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Friday last Friday we published the best
spiked golf shoes of 2024 which are the
only actual proper real golf shoes what
do we got Connor give us give us the
winners talk us
through what’s up everybody how you
living no putts given Tony and Chris
we’re back you have a turtle on your
head is that a turtle or is that like a
no it’s the lake monster we’ve been
through this I every now and then I just
go grab this hat the Sugarloaf Social
Club oh yeah whiteall New York yep there
you go the booming Metropolis that is
whiteall New York well you have two very
opposite clubs represented you have that
and then Scottdale nationville so you
have you were diametrically opposed
between to be two logo guy either I I
almost don’t not to not to you know say
that this isn’t a real Golf Club but I
I’m just in it for the lake monster like
this is my lake monster
hat man well we’re going to get to a lot
of two logo guy oh you’re the two logo
guy the worst that’s a great question
what’s worse than the two logo guy is it
the three Logo guy is the guy that shows
up and has like you know a belt from
here that I’m sure that guy’s I mean how
many how many logos you know if you do
it right like with with proper layering
so if you put like a polo that has a
club logo on the sleeve and a and a vest
that has like the the crest logo here
and then the hat and the belt you you
could get to four with no effort
whatsoever you can get to four I mean
you can get to two by mistake your
evidence of that we can get to four
without much trouble uh me this way
there you go there you go well we’re
going to talk some equipment stuff
there’s plenty of uh equipment things
out there some even roll Putters we’re
going to tease we’re going to talk shoes
We’re going to bring Connor in and talk
some shoes we have best drivers for Mid
swing speeds and Kevin n going postal on
some sand we apparently we have to talk
about that but before we get to all that
team event this week Zerg
classic first time Rory played in it
played with his mate Shane Lowry they
won well of course they did because for
all the talk of everything that we’ve
done I keep coming back to this I said
it last week Taylor Maid is having the
best year ever so they’re going to get a
piece of everything every week it just
feels like so spider Putters are
everywhere even I believe Shane Lowry
used a tailor made putter even though he
is
fullon Srixon man had a good weekend too
right yeah strion had a great weekend um
so yeah good stuff there but here’s my
question for you like would you watch
more PJ Tour golf if there were these
type of Team events I’m not talking
about meaningless team events I’m
talking about late no you w nope no no
like I watch I miss match play I I I
love match play I realize like from a TV
perspective when you get down to those
that final match yeah it’s I mean I I
would think they’d be really good at it
because all they do is show commercials
anyways right in the kind of the
broadcast wheelhouse but I get why
that’s a struggle but no this this type
of thing like it’s unless it’s like
unless it’s alternate shot right like
that that to me is the only real form of
Team golf otherwise it’s like hey you
know you go do your thing and I’m going
to do my thing and yeah and then
hopefully like that works out but we’re
not we’re not doing it together
necessarily we’re working in parallel
versus kind of crisscross I like so the
thing I like about it I like that it’s
something different watching and again I
love to watch golf I’ll watch tournament
golf all the time places ages amateur
Pros whatever 72 holes of stroke
plate gets redundant it’s the only thing
I like the change up so I like having a
twers event I like to see more crossover
events men and women but that if the PJ
tour could do something different if
they could have a different format other
than match play other than like a
two-person team event what do you think
they could do to spice it up without
losing the Integrity of being a
professional golf tournament yeah I mean
I guess maybe and this is just all the
top of my head spitball in here but if
you had something where you had a a four
person event where on each
whole a member of that team was
responsible for a given discipline which
almost becomes alternate shot in a
fourman fourman format maybe you maybe
you really make it crazy like all right
all Rory does for this entire tournament
is Drive the ball and Shane Lowry is
going to be the guy that hit a hit a
approach shots third shot wedge shot
whatever it happens to be that’s the
other guy and you know we’ll bring in
play a position yeah yeah you are the
designated putter you’re the designated
