PGA Championship preview + Fat Perez live from Malone’s

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are boots on the ground in Louisville all week long, beginning with a PGA Championship preview live from Malone’s Steakhouse! SK and CH break down the three pre-tournament favorites – Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Brooks Koepka – before welcoming Fat Perez of Bob Does Sports on the show. Perez discusses everything from the world of YouTube Golf to his qualifier for the Myrtle Beach Classic. Finally, Smylie and Charlie make their one-and-done picks for the second major of the season – presented by T-Mobile – and throw together a DFS lineup.

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[Music] H Smiley caufman for 61 wow I’m Smiley Coffman and this is the Smiley Show welcome back to another episode of the Smiley Show at a major we’re here in person again cannot beat it live from the PGA Championship Smiley we are live is from Malone’s here in Louisville this is amazing you got the you got the the liquor bottles back here this the bar we’re going to have a nice little steak for dinner once we wrap this episode they’re treating us right here Mal yeah I mean this is unbelievable this is uh the setup is as good as it gets shout out to uh Malon and the good people here in lville uh as soon as I drove into town I got really thirsty immediately but we got a little old Fashions going here so got some nice little M old fashion not quite hardos like we’re not doing it quite neat yet this is the first cocktail so bear with us we will get to neat at some point in the evening just not right now cuz we’d like to do a coherent PJ Championship preview show we also have to say a big thanks to our new friends at T-Mobile who we’re going to be hanging with all week long at Club magenta it’s on the 10th h of balla ask give us a little rundown of what they can expect at Club magenta all week long with you hosting yeah I’ll be spilling the tea if you will uh especially tomorrow uh exciting lineup all week but tomorrow is going to be great uh with Max H wendham Clark and Tony phenow so if you are on property please come by it’s going to be a lot of fun uh talking to uh the games you know three of the best players in the game getting their uh take on Valhalla um and then also being in an incredible spot in club magenta it’s going to be a really fun week uh I’ll be there all week hosting so uh really excited some great people over there at T-Mobile and look forward to uh really just getting it started here this week at PGA get just getting those magenta Vibes rolling which magent great magenta Vibes cannot wait for it everyone can come hang out at Club magenta that’s the cool thing if you’re a T-Mobile customer you can even you get more perks so I I’d say just come hang out with us come come VI on the magenta level shout out uh we are we are we are T-Mobile guys we’re T-Mobile guys what do you think about I was thinking about this on the way down because I haven’t watched my 2014 Prius maybe ever and I was looking at the paint and I’m thinking about what do you think about like a Fresh coat of magenta paint on that bad boy really spice it up and all right so what’s the make model in year on your this is a 2014 Toyota Prius that starts maybe half the time if I’m lucky I I I’ve seen you try to get this thing started it’s not pretty I do think that you are in a position to go all in on the magenta for the Prius because I think we could go magenta for the paint and then maybe slap a couple smiley show bumper stickers on there uh yeah I I think there’s if there’s ever a car to go all in on about not caring what it looks like it’s this Prius the car has become a bit I can’t go away from it now I kind of what I I was talking myself into it in in the sense that like Scotty Sheffer may still be driving that like Suburban with 180,000 miles on it like this is my version of that except I’m not you know the best ball striker in the world and making millions of dollars every week you know we uh probably need to shout out any car company cuz I think we are we’re in the market for some uh some dad minivans cuz I think that’s the next step from the Prius that’s right with with a second on the way I think it’s the Prius is going to get Sunset pretty soon here although I’ll say this too it made it8 hours from Durham which was uh a delightful trip I I so I I got to say cuz we’re we’re going to get into the PJ Championship preview but I just have to tell you I was in I got to look this up to see exactly where I was I was looking for place to get some gas a and to get uh a bite to eat so I pulled over for some gas in Morehead Kentucky and I looked across the street and I saw a billboard at a Little Caesars first of all it’s a drive-thru at a Little Caesars there’s a billboard that said you’ve been waiting since 1959 yep now open May 14th I made it to the Grand Opening of a Little Caesars today and and I was not going to miss it I went in there I I got the crazy bread I got little pizza cupcakes it’s unbelievable I I don’t know if I’m more shocked about you going to Little Caesars but also I’m a little surprised that they’re still opening Little Caesars is that almost more shocking it came as a shock to me too although the people in there could not have been nicer and the way the Spin Zone I’m doing on that is I I wanted to juxtapose I wanted to do something as far away as possible from the delicious steak that I’m going to have tonight of Aon as I could so I did I I did Crazy Bread of Little Caesars and now we’re going to dig into a nice steak here tonight we finish up um look at this we got silverware here anyways we’re ready we’re ready to eat and and we’re ready to kind of dig into this preview and and I think Smiley here’s a place I want to start because it’s been an interesting year in golf it’s been interesting two years in golf but where we’ve arrived I I can’t remember feeling this excited about a major in a long time and this is why you have the number one and the number two player in the world who are both coming off wins in their last two starts and they’re playing in a Vue that in the last three playings have had electric results at this major just really exciting finishes great leaderboards I mean I I I I feel like we’re shaping up for a great week I think so too I mean I I’ve played Valla last uh fall with one of my teammates who’s a member uh out there Austin gell uh who happens to be here tonight shout out Austin so this golf course has produced so much drama over the years and incredible PJ championships and Ridder cups Justin Thomas when he came on the podcast in his home when he delightfully said yes when we were looking for a guest gave us some great Insight talking about you know you can judge you can judge the course all you want is it the toughest major golf course that they’re going to see over the next decade probably not but has It produced some incredible Drama TV results yes two playoffs and PJ championships one uh being a one shot Victory by Rory mroy I think this go course is going to be very tight as far as the leaderboard goes and maybe as the weekend goes on the firmness starts to separate uh where a guy like Scotty Sheffer if he’s just around the lead that maybe he can kind of work his way uh towards the top but you got to have to wonder about the dad back uh coming off of a I mean the the baby did come a little later congrats to uh Meredith and Scotty by the way um but that’s like my biggest concern is is where Scotty’s mentally at listening to an interview earlier this week with Todd Lewis I came away with the interview being like ah crap he’s going to win again in you I I I have that feeling I also just realized that I’ve done the first five to six minutes of this or this episode wearing headphones after I said we weren’t going to wear headphones yeah so uh I thought it was like a cool kid on like a headphones bit yeah I’m going to take the headphones off now so wow now I’m getting a full I’m getting a full sense of the Ambiance in here so it really is interesting in terms of thinking about these two Scotty and Rory and I I think and even going back to what you’re saying about Ballo where comparisons have been made in a lot of ways to Quail Hollow where we was coming right off a win of where okay we get it it’s not everyone’s favorite place in terms of a golf course architecture and layout and things like that but you can’t deny the fact that it produces Elite you know good winners and that it’s a venue that’s built for this level of golf so let’s maybe start a little bit with Rory and bit of a downer today in the news we saw that that TMZ I believe reporting first that that Rory is filing for a divorce and I don’t want to get into any of the personal ramifications of of what’s happening there but here’s the kind of question I want to ask you because I’ve heard this on a number of occasions hearing tour Pros talk about hey some of the best golf I played in my life was when there was the most stuff going on in the backdrop of my life and and I’m wondering you know Rory coming in I’m sure he didn’t want this to drop when it did but you know the paperwork was filed had to know it was coming at some point what do you think about his mindset coming into this week well I just kind of go back in a timeline of conversations uh or just noticing things about Rory um and how he’s been preparing or just I I feel like every week he’s has something that is newsworthy but this was unexpected and it’s no place for us to kind of talk about his personal life but going back to San Antonio I just noticed how in into his golf he was just going to see but Haron and it seemed like there was a dedication to the golf and that he was so focused on