Thursday, February 13, 2025

Show Notes

The episode kicks off with an intro to Pull Hook Golf, followed by a recap of recent tournaments and LIV Golf updates. Buttsy shares his experiences at influencer events and the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The discussion includes Thomas Detry's performance and Brent Grant's reflections on his Korn Ferry Tour and Bogotá experiences. The episode also covers Torrey Pines betting odds, weather impacts, and insights into golf courses, betting, and caddy stories. LIV Golf's viewership, criticism, and future are explored, along with speculation on a potential merger with the PGA Tour. It wraps up with the Pull Hook Golf team's humorous social media takes and a sign-off.

(0:11) Introduction to Pull Hook Golf episode
(0:44) Recap of recent golf tournaments and LIV Golf updates
(2:01) Sponsor: Devereux Golf
(2:57) Buttsy's influencer events and Waste Management Phoenix Open leaderboard
(10:00) Thomas Detry’s performance and the last Monday Q at Phoenix Open
(17:25) Brent Grant’s Korn Ferry Tour and Bogotá experiences
(27:00) Torrey Pines betting odds and weather impact
(31:05) Insights on golf courses, betting, and caddy stories
(34:42) LIV Golf viewership, criticism, and predictions for golf tournaments
(41:11) LIV Golf's impact, future, and social media reactions
(49:18) LIV Golf Adelaide event and financial sustainability
(53:28) LIV Golf and PGA Tour merger speculation and sponsorship impact
(57:02) PGA Tour financial transparency and PIF's interest
(1:01:09) Pull Hook Golf team proposal and humorous social media takes
(1:08:29) Episode wrap-up and sign-off

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.

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We've got Brent Grant.

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And my goodness gracious, do we have

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an epic—okay, that's enough—an epic, epic show
for all of you.

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We've got the tee-off report with Buttsy.

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Yes, folks.

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We're back with the tee-off report with my man,
Buttsy.

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And then we've got the Waste Management Phoenix
Open that just finished up this past weekend.

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That was here locally.

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Absolutely had a blast out there.

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I know Buttsy did too.

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And then, sure enough, we've got a little Korn
Ferry, Bogotá update from our dear tour insider

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lad here, mister Brent Grant.

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And then folks, we've got the upcoming Genesis
at Torrey Pines, not Riv, which is I wonder how

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I'm gonna be feeling this weekend because

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Absent of the big cat.

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Well, absent of the big cat.

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The big cat's not playing because his mother
passed away, wasn't ready.

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Oh,

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seriously?

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Yeah.

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It well, she passed away last Tuesday and, sure
enough, he said he's just not ready to deal

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with that and have to be in front of the media
and so forth.

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But he is gonna be on-site, so we shall see
that.

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But, I don't know how I'm gonna feel with it
being at Torrey Pines.

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Like, Riv is one of my favorite golf courses,
period.

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So I do hope that we have a good tournament.

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We were just at Torrey Pines a few weeks ago.

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I did hear there's gonna be quite a bit of
weather.

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Interested.

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Exactly.

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We've also got a LIV Golf update here, and then
we've got an update on the PIF PGA Tour deal.

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So finally, some movement around that entire
ordeal.

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I've got some details for all of you.

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Mhmm.

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Buttsie's got it on.

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Brent's got it on underneath.

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Let's get into it.

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We've got the tee-off report with the big man,
the Buttsy.

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And, Buttsy, I gotta ask you because last week,
you know, we did the Johnny Walker Devereux

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golf event at Puttshack and you came directly
from one of those influencer events where, you

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know, all the cool kids get to go and play some
golf.

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But, Buttsy, what's the worst thing about
playing in one of those influencer events?

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That's correct, Matt.

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I did come from an influencer event.

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I think cool is a very relative word in that
case.

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People don't get it.

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Yeah.

