The volume. What is going on everybody? How are you doing? It is Monday afternoon, June ninth. We've had a busy day. It started this morning with John Schneider, the general manager of the Seahawks. We recorded an interview. We'll probably play that next week. I went on with Colin for about an hour and I was like, you know what, it's the US Open. It is a sport I love to gamble on and talk about. So I was like, you know, let's do a Golo podcast here on Monday. We got some football stuff coming up the next couple of days. Last week for most teams, mini camps mandatory mini camps, no voluntary mandatory now. So we'll talk some football over the next upcoming days. But today I picked the top five things heading into this week oakma US Open, toughest test in golf. Some consider this the hardest course in America when they do it up like this that I'm fired up about. And we'll do a little mail bag session as well. At Golo Pod is the instagram. 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Was out in the sun the other day and my lips got burned off. You got to apply. You got to unscreen on your lips because it gets a little windy in Arizona, and that sun about one hundred and two degrees. All of a sudden, the next day you're peeling your lips off your mouth. It's awful, But I want to start Sorry for that. Those details. We'll start with the five biggest stories let's start. Let's just dive into my five biggest stories for the US Open in twenty twenty five, and we'll just start at one to work our way down. I don't even think it's close. The biggest story heading into this weekend is Scottie Shuffler. He won the last Major a month ago. He is easily the best player in the world. Every event he plays recently, he doesn't just win, he destroys everybody. And last year he was anointed rightfully. So you win all those tournaments, you win a Major, you win sixty five million dollars. Your caddie makes six seven million dollars. Who I think he would have ranked. I forget the exact numbers, like fortieth or forty fifth on the money in a day and age when they are just giving out a ton of cash. It was an incredible accomplishment. And obviously people over the course of the last decade plus have had Tiger like seasons. People get uncomfortable and I find myself as well. When you compare someone to Michael Jordan, Tom Brady Tiger Woods. Part of their greatness is doing it over a long period of time. Right, It's not like a musician, a one hit wonder. There have been a lot of people that have had a hit song. It's like, well, can you have multiple hit albums? Can you have twenty number ones? Right? Like? Can you start multiple businesses that work? And I just think Scotti Scheffler is proving that, like he's in it to win it, and that's cool. Like part of what's cool about watching a great player is watch them through their journey and sometimes in team sports, like over the last couple of years, anyone that's watched nikolea Jokic play basketball is like I've been watching in the NBA for thirty plus years. He's got to be one of the ten twelve best players I've ever seen. Is he gonna win a second NBA championship in his career? I don't know. They've kind of bungled some moves. Who knows who is you know they hire Rick adelman Son, I have no clue. A lot of stuff's out of your control. As you know, in team sports, you see those with quarterbacks all the time. You know, Patrick Mahomes gets the benefit of being drafted by Andy Reid and playing with the Chiefs who already had Travis Kelcey and Tyreek Hill, and they signed Spagnola to be the defensive coordinator. You know, Joe Burrow goes Cincinnati Bengals right as an individual star. I don't know much about the two guys that played in the Roland Garros Final Center and Alcatraz, but clearly they're pretty elite players. And as a tennis player, if you're a great player Agasy, Pete Sampras, Djokovic, Nadal, whatever, you control a lot of your own destiny. Golf's a little bit like that, Like you definitely control a lot, but there's some randomness, right, Like for whatever reason when Tiger woods, like is he a great clutch putter, of course, but that ball went in a lot more than it lipped out. You know, we have seen over the course of as a golf fan, how many guys. I mean, was it two years ago Wyndham Clark had a chance to tie at the Players Championship against Scotty and lips out. I mean, it was just that never really happened to Tiger, and it hasn't really happened to Scotty much lately either, And the bounces have all gone is way, which you need. And listen, he's a bright lights complete ass kicker and Ted Scott's been banging this drum. And I respect the shit out of anyone with this mindset because hopefully one day I'll, like many of you, were all in the position to have the opportunity to go. This is how I handled millions upon millions of dollars. What was unfazed or maybe like, yeah, I got a little lazy. You know, it's a good position to be in financially, but some guys like, yeah, I kind of mail it in. They don't work as hard. We'll get to Rory here in a second. And some guys are like, I want more. I can't get enough. I'm addicted to this, And clearly Scotty from a competition standpoint, is addicted to winning golf tournaments. And that's cool because after you win sixty six million dollars, if you would have told me he got a mailed in this year, would have been kind of relatable. But he hasn't. He's the heavy favorite I saw before I press record. It's hard because gambling, you know, up until the last five or six years, with the with the regulations by a state basis changing and it becoming much easier for us, you know, lifetime gamblers to obviously dabble that it's hard for me to be like I remember in two thousand and seven when Tiger Woods, Like I wasn't gambling on golf twenty years ago, but I saw a headline and it might have been by DraftKings that Scotti Scheffler is the lowest favorite, you know, meaning his odds are the lowest at basically plus two eighty so under three to one to win a major, which is insane. And it's the lowest number since Tiger Woods in two thousand and nine. So that's the type category in and listen, he's kind of been hovering when he started kicking ass last year. It went from like seven eight to one down to five to one. Over this year, it's creeped, you know, from three to four to one down under that number. It's crazy, and let's face it, it doesn't feel that nuts taking it. Here's the other thing I looked before we're getting ready for this podcast, in the last since twenty twenty two, so I guess in twenty one, so twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, sixteen majors and then the two majors this year. That is eighteen majors, he has finished in the top ten in eleven of those, and in three others he won. So in fourteen of the eighteen majors he's either finished in the top ten in basically eighty five percent of them and won three others. Pretty nuts, And in five of those eleven top ten since twenty one, he's finished in the top five. So this guy, when you get it, it's crazy to me. With tennis, and I listen, I dabbled a little as a young kid, played a little in college just to like get a sweat. I don't follow it anywhere even closely like I do golf and definitely not football, But having just been a sports fan for a long time, it's to me it's always crazy that, like you get to one of these Grand Slams, and whatever era you're in, it's basically a lock that two or three of the best players are going to be in the final four, and usually the best two players or two of the best three players are just going to be in the finals. It's like a lock in golf, like Tiger had some majors where he just didn't play well. To happen to Phil, happened to any great player where it feels like right now Scotty is much more like a tennis player where it's like he's gonna be in the top five and his odds reflect that. For example, Bryson d. Chambeau is the defending champion. He's won two US Opens this decade. Like he is an ass kicker in this tournament. It's made for him because you can grow up the rough ten feet. Well, he's the strongest motherfucker out there, so you can put him in the rough and he's hitting at the farthest it's going to be advantage Bryson. Yet Scotty to finish to top five is minus one seventy five and to put this into perspective, Bryson is plus one sixty and he's second on the odds board. Just shows you, like what a lock. And if there was plus odds, everyone and their mother would gamble on it that Scotty is to finish in the top five. Now, he's not guaranteed to win. It's hard to win these majors, but it feels like comes Sunday, he is going to be in the last two or three groups with a very very good chance to win. And that's that's pretty crazy in this sport. I would say number two in terms of stories would be Bryson and just what he's become and when it comes to majors, you know he's going to be a factor. I mean, hell, the two Majors this year he's finished both in the top five. Now, he didn't really have a chance to win either. On Sunday the Masters after the first couple holes, he just did not play well being paired with Rory and in the tournament with Scotty on where they just play at Quail Hollow. Clearly he just didn't have it. But like he is constantly putting himself in the mix, and he's been doing it for the last couple of years. He like this tournament is just Taylor made for him. He did a YouTube video shot by shot of one of his practice rounds. He played in this tournament In twenty sixteen, the year that Dustin Johnson won. He had another good week at Live in DC. I think he finished top four. Joaque Niven shot fifteen hunderd he shot thirteen under. So he continues to play well coming into these tournaments. It would not shock me at all if he won. Now, one thing he said after Quayle Hollow was like, my irons are off and I got something coming. Now are we going to get the answer to what is coming? Did he get new sticks? Did he get them worked on? I'm not even sure what the three d irons actually means. Clearly he's a little quirky with his technology, but you know, if he like from a driving standpoint, he's elite and around the green, and these greens are supposed to roll like concrete speeds, They're going to have the fastest greens of any tournament you know during professional golf in twenty twenty five. Well, Bryson's one of the best putters, So around the greens, he's