Thursday, September 26, 2024

Show Notes

Matt Cook and Buttsy return with exciting updates, including Matt's new role with Vice Golf. They discuss the BMW PGA Championship, LIV Golf's team dynamics, and Phil Mickelson's future. A new TOUR Insider is announced; Brent Grant joins Pull Hook Golf. He shares insights from his golf journey and the PGA Tour, offering thoughts on the President's Cup and players like Si Woo Kim. The guys analyze the US team's strengths and spotlight players such as Sam Burns. They also dive into golf content creation on YouTube and preview upcoming tournaments.

(0:00) Introduction and episode overview
(0:19) Recap of BMW PGA Championship and LIV Golf Team Championship
(0:45) Preview of Presidents Cup
(0:52) Sponsor: Swannies Golf
(3:14) Matt Cook becomes Vice Golf ambassador
(3:48) BMW PGA Championship highlights and analysis
(10:26) LIV Golf Team Championship insights
(14:38) Phil Mickelson's comments on LIV Golf
(18:24) Swannies Style Segment - Golf attire debate
(21:47) Style discussion - Evaluating golf socks
(25:24) Announcement of New TOUR Insider
(27:22) Interview with Brent Grant and his golf journey
(34:42) Brent Grant's thoughts on LIV Golf
(37:19) In-depth Presidents Cup preview
(45:22) US vs. International team comparison
(48:25) Royal Montreal Golf Club discussion
(50:15) Analysis of Sam Burns and Short Game Chef
(54:56) Assessing Max Homa and Brian Harman
(57:28) International team's motivation at Presidents Cup
(58:59) PGA Tour media coverage critique
(1:02:38) Promoting new golf talents and personalities
(1:08:55) Challenges for Korn Ferry Tour players
(1:12:25) Competitiveness of the International team
(1:13:40) Presidents Cup predictions
(1:16:25) U.S. team potential liabilities
(1:19:26) Hosts' humor and light-hearted banter
(1:20:25) Golf betting discussion
(1:22:25) Wrapping up and final thoughts
(1:22:40) Sponsor: Swannies Golf

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, and we've
got an awesome episode for all of you.

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First off, we're gonna go back to the best from
pro golf last week.

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We're gonna go over all those recaps.

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So we've got the BMW PGA Championship recap.

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We've got the LIV Golf Team Championship recap,
and then we've got the Swannies style segment

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right in the middle, right in the heart of the
episode today.

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And then we've got a special announcement as we
have a new tour insider that is going to be

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joining the pod on a weekly basis.

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Yeah.

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I'm excited to announce this.

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We won't say his name yet.

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Right?

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We're gonna it's gonna be like a surprise.

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It's

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gonna be a surprise.

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Surprise.

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Surprise.

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Surprise.

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And then we've got the preview of the
Presidents Cup.

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So our tour insider is gonna go over some of
the analysis with us as well during that

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segment, and that's gonna wrap up the show.

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So without further ado, we wanna give a
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I'm rocking their gear tonight.

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I've got actually the tiger shirt underneath.

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It's like black on black.

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It's sick.

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This is just a phenomenal material.

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I got this and they still sell this.

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Is that saffron?

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This is the quarter zip, little athletic gear
and really, really comfortable.

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So really comfortable in studio, really
comfortable on the golf course.

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Can get you through some of those nipply type
of weather moments.

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I'll tell you what, man.

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I've been wearing golf clothes to bed lately.

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Oh, yeah.

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That'll that'll that'll stink up your mattress
real quick.

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Not like after.

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No.

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Like, I put them on.

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Yeah.

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They're comfy.

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Right?

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They're more comfortable than even, like, a
T-shirt.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you, actually.

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I have slept in the Swannies clothing a lot.

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I'm not a

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yeah.

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After a show, for instance?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I definitely like

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Drake or what do you mean?

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Yeah.

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You know?

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Pete Denny.

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Yeah.

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What's going on with all that?

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Let's, let's,

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Should we stay away from that topic?

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No, dude.

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Let's wait till we get lubed up to talk about
that.

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Love that.

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I mean, it's something we gotta talk about,
right?

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It's affecting the golf world massively.

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Man, is it?

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No.

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Not really.

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Not really, but we'll get into it as we get to
the end of the episode probably.

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But let's start out and, by the way, folks,
your boy just became a Vice Golf ambassador.

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Very good.

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That's all the promos that we got for now.

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I liked it.

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It was good.

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Not bad.

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Right?

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Now let's get into the best from pro golf last
week.

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We've got the BMW PGA Championship that took
place over at Wentworth.

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And my question to you, Buttsy, as we were
talking about this before we came on air, does

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Rory McIlroy have the worst luck ever?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think he does.

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It's ridiculous because it's not like he lost
this golf tournament.

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He got beat and it was a bad beat too.

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Yeah.

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When Billy Horschel drops an eagle on you

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I just watched it again on the way over.

