Masters broadcast critiques, PGA Tour vs. Majors, and Harbour Town as a detox

Now the shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. And here we go. Alright, alright, alright. Gentlemen! Start your engine! Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 15th. Joseph, how we doing? Brendan! I'm doing great. I'm excited. I'm really excited to do some master's cleanups, some RBC heritage, some Live Mexico, Senior PGA. We're right back in it. It's a middle of the day recording, so there will be no libations. But I'm excited to talk. What was that? Was that a Zima? He's already frozen. Oh no. Austin already, Austin, you know, this tech hub already has some of the worst tech. He's already locked out of his house because he has this garbage, you know, digital keypad of the future that just locks you out and had to wait for maintenance to get back in. Now he's got bad internet. Audio is never good, Joseph. It's always, oh, these are my headphones. So it's my mic working every time. But it's good to have you. PJ, welcome. I'm doing great. Hello. I could be doing better, but the more rewatching Sunday just kind of made me more sad. But I'm happy that it was a shared experience that we all had together. I think you're too invested in Cameron Young. Like, you're too personally affected by Cameron Young in ways that aren't healthy right now. Andy is in Scotland. I'm a day behind him. I figured I'd come home, say hello to my wife and kids, and then get on the plane tonight. He is playing, I think, Creole looked lovely out there. So it's going to be a bit of immersion, a different kind of look than we were at Augusta National last week. So we got a boys episode. We got a boys episode. Very excited to get through this. I had a nice, pleasant two-hour ride from Augusta, Atlanta with Joseph. So I'm getting a lot of boys lately. Never too much, though. I'm happy to have you guys here on a Wednesday after the match. You got to say, PJ. After riding with Brendan, we referred to Patrick Cantley as Pampered. Brendan might be one of the biggest Pampered apps. Oh, please share. We're never doing Atlanta again. Can't believe I have to drive two hours today. I said to Brendan, like, if next year, if they took you on a red carpet and wheeled you from the Augusta Airport down Washington Road, you'd complain about the texture of the carpet. And he said, I think I would. That's just not true. I mean, fortunately, we had a lovely automobile to take us from Augusta to Atlanta at our Mercedes-CLS, which, you know, despite your worst efforts to spill cold brew all over it and delay our arrival, I just, as someone who lives on the East Coast, I can go other routes. And I did Atlanta to save a few bucks for Friday at our prizes. I'm never doing it again. There's Columbia. There's Augusta Direct, which PJ enjoyed as a fellow East Coaster on New York. I just, the Atlanta airport is just not, it's just a nightmare. And then driving two hours makes no sense. It makes no sense for me. Like door to door, it's almost the same as like driving from Augusta to DC. So I'm done with that. Columbia from here on out or Augusta Direct. I'm done. I mean, I'll tell you, the Augusta Airport Monday, and my flight was late. It wasn't even Monday morning. The Augusta Airport Monday after the master gets overwhelmed. Well, A gets overwhelmed, but B, it's just a depressing scene. It's, it's pretty sad. I texted Joseph as I was in the TSA line for 90 minutes yesterday. It's like Super Bowl Monday, but now we got to care about the RBC heritage. It was just like a total depressing scene. Yeah, I'll say like the Monday after the masters is a real like, and just picking up the pieces, getting out of town and all that. Like aside from the one year I won the lottery is usually a very, very like rough scene for most of me. Everybody's exhausted, tired, no sleep, or they have to jump in and like recap it even further. And they're just, you're just trying to get out of it. Like everything, all the glow that surrounds Augusta, like immediately becomes charmless, becomes charmless pretty quick as you're trying to get out of town. That's that I'm never driving to Atlanta. I don't think that makes me a pampered F. I did give LaManya an education on some real 90s rap on the way across. So it was good. We got some fiends, some dead prez, bone thugs. We started with Sippin on Syrup by 3.6 Mafia, and he was very alarmed with that intro. He was a little taken aback. We put him on the back foot immediately with some of the tunes on the way across. We're talking about the Masters. Do we have any cleanup here? Speaking of Monday Lottery, unsubstantiated rumor, playing on Monday, Rafa Nadal probably in some sort of one of the sponsor allocations or something, or just for being Rafa Nadal. I guess shot 73 and was not happy about it. Shot 73 on Monday. This is unsubstantiated rumor. I have nothing else from the Monday Lottery round. No other further details to share. Although I did see one European journalist was Willie Nilly posting videos. Videos, photos. Congrats to that guy taking a rip. I'm going to keep him under wraps, although I probably just blew his cover anyways. I love it. I love the gumption. I like pictures inside the Champions locker room. I love it. I love the gumption. Just go for it. Let it rip. No other Monday Lottery details. Rafa is a stick. His swing is unorthodox, but apparently gets it in the hole. He's repeated it as a good score of the golf ball. So 73 allegedly. That's not going to help the course set up discourse. Rafa shooting a 73 and being upset about it. Yeah, they keep the Sunday pins. I assume they put water to keep alive for the end of the season and all that. I assume there was some water, maybe not, but it would have been firm regardless. So those are Monday Lottery details. What other cleanup do you have? A lot of discourse around CBS, which we'll get to in a minute. A lot of discourse around Rory's practicing routine. I'm just going to cut that off at the knees right now. I won't indulge it. I won't amplify it. I won't become a subject of the game we're being told, like where we have to debate things that aren't really debate. That's not, it's not a story. It's not a talking point. We don't need to talk about everybody can practice as much as they want. Except the amateurs have a cap like usually the Bryson rule. It's not a thing. I wouldn't have been mad at Bryson literally this year. It's not an anti Rory pro-lith. I wouldn't have been mad at Bryson practice 400 times between, you know, whatever, May for April 1st and whatever, March 1st and the first tee time. It's just doesn't, it's not a story. One other thing I was thinking about this morning. So like we started masters week with Scottie and Rory's like under the radar is way too strong a term for it, but people are just talking about other favorites. I would say there's a lot of Ram love. There's some Bryson just because we don't see him much as more out of curiosity. I suppose he had one, I guess two in a row. A lot of Cameron young, which proved out well after this year. And I don't want to be prisoner of the moment. Like we did this in 2015 with Jordan speed 2016 with Jordan speed. So I'm a veteran of these, this sort of prisoner of the moment stuff shouldn't like for the next three years, I won't go a decade. We just like firmly keep Rory and Scottie at the top barring some sort of specific, you know, unforeseen circumstances on a specific year. It just feels like where we're at right now, I think Scottie and Rory just need to be two of the favorites regardless for the masters. Is that overextending too much three years too much for well, it depends how they're playing, but I think they were still at the top, right? It just felt like you're a little bit more susceptible, maybe then in prior years, but something I wanted to talk about when my big picture takeaways, I actually think is very similar to that Brendan and in no way trying to diminish Rory's win in any way. Like getting it done normally cares exactly how it's just about getting it done. But I felt this way walking around and I felt this way rewatching Sunday's telecast. This was a major championship that was for the taking and was left. The door was left open a little bit by multiple guys. You didn't feel that in the moment. You didn't feel that like by like the sixth hole on Sunday when the final. I thought that yeah, it was open. It was just there to be taken. Right. Like I think the winner probably should have shot 14 to 15 under. Right. The Cam Young quote about like I hit it well enough to win by multiple shots felt a little to me like when Team USA says we just didn't make enough putts at the Ryder Cup and watching it back like respectfully, I don't think Cam did hit it well enough to win the Masters on Sunday in an awful wedge on seven. The chip on 15 was not great. Like he could have hit that dead on 14. He hits an average wedge in that's a scoring opportunity. He could have hit it to a foot. I'm not saying that's easy, but and I feel the same way about Scotty. Like Scotty shot 74 on Friday, ran a couple of putts that easily could have gone in on Sunday. I can't believe the putt on eight didn't go in the putt on 17 almost went in and shot 74 on Friday and lost by one. I do think after this week, like the best version of Scotty probably wins that tournament by two to three shots. And again, doesn't matter. It's not to take away from Rory's win. But yes, to your point, Rory and Scotty should probably always be thought of as long as they're in form at the very top. But the door was open this year and some of those other contenders we talked about should have seized this opportunity or at least they had they had a good chance. Justin Rose and the other person I didn't mention you go watch