elite. Driving the ball, he's elite. To me, the question is like, when you just give him one hundred and eight yard shot a two hundred yard shot, is he pulling those? Like his draws turned into hooks pretty quick in the last couple of majors. If he has that ironed out, he's going to be in pretty good shape. And I couldn't blame anyone for taking him. I think I saw today he's eight eight plus eight fifty or eight to one. His odds are actually dropping. I think he's a he's an absolute lock to take as a top five. Though the first two guys, we know we're getting like these guys are gonna be in the mix. They're proving that every major. Now, winning majors are hard. You gotta have some shit go right for you. You obviously got to make some big putts over the weekend. But I think when we get to the third biggest story is Roy McElroy's pretty fascinating because we've been talking about this the last couple of weeks. Is like it looked like he was about to have a historic season. He wins a pebble, then he wins the players, and then he finally takes down the Masters, and you're like, listen, take a couple of weeks off, go get drunk with your family, hang out with your you know, your kid, your buddies. Just enjoy life. But like, listen, he's gonna be a little rusty, but he'll come back like he's gonna have a massive season. He's gonna win five or six times, and he definitely could win one of these other majors. And then the driver incident happens last week in Canada. He didn't just miss the cut. He beat four guys in a field of one hundred and fifty five and of course that was pretty easy. And driving the ball is a major problem, and he alluded to that, like, I haven't since they took away my driver. The new equipment of Taylor made just isn't working for me. I started with a forty five inch driver. I've worked down to a forty four inch driver. Listen, we've all been there. You have a club that's not working. It's actually a relatable thing to me. I'm not as bothered by that, like people have weird struggles when they change a club. Like some of you might have the same sand wedge you've had in the bag for a decade. You just like it. I'm like that with my wedges. I've had the same lob wedge, gap wedge, and sand wedge in my bag for five years. You know, pros would be like, you've lost the grooves, Like, I don't care. I'm just comfortable with these wedges. I'm not a good enough wedge player, and I don't want to just start buying wedges like I'm good with them. It's why these guys keep clubs in their back for a long period of time when they're working and like, I'm not like it happened to him. I do understand why he was pissed. It felt like people start telling that they leaked that his name and not Scotty's name. Like, honestly, I kind of under stand where he was coming from when it came to that situation. Now, I do think like the way he pits the media like as the enemy is kind of a little weird. But like all these players live in La La Land. It's kind of the country club nature of the sport that it's like, God, you guys have it too good. You're too rich. You don't even fucking realize how easy you have it relative to some of these other athletes. But what I don't I can't quite relate to is like I've grown up anyone my age on starting with you know, from Tom Brady to Peyton Manning to Tiger Woods to Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan to even like Lebron and Steph now to In terms of work ethic and drive to try to win and practice, I mean, these guys are addicted. And Rory had some comments that essentially said like it is more difficult to be on the range for three or four hours after winning the Masters, Like what am I grinding to? I've worked for a decade plus to try to achieve something. I finally achieve it, and now it's hard. I'm out there on the range, I'm like, what am I doing this for? Which, in one respect, for most human beings, like anyone listening to this that has a goal, whether it's a goal to make amount of money, whether it's a goal to get a job, whether it's a goal to if you run a business to hit a certain revenue goal, it's always healthy to have that and you chase for it. Right. It's like, I have a goal of trying to land five of these ten guys on the podcast over the summer, and if you get to like five of them, you feel accomplished, which is understandable, and you can, I guess, exhale for a second. But when it comes to pro athletes, when it comes to the greats in business, it's like they're never satisfied. And I think most people listening. If you've set up one of those goals and you achieve it, you realize, like I don't get that much satisfaction after achieving it, Like you're just kind of onto the next task. I remember Kevin Durant made a big deal about this when he gets to the Warriors and he finally wins a championship and he feels like everything's gonna be healed and fixed and everyone's gonna leave him alone. And it was the opposite. It only got worse yet Rory's comments of like why do I grind as much? It's like, Rory, this is why people are kind of hard on you. You know, this is why I think a lot of people not fraud is way too strong of a way to describe it, but just like kind of full of shit. And we finally get behind you and watch you win the Masters, like this guy's about to become a legend. And then it's like he just admits he's not even practicing. He can't, he's not working as hard. And it's one thing, like a week or two after, it's like we've been a couple of months now, right, like what are we doing? Do you think Tiger Woods would ever speak like that? Do you think those words would ever come out of Tom Brady's mouth? And you could argue it's unfair, like you start using those guys, this is the highest level. Well, Rory's one of the great talents of all time. This is who I thought we were comparing him to. You know, it's like Rory finally wins this, Like how many majors could he win? Ten? It's like, I don't believe that anymore. I actually think Scotty. If you said, hey, right now, put five thousand dollars over the course of the next decade or just at the end of their career, who ends up with more majors? You'd have to bet on Scotty because I have a hard time seeing Scotty. Ever, say, you know won the PGA. Just went out to work with my coach and you know, my team, and after an hour, I was just like, what am I? Why am I working so hard? Now you could argue Scotty has less scar tissue and Rory had more baggage hanging over him. I just thought those comments were like, yeah, this is when someone tells you who they are, you just have to believe them and listen. It's his prerogative. He can do whatever he wants. But I think it's hard to take him as seriously this week, and he went from being the second, you know favorite for this tournament to now Bryson's pasted him and you get Rory ten to one to win this tournament. To me, I know a lot of people that I'm getting a lot of texts like should we take this guy to miss the cut? I'm like, I don't know if I do that, But it's not the craziest thing I've ever heard. If he's not driving the ball well and he hasn't really been practicing that hard, fuck, I don't know. Now, maybe you get embarrassed in Canada. You come home for a couple of days, and it's not like you know, you fly in American airlines, you hop on the PGA, you fly back, you grind for a couple of days. But he just told us, like, this is the grind still the same? Is that Saturday and Sunday looking the same. That's what made Tiger so special is like his work ethic, in his drive and his desire. I mean, part of Rory's whole deal is like just about the majors. It's just about the majors, and then the major came last couple of majors and goes like you kind of mailed it in. So I don't even know what to make of him. You know, he's at the point now where it's like you could tell me he's in the mix, because I wouldn't just write him off. I mean, he's obviously an all time great talent, but if you tell me that he misses the cut, like kind of believable, because I don't think this is a tournament. If you show up and you're not dialed in this tournament, regardless where it's at, will eat you alive. And you see Scotty coming in a ton of momentum, you see Bryson coming in a ton of momentum. You see John Rahm coming in with momentum off the last last major. You see all the you know, big names over the course of their careers like DJ or Kopka or these guys when they're playing really well come into the US Open with a lot of positive momentum. It's kind of the opposite with Wrory, which is crazy. Two months ago, whe were like, could he win the Grand Slam? And now it's like, yeah, I don't even give a fuck. It's like, how did we do this? And I've defended him over the course of the last couple of years when a lot of people came at him. But that comment, man, it's just that's not what we want out of our athletes. Fair not. 