Recapping Round One at the 2025 Open Championship | The Shotgun Start

Join Andy Johnson and Brendan Porath as they go live to recap the first round of the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush. They’ll discuss the biggest stories of the day – a good start for Scottie Scheffler, a return to form for Matt Fitzpatrick, Matthew Jordan snapping his streak of 71s – and more! Brendan will also share on-the-ground insight from his time on the course in Northern Ireland.

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Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Now, shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. Um there’s a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I’m going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. Here we go. All right. All right. All right. Gentlemen, start your engine. [Music] Greetings and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is July 17th. Andy, how we doing, Brendan? I got to say I’m doing phenomenal. I uh I got to bed a little later than I wanted to last night. Woke up was was groggy. Opened up the leaderboard and quickly turned to ecstatic. I mean it was a a shotgun start fever dream this morning. Yeah. Wesy was incredible. Obviously had PVJ Matthew Jordan. Phil, we’ll throw Phil in there. get him in there. Am I obliged to run out to, you know, the fifth T and write about Phil? We had the whole thing. Westy Piss Bear Jr. It was It was just a great morning. I feel like this always delivers for early that first couple hours. Did you see KJ Choyy’s first T-shot? Oh, I have K I have KJ Choy in Dull. I did see KJ Choy first t-shot. 100 It clocked 125 on the ball speed. 176 176 yards. I have I have balls. So Cameron Smith hit it 153, but that was a quacker. A little duck hook. He’s trying to hit into the earth. It felt like KJ Choice, I’m told, was none of the sort. Just a good mighty lash that went up into the breeze into the wind and didn’t get to the fairway. Got shot down out of the sky. Clean contact. Um, so I have intel. KJ Troy’s top top end ball speed on the range this this week has been 150 miles an hour. Top his top the top overall I believe was Bryson at like 201 something. So there’s a 51 mile per hour difference between the two top uh top speeds uh on the range. His top speed is 150. So then he gets out there and the Troy boy just gets blown away. He doesn’t get to the fairway and but but you know fortunately for him it wasn’t at first he’s that’s tough. I know we do the Rory 2019 thing. It became sort of this this theme for the for the for the day really is like you know Cam Smith is Rory going to hit it out of bounds? Um they all talked about how nervy it is with the you know the OB just brings a different kind of mindset and element especially the first teaser can be a little nervy to begin with and uh but yeah that the the KJ Troy early early poof ball was was a was a quick shot of caffeine that got us going. You you want to talk about something that could put you right on your back foot right out of the gate? It’s that T-shot because we saw it with Rory like that Rory swing was just like get the ball on the ground turned into leashman there John Olude for a second he’s just trying to get it through the gap and honestly when you start with a swing like that it just it it is it it can impact the whole round and we saw from Rory drove the ball terrible terrible it was uh you know I think like you know him and Scotty hit very few fairways. Scotty hit three. He hit two. Scotty’s two fairway performance was a lot better. Their three fairway performance was worlds closer to the fairway than some of the places Rory was. Um that was an incredible day. I think I I want to make note of this. He has not been on the telecast, but the juice is loose also to wrap up to book end the day. We had we had the guy the boys Westy going out early, you know, put making the day a banner day already, but the juice is loose. He’s even par. I guess the juice we’re told went to Marquette for a cup of I don’t know at some point. So he’s, you know, put him up with Dwayne Wade and all the other famous Steve Novak. Throw throw whatever obscure one you want. The juice is loose. OJ Frell’s glove gloves. We got her story. We got our story lines. There you go. He’s playing well. Justin Leonard’s playing well. It’s just a a cornucopia of of delights uh that that are made tailor made for this podcast on Thursday. But yeah, just a button up because we went there. The first tea thing. Cam Smith goes, we warm up though on the range and he’s the one who hit the worst T- shot. You’re like, well, Cam Smith’s not a pro golfer anymore. It was a straight straight duck hook that went 153. He goes, “We warm up on the range and it’s kind of down on the right, out of the right, and you kind of lead yourself into a bit of false sense of security.” And then you get there and it’s like, “Yeah, all right. We really now got to step up here because I think I tried to hit that one underground and almost missed it.” Not the greatest start to a major championship I’ve ever had, but from there it was actually all right. I just I it was playing really hard to begin with to take all the the T-shot out of it. It was it was the hardest hole early on. It’s just that is a true ball buster that that I guess interesting theory you propose that it might linger and mess with you uh beyond into the what you want to do is you want to get up on the first te and make a really free swing and when there’s out of bounds on both sides it’s just really hard to make a free swing. Yeah. I mean, if there’s out of bounds anywhere on the first hole, sure. I think the natural inclination is to just kind of blast it the other way because the last thing you want to do on the first hole is be reteing. I mean, it’s the worst feeling you could possibly have. And I think like, you know, the the nature of that hole is that like if you if you play really conservative, then it’s like, well, this second shot is like no piece of piece of uh cake here. You know, you up to a green that kind of rejects in the front. Yeah. Um Patty Patty Harrington went off first and it hit. He’s not like short. He’s not Troy. He had a two iron in Li was like I’m just I got to go for the biggest head in the bag. I was so nervous. It’s interesting. Tough hole. Tough hole. Got out of the gate with a birdie though. Bernie Potty did. Yeah, we did. Um, one of the things though is like that f first the first five I felt like, you know, I felt like the day the the first five was really where you you could get it um and get get a nice start going. The middle stretch, especially in the afternoon, got really hard. Um, and in the morning when it was raining, you know, it’s just like impossible to hit a fairway. I thought one of the fascinating things was like, you know, when it it it looks like it’s a really rainy week out there and these guys really struggle to hit driver, the modern driver, the low spin driver in the rain is like a a problem. They just miss they can, especially if the wind’s off the left, they can’t hit it far enough left. They like just can’t hit the driver because the ball just like kind of hydroplanes out right. Um so it’s it’s just an interesting dynamic with the rain. um what’s going to happen this week with with guys and driving the golf ball. It was a it was a weird weather day for sure and like it’s kind of interesting. It’s been glorious here. Like it’s been incredible. There’s been like some misting, right? Occasionally pop up here or there on Monday, but like incredible weather and then the tournament starts and it’s like boom, you’re going to get rain for a lot of the morning and then some in the afternoon. Shane Lowry was talking like I’ve played here for like two weeks and barely got rain and then immediately the