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The Open Championship is here, and the Tranquilo Tee Time crew is breaking down everything heading into Royal Birkdale. We make our official picks to win The Open, debate whether Viktor Hovland is officially back, and reveal our favorite dark horses—including Cam Smith, Patrick Reed, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cam Young, Collin Morikawa and Max Homa. The guys also dive into the rapid rise of YouTube golf, Grant Horvat’s new golf tour, the business behind brands like Takomo and L.A.B. Golf, and whether content creators are changing professional golf forever. Plus, we react to the wild L.A.B. Golf x Smucker’s putter, discuss the evolution of Bryson DeChambeau, and give golf legend Johnny Miller his flowers. Who wins The Open Championship? Let us know your pick in the comments. Presented by Diplomatico Rum. ⛳ IN THIS EPISODE: Viktor Hovland’s comeback The Open Championship predictions Royal Birkdale course preview Cam Smith and Patrick Reed dark-horse picks Max Homa’s return to form The r...
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Last time the Open was held at Royal Birkdale, it was 2017, and that winner was Jordan Spieth.
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Can you imagine?
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I'll tell you what, I become a meme.
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B
I hate that.
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I would bet something else. I'll do another bet that Jordan Speed doesn't even sniff the Jamie.
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All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Tranquilo Tea Time. I am joined by two of the best golfers in Miami, David and Dre. You guys know we're here. Ready to talk some golf.
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B
Great week. Never said that about.
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A
Oh, come on, dude. It's got to fluff the ego a little bit at the start. No, a great. A great week of golf. We're moving over to Europe. We are recording this right now during the Genesis Scottish Open. Fun fact, you know, Chris Goddard up is the reigning champ at this event and coming off a win last week at the John Deere, so we'll see how he plays. But I'll be honest, that's not the win that we care about, is it?
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C
Nope, it isn't.
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Thank you, Gabe. So, as you can see, we got one and two gigantic Victor Hovland fans here, so just want to shout out the boy.
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C
Wait a second, Wait a second.
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What's up?
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C
Let's not forget, first of all, I still owe you a rack of ribs because you bet against Victor Hovland. All right? So I know you're a hov guy.
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Yeah.
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But I wore all black for your takes. Funeral.
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All right, Hov is back.
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Hav God is back, and he's going to tear Europe a new piece. All right, this is.
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I hope so.
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I hope so, too.
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Yeah, I mean, look.
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C
Changing sides already.
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No, you know, I'm a big hov and mainstay guy, and I can bring the receipts. I just, you know, I was a little suspect of his play in the past few years, but otherwise, never challenged a goat. Hey, you're right. And you know, Victor, when you inevitably end up watching this episode, I just. I would like to say I apologize and I'll never doubt you again. And I still truly wish a lot of success to him. I mean, this is. I am on record a big Holland fan, but, you know, obviously, I'll gun for Tommy, but, yeah, we'll see how it plays out. I do love me some Scottish golf. The home of golf. You know, the course this week, just a quick shout to that course. Very cool. Designed by Tom Doak, and a very new, modern course, like, made for pro golf. So it's kind of cool. You have, like, something like St Andrews, which is so old, which is a really cool historical course. But a lot of people talk about how, oh, does it really hold up to what pro golfers can do today? So now we see a Scottish course that's made for pro golfers. It's cool to see kind of the duality of that, but I do want to focus on another part of the United Kingdom. Unfortunately for the Scots, the British Open, as they call it, or the Open Championship, as it's known internationally. Really cool setting. Royal Birkdale, a really historical course. I think it's the. The other than St. Andrews itself, it's held the second Most opens at 11. I want to say first ever Open played on Royal Brookdale was won by an Australian. How do you think the Brits felt about it? Cracks me up. I know. And two Australians have won there, but that's another cool course. Yeah. Like, in the grand scheme of things, a little bit more recent than some of the other courses the Open's held that. I think it only got its royal status in 1951, which is. That's another thing. These courses in England, like, they have to be anointed to royal status.
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B
How does that. How does that even go?
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I think it's kind of the same with, like, a knighthood kind of deal, where you have to. Yeah. You have to kind of be, like, pushed for it by someone who's part of, like, the family or of, like, the. The politics in England, and those people will, you know, kind of funnel it through to. Up to, like, the, like, the highest tiers of the royal family.
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B
Very interesting.
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And if I'm completely wrong, then I am. But I'm pretty sure it sounded convincing to me.
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I mean, I'm sold.
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I mean, I think it's similar to knighthood, where it's kind of like, you know, like, it's given at the discretion of people rather than, like, an actual, like, barriers of what they've done. But, yeah, cool course. I'm a big fan of, you know, Open Championships. I really do like the British Scottish side of golf. What do you guys. Any dark horses? Any. Any guys in the running? Other than Hovland, of course.
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I mean, I. I'm just happy to see it go across the pond.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know, obviously, we've been playing across America this whole time, and it's always great when we get to play that type of golf over there. Like you said, they're playing the Scottish Open this year, so they're getting, like, a little taste of it. And I think with all the changes that are going to be coming in like, the next two years. We're going to see a lot more of these, like, international destinations, which is going to be cool. So I think, again, this is just kind of like a piece of it, but it's hard. It's hard to tell. Right. I think there's no, like, true dominant player right now. Obviously, like, Scotty's still playing good golf, but he's not the guy hov obviously just won, got her up. Just won. But there's a lot of guys that are playing really well, but we have a completely different style of golf, so it's going to be interesting to see. I think it always leans in the favor of the guys that are used to playing over there.
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Right.
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Link, style, course. There's a completely different dynamic. My, my dark horse, I would say, though, would be Patrick Reed, right. Playing on the DP World Tour, playing really well the last couple months. I would say we don't get to see him enough, obviously, because he's not on the tour. But if you look at his kind of last few months, even weeks, and how he's kind of started off today at the, at the Scottish Championship, I think he's got a legitimate chance and I think he could be a dark horse. But guys like Rory, obviously, yeah. Will be favorited. Scotty will be up there.
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Rory's going to be the name that everyone talks about. Obviously it, you know, being in the UK and, and, and Rory taking so much time off playing other tournaments to then, you know, focus on these majors.
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Been out there, I think the last two months.
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Exactly. And so obviously he's the name that everyone will talk about. In terms of dark horse. I've got one. Somebody who plays links course as well. Somebody, if the putter gets hot, can be anybody. And that is Cam Smith already an Open champion.
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Yeah.
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Someone who's in these last couple years hasn't been playing very well. He's obviously on the live tour and it's clearly done something because he's. He just hasn't really been able to compete as well as he used to. But then he showed up to the US Open and honestly was very, very impressive.
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Well, he changed his, his, his coach right before that. Yeah. So much since he changed his coach. Honestly, he's actually start. You're starting to see that switch to the other side.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So I think he's something. I mean, he's somebody if, if the thing with links golf, right, it's usually it's more open. Obviously you have to worry about the the pop bunkers and stuff. But putting is super important.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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C
Putting on these.
