The Open Championship or The British Open? That is the Question.

In this special major‑week episode of Making Cents of It All, Jesse Stakes sits down with The Tin Cup Club to break down the year’s final major — the 2026 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. From the history of this iconic links to the economic engine behind golf’s oldest championship, the crew dives into everything that makes The Open unlike any other event in the sport.

Royal Birkdale has long been known as one of the fairest, toughest, and most visually stunning courses on the Open rota — a place where the dunes shape the story, the wind decides the champion, and only the most complete players survive. With record crowds expected and a projected economic impact topping £100 million, the 2026 Open is set to be one of the most influential sporting events of the year.

Jesse and The Tin Cup Club dig into:

• What makes Royal Birkdale the perfect stage for the final major
• The unique challenge of links golf and how players adapt
• The contenders, dark horses, and storylines shaping the 2026 championship
• How The Open drives massive economic growth for Southport and the Liverpool City Region
• The fan experience, the culture, and the legacy that only The Open can deliver

Whether you’re a golf fan, a business mind, or someone who loves the intersection of sport and strategy, this episode brings insight, personality, and plenty of major‑week energy.

Tune in as we make cents of the final major — and why Royal Birkdale is ready to crown a champion.

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Jesse Stakes: Hey everybody, welcome to this week's episode of Making Sense of It All. I am proud to bring you a couple members of the 10 Cup Club. We are talking everything

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Jesse Stakes: The Open Championship, the British Open, whatever you want to call it. I guess that's the first question I got for you guys. Bl.

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Blakely: I call it the, British Open.

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Jesse Stakes: All right, Mike.

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Mike Padron: Same. The Open Championship just sounds weird to me.

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Mike Padron: Just doesn't roll off the tong.

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Jesse Stakes: Do you think that the Brits and all of them are, like, that they're insulted that we call it the British Open, or do you think that it just is what it is?

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Mike Padron: It is what it is. I don't know. I

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Mike Padron: I guess, you know what, I'll volunteer to go over there and I'll Start polling them all.

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Mike Padron: Just talking to them all. Let's let's do it.

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Jesse Stakes: Lot less.

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Blakely: They lost 250 years ago. I call it the British Open. I call it soccer. What am I going to do? Yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: Cheers to that. And on that note, boys, what you drinking? Blakely?

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Blakely: I went back with a little Aqua Nearest, it's mixed with a couple of different fruits in here today, so…

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Jesse Stakes: Charging it up today.

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Jesse Stakes: Patroni?

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Mike Padron: I got a barrel seagrass Rye whiskey. Finished in Martinique rum and apricot brandy barrels. 119 proof.

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Mike Padron: So…

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Jesse Stakes: One night.

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Mike Padron: 119. My head hits the desk at some point during this.

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Mike Padron: Sorry.

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Jesse Stakes: We'll blame it, we'll blame it on the wisp.

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Mike Padron: Exactly.

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Jesse Stakes: So, I'm drinking… it's a Breckenridge bourbon whiskey. It's from Colorado. It is, it's out of my whiskeys from around the world. I decided to try it again, Mike. I dove back into the box, so

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Jesse Stakes: That's the the baby bottle right there.

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Mike Padron: There you go.

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Blakely: What do you think of it?

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Jesse Stakes: I'm I'm I'm about to tell you here.

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Blakely: Cheers.

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Jesse Stakes: Not bad, not bad at all, it's a, it's a little, little scotchy, like to me, like that's how I would

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Jesse Stakes: Umm.

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Jesse Stakes: describe it. It doesn't have that same kind of sweet taste from, like, a bourbon from Kentucky, or kind of from the southeast. It's got a little bit more of a… like, what I would consider, like, a scotch taste to it.

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Mike Padron: There you go.

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Mike Padron: Nice.

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Jesse Stakes: So, the British Open, the Open Championship, it's… it really does have kind of a unique identity, being that it's the… it's the first. You know, what… what is… like, what does it mean to you, Mike? Like, as far as, like, does it… like, does it have a certain identity to you? Is there something you think about when it… when it comes around?

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Mike Padron: I mean, I think besides the Masters, it has

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Mike Padron: the… I think it's one of the ones that has a true identity. And maybe it's because, as Americans, we don't see this kind of style of golf, rarely ever.

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Mike Padron: To me, and I've said this in previous podcasts, it's my second favorite major. If you throw in the players, which I always do, it's my third. I love links golf.

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Mike Padron: I think it… it's just so different from anything we're ever used to.

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Mike Padron: Anytime we try to play these American lengthy style courses, I try to play, as much as I can. So I think it does have a true identity. You can, you know, you're.

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Mike Padron: as Americans over here, you're waking up early, you're putting it on early in the morning, it's… you're seeing these guys getting blown around with the wind, they've got hoodies on, they've got jackets on, they've, you know…

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Mike Padron: there's the Gorse in the back. I mean, it's just got this feel and look to it that you just don't ever get to see, so I think it's definitely got an identity that we're just… it's just so different from what we're used to, and I think that's the major part of it that I just… I'm drawn to it.

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Jesse Stakes: Yep.

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Jesse Stakes: Blakely, what are you, like, what about you? Like, is there something about it that, that you, that you like? Is it something that, that's attractive.