d
uh you’re the designated yeah I that
could be fun here’s two ideas for it I
doubt it tell me what you think about
this Tony tell me what you think about
this idea number one no caddies we’ve
covered this on here before but no
caddies players only H I don’t I don’t
know that adds anything other than like
we’ll find out we’ll find out who needs
their caddy it subtract something all
right that was one idea here’s a second
idea same event same everything but do
it like a four Club tournament you can
have caddies everything but you can only
use a certain number of clubs yeah I
think for one tournament a year I could
get on board with that I think you know
I don’t know if I’d watch the duration
of it but I’d tune in for a little bit
and that’s uh you know that’s that’s
more than most tournaments can say I
think that would be ridiculously fun to
watch live like to be at the tournament
like to see okay how does what do Pros
do when you got to take a bunch off of
seven iron or yeah I need to try to get
another 30 yards out of my nine iron you
know what what did they do I think that
could be kind of fun I do I do I don’t
know if that’s more fun than having Rory
sing which apparently Rory can sing did
not see that coming very surprised that
Rory you remember like years ago years
years years like when I say years I
really mean decades and it may have been
three or four of them at least three but
there was like a I don’t even want to
call it a tournament like an event I
remember it was like pro golfers and
then for some odd reason Mark Maguire
was involved and it was a bit like Drive
pitch and Putt I just remember like Mark
mcgu one of the one of the things you
had to do was hit a shot from behind a
tree so it was like kind of like some
Oddball like an oddball skills
competition I guess that’s you know call
it like an enhanced Drive Pitch Putt you
know punch out whatever right but you
could you could really build that out
into something I might watch
that the recovery shot
yeah like a little bit of everything
right like Drive pit p p Drive Drive
Chip putt Pitch Putt dip dive
dot dive in Hannah green horses for
courses Hannah green LPGA tours uh JM
Eagle La Championship I wanted to get
the name right at Wilshire back toback
years she seems to enjoy this particular
course one it last year that may be the
only thing keeping Nelly uh well I mean
it was nice that Nelly took a week off
so that somebody else could win I mean
that’s the best way that’s the best way
to beat find the open spot I had a my my
FedEx delivery guy uh who’s a fantastic
human ask me that he goes what can they
do to stop you know Scotty Sheffer I
said well he’s got to get sick and
eventually I mean he can’t play every
tournament so maybe that’s what you do
you just play tournaments where Scotty
isn’t it’s an option it’s an option
maybe the only option I want to get do a
lot of equipment stuff cuz we there’s
some shoe stuff that’s going to be
interesting we’re going to bring Connor
in here to to discuss that but as we’re
waiting for him um talk me through the
Callaway Chrome tour ball lab I felt 81
pretty yeah so kind of above average
like you once you once you creep up into
the 80s in our system I think you’re
you’re doing pretty good and this is
describe it as as a continuation of
everything we’ve seen from Callaway on
the quality front just definely by step
oh yeah yeah and one bad ball in the mix
it’s you know you can we’ve talked about
balls can be bad for different reasons
and some bad balls are worse than others
and things like that this was one where
compared to the whole of the sample we
had one one ball in the sample that
was came up a little soft I guess
correct just couldn’t completely Shake
chrom soft from
the had to sneak a little bit in there
but otherwise yeah so average average I
think uh it was above average which we
call good for one of our metrics uh
believe it was weight um so strong
showing not not all World showing but
steady Improvement my two takeways
number number one was that like I said
consistent Improvement like definitely
again like you said before if if Calla
was a stock which they are they’re
publicly held but using it more
metaphorically like hey you know seeing
Improvement I think the next version
will be better than than this version
and until they purposely have to make a
worse version because USGA
but steady Improvement the other thing
that I took away from this is kind of
thinking you know when we look at balls
to recommend or stay away from like you
said once you’re into that
80s that’s a pretty good representation
right of
hey we don’t have any concerns in terms
of manufacturing it all Etc like if that
