Dive into episode #106 of the Pull Hook Golf podcast, where host Matt Cook offers a solo recap bursting with details from the Waste Management Phoenix Open and Tiger Woods’ return at Riviera. Cook’s firsthand experience at the Phoenix Open adds an intimate touch as he unravels the “wasted management” affair and tees up a discussion on Tiger’s latest moves on and off the course.
Matt Cook’s one-on-one session tees off with a vivid recount of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, dubbed by some as the “Wasted Management Open.” The narrative includes weather setbacks, course conditions, and a detailed account of fans overwhelming the greens. Cook then seamlessly shifts to the anticipation surrounding Tiger Woods’ comeback at Riviera, peppering the discussion with predictions and personal anecdotes. Throughout, he integrates his experiences and conversations with golf pros, elevating the episode to more than just a simple summary.
Key Takeaways:
– Matt Cook shares an in-depth recap of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, detailing the unprecedented crowd control issues and adverse weather conditions.
– Tiger Woods’ imminent return to golf at the Riviera course is a central discussion point, with focus on both his health and performance expectations.
– Cook introduces Tiger Woods’ new clothing line, Sun Day Red, offering critique and curiosity for the future of the brand.
– The episode covers the aftermath of the Live Golf event in Las Vegas, including team performances and celebrity sightings which underscore the dynamic growth of the tournament.
– A solo episode provides Cook with an opportunity to blend expert analysis with his personal interaction with the events and people that shape the world of golf.
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Correction:
The grass at Riviera is Kikuyu not Zoysia
Welcome back to pull hook golf the podcast I’m your host Matt Cook and tonight it is episode number 106 I can not believe it all right I just I can’t believe it it’s 106 episodes in man last week we were had double the action double the fun with
The good old bu on with the Waste Management Open special we had Sam Han on who’s the CEO from Lab golf later in the week and now this week you got me we had a bunch of guests all in a row and I’m like man there’s so much going on
Right now in the world of golf that we need to have a one-on-one moment to where we break it all down go through it all and uh really get to the bottom of all this stuff going on because the Waste Management Phoenix Open we’re going to recap that tonight um some
People are calling it The wasted Management Open which uh for good reason we’ll get into that so you’re going to hear the full scoop here because I was out there all week long um experienced all of it uh then we’ve got Tiger’s return so Tiger Woods is back at Riviera
This week we’re going to be talking about that we’ve also got the upcoming Genesis Invitational we got to talk about that at Riv because Rivier is one of my favorite courses we’ll get into that we’ve got the swany style segment because guess what folks Tiger Woods
Just launched a new uh clothing line so we’re going to be getting into there and then live Golf Las Vegas we’re going to recap that entire event which folks that is one of my favorite portions of this episode that’s why we usually save it for last is that Las Vegas recap people
Absolutely love our live golf side of things and I love it so we’re going to get into a full breakdown there as well but before we get into this episode I do want to thank our sponsors for this episode so first of all Swan’s Golf and
I got a cool little story that came up with swanie so I was going in doing Instagram live at the Waste Management Phoenix Open fans shop and Swan’s had a great setup there absolutely fantastic and the shirt that you see on me right now this has beers it’s got or beers are
Over here you got glizzies over here so those podcast listeners you got little images all over the shirt of beers and hot dogs and then it’s got the waste management uh logo there with the 16th hole I mean this thing was hot and it sold out so fast so I was there
Wednesday I was there on Thursday and actually it was on Thursday when I was doing an Instagram live coming from the swanes uh portion of the Waste Management Open fan shop and sure enough if one of our audience members didn’t DM me and was like I love that shirt would
You do me a favor and actually pick that up for me I will venmo you right now and sure enough I’m like I’m a man of the people the people’s open I absolutely love it so I go absolutely I’m going to pick this up for you so did a little
Segment in line waited in there um and got that polo for him and then I’m like I liked it so much I right back over to the swan’s guys and I’m like all right I need one myself as well and uh was actually out U playing in a little skins
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For our other sponsor which is lab golf tonight so we had Sam Han on last week sponsoring this episode as well and I will tell you guys the lie angle balance is no joke uh I was talking with some pros out there at the Waste Management
Open about it uh even further and I was like I’ve got mine on the way because guess what I went through and after talking with Sam I was like man I need to go and get myself this Potter and originally I was going to get a mes one
Because those that know me I tend to miss every once in a while those three four-footers that I know everybody struggles with from time to time and So after talking with Sam though he really convinced me to go with the df3 their brand new putter that they’ve just come
Out with so if everybody remembers the lab putter that first started at all it was the DF 2.1 and that DF 2.1 was it looked like the mothership I mean this thing was big it was black it looked like something out of Star Wars um and
So that being said they have gone ahead TR that model down they’ve gotten the same effect out of it they removed the Ping noise from it um so check this out this is the df3 model and it’s just clean looking I don’t have the other
Shot of it from the top side but this is the bottom of it and guess what you when you hit it so close on your lag Pots if it doesn’t go in that is you also have the hole there to actually pick up your ball so you don’t have to bend over and
Do that so I went through their fitting process online and I mean it is so simple took me about 5 minutes to get everything done came back and the fitting was spot on so I know that it works and I was talking with Sam about
It and he was telling me that almost all of the pros so about 90% of the PGA Tour Pros have actually gone through that remote fitting process and I’ve got fit that way so don’t think you need to necessarily go into um a custom fitter and get custom fit for it and everything
The remote fitting Works awesome and again did that in about 5 minutes so make sure to go to labg golf.com change your putting today drop more putts and I’ll be talking about it more too as I get more as I get using the df3 I will certainly be talking to you about it
