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Go Low - Xander wins The Open, Scottie or Xander for POTY, Americans take the majors

Published Jul 22, 2024, 10:01 AM

Would Scottie Scheffler trade his season for Xander Schauffele’s? John breaks down the stellar performance that Xander put on in the final round, shooting -6 on Sunday and -9 for the tournament, as he claims his second major of the season. Is Scottie stills the best American player or has Xander taken that title with his win at Royal Troon?

8:50 - Xander wins The Open

15:36 - Is Xander the POTY

20:22 - Saturday at The Open

36:08 - Mailbag

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What is going On Everybody? John middlcoff go Low a podcast reacting to the Open Championship where Xander Shoffley wins his second major in I guess a little over two months and immediately becomes a legend. That's how fast it happens. He went from zero to two Tye Scotty with two majors. He's even closer to the career Grand Slam than Scotty obviously because he's won the Augusta twice and validated his career. I mean that it could end tomorrow and pretty legendary stuff from Xandrew shoot sixty five, So we will dive into that. Comparing the two seasons. Scotty was having this historic season, I think we need to pump the brakes on comparing him the Tiger in twenty twenty four because that officially ended the day, and I think the question now e Xander had a better year than him. I on Saturday got up pretty early and watched several hours of what I would say is some of the best viewing experience I've had watching high level pro golf in a long long time. And I think it was because clearly of the carnage and the difficulty, and several high end players reiterated that calling it the toughest night holes they'd ever seen. It was unlike any experience I've had in a long, long time because even the US Open doesn't feel like it plays quite as hard as it once did because of the equipment. But watching the wind, the rain, the condittis, the guys just grind their you know what. Off was just incredible two hours. So we'll dive into Saturday. We'll fly around some other notables. Justin Rose is right in the mix. Nothing this tournament where you can just get a guy that plays typically in Europe you've never heard of, that has a big belly, who's ripping darts, who is just throwing balls at the pin, and you're like, who the hell is this guy? And sometimes they win it. A lot of times they come really close, but they're right in the mix. And that really happened with two guys, Dan Brown on Saturday who fell apart on Sunday, and Tristan Lawrence, who was a six hundred and one. Those were his odds coming into the tournament. He had a pretty good chance headed into the back nine. Rory and Bryson you probably didn't notice them this weekend because they missed the cut and we had a John rom siding and also do a couple at Golo Pod. At Pod is the instagram I will answer a couple of questions from there as well. Other than that, football, you know, all these training camps are getting underway, so we will hit the ground running with that the rest of the week with some football podcasts and uh and yeah, it's a great time of year. It sucks, you know, the golf season kind of ended today in terms of what really matters. But football gets going and we're off to the fall. I'm still in Lake Tahoe about to go swim in the lake here on Sunday afternoon, try to burn some calories because I have not really in the last week been eating and taking in a lot of booze. So I need to get my health back because they say health as wealth. Played a little golf the uh my buddy Glenn Catcher and his family had me out to one of the coolest courses I've ever been to, Marti's Camp in Truckie. It was. It was an awesome experience. Bertie the first hole and went on to have some bogies and doubles, probably shot like low eighties, but it was. It was an awesome time. So hopefully everyone's playing a little golf, enjoying life and let's rock and roll but first, if you want to go to another like the open I saw today Patrick Mahomes roll do is left through a beautiful like fifty yard touchdown. You want to go to a football game. College football isn't that far away obviously, Baseball, you know, if one of your team's still in the mix. You want to go to playoff games this fall. Can't recommend that enough. I've been accountless baseball playoff games, the NLCS I've been to, and the World Series. It's an elite sporting event, concerts, comedy shows, my friends, my partners, and the official ticketing app of game Time has you covered. So take the guesswork out of buying tickets with game Time. Download the game Time App, Create an account and use the code John for twenty dollars off your first purchase terms apply again. Create an account and redeem the code Joe ten for twenty dollars off. Download the game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest prices guaranteed. I never understand when someone gets really close a lot in golf and people go, he's never gonna win it. When you are consistently in the top five, in the top ten, and you're a younger player, things are eventually bound