Thursday at the 2026 PGA Championship: Aronimink punches back, Blockie wins us over, and Higgo clown show

Now the shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. And here we go. Alright, alright, alright. Gentlemen! Start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is May 14th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! I'm doing fantastic. I got to say, what a delightful day of golf. That was so fun. I don't know about delightful day of golf and other things. I would say we pushed outside the boundaries of golf to find our delights today. But that's just generally what the PGA can do. Early on, you know, there might be, you know, arrests, there may be odds and ends, there might be Don Rayya, like strutting around. That's what we get with the PGA and we got it in buckets today. And honestly, some of it was golf Twitter showed up. I was howling at many of the cracking jokes on there. Just what was delivered in our lap this morning. I wake up, you know, first things I see is Braden Shattuck. And I mean, he's just shipping one over the LB fence that comes back in bounds. Felt horrible for him. That was like my intro to the day. You did a little lunch with Joseph on YouTube Live, who's PJ. We had the whole, whole gang minus Garrett together. Yeah. And Joseph said, Braden Shattuck got to hit the first and the fourth tee shots at Aranamake. Provisional was not needed. Provisional was not needed, but an employable was. They did have to take an employable from the fence. So like I got that and wake up and you got Bryson and just his idiotic coat just waddling around in this just giant puff ball coat. And I knew we were in for a good day and we really got it. Really fun stuff. I got to say, you're bearing the lead here. One of one of, you know, for the audience that's parents or, you know, what are your proudest days as a parent is, is when you realize that you have, you've officially ended potty training, the potty training period. And we're wondering if potty training is over. I'm not bearing the lead. I'll, I'll show you. Our guy is T one. I mean, he's T one with half the field, but good on potty. He was an early favorite. He was also man, you know, he started on 10. Mr. Fairway just sends one down low, low left, back, right pin, front left. He's got the whole green. You're like, Oh boy, here we go. He's got the whole green to just kind of run it on up there. And I believe the announcer call was, well, he'll be playing again. After he chipped it, he's going to play again. And you're like, Oh boy, boy, we're back to the Ollie round where he's, you know, opening with the triple and he's done. But no, he got quickly right on the ship and shot a 67, 300 tied with people. People are asking, is potty training over? No, no. I mean, it's like one of those days where you had a successful day. You know, we got, we don't need the, you know, we've got the, whatever the pullup trainers are there. But you know, you're just setting yourself up for disaster. If you're just going to go in the car ride with no protection the next day, you're just, I'll open yourself up for disaster. Good day. But the training is not over. He is tied with Steven Yeager who got called up to the bigs for a fun. Well, we got a storyline. What's that? We got a storyline nobody's talking about. Now that you are a reference, the joke. We got that one, right? Called up for a Steven Yeager, making a spot start for the Phillies this week. He's, he's shown up on the leaderboard here. Mr. 4A Steven Yeager. I mean, he's up from Lehigh Valley or Scranton or wherever you want to throw that out there. He got called up. Good for him. 67 feels like a total first round PGA type leader. Steven Yeager. I did like Martin Kymar was asked about if there was any sort of German kinship with the leader also who is also a leader, Kymar. And Martin said like, he's more American. He's not, he doesn't live, I mean, I think, I don't think it's Martin's place to take away a nationality of any other person. But yeah, I mean, next thing you know, he's going to try to tell us Sabatini is not a real slow fuck. But no, he's, he's tied. Kymar and Yeager are both P1. And Yeager is just trying to grow the game just like all the live players. Kymar is trying to grow the game. No, Yeager. Yeager. Why? Because he's German. He's representing Germany growing the game. We have Min Woo Lee who was asked about the rough. He's like, I don't know, mate. I wasn't in it. Kind of a nice question to answer. Rio, he's on suity. Also T1, Alex Smalley, who I said might have should, shouldn't be on the T sheet. Get put a break in the T box, T, T sheet for the Smalley Blanchette group. And then none other tied with his other six chaps. Seven, six is Scotty Schaeffler. The sheriff is in town. They should all be so lucky that if it was a 367 felt like he was just waiting to kind of shift and go to five, six, but he settles it three and he's, you know, in prime position. It's a scary proposition for everybody else. You know, it's shame on the early wave for nobody going out and hanging a number. Yeah. Because they had, it got way, way dear in the afternoon. Yes. It was hard. It was hard. You know, I'd actually love an apology for all the, I haven't heard anything about trees today for all the, for all the people ready to pounce on, on the golf architecture nerd community, just waiting and to yell about trees. You know what I found fascinating this morning? Everybody talking about how much it rained last night and the greens being so firm. Were you surprised by that? No, I wasn't. I just wanted to, I was hoping you would say yes, because you know what, what helps greens dry out? Wind. And not having trees. Oh, not having trees suck up the, yeah, yeah, the shade and the, or the, everybody was talking about how great the turf conditions were. Well, you know what makes turf conditions better? Hey, I think everybody, I, you know, how did the tree discourse start? I didn't really. Because Rory and Zander and all of them pounced on the tree thing. I looked up and all of a sudden we were, that became a thing as this can kind of become a thing at a major. There's one little thing on a Tuesday that all of a sudden becomes the topic de jure. Yeah. The trees helped. I, you know, everybody was overlooking the greens. The greens are fricking awesome. And I think everybody knows it now. Those greens are so funny. I have so many Marion, it's really silly people up my ass about saying that they're better greens than Marion. Like, I'm sorry. These greens are fricking awesome. These are some of the best greens in the world. And, and, and you know, this, it's just amazing what greens can do. Simply like really contoured and contoured greens with, with just like nooks to put pins. What it does to these guys. Which they did today. They pushed them out. Yeah. Through them in the blender. Jordan Spieth on the greens. You could see how this course could be really very fun for members if they want to make pins and some of the bowls. But for us, they obviously put them in the right corners and things like that. If you got a good chance, it was fun to try to take some on. If you're out of position, you really had a tough two putt because you only hit it at the center of the green. Noting that getting from the center to the edge is an adventure because they're super cool. Hard two putts. We knew that was going to be the case and they did it. They give you kind of an easier start on the first hole and then it got diabolical. So yeah, there's a lot. I'm just glad that the early discourse about the course this week was all about trees and not about the one of the most magnificent sets of greens in the world. And, you know, well, I'll say this, like, I was never, I was never, I was never, I was never, I was never surprised by the firmness thing just being there. Like it's been really dry generally season. It was crazy windy Wednesday night before they got the rain. Like it's just been kind of not real humid, a little overcast for sure. It wasn't like a bacon amount at all. I just like, I think we over, we've gotten, we've gone too far. There's too many takes. There's too many gambling insights that have to be offered that like not all weather is created equal, right? Weather can impact and change things, but now we just say any weather. Oh, well, it's going to rain on Wednesday. Just batting down the hatches is going to be 63 for four. Like we just have to offer up a