Here on this podcast as well in the future but again labg golf.com and uh make sure that if you want to roll some more putts get that df3 that thing is money and everything what I love about it is the potterf a square so use your
Path and you’re gonna make a lot of putts all right let’s get into the episode now with the Waste Management Phoenix Open recap and I know a lot of people on social media are calling this the wasted Management Open and they’re not necessarily wrong I mean it is a I’m
GNA tell you this the weather really screwed up everything this year at the Waste Management Open I’ve been going I mean I’ve been going since I was 13 years old um and during college I went every single year and then I lived out here for a while in Arizona and I stayed
Out here for quite some time and then from there now that I’m back I’ve gone the past couple years and I will just say this I have never been to the Waste Management Open with weather poorer than what it was it rained the majority of
The week it was not it was cold I mean when I say cold there was a I don’t know if any of you are on Tik Tok but I will tell you this right now there was a PSA that went out so if you listen to The
People’s open special with the butsy we talk about the fashionistas right and with the fashionistas there are the scantly clad well I will tell you that there was a PSA going around on Tik Tock that uh was was pretty much verbatim to this don’t wear what we Norm wear out
There at the Waste Management Open it is so cold I am telling you I froze don’t wear what you normally wear and I’m just like it was this young girl clearly like you look at the Tik Tock and you’re like okay this is you’re you’re in that place
Of the scantly clad so there was a PSA that went out about that and then the biggest problem with the weather is that the actual dormant Bermuda Hills that they have for fans to sit sit on and to stand well those turned into mud and I
Know a lot of you have seen the aftermath of people sliding down the hills and everything when I was out there on Wednesday people were falling down the hills then throughout the week the hills got muder and muddier and muddier and if you were not on a cart
Path by Saturday then you essentially were walking through mud I had my Jordans on and it became impossible if you were going to get anywhere to actually um not be stepping in a ton of months so it was not the best experience especially on Saturday Wednesday was a
Great experience I didn’t have a problem on Wednesday then on Thursday um I did not go because it rained pretty much all day uh and then Friday was gorgeous so Friday was actually the best day of all um in my opinion but Sunday was beautiful as well and then Saturday was
Just a complete debacle so here’s the Scoop folks what ended up happening and yes it got out of control because they did the same thing last year as well the entrance at the Waste Management Open needs to be fixed this has been a problem now last year it was a problem
This year it’s a problem they got to figure out something to get people into the golf course in a better fashion than what it is um and this year well last Year I’ll just say this nobody was expecting them to all of a sudden just open up the gates and just start letting
People in because it became a public safety risk everybody was jammed in together couldn’t move and that was at the gates for the ticket checking right well last year they let everybody in that was the first time that I have ever experienced them doing that and I’m like
Oh wow this is crazy this year guess what as they did it this year people that were locals I we overheard multiple conversations as we’re getting in as to calling up buddies and going hey man get down here now they’re not checking tickets so what did that lead to that
Led to apparently I have heard the number as to a half a million so 500,000 fans were on property at one point that is why and and they actually closed the gates however the people revolted at the people’s open and they just powered through and then it became chaos so they
Ended up cutting off alcohol sales at 2 o’clock which I mean there’s one way to get drunk people out of a golf course it’s by not serving them any more alcohol um only the private areas like the greens keeper passes as well as the 16th hole if you’re up in a suite those
Were the only ones that were still serving alcohol at that time uh but they wanted the masses to start leaving there and I get it I mean the players the players were frustrated especially you got Billy horel you got Zack Johnson two guys now Billy Billy horel is a f he
Gets fired up right he is a Florida Gator you know he’s got that mentality for getting angry sometimes and chirping at some fans and everything this is not the first time for him so with Billy horel I was not surprised that he gave some guys the business while they were
Out there the one that was surprising was Zack Johnson Zack Johnson was getting uh his chops busted up by a fan that was giving him [ __ ] about being a being a poor Rider Cup captain and uh was saying some stuff that he shouldn’t have been saying and Zach just finally
Lost I think it was three holes that they were going through all of that and uh Zach finally lost it on him and just had enough and I’ll say this man they played 54 holes sat between Saturday and Sunday so because of the rain and because of the weather everything got
Pushed back so they played a [ __ ] ton of golf and to deal with that crowd for as long as they did in shitty weather throughout the entire week I get it I get why they lost their [ __ ] I would have probably lost my [ __ ] if I was
Having to listen to that the entire time as well because you can only be so Zen and in your head um and just not really worrying about what people are saying and having fun with it you know the one person who actually did a really good
Job with it all was Jordan be Jordan spe was fantastic out there there were multiple times that people were just screaming out at him and there was one time on 18 to where he hit a shot and he looked up as if to get pissed off at somebody and just realized how many
People were there on in in whether it was the tents or down below and he just kind of said what the [ __ ] so he certainly was taken back by everything uh but kind of in a chuckling kind of manner to where he’s just like what the [ __ ] like this is
Crazy as to what he’s experiencing so this by far was the craziest year it broke all the attendance records by far I don’t think they will officially come out and say that there was 500,000 fans on property on Saturday but uh that is the word that I have heard U from
Several people including um some within the Thunderbird so that uh that whole thing is just a challenge and then also by the way they cut off alcohol uh well one because people ran through um the gates so it became a big time public saf safety risk didn’t want to continue
Serving people um so that happened and then uh sadly a woman fell 20 feet out of the stands um I don’t know which hole that actually took place on um but I read about that I’m like gosh you know we were joking about the fact that how
