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No, that's me. Stream the biggest college football games. No satellite dish. Visit directtv.com. Do that smiley coffin for 61. Wow! I'm smiley coffin and this is the smiley show. Welcome back to another episode of the smiley show. And boy, do we have an episode that I've been looking forward to for a considerable amount of time today, smiley. I'm of course Charlie Hume. He is smiley coffin, but the stars of today's episode will smile you're a star. I'm not going to belittle you here. We have Justin Thomas and Jordan speed joining us today to break down the golf trip you were just on in Ireland, which is going to be phenomenal. And what's going to come before that is in the same fashion that you and I went through my Scotland trip and kind of talked about those courses in the trip itself. We're going to do that to kind of set the table for then Justin and Jordan taking over and talking a little bit about the stories and some good memories, favorite holes, things like that. And the latter half of the episode. And then of course, we're going to bring it home. We're just going to figure out on the fly what the Olympic one and done picks will look like we'll get there and we get there. But before we dive into your your island course recap, we have to once again mention that we are presented today by Wear SPF phenomenal sunscreen partner, phenomenal skincare partner as we noted it several times before on the show. Here's the thing about this smiley and feel free to chime in here if you'd like to. I don't think anything that we're going to say right now is going to be better than the Wear SPF read that Justin Thomas is going to do on the back end of his interview. So do we need to say anything else here? Nothing needs to be said. All I will say is use the code smiley 50 SMY LIE 50 for a buy one get the second one half off and just stick around at the end of the JT interview because that's going to be the best version of this read anyway. So well said with with that said, let's dig right in smiley. You know how this goes. I need any course names. I need Google things. I want to follow along. Where are we starting first on this Irish golf trip? Okay. Before we get to the courses, some people to think because this is just like, you know, so many group text around the world that have all the dudes in it that have, you know, very high expectations. One day going for, you know, a golf trip over to Scotland, Ireland, wherever it may be. I had no clue how to plan a trip for a lot of people. So there's, there's a lot of moving parts when it comes to two PGA tour players. A commentator and then guys that live in the States that have kids and responsibilities and jobs and trying to figure out how we can get everybody in one place and make the process easy. And let me tell you when the conversation started with golf breaks, I'm like, all right, let's just see where this thing goes. And pretty quickly, I realized like, we actually might make this thing happen and it surprised me because I had no idea what I was doing when I was googling. And I just knew that Royal County down and like Port Rush, like those were two golf courses I was familiar with. And I was like trying to figure out how to, you know, play those courses because those are ones that, you know, are so popular that people want to play. And I'm like, how do people even do this? And once, once I got on the phone with them and was able to realize is like, okay, we just want to be in one place, like we want to put our luggage in a room and just not have to be in a van traveling around Ireland the entire time. And that's when we settled in on Dublin. And let me tell you, we had some immediate buy-in once Dublin was the home location because if you haven't been to Dublin, what an amazing city. So walkable. And it turns out there's some unbelievable golf courses they put us on for the best. And that's where I'll get to here. So first shout out to golf breaks, they do such an amazing job, not to not just Ireland Scotland as well. So I think Scotland probably is going to be the next on my list because I don't, although I feel like I'm an Ireland native, I do kind of want to do a Scotland like trip. You do like an exchange program. We can flip it and then compare notes. I love that. And sounds like golf breaks was a good one that I've done. They did a great job and got us set up with a great transportation company, which we had. They upgraded us from like a sprinter van to like a legit greyhound. It was the most insane thing, like we're showing up to these golf courses like we're the Beatles on this tour bus. And out, out steps are off its alignment of James Cunningham. Big James. And then, you know, we just had this epic crew, right? And it all started. So we, we go from the Open Championship. We finished there. We literally get off, get off the golf course. We had Jordan and six of his buddies fly over and then JT and five of us fly over. That math doesn't math because we had 13. So there, there, there was one extra on each point. You're not a math podcast. I don't know how many times we have to say it. All right. We had a lot of people. They got to Ireland. Next part of the story. It was, so you know what's cool is that trune and Dublin, not far, like it was like a 35 minute flight. Super easy. Get there. Get picked up. Get there. Go to the hotel. Have some pints at night. It was a big hurling competition that evening or I think maybe I don't know if it's a championship or something. I've never watched hurling, but it was like Ireland's final for it. So Dublin Sunday night was epic. We went to a great spot. Was it, do we see, was it JT like a cork jersey or something? I don't know what the team was at that. Whatever that team was, they lost. So the other team won. So I don't know. That's beside me. But anyways, the next morning was actually probably our longest drive. Probably like a little over an hour from Dublin to European club. So that's your first Google is the European club, European club. And so it's not Dublin proper. It's outside. It's yeah. I believe it was north or south. I can't remember where, but oh wow, it was awesome. And I was talking to Shane Lowry about the courses that we were playing. And I told him to play in European club the first day, he was like, oh boy, that's going to be fun. And I was like, oh, really? He's like, yeah, that golf course is so narrow, you're going to lose so many golf balls. Make sure you stop by the tricks on trailer. And I got, I got to the first tee and it was a kind of an intimidating first tee shot. We didn't hit nobody hit balls. So everybody just gets on to the first tee and there was actually, it was a really quiet day out there, hardly anybody there. So I'm just with, you know, I decided, I was voted in to hit the opening ceremonial first tee shot. So of course I got to hit it off the ground, driver off the deck. And so do do do do everywhere off the first tee, poor morning. So the first tee European club, I got, you know, 12 buddies, they got the owner, the, the, you know, couple of other members watching. And you know, it's just me and my own thoughts at that point. And it's been three weeks since I've swung it off club, I'm playing a driver off the deck. What could go wrong? Boy, oh boy, did I hit that most absolute seed driver right up the middle of the fair way. No problem. See, this is, you figured out the formula, like you fixed the high eyes, you have to be a DoD guy. I love this for you. It's absolutely striped it. And we did the cool thing about European club. And it shocked me when I found out when we called about, you know, setting up caddies and, and European clubs, like y'all want carts or like, yeah, yes, we want cards. And so that was like the big surprise was that we're interesting. We're taking carts of European club. And right before we go off the marshals, like, all right, only thing you can't do is drive in the dunes, stay, keep the carts in the fairway. And when you get up to the green, there'll be like an arrow in which, which side of the green to go on. And I'm saying like we're driving on the fringes of the green. So this is like golf heaven, but also for us coming off of a night in Dublin and then a week at the open championship, being able to drive up the fairway and onto the greens pretty much was awesome. And this is the way the owner wanted it. Like this is how he sees and likes the golf to be played. He wants it to be, you know, convenient, quick. And the owner was out there watching his play a little bit and telling us about just how that's kind of been how he likes to do things out there. And the seven pole Shane Lowry told me that way to get to seven. And so I get to seven and it's, it's like kind of a wide, like it feels like a wide fairway, but then it narrows up to like a 15 yard fairway with hazard left and out of bounds. And so what do you know, I get up there, throw that ball right on the ground, get my driver and hit this driver off the deck seed. And so I'm driving down the fairway and in my cart and I'm taking this video and I'm like, Shane, dude, you said the seventh fairway was so hard to hit and I zoom in and my golf ball. It's right in the middle of the fairway and hit it up on the green and make this 20 foot or for birdie. And I was like, seventh hole European club Shane, not a problem, not a problem. So I'm curious not to stop you too far into this, but just looking at these pictures and it looks like it's founded in 1987. And I'm always curious and maybe we need to get further in where you can compare more courses. But first question is what do you feel like the differences between Scottish link style golf and Irish link style golf? And second follow up to that is I see like some trees out here. I played once in Ireland, I played K club once. That's more like, yeah, I think they call it a parkland style course, right? Or trees, things like that. Do you have a good comparison for people out there listening who know what Scottish golf looks like, but may not know as much about Irish golf? You know, that's a, it's a great question because I feel like the courses in the region that we were in, we played a couple, I think true link style like Port Martin County, county loud. I think we're definitely in that category where I felt like European club in the island club felt much more about fitting the golf course to the land. And we're talking about some awesome features that just have these dunes with fescue. Yes. And that's what, that's what really the back nine, when you get out closer to the water, that's when this golf course just like pops. And we had the perfect day where it was, we saw sun, we saw like, it felt honestly like 75 to 78 degrees, so like felt some warmth in your bones, hardly any wind, which was crazy that first day, like it, you know, we had everybody's bringing these two irons, all these golf balls. And the first day it just felt like we were, you know, a summer day in Charlotte, right? It just was, it wasn't difficult at all, but it was a very tricky golf course. And one that if you play aggressively, you're going to hit the ball and fescue and the fescue was brutal out there. So you can easily lose golf balls trying to cut corners. I played it kind of conservatively on the front because we had, we had these teams set up in the golf genius app to where you can go add your scores, you take the, like everybody had these handicaps and stuff. And so we, I played kind of conservative on the front, played pretty good, was like even or one under. And the second group comes in, I think it was like JT Jordan and I got, there was three other guys, they were, they were the fivesome and they come in and we're like trying to compare scores and they're like, wait, what do you mean? There's a golf genius app. We're keeping score. And so then the rest of the week, there was no scorekeeping, like we were cutting everything out the first nine holes and guys were like really serious. And then after that, I'm like, all right, whatever, it's a, it's a free for all. If that's not a microcosm of, of a country club tournament golf in 2024 of the one group that just refuses to put the gg ID in, I don't know what it is. That's, that's so perfect. But I mean, just to kind of finish up on that, your question there, because I really feel like Scott Scott, I mean, I'm not going to just put all of Scotland golf in a, in a bubble saying it's flatter. But I would say that Ireland golf from what I saw has the region that we're in, had a little bit more mounting and hills kind of frames a hole a little bit more. So I would say that that's one thing that comes to mind is just the natural land features. But this golf course in particular, you said it was 1987, I think you said it was built. So it's a more than modern, more of a modern golf course. I would say that it's the unique features of it is that there's actually 20 holes. So they have two extra mini par threes in there that actually I felt like were two of my favorite holes out there, it was like this 110 yard, amazing par three that sits in all this dunes and mounds and fescue that just felt like if you got it online, there's a chance you'd make a hole in one, you could see like the backboard of bringing it back to the hole. So that was one of my favorite holes. And then I think it was 12 a, they call it was like seven a and 12 a, I think it was or like what the holes. So they're, they're tucked on the course there. They're not like best settler holes that are after the end of the day, so it's right after it. And it's like, just like a practice hole in the middle of an 18 hole round or you just, I think that actually the it's a par 80. And if you play all 20 and I think this course record 67. So when AV, you know, our buddy AV, so he, he's a bit of a jokester and so he's sending like, dude, the course records only 67 and the par eighties, everybody's like, you know, not taking them seriously because it is probably the best of being sarcastic of any person I've ever met. So we got out there like, oh, he was right. It was actually 67 is the low. But even 12, 12 a was just as good of a whole unbelievable, like backdrop with this huge mound similar to like the, the seven a in which the mound and the fescue just framed this awesome hole. But there was, I believe the 13th hole was arguably my favorite hole that we played the entire week. And it was just this awesome par five