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B
Dude, you're putting on hills.
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On hills. And like, half the time the greens are so big. I mean, like, you. You put a shot in, and so you're like 55ft from the hole, and you still have a ton of feet behind you. Like, it's like, they're massive greens, so anybody who's a good putter is always has that advantage. So if I had to go dark horse, I'm right with Camp Smith.
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I like that. Hey, I, I. Cam Smith is still. I mean, I would say in terms of, like, play style, one of my favorite players. I love the swing.
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It's because you guys are cousins.
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C
Yeah.
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Cam Smith, if you're seeing this, we can get sponsored by 23andMe, I'm sure.
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No, no.
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The man that. His performance back at the Open at St. Andrews.
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Sick.
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Oh, my God. Obviously, that final putt, like, I think I even said it in the last podcast. I haven't taken a practice stroke with my putter since he won that tournament. Just. I would love a win from him. It's just sad to see. Well, I will say it's interesting with these live guys is, yeah, they play more sporadically, but they do play more internationally, in my opinion.
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That's like. That's like the best thing about Liv is the sense that they are playing all around the world, which I'm hoping, like you said, like, when the PGA does unveil, like, unroll this new thing in a couple years, I think we are getting more international terms because they're cool. Now. The time difference obviously sucks for us because, like, for example, this morning, I
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was up 3 in the morning. Yeah.
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Watching Hobson tee off.
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But.
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And same thing with the Open. That's how it just works. But it is cool to see these different venues and these true. And the, The. The fan bases from these different countries. It's like, I mean, obviously we're in the middle of the World cup and like, the fact you're seeing all these fans. Fan bases come to us and we're getting the side of them that, you know, to them is normal for us. Like, wow, look how cool. Cool these different.
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Yeah.
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These different cultures are. And then, like, being able to do that and seeing that, like, on a golf course, like, like going to, you know, like, Australia, they have the big one and live, like, that's been a crazy good success. Yeah. So. So, yeah, that's the one advantage you have. They do play the international circuit, so
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B
I want to kind of go off of that. What do you guys think about this whole thing now that happens. Right. Obviously, it's. It's kind of like this lingering effect of the Ryder cup where guys are chanting usa. You know, basically, when Scotty is playing Victor, when Scotty was playing, I think, Matt Fitzpatrick earlier in the year, it becomes like this USA Versus anybody that's not from the usa. Right. I think that's. Now they're gonna carry that over there. Right. If it's a USA guy there at the top, one of these other European guys, there's gonna be. There's gonna be banter. We always become a rivalry.
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We all saw firsthand what, what Scottish fans are like.
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Yeah.
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When they poured over into Miami and, of course, Boston, other places. So, like, maybe that will propel Scottish people to show out and have, like, a great atmosphere. I mean, I'm sure that tournament is always like, does great, but, you know, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, I feel like just speaking to that, I feel like that's a pride thing. I mean, Europe whooped us. They made us look stupid at the Ryder Cup.
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B
Oh, yeah. I feel like two Ryder Cups in a row now.
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Years. Yeah. But, but at the same. But yeah, but, you know, we didn't get whooped like that. And even when we were playing in Italy two years ago.
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Yeah.
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For them to just destroy us like they did. So I, I feel like that's almost like a. Like we're trying to get every little bit we can against them at this point. Dude. Out the way. They.
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Yeah.
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Hey. They made us look bad. That was. That was embarrassing, man.
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C
I, I don't know if I love the thing. I, I, I like it because it's, it is a fun element. It adds that competitive, like, team thing,
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but, like, but that's not what that event is. Like, that's not what the Tour is. Any tour, dp, live, pga, whatever it is.
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C
It is. And rooting for the American guy. But it also, like, there's, There's. There's a, A line of, like, obnoxiousness.
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Right.
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That certain tournaments have crossed. Right. Certain fandoms, like, certain people have definitely crossed that line. I thought at the Travelers, it was. It was not even. Because it wasn't. There's obviously way more Americans, but it was almost, like, kind of fun because you see the USA chance. But then obviously, Victor just happened to have the Norwegian.
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Yeah. That's like a one.
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So it's like a once. But at least it was because, like, they asked Hovland about it after. And he said like, he, he enjoyed it because they were very respectful.
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Right.
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They weren't, you know, in the backswing yelling USA or like even like saying anything insulting to him. But in the. There are people like, Rory deals with the most by far for sure. Like, like.
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But he's. He's a more polarizing 100, which is what. Yeah.
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And he's also somebody that. It gets to easier and people know that.
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Oh, that's very.
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So if you're rooting against Rory, you.
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You.
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You're gonna hit him with USA chance and he's. He's kicking people out. Like, there's a. There is a line of like, you know, like, if. If you're not doing it in someone's backswing, you're not doing, like, you're not. Of course. Yeah, I guess it's okay. But I also, like, I'm with you. I think it's just like, I mean, I love. Listen, like I told Pooch earlier, I'm a God fearing American. I love this country. But like, for me, like, if it's. If it's Rory versus Scotty, like, I mean, I guess it's kind of fun if it's done in a fun way. But like, if it becomes too obnoxious, I think it's just like, dude, like, what are we doing? Like, it's like, like, that's.
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But that. Yeah, exactly, that's. I. Obnoxious. Not obnoxious. You could think whatever you want to think about it, right? As a fan, it's just like, that's not what the. That's not what it is. Like, this is not a USA versus. This is a Scotty versus X. Or, you know, yes, he happens to be American. Yes, he happens to be Norwegian or wherever the hell he's from.
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Yeah. But I was rowing on.
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Because I want that element, right? I want that element of like competitive atmosphere. Right? Like, that's it. But I don't think it has to be like a country.
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And then what if there's like a third American in the group? But he's playing like. And yeah, he's like, am I getting.
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See the other thing? And this is not necessary. And I guess it kind of plays into that. Is that it? It wasn't a USA thing, but it was like Scotty versus Windham Clark. Two USA guys and them.
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Yeah.
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Openly rooting against Wyndham Clark.
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Wyndham became an enemy, bro.
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And then he said, you. I'm winning this thing. I thought it was cool. Cool. I have nothing against them.
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Me Either. I have a funny, funny window story, actually. So when we were at. When I was at Players this year, right? I don't know if you saw that interview. Miami Windham, if you ever listen to this. I know you were single at the time. From what we understand, you did. His. His girlfriend was not announced until the Masters. That's when he had, like, the, the public outing. But when he was on with K. Adams and at the Players Championship, baby. K's, like, asking him about, like, hey, I. You got, like, a new shaft on the club? And he's like, oh, yeah, I got a new shaft. He's like, yeah, it's. It's. It's a good shaft. Like. And he just kept going, oh, yeah. And. And the head, you know, the head of the driver is nice, too, you know, and he was just like, really? Really? And K was just like, Wyndham. W. So then I. I see Wyndham walking from the practice area, and he goes, I go to him, I'm like, hey, I saw that interview with K. And he goes, you like that?
