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Jeremy Hobson (0:00)
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Gilbert King (0:32)
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season one.
Jeremy Scott (0:39)
Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Gilbert King (0:43)
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
Jeremy Scott (0:48)
At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
Gilbert King (0:51)
Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
John Middlecoff (1:01)
The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? I thought today we'd do a little, a little golo podcast. We got the Masters right around the corner. It'll be here next week. Very, very fired up. So want to do a little look back at the beginning of the season as we transition? If you're listening to this, the Valero is probably already off and running. Not. I didn't really have any thoughts on that. Hard to gauge, you know, the week before with not that many big names. Kind of a weird field. Obviously. I think, I think I saw a stat. 12 of the last 14 guys to win this tournament had not been in the Masters. So obviously if you win this weekend, you get an auto invite next week, which is, I don't know, kind of a big deal. Akshay Batia did it last year. Has to be pretty cool to get the. To win, make a bunch of money and then be like, hey, you're going to Augusta. So we're going to do a little look back, kind of big picture on the season as we. I mean, once the Masters start, we are in the major season. The PGA is right around the corner. Basically every month we get the pga, the US Open, and the British. And then football is back. So obviously also a Ryder cup season. Big year for a lot of guys, not just on our squad, but some of these Euros, some of the dudes on live, you know, this is, this is when Koepka kind of makes his hay in major season. You know, Bryson is going to be on the Ryder Cup. I think no matter what, I guess he, he could just miss every cut in the majors, which I doubt is going to happen. But I think we're going to start seeing a mixture of those guys, which also factors into next week because Patrick Reed, Sergio, Phil actually is playing really well and is a guy that's won the Masters, I don't know, multiple times. So we will dive into that. Liv basically copied the pga, which I do not blame them, and are doing a creator classic. They're calling it the Duels, though I think their version is might be better and I give them credit for doing a couple of things. So I want to dive into that. And then like we do every week, I will take some of your questions. The easiest way to get in on the show is @golopod. Atgolopod is the Instagram for the golf podcast. So just fire in those DMs at Golopod and get your question answered on the show. But before we dive into some golf, you know, I got to tell you about my friends, my partners and the official ticketing app of this podcast. You know, actually a golf tournament, if one is coming near you, that could be the PGA Tour or live is a sneaky, underrated event. Just to kind of get outside, get some sun, have a couple cocktails. You don't even end up watching that much golf, but it gets you moving around. Maybe Friday, take a half day at work, get out of the office, go hang out, have some pops with a buddy. Cannot recommend it enough. 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It's very, very important that the best players play well in the biggest Tournaments and specifically the majors. But part of golf, it's a little like baseball. It's every weekend and guys like Rory and Scotty are going to end up probably playing 20 plus times a year. So it really matters that they're in the mix when they play. And we've been very lucky over the last couple of years. Rory has had a chance to win, I think three of the last eight majors. Think about last year. Xander won two, Scotty won another, and Bryson and Rory dueled it out at the US Open. You can't ask for much more. Golf is better when there is not parity. No different than tennis, an individual sport. And you could argue team sports as well. It's better when everyone is chasing the Yankees and the Dodgers or the Patriots have a dynasty. Or you know, in basketball, when Kevin Durant went to the warriors, everyone wants to see if you can beat him. I'm sorry, like, I don't just believe that. I think the numbers show it's definitely with individual sports. When Federer, when Pete Sampras, when yo Joker, when one of those guys is on top. I almost called him Djokovic. That is his name, Djokovic. I was going to get Nicole Jokic, who had a 60 point triple double last night in a loss, which I have to imagine is the first time in NBA history that's ever happened. But we need Rory and we need Scotty to play well. And I think when you look back over the beginning of the year, this is why I think it's crazy when I hear people saying that Rory is like he just can't get it done in the biggest tournaments. Well, he hasn't lately and I understand he hasn't won a major in 10 years. But if you've watched the sport, you know, for a longer period of time, multiple years, you would be insane to think this guy's never going to win a big tournament, AKA one of the majors. Honestly, I think it's way more likely that he wins multiple majors, winning moving forward than he never wins another one. Now, does that mean he's going to win the Masters in a week? I don't know. We have had a lot of hype on him coming into this tournament and he's underwhelmed and it's happened to him in other majors as well. But I would say over the course of the last couple years, he couldn't have been much closer. I mean, he should have won the Open the year Cam Smith won it. Obviously last year he blew it down the stretch, missing two putts in the last three holes. And he easily could have won at LACC, the U.S. open. What was that, two years ago. And he couldn't make a putt to save his life. But I don't know if he's ever going to win the Masters. If I was a betting man, which I am, I would say yes. Do I plan on putting money on him next week? I do. I think when you watch him play this year, it'd be one thing. It's like, Rory has two wins this year. It's like, what tournaments did he win? It's like the Century. Now, I understand he never goes to Hawaii and the amex, and he ain't playing that either. But I'm just. For hypothetical sake, let's just say those were his two tournament wins. I would not feel the same as winning at pebble beach in inclement weather and winning at the players when half the field had no shot and looked terrible. So, like, I think his form. And then you watch him last week, it's like, first round, it's like, does he even want to be here? Was he. Did he just go to get a couple reps and he's going to kind of like, do a sneaky miss the cut, and then just fly home? It's like, no. He then shot four under, five under, six under the last three days. Now, the one thing that scares you a little bit, and this is what golf has battled for a long time, is we're balls deep now in gambling, so I would like some sort of universal injury report, but that doesn't happen. So you're like, yeah, there's word out on the street that something's up with this guy's knee. You're like, well, then I probably wouldn't have bet money on him over the last month. But you don't know until it's