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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Go Low - Collin Morikawa OUTLASTS Scottie Scheffler & Rory McIlroy to win Pebble Beach Pro-AM
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human the volume. What is going on, everybody? John Middelkopf and a little Go Low podcast. Here's the deal. We have separated the golf podcast from the football podcast. We've been cross pollinating them and I said, you know what, let's separate it. So we have a, this is a new audio feed. We have a YouTube channel that is just going to be golf. We're going to separate the two. So today this is going to. I'm technically on vacation this week. Vacation. Be strong. I'm at home with my child and my wife. But I was like, you know what? Lots happened. So let's just record a podcast, a Golo podcast. Anthony Kim, Rory, Scotty Tiger spoke today. Some, some Riv bets for the weekend. But that, that will be the game plan today. But this is the podcast or this is the feed where all the golf content is going to live. So in the YouTube channel, just type in Golo my name and that'll pop up as well. I'm gonna try to do some on course videos throughout the, the summer. If I ever get back to the golf course again, please God, get me back. But yeah, so that will be the game plan. We will also do mailbag questions not today, but at Golopod. At Golopod is the Instagram. So I separate, I have a separate Instagram account just from my, my Instagram normal Instagram account because that's where people for football stuff and I try, I try to separate it out. So at Golopod will be my Instagram. Fire in those dms, anything golf related. And we will answer them here throughout the year. And the game plan will be we'll just start banging out these podcasts moving forward throughout the golf season. I'll be in Indianapolis next week for the combine. So we'll have to figure out if I do a li. If I do a Riv reaction. Might do one Sunday afternoon. We'll see. I got some family coming in town, but that's a fluid situation. But at Golopod will be the Instagram. This is the audio feed and let's talk Anthony Kim. I did not expect to start with this, but Tiger woods was asked about it this morning and gave a pretty, I thought powerful response, a well thought out response. And I, I think he, you know, kind of summed up what we all were thinking. It, it was a pretty powerful moment watching Anthony Kim and for some of you that live on the east coast, it happened in the middle of the night. For me, I think he finished at like 11:30. Now granted, when you have a, you know, four and a half week old, you don't sleep much. So it was right in my wheelhouse. I was laying there in bed, saw on social media, flipped it on and watched the last several holes. It was electric, it was awesome. And I, I think on the most basic level before we dive into the context and everything, it was just a really cool, pure moment. And I, I know we did a deal last year with Liv. It was cool going to the tournament with Colin. I mean, Koepka came up and talked to us and when you're at the event, it was, you know, you got Rom walking around, Bryson walking around, Phil walking around, dj, you know, very prominent players. The in person experience is cool. I've never. The events don't matter. Like winning those events for Brooks, Koepka or Bryce, it doesn't mean anything, right? And clearly fans aren't consuming it in terms of viewers, but like there is no disputing. I mean, Bryson and Rom are two of the best four or five players in the world and that's what made Anthony Kim's win so incredible. He was paired with those guys at an event which is clearly the signature event of the live tour. They're getting like a hundred thousand people on given days and it was packed and he drubbed him. Anthony Kim on, I mean it was Saturday for us, but Sunday for them because now they're playing four rounds, shot nine under, Bryson shot two over and Rom shot Wonder. He beat Bryson by 11 strokes. He beat Rom by eight. He was five down to start the day. He boat raced them both. So to me, part of the moment was clearly his comeback. You look at his face, you can see cocaine destroyed his nose. His addiction, which he has been very open about. I mean he, he had not played competitive golf for almost 15 years. And like Tiger talked about, he remembered when he broke on the scene, Tiger was playing against him. Kid was a rocket ship and he was electric in terms of emotion. And let's face it, like I was listening to no laying up podcast and one of their guys was saying, he's like, I watched Scotty shoot like nine under and barely showed any emotion, like didn't give a shit. You watch Rory and Scotty birdie and eagle holes like that. It's just pretty unfazed most of these events. Colin Morawa shoots 10 under on Saturday. It's like, yeah, pro golfer, whatever. And let's face it, most of these guys in this day and age are so filthy rich, the emotion in a Lot of these events, non majors or Ryder cup aren't exactly Tiger fist pumping all over the place. And I kind of miss that. It's why I've said forever. Whenever this re emergence comes of these tours, you got