**🏆 Scottie Scheffler DOMINATES & More | British Open 2025 Recap & Golf News 🏌️♂️**

The 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush was one for the books! Scottie Scheffler continues to prove he’s the best since Tiger Woods **by the numbers** 📊 (via [Apple News](https://apple.news/AeLtVCdPCRISSGt8vug3UQA)). Even **Xander Schauffele** couldn’t deny it, saying what we’ve all been thinking about Scheffler’s dominance (via [Golf Digest](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/british-open-2025-xander-schauffele-had-best-and-most-honest-quote-about-scottie-scheffler)).

**Phil Mickelson** may have unintentionally gotten part of his Scheffler prediction right—though not without some backlash from Kevin Kisner 😆 (via [GolfWRX](https://www.golfwrx.com/763596/phil-mickelson-snaps-back-at-kevin-kisner-after-being-trolled-over-scottie-scheffler-prediction/)). And speaking of Scottie, **TaylorMade** came in clutch with a little Photoshop magic for his victory hairline—because even champions need a touch-up! (via [Golf Digest](https://www.golfdigest.com/story/british-open-2025-taylor-made-scottie-scheffler-photoshop-the-loop)).

🔥 **Other Highlights:**
– **Chris Gotterup** proved he belongs on the big stage, securing his entry and status for next year (via [Golf Monthly](https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/chris-gotterup-open-finish-perks)).
– How did **LIV Golfers** fare at The Open? Check out their performances (via [Golfweek](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/majors/british-open/2025/07/20/british-open-2025-liv-golf-finished-royal-portrush/85299826007/)).
– The **FedEx Cup Playoffs** are heating up! Who’s on the bubble? (via [Golfweek](https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/pga/2025/07/21/fedex-cup-playoffs-standings-2025-pga-tour-bubble-3m-open/85305596007/)).
– The **LPGA** is gearing up for their **final major of the year**—here’s what you need to know (via [LPGA](https://www.lpga.com/news/2025/five-things-to-know-about-the-2025-isps-handa-womens-scottish-open)).

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Hey y’all, it’s the Bearded Bros Golf Show. We’re back at it again. I am Rod and I’m Marcus. For those that would don’t know, um, if you know, you know from the thumb thumbnail, uh, fans of the wire know where the reference is from. It’s Omar walking these guys down. I’m not behaving signs up. Omar walking down the street in the wire. I don’t think Marcus is a fan of the wire, but that that’s become Scotty. Um, I want to say I first used the term inevitable at least earlier this year, maybe as far back as last year when it comes to Scotty. Um, I I pretty much I’m going to say honest like Friday once he took the lead after round two, I said it was over. That’s where we’re at with Scotty. Yeah, this show is going to be a Scotty Glaze session. If you don’t like Scotty Sheffler, you’re in the wrong place today. So, come back next week maybe. But the man gets the flowers. Um, you know, three rounds led in the tournament. Looked like his himself. I mean, fully on by Saturday, it was a done deal. We know he just doesn’t um give up big leads. I was s even surprised by the double bogey that he put up on the front nine on Sunday, but able to to do what Scotty does and, you know, ultimately close it out on Sunday. What do you think of my man? Uh, two majors this year. Um, looked dominant. Has all the other players giving him his props. uh from Bryson Dashambo, Roy Moy, Xander SchoffĂŠ, everybody’s um on board with Scotty being the man. Uh I do want to talk about uh something from Decade Golf uh that I didn’t put in the show notes that I just saw before we hopped on. So, give me give me your opinion on on the weekend and uh what Scotty presented to us. Uh yeah, I mean Scotty done Scotty doesn’t come back to the field once he’s out there. That’s for one. Um it was funny because there was a meme somebody said um Scotty Shuffler tried that shot out of the bunker just to feel something because everything else seemed to be so easy. Um yeah man. Uh, the spider. Look, the spider doesn’t even need to make any advertisements. Just put Scotty up there, show his accolades from 2022 on. He It Look, it’s got a cult following for a reason. I don’t know what it is. Um, but the people that play him will not leave him. Um, and the people that come over know what’s up. It’s scary out there if you’re not using some form of a mallet, let alone a spider. Even Harmon has the new zero torque spider GT. It looks good. I mean, like I said, it looks good. I just can’t do center shafted. I I’m sorry. I know. But I mean, but he I mean, that’s that putter has really come alive and I think quite a few things came around at the same time a couple of years ago. Yeah. to um kind of get Scotty where he is. Uh but the clutch uh par putts, it w it wasn’t just him sinking birdie putts. Uh he made some really clutch long lengthy pars to keep the round going. Mhm. I think if anything, like especially as far as the Tiger comparisons, I think that’s more so kind of like where I draw the Tiger besides the fact that he’s 10 for 10 on 54ole leads. Another crazy Tiger stat. Tiger is one I mean lost maybe like three if that with the 54 hole lead three times in in his career. So that’s another stat. But one thing that really, you know, kind of likens me to him to Tiger is his ability to make par when he shouldn’t be making par. Um, a lot of these putts that look like they were never missing. I mean, he’s not going to walk them in and be a showman like Tiger was because that’s what Tiger does. But, I mean, everybody’s going to say it, but what’s another person saying it? I mean, it’s going to he’s the closest thing to Tiger that we’re going to see in our lifetime that we’re going to see in our golfing career. There will never be another Tiger, but it is good and refreshing to see somebody dominate and, you know, take it on the shoulders like he’s doing right now. And he’s doing it with a great perspective. I mean, you you’ve seen all of the different quotes, you’ve seen the interviews. It’s refreshing. Uh he’s a very cerebral player, a very cerebral person. So for him to come out, win the right way, and still be just like a humble guy and stuff like that, it’s really cool to see. And I don’t know if we’ll see another Scotty, honestly. Yeah, Andy, I agree with this. It It was way too sunny and the short sleeves were out, right? Um all weekend. It It definitely Great point. I guess I guess what? Thursday was the worst as as it relates to weather and it was just windy. Uh we didn’t see any torrential downpours or anything. Not too much crazy rain, but it was some rain, but yeah, it was very brief. It wasn’t like elongated. It didn’t drown out the course or anything like that. It didn’t make the greens um you know, rough or so or anything like that. Like it was not overcast. Yeah, as a Lynx course, it actually looked pretty well conditioned to be honest. I mean, it almost looked park parkland style. Uh they had some different rough. Um they actually had a, you know, primary cut of rough and then into the fescue. So, it it was set up very differently than what we’ve, you know, have seen in the past from link style courses. But, I liked it. I mean, the bunkering wasn’t it was penal once you got into it, but it wasn’t like every single runoff led you into a bunker. So, I like I like Royal Port Rush. It It was the type of link style course that I would like. Not saying it’s close to Parkland style, but it’s got some characteristics that you can kind of visualize it and seems very playable. um you know, fairway bunkers placed in the right right areas where people are actually in them and they were penal as you mentioned with, you know, Scotty in that last round trying to get out of there and I think, you know, again, he tried to challenge it. He even tried to lay up. I mean, he he thought he could get something up one, you know, I think the the distance at the time was 149 and he tried to challenge that. So, um yeah, I I like the core setup. It it was seemed like the greens are rolling pretty well as well. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, overall good championship to end the year. Um I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m glad, you know, Scotty handled Lynx golf really well because again, he looked very kind of frustrated the week before um at the Genesis Scottish Open. Um just seemed in spots where on the greens he was frustrated with Reeds. Um, but clearly got that together uh coming over to Ireland this week. So, yeah, the ma the man is the man. I’m sorry. At this point, if you haven’t um I guess gravitated to him as a superstar, even though he is not a he’s a resilient superstar, we’re seeing um worthwhile opinions from him. we see him kind of pour his heart out before the tournament just saying that he was kind of what I don’t know disenchanted just that the wins come and then you don’t really get a chance to really embrace them and the reference that he used was you know the night after a win you’re still getting asked what’s for dinner right and I think there’s ways to mitigate around that like hey I’m I’m in a position to win let’s let’s go ahead and have you like if that’s an annoyance cuz he brought it up, have dinner planned out, you know, have it ready to go, do whatever you got to do to be able to live in that moment. And I also think I was thinking about it after the fact after he said those comments and I think the way the schedule is set up. There are things that work for fans that then conversely do not work for players and then things that work for players, let’s say live golf, which is less golf, weird setup. Things that work for the players don’t work for the fans. And I think in this case when you look at the elevated events they have come right after the m after the majors excuse me. So they’ve been setting them up where the majors come and then a elevated event happens right after that so that the stars show up the next week and it’s not this major falloff where their viewers don’t get golf. And so I think with that it’s like in the past we haven’t had the elevated events, you know, till a few years ago. So they’re going the winter goes from this high high to really having to prep the next week like a normal week to go out there and play and you don’t really get to bask in the celebration, go home, you know, stare at the trophy, watch the replay, really embrace the accomplishment. And I think the schedule has lended to that. That’s the only thing that I could point to that it’s like, okay, business as usual whether you won or not when it comes to these major setups this year. So, I don’t know. May maybe I’m wrong on that, but it’s just thing that popped out to me is being different and why he may not feel that satisfaction and just has to go on to the next thing. Yeah. And I think like I mentioned, I think we talked about this already, but I think one thing like about a guy like Scotty who’s just who has won before and pretty much is one, you know, throughout his junior and amateur career as well. I think part of the thing for him is since he is so grounded and and balanced with his, you know, work life is I think that I think that part of the the vigor and excitement is the grind to get to the next win and the next event and stuff like that. So, I think that’s kind of that’s what I got out of it when he br when he brought it up in the interview is not necessarily, you know, diminishing the the win no matter how big it is. I think that for him the chase is more the excitement and then all the hard work that you did to get into the win and then after that, yes, it’s a falloff because I did all of this. I I wasted all of I I mean I used all of my energy to get the win to build up and work as hard as I could to refine everything to win on this course. And now what? Now you start over at the bottom and you do that same momentum. You get that same anxiousness to get to the next to the next course. And just like he said on Memphis, he got two weeks off, right? They’re gonna do the 3M, then they’re going to do the Windom, the end of the season event, and then beginning of August, it’s time. So, yeah, he’s going to sit here and relish in this one for a little bit longer than usual, but he’s got bigger fish to fry. He’s got more things that he wants to compete for. And I think that’s part of the part of the thing as far as um as far as, you know, a winner like that. you’re trying to get to the next win. Like I like that’s to me that’s what I’m I’m taking it as. So I’m not gonna defend Scotty because Scotty knows what he was saying in the moment and what he meant, but that’s what I portrayed it as and that’s how it felt to me. Yeah. I mean, and he said I I don’t know if y’all are getting what I’m I’m saying. and I think he was just kind of spitballing. But again, it just goes back to we’re getting more of Scotty than we did when he first kind of broke out and started winning. Um just more willing to reveal himself. Um so I’m I’m appreciative of that and the way that he’s winning, the clip that he’s winning at, I think is is super impressive because we just haven’t seen this level of dominance since Tiger. Yeah. U the one thing that I did want to bring up is um Scott Faucet. So, he’s the um creator of Decade Golf. Um a statistical kind of analytical view of the game of golf. Um that’s kind of outside of the box. And I’ve taken a handful of ideas um from Decade Golf. Uh does a lot of you know, he’s got the program that you can pay into, but he’s also got the um you know, Instagram where he’ll put some stuff out there that can actually be pretty helpful. like putting past the hole um isn’t always the best strategy, right? Sometimes you just want to play for the par the the easy par or the easy tap in bogey, whatever the case may be. So, he’s got some really good ideas around playing efficient golf, but he’s had a couple of videos over the weekend, you know, saying, “Hey, if you weren’t around during the Tiger era, which honestly, me and you really weren’t playing golf, uh, and active in golf in peak, you know, Tiger, I mean, we weren’t paying attention.” No, we’re not in the level that we pay now. Yeah. Not in the same way that we are now, right? week in and week out. We were casual viewers and aware of it and you know clearly Tiger was out there making noise but we weren’t fully integrated into the game until about 2012 for us and then you know the Peak Tiger 2008 you know 2000 to 2008. So, you know, with that being said, he’s like, you had to be there to see how dominant those wins were in terms of the gap between Tiger and the field, which we get that. Totally get that. And I think that’s what makes it hard for people to compare Scotty to Tiger. And I I don’t think it’s actually very fair to do so. And as I was looking back at the article that I sent you, it popped up on my feed from uh Wall Street Journal um through Apple News and even the stats that they utilize aren’t really as convincing as you would think. I think Scotty is good compared to his contemporaries to other players that are currently out there and there’s one stat that really highlights that. But as it compares to Tiger, I still think there’s a huge gap. I mean, we we really need to see like 10shot victories, something crazy. And they were highlighting, oh, he’s got these three shot victories in his majors. Yeah, we need to see like a 10shot victory. Like, complete dominance. Not even close. The field just shuts it down. So, I mean, Tiger won his first major by 12. Nobody’s doing that. What? Rory was the closest. He won by 10. I mean, okay. He won he won the US Open by 10. That’s the closest thing we’ve had since that. Everything else has been relatively competitive up until the last day. We’re never going to see a 15 shot victory. I mean, the the US Open, it say what you want about golf in 2000, the tech, the technology or whatever. Buddy hit it. Buddy was the only underpar player and he was double digits underpar. the next closest person was three over. Like you’re not gonna see that again. I mean, let’s talk about I mean, just real quick, let’s talk about like one of the you know, Tigers that from the time, you know, that major run where he was on where he was underpar um like he was 125 underpar. The next closest competitor throughout all the majors in that little run was Phil Mickelson and he was 99 over. Like that is what we’re dealing with here. that that is the epitome of Tiger versus the field. Scotty is the next best thing, but even him miles and miles and light years, whatever, you know. Yeah. Measure. And people would even people would even criticize and say, not criticize, but say, “Hey, Tiger was at a deficit because he was gaming Nike gear at the time.” Not that we we always were fans of Nike. the the the performance was always kind of questioned. I I don’t I think it was maybe overplay than it was, but we really do know that we’re living in the golden age of golf equipment. And there’s just a everybody has really good equipment. There’s nobody out there that can’t find a club that is perfectly succinct succinct for their game. You can find something that fits you from some OEM that works for your game. You bunch of mixed bags out there with woods and putters and irons and wedges. We’ve seen a ton of mixed bags. So people would say again that Tiger was winning at that clip at an equipment disadvantage when people were other were out there playing more known OEMs or more proven OEMs. Yeah. Um, let’s um let’s pull up um I’m going to say a little bit of screen inception for a second here, but I just want to pull up the stats. Yeah, people were hating on Nike while he gets this ready. I just wanted to say people were hating on Nike because they weren’t that long in the game. But when you’re a billiondoll company even at that point where um you know like just think about the amount of R&D that they put into the game to become that competitive that quick and make that amount of a mark from you know up until 2016 or whatever before they stopped making clubs and balls and things of that nature. Yeah. So, this is a um stat they put together. Again, it’s hard to find stats that are comparable to what Tiger was doing in his prime. And so, they put players over the