Join Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme as they dive into another episode of "The Smylie Show," recapping Robert MacIntyre's closing surge to win the Scottish Open + Smylie's week at Lake Tahoe broadcasting the American Century Championship, where he caught passes from Josh Allen, put up some shots with the Curry family, and caught up with the always entertaining Charles Barkley.
In this episode:
- Smylie’s celebrity encounters and wild stories from Tahoe
- The scenic drive from Tahoe to San Francisco
- Travel woes and hilarious airline stories
- Recap of the Scottish Open and Robert MacIntyre’s victory
- Insights on upcoming travel and projects
Smylie also shares his experience in the Virgin Atlantic Lounge, enjoying a high-end margarita and scenic views of San Francisco landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. Tune in for engaging conversations, humor, and a deep dive into the world of professional golf.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
3:22 - American Century Championship
9:21 - Scottish Open
11:28 - Robert MacIntyre
15:48 - The 16th Hole
18:56 - How would you write the rules differently
23:13 - What do players think about controversial drops
25:50 - Is a margarita and a cookie a good combo
26:45 - Ludvig's Final Round
27:50 - Ludvig's Recent High Leverage Performances
31:24 - Pace of Play
35:15 - One-and-Done Recap
36:35 - Aaron Rai
41:36 - Justin Thomas
43:24 - LIV at Valderrama
45:24 - Abraham Ancer’s club toss
47:50 - Home game environments
50:38 - How the Fireballs won
52:49 - Flight Update
53:31 - Wrapping Up
55:23 - Like & Subscribe
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Welcome back to another episode of the smiley show. And I'm laughing here. I hope you're watching on YouTube or sports grid TV. You can smiley just cheers dust with some sort of ornate looking drink. Smiles in the Virgin Atlantic lounge in San Francisco airport. Some Delta family of airports as he is in root overseas. Do you not a kingdom for the open championship fresh off a week in Tahoe? Yeah, got a little margarita. It's actually fantastic when it came out. I'm used to the big jumbo margaritas that you get in the Mexican restaurants. But this is like a high end one with the salt on the side. Yeah, it's really good. And after that drive, about three and a half hours from Tahoe to here. By the way, San Francisco is so beautiful. Driving in, seeing the Golden Gate Bridge. Also seeing Alcatraz, which is where I play a lot of war zone. I know every inch of that map. So it was coolest wave of that as I drove past. But yeah, beautiful city. It's funny in growing up in Fresno, that's about as far north as I ever traveled. We were talking here on the way in passing Sacramento. And it's like, that's a part of the state that I never ever really went to. As far as I was concerned, San Francisco was the top of the state of California when I was living there. But it was, it's funny because everyone always like looks at the Golden Gate Bridge. And that's like the iconic thing. And that was another bridge. Like if you were coming from the south, you just, you would never ever go on that bridge. You just take a different, so you just kind of look at it from the distance. Anyway, this is a very random tangent we're on now. San Francisco landmarks. But yeah, I'm also short on sleep. Give my own airline issues I've had for the last couple of days flying on. You're on a tough run. Really tough run. Jet blew it. I'm calling it Jet blew it from now on. It's now on the No Fly list. We're not doing that ever, ever again. American Airlines, Jet blew it both on the list right as of now. Both on the Charlie Hume do not fly list. I gotta, I need to make a call to Jet blew to request. They gave me a hundred and fifty dollar travel voucher. And I'm going to try to negotiate a little bit and say, I want that cash because I never want to fly your airline again. You do the same with American as well. We're going to stick to Delta. You're a big Delta guy. I'm going to try to kind of follow your footsteps. We have some travel. Big Delta guy. We're looking at some travel upcoming for some projects. And I'm either going to do Delta or I'm going to just rent a van. Dude, unfortunately like Raleigh is like a big, like it's more American Airlines than it is Delta, right? Big American Airlines hub, which is problematic. Unless I want to drive to Charlotte, I guess. Or do South, you know, in Southwest really, they do a pretty good job for the, where they sit in the airline food chain. So like, I'm going to do a little Southwest American, or Southwest Delta rather combo. I'm here for that. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. That's, that's neither here nor there. Let's, let's, let's dig in the meat of this episode a little bit. Really what we should start is what you were just doing, which was at the American Century Championship out in. I did a lot of that. That margarita lasted like seven seconds, by the way. That's a, that's, it looked phenomenal. Yeah, a lot of that stuff out of edgewood. And I just, what I know about this was while I was traveling, ending this sort of this run I've been on, I was getting texts from your dad, AKA the squirrel man. I got a video of you catching a pass from, from Josh Allen, which is amazing. Heard some rumors of your shooting hoops with the Curry family. Also amazing. And your dad, Jeff got a shout out from Charles Barkley. So how about that for the week out there? Let's explain a little bit more about the big week, big week for Jeff. Yeah, Jeff got some shout outs and from Charles. Yeah, dude, the week, I mean, Tahoe lived, lived up to it, man. I mean, just they had such a great list of athletes, celebrities. You know, all these people that I've always been fans of that I just had, you know, an opportunity to spend a lot of time with. And there was karaoke one night, there was another party the night before at a kind of a concert venue. Then there was a concert that we went to. So every single night, you had an opportunity to socialize with, you know, all these famous people. So for me, it was, Did we get drops of Jupiter? Did we get a little drops of Jupiter? So the karaoke night, I, I, I joked that I was going to sing drops of Jupiter, which is my karaoke go to song. I, I would say chicken out. I just wanted to feel it out year one, seeing like, is it just a celebrity thing? Or are other people doing it too? You know, I think now that I know a majority of the people I got up there, everybody would be like, Oh, it's that guy. It's the guy from the 17th hole that won't shut up and stop interviewing me. So it's that guy. But drops of Jupiter or that was going to be the song or it's a great day to be alive. Travis Stritt, that one always seems to get the people going to. But to, I mean, just the, just the golf tournament was, I mean, I, I think I drove around at one time. So for you told me, like, Oh, what do you think of the seventh all big? I have no idea. I was on the 17th hole on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and had the best view of just so many fans over there out, out there trying to get, whether it was an autograph or just a picture of some of the world's famous athletes and celebrities. And I had the best seat in the house. So the week was pretty dang cool. The Kelsey brothers, I feel like kind of stole the show. The MVP though for me, probably