Soly and KVV welcome TC for this Deep Dive pod as we look back to the 3 previous US Opens hosted at Pinehurst #2. We start with Payne Stewart’s iconic triumph in ’99 and Phil Mickelson’s close call. Then, it’s on to the carnage of 2005 with Michael Campbell emerging victorious on a crazy Sunday afternoon. We close with Martin Kaymer’s dominant win in 2014 after the course’s restoration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.
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ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the no Lang up Podcast this episode is a deep dive into the last three us opens at Pinehurst uh of course kbv and I have done this over you know kind of spanning major championship years 1995 96 the likes of that but we wanted to in advance a pinders to get hyped for next week look back at 1999 2005 2014 we brought TC in uh as well to cover one of these years to kind of mix it up a little bit but uh bring back some Pinehurst memories get us reminded about the golf course get us excited uh for the US Open next week which I could not be much jacked up for uh you guys all know roback best fit best feel it is summer we are living in this stuff they just released their American Summer Collection it’s fantastic uh they’ve got of course bathing suits now they got the performance polos you guys know about these moisture wicking they got great stretch I’m wearing them all summer long they’re great to go on walks on great to wear on the golf course uh if you 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I’m GNA I’m going to do that one but Kevin Van valkenberg here going to start us off here shortly hello Kevin so it’s great to be here thank you as always TC I promise we’ll be gentle in your first Deep dive experience thank you I’m very overwhelmed and this is a tough one because uh we were covering golf at this point and 2014 TW golf Twitter’s around so a lot of different things to pull from I was there TC so I’m going be factchecking you as much as as I can Pinehurst is I’m really excited for the future of Pinehurst you know it’s going to be a lot more prevalent in US opens than the kind of the Cadence that it has been over the last 30ish years and it watching some of the highlights back from 2005 I don’t remember a lot from from that time period I don’t remember a lot from 99 but I remember 2014 it was a snoozefest we’re going to get there but it it was interesting golf like it’s the style of golf watching all those chips and stuff watching the collapses from 05 which we’re going to get to and watching that Golf Course evolve over the years I mean you know between my the one I’m going to cover and the one TC covers that place changed a lot and a lot of the images from 2005 are extremely foreign and unrecognizable honestly and uh it’s just such a weird time period in golf that’s that’s the most fun part of doing all these is just like the the weird little time capsules of what’s going on and all that but uh if you want to we don’t need to delay any further and we can go right into 1999 if you uh if you feel ready Kev I I mean I never feel totally ready so I always feel like I’m cramming for a test that uh this just arrived maybe a few days before I am but folks Pinehurst in 1999 uh had not hosted a major championship since 1936 uh they had made the decision to come there this was special in some ways because it was uh one of the first US opens that played away from the sort of typical super thick rough style they originally set the rough at four inches and cut the rough down to three inches right before they wanted guys to have to choose what what kind of shot they were going to hit out of the rough they wanted to make them tempt them into going for greens uh at times and not just pitch directly out into the Fairway Rees Jones Jr TC’s guy uh said he was the in charge of the sort of restoration to make Piner get it ready for this uh he said before the tournament all these guys are mechanical players like or mechanical players and Corey paven won this tournament in 1995 because he was a magician it’s really going to take a magician around here to uh rather than a mechanic because you have to manufacture shots reading this quote made me fear that I had perhaps plagiarized Rees Jones in my artist versus the mechanic uh debate uh that is not good I do not feel happy about that it’s also Rees Jones just just Rees Jones I don’t think it’s ree Jones junor I think you’re conflating okay excuse me Robert Trent Jones Jr and Rees Jones they hate each other also just I I I’m going to nitpick the word restoration like I don’t know if he was in charge of Resto I think the is what come next the renovation and reification of this golf course what what do mol lines look like that was one of my takeaways from from 2005 was the holes looked pretty comical in terms of how much rough there was and how narrow the fairways were what what’s it look like at Pinehurst at this time even if it’s short or rough is it is it narrow as [ __ ] uh it is narrow it is very dark it is very kind of um like it’s very green there is still some of the what you will see you know eventually as the like good waste areas that make us feel but like it’s immediately off the rough it off of the fairways it’s you know a good dark uh there’s a there’s a definite like second and third cut it’s not aesthetically pleasing you can I will say though that it it really shocked the players and you’ll see in a lot of bitching about just this idea that your ball would not stop if it if you miss the green by a few feet that it would run far away from you oh man did it piss off a lot of people did you guys know that Pinehurst number two hosted the 1991 Tour Championship I did not know that at all which uh sort of stunned me I sort of I guess you know more widely known is that it hosted the the Senior PGA at one point but uh just imagine like going up to uh you know in late August we talk about this the butt sweats of Atlanta I think back then they had it in October oh it used to be like it was like a late like fall Silly Season event like end of October I think which would have been Prime Time there I mean gosh Pinehurst in October is like as good as it gets but imagine just imagine Pine if the ball stopped like a foot off the green is kind of hilarious considering what we think of it now at this time David Duval was the number one player in the world uh dval had won four of the last 12 tournaments and back then man if you won four of 12 uh you were like it was thought of like you were some kind of magician he had recently surpassed tiger as the number one player in the world tiger was of course going through a swing change we will discuss in a little bit uh but guess what this week prior to the US Open Deval had burned his right right thumb and index finger on a teapot and he couldn’t play any practice rounds prior to Tuesday afternoon at Pinehurst he had bandaged on he has heavily bandaged on both of his fingers he said they seemed fine I played this morning and I didn’t really have any problems it’s probably valid to ask me again tomorrow although I might not want to answer it since that seems like it’s all I’ve been talking about so all you know I love the old timey Sports writing uh back in the day but this is a great like sort of things about with four victories in the last tournament all dval needs is a little confidence well that and a PO holder from the LA Times dval was like leading the uh the tour basically in driving average s can you guess what his driving average was that back then he uh had a two 94 driving average oh I’m sorry it’s 287 uh which said that the LA time said because of that Pinehurst should be right up his alley tiger was also getting hot you know he had famously called Butch uh during this sort of thing and said the the Bute I got it uh right prior to this year he had then won in Germany and won the memorial Ernie El’s in a sort of like a horror movie kind of Haunting thing that you could sort of echo throughout the time what is to come said it’s a little unsettling to see Tiger Playing so well which would sort of echo throughout the next year so tiger said prior to the term I keep telling everybody that I’m making some changes to my game and it’s going to take some time I didn’t like the way I played in 1997 even though I won some tournaments I didn’t really like it because I wasn’t consistent asked what the difference between tiger since he came on tour and now Lee Jansen who won the previous year’s US Open said I think he hits it about 20 to 30 yards shorter than he used to he’s trying to learn how to tone it down to be a ball control player that probably last yeah wouldn’t last for too long this 99 open is pretty great because a lot has been written about this uh you know because it’s sort of like seen as one of the great us opens of the last you know 50 years maybe even 100 years Sports Illustrated said it might be the the all-time greatest US Open so Alan shipnuck did a lengthy oral history about this and Paul ainger said in 2014 he was talking to shipnuck everybody in the world could see tiger and Phil’s talent but there were still some pretty pretty big questions about both of them if you look at Phil it was still unrealized potential there was a real question about whether he had what it took a lot of players were beginning to think that tiger was overrated that the Masters win was part of a hot streak that had ended he had hardly won in the two years since so they came both came in with something to prove Masters winner H Jose Maria OAB said he didn’t think that there would ever be another grand slam winner I would like to be wrong especially this year Jose Maria was a hot pick coming into the uh this Us open because of his short game everybody felt like you had to have a great short game to play well this week which it yeah I guess we can we can talk about some of that you know as was we previewed the US Open next week like I I don’t know positive that’s the case right I think it’s it’s so hard around the greens that it really just puts more emphasis on who hits more greens and who has better accuracy with their irons I think right I mean uh we’ll get into some of that when I get to 05 as well like there was a very unscientific model of percentages of like what matters just put in USA Today like here’s what matters at piner’s percentages and I was like I don’t I don’t know if that’s accurate I this is all pre-stroke game era right of like trying to figure out still working in total putts and all that stuff test baby yeah well I’m not sure how well that was paying off guys we have Jack Nicholas is playing in a major again uh for the first time in a year because he’s had his hip replaced and you know Jack has said this quote I think a thousand times since but I’m kind of wondering if this might be the origin of it listening to guys in the pre-build up to Pinehurst I used to love listening to him gripe somebody would say the Ruff is too high check them off the greens are too fast you can check them off the course is too long check them off you can check guys off because they complain about them they complain themselves right out of the championship we have to be nearing a threat of this might be you know next year might be my last US Open I’m sure there’s one of those quotes in there right so next year he says he’s not going to play all four majors for the first time essentially in his career but he is not ready to retire he says I don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of going out and grabbing three friends and beating around the golf course for five dollar I don’t get a kick out it the fun of the competition is being in the middle of it a lot of writing about Jack in this era Echoes what we are saying about tiger these days is like oh will he retire what’s he still getting out of that oh he still thinks he can win still thinks he can put some things together just needs to sort get some more reps and stuff uh keep in mind that Jack at this point has a ceramic hip and uh is 59 years old so and also just to point out you said he uh said he wasn’t gonna play all four majors in the next year he did play all four majors the next year Jack also famously had a hard time kind of letting go uh I believe he played all the way up to what 2005 was his last Open Championship S I think well he did the retirement tour uh at at St Andrews in 2000 did the wave and then also came back in 2005 and played it one more time so and he played the Masters up until 2005 as well uh and one of my favorite things on earth in this Earl Woods caused this little controversy leading up to the tournament giving an interview to Icon a bimonthly men’s magazine when asked about Scotland he said that’s for white people it has the sorest weather people better be happy that Scots live there instead of Soul Brothers the game never would have been invented we wouldn’t have been stupid enough to go out in that weather and play a silly game and freeze to death we would have been inside listening to Jazz laughing drinking drinking rum now Africa I went to Africa and I played golf there and I knew I was home are we allowed to laugh at that I don’t know if we can I think we laugh about it because it’s Earl and I think uh I there if there’s one wish to Tiger’s career that I could make it is that Earl would have been like healthy enough to have lived another 20 years because Earl was like basically say anything Earl was freaking hilarious uh just in the way he I think he said this stuff just to provoke people like half the time like he constantly wanted to kind of like dig on people and sort of throw it in their faces and stuff and a lot of times the sports writers of that era would be like uh we touching this Earl like taper’s on but we’re not gonna write about this stuff because you hear stories about this every now and then and be like oh we kind of had to protect Earl from himself he was always kind of you know he had a couple drinks here and there he never knew what like was was on the record or off the Record in the RV yeah exactly uh Earl claimed that these quotes were totally farsal and fabricated but then the author revealed that she had taped the interview and he nothing to say after that nobody would have believed Earl on that one that it was yeah I I did not say that what was what was this quote to about that tiger was gonna have a bigger World impact than Gandhi or yes uh bigger than Gandhi bigger than Buddha bigger than anyone because of his PO bigger than Nelson bandela as well was that one I believe so yeah it’s in famous Gary Smith story uh that was when tiger was named Sportsman of the year uh it was actually before he won the Masters if you can believe that uh that they sort of uh that that you know penned all that it’s worth going back and reading if you can get into Si’s uh some shoty archives yes it was it was him like what it was the painted thing it was like a bluish cover think I feel like was it the one I know the one you’re exactly you’re talking about I’m trying to remember if it was like one of those ones where it’s like a thousand images of tiger that’s like then made into a larger image and stuff uh but I know it was not like a typical photograph uh but yeah the just the idea that you people should better be happy that Scots live there instead of soul brothers that’s incredible so Phil mikkelson also a pre-tournament favorite doesn’t arrive until Tuesday because he’s been at home with his wife Amy who’s had a difficult pregnancy with their daughter Amanda uh he says he’s going to wear a beeper during the rounds and if it goes off and Amy’s gone into labor he is going to leave immediately no matter what position he is in uh doesn’t matter if he’s leading by four on Sunday on the back nine he is still going to walk off the course absolutely Phil says when asked if that’s really