championship starts and we’re getting we’re getting rained on. It was like hot. It was like still at times then it was really windy and it was chilly. It was dry. Then it was raining. We got like the whole thing. I was cold then also sweating. Like it was a tough It was I thought the pins were I thought there were some pretty challenging pins. That seemed to be the consensus. I heard it from Jeff Shackleford was talking about that as well. Graham McDow at the end of the broadcast. Like the one on one on five was not easy. I know that’s where you said you could get it. Five was a little tricky. Seven. Seven was tricky. And that back right. Seven was very tricky. You had 14 a front left with the wind a down wind like everything going to that bunker. It was they were there were some tricky pins. Two was was considered like a ball like kind of a ball buster as well. Uh 18 challenging. We just like a lot of commentary about the pins being challenged. I there were some getable ones, but you mix in the winds, a little bit of the moisture you’re talking about, and then I I don’t think they gave them this wasn’t like an easy pin day. And we saw some of the the the rounds coming in at six hours might might reflect a little bit of the challenge going on. The annual annual uh six-hour open round face of play of play discourse. Uh double double the time it takes a member to play the golf course. D literally double. I mean I went with Rory at the start. They were like played three holes in like 50 minutes. They got to seven. It was two hour mark with two groups on the on the hole ahead of them. It was just it was long. Um it was challenging but we should not we should not neglect to note that we do have uh a bevy of players of four under that shot 67. So yeah, what are you gonna say? With regards to the pace of play, I you know, my my midm morning got real chaotic once once the kid woke up, you know, started rumbling around. Yeah. It’s like, you know, um and like I just was like, “God, I’m like not missing anything because like like doing a bunch of stuff, but I’m not missing anything, you know?” It’s like the perfect way to describe the pace of play. Yeah. Yeah. I would get in like a conversation and it’s like, “Oh, no. I just missed missed nothing. Didn’t even They haven’t even teed off yet.” Our leaders at 4 under are Pisspair Jr. Howon Lee, Matt Fitzpatrick. Good to see him back. Seb Jacob Scav Olison for for those that are new to the pot is Piss Bear Jr. Son of Thunder Bear. The original Piss Bear, Thorbjorn Olison. Uh I didn’t realize he went to like three American colleges, some like Ranger University, then TCU, and then he went to Arkansas just, you know, working the portal of Pis Bear Jr. Um, Matt Fitz also four under. CBZ’s four under. And as we record this, Harry English is four under with uh he’s playing on 18. Doesn’t have his caddy. His coach is a local uh an Irishman. Um but doesn’t have his caddy and he he came out hot. What he had like five birdies his first seven holes. So he’s currently tied. It it was very very hard I thought. But but you could shoot a 67 out there. Yeah. I think I mean I think it’ll be interesting. I I I if I was anybody at one over or better, I’d feel pretty good, you know. Um like I got a chance. Uh, and you know, I think the the golf course the weather was kind of weird today and I think that kind of held people back in different moments and like for the morning wave it was when it started raining, you know, it it got like really tricky and and difficult and for the afternoon that that late kind of windy gusty period got really tough. Um, and for both of them there was like kind of moments that that held you back from getting to five or six. somebody getting five to six. But this golf course, you know, it it has opportunities to score. It’s got the two short par fours with five 17. It’s got three parfives that you can take advantage of. So, I think that’s the thing about this golf course is that that you can play a great round. And we saw that uh the last time it was here with Shane Lowry on Saturday. Um, and I think that’s, you know, where if you’re at one under, one over, um, you feel okay because it’s like, okay, I could go out shoot 66 tomorrow. I’m right back in it. Now, what you might not feel good about is, uh, is is the sheriff, Scotty Shuffler, being there at three under. Um, that might tr trouble some people. He’s not in the group that I announced at four under, but is he your leader? Uh, is your unofficial leader or I guess your official leader? Well, I PE, we got to hit the hit the hit one of our our story lines. Nobody’s talking about, you know, I think I think the sheriff has has found a a partner, a partner, a man of the law that has jurisdiction in in England and Northern Ireland. Mattie Fitz, the leader, the one of the co-leaders, spoke about how fair this golf course was and how how it’s different than some of the other courses in the in the open roa where whereas great shots are are rewarded. So, part of me wonders Fitzy in form, he’s teamed up with with Scotty to protect, you know, uphold fair play uh across the across Port Rush. But Fitzy, Fitzy’s been playing good golf. Yeah, he’s coming on. Had a bad year, but coming on. But I would say Scotty’s probably still the leader. Okay. What would you say? Uh, he feels like the guy. Um, he seems he seemed a little grumpy. He went from How about that? Perspective boy to grumpy boy. Yeah, they asked him out of the out of the start. You might not have hit as many fairways as you wanted to hit, but you must be pleased with that score. I think he hit three. Was it three or four? I think it was three fairways. Three fairways. Yeah, you’re the second guy that’s mentioned that to me. I actually thought I drove it pretty good. I don’t know what you guys are seeing. I mean, I think we’re just seeing you hit three fairways. I I get that. Like, it can feel differently when it’s raining sideways. It’s actually, believe it or not, not that easy to get the ball in the fairway. Thank you guys for all pointing that out. Not a happy boy, but yeah, 300 par. Hit the ball nice off the tea. Then the next question was, has there been adjustment in how you’re putting since last week? And if so, what is the difference? different greens, different surface. These greens are just different. I don’t know how you want me to elaborate on that. I didn’t want to elaborate. Didn’t, you know, pissed that people say, you know, you you missed most of your fairways. He said, I drove it really great. I’ll take him as face value that he drove it well and just missed fairways. But question fair he just off the fairway like three or four times where he was in the short rough. So, it’s like that that fairway number could have easily been like seven. And he did play in the rain. Like he played as much in the rain as anyone really on the course. He talked about how like, you know, we’re used to wind, but like we just don’t play in the rain that much. And and I think Phil also talked about the the rain impacts of like just getting it to 60 feet once it started raining. Like that was that was great, right? You’re not like hitting it to six feet. You’re trying to hit it to like 60 feet in two putt. And that was the goal. One of the hardest things when it starts raining is just like figuring out how far the ball’s going to fly because like obviously there’s rain hitting it as it flies so it doesn’t fly as far, you know? I that’s that’s something that I’m always amazed at when these guys like play in in pouring rain and play really well is like how do you figure out the these numbers um that you know that the ball’s going to go because it’s it’s that’s I to me that’s the trickiest thing about playing in the rain. You talked on our preview show about like the mental exhaustion from playing Lynx