tape. Well, it didn't get like six inches of rain. Anytime we see any rain, we just freak out. Like this is, you know, congressional 2011. And so like weather can have an impact, but some, it's, we have to be more specific. With the analysis. And I think we've just gone overboard and it's like the treat thing, right? You just kind of get going and there's this storyline, snowballs like, oh, rains come and they're going to just go to town on Wednesday, Thursday. And to your point about the course, just anecdotally speaking, I did not expect it to just go soft all of a sudden. I noticed there were, I kind of noticed the architecture people were like really into this thought it was cool, super cool. We're like fired up about this course, like excited. And I'm not like putting, casting that as a wide net. You, Shackleford, others I talked to were like really enthused about it. Thought it was cool. Even if the winning score even got to whatever, 17. That's the thing that people don't think about. Even if the winning score gets crazy, it doesn't mean the course sucks. Yeah. They respect, yes. But then like they were fired up. And then like the whole like coach, caddy, some player, like kind of the people who like just want pain and analyze an entire course through what is the leaderboard numbers, what are those numbers and how many rounds are in the 80s. Like they were really down on it. It might as well be Valhalla. It might as well be, you know, just another like Bellreeve type situation. And so there was a really like, and quite honestly, those, those, those coaches types or data guys and that analysis, gambling community, I'll throw them in there, might have been right in their analysis of the final score. And maybe that's what they're trying to do. Like guys are going to carve it up and it's going to be 17. They might have been right. They might have been proven right. It's going to be 10 to 14 at this rate. I mean, could have been. I don't say, I don't think they are at this point. They could have. And that's still like, that's their job. But there were like the overriding theme was, is going to be 20. Yeah. There was a lot of it. There was a lot of that. Tuesday morning. There's absolute carve it up city. And so there were for sure, like there was a real separation of viewpoints on what was coming. And I think Thursday really, I don't think it's going to get demonstrably easier. Doesn't seem like there's a ton of weather coming in. And I think, you know, the rough ended up being a little more significant than these guys expected. You know, Sahith said, you know, it's not something I'm used to. It's in squirt right and left. I don't really know where it's going. Rory said, I got a couple of lies today that were really bad. 10 polls, bad as I've seen. There's a penalty for certainly a penalty for missing the fairway. Probably more than what I anticipated after being here, whatever it is two Fridays ago, which is, you know, fair changes over a couple of weeks. Um, Ram, if you just go by some of the numbers, some of the fairways are wide. The greens aren't crazy, crazy firm yet. Well, a lot of these fairways are sloped in a way that they play very narrow. 15 today, I thought I was going to be in the fairway undoubtedly and I was off. Same on 10, same on four. It can easily roll off. And the rough doesn't look as with lawn as many other eight majors, but it's such a thick blade of grass. Even when the lie looks okay, it catches you so bad. So I think you're getting a real penalty for missing, even if you just have a wedge with the miss or, you know, low iron with the miss. I think the key is the rough and then the greens. It's just the combination. So if you hit the fairway, as Ben Wuley suggested, you know, don't ask me about the rough. I wasn't in it, you know, but if you hit the fairway and you can keep controlling it, and you can keep control of the ball where you, you know, you have the full arsenal of shots. You can take spin off, you can put spin on, you can do whatever you want with the ball. If you're in the fairway, that's your world. It's, it's the greens are challenging, but they aren't overwhelming. When they get overwhelming are when you don't have control of the ball and you have these tuck pins like the PGA throughout their today. I do expect them, I would guess that, you know, Carrie Hague, you know, he wouldn't tell you what he's going to do, but I would guess that he is probably going to make it pretty fun on Saturday as, as illuminated by Spieth. Put in some bowls and such. I mean, 14 was 14 pin. That's not typically when you see with the 156 guys still to like work through and there was a backup there. It did get two, three groups getting backed up. So yeah, we could be in for a ton of fun. I, I the sort of shenanigans aside that amused me, I found it to be a really interesting watch. 11, 11 was, was super fun. I was trying to think of like holes that, what are some like holes that have that dynamic? They don't have to be the exact same hole, whether it's drive and wedge, but like, I just couldn't think of like, like nine at Augusta, I'm saying do or die in terms of your coming 50 yards. It's not the same hole, not the same iron in. I'm just trying to think of shot. 10. Yeah. Yeah. One. We're going to get that. That's going to be, that's going to be better than coffee in a month is Thursday morning watching the 10th hole at Shinnecock with guys going out and cold. All the, all the feature groups had to go off 10 today. Like the Rory Bryce, I was like, God, that's like your first wedge shot kind of one of your first one. Yeah. And 10 was a ball buster. 10 was the hardest hole in the course. What would you have done if, if Bryson put on that coat between every shot? I would have just felt bad for the caddy having to deal with that thing. Yeah. See if that, if that shirt, that jacket's available in the crusher store. Is it a Reebok coat? I was a great Michael McEwen did a great meme of, of like a soccer football manager in front of the billboards, all the ads. Cause you know how they, where there are those puffy coats, coaching little football teams because a great three points. The lads fought it out there. I thought the boys were magnificent today. It's a huge three points for us. I mean, that's what he looks like. Is some Jose Mourinho or who, one of these, one of these, these soccer coaches and their puffy mess. It does, as you can see, have the Bryson branding on the side. So it might be available in the quick, in the crusher shop. It could be. You had that. It was great. It was a great way to wake up. It's not, it's not available in the crusher size store. That's it to me. Missed opportunity for Mr. Dishambo. A guy that could be looking to recoup wages in a couple of months. Yeah. 11, you know, one last course thing and we'll talk, we'll do big picture thoughts on Sunday night for sure on the course. That thing was scary as hell. Right. It was very, we saw Bryson just kind of tap it. He was portrayed on the broadcast as being unlucky, like because it stayed off above the hole. Hold on. Hold on. This is like a pet peeve of mine. The unlucky, like the discourse of unlucky, he hit it there. He played three practice rounds. You know the spots you want to avoid. And I know when Bryson hit that up there, he was probably like, oh, I should not have hit it there. It's not unlucky. So then he taps it goes, it just taps it and it goes whatever 50 feet by the hole. So that was, it's a, it's a very intimidating green and shot. Play is one of the easiest holes to par. I mean, you can make your birdies there. You know, you're just hitting a wedge. I say just, you know, you're hitting a 320 yard drive and then can you, can you get your distance and your flight? Right. And stop it and the way you want. And it was there for the taking by the scores. So fun, fun watch all the way around on the golf course. Where do you want to go next? You want to go with some big names? You want to go with some amusements, store lines? I think we should do some amusements. What was your favorite amusement of the day? Let's all jump in here. Pee jet get in here. Everybody bring their favorite amusing thing for me. I'll just, I'll start because I feel like it was, it was a bridge to like casual conversation. Like I brought this up with my wife and she found it amusing. Was, was the guy, I was showing up late to the deep time. Garakigou. Yep. Incredible. I wrote about this for the