Team Golf Rules! Zurich Preview / HHI Recap

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And we are live. Yes, we are. Welcome back. Two weeks in a row. Two weeks in a row. Look at us go. It is golf season. Well, you know, they say it doesn't start until the back nine at Augusta, but the golf season doesn't really start until Augusta. Yeah. They say there are warm-ups until major season, but no, look, every event counts. At least we've got some serious golf weather here. Golf is a loss. I think a lot of the courses I know experience a tough, tough winter, and so the transition into spring, you know, at least over at my track, has been a little bit tough, but I mean, fairways at San Jose are top notch. Greens are coming around. February was cold. January was glorious. This run of weather we've been on recently, though, has been so good. Yeah. I mean, can't ask. Y'all been playing at all? So I haven't played at all. You talked about... course is having a tough transition. I haven't been out to Pablo in a while. Your backswing to your downswing? Yeah, that one. Transitioning into a golfer. Been working a lot, but I was supposed to be, I thought I was in the member guest, but I'm first alternate. That stings, because you're not one that signs up every year for that member guest. We talked about this, and this is not any club in general. It should be a special exemption. It doesn't matter. Anyways, listen. It's tough being on the waitlist for something. We were talking about something else, though. But Rich Joseph played out there the other day and said the Greens were slick. Slick. Pontevedra hosted the Senior Am. They all have to be slick right now. Pontevedra's a quick, too. I played We played the other day, and they were almost in the Easter Cup, which was Keith Blades. There's about five clubs within a club at Ponte Vedra. You played in this? Blue Man Group, defending champion last year. Me and Chris Frankie won, so we get to play together. Everyone else is a blind draw. I think it was like six or eight teams. But the greens were that brown, and I love the brown. Yeah. I know you do. Love the green. We know that about you. So they were really quick, and it's good because obviously– They love you too. Everything's kind of firm and fast right now. There's an A player and a B player, so obviously the B players struggle more with the fast greens. It helps the better players. So it was– I did have a hole-in-one. Wait, you? Had a hole-in-one. Wait, like last– Last Friday. Where at? The hole that Matty Kelly lives. on the 13th. You can't, when the pin's on the front, you can't see it. Oh yeah, I know that one. It's the added hole. Yeah, it's like, we ran out of room, we gotta figure something out. Not a great hole, but it's there. In between the par 5s. How about this? Yeah, so it's 176, wind off the right, like not a funnel pin or anything. So I have a hole in one, didn't realize we'd get up there. Seventh one, great. So I was like, oh well. Just so you know, it was not a funnel pin. This was a hard one. Well, this is in the middle of the green. It wasn't like, it was, Anyway, so I was like, at least I'll win a skin today. I birdied the first and had a couple of bogeys. It was like one over and I was like, wasn't playing great. I was like, well, fuck, at least I'll win a skin. Wrong. Group behind. No way. It was not a final bid. I'm happy to tell you. No way. It was 176. Two hole-in-ones and you got top. How many groups played in this thing? Five? Six groups. I think it was six groups. Dude, that's nuts. Where was the card for a while? That is nuts. I did half my bar tab. In Australia, I feel like if you have a hole-in-one, everyone buys you a drink. like five, 10, nine, like a beautiful day to play golf. Yeah. But the guy, I was like, I should have just missed out on a skin, which was probably like a hundred bucks, but it did have my bar tab, which was good. Okay. And I did have the insurance. I guess I pay the MGA fee, which covers. So I got a three, three 50 credit. The bar tab was a little bit more than that, but, um, It was good. Lucky number seven. Seven real ones. Here's a debate. I've had two other ones. I had one practice round at Colonial and one just goofing around. Counts. Playing two balls on the third at Sawgrass. Two balls? I don't count them. Playing two ball, worst ball with someone else. Just don't count. All right, that's fine. So I've had seven. But do you count them in practice rounds? I had one in... You've got to be playing 18 holes to go. If it's your first shot on the hole. I had one in the practice round at the British Open one year. Royal Liverpool. On the postage stamp? I don't know. That's not there. Different course. I was playing with Billy and somebody else. But I'm counting that one. Hell yeah. I don't remember the whole of it. Well, seven, nine asterisks. I'm happy to go with seven. Like they said, how many have you had? The first thing out of my mouth is seven. It's not nine. I'm not trying to overreach. I don't know how many I've had. Seven proper ones. What about hole in threes? Hole in threes. Nice little par. Yeah, I've had a few pars. Yeah. Any other trusses, gentlemen? I've had a couple of those. albatross ones on four on a four on a four two i've had a two on five right yeah i've really only seen one albatross aj crouch really yeah he started san jose started birdie birdie albatross hit his next t-shot birdie birdie uh where's what's three three is par five Hooped it for, so he's one, two, he's five under, five under through three holes. Or water left, water left. Water left, and then he puts it in the drink off the tee on the fourth hole. I mean, it's striped, it's perfect. Talking of crazy scorecards, for the Australian listeners, there's a course, I think it's getting torn up, it's right by Sydney Airport, it's on the back, it's called Coggera. There's a famous scorecard, and it's a crazy course, six par three, six par four, six par fives, and the first two holes are par fives, then par four, then three, three. A guy started five, four, Three, two, one. No way. How about that for a start? That's awesome. And it's considerable. It's par birdie. Birdie, birdie, hole in one. There's nothing crazy crazy, but that's quite the scorecard. That should be inducted into the Guinness Book of Records or something. The golf last week. Which hill do you want to start with? Oh, what else do we