1160: Rahm, Ludvig, and 20 others trying to chase Alex Smalley down
90 min
•May 17, 202614 days agoSummary
No Laying Up covers the 108th PGA Championship at Quaker Ridge with Alex Smalley holding a 6-under lead after 54 holes. The episode features extensive discussion of the course setup's difficulty, pin placements, and how weather conditions dramatically affected scoring, with guest Max Homa providing on-the-ground insights from his week competing in the event.
Insights
- Firm greens and tight pin placements create a test that rewards precision over separation—excellent shots land 15-20 feet away while mediocre shots land 25 feet, compressing the field rather than spreading it
- Weather volatility (wind, temperature) has more impact on scoring than setup adjustments; afternoon rounds played significantly harder than morning rounds despite identical pin positions
- A crowded leaderboard with 40+ players within 6 shots increases entertainment value but makes it nearly impossible for any single leader to feel secure, with Smalley's 17.5% win probability being historically low for a 54-hole leader
- The course design favors specific skill sets (driving distance, precision iron play, putting) but the extreme difficulty of approach shots neutralizes the separation between elite and good players
- First-time major winners are more likely in compressed fields where luck and hot putting streaks matter as much as overall skill—this setup favors narrative unpredictability over predictable outcomes
Trends
PGA Championship setup philosophy prioritizes difficulty and entertainment over clear skill separation, contrasting with USGA's score-manipulation approach at U.S. OpensFirm green conditions at major championships are becoming a strategic tool to control scoring without making courses 'unfair'—players accept difficulty when it's consistentCrowded leaderboards in majors are becoming more common, suggesting course setups are intentionally designed to prevent runaway leaders and extend competitive dramaWeather preparation and adaptability are becoming as important as technical skill in major championships, with players needing to adjust strategy based on wind and temperatureThe rise of data analytics (strokes gained, heat maps, slope analysis) is creating a gap between what broadcasters can show and what players experience on the groundPlayer feedback on major championship setups is increasingly public and influential, with PGA Tour players openly critiquing pin placements rather than accepting them silentlyShorter par-3 yardages (63 yards shorter on hole 8 from Thursday to Friday) are being used as a pressure relief valve when conditions become unplayable, suggesting setups are more reactive than predetermined
Topics
PGA Championship course setup and pin placement strategyImpact of firm vs. soft greens on scoring and playabilityWeather volatility in major championship scoringCrowded leaderboard dynamics and win probability analysisApproach shot difficulty and green-side undulation designPlayer feedback on major championship fairnessFirst-time major winner probability in compressed fieldsPutting difficulty on sloped greens with subtle breaksRough thickness and recovery shot difficultyPar-3 yardage adjustments as scoring management toolsDriving distance vs. accuracy trade-offs in course designShort game strategy around firm, sloped greensMental game and pressure management in majorsPlayoff scenarios and three-hole aggregate formatFinal round scoring predictions and weather impact
Companies
Titleist
Title sponsor of the No Laying Up live show; hosts provided driver fitting services using new Titleist GTS drivers
PGA of America
Organizer of the 108th PGA Championship at Quaker Ridge; responsible for course setup and pin placement decisions
CBS Sports
Broadcaster of the PGA Championship; struggled to keep up with the crowded leaderboard and multiple leaders throughou...
People
Alex Smalley
54-hole leader at 6-under par; shot impressive back-nine 31 after early bogeys; ranked 38th in data golf rankings
Max Homa
On-the-ground guest providing detailed course analysis, pin difficulty assessment, and player perspective from compet...
Rory McElroy
Shot 67 and 66 in final two rounds; came back from 74 opening round; only 4 players in history have won majors after ...
John Rom
Within 3 shots of lead; missed short putt on 18 that dropped him from 2nd to 4th; storyline of major championship str...
Ludwig Aberg
In contention at 3-under; hosts debate whether he's 'lingering' or 'loitering'; strong ball-striking but putting conc...
Xander Schauffele
In contention at 3-under; ranked 4th in win probability; strong putter and mid-to-long iron player; described as stoi...
Scotty Scheffler
At 1-under, 5 shots back; would need 65+ to contend; hosts debate whether he's too far back; leads in Saturday/Sunday...
Patrick Reed
In contention; playing three majors back-to-back with no other events; discussed creative shot-making approach to fir...
Nick Taylor
Shot 65 today; in contention at 4-under; fewest bogeys in field (3 total); hosts debate his closing ability in majors
Matty Schmid
In contention; strong ball-striker with high ball flight; 5th major championship appearance; shirt-tucking habits not...
DJ Pie
Co-host of the live show; provides analysis and commentary on leaderboard, course setup, and player performances
Sully
Primary host of the live show; provides course setup critique and player analysis; received new Titleist driver fitting
Neil Schuster
Provides statistical analysis and historical context; manages fantasy baseball league; offers win probability and sco...
Aaron Rai
In contention; hosts praise his precision and ability to play 'robot golf' in difficult conditions
Keegan Bradley
Mentioned as having shot 20-under at Quaker Ridge previously; referenced for comparison on course difficulty
Quotes
"It's not that their complaint is too hard. It's just, it goes to the wing foot theory that like, when you make fairways that hard to hit with rough that long, the best drivers really can't do that or sorry, the straight drivers and short guys can't do that much."
Max Homa•Early in episode
"The pins were really, really hard. They softened them up a little bit today. It's not like anyone said unfair. I don't think anyone's like critique of it went beyond complaining."
Max Homa•Mid-episode
"It's just now you're going to get the same thing where really, really good shots go to 20 feet and pretty good shots go to 25 feet. That's where I see it."
Max Homa•Course setup discussion
"You have to hit like not on every hole, obviously, but like on we were talking about 12 on Friday, front right pin. It's on a knob and the winds down off the right. I hit a great drive and I sandwiched and I had a very good wedge shot."
Max Homa•Approach shot difficulty discussion
"When you have a set of greens like this, you can start to frustrate people pretty easily. I think you heard it in me last night. You heard it in Scotty. I think there was a lot of guys that were frustrated yesterday coming off the course."
Max Homa•Setup critique
Full Transcript
The right club be the right club today That's better than most Better than most better than most Ladies and gentlemen one round to go in the 108th PGA championship welcome to the no-laying-up live show presented as always by our friends at title of Sally here. Solly here joined by my guy Mr. DJ Pie. Welcome back by man. Hey, thanks for having me. We were we were pushing the starting time back a little bit. We weren't you know, we weren't on time, but we were but we were on time. If you know what I mean, I was I was late, but I was on time. Yeah, right. Exactly. You know what I mean? We're delaying for our for our guests, which I think believe is going to be joining us here a little bit here shortly. The no-laying-up live shows presented as always by titleist. We're going to be going read free ad free here for the first couple of segments brought to you by the new titleist gts drivers. Find out more and schedule a fitting at titleist.com. Squeeze mine in this morning, Dij. I got it done this morning. Got a new fit in. So thank you to the folks at titleist letting us get right to the action. Where do you want to start, Dij? Let's start at the top, man. You know, just like everybody predicted at the beginning of the week, winners going to be 20, maybe 30 under par. No, it's Alex Smalley at six under is your 54 whole lead. He leads just about everybody in the greater Philadelphia area is under par. After that, Maddie Schmid, Nick Taylor, John Rom. Can't wait to talk about that. Aaron Rye with a great round of golf today. Ludwig Oberg out of nowhere. Rory McElroy shoots, you know, one of the rounds of the day. Maybe the round of the day. Zander, he's going to be with. There's so many guys that we're going to be talking about. And I think we're going to be breaking a lot of it down with our guest as well, who just popped into the chat. A guy who was out there this week and get some on the ground reporting from our old friend, Max Oma. Max, hello. How are you? Hey guys, thank you guys so much for having me. This is saving me from a lot of boredom. My family left this morning and I have absolutely nothing to do for two and a half days. So thank you for accepting my offer to come on. Yeah. Max texted me today. He's like, Hey, you know, you guys still do those live shows. You got any of those live shows? I was like, you know, they're not like in person, like in Philly. No, no, I know. I'm not doing anything. Max, great to see you, man. How are you? You guys too. Yeah, I'm good. Still laughing at your one for 37 in the fantasy baseball world. Why don't you check the updated standings? I'm sure it's great. I'm just saying, I don't know. I was texting a lot of people. I don't know how that's like possible. It's one of the craziest stats ever. It's just one day, man. Everybody has a bad day. What was, you know, not the week you were looking for, obviously, but what was your, what was your big takeaway from, from RONOMIC? Tough time to draw, I'm sure. I mean, yeah, you know, different side of the draw. Who knows? That could have gone differently for you. I would like to precursor this with all of what I'm about to say is I was not making the cut regardless of any of this, but everything like the guys are saying, I guess in the interviews, is the, the, the point of what they're trying to say about the pins, I guess, because I've had a couple of my friends text me about it, like, why are these guys complaining or whatever. But I was like, it's not that their complaint is too hard. It's just, it's kind of, it goes to the wing foot theory that like, when you make fairways that hard to hit with rough that long, the best drivers really can't do that or sorry, the straight drivers and short guys can't do that much. You'd rather bomb it up into the rough because everyone's going to miss fairways. That's kind of what it felt like when we were walking around Tuesday, Wednesday, was like, man, if you put a pin here, like, I have no clue how you're going to get to it. So you're just going to hit it over here and then you're going to two put. So it just gets a little, that's why the leaderboards like this. I don't, I, if it was not windy, I, I thought Scotty could win this by like 30 because he's the only guy I could see, like, be on the control distance that well and like, just do it a lot of times. But when it got windy, I mean, there were a whole, there was just nothing you could do. We went out that Friday morning was freezing and blowing a million and we got to 11 and there's really no option to like lay back because enough club in to spin it doesn't spin. So you were hitting this shot to a right pin that had no, you just couldn't do it and you could hit, you could make par. You get it 30 feet, of course, and that's what everybody was trying to do. But that's where it just like the separator was just like, could you make some bombs? So I love the course. It's so sick and it's going to be really exciting tomorrow. But that is like the point of what I think everyone's saying. And it's very true because I don't know. I asked Keegan, I put them Tuesday, I said, how'd you shoot 20 under here? And he goes, well, so