last 30 years ranked by their best stretches. And this is a strokes gained per round, which I know strokes gain wasn’t even a popular stat back then. So, they had to like kind of retrofit these numbers to make it work. Um, yeah, we’re familiar with strokes gained, but they were just not talking about this in like the early 2000s. So, we can see here Tiger was almost four strokes gained to the field per round per round. Um, you know, Scotty is the next closest thing to that and these other names we are very familiar with that were in the Tiger era. So, VJ Singh just under three. VJ Singh went on a run for a while as well. I mean, one of the hardest workers in the game. David Duval kind of was pre-tiger and then kind of crushed by the Tiger era essentially. Um, still a very good player, but I think David Dval only has one major to his name. Is that correct? Uh, yes. But he was a number one ranked player in 99. Yep. and then Ernie Ell who also kind of caught the buzzsaw of Tiger during that period of time. But clearly you can see Tiger’s almost a full stroke above, you know, Tiger, excuse me, above Scotty and then definitely a full stroke above all these other guys that were kind of coming up during that time. No one else in the current modern era of golf is seeing this level of dominance. that why we that’s why we’ve seen so much parody in golf and we’re kind of just bouncing around like who’s going to be the next as we’ve seen Tiger fade away with injuries and figuring out who is going to be the next superstar in the game of golf. So let’s scroll down again. This one’s more um how Scotty compares to folks that are currently playing in the game. So, um, again, this is directly related to folks playing now. Again, this is the strokes gained. Um, a little over three per round. John Rom looks to be about 2.75. Jordan Speimaril to Rom, all these guys are very similar in their peak, but Scotty a little bit above the average as it relates to struggles gained compared to these guys. Yeah. Um, and you can clearly see that Rohm was at his peak and then went to live and we’ve seen the fall off since that point while still playing solid golf, just hasn’t been able to find the greatness and consistency that he enjoyed prior to the move. And then the last one, um, this is cumulative scores in majors since 2021. So, you kind of reference this from a tiger stat um in terms of being over or underpar. So, here we have Scotty in major since 2021. Um just short of 100 underpar. Um I would probably estimate that’s like 90 something. Um Xander’s the next closest, just over 50. Um Rory hasn’t, you know, Rory’s been hot and cold in majors, right? We’ve we’ve criticized him these last couple of majors going into the Open because after the Masters, he’s had a bit of a little a mental letd down. He’s been very open about that. Um again, struggles in majors. Um particularly in the Masters prior to this year. Um John Rom again, we just haven’t seen him really performing since his Masters victory. And now his his results this year have actually been pretty decent. in the majors. But again, we’re we’re talking about shooting underpar and then Kamora who had his run in his kind of first couple of years and then we really haven’t seen that same level of performance since that point. So yeah, head and shoulders above where his contemporaries are. Um, I don’t want to assume that they, this particular, um, article left out Bryson Desambo like on purpose, but I think we kind of saw the up and down nature of Dashambo’s game as well. That round one, I mean, it looked like it was very questionable whether he was going to make the cut or not. he ends up finish T10, you know, really strong three days, but again, that really up and down performance and then, you know, even even his fall off in the PGA Championship where he had a chance to win it and just wasn’t able to kind of maintain that pace throughout the entire event. So again, I think it’s hard to compare Scotty to any of these guys um or to Tiger, I should say, just because Tiger was head and shoulders. But as we are viewing it now, I personally like having somebody that’s dominant for everybody else to chase. And that’s that’s Scotty right now. Yeah. I mean, it gives you something to fight for. It gives you something to to want to work towards. I mean he he is the bar and you’re trying to work towards the bar. I mean you know when you can just get around and you know in the mid2010s or whatever and there was parody in golf and you know you had Jason Day, you had Jordan Speed who who was like fresh off UT’s campus winning majors and stuff like that. DJ was in the mix. I mean JT was young. He was in the mix. Like there was so many golfers in the mix. Yes. It’s fun, but also it’s who’s gonna be the next guy. Just like we continue to say and now we have a guy and now we have somebody to chase. So yeah, I think it’s refreshing and I think it’s what the game of golf needs at the end of the day. I mean, we don’t have like a three-headed horse anymore. I feel like unfortunately I feel like could have been a two-headed monster if John Rom would have been able to, you know, just kind of keep his wits about him. it. Okay, you made the decision to go to live. You’re going to have to be able to find your way to a golf course and still be able to get into it mentally and compete because when you’re only playing, you know, 14 times a year that’s very spaced out, you don’t have that same competitive edge. when you’re playing 25 times a year or 20 times and then the playoffs and then you’re getting ready for the Rder Cup and stuff like that. Yes, I need to be making points. Yes, I don’t want to be a captain’s pick. I My world ranking is going to get me in. My FedEx point is going to get me in. He doesn’t have that right now. Ram does not play the DP World Tour events, which he has eligibility to do so. He the only thing he’s done is played the Spanish Open. And the first year before they were even they had this partnership to where they were letting players in on the stuff like that. He just got the exemption. He just got the sponsors exemption. And that was in the 2023 when he first joined and then 2024 again that year. So 2025 this year that’s when they had that partnership and it allowed him to play in it and everything like that. But yeah, I feel like it could have been a Scott and a Scotty and John Rom show. I I easily in my heart of hearts, I think John Rom had the game and the kind of competitive nature to do it. But when you’re not having the reps, like we continue to say that’s what it comes down to. You got to keep the machine oiled and running. Yes. And I would say the same I would say the same for Dashambo. Could have been there. Yeah. with his little redemption tour and stuff like that. I I you can kind of agree. I I I don’t want to diminish him because he had a really good US Open. I mean, he’s been fighting in majors all of a sudden and he definitely has the points to automatically qualify for the RDER Cup as we mentioned last week. So, he’s been doing good enough. But, I don’t know. The the 78 kind of was like a telltale sign that I don’t know if he’s got it in it. Well, no, no, no. His game doesn’t work everywhere. That’s the problem that I see with certain We talked about this during the PGA Championship. Certain wins affect his ability to get to pins. Yeah. He hits a draw. Yeah. And I think that’s why I think that’s kind of why I wouldn’t really lump him in with John Ram and Scotty. John Ram and Scotty going to play that fade and the wind ain’t touching that. You know what I’m saying? that it’s very hard for their ball to be knocked down or to float up into the air. I mean, just the power of John Rom and now he’s squeezing out a he’s squeezing out a draw as well. And Scotty Shuffler, same way. If you really Yeah. If you really put the pressure on him, if he absolutely needs to, he can turn over a draw. Does he want to? No. But can he? Yes. I’m not seeing that out of Dshan Bo. I’m not seeing any fades. I’m not seeing any hold off fall to the right. I’m seeing hook or draw. And you know, that’s not always going to be planned. But, you know, when you’re a mad scientist, it’s all that that chemistry uh equation is going to all work out and then sometimes it’s gonna blow up in your face. that I’m hoping I mean I’m hoping that he can go to the lab during the off season and figure out how to hit a cut when he needs to. Um it’s just there there’s just going to be such situations where you’re going to have to hit that shot. Um and I get it. It’s uncomfortable sometimes to do that. I mean I think we saw the evolution of when Scotty first started to hit the draw. I want to say the masters that that he where it was the big finishes and you know the overexaggerated hands but it it’s become a lot more uh subtle. Um and even his fade is not really it doesn’t it’s not a cut right where it’s just like it’s a hard fall off. I mean it’s like a baby fade few yards and just kind of falls to the right and it’s relaxing. He going to hold that face off. He going to hold that face off. It’s going to be pretty much a straight shot. I think also Go ahead. I was saying