true that Bieber goes off I’m exactly five hours away uh he and Amy have developed a special code that she can punch into the Beeper if she goes into labor in case someone is trying to prank them like sort of think a lot of writers are making jokes that like maybe Earl Woods might try to put a call into the Beeper and get Phil to uh be bouncing he said I’ll be very disappointed if she were to go into labor and not call how would people get the Beeper number this is a great question TC I don’t know that people you know Earl Woods special ops guy Green Beret you never know uh stuff like that could happen what what would the cut off be like all right if you are in the middle of 18th the 72nd Fairway like and the Beeper go like you’re finishing at that what what what would the cut off be of like all right I can spare like a 30 minutes here to do this like you know we can agree if it’s n yeah in more County airports right there you first child uh you know I don’t know is Hannah gonna listen to this S I mean what how truthful do you think you can be I’m I’m the 14th whole i’ walk like I’m out of there right 17 first child I don’t know well as you’ll see Phil labor lasts a long time it can last a long time this is true uh as you’ll see uh though Amy kind of lies to Phil throughout all of this uh she’s basically in labor the entire time uh which didn’t really know until Allan wrote this story uh am says when Phil left it was the most emotional goodbye that we’ve ever had he was so determined he said I am going to win the US Open I’m going to come home we’re gonna have a baby and it’s going to be the best week of Our Lives Phil said I had no doubt in my mind I was going to win the tournament uh they Allen got bones and Bon bones gonna hit this parlay too bones actually had to carry the Beeper I don’t you remember that uh and Bones said oh God the Beeper I was stressed about it the whole time if I would have lost that thing I’ve been filing for employment I heard people plenty of people say after the fact oh he wouldn’t have left and this and that but when Phil showed up in fine Pinehurst he got in my grill and said I don’t care where I am I want to know 10 seconds after that thing goes off he was dead serious uh Amy said on Wednesday my mom took me to see Dr Webb who’s there OBGYN he checks me out and he goes wow things have changed if you would have looked like this yesterday I wouldn’t have told your husband to go and my heart just sank it had been a difficult pregnancy for Amy this is kind of an amazing thing in late March VJ sing’s wife ardina threw a baby shower for Amy mikkelson always thought that they were G to like the mikkelson and sings were mortal enemies the following day Amy had to be taken to the hospital because she started experiencing contractions she was confined to bed rest from there and ever since then like chirping cell phones and pagers started to make Phil nervous because he always wanted to have the Beeper on him around him I didn’t know if I was going to come home he said on Friday Amy started to have contractions Phil and I were talking all the time on the phone but I was not saying what was going on which was really stressful because we share everything maybe not everything so we have these contractions and as soon as he hung up I burst into tears lot of comments uh in the leadup if I may this was like maybe this is just me 25 years later remembering like this was like the story of the sports world like not just golf it was like everybody I feel like I I even remember people at church talking about like is the Beeper going to go off like still even as of Sunday like that was that captivated the sports audience was like was Phil gonna go Phil’s wife going to go into yeah Phil’s still like this Dashing Young player and he’s wearing the visor and YX visor TC yeah Mr Mr Family Man I mean this was Peak Phil haming it up you know very very true uh and and as we saw with the shuffler stuff like the remakes are Never As Good As the originals because like that the the whole Scotty will Scotty leave the tournament thing was not quite as dramatic ended up having the baby what 3 weeks later or something so this was like actual like touch and go she was trying very hard to not have the child uh not have Amanda while Phil was about to win the tournament uh a lot of comments uh in the leadup about how hard the course was this place makes Augusta look tame Tom Layman said uh I’ve been asked many times what the hardest course I’ve ever played is Lee Janson said now I have the answer Piner number two John Cook said this isn’t like any golf we’ve ever played if anybody Hits 10 greens today this is I think he said this on Saturday uh it will be five more than anyone else I played this as a par 88 today which means I have 12 birdies a birdie is out of the question today unless you’re off the green and you can chip it in from the bunker and make or make a 30 foot putt you’re not going to get it close to anywhere in uh in the Fairway a bunch of pampered [ __ ] man yes very much so the whole the whole point of the challenge is that yeah you might have to hit a wedge to 30 feet like that’s that’s what the challenge is out here it’s not as if like guys are shooting 78 79 you know it’s like you know one guy ends up under par and you know Phil shoots even par tiger shoots one over VJ shoots one it’s like you know it wasn’t that freaking hard but they were just it was so kind of indicative of how different how raging they would be like against uh you know the the actual change of things so but before one of the rounds John Cook said he overheard tiger and Payne on the putting green when tiger said when I start designing golf courses I’m going to make them 9,000 yards and then you old guys won’t stand a chance and pay starts zinging back at him yeah well if it’s the US Open you’ll still have to drive it in the Fairway tiger laughed but he didn’t have an answer for that one I’m not gonna dwell also not consistent with our our now found understanding of what it takes to win us opens 100% the way the golf like intelligence would change about this stuff is uh is quite funny but this is a time when they’re sort of driving it to 260 or whatever so you know it’s uh as we’ll see play out I’m not going to waste too much time on the early read up lean up because the final round is so exciting but uh David Deval is and even with the burnt fingers is uh you know goes out and shoots 67 in the first round tied with Paul Goos Billy Mayfair and Phil Mickelson the shot back is Tiger Woods Payne Stewart John Daly uh someone called David B bouro Jr BG yeah that’s TC’s guy you know what TC I’m glad you’re here to identify some of these guys that I I’ve never heard of uh this is you know I didn’t get too deep into David bergano but that kvv BG was getting all sorts of uh he was on a major medical for like 18 years it was so sick like how do you extend your major medical that long he was the guy that come he would make one start and then be like no I’m still on I’m I got to go back on medical like that’s like they it just ended they they had to rewrite like the entire major medical rules on account of this guy it was incredible so he’s collecting like hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in compensation from the tour being on a major medical what are the rules with the major medical you get like the average of like the what is the 120th or something person on tour like what I can’t remember exactly what the deal is but do you remember you know what kbv I’m not in the major medical game anymore I used to be tracking that kind of stuff now that they’ve cleaned it up they kind of flew the banner I forget all the details but I mean put you a spot like that get some sort of you know stipend you know full benefits and all that stuff and yeah just kept making making one start a year so it’s finally over disgusting uh also lurking after a second round 70s VJ Singh having won the PGA uh you know a year before this is is starting to really emerge as one of the top players in the world third round scores here you know Payne Stewart takes the lead pay Stewart uh evly lost the US Open the previous year to Jansen when he shot 74 on the final day blew a fourstroke lead uh was sort of devast stated by that really felt had a tremendous tremendous pride in his National Championship would uh always wear red white and blue on the final day P was still kind of a divisive figure but was trending more towards being on this on his softer side even his own mother said that uh he was you know he had improved in the sense he was no longer rude to people no longer cursed out uh autograph Seekers and made them seem like they had the plague uh very much leaning into embracing his religion at this point also Paul’s a Paul ainger’s can cancer diagnosis really made pay think about his own mortality and he visited ainger all the time and really ainger said you know all my friends kind of disappeared but Payne was the one guy who was sort of there day in day out so Bryson comp here like is that you’re describing this I’m like you know the hat and all that stuff that’s that’s interesting I I never I never have thought that I mean it’s remarkable how like kind of simplistic pain swing looks uh these days like just no leg drive at all just kind of like very arm Z it’s I mean not a kind of swing that you could survive with on the tour today but drives super straight putts with the like a center shafted putter just a kind of fascinating window into that era of stuff obviously said that uh you know he wore the really kind of goofy clothes that because he wanted to sort of he was kind of a showman maybe there is a Bryson comp there so he wanted to stand out wanted to feel like an Entertainer a little bit we’re going into the final round here I think this is where the most of the drama ensues I really feel like we could spend a little bit longer time on this uh on this Sunday uh John Dy records an 11 uh if you remember when he whacks his ball while it’s still moving distinctly remember that rolling back to his feet he said after round he said I just decided to do what Kurt triplet did last year apparently Kurt had hit his move Ball moving ball said I’m not gonna sit here and waste my time uh in the process he shot an 83 finishing 29 over the championship dfl remember John Dy was like a shot off the lead after day one I don’t even know if I’ll play the US Open next year I don’t know if it’s worth my time I’m not going to Pebble and I’m not gonna watch them ruin that course too I have had it with the USGA I’ve never seen a course play so unfair as it was in the last two days so after the third round uh P had not played well it it’ still kind of uh you know ended up uh being in the final group but his wife Tracy had sort of told him he pulled him aside after that night when he walked off the green she said I want you to know honey that you’re moving your head a little bit too much when you’re putting a tip forgot about this tip that she had gotten from his father Payne’s father like when he was dying at first he really did not like Payne’s wife Tracy who he had met while he was playing the Malaysian tour they had gotten married he had basically said his father had said you know he just going to distract uh Payne from his his goal of being a great golfer you know but she had slowly kind of warmed him over the years and when Payne’s dad was dying he wrote her this long list of she’s like here’s the things that I want you to tell pay like about his swing you know when I’m not around because he needs someone to sort of pull him back and one of those things was make sure and keep your head still when you’re putting so she brought this up uh after his third round and he was like by God you’re right and so like late in the evening that night he went and practiced putting just keeping his head still doing the exact same routine every time Sunday morning Payne wakes up and NBC is running a piece about his him and his dad who you know has has passed away five years prior and he just starts balling like he’s he goes into Trac he says I’m just really emotional this is Father’s Day and I I really want to win this one for my dad Saturday night back home in Scottdale Phil calls up Amy you know he’s a he’s a shot off the lead or I think excuse me I think he’s tied for the lead and she says to you know this is to Allan later my contractions had started coming really fast so we decided to go to the hospital and Phil happened to call right about then but I didn’t say anything at the hospital they put me on a monitor and gave me uh terbutaline to slow down the contraction eventually Dr web comes in and stays with me and I’m asking him every five minutes should I call Phil should I call Phil he keeps saying not yet no not yet this went on for a few hours finally the contractions slowed enough to where he felt comfortable sending me home so like truly a like like like praying to God every moment that like this baby does not come uh and and kind of actively like withholding information from Phil who knows if Dr Webb had money on the final there hard to say s uh so the next morning it’s kind of rainy it’s really kind of damp it’s kind of dark uh there’s like a Mist that’s hanging in the air Payne Stewart shows up in a rain jacket and he’s it’s really bugging him during the the hitting balls on the Range so he tells this caddy you know what go find me some scissors K’s like okay so he runs like into the pineur clubhouse and does the Bell check thing cuts off the sleeves his jacket iconic image one of the first like sleeveless rain jackets ever uh ever made right there on the range at Pinehurst uh chopped off this of course allows pay to show off his shirt underneath which is red so he’s wearing the red white and blue bones until it’s a shipnuck later it’s it was like the biggest crowds that I’ve ever seen in a tournament in the US you would left of 18 green you would go let like walk past the range go to that first te and you had to walk across 18 Fairway pretty close to the green to this day it’s one of the coolest memories of my cading life came when Phil and Payne were walking to the tea the whole grand stand stood and cheered it was like two Gladiators going into the Coliseum I’m so nostalgic about this era like again this is like pre cell phone and everybody just filming people like you were just people were way more present in the moment and like I was so impressionable during this time like that like kind of gave me chills of like how how you know how awesome that must have must have felt so we have a barn burner of aound I mean it is like any one of four guys could have won this US Open like if any little different thing goes uh the other way pay birdies the first hole all right so he comes out and he’s like wo like I am I’m in control I’m gonna you know he’s he’s what was he like again what was it that’s that’s my best pain impression uh but yeah well what would be kind of a theme for the day he hits a terrible chip uh on number two and has to roll in a seven-footer just to make a bogey uh and he makes a seven-footer but it’s just kind of like man like he doesn’t really seem like he’s super super sharp Phil comes out and I’m not kidding when I say this boys this might be the best final round of a US Open that Phil ever played like he was Rock Solid guess how many freaking Fairways he missed on this day three one two two freaking Fairways you know yes again now he’s his his drives are often topping out at 267 268 but still like it’s this is some clutch [ __ ] like it’s uh he is he’s absolutely he’s he’s putting great I you know it’s hard to sort of I think describe watching this final round how much better Phil played than Payne like te to Green just just way more in control of his golf ball like you know not making a ton of putts but like lagging them to like