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The volume. What is going on everybody? How are you doing? It is Monday afternoon, June ninth. We've had a busy day. It started this morning with John Schneider, the general manager of the Seahawks. We recorded an interview. We'll probably play that next week. I went on with Colin for about an hour and I was like, you know what, it's the US Open. It is a sport I love to gamble on and talk about. So I was like, you know, let's do a Golo podcast here on Monday. We got some football stuff coming up the next couple of days. Last week for most teams, mini camps mandatory mini camps, no voluntary mandatory now. So we'll talk some football over the next upcoming days. But today I picked the top five things heading into this week oakma US Open, toughest test in golf. Some consider this the hardest course in America when they do it up like this that I'm fired up about. And we'll do a little mail bag session as well. At Golo Pod is the instagram. You know, we separate the football and life mail bag at my normal Instagram. This is a golf mail bag. So if you just go to at Golo Pod, I just created an extra Instagram years ago, So firing your dms there. We will answer your questions here on the podcast, and that will be the plan. So Golf today, Football over the next couple of days, and we'll just keep swinging our pick. Very very excited. I love the US Open the Carnage, Scottie Bryson, It's I'm fired up Oakmont. Just just awesome. This is I love carnage. I like bogies. I like doubles because I think, like most people, I can relate to them. But make sure you subscribe to the podcast. We also got everything up on YouTube as well. Before we dive into some golf, let's tell you about my friends, my partners, and the official ticketing app of this podcast, game Time Best ticketing App in America. What do you want to do? Do you want to go to an event? Do you want to go to the sphere? Do you want to go to a Yankee game? Do you want to go to a football game this fall? Do you want to go see Whoever in concert, a comedy show, do something fun, get out of the house, go enjoy yourself. Do it on us because game Time best ticketing app in America. It doesn't get any better. It doesn't get any easier to use. You can search my team, you can search by venue, you can search by the price point. They have flash deals at different events. I've been using this app for multiple years now and I've used them all. It doesn't get any easier. And listen, I'm telling you. Obviously you always want to save a little money. I got you covered. So take the guests. We're out of buying tickets with game Time. Download the game Time app. Create an account. Use it code John that's Jawagen for twenty dollars off your first purchase terms apply again. Create an account, Redeem the code John for twenty dollars off. Download the game Time app today, last minute takets lowest prices guaranteed. Was out in the sun the other day and my lips got burned off. You got to apply. You got to unscreen on your lips because it gets a little windy in Arizona, and that sun about one hundred and two degrees. All of a sudden, the next day you're peeling your lips off your mouth. It's awful, But I want to start Sorry for that. Those details. We'll start with the five biggest stories let's start. Let's just dive into my five biggest stories for the US Open in twenty twenty five, and we'll just start at one to work our way down. I don't even think it's close. The biggest story heading into this weekend is Scottie Shuffler. He won the last Major a month ago. He is easily the best player in the world. Every event he plays recently, he doesn't just win, he destroys everybody. And last year he was anointed rightfully. So you win all those tournaments, you win a Major, you win sixty five million dollars. Your caddie makes six seven million dollars. Who I think he would have ranked. I forget the exact numbers, like fortieth or forty fifth on the money in a day and age when they are just giving out a ton of cash. It was an incredible accomplishment. And obviously people over the course of the last decade plus have had Tiger like seasons. People get uncomfortable and I find myself as well. When you compare someone to Michael Jordan, Tom Brady Tiger Woods. Part of their greatness is doing it over a long period of time. Right, It's not like a musician, a one hit wonder. There have been a lot of people that have had a hit song. It's like, well, can you have multiple hit albums? Can you have twenty number ones? Right? Like? Can you start multiple businesses that work? And I just think Scotti Scheffler is proving that, like he's in it to win it, and that's cool. Like part of what's cool about watching a great player is watch them through their journey and sometimes in team sports, like over the last couple of years, anyone that's watched nikolea Jokic play basketball is like I've been watching in the NBA for thirty plus years. He's got to be one of the ten twelve best players I've ever seen. Is he gonna win a second NBA championship in his career? I don't know. They've kind of bungled some moves. Who knows who is you know they hire Rick adelman Son, I have no clue. A lot of stuff's out of your control. As you know, in team sports, you see those with quarterbacks all the time. You know, Patrick Mahomes gets the benefit of being drafted by Andy Reid and playing with the Chiefs who already had Travis Kelcey and Tyreek Hill, and they signed Spagnola to be the defensive coordinator. You know, Joe Burrow goes Cincinnati Bengals right as an individual star. I don't know much about the two guys that played in the Roland Garros Final Center and Alcatraz, but clearly they're pretty elite players. And as a tennis player, if you're a great player Agasy, Pete Sampras, Djokovic, Nadal, whatever, you control a lot of your own destiny. Golf's a little bit like that, Like you definitely control a lot, but there's some randomness, right, Like for whatever reason when Tiger woods, like is he a great clutch putter, of course, but that ball went in a lot more than it lipped out. You know, we have seen over the course of as a golf fan, how many guys. I mean, was it two years ago Wyndham Clark had a chance to tie at the Players Championship against Scotty and lips out. I mean, it was just that never really happened to Tiger, and it hasn't really happened to Scotty much lately either, And the bounces have all gone is way, which you need. And listen, he's a bright lights complete ass kicker and Ted Scott's been banging this drum. And I respect the shit out of anyone with this mindset because hopefully one day I'll, like many of you, were all in the position to have the opportunity to go. This is how I handled millions upon millions of dollars. What was unfazed or maybe like, yeah, I got a little lazy. You know, it's a good position to be in financially, but some guys like, yeah, I kind of mail it in. They don't work as hard. We'll get to Rory here in a second. And some guys are like, I want more. I can't get enough. I'm addicted to this, And clearly Scotty from a competition standpoint, is addicted to winning golf tournaments. And that's cool because after you win sixty six million dollars, if you would have told me he got a mailed in this year, would have been kind of relatable. But he hasn't. He's the heavy favorite I saw before I press record. It's hard because gambling, you know, up until the last five or six years, with the with the regulations by a state basis changing and it becoming much easier for us, you know, lifetime gamblers to obviously dabble that it's hard for me to be like I remember in two thousand and seven when Tiger Woods, Like I wasn't gambling on golf twenty years ago, but I saw a headline and it might have been by DraftKings that Scotti Scheffler is the lowest favorite, you know, meaning his odds are the lowest at basically plus two eighty so under three to one to win a major, which is insane. And it's the lowest number since Tiger Woods in two thousand and nine. So that's the type category in and listen, he's kind of been hovering when he started kicking ass last year. It went from like seven eight to one down to five to one. Over this year, it's creeped, you know, from three to four to one down under that number. It's crazy, and let's face it, it doesn't feel that nuts taking it. Here's the other thing I looked before we're getting ready for this podcast, in the last since twenty twenty two, so I guess in twenty one, so twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, sixteen majors and then the two majors this year. That is eighteen majors, he has finished in the top ten in eleven of those, and in three others he won. So in fourteen of the eighteen majors he's either finished in the top ten in basically eighty five percent of them and won three others. Pretty nuts, And in five of those eleven top ten since twenty one, he's finished in the top five. So this guy, when you get it, it's crazy to me. With tennis, and I listen, I dabbled a little as a young kid, played a little in college just to like get a sweat. I don't follow it anywhere even closely like I do golf and definitely not football, But having just been a sports fan for a long time, it's to me it's always crazy that, like you get to one of these Grand Slams, and whatever era you're in, it's basically a lock that two or three of the best players are going to be in the final four, and usually the best two players or two of the best three players are just going to be in the finals. It's like a lock in golf, like Tiger had some majors where he just didn't play well. To happen to Phil, happened to any great player where it feels like right now Scotty is much more like a tennis player where it's like he's gonna be in the top five and his odds reflect that. For example, Bryson d. Chambeau is the defending champion. He's won two US Opens this decade. Like he is an ass kicker in this tournament. It's made for him because you can grow up the rough ten feet. Well, he's the strongest motherfucker out there, so you can put him in the rough and he's hitting at the farthest it's going to be advantage Bryson. Yet Scotty to finish to top five is minus one seventy five and to put this into perspective, Bryson is plus one sixty and he's second on the odds board. Just shows you, like what a lock. And if there was plus odds, everyone and their mother would gamble on it that Scotty is to finish in the top five. Now, he's not guaranteed to win. It's hard to win these majors, but it feels like comes Sunday, he is going to be in the last two or three groups with a very very good chance to win. And that's that's pretty crazy in this sport. I would say number two in terms of stories would be Bryson and just what he's become and when it comes to majors, you know he's going to be a factor. I mean, hell, the two Majors this year he's finished both in the top five. Now, he didn't really have a chance to win either. On Sunday the Masters after the first couple holes, he just did not play well being paired with Rory and in the tournament with Scotty on where they just play at Quail Hollow. Clearly he just didn't have it. But like he is constantly putting himself in the mix, and he's been doing it for the last couple of years. He like this tournament is just Taylor made for him. He did a YouTube video shot by shot of one of his practice rounds. He played in this tournament In twenty sixteen, the year that Dustin Johnson won. He had another good week at Live in DC. I think he finished top four. Joaque Niven shot fifteen hunderd he shot thirteen under. So he continues to play well coming into these tournaments. It would not shock me at all if he won. Now, one thing he said after Quayle Hollow was like, my irons are off and I got something coming. Now are we going to get the answer to what is coming? Did he get new sticks? Did he get them worked on? I'm not even sure what the three d irons actually means. Clearly he's