I saw Johnny Wonder say that the uh QI10 is the uh the Faders driver of choice that it’s you know it’s it’s just been a really good good driver for faders of the ball which we know um he he’s gone back to that driver a couple of times this year and had it back in the bag this week as well. Yeah. I mean, and also I think that when you think about a when you think about Bryson Dshambo’s swing, I don’t I think it’s too it’s too calculated. You know what I’m saying? It’s too I need like you hear it in the little quips when they’re on the when they’re on the course, when they’re miked up, or when they’re by a hot mic. I need to get this to 11:00. It’s a 7:00 shot. you you just don’t really hear that from John Rom and Scotty. It’s a feel. And even Rory with his, you know, just as mechanically pure as possible right now, it to me when we talk about aesthetically pleasing swings, if it’s not Adam Scott, it’s Roy Maroy as far as goodlooking swings. But even in that, both of them are still field players. You’re not sitt they’re not sitting out here thinking about how far I need to go back. They know the speed and everything like that. So, I think that’s going to be a battle for Dambo as well. But again, a bit more. Yeah, I mean I get that. I can see that. But yeah, I I agree. I think if he can get in the lab and get the golf ball situation under control and get more acclimated with these new 3D printed irons that he keeps manufacturing, I think he’ll be all right. I’m not a Dshambo hater, but it’s it’s just he’s trying too hard with this redemption tour. You got to you got to prove it at the end of the day. I mean, he’s been the um kind of player that they’ve hung their hat on, him and Rom, you know, to a certain degree, but he’s had success more recently than Rom. So, he got his in, you know, last year at the US Open. So, it’s still feels very fresh. clearly reflected in the RDER Cup points. Um, and at this point he seems like he’s going to be a lock. I don’t think there’s enough people close to him to knock him out of the qualifying spot. So, we’re going to see him there and he’s got to just be able to perform and he’s got to be able to perform in the majors going forward um to prove that he can play in all conditions. Um, many ways though. Yeah. And that was that was honestly kind of going back to the Scott Faucet thing. I saw another video from him saying that, “Oh, Scotty’s dominance occurred once the guy started going to live.” Okay. Well, cool. I I I see what you’re saying. And that’s why I kind of mentioned several changes happened with Scotty at the same time earlier that him pulling out the uh the spider. So, his putting improved, right? It’s not like he just like players exited and Scotty kind of benefited from just them leaving. No, the man’s game elevated at that time. He was winning prior to the exodus of all these guys. He just was not winning at the same clip because his putting was trash. Yeah, we can go back in arch our archives here and talk about how badly Scotty was putting a just a couple of years ago where it was damn right despicable how well he was striking the ball. Yeah. And not able to convert. I mean, it looked like bad reads. Um it it was a lot of things. Correct. Lost on the greens. So, well, again, not comparing him to Tiger. That’s not the comparison. But I also don’t want to give people like an out to say, “Oh, he’s just winning because those guys went elsewhere.” Cuz guess what? They get an opportunity to show up to the majors just like he does and play their game. And so every, you know, four year, four times a year, they get the chance to even the playing field and show and prove. And so last year we saw Xander winning too. We saw um you know the Shambo sneak in the the US Open. This year it’s been total domination by the the PGA Tour with you know Scotty getting his um shout out to JJ Spawn getting in there on the US Open and then Rory of course at the Masters. So again Liv still gets the chance to play in these majors. They’ve created a lot more pathways for them to get in. I mean, they’ve had player there was a lot of guys in the open field from Liv that I was like, “Oh, [ __ ] I I’m surprised you’re here.” But hey, welcome. Uh I mean, we think about a guy like John Catlin, like where did you come from? Congrats. But where where did you come from and what did you do to get in here? But also I I mean Scott Faucet I mean to go back to that you I mean we go back to 2022 the guys were still primed and ready. Cam Smith got a major but but Scotty still won the Masters that year with prime live players and a John Rom that was still on the tour. So how do you diminish that? Yeah I I I can’t because it’s I mean you just can’t. So, I agree with him in certain areas, but then I disagree as it comes to trying to put an asterisk on um Scotty’s performance. We’re we’re two years removed from Brooks Kepka, the Brooks Keeper move at uh at the PGA. We’re two years removed from John Rom. What do we What’s the argument? Yeah, right. they’ve had plenty of time to adjust and get acclimated. There shouldn’t have been that much fall off. And I just a quick point, we’ll talk about this and then we’ll go into the live performance at the open and how many players they actually got into this thing. But I want to say also one of the downsides to them playing on live besides the infrequency of them playing is also the preparation for the majors. Um, I want to say when it comes down to the open, this is the one that’s the most detrimental to the courses that they have chosen to play throughout their year. Clearly, we have seen the PGA Tour partner up with the DP World Tour for the uh Genesis Scottish Open playing style golf the week before you come over um for the Open. Clearly good prep, right? Yeah. So, we’re not seeing that from Liv. They only really play Parkland style courses and that doesn’t matter which country they play in. I almost want to say the closest thing they come to a link style course and it doesn’t even come close really is when they play in Australia just because of some of the falloff with the bunkering and and different things like that. But you can’t duplicate those conditions that you would see in a link style course in terms of the weather and the the high winds that you would typically see. So, right, from a preparation standpoint, the their league is not doing them any favors with with the course selection. So, I think that’s also another factor that’s that’s playing into that. Yeah. So, they have uh Live Golf plays JCB Golf and Country Club next week. JCB golf. That’s in uh that’s in the UK, right? Yeah, it’s in the UK. But as you look at the picture, literally if you just pull it up on Google, the very first picture is a treed course with water involved. Not links. I mean, all year all year. There’s not a there’s not a link style course in their entire lineup all year. Um, let alone in the weeks leading up to the actual open. I think the closest thing that they would have would be Orange Man National in Miami with the wind and then you got to go to you got to go to Valdorama just because of the wind and everything like that. But that’s right off the coast. It’s treelined. It’s not the same. It’s it’s just not the same, bro. Let’s talk about their performance. Uh, we already mentioned Desambo being their best finisher at T10. Um, I joked with you that they put out the graphic that when he finished early in the day that he was tied for second. That clearly did not hold up, right? Um, but they had to get that propaganda out there um for the social medias. Uh, Terrell Haden again continuously has been a solid performer. I feel like his day is coming at some point. So, he finished at T16. Dustin Johnson’s actually the surprise, especially coming off the US Open where he um [ __ ] the bed completely. He was T-23 here. Um didn’t get much TV coverage. Um John Rom T34. Sergio Garcia T34. Lee W Westwood also surprising T34. Um Krak T40. I was surprised to see Koke rack in there. Um, I did see some coverage with Henrik Stinson. He finished T45. Um, Mark Leechman. Saw a couple shots from him. T-52. Phil Mickelson making the cut. Tu 56. Um, Dean Dean Burmeister T61. And then guys that didn’t make the cut. And I think this is the biggest um one that stands out to me because they they were trying to hype up Neman. He finished two over, the cut was at plus one. Uh Carlos Ortiz also has been a disappointment for them in majors three over. Tom McKibben three over. Let me not say that. Take back my Carlos Ortiz comment. He he played decently in the open. Tom McKibben three over. Catelyn four over. Lucas Herbert four over. Pat Reed five over. Usually Pat Reed can actually I think he’s kind of similar to Dashambo. He usually makes the cut at least. Yeah. But one shot shape, right? So that draw doesn’t necessarily uh travel. Uh Hazen 6 over Kevka 7 over Cam Smith. So I think that’s a good finish. So Cam Smith, I don’t think I sent this to you but saw it um right after the tournament. only player to play in all four majors and miss the cut in all four majors was Cameron Smith. I found that to be very very interesting. That man since winning his uh open