softly, you just rifled it at it and it was hard to get away from you. And I was like, okay, that makes sense because like I didn't see it out there when we were playing Tuesday. And then Wednesday got windy. I was like, I definitely don't know how anyone's going to do this. Yeah, it's step in just for the pampered fucks. I don't think anyone said unfair. I don't think anyone's like critique of it went beyond. No, yeah, complaining. It was just like the pins were really, really hard. They softened them up a little bit today. We can talk about that some, but it was just really, really difficult. And that is going to present a certain kind of test, I think is and Rory kind of went up to the line. He did say he didn't think it was a good setup. I think that's like, that's a different take than like this is unfair or it's too hard for us. And I'm just curious, as somebody that played it, your perspective on that? Well, you know how you always kind of say like your main point about firm greens versus soft greens is it takes a great shot on a firm green to hit it close, well struck the right shape height at times like right distance like it is requires everything. Whereas when it's soft, you can hit an okay golf shot and you're not getting that big of a difference between a really good one and a pretty good one. That's what this feels like to hit it close. You have to hit like not on every hole, obviously, but like on we were talking about 12 on Friday, front right pin. It's on a knob and the winds down off the right. I hit a great drive and I sandwiched and I had a very good wedge shot. You know, if I'm just calling like basing out of 10, I had a nine out of 10 sandwich. It landed two paces too far and then just hop, oh, you know, was a firm so hop down the hill. It can't spin up that hill. So now it's, you know, 20, 20 feet. It's a great shot. Like I'm not complaining about it. But to hit that close, it's you're, you're asking like a ton and I'm not saying this again as like, oh, whoa, is us. But it's just now you're going to get the same thing where really, really good shots go to 20 feet and pretty good shots go to 25 feet. That's where I see it. That's where I see what Rory, like what Rory's kind of trying to say is that like the champion of the PGA and some people's opinion won't be because they played like significantly better golf than the field. Like I look at it as four over par right now was like 60th or something. And they're nine or now 10 back, but at one point they were eight back, you know, they're eight back a second. Like that's, oh, that's too many people to not say at some point that, that there was no separator. And we play with Hideki Friday and he did what you have to do out here, which is he just made a ton of like eight to 12 to 15 foot par putts sprinkled in a couple birdies. It's just that's, that's my take on it is just really good shots and good shots are going basically having the same value. And I don't know how you can do a whole lot more, at least the first two days, you know, today did look a little bit more manageable. Yeah, I think it's, it's pretty, it's one of those weeks that it's pretty easy to wrap your head around, even as weird as it feels because it's so different than all the other weeks. It's very easy to understand how this happened, right? Where it's like, I was watching it with Justine today who hasn't watched any of the golf and she was, even the first thing she noticed, she's like, man, why is that like everybody at 200? I was like, well, that's like kind of the whole thing that everybody's talking about. She's like, well, why does that happen? I was like, well, you know, you've got, you can't make birdies, but you also like don't make doubles. Yeah. And so you got kind of the, you know, the closest you can hit it is 15 feet, which you're probably going to miss. And then somebody else might hit it to 40 feet and they're both going to make four and you kind of just do that like 54 times. And, you know, you try not to step on rakes and like shoot yourself out of it. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. She's like, but it's cool that like a bunch of people have a chance to win. I was like, yeah, it is cool. You know, it's whatever the fuck you want it to be this week is kind of my takeaway from this is like, it's the Valhalla. It's going to be exciting. I don't know if it's like the greatest, which is funny because I love, I think golf was so good. So it just, some of these pins are just bananas. If I was to, I was to say like, I was, I was, my, despite what the reaction to what I said last night was, I was right in the middle. I was like, there's a lot to like about this or some things I would critique, but it's kind of gray for me. And today was quite generous in a lot of fashions and moved the T up on 13. The, the par three teas were up the part, the one was out of different direction. The par fives played different. It just felt like if I was to, you know, really nitpick, they could have blended a little bit of the ease of some of the whole locations today into yesterday and it smoothed it out a little bit more. I think it was, there was an early overreaction this morning of like, oh, there's going to be 60, it's all 65s out there. There was a bit of a wave split this morning because we picked up again in the afternoon, but I, yeah, it's, we're all kind of left scratch in our head because it's kind of usually pretty, I don't know, it's not easy to figure out what's going on on golf tournaments or like what the test is or who's winning and who's clearly been the best. And this is like one of the biggest blenders I can imagine. And yet you have John Rom, you have Ludwig, you have Rory, Xander, Reed all right there as well. And so it's, it's not like it's complete luck, but also two of the guys within three shots of the lead are in the top 35 in the world and the rest are outside of that in data call rankings. It's just, it's crazy. So yeah, I don't think, I, I, I don't think that it's like any kind of luck. I just think it's testing maybe like less of the golfer. So you still have to do really well at, at, at everything. You have to drive it well. You, you really need to hit your irons well. But again, like you're not going to get a massive separation between like a Scotty iron day and a, you know, so-and-so iron day, who's like maybe 50th in strokes gained or whatever. But yeah, to your point about the, the pins the first few days, like when I turned on the TV and I saw where the pin was today on 10, I was like, what the fuck? Where was that yesterday? It was coming. It's 45 degrees. And I was just like, dude, if you miss the fairway, you have no chance. And then your wedge shot, if you have to lay up is so scary. And I was just like, what the fuck? This is nuts. So it just, I don't know. It still is such a great test because again, you do need to do all the things well. The, the, the kind of second bit of the issue is the rough is so hard to chip out of that if like you do miss the green, it is, you have to be so conservative because like around the greens is so hard. The first cut is like the craziest stuff I've ever chipped out of. So I think you're also seeing people playing more. Like I was playing so like conservatively, especially the first day. And it's just the, the 15 footers you were talking about DJ, like everyone's got one, like they're so tricky because they're up a hill down, they're pretty quick, like they can run, run away from you. So, or get away from you. So you have to be like pretty conservative. There's like five holes where it's like, I fucking need this. Which is a whole other mind fuck. Now, no, you have to. You have to. So yeah, you miss a fair run to get like go at the pin. It's like, good God. That might be done. So I think that's kind of that. That's what's so different about this tournament. Rory had some good stuff today. Obviously shot 66 had a, had some good comments, some, some interesting comments. He's, he's kind of back to being old Rory in the press room this week, which, which we love. This was him, you know, he had said a couple of days ago, it's not a good setup. It's not a good setup. We're not separating. He said it yesterday after shooting 67. That's important. That's right. That's right. He backed off it slightly today, but just kind of some clarifying stuff that I thought was good. Doug on one. Can you think of another PGA course that they could manipulate scoring the way they, they can this week? And what do you expect for tomorrow? I don't know if manipulates the right, I don't know if manipulate scoring is the right term. They've, yeah, they've protected, they've protected it. I don't know if, you know, manipulate seems a little USGA. Okay. I'll Mike Davis, but he's gone. Stasis. Yeah, it's, look, when you have a set of greens like this, you can, you can start to frustrate people pretty easily. I think you heard it in me last night. You heard it in Scotty. I saw some of his comments, Shane. I think there was a lot of guys that were frustrated yesterday coming off the course, but again, it's frustrating to us, but at the same time, it creates a hell of an entertaining championship. So if I wasn't playing this tournament, I'd love what's going on this week, but watching and playing are two different things. There you go. I thought that's, you know, I think that's right. And you might be sitting there saying, that's not how I feel at all. This tournament is whatever you want it to be. You've got a free pass to make this, this PGA championship, you project whatever the hell you want onto it. I think that's, I think that's the only way to make sense of this is we don't have a wild weeks like this very often in pro golf. And I think we just got to stay in back and be like, this one's weird. How about that? Which I think brings us to our leader, Alex Smalley, who was impressive as F today. He was like, he came out of the gates. You know, I was joking. I'd slack about it a little bit. It was kind of an old school. You don't see this at majors that often. I was reading a piece that Shane Ryan literally like wrote about Alex Smalley as he's teeing off on the first hole. And when you get these, like, I don't want to say no name because he's a very, very good player and he's around on a lot of PGA tour leaderboards, but you get a lesser known guy who takes a lead at a major. The writers have like 18 hours to like pump these stories that are like, you may not know Alex Smalley, but he's ready for the moment. And then he steps up on the first seat and he hits it 150 yards right. And I was just like, oh man, that's, that's tough. Then my guy got that treatment. And it was like ass back to get it back and take the lead. I was reading that it from Shane was kind of like, better burn this one tonight. If you don't know, if it's going to work on Sunday, you don't know if he's going to be there, but he will be there when he tees off tomorrow on Saturday. We're going to run this one tonight, but yeah. Bogie, Bogie the first two, Bogie three of the first four, and then just fought it all the way back. Birdie seven, birdie nine, plays his back nine and 31 birdies 18 hell of a shot in there after making bogey on 17. Max, you know, you know, Alex, I'll be playing with him. Anything you can tell us about his game? I haven't. He's got, obviously he's an interesting dude to watch because he's a really good golf swing. And, you know, it seems like he gets his, he drives in his irons really well. And he's so calm. He doesn't seem to make a peep, but whoop has been putting the stats up for the guys that wear them here and there. And he was on 15 at cognizant. It was 150. Like I have to work so hard to get to 150. So he's a very interesting person to watch because now that I know that it's like you watch him and he's not really, he looks kind of like a DJ, just nothing, it came young. He doesn't really smile much and he just kind of strolls around. It seems like that's, you know, the perfect thing, but on the inside it's, it's proving he's got a lot going on, but he handles it. So he's played so well this year. I think it's always tough in this world or this day and age where, you know, the, the