that was up against the water, really this whole stretch 12, 13, 14, 15, some of the best, just, I would say scenic. So if you're going to talk about just what's like the one that you see on the Google images, you're like, wow, like I want to go play here. Like if you want a scenic place that has awesome views and if you get good weather, like you're, we had the perfect day. It's like going to Pebble Beach on a perfect day. It felt that way about European club and I fell in love with the place. I think it would get really, really tricky and hard and maybe I wouldn't like it as much if it was blowing 40 miles an hour rating and crosswinds on this golf course. I think it was perfect on a day in which it's like sunny. It was easy to like find your golf ball. I think that made our experience in the European club that much more enjoyable. It's interesting is, I mean, the only thing I'm going to be able to do here is just compare it to what I just played in Scotland because that's a reference point I have. But it's interesting in looking at the images, how much it reminds me of Turnberry and like the having more of that kind of side elevation and the kind of the winding nature is with all the long grasses on the side and obviously modern comparisons, it kind of reminds me a little bit of Dumbarney and a sense, but I mean closer to Turnberry, but it's the difference between playing Turnberry with insane wind and just getting my lunch eaten and then playing Kings Barns and like amazing conditions and going out and shooting around in my life and it's like, oh yeah, I'm sure I'd love playing that course all the time and that weather, it's on the weather gets bad where you're really like, okay, this is the true test out here. So that's cool, man. This place looks awesome. And I think too, like it's, it is, it is cool to see more modern link style courses in, in the UK that have like this sort of natural native feel where, you know, some people want to knock that for not having history, but for me, it's like, as long as you do it properly and to your point, use the land as it sits there and try to, instead of manufacturing it, that just sings for me when I'm on a golf course. So this place looks awesome. And yeah, the last part about European Caldwell mentioned is the 17th hole. It's the highest point on the property, if at least it looked or feel that way or felt that way. And it's like the spot where the owner was chilling, watching us hit, hit T balls and actually like using the land, like you're talking about, actually JT teed up on this downhill lie and hit this low stinging driver into a, a bull like fairway, like you're talking about with a hillside left and right. And it was like, it was, it was a cool shot ever and I took a video of it. So I'll have to, I'll have to send that over to you. But that, that's the prettiest picture, like what was the best picture you took all week, 17th hole European club. It's, it's, I mean, just the, like you just, I think it's the perfect place to start the golf trip because you're going to, you just start off with like, yes, this is everything I pictured, Ireland golf to be. And it had everything losing golf balls. You had like, honestly, not having a ton of people out there was a huge plus golf carts. And you know, just awesome course conditions and, and, and just mounds and, and the landscape that you just pictured, uh, that Ireland would be all about. And also one thing that we did see out there is, I don't know if it's a nude beach nearby, but this like six year old dude was just kind of cruising about 70 yards away and I look over and I pull my range fighters like, is this your naked? I'm like, oh yeah. Yep. He's definitely naked. And he's just walking down the beach. I'm like, okay. And Steven, Steven's beat, uh, I was playing with him and, and I look over at him as like, you need to check this out. How am I supposed to chip with this guy over here? That is, that's incredible. It's a, it's a different breed over there. The, the, the conditions that they accept for sunbathing and the nude, uh, in the UK are a little bit different from the ones we have here in this, so, uh, I love it. I love it. That's a great start. Great, great star European club. Where are we going next? That was the 18 whole day. So it's a, we were, we played golf over three days, um, and the Tuesday, we played 36 holes and we played and started at the island golf club. The island also Dublin. Okay. Or, or like greater Dublin, I guess, and later that day, we played Port Marnock. Um, but let's start with the island golf club. Oh, wow. This place looks unique. It's very similar to how the mounds really shaped this golf course, especially on the front nine. You've really kind of weave your way through all the dunes on the front and man, the, the fescue at this place was brutal. Like if you, if you got one offline, you weren't finding your golf ball and that, I'm looking at some of these aerials and I'm just sweating, just looking at how tight. So he's waiting here. It was, it was so sweet, the, the first tee shot, it was a, just a hole that bottlenecks up, uh, in between the dunes and so I went driver off the deck again in front of a lot of people. And actually I got nervous on this one because the fescue right in front of the tee box was high. And so I tried to get underneath it a little bit and I chunk cooked it about 160 yards off the tee. So I actually start, I got off to a really bad start at this course. I was three over through two, um, cause then I, I don't think I chipped a whole lot the day before my first chip shot on two, like right green side. I, I just, you know, when you get over the ball and in the morning around, you haven't chipped and you hadn't chipped in a while, you're like, how do I do this? Like how do, how do people get the ball up in the air? I felt that way chipping early in the round. So obviously bogey actually birdie the next hole and then best shot I hit all week was green side in a pot bunker. I hit this nice eight iron ride at it comes up short in this in the middle of a pot bunker plugs and it's the type of pot bunker that, you know, you like getting out of it would have been lucky to do. And I hit this unbelievable plug bunker shot to eight feet short sided. So like I, if you never hit like, if you don't know how to plug bunker shots, the way to do it is best advice I ever got was from Jerry Kelly. And he told me to feel like I'm swinging in an elevator. So you try to get looser hands and then feel like you literally are coming in at an angle like this. So less of that straight up and down. Yeah. Literally like you're whipping, whipping the club face right on top of it. And that you just got to aim left and it's going to come out right. And it came out and it, I saw the tricks on buzz the top of the grass and then it rolled all day for you to make the pot, but phenomenal that I think that the, the thing on the chipping too is so funny over there to go back to that briefly where you, when the, when you pull when you're around the green, you know, the first couple of rounds you're playing, you're pulling like a sandwich or a log wedge and your cat is looking at you like, just making disgust. Oh, he wanted, he wanted me to put it. And, and, and I actually, I went away from the first couple of rounds. I hit a lot of bad green side shots because I was like, I'm just going to embrace this. Like we're just going to try it. We're over here to try the thing. We're going to hit, you know, we're going to be a, how many yards out a hundred, 120 yards out. We're going to hit a little eight hour runners. We're going to hit like long pitching wedges. Like I've never practiced these shots, we're just going to try them because we're here. And then towards the end of the week, I actually hit a couple of good ones because it just was, it's just not something we do it. And it's so funny when you, when you just mentioned the chipping piece, it just brought me back to like the first couple of times, they're like, you're going to do what with that one. Yeah. No, I, I, a couple, you know, it was kind of the theme of the week with the caddies was that they definitely wanted me to put it more. And they also, they preferred me to play the angles a little bit more and play a little conservative off the tee. Don't hit as many drivers. And I quickly was like, guys, I need the biggest face in my bag. And that's what I'm going to hit. I'm hitting driver as much as I can. But the caddies at the Island Club were easily my favorite. Oh, wow. I love this. And honestly, just, if I was to join a club, I would probably say Island Club would the Island Golf Club would be the one I would join reason why I just, I felt like the vibes of, of the place and the people there match as much of what I'm accustomed to here in the States. The people were fantastic. The membership that seemed like they had some really solid players. Gavin Monahan played Alabama was a Walker Copper. They had another Walker Copper also out there. So there's some really high level play at this club. I liked the area. It was in, it was right next door to poor Marnek unfortunately had to drive 30 minutes up and around to get to poor Marnek's, which makes no sense because that's because it's situated on this like little peninsula or Island type thing. Yeah. The Island Golf Club. Shady. Right there. Right there. But that would be actually the club that I feel like the vibes checked off of like, we got on property and immediately felt comfortable with like, we're not stepping on anybody's like, you know, we're not just stepping on eggshells out here. It felt easily comfortable for all the guys. Everybody had such a good time mainly because the caddies were great. They're bringing us out some beer and golf carts. So it was, that obviously was a plus, but what was, what was the beer? Were we just Guinness all week long or no? It was the cronies. Interesting. And Guinness. Crazy. Yeah. Crazy. That's a good combo. That's a good combo. Yeah. Anyways, uh, the rest of the golf course, uh, there was a really picturesque hole. I believe it was number 12 par three sweet hole up against the water and also had a great day Tuesday morning as far as weather is concerned. Uh, so it was, it was fairly sunny for the most part warm and the, actually it was the next hole is the 13th hole was the most narrow fairway I've ever seen in my life and actually decided to hit a seed off the deck, um, right down the middle of the fairway, uh, actually settled. It was in the fairway and then it rolled off because it's literally seven yards wide, but I counted because it did land in the fairway at one point. So that counts. That's it. Fairway. I visited the fairway, uh, but wrestling off course, I mean, I would say that there's probably, I would probably rate poor Marnock and, uh, and county wild above it, just from a, just overall, just what I love about, I think I love links golf and I think Island Club is a place that I could play every single day and enjoy, enjoy the round and never have a complaint about the golf course. But if you're looking at just like why one is ranked more than the other, I could see the difference of, of why one is ranked higher than the other, that makes sense. This is so interesting. Cause I'm, I'm just, as I'm going along, I'm just looking at articles and things like that. And there is a little blurb here, uh, on, on top 100 golf course.com where they, where it says, if you people know about the Island golf club, despite the fact that the course is over a hundred years old, uh, one leading UK golf magazine once commented the best course in Ireland, you've never heard of play it and tell no one. It's, it's like, it's funny cause it, that's, that's a cool cosign. Like in some ways it was funny reading comments on the, um, the really posted about North Barrick and people were like, stop talking about this place. Like it's, you know, we don't want people knowing about it, you know, and, and that's, that's a pretty cool vibe, like for it to be, you know, have that history and, and that, but I understand what you're saying. You know, it's just that it's a certain type of golf course and, and there are ones that give you more of the Irish links experience that you're hoping to go, you know, go and seek out if you're doing a, a trip, you know, rather than an everyday thing. Poor Marnock was the most like a golf course in Scotland to me, like it, it represented just like links golf, open championship. You could totally see an open being at a golf course like poor Marnock where Island golf club is totally just this awesome golf experience that, that I would argue like, all right, I don't know what would fit here, an Irish open would be perfect. It's something like that along the lines of, of a not major championship golf, like a poor Marnock potentially I feel like it hosts. That's, that's, it makes it sound a sense. So, and that's where we're going, yes, you play aisle in the morning and now we're going to Royal Port Marnock. So this is like, this was kind of another theme of the trip that shows you exactly what type of dudes we're dealing with, which is a bunch of, a bunch of fun guys, but also we're, we're not exactly an organized guys, a bunch, we're not exactly an organized bunch, if you will. Yep. And we struggled with the ATM machine for like having, having euros for, for the, to, to pay the caddies after every round. And so every day somebody's like, Oh, I don't have money. And so every day we have to stop and find an ATM in the middle of our drive and that everybody hops out and then we have somebody we just like sheep to the ATM and then everybody tries to figure it out, gets their money and then gets back on the bus. And we did this in between the round at heading to Port Marnock. So we're running late. We got a couple of guys that need to take potty breaks. We got a couple of guys that that need to refuel before the round. And so it's just this a bit of a bit of a show, if you will, before we get to Port Marnock. And we, we roll up to like this amazing clubhouse, you know, there's at this point, like people know we're like coming into, to their golf courses. So there's starting to like be a bit of traffic as we're pulling in, not traffic right outside the course, but traffic, meaning, you know, there's 20, 30 people like waiting, waiting for us to pull in. And of course we pull in in this massive grayhound, you know, so we all get