2024 U.S. Open Predictions, John Rahm withdraws, who’ll challenge Scottie Scheffler? | GoLow Golf

John Middlekauff reacts to Jon Rahm withdrawing from the U.S. Open due to a foot infection. Plus, John predicts who’ll win this major tournament. Will Scottie Scheffler dominate again? Which golfer is most likely to become his rival? John also explains how seeing Tiger Woods’ work ethic up close benefits his son Charlie.

0:00 // Intro
2:51 // Reaction-Jon Rahm withdraws from US Open
8:31 // Scottie Scheffler should win the US Open
15:31 // Scottie Scheffler needs a rival. Who can that be?
24:59 // Seeing Tiger’s work ethic first hand benefits Charlie Woods greatly
29:35 // Mailbag – Scottsdale golf course recommendations
31:01 // Mailbag – Can international play become bigger than it is?
35:32 // Remembering Grayson Murray

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what is going on everybody a little US Open go low Pinehurst we’re off and running baby we only get four of these where everyone’s playing together and now we got it Scotty sheffler wins at Memorial heavy favorite coming in John ROM big news today with Drew W deed uh on Tuesday with somebody calling athletes foot he’s got an infection or something on his toes pinky toe his other toe I I don’t know but he he’s sayar John ROM so we’ll dive into that um does Scotty need a rival because you know part of becoming a superstar in any sport is having a rival and right now does that guy exist I I think the guy most suited to be that guy is someone no one’s really talking about and uh obviously Father’s Day usually falls on or doesn’t usually always on the Sunday of the US Open uh tiger had some I thought some cool comments with Charlie a couple weeks ago when Bob McIntyre won in Canada I I got sick the next week so I didn’t do a go low but I thought that was one of the cooler moments as someone that plays grew up playing golf you know because of my dad and with my dad and then we’ll also do a little uh mailbag goop pod is the Instagram goop pod is the Instagram so uh fire in those DMs we got some questions and I’ll I’ll hit them up in this podcast but if you want to go to an event if you want to go like pinhurst obviously you know you probably can’t make it but if you could and you thought ahead and you want to go to something really fun I got you covered because game time is the official ticketing partner of this podcast and uh I looked the other day I mentioned this Zack Bryan is coming to Arizona in December and I’m not a huge planner I’m not someone I I kind of fly by the seat of my pants which she doesn’t like because when you when you live with a planner you know you can butt heads a little bit but one thing I’ve gotten better at planning is events because game time whoever I want to see whether it’s a concert whether it’s a game to search find the price point where you 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get up for tournaments unfaced Bryson is the ideal candidate because he’s kind of a lone wolf he can do his YouTube stuff and we’ll dive into him last uh later this podcast I I think he has a very very good chance to win this week uh but you look at John ROM a year ago today he was essentially the best player in the world he had won three times on the PGA tour then he won the master and coming into this tournament he had previously won it in 2021 and we were all looking on this guy going hey if Scotty figures out his putting we got a rivalry with this Elite International Spaniard complete ass kicker multiple major winner this guy Scotty sheffler who looks fantastic he just got to figure out the putter already has a major championship and then at the end of the season John ROM went to lip and his comment since you know I don’t think he loves it clearly doesn’t like the format but they put a number in front of his face that he could not turn down something for example the Lakers did not do the more I’ve had time to marinate on the Lakers offer $70 million is a boatload of money to 99.99% of people and all of us are not turning down $70 million but in that situation not a great offer anytime you put out a number in front of a human where know is a possibility the number is not high enough and that’s the way it was early on for John ROM and then they got up it’s reported 300400 million I don’t give a [ __ ] who you are unless you’re Tiger Woods and a billionaire you’re not turning that down and ultimately he did not but this season is kind of an embarrassment now I I’m not one I was just sick you never know a different guy’s pain tolerance what they’re going through uh but you know this feels very golf couple people texted me from the grounds they’re like he just withdrew with athletes foot uh clearly he’s in pain but this is where the bar tiger set was so high Tiger has withdrawn from tournaments over the course of his career but how many times have we seen him hit the ground because his knee are back’s not working so like this sucks and I think the reason this sucks is we lost a guy who wasn’t an elite player and he now feels kind of irrelevant and the problem is he was someone that was very predicated on the juice of these tournaments if you lost watch last week and I did uh Scotty Sheffer win the memorial it was pretty sweet Liv can’t sniff that there is no way for them to replicate that and John ROM thrived in that environment and became the best player in the world and what looked like a guy that could be like the next sevy a guy win six s Majors a guy win you know 30 35 tournaments and just have an alltime career and maybe whenever