The 106th PGA Championship is in the books, and we have a new first-time major winner: Xander Schauffele. Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme project where Xander goes from here now that he has a major win to go along with his stellar play this season, discuss a number of other big names that were both in and out of contention at Valhalla, address criticism of how the course played, and recap a fun week for the show in Louisville.
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PGA Championship Recap: A photo finish at Valhalla
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Walmart Plus members save on this plus so much more. Start a 30-day free trial at walmartplus.com. Paramount Plus is central plan only. Separate registration required. See Walmart Plus terms and conditions. Do that, Smiley Kaufman for 61. Wow. I'm Smiley Kaufman and this is the Smiley Show. Welcome back to final installation of our Smiley Show major championship. PGA championship journals. This is a fuller recap. It's not our journal length you've heard from us all week long. It's a sad farewell to a tournament. We had a ton of fun at and we have a first-time major champion. Xander Shoffley gets it done to the surprise of us and the surprise of many and does it in very convincing fashion with a crucial putt on the 72nd hole of his tournament to avoid a playoff of the Bryce of the Shambo. Smiley, we're obviously we're going to dig into that. We've got some great stats here from Justin Ray who is at Justin Ray Golf and wrote an awesome piece for the athletic digging into this stuff and also Randy Robles all week long was sitting us little nuggets through Elias Sports Bureau so excited to dig into that but where I feel like we should start here is I mean what a week we had in Louisville. I just thought the atmosphere was awesome. We were hanging out in Club Magenta all week long. You had your final installation of Spill in the T today with Blarry O'Neill. Just was it a little it was a little like wistful just leaving the property after all the fun we had this week? Avaha and in Louisville. Yeah it was a great week. I think just being there with all Justin Thomas's buddies who have all become I've been friends with them quite some time but now Charlie's friends with all of them. That was a lot of fun and they swung by Club Magenta every day for the most part and listened to all the Q&A Spill in the T conversations that we had today with Blarry was the last one and it was awesome just hanging out there and especially on a really really hot day it was it was really crowded on Sunday and a couple of many drinks so why wouldn't you come in so it was a good time. It was a good hang Club Magenta and then on the course T-Mobile got a lot of play today because we had we had on the 30th hole with the 5G connected cameras we had Alejandra toasty driving the green didn't see that coming at all and I think Jordan tried his hand as well maybe a couple others but I saw toasty's was obviously the most notable he made Eagle there so that was a big early storyline in the tournament and then also we saw Bryson on the T5G range watching Xander play that last hole how good was that placement there I was I thought that was great so yeah great week with T-Mobile and I I feel like they would have needed even more cameras though Charlie if you were trying to drive 13 today yes yes the angles they had were fantastic but I would have I don't think anyone could have expected Alejandra to try to pull that move off and I especially loved him looking through the rangefinder and just being tickled to realize his ball was on the green with a good looking eagle putt but that was early in the day and what what happened late in the day was the real excitement and as mentioned Xander wins his first major and so here are just a few kind of stats to set the table for the discussion we're about to have you know he finished this week ranked second strokes gain t-d green 13th in strokes game putting to the seventh PGA championship in a row when the when where the winner was ranked among the top two and either strokes can t-d green or strokes game putting on tour this season most top five finishes Scotty has seven Xander has six so that just shows you the level that Xander is playing at he led or co-led each of the of the first of all four rounds this week was a wire to wire winner over the last 20 years the only players to do that and all four rounds of their first major career our first career major victory were Jimmy Walker 2016 at Baltistrall Jordan at the 2015 Masters Rory at the 2011 US Open and Trevor Immelman at the 2008 Masters and here's the one here's a staff that I found really interesting to kind of set the table for just a Xander legacy discussion here's a list of the players with the most top 10s and majors prior to winning their first major championship and I'm just gonna instead of reading the whole list I'm gonna pick a few notables because Xander had 12 previous top 10s and majors before winning this one so Sergio before winning the 2017 Masters had 22 previous top 10s Phil before winning the Masters and 04 17 Ben Crenshaw 16 before winning the 84 Masters Fred couples 14 before winning the 92 Masters Jim Furek 12 before winning the 03 US Open so let's just and how about Ben Hogan 12 before winning the 1946 PGA championship so I think that we have this we have this set of you know thoughts or memories of what we think Xander is and now he gets it done not without pressure from other players in the field on a Sunday to win his first major where does Xander go next? Yeah I mean he had to win today he just he had to win especially you know going into the back nine he just couldn't let this one slip away he's been playing too well this year he and he's too good of a player to have not won a major at this point but you just kind of named out a list that had some pretty dang good golfers that are Hall of Famers that took them a long time to win their first major too so to your point I mean I mean he's got an opportunity to continue to you know build on this number one now that's probably the hardest one is to win your first so I think even you mentioned Trevor in a minute a minute ago and when we had him on the podcast before the CBS took over in San Diego I asked him I said hey what's one player that you think needs to take that next step this year and then and the player that he named was Xander Schofle and at the time I was like you know what you're probably right but I was like I don't know though I don't know if he's I don't know if he's quite ready and when I saw him at Bay Hill this year Xander he was working like so hard on his mechanics and his golf swing I've never seen him just look like he's thinking so much over the golf ball and it kind of got me thinking I was like man I just I just don't know what he's working on with Chris Como like getting all this speed and having to be so into the mechanics if this is going to work out and as the weeks went on about a month later it just started getting like really good you know players championship and then all these other events where he finishes top five like you just mentioned to where what did he do he went from having a golf swing where he took it fairly further like he took it a little bit more outside than most guys had a more laid off position at the top still had a flex lead wrist and was a really good ball shaker you know it was he wasn't the longest player I would say he was above average by I mean I wouldn't call him a short player he was a player that could still get it out there but what he's doing now he's got it a little bit more through his hands on the way back it's a little bit through his hands at the top and a little bit more across the line with the driver with the same wrist mechanics and what it's allowed him to do it's it's given him the ability to turn a little bit better with his lower body and the way back to be able to pick up some speed and where did we see that on this week I mean he hit 187 mile an hour ball speed on that 17t and he probably should have had 188 and he would have been in the fairway but that is to say how many times did you see where Zander would be one less cub with an iron or just hitting these ridiculous ball speed numbers so that that to me is now an advantage and a strength in which he's he drove it so well on on Friday so well on Saturday so he's driving it long and straight and and you know how I feel about his putter and finally on a Sunday he was able to get the putts to fall yeah I mean took the words right out out of my mouth there because you know it's now you're looking at a full package you're looking at a guy that's done all this work with Chris Koma on the swing that's added all this ball speed but that is one of the steadiest you