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Blakely: Well, you know.

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Blakely: since we've been doing this podcast around the majors and stuff, I, you know, started thinking about it a little more, because originally I was just kind of like, oh, you know, the British, it's one of the four. But, like, the more I think about it.

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Blakely: I find it really cool.

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Blakely: One of the reasons is because of what Mike said. It's completely different than what I go out and play normally. Even like how you guys said, when we go to some courses that I'm like, oh, this visually is setting up like a links to me. It's not even the same, you know, as you said, as somebody who's been there before. And then I always think of.

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Blakely: Just like cold, bad weather, like not prime conditions. And if that makes me think like, I mean, I know I'm a.

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Blakely: Kind of a a sicko at times with golf, but can you imagine, like, in the late 1800s.

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Blakely: going out in the squalls that they have coming in and playing golf and… in all your coats and jackets. I couldn't… I mean, these guys are…

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Mike Padron: Yes.

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Jesse Stakes: Don't forget your tie, yeah.

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Blakely: Yeah, I mean, it's insane that they're out there in these conditions playing golf. And so it's something that's intriguing to me, for sure.

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Blakely: But what…

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Jesse Stakes: like, 4 guys on the continent that were playing, I mean, it's like old Tom Morris, his son, you know.

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Blakely: Yes.

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Jesse Stakes: And two of their friends.

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay.

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Blakely: But, like, the creativity that comes up,

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Blakely: over there is intriguing to me, too. Like, I get creative on the golf course, but that's only because I'm in the woods, and, you know, there's lots of different pathways you can take out of the trees to get back to the fairway. But over there, I mean, they're in the middle of the fairway.

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Blakely: And it's like, oh, OK, I'm going to put it all the way over here on the right, up and around that slope, and let it come down over that hill, and it'll nestle by the hole. And it's just like, wow. It's pretty cool. You get to see some cool stuff.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt, no doubt. I, it's one of the things I like.

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Jesse Stakes: I don't know if you've ever think about it when you're when we think about other sports like like Mike and I grew up playing baseball and like it's like you think about like.

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Jesse Stakes: baseball's an American sport. It's inherently American, but really, golf is inherently European. Like, that's where it originated from. It originated from this area, and it's like… one of the things I think about is that it was almost impossible or incredibly difficult for Americans to even get to this championship

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Jesse Stakes: For years. I mean, you're talking about, I mean, until it was like, until air travel became something very commonplace, people were taking like, you know, steam engine ships over there to try to get to this championship if they wanted to play in it. So when a guy like Bobby Jones went over to the British Open and played it, I mean, it was a lot of work to even get there to do so.

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Jesse Stakes: Like, so I, I mean, I think that that's something that's inherently unique about this compared to anything else that we consider a major here in this, you know, in our country, is just how, how difficult it was to even attend it in the original.

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Jesse Stakes: Years that this was played, I mean, that's different now. I mean, it's the world is a very small place in today's world. But I mean, at that point in time, when you look at the 1st 50 years of that championship or 30 something years of that championship, it's pretty impressive for the commitment that it took for Americans to even go over there and try to compete.

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Blakely: That's true.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I can't imagine when they first got over there what, what they thought when they stepped up to those, you know, first few tees and they're like, what in the hell is this wind doing? I mean, and then they get to another second tee and the wind's doing something completely different or now it's raining and they get to the third one, now the sun's out. It's like, they're used to being nestled in the pines of Georgia, you know, and it's like.

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Mike Padron: I can't imagine back in those days what they were, you know, when they got out there and started playing in those conditions, what it was.

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Mike Padron: But, you know, Blakely said something that was actually perfect, creativity. I mean, that…

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Mike Padron: that's true, that's something that's gonna bring out to you that others around here don't. I mean, you're just… you're having to adjust every round. Like, I can come out here and play this course at my home course, and I'm pretty much playing the same clubs, the same shot.

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Mike Padron: almost every single time, again, unless I'm in the woods or, you know, I'm somewhere I'm not supposed to be, but you can pretty much bank on them playing the same shots every single time, where you could play the exact same course.

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Mike Padron: every single day of the week in the same holes, and you're probably playing something… some sort of shot different every single time you play that hole. That's crazy to me, to think that, just because Mother Nature's gonna just decide, alright, this is how you're gonna play this hole today. That's… that's awesome to me.

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Jesse Stakes: No, I agree with you 100%, and it's… I think in… unless you've been in that situation, even, like, you play Kiowa, I think, you know, I think about Kiowa, because that's one of the few courses that I've ever gotten to play where the wind is literally blowing, you know, kind of what you just described from a weather perspective, that's… I think that's the closest that I've seen here in the United States, where it

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Jesse Stakes: You could be hitting a, you could be hitting 3 wood.

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Jesse Stakes: pitching wedge, and then the next… like, if you're… if you're the next group through, and if the winds change direction, then you're hitting… you're hitting driver 5-iron. I mean, it's, like… I don't think we get an… we don't get much.

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Mike Padron: No.

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Mike Padron: I mean, you get Texas Wedge every once in a while, but that's about as close as you get to what a lengthy golf selection would be.

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Jesse Stakes: And.