to break your way. And I say it all the time with Rory, who had it off a week obviously, like if he keeps putting himself in position, he's gonna win another major. But unlike Xander, like he has a bunch, Like if him and Speed and Koepka and some of these guys never win again, it ultimately doesn't really matter to their resume because they already have four and five, right, So when you have a lot of majors, it's it's less pressure in the sense that your legacy has already cemented as an all time grade champion. And then when you get into a spot like Xander and you have all these top tens and you don't have a major, people just start asking the questions. And then at Valhalla he wins and everyone says, Wow, that was really more like a PGA Tour tournament, right, People are going eighteen twenty under, that's not your typical major championship, which, listen, I agree with that the course played easier, But he's got sixty five on Sunday and he held off Bryce and g Chambeau who went on to win at Pinehurst, and Victor Hovlin, who really for the only time this season looked incredible. But this week there is no debating. He dominated and the last two days, especially today, I mean to shoot sixty five was really a special performance by Xander, and now he has entrenched himself. There's a group. Since two thousand, I think there's been five players to win multiple majors in a season. Eldrick Tiger Woods did it four times. Obviously he's the goat. Kopka has done it, Rory has done it, Speith has done it, and Internet sensation great Instagram follow Potty Harrington did it as well, and Xander has joined that company. But here's the thing. Scotti Scheffler is continually compared to tiger Woods, and rightfully so ya six champions or six tournament wins. He won the Masters, He's had a remarkable season because of the per sizes. He's already won close to thirty million dollars people talk about as Caddy would be top fifty on the money list when today ended. Xander Schaffley, without a doubt, has had a better season like last year. In the NFL, Lamar Jackson won the MVP. Would anyone say that when the year ended, you'd rather be Lamar Jackson than Patrick Mahomes, of course not. And Scotty Scheffler would trade his season this year for Xander in a hartbeat, in a New York minute. He wouldn't even flinch to hand all those wins away for a second major. And now here's the thing, Like Scotty is viewed as this transcendent talent rightfully, So the way he's played these last couple of years, he's got two majors and they just happen to be at the same place. Xander now is closer to the career Grand Slam than Scotty Scheffler. Think about that, within two months, the guy went from zero to two and now is two majors away. He played exceptionally well at the US Open. It is very likely if he maintains this level of play for the next couple of years, he could easily win that tournament. And he's also been really successful at Augusta. So it's not out of the realm possibility that Xander ends his career. I mean, he's still a younger guy with the career Grand Slam. Scotty Scheffler has to win all three of them. So listen, Scotty did not have it today. He was terrible putting on Saturday. Today he was all over the map. I mean he had a shot on eighteen that looked like me or you classic immediately grabs his back and very disappointing because coming into today, I think Xander was favored at plus three point fifty on DraftKings and Scotty was like plus three sixty a couple shots back, and obviously Scotty kind of derailed today and Xander put the pedal of the medal and lapped the field and really the last four or five holes the tournament was over. And now Xander has I don't want to say one of the greatest ever because he's got a long way to go, but solidified himself as right there with Scotty as the best American player. And for the first time, and I didn't write down the number in like forty five to fifty years, the Americans swept the majors. Now part of it is Xander won two, Bryson obviously won the US Open, and Scotty won Augusta, which really kind of leads us those guys like Bryson should be at the Olympics with Scotti, Xander and Morikawa but regardless, like it was hard to call Xander the best or the second best American over the last five years, despite his resume, despite him dominating, despite the money he was making, despite how consistently awesome he was in the majors. Not really debatable. And like I said, Scotti Scheffler would trade his season for Xander Schoffley's tells you all you need to know. So, like the gap between those two guys, is there a big gap? Honestly? Is there one? Because here's the thing with this live the separation of some of the top guys on the other tour and the dilution of the PGA Tour, It's still impressive to win a golf tournament. I don't care if you're playing your member guest. I don't care if you're playing on the cornf Ferry Tour or a designated event with no cuts. So I'm not trying to take anything away from Scotty Scheffler and winning tournaments. That's the goal of everything when you're a professional golfer. But what's the difference in the two guys? Honestly, you can be like