have? The Punta Cana. Oh, Punta Cana. I didn't watch any of that. I worked the Hilton Head event. You and the great Ryan Burr. Now, that is a duo. I've had the pleasure of working with Ryan Burr, and he makes the day shorter. Is that a fair assessment? Yes. He's into it. He just makes an hour or two hours go so quick because he's just an entertaining dude. He is so entertaining. He's the best. He's so good. He's got a lot of shit stored up in that brain. And he just knows how to... A lot of non-golf too. He'll fuck with me on the air a little bit too. He knows how to needle me. I'll give it right back to him. But he's not scared at all. That is what that platform should be doing. We've talked about that tons. And that's, I think, great. I don't know if they ever asked for feedback from the consumer. I think it was either last year or the year before Memphis. I was on the ground. It was last year, I think. And we were talking about Elvis and what your favorite Elvis song was. And he goes to the other guy that was working with us. He's like... Let's just say it was Gary Christian. He's like, Gary, what's your favorite Elvis song? And Gary says it. And then he's like, well, Matt, I'd ask you the same question, but I'm pretty sure we already know what the answer is. And just I knew immediately where he was going with it. But just stuff like that. I mean, it's just nonstop. But at the same time, he is. He gets you uncomfortable in a good way. Oh, he'll never make me uncomfortable. But but it's it's I'm all. Always on my toes. You can't make me uncomfortable, dude. That brain's going three times faster than most brains. It is, and it's all natural. He's got junior tournaments in Thailand. He's got shit going on. He's crazy. He's got a betting thing or something. I don't know if he's a betting bet. He loves his picks. I mean, he did the decision for LeBron James on SportsCenter back in the day when LeBron went from Cleveland to Miami. That was my CTV. He is... If you close your eyes, you can think he's, you'll think he's Marv Albert sometimes. He does calls like Marv sometimes. I'm a big fan. I think he does like sometimes. No, he does it on purpose. Cross lines, but. Oh, bear with the facial. I mean, kind of, yeah. I don't think anyone watches the stream four, especially when the Golf Channel comes on on ESPN Plus, but if he ever gets in there, you've got to listen to it. Obviously, it's a bit more relaxed than the producers. Dude, he is. He loves the puns with the last night. names like one time the barometer that's what he said the barometer he's like the barometer reads a justin thomas win today you know like oh he's voice is way better he's like so into himself but like joking around it's burstradamus um but one time like grace and sig comes on he just rolls off about 18 grace and sig puns like oh see he's on fire he is burning them down he's on a heater he's on a heater grace he just starts rolling and then it's like the next one comes along and he just starts just mowing and i think that is i don't understand i don't understand how the how the feeds work like i always tune in to the main feed thinking i'm gonna get matt every and ryan burr they don't they would know that i don't go on the main feed but why wouldn't it be run like a regular uh telecast where the main feed you know oversees all the groups i don't know a lot of it has to do with just whatever the main thing does they worked out. The main feed does until Golf Channel comes on. It operates as that, but it's really only three or four groups. It's wherever the cameras are. They can't be cameras or whatever. Even though the cameras are out there for CBS or Golf Channel. Yeah, the main feed pulls from every other feed. And there are like many main feeds feeding into the main. There's three other feeds. Featured groups. Marquee group, which is stream two. One group, and it's going to be the best group there, and you're going to get that group all day, right? That's normally the one that I work. And then marquee groups, there's two groups. You bounce back and forth. Featured groups. There's two groups in that feed, and you kind of just bounce back and forth between the two. And there are two nice groups. And then featured holes, and that's like the most popular par 3 on the backside. Typically, before the golf channel, it's the four par 3s, but Riviera, they won't. They'll do the 10th because it's a cool hole. But then once golf channel comes on, it goes like marquee group feature groups and then like one par three one par three and then on the weekend so you're literally on one par three for like five hours that's where Ryan Burr it's so boring but he makes it somewhat entertaining I think do you think I'm going to bite my tongue here on this. You've gone as far as you can go here. I don't do any more. I've learned a lot here. There's a hundred things that could be done. We know that's not rocket science. Anyways, the tournament. How good is that golf course on TV? I was going to say, do you think it gets any good justice because it falls right after the Masters? What if they push that event out a little more? That's a good question. I'm still okay with it. I think it just falls and gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe a little bit. I think with the signature event now, it can't get lost in the shuffle. It's right there. It needs to stand out. I think it does. On TV... I feel like visually it's one of the more appealing courses to watch. There's identity there. There's a stretch. You know these holes. Well, and you also know these holes through the year. You know the railroad tie hole on the back nine with the bunker. You know the skinny part, the hole after that with the railroad ties and the water right and the pot bunker back left. It does flow well. Great par threes. Oh, really good par threes. Pete Dye, right? Mm-hmm. He loves them railroad ties. It does. It's my grandfather's roommate. That's right. At Rollins College. What are they? That Ford is a great hole. Oh, my God. That's like pucker. Exactly. I don't care if it's 80 degrees and 160 yards. That hole is pucker. You're puckering on that hole. Yeah, that's like when it is windy. Anyways, JT, first win in over three years. That doesn't feel like it's been three years, right? They ran a stat last week. How many rounds under 62 or better since 2015? Oldboy has 14. The next best... Kevin Na