out and we know we're, we're rushing to try to get to the tee because we're a couple minutes late. And that's when we know all 13 of us rush to the tee. And it's, it's honestly, this tee shot was unbelievable right off the get go like flat at Port Marnock. There's water right, fescue and crap left. So it's a very difficult tee shot now, like the crowds like there, right? Right, right, right. And of course, throw a ball right on the right on the ground, right after the one I saw, right after Jordan and JT hit and hit his seed, hit a nine hour do to a foot tapping for bird. And I was like, all right, Port Marnock, let's let's go. That's amazing. I mean, it, it does all the pictures and all the things I'm seeing these little blurbs. It kind of, it's, and I'm getting playing the comparison game, but to me, it's, it's a little bit like Western galsy of like where it's situated next to the beach and kind of having that sort of dividing line. Yeah, there you go. That's, that's it. I'm similar to turnberry as well in that respect, but just, um, the reason why I say Western gales, a place that I adored was just that it, it just looks so natural to me. Like it looks like that was the land and it roused them holes years and years and years ago. And that's basically been it. I mean, of course it's been some, you know, maybe here and there you modernize with the T box or, you know, something that's meant to, so you don't have, you don't have erosion or whatever. But I love that so much, this place is, it's actually funny. It's like on this website I'm looking on, you can, you can bookmark places you want to play. And apparently I've already logged in and done this before, like this is a place I want to go because it looks so cool to me. So this is, this is awesome. Yeah, it's just a proper links course and a word that I, I've taken back with me from being in Scotland and I want to call everything proper now. It's just a proper links course. Yeah. But really it was, it was one of the more enjoyable links golf courses I think I've ever played. It just was satisfying right from the get go because I love golf courses that open you up with a tee shot and like that at one where it's just like, all right, here you go, either got it or you don't. And the second hole felt the exact same way, just tee shots that, that really made you think about like what type of shot you wanted to play because bunkers really out there were, we're trying to catch golf balls and they reminded me in trune of that because trune was just a chip out type of place when you hit it in the bunkers. And poor Marduk has, has bunkers just at every corner that you're just trying to avoid. But really just such a, such a sweet place, man. And my favorite hole of the entire trip was on this course and I wish I could remember wood hole in the back nine at poor Marduk. It was, it was a par three and I'm trying to find a scorecard on mine to try to figure out because I think it was like 14. It sounds about right. Okay. Maybe 13. Maybe it's 13. That actually sounds more right. But just this, oh God, it was the best green complex ever. It was a false front that was probably eight to 10 yards up to the front of the green with the pot bunker that that's that there was a huge slope above it that funneled everything to the front to that false front and two bunkers that sat on the left side and the wind was straight into our faces. It was like this 170 yard hole that we're trying to hit these chippy cut five irons in there. And I just thought this is the best hole I've played here and it's, I feel like a golf hole that belongs in a, in a major championship. Like this is a major championship type of test of a hole because you have this back right pin fescue long, give you missed shore rights, give me a brutal up and down. So that there was plenty of holes like that where I'm like, man, yep, I could see why at poor Marduk might begin and open. Yeah. I mean, hosted the Irish Open. So it's the Walker Cup, like this feels like a big league sort of venue. So that's, that's now my interest is officially peaked. Like I, I'd see the images online, but here you describe it. I mean, this is a, and I mean, it looks like it's got some history too that's tied, tied into like, um, uh, let's see, uh, Scotsman Mungo Park, who won the 1874 Open Championship at Musselberg, where you played with Hickory as last year is a guy who, who directed the initial course design. So that's man, I places like this with history just gets me fired up. So all right. Poor Marnick. Love it. Uh, it doesn't look like it's the 13th hole. I'm trying to figure out what thing hole it was, man. I don't even know what hole it was. I feel, oh, it's a, it's the 12th hole. That's the 12th hole. Yeah. Yeah. God. It's beautiful. They've always been British masters there too. Um, yeah. I've had a lot of cool stuff here. Women's am Irish am. Yeah. The two par threes on the back nine there were just insane. It was, it was the 12th hole and it looks like to me, uh, the, uh, maybe not. It's not the 16th. It's the 15th. It's the 15th hole. Wow. 12 and 15. The set of par threes in the back nine of poor Marnick are as good as it gets. Wow. As good as it gets. Go to the, go to the, uh, poor Marnick golf club website and click course, like you can go click the menu bar. I think I'm looking at one of them on this other website that just looks gorgeous. Um, so if you go to the website and you click menu, um, then you go click course and you click the blue nine, okay. And they click on 12 and you click on 15. My internet is incredibly slow, so I don't know how, how are we not here? I, we're, uh, let's see, course, uh, blue course and, and we're, which hole now? 12, 12. Let me take a peek at this one. Oh, wow. So this is that par three, I was describing with the false front shore that, that bunker that sits, yeah, raised up, um, everything kind of funnels off. There's two left bunkers, kind of a, where it's a good miss there, but that back right pin, we didn't get to see that one, but a pin back there would just be diabolical and that wind was just coming in off the, uh, I believe it was the Irish sea. That feels right. Yeah. Yeah. That's good enough for me. I'll say that. Try 15 next. All right. Let me give a look at 15. Oh, I, I love the way these tea boxes are cut on 15. Yeah. I've just like it's so, it's so perfectly manicured, but it's immediately framed by all this wispy tall grass. So good, man. It just, it's just such a great combination of orderly and, and, you know, natural, um, it's like a 220 yard hole, but it was playing down when we had, we hit, we had eight irons. We're trying to hit it about a 175 yard shot that got all the way back there. So it was this golf course played probably the most firm, I would say. Like it was a, it was a huge difference going from European club, island club, like every course got progressively more firm. So poor Marlach and county wealth with both were firm. So okay. So, and so now we're three courses in. Yep. And then we're going to, this is the last day of the trip, right? Yes. The final 36 and final 18 or oh, just 18 and county loath is the last one. Am I saying that right? Well, load, I think is how they pronounce a county load, but county love, county, they kind of go by whatever you call it. But this, uh, we lost, uh, let's see, we had seven out there that day, we had 13 on the trip. So we lost six guys, Jordan being one of them. So he didn't get to play this golf course and five of his, uh, Dallas boys also headed out. We tried to recruit one guy to stay and we couldn't do it, but, uh, to fill out eight. So this, this golf course was a late, was it a late ejector? Was it like this plan? Okay. Yeah. This was, this was always the plan. This was always a plan. Um, we, uh, we, we loved, so this was, we were on the way and it's raining. So we are, and we actually might get the Irish experience today, like it's raining and we might be pointing some, uh, some weather, but it actually stopped when we got out there. So it was an overcast day for the most part with probably a one to two club wins. So we actually got to deal with, um, hitting some shots a little bit out there. I would say that this golf course immediately felt like right away, because this was what every person that we talked to in the Dublin area or just Ireland in general, that this golf golf course was the gym, like the sneaky under the golf course that nobody talks about. This one looks the most unique of everything I've seen us for. I would probably, if, if I had a rank of the four golf courses we played and I don't even know if rank is the right way to go about it because I loved all of them. Like if you say the most scenic and the most and the most scenic golf course European club, um, you're the island club, most enjoyable, poor marnock, best test, county loud, easily to me, the gem of the bunch, just the one that was, had the best variety of links and the combination of just, yeah, it's a stuff I like to see. So it almost looks like in some spots, it gets like a, uh, uh, a links like half parkland hybrid in certain quarters of it. Like, I mean, I don't remember Parkland hardly at all out there because it was more, it was trees. It was mainly links. Yeah. It was mainly links. It was gorse bushes and, and fescue and yeah, definitely corners the property where some of the structures are trees behind and that's just a different visual that I think that it gives it a sort of uniqueness to the rest of what, you know, I've looked at it. It was a golf course that, uh, it really tested you. You had to, you had to hit some, you know, you had to drive a wealth of tea, definitely similar to port marnock where if you were, you know, finding these bunkers, I felt like there was a couple of T shots out there where fairways were, were sloped away where the, uh, the insides of the holes would have the pot bunkers. So a lot of times we actually played with the wind. That's the win that they, that the golf course is supposed to play in and that was designed in. So you have like a right to left wind with a fairway slope in that way bunkers on the right side. So it makes you hit it like a hold shot to have to stay on the right side of the fairway to have the best angle and view of the green. If you hit on the left side, you can't see the green. So I was like, this is awesome. Like that is what I love about links golf is like angles, being able to challenge pop bunkers and you're rewarded by hitting really nice aggressive T shots off the tee, challenging pop bunkers. And this golf course to me did the best job of, of opening up really good angles and, and if you took on a challenge, like there was a hole on the backside where the best part of this golf course was was actually I think 12 through 15 was the prettiest part of this golf course. It goes out into the fescue and into the mound somewhere to like a European club and island club. So this, this course was the best mix of it all that had, you had a good view on, I believe it was the 15 or 16th hole where you can see the, I think it was the Irish see, I'm just going to say it was the Irish see you get the scenery. You got these awesome dunes and mounds on the back nine, like in this stretch from 12 to 15. So you have that. And then you have the combination like that poor Marnock offers, which is the, the proper links with the, you know, the firmness, the pot bunkers. And that's why I would probably say that it was my favorite because it just, it makes all three of the courses that we played the prior three days into like this perfect gem. I love it. I mean, it does, it is as you're describing it, looking at pictures that match up with that. And the way you got to kind of think your way around how you want to play this golf course, if you want to score is a, is a super cool thing. While, while remaining, you know, pretty, pretty natural, untouched, you know, links land is, is, is, is cool stuff, man. Epic trip, man. I'm glad you got to hear about these four courses. It's six less than you played in Scotland. So I'm sorry to, to. But no, no, no, it is, it is eight less and, and, and somehow, somehow we're like a golf course review pod now, because I think we did, I think we did like an hour and 45 minutes on Scotland. Now we've done a solid 40 on four courses in Ireland. Did I tell you that we love golf? If you've made it this far into your journey with the smiley show and you haven't realized yet, we love golf. We're golf sickos and we're so glad you joined us because I kind of like this, honestly. Yeah. I think golf course of you should be kind of our bread and butter. I mean, it was great, man. It was a hell of a trip. The transportation golf breaks, you know, getting this thing dialed into where, you know, everything went so smoothly. And then the one thing that we did do that I will say that is, is very smart looking back was we did, we used shipsticks to get our clubs from the States to our work. When we got picked up by our boy Gavin, who was our driver, who was the dude, like he was awesome. All of our clubs were already loaded into the bottom of the bus. So like when we got picked up from the open, all of our clubs were in the bus because we shipped, sticked our clubs to the transportation company. It was seamless. That's why I think everybody was very surprised of how smooth it went because typically we're much more of a feel it out type of group and we'll kind of figure it out as we go. And I just was very pleased that everything went smoothly because when you have 12 other dudes, kind of relying on like getting the trip set up, I was very thankful that we didn't have any hiccups and everything went smoothies to shout out to shipsticks, golf breaks and then island tours and board work were great. Being a set up in an awesome hotel at Trinity City downtown, so it was a really fun trip. Well, there you have it, Smiley. I mean, two top to your golf trips bucket list once in a lifetime trip. So we've been lucky enough to enjoy the past month on the show. So hope you'll enjoy those recaps of golf courses themselves. Now we get to the fun part of this episode, okay, because we're hearing first from Justin Thomas, his perspective of this trip and then we're going to get to Jordan speed after Justin. So I'm not going to waste any more of your time, viewer or listener, we're going to kick it right now to Justin Thomas with Smiley, recapping the Ireland golf trip. The new