Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are back for another live show recapping all the action from the John Deere Classic. Charlie is fresh off a golf trip in Scotland and on a one-and-done heater, as he picked Davis Thompson for his *fifth* one-and-done win of the season - and the eighth for the show! Smylie and Charlie take a deep dive on DT's game, and whether he could be a buddying star on American Ryder and Presidents Cup teams. SK and CH also react to reports that Keegan Bradley will be named the U.S. Ryder Cup captain at Bethpage in 2025.
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Our EIGHTH One-and-Done Win at the John Deere + Keegan Bradley Ryder Cup Captain Reports
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I'm running on, I don't know how I do the math on my sleep schedule because I think I slept, I think it was like a 24-hour travel day to get to North Palm Beach last night and I probably slept four hours and that 24 hours and last night I slept about two and a half hours. So I'm running on fumes right now. I'm running on the highs from the Scotland trip. I'm running on the adrenaline from the one and done win, which we will certainly get into here shortly. But that's kind of where I'm at right now. So we're just going to kind of see how it goes. We kind of have to get into some of this breaking news right now, right? I mean, we're here. I mean, it's kind all over Twitter at the moment. Do we want to get into it? Well, we have a couple different options here. So we have the briefest of Scotland, you know, just chats. We're going to dig into a full Scotland recap here in a couple weeks. We have that. We have the travel stuff. We have a one and done recap or eighth win of the year for the show. My personal fifth win and a John Deere classic recap we want to dig into. And we were and we were going to do a little bit of reaction to we were going to kind of prepare for the announcement noon tomorrow of the next US Ryder Cup captain. But I think you're right. I mean, we might as well just chat a little bit here about what Bob Harris is reporting right now. The Keegan Bradley is going to be selected as the next US Ryder Cup captain. So let's just get some first impressions from you to get this thing going smiley. Yeah, I got the text about it this morning. And I was thinking to myself, that seems to be the direction that this US Ryder Cup team wants to go is a little bit younger, more relatable. And they had that was Zach Johnson. But I'm not sure if they had quite the support for Zach Johnson that maybe that they realize that he may have needed. John Wood gets hired to be the manager of the team. We'll see what type is what his vice captains potentially might be. But off the cuff just thinking about Keegan Bradley as the captain. I mean Keegan to me is widely known as to being one of the most competitive match play players that I can think of. We can think of multiple occasions of just the match play at the one at TPC Harding Park with on hell, Jimenez, him and Keegan getting into it with Pepsi. So definitely he's a tough dude that will will fight not only for himself, but for the all the guys that would be on his team. He's had huge moments in the Ryder Cup playing with film, Mickelson. And I think just his tenacity and how he played became a bit of a Ryder Cup legend, sinking a lot of big putts, not shying away from the moment, even being a rookie and stepping up to the plate and just being a guy that could be relied upon his teammates. And we all saw the devastation on the Netflix, a full swing of him getting the call from Zach Johnson, not being on the team. So part of me is like, okay, you didn't make the team at Rome and maybe the VJ is like, hey, well, we got something one thing better for you. How about being the Ryder Cup captain at Beth Page in New York, which is going to be in its same atmosphere? I do think it's kind of interesting to the dynamic of Luke Donald and Keegan Bradley, two really good friends. So those two guys having a friendly nature, you know, a good relationship between the two of them, I think is super interesting. The vice captains is interesting because I think Phil Mickelson's a really close friend to Keegan. But I have to imagine that since Tiger turned it down, it's hard not to see Tiger being a vice captain. And I just don't see a world in which Tiger and Phil will be vice captains together. So with all that being said, I'm I don't know who else they could have picked. Stuart Sink was the other really big candidate. I feel like that that was kind of rumored to be maybe the next guy. But it wasn't a shoe and it wasn't a way up. I think Steve Stricker was to me the the best choice that you could have gotten if you got to get Steve Stricker to go and do it. But it seems that he's retiring from Ryder Cup captain see after whistling straights. If you couldn't get Steve might as well try to to go get somebody else that maybe doesn't have the experience, but it's going to have the fire. He's going to know all these young players and and who knows he he's not far off from making the team. So that's interesting, too. Could it be a playing captain? There's a lot to unpack your Charlie. Most certainly my head the first place my head goes is to a very bizarre place. It is thinking of all the various great images we have in the years past of Michael Jordan being at Ryder Cup, smoking cigars on the cart. And Keegan, of course, being a Jordan guy. I think we might see, you know, a little Michael Jordan cameo, maybe a little team room pep talk, something of that nature of Keegan is helming the team as expected with this report from Bob Herring. And I think if you're looking at the decision and its totality, you know, the profile of the decision makes a lot of sense because it's like a lot of things in life and business, you know, in sports, you know, we have Seth Waugh led the PGA of America for a number of years. And he recently stepped down. So you have new leadership coming in, you have a clear sort of rejection from the public of the way things had gone previously, some criticism of the way that Zach Johnson led the team in Rome, you know, criticisms of the boys club, that same boys club that kind of kept Keegan out as a player from Rome. You know, I think there are a lot of, you know, tricky decisions that, you know, to be handled things like where Bryson de Shambo fits in this team picture, others who are on live, you know, they're not kind of qualifying outright. And I think a new voice is much better suited to handle those types of decisions and, you know, sort of, sort of, just weighty things that an establishment set of captains that had previous experience maybe would just kind of decide to do it status quo. That's how I kind of see this decision. Now, I still think Keegan is a, just Keegan himself is a surprising one for a lot of the reasons you listed a guy who's still playing well, you know, in that sort of top 50 top 30 on the FedEx Cup, a guy who easily make this team with a good run of form. But I love the kind of, if this indeed is the pick, I love the genesis of a new type of leadership for these teams and a guy who, you know, for all we know, I think his bag from the last Ryder Cup he played and is still packed because he didn't want to unpack it again. And so he played on another Ryder Cup team or participated on another Ryder Cup team, maybe being a captain checks that box. But going and doing this, a guy who clearly cares about this team and this competition and is going to wear that passion on his shirt. And I think, yeah, the vice captain's thing is going to get really fun and really interesting to see who he decides to bring in to kind of help co-home that team because that of course seems to make up the next set of captains we see for the next president's cups and Ryder cups on the horizon. So definitely a left field one, but I think the profile of the decision, it makes a lot of sense if you think about it from where they're trying to kind of go with a new era of leadership. I think this would have made a lot more sense if this was two years from now or three years from now, we're talking maybe just when Keegan might be out of the mix to make the team. But as it stands now being, I think a player that's right on the bubble of making the team, it's, it's really interesting because you're having so much youth come through right now that you have the old guard in the new guard and figuring out who's going to be the young players that that gets selected. And I think you're going to see a little bit of the president's cup this year. Is Sahih Thigala, Akshay Bhatia, Will's Alatoris. Will's Alatoris is a player that would have been already on some of these teams. If it weren't for those injury, Cameron Young. So you have all these young guys and Davis Thompson winning this week. Are we going to start to see a bit of integration this year on this president's cup team? But it's fascinating to me because we obviously have plenty of time until Keegan