at nine. The next after that was seven. That is a big time flex. I wonder how many of those came from JT during this past three-year window. I mean, probably a lot of those, the bulk of those. He's struggling, man. He missed the FedEx Cup a few years back. I bet I only met a guest. I lost him one week too early. I did too. To see the struggle from a guy like that, and then all of a sudden he's back at the top, and you're like, yeah, of course he was always there. But no, he... legit struggled bigly. Yeah. Can you say that? How old is his kid? Is his kid three years old? No. uh it's still i mean she still had him in a baby bjorn so six months i didn't know if that was the tie-in yeah i mean who knows sometimes it is um but if anything these things do make you a better human judging his before and after but the guy does seem to be i find him i find him way more likable yeah so do i so not that he wasn't but yeah um he's more now what about novak The guy's playing some golf, man. He's up there a lot. Good God. Wofford, too. Dude, yeah, move over Will McGirt. Move over Will McGirt. There's a new pride of Wofford College. Oh, man. McGirt up there taking strays right now. No. Nah, he's a mess. Actually, ironically, Will McGirt. That was not meant to be. He was at Punta Gana. He had his son on the back, too. Ironically, he lives in Hilton Head. That is for... Will all the time. Mack McGirt. Yeah. Yeah. He's got some game. Working with our boy Jason Sutton up there at Colleton River. That's right. Yeah. Love Colton. The golf guru. What was that course you went to? Berkeley Hall. Berkeley Hall, yeah. That's great. That's where McGill lives, I think. Yeah, we'll see him there when we go up there. All right. Yeah, Novak. I mean, that would have been a mess. I always want to call him BJ Novak. Can I just tell you what's going to happen this week in Zurich? When are we getting this out? Like this afternoon, maybe? Oh, yeah. Today's

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Go ahead and bet. This is how the golf gods work. Right. Go ahead and bet Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin to win this week. Because both of them. That'll be short, though, I think. They are 22 and a half to one. Both of them probably should have already won on the tour. Yeah. Like, Novak's had several looks already. And so has Ben Griffin. They both have been playing really good golf in the last year. And you just watch how shit shakes out this week. What about Rory? They're both going to end up getting like a half a win for their first win. It happened last year, didn't it? It happened two years ago, I think, with Davis Riley and Nick Hardy. Yes. Davis ended up winning Colonial after that. But I don't know. This might sound really stupid to a lot of people. A lot of guys have gotten their first win of their career down there in New Orleans. This might sound really dumb to a lot of people, but I would not want my first win to be a team event. I wouldn't. Fuck me, I'd take it. Coming from a blogger who's never won one and their dream was to win one. Yeah. Yeah, it's not a legit one, but I feel like it's like a.8 or.9. It's not a.5. Does it get you into gospel? No, but it gets you into Maui, which is just as cool. It gets you a thing on the wall that you look for the rest of your life. I'm not saying I wouldn't. Maybe that came off way too... I don't want this to sound... I think it helps you win your second one. Like the way it sounds? Yeah, I wouldn't... It's an individual sport. Hey, let's look at... I could dive into this. I guess if it's Novak and Griffin, maybe it's... Who cares? It still doesn't get them up. Because they're not... Well, neither one of them are world beaters coming out of college either right now. Like, if I was a stud... Like a Davis Riley, you know. Davis Riley still has potential to be a stud. He had some tough times last year, but he's starting to get his game back. But he won a second time. He's a big name with a big game. I know that. But I wouldn't want. I think Hardy has not. Now, what if it was you and a guy that has already won on tour? So this would be both of their first, right? Yes. Like Cam and Leishman. Wasn't that Cam's first win? Cam won with Jonas, and that was Cam's first win, not Jonas'. Not Jonas' first win, I believe. and uh you know what I'm gonna retract everything I said that was a bad take bad take well that's some awesome self-awareness on the spot we're gonna walk that back I do think for what it misses is not a real win you have as much fun so like how dude it is an awesome week an awesome week that was so I used to do that first of all it's during during the jazz fest always so like if you wanna have a good time that week you can have a freaking blast it's honestly a blast all week yeah um and then when they turn it into a team of it it almost made it more of a party yes because you get to pick your own walk-up song well that doesn't have to do with it but but you could have fun with your friend all week yes um that was before little league copied honestly the few events i did do the commentary that was my easiest funnest week because there's two guys you can talk about the chemistry like yeah yeah play pressure you feel on a random shot like listen i played with uh I'll watch more of this week than I did last week. I guarantee you that. It's an underrated event. First year they switched this event to a team event. I play with Billy. He's never been the same since. My game at the time was spiraling out of control. It was bad. Off the tee. That's a great partner to pick. Foul balls. He's a humanitarian. His game's going the other way. And Our attitudes are... We're a little different on the golf course. You know, he's probably a little more intense than I am. So... Similar in some aspects, very different in other aspects, I would say. So... The first day is alternate shot, and I'm scared to death with alternate shot with Billy because I could ruin our golf tournament. But this is what people don't understand. On any tee shot. And on that golf course, there's like two or three sketchy tee shots for a guy that's battling the driver yips. Like four? You've got to just get by. Four, six, ten was one. You want no part of like... any kind of trouble left wind off the left is it true alternate shot uh number one yeah well odds and evens so so we get through the first day and i don't cost i i