winner. But if I had to choose from like Brahm, Xander, Tommy is like where my where my head goes right now and I don’t know what order I’d put them in as of right now. I’ll probably change my mind five times before before Wednesday night. Yeah. What are you talking about this Wednesday? Would you give me a Rom? Would you say Rom Xander Tommy versus the Field? Yeah, that would be the big guns versus right. Well, I mean, that’s no Rory, no Scotty. That’s not the top five. The current the current big gun. Oh, there’s there’s a bunch of big guns markets up, but yeah, the the Let’s see. There’s a Scotty, Rory, Rom, Xander. Any of them to win is plus 122. Scotty, Rory, Rom. I like So, you’re basically taking Fleetwood trading in. Yeah, which we got the separate Fleetwood ticket anyways, so might as well take uh the big guns there. We TC, take us home here. Uh, good question. I think that I think it’s time to see something out of Levig in one of these other majors. Uh, he’s played well in the Masters twice. I think he he had some bad habits creep into the golf swing when he was hurt last year, I believe. and and so I think it’s it’ll be interesting to see him uh you know again second shot golf course like he drives it straight he’s going to be in play um seems to be playing playing well games coming around just seems like couple mental errors last week at the Renaissance so uh I think it’s time to get it back up to Lvig fever pitch uh on just the hype machine. So, I’m I’m ready for it. Couldn’t be more more here for that. Yeah, I think you’re in control of the of that TC. The the fever pitch. I think that’s all all the eyes of a of a nation in many years. Holding everybody back. I’ll let you know when the fever pitch is ready to go. 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You know, sometimes I feel like you’re really good at this. You did this with Oakmont. Maybe maybe three, four, five things that that people should really be uh paying attention to. What what do you got? Sure. I’m going to start you right off the bat with what you’re hit with on that opening T-shot. And we remember Rory Mroy going out of bounds on that T-shot. But do you remember that it is was very possible like there is incorot which is not that far from the line of play and it it really only it was Rory was not the only one to hit it out of bounds. JB Holmes also did on Sunday. Many other players also did. It’s the one we remember the most. But it is a unique feature that is part of what makes this championship what it is, I think. And it is like right off the bat, Royal Liverpool should be this way. They ch they mess with the routing and they play the third hole as the one with the incourse out of bounds. Uh and I’m just it’s a it’s a it’s one of those things like, man, I don’t know if I can miss the opening T- shot for any of these guys. Like because anything can happen from the jump and it it forces you to really just not pound driver off that opening tee. Yet these guys are really nervous, especially the hometown guys, and they want to reach for a big club head. Darren Clark talked about that in 2019 of he hit the opening shot. He’s like, “It should be iron, but I’m just going to bunt a driver because I can’t possibly hit an iron in front of this many people right now.” So that’s number one. I I think on that note, real quick, we can I’m sure we’ll talk about this as the week goes on, but I don’t know if there’s anything in golf that I’ve I’ve wavered my position on harder than in course OB. I I think years and years and years ago, I was like, “This is so gimmicky and so stupid and OB should be property lines and like that’s all still part of the golf course and blah blah blah.” And the the older I get and the more tournament golf I watch, the more I’m just like, man, if if these guys are going to have the drivers that they have and they’re going to be able to whail away on things and they’re going to have forgiving this and forgiving that and less spin this. It’s just like I don’t have a lot of other ideas. And so that’s literally the only thing that matters that guys. Exactly. Let’s not pretend that it addresses the distance problem. But based on this being the case, I agree with you. Like this is a proper way duct tape. It’s a duct tape solution, but it’s stopping the sink from leaking. You know, s I still remember the first time we played Hoy Lake. Really actually the only time I played Hoy Lake and I was like that that just hit different that first hole. Oh, this is awesome. Standing on I mean when we played Port Rush a couple months ago, standing on the on the first team was like, “Oh my god.” Like I don’t say this out loud in front of everybody else, but like you can make a nine here. You start like pumping a couple of these get a couple quick flippies OB with his four iron or something like [ __ ] man. And I kind of I I caught a good bounce. I think I I bounced back in, but I was definitely flirting with that left line. And plus they get the wind going off the right as well. Like that ball, especially on a Lynx course, when that ball starts going the wrong direction, there’s nothing that stops it uh from going that way. So anyways, number two is elevated greens. Uh I I I don’t have like a picture in my head of every green of every golf course on the open roa, but to me, Port Rush sticks out for having a lot more elevated greens. We talked a little bit about that aerial approach you’re going to see. First green is straight up a big hill. Like it’s a pretty large elevation change, and you just don’t see that elevation change at Trun. You don’t see that elevation change. You maybe do a little bit, I guess, at Brookdale, but you don’t see it at the old course, obviously, or you don’t see that as much on Carni. Like, it’s a it’s a unique feature. The second green kind of had, you know, the combination of, I guess, elevated greens and some mounds protecting uh the fronts of these greens. The fourth is kind of the same way. The third is very repelling, sits kind of up on top of this little hill. Six is like that. You can kind of keep going uh through and through the golf course, and you’re just going to see a lot of uh somewhat elevated greens and some runoff areas around some of these greens. You’re going to see a lot of balls uh funnel down into. Uh, one thing on that note, Sully, I was reading uh, as everybody should, Jeff Shackleford’s excellent newsletter, the quadrilateral, and he was he was going even a level deeper on that and talking about how the that kind of makes firmness change from hole to hole, you know, when you have like a lot of holes that are playing downhill almost into hollows and then the next hole might be uphill sitting on a plateau. He’s like, those play like totally different firmnesses, you know, just with the way water moves. And it’s not like there’s subair systems out there to like unify all of those all of those things. And I I just thought that was a really interesting point that I hadn’t really thought of. It’s like not only are you hitting uphill, it’s it’s probably going to be a lot firmer than the green you just played, too. And more exposed and more wind and all of those things. So, just more variables on those elevated greens. Number three is Irish Flare. I mean, you get to the setting of that fifth green and you are up on a cliff. It looks like Bandon, honestly. Like, you’re just so high up on this on on this cliff. And I again struggling to think of another road of venue that uh has anything like that or a cliff like that or a setting like that. And then you go, it’s not my favorite hole out there, but the seventh hole, that par five that climbs right up the hill, the dune you play underneath, it’s just massive. Like it’s going to be heavily featured on the broadcast. You’re going to have a ton of aerial footage, I’m sure, in that special part. But it is what makes golf in and on the island of of Ireland special. Like that’s just defined by the dunecapes. And uh especially up on this northern coast, like Port Stewart nearby has so many massive dunes and really really cool holes that play underneath them. But uh Gabby was tweeting some pictures yesterday. I was just like, “Wow, that’s different.” Yeah, for sure. It’s bold. It’s it’s it’s something. It’s something else, man. It really is. And you’ll see some of that on our film that that comes out tonight. It’s just a wild wild setting. But well, and that that fifth hole, too. So, I know you put together an Instagram reel. I don’t know if it went out yet or not, but the uh just how close that OB sneaks up on the back of that fifth green is like, dude, it’s so easy to hit a wedge out of bounds on on that hole depending on on if you lay up or where the wind is or it’s easy to drive it major championship, right? But I mean I mean it is like it is