news cycle is just kind of who wins. And then that guy gets a lot of run and then it's who wins. And then that person gets a lot of run, whereas Alex has played really well for two years and doesn't get loads of run on it because, maybe because he hasn't won. So now it's like he's in the lead at a major, or even if you're just contending and it's like, man, who's this guy? And we all know, but I don't know. So I like his game. It's going to be a big test tomorrow. I think tomorrow, excuse me, a big test tomorrow is with how many people there are. And you can get this golf course. You need a very good day. Like, but there are a lot of holes if you put yourself in the right spot that you can get. If you get like a warm putter, like there could be a low score posted and that's probably a heavy thing. I wouldn't know, but like that's a heavy thing I would assume to look at as your, because you look at people like Scotty, Scotty's seeing off like two hours before them. Yeah. And he's like, not that many back. So he throws up like a four or five under and it's just, or he gets off to a good start and say, Jesus, man, like this is what I have to, I just think whoever wins this golf tournament, if they come, if they win from like late, they're going to have to look at a number. And that's hard to do. Yeah. It's going to be warm tomorrow too. Like I feel like some of these, some of these, what did Neil call them? Nothing gazelles, the, the, the bears or the lions that are chasing after them. They like it when it warms up, you know, bodies warmed up, sail it, you know, hit it even a little bit farther. Like golf course starts to shrink down even a little bit more. It's going to be, it looks like the least amount of wind that we've had so far this week for tomorrow. They keep saying that man. They told me that about Thursday and Friday. Oh my God. Let me, you know, again, you can be forgiven if you're, if you're a casual fan and you only come to church four times a year to watch these majors, but you can be forgiven for not knowing a lot about Alex Smalley. Let me read the data golf rankings of, of this is not the crooked OWGR. This is, this is the data golf rankings in order here at number 34. Think about how all of these guys have played. Patrick Reed, Justin Rose. So this is Patrick Reed's 34. Justin Rose is 35. Keegan Bradley, 36. Jordan Spieth, 37. Alex Smalley, 38. Like that's the, the zip code that he lives in, which is, which is well-deserved based on, on his finishes and his consistency. So it's not like a, holy shit, this guy's the 400 ranked player in the world and he's, he's going to poop his pants on the first tee tomorrow. He very well may not win, but I don't know. I, I was super impressed with, with what he put up today. The fun night back nine is a good sign for tomorrow. Cause he got punched and on the spot, you can't get punched. You would think and he, it didn't bug him. So I think that's a great sign for him. But again, you always look at leaderboard, when you've watched or played in this enough, it's, it's not necessarily always how many back you are or how, how many, it's the, it's how many people there are. It feels like you're just dodging. So it's one of those things like, yeah, you have a two shot lead, but you have like, so many people around you that it, that probably doesn't feel quite as like comfy. But again, I mean that, that, that, if he would have done that other way, if he would have played great on the front and then kind of like, just play like everybody else was on the back, it would probably be a bit concerning. It just says a fan, but that, what he did was pretty amazing. Now you got to sleep on it. So it'll be fun. This does feel like a really good setup for like a first time winner or something. Like somebody that you wouldn't, you know, I guess expect pre-week, but now it all make, it makes sense. So it's like, it's just, if he were to win tomorrow, it's not like anybody's like, how in the hell did that happen? Cause what do you, like you just did DJ, when you dive in the numbers, like, yeah, sure. He's really, really good. Yeah. Speaking of crowded leaderboard, should we bring in the czar? I mean, that's just, there's no room for all these people. Everybody's, everybody's tied for, for, you know, 11th here. Hi man. Let's go baby. Max, good to see you. How are things? What's up, Neil? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. I was, I had both boys on my own all day. So I'll tell you what it felt like to me guys watching kind of on not so much silent, but there are a lot of screaming going on in my ears. Every time I walked into the room, it was like a dance circle at a wedding, you know, like new guys popping in. Oh, Matty Schmidt, he's doing the worm. Holy shit. He's out of there. Right. Rory's doing the moonwalk. This is unbelievable. You know, it's like a new guy at the top of the leaderboard every 10 minutes. So I am, I had a great time watching. Eric Rye is going to pull something. I am just, sign me up. I know I said it last night, but sign me up for something different. And this is different. We're not seeing a lot of this, you know, at minus four, struggling to make pars out there. Like it's, and just like, what, 47 guys could win it? Like, hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah. You know, this like before data golf existed, like this is just, it's a free, it's a Donny Brook. It's a total free for all, Deej. I love it. I'm all in. It really is. We've got 43 guys, I think at even par or better, which is within six. We have, what is that? 22 guys within four, minus two or better. And then, of course, you've got the Scotty group at, at minus one max. The, I mean, it's, we're going to say it a million times, but it's, it's not the, how many strokes it's the, how many people is like, I'm going to do this math off the top of my head and probably screw it up, but it's, well, it's the round of the week so far been 66, 65, 65 got her up or 60. No, there was a, yeah, 65. 65 today. All this boy, Nick Taylor, 65 today. There's a bunch of 65s today. Yeah. So if Scotty shoots 65, five under and like take Smalley out of this, he can be the outlier, right? I'm hard pressed to say that doesn't win. That's what I'm saying is like, so then what, Scotty is three back of all those people. So he needs everybody to shoot everybody but one to shoot whatever that is, like two under or higher. You know, it's like there's, it's, it's so much ground to, to make up. He's got to go like crazy, crazy low. Max, can I ask you a question about the course? So sorry. So I've seen maybe two, a couple shots this week back up like with, with wedges and is that mainly because obviously firmness, but with wedge, you think you could spin it? Is it, is that just a lot of guys landed on slopes and it running out? Like, like if you had a wedge in your hand, did you feel like you could stop the ball like where you wanted to or like, where does that stop in the back? I guess is what I'm, what I'm asking. I actually think the firm has made this course easier. When we were first being told about this place, everyone's like, Hey, it's kind of a pitch and putt, especially the front nine, but the greens are so slow and it's so soft because of the rain. Like you're going to be chipping nine iron from 110 to make it not because once it starts rolling, it won't stop like on, you know, 11 or whatever. When we got here in his firm, I was like, that's actually going to play easier with a wedge. The tricky part is that back left pin on 11 is great. That's about as easy as it gets. I am so excited to see where they put that pin tomorrow. If they have any balls, they'll put it front left after all the bitching about pins because it is maniacal. But yeah, it's you can. The problem is, is that your bucket for where you need to land it is like almost too small. So your first hop tends to get to a downslope and then it will trickle. So it probably is going to rip back, but it like it just, it can't go up the hill at that point. Plus it's always hard to see on TV, but a lot of the wedge shots are running downwind. So it's just like, or uphill. So it's like they're coming in so flat downwind. Your first hop is so massive. And then the beauty of around the greens, but what makes it so hard with the wedge is that they have the most subtle false fronts and runoffs around them. So if your ball lands into it, it's going to spin down. And if it lands over it, maybe two paces further, then it's going to hop to the next like crown. So it's just a lot of shelves in like little tiny little areas. That's again why I could see Scotty going bananas if it's like nice out because it requires such precision. But yeah, there's just such subtlety to the undulation that with any kind of firmness, with any kind of, you know, running away or downwind, it's like, the areas are so small, it's hard to even like guess like that. Jordan did it on 11 day, which is the craziest shot I think I've ever seen someone do. But like when you're standing there, you're thinking like, that's the only way I can do this, not on every hole, but like on a lot of holes where there's a run up. It's like, I have to land the short with like maybe two clubs, too many, get one mega hop and then, you know, hit the e-brake. And it's just like, who's going to even try that? Like it's not, it's not worth like the juicing worth the squeeze because then you're going to have 40 yards coming back. And that's not every hole. But that's why that's why one, two, three, four, and six, and seven, I guess we get the fairway are like that is because the greens are not as like bananas. But as you get to the other holes, there's just such a small bucket to land it in. Even like the front pin today on five, did you guys see like Justin hit that one really good? It still broke like six feet left when it hit the ground. Like that should have been four feet. And he's even made the putt, but it's like, God, that's like, there's no, there's no like soft spot as far as like, if it doesn't feed, it goes away. It's Randy's heaven. Slopes are all working away from you. Yes. Let me, let me tee up one more video. I got this from, from Patrick Reed was talking about how to play the course, which I loved. I feel like whenever it's windy like that, especially when you have greens like this, you have to be creative. You have to play golf. You can't sit there and focus on technique and be a robot. It just doesn't work. And when you have conditions and greens like this, cause I mean, there's so many ways to kind of get the ball close to the hole, but I mean, a lot of times working in the slopes or, you know, trying to bounce stuff up or things like that around here seems to be a little better than trying to fly to the hole just because they're so firm and the ball is just going to bounce. And you're always going to be above the hole all day. But you have it. How about that shade of green he was rocking? It's just electric, electric green, bad, the oath keepers on the chest. He's got the yeah. And he's just, I mean, he's just, I don't know. I said it, I said it on, what was that? Thursday night, Max, I think the coolest thing that's going to happen in golf this year is, is Patrick Reed playing the masters, the PGA, the U.S. open back to back to back with no other events in between. It's so sick and play good in all of them. It's so cool. Ben Hogan, like, Jones in for a game. I just can't get a game, man. You know, it's kind of club. I got to bring my own game. It's unbelievable. He was counting cars. He kicked out of the casino. Don't be a let him play. Take a steamship over for the open. I mean, he brought himself back into it. What I saw him, another guy that was doing, you know, the robot in the dance circle, just out of nowhere. I'm like, whoa, it's peace. Three under. We crazy. We have the pin sheet whole locations for tomorrow. Cody, if you want to, if you're able to show that, I'd be curious to get Max's reaction to something. If you can see him, it's probably going to look pretty small on your phone, which I'm assuming you're recording that from, from your Max. But I don't see anything that's, it doesn't look crazy, crazy to me. They are front right on 11 psycho on this phone right now. Sorry, 21 on nine from the right on one, seven on 11 from the left on two, back in that back right corner again on three. That's a sweet pin. That was there Thursday. Yeah. Three is cool because you can actually hit it like four left of that and a little long and it, when it spins down that ridge, it'll break right towards the hole. So if you can cut a wedge in, let's see, like that's a great hole and pin, because if you miss that fairway, there's, I mean, you can hit it pin high 35 feet, but if you hit it too far, your putts really messed up. If you're too short, you don't almost have to chip it off the green. There's no real play to that pin. If you don't hit the fairway, again, which is why the course is awesome. There's most holes you have to be in the fairway. Front wave front right on six. Just looking at this, like I've said all week, it's really hard to do this when you don't have, when you can't see the slopes, the heat maps and all that stuff, but again, it doesn't look like, doesn't look like it's not on the green. Is that on the green? I'm not like Max when we were at Griffith park that day. So those dropped out didn't like that. Yeah, exactly. Down the line in the corner. What are they doing on eight? Are they keeping it? God, they're just living on that right side on eight, which I appreciate. It's like, it's, it's not broken, baby. Let's keep going. I know they put it left today, but that's, that's three days in a row. I think they've put it over there. All right. Three, three or four days, right? It was kind of front ish. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, you're right. It was a little bit more front yesterday when they played it a little bit shorter, but yeah, kind of middle ish on nine. I'm assuming that false front is going to come in on that one back right on 10 is a gnarly pin. That was a lot of guys were practicing to that one earlier in the week. Very front right, as we mentioned on 11, kind of middle back on 12 way back on 13 in that back left corner way back left on 14 front left on 15 all the way on the right on 16 kind of tuck left on 17. That's going to bring the water into play there and then kind of 20 on nine from the left on 18. So it doesn't look, I mean, again, it's hard to tell without the slips around it, but it does not look, it looks more similar to today, I think, than did the previous two days in terms of it just being kind of completely absurd in Scotty's words. I thought Rory had some good comments too about the way the course played today. Again, I don't think that they're trying to like jar the transmission to just completely change this golf tournament and be like, today's easy day. You know, I like the wind also switched and you had, they moved, they had moved 13 up, which I'm sure was always the plan for the whole week, but then the wind, you know, switches to the opposite direction. So some of the holes that were playing super hard are suddenly not playing hard. Both of the par fives are playing straight down wind. I think there were some other, some other things rather than just like, Oh, Kerry Hague freaked out and he, and he lost to, you know, he doesn't have the medal. But God still look pretty hard if you wanted to make it hard out there. Who's saying that? Who's saying that? I feel like I got lumped in with a bad crowd last night. I was literally in the middle was my take and everybody got really, really upset. You got a stamp or something though, Solly. I did. I gave you very specific things I liked and very specific things I did. Very specific. I liked today a lot better. I thought today iron play got, you know, was tested in a lot stronger fashion. It was less of a putting contest and less, I don't know, just less silly with the, the whole occasion. So that were really good. We saw guys go out and get it early. But I think today also spoke to how thin and the line is how difficult it is to set this up like literally same golf course, same pins. Everyone playing in the morning. It was almost a shot harder in the afternoon. The guys that are playing better, you know, to this point, we're almost a shot higher in the afternoon because the wind picked up and it played a lot more difficult. So and, and this morning everyone was like, Oh, everyone's going to shoot 63 is going to be the easiest day ever. It's just like, dude, that's just how difficult it is to set up a golf course. And I thought today was the highlight by far. Just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of golf holes. And I really enjoyed watching today. I thought I'd off. It felt late. It was like, Oh my God. I forgot to Alex. Molly still got to go. I thought I liked it. I think I had fun, but I do. I've got to check my, but my numbers. I got to check the sheets before I could decide whether I enjoy it. Sure. All three days. I'm out of blast. This has been a like a highlight PGA for me because it is like, you know, we talk identity, leaning into the chaos, baby. It's awesome. And I mean, I love having this leaderboard where, you know, that you got some guys that are new to this situation at minus six and a few at minus four, but then it's the lions, baby. I mean, Rob, you know, a lot of storylines there, but the guys at minus three are like heavy hitters. Like just, you know, let me be breathing down some necks tomorrow. I'm fired up about it. The leaderboard's got the juice. So, uh, max, another question for you. No, no. Okay. Sorry. 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Welcome back, max. Welcome back. Sorry. The pins broke you parenting and duty calls. Yeah. The pins broke my brain. Uh, I was going to, I was going to say this earlier. We talked to Alex Smalley a little bit before he hopped on Neil. Neil, I'll give you the first pick within reason. You know, I, I, I guess you can go all the way back to Scotty, although it's going to take a 63 probably or something for him. What, what's your number one draft pick tomorrow? Jeannie, Jeannie, you know, like storyline or guy? Uh, either one. I don't know. Whatever that means to you. What would you, you get a, you get a Jeannie wish for whatever you want. Well, I was asking about picking a winner. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, I mean, not what you think is going to happen. What do you, what do you want to happen? What are you rooting for? Good question. Uh, there's a lot. I got stocks on the syndrome. Like seeing, seeing like Patrick Reed come out of nowhere and when this thing is like, after what we just said about, he's only playing majors, like that is just like, Oh man, like that's kind of the state of golf right now that would sum up a lot of the last three or four years. What color car do you buy if you win the PGA? Cause he got that green one for the master. That's a great point. Just bright silver. Maybe, maybe the bright green he was wearing today. I don't know. He stays in the same, the same lane. Uh, uh, you know, a lot like God, Ludwig bounce back today. I think Ludwig breaking through is, I don't know. T, T seed, I'm like Stockholm syndrome. What I'm, I'm, I'm picking up his platform. He's not even here. Uh, so I always got a lot on the line with Nick Taylor and John Rom, both of those guys. Nobody knows this. So we had an in-person event on Tuesday that has not been publicized. We had to pick who we thought by finished DFL. Uh, and I did say it was a gut pick. I said, Nick Taylor without it at all. That's a pot eater. And it's always sweating that one for a couple of minutes. Uh, so, but yeah, listen, T C's got a lot riding on this rom thing. If, if rom come back and win tomorrow, I don't know how he can twist that one, uh, which we know he's going to try, but I don't know how he's going to, how he's going to actually do it. We can check it. I'm so curious if the weather behaves and it's not windy, like how different you see like certain skill sets play. I think it's so hard right now because the wind too that like, know what, like what, what are you supposed to do? It's kind of like a gust. So when it gets impossible, it's like everyone just, you're going to struggle in the same holes and you're going to probably have your birdie looks on the same holes. If it gets, like you said, it's supposed to be warmer. It's supposed to be less windy. Like all of a sudden, maybe people do show off a little bit more and there are, there is a separator. That would be, that's the part that's so hard to like predict here with who's going to play well. I don't know if you can see that there, but that's just, that's, that's a different chart. It's like seven miles an hour. I mean, gosh, you could see, yeah, that's where this was, yeah, that's where you could see some of these. I've dropped out of game. So I knew the genie, the genie wandered out of your house as you were just rambling on all kinds of names. Who you got? I mean, I think Rory could be halfway to the, the grand slam tomorrow. Yeah. He has shot 67, 66 the last two rounds. He was on totally on offense. He's playing the best golf I feel like of anyone up there near the top. It just looks like he, you know, if there were 36 holes remaining in this, I would like confidently say, I think Rory's going to win. But if you're making me pick somebody who I think is going to win here, Rory is, it would be my pick. And I think that would be an excellent, excellent story tomorrow. Yeah. It just don't feel like we've even seen his the best possible golf from him over the last couple of days. And he has been, I don't know if this is literally fact, but I feel like he's been the best golfer over the last two days and got over whatever happened Thursday. Yeah. A couple of things on Rory. I think being where he is after an opening round 74 is badass. I think that's awesome stuff. He talked about a little bit in his post round today and how he's, I think starting to not necessarily like dread the finish line, but like, you know, understand the gravity of the finish line where he's like, man, I've got a set number of these things left and I need to, I need to max out as much as I can. I think that's kind of the, he's freed up mentality of like, these are no longer a curse. I think they're a little bit more like how many can I, how many can I go get? And him battling back after 74 is, is pretty awesome stuff. The, a couple of stats I saw floating around. So he was a hundred and fifth after round one in the field. There's only four players in history that have ever won a major after being outside the top 50 after round one. Wow. Only four out of outside the top 50. He was in a hundred and fifth and I think he's going to win tomorrow. I mean, that's like, that's crazy. Spotting the field, just essentially four shots or, you know, whatever the field average would be, six shots, four shots, whatever it is is, is awesome stuff. And also a 25th round of 66 or better. Neil, you'll like this one. 25th round of 66 or better in a major only Tiger Woods has more in history. Is that a, is that a Randy Robleston? That's from the Elias Sports Bureau. I think there's two, two guys working on that. But yes, hell yeah. Great stat. It's, it's worth looking at in terms of just the uncertainty going into tomorrow, smally with the two shot leads, 17 and a half win percentage. That's the highest win, win probability. Like that's shockingly low going into the final round for one person, like the leader alone to have that low of a win probability. And there's like, no one has a big one. It goes Ludwig, Rom shortly after that. And then Rory is the fourth favorite 8.9% win probability going into tomorrow, just three back. That seems low. But again, that's calculated based on all the other, just the volume of guys like he could get passed by somebody below him as well. Max, you got a, you got a horse here you're rooting for tomorrow. Storyline. I really like the rom thing would be cool. Ram. Just because he's just gotten punched a bunch by these majors and like since he's left and he's still so incredibly good. So I'm sure he has like a lot on his mind when he comes to these and he's kind of in a good spot. I don't think there's like loads of attention on him, even though he's like literally