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Jesse Stakes: Do you think, like, as far as, like, I mean, when we talk about the golf course, like, they're playing it at Royal Birkdale this year, and, I mean, Royal Birkdale has, well, I think, hosted 11.

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Blakely: Maybe 11.

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Jesse Stakes: This will be the 11th, like, so, I mean, it's, there's a, it's, it's kind of, you get maybe, like, like you said, sans the masters, like, this is one of the few.

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Jesse Stakes: Open, or excuse me, the Open Championship, they have a rotation of very similar courses all the time. Blakely, do you think that that, I mean, do you think it's kind of horses for courses? Do you think that you'll see a lot of the same names from the last time they played at Royal Berkdale, or do you think the fact that it is so

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Jesse Stakes: You know that that Mother Nature plays such a huge impact in it. Do you think that that kind of nullifies that that horses for courses theory?

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Blakely: Well, I mean, I think it's still being a guy that hasn't played over there a real Winks course. It doesn't matter.

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Blakely: What — I mean, it doesn't matter how far you hit it. Like Mike said, there's different shots from the same spot, depending upon the weather, depending upon the course conditions.

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Blakely: That they're gonna have to play over there. I think that you will see people who play the Lynx course as well, so some former champions, people who did well this last week at the Genesis, those are the people I'm looking at.

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Blakely: Some people's game just doesn't set up well for it. Not that they're not creative, but they just… it just doesn't set up well for it.

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Jesse Stakes: Mike, what do you think.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I mean, I just think, if you look at the history, when's the last time they played there? Was it, it wasn't.

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Jesse Stakes: 17.

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Blakely: 2017.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, it was okay. I'm like, I saw 17 with speed. I'm like, there's no way they haven't played since.

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Jesse Stakes: 10 years ago now.

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Mike Padron: Yeah. Yeah. So, I think the course, from what I read, I think has changed since then. Even Spieth, I think, commented about that. So I think…

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Mike Padron: I don't think you can look back at the history.

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Jesse Stakes: Completely redesigned five holes is what it is. Like, I think there's five, like there was, there were five, five holes that were redesigned. They increased, like they tried to increase the variety on the par threes. Like it's, I think a lot of the other stuff that they did was like adding drainage and things like that, that were just kind of modernizing the course.

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Mike Padron: And was that the one where he, he like.

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Mike Padron: Hit it into, like, the practice range, and then…

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Mike Padron: And then he just… a miraculous shot back into play, and then he ended up going, like, 5 under… like, he just…

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Mike Padron: Went like five under or something the last five holes or something or something crazy like that on the way in. Yeah. Again, if he was at his top form, I'd say, yeah, horse for the course, he's going to do well. Although he, in an interview recently, he was saying that he's going to do better than people are going to give him credit for.

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Blakely: I feel like it's gonna be.

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Mike Padron: I think he's gonna do well. I'm not gonna pick him, but I think he's gonna do well. I may not do… I may not pick him in my picks, but I'm gonna put a little money on him, because you kind of have to.

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Mike Padron: he's one of those that just kind of steps up every once in a while. He's played well enough this year where he can do it. I don't think you look at the… more for the course kind of guys, I think you look more for the style of play, is what I look at. You know, a lot of the…

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Mike Padron: Europeans and the, you know, English guys, Scottish guys, guys are used to playing in this kind of format. Although you had a Korean win last week, so I don't know, that kind of throws everything out the window. So.

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Blakely: One other thing — one other thing we were talking about is weather plays a pretty big role. I was looking at — I think I saw it on —

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Blakely: and it's live from the Open, or whatever's on the Golf Channel, it's gonna be, like, warmer

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Blakely: It's not gonna be that typical, like, cold… I don't think it's supposed to really rain, but it's still supposed to be pretty windy.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, there were guys wearing shorts during the practice rounds.

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Blakely: Yeah, which is crazy. And, you know, they say.

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Blakely: some people say that wind plays more of a factor than rain, and I mean, so it's still gonna be whipping around, so I think that the guys who are, like Mike said, are over there in Europe, play over there a lot more, experience these types of conditions, they probably have a leg up.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, I mean, I think I saw a comment somewhere where they said that Royal Birkdale is the, they consider it the fairest of the open venues just because a lot of this, there's not blind shots. They've got, they don't experience a ton of like kind of freaky bounces or anything like that on the course. And they feel like, I mean, I think the quote I heard was that if you hit a good shot, you get a good result, essentially. So.

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, it kind of favors whoever's playing really well, who's sharp, and I mean, it's hard not to look at who did well last week in the Scottish Open and say, these guys, you know, those are the guys that you gotta have, you know, kind of lean towards being favorites.

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Blakely: Yep.

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Mike Padron: And, like in anybody, anything else over there, whoever stays out of these bunkers. I mean…

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Mike Padron: Some of these bunkers, you're basically just… it's a penalty shot. I mean, you're… there's not a lot of water, there's not a lot of trees, there's not anything like that

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Mike Padron: I mean, it's going to be, if you're in one, some of these, you're going straight out sideways. Basically, you're just laying up to the right and you're playing it again. And this one, I believe, has a ton of bunkers and some deep ones too, from what I've seen. No doubt. Just on TV, but it's just, you know.