Strokes Gade, Like I don't know. I watched the two in the biggest moments. I don't see much of a difference, and that speaks that's not trying to criticize Scotty at all. He's an elite player, so Xander I view them basically, especially after the day, kind of the same guy. And now that Xander's won a second major, I don't really know how you argue that, And I think the question is big picture, especially if Xander were to win a playoff event despite not having as many wins this season, is Xander the player of the year, Because what's a major worth relative to a PGA tournament, Like if we were just trying to put a number of value on it, five wins, eight wins, it's gotta be worth at minimum five x So you could argue this second major victory. Now, Scotty could still win a couple tournaments and be the FedEx champion. But I think they're right there, And if you wanted to make Xander Schoffley your player of the year, I wouldn't argue. And I said it coming into this tournament, like we can't compare Scotty to Tiger, Like those comparisons died the day. Honestly, they were dead, Like he was never Tiger Woods, but he was having a Tiger like season. The Tiger like seasons, like I said, four times Tiger won multiple majors in a season and Scotty was right there with like twenty seven thirty fifteen holes to go and he just didn't have his a game. And listen, it's golf that happened sometime. But like those compare it, we can't do that anymore. And I understand statistically you can throw some numbers up, but like you cannot have a conversation with a friend or bsin at a bar or on the golf course and bring those two names together. That can no longer happen. That's not a criticism of Tiger Woods. It's like comparing someone to Tom Brady or Joe Montana. You have to be very very in a very very special category level of accomplishment to even garner the words to come out of someone's mouth. And it ended today at least with this season, and I think moving forward, as long as this guy's gonna play this well, you have to capitalize on these major championships. This is why when we throw out these over unders, like how many majors is Scotty gonna win? Six ' seven. It's really hard. Now he might end up winning Augusta like four or five times, but we've seen him got very close and the other majors, and he hasn't got it done. And today Xander I put it on over and Scotty had no shot, and ultimately Xander I don't want to say benefited, but the group of guys he was really fending off were Tristan Lawrence, which unless you follow the DP Tour, no one's heard of. Justin Rose, who had to qualify to get in, who's one of the best players of the twenty tens, but he's an older guy who has not played well lately. Shane Lowry was kind of, you know, coming falling apart, then he kind of stormed back and then he fall apart. And Billy Horssechell, who actually played pretty well today but who's never ever played well in a major really beside I think like his first major in twenty thirteen, the US Open, he has been pretty terrible in them. This was his first kind of, I don't know, opportunity to win one of his career really, and he was good, but he wasn't Xander good, and he's not Xander good. So I think, listen the world golf rankings, we know they're worthless now. I think when you look at it, though, I'm gonna give Bryson and Rory a little bit of a pass this week, but I don't see how you can look at Xander any different than Scottie Scheffler. As of July twenty one, twenty twenty four, I thought Saturday was one of my favorite days of watching golf of my adult life. It was one of those days on the couch where you go. I don't think you could pay me to be out on that course. It's freezing cold, the wind is pumping Dustin Johnson said it was the hardest nine holes he's ever played. Scotty Scheffler reiterated that Justin Rose said he hadn't consistently hit the clubs he hit on that back nine, meaning long irons, three woods into par fours since he was a junior golfer, and we just don't get that now. Scotland the home of golf, which I was thinking about this, I have a ton of respect. Golf never would have been invented in America if someone tried to start it in like Seattle or some you know Minnesota in some place that it's raining, it's cold, it's freezing. Now it doesn't snow like that, I think in Scotland. But you know what I mean, Those people since the beginning of the game have played the sport or the activity some say, in inclement weather, and they embrace it. They enjoy it and it's just part of their world. And you watch that and you go and listen. I've never been over there. Every time I play golf with someone who's played there, they all say it's just a spectacular experience. It's one of those especially older guys that get to take their children or guys that go on a golf trip. No one ever goes disappointed. But it's one thing to just go play around at the old course, play Troon, play you know, a couple of those courses, and then come home. It's another thing to live it, and that be the conditions that you can desistently play in. I have a ton of respect for those guys and that golf and I know a lot of people. I saw Shane