easy to hit it out of bounds there. It’s it’s going to be awesome. Justin Harding chipped it out of bounds uh in back in 2019. probably wasn’t the only one that did it. But uh number four, it is it’s this is I guess unfortunate for those that are late risers or have to you know watching over from the US. They don’t get to see the early parts of rounds. It is such a banger of an opening set of holes. I mean, you know, one is is is like we we mentioned an interesting opening T- shot. Then two, the par five. Three is such a cool par three. Four is one of my favorite holes on the golf course. just this great par4 that runs up against the right OB boundary, but it has these left bunkers that kind of force you to play that way, but it’s not a straight hole. You kind of got to play it towards the OB and then the green sits at top this dune with this big massive dune that protects the front left of it. And then you roll over to five and it’s drivable downwind. Uh yet, you know, if it gets into the wind, you got to play it way farther left than you might think. It’s just a such a sweet opening uh salvo of holes and uh it’s what sticks out to I think of Port Rush. I think about those that opening five holes. Uh and then the final one here, this is the the meeting of the 13th and 17th greens is yeah, such a cool setting. Uh you play the the 13th is a par three uh that plays downhill. I think we have some footage of that. Uh if we if we possibly may here, Cody, for when uh you you play this T-OT downhill towards 13 and then directly behind it is the 17th green. And we always get questions if I’m going, where should I go watch some golf? Like this seems to be like the going to be the epicenter of the tournament here. Uh, you know, with just kind of the way these holes touch right back against each other. The noise is going to be loud in this little hollow uh, as well. And when the tournament gets to this part, it’s going to be really, really, really exciting. I just love this. Love this look. And I there’s this the pole that’s behind this green that’s for the blind 17th hole uh, as well. But this is this is a highlight spot for me when these two holes convene here. And it’s something that’s that’s wholly unique to Royal Port Rush. So those are my things. Two very different holes, different shots you’d see there. It’s just Yeah, that’s such a cool a cool piece. De, why don’t you uh give us a little bit of uh of a history lesson of Royal Port Rush for those of us that uh are not wellversed in its steep history. Sure. Just uh uh this is a very cursory overview. Certainly there are are uh more more vaunted club historians out there I’m sure but just a couple little uh things to impress your friends at uh at the water cooler with uh guys originally founded as a nine-hole course in 19 I’m sorry 1888 uh it was originally called the county club which I I did not realize. Uh the next year it was expanded to 18 holes. A lot of people attribute that to old Tom Morris. Uh, the club, the way that they phrase it seems very intentional on their their website with advice from old Tom Morris. I think it might have been one of those Donald Ross like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Move that there, that there, that there, and I think you’re I think you’re good to go.” Some stolen valor. I don’t know. I don’t know necessarily about that. I think he was he was there. He played an exhibition match there. He spent some time there. Uh, I don’t know if he was necessarily shovels in the ground. I somebody else can can certainly clarify that for me. But uh Cody, if you if you go to the old Tom Morris routing, this is a screenshot pulled from the excellent fried egg video that they did about Royal Port Rush. Would strongly recommend everybody go to uh to watch that. Some good history in there. Some good uh routing topics and uh just just good overview of the golf course there. But you can see that it plays the original routing plays much much closer into town. It was a much more traditional links back in 1889 when it was first uh kind of laid out. And then it was not until about 1929 that they really started uh realizing, man, out to the east, the northeast here, we’ve got these killer, unbelievable dunes and coastline and like this seems like a lot better land for golf. And so Cody, the next slide is a uh an overview of what Harry Colt did instead where he came in, moved much of the golf course farther outside the town. This this brought in a lot of stuff. You know, they had to figure out what to do with the clubhouse. I think the original clubhouse was like 1,200 yards away from where the clubhouse is now. They had to buy a hotel to use as a clubhouse. That eventually ended up changing up. So, uh, some interesting stuff there. But, uh, even before all that happened, good rich history. uh it was uh it was given royal designation in 1892, four years after it opened. Usually courses have to wait like 25 years in order to uh to get those designations, but it it got it right away just I think because of how spectacular the setting is, the great create dunes. Uh it hosted the first Irish amter that same year, which was the first national golf tournament anywhere uh on on Irish soil. uh also hosted the first professional golf tournament uh in Ireland in 1895. I mentioned Harry Colt uh came in, redid that that routing there. Saw that we’ve touched on a lot of his signatures, smaller greens, using the hills and hillix rather than just bunkers. Uh a lot of up and over type of stuff. Just a a really handsome routing and not really like a traditional out and back either, you know, like you see in a lot of uh a lot of traditional links. Cody, maybe pull up that that uh Harry Colt routing one more time. You can kind of see that it’s not like we just we just go straight out and straight back. I mean, this thing is kind of winding all over the place. And obviously, some of these holes have now changed because of the open championship and trying to squeeze in the new the new seventh and eighth. But it it’s much more of um just kind of a windy type of routing than just the straight out straight back. So, with that, you get a lot of different winds. You get a lot of different uh you know, using the same dunes in a lot of different ways. and uh just makes for a lot more interesting interesting golf. Harry Colt rules. Harry Colt does rule. I think a deep dive on Harry Colt is is possibly overdue for uh for the boys. We might need to get that in the in the pipeline. Uh 1951, guys. Very important year in the history of Royal Port Rush. That was when it hosted the Open Championship for the first time. And it became, and it still is, of course, the only golf course outside of England or Scotland. I don’t want to say this the wrong way. technically outside Great Britain, not the United Kingdom, you know, first time it has ever been hosted outside of Great Britain. Uh, and obviously that is still the case today. Max Falner is your winner, The Englishman. Uh, I really loved this lead from the AP story of the day. Uh, I wish we would get back to this type of stuff. Quote, “Methodical Max Faulner, a par wrecking Englishman who spent one winter milking cows to strengthen his golfing hands, won the British Open Championship today in a dramatic rain soaked fashion.” Uh, that’s that’s good stuff. Plumbers, firemen, and milk. Yeah, I didn’t quite have time to get deep into his his cow milking days or what he learned specifically from there, but that will be at a future a future deep dive. Uh the the writer continues, “Apologies, this was an unbyigned AP story. Uh there were some breathless moments after Max finished for handsome little Antonio Serta of the Argentine was scoring the Royal Port Rush course and it appeared for a time as if the South American would get home with a tie and force a playoff tomorrow. Uh just I need more uh you know, I need more milk and cows. I need more editorializing about players looks. These are the these are the things that uh that proper player. Yeah, exactly. Proper player, Antonio Serta. Uh I also just love that he was from the Argentine. I thought that was I thought that was good. Uh the winner’s purse that year, the winner’s takehome 300 uh which is equal to with inflation 12,000 today. Not a huge purse. Uh for our guy Max Faulner, I loved I was talking to you guys about this in a meeting today. I I love this is back in the days of 36 whole qualifiers. You know, nobody’s exempt. Uh you got to go out and you got to play 18 at Port Rush and 18 at Port Stewart uh on back-to-back days in order to qualify. And they said they’re only allowing a maximum of 100 golfers into the field. If you tied for 100th, you’re out. We’re not It is not one tie all ties. So, there’s only 98 guys in the field. Any playoffs? Uh I don’t know. I don’t think