right in it. So I think that would be cool. Like the P read storyline to what Neil said is awesome. Like, it's a little more farfetched. It's so funny. I don't know. I'm, I love math. So like I always root for math, but I'm more focused or curious about the storyline of like, is it somebody who plays early and posts, or is it going to be like a normal golf tournament where, you know, someone wins it at the end? Cause there's also like, is it somebody who just gets lying hot on the front nine and actually like kind of holds on, or is it somebody who's going to do it smally to today and actually play the back nine well? But I think it's going to be totally different tomorrow with the, with that weather. Cause I think that, yeah, I don't know. I just think you're going to see some six, seven unders cause I think you're going to actually be able to beat up the front, like truly beat it up. I think you're going to see a lot more guys do it. So and just think about, like, I did catch Ron missing that like three foot 10 inch putt on 18. Yeah. I mean, that one, I hope that doesn't sting man. Cause did we set it on the season preview pod this year? Like what's your storyline for the year? It's like, Ron at the majors. Yeah. And if it comes down to a three footer on Saturday that he missed on 18, just like a, just a mindless three putt, but he went from second to 48. Max, you could attest to this though. I do not think that was a mindless putt. Neil, that was like those. Just me watching with like two kids in my arms, you know, I'm like, oh, guys, you know, like the Tony Soprano meme like what an idiot. What a bum. Those four footers, you tell me, Max, like those seem to be more stressful on this golf course than a lot of golf courses. You put them. Yeah, they are. I don't think that they're crazy, but when you think it just his putt in particular, the first one's tricky cause you're going uphill into the wind, uphill downhill into the wind. So that's always weird just because of like, you don't know if you guys need to hit it harder cause of the wind. And, but it's like, you don't want to obviously do the dumb thing and leave it short and have it roll back. And then when he hits a second one, so obviously a good putt, but it's downwind now. He, you know, you, everyone putts pretty aggressively inside of six feet. It comes off like probably a little warm. It was clearly going to, like he read it, rated everything right except the pace, but like it's downwind. So it's like going and it's the tear point. Like they, they're tricky. They all have some kind of break around the hole. It's very Augusta like in that you don't get a lot of like just basic five footers. When you do it's probably because you either got luckier, you had to chip it like, you know, and it got below the hole. So yeah, they're just, they're just enough in there to worry you a little bit, but I mean, everyone's going to do that. I mean, again, to his benefit, he's really not that far back. And I think a lot of times you look at what second place is not first when there's a bit of a gap. So he's right there. He's just so freaking good. I wish, I say this all the time, I feel so robbed that we don't get this more with him and like Scotty. It would just happen all the time. They're so consistent. So it's fun when he's up there. But like I said, I'm more just, I cannot wait to see how like the actual tournament itself plays. I don't necessarily care who it is, but I just think there's going to be something because it's such a unique board. I think it'll be a very unique way this tournament finishes. Max, can I ask you another question? I got 12 way playoffs. I could. What, which hole is between eight and 17? Which of those part threes did you find harder? Wolfay eight on Thursday was the dumbest hole I have ever played in my life. I can't remember who, if I was listening to a video or something, but somebody was just like, yeah, you know, they moved the pin. Oh, smiley smiley on his he re and did like did something about one of the holes. He goes, you know, eight played easier today because the pin or whatever it wasn't him. Not I think about it, but I was like, it was 63 yards shorter and they only moved the pin up like nine of those 63. We were hitting, you couldn't get it there with a four iron, but if you hit like a wood, it was so high in the air, it was probably not going to get there either. And long left was so, so, so, so, so bad. So I was aiming it at the bunker with a four iron trying to rip a draw and I hit it pretty good. And I remember when it landed, it was like a yard right of the bunker and I was begging for a hop into the sand and it didn't. And then you're like, well, now I got this up and over and down and around JJ hit in the front left bunkers. You're like a 50 or probably a little less 30, 40 yard bunker shot and fatted it out, hoop to 30 footer for par. And then his deck he hit it long left, which was the worst place by a mile. And I think he ended up making like scraping to make a bogey. It was the most obscene hole. So typically I would say all three of the long ones are pretty similar, but that one with the elevation and any wind, I don't fully, I don't guys don't know what you're supposed to do. That made my night here because I stood on AT for like 20, 30 minutes on Thursday. I was like, man, this is like, this is a lot. Well, they say the play is long. It's always long. Like what club do I hit long? I just got to send a three word. For those that were not keeping track at home, here's the yardage on Thursday versus today for all the part threes. So five went from 178 to 150. Eight went from 245 to 198. Yeah, playing into a 25 mile an hour. 14 went from 220 to 199 and 17 went from 241 to 208. So they were, they were all way shorter today. And as a whole, I think played like a, but we played 14 also the second day, humming into the wind, freezing back T, back right pin. Like you can't make the hole longer. And I was talking to JJ about it, but I was just like, I'm all for like this hard, but like, why are, why wouldn't you know it's going to be into the wind? Are you stretching it as far as you possibly can? Like that didn't make loads of sense. And stock standard, the best part three on the course is the shortest one. It's every time. Do you think they were a little spooked, Max, just by the chatter leading up into it about everyone's going to go super low? Like do you, do you think they were a little spooked with it with the early setup? Any maybe, but it always makes me laugh because the God, if you just, I think I told you guys this story, but Mary and my first US open, shortest soft, you know, all the rain, whatever. And nobolo got on TV. I was with my family watching live from, and he said, this will be break every record of US opens ever majors ever. I looked at my family. I said, if that's true, that I am not good enough to play professional, I need to get a real job. And I was a little worried because I was like, if that is true, I mean, I don't know. I've never played with these guys before and even part one. So we're walking around this place and everyone's like, yeah, it's going to be so easy. And as we're playing the practice round, everyone's kind of like, oh, this is like a little, it's a little tricky. Did you guys, did you guys think that was hard? Yeah, everyone's like this impossible. All the players like this impossible. Like I don't know what we're supposed to do. We played that Wednesday practice round. It was blowing like it was Thursday Friday. And we're like, this is impossible. So maybe they did, but gosh, if that, if that is true, that makes me so mad. This is like, no, you know the answer. Like, you know, that's wrong. So just let it happen. The PJ is my favorite majors as far as setups goes because they absolutely never try and make a score happen ever. So that I don't think that they necessarily did this year, but I do love that. They don't care. It just could be, could be 22 under. They let the weather dictate it. It's, I just think it's brilliant because that's how it not should be, but like it's to the point to the interview you played DJ about Rory is like the joke was about the U.S. shake is that's literally what we're saying is the opposite. They want a score and in R and the PJ, they just tend to be like, yeah, we're going to make it this hard. And if the weather is good, it will be this hard. And if it's not, it will be this hard. And we're cool with 20. We're cool with like this week, which will probably be, I mean, I'm assuming some single digits, but yeah, that I don't think that they again made the pins unfair. And it's so exciting. So like they nailed it. But when you hear a player get interviewed, they're being asked a question about how they feel about the setup. Like that's the, that's just how we all felt about there. A lot of us felt about the setup. It doesn't mean that it's not super entertaining, but we don't walk to a tournament and say, gosh, I hope this is such an entertaining tournament. It's like, gosh, I hope that my good shots go close so I can win the golf tournament. So when your good shots aren't, it's just gets a little tilting. That's the only, that's the thing. And it sucks that there's such a difference, but that is, that is the fun part about these interviews. You get to hear what, how they felt about it. I'm kidding. I think they want the bunch leaderboard too. I'm thrilled about it. It's a me too. It's awesome. I do, but I, I work like today, like CBS struggled to keep up. Like there was just too much going on in different parts of the golf course. And like it, it, when there's this many guys involved in the mix, it's just kind of hard to tell the story and kind of create the drama because you just don't know. You know, Smiley drops off. He disappears for a while. I honestly forgot about potgeaters. So did they cause he dropped off. It's just, it's just, it's a lot. It's a lot. I'm okay with that on Saturday though. I mean, you know, hopefully Sunday, they can bounce around or we'll, you know, we'll see what happens. But Saturday as a, like with chaos is great. And I'll say this, one thing I've really enjoyed the last three days is I think 16, 17, 18 has been an awesome finish. I think 16 has awesome like electricity and I mean, Eagle is very like, you know, Ludwig almost made Eagle there. Like just a lot of action at 16 and then 17 and 18. Deige, we got to hit the shots, baby. Have to, you know, have to hit the shots. Like guys can come backwards and I like that. I like, I like that uphill finish with 18. It's a, it's just a nice three whole stretch there. I'm hoping for some fireworks tomorrow. It's been fun. Neil, we're recording a big Pete die podcast this week. And Pete die was, was famously a massive Donald Ross guy. I spent some time with him at Pinehurst and there's all these little nuggets and the two things that, that come to mind from the Pete I research about Donald Ross is he's like, I, one of my biggest goals ever is just, is to make putts that look like they're straight, that are not straight. He's like, nothing drives people crazier than that. And that's what I kept thinking about with watching Scotty today, the putt that you were talking about with Ram. There's so many, like there's so much crazy stuff going on that when you, it looks like you have a straight putt. Finally, max, I'm projecting here, but it, there has to be a little bit of like a over reading it. There has to be something in this, which way, like just one final kind of mind fuck. And then the last thing is he's like par five, 16th, hard par three, 17th and a big par four finishing 18th. Like that's, that's the combo. That's the trio. Thinking about like, oh, Sawgrass, oh, Kiwa, oh, like all these different places. I'm like, how that, that pops up in a lot of places. I got a question, boys. Do you think that the putts that, you know, you would probably be able to eyeball read pretty easy or tricky when there's like slight drop offs off the back of the green, you know how like most greens are back to front, but then there's this weird, like, yeah, it's almost like an unsettling thing because you'll be pin high and they go, this is breaking towards the