a little quirky with his technology, but you know, if he like from a driving standpoint, he's elite and around the green, and these greens are supposed to roll like concrete speeds, They're going to have the fastest greens of any tournament you know during professional golf in twenty twenty five. Well, Bryson's one of the best putters, So around the greens, he's elite. Driving the ball, he's elite. To me, the question is like, when you just give him one hundred and eight yard shot a two hundred yard shot, is he pulling those? Like his draws turned into hooks pretty quick in the last couple of majors. If he has that ironed out, he's going to be in pretty good shape. And I couldn't blame anyone for taking him. I think I saw today he's eight eight plus eight fifty or eight to one. His odds are actually dropping. I think he's a he's an absolute lock to take as a top five. Though the first two guys, we know we're getting like these guys are gonna be in the mix. They're proving that every major. Now, winning majors are hard. You gotta have some shit go right for you. You obviously got to make some big putts over the weekend. But I think when we get to the third biggest story is Roy McElroy's pretty fascinating because we've been talking about this the last couple of weeks. Is like it looked like he was about to have a historic season. He wins a pebble, then he wins the players, and then he finally takes down the Masters, and you're like, listen, take a couple of weeks off, go get drunk with your family, hang out with your you know, your kid, your buddies. Just enjoy life. But like, listen, he's gonna be a little rusty, but he'll come back like he's gonna have a massive season. He's gonna win five or six times, and he definitely could win one of these other majors. And then the driver incident happens last week in Canada. He didn't just miss the cut. He beat four guys in a field of one hundred and fifty five and of course that was pretty easy. And driving the ball is a major problem, and he alluded to that, like, I haven't since they took away my driver. The new equipment of Taylor made just isn't working for me. I started with a forty five inch driver. I've worked down to a forty four inch driver. Listen, we've all been there. You have a club that's not working. It's actually a relatable thing to me. I'm not as bothered by that, like people have weird struggles when they change a club. Like some of you might have the same sand wedge you've had in the bag for a decade. You just like it. I'm like that with my wedges. I've had the same lob wedge, gap wedge, and sand wedge in my bag for five years. You know, pros would be like, you've lost the grooves, Like, I don't care. I'm just comfortable with these wedges. I'm not a good enough wedge player, and I don't want to just start buying wedges like I'm good with them. It's why these guys keep clubs in their back for a long period of time when they're working and like, I'm not like it happened to him. I do understand why he was pissed. It felt like people start telling that they leaked that his name and not Scotty's name. Like, honestly, I kind of under stand where he was coming from when it came to that situation. Now, I do think like the way he pits the media like as the enemy is kind of a little weird. But like all these players live in La La Land. It's kind of the country club nature of the sport that it's like, God, you guys have it too good. You're too rich. You don't even fucking realize how easy you have it relative to some of these other athletes. But what I don't I can't quite relate to is like I've grown up anyone my age on starting with you know, from Tom Brady to Peyton Manning to Tiger Woods to Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan to even like Lebron and Steph now to In terms of work ethic and drive to try to win and practice, I mean, these guys are addicted. And Rory had some comments that essentially said like it is more difficult to be on the range for three or four hours after winning the Masters, Like what am I grinding to? I've worked for a decade plus to try to achieve something. I finally achieve it, and now it's hard. I'm out there on the range, I'm like, what am I doing this for? Which, in one respect, for most human beings, like anyone listening to this that has a goal, whether it's a goal to make amount of money, whether it's a goal to get a job, whether it's a goal to if you run a business to hit a certain revenue goal, it's always healthy to have that and you chase for it. Right. It's like, I have a goal of trying to land five of these ten guys on the podcast over the summer, and if you get to like five of them, you feel accomplished, which is understandable, and you can, I guess, exhale for a second. But when it comes to pro athletes, when it comes to the greats in business, it's like they're never satisfied. And I think most people listening. If you've set up one of those goals and you achieve it, you realize, like I don't get that much satisfaction after achieving it, Like you're just kind of onto the next task. I remember Kevin Durant made a big deal about this when he gets to the Warriors and he finally wins a championship and he feels like everything's gonna be healed and fixed and everyone's gonna leave him alone. And it was the opposite. It only got worse yet Rory's comments of like why do I grind as much? It's like, Rory, this is why people are kind of hard on you. You know, this is why I think a lot of people not fraud is way too strong of a way to describe it, but just like kind of full of shit. And we finally get behind you and watch you win the Masters, like this guy's about to become a legend. And then it's like he just admits he's not even practicing. He can't, he's not working as hard. And it's one thing, like a week or two after, it's like we've been a couple of months now, right, like what are we doing? Do you think Tiger Woods would ever speak like that? Do you think those words would ever come out of Tom Brady's mouth? And you could argue it's unfair, like you start using those guys, this is the highest level. Well, Rory's one of the great talents of all time. This is who I thought we were comparing him to. You know, it's like Rory finally wins this, Like how many majors could he win? Ten? It's like, I don't believe that anymore. I actually think Scotty. If you said, hey, right now, put five thousand dollars over the course of the next decade or just at the end of their career, who ends up with more majors? You'd have to bet on Scotty because I have a hard time seeing Scotty. Ever, say, you know won the PGA. Just went out to work with my coach and you know, my team, and after an hour, I was just like, what am I? Why am I working so hard? Now you could argue Scotty has less scar tissue and Rory had more baggage hanging over him. I just thought those comments were like, yeah, this is when someone tells you who they are, you just have to believe them and listen. It's his prerogative. He can do whatever he wants. But I think it's hard to take him as seriously this week, and he went from being the second, you know favorite for this tournament to now Bryson's pasted him and you get Rory ten to one to win this tournament. To me, I know a lot of people that I'm getting a lot of texts like should we take this guy to miss the cut? I'm like, I don't know if I do that, But it's not the craziest thing I've ever heard. If he's not driving the ball well and he hasn't really been practicing that hard, fuck, I don't know. Now, maybe you get embarrassed in Canada. You come home for a couple of days, and it's not like you know, you fly in American airlines, you hop on the PGA, you fly back, you grind for a couple of days. But he just told us, like, this is the grind still the same? Is that Saturday and Sunday looking the same. That's what made Tiger so special is like his work ethic, in his drive and his desire. I mean, part of Rory's whole deal is like just about the majors. It's just about the majors, and then the major came last couple of majors and goes like you kind of mailed it in. So I don't even know what to make of him. You know, he's at the point now where it's like you could tell me he's in the mix, because I wouldn't just write him off. I mean, he's obviously an all time great talent, but if you tell me that he misses the cut, like kind of believable, because I don't think this is a tournament. If you show up and you're not dialed in this tournament, regardless where it's at, will eat you alive. And you see Scotty coming in a ton of momentum, you see Bryson coming in a ton of momentum. You see John Rahm coming in with momentum off the last last major. You see all the you know, big names over the course of their careers like DJ or Kopka or these guys when they're playing really well come into the US Open with a lot of positive momentum. It's kind of the opposite with Wrory, which is crazy. Two months ago, whe were like, could he win the Grand Slam? And now it's like, yeah, I don't even give a fuck. It's like, how did we do this? And I've defended him over the course of the last couple of years when a lot of people came at him. But that comment, man, it's just that's not what we want out of our athletes. Fair not. 