know most even keel players on tour both in disposition and the way he goes about his round and was has always been a one of the most consistent putters on tour right so you're looking at a guy that really the only thing we said you know that we had to say against him was you know the the clutch gene debate like doesn't he have the clutch gene and so to see a putt like that go in on the 72nd hole you know the boost that he must feel there I'm now looking ahead you and I talked to speak about man Piner's kind of sets up nice for Zander of course for him yeah does he start ripping off you know a bunch of big wins because the form has been great all season long I mean it just feels like it could be a big year for him well we know he's going to be the lowest stroke relative to par at the tour championship at Eastlake we can already chalk that up as Andrew was the best at winning these random events like winning the tour championship every single year with the the different scoring system where you know how it's how it's set up now where it's all staggered Zander would always win it seemed like every year at Eastlake and then he won the gold medal so he's like wins like all these like random things and had once it's 2022 had won you know a bunch before that but I just feel like yeah like to to your just feelings on Zander and where he goes from here I yeah I think he's got an opportunity this year to maybe pull off another major championship and win another one but I just think he's so consistent and that lends so well to to continue to win golf tournaments when you are always in the top 25 like he's been hasn't missed a cut and how long two years plus now I guess yeah so the the guy is always going to be around so I just think that Zander isn't in such a great position now he's he's got a veteran caddy and Austin Kaiser now they have such a good relationship he's got all the tools and when you when you just look at the landscape of professional golf it just seems like a team of these two guys are just going to be in the hunt uh weekend and week out in majors and speaking of Austin how good was that conversation over the ball on 18 where he had a stance in the trap with the ball above his feet and just talking through what the number was to the lip of the trap and where they wanted to miss where they did not want to miss you know after watching just a few groups earlier and this is not a digget Victor Havelin or Shane Knight because I think he had a mud ball and it was you know it was kind of a funky shot he was trying to hit there but watching guys trying to hit a really difficult shot we watched Bryson try to try to hit you know ball below his feet out of the trap you know a lot of difficult approach shots there where they needed to have a birdie at least and just watching you know Austin and Zander go through that process and hit it exactly where they needed to to give him a reasonable up and down and then of course watching Johnson Wagner hilariously recreate that on call channel later in the evening which is just Johnson Wagner is just a true gift to the game of golf yeah he's he's been the MVP at night every night but I kind of want to just start at uh a little bit about Zander's day and just kind of recap that a little bit just for my from my lens of what what I saw from Zander today birding the first hole which was playing is one of the hardest uh of any of the holes today from a raking perspective so getting off to a hot start was was really good to see for what potentially we felt like Zander could get off to the same type of day that Cowan did which just a lot of par is not enough birdie so to get off to a quick start was great but then the the par putty made on six was huge just a huge huge huge momentum putt and I think as we kind of get to this backside I thought Trevor Emelman made a great point before Zander pulled a wood out and the bunker on 10 and ends up hitting it in no man's land it was a great call um by Trevor and the team there because you know that that's the type of mistake you cannot make on a Sunday's bogeying a par five but what do you do right after that he he plays a very difficult par three makes birdie there the 12th was I feel like probably the hardest hole on that back nine uh throughout the week and he goes and birdies that one so huge ballots back ability at 11 and 12 made that big putt at six but the rest of the way through to me it seemed like he was playing really cautious because he was getting mud balls I I don't know if if you felt the same way but it just didn't seem like he could go at the flags like everybody else because he was a little concerned about the mud on 13 14 hits a great shot on a par three just misses the putt um and then uh I know he had some mud on 16 and then just really a bad break off the tee on 17 and 18 where you know uh just really just took a lot of courage determination on 17 and 18 to get those balls up and down and and he willed him in yeah I think he was playing at a very deliberate pace which I'm not faulting him for there was actually I thought it was a great point made and the early coverage on serious xm which you know it's pj championship radio this week but you know a discussion that Fred Albers was having with Jason Sobel about just how it changes you've done three days of threesomes and that that is a certain pace and then you go to twosomes on the most important day of the tournament and the pace changes but it's also you know rhythm you get again a rhythm but at the same time for a guy that's trying to play deliberately and and judge a mud ball and try to figure out how you want to play it um you know it can and you know I think at one point he's there may be a hole and a half behind there they're dragging a little bit but it gets the same time like if you get the shot right and you end up going on winning the major it's it's well worth it um and yeah at your point on ten I thought that was a fantastic discussion between um you know his Trevor Emmelman Dottie Pepper and then I think Frank novelow is even chiming in a little bit there saying I think Tim was a wake-up call for him where he kind of it was like okay this is not it anyone wrote away now birdies yeah exactly yeah I think uh with Xander and and you and you may be able to chime in on this as well but him coming out and being the aggressor um right from the get-go and birdying one I think that shows a little bit of growth from last week watching what Rory McRoy did so what did Rory do he just he went out and just I'm gonna be the aggressive one I'm gonna go make birdies and I think when you see that in person in a final group you're able to kind of show up with that type of attitude on Sunday be like you know what I'm gonna try to play the way Rory did but also the golf course uh at Volhalo was was much easier than Quail Hollow but still um I think to me that was if we're gonna talk about how players grow from one week to another and what did they learn I think what what Xander was able to do was was go out on on the front foot today you know I think that is such an interesting dynamic to me maybe you can have some insight on this uh as a guy who's played in the final group at a major but just the way pairings can affect your day you know going in either direction and so I think I go all the way back to like to 2022 open championship Rory and Victor are in the final grouping and and Cam Smith I believe he was playing with Cam Young I don't know if it was a second to last or third to last group but Vix having a stinker of a day Rory can't buy a putt to save his life and Rory's and there's no momentum in that group at all meanwhile right Cam Cam Smith's taking it deep and it goes on to win the tournament now contrast that with last week at Quail Hollow where Xander is playing with Rory Rory's really grabbing the reins and going out there and so you know and so in some ways you could either get pulled along by that now I gotta make a bunch of birdies now I'm gonna go deep and stay with the guy and have a chance or do what Xander did where he just couldn't get the momentum going couldn't score Rory runs away with the tournament so this week was interesting in that Colin could not get it going had it in neutral all day long and part of me was wondering if that was gonna have a negative impact on on Xander's game a little bit of like this guy's not scoring almost again let's go back to the Genesis earlier this year where Xander and Patrick Cantler in that final group neither of them can get it going you know Hideki goes out and wins the golf tournament so that dynamic is so interesting to me and I thought today Xander did such a good job being like I don't care what that guy's doing I know what I need to go out and do to win this golf tournament on a very scoreable course and went out