so. I think you just get lpped off. I think that’s why there was 98. Uh Peter Alice was one of the people who qualified back in 1951. I just anytime any chance you get to work in Peter Alice I think is uh is very exciting. Uh only 50 made the cut. Again, no ties. If you tie, get the [ __ ] out of here. You’re not you’re not you’re not playing on the weekend. Uh so guys, there were there were whatever I I think it was there was no ties. So I call it like 48 players that made the cut. Do you know how many Americans made the cut in 1951 at the Open Championship? two TC. That’s exactly right. Really? Yes, there were two. I was just thinking in my head. I’m like, “All right, there’s probably a dozen guys that went over, maybe.” So, get check this [ __ ] out if you will. Uh qualifying for the Open was on July 2nd and July 3rd. Why is that important? Because those also happen to be the final two days of the PGA Championship at Oakmont. They were trying to play like basically playing overlapping majors. And so 1000 just didn’t know. I’m just I including that just really glad we got that sorted. I don’t think that’s a good idea playing majors, you know, just in overlapping uh situations. Honestly, I think the RNA should do that again. They should schedule it over like the 3M or the No, just think it’s the You guys decide which one’s the real major. So you guys want to come play? So Sam Sneed uh was was not able to come over because he was busy winning the PJ Championship at Oakmont. I was too busy winning during qualifying. So the two Americans who did make the cut uh one of them was uh Sergeant Charles Rotar Rotar R O T A R uh former Canton Ohio pro who was at the time stationed in Germany with the US Army. Somehow got got a little break and uh snuck over, qualified for the Open and and uh made the cut. Pretty killer stuff. The other one was the low amitter finishing T12, Frank Stranahan. Are you guys familiar with with Frank Stranahan? The legendary Stran. Totally unfamiliar. So any any golf history people are going to know this name quite well. One of the most decorate truly we can take this offline. You could make a case like the big three of amateur golf might be Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones, and Frank Stanahan. like uh just an unbelievable career uh as as a both amateur and professional golfer. However, his Wikipedia page does not even list him as a golfer, but quote an American sportsman, which which you know that’s like, okay, gold, I’m hooked. Like, tell me tell me more. Okay. Uh there we go. Thank you, Cody. This is uh this is our guy Frank Stanahan, the American sportsman known as the Toledo strongman uh because of his propensity for working out, bodybuilding. You can already guess who’s coming into this story later as as a contemporary of his. Oh god. Uh Stranahan’s dad founded uh I’m sure you guys are familiar, Champion Spark Plugs, most popular spark plug uh company in in the world. And so they lived in Toledo, had all kinds of money, uh didn’t have to worry about a thing. And so, uh, Frank’s whole goal, as you know, was I’m just going to stay amateur. I’m going to travel around. I’m going to be kind of a playboy and I’m just going to try to be the best golfer in the world. And that’s exactly what he did. He uh, he grew up at Inessous where uh, right at the same time where the head pro happened to be a guy named Byron Nelson. Uh, learned under him, became like a a truly world-class player. Played amateur golf from 1936 to 1954. Took a little break to serve in World War II. TC won seven national opens. I wanted to uh include that for you. Uh Canadian national amateurs or national opens. These are kind of national like championships. I don’t know how to really, you know, sus it out, but you know, he won two British AMS. He won he won a Canadian. We’re counting the British AM as a national open. Yeah, it was I think time when he won it. Yeah. So, uh, won the British AM twice, T2 at the Masters, T2 at the Open twice, played on three winning Walker Cup teams, won four times on the PJ tour as an amateur, uh, just an absolute killer uh, on on the golf course and just stayed amateur this whole time, you know, as as he was doing all of this because didn’t need the money and was was kind of able to just bounce around and his whole thing was I want to win the US amer. That’s that’s the holy grail. Uh but he ended up turning pro in 1954. I think maybe had kind of his spirit broken when he got bounced in 1954 at the US by a guy named Arnold Palmer. Uh and he realized I think at that point that you know a lot of these he desperately wanted the respect of these touring pros and I think as long as they were like this doesn’t count. You’re not actually playing for a paycheck. You know I think he was like all right well then I’m going to turn pro and I’m going to play for a paycheck and I’m going to I’m going to do the whole thing. uh turned pro, ended up winning another couple times on the PJ tour, won the LA Open. This is has nothing to do with Royal Port Rush as you guys I just was like, I I got to do a I got to dive in on this guy. This is unbelievable. What year did did he turn pro? 56. 54. 54. 54. Okay. Cuz Ken Venturi was on the same kind of path, too. Wanted to be the AM and all of that. Exactly. You know, nowadays it would just be like, “Hey, go do a Wall Street internship and act like you’re working really hard.” Yes. Well, I think there might Yeah, there might have been a little bit of that going on, too. We can we can get to in a second, but uh became a workout just freak. He was like the first guy to start traveling with his own weights. He he would travel with like his own deadlift kit and and squat rack and all these different things. Uh obviously became good buddies with Gary Player through all of this. Uh I didn’t have any hyper specific stories, just I think they were they were spending a lot of time together. Uh he he had a lot of run-ins with Clifford Roberts and uh because I I think he was maybe a little I think he just kind of marched to the beat of his own drum a lot and he actually uh was banned from the Masters the year after he finished T2. He was banned from banned for the Masters. He did not be in Ray Creek. He he committed a much more unholy sin of playing two golf balls during a practice rap. You just you just don’t do that. Don’t do that. You don’t do that. Did you guys Did you guys see the picture of Big Tone today? No. He was playing He had a whole bucket out there on one of the holes. Sha Shackleford posted it and he said, “Yeah, Big Tone with a with a small bucket. That’s just uncouthed. That’s not the practice policy. Better hope Clifford Roberts wasn’t out there to see that.” But anyways, he uh they got into it and I I sounds like there was a lot more going on behind the scenes that Stran refused to refused to get into. Why am I still including all of this? Uh we’re talking about Royal Port Rush. I don’t really have a good justification other than to say that the story just keeps getting better. Okay, so he retires uh at in the 1960s. He he retires. He’s had enough golf. He goes on to run 102 marathons. 102. Did not miss did not misspe there. Runs 102 marathons. Uh and he goes on to to win multiple bodybuilding and weightlifting competitions well into his 70s. Uh he had a little bit of Bryson. I think this was from his obit. Uh Mr. Stranahan was described as living a Spartan existence in his later years as he followed a strict vegetarian diet, often fasting for long periods and chased longevity with a stated desire to live to the age of 120. Uh the more things change, the more they stay the same. Uh he unfortunately was not able to do that. He died at the age of 90 in 2013. I’m gonna try to flip it back here and and justify why I just took that lengthy detour. Uh, I think what struck me the most diving through this was that period where a lot of Americans, especially after World War II, were not coming over and playing the Open. And it Stranahan was one of the guys who was beating the drum saying, “This is very, very important. I know the purses aren’t that big, but we got to come come do this.” And he played it every year from 47 to 53. and was kind of like trying to bring people with him to to come over and treat this as a really big important tournament like it is. And so I think that was kind of one of the things that kept the spark alive. That led to Arnold Palmer going over. He wins twice in the early 60s and now all of a sudden gasoline gets poured on the Open and uh it kind of becomes like, you know, a return to its heyday and and the tournament that it is today. So, getting back to Royal Port Rush, right about that same time, uh, it hosts the Amitter in 1960. Legendary Irish golfer Joe Carr, you’ve probably heard of him, uh, wins his third amer at Royal