newsletter. I would recommend you subscribe. I uploaded the clip there. Fashionably late. Plago is on time, but late to first. He's a man of high fashion. I mean, Ryan Baroff texted. He looks like a male version of a Sydney Sweeney. And now I can't unsee that with that picture. It really does. It's a little scary. So he gets a two shot penalty. Shows up late on time, but late on time. There's some sort of marking a blue pole, blue dots that say this is the first T area. He had not crossed that threshold in time. They invoke full of rule 5.3 or full 5.3 for being late. It does not mean, can I just start with, I popped into the telecast right when this was happening. And then they were like, he got assessed a penalty. And then they kick it. They showed the video of him walking up. And the guy is like, you're assessed a penalty. And he just looks at him. He's like, okay. Like he took it so graciously. You know, in my head, what I was thinking was like, man, he must have had to take a shit or something. I thought, yeah, I didn't know what he was doing. I assume the bathroom. Like I was like thinking like he must have known and he he walked up there and said, it was more important for me to do that. Two shots. That's what I was thinking in my head because of the way he accepted the penalty. He was just like, all right, he shook the guy's hand and I couldn't believe it. I was kind of like, wow, that was like an amazing attitude. The two shots to be clear that would have him in the lead of the tournament. He would be tied for the lead. Smalley and Sheffler and all the names and potty as fellow South African. So you have to cross some threshold. He didn't get across it in time. On time means 718 00. Not 718 01 or before 719. You have to be there on time is 718 00. I want everybody to understand something that is drilled into you as a junior competitive golfer from like day one. Is that if you show up a second late to your tea time, you are getting dinged. And like every golf, like every our high school coach, if you're not on that tee 10 minutes before you're late in his eyes and you might get benched. Like this is drilled into every youth golfer that you need to be on that tee. It's the only thing that matters. Yes. When having don't take 15 clubs, but like even that, just just just the only thing that matters essentially. This is yes. This is like the it's like the first thing that you know, no matter what I cannot, you know, like golf is a game where it's like you constantly give shit away. Your shots like shots away. Yeah. What the game drives you insane because you don't feel like you should be giving things away and you do it. So the just the the feeling of giving to away without even hitting a shot is insane. And the way he handled and stride. I just don't know. Incredible. This is one of the most incredible rounds of golf I've ever seen actually. First of all, he said he ran to the tee. He didn't look like that. He did not. It's not that not look like it. He's thrown. It's on tape. He walked briskly. I love so then he accepts the two shots. He didn't get there in time. It was 719 or 718 something or other and seven night. So he takes the two shots goes and plays it amazing round that would have him first place and then it's scoring for 20 minutes. We're like, well, this is now a thing. This is like what's going on here. Is he fighting? I love he was asked about. He's like, Oh yeah, I knew it was happening. I wasn't surprised at all. I was like, what were you talking about? He's like, I just asking for evidence. It's like essentially saying like, yeah, I killed the guy, but are you sure? Do you have the gun? Do you? Can you get me? Like, I know I did it, but can you get me? And he had already admitted to the crime on the first tee. Yes. He goes, you have evidence. He's like, oh, see a bit of evidence. Like what you already kind of said it. Just surveying like what do you have and how are you going to display it? I'm really curious like what you have on me and where you got it from. And then ESP had my favorite part of the whole thing was like, they got some Pruderfilm. I said this on lunch. It's like, it's zoomed in on him and they got the spotlight. Everybody else is blacked out and it's like following his path. Like it's just incredible. And it is a logistically it's congested, but not for the players really. No, you can still get there. Just fine. You got to walk down this little hill. It was totally fine. What about his caddy yelling at him? Well, he's like, I don't have a watch. I didn't have a phone. My caddy was returning a track man. I assumed to like a locker or a car, but his caddies on the tee ahead of him. Like if you don't have the watch or the phone, are you going to err on the side of like caution and just go? So, all right. So he starts arguing about the card. Some quotes. I wouldn't have been late if I knew I was running late, which just as a Malaprop is like it makes it's incredible. It sounds like a Michael Scott. Yeah. Yeah. I was obviously like a Michael Scott. I was obviously there on time, but late. You know what I mean? And Shane Ryan, this was like, no, I don't know what you mean. What do you mean by on time, but late? Well, I was late. I mean, one second is tough. One second is tough to define. It's literally among the easiest things to define. It's finite. It's a second. It's the most black and white, clear crystal, clear definition of anything. There are thousands of ways to determine how long a second is and they all get the same result of what is a second. One second is tough to define. I was there on time, but the rule is again, he wasn't on time. If you're one second late, you're late. So if you think about it, I was there on time. You know what I mean? And Shane just like, what? He goes, it wasn't a surprise. I was late. My cat is yelling at me. So I knew it was going to happen. He goes, and then this is the Jason Sobel or Sirius XM. This is my favorite one. Because I don't know. I don't want to be there 10 minutes early. I know that five minutes is fine. I thought I had time. I always cut it pretty fine. There's a lot of us who do. You know, now he's just saying everybody does this. We don't want to get to the T 10 minutes early and be cold. We have to hit it far and straight. It's our job to do that. Speaking of like an extended range session. So he's ready to hit it far and straight. It's our job to do that. It's our job to do that. It's not my job to show him 10 minutes early. I don't really think it's my job to be 10 minutes early. So correct. That is not your job. It is your job to be on time though. And between 10 minutes early and on time, there is all like, that's a professional responsibility that I think could be accommodated. There's nine minutes is how much there is between 10 minutes and not on time is there's nine minutes. That's that's what it is. Can we talk about something for a second? Please. PJ, BP. I assume in your early jobs, there was like an official start time. Like you need to be in the office by X. I mean, I didn't have to punch a car, but yeah, you were. Yeah. Yeah. I would just I'm just venturing like all kinds of stuff can happen in any day of your life that prohibits you from getting to work late. Like where you are late and it is like I needed to be there at nine and I was late. How often would you say that happened in your in your real life job? Not very often ever at all. And it wasn't like a T-stroke penalty, like millions of dollars, thousands of dollars, public shaming if I wasn't like the stakes were now we came in a different era where like, that's true. You could tell like if you were you couldn't obfuscate things, you know, log on to the chat or Slack and God knows if you're on the train. Like you were either in responding to, you know, outlook or not or in your office where they could see you or not. I didn't even get a blackberry until like year two of my job. Then you could still but that you could tell where the email came from. Like, oh, he's sending emails on blackberry. He's not in. So no, you weren't late. It just didn't happen very often. Broke down. That's what like the what what would constitute a late arrival for me is like the CTA shutdown. Right. And like couldn't get there. Well, he did this is like a golf tournament. It's understandable if you're late to a golf tournament. Okay. I was 10 minutes late. I'm usually there an hour early. His explanation is completely on. This is