PGA Championship predictions & why Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red is doomed to FAIL | GoLow Golf

John Middlekauff previews the 2024 PGA Championship and discusses if Scottie Scheffler will miss the tournament. Will LIV’s Brooks Koepka repeat as PGA Champion? Is Tiger Woods’ clothing brand Sun Day Red doomed to fail? What went wrong in NBC’s mishandling of the US Open broadcast? Why are young golfers succeeding in Korn Ferry and PGA tour events?

0:00 // Intro
3:06 // PGA Championship predictions
10:41 // Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red is doomed to fail
19:14 // NBC’s mishandling of the US Open broadcast
21:14 // Young golfers succeeding in Korn Ferry and PGA tour events
23:24 // Go Low Mailbag

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what is going on little goo podcast we’re about a week away from the second major of the year the PJ championship at Valhalla I I like this new schedule which they did several years ago putting the PJ up instead of the last major of the year I I think it makes it a little bigger than set of after the US Open and the British Open and then it’s just it feels like a PJ tournament on steroids but this is going to feel big in a couple weeks I want to hit on just some storylines going into that uh I I didn’t have a chance I talked a little bit about the football pod Tigers line and I got some major question marks we’ve been talking about NBC and the production of their broadcast they’re obviously cutting costs doing something a little weird for the US Open and then we got some young phenoms I mean there’s a 15year old a 16y old doing some pretty big things so we’re going to hit on some golf topics as well as answering some of your questions on in Instagram I put out a little thing on my story got a bunch of replies also have some uh some questions in the DMS this is all in the goow Pod at goo pod if you have any golf questions you got to fire in there because if you go in my regular podcast DMS you’ll get lost in the shuffle with football stuff and it’s just there’s no this is an Excel spreadsheet I I can’t like separate them so if if you want to ask a golf question anything everything’s on the table at goop pod is the easiest way to get in so uh that’s what I would recommend when you want to get in on the uh this podcast before we dive into some golf stuff I got to tell you about my friends my partners and an app I’ve been using for a long time game time here’s what I need you to do download the app you want to go to a concert you want to go to a game baseball game uh if you do you want to watch Minnesota do you live in the uh the upper I guess it’s not the Northeast but in that region Timberwolves might win the NBA championship they they looked incredible you live 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the heavy favorite the guy who’s currently on a little mini like tiger run who’s dominating the golf world is not playing this week and I saw a great on Instagram but I think it was a tweet that basically says it feels like Scotty sheffer’s wife has been pregnant for 14 months and I think this goes back to the Masters when every made such a big deal that he would leave and she wasn’t even close well now it’s close and I I think in their world ideally it happens sometime this week but there is a chance I mean I I’ve never had a baby but I’ve been around enough women who have that you never know and it’s not inconceivable that this thing bleeds into next week and until she has it I think it does put into question him for next week like he he stated very clearly what he will and will not do he’s not going to go Rudy goar and skip it like he is going to attend the birth of his first child heavy favorite and I think if it happens this week or even bleeds into early next week I don’t think it’s that big a deal I don’t I I think he’s proven that he could show up but the lack of sleep the lack of preparation I’ve said for a while if the baby did not exist like he was not like he just got her pregnant this week she was going to have a baby after the major season sometime you do the math you know what I mean I think he could have a very good chance 40 to one to win the Grand Slam we talked about this last week those odds are pretty tasty this is the only thing that throws a little curveball so I I think he didn’t play this week on purpose I think they’re praying start pushing do whatever you have to do but it’s definitely a possibility until that baby pops out that it’s going to bleed in the next week and his status would just come into question and obviously if she hasn’t had it and he starts playing I I I think any of us that have a 40 to1 ticket on him to win the Grand Slam like easily could pick up and leave no matter if he’s up by five so that’s probably the biggest story right now because he’s the best player in the world by a wide margin and if this did not exist I I think anyone would be shocked if he didn’t win this tournament but this just adds an element of uncertainty and anytime you have uncertainty with something that you can’t control this is not an injury where it’s like oh he can manage the pain you can take ice baths at night he can stay off his feet like this is not