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Well, I wasn't driving and watching it.

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I listened to

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it on

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the way over.

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Yeah.

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And, yeah.

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It's pretty gnarly.

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Anybody else besides Horschel too.

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My god.

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Oh, man.

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Slammed it.

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Slammed it home.

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He played good though.

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Yeah.

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He did.

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He didn't, like, fall off coming down the
stretch, he didn't miss a 3-footer or anything

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like that.

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So might be seeing, you know, might be climbing
out of the the slump.

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I'm gonna tell you right now, when he made the
switch back to his caddie, Micah Fugate, he

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absolutely turned into a different player and
he's gonna—Micah Fugate.

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Yeah.

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You gotta go Fugate.

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Is that his last name?

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Micah Fugate?

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Fugate.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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Good old Micah.

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Micah loves a good martini.

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Does he?

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Loves the olives in there.

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When he was on the pod because he's a past
guest, he had the good old vodka martinis with

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some olives in there.

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I don't know.

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I should have asked him at the time, does he
love blue cheese olives?

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Because I like a martini with blue cheese

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I love a blue cheese olive.

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I like a Diet Coke with a blue cheese olive.

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I don't care what the fuck it's in.

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I love blue cheese olives.

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Anyways, I haven't had a blue cheese olive in a
long time.

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Now you're gonna go immediately after the
podcast, probably get yourself.

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Can you imagine the atomic weapon that will
form after that?

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Mix that with a little gas station buffalo
chicken bite.

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You hate to see it.

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Some blue cheese olives.

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You hate to see it.

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Fire and cold.

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Oh, man.

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Yep.

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Wow.

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So Billy Horschel.

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I mean, and here's the crazy thing too about
Billy Horschel is that Rory McIlroy hit a gem

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in the second playoff hole for a second shot on
the par 5.

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Oh, no.

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Yeah.

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Hit a great shot.

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Mhmm.

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Billy Horschel answered.

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Like, a lot of people would have folded right
there.

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And then Rory misses his spot, not by a lot,
and then Billy Horschel drops that 30-plus

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footer.

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And it's just like Rory's just sitting there
going, the fuck do I have to do, man?

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Would you

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have taken 20 to 1 odds on a 100 that Billy's
gonna make that putt before I

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get it weird.

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I was watching it live.

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Are you gonna tell me you were feeling it?

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I was kinda like, he's gonna make this.

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Like, you kinda stepped in and you just kinda
had that hunch that Billy Horschel is probably

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gonna make that putt.

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I was floored that he did, but at the same
time, it's just like, damn, Billy.

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He just doesn't, he doesn't resonate with me as
being like a

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A clutch player?

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Exactly.

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Wow.

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We're finishing each other's sentences right
now.

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I feel like, yeah, Tom Cruise or something.

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It's wild.

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But Rory McIlroy made an eagle on 17 in order
to get into the playoff.

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He kinda botched the par 5 a little bit, 18th
in regulation.

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You can't even go back and watch a highlight of
it because he ended up hitting his second shot

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short in the rough, ends up pitching up, and
had about a 16—well, it was 16.8 feet.

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K.

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And ends up missing that one, tapping in for
the par in order to go into the playoff.

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Billy Horschel birdied the last two holes in
order to get into the playoff.

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Yeah.

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And then you've got my guy Aaron Rai who was my
pick last week and he went off on the front 9.

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Absolutely off on the front 9, shot 5-under 30
and ends up taking the lead.

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But Aaron Rai still is learning how to perform
under pressure and how to win golf tournaments.

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I think when Aaron Rai figures this out, we're
gonna see him winning quite a few tournaments.

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I don't disagree with that at all.

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His ball striking and those all those guys are,
but it's fucking elite.

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Yeah.

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He put on an absolute display.

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Like I said, I it's yeah.

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And then kudos to Aaron Rai because he was
right there, ends up T4 at minus 17.

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I think he was at minus 17.

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I can't remember off the top of my head.

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I know he finished T4, but he was right there
and he went for it on 18.

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He went for it into

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Where did he hit his second one?

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His in the water.

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So there you go.

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And that ended his day right there for trying
to win the golf tournament, but at least he

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gave it a go.

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Could have been different.

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But he didn't try to lay up.

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No.

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He didn't bitch out.

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That he did not.

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And then, the one guy that we are not talking
about is, and I completely just forgot his

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name.

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It's the guy who was in the Open Championship.

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He was in the playoff.

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Not Lawrence.

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I think it's Lawrence Thurston, is it?

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Help us out here, tour golfer.

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Is it Lawrence?

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It's Lawrence something.

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He was in, what did he, he was in the bunker,
right?

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Right?

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In there.

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Oh, it's Thriston Lawrence.

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Is that it?

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That's not it.

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That's not it?

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It could be, but

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I think it is.

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Some of these guys' names.

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I think it's Thriston because it's T-H-R-I-S.

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Little help.

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Yeah.

