We are joined by Tour winner Dennis Paulson, who provides expert analysis on PGA Tour LIVE/SiriusXM as well as his show with Carl Paulson “Inside the Ropes”.
We are delighted to share the company now of Dennis Paulson a winner on the PGA tour he will be an analyst this week for PGA Tour live and surely you have caught his excellent show on SiriusXM PGA Tour radio it’s called inside the ropes of the host with Carl Paul said DP
It is great to see you again my friend Dom tells me that you’re now a grandpy I am a grand Pappy thanks for having me MADD you the You’re The Godfather for all of us that are still doing ser 6m so we appreciate the fact that we’re actually calling golf on the
Radio still sounds crazy doesn’t it yeah it’s awesome and we love the job that all you guys do with with PGA Tour radio and more so DP I guess the place we got a lot of stuff to cover but the place I’d love to start is what we witnessed
From Hideki Matsuyama on Sunday at the Genesis Invitational he shoots a 62 and gave a really good run at matching the record with a 61 at that but what was your your reaction to what you saw from Hideki Matsuyama and what might it mean for a few weeks down the road say
Players or Masters well you never know I mean it’s kind of a you know it’s a snapshot of how he played yesterday and he even mentioned the fact that he didn’t play that great kind of going through the numbers he was a little off early in the
Day but he scored really well it was one of those days where he had a great scoring he hit those two it sounds like Dennis pawson is reconnected once again uh DP while you were trying to conect yourself Don was saying that it was it there’s an inverse
Ability to use technology as soon as you become a grandfather and I think you just proved it to the world well I sat here for 20 minutes everything was fine before we came on the air and my b& which is actually got speakers in it that I walk with grabbed it out of
Nowhere with my Bluetooth so just stole my internet that’s why or stole my sound that’s why you lost me that was my microphone and that happens to be in my bedroom room about 60 feet away from where I am right now so my apologies no worries no worries well well explained
You’re not going to be dced on that but speaking of Jordan’s DQ I’m not sure if you heard us talking about all of this but Rory said look I understand the tradition that goes into it where do you fall on the severity of a player getting disqualified for an incorrect scorecard
It’s probably the only rule that every golfer knows if you did a test it’s probably the only one know will get wrong it’s the only thing you’re responsible for it’s a pretty simple rule um I don’t want to see it changed I don’t think it’s archaic I feel bad for
Jordan there was a lot of things that led up to it the double bogey the fact that he had to use a restroom and he was sick all those things kind of led up to it I had actually had a guy in high school for me put my scores backwards on
16 or 17 or 17 and 18 so I signed for the proper score but the scores were wrong I got disqualified and the reason why we found out that it was him as soon as I signed signed my card and walked out he said I don’t think those scores
Are right I think you need Dennis to come back in here and check it he did it purposefully so now he got disqualified they wanted to put me back in the tournament it was a high school you know was high school CIF stuff it was not
That big of a deal although it was a big deal to play in state yeah but I get it but it was one of those things where I learned right then that you don’t have to know what your total score is just what you do on every single hole it has
To be right no matter if it totals the right number or not you got to have the score in the proper spot and it was something that I learned very young um and it’s just I think that’s a rule that should never change you should be responsible and the guy who kept your
Score should be responsible too maybe there should be a little bit of a penalty for the guy who put down the wrong score and I don’t want to say anything bad about Tom Kim and why he put that score down but it’s your responsibility as a marker to pay
Attention to what your playing partner is doing that day also Jess Paulson he is the host of inside the ropes on Sirius XM PGA Tour radio we will continue with him fully connected now speakers working microphones working right after this uh DP if you could just quickly go through
For us again your thoughts on Hideki Matsuyama because I think most of your comments about his 62 were lost in the in the microphone gate yeah sorry sorry about that um the um I I you know he said and it kind of sounded kind of
Weird the way he said it that it was just an okay round of golf that he played because you know it was so special the way he finished got off to that really good start with the birdies early but you look at his overall numbers he was like 37th in proximity of
The hole that’s with a couple of kick-ins so he didn’t really hit it that great and you know translation’s always tough when you’re trying to use a different language but he saved himself with the short game and then the great shots at the end with birdies at 16 156