it back like totally duffs a chip on 12 chips it back to his feet on three. This is an easy putt on 17 multiple guys really had a good chance and let this one get away. Yeah, I'm not trying to be captured right. It just feels. I would say even if like something and like, you know, Matt Fitzpatter because having the year of all years and he's suddenly number two in the world and these people like that or Cameron you on, you know, he's probably destined for bigger things I would say. It just and somehow Rory or Scotty fall from their purchases like one to one to it feels like the master specifically based on what we what we've watched for the last Rory at least like almost like eight years Scotty the last five six years they just they have to be it what what for me if I'm with Augusta National like set up like it seems like a beautiful era of like the clear two best players seem to be really well suited really comfortable and already accomplished at your major championship and they're going to be there forever. It just feels like regardless of what happens in January to March within reason of course if one of them, you know loses a leg you probably can't put them as a favorite but it feels like we're headed for a master's era where it's Rory and Scotty like every single year with other very legitimate contenders but but them for at least like three or four years. So I think the other way of saying it is that Augusta National elevates talent in a way that nowhere else does and in a unique way that if you're not sure that it contends to be predictive what you've done in the past and we may think some of these other guys are world-class players like John Rom and the jury's still out on that a little bit. We know Scotty and Rory are world-class permanent type of players. I don't think we can say definitively that anybody else active is right now. That's interesting. I mean, yeah, I guess what I'm also saying is even if they have a rom fall off if that's what you want to call it. I think when they get to the master's I'm not necessarily sleeping on them in any way going forward for at least like four to five years. Just based on what we've seen. There's been further legacy discussion. Is Rory and your guys and your youth's youth's opinion? He's now tied with Phil. Is he ahead of Phil? Go ahead, PJ. I think so. I think the Grand Sam is like the ultimate trump card in all of this. I don't see how it's not. Yeah, it is getting that across the line. No matter how long it took, how many attempts it took to do so at the master's, I think that if there is a tiebreaker with just the number, I don't think Rory is done as we discussed on Sunday. I think he's got two more in him. We said seven and a half. I think the Grand Slam has to be the tiebreaker with anybody at six right now. I think Falda would tell you the same thing and has. LaManya. I'm typically like, I think like ranking players all time is sort of a silly and futile exercise. I'm just wondering, I did hear someone, I forget where, I think it was on Golf Channel or something, put like Rory's ahead of Phil now and I had to think about, I mean, Phil has a much longer career to resume currently, obviously. He's got 45 PGA Tour wins. I think Rory's at 30. That's what I was just going to say. It's how are you valuing the PGA Tour win in all of this versus just the major championships? Joseph, I mean, the slam, you could just argue is wildly arbitrary too. You know, wildly. You want, I mean, anyways, winning a certain year at a certain place just versus vis-a-vis like double PGA's at other places. You know, so go ahead, Joseph. The greatest European discussion seems a little bit settled to me. I think in a conversation like that, I have to rely on both like records and, but also what other people say who were alive when Sevi was at the height of his powers and Falda was at the height of his powers. And it does seem like there's a general consensus that Rory's just the much better player, even from people who adore Sevi, talk about what he did for the European tour. Like, yeah, but still like you watch them and Rory's just the better golfer. I think that feels kind of settled. I don't know about Phil. I lean that Rory's probably probably has the more impressive career than Phil, but that one feels almost a little bit like we don't need to have that conversation right now because both careers are technically still active. And I think if all we're talking about is a tiebreaker about six majors, Rory will very likely pass Phil at some point. So I already lean that he's passed him, but to PJ's point, longevity is one of the great markers of Phil's career, but it is also one of the great for his career already at 37. So yeah, I was an interest. I heard that talk. I heard that mention other, huh? I don't really compare golfers like that, but is he ahead of Phil? It feels like the slam is a tiebreaker for some. That has been it. Go ahead, you doubt. I just you mentioned technically active for Phil. That has been like another subplot of kind of this whole week when people are posting stats or anything like the Paul Casey thing, for example, is like. Tiger and Phil are on these like active player lists. Paul Casey's major cut streak is active at all at the same time. But like at what point do we start needing to make some concessions on the word active these days as well? I'd be way quicker to remove it with Tiger than I would Phil. I agree. I'm scared of Phil. I saw what happened at Keohok. You could honestly, like, yeah, of course. He seems NA at this point, but I will be scared of Phil till he's like 57. Maybe I don't know. I'm scared of Phil too. Maybe not as much on the golf course anymore, but. What other masters notes do you have guys? Lamanya, you said you had a bunch of masters cleanup notes. You rewatched the broadcast. What did you guys pick up? I've been packing for Scotland. I watched a handful of it. Watch the second half. Watch Roy's chip to 15 or wedge into 15, I should say. God, I didn't realize it on the bounce. So many moments. You talk about how open it was there in the final two hours or so. So many moments between Scotty's putt. And I mentioned this on Sunday. Dangling on the edge at 17. Rory at 15 being really close to the edge. You know, Rose three putting 13 after probably the best approach shot of the day, at least from as a second shot into 13. So really a ton of moments where it felt just so do or die or could have gone either way. What are your other, what are your other notes from me watching at Lamanya? That was the biggest thing that this was one that a lot of guys are going to come away from kicking themselves. And I think if their message to them to themselves is I did enough. I just didn't make enough pots or some version of that. They're kind of missing the plot there a little bit in my opinion. Cam kind of said that. Justin Rose again, clearly needs to come away from this. Like, wow, I had that one in my lap and just punted it. Another note. I think there needs to be a little more Russell Hamley appreciation. Well, that's what I wanted to ask you. Yes. Was there somebody there that like you didn't realize in the moment like, like was more of a contender than you, you realized on the ground or like could have won it. You know, we just watched the numbers on the board like, Tural Hatton could have. I got to I got to 17 green. I was like, oh shit, like Sam Burns like could technically maybe win this still. I don't know if I ever thought he was a contender on Sunday to be to be fair, to be frank. But was there somebody else upon rewatch? You're going with Henley. We need to be bigger Henley appreciators. Well, I don't know that he ever had a great chance to win, but he had a chance. And I think what's really impressive when you look at his career that he's now 14 years into his professional career. He didn't have a top 10 in a major until 2023. And he's had three top fives in the last four years and majors like he keeps getting better and better and better. The lack of speed is a legitimate limiting factor and watching 10 like if people should go look at the shot he hit into 10 is he had 225 into downhill lie. Great camera angle to watch it. It's this like pure bullet long iron. I don't know what it was. Maybe a four iron lands on the only spot it could land on the front right edge of the green and rolls out to 10 feet. Again, he's hitting less than driver off the tee there and he's already short. So I think that the other side of the token is like, well, Russell Henley should probably take a little bit more risk off the tee and hit a little more driver distance. He's sacrificing, but I have a lot of the shot. The shot hits into 17. Nobody birdied it all day. He had a really good look there. Like this is a very polished player that I don't understand why people are feeling inclined to malign him when Why are they maligning him? He's an exceptional athlete. Has been like, was a great player right from the start is rookie year, but you just don't feel like people take him seriously as an upper echelon. I think some of it's quite frankly, you know, you said the only spot he could land it on 10. Well, yeah, with a four iron, right? Well, whatever you're guessing that that trajectory, the other guys are like dropping it from the sky with multiple places to land it. And so I think like there is that sort of aesthetic hump you have to get over and not it's more than aesthetic. Clearly, like it's a disadvantage in a lot of instances that you have to get over. But the results sort of speak for themselves, even though I remember watching McCabe's value. It felt like he was heaving himself at the ball to just throw it out there like 260, but he's like an exceptional top top 10 player in the world. You want more respect? I think on a