getting his game back and getting back into the winner circle so it wasn’t surprising to me to see him go on this run because it seems like he’s got I wouldn’t his life in order I don’t know if this is the best way to say it but his golf side of his life I feel like he’s as focused as he ever has been and he’s he’s playing free his his technique is fantastic right now as good as it’s ever looked driving it well it’s a perfect golf course fit putting it well putting it really well he’s I mean that was his big issue last year and he’s been top 25 on the tour since he’s kind of fix those putting issues this year so with that being said it’s it’s no place for me to to try to comment on where he is in his life and his and his personal life but from the golf side it seems like he’s really handling his business and is showing up this week to Val Hawa probably with as much confidence that he feels like he can win and I go back to the full swing episode in Netflix when he’s like we got to blow everything up I think he’s showing up this week feeling like you know what I can win and I think anytime a PGA Tour player gets up by six or seven shots in a tournament like he was at Quail Hollow that’s anytime a good player goes back in their minds they go back to like what was I doing really well when I was winning a golf off tourament by seven shots and beating last place by 37 shots that’s what he did last week in Quail and he’s going to a place that’s familiar to him and he’s already won he doesn’t have to to go that far back in the memory bank and pull out some of those good memories I’ll also say we we are not tailor made Affiliated here but if you can’t sell a spider putter right now find a new line of work I mean because between Rory getting hot with the Putter and coming into this week in great form on the greens and Scotty sheer who you know it was well documented Rory made the suggestion for the change of the Genesis Scot goes that butter and he makes everything he’s looking at and Roots a you know four wins and and five starts I think or it was a three win and four starts I I it it’s you lose track so did you see Jordan’s P interview today what did Jordan say so Jordan uh there was a reporter that asked him about Scotty Sheffer and and the advice that he would give him about being a dad and Jordan had a pretty clever response saying you know what I think we’re done giving Scotty advice in anything because the rest of the field will be upset with me if I give him good advice I think he’ll be able to figure it out and and also he complimented him on on how good of a dad he will be which uh again congrats to him and Scotty on their baby boy which boy Sammy spe and uh Bennett I believe is is the name uh that I read online uh Bennett Sheffer Bennett Sheffer and Sami spe could be uh quite a Duo one day and and Walker hum maybe there you go there you go that’s that’s I mean as we’ve documented on this SP I mean Scotty rapidly becoming a favorite because of all the you know amazing human being dad now excited to see him go on that journey and also the tournament favorite this week at the odds plus 375 right now I mean stop it it’s just it’s just silly the guy takes off three weeks and checks in and and what are you using just so when we’re when we’re referring to in this program that’s right there there there are a lot of different books you can use out there the one I’ve chosen to use this week is ESPN that because they’re like the official onsite odds provider here plus 350 for me on him is it it’s moved since we started the episode just crazy man something else and we’ll and I don’t know if you want to talk about it now Scotty yeah let’s right into it Scotty at plus 350 I I don’t like the price I I I I I don’t think this golf course to me is is a a perfect Scotty chefer fit I think this is going to be a bunch leaderboard I think the greens aren’t severe I think a lot of guys are going to be hanging around that wouldn’t be hanging around in other Majors I don’t think it’s going to separate the pack quite as much there’s not a ton of slope on these greens you have to drive it well don’t get me wrong if you’re if you’re not driving it well the there’s the runup areas here are not wide it’s not like a uh a Us open at Pinehurst in which you can run things up onto the green it’s a it’s a force carry type of a golf course but if you drive it long and you drive it straight you’re going to have an advantage which Scotty’s going to have that Advantage cuz he drives it well but there’s going to be a whole lot of other guys that drive it long and straight that have good iron games and and if it turns into a putting contest let’s go back to for instance the American Express Championship on bent greens that’s a shootout y Scotty Sheffer was not even anywhere near contention in a golf course that seemed to always be a putting contest so I don’t like the price at 350 with Scotty I would I would stay away I think you look at other guys this week and and if you’re if you’re a guy that is just going to ride Scotty to the sunset by all means don’t let me talk you out of that because I do think he’s the best player in the game and I I 100% would not be surprised if he won this golf tournament I just find Value across the board with plenty of other guys yeah I mean I I think that’s well said I think part of that is because we both used Scotty Sheffer already for one and done uh so we we can we’re looking other ways we’re going to have those picks for you on the other side of of an awesome interview coming up with faat presz who I’m looking at right now at the bar excided to have him on but I I think you know you you only have to go back to the Masters the last major to kind of contrast the the the course setup you know the nerves and just even the conditions this week like we’re going to get a lot of rain this week it’s going to be softer it should theoretically be easier greens to hold and and you know the guys that are you know bombers that’s why I like Rory a lot this week because he’s going to hit it a lot further a lot of guys aren’t going to get roll out or even Xander has been doing the speed training you know I I I don’t I don’t know if I like him to win but I think he’s a lock for a top 10 or a top five but you know looking at the Masters where there was a ton of wind it got crispy it got firm it got fast you had guys making mistakes you know ludvig and and col moraba coming down the stretch and to your point I mean this the conditions and the way this course is set up should keep a lot more players in the mix this week it may it be tougher for Scotty to separate um you know on those grounds alone so there’s another guy who I feel like he’s exactly where he needs to be right now because this is so perfect this guy is the PGA Championship Whisperer he’s got three of them he he and and loves having the chip on his shoulder loves being the underdog and here we are rolling into his defense of this PGA Championship and all everyone everyone wants to talk about is Scotty Sheffer and Rory maroy y like does it not just feel like the script is going to play out perfectly for Brooks got 14 to1 it it it really does feel that way and um I’m I’m kind of sorting through a Justin Ray stat about Brooks kka as I sit here and talk to you about him but coming off of Singapore I feel like it’s just the light bulb of seeing Brooks kka in the winter circle before in which the two majors that he’s played the best in the PGA and the US Open coming up it just everybody’s like all right well Brooks K is going to be in the top five after Thursday he’s going to be there all week and has a chance probably on Sunday to win if not win and uh Justin Ray had a really great stat about Brooks kka and since uh let’s see since 2014 at the PJ 63 underpar and that’s 27 better than anybody else um that’s just crazy to me and uh shout out by the way Justin Ray is one of the best follows on Twitter he’s we we use he’s he’s everyone that doesn’t have an OnStaff researcher he is their yeah you’re resarch you get a producer credit so one of the biggest changes about Brooks kka that’s held me up a little bit about him this year is the change to the Mallet putter which the Mallet putter is in right now the mallets in but he made that right now he made that change and uh looking at Liv golf stats which is now a thing in which we can kind of Judge players based on how they’re playing I don’t know how accurate the data is let’s just perceive it as accurate hter has been figured out um had some tough weeks earlier in the year uh with his Putter and Brooks has always had a very interesting stroke he lines it up on the toe has always had a bit of a loop in his stroke but he’s perfected a guy that aims right has a little Loop out of the top but he’s a guy that like Steve Stricker for instance he doesn’t have a perfect stroke but he knows how to get the ball started online and so Brooks kepka here at this event I I think this golf course fits a guy that drives it long and straight Brooks is a guy that does that great iron player really good on the part 3es these part 3es are going to measure anywhere between that 190 to 240 range so Brooks that plays into his hands can he play I think Brooks this is the one thing I have about Brooks Majors he wants them to play hard he wants there to be separation with the physical aspect of the game and the mental aspect of the game I think he always has had this great quote about you know breaking down major championships saying you can basically eliminate more than three fours of the field and I don’t think it’s going to be quite as much of that this week I a good point I I think it’s going to be a little bit more guys that have a chance this week I I look even down the odds board and I I see