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1 00:00:02,879 --> 00:00:05,940 Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf, the podcast. 2 00:00:06,319 --> 00:00:07,679 I'm your host, Matt Cook. 3 00:00:07,679 --> 00:00:12,580 Tonight, we've got Buttsy with us, and we've got an awesome episode for all of you. 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,494 First off, we're gonna go back to the best from pro golf last week.
5 00:00:17,494 --> 00:00:19,574 We're gonna go over all those recaps. 6 00:00:19,574 --> 00:00:22,795 So we've got the BMW PGA Championship recap. 7 00:00:23,015 --> 00:00:28,855 We've got the LIV Golf Team Championship recap, and then we've got the Swannies style segment 8 00:00:28,855 --> 00:00:31,720 right in the middle, right in the heart of the episode today. 9 00:00:31,859 --> 00:00:37,299 And then we've got a special announcement as we have a new tour insider that is going to be 10 00:00:37,299 --> 00:00:40,520 joining the pod on a weekly basis.
11 00:00:40,659 --> 00:00:41,159 Yeah. 12 00:00:41,219 --> 00:00:42,260 I'm excited to announce this. 13 00:00:42,260 --> 00:00:43,299 We won't say his name yet. 14 00:00:43,299 --> 00:00:43,539 Right?
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93 00:03:47,245 --> 00:03:47,884 I liked it. 94 00:03:47,884 --> 00:03:48,604 It was good. 95 00:03:48,604 --> 00:03:49,085 Not bad. 96 00:03:49,085 --> 00:03:49,585 Right?
97 00:03:49,724 --> 00:03:53,120 Now let's get into the best from pro golf last week. 98 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,459 We've got the BMW PGA Championship that took place over at Wentworth. 99 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:04,185 And my question to you, Buttsy, as we were talking about this before we came on air, does 100 00:04:04,185 --> 00:04:06,925 Rory McIlroy have the worst luck ever? 101 00:04:11,705 --> 00:04:11,944 Yeah.
102 00:04:11,944 --> 00:04:12,264 Yeah. 103 00:04:12,264 --> 00:04:13,245 I think he does. 104 00:04:14,504 --> 00:04:20,500 It's ridiculous because it's not like he lost this golf tournament. 105 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:24,819 He got beat and it was a bad beat too.
106 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:25,360 Yeah. 107 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,759 When Billy Horschel drops an eagle on you 108 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,600 I just watched it again on the way over. 109 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,875 Well, I wasn't driving and watching it. 110 00:04:31,954 --> 00:04:32,754 I listened to 111 00:04:32,754 --> 00:04:32,914 it on 112 00:04:32,914 --> 00:04:33,634 the way over.
113 00:04:33,634 --> 00:04:34,035 Yeah. 114 00:04:34,035 --> 00:04:35,714 And, yeah. 115 00:04:35,714 --> 00:04:36,855 It's pretty gnarly. 116 00:04:37,074 --> 00:04:39,154 Anybody else besides Horschel too.
117 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:39,975 My god. 118 00:04:40,194 --> 00:04:40,935 Oh, man. 119 00:04:41,074 --> 00:04:42,035 Slammed it. 120 00:04:42,035 --> 00:04:43,095 Slammed it home.
121 00:04:43,154 --> 00:04:44,115 He played good though. 122 00:04:44,115 --> 00:04:44,355 Yeah. 123 00:04:44,355 --> 00:04:44,754 He did. 124 00:04:44,754 --> 00:04:50,529 He didn't, like, fall off coming down the stretch, he didn't miss a 3-footer or anything 125 00:04:50,529 --> 00:04:51,009 like that.
126 00:04:51,009 --> 00:04:56,290 So might be seeing, you know, might be climbing out of the the slump. 127 00:04:56,290 --> 00:05:00,525 I'm gonna tell you right now, when he made the switch back to his caddie, Micah Fugate, he 128 00:05:00,525 --> 00:05:04,064 absolutely turned into a different player and he's gonna—Micah Fugate. 129 00:05:04,365 --> 00:05:04,865 Yeah. 130 00:05:05,004 --> 00:05:06,145 You gotta go Fugate.
