Thursday, December 5, 2024

Show Notes

Matt Cook and Buttsy lead an engaging episode packed with golf insights and humor. They kick off with a shoutout to their sponsor Swannies Golf. A funny story from Yellowstone sets the stage for a discussion on the worst golf gifts. Fans chime in, and Brent Grant joins in after some technical hiccups. They delve into LIV Golf fandom, Tiger Woods' TGL readiness, and Brent's take on the Hero World Challenge. Brent shares his Q School experience, and the episode explores the rise of alternative golf content and local league talent. Updates on Ryggs Johnston, Pat Perez, and LIV Golf developments are followed by a light-hearted Utah Soakers banter and Matt's Flu experience. The episode wraps with farewells and sponsor shout-outs.

(0:00) Welcome to Pull Hook Golf
(2:16) Sponsor: Swannies Golf
(4:49) Tee Off Report w/ Buttsy
(8:21) Hero World Challenge Preview
(15:02) Tiger Woods' readiness for TGL and format discussion
(20:10) Brent Grant's perspective on TGL and PGA Tour
(23:11) Buttsy's anecdotes and PGA Tour alternative products
(25:19) Hero World Challenge continued discussion
(28:15) Brent Grant's round 2 prep and field analysis
(40:30) Grass League overview
(52:53) Grass league support and competitive golf struggles
(56:08) Swannies Style Segment: Favorite Golf Shoes
(1:00:22) Owning a team in the grass league
(1:10:09) Ryggs Johnston's win and Aussie Open criticism
(1:11:14) Top golfer opinions and Pat Perez LIV Golf news
(1:14:29) Tony Finau speculation and LIV Golf growth
(1:32:24) Player competition levels and Greg Norman's LIV Golf replacement
(1:36:06) Nico Echavarria's consistency and potential move
(1:38:06) Upcoming tournaments and Jon Rahm's situation
(1:47:42) LIV Golf's impact and Matt Cook's COVID battle
(1:49:45) Outro and sponsor acknowledgment

Show Transcript

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Welcome back everybody to Pull Hook Golf, the
podcast.

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I'm your host, Matt Cook.

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Tonight, we've got Buttsy with us as our
co-host.

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We've also got our tour insider joining us a
little bit later, Mr.

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Brent Grant.

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And boy, oh, boy, do we have a show for you.

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First off, we've got the tee-off report.

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Then we've got the Hero World Challenge.

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We're gonna preview that or what there is of
that, I should say.

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And then we've got the other TGL.

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If you missed the Thanksgiving debacle or
debate, I should say, around the TGL, the

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indoor golfing.

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That's, and by the way, what's funny is you
can't even see the live anymore because it was

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too damn long that we ended up having to remove
it because we got into some weird places that

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night, but it was an absolute blast talking
about it.

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You can hear the podcast recording version of
it that we cut some of it out and we shortened

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it because I think it was what did I say?

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Well, we were on, like, out, like, 3 hours and
30 minutes or something like that.

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It was something ridiculous.

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Dude, it was it was a doozy.

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But this is the other TGL.

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This one should be a lot less controversial,
but we'll see.

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I didn't think the TGL was going to get that
heated.

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You know, you adding in Brent adds a little
fire.

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You

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and Brent were going to physically fight.

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I just wanted him to stick to a definition of
what a money grab is like.

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And that's the funny thing is, like, yes, at
the end of the day, of course, it's a money

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grab, but, like, it's not any worse than some
of these other ones.

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It's a like, it's not as bad as the match
that's coming up.

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Oh, man.

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You got that right.

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How's that tea?

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What are you what kind of tea?

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Dude, I got a peppermint tea with, I added some
local honey as well.

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That's kinda my way of soothing my voice, but
you can hear it's a little raspy tonight.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm very impressed with how put together you
actually are because I know how you feel.

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Yeah.

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It's,

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it's something.

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It's kinda like being drunk without being
drunk.