might have cost us like one or two shots on like a missed six footer or something but i don't i don't there was no round ruiners do you know what i mean we don't really do anything uh uh Bad, middle of the pack. The next day is best ball, and we get on one, and like I said, one is a yip hole for me. There's OB left, wind off to the left, and it's a tight fairway, and then shit right. But you can't hit on it if you're not... Yeah, but it's best ball. So I get up there with driver, and I'm aiming down the OB line. I'm going to ride this wind in there and fit it in there, and I do it. Sick opening tee shot, deep exhale. Like you've done a million times. I got a wedge in. Now it's a birdie hole. I'm good everywhere else in my game. This is going to be 10 feet at worst, this next shot. Billy gets up there with driver, and this thing starts knuckling right and hits the path, kicks into the shit. just buries his club walking off the tee. And I'm like, dude, we're good. Like, this is best ball today. I'm like, we already dodged the the hard part. But my point with all this is Billy, you know, he's one of my best friends. And but we didn't our energies were different matching up yes uh two years late i played with sam saunders the net the next year uh we didn't do any good just i was ragged and whatever uh the next uh the next time i played i was supposed to play with grayson murray and grayson took he was having some a hard time and he took some time off time off like three weeks before the tournament starts. So I didn't have a partner. Well, KH Lee was looking for a partner, and I didn't know KH at all, all right? And we show up on Tuesday and just hit it off. Micah was caddying for him, who's Billy's caddie now and was Billy's caddie before for his whole career. Just at the moment, they weren't working together. And so Micah was working for KH. We just had a great time. Great week. The first nine holes. Top five, right? First nine holes. I'm playing out of the past champions category, too. This is a massive event for me. And the first nine holes, we are one over par best ball. No way. I didn't know that. I'm like, this sucks. Best ball? Yes. We end up doing okay on the next nine. Dude, alternate shot, we just, like... Lap the field. Yes. Sunday, we tee off alternate shot. I tug it just a hair. off the first tee he's in a fairway bunker and he hits like an eight iron to 20 feet i make it next hole he drives it down the middle i hit a par five i hit a four iron from like big draw 240 it was firm that year from like 240 to like to a tap in we start off birdie eagle we shot you've already done your work for the day let's go well no i hit it in the water on nine par three double and then but on the back nine we shot three under and nobody even Like, nobody in the top 10, I don't even think, shot under par in the back nine. I was playing nasty. We get to 18. We are going to have... We've already done all the hard work. We're going to have a good finish. And this guy, my career is in KH's hands on this tee shot. It is. I'm playing in the past champions category. People don't understand. If you have a good week, they shuffle every four or five weeks. You'll shuffle past 30 guys. Well, I was also about to get my card back just off of this finish almost. So... I was like, just don't spray it right. And he, he drove it right down the middle. Dude, there were so many shots that week where he, like chip shots especially, where he'd chip it up to a foot and I'd want no part of the shot. It was so great. And he was, you know, it was, it was such a cool week he's one of my best friends now kh is like we've i mean i can't he's one of those guys when i look at him i'll always smile his wife julie is a freaking saint um she was like making us smoothies bringing us smoothies all week out there it's like the professional equivalent of getting paired with a rando at the whatever track and then i never knew this guy now i'm having the best time of my life yeah your energy's matched up saved your card well we finished tied for third yeah i made like a 12 footer on the the last, and then we finished tied. Who won that year, do you know? Matt, Avery, and Casey. No, we didn't. No, it was Rahm and... Oh, Rahm and Palmer. Maybe. That feels like right. Rahm and Palmer had a couple of wins with different partners, I think. And then the next week, or like a couple weeks later, I think I finished second at the Nelson. So it was like, it was a big week. But underrated... tournament on the pga i think all team golf is like not not want to start the comparison of the two leagues but it is hard to convey i think to the audience how nervous you get like playing team golf like you were saying with billy you don't want to let down your phone so nervous it's it's a different type of nerve i'm not saying you're more nervous than trying to win a pg you have to play with someone with the same temperament as you and like ka I really do, because I didn't feel those nerves with Sam. I didn't feel those nerves with KH either, even though we were under the pump on the weekend. But that nerve is... Under the pump nerves is like nerves in your arms or something. Like... Team golf nerves is in your stomach. It's like you eat something that tastes different. It's the member guest. Summer does. It does. All right. Wait. Back has Pricey's in here, and he's a fan of Elkington. But the only thing I can remember from that before the team event was Bubba and Steve Elkington. Do you remember that? Yeah. Yeah. That was the old one. That wasn't team event. Right. Right. Yeah. So were you all in the field that week? No, I was there. Elkington blinded his cat, which was Bullet at the time. He said, oh, that wasn't my man. That was Bullet. But you don't know with Elk. You wouldn't know. I was there when Billy got his first win as an individual. Billy's won it both ways. Billy got his first. Yeah, anyone as a team. That was one of my four top tens, the old Zurich. I played all over the year. You should get an invite. Yeah, you'd be good off that ratty Bermuda there. I don't know. It wasn't the strongest field, the Zurich every year, hence why they went to the team competition. But I just thought it had a good mix of par fours. It has short par fours. It has fucking long par fours. Could you say that last year was maybe the spark that Rory needed. Yeah, for sure. I mean, he's been on a tear since he