Bradley and the Ryder Cup team. Next year gets decided. I know he's a bubble guy this year for the president's cup, but who's to say that Keegan doesn't go out and have a really good year next year. And he's, you know, a guy that that plays his way onto the team. It's all really interesting to me. And you just have to still like where the Europeans are sitting in all this. They have can, you know, they have Luke Donald, who did a tremendous job in Rome. It just seems it didn't be not a whole lot of change over there. And the Americans seem to have to be playing a little catch up and figuring it out as they go because I think they had Tiger Woods penciled in to be the captain this for this Ryder Cup. And once he turned it down, they didn't have a, you know, a succession plan that just made perfect sense, which is why I think you saw them go with a player like Keegan Bradley, who obviously has tons of love and for the for the Ryder Cup. And and just is an absolute animal when it comes to competition that you know, he's not going to really just leave any stone on turn. He's going to go all win in every single aspect of trying to make sure he has the best team possible to go and winning in, in, in New York. And you know, Charlie, that that Keegan's gonna be unreal on TV for that. He's gonna be very energetic with the crowds. I guess you could say for, for how he's gonna kind of handle it at Beth Page. But this is all assuming this, this report is right. You assume that it is. It's the same information I heard as well. So I'm super happy for Keegan. And I know he'll be an incredible captain if that is, if that is true news. Yeah, man, if he does indeed bring Phil back into the fold, I mean, that that in it of itself as a whole other, you know, topic to unpack because that one or the other, right? Well, I mean, in essence, it would represent a bridging an attempt to bridge that gap. I don't know how guys on that team would receive that decision. But having Phil and Keegan on the leadership, you know, in the leadership group at Beth Page, Black, would be playing to the New York crowd in spades. I mean, that's about as good as you can do if you're trying to kind of get that crowd going and get some guys there really feel like they can be good spiritual leaders. And I think that, you know, as we sit here to your point, does do the Europeans to kind of have the edge on paper? Maybe a little bit, but just think about where we were after whistling strays where we're like, we're gonna go in and bow race in a room. So I'm gonna be a competition. And the way those ties sort of turned in the months leading up, I think anything can happen between now and then. And I think that there are some big, big decisions to make if Keegan isn't the captain about who he's gonna take for this team. If a captain's pick situation doesn't change because we heard rumblings about that after the way the last team was picked. You know, I think that there is an opportunity to do what Luke Donald did with the Louvig go bear with a nickel lahoy guard. Because I mean, some of the names you listed are still young and a vacuum. And by the way, make me feel old that they're on the older side of young like the Salat Taurus is in this to hit the gallows. But I mean, think about how much like Davis Thompson is young in comparison to like if I'm sitting in Keegan shoes, I got to consider Gordon Sergeant Nick Dunlap. I mean, I mean, the way these guys are playing, I mean, we got to see more from these guys. But look at the way Michael Thorbjornson played this last week, Luke Clanton, Jackson Coven. I mean, there, that's a whole thing I want to kind of dig into with this John Deere classic, but there is so much impressive American talent right now. And guys, they're not afraid of the moment. And so you're gonna 100% leave some of those guys out. But I would love to see a risky captain's pick or two on a guy that is either freshly pro. I mean, an amateur pick would be insane. I don't even know the rules around that if they can do something like that. But I mean, there is so much good young talent that we just watched Luke Clanton back to back top 10 in two tour events. I know not the strongest field, but still to be able to go out there and do that. That's the type of player that I want to see kind of betting into Ryder Cup experience and becoming a stalwart on this team for years to come. And you know, it always ends up where they're too, you know, not enough spots too many good players, but we have some really good, a really good stable at town that Keegan could really say, Hey, look, we're going to go in the next generation the same way the Europeans did that in Rome and succeeded by doing it. Yeah, definitely it seemed the Europeans had a great plan in place. I think the one thing to watch out for is is how the President's Cup team gets gets picked this year. I really point to if Keegan Bradley doesn't get picked, if it's another situation where he doesn't get picked for President's Cup this year you're talking about, right? And the assisting captains have already been selected. It seems like if it comes down to one guy or another between Keegan or somebody else, you have to take Keegan just because experience, right? Not only, not only experience, just get him back in the room, just help him continue to build relationships with the future team that he's potentially going to captain next year. So that's another angle that if I'm a player, let's say I'm Sahith Iyala, and it comes down between me and Keegan Bradley, if you're Jim Furek, I mean, do you take Keegan for potential just good vibes for a guy that, you know, has an opportunity to build continual relationships with this young team, that's another angle to look out for as well. So, yeah, interesting, all interesting stuff. And you know, we could we could go on about this for for, you know, hours at this rate. But I think about 15 minutes as we've done here on this. And again, it is if you've not caught up on this already, it's a Bob Herrick report that the announcement being made tomorrow, I believe it's at noon Eastern is that Keegan Bradley will be the next United States Ryder Cup captain for Beth Page Black in 2025. So we'll wait to see if that announcement holds. There are other reports surrounding that announcement that Tiger Woods turned it down that Stewart sink was in contention. But Bob Herrick reporting that Keegan Bradley will be that captain. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens tomorrow. Smiley, where do you where do you want to go next? Do you want to dive into John Deere? Yeah, let's let's get right into it. Right here. What's what's celebrate? Let's sell it. I need it. It's a it's a true shame that I've just been on a, you know, 48 hour travel binge and then more time to queue up like that. So we need some production by out here because I mean, you were going to think we're rigging these events, dude. I mean, this is we got all the answers. We got all the answers. I, you know, I think that it's interesting in looking at our betting on us, we need to hit the guy back up on Twitter, who compiled all of our, you know, if you bet X amount of money, you know, this is what your return would have been. We were up like, you know, some ridiculous figure, you know, 300% on the year, if you just better outright picks. So we need to go back and re tabulate that. Now that we've added another winner. But Davis was not, he was on the shorter side this week. I want to say he was top 10 in betting odds, maybe even top five because he was on a stream of a couple of people probably move that way as the week went on. He'd gone T 20, 17, nine and T two. But in T two, most recently, the rocket mortgage and then in the lead lead into the week, right? We were talking about how this is an opportunity for a guy who has got a ton of talent, who has one on tour yet, whoever that may be, we listed a lot of names to go ahead and pick up their first tour when and that is exactly what we saw at the John Deere Classic. So I mean, I just, it was interesting watching this at night over in in Scotland, you know, I thought the thing that was, there are a couple of things for me that really stood out to be about Davis Thompson's game is that if you look at his, his stats profile, he put it incredibly well this week. The short game was also fantastic. I think there was one potential turning point on, on Sunday, where I think he had a three shot lead. He was at 27 under Michael Thorbjørensen is at 24 under. He's standing on the 14th tee of that potentially drivable par four and he blocks it out right. And he's in the rough. And he, you know, it's obviously, that's, this course was we saw, I think 16 players, 20 under par better this week. So this course didn't have many defenses, but some of the defenses it has is that thick rough. And so Thorbjørensen obviously is worried a little bit about, you know, that that, you know, hitting it too far, not being able to spin it and it kind of rolling off the green hits it short ends