Patrick Reed coming back. Is great for business. You need some villains. Bring Terrell Hatton back, bring, you know, some, some of the crazy you can't have everyone just all smiles, all good guys. It becomes kind of boring. It's one thing the NBA has lost. When I was a kid, they had a lot of major wild cards who at any given moment could do some crazy. The NBA had nut jobs. It was great for business. You know why? Because people cared. People came in to see, what is Rasheed Wallace going to do today? What do you think Dennis Rodman's going to do tonight? Now everyone's filthy rich. It's so corporate. You can't even get like a controversial statement out of anybody. It's like, that's kind of boring. You need some curveballs. The NFL, luckily, because of the nature of the sport, is gonna have some, some crazy guys. And golf, like part of the live, you know, fracture. It, it took away the villains. And Anthony Kim by no means was a villain, but he was like this mysterious figure who just disappears, who was a guy on Ryder Cups, on President's Cups, who was just an electric factory from a viewer standpoint. And it was just gone and doesn't come back till his late 30s. And. And you see him, it's clear, like the demons do not hide when you look at his face. And he does not hide from them. And for him to play against these guys and I mean, he was just making putt after putt after putt, going nuts with fist pumps and putting his arms up. It was like you just felt something emotionally. And one thing, if sports are not moving you emotionally, they're just going to lose people, right? And, and I think golf has always battled with that. It's a niche sport and that's one thing Tiger brought to the table emotionally. You always felt his presence, especially when things were going well. And I watched this last night again. Can't sleep because there is no sleep in my home anymore. Which maybe one day it'll come back around is I watch Rick Shields, who I think is like the original golf YouTuber. He was an international guy from the U.K. i think he, he did a deal a couple years ago with Liv and he's played with all these guys. And last year he played with Anthony Kim. Now it was like an hour long YouTube video of them playing 18 holes, I think in Hong Kong, where I think Liv's playing next. And it was just Anthony Kim said something in. In that video that I thought was pretty interesting. He's like, you know what? I. I bet I'm. I'm a momentum player. Like, when things get going, I can ride the wave. Like, Scotty Scheffler, to me, is not a momentum player. He's just a dominant player. Like, at any given moment, he can just make a bunch of birdies. A bogey doesn't derail him. He's unfazed by the ups and downs of a golf tournament. It's why he's always there at the end. Whether he starts slow or starts fast, it's inevitable how it's going to go, right? I would say, like Tommy Fleetwood, a lot of these are not momentum player. Rory's a momentum guy. Phil Mickelson was a momentum guy. Tiger was a lot like Scotty. You just. He was going to keep swinging till the bitter end. Like, you can tell when Rory's got it going, especially early in a tournament, like, hop on that wave. Anthony Kim's a lot like that. And he clearly got momentum at this course in Australia. And then he just got laser, you know, red hot. Red hot. You couldn't have been any hotter. Honestly, Scotty could have been in his group, and he might have beat him. I mean, shoot nine under in that environment was really impressive. He was making every putt imaginable. You never thought he was going to miss. And it was just really cool and powerful to watch. It was something that, let's face it, the last couple. I mean, he was shooting 80 in some of these events last year. 80, which for me and you, awesome round for these guys, is an embarrassment. I mean, it truly is. Now, I don't think he touched the club for a long period of time in his life. And one thing he talked about with Rick Shields, and I don't think he's been sober that long. And part of the reason he got sober, because not only could he not stop drinking once he started, but it would morph into drugs. And clearly it's. It's pretty. Again, pretty evident that cocaine was a major drug of choice. And some of these stories come out about him essentially blowing lines back when he was playing on the PGA Tour between holes at Augusta. I didn't know of that. I mean, I knew he had issues, but some of this information that's come out about his struggle at the end of his time, and this is like 09 and 2010 was something I, I didn't quite understand the depth of his issues. And to now come out he's got a young daughter and he's married and it feels like he just kind of got his together and to watch him play and play against those guys, I, I just don't think this, it would have been a big deal no matter what tournament he would have won on live if he just would have won the tournament. I think it's dramatically bigger that he's literally playing with Bryson Rum and kick the living you know what out of him and had to come storm. It's not like he had the lead and those guys were chasing. He was down and he boat raced them both, honestly