and did it yeah absolutely and that's exactly right and I mean how many final parings has Xander Shoffwey been in this year now that I'm just sitting here thinking about it so so there was um what was it there was a good stay on the broadcast now I'm forgetting it where there was well the most recent ones like it was we just noted the Genesis but the most recent ones were he was leading by a stroke heading in the final round the players and leading by a stroke heading in the final round Quail Hollow both those finishes finished T2 I believe or solo 2 and then this one you know tied with calling goes into the day goes out and wins by a shot so huge for Xander and we'll come back to Xander scoring as we discuss Valhalla and just some of the thoughts on the course from various people throughout the week I want to move to next to what I'm calling I'm calling this the zombie one and done group because this was as we discussed last night at T-Mobile club magenta where we were kind of re-picking we thought we're gonna win today you like Bryson I like Vic um and those guys went out and put some pressure on Xander and did it in a big way so here here's a stat on Bryson it's 20 under Bryson became the first player to shoot minus 20 or lower in a major championship and not win I like the two like the previous two players to win the PGA championship Abohala Tiger Woods in 2000 and Rory McElroy in 2014 Bryson led the field in driving distance so I mean he did just about all that he could do this week you know I want to talk a little bit you know obviously about what he did well today and the way he kind of bounced back from some misses because I thought that there were a couple of shaky moments on the back in terms of hitting approach shots where something you noted earlier in the week about his distance control at the Masters kind of came into play a bit but still found a way to score and get there and put himself in position to make a playoff but where I want to start first is just I love watching Bryson Shambo play golf and I love watching Bryson play major he's just so fun like some people would call that energy you know corny or whatever but the guy just loves it he's fist pumping he's getting the crowd going the crowds loving it I just today I was I was just tickled by Bryson the entire time I thought it was fantastic yeah he's an entertainer there's no doubt about it why do people love Bryson it's it's that he kind of wears his emotions on his sleeve and I think when he was on the way out on the PGA tour there was I think a lot of people were frustrated with with Bryson in the way he was handling them with the media there was I mean he was declining to do media I think on the way out like it was just there was a level of maturity it seemed like for about a year so that made him very unlikeable to just a regular golf fan but it seems like since kind of when he went to live golf tour it I've just kind of noticed a level of maturity that's kind of happened in the last couple of years he's definitely leaned in to the content side of of the game of with YouTube he's got a bunch of new fans I think from all of the investment he's done from the content side and then why else do people love him well he he hits it so frickin far like with some of the numbers he has do you see do you see on 18 was it seven no 1776 196 yeah so it just ridiculous even the some of the numbers like on 16 I think you had two 14 and hit an eight iron it's it's obviously like his designs are are they're definitely not like the same loft is like you and I's eight iron but still I think it's the unrelatable part of how far Bryson can hit it and as a fan being like how was it even possible and the way he approaches the game just always just trying to beat a game that's never been beaten you know just trying to find the perfect answer for everything and as we call him when he kind of came out on the tour the mad scientist I think that's just the way he approaches the game how he's leaned into the fan side I feel the level of maturity and then just him wearing his heart on his sleeve I think has made him more likable and I can't believe that in a year that I felt I found myself rooting for Bryson de Shambo and then I don't feel that same way about john rom it doesn't make sense but that's what's happening Walmart plus members 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 members 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 members save on this plus so much more start a 30 day free trial at walmart plus dot com paramount plus a central plane only separate registration required see walmart plus terms and conditions with the five dollar meal deal in mcdonald's you pick a mc double or a mc chicken then get a small fry a small drink and a four-piece mcnuggets that's a lot of mcdonald's for not a lot of money price and participation may vary for a limited time only it's it's so interesting and I want to kind of I want to ask you a little bit about like his sort of game strategy because he is obviously a guy that thinks deeply about the golf swing and the technical aspect of it and clearly is thinking about game strategy as he's you know entering these rounds of trying to shoot the best score and you you talked a little bit about this week of not knowing after watching him at the masters and some of the distance control issues he had with his approach shots and there are a couple moments that I thought were interesting where I think 15 he had a good drive and maybe hit in a back bunker had a great up and down there to save a four and you know obviously on 17 he hits 196 ball speed but he's got this feel wedge in and hits it short and doesn't really give himself a great birdie putt and then on 16 he hits a poor drive he snap hooks it left is lucky to get a kick out of a tree he's left with a much longer shot than what what he would have had if he just hit it straight in the middle of fairway he's got to hit that eight iron like you mentioned I think it was like he had 14 cover he gets so much in the pin but that's the one he hits he hits tight and so I guess my question to you is just thinking about how to approach all that it said I know he can hit it that far we know he can hit you know dang near 200 ball speed but does he need to be stepping on the gas all the time if you know you're getting situations where hey it actually made sense to kind of hang back and hit a fuller iron and that's what resulted in the birdie on 16 for well if you recall I mean that he was very lucky to even have a chance that we we were walking left of 16 if you remember like how hilly it was over there yes he he was going to make at least a bogey potentially based on where that drive was going to go so it's hard to criticize just like the decision making or whatever where to lay up because he was lucky to be in that position after his drive on 16 but that is like the only concern I have with Bryson's game is just his ability to to hit it pin high with all the speed that he has and I'm disappointed that I talked myself out of picking him this week and what I'm done I had I had Bryson in the slot ready to press the button and then I just kept on reading these stats on ROM thinking you know what he's being slept on he seems pissed off that everybody doesn't think he's good anymore he's gonna prove everybody wrong guess what he did he tried to prove everybody wrong but guess what happens when you try to do that in a member yes you play bad boy it's funny even in this this zombie one and done group is that I had a laugh and looking at that and I was like well we both picked live players both times and we both picked skin and Naviance both times just up front we got the wrong live player and we got the wrong skin and avian I went with Ludwig should have gone Victor you went with the wrong should have gone Bryson um so mad I'm just so mad I knew it was gonna be a good Bryson week and by the way Zander looking at the OWGR he's made the jump to number two has he really yeah and the confusing the confusing thing though it has listed the multi win bonus at 60% for the US PGA championship so but he isn't one why is he getting a win bonus if he isn't once it's 2022 that's a great question did he they're not they don't give him a bonus for they wouldn't give him a Zurich bonus for whatever you know what they gave him the dang bonus for is winning the tour championship 72 whole scores oh well there you have it and to be frank like probably deserved in that context I mean no but it's not like winning a tournament though you know what I mean yeah I guess so but I mean I but if you're but again if you're trying to use a system to quantify the best players in the world and you see it a little yeah I mean listen we could do a whole separate pot on the problems with the OWGR I mean that all