up three punting there makes five drops a shot back to 23. Davis stands on that team does the same thing hits it right. His ends up on a car path, but he takes a drop. What does he do? Knocks it to about this, you know, 12 inches knocks in the bird. Nice. So that, that I thought was phenomenal. But but I thought that watching the coverage in the UK, the thing that stood out to me was, and I forget who the analyst was, but looking at his swing, and the way he uses the ground. And it was in great contrast, I think to, we talk a lot about Scotty Sheffler's footwork and moving all over the place and sliding it. And he obviously does it in a way that works for him. But looking at some of his kind of, you know, his tea accuracy, which he did a great job of this week, where when he had impact, he has both feet on the ground, not up yet extremely solid base. And to me, that helps them find the center of the face more often and keep it accurate in the middle of fairway. But he's also like six four. So he's got power built in there as well. This is a guy that he's got, he's got power. You know, his approach game was great this week as well. And when he's putting it like this, and when he's chipping it like this, this is a guy looks like he could be another one of the faces of young American golf going forward. So just, I'm just pumped for us that we're just, you know, we're just identifying young town, we're making a happen. What were your thoughts on the way Davis played this week? Oh gosh. Yeah, Davis, huge congrats. And when you kind of talk about his golf swing, first big congrats to his longtime coach, Eric Ashman lives here in Birmingham is the director of golf out at Country Club at Birmingham. It's who I went to as a kid growing up. So seeing Eric coach a PGA tour winner was really fun for me to watch Davis get it John Davis, his dad Todd Thompson is the RSM tournament director, but he also started the Southeastern Junior golf tour. Or if he didn't start it, he he was the head honcho for 15 plus years when I was coming up playing. So every time I played in a SJGT tournament, Todd Thompson was always there running the golf tournament. So I've known Todd forever. And then along comes Davis, you know, however many years later, I was like, this gets to be pretty good. And he's like, yeah, he's he's pretty dead good. And when you talk about his golf swing, interesting that you say his feet were on the ground. Well, it just rings a bell in my head. Anytime that I would go get a lesson from Eric, we always just try to work on keeping my right foot down through and keep spinning out of it. So that's a fundamental that Eric teaches. He's got great, great footwork like you talk about stable clubface. And it's the type of athlete to we have PJ to were posted his basketball highlights, which was great. And we're seeing more and more of this, which is the type of PGA tour athlete that's coming out on the tour. You mentioned a couple of those stars coming out a moment ago with clan and Thorm Jorssen. But Davis Thompson, he reminds me a lot of the same type of athlete and body figure and golf swing that Ludwig Oberg has tall, rangey athlete knows how to use the ground very well. You don't see a ton of changing in their levels, a lot of side bend, just an ability to put the bat on the ball and be able to use the ground and sequence the golf club correctly. And that's what Davis has really been kind of what he's done since he's been an amateur golfer, junior golfer having success on every single level. And you know, you have to really start to credit this PGA tour you think as well. And when I was possibly when I was a guy that was still playing, I was against PGA tour you I didn't want any these college kids have to skip any skip any steps because there were so many players that that I felt maybe were granted too many opportunities and didn't take advantage of them. And I was a player that worked my way into the system. But as I've grown and older and seen the TV side, but also notice how well these players are really succeeding at an early level, Luke Quanton, Thorne Bjortzen, Ludwig Oberg, Davis Thompson. These are all guys that I mean, this PGA tour you think is is a really awesome thing that that the PGA tour, whether it was live or wasn't live to continue to get these guys more at bats earlier on in their in their careers, it's it's great for events like John Deere to get an influx of just incredible golfers that that it was no surprise to see them have so much success. But to just talk a little bit more about Davis, I believe PGA tour communications when I was listening to serious exam on the drive, I think he had like 16 straight one putts, which is like a PGA tour record or we ties it. So Davis Thompson not known for being an expert putter by any means goes and has 16 one putts in a row at a point in the tournament is incredible. Starting the day with five birdies in his first six holes. Also the first player since Rory Mcroy to shoot 29 on his front nine. And Rory Mcroy did that at the RBC Canadian Open back in 2022. So we're talking about a player that woke up said, You know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna birdie the first five out of the first six holes make a 44 footer on the first hole. I'm gonna put this in bed. Just put this thing to sleep. So congrats to Davis fun to see also fun to see the youth. That's that's kind of carried the last couple weeks to be honest. 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. One more plus member save on meeting up with friends save on having them over for dinner with free delivery with no hidden fees or markups that's groceries plus napkins plus that vegetable chopper to make things a bit easier plus member save on gas to go meet them in their neck of the woods. Plus when you're ready for the ultimate sign of friendship, start a show together with your included Paramount Plus subscription. Walmart plus member save on this plus so much more. Start a 30 day free trial at walmartplus.com. Paramount plus a central plan only separate registration required. See one more plus turns and conditions. That's it. I think that's a really interesting conversation point as well because the two things there. One is the profile of these guys that are coming up. I mean, you know, it's the summer of the the basketball mix tape, right? We saw Scotty Hooping in a pine valley shirt. We now have the full Davis Thompson compilation. We might have to dig into the Smiley Kaufman High School basketball compilation of some way to make it quick. I like it. But I mean, Michael Thorbjørensen, you know, if you put him a Stanford football uniform and trot him out there and play quarterback on Saturday, I wouldn't blink twice. I mean, the guys built like a house. Yes. And, you know, and I just think all these guys, it's a it they're true, true athletes. And I think in terms of opportunities, it is, are they afforded a better set of opportunities now than perhaps they were. Yes, absolutely. But I think back to I was at the Walker Cup Seminole on a team that featured Davis Thompson, Cole Hammer, the Cooney twins, Ricky Castilio. There are others I'm forgetting. But you know, a good collection of talent we've kind of seen come up. And I actually have followed Davis round for several holes. And I was that was that was the guy who impressed me the most on all the teams. They were all good players. But yes, he was, I forget who he was playing. But I followed him for fuels in a singles match. And I thought of all the guys in terms of managing the wind and the where you could and couldn't miss a Seminole, he kind of did the best job. But I'll say as well, that there are other guys on that team that we thought were going to be standout players. And they they have been afforded some opportunities on the tour through sponsor exemptions and things like that. But those guys have not capitalized on it. And the way that you know, let's say Lou Clayton has the past couple of weeks top 10 and getting next week events. Now he's he's somehow the betting favorite to win the opposite field this week as an amateur at 16 to one which is insane. It's awesome. I love it. I love it so much. But those guys are getting opportunities and then converting them into more opportunities. Whereas I think cool hammers playing corn fairy tour now Castillios on corn fairy tour. I think the kudi twins have kind of bounced back and forth a little bit. It's you know, I think one of them maybe earned their card last year. But the point being that when you get the opportunities, if you capitalize on them, you get to stay and that's a merit based system. And I like that. And if you don't, you'll eventually find your way back down on a on a lower tour and we'll have your way an opportunity to play your way back in. But you know, if you want to hang around and keep playing these events, you can't you don't just get the coast off of a PGA tour you guy. Does that make sense in a way? Yeah, totally and and Davis is you know, he's a product of