firm golf course that allows separation from T to green. He's probably the type of guy that nobody's going to view as a legitimate threat and then wins and everyone's like, oh, you know, what a great player. Like I think you should be taken a little bit more seriously as a threat to win, you know, maybe somewhere like Shinnecock. I think Russell Henley can be the best players in the world. I don't think he can beat Roy or Scotty when they bring their A game, but when they don't, I think he's he's just a player to appreciate. Love it. He also he got to tense so early that he had time to make up the two shots that he ended up needing to. Obviously, he bogey 12, which he had to then make back on 13 instead of getting to 11 at any point. But he had the benefit of starting out so hot that he got to the number he needed to quickly and then just never got it across the line from there. That obviously you see the scores go up as you're out there and you're like, oh, Russell Henley's a 10, but rewatching it gave me more appreciation for the amount of holes he played at 10 under and the opportunity that he had. I didn't I was not consciously thinking of, oh my God, there's so much time for Russell Henley out there on Sunday. Yeah, yeah. Further, we need more Henley appreciation. I think that's one takeaway for Joseph. One other thing I had appreciation for that week was my belt. I had a mobjack. I was wearing my mobjack belt all week. Got several compliments, several compliments with that. You can get yours at mobjack.com, M-O-B-J-A-K.com. No C in Jack. J-A-K.com. We wore it all week. Andy was in his, I believe, Southampton. I was in mine. I think that one, whatever that is on the ad and nobody's watching this on the visuals, PJ, has crafted up. I think it's called it's something Hawaiian. Honolay, Honolay, something like that. That is a fabulous belt. I'm trying to look it up here right now while I speak. That's a good belt. I did a little activation and unboxing and unboxing video. Got a lot of positive Han-A-Li woven belt. I don't know if I pronounced that right. That's the one I got. Stone, navy, hunt green. That was bunny. Got a lot of compliments on that. They've got red, white, and blue themed belts. Ken at Bunkport one I have for the summertime. A ton of great designs. I did a little unboxing. The responses, like the direct DMs responses to the posts were from some notable golfers, notable people on the cocktail circuit, the mid-Am circuit. We're like, wow, I really like those belts. That's a really good belt. You could jump in the mob jack bus by going to MOBJAK.com. The promo code is Friday. Friday, one word, all caps. Friday, you get 15% off. Got six new spring styles and casters, watch hill, Malibu, Chatham, Big Sky, and Gasparilla. The best sellers are Newport and Sky Blue, Southampton, Navy, Ken at Bunkport and Stone, and Navy and Harbor Red, which I think I have. Italian leather finished to the highest standards. Made in America by US skilled artisans. Go to MOBJAK.com. Promo code is Friday. These are fabulously, fabulous belts, fabulously well made and good looking belts seriously. Love having them on board. All right, further master's cleanup. Do you have any other notes you want to jump in? Joseph, I said you a lot. Colin Murkow. I know we talked about it a little bit on Sunday, but I super impressive week for a guy who did not hit a full shot until Wednesday at any point seemingly to come around and finish at 9 under. Kind of further emphasize the point to me that without the whole back injury at the players that he was set up very well that week and trending very well that week to be in competition. And for a guy that seemed like he kind of lost it for a couple of years in the middle here, should, as he gets healthier and healthier and his mind trusts his body more. Another guy that you need to be thinking about probably for Shana Crock at this point. Yeah, sort of a shame, obviously, but big ups. We made fun of him saying it's the worst thing in the world, which is like a turn of phrase we use all the time about his back. But honestly, one of the most impressive performances of the week. Well, Mani, what other notes you have? Other notes I would throw out. I think we're about to see Xander Shopley start winning some big golf tournaments. And now he's finished third at the players fourth at Val's Bar ninth at the Masters four back from Rory's eventual winning score. But Xander hitting the ball really, really well. I did this series with Ryan Gerard that we've kind of touched on a couple of times over the last few days and he could not have been more effusive in his praise for Xander and playing alongside him on Sunday. And he was like, I can't I almost can't believe that Xander didn't win. Not that he was ever really had that good of a chance, but just seeing the polish of his game and how smart he is about the way he plays Augusta National. I think somebody on the telecast even said while they're while I saw Xander hit into like 13 he birdie 1314 and 15 at one of those points. It might even Colt knows was like, I think this guy is going to win the Masters someday. I kind of feel that way too. It's hard to just start giving out future majors to people. But I think Xander Shoffley over the next six to 18 months is probably going to pick off some pretty big wins. Good. What other notes you have? Anything else? Cleaning up on the rewatch? What would you go at, Peach? I mean, do we want to talk about the broadcast on the 18th hole? Is it time? That's where I was going to go. You guys have watched the broadcast like seems to be in the in the crosshairs. I was obviously on the ground. Fortunately, gratefully be able to run around and watch it not run walk walk fast, I guess, and watch it. A lot of discourse about the broadcast. Jim Nance is on McAfee sort of saying I will take warm memories of it and we pride in the work we did. Josh Carbender did the count on how many shots were shown per player. I guess there were nine cut-ins to Hollywood Golf Club, which feels like a lot. Just reacting to that, just the number. But a minute, 10 total seconds of coverage. 71 shots showing for Rory, 67 for Cameron Young. They were up 391 shots from 337 last year. I don't know that that's that's how you judge the quality of a broadcast, at least in my opinion. Just seems to be sort of a subject of subject of discussion here, which it often is not, I would say, after the Masters, including on the four play program. The podcast four play where a co-host Kevin Kister, who is also a the lead analyst for the other. I don't know if they're competing. The other rights holder for many PGA Tour events and majors, NBC, was pretty pointed in his criticism of the CBS broadcast in a way you pretty much never hear. You just don't hear the other like CBS take a shot at NBC or vice versa that often. And I would characterize this and it's not on NBC platform. It's on the Barstool podcast platform is going at like how they weren't ready to show live shots. How are they showing all these tape shots, especially there? Like how do you do that? How do you even call that? How is everything taped? I assume it was within a larger, I've only seen the social clip, a larger conversation with the host there, like kind of in a critical looking critically at the CBS broadcast. Pretty surprised to hear. I don't, you know, I'm not like necessarily criticizing his commentary. I would love, I would love everyone just speak their mind more often or speak their takes, whether you think they're hot or unfounded. Great for the constantly. Everybody just start letting it rip, but you just don't hear that very often from a from another. Network talking about another network. It was interesting. How was it on the rewatch? I can go based on what I saw on social media. I actually thought it was going to be worse than it was. I don't feel like a ton of the shots got missed when I rewatched the part that I didn't see a ton of online backlash about that. That probably though I thought was the worst potentially Justin rose a shot into 13. The shot tracers just completely wrong. And it shows his shot going into raise Creek and it says somebody, one of the telecast says it looks like it's going right and then corrects themselves right at it and it lands close to the flag. It's one of the best shots of the day. I don't know how the shot tracer can be that wrong. I know that technology that can happen, but it's a huge, huge moment in the tournament and to watch it with the shot tracer way off like it's going into the water and it lands right next to the flag. It feels like too big of a moment, too big of a tournament to be sloppy like that. And then they replayed the shot with the shot tracer again in the wrong spot. So like, maybe you can't do anything about that, but I thought that was bad. I know there's been some critiques of the final shot and Rory's kind of blocking the tap in putt, which seems like you could probably get a better camera angle when he marked his ball. So you knew where he was going to be standing, but I don't know. I didn't think it was as bad as I maybe expected, but I was kind of going through it quickly, but maybe a little sloppier than it should be for the premier golf tournament in the world. The final shot is one you just can't have happen. They know that hole and it's interesting to see some of the, you know, maybe casual golf fan or not golf fan at all like react to that. Like, oh my God, because Rory gave sort of a, if you didn't know ambiguous reaction, but you do is two inches. You just do it as a golf fan. You're like, that's going in, but he gave sort of this like head back and it's, you can't see his face in the moment. Like he had, I don't know, horseshoe, did or lifted or missed it or something. If you really