golf and and part of that is not just like the mental the mental um exertion to to face like the current shot in front of you. It’s like the constant change, right? And so like we’re playing in the rain, now we’re not playing in the rain. The wind was the wind is 10, now it’s 20. And and so like a hole that you think might be easy suddenly becomes hard within that round, not just daytoday. Um, and we got a lot of that today and and you know, like the early morning was talking about the rain impacts with Phil, Phil and Scotty. Um, I thought Lowry, we’re doing too many quotes here, but they’re kind of all weaved together. Lowry had a great quote about that. He goes, it kind of summing up Lynx Golf where like the mentality you need. For example, today it all changed on the 11th hole was the worst hole to get the weather. We got in. We all really struggled, but I unfortunately made a great putt for par. I think there’s going to be certain times in the tournament where that’s going to happen. You just need to kind of put your head down and battle through it. So, it just you’re just going to get on a T- box and you’re like, I already don’t like this hole, but now I got a a you know, a shitty weather draw. And it just changes. You don’t even know maybe 30 minutes from from prior to that how it’s going to be. And and so that’s what we got today. Just kind of every kind of weather. And it it was fun to watch. Hey, I mean just what makes it really cool is like it, you know, I feel like in this tournament we’re going to get moments where the wind shifts directions, you know, directionally. And and I think that’s, you know, everybody wants chaos chaos in terms of like that like, you know, I think we got it last year at at uh TR Saturday. Yeah, Saturday at Trune where it just blowing so hard that it’s just impossible. Um, but there is a beauty also in the the like extremely variable weather throughout the course of the round that we got today and like as you said the mental exhaustion that exerts. Uh, just got word um that the US coverage went straight straight from uh USA coverage into law and order. I’m sad to be abroad and not get that. You know, might might be a sign might be a sign for the gods. Yeah, there’s we’ve got 10 dead women in a back of a van and like you’re trying to watch, you know, his English butt out like great. Good to be away for that one. Uh, you did the dun dun. I have some uh I don’t want to say explosive, but an interesting detail about the sheriff of the fair police. Now, you’d think if you’re a sheriff of the fair police, you’d be into rules. You’d be into law and order. you’d be into, you know, the enforcement of rules and the enforcement of policies. Well, this is this is multiple two p two multiple confirmations. On Wednesday, the sheriff himself uh decided that the driving range was not suitable for him or what he was looking to do at the time. So, he went left off the range, off the range in front of like the TV screen they got there, the jumbo. I think he was probably trying to practice nonfairway shots. It rough a little bit of rough shots or with a certain wind or with a certain wind, but it was not fairway cut where he was hitting from. So maybe it could be both. Not totally unorthodox, right? Not We’ve seen this every now and then. So he goes to the end of the range. Uh a gentleman on the range who works the range, I don’t know if they were a member of the RNA or or member of this tournament organizer, tournament staff, said, “Uh, Scotty, you can’t do that. that’s not allowed. You’re not allowed to be over there. He goes, “Why? What are you talking about?” And he said, “It’s the rules.” He goes, “What rules? Show me the rules.” And so, Scotty, it’s the rules. And said, “Uh, would you like me to to call my supervisor, the manager?” He said, “Yes, in fact, call the manager.” And so they call up whoever the head honcho is of of tournament or RNA and they phone down to the walkie-talkie. They say, “Scotty, this is in fact against the rules and you need to return to the properly defined range.” So we got a show me the rules and I want to speak to the manager uh all in one sitting from the sheriff of the fair police, a guy who you’d think would be in to rulemaking and law and order. And so now I’m wondering, do we have this all wrong? Do we have this all wrong? This feels like this feels like when the when the DA tells tells the off tells the sheriff, “Hey, you know, I know you made this arrest, but you forgot to read the rights.” He got let let go. Get off on a technicality. So yeah, it was funny. He was just like chopping away over there. Show me the rules. That’s not a show me. It’s, you know, they had to go to a second second level of authority to get him back on the range. I loved that story. It was pretty good. It started happen, I guess, in front of a crowd. Uh, but yeah, good good range stories. Good range fodder coming this week. Um, he’s three under. I don’t think we need to get into too much on Scotty. I feel like we’re going to be talking more about him the next few days. Anything in particular today that you wanna you want to button up with him? I mean, the guy The guy only hit a shot like what you gota be afraid afraid of if you’re the rest of the field. He hit a shot from the fairway on seven holes. You know the four par threes and and then you know three par fours. I think he was three under on those holes. So yeah, you know, if you if he plays if you extrapolate that out and the par threes are some of the hardest shots on the golf course. Right. Right. Right. So if you extrapolate that out, if you if you find some more fairways, you’re probably looking at, you know, a couple more underpar. Uh so I think that’s the thing that I’d be worried about with uh with with the rest of the field. I want to talk about the olds. Do it. This is one of the beauties of this championship is like I think experience is is more important here than anywhere else in golf. Uh, it is not a ball speed. We see this routinely. It is not a ball speed fest. Sure, ball speed is important, but you also have to know how to hit shots, right? You are not having your classic like guy that just bashes it around the ballpark and wedges it on to greens on the PGA Tour. Really play well at this tournament historically. Now today you had I can’t believe you didn’t have Westy on that that board that graphic PJ for he has he has his own he has his own graphic. Yeah double it up who’s on the graphic proper respect. So we got we got Justin Justin Rose, Lucas Glover, Phil Mickelson, Zack Johnson, Justin Leonard, Sergio and Westy all under par. And Phil. Yeah, you got Phil. And Phil. Yeah, Phil. I mean, it’s amazing. We got We got got three guys, ZJ with with Phil, Wesy, and Justin Leonard. We got three guys over 50 under par. I mean, an incredible day. And I just like it would be awesome if one or two of these guys really hung around and made a run. Obviously, Justin Rose came really close last year. You’d expect that. I think like something I I get reminded of every time this year is just how many great chances at majors that Sergio and the open that Sergio’s had over the years. And obviously like you know like Phil being in the mix is just like an an astounding storyline. Where are we? What did you think about writing him today? I did. I almost went out like picked him up 14 and to carry him home guide him home. Uh but I stay I just was like I can’t do this. I can’t lean into the bit. He did finish one under though. He’s still in it. He’s still in it or obviously in it. But go ahead. So incredible. Just I I love this is one of the beauties of this tournament. It’s more because it’s not so super distance dependent. Obviously, this is a long open course, but like if you know how to play golf at at the open, you you can you can contend. Um, and