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In general in a lot of different sports. Tennis clearly dead, college sports, no chance, college basketball all four ones now with nil. College football looks just Ohio State, Oregon, Notre Dame, Georgia. Like the Boise States, these schools, it doesn't feel like they have a chance to ever get out of the first round anymore. And I think when you look at golf over the last couple of years, it's like, and listen, maybe I'm being nostalgic about it. Maybe it's technology, maybe it's just a short sample size, but I do feel like, you know, when I grew up in the nineties, even through the Tiger and Phil era, that there would be random guys that would win golf tournaments, major golf tournaments. And if you look over the course of the last couple of years, it's a lot of Scotti's. There's a lot of ROMs, it's a lot of Roryes, it's a lot of Bryson's, It's Xander. It's just like the top three or four players. Now. It doesn't mean other guys can't be in the mix and you can't gamble on them to top ten and top twenties. But if you tell me that like Bryson or Scottie win this tournament, we are basically just look at the list of guys that have won it. I mean Wyndham Clark a couple of years ago feels like a gigantic outlier. Right, and I would even call him like the little engine that could. But I mean the day and a of just random guys winning it, I think it would start to feel like the separation of the PGA Tour. Now with these signature events, some of these guys going to live. I do wonder if the day and age is kind of dead now. I think the British Open can always bring them alive because of the weather, because of the elements, because of the style of golf. But when it comes to Augusta, when it comes to the PGA Championship, and obviously the US Open, I think we're gonna be hard pressed to see these guys like seventy eighty, one hundred to one winning those three tournaments. And until otherwise, I think it's an auto stayaway. I am not into betting long shots at all in these majors anymore, and I'm not gonna touch it. I mean as crazy as I'll get, and we'll get into that here in a minute. But I used to do a lot of that. Take guys fifty sixty seventy to one, because you can just throw like fifty bucks to win like three thousand. I honestly believe that's just a waste of money. Now you're better off putting a little more and taking those guys to top ten, top twenty, and last but not least. I think the coolest part about the US Open it was the first I haven't been to that many pro golf tournaments over the years, but it was the first golf tournament I ever went to. Nineteen ninety eight at the Olympic Club with my dad, his buddy Jerry, and my buddy Travis, and I think we would have been ninety eight, so we would have been like thirteen, fourteen years old, no cell phones. We just get there, we go, Hey, meet you back. You know. It's we get there at maybe nine am. We'll meet you at four o'clock in the afternoon at the exit. You know. I don't even know how, but clearly we managed. We just meet him when we head home. And I remember watching John daily. I remember it was the year Lee Janssen won and actually Payne Stewart had a good chance to win. I think we went on a Saturday, maybe it was Friday. In the way that Olympic Club, they've redone the club. I don't know if it's exactly the same, but it used to have this runoff on eighteen and these guys would hit second shots and it would run all the way down the hill and Payne Stewart would go on. He lost that one, but he'd go on to win it in ninety nine against Philip Pinehurst, and I just remember thinking like, this is so hard. The roff was so long, it was so difficult. And I remember going to Pebble in twenty nineteen, the year Gary Woodland won it. One thing with the US Open is it feels like as a player, you're going up against like the eighty five Bears, going up against the two thousand Ravens, You're going up against the two thousand and one Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You're just going up against the best defense. The rough's long, the fairways are tight, the greens are like concrete. It is just a mother and if your game is slightly off, you are going to get wrecked. I mean, I saw I think Ben Griffin say that if you told him right now that he could sign up for Sunday to be in all seventy two holes and B plus four, he would one hundred percent take that. I think a lot of people follow the sport that have been to Oakmont. Some of the YouTubers that have played it, and not like Bob like I'm talking like the Brian Brows. The guys that know can relate it. Were like Obra par could win this tournament, which I think sometimes gets thrown around. I love it when it's this tournament. I root for carnage in the US Open. Nothing can be crazy enough in this tournament. I want guys snapping clubs like Phil when he hit it by the whole was at Shinnacock. I forget where they were playing, and before the ball even stops rolling he hits it. He's just so mad. You just you root for craziness in this tournament in terms of the difficulty, like most tournaments, like part of what makes the Masters fun is knowing you can watch guys Birti ten, Bertie thirteen, Bertie fifteen, Bertie seventeen, Bertie eighteen like fireworks down the stretch. Part of what makes the US Open fun is like that was an incredible part. Like this guy's got three straight pars coming down the stretch. This could be the reason he wins the tournament. And it's the only time, in my opinion, that that's cool with watching on golf, Like a lot of these people that cover and follow golf get really bothered by the PGA Championship, Like I don't really care. It's it's the fourth major, and honestly, if it's a birdy fan, it doesn't bother me as much. Honestly, it doesn't. It's hard. There are only so many venues you can go to. Well when it comes to the US Open, and Oakmont is I would say universally considered top two or three hardest course in America, and most will consider the hardest course in America. It is I mean watching some of these videos, obviously the rough the speed of the greens, this is the overall difficulty of the course, which I never understand because, like I've watched some videos, it's a private course, like beside this tournament at this venue once every seven to nine years. It is just a course that has a bunch of members, which I would imagine pretty exclusive course. But like most of these members at this course aren't like Ernie Els right, I would say the average membership same thing I remember going to Olympic, Like most members are double digit handicap. Why would you want to play a course this difficult? But they all like it and they enjoy it. Hell, at the Olympic Club, the membership makes such a big deal it's too hard. They had to redo the course because like, this is not even fun to play. So for whatever reason, the membership at this course, they just they eat up the difficulty of it like it's hard for them, and obviously they ramp it up for this week. It's been raining, so that can chill out the course a little bit because it softens it up. But the course is always such an incredible story any US Open, but specifically this one, which I mean it just doesn't get any more difficult, which usually weeds up the field. But back to the Cinderella thing, there can be a guy or two in this type environment where it's like you're hitting fairways, your two Putton Grangers making a lot of pars. All of a sudden you're like tied for fourth. You're like, who's this guy? This is because you've played boring golf and there are gonna be some big ass names like Speeth can't lay Justin Thomas, Like a bunch of dudes on our Ryder Cup are one hundred percent not making the cut. They are going to get fucking ejected, which is awesome. You just hope you don't have any exposure to him. It's why my gambling strategy this week is pretty simple. I'm gonna take Scotty Scheffer to win because I think at this point in time, if you just took Scotti Scheffler to win over the last couple of months, you would be up a lot of money. I do think Bryson d Chambeau in these majors he's an If you're getting him at plus odds, which I think I looked earlier he is. He's plus one sixty auto top five. I think Bryson d Schambeau, you could argue take a little dabble to win auto top five. I don't know if he's gonna win just because he's been off on the weekend these last couple of majors, but he's just in the mix. And if you tell me he has the lead after Friday, like I think it's very very believable, I'm gonna ride. I don't know if this is smart or not, but I'm gonna take Bryson to or excuse me, John Rahm to top ten in this tournament. And maybe I'm just getting a little too excited based on the major last time. But this is a guy who's won a US opened for like Bryson, likes Scotty, like Rory, he's a bright lights guy. The harder the course advantage him. I would expect John Rahm to be a factor, and like I said, I'm not really messing around. The only long shot I might do would be like Cameron Young to top twenty, maybe to top ten, because he's like nine to one. He's a guy that just played really well last week, even though in Canada, has nothing in common with Oakmont. To me, it's just the odds. This is the guy that's in theory, a blue chipper who's been playing bad, kind of getting his mojo back. And Tommy Fleetwood to top ten. But my heavy, heavy exposure, and I would say ninety percent of my bankroll, which will probably be four figures spread around, will be on Scotti, Scheffler, Bryson, d Chambeau and John Rohm. I'd been the last several majors on Rory. To me, he's just a stay away because I won't hate if you want to take him to miss the cut. I'm also not really in the business of taking top players to miss the cut. I think you get burned more often than not. But I do think one thing when you look back last week at the Live tournament, there was a tweet from Phil. They got a big rain delay on Sunday, and Phil tweeted out that he had I think like a ten foot putt to Tye for the lead. And he also mentioned in his press conference at the beginning of the week that more than likely this is going to be his last US Open of his career. And when you think of Phil, obviously I would say, first thing you think about Phil is just Tiger's rival, fair or not, Like he was just synonymous with Tiger Woods. Throughout his career, won a bunch of majors, won the Masters three times, won a major at what fifty years old at Kiowa, but like this tournament eluded him. And I went on with Colin and we talked about where Phil ranks, and like, I think he's definitely a top six or seven golfer of all time. And I compared him to Peyton Manning, Like if Tom Brady doesn't exist, Peyton Manning probably has four Super Bowls. And we talk about Peyton Manning probably synonymously with Joe Montana or definitely up in that ill, but instead Peyton probably hovers closer to like four to six range instead of like top two or three range. And I think Phil could have if Tiger Woods is never born. Are we looking at a guy instead of six majors? Phil has ten and career Grand Slam in his career just goes a little different way. I think potentially we do. And listen, I don't know, one week to another, when you're an older player, it doesn't necessarily carry over. I liked him a lot a month ago when they were at Kuaile Hollow and he was terrible. So older guy, you just you know, playing back to back weeks is intense on your body. There's a lot huge advantage, you know. Scotty Scheffer's twenty eight years old, Bryson d. Chambo is thirty one years