embarrassed them both and, and both of them. Bryson's got no fuel for the room. Like after the event everyone's, you know, spraying water on them, celebrating with them. Rom even waits to give him like a hug and a handshake. Bryson sits there and like, hey, you gonna sign your scorecard? It's like Bryson, take a deep breath, go to the clubhouse. Just let him have this moment for a minute, homie. You know, let's, let's just, let's just back up and again, Bryson, I enjoy him. And you talk about a guy who's really embraced the showman, but if it's not him, I don't think he's got a great feel because that was like bro, back up. But it was, it's one of the more out of left field moments in a long time in golf. And a lot of people have talked about this. This is not an original thought but obviously the Saudis have spent a lot of money, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars on the Phils, on the Roms, on the koepkas, on the DJs. This was, they have not had a big on the course moment yet. Like Joaquin Neiman, winning events is. Doesn't matter, right? Rom hasn't won yet, but he finishes second. Basically. It doesn't matter. Even if Rom wins every event, it's not going to matter. This mattered. This really mattered for them and just for the golfing world. I mean it was a ma. It was the number one story last week and even over Morikawa who won at pebble for the first time. You know, he hadn't won a tournament like two and a half years. He hadn't even finished I think in the top 10 in like almost a year. Like he had been kind of in the wilderness and he's clearly, when he's on one of our best American Players, better young players for sure. But this was the story and it was powerful and cool to watch. It was just. There was something like genuine about this guy, his story. Coming out of the mud, coming out of the wilderness, coming out of. As he said, I could have easily been dead. Easily been dead. And he's still here and he wins. And I, I don't know how necessarily live capitalizes on this, and hopefully he can keep playing well. But I, I think this makes it a lot more intriguing. Of as Brian Rollap has got Koepka back, has got, you know, Patrick Reed back. Obviously they're circling Bryson to get back at the end of this year is I, I think you have to look at what can we do with this guy? Is there a way that we could get this guy involved? Because if you get this guy out at Waste Management, at Riviera, at, you know, wherever, any of the big. I'm not even talking majors. I'm just talking about the big PGA Tour events. Bay Hill, he would get, I mean, an enormous amount of support. He'd be a rock star. He really would. And maybe he kind of likes the live situation more, can fly under the radar a little bit, but immediately, you know, you got tiger and roll up. Let's take a look at this. And I'm not acting like he would come and just dominate. I mean, hell, Koepka almost finished DFL at Torrey Pines, and then he missed the cut at Waste Management. So it's, it's a. It's a different animal. But that was. 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Speaking of cool, on Sunday, Scotty Scheffler shot 63. He I actually think in a weird way, he's more impressive when he doesn't win some of these golf tournaments because he'll shoot like 72. I think he did that at Waste Management, his first round was 73. At pebble, his first round was 72. You're like, you know what? This is going to be his week where he finishes like 26th. He's just going to have one of those weeks where it's just off. And then all of a sudden Sunday, he's making the turn, you know, to go to the back nine, and you're like, he's like three shots back and he's five under on the day. You're like, how does he do it? And a couple years ago, the comparisons of Tiger felt a little outrageous. It's like, come on, guys, he's not Tiger. There are clearly Tiger qualities to this, and to me, the most, I would say similar quality that they both share is their competitive nature. Like, they just don't ever, like, I don't have it this week. I'm just going to finish 40th. I am going downswing. Remember, this was like five or six years ago. Tiger got it I think it was a 10. Might have been a 12. It's either 10 or 12. I think it was a he. He got a 10 on hole 12 at Augusta, and he birdied after that hole five of the next six holes. I forget who it was. I don't know if it was Marco Mira or Steve Elkington or someone like that. Tweeted. That is the defining characteristic of Tiger's career, that no matter what happens at any moment from when he was young to when he's 50 years old, he never taps out. He never loses focus. Of, like, I'm still competing. I'm still. I'm gonna figure this out. If most people on the PGA Tour, let alone just casual golfers, get a 10 on a. On a par three, whether you're playing Augusta or whether playing the local muni, you probably unravel, which is human nature and very understandable, right? You just like, I fuck. I'm out of it. To birdie five of the next six holes, like, defines Tiger Woods. Like, that's who he is. And to me, there's something with Scotty. Like, he starts the day on Sunday at Pebble, like, he's got no shot. All