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Now the other side to this is we also have the
Swannies style segment and then LIV Golf news.

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That's where we're gonna break it all down.

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But we do wanna give a shout-out to our
sponsor, Swannies Golf, which, folks, we don't

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even need to add in the Pull Hook Golf promo
code right now because they are still running

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their Black Friday sale.

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So you still got 30% off.

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Hop over to swannies.co and get 30% off of
everything right now, which is awesome.

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Highly recommend the Black Swan line.

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I almost said black label.

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It's actually I'm wearing the T-shirt that is
part of the Black Swan line as well.

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And the damn thing is like silk.

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They really outdid themselves when it came to
high-quality craftsmanship on the recent line

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that is Black Swan.

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It's meant to be their high-end line, and, man,
did they hit the nail on the head.

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So go over to swannies.com.

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Looks like lunar bear fur.

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Did you say lunar bear fur?

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I've never

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I I

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don't know what I I feel like I should know
what lunar bear is.

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Yeah.

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It looks like authentic lunar bear.

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God.

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That would be great if it was.

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I think it might be.

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I don't think

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I hope PETA doesn't come try to pour, like,
something red on me or something, which I heard

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the greatest line in Yellowstone, by the way.

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Yellowstone, the show, you know, Beth, the
character, she went after the hippie woman and

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she goes, you know, it makes no sense to pour
red paint all over somebody's mink coat because

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all they're gonna do because they're rich is go
out and buy another one.

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And it's actually a pretty good point.

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I mean, you're actually kinda killing two
animals if you do that stuff.

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So, PETA, watch out.

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It's like those people that threw paint all
over the Mona Lisa or whatever it was.

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Like, alright, dude.

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Great.

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Yeah.

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Again, you don't like oil.

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Very good.

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Ruin the priceless piece of artwork.

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Like, they're yeah.

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Those were the same people, I believe, that
were out at the PGA Tour event in Hartford last

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year.

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Yeah.

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It's, the remember, Occupy Wall Street?

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Remember that whole deal?

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Oh, yeah.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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We covered that.

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Oh, did you?

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No.

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We did.

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You you covered it too.

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Yeah.

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There's a lot I don't remember.

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Yeah.

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That's that's pretty typical.

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Now as we get into it here, we've got the tee
off report with Buttsy.

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Are you ready for this, man?

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Yeah.

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Shoot it.

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Alright.

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So I was thinking, like, you know, many
golfers, especially around the holidays, when

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it comes to gifts.

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I don't know about you, but I have been one of
these golfers that I have such custom stuff

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that, like, it's impossible to give me, like, a
good golf gift, especially if you're not in the

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know around golf.

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So I pose this to you as many golfers like me
have had a terrible time receiving golf gifts

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during the holidays.

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What's the worst gift you've been given that's
golf related?

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Oh, man.

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There's so many that are equal on that front.

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I'm gonna name a few if that's alright.

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I've received

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a lot of

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really bad ones.

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And I don't know.

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You have to see you bear it with a smile.

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Right?

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And thank you so much.

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This is a gosh.

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I'm just gonna use this so much.

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A really shitty cheap putting mat, a chipping
net, FootJoy GreenJoys for golf shoes, a

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WeatherSof glove to name a few.

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Yeah.

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Two-piece Surlyn covered golf balls.

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The guy at the store told me that these
Callaways are good.

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And I'm like, how much were these?

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And they're like, oh, they're pretty expensive.

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They were, like, $23.

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So, to name a few.

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Yeah.

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Cheap shit, not in the know, hack fest fucking
gifts.

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Yeah.

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I basically got to a point to where I told
everybody related to me or around me, do not

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buy me anything golf related.

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And

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Oh, Buttsy's bringing shit out right now.

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I'm probably about to go throw it in the trash.

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They obliged.

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The worst was when I really became serious
about golf when I was playing Pro V1s, and all

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of a sudden, you know, you got the relative
that found two packs of Top-Flites at their

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local Marshalls.