and Shane won that damn thing. I think Roy. I hadn't even thought about that. They've got to be pretty short this week. I bet he was having some fun last year or that week. Yeah. Just the spark he needed. Sure. Are he and Shane going to be back to defend? Yeah, they are. Three and a half. I just pulled that up. Okay, let's go over. I'm going to give you. How short are they? Three and a half to one. Jesus. Yeah, I'm not touching that. I think he's five eight. You can't bet that this week. That's unders. Well, it's a team championship. A lot can happen. That's three and a half. Yeah, I'm not touching that. Oh, odds. I thought you were talking about heights. And how much golf? How long has Rory been playing since Augusta? Not that he needs to play much. There's just one thing. If it was four rounds of basketball, maybe it's an alternate shot. Anything can happen. They could shoot one over, no problem. It's an alternate shot. Okay, the second shortest, Morikawa Kitayama. I had Morikawa at Tom last week, and it wasn't great. Okay, all right. Dietry McIntyre, 17.5-1. Not touching it. Okay, Mitchell Poston, 17.5-1. Love it. it wow both both play well last week both that's their kind of grass too i feel like um clark taylor moore wyndham clark taylor moore two to uh 20 to one taylor moore's game is not i saw it a few times when i came to cook i'm a fan of his game me too me too nice iron player solid yeah and and wyndham's a bomber and i you blink does not hurt here but you you're right there is the the thing you can't Go off his chemistry. Hogan Horschel. Hogan Horschel. 22 and a half to one. That's a good balance, actually, personality-wise right there. Oh, yeah, they're different. Bit of chalk and cheese. How do these teams even work? How far in advance do they have to submit that they're coming together in the field? And how many guys strike out, reach into somebody, oh, sorry, I'm already playing with Bobby McIntyre? It happens. I think a lot of people get asked, and they quickly go and ask someone else and say, oh, sorry. A lot of This is buddies. We were talking about this last year. It is a great tournament, and I applaud Zurich for doing this. And, you know, I don't know how it went, but... What about the Rasmus and Nikolai? 25 to 1. Don't know anything about them. Brothers. I like brothers. But they typically get five of the top ten in the world, which is cool, coming off Augusta and that elevated event. Hold on, I'm looking for some... Some of them are Zurich players, but... I'm looking for some... Let's get some juice here. Grazerman Echeverria, 30 to 1. Okay, I like that team. I do too. Grazerman hasn't won. Knocking on the door. And Nico fucking wins every other time he tees it up, it feels like. Where did Grazerman play college? Duke. All right. And Echeverria was Arkansas? Arkansas? Arkansas. Razorbacks? Okay. Hell yeah. I did the... The other week out in San Antonio, I did the golf with Wayne Riley, the commentator, legend, by the way. One of Oatley's finest. The best. And he tipped me on this guy, Jordan Smith, playing the European Tour right now. And he's playing with Laurie Cantor this week. Good player. And Cantor's playing some nice golf right now. They're 40-1. Ex-Live player. I might take a look there. Just off of... Are you doing a weekly thing with the Tua Junkies? Those guys are hilarious. They are. Yeah, they're great, dude. All right, okay, I don't hate this team here. Kevin Yu and Jonathan Vegas, 50-1. Jonathan Vegas, I don't know this. I haven't seen any stats, but I have a feeling his track record around this course is probably pretty good. I don't know much about you.

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He's a nice player. That's really it as far. Oh, Adam Svensson and Cam Davis. I like that team. Yeah. And they're 60-1. That's probably the deepest I like. There won't be much Chattagon on there, but no. Well, this is some good gambling fodder here. I do like the Niko and Grazerman pick right there. 30-1. Yeah, Nico. Nico, rough final round at Augusta. Yeah. Other than that, guy. I'm telling you, man. Yeah, I didn't see how he really... I mean, he kind of made a mess there on the 18th there. Is Rosie not playing? Isn't Rosie a Zurich guy? No, he's not playing. He mustn't be a Zurich guy anymore. He was. Oh, you got to get your sponsored players in there. That's what I'm resting to, though. I mean, this is a lot of golf for these guys. What's coming up? Well, you got... Next week's field's got to be bad. Or a week after... New Orleans, Byron. And then it goes Philly, which is the truest. It's usually at Wells Fargo. Or usually at Charlotte, Quail Hollow. Where are they playing that at? Philadelphia Cricket Club. Oh, I still haven't played that. There's three courses. I'm shocked you haven't played that. I've played a run on me. I'm fucking shocked you haven't played that. Hey, hey. I've played no golf this year. Everyone thinks I go on these golf trips. I haven't left Jacksonville. You did go on these golf trips. I'm going on one in June. Where are you going? June, we're going to LA for two days. Bjorn, if you're listening, pressure on. We've got hopefully LACC North and Bel Air and then Bandon Junes and then Cypress Point, fly to San Francisco, Cypress Point, and then the 27th. Who's getting you out on Cypress Point? The great Timmy Wilkinson rekindled me with Phil Wente. And that was the one corn fairy event I won was the Wente Vineyards Championship. Oh, no