one of those things like lvic pulled out of this week which is a little concerning because one thing I and I’ve been saying this for a while and I’ve made this mistake I think you got to be very careful with your bank rle when betting winners like if you’re going to bet $500 on a golf tournament which is obviously you know a lot of money for most people you know you probably would take 10 20% of that and sprinkle it on guys to win you are much better off sprinkling it on top 10 and top 20s but even when you do that I I I’ve lost a lot of money uh three weeks ago at the RBC when all I did was put all my bankroll on cam young I hammered him to top 20 and I hammered him to top 10 it’s like a portfolio I didn’t have any um there was no balance I I went all in on one person and he was terrible and he didn’t even come close to a top 20 and last week I almost did it again with Mark hubard at the most random irrelevant Tournament of the Year Craig Ranch and right at the end I’m like you know what I’ll throw a couple hundred dollars on Jake knp at 7 to1 to top 10 and it saved me but one thing I’m going to try to consistently do is spread spr out my bankroll because I’ve done it before gone all in and it can really bite you in the ass the other thing obviously with live betting but leig is a guy that I already have a wager on at Valla because after Jake knap made me some money instead of losing like $1,200 made me $900 I sprinkled it on him and Max and then all of a sudden you get the news that he’s got a knee injury and he’s pulling out now I did a little Recon her it’s not that big a deal and he’s definitely playing next week as of right now but it is definitely concerning because I think if he’s healthy he is going to be US Open Valhalla and the Masters we’ll see with the British Open that’s kind of a different animal but I I think those three tournaments for the next several years I mean he’s going to be a guy that’s 16 17 15 14 in that range uh and a top three or four guy on the board but you get a knee injury like that’s honestly I I don’t regret making the wager but I don’t know if I would do it if I knew the guy was injured or was going to be injured maybe he heard it yesterday or maybe it’s been a nagging thing and then the other big curveball is Kea is it’s it’s hard to know what to make of live the courses they play we’ve talked at nauseum about they’re kind of random they’re kind of weird but he did go over to Singapore and win and I think last year he did the same thing he won right before the PJ Championship which he obviously then won so he was a guy immediately when I saw that he won in Singapore I looked at DraftKings he was 20 to1 he currently is now 16 to1 uh now the hard part about golf betting is like I hammered him for the Masters and he wasn’t even in the mix so how much especially with these live guys I expect some live guys to be in the mix but does that carry over I do think with him though specifically he takes these Majors very seriously he’s proven it now for five six years so one of these Majors if not multiple of these Majors he’s going to be a factor and historically like the PJ championship’s been a tournament he’s very comfortable with he’s won it three [ __ ] times so he’s the defending champ uh I’d be a little shocked regardless of the resort course they just played 15 hours away how hard that course is that’s not really the point because John ROM didn’t win it Bryson didn’t win it DJ didn’t win it like the guy came to win because I think he’s dialing in he’s probably a little embarrassed about his master’s performance and I I to me Vig would have been my favorite but now with this knee injury I I think you got to take Brooks very very seriously separating Scotty with kind of the unknown but like I said spreading out the bets is a much easier way on the heart because it’s golf it’s weird this is not the Chiefs versus the ners where you lose it’s only one it’s just you playing an opponent there are so many different variables obviously the Stagger tea times on Thursday and Friday you get the bad end of the draw uh so I mean I I have I’m going to go with leig Max hom I think Tommy Fleetwood is another guy this week to keep an eye on but we’re almost there to another tournament because let’s face it we got four tournaments a year that really kind of matter to us that watch golf now for those of us that gamble we pay a little more attention to these random tournaments but how much do they mean who knows like especially Craig Ranch means nothing this week at qua Hollow you would say means a little more when you look at the list of winners Rory’s won this a couple times H’s won here um Justin Thomas won his first major here in 2017 this is a big boy golf course and this type golf course that to me if you play well here I think you got to factor that in the following week something happened last week after we recorded the goo podcast Tiger Woods is I mean in his Heyday was probably my favorite athlete because I was like older than when Michael Jordan was in his Heyday so I could really experience it and I’ll never forget my senior year in college I was moving out and all we had was a TV and watching him play Rocco on Sunday and then re then watching on Monday