Stone dead to where it’s you know it’s a foot tap in whatever he he opens with six straight pars and then birdie seven uh they their pain leads by one with nine holes to play this is where VJ starts to emerge as a real cont like VJ uh birdi makes two birdies in the first 11 holes particularly on as David Deval is like ejecting completely Tim Tim Heron is playing with uh tiger at this point he’s he’s sort of a non-factor but it’s it’s gonna come down to VJ tiger Payne or Phil at 13 VJ has a birdie putt to take the lead outright and oh my God it does the most vicious like horseshoe lip out that I think I’ve seen in our recounting of this I mean like a full like 360 just you cannot believe how the putt doesn’t go down pay Bogie’s 12 and nichelson now leads by one tiger is really he’s lurking he’s three he’s three shots back this point but he’s coming you can feel it uh he keeps tiger icarito so many greens in this tournament I mean he is just absolutely like driving it great putting it great chipping it great but like launching nine irons like 160 yards over the green uh Johnny Miller says Tiger has every part of his game except for short irons if he can get that I think he will lap the field in the second part of his career but right now that is still really holding him back this was Tigers uh last last US Open pre-s solid core ball that’s right TC did he did he figure the short iron thing out like going forward was that a pretty nice call from Johnny this episode on Pinehurst us opens is brought to you by the Pinehurst Resort with the playing of the 2024 US Open Pinehurst resorts embarks on its era of serving as an anchor sight of the national championship the US open’s going to return four times in the next couple of decades in 2029 along with another US Women’s Open in 2035 in 2041 and again in 2047 the first time in nearly three decades Piner opened its first original Golf Course when unveiled Pinehurst number 10 in the spring of 2024 was designed by Tom do it’s got dramatic elevation changes natural Sandy areas remnants of an early 20th century sand mining operation they just continue to invest in their present in their future they had a three-phase process to renovate the guest rooms in the lobby of the flagship Hotel the Carolina finished they finished that up this past spring they debuted the new restaurant the Carolina Vista Lounge which is has an expanded cocktail bar a contemporary menu unlike any other pineur offering guests a stylish and satisfying Reit befitting the setting of The Historic Carolina hotel in between its most recent us opens 2014 20124 it’s been huge air of evolution for Piner in that time they opened the Cradle the short course it’s been wildly popular in 2017 is when that opened Gil Hans redesigned Piner 4 it’s got consistent praise and Pinehurst Brewing uh hous in the original building that served as the village of Pinehurst Steam Plant in 1895 remains as popular as ever among guests and local locals alike Pinehurst is a fantastic visit I hope everyone gets a chance to check it out and enjoys the US Open next week let’s get back to the Pod honestly it’s so impressive to go back and watch these about how much Johnny was willing to stick his neck out and how like often he was just dead on right about the stuff I mean the original kvv many people are saying that’s right right there is no like waiting for the ball to hit the ground and then being like Oh tough like balls in the air on John he’s like that’s not good that is that is ter and you know he’s not like you know he’s sitting in a tower like on 18 like it’s not like he’s there seeing it he is incredibly good at calling like where the ball is sort of starting and where it’s G to end up his stuff ages so well and all these look backs like you go like his his I remember just his his voice is like the voice of drama like you just heard that voice it just felt elevated he said meaningful things and it just felt like he made everyone else around him that much better like he just teed people well 2014 will get there there oh really pastest prime a a little bit according to you in the tweets oh gosh which we were sharing the Twitter account at that point that might have that could have been any of you any of you guys basically Johnny just kept saying he couldn’t get over the fact that kimer was putting from everywhere that was me yeah that was a tough call I remember that from 2014 so it was like you know kimer with a four-footer and s’s like oh Johnny Miller’s shocked he he’s using a putter for this one kimr had the chipping yps and was putting everything and Johnny kept kept doubting it Ker’s winning by like 18 shots and he we’ll get there so again it’s hard to emphasize like just how different this game was back then I know we kind of harp on this a lot but like a lot of pay’s drives are going 250 like it’s it’s I know it’s wet but you know Phil’s Phil’s out driving him but his drives are never going Beyond really like 270 like that is the the max sort of thing Tiger’s hitting it out you know maybe 280 it’s a remarkable display like how hard they seem like they’re swinging at the ball but the ball is you know going a reasonable amount on 14 yeah go back to like 1999 this is the end of it this is the end of it this is truly the end of it I mean the course was 7100 it’s almost 7200 yards and then like golf got broken from this point forward like this is this is the last time golf like made sense so on 14 tiger gets a really good shot in there and then makes a 30-footer drops down to his knee and gives the like the Epic fist pump I mean tiger was like super expressive in this he was it was less kind of like the cold robot he’s just like really animated about all kinds of stuff he’s he’s to within two of Phil who leads but Payne makes a birdie on 13 to Tai to Ty Mickelson so it’s it’s you know it’s it’s really like boom boom boom lit could be anybody at this point again VJ is one shot out of the lead at this point and he makes a a pretty bad drive on 16 the 16 at this point is the longest par 4 in history of the US Open it’s 483 yards playing Into The Wind that day VJ gets over the ball the ball’s kind of sitting up and he decides you know what I’m going to take a rip at this with the fairway wood and Gary Koke says like this could be the tournament this could win or lose the tournament right here for him he hits this like horrendous smother hook that never gets 20 feet off of the ground somehow misses the cross bunkers and ends up in a really bad spot left of the green cannot get up and down from there makes a bogey that’s VJ that’s the kind of the end of vj’s run tiger misses a green on 15 but chips with a fairway wood he’d been kind of doing this all throughout the week this is the kind of the Randy special probably maybe where Randy sort of got the idea in the first place terer really doesn’t do this ever anymore but all throughout this week at Pinehurst he was doing the the three-wood bump chip which is really fun to kind of see uh in he makes par there still only a shot back uh excuse me two shots back at this point pay misses the green on 14 all right hits another like indifferent chip like this is the story of like all throughout the day just chipping was really kind of sloppy like you know Phil’s chipping even when he miss green it’s way better but again from 12-footer makes it like pain is just like making everything he misses the green again on 15 with another poor iron shot Phil hits a great shot in the middle of the green okay we’re we’re I’m gonna bounce around back and forth because the TV cover is kind of crazy this is right at the same time that tiger just absolutely roasts the drive on 17 remember it’s 483 and guess what he has left into the green 17 16 16c me yeah he’s got 210 left into the green after just absolutely roasting a drive like this is you know he’s got a four iron and this is like it’s so fun to watch him have to think his way through this all right like Phil and and Payne are going to come up and play this whole in a minute and have to hit two irons into this hole Gary KO says in the broadcast players have been hitting this green less than 5% of the time uh today tiger hits a laser to about 12 feet okay so we cut back to 15 Phil hits an awesome putt from 25 feet with a foot to go it looks like it’s going in for some reason Johnny yells out Amy just as the power lips out I think I think Johnny thought he was going to make like an iconic call and like it’s never explained he never goes back to it and was like oh that was for you Amy but very strange Johnny says that was one of the great putts I’ve ever seen it deserved to go in so I know you made this point once about the Pinehurst cups and I don’t know like if that it’s just a Pinehurst thing or usj thing but so many lip outs in this like just power hard lip outs I I looked for what you once talked about where they don’t set the cups like as down deep as they did and so it’s like a little harder it looks like the the white part of the cup is like up a little higher than normal but I don’t know enough about that kind of stuff to sort of make that judgment call but just amazing how many putts get lipped out this this open I need to go I’m gonna go back and watch that am Amy Barbara I I watched it like five times to make sure that’s what he says there’s nothing else that he could have could be saying there it’s clearly Amy maybe was waiting for like Amy don’t call that beeper Amy hold on hold on honey so Payne finally misses a par putt about an eight-footer and Phil has the lead by one again it’s the fir the only really important putt that that Payne will miss all day he’s not playing great he’s just slopping it all over uh tiger on 16 you know we he that the four iron in there he makes like makes the Putt and makes one of the best like fist pumps that I think you’ll ever see I’m going to put it up on here this is the sort of preview of it as it’s going in he’s pimp stepping and just an absolute like Muhammad Ali uppercut like just incredible theater uh in that moment uh Tim Heron tells ship glater it was football game loud it would give you chills up and down your spine to hear it but on 17 tiger steps up and he hits it left into the bunker right now he’s a shot off the lead and he just makes it kind of a a stinky swing Miller says this is one of the easiest shots bunker shots on the course that is H holdable all right so we cut back now to both Phil and Payne are in the Fairway on 16 Phil has 226 into this green and Johnny says isn’t this what Donald Ross wanted this was the ultimate test you had to play your long irons well no I think Donald Russ wanted a 490 hole to be driver wedge like I that’s probably a better test of skill uh just to be able to launch at 340 down the Fairway well you know he he just that better athletes you know better athletes will come along and just kind of you know who cares Phil hits kind of an okay shot but it ends up sort of short right in some thick rough uh just short of the green pain hits a true just a garbage shot that should have either ended up in the bunker well short or buried in thick rough it hits the lip of the like uh the bunker front of the Fairway and somehow instead of going back into the bunker or like kicking into the rough kicks hard left into the Fairway uh no chance if it doesn’t do this that he can get up down and make a par but it ends up in the Fairway 10 yards short of the green meanwhile up ahead tiger hits a great bunker shot misses it maybe by like two or three inches from going in the ball goes three feet by we’re cutting back now to Phil hits kind of a shitty chip if he said later if he had a one shot back it would be this chip on 17 16 excuse me pay hits maybe the worst chip I think like a professional could make in that moment hits it 25 feet past uh the pin so that he has a downhill double breaker that he needs to make to make par uh essentially like ainger says later like in a documentary about this US Open like you could easily putt this ball off the green Phil tells shipnuck in 2014 when he bladed that shot I didn’t really consider him the number one threat anymore I thought tiger was the number one threat somehow Payne rolls the ball in like it’s just it’s maybe like one of the most iconic I think US Open putts uh that you can imagine it it all gets overshadowed a lit by what happens on 18 but like he holds this center cut and then just like puts his finger up like he’s a superhero walking away from an explosion just like yep got that Phil says later like if that ball doesn’t goes in it probably runs 15 to 20 feet by it had the potential to go off the green Phil of course then misses his like seven-footer like pushes it hard every seven-footer in this time period he missed every single one that mattered yeah it it’s truly like Phil’s a great great putter he later in his care be kind of go through a shitty string but at this point he’s a great putter except for like when it matters like he’s sprinkle in some like four-footers that’ll do a full horseshoe yeah it saw you’re were talking about like just remembering this being like that era like for the people on the ground too it was like they knew something like special was happening uh Rick Smith who’s mikkelson’s swing coach said the conditions were so unusual for US Open it was dark it was Misty there was almost an eerie feeling and you know there’s this church across the street in Pinehurst seconds after pay made his putt on 16 the Bells start ringing that was a beautiful sound it just went out across the course it felt like some kind of sign so back to 17 Tiger has to sort of step away after this Roar he hard power lips out of this four-footer like asinger says later it’s probably the last time Tiger missed an important putt for an entire decade no just true total total made UPS like I’m ready to squash tiger never missed these putts we’ll get there as well but continue so 17t pay steps up he has not really hit a great iron sh at all today like he has just squirted around it’s you know it’s sloppy somehow like grit and guts and finding put the ball way to put the ball in the hole he steps up and just absolutely Stripes one you know it rolls out to six feet and the crowd is going [ __ ] Bonkers like it is crazy Phil’s like hey good shot good shot Phil steps up and hits it like maybe a foot outside of pain like just a ridiculously good thing Miller’s like truly two of the best iron shots that you will ever see in that with that pressure in that moment moment bones tells shnook later when Phil’s ball hit it that close to get it in the hole that was a smell of the Roses moment for me that place went crazy but we get up to the green and Phil is uncertain about the break of the putt he says you know bones selling lat said that Phil said hey come over and take a look at this I thought it was pretty straight but the putt turned a little right and it missed in hindsight it was probably left Edge in my 22 years as a caddy if I could have one doover it would be reading that putt by a million miles so Johnny doesn’t believe that Phil like misreads the break he’s like oh he pulled it second straight hole which is sick Payne pours in his putt one stroke lead going into 18 so tiger up ahead absolutely stripes a drive in the Fairway uh he’s still got a chance you know he can he makes a birdie here he can you know get into potentially a playoff he hits it kind of in a different Iron shot to about 30 feet and you can hear as tiger gets there both Phil and Payne Drive theirs in the Fairway Tigers up in the green you can hear the the church bells that we’re talking about like on the broadcast and you hear Gary KO say they’re playing Angels We Have Heard On High and Johnny fires back well he’s gonna need it right here because that cup is pretty high I almost want to just like Turn My Headphones off and just go watch this like I almost feel