Do people not like die out there at the waste manager open apparently she’s got serious injuries but it’s going to recover so that’s good but again the mud was the story it was like Woodstock from back in the day um people just in the mud sliding down the hills I mean people
Still found a way to have an absolute blast it was not my favorite year for the Waste Management Open and here’s the thing I think it can be fixed I think there’s some ways that we can go about getting this tournament back to being a fun party at atmosphere being respectful
For the players to a degree because there’s always going to be people yelling and everything like that’s still going to happen but we need a better entrance into the tournament we’ve got to figure out a way maybe on both sides of the golf course I don’t know how that
Would play out but it was a nightmare this year even uh because the rain the grass parking lots a lot of them ended up being non-usable so VIP uh parking passes basically all parking passes were eliminated um and everybody had to go to General uh parking and that took a long
Time to get just to the tournament Gates and then from there it took I mean on Friday it actually took me a half an hour to get through but they were still checking tickets um on Saturday it took about 15 to 20 minutes and C it they
Were not checking tickets so that’s got to go to show you something there but they’ve got to issue outl tickets especially for Saturday Saturday is a nightmare a lot of people don’t go because Saturday is just absolutely crazy anyways so a lot of people know that uh but if you want
That party atmosphere Saturday is it I just wish it didn’t take me 30 minutes to move from one section to another because of how packed it was but again a lot of that has to do with the weather itself and for the action I mean the golf was actually really really good
It’s always good at the waste management because that Golf Course is phenomenal they had it in great condition those greens were as pure as pure as can be and you got to give it up for Nick Taylor it’s funny I had my buddy Blake gave me a call he’s been on an episode
Previously and he was asking me he’s like is Nick Taylor for real and I think at the time that we were talking we’re like you know he might have just had that great run last year so I mean only time will tell and we were talking about him heading into the waste management
And sure enough goes out there and in the first round a lot of people forget because the first round was just absolutely a mess in terms of weather but he goes out there and shoots 60 goes out there shoots 60 had a chance to shoot 59 and these scores that we are
Seeing right now are just insane out on tour the talent pool is so crazy good right now and goes from a 60 follows that up with a tough 70 68 in the third round and again these are all mixed throughout the days because of the weather that once again
Is the theme from the week but Nick Taylor goes out on Sunday shoots a 65 Bird’s three out of the last four holes to force a playoff with Charlie Hoffman now Charlie Hoffman was playing on the hard strings of everybody because he won is sponsored by the Waste Management
Open there’s obviously the other side to it too that the live golf fans which granted I don’t know why live golf fans [ __ ] on the PGA tour because and I get it it’s the whole back and forth PG tour said all this stuff about Liv and now we
Got to defend it I get the whole dynamic right but it’s funny because he is also sponsored in apparel by Greg Norman’s apparel company um and so you got the big shark logo on the back and it was just very ironic you had live fans pulling for him you had other other
People pull it for him because he’s waste management and then you know you got the Southern Cal people who just absolutely love Charlie Hoffman he’s great guy Bobby Brown has talked about him on this podcast before that he’s just a really chill good dude and everybody was pulling for him I mean
Heading into the playoff and I thought he wanted in regulation and then you just see Nick dor doing what he did on the last four holes you’re like dang he is lighting it up and I thought it was going to be tough in the playoff for Charlie to really come through um and
Sure enough on the first playoff hole both of them hit great shots Birdie the playoff hole and then they have to go back and do it again and you got Charlie Charlie’s in his back brace like it was that was so much golf for a guy like
Charlie Hoffman I mean that is tough at his age um to be able to perform at that level and play so much golf in a condensed period of time I give him super props I am super impressed by him uh but then in on he got a bad break
Hits it into the bunker on the left um off the te has to hit it up and over these uh I don’t even know what you would call it because they’re kind of these slots throughout with grass um and so he hits actually a really good shot
But he had to get it up and over had to make sure he had enough Club so he ends up deep misses the putt obviously and then from there Nick Taylor had stuffed his from the Fairway and uh sure enough played absolutely a beautiful Putt and
Knocks that in to win once again and he does it in dramatic fashion just like he did up in Canada at the RBC so kudos to Nick Taylor he’s the real deal man he’s playing very very well he’s cleaned up a lot of stuff in his game and you got to
Love that um now run PMC we got a little uh comment from you here so how did sh look out there saw he was on the leaderboard early so Bobby has not been on his bag this year once again due to some things going on there personally um
So that being he’s taking some time off and uh one of the things that I will tell you is that sh looked phenomenal out there I was very very impressed with SH uh we made some eye contact at times um I like to think that he still remembers me from the the Shriners
Walking 18 holes of golf with him uh but that being said him and his new caddy look pretty comfortable out there I mean fill it in for Bobby and uh that being said sh he’s just he gets into these patterns I feel like I feel like I’ve paid enough
Attention now to where it’s like he gets into this pattern to where he makes a lot of pars and he’s just not dropping a ton of birdies um on a consistent basis and that’s the one thing that I noticed with him but I’ll do a leaderboard
Rundown here and just a second I also want to get to uh Charlie Hoffman with the fact that granon he loses the playoff and misses some bigger tournaments that he could have gotten in because I don’t believe he’s exempt anymore I was hearing while I was on
Site that uh he’s not exempt anymore for the Masters and for some others so this would have pushed put him into those tournaments once again um but I’m just looking at my notes Here his last win was at the 2016 Valero Texas open and so
He’s had a long stretch of not winning a golf tournament and this actually got him into the Genesis Invitational this week so he had a ski plan or a ski trip planned um and that is cancelled so he is no longer going skiing he is now going to be playing in the Genesis