of a sudden, you look up, he's eagle two, he's eagled six. He's just rattling off birdies. You're like, this guy, man, this is incredible. He did the same shit at waist. It's like, oh, he just doesn't have it. Then all of a sudden, on Sunday, he's roaring up the leaderboard, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle. And you look up, he shot 64. And the crazy thing is, with all of his wins over the last several years, I feel like he. I texted this to a buddy the other day. I think he easily could have, like, eight to ten more wins. I. I'm not. He probably doesn't think like that. It's clearly not the way he's wired. Like, he ain't living in the past, but he's probably less than 15 shots here or there from having 50% more wins on the PGA Tour. Like, having 35 wins right now, I think he's got, what, 20? Like, easily having 10. Who knows? Maybe 15. I'm talking like a shot here or shot there, and he wins the tournament. I mean, now, you could also argue guys like him, and definitely Rory fault falls under this category. When he's so far out of it, like, starts the day seven back, it really frees him up, and he's the best player in the world by a mile. Just like Rory's probably the second best player in the world. And when those guys get going, I mean, Rory way out of it. Sunday, Pebble Beach Shoot 64. And I would say this is about Rory at Pebble. He shot 72 on Saturday with a triple and a double. So like, he finished T14. To me, if he just pars those two holes like it's, it's. And what. I think he tripled hole four, which is a relatively easy hole. I did not see the highlights of what happened, but clearly it was an epic disaster. And I think he doubled 18 that day. So to. To. To triple and double two holes where. I don't know. I mean, a lot of the field is definitely birding the hole. A large percentage of guys are birding both holes to go five under shows. And that was his first event. Unlike Scotty, who's, you know, one AMX. He finished third at waste. He finished fourth at AT&T. I think the one thing the PGA Tour is missing, which kind of feels inevitable, is these two guys paired in the last round of one of these tournaments. We said it forever with Tiger and Phil, and it just never really happened. It just, it just. It kind of never came together. They were clearly the best two guys. They were clearly rivals, but they didn't have that many rivalry moments. It's like Trevino and Jack were rivals. They went head to head a lot. Now, it was a different world back in like the 60s and 70s, but in clearly by the 2000s, you just had more competition. The fields were different. Now the fields have never been more different. That would be awesome. Even Liv technically just got that with Rahm and Bryson in the last group. Now, both guys did not play well and Anthony Kim destroyed him. But PJ Tour would gladly take just those two guys in the last group of a random tournament. It does not have to be. I mean, they don't own the majors, but I mean, best case scenario, it would be like Augusta or the U.S. open. Those two guys pair. I'd be cool with just the Memorial, just, you know, Bay Hill, just. Just an event that, you know, you pick another big tournament throughout the year. So I. I think Scotty's over under wins this year. He's already got one. Would probably be like four and a half. He's the heavy favorite every tournament he enters. And when the dust settles, it takes a disastrous round for him not to win the tournament. And for him, a disastrous round is like 71, 72. Because he, I mean, his two Sunday. So far, the last two weeks have been 64 and 63. Now, again, like I said, you feel a little free when you're out of it. And he's so good. No pressure. He can dominate. He could shoot five under on the moon. But it's been remarkable to watch. And to me, the craziest part, and I would say this about Rory, too. The drive that both these two guys have with. I mean, Scotty's probably made $100 million the last 24 months. Honestly, that number could be small. That could be. I could be low. Could. He is not driven by money. Clear. Completely unfazed by money, completely unfazed by status. Because you'd be like, oh, he might just come in. Like, look at Xander. And I understand he's. He's been banged up. Xander's made a ton of money the last couple years. And what did he get off his back? Won some majors. You look him now, he's kind of just whatever, ho hum. And I'm not acting like Xander's not trying as hard. New kid. Is Xander as focused as he was and driven as he was a couple years ago? And I wouldn't even blame him. Like, I'm not talking shit. I'm just saying it's human nature. You look at Scotty, unfazed by his child, unfazed by his money, unfazed by his fame. It's like every week, stunned if Scotty doesn't win. And I respect this about Rory, too. Finally gets the monkey off his back last year with the Masters and even admitted last week that, you know, didn't mail it in, but wasn't quite as focused the rest of the year after that moment, because early on he, you know, he won pebble, he won the players. He wins the Masters like his season was kind of made. Then kind of comes in like he was ready to roll. So I