too late. Rory just told us. He's like, yeah, something's up with my elbow. Now, the way he said it is almost like he had a little smile. It's like, is he just messing with everybody? Is he actually good? Is he trying to throw people off the scent? Is he trying to lower the hype going into Augusta? Because for a split second on Sunday, you're like, could Rory win this tournament? Now, he was too far back, and he ended up honestly, wasn't too far. Turned out it wasn't even that close. But he did. He did mention, yeah, something's a little up with my elbow. But then he said his coach was flying out and they were going to dial in the previous week, he had already been to Augusta. I'd be stunned if he's not a major factor now, is he going to win? We talked about this over the last couple weeks. If you bet money on him last year, and you were watching that group when he was playing with Scottie Scheffler and the wind started to pick up and he had no shot, you're like, scottie Scheffler is in a different world. I think as we sit here today, they are. I mean, Rory's obviously been better this year, benefited from not having raviolis and shards of glass in his hands, but I just have a hard time thinking Rory has ever been better at golf than he is right now. And the positive momentum he has, obviously going into the Masters and just the major season in general now, for the first time, and we talked about this last week, was, you know, listen, you have an injury, it throws you off like it's golf. It's kind of like it's baseball. It's a. It's a thinking man sport. And if you get too far away from it, it's a specific skill. If you go two months without hitting a baseball, you don't just hop right back in the batter's box and handle, you know, 100 miles an hour and a big league curve. It takes you some time to get your timing back. Golf is no different. So when you look at Scotty, and I would throw Xander in this as well, when they have injuries and they are not able to play golf, it is a problem. And Xander, that's why he's in this weird category, has a career year, last year, wins multiple majors, Then he gets his rib injury, and it's like, I don't know. It's going to take him some time. Wouldn't shock me if he's fully healthy, that he. He gets back to form here in a couple tournaments and by, like, the US Open and the British, he's a major factor. But Scotty, it was like, I don't know, man. He's not playing terribly, but he doesn't look quite as dominant as he was last year, but kind of understandable. Still a shards of glass in his hand that they were, like, going to slowly take out. And then Sunday happened, and you're like, that's the Scottish Scheffler that I know. That's the guy that beat the shit out of everyone last year and won $65 million playing golf. That's the guy. Now, he ultimately didn't win the tournament because Min Wu Lee got up and down on 18 from the back of the green. But like, that version of that player can beat anyone in the world any given week and probably will if he's going to play like that. And that was like, I was off the Scottie Scheffler scent. I'm like three and a half to one. I understand he dominates at Augusta, but he's not playing that well. And then that happens. And especially on the back nine, he's just birdie, birdie, birdie, and he's just peppering flags. You're like, holy shit, Scotty is coming. You know, it's like that. It's like that jiff when Omar and the wire turns the corner. And I think if you are someone, like, who's going to gamble on this tournament, I don't think it's crazy to have a little Scottie Scheffler exposure. Now. He's got to have a unique career, right? He feels like a guy that's won multiple majors when he's just one. He has won multiple majors, but, like, at a bunch of different venues. Like, this is the only course in which he's won. He has not won the US Open, he has not won the British Open, and he obviously has not won the PGA Championship. Now, granted, last year he was the favorite going in, and he got arrested, kind of threw him off. But certain people are very comfortable certain places. And this is the only major of the year where the course never changes. It's why Phil has been a factor there for a long time. It's why everyone gets bullish. You know, when Tiger is semi healthy that he can win there. You know, Bubba Watson, his guys can go back. Patrick Reed plays well there every single year. Go to his wiki right now. See the last, like, five years, how well Patrick Reed, who has not been that good at golf over the last couple years, plays at Augusta. It's no different than some of us, right? You'll meet a guy, I'm one that when I'm playing well, it's like, oh, this is. Meet my buddy, John Middlekopf. He's a three handicap. Well, yeah, at my home course, when I'm playing a lot and I'm playing well, it's like, yeah, I can shoot, you know, high 70s every round. When I'm playing well, not right now, struggling to break 85, but you take me somewhere else, all of a sudden it's like, well, how this guy just shoot 86? Because that's most. You know, I would say country club golfers. I'm not technically a country club guy. But the point remains. And when you take them away from their home base, anything is possible. That's what separates really good golfers. I have countless friends, especially college guys that played in college, their handicap, it's like they can shoot par anywhere. You can take them to Oakmont, you can take them to pebble beach, you can take them to the local Muni. Their games translate. Most of ours do not. It's no different with some of the guys, like from 50 to 150 on the PGA Tour. You get them at tournaments like the one they just played in Houston or some of these tournaments like in Mexico or. You know, I'm trying to think, early on in the season, certain guys are just comfortable. Certain places, Toasty's really comfortable last week and they feel, you know, just, it just works for their game, especially guys that aren't that accurate off the tee. Some of these courses, like, have big ass fairways. And then you get to the majors, it's like, holy shit, this is a different ball game. And when you don't, when you miss the fairway and you're in rough or your irons are a little off and you're missing greens, all of a sudden, golf becomes really complicated and very, very difficult at the highest level. And Scotty is a guy, when he's on, he's. I mean, again, having Tiger. Having a Tiger season is a lot different than having a Tiger career has a long way to go. But there is no arguing that's one of the great seasons we've ever seen. And the crazy part is, is it's like it almost felt underwhelming because how did he not win more majors? But, but this is a big year. And you know, in a big picture thing, like the one thing now with Scotty, it's like, we know we can win the Masters, and more than likely, if he stays healthy over the next four or five years, he's going to win it again. But like, I think it's pretty important to rattle off one of the other majors. But after you watch him on Sunday, you're like, this guy's going to be a factor. The finals for March Mania are here. And the only thing for sure is it's the last time you can bet on college basketball this season. Get in on all the action expected and unexpected with DraftKings sportsbook. 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