old, and Phil is fifty five years old. Like it's it's a different wear and tear in his body. He's been playing in these tournaments for three plus decades. But I do think the Phil story of like, I mean, he's one of the most definitely important golfers of my lifetime. But I would say he's one of the biggest athletes of my lifetime. So if this is last US Open, a tournament that he just could never win, it wasn't like he wasn't in the mix. I mean he finished second six times. I mean I would say two of them are more of the historic moments in the last thirty years, non Tiger. I mean losing the pain Stewart in nineteen ninety nine when he's about to have his baby and Payne grabs his head and kind of just says, like you're gonna be a great champion. Go enjoy your daughter, and that moment is just is entrenched. Last year at Pinehurst we talked a lot about it and then obviously pumping it out of bounds at Wingfoot. I think in two thousand and six or seven or eight, I forget the exact year, but where it felt like he was finally gonna win the tournament. And I think one thing with Phil, you know, and Tiger had this a little bit too. That's why Tiger would hit the stinger, you know, and back then the courses weren't as long now, so you get away with hitting it two hundred and forty five yards off the tee with a two iron is Phil's ripping driver, and he wasn't the straightest guy, and he would hit it all over the map and then the US opened like you hit it in the deep rough. Now, I did see someone forwarded me and I saw a bunch of the tournament. They just played in DC like they grew at the rough pretty good. And you can't convince me that they weren't trying to help their guys. I mean, they got a lot of guys playing in this tournament, and two of the biggest favorites, you know, in Bryson and ram to get ready coming from Live with just the longer rough that they're gonna see. Now, I don't know exactly, you'd have to talk to like a you know, a golf savant. You know, one thing they've done is they've grown the rough into the tea box. So I think, like anyone that's ever hit out of rough, when the rough's going away from you, you're going to get these flyer balls, and the ball flies a little farther. When the ball's coming into you, it catches your you know, whatever club you have, and especially if you're two hundred yards. But you ideally don't want to hit like a pitching wedge or a sand wedge, but some of these guys are gonna be forced to do that. And I think I saw some clips on Instagram of like, sometimes you just gotta take your medicine. That's a huge part of the US Open. And ultimately that kind of I think did fill in over the years is he's never been a huge take his medicine guy because part of it he like lives on the edge, like Jordan speak, like, he's an aggressive player, and it's probably cost him a lot of tournaments over his career. I mean, this is a guy who's won six majors and forty five tournaments. If he played a little more conservative, you could argue maybe he'd have like fifty five wins, but I think he'd argue, like, why probably would have had I would have won less tournaments as well because I wouldn't hit some of the shots that ultimately led me to the winner circle. So part of what defines him as a player is he was aggressive, He let it rip, he wasn't afraid. And if this is Phil's last US Open, we still get to watch him on liv but this will be a pretty cool moment for golf blending.

In general in a lot of different sports. Tennis clearly dead, college sports, no chance, college basketball all four ones now with nil. College football looks just Ohio State, Oregon, Notre Dame, Georgia. Like the Boise States, these schools, it doesn't feel like they have a chance to ever get out of the first round anymore. And I think when you look at golf over the last couple of years, it's like, and listen, maybe I'm being nostalgic about it. Maybe it's technology, maybe it's just a short sample size, but I do feel like, you know, when I grew up in the nineties, even through the Tiger and Phil era, that there would be random guys that would win golf tournaments, major golf tournaments. And if you look over the course of the last couple of years, it's a lot of Scotti's. There's a lot of ROMs, it's a lot of Roryes, it's a lot of Bryson's, It's Xander. It's just like the top three or four players. Now. It doesn't mean other guys can't be in the mix and you can't gamble on them to top ten and top twenties. But if you tell me that like Bryson or Scottie win this tournament, we are basically just look at the list of guys that have won it. I mean Wyndham Clark a couple of years ago feels like a gigantic outlier. Right, and I would even call him like the little engine that could. But I mean the day and a of just random guys winning it, I think it would start to feel like the separation of the PGA Tour. Now with these signature events, some of these guys going to live. I do wonder if the day and age is kind of dead now. I think the British Open can always bring them alive because of the weather, because of the elements, because of the style of golf. But when it comes to Augusta, when it comes to the PGA Championship, and obviously the US Open, I think we're gonna be hard pressed to see these guys like seventy eighty, one hundred to one winning those three tournaments. And until otherwise, I think it's an auto stayaway. I am not into betting long shots at all in these majors anymore, and I'm not gonna touch it. I mean as crazy as I'll get, and we'll get into that here in a minute. But I used to do a lot of that. Take guys fifty sixty seventy to one, because you can just throw like fifty bucks to win like three thousand. I honestly believe that's just a waste of money. Now you're better off putting a little more and taking those guys to top ten, top twenty, and last but not least. I think the coolest part about the US Open it was the first I haven't been to that many pro golf tournaments over the years, but it was the first golf tournament I ever went to. Nineteen ninety eight at the Olympic Club with my dad, his buddy Jerry, and my buddy Travis, and I think we would have been ninety eight, so we would have been like thirteen, fourteen years old, no cell phones. We just get there, we go, Hey, meet you back. You know. It's we get there at maybe nine am. We'll meet you at four o'clock in the afternoon at the exit. You know. I don't even know how, but clearly we managed. We just meet him when we head home. And I remember watching John daily. I remember it was the year Lee Janssen won and actually Payne Stewart had a good chance to win. I think we went on a Saturday, maybe it was Friday. In the way that Olympic Club, they've redone the club. I don't know if it's exactly the same, but it used to have this runoff on eighteen and these guys would hit second shots and it would run all the way down the hill and Payne Stewart would go on. He lost that one, but he'd go on to win it in ninety nine against Philip Pinehurst, and I just remember thinking like, this is so hard. The roff was so long, it was so difficult. And I remember going to Pebble in twenty nineteen, the year Gary Woodland won it. One thing with the US Open is it feels like as a player, you're going up against like the eighty five Bears, going up against the two thousand Ravens, You're going up against the two thousand and one Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You're just going up against the best defense. The rough's long, the fairways are tight, the greens are like concrete. It is just a mother and if your game is slightly off, you are going to get wrecked. I mean, I saw I think Ben Griffin say that if you told him right now that he could sign up for Sunday to be in all seventy two holes and B plus four, he would one hundred percent take that. I think a lot of people follow the sport that have been to Oakmont. Some of the YouTubers that have played it, and not like Bob like I'm talking like the Brian Brows. The guys that know can relate it. Were like Obra par could win this tournament, which I think sometimes gets thrown around. I love it when it's this tournament. I root for carnage in the US Open. Nothing can be crazy enough in this tournament. I want guys snapping clubs like Phil when he hit it by the whole was at Shinnacock. I forget where they were playing, and before the ball even stops rolling he hits it. He's just so mad. You just you root for craziness in this tournament in terms of the difficulty, like most tournaments, like part of what makes the Masters fun is knowing you can watch guys Birti ten, Bertie thirteen, Bertie fifteen, Bertie seventeen, Bertie eighteen like fireworks down the stretch. Part of what makes the US Open fun is like that was an incredible part. Like this guy's got three straight pars coming down the stretch. This could be the reason he wins the tournament. And it's the only time, in my opinion, that that's cool with watching on golf, Like a lot of these people that cover and follow golf get really bothered by the PGA Championship, Like I don't really care. It's it's the fourth major, and honestly, if it's a birdy fan, it doesn't bother me as much. Honestly, it doesn't. It's hard. There are only so many venues you can go to. Well when it comes to the US Open, and Oakmont is I would say universally considered top two or three hardest course in America, and most will consider the hardest course in America. It is I mean watching some of these videos, obviously the rough the speed of the greens, this is the overall difficulty of the course, which I never understand because, like I've watched some videos, it's a private course, like beside this tournament at this venue once every seven to nine years. It is just a course that has a bunch of members, which I would imagine pretty exclusive course. But like most of these members at this course aren't like Ernie Els right, I would say the average membership same thing I remember going to Olympic, Like most members are double digit handicap. Why would you want to play a course this difficult? But they all like it and they enjoy it. Hell, at the Olympic Club, the membership makes such a big deal it's too hard. They had to redo the course because like, this is not even fun to play. So for whatever reason, the membership at this course, they just they eat up the difficulty of it like it's hard for them, and obviously they ramp it up for this week. It's