like I was like I don’t spoil this I want to go back and watch this this is this is Peak US Open [ __ ] man I on the top of my head I’m struggling to think of a more iconic Us open in my like you know lifetime I remember watching this uh I was an intern at the Phil excuse me at the Great Falls Tribune in Great Falls Montana and I was working the sports desk and we were watching up on the screen and I I remember Tiger’s putt being really really good but I didn’t really remember like how [ __ ] good it was until I watched this replay I mean he absolutely reads it like so so so good it looks like on the broadcast like it like grazes the edge it doesn’t quite when they show the replay but Johnny Miller’s like that putt is so pure it defies description uh but tiger can’t make it makes a par it’s you know probably gonna miss out here pay hits another shitty drive he keeps pushing drives to the right all day he’s had to lay up and like get up and down like probably four times throughout the day so he hits a drive uh Roger Mal’s like that’s great and Johnny’s like nope it’s not that’s that’s gonna miss that’s going to be a miss by a one yard totally right Roger goes over there yep that’s the worst lie I’ve seen all week it’s terrible so pay has to hit it to about 75 uh 78 yards he has after his layup Phil hits a really pretty good shot about 18 feet uh just kind of right of the pin you know he so Payne has got to hit like a you know a pretty good shot here and it looks like I would say hits a pretty like kind of meh like you know from 78 yards to leave it you know 18 feet or so I I don’t think think it was particularly great like nobody thinks it’s great but they’re like well he’s got a putt everybody on the at this point is kind of expecting like Hey we’re probably going to get a playoff here and apparently Payne’s caddy at the time was like oh [ __ ] like we’ve got this really like expensive like charitable member guest thing that we supposed to play in on Monday and I don’t know like me and Payne and azinger and you know some other I think Jansen he’s like I don’t know who I’m gonna get I’m GNA know who going to get to fill in for us like I I got all this like investment of the the people are going to be so pissed he’s like I swear to God that’s what I was thinking about on 18th Phil hits a really really good putt better than I remember it just misses high and pay of course like it’s dead quiet stands over this putt it’s it’s actually really straight it I thought it had more break in it but it is a straight inutt pours it right in the middle does the iconic like fist forward leg kick back uh that they eventually make the statue out it goes over to uh to Phil afterwards uh puts him puts his hands on his face and said you know good luck with the baby uh you you know there’s nothing like being a father s i I pulled this up you and I recreated this picture uh when we knew that uh Hannah was pregnant uh so at at our first trip to Pine her no we we we did not know she was this is before she was pregnant we said we took it for oh that’s right in case she ever got pregnant in case we got in case we got there you were like we’re gonna we’re gonna start to try to have kids so uh let’s redo this picture yes they did I I don’t even need to uh rewatch to dick inberg is on the call and he makes the putt Payne Stewart is the 1999 US Open Champion oh my it was just awesome dude it was just awesome it just iconic man P says you’re you’re gonna be a great father there’s nothing like being a father I swear to God this is like very oldtime Sports ritery thing but like all the old Great Falls Tribune guys when Payne like pointed like that we’re like did he say like take that [ __ ] like that that sounds more like Payne Stewart not what he said at that moment uh ainger says later when you talk about the greatest showings of sportsmanship in golf history you have to say that number one is Nicholas’s concession to Tony jacn in the riter cup but right there pay would be number two uh he could immediately emphasize with Phil Mickelson pay knows the agony of De fate who knew it more than him Payne goes over to his wife and he pulls her in close and he says I did it love I held my head still all day just like you said oh uh what a shot at Steve Scott by uh by asinger bad guy a lot of people say that you know this in the sort of write up that I think it’s haime Diaz does after inp said said that you know pay’s the first person to win uh us opens with two different personalities uh that he was a dick the first time when he won Hazel teen but he’s actually like a a very generous gregarious person even his mom says he’s a different man a better son I gave him an ad itude adjustment his mother said you learned you can’t go around and be rude to everyone brys totally [ __ ] winning the US Open this year guys the the parallels this is why we do these things s because they Echoes throughout history nichelson flies home and gets there at midnight Amy goes into labor immediately the next morning right about the time that Phil would have been warming up for a playoff and Amanda is born that evening Phil says to ship that is an underrated part of it is if pay misses the putt Phil’s got a wd anyways yep Phil says uh you know here we are 15 15 years later I was talking to shipnuck in 2014 back when you know he had a good relationship with shipnuck uh here we are 15 years later and I can tell her with all certainty that her birth this is talking about Amanda is the most emotional moment of Our Lives it’s something I would never want to miss and I’m so glad I was able to be there because it really is one of the greatest experiences in the world I loved her even before I knew her ainger says I believe it’s one of those greatest influences that Payne had was in how helped he helped change Phil as a man was a great example of a guy who had found perfect balance in his life Phil has always done the right thing he’s always been the good guy but golf was everything to him what happened in Pinehurst bonded them forever and it set the priorities straight for Phil for eternity and course that lasted forever that would never wave waiver oh that’s iconic US Open man that’s that’s a really fun one to relive just through just I I’m definitely going to go back and watch that one there’s not a just seeing seeing the trajectory of the balls too of like like it’s that kind of dark Moody day like you said and there’s there’s moisture in the air but there’s Flyers out of the rough there’s there’s low Spinners that Rise Against The you know the pine trees it’s really it’s a really aesthetically interesting broadcast to watch which I know there’s like studies on this stuff that like when you’re in a certain age period like you just ass those are like the good old days for you always like you just you know the older you but they it really just just seemed like they were so good at developing drama in this time period right and I’m there was some stuff I found in’ 05 that was like oh so they’re just like skipping golf shots like we would have been INF Furious now as we as we go to watch it but like it just felt like Gary and Johnny and like the way they pass things off to each other was just it was just guess probably because it’s the voices of my childhood but it it just seemed like it was better back then I don’t know how that is it for 99 we are always looking for ways for you to save money on household products that you need to get through the day I have never seen a 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to the Pod we head back to Pinehurst in 2005 again we are still on this very Green Golf Course lot of grass out at Pinehurst uh just the second Us open at Pinehurst course is about the same length as it was in 99 only 50 yards longer just worth noting in this time period the fourth hole played as a par five and the fifth played as a par four uh which those two are Now inverted and then the the fourth is a long four and five has a silly t-box way back that is that is a par five that’s kind of the only real other than of course the renovation the restoration that comes after this five is a par four would be so hard and the USGA is worried about that’s the one green they’re the most worried about coming into this week so stump the Schwab style I’m going to go to KBB first and then TC and you can alternate going back and forth uh as soon as you get one wrong you are out of the game but we’re going to have you name the top 10 in the world going into the 2005 US Open KV get to go first name anyone in the top 10 and and then the game passes on to TC teger Woods that is correct he is number one in the world VJ sing he is number two in the world that is well done Phil Mickelson Mickelson is four in the world that is well done five it’s so easy when you’re looking and so hard when you’re doing what you guys are doing yes Ernie El is number three you’ve got the top four gets a little harder from here 20 should get five and six you should definitely get five and six you said okay we have VJ tiger Phil Ernie correct God why am I blanking on I pass he’s panicked think I’m choking done at this Point’s done at that point I mean just think Podrick is not say think think recent major winners are close calls so Adam Scott Adam Scott is seven you guys both lost this game by the way Sergio Garcia Sergio is six okay Kenny Perry Kenny Perry’s 10 wow good job TC there’s three more I I think you can you should get one of the you should at least get one of them recent close calls what happened in the 05 Masters Christa Marco Christen Marco is eight in the world Mike Weir Mike Weir is not up there um who who has won two of these us opens in the last four years oh R gusen retif gon is five uh David Toms was nine did not think you guys would get to that one but um I was thinking Toms but I couldn’t place if that was like 02 it’s hard it’s way harder to do than than you’d think of like if you did 09 right now I would be I would just be guessing but man I’m the first person to ever pass on the thing that’s that’s embarrassing it’s really fun to ask that question I would not want to participate uh eventual Champion which we’ll get to is of course Michael Campbell he is not the low Campbell in the field he’s the 80th ranked player he qualified for the event through sectional qualifying in England the first time they held a sectional qualifier actually in England only odds I could find on this one um he was not even given odds prior to it he was listed as part of the of the field that was six to one so it’s basically a bunch of names up there and then it’s was like oh yeah rest of the field was in there and that’s where Michael Campbell was in so he would have been more than 150 to1 to win this US Open when was his big run as like world number one or or or world number two or what like he was he never no no he was really really or or best player like best player in the rest of the world like he was he was a Savage for a while his highest rank was ever was in 2001 he was the 12th ranked player in the world okay maybe I’m making that up but I me he was crushing it worldwide though so this is a story that the kbv uncovered when we covered the 1995 Majors but he was the 54 hole leader at the open championship and he tells this story on um a Chronicles of a of the open podcast video podcast episode that’s on the Open Championship channel it’s not written anywhere I was like I remember KBB telling the story on here Googled it couldn’t find it anywhere he was staying in Dundee during the 1995 Open Championship he’s the leader at 54 holes it’s like an hour away traffic is tough and so IMG like comes to him and says we can arrange we to have a chopper over to St Andrews we can skip the traffic obviously he’s getting there later in the day with all the traffic fans getting there he’s the videoo leader remember at this point correct is so far I don’t know why he’s staying there but he’s like they said we’ll get you a chopper and the chopper shows up 45 minutes late and he has to and he like takes the chopper and the chopper drops him off and he’s 10 minutes away still from St Andrews and he tells the driver something of like whatever you have to do get me there like just get me there and he gets there and he hits like 10 range balls and he’s off to the first T and like he almost missed his 54 54 lead of the tournament almost didn’t make his tea time and it’s like not written about anywhere I literally couldn’t find anything Michael Campbell helicopter that was uh ever documented so that’s a story and that’s kind of a story that permeates through a lot of the broadcast it’s like his close call in 20 in 1995 nobody again talking about this flight but uh I think it was years he went years before he was like willing to tell that story like because he didn’t want to throw IMG under the bus and didn’t want to sort of like make it seem but for whatever reason I remember when we did that look back like they for some reason they’re talking about oh it’s kind of an unusual rain session for Michael Campbell like they it just didn’t know like what was going on like no one for that broadcast had any clue like what had occurred until he revealed it years later it’s crazy so uh leading up into this USGA reputation it’s not it’s not great like at this point I mean we’re coming off 2004 at shinok VJ said if they do the same thing at Pinehurst I’d rather not play the golf course that way than go out there and make a fool of myself of course referring to the setup at shinok Tom Meeks is in charge of the setup this is his last time doing it pretty iffy reputation among players of course they’re you know making the point of you know we’re trying to identify the best players not embarrass them blah blah blah it’s in every article leading up to this but VJ also said to Tom Meeks if you lose the golf course you’d better hide but there’s not there’s going to be no place to hide because we’re going to find you hell yeah VJ getting all Tony Soprano on that ass BJ rules very threatening Phil of course would say Without Rain and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get any we have potential for 18 holes that could be number seven at shinok very conceivable which you remember they completely lost the seventh GRE at shinok had to water it in between groups and Phil says they could do that on all 18 holes here if they don’t handle it properly so in 2005 to date VJ has won three times he won the Sony won the Houston open won wacovia uh Sergio blew a six shot lead to wacovia uh Tigers won three times that’s on the heels of of VJ winning like what seven or eight times in 04 I think 95 times in 04 yeah something like that yeah it was it absurd uh and he won the 04 PGA um just two majors prior to this so Tigers won three times he won Buick toout in the Masters but his game’s kind of iffy coming up into this he missed the cut to Byron Nelson people are kind of like what the hell’s going on here uh with tiger Phils won three times he won the FBR open in Arizon won Pebble won the Bell South Sergio wins the week before at the Booze Allen Fred Funk won of the players this year if you’ll remember but in a pre turnament article retif gum’s asked about not being recognized he said there’s times I feel like yeah you’ve won a couple us opens and there’s not a picture of you anywhere or nothing has been mentioned I don’t know what the guys want me to do do they want me to do handstands when I make a putt and all that kind of stuff tiger received a text from anuka on the Sunday night prior into the US Open that said nine to n was was the text that she just won her ninth major to tie him uh at the LPGA Championship which is funny to go from 99 to 2005 tiger was a one-time major Champion now he’s nine-time major Champion just teeing it up six years later there’s again that graphic in the USA Today that predicts the proper