I think that’s like one of the beauties of this whole leaderboard right now is you have a lot of variety on it between the olds, but you also have, you know, you got CBZ on there. Um, and and a lot of different types of players. Yeah, Ricky’s in there. Ricky’s in there, you know, notoriously good or reputed wind player. Um, real quick on Phil, he said the Open in 2013 was the greatest accomplishment in his career because he had to learn a style of golf that he didn’t know and didn’t play growing up. He says it’s the greatest source of pride for me as a player to overcome those obstacles. Um, he said this why it was important for him to win the open goes it’s a sign of a complete player. you sort of hit on this like like different services like a tennis player said it’s a sign of a complete player to be able to win in all the conditions of the majors that they provide. Obviously, I’ve never won a US Open, but winning a Masters requires a whole different style of play than winning a US Open in a PGA. This is unique. It’s just the sign of the complete player and it’s my greatest source of pride and accomplishment. And that’s where you get the olds. You get a little variety. You get a little, you know, you get a little experience that might be able to might be able to lean on. So, um, Justin Leonard, while we’re on the subject of old, like I mean, complete complete kudos to this guy. I mean, we we thought only only PJ believed in him. He did when we did. He’s guy’s got to win this year. He won this year. He’s feeling good. He’s riding high. You guys You guys got to I report on this every week and nobody listens to me. It’s a shame. Eric Patterson apparently did the strokes gained analysis that the data I I think these are reliable, but he has them 142nd in strokes gained off the tea. He’s one under. He’s one under with 142nd off the tea. That’s insane. He won his major his his open, which is why he’s playing cuz he won the open in 1997. [Laughter] I think you have your exemption till 65 I want to say. I think is when it runs out if you won. But that’s 146. 142nd. He’s one under. Just just an astonishing number. Do you think Can we do Does he make the cut? I I think he does. I think he does. He’s one under. I think he like I think he could go out and shoot 74 tomorrow. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. No, I agree. It can also shoot 81. I I’m trying to be generous here. I’m not trying to say shoot 88, but that’s a miracle round one under with with some of those numbers. But you want to talk about Westy? No, but you do. Westy’s got Helen on the bag. I saw that. Yes. Yes. Coat Talk is the graphic we have up now. He is He missed a short putt like he always does. He hit some really bad chips like he always does. But you know what he also did? Flushed a lot of iron shots. Hit a lot of fairways. He is he is right there. Yeah. This he like he was leading for a good chunk of the morning. Two bogeies 14 and 16. I mean this guy was had a legit shot to win last time it was here. 19. Yeah. He talked about it in his qualifying like how he he didn’t try because he was like all out of sorts with the golf swing the last couple years qualify. Yeah. Yeah. And like this year he was like figured something out and he was like, “Oh yeah, I’ll sign up.” And like sure enough he like he just breeze through his qualifier, no doubt. And here he is. I I mean come on. I think he can hang around. Okay. This is what he does. He can too. I mean, if he It’s the experience point you just you just spoke about. Like, we know he knows how to play this championship. And if he’s like got it together in a approximate to his fashion that that was good, you know, prior in a prior era, then yeah, it’s it’s not it’s I’d say suggesting he can contend is less crazy than saying Justin Leonard is for sure going to make the cut. Like I think this is way more within play. I’ll tell you why. These guys, they understand conditions. They understand the golf swing. They know how to make something work. You know who who also understands how to make a great engine, make something that’s reliable, make something that is a high-erforming automobile in a lot of different conditions. You know who knows how to do that? I’m going to guess it’s MercedesBenz. You’re right, my friends. Mercedes-Benz. They’ve been partnered with the Open since 2011. They’re rooted in shared values, commitment to excellence, and bridging tradition with modern luxury. Now, they’re the the SUVs are the perfect companions for golf enthusiasts seeking performance, style, and space on the way to the course, and the GLS stands out as the pinnacle of this lineup. I will add I got testimony from friends back home. Uh where’s this quote from Wner? Uh yeah, he said he sent me a picture of his GLS. It’s not just golf trips. It’s like incredible. Uh he says captain seats, third row, perfect for four kids. Uh his wife drives it, he drives it. We love it. So that’s firsthand testimony from friends. So not just golf, the captain seats. You got the kids. That’s the GLS experience from a friend in DC. It combines power and finesse backed by 12 driver assist systems, nimble handling, cutting edge AI technology, and superb craftsmanship. It’s uh you can learn more about the GLS and Mercedes-Benz full lineup of SUVs at mbusa.com. That’s mbusa.com. Uh, we got to meet Ludvig Aberg uh or Ludvig Oberg. We got a couple pronunciation guides from uh some Swedish friends on Tuesday. Uh, Ludvig Oberg. Lud Ludvig Oberg. Uh, we got to meet him uh in the Mercedes deal on on Monday. He was uh he was eager to to chat about like architecture, course stuff, course setup, course strategy. there were, you know, he was getting he was say doing some other interviews that maybe were not into that and then, you know, once we we arrived and were able to talk about that, he was really cool. No BS, not just the Mercedes. Not surprising. He’s a Mercedes-Benz ambassador, which means he’s into the finer points of design. You know, he appreciates the finer finer aspects of design. That’s great. Love that. In golf courses and and in cars. Good tie in there. Love that. Um all right, let’s move on. What else? What other takeaways do you got from here? Would you I call Sponge? Is it too Is it mean to say Scotty 68 was pointless? What’s the point? I I thought I was a pointless 68. You know, why even bother? Why even try? I mean, that that seems to be lingering around the ground. All the players like continuing to react positively negatively. I don’t want to get into Well, he said nobody acted reacted negatively. He said he’s only gotten positive feedback. It’s just not I mean maybe Patrick Harrington’s on the record talking about I don’t get that. Uh yeah. Anyways, a pointless 60 68. He’s not here to inspire the next generation. He’s just here to shoot 68. You know, we could in three days say it was pointless to even play the tournament if he if he if he hits more fairways. He hits more fairways. Um what else do you want to go to? Any other any other bits and bobs? I mean, I I was impressed with how JT held the round together, but you know, like it just feels like every major he has these like big holes that just kind of blow him out of it. And I think he’s still he he’s not completely out of it, especially with the way he can go low. Um, but you know, the double bogey, it’s just like the double bogey on nine, it he he just makes so many mistakes and and and has that just propensity to blow up. I feel like that was kind of one of Ricky Fowler’s curses when he was like really in his prime and gun gunning for majors was just like the undoing of big numbers and the you know potential and I just think that’s the that’s the issue with JT right now. That said, listen, like I mean we’ve seen him do this in so many big tournaments is shoot just like a stupid