131 00:05:06,285 --> 00:05:07,404 Is that his last name? 132 00:05:07,404 --> 00:05:07,645 Yeah. 133 00:05:08,764 --> 00:05:09,264 Alright. 134 00:05:10,125 --> 00:05:10,944 Micah Fugate?
135 00:05:11,004 --> 00:05:11,504 Fugate. 136 00:05:11,564 --> 00:05:12,064 Alright. 137 00:05:12,205 --> 00:05:12,444 Yeah. 138 00:05:12,444 --> 00:05:13,425 Good old Micah.
139 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,379 Micah loves a good martini. 140 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,160 Does he? 141 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,319 Loves the olives in there. 142 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:25,519 When he was on the pod because he's a past guest, he had the good old vodka martinis with 143 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:26,875 some olives in there.
144 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:27,435 I don't know. 145 00:05:27,435 --> 00:05:30,235 I should have asked him at the time, does he love blue cheese olives? 146 00:05:30,235 --> 00:05:32,314 Because I like a martini with blue cheese 147 00:05:32,555 --> 00:05:34,735 I love a blue cheese olive. 148 00:05:34,954 --> 00:05:37,294 I like a Diet Coke with a blue cheese olive.
149 00:05:38,074 --> 00:05:39,629 I don't care what the fuck it's in. 150 00:05:40,430 --> 00:05:41,970 I love blue cheese olives. 151 00:05:42,270 --> 00:05:45,709 Anyways, I haven't had a blue cheese olive in a long time. 152 00:05:45,709 --> 00:05:48,830 Now you're gonna go immediately after the podcast, probably get yourself.
153 00:05:48,990 --> 00:05:52,589 Can you imagine the atomic weapon that will form after that? 154 00:05:52,589 --> 00:05:57,464 Mix that with a little gas station buffalo chicken bite. 155 00:05:57,525 --> 00:05:58,165 You hate to see it. 156 00:05:58,165 --> 00:05:59,464 Some blue cheese olives.
157 00:05:59,525 --> 00:06:00,985 You hate to see it. 158 00:06:01,045 --> 00:06:01,764 Fire and cold. 159 00:06:01,764 --> 00:06:02,425 Oh, man. 160 00:06:02,805 --> 00:06:03,305 Yep.
161 00:06:03,685 --> 00:06:04,185 Wow. 162 00:06:04,404 --> 00:06:06,025 So Billy Horschel. 163 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:11,569 I mean, and here's the crazy thing too about Billy Horschel is that Rory McIlroy hit a gem 164 00:06:11,709 --> 00:06:14,750 in the second playoff hole for a second shot on the par 5. 165 00:06:14,750 --> 00:06:15,069 Oh, no.
166 00:06:15,069 --> 00:06:15,310 Yeah. 167 00:06:15,310 --> 00:06:16,189 Hit a great shot. 168 00:06:16,189 --> 00:06:16,509 Mhmm. 169 00:06:16,509 --> 00:06:17,889 Billy Horschel answered.
170 00:06:18,269 --> 00:06:21,310 Like, a lot of people would have folded right there. 171 00:06:21,310 --> 00:06:26,694 And then Rory misses his spot, not by a lot, and then Billy Horschel drops that 30-plus 172 00:06:26,694 --> 00:06:27,194 footer. 173 00:06:27,574 --> 00:06:31,895 And it's just like Rory's just sitting there going, the fuck do I have to do, man? 174 00:06:31,895 --> 00:06:32,134 Would you 175 00:06:32,134 --> 00:06:38,386 have taken 20 to 1 odds on a 100 that Billy's gonna make that putt before I 176 00:06:38,386 --> 00:06:39,269 get it weird.