ridiculous that he was late to major the first round of a major championship. It's not insanity. Not even that. It's not like he got stuck in traffic and like wasn't there. He was insane. He was literally on the putting green. Right. Right. He's like, he thought, yeah, he was doing physio at like 5.15 in the morning. He said he's like been there for two hours at that point. The explanation. I'm already in the clouds a little bit as it is. And then I don't have my phone and I don't have a watch. What does the clouds mean? He's out to lunch. He's a move. He's spaced out. He's just generally talking about himself. Yeah. I kind of love that. I love waiting, pleading, complete ignorance. Like, oh, I'm an idiot all the time. So that's I thought he might have been saying he was stoned. Well, that was my guess is he's in the bathroom. He's having a do be in the bushes and he just was a little late. Having to say, like, how does this happen? If you know me, then you know, I'm very casual and laid back. I was obviously too casual and I cut it too fine. Like just too casual. That's it. I'm in the clouds too casual. That's all we got. I mean, you should have said you had like, you know, what if you lose by one shot? That would be better to say that I was too casual. What? What if he loses by one shot? Like, I would worry in the century. I think that might be why he was acquiring all the evidence against him because I think we might get an appeal. I mean, so just an incredible, honestly, the late penalty was just the start, but the quotes like I was on time. If you know what I mean, second, you know, obviously they're on time, but late is just an all timer. If I knew I was late, I was running late. I would have been delayed if I knew I was on time, but late. If you know what I mean, it's like, it's a banger. That's a hall of famer. That's the one that I told my wife and father-in-law was that quote and it got a chuckle out of them. And my wife, my wife sides with Higo. Well, and then Shane just going like, no, I don't know what you mean. Can you explain that for me? It's like that made it 10 times better on the video. I mean, he was incredible with Marty, incredible serious, incredible with the press. It was, I mean, I would got to get this guy involved in more stuff. He's a get him on the president's cup. Hey, look, he broke the rule. Any part of you feel like this is a little too like just not commensurate. It's like putting a guy away for 20 years for having an ounce of weed or like not come out. He was right there. He wasn't too up to hit. I'm playing devil's advocate here. He wasn't made it there when he was turned. He was turned to hit. He was there by his turn to hit. If you don't have five guys to start an NBA game, they don't pause the game. You play with four. So it's like a multiple point until your fifth guy shows up. Like, that's a big penalty. Or you miss your time on the draft NHL NFL draft clock. It goes to the next pick. So what I'm hearing is that you don't think the pitch clock rules are hard enough. One ball is just not enough in a given count. You want to go take it the first thing. The pitch is the singular pitch would be like, you know what? You're DQ'd. You lose the pitch. An incredible story. Probably story A of the day. Higo just becomes this mainstream sports fascination. Like, how are you late? I mean, non golf people are probably like, this is stupid. He was there when it was time for him to hit his drive. But like, it's so much, it's so just easy to not do it, not get danged. That it's pretty hard to forget. There's going to be an influencer that takes Higo's side of this. And then they're going to have Higo on to talk like a week later. Oh, yeah. That's such a good call. Let's just lean into it. You know, like anytime there's a bro over like a reinstated amateur issue or like, yeah, they'll just, they'll absolutely capitalize, swoop in, thirst off. You know, I'll say it just for Joseph. We're not on your side, but Garrett, if you want to explain on lunch with the boys, you're more than welcome. We'd love to have you. Amusement. Boys is open for business. We all like to be very clear. Flashing sign. Amusement too. I got to say, go ahead. What do you think? One last Higo thing. One closing thought. He might have, you know, cost himself money in the tournament. I think this was a good day for Garak Higo in the PR department. Great. Like way, way more popular, like launched in, in, in, in fan appeal because of this. I agree. I like them. I'm way more in on Higo. I want him on the president's cup team. Did you tweet that or was it Lamar? I tweeted that. I was like, today he's going to be on the president's cup team. There was a thing where like he's PN suggesting it might cause him, cost him the championship. Now like, what's going to cost him the championship is because he's Garak Higo. Like there was like, this was of course like, like 725 AM. Before he shot quote unquote a 67. That wasn't 69, but he wasn't going to win. Maybe he will. No, maybe he'll be around it. Good stuff. Do you guys, go ahead. Do you guys feel like the early broadcast should be way more casual about that kind of stuff? Like we're in Q quarter one. What do you mean casual? Just like just goofing around. Yeah. Plus the plus broadcast should just be like vibes for those four hours. Yeah. Well, there should be some acknowledgement of like, you know what? It's great that Martin Kimer played this round, but he's not going to be here the rest of the weekend. So get ready, get ready for him to pack his bags. You know, like enjoy, enjoy this moment in the telecast while you have it. I think the people are just too afraid to go out on a limb like that. It's not like you're doing your real leaderboard. SVP is not breaking out the real leaderboard because he doesn't want it to blow up in his face. Takes a certain level of confidence in your takes on that. Yeah. He's going to come out ahead. He's going to get, as they're suggesting in the chat, he's going to get a watch sponsorship. I mean, that's the thing. He wasn't going to win and now he's like a sensation for a death. It's great. Oddly, when he looks back on his career, he wasn't going to win the tournament anyways. Which might be so disrespectful. He wasn't going to win the tournament anyways, but he won the day and made himself a ton of money in the long term. I will quibble with who won the day. I will throw my amusement number two as a possible winner of the day. I mean, the guy is incredible. He just won't be stopped. He's so back. Michael Block. Blocky is cooking, breaking 50 storyline to watch. Look at his headshot. This is his official PGA tour headshot. A month from 50th birthday, Blocky, Alpha's Bryson after they practice collab on Wednesday. Just body bags, Bryson. Blocky is the low Corbidge financial Corbidge just getting another windfall, another Blocky windfall for the Corbidge financial team. He's T 34 shot even part 70. He's two up on DJ. Can I, can I guy is just, he's so phony. He's such phony baloney. Like he's just hilarious. I want to give a semi serious Michael Block take. Is it like your first one? Your first Michael Block take ever? He's incredibly engaging. He got to put that account that I, that's a good one. I can't, that I, that should always be easily accessible for me. I have a, I have a bookmark. Yeah. I had someone save the end of his earnest Blocky take here. Someone was getting at me today. Uh, who's like, someone retweeted that the original where I was like, block this guy's great and engaging and someone's like, BP, I wasn't a listener back then. Did your, did your opinion change throughout the weekend? I was like, Oh, it evolved for sure. I don't kill after that Thursday. First impression. Um, semi serious that blocky can suddenly become like showman. The number one guy in the field, the showmanship was this absolute sensation. I know the Oak Hill was a miracle and all this stuff is sort of an indictment on the over managed and like absolute, you know, mayonnaise, white bread sandwiches that pro American, most American pro golfers are right now that blocky can just become this absolute sensation with the crowd. It speaks to these junior golfers who come up and they've got managers in their ear and they're telling them, don't say anything. Don't do anything. You might lose this watch. But you know, you just want to be as safe as the Ricky playbook. Essentially. It's sort of an indictment. This