by myself in this house that was empty he’s he meant a lot to my sports watching youth you know I consumed like a lot of people in the 2000s eldri Tiger Woods I love golf he’s the best golfer I’ve ever seen and probably ever will see and there was nothing like him and part of Tiger Woods and I owned a ton of Tiger Woods polos Tiger Woods hats even as I’ve got bald I’ve bought some of those Nike tiger W hats because they cover my entire head uh anytime he plays I watch even though obviously he’s very compromised now I just think this Sunday red thing is going to be a failure and I think there are several elements of this one he wants it to be kind of like a higher-end luxury brand so I wrote down the prices a ball marker is $50 a t-shirt is 70 a Hat’s 40 which isn’t crazy a polo is 12 20 to 150 which I I’d say is a lot a sweater is two bills and the pants are about a buck 70 it it’s expensive stuff Tiger Woods in his Heyday sold a lot of [ __ ] I’ve said forever that he revolutionized the business casual in America because forever people wore weird stuff there weren’t the polos were huge even go back to some of the pictures when he first started on tour and then when they created that Dy fit material all the other companies followed suit and everyone that worked you know a white collar job that did not or Hell Farmers I don’t care what you did construction you know if you were a construction management guy if you didn’t wear a suit to work you could throw on a pair of jeans and a tucked in Polo that fabric dry fit fit well everyone was wearing it all over the place changed the game but he had two things going for him one he was easily very early on became one of the most famous athletes in the world because he was the best player at a sport that is just difficult because you’re playing 150 people and he was beating the [ __ ] out of all of them he destroyed everybody I mean it was not a fair fight and then combined with that he had the Nike marketing campaign machine behind him so tiger didn’t really have to sell he just had to dominate at Golf and he looked so sweet in the clothes and the Nike marketing machine was incredible with commercials it was the ultimate combination of sales it’s like everyone wanted something with Tiger Woods even if you didn’t play golf probably had a polo probably had a hat you probably had something and if you went into a store you knew exactly what that was the tww uh the different colors the Sunday red and then he created this company Sunday red which listen creating a brand from scratch is tough it’s not easy to pick a name anyone that’s red shoe Dog Night Nike was kind of randomly picked it wasn’t even supposed to be that name so it’s not some of these things that are created that now have a lot of brand Equity McDonald’s was just the last name of the brothers that started the burger chain that Ray crck ran into and basically stole the idea from so I’m not going to hate on Sunday red even though let’s face it it’s not that great I would have just gone with tww you here’s the problem H Woods is not a sales guy I watched some of the clips of him doing his PR campaign last week one it made me shake my head it’s not necessarily his fault but his PR team sent him on what they would have done back in 2005 Good Morning America let’s go on some Morning Show with Carson Daly let’s go on with Jimmy Fallon who are you marketing this to Let’s let’s face it you’re marketing this to someone 35 to 55 with a higher household income with some coin those people are not watching any of those shows my mom watches Good Morning America a lot of older people watch that show but that’s not who really Tiger Woods is marketing he should be marketing this to me a 40-year-old guy plays golf has a little coin just would buy these these clothes potentially here’s another problem he’s coming into a saturated Market anyone that walks into a pro shop or a golf shop there are a million brands that all kind of resonate with us Travis Matthews Johnny O Peter malar and they’re not cheap but they have brand Equity that like yeah like the Travis Matthew shirt it fits pretty well on me I know a lot of people I love Peter marar I love Johnny O buddy of mine Chris just got me a nice Polo we’re taking him golfing a couple weeks ago Johnny O looks sweet so tiger is competing against those but those people are already pushing it hard selling it Tiger Wood’s not a very good salesman what I would have said tiger don’t do any of the crap the morning shows or the late night shows go on some big podcasts or some big YouTube show go on Pat McAfee go on with Colin go on no laying up or bar stool go on pardon my take go on I go do something more relevant it to me it just these guys don’t know how to sell he never had to he never had to sell all he had to do was play and dominate and that sold itself and Nike was behind him well now he doesn’t have Nike behind him anymore and his number one ability to sell was his play well he doesn’t play anymore plays like four times a year and God love him he’s just not very good anymore relative to the dominant player that he once was like MJ hasn’t dribbled a ball professionally and whatever 20 plus years it doesn’t matter he has Nike behind him having that