plenty of value down the board of guys that I mean shoot let’s go back and talk about the guy that we had earlier on this week with Bob may I I think there there story lines at this place of a player that’s down on the board that you wouldn’t ever expect to get hot here at this golf course I wouldn’t be surprised to see David versus Goliath uh this year in 2024 it it’s so interesting right because of the story of the last couple years for this Championship has been when did the PGA Championship become the US Open right the Southern Hills set up where single digits won uh you know last year Oak Hill single digits won and it just doesn’t feel like we’re going to get that this week now that doesn’t make it bad wrong and part of that just kind of out of your control with condition but but you kind of to your point and and you know we’ll see who the we going to discuss some of those long shots on the other side of this interview do do you do you want to head to the interview now it seems got one more one more point one more point about there’s PJ championships in their setup because I think it’s a great conversation to have about the scoring that’s kind of developed over the last couple years and how difficult it’s played in some of these events but what’s look at the venue since they’ve changed to the event in May this is this is total I know the they’ve booked these things out it seems like till 334 these these events but let’s look at some of the ones that that have happened we’re talking about Beth pagee in May that was a a very US Open setup that had a PGA and it was a US Open Vibe um but how different did kiaa play right like that’s a a venue in which that was lest winner right you couldn’t have that in August so kiaa being an event in May was Great Southern Hills was an event that if you had that in August which they had in Prior years you see their guys their big shirts and sweat just all sweat that’s a whole other Chang I don’t know how they did that I mean like that just seems ludicrous to play have been in Oklahoma and then oakill and Rochester they had cold weather they had rain but that’s what you get in the North in May you can get all these type of weather conditions so this week in bwa like the weather forecast is it going to be similar to 2014 with Rory mroy where it’s a little wet bomb and gouge yep um sets kind of up for Rory that just to me I I think uh I think you might see a little bit of firmness I’d love to see a little bit of wind to make it challenging and firm this place up but you still got to drive it good Aaron Fleener swung by here caddy of JT Poston uh just kind of Kentucky Blue yeah and he just kind of basically said How how uh pure the golf course is the fairways are great but you know uh you just got to be able to hit the greens out there and if you do you’re going to have good looks so we’re thrilled now to join or to to have fat fat Perez join the show now G to have him sit right here maybe order him mistak and a bourbon something like that but before we do that we got to take care of some business here and this is this kind of a special moment for the show here this is like our first real Library we’ve done since we started so I’m going to slide the official iPad over you you got that section right there all right fire away give it a shot T-Mobile Club magenda is the place to be at the PJ Championship everybody come hang with me like I told you guys earlier T-Mobile customers like we are like we are and you can be too stay for the bonus magenta status VIP Vibes get your complimentary cocktail uh during magenta hour um magenta hour sounds you can charge your phone charge your phone you’ve been tweeting too much you’ve been uh posting too many Snapchats Instagram real I know how the Gen z’s are this day these days so keep that phone charged up and uh there’s going to be some cool T-Mobile swag uh we’re going to be there all week I’m excited to watch a bunch of golf especially where we’re stationed on number 10 it’s going to be awesome being I’ve been to vajala I know like kind of where you want to be 10’s a great spot cuz 13’s right there too that’s going to be a very popular spot so come by hang out with us at the T-Mobile uh Club magenta Lou magenta come Vibe with us magenta Vibes good read way to go big dog yeah look at us uh how us we did who would have thought not me uh and without further Ado we’re going to welcome on fat fores all right we are back with our previously promised guest we’re so excited to have Nick stubie AKA fat Perez AKA Perez on the show uh we got we got a nice little play setting for you here so any moment time you like a steak or a bourbon really anything you like we can make that happen yeah I want to get these Forks to good use bro I mean we they’re they’re looking like they’re a little too clean for our taste right now but I we can’t go any further without pulling the curtain back a little little bit and recapping the series of events that led to this interview mainly Smiley I’ll just let you take it from here like talk to me about time zones so uh it’s about a 5 and 1 half hour drive from Birmingham to Louisville and in planning this your kind of the out time was going to be somewhere around 6:00 your originally had an APM flight y eventually you moved it back so didn’t it wasn’t as big of a deal but if it was we had a big time problem because I’m driving up talking to a buddy and telling him I’m going to be here at about H give or take 4:20 and I have an hour 20 left in the drive and he’s in wou was like dude you’re going to be you’re going to be pretty late I was like what are you talking about it’s 3:00 he’s like what are you talking about know it’s 4: like okay apparently Louisville is in the Eastern Time Zone that’s right so watch out for that for anybody that’s playing the PJ championship this week because you can get tricked up on it even though Birmingham and Louisville it’s directly north I don’t get it why it’s also a it’s a it’s a real fumble from the the GPS app industry that they should they should it knows where you’re going that’s literally what it’s doing it should show you like the the time of arrival should be local time that is a great I I just drove uh I was here for Derby weekend and I drove down to meet my boys to film in Nashville last week and I had I had the opposite problem which turned into not a problem it’s like oh guys I’m going to I’m going to miss dinner at 7:30 GTA and then somewhere along the line I just look at the GPS it’s like oh [ __ ] no I’m getting there I’m getting 6:30 like oh here we go I just got a I just got an hour back this is awesome but like I was thinking I was like why would that be surely that thing should factor that in that’s ridiculous wait so coming back here two weeks after the Derby is there like a little bit of Sunday scaries going on right now coming back to Louisville um a little bit yeah no this has been an interesting run I haven’t really been I was in home for me now it’s Jupiter Florida and I was there for about 36 hours between basically Thursday ahead of Derby to will’ll be Thursday of this week um so yeah it’s been a bit of a lot of different mattresses a lot of different cocktails uh yes they answer your question very much so this is um I’m trying to go to different places than I did Derby week so I don’t get like flashbacks we we will say like not all bad on the road trip ront because we actually opened this episode with the recap of my little like Little Caesar stop and then you and I just kind of bond a little bit over that you were describing like a a little like pie that they had I was like no bro I I know what you’re talking about very familiar with what they what they have how good is the crazy bread it’s the best it’s crazy bread the seasoning they put on that the marinara butter and Parmesan and undercooked dough bro it is the best undercooked that really sells it for that’s exactly what it does it’s it’s it’s elite it’s sticky is what it is and it’s it’s the best like I think Pizza Hut bread sticks deserve uh some look into that conversation but I think crazy bread might have it beat and here’s the best part about that SK is that my my Prius this was one of the times when it was not starting so I got like an extra three or four bread sticks in before it hit the road again which was really nice you know it’s it’s uh it it sometimes most of the time it works against me but in this in this particular situation really worked in my favor so fantastic you really love to see it so oh gosh man well thank you for joining us here Malon and uh this is a great spot they got these around around the the country but here in louville what a great setup we have and listen you are uh absolutely crushing it in the content space yall have such a great group y’all’s camaraderie it’s uh it’s evident like there’s no faking y’all’s relationship I think it’s very genuine how it comes across I y’all are probably my favorite of the group uh of all the golf guys and and Charlie and I are getting into that space as well so we definitely need to get on the uh golf course and uh do some content soon but that’s for another day but I want to just talk a little bit about you’re kind of a professional golfer because you travel more to play golf every single week y’all put out weeks uh episodes you were saying every Thursday I mean dude you you have a professional travel grind you have like a massage therapist like physical therapist mental coach physical coach like do you have all that or you dialed in are you hurting all all the time clearly I do not um I wish I appreciate the kind words we’re we’re having like I’m for me especially and I and I know my guys too it’s it’s the time of our lives man we’re we’re traveling the country and the world you