think we're going to get. We know Scotty is going nowhere. I think we're going to get a big season from Rory. And now he's got to keep our fingers crossed that those two guys in a big tournament, the players, again, I would take just any random tournament they're both in, get matched up together. Factor in, and we see those guys in the final group. We can only hope the start to the season has been a very, very good year for us. Team usa because. Got her up. Has kind of established himself like, I'm. I'm a major player here. And the crazy thing about him, I think he's from Jersey. He looks like he could have been a member of Tony Soprano's Crew like, he could have been hanging out with Chrissy, you know, like, he. He's kind of a little overweight. He's got the chain. Looks like he could delete a 12 pack in the blink of an eye. Looks like he'd be a fun hang. Hits it like 360 yards is open, like Lee Trevino, yet he hits his, like, power cut. He is just hits it really low. He's a really good player. I mean, obviously he wins the Sony Open, which is like, okay, it's impressive win. And then to win, waste. Did get a little lucky that Hideki just melted down. Really. He was atrocious that whole day off the tee, but his short game kept him in it. Ended up pumping in the pews, then pumping in the water, but ultimately got her up. You know, for a guy that just missed the Ryder cup, you could have made the argument like, Chris got her up. Should have been on the Ryder Cup. Didn't make it, like, feels like a lock now to make the President's cup, which. Which is cool. Morikawa, I mean, was a guy who was running on fumes. At the end of last year. There was a pretty controversial pick for the Ryder cup, which I think if you could do that over again, he wouldn't have been there. And I was watching the Golf Channel today because Tiger talked. They had on, like, his swing coach. And Colin was struggling on the range at the beginning of last week and clearly figured something out on Saturday when he shot 10 under par. And to win that tournament the way he won it. I was watched on the plane flying to Los Angeles. The dude's hitting in the. You know, the guy ahead of him hits it into the. Not the beach, like the rocks. Like, he wasn't on, like, sand, like, beach sand. He was on, like, big rocks. And it was like a 20, 30 minute delay. Morcal was sitting there in the middle of the fairway and just blast one onto the green and, yeah, I guess was a little off the green. Two putts and wins the tournament and then announces that he's having a baby, which is like, colin, good luck, buddy. Enjoy your sleep. Now, now. He's so rich. You probably have night nurse and day nanny. But regardless, Joe, Judge would be like, you better get one. You got to focus. Which I agree, Joe, trust me, I would love one right now. But regardless, Morikawa winning got her up. Winning. Justin Rose winning a couple weeks ago at Torrey Pines was really cool. I mean, at his age, to be as good as he is, how hard he works a lot, lot of Respect on that one, which is not great for us because he's just such a consistent member of the Ryder cup team. Kind of feels like he might be a playing captain one day. Kind of like what Keegan could have done and probably should have done last year. It's been a very good start to the year. I mean these are, you know, got her ups now like a big time player on the PGA Tour. I mean Morikawa is a multiple time major winner, multiple time rider cupper. I mean he's, he should be one of our best young players. I mean Justin Rose is of the last like 20 of the Internet era. I mean he'd be a top 10 player. Tiger, Phil, Ernie's, Koepkas, Dustin Johnson's like Jordan Spieth, like Justin Rose is on that list. So to see him still playing at this level at that age, he went on rap reports. That'd be Dan, not Ian, his. I think it was a podcast and talked about his routine. It's like, God, this guy's a fucking grinder. This even Tiger today, they're like, Tiger, you come. He said, he didn't say he wouldn't play the Masters. I don't expect him to play in the Masters. But he left it kind of open ended. But the one thing he says, like, I'm still working to try to play. It's like, tiger, you're 50 years old, you're worth like a billion dollars. Why are you still grinding so hard to try to still play tournaments? Because that's just the way these guys are wired, man. Like when Tiger and Justin Rose and these guys got into the business, these private jets and these pip payments and these equity, none of this shit existed. It wasn't as glamorous as it is now. They got into it. I say that all the time about football coaches, if you're John Harbaugh, if you're Andy Reid, if you're Bill Belichick, like these guys got into football before people were making 15, 20 million dollars a year. You know, 25 years ago there was a small percentage of coaches making a million dollars a year. Position coaches definitely weren't making that much money. So there's like a, there's like a pureness to their love of the game that is just different now. Like if you get into pro sports in 2026, all we talk about is money. When are you going to get your next contract? How much you