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It's, you know, and I'm probably been guilty of
this in the past myself, especially when I

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first started doing social media, but this is
just a cesspool of influencers that don't know

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one another, that act like they know one
another, and just suck on each other all day,

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sharing stories and getting in videos and
collabing and basically just trying to, like,

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pawn each other's follow—I don't know.

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Like, like, siphon each other's followers.

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Right?

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It's like a collective of influencers, and
maybe that got—and you can tell.

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Like, Good Good.

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Everybody's sucking off Good Good.

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How can we get in a Good Good video?

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And then it kinda goes down the mountain.

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Right?

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Like, you can tell based on follower count
literally where the most people are hovering

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around, trying to get on the and trying to be
seen with those guys.

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And then they're sharing with them, and then
there's third-tier sharing and suck off, and

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it's just crazy.

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You gotta love the third-tier suck off.

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You know what I mean?

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Yes.

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And it's very true.

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And I think it goes all the way down like the
food pyramid.

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I think we get to, like, eighth or ninth tier
down even though what we call that.

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We call that Chinese food.

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Yeah.

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So that's how it went.

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That said, I saw some OGs in the game.

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I did walk up to and meet some people that I do
follow, and put a face to the name.

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They're really cool folks.

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Teal Barber, he was awesome.

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Sunny

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That just sounds awesome.

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Teal Barber.

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Yeah.

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He's a cool dude.

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And if you don't follow Teal, he's, like,
pretty authentic.

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One of the funniest motherfuckers on the 'gram
doing original stuff, not copying other people,

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which is kind of my thing.

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So, yeah, it was fun, man.

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Those events, they're good and bad.

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It's kinda what you make of it.

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But for the most part, outside looking in, you
can sit in the back and kinda watch this go

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down with all the folks, and it's very
interesting.

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And that hits that I'm and then by the way,
wasn't it like a ridiculous amount of time?

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Like, talk about the PGA Tour needing to speed
up play.

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Yeah.

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So we had our pod at what was it?

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Three?

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Three o'clock.

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So game time there was 9:00 in the morning.

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I left on the 10th tee box, and that gave me
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that gives you any how slow this went.

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If it's you're not you I think you're actually
playing three or four holes all day.

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The rest are, like, paid hole-in-ones.

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You know?

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$500, and you can have will fly a grown-up to
the hole and drop the ball.

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Now you automatically get a two, but if it goes
in, you get a one.

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Yeah.

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I think the winner shot, like, 34-under

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or something like that.

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Good lord.

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34-under.

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You gotta absolutely love that.

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We're getting some good comments in tonight as
well.

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Feel free, folks.

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If you're on X or on YouTube watching this
live, feel free to chime in.

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We will see your comments and we'll get them
posted up here if they're good.

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Now as we continue beyond the influencer side
of things, we've got the Waste Management

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Phoenix Open that we just finished up this past
weekend.

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And boy oh boy, it was a pretty good event.

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I mean, for the most part, let me just take you
guys through a quick rundown here.

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I know, Buttsy, you were out there on Saturday.

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I was out there a couple times throughout the
week.

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Thursday, especially, got to be in the 16th
suite with, Devro Golf and Johnnie Walker.

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But Thomas Detry, that whole deal, I don't,
dude, I've said this numerous times in sports

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that, like, when a guy can't overcome under
pressure, they choke.

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And then for the next, like, year or so, they
don't talk about anything that they've changed.

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And you're just like, how are you going?

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Like, you're just all of a sudden gonna be good
in that moment.

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Thomas Detry though, he had problems closing
out golf tournaments.

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And this month that

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was like watching Rocco and Tiger.

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It was like watching Michael Jordan drain a
jumper against the Utah Jazz, my friend.

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Like, he did not falter.

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And he was cool, calm, collected.

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Afterwards, he talks about I've been doing a
shit ton of meditation, and when I got onto

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that first tee on the final round, I had no
nerves whatsoever.

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And I'm telling you right now, it showed.

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That dude and that is not an environment, by
the way, that is calm.

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That, you know, you can just get by and without
the crowd like messing with you a little bit.