ball fits you if that’s the best ball
for you and you’re like go ahead I mean
there there are’t any concerns on our
end I guess is what I’m trying to say
yeah yeah I mean that’s a ball you could
you could comfortably play without too
much worry at all and that’s that’s
really that’s the point of ball lab is
to kind of filter out the stuff you
absolutely don’t want to play and then
allow you to go find the stuff that hey
this is the quality is good enough
within my my performance range if you
will and yeah some stuff is better than
others for sure from a quality
perspective but sure you know um I also
would would want to limit anybody to the
performance specifications that are
delivered by just a couple two three
brands you know there’s there’s more
variety than that in the marketplace and
it certainly you know not everybody’s
going to fit into that stuff so right
I’m all for where’s Connor I want to
talk about shoes want to bring in Connor
yeah let’s bring in Connor we’re going
to talk about shoes here a little bit we
wrote an article was it last week or
whatever and want to get Conor’s take on
some of this cuz basically part of the
premise was like people may not be
wearing the right either style of shoe
or
size I want to know more about how can
you wear the wrong size shoe I mean I
get you know if I put on a medium shirt
I’m GNA know right away that’s the wrong
everybody’s gonna know everybody is GNA
know that’s the wrong size and so Connor
what’s up man how you doing what’s go
going on how we living guys I’m I want
to understand how people can buy the
wrong size shoe or the wrong I mean the
style of shoe we can talk about that a
little bit too because all right but
start with s like what how do peopley
like throw some knowledge at me here
let’s give give him the background here
Conor I mean do you guys know what size
of shoe you wear like have you
definitively been measured you know
exactly what size shoe you were I was
scanned yes sir okay so Tony what are
you at so I am uh so I was scanned by
FootJoy and that’s that’s one of the
distinctions right every company that
has scanning technology is going to scan
you and tell you what size their shoe
right and that may not travel as we all
know so I’m a I’m in a little bit of
what I guess we can call the Bennett
situation where I have one foot that is
bigger than the other so I have one foot
that is a a true 95 another the other is
a nine uh and I’m also to complicate
matters in the FootJoy World anyway
right on the cusp between the the normal
width and
wide so you are a Queener and yes I
don’t know I mean I we an 11 I’m going
to go to FootJoy too and and the two
shoes I’ve worn a lot here lately
FootJoy and painter um I’m an 11 and a
half in both of those but that’s because
I put on the 11 and a half and it fit
and the 12 felt too big and the 11 felt
too small so I said hey 11 and a half
but right
I mean the the key thing here is right
is first off if you’ve never been
measured you know you should go get
measured not everyone has a chance to go
to foot jooy like you Tony or I had the
same thing happen to Under Armour where
they can do a 3D scan of your foot um
but every shoe store on the planet has a
branic device it’s just that little
metal measurement thing you probably saw
at Payless shoe stores when you were a
kid back in
1978 exactly right do they have those at
Marshalls when you go shopping I I’ve
I’ve not seen one at Marshalls no not
recently no
but the key thing is there it’s at least
a jumping off point it’s a starting
point right so I got measured I was told
I’m at 11 that’s what I thought I was
then from there it’s it’s most important
to try on everything I mean the biggest
thing I can say is like we’re in such an
a world of online shopping now where
people just buy stuff and guess what
size they are like when at all possible
it’s much better to go in and try on and
store because like you guys said with
FootJoy compared to onor compared to
Nike compared to Adidas they all fit
differently like FootJoy for me an 11 is
Big compared to the 11 and Under Armour
that I’m wearing right so when at all
possible it it’s just important to go on
and actually try something on in store
it’s wild too we’re we’re we’re saying
something that seems obvious right you
should buy shoes that fit you um but we
know remember like the the numbers
FootJoy gave me you’ve got numbers from
Under Armour where it just you know they
measure people they people tell you what
size they are and then they measure and
it’s it’s not that size and and for me
the the baffling thing is you know how
many times we see comments on reviews
are like this shoe sucks it’s the most
uncomfortable thing ever yep and you’re