low number and he’s right back in it. And I think like the way he held on to the round after that double I was pretty impressed with with with kind of how he’s played in in recent majors. Uh, I don’t want to I don’t want to strain a metaphor here, but he feels like like sort of like the mistake prone quarterback that can like do things that are like incredible, but then just gets in his own way and has a terrible mistake or blows up and you’re like I I wouldn’t say he’s, you know, I don’t think he’s at the level of like an elite like a Josh Allen or something. That’s kind of the guy that always But he is kind of this guy where you see flashes of incredible brilliance but then can’t get it like across the line. Can’t finish it. Has the bad mistake. I thought his shot on five was like one of the best shots I saw all day. The little like I do think he likes to use this opportunity to sort of get in his bag a little bit and show you what he’s got. Sometimes to the positive, sometimes to to the detriment overthinking. But his little he hit a little chip runner to that what I thought was a really hard pin on five. We saw it sort of reject uh Rory’s shot a few minutes later, right? He didn’t get all the way up and they made the putt for birdie, whatever that bomb putt. So JT, one of the best shots I saw today. It’s just he’s one over. So yeah, still still in the mix. You know, he’s still in it. Yeah, it’s um then uh you know, I think we got to talk about our our friend Matt Jordan. Uh a question I have I’ve got a question. Yeah. I think Port Rush needs to look at the Summerland model. Um, with with Matt Jordan breaking through, you know, not not he’s he’s strayed a little bit away from par. He’s three under. Does that mean that, you know, Port Rush should consider a summer model reduction of par? Maybe like 12 and seven. Just move some T’s up to make them fours. Is that what we’re talking about? Oh, dude. I mean, we didn’t notice it as much when we were here playing. Like some of the tea walkbacks for the pros are are preposterous. Like crazy. Seven being one, you know, 18 17 you go down the hill and then you walk like, you know, 100 yards back up to the top of the hill. Like the the walkbacks for some of the pros are kind of kind of nuts. But yeah, maybe the Summerland model would work. Just just cut a few in half and move the tea up. I wrote for the newsletter about Matt Matt Jordan. Um that’s what I spent my morning doing. But um it’s incredible what he does at this tournament. It it is it illuminates the uh one of the main issues of uh professional golf and the fact that we like your success as a professional is largely dictated on one style of golf like which is Parkland like soft so soggy golf design from the 70s and 80s is like the predominant thing whether it’s on the European tour or whether it’s on in America like you’re there. So like this guy if if you played Lynx golf regularly and I you know I’m curious to see how he finishes how he gets into the barn. He obviously he’s playing this is his third open. He finished 10th in his first one which was at his home course at uh Royal Liverpool two years ago which got him in to this year’s Open or last year’s open which he finished 10th in also uh which got him into this year’s open and like I just think about like this is guy that like grew up playing a different style of golf, grew up playing Lynx golf and understands how to play Lynx golf very well. And you know, it’s funny. I dove into his uh his his career. So, he’s played 170 OWGR events, and to my like count, I wasn’t going to go through every event, but like the the only tournaments that are held at Lynx Golf Courses are the Open, the Dunnh Hill, and the Scottish. He’s played 170 times and roughly like I don’t know like probably eight or nine of his of his starts have been at Lynx golf courses and four of his nine best owl finishes are on from on links golf courses from those like small subset of events. Yeah, it’s an astonishing uh I mean he’s got like a he’s got a T5 and a T10 at the Dunnhill, right? It this is this is grew up at Liverpool, right? Ho Lake. Yep. This is a guy that if you played if if if 90% of the golf tournaments were on Lynx courses, he’s probably a top 50 player instead of a guy that’s like been between 120 and 300 in the world since we started talking to him. like he has not gotten above 120 in the world. It’s fascinating. It it’s just like it’s just something that like I think like there has to be perspective around like and and this is like you know Scotty Rory Rahm they’re going to be the best players at everywhere but that 20 to 80 golfer is so dictated based off of setups and golf courses that you’re visiting and Matt Jordan like they just don’t play a lot of Lynx golf but every time we show up at a Lynx golf course and usually the harder the conditions, the more he he pops. He he’s somebody asked him about like why does this why do you play so well here? He’s like I know how to hit the shots. Like I this this style of golf he said was it’s not the style of golf where you just stand there and hit it. You know, you have to think. You have to know like what how the wind’s going to react to a shot. And it’d be really cool. I’d I you know after Liverpool round one you’re like well this guy’s gonna fade out you know. Yeah. And then he stuck around all week and then last year it was like oh well it’s cool that he’s playing well again but he’s he’s bound to fade out. Right. If this guy hangs around again it’s just he’s a link specialist. Yeah. Yeah. It’s interesting. I I it I mean the game is the game right? like like you might see a mid-range jump guy get jumper guy get fade out like his value diminishes but like here we have the ability to uh maybe you don’t need to be 50%. you have the ability to bring variety, right? It’s not like there’s ability to create different tests, create different skill sets, right? And and we just don’t do that. And you kind of see it this week on Wednesday. I was sort of like the Pendy group, the Taylor Pender. I was like out of bounds on the He’s going to get blown out to see. I woke up this morning. It was just a It was like walk to the course at like 650 or whatever we went and it was like got Marco Peny and a scarf. It’s like 65 low. He’s done. He’s He’s Marco Penge. He find he gathered himself. Jason Day’s sweater. Phil’s in contention. Pendy and KJ Troy off the tea. Ben Griffin, you know, nearly hit it in the merch 10 off the tea that they It’s just just was a great uh entry into the into the start of the day. Uh but I love your Jordan point. your Jordan take. It’s just it prompts f like greater analysis of professional golf the the structure. Yeah, it it it prompts greater analysis but also like you know I think like what makes this what makes the open so awesome we just talked about this with all the old guys playing is like it deemphasizes driver and adds adds um emphasis to every other aspect of the game. Right. approach play. And it’s not just like, oh, I can hit a towering seven iron on tour. It is, can you hit a towering seven iron? Because there’s rarely wind that’s going to dictate you having to like hit a real shot. Like, okay, I’m going to take a little off this and cut it. You know, there are so few courses like Pebble, you get that because it’s on the ocean. Um, but at like the greater skill of iron play is being able to compute that and then hit the shot. Like have the feel and then execute the shot. That is more difficult than just hitting the stock Trackman high shot. And I think that’s what makes this style of golf so much more fun to watch is that the shot the shots that are have more consequence are the ones that you hit near the hole and the driver just blasting a driver up into the rough or as far as you can hit it hoping it goes in the fairway but