know going to Scotland last year and and playing golf with our friends like it’s it’s three buddies that are just playing golf and I think everybody can relate to that back home you know you work all week and hope you know hope to grab that early tea time on Saturday and hopefully your wife and girlfriend lets you uh book it on Sunday day too but you can’t always Char Jones over here we we just recap the fact that we both have small children now and and the sales pitch you’ve got to go even further and further they’re getting more and more elaborate for some of these golf trips you got to start lying too I mean that’s uh you got to start dipping into that territory which is not no one wants that I mean we don’t want to do it but we got to we got to have some release um but no I mean it’s what’s great for us is um you I tell people it’s the easiest job I’ve ever had you know I I just get to be myself you know we’re not actors it would be pretty obvious if we were trying to do something that we weren’t and our rounds together Joe Bob and I uh off camera are exactly the same nonsense conversation you know cart dialogue it’s all the same thing that we do off camera and we just get to turn the camera on and be ourselves and do it again and fortunately you know people uh have enjoyed it and it’s allowed us to to have just a lot of fun you know I I I I I don’t know I I it’s hard to imagine doing anything better than what I’m doing right now we’re here obviously for the PGA Championship and two of the guys in the field this week are trying their hand at this right got Bryson the Shambo doing a ton of content Ox baa there might even be others that I don’t know about I mean how unique is it for you all to live in a world where you know a good good has a Callaway Club deal and branded equipment and you all are you know putting out videos every week they’re doing just huge numbers more so than maybe even viewing audiences that are that are you know PJ tour events are getting I mean is is it is it interesting to kind of live in a world like that given where you this thing started for you all yeah it’s it’s it’s kind of a new frontier so it’s hard to like you know I think if if it’s a a sitcom on like a a network television show like you have like barometers you have a bar performance history you know there’s a lot that you can kind of compare yourself with and this is you know we don’t know what the ceiling is you know we feel like you know it’s just getting bigger and bigger and bigger on every different level you know the brands that we work with we’re with Callaway as well um you know we started our own apparel line we just we just released a canned tequila cocktail called have a day so I mean there’s just these things that you know guests you know and it’s just crazy the the DMS are changing like everything just is getting a little bit different and I don’t really know what that means I mean we got to keep doing what we’re doing and and and I think the best part is we don’t really know anything else I mean we’ve we’re we’re three guys that are just ridiculous that have probably had to apologize for the way we’ve been most of our lives and um so yeah it’s it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a very surreal thing you there’s moments where you don’t you’re somewhere and you’re looking around and you’re just like holy like is everyone tricked right now like this doesn’t make any sense um but you know we just we’re just as long as just be myself I I really there’s nothing else I can do and uh I was with you briefly at the merch tent and waste management Joel Damon and I were filming uh some content for Waste Management which actually turned out hilarious Joel’s the best uh which we need to get Joel on the Pod too pretty soon but we were standing there Joel myself uh you uh Robbie Joey and we’re all just hanging there and I’m telling you it’s it’s like the Beatles where there I’m telling you and even I saw him at the I saw yall at the Masters and you’ll have like this crowd following you guys and I mean just talk about the fame man like is that something you’ve gotten used to yet just being somewhere and people just want to take pictures with you they want to talk to you they just want to get to know who you are cuz they feel like they know you yeah I mean I I’m I don’t I don’t know it’s it’s very surreal um it’s uh I I I appreciate those interactions because it means we’re doing something right and and I appreciate like the love and the support you know that’s really what I feel in those moments when people come up and say you know I love what you do like wearing a have a day hat whatever it may be I don’t I don’t personally try like I I didn’t start doing this I don’t even know why I started doing this I don’t know how I started doing this but I’m here but it certainly wasn’t for fame you know I wasn’t like I want to I want to be famous I want to be a celebrity um that part is just I you know I still don’t think it’s true um I think we’re just you know we’re hanging out in people’s living rooms with them you know they’re we’re we’re you know I feel like people cuz we open ourselves up on YouTube and on social media kind of sun up to sundown of Our Lives people know a lot about us um and so they you know when you run into these people they feel like they know you and I think that’s you know I I love that they feel that way you know I you know I want to spend as much time with every person that I can um and I think that that openness that we have is the reason that people feel such a connection to us I don’t know if you’re familiar with s SP 2K16 but we kind of got this content creation thing started we didn’t even know we were content creators so I feel like we opened uh the doors for you guys so uh you could guys could run with this thing root I mean I I I remember that as a as a golf fan and it it was sort of like did you watch did you watch the Snapchats oh yeah that was it was like I don’t know I can’t really remember like a big peak behind the curtain of like tour pro life like off camera like to me that at least you know at whatever 35 I am that that’s the first time I remember being like oh these guys drink holy [ __ ] like no these guys are like they’re like getting after it like and and they don’t it’s not like golf isn’t just work for these guys only like they they got the boys together they went down to the the Bahamas um and they’re they’re just they’re just getting after it bro like no clothes just beat you know the the golf cart stuff hanging off the cart I was like okay these guys are like ad super cool yeah and it’s like they should be making some money off of this idiot it turned out that was my uh tryy out for NBC as I I would take a salt shaker I would take a coconut and that would be my mic because I was commentating on all the guys in the group little did I know that was my uh future career that’s larious got you a Natty light deal too yeah there you go there you go so I think that I think I think I think Jordan and Ricky I think a lot of those guys are still benefiting from that little kind of peak behind the camera um that’s the you know when people talk to me about you know YouTube and and the tour and you know what can each party kind of learn from each other I think that that personality like you know when when you guys are out on the course you’re working right you’re not it is an entertainment thing on TV but you’re not entertainers this isn’t this isn’t wrestling right you guys some but you know what some guys feel that um responsibility and other guys are just trying to to play the best that they can and you know you like a Jordan or a John that can be a little more more vocal so you get a you get you feel like you get to know him and then you got like Patrick Klay who and even Xander who’s a funny dude but when he’s playing he’s not talking he’s not any emotion cuz he’s working so like I think that little that thing that you guys did just sort of was a peak behind the curve curtain and I think that that’s really how you’re going to I don’t think there are really fans of tour I don’t think there are like live fans and like PGA Tour fans I think that there are fans of players that play on the tours so the more that you can like build up those people and personalities off the golf course when they’re actually making money that’s what’s really going to bring eyeballs and like investment from audiences in my opinion so Valhalla is the side of perhaps the most iconic putt Walkin celebration of all time the Tiger Woods 2000 against Bob May pointing at it and running into the hole you have a pretty iconic put walk in celebration the Euro Step sure here here’s what I want to know of all the players in the field this week like who would you like to see adopt the Euro Step most I’ll be honest with you man if I saw it I don’t care who did it man that would be that that would be like a wild that’s your mama I made it that would be a wild moment for me um yeah I don’t know I mean I I sort of like Beggars can’t be choosers on that one but who who would be most likely to do it maybe then oh man [Music] um I I think it’s probably the guys we’ve like done stuff with okay I just I don’t know I look at some of them though that they’re not going to like get into that I think like I I would say maybe Joel that was who I thought you thought you were going to say Joel he’s the most likely to do something like that where like you know I might you know Max and Keegan and all these guys that we are close with um I just don’t see them breaking it out like I just you know they’re very Max is St out there yeah he’s very serious out there very much so so I just don’t see it happening Keegan a match play he’ll literally he’ll look you in the eyes and