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And they're like, hell of a deal.

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He's gonna love them.

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Oh, yeah.

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Brings them, and I'm just like, what am I gonna
do with this?

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This is this

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is Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Those are they're like, god, like a bracelet
score counter, something like that.

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Yeah.

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There's some really bad ones.

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Yeah.

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If Yeah.

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If you're gonna buy for a golfer, you you
better damn well do the research and, maybe

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just take a peek through his or her bag, you
know, as a starting point.

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For sure.

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Something that's in there already.

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Had a nice little comment here from Kyle over
at Carpburn, guys.

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He is starting early in golf as it is in life.

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It is the follow-through that makes the
difference.

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A lot of pros will have you practice just the
follow-through and have you hold it and then

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swing in reverse from there.

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Oh, this could this could get interesting
tonight.

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And we got Try Golfer Interactive with Carl
mentioning that, it's the body getting through.

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It's all about the finish, Kyle.

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And then, I think this is in regards to what
we're talking about.

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Trot said, at 13 years old, dozen orange
Top-Flites from aunt and uncle.

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Aunts and uncles are the best when it comes to
that, especially if they don't play golf.

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Yeah.

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I know you like to hit those little balls
around.

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I got these for you.

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Knew you would love them.

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Yeah.

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Don't love them.

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Thanks.

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Alright.

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Let's move on from the tee-off report.

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I feel like that got me fired up, ready to go
with a little bit of a wheeze and a cough.

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So let's

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keep it moving.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Keep it moving because we've got somebody to
add in.

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I think he just disappeared too.

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This is hilarious.

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He said he's having I saw a text pop up, said
he can't get in.

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He's in.

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He is officially in.

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He's got a haircut.

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I can see that he's in the green room right
now, so we're gonna bring him on.

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And that's our tour insider, Mr.

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Brent Grant.

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Give it up for the guy.

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No.

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There he is.

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The fans love him.

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What is up, Sarge?

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Oh, yeah.

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You do look like you're straight out of your I
don't even know what to say.

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Like, you just joined the army.

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Is there something you need to tell us?

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Oh my god.

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And he's got a jug of water.

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Oh, dude.

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Dude, this is brilliant.

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Oh, there's gonna be a lot of comments around
this one.

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Private Brent.

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PG.

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That's PG.

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How you doing, Brent?

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Can anybody hear Brent?

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Nobody can hear him.

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Brent, we got an audio problem for you, bud.

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Did you plug in your headphones?

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He looks like he's gonna be monitoring the
sonar on a battleship right now with those

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fucking headset

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on.

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Your mic, though?

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You plugged in the receiver.

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Where's your actual mic?

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No.

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Where's the mic?

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I'm sorry.

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Oh, there we go.

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He's here.

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Can you hear me now?

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So I'm a little No.

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Not a

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little discombobulated this evening.

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A little discombobulated this evening.

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So do you have breaking news for us?

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That right there.

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Hey.

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Do you have breaking news for all of us, Brent,
that you've decided not to go to Q-School and

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you decided to join the Marines?

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He looks like Forrest Gump right after his leg
restraints came off.

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The one time I don't wear a hat.

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Oh my god.

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I've seen you without a hat.

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It does not normally look that dye and tight.

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Holy shit.

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Hey, Buttsy.

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Good to see you, buddy.

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Long time no see.

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Come on, phone.

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Run.

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Just bringing the entertainment.

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It's not

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even Buttsy's.

258
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Buttsy's soapbox can kiss my ass.

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Oh, man.

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Love him.

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Jesus.

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Missed you guys.

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It's been a long way to talk.

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Private Brent, did you—I mean, I don't even
know where to take it from here.

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I mean, we're supposed to talk about the Hero
World Challenge preview, but I almost feel like

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we've got to talk about your first day of
training.

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Boot camp.

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In boot camp.