John Deere Gator SUV lets you cut, pack, drive, weld, pull, load, tow, spray and haul all in a single day with the highest cargo box volume in its class. You just have to get in the seat, learn more at your John Deere dealer. Saving on your education should be a right, not a competition. At University of Phoenix, our bachelor's and master's scholarships are accessible to all. You'll get the best scholarship or savings you qualify for, simple as that, because everyone deserves an opportunity to save on their education without competing for it. Explore scholarship options at University of Phoenix. All right, we're back with a special guest, Justin Thomas. Thank you for joining. Just had a fantastic four days with you over in Ireland. We made it. It was a great trip and we're going to recap a little bit of the trip, but before we get there, I think, as you know, we just recently partnered with Wear SPF and you helped launch the company, the sunscreen brand, and you have such a great story. So I'd love for you to kind of tell us a little bit more about your experiences with melanoma skin cancer, just your whole upbringing and in skincare and just how it led you to wear SPF. Yeah, it was definitely a wild, wild experience. Fortunately, my parents have always pushed me going to the dermatologist and getting checked, which, you know, when you're in high school and college, like that's the last thing you do, you're like, I don't like I'm fine, whatever, and you know, you always think everything's fine. And I've probably had five, six, seven moles taken off. I had one of them. That'd be really. Wow. Yeah. Just random. I mean, like it's little things, you know, like have one taken off like here and like one of my foot, one on, I had one that was cancer, some of my back. I think it was middle school, but it wasn't anything major. But yeah, it was 2019 I went and I just had a tiny mole on the back of my, on my left calf that I thought kind of looked weird and had the dermatologist check it out and he agreed and cut it off and, and I think it was like a day or so later, you know, getting a text message from your doctor at nine 30 at night saying, please call me is generally not a good thing. Yeah. So he explained to me and he's like, you got melanoma and this is what now what we have to do and you know, it was what I was 20, 26 and this is, I didn't know anything about it. I knew that melanoma was cancerous, but like I didn't know how the severity of it. Right. But he basically told me I had to go back in, had to get it, you know, removed when it's melanoma. They have to cut down to the fat to, to do it. I mean, they call it a surgery. It's not like it took, you know, 10 minutes or whatever I was in. And then they just numb it and, but it's, it's a nice little chunk. And I get a huge, huge scar on my, on my leg, but he, my doctor said I was probably three or four months away from being a patient in the hospital. So when you're 26 years old, when you hear that, it's, it's eye opening and we're very fortunate to make a great opportunity and try to kind of drive a message home because of it and, and wear SPF and kind of getting people of all ages, especially athletes spending time out in the sun a lot, like, like we do, you know, to make sure it's not a, you know, you're not, you're not too cool to wear sunscreen kind of thing. And, and you know, I'm, I was firsthand experience of being pretty scared as a, as someone in their mid to late twenties, about getting skin cancer. So we've been able to do a lot of good with it and kind of spread, spread the love. Yeah. And rightfully so. And how did you get set up with where SPF was it just a, like, Hey, I want to get involved. And next thing you know, you're, you're the face of the whole thing. It was, yeah. I mean, you know, how it goes sometimes it's like we're very fortunate to meet a lot of people through golf and whether it be pro arms or friends or friends, however it may be. And, um, I mean, I've put something out after the fact of, of getting, you know, the skid that the melanoma removed just for the sake of kind of like, Hey, you know, we're running everybody to go get checked and, and, you know, make sure you're looking after yourself spending time in the sun type thing. And then I think when some dermatologist had seen that and some other people that were involved in different brands saw that and then someone had reached out to my, my agent who's a friend of ours and then that's just kind of got the ball rolling of like, how can we turn this into something that is, you know, a, a message and really, um, is able to kind of speak to people through, and it's a very obvious story. It's not just like a brand that just happened. It's like, look, we're, we want to do this to, um, to make sure that everybody, you know, is going to get checked and then where, where SPF and, um, so the same kind of thing doesn't happen to them. And I can tell you this, when, when you and I were, let's say 10, 11, 12 years old, Green to the pool. I don't know if we were putting on sunscreen. So I'm just going to go ahead and say at an early age, we probably could have gotten off to better starts. It's never too early. Start wearing sunscreen. I know plenty of college athletes, a very large percentage of them don't wear sunscreen. There's hydration benefits as well. Um, and there's no easy way to trip, you know, to, to make the segue from, from sunscreen to Ireland, because most of the time in Ireland, you know, we're talking about rain, we're talking about wind. Um, Justin, we, we showed up to about as good of weather in Ireland to where actually you needed some sunscreen. It's a shame that the guys didn't have to play in harder weather. It, it is. And I honestly, it's like, I mean, it was, it was wild. Like I, I was not expecting it. And I'm with you. Like I, I didn't want, it was like somewhere between what we had and like, uh, Saturday afternoon at the open, like I didn't want that. I wouldn't have been fine. That was too much. Just like it would have been nice, you know, watching the guys looking at us, like, can I get it? Can I get the seven iron there from like one 15 and like go for it, but do you, you give it a try? So yeah, that would have been nice if we could have had some of that. Oh gosh. I mean, you know, we, we've been talking about doing a, whether it's a golf trip. I mean, if it's kind of a bit, you know, this, doing a golf trip in Ireland for, I'd say maybe three or four years, you know, I just started randomly just always poking it in. It's like, Oh no, wait, this is our next trip. And then all of a sudden, I don't know who it was and who I was talking to. We're like, wait, we're actually, let's try to do this after the open. Mm hmm. Yeah. I know I'm with you. I think we honestly have so many of those going, um, so many of these like kind of like, not like fake trips, really, of, you know, we're, we're going to do this and, and, and everybody obviously is at a very different point in our lives and we were 10 years ago where, um, life doesn't allow us to take, you know, six or seven trips a year, but, and then all of a sudden, yeah, it just kind of did a came to fruition. I was like, wait, this, okay, this is real. Yeah, we can do this. And next thing you know, we had a squad. I was shocked, like, even me of how smoothly everything went. Just shocked. Everything was from start to finish. We didn't have any hiccups for which for us, that was a huge win. It was and I don't, this is like a, a backhanded compliment. Especially with you, especially with you setting it all up. Like we were, I would not, then we were expecting it to fail, but it wasn't a surprise. It's if like one day we got to the course and we're like, yeah, we don't have you guys anywhere. And we're like, well, yeah, we're like, smiley is like, sorry. I called the wrong place or something. But yeah, man, you, uh, that was impressive. You, you crushed it. We definitely had you to think, but I, I'm sure all of our reactions were the same. And we saw the sprayhound bus that was driving the 12 of us or 13 of us around everywhere. It was unbelievable. I mean, just the time on the bus, the golf courses. And I just want to get your overall highlights. I mean, we played four great golf courses, the European club. We played the Island club, Port Marnock, which is apparently getting an open championship. So you, you, we, we kind of got to look at it. And then county, county load is how they, the caddies pronounce it to me, but I was count pronouncing it loath. So there's, there's an Irish version in America version, how you say it. But I just want to hear your highlights of golf courses and just anything that comes in mind from the trip. Yeah, they were all different or amazing for different reasons. I mean, I think, you know, the views at a place like, um, like European club and the Island club were just unbelievable. I think the, you know, how they kind of incorporated the water into some of the holes and, and, you know, a little bit of elevation change. And I, I forgot honestly how different links golf is in Ireland versus Scotland. How it's, while the course is still pretty flat, there's just, you kind of play between the dunes. And I mean, I was, I think we were all telling the guys, like the fescue that of the courses we played was 100% thicker than the open. I mean, the fescue with the European club was a joke. Like it, I, I lost an infinite amount of golf balls. Like if we were playing the, you know, we were playing the teas up with the, with all the guys. And, um, I mean, I'm sorry, I didn't go on a trip to Ireland to hit four iron off teas. So Jordan and I were like trying to thread the needle here on like a couple yard wide fairway. And you know, I hit a couple of stuff and, uh, fair enough. Fair enough to find. But yeah, it, it was just fun being able to play that much links golf, not in competition to where I felt like I could kind of have some fun and, you know, hit some, hit some different clubs and some different shots. And um, I was probably really anointing, annoying to caddy for because, you know, I was hitting like eight irons from 90 yards and stuff, like running it up the whole way. But I'm like, we can't do this in the States. So I'm trying to take advantage of it. Well, you always said you've loved playing in links golf. And it's, it's so fun to, to hit play all these different shots. You have so many different options. And it felt like every single day that you were there, you lean more and more into exactly what you're talking about by, by county load, you were, you were just hitting just the most absurd shots. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That hit the nail on the head. Like it was, I mean, obviously it was, I would never do a golf trip after a Scottish or a tournament in a major except for over there. Like I, I, there's a lot of places in the States. I love and I would be honored to go play. But after like a major, that's just, that's, that's a lot. And so the, the interest level in golf in general wasn't maybe as high as it would be if I went next week or right now, but it was still because of playing those courses that, you know, we're never going to play unless we're there. It kept the interest level up and, but yeah, it definitely was something where I just, you know, between looking for golf balls for the guys from time to time, maybe a couple myself, it was just like, you know, I'm, I just, I just don't really feel like hitting an iron from 150 yards. Like just give me a six iron. Like let's just see what I can do. I don't know. Cause it was like, I remember county one, I think it was like the six holes. It's like this par three and you come up to swatch us on the tee. And it's, I mean, it's like an eight or seven iron. I think is what I was pulling. You're like, yeah, I hit five iron. I was like, where? And you're like trying to run it up through the bunkers and just playing all these absurd shots. So to your point, these caddies are probably like, we have Justin Thomas here. And he's just won't stop playing these ridiculous shots. Cause I'm sure they all want you to shoot. But a shout out to the caddies there, like caddies over there are just, I think we don't under appreciate how much caddies can make a golf trip really sing. And we had, I think the probably the, my favorite day with caddies was at the island club. I think the island club caddies made our experience just go from already like a sick golf course with the dunes that you described. We're playing all these fun shots, but they had just as much fun as we did, which I think made that rounds very enjoyable. Yeah, I agree. They, they can totally change the vibe and just the energy of the group. I mean, after, you know, a bit of a late night on Monday night and then going into a 7 a.m. wake up call, which upset of the year, all of us being on that bus ride, by the way, I would have put the house on somebody missing that bus ride. But we all get there and, you know, we're, we're not exactly moving quickly. And in the caddies really brought us back to life. And I mean, we got to a point on the back nine where I think, yeah, one of our buddies, caddies, he just, he took the bib off and he was just like, you, you just, you take it. He's like, I just, I can't even, I can't even help. Like you, let's switch. Like I'll play you, caddy kind of thing. Oh, it's the accent that they give it with makes it even funnier and more entertaining. I mean, it's just so many great memories from this trip. I mean, so many things we can't even talk about all of these funny bits that we had during the trip. But there's a couple of things I want to talk about three, three of my favorite highlights, the Eagle Putt at 16. Most nervous you've been. This is at Port Marnock right after I hooped a 40 footer when we're playing a wolf hammer game. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that was that was a little forget. I don't forget. Yeah. Oh, I think, I think we should go back to the second shot because, I'm sorry. I forgot about this. Yeah. Like I was kind of waiting for you to hit and then I looked behind Humblebrag and hit it quite a bit past Smiley, but I turned back and Smiley's over his shot and then completely stops. He has like an iron in his hand and he's like, my back, I just went out my, he's like my bag. He's like, give me the, give me the three wood in his caddy. He's like, what the hell's going on? So he like takes the three wood and he's trying to, and then he's kind of like trying to move and stretch out a little bit and I'm looking at this. I'm like, what is going on? And then you kind of get over it again and you're like, all right. No, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. Give me the iron. And I'm like, what is going on? And then you get the iron back. You hit it to like 40 or 50 feet. I hit one in there. Yeah, like 12 and then we hammer and then you hoop it just natural form and people forget that we almost had to take you off the course in a stretcher 15 minutes prior and then, yeah. And then fortunately we accepted the hammer and I made the putt, but it was, it made for a good story nonetheless. It was the best was like Jordan trying to do math right next to me, trying to figure out, okay, the hole started at X, it doubled here, it doubled there. Now if you, now you made it so it tripled. So this putt was worth X and then we did that for the entire routine and we never settled in on how much that putt was going to be worth if you missed it. Luckily for your sake, you made it. And then of course, actually for the first time, Jordan was not good with the scorecard. Normally he was, he was talking, he was, he was chirping too much. He kept, I've never heard him. I mean, it's probably my fault. I've kind of made his head big in that department. I've talked about it a couple of times of how good he is at keeping score, you know, through however many units are on the line, however many people, however many cocktails, like it's a perfect scorecard. And he was, someone questioned him on one hole, he's like, well, one thing I never get wrong is the scorecard. And then we're on like 13 and he's added up and he's like, this is wrong. And then again, this is a way. And I remember we were walking up, I think like 18 and we turn around and Jordan is sitting like Indian style in the fairway with the scorecard, like this, like trying to figure it all out. I don't think he ever did because he never, he never told me, just tell me how much I don't care. The whole trip is just a big wash. It was worth it. We were, we early celebrated his birthday at dinner that night. And I think this is the most upset with you, you've been with me for a very long time, because I, you know, I tapped the waiter, it's like, Hey, we got a birthday this week. Can we bring a cake out and celebrate? And they're like, what's his name? I was like, Jordan, you're like, no, it's Justin. And you were so upset that I was so adamant that we must sing to Jordan and not Justin. Yeah, yeah, I know. I, I, I thought you'd be all over that. And I think I even said it first, like you said, like, what's the name? Because I knew I hadn't said this to you. But after I was like, I'm going to get it. I think that sounds right. Yeah, you did say it first. I say it first, smiley, be like, Oh, yeah, no, it's Justin. I'm like, it's Justin. And he's like, No, it's not it's Jordan. Like, dude, what's wrong with you? I don't know what got into me. It was out of character. And I apologize because typically I'm all in for very goofy bits that we think are funny that nobody else thinks is funny. That's no me right in character with me. And for whatever reason, I was, I was not having any of that funny business. Yeah, maybe, maybe you read the room and understood that the entire staff was probably fed up with the 13 of us that rolled in there and our golf clothes after 36 holes. And we just needed to see ourselves out. Yeah, I mean, we're trying to be you wanted to be continued to be some silly gooses and that just was not going to happen. All right, I got two more for you on the way out. Favorite hole on the entire trip. Favorite hole? Yeah. Wow, you're putting me on the spot right here. This is a tough one. That one hole at the island club was pretty cool. It was like the supposed to be like the most narrow fairway. The one that you striped and I think you told all of Ireland about. You get it in that. Yes, I think it's the oh gosh, I want to say it's 12, 13, 13, 13, I think. 13 what the island club, I think the fairway is eight yards wide, give or take. Yeah, yeah, it was it was tight. The lucky at the fairway club had really, really cool holes, like very non-linksy, but like super scenic. Like I feel like I could kind of pick one from each that just were awesome. But the one of the super, super narrow fairway, I think like we said, 12 or 13 something like that was at a mile a club was sweet. Do you hit the fairway? I did. Did she? I did. Well, how about that reverse cash lucky hitting the fairway? I know that. Yeah, he was due. It's what he said up to you, at least. All right, we're having Jordan on tomorrow, Justin. So you get to give me a question, ask Jordan on the pod when I record with him. You got anything that comes to mind? I think you should ask him if he, you know, if the if he felt like he got a perfect line from the caddies each time on the course, I think that would be a pretty fair question to ask, I think. Don't eat a looping growler in this. No, no, no, don't bring growler. He doesn't need to end up in the wrong when he wasn't even there. Just, you know, just curious. Just, you know, I don't know. Oh, yeah. There's, there's no better feeling. You know, walking down the fairway, watching Jordan, looking like he's talking to Michael Grower, who just happens to be a local caddy, just like, are you sure that was the line to the wind switch? I just classic Jordan stuff. And, and that was a good over there. But like, why would you think that's good over there? We've never played here before. I don't know. We're going to, I'll ask him it tomorrow. And, uh, and luckily for you on the way out, Justin, you get to do your first podcast read. Yeah. And first off, are you nervous? And number two, uh, do you have all of the materials in front of you? I do. Yes. Yes. So, yeah, uh, this is, you know, for, for where SPF, we know that you, I think we could sense how tough this was for you to do and execute. And I honestly was getting a little uncomfortable for you, listening to you, try to figure out how you were going to tie this in. So, um, yeah, I, you know what, I took it on, on the, on the chin and I'm going to do it. So here's my first. Thank you. I want to hear an Emmy performance. So let's get in here. All right. I'm going to. I'm reading it. I had to memorize it first time. Thank you. Please. Hi, I'm Justin Thomas and you're listening to the smiley show presented by Wear SPF. I'm doing this read because smiley is really bad at these. So I'm here to tell you that you can go right now to Wear SPF dot com and buy one product with half off the second by using code smiley 50. That's S M Y L I E five zero. Block the sun, not your drives like the Haya King. Miley common use Wear SPF like I do and enjoy the rest of the smiley show. I mean, round of applause. Look at you. The okay, the end. I think that was added recently. I didn't see that. I was walking out the side of the Haya King guy. That's beautiful. I got two versions here and that's that's poetic. Read the second. That might as well be a haiku. That is that is beautiful. Yeah, I yeah. Listen, do you try to understand what smiley 50 and then you're like, so it's you product and the you get one and I'm like, it's yeah. I have 50 half off. This is the same guy that just went to the dealership realizing that his car was in four wheel drive and not two wheel drive. So I have strengths. I have weaknesses. Luckily, you can carry me in this situation. Good job, Charlie on on giving that read over to JT. He crushed it. Justin, thank you for hopping on what a trip in Ireland. Awesome messages with Wear SPF and we look forward to watching you crush in the playoffs and I'm looking forward to watching you not play links golf on modern golf courses. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to run it through that Bermuda rough and that is quite as easy. So I'm going to probably just see pin hit pin. Love it. All right, buddy. Thank you again. Thanks, y'all. There you have it. JT on Ireland and smiley. I, you know, as promised, we no longer have to do Wear SPF reads or when we do, it's just going to be as simple as listening to Justin Thomas because that's great. It's great, man. Do you like that little block the sun? Yeah, that was a little Haya King there. Yeah, you know, listen, I was a Sterling's a major, no big deal man. That was right. It was good. It's, it's, uh, no, that was a ton of fun to to listen to and get that recap. And the fun continues because now we're headed over to Jordan's speed. What are you? What are we dialing in for Jordan here? You know what? I'm, I'm excited to ask him a couple questions. He, uh, he's a golf savant himself. So I, I know he'll have some opinions on the course and he loves talking golf as well. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Definitely got to throw that question that JT wanted me to ask him. So I'll throw that in there as well. But Jordan always so great to talk to us. This would be fun. Well, you really hate to hear it. 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So to be able to go over to Ireland and do that, it was pretty epic. I mean, to be honest, I was like plenty fine with not playing golf for like three or four days after playing like 90 holes two weeks in a row in Scotland. And but then all we got out there and, you know, it was like the first it was like it was like Christmas morning at the European club until you saw the fescue on the first hole. And then he thought, man, this is this is thicker than it was at Trune. So we actually have to we have to focus today in order to not lose golf balls. But it was man, it was amazing. I mean, I think like I think I hadn't played the island. I hadn't played European or island club. European club was probably like one of the most beautiful golf courses I've ever been on. And then the island club was was one of the one of the coolest ones that reminded me of a couple of the courses I've played on the West Coast where it's kind of a tale of two nines. And that was cool. So he almost got two courses in one. So yeah, there was there was definitely a lot of searching for golf balls. So probably half the time searching for golf balls. But the other half was really fun. Yeah, we had a great time. And when we showed up to the European club, the boys were ready to get some fresh air after an hour long bus ride. And we get to the first tee. And you know, you, myself, and and JT, you know, we've been talking for so long about just wanting to get some crazy weather. And you know, you're, I guarantee you, if you would have showed up that day and there was, you know, it's 55 degrees, it's blowing 30 and it's raining. Like you talked about how much golf you've played, you've probably been like, you know what, I'll watch, I'll sit this one out, sit in the clubhouse and wait till you guys get in. But it was like 75 degrees, no wind and sunny and no clouds. So we got pretty damn lucky with the weather too. Well, I think also, you know, as you started to mention that, I thought you were going to go into the first tee shot hit from the group, which was your tee shot on one. And, you know, I tried to introduce you like to introduce us at the Open Championship. And you know, the owner of the club is out there. And you know, there's a small, small crowd on the tee. And there's a lot of pressure on that shot. And you just put driver off the deck and you shipped on right down the right side of the fairway. And, you know, I mean, I think without that shot, I don't think we would have had a good time. I think really good point, because you hit that shot, you know, it really got everyone. Okay, we can do this. And yes. And then everyone hit their first shots. And then they said, nevermind, we can't do this. It's the anti high. And Charlie and I were talking about it early in the episode. But you know how upset I get with you when when you have a driver off the deck yardage, and I'm following your group. And I let everybody knows like guys, driver off the decks got to be coming. And then when you don't do it, I'm so upset. You know how how much it means to me for you to rip that driver head cover off and hit that thing off the deck. So just know how important it is for a guy watching. Well, you know what I figured out, I've actually hit probably more driver off the decks this year than the rest of the years combined, just randomly. The fun one is when you hit it off the tee, and then you just never put it back in the bag, you just carry driver without the head cover down the fairway. And you know that you're going to hit it again. Like I played the first two rounds of the open and our whole group on Friday, when it started to blow, just hit driver driver on both the par fives on the front nine. So we all just walked off the tee with drivers. And there's just no other club you could use on the next shot, because it's blowing straight in off the right, you need it low and cutting, and you're off like an upslope. It's like, I mean, you hit any other club, it's just never going to come out of the sky. So it was just it was amazing. I've never like, it's very rare to have two guys in a group that drive off the deck, let alone three do it like consecutive holes. It was like number four and six. Like what's it on the front nine? Well, I hit four iron off the teas, except for the par fives, we just started hitting driver everywhere. It's just wild. Yeah, that front nine was interesting, especially in the way that wind direction was. But I was actually, because I was in that first group, you know, we had 13 guys playing. So we have four go out. So we got nine back there on the tee at European club in day one. And I was told a story and I'd like for you to tell it, because I just want the image and the pictures from your perspective of James talking about how his knee was hurting, and that AV put him through, put him through, I guess, something to help fix his knee. What happened? That's right. Yeah, James. Well, luckily we were in cards, because I think, you know, James's knee was really busted up, but AV luckily had, he had kind of a, he had a great fix. You know, he's, he's a, he's a jack of all trades. I mean, the guy can do everything. And, you know, so I think we had a trainer in the group in Joe Russo, but I think what the trust level that James has with AV, you know, I think that really stepped