like does the shoe suck or does your
foot just not fit into that shoe which
right which that part of it sucks you
know you and I had conversations you
know a few weeks ago the Adidas tour 360
I got the boas right and I
love the Adidas shoe I don’t get to wear
them often big Boa guy as everyone
knows and I mean I could barely get my
foot into that shoe same size of Adidas
that I wore last
year could not get it like it’s one of
those shoes it’s boa dials and then a
zipper which I know some people hate and
I’m like do I need to go in the basement
and get some pliers to get these closed
obviously obviously that’s not a great
fit and so sometimes you have to accept
that rather than going well this shoe
sucks I’m done with it you know somebody
needs to start an online community where
you know if I if my left foot is bigger
than my right and Chris is right is
bigger than his left yeah exactly yeah
my n and a half you know boa for my for
your n i I was actually surprised that
FootJoy was not ready to let you order
shoes in in two different sizes right
well if you’re gonna but I mean so okay
so if you’re going to order them anyway
and they’re putting them I get like you
have to make them in and I’m I’m sure
whatever but like if there was like a no
refund guarantee kind of thing whatever
why couldn’t you just order one in a
nine and one and a nine and a half come
on
FootJoy somebody be the leader in this
space and allow I mean we customize
everything else don’t
we why can’t I customize my shoes to the
correct size and I would assume that the
factory makes them imp Pairs and they’re
pretty tied to the inventory but yeah
man we should okay so take so take a 10
and manage your inventory so take a 10
and a n and now I got a n and one n and
a like come on people let’s get creative
here so that’s the fitting aspect and
again it’s one of those things where I
mean did did Under Armour give you
numbers like what percentage of people
are wearing a shoe that is not call it
the perfect or ideal size for them I I
didn’t get statistics on that not but I
know it was a lot more than you would
think I mean again even just between me
and Bennett you know we both had a guess
and I was right and she was completely
off base
so Connor was right Bennett was wrong
that’s what I heard there right what all
right enjoy the rest of your Camp though
what if what if I like I said I’m not
going to be going to Under Armour
anytime soon I’m not going to footjoint
anytime soon I’m not going to get a 3D
scan of of my foot anytime
soon is really the best thing to do to
to you know trudge on over to Foot
Locker or pay less or whatever and say
hey let’s give me that give me that
device from 1970 that has been on this
floor since 1978 that’s the standard
that’s that’s the standard the brandic
device that you’ll find at any shoe
store like that is the standard has been
forever um no technology whatsoever just
a bunch of sliding bars but that’ll be
your best bet I will say if you want
something more in depth you’re probably
your best bet is going to be like a
running store something like a Fleet
Feet um because a lot of times they’ll
have stuff they’ll have pressure plates
similar to what we would have in golf to
track your gate and see where you’re
leaning and and pressure because they
they fit people for running shoes right
so similar applies it’s probably you’ll
get more indepth data on your foot if
you go to a running store would be would
be my next suggestion if you want
something more than just a brandic
device do you have to run if you go to a
running store no definely
okay all right Connor so talk us through
we Friday last Friday we published the
best spiked golf shoes of 2024 which are
the only actual proper real golf shoes
spikeless are not serious that’s nice if
you just want to go for a casual stroll
but if you care about traction um anyway
I digress what do we got Connor give us
give us the winners talk us through well
I mean we got the Return of the King
here at the top the Adidas tour 360 is
back it’s been a couple years since
Adidas brought one out it’s been about
two years since the tour 360 um has
existed they went away from it and went
to the zg23 which I know Tony’s a big
fan of zg23 is really good
it’s it’s really good but T 360s back
changed a couple things not too much DNA
still the same but it’s it’s comfortable
it’s stable I mean it’s just an
all-arounder that’s what it’s designed
to be and it and it hits the Mark I will
say it fits a lot better than the boa
version because I’ve also try it on the
boa version if you’re going to go for
the boa version you got to go at least a
half size up at least I mean Tony could