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A little help would go along with it.

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Help from the audience.

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Back it up.

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Oh, tour golfer said that's it.

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That's it.

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Thriston Lawrence.

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Alright.

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So there we go.

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Now he is underrated, and I've seen him play
over on the DP World Tour.

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When I have flicked through the channels, I've
seen him win golf tournaments, and he went to

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the Open Championship.

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He did not go away.

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He didn't really go away in this one either,
but in the first playoff hole, when you're up

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against Billy Horschel and Rory McIlroy, things
did not go well for him.

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So cool.

259
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There you have it.

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He struggled, if you can't tell.

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Bye.

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As a lot of people would.

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Yeah.

264
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Yeah.

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I don't hate the guy.

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But I wanted to make sure we said his name out
there, get that out there because the South

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African is pretty dang good.

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He deserves the cred.

269
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Yeah.

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He really does.

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So.

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So.

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Alright.

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Moving into our next topic, which is LIV Golf,
the team championship that took place in

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Dallas.

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And here's the thing, last week, we didn't even
cover this really because I didn't realize that

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it was happening a week later.

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I didn't either.

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Yeah.

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And I looked at the show notes and I was like,
Yeah.

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But after the fact.

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The the schedule has thrown me off this year
more so than in the prior two seasons, but I

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ended up catching the entire thing.

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And I was because I love the team match play
aspect, so I was really interested in Friday,

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Saturday.

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But for the final, they switched to stroke
play.

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Now with that

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What what's your thought on that?

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I hate it.

290
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Yeah?

291
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I hate it.

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And the one thing that I will say because I was
trashing it on Twitter and so forth, it it was

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better than I expected just because everybody
was really close in terms of their teams and

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coming down the final stretch.

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There

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was actually a tiny bit of drama around it.

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Like, you didn't know who could possibly win
because everybody was right there.

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So that was kinda cool.

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But if it was match play and, you know, you got
DJ going up against Cam Smith and a final or

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something along those lines, it would have been
absolutely sweet.

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The one thing and I'm I'm gonna jump around
here for just a second because I completely

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forgot to start this entire segment off with
the fact that

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j Rahm.

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Jon Rahm.

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I was just gonna

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Miss the entire weekend with flu

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like symptoms.

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I was like, are you getting to this later?

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Yeah.

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No.

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We need to get into it.

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The guy

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that won that fucking Super Bowl ring didn't he
didn't even play.

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Didn't even play, had flu-like symptoms.

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And my question to you, if this was the Ryder
Cup, does Jon Rahm sit out?

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That's I don't know.

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And I like Jon Rahm.

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I don't know what said flu-like symptoms really
means.

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I don't know if there was a personal thing
going on.

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I don't know if he was getting that weird toe
chopped off.

321
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Like, it's tough to say.

322
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You know?

323
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If the toe was giving him hell, who knows?

324
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Maybe he really couldn't play.

325
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But, if it was something minimal, yeah.

326
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Maybe.

327
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Yeah.

328
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He doesn't miss the Ryder Cup probably.

329
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No.

330
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There's no chance in hell.

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He's already He's

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missing the Ryder Cup.

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Got the ring.

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Like, this is bullshit.

335
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Yeah.

336
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That that was what was running through my head
is he's like, oh, you know, I'm not feeling

337
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well.

338
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I'm just gonna call it a day on this one.

339
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I already did my part.

340
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Yeah.

341
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Yeah.

342
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Yeah.

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He already had his year.

344
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John Catlin fills in for him and did a pretty
damn good job as they made it to the final, and

345
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they were leading initial, like, early on in
that final championship stroke play round.

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Yeah.

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But I just I can't stand the stroke play side
to it with the teams, especially for a team

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championship.

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I get it.

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You wanna see all four players play.

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Well, guess what?

352
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Have all four players play individual match
play against the other.

353
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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
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of strategy to where the third group is two
players on each side.

356
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K.

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And they're playing alternate shot.

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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
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I hate it too.

362
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I hate alter.

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I hate being a part of it and I don't.

364
00:13:53,615 --> 00:13:54,174
Yeah, I

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don't like being a part of it.

366
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No.

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It's terrible.

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But it was interesting because this year, it
wasn't like, oh, putting the best player

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against the best player.

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00:14:01,855 --> 00:14:03,554
Like, there was some strategy involved.

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Cam Smith ended up playing in the alternate
shot with, I forget who, Matt Jones.

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Okay.

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So you got that going for it.

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00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:23,075
Now as I keep tapping that on accident and
bringing up Trot Golfer's comment.

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00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:23,894
That's it.

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00:14:24,035 --> 00:14:24,514
That's it.

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00:14:24,514 --> 00:14:24,754
Yeah.

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00:14:24,754 --> 00:14:26,054
I was like, was that significant?

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00:14:26,675 --> 00:14:27,175
Okay.

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00:14:27,394 --> 00:14:27,894
No.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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