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So, yeah, Phil is going to host us, which is exciting. I was supposed to play in 2009 on the Wednesday at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Had a sore knee. Thomas Sula... you know, Tuesday night and say, hey, do you want to play Cypress Point tomorrow with Charles Schwab? And I was like, you know, I had just... Ah, my knee's sore. Well, hold on. I just gassed it on Friday to miss the cut by one, like complete gas, four over the back nine of Hawaii. Then it was going good at Buick and I had three bunker shots in a row, like dumped them in the same bunker on the 10th on the Friday at Buick, just made the cut, finished 30th. So I had to shuffle up. And my knee was sore, and I ended up playing okay at Pebble Beach. So it worked out alright, but I was like, nah, I'll take a pass. So I've been trying to get back there for... Yeah, freaking 15 years. Better now. You'll appreciate it a lot more now that you're not taking anything for granted. Don't bring that up. But I didn't care about courses in, so I will appreciate it like 50x. Yeah. They're having the Walker Cup out there this year. It just looks so good. I haven't played the other. There's two Montereys, too. I've played one. What's the one you play in the tournament? It's the other one. It's not the short course. They both look freaking awesome. Monterey Peninsula is a great piece of property. Bandon Dunes we booked a year and a half ago for the summer months. Now you can't even book. I hear it's three years out. Well, now it's a lottery. You go in, because I don't think they want to overprice it where it's only rich people can get out there or something. Is it really worth it? I haven't been, so I don't know. But it's eight Australians, so we're going to see how that week goes. Cyprus points the day after that. I don't know if I'm going to make it. But I was saying that. walker cup is out there this year and um at cypress at cypress yeah that's awesome so lucky i know they played seminole a couple years ago they're just they do go to the great venues like pine valley like i'll probably get one i'm sure maybe it's on pine valley is on the schedule in like 2036 or something That is amazing. Yeah. I mean, they have the Crump Cup where it's open to the public and you can go out and walk the course. I didn't know that was open to the public. Yeah, so one time they opened it up. Jimmy Ellis lost in the final there. Oh, I forgot about that. Did he really? Especially playing with the great Jimmy tomorrow. He had an incredible summer last year. That'd be nice if you guys invited me to play golf every now and then. Well, it was Don Taco Lou Don and Paul Scott from V Pizza having a charity event. Yeah, yeah. bringing a team so this is like the pre that so this is next month I think yeah don't get invited to play with my friends anymore and I can't even get into my fucking you said you haven't you said you haven't a transition can't even get this is welcome welcome to the I was a different transition problem my transition is nice right now so Taco Lou versus V pizza that's that's going to be a much valued event live forever golf is going to be outfitting those teams I love it uh Well, at least we talked about that in the comment section of their Instagram post. But no, we want to get involved with that too. Two Jacksons. Wait, that's tomorrow? No, no. It was like a pre-thing just to try and work things out. But it's going to be, I think, Paul's trying to organize. You bring someone who works. So Don will bring someone who works, Tiger Lou, and a favorite customer, and then maybe like a pro or something. I think it was what they were trying to get at. I'll fit into the customer. Not the pro. They'll get a good pro. There's too many good pros. I got a show coming up. Let's hear about it. Yeah, we want to talk about the show. The show. The show. It's called Golf Channel. It's airing on the Golf Channel, 7 o'clock Mondays, 7 p.m. on Mondays, and starts in, what are we, Tuesday right now? Yeah. In 13 days. All right. Cinco de Mayo. Yeah. It's called The Drop. It's going to be myself In Lauren Winthrow Hosting it And then there's like a There's like four other Talent as well That are gonna We're just kind of rotating Hosting the show I guess Injecting some youth Into the golf channel I love it 41 I don't know how youthful that is You are way younger Than everybody above you there Why don't they get a show You, Ryan Burr And Wayne Riley That would be good Dude On a cash. That's a pay-per-view feed right there. That's one. That's too entertaining. I would pay a little bit extra to watch the commentary I want to watch. Radar is hilarious. Dude, that guy's the best. Did you see what Radar did? I think it was last year sometime. He was doing a bit on the range. They had the massage guns on the range. And they were doing a... Do you already know this? No, I don't know. I know Radar well. And he's got the gun. Where was he using it? No, he's got the gun. He's using it. like on his shoulder and neck and they're doing the bet and he's like why i'll tell you what if this thing could clean and cook i'd marry it so for people that don't know the australians know wayne riley he's an australian grew up in in uh oatley which is right across the bridge from where i grew up uh but one scottish open want to cut my one on australian over maybe 91 uh played for years but just an absolute larry he has like some of these one-liners that just one what were some of his one-liners someone hit in the bush one time he's like you could wrap that ball in bacon and lassie wouldn't find that so he comes out of all these one-liners i think simon dyson one time simon dyson was hitting a hybrid from like 200 one time yeah he goes simon dyson here with a hybrid he's like my aunt beth has only got one arm and she wouldn't be hitting hybrid for me but he has the greatest call was he the He said to reign it in, but he's hilarious. Is he the one that said, somebody hit a bunker shot and the sound of it was so good, like the back of the club spanking the sand. He goes, I'd rather hear that sound than my wife telling me she loves me or something. That was the great Tony Johnson. One of my favorite all-time commentators. He has the softest voice. He's the best. Follow him on Instagram. He's from Zimbabwe. He puts up these pics like he's in the wildlife. Sunday Soothers like Tony Johnson is a freaking a gift the golf world the inner golf world knows but the outer golf world probably don't know him and played played you know he would have been like a a A president's cuppa before it started. He was a good player. Remember they used to have the three-man tournament in Europe, the World Cup or whatever it was? I reckon they won it one year. Him, Nick Price. Getting back to my show. Back to the drop. Sorry, the drop. We all got it. I know y'all did some, I don't know what you call it. We have a rehearsal on Monday. You take pictures beforehand. Yeah, Monday we have a rehearsal. Did they get any pictures of you taking a drop? Probably. I did do a few of those. Is there any pushback on that rule being changed? What's the format? I was going to go over the other talent. Alexandra O'Loughlin, Celia... God, I'm missing her last name. She works for the tour. Will Lowry, and I believe Mel Reed is