been raining, so that can chill out the course a little bit because it softens it up. But the course is always such an incredible story any US Open, but specifically this one, which I mean it just doesn't get any more difficult, which usually weeds up the field. But back to the Cinderella thing, there can be a guy or two in this type environment where it's like you're hitting fairways, your two Putton Grangers making a lot of pars. All of a sudden you're like tied for fourth. You're like, who's this guy? This is because you've played boring golf and there are gonna be some big ass names like Speeth can't lay Justin Thomas, Like a bunch of dudes on our Ryder Cup are one hundred percent not making the cut. They are going to get fucking ejected, which is awesome. You just hope you don't have any exposure to him. It's why my gambling strategy this week is pretty simple. I'm gonna take Scotty Scheffer to win because I think at this point in time, if you just took Scotti Scheffler to win over the last couple of months, you would be up a lot of money. I do think Bryson d Chambeau in these majors he's an If you're getting him at plus odds, which I think I looked earlier he is. He's plus one sixty auto top five. I think Bryson d Schambeau, you could argue take a little dabble to win auto top five. I don't know if he's gonna win just because he's been off on the weekend these last couple of majors, but he's just in the mix. And if you tell me he has the lead after Friday, like I think it's very very believable, I'm gonna ride. I don't know if this is smart or not, but I'm gonna take Bryson to or excuse me, John Rahm to top ten in this tournament. And maybe I'm just getting a little too excited based on the major last time. But this is a guy who's won a US opened for like Bryson, likes Scotty, like Rory, he's a bright lights guy. The harder the course advantage him. I would expect John Rahm to be a factor, and like I said, I'm not really messing around. The only long shot I might do would be like Cameron Young to top twenty, maybe to top ten, because he's like nine to one. He's a guy that just played really well last week, even though in Canada, has nothing in common with Oakmont. To me, it's just the odds. This is the guy that's in theory, a blue chipper who's been playing bad, kind of getting his mojo back. And Tommy Fleetwood to top ten. But my heavy, heavy exposure, and I would say ninety percent of my bankroll, which will probably be four figures spread around, will be on Scotti, Scheffler, Bryson, d Chambeau and John Rohm. I'd been the last several majors on Rory. To me, he's just a stay away because I won't hate if you want to take him to miss the cut. I'm also not really in the business of taking top players to miss the cut. I think you get burned more often than not. But I do think one thing when you look back last week at the Live tournament, there was a tweet from Phil. They got a big rain delay on Sunday, and Phil tweeted out that he had I think like a ten foot putt to Tye for the lead. And he also mentioned in his press conference at the beginning of the week that more than likely this is going to be his last US Open of his career. And when you think of Phil, obviously I would say, first thing you think about Phil is just Tiger's rival, fair or not, Like he was just synonymous with Tiger Woods. Throughout his career, won a bunch of majors, won the Masters three times, won a major at what fifty years old at Kiowa, but like this tournament eluded him. And I went on with Colin and we talked about where Phil ranks, and like, I think he's definitely a top six or seven golfer of all time. And I compared him to Peyton Manning, Like if Tom Brady doesn't exist, Peyton Manning probably has four Super Bowls. And we talk about Peyton Manning probably synonymously with Joe Montana or definitely up in that ill, but instead Peyton probably hovers closer to like four to six range instead of like top two or three range. And I think Phil could have if Tiger Woods is never born. Are we looking at a guy instead of six majors? Phil has ten and career Grand Slam in his career just goes a little different way. I think potentially we do. And listen, I don't know, one week to another, when you're an older player, it doesn't necessarily carry over. I liked him a lot a month ago when they were at Kuaile Hollow and he was terrible. So older guy, you just you know, playing back to back weeks is intense on your body. There's a lot huge advantage, you know. Scotty Scheffer's twenty eight years old, Bryson d. Chambo is thirty one years old, and Phil is fifty five years old. Like it's it's a different wear and tear in his body. He's been playing in these tournaments for three plus decades. But I do think the Phil story of like, I mean, he's one of the most definitely important golfers of my lifetime. But I would say he's one of the biggest athletes of my lifetime. So if this is last US Open, a tournament that he just could never win, it wasn't like he wasn't in the mix. I mean he finished second six times. I mean I would say two of them are more of the historic moments in the last thirty years, non Tiger. I mean losing the pain Stewart in nineteen ninety nine when he's about to have his baby and Payne grabs his head and kind of just says, like you're gonna be a great champion. Go enjoy your daughter, and that moment is just is entrenched. Last year at Pinehurst we talked a lot about it and then obviously pumping it out of bounds at Wingfoot. I think in two thousand and six or seven or eight, I forget the exact year, but where it felt like he was finally gonna win the tournament. And I think one thing with Phil, you know, and Tiger had this a little bit too. That's why Tiger would hit the stinger, you know, and back then the courses weren't as long now, so you get away with hitting it two hundred and forty five yards off the tee with a two iron is Phil's ripping driver, and he wasn't the straightest guy, and he would hit it all over the map and then the US opened like you hit it in the deep rough. Now, I did see someone forwarded me and I saw a bunch of the tournament. They just played in DC like they grew at the rough pretty good. And you can't convince me that they weren't trying to help their guys. I mean, they got a lot of guys playing in this tournament, and two of the biggest favorites, you know, in Bryson and ram to get ready coming from Live with just the longer rough that they're gonna see. Now, I don't know exactly, you'd have to talk to like a you know, a golf savant. You know, one thing they've done is they've grown the rough into the tea box. So I think, like anyone that's ever hit out of rough, when the rough's going away from you, you're going to get these flyer balls, and the ball flies a little farther. When the ball's coming into you, it catches your you know, whatever club you have, and especially if you're two hundred yards. But you ideally don't want to hit like a pitching wedge or a sand wedge, but some of these guys are gonna be forced to do that. And I think I saw some clips on Instagram of like, sometimes you just gotta take your medicine. That's a huge part of the US Open. And ultimately that kind of I think did fill in over the years is he's never been a huge take his medicine guy because part of it he like lives on the edge, like Jordan speak, like, he's an aggressive player, and it's probably cost him a lot of tournaments over his career. I mean, this is a guy who's won six majors and forty five tournaments. If he played a little more conservative, you could argue maybe he'd have like fifty five wins, but I think he'd argue, like, why probably would have had I would have won less tournaments as well because I wouldn't hit some of the shots that ultimately led me to the winner circle. So part of what defines him as a player is he was aggressive, He let it rip, he wasn't afraid. And if this is Phil's last US Open, we still get to watch him on liv but this will be a pretty cool moment for golf blending.

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Kay, let's do a little mail bag at go low Pod at golopod. Little us Open mail Bag at golopod is the golf mail bag. Fire in those dms and get your questions answered on the show. Big Fan, Scotty looks incredible heading into the Open. I'd love to see him get another w Where do you stand on the level of competition that Tiger faced in his prime compared to what Scotty is up against every week? Tiger was obviously in a league of his own, but I feel like there is a pretty big difference in competition today. First twenty years ago, just the availability of launch monitors and swing optimization software alone had a major impact, not to mention sports medicine, etc. You know, I I think we over I don't know if this topic's overblown, but I don't think like the context of like, is Patrick Cantley or some random guy that's somewhere in the top twenty five more talented than maybe the dude in two thousand that was nineteenth. You could argue that for sure, And I think it's fair that if you put those two guys together, you would take the guy from ten to twenty five in twenty twenty five over the guy in two thousand. But I think at the top and golf, like tennis, has always been star driven and heavily weighted toward the elite seven eight guys. Tiger had to battle Phil who's one of the greatest players of all time, Ernie Els, who's probably a top I don't know, fifteen player of all time. He had runs of different guys like, you know, Patrick Harrington who's won three majors, Jim Furick was a really really good player, Ratief Goosen, VJ Singh All. These guys aren't just major champions like that, they're really really high end guys. But specifically Ernie Phil you know, Duval had a short run before his injuries and got direct. But ultimately, point here is like, yeah, did Tiger take down some rocos over the years, of course, But like when Scotty beats let's say, Jordan Speith, He's not beating twenty sixteen Jordan Speth, He's beating the guy now, mus Solid, who's a really good pro but isn't like some world beater, right, So yeah, beating Bryson and Rom and Rory is really impressive, just like when Tiger would take down Phil Ernie and VJ. Sinh or John Daly or you know whoever the name is, Greg Norman toward the tail end, but like really really high end guys, right, Yeah, the seventeenth best player now is probably better than the seventeenth