Blake Griffin. I told him this on air. Oh, this guy is just an electric factory, absolute electric factory. Him and Chandler Parsons were kind of tied to the hip a little bit. They did karaoke together and they were fantastic. I can't remember what song he's saying, but it was something with, I think, a little bit of rap in it to where they both got lost in the karaoke, like with the lines of where they were in the song. Like they were telling the band they were wrong, but I think it was definitely them. And so those two guys crack me up, man. But they're just their person out, Chandler's personality, Blake's as well. I guess give him co MVPs because they were, they were hilarious this weekend. That's amazing. It looked like it always looks like a ton of fun, but I tuned in a little bit to kind of just to see what you had going there on the 17th. And is it correct that I believe I saw Jason Kelsey blade a wedge shot across the green and end up on, was he playing a shot from the beach? Like, does it just, does the 17 just drop off? Yeah, it's like 10 feet of sand and right into Lake Tahoe. That has got to be one of the core, like course features that exists. Like just, you know, it's great. Make, make an ace and just I tell you what. It's stripped down running the lake. It was great, it was just the Lake Tahoe Navy of boats were out there every single day. The music was blaring. Just one of the coolest things ever. And part of me was like, is this what live is like, you know, just the music blaring. And hey, I loved it. It was a great place to spectate. Just, you know, did I call it real golf? No, but it was, it was a really cool atmosphere. And I loved it. I was thinking, is this, but I like this every week. No, I wouldn't, but this was really cool. Yes, yes, that is the interesting, you know, it's like, it's in some ways, I feel like that's where to really go on a tangent. That's where we're out with Bryson, where it's like, you know, some of the charm is you just get him every once in a while, you know? And you get the music every once in a while and you're like, hey, it's kind of fun. It kind of misses. I can use this, but then you really, you can't get used to it. That's kind of the charm of it that it's every once in a while. Well, Smiley has successfully dined in the, the old Virgin Atlantic Club. Just had a little dinner break here. So we're good on that front and just ordered some cookies as well. It's pistachio, dark chocolate, sea salt. I'm not sure if all three come or if she's just going to surprise me. What do we have for dinner, by the way? What was, what was, what was that little mule? Clubhouse chicken burger. Okay. I'll give it a 6.2 out of 10 with the fries. That's what's going to hold me down for the flight. Yeah, that's plain and safe. That's like drafting a left guard, you know, just going to kind of anchor the line. It's going to keep it, going to keep the team, you know, between the lines there. So she said the salmon's great, but the last thing I want to do is order salmon. And it just, and then I just get hungry, you know? Yeah, like, and then also airport fish, even, even as San Francisco airport fish, not to be trusted. So yeah, so there you have it. Here we are. Well, yeah, it's enough about our, let's see, random, random airport dining, travels, Tahoe, things of that nature. Let's get right into the professional golf, so to speak. The Scottish Open, where we had another thrilling storyline at the National Open. But the same winner, Robert McIntyre, again, when it's the National Open, the Scottish Open, gets it done in front of the home crowd, year after coming up, you know, just narrowly short with Royal Winning last year. I got to put my hand up and say, I don't know how the data gut model did not catch this one. This should have been like big flags, big, big blue and white cross Scottish flags. You know, identifying Bobby Mack as a potential winner here, just because he has talked about how he gets home. He's been home sick at times, loves being back at home. His other one on tour this year, the Canadian Open came with us down in the bag. So this should have been an easy one to flag, my apologies. But, you know, I think maybe the place to start is kind of big picture on Robert McIntyre, because he's projected to jump to number 16 in the world. It's crazy, man. He's now won twice this season on tour. There are only two other guys that have done that in tour. One was Rory McElroy, one of those wins came partnered with Shane Lowry. And the other is Scotty Scheffler, of course. So it is difficult to win twice in a season on tour. And that is pretty good company, Bobby Mack is in now. And to just kind of extend on that point of just the homesickness and the betting in on PGA tour and kind of, you know, trying to find your footing in a place that's maybe a bit uncomfortable, just making sense of his trajectory and where is that? Because to me, this is a guy, he's obviously, he's been on a winning Ryder Cup side. He feels like a guy that if you could make the UK his home base and play on a global tour, he'd absolutely dominate. But I just, I personally have trouble kind of projecting out what the rest of his career looks like simply because it's like, how comfortable will he be playing a full-time circuit in the United States of America where to this point, he said, it's not been comfortable for me. You know, it's interesting you say all that. And I will say it definitely was looking us right into the face. I can't believe we didn't really even mention Robert heading into the Scottish Open, a guy that had such a good chance to win last year, plays, you know, these playing home type of conditions. So it's got to be comfortable to me, blanks the golf course, obviously. So that was a misstep by our part because that was, I think it's easy too to sometimes think that guys are going to put too much pressure on themselves. And you either say, oh, he's going to play well there because, you know, he's at home, he should feel comfortable, or it's the other way. You never feel like the middle ground of that. So I either think like Robert's missing the cut or he's, you know, going to win like he did this week. But in Robert's career too, as the margarita is getting delivered, margarita number two. Cheers. Thank you. Different glass this time. I really could go for a margarita right about it. It's a big boy glass this time compared to the other one. But it seems that Robert is feaster famine a bit. And, you know, when you, when I've watched him play, it's definitely good. It's, it's nothing great considering all the other players that I watch weekend and week out. I, I think he does a lot of stuff, stuff really well, but it's nothing that just catches my eye, if that makes sense to you. So, and data golf kind of shows that a little bit too, that he, you know, there's, there's nothing that just is like a huge strength in his game. He's just a player that when he's playing well, he's able to take advantage of weeks in which everything feels really well. He's a guy that misses plenty of cuts, but he seems to take advantage of his good weeks better than most players, which I think, I don't know if that's more about playing weekends or more about once you just get to Saturday. It's like, okay, finally, the, the pressure's off and making the cut and, and is able to go out and play with some confidence. So you wouldn't