front of the green, but you kind of look to the side and you're like, but the green runs off there. I always wonder if that messes with your eyes. I'm a little green, illiterate to begin with. I find these screens to be super, they're just the way a lot of them on the classic Northeast courses, they sit in slopes so much that like, I find it hard to find my level. Like, you're not, you know, reading the slope of the green is hard because there's so much slope just going on in the general area of the green, beyond the green. And so like trying to find like a flat putt anywhere in that I find to be super challenging, like everything just kind of like you're on the deck of the Titanic. And also, they're greens that were not designed to be played at 12 or whatever you guys are playing them at. You know, it's like, yeah, but we need to play faster. Which took the words out of my mouth. Neil, I don't think there's ever been a better night in the history of this podcast to play Ligurig or Loitering. Yeah, definitely. We got to go back. So lingering, loitering, lingering is like, they're just hanging around the convenience store, but they're not really a threat. They're just kind of like, they're Loitering is they have, they might have the baseball bat in the trunk and it's like, they're mean mugging the guy. Like register, we can't have them here. That's me, but like, I'm a long time fan of this. Okay. Well, no, but I feel like I just said, Neil and Sean are brothers. And strong. That is real name. All right. Alex Smalley, shout him out. Who do you got? I don't know if he could, he's either, right? I got, I think he's lingering. I think he's loitering. Really? People aren't going to want to hear it. I think he's loitering. I was so impressed with the back nine today. Don't think he's going to off him on the first tee. I don't think he's going to win either, but I think he's loitering. Okay. Yeah. I don't think he's going to eject. So I would say loitering. I think he's going to Yeah. Top three, but I don't think he's going to win. I mean, he's never won a PGA tour event. It's a couple of runner ups. You know, yeah. Ludwig, provocative one here. Yeah. I think Ludwig's lingering as well. I do. I just, I've seen, I hate to say it because I root for him, but I, the Sundays have not been good this year and the putter has not looked very good this week. And I mean, even today felt like some missed opportunities, man. Like he had a couple of short, wait, he made that missed a shorty on 11, I think or 12, three putt on 12 from like 15 feet. It just kind of sloppy. And he's tee too. So, I mean, maybe he got it out of the system, but I'm going to go with lingering. I'm going to say loitering. I think Ludwig could be one of the great benefactors of slightly easier conditions tomorrow. I feel like every time the conditions got even a little bit easy this week, Friday afternoon, when he was playing in and kind of in the middle-ish part of his round today, like he was just on offense. It could be Ludwig's day tomorrow. I, I, I, I'm still, despite the craziness of it so far, the big names, the, the ROM Ludwig Rory thing is, is give me those three versus the field. I don't know what the math would say on that, but I would definitely take those three versus field. I mean, it's crazy because he then got Xander at 302. Yeah. See, I think, I think with Ludwig is the, with easier conditions, I don't think the start benefits him much. So if he gets off to a good start, I like love his chances. But if he doesn't beat up the beginning, he's like made for the back nine, in my opinion. You have to like drive the life out of it. It's longer irons. His like game isn't, not that it's not still good, but like the best parts of his game are like driving and like kind of like Rory, like the longer stuff. And I think if it plays easier, you're going to have to be like very, very, very on it with the middle stuff. But the back nine lends it to what he does, which is like holds like 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, you know? So it's like, that's, I'd be curious. I think if he's a couple under go under the back, he would be such a good guy. But I'm so curious, like if people are going to shoot six under, you know, I think he's separated because, or he was playing, he's playing so well because it's so freaking hard. But it's like, he's a robot. But it's like, can you make enough birdies, you know, tomorrow? That's where I'm so fast. He was, he was first in T to green today. I'm saying worth off the T and I'm based, I mean, maybe I'm, I'm biased because I watched him play the front on Thursday, watched nine holes of them. And it was so sloppy. It's just been a bipolar week for, for Ludwig. This brings me no pleasure. And I'm bummed that you guys are passing the, passing the potato to me to be this guy. He is lingering until proven otherwise. That's what I, I'm not, you're, I'm right there with you. You know, and it's, it's, I hate to be that guy, but we watched, we watched players, we watched the masters, we've watched a couple, a couple spots now where it's been, it's been concerning, concerning Sundays. And I love Ludwig and I love his game and I hope he wins 10 majors starting tomorrow. That would be great. But it's got to call balls and strikes a little bit on, man, it hasn't been good when the lights have been, when the lights have been brightest. So yeah, I don't know why, why do I say this? The parts that he's screwing up though, I'm like, ah, you probably won't do that again tomorrow. Like you're still hitting it so good. You're putting itself in all these proper positions. He shouldn't have missed that put. I should have three put of that. You also can look, you get away with a lot of it there. Right. Like he's not, he's not hitting into the middle of the pond. 70 second and putting lost .3 to the field. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Let me throw you next. Xander Shoffley. Loitering big time. Yeah. Of course. Of course. Solly, what other events does Xander have coming up? I mean, gosh, he's probably gonna be playing a lot of them. I hope the U.S. open coming up here soon. I'm sure he's playing Memorial as well. He's also playing the travelers. Sure. Now, now is the time. This is the place. Every start, every round, every shot that makes your heart race as legends walk the fairways. Keegan Bradley, Scotty Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Cameron Young, Xander Shoffley, Colin Moriakawa and other PGA tour grates all battling to be called champion. Others too. Others. See the world's best for all four days. No cut. Feel the pressure before the shot. The roar when it drops, you'll stand close enough to see it. All the intensity of the focus, the moment when everything comes down to mere inches and where everything makes you feel part of the moment. It's golf at its best, up close, open to all and only here. 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Canadian open waste management. I say loitering, Deige. I feel like Nick Taylor's sticking around. I, I'm, I hear you. I respect what you're saying. And I felt the same way about Phoenix. Right? I remember that one vividly. It was like, Oh, I fucking Nick Taylor's not going to win. And he just slammed the door. Yes. Is it really? He's a closer, but man, Taylor PGA champion doesn't sound wrong to me. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 19, what's the big events? 19 career majors, 12 missed cuts, one top 25. That was a T 23. That's his major record. I don't know if Nick Taylor PGA champion makes a lot of sense to me based on that major. I believe three time PGA tour winner. He's five time PGA. Five time. Yeah. Yeah. Five time player on the week. He's not some walk on scrubs or any busted his butt for you. Solid. I'm like more bolted. I'll say he's loitering too. You went, you went me around on that one. It's just not everybody can be loitering. It's kind of, it's kind of the problem. Aaron Rye, we heard P say you can't play robot golf out there. I thought that was a That was a sub to we have air dry as somebody that only watches golf through spreadsheets. I got to take Aaron Rye. He's a bad, bad man. This guy's about, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to say lingering based on what we saw on 18 there when the, when the temp got a little turned up and he hit the quacker on 18 and I was a little bummed. I was like, how does it kind of sticks? If this is the last hole of this round, I kind of want to see what would happen if we, if we had four more holes. I'm loitering. I love it. Because I think tomorrow is going to be a precision fest and he's precision boy. I love it. Matty Schmidt, max, I'm going to be honest. I don't know. You, you're going to fill me in on Matty. He's sick. He bombs it high. He likes his three more than his driver, but they both go so far. Yeah. Just a good solid golfer. I don't think he's been around the lead a ton. But yeah, he just, you know, he's just your kind of new age, good golfer, high ball flight, low spin, good at pretty much everything. I'm not sure his short game's the best seventh and putting this week. Looks like he's, I'm not sure he's chipping, but the chipping thing gets mitigated out here. He putts a lot. If I remember right off from off the green, but around here it's sort of chip. Nobody chips. Good. So yeah, he has played. This is his fifth major championship. Only his second since 2021. He finished 69th in the open championship last year. I'm going to be monitoring the shirt tucked in or untucked. Oh man, it comes out so fast. I'll be all over that. I was like, oh, that's all I was watching all over that. Cracking up at the players. It's like, God, man, this guy's just not even trying to tuck that thing in. It was, you know, it wasn't just the back. It's the whole thing. It's great. All right. Rory McElroy, somebody give me the case. Rory's, Rory's lingering. Rory's a fraud. So, so someone would give it to me. This guy's scared. He's totally scared. He's afraid of the moment. Yeah. That's right. Now I'm going to say probably loitering. Zander Shoffley. We talked about briefly. Max, can you just go off on Zander a little bit? Because I feel like we always get to Zander and I'm always like, it's kind of like Scotty, man. I don't know. I don't have a lot to say. He's just kind of good at everything. He's, he's, he's good at winning. He was hurt and now he seems like he's back, but I feel like I just run through my stump speech on Zander really quick. Yeah. He's a lot like Rory and Ludwig to me because he, it's a very far, he drives it quite well. And he's very good. Yeah. Yeah. He's one. He's a very good like mid to long iron player and like a tremendous putter, like tremendous putter. His one bugaboo, I don't know if it's gotten better, but like from a year ago, it's like his wedges weren't the best. So it's kind of, but when you play as well as he does in every other area, especially with the driving, it kind of doesn't matter. And he's just super stoic and like obviously he was always like, he's very similar to Kim Young, you know, everyone would give him grief, but we're not winning more. And you're just like, man, like look at this career in 10 years and, you know, he will have, like it was just so obvious. And so obviously he's figured that out. So he just is very solid. No one's Scotty for the most part. Like nobody's everything at max out, but he's very close, like, like those other just mega top guys. He's, and then his mind just seems like he just knows how to play the game. He's like a bomber, but he didn't grow up like that. So he's got the mindset of a, you know, golfer and it's just very nice. And the way he puts is around that place tomorrow, I think will be like very great. Like it's a high level skill to have for what they're going to have to do to make their birdies tomorrow. And he could do it, especially if the weather's cooperating, he can have more 10, 12 footers for birdies instead of the big, crazy 30 footers. What's he like? Third driving fifth and putting. He's fourth and driving accuracy as well. Andy's hitting it far. Like he's just, he's got it. Yeah. This is not a Sunday of the BGA championship