best player then, totally agree, And you definitely could argue like the fortieth best player is better now than then, So like on a weekend week out basis, but like, do you trust most of those guys to get it done over the weekend? No? And here's the thing, I would say, Scott is trending toward being an all time great, right, He's already having an all time great couple of years, but like over the course of his career, you would bet on it being awesome. You put Tiger at twenty seven in twenty twenty five, He's the best player in the world easily. Where would you rank last year's showdown between Rory and Bryson in terms of greatest US Opens? Oakmont seems determined to have a winning score over Par. I'm excited to see the carnage. But where would you rank it in terms of US Open venues? I would say my favorite US Open venue is Pebble Beach. I just think Pebble Beach in June hard to beat. Something about the water or something about the West Coast primetime. But listen the Olympics, the Oakmont's wing foot. I think most people would say it's a little type of boring golf, though there was only one guy under par Bryson the last time they played. As long as you tell me it's really really difficult, I'm in you know. I enjoyed Chambers Bay, I enjoyed Lacc. I would say the best US Open I've ever seen was Rockover's Tiger. I mean, Tiger won a US Open on a broken leg in a torn acl and they played eighteen extra roles on Monday at Torrey Pines, Which I mean, He's had a lot of historic moments, but it's it's one of the defining Tiger Woods career moments, right, I mean it's Rocko, who I would love to get on this podcast. It's the biggest moment of his career. And sometimes, like when you lose to a Tiger Woods, to Tom Brady, to you know, to the Yankees, to the Lakers, like in a big moment, like you get remembered forever. Like the biggest moment in the history of the Sacramento Kings is losing in seven to Kobe and Chack, Right, But like being part of the l is part of your story, right, So I would say the Tiger Rory is the biggest one of my life, or excuse me, Tiger Rocko biggest one of my life. I would say Bryson and Rory would be on the short list. Pinehurst historic venue. I was young, I didn't watch sports probably the same way as I do now. You know, the Phil versus Payne Stewart pretty historic. One part of that is like paint dies. I forget how long after, but I don't think he ever plays another US Open, so I would say that one would be up there. I think Tiger won a pebble Beach US Opened by like twenty shots or something. I forget the exact thing. It was a fifteen shots, I mean, beat the shit out of everybody. I mean, I don't even think he had a bogie that week, but that wasn't a duel. So yeah, I think it's on the short list of most interesting Sundays we've ever watched. The question about letting YouTubers into the tourneys got me thinking, how about let them play a few. Let a few play in the Wednesday practice round of a major. I know these courses are crazy hard, but having a more regular guy measuring stick would be very entertaining. Since there's no main TV coverage on Wednesday. Let them do a full vlog on their channel. Well they do that now, it's just a month before. I don't think you could get these venues. The amount the USGA like this is a really big deal, and to allow even a couple guys to do that one the practice rounds are going on with the players. I just don't think they're going to allow that in a major on a Wednesday, the day before the tournament. Now, you could argue the week before the tournament, because right now it's pretty like when Bob and all those guys, the Brian Bros. When they shot that's like a month ago, and they have different stuff roped off. I think it's difficult to get these courses to allow them to do that. And I think the majors, you know, I think you could make the argument for like the Players Championship maybe should do something like that, or maybe some of these PGA Championships. I mean, these majors, especially Augusta, would never needs to do that. But the other three, but specifically the ones in America, the PGA and the US Open, like they're gonna be the highest viewed tournaments of the year, so like they don't necessarily need to do that. I don't hate your idea. I just they're never allowing that to happen. Mail back question. With baseball and tennis going to shot clocks in a faster game, I wonder if using cards for a tournament to see the game speed up would help. I was in the car today and I was listening to Drew Stoltz and Colt knows. I don't think Colt was I think he might have been traveling. He was in camp. I had to do with CBS this week, so it was cold. I don't know who, or it was Drew, I don't know who. He was on the on the radio with some other filling guy and they were discussing fast play and they said, well, you know, when you get these really difficult courses as the US opened, play is actually going to be much slower because it's harder to find balls. You have to take more thought into account when you're hitting crazy shots out of the rough where to lay up and then around the greens is going to be like molasses. And I'm not even talking the Can't Lace and the Brysons. I'm talking even the fast players. Watching Ryan Fox, I didn't watch much of the Canadian Open, but I did turn it on with like a couple holes to play, and then Maria kicked me out of the living room and I had to go to watch the final four holes in the bedroom. She's like, I'm not watching this. I'm like, I don't totally blame you, but I'm going to and Ryan Fox. Every time Jim Nantz would be talking, they would pan to him if he was hitting second after burns it and he's already swinging. I'm like, this guy's pace to play is in fucking credible. He is, He's like shot out of a cannon. And I think it's easier. I mean, the Canadian Open was like ready aim fire, it was easy. The US Open and the Memorial and the players like it does take a little more thought, So I do understand. I don't think cart golf will be ever something that these guys want to do. I wouldn't hate the idea, but I have a hard time seeing that and I don't know if it would speed it up as much as you think, but could be wrong. I actually think walking Yeah, I just I don't know, But who knows. You never know? Question for the Golo pod do holand ones count on simulators? I just got my first one ever. Happened to be on a simulator during a golf lesson while hitting at Mierfield Village Jack's Place Whole sixteen, which is a two hundred part three sending the video below, which I was able to do replay on the screen. If you go to Vegas or you could be anywhere, but let's just use Vegas and you're a single guy and you're at like a nice hotel bar and you take a girl home and it turns out she's an escort and you sleep with her. Does that count? I would argue no, right that if you just went to a bar this week, you're a single guy, you met a girl, you go home with her, and you start hanging out there and you start sleeping with her, I would say those two situations are one's organic and the other one is a transaction. It's not apples to apples here. But my point is I would not count the simulator hole in one. I don't think that can count. Now. I haven't spent much time on simulators. I don't know how often they happen, but I think that I think there could be an element. If I was giving lessons on simulators, I would try to manipulate it where people that come to me for lessons get hold on once. It would make them feel a lot better about each other. I'm not trying to diminice your shot. I took a screenshot of this so I can't click on your video. Good for you, it seems like your head in the right direction. I would not count it, though. I don't think that counts on the docket debate I'm having with some buddies. It took prime Tiger and I put him in the PGA today, would he still dominate? We also discussed if he took Scotty and brought him back to the late nineties, how good he would be. One side says how strong the fields are now compared to back then. Would still win, but nowhere near as much. And if you flip side says that he was the greatest athlete ever. Plus he would get today's equipment training, so he would be even better. We pretty much agreed Scotty would destroy everyone back in the day love the pod. Scotty's game would translate to any era, he would be one of the best players. Right But like, is Scotty right now like that much better than prime Phil? Mentally? Is he a little more? I would say balance, so you know he wouldn't ride the roller coasters of Phil. But if you put Tiger in any era, he's the best player, definitely. You know, Tiger's era on it's hard for me to equate, like the Jack and Arnold era, but like any era I've lived through, the twenty tens, the twenty twenties, never forget Tiger once he kind of got his back fixed and got over the chipping yips in twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen, Tiger was playing at an elite level. He almost won the PGA. The one Brooks one played with him in the final group. He had a chance to win the British Open against Francisco Molinari until he had like a shitty drive on a whole eleven. So he was in the mix and two Majors. Then in twenty nineteen he wins the Masters. So we saw Tiger in his forties before he messed up his ankle, not only competing with these guys in the Majors, winning the Masters. So to me, if Tiger doesn't flip the car and shatter his ankle, he wins more Majors. And this is in his forties, not even the prime of his This is after reconstructed knee and back. So one hundred prime Tiger today is the is better than this s guy is the best player in the world. You have to remember Tiger at Scotty gets out driven by any guy that hits it far. He plays with Xander Rory Bryson. These guys are flying it way by him. If you put Tiger at twenty seven years old with this equipment, he's hitting it three hundred and thirty three hundred and forty yards straight. He was the best iron player of all time. He had a fill like short game, and he was the greatest clutch putter we've ever seen. So he'd easily be the best player he's basically he'd be hitting the like fucking Rory off the t in his iron game is like Fleetwood meet Scottie yet with a putter, or he's like Russell Henley, Danny McCarthy. I mean, he's he's the best all around player of all time. So I think Scotty would be really good, but he might just be like Ernie Els or VJ.