have seen it coming into the week, you know, missing the cut of the rocket mortgage, you're missing the cut of the US Open, obviously one in Canada. So you just kind of felt like Canada was going to be his swan song this year. And you just, I felt like that was going to be, you know, his big moment in 2024. So him winning the Scottish Open took me by surprise. Obviously, took you by surprise. But what an absolute scene on the 18th green. That was so cool to see. Oh my gosh. Yes. I mean, I think for a guy that, I mean, clearly cares so much about this place and this tournament. You know, I think it's, it's interesting that it, that he won the Canadian Open this year and he had a similarly emotional response for very different reasons because his dad was there on the bag with him. But that same tournament the year before we got the Nick Taylor win, it was absolutely electric. And this very much felt like the same sort of thing of a guy that is just so thrilled to win this tournament in front of a home crowd and it was an understatement, right? I mean, it's, it's what I think it's just one of those things. It's why golf so cool is that, you know, there are guys who could have won this who would have been very happy to secure PGA Tour win one that has maybe a little bit of a larger purse given the partnership with the DP World Tour and one that leads into a major. But for a guy like Bobby Mack to win in front of the home crowd, this means so much more. And I think, and it's a great point you made too about, if you go back and you look at his results, I mean, I think he's missed nine cuts this year. That early stretch of the season was really rough. And I think maybe personally, when I'm kind of looking at these guys and trying to figure out if they're going to play good or not, maybe I placed a little bit too much emphasis on a recent run of form. But that's why I say, just I have trouble assessing a guy like this because the thing that should have been staring me in the face is he's he's he's kind of telling you when he's going to play good. It's like I miss home. If I have something that makes me comfortable, like my dad in the bag or being in Scotland, I'm probably going to play a lot better. And you know, here we go. The two times that's happened, he's come home with trophies. So I think that's a credit, credit, right? Like when he finds himself in contention, he knows how to win. And he's he's not scared of winning. He's he kind of is able to just to go out and go full bore and just trust his game and knows that it's good enough to go out and win. And so when you see his name near the top of the leaderboard going into the weekend, you just have to think yourself, don't overlook this guy without a doubt. I think the place to go next is the way in which he won because it's been the subject of quite a bit of discussion online. So Robert McIntyre finishes 333. And that is an eagle, a par and a birdie to win the tournament by a shot over Adam Scott. And I think the place to start our discussion is the three he makes is 16, that eagle. And so just to recap for those who did not watch it, 16 is a 568 yard par five was I think was playing the easiest on the course on Sunday. And so Robert hits his drive 324 yards and kind of misses the fairway to right into some of that classic thick long which is easy to do because if you miss it left, there's two pop bunkers that you just can not go in. So it's I think it's one of the harder drives on that golf course. But if you find a lie in the right fescue, if you find a lie in the if you hit the fairway, it's not a complicated second shot. Yeah, he and he ends up in a place where having just returned from Scotland, I'm not sure I could have gotten out of that lie with a chainsaw. I mean, it was very deep in there. And so he gets over there and he and his caddy are kind of going through options. Looks like they're going to try and try to chip out to the left. And he's taking some practice wings and it looks like he's got a a scythe in his hand because he just taking huge chunks of grass, a swastika grass, as he's kind of getting ready for this and and sort of clearing some of that that grass. And then going to take a stance, he's realizing that he's standing on a sprinkler. And he's almost like the reaction is he stunned. He said, I think he said something to the effect of it was great. The mics picked it up like I'm not even fooling. I'm not even joking. Like, I think I can feel a sprinkler on my stance. He also noted that the only reason he felt it was because he was wearing metal spikes instead of instead of the saw spikes, which I to go on a real tangent, we want to do this later, I found deeply ironic as Sihith the gala stayed to watch him and celebrate his win. And Sihith has been on the show and is on the record as being very anti metal spikes. So I think Sihith and Robert need to have some sort of a long form discussion about. No, we see this is a different deal. So when you play links golf, I'm actually all for the metal spikes. Okay. Yeah, firmer ground, better grip. And if the ground is already firm, you're not going to see spike marks. You see spike marks on places that the greens are soft. There you go. Links golf. You're not going to see the spike marks. Reese's peanut butter cups are the greatest, but let me play devil's advocate here. Let's see. So no, that's a good thing. That's definitely not a problem. Reese's, you did it. You stumped this charming devil. 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The drop he gets is a pretty perfect life where he was heated up in the rough, a very different situation than where he'd driven the ball. He's got 247 in and he hits a seven iron from that distance and runs it up to six feet, makes that eagle putt and that shot proves to be the difference. So I think here's what I want to just kind of explore with you a little bit is I am not saying at all. This is Bobby Maxwell for taking the drop. I think if you were a pro and you were not using the rules to your advantage, you are naive and or foolish. So I think he did the right thing in trying to position himself best to win this tournament. But how do we feel about this rule and a a when you're playing tournament golf, you hit the ball in a place, you're entitled to relief, but the the situation that the ball is being played from materially changes as a result of that drop. What are your feelings on that? Man, if there's a sprinkler head there and it's on my foot, I'm taking a drop. I don't care. I don't care how bad the lie is. It's you're entitled to a drop. I think the biggest issue that that rules guys have in whether it's grand stands that that block a ball that go 40 yards compared to where it should have gone. I'm much more on that side of like that's not where the golf ball would have ended up in this situation. Listen, you're you're entitled if you're if you're standing on a sprinkler head and if it's all let's say it was up next to the green and you had a nasty lie and next thing you know you're let's say you were a yard away from being in the first fairway cut taking a you know you're taking a drop and next thing you get your putter out. So it happens all the time. Now I do feel like if you're you know let's say in that same situation that I'm talking about where your ball is green side into nasty rough and you're standing on a sprinkler head and then you're able to get the ball