the time without you know he made the jump to and jump to worry so which coming off a win at quail I didn't think anybody was gonna be jumping jumping Rory so pretty crazy well and and you to a fair point you you were hot on on Bryson and you know maybe should have picked him early in the week we could we would not have seen Victor coming Victor the week without a single top 15 on tour this year he was 81st on the PGH where the season strokes gained t-degree entering the week he was fifth for the week of Valhalla he he went the entire he went you know 35 holes bogey free on the weekend and then bogees 18 on Sunday a tough little he had that little right to left her for birdie that's not morally thought he was making them early yeah and I think for me you know we I said numerous times I was like Vic do whatever you can to get Joe Mayo back like please go get him back and you know he goes they link back up I think I think I heard Colt on the broadcast say today you know he was talking to Vic and said how long did it take for you know the changes the Joe wanted to make to your swing how long to take for those kind of click back into place he was like a half hour you know so it's just it those two guys back together now I I could see Vic winning I love Vic at the US Open I love Vic at Memorial you know I maybe over at Trune like he looks like he is very back right now and that's with just one week of work with Joe Mayo again like I think we are right back to the victor hop and we thought we were gonna see in the last year we're entering this year we're talking about a guy that got a huge breakout year I'm just I'm just happy to see him back yeah you know when I get a little worried about just not to like burst like the bubble of like a PGA tour guys in a shop for a winning but it seems like it's that's been the formula lately for when you win a major it's like the sweepstakes so like okay I'm good to go now to to the with golf tours so I hope that doesn't happen with Xander but he would have a pretty cool team name though like they would have to be the X-Men right that they'd have to be there or for anyone who watched uh what was that Disney movie soul skaters team X-Blades that's a really deep cut if you know that movie team X-Blades team Clupping Suds you you I'm looking at your face I don't think you watch that movie it was no okay all right sick reference Charlie if you know you know and please like tweet at us or me or whoever and and I'll like give you the salute emoji so um yeah I mean I think Vic is you know I'm looking I'm looking for Vic to play well um and some of his upcoming events you said memorials a great one you know where he won last year kind of kick started the second half of this year where he ends up winning the tour championship so great to see him play well this week and now the guy in the final pairing that we touched on a little bit earlier it's like I don't know how we leave this weekend with him because obviously a frustrating Sunday you know it doesn't make a birdie until the last hole the day but he's gonna head to Pinehurst next month as the only only guy to finish in the top five in each of these years each the first two majors of this year and so you know what what do you leave this because I felt like he he missed a lot of makeable birdie chances today but his putter was so hot earlier in the week and just like you just can't at bohala you cannot afford to do that on a championship Sunday yeah well he punted really well on Thursday putted pretty well Friday and Saturday Sunday the putter let him down uh both days he he's hitting it better which is good to see I think one of the things I picked up on from the coverage is that he's definitely hitting that banana fade when he wants to hit the fairway but he's definitely losing distance so maybe that was a bit of a factor just from a proximity standpoint over the weekend just having further clubs in I mean Zander I'm sure was blown to pass him um so that that's something I believe with Colin is is can we can we get the putter and the ball striking back on the same page because his putter was carrying him over the last month and a half and the ball striking was coming around he's starting to feel like old Colin work out again so I didn't have any expectations for him today I was going to be really surprised if he won not not that he wasn't capable you just know how I feel with what it takes to win a major championship you can't just like come in with with being like okay in a spot and really good in a spot especially in a week in which it's a shootout like you got to have everything fire and like we saw with Bryson we saw with Victor and we saw with Zander so um very pleased to see Colin work out back you know in contention again because I think for a bit there we were kind of questioning you know what's kind of going on with Colin. Well and I think it's interesting the context of all these discussions where you've talked a lot about like the change from Mark Blackburn and trying to figure out what's going to come next for him with a swing and you know we're juxtaposing that against two guys that now have it dialed with their instructors you know with with Chris Como and Zander and now Joe Mayo back with Victor Havelin and so that's that's going to be a piece for Colin to figure out but yeah I mean I think he has something to build on going to the next major it's just how's he going to put it all together for four rounds. Yeah and one other player too I don't think we had this in the in the rundown and I think I think Justin Thomas just like taking a look at his week and seeing like you know what all right what's what's how close was he you know he finished at 13 under he was a top 10 he finished T8 and I was just looking to see all right how did he put it and how did he drive it and T to green he was number one this week so that is really good to see that Justin's kind of getting comfortable with his golf swing and how he's hitting the golf ball he definitely had some double crosses but he was really good around the green hold out a bunker shot today and hit that incredible short short-sided shot on 14 yesterday but of the 78 players I made they got he was 75th in potting so that that to me is the story for JT that it's good to see him hitting it well again but he's got to start um he's got to start you know making these momentum putts because this week I mean we watched him yesterday it just was like how are we not making these momentum putts to get in and get ourselves up in contention. And not that you're offering him advice or anything but like what would you do if you were in that situation because he to me we talked about this a little bit we were falling around he's not hitting bad putts no they don't look bad it's just there it you know there are a ton of lip outs like how would you approach that if you were in JT's situation. To me it's all about getting speed correct and I think you got to really determine it's like if I'm gonna be an end point guy I'm gonna be an end point guy um you know finding just whatever the formula it is for you to like read putts and then just from there just focus all on speed because if anything to me it just he misses putt because misses putts because he hits putts too hard and too soft I don't think he's a bad green reader I just think that I think he's just thinking too much um about not feeling the line and I think that's um something that you got to either commit to one side or the other I think he's kind of just stuck in between at times. Well I'll say this and it goes back to what we said about just the Louisville crowd that was awesome all week long atmosphere was amazing man it was so cool seeing him walk up 18 day after watching the crowd go nuts for that chip in at 14 and just all like they they wanted him to win so bad and I think he genuinely appreciated that and also like after a disappointment like that to stay around and give calling a bit I mean to give Xander I'm sorry a big hug and and you know look genuinely thrilled for Xander I thought that was I that was really cool from JT and you know it was yeah I think overall it's a cool week for him it's has to be 100% and you could see it just on the grounds watching every single off every tee and off walking you know off every fairway off every green he's just getting rounds of applause and he's he's really I feel like engaged with the crowd every single moment that he could out there just showing his appreciation just how grateful he is to be from Louisville and how proud he is to be out there representing him and you could feel that just watching so that's my little JT spill I know he's a buddy of mine but still I just I was proud of how he played this week and I'm looking forward to maybe seeing him put all this together because man