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And yes, you had Scottie Scheffler coming up
from behind.

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You had Jordan Spieth coming up from behind.

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That sounds really dirty.

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But, Buttsy, tell me, since they were coming up
from behind, like, how nerve-wracking can that

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be?

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I just think, between everybody that was out
there, is it Detry?

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Detry?

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Thomas Detry.

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Electric personality, probably one of the more
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tour in my life.

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Glad-handing all the fans down 18.

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He couldn't even tell he was playing to win a
golf tournament.

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So I don't know about the meditation or any of
that.

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That didn't shine through for me.

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But this guy's got a lot of wins in his future.

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Might, might go out on a limb and say that he
eclipses Tiger in total tour wins.

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You alright?

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Continue.

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Continue.

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You might all the way back up.

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You might

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might go out on a limb and say that he eclipses
Tiger in total tour wins by the

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time the river

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is over.

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Why might?

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Just say it.

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Where is it?

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I mean, spot on.

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That's exactly what I was thinking.

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Fun coming through the clouds.

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You could just see it like an act of God.

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Like, this is him.

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He is Neo from The Matrix, and that's what we
saw.

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So yeah.

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Wow.

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That is fantastic analysis.

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Folks, if you can't tell, I'm starting to sweat
now just because of that insane, amazing

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analysis out of Buttsy.

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I mean, just he's a connoisseur of sorts, of
players.

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He knows players.

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You ask, man, and I'm here to tell you, and,
like, I haven't been wrong about any of this.

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So truly authentic.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I can't recall the last time that you were
wrong about anything.

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I mean, you were spot on with Anthony Kim.

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That was Yeah.

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I mean, he's back.

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He's back.

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So he's back.

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We long time.

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Oh, man.

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So he wins by seven at a crowd-infused place
that is not easy to win.

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I mean, we've seen guys choke.

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We saw Sahith Theegala choke a victory, right?

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On 17, he hit it into the water on the left, as
I recall, coming down the stretch and blew it.

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So, I mean, this is not an easy golf course to
win and to win by seven over some of those

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names that I mentioned.

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And let's do a little leaderboard rundown here.

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So good old Michael Kim, the Twitter sensation
himself.

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He's been really good on Twitter.

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17 under T-2.

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Daniel Berger, which we found out during the
broadcast, has more of Justin Thomas's money

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than anybody else that Justin Thomas plays
against.

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Christiaan Bezuidenhout was T-4 along with
Jordan Spieth.

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Spieth looked like he was back this week.

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However, he still was on some adventures.

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He loves the wildlife in Arizona, loves hanging
out with some desert animals, and sure enough,

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it showed.

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Justin Thomas, minus 15.

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He holed out on the last, I believe.

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And then Wilt Chandler, T-6.

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So Will Chandler was a Monday qualifier.

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We'll get into that story here in a second.

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Robert MacIntyre, T-6 at 15 under.

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Adam Hadwin, the Canadian at 14.

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Taylor Moore, 14 under.

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And Maverick McNealy, 14 under.

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So that's your leaderboard wrap-up there for
the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

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And I just I gotta give a shout-out, first of
all, to the Thunderbirds.

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Yeah.

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Because they cleaned up that tournament.

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They knew after last year, this has gone too
far.

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And I don't know about you, Buttsy, you were
out there on the busiest day.

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I decided not to go Saturday.

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So

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They they rung it in, man.

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They they brought it back to its brilliance, I
think, right, where it was right on the edge.

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And that's where it usually is, and that's when
it's

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the most fun.

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And, we saw that again this year.

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So I

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don't think people—I mean, you had a lot of
variables last year.

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You had the rain and the mud and, like, shut
down parking lots, lines of people that weren't

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intended to be marching by each other.

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Absolutely.

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Anyways, yeah, it was way better.

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It was

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and you could really tell because of social
media because social media did not have all the

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clips that you normally see of just debauchery.

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It was all from years past.