Invitational which by the way folks is going to be a signature event but we got more on that in a second the big names all right all right let’s go over some of the big names because uh hang on I got to take a little sip of Bushwood real
Quick these Onan shows sometimes I just get a little parch a little winded uh but the big names so they showed up as well and in a lot of ways I’m not surprised that we’re seeing some other names at the top of the leaderboard now enough if you’re I know
What the live people are going to say well that’s because we took all the big names no you didn’t but I will say this the talent level has risen and it’s risen another notch which is crazy to think about because PJ tour Pros are so
Good but this is one of the things that I love about the PJ tour is that you have these larger Fields people can play their way in through a Monday qualifier and they can go out and compete and you got guys that are hundred something on
The uh on the PGA tour and they’re coming out and they’re able to go out there and perform and potentially shoot four great rounds of golf and win a PGA Tour event so I I love that now that being said Scotty sheffler Scotty sheffler loves this place the Waste Management Open you
Wouldn’t think that Scotty Sheffer loves all the partying all the people and everything but he seems comfortable in that environment in the crazy environment and everything um and he was on fire at the end of his third round heading into his uh fourth round and came out the gates firing as well so
Scotty Sheffer looked like he was gonna take this thing then Charlie Hoffman kind of put like was right them and eagled a par five and so it was back and forth and then Nick dor kind of comes out of nowhere and all of a sudden gets
Up there as well but Scotty Sheffer all right I’ve said this on this podcast before I’m not going to call him a choke artist I did that for um entertainment effect back back when I said it last year but this guy there is nobody that strikes the ball better than he is
There’s nobody Strokes gained approach like he is just stuffing golf shot and his potting was at the beginning of the week he was phenomenal however you get the pressure going and I’ve said this before I believe that his putting woses have nothing to do with the putter or a setup
Or a stroke I believe it has everything to do with him mentally Under Pressure being able to handle that and I really do think that if Scotty Sheffer starts working with a mental coach because it’s not The Yips that that he has doesn’t doesn’t have them Yips he gets off
Aligned and I don’t know like looking at the stroke it doesn’t look any different Under Pressure versus not he just misses pots and so to me that’s to me a mental issue I would love to see them add a mental coach in there I don’t know if
They already have or not I’m not super tight with that crew um I did uh throw out there Teddy let’s go for a little three Pat he loved it gave me a nice little winks the pull hook hat gave me a thumbs up so uh that being said that’s
About all I talk to within their group and uh with Teddy himself uh Scotty’s caddy and I just I really think it’s mental I really think Scotty Sheffer needs a performance coach to come in help him mentally with working and being able to perform Under Pressure once
Again his golf swing still looks great Under Pressure a lot of times I don’t see a whole lot of difference there it’s more so just the putter once the putter starts to go that’s when you start to see everything else struggle because that’s when he starts putting more and
More pressure on himself I was talking about that with Lance Bennett who we’re going to be talking about here in a little bit because there’s some big news there as well and then also uh who finished so uh Scotty sheffler finishes T3 I thought he should have won that
Tournament easily by the way he also in the third round puted a ball in to a bunker so there’s that um now that was just a bad break uh ball just didn’t stop it wasn’t that bad of a putt but that being said he put it into a bunker
Now T3 also Sam Burns as I just mentioned Sam Burns he’s just a solid solid player I mean shoots seven under I believe in the final round let’s see yeah shoots a 64 out there in the final round you know who else loves this golf course sahi
Thala so sahi had a whole fan base out there with his face all over a bunch of shirts his dad was out there um and that was great we also got to see um minwu Lee with his uh new sponsorship with Lululemon they just trucked out a ton of
People that I think there was I was talking to one of the guys he’s like yeah we’re all through Lululemon they had the minw Le Chef hats on if you’ve seen some of those images and they were saying there’s 200 of them they were all Lululemon people so Lululemon put out a
Great little promotion for minwu Lee to have all those guys out there they all had the red Lululemon shirts on um with the chef hats and it the chef hats said let them cook so I thought that was fantastic uh but back to the leaderboard so zahi finishes fifth got Jordan spe T6
Maverick mcney T6 Adam Scott T8 um and Adam Scott man this guy I’m telling you sometime soon he is going to break through once again because his game is so good right now and he is putting phenomenally So Adam Scott you got Kirk kitama TI ath cam young he didn’t look
Great in his practice round um but played pretty solid in the first three rounds ended up shooting a 71 in the final round so kind of a let down there in a little bit but T8 for him Andrew Novak was up there sewo Kim T12 my guy
Justin Thomas he looked great this week he just couldn’t get it done on Sunday so um and Saturday really so he went 7068 over the weekend not great there but Justin Thomas T12 Doug gim Davis Thompson got a little Keith Mitchell um action up there and Tom cim made a great
Move on Sunday I almost hit a parlay with a bunch of guys in the top 20 uh Tom Kim moved up there I missed out by one player uh not going to throw anybody under the bus there um but it was uh let’s see it was a local and he’s got my
Trainer this week too so I’m a bit bitter he’s got my trainer out in uh La Ando is out there with Windam Clark I’ll just tell you who it is it’s Windam Windam let me down on Sunday um if he had finished in the top 20 I would have
Hit a parley for a couple Grand there that would have been nice um but yeah Windham Clark he did not uh play particularly well 75 for him on Sunday and again you know you’ve got the weather that just wore down guys all week and uh there you have it so that’s
The rundown on the waist Management Open let’s get into this week of course and we’ve got a uh tiger sighting this week good old Tiger Woods returns now a quick word from our sponsor swanes is here with a fresh take performance-based materials are a given these days but if you’re looking for the
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PGA Tour debut uh back in 1992 you want to feel old Tiger Woods debut 1992 makes me feel old um I still remember it so that being said and my God my wife was born in 92 oh side note now as we look at Rivier and Tiger’s return people started questioning who’s