barely get his foot in it I could barely
get my foot in it and I have a narrow
foot so there’s that on yeah and we we
kicked it around too I kicked it around
with with with boa who took it to Adidas
and it’s I mean that’s just the way the
boa version is built um I believe with
the standard model there are actually
wide sizes available Adidas typically
doesn’t offer wide in boa uh which is
why like the zg23 was kind of an outlier
because while not offered in wide that
last was was wide enough where it I mean
I just for my money that that may be one
of the best golf shes ever made but
anyway that was number one yeah that
number two is my number one okay Chris
so I have a hard time believing so this
is the the tour Proto the RS right um I
so for me it was one of those things
where I’m not a huge fan of breaking in
shoes anymore like I know that used to
be a thing you know I like I got to wear
them until I get my blisters and kind of
break them in and you know like I ain’t
got time for that I’m too old I ain’t
got time for that I ain’t got time for
that and now I’m not saying you should
be able to put a is shoes on go hike
seven miles you know walk a course and
come back and feel you know phenomenal
or or whatever but when I put the
painters on I felt like I could I felt
like I’ll go walk 18 right now and I am
not at all concerned about him so I wore
them I did not walk the 18 when I wore
him I just I think we I think I wrote
cart that day whatever it was
but I zero concerns I loved how they fit
I loved how they they felt um like I
have a hard time believing that you know
you know we rated Sketchers as as most
comfortable I have a hard time believing
anything’s more comfortable than painter
and it could be my foot how that fits in
that shoe um but I thought it was a
no-brainer and then seeing what they’re
working on with Jason day talk to them a
little bit about that and working on
anything with boa I’m curious but not
curious enough to go back to going to
ruin they’re not throw away a century
worth it you know they’re they’re doing
their they’re doing their own closure
system Tony and it it appeared on the
shoes and didn’t work very well
personally just wasn’t wasn’t great just
but but Chris your point about painter
RS Proto like you said extremely
comfortable shoot from the minute you
put it on to the minute you step off the
18th hole it feels just as good like it
it just it feels great out of the box
like you said no one has time to Break
Stuff in we should not ever have to
break anything at this point if if
you’re trying to convince yourself that
a shoe will feel better and it hurts
right now it’s probably not going to
feel better it’s going to keep hurting
you so just get rid of it like you don’t
need to convince yourself that it’s
going to get better right when there’s
options like that the RS Tor Proto that
exist there’s no reason to buy a shoe
that hurts your
feet yeah let me ask you this talk to me
no go ahead Tony you get I’m gonna I
want to know about this Sketcher shoe
because it it looks better than the
Sketchers that I’m used to seeing I
grant I’m looking at I know somebody’s
going to look at this go that stupid s
they they always have to put that s on
it and I’m like you know what that like
the I would I would have hoped that the
skx was enough branding I understand
right they got to they got to put their
big ass s on it but this looks like an
entirely different type of Sketcher shoe
like if I was going to
pick complete redesign yeah I mean
here’s the thing if I was going to pick
a winner if you ask me to pick like a
who dominated the shoe testing between
spikeless and spiked Sketchers had the
biggest year this year um like combined
scoring if we did that yeah but the
issue is they just don’t they don’t have
the sex appeal that honestly like for
lack of a better term that someone like
Adidas painter you know Under Armor has
because so what you’re saying is like
there is no guarantee right that the
tagline is not we Sketchers get laid
right exactly I don’t I don’t know that
the cart girl is too interested in your
Sketchers but if you want something
that’s always comfortable and always
performs like Sketchers this year
knocked it out of the
park sex appeal though give me the sex
appeal rating New Balance versus
Sketchers New Balance new balance is
cool right now so new balance is way up
there yes yes and Connor I would like to
I would like to challenge your math here
for a second because it looks to me like
painer was number two in both tests I
mean that’s true so how can we see
Sketchers that’s two silver medals
that’s pretty good if we’re going on
scoring alone then painter probably had
a better year but painter also had a