Bacon and a bunch of people always say this, and rightfully so, because when it's on TV, it really pops. Our golf does not look like that. But the number one reason they could never spend like a month and a half playing that style of golf basically just across the pond on the quote unquote PGA Tour is because of television, CBS, NBC, all these networks pay a premium and part of when you go over there, the time difference. They teat off this morning for me on West Coast time, the leaders I think at six fifteen or six twenty like part of it in the US Open had enormous ratings is it's in that Sunday afternoon slot. Well, what's one of the highest rated television shows in America Sunday afternoon television or football on CBS and Fox. That is the ideal window. Nothing gets better. And this tournament today ended at about ten thirty Pacific Standard time. Think about football, the first set of games usually kick off or not usually that's when they do at ten am Pacific Standard time, and then two or three times throughout the year the England or Germany or whatever game kicks off at six thirty am. So from the time window for the television networks, it would never work. But there is no argument, and you can't in this modern day society. You have to play everything live. You couldn't push it back and have it quote unquote tape delayed or whatever. So they're just kind of screwed with the window. It's really why they play. I mean, this tournament's been going on forever, but now that the Scottish Open has become I would say a much more popular event. Clearly they've put some more money into there and a lot of guys go and it was cool. I watched it last week. But same thing. It ends too early for the TV partners to whoever agree to this for a month plus. It's just to me a non starter if you just know the way business works. Even though from a viewing perspective, And I got up this morning, set my alarm for about five forty five, ended up getting out of bed at about six fifteen. I look, John Rahm's like four under after seven, I'm like, God, this thing is gonna get interesting. He fell apart a little bit. But it's incredible viewing because those pot bunkers, we just have nothing like that. And the bunkers you know over there, Like I said, I've never been there. I've been to abandoned dunes, which I can't compare, but somewhat similar in the sense of the way you can play the sport keeping the ball on the ground is there's nothing like having bunkers in the middle of a fairway or just barely off the fairway that are very in play where you hit your t shot, and because of their ground, it's just much harder. We have to manipulated so much. I see it at TPC right like during the summer, even during the winter, the fairway's just normal, and then as they get it ready for the waste management, that fairway becomes like concrete. And that's what happens a lot on the PGA tour. It's why whenever you see these distances and they say, God, how do these guys hit three forty three fifty Because on a lot of their tournaments, if you hit the fairway, they it's rock hard and you get an astronomical amount of role. So over there it's just natural. They're not doing anything. It's the cool part about the courses is their greens aren't that fast. They're actually pretty slow because they have to do that to make it fair because at any moment, twenty thirty mile an hour wins. Sideway rain and freezing cold temperatures as on someone is like, I don't think we can comprehend how psychotic Billy Horschell is playing Saturday's round just in his color shirt. He didn't even have a jacket. Zander didn't even have a rain jacket on. He just had like a sweater. I can't even imagine how cold their feet, how cold their bodies are. But from a television viewing experience, it was the shit. It was awesome. And this is you know, the pushback of Xander's first major in Valhalla is like no one was ever gonna blow up, no one was gonna double and at any moment, not as much today, clearly that the conditions were much more benign. But on Saturday you could blink and a guy could get a double. One bad shot would just destroy you. Because anyone that plays golf, if you've ever played into the wind, you put that little cut spin on it all the sudden it becomes a slice and it's in a bush. And if you said that was five six times a year, we could get that level of not even just the competition, but the weather, the course. I can't say enough about Royal Troon. I know this if I ever have the opportunity to go over there, I guess I would have the opportunity if I just chose to go. I would love to play that course now. The teas they were playing from it felt like on Saturday, multiple part fours were playing five point fifty plus. Shane Lowry had a hole on Saturday where he went driver driver and was still thirty yards short of the green. And that's what DJ kept saying. It's impossible for this course, in any course, to play any longer because the back nine, the way the course is set up, that's where the wind pumps into the wind felt like all those holes yesterday were into the wind we're today. It was a little more side wind. Clearly you could tell the flags