guy, he's obviously a clown, but he had none of that until he broke out at Oak Hill. He's, he's, he's, I wouldn't say he's authentic necessarily, but I think he's kind of an indictment on the can't lay era and all these people who are just totally over managed, totally safe. There are no more characters anymore. I would just kill for a Phil Mickelson. Ali Trevino, any of these guys, and here it comes blocky who like, let's be honest, best case scenario. He's not going to win. He shoots 70 and everybody's just eating out of the palm of his hand and he craps the day with this preposterous, preposterous clip. PJ, can you roll it? Do you have the video of this audio video? I'm on old 12 or 13 today. He's getting emotional and he's getting emotional. And there was no mirror. So I wasn't looking at myself, but I said, you got this. I go, you're actually pretty good buddy. And I just kept going. I'm like, I'm with DJ, one of my idols and guy who looked up to my whole life and Rasmus, who I know is an unbelievable players, like 63 in the world and they both hit it 50 yards behind me on every single shot and I'm just going, you got this bud. You got it. Cool. It's really cool. It's kind of fun to be honest. I'm proud of myself for just grinding it through and having fun with the boys. This is awesome. I mean, this is going back to O.K. all day with the emotion. Can I take a full, can we go to TV time out here? Can I want a full, we're going to break? Yeah, go ahead. He's nine years older than Dustin Johnson, who he's moved up to his whole life. Yeah. So, Blocky, Blocky might not have been wrong about the, if I could hit it as far as Rory. He's still good. I just, I think he's got a psychological makeup that he's so delusional, that he's great. Like he gets in this moment, what he's just said. Like I don't know. I guess like I play term of golf and me, this is what I play, used to play term of golf. I just walk around and think about how much I suck all day. You know, that's what golf does to everybody. I feel like, and he is like talking about standing in a porta potty and telling himself, you know, man, you're pretty good. You're pretty good at this. And then being like, yeah, I am really good. Like this psychological state that he's in is such an advantage. I mean, it's incredible. He's great on the part three. He's, it's honestly, I think I'm back in. I think I'm back in that clip. So absurd. So absurd. Well, can I, I took, and I'll be honest, it took me like a third rewatching to finally stop and think to myself, the mirror quote was so, the mirror was so superfluous. Like why didn't it support a potty? Well, why does he need to say that? Like I went in the porta potty and I told myself he didn't need to go off to the side and be like, there's no mirror. I didn't look myself. What? Why can't you just say I went in the porta potty. I talked to myself. Yes. Like there was no mirror in there. Couldn't look like where there's such an extra, like so unnecessary to add that part in. Could have just been normal, but he's blocky. You know, he's got to throw in. Yeah, it can't be normal. Come on. Like, of course not. Anyway, might be back in. You got sort of an indictment on all the, an indictment on Cantlay, all these guys who are interesting when you get them in the right setting, but are not showman. We need showman. We need to showman or two. This club bro could just, you know, come strolling in and just capture everything. I know he's got a manager and agent all now. He had one by like Sunday night at Oak Hill, but just, I think we've over-managed the, the American golf generation. That's, that's my semi-semi-semi-semi. Is, is like the way he handled all these golfers are so serious. You know, in practice rounds, it's like, you know, they're about preparing for war. And blocky's just hamming it up with fans the whole time, whether it's phony or not. And then he goes out and shoots even. It's, it's amazing. I hope, you know what, like I'm going to hate that I say this. I hope we get a full week and a blocky. I'm ready. I've missed him. I'm ready for him to come back. We just, in the last 10 minutes, we'll talk to ourselves back in the block. You worked yourself into a shoot. You just, you tried so hard. I was looking, I was looking for this. This is what blocky wanted to be with the mirror. In the fourth. Why did we bring up the mirror? You don't need to add that part into the quote. Just see what the best. If you're listening on audio, this is the famous A-Rod picture where he's kissing himself in the mirror. I mean, this is what blocky wanted. Do you, do you think he was in, in the porta potty taking a piss and while he was taking a piss, he was thinking about this and at one point in his mind, it stopped and said, man, I wish, I wish there was a mirror to stare at myself. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of do. I came out in the quote. Yeah. I think that's probably what happened. I do just because it's blocky. I would have like corroboration that he actually went to the bathroom at 12 or 13. Like he said, could have just been maybe the veracity of which I don't know. Well, anyways, you know, hey, listen, we, we lost Don. We lost Don this year. Yeah. There's an unfortunate tragic loss to be completely honest. A man that got shipped away too soon. I'm, I'm kind of upset with PGA of America leadership for, for taking away from us. But you know what we got this year? We got blocky back. We got real blocky back. That's the hollowed out blocky from Quill Hollow or Val Hollow. We got real blocky. I think, I think that's right. Amusement three. We don't need to, I mean, we've clipped this already. The bot, the bot that the PGA then also hollowed out midday PGA. I didn't get to talk about this. Please bring it up. So the app only has the AI assistant because you just have somebody with some job at the PGA like needs to come up with something. Oh, we got this cool new AI assistant feature in the app. Well, people just started going to town with the AI assistant. I'm asking it, you know, rank the people being us. We'll, we'll just like, you know, hand up Joseph. You could check the live show from the midday. You know, Joseph asked him to rank the four majors and rank the PGA last. So it's like a block of fraud. Like no, he's a legitimate pro that they had a horrible answer of trees make golf courses harder. Just, just, and then it started getting the rankings of the chat bot for the majors. How did it rank it? It went us open masters us open open and then PGA. Yes. Then someone, a friend of the program asked it, what, what group would you not watch if you're coming to the PGA? And it responded with some insanity because listen up folks. Group one team office 645 AM from the first Shaddick Alex Fitz, Ben Griffin. Pure snooze fest. No majors pedigree. No firepower. Just filler hacks, grinding early fog. While the real contenders sleep in, skip it unless you have fun, unless you hate fun. That's pretty derogatory for Ben Griffin. Shaddick, who's a member hacks battling the fog. I mean, this is the chat bot. And then by, I'd say mid afternoon, the PGA caught on and changed up the whatever is scraping from to make its answer. Much, much like Don, I think we might have pushed it a little bit too close to the sun here. And they noticed by like three o'clock because we rock. Was it tied into? So that was, that was a revelation. Joseph asked, Joseph is like really good with the IAI stuff. As I mentioned earlier on lunch, Joseph asked like, how are you trained? Like what are you clawed or you GPT? And it said it was grok, which of all of them, probably the most dangerous. Yeah, the most dangerous option for sure. Someone was asking it about some sort of 50 shades of gray situation that was going on. I didn't follow it. Gave a whole dissertation. And then got this PGA fake PGA pro answering stuff. That's very interesting. Don Ray of being disappeared. That was amusement number three, I think for sure. Hey, I had a parting blocky thought and I kind of want to clip this out and give it to him for free. You know, ask him to collaborate here, but blocky. You're doing clip bits now. Well, this is why blocky should, when he makes the cut, when he's in the mix, blocky should absolutely bring back last year's Sunday or two years ago, Oak Hill Sunday outfit with the raw hat. We're the same thing. Yeah. I'll let Tiger on Sunday. I think that's a good call. I think that's a great