being okay with it being in the rough. That’s the least interesting shot in golf because it doesn’t approach the hole. All the other shots, approach shots, chips, and putts have the have the consequence of the hole location. And that is the interest in the game. The game gets more interesting to the for the most part the closer you get to the hole. Yep. You get more ball on the ground more. It just it just gets more dramatic, more intense uh and more rewarding uh to watch, quite honestly. Um, we want to hit some miscellaneous miscellane. Have we done enough? I don’t think we need to hammer Rory too much. I went out there. We’re gonna talk about him first. He hit not a lot of fairways. You wonder like, you know, he’s had trouble finding a driver with his driver since, you know, the Masters and are we back to that again? He played well at Renaissance. Um, I it was cool out there on the first te. I wouldn’t say it was like, you know, Master Sunday, but it was awesome. You You just like walk out there and it’s that field and it’s just like obvious. I’m not breaking it. Like 15 deep all the way up that you It was the only one you can hear. Like I I went up toward the middle of the green, middle of the fairway. I made a joke like the whole left side’s going to be like the outfield of the home run derby. Just a bunch of people with their baseball gloves like waiting for it to come. And uh I went up that way and you just like you could hear the the grand stands went nuts. It reverberated all the way up the fairway that you just didn’t hear for other people being and out. So a ton of pressure. Uh kind of gets out a little scruffy with two balls left. Uh but just somehow, you know, under par when he when he gets to gets to six and it gets to three under at some point. I you know, listen, like this is uh this is it feels kind of similar to the Masters in a different way. You had that opening round where it was like kind of disappointing. Like the disappointment today was like he he drove it really bad. But like you walk away and it’s like okay is if that’s the worst he plays all week, he’s got a really good chance to win and that could be the worst round he plays all week. Um and he scored the scored the ball exceptionally. He stole a few. I mean, Bur on 17 15 like he stole like kind of stole them in a good way obviously, but I I thought some of the up and downs were really similar to the final round at uh at Pinehurst where he he was kind of scraping around and for a while and and made some really tough up and downs look pretty easy like 15. Um a couple uh we’re going to talk probably Rory a lot more uh this week. Yeah. Uh, a couple a couple more uh storylines that nobody’s talking about. Uh, you know, a new feature of the show we brought up uh on on on Tuesday’s show. Um, we got Cam Young fell for it again. Um, Cam Young eating alive by Calamity Corner. PJ, how you feeling? Uh, not great. I mean, I was I was ready to go at 3:25 Eastern time. I was fired up. I was I was ready for uh for this group with him and Patrick Kentley and obviously bogeied the first. That was a lock. That was never in doubt. That was always going to happen. I until he got to 16, he bounced back really well. Every time he bogeied, he got one back. Had it in red for a little bit and then yeah, the the double on 16 um kind of ruined everything. So, we’ll see. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. But uh not good. It was Wasn’t good. was good for a little bit. Uh I would throw throw in with him I mean Morawa we may be talking about him on Friday with like miscut segment but and entire major season he had double cross double cross uh going hard on the front nine uh and on the range very very frustrated. Um, so Cam Young, fortunately, you know, another superstar, Dick Teter, uh, also in that Cam Young range. Three over. We have that. We have that as one of the story. Okay. Teter has a commanding five shot lead over Van Tandonder. Teter is leading Tander after Thursday. Someone sent us a great nickname for DVT. I forget what it was. I’ll find it. But yeah, Teter leads Tunder. I love that. It’s still time for T. I can’t believe the 19-year-old kid say he loves Link’s golf because he hits it far and he rolls far and he’s gonna hammer it as far as possible at all times isn’t leading the tournament, but he’s adjusting. He’s three over it. Not disaster. I think like one of the misplays is I noticed he went no hat. The glasses have to be just getting smoked with rain out there. How does it drive with the windshield glasses? Yeah. Yeah. Like I never play golf in in glasses. cuz I always wear my contacts. But like one of the reasons I would never play golf in glasses is because of the rain. And then you go out there and you’re trying to show off your mullet instead of putting a hat on and being a little bit practical. If you need to wear the glasses, I think this is just tactical error by by Teter. Well, he’s 19. He’s 19. Practicality is not is not really a priority. This is what the this is what the Z’s called uh or even the the Jet Alphas call aura farming. trying trying to get out there with with his mullet go viral on Tik Tok. I believe I I believe Dick Teter might have been aura farming out there. I’m familiar with that. Another another uh another, you know, storyline nobody’s talking about home cooking. Uh Darren Clark through one round is is really taking it to Windham Clark. He’s winning the winning the battle of the Clarks. Yep. Yep. I like that. That’s That’s tough scene for Windam Clark. Tough. Maybe not the toughest scene for Windam Clark this week. Um Well, I guess we’ll just do it right now. We got to do it. Okay. Uh news came out. So, I got this. It was late here. Someone sent me the letter. It was like I’m in bed going to bed. I check my messages. I get this letter from Oakmont. I’ve got like one eye open like looking at it on my phone as I’m going to bed and I’m like this this is just not real. Like I’m not going to share this. I’m not going to publicize like cuz this is just some AI like someone faking us out. Oh, it’s real and it’s spectacular. Uh Oakmont, they’re not like suspending him or anything. He’s banned right now. Um here’s the letter that that went out I guess Tuesday. Was it Tuesday night? Tuesday afternoon your time. Dear fellow members, several of you have inquired about the situation involving Wendom Clark and the steps being taken in response to his recent behavior. Following multiple discussions with the USJ and the OC board, decisions made that Mr. Clark will no longer be permitted on OC property. The decision will remain in effect unless formally reconsidered and approved by the board. Reinstatement would be contingent upon Mr. Clark fulfilling a number of specific conditions, including full repayment for damages. Makes sense. Totally reasonable. A meaningful contribution to a charity of the board’s choosing. Really open-ended. I guess I’m okay with it. What do you think a meaningful contribution is? It’s pretty open-ended. What What do we got? What’s your Well, guy’s well, you know, he’s he’s got a good endow, you know, a good bank account. Um 25,000. No, I was going to say 10 grand. And he’s covering the cost of the damage. That’s 10 grand. Uh what is yours? I think I think it’s 25 meaningful. Okay. All right. And then we step it up a notch. Uh so so repayment contribution to charity and then we step it up to and the successful completion of counseling and or so they’re still deciding whether it’s one or both counseling and or anger management sessions. So, they might decide that it’s got to be an and. So, you got to do the both. Thank you for your understanding and continued support. You know, I I uh I like I enjoy it. It seems like a good membership, great course, the whole thing. This letter is completely preposterous. It’s comp