mix for the championship 30% of your score is going to come from scrambling 25% putting 20% greens and regulation 10% driving accuracy and 15% driving distance no no explanation get to that drive for show PFF for d solid all right God I love to think about some sports riter sitting around like just eyeballing that [ __ ] like 15% driving accuracy TC a fun name in the a a college teammate of Tiger Woods has got in as a first alternate through through qualifying can you guess who who that might have been not named notab beay Jason Gore Conrad Ray the the coach at Stanford Jason Gore didn’t didn’t play at Stan no I don’t know where you’re I was gonna say coach Ray qualified for for the US Open uh he played a practice round I I believe he played a practice round there’s a picture of them play in a practice round uh uh with tiger come out on Thursday tiger he’s in some baggy stuff it’s not great guys it’s it’s kind of a it’s a tough Nike phase it is great like looking back it’s like that’s sick it it’s yeah I mean it it he doesn’t look great this this coming week it’s street wear as golf Weare it’s not it’s not the best look there’s a lot of Articles or it’s same again I saw the same articles you know kind of repeating in a lot of different newspapers but one that kept repeating was like a lot of stuff comes out this week of like you remember the onion headline that was a couple years ago that was like PJ tour thinks black golfers that were supposed to follow tiger should be here by now like a but that that article is out there like in 2005 of like hey tiger is still the only black player on the PGA tour which again I mean we’re all you know we’re eight years after the Masters wi this point I I I don’t know if they’re like making the connection like right of you know the there hasn’t still hasn’t been that impact but that was a again a still a storyline reverberating through 2005 which that was I definitely don’t remember about that about 2005 but another look at Pinehurst at this time I mean it’s just it is unrecognizable to what we see today and I remember I don’t know if this is in any of what you’re covering TC but Bill core talking about like the you know the decision they had to renovate and and to remove this stuff and how like it felt like the riskiest thing ever just like by the truckload taking away perfectly good Turf perfectly good grass out of a golf course like that was the thing back then was like you need a grass for your golf course they just remove all this uh yeah there was I think they took out 31 or 32 two acres of grass according to it just like I think looking back it’s like oh my God this was the riskiest thing we could have done and like looking back the riskiest thing they could have done is doing nothing well it just set the trend right I mean just look how goofy this this golf course looks with this thick Bermuda and like the funky mool lines and what if you’re listening to the Pod I’m sorry but you can probably visualize it but another reason to check out the no Lang up Podcast YouTube channel so in round one ol and brown and rock ediate shoot 67 they lead at 3 under par ol and brown played his way in by shooting a 59 in qualifying something that is brought up uh frequently throughout retif gusen Brandt job Lee West wer at two under KJ Choy Luke Donald Steve Jones and Phil Mickelson at one under tiger VJ Adam Scott in a group at uh even par and three those Graphics are sick they are uh and I love looking back at old old like Thursday Friday lead I’m gonna give you the top 10 of every single day because the names that cycle through are just what makes me so happy but brand job up there on the board I mean of course it’s it’s a funky US Open all right trivia question here the next day for Friday Dan Hicks refers to a a group of people as the Fab Five I don’t ever remember there being a fab five uh in mid 2000s but who who are the Fab Five I mean we did the top five in the world I vaguely remember this we did the top five in the world which they are again can you name back the the Fab Five of golf is it VJ tiger Ernie Ernie Phil Phil God it wouldn’t I wouldn’t be retif it is retif is it the Fab Five which yeah that one didn’t stick I don’t think past this one but uh I just found that one as an interesting little time capsule the Ray jackson of Fab fives G Pinehurst make fetch happen uh Pinehurst goes man it goes hard on this Friday Phil goes out in 41 again what kind of Define this era this putt from four feet it doesn’t touch the hole guys I mean he shoots uh he missed five putts inside of eight feet he shoots putting St shoots like is this the Ford the Ford sponsorship where he’s got the big massive Ford bearing Point logo on his chest he’s uh I I don’t know I don’t remember yes I mean it’s yellow shirts with the blue Ford logo yeah subcutaneous I do not remember this at all this is the sickest find that I have so tiger um is is putting on the ninth green on Friday and he uh has this putt here lined up and he misses the Putt and he takes his putter can you I don’t know if you guys can see this in the image drags it along the green and makes a two and a half three and a half foot scuff mark on the green he received a reprimand from the USGA the the footage of this also shows him going back and giving I cannot describe this the most token effort you could at repairing this like he walks away and the green still looks like this but he he does like a little swipe to repair the scuff marks that he makes on this green but because he technically made an effort to repair the damage there was no penalty wow like it was it was pretty gross like it was pretty it’s bad like a really really bad scuff mark on the green and he didn’t even properly even sending a message to the USGA kick off the tour Doug God that was bad I just but he got off on that technicality other otherwise he would have been penalized and again he just like goes and like makes up I don’t even know if he touches the ground just to swipe at it get officer Gillis out there David Toms uh takes the lead on Friday then he drops five shots in two holes which will be a theme from what unfolds shortly this coming weekend retif gusen is that dude again he shoots 70 to tie Olen Brown uh and Jason Gore at two underpar gore shot a 67 G of course coming off winning the 2004 Us open at shinok the 2001 Us open at Southern Hills just chaotic us opens both of them setups that got pretty wild and both of them he just poured in those four five six-footers the whole time Gore of course the 118th ranked player in the world Jason Gore with his wife Megan and eight-month-old son Jackson they were driving east on Interstate 40 on Sunday night fatigue got the best of them they stopped at a hotel in Asheville Megan went out to get some clothes out of her bag at 1:30 in the morning she discovered the door lock had had been destroyed her clothing had been stolen along with the car stereo and a laptop computer they got their car broken into however Gore’s clubs went to Pinehurst with his caddy his clubs and his shoes were were spared because they were not in the car and they made his way all the way there they had go shopping for clothes Gore had the quote Gore is like the folk hero of this US Open it’s blocky Mania I mean that’s the only description I could come up with yeah s like thinking back on that I remember him being much lower than 117th in the world like what did I say 818th oh 8 thought you said 128 you said7 yeah apologize take that back he’s yeah I was like whoa that’s also what kind of system did he have in his it was a I think it was a Tahoe or Suburban did he have like a a couple of Subs back there and he’s just just bumping all over the the mini tours don’t don’t know exactly the answer to that one but you know he has a quote on there it’s like I feel bad for the guy that broke all he got was my underwear like just folk hero stuff I mean he is extremely I think he said who’s got the last laugh now or whatever they got my underwear but I got the lead KJ Choy and Mark hensby are one back can you uh one back of the lead through 36 holes can you guess how many Fairways Mark hensby hit through the first two rounds out of 28 23 TC I said five to start out with I’ll say 25 six you were very you were very close to the begin six Fairways TC gets two choices and go the difference I was on I said five and I thought s was like he I’m gonna let you retake that because it was so it was so egregiously low six Fairways that he’s one back uh Michael Campbell Sergio VJ and Lee Westwood are at even just two back tiger furick Brandt Joe Roco mediate Adam Scott Steven Allen kachiro fukabori had not heard that name before potential manipulator 10 uh but just three shots back so pretty Bunch leaderboard going into what’s going to be a chaotic weekend somebody you’re not going to guess this Corey paven flew home on Thursday night to San Diego for his high school son’s graduation in between round one and two took a PJ then took a Redeye back uh and made it back in time to play Friday I don’t know why this always keeps happening around pineh her stuff but uh flew flew home for his son’s graduation uh there at the 2005 US Open high schools need to get together and push graduation either forward or back because it’s it’s happening too much around the MJ around these golf tournaments exactly right uh Saturday we get there are nine players uh under par after round one there’s only five after round two and after round three we’re going to end the day with only one guy under par at Piner number two tiger hits 16 greens but cannot buy a bucket uh he finally makes one on 11 does a very dramatic like finally things finally made a putt guys reach up to the sky and then he does the you know the finger lick and the add one to the tally uh in there sarcastic as he pours in his his first bird of the day this is when tiger crazy yolked still young he looks like he kind of has a bad attitude yeah oh very stinky attitude 100% this you were very much in this era like either totally turned off by Tiger’s like bitching and moaning or you were all in on it because you were like I don’t give a [ __ ] he’s like the dominant dude I love it and I was in the turned off Camp I got to you respected his career but exactly get back on defense dude exactly uh retif G’s gonna fire a one underpar 69 a Steely one just very much just like the RTI all he’s gonna do this at every US Open like you’re the Brooks kepo this like you you do this at Majors now got a three shot lead at three underpar birdied three of his last five holes Olen Brown and Jason gorat even in a tie for second Michael Campbell and Mark hensby are plus one four shots back Michael Campbell dramatically hold a bunker shot for Birdie on 17 but again he’s four back going into uh the next day David Toms at two over KJ Choy Peter hedblom one your sweds TC Lee Westwood and tiger all at plus three so again Tiger’s sixth back Eugene our friends at the Eugene Register Guard of course uh kbv said the biggest surprise continues to be Gore a sectional qualifier with a substantial midsection hell yeah uh if you’re a hus if you’re a husky boy there’s just it’s it’s open season on your ass when it comes mid sectional qualifier Gore enjoys telling the story that this is uh he he held the lead at one point on this day but he he once he not his first time holding the lead of the US Open he once held the lead of the 1998 US Open uh only because he was in the first group and he hold a wedge uh but he he’d love telling that story of uh you know that’s how my the Thursday started the 98 US Open uh he held the the outright lead briefly when gusen made double on 13 it lasted for six minutes as he would then flip over and double uh the 14th hole and uh on the last screen uh Jason Gore closed with a birdie and walked it in and did the Tiger Point uh go g go on to say I said to my cat did I just point that ball in the whole gosh I’m a cheeseball and uh all the headlines going into suay it’s like cheeseball steals the show at US Open and things like that so Gore sustainability models might have been able to identify what was coming because Gore hit five Fairways on this day uh ol and brown would walk off the course saying this course is like facing Mike Tyson when he was 20 years old the pin on three was dicey on this day like there’s a lot of shots that come into three in the back kind of center of it that were like everyone was making a mess of that of that third hole David THS hits a hits a hits a bird there’s a bird like parked on the green it has a ball roll up and hit a bird on 18 and stop bird was back stopping TC outrageous and there’s another ball right next to the it so he was clearly back stopping of anyway of course so we go into Sunday G is leading and it’s all about the goose he’s got a three- shot lead he’s won two of the last four us opens if you would have said right then that morning that retif G’s not even ever gonna finish in the top five again at a US Open that would have been laughed at that would have been the craziest possible thing you could have said including that week he’s not going to finish in the top five you know honestly I truly underrated collapse uh or like final round like bad [ __ ] by a somewhat like great player 100% his third US Open yeah and you know again the gore thing Gore is just you know laughing it up at the crowd like he’s extremely popular Dan Hicks hits us with in the in the highlight film of a quote that just says it it’s how you play the game that matters most just based on all of his fan interactions that was a that was a little bit misplaced but so tiger opening putt on the first green and again tiger six off off the pace at this point he’s putting from just off the green on one uh trying to lag it up it does not reach the green it gets rejected and comes all the way back at him uh he makes bogey on the first he also Bogi the second hole he’s eight back walking up the third Fairway Tiger Woods would be one back walking off the 11th green this is classic US Open of like if you are one under par on the day you are catapulting up the leaderboard like there’s so much [ __ ] happening there’s so much volatility possibilities there’s leaderboard gravity like it’s a it’s a very real US Open Michael Campbell comes out Bird’s the opening hole to get back to even he’s still three back of gusen Olen Brown objection number one of the day he B he Bogies five of the first six holes on his way to shooting a plus 1080 gusen pars the opener but then he skulls a chip and doubles the second misses a shorty and makes bogy on the third he’s back to even and now it’s a wideopen tournament Gore makes bogy on two doubles the third hole and uh Neil Neil we actually covered this tournament on the greatest collapses pod Neil deep dove into this one and I couldn’t find the actual quote on this but it’s honestly one of my favorite like laughing moments ever on the noou Pod was uh Gore started said he panicked a little bit this is I’m paraphrasing because I could have find the quote and I’m quoting Neil on this one but uh after the three-over start he said uh you know now I gotta go get it which we followed up with the music from the Ghana Paul bearers uh the dancing meme of yeah you’re gonna go get it at the at the 2005 Us open at Piner it’s not going to go very well so yeah he’s plus three he’s playing with gusen right there but he B he birdies five and you know but like he’s in second walking off the seventh green he’s in second place and he’s one shot back with 11 holes to play what place do you think Jason Gore finished 11 holes to play he’s one back in second place 35th or 40th no not that bad I would say 18th or something t 49 holy [ __ ] it was one of the worst back nines like in history he Bogies eight and doubles nine he went out in 40 Bogi 10 tripled 12 bogied 14 15 16 and doubled 18 he shot 84 I remember