call. Although bring it back. He's a Malbon. His iconic outfit. Could you have Malbon do like a throwback type? They could do an adaptation or whatever it was, Adidas or whatever he had before. Right. I mean, that's what they do. These kind of throwback things that they could come up with it by Sunday. That's good. Back to the AI chatbot though. Okay, sure. We can go there again. Who do you think at the PGA was monitoring all the questions that people were asking the chatbot? Do you think they got like a list of them? And that's when they were like, Hey, we got to shut this down. Genuinely, I think we tweeted the taking shots of BG1. And then Joseph responded with a question. It asked it about like, what are your thoughts on the PGA of America? And it was just like the PGA of America is a deeply unserious, unstable order. I think maybe that will be posted. Probably send some alarm. Because it was shortly thereafter that I got moved. I mean, they had to see this just start taking off on social. Oh my God, what have we done? We just wanted to be a little add on. Yeah, it's like the PGA has new leadership, but it's been really unstable. It's like, God, it was not a good idea. A not forward facing president, a CEO who just resigned and gave this old dissertation or why the PGA is a disaster. You know, probably bad. I got to give them a hand though. Honestly. Yeah. I think that this idea directionally is a good idea. Oh, directionally is doing a lot of work there. I think this is actually a pretty good idea. But like everything that the PGA tends to do, it was executed horrendously. See, the thing is, if it asked the golf, they would need to train this thing. Yeah. So that because there are people that are watching golf for the first time when majors happen. Yeah. And they have a lot of questions. Don't have the app though. Do you think maybe people on site would do it? Yeah. But anyways, like if it actually gave good answers, it would be a good idea because like you have these new fans that are like, Hey, so actually, directionally, I think this is a fairly good idea. The thing is your chatbot. If the people ask anything inappropriate or about like about stuff that you don't want the chatbot to pontificate about because this chatbot is representing your organization, then you should just say, I only stick to golf. As you can see here, I don't know if it's necessarily representing your organization because this AI PGA logo is not exclusive to the PGA logo. So it really, it couldn't kind of be anything here. I will say, did you end up seeing the trees answer that it gave us? Because that was before you popped in this. Did you see that? We asked it. Yeah. BP, you have this. I sent it to you. Send it to you guys. I have the video. I can put it in. No, they did two different answers. The first one was way worse. I said, I don't know if you guys have any questions. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The first one was way worse. I said, do trees make golf courses harder? That's my question. Yes, trees absolutely make golf courses harder. They block sight lines, limit recovery options from mishits. That's, I think, true. Create uneven lies of which I had an objection to. I don't think the, like, isn't the land either even or uneven? Are you talking about roots? Like, what does that mean? They create uneven lives. Break my wrist on this tree. They create uneven lies. They just pull the land up and down. Well, maybe if you have to, if it's like a pine tree that has like, like the wood chips around it, remember that? Yeah, sure. Sure. I was like, I don't think the bot's right on that. Create uneven lies and add wind turbulence, which like the Augusta 12th whole situation that kind of comes through and up and over and down. I don't know. They're forcing more precise shot making and strategic play around them. So, yes, they make golf courses harder per the AI bot, the AI assistant, I should say. All right. That's amusement number three. I don't have any other amusements besides the coat, which we talked about it. I have many more, but that's all. Any other serious parting thoughts? Rory had a rough day. Bryson was bad, like super bad. bad. Rory kind of saved his badness for the end. Last five holes. You know how he could have had a better day? 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Keep an eye on the man. I was saying, you know, Blocky might have advice for the guys that didn't play well today. You got this, bud. Just send that clip around the range. Just played over the loudspeakers nonstop on Friday morning. And real quick, a word from Michael Block. You got this, bud. Did we just add that to the soundboard on the fly? Oh my god. I received a text. I said, give me two minutes. It'll be there. You got this, bud. Rory was not, not particularly good, which makes me wonder, is he a one trick pony? Can he only win at Augusta now? Is that the only, the only place he could win? We love this storyline. 15 years. I can't win at Augusta. Now it's the only place he could win. Is that it? If we cross the Rubicon into an alternate universe. You know what? I love this. This is going back to the, you know, a couple of years ago was, could he play first round? I think I love being here. Can he play well at any other major than the masters? Great take. One trick pony. Can, can only win at Augusta for the rest of his life. What if he just won masters for the rest of his life? Probably a pretty good exchange, I would guess. So he, he, he just wasn't very good. It seems like the driver is going right left. It was left last week. Now he's just not sure about where it is, but was working on the range late. Bryson, I think is more alarming at this point. He was, look, he was clubbing down. Then he was clubbing up when maybe he didn't need to, to be a driver. His wedges were a mess. He was 156th around the green, 13th. He takes less club off the tee than hits a horrendous wedge from the rough, admittedly, but just rockets it through the green. Horrible putt at 11, tee shot at 17, just a horrible, imprecise strike. That's a hard hole, but I mean, he was, broadcast was very confused. They're like, Oh, he hit it on the ninth. I said, he's like, nowhere close to the ninth. He hit it off the grandstand for the 17th green. And it was a bad, it was 30 yards off the target, but he was bad. Speaking of the broadcast, did you see the, the graphic they did, the little thing with Jeff Darlington? Oh yeah, that was, that was, that was, yeah. Where he's like, this is what you need to win the PGA. And he had like 15 different breakdowns. And then the model ended up being Rory or Scotty. It's like, Oh, is that what it was? I honestly tuned out. I couldn't do it. I stopped. I think costs probably like hundreds of thousands, like the animation to make that, just to tell us Rory and Scotty. Pretty good. It's all about the models. I mean, I wonder if they're adjusting the model, setting it into tomorrow. It's, you got it. That's how you tout. You know who's in the model. Who's that? Potty. Big potty. Potty. Yeah, I know one podcast model. He was very much it. I mean, he was the second to watch. I think we'll have some big picture of Bryson thoughts probably come Sunday night. But right now he's, he's, he's been Sunday. What are we, what are you? Are you just kicking the can down the curb? You worried, you worried about the run time on this? Yeah. Yeah. I assumed that he would be a Godfishing tomorrow. No, that's fine to you, but nobody's listening. More people are listening Sunday night is what I'm saying. We're just talking about Bryson's MC. VP's programming. Plain chess here. Skipping, skipping way ahead. What did you want to say? Anything today? He was really bad right away. I was hoping that I was going to hear you, you, you in the Slack say, I virtually throw down the pen on the desk and say, I'm going out to write Bryson. Kevin wrote him for the newsletter tomorrow. I mean, you're only going to have two days of writing him. It's, you know, nuclear golf, I noticed, noticed has taken to call him YouTube star Bryson D. Shambow. That's like his title. And I was like making fun of it, like this absurd, but are we inching closer to that being like more accurate than anything? I don't know. It's kind of sad. YouTube golfer and golf club developer. You know, he's trying to develop golf clubs like manufacturer and professional sports team owner. Yeah. Just we can go down the list. He goes through