Georgia, which there's been so many great players that have come out of there. But there just happens to be one player that he reminds me so much of. And it's Harris English. They're very similar. They're demeanor. They're demeanors very, very alike. The temperament, the way they handle themselves. Just their mannerisms as well. I would say that that Harris is just a super chill dude. You could sit and watch a game with him and and and he'll say a couple words to you. He just kind of likes hanging out with the guys. And it's not like that that he's just he's just not this big extrovert. And that's kind of the way I feel like Davis Thompson is he's just a guy that keeps to himself really good at golf. Just feels like there's not a whole lot going on as far as just extra thoughts. He just seems like a very focused individual, which reminds me a lot of Harris just like just the blood pressure just looks like it's low. And I think that's a great, great asset to have when when I'm watching a guy, it looks like he just stays even kill the exact same way. And I think they swing it somewhere too. And I just think if you're comparing Davis Thompson, anybody Harris English would be a great start. So where do we think we stand on projecting Davis Thompson long term? Because I'm just I just had a curiosity. I just pulled up the president's cup standings. And he's jumped nine spots. He's 21st on that list. And I mean, for me, I mean, we're we've almost answered the question away in the last 10 to 50 minutes. Like, I think we're both believers in Davis Thompson's talent. But is this a guy who, you know, do we think he keeps this run a form going through the end of the season playing in, you know, higher profile events? I think we're through the signature events at this point, I believe that Travis is the last signature. So we'll have of course, the Scottish will have the open. And then really, when we come back on the backside of the Olympics, we're getting into the FedEx cup playoffs. And so, you know, I don't know if that's enough time for him to kind of make a move and get into a spot where, you know, if I'm reading you, let's just I'll just read you the top 12. And the in the in the president's cup standings right now Scotty Scheffler, Sandra Schofle, Colm Orakawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantley, Sahithagala, Tony Finau, Max Homa, Brian Harman, Akshay Batilla, Chris Kirk, and Russell Henley. And just outside of that cutliner, Sam Burns, Justin Thomas, Eric Cole, and JT Poston is your 16th player on that list. Keegan Bradley, by the way, at 18, if interested. So Davis is at 21st. I mean, I wonder if this is a guy who we could see him kind of play his way into this and and you know, and if you know, this is an opportunity again, like Luke Donald for the Ryder Cup, to kind of grab two or three young guys in a competition that's theoretically less challenging in the president's cup and kind of bed them in and get them some team experience. Dude, I think this is the type of player that that you have to just keep your eye on if you're Jim Furek. I know he's not quite as close as you'd like him to be if you're Jim Furek. But man, he just, when you look at some of his advanced metrics and his stats, like strokes gained total seventh on the PGA tour this year. I mean, wow, seventh and and was around the green stats fifth man. So we're talking about a guy that that can ball strike it. He could chip. The biggest issue is is the putter. And this year, he's 61st and putting so it's not even that bad. He drives it long. The driving distance is three hundred four yards. So I think Davis Thompson is that type of player that you kind of talked about. Like, I'd love to see some youth get into the president's cup, Ryder Cup teams. He he's kind of like a nickel, a hoigard type of pick that that Luke Donald had in Rome. I don't think he's probably quite too Ludwig at the moment, just as far as just getting in contention enough over the last four weeks he's proven that he has. But can you keep that sustained play up? I it's hard to see him swelling down right now. I don't see what is going to slow him down besides just stamina because what he's doing right now is is pretty dang impressive when you when you talk about how well he's been playing over the last month and a half. It's so interesting looking at his event by event profile looking at some of those underlying stats where, you know, it's his miss cut weeks are just like a train wreck putter week. Yes. Yeah, it's like exactly. He can't, you know, open train wreck putter week. CJ Scott, Byron Nelson train wreck putter week fouls bar like like off the charts train wreck putter week and maybe in looking at the statin totality, it's like you remove a couple of those, you know, a few of those outliers and then he's actually not as bad as we think. And it seemed, I mean, I didn't, I didn't, I think very anecdotally, if I think back to that duel with John Rahm and the final round of the AMX, I believe two years ago, that was kind of the story of the round was they were, you know, kind of both striking it pretty good early on. And there was just a lot of, you know, narrowly missed putts where he's looking confused as to whether he didn't, he got the read wrong or he didn't hit it in the center of the fair, whatever it was. But I mean, if that's something he's cleaned up because it's really, it's really that's that's the only he's had just a few kind of aberration weeks, you know, missed a cut at the farmer's insurance open where he just had a bad week off the tee. But there's nothing there's no consistent story to tell there other than just when the putters off, it kind of falls apart. But when when he's doing everything, well, it's just top 10 city. Dude, that's what I'm looking at here. Just scoring average. What do you think is scoring average rank is this year? I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look because I want to scoring average rank. So if he's, if he is seventh in, if he's seventh in strokes gain, it can't be too much different from that. I mean, we're talking about like a top 15 top 10 number scoring average scoring average. She's fourth on the year. Wow. Fourth in scoring average and a couple other ones that stick out to me as well. His birdie average is nine. So he makes plenty of birdies. His par, excuse me, his par breakers is eight. His bounce back stat is seven par fives. He's 11. So that is just chef's kiss of it. When you talk about trying to identify a player that, that is on the cusp of, of maybe breaking out into a top 10 top five in the world type of player. This is the type of dude you need to be looking at. He's filling up the stat sheet. He does everything at a really high level. And I know the hexagon or the pentagon little performance chart. It's a it's pretty wide spread. He's touching the corners of just about everything this year. Obviously, he's made a tons of improvements. We just haven't had a chance to talk about him enough. And good for you for seeing the seeing progress, progress. Yeah, help, help me brother. Are you sure you're not that lag? I'm trying to figure out. Yes, the data guy, the data got approaches working. That's that's it. The data got approaches working. Oh my god. The old tongue twister. The prognostication. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. That's why you're the journalism guy. That's why that's why the big words. Yeah, around here. Godly. I think, yeah, I mean, when we're talking about stars and young guys, like I think Cameron Young fits that profile of a player like we're ready for him to break out. Well, Davis Thompson just had his moment at the John Deere. Let's see if that leads him into playing his way on the president's cup team. And we've seen it with Scottie Sheffler. And who knows, maybe Davis Thompson is sent out in that last met or the first match out. And he goes and plays John Ron, like Scottie Sheffler did. Let's say the equivalent of that was, let's say Davis Thompson sent out first and maybe he goes and plays Cameron Smith beats a four and three. Next thing you know, we're talking about Davis Thompson being a tour championship top 30 guy every single year. And a guy that's going to be on future teams. I think it's definitely worth worth keeping an eye on. And and I'm I'm I'm pushing for a guy like him to hopefully be on that president's cup team this year. Let me kind of turn this a little bit a slight sort of segue here. And there are a couple of different directions I want to go with this because we're turning from a week where and there's perhaps a golf course discussion and maybe a state of the game discussion to be had in here where there are 16 guys under par and there are a lot of alarm bells being raised. But I mean, we've had this discussion a number of times on the show. It's a week where I think outside of Saturday where there's a little bit of a wind. Hardly any wind, they have some weather leading in so the greens are soft, the conditions are soft. It's not the longest