he and I don’t know if you have this in sorry if it but that he and Goen make like a a wager of like the final four holes okay I won’t they do make a $5 bet on that um we got something yeah goose and bogy’s five Campbell’s now in the lead G also bogey six they’re still in it NBC starts missing shots at this point on eight Roger tells us G’s hit a flyer over the green which I I could I would have liked to have seen that like we’re witnessing one of the all-time collapses plus five through six he B he shoots 40 on the front and proceeds to Bogey 12 13 14 15 16 and shoots 80 uh he his best ever finish again in the US Open would be a T10 years later but would never seriously contend for a US Open again uh when it looked like he was going to win three out of five yeah meanwhile tiger Bird’s the fourth and the seventh to pull within three he’s got his charge going there’s this wild image as he’s hitting his shot into 11 there’s a weather warning uh that and all the fans are removed from the bleachers so he’s hitting this shot uh into 11 there’s still a crowd around there but it’s just a weird image with no fans and the bleachers right behind the green and uh he steps up and he absolutely stuffs it in there to to five feet right of the pin makes the bird he walks off the green and he’s he’s one back those bleachers are sweet like like how steep they are how on top of the action you are 100% Campbell birdies the 10th hole he’s got a two- shot lead now then he makes a bomb Birdie on 12 to open up a three- shot lead he gets to 14 there’s a huge Roar as he’s getting ready to hit a shot and it’s tiger who had stuffed one to five feet on 15 Campbell backs off steps up and fires a laser right at the stick uh tiger makes birdie Campbell misses the lead is still two tigers got an 8ot par putt on the 16th hole missed it again we have to kill the narrative that never missed putts that mattered like he has a chance here again at Pinehurst and the putter betrays him he three putts the 17th as well missing a six- foot par saver so Campbell makes a great up and down on 15 up ahead there’s a massive cheer tiger makes Birdie on the 18th green cut the lead back to two but again the two missed putts on uh on 16 and 17 are the difference as of right now Campbell steps up on 17 and hits a great shot the 20 feet and pours in the putt just dead center three shot lead heading to the last hole he bogey 18 but he wins by two he actually missed a really short putt on 18 tiger was standing back behind 18 green I don’t really I’m not really sure why trying to intimidate him I guess into make pull a vanderbeld uh I’m not really sure but his speech is awesome like it’s just genuine just like he had been through ye uh years of injuries and just uh you know unfulfilled potential and kind of the Heartbreak from 1995 Open Championship he shouts out his family in England and New Zealand hits his dad with the Happy Father’s Day um uh you know back in New Zealand and it’s just like it it it’s really good really good genuine moment and again it like just the the emotions that come from a from a big golf tournament like that or a big reason why I’m a golf fan today and uh it it’s just really good so Gil Morgan was the last 54 hole leader to shoot in the 80s he shot 81 at the 1992 Us open at Pebble Dr Dr Gilmore Campbell would say afterwards I kept telling myself 20 times a ho keep my focus keep my focus keep my focus again G and Gore were so bad they ended up having a $5 bet in the round between the two of them which G won G had 36 putts they were put on the clock on the 11th hole not because they were playing slow but G said quote because we just had to hit so many shots basically the last seven holes I was just trying to finish the round there was nothing to play for this was the first that’s wild to think about him having 36 putts when the at shinicok he had like 20 putts or something that F around like it was one of the most ridiculous putting performances ever and yeah he I mean did just Piner chewed him up and spit him out on that day he only finished in a tie for 11th but uh this was the first time nobody broke par at the US Open since Olympic in 98 Steve Williams would call it the greatest sports moment in New Zealand history and he stuck around and gave Campbell a big hug uh when he came off the 18th green um as well this is from Alan chipn right up in uh Sports Illustrated it’s in the bathroom shortly after Campbell went into gather himself and ran into Tiger Tiger said congrats man that was some great golf today you deserve to win at this Campbell finally let his guard down he said I have one question for you how do you do this so often and tiger said luck and smiled as he breezed and walked out the door and prime minister Helen Clark uh phoned Michael Campbell to to offer his congratulations and then uh again from Sports Illustrated the most heart-wrenching moment of Campbell’s Father’s Day Victory came when he called Julie from the quiet in the locker room upon hearing her voice he was so overcome he couldn’t speak gasping for air the the the pending father getting ready for his first Father’s Day feel a little emotional this one he’s like he finally asked are the boys watching uh about his sons about his two sons and it was uh uh after midnight in England which just like the first place he went was like you know he wanted to he wanted to do this for for his uh for his son and we just just published an interview with Stephen jger Stephen said something very similar about like I want to win like when my kid can remember what this happening I just found that pers to be really interesting especially on Father’s Day this is what’s gonna happen for you at the gas Barilla someday s like when all your kids are there to see you you so so soon H told that they were Campbell buried his head in his hands and let the tears pour for 10 seconds or more he wept into the phone finally he choked out six words I can’t believe I’ve done it hell yeah it’s great other 2005 stuff on this day only six cars TC started the F1 race at the US Grand Prix after safety concerns 14 cars ducked off the track uh in protest also Eric G is getting ready to hit the IL the DL back then um probably for something steroid Rel at so one thing that wasn’t mentioned was just just Campbell’s shirt had kind of the mayori pattern going on the shirt I just remember being extremely you know kind of Av on guard and and different from anything we’d seen and then lastly here is that graphic of uh of that of that random numbers of what they came up with of scrambling and driving accuracy driving distance I love how this is like not attributed to anything it’s just USA Today research and it explains scrambling oh that is it that is it for 05 it’s uh you know one thing I just to sort of generally comment is like it it this sort of kind of set that trend for like the only guys who really stood up to tiger and Majors were kind of guys who were no buies in a lot of ways like none of the the great people of Tiger’s generation uh stood up and and beat him maybe it was like they felt like they had a free role right maybe to lose yeah I guess depends on what you consider onhell uh because he beat him at Oakmont kind of going head to-head that was another like episode of tiger the the myth that tiger never missed important putts uh if you ever want to watch one that just like deflates it Oakmont is a good one too he’s still like the great I mean he’s still we’re not denying any of his achievements right it’s just that like literally nobody didn’t miss putts Nicholas missed putts like it it happened a lot so all right you guys ready for for 2014 ready gosh am I ever TC I’m very excited to welcome you into the deep Dives yeah we not scheduled out right that you got to sit out your first Deep dive and wait an hour and a half to get into it oh good no so 2014 let me take you guys there a little bit with other stuff that’s going on in the golf world right uh yeah so I’m gonna I’m gonna add this is oh gosh we got nou content we’ve got no laying up.com hell yeah there we got Su getting off getting off some Chris Burman jokes and how ESPN shows a lot of golf shots and golf channel NBC and CBS all love to show pre-shot routines post shot reactions attempt to tell a story with every shot ESPN’s strategy seems to be to cram as many golf shots as possible in their time so also I love that random nugget from you too Sol from 1999 when Payne Stewart wins if you look at the scorecard Phil Mickelson like there’s there’s like a you know that’s right he uh it looks like he’s angry or frustrated right like he writes the two on 17 in like bold it’s like really really dark yeah I totally forgot about that no laying up.com is we’ve got a pre-order for for t-shirts in this picture here I want to know who are the models behind this I no idea I think it’s Neil and an ex-girlfriend I’m pretty sure yeah so that’s uh you know that’s percolating here we’ve got so we’re 15 years on from pay Stewart’s death and Ricky Fowler comes out and does a tribute to him wearing wearing the plug plus fours and everything you know obviously he’s Puma head to toe he’s got the massive Puma cap on and all that but that was uh that was very very fitting there I thought it was a good tribute so big Ricky era big big Ricky era yeah massive massive so 2014 what else is going on we’ve got uh Patrick Reed has declared himself a top five player in the world uh after his win at the WGC Cadillac championship at Dural we’ll get to Dural in a bit here uh Jimmy Big Tech Jimmy Walker is just cleaning up he won the fries.com open to as the as the season opener uh he he won in in Hawaii uh Zach Johnson won the Tournament of Champions we’ve got just it kind of it’s kind of a similar crew to what we have going on now Adam Scott is the number one player in the world at this moment it was a little dark in this in this time period right I mean I like sun youel know was always like up around there uh he had won it the Zurich Classic of New Orleans a few weeks prior Bubba had won his second Masters uh Steven bodic won the Texas Open Mat everyy won the Arnold Palmer Invitational Jason da playing well Kevin Stadler won the West the waste management we’ll get to him in a bit as well Players Championship so players was back in May at this point Martin KR wins The Players Championship so some some foreshadowing there Martin k wins The Players Championship and back we were making picks in all of our weekly preview columns and he had a a three good rounds and a bad Sunday round yes at the weekend before I don’t know if that was Wills Fargo what whatever it was and he was 80 to1 to win the players and I was like guys we should put Martin kimer in our picks we I remember fighting about this fighting tooth and nail and TC would not let me include kimer in our picks for the week and I I I was bat betting I think back then and I put $10 on kimer to win at the players at 80 to1 and he won and I went I went ape [ __ ] I was I was rubbing it in everybody’s face I told you we should [ __ ] put him by the picks and I won 800 bucks off of it yeah I remember that distinctly so leading in we’ve got Adam Scott won Colonial Hideki wins his first career PGA Tour victory at the s’s beloved mirfield Village and then Ben Crane wins the week prior at the FedEx St J classic so we’re going to Pinehurst also the big bid crane era right about this time had yeah that was his fifth career fifth career win which is astonishing W so we’re going into Pinehurst it’s they’re stretching it out it’s 7562 yards it’s about 350 yards longer than 2004 they took out dozens of Acres of turf much different test of golf than it was Prior both like s you were saying you know 16 how long is 16 it was 480 485 16’s playing 520 525 and you know and and it’s not even quite as challenging playing shorter right probably right yeah exactly so you know we’re getting there there’s all sorts of conjecture about the golf course about hey what you know this trend in architecture what have Corin kensaw done here so let me oh God I totally forgot it’s brown that’s right it’s brown it’s brown and there are uh let me see some haters out there don’t like it so much there there are some haters out there here we go we’ve got DT chiming in he said I bet the horrible look of Pinehurst translates into poor TV ratings this is not what golf is about exclamation point Johnny Miller correctly very critical of greens and Pinehurst said they should be redone in a in a reply to Matt Janella he said it’s true Matt the new blue monster is better than Pinehurst so is bed Miner Turnberry and Trump aine blow it away so uh and then he said Turnberry in Scotland is a farce period Golf Course to pineur and it is even close likewise the blue monster at theal so uh D is kind of fun in this era on Twitter you know oh he’s just mixing it up I would love it if DT had just stayed part of golf Twitter it would have been so sweet if I remember right there’s also one where he like took a photo of a TV like we all do and like of how Brown it was and tweeted about how bad everything looked on TV like it’s just the best yeah so this is if you’ll remember this is the last year that NBC has US Open the following year it goes to Chambers Bay and fox takes over and everything and and so it’s kind of Johnny’s send off and ESPN’s still doing it and Chris Burman is in the booth and Su and Randy and I are just lighting Chris Burman up I mean every day just Twitter so we’ll get there we’ll get there but going in there’s no special exemptions into this one NL you friend of the program will Grimmer is in the field through the Springfield sectional he ends up making like five birdies in one of his rounds Brian Stewart of course got through the Springfield sectional as he always does Scott Langley earned entry as an alternate it would be his last entry into the US Open and now he’s see USGA uh stalwart and he’s a he never MCD there either you know I think he played in four or five of them never MC 2005 champ Michael Campbell does not enter citing a tendon in his left ankle and current form uh sadly he’s he’s also getting divorced at this time from Julie’s wife as well so going going through some personal stuff Brooks kepka qualifies through the sectional at Walton Heath uh that’ll be a theme of the tweets that we’ll we’ll throw up on the screen where me S is shouting at the top of his lungs this guy’s gonna be really good this guy’s gonna be really good cat pinched a nerve in his back he had surgery after an uneven spring he MCD at Tor I think he played well at at Honda not is giving all sorts of updates at this point on you know what Tiger’s got going on May 30th 2014 The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI and the SEC are investigating one Phil Michelson for insider trading so he’s got a lot going on you know similar to had a lot going on in 99 going on just in a different way 15 years later he’s wearing a beeper in 99 he’s wearing an ankle bracelet in in 2014 yeah yeah let me know if the cops are calling in the second you hear it I want an Early Head Start I’m going to a place with a non-extradition treaty right uh You’ be there in five hours Dustin Johnson had withdrawn from the Houston open to go play in uh I believe the naters at Kusa a tournament put on by Nat Hardwick who who I think is still in federal prison now oh forgot about the M yeah the all right so we get into it there’s a pairings Fiasco the usj no that’s this year yeah uh this is this is courtesy of the Irish Times to be honest I am also annoyed about something said uh I don’t mind saying it but I think it is a bit cheeky of the USGA in making the draw the way they did I’m with Brenda D young and Kevin Stadler for the first two rounds someone’s Bright Idea put the three big guys together I think it’s unfair to the three of us it is definitely not drawn out of the Hat that’s