Port Rush. And then, again, not a topic that you need to necessarily uh, we need to spend a lot of time on the No Laying Up Golf podcast filling you in on, but some civil unrest going on in Northern Ireland. As you you may have heard about, we’re not hosting a lot of tournaments at Royal Port Rush in the next 30 plus years. Uh not until 1993 that the amateur championship comes back after some pretty rough decades in Northern Ireland. Uh 2012 the Irish Open comes back. First time since 1953 that the Irish Open has been played in Northern Ireland. TC’s guy Jamie Donaldson wins that week. Over a 100,000 people come out to watch. over the side of the dune. Sounds like there’s a uh it sounds like, you know, I don’t know if that was kind of a trial balloon, just like let’s let’s slowly kind of dip our toe back in here. Uh because in 2014, they bring the British amter back. They use that as kind of a like let’s see how the golf course has held up over all of these years. Uh and in 2014, they also announced that the Open is going to come back in 2019. I I had a fun little nugget there on uh 2014. I think our guy Dan Brown was the medalist in in stroke play. It is Dan Brown season right now. Exactly. So, I saw I saw a good question from somebody. Who’s this year’s Tristan Lawrence? Uh I was like a it might be Tristan Lawrence again. True. And and B my money’s on Dan Brown. You know, practically a home game uh with that with that history. But um they also hosted the boys am 2018. Another final kind of dress rehearsal. How how far are these guys hitting it? How are the new holes playing? We mentioned this earlier that McKenzie and Neert came in and took a few holes from the other golf course to basically kind of redo what I think was the 17th and the old 17th and 18th. They now put in a new uh par 57th and a par 48 that comes back the opposite direction. Uh and that kind of I think takes us to 2019. So I I know that’s a that’s a big digression there. I apologize, but our guy Frank Straan was just too good to to leave out a long part of the legacy of Royal Poor Rush. No, I mean it’s interesting because I actually played um the golf course in April of 2017 and then again in July of 2017 and then two the new holes went in uh in that time period. I actually saw the old the course uh before those two holes opened and I saw it again right after uh those two holes open and it like seven is just a brute. It’s long. It is straight up this hill. Like it is just it is bombers delight. Just power power power. And like back then I didn’t have that. You know why? Because I didn’t use the stack system. And you can go to the stacksystem.comnlu and you can use laying up. I bet Stranahan would have would have liked the stack. 10% off of your order. Uh it’s an incredible training program for your golf game. I think we’ve, you know, maybe unfairly labeled it as a uh as just a speed training device. Deed, you’ve been talking about stack wedges enough. You made a reel about it the other day. Made me want to go try it out immediately. I freaking loved it. like it was so much fun. You can actually feel yourself getting better at a certain yardage and I just love the gamification of that certain uh that aspect of the game. We need to get in a challenge. We get in a little backyard uh back and forth point system game which I think you can you can definitely do in that system. But the distance stuff is just incredible as well. You go in your backyard, you can go anywhere you want. You train for 30 minutes if you include your your stretching in your warm-up and your your speed is going to increase on the golf course. And what that’s going to do is help you to reach a better cruising speed. You don’t have to go on the golf course and absolutely whail on the ball. That’s what I was doing, the mistake I was making. And now that I have the speed, I can cruise at such a better speed. And it’s just a very, very helpful tool for your golf game. Best best uh, you know, per minute that you’re going to put into your game uh for translation into the golf course, I think, is the stack system. Go to the stacksystem.comolangup to get 10% off of that product. And they many great products. They got stack. They have stack putting as well. This will make you a better golfer. If you use the programs they’ve made for you, I will guarantee you it will make you a better golfer. An efficient way to practice. Yes. Yeah. And it’s just Yeah. It’s just not that time consuming. But anyways, all right. I’m going to give a a little a mini dive into 2019. Okay. A lot of you have said you don’t remember what happened there. I didn’t really remember what happened there. Went back and watched. I think I filled in as to why. I mean, Lowry’s play took a lot of the drama out of it. And I think we just don’t have any memory of of the back nine of the of exciting shots because it was just that good Saturday and just he eviscerated the field uh in your revisit. Did it feel a little like the Brian Harmon year a little bit? I was trying to think of that as comp, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it was just it was it was I mean you but then you are reminded of the scene of what it was like for him winning afterward and I would highly recommend the the open championship film, the Chronicles of a Champion film that they do for they’re all amazing and this one’s so good and it makes you feel the emotion of this event. Again, this is the first open held at Port Rush since 1951. Um we mentioned the changing of the holes. All right, trivia question. We’re going to do this out on the show live. This is harder than you think it’s going to be. I guarantee you don’t get more than seven name. I don’t want to guarantee it. I’d be surprised if you got more than seven names. OGR top 10 going into the 2019 Open Championship. Who’s the number one player in the world? A little bit of thinking and you can get this one. Dustin Johnson. Close. He’s second. Rory, he’s third. This is so perfect. Now you’ll get it. It’s not Tiger, right? He’s definitely taking this personal. Oh god. Of course. God, that sucks. I hate doing that so much. Amazing. I hate that. I hate that. We all do it. We all do it. I don’t We all do it. I mean, he just won back-to-back US Opens or he didn’t win 2019. finished second in 2019 but had won the that’s so inexcusable. I wish that was a bit that would be a really good bit and it just isn’t. Uh all right can you can if you get four through 10 I’d be I’ll be I’ll be impressed here because a lot I’m like wow already that guy and then wow still that guy. I wouldn’t have guessed that. Uh Justin Rose. Justin Rose is number four. Well done Rose. Uh so we got uh you said DJ already. DJ was two. Yep. Okay. Who was three? Rory. Rory. Okay. Uh JT. Justin Thomas was number nine. Speed is not in the top 10. This was this was like when the the bad stuff 2018 was not great. Was not great for our our beautiful boy. I thought 17 would linger enough. Um Webb Simpson. No. Not a bad guess, but no. Um Tommy Fleetwood. Tommy Fleetwood is not in the top 10. Jason Day, not in the top 10. Really? Jimmy Walker, not in the top 10. Uh, Mark Leechman, not in the top 10. One more guess each and then we’re they will we’re going to fill this in. Frank Stanahan. No, Bubba. No. Frank Stranahan. Number five. Um, you’ve probably heard of this guy. He won. Probably heard of a lot of these guys. Uh he won three amateur US amateurs. He won three US juniors as well. Also won three US Open. Yeah. Johnny Tiger Woods was number five in the world. Bryson number six. Sure. Uh Franchesco Molinari number seven. John number eight. JT was nine. You mentioned Patrick Kentlay 10th. Shane Lowry. You see we should have we should have maybe done better this year. No HideKi. No big tone. No. Um Shane Lowry was 33rd in the world. Rory was the favorite at plus 800. Kepka was at plus 1,000. He had won four majors in nine starts. DJ was plus 1,200. Rom 1400. Tiger 1,800. Rose plus 2,000. Then Franchesco Molinari, uh Patrick Canley, Tommy and JT were all plus 2500. Shane Lowry was 80 to1 uh going into this week. Uh pre-ournament, the RNA did some testing of 30 drivers. Four of them were deemed non-conforming, including that of Shane Larry. Xander Schoffley was the big name. Oh, that was that year. God, I thought that was more recent than that. I It is crazy how quick they’ve how quick they’ve come back, right? You know, like it’s it both feels like it was like 15 years ago that we were hearing that. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, um Shane or Darren Clark hits the opening shot. The grandstands are completely full. Clark is overwhelmed with emotion. Honestly, it’s like a pretty freaking epic scene. Uh Port Rush’s own. It’s Port Russia’s own. Like it’s been almost 70 years since the tournament had been there. Just like imagine growing up in that country, seeing it return to your home, like a place that had been through so much. You’re doing it as a champion of this event. Like he is a semi like ho. He has like his own seat at the Harbor Bar uh down there in Port Rush. Like I just can’t imagine a more like rewarding moment like later in your career than this one. Um uh but of course Roy Mroy entering as the favor uh favorite hits his opening t-shot out of bounds as you see his grimace here. Some tough blues. These were the color r the color rush days we were talking about. Yeah. Or or the roars test, right? Yeah. This is city connect SCN for uh for Nike and some of these guys. Um so after he hits it out of bounds, he pulls another iron uh into a bad lie and then he hits another left ball towards the green. He had to take an unplayable. That’s how he actually ended up making an eight. I mean, he makes a double on the second ball in route to uh a 79. He also missed this putt uh on 16. Like he went went to go just like tap this one in and missed this one and made a double and it just looked like he truly didn’t give a [ __ ] That putt would loom large uh come Friday uh afternoon. Is there Let me ask you this. Is there a more unfun round of golf that you can ever remember watching than that one? Um maybe Tiger Tiger Chambers maybe speed in 2016 at the Masters that back nine. I mean that was the most that was not fun. Yeah. But I mean this was just like from the jump 18 holes of just like I don’t want to be around anymore. This is tough. Yeah. Norman in 96 maybe. Anyways, uh weather rolls in on this Thursday. A lot of Brolies out. JB Holmes opened with a 66 to take the lead. Shane was just one shot behind. Foxy shot a 29 on the back run on Thursday. Tommy wore this shirt. Of course, just cookies and cream. Uh David Duval got off to a hot start, but it was derailed when he went 8415 on five six and seven. What a shitty hole. It was a a tough tough stretch. He was two under. Uh, how did he make 15? Do you have any details on this? We might need to do a whole podcast about that. I have to look into that. So, listen to this group of players that are at minus three uh to after day one. Kira deck a bonret, Tony Fenel, Tommy Fleetwood, Ryan Fox, Dylan Fertelli, Sergio Garcia, Tier Hatton, Brooks Kepka, Robert McIntyre, Alex Norin, John Rom, Webb Simpson, Lee Westwood. All two shots back after day one. All those guys were at minus three. Just an absolutely epic mix. The sweep stakes uh in that one. Round two. Shane Lowry and JB Holmes share the lead after that uh Friday at eight under par. Tommy and West which is a little too on the nose. Tommy Flewood and Lee Westwood are one back at minus 7. Justin Harding, Justin Rose and Cameron Smith, a young Cam Smith are at six underpar. Dylan Felli, Kepka, Andrew Putnham, and Jordan Spith are at minus five. Rory comes storming back and of course misses the cut by one shot. Um gives a great interview afterwards. The emotion in his voice very raw like saying he underestimated how it would feel to play around that kind of support and probably a feeling that still rings uh you know probably stored that away for like yeah in 2025 when this comes back here this is going to go a little differently for me. So and he met with the media after a miscut. He did he did props to him. Uh, Tigers. God, that Friday round was that was an a journey, emotional journey watching that one. Yeah, missed the cut by one and again that I mean can point to a lot of things, but missing that tap in on 16 did not help. Uh, Tiger and Phil missed the cut. Uh, both missed the cut for the first time in 83 majors, uh, which was a bit of a wow. So, round making all of the mid-range birdie putts. He would call it the most incredible day he’s ever had on a golf course. Tommy played a [ __ ] awesome round. He shot 66 and called it flawless. He was in the group ahead of Shane and just like walked off like just blown out to pasture by what Shane had done in the in the group behind him. Like did not understand flawless 66 how that is possible. Like it was it was not like a a an easy condition day. But I need to go back and listen. Did we have was Randy decrying this as was he complaining about the setup and and things being too easy? I have to look. We’re live from the kill house did exist back in the day. I did find some old uh some old stuff that we might need to scrub off the internet, but um Lowry takes a four-shot lead in the final. He also held a four shot lead at uh going into the final round at Oakmont in 2016 that did not go well. Didn’t go good. And he, you know, was kind of having to answer question. He, you know, before he goes and signs his card, he asks his caddy like how long do you think before they ask about Oakmont? It was like the third question, blah blah blah. JB Holmes is at 10 under and six shots back going into that final round. Kepka and Rose are at nine under. Ricky and Westwood at eight. Fenile Rom will at seven. Tea times get bumped up on Sunday with weather coming in which is a good thing for Shane Lowry. He said he couldn’t get any food down. Was just a a a box of butterflies I believe was the phrase or something like that. Uh and uh and yeah, he is he’s is really dealing with the nerves. And on the opening hole, Tommy’s got eight feet for Birdie and Lowry has seven feet for Boi. Again, four shot lead. It could be one here shortly. We know what happens. Tommy Tommy misses the birdie. Shane makes it stays a three-shot lead. Uh when it could have been one. Tommy missed another clean look for birdie on two. Missed another six-footer for par on three. Lowry birdied the fourth. The lead was five and it was over. rain just dumped the rest of the way. Uh Tommy made a double on 14 and now it was like really really over at that point. Lowry shoots one over 72. Only Big Tone shot a lower score of anyone in the top 10. Lowry wins by six uh who shot 74. Big Tone was third and eight back. Kept and Westwood at six under uh and nine back. Hatton Fowler. Robert McIntyre was in the top 10. I didn’t remember that. Danny Willlet and Patrick Reed. Tommy never got closer than three shots. And if you’ll remember, JB Holmes started the day in third. What place did JB Holmes finish in, do you think? Uh T28 33rd. He finished in a tie for 67th. Uh he shot 87 uh in that final round after hitting the opening T-OT out of play. He was jamming up the course the whole time. Kept like got visibly frustrated at one point. Um, again, go watch the the official film from the RNA. Like, it it was just I I I cried like at the end. It just was a really really epic chronicle of this event and this moment for Shane and just he’s out there with his dad. His Bo Martin is his caddy, which I assumed was his dad for like 10 years. I was heartbroken to find out that it’s not his dad. Uh, and they they just they just captured all the emotion of it and what it was like for him to win it, you know, in in in Ireland or in the country in the island of Ireland. Not to complicate matters, but it was just obviously a hometown uh kind of feeling of all that. And it was really I don’t know why I don’t remember it better, but it that’s that’s the deep dive in 2019. That’s what Live from the Kill House looked like uh in in in 2019. Uh I don’t remember. This was in between a couple of the rounds, I think it was. I think I was I think I was so stopped up from eating jerky. A lot of Yeah, boys were moving a lot of King made jerky back in those days. We’re still doing numbies back then. 36,000 watch on Twitter. That’s pretty Weren’t there some quotes about I hope I’m not making this up about like Lowry being unsure of whether whether or not the fans up there, you know, kind of across the Northern Ireland border would even root for him or whether they would get behind him or not. Like I mean that’s how I got to I got to dig into that. I don’t know if any any of that came across in your research, but I I thought I remember hearing that. This was a shallow dive, not a deep dive. I didn’t come across any of that, but um uh I just remember there being some pretty visceral quotes about just what it’s like for the Open to go back and and just all the complexities and for for that to be an Irishman that wins just makes it even doubly so. But I, as you know, kind of evidenced by your by your shallow dive there, I think he’s like was wildly embraced by by the whole crowd and just a very cool moment for a lot of people who were there. Yeah. All the Guinness and all the uh Yeah, it it was it was just an excellent It’s weird how we kind of view some of these major performances that aren’t exciting at the end of like you just dominate and it’s kind of like, yeah, that was a forgettable one. like new one of the greatest major championship performances we’ve seen in our careers covering golf. Like it was majestic. It was just awesome. Uh and I don’t know whe whether you like Lowry or I I tend to root for Shane Lowry. I think he’s an easy guy to root for. He has uh you know I know he rubs some people the wrong way and has done so recently, but um I don’t know. It’s hard to watch that and be like, “Yeah, [ __ ] this guy.” Like it’s kind like ah okay, good for you. Good for you. I I just think he gets a free pass for being Irish on certain stuff, which Yeah. Maybe it’s deserved. Maybe. But uh you guys want to do some questions or you want to get into some odds? What do you want to do next? Let’s get into some odds. Okay. Chomping at the bit. I I’m trying to like man I you know this is when it starts. I got Seph Straa. I’m like man he he would be a really good course fit here. I got Tier Hatton, Cam Smith, Curtis Luck. I’m I’m deep in the minds guys. How deep do you guys want to go into your I I heard your JB Holmes Chris Goddup comp. You know, maybe that maybe there’s something there now that God’s a winner on Lynx’s golf course, following JB Holmes’ footsteps, maybe. Well, let’s not get carried away here. 