177 00:06:39,649 --> 00:06:40,930 I was watching it live. 178 00:06:40,930 --> 00:06:42,610 Are you gonna tell me you were feeling it? 179 00:06:42,610 --> 00:06:44,709 I was kinda like, he's gonna make this. 180 00:06:44,850 --> 00:06:49,729 Like, you kinda stepped in and you just kinda had that hunch that Billy Horschel is probably 181 00:06:49,729 --> 00:06:50,949 gonna make that putt.
182 00:06:51,569 --> 00:06:57,105 I was floored that he did, but at the same time, it's just like, damn, Billy. 183 00:06:57,324 --> 00:07:00,444 He just doesn't, he doesn't resonate with me as being like a 184 00:07:00,685 --> 00:07:01,564 A clutch player? 185 00:07:01,564 --> 00:07:02,064 Exactly. 186 00:07:02,685 --> 00:07:02,925 Wow.
187 00:07:02,925 --> 00:07:05,004 We're finishing each other's sentences right now. 188 00:07:05,004 --> 00:07:07,849 I feel like, yeah, Tom Cruise or something. 189 00:07:07,849 --> 00:07:08,329 It's wild. 190 00:07:08,329 --> 00:07:14,909 But Rory McIlroy made an eagle on 17 in order to get into the playoff.
191 00:07:15,209 --> 00:07:20,269 He kinda botched the par 5 a little bit, 18th in regulation. 192 00:07:21,115 --> 00:07:26,555 You can't even go back and watch a highlight of it because he ended up hitting his second shot 193 00:07:26,555 --> 00:07:32,910 short in the rough, ends up pitching up, and had about a 16—well, it was 16.8 feet. 194 00:07:33,069 --> 00:07:33,389 K. 195 00:07:33,389 --> 00:07:39,009 And ends up missing that one, tapping in for the par in order to go into the playoff.
196 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:43,009 Billy Horschel birdied the last two holes in order to get into the playoff. 197 00:07:43,149 --> 00:07:43,649 Yeah. 198 00:07:43,709 --> 00:07:50,904 And then you've got my guy Aaron Rai who was my pick last week and he went off on the front 9. 199 00:07:51,365 --> 00:07:57,144 Absolutely off on the front 9, shot 5-under 30 and ends up taking the lead.
200 00:07:57,925 --> 00:08:06,649 But Aaron Rai still is learning how to perform under pressure and how to win golf tournaments. 201 00:08:06,649 --> 00:08:10,810 I think when Aaron Rai figures this out, we're gonna see him winning quite a few tournaments. 202 00:08:10,810 --> 00:08:13,069 I don't disagree with that at all. 203 00:08:13,529 --> 00:08:17,354 His ball striking and those all those guys are, but it's fucking elite.
204 00:08:17,354 --> 00:08:17,754 Yeah. 205 00:08:17,754 --> 00:08:19,754 He put on an absolute display. 206 00:08:19,754 --> 00:08:21,454 Like I said, I it's yeah. 207 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:28,735 And then kudos to Aaron Rai because he was right there, ends up T4 at minus 17.
208 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:32,820 I think he was at minus 17. 209 00:08:32,820 --> 00:08:34,500 I can't remember off the top of my head. 210 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:40,360 I know he finished T4, but he was right there and he went for it on 18. 211 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:41,700 He went for it into 212 00:08:42,019 --> 00:08:43,424 Where did he hit his second one?
213 00:08:43,504 --> 00:08:45,365 His in the water. 214 00:08:45,825 --> 00:08:46,804 So there you go. 215 00:08:47,024 --> 00:08:51,184 And that ended his day right there for trying to win the golf tournament, but at least he 216 00:08:51,184 --> 00:08:51,664 gave it a go. 217 00:08:51,664 --> 00:08:52,464 Could have been different.
218 00:08:52,464 --> 00:08:53,904 But he didn't try to lay up. 219 00:08:53,904 --> 00:08:54,384 No. 220 00:08:54,384 --> 00:08:55,440 He didn't bitch out. 221 00:08:56,879 --> 00:08:57,940 That he did not.