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His caddy is that guy Big Wave Dave, right? Yes, I've seen him. I mean, back in the day, I saw him, like, on the YouTube golf stuff, and he was pretty hilarious. He's a cool character.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, I personally, I mean, I think he was really getting that hate only because of the way.
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Because of what happened the year before.
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I don't think it's just that, though, because I.
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What else? Then?
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I'm somebody who. I was not a big Wyndham Clark fan. I'm not even a Wyndham Clark fan now. I don't dislike him at all. I just.
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I, I.
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There's a couple things, because once. One, he does have. He did absolutely have an anger issue. They covered it in.
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He destroyed that.
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And then he did destroy that locker room. Like, he was being like, that's crazy.
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But I broke my controller.
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My issue with Windham was his. When he won, I forgot what tournament that he won. He finally propelled himself. It wasn't the, the Open.
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The.
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When he won, it was like, one of the other tournaments, I think it was. And then he was, like, trying to be a proponent of smaller fields and, like, people shouldn't get into these turn. Like, like, dude, you were just that guy last week, right? Like, and I get, you know, I. I don't know. Like, it just, like, it sounded so pretentious to me.
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That.
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That was the moment for me that was like, oh, screw this guy. But he has changed. Like, he seems like he was on part of my tape a couple weeks ago and he. He seems like he's. He's lining up. He's doing like. He's like. He's clearly probably going through a lot. But like he, he seems, but like he was. He seems so pretentious. And then this thing, I'm just breaking in line like what is going on with this guy?
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He did, he did bring in that like psycho sports psychologist.
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Yeah.
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Which really, I've never seen that before. A sp. This was the last tournament, what was it? The U. S Open. Right.
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C
Yeah.
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B
Right. He's at the range on Sunday and it's his coach and his sports psychologist with him. I've never ever seen that before. Yeah, guys use their sports psychologists. Like guys have been very vocal about it and that's become more of a thing across every major sport. But to have. Have her with you on Sunday, you know, with a lot on the line obviously and her there and he's been very vocal about the changes that he's been making personally. Right. He definitely, you know, I think when you act like that there's clearly something that we just don't know about and you know, the human element of. Of just like any major athlete, he clearly has done the work and it's paying off. I mean we're seeing, you know, the best of the best of Wyndham right now. And by the way, he's a name that we probably should be talking about going in for sure. 2 time u s Open. Yeah. Yeah. He's playing his best golf right now.
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Yeah.
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I mean I'll say this someone who I was thinking about a lot in link style. I feel like it's a type of play style that can be either really good or it can you. Is cam young just the way he matches.
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B
He's non existent right now. I don't know what happens to Cadillac.
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That's what I'm saying. But the thing is just his. If he can just drive or wedge himself on a. On a course like.
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B
Oh, for sure.
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That's what. That's the only reason that I really like him for that reason.
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He plays well at the open too. Like he was in. He was in. I think he was actually in camp Smith's group when he won.
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He's someone who just kind of rises to the occasion for these big tours. But it's true. He has not been since like terrible since Cadillac. I don't know.
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I don't know what happened because he was the hottest. He was bro. He won the Cadillac by six strokes. Scotty was the next closest.
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He might have just, you know, done that. And then mentally, almost like, just kind of off a little bit. Almost like AOR seem to be that type of guy.
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Especially, like, there's a lot I never.
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Anger management guy.
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No.
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I don't know, bro. He blows up first off. Speaking of anger management, Scotty Scheffler's got anger management, bro. He's.
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He's bad. Yo, Ted Scott, do you ever need a someone to call? Like, you can. You can. You can Rips, Yo.
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B
I mean, dude, we're all golfers. How angry do we get on the course?
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A
Sometimes it happens. Of course.
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Especially when you're just not playing, like, the way that you're, you know, used to.
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C
Was that my nine iron tat?
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A
Whatever. I'll say this. This would be like, a beautiful dark horse for this tournament is the last time the. The Open was held at Royal Birkdale. It was 2017, and that winner was Jordan Spieth. Yeah.
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B
Oh, can you imagine?
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C
I'll tell you what.
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B
I will become a meme. I hate that.
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C
I would bet something else. I'll do another bit that Jordan Speed doesn't even sniff the championship this. This upcoming week.
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B
Is Bryson gonna finally make a.
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C
No, I don't think Bryson.
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Brooks. He's actually playing well.
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You remember when. No, the reason I say that is. Remember when people were yelling Brooksie at Bryson and he was kicking him out of tournaments? I was thinking about that.
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C
Bryson might as well just be on the YouTube Golf Tour because. And by the way, I. I am. I've done a full 180, 360. Whatever you want to say on Bryson, I like Bryson. But his whole thing now, like, honestly, listen, now that I'm saying it, respect Bryson, because as.
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As.
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As YouTube Golf guys, respect to Ryson, but also like, dude, what are you doing dropping a video like. Like, you're. You're a streamer being. Dude, I've missed three cuts. What do I do? Like, all right, Bryson, come on. Like, let's take it a little serious.
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Take the vlogging for the vloggers. You should really be like, I love this.
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C
Go. Like, his Breaking 50 series is awesome. Like, but like that. Like, once I saw that, I'm like, oh, this guy's. He's all in on YouTube. And he said it, by the way. He said, like, he's like, who knows what's not he. I could see Bryson playing in majors and doing the rest on YouTube. I swear to God.
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B
I mean, yeah, I could see that.
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C
So I don't know where he's at.
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I don't think even that hour it took to. To, like, this is going to sound corny because, like, what do I know, right? But in my opinion, a golfer at that level, like, especially in professional golf, I know he's on live and there's like, less cuts, whatever, relegation and everything, but at that level, like that hour it took for you to even sit and record that video. You should have been on the putting green, dude.
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B
That's what everybody's gonna say.
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A
That's just how it should work, though.
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B
But what happens if you spent 19 hours on the putty green and he spent one hour?
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A
I mean, you probably should have spent 20. Basically. The first time I ever saw Bryson in person was at a live tournament at the one at Doral. And there is a bunch of young fans trying to get a signature from him, all crowding him. And he looks at Alvin, goes, everybody just back off. That's the first time I ever seen him in person.
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B
Talk about a hothead. He was a hot head there for a while.
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A
He.
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B
He.
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His whole story in the past five years, like, just think of it in pictures. Shout out to all these photographers who take photos and like, of the. Of specifically Bryson. Remember when he lifted up the sign, I think, at Pinehurst?
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Oh, the.
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The rope.
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No, no, not the rope was his own thing. He was holding, like, a sign on his shoulder that one point. It was at a major, and he's like. He was like, in the way of the ball. So there's a photo of him with the sign. We'll pull it up for the pod. But it did. It's a crazy.
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B
Yeah, push.
- [19:42]
C
Get on that.
- [19:43]
A
No, no, no. If we had a pooch cam. If only, man. So handsome over there. But. Okay. Speaking of this YouTube Golf, you guys watch the. The. Your golf tour. You said you.
- [19:56]
C
I watched. I watched the first one. It was like five hours long. I watched it on a flight. I haven't seen the second. I haven't seen the second or third part. It was a.