Gonna caddy for tiger and I remember talking with Bobby about this back when uh Joe laava came onto the bag for tiger and there was basically like auditions almost to where a bunch of caddies just started reaching out to to Tiger’s agent and from there you know just kind of
Putting their name in the Hat and everything and Lance Bennett who was on just a couple weeks ago two two weeks ago to be exact Lance Bennett is Tiger Wood’s new CAD I couldn’t be more stoked for Lance this is absolutely awesome for him um granted it’s got to be absolutely
Nerve-wracking I invited him to come on tonight he was like it’s too early he’s like but I will be coming on um in the near future so be aware of that he’ll be coming back but that being said he was with Austin or Yeah Austin Smotherman
And then um from there he got onto a bag for a rookie so he actually the night that we did the podcast um he couldn’t say it on the show because he still he was hoping to talk with Austin before but left him a voicemail so there was
All of that going on Lance likes to do that the right way and everything so that was kind of cool to hear from him hey let’s not talk about it on the show because I got a new kid at the waste management we’re going to hopefully get
Into it so uh PJ tour rookie uh he was on his bag for all of one week and then Tiger Woods calls and all of a sudden Lance is now Tiger Woods New caddy now keep in mind Lance caddied for Matt coocher for close to a decade he is a
Veteran caddy he cadd for sunjay recently they had a great run together uh Davis Riley amongst others so Lance is a great caddy that uh I I’m really excited for him I hope that this is a long-term deal because him and tiger this could be kind of the uh the final
Moments of Tiger’s career and I would love to have uh a person that is on the bag that we know um so that would be absolutely fantastic let’s get into a little bit around tiger well we’re not going to get into to Tiger’s launch of his clothing
Line yet okay but he also launched a new clothing line which he is going to be rocking out there at Riviera they had the launch party yesterday for it and yeah we’ll talk about it in the swanie style segment uh but once again this place is sentimental to Tiger PGA Tour
Debut and here’s the crazy thing he’s never won at Riviera so a lot of us are going to be curious to see what kind of game Tiger has he’s walked walking a hell of a lot better swing looks phenomenal so could it be that we’re going to experience a
Tiger run like is he going to get comfortable with this new schedule and routine that he has because when you’re playing week in and week out and you’re competing and winning and making cuts and everything and then you know you take time off that’s difficult to do and
Getting into the right mindset mentally um with kind of this three- week prep and then go play in a golf tournament that’s tough to do so if tiger gets that down and really starts to hone in his game we could see some great stuff from him I think there’s still golf in the
Tank and I still think that he’s motivated to win golf tournaments so he always said he wouldn’t play if he didn’t think he could win and he wants to win so we all know how competitive Tiger Woods is outside of Tiger Woods though the Genesis Invitational Riviera is one of
My favorite not golf tournaments per se but it is one of my favorite golf courses that they play on tour and what I love about it so I played Riv a couple times I played in a couple tournaments there and the cool thing about Riv is
That it sits in this Valley where all you got all these Mansions around the perimeter of the property it’s in Pacific Palisades and all of those homes are just massive a lot of movie stars and everything own a lot of the homes and whatnot but it sits down into this
Valley and it’s just got almost like the stadium effect around the entire golf course and they’re playing on zoa grass so say zoa five times fast okay now for a lot of you that are not in Agronomy do not go know the different types of grasses that these guys play on and
Everything well the joa grass around the greens and the fairways and everything it’s very spongy so why do you need to know about this because you’re going to see guys that are not going to bump a shot Into The Fringe or play a bump and run because
What that does is and I didn’t believe it when people told me before playing out there but you could hit a low lining pitch shot and that ball just kind of Pops straight up in the air and com straight back down it’s like hitting it into a sponge so what does that mean
Short game wise it’s going to be tough you have to carry everything onto the surface of the green chipping wise so this is a ball Striker dream out there and that’s why we always see great ball Strikers win this golf tournament and I’m just going to go back
To last year here um I’m just pulling up the past results real quick and you’ve got John ROM who won right Max hom won the year prior to that um and you’ve got Adam Scott who was won out there so you got guys who are great ball Strikers that have won Patrick Klay
Is always up there this week um so we’ll get into our betting segment in just a few moments but it’s just an awesome awesome Golf Course a lot of history out there can tiger win one of these I don’t know is he too old at this point to win
At RI I he loves the golf course it’s once again very it’s a very sentimental Golf Course for him who’s to say that he doesn’t go out with Lance his very first week and wins it how cool would that be if Tiger Woods comes out brand new caddy
Lance Bennett who’s been on the P hook golf podcast multiple times goes out wins the golf tournament I think that would be pretty damn cool I’m going to be rooting for him that’s for sure and certainly the cameras are going to be on them I love that tiger Woods is doing
This and has fought so hard to come back yet again and to compete I mean it’s not as bad as it was because Fus the ankle to the foot and everything that they did there with the recent surgery that was done and he can walk he can play so I’m
Looking forward to it I think Tiger’s got a decent shot to make the cut and to play well this week now with this event it is one of the Signature Events so I don’t want our fan base to get um confused here because Signature Events
You’re going to hear a lot about it in uh the prior weeks as well as weeks to come uh with these events that they no cut and everything well there’s three signature events that actually have Cuts so it is a limited field still but within this limited field there is a cut
After 36 holes and the three events is the Genesis invitation ational which is this week you’ve also got the Arnold Palmer Invitational a little bit later in the year as well as the Memorial tournament so you got AR tournament the memorial which is Jacks and then this
One is basically tigers with the Genesis Invitational so take that for what it is you’ve got a cut this week after 36 holes what I love about that from a betting perspective is that you can actually bet on players to make or miss the cut so I like that as