222 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:06,320 And then, the one guy that we are not talking about is, and I completely just forgot his 223 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:06,820 name. 224 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,139 It's the guy who was in the Open Championship. 225 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:10,980 He was in the playoff. 226 00:09:11,495 --> 00:09:12,315 Not Lawrence.
227 00:09:12,855 --> 00:09:15,514 I think it's Lawrence Thurston, is it? 228 00:09:15,735 --> 00:09:17,514 Help us out here, tour golfer. 229 00:09:17,894 --> 00:09:18,714 Is it Lawrence? 230 00:09:19,014 --> 00:09:20,154 It's Lawrence something.
231 00:09:20,534 --> 00:09:23,214 He was in, what did he, he was in the bunker, right? 232 00:09:23,214 --> 00:09:23,654 Right? 233 00:09:23,654 --> 00:09:24,475 In there. 234 00:09:25,174 --> 00:09:26,955 Oh, it's Thriston Lawrence.
235 00:09:27,299 --> 00:09:28,039 Is that it? 236 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:28,740 That's not it. 237 00:09:28,740 --> 00:09:29,460 That's not it? 238 00:09:29,460 --> 00:09:30,419 It could be, but 239 00:09:30,419 --> 00:09:31,299 I think it is.
240 00:09:31,299 --> 00:09:32,340 Some of these guys' names. 241 00:09:32,340 --> 00:09:36,259 I think it's Thriston because it's T-H-R-I-S. 242 00:09:36,259 --> 00:09:36,980 Little help. 243 00:09:36,980 --> 00:09:37,220 Yeah.
244 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:38,540 A little help would go along with it. 245 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:39,799 Help from the audience. 246 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:41,240 Back it up. 247 00:09:41,585 --> 00:09:43,605 Oh, tour golfer said that's it.
248 00:09:43,665 --> 00:09:44,304 That's it. 249 00:09:44,304 --> 00:09:45,285 Thriston Lawrence. 250 00:09:45,745 --> 00:09:46,245 Alright. 251 00:09:46,304 --> 00:09:47,264 So there we go.
252 00:09:47,264 --> 00:09:52,004 Now he is underrated, and I've seen him play over on the DP World Tour. 253 00:09:52,065 --> 00:09:57,053 When I have flicked through the channels, I've seen him win golf tournaments, and he went to 254 00:09:57,053 --> 00:09:58,059 the Open Championship. 255 00:09:58,279 --> 00:09:59,740 He did not go away. 256 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:04,120 He didn't really go away in this one either, but in the first playoff hole, when you're up 257 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,925 against Billy Horschel and Rory McIlroy, things did not go well for him.
258 00:10:08,925 --> 00:10:09,685 So cool. 259 00:10:09,945 --> 00:10:10,764 There you have it. 260 00:10:10,764 --> 00:10:12,764 He struggled, if you can't tell. 261 00:10:12,764 --> 00:10:13,264 Bye.
262 00:10:13,965 --> 00:10:15,325 As a lot of people would. 263 00:10:15,325 --> 00:10:15,725 Yeah. 264 00:10:15,725 --> 00:10:15,884 Yeah. 265 00:10:15,884 --> 00:10:17,165 I don't hate the guy.
266 00:10:17,165 --> 00:10:21,720 But I wanted to make sure we said his name out there, get that out there because the South 267 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,079 African is pretty dang good. 268 00:10:23,079 --> 00:10:23,959 He deserves the cred. 269 00:10:23,959 --> 00:10:24,199 Yeah. 270 00:10:24,199 --> 00:10:24,919 He really does.
271 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:25,320 So. 272 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:25,820 So. 273 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:26,459 Alright. 274 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:32,120 Moving into our next topic, which is LIV Golf, the team championship that took place in 275 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:32,620 Dallas.