didn't follow, you hear the applause and you're quickly, you know, assured of the outcome. But yeah, it wasn't good. That was not a good clip. I Googled Kisner as we were talking. I mean, it's already aggregated as on, you know, New York post, Kevin Kisner torches, which is, you know, that's aggregation verb right there. Torches, rips, shreds, destroys. Like that's always what we get with these verbs. Torches, CBS for master's coverage. Quote, I have no idea what they were doing. They were literally showing shit that I knew happened 10 minutes ago all day long. So I think he's quibble. What are we doing? You have no commercials, play live shots. Our protection team at NBC, probably like this is just you. I mean, he's going to get it. When you start invoking your own team compared to what like, yeah, this is, he's out there. It's let be clear. NBC is the king of a moment ago. Yeah, I, well, not Kisner said our production team at NBC prides themselves at showing every shot that they possibly can live. And when we don't, we have to say a moment ago because we were trying to make the whole movie make sense. So it sounds like he had, you know, he was texting with Colton, and he was just about like the, the, the, the delayed, the not live shot coverage. This was the text messages from the post. Do y'all ever show a live shot, which I y'all checked Lamania down in Amen corner. Oh, he called, he said y'all to some mothers, some Georgians. I said, we, you're like from New Jersey, man. Why are you saying y'all? And so just wanted to get down there. We're going to talk about that later. As a Southern boy, did y'all ever show a shot, a live shot? Kisner said, I'm better off following the f thing app than your feet. So your entire master's coverage is a fantasy world is bullshit. Whatever you'll, whatever you all watch happened seven minutes ago. Um, no, no, it's responded that CBS shows the shots in order, but Kisner had quote, no idea what that means. Um, they have no, I have no idea what they're doing there showing every shot on tape. It's incredible. I don't even know how the announcers call it. Broadcast wards says, I'm not trying to kill them. Well, I, I, you may not be trying to, but you have, I'm not trying to kill them, but being on TV for 30 times and see what production team does. I was just blown away. Um, I would imagine some, some executives were going to talk to Mr. Kisner, some PR folks are going to talk to Mr. Kisner. I imagine they're going to talk amongst themselves and put some water on this, on this fire as quick as they possibly can. Would be my guess. Um, don't, you just don't hear master's broadcast criticism and discussion that much. Well, Maddie, what did you think? And what do you think of Kisner's critique? Oh, I love Chris Kisner's critique. Give me all of that. I do think that's quite the, you know, the pot con the kettle black considering how often NBC stuff happened. I think they've done a really bad job this year of showing live shots. Uh, if CBS was showing stuff way on delay stuff that happened 10 minutes ago, I wouldn't have picked up on that rewatching it. So that doesn't, it doesn't shock me if that's what a lot of people say, but I can't say that I saw that myself. I thought it, I didn't think it was great. And the Rory thing's pretty inexcusable that he's hitting a tap in and you can't really see it. Can't see his face and the ball is actually blocked by his leg a little bit. I think some people thought Nance didn't have enough energy and giving like giving that moment what it deserved. Didn't like the call. I think all those critiques seem reasonable to me and maybe fits into a broader theme. Like we talked about the merch on Sunday night. Like is the focus on the right things and presenting the tournament to its maximum. Those seem like reasonable critiques. Maybe there will be a refocusing and leading into 2027. But based on what I saw online, I actually, I didn't think the telecast was as bad as people described, but I have a huge issue with not showing shots live when you already know it happened, when you can already see it on the app, which the app does not update instantaneously either. That takes a while to load in. So if that was happening, then I think that's a big problem, but I just can't speak to it. The app definitely had a, had a tougher week than usual, I think too. True. The, the, I saw a lot of criticism of like the app low key stinks. So the app low key is not as good as like PGA has a good app now for like seriously PGA championship as a good app or has in last year or two. US Open one night, I think has done well. The Masters app was taken some shrapnel. Well, yeah, I mean, they, they, they say every shot from every round and it would show the wrong shot on the wrong guy on Thursday or Friday. I was trying to write Sam Burns on Thursday and they didn't have the distances on any shot in on Thursday afternoon. And it was like, how is anybody supposed to know how far anything was if you're not going to provide the distance? It all eventually got there and loaded in, but for the instantaneous, like when there's no coverage, this is how you're supposed to follow the tournament, essentially, that the app did struggle this week. And I think it was kind of just a, you know, maybe some foreshadowing. I know Joseph alluded to this. I don't know how much actually people deeply care. I didn't think NASA's call was all that great, especially when you had at least the idea of Rory winning for 48 hours at that point from Friday afternoon. You had a little bit of prep time there and I thought it was kind of weak for an iconic, you know, rare only four times ever moment. I thought, I mean, they didn't know whose ball was whose on the 18th hole on the approach. Like there was just 30 seconds of silence as they were trying to figure out where Rory's ball was. And then I finally realized it was in the bunker, but they weren't sure if it was cams or not. And I realized there was a lot of chaos going on with both of them on the opposite sides of the fairway and the trees wherever. But I, it was, there was like so much confusion on the 72nd hole of the golf tournament. And then we ended up not even seeing the finish visually. Yeah. Interesting. What other notes you got? Any master stuff before we go to schedule for the week? I don't know. Not to defend big telecom too much, but I think on the positive, Trevor does a very good job of being critical of shots down the stretch. Oh, yeah. And I thought that was really insightful when you go back and rewatch. He talks through some Rory shots, some of cam shots. Scott, he does a really good job of articulating what's going on. It's a little bit of backstory on the players and recalling other shots that were similar. So that to me stood out as a bright spot as I was rewatching it. But yeah, I still think probably overall, if you were to grade the telecast based on all we talked about, it was not its best year. I think, you know, and he's obviously a friend of the program. He'll be on, I think, Friday podcast to talk about it this week. Fingers crossed, Andy and Scott and Trevor and wherever. Environment's unknown. Traveling around the U.S. like he's really good, especially for the golf, sort of the hardcore golf fan. I think he's probably good for everybody, but extra. He goes the extra mile for like the most intense fans of golf and not hesitant to say poor. That was a poor putt, a poor shot. Not the best effort, which we just don't hear that often. We'll hear like, well, that was tricky or that was maybe not what he want. Like you just don't hear criticism of the player. There's probably a balance. There's a classy way to do it. I think he threads that needle. I mean, even the Rory Chip on 15 was all over it right away. Like, hey, to the onlooker at home who doesn't, you know, maybe not super familiar with that hole or the master's like, oh, he's on the green and it's on like the line with the pin. And he's just like, you would say, yeah, sorry, what did I say? The wedge, yeah, his shot into 15. You would just be like, oh, he's on the green and it was online with the pin and now he's just got to put up to the pin. You're like, he was on it right away. Like that was incredibly lucky in a very poor shot. That was Nance quite frankly too. Nance was on it too. Like that was almost a replay of 13 last year. So yeah, I think he's good at being critical in the right spots and in the right ways. Anything else before we move on? Schedule for the week. Maybe a really small thing. Yes. We've talked a lot about Cam and again, we just reiterated. I don't think he played well enough or hit it well enough to win. I do wonder if he's a little dependent on his caddy and that's something that has come up from time to time about his caddy Kyle college teammate reading all the parts for him. And yeah, some of those conversations you get to listen in on. I think Cam maybe could benefit from taking a little more ownership of his game in certain spots really going through stuff with Kyle. Do you like this? Do you like this? And Kyle seems like a really good caddy and like that's a great partnership. But I just think that's something to watch in the future is those interactions and there was even something about potentially Kyle lining him up on a shot and never came never backing off, which people are asking like, is that a penalty? Is that maybe what was being discussed on 13 that Rory talked about in his press conference? Right. That was an official talk to Cam about something that happened early in the round and we never got clarity around what that was. I don't know if that's what that was, but just something to watch. I think when a player doesn't have full conviction and that they are the ones making the decisions, you don't