Far as the signature uh event going on here this week for the Genesis Invitational but my bets for the week so I was talking pretty highly about a gentleman by the name of Adam Scott Adam Scott is putting lights out his game looks so damn good he played well last
Week and I really feel and that’s a golf course by the way at the we was Management Phoenix Open then not only do you need to hit the ball well but you need to pot well too so you got both of those aspects there and I really really
Think Adam Scott is GNA have himself a week not a day I think Adam Scott is gonna have himself a week and he has won there prior so he loves R Riviera loves to play out there and you got to keep an eye on guys like Patrick Klay Patrick
Klay always plays well he’s went to uh UCLA if I’m not mistaken oh God I don’t know why I just blanked there and all of a sudden became unconfident as to where Patrick Klay went uh but he’s a la based guy you’ve got Tony feno um who has
Played out there um and played well out there once again great ball Striker not the best Potter in the world so he can play out there at Riv and have a really good week and then former winner Max hom those are the four guys that I would
Look out for this week now as far as is making the cut you can go in take a look at some of the guys that you like there I love throwing in Five Guys make the cut you know sometimes 10 because making the cut and turn it into a
Parlay so if you do that you’ve got some pretty good options there to make it a decent amount of money um I hit on the uh the made Cuts last week and I missed by one on the M Cuts uh one player played a little bit too well um
And it was unfortunate or fortunate for them depends on how you look at it so those are the betting picks for the week Adam Scott Patrick kentley Tony feno Max hom throw them into a top 20 throw them in making the cut um throw some money on
One of them to uh go ahead and win the golf tournament uh I just ask you to gamble responsibly now let’s get into the swanny style segment which ties us right back to Tiger Woods Because unless you’ve been living under a rock Tiger Woods launched his brand new brand
Yesterday last night and people are going nuts on social media and not necessarily in a great way okay this new line from Tiger Woods it is suay red so that’s three words Sunday red okay and we saw weeks ago what the logo looked like um that they were doing SDR and
Then Sunday red we saw that all broken out so that wasn’t news to a lot of people but apparently it was because people lost their goddamn Minds about the logo they’re like how can tiger not do the famous fist pump with the Potter back and everything um you know good
Point good point by those that made that reference I don’t know if tiger because there’s always been a rivalry between tiger and Phil I don’t know if tiger felt like I can go and do this because Phil has where he jumps up in the air at
The Masters as his logo um when he was with Callaway so I don’t know what the process went into it um if they just wanted a very flat design I don’t know you can make Tiger’s fist pump into a very flat design as well so I’m not
Quite sure why they decided to go with the tiger some people are reminded of the Slinger logo and are claiming it looks a lot like that um just it’s interesting okay and again the criticism on social media I totally get it anytime there’s something new people are going
To critique it people are going to talk about it like when John ROM’s team name came out I was just like what um so now it has I’ve digested it I’m like oh that’s a great team name um things like that so I think the same thing’s going
To happen with Tiger’s clothing brand I think um and I was out there at the golf course today and a lot of people were talking about the fact that you know it’s a little Bland there’s not I was like look at tiger style though like this brand is Tiger Woods so if Tiger’s
Going to be authentic and real to Tiger he’s not going to do anything out there and crazy and everything I do love though that they’re coming out with a cashmir hoodie so that’s the one thing that I’m just like man that I like it was in the
Tan color I’m just like that looks good I would wear I would rock something like that so kudos to tiger and to that um but yeah just a lot of criticism around it um a lot of people said that the golf shoes now keep it mind think of
Tiger Woods he needs to be able to wear these golf shoes out they’re on the golf course they’re like they look like the squares or the Sketcher golf shoes like damn man people are ruthless on social media but I’m just like no you know what nothing like it nothing was surprising
To me nothing was out of place I was just like everything kind of made sense it’s like when Dustin Johnson went to live golf I’m like yeah makes sense lifestyle guy tiger comes out pretty straightforward clothing line didn’t really expect anything different um I don’t know what a lot of people were
Thinking about it but um if you do feel free to add it into the comments here I’ll be talking and I’ll be doing some audience Q&A at the very end if our audience throws in some questions for us and then part of our swanie style segment the Waste Management Phoenix
Open collection by swanes so like this shirt’s apparently going to come out later in the spring or summer um there’s some other that were there as well like the Camden hoodie and they’ve got the Camden hoodie on the website right now the white one with the black H that
Thing in person that was the best Camden hoodie I’ve seen so far so I’m G to certainly be asking for one of those um from swanes they did not have my size I thought that they would still have it they were almost sold out of those camed
In hoodies by after Wednesday so I went in on Thursday and they didn’t have any left so I’m or in my size all they had was small and I think extra large I’m like I started debating I’m like well I can try to lose a [ __ ] ton of weight or
I could just gain some more weight so there was that but the swan’s collection that’s coming out because a lot of it hasn’t hit the website yet is going to be phenomenal you guys are going to love it there’s some desert stuff in there too so um I know they just launched
Their core collection so definitely take a look at that but uh Swan’s doing some great stuff and that wraps up our swanie style segment now for the part that a lot of people wait for in this podcast good old live golf I got to take a sip of this bushw before I do
Though all right props to live live Golf Las Vegas I tough to get a golf course for one so Super Bowl they probably only committed to this for this year I would imagine because they wanted to be out there and guess what people are out there for the Super Bowl they’re looking
For stuff to do on the days before Sunday and live golf changes from Friday Saturday Sunday to Thursday Friday Saturday they had a Saturday finish and I will tell you when I was out at the Waste Management Open and it was a debacle out there I popped on live
Golf on my phone and I was watching the finals nine holes of golf coming down the stretch and it was it wasn’t it was a great tournament in its own right like there was nothing there was nothing that was like holy [ __ ] I’m watching literally the best golf that I could possibly watch