the other one. And the show is basically just a quick recap... maybe of the week before, like real quick and then dive into the, the, the week, you know, upcoming and it's going to hit all tours. We'll have no, just, just the PGA tour and we'll have guests on, uh, and the segments will be, there'll be fun. It's going to be good. And it's all being filmed live down in PV. Yeah. And they're still going with a lot of females commentating. This isn't commentating. This is a studio show. Okay. Yeah, true. Is it going to be like a, what does the set look like? Help me out here. Like a Monday night football set. Thank you. So you have like, is it a massive, you can go rip some shots into the wall? Walls, floors. I don't know. Like old school golf channel shit. Right. Remember? Dude, these sets in there are gigantic. I mean, they haven't even touched what they're capable of in there. It's state-of-the-art. Yeah. It's as big as the headquarters, the building next door. Not quite, but yeah. Dude, when I was down at CBS HQ in Fort Lauderdale. Another show. Huh? Another show you're on. Well, not a show. Those were like sports desk updates. But yeah, I got, yeah. That seemed fun. It was a blast. To do 10 minutes every hour, like that's... But where I'm getting at is like the studios here are... They have like five in there that are... They could cram a couple more. Dominate. I wonder if they're going to add some of that stuff to other sports. I don't know. You could come in and record a podcast in there. Hey. Have video for it. Where are you going with this? It's so nice. It is so nice. It's so nice. The green rooms are like, I mean. The green? Next time things get rough, I might just go stay there for a while. I'm just kidding. Let's talk about the draft. Yeah. Who we got? Mason Graham? I don't know. The Jags have done a good job of not really revealing the fifth pick. We haven't really, I guess we've kept this close to the vest. I don't think we're taking the, there's no way we're taking the running back. I think that's the whole reason why. We haven't said anything. No, the whole reason why we're letting that rumor run right now is to bait other teams and to think we're taking them so they'll trade up and we can trade back. Because we don't need, I don't think Mason Graham's the answer. No. The pick? Uh-uh. I don't... I don't know. I'm looking for a three-year plan. I just really want... The expectation of the Jags, you know, winning the conference and making a run, I don't know. But let's just... We didn't make too many moves in free agency. I mean, it feels like we're just hoping that we luck out and Travis Hunter falls to us at five. I don't think he's going to be around there. And maybe there's a team that's desperate for a quarterback or somebody that trades up. If he does fall to five, you've got to snag him, right? 100%. You have to. Yeah. I'll be one of the first in line at training camp to go see what that looks like. I think he's– I feel like Ford will be– travis hunter what are you thinking for um he's all in on travis hunter and he's all he's still all in on tank bixby is he yes what if we draft uh uh genti genti well then what do you have etn doing on the roster right

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bye what about trevor what are we thinking he needs to uh he's big year for him big big year this is huge this it is huge year for trevor lawrence i mean I'm going to be optimistic. There's no way to sugarcoat it. I mean, if he comes out and lays an egg, it's like, what do we have here? But if he goes out and lights it up with a new offensive coordinator, a whole new regime, we've got to see some improvement. We've just got to see some. I just want him to be healthy. I think a big part of the– his poor performance was playing injured. Yeah, yeah. And he's not a complainer. And that's one thing he's been is nothing but solid and consistent. That's a great point. He's a great ambassador to the team. But last year, clearly, even early on, from other people that we know, there was... The locker room was not happy. Doug and the GM, like, it was a fucking mess. Yeah. So that can't be... Too much drama. That can't be easy. You gotta have a... You gotta have your bedroom clean if you wanna... Well, it just... I don't know. It didn't feel like there was any... There was definitely no alignment at the top, but... Golly. I mean, you're so right. It felt like we were going to the Super Bowl two and a half quarters into the season. No fire. All you've been hearing about was Miami, and we were just shoving it down their throats. Yes. We could go back to our predictions of how many wins we were going to have. We had 11, 12, 10. It's embarrassing. I do like the NFL draft, though. I love it. I don't watch enough college football to follow it. It fills a Thursday night, and then you've got a little action on Friday. Where is it this year? Green Bay, I believe. I don't know. I think it's in Green Bay. It's good for a golf trip to Sand Valley, not far. I know the city's having a draft party out at the Lemon Bar. I did see it. Out at Shod's new hotel there. Is it the Seahorse, I believe? Yeah, but it's still the same. He bought that. He bought the hotel right next to the lemon bar? Well, the little one, the little white one-story, two-story. Dude, that thing's got to– is he going to level it? I don't know exactly what he's allowed to do as far as how high he can go up with it. He's got a ton of potential to be like a charming, you know, Overnighter. One Ocean was purchased too. Not a chain hotel. That's right. So Atlantic Beach is about to get some serious respect, I think, in the real estate market. Look, it's never been unappreciated, but Ponte Vedra Beach has always sort of ruled over it. Yeah, PV's taken all the shine. Atlantic Beach is about to get some upswing. Stay out of AB. Stay out of AB. Neptune Beach, too. There's some nice trades going on in Neptune Beach. I mean, it's funny to me as a Jacksonville native because these things have always been here. You know, these resources, the waterfront properties, and it's all just starting to get discovered. Imagine if our water was, like, blue, like it is in Jupiter. It is some days. It can be some days. No, it's not even blue. It's a little brackish. Dude, I've seen it down there where it looks like the Bahamas. Yeah, but that's only some days there as well. Yeah, it's about