wouldn't it be fun to see JT get a win here pretty soon oh I 100% and you know he to transition a little bit here like is wild that we are a half an hour into a final round recap at a major championship we've not talked about Scotty once you know and obviously a lot happened with him early in the week but just looking at his scores for the week I this was my own little you know stat experiment I was doing is that we talked yesterday about you know a man of Balianas asked him about this and just talking about the how Friday he went out and played well and the immediate wake of everything that happened with the arrest and warming up kind of played on adrenaline and how Saturday was you know obviously the big let down and not only was it you know feeling exhausted in a lot of ways but also he doesn't have Ted Scott on his bag on Saturday and he sat with Amanda again after his round today and she said feeling a little better today look like you're back to usual self and he was saying I'm still a little bit fatigued and just kind of feeling a little bit off it obviously played better today but made some mistakes that I normally wouldn't have so just looking at his scores for the week so if you plugged in Scotty's worst non-Saturday score of the week for his Saturday round that would have been a 67 he would have finished at 19 under and solo third if you plugged in his best score of the week 65 he finishes tied for first at 21 under and he's going to a playoff as Andrew Shoffley I mean how how is that sitting with with you and and how do you think it's sitting with others we're looking at what could have been a grand slam here for Scotty it's just frustrating especially with like the new reports that are coming out about some of the people that were actually there as witnesses as well believe it was some of the folks from the ESPN their crew Dave Fleming Jeff Ogleley they I think they had eyes on it as well it's noted that these charges looks like they're going to get dropped it's just a really sad situation because I know plenty of Louisville people that we talked to are just so frustrated by what happened Valhalla members I know are just just devastated that this happened you know because it's just going to leave a lasting memory for so many people because it's going to stick with Scotty for a long time and he doesn't how much does he want to see himself in a in a jumpsuit from something that that he feels like he has done before and it just it was a wrong place wrong time type situation yeah I mean you know I think that we had our fun on the internet I'm not like poo pooing the fun that was had there there are a lot of you know funny memes and TikToks and things like that that we had a good lap at but you know as you're kind of like getting away from the week and you know you you got it it's a little bit sobering to think first of all it needs to be mentioned again and and they were you know and subsequently after we recapped everything that happened on Friday morning and you know we're we're parsing through the tragedy of John Mills who you know that they released the name of that volunteer was working the tournament you know John Mills obviously you know terrible tragedy for his family and our condolences go out to that Mills family but you know so his his his family's impacted you know irretrievably and the same thing with Scotty it's like this is a thing that he now has to deal with whether or not the charges get dropped there was an arraignment scheduled on Tuesday it's just a thing that has to kind of live in his psyche and he probably has to go decompress and meanwhile he's in the midst of a season that could have shaped up as one of the best of his career and maybe rank among the best of all time it's just a tough tough thing to reckon with it and I think that you know yeah I mean you said it well just I think it's tougher Valhalla it's tough for Louisville you know you'd imagine that the timeline for a return to Volholl of her PJ championship you know the by then we probably will be an afterthought but still in the immediate sense of this season it's just it's just a tough tough thing and you know let's hope Scotty's able to kind of deal with all and to your point about the dismissal of the charges I think that was first reported by Kevin van Balkenberg no laying up just those those charges were going to be dropped will likely be dropped from what he'd heard from his sourcing but yeah you know hopefully that goes away hopefully he doesn't have to go to that arraignment and he can just kind of move on move past it and get his head right and we keep playing Scotty Shepard golf the rest of the way because that was a not a fun road bump so so before we before we turn there's another part of this discussion I want to get to but in attempting to research the discussion we were just having I opened up a Twitter window and I I'm looking at a video right here that's making me love Bryson to Shanwell even more apparently he tossed he tossed a golf ball to a kid on the way the 10th tee but got intercepted by an older man I saw that I saw that Bryson yelled at the guy to leave return to the kid holly I mean I saw that that was great I'm not trying to detour us again but Bryson just he's just growing on me man he just I just miss him anyway I had to get that in the notes well done Bryson it's from from the same file as like the the home run guy that brings a club and steals from the kid the foul ball guy not great so so let's move here in in a bit of a different direction we talked about you know a lot of guys that played well there's a group of guys that you maybe didn't have their best week in a lot of different ways you touched on John John Rahm a little bit I think Rory kind of wishes maybe he played the week differently and now is dropped in the OWGR thanks to Xander's jump Brooks Kepka's another guy who had a rough Saturday and played well today on Sunday but just not the result he wants in a major championship and another guy Wyndham Clark missing the cut you know a guy that we loved all year long and it was right there you know in terms of how we felt the best players on tour were playing it was like Scotty and Wyndham and Xander those are the guys there's reflections on that group before of you know how do you kind of say hey let's let's move past this let's you know learn some things and move on to the next one I would throw Cam Young and Cam Smith in there as well those were two two other players as well that we're disappointing and just kind of looking at some of their stats as well Cam Young ironed it terrible so did Cam Smith so that was something that oh and Cam Cam Smith putted it terrible too so that that to me was something I liked Cam Smith this week because I felt like he was going to iron putt it well and he did both bad so and I thought Cameron Young and Wyndham Clark I thought this was a really good course fit for them so really just not good stuff from them on a golf course that was a shoot out I mean so many dudes were under par and looking at the guys at the top Sander Shaffa getting the 21 under it's like the rocket mortgage broke out in a major championship here looking at just these score that looking at the scoreboard at a par 71 so yeah I think there's there's a lot of players that you can just kind of look at and say it's man it's like how do they not keep up the pace because it seemed like you know the guys at the top were not having an issue um finding birdies out there especially watching the coverage it seemed it seemed fairly easy but um yeah I mean I guess if you're you're missing fairways out there it's hard to make birdies but yeah I'm I think the John Romp thing's pretty fascinating to be honest because he had his that's just only the second major miscut that he's had in his career and coming off at T 45 at the Masters Mrs. The Cut here I guess this is like where I'm at right now with John and just reading his comments and just hearing the just how he delivers like his words now he just seems like annoyed by everybody thinking that since he went to live he's just not the same player that he was and I and I don't think he's quite comfortable with the decision and I could be speaking out of turn here but I just I just think he's trying to put a little bit too much too much pressure on himself of of maybe distractions that he didn't have in the past just thinking about you know just do are these fans gonna like me you know like I don't know if he's got a little bit of of that and his personality of just wanting to be loved by everybody but maybe that's something that's on his mind um I don't know just I'm just trying to figure out why John Romm is missing cuts at major championships that of course like this in which he should never miss the cut what kind of day is it it's a white