I’m going to kill you like if you’re playing him he gets play mode I I tell you who I love to see do it cuz it run counter to his whole golf robot personality ludvig ludvig hitting the Euro that would be wild hilarious he’s become like more likable with like his smiling at the master that dry Scandinavian sense of humor wouldn’t put it fast so FP the guys that y’all have done work with uh you’re a great player yourself of all the guys that you’ve played with who’s been the one one guy that’s impressed you the most that you’re like man what he’s able to do is just like unfathomable yeah um our first uh video match with hom with Max was yeah what he shoot he lipped out a 12-footer on 18 and shot 60 wow he made 12 birdies wow and I think if he had that putt 40 more times he’d make the next 39 of them like he he it was that that was the best golf I’ve ever seen in person cuz he just didn’t miss and he every pot he he made every pot I think I can only think of that pot and then a putt on one from like 30 ft that he nudged the hole on every other putt he just hooped from everywhere and it was like this is this is wild it’s a desert track too right it was yeah we were true north like it wasn’t you know was over seated car path only like he he didn’t care like that was that’s the best round of golf I’ve ever seen in person um I would say like impressive like play and like the way someone hits a golf ball um we film with ram ahead of the players two years ago um and seeing the way that that that he swings at it the sound that it makes everything that was like whoa like all right I see why this guy’s the best player in the world that’s different and then Xander probably the same just a beautiful golf swing just perfect angles ball comes out straight you know he can work it both ways yeah I mean I I don’t think we played with anyone where I was like this guy’s on tour like you know it’s there’s the reason these guys are here it’s it’s it’s sick it’s really is what what’s kind of wild to me about that is I mean not very recently you were one of 16 guys that could have been playing you know alongside maybe not that set of guys cuz it was you know opposite field event but you had a chance to qualify for a PJ Tour event I mean what was that what was the process like of mentally getting ready for that and and you know how you prepared do you try to play do you play play cool and just relax and not worry about it or do you really kind of go to the range and get ready like what was that whole experience like yeah um well I shot 81 so whatever I did I should have done something else um yeah that was a really unique opportunity like I remember getting the phone call about it at first my first instin was like what a great idea this is like opposite of field event first year tour stop like what a brilliant move by Myrtle Beach to like create a little bit of hype a little bit of leading leverage our audiences like it was like it was it was smart it was smart and and like it felt like it was a win-win you know what I mean like we could get some really good content super cool opportunity from the from us as creators but also like they’re going to get like a pretty cool you know jolt and an audience and and look in on this thing so um yeah I I it I’ll never have a round that has so much at stake um as that one I I was still living in Virginia at the time this was like early March when this was filmed so I was still in Virginia it’s cold yes and so we we did a film Week in Myrtle Beach leading up to it and before we so it’s like a week leading in before that week getting down there I didn’t play for 3 weeks so that was a mistake um I should have been doing anything like something or I should have just flown to Florida and just like worked on my game a little bit so I didn’t you know I didn’t play my best I didn’t prepare to play my best I you know I I had to have played I would have had to play my best round of my life probably at that setup and against those guys to to be in the mix well we have something in common you and I when there’s one round on the line to potentially change the out of our entire professional history of what what could be we both shot 81s 81 for you in the Myrtle Beach qualifier 81 for me on Sunday at Augusta in the final pairing so we have that going for us yeah it’s it’s a it’s a tough number hang the banner hang the banner 81 81’s it just doesn’t sound good it does it’s not like a good number it’s way better than 83 it’s definitely better than 83 I would I would take an 84 over an 83 that just sounds better I feel like you know what another bad one is 78 78 is it that’s just a lot of lines you know what I mean like 77 is way is way more than a stroke better than 78 if I’m six over par and somebody asked me like even when I was playing in college I would never ever say like how like when the coach would come up and ask say how you playing I’m four or five overp par I’m not six no like it’s like I think I’m four five I’m never at that 78 number cuz that’s like the hey buddy you need to get your life in order yeah 78 is not just like like you shoot 80 81 it’s like all right like you just you just didn’t have it today 70 78 is like you didn’t try hard enough like you had it you just didn’t care you need to look yourself in the mirror 81’s like hey man you couldn’t have done anything about that 78 just like dude you just you don’t work hard enough bro that’s amazing well I I feel like we got wrap this up with we we need a pick for the week I mean we there have you heard about our picks by the way we’re we started doing these one and done picks okay uh this was it started in Mexico Mexico open so there’s been 12 events in between the two of us we have hit on a 50% rate on the picking winners winners we are just on fire like between the two of us so like one of we could you got a lot of Rich listeners right now I I am second on the FedEx cup with my pick he’s third on the X cup and Scotty that’s how good Scotty yeah I mean like of all the years to do it yeah so one of you guys speaking Scotty every week we’ve lost Scotty on our one and done just so but you haven’t burned Scotty you could pick Scotty right now if you want to or you could be the smart guy and pick Jake knap in Mexico like Charlie did or pick stepen joerger in Houston like I did so are you going to pull a rabbit out of the Hat on us and oh man I feel like I have to um I mean let’s talk some ball if I if if it was like not that lead up and it was like pick under your head I mean Rory is like the clear obvious choice for me he won last week he’s clearly playing playing well this is a big ballpark that you know values distance off the te and accuracy two things that he has and he won here like he won the PGA here last sum so it’s like you know that’s that would be like the oh yeah pz like good one um pick but I if I had to just like snag someone so not taking Rory but he did a really good job of of picking Rory G or so really good at this we end up listing Five Guys but then we end up picking one so like you know what we were on to him we said his name Rory’s one b um one a um let’s go I’m going to go like Darkhorse love this wow I’m going to go Darkhorse I’m gonna go siah the love this love that we just have it on the Pod and honestly I thought this was like a lead into we had the Dude Perfect guys on uh in Augusta and hilariously one of the guys picked Jason day and it was just like a we nobody saw it coming and we were like hell yeah man like and it was it took us by surprise but siah is actually a great pick if you go look at his stats you go look at his results in the last three years it’s a great pick I think this could be a potential clip and and honestly we’ll cut off the uh if Rory happens to win we’ll cut that for we’ll cut that for youve it we can make anybody say anything with with some good editing you know played so well in Majors recently and I think his game is Just he’s got that cut like that go-to cut and you know he’s got a hot putter sometime I think he’s got a shot love it well Perez it’s been fantastic having you on really appreciate you coming here Malon and joining us and uh yeah may maybe te you tomorrow why not yeah true have you heard about my game where I’m at uh you breaking 80 um dude I’m telling you like I barely shoot in the 70s now like I either shoot I either shoot 81 or I shoot 64 the stav is tough I mean is not hard it’s not hard it’s not that hard no seriously I’m like either I’m either turning pro again or I’m throwing my clubs away so hopefully I just I would love to have a round soon where I have 17 pars and a birdie and just a no bogey cleen round in play all day a classic FP round yeah I don’t and I don’t have a whole lot of fun fireworks one way or the other it’s it’s boring golf sometimes that’s why I had to do a Euro Step I had to I had to put a little something into the mix I’ll tell you what guys I’ll take one for the team I’ll shoot the 81 tomorrow yeah there you go so that that one’s on me guys thank for that there you have it bat Perez live from ball Hall and coming up next our one of done picks T-Mobile is everywhere this week fans at home and on the course be sure to watch your favorite players get ready for the PJ Championship like never before at the the t5g range Charlie that was my best Ernie Johnson impression I feel like we’re on NBA on TNT I mean that was out of 10 I I don’t know like for everyone watching on YouTube I wasn’t I wasn’t laughing like in a mocking like I I was genuinely tickled by you just flip the switch and all of a sudden like I’m Kenny The Jet Smith and I’m looking over there’s Ernie and we’re in the studio and you’re just nailing T-Mobile reads okay but machine dude I do want to talk about the range though uh from from what