on top of the grand stands were blowing. But John Wood or Bones or whoever was down with the players. You say, it doesn't feel like it's blowing that much, and those guys were a little little less faced. It's why you saw a lot of sixty nine and sixty eights and Xander, the best player in the field this week, shot sixty five and was pumping dry three forty, hidding eight irons and nine irons into greens. Where yesterday he's hitting three irons, three woods. So it was just an extremely enjoyable experience. And I think overall the majors this year have been awesome. Now part of it has been the champions Scotty Bryson and Xander twice. The cream of the crop. The cream of the crop. The one thing cool about this tournament more than the other three, definitely more than the PGA and Augusta, is you can get randoms, and I would say in those tournaments, if there's a random it feels a little weird. In this tournament, it feels really cool. A guy with a huge belly that you've never heard of, Dan Brown yesterday on eighteen, when he was squarely in the mix, is just ripping heaters. He took a selfie before a second shot, he ends up doubling the hole. It's like you don't get those moments. And there's just like a purity, an intensity, a love that's like sec football. Then listen, I love golf. I play golf with a lot of people who love it. I'm sure many of you if you're listening to this, love golf, but it doesn't feel like anyone loves it quite as much. As over there, like this country loves football, they really do, but it feels like the passion in the South. It is hard to match it, really does. I remember when I lived in Philly, when I worked for the Eagles, I'm like, ah, I'm from the Bay and the forty nine ers are a massive, massive juggernaut for the league in terms of television ratings, in terms of success, in terms of just the eyeballs they get when they play, and they have a huge fan base, and I know people that love the forty nine ers. There was intensity in Philly that I don't know. It just felt like different, And that's how it feels in the open with the fans, with the players. I saw a lot of people trying to rank the majors. Clearly, the PGA Championship is last in terms of just coolness and importance. We could have a long argument that you know, this tournament is every bit the equal of Augusta. Again, I'm an American, I would choose Augusta. But if you wanted to go Masters one A, this one B, and I think there's a lot of people that might put this one A and the Master's one B, and that to me, that for Xander to win this thing. You saw his dad, who's obviously his longtime coach, not coaching him anymore, but feels like his best friend with the sunglasses on, just just crying. And I think he knows. I think the tears at the PGA where he finally got over the hump, finally got that monkey office back, finally can call himself a major champion. This one like validated his greatness because that was impressive. Some other notables. The one thing cool about the Open in the US Open is how you can open qualify in. You know, they say one of the longest they call it the longest dand golf of the Monday going into US Open week where you play thirty six holes at most of these courses you have to shoot I would say anywhere from five to nine under. And the amount of like high level PGA players that are in them, it's always a cool day. And respect all the live guys who did it. Adam Scott did it this year to keep his major streak alive. The Open has that and you can tell this tournament means a lot to Justin Rose and for a guy who you know, if you think about the twenty tens, you know, Rory Spieth, Kopka, DJ, He's right there. He really is. I mean, he was easily one of the best players of that era. He's older than those guys and feels like, I don't want to say, closer to retirement or irrelevance on the PGA Tour, but he definitely hasn't been the dominant player these last couple of years that he was in his prime. And to see that guy, I mean, I thought he played his ass off. He was awesome. And to see the past he had to open qualify to get into this tournament was really cool, and you just you could tell they were rooting for him and Shane Lowry just a little stronger. Obviously Shane more than Rose. But they're showing those dudes swimming with signs. It was fun to watch. I call him Tracy Lawrence after the country singer. But there was a moment at about the seventh, eighth, ninth hole where we were like, is this guy really gonna win the Open Championship. I've never heard of him. Now, I'm not. I fall golf pretty closely, but I don't follow the deep e tour very closely. They were saying on the broadcast. He's won four times, so clearly this guy's not like some complete random But he was six hundred to one, six hundred to one, and there was a moment I think it might have been the eighth hole. He was plus two fifty and for the most part he was pretty freaking good, so he had a big belly just hitting those power cuts. He was very, very enjoyable to watch, and that, like I said, the one tournament where I'm cool with, like, I've never heard of this guy and I don't even care, is this one. And it happens every single