Worst-ball scramble with PGA TOUR rookies | Episode 2 | Rocket Rookies Classic

PGA TOUR Studios brings you the inaugural Rocket Rookies Classic, challenging rookies with a two-man, worst-ball scramble format across three holes at Detroit Golf Club. Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo take on the challenge to see if they can beat the score posted by Karl Vilips and Frankie Capan III (+1). What will they shoot?

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Hi guys, I’m Kevin Vel and I’m Isaiah Celinda and this is episode two of the Rocket Mortgage Rookie Classic. That’s not what he said. Can we run that back? That’s literally the Rocket Classic. Rocket Rookie. Rocket Classic. Rocket Rookie Classic. No. Rocket Classic Rookie episode 2. Rocket Rookies. That’s what I said. You did it. All right. Isaiah Celinda, if you look at his stats, unbelievable player. Our final group is back here at 8. Kevin Vel [Applause] [Music] and the low five to Isaiah Celinda who is fired up. Hi guys, I’m Kevin Velo and I’m Isaiah Celinda and this is episode two of the Rocket Rookies Classic. Yeah, let’s go. We are playing a three-hole worst ball scramble. He’s going to have to pull me. I think even par if we sneak in one under, I think that would that’d be good enough to beat the rest of these clowns. Let’s go. Where do I hit this barge? Uh, I’ve never played this golf course. I’m going to cut it off the tent. Uh, I mean, wind off the right. I don’t like that at all, but I cut it though. Where is it? Oh, no. Is it left? Oh, god. Four. Is it left? Oh, is right. Where is it? It’s like over the camera guy. Oh, I don’t know what I don’t know what’s there, but he shifted my line. Right. That’s what happens. Did you get scared? Yeah. Wind’s off the right. That’s what I told you. Should we just take my ball already or I don’t think it’s going to get worse than mine. Yep. We’re taking that one. It’s like one of us can hit that green. I mean, I went long and crooked. You went short and crooked. All right, let’s lock in. Is this on? Yeah. Where are you from? Uh, I’m from the Bay Area, man. How are you? I’m also from the Bay Area. No way. Yeah, legit. What part? I am from the East Bay. Where? No way. Yeah. Where are you from? I’m from South San Francisco. What? Like, yeah. So close. That’s crazy, dude. That’s crazy. We grew We like grew up That’s crazy. We grew up in the same area. I didn’t even know you. How much junior golf did we play together? Quite a bit. All of it. A lot. Just beating you every time. I mean, technically you were a guy that I looked up to. Now, now it’s like I look down, but Yeah. Yeah. But like I No one looked up to me. I used to look up. I hit that a mile right. I don’t I hit mine further. No, I hit mine further right here. Further right. I was scared of the fescue. Oh, we’re chilling. I’m just going to send a sandwich. You want to go first? Yeah, I’ll go first. Wind’s kind of down right now, dude. Maybe it’s a sandwich. No, I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to high y 50. I don’t like worse ball anywhere on the putting surface. Holy. That is left of left. We’re on the putting surface, dude. Doesn’t even matter what I do. It doesn’t get worse than that. We’re on the putting surface. Relax. Just grab your putter. You think I can get this there? It doesn’t I mean, you’re going to do better than that. So you think Oh Is is is out of all the shots to hit. Out of all the shots, the tree got in the way. Out of all the shots, the tree got in the way. You were complaining about my shot. That actually would have gone in the hole if the tree wasn’t there. You’re right on the way. We have yet to hit a good shot. I don’t know. We were Dude, this green is wild. Just go high with some spin. Yeah. I mean, you need to spin it, but this is more your shot, not mine. But it’s on a plateau there. Yeah, but you we need you here. You think it’s high? Yeah, it’s it’s like mid. You can land it just on the front of the green. Take one skip. Go. You landed short of the green, dude. Yeah, but I had no spin. I thought it would run out. We can both make that. Just hit it closer than that, please. All right. Better. It’s better. I mean, barely. It’s got to go a little left. The rocket rookie classic, dude. It’s got to go a little left. We have to win this thing, man. If you miss it, it doesn’t matter. You feel that? Are you Are you picking up what I’m putting down? I mean, if you miss it, like, don’t slam it by. But Oh, true. Yeah. Like if you miss it, don’t don’t rip it. Oh, I hammered it. Wait, do I have to putt that? I guess. No, you don’t matter. Well, yeah, you could hit it worse. It’s worse ball, I guess, right? It’s really straight until the end. Jesus, that’s a bogey. All right. Damn it, dude. Good hole, bud. Good hole. I’m not the one who hit the tree. Good hole, buddy. I’m not the one who hit the tree, pal. Lock in. Nice drive. I mean, for once in your life. Lock in and hole. We get mulligan. I think we need a hole in one on the par three. Worst ball to get back in this. The last team was one over. We hit zero good shots. My putt was decent. Yeah, your putt was decent, but it like my putt didn’t matter. All right, driveable part four. We have like 280 282 hole uh into the wind off the left. Kev doesn’t hit very far, so we can just smash. It might be a full It might be a full driver for I’m going to take I’m going to take some off here, but I’m going to try and hit this in the hole because we need it. Go in. Go in. Holy sh Go in. Oh, shot. That’s just You know what that is? That’s just refusal to give up. That’s all it is. I mean, I have zero quit in me. Perseverance, dude. This could go anywhere. Come on, dude. Lock in. When do you When do I ever hit like an 80% driver? Seven at Cal. Same shot. Say less. Oh, I