this merger comes to fruition which I ain’t waiting for it anymore we get back the juice of this player but last year for example he wins the Tournament of Champions chases down Colin morawa who had a big lead then he wins it AMX kind of a joke tournament then he’s third at the waste management wins at Riv wins the Masters he’s top 10 in the US Open he finishes second in the British Open it just has a fantastic season and now we get a guy who’s struggling to make the cut at Majors and has to withdraw because of some weird foot injury obviously injuries you can’t control it happens zalot Torres had a back Kea had a knee [ __ ] happens but there’s no sugar coating this given the star that has become Scotty Sheffer a guy who’s having a Tiger Woods season forever it was like can we compare this to Tiger Woods there’s no disputing it anymore this many wins this early a major heavy favorite it would be a shocking if uh achievement if someone else wins this weekend and this guy who was his equal is now just irrelevant there’s no way around it’s sad it sucks and just as a fan of golf like this is a guy there there’s guys entering this tournament who can win I I know there are 150 Plus in the field there are 10 guys who have a legitimate chance to win I would imagine obviously we don’t know it has to play out eight to nine of them are top 1520 players in the world then they’ll be a random guy but this is big hitters Elite I don’t mean necessarily hitting at far I just mean big- time players only and that’s where John ROM was and now a year later he doesn’t feel like that and thank God for Scotty Sheffer uh I said this before and I’ll say it again I and GL nothing awful happened beside the person losing their life which he had nothing to do with at the PJ Championship I do believe because Scotty’s boring like if you just YouTube Tiger Woods it’s remarkable to watch his animation how excited he gets the Miracles he’s pulling out of his you know what tiger did not hit the ball straight so a lot of his great shots are like like hitting it around trees hitting it out of the bunker over trees not just like oh he’s 175 he’s going to knock at 3 feet obviously he can do that but most of his memorable moments throughout his career a crazy flop shot off the greenip memorial was just the highest level of how did he pull that off Phil Mickelson had a lot of that Jordan spe in his like two-year greatness run was basically Phil just the right-handed version it was just sweet to watch Scotty’s kind of boring now he’s kicking everyone’s ass consistently and I think it would be from a gambling perspective he’s going to win this tournament it would be shocking if he doesn’t win this tournament and he would be in the midst of the greatest single season we’ve seen since Tiger Woods I don’t even think that’s really debatable we’ve seen guys since then win multiple majors in the same season but not have the wins I mean he won the player he won at Bay Hill and he won at Memorial and I think we all feel he’s going to win the Tour Championship and he’ll probably win another tournament non- major throughout the rest of the season this guy’s going to end up with he currently has $24 million this year in OnCourse earnings last year havin had an incredible season he made $36 million Scotty Sheffer is on track I think give or take to have a $50 million on the course that doesn’t count the his other sponsors obviously Nike because of the level in which he’s playing I would imagine he’s having a $20 million Nike season this guy’s GNA make 780 million this season so one thing some of these guys benefited from because the live guys took off that we said how are they ever going to make that type money and Scotty Sheffer and havin are proving if you play well on the PGA tour you can have a 24mon stretch where you make $100 million and you don’t have to play all these stupid tournaments that let’s face it none of these live guys feel very excited do play they’re doing it because they got paid which is the reason a lot of people in America work because you’re paying me to do it and for a long period of time it felt like guys like to compete obviously in the NFL and the NBA they get paid a lot but when the ball tips in big games or the ball is snapped or kicked off there’s an excitement as a competitor Liv does not have that the PJ St tour still brings that to the table and just I’m a independent consumer I just like watching fun [ __ ] I’m all into the NHL playoffs I am glued into the Stanley Cup have a little money dabbled on Edmonton but it’s just a fantastic product the level in which they compete the intensity how much you know it means the history of it no different than the NBA Finals I don’t watch as much NBA now as I did throughout the majority of my life but the playoffs still matter I I know what’s on the line I know the history of being a Finals MVP winning a ring what that means for guy’s career what it means to not win a ring and that’s what you watch Memorial you know what’s on the line you know tiger won there five times you know it’s Jack Nicholas’s tournament and you watch Scotty just embracing all this and playing at the level in which he’s playing but like I said that arrest in Louisville I I truly is the best thing that ever happened to him because he’s not that interesting of a guy and really his play he’s not that animated he’s not doing Crazy Fist pumps he’s not dropping F bombs he he’s not mustat in terms of all the extracurricular stuff but he’s mustat in terms of now he’s winning at the rate because we love winners in America and when