276 00:10:33,079 --> 00:10:39,044 And here's the thing, last week, we didn't even cover this really because I didn't realize that 277 00:10:39,044 --> 00:10:40,585 it was happening a week later. 278 00:10:40,644 --> 00:10:41,544 I didn't either. 279 00:10:42,085 --> 00:10:42,404 Yeah. 280 00:10:42,404 --> 00:10:45,684 And I looked at the show notes and I was like, Yeah.
281 00:10:45,684 --> 00:10:46,644 But after the fact. 282 00:10:46,644 --> 00:10:52,860 The the schedule has thrown me off this year more so than in the prior two seasons, but I 283 00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:54,959 ended up catching the entire thing. 284 00:10:55,339 --> 00:11:01,600 And I was because I love the team match play aspect, so I was really interested in Friday, 285 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:02,240 Saturday. 286 00:11:02,605 --> 00:11:04,945 But for the final, they switched to stroke play.
287 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:06,125 Now with that 288 00:11:06,365 --> 00:11:07,985 What what's your thought on that? 289 00:11:08,605 --> 00:11:09,245 I hate it. 290 00:11:09,245 --> 00:11:09,644 Yeah? 291 00:11:09,644 --> 00:11:10,125 I hate it.
292 00:11:10,125 --> 00:11:23,909 And the one thing that I will say because I was trashing it on Twitter and so forth, it it was 293 00:11:23,909 --> 00:11:30,549 better than I expected just because everybody was really close in terms of their teams and 294 00:11:30,549 --> 00:11:32,490 coming down the final stretch. 295 00:11:32,784 --> 00:11:33,024 There 296 00:11:33,024 --> 00:11:36,304 was actually a tiny bit of drama around it. 297 00:11:36,304 --> 00:11:40,884 Like, you didn't know who could possibly win because everybody was right there. 298 00:11:40,945 --> 00:11:42,325 So that was kinda cool.
299 00:11:42,784 --> 00:11:48,899 But if it was match play and, you know, you got DJ going up against Cam Smith and a final or 300 00:11:48,899 --> 00:11:51,799 something along those lines, it would have been absolutely sweet. 301 00:11:52,339 --> 00:11:57,480 The one thing and I'm I'm gonna jump around here for just a second because I completely 302 00:11:57,539 --> 00:12:00,644 forgot to start this entire segment off with the fact that 303 00:12:01,044 --> 00:12:01,684 j Rahm. 304 00:12:01,764 --> 00:12:02,565 Jon Rahm. 305 00:12:02,565 --> 00:12:03,284 I was just gonna 306 00:12:03,524 --> 00:12:05,284 Miss the entire weekend with flu 307 00:12:05,284 --> 00:12:05,845 like symptoms.
308 00:12:05,845 --> 00:12:07,524 I was like, are you getting to this later? 309 00:12:07,524 --> 00:12:07,764 Yeah. 310 00:12:07,764 --> 00:12:07,924 No. 311 00:12:07,924 --> 00:12:08,804 We need to get into it.
312 00:12:08,804 --> 00:12:09,044 The guy 313 00:12:09,044 --> 00:12:11,845 that won that fucking Super Bowl ring didn't he didn't even play. 314 00:12:11,845 --> 00:12:13,845 Didn't even play, had flu-like symptoms. 315 00:12:13,845 --> 00:12:18,110 And my question to you, if this was the Ryder Cup, does Jon Rahm sit out? 316 00:12:18,649 --> 00:12:21,289 That's I don't know.
317 00:12:21,289 --> 00:12:22,490 And I like Jon Rahm. 318 00:12:22,490 --> 00:12:25,870 I don't know what said flu-like symptoms really means. 319 00:12:26,250 --> 00:12:28,750 I don't know if there was a personal thing going on. 320 00:12:28,784 --> 00:12:31,904 I don't know if he was getting that weird toe chopped off.