has been the pits, bro. I mean, he’s just not played good golf in the last four years, which is kind of sad. Um, I I had high hopes for Cameron Smith, but may maybe the wife maybe just enjoying fishing way too much. I don’t know what you’re pondering. I think I think he made enough money. I think he’s okay. I like And I mean, and I don’t mean that as Yeah, he’s set for life. I mean, that’s not even a question, right? I think that’s really what I mean. He’s set. I don’t think he has that wherewithal to feel like, yo, I want to continue to play and fight and grind it out. I don’t think he’s a lifer as far as golf goes. Like, I don’t think he’s gonna play well into his 40s and try to make as much money as possible and stuff like that. I don’t I don’t think he has that in him. I think he’s going to be like an early retiree or whatnot. I don’t know. It’s what it looks like to me. Um, yeah, man. I don’t know, bro. I I really thought well Lee Westwood he shot like a 29 on a back nine and I thought he was really about to start chasing at least on the last day but then you know he came back down. He got humbled real quick and shot a two over in that last round. Um I think he has wifey on the back. He has wifey on the back you know and has for a while. Has for a while. I mean we clearly we don’t get to see him on TV very often but for a while. Um Lee Westwood was like my iron um idol. He he was like one of the best ball strikers in the game for the the longest. Especially when we first started playing, I loved watching me some Lee Westwood, especially when he would go back over to the European tour. Yeah. Anyway, let’s let’s keep it rolling. I guess congrats to Sergio. I don’t know. I know. I mean, I guess I don’t know. Uh, I mean, he’s Well, he he’s definitely not making the Rder Cup. Let’s just say that. He keep I keep seeing art I keep seeing articles where he’s like really trying to get Luke Donald to get him on the Ryder Cup team and I’m like, bro, it is not happening. Yes. Not even not even not even as a ceremonial mascot pick where you just get rolled out one two times. Yeah, he’s a vice captain at best. Uh, shout out J Rose definitely solidified his spot. uh Hoygard brother, he solidified his spot. I think John Rom has I mean John Rom was going to be a pick regardless, but I think he did enough in this event to to make it not embarrassing to pick him, right? Exactly. Like it’s not like a oh like you just picking John Ron because or like he seems to be trending in the right way. Um I think early in the morning I saw Jay uh Dustin Johnson. He got a little bit of love on the coverage um Thursday, Friday, but right I did not see him on the weekend. But um I don’t know. This is probably the best I’ve seen DJ look in a long time as far as like actually like focused and he was doing his like you know DJ love a good nonchalant fist pump. That’s about as much emphasis as you gonna get even in the writer cup if he does a big moment. It’s gonna be a right and then he’ll do like a chess bump and stuff like that. But I don’t know, bro. I think DJ is always gonna be likable to me. He’s always got his brother on the back. They are like inseparable. I think that’s one of the things that’s crazy to me but also dope to me. Like Austin ain’t leaving. Like DJ gonna have to like DJ gonna have to find somebody to replace him. Austin has made a living. He is well paid off. Like he’s good. And I know they got their separate life outside of golf, but to me I think that’s one of the best stories. I I I don’t know. I think if like if we if we were to be able to make it and one of us professionally do something and you had Would you listen? You know, would you listen if I was on your back? Would I listen? Not Yes. Not not to pat myself on the back, but you know, I’ve I’ve recently dipped my toe in the caddy game. I thought I did pretty decent. Z would agree with you as well. Hold up, R. Would you listen? Hold on, bro. Hold on, bro. Hold on. Listen. I would listen, but the homie absolutely needed it. He He needs to get out of his own head. Marcus, it’s not good to lie, Michael. Michael, you don’t even listen to me when I’m on your bag. What’s up, Lord? You hard-headed folks. Anyway, I I I bring versatility to the bag, so everybody needs something different. Shout out to Z though, our one of our good mutuals in our golf group, in his golf group, uh, Rod’s golf group that I have recently met. He is my birthday twin. Um, very similar, um, in thoughts and stuff like that, but he is a one and done on the PAT, the player ability test for the PGA of America. I mean, he went out there and shot some rounds. He birdied. He had a lot of plus one over two Rams game 145 and the target score was 158 or something like that. So, he really did he really did his thing. So, congrats to him. Uh, as you can tell from my struggles, it’s not always going to be a oneanddone thing. Um, but, you know, he really clutched up and did what he was supposed to do. So, shout out to Z again for that. Yep. Um, I just want to add again on the Glaze show with Scotty Sheffler, give him his props from from the other players, right? So, I mentioned right off the top, he’s inevitable. That’s a I think there’s a few thumbnails back from the PJ Championship. That was my thumbnail is he’s inevitable, relentless, all the adjectives that describe where Scotty is at this point with his game. But I think the one that I think finally somebody just said it out loud. It was Xander SchoffĂŠ and of course he he he said had a couple different quotes about it. He said um you can’t even say he’s on a run. He’s been killing it for over two years now. Very true. Right. This is not fluky. This isn’t something that he’s just stumbling on a hot streak. The man’s game is just getting better every year. Um, we’re we’re seeing peak modern player right now, but the one that really stood out is he’s a tough man to beat and when you see his name up on the leaderboard, it sucks for us. Um, and you can tell this is a conversation that’s going on in the locker room now. Again, I said when we got to Friday night and he was leading the tournament, it’s over. That man does not just lose strokes. And I think the unique thing that we’ve talked about this year, whether it’s just like regular week-toeek tournament play is Sunday scoring. Are you going to go out and shoot a score on Sunday? And if Scotty is around the leaderboard, that man is going to shoot a score on a Sunday. He is not going to back up or shoot a plus round on the weekend. Um, one of the stats that I think, you know, we’ll look at probably near the end of the season, but I do want to get into it is his, um, you know, average score to par. I feel like he’s probably killing that stat if, if not number one. Has to be top three this year. Um, you know, in final rounds to par. I I think I just think he’s got a different mindset. Um, just kind of like a quiet killer when it comes to playing golf on Sundays. I I don’t know, just really enjoyable. I missed the mark. I told I was texting with Z about it uh on Saturday. I said he’s going to shoot two under on Sunday and and run away with it. He shot three under. So, with with a double, ended up winning by four strokes. We know it never even felt close. Harris English came in with a you know hot hot finish at the end but it was never in question and um you know how Lee was just enjoying the greatness up close and personal. Um it was cool watching them kind of have some camaraderie and um seems like how is is is you know going to be over here on the PJ tour next year. He’s definitely top 10 on the DP World Tour and seems like he’s going to accept that that uh call out call over at the end of the season. So, shout out to him. Uh you know, he’s going to be the replacement for Tom Kim. I know uh that’s been been Scotty’s punching bag up to this point. So, he gets a replacement at this stage. No, Tom Kim’s still going to be that Tom Kim still out of Dallas or and whatnot. They’re still homies. Yeah. Um, one other mention. I’m not even going to pull it up, but uh, Marcus, I can I feel like I can joke with you at this point. You can be a good sport about it. Uh, Taylor made helping uh, Scotty out with the hairline assist on the victory. Uh, picture. I saw it when he took that hat off. I was like, damn, we hadn’t seen Scotty without a hat in a while. Um, the the the thinning was real. Hey, the goats the goats always lose it. He need to go to Turkey though. He 29. I know 29. I know you can’t go out like that. You got to catch it preemptively before before the world notices. But once that hat came off, I was like the bro has got the uh he’s got the LeBron happening. No doubt. And then the best thing about it is he always does the he he always does the little hand through the hair and it’s like Scotty, it ain’t much up there to do it. It ain’t much up there to do it, bro. Yeah, it’s it’s it’s getting there. So yeah, he needs that he needs that trip to Turkey. Um I’m sure maybe even LA. I’m sure you can get that done in LA if you don’t want to go all the way to Turkey. Okay. Uh Taylor May definitely hit him up with the uh Photoshop. Fooled it out a little bit, but uh