always see complete commitment and maybe that's a little too much inferring. But I think that's something to watch going forward with Cam. Yeah, it's interesting. Maybe you should just have his dad, Caddy. He could coach Caddy and just ride it all the way around. No, they're clearly a good partnership, but an interesting insight. All right. That does it for Masters News and Notes. I think we'll keep doing it. I mean, we're going to have stuff trickle out around the Masters as well. It was a very, very good Masters. I don't understand. I think there's some... It's weird to me that so much of the discussion in the word doing this midday Tuesday has been about the practice thing, the Rory practice thing and the CBS broadcast. I felt like overall it was like a B plus A minus kind of Masters and the golf course was good. I thought the leaderboard was good. Labani, you're shaking your head. I thought it was good Masters, but I think it feeds into what we've already talked about that no one got out and got it. Charles Schwartz on 2011, birdie just last four holes. And I think people are sort of waiting for, hey, is somebody going to make a charge here? But that's not the way it always goes. It's not always true where you have Phil and Stenson separating. And I don't know if this is a perfect comparison, but I'm a huge, not huge, but I'm a big UFC fan. And sometimes you get this huge title fight and it doesn't pan out. The fight just isn't as good as it's hyped up to be. Not everyone always brings their A game. And I think that is what the story of this Masters was, but it just doesn't matter because Rory did get it done. But that flatness, I think people probably felt a little bit of why aren't there a few better shots down the stretch. I think it's real. And I think that was, like I said, I think the winner probably should have been around 14 under. If the winner made six birdies in a row to close out or four birdies in a row to close out like Schwartz, we would have just gotten holler about the course being set up too easy. Right? That's what would have happened. Definitely true. No, no, I thought it was a very good Masters. I realized, yeah, it was open and I don't think anybody totally grabbed it, but it was a very good Masters, in my opinion. All right. It's springtime. We're fully golf season, fully in golf season in the Throws. It doesn't look like it'll be American spring weather when I go to Scotland. It looks like it's going to be a little cold, which I might be welcome. 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I'm just trying to wind you up. We have the RBC heritage. You could be Joseph and just deny its existence. That's even worse. That stinks. The RBC heritage at Harvard town, golf links and Hilton head, South Carolina. It's the annual stop after the masters. A couple hours down the road in South Carolina has been a fixture on the host since the 60s. It's now a signature event has been for a few years now. The purse is $20 million, 3.6 to the winner. Defending champ is Justin Thomas. Notables in the field are Cantley, Fitzy, Tommy Fleetwood, Victor Holland, Justin Rose, Scottie Shuffler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Sweet, that make Notables, which I'm sure tickles you. Didn't Rose WD? I will just say Justin Rose did WD. Does that get Brooks in? Is Brooks in now? Because he was in all three. Brooks is currently the first alternate. Okay. Good for Justin. Yeah. If you can pin it in the masters, I think you should WD from this event. Yeah. I don't disagree. Thursday, which is a big discussion I want to have here in a minute about the tour versus things that aren't the tour. Thursday, two to six on Golf Channel Friday, two to six Saturdays, one to three and three to six on CBS. So that Golf Channel CBS split as is often the case on the weekend. What should we talk about with Harbor Town? A restoration done by Davis Love III, Scott Sherman. I would encourage everybody to listen to Garrett Morrison's Designing Golf Podcast recently with Scott Sherman that was ahead of Sawgrass, but had a lot of Harbor Town and sort of Pete Dye themes in it, certainly applicable to this week. Really insightful stuff from Scott Sherman and Garrett. I would encourage you to go listen to that one. The restoration, I don't think it's from what I understand listening to that. For the pro event, it sort of pushed the greens back out, made sort of the rumpels on the edges, returned those, made a little tighter in spots, a waste area, a little more scruffy in certain spots. Didn't dramatically change. They weren't lengthening the course by 250 yards or 400 yards in any way, but just sort of getting the greens back to what they were and making it a little tighter in a few spots with some trees and other shaping. But it is sort of a quote new look for a lot of these players who've played this event for a long time. Joseph, where do you fall on Harbor Town as a venue? You're not a fan. Is that right? I think it's fine. Everyone points at Harbor Town as this like every pro golfer who's anti-rollbacks favorite line like golf courses, you know, they don't have to be long to be hard. That's what everyone loves to say and point at Harbor Town. I think Harbor Town is a fine venue. It doesn't do a ton for me. I don't think it's as interesting as a lot of other people seem to think that it is. The fairways are on angles, which is just cool and kind of mitigates distance a little bit, but I don't find myself super compelled by the golf course. As Andy always says, variety is important and I appreciate the variety that Harbor Town is quite different than a lot of places they go to. But the spot on the schedule is awful. Trying to get up for this event. They shouldn't have golf this week. If we're doing scarcity schedule, they shouldn't have golf this week, especially like, I mean, I know it's a historic stop and it's been forever. It's just, it's odd to me that you go to this like resort town. And granted, I think it's similar to Augusta, like not a lot of rain and the weather looks nice looking up the weather forecast this morning. Like, they want to be firm, new greens, it'll probably be firmish unless, you know, the tour gets in there and does what the best they can to make it soft or dartboardish. But it just... There's no cut. It's sleepy. It's sleepy. I'm sorry. It is sleepy. This is a primo sponsor for the PGA Tour. Obviously, they sponsor Canadian Open. They sponsored this. They came into this when like they needed to sponsor. There had been like Verizon heritage and things like that. I think what this week does is really highlight some of the issues facing Brian Rolapp and the new PGA Tour. And it's like, you know, there's history here, but it's also a very small market. If you want to call it that, a market where you're taking one of your... You only have so many signature high profile events and you're taking it there and you're taking it the week after the Masters, like the pinnacle of the sport. And that's what you're contrasting it against. I don't know if that's the best spot to do that, but you have an important sponsor in RBC that you want to continue to have a relationship with. So do you kick them the signature status? I think, you know, the tour... The direction they want to go is probably like ask sponsors for more. Like, hey, we're getting bigger and we're getting better. And the SSG wants to find, you know, a billion dollars in unrealized value or a billion dollars in unrealized revenue. And I think what the tour is running up against is that an SSG and these other like kind of the people that come from other sports, whether it baseball, football and roll up and some of the SSG boys, it's like golf, there are other games in town. And so be it sponsoring players, working with the USGA or the RNA or Augusta National or the PGA or any other number of organizations, quite frankly. Like I think RBC itself kicked the tires on like a master's program, you know, whatever. I don't think they were going to become like a sponsor of the masters in the way that whatever they are, IBM, BOA, Mercedes, but like there's some program, like you spend a bunch of money and you get certain passes and access. There are places to spend other money. And, you know, if you're a financial institution, you're like, I'm not going to sponsor an event. I'm just going to sponsor like six players that I like that are really high profile. And so what the new ideas of the PGA Tour are to kind of lock everything down to we are, we can control this and we can control and create these this Tier 1 schedule where we have all the, we're increasing cost, increasing sponsorship costs, we're increasing the prestige, we're increasing the interest when there's just a lot of other competitors in the same pool. And I think that's really drawn out this week when you go from Augusta National to Harbor Town, when you just watched the literal highest stakes golf, there is, you know, 72 hours before. It's tricky. It's a tricky spot. I've not like, this isn't really criticism. It's sort of like empathizing and trying to see the full board for what it is, quite frankly. Do you think Harbor Town should be on the schedule at all, Joseph? Well said. I think all that, I don't have a whole lot to add. But I'm, yes, kind of, and it has history and I'm not as convinced. I think there's a real critique like, oh, the tour wants to go to all these big markets, but sometimes the small markets might be the ones that could be the best. I totally agree with that. I totally agree with that. And like, by the way, not a major market, Augusta, Georgia. Like, I get it. There's that thing has been built over several decades, but like, not a major market. If that's what you immediately ascribe success to. Also, like, I think the John Deere, for