you add in the arrest that it looked like it was going to derail I don’t know something and it didn’t really at all and I bet on him two weeks later when Davis Riley where were they playing in Texas had a career week and Scotty was still right there finished second so it’s been really really entertaining to watch and um I think his Legend grew and now we can laugh at it because of that mug shot because they put him in an orange jumpsuit and then he continues to answer the Bell this is not like Michael Jordan was the best player and his team’s really good for the most part he’s going to win if he plays well golf’s not like that you’re you’re playing 150 people and if you have one bad round of the four rounds it’s really easy to just finish seventh even if you’re Tiger Woods or Arie Palmer or Jack Nicholas or Nick falo whoever and every [ __ ] week it’s like this guy’s gonna win this guy’s gonna win this guy’s going to win sometimes I laugh when people talk about the odds like you know Tiger’s odds in 2001 we did not I I consume Sports I followed Sports religiously obviously gambling is legal now so we talk about it much differently people were not gambling I mean you had to be a true true degenerate Billy Walters gambling now the accessibility the the odds over the last I would say decade but really five six years to me the odds mean a lot more because the we’re discussing it and this guy going into Majors is three to one like yeah probably right like would it be crazy if you put him two to one like what is the number you couldn’t put them minus 100 right or or minus10 because it’s still a golf tournament but he is creeping closer and closer to basically being a one toone favorite to win a golf tournament against 150 other people where elite players are 16 to1 20 to1 25 to1 what this guy doing what this guy is doing right now is just remarkable I mean it it is to me it’s must-watch TV and I think the arrest kind of brings in the Casual fan because his name recognition he’s not Caitlyn Clark or Patrick Mahomes in terms of name recognition but I think if you’re a casual guy you’re like I’m not a big golf guy but I’ll I’ll pay attention to some Majors you know exactly who Scotty sheffler is and you know exactly kind of what’s going on right now that essentially he wins every single week now part of to grow this brand you need a rival tiger a once in 100-year player whether he had a rival or didn’t it wasn’t going to matter he was a comet ship on his own for the most part players need someone that is at least viewed as a foe if not an equal and right now Scotty does not have that Callin morawa whatever he did early on this season to figure it out he looks freaking awesome he was awesome at Memorial he was awesome at the PGA Championship he was awesome at the Masters he looks fantastic I I think he is an auto top five top 10 bet this week he is Taylor he could win this tournament but if Scotty’s right there you’re like he’s not gonna beat Scotty Sheffer Xander scha who has had an elite career finally got over the hump at Valhalla is having statistically and I you could argue the best year of his career another guy I think an auto top 10 top five bet are either one of those guys going to be Scotty’s rival don’t really see it not saying those guys can’t win and have continue to have great careers and even win another major or two but tiger had Phil who I think when you look back you go I don’t know what where Phil ranks you know tiger Jack one two in some order and then there’s a group of five or six guys I feel’s a top 10 player of all time and you could argue he’s closer to five than he is 10 but the Rivalry those two guys it was a rivalry more by yeah tiger and Phil but tiger dominated him but Phil was like a worthy worthy fo and I think Ernie Ells I would throw him right up there I actually think the guy and this is the sad part about the division in golf is Bryson D Shambo because one thing Phil had was like Phil was pretty famous so to have like a legit foe at the highest level of pro sports that guy’s got to be pretty famous right Larry and Magic Michael kind of went through a rotation of them but LeBron and Curry uh Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson forever it was Manning and Brady I think Bryson has a chance to be the most famous golfer I’m not saying better than Scotty but his Fame dude’s a killer this guy if it was uh if he was an NFL player we talk about Bryson dambo like the number one high school recruit the number one college player and has come into the NFL and dominated and gone to Pro bowls constantly he obviously won a US Open not the best US Open it was basically just hit it straight a million feet and jump pump wedges onto the green but to me Bryson’s more closely a four five major win guy than he is a one major win guy the other thing I think he’s kind of become comfortable with who he is he’s nerdy didn’t have a lot of friends on the PGA tour a lot of people I think rumors were people didn’t like him very much whether he was a bad guy immature guy whatever that’s a fact and now it feels like he’s relaxed a little bit but he’s still an elite player and Liv whether he played on Liv whether he played on the corn fairy tour whether he played on the Asian tour I I don’t think Bryson would be faced because he loves golf to his soul a lot like Phil a lot like Tiger Woods a lot like Scotty Sheffer they are addicts like the reason Patrick Mahomes is so good obviously he’s physically gifted he’s a 247 football addict same thing with pton Manning same thing with Tom Brady same thing with