in there. And not to mention, I think Joe was in your group already. So he was gone. And so AV put him through, like a, he kind of told him to go on his back, took him through a couple legitimate things, then told him to roll off from his stomach, and then bend his knees, and then just start kicking his feet back. And, and, you know, given, you know, we're in front of, these are, these people's first impression of us. And he's now on his stomach, kicking his feet back and forth, doing, you know, like from Zoolander. And, I mean, he's not a small person, right? And so it's, it's, it was, and he finally realized that he was getting messed with. And all of a sudden, he had to go tee off. He was in the second group, heading off. And, boy, that was, that was a good place. Knee got fixed. You know, that was been a shame for him to hit a first tee buck, first tee shot in his knee, not be loosened up. I mean, it's a miracle. Absolutely. Oh, we had so many like stories from the week that, that just come to mind. But from JT and I talking, you know, we got to play together at poor Marnock with your brother Steven and, and your buddy Austin, who's considered my friend as well. But, you know, we've bragged on you quite, you know, pretty well about how good you are at keeping a scorecard. But I would say this was a D minus effort from you for our wolf hammer game out there. You're all over the place. What happened? Yeah, I lost. It was really like, I would say, you know, it's a, it's a random skill of mind. It's really more of like a character flaw. Like I just can't have anyone else keep it or if they do, I have to keep it too. And I'm very, I take a lot of pride in my ability to whether it's an AC/DC game on the bus ride or keeping everybody's kind of blackjack numbers to, you know, keeping wolf numbers on a scorecard. And I just completely lost it after, after number 11, like we made the turn. And, you know, I looked back from number 13 and I'm like, I'm missing $140 somewhere. I don't know where I'm listening. And I'm looking back and I'm like, now, yeah, it doesn't match up on 11. And I got to track it back to like number seven. And so now I've now I'm walking down a hole and I mean, I just didn't even play a hole because I'm trying to figure out these numbers. We never got we never got there. We never figured it out. And that was that was pretty consistent with the other two days as well. And I asked Justin about the 16th hole and he kind of described the story by back going out and then ended up hitting a fire right onto the green. And you and I were on the same wolf hammer team for that hole. I hooped that 40 footer for Eagle. And then you and I are just giggling trying to do the math of what Justin was putting for. And you and we still had no idea what the value was on the pot. But do you are you able to like figure it out now? Like, do you have a general idea what what the pot was worth? I think one of us had it at like 81 20 and the other had it at like 800 1200. So we were close like it was somewhere in between. This is zero. Because, you know, he they hammered when he he almost made it for two. And you know, his blind shot and we get up there and he looks close. He they hammered us already. And then you went and drained that snake. It would have gone in, you know, a thimble. I mean, it was right in the middle. Perfect speed may have got may have gone 18 inches past from about 45 feet. And those are the ones where you just you're walking it in and you're just screaming hammer back because it's the 16th holes here. It's our 69th hole of the day. Shout out. And so that's not sure it's the 70th hole of the day. And so yeah, we were we were struggling there and in our in us trying to figure it out, Justin went and made it right in the dead center on top of you from about 15 feet. And that was nice because at least took the pressure off of trying to figure out exactly what it was for. Yeah, because now then you would have actually had to figure out all the math of the scorecard. Yeah, because it would have been significant enough. Yeah, it would have been significant enough that that someone was going to have to pay somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Luckily, except my brother was saying every time he went down, he just be like, Nope, I'm not paying. Kind of a good thing. I'm just going to start using that. Yep. He's he's he's the king of a man. He's he what he makes me laugh more than any human in this world. Your brother Steven. And I guess Port Marnock, let's just talk a little bit about this golf course. You've played it before, but there's rumors that they may get an open championship. Just what was your impressions of that golf course as we have already kind of discussed the European and island club? Yeah, I think European and island club were were, you know, incredibly unique and Port Marnock is is more like proper standard links. You don't have anything that's kind of odd or wild that sticks out in a way. It's also it was the closest to to Dublin. So I think that would be incredible for if the infrastructure's there, which I guess they're figuring out that it can be, you know, what a what a scene that could be because I think about, you know, I think about that a dare manner pro am and who showed up like the crowds that showed up there, you know, and I mean, it was it was unbelievable. And I think the whole, I mean, the Port Rush open was amazing, but then you throw one like right there where you're within a half hour of of Dublin. What a scene that'll be. And then not to mention, you know, you could have carnage off that first tee. Yeah, I mean, it once you do the first hole, you put it on the ground and you hit a little buttercut driver off the deck. And then you hit a nine iron to about nine iron foot and a half, and you walk up and you pick it up. And that's the smiley Kauffman route. It will be one of the two on the next four about six yards a last. Well, we're still on number one, you kind of ease into the course a little bit, but, you know, it's all about the conditions. So it's a it's a it's a cool golf course. You know, that wind picked up force on that back nine. It showed a little bit and the bunkers are just kind of like a trune. It's like they're so annoyingly placed right where you're going to drive the ball. So, you know, mix and match of being able to make Eagle, but Bogey on the same hole, which when you guys made Eagle, I think I'm still playing that hole right now. I still don't think I only got finished it. Was it the whole bounce through the gorse or like we acted like it bounced through the gorse? Yes, I also shanked like three bunker shots in a row on the same hole. So I'm still, I'm yeah, I would struggle to get in on single digits. But you guys made it look pretty easy. Because I think this is the same hole. And I asked JT, I said, Hey, give me one question. I asked Jordan. And besides, besides us discussing the happy birthday celebration, by the way, happy way birthday and not singing it to Justin and instead I was adamant about singing it to you. Besides that, he's he wanted me to ask you, did you get any poor lines during the, during the trip from any caddies? Like, did you feel like you needed to talk to any of your caddies like maybe Mikey walking down the fairway? I'm really not sure. Did any come to your mind? I'm pretty sure any shot that went offline. I was if you need to have been like, yeah, that's going offline. You, you need to ask, Oh, Mikey grower because JT took a hilarious video of, of it looked exactly like you know, me look walking down the fairway with Mikey, where you're talking about whether it's a line or like, can't believe it went this far, just talking about the shot you hit prior. And you're talking with a one of the caddies that, that we had with you. And Justin's taken a video of you just talking about how it looks like you're just bending his ear about the line that you chose. And he sent the video to grower. So I think that went out. I would say I was, I went into it very much like, I'm just going to try to have fun. So these guys have fun. So it may have looks may have been deceiving there. But it was a chance I didn't like, huh, I thought I could get this bunker. You're right. It was a looks, it was a looks is deceiving thing. And especially as we got later in the day, you just started hitting these chippy drivers that were like, 60%, but actually was kind of sick. Like these, this is a shot that I think is like a, a third or fourth gear that you can kind of seed out there on some holes that golf courses that have fast and firm fairways, just chase it down. Yeah, you know, I'm thinking, you know, they come out at about 1000 spin at about 140 ball speed. And they just kind of, you know, they're not going to get hit by any wind. And if they start straight, they're going to be fine. I really, they came about because I just completely ran out of gas. It's like, you know what, we're, we're done here. That's we're done here. This was great. This was great guys. Let's go to dinner. I got a couple more for you. All right. Give me an MVP for the trip. I didn't ask JT this, but you got to give me your MVP. Oh, man. It could be a. It's a stacked MVP list. And I feel like he was the favorite at, in my opinion, probably the leader in the votes. So yeah, not surprising. So I think I think I think lucky may have been MVP, you know, not only it's not only kind of the performance that he put on the extra gear he had, the hours he put in, but also it's it's really the attention to detail that the team camaraderie. I mean, he was he was lining up guys, putts for them for seven or eight when he had still had one for like a six or seven next to it. I mean, he really wanted guys to get in the house. He didn't care how long it took. You know, he was he was embracing the time he knew he was going to put in long hours. So it didn't if he was at the golf course or he was somewhere else, it didn't matter to him. I think if you had to say like, you know, who got the most out of that out of this trip, it'd be hard to say anyone else. So I think he was the favorite going in. And everybody likes a good upset, but man, it was it was like it was kind of like Sheffler at the Masters this year. You know, it's like, well, you kind of know what's gonna happen. Well, that's pretty well put. And I still feel like AV is still on the back night at the European club playing with Lucky Joe and Blake. They're just I know maybe it was Miller actually. It was Miller and all four of them just I think they're still on that back nine. I mean, we had we had dinner pints hung out, talks like for a good, you know, 45 minutes. And then we heard that they were on the 18th tee and then we went out to watch them finish. I asked the question. I was like, man, what is taking them so long? I wonder what it was. And then I think it was Joe or Miller almost hit one another and they're like, ah, okay, that's that's that's that's that's what happened. Yeah, he could be too. My brother left it all on the field too. You know, he he didn't have much returning. He he may not be allowed on an American Airlines flight for the foreseeable future. He definitely left it all on the field too. So I don't count I don't count the trip home as part of the trip, you know, so it's hard to pick. I mean, I actually when I've described this trip smiley and this is this is to give you credit. The to walk around with 13 Americans in the state that we are in around a city like Dublin where everywhere we walked, we were probably looked at like, oh, no, and logistically how organized and how perfect everything went was such an upset. And that has a lot that has a lot to do with you. You know, Gavin was an MVP. There was there was we certainly had some locals that were that were on our side that kind of kept us out of the way of being a problem to other people enjoying their life while we still got to do what we wanted to do. So I mean, logistically, it was a 10 out of 10 and I'm shocked because I was we were prepared for anything. Yeah, at the beginning of this episode, we thanked all those people and Alan, the other guy you mentioned, put us on some great restaurants. And wow, that Italian restaurant was probably my MVP of the food for that week. We just winded nine like like we never have before. Well, and smile. I don't know if you know this part of the story, but that that second night, we ate at that Thai restaurant and we all got in there first. Everyone showed up kind of at different times is raining. So everyone had walked there in the rain. We all looked like a mess. We were battered, right? That was like, yes, after after the European club. And we walk in there and at our side of the table, one of my buddies here in in Dallas asked if if they have sake, which they had like a whole sake list. But clearly, they know why he's asking if they have sake. And he goes, let me let me check what we have. And he came back like a couple of minutes later and he goes, you know, I'm sorry, we're all out of sake. And I lost it. This guy knew exactly what was going on. There's no chance they were out of sake. And he's like, we're not having this. This is a nice place. And I know you're at the middle table of this restaurant. It's already like 10 p.m. Absolutely not. And I thought that was I thought that was a great play. I thought that was a great play by the staff at that restaurant. And nobody really caught it. I mean, it was great. Oh, God, man. Well, this is this is a great recap. Thank you for coming on and join. And where are we going to see you next? I think I'll be playing the next couple of weeks. Yeah, I'm planning on playing Windham and and then St. Jude and try to get a nice little run. The the thousand. Mount our the the spin. What is it? The RPMs. Oh, yeah, the little bun. That that that works at Windham. That little works. It doesn't mean doesn't mean to you. It does not work at St. Jude. It does not roll on this. It does not roll on this. It'll fly 10 yards in that humidity. So all right. So quick question. Takeaways from 2024. I know risk has been touch and go. Is there anything that you just sitting here today that's just a takeaway from the year? Yeah, I think it's been it's been an odd one. You know, I started out pretty good and then I just kind of ran into a lot of trying to trying to test test the handout on a lot of things throughout the swing, try to test it more and more. And