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Mike Padron: That's another… that's another thing that…

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Mike Padron: You know, it may look like it's all right there in front of you, but you put the ball in the wrong spot, it's… you're in trouble quickly.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no doubt. You know, I think it's… one of the interesting parts is it seems like this is one of the only…

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Jesse Stakes: tournaments, or this is, like, when they start changing style of play, this is where you see a lot of players kind of alter their equipment as well. Maybe not everybody, but there are players that try to, you know, gain an advantage, or kind of improve their chances by improving their bag setup.

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Jesse Stakes: Like, is… like, what do you guys think about that? I mean, do you think these… I mean, do you think it's a legit help? Like, as far as, like, with what technology and what equipment can do today, as far as helping these guys compete

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Jesse Stakes: Better when it comes to, you know, different types of courses, Blakely?

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Blakely: Yeah, I mean, I think — like I was saying, it's not about who's hitting the long shot. It's about who can get creative with the clubs they have. I think you see a lot of people going with more driving irons off the tees, trying to keep it low, especially if the wind is going to be like 25 miles an hour. And as Mike mentioned.

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Blakely: it's coming this way on one hole, two holes later, it's going completely opposite, or maybe now it's going across the fairway. So I think you see a lot of people, opting for more, like, driving irons, and then,

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Blakely: Using like maybe different lofted wedges because like you said, it's hard as concrete. You need something to get it up and sit it down soft.

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Blakely: One thing that I was looking at.

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Blakely: I know that we… we don't talk much on here about balls, but when we're hanging out and playing, you know, we're talking about balls. But, like.

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Blakely: If you're trying to get these rollouts, playing the ball short, letting it roll up to the green, are they… would a tour player switch to something that didn't have as much spin?

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Blakely: I know, like, around the greens, they want to be able to control everything, but they're trying to let balls roll out. Is that something that they would maybe opt for? Something that spins a little less?

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Mike Padron: I don't.

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Mike Padron: I think they've just been playing the same ball for so long and did so much testing. I don't know if just

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Mike Padron: They would risk it, maybe?

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Blakely: Yeah, yeah, you.

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Mike Padron: Maybe just superstitiously? I mean, it makes sense.

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Jesse Stakes: So artificial intelligence answered me, and they say tour players do not routinely switch balls for the British Open. In recent years, such changes have been extremely rare.

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Blakely: Okay.

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Mike Padron: I mean, I guess they.

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Blakely: Work with those balls so much, they know how to hit it to make it not spin.

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Mike Padron: They know their dist… that's the thing, though, they know their distances, they know their spin rates.

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Mike Padron: I don't know if they would consider doing that, but it makes sense.

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Jesse Stakes: This is kind of interesting, though.

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Mike Padron: Bryson would, probably.

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Blakely: Yeah, he would. He'd be the first, yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: So historically, before the ball was sized, like had a standard size in 1990, many players would switch to a smaller low spin quote unquote British ball that would handle wind in firmer lengths conditions, kind of like what you're saying. Yeah. Like they said, Johnny Miller in 1976 used a two piece ball to maximize distance into the wind.

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Jesse Stakes: And then… but however, it says, with the modern solid core ball already spinning lower than the old British ball, most pros now stick with the same ball that they've been trained on and fitted with their clubs. So…

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Blakely: There you go.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmhm.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I would say on equipment-wise, I would think a lot would switch out maybe some of their higher lofted wedges.

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Mike Padron: And maybe bring in, like you said, a driving iron, or something that…

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Mike Padron: you know, off the fairway, or off the tee box, but you've got to hit the fairways. I mean, it's gonna… it's gonna reward

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Mike Padron: Your, your fairway hits and you're still gonna have, you're still gonna be having hits and fairways and get out, stay out of the bunkers and stay out of the.

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Mike Padron: you know, rough, or fescue, or whatever they call it over there. Yeah. So, I see a lot of… I see some of those higher lofted wedges probably out of there. Maybe? Maybe some just leave everything the way it is, just keep going.

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Jesse Stakes: I think that one of the biggest things that they talk about people changing is their bounces on their wedges as far as like, you know, don't opt in for much lower bounce wedges because the turf is so hard and.

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Jesse Stakes: the ball isn't eating through, like, you know, like, just slicing through the turf like it does over here in the United States. So I think that that's… that is a big difference, I think, for a lot of those guys. They may not change the setup as far as what loft wedge is or anything, but they… I think a lot of them change their bounce setup.

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Blakely: That would make sense.

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Jesse Stakes: The other thing that I've seen or that they talk that I've heard people talking about is like as far as just adding.

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Jesse Stakes: Lead tape to their putters because you're talking about much slower greens over there, so instead of changing their putter or anything else, and they may add some, you know, I mean, in today's setup, you can change weights and stuff like that, but a lot of putter, a lot of people like Tiger Woods would add, used to add lead tape to the back of

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Jesse Stakes: Like, for… like, when he would go to the British Open for a lot of these slower greens.

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Jesse Stakes: Awesome.

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Mike Padron: That's interesting.

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Blakely: Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmhm.