backing they do this naturally so I’m watching Sunday red one the marketing doesn’t really exist because that’s not the business he’s in and then tiger is just a pound the pavement like high noon why is high noon so big now they got with poroi and poroy starts selling the [ __ ] out of it and now it’s [ __ ] everywhere you need someone to sell if you don’t just have like LeBron James or Kobe Bryant wearing your shoes because that was always Tiger Wood he just tiger was wearing it so you wanted to wear it well now I don’t care that he wears it barely breaks 75 barely can walk 72 holes I’m not trying to talk [ __ ] about him it’s not necessarily I mean it’s kind of his fault self-inflicted car accident but it changed his career so I I’m just betting against this company I do not think it’s going to work because I’m the type guy who can walk into a store and if I see a polo I like regardless I’m not gonna pay $500 for a polo but if I really believed in the brand wanted to support it liked it I’ll spend probably more than I should on a couple collar shirts I would not buy these shirts one I don’t even think the logo looks that good why would he not just continue somewhat of a similar logo I’ve seen a lot of people say the famous fist pump like Michael’s logo is very just you never forget it it’s etched in stone in our brains and I think tiger made a very very bad mistake but I don’t even blame him this is not his business he does not understand because he’s never really had to do it so I I guess I’m just shorting this idea I do not think it’s going to work and that pains me to say that the NBA playoffs are heating up and so is the action at draftking Sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the NBA with same game parlay’s live betting odds boost and so much more don’t miss out as the NBA postseason winds down and if you’re new to DraftKings you got to check this out new customers bet five bucks to get 150 in bonus bets instantly download the draftking Sportsbook app now and use the code John that’s code JN for new customers to get 150 in bonus bets when you bet just five bucks only on DraftKings the crown is yours uh we’ve been talking about the NBC situation with the US Open it it’s just it’s kind of sad and they ended up going with like a fourman booth brandle shamble Brad Faxton to me and I like brandle I think brandle is really good but like brandle is the pre and postgame show like that’s where he dominates especially postgame life from the the tournament ends on a given day Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday you go to see what brandle says what happened you know forcing him to do it it’s almost like they’re just being cheap because he’s already under contract same thing with Faxton he plays a pretty big role on that you know they they refuse to sign a bigger name to just be in the can you imagine another sport doing this like was their pre and postgame host and they’re going to put him on the broadcast just because you’re cheap um I think we’re at a tough time right now with some of these broadcast rights because they’re spending so much and this is a golf problem all these people are spending so much on the rights for the life Sports even though this technically is cheap because Fox SP half of it and this is what we get kind of a thrown together situation and uh the no laying up guys have been saying it for a while I don’t care what you say I don’t care how much you pretend to care in in life words don’t mean much you got to judge people by their actions and NBC’s actions are simply saying we do not care we just don’t care that much maybe we don’t have the money maybe it’s a combination of it both but and this is not an indictment on Brandon chamelle he’ll be fine but imagine another Network what if like the NBA it’s like we’re just going to throw Stephen A Smith on the NBA Finals no it’s not really Steven’s job he plays another role and you can debate whether you like him or not like his role is pretty successful clearly you wouldn’t and that kind of feels what they’re doing here and it’s kind of sad because this tournament’s kind of a big deal and last but not least uh there are a couple young guys I mean there’s a 15-year-old named Miles Russell who was in the mix a couple weeks ago to win a corn fairy tournament 15 years old on a given week the corn fairy tournament is equally as hard as the PGA tournament given how low you have to go to not necessarily to win it but to make a cut I mean some of their cuts are like seven eight under if you have one double bogey you’re not sniffing the cut like you got to shoot like 6769 there’s no 7470 like see you adios godspeed see you next week for a 15-year-old to make the cut that’s a remarkable accomplishment it really is and then last week first time in like 11 years a 16-year-old made the cut on the PGA tour listen I I I started playing golf in you know early mid 90s golf was a lot more difficult then because the equipment was way shittier I can play once a month and it’s not like I’m that great but I can still I’ve been playing a long time I just played last weekend hadn’t touched the club in three weeks I shot 76 I would never have been able to do that in 1996 so the equipment plays a huge