for sure and I just hope we don’t get stick from the galleries what they did is making a mockery of the three of us I spoke to GMAC and he thinks I should say something to the USGA about it is it Shane Lowry Shane Lowry Shane Lowry yeah yeah so uh Brendan dong actually gets off to a really really good start um you know and made a [ __ ] ton of birdies man that that dude could fill up the cup yeah he’s uh you know from Zimbabwe originally but lives lives in North Carolina so he’s kind of got local support and everything as well he’s also wearing all sorts of white pants uh which you know very for a big guy tough for a big guy to wear white pants as I knowm in June there should be some sort of nlu punishment someday where I got to play around in white pants because it is not a good look for me I mean it’s I put him on in a Golf Galaxy once I was like oh no not it not it so tournaments off and going and Su is already just chirping chirping chirping Chris Burman gonna take a mammoth effort out on the course to best Burman short sleeve dress shirt tie combo is the best thing I see today hey finchy the American leading the United States open had to play on the European tour this year because of the new qualifying system I I love the look back of like like that first TW the top tweet there does not sound like me like that that one could be you that could be maybe that was me or Randy right yeah haven’t finished breakfast and Burman is already screwing things up referred to the shape of the greens as inverted mushrooms buckle up that sounds like UTC next next up we got Jimmy Walker has three wins on this young season bman as as he announces the 31st Tournament of the year that was me that sounds like me S is this dates it right must have been a mistake in my channel guide is it says that the US Open has been on for an hour but I’ve seen about five shots this is this is a couple days later but this is too to you’re showing your too guide and everything here which I thought was great I likeo I wish too had stuck around too was sick and then here’s one you’ve got the Dream Team right here yet we get hours of Burman and it’s a picture of azinger and Van Pelt they were great Duo together this was before ainger was maybe not the best announcer he was a great announcer back then they were so um yeah so getting into round one kimer goes out shoots shoots 65 it’s really dry out there there’s you know it’s a much different presentation Dusty uh just all sorts of brown tan you know kind of looked like the tanal out there uh you got kimer 65 after round one he’s putting from everywhere putting from way off the greens leads by three over Brenan D young GMAC Kevin naw and do you guys remember who kind of the Cinderella story was this week Cinderella Story 20 older guy older Kelly he so you guys aren’t gonna get it Fran Quinn okay literally that’s the first time hearing at this person here’s here’s Fran Quinn and his son on Sunday they did a whole Father’s Day Montage they actually showed uh Jimmy and Zack Blair you know a few others but Frank Quinn is kind of the darling of this tournament we spe outfit a whole under exactly he kind of looks like speed right playing in his first US Open since 1996 49 years old of course Quinn won the 1989 Mass am and he won a smattering of Nationwide Thor events plus the Thailand open which I really really give a lot of credence to so uh kimer birdied four of his first nine and just didn’t really look back and then there’s a stalwart group at minus one Keegan Harris English Dustin coocher Dei Franchesco Molinari sneds spe Stenson and Brendan Todd the scoring average was 7323 so three shots over par basically nichelson shot even but so so that kind of throws ker 65 into pretty STK contrast of like it’s a good round which it gets remembered for being a snoozer of a tournament but it’s like just a [ __ ] iconic performance it was incredible performance and uh it you know unfortunately like people like drama we all like drama and you can almost like convince yourself Piner is not a good venue for that because it didn’t provide any drama but like you can’t do anything if one guy goes and has a great tournament that was my thing just looking back at this is like I didn’t have great memories of it it makes me more excited for this this year’s tournament because the presentation is awesome the course looks awesome the you know I think they’re it sounds like they’re trying to keep the greens a little bit shaggier around in certain spots so you can’t necessarily putt it from everywhere you have to chip it but they got an inch of rain overnight between Thursday and Friday which it sounds like the next few weeks here this year are going to be similar like it’s going to be pretty pretty wet there unfortunately but Kimber just basically just goes right back out and keeps up keeps doing what he’s doing shoots another 65 he birdies uh I think he started on 10 that day Bird’s 10 and 12 and then he drives the third green which you know I’ve played the third hole a lot I don’t see that uh he sets the US Open record at 130 so 6565 and if you combine his back nine on Thursday and Friday he he shot 63 on the back nine with you know holes like 16 out there that are freaking hard so more guys under par there’s 21 guys under par in round two 13 under par for the tournament at the halfway point only one amateur makes the cut Matt Matt Fitzpatrick scoring average slightly better on on Friday he bumped the te up at three so that was why he drove it but still that’s like that’s something I hope they do this year bump the tea up on three or even on 13 right Rory shoots uh 68 he’s minus one at the at at at the Midway Point Kevin Na has this to say I heard that Martin kimer played the number three course is that true n said after a solid 69 put him seven shots behind it’s unbelievable what he’s done is four or five under out there yes 10 under out there no I don’t think so I guess it was out there for him I watched some of the shots he hit some of the putts he’s made and he looks Flawless that was from Bob herig on ESPN kbv what were you doing this week so this was I was just starting to get back into golf uh I had been covering football for ESPN for several years and no one at the magazine was really into writing about golf uh and so I was kind of like hey I think we should write like a Phil Mickelson like big deep dive feature and ispin was like okay like you know if you can get him to participate in it you know the last era of Phil Mickelson right the he definitely not going to win another major you know he’s 40 whatever at this point and so they were like go to the US Open like uh you can you know if you just follow him around try to you know get him to talk and so basically I I went there I was I basically tailed Phil I did what I did with Victor this year was like tailed Phil for four rounds and I ended up getting all kinds of really good stuff that I I did use eventually in like a column about Phil the following year but I he wouldn’t like Steve lyd was like yeah no he’s not going to do anything he’s just not interested in in looking back remember Steve was like he’s like a shark Kevin he just always moves forward he doesn’t he can’t go backward and look backward and my other funny story is I was having dinner in Pinehurst you know it’s that little village and everybody’s kind of eating at the same restaurants and it’s all you know you can kind of bump into people and I was sitting at like a sushi restaurant uh and having like a kind of a spirited debate with some of my colleagues about Rory uh at this point and I was like you know who had won Congressional but you know he hadn’t won the British Open yet or the PGA right and so I I was kind of sort we were talking about is he the next Tiger and Rory had won the BMW PGA like leading into this yeah and I was like you know I don’t know I don’t see it I don’t think he’s like wants it much as tiger did like he’s probably wants some more of a normal life he’s too normal of a kid like he’s never gonna like push himself to that extent to sort of you know tiger lived breathed sleep ate golf it’s just I just don’t see it I don’t think he wants that for his life and at the end of the meal my colleague Scott the time it was go dude Rory [ __ ] ma was sitting right behind you like at the table you just like going off about Rory not wanting this whole time I didn’t want to say anything but like Rory’s like right there like oh thanks for the heads up dude that was Prett cool they kind of set you up for that to what do you think about Rory mroy so I asked Cody because Cody was living in Pinehurst at this time and uh or in Southern Pines at the time and I was like Hey like what do you remember about that week he was like oh I I got home I got got home on Monday uh we were running our house to Golf Channel Productions and I got home on Monday from Afghanistan and then Isis was like taking over Iraq at that time I flew to Kurdistan on that Saturday unexpectedly like Jesus so yeah I don’t remember much was wearing okay but uh speaking of Golf Channel like they were they kind of went all out they had you know they had it on NBC from 3: to 5 on Thursday and Friday they had you obviously ESPN coverage leading in there and then they had noon to 7:30 Saturday and Sunday they had Rich Burr learner Kelly Tillman on live from kind of leading that with all the other analysts the golf fix with Michael breed was live from the driving range they they had their own like they had like three Studio shows on site they had a state of the game thing that they did they had eight features they like all sort just pouring money into this thing wow um different yeah oh yeah yeah uh some other Recollections just kind of at the halfway point I remember thinking that the wire grass was a was a little bit like too like like not enough of a penalty right like it was like 0.1 point2 shots and it should have been like 04 I just remember being a little bit frustrated there and I think some of that stemmed from wanting to see more drama right wanting to see spots where kimer could get into trouble and even when he had a wayward drive he was getting a good lie you know out out of the out of the Native right if I remember right it was like one out of four or five would be really bad and the rest were like you could you could scramble your way out of yeah and it’s kind of it’s crazy looking back too like this is 10 year you know this is 10 years ago now but I mean it’s kind of crazy that that was the last time that that the US Open was at Pinehurst they had the US Women’s Open that following week yeah where Michelle we is W you know won as well so that was that was big time I think that was awesome by the way at the back toback like that was I just remember we were not following women’s golf at that time and I remember being glued to watching the US Women’s Open the next week like it was the best way to I think they had the best ratings they’ve ever had for that like that was easily the best way to amplify that event good take here Pinehurst looks awesome it’s playing fair but tough a great leaderboard Mike Davis may be pouring a celebratory drink over lunch that was from the no laying up account Porter this is kind of appropo of nothing other than just say like say what you want about golf we’re about the only sport that Pitbull hasn’t invaded and I just this could have been foreshadowing DJ Collin right part was summoning the spirits oh no I thought this was a really good one so on Thursday it was at 4M on Thursday there’s 75 players within three shots of the lead 24 hours later he tweeted 24 hours ago there were 75 players within three of the lead now there’s nobody within six and that kind of summed up where you know where kimer was and everything s i i tabed this this this outfit from DJ with those blue that looks like something you would have been wearing no that’s not does not look like something I’d be wearing I literally probably bought this exact same outfit like I I I was obsessed with the DJ blue in this time period here’s uh here’s like poofs of like that’s like that makes me I saw like I was I was rewatching some of the rounds I’m like and Ker’s wearing these like so for those listening there just massive poof of dust and dirt on an iron shot of just makes me want to go play golf makes me want to go hit iron shots makes want to go to Pinehurst right Ker’s wearing white pants I think he wore white pants the first day I think this is like the third day uh and he’s wearing those kind of streetwear Adidas shoes that didn’t look like golf shoes that were kind of all the rage at the time lot of white belts in this event too y s here’s a few more few more tweets here just just getting off getting off Nicholson jokes the FBI is gonna have to reopen their insider trading investigation if Phil tries to cash a 40 to1 ticket on kimer golf coverage being legit excruciating uh Lefty looks dialed in eager to see how he progresses he didn’t progress and then I’m glad to see Brooks kep on the leaderboard and hope he shows out this weekend for America to see future us star speaking of outfits s uh this is Keegan’s outfit will you apologize kbv uh I mean that that kind of slaps for those listening it’s Keegan wearing high top like bright red Jordans white pants white belt red shirt bright red hat uh you know it’s it’s a lot 2014 was a big ma like matching color theme like there was a lot of this like solid coloring going on more on the Nike side than anything but uh this is looking looking at this too you see three towers back behind this is this is the ninth green you see three towers back there you see like having been to Pinehurst a bunch in the last six seven eight years I appreciate the hell out of this hole a lot more and some other holes too of just like knowing where this sits on the property and how the elevation changes work and all that like whereas I think you know watching this tournament live I just remember thinking oh this is you know this is kind of a this is kind of a flat golf course and you don’t really have any context for where stuff is is this where your boy Zach makes the hole in one on that uh I feel I almost certain Zach made a whole Zach made a hole in one oh he did okay I didn’t I didn’t have that here’s just a vintage no you know this is like early no l who is Phil michelon uh there’s a Jeopardy thing this guy is probably going to get up and down from jail uh jail jokes were coming in hot this week I’m a little bit uh concerned there’s all sorts of Drake jokes and looking back I didn’t really get these uh how you know it’s over Drake out there after Ker’s last birdie and then this was Drake like uh he was all over anybody that like he was like the any team that was doing well any player that was doing well he like was a huge fan of them like that was the huge thing going on in 2014 gotcha that does not mean these are good jokes that just I’m just explaining the jokes I was just wondering how you you were falling out on the whole Kendrick Lamar Drake beef and you know if we have to worry about you at all I’m making fun of Drake in these attempting to so okay I gotta going to round three going to Saturday kimer shoots plus two shoots 72 finishes the day with a five shot lead over Eric Compton and medium dick Rick it got a little dicey on that on that Saturday afternoon if I remember right he was little shaky so both of them Rick and Compton both shot rounds of 67 they were um they were the only underpar rounds for the day so they were kind of heads and shoulders above everybody else that day only six guys under par for the event at this point 73.8 to scoring average that day so you get Dustin and Henrik at T4 at minus two sneds minus one Brooks NW at even speed at plus one Stenson felt like a legit Contender at times and he just couldn’t stop kind of like he would go over a green