really good year last year and the year
before people like Sketchers most
improved yeah I i’ I’ve toyed around
with the idea of giving a most improved
award because I think it’s important
because Brands like Sketchers Under
Armor is another one too really really
made a lot of improvement this year like
you’d be and and with Sketchers you’ll
be hard for us to find anything better
for that price too that’s that’s where
Sketchers are well then I but then I
scroll and and I find our best value
pick here scroll down to Best Value
Sketchers Go golf torque sport 2 and I’m
like oh that’s the Sketchers I remember
right right that one’s a little less
athletic that’s more of like the 65y old
you’d see Rock in that thing but it’s 85
bucks you’re not going to find a better
shoe for $85 in that pair I can promise
you
that yeah I let me we’re going to shift
the conversation ever so slightly here
because um talked with
again some people we got some reports
from from some companies like talking
about performance right like in terms of
Technology Tony says the only serious
shoe is a spike shoe I’m inclined to
agree you look at players on the PJ tour
how many of them still
wear metal spikes because they can right
A lot of them wear the nails uh you
don’t often see a
player going to something that really is
unstructured with very little traction
um you know at times we do for sure but
well even on tour like the the spikeless
you tend to see there is going to be the
like a FootJoy PRL which is which is
basically as close as close to a spike
shoe as you can get without actual
spikes yeah that Sho is literally
talk Tony that’s the only spikeless I’ll
wear yeah Tony fow likes his his Nikes
and you know Once Upon a Time Justin
Rose was pretty big into like a
traditional spikeless shoe but I guess
my question for you Connor
is what are the biggest challenges in
getting golfers to see Footwear as a
piece of technology that can improve
performance just like we test you know
new driver’s head you know driver heads
getting the right grind on your wedges
is like mindblowing is getting the right
shoe CU apparently people don’t even
know what size they should be wearing is
getting the right shoe we’re so that big
of a deal like am I going to actually
play better golf if I have a shoe that
fits I mean the the real question here
and perhaps like the the issue is you go
into a golf shop say you go into a big
box Golf Galaxy PJ store superstore
wherever or even your local fitter and
you can demo how many clubs and hit them
back to back and really get a sense of
the performance differences between
clubs how many of us have ever done that
with a pair of shoes right sure you try
it on you walk around the store but
never have you do you take five 10 shoes
out to the range hit 10 shots in each
and and see the difference so I mean
that’s got to be the biggest thing right
it’s just it’s maybe we should test that
maybe we should
do maybe we should do a test well we did
that with Spike spikeless a little bit
um last year I’m wondering if a company
I’m going to mention a company’s name
here squares they make a lot of claims
around performance implications of their
shoe versus other shoes be interesting
to test out some of those theories
because I do think there can be a
difference um but until you quantify and
really show golfer like hey this versus
that it’s it’s tough to wrap your head
around right right squares they claim
like six up to six yards right of
additional distance compared to I guess
a normal or round toe golf shoot yeah so
Tony here’s squ squ squ sent us a study
this week and Chris got it too I was
reading through it because it was done
by a professor at the school I went to
in Utah but so they did like a spiked
squares versus a spikeless golf shoe and
they did see some performance gains but
what they’re doing here is testing the
complete opposite ends of the spectrum
squares which just build as like a super
heavy I mean it’s the heaviest shoe in
the test like 18 ounces for one shoe
versus they test it against the FootJoy
Flex I mean you know the flex it’s a $99
basically running shoe with like foam
spikes on the bottom okay so these are
complete opposite ends of the Spectrum
in that case I feel like it’s pretty
apparent what the result is going to be
right like you’re just if if if there is
to be power generated in the golf swing
you’re going to do a little more of that
in the shoe that’s not can’t be brand
new tires like really B Tires right
right yeah so I’d like to do it more in
depth because they did that with one
person and again it’s these two shoes at
the opposite of the spectrum but if you
took the pro SLX as a spikeless shoe