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Where are you right now, by the way?

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Are you in a hotel room?

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I am, and I apologize for this terrible damn,
terrible connection.

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Horrible, terrible Hilton Honors connection.

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Yeah.

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Santa Clarita up at a Hilton Garden Inn.

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That's how it's done at Cusco, boys.

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Wow.

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Gotta do what you gotta do better than a tent.

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Did you—I mean, hey.

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Before you left,

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did you

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go to your barber, or did you end up going to
the closest barber shop in town?

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I actually had this haircut the last time I saw
you guys.

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I just

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No change.

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Had a hat over it.

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But no.

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Yeah.

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This is just the way this is the way the
barber, this is the way this is the way it's

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done.

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So

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this is your normal cut?

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Done?

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Maybe not.

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I don't remember.

295
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I feel like I'm watching Full Metal Jacket
right now.

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No.

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No.

298
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Sobra, the too beaucoup.

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Oh, man.

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I love it.

301
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Anyways, what's going on, boys?

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Well, you were listening into Soapbox, which
were gifts, terrible golf gifts.

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I like

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this.

305
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As a serious golfer, have you ever received a
terrible golf gift from, like, a relative or

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significant other or parents or, you know,
anybody?

307
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Actually, yeah.

308
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And it was the funniest, one of the funniest
Christmases, I think.

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One of the few—well, we didn't have many where
everybody was together—but one of the few where

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my dad was there, he got—my mom got me—a
weighted club training aid, you know, one of

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those grip...

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Oh.

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You know, the blue, the really heavy blue iron,
8-iron.

314
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Right?

315
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And my dad takes it and makes a full swing, and
at the top of his backswing smashes the lights

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that were on the ceiling.

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Oh, wow.

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And just needless to say, that was a long

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time.

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Too.

321
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Awesome.

322
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But, yeah.

323
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So did that all come through without any
breaking or—oh, yeah.

324
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Anything like that?

325
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Okay.

326
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Alright.

327
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So your connection

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to me

329
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is a little slow.

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You guys are hearing everything from me?

331
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No.

332
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You're—you're fine on my end.

333
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Okay.

334
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Yeah.

335
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You're good.

336
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Good.

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So you guys—you guys coming my way are a little
slow sometimes, but as long as I'm getting out

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there, everybody else gets out there.

339
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Oh, very nice.

340
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Thanks.

341
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Hold on.

342
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Let me get—I was on

343
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Yeah.

344
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That's—that's really not

345
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Space is what?

346
00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,459
That yours—that that Josh Butler Buttsy is
slow?

347
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I could use the other word, but that would be a
little unkind.

348
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What is this?

349
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I've been working on

350
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it, Dikar.

351
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Let's go.

352
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Going to classes.

353
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Live fans who were clowns who still don't get
it and who will learn soon of how all of

354
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this—you can't just—what is he trying to say?

355
00:14:35,565 --> 00:14:39,585
I guess, Mister Sean, what—what—what is he
trying to say?

356
00:14:40,125 --> 00:14:41,264
It's Brian Shane.

357
00:14:42,524 --> 00:14:46,889
So Brian Shane typed in here that, or
commented.

358
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I was on Spaces and or I was on a Spaces event
a couple nights ago with some pro LIV Golf

359
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fans.

360
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And we're PGA Tour fans, he says.

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Clowns who still don't get it and how we'll
learn soon how this works.

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Interesting.

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So there still is, by the way, this awesome
hatred for us because the die-hard radical LIV

364
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Golf fans, mhmm, on Twitter especially, mhmm,
or X, are just an absolute catastrophe for

365
00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:22,700
humanity.

366
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Like, these kids that they just—I don't even
know how to put it.

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Like, they drank the sauce so hard that they
don't even know that, like, we're neutral on

368
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LIV Golf.

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We're not the enemy here.

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So I'm sure.

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Yeah.