321 00:12:31,904 --> 00:12:33,845 Like, it's tough to say. 322 00:12:33,904 --> 00:12:34,644 You know? 323 00:12:34,704 --> 00:12:36,784 If the toe was giving him hell, who knows? 324 00:12:36,784 --> 00:12:38,245 Maybe he really couldn't play.
325 00:12:38,544 --> 00:12:41,264 But, if it was something minimal, yeah. 326 00:12:41,264 --> 00:12:41,764 Maybe. 327 00:12:42,304 --> 00:12:42,544 Yeah. 328 00:12:42,544 --> 00:12:44,159 He doesn't miss the Ryder Cup probably.
329 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:44,659 No. 330 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:46,720 There's no chance in hell. 331 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:47,200 He's already He's 332 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:47,919 missing the Ryder Cup. 333 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,120 Got the ring.
334 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:50,080 Like, this is bullshit. 335 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:50,480 Yeah. 336 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,320 That that was what was running through my head is he's like, oh, you know, I'm not feeling 337 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:54,820 well. 338 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:57,315 I'm just gonna call it a day on this one.
339 00:12:57,794 --> 00:12:59,154 I already did my part. 340 00:12:59,154 --> 00:12:59,475 Yeah. 341 00:12:59,475 --> 00:12:59,875 Yeah. 342 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:00,375 Yeah.
343 00:13:00,595 --> 00:13:01,955 He already had his year. 344 00:13:01,955 --> 00:13:06,835 John Catlin fills in for him and did a pretty damn good job as they made it to the final, and 345 00:13:06,835 --> 00:13:12,709 they were leading initial, like, early on in that final championship stroke play round. 346 00:13:12,769 --> 00:13:12,929 Yeah. 347 00:13:12,929 --> 00:13:18,450 But I just I can't stand the stroke play side to it with the teams, especially for a team 348 00:13:18,450 --> 00:13:18,950 championship.
349 00:13:19,409 --> 00:13:19,970 I get it. 350 00:13:19,970 --> 00:13:21,730 You wanna see all four players play. 351 00:13:21,730 --> 00:13:22,690 Well, guess what? 352 00:13:22,690 --> 00:13:26,415 Have all four players play individual match play against the other.
353 00:13:26,415 --> 00:13:27,154 For sure. 354 00:13:27,375 --> 00:13:35,375 The first two days, I love how they have the match play set up and it adds in a little bit 355 00:13:35,375 --> 00:13:39,730 of strategy to where the third group is two players on each side. 356 00:13:39,790 --> 00:13:40,269 K. 357 00:13:40,269 --> 00:13:42,290 And they're playing alternate shot.
358 00:13:43,550 --> 00:13:46,450 Which means you are not big alternate shot guys. 359 00:13:46,509 --> 00:13:48,450 I hate alternate shot. 360 00:13:48,830 --> 00:13:49,730 I hate it. 361 00:13:50,014 --> 00:13:50,975 I hate it too.
362 00:13:50,975 --> 00:13:51,774 I hate alter. 363 00:13:51,774 --> 00:13:53,534 I hate being a part of it and I don't. 364 00:13:53,615 --> 00:13:54,174 Yeah, I 365 00:13:54,335 --> 00:13:55,855 don't like being a part of it. 366 00:13:55,855 --> 00:13:56,014 No.
367 00:13:56,014 --> 00:13:56,835 It's terrible. 368 00:13:56,894 --> 00:14:00,815 But it was interesting because this year, it wasn't like, oh, putting the best player 369 00:14:00,815 --> 00:14:01,855 against the best player. 370 00:14:01,855 --> 00:14:03,554 Like, there was some strategy involved. 371 00:14:03,855 --> 00:14:11,820 Cam Smith ended up playing in the alternate shot with, I forget who, Matt Jones.
372 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:13,500 Okay. 373 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,019 So you got that going for it. 374 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:23,075 Now as I keep tapping that on accident and bringing up Trot Golfer's comment. 375 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:23,894 That's it.