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Jesse Stakes: One of the things I think is kind of interesting, like, when you're talking about, like, driving irons, you're talking about all of these things, because you're 100% right, like, you look at, like, I think you brought up Bryson DeChambeau, and, like, Bryson's a tinkerer, Bryson changes stuff, hell, he changes stuff every tourn

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Jesse Stakes: Like, you look at a guy like Tiger Woods, and Tiger Woods would sit there, I mean, my god, I mean, he would just take what he had and made it, he made it work the way he wanted it to, and granted, he is Tiger Woods, I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying that guys should be Tiger Woods, but it is impressive, like, when you think about, like, the people that would essentially…

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Jesse Stakes: fit their game to the course, rather than trying to, you know, trying to gain an advantage through equipment, even though it's… I mean, we've seen very successful, very good players do it, like, throughout, you know, throughout the history. I mean, I think about Mickelson with two drivers at Augusta, winning Augusta with different bag setups at different times, too.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I mean, who was it? Doesn't Fleetwood have two drivers, or here's a Minneana dri.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, I think so. A mini inter driver.

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Jesse Stakes: Well, speaking of that, like, do you guys have, like, any, any storylines that you're excited about? Any, anybody that you're kind of, you know, like, not trying to upset anybody's picks here, but just, like, anything that you're kind of, that you're interested in going into this as far as individual player storylines?

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Mike Padron: I think… I got two. I got, one, let's see how Scotty bounces back from his first miscut.

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Blakely: Yah.

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Mike Padron: I'm sure he'll just come back and win.

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Mike Padron: But it's interesting, you know, how many was 78?

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Mike Padron: And just see, and he didn't play bad. I mean, he wasn't, it was just a very, very low scoring tournament. And then the other one is Wyndham.

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Mike Padron: What a year he's having.

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Mike Padron: And,

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Mike Padron: See if he can just keep this up and just keep playing the way he's been playing,

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Mike Padron: He's, he's interesting to see if he just continues to go, you know.

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Mike Padron: the way he's been doing it. Interested in both of those guys. And maybe he'll have more cheers in the UK than he did in the United States.

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Mike Padron: Yes.

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Blakely: I don't know about the latter part, but I do think, Wyndham is, his arrow is pointing up. I mean, the guy's playing good golf,

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Blakely: You know, at some point, people gotta let it go, you know?

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Mike Padron: Oh.

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Blakely: And just let, you know, just watch them play well and celebrate it. So that is something interesting to look at. I honestly…

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Blakely: And this is probably going to be played all over the golf channel. But like, I want to see what Spieth does. I know he won here 10 years ago.

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Blakely: I like to see him around. I want to see him winning again. He's, and if not that, at least hit it all over the course and still make par. You know, he's interesting to watch. And so I would like to see how he does.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no, I think so. I mean, I would, all of that sounds interesting to me as well.

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Jesse Stakes: Bryson DeChambeau has done terrible in all the majors, he's missed all the cuts. I mean, it's almost like… I'll take it either way, like, either come out and…

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Jesse Stakes: play as well as you possibly can, or go out there like a blaze of glory and miss the fourth cut for the year. Either way.

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Mike Padron: He might as well, he might as well go for 4.

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Blakely: I'd like to see if he comes out in his old hat, you know, since he's playing in England.

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Mike Padron: There you go, right.

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Mike Padron: Tommy winning his first major out in his home country would be cool.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, that would.

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Blakely: That'd be awesome.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, or you get Aaron Rywin in another one there, Mike.

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Blakely: I think we can all forego that.

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Mike Padron: Oh, man. Marin ride. It's going to be spiff.

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Jesse Stakes: Scott, that'd be cool. If it was.

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Blakely: It'd be awesome.

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Jesse Stakes: It would be pretty cool.

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, I… The guy just hasn't put together 4 rounds in a long time.

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Blakely: Longer.

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Jesse Stakes: It's been years now.

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, I kind of think, you know, it's crazy because, honestly, people talk about Brooks Koepka and how much, like, kind of, like, how he's had a, you know.

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Jesse Stakes: Brooks Koepka… it hasn't… it hadn't been long ago that Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship, and so, I mean, to me, I figure that guy's just a matter of time. Like, he's just… I mean

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Blakely: I mean, but it's all how you look at it and how it gets delivered to us by, like, the golf media, because — oh!

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Blakely: Hello!

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Jesse Stakes: Mmm.

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Michael Shelton: Hold on.

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Blakely: There you go, you're off mute.

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Michael Shelton: Good.

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Mike Padron: There we go.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay.

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Blakely: The sound travels slower from Canada than.

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Jesse Stakes: Shelton, thanks for joining us.

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Michael Shelton: Hold on, I can't.

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Jesse Stakes: I don't need to I don't need to know that Hum.

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Blakely: Can you hear now?

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Blakely: Hello?

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Jesse Stakes: You're just giving me more editing to do.

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Blakely: What I was saying, though, was,

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Blakely: Oh, my God.

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Mike Padron: No, he's gonna edit all this out.

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Blakely: Oh.

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Mike Padron: I would.

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Blakely: Keep going.

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Mike Padron: Oh, okay. All right.

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Michael Shelton: All right.

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Mike Padron: Alright, let's leave.

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Mike Padron: Fuck it, we're going.

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Blakely: Can you hear it.