of course the internet does not miss anything these days. Um one other one uh story from from the open and really last week uh Chris got her up, man. Homeboy, the Jersey man wearing the tight gold necklace proven that his victory at the Scottish Open was not a fluke. The boy, the boy is a player, man. Big meaty, you know. Uh, you know, we K, what was the guy from a few years ago? The thigh Kirk Kittyama. I think Chris God’s got him. He’s he’s he’s the new Thzilla. Um, you know, bulky guy, moves the ball, been the long hitter for a long time. I mean, he’s I think he’s been up there um in terms of Yep. But clearly he’s got some some real game that that travels um and you know probably hits a little bit lower ball that fits the uh kind of windy conditions and and can play in those you know those uh those uh league style conditions able to win it and then have a really um high finish t uh fellow third this past weekend. So that gave him entry to a lot of things coming up. Of course, he gets to uh automatic entry into the Open next year. Also gets into the Masters. Um probably will get an invite into the US Open. I don’t I didn’t see anything about the PGA. Um you you kind of got to go earn the PJ Championship qualification, but um yeah, shooting up there. Well, few mentions about the RDER Cup potential. I I don’t know about that one. He He’s It’s kind of like um this year. Oh, he they funny as hell for that. No, I know. I know. It’s kind of like a few years ago when Lucas Glover had a really hot finish to the end of the year um and ended up missing the Ryder Cup and it was This is kind of very It’s very similar to that, right? Yeah, he’s on he’s definitely on a hot streak and and definitely proven some things, but I think Ryder Cup’s a little too early to make that that call and throw him in there. Um, but a but a good story nonetheless. It’s good to see um you know, just people coming up and seeing more names um you know, put theirelves in that position. Um but you know, he’s only got one two wins now professionally. won the Myrtle Beach Classic last year, which is a off off field event. Um, so we’ll see what next year holds for him, but right now playing pretty damn well and uh solidly in the playoffs and I think, you know, jumped the world rankings pretty significantly as well. Okay, developing uh Harris English with his finish and jumped into the automatic qualifier top six. JT is now seven. Morawa is now eight. Uh, Ben Griffin is nine, Bradley is 10, McNeely is 11, Brian Harmon is 12. Um, sneaky good season from Harry English. Sneaky, bro. I think he’s got to be I honestly I thought he was still going to be outside the picks and I thought that he was go like I thought it wouldn’t be a bad thing to pick him but now that he’s in an automatic qualifying spot I think he earned his way. Oh by the way Chris Gotup did all that to get to number 22 on the official rankings. Okay. So, what’s the point difference between Harris English and uh It’s close. Uh JT, it’s close. Still close. Like like 180 points. So, if JT Let’s see. Let’s see. Let’s see. Let’s see. I feel like he’s gonna Where where is JT on the um uh FedEx? FedEx Cup. Yeah. Let me see what’s going on. Oh, he’s high. He’s number He’s fifth. Yeah, he won. So, he he’s not he Yeah, he’s not he’s not going to play these next couple of weeks. Wait, probably until the FedEx. Well, let’s see, though. Let’s see. I mean, let’s see if Harris English plays. Let’s see. Because when Clark is in the field, Clark in the field, he’s he got up to 50. He got up to 51 with that. Yeah, cuz he had a he had a good finish. See, here’s English not playing. Justin Thomas, I’m telling you, we’re we’re not going to see them until the FedEx. I think all these guys are going to sit unless unless JT is just like, I got to go get my spot back. Yeah, I think he might play the Windom if he likes that field. If he likes that course and stuff like that. It’s a quirky course. He’s he’s had some pretty he’s had some pretty decent finishes at the Windom actually. Do you think he’s one of those players that feels like he needs to play himself into rhythm? Like do you think he would play the week before just to feel like that’s the tuneup to the FedEx FedEx playoffs into Memphis? Um I can see him doing that, but I this is my perception and I could be very wrong on this. I feel like we know that the Windom is like for guys because the 125s even though they don’t get into the playoffs, they still get to hang on to their card for the next year. Yeah. I feel like that’s if you have pretty much everything locked down at this stage of the game that you don’t go into the window cuz you are kind of [ __ ] off an opportunity from another guy. I get what you’re saying. Yeah. you’re you’re you’re trying to let people win their way into the into the you know next year’s events and stuff like that. Like I I get it. You don’t want to take a spot off somebody that can win it like that, right? Um so yeah, appreciate that. That’s that I’m taking credit for the Omar thumbnail because I’m a Wire fan, but thanks for thanks for for catching that. Appreciate it, Dan. I swear I’ve tried to start it like three times. I’m g try it again. I’m gonna try it again. I’m telling you, bro. Okay. The last time I got to like episode four and I was like, “Okay, like I I get it. Like, I understand it.” Like, but I didn’t fully get into it. But no, I I got it. I’m I’m It was It just came It was organic after watching Scotty this year, walking folks down um and hearing the respect from the other players. It it just it is it is so fitting um that he’s he’s the Omar of the PGA Tour right now. Um Scary Hours when he’s on the leaderboard. Um let’s get into the FedEx bubble. Oh, no, no, no. I want to I want to talk [ __ ] about Phil Mickelson real quick. Super quick. So, earlier in the year, uh I think we touched on it during one of the shows where Phil Mickelson tweeted um something about Scotty Sheffler winning next or something about the Ryder Cup. It was super disrespectful and dis just um disingenuous. Yeah, very much so. Um like clearly I I don’t think Scotty was at his best since that tweet. Scotty has won twice and you know a major in between there. So he’s won since he said that [ __ ] Whatever it is, he’s he’s killing it, right? So Kevin Kizner then comes on and calls out Phil Mickelson for that tweet. And then Phil Mickelson starts like playing the victim for everybody else and says that I can take the shots essentially. like I’m not right about everything, but this is the type of response that keeps people from speaking up. Well, to me, that’s the [ __ ] problem. Sorry, and pardon my language cuz this gets me upset. That’s the problem with the world now is that shame doesn’t exist. Everybody has opinions without taking accountability for that opinion. that you can just say whatever you want to say and when it’s dead wrong or when it’s just like inaccurate, no one’s there to call you out or if you get called out, there’s a reaction like Phil. So, um, let me get his exact quote. He says, “Kiss my man.” Dang it. I’m sorry. I’m reloading Chicago. My bad. Well, in the meantime, I think it’s funny. Sorry. I got it. I got it. He is my man. I’ve never been afraid to make mistakes on the chorus or off, knowing I’ll have to deal with the scrutiny from the public, media, or social media. I’ve already acknowledged I was wrong on this. This is a good example of why so many people are afraid to put themselves out there and compete or take risks because they know it’ll be thrown back in their face and they can’t handle it. Fortunately, that’s not ever been my problem. But others, why does he keep talking about others? It’s so frustrating. Others struggle dealing with the heat and scrutiny that professional sports and being in the public eye brings and drives many away from the game, which is too bad, but is a reality for so many. I think making public comments and competing on the world’s biggest stage in golf are two completely different things. But call me crazy. Um, yeah. I think I don’t even know why. Well, first of all, we already clown Phil for that earlier in the season, right? Um, because well, one, we knew it was false, and two, the dude had literally come off of breaking glass off into his hand. I think it takes a little bit of recovery to get back and get the feel and confidence into you know playing you know completely carefree. But I also as much as I like kids and you know him generally as a commentator now and analyst, I also think it is cornball activity to rehash this because true. Why are we giving Phil any more light than he already has? He did what he was supposed to do on the open. He made the cut. Boom. Give him his little glow. Give him his little kudos for that. Take him back off into the sunset. Drag him back off into the live events and whatever. Let him continue over there. We don’t need to give him any more anymore. Let him let him ride off into the sunset, you know, in the bed that he made. Let him and do his and do his big bomb, you know. Oh, this could be something that might be into the future. Woohoo. Yeah, I I think kids made two two mistakes this weekend