something that is super stable you know
basically Rivals any spiked shoe in
terms of stability and put it against
the squares I think you’d probably be a
lot closer in
performance I think that would be
interesting like a showdown with okay so
take let’s even say you took like a
couple take squares take Adidas and take
painter like let’s take the top couple
three and now’ll see because those are
actually models people are going to
choose from and models that we’ve tested
to be I’d be like show me show me how it
compares to one of the I mean in my bag
on my feet whatever whatever Lang would
you want to use like am I going to gain
speed over what I’m actually wearing
right now so testing against some random
list that I was never going to play
play golf in anyway doesn’t make much
sense but be better you’re using now
come in with your own shoes can can can
we beat your own shoes yeah there you go
I did that at Under Armour actually I
went to France and did that in my shoes
just like my trainers like not even golf
shoes that I was wearing put on their
Spike and their spikeless right in
France super cool TR the
world France Hawaii um but I actually I
I I was fastest I was hitting it the
best and I was swinging the fastest in
their spikeless shoe but my trainer my
non non- golf shoe I was hitting it
better in that than the spike shoe which
brings me to my theory that I think you
play better in what you’re most
comfortable in if you’re used to a
spikeless golf shoe I think you’ll
probably see better numbers in a
spikeless golf versus if you always wear
spiked I think if you then switch to
spikeless you’ll probably see a big drop
off because you’re just not not used to
that kind of traction and that stability
people are going to have questions about
this Conor I’m going to invite them to
ask them send them to you directly
because we’re going to wrap up with a
couple fire uh fire questions here and
you can stick around um stick around for
these um do want to note a couple
articles coming out even
roll Putters you may have seen Zack
Blair plays an even rooll if you saw any
you know close-ups from this weekend
anyway they have 38 Special they have
their 38 series coming out which is
pretty fantastic uh counterbalance so
talking 38 in which is over length this
counterbalance methal you know
methodology we’ll have an article up
about that and did you see any pictures
of these McGregor irons Conor have you
seen those I mean I’ve seen them in
person there’re I was just actually
playing around with when I got one right
here I mean they’re they look really
nice they look really when I when I saw
them what your 30 seconds give me your
30 second feedback seeing them in person
well if if I was in the market for a set
of irons which I’m not current currently
I would definitely consider McGregor
just based on looks alone I haven’t hit
him we don’t have him left-handed I have
no idea how they do how they perform but
they look freaking awesome suck
it fair enough fair enough all right
last one last one here we go Kevin n got
very angry this week did you see this
clip guys have you guys seen
this hold on hold on hold on
did I does it bother you what’s your
give me Tony give me your 30 second give
me your give me your oh my God like look
that’s just just Wednesday afternoon at
McGregor anyway like I I’m G to I’m
going to play that hole exactly that way
probably 15 times I’ll play a hole like
that this year and we’ll think twice
above it about it and not for anything
but Kevin Na is a guy who I mean we’re
talking a decade ago but dude carded a
16 at the Valero so right I mean this is
nothing this is absolutely nothing yeah
I don’t care at all about him losing his
absolute mind throwing F bombs he was I
actually found that pretty entertaining
if I’m going to be bothered by something
if I want really want to stop for a
second say he does any part of this
bother me I do generally not like seeing
professionals just give up and I get it
it happens and it happens in other
sports all the time but
it’s so clear to me that he’s like you
know what eff it I know what I’m getting
paid who cares it just gives people that
the O I’m playing live I get paid no
matter how I do whatever there’s example
a you don’t I just don’t like seeing
professionals give up and he absolutely
gave up I mean say if you say anything
it’d be he’s soft like like think of
Devin Booker asking the Toronto Raptor’s
mascot to leave because he’s messing
with them during his free throws like
he’s just soft it’s it’s like that’s a
ball player move to get all butt hurt
about that golfers need to stop being
soft yep quit being soft you heard it
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