I understand the technology that they have on the Range and you’re a big technology guy you’re a big Tinker there is more numbers and more data than ever seen before on a range for the viewer to be able to to see what all these guys are doing which I always want to know what what they’re doing as far as ball speed and what they’re working on so that’s cool tune that T-Mobile right yep you got it big magenta Vibes this week huge magenta Vibes this week oh yeah Ling it absolutely okay so we we’re off to a great start th far we had we had a nice media discussion about the big pre-tournament favorites Scotty Rory Brooks had an awesome interview with bat Perez super cool to touch on a number of topics great now this is the the sort of the the the nitty-gritty we’re digging deep on this episode because we got to do a couple things we got to run through a few more names we got to make our oneandone picks and if we have time for it maybe throw together a little DFS lineup together may maybe maybe instead of drafting maybe instead of drafting separate lineups maybe we draft a combined DFS lineup together you know little something like that let’s can can we meet in the middle on this though I I know where our heads Go is is that you end up always end up with Scotty in your lineup and then we’re we’re doneo for the rest of the lineup so that’s good I’ll let you I’ll let you make the first draft choice really and truly this is for my own league so I just need you to help me that’s basically What’s Happening Here I I think Charlie you know we’ve already touched on Scotty Sheffer Rory maoy and Brooks kka and I think the next part of the conversation is of the guys we haven’t talked about who is on the board that first off any of the guys between 4 and 20 on the oddsboard can win this week looking at who they are uh their their resumés the type of quality of golfer they are that’s why in this PJ Championship on this golf course in this setup I think you can find some serious foul and I think uh and I don’t want to give away my oneand done pick uh cuz I’m not quite there on who I’m settled in on but I think there’s a bit of a Liv Tac still going on on these boards and I just don’t see and and it’s changed a little bit with lud VI o Berg he he’s gone from kind of in that plus 1600 range to plus, 1800 uh withdrawing from Quail Hollow with the knee injury but John ROM I mean this is a guy that was in the conversation with Scotty Sheffer and Rory mro is the best players in the world he goes to live has top 10 every single week on the live golf tour has yet to win on the live golf tour I will say so maybe that’s why there’s a bit of hesitancy of of where the lines are at but I don’t see how there’s not value on John ROM at plus, 1800 it it’s very very strange to me I mean that one is and I don’t know if it’s just that that we that he hasn’t gone out in boat race fields at Liv and N to Wi yet and maybe that’s what people wanted to see I mean I think I said on the show was like I think he’s going to win half of his starts on live next year that was aggressive so aggressive that was a little aggressive I was letting you go on that just letting your wings slap you know it’s just you know put out the good tape and if it turns into a bad prediction I I’m about I’m the producer I can erase all this stuff I want to so but but I I think you know maybe it’s a little bit of that but I yeah I mean it was a I mean the odds have moved a little bit I I know Ramen and oberg were aligned at one point now ludig dropped a little bit of maybe injury concerns but that is definitely a shocker to me you would just think that a guy like that you know would would be a little bit shorter I mean but he’s he’s got long R the Xander who is in great form on the PGA tour I I I I want to talk about Rah I want to talk about Xander I want to just detour a little bit because there are just two names that you and I have both talked about on this show before as liking here and both of them slid down the odds board and and so ludig we mentioned at 20 to1 and and you talked about really liking Windam here at 40 to1 uh I mean you talked about liking Windam in general but he is at 40 to1 now and I’m just wondering after a Me performance at the Wells Fargo like where are we at on wendham and ludig in your opinion it’s definitely a little concerning that he didn’t play uh that well well as Fargo because we’re going to continue to parallel Quail Hollow and Valhalla as pretty similar course typ so you don’t like to see that but from talking to some of the players about the golf course last week apparently it was as bad of any event that they’ve ever played with wind switches just all of a sudden it’s one way next thing it’s the other way so was maybe wendam on the wrong side of some of that I don’t know uh it’s definitely concerning to not see him kind of Be In Contention or just kind of like similar to maxom where he’s in that like top 10 range she’s like he’s not going to win but you’re you know you feel positive about where his game is at and that he can go and win the next week wind him I’m not sure where he finished up I uh I probably should know that but it I know it wasn’t a great week yeah it was it was far enough down the board I had him I I played him in numerous formats far enough on the board that even I checked out so it was it wasn’t great and like similar with like will zwa tourus he shot somewhere around 80 on shot 80 on Sat on Sunday so like that to me is like he’s a course fit here and so I think he got come you got to come in here with a little bit of form but I just I I I’m not I’ve seen too much good from Windham Clark to not say that he’s not going to contend in a major championship this year I mean he’s yeah just look at his results man like winning a shortened PG or pebble golf tournament and on a wet on a wet course a lip out away from potentially winning the Players uh had uh you know the Bay Hill another great week finishing second on a golf course and which he didn’t even feel like was a a course fit for him yeah um and winning the US Open the year before I mean the guy is just a big game hunter I feel like he’s the Brooks kept good type of the PGA now I I would eliminate the form winham Clark’s going to be in contention this week I just have a hard time believing that that guy’s not going to be U near the top of the leaderboard well and and let’s get back then to Great Value well let’s mean do we want to talk lubig a little bit before we get back to I love to go Xander Rong but I mean thoughts on on Ian cuz here here’s what I’m trying to figure out is what why did ludig withdraw from the Wells Fargo because KN well I mean I I I I know that literally but I but I I want to know the the nitty-gritty of what was happening there with that knee like was it is this a situation where you played a lot of golf and you’re just kind of a little bit tired you’re having a nagging injury and you’re like hey I don’t I don’t want to I don’t want to keep overexerting myself and then come into a major and not have my best St or is this like there’s some sort of an acute issue that we had no Cho because you think that even if you needed some time to rest for a major championship you would not withdraw from the signature event with a massive purse right yeah well he’s uh he has played well enough to not have to worry about that uh winning RSM so he doesn’t have to necessarily play so well to secure status he’s in a great place he can plan you know his schedule around the MJ championships if he wants to he’s a top 10 player in the world just think I mean not to interrupt but just think about the absurdity of that St just like second major championship it’s his second maor all he has to do is focus on the majors I mean that’s how good he is seriously that’s that’s where I love him this week but I just I’m just the KN throwing me a little bit it’s I I think I like him on this golf course but I the knee thing is a little concerning but I I think it’s just standard protocol anytime you have an injury it can lead to swing problem s and something that uh I I deal with it with my wrist uh I I withdrew from the Wells Fargo uh my rookie year after playing well at the Masters and and the weeks before and it leted me down swing pass because of the injuries so it’s smart as a young player get healthy show up to the majors ready uh he’s got a great team around him I love Joe SC on his bag uh love his personality and hey I I think Beware of the injured golfer type of thing it’s like you know that’s that’s I think a lot of guys might stay away from ludig just because of that but I I don’t know he’s not something he’s not somebody that’s jumping off the screen for me I think if he would have played last week and played well i’ be like all over it well it’s tough to make sense of some of these guys like you’ve listed three names now where based on last week either not playing for a reason or playing poorly that we’re kind of out on and and and Windam uh uh Willie Z and ludig but it’s you know are we overlooking like are those guys actually good value for that reason I don’t know um one guy that came close last last week that we have to talk about is like Xander like where are we at on Xander we talked a little bit in our Monday episode about Xander but I mean that it it’s wild to me to look at Xander Schley at even odds with the reigning champ here Brooks kept cut 14 to1 that just seems really short for a guy that just seems to struggle in these spots you need to look yourself in the mirror if you’re taking Xander Shaway at 14 to1 because you’re sick and this isn’t this isn’t a a knock against Xander shway I’ve already said I’d draft him as my member guest partner if I could pick any PGA Tour player let’s why don’t we just