376 00:14:24,035 --> 00:14:24,514 That's it. 377 00:14:24,514 --> 00:14:24,754 Yeah. 378 00:14:24,754 --> 00:14:26,054 I was like, was that significant? 379 00:14:26,675 --> 00:14:27,175 Okay.
380 00:14:27,394 --> 00:14:27,894 No. 381 00:14:28,355 --> 00:14:32,695 So my whole thing is I would love to see a change to the format. 382 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:38,740 Now you sent me a link that the players were talking about this as well. 383 00:14:38,799 --> 00:14:39,120 Yeah.
384 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,720 Phil kinda, you know, came out and moonlighted a little bit. 385 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:43,039 Right? 386 00:14:43,039 --> 00:14:47,279 He kinda and like that, I think that article spoke to this. 387 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:47,600 Right?
388 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:55,214 Phil doesn't speak publicly without intention, and he definitely dropped some bread crumbs, I 389 00:14:55,214 --> 00:14:55,615 think. 390 00:14:55,855 --> 00:14:56,054 Yeah. 391 00:14:56,254 --> 00:14:59,475 In regards to what's in store for LIV going forward. 392 00:14:59,615 --> 00:15:00,355 The future.
393 00:15:00,414 --> 00:15:01,075 The future. 394 00:15:01,214 --> 00:15:04,149 The future of LIV is match play. 395 00:15:04,149 --> 00:15:04,470 Yeah. 396 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:09,269 And what's hilarious is that the LIV lovers on Twitter were going nuts.
397 00:15:09,269 --> 00:15:10,870 They're like, absolutely not. 398 00:15:10,870 --> 00:15:13,269 The individuals are still gonna be playing stroke play. 399 00:15:13,269 --> 00:15:15,029 There's no way they're gonna allow this. 400 00:15:15,029 --> 00:15:16,310 And it's like, listen, guys.
401 00:15:16,310 --> 00:15:17,930 It's not gonna be every event. 402 00:15:18,415 --> 00:15:18,735 No. 403 00:15:18,735 --> 00:15:21,535 But there's gonna be more team match play. 404 00:15:21,535 --> 00:15:21,855 Yeah.
405 00:15:21,855 --> 00:15:24,575 We talked about this one of the first pods we did together. 406 00:15:24,575 --> 00:15:28,415 We were covering LIV and when you grow up, like, in your, you know, you're part of the 407 00:15:28,415 --> 00:15:30,495 team environment, we'll just kinda reiterate that. 408 00:15:30,495 --> 00:15:33,460 But I'd rather watch match play out there. 409 00:15:33,460 --> 00:15:33,960 100%.
410 00:15:34,059 --> 00:15:34,899 I mean 411 00:15:34,980 --> 00:15:40,019 The amount of players in the field and, like, building that camaraderie up and building up 412 00:15:40,019 --> 00:15:42,440 who's on a team and, like, what their stats are. 413 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:42,820 Yeah. 414 00:15:42,820 --> 00:15:44,500 Kinda trying to figure out, like, alright. 415 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:48,524 Well, you got it going on but then, this guy's moving up the leaderboard individually, but 416 00:15:48,524 --> 00:15:50,845 there's really only 20 guys playing so who gives a fuck?
417 00:15:50,845 --> 00:15:52,205 Like, I don't know. 418 00:15:52,205 --> 00:15:52,524 Spot on. 419 00:15:52,524 --> 00:15:53,164 I don't know. 420 00:15:53,164 --> 00:15:53,644 Spot on.
421 00:15:53,644 --> 00:15:54,144 Yeah. 422 00:15:54,605 --> 00:15:59,404 The format change that I'd also like to see changed is for the team championship, you 423 00:15:59,404 --> 00:16:01,345 shouldn't just automatically get in. 424 00:16:02,429 --> 00:16:03,230 What do you mean? 425 00:16:03,230 --> 00:16:08,350 So there's a regular season, like, there's a points tally to the entire regular season, but 426 00:16:08,350 --> 00:16:11,490 yet they include every single team into the team championship.