- [20:05]
A
The first part is five hours long.
- [20:06]
C
Five hours. It doesn't. The golf doesn't start until, I'll tell you right now, two hours and three minutes. Because.
- [20:14]
B
Because they're doing the draft, I think, in the beginning.
- [20:16]
C
Yeah, that's only going to be on this one because they did the whole draft, the whole intro to the league. I will say this. I. I enjoyed it. I. The golf is really good. These guys are actually, like, legitimate.
- [20:26]
A
Yeah, they got a good group. They picked up.
- [20:28]
C
Yeah. Like, even the worst ones. Like. Like, the guys
- [20:33]
B
and Josh.
- [20:34]
C
Kelly.
- [20:34]
B
Kelly are the worst.
- [20:36]
C
And they're so plus one and a half.
- [20:38]
B
Yeah.
- [20:39]
C
Almost two.
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B
Yeah.
- [20:40]
C
Like, you know what I mean?
- [20:40]
A
So, like, the winning score for these
- [20:42]
C
teams, because it's like, so the. Yes. So they did the front nine is. Yeah. Best bar scramble.
- [20:50]
A
Now.
- [20:50]
C
I forget. It's one of those. Then the sec, Then they do the second nine. You. You bring in a wild card, which is a whole. I don't know if you guys saw the Michael Block situation.
- [21:00]
A
I saw.
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C
He was.
- [21:01]
A
He got mad or something.
- [21:02]
B
I made an apology, but I thought,
- [21:04]
A
honestly, give me a break.
- [21:05]
C
Yeah, it was a joke, too. Like, I saw. I went to. I went to it because I'm like, oh, I gotta see what Michael Block did. What they leave in this thing.
- [21:11]
A
Yeah.
- [21:12]
C
It's like.
- [21:12]
B
Because it works. You see, here we are, we're talking about it, and. And we're like, oh, I got to see what this is. You know, like, they're. They're good marketers, bro.
- [21:22]
C
I fast forward to the end, and it's literally just him just pissed that he. That he's going home. Because, like, you play 18 holes, right? The front nine is your team, the back nine is your team, but you have to swap somebody for the wild card, and then only two of the four teams make it to the. The final round, which is 1v.1. And so I guess he got. They got eliminated. And he was just pissed that he's like, I came here only for nine holes.
- [21:46]
B
Like, but whose team was he on?
- [21:47]
C
He's on Grant Horror Grants.
- [21:49]
B
Okay.
- [21:51]
C
And I was like, all right, dude. Like, I thought this guy, like, I thought he said, like, something bad.
- [21:56]
B
I thought.
- [21:56]
C
I thought he was, like, slurring. You know what I mean? Like, but. But no, it was literally just him pissed that he was there for nine holes.
- [22:02]
A
Makes sense. He's another guy who's like, yeah, character. I'll be honest.
- [22:05]
B
He played on a. I think a Senior Tour event.
- [22:08]
C
Yeah.
- [22:08]
B
Last week. Right. And he played pretty well over 50.
- [22:10]
C
Yes, he is.
- [22:11]
B
Oh, shoot.
- [22:11]
A
Okay. I thought he was still, like, mid-40s.
- [22:13]
C
No, he's good for him.
- [22:15]
A
But that's a guy who. Look, shout out to Michael Block. Like, I'm honestly a fan, but honestly, I think even he would agree that he's the type of guy, like, you put a camera in front of him, and he just will, like, start acting like, X. Super extra.
- [22:25]
C
Oh, that's what I mean. That's what he was doing there.
- [22:26]
A
But, you know, that's heavy, bro.
- [22:28]
C
Seriously, outside of that, like, I honestly, like, it is very entertaining. Like, they're very good golfers and they're having fun. Right. So it is a different dynamic. And you're seeing every shot. You're says, why it's so long that you see everybody's right. Every shot.
- [22:39]
A
And so it's the team. So it's four teams of four.
- [22:43]
C
Four teams, including captain.
- [22:45]
B
Yeah. And then there's, you know. Get eliminated.
- [22:47]
A
Yeah.
- [22:47]
B
Or teams get eliminated. I think they're down to their final two teams now, which is.
- [22:52]
C
Well, no.
- [22:52]
B
So Grant's team got eliminated.
- [22:55]
C
So it's. So. All right, so it's four tournaments, right? Every. All four teams are playing in every tournament.
- [23:02]
B
Okay, well, I guess. I guess for the finale. Because I saw something for the finale, there's already two teams eliminated.
- [23:07]
A
Well, they probably already filmed it.
- [23:09]
C
So what happened was that. So every tournament there's three videos.
- [23:13]
B
Okay.
- [23:13]
C
So the first. The first round is the front nine. The second round is the back nine.
- [23:19]
A
Okay.
- [23:19]
C
And then the third round is the two teams. Teams. But so if you get eliminated in the first tournament, you just lose out. Everyone gets every.
- [23:25]
A
The.
- [23:26]
C
The. They have the purse. Tier breakdown. Yes, but you still. The other. The two teams have no shot of winning, but then the next tournament, they are back in it, and you're with the same team.
- [23:36]
B
Okay, gotcha.
- [23:37]
C
For all year. All year long, you're with the same team. So the four teams are Torvac, Wesley Bryant, George Bryant, and Brad Dalkey.
- [23:45]
B
Yeah.
- [23:46]
C
And then I don't know everyone on each team. Team. I know.
- [23:48]
B
I don't even know. Is Brad DY even, like, he's at the point where I don't even know if he's allowed to be a YouTube golfer. He's good as hell, bro. He's just playing in the DP World Tour. I know, but, like, he's like the opposite side.
- [24:01]
C
But the thing is. But that's what I'm saying. Like, but that's why all these. All these guys. All these guys are legitimately so good.
- [24:08]
A
Peter Finch played in this, right? Yeah.
- [24:10]
C
You don't have, like. I love. I love the Bob does sports guys. Like, Right. None of them are even close in this. Like, this is.
- [24:16]
B
I mean, that's the Internet Invitational. Yeah, exactly.
- [24:19]
C
Wesley, George and Brad are thinks plus six handicaps.
- [24:24]
B
Yeah.
- [24:24]
C
Wesley actually, I think has the highest one of all three of them.
- [24:27]
B
Right.
- [24:27]
C
And then you have rbc. Then you have Ryan Ruffles, who's just in the PJ Tour. Like, he's in the.
- [24:32]
B
He's yes. He's nasty too, bro. He just won something too recently.
- [24:35]
C
Yeah.
- [24:37]
B
Invitational.
- [24:38]
A
Oh, is that something different than the Myrtle Beach? It might be, but he played no,
- [24:41]
B
Myrtle beach was the PGA one.
- [24:42]
A
Right. And that he made the.
- [24:43]
B
That he made the cut and all that, but he just played in another, like a smaller tournament, something called like the MN Invitation or something like that. It was a bunch of content creators and all that. And he won that. Yeah. Yeah.
- [24:55]
C
Good for him.