Drew Brees same thing with Christian mcaffrey same thing with LeBron James same thing with Steph Curry th this is not uh just yeah we do this for a job we make a lot of money no this is a deep driven passion of mine and the other thing with Bryson is he’s become a showman and really since he got big and was sucking down all those uh you know the protein shakes and the peanut butter sandwiches and just put on extra 30 pounds and he starts bombing it over the water pointing at the sky like I think Bryson figured something out whether you like him whether you hate him whether you think he’s a nerd or whatever you are dialed in when he’s playing and I like a lot this week and I would love I mean I I’d pay for it to get these two guys in the mix on Saturday and Sunday now this tournament is from all accounts of everyone on the ground is going to be really hard the greens look like they’re concrete obviously there’s not rough at this course like there is at traditional golf courses but there’s the native land uh you can miss it into weird spots and it can become very difficult if you hit Fairways it’s a second shot golf course but it’s also pretty long like it’s 7600 yard and Scotty Sheffer hits long irons really well Bryson D Shambo a lead at it Colin morawa pretty freaking good same thing with Andre shafley to me that’s the group I’m betting on I have a ton of the problem is for me to get my rocks off I’d have to put a couple Grand on Scotty at three to one right so I was like you know I’m going to Parlay him with a lot of people and I have a million parlay is mixed up with Scotty and Colin and Bryson and Xander and even a little Fleetwood as top 10 and top 20s hadi’s another guy Elite ball Striker fantastic short game gonna be in the mix so this is going to be a bigname tournament obviously it’s going to be shocking if Scotty Doesn’t win but I think this is and hopefully so where the kind of rivalry begins with Scotty and Bryson cuz I just I don’t I I don’t think it’s doing it for the Casual with morawa and Xander despite how great those players are Bryson kind of evokes emotion deep in your soul when you watch him if you like sports like I kind of want to watch this something’s there something’s going on and sometimes athletes just have that when I was a kid like I’m not a big tennis guy but and I didn’t know I was going to be bald at the time even though my entire family didn’t have a blade of hair on top of their head I loved Agy something about Agy why because you watched them he just created em motion inside you and we’ve seen it forever with football and basketball players same with baseball players when I was younger but in these individual sports you need some characters and to me Bryson is the ultimate mix of character weird out there unlike anyone else and an elite player so I hope Bryson brings his aame he has a ton of momentum coming into this played well at Augusta play played awesome at the PGA um and like I said I I don’t think he’s phased by the irrelevancy of these lived golf tournaments I I don’t think he’s phased at all now I I don’t you know there’s a lot of other names out there Rory count me out though love is not dead I just saw they’re going to reconcile him and his wife when it comes to their divorce so no longer divorce Kea I I hammered kka at the uh at some of the earlier Majors like I’m out I’m just not going to do it not saying that he can’t do it but I I’m not going to mess around with that and um it’s sad I mean DJ’s like 75 or 80 to one but should be fun should be fun so I from a recommendation standpoint of gambling I think if you want some action on Scotty like you can put a hundred bucks Scotty to win and then parlay some top fives and top 10 with the xanders with the morawa with the Bryson with the hi with the fleetwoods this’s a ball Striker’s golf course so I need guys from 180 yards 190 yards 200 yards they can Pelt the middle of the green because there are a lot of runoffs on this golf course you get put in some weird spots H hin is an interesting guy is a short game good enough uh but he’s definitely shown some signs of life he he’ definitely be a wild card for me if you want to put him in some parlays I I wouldn’t be against that at all but like I said overall have a hard time seeing Scotty not win this tournament we’re this close to crowning an NBA champ and with the action heating up on the court it’s even hotter at draftking Sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the NBA and draftking Sportsbook has you covered every step of the way with same game parlays live betting odds boost and so much more don’t miss out as the NBA postseason winds down it’s super easy to just get started with DraftKings if you’re a first- timer try betting on something like a team to win go to DraftKings Sportsbook app select your team and place your first bet it’s that simple and if you’re new to DraftKings you got to check this out new customers bet five bucks to get 150 in bonus bets instantly download the draftking Sportsbook app now and use the code John that’s code JN for new customers get 150 in bonus bets when you bet just five bucks only on draftking the crown is yours I think the cool part about golf for most of us we start because our dad takes us I mean the first time you usually play golf is playing with your dad and it’s a powerful connection and as someone that lost his dad sometimes I I get kind of emotional in golf tournaments when you know you win a tournament and one of the first people you see after is your parents and you hug your dad and it’s why I always you know I