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I'm actually, I put my—I put my hat in the ring
for anybody that wants a good player on the

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team.

374
00:15:48,850 --> 00:15:49,169
Yeah.

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00:15:49,169 --> 00:15:54,129
I mean, you were talking about it a couple
weeks ago, but it's just a weird one.

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00:15:54,129 --> 00:15:55,774
I mean, they're kinda in la-la land.

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They're in their own world, I'll say.

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They're in their own little bubble.

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So we shall keep it moving, keep it grooving.

380
00:16:02,654 --> 00:16:04,595
Let's talk about the Hero World Challenge.

381
00:16:06,654 --> 00:16:09,075
This is taking place in Albany in the Bahamas.

382
00:16:09,769 --> 00:16:15,769
And with Tiger being out after six back
surgeries, my question is, since we had such a

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00:16:15,769 --> 00:16:22,029
heated debate around the TGL, is, what the hell
are you doing?

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00:16:24,625 --> 00:16:26,945
All I'm hearing is bubble wrap.

385
00:16:26,945 --> 00:16:32,884
All I'm fucking hearing is crack, snap, pop out
of the entire fucking microphone.

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00:16:33,424 --> 00:16:34,804
Jesus Christ.

387
00:16:35,024 --> 00:16:35,524
Right.

388
00:16:35,664 --> 00:16:35,904
Right.

389
00:16:35,904 --> 00:16:37,125
Get this kid a Snickers.

390
00:16:38,304 --> 00:16:38,584
The

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Rule of thumb.

392
00:16:41,079 --> 00:16:45,019
So with the whole debate over the TGL, do you
think Tiger's gonna be ready for the TGL?

393
00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:49,319
Are you asking me?

394
00:16:49,319 --> 00:16:51,500
I hope so because that's about the only thing.

395
00:16:51,639 --> 00:16:52,139
Exactly.

396
00:16:52,199 --> 00:16:52,600
I mean,

397
00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:53,585
Sorry.

398
00:16:53,585 --> 00:16:53,985
I, I,

399
00:16:54,144 --> 00:16:56,165
the whole thing that he's invested in.

400
00:16:57,345 --> 00:16:57,665
Right?

401
00:16:57,665 --> 00:17:00,384
I mean, we all know that

402
00:17:00,384 --> 00:17:01,924
that does that work, Mike?

403
00:17:04,545 --> 00:17:07,125
So there's four players per team.

404
00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:07,679
No.

405
00:17:07,679 --> 00:17:09,859
However, only three guys play.

406
00:17:10,159 --> 00:17:13,919
He can't withdraw from the TGL like he has,
like, every other event, though.

407
00:17:13,919 --> 00:17:14,240
Right?

408
00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,299
Like, how what does he withdraw from the TGL?

409
00:17:17,679 --> 00:17:23,244
The one thing that I don't know about the TGL
is that whether or not you can sub in.

410
00:17:23,464 --> 00:17:29,164
So, like, you're going three on three for the
first six holes.

411
00:17:30,505 --> 00:17:39,210
And you from there go head to head, but it's
literally one player versus one player for a

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00:17:39,210 --> 00:17:39,690
hole.

413
00:17:39,690 --> 00:17:46,029
So you're basically three players, so it would
go, like, the first player on the team plays

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00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:50,884
one hole, next player on the team plays the
next hole, and then the next one, the third

415
00:17:50,884 --> 00:17:51,684
player does.

416
00:17:51,684 --> 00:17:55,625
I don't know if you could, like, sub in people
that haven't been in yet.

417
00:17:56,085 --> 00:18:00,085
Maybe, like, he gets one of those, gosh.

418
00:18:00,085 --> 00:18:01,384
What if he's, like, nope.

419
00:18:01,525 --> 00:18:02,265
Hang on.

420
00:18:02,590 --> 00:18:07,230
And then have you seen those, like, custom
wheelchairs where they, like, stand the guy up

421
00:18:07,230 --> 00:18:08,769
and his legs are strapped in?