role and I’m I’m glad the equipment is as good as is now it makes the game a lot more fun most of us the 99% of people 99.9% of people that play golf are not professionals they’re amateurs and they’re doing it for fun to enjoy themselves but I do think it’s going to get easier and easier um because of the equipment you know it’s just so good that you could hit it so far your misses aren’t as bad and it’s playing a role I’m not for the roll back but I I I do see the arguments I don’t want them to do it but I I do think this is a direct indictment when it comes to uh you know to the equipment manufacturers okay let’s let’s bang out some questions because we got a lot of bad questions at goop pod goop pod fire in those DMS start with Cal question for the Pod why are Jordan and JT so bad Jordan didn’t even make the cut at the Byron Nelson this weekend with an awful field I feel like they should be in the peak of their powers and they can’t even hold Scotty’s jock I mean JT won a major a couple years ago and one the players a couple years ago like he has been more recently much more successful than than uh Jordan spe I just don’t think Jordan spe’s that good anymore whether it’s he’s not very accurate off the te whether he just can’t consistently play well over a 36 72 whole span I love him like who doesn’t but I was watching him because I had the CJ Cup on TV and on the ninth hole it’s a par five he hits this beautiful drive this is on Friday and he’s kind of hovering right around the cut I think the cut was at five or six under and he was at five under and he has a hybrid like 230 yards in and he just pumps it into the trees it’s a shot like me or you would hit and he just kind of drops the club shakes his hat head puts his head down kind of walks I think he’s just not a very consistent player and maybe as you age your body changes uh you know part of it he was obviously in in his Heyday in 15 and 16 an incredible ball Striker but he was also one of the greatest Putters we’ve ever seen for like an 18mth span and I think when you take away the putting Now isn’t great but you just watch him play you’re just not very confident he’s going to hit a big shot it’s just it’s really that simple which is you know kind of sad when you really think about it hey John big fan golf question for you when these live guys took those huge checks to leave for the PGA to leave the PGA do you know any details on how long the deals were for if Sheffer continues to dominate don’t you think some of the alphas like Brooks and Bryson who have each had similar runs will get jealous and want to try to put Scotty in his place that’s the crappy part about Liv I mean we really don’t have any information a lot of people speculate they’re three and four year deals some might be shorter depending on the player uh you know Liv basically got full go two years ago right in the middle of 2022 is when everyone initially left and then some guys went later remember cam Smith went later uh Rob just went Neeman went a little later so I I don’t know this is the crappy part about this whole ordeal is there’s just so much unknown no one has any clue and it’s pretty clear that everyone eventually is going to come back and play together but I don’t know man it sucks but it’s not public information feels like the Masters was the extent of H’s game he was on his game all week and just couldn’t hang with Scotty I was rooting for so hard for him and it just wasn’t there yeah that’s tough man I mean sometimes if you’re going to lose there’s nothing like losing to the best player and I think it’s easy for him to hang his hat High when he got a little unlucky on 12 but I I like him at Valhalla I I like him a lot I I put a couple hundred on him down 30 to1 I saw he’s 35 to1 I wish I would have held off a little bit but regardless like I I think he’s going to be a factor I think that was a huge huge hurdle for him to kind of get over he’d only really played well in one major in his career to compete to be in the mix to have the lead to be right there uh at Augusta which let’s face it there’s more pressure at Augusta than there was going to be at Valla not that there’s not pressure at the PGA or the US Open but there’s nothing like the Masters they’re really isn’t and I I saw him out there when I was out playing when did I play Saturday he was out there working he practiced a lot he practiced a lot at TBC for hours so I think he’s taking this [ __ ] really seriously I mean he’s been doing that for a while but I I I think he’s proven when he’s won he’s won at tough places it’s why his game always should have translated to the majors and I mean even Tiger Woods didn’t win every major Scotty’s going to be off on some I would be St done if over the next couple years H doesn’t win a major he’s definitely going to be I think going a top 10 in a lot of these so I I like Max a lot at Valla could you explain what the golf pros are carefully studying in those notebooks they carry with them I understand it as yardages but do they draw diagrams of how things move on the green do they have notes from previous rounds at different distances of what they hit always amazed how long it takes them because I generally am on the course and know pretty well