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Hope is here. Visit gamblinghellinemma.org or call 800 327-50 for 247 support in Massachusetts or call 18778 hope and y or text hope and y in New York. So I kind of birdie the first two and then made a 15 there coming down. Did I miss them? Did I miss some lines in there? You just I think the moment got a little too big. You started off you went birdie birdie. You were I was killing I went 8415 in the middle of that. Uh did I visit visit MD gambling gambling? Okay, I got it. You’re in my You’re in my head there. But all right, looking at some of the odds here. Uh Scotty, this is as of this morning when I pulled this and we know I don’t have to tell you guys this. Odds of course subject to change. Scotty the favorite at plus450. Rory plus 700. Rom plus 1,200. Bryson plus 2,000. Xander plus 2500. Levig and Fleetwood plus 2,800. Morawa Havlin and Lowry are plus 3,000. Hatton plus 3,300. McIntyre, nice respect for Big Shot Bob plus 3500. Uh, Septraka, Walk Nean, and JT are plus 5,000. Finally, they got Nean, you know, properly accounted for in these and we’re not carried away in that 30. Uh, I saw I saw Rory had some some travel difficulties. Is that just like the the jet just in maintenance or something? Or like fuel guy couldn’t get out there, TC? Yeah, because Bob said that he was taking the ferry yesterday. He’s like, “Yeah, I’m going to take the ferry across.” Uh, which, you know, I’m I’m curious as to how guys got there. Who flew versus who took the ferry because you got to drive all the way west to take the ferry as well, right? Yeah. Yeah. Bob probably stopped in, you know, stopped in Obin or something like that and then and took the ferry. Rory was Yeah. First, one of the first ones on the course uh out there this morning, but um where did I leave off there? Fitz Span Kepka plus 5500 Russell Henley plus 6500 Cory Connors and Justin Rose plus 7500 uh Patrick Reed Adam Scott Cameron Young Hideki and Sam Burns plus 8,000 Ben Griffin Ryan Fox Jason Day Godup plus 9,000 Keegan plus 10,000 for a guy guaranteed to be on the team that’s pretty low down there. Uh Harry Hall, Cam Smith, Min Woo and Seiwim plus 11,000 and some other notables. JJ Spawn the US Open champion plus 12,000 and the Hick the the Hoygard twins are both plus 17,000. Oh, so Spawn’s now down to plus 9,000. Okay, are subject to change. They are uh perfect example there. I think the team rose at plus 8,000. It’s disrespectful. It’s disrespectful to everything he’s about, especially after that AI image. I don’t know. I saw him on on AI just crushing Guinnesses. Maybe he’s, you know, maybe it’d be like the uh the Philly cheese steak situation where he just goes too hard and has to WG. You see the picture of Colin? We can maybe maybe break that out into a separate segment about uh the TGL teams creating AI images. Maybe that’s a Wednesday. It’s a perfect happy hour thing. I’ll I’ll tell you what sticks out, Sully, of of uh this list that you you put in here is maybe I I just have a irrational connection to this guy. I can’t quit him. love him every tournament he turns up at, especially at a a golf course like this. Russ Henley plus 6500 is is tasty, tasty, tasty. Didn’t he finish he had a good finish last year, didn’t he? Finished fifth last year at the Open Championship coming off a T2 at the Travelers, T10 at the US Open. I don’t know, man. There’s a lot to like there for my guy Russ Henley, I feel like, on this golf course. Sie a talk me into a plus 20,000. Geez. Yeah. I mean to one Aldidge Podgeer plus 20,000 as well. I mean that’s I mean I don’t know plus 20,000. I mean again maybe not to win but there’s there’s top you know top 10, top 20 all kinds of great odds out there. But I just don’t think this is like the uh normalish links where it’s like blow it 100 yards right at the center line and you’re still going to have a shot. You know there’s like there’s a lot of bad stuff that can happen out on this this golf. Can I say unfortunately who I really like at plus 15,000. Tom Kim. Tom Kim. Just news broke today. He and Paul Tasauri are uh are split skis and he’s no longer working with the swing coach as well. I saw that um from uh I believe our friend Paul at the PJ tour had that uh scoop as well. Uh big tone all the way down there at plus 12,000. I don’t know. I’m going to get steep on this. We’re going to have our happy hour show where we’re going to make all our picks, but I love doing the Monday check-in on this and you can get some you get some talented players at more than 100 to one uh out there. Queen Foxy, I’m going to get deep into the fantasy stuff this week, too. I love I know. I’m going to do like eight lineups this week. It’s It’s one of my favorite weeks to do that. Uh I mean, I I feel I feel like little baby Collins not getting enough run. We’re down with Billy Foster on the bag. Plus 3,000. you know, asking him questions about the great man Sevy feels feels like a good Yeah, good golf course fit for him as well. Shane. Yeah. Anyway, do him golf a little bit with not a lot of wind. Who knows? We will get uh you can tune in to our Wednesday happy hour show presented by our friends at FanDuel and we will get steep steep steep on all of our picks and plays. Uh just some Twitter questions. We got a lot several good ones. know the everything. Excuse me. You know who the who’s got the first question. Our guy TGL Incel, I don’t even care if they’re good questions anymore. TGL Incel goes straight to the top of the list every time. Uh, will we finally get to see the post Grand Slam quote freed up at Majors Rory this week? Or will the home game open keep the weight on his shoulders? I don’t know how to answer this one. My my gut is I do think he’s going to be freed up, but I think that’s in comparison to being so ungodly not freed up that uh does that make sense? Like I don’t think it’s necessarily just like a complete walk in the park, but I think it will be marketkedly better than it has been at some majors in the past, particularly this last time at Royal Port Rush. Yeah, I I don’t think he’s ever going to be freed up at majors. Like I think that was a borderline foolish thing to say. Uh or or think that it was just going to like living in the moment, Sully. Come on. Exactly. I get it. But I mean, dude, there’s no better time to reflect on how freaking hard it is to win majors than going, you know, the 40 in a row that you that you failed at. But uh anyways, I don’t think it’s going to help him play great. Going with the attitude like I’m freed up. I think he’s got to be as mentally and physically prepared as possible. And you got to know that it’s going to feel different when you go tee it up. like you’ve done enough of these to know all of that to say it’s still I don’t think quite adding up for me for Rory for this week. Uh I I think the playing at home thing is not nothing. And it it was a huge demon he vanquished this year at Augusta, but this is a different a different variety of that. And uh just the open’s just a harder test. Like it’s just deeper field, more variables. It’s Yeah, it’s just a harder thing to do than go and win a limited field uh event that’s at the same golf course every year that you can somewhat learn how to play over the years. So, I I I would be very surprised if Rory won. I don’t know if he’s going to be in my picks not to win, but I I I think the home game thing is not going to be a great thing for him this week. Overall, pick not to win are going to be really interesting this week. They always play out so well for us, too. Uh CJ Hen 0208, which player would change your mind the most about their career with a win? So many directions we need