half the year. I don't know. We get the update from Luteris every day. The Jupiter pic of the, what do you call those plants in the ocean? Mangroves? Yeah, the mangroves. No, not mangroves. They're cool. Sea oats. Sea grapes. Sea grapes. They're beautiful plants. No good when it freezes. Terrible. But I just know because I'm putting in plants at my new house at the moment. Did you get that bill yet? landscaping, Bill? No, not yet. Is it going to go easy on you? Sea pine landscaping. We'll see, hopefully. He owes me from some gambling, so square it off. So now that it's legal to pay players in the NCAA, can you retroactively go out and say you were getting paid? Or is that going to screw up the relationship you have with the school? So I was going to ask, did y'all ever get any paid? No. I had a job that I didn't work very hard at. So I came in on a full scholarship and then, you know, the coach had obviously commitments. So I had to get back down and I was like, and I played well. Like I was at a smaller school at the time, like compared to, And I'd done well. So I was like, I said, my parents have no money. And he's like, oh, well, you know, you can cut the green. So I did. I physically got on the tractor and cut the green. But a lot of times there wasn't much grass to cut. But the guy out there, he's like, if you want to get paid, you have to unlock the gatehouse, get on the tractor and mow. He said, if there's not much grass there, it doesn't matter. You got to mow it. So I made it. Where was this? At Georgia Southern. For the golf course? We had a green off campus. Oh, off campus. A little chipping green by the football. It's not there anymore. Yeah, so I had a job that probably paid more than I was supposed to get. 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you know, all the shenanigans that were going on at big SEC schools. I mean, that's juicy stuff. And now you can't get in trouble for it because it's legal. And Johnny Football was doing it, and he's admitted it. So, yeah, I guess maybe you can't– it won't be looked at how it was looked at. I wonder how they're going to– I mean, if an athletic department can cut a check to a player now... Which is crazy, still. How are these kids going to find out what they're really worth? I mean, all the money's going to go to the big revenue-generating sports. And unless you've got some booster that's got an interest in a non-revenue generator. But my part is too... Which a lot of schools do. A lot of schools do. But a lot of it's coming from private investment. Like who... I don't know. What are you getting out of John Smith who went to Georgia donating a million dollars to pay for the next quarterback? Why? Some 18-year-old kid, I don't get it. Normally there's a return on investment play. Not for these, not lately in that sport. Their ROI is giving back to their school and then getting their name on a building. Yeah, true, I guess. And then everyone wants to use the guy who got the quarterback that won the national championship. Tax write-off. Yeah. I mean, it's probably for a lot of these people. I don't know. I just think it sucks. It should be an annuity that would change people's decisions a lot. Like 18-year-olds wouldn't be going to you know Wofford I think it sucks too they would be going to where they want because they're not getting it until they're 50 or something I don't know I just think it's crazy but I understand too they are also bringing revenue to the university so sitting on the fence a little bit but there's got to be a better system than what's going on it's just like NFL 2.0 I think it's it's for the elite of the elite in college sports Everything after that. Do you think many golfers are getting coins? Yeah, I do. A little bit. A little. Not much. I heard there's a little bit. The third best golfer in college golf is getting not much. What, like 100 grand? Yeah, not even that. Really? Maybe the third best golfer on a certain team. But then again, not many people are watching tons of golf. How much revenue is... the third best amateur player bringing into the University of Florida. Probably nothing. Well, you're planting seeds. I've heard stories of kids getting a certain dollar amount, and I'm like, that doesn't add up. There's no way. Well, I think the North Carolina kid, that one kid that transferred, Andrew, whatever his name is, for his fifth year, he was a Cap Tech guy. So at least there's a play. Like, it's not just, I'm just giving you money to play for the university. At least he was wearing the hat every chance he wasn't playing for the college. So I understand some of it, but anyway, I'm an old curmudgeon. You know, it should be, I was back here by day. All right, fellas. Well, good checking. Matty, I hope somebody gets food poisoning and you get into the, into the member guest on Thursday. Still some time left. Not much. Not much. It's fine if I don't. Actually, I've got a little one day out at Tim Aquana. Come on. I played Tim Aquana last Monday. I can't get into the three day, but I can get into the one day. Nice. Shout out Will Browdy. I'm looking forward to dominating Tim Aquana. That's right. Y'all play a little charity event. The course was in just great shape. Yeah, they've been on a heater with that exact... term right there great shape yeah good for them great club can't wait to see it I mean any US Open qualifiers you all gonna no I didn't didn't enter I didn't either I'm an idiot well there was a couple that had good venues and speaking with my business partner we've done the last two we do them on Mother's Day the day after Mother's Day there you go but see Lucy I'm gonna go try and get the ones you've got to get in within an hour now for the good tracks for the good tracks they don't release them but then like Panther National I would have done that one whatever it's called the one in South Florida but yeah that was they should go old school to where you got a hand write and fill it and mail it back in and then you find out they mail you back and tell you where you're going that would deter a lot of these filling up in an hour yeah it's pretty crazy but whatever first one to get their fax in That's how the member guest works. Yeah, exactly. It's just my fax machine wasn't working that morning. Beep, beep, beep. Hey, you got to get the hosting service regularly, man. I'm just kidding. All right. All right. Goodbye. See you.