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Michael Shelton: I can hear now. I feel like that's a lot of good stuff. What's going on, boys.

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Mike Padron: Yeah.

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Blakely: Not much, man. How are you?

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Michael Shelton: Full. Just ate a lot of pakana at the Brazilian Steakhouse here in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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Jesse Stakes: Why? Like, why would you go up there and eat Bra.

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Mike Padron: Really good.

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Michael Shelton: Because I have a 13-year-old son that can… just likes to eat.

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Mike Padron: Is it one of those places where you, the little padd.

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Michael Shelton: Yep.

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Mike Padron: Oh, sweet.

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Blakely: Yeah, I always have to take a nap afterwards.

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Michael Shelton: The steak was up there with the reunion steak from a few years ago.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmm.

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Michael Shelton: Do you remember Padron?

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Jesse Stakes: What, so what is net, like, what is, like, are you on the Tor

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Jesse Stakes: Are you on the American side?

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Michael Shelton: We are on the Toronto side.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay, so what is, what is like, I guess, like, culturally, like, native food to Toronto? I don't even know.

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Blakely: Poutine, baby.

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Michael Shelton: Poutine, baby!

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, fries and bullshit.

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Michael Shelton: Fries and gravy.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay.

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Michael Shelton: Have you ever seen Super Troopers?

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Blakely: How are you?

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Michael Shelton: Yeah, almost made it.

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Jesse Stakes: Now!

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Michael Shelton: Let me go ahead on real quick so you don't have to see this mop.

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Blakely: It looks good, man.

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Jesse Stakes: Yes.

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Michael Shelton: Longer than yours!

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Blakely: Yeah, everybody says it doesn't take much.

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Mike Padron: Not everybody.

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Jesse Stakes: So Shelton, we were, that's true. So Shelton, we were just talking about kind of what, you know, like people you're looking forward to watching, like things that you're kind of excited about, like whether it's individual player stories or just overall stories for this British Open.

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Michael Shelton: I think I've said it before, and it may be sacrilege here in the US with the Masters and TBC, but this is my favorite golf tournament to watch. I love Lynx golf.

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Michael Shelton: Other than the fact it comes on at 1 in the morning, and I don't get to watch most of it, but it's just a whole different game of golf. Like, you hit a great shot, you're penalized. You hit a terrible shot, you're rewarded.

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Michael Shelton: and then just going in to see how these European guys do over there, like.

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Michael Shelton: When we get to the picks in a little bit, I don't know how much has been discuss

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Michael Shelton: This is my… I love watching this tournament.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no, I think it's I mean, it's it's definitely unique. It's definitely it's definitely different than everything else that we get to see throughout the

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Jesse Stakes: You know, and I'm gonna mention this, I don't think we have to belabor this point, but I think it's kind of, it's impressive. So.

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Jesse Stakes: The 2017 Open that was at Royal Berkdale. 2017, they had 235,000 spectators.

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Jesse Stakes: This week they are planning on having for the 2026 open.

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Jesse Stakes: They are planning to have over 300,000 spectators on the grounds at Royal Birkdale.

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, that's pretty impressive. I mean, that's a lot. I mean, it was a lot of people to move in the first place, but think about having to house those spectators, having to bring those people onto the grounds, like, you know, have available hotel rooms, have, you know, as far as like that tourism impact, think about how freaking amazing that is for that area as far as what kind of an economic impact that's going to have on them.

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Mike Padron: Do you know how many people live there?

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Jesse Stakes: Not that many.

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Mike Padron: 90,000.

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Mike Padron: Yes.

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Mike Padron: I mean, that sounds.

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Mike Padron: Yeah. 90,000 people live there, 200… I mean, 300-plus are visiting. What, 250-plus million in revenue that they'll bring in?

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Mike Padron: I mean, it's cool. I also saw something about the RNA has a, and it's been… maybe that's why they've been back 11 times. They have an open legacy fund.

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Mike Padron: For Southport.

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Mike Padron: And over the years, they've been doing improvements for that town, and the R&A has established this fund. They've done, like.

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Mike Padron: peer projects, they've done job trainings, community facilities, everything for that town over these last however many years, and that all comes from money from this. So it's an ongoing… they're constantly improving Southport and everything to do with that city, so it's… I mean, they just…

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Mike Padron: constantly make money from and improve because of this one tournament. It's really, really cool to see.

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Blakely: That is neat.

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Jesse Stakes: There's a 6% increase in their home values after the 2017 open. Like literally the people who live in Southport saw an immediate 6% increase in their housing values. Pretty cool.

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Mike Padron: Bam.

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Mike Padron: That is cool. More than COVID.

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Jesse Stakes: So when I was in Adair last summer, like they're having the, they're having the Ryder Cup in 2028 and, or 27,

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Jesse Stakes: Excuse me. So, they were actually building roads, building infrastructure, so that they could support the amount of people that are going to be coming into Adair. So, it's like, you think about any of these small towns, where they have 90,000 people, or whatever it is, like.

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Jesse Stakes: they've got to literally plan on these things and rebuild their infrastructure, create things to support the amount of people that they're bringing in for these championships. I mean, it's a boon for them, from all different directions.