onto the fringe or being able to get the putter out. I feel like it should stay in the same grass that it's in. Now the situation that you're describing in the fescue I haven't seen the video but it sounds like he was already in that that area. I don't think you can replicate the lie. Maybe you could but that's just so discretionary right. Like you there's no way to be able for the guys in the group but yep that's the exact same lie that you had. So I'm I'm for the free relief but I'm I'm also here for controversy as well. So if this gives us some to talk about then fine. Yes I mean there's nothing like a good media created outrage that you know a bunch of people are yelling about and it's actually just not that big but controversy at all. It's just like 12 people that are screaming into the void about it. I think what's like why is there a sprinkler head there that that would be the question. That is where my head went first. I was like why is it there and why is it so buried and is that a functional sprinkler head and maybe should we look at maybe getting that removed at some point in time because I'm not sure that we're using that. I think you make a good point to about you know when when people complain in any sport about the rules and the way they're written you gotta you have to take the next step of okay well how would you write them differently and that's where I think we get hung up in this situation is you know it is completely arbitrary if he has the lie he has and you're saying well you can't materially change or improve the lie it's like well then who's going to be the person that goes and takes it away from the sprinkler and then finds another part of the grass to put it into where there's not a material change you know it's you really can only write a rule to be as simple as you're standing on a thing that you shouldn't have to stand on you get X amount of club lengths from where you're standing and the method by which we're telling you to replace the balls to drop it from your knee I mean that you really can't write it in any way that makes it so ambiguous that that it's you can't you know interpret it clearly so I think that's a fair point but also I share the same agreement with you of you know we see some weird stuff around those the TIO and the grandstands and this and that where it's you know there was one a couple weeks ago in the DP World Tour where they had like a hospitality tent that was literally right up against the green and I think I saw a guy like air mail it into that you know hospitality area and then just took a drop on the actual green you're like this is first of all terrible course construction but second of all like why why are we doing tournaments in this way shape or form uh so on on that topic have you been in a locker room around a tournament where you're watching a competitor or someone else who you're playing with your friend of is watching a competitor who gets a drop like that and what is the type of reaction you get in that situation is it just like hey that's how it goes or it's like is it like you got to be kidding me man how does he get that drop in that situation it's like I wonder how an Adam Scott feels looking back on that like really that's how I lose a golf tournament you didn't see guys question drops quite as much uh when it comes to sprinkler head because I think a lot of players you know there's a benefit of the doubt when it comes to that it's you know they trust that hey this is the shot you were trying to play now there's times times where guys you know bend it a little bit if they're next to a tree and it's like oh you know my only shot was to play lefty and I'm sitting in the cart path next thing you know you take a drop now you're hitting righty and have a full shot at the green so that there's ways in which it's like ah is that really the fairest thing ever no but I think the other big one is it's just why like where your ball crosses the water it's that's such a opinion and what's your what's your eye see versus another person and the angles that you have I think you you hear about that maybe every other month about something of like man that was a dicey drop and it sometimes our rtv picks up the conversations like the you know the Rory one at seven at uh at the players was a popular in an 18 that same day so it's uh Daniel burger comes to mind um at 16 at players I don't know why all these are at players but maybe she's just a lot of water but yeah I know it's I think for the most part all the guys uh they know how the PGA tour rules officials are going to govern uh and and just how and what you can get away with as far as just drops and for the most part they protect the players um health and safety when it comes to potentially injuring yourself but I mean sometimes you get lucky which is what you got to do to win and I tell you this all the time when it comes to winning you got to get lucky and our McIntyre got lucky but guess what he did too we took advantage of it yeah and and by the way I McIntyre knows he got lucky there's an extended quote that he gave after the win where he you know said hey it it it is in summary was effectively just that like I I couldn't believe it I was stunned I said to my caddy you know I think I'm standing on a sprinkler and then you get a bit of luck and you know he's still had to hit the seven hour to six feet you know and make that putt so oh so is this for the youtube audience the tv audience this is a it's a warm pistachio cookies how it looks like a sea salt cookie wow chocolate phenomenal yeah i'm getting that here in a bit yeah i'm in a midnight snack after this margarita cookie though is that kind of really go together listen man if you listen to our thanksgiving draft we had last year of murder to go to anything it's a shame that that only like 17 people listen to that because there's probably one of our best episodes that that was if you have like an hour to kill and nothing else to do with your life go listen to our our thanksgiving draft or watch it on youtube because it was uh it was it was one of our exactly a smiley says there was a few if you couldn't follow if you couldn't follow exactly what we were trying to do there we didn't really know either but we had a great time with it boy didn't we i can't wait to run that back this year i'm not sure what we're gonna do the wrinkles gonna be this year but that was uh quite enjoyable uh the the other guy worth talking about i mean there are a number notable names the top of the leaderboard that as we preview the open championship this week we're going to get to you and talk about them in depth but luvik ober comes in the day leading uh he i mean if you look at luvik's week it's so strange like he goes 64 64 65 and then 73 on sunday three over par uh and looking at his stroke gain stats i mean it's just it was just bad across the board it was you know he is his price worst metric was well his worst metric was around the green lost a shot and a half there but close after that was uh it lost a shot in a quarter off the tee uh lost 1.1 shots approach and then his best statistic was putting but still wasn't the negative there and negative 0.67 stroke gain uh putting so just a strange sort of finish to this tournament for luvik a guy that we know has all the talent in the world a guy who's near the top of the you know the the favorites board for you know next week at trune for