to go with this. I think I think we got to players Right. Yeah. I mean, you guys answer it and then I mean, it’s definitely Tommy. Definitely Tommy, right? And I I think it’s like that would change everything. Like, we just we got to see the ball go through the hoop. And I think there’s so many people pre-approved to just say like, man, this is this guy’s he’s, you know, one of the all-time English greats, just a like a guy that, you know, needs to be United, you know, he needs to be he’s just missing one thing, DC. He’s just missing some doves, man. And I I think that’s like everybody’s just waiting for it. So, I I think it’s him. I think if it’s if you’re taking him out. I I think like I don’t know. I’m heavy on Rom. I know I keep talking about Rom, but I think seeing him come back and get a another like postlive victory, I think brings him back to the forefront of every conversation. You know, I think it’s just been kind of Scotty Rory forever. And I think Rahm is desperate to be uh the third person in that conversation and probably should be but hasn’t quite had the uh the results to stay top of mind. So those would be my two. Do you guys have anybody else? I my mind immediately with this question went somewhere that I wasn’t expecting it to go, but I’m just going to go right where I went. And it’s it’s Brooks like if he got a third different kind of major and a sixth major like pulled back ahead of Rory for like this generation’s major champion. I mean I know it doesn’t sound that realistic. He’s plus 5500 or whatever he is has moved to as of this point and made a brief showing at Oakmont before kind of kind of petering away but like it wouldn’t shock me if he got involved again. I think I saw enough at Oakmont to be like, “Okay, this guy’s not dead and he has this tendency to show up at majors somewhat out of nowhere and perform really well. if he won it, it would it would just take things to a a level that I think like I’m I’m Rory obviously winning the career grand slam and what he’s done outside of the majors kind of blows Brooks away in terms of like career rankings, but if Rory falls behind again in majors, it’s again we just got to reset and level set like what this Brooks kept career thing is and something we usually do on Sunday nights of majors and not the the Monday the week of because we usually forget about this guy. But uh I don’t know, that’s where my mind went with that question. I’m uh Hey, I’ll I’ll tell you guys. Faith is belief in something without proof. Okay. I was wondering what you’re doing over there. It’s not gonna No, I was looking at odds. Far out, TC. Uh I was looking at odds, but you guys, you know, you guys are are just you’re talking about the Tommy, you’re talking out of both sides of your mouth with Tommy stuff. So, I’m just gonna just gonna call that out right now. What does that mean? I couldn’t almost like don’t even want to get dragged into this cuz that’s that’s so silly. TC, I’m aligned with you. Okay, I moved the screen for this for this reason. Preferably in your vertical here. Okay, if you reach out, you guys are doing a bit over here. I I don’t understand. I don’t understand what you’re saying. I I I I like He’s the guy. He’s pre he’s checked every box. He’s Everybody wants to be one of the great man. He’s going to change your mind. Your mind is made up already. I’m already there. Okay. Well, then I have no argument on that. I I feel pretty confident in my position on that one. Where are you? Where are you historically, DJ John? Does Tommy win a major? I said yes. Okay. Yes. Cody, where are you? Of course he does. Okay. What would I don’t know about. Oh, for sure. Tommy’s so damn good. Yeah, but what he majors is is hard. You know how much how many majors we hand out though to people who have like no I mean to Tommy’s world class. He’s only 34 35. Okay. He’s he’s got four years of his prime ahead of him. Anyway, back to who it would change my mind on. Patrick Kentlay. It would change my mind on him a lot. Uh Justin Thomas, he finished this is one of his best open champ. This is his best open championship finish in his T1. It’s his only top 30 finish in the open championship, which that doesn’t make sense either, man. Going back to creative player. Yeah, it’s like the Scotty thing. I’m like, man, how how does this not match up with you? I think we need to like study JT’s major career. Like, it’s one of the weirdest. Like, he’s very fortunate to have two majors. That would be those would be two that really pop up for me, I think. Otherwise, um, you know, I I think Hatton it would I think it would change the conversation a lot around Hatton if he knocked off a major. And then lastly I think Team Rose if Team Rose got a second major that’s automatic knighthood that would change not only our minds but also the King’s mind. Do you know how many bank holidays they’d get over there just cuz Rosie finally won the open? Um, all right. Next question from either PC Lawson or Pclawson 27, one of the two. Uh, who will be this year’s Tristan Lawrence? Well, how do we define Tristan Lawrence? I mean, whatever direction. Plus 200 or more or plus two 20,000 or more. 200 to one or more. Somebody that’s going to gonna have a have have themselves a golf tournament and and be around on the back nine on Sunday. I already shouted out my guy downtown Dan Brown. I don’t know if he’s necessarily got odds that long or not. I know he’s been actually playing some pretty good golf on that other tour. I was gonna say Lucas Herbert uh is one I got a couple rippers. Lucas Herbert or uh or Leash. I think Lee is like 230 or 270 to1. You want to talk about a second shot golfer? He almost won the open. How did he get in the field like international qualified? He he He turned up. He He He washed himself up. Pulled him off the qualified for the open. How about How about McKibben, TC? Yeah. Can’t get down with McKibben. You got Tacumi Kaya in the field. Could be a great course. Absolute fit. Um I’ve always felt like Tom Hogi’s open championship record should be better. I agree with that. Our guy Curtis 40,000 to1 Tom Hogi is Curo. Curto got in via the Australian Open and he’s just absolutely been taken by Lynx golf over the last couple of weeks. Smitten. I’ve seen KJ Choy. Really? That’s true. Yeah, that’s interesting. We’ve Yeah, we’ve kind of reached the that’s interesting part of the of the show where we’re just kind of reading spreadsheets. So, I don’t know if that’s that’s signed to rap or not. Give me give me uh give me Ben on is going to be my Trist. Oh, I like that. I don’t know. What’s the odds there? He’s plus uh where what is he at? He’s plus 22,000. Okay. So, um Darcy Rossider, what’s the been the most egregious content this weekend? Brandle moaning about delayed clubs or LA AI generated shots. Yeah, I think both of those have been awesome. Brandle I mean Brandle big Barel big cat got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got got t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t tedged in on it. He was going to bat for Brle. Brand’s clubs haven’t moved. I don’t I don’t know if there’s been an update today, but they haven’t they can’t even tell them when they’re going to arrive. Over there. You guys saw the AI uh we are LAC stuff, right? Like the the Team Rose one, you know, shared on my Instagram. I the the Morocawa one. I don’t know if you uh can’t see it, but I’ll pull it up. focus. Uh, I thought that one was pretty good. I hadn’t, credit to them, I hadn’t thought about TGL in like three months until they did this. I was like, I totally forgot this is a thing. And so, I guess that’s kind of the goal of it to keep it top of mind. But yeah, there were so many people that replied to my story like, this looks like AI. Like, oh yeah, I’ll have to keep my So wildly dystopian and I love it. Keep my antenna up on that one. No, no. I think these are real. I think these are real. Was it the Was it the sign that just says books in the background that gave it away? I don’t know. Yeah, that one stinks. Yeah, that one’s that one’s that one’s not good. That I think that one’s that one’s killer. I like that one a lot, man. Yeah, those are pretty funny. Those are pretty good. Um, last question at the casual water. Who would be the most interesting open winner in terms of influencing RDER Cup hype? I feel like this is much like the Fleetwood one. There’s one answer that I feel like we shouldn’t even be allowed to pick. I thought you guys already put him on the team. Well, it wouldn’t make anything any more interesting. Yeah, good point. Yeah. Um, is Andrew Novak in the field? He is in the field. is plus 17,000. I mean, honestly, I think for like Ryder Cupwise, it would be kind of fascinating if um I’m trying to think who from Liv P. Oh, this like this should be this this could be P might