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Like, I'm like, oh, I've seen that one before.

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Oh, I've seen that one before.

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So ladies falling down the hill sliding and
stuff.

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Yeah.

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Not a lot of that this year.

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It was—it was—that was the unfortunate thing.

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But, yeah, I feel like they got the digital
tickets going.

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So the past two years, they had it to where
they just stopped checking tickets because it

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got too crowded.

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So people were calling up their friends saying,
get down here.

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And, sure enough, everybody was just getting
into the golf tournament, and it was just—I've

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talked to a cop that was out there last year
and he's like, there's over—there's over a

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million people on-site right now, which is
insane for a golf event.

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So that's why it was a bit wild and crazy in
years past, but again, that's something that

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the Thunderbirds cleaned up and we're greatly
appreciative for because, yes, there's drunken

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fun and then there is debauchery.

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And there was some drunken fun out there and it
was all good time.

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So really appreciate them doing that.

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Let's get into, by the way, the last Monday Q
ever at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

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Can we get a moment of silence?

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It's the last Monday Q ever, which, Brent
Grant, he decided not to play in the final

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Monday Q ever because he ended up getting into
Bogotá, which is next.

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But, I mean, Brent, how do you feel?

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Let's talk to a player who actually was gonna
play in the Monday qualifier.

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What did you think about that?

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I mean, it being the last one.

293
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Well, obviously, it's tragic.

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And as we know, most PGA Tour winners, you
know, that win come from the Monday qualifying

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category.

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So that's gonna be a huge loss.

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But, other than that, I have actually never
played in the Waste Management Monday

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qualifier.

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It was always at McCormick Ranch and always
came at a time when I was gone.

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So, honestly, when I was on the PGA Tour, and I
didn't get into the Waste Management, it was a

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nice week off.

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So it was nice not to have to play.

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But, honestly, we've seen this coming.

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We knew that, you know, a lot of things were
gonna change, are gonna change next year.

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And, obviously, you know, guys like Patrick
Reed and the major champions that he kinda goes

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along with are all gonna be, you know,
nonexistent now.

307
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So, you know, they're cutting huge portions of
the PGA Tour out.

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So it's tragic.

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It really sucks.

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It really does.

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I even posted where I'm like, man, this golf
tournament changed Will Zalatoris' life.

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I mean, $300,000 finishing in the top 10.

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It's unbelievable.

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So, his year has definitely shifted
drastically.

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Do they head back to the East Coast after
Genesis?

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I think they do go play the Cognizant.

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Yeah.

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The Cognizant.

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So you gotta be cognizant of the

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Honda only north of the

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Yeah.

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See?

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There you go.

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And then we got our East Coast swing, and then
we got the Masters not too far away either

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coming up in April.

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So looking forward to the golf we've got going
on.

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But, you know, let's let's keep it moving.

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Keep it moving.

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Keep it fresh.

330
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Real real quick, Matty.

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Do we have, like, an anniversary coming up, or
did we pass that?

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It's coming up.

333
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It's in March.

334
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Sorry.

335
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Well, heart flutter there.

336
00:16:22,004 --> 00:16:22,504
Yeah.

337
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Oh, well, hang on a second.

338
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You and I have an anniversary.

339
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Yeah.

340
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Yeah.

341
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The waste pause.

342
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It was the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

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That is always going to be our first time,
having doing a, co-hosted show together.

344
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Yeah.

345
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Cool.

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Yeah.

347
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Yeah.

348
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Thanks for reminding me.

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I've I actually, you know, I was thinking about
the big the when the show started going back

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in, March three years ago, but, poof.

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And this is episode And

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I was like, we did the oh, yeah.

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It's almost yeah.

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This is episode 160.

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Can you believe it?

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And we're still on air.

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We haven't been arrested or kicked off yet or
anything like that.

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I mean, it's incredible.

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It's impressive.

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Absolutely love it.