the open championship uh so i just wonder what sort of reflections you had on you know that result for him given how much we think of his game and his performances in these sort of situations well i think it's always good to look at how the rest of the field played that day and just what they were relative to par and the fact that only 16 players shot over par of 74 players and of the top 26 guys only one guy shot over par and that was luvik goberg another player shot even par metat Mateo Manocero but i i think you you have to you have to be a little judgy on this round you know that that's not a good performance for a player who's had a really strong three days and felt like it was going to be his his tournament to lose you know i i think i woke up uh today uh it was i guess these guys were about to tee off and it just felt like there was no way luvik was gonna lose today i just felt like he was the front runner the whole time uh played fantastic the whole week what was gonna stop him and just didn't expect to uh a day in which where he just didn't have it i think that that was really surprising that he was not able to give it much more of a fight than he did um i i don't think you can say that oh he doesn't he doesn't know how to win or he doesn't had the clutch jean well that's not true um he's he's one at every level he's one on the pj tour but this one's gonna sting a little bit i think he's gonna be a little frustrated by his play today and sometimes you just don't have it but it's on a on a sunday and a day in which you have a two-shot lead and you're playing as well as you you are i i think surprised that he wasn't a better rhythm and not able to kind of stay in that same mind frame that he had the first three days yeah you and i were talking in preparation for this episode about um you know just looking back at comparable situations you know this season you know in his first kind of full one on on tour um you know i mean i i get you know last year the half season where he got the pj tour your promotion and and of course one in the fall which which counted towards last season even though it was a double wrap around fall that was his first went on tour um but you know just looking at at this year specifically you know there are four tournaments that i pulled to kind of reference you know when he's been in a position to kind of go out and win a high leverage tournament and so obviously we just saw him at the u.s. open he was you know in solo first after the second round he shoots 73 73 on the weekend to finish t12 the rbc heritage he's tied for fourth after the third round uh shoots 72 to finish tied for 10th at the master's this kind of runs counter to the point that we're making right now is he was fourth after the third round he was one of the kind of the guys that that rose to the top you know outside of scottie to shoot 69 and finish uh solo second i think the the moment we remember there is is hitting into the water at 11 and really kind of being the last guy who had a chance to beat scottie and and then falling away you know he and calmore kawad making that same mistake and falling away you know and and i think both of us agree as well scottie still wins maybe it's by two shots instead of four but you know lubik still you know thought played played really well there to finish second and then of course the 18 t pro am where he is second shot back after the third round and we don't even get the fourth round played because of all the weather that was in the area that weekend so you know i i think that some of the chatter that you know we both seen as it relates to you know his ability to close tournaments and are we worried about this i mean i personally am not i think that there are definitely some tough moments i'm curious you know i love to hear your perspective on you know as he beds into the pj tour one thing that struck me today was watching the difference in in pace of play between both ludvik and bob macanter and i think that um you know there is it seemed like there were moments where he i think that i don't know if they were put on a clock or warned early on but whatever the situation was clearly they were not playing at his preferred pace of play and if you're in his camp are you suggesting any sort of adjustment or or just you know hey i know you like to play this way and everyone loves you for it but maybe let's kind of try to fit in with the rest of the tour here so that you're you're taking the time you need to hit these high leverage shots when you're in contention on a sunday so they put you two sims or three sims i believe it was two sims today okay um you know just double check that maybe that there was an issue with maybe ludvik got in some trouble early in the day next thing you know you're put on the clock that always can throw players off especially when they don't like being on the clock for a guy like ludvik who's never really on the clock because he's a very quick player like you're talking about but i don't think robert uh or bob says as so many call him uh would be by any means slow playing anyone uh i think ludvik is a quick player he wants to play fast he wants to stay in rhythm but you know uh every day is different i think you you on especially on a sunday you have to find a way to will yourself on days you don't have it and ludvik didn't have it today so the fact that he wasn't able to kind of just dig a little deeper and just whether it was a putty head to make or a decision with an iron shot to play it more toward conservatively and maybe got caught playing too aggressive trying to play catch up and make birdies i wish i could comment more on it as i was working all day i wasn't able to get to watch it all but uh that you see that happen a happen a lot of times with with guys that are pushing uh that maybe had uh to woken up of all they're thinking about is is winning the golf tournament and sometimes they skip some steps and not able to stay present uh but now you don't net you don't need to change routines and i don't think ludvik doesn't to me he's very instinctual he's not a guy that yes he has a routine but he'll sort of down if he needs to yeah yeah i mean it just was something that that for me obviously i i wouldn't suggest that robert macanter was slow playing him uh more so than he just has a routine that he sticks to and he's gonna do it every single time and he's especially deliberate around the greens and i think it was maybe brian harman that i was reading at one point where he maybe played a different pace you know when he arrived on tour and you know he he'd just been told you know by someone whether it was sports psychologist or coach like hey you know you need to kind of slow things down because that's the rate of what you're gonna play on tour you know that's where that's the pace everyone else is gonna play around you and you shouldn't be hitting shots before you're ready and and so i'm not suggesting the ludvik is not ready when he's hitting these shots i just i wonder if some of that you know trying to kind of calibrate the rate of which you're kind of pacing these days out as it changes to a guy who is more deliberate if that's something that impacts the scoring but i think you know to your larger point that definitely feels like the story of ludvik's day i mean you know you never see him drive it with um the type of inaccuracy that he had uh you know in that final