and of course said to the entire membership it was going to get out in short order. I it’s just I I I get being mad. This is borish behavior. He should be in trouble. He’s a jerk. And tell him he’s never allowed back, but like this this sort of jump through hoops thing. Is he supposed to send a doctor’s note? Like I’ve completed my counseling. Here you go. OCC board. Um what what like you can’t impose. A man’s like an adult. Come on. This is the the counseling stuff’s like what happens when you like assault a person, right? Or you like do something bad at work, right? You you like, you know, you are you you abuse like verbally abuse work, you know, have something happen on a transatlantic flight. Sure. Sure. And you go from Thunder Bear to Piss Bear and that’s it. the die is cast and you’ll never be known as anything again. Um, I mean, it’s just insane. It This isn’t the tour. This isn’t the USGAA saying he like it’s not a governing body saying he needs a complete um counseling counseling andor anger management. It’s a country club that hosts an event every 10 years. So, he’s banned. So, what’s the like it’s not even like Riviera who hosts every year. Can you like I don’t I we’re doing this Thursday because we’re not going to talk about this again. I just This is one of the most This is like so up my alley. I could not I could not ask for anything better. This was the most amusing thing I will see maybe this year. I can’t wait to get to it. Year in review already. Um I’m just worried we’re going to forget about it. No, no, not not gonna happen. Uh, if you were like Windam Clark’s management or Windam Clark himself, how would you respond to this? I don’t want to I don’t want to put you in the shoes of it necessarily. I think what I would do is I would take care of the first two hurdles. Okay. And and then I’d be like, listen, I have a sports psychologist. It’s well publicized. Yeah. You know, Netflix really leaned into this. Yes. whole episode. I’m working with her to address my anger problems and there I’m done. Yeah, that seems reasonable. Like that this is to be clear not excusing his behavior. He stinks. That was shitty. It stinks. This this is just a lot. It’s also just a lot to like why could you just send the memo to him as like the board and not told your whole membership that you’re doing this, right? Or just send the membership letter something that’s much more succinct and ambiguous like we’ve talked where he’s working to rectify the situation. Um like nobody looks good in this. Yeah. I guess that’s one of the things that I’m always astounded by with golf is how often these situations come about where everybody ends up getting looking bad. Yeah. Right. There’s like sensibility is lost on all sides a little bit like there was a right and a wrong and then like the right became a little bit wrong because they went nuts. It it Yeah. Yeah. That’s true. Uh so yes, Windham Clark is low Clark at Oakmont. Low Clark with Darren and just Yeah, he’s he’s going through it this week. Uh what else do we got for Storyline? Anything else you want to throw my way before I get an unsubstantiated out there? Go ahead. Yeah, we got one more. It’s uh it’s the Smith Thanks for Your Spirit award. Our guy Saddam in the top five comes out. He’s a monk. I didn’t know if you saw that. It’s only everywhere. Saddam uses m I’m hearing that there are thousands of golfers that have been applying for for I I don’t know is it monk ship would it be monk ship to join the fellowship sound right I was the frock I don’t know there there are thousands of golfers that are seeking this to improve their golf game yeah he played well Saddam he played well I’m just I’m just I’m just calling him Saddam because I I want to be very clear. I looked up how to pronounce his name several times. His last name. Yeah, I’ve I tried to run through it multiple times and I just don’t want to embarrass myself. Okay. All right. Uh he’s doing wonders. He’s bringing the He’s doing wonders for the name Saddam. Getting that out of the gutter. He’s doing good job. The Monk played well. Got a Got a two on five, too. Made a made an eagle on five. Um how about the Olsson’s taking it to the Hoygards, too. And the early Nico Hoiggy guard said set an easy st good standard there early on junior’s tech. Well, that’s all the young le doing his work. So that was great. Thorbjorn’s sitting there. I think he’s one over. He’s he’s fine. This is I I think this would be I did I did some some research. I think this would be the first father son duo to make the cut at the open since young Tom and old Tom Morris. Good. I love that’s good research. even if it’s done for a bit and completely inaccurate. I like that. Um, hey, how was the broadcast? Okay, from over there. We don’t need to go do broadcast minute, but my favorite one of the hardest laughs I had was um the British over here, the British guy over here said uh he he characterized Scotty’s swing as an octopus falling out of a tree, which was just a great phraseology. Maybe that was the world feed over there. I thought that was good. Then they had the the farting situation where uh you got Scotty. No, I don’t know. It was someone on the broadcast or the guy holding the mic, the boom mic or whatever. And so this was very clear and loud over the broadcast. And they just are hollering. They’re laughing. They’re not hiding. They’re delighted. Said the wind from behind, you know, got them. and they they’re just very good. The commentary with the with the open getting away is very good. So, good coverage over here with the commentary. How about you guys? Um, this is a annual tradition for me is I wake up early and I have it just shoved in my face for being a golf fan where you turn on the golf channel and they just bomb you with commercials. Yeah. Josh Carpenter had a tweet that was basically like it’s double the commercial load really during this hour um than than a normal uh event. And I think it’s like so messed up that it’s like oh we’re going to just load the commercials up here. Yeah. And it’s like that’s your core constituent who’s getting up to watch that. That is like your diehard fan and you’re treating them terribly. Um, that being said, then I I realized as a as a Steam media member, I get the world feed without commercials on my computer. So, I put that on, which, you know, I then jamming the listeners here. Just I am jamming the listeners. But, um, I thought GMAC was pretty delightful as a uh a color guy. He was good. I mean, and sometimes you think like he probably knows the course as well as anyone, right? He’s played it like a thousand times as a member. And that can kind of like also make you like too much information, right? Make you sort of overweighted down by that. Uh, but he was awesome. He was really good. Uh, sort of bringing a live boy back into the full. I I think he’s working for Sky. I don’t think it’s NBC owned by the same company. But yeah, he was great. What’ you like about him? I think he he brought like brought a lot of insight from the tour. Um he brought a lot of insight about players. Uh obviously the live ones he was like a little bit he has more than what we’ve seen at major championships from you know because he’s out there playing. Um but I thought he was really good on like the on the PGA Tour players too. Obviously the core stuff knowing that like the back of the back of his hand. Yeah. And I just thought like he he had like for a guy that like hasn’t been in the booth, I thought he had just like a really nice presence. Uh I woke up and I turned it on. I was like, “Wait, is that is that GMAC?” Um and it made me think about like, you know, NBC’s been kind of a carousel. You’ve got Kevin Kisner’s like their lead analyst, but he’s still playing unsubstantiated rumor. He apparently shows up. He flies in like last