427 00:16:11,709 --> 00:16:13,089 I don't think that's right. 428 00:16:13,629 --> 00:16:13,995 No. 429 00:16:14,235 --> 00:16:14,475 No. 430 00:16:14,475 --> 00:16:15,835 You it should be elite.
431 00:16:15,835 --> 00:16:17,274 Like, it should be like a World Series. 432 00:16:17,274 --> 00:16:22,654 And we almost had an issue where the Iron Heads almost won. 433 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:25,534 They were in last place coming into the team championship. 434 00:16:25,674 --> 00:16:26,075 Mhmm.
435 00:16:26,075 --> 00:16:30,080 Then you had the 4 Aces who had a bad year and they were in 10th. 436 00:16:30,139 --> 00:16:36,059 I would love to see it to where it's just the top 8 teams that are competing in the team 437 00:16:36,059 --> 00:16:37,899 championship and here's why. 438 00:16:37,899 --> 00:16:38,860 Because it's 3 days. 439 00:16:38,860 --> 00:16:39,259 Right?
440 00:16:39,259 --> 00:16:39,580 Yeah. 441 00:16:39,580 --> 00:16:46,705 So you would go from on Friday, you would have 8 teams and they would play match play head to 442 00:16:46,705 --> 00:16:47,205 head. 443 00:16:47,424 --> 00:16:50,404 Then on Saturday, that brings it down to 4 teams. 444 00:16:50,544 --> 00:16:52,485 So you got your semifinals there.
445 00:16:52,705 --> 00:16:57,710 And those 4 teams play and then you got the final 2 on Sunday. 446 00:16:57,769 --> 00:16:58,269 Bracket. 447 00:16:58,810 --> 00:16:59,129 Yeah. 448 00:16:59,129 --> 00:17:00,730 It's a true bracket.
449 00:17:00,730 --> 00:17:01,450 A real bracket. 450 00:17:01,450 --> 00:17:01,690 Yeah. 451 00:17:01,690 --> 00:17:01,977 A real bracket. 452 00:17:01,977 --> 00:17:02,042 Yeah.
453 00:17:02,042 --> 00:17:02,670 A real bracket. 454 00:17:02,810 --> 00:17:03,210 Yeah. 455 00:17:03,210 --> 00:17:06,650 It's kinda like what I was saying about the podcast studio with the green screen. 456 00:17:06,650 --> 00:17:08,410 I'm like, I'm done with the green screen.
457 00:17:08,410 --> 00:17:09,230 We're adults. 458 00:17:09,794 --> 00:17:10,595 You did say that. 459 00:17:10,595 --> 00:17:14,534 It's like, we're done with just having everybody play in a team championship. 460 00:17:14,754 --> 00:17:15,154 Yeah.
461 00:17:15,154 --> 00:17:17,254 The regular season is going to matter. 462 00:17:17,394 --> 00:17:21,494 You have to finish in the top eight, and we're actually gonna do a real fucking bracket. 463 00:17:22,309 --> 00:17:24,549 What an analogy to relate it to the green screen. 464 00:17:24,549 --> 00:17:25,929 I like what you did there.
465 00:17:27,029 --> 00:17:29,750 You were the green screen was a thing for you. 466 00:17:29,750 --> 00:17:30,470 It really was. 467 00:17:30,470 --> 00:17:30,789 It got 468 00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:33,269 This thing, this green screen was really bothering you. 469 00:17:33,269 --> 00:17:35,910 I've been using the green screen for, like, two and a half years.
470 00:17:35,910 --> 00:17:36,410 Yes. 471 00:17:36,710 --> 00:17:40,825 So when finally we had the studio, I'm, like, and we're using a green screen. 472 00:17:40,825 --> 00:17:41,945 It was just temporary. 473 00:17:42,184 --> 00:17:42,505 Yeah.
474 00:17:42,585 --> 00:17:47,144 Just because w
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