round and and just stuff around the green race usually one of the best iron players on tour stuff like that where it just yeah it was definitely an off day for him but just had a curiosity around the pace of play discussion for ludvik so um yeah and he's still one of the favorites this week and and he could very well go out and and you know when his first major true and we're not shocked me the slightest um some other names that that kind of want to ping here uh obviously one and done not not you know listen we can't pick winners every single week might as we try uh you finished you did a lot better than i did with tom kim uh to my men will leave pick men will leave start 15 yeah you had a little uh tie for 15 uh men will leave i believe was 73rd can we talk about tom though what he did yeah you scared not really me you scared just scared me for the show when you so i woke up to a text one morning saying and i thought tom kim was not registered for the tournament well he didn't register for the tournament and typically he would have had to phone home but i guess there was a sponsor exception still available and they gave it to tom so he could have very easily flown over to scallen realized he didn't sign up and then had to have had to have flown home so i'm blaming tom kim not winning this week and those five shots that had to be like a five shot penalty in his brain and that's i think that ended up being the difference actually six shots he shot twelve other yeah i think that's good for six i i wonder i i i wish i'd seen more of him play this week with the different you know the time of the tournament like did he have to slap the sponsor's logo on do you have a different sponsor committee like what was the nature of that of that exemption you got to wonder what happened there behind the scenes yeah i don't know i don't know but but uh my my boy erin ry just can't stop won't stop shooting 600 par every round if your small business is booming you might say but you should say like a good neighbor state farm is there and will help your growing business like a good neighbor state farm is there now two pigeons and coach prime bemoaning the fact you can stream direct tv satellite free he's human to get the biggest college football games on direct tv and we don't even get a satellite dish enough squawk it it's coach prime bring it in sure they can get all that college football without a dish but you still got your passion you're dry you resolve your incredible career as a football icon no that's me stream the biggest college football games no satellite dish visit direct tv.com how about erin ry so our our two guys amongst the ones we liked we i i had the gala you had ry both finished tied before erin ry here here's what i want to just know here because i was looking through his stats and you know in the past his weakness has been putting right this week in a second round on friday gained almost three strokes putting and then on sunday when he goes out and shoots i think he shot a 60 he shot a 63 on sunday he gained 3.36 strokes putting and that sunday around and qualifies for the open championship in the process so i you know for me it's like okay everything's starting to come together for him we and we've obviously seen it in the past month with some of these tournaments but just the and i think the putting thing is especially interesting because we changed surfaces so much in this past month vermuda pinehurst then you go to the bent poe mix at travelers and rocket mortgage then you go to bent at john dear now you're here you know putting on red fescue and it'll be the same next week at the open so to see him putting like this on this grass makes me think you know now he's in you can play pretty well at trim bro he's a striper uh and since making the change and going to see john graham up in uh rodchester teaches a lot of guys out on tour he is his improvement in that part of his game has been the reason for the big jump i mean you you kind of reference it and how good the putting was in scottish open but man he had some unbelievable putting days uh at the john dear and the rocket mortgage just days that are just you you can't miss so obviously whatever he's doing it i remember his routine he was like taking his arm off off of the club and like putting it on his chest and maybe there's something to either square shoulders or maybe he's trying to feel his shoulders move the putter back and that's kind of the reference point in that but my boy is all the way up in the top 50 in the world he ain't won yet so if that says he would type of golf he's played he's 45th in the world so love to see it uh maybe errand righ maybe he's the like if there's a guy that's kind of randomly win the open champion champion chip next week that nobody's talking about winning dude errand righ yeah i mean uh english min you know it should be a little bit of that home cooking uh you know he's a guy that uh home cooking we can't we can't overlook the home cookers now uh the home cookers is is it's rapidly shooting up the data gut uh model it's being factored and i'm i'm tweaking my percentages of the data gut and and hopefully except fitsy he doesn't like links golf so we we got to remove him from from the data yet his his his uh home cooking variable i've had it turned down it's this it's a specific toggle i've made for him uh yeah i you know you got it's interesting it's like i wonder has he played too much golf you know like in this in this last stretch like as he's played i think darn near every week and is this a guy who's like gonna be just rolling in on fumes at the open championship i mean i i don't know how about it man he's played so like there's somebody that always plays really well during the summer errand righ it's been him this year he wasn't in the open championships like you said so to go all the way over to scotlin you know he probably didn't have to play uh decides you know what i'm playing good enough let me go play the scottish we'll go try to play my way into the open championship and i've watched him play plenty this year it just he's got it on a string he drives it incredibly straight and uh he's built for an open championship those two gloves that he's that he wears on both hands that is that is a guy that is built for major championship open championship golf i should say yes it's like uh i wonder if he has i wonder if he has a separate pair of gloves that they're the rain gloves like are the rain gloves the primary gloves then he has a different set of rain gloves these are all things that we might find out this week it's true if we get a little bit of precipitation have you looked at the forecast by the way uh i think it's raining oh um i think it's raining which fits for my boy errand righ rain gloves rain gloves big rain gloves week for for the righ guy and and his irons you know he's got the covers on on the heads so he's another good point so with this guy i'm telling you really heating up on errand righs am i just selling you like this is going to be the week he wins yeah you you're starting to it's a real shame he didn't do it when i picked him in one and done and he came you know woefully close that's that i see all these these guys now through the lens of one and done so you're probably going to sneak in a little err you know what i should say this you deserve to win with erri i'm on the train i might pick them you deserve to win