- [24:55]
A
Hey, I think it's. I. I think it's a cool look. I haven't watched it. I'm a big. I'm a. I'm an early, genuinely, like, very early adopter of YouTube Golf. Like, I just have literally watched most of these channels since around the time they were made to me. I'm at a point where once, once I saw a video released by TaylorMade that said play nine holes with Tommy Fleetwood and Scotty Scheffler. To me, I didn't need to see anything else because it's. Because to me, that's what it made myself, like, realize. For me, I was there for the golf or the humor. But then you're not.
- [25:28]
C
Then you're gonna like this.
- [25:29]
A
But the thing is, I just. I just don't really care about how good these guys are playing golf.
- [25:35]
B
Right. If you want to watch good golf, then you just watch the tour.
- [25:37]
A
That's what I'm saying. Because this interesting middle ground where they're very high level. But it's YouTube. You have to kind of care about the person. I care. I. I don't watch. Yeah. For sure. Which I've been. Yeah.
- [25:48]
B
To that point, though. People do care about the person. There's a reason why. Millions. Yeah.
- [25:53]
A
Millions of interesting. I just. I've just. That's just me.
- [25:56]
C
You know, the first video, I think had like 24 hours, 3.3 minutes, million views viewership.
- [26:03]
B
It's probably a very young audience, too.
- [26:06]
C
100. I have the teams, by the way. I'm trying to find their handicaps, but the team. So the four teams. So it's Grant Horvak, Luke Kwan, Sam Hungman and Chance Taylor.
- [26:16]
B
On one team.
- [26:17]
C
On one team.
- [26:18]
A
I've never heard of Chance Taylor.
- [26:20]
C
There's a couple guys in there that I shout out.
- [26:21]
A
Sam Hungman. I know. His videographers shout out yours for the taking. I love you boys.
- [26:26]
C
Wesley. Wesley Bryant's team is honestly insane. Like, it's Wesley Bryan, Ryan Ruffles, Micah Morris.
- [26:33]
B
Oh, my God.
- [26:34]
C
Roger Steele. Oh, my God. And so they played. The captains didn't like to have like
- [26:39]
B
the lowest round in round one.
- [26:40]
A
Yeah, yeah.
- [26:41]
C
So they played. They played the captains, played for the draft order. So actually Brad, okay, I think had the last pick. I think even. No, Grant had last pick. Brad had the third pick, I think.
- [26:52]
B
Okay.
- [26:53]
C
And then George was Luke Tomi, Taco golf, Josh Kelly. And then Brad is Sean Walsh. Peter Finch, Garrett Clark.
- [27:02]
B
That's a nasty team.
- [27:03]
C
I like Peter. Yeah.
- [27:04]
A
How come Rick Shields didn't play in this? You think, you think he's just like genuinely like the best way to kind of like, he doesn't need this. He's always. He, he. That he's the YouTube golfer before you.
- [27:13]
B
Yeah, but I think any of these guys really need it. It's like, how do you evolve what you're doing? I mean, now they've created a business. Business, right?
- [27:19]
C
This is a. Yeah, it's a business.
- [27:20]
A
This is its own company and everything. So who put up the money for this purse? You think it was Tacomo?
- [27:27]
B
I think them and win Las Vegas, right? Yeah. So, yeah, it's that. It's them. I think Tacoma obviously has, you know, dollars behind this.
- [27:35]
A
Yeah, true.
- [27:35]
B
When for sure is probably the main, main one, if I had to guess. But yeah, that's that they're funding it through the fact that they, they have a ton of visibility amongst all the people that are playing. I mean, you're talking about not only the best YouTube golfers, but like some
- [27:51]
A
of the most popular.
- [27:52]
B
Some of the most popular. Right. You know, Grant obviously being one of those guys that's become like a pioneer alongside Brian Bros and their youth. So it's like, when you look at it, it's hard, especially for me because I always try to look at everything from like a, a business lens, unfortunately. But I get the business model behind. Right. You're getting, you're getting the attention across every single big YouTube golfer that's also very talented. Right. And then you're picking up some of these other guys that maybe are not as big names. Right. Obviously you still have the good goods of the world. You know, foreplay, Bob the sports. Right. Like, there's a lot of big. There's even bigger YouTubers out there. Right. If you look at what Bob the Sports right now is doing, they're on a generational tear on YouTube right now. Like, their views on YouTube are out of control right now. But that just shows there's a little bit of like, I don't want to say a disconnect, but there's, there's, there's definitely a cross pollination of audiences. Right. But people really are gravitating to the entertainment piece of it. And that's what Bob the sports does a very good job of that. They're very entertaining. Foreplay has some of that element in it, but they're nowhere near as entertaining as. As Bob does sports. They're more relatable. This YouTube golf tour is just saying like, hey, we understand it's the same conversation about live. Right. It's the same conversation that the PGA has probably been having for the last five years is like, how do we adapt to create a younger audience, a new audience, but not take away from the product itself. This is kind of an avenue. Right. And if you, if you have to guess, if they Crush it in 5 years, PGA might come in and just buy them out, you know, and it's just another, another piece, a piece of the pie that, that, that, that PGA has to offer.
- [29:33]
A
When you think back on like, or like when you just look at the timeline of YouTube Golf, like, it started off just literally people just posting these videos and seeing what happened. Right.
- [29:42]
B
Good. Good was a huge part of that too.
- [29:43]
A
And they started mainly with trick shots. That's what GM golf and Gary, that's how he started.
- [29:47]
C
And then Josh Kelly.
- [29:48]
B
Josh Kelly.
- [29:49]
A
And then Bob the sports, when they started, you know, Bob was going to many different sports. Yeah, yeah. You can look at the whole story, whatever. But essentially like, firstly there was just them. Then they started playing with these celebrities and like some kind of fringe PGA Tour players, you know. But then it got to the point where, remember PGA Tour tried to do something. They had they there like the one, the Creator Classic. And then they turned it into a three tournament series. But at that point, Liv had already scooped up all the top dogs and done the duels. Yeah. And that basically stopped. You know, that's why Wesley Bryant couldn't play on the tour.
- [30:19]
B
Yes.
- [30:20]
A
And then now they got to a point where they were just like, yo, let's just do our own thing.
- [30:24]
B
Yeah.
- [30:25]
A
Company. But that's also. No.
- [30:26]
B
Their hands were tied as to what they could do if they wanted to do stuff with the Tour because the tour has a way bigger.
- [30:32]
C
Yeah.
- [30:33]
B
You know, monetary aspect on their hand with their TV rights stuff and everything that, you know, that they make their money off of. Like, they have to be careful. I said, like, yeah, we're not gonna let Grant Hillvac come in and just do a vlog so that he could put on his YouTube because then it's gonna take away our audience.
- [30:48]
A
They, the Tour said they're Gonna allow players to start filming like at some capacity and stuff. Yeah. So we'll see. But I. I think honestly, one, I think the smartest player in all of this to it. I mean, obviously there's a few really smart people, but Tacomo, I mean, dude, I used to know them crazy from. From like golf sidekick, like bro.