claw day light and refreshing tasting uniquely cold weight filter there's an iconic flavor for everyone come on grab a pack white claw grab life by the claw please don't respond to heart also with flavor white claw also works Chicago Illinois. Walmart plus members 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 essential plan only separate registration required see Walmart plus terms and conditions that's a really interesting one because I think what we're trying to unpack there is not a golf thing it's like a headspace thing yeah that's what I'm at right now and I think it's it's so interesting to look at let's like let's look at some of the other big names that that went to live and I'm not saying that that these players and their teams didn't have probably lengthy discussions on the front end of like what's this gonna look like and what's gonna feel like when you go but you but you can never really know until you go what the ramifications are gonna be what the what the blowbacks gonna be and I think that you know guys like Brooks Keptka like Brooks Keptka is just kind of content to like he wants to play the players and do well made it he's good don't care what people think about I'm like he's he's just doing his thing Dustin Johnson probably similar like I've won enough majors like I'm I'm good like you know all you heard him saying on full swing like more money less work yeah great I'm good with that I'll go do my thing I think you know let's talk about guys like Bryson we just touched on where he felt a certain type of way leaving the tour and maybe part of the process of a reckoning he had to do help them mature and get to a point where he does feel more authentic in his own skin you're seeing that now yep this year and then even guys in between where like Cam Smith where he he went and took the money and he shows up at the master's the next year and he's like yeah I kind of got lazy over the offseason and and you know and at the end of 2023 last year we saw him I think I think he missed the cut at the either the Australian PGA or the Australian Open and there was like a moment where he was you know multiple strokes over par super upset with himself and so it's like it almost took like a year for him to reckon with the move and the type of golf he was playing and get him back on track in a way and so I think that that's um it's probably a process that John Rama's still going through and it might take him a full year to process that if you know kind of to your point again we're doing amateur psycho analysis here but if he's a guy like shoot I'm a people pleaser like I don't want people I don't like you know seeing comments on our stuff they're like hey you guys think or this and that it's like that's tough to that's tough to stomach so imagine that times one million for a guy is one of the biggest faces and biggest names in the game of golf and you know whether or not you see it or your team screens you like that's gonna get to you in some way shape or form and he and I think the biggest thing for him is is he wants to be seen as one of the elite players in the world and he's showing up and playing like this in majors it's like you can you can say on the front end as much as you want to about no I'm still gonna play good golf I'm still in good shape I'm still practicing but if it's like don't tell me show me and what you're showing me is not good I it's hard for me to draw the conclusion take here at your word that you're still able to play good golf until you show that to me again yeah I think you're dead on here and I think just how he showed up this week you know the masters did not pot well putted putted poorly on Thursday hits it like crap on Friday so you just have this golfer that that I'm with the edge I just think that with John as we move to the US Open a golf course that should be a perfect fit for him you know the the US Open there's no excuses for him there that'll be a huge test to see how he plays there but you know what I think too these guys have schedules and routines to get ready for major championships and and John Rahm you know going to play at Bay Hill the players and all these golf courses that that test that tests you for major championships you have to wonder if there's a little bit of high-level tournament rust that he just hasn't gotten from the live golf tour from the courses that they play maybe not quite as much the competition or even the format maybe that there's just an adjustment right now going on it's like that hey guess what Xana's been doing guess what you know all these other top guys Scottie chef have been doing they've been teeing off of one and they've been playing tough golf courses now not well I'm not saying all of our off courses that they put on the PGA tour are extremely difficult but let's say a majority of these signature events that they're playing yeah they're freaking hard well that's what's maybe a little ironic about this week is if we're talking about a course in terms of degree of difficulty as we're about to head in that discussion it's probably the closest one of what they play on live right now but maybe there's just some tournament run I don't know it I don't know if that's you see where I'm see where I'm going there well you and I talked about this a couple times this week where like again to compare live players you know a rom versus brooks where brooks seems content to just like give me the four majors that's what I get fired up for that's what my team and I prepare for you know I think for him he was saying in the wake of not playing well at the Masters this team is like you know they punished me like or work the workout Scott harder and they geared up and you know again didn't play well here at the PGA you know brooks is going to be up for the US Open and the Open Championship but you know but he's focused on the majors for me it's kind of what you're saying the high level tournament stuff it's like I get the sense that rom genuinely loved going to you know the genesis or the memorial or any of these are Bay Hill or the players and playing in those tournaments against the best players in the world and getting you know tested by those courses and so he has to be missing that in some way shape or form and you just you can't replicate that you can't like go play a hard course and pretend you're playing in a tournament you're looking at leaderboards you just can't do it I just that's just kind of laugh at some of his comments this week too just asking about the PGA tour I don't want to get too far off into this because we had a really fun recap but just said basically just some uh he's like you know I still support the PGA tour like no you don't you left it's like you did the opposite of supporting the PGA tour so I get that that he still considers himself a PGA tour member but no you're not come on dude like you took the money and you left like and you left it left for for for everybody else to try to go figure it out and hopefully um that it works out for him that he gets to play on the PGA tour next year but who knows what's gonna happen I just kind of laughed at that and just been like come on dude like you can't say that right now that was it that was a definite eyebrow razor uh and I don't know again you know we've we've talked you know in a recent episode about the difference between like Rory's public comments and Jordan's public comments and how each of those views are differently and I like like all these guys I don't know if what he's trying to do there is extend an olive branch to guys on tour because I don't think it landed that way but I mean it's it's it's a strange strange thing and it's you know again we can do a full recap on that all right time but it was definitely odd here and say that um I think now the place to go is let's talk about this golf course because uh not everybody loved the way it played so here's let's start with some stats all right so Xander's score of 21 under par is the lowest in men's major history his 25 birdies tie the most ever by a player in a PGA championship he's a first player in history to make 25 more birdies and multiple majors in his career he also did that for that the 2019 masters so uh lowest winning scores at a major championship relative to par cam smith 20 under the at the 22 open championship DJ and that one you know I'm not asterisking sennandrews but you know we go there for the history we don't go there for the test of golf as much anymore you know it's a it's a it's it's and that's been said for a number years that's you know that that's part of the whole rollback discussion DJ 20 under the 2020 masters that's one's asterisk because augustan nationals not playing the way that they want it to in november that it does in april it's said you can't play it the same in terms of conditioning