Right now and that is not a it live that is because the golf course was tricky like these guys at the beginning of the week there were live golf accounts I love that they deleted their tweets because I went back to go like take some screenshots and everything um and by the
Way when I talk about live golf accounts not talking about the fan base the the real fan base is great the cheerleaders Fanboys and Bots that are out there are what I’m referring to I’ve I’ve actually started to really get into a mode to where I’m just like I
Can’t deal with any of these because they’re so overthe toop ridiculous they’re insane and they’re not funny like that’s the other thing like some of the PGA Tour U Fanboys and haters like that hate on live they’re funny like they throw in some humor in there gets
The live guys all riled up but going back to live for this okay it was a tricky course I heard early on in the week uh from one of ROM’s people that uh he was not enjoying the golf course at all um there were some issues that he
Did not like about it did not like the way that the greens were rolling certain things like that but where they won where where Liv won is with all the celebrities that were out there they had a great proam like phenomenal and outside of that the golf it led to a
Really good finish from a lot of great players so at the top now I know PGA Tour Fanboys are going to say in the PGA Tour guys that are loyal that hate live golf because of what it is are going to say well this shows that you know it’s not
That competitive because Dustin Johnson hasn’t touched a club until mayakoba and you’re GNA tell me that he got his game in form well Dustin Johnson is just that damn good okay because Bobby brownie caded for Dustin Johnson throughout pretty much his entire career until got to the point to where Bobby
Was done with it and you know Dustin and him went his separate ways and DJ brought his brother on board but the amount of conversations that Bobby and I have had about duson Johnson in his game he’s just a freak athlete and he is that good at golf to
Be able to just take off a ton of time and come back and just be nonchalant about you know what he was surprised with his game at Mya COA maybe this is the entire type of golf format that DJ has needed for his entire career because
He looked great I mean it wasn’t like I said it wasn’t going out shooting 59 now again a lot of those live golf bot accounts were like we’re going to see Pat Perez shoot 56 and we’re going to see the course record the lowest score in professional golf history out here
Because this course is so Gable blah blah blah like I saw those tweets right and sure enough you don’t see him anymore because that course actually played pretty damn difficult but DJ went out and did what he needed to do in round one and two well round two really
Shooting eight under that’s what we expected this week is eight under par and really I mean we kind of expected it to be even lower like 10 underpar um but again good tournament we it was a tight tournament so you got Dustin Johnson winning at 12 under Taylor gu
Finishes at 11 under Peter Uline at 11 under Matthew wolf at 10 yes folks we have I I said it correctly Matthew wolf we have a sighting folks of Matthew wolf I almost almost not yet it’s too early not going to put my foot in the mouth about the
Trade because guess what Taylor gu still finished two slots ahead of him in second place and that’s who he was traded for but good to see Matthew wolf playing well nobody wants to see a young talented kid like that playing poorly and it really seems like and they did a
Great job even during the broadcast there was a great little segment on um it was on Thursday because Thursday was the first round where they had from range goats heads head headquarters Bubba Watson with a couple guys that he has with him that help consult with him
For the team and everything and they were talking about the trade for Matthew wolf and the way that Bubba was passionate and explained it I get it but still okay we’re just going to leave it at that but the range goats we had an appearance from the range goats they
Played very very well and they actually got on the podium this week in third place you got the four races finished second so good to see that as well and then smash GC I told you guys man smash GC is going to be the team to beat this
Year I know The Crushers are good they have the same team Chucky three sticks dampo Casey leiri yes they’re going to be up there every single week and I like that but smash GC and Kea is not even playing well there is a thing about having a kid
And in that first year of having a kid and playing professional golf that it takes a lot out of you and you could look at stats for players that have had kids and what did did their year look like well K’s coming out so far not
Looking the like he is perfectly on form yet which he’s got time so don’t beat him up too much but you know kka did not play well compared to the rest of his crew McDow KRA goo I mean those guys so let’s see where did Brooks end up finishing I’m scrolling
Down the leaderboard here scrolling down scrolling down where are we where is kka Jesus all right there so Kea why oh 13th so he finished 13th you had gr McDow finished fifth he had CRA finished seventh and gu finished second so they ran away with the team win for
Liv um and then from a well Legion 13 they win the first team event they come out and uh they finish fifth Crushers fourth Tork GC uh six and then the rest of the crews I am not here’s the thing with this particular tournament I’m not putting too much day they’re going going
To have a little bit um of time off until they have to go and their next tournament is going to be March 1st through the 3 over at the Abdullah economic City Royal Greens Gulf and Country Club so again that’s their next event March 1st through the 3 so they’ve
Got two weeks off this is what’s tough for live golf fans they get this nice little stratch of two tournaments in a row now you got two weeks to where you’re just going to wait on it that’s why I just really feel like all fans just need to at this point drop the
Politics forget the politics we can’t control any of the politics okay so stop worrying about the damn politics it’s all going to get figured out but live golf fans should watch good golf on the PJ tour PJ tour fans should watch live golf because a lot of great names and
It’s a tighter field I was talking about this with one of my friends in the golf space and we were talking about the fact that you know do you like the fact that you know you’ve got a condensed field so you’re going to see some of the big
Names always up there at the top of the leader port and he was like yeah it’s kind of nice to see uh top guys that are on top of the leaderboard however he comes right back with but i’ love to see great golf also being played by guys
That I don’t know that I would love to get like to find out more about and get to know I think that is the ultimate battle right now with the PGA Tour and Liv golf’s doing a great job because they have a select field but they’re doing a great job of the