where I hit the ball and the club to get there well imagine if you did this for a living and you were not allowed a rangefinder so when these guys go Monday Tuesday Wednesday and they’re caddies they’re taking meticulous notes angles Flyers out of the rough uh on given pin placements where you want to hit it on the green what they did early in the week that didn’t work what they’ve done previously I mean if you’ve played a course several times you will have a long running uh you know notebook it’s really no different like bellich on the Jets he’d been playing the Jets and the Dolphins for you know 20 years twice a year imagine the the length of notes he has on the individual players it’s no different on the individual golf holes I I think we don’t give enough credit to the professional game how when you and me play and we pull out the Rangefinder it’s pretty easy just to sit there shoot the pin or shoot wherever we want to go and then do whatever we need to do they are stepping off everything stepping off everything and let’s face it every shot especially in bigger tournaments is a pretty big deal so I think it’s just notes on from practice rounds some of these guys that talk about you know the leaders on Saturday and Sunday will watch in the morning especially in the front nine like if they’re at home and you know it’s on the Golf Channel or on ESPN plus they’ll be watching taking notes so I I I think it’s just notes on every situation every area because if you’re doing a practice round on a Tuesday let’s say at Quail Hollow or Valhalla you don’t know you’re going to hit it over there so it’s like well we should try this from the general area the Fairway where I hit my drive but we might as well want to throw one over there in the rough or throw one over there in the bunker and know how you know what’s safe to do if are we going to try to fly if the pin is behind a bunker or if the pin is on a water side like should we just I think there’s a lot of just basic notes obviously some guys probably take uh more in depth writing that way than others some just leave it to their caddy I would say everyone’s I mean Matt Fitzpatrick the guy that won the US Open to years ago has taken notes on every shot he’s ever hit every shot he’s ever hit think about that okay I threw out a little thing on my story and a lot of you guys hit me up so let’s uh let’s bang out some of these questions you know any good golf websites to learn online I think the easiest thing by far is whatever you want to do so you got to slice let’s say you’re chunking the ball let’s say you can’t chip is type in what you’re doing to YouTube every single golfer ever from Tiger Woods to Phil Mickelson to me to you has done that so type it into YouTube that that’s where I would recommend how old were you when you first began golfing and how did it catch your attention I started playing when I was young did some junior golf stuff played a lot with my dad so I you know early I don’t know 6 S8 probably in that range so I’ve been playing for a long time but then I took a lot of time off in I didn’t really play in college even throughout my 20s I played a lot when I was young and in high school and then a lot in my 30s but I would say in my 20s when I worked in football I definitely did not play as much we had a membership when I worked for the Eagles in Jersey so a couple of the guys on the staff we go over definitely in the springtime like right around now in the summer but you know during the Falls I never played when I worked in football realistic future of the PGA your guess is as good as mine I mean I think we have a basic understanding that there is no there there is no future for the professional game on television if they don’t get back together it cannot exist it is not a it’s not possible to function as is right now it will continue to fail ratings down but if they can get back together they have have a chance of some sustainability at a much higher level than they’re currently going so I I would say they just got to merge and how that looks I who knows who knows clearly not going that smoothly a lot of egos involved uh the PGA let’s face it they kind of lost they kind of lost and I think anytime you lose in a negotiation uh in a position where you’re in a good position and you tell someone to kick or [ __ ] you we’re not doing business with you and then even if they’re not quote unquote successful cuz no one was watching they did put a huge huge dent in the PJ tour stole a bunch of major Champions stole some of the most famous guys and directly hurt their product no way around it directly hurt in business it wouldn’t have been that big a deal it’d be like well you got a competing product do the in golf it cannot work that way it’s just not big enough no sport is you couldn’t take Giannis Luca and Steph and put him in some other league in America and have it not hurt the NBA I couldn’t take 10 of the starting 32 quarterbacks and put them in another football league and have it not hurt the NFL I I took some of the most famous guys on the PJ tour Champion players polarizing players it was a devastating miscalculation by Jay Monahan it really was which is crazy because you go wait we’re dealing with someone who has an