course in the world. The defense system is is you know, maybe you can't hit driver on every hole and there's some rough, you know, the one the rough gets up and you get out of position. That's where you kind of struggle. But you're going from something where the scoring conditions the last two weeks really have been very, very good to I just came back from Scotland and I'm still having cold sweats thinking about those 30 mile prior left or right wins on the team. It's just still going this high odd in the space and never coming back. And I wonder, you know, you know, I don't I'm going to do the bad journalist thing here of like asking you multiple different questions. But the discussions I want to have are one, you know, state of the game, John Deere, you know, like, are we raising alarm bells here or is this sort of like a mother nature? We can't really control this weather thing. But I kind of want to play out for and talk about a guy like Davis or even a guy like Scotty Scheffler, who I believe is not playing the Scottish this week. And I think if I my memory serves correctly, he played the Scottish last year. He did not have a good week. I remember that was a particularly bad putting week where there was some frustration we saw come through on the broadcast. And then I believe he was like the T 40 range for the open championship last year. And I was like the first time he recorded a finish that was outside the top 15 or top 10. And you know, maybe close to a year. So there are your three directions. I want to go you you pick a lane and take me in that direction, then we'll get to the other ones as we kind of move through the rest of the show. Well, do you want to get into Scotty? Do you want to get into the Scottish? What do you want to? What do you want me to get to your because I can go whatever direction? Well, let's let's talk about let's stay on dear. Let's just finish up dear on course conditions. And like are you are you raising the alarm? You know, we say, Hey, and spring is 59, you know, or is this you like a? I mean, because there are other stats to that were outside conditions where like Lou Clanton was, you know, and Thor Bjornsson were touching like mid 180 ball speed all week long. And I mean, send it out there. But it's it just it just keeps bringing up this discussion of like the equipment, the ball, et cetera, et cetera. Like I just want to kind of take your tip check on this after a week like this, where the scoring is low. Well, this golf course has never really tested a player's ability to to hit all the shots. It's a point and shoot type of place. It's a ball strikers paradise because if you execute, you're going to have 16 good birdie looks. And Davis Thompson is, as we've just noted, one of the best executors on tour of being able to pull off whatever shot he wants to and be able to hit the middle of the face and and hit it where he's looking. So I'm not a raising the alarm bells about the John Deere. It's always been a shootout. We know that going into the week and you just got to show up and make birdies. Is it raising an alarm about maybe going to different places? Sure. But I I think you kind of know what you get into when you go to the John Deere. Yeah. And I think and it's also, you know, you can't play. You can't play hard courses every week, right? You can't do like the floor to swing year round because guys will just get fed up with that or ask for a break here or there. So I think I think that's a fair point too. I also wonder how as we turn the page to the Scottish over the Renaissance and then the Open Championship, the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Trood. You know, how was a guy like Davis Thompson going to fair? And and are we doing the same thing with Scotty again, where we kind of like hit this low where we don't see him for a few weeks. Obviously, he wins the travelers, you know, but you know, he's not going to play. He's not going to play rock and mortgage. Not going to play John Deere. Interestingly, he's not going to play the Scottish. But is it is it one of those things where we're going to arrive at the Open and be like, Oh, duh, like it's Scotty again. It's always Scotty. Oh, yeah. Well, I think it's interesting because you talked about his putting maybe at the Scottish or maybe doesn't like the golf course either. Or, Hey, maybe the Open Championship, he's going to go with the different style of I'm going to show up maybe kind of how like Tiger used to or even Jack would show up early back in the day for the Open Championships, show up on a Saturday, show up on a Sunday, just kind of ease your way into the week, you know, play in all the different weather conditions, play nine holes every day. So I imagine that's going to be his strategy, which I don't mind because the Scottish Open, listen, it's for a lot of guys there. They're they're fighting for position in the FedEx Cup being this late in the season. It's not an elevated event. If I believe that's correct, right? Yeah, it's not elevated event. So we're just talking about regular FedEx Cup points. Correct. It's it's not a signature event. It is it's it's one of those like DP World Tour, PGA Tour partnership events where I believe it's elevated. It's elevated person on DP World Tour side. I do not know six hundred points. Like, I'm not sure. I need to go with that. Yeah. Yeah, we got to dial that anyways, he didn't have to worry about FedEx Cup points. He's gonna have a two shot. He's gonna have a two shot lead at the tour championship, unless Xander goes and wins in Memphis and and and and or Denver. So you just have to assume for Scotty at this point, it's like, all right, you know what, I he had made a point about how he wasn't quite as rested as he would have liked to have been for the US Open. So you know what, why don't we just go on vacation looks like he's out out West doing some family time, you know, probably just a lot of R&R needed from just a crazy year for him. Changing minutes diapers. Yeah, yeah, just going full dad note. So yeah, I imagine that the decision not to play the Scottish was probably more of a, you know, he'd have to leave, you know, the guys left today to go or yesterday to go to the Scottish. It's a long week. You get over there, you get acclimated to the playing conditions. But I imagine the Scotty will get over there on the weekend and start his prep. True. I've heard some reports already of some, some appearances at North Barrick. Some some guys who are already there today is JT playing today. I've heard Harris English, Adam Hadwin, Andrew Putnam, Luke Lisk, Kurt Kituyama, apparently Will's Alatoris, maybe if his club's arriving time, Ricky Power, Keith Mitchell to hit the gala, you know, rocking the cap in honor of the place that they gave us the good juju to make another one and done pick. That's that will be that will forever indebted to them for for giving us a little bit of a good vibes there. Let me use the club room to make that pick. But yeah, it'll be interesting. I kind of want to dig into, you know, the kind of stats this week as we kind of look at our one and done picks because it is sort of a hard term. What we see in the past few weeks where we've had some success on that front picking and it'll be a different type of player and you got big names back in the mix. So yeah, looking forward to kind of diving into that and seeing if we can just keep the run going a little bit. We're a little bit of a heater right now. Yes. So where shall we go next? I mean, I think we have, you know, a few minutes left here at the end, we've talked a lot of, you know, John Deere, of course, Davis Thompson. We have some some top 50 stats and it's talking about those sort of the reshuffle categories. Yeah, kind of just mentioned that. Yeah, I know you had some strong kind of thoughts on this and it's really just a continuation of what you've been saying all season long. So just looking at that turnover, and I have the tweet here somewhere, I have the actual stats in front of me, but the tweet kind of tees it up a little bit better than I can. And I am unsuccessfully looking for that. Here it is. No, no, I've got it. I'm killing it. I'm killing it right now, Smiley. If I can just find this here, here we go. Here we go. All right. So this is from our guy. Robo. It's either Robops or Robopeezy. He's been tracking the signature of internal roles. He's on cloths. wrong cloths. Fantastic. Maybe it's not. Maybe it is right. I don't know what it is. No, it is. No, wrong cloths a different account. Different account. Okay. Yeah, whatever. It's it starts in our row. Yeah, Robops, Robopeezy. You might be able to live can you live share your screen for this? Oh, you know what? That'd be cool for people to follow on. I just might be able to do that, Smiley. Let me let me just see if I can't we're gonna. You got you guys are great. You're along for the ride with us for the most part. So let's let's take a look at this tweet right here. Well, actually here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna share this with you. This is the list. Yeah. That's perfect. That's all I'm gonna. I'm gonna read the tweet. So it said, I kind of figured when Grayson Murray thought the top 15 was removed from the rankings and it marked the low point for non signature 50 players in the top 50. And here we are 34 to 38% turnover within the top 50 was expected this year. But as of now, it's running at 30%. My guess is it's still a coin flip. It will get to 34% or higher turnover, but you never know. You go the other way as well, because lots of the signature 50 players who are not secure in the top 50 for 2025 are playing a lot. 12 played in Detroit. And 17 are currently under the John Deere. So entering the week. So here are here is the current list. Smiley, I'll let you take it from here with your thoughts on what we're looking at. Yeah. So this was through the rocket mortgage. This has not been updated yet. At least I didn't see a tweet from him that we had an updated list. But I thought he made some really good points about that it could get up to 34 to 38%, which is what the PGA two are projected. But being at 30% now, and that there are players like Eric Cole, Taylor Moore, Jordan speed that are they want to get inside that top 50. So they're going to keep playing more events because they know how important it is to be in the top 50, especially after going a full season of seeing the point differentials of how important it really is. Eric Cole had a nice week. I imagine that at 55, he probably bumped up inside the top 50. But when you just kind of look at the inside the top 50 on the left, it's any player that's in the blue were players that were already exempt into all the signature events going to the year they finished the year inside the top 50. So it's it's majority of this list is filled with blue. And going into the year, if you caught one of our episodes where we kind of broke down how difficult it was going to be for the players that were not in the signature events, you're really seeing it here, because it's a 30% now who's to say it's not going to be the from the top 50 last year that that we're not going to see close to 75% of those players that were in the top 50 be in the top 50 the following year because of the points distribution list, which is very catered towards the players that are on in all the signature events. I will say this so Charlie to kind of maybe maybe it's it's not as bad as it could have been because guess who's been eating up all these points? Scottie Sheffler. Let's say we've had a lot of these guys a different winner in every single week in the signature events. It may even be worse than this. So I think that's something we haven't even considered as school germs return rest easy. Clorox has got your back to school. Oh, you're back? 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Paramount Plus is central plan only separate registration required see Walmart Plus turns and conditions. Yeah, it's a it's a good point. It's one that I think you discussed with Shane Lowry in airport following Scotty's one of the travelers. And it's interesting because in these lists, I'm looking for stories here, right? Like I'm looking for who are the guys who are here now who are going to have a tough time hanging on relative to the guys on the outside who I think are going to make a move and get back in. You know, I'm looking at the blue names in the outside top 50 category who, you know, I think are going to play well to close the season and kind of play their way back in. You know, guys like Eric Cole who just posted a good result, he might already be back in Jordan's speed. It goes 52. Yeah, so David stops was 51 going into the week. He made the jump to 22. Yeah, so I mean, it's I think that there is, you know, no system is perfect. And I think that, you know, this was for always going to be a learning year. But I do think you're kind of dead on with with where we started this year, which is to say that there's going to be less turnover than we think that there's going to be because these guys largely are playing these events and hoovering up big points and just able to kind of stay there by virtue of not necessarily playing the best golf but just being the and the events with the most points. And I think the other thing to look for storyline wise is like, can we find names in this top 50 list who surprise us and how high they are relative to the quality of the golf they've played. I really want to pick on anyone particularly, but you know, there are just there are names in here of guys who, you know, you're like, huh, like you really hasn't had that grade of a year yet. Here he is. And that isn't that's kind of confirms that that that theory you're holding here about, you know, the way you can kind of stay in this top 50. So yes, and that's a couple players that stick out. Matthew Pavon. He is he is 14th as it as it stood last year. But he's the guy that took advantage early in the cycle when in San Diego, getting himself into the signature event. So that seems to be the formula, right? If you win early in the in the calendar year, that gets set you up perfect for the rest of the year. So he was able to take advantage of that. But let's look at another guy, Shane Wowery, also another player that played really well at Bayhill finished third and set him up in that next 10 category for the rest of the year, similar to C bez. He's right at there at that 20 number. He's also a player that took advantage of being in that next 10 category, and then had a really nice memorial and set him up for the final two. So C bez needs to wear a on on the front of his shirt. He's been the a on poster child this year for every single week. Yeah, yeah. But Thomas Dietry, another player, and it's not surprising to see him in the top 30 this year. So that what's the the most crucial thing that I looked at when looking at the points distribution list of of the difference between an open event and a signature event was how well you had to play in the open events to to make any type of debt. So a guy like Billy Horshel being at 46. He probably feels like he's having an incredible year. And he's got to be the guy that's the most frustrated in all this because he hasn't played in. I can go look here if you don't mind looking while I'm talking how many events that Billy Horshel's played in as far as signature events. But I can't imagine he's gotten many sponsors invites. I don't remember him being a lot of the sponsored invite picks. So it's it's really interesting when you look at all this because it used to be a whole lot easier to play your way into the top events in the top events used to be the WGC events. It used to be much easier now. And I think these players realize that every year they got to bring their a game because it's so competitive to be the top 50 on the PGA tour year and you're out. If you're a little off, like let's say a Jordan speed this year, he's got to keep playing. He's got to keep playing. And he's got to have a really nice Memphis or a really nice Dallas, not Dallas, excuse me, Denver, the BMW Championship at Castle Pines to play his way into that top 50, which is so important. We know that Jordan will be able to get sponsors invites and and depending on his world ranking. But still it's it used to be much easier. I feel like the system. This is a much more competitive system. And I do find and I don't know about you Charlie that that the events like the John Deere, the the Honda, the the Mexico Open, even colonial, that's not a signature event. You've had these young stars win. Jake Knapp, Davis Thompson, Davis Riley. These are all players that we want to see in the signature events in the future. And I don't mind that there's different tiers of this PGA tour that feed into this system. So I don't hate it the way it all plays out, but you, you got to bring your A game every year. You really do. And I think to close the loop on on Billy Horshel, he was not in any of the signature events prior to winning an opposite field bent. That's right. The crowds put down a championship. That's right. So that's how he gets in the rest of them. That's right. That's right. And I think it's I mean, it is it's interesting because, you know, I'm trying I'm trying to, you know, look at this list and see where I take issue. And I I don't I don't have much of one right now in terms of does the do the names match the story this year is told, you know, but I do think that what's going to happen is we're going to come down to the playoffs. We're going to get to that top 70 cut and then subsequently that 50 cut. And there are going to be guys names we're going to point to that are just like, man, that guy got a tough deal. And we're going to we're going to hate to see it if it's a young guy who we're excited about. We want to see it some playing opportunities next year. And they get they get on the short end of the stick there. And so yeah, I mean, I'm even looking now at guys like and what to see how it moves, but like