um you know uh hanger extents and 20 under uh the 2016 open championship of royal true and that's interesting to see that and the board is we're about to go there in a couple months and then jason day 20 under the 2015 PGA championship of whistling straights uh for the week and so that's just a winning score now how about this for the week the field was a combined 214 strokes under par that's not just the most under par for a PGA field of all time it's 254 strokes lower in relation to par then the next venue on the list riv and 95 which was played 40 in the world is that stat that by the way and and I you know if if Justin ray is listening to this not another way to be like I've not been attributing all the stats in here we set off the top that largely these are yours and randy roblaz's stats that was straight from just and raised right up on the athletic which by the way like go subscribe and read to that because he hammers you with like all these amazing things that just contextualize what you just saw but that one was like I was like this just reads like it's made up it's i mean that kind of tells the story right here and here's one more because I think you were you were calling this the you were like are we watching the rocket mortgage or a major championship so how about this so final round scoring average of the field 69.26 for perspective that's a lower scoring average than we saw in the final rounds us here at the mexico open of Adanta uh it was just 69.72 at the amx 69.28 and at the Puerto Rico open 70.13 so I mean and take this where you want to smiley because I you know for me I don't feel like every single major needs to be a brutal test of scoring in fact I think we've even heard criticisms in the past couple years of the PGA that it was looking too much like a US Open and do we want two US Open's on the calendar and so this obviously is going in a very different direction and you know by the way we saw historic first round scoring last year at the US Open LA CC that you know stabilized over the course of the week but it's not like we haven't seen little spurts of this before at major championships um but with Valhalla you know I think that if you're trying to put a positive spin on it and look at the positive it's like that was great TV like I was watching that I was gonna happen though we knew we were gonna have an epic epic leaderboard and a dramatic finish so like does does every major need to be super hard or are you okay with you know every you know the odd major being a score fest that you can tune into and be like this is a leaderboard full of names of guys I know who are superstars who all of compelling storylines and they're gonna take it deep on Sunday. This reminded me of a PGA championship that was in August right like this is kind of what we were accustomed to watching on TV in August of the PGA championships which were soft greens hot temperatures we saw that on Sunday but to me it's like oh gosh I kind of go more towards wanting it to test the players more at least you know it's a little bit more less than whatever the total number under par is because I feel like what the major championships do such a good job of is identifying who really is playing the best that week and when I was kind of looking at the board I just felt like there were too many random guys that were in there that were having really hot putting weeks that aren't necessarily one of the best ball strikers out on tour so to me that I'm like oh gosh I would I'd rather see the guys I can really stripe and be and really have to land it in in tighter smaller areas and this golf course was just let's just call it what it is it's it's long that's what they try to do and we're gonna try to make it really long for these players but the problem is when you have soft fairways that are that are this new great zoysia and the only way these guys got tested coming into the greens is whether they had a mud ball or not because the greens are fairly big they played soft and there's just not a ton of trouble around the greens it's not like you're playing a memorial where these greens are you know shaped so shallow to where you get missing the green you can't get up and down out of the rough or you know short-sighted bunker shots but that's just not the case out there I felt like every bunker I saw guys get into they could get it closed or if they were in the rough they were able to chip it close and that's just not what we're used to seeing on it for major championships when you miss short-sighted you pay the price and I just felt like it just wasn't penal enough yeah I think that's a fair critique and it mirrors you know a lot of what was said online I've just there should have been more I guess that was the other thing in watching you know on Sunday is there were numerous times where a shot was hit by either zander or one of the chasing pack of players and in my mind I'm thinking man it's gonna be really tough to save a part here and then in any other major championship scenario they probably wouldn't and they'd come back to you know to the to the rest of the pack or the pack will fall off and and now we have some excitement we have some kind of movement and instead it was like oh nope they got up and down for par and they kind of stay where they're at and it's just put some pressure again everybody got up and down yeah it just felt like everybody was getting up and down and I guess I'll I'll ask you this and do you uh from from your perspective do you like watching these big momentum like big roars I mean because there was some energy in this crowd you could feel it through the tv like do you like just all of these guys hitting it close and making these birdie pots because it you know Augusta didn't have the roars this year but they dang sure had them at Valhalla well and that's and I think it depends on the perspective you're talking about because this is this is a funny like you know to peel back the curtain a little bit I was having this discussion with someone who works with with Sirius XM you know their master's radio that week and I was like man I am loving watching the carnage on Friday the winds going crazy the greens are crispy this is at the master's now and he's like are you kidding me dude that's terrible no excitement no roars you know it doesn't it doesn't the energy doesn't translate to you know an audio product or a visual product and so and honestly I kind of I tend to agree with them like I think that you know it it just depends on the viewpoint you're looking at it from and I think that there are definitely a lot of like golf purists that are tuning in for majors to see a a stern test and see these guys have to face the toughest conditions and find a way to succeed and and that was not the case this week and so I guess where I net out on that is kind of where I started honestly is just that I'm okay with it every once in a while I'm just not okay with it all the time and I think if I were to you know make an ask of a governing body because I'm looking at next year's calendar and I'm watching what Rory just did lighting up Quail Hollow and that's what the venue hosts in the PJ Championship next year and what the course comparison that is made for Quail Hollow is Valhalla and I'm thinking oh boy if we do this two years in a row like they're going to be some unhappy campers and that that to me is is if there was a sort of variance in the flow like I actually kind of like that as as an identity for this championship it's like we know what the Masters is right we know what the US Open is it's going to be you know demanding difficult you know narrow fairways you know it's going to be a test you know no matter where it is we know what the Open Championship is it's like it's links golf it's you know takes us back to just the origins of the game and you know ton of history there the PGA I feel like has had this sort of transition and identity you know it was a fall event now it's a you know it's sort of a spring leading in a summer event and you know and it was it was really hard for a couple years and now it's really easy and it's like if there was sort of you know a better flow between venues so we got a hard one one year and then we got an easy one and to be fair that's kind of we went okay to Valhalla but now we're gonna go Quail Hollow and I don't know how like some of the other PGA venues coming up how they're gonna set up like congressional is coming a few years down the road we saw Rory rip that up for one of his major wins you know early on you know and again it was a rain-soaked venue at that point in time in DC but you know it's just that's the tough part for me is like if it's if you're getting too much of that then I understand why people complain but I like being on site this week in Louisville with those