Segments during the rounds of getting to a more intimate level beyond the golf course and I like that the PGA Tour does none of that really so it is and that’s what I always talk about with the promotion side it is tough for the PG
Tour live golf wise um I really do think that uh they do a great job and I’ve been very impressed with the broadcast I think they’re doing a tremendous job there I think the PJ tour needs to learn a thing or two um from the live golf
Broadcast one of the things that I do not like I will agree with all the media that talks about that putting Line Get rid of it don’t like it um it does not help I wouldn’t mind seeing a like highlighted like they used to do in hockey a highlighted ball or a
Highlighted hole um so that you can actually see if the pot is going to go in or not and if it’s looking good that would be kind of cool uh but yeah I don’t know it’s live golf L Vegas once again smartest thing that they ever did
Was put it in the same location as the Super Bowl do it for the three days prior to the Super Bowl got all the celebrities in the world out there and uh again even the segment with Phil Mickelson and a couple of the football players that was great at the beginning
Of the week and live golf really delivered this past week in Las Vegas but don’t sit here’s the thing folks this is a PSA for all the Liv golf fans that try to say that it’s better all our fans are more whatever okay Waste Management has always been and will always be the
Winner this week and I was pissed that the Las Vegas event was going at the same time as the Waste Management Phoenix Open but I get it because I would have loved to also go to the live golf event drive up to Las Vegas go up there watch this event and everything
Would have been great but you’re not going to get the same crowds the tournaments are different you’re just not it comparing apples to oranges so please just let it go in terms of trying to compare the two we just have two totally different golf products right now and that’s where I
Mean me as a host and doing a podcast and being on Twitter and everything it’s exhausting to have to go back and forth with people on this stuff it’s just like let’s all come together as a golf community and appreciate really good golf and what’s going on in the sport
Because we’re seeing some of the best golf in the world right now and that is what’s most important so now let’s turn it over to some fan questions um and one of the questions here looks like we’ve got and feel free by the way if you’re
On uh X I always say Twitter but if you’re on X go ahead and just add a comment to this and it should show up here um I’ve seen them before pop up during the live stream broadcast if you’re on Millions go ahead and put that
In I got to check Millions here for some questions as those don’t come through for me but uh do show up on millions. go and then also on YouTube so if you’re on YouTube go ahead and feel free to put in uh into the comments as well but one of
The questions that uh I just saw over from Millions is during your experience this week what was the best story that you took away from the Waste Management Open all right so the best story that I I and I wouldn’t say that this is the best story
I would just say that this is one of those stories that really made me chuckle um God you have so many different types of fans that the Waste Management Open there was this guy must have been 80 and it is Wednesday so this is before all of the chaos if you’ve watched the
Phoenix Wast or the people’s open um special with butsy and watch watch the YouTube version of that because there are visuals I swear this was the old guy from the visual uh he had he had pants on but they were like up to his belly butt and he had the
Long white socks underneath that you could see he had like the brown alligator belt with a a cane and sure enough one of the Waste Management Open like ground crew comes by in just a regular golf cart it’s a gas golf cart and this guy in the
Most angry tone you will ever hear goes thanks for using a [ __ ] gas golf cart and I’m just like wait a second did you just chirp at one of the guys doing the greens keeping and everything who’s like trying to get from one thing to the next and it’s Wednesday and he just
Drove past you in open air and you’re chirping him about using a gas golf cart as if he has a choice between oh I mean this is one of the maintenance workers so I’m just I just started dying laughing the guy looks at me with like a
Nasty look and in my head all I could think about is hey bud you might have like a couple days left on this planet like just just enjoy yourself like don’t don’t be don’t be miserable and then uh I did enjoy seeing all the characters out there as well from uh all
The different backgrounds that we shared on the podcast you know you had the Chads out there and I’m sorry they their the name chat is not the problem here it is and granted the Chads are great because they’re just party animals they’re Frat Boys that you know still
Want to get together with their boys and go out and I’ve been that guy so I mean it’s perfectly fun it’s just you know you get younger guys out there as well and uh the Chads were out in full display the disappointing part of the tournament really was the fashion EAS
Because you did not there there was a lot of clothing on this year because of the weather that was the disappointing part uh but let’s see any other questions as well I think that sums up the questions so that wraps up live Golf Las Vegas Swan style segment the
Upcoming Genesis invit ational at Riviera Tiger Woods’s big return and then obviously we had to break down what a lot of people on social media were calling the wasted Management Phoenix Open it’s out of control it’s always out of control but you know I do think that
It can be better next year and I hope that it is and I hope the weather uh helps out as well once again thank you to our sponsors so for one Swan’s golf uh they’ve been absolutely phenomenal love you guys loved hanging out with them at the Waste Management Open and uh
Sure enough swanes go to swan. use promo code P hook golf 25 at checkout for 25% off your entire order and then lab golf once again folks lab golf over here they have been phenomenal to me as well um that fitting process that they have is
So easy and it’s just like going in getting a professional fitting done um I really do encourage anybody that hey if you’re struggling making some pots out there go get yourself a lab golf Potter because these things and I’m telling you if you have pro golfers who normally can
Putt with anything that just absolutely like a cult following are just preaching about lab golf you got to see what’s up and now I’m starting to see them everywhere I think this df3 this new df3 putter is going to be unbelievable um I can’t wait to get that into my
Hands um but yeah that being said I uh I’m signing off so hope everybody has a great week and until next week and by the way next week not going to be a solo show so uh we’re g to have a nice little guest on next week and can’t wait till then see
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