example, probably does belong on the PGA Tour schedule and is an important part of the PGA Tour's history. And the Quad Cities shows up for that event. So I don't know that those events are, should be signature events and, you know, depends on how many events there are and all that. But I probably wouldn't want to just go around detonating some of those tournaments so you can get in bigger markets and then maybe people don't even show up to those. But do I think the part of the schedule that Harbor Town is, is the biggest issue. Being in the wake of the Masters is a horrific place for this event to be. And it is impossible to care about any tournament in any market on any golf course four days after Augusta National. So I think you hit on it all very well there. And it's an interesting angle, thinking about the ways that you a sponsor can invest their money is not just with the PGA Tour. And from that perspective, the PGA Tour and Augusta are competitors that are not collaborating and working together on what's within the best interests, certainly of the PGA Tour. So I think that tension that you're highlighting is something that's only going to come up more and more under the 10 year of Brian Rolab. And he's going to come in here and look at this and say, this does not make sense. He's already alluded to it. Talking about professional golf funding, everything else. I don't think that means that they're going to withhold their players from playing in majors, but I think we're going to see some tension there. And the RBC heritage might be the best example of that of anything. If Brian Rolab walks in Harbor Town this week and feels anything but disappointment, that would be pretty surprising. I mean, that's we didn't get into it too much, but that tension was already there last week, right? During Fred Ridley's press conference on Wednesday, we were asking about, I think Jim Nugent asked him about, would all the organizations negotiate a rights deal together or negotiate different deals together? And Fred Ridley said, look, and you hear Theo Epstein is behind a lot of the sort of theory that the PGA Tour should be getting a cut of these major championships because it's PGA Tour members, PGA Tour talent on these stages. And Ridley's response was, you know, a lot of the money and revenue generated by these majors is put into grassroots organizations where your members eventually are coming from, whether it's AJAGA or First T or something like that, that all the USGA puts a lot of money into Augusta National. It started to much more in recent decades and the RNA, obviously, abroad. PGA of America, obviously, with all the teaching efforts. So. This sort of rumbling into the paint approach, I don't know if that's their approach. He's not going to be able to rumble into the paint. I think he started to get a pretty big stop sign put up last week with some of it. I just don't think these other organizations are ready to, yeah, let's collaborate, let's all work together to create initiatives that will, quote unquote, grow the game. But in terms of on a purely financial basis, I don't think they're ready to just seed the floor, give a cut to this financial conglomerate in the SSG, whether you want to call it private equity or not, because they're interested in taking a cut because a lot of PGA tour members are in the field. It just doesn't seem to be happening. And on that, the grassroots thing is a very valid point from Ridley the PGA tour in part has negotiated, navigated this tension with live because it has access to this pool of talent that wants to play on the PGA tour. The PGA tour not funding a lot of that development. And I think that bears mentioning. So I highlight an example of that, like of what live doesn't have access to. You talk about like PGA tour, you, you're talking about these immediate success stories. Yeah, they don't have a lot of those. They don't have a lot of spots for it, right? They've got guys locked into three, four year contracts. So they're picking off a Michael Lassasso or something, right? But they didn't fund Michael Lassasso's development on the PGA tour side. I mean, I think Jackson Coyven is going to be a PGA tour player. I don't think he's going to be a live golfer. And the PGA tour hasn't given him starts, but I don't think they can really claim a lot of the responsibility for Jackson Coyven's development. No, not at all. This isn't like some club soccer program abroad where they're like having an academy and they're developing. So yeah, I think the U.S.J. would probably take a similar line to what what Chairman Ridley said on Wednesday of like, hey, like this, a lot of money is going into like your next, the next superstars on your stage PGA tour. I think that's their rebuttal to that. Otherwise, I'm trying to roll up. I'm pretty good authority has zero interest in a rollback. Yeah. I mean, that's a separate battle that's coming. Yeah, that's God. I'll just keep going back to that. Seth, I think sort of quote unquote exit interview. I think he did with Amen of like, hey, man, when you accept private equity into the game, it's going to be different beasts. Like there's this sort of for better or worse, whatever, however you want to characterize it. There's like this sort of equilibrium underlying tension at times, right? You know, they are all kind of comparing each other on the block, but it balances out okay with the five families. And maybe when you introduce new parties with traditional sports backgrounds or other sports backgrounds, you know, that could that could upset the balance. And I think your that tension is sort of bubbling up right now in very gentile and sort of polite ways, but it's certainly it's certainly ongoing behind the scenes. And I think, you know, I'll just say it unmistakably, the PGA tour wants to cut of the pie from the majors. They just do. They do. They might be shrouding it in language that sounds ambiguous or sounds more, I don't know, collaborative than it. They just want to cut and that and like, you know, I don't think you're going to find a lot of public support for the players getting more money based on based on like the way things have gone the last five to six years, but but they do. So they don't have a masters, but they do have an RBC heritage. So that's I think some of the problems you have a one and done pick for Harbert Town given the unique setup that it is with shorter hitters, you know, chipping around the green is very important. Obviously wedges to low irons are very important coming into coming into these greens. What what are you giggling about? That was one of the craziest transitions to a one and done pick ever. That was a hard one. How we do hard. What do you want me to talk about further? I don't want to talk about Harbert Town anymore. I just want to make picks. Oh, we're done with five. We're not even five guys and you're just out. Oh, shoot. Sorry. Do five guys to bond her. I'm on this PGA. I just, I just, you know, I was letting you cook. You were going there. I don't want to get in the way. I it's a big conversation. Bigger than ours. Honestly, a lot of whisper and being done last week under the tree and elsewhere. So it's not. OK, go ahead. So who am I to get in the way of that? However, Andy's not here. So I'll take the baton. Five guys to monitor this week for the RBC heritage. We keep hearing about unfair advantages for people that play golf courses a lot. Lucas Glover has played the RBC heritage every year since 2004. Is that an unfair advantage this week? It's a lot of people are saying this should be the A block of first take tomorrow. Lucas Glover unfair advantage on Harvard time. You think that'll make it so. Pretty good. Keep it, keep it high out for the glove pack. God, that is still unsurprising. Guy just probably loves Harvard time. I mean, thinks this is like the masters, the equivalent. One of one of a handful of events, I would say, Lucas Glover probably finds himself with a chance with. So makes makes sense that he would play it every year. Michael Thorpe Jortsen in off the alternate list due to Justin Rosas withdrawal. Added pressure after another ball frog major win for the young young stud injected some youth youth some life into the ball frog organization. But now is there more pressure with another green jacket in the locker room? That's interesting. They're all stepping up their game. Not all. Isn't it just Rory? Well, what for that? OK, Keegan Bradley, a frog, but debuted as St. John's Red Storm putter cover at the Masters next week. Transfer portal rumors are swirling. Johnny's have, you know, 15 whatever million dollars to spend, have to basically buy an entirely new team, replace the mega hall from last year. Is he too locked in on Twitter like I am this week, trying to figure out who's playing for Latino next year? God, portal, portal Twitter, portal season, college basketball sounds just not worth the stress, but very important if you care. But can I just say on this, PJ? Yeah, Masters cleanup note. Keegan Bradley has escaped some scrutiny because he ingratiated himself with a large audience when he was Ryder Cup captain, at least until things went south. His pace of play is horrific, horrific. The aim pointing misses a three footer aim points again on the 18 inch are coming back, steps off shots. Just he that's another thing to monitor about him in addition to the transfer portal. It is horrific to watch. God, there were some loose, loose rumors, loose discussions about the Ryder Cup still last week, about like eight months later, whatever it was, just none of it. Good. Just, you know, the tension, a lot of holler in between the captain group and the PGA about setup. Just yeah, but all that stuff was real. Still loose, loose, loose rumors will go on forever. I feel