make as a rookie? What are they, what do they paying you? It's like, what's your shoe deal? What's Your clothing deal. It's like that in basketball, football, golf, you. You name it, just what you're going to make. I feel like it wasn't quite like that when I was young. Obviously when I was a kid, Michael Jordan made a lot of money, right? But it just felt that there was. There was a different vibe. And I'm not trying to, you know, this like, false sense of history. It truly was. It didn't quite feel like it does now. And that's what I respect about Justin Rose. It's what I respect about Tiger. And one takeaway I had today, watching Tiger talk is roll up. Who kind of like Goodell. I. I haven't seen him talk that much, which I don't have a problem with. Like, he doesn't need to be front and center. He needs to utilize Tiger Woods. Like you get Tiger woods at 50 years old in front of a microphone. There's like this combination of calmness, confidence and swagger that he brings that I feel like he's being underutilized because clearly behind the scenes he's playing a major role. But you get him in front of the microphone, he basically promotes a sense of vision, of confidence. If I was a prospective company that might sponsor a event, I watch that like I want in on his business. I'm not talking about him playing anymore. I'm not even counting him playing anymore. I expect to never see him again. Maybe on the Champions Tour, on a cart. I'm not expecting him ever to play a PGA Tour event again. I, I will be pleasantly surprised whenever he plays the Masters. But to have him play a role in terms of a front man, like, I was watching this. YouTube did this video on the Falcons and Matt Ryan. There's just a comfort he has. Putting him in front of a group of reporters, putting him on Pat McAfee. 49ers have that in John Lynch. The. The Giants hired Buster Posey to run. When you hire these former big time athletes, they're very comfortable in that environment. You know why? That's all they've done their entire life. But once they get in that mode, unlike when they were playing, there's less of a guard, they're more relaxed. They actually promote. Like they, even if they don't, they feel like they know what they're doing. And Tiger, who clearly is just a golf addict, loves the PGA Tour and is a huge reason my buddy Scotty texted me today. He's like, you know, the crazy thing is, knock on wood, thank God this didn't happen. I guess you don't need to knock on wood because we avoided it. If Tiger would have died in that car accident he had at the Genesis whatever five years ago, do Rory and some of these guys, would they have gone to live? Do the Saudis now own the PGA Tour? Because I think there's a decent chance. I. I think his role of being around and supporting the Tour and being like one of its loyal soldiers of the number one guy on the front lines of the importance of this entity, whatever that is. Now, I don't even know how you even. It's harder to quite describe everything that's going on because it's ever changing, but might have saved golf. Truly might have. And when you watch him talk, you just go. He has like the credentials of Jack Nicklaus because 80 plus wins, 15 majors, the greatest player I've ever seen and probably will ever see. But now he's kind of got this confidence in front of a microphone, like, truly, ask me whatever you want. You want to ask me about Anthony Kim, you want to ask me about Charlie, you want to ask me about the schedule, you want to ask me about. You name it, the Super Bowl, I don't give it all. Hold court here for 30 minutes like Arnold Palmer. Really, that role would have been Phil's, but Phil's done. Like, he's never coming back to the bj. Like, it's. He's excommunicated. So now Tiger has the role of the most accomplished guy and also the spokesman. And he's really good at it. Like, it feels pretty natural to him. It's actually something that there was more of a guarded nature when he was younger. And he's been like this for a while now in his older years, probably that late 20, 18, 19 run, but definitely since he got injured and came back. He has been so good in these press conferences. They need to utilize him more. I would have him, and I get it, he's busy. He's going to get more busy if he plays a Champions Tour and goes to watch Charlie. In college, you got to double down on Tiger Woods. Being a spokesman for your business like that is really, really important. There's a reason teams have their quarterbacks talk all the time. Usually they handle themselves really well in front of a microphone. It's good for business seeing Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes or whoever talk all the time because they're good at it. They're good looking, they're good speakers. They're just, they're natural at it. They. They have to communicate anyway in their role on the team. As a quarterback. Right. Every, every time they get in a huddle, they're the guys talking. And I, I think there's a. Nate, there's a similarity there with Tiger of like make him be your quarterback. Not on the course, those days are done, but off the course. And I watched him today. I'm like, God, I could watch