settle in and take Xander choffle at uh top 20 he minus 150 top 10 plus 135 lock that in because that’s where it’s a safe bet was hand your Shaway I I just how can you bet on a guy that hasn’t want since a Scottish open in 2022 now this is a bit ironic as we are probably both would have picked Rory mroy this week if we were able to pick him are you able to pick Rory I still got a Rory card he’s still got a Rory card he can play but uh and Rory has been one since uh the major and whatever but I I just I I don’t think there’s any value there with Xander um he’s playing really well um maybe that’s a matchup type of thing you can play with Xander but I don’t know I I just I see more value in in the course fit here with like and also I need to look myself in the mirror because what I’m about to say completely contradicts everything I just said about Xander cha which is I’m you know you know where I’m going I’m going to cam young just I’m going to die on this hill that Camy young is going to win a major championship before he wins his first PJ tour event0 40 to1 40 to1 I mean that is value there I no actually it’s not even Great Value cuz cuz Kum young is has yet to win anywhere so why why is he 4 one because yeah he’s that good he hits it that well this is a great course fit look at his results this year the top 10 are there the quality of play is there he’s going to randomly win a major championship before he wins a uh it’s before he went to PJ Tour event I’m I’m going to die on that hill and that’s why I’m going to give you that advice of yes tell me I’m dumb it’s wrong cam Young’s probably not gonna win this week he may not ever win because that’s the trajectory that we’re on right now he might top 10 in every week he ever went ever plays but as we stand right now I like cam young this week a lot a lot cam young try spider I don’t know it seems to work for some other people maybe try that I I’d say that there are if if we’re leading into the one anddone picks here there probably just two more name we will’ll have other names we do our our DFS lineup but there are two more names we probably need to discuss I know what you’re going to say if we’re going to talk about one and done picks and I’m looking at them right now Bryson and Max Oh I thought you were going to say cam Smith you love cam Smith cam Smith I mean I can’t believe you didn’t talk about well you know you your that’s I I’ve always going to the cam Smith well do you like cam here this week yeah he’s a great Putter and a great iron player If he if he just drives it above average I love cam Smith this week man that’s interesting that’s intriguing because I to me it just didn’t feel like the right sort of fit as a guy who is in insanely long you know and and and the putting of course is great but if if it’s going to be a game of guys who are going to be need to be long and need to be good with their long irons I mean to me I my whole vibe on Cam is getting me to a place where he’s has a good track record in the past like the Masters and a place where short game is going to be super helpful and I I don’t I just I doesn’t feel like the profile speak unless I’m missing something it’s if he drives it relatively well I think he’s going to be right there he’s too good of an iron player and too good of a Putter and his wet and his up and down ability is incredible and and it’s not a golf course that you have to be just just unbelievable from around the greens like a memorial where the bunkers are shaped like this or there’s tons of slope like a mirfield village so um I I like cam Smith but uh you mentioned Bryson and Max and I’ll just touch on that real quick yes Bryson’s a great course fit drives it well um I’m a little concerned about his iron game um playing off playing off zoa if you’ve ever played off zoa it’s it’s a it’s a surface in which you can kind of get spinny shots and you can get the Flyers and watching Bryson at the Masters this year because of how far how hard he compress his shots I’m a little concerned of his ability control hitting it pin high and I yeah that’s that’s a that’s a really good point and I I that’s my biggest concern with Bryson this week is just his If he if he could just play three quarter shots all week I I I would love Bryson this week but I I I’m is he is he h by softer conditions where he doesn’t get as penalized for a a bad yardage or hitting it too full where the up and downs aren’t as penal the up and downs aren’t going to be as penal he chipped it pretty poor on the weekend at Augusta but he got himself in contention earlier he’s a putter uh you know probably a top 10 putter in the world so you combine his driving ability with his putting that’s a player that you can’t ignore this week and Max H just to finish great iron player has the mental game got himself in contention at Augusta has the formula for the majors I think talking to him coming off a win at the Ned bank at South Africa you get that sense of that the majors aren’t as important to him as they used to be the pressure that he used to put on himself I feel like it’s behind him now I know that like we’ve just talked about however many names I I wish we could probably list more cons about guys for people that are listening be like well y’all didn’t help us out you just tell us what you like about all these guys yes that is probably what we just did um and that’s why we end up liking 30 guys before the week and there’s a way to separate a little bit of these guys but I think when you build these lineups you just got to settle in on a couple of these guys and then there’s you can find profile fixs in the back you know what I mean well I think a lot of it this week is going to be I I I really I really don’t like I don’t like betting outrights at all this week because Scotty she’s in the field and I don’t like betting Scotty sheer because he’s plus 375 you’re I think there’s value I I think there’s value but I think there’s a lot of value in top five and top 10 plays um and and and and that’s kind of maybe what I’ll try to kind of put together in looking at these list of names but Smiley we have covered a lot of big names and that does lead us to part of the show that we are now six of our last well we’re batting 500 that that that doesn’t just get us in the Hall of Fame that gets us like goat status um and we got to keep it going here so it’s time for our PGA Championship one andone picks presented by T-Mobile and I’m channeling all the magenta Vibes available for this pck cuz I’m going to need them here I I went it’s your pick first I’m picking first cuz I took Rory at wellis Fargo last week first I’m picking first this week all right you got this is a tough one because it’s a major so you want to try to use a live guy so there are names I’m looking at there and there there’s a lot of kind of uncertainty around certain names and but I I went on Sports grid the day after the master before I drove home in my 20 14 Prius that decided to start for the first time on that day which was excellent and I committed to a guy who I said was going to win the PGA Championship and and I got to ride with him because I don’t want to miss the bus when this guy does win a major I’m rocking with lu he’s uh you’re going to ride the injury thing I it’s it’s a great uh pick ludig is a star I mean just second major uh ever and he’s top six on the odds he just he just looked so cool calm and collected at the Masters brilliant iron player which he’s going to need this week HS it up definitely long enough I I I just feel like this is a guy that you know I I I just it’s tough and that’s why I’m so intrigued by what the knee situation is cuz I want to unpack it a little more he was trying to get me to like confirm something give me some give me some give me some nuggets but I I just really do think that I mean there are some big names there are some heavy weights in this field and Scotty Sheffer I mean look we burn we burn all our Scotty Sheffer usages otherwise we might be using him here but if we can’t take Scotty I I I think this could be it for luding I really do think I this is I think this is a good course fit for him all right good pick good pick well uh I it was nice for me to see the light last week with Rory macroy and if it were me right now and I could pick Rory macroy again I would uh so just like uh fat perz when he came on here earlier and said you know what I love R macroy but that’s one B that would be my pick would be Rory this week if I could pick him but the guy that I’m going to take I’m going to take a live guy I’m going to burn that card I kind of talked about it a minute ago I just didn’t want to lead you down that path so you could take him I think John ROM is going to get his first win of 2024 John ROM is going to get his third major title is that right winning uh US Open Us open in the Masters he’s going to get his third major title I away from Grand Slam at that point yeah I I think uh he’s a elite driver of the golf ball he’s going to find himself in the Fairway and I love John ROM with the putter in his hands guy just I feel like listening to his interviews this week it feels like he has a point to prove and I think he’s been a bit of annoyed of people just not realizing how good he’s played he’s top 10 in every single week and according to Justin Ray another stat I’m going to use from him follow if you don’t that he leads the live golf tour in birdie average and a golf course that I predict that you need to be get going early you probably need to be on a pace of getting to that 16 under number so we’re trying to average at least four underpar round so you need a guy who’s making six to seven birdies around John ROM’s been doing on the live golf tour I’m riding with John this week third major title um I I