dips like he could shoot 60. He just seems, he's been, he's been non-competitive at majors for a good bit. I will say this is basically what happened to Port Rush last year. And then he ended up coming in like eighth or whatever it was. That's fair. That's fair. Quickie Ella. He's too far back to actually win. Right? I mean, are we going to say that? Right? I guess he could shoot 63 tomorrow for some reason. I think there's like 90 players within five shots. There are, yeah, it's about 91. The total number is, yeah. Yeah. At three over to two, or two over to three under. So a big swath of guys. Absolutely. Within, within striking distance. Anyone else jump out to you? Rom. I mean, do you want to do the leader, real leader board? Sure. Please. Let's do your real leader board. All right. Here's the, here's the real leader board. How many? We only had 10 spots. So this is the top 10. We've got Scotty Schaeffler leading the way at three under. We got the big potty at three under also. What do you think about that BP? I think you've, you've lost a step. I think you're slipping up in your duties of, of real leader board analysis. I thought, I thought you'd like the potty there. I mean, I like him there. I don't think he's going to be on the leader board. He's not going to win. Like, come on. You know, you know, there's two players on the actual leader board, maybe not my leader board, who duked it out on a down Ross design in Detroit. Right. Crazerman and potty are right there. They had a playoff last year. It's not like a crazy different setup. Come on. Are we really running models from the rocket right now? Just saying. These, these, this isn't, this isn't insane. Potty, potty's out there just smashing it over bunkers. That's fine, but it's going to get windy. It's going to start tucking pins even more. They're going to challenge, it's going to infirm or let's go. Come on. Potty's going to be around. I've already been potty. All right. Mid-Woo-Lee. Do you think Mid-Woo-Lee's in the mesh? Yeah, sure. He's had a good year. Yes. I think it's similar to potty. He's that distance. If he hits fairways, you know, if one of those guys just drives it incredible all week, you know, it's going to be hard. They're going to be in the mix. I put this, I just had to have, I could, I can't believe we're talking about Martin Cramer, our friend from live. I just had to put him on the board as a, as a ceremonial position. So we put an asterisk next to him. Also 300. Jump in. There's a comment in the, in the chat that says, is Martin Cramer the most forgettable two-time major winner? I got to throw a play hit. I got to throw the challenge flag on that one. Like he was a capital P problem. Come on. Disrespectful. Number one player in the world. I was going to say, if you're the number one player in the world, you're too good to be a problem. You surpassed. That's just, that's people being distance, not remembering, not respecting their elders. That guy was good. All right. Guy was really good. All right. And we go to Xander too. He, I thought he was super impressive today. Yep. He looks, I, I don't know what's been going on where he just hasn't been as consistent, but he, this, this seems like a good setup for him too. Just with what he does really well. Then we go Pete, Pete Reed. Can I interest you in Pete Reed on the weekend? Extremely interested. I talked to, uh, talked to Pete Reed as a new, uh, new PR comms person work for, working for him, sought me out in the merch, the media tent and, uh, very, seemed like a great guy, normal guys. I guess P is turning over a new leaf. He's like, really wants to be, he wants to not talk about the past. He wants to drop like, it's not what he wants to be. Everyone wants to get into it. I bet he doesn't want to talk about the past. Like, come on. But it seems like he wants to take a more ambassador ship and empathetic and embracing approach. And so, uh, I, yeah, he could be a problem. I think this week. Go ahead. But then we go to, uh, one under, we've got three players that, well, or four players of one under that we've decided to put on the board. Jason Day, Brooks Kepka, John Rom, and Colin Moracala. Do you have any problems, any, uh, think anybody I've left off here? Jason Day, well, I can't believe Jason Day has gotten the spot on this after his master's Sunday. I thought, I thought you would have just gotten hammered into you, learned your lesson. This is bad. You know what? You gotta, you gotta put yourself into the arena and you see what happens, but you shouldn't be penalized for being in the arena. No, I, hey, you're doing it. Scott Van Pelt's not doing this, but you're doing this. I'll give you credit. I just think Jay Day is a bad take here. Uh, Kepka is a super interesting one. I think, did he lead the field in Structz game? Tee-Ding Green was like 130th or something. He missed, he missed seven birdie putts within 12 feet or less. I mean, it's just like, yeah, the quote, it's like the worst I could have shot. Right. And it was like, I, he drove it incredibly and putted it so horribly or they hit it incredibly. If you, if you, I think like Brooks, he's lost his pop in the bat advantage he used to have. Yeah. Like he used to be like, he was just one of the long hitters. Now he's like just, I would say above average, right? And speed. But if you think about it, this is a, this is a right size golf course for him. Gotcha. Like the fact that it's not 76. Yep. Because like Scotty obviously does it. It's Scotty's not short, but Scotty does it with just supreme iron play. That's how he hangs in there. I just think that that, that Brooks, it used to be power, but he went from being like, you know, let's just call it 10th most powerful player to like the 55th. And that's just a huge skill drop. Um, yeah, he's a fast, I think we got a great setup here for the weekend. Scotty, Brooks is interesting. Um, the rom story is, is pretty major right now in my opinion. I think it's like one of the, one of the, maybe the most fascinating figure or study in golf right now looked very bad at the start, but kind of got it together. Um, you're like, this guy is just, he's cooked. It's almost like by 930, you were like 10 a.m. You're like, is Rob just, he's just cooked right now. And, uh, kind of got it back on track. He's under, under par and too off the lead. You know what I always remember every PGA championship, um, is just like you sit down for these marathon first days where you watch golf literally like for like, if you're not on site, like I just, you just watch golf from basically like 7 a.m. till, you know, a 7 or 8 p.m. And what you just, when you watch all these rounds in totality, you realize like how long a round of golf is because you like, you get these like, and you're like, Oh, he's got it today. But then it's like, Oh, the round just like, and just, just the time is perfect example today. We're gonna throw him out. Yep. The round kind of beat him down, but then also the round so long that it works the other way with John Rom, where it's just like, man, he's got nothing. Like I was starting to think I was like, this is crazy. You know, like out on two, you go like, whatever, 11th all. Yeah. And then it's good. And he goes and now he's on the board. And it's just like a reminder of like, you just have to stay in it to the point where you allow yourself to hit one of the runs, you know, yeah. And it's just like the over the course of four days at a course that's this challenging, you're gonna have these like rough spots. I was getting super triggered by this late in the day on the ESPN broadcast. They kept saying like, Justin Thomas has played such a marvelous round of golf. I was like, we he's the round is 18 holes. They kept saying like, he's been so flawless for like a marvelous round ago. He's like 70% done. And like, he could play, he could end up six over, you know, they just come. Yeah, he's played, he's had played a great day so far. They kept calling it as marvelous round of golf. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I'm getting triggered by that. I think the thing that is missing a little bit is that the thread that's never pulled on with golf telecasts, they don't really talk about like, can he hang on to it? Like the Justin Thomas discourse, the front nine was way easier than the back. Yes. Yes. So like the, the discourse should have been as he was going was like, he's played really well, but he's facing like the meat of the golf course. And let's see if he can hang on because like everything you watched in the morning was like the way this golf course kind of works. And it's just kind of like, you know, what this is going to be about this weekend is like, you got to go get it early. And then you, and then after about, you know, when they go drivable on 13, this dynamical shift a little bit, but like after 13, it is like, hold on. Like if you can play those holes around even par, you know, you, you played a really nice stretch of golf. By score 10, 14, 15, 18, 17, that's five of the hardest seven holes were today by score and average. I know that doesn't necessarily precisely determine what the hardest holes were. But yes, hard stretch of golf. Yeah. So I, everybody always talks about the positive and it's like, it's going to keep going, but there's, they don't, you know, some, I, I guess what you're saying and what I agree, like there's never talk about like the other side of it because people don't want to be seen as pissing in people's Cheerios, I guess. Yeah. I don't have much else. I had like, I'll throw this rom quote out just because I find them so interesting. And they're asking about like, do you, you know, Rory really talks about being like a consequential player in history right now. Scotty too, or Scotty, like what he's trying to achieve and accomplish. Because if you just go by some of the notes, sorry, I copied the wrong, I think I need to, they're comparing himself to Rory or the questioner, comparing to Rory. I think I need to accomplish a lot more to even think about this. It makes sense why Rory would think about it. Second on the all-time list of majors in Europe. First one ever to do the Grand Slam. It makes sense why he would think about it, right? His plays in history. I would put him as the greatest European to ever play already. When it comes to the Grants, the scheme of things, he's up there and I can see why he thinks about it. Because then take this, take this within the context. He's not too far away from being an undoubtly top 10 player of all time, which I'm sure a lot of people would already put him there and he still has many, many years to play. I think it's an interesting perspective. I need to accomplish so much more to even be getting into this sort of mindset and calculation. He's of course younger than Rory, not by a ton of years, but he's at a different stage of his career. That's my rom take away. I agree. I think rom's probably one of the most interesting names, if not the most interesting name on the board right now. I also think it's a couple other live guys that are fascinating to me that played good rounds of golf today, Joachim Neiman and then Cam Smith at 100. We'll see. Obviously, it's the first quarter of the tournament, first round. He's got three more to go, but those are two would be two fascinating names to be in the mix this weekend. Cam's shot on 18 was the worst shot of the day. His drive on 18 was like a media day, like 15 handicaps over there. They're putting up infrastructure and like a media member just dwindling off the infrastructure, 70 yards off the tee. But yeah, get on him to post a number. Do you think Blanche and who was those other playing partner that Mollie put it up as bulletin board material because Blanche's one under two. I hope not. I felt bad about saying that. Of course, I said it again tonight, but Zach Haynes, Alex Mollie and Chandler Blanche, they're both good players. They're both in signature events. So I'm not against them. Do you have an off the beaten path name on the board that fascinates you, PJ or BP? PJ, go ahead. If there's anyone that fascinates you. Not a Betty Schmidt guy. I mean, I don't know if he's, I know, I know PJ's pumped about Shane Lowry sitting there. Top 10. That's your guy. I think the guy was an interesting one, kind of not done anything in majors too much. It's an interesting one and it's very, very early. So I'm just curious if he can hang on. I think a little off the beaten path, not like way out there, but Sam Stevens has had a really nice year and is also in the top 15 after today. I was waiting for you. I was waiting for you to bring this up. I thought you were taking the lead. I thought you were taking the lead. The Hoey has, we're happy. Happy Hoey has in here. Even far around in the major. It's a big spot for the Hoey. We're talking about Rico, how we shooting even par round. I think, dude, he's three shots back, three shots back. What other storylines do we have that we haven't used yet? PJ, please. Let's upload the clip here. Jam. The NFL is trying to upstage scary Terry Clark and the PGA by a, by a scheduler releasing on opening round. Hey, would never do this type of thing. Should it be scary, Carrie Hague or scary, Terry Clark after scary, Carrie and Terry. Okay. There you go. I'm very, very, and Carrie is better. Right. Yeah. You know, I did think that was bullshit. That was disrespectful to the PGA. Well, it's disrespectful to the Siddarshin. They kicked all, they kicked ESPN off TV before they finished. I know. I know. That's an international superstar. What do we have scheduled details out? Yeah. I'll tell you that we play the Bears and the Browns and back to back weeks. So there we go. Oh, PJ, should we do PJ road, PJ road trip? He's got a drive to Chicago for the peak up. No way. Cleveland's here. Cleveland is here. Unfortunately, I believe. Well, this is the way it works. You drive to Chicago for the peak up. You hold up until the game. You just tour around. You go all over the, all over Chicago, and then you drive back and you got to stop along the way. Like you're on training camp, training camp, duty in NFL. That would be pretty funny. That would be pretty good. Browns, I hope just got 17 Sunday, one o'clock games, I'm sure, in a row. They do, they are not on the no prime timeless. The jets are on the no prime timeless. So you're going to have something. Okay. Next storyline, inspired hags, non-answer leaves Grazerman hopeful for crypto payment. He did. Jerry egg would not answer what the purse was. So could be, could be anything. Do you know what it is? Like, no, it'll be announced Saturday. All right. We got one more. This is, this is based off of, uh, based off of your intel that, you know, Dan Brown was ready to fill in for Rory in the practice round. Dan Brown channels his knick-fulls for team Europe after, after the Rory entry. He stepped up today, played a good round of golf, great round of golf. Hold out on 11. Hold out on 11. Pretty good eagle there. So, Dan Brown, the author, he's battling his angels and demons to get in, get in contention at the PGA. Last one. Oh boy. Where are we going? What else do we have? We got underdog story. The mink. I love it. It's the latest Philly icon to be doubted by the masses. Hey man, I think this is like, this has been a, I've been really enthused. It's felt major-ish, quite frankly, ever since I walked out of there yesterday. Like, this is a big city, big event, big ball, not big ballpark, but it just felt big. And, uh, you know, then they got the bot and Higo and, you know, Bryson's coat and blocky deliver. I think, I genuinely think like, I think this is a good lane for the PGA to be in. After our, what is the identity conversation? The identity conversation is this, this does not happen at other majors. This is, this might be twit, golf Twitter's major. Oh, that's an interesting, uh, that's an interesting proposal. They should put that in the marketing. We don't get this anywhere else. All right. You're going to fire a backup tomorrow. Nice 30 minute episode like we talked about. Um, I, I didn't anticipate Higo being such a beefy subject. Needed to be unpacked. Yeah. Absolutely. We're not talking about Garakago on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I don't know. Do you think we should have talked about Scotty? Scotty's gonna be here tomorrow. No, he'll be around. Christ. We're going to be, we're going to talk about him tomorrow and the next day. You hit it great. The guy that we might have, we should have talked about Jordan Spieth truthfully, because he couldn't go either way tomorrow. We'll talk about him tomorrow, whatever happens. I, I, it was precisely speed, but we, you know, anyways, um, he's, he's on the leaderboard somewhere. All right. Uh, that does it. This Thursday episode of the shotgun start. Thank you for tuning in. 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