think it’s cool Justin Thomas and his father Xander and his father the relationship you have a lot of these guys guys their their coach ends up being his father I mean the most famous Duo of all time is is Earl and tiger which you know Earl got him into the game but Earl was always smart like gave him other coaches like never tried to be his swing coach was really more of his mental Warfare coach and I I tweeted this out a couple months ago or maybe I Instagram commented and a bunch of people were like what are you talking about Charlie Woods his experience of tiger as he gets into his mid- teens like obviously he saw him win in 2019 the Masters and that big hug and that was really cool but now that he’s become a competitive young golfer and obviously loves the game practices with his dad his dad is nowhere near obviously I I don’t expect him to ever be competitive again he does look cool like Sundays Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays of the practice rounds but I I have no expectations for Tiger but for Charlie to be able to see firsthand how hard his dad works at this point in time of his career and then be at these tournaments see the reverence all these Elite guys have for his father it’s got to be a really really powerful thing because Charlie will never get to experience what tiger looked like in 2002 or 2000 or 2005 obviously I mean you can watch it on YouTube but I say it all the time if you’re ever going to argue about somebody in sports whether it be your dad or whether it would be about someone if you don’t experience it you know past like 13 14 years old it’s hard to go back on YouTube like I I can’t describe John lway and his prime or Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in their Prime I can watch YouTubes and tell you stats and know like from other people talking and read books but like if you live through Michael Jordan if you live through Tiger Woods if you live through Manning and Brady can argue that till I’m blue in the face and one thing I always respect about guys is Tiger does not need to be doing this at all he’s a billionaire his accomplishments speak for themselves he keeps trying maybe it’s he’s bored but Charlie gets to have a firsthand look and I I do think it’ll benefit him who knows how good he’ll end up being but it’s definitely like I’m a sa for that I think it’s really really cool to watch I was sick after the McIntyre uh Canadian win I I thought that was one of the more cool moments and that’s again I’m not just trying to [ __ ] on Liv cuz I really don’t even care about Liv but that’s what the PJ tour brings to the table that moment with his father catting is as cool as it gets I I mean that that was as powerful a moment as those guys hugging his dad saying that he cuts grass for a living and McIntyre saying that this guy got me into golf he he’s the reason I’m here and to win that moment McIntyre could go on one day and win a major he could go on and win another Ridder cup as a teammate I I don’t think anything will be able to duplicate that feeling of doing it with his father obviously his first PGA Tour win but that’s stuff you write in a story book and I think a huge part of golf uh and a lot of you guys listening that you know are my age give or take in your 30s or 40s have young children it’s just something you can do with your son or daughter and the cool thing is you’re able to do that to until you die because golf is really the only sport that if you can walk and you’re semi-healthy like you can be playing into your mid-70s 80s like you’re you’re not playing pickup hoops at 60 years old you’re not you’re not playing tennis at 60 you can play The Fat Man’s tennis pickle ball which I think is the most overrated sport in the history of America but golf something that is pretty special that way and uh I I’m a sucker for any fatherson related golf moment and I I love I’m obviously a big tiger guy but I I think this Charlie just having him around is has been really really cool to watch uh okay let’s answer a couple questions on goow pod Instagram we will start with Gus when people ask for cor Rex in Scottdale tell them to check out kand totally agree kand is behind a hotel I think it’s JW or it’s a really nice hotel not nice Hiatt or something and uh it’s it’s much more open I played there with my brother last year I think it’s just it’s just an easy there’s not as much desert lining you can pump it into other Fairways you got you got a lot of room you got a lot of room and that’s something sometimes with golf in Arizona specifically the Scottsdale area depending on where you play like you spray it around a little bit you’re with the rattlesnakes you’re like I’m not even looking in the bushes so kin is definitely a cool course and if you come in the summer in Arizona golf’s relatively cheap Legend Trail played there as well much more kind of little tighter but it’s it’s a cool Track cool little areas north Scottsdale played there Rancho Manana super short and narrow in the Hills never played there before Legend Trail though I I played there several years ago and uh I’m with you I thought it was thought it was a cool track okay uh for the mailbag I have an idea for International Golf what if they got to a four-year cycle year one the Olympics year two the President’s Cup year three the writer cup year four a new cup between Europe and the world this way we get to see more of these players against each other more courses new rivalries while also giving the US a break every once in a while the captain for a team is the captain for the whole cycle