feel really confident about it I you know I I don’t I don’t hate the pick I mean if I was going to take a live guy I think I’d ride with Brooks let’s see let’s see how let’s see how I mean it would make sense I mean it’s a guy that that again in in similar fashion to Brooks and maybe even more so a lot of people aren’t talking about him winning this thing and that’s the exact type of fuel that John ROM uses to go out the odds don’t make sense he didn’t have a great Masters uh I think people just see what have I seen from you lately they for the folks that haven’t watched and play on live I’m one of those people I have not watched him play on Li but I can look at the stats I can read about uh you know how he’s played I can see uh just how close he has been to winning and the guy hasn’t forgotten how to win let’s not forget that he’s uh last year we were debating him whether it was Scotty Rory or ROM and I I’m I’m willing to uh I’m willing to kind of ride John ROM this week and uh it’s just a matter of time before he wins a major championship again and why not here at bajwa those are the one andone picks presented by T-Mobile now let’s build a DFS lineup and I’m just going to SL we’re going to do like it’s going to be like a a passing and offer across I’m just going to slide the phone across the table can we just do let’s just plug in um you just do ROM and ludig as our one and N guys and work off that so let’s see so you’re going ROM first and then we’re going to add ludig yep and now okay let’s go let’s go down the board we’re going to have to go down to the because I I I think you and I both are on board with ache this week okay love that let’s get let’s let’s get OE on board he’s won the junior PGA here back in 200 I think is when it was O’s affordable yeah he’s affordable O’s 7200 he’s a great iron player good poter that’s a good shout drives it well O’s we’re locking him in why don’t we lock in fat Perez’s pick with sah dalala let’s get him in on the board okay now I’m going to warn you here we’re going to get really low on budget here we’re now down 6,400 a player go get Denny McCarthy okay really let’s plug in Denny let see u a putter that putts really well on bent green 6300 right now that’s a really good value player we Denny um and so we have 6500 left so let me just show you the territory we’re in right now unless we want to make some lineup changes no we’re just we’re going to do this is a one time hitter one time hitter I lot um why don’t we I’m I’m between three guys and why don’t we just debate this okay I’m between Thomas dietre okay who’s a guy that that’s had actually a very nice year uh play great hit it high up in the air was very close to winning in Houston Taylor Moore a player that nobody’s talking about that just played really well at qua Hollow top 50 player in the world uh or Jake KN oh don’t don’t tug my heart strings I’m a little worried about Jake’s driving ability out here I know he far but is he going to hit enough Fairways I’m I of that group I kind of want to go tayor more does he fit you know what you you that’s perfect cuz that’s where I cuz I look emotionally I want to take Jake nap you know go back to the well he’s been good for us before this is his second major I think this this will be right he played in the Masters uh no Jake nap oh Jake naap yeah play in the Masters via his win vant I like Taylor I have a feeling about Taylor more yeah let’s do it what’s right with let’s plug him in so we actually we had $300 remaining so we went ludig OE Denny McCarthy Taylor Moore John ROMs to hit the g that’s kind of a banger of a lineup right there I I think it’s I think you it hits everything um OE does everything well he’s uh a future star in this game Denny’s a great putter also been in good form played well with Quail Hollow last week Taylor Moore a guy that you really like played well Quail Hollow last week John R top 10 machine i h the gala I I I think that’s our team bro I think that’s our team and I think I think the best part about that was just that we just came to an immediate consensus on that like right out of the gate I think we’re still in Augusta trying to figure out two wup so it was nice for us to roll through that that was a better that was a that’s a little live producing that’s a better workflow than the workflow we had before all right so there you have it so just one more time for for all the people out there that lineup is ludig oberg AA batia Danny McCarthy Taylor Moore John ROM and sahit the gala and and that and that also that gets you away from everyone playing the topheavy Scotty Rory Brooks lineups that’s a little something different so that’s a TFS lineup any other like names or score lines you want to hit on the way out I mean I I feel like here are the ones that I feel like are glaring that we missed are JT playing a home game Jordan going for career Grand Slam Taylor gu 80 to1 yeah and I’ll add one more Tiger Woods being in the field oh of course uh I’ll touch a uh of some of those real quick I think Jordan’s been really interesting almost like a case study this year trying to figure out what’s going on in his interview this week uh he really is positive about his game and I think a lot of people are sounding the alarms but what I’m really encouraged by is how well he’s driven the golf ball and what have we talked about in this breaking down this golf course is how important it is to drive it long and straight his ball speeds are up so I love that he’s going to be playing from the Fairway he’s been off with his iron game in his short game so if he finds what he’s normally great at which is iron game and chipping and putting why not Jordan Speed just finding his way into into contention Justin Thomas can I can I pit you something on JT here this is a little and I like to hear that so JT is has struggled putting all year long right so it’s been a hit or miss Hit or Miss Hit or Miss but remember remember when I was early in the year freaking out about Scotty and you’re like hey wait till he gets on a different surface right with JT I wonder it if a little bit of that home cookie of going back to a place where he’s played a ton of golf and is familiar with the surfaces like does has he done any favors just by getting to a place where he might be a little more comfortable on the greens it’s just the problem it’s going to be such an uncomfortable start for him just to get just to be able to play in Louisville with so much support he wants to play well so bad but and I I think this is the really encouraging thing talking about Justin his iron game has gotten much better the greens and regulation stat isn’t there but it has improved which is what you got to be able to do well for him which is iron the golf ball well but he talked about the mental side of the game taking shot by shot and I think in the last stretch of major championships probably since Southern Hills in which he played so well he has not played well in Majors it’s been really overpar rounds e us to be you know cautious about telling you that JT is going to have a great week but part of me wants to believe I I I believe in Justin Thomas’s ability to play well I I think this golf course definitely there should be some comfort in that he’s played it so many times and it’s not crazy difficult I don’t think it’s that that visually is is crazy intimidating I think if he gets into a rhythm early finds himself on top of the leaderboard playing in the morning on a Thursday in which it’s going to be soft I think it’s nice that he doesn’t have to wait around let’s just start the tournament let’s go I think that’s important for JT just to get going see himself you know shoot three or four under that first round post post a low number does Taylor gu make the cut Taylor gu uh makes the cut oh okay you taking Miss cut just uh I’ll take Miss cut okay what about tiger making the cut I think tiger makes the cut I do too I because I mean that I mean it’s the same thing as the M like he he has very good golf in him in high leverage situations it’s just that it’s really tough for him to do it for more than like three days is kind of pushing it yeah you know it’s like two days we can get you two days three like three days that’s why like stude is going to light up the Champs tour yeah is going to be Electric in a cart for 3 Days on the Champs tour I I just you I think it’s going to be I I think this is going to be a real inflection point for tiger and I I mean and obviously I say that with the most respect in the world it’s like we all you know we know what he’s going through with the body but it’s one of those things where it’s like you keep having these sort of situations happen in these majors and at a certain point you got to say like what you know what what am I gaining out of this or like you know is it worth keeping trying to or what do I change so that I can do a better job of contending and and I would love nothing more than to eat my words after this weekend he goes out and strings four rounds together finishes top 20 top 10 and Tiger’s back but I I I I I feel that that I feel he makes the cut and then he finishes near the bottom of the leaderboard after making the cut cuz it’s just hard it’s just I mean he’s gone through it man it’s just been tough on his body I think it’s I think we’re just mentally it’s like we got to we got to see it you know you got to prove us prove it to us that you’re going to be there on a Sunday cuz right now it’s hard for him to see him being in the last six or seven groups on Sunday but if he is it’s great for TV it’s great for the game of golf uh we all want to see tiger uh play well and succeed well Smiley two of us Club magenta the next the next 3 4 days yeah I 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