overdid it. Oh my god. Catch a piece. Four. Oh, that’s fine. Dude, you nuked it. Well, I cut it. I think that’s the distance is not bad. We’ll see. Just overdid it a little bit. Sorry it wasn’t a perfect number for my driver. Sorry I don’t sorry I hit my driver more than 280. Whatever, dude. Don’t What is that? A crime? Wow. It’s good golf shot. Let me just fix my fix my pitch mark. Yeah, it might get in the way. This is actually a perfect leave. If you’re not going to hit the green, this is where you want to be. All the green to work with. Little into the wind. Dare I say, I think we can both get this inside a tap in. We just hit a good shot. Okay. Go. Great shot, Kev. So, I don’t I don’t mean to brag, but I’m a short game specialist. Get out of my shot. Short game specialist. Get out of my shot. He’s a short game specialist because he doesn’t hit it very good. Shoot. I’m feeling the heat, dude. I got to get this inside. Come on. Let’s go. You went pretty straight at it. A little low. Yeah. I mean, it was low the whole way though. But just hoop it. Oh, I like it. Go, go. In fact, in fact, I really like it. Go. Yes, dude. Those are good. Tapins. Pick it up. Onto the next. Are those act those are close enough, right? It’s well inside a putter length. Pick it up. Count it, Kev. Count it. Pick it up. That’s a three. We’re so back. We’re Dude, part three though. Little hole in one on the next little double ace. Little hydration. Shout out Dani this week for our hydration. No for ads. Part three back pin coming up. This is a very big hole for us. Yeah, we’re we are back to even. Nobody’s going to really be even. I I think a lot of people will be even. I think I think we can make birdie here. We’re only going to beat two more teams. No, I think if we make if we can birdie the last, we win. Okay. A a best a worst ball birdie though on a par three. Yeah, we both hit it inside of 15 ft and then we just both. All right, let’s do it. I’m in love with the shape of you. Ooh, could be a good dumb. It’s 179 right here. It’s a back pin. That’s a pretty good number for me. I can hit a pretty stock seven. Do I smash a seven? I think so to be safe. And then I can I think you just try to hit it inside of 20 ft and then Do I just hit it hard though? Yeah. Yeah. Holy shank. He shanked it, folks. Holy shank. It’s drawing though. That was horrible. That’s one of the worst shots I’ve ever seen you hit. I mean, that sounded Did you get the audio on that? Straight off the hoszle. Do you even need to hit? Yeah. I want to make it just just for fun. If I make it, we’re we’re we’re just taking it. It’s probably the first shank in the Rocket Rookie Classic. It drew back though. That was pretty impressive. Oh my god, I did worse. Oh, backto back shakes. Oh my god. Backto back shanks. I should hit more balls after this or before this. Back to back shanks. That’s um That’s not very good. You could always chip it in though. We can always chip it in. All right. Come on. Let’s go. I’m embarrassed. We just We just both shanked it. I’m embarrassed. I mean, that’s tough. Well, like it’s something that we’re kind of used to, though. Yeah. Scram. Like, do you remember Zerk? I’m used to scrambling. Yeah, I sh y sh y sh y sh y sh y sh y sh y sh y sh y sh yanked it on every par three. Yeah, I mean I had to carry your ass on every par three. And I carried your ass on every other hole. On every on every nonpar? On every par five and every par four. Uh I was moral support. Well, I haven’t hit a bunker shot all week, so this could be uh Well, technically mine’s shorter. Is it is it is it is it worse? Uh yeah. How do you define worse? I mean, I clearly would would wouldn’t take that shot. You wouldn’t you wouldn’t take the club length from the fairway pitching up. Cameraman’s in danger. Oh god. First bunker shot in probably a week. That’s good. Oh. Oh no. What the hell is that? It’s not much better, but it’s better. It’s a chunking run that didn’t run. You go first. I want the heat when you make it. Okay, let’s dial in this read. Okay, man. This is What do winners get? It’s a lot of heat, honestly. I heard it’s for $100,000. Yeah. Oh, I love it. I love it. That’s so good right there. I love it. I first thought it was low, but I love it. No way, dude. It didn’t. That’s it. That’s it. I thought it was low, but it was just high. We’re done, dude. We’re done. We’re done. I mean, it’s like, is there any consolation if I make this? No, dude. It’s worse ball. Did I just blast it? Thanks for your shank. I laid up and it doesn’t break. It doesn’t break. That’s a bummer. Good job, man. Sorry I let you down. I’m used to it. That hurts. Um, we’re going to have to work on it, honestly. Like, this was just a terrible display. I mean, I can’t believe that putt the shot that hit the tree. This shank was even worse than my shank. I mean, it’s I can’t believe it. His drive on the on the second hole. Like, we made birdie, didn’t we? Dude, it literally goes left in the middle. Left. That was a great good good aim point, Reed. I mean, this All right, that’s a wrap. This was the Rocky Rookie Classic and we’re terrible. So, this is my major. We failed. We missed the cut. Pretty disappointed. Embarrassed, honestly. And like the two shanks there weren’t good, but it’s golf, you know? I mean, we can I was going to say like there’s always next time, but there is no next time. No, this is the only This is the fifth major. There is no next time. Yeah, it’s going to be tough. This is a tough one. Tough pill to swallow. This is a tough one. I mean, luckily we’re not in last. We’re still T1, actually. Yeah, we’re tied for first. So, there might be a playoff at some point. No, the playoff for last. I think we got a chance in the playoff. I do. I do. Stand by. We got a playoff coming. Rocky work a classic.