which makes it more of a real position and something they have to take seriously and finally the captain of the team not playing gets to set up the course for the other two this eliminates the massive data advantages we’ve seen in recent Ryder cups and president’s cups the problem with this is there’s no connection the rder cup I’m pretty sure is an independent entity and the President’s Cup is I’m pretty sure owned by the PGA of America they have no connection to the Olympics so I don’t think they really care right if you run the President’s Cup and it’s every two years well this’s Olympic year well that’s I don’t give a [ __ ] so I I I think the hard this is speaks to the overall issues we have in golf is there’s so much division this guy wants this this guy wants this this tour wants to do this this it’s why I think they’ve struggled with this merger you know Rory has these ideas these other guys don’t want to leave America like Liv doesn’t want to play that many events they only want to play 54 holes I think it’s very very difficult to get individuals on the same page it’s why it’s much easier in the NBA or the NFL you’re all under the same umbrella so even when there are some differing of opinions it’s all for the better good good you know the long-term Outlook of the business where it’s like you know I got some business over here I want to do this I want to play these tournaments I I think you’re kind of on to something I I I think though it’s a Hail Mary in terms of we’ve seen how difficult it is to get anyone to agree it doesn’t work they don’t agree on anything and I I think the big struggle one thing Liv has done a good job of is go International but guess what the American players do not want to play international they’re too rich it’s too big a pain in the ass I mean they’ll do it when the British Open is going down and they’ll play the Scottish before but like they don’t want to do a random trip to Australia in November they just don’t and that’s the problem now you can argue as like JT and speed and Klay and some of these guys like do they matter that much like who wants to go go we’ve seen like the fields and the names matter but not getting them to go because there aren’t like that Canadian open that place was rocking that place the the they should have multiple Canadian tournaments they should have they should definitely have whenever this is figured out something in Australia you want to do stuff where things matter right why does football thrive in the South cuz they love it so golf which is played worldwide why wouldn’t you want want to play in the places that love golf it’s not even about quote unquote growing the game it’s just an awesome television experience it’s why the writer cup pops so much on TV because of the passion in the stance it’s one thing we learned in 2020 and 2021 if you don’t put people in the stands it’s not as good of a product it’s it’s actually a pretty awful product no way around it when people are in the stands and the place is rocking it’s [ __ ] sweet I’m not the biggest UFC guy but you watch one of these UFC uh you know fights and the place 18,000 people the the walkouts you’re like God this feels huge and that’s what you get at some of these events the majors have always had that but I don’t know I I I I don’t feel very confident or bullish on where we’re headed because of just the natural division of the way these guys are wired and they’re all so rich now it’s it’s hard to get super rich independent guys to get on the same page it’s it’s a major major challenge as we’ve learned uh hey John I don’t usually reach out but after listening to your most recent episode I just want to thank you your take on Grayson was raw intriguing thought provoking in my line of work I deal with a lot of people that deal with ment or health issues alcoholism being purely a symptom you captured this very well and I feel truly uh Happy respectful I also love the points on Bryson and couldn’t agree more couldn’t stand him on the PGA tour I’m a Brooks fan but every major the last two years feeling what could have been Thanks for the entertainment yeah I saw they you know Grayson got a locker at the US Open obviously he would have been there having one earlier this year and uh I I think I read last week where were they last week at Memorial they did like a celebration of life I think I could be wrong it was on the first te and all the players and caddies and everyone went out there was like a Monday or Tuesday and and Scotty talked and they don’t have video of it or anything I I read an article and Scotty was in tears half the time it’s just sucks big time sucks well I guess I guess uh we we’ll end on that so uh enjoy the US Open and like I said I I I think if you Everyone likes Scotty to win but if you want a little better odds you know I think parlaying him with Colin to top five or top 10 uh Bryson hii Fleetwood ER those are my names uh because I want ball Strikers I want guys who have had success in majors and guys that are playing well right now um i’ I’d be stunned if Xander is not in the top 10 I I think it’s very probable uh that morawa finishes if he doesn’t win finishes second or third I actually dabbled a little on Bryson to win I I think he could win and I think he’s going to be in the mix so I love these Majors uh I love the US Open uh when they go to courses that you know we don’t get to see very often I’ve never played Pinehurst but I am I’m I’m excited I I like Carnage too I like it to be very challenging so let’s uh let’s have a good couple days and good luck making some money