- [31:05]
B
Two years ago.
- [31:06]
A
Tacomo forever.
- [31:07]
B
Two years ago. Was it two? No, maybe more now. I think it was. When was the Super Bowl? In the. The same year that was like in Arizona.
- [31:16]
A
That was 22, I thought. Right.
- [31:18]
B
Yeah, it might have been more like three, three, maybe almost four years ago.
- [31:22]
A
And then it was.
- [31:24]
B
Yeah, Atlanta, whatever, whenever that was. Right. A couple years ago, Tacoma was at the PGA Memes tournament. And they were there like, hey, like try our clubs out and like, you could take a swing on this hole. Like they were just getting started. And to see how they have blown up from. From then to now. Right. Is insane. And again, the business side of it, like, they did a great job tapping into these like small micro influencers early on. That's how they started building up, building up, building up, building up. Then they started building real traction in the market. And then they started going after the big dogs. And once they got access to Grant Bob the sports, then it was like, holy cow, these guys are. They're not playing. And they. Affordable clubs that look really nice and are. Are solid.
- [32:09]
A
Yeah, yeah. And. And this is partially a segue to the next section, but genuine question, don't all these guys play labs anyway? Right. Think about it.
- [32:18]
B
A lot of them are also sponsored by labs taking a very similar approach.
- [32:22]
A
I. And I. That's just another thing to me where it's another company where they kind of bet on like the people and people sell the product. Let the people sell the product. I mean, you know, lab, you know, they have. They used to really always talk about what's. What's the whole idea with it. It's like the. It's like it's face balance. Right. Instead of. That's the whole thing. So it'll like correct itself.
- [32:42]
C
Right.
- [32:42]
A
That's the whole idea. Now I'm. I'm personally, I'm a blade guy. I like as little him and Vaughn would get.
- [32:49]
B
Love each other.
- [32:50]
A
I'm as little Spider. See, I. I'm like Spider was my first putter and I. I put so bad. But that's the cool thing about putting is how. How basically. What's the word? Whatever. It's how unique it is to the person. Right. It's all Feel and everything. Yeah, it is.
- [33:06]
B
It is most definitely the reason why Scotty uses the.
- [33:09]
A
Scotty. Scotty could use a brick and a pole, and he'd probably putt better than all of us. Okay, but if he likes a spider, he likes a spider. Maybe he putt even better with a blade. Who knows?
- [33:19]
C
Knows.
- [33:19]
A
But no.
- [33:20]
C
Remember his whole thing was that he was a bad putter with the blade.
- [33:23]
B
Yeah.
- [33:23]
C
And then Rory told him he should get a mallet, and he got a mallet putter, and now he's, damn.
- [33:27]
A
If I got paid that much money to say that, I'd say that too. Play spider. But guess what? Scotty Cameron's gonna pay me one day. Scotty, love you. I will never not use a Newport Super Select 2 lefty 10 and a half inch shaft. But, yo, you got. You guys saw the the Lab Smuckers collaboration?
- [33:45]
C
I did, yes.
- [33:45]
A
What do you think? Thoughts? Thoughts? Yes. Yay. Nay.
- [33:48]
C
Right off the bat, I'm so. I'm yay on the collaboration. I think the putter actually looks sick. I think it's a fun collaboration. I think it's like. I think it's unique. It's different. It's attention grabbing. It's fun. The price tag is ridiculous. I would never buy that. But if someone gave me that, be like, oh, yeah, I think it's kind of fun. It's different. It is definitely. It's definitely out there. It's bright and it's Smuckers. But I love it. I think it's sick.
- [34:15]
B
Yeah, I. I completely agree with everything. I think it's a great collab, you know, sick to see, like, cool consumer brand partnering up with, like, you know, one of the big putter brands that are out there right now. So, like, if you're a golf head and if you think about it from, like a collaboration standpoint, it's like Smuggage is a great snack on the course, you know, like, it's great to like, hey, you want to tap into the golf world?
- [34:37]
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [34:38]
B
I'm not a peanut butter and jelly guy.
- [34:40]
A
Oh, right.
- [34:40]
B
I'm just peanut butter. Straight up.
- [34:43]
A
Yeah.
- [34:44]
B
I don't know why they don't do that, but they don't make. I do that.
- [34:47]
C
I have them at home.
- [34:49]
B
Doesn't make like a peanut butter. Only one.
- [34:50]
C
I think it's peanut butter.
- [34:51]
B
Why?
- [34:51]
A
That would be a good shout, actually. Yo, and crustables make just a peanut butter.
- [34:56]
B
Only one, man. You know, people don't like that. People don't like. There's a lot of brown Just a jelly one. If I'm. It is.
- [35:05]
C
It's more jelly than peanut butter for.
- [35:06]
A
See, you see, they made a peanut butter Nutella.
- [35:08]
B
Did you see that?
- [35:08]
A
They made peanut butter Nutella.
- [35:10]
B
I did see that. Yeah.
- [35:11]
C
I don't know.
- [35:11]
A
I don't know what that means, but they made it. Yeah. I don't know how that works, but
- [35:13]
B
who made it Nutella?
- [35:15]
A
Yeah. Yeah.
- [35:16]
B
So it's a Nutella. That's a peanut butter.
- [35:17]
A
Yeah. Which. I'm not really sure how it works, but it's. It's looks cool. Maybe it's like hazelnuts with peanut butter. It's a fair. It's a fair, though. I saw the ad.
- [35:25]
B
Is it like. Is it. Is it peanut butter? Is it peanut butter? That's Nutella or is it Nutella? That's peanut butter.
- [35:30]
A
Let me make a phone call. Let's find out. No, no. But, dude, I tell you what, I actually do love the little design they did for the.
- [35:36]
B
The.
- [35:36]
A
The, Like, I like when they, like. I like how they put eyes on. It's so simple. I like how they made it like a little character. But, yeah, two bands for putters look crazy. And I'll be honest. Like, you know, my Scotty is like 500. That's expensive. A lab is what, 300 if I'm correct.
- [35:52]
C
Yeah, 200.
- [35:53]
A
300. I'll say this. I know for a fact the. The. The putter they have that Malbourne makes, which they do. They make it. They make their own putter.
- [36:00]
B
They.
- [36:01]
A
They mill it themselves. It's their own proprietary design. Is 1800.
- [36:05]
B
Yeah.
- [36:05]
A
Which is also up there for a putter.
- [36:07]
B
It is trying to think what my boy paid for his. Completely, completely, completely custom. Like, literally fitted. Like, they do the Scott, I love.
- [36:15]
A
Oh, wow.
- [36:16]
B
I know the extra grip I have, but I have.
- [36:20]
A
Yeah.
- [36:21]
B
Artists like Julio got artisan putter, which. Artisan Golf is which we. We should do a segment just on Artisan Golf. Like, that place is sick. It was the place back in the day that was the Nike fitting and, like, club fitting and custom where Tiger used to make all his clubs back in the day when he was with Nike.
- [36:38]
A
Yeah.