with erri so wouldn't that be a Cinderella story uh well yeah i mean so i i think i mean that's the guy that's putted well um jt you know wanted to briefly touch on he he opened up with that 62 and gained 3.42 strokes uh putting with that new scottie camera because we'd seen him change he had the old scottie that was a mallet and then he'd gone to that blade that was replica of what gordon sergeant was using and now he's got this new um i don't know if it's a prototype or it's just like the newest model of like the scottie fandom or something like that looked really really good that friday through sunday not so good but godly like just watching on thursday i was like oh jt might be back like we might be in we're back territory and you know we'll get there we'll get there no it's good to see uh a hot putting around i think once it's one statistics that just popped out uh it was just a ray tweet probably i'm not sure if it was or not but he made a 42 foot putt that first round and it was the longest putt he has made since 2022 at 42 feet like he hadn't made anything outside of 40 feet which you think you'd run one in at some point every year and a half so that just kind of tells you kind of how it's been for jt which is a guy that don't mean wears out the middle of the greens and if he's not getting anything to go from that range like once a tournament you know you're you don't pick up that that extra shot or just that extra momentum putt that that you know can propel you to some some more uh golf like it in in the coming holes so you're constantly just trying not to three putt that's uh you gotta hit it pretty then close yeah well let's hope this is the butter as as a tinker there's nothing better than feel like you were arrived you're like this is this is the one i don't have to tinker anymore uh so i i it looked good it looked good on thursday and let's hope we see more of that uh in in the weeks to come so uh i i think now is a good time to ever to kind of turn it over to the other professional tour uh where we'll be seeing some of these guys in the field this next week at the open uh live at Baldurama and if you're a spanish sporting fan congrats you had a day on sunday because start of the day with uh a win for Carlitos Alcaraz at Wimbledon in straight sets over Novak Djokovic uh and then you know you waited maybe a couple hours you watched Spain defeat England in the euro final uh and then uh of course maybe arguably the most important event of the day Sergio Garcia in the fireballs when the individual and team awards at live Baldurama so lots of lots of spanish trapping and boy i mean Sergio looked like a spanish flag as did the rest of his team we are god bless him i i like the fireballs and the ironheads are in a like worst uniform off and i don't know who's winning right now they're both go through the Legion in there too you don't like the Legion uniforms i mean the Legion uniforms aren't great but they're also not like i mean you see the i don't like the logo i don't like the Legion logo so i don't know i i don't like it either though i don't like the hot pink and black i don't know that aim for me the ironheads uniforms are are so bad they're almost good like they look like uh like the Raiders isn't it like black and gray no they have well they have like these weird like these green stripe like it looks like a like a second division Italian soccer team it's amazing i don't know i don't know who makes them or you know where they get them from but yeah i mean those but yeah but the the Ronald McDonald look it's it's a look it's definitely it's definitely a look and shout out to anybody that parlayed all of the Spanish teams winning and if you happen to have the profit of Abraham answer throwing his wedge into the woods what a ticket you cash with alcares euro final serger the fireballs and answer answers wedge still in the air i i had i had that one is sort of a kicker to the segment but you noted it so let's just chat about this i mean i'm a retired member of the helicopter gang used to love a good club toss but i've i've been told by people love me it needs to stop and so i'm doing my best but i just i want to know the shot cut off i want to know where it landed because to me to be there the key to a good club toss is you have like a split second after you've hit a terrible shot to determine where can i throw this club to where it's not gonna damage my club head or my shaft and then you can't be vertical it's got to be horizontal it's a horizontal it's a it's like a frisbee motion and then you got to commit to the release you can't try to steer it in there you just got to trust it and just let that thing go and it's trusted it's gonna land and i've had some close calls i threw a two iron into a creek bed one time miraculously missed all the rocks in there it was you know no words for the wearer but um i i just want to know i want to know if Abe was able to pick a good target right after he stubbed that chip shot and and land that wedge in there nice or if we're looking at a replacement wedge i don't think he found that man i don't think he's left it well i think it's so far in there i don't think it was a situation where you're gonna find it but oh oh you think he threw it into like a hazard i didn't see on the side of the thing i just i mean ball drama just doesn't seem like a place when you throw it in into the woods that you're gonna go find it mmm by the way ball drama easily one of my favorite venues that live golf plays and really probably one of the highest up there i just love every time ball drama is on tv the the scoring is always you know it's not very low you know you can go shoot something you know 67 goes a long way when you play that golf course so that uh you know when we taught we we debate the golf courses that both tours play and you know the pj tours in a stretch right now where you gotta go shoot a million under uh it's got it's open obviously would have been maybe a little closer to 10 under par if it would have been a little trickier weather but ball drama is like off course that you know place firm fast you got to drive it really well typically the greens get firm and you know you saw hopefully it was 600 it was a winning score that's a yeah that's a hell of a test well and all that topic too because i think this is something that we we talked about this we were kind of delighted by this earlier in the year when we saw ripper win the team awards and Adelaide and just the the home game sort of environment that they had and just talking about how man this is this is a cool thing uh this is something that got me to pay attention to live and can they do more of this and so i'm just wondering your reflections on having another home game sort of set up for the fireballs i know they're not all spanish players but you know Sergio being the captain there you know did that do something for you seeing that team win at this setting you know and and kind of add to that sort of home game sort of set up that live is stumbled into in some ways yeah i mean i think it's cool right and i think the good way to compare it is all right so do you like a team win at home so you just mention uh rippers win in Australia and then fireballs win in Spain but i'll tell you what i i prefer probably Robert McIntyre winning in Scotland uh by himself i think it i think that's cooler to me i think both are both are great um but