it's been kind of bugging me. So I think I'm going to have to do something about it this offseason and hopefully just come back better. So it's been a bit frustrating in that way. I've never really had like an injury that's prevented me from doing anything. And so I can see why that's so frustrating to people now. But you know, I hope I got another good 10 to 15 years left at a really high level. And so I need to need to make sure I'm in the right right place going forward to to be at my best. So yeah, I mean, I think it's one of those where I go to a couple golf courses coming up that I've played well in the past and you start starting getting on a little run better late than never. And I can certainly turn it into something great. And if not, then, you know, have a little more recovery time to try and get to get it taken care of. Yeah, all makes sense. And I've been so impressed with how well you've driven the ball this year. I think you used to point your driving ability in any other year. You're having just an all time type of year. But like the hand stuff you mentioned, I think, I think whenever you get it sorted or whenever it gets figured out, you're swinging it great. And I look forward to watching make a bunch of birdies and hopefully watch you hit some driver off the decks in the middle of the fairway because that gets me excited watching the place and golf. I'm not sure. I think the first time I'm going to see you in a fairway coming up, I'm just going to start just won't stop laughing. I mean, I'm going to need a buff around. You're going to need to come out during a pro and swing it this over way. Just just giggle our way for the first couple of minutes and then it's back to business. All right, buddy. Well, thanks for joining, man. This is a lot of fun and go get them at Windham and St. Jude. Thanks, buddy. See you guys. All right, save. Well, the Ireland golf trip, Smiley is officially recap. I don't think we can recap it any further. It's about as good as it gets. We got some got some breakdowns of courses from you and we got all the good stuff, all the good stories from J. T. and Jordan. So hope everyone enjoyed that listen or watch blast being a fly on the wall to take all that in and maybe you get to planning your your Ireland golf trip at some point soon. It's golf breaks. So there you have it. We now have, I guess an approximation of our one and done picks for the Olympics. I got a very briefly give a shout out to my guy, Pace Johnson, because I got I got sent this in my family group texts and I did like a quadruple take because Pace played 283 holes in one day to raise money for college golf fellowship at a course, a sunny side where I grew up in president of California. And he apparently didn't wearing pants and a long sleeve shirt. I mean, I assume that was for sun protection, but Michael Kim was live tweeting this and Pace is what generally one of the best human beings I know doing this for an amazing cause in college golf fellowship. It's something he believes in a ton as a really strong faith. And I think that Pace is also phenomenal player, played on some of those Cal teams. Yeah, my others. And so you better have some strong faith if you're playing 263 holes because I'd be on the ground, man. Yes, I don't know. I still don't know how he did it. Apparently he was 100 holes in by 1pm after teeing off at six. I this this does not penciled to me in any way, shape or form. And growing up and playing golf in that like 107 degree in the summer that dry heat like I was dead after about 12 holes. So Pace, good on you. Good cause. Thanks for doing it. And everyone go support college golf fellowship if you can. The work that Pace is doing there. But that was that was wild to me 283 holes in a day. That's that's like three or four golf trips. That's probably more than I played in Scotland. My neck and shoulders still like four or five days after playing feels like I've been holding up the Roman Colosseum with my with my arms and hands for like 72 straight hours. That's how I feel. And maybe maybe that might piss you off a little bit because I just went on this amazing golf trip and then you're complaining about a little shoulder neck tightness. It's pretty tight. It's tight. It's tight and it's only getting tighter. So that's just that's the the rub of of being old getting older and playing golf these days. But yeah, that's that's the the 283 is a number that I could not reach. So good on him and good on us for whatever we're doing at this patient time. Well, let's do some Olympic space. Let's do some Olympic things. Let's get right in some Olympic space. Tough week last week at the three M. I feel like we were just both. I mean, you're in the car. I'm in morning and Dublin. There was a bad wave. I feel like I feel like we've we've decided to just like anything that breaks down, you know, the red ring of death on Xbox, you know, just you just hope that you just hope that you can find a way to get that green to come back on that Xbox. So control, delete, we're back. We've been back in the lab. We've been crunching numbers. We feel pretty good about our Olympics picks. Yeah, I mean, I think that our trend has been, you know, we when we peek, we peek and then when we crash, we crash. We're high variance pickers as we are, you know, listen, I'm a high variance golfer. Why not be a high variance picker? So maybe just maybe, you know, I was rock bottom before I took call on the memorial and look how it went after that. So this could be the what we needed, a little wake up call, picking, you know, making picks from the inside of my 2014 Prius and a CVS parking lot and a 95 degree day. That was the wake up call of like, Charlie, you need to get, but you get your life back together and make some good picks. So I'll turn over to you first smiley leg off national side of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Who are the three guys you would like this week? But we're not even really making a one and done pick. We're going to open all the players back up to us here. But who are the three guys you like this week and the guy you think is going to take home gold? Well, four guys. And and the only reason I'm adding a fourth guy is because I really, this is this is the story. If it happens to like play itself out, which would be Matthew Pavon, being the Frenchman, you know, I think that would be the big storyline is can can Matthew Pavon be able to get in contention for a medal. I think that'd be an awesome story. I don't know about his course history because I honestly just saw his name. I'm like, Oh, man, that's the like, I'm not necessarily suggesting it. I'm suggesting it because it would make for great TV. So well, now I want to bonus Frenchman too. I get picked a press. Okay. You get to press. All right. We both get a bonus Frenchman fair enough. All right. But the guys that that just are sticking out to me like a sore thumb that aren't going to be my gold medal picks, but guys who very well could win the gold medal or even this week, you don't have to win. You can actually win second or third and get a medal. So how about that? Give me. Give me. Let's see, Alex Noren. Okay. And the reason why I like Alex, he's he's one on this golf course, lay golf national, the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Also one in 2018 at this golf course. So he's he's one here. He's a golfer that is very good at avoiding bogey's and on this golf course, it's very European in the style. It's not a bomb and gouge type of course. Alex Noren has been playing nicely lately. He's had two top 15s heading into this week. He's an unbelievable chipper of the golf ball. So when he gets out of position, it's very good at getting up and down. I was actually funny that I think about this now, but I was at the memorial this year at the chipping green and Alex Noren and Xander and I are just sitting there and Xander just is following Alex Noren around the the chipping green, like in the rough area, just watching him pitch. So you got Xander Shoffey, one of the best players in the world, just trying to figure out like what Alex Noren does so well pitching out of the rough. So if that tells you anything about what type of pitcher Alex is, he's unbelievable. He's a, you know, we always see that that movie tries to work on, but he's he's really good at keeping the ball in front of him. He actually can work it both ways. He's a much more of a fader, but he can draw if he needs to. So I just think he fits kind of all of the boxes for a guy that is should be in metal contention. We'll see how he plays the last time I picks Alex and I feel like he's a perfect week. He missed the cut. So I don't know if there's a cat at the Olympics. I don't think there is. So, okay. Sorry. So are you, are you continuing with your three? Yeah. I'm going to rip through them. Love it. Okay. Great. Yeah. So I got caught in the night snack draft. No, no, you're good. I don't know a ton about this guy's game. This is just a suggestion based off of like a, a long shot sleeper type of guy. His, his name is Guido. Can you help me with his last name? Migliosi. Migliosi. Migliosi. He's one, he's one at this golf course. So just you're, you're taking a guy is a long shot. Maybe throw in. I don't know if this is a lineup type of week. He's right around plus eight thousand. So he's, you know, kind of in that, that area of the board of like, Hey, if you want to take a bit of a long shot on a guy that that's one on the golf course, Guido would be a guy that I would throw, throw at you. He's like, okay, um, he's actually got some history here. So he's a guy that, you know, for an event like this, you know, I don't think guys really are caring that much. They just want to go play their game, play aggressively, probably playing free because why not? You know, like you just, you're probably really comfortable until Sunday. We're like, Oh, I actually have a chance to win a medal. So look out for Guido. Last guy that I think is going to have a really, really good week and could be a guy that ends up, um, meddling is Corey Connors. Um, he, he fits this golf course. You know, when you think about, but if you've watched the Ryder Cup in 2018, you know, what did Europe do so well that week? They, they drove the ball in the fairway. And if you're driving the ball in the fairway on this course, if you recall, there's a lot of, um, bulkheads with water that that require you to be in the fairway to be able to stop the balls on the green. It was much more firm. According to Scott H. Shaffron was seeing the one of his interviews today talk about the golf course. Ted Scott said back in 18 that it was much more firm. It's a little softer, but maybe a little bit of wind and no rain that the course might dry out. So that, that's something to take in mind is that maybe it's a, you have it maybe a bit more of a chance because the rough's not quite as long as it was for the Ryder Cup, but still if you take all I just said and that it's not a bob and gouge course and that you need to be in the fairways and you need to be on the green. It's like, who does that better than Corey Connors? He just, to me, if it, if it turns into a test like that, you know, he's going to hit a five yard drawdown in the middle of the fairway. Give me that guy, Corey Connors to win a medal. Yeah. I like that selection of picks and we're still waiting on your ultimate pick here, right? So you use your, your, your Frenchman, your bonus Frenchy pick on Pavon, my bonus Frenchman, Victor Perez. So we've got that out of the way. I've got a mix here of guys that I like for different reasons. I'm going to start again with the guy that I liked at the Open Championship and who finished tie for 22nd there in Sepstraka for the reasons you listed on course profile of just long and straight and good iron player. And that is what Sep does. I think, you know, I think he want to say he was in the bad draw at Truun and distill scrape a T 22 out of that draw was pretty impressive. He was in the good draw. He was in the good draw. He was actually in the good draw because I, he didn't play well Friday morning. And I was like, Oh, man, he had an opportunity. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. I didn't want to correct you there, but I was actually that was one player that I knew was in the good draw that didn't really take advantage of it as much as I thought he should. I was, I had so many players favorited on our, on our board of names that I was following. I was trying to remember that there was one guy where he was, he was not going as deep as I wanted him to on that Friday morning round. But I mean, I still like him here a lot for course fit reasons. And it's a guy that, you know, again, we're, we're big on the data gut model here. I know what the gut tells me. I'm looking what the data tells me in terms of course fit. He's like right beneath Colmore, Kawa and Scotty Scheffler in terms of players that that model likes the most in terms of course fit. So that's like a big green flag for me there. So I like Sep. Another guy who's playing well on live and who, you know, we've talked a little bit around some of these majors earlier this year, Joaquin Neiman. I think that just, just coming off, I believe you tied for a second at the, the JCB, the, the live London event. And a guy that, good, maybe, yeah, maybe not like a strict course fit type thing. But I just think that these live guys obviously have scarce opportunities to play in company with these PGA Tour pros. And so this is a guy who's going to want to come in who obviously has a ton of passion for country given the way that, you know, the types of guys he's surrounded himself with as a professional. And of course, the way they form that, that Torque, that Torque team, I really want to say they all on live. So I like him coming in and wanting to kind of do something for, for Chile and play with a little bit of pride and show out for live as well here too. So just quick note on him. Sure. Well, actually two questions I have one, one that I want to ask you is, I assume, are there world ranking points for the Olympics? Ooh, that is a great question. Because it's actually, that, that's just another, another way for, you know, Joaquin Neiman win. That's, that's just a huge, huge win with all the, wait, with Scotty Shaftor and Sandra Shaftor in the field, Rory McRoy, you know, I'm just curious if it's actually points here. Oh, no, no. Okay. No, sorry. I