be the What’s his odds right now? Patrick Reed’s odds. He is plus 8,000. So I I mean yeah I think a P a P win would be but like you know there could be a yeah it’s fixed he can’t even if he wins he’s not going to qualify like maybe that would they can’t keep him off the team if he wins. I’m sorry they can’t. They truly can. I promise you they can. I promise you they can. Uh I would love to see like Brian Harmon again you just lose your mind. It was like a man after after some sobering few weeks since the US Open like [ __ ] JJ SP we’re taking JJ Spawn to Beth Paige we really are doing this is kids in the field maybe Bri oh you know no it’s Brian Campbell TC he went for a third time you actually wins three times he went for a third time but he’s still not he’s 28th in the point standings with two wins that’s wild uh I mean Sergio would be Sergio would be interesting. That would be like the P, the equivalent of P. Our guy Manosero, maybe make a late run. If Thomas Dri, Matt Wallace, Jordan Smith, Aaron Ry, um, Marco Ping, like if one of those guys uh, won that automatic qualifier. How can you keep Can you imagine Mickelson wins? You’re not You’re not putting him on the team. Does Phil make the cut this week? Uh, I’m gonna say no. Okay. I think I think Phil does I’m riding hard for it. I would love nothing more, but I’m gonna I’m gonna bet no. I think Phil does make the cut this week. Make cut bets are there’s a few that are up. They’re not available in all states though. Sully, that’s true. It’s They’re all like parlays like you got to get like Rory, Xander, Fleetwood, and Bloodvig all to make the cut like plus 102. So, all right. That’s be a lot more mean-spirited. Anything else you guys want to cover? We got to save some juice for for We’re going through Barracuda odds, too, right? No, that’s gonna be on That’s gonna be on Cody’s channel. Yeah, of course. We got We got Kurt Kurt Kittyama, Vince Wheam Champ or the uh God, it sucks at Maxis. Yeah. No, it’s great that he’s playing. I I seriously respect it. Go get it, dude. For sure. Go dig it out with your family. That’ll be great. Go do it, dude. Um, if as mentioned tonight 8:00 PM Eastern time, I did realize this is going up against the Home Run Derby. You can DVR the Home Run Derby. There’s be a lot of commercials there. Anyways, you can go to our YouTube channel, No Laying Up YouTube channel, and watch our film on Northern Ireland. Uh, DJ Randy and I went over there in May. Had truly one of the best weeks, best travel weeks we’ve ever had. If you can’t tell from the images on the screen, the weather we got for Royal County down, out of this world. You can get another look at Royal Port Rush. Uh, it will not be how the pros will be playing it, but it is a look at Port Rush in a little bit more detail than you see from tower cams and whatnot. So, um, what’s your guys strategy? So, looking at that photo, is there any part of you that feels like the RNA should wrap the gorse kind of like uh, Augusta does to make the delayed bloom during the Yeah, I know it’s forged by nature. Yeah. But be sick. I I’ll I’ll have my hitters over there look into it. Yeah, I support it. Uh maybe some of your trap draw aronomists can can talk about whether that’s feasible or not. Maybe get a feasibility study on that. What’s your guys strategy going to be for uh for getting up uh to watch the golf? We’re going to be on USA Network for on Thursday, Friday from like 4:00 to like 3:30 I think it is. Just basically all day. Can I you know what Sie on on this topic? I I hope this doesn’t suck too much juice out of it, but it used to be a lot more fun when Twitter was a lot more fun. And totally when you get bad Twitter and you get like uh bad broadcast usually with a ton of commercials, it kind of hit me a couple years ago where it’s like, man, you might as well just get some sleep and DVR it and skip the commercials. That that sucks. But unfortunately, I think that might be the world we we live in. So, I usually still get up at earlyish. you know, get up at like 6, but not necessarily have to get up at 3 anymore. We’re spoiled. YouTube TV tells us, “Hey, key moments here.” Yeah. It’s all about how weird it gets early, too. And like, who’s teeing off and and all of that stuff. Uh I’m taking my my kids, whole family. We’re going down to Orlando for the Dude Perfect show on Thursday night, going to see the dudes. So, uh I don’t think I’ll be getting up early on Friday. Just doing a little challenge. Maybe you just stay up. Sugar rush still. It’s hard. Long drive, too. I’m not going to be able to sleep. Maybe you just stay up. Tyler wrote a bowl. What’s your Anyway, I I I think that decision’s out of my hand these days, TC. I’ve got my oldest is waking up asking is uh is waking up pre 500 a.m. right now. Uh don’t really know why. And so I think that’s probably what’s going to happen. He’s always being a menace. Uh and so yeah, it’s but you’re right, de there that uh there used to be a major buzz around like all I don’t know still during major weeks, Twitter has a has some moments. There’s there’s some moments, but uh something needs to happen for it to be super fun, but yeah, you just get decked by commercials and all that stuff. It’s not the most fun morning. So anyways, it’s going to be 4:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern on USA Network. If you’re up earlier than that, 1:30 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. on Peacock. Saturday 5 to 7:00 on USA Network. Then 7 a.m. to 3:00 PM on NBC and Peacock. Sunday 4 to 7 a.m. on USA. And then 7 to 2:00 p.m. on NBC and LEOK. We got a big might be getting up early on Sunday if you know what I mean. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. What What was Where does Tommy have to be for you to go? We’re not even going to open that door. Yeah, we’re talk about it on Wednesday. Okay, we’ll get there Wednesday. All right, thank you everyone for tuning in. Hold on. Hold on real real quick before we get out here. I I understand you’re trying to run to the door. That’s fine. I’m very excited for the Northern Ireland film tonight on our YouTube. Not where we’re at right now over on the main YouTube channel. Uh we’re going to be back here Wednesday, of course, for happy hour. So, come join us Wednesday afternoon for the Happy Hour show. Final picks, everything else like that, plus a ton of fun along the way. If you are the following, you know, if I flash your name up there, please send me an email. Cody at nolayingup.com. Again, thank you to our friends at FanDuel. We appreciate everything they do to make us bring, you know, we’re trying to give free money away. And Shuster Neil, he he’s opened the doors again, guys. We’re giving away $150 in Pro Shop credit this week. Listen, you want more Pro Shop, you know, merch coming to your doorstep? Perfect. Sign up for the No Lang Up newsletter. Two lucky newsletter subscribers will be randomly selected to win $150 each in Pro Shop credit. To enter, all you have to do is subscribe to the No Laying Up newsletter. You’ll get all the weekly updates on the Pro Shop events, uh, exclusive written content, everything else. Sign up now between uh, and it’s going to end July 21st. Go to subscribe.nollayingup.comgiveaway. Winners will be contacted next week. I put the link in the bio or in the description here. It’s going to be in the YouTube description, uh, as well as podcasts. You name it. Anyway, I’m pumped for the week. It’s open time. It’s going to be fantastic. Um, I’m excited to get the get the new sticks out tomorrow, TC. We got our new titleist T-Series Irons came. We had I had to put on the calendar, man. Let’s just get out of the house and go play a little golf. We’re going to watch I think in my head I’ve been watching all this Port Rush stuff and I’m like, ah, let’s put some sweaters on and go, no, it’s going to be freaking hot. But, uh, you know, we’re going to get out and and and launch. be sweating through the tweed on those shoes. Yeah, exactly. Thank you everyone for tuning in live. Thank you for listening wherever you listen. Uh and look forward to a great week. We’re going to have a lot of fun bringing it to you. Crack on. Cheers. Shout the
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#1 storyline, who is declared dead after this major championship?
DJ, The Shotgun Start did a Spotlight episode on Frank Stranahan on November 6,2020. Highly recommend checking that out🫡
What’s the opening music?
Terrible L from NLU hating on The next best open venue besides St.Andrews… maybe if you actually attended the event in person you would understand the excitement.. same way they didn’t attend the 2022 open at st.Andrews either.
2025 British Open preview*
Are you kidding me, this is the worst week of the year!
Who the hell is "P". Talking in bro code is unbecoming.