question, but what's he like behind the scenes? I feel like you guys spend a lot of time together and nobody like nobody knows anything about him. Yeah, I know. It's so sad. He's like a, one of the better shit talkers. He's very funny and quick and witty. It is so funny. Him and Pat are such good friends because Pat doesn't talk a whole lot, obviously, but it's almost like them. He's just, he's just funny. He's easy going. I've known him for such a long time. We played Southern California junior golf against each other forever and he's always been really, really good. And I didn't really get to know him too well till like, you know, a little more than a handful of years ago. And yeah, he's just one of the best dudes as a kid, you know, whatever now. And it's like funny. You see him have to change, you know, change and be dad's Xander because he was always just golf Xander. But yeah, he doesn't have like major hobbies and stuff. He just works really hard and then he'll just bust your chops pretty much anytime he's got a chance. He's great. Likes trees, Deige. Does like trees. Maybe he had like trees together. We can't, we can't call if they can't lay watch. The storm, the storm has passed. No, I know he's just easier. I was keeping you guys, I said, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't warn you. He might play well this week. And he did play well for a very long time. No, he did shoot seven or four today. Yeah. I play four rounds, dude. That's right. Your little boy who cried wolf. Now the next, the next watch is going to get rushed aside. F five can't lay what it could come and rip your guys's fucking house apart. The whole thing. You don't have to worry about that. We don't have to worry about that. All right. All right. Uh, Mav McNeely, what is Mav's major record? What's Mav's best finish in a major T 18 at the masters coming off his best finish at a major has zero top 10s. It's taken a long time to get it, get it in gear at the majors. Max, I don't mean for this to be a backhanded question. Took you a long time to get it in gear at the majors. What's that? What's that like? What's that transition like? We'll project on, on Mav a little bit. Yeah. His is shorter than mine. So I think like it's just the time you start getting amped up for them too much probably. So I don't think he's in that boat. So he's just really good. He's had a great career before turning pro. He's been really good the last few years. He's good at everything. And like, you know, in the game, like he's solid everywhere, tremendous short game and putter, the putting thing. I love that for this golf course. So, but yeah, I, I doubt it's gotten to the point of like bugaboo. It's probably just, you know, need some more reps at it. Yeah. It just seems like maybe the most like well adjusted person on the planet. Yeah. He's just the best dude ever. And honestly, having his brother on the bag is probably even better. They're like lovely to be around. Yeah. There's, I think there's something to potentially of, you know, when you got the two weekend late tea times, like getting, you know, almost the Pukin rally out of the way. Oh, yeah. Yeah. On this Saturday, I've like, Oh, I just did that on set. You know, I, you know, I slept, I, the anxiousness started Friday night now that getting into it Sunday. It's got to feel a little easier. I would think that's projecting, of course, but I love, I always like look at that as the guy who was in a big spot and didn't like what smally did today, but was in a big spot, didn't play well, but then is still like there. Whereas it's just more just pattern. Like Nick Taylor is a baller and like a really good closer, but I always, it's always hard when the guy goes and shoots super low on a Saturday and then comes out Sunday. Cause it's, you know, it's, it's just like, it's just, it's uncommon. It's not that it's like, sorry, I'm never going to miss again. You know, I found it. Like I'm that now he's got to go play with, you know, near, I don't know. It's just to your point, solid, like Matt got through a tough day and he's still very much involved. P rounds us out at, at three under for, if we're still playing lingering, loitering. I am all in on loitering. Yeah. For sure. It's made a career out of loitering. I think so as well. There is a wreck or a wrap sheet real long. Okay. He's a known quantity in these parts. I'll say lingering. Can you be a three strike spelling for loitering so often? Keeps getting arrested for loitering, even though they did that. Saul, you want to say lingering? Yeah. I'll say what's the, what's the bear case? Yeah. It's just been too, too much, too, too fluffy on P. I don't think it's, it was in a similar situation at the masters and kind of kicked it away. But yeah, it's fun. It's fun. It is fun. You got to admit it's fun. Yeah. It's so fun. I cannot believe we're at a point where we're just giving so much better for the doubt to pee. Like it's an amazing turnaround. It is. It is. It's crazy. I want to live in that world though, solid. I'm making that a reality. How about Justin Rosa 65? I didn't see that today. Holy shardsky. Very good 65 from team Rose. I know DJ is trumping at the big thing to get there. One thing on P that we haven't mentioned yet this week, obviously a lot of time off, right? He's the only person in top to openly about coming up last week. Spent four days on sites that he played it three days in completely different conditions each time. If there's anybody prepared into all the Rory masters prep haters out there, P learned and we'll see. This is a Sunday. I think if it's, if you could have drawn it up like this is kind of the way that he thought it would be more malfeasance from P alleged here. That's right. I'm playing all these, all these unfair rounds practice rounds. Yeah. I hate it. All the PGA tour guys have to play all these signature events. Yeah. That's right. He's just out there practicing. So, so Rose, he just got it on a front nine and held on tight. The getting was good early and Rose was part of the part of the get all news to me. I'm just looking at the scorecard. That's, that's a, how the, how the irons looked each? I didn't, I didn't watch super closely on, he kind of came out of nowhere. I'll be honest with you. I was going to catch up on the app later, later today. I have the team Rose app speed rounds over there. I figured you'd be on the boards. Yeah. No, I'm saving it. I'm saving it. I got my alerts turned off for today. Can I, if we're, if we're done with this game, can I have my own trivia question by you guys? Please. So, it's like 40 more people. I know this could be all night. Smalley could become the 10th player or Smalley is the 10th player since 95 to hold the outright 54 whole lead of a major, despite not having a single PGA tour win on his resume, only one of those previous nine held on to win. Who would that be? This is any major? Any major. Yep. So there's been, yeah, there's been nine since 1995 that have held the 54, the 54 whole lead without having won a PGA tour event. I'm not looking at the answer, but I have a guess. I got a guess. Is it not Keegan? Ben Curtis was not in the lead going into that one, but Thomas Bjorn was. And so he was on the list, but yeah, that's, that's incorrect. But you're the O3 open is on the list, Neil. But I'd say that and think along the lines of Thomas Bjorn and that it's kind of, Can I get my guess? Yeah. Louis Oosthason. Got it. That was, wow. Hell yeah. It's your PGA tour. That feels so good, boys. I've had a win in so long. Oh my God. I might be lowering. That felt so good. Max, we need to get you like a Thursday game out of the, you know, come on, let's get some small wins. They add up the big things. Oh, that's a good one. Good, good question. That's Randy. That's of course the live sports bureau there, but we've got, I think 11 guys at minus two. That's all. Is minus two too far back? What, how far back is too far back? No, I really don't know if there's too far back. I think it, I mean, So many guys, like you said, it's just a, you know, these, like we said Thursday, it's like the Peloton, there's going to be a bike crash at minus. What's the winning score? Someone give me a winning score. I'm sitting at seven. I was going to say eight, but I like seven better. We have set the bit like, what is the playoff rules for PGA? Cause it's happening. Three holes, I think, right? Three hole. I hope it's still the three hole. It is three hole aggregate. That's right. When was the last time they had that 22? Yeah. JT and Zeltor. Oh, that's right. Yes. Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. When was the last time they had it before that? To be, um, was it the cat? Was it climber? Chimer and 10. I think it probably was. Oh, Keegan and Duffner were 11. Oh yeah. Rory was 12. Duffner 13. Rory 14. Yeah. I think that's, I think that's right. Yeah. It hasn't been very many. No. Um, I think, I think, yeah, I think, I think seven probably, probably would do it. Which on these 16, 17, 18, that would be an awesome three hole aggregate. Oh man. I'm sorry. Like you said. It's such a good one. I'm rooting for a playoff. You don't have to root real hard, man. I know. Yeah, exactly. Like an 80% chance. So if it's, okay, if it's seven, then one of these guys has to shoot 65. Min Woo Lee. Which is out there a ton of 65s today. You know, what, not one. There were five 65s today. That's a lot. Yeah. I think that's gonna, that number is going to be like the five 65s will be like the five 64s tomorrow. Like just knock it down a number. If, all right, you guys tell me. Why do you say that just because the weather? I just think it's going to be easy. Yeah. I just can't tell you how hard that is to get to pins when it's like calm, let alone windy. So if those were the scores, I could see quite it. Like someone's going down low tomorrow or at least like they could be crazy low through like 12 holes, 13 holes. So is Scotty too far back at minus one and T23? I don't think she's too far. I'm surprised Scotty didn't win the truest, not even playing. That man can do anything. I don't think he's going to win, but I do not think he's too far back. Scotty's got to be like the, I gotta look this up, but he's got to be the guy this year and like final round scoring. Yeah. He's leading Saturday and Sunday. Right. Yeah. I mean, just throwing that pebble round in is what immediately comes to mind for me. But like he's just, yeah, I don't think he's going to go lay an egg tomorrow, but it is going to take a, I don't know, a couple of days. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But it is going to take a, going to take a good one. 66 and putting for the week has lost almost four shots just the last two days alone. Yes. It was, it was tough. Today was tough. This feels like a pretty big missed opportunity for Scotty, but any other Probably I'm going to keep picking them to win them. I know that. But for Cam, young too, it was pretty shoot 73 or 72, but Bogey on 18 after it, birdie 15 and six and I didn't see much of his, his round. And then JT as well. I was, I was kind of thinking JT was going to make a little bit of noise. Yeah. I'm young. He has to be tired. Like there has to play a part. Sure. You would think right? Like the threes, the three big events in a row, one playing great and the other one playing good here. Like that just has to be a lot tired from just beating everyone. It's going to be exhausting. It is wild. Just in that T 11 group, like we can't talk about everybody tonight. Christopher, right? Raighton, right hand, Chris Kirk walking Neiman. We haven't talked about Martin Kimer. Absolutely bouncing the back shot today's T 11. But Collie, she's got an extra steak dinner for that. Seeing him hit a shot. Ben Griffin is right there. Cameron Smith is T 11 right now. 68. Oh yeah. That's fun. Min Woo Lee, Max Grazerman, Hideki had 71 today, fell back a little bit and got her up all at T 11. God, Grazerman was up there in the lead for a little while. Yeah. He kind of did. And he had the man. He was doing the worm too, Dee. Yeah. He was hitting the Dougie. He was. He was. He was. The shopping cart going. Yeah. Not the best dance moves, but he was in the circle. No, people were watching. Yeah. Hideki, Hideki remains the weirdest call forever. I played with him the first few days. It was lovely. I was going to ask about that. It's just, truly every single week is like, you can tell me. His first shot. You can tell me he missed the cut by a mile and you can tell me like he's leading after 54 holes. Both of those. I'd be like, oh, okay. Yeah. He played like shit last week. So you got on the first hole and I'm really curious what we're going to get from him. And he hasn't driven it that great this year from what I've seen. And we get the first hole, which I think is pretty easy, like off the tee, like as far as nerves or whatever. It was playing, downwind and off the right, maybe. So pretty fun, like little tee shot that kind of bends to the left. And he snap hooked it out of bounds and hit a tree, I think and kicked back in. And I was like, man, this guy's in a tough spot. And then he beat me by 15. It was a very fun opening hole because I thought he was out of bounds. I couldn't really believe, they weren't giving a sign. So he has a provisional. It was kind of necky. He was around the middle. It was necky. I was like, man, this can be tough. I piped my, I loved it. Mine's in the rough by yard up the right. His is as bad an angle as you could ever have, but like well in place. I was like, man, that's a lucky break, but what a tough hole this is going to be. It's a front of green two putts. I had it on two putt. And I was just like, man, this game is just the worst game ever. He hits a couple like really weird snap hooks, but he also he putt it incredible. He has the best short game. I mean, he's up there with like the top five, 10 guys I could think of. But he's putt it so well and he hits his iron so, so well. So it's just very funny. But yeah, he's an interesting cat, man. It doesn't seem to affect week to week. He just will find it and then be off. I don't know. It's very fascinating. Yeah. Max, what's the, not your best this week, if I, if I may say, if I, Thank you. I think you're better than this year. Yeah. I think you're better than that. Tell us about, take us to a little bit on the, on the state of your game, kind of, what's your, how you're feeling about things, where you are in your kind of swing progression and things. And what's your, what's your prognosis for the rest of the season? I don't know. It's pretty shitty, but I haven't ironed it well at all. And then I've driven it a little bit better lately. I really liked the way I putt my short games felt the best it's felt. I've just been in such precarious spots. I feel like I'm a one or two swings bad every round that just kill me. So that's been tough. Mental games been horrible. So prognosis is I do would, I'm very looking forward to like a little break to like recharge the old batteries, like the emotional batteries, but I've had some like really like inspiring practice days and practice rounds. I mean, like a tournaments, but then like quail hollow. I mean, my Wednesday prime was like remarkable. And then I got out on Thursday and was just like, well, what is happening? So yeah. There's something in there. Like I know there is, but it's just been pretty shit. So looking forward to like I said, a break and then hopefully find low. But when the irons click, I'm pretty excited because like I said, putting short game driving all feel quite good. But again, I'm one bad, like I hit in the water every single day at quail hollow. So it's just like, man, and it comes out of left. I got a two way miss going. So that, you know, guys know how that is. That's fun. Uh, are you guys, you guys? I know you guys know about it too. Are you feeling like you're playing golf swing? Or not? Honestly, not really. I'm just confused. So like, um, when you're playing really well, I think you always know how to hedge away from a miss like a side. And I don't have a great strategy for it at the moment because if I feel like I hedge away from left, I can hit it like way right. And when I just swing at times, it just goes, uh, left. Like this week was perfect. Say, well, I grinded really hard on Thursday. I played really well, honestly, pretty well on Thursday. I was quite pleased with it. Didn't really do anything to make enough putts like to, or make enough, uh, putts to make birdies and get going like offense. The irons weren't hit. I wasn't hitting anything close, but I did a really good job. I thought it was a fine run. I was three over heading to 17. And I should have birdied two or three of the holes on that back. And then, um, yeah, 17 is like, you know, two 25 or whatever in off the left. And, um, I, you can't really miss it right there to that pin and, and have a good look at par. So I'm trying to just sneak it just left of that flag. And I thought I made a okay swing and it just was too far left and then goes in the lake and you make a double and it's just like, man, now I'm five over starting tomorrow when it's blowing 25 and 50. And it's just hard to, uh, feel like motive, like that, uh, like buzz to, I don't know, get something going, but like that's, that's the game right now is just the not bad swings are very bad results or not far off, I guess swings and they just come out of left field. So it's just weird, but I don't think I'm playing too much golfing. I'm just a little confused when I do hit those shots because I don't, uh, again, I, it's like that gets the next one. I don't know exactly what it was. Well, the last time I saw you was on Saturday at Augusta. You didn't see me, but you don't know that. No, you might've just blown you up. Well, yeah, I haven't told you this yet, but I was, I was like, oh, shit, there's max. You were playing really well. You just got up and down from behind 17 green and you gotta tell who's standing. No, you gotta tell who's standing around you. What do you mean? Well, there's a bunch of people like, oh, that's like, watch, watch deals. Gonna deals. Gonna say hi to him. And I went to the entrance when they put the ropes up to get between 17 green and 18 T and I went and stood like right on the corner and I was like, I'm gonna say, what's up to max. And I was like, here we go. Max. And I felt like you just looked right through me and you did. I don't know if you saw me. I did not. I did. I did. I did. I was like, you didn't say anything. And then everybody was like, oh, shit. I was like, oh, man. And I just kind of like walked away. It was so sick. To be a first off, sorry. You played you played awesome that day. So I want that's why I brought it up because right when I seem lately to look and give the time of day to anybody who's not a child, it seems to just backfire. They say something weird and I'm now gunshot because I'm sure 99% of the time it's somebody like you, Neil just trying to be nice and cool. But it seemed to look up and I guess that Gus is wrong, but it's always somebody with a phone out. Sure. Like a fist bump. I'm really anti fist bump filming culture. It is the weirdest thing to me in the world. And I obviously, I have the bar stool like AWL crowd and they're great, but they yell a lot of bizarre things at me. So I've just been keeping my head down. But I've just to be fair, Neil, I've just been in a shitty mood for like two years. So it's like hard to, it's hard to really like. No, no, no, I don't want you to feel bad about it. I thought it was hilarious. Like, damn it, I should have said like, I was like, I didn't. You can't change your voice. I need to hear your actual voice. We, Joe and I used to play a game. He was like, how many voices do you think you could? Yeah, it wasn't bad. It was a bad pass by me. I get a lot of the pros that those are always great. Oh, I got a story to tell y'all. I'm going to keep it. We can do it on here because he's definitely listening and it was hilarious, but he doesn't know. You guys have a friend who has you. He's a big NLU guy. He cattyed at Hilton head pro AM in a no laying up shirt and you guys know him. I'm not going to air him out, but as someone's dad, like that's how you guys talk to him. He cattyed for Ludwig in me and Ludwig's group that day. He played, they had Ludwig on the front nine or whatever first nine me on the second nine. That was the day that the live PIF thing came out and he shows me his phone from your guy's slack. So I'm reading the little headline right above it. I see my name. So I was like, what is that? So I just gave it a quick like thumbs scroll. This is his phone, his account. It was something like Ludwig's flushing it nine of nine greens. Max a lot more chaotic or something. And I was like sick dude. Handing him his phone. I don't think he even know we saw it until he listens to this. But I was like, what the fuck is this world? He's giving this out of your phone. Playing this nice fucking pro am with you guys. Giving tips to all the guys trying to fucking be good. And here I am getting aired out on Max a little chaotic. Max is like, what the fuck went back through it? I hit like I hit seven greens, two fringes. I was pretty decent. Whatever. But man, that made me laugh. But yeah, so that's kind of where I'm at. Neil is like, you know, I actually was like, I shouldn't say anything. I was like, no, I'm going to say I didn't want to get in your flow. And then so it worked out the way it should have. You were dialed, man. You hit a great drive off 18. You played your ass off of Augusta. Hey, I'm not fine. You were in my lineup for Augusta. Hell yeah. One of his 30 lineup. It's not about 30 lineups Max. Oh, maybe so much money. I mean, like 35 bucks. I think that was hell. Yeah, let's go. Yeah. Then he had a bunch of burners when you didn't play well. Like, well, I was totally fair. Totally fair. It's very understandable. I got my fantasy team. All right. I'm going to I'm going to move us towards we can talk trade. If you guys want, we got to. Oh, I got a big trade hitting the market on Monday yet. I can't I can't wait. No, it's already gone through. Oh, OK. Yeah. I thought you're giving giving way more players to TC. That was such a lopsided trade for towards me. That was a great. That's what he keeps telling you. And he's key. That was fine trade. Anyways, one name. Can only name one name. This was a lot easier without TC here tonight. Who's going to win tomorrow? Right. Graham. I got to pick Ram not to win. I'm so stuck. But I said this, I got to go clip the tape. I said I'm super nervous to pick John Ram as the player who won't win. But I do think he's going to finish second. And so that's that's a lot. But that is quite the call. Yeah. Yeah. Give me give me Xander. Sure. Why not? I'm going to go. I'm going to I'm going to zag here. I'm going to go Xander. I'll take Rory. I think he I think he gets it done. Cody, I believe we have a giveaway tonight. Is that is that true? That is true. Thank you, Sully, in order of the pro grace in us with the presence, we went with the pro hashtag tonight. I appreciate everybody coming through the live show. There we go. Get it up there. If you could, Sully normal, you know, thumbs up, likes, subscribe, speed. Oh yeah. Hit the like button. Hit the subscribe button for the no-lamp podcast YouTube channel. We are greatly appreciative of everybody that watches live and the winner of the pro year credit at weary like weary. Come on down email Cody screenshot it, whatever, send it over to Cody and he will get you squared away with some pro shop credit. So any party thoughts? Are we ready to get ready to get the Sunday? Max, thanks for joining us. Yeah. That's why I want to do it. Honestly, thank you guys for shopping it up with you, brother. That was great. Always great. Thank you to our friends at titleist high noon and travelers. Cody run the ones and twos, Matt run the social as well. Max for joining us for an hour and a half and everybody that's tuned in here live. We're going to be back. Give us a little time after play concludes tomorrow. Give us some pressers and we just go a little later on Sunday nights, but we'll be live to recap the end of the PGA championship. Max, you're welcome to join tomorrow night if you want as well. So probably can. Okay. I'm doing a lot. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Cheers.