422
00:18:08,830 --> 00:18:13,490
I've had that guy in my golf simulator before
at the PGA show.

423
00:18:13,549 --> 00:18:16,029
What if Tiger, like, you know, no withdrawal
clause.

424
00:18:16,029 --> 00:18:20,115
He just finishes the whole, like, in one of the
he wouldn't allow himself to be seen in one of

425
00:18:20,115 --> 00:18:20,355
those.

426
00:18:20,355 --> 00:18:20,855
Right?

427
00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:22,515
I don't

428
00:18:22,515 --> 00:18:23,015
know.

429
00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:24,075
Those Mac bots.

430
00:18:24,275 --> 00:18:25,714
How we got our comments back.

431
00:18:25,714 --> 00:18:26,535
That's great.

432
00:18:26,914 --> 00:18:30,355
But we don't I mean, you don't need to walk in
this.

433
00:18:30,355 --> 00:18:34,279
So that's one of the that's one of the
positives for Tiger.

434
00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:37,100
I mean, but he doesn't even look like he's
walking good right now.

435
00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:38,360
No.

436
00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:38,860
No.

437
00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:48,455
I mean, I saw him in Mexico late last year
after he had just got a bunch of shots kind of

438
00:18:48,455 --> 00:18:49,914
into his ankle and whatnot.

439
00:18:49,975 --> 00:18:51,434
He was walking pretty gingerly.

440
00:18:51,494 --> 00:18:52,855
I asked him just flat out.

441
00:18:52,855 --> 00:18:54,715
I was like, dude, are you gonna keep playing?

442
00:18:54,934 --> 00:18:55,975
And he goes, yeah, man.

443
00:18:55,975 --> 00:19:01,230
I'm gonna keep getting healthy and keep
playing, and hopefully, you know, can be out

444
00:19:01,230 --> 00:19:02,029
there with you guys.

445
00:19:02,029 --> 00:19:06,269
And, you know, obviously, for somebody like me,
that's pretty incredible to hear.

446
00:19:06,269 --> 00:19:14,054
But the TGL stuff, I mean, again, right, I
mean, this is all centered around making sure

447
00:19:14,054 --> 00:19:21,494
that these guys are the stars of the show, and
there's no bullshit coverage that you're gonna

448
00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:22,855
say, well, we missed a shot here.

449
00:19:22,855 --> 00:19:24,075
We missed a shot there.

450
00:19:24,295 --> 00:19:24,615
Yeah.

451
00:19:24,775 --> 00:19:29,609
You know, these guys are all gonna get the
marketing that they all deserve, and certainly

452
00:19:29,609 --> 00:19:31,470
that we all wished would happen.

453
00:19:31,849 --> 00:19:32,330
Well yeah.

454
00:19:32,330 --> 00:19:33,769
But what I'm saying is well, no.

455
00:19:33,769 --> 00:19:34,009
No.

456
00:19:34,009 --> 00:19:38,330
On a serious note, like, honestly, it's it's I
thought I gave this a lot of thought, and I

457
00:19:38,330 --> 00:19:40,330
really truly believe that I know I did.

458
00:19:40,330 --> 00:19:41,150
I really did.

459
00:19:41,289 --> 00:19:50,555
I believe that this type of coverage is what
the PGA Tour needs, and this is how they should

460
00:19:50,555 --> 00:19:52,174
promote all of their players.

461
00:19:53,515 --> 00:19:58,730
But it just so happens that the richest man in
golf, at least richest player in golf and

462
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probably the second richest player in golf,
joined together to say, fuck it.

463
00:20:02,650 --> 00:20:07,529
We're just gonna take this on ourselves, and
we're gonna market our guys and ourselves and

464
00:20:07,529 --> 00:20:08,730
make a shitload of money.

465
00:20:08,730 --> 00:20:10,454
And that's exactly what they're gonna do.

466
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