crowds and the energy I was like I very much enjoyed that even if I understand why people are critiquing it from a golf purist perspective and from a major championship test perspective I totally get that it's just like hey like sometimes I want to have meat potatoes sometimes I want to have a little soft serve ice cream this week was a lot of soft serve ice cream and now I need detox so yeah and I think just all it is is the greens were just soft you know if they were if they were Bermuda greens and they were firm I'm not sure exactly how firm those bent greens ever get if they do ever get firm but to me it's like I just feel like you've got to have major championships on either slopey greens which those aren't or firm greens that are that are flatter which these greens are more on the flatter side besides the 18th so I don't know I just I think a good barram barometer for me for any event it's like okay if if the tournament ended up at 12 under that means it was a really good test like if the guy that won shoots 12 under that's a very good number that means the golf course really tested all the players in the field 12 under this week there was one two three four five six guys that shot it and uh you were uh t12 so I just well and I think the interesting thing there too is like looking at some of the guys we listed as being disappointing um you know for some of them like especially you know canvas myth we made the cut and didn't play well today it's it in other major championships if you have a couple good rounds but you have one off day but you find a way to kind of scrape a score that's like close to even par you're still in it right you can still find a way whereas like just forget about it this week like you're cooked at that point so it's a little weird it's like you kind of if you're in those players camps you kind of throw that one out the window because you're like I mean I don't know like if I don't have my best stuff everyone's gonna run away from me you know so that's where I like kind of land on Scotty which is why I didn't like him coming into the week I just felt like he wasn't gonna ever win a shootout um and you know I we can't judge him based off what happened but still I feel like if there was a a major that he wasn't gonna win this year it was gonna be the one that he had to shoot 21 under to win yeah yeah it's it's absolutely fair and and I think you know we we we pretty much had it right it ended up where we thought it was gonna end up with a 21 under winner the lowest winning score ever in the major championship so um smiley just I feel like it's about time to wrap up on this on this recap I feel like we got a you know we got to thank a lot of people for this week but I think the statins for hosting us and shout out to the to the the goodest dog uh little uh little Maggie uh we we enjoyed having her participate in one of our uh one of our episodes this week on YouTube uh go check out the Westie love Maggie and you know we got to think the good people at T-Mobile for hosting us in Club Magenta that was a ton of fun and we got to thank JT's boys for just taking us around Louisville we went to the horse races yeah about to get into that let's go big winner big winner over here on Saturday I think I got to tell that story right like so we I have like five or six slips because I can't figure out this machine on try to figure out all these bets on you know I'm used to if I'm gonna bet on a football game or something you know minus seven on the line like I understand how to read a sheet when it comes to any other sport other than horses so I'm looking at this sheet and all I see here are all these random things that you can do and then I got all these guys uh helping me try to pick these numbers so I have no idea what I'm betting on but I had six slips and I go deep into it you spent like a hot 15 minutes at that at that terminal so I got all these slips and we go out there and we're all watching and we're all yelling I don't even know what I'm yelling for I don't even know what I'm cheering for I don't know what horses I have and after the race I'm like celebrating like I won and I I have all my my sheets and I have one of uh one of their friends come over there like to let me know how I did and and he looks at like one of them and he's like oh my god you hit that and then he and I showed him another like oh my god you hit that too and I'm and I'm like oh my god we're buying Churchill Downs we just we just hit the big bucks like this is huge and I get over there is like actually this one didn't hit but this one did and that's huge and I hand over my sheet and I think I probably had like somewhere around like 50 bucks or so on this um like overall like it's not no it wasn't like these this massive bet but I thought I hit like these big odds or something yes and I hand it to the lady and it and it pops up and I think you were right there next to me and I was and I was thinking I was like is that decimal place in the right place because I there's no way I just won 43 dollars and 85 cents like surely surely like there shouldn't be a decimal place and I just won you know four thousand three hundred eighty five dollars or even just somewhere around three hundred dollars like that was the winner I thought I had and no sir you just you won 43 dollars and um yeah good luck I thought I I accompanied you to to the little the the whatever the stall is where you get your where you give me tickets I don't I as you can obviously tell I know nothing about horse racing or the betting the terminology and it's further evidence of that I did not win any of my best than I and it's like lit eighty dollars on fire thankfully it was just eighty dollars but uh I went up there with you thinking like all right we're seeing no less than four digits and it might be more and we saw four digits just so happened there was a decimal between two of them on either side so uh you know but look but you but you had a winning ticket so you got to you got to experience the vibes a Churchill down that that place rocks do little paddocks sing them out sick I am a hundred percent gonna go back to go to the Derby and I'm really pumped that I kind of know the way of the land and how the the ticketing and all the betting works there because if I would have showed up day one at the Derby and tried to learn all that on the fly and we saw have we saw show up knowing I'm I have no idea what I'm doing versus like showing up thinking I'm about to wreck this place so I have a you know it's just a basic like I need to probably do some research know what I'm doing and kind of know what my plan is so but yeah great week in Louisville um really really really fun um and uh man I don't even know where I'm heading next but I'm excited about uh the rest of uh the US Open coming up I know that yeah that's gonna be a good one uh you you've got some stuff going on this week I'm heading to Sandhills this weekend very excited about that and get a little get a little golfing and then the Nebraska Sandhills I don't know what the reasons call them somewhere Nebraska looking forward to that uh will we come on for me stream song for you as we're playing a little get a little golf in this week post our our big spring round that was in Louisville as we was we made sure I'm also shout out to Ben and Graham for hosting but uh that that is all for this episode for our recap of the PJ Championship but we're excited for what we have coming up next because it is colonial week and we have on Gil Hance who did the the restoration of that project take it back to its we was 1940 or 1941 US Open that was hosted there took it back to those roots super cool um visuals he sent over an entire deck that was put together to show what they were doing at the restoration the changes over time so that episode is going to drop on Wednesday and you should honestly if you're a course architecture nerd go watch that on youtube because the visuals they'll really bring it to life but look forward to that episode to get you prepped for colonial this upcoming weekend and might even have another special guest joining us in that episode who has extensive PJ tour experience who also has uh you know a vested interest in the restoration of colonial so look forward to that and then we'll have a full colonial recap coming after the weekend so we appreciate all of you watching and listing this entire week as we recap everything from oh all unlovable and oh we got we have final thoughts with smiley and just a and just a reminder that our one and done picks will be yes in the next episode with uh Gil Hance is uh interviewing i'm just gonna go and tell you the players it's gonna be Ryan Palmer so we're gonna have him join us and uh one and done picks for 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