- [36:39]
B
And in there, like, you go there, you do your fitting. It's the same welders, everything. Like, it's a full little warehouse factory there. They got a practice area. I think they share it with tcu. And then they have, like, a whole area there that you get fitted for wedges. You can get fitted for putters. You can get fitted for anything. But they have the files of Tiger woods fitting. So, like, when you go there and you do it, they pull out the binder. Tony Fee, now Tommy Fleetwood, Tiger woods, bro. They show you everything.
- [37:06]
A
That's insane.
- [37:07]
B
Sick. Super sick. But now it's like a pro style fitting place, but it's open to the public.
- [37:13]
A
That's awesome.
- [37:13]
B
And we did. We did a wedge fitting, and then Julio, who's a sicko, ended up doing a putter fitting while he was there. He's like, I'm not leaving here without a putter. I didn't know they did putters. And, bro, crazy process. Like, how they. How they do the fit. Like, how they do the fitting for the putter. Like they're making you.
- [37:30]
C
I think Fern might have. I think Fern has a. A lab.
- [37:34]
B
No, but not lab. Artist. It's artist. Completely. Completely. Like their own system.
- [37:39]
A
Look at that company.
- [37:40]
B
Look it up. I think. What's this guy's name? Eric. Eric Langers or what's that?
- [37:44]
A
Eric Anders Lang.
- [37:45]
B
Yeah, him. He did a segment on it on YouTube.
- [37:48]
C
It's pretty cool.
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B
So you can see it there. But, dude, crazy. Crazy how, like, that whole, like, putter fitting situation works. I get, like, the amount of weight that they put on it. Yeah, it's.
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A
It's.
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B
It's like, if you're a nerd when
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C
it comes to that stuff, Spider, I mean, that's.
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A
Yeah.
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C
I feel like he's gonna. He might. He might. We never.
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A
Might never see him again be living
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C
there in the lab.
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A
I'll be honest. Under. I'm a big Ben and arty fan, too. I like the designs, but one of my. One of my favorite putter companies, and it's owned now by a big. Like, by one of the big club companies is Tulan Design. What they put out, they're like a one. They're kind of like how Odyssey has their. Their special. I forget what it's called again, but Odyssey has their, like, small batch. That's what I call Odyssey small batch. Tulan Design is. I. It's. I forget exactly what it's, like, a part of, but it was its own putter house that got bought by. By the Tulans.
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B
And.
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A
And what they do is they do a putter for every major. And this past year, it was like a goal. Sorry. Last year, it was a black and gold format, and they did it for every major, and they did one. And I just remember this very vividly. I did a video about it back then. They did one for when The Open. The U.S. open was at. Sorry. The PGA was At Oakmont last year or U.S. open. Do you guys remember?
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B
I want to say, I think it was the pga.
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A
I want to say pga, right? Yes. It had to be. When the PGA was at Oakmont last year, they made a special small batch putter and it was like a modern version of the old, old style, you know, when you go play mini golf and. Yeah, you know, but it used to be with the wooden handle. They made like a black and gold version, like very like modern like technology of that style of putter. And they made it in commemoration of Johnny Miller, who happens to be this week's Diplomatical run honor. What is it? Old Player of the Week. That's what we're gonna call it.
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C
Old Player of the Week.
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B
Historic player. Yeah, he's just an old guy. Yeah, yeah. This guy is just.
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A
I'm gonna give you a good cut.
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C
Old Player of the Week.
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A
And they actually made that putter for Johnny Miller, who happens to be this week's Diplomatico Rum Historical Player of the Week. Shout out to Johnny Miller, man, I'm a big golf history guy. I've actually had the genuine great honor of standing next to and really closely inspecting the claret jug. It's the same kind of like the Stanley Cup.
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C
It's how much, how close? Like, what do you mean you're inspecting it?
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A
Like, I was like right under. He broke, he broke it. Dude. They didn't let me touch it. I didn't want to touch it. I said, do not let me touch that. Yeah. So I went to an event, shout out Silent golfer at the Game On Golf center in Westchester, New York. They brought the claret jug to the driving range and they were able to let us go and look at it and see a presentation about it. And kind of like the Stanley, they have every single, the name of every single winner engraved on it since it was invented. So, you know, it's losing space, but, you know, you have everything. And yeah, Johnny Miller, just a classic golfer, you know, he won an Open championship at Royal Burkdale. He also has a US Open, three Masters runner up finishes. So he was knocking on the door and he was an analyst from 1990 to 2019. Sorry, 2019. Just want to give a shout out to you, Mr. Johnny Miller. We, we, we respect all your contributions to the game of golf. And yeah, we'll be thinking of you at this Royal, at this Royal Burkdale Open. And yeah, that putter they made for him, that's sick.
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B
We got to see.
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A
That is really cool.
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B
Yeah, he had. What was it? 25 wins on tour.
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A
Yeah.
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B
He won how many majors? Two.
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A
Two. A U.S. open, and he won the Open of royal Burkedale in 71, so.
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B
Us damn. I mean, what a career.
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A
Yeah. No, seriously, great golf.
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B
Three runner ups.
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A
Golf hall of Famer. Yeah. So, you know, just wanted to give a shout out. Sometimes someone like him gets lost in the hallowed halls of golf history. So I want to give you your flower.
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B
So you put the runner show together? Honestly, I didn't know who he was. Yeah.
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A
Oh, there you go. There you go.
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B
Yeah.
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A
No, when I saw he won, I was like, oh, that's cool. Yeah, he's like one of those classic golfers, but, you know, I mean, there's so many. Which is why. Shout out Diplomatico Rum. We will be bringing you every podcast a little bit of a history lesson with the historical player. You know, there's a lot of cool people out there. I will say we'll save them for a good time, but John Ball. Yeah. Wait till you hear about the legend of John Ball. Oh, my God. Or Orville Moody. Oh, my God, dude. This is a fun fact. So this guy, Orville Moody, never single, he played in, like, the 50s, in the golden, like, golden age of golf. So he started playing golf while as a soldier in the Vietnam War, where there's all the typhoons. So he only won tournaments when it. When it rained and was like a thunderstorm. Real story. Yeah.
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B
He's going to be one of our historic dudes.
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A
Yeah. The entire little. That's one little bit. That's a tease.
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C
That's what you call it.
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A
Crazy players come. Yeah. Shout out Diplomatico. Shout out Johnny Miller. Shout out. Honestly, shout out Grant Horvat. What a smart guy. That's all I gotta say. No matter how you feel about him, that guy is a genius.
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B
Yeah, he could remember when he left. Good, good. Like, that was like, oh, my God, you're leaving.
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A
That's what I'm saying, man. Look at him now. Smart guy playing chess.
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B
But great question, though. What. What's the whole deal with him and Primo and Phil Mickelson and Dog?
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A
All I'm saying is he probably wants to get Phil Mickelson's hands off.
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B
Phil were like, some people think he's Phil's son.
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A
Yeah, well, at this point, they kind of like it.
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C
Kind of?
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B
They do, kind of.