year. I heard a stat speaking of Justin Rose that of all the majors over the last like twenty five years, this by far has the oldest average of winter and definitely has the oldest average of guys that are consistently in contention. And I think that speaks to Justin Rose being in the mix. Because of the conditions, because of the difficulty, it just brings more guys into play, and because of the different ways you can play the course. It's not just hit it three forty, pull out your pitching wedge, knock it within ten feet and try to make a birdie putt. That's not really what this tournament is at all. And then depending on where some of your shitty shots go, can you make magic happen? When I woke up on Thursday morning, Bryson d Chambeau and Rory McElroy had both shot like a combined one point fifty, which I didn't have any more because I was in California. It doesn't allow me to bet. And then you go to Nevada, I can't bet on DraftKings. I'm not quite sure on the rules, but did not expect that, so I couldn't even get my bets in when I wanted to. I wouldn't have bet on Rory, but I was one of those people that expected him to contend. I thought he would play well, and he didn't. Just not play well. He was, as he said, he was thinking about vacation with twenty plus holes to go, like kind of an embarrassing showing when this whole tournament was kind of about guts, was about grittiness, was about battling your ass off. He's like, yeah, seeah, I'm out to h to wherever the hell super rich people go vacation, and Bryson, unlike you know, Rory has played well in the Open many of times Bryson is not. And we said this coming in to this tournament is like you take out two years ago at the Open when he finished in I think.

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Eight. He had not cracked the top thirty in any of his you know, his times across the pond, and this week he didn't even make the cut. You have to wonder for a guy who's very scientific, for a guy who like measures his balls and salt, who I guess on Monday and Tuesday, because it wasn't raining but it was supposed to rain, he had dudes with a spray gun. I remember Chip Kelly did something similar when they were playing. They played like the Dolphins or the Bucks, and then stayed in Miami for the week to go play the Bears, and it was supposed to be awful weather and they were like spraying the footballs with water, and then they went to Chicago and it was snowing, got their ass kicked. It's kind of how it feels. Because you can't manipulate this type stuff, you kind of got to be an artist. And Bryson has slowly turned a little bit more into that because a short game is so good, but he kind of does what he does. He plays these big rope draws, he plays one ballflight and this tournament kind of punks him. Now, ultimately, who cares. Maybe when Bryson's career is all said and done, he's always shitty over there. It's kind of irrelevant because his style of golf, especially now that he's cracked the Masters a little bit, translates literally every other tournament. So he'll struggle over here, and as long as he plays well, he has a chance to win. I mean, he only plays in three tournaments with everyone else. But whenever this thing merges back, it's gonna work. So like, maybe he's just gonna eventually pun on this and maybe he gets a year where benign conditions, no rain, no wind, and he can compete. But to me, if the weather's coming the way you have to play over there, it's just really not gonna work for him. It was nice to have a John romside, it really was. And he's a guy who's dominating the majors and because of his athlete's foot, the going to live. It's just been a disastrous season. I mean a fucking disastrous season for genre not his bank account, but on the golf course. And like I said, when I got up, he was four under after seven holes, and he went, could he post like a sixty four to sixty five and post a number and be right in the mix. Now he boged some holes in the back and made a nice parsave actually on eighteen. But it was just cool to see him in the top ten. And hopefully this next year we got a lot of horses playing really well. And who knows if this merger, if anything ever is figured out between Live and the PGA Tour. But the hype, you know, behind the Masters, which is obviously a long long way ago, and that's what sucks, is like the golf moving forward is completely irrelevant. It just doesn't matter. These playoff events, no one cares. No one cares who's the FedEx champion and gets to make you know, twenty million dollars or whatever it is, and no one watches live. So basically President's Cup is during football season and it's that's just nowhere near as cool as the Ryder Cup. Today kind of marks the end for professional golf relevancy. I watch, but I'm what you call in the business of p one and pay attention. Most people don't, and I'm already starting to see highlights of Lamar Jackson gets sent home because he's sick, Patrick Mahomes making throws. The more and more training camp gets going, the more golf falls into the background. And this was kind of their last big moment, and I think what needs to happen moving