actually in addition to this one. Um I don’t know if you caught it. I want to say it was Sunday where he mentioned Oh my god. Yeah. Oh my god. Disgusting. That was bad. That was bad. Disgusting. Ain’t no defending that, bro. You sit him down face to face and then they make a decision. What? You sit him down and then you clown his ass for why are you dismantling this clubhouse that you have no ownership of? You’re here once every five years whenever we put this event on. You don’t have any membership here. You don’t have any ties here. You don’t have anything here. And yet you come in and you beat the [ __ ] out of these loggers that did nothing to you because you’re a ass golfer. Right. that that that looked like very historic like they were they like they they weren’t they were classic style lockers right these weren’t some modern locker I mean you’re destroying history while pitching a hissy fit and this doesn’t I mean you can’t forget the history of Windham Clark this year um just a month prior right a month prior at the PJ championship we saw him or was it the US Open. No. Yeah. PJ Championship. Sorry. Sorry. Cuz we were at the US Open through his driver through a placard. Um exploding the head. Could have hit any of the um people working the event, a spectator after one hand flinging his driver, put a hole in his sponsor’s placard. Right. the one the earlier this season again, the one where he threw the driver behind him and it hit the billboard behind him. What if that misses the billboard and hits one of the fans watching from the down the line view? Yeah. Then what? So, how were you then? So, to defend it and it’s he’s got a bad history of this type of activity, I think again is the problem. So yeah, Kiz, while has definitely endeared himself um and done well on the broadcast, made two mistakes I would say this week. Just just getting a little too comfortable. Tighten it back up, bro. Um get back in the pocket essentially. You got the suit on. Please continue to wear the suit. We’re not doing the unbutton polo no more. Like you kind of official. They like really trying to ring you in here. So please I think he can I think he can give us player insight without being um like a bro. Yeah. Yeah. Good term. Good. Awesome. Yeah. I was looking for that. That’s perfect. Without being a bro. Yeah, man. It was funny though. Oh my god. because I saw that snippet and it was really like it sounded like well besides the fact that he was defending him it like it was kind of like what am I hearing right now like no way you really saying this bro I caught it in real time and I was like what the French toast bro like you’re tripping like you are really tripping literally um we were talking about the FedEx cup standings things kind of in combination. But yeah, let’s come back to that. Yeah. Lord Jesus, I swear to God, all these ads on some of these golf pages is are ridiculous. Come on, golf week. Okay, so at the bottom, we’re only going to do notables. I’m not going to go through the entire list, but right now, the biggest one that’s so far outside of uh the FedEx Cup is Adam Scott. He’s at 85 right now. Um, and while it doesn’t feel like he’s played bad golf, he’s 85. Yeah. No, I I don’t think he’s played in enough events, too. He’s been too busy being a diplomat and trying to go to the White House. That’s That’s true. That’s true. Um, not not disappointing, but because he’s just kind of now coming up on the scene. Carl Phillips is at 81. I would love to see Koala Carl uh do his thing. Love that kid. Um, Rasmus Hoyard, who we just talked about, had a decent finish at the open. Um, kind of an up and down season. Um, he’s Yeah, Woodland, Gary Woodland down there. Chris Kirk. Uh, see, Chris Kirk could be in a completely different situation had he been able to close the deal um at the Rock Classic just a few weeks ago. Yeah. I don’t know if he’s I think he’s still on a medical major though. So, I think he still has a few events going into next season that he’ll still be able to have some exemptions into. But, as far as the playoffs, he secures his Yeah, I mean, he secures You talking about Kirk or Woodland? No, Kirk. Well, oh, well, Kirk, I mean, he’s securing his card, right? So, he’s inside the 125, so he’s good on that, but it’s, you know, I mean, he’s a he’s a vet. I mean, it feels like with Kirk, every few years he has a really really good year and then like in between there, he’ll have like two kind of so- so years. I feel like this is one of those so- so years where it’s good. Um, and then he’ll have a really explosive year, get a win or something. Okay. Um, go ahead. Um, just going down the list, looking at William Mau, who just won last week, not last week, two weeks ago, I’m sorry, in the off field. Yeah. How far down were you for you to win a tour event and still just be 84? Yeah, but then it’s an off-field event, so you probably don’t get that many. You’re right. You getting 300 points. You’re right. My fault. Well, well, I mean, if he gets 300 and he’s at 442 now, that tells you how far down What? Yeah. Yeah. So, he can’t even really be that disappointed that he if he doesn’t make it, right? So, that one’s not even really Yeah. It’s like you’re winning no matter what. He’s He’s um We’re just talking about the playoffs, right? Yeah. Just the playoffs. Just the playoffs at this point. All right. Eric Cole. Eric Cole, man. I mean, a few years ago, he was really he was doing his thing. Maybe his health. I know he was dealing with some health issues. Maybe that’s kind of beating up on him a little bit. Davis Thompson go always feels like he’s right on the bubble of the playoffs like every damn year. Every Hey man. Uh what’s going on Billy? Billy Horchel. Tom Kim. Tom Kim’s 89. Oh wow. Tom Kim’s 89 and he is a look if we’re talking a bad season honestly he has he has a lot of overpar rounds if we’re talking about putter psychos he’s got to be up there if we’re talking about Tom Kim yes okay so on a slow week at the end of the year we’re gonna have to get into the putter psychos that have surfaced this year it’s getting there’s quite a few out here that are getting crazy yeah I don’t know what hope hopefully Billy Horses with the fam or whatever. I don’t know. I don’t even know. I haven’t even been seeing him on leaderboards, let alone like competing. No, I don’t even know. He’s been in fields. He’s been playing. He’s just not been performing. Yeah. Joe Damon, Max 99 and 102, respectively. They need a win. They need a win one of these next two weeks to even make some type of noise. But I didn’t even look at the standings. Max Homa played in the Barracuda this weekend. No, he didn’t. Yeah, he did. Yes, he did, sir. I’m going to pull it up. This man played grinding. Oh my god. Let me see where he finished. But yeah, I was watching the coverage. So 70 and 69 are or or 69 and 70 are 590 and 589 total points. A win on this week is what? 500 points again. Or is it three? For the 3M for the 3M. I think it’s got to be five on these next two weeks. So if Yeah, they’re full fields. Yeah. Yeah. So Max Homa Max Hom needs a win. If he wins, that takes him up to 800. That’ll take him into top 50 or almost top 50. He’ll be like teetering with Windham Clark, JT Post, and Jonathan Vegas. They’re all like 790, 780. Max Homa finished T45 this past weekend. Oh, he’s searching. He’s searching. And he’s got another kid on the way. Congrats to Max on the second on the second kid. Well, sometimes you need that that mouth to feed to drive that motivation. Hey, low key, he need that hunger again. He need that look when you got mouths to feed you you that that motivation is different. So yeah and then Joel Damon I know he’s searching like for real searching. So hopefully just to confirm 3M is 500 points. Okay, perfect. Yeah. So yeah, I think I mean I think Joe Damon’s season is over for this year. I think he needs a um I think he needs a reset if I’m being honest. I think he needs to make sure that he gets in the I think he needs to get into that 125 number like secure that. So play these next two weeks. Make sure you’re in that you know for sure that you know 75 to 100 bubble. Don’t even like teeter on that 125. Yeah. That way you’re not struggling for starts next year. going to the cornfairy tour playoffs to for sure make it into next. We don’t want that for you. Hey bro, so I mean this goes back to near misses and closing the deal. We saw him earlier earlier in the year at Pakana had the chance to win it and bogeied the last three or four holes. Three for sure, maybe four in a row. Um with a chance to win and just threw the tournament away. Um, I mean that there’s no other way to say it. And his season would look very different with the win on the board. We wouldn’t even be in this position. He would have got some exemptions into the majors. Some of those bigger elevated events. Yeah. It comes down to putts. I mean, you I mean, every every year at Wendom, we know like those people on the bubble between keeping their card or getting into the, you know, first round of the playoffs, it comes down to like when they look back, it’s like, oh, a putt missed, you know, literally, uh, seven tournaments