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A
Look, bro, Phil might have a lot of random sons.
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C
That's your old model.
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A
Are we doing Phil? You know what?
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C
Give me.
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A
Give me a minute of your time. Phil. What the fuck are we doing, bro? I loved you, man. I was a huge fan. I'm a lefty, and I'm a great wedge player. I bought your putter after you won the PGA Championship at, like, 51. And then all of a sudden, you've been doing this the whole time. Phil. The fuck what is we doing, bro? I've. You know, you had a lot of people looking up to you. If Tiger woods didn't exist, you would be a. One of the best players of all time with one of the most prolific. But you know what, dude? You had to go and be a dirty, dastardly dog for however many years, disrespecting the game of golf. I didn't. I was wishy washy when you went to live. Wasn't the biggest fan of that decision. And then, boom. Look at what you've been doing this whole time. You know, you could have been fucking winning tournaments. Instead, you were out there being seedy stuff. That's. That's all I got to say about Phil. I. You know, I was at. I was at the PGA village in Port St. Lucie, and they have a club from every person who won a PGA Championship there. So they had a wedge from Phil Mickelson, and I was touching the wedge, trying to space jam some of his powers. Now I'm scared I had my hands on it too long. Nah, dude. Phil, dude, you did 100 laps for you. Like, 100 laps around a golf course for you. That's like the first punishment you get. But, yeah, that's terrible.
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B
Tough scene.
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A
Oh, well, other than that, I really hope you guys enjoyed this episode of Tranquilo Tea time. We will see what's good. Well, you have something to say?
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C
We gotta give our final picks for the Open. I just gave a dark horse.
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B
Let's give our picks.
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A
All right, so picks. Okay. Honestly, I'm gonna say Cam Young, bro, he needs to research. He really needs to resurge.
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B
And you think he does it now?
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A
He's just. Dude, he could. Driver, wedge. Driver, wedge. Driver, wedge. This whole course, if you really wanted to. And think about he's just either him or honestly, Colin Morikawa as an iron player.
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B
I like Colin because you think that's kind of back into his speed that he was in the beginning of the year.
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A
I know he's been playing well, and you think about someone who. Who is able to, like, you know, a place with these huge greens, you know, he might. The thing is, he kind of might lose his strokes around the greens, but with his iron play, like, he could kind of get rid of Half that situation. So I'll say a pick of mine. I'll honestly say Cam Young or Colin Morikawa. David or Jay.
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B
Go for it.
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A
Yeah.
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C
It's Victor Hovland.
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B
Victor Hovland.
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A
I'll be happy.
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C
Going to win the Open. Victor Hovland is feeling good about his game again. He's. He's finally back to smiling that gorgeous Norwegian smile. He is. Go, poochie. Don't laugh over there. No, we are going to Viking Row, all the way back to our f. Well, not all the way back, I guess, to Viking Road to our first major. All right. Victor Hovin is catching ski at the right time. He's playing well. He had a nice start, although he. He's. He's working out the putting kinks a little bit. Day one. Still shot 200 today.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Yeah.
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C
He's going to win the Open. It is his time to shine. He is back. Victor Hovland is officially back.
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A
We love you, Victor.
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B
That'd be crazy run if he does pull that off.
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C
John went through the Scottish too
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B
well.
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A
He didn't win the John Deere.
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C
Well, he didn't plan it, though.
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A
Oh, did he not? He deserved to take a break. Come on.
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B
I don't know who I like at. At the Open, to be honest. My head's, like, going in, like, in a million different places, and I've been trying to. Trying to sit on it.
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C
There's only one name. Andre.
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B
It's not Sahith. I can't do it. I can't do it. I will say this, though. Put a bet. Top 10 for Sahi.
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C
Okay. Okay.
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B
He's. I don't think he's there yet to win. He's not there yet. He's still. You can see he's still trying to figure thing out.
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A
Unsure.
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B
He's been there. He's already won.
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C
Yeah.
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A
That is true.
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B
31. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Mitzer. Matt Fitzpatrick.
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A
Okay.
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C
Okay.
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A
All right.
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B
Overseas boy. Playing well. Home turf. It's gonna battle that out between him and Rory on Sunday.
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C
He's playing as well as anybody this year, to be honest. If not the bet, like me. What? He's got four wins already. I mean, I know God's got a lot, too, but his wins. Fitz's wins are, I think. How many? I think two of the three.
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B
Second in the FedEx cup stands right now.
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C
Yeah. Elevated events. He's. He's playing as well as anybody.
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B
Yeah.
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C
And so he's first.
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B
Scotty.
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A
Scotty.
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B
Good Scotty's. That's the thing. Scotty's down here. He's number one in the FedEx cup standings. Like, it's insane.
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A
He's not good, man. You know, he's that good.
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B
And let's see if Alex Fitz can also stay hot.
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C
Is he.
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A
Is he playing in the middle?
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C
Yeah.
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B
Yeah.
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A
He should.
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B
He should. He's done.
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A
That could be. That could be a good top 25 bet.
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B
Well, you want to hear my top 25 bet?
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A
Sure.
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B
This is a crazy one, and the odds are probably really good. Max Homa.
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C
Well, I. I wanted to talk about the Max Homa story because he plays
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A
well in the Open, bro.
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B
He plays.
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C
He played well last week, too.
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B
Find a little something. And you know what? People want to rip Max Homa. Mad. Mad, mad credit. Played his way in by finishing second place like this past week, by the way.
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C
No 100%.
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B
And you know what he's doing this week? I know. He's playing at the ISCO Championship, bro. He has no reason to go play there. He's in. He doesn't have to do it. Yeah. And he said, you know what? I'm gonna go play at the ISCO Championship because I need to get the reps in.
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C
Yeah.
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B
You know, I gotta. I gotta prove. I gotta prove. And he's doing it by playing in a tournament that's pretty much irrelevant this week.
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C
So the thing for him, too, which is super interesting on top of that, is that he actually got invited to play in the scholarship.
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B
I know.
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C
And he declined to be. He had already given his, like. He already said yes to the Isco, and he's like, listen, it'd probably be better practice, but, you know, I'm feeling good about my game. I'm committing to the isco, so shout out Max Homo.
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B
A lot of guys do not do that.
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C
No, no, that is true.
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A
I'll bring it. I have the Chipotle head cover. I was One of the 200 people who got a free Chipotle from your Instagram post. Damn.
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B
That's actually sick. That's that silver one, right? Yeah, it looks like the burrito wrapper.
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A
Yeah, it said I. He posted. It said, First 200 people that text this number, get it for free. And I somehow saw the post 10 seconds after it was posted. I opened my phone, and that's actually Soul Connection when we record a video together.
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B
Can't wait for you guys to share a burrito after he wins the Open.
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A
Lady in the Tramp style. And with that, that's how we end the drink. Hila. Tea time, baby. Thank you for watching. Thank you, Diplomatico Rum. Thank you to these gents right here for being my favorite people in the whole world. And until next time, we will see you on the course, on the links. Go outside, play some golf, baby.