forward, And I know Tiger is a big part of this, is they got to get this thing figured out and they got to put their egos aside. This is less about pride and who got paid, and like, the only way for your sport to sustain beside these four tournaments, beside these four tournaments, is to figure out a way to play together in some form or fashion. And I don't have much faith that they're going to get it right. I don't have much faith that it's going to be enjoyable for us. But if you can just get all the same guys on the same golf course, get John Rahm, Dschambeau back with Scottie, back with Zander, back with Rory, the sport has a chance. Because right now, I just they just don't beside these four tournaments, which are four super Bowls. That's what I tell my fiance. I said, four Super Bowls. She's like, well, what are all the other tournaments? I'm just tournaments we watch, but these are the ones the matter. And congrats Xander for winning that bad Boy. And yeah, one thing I want to do really quick. I got a couple go low questions at Golo Pod. At Golo Pod is the Instagram fire in those dms? And we will answer them here. Question for the pod was Xander winning two of four majors and some big prizes coming up in the playoffs. Is there a chance that we talk about Xander is having had the best season instead of Scotty. I think if Xander wins one of these playoff events, I don't even think it's debatable because, like I said, if you just did the math that a major is worth, Scotty would trade all this PGA tournament victories this year, beside Augusta, which is not a PGA Tour tournament, for to win the Open. He would trade him and he wouldn't even have He would do it in the blink of an eye, in a new and he wouldn't even flinch. So if Xander wins one more time, I don't even see how we argue that. All we've been talking about since Live Happened, was the importance of the majors, the importance of the majors, the competitions, the fields, And now Xander wins the Open and Scotty was, for his standards relatively bad. So I think Xander is probably one play off victory away from being the Player of the year. Shows you you know the margin fererra out here. Now, Scotty still might win the FedEx. But I unless they've changed it right, I hate the way they do it, but I get I understand it is. Scotty's gonna start the FedEx Championship at east Lake at ten under Lexander's gonna start eight. It's not like Xander's ten back. He's two shots back. So if Scotty bogie's the second hole on Thursday and Xander berdies all of a sudden, it's like one shot back. It's not a very big difference. I think Xander actually has a pretty good shot to win the fed X, and if he wins the FedEx then it wouldn't even be arguable. But even if Scotty wins it and Xander loses, do him by a shot, I'd have no problem giving it to Xander. Curious to know why the Ryder Cup and the President's Cup aren't played at the end of August before football starts. I feel like August is always up for the taking, and golf and baseball just can't seem to figure this out. As a casual golf fan who always watches the majors, I struggle to watch way less of the Cups when they coincide with football. I've been saying this with baseball forever, like shorten your season, capitalize on an opening, especially now that the preseason game suck. But that's never gonna happen. They're never shortening the season. Neither is the NBA that they're never doing it because the gate in those sports is so important. The problem for golf, which I totally agree with, is in a couple of weeks they start their playoffs, which ultimately who cares. It's basically just a way to distribute money to their top players. The events just don't matter. And this is someone who loves watching professional golf. The events do not matter. That they simply do not. If you could argue, just have one playoff event, just kind it to the top fifty guys play the first or second week in August and then have the President's Cup and the Ryder Cup in the last week in August. But like I said about my faith and however it plays out with the merger and getting everyone together, that's never gonna happen, so I don't ever expect that to change, at least for the foreseeable future. Maybe now with the President's Cup, which is owned by the PGA Tour, you have some of these big money people, some of them are NFL owners. Maybe they try to push for that. I guess it's hard to feel any of these things are set in concrete with the ability to just change moving forward. But every time something changes, it feels like it's either the status quo or it's for the worst. I mean, they're always changing stuff to try to basically get their players more money, and we all lose. Now, those events aren't really for the money. Xander and can't Lay don't love that. But that's another discussion for another day. I don't know. I wish that happened, because, like you, I mean, football rules the day. Football is how I pay my bills, so I I just it's really really difficult, but don't count on it. Don't count on it. So congratsate Zander second major and has vaulted himself as I don't know, I mean one B in American golf right now. The volume