361
00:17:09,059 --> 00:17:15,059
Brent, this is this is your moment, buddy,
because I mentioned you did not play the Monday

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queue for the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

363
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You instead decided to go to Bogotá.

364
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Yep.

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00:17:26,724 --> 00:17:27,545
Sure did.

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00:17:29,579 --> 00:17:33,759
So yeah.

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Oh, man.

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I always love going there.

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It's actually one of my favorite tournaments
every year, despite the weather.

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But, yeah, it was great.

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Flying high at 8,600 feet, smoking great
cigars, and they have beautiful scenery out

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there.

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Unfortunately, it's a third-world country, so I
kinda keep it, you know, locked up.

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But, but, mirror mirror.

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Anyways, yeah.

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So Kyle Westmoreland went and got it done.

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First win on the Korn Ferry Tour, since turning
professional in 2019—2017, excuse me.

378
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Formerly, U.S.

379
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Air Force captain.

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So, definitely appreciate him and his service.

381
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But, yeah, talk to him a little bit on the
phone.

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He's let's see.

383
00:18:18,644 --> 00:18:20,005
You you'll you'll appreciate this.

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He's six foot three, two hundred and twenty
pounds, and he hits it probably further than

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anybody on the tour on either tour.

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So I appreciate that.

387
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Yep.

388
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Yeah.

389
00:18:28,910 --> 00:18:30,369
I know you love the long ball.

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00:18:30,430 --> 00:18:33,869
So, but, yeah, it's, it was playing super soft.

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So, the fact that a long ball hitter got it
done meant that he was able to control his

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distance better than anybody.

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So, congrats to him, and, yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was great.

396
00:18:44,744 --> 00:18:48,125
Certainly would have been rather you know,
would have rather played the Waste Management,

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rather than the Monday, but, happy to get into
an event when I can.

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Guys, Trot golfer certainly helped us out here.

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They go to Mexico.

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They go to Vidanta.

401
00:18:58,210 --> 00:19:05,250
So that used to be the, over at Greg Norman's
golf course before LIV Golf took that one over.

402
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But, yeah.

403
00:19:06,884 --> 00:19:07,445
You're right.

404
00:19:07,445 --> 00:19:10,585
That used to be that used to be at, Mayakoba.

405
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That's correct.

406
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Yeah.

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Love that.

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And then, that's not that wasn't the common I
was and then they go to Florida after that with

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the Cognizant.

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So yes.

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I thought Thank you, Austin Whittington, for
helping us out there as well.

412
00:19:23,837 --> 00:19:24,349
Now Jake Knapp.

413
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Right?

414
00:19:24,589 --> 00:19:25,330
Jake Knapp?

415
00:19:25,390 --> 00:19:26,830
I do have to ask you, though.

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Hang on a second.

417
00:19:27,789 --> 00:19:28,830
Hang on a second.

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00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:29,789
I gotta ask Brent.

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00:19:29,789 --> 00:19:33,470
Brent, what the fuck happened in the second
round in holes one and two?

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Fucking

421
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great question.

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I've seen

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that as well.

424
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Yeah.

425
00:19:36,845 --> 00:19:37,005
Yeah.

426
00:19:37,005 --> 00:19:38,845
You you didn't think I'm five.

427
00:19:38,845 --> 00:19:43,025
I mean, you think I'm going to just absolutely
let that go by the wayside?

428
00:19:43,484 --> 00:19:44,384
Well, you could've.

429
00:19:44,605 --> 00:19:44,924
No.

430
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Ball up for you.

431
00:19:45,804 --> 00:19:46,304
Right?

432
00:19:46,605 --> 00:19:47,005
No.

433
00:19:47,005 --> 00:19:47,700
God, no.

434
00:19:48,179 --> 00:19:48,339
No.

435
00:19:48,339 --> 00:19:51,059
I played the first round, got, knocked some
rust off.

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And then, on the second round, it's, honestly,
I hate to say this, but the greens the first

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green specifically was about two foot faster,
than the putting green, which is no excuse.

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