Tiger woods press conferences every single week if they happen. And obviously just from a human standpoint, a little human interest stand story would be Charlie, who most of us started watching years ago when he would play in that father son event with Tiger. And he started really young. I remember the first time he got an eagle. He's probably 12 or 13 years. I used to love that event to what he's become now going to Florida State and I read this article on the athletic. This is not like some token invite to the team. He's established himself over the last like 8 to 12 months on the amateur circuit. Like he's a good young player. And I always said this because people like, I bet he ends up going to Stanford like his dad. It's like no chance. Their home base is Jupiter, Florida. Tiger woods loves those. No taxes. He loves that sunshine and he loves that mansion on the water. He is a southeast guy, Charlie Woods. If he was good enough, and he probably, even if he wasn't, teams would have been interested. But once he became good enough, like he's playing in the sec, I always guess he would play at Florida. But Georgia, Alabama, Vanderbilt, one of those schools. I didn't necessarily think Florida State, but it makes a lot of sense. Obviously they've had pros before and what a cool moment for, for Tiger. What a cool moment for anyone who's on that team. Not that if you play at Florida State, you don't have access to sweet courses in Florida. That program and those kids will have an open door policy at every course that matters in the South. Definitely every course that matters in Florida from Jordan's course to Tigers course to you name. It will be a great time to be on that team in terms of access and the people you will meet as a college golfer, the coach of that team. It is going to be an awesome experience for everyone and I'm, I'm excited to watch and follow the guy's career. Miles Russell, the star young lefty is going to be. I think he's in Charlie's class, in his recruiting class. So who's supposedly the best number one amateur and has been the top guy for a couple years. I remember one of my, one of my Buddies who works in the golf apparel business. And he's part of, you know, the team that signs guys to wear their stuff. And I said, do you think he'll just skip Miles Russell, skip college and go pro? He's like, nil, bro. Do you know how much money he is going to make and just get to enjoy himself in college? I'm like, think of that. He could easily stay for four years and make five to $8 million, $10 million a year. So the nil money that Charlie, I would guess, you know, Florida State, I'm sure has a deal with Nike, but maybe Sunday Red sponsors the golf team. We'll have to see how that plays out. But excited to watch that for sure. And last but not least, Riv, I just don't see how you don't take Scotty to win this tournament. Plus 325 hard rock bet. I was looking at the odds today. I mean, his odds have been. Well, it's been plus 250 before, so I never hate taking Scotty. I don't think you ever feel bad about betting despite these crazy low odds, having Scotty Scheffler on your betting ticket because you will look up on Saturday or Sunday and he will either be in the lead or coming back. And right near the lead, you will always have a chance. And that in golf, that's all you can ask for. I mean, a guy that's been gambling on golf for a long time, you can bet on five guys to finish in the top 10 and four of them can miss the cut. And it kind of sucks because you're like, I got this guy long odds and this guy and Homa and Cam Young. It's like those guys even around on Saturday. It's like his odds suck. Yet Scottish Scheffler is literally always in the mix on Sunday. And. And as a golf better, that's really all you can ask for. Now. It's easier to pick top tens and top twenties with other guys because they have better odds. Scotty's odds to finish in the top 10 are like minus 300. They suck. I mean, you get Rory this week plus 140. To me, that's an auto hammer. This course is going to play really long. It's going to be soaked. You're going to get no roll. He just showed a pebble. He's in pretty good form. He's played well here before. I think. Rory, top 10/140 is an auto hammer. Hidecki, he's playing really well. He if his driver just worked decently on Sunday. He probably runs away with waste management. He came storming back last week, looked fantastic. You get him plus 240 to top 10 in this tournament. A little bit of a long shot. He showed a lot of promise at pebble several years ago. Sam Burns was leading this tournament on Sunday and completely melted down. But he's comfortable at this course and had success at this course before you can get him 30 to 1. So to me looking at some of the guys that are a bit longer odds, Sam Burns is about as long as I go and I I might dabble a little bit on 30 to 1. Sam Burns to win this week. So take Scotty to win, Burns to win, Rory Hidecki to top 10 and that will be your boy's card for the weekend. Enjoyed it. Hopefully everyone's doing well and look forward to watching a little golf this weekend. The volume this is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.