unlimited amount of money who clearly loves Addicted to Golf and is just coming for this sport it’s like well have they ever done that before with other sports yeah a lot of them soccer racing they’re all over it so we probably should take them seriously this isn’t just some pipe dream this is a real dream backed by billions and they don’t give a crap if people watch or not it’s not the point you say sportswashing maybe that’s a part of it um I to me it it impacts it less but I understand that argument it’s more like we want to run a golf league I think the soccer I I I really think this guy we all Met Golf guys wants in on golf how’s Liv Sports watching like no one even watches it he utilized Liv to get in on the PGA tour and play a role whatever that may be is Rory ever going to win austa sure doesn’t look like it sure doesn’t look like it I would say right now no as someone that but had $1,000 ticket on him I would say no why are Asian woman women able to dominate the LPGA but there are very few top Asian men it’s a pretty good good question that I don’t have the answer to I don’t know why that’s the case because clearly look at baseball they’re dominating a baseball they dominated the LPGA there are I mean Hideki matama was consistent top 10 player over the years guy who won the Masters uh it doesn’t feel like there are that many I don’t I don’t have an answer to that clearly they love golf over there give me one good reason not to liquidate my 401k and put it on Brookie it’s a good question I I don’t have a great answer to that I just he kind of let me down at the Masters uh but I would imagine he’s coming dream golf vacation maybe two or three trips you want to take I’ve played Bandon Dunes before in Bandon trails and uh Old McDonald but I would I want to go back uh it was an incredible experience we went from my little brother’s bachelor party actually we drove from Davis it was it was remarkable but I I play so much more golf now I just I have to go back so that would be one place that I’ve already been that I got to go back I I would say the new one would be Pinehurst which clearly looks like a special special destination place to just a lot like Bandon it’s different I mean Bandon is so windy we we play 36 holes in day we played Bandon trails and then Bandon Dunes and the wind was so outrageous but you’re there and you’re like it doesn’t it’s like whatever and obviously any sort of trip across the pond to play the old course and you know some of the Great Courses over there would be a no-brainer but I would say Bandon and Pinehurst is just an easier destination so those would be three uh that I definitely want to check I mean bandon’s already been checked off the list but I I want to do it again how often should I play in practice if I want to shoot consistently in the 80s I think it depends how long you’ve been playing like do you have a good base do you know what you’re doing like if you’re shooting a 100 right now if you just practice on your own you might not know what you’re doing and you might just be up and down so you probably should take some lessons if you’re shooting like in the low 90s I would say do a couple things practice your chipping practice shots 50 yards in and practice your driver the more Fairways you hit and the better chipper you are you’re going to make a lot more pars you know forever the entire time golf has been around everyone’s always hammered home putting putting putting putting one thing the analytic Community has proven and this has definitely always been true for amateurs when you’re in the [ __ ] constantly it’s hard to score even if you’re an average golfer if I put you in the middle of the Fairway however far you hit it 240 300 260 whatever it’s a lot easier to play golf think about most of your good scoring holes come off good drives because if I put you on a 400 yard hole let’s say you hit it 260 yards we got 140 yards in so even if you don’t hit a great pitching wedge or nineiron or whatever you’re still going to be relatively close around the greens why hit Fairways and learn how to chip putting sucks I you just try to just figure that out you know for most of us if you can just be a decent Putter and lag putts like you’re never going to be Brad Faxton Fairways shipping uh what is in your bag currently I think I’ve had the same bag for basically six seven years uh you know how a lot of pro golfers say I will not go to Augusta until I play at Augusta I will not get new clubs until we get a sponsor here on the show so probably like five six years ago Dude that followed me on Instagram is a big sales rep for Taylor Made I think he’s like their number one sales rep in the Sacramento area big Raider fan he gave me a discount for like 50% off so I ordered the 790s I’ve had those for I don’t know five plus years uh pitching wedge through four iron I have tiess wedges that I’ve had 10 years I’ve had the same wedges forever which is probably not great I probably need to get new wedges I have two tailor made a hybrid and a three-wood that I bought at the PJ Superstore a couple years ago like used clubs I hit it pretty well and then I have a Maverick uh Callaway driver so it’s a little bit of a mishmash but I’m I’m not getting new clubs