And then 17 that was that was incredible th those shots that he hit on 1617 and the three-wood that he hit at 18 or 17 excuse me um those sounded unbelievable they sounded like you know a shotgun they were hit so solidly it was really impressive so DP when we talk about Tiger
Woods is it time that we Face the reality with Tiger Woods and say he’s probably not capable of doing all the things that as fans we’d love to see him do are we still too invested with Tiger Woods and what I mean by that is we hear
It all the time Tiger Woods doesn’t just move the needle he is the needle but at this point is he should he be um yeah he still should be but is he that’s the question um I I I said it on our show on Thursday morning with the
Fact that we’ve spoken so much and so highly of Tiger Woods right now in the sense of him being a golfer that’s going to play golf and not about his body and what’s going on but the big problem that he has I think more than anything Maddie is is
That it’s his lower back now now that his leg is not a factor not causing him a lot of pain where is that next part of his body that’s going to Manifest this issue that he has with with being able to swing because this swing has got a
Lot of Speed without a lot of ground force and where is that going to come from it’s got to come from that lower back and the fact that he mentioned it after the round of golf on Thursday that’s why he presented the hosle to the
Golf club on 18 as he said it I that was pretty cute um that that where you hit that shank but that is a thing that’s going to get to me that that rotational force that he’s putting on his body now to hit the ball as far as he’s hitting
It without using his lower body that’s a part that’s going to be something that’s really interesting and for Tiger the one thing he hasn’t really figured out for the most part is how do I prep for a golf tournament and also finish that golf tournament that’s the biggest thing
I think for him right now he can’t figure out what he needs to do for his body to get ready for a tournament to compete for 72 holes because even when he’s finished it’s been a lackluster tiger because he’s tired and his body sore and just not the way he played at
The beginning of the week and I think when he played in The Bahamas uh or in Bermuda excuse me the his ability to play on Sunday seemed like it was very close to what it was on Thursday but every single round it seemed like he
Lost a little bit of it and those are the things that he’s going to have to try to figure out moving forward if he can compete 72 holes healthy so DP unfortunately we used up most of our time with you today but we’re definitely going to have you back
On because I love your observations but in the in the few seconds that we do have left here on this Monday morning how excited are you for moving forward with the players coming up the Masters right around the corner we’re ready to get going with some very very big events
Well I think the thing that you know we always talked about the West Coast being kind of the start of the year and really really I think Riviera is the tournament that kind of kick starts the season before we head to Florida um there’s a lot of little fun little tournaments
That they play early for me on the west coast I love playing all those because it was my hometown but this is kind of where Riviera kind of puts kind of the PGA tour in the season in center stage and then we move forward from here and I’m really excited about everything
Moving forward let’s get this uh signature event stuff figured out and get more guys playing in fields and having more Cuts in those give those guys some more players opportunities look at all the big time wins that we’ve had so far this year and where were they
Statistically you know um with a chance to win they’re all in like triple digits for uh their odds going into the week to win the golf tournament pretty amazing it is amazing indeed so are you 10 a you can catch them on Sirius XM PJ tour
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3 Comments
Love it! Denies Paulson with his “Lakeside” hoodie on… possibly the best kept secret club in LA. I know, I’m a pro there.
Dennis is a real grandpa and not a soft millennial with this proper take there is no excuse to underscore.
High school cif is a big deal.
I agree it should never change.
I agree there should be a penalty for the guy who put the wrong score.
Tiger is fine Adam. He was sick. He probably could have roughed it out. But he will be fine. He looked like a total stud most of his time out there.
IMO they need to take some of the load off Tiger at this Genesis week. They run him ragged. To his credit he entertains it all when he could say it’s too much distractions from his prep.
IMO if he did not have to do so much hosting, he probably would have made the cut and done well.
The pga tour blackballing so many stars of the game has made it sad.
Riv was clearly missing not only the LIv stars, but also its normal field. It get off for me.
Let the LIv guys come back already. Stop cutting your nose to spite your face. That move taught is it’s a sin to do that. .
Fans have moved on from tiger. The pgat has not. They have no clue what they're doing.