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Jesse Stakes: Speechless, I think.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay.

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Blakely: I mean, they probably get tourism after, too, right?

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Jesse Stakes: Oh, no doubt. Think about it. You want to go, I mean, anywhere that's a, that's not a private course where you can't play it.

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Blakely: Yeah. You're gonna get… I mean, because they're about to be, like, the center of golf, you know.

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Jesse Stakes: You're gonna get idiots like us that want to book travel and go play.

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Blakely: Yeah,

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Michael Shelton: Or diagram.

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Mike Padron: Yep.

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Michael Shelton: They've done it pretty, they've done it pretty good from what I can.

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Blakely: Yeah, okay.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmhm.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmhm Yeah, I mean, until somebody digs a trench and builds a better… builds a better,

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Jesse Stakes: Waterfall, I think they got a corner on that market.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, they do.

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Michael Shelton: They do.

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Jesse Stakes: So, okay.

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Jesse Stakes: For from y'all's perspective,

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Jesse Stakes: One thing that you're looking before we go to picks, I'll ask you guys all this. One thing that you're looking forward to the most about this week and watching it.

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Jesse Stakes: Doesn't have to be a player, doesn't have to be a story, but just something that you

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Jesse Stakes: Blakely, I'll go.

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Blakely: Well.

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Jesse Stakes: You're deep in thought.

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Blakely: Yeah, that's just because I never know what's going on.

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Michael Shelton: Oh.

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Blakely: The, I mean, so look, I just go back to the creativity. The one thing I'm looking forward to is seeing those shots that's like… I didn't see that. When I looked at where this guy's ball landed, I didn't see that you could attack the pin that way. I always…

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Blakely: Because for some reason, I have this affinity for Cam Smith, go back to…

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Jesse Stakes: No, no, no.

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Blakely: One championship where he was,

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Blakely: just a wizard off the fringe and around the greens. He hit a lot of shots that, seemed impossible. I remember he was putting it up and over around a bunker and down to the flag. He hit it within, like, 2 feet or something silly like that. Yeah, he made him.

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Jesse Stakes: Make yourself a fan for life.

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Blakely: Yeah, yeah. I'm out there on the end of his dock on Tuesdays.

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Jesse Stakes: Copy.

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Blakely: Whatever comes out. But yeah, so that's… I'm just looking forward to that.

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Jesse Stakes: Shelton, what about you? What are you looking forward to.

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Michael Shelton: just to see how these guys play the course. Like Blakely just said, I remember Cam Smith being on, was it 17 or 18, at St. Andrews, and having to putt up, and just give himself a chance to make the 20-foot putt. See how these guys manage the course. Tiger.

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Michael Shelton: What… what year was that?

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Michael Shelton: when he never hit a single bunker the whole entire week, are you gonna try to use your distance and take advantage of everything, or are you just gonna try to play the shots and see what happens? I think that is the most unique thing about this tournament.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt. Sheldon, what you drinking? I gotta ask after.

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Michael Shelton: I am drinking a…

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Blakely: Bye.

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Michael Shelton: Ernest Growler Hazy IPA.

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Jesse Stakes: Nice. Padron.

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Mike Padron: Sorry, I was a little distracted during those answers, because Jack Caglione here is… Hitting 477 foot home runs.

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Mike Padron: Absolute monster. Sorry.

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Mike Padron: I'm looking forward to Aaron Rai playing in front of his home crowd.

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Mike Padron: I want to see that man go off this weekend.

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Jesse Stakes: Nice.

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Mike Padron: What are these two gloves?

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Jesse Stakes: My favorite thing, what I'm looking forward to, and what I always look forward to, is being able to wake up in the morning, flip the TV on, and major championship golf is on my television. That's my absolute favorite thing about this week, is that…

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Jesse Stakes: there's something cool to watch right when I wake up, whether it's, you know, watch it for an hour or two before I go to work, or if it's on the weekend and you can watch it till 2 in the afternoon, whatever it is, it's… that's… that's my favorite thing about this week, every time. Doesn't matter what happens on the course.

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Mike Padron: That is pretty cool. I do like that a lot.

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Jesse Stakes: All right, with that, boys, I'm going to turn it over to you.

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Mike Padron: Yes, sir. All right.

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Mike Padron: Hold on. Sorry.

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Mike Padron: Okay, so… I shrunk my lead, but I'm still in it.

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Jesse Stakes: Nice.

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Mike Padron: Where are the leads here? Oh, the 3.996 million.

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Mike Padron: Jesse's in second, 3.408. Blakely in third with… 2.890.

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Mike Padron: Shelton and Forth at.

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Mike Padron: 2.287, and Wes… at 2.071, so he'll pick first, and he's gonna pick Scotty Scheffler with his first pick.

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Mike Padron: And, I already had Shelton's pick written down, but he can pick whoever he wants now.

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Michael Shelton: I will stick with the pick and go with Rory McIlroy.

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Mike Padron: There you go. Sweet.

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Mike Padron: And Blakely, you're up next. If you need to know who you can't pick, let me know.

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Blakely: Oh yeah, toss that out.

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Mike Padron: You cannot pick Rosie. You can't pick Matsuyama. You cannot pick Oberg. You can't pick Fleetwood.