about that. That page doesn't feel like those are going away any type of. Yeah, yeah. What's next? Who's next? Bobby Mack, will the Tartan jacket bring better vibes than the green one last week? Obviously, Scottish Tartan jacket is your winning clothing item this week in Hilton head versus the green jacket last week. I personally think that probably makes Bob feel more at home. Can I just say something? Please. There was some Scottish journalism or European writer trying to like provide after the fact cover for for his antics saying he debated W. Dean with some neck injury. Did you guys see that? I did. I did see that. There is no quarter, no quarter here for Bob McIntyre, his performance, his antics, like that is such that is just absolutely laundering. Like, come on. Do we have to kiss his ass that much that like Bob is a great player, a great personality, but his behavior wasn't on par. If behavior wasn't. You can't just then write after the fact like, oh, he had a neck issue. Was it neck and was maybe W. Dean like that doesn't excuse anything. And Sergio's got a fancy apology on the letterhead today. Still no, no quarter for any of this stuff. None. Bob. Oh, you might have been injured. That's why he flipped off the pond. He was debating W.D. Cut him slack. The European press often will. CYA, their players, if they if it's called for some time, you didn't have a broken middle finger. Can't wait to wake up in five tomorrow. All right. Well, you know, you can you can wave to all the love it. I love it there. I love it there. OK. All right. Bob might feel at home. And lastly, you know, a huge week for this guy, ginormous week, biggest week possible. Some have said, Siddharthian yellow, Maraju, all lies on the golf half of America's power couple after euphoria season three dropped earlier this week, featuring Sydney Sweeney. Siddharthian's got to come up big here. Yeah. Yeah. I was so Sydney Sweeney is popular at this moment, right? Thanks to the new debut of the season. Yeah, sounds provocative. That's all I know that show is very provocative. I've never watched it, but I know it's a big deal. And I know that Siddharthian is probably locked in. So he knows he's got to keep elevating his status. Well, is he distracted then? Is that the other the other side of this coin is, you know, distracted with new streaming shows? All all the graphics says all eyes are on golf after the power couple, which mean anything. There you go. All right. He's talk honestly might be rising higher than hers is. Wow. On her pretty quickly. Wow. Interesting. Interesting. Where does he go? Then where's what's the next at moving on? There's some debate between the there's there's discontent between the two Alex podcast women, right? There's Alex Earl, not a podcast person. Alex, you know, you're she she was. I think she has a podcast. Maybe he's moving on. Maybe he's got his eyes on somebody other than Sydney Sweeney. I can't believe you know what the Alex Cooper, Alex Earl drama is. That's shocking. I mean, I like I have a very high level understanding. I don't really understand that's more than I had. I saw the video and just scrolled past it. So you stayed, which is more than I did. I stayed for an explainer video of it is what I stayed for. I haven't actually been half. Why? Was it about a minute and a half? I think I watched the same one. Oh, I don't know. No, no, it was like six minutes. And I got to about the fifty five minute mark ejected. That I got enough. Um, a fifty five second mark, I should say. All right, five guys to watch. Sue Darshan, love it. A boy in done picks for heritage. Well, my who you going? Can't say tomorrow or I'll take a big shot, Bob. Oh, oh, my God. I think well rested. Great player, great disposition. I agree with the Scottish fans that think he doesn't get enough respect and that this podcast is too hard on him at times. Totally agree with all of you. And I'm going big shot, Bob, to get the win this week. Wow, staring into the skid. Incredible. Well, PJ, who you like this week? I'm going to take, you know, we talked about him meowing his way through Augusta. He was scratching at the back door. I thought about it. He was scratching all week. And we thought he was going to scratch his way into a top five. He didn't. He went back inside to lick his bowl of milk. But the cat loves to prowl at Harbor Town. I'm taking Patrick. Can't wait. Good pick. It's a good pick. I mean, it would be so like, oh, $20 per person with no cut. The note lost stakes. Oh, I'm here for that. Let me go. Let me go. Cleaning up. I almost thought about taking him. I would say Lowry is another player in that sort of same vein of like ready to go pouts on a week like this. I'm going to take Siwu Kim. I still have him available. I'm entering it right now. Obviously, good, good history, I believe, at Harbor Town. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure he's done well there. Having a good season. I'm going to take Siwu Kim for a hefty purse at Harbor Town. Continue. Xander is Xander is Xander is Xander is gonna win. I've already used him, but yeah, it's just Xander. Continue out there schedule for the week on the champions tour. We have the senior PGA championship. I believe this is the first major. The or no, did we do the region's tradition? No, senior PGA used to be the week after the PGA and has now been upgraded to the week after the Masters. This is on Thursday and Friday, a tidy little three hour coverage window middle of the day, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. So not lunch with the boys, but lunch with the old senior PGA. And Saturday and Sunday, three to six p.m. on golf channel. This is at the concession golf club in Bradenton, Florida. The purse, what I have here is to be determined during tournament week. So we don't have a purse yet. Maybe they're waiting for gate receipts to come in and concessions and they'll just kick it in. I'm sure they have it. They just the majors don't publish during the during until the weeks, you know, midweek sometimes. Defending champ is on hell. Cabrera, the heartwarming story fresh from the slammer to the to the pedestal at congressional last year. Notables, Stephen Alker, Cabrera, Stu, Sink, Ells, Harrington, Jimenez, Zache, Bernhard and Rory Sabatini makes the official notables. This is first start, P.J. This is this is this is, you know, we talked so much about the rookie class. Everybody was like, oh, Tigers 50 Tigers 50 Tigers 50. Zache, Ben Crane, Sabo, Pat Perez, making his debut this week. We've let him back in because this this is event is not run by the PGA tour. Oh, PGA Tour champions. This is the PGA of America. So he can do whatever he wants famously, very famously. Dickie B, Richard Bland and Lee Westwood played in this event last year. Liv jamming them, which you pulled to pick this year. Terrible. But Pat Perez could do whatever he wants. He's earned a champ store status for next year if he plays well, effectively. So it's a big week for Pat Perez. Who needs Tiger with this rookie class? It is a good rookie class. Are you going? You're getting you're getting lobbied to go to the champ area. Hardcore lobbied. I have not heard a decision made on that either way. So I'm just honest. You have to come from us, Andy or myself. Is that where our business Pete? Where are we at with that? Yeah, I mean, I think so. OK, do you want to go? I don't I don't know, man. Do you want me to go like a lot of travel right now? I just left the south and what we can figure that out. I'll give you, though, three, three pairings for the first two rounds or three groupings that I to watch. T times here. We have Stu Sink comfy pairing for where you're going to watch. Number one player, our car window. Where are you going to watch it? You're going to go. OK, all right. Follow on the app. You just said the PGA has a wonderful app. PGA America. He's got a wonderful app. OK. Comfy pairing for Stu Sink, number one player in the world. Stu Sink, David Tombs, who he called a problem on the Friday golf podcast recently. And he asked, you know, who's the one guy that was effectively a problem that didn't get enough credit? David Tombs is Stu's answer and Zatch. So maybe Zatch could import some some Ryder Cup captaincy wisdom to Stu, who's the number one player in the world. You got effectively the two best senior golfers out there right there in that group. Paparezz, premier pairing for him, making his senior debut with Dick Green and the assassin. What it what it do for Paparezz to play with. Probably comfy with him down in the whatever. Yeah, Arizona, you would think. And then Sabo is paired with a member of the Corbridge financial team. Oh, that's so disrespectful to Sabo and Kenny Perry. What? OK. I can't believe Corbridge has a senior financial team. They're all over the place. They're rumbling around. So we'll see how that goes. But this is I mean, you just look at this field list. You look at the rookie class. You look at the debuts. I think, you know, I'm comfortable calling this my event of the year. I don't think I don't think it's better than this. But that confession is a nice place. You know, it's a catch basin capital of the world, I feel like. But it's a fun. It could be a fun challenge. My favorite range on professional golf, because it just has this massive, massive waist bunker in the middle of range, just a nightmare to go pick. Like why it exists is unclear to me, but that's my favorite concession tidbit. It's just having to pick that range just to be a nightmare, waiting to run in the sand. Another tidbit we picked up at Augusta, because, you know, senior PGA is on everybody's mind. They had the Skechers World Champions Cup here a couple of years ago. They only played the nine hole on nine hole circuit repeatedly for that