minute makes him sweat. You know, he comes in late for when lead chair on the weekends, but go ahead. Yeah, they have been a little bit of a carousel. It’s been a carousel. There’s no continuity. There’s no camaraderie. I feel like com in comparison. Um, and like one of the things that like you think about is like GMAC was never somebody I thought of as being in the booth after playing. You obviously have Phil was a big, you know, in the booth. Would he be great in the booth? And it’s like those might have been like, you know, you think Pter could probably be pretty interesting in a booth like are the best. Did we lose because of the way Liv went about just signing up all the wash up guys? Did we lose all the broadcast talent? Well, Billy was at that like that a bit, right? I Billy Horchel on your pod just talked about this, right? Just a little more crit critical eye and and Yeah, GMAC was good. I mean, with the analysis, knowing the course, but then you also got to be able to you can’t be a stiff and you can tell he’s like interesting to talk to. When when Bobby Mack was like dropped 10F bombs as he like went hither and yawn to get his four, he’s like, “Oh, that was a colorful four, colorful par.” And and the the air was colorful. Like he he’s just like good dropping that in on top of the substantive stuff. You know, I’ll never forget, you know, something that was going to be seared into my mind is uh what he said about uh after he went to live and like just like how tonedeaf he was to like. But that being said, like I think his like golf brain from like just if you’re just talking golf is like unbelievable. Like you could do that’s like the thing that like I took away was like this guy’s golf IQ. And I think that’s what you need in that in that chair is you need somebody that that really understands the game and can talk about it at a sophisticated level. Like he was talking about, you know, they asked him about uh slower greens, what to do, and he’s like, well, Tiger always added lead tape, but like one of the things they it’s counterintuitive. A lot of people say go lighter because you could get more club head speed on a lighter putter, you know, so you don’t have to change your stroke like and it’s like that I found as as somebody deep in golf like he had the zingers that for the casual audience like like and but he also had the the in-depth like stuff that I want to hear about. Like he talked about oh a little bit of rain on the sand it makes them a little firmer. you know, these are fluffy bunkers. Like, like he was just like all over it. Like, right when stuff was happening, he was on it. And he was talking a lot about the the driver and the low spin driver, how it used to be, you know? It it just I I think like that’s the level of uh of sophistication and but he still he has the level of sophistication you need for like your dieh hardcore fan but he also was approachable and funny and had had it timing for the moment for the casual fan. And I think that’s like probably why it’s so hard to find really good an announcers. I I think that Trevor does an awesome job with this type of stuff for CBS also. Yeah, he was out there late last night. I saw him working like walking the course. Uh GMAT. Yes. Probably like seven, eight, like pretty late last night. Um before you got a late night round in. Yeah. Yeah. Or Yeah, I guess it would have been like closer to six. So yeah. Yeah, he was still out there hustling. So um yeah, good stuff from GMAC. Anything else? I haven’t unsubstantiated. I’m going to pump to Friday. I’m bumping it. T I’m gonna dangle it and you can go. You don’t want to You don’t want to get just burn it on minute, you know, 60. Yeah. Whatever. Remember how we talked about these should be 20 minute episodes? This has been a good show. This has been fun. I don’t know if it’s good, bad, but I’ve had fun with this one. Anything else we need to get to on this Thursday show? PG, you got anything else? You want to jump in? No, I think we’re all good. We covered I was very excited about the return of storylines nobody’s talking about. So, I can’t wait to see what comes out of tomorrow. Lammana, do you have anything? He just showed up. Road weary. Do you have one take? Any insight you want to throw out here? I have a mic I can put you on. Are you good? Colin on the driving range. He was on the driving range watching Colin. Apparently extremely extremely emotive and going through it, looking to the sky for answers. And you know, it was bad. Sounded tough. You think you think you think Billy’s going to take that bag full time? uh it did not seem from what I was told I didn’t see up close that the rapport was strong looked a little icy not not that they’re hostile to just not a lot of hitting it off so yeah um one other thing I forgot on Fitzy credit’s turnaround to the number one coach in the world Mark Blackburn lot lot of Blackburn love in the press conference golf digest nailed it number one coach in the world, Mark Blackburn. He’s number one. Guy comes in, turns programs around, he builds, works it. All right, that does it. This was a fun Thursday show. I had a blast. Uh, we’re going to have dailies. I got this little We got more reporting. We’ll be on the ground again tomorrow. Following Rory, Scotty, missed cuts, the whole deal. Uh, Bryson, we didn’t even touch on Bryson yet. Uh, go ahead, PJ. I just don’t want you to forget the unsubstantiated rumor for tomorrow. You’ve been teasing this to us for like two days, so you can’t I’ll just throw it out. It’s so It’s not It’s not that important. I’ll throw it out right now. Uh so they have a tunnel. They have a tunnel that goes to facilitate uh to facilitate crowd control over it. So they build a tunnel under like 910 I think it is. Um uh from one green to the tea and it’s pretty big. But there’s one player in the field who refuses to go through the tunnel. He’s like claustrophobic. And the tunnel’s big. It’s like it’s tall. It’s like 15. It’s wide. It’s very big. It refuses to go through the tunnel. This is unsubstantiated. The Scotty Range stuff I I would clarify classify as substantiated and just won’t go in. Goes up and over into the masses. He’s claustrophobic. He says refuses to go through the tunnel. Any guesses? It’s a Mast’s champion. Oh, I was masters board for something. Masters winner and one player who will not use the tunnel and just jams up, you know, to the logistical uh Jordan. No, no, no. Mast’s champion. No, not P. You guys are on it. Uh, Mast’s champion. Post pandemic. He’s won a masters post pandemic. Oh god. DJ. DJ. Not DJ. That would be incredible. That would be great if DJ was crowd right after him. No. No. Hideki. Yes. Hideki is this unsubstantiated and it’s just thrown this kinks in the like all they did all this logistical. One guy he’s claustrophob like no don’t do the tunnel. Uh so that’s why I thought that was just an amusing you know sort of inconsequential rumor that kind of kind of crazy that he flies spirit. There’s not a lot of room on those planes. It’s it’s seriously but I don’t really anything you can do. You know who might be able to help him with that anxiety. What’s that? I want to talk to Samson. What did Samson do today? He’s like over I was following it very intently. Very intently. That that soundboard fight is not going to be long long in the in the world. Sadly. sadly will not be around for very long. That’s a shame. All right, that does it. This was a fun Thursday show. We’ll talk to you guys on Friday after the conclusion of play. Scotty’s out later tomorrow. Well, what are we talking like 4 Eastern? Yeah, we went at like 4:05 today. So, okay. So, that’s probably 9:00 here. One, if you’re driving, just pop YouTube on. Yeah. And listen to it over your car. Muting home or something. Yeah. All right. Talk to you then. Thanks, guys.