was, I was looking at this and I was initially disappointed because I was thinking of FedEx Cup terms. Xander last year got 50 official world ranking points earlier last year, last Olympics. Yes. He worked 50 points and, and major earns 100 points. Okay, major. Okay. Yeah. So about half a major. So is it, I don't know, I'm a PGA tour event. Yeah. I, I don't know what it is relative to the points you win for like a signature event or, or, you know, the player's championship or something like that. But, um, keeping it hard to find out was just quick Scotty's thing. He's won a lot. There's nothing like researching. And while you're looking at that, I'll finish the other thought with Joaquin though. Um, actually, when you talk about it, if it's a course fit, I, I think it is, you know, his, his whole thing is how well can he put it? To me, he's a, he's an elite ball striker. Um, probably doesn't hit it quite as high and have as many shots as I think a Scotty chef or a Rory or a zander, but he is able to, uh, you know, he, he's a very, very good ball striker. He hits the middle to face a lot, but maybe, maybe just maybe, because it's not a major, maybe we see the Joaquin, even though we see on the live, which is a guy that debt absolutely tears it up. So, uh, I like your pick. I like your pick. Uh, God, I'm okay. Scotty won 70 points for the memorial. Okay. So it's like, so, you know, 63 with the RBC heritage. So yeah, a little bit less than a signature around the PGA, two or 80 points for the players. So yeah, that's maybe, maybe a little bit more. Uh, we, we don't know what it's going to be for this one. It could be who knows how many points it'll be. Yeah. No, it's not. It's not. I mean, it's, it's definitely, it's more than zero, which is what it's more than zero. It's what you were live for a win. So, uh, those, so I, I've got sepp. I've got Joaquin Neiman, uh, my long shot of sorts. He's not like a strict long shot in, in, in, you know, like a Guido, Mikli Aussie category, but Thomas Dietrich is a guy that's further down that board that just seems like he crops, you know, and a lot of these high profile events. You know, we saw it at, I believe it was the PGA championship I want to say for the PGA. He was open. He was in the second last group on Saturday. So he's got, he's got the tools. Pelle beach pro am played great. You know, it was T T four through the three rounds four. It got canceled where there are a lot of events where you wouldn't necessarily expect him to play well with the names in the field and he finds himself near the top of that leaderboard. And in similar fashion here, you know, it's a guy that is your opinions. There's like, there's a comfort level over here as well. Um, so I, I like D tree is like a maybe longer odds play here. Okay, cool. Yeah, I like that. And, uh, I think, uh, I don't know who wants to go first. Do you want me to go first on my pick? You just keep it rolling, dude. Go for it. Well, it's, it's, I hope that you end up picking either Scottie or Xander because we have all the guys available to us on the board. And I just can't get off of, of picking Colin Moore, Calla. I just feel so good about Colin winning this week. You know, he hasn't had that big win yet this year. And he's been just trending, trending, trending. And you can make a case for anybody in the top five or six of the odds board of why they're going to win. But I just can't get off of Colin on this golf course to me. It, it, it should suit his game just perfectly, you know, being able to, you know, just kind of hit those little cuts and find fairways and, uh, his ball striking has been, you know, improved so much this year back to what we're accustomed to. If he gets that, that hot iron game that we know, we can get his putter, uh, his work with, uh, Steven Sweeney's just been, you know, a huge difference for him this week to where he's been able to, you know, keep rounds together, keep those momentum plots going. And, uh, don't be surprised to see Colin Moore, Cal, winning a gold medal. He is at the top of the course fit that the, the tool on data golf, where they just love him here for, for very good reason. Um, I listen, I would love to take Skye or Zander. I mean, he's not going to do it. He's not going to do it. Oh my God. We, we didn't even suggest Scottie or Zander. Are you taking John or on? Are you taking? So here's where I'm at. I'm making a late audible because I had a guy in mind that fit the course profile perfectly, who I've loved all sees along. Oh, the gut's coming out here. Is this the day to gut? This is the gut, the guy I'm going with is here is last four finishes. T three, T 10, T seven, win. Okay. You're taking John. I'm taking John. I just feels like it feels like the thing for ROM all season has been, you know, just not playing as well as he wants to in high profile events or majors, the injury at the US open. I mean, even this last week in winning this London event for live, all the clips I saw on social were just this, this frustration with everything going on around him. It feels like he's, he's put himself in this sort of high pressure scenario, this sort of crunch time, you know, space he's existing in that he actually thrives in. Like this is, this is the high leverage golf that he loved on the PGA tour that we were so confused to why he left because he was missing out on that when it was all kind of music and fun all the time. And so he's found a way to kind of get back in this headspace. I know he would have liked to, I mean, T seven and a major is fantastic, but he obviously would have loved to win a major this season. I feel like he's now kind of hitting a stride and playing the type of golf he wants to play. And if you're going to try to salvage a season and it doesn't, you know, have a major win in it for a guy who holds himself to that standard, an Olympic medal will be a pretty good way to go out about doing that with the only thing remaining being live events and live individual championships. So I'm rolling with ROM this week. This is like your, hey, this is the Jon Rom Week in the Olympics of, Hey, don't forget about me. You know, it's just that taste in your mouth of you, because you know, how did we leave the conversation? The last time we talked about Jon Rom after the Open Championship was, you know what, he's just going to have to go out and win some with golf events. And, and we didn't even talk about the Olympics, but your gold win some live golf events. And if he goes out and wins a gold medal in the Olympics, it's like, well, how do you get your name talked about more and, and, and the decision that you made? And this is exactly how you do it. You go win. You remind everybody how, how good you are. And this is my head. I'm not talking you out of taking ROM this week, because I, I would love to take ROM this week, because he's, I think he was he, was he a four and over at the Ryder Cup at, at this golf course too. I have, why do I feel like he was epic at this one? I'm killing him with the research right now. I've got, I know you're taking, I didn't know you were taking Jon Rom. I know, I know I was a little audible. I mean, I, I actually don't know what his record was the 2018 Ryder Cup. I do know he was on the team, of course. I know he was on the team, because I think he beat Tiger, I think. I think he was paired up against Tiger in one. Man, I just, I just share my screen for one or another. So I can see all the tabs I have up that aren't having anything to do with the stat that we're trying to give you right now, which is just killer. That's really hard to like figure out here. Are you in the wiki page? Let's see here. Scroll down here. Okay. He said the Spaniard was part of the winning team on his debut in Paris in 2018, but it was one point, but experience disappointment during the United States victory at home soil. So that was not a foreign hour actually. That was the opposite. So does that make you want to change your pick a little bit? You know, I mean, the other guy I was thinking about was Tommy Fleetwood, who went for one to know here, but I think I'm going to give him a pass on that week. I'm going to give him a pass given pass given. He gets the pass. He's going to be motivated. This is, this is Jon Rob's final chance to win an event with a field mixed in with PGA Tour pros. I think it gets done this week. Okay. I mean, still can change. I'm not changing. My other pick was Louvick now. Now we're doing the thing. Now we're doing the thing. We're just listing all the names. We're not going to do that thing. We said we were going to do that thing, and we are not going to do that thing. So it's Jon Rob. It's a firm commitment to Jon Rob. And it's a little bit of walking, Eman and a little bit of Sestraka and a little bit of Thomas. We're just trying to help you build some line outs out. We're not trying to say, oh, yeah, we like this guy. I mean, we knew he's going to win. I mean, it's right. We just want you to, to try to build your lineup space on a couple of these guys. And if you want to mix and match, this is we, this is why we do this. We want to give you options because there's, there's a reason why guys, why you like some guy, a place in why you could see like, no, thanks. And I, I, I probably are in a little bit more on the, I actually, I liked your picks. I think your picks could all, all nine of them. Good picks. Well, what we, what we do want you to do is choose a side, choose a Frenchman, you're either team Paveon or your team Perez. And there's no in between. That's going to be the true test of this Olympic golf competition is which Frenchman you take between Smiley and I. So yeah, there you go. There you go. Hope that was, hope that was in some way, shape or form useful amongst the, what an episode, Wikipediaing episode. It's going to, I, there's a lot of editing to do. And I feel like this is going to be a long one, but I'm hoping everyone sticks with it all the way through. Yeah. Yeah. Break it up like every day. Like, just listen to a chunk, chunk every day, save a little bit for the Olympics, you know, a little companion listener watch, however you like to consume. So that's what we got. That's what we got. I mean, do you have final thoughts, Smiley? I feel like the thoughts have been filed some time ago. But if there's anything you want to part the listeners of yours with before we send them off, the floor is yours. I think the only thing that we have been mentioned on the show that we should have probably touched on, definitely should have touched on in our Monday recap was the passing of Mark Carnewell. Yes, definitely needed to mention just how great of a duty was a song. Just about every week on the golf horse, nothing but nice to me. And it just was so well loved by so many people in the golf industry, you know, the golf world so small, you probably just know and run, run into so many different people. And I didn't have a necessarily a great relationship with Mark, meaning I haven't spent enough time around him. But for the people that had spoke so highly of them, they love being around him. And he was he was nothing but kind and nice to me. So if you I know you're at Sirius XM, I'm sure you spent some time around Mark as well. Yeah, no, I appreciate you bringing that up because it is definitely was a hard week for the PGA Tour Radio team and the guys that love Mark so much over there. Carne is he was affectionately known as a PGA Tour Radio. And in similar fashion to you, you know, I was a studio show producer, you know, he was more on the the play-by-play event side of things. But I do know this is that anytime, you know, I needed to have someone on who was on the ground on one of our shows who was covering, you know, a final group and one of the inside on players, Carne was always willing to do it, was always incredibly gracious with this time, was a great guest, a great conversation, knew a ton about the game. And yeah, it is a tough, tough loss. And I know that the the the people over at PGA Tour Radio, all the well wishes they've received this week and meant a lot. And so, yeah, you know, rest in peace, Carne. Yeah, dude, really talented too, man, too. Like really, really felt like he just painted the picture so well, you know, with when you're I love wishing a Sirius XM radio driving down the road, listening to the golf, these guys just make it fantastic. They're just so effortless and and how they're able to describe everything that's going on. And Carne was one of the best to do in that. It is amazing. I mean, the job that he did among others there, where it's just in today's day and age, just the audio medium, they do they do it phenomenally well. So rest easy, Carne, and our thoughts and prayers for the whole Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio crew for that loss. But yeah, that's that that's a tough one, but he'll be remembered fondly. So that's what we got for you. That is a somber note to end on, but what a worthwhile one to end on as well. We appreciate you all sticking with us watching and listening to a fun, fun recap of Ireland, Olympics golf, and everything else in between. So I guess we back here with the Olympics recap very, very soon. So we'll look forward to talking to you then. You know, I listen to this podcast. It's really cool and all of our other brands and subscribers, but make sure you like it from scratch. It's cool. See what you guys are doing. I know golf fans appreciate it, but we do too. So please keep it up for all the good people of YouTube. Like and subscribe. 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The Smylie Show golf trip review train keeps rolling! This week we add a new stop - Ireland - and two special guests in Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth to recap an unforgettable spin around the greater Dublin area with Smylie Kaufman.
We begin with Charlie Hulme joining Smylie for a full deep dive on rounds at The European Club, The Island Golf Club, Portmarnock Golf Club, and County Louth Golf Club. Justin joins next to ask some hard - but fair! - questions about Jordan being off his scorecard keeping game (and delivers an all-time Wear SPF read - use code SMYLIE50 at wearspf.com right now!), followed by Jordan explaining his side of that story and crowning a Trip MVP. Finally, Charlie rejoins Smylie to make some One-and-Done(-ish) picks for the men's Olympic Golf competition at Le Golf National in Paris.