Mimwoo Lee entering the week at 54. This is this is the guy I was about to get to. Mimwoo Lee, we need him in these events next year. Okay. But here's a player that that if he would have had the opportunities, like everybody else had, which you be there. He'd be there. Okay. So what's what he's played in this year. The Phoenix Open was not a signature event this year. He got he got into the Arnold Palmer. But other than that, he played in the players, which was an elevated event. And other than that, he was just playing open events. That's we're talking about a player who's 54th heading into last week at the John Deere. I assume he probably drops a couple slots. But he's when we look at this list of who's played the best that hasn't played in any signature events, Mimwoo Lee, maybe Thomas Dietrich. I can't imagine that Thomas Dietrich's got into a ton. And until Taylor Pinterest won at the bar at Byron Nelson, that that would be Mimwoo Lee would be, you know, top couple on that list. And look at Mimwoo's year two, a guy that only he's played 13 and has only missed one cut. So 12 made cuts, seven top 25s, two top 10s and two runner up finishes. That's a very solid year to me. He made 2.3 million. Like, to me, that's a guy that should be, you know, with that set of results to be frustrated a little bit frustrated. But yeah, I mean, because because and it's easy to kind of cherry pick, but like you convert any one of those, you know, results into the signature of inversion of it. And he's getting that incremental amount of points more and he's jumping into that higher tier and he's good to go. So it'll be, it'll be interesting to see how he finishes the year. And how he plays abroad. You know, I think that'll be a big indicator to see if you can get pick up some points. Totally. Yeah. And I want you to answer this if you happen to know the answer because Akshay Baty was a player that was in that category of exempt, but he was a member that special temporary member, special temporary member, which I think is a faux pas. You don't get to accumulate any of your points that you had. Now you're a member. It's like, Oh, wait, we're all my points go. You don't get them. It doesn't make any sense. But I understand the concept. But Akshay Baty was a player that would have had plenty of points to be in the top 50. And he had to win a Valero to get himself into the signature events. Men woo Lee. If I recall was in that same type of situation that was a special temporary member, maybe didn't get to accumulate some more of those points potentially could have been a top 50 guy as well last year, but didn't get the opportunity because I don't remember exactly what men woo's story was. You happen to remember last year? Yeah, like was he a guy that was a special temporary guy? Yeah. And then didn't get to accumulate those points. Would he have been a top 50 type of player? He was special. Tim. He played he was in that final group of Scotty the players. He if I remember this correctly, he had to play into the fall to lock up his status against the number he needed to be ahead of in terms of the points that don't count relative to the actual counting points list. And that's how he earned his tour card. And he actually could have gone two different ways. Oh, it's right. Because he didn't get in with tour. He didn't get in with as well. He didn't get into the playoffs. He did not. Yeah. I don't think he was eligible for it. I mean, I so I think, you know, it's interesting, actually, that you bring up oxhay as well. He was. That's right. Because the year with his year is not entirely dissimilar to men woo's. He's played more because he's played more of these events. He's played 20 events. He's missed six cuts. I think you know, he's played really well, kind of come on the second half of the year, but he's missed six cuts this year. He's made 14 cuts. He has, you know, more top 25s, 11 top 25s. He has one more top 10, three top 10s. And he has one runner up and he's got to win. And so I think really the line we're drawing here is we're rewarding guys who win as we should. But it is interesting for a guy like men woo Lee. Are you a little bit hard done by the system? Yep. So that's I think if when you look at who is the guy that's probably been not been rewarded the most this year, probably men woo league, a young star that I think if we talk about the John Deere just to kind of put a loop on this whole convo, like we want to see the young guys playing. And I think the sponsors invites this year have not been impressive. I feel like they haven't gone young enough at all on these. But it's it's hard, you know, when all these former stars of the of the tour that have played your event year in and year out and and have done so much to make the event be so successful over the last decade. It's hard to turn your back on that guy in in year one. But when you look at all the exemptions that have gone out, they've gone to a similar crowd. It's it's interesting, right? Because it feels like men woo. It's like we needed like a young category. It's like you had to pick one young gun. It's not dissimilar to where we started this episode where you're having a conversation about the old system and the new system with the Ryder Cup and the leadership and how are we going to kind of mesh the two? I think there are a lot of things in golf that are like that right now, you know, two different tours. And how do you bring those back together for majors and things like that? So it is interesting. And I think you can definitely critique and point out things that are wrong. You also probably have to give it a little bit of time, you know, just to kind of see how they're going to iron it out for future years. But it will be interesting. We are it's July 8 right now. And so we're going to be in FedEx Cup playoff territory pretty dang soon about a month from now. And we're going to start to have some names we can circle and say, man, this guy kind of got hosed in this process. I cannot believe we did the John Deere cap. And we forgot to mention the most important thing, which is that even hotter than our one done picks is the frat house. The frat house now has three consecutive wins. We were I did not realize Davis Thompson was staying in the frat house heading into the week and then it was mentioned on the broadcast early on. And I said, Oh, we got this thing wrapped up. That is now a win for JT Posten in the frat house in 22 Sepstraka last year. And Davis Thompson this year. And for those who were unformed. And I think the PGA tour wrote some articles on this. But smiley, give us a little bit of explanation as to what the frat house has a little flavor who stays in on a year to year basis. And who were names we need to get in the frat house next year to get a win of the John Deere Classic. Well, Davis Thompson was the last man in because Sepstraka brought his family. He normally stays there. Oh, so I didn't know that heading into the week or I wouldn't have suggested Sep as a pick because I thought he's in the frat house. But I picked Denny McCarthy, who stays in the frat house every year. And he's gone T six T six T seven the last three years. So he is so due to to win at John Deere. Have you not also heard the news that I'm coming out of retirement staying in the frat house next year and winning the John Deere? I was thinking, I was thinking, man, let's let's bring the kids earlier in the week, let them play on the tractors. Oh, throw the caddy bib on. You can't be that hard to caddy. It's just hey, smiley. It's, you know, just shoot 28 under and then you should be good. That that's kind of be the gist of my caddy. And just let you stay in the frat house and get all the mojo. Although I guess it's gonna be hard to stay with the family in the frat house. We're gonna have to work on that a little bit. Yeah, definitely so. And I guess to we've had we've been doing this for an hour now. And so we've kind of had Twitter kind of let itself play out on the Ryder Cup Keegan news. Yes, it's kind of interesting to see where everybody's heads are at on all this. And it's, I think there's a lot of lot of shock. And I think a lot of people are surprised. I you know, you, that makes sense. It makes total sense. It doesn't shock me that people are shocked. I but I do think that I do think that it was going to be something like this. Like if it wasn't Keegan, it would have been another name. It would have surprised people because that that's the nature of there was a couple names that I'd heard that would have really surprised people. I think of the names that I did here. Besides one that I mentioned, it's your sink was an obvious like one that he was a cat assistant captain for a couple years. Seems like he was working his way up to be a captain. This one is interesting because he's still playing and it feels like he still has a decent shot to make the team. But after that whole conversation, we just had you stuck with us the last hour. Yeah, I just want to throw out a bunch of 20 year olds and