sign me up for Robert winning in in uh in Scotland i think over it and and you could you could say that about you know a lot of players on the PGA tour if they you know kegan bradley winning at the travelers i think that's way cooler than than these guys winning in their their home country i think it's great because they have all the support and maybe a little bit of an advantage i don't know um just the four guys that are from the same place probably feel you know like they would have a little bit of uh you know pipping their step from maybe a little bit more you know their crowd cheering them on a little harder and but also you know just comfortable with the conditions of how the golf courses and something that they're probably familiar growing up on but uh you know those those kind of ring in my head travelers with kegan and and robert in Scotland i'm sure there's plenty more like what jordan's won in dallas uh four worth those are always really fun ones i think to watch on tv but yeah i i think there's i think that's probably when the live golf models at its best is when you know these these teams are winning at home because guess what it on tv when you watch it's going to sound um and feel like it's a bigger event because the energy is more uh than it would be if let's say the ironheads or the cliques were winning this week in spain yeah without a doubt i mean i i just think that's the one thing that you know of of the live golf model that's the one that strikes me as being uh something gives me the pay attention and so that's something that you haven't even talked about how like they won by the way uh how's how like how sergeo and the fireballs won yes would you like to talk about that yes i mean it was it was a two and a half footer maybe three footer that honor bottom will hear you miss okay so yes and by the way uh this is actually a perfect time for a little live trivia because our guy sean larry is back with more nuggets this week uh i regret that i can't get to all of them but how much money do you think honor bottom the here is one on live tour since he joined um could i go with seven point eight million wow that's amazing do you want it do you want another guest you want me to tell you what he's made just tell me 23.6 million and you know honor bond he went on a one-year contract how about that one-year contract do you know how aggressive that is to do and how big of a risk that was for him a one-year deal and goes and earns it earns a spot on the crushers science probably for a three-year deal after that first year but that's uh you know what and for some guys you know i'm not saying that that live isn't it's it's great for honor bottom area he didn't he didn't ever really get into the pj tour like he you know he wasn't his family never really like settled in daforda but in times i've talked to him i think he's living i believe he's in Dubai i believe last time i talked to her like which is a little closer um to home to india where he grew up so i i think it's you know been beneficial for guys like that and you kind of miss your honor mac tire being homesick um earlier this year and and this is like the time of the year where it's like god i wish i wish the pj tour just leaned into all these opens just so an irish open scottish open the open and we were playing harder golf courses tougher conditions you know the winner at the end of the week is most likely the guy who played the best that week and it's not as much of an execution test it's a guy who actually golfed his ball and was able to you know fight all the elements and i want to see more of that i think there's a place and for okay all right we've got a little breaking news flight update please make your way down to pj 12 as a courtesy reminder please check all your personal belongings before moving the clubhouse on behalf of original addicting we thank you for spending your time with us so that's our wrap signal i i think we got a wrap okay well uh this is the part of the episode where smiley is just received his gate announcement so i'm not sure where we were and i managed my cookie and you finish your cookie so let's finish your cookie now uh and yeah look there they're we had a few other things on our docket that we were going to get to but here's here's the great thing about that is is i had some some numbers instead that shonda passed on on john rahm and we get to talk about that as part of our open championship preview because as we've discussed previously on the show this is a big one for rahm final major of the year chance to make a statement so we'll get to that at that point um and we got a lot of fun stuff coming up this week we've got an open championship preview we're going to discuss trune some historical facts and figures uh from previous opens played here we have of course our one-and-done picks we're gonna have a huge bounce back week get a little playoff and live stream year i'm gonna have a bounce back week i actually had a pretty decent week yeah yeah i i'm speaking for myself here but you know i'm also i'm coming off a win so i have a little bit of you know a little bit of leeway there uh so and smiley of course on site in trune uh seven point four on the cookie seven point four for the cookie so look that's good we went up we went from six point two to seven point four up three to sandwich nine that's look it looked like a nine i could look like a nine point five this was fantastic something tells me they might serve you a few those on the flight over to Heathrow so i'm not like a i'm not a plain alcohol drinker um it's like not my thing i i'm actually only drink it's the only time i ever drink soda on a plane it's at drinks i'll drink sprite every fight i never drink soda anywhere else it's just what we're just saying well i mean i'm sure you're gonna have plenty you got plenty of time to go have some sprites some margaritas on the way over there and next time we see it we're talking to you to preview the open champion chip so we're looking forward to that and then of course as we do always for all these majors we're gonna have daily journals recapping all the action from trune so that's what you got to look forward to this week we appreciate you watching listening and we'll be not back here i'll be here smiley will be over there we'll talk to you Reese's peanut butter cups are the greatest but let me play devil's advocate here let's eat so no that's a good thing uh that's definitely not a problem Reese's you did it you stumped this charming devil now two pigeons and coach prime bemoaning the fact you can stream direct tv satellite free he's human to get the biggest college football games on direct tv and we don't even get a satellite dish enough squawk it it's coach prime bring it in sure they can get all that college football without a dish but you still got your passion your drive your resolve your incredible career as a football icon no that's me stream the biggest college football games no satellite dish visit direct tv.com [BLANK_AUDIO]
Join Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme as they dive into another episode of "The Smylie Show," recapping Robert MacIntyre's closing surge to win the Scottish Open + Smylie's week at Lake Tahoe broadcasting the American Century Championship, where he caught passes from Josh Allen, put up some shots with the Curry family, and caught up with the always entertaining Charles Barkley.