here or there it was just kind it was a little bit I don’t know it was just kind of one step forward two steps back but yeah I mean ker like the lead gets to three or four but then he just always he’ll make a birdie or a bogey and then he just makes two birdies in a row or it was just Relentless and you know round three felt like his bad round but he’s just you know right there so fourth round uh TC I want you you missed this the squirrel thing do you remember the squirrel anecdote I don’t like this is how boring the US Open kind of felt to the media on site that was is like a squirrel like ran over and like fussed around Ker’s ball in the third round of Saturday and it’s kind of a nothing Burger but like one of those things on TV that like they joked about a bunch and so in the presser afterwards uh like a local TV reporter was like oh did you think the squirrel was going to to your ball and KRA was like sorry what and she was like no the squirrel and he’s like the squirrel you want me to talk about the squirrel oh that’s right cuz Germans can’t say squirrel yeah that’s a thing squirrel squir is it a thing I didn’t know that that’s a thing Germans can really struggle with the with the word squirrel and so they they kept grilling about the squirrel and he was he gave such a sweet German quote he was like no like I mean this is their home like this is where they [Laughter] play um keep oh oh good so kimer like it’s kind of just it’s just like Relentless like that’s this that’s the storyed of the whole tournament like he shoots 69 he wins by eight oh my God he W by eight Jesus yeah five yeah uh over Compton and Rick both of them shot 72 final round like they’re the only guys under par like nobody else in the whole [ __ ] tournament’s even under par nobody at even Keegan Jason day Dustin Brooks and Henrik all finish plus one Adam Scott brand sneer Big Tex Jimmy Walker at plus two kimer had it to like minus 10 through 14 holes and then he bogied 16 he had an eight shot lead at uh through four holes that day Ricky doubled four and then he birdied five Compton kind of started charging he had closed it to four after eight holes like he had birdied eight and 10 and then he dropped back on 11 and 12 he had a bad three put on seven which like I’m so stoked to watch seven this year here but like kimer like perfect example bogy’s 10 like he went over the green then putts it from Over the green to Shor of the green like puts it off the green and then like basically like Bogie’s the easiest hole in the course and then Rick and Compton both bogie 11 and you know kimer birdies 13 basically ices it Johnny says turn out the lights the party is over after he birdies it on 13 so Compton finishes at 279 runner up in his second major ker jars on 18 puts an exclamation point on it but yeah fourth largest margin of victory in US Open history eight shot Victory first ever to win players in US Open in the same year other takeaways I had were just impressive stuff from Ricky he’s 25 at the time and you know this was the year that he finished what top five in all the majors yeah Ker’s second major too which like we don’t doesn’t roll off the tongue as a two-time major winner but two majors in fiveyear Span Brooks finishes T4 that’s a glimpse of things to come Rick Riley tweets Martin kimer versus 2014 US Open equals Germany versus 1939 Poland and we tweet please stay retired I think I think Rick Riley was like hanging out in Italy at this point or something he was uh he just learned about World War II I think at this point uh I think the I think the World Cup was going on at the same time as this to because there’s a lot of soccer Tweets in the timeline a lot of like who was the who was the the guy that was the coach’s son Bradley Bradley Gus Bradley yeah yeah or Michael Bradley or something like that yeah Gus was the coach Michael was yeah Gus Bradley was the old Jags coach listen that’s that might be uh Team Rose made a made a putt on 18 and does like a tribute to Payne Stewart and you know he’s it was it was interesting watching Team Rose because he’s the defending champ too he won it 2013 at Maran and so he’s wearing Ashworth stuff kind of previous iteration of uh Team Rose but he does the pre-planned you know kind of pain tribute there we’ve got s is really really concerned about is the Ryder Cup gonna be handicapped this year at this point the only chance the US is gonna have is if they start sandbagging because that’s a good tweet that’s a good impression yeah not get hyped up in 2014 that’s proof that’s evidence I it was not Dan Jenkins from the top rope on the shark here kimr with his six-stroke lead in the final round the only guy who could blow this is going to announce it next year for Fox hasag shark here’s Ricky with his dad Rod I wish Dan jenin had lived through the live era it would have been like Dan jenin patriotism plus his like loathing of Greg Norman would have been truly enjoyable and this kind of just just you know bottom lines it couple tweets here it may not have been the most exciting weekend but watching true dominance in sports is special and in uh uh in and of itself amazing performance so not kind of you know shouting out uh kimer not really finding fault with it that’s knowing up and then Johnny Miller picking apart Martin kimer as he strolls down the 72 hole with an eight shot lead is the most Johnny Miller way to go out ever um kimer was just like putting from everywhere they just kept questioning it is he gonna putt this one too Johnny yeah he’s gonna [ __ ] putt it he can’t chip and he’s putted it amazing the entire week like why would he not be putting this I was uh I remember that from from that entire week there’s kind of a you know Brooks finishes T4 and that’s kind of a glimpse of things to come and really in hindsight feels like kind of a Brooks layout like knowing what we know now about Brooks with only three guys under par like the fact that he played well there kind of a you know a good uh preview what’s to come and then lastly we just we had a you know kind of a a recap a summary on our website uh I just points five and six here I’d like to say happy trails NBC and Chris Burman on Thursday Friday Johnny was more insufferable than ever in the chemistry with the with the rest of the team seemed off all week judging by what I’ve seen on the Twitter sphere I’m not alone bring on Fox’s coverage whatever that ends up looking like just please no Cletus and I think s you’re by lined here but I think we’re all just tossing them in from every direction that sounds like you but this does this sounds like you six I was keeping the owgr this weekend and I came across a guy at number 62 that I’ve literally never heard of kou Oda this day and age with the global nature of the game and the big money events based on owgr I’m just not sure how that’s even possible looks like he’s played in four majors as well but how someone can get to the top 70 in the world being completely Anonymous in the world stage is curious and somewhat impressive it’s not like he was even stacking Japan tour wins he’s got two in the last two years he just keeps banking top 10 so that’s an early early warning of you know we’re watching out for the manipulators here so how do I get you guys to contribute writing like that to Major coverage now that’s what I love to have a little notebook of people dumping their thoughts in the whole point is making stff way harder to find 10 years later uh that that’s why we put everything in audio form now these days what’s the uh what’s the yardage for this year’s US Open any idea I think it’s pretty similar similar uh um yeah I don’t think there’s a whole lot um that’s been lengthened I remember one thing I do remember TC when we were in abudabi in 2018 we did like uh in the Chalet we went and met Martin kimer I because I had a 40 to1 ticket on kimer to win uh the US Open as well I I remember I was like I told him I was like yeah I’m sure you get this all time but I bet on you to win the players end the US Open that year so I I do owe you a beer he like kind of thought about it for a little while and he’s like yeah you you do owe me a beer yeah that’s that’s really that’s really good yeah I think one thing just too like looking at the the setup I just don’t remember them pushing up the third hole you know the third T there I think that’s like I’m kind of stoked about them stuff that they can do with the course here whether it’s you know playing Five you know play that up a little bit farther one day or mixing up some like moving n9t up a little bit or you know kind of having because I think like part three wise if you play all those part Theses from the tips they’re you know 219 190 202 and 205 like having you know having a shorty in there would be awesome it’s it’s on the Wikipedia page it’s listed at 7543 for uh for 2024 Uso okay that’s actually so as the scorecard that’s actually 19 yards shorter this year than in than in 2014 interesting so you see I I looked it up so that I wasn’t making sure I wasn’t making it up Zach Zach did make a hole in one and then did like a lap around on the uh the the green basically the ninth hole uh you would have absolutely hated the celebration that I’m looking at now on ESP Nation GIF that was the thing I was trying to like find you know it’s it’s it’s 10 years ago so it’s not like stuff’s changed so much but also you know it was like Emily k at at like SB Nation or there’s you know there’s still herig writing or there’s still yeah you still got your shipnuck stuff and the bamburger stuff and all that but just never really seemed like this one there was there was some seminal thing and kimer was super classy afterwards like you know just kind of very German like hey I you know I hope bernhard’s proud of me and you know I hope the Germans are proud of me but just very kind of direct and somewhat emotionless you know and and so I think they’re there wasn’t really some singular moment that the week kind of you know honed in on it was just more of like man eight shots like that’s crazy dominance wild man that wild his swing was was filthy back then the way he like created lag uh was just really kind of cool which this was also like after he because what he won uh in he was world number one in 2011 and then he wanted to work it both ways that’s right I forgot about that he wanted to get away from his from his fade fade yeah I forget what it was I think he wanted to go to a draw yeah mhm and so he could contend at Augusta and then like so at that point going into players like he hadn’t won since 2011 he had mced at Augusta um and really since since this US Open he hasn’t finished in the top 25 of the US Open and you know obviously now he’s the captain of my cleaks and uh you know kind of Under Fire for for some of his play is his his exemption done is it this year the last year of it 14 to 24 is that that’s a good question yeah yeah be curious if he’s uh he has exempt uh recent winners 2014 yeah this is last year of his winners exemption inter sweet there we go there you have it Pinehurst Pinehurst is it’s really really good I’m gonna go rewatch 1999 tonight uh that was I’m not gonna rewatch 2014 not a reflection of any of the work that you put in here TC it just 99 really was that epic and uh I’m very much looking forward to what would consider to be a very proper test we’ll have a lot more US Open preview content uh coming out over the coming weeks we of course have live shows during the US Open full court press will be here but KV will be on site we’ll be writing we’ll be we’ll be pumping it out so uh thanks everyone for tuning in for another Deep dive pod TC kbv thank you for the hours of work that go into researching this stuff and thank you everyone for tuning in and listening we’ll see you back here soon cheers this episode on Pinehurst us opens is brought to you by the Pinehurst Resort with the playing of the 2024 US Open Piner resorts embarks on its era of serving as an anchor sight of the national championship the US open’s going to return four times in the next couple of decades in 2029 along with another US Women’s Open in 2035 in 2041 and again in 2047 the first time in nearly three decades Pinehurst opened its first original Golf Course when unveiled Pinehurst number 10 in the spring of 2024 was designed by Tom do it’s got dramatic elevation changes natural Sandy areas remnants of an early 20th century sand mining operation and they just continue to invest in their present and their future they had a three-phase process to renovate the guest rooms in the lobby of the flagship Hotel the Carolina finished they finished that up this past spring they debuted the new restaurant the Carolina Vista Lounge which is has an expanded cocktail bar a contemporary menu unlike any other Pinehurst offering guests a stylish and satisfying respit befitting the setting of The Historic Carolina hotel in between its most recent us opens 2014 and 2024 it’s been huge era of evolution for Pinter and that time they opened the Cradle the short course it’s been wildly popular in uh 2017 is when that open Gil H redesigned Pinehurst 4 it’s got consistent praise and Pinehurst Brewing uh hous in the original building that served as the village of Pinehurst Steam Plant in 1895 remains as popular as ever among guests and local locals alike Piner is a fantastic visit I hope everyone gets a chance to check it out and enjoys the US Open next week let’s get back to the pod
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Goosen was my golfer growing up. By 2005 he had forged a reputation as somewhat of a US Open specialist and I remember that the consensus going into that final round in 2005 was that it was close to a formality. I couldn't believe how quickly it went wrong for Retief in that final round. You wonder how much that affected him going forward as he never won another major even though he did feature on a few major leaderboards; people often forget he was right in the mix for the Stuart Cink Open win.
Turtleback.
A deep dive pod + a film room today, absolute sweepstakes
Content sweepstakes what a world we are living in
The Mickelson beeper code was “BOOBS” spelled like 80085.
My biggest memory of Michael Campbell is him doing the Haka at the Presidents Cup….Awesome
if you come for the crown, you better not miss
Watched the 99 open a couple weeks back. My god what a tournament. I still cannot believe Phil didn’t win; at no point on that back 9, outside of the 2 minute stretch from the putts on 17 to the drives on 18, did it feel like Phil wouldn’t win
People forget Retief was HIM in the early 2000s
Watched the 99 final round last night on the us open page. All time.
Oooooooooooo booooooyyyy
Cant go to work today boss, new NLU historical deep dive just dropped
Please never stop doing these
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These recap pods are top notch. Wasn't old enough to witness some of these at the time so going back to watch is always a good treat!
Earl would've been on EVERY damn podcast
My only ace is at the 9th hole at Pinehurst No2 last July 2023. Not from the US Open tees of course, but to learn I’m in the same company as Zach fucking Johnson makes me sad
2014 I went to the 3rd round. Amazing experience. The course looked literally impossible in person
Love these deep dives, thanks NLU, appreciate you!
Deep dives are fantastic! I remember 1999 so vividly and was about the same age as Soly. Stoked for Pinehurst next week!
Love you Mr. TC and don’t know how you feel about this guy but your look is giving me wiffs of Bob Menery.
fantastic deep dive– you guys are both diligent with your research and hilarious as well. best golf content on the web. keep it up boys. just finished watching your work on Australia. I am going in January 2025 and playing some of the courses you visited
TC looking like Bob Menery. Great stuff as always guys!