just see where they go. I love that version of the tour. I'm totally behind that. There are a couple we have a new we're using a new system this week to do the show. So we've not been on top of the YouTube comments as much we have in past weeks. But there if you want to catch up on, we got our guy Matt Ganon in the comments here. He makes a great point. Matthew Bovon being 14th on that list this year and 125 to one this week's hilarious is a guy who's played the Renaissance a ton. So we still have to do our one and done picks. We're deciding whether we're going to do them on Twitter Instagram live this week. We'll let you all know. But that's a guy that I'm going to take a peek at for sure. Matt's also asking if we have any rounds playing in Scotland this week, smiley. Unfortunately not Scotland this week. He's going to be out in Tahoe at the American Century Championship. So look, look forward to that. And I mentioned a few times I was just in Scotland. I played I played 13 rounds in eight days of Scotland. I played on Scottish golf. But Matt, I hope you play well over there, buddy. Is that I mean, if this feels like as good in place and I need to kind of wrap the show up, I mean, yeah, the travel. What do you what do you want to know about the travel? We're going to do a full scholarly recap broke par for the first time at Kings Barnes, which is an unbelievable course. That was amazing. Had English breakfast every day. I feel like I'm like the I'm like the student that, you know, the cause to study abroad in Barcelona. And now I'm going to come back with an accent that I'm saying everything different. I really wanted to do that be like an English breakfast tea guy. But I don't think I'm going to go that far. But people in Scotland, phenomenal. We were live from North Barrick midweek. That place is so special. We'll we'll dig into the whole thing there. But you're giving you were giving me quite a bit of stick for my travel plans. And I just want to know which part of this you'd like to examine. Well, you texted me that you were landing at about 1 p.m. yesterday in JFK. And then I knew that you said you're going to get home at 11 a.m. on Monday. And so I was wondering what why are we fine to Florida and then flying the next morning back to North Carolina. As when I get back into the States, like I have to be home as soon as possible, like my Sunday scaries just like that switch turns on. So I can't imagine landing going through customs, then going on another flight to Florida, spending the night, then waking up at 3 a.m. catching a flight to Charlotte to connect, then flying to Raleigh. And I felt like I needed to come up with some intel of letting you know that there actually are planes that fly from New York to North Carolina. Who knew? Not me, apparently. But good for American Airlines, you know, you know what? Good for American Airlines. I keep going in and out on American Airlines. Our last five of the day, our third fly of the day yesterday, which was from JFK to Miami, was one of those classic like that. It's the thing where the air conditioning doesn't work when the plane's boarding. And you have to wait till they turn the plane on to get there going. And so I'm still dressed for in Scotland clothes. I'm wearing like a pair of set a mistake. Well, I mean, I guess I could have changed at some point in the middle that but you're just you're kind of going like you're getting off the plane, you're going to the next one. So I had a pair of actually highly comfortable cashmere sweatpants made by the same manufacturer that clothes such a mistake Keith Mitchell, sit in a matchburn, check him out. Fantastic. But I'll tell you what what they're working for sitting on a plane without air conditioning for 90 minutes because I was so wedding. It was a very swampy situation. Yeah, it was it was there were a number of oversights like we we got on the plane. We went Glasgow to London and then London to JFK. And then this stewardess on the plane of London says, yeah, there are all sorts of directs from London to Miami. Why didn't you do that? And I'm thinking, yeah, why didn't we do that? And there's also their directs from Raleigh to London. And I guess just my dad had this thing booked and I didn't think twice about it. And I just decided I was going to say the night in Florida. And then when I actually did the math on this, it was like I'm taking five flights and 36 hours. This is like the lowest rung of hell. And it was close. It was close to it. But shout out to American who I wanted to rose to got me on time today and got my clubs here. And a little silver lining here in Scotland. The hybrid I had in the bag. It's like a title is TSR two I want to say was very prone to the big balloon ball high-off situation. Just like I could not do anything with that club in the wind. And I had a little backup Calloway Calloway apex utility wood in the bag in Florida. So the silver lining of the trip was I got to go down there, swap them out. I can draw that club a little bit better. So on the heels of the first time breaking par, the game turning the right direction made a little equipment tweak. I think we could have some good golf on the horizon. Smiley. I really do. How many days off are you needing to take? I was thinking many, but now I like want to go hit balls tomorrow. I was kind of thinking that it would be at least a 10 day like I go to Scotland for 10 days to play golf. It's every day you're there is a day that you can't play at home. Is that kind of set the? Are we playing? Are we playing like in a new game on Friday? If I if I had played poorly at Kingsmarns, it would have been up. It would have been like, we're not gonna, you know, we'll watch the Scottish for work. But like, there's gonna be a lot of Wimbledon, maybe some pickleball on there, maybe even hit some tennis balls. Like we're just gonna not touch the clubs, but it was the last round that it's like, well, now we got to see if we can keep this going. So I think we might be back on the range tomorrow at 95 degree Durham, North Carolina weather grinding, grinding away. See if we can keep it going. All right, man. Well, I turn the only news I got from my golf game before I play in Ireland is that I turned a ball over yesterday. So first draw in the last six months. So that was that was good to hear. It was actually, it was actually a proper draw. Yeah, look, here's the sound effects. Yeah, smiley turn of all over. It wasn't one of those draws that was like a heel hit, where it was an accidental draw. It was one where I tried to swing it in doubt. And it actually, it actually drew. So that was, that was a big moment. It was a big moment. Yeah. Yeah. I have, I have like fun effects now. So now I'm just gonna use all effects. Well, good for you, smiley. I'm thrilled that you're turning turning golf shots over now. I certainly couldn't do that in Scotland. So we're just we're just glad to be back on America as well. What is not it's on a win. But what do you say that that seems about as good as a way as any prefer to take us out. Nice little recap. And we have a guest in the works that we are both very excited about. We're waiting on some confirmation, but you're gonna want to tune in on Wednesday for that episode. If we can just make sure the timing aligns. And then, and we'll have our one and one picks this week on a platform to be determined. We are unsure about the video audio quality on Instagram live. So we're gonna see if we can't punch that up. We might be there. We might be on Twitter. We'll let you know in short form. But we'll have some pictures of the Scottish Open. We're gonna see if we can keep the heater going. So keep the heater going, baby. Let's keep it rolling. Any final thoughts any final thoughts for the people? No, man. Just excited for. Excited for this stretch coming up. I mean, open championship last major of the year. I was I just feel like it was just the other day I was looking forward to major season in the Masters. And here we are a couple of weeks away from the open championship and figuring out who the final major champion of the year is going to be right now. It's a pretty strong list. Scotty Sheffler is Andrew Schofle and Bryson to Shambo. Are we going to see somebody that's not going to be, you know, some we were expecting or is it going to be a Davis Thompson type of players are going to be a Scotty Sheffler or Bryson or Zander that gets their second. So a lot of great storylines. And I'm excited. Big. Yeah, maybe a little big big big. Would be nice when I see Ludwig. Yeah, that's all for us this week. And we'll be back here to talk to you in a couple of days and don't miss those picks. But until next time and let's see if we can let's see if we can fire the outro properly on the new platform. Here we go. Come on fired away. Hey, we did it. You hear that? That's the sound of instant relief from nasal congestion by the number one best-selling nasal strip brand in the world. Breathe right. 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