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Mike Padron: Rory or Xander?

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Blakely: Alright, well, I'.

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Michael Shelton: is available.

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Blakely: It's a little bit of bullshit that I don't get to have Scottie Scheffler this year.

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Blakely: And I will say.

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Blakely: Fitzpatrick.

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Michael Shelton: Which one?

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Blakely: Which one?

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Blakely: I mean, I love his brother, but I'm going with Matt. I want the skin.

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Mike Padron: There you go, all right.

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Mike Padron: Jessica?

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Jesse Stakes: I'm taking Tommy Fleetwood.

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Mike Padron: Tell me.

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Mike Padron: Make sure you're good there. Yeah, you got Bryson Fitz.

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Mike Padron: Rory Rum.

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Mike Padron: Brooks and Hatton.

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Mike Padron: So I cannot pick Rahm, I can't pick Oberg.

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Mike Padron: Where am I here?

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Mike Padron: Bryce and JT. JT was clutch for me that day.

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Mike Padron: Scheffler or Reid.

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Mike Padron: Boo.

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Mike Padron: I am going… I got back to back, didn't I.

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Jesse Stakes: Thank you.

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Mike Padron: I cannot pick Obert, I already picked him, so… I'm gonna go Bobby Mack.

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Jesse Stakes: Like that one.

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Michael Shelton: Damn it.

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Mike Padron: And.

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Mike Padron: Did I already pick him?

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Mike Padron: I have not.

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Mike Padron: And… Terrell Hatton.

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Blakely: Oh.

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Blakely: Getting real European.

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Mike Padron: It's in my blood.

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Mike Padron: Huh, not really, but… All right, we're going to go hatting and Who was it? Augnath.

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Mike Padron: So back to stakes.

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Jesse Stakes: I'm gonna take the Jersey Shore monster himself, Chris Gotterup.

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Blakely: He looked good.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, he does.

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Mike Padron: Got her up.

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Mike Padron: And, all right, back to,

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Mike Padron: Really quick.

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Blakely: Yeah, man, I'm thinking about getting crazy.

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Mike Padron: That's what I I probably should have gone safer, but… With the lead.

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Blakely: Did I already pick? Did I pick Wyndham? I mean, did someone already pick Wyndh.

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Mike Padron: No.

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Michael Shelton: I don't think he's been picked all year.

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Mike Padron: No.

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Blakely: It's, I mean, for me, it's between him and Spieth. I feel good about Spieth, but like.

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Blakely: He's gonna probably miss the cut. So, I'm gonna rage with Wyndham, man.

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Mike Padron: All right, you got it.

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Mike Padron: I mean, you can't, you can't deny the streak he's on, man.

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Blakely: Yeah, it's just arrows pointing up.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, he's playing well.

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Mike Padron: Alright, Sheldon.

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Michael Shelton: The lockers are probably worried about them, but that's a whole different story.

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Blakely: Yes.

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Michael Shelton: I guess…

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Michael Shelton: I will go… Cam Young.

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Mike Padron: Cam Young is yours.

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Blakely: Oh my lord.

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Mike Padron: So… So Wes ends up with… Scotty?

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Mike Padron: And ROM.

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Jesse Stakes: Could be really good or really bad. Yeah, yeah.

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Mike Padron: Really good.

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Michael Shelton: Couldn't all these things be really good or really bad?

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Mike Padron: That's true. All right, so to wrap it up, Wes got Scotty and Ram, Shelton, Rory, and Cam Young, Blakely, Fitz, and Wyndham.

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Mike Padron: stakes Tommy and Godder up, and I went with Bobby Mack and Terrell Hatton.

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Mike Padron: Good deal. You gotta get an, you gotta get an English boy in there.

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Michael Shelton: Cam earlier. Sorry, I think I picked Cam earlier. I had the wrong Cam.

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Blakely: You want Cam Smith?

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Michael Shelton: No.

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Mike Padron: Oh.

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Jesse Stakes: Fair.

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Michael Shelton: I'll have to go. Victor Hovland.

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Mike Padron: Victor Havlin, I like.

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Jesse Stakes: That dude's been hanging out at hockey games high as hell.

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Blakely: Yeah, that guy is, he is zooted.

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Jesse Stakes: Okay.

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Blakely: 100% of the time.

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Mike Padron: I like, on a side note, I like Rosie this week, too.

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Blakely: I know, I wish I could take…

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Michael Shelton: He was on my list.

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Mike Padron: I had to do any, I had to get one Englishman in there. I just, I had to go Hat

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Mike Padron: All right, bye.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, boys.

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Mike Padron: That's it for me.

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Jesse Stakes: I enjoyed it. Everybody cheers. Enjoy the week.

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Mike Padron: Appreciate it, man.

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Jesse Stakes: Shelton don't go down the falls in a.

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Michael Shelton: He already did, right?

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Blakely: He already did it.

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Michael Shelton: Somewhere, I was trying to add it to my profile picture, but we couldn't figure it out in time.

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Jesse Stakes: Cheers, boys.

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Mike Padron: Cheers.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, we'll catch you guys down the road.

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Blakely: This is him going down a barrel.

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Jesse Stakes: Hmm.

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Blakely: All right, later.