event. So a player who is set up to compete this week and competed at the event said, I got to learn the other nine holes. It won't take me. They will. Yeah, we'll take that. Well, that's nothing so major like that kind of quote. All right, let's move on to LPGA Tour with the Jam Eagle LA Championship at El Caballero Country Club in Southern California. I believe this is the event that's bounced around from Pellows Verde's Wilshire, I believe. That is at El Caballero. The defending champ is Ingrid Linblad. The first is 3.75 million. Notables, Lauren Coughlin, Hannah Green, Brooke Henderson, say on Kim, Janya Ko, Jennifer. Jennifer Kupchow, Minji Lee and Rose Jane. This is prime time on Golf Channel six to nine PM all four days. So a little prime time coverage late Sunday. I want to settle into that out in Los Angeles. That's a good event. Um, elsewhere on our schedule for the week, we have ongoing right now. The Western Intercollegiate at Paso Tiempo. This will be seven to 10 PM on Tuesday night. If it's out, this podcast is out at seven 10 PM Wednesday night as well. So if you're in a Mackenzie mood or maybe what's left of it, I know there's been a lot of work there, but one of Mackenzie's great courses, the Paso Tiempo from Augusta, go to the West Coast. They have the San Jose State hosting that event at Paso Tiempo. It's almost like 60 years old, maybe 80 years old now at this point. So that'll be on Golf Channel prime time viewing. And last but not least, not least at all. And in the boys after their meetings with live notable people from live, it was probably their event of the week. We're just gave my event of the year and you're calling this my event of the week. At Golf Day Club, Gip Holtepec three to six PM on Fox one, which I believe is the app six to eight on FS one Thursday night. So you get a little prime time with a seven PM finish on Sunday on FS one, a little Fox, big Fox window there in the afternoon on Friday and Saturday. So they might get some decent ratings, you know, going to the network Fox, but FS one finish on Sunday night at seven PM, you know, if you're a live player and you just played the masters and there weren't a lot of them, handful, especially on the. Would you rather go to Gip Holtepec or Harbour Town? Is there a third option? I mean, this is worse than going three hours down two and a half hours down the road. You're going to Elevation, you're going to Mexico. You're playing this sort of comically narrow ask like comically narrow course that doesn't really set you up for anywhere else. You got to dial in all the distances, which they can do in a minute, but not a very. I just not how I'd want to spend the week after the masters if you played in it. I'm not even kidding. I think it is a legit mistake that they continue to schedule events during the senior majors that can get guys into major championships. I'm not even doing a bit like that would be better for them. If Westie somehow found his way into the US open by winning the US senior. So you think live live could survive if they got more seniors in the. I'm not saying that could survive. They obviously survive, but you think live would take it become a more viable contender to the PGA Tour. This is your brain. You've gotten a little bit. Your brain's gone a little far here. This is your brain on a year and a half of champs tour assignments. It's insane. It is. The live needs to start avoiding senior majors. You said that completely earnestly. I think I think you just said that. This is a real thing. He was not. It's not a bit. I I I was like, I actually think it would be good for them if if Blandy kept on like just demolishing people or or Lee Westwood or Henry Stenson or any of these people. Oh, God, you've gone too far. You've gone too far. LaManya is disgusted. They got to get guys in majors like that's a way to do it. But that doesn't like who Dick Bland and Westy like none of this. Like they got to win. How soon you forget about the weekend of Pendy, Blandy and Bryson last year. So you're going to change your entire schedule on the off chance. One of your senior players got a higher schedule. But if you're only playing 14 weeks anyway, how hard could it be? It's kind of hard. Oh, my God, DJ. All right, let's get to the news. News talks about the LPGA event. There's a pool. LaManya, friends of LaManya have brought this to the public light. There's a pool. At Memorial Park has been put in for the Chevron Challenge. It is a pool. It is absolutely unmistakably a pool. There's a four foot graph, a four foot sign on it, four feet, which doesn't seem deep enough to jump into as they would pop his pond. Seems more of a like a step into a wait into situation. Um, I don't need to pile on here. I'll just I'll yield the floor to you guys. It's just decidedly unserious and really embarrassing for me. I mean, I'm not I'm not a pool person as has been well documented on the show. I'm being sarcastic. Um, I feel like you can't jump into a body. Water. That's only four feet. I feel like that's risking some bodily harm there. Um, also, if it is just a pool, inherently, as, you know, a public facility. Memorial Park is. And now this is a public pool. Is there going to be a lifeguard? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm down. I'm like kind of doing a bit. But not really. I think they should lean into it. I think there should be Wendy Pepper corn sitting on a white On a white stand there just watching golf balls go by Well, you have a Wendy pepper corn in your life PJ. No because I didn't go to pools Brendan. Oh, that's right You're not a pool person. Um Bigger question PJ will there be a lifeguard? Is it gonna be red stakes? Multiple people have brought this up What happens if you hit into the pool? Standing question it's not out of play and it is technically it's very fair La Mania you had multiple views because you're a real reporter you had multiple assets I mean the thing at least for rec play is like almost up against the bunker That's next to the green. This has to be peppered by rec play. It's a public course. I Just is it red steak? The It's hard to talk about this in an audio format just doesn't do it justice of how stupid it looks I Gotta say like Who's in charge how does this happen? Even if there's some bozo that thought this is like we have to uphold the tradition of jumping in some sort of water From an event that no longer exists. It does not exist the event that was a mission Hills the event This does not exist and what you've created and it's the event that the LPGA owns That's the one you own and have control over Who's in charge? How did this get to the point where they didn't just break ground like it's in it's filled with water It looks as stupid as you can imagine like Rightfully getting pilloried Nobody I've seen say like all that's cool that makes this amplifies this major championship Ended the tradition or keep you know keep it in a sensible way, but don't Bend over backwards into a pretzel the point we have this the one of the most unserious Looking things you could ever have in this. I don't know. I'll call it like 20 by 8 pool 15 by 8 Like squared off pool next to the next to the 18th green Can I just say and they're building a deck around it by the way I've got an updated pictures of some kind of deck is going in Some people are screaming at the top of their lungs at us Brendan that don't worry. This is temporary This is only one year and then the following year Don't don't build a freaking pond and rearrange the golf hole to do that either like the person that sent me this was like I'm kind of bummed like They're redoing it. I really enjoyed like this certain shot that you had to the front of the that's all going away Because we need a pond so I don't care that it's temporary. I don't care. This is for one year. It's stupid If it's one year, it's stupid that they're putting a pond here. They have completely Completely lost the plot. This is un serious So your golf organization who've tied your identity of your major championship to jumping in a body of water That's not a golf move. That's not a golf shot You've tied the identity to the point where you are creating these pools even temporary You like can't go a year without it We just got a we got to make it look as stupid as possible Even it's only a year you're tying the identity of your golf tournament to a jump into some form of H2O How were there not like People there I could consider one bozo slips through the cracks and thought like well, this is what we're gonna do Because to marriage the year to have it to uphold the tradition Where were the other like ten people that jumped could before they got to this point that said like no We're gonna that's a bad look a bad idea like where how did it get this far? anyways, it's just I feel bad for the LPGA and the people involved that this is now and like Meg and met like Matthew rightfully or pounds stall over this. It's not like You can't advocate for your major if this is what you're doing I don't know also the player that wins should absolutely refuse to jump in that pool I would be the best they should they should it's on serious. It's embarrassing to jump into Just dip a toe in just Yeah, I'm good, you know, you don't want to be photographed in this thing No Well, there was the one year I think like cuz like they jump in with their parents and stuff and like what somebody got hurt I think the one year and caddy somebody's gonna get hurt jumping into a I know that's only four feet deep All right, I got a pack for Scotland anything else All right, I don't think so. I know what we're doing Friday boys. You may have the full reigns on Friday We'll see where we're at what we got going on over there. Um, appreciate everyone listening We'll be back with you on Friday You