ago that made all the difference in the world. We’re talking about like percentages of points. So, yeah, man. I mean, it’s a long season, but every every stroke counts counts, which is crazy. Um, I’m not going to get too deep into it, but we’re going to transition into the ladies. So, they sat out last week, of course, with giving difference to the gentlemen. Um, but they’re on their they’re heading towards their last major of the season. and we get to see them um in the Scottish Women’s Open this week and then on to their last major of the year. Um I love the prep. I’ve said that the last couple of years. I love that they’re doing this. It’s clearly proper. It’s a different style of golf. Why not do it? It makes all the sense in the world to go to a course that is similar to what you’re going to play. We don’t play Lynx golf over here in the US very often. The conditions just don’t allow for it. So, um I love what the ladies are doing. It’s good to see them back in action. Um you know, they had a really good finish at the Evian. So, um it sucks that we had to not see them for a couple weeks or a week or whatever. So, yeah, but we will get live coverage and we will get we will get reruns. So, bro, th this window for the open and the next two weeks are really good. Like this viewing window this past weekend was A1. Like I loved being like I was up at like 4:00 a.m. 5:00 a.m. I would catch catch a few holes, doze off again and then wake up, you know, for the for the uh the good stuff. So it was perfect, you know. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We’re we’re going to get some decent coverage. I honestly I think the next step I think they’re going to keep getting momentum and stuff like that, but I think the next step is for them to get like at least on one of these days an elongated coverage window. Do I ever think that they’re going to get a US a USA network 12hour window? I don’t know. I don’t know. Would I would I want to see it? Yes, I absolutely want to see We’ll we’ll see how we’ll see how they handled the um Scottish Open this week. I mean, because we clearly we saw that with the dudes um just two weeks ago or a week ago or whatever where they were getting we were pretty much seeing from like start to finish like from first first te through the entire field. So, we’re seeing see 4 hours. It’s saying 3:30 to 7:30. That’s our time. uh, Central Standard Time. That’s f Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. They’re going to be on NBC 7 to 11 and then 6:00 to 10. So 12 to So then they’ll be here 1 to 5 1 to 5 on Saturday and then 12 to 4 on Sunday. That’s kind of trash, bro. Well, we’ll see. Well, hopefully the open is a lot more accessible than that. But hopefully if they going to have them in those windows, they You know what? It’s the Scottish Open, so let me not, you know, let me not harp too much on it, right? We’re we’re building. They’re they’re building. They’re building. We can’t we cannot expect it all immediately. Um, but I I mean, we’re not going to back down. We’re not going to back down. The LPGA has the highest upside of any golf product that’s out there. I will say unfortunately not unfortunately but with the exception of let’s say college golf I think is is a lot of missed potential um and also junior junior golf. So I I totally missed this until um like I saw an article today that the uh some national junior tournament is happening here in Dallas this week. Yeah. Uh so, uh, Baby Woods teed it up in D in Dtown today. Um, Josh straight I he was Brooklyn. Yeah, it’s Brook Hollow and then tomorrow he’s at uh Trinity Forest. So, I was like, [ __ ] I might uh you know, I got a lot going on this week, but th Wednesday, Thursday, if he makes it to the uh match play rounds, I might try to figure out a way to get there. Yeah, it’s a And we’re cooking this week in Dallas. It is hot. We’re We’re going to see some triple digits. It’s hot over here, too. My My AC didn’t really turn off today. Uh yeah, you look like you were you were parched a little bit there. I was glistening a little bit. I mean, and that’s the thing like during the week I try to set it to like a reasonable number like you know 76 78 that thing still blaring. Yeah, man. Um, our planned topics, which what else random you got? Um, it it also it ties into what we were talking about as far as Joel Damon and the FedEx Cup standings and stuff like that. We, as you know, common golfers and stuff like that, I think we need to do better as far as keeping stats. I think we have times where we can keep it fun and know that we’re just out there to play golf and not really think much about it. But when we’re out there and you know you got a couple dollars on the on the game or you’re playing a close friend that you know you want to beat, I think we need to start back taking stats and stuff like that. You know, you look through your stats like as far as fairways hit, fairways, fairways hit, greens in regulation, total putts, and if you really want to get down to the nitty-gritty, you got to get into your up and downs and stuff like that. Your one putts, your things like that. But you look through your game, you look through what you need to work on. A lot of times it’s just the the little the little tiny things. Like for me, my rounds, you know, a lot of times my my rounds could be make or break just off my ability to putt. And it’s nothing wrong with going to practice and just practicing on that aspect. You don’t have to bring your whole like you don’t always have to feel like you need to bring your whole bag to the range if you know what you’re going to do. bring you three balls, get you a 58, get you a putter, hit you a few chips, play you some up and down games, trying to get it up, one chip, one putt par. One chip, two putts, that’s a that’s a bogey. You know, you chip in, that’s a birdie. Things like that. So, just, you know, from my I agree. You know what I’m saying? just for my my handicap level of single digits just thinking the game through and being in the industry and stuff like that. That’s what I proving the things that Yeah. I mean, and just on my end, I would say there’s two tools that I’ve been use I I use like I agree like I look at my stats after every round. Um so like I track every round through the Grant app. Um unpaid endorsement for them. I just think it’s a good app in terms of tracking your stats. Yeah, it’s 100% free and yeah, there’s a paid tier, but they don’t force you into it and they and you still have all your stats available per round. Um, and they even like if you really want to nerd out, their um desktop version of the app has a really nice scorecard printout that you can print out. It’s a totally different format than it looks like in the app and it has all your stats, greening regulation, fairways hit, number of putts, and then even looking at your putts per round. Um, another product that I do, um, you know, have a referral link for and have a video talking about it is Aroscos. So, if you are fortunate enough to get into the Arco system, the sensor data, um that also has some really good stats and tells you where you’re losing out on um you know, strokes in your game. One of the key stats that I learned early on when I first got Arcos was how bad my putting was and how many strokes I was losing on the greens. And at that point, I think I was averaging probably over 35 putts per round. and I wasn’t even realizing how bad it was being super aggressive, you know, a lot of three putts. Um, and so that led me down the path where I was like, I got to work on that. And it definitely made a difference where, you know, we’re talking about the difference between consistently shooting in the 80s7s um, versus struggling to work out, you know, out of the ‘9s. Those things, small things can make a difference. And then like you said earlier, you start working on keeping it, you know, double bogeies off of your card. Um, your game completely changes. Like once you can literally go a whole round and just bogey everything out and it’s going to feel and maybe get like one par and you’re shooting in the 80s. Like think how crazy that is. Y um just by keeping the the doubles and triples off of and others off of your card. So that’s good advice. But those are two tools that I use routinely. Grant the Grant and Arc if you can get it. Um, find my video, shoot me an email. I can uh get you the free sensors if you sign up for a membership. So, there you go. Good tip there to finish off, my guy. Boom. All right, y’all. Good post major show. Um, Beard Bros Golf Show. If you don’t know, we do this thing every week. If you’re new, um, hit that subscribe button. We’re again every week. Pretty con pretty damn consistent. I think we missed our first week in a long time like two weeks ago, but uh sometime just tired logistics, right? Yeah, it was it was just it was just a lot going on. So, um yeah, we’re we’re we’re consistently on our game. We appreciate all the support for our longtime folks. Andy, thanks for dropping by every week, my guy. Um we’ll see y’all next week. I’m Rod. And I’m Marcus. Later.

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