I still play well enough with them until we get them through this show so that’s something I’m going to stay very uh very close with most embarrassing moment on the course we’ve all had one it’s a good question I mean I’ve had a lot of them most of us do uh it has to revolve around gambling and [ __ ] up uh I was playing my BR me and my brother play sometimes we’ll do 100 100 100 like 100 aside and then 100 overall probably one of the bigger gambling person I mean he’s the guy that I gamble with the most when I play most other people if I’m betting we betting you know a buck a hole or nothing great five bucks but I I remember remember we were on a vacation for Thanksgiving in Hawaii this is probably 2019 we never really do family trips like that but we did it and forever I I never went because I was always working and I went and it was cool and we were playing golf every day and we were playing for a lot of money and I think I had double he double or nothing me on 18 and I strike the drive I had like a 100 yards in and I shanked it into the pool I think it was like the wly pool or you know there Hotel pool and it it was pretty devastating moment only him and me saw but sucked what do you see as the realistic timeline for the tours coming together I I would say it’s got to happen in the next six months I mean there is tangible pressure on the PJ tour to figure this out they’re just not with ass sadis they just don’t care clearly and they will just sign more people to just keep bleeding them dry to me I think it’s fair to say in the next three months before the end of the PJ tour season before football starts if you don’t have a deal like I don’t know what we’re doing I I really don’t and that’d be pretty embarrassing okay a couple more do you think tiger can ever compete in another major going in the final round this pains me to say but I don’t I just I think he’s proven to not have 72 holes in him and I don’t think that’s going to change it was clear before he got this Fusion he could barely walk I would say he walks better now but he clearly leaks oil Saturday Sunday it’s a lot on his body when he said that he was going to play once a month I think he was being ambitious because he likes playing he likes competing but I think he’s much Clos closer to being like Charlie’s dad coach getting him ready for like college golf than he is competing and I I don’t think we ever seen him I don’t think he ever finishes top 10 in a major ever again I I think just making the cut for him is a pretty pretty uh awesome accomplishment at this point in time he W on the strengths and weaknesses of your game I don’t really have that many strengths I would say I hit it relatively far you know compared to Golfers but when I’m on I just I hit a nice little baby cut even though it’s kind of been drawn lately but not a great chipper bad putter bad in the sand not that accurate off the tea unless I’ve been drinking um pretty good like hybrid three-wood player I I’d say one thing is like I I can pound a three-wood off the te if if shit’s hitting the fan I hit my three-wood 260 270 yards but not a great long iron player short irons very Hit or Miss uh sand game is horrendous no clue you get in the sand like I don’t even know what what am I doing so lot of weaknesses strengths would probably be good vibes too always down any moment especially on a weekend we’re playing early want to get cocktail um you want to rip a shot after nine want to get some post Clubhouse beers that’s probably my number one strength good hang easy to play golf with uh fun drinking buddy got some good stories talk football on the golf course know probably average a birdie or two around but several doubles and lost balls so I I’m probably the worst four or five handicap you’ll ever made because I can shoot 75 but I can also shoot 92 at any moment at any moment any course any course it can be what is going on mental [ __ ] uh can implode like most of you I mean go golf’s hard and I think I I was playing with a couple guys on Saturday and they were pretty bad and I was I was actually playing pretty well but it’s funny I’ve tried to have the attitude of just like just enjoy it you know this isn’t competition in the sense of I’m not playing in a tournament if you’re gambling you take it a little more seriously but if you’re just out playing with some buddies I usually play a different tease than they played but I was like you know what you guys are playing the white te’s I’ll play the white te’s with you I just had a good time I I heard imman say that to to Rigs and guys on foreplay he’s like sometimes I’ll play with friends it’s like just because I’m a pro golfer I’m not going to play the tips and you guys are playing the men’s te’s like it’s kind of just being out there having a good time having a little social element to your life so just play the same te’s as the people you’re playing with uh I I’m going to try to do that more often and it it was a really really fun experience and I’m just trying to enjoy golf instead of getting so in 2023 I didn’t really enjoy it wasn’t playing well you just you don’t have fun the whole point of this thing is to have fun so I I would say weaknesses basically everything strengths having a good time