Big Randy and Cody have you covered for a primer for KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club. We start with a quick recap of the last few events on tour, a look at all the contenders and those vying for their second or third major title, as well as some thoughts on the tree-lined course and a ton more.
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ladies and gentlemen welcome into the no laying up golf podcast my name is Randy I’m joined by Cody McBride this is a KPMG women’s PGA preview welcome into the show and Cody good morning how are you doing very good big do you know anything about samamish Washington I do not I do not I’m hoping to learn something today though it’s I’m pumped I’m I’m pumped for Pacific Northwest golf we never get to see it it feels like uh it’s an awesome golf course we’re going to talk about something that is near and dear to your heart and that’s big trees baby I’m excited because this golf course you want to talk about Big Trees rough if people haven’t you know have been missing that combination on a golf course for a bit after watching Pinehurst and everything else on the east coast boy we’re going to get it this week can’t wait yeah Majestic trees lush green corridor I can’t wait I think it’s going to be awesome visuals on TV this week before we get into all that though let’s thank we uh our our two 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thanks to Yeti getting deeper and deeper into the golf game and I think you know they’ve been on with us for overall content for going on like three years now and every single time I pinch myself thank you to them and to our great friends at Titleist and the number one golf ball and number one golf ball on the LPGA Tour big I want to know one question for you yeah what golf ball do you play and how do you mark that golf ball I play a pro One X so they I was fit into the X the X uh promotes more spin which I need so I’ve I’ve been very happy in the X and you know the way I mark it I I’ve often thought you know is it time to switch up how I marked the golf ball but I put just a simple Red Line over the alignment on the side so I just Trace over that alignment Line running on the side of the golf ball with a red line um I feel like that’s kind of boring i’ I’ve I’ve been thinking you know do I switch color what what else can I do by Red you know I I don’t know that’s another thing why red I don’t know um I guess it’s a little distinctive I don’t see many people marking their ball with red so that that helps I guess do you use that uh limonade to help line up your putts or anything or is it it purely just a spot for you to put your red slash and and muck up that golf ball yeah just a place where I can Muck up that golf ball no I don’t use the the line for putts I do sometimes use it on the T box but not like I I’m I’m weird um I I kind of put the line perpendicular to like my target it’s probably the worst way to go about it but uh where did you pick that up from I don’t know I I this is where I’m getting in my own head I I don’t know why I started doing this I don’t know why you know I I just need a consistent visual to look at on the te I think that’s where it comes from and so whatever I do I just try to do it every time but I maybe it’s not the best way to go about it well you’re coming off of a big 100 hole hike and I could not be any more proud of you for finishing the thing raising a ton of money for a great charity but do you happen to remember how many golf balls did you go through yeah I do because I I got out there and I was like man it’d be really cool to do all 100 holes with one golf ball that did not happen I was quickly disabused of that you know in the worst way possible too I think it was my third hole of the day and well I was I was still by myself at this point and I hit one up uh like I said the third hole in the rough and legitimately just could not find it in the rough like it wasn’t that oh no so it’s not water or anything it’s just no I literally just couldn’t find it kind of the essence you’re out there looking do I walk back to the tea like am I playing real Golf and my and that’s where it’s like man you’re you’re at a Crossroads at that point and so sheepishly I I just dropped one and I and I continued on the wow truly completing the 100 holes uh was was my sole focus and then I did end up pumping a few more like over this fence at one point and I feel like another time I lost one in the [ __ ] so I let’s call it like five balls I went through on on my five balls in 100 holes that’s but you got to understand there wasn’t much there wasn’t much trouble out there at all I mean the the hitting it off property was a big Miss for your boy and I I pumped two of them in a row over over the boundary fence well I didn’t expect this atery to also be the honesty box we appreciate you telling the truth here and letting the people know that you’re playing by select rules but I will say the name of the game that day was just finishing 100 of golf there’s not about scores or anything else like that but you know I understand you play serious golf you hit cups and that means a lot for you to open up here yeah thank you I know it does feel like a weight lifted off my chest I’m not proud of yeah I’m not proud of the the golf I played that day but I am proud of uh the walk and and you know completing if you will 100 holes sounds like there’s some pretty good durability in those prov1 x’s and that’s why I play them too I need the spin I need that thing on my Woods my irons and I like the feel of it around hitting those little short game shots those little feelers big and you know I mark it I usually put I have this usually a black marker but I’ll take any marker I put a dot on both sides of the title script there but also something new that the the fine folks at Titleist sent me uh some new golf balls some new logoed golf balls with the no laying up script which I absolutely love and it’s like the perfect size the issue with it now is that I’m so scared about losing these ball anywhere because people are going to know exactly where they came from and uh you know when you’re playing golf in the the Metroplex down here there’s you know there’s only one person it’s not like you know Jack spee or anything I’m sure you feel the same way with some of those Wayward Drive balls that they made for us a couple months ago but I want everybody to head on over to titleist.com they can start the fitting process to find what golf ball is best for their game they got all new sort of alignment stuff going on now too on the new balls it’s awesome thank you to Titus thank you to Yeti big let’s set the stage here where are we at in LPGA world as we get ready for this major championship at sah Hol yeah I I think we’re in a I mean Cody we’re in a fantastic spot and I say that because our most recent winner last week Lilia Vu coming back after a a two-month absence you might remember she had to withdraw from the Chevron back in April was the last time we saw her uh it was a back injury and it honestly it it’s it seemed not great because it caused her to miss the US Open which is a big deal and I I was thinking and she had to pull out of uh of Chevron as well she right or did she finish Chevron no she had to withdraw there yeah yeah she withdrew so essentially taken herself out of two majors and I was also just worried because there was just like a little bit of a lack of information around the injury and and as we’re not seeing her at the US Open you know it’s it’s coming on two months it’s like oh gez how serious is this back injury but we were both very excited early uh in the week last week it was announced she would she would make the start up in Michigan for the Meyer and not only did she make the start Cody she went and won the damn thing which I think is just one it speaks to her ability and and how great of a golfer she is but then selfishly as as a golf fan I mean with the year Nelly C has been having we we’ve said all along like the missing thing here is Lil AV Vu being someone to like push Nelly and challenge Nelly and so with Lilia winning last week up in lightfield Country Club rolling into the KPMG this week with with she’s got to have momentum and feeling good about her game I I just feel like that’s such uh an awesome thing for the women’s game so I I think we start there um and I don’t want to short trift I mean the Meer was an amazing event I it obviously overshadowed by the US Open last week so candidly I really didn’t watch much of it I I watched highlights and and tried to catch myself up but three-way playoff Grace Kim Lexi Thompson finding form seemingly out of nowhere and like I said Lil AV vu all finished at 16 under went to the playoff Lilia prevails awesome week last week anything there that that you’d like to drill down on or or highlight further well I think you know you never really understand where people are at with their injuries this is a a professional sport that is notorious for not get there’s no injury reports there’s no nothing like you don’t know who’s 100% who’s 90% who’s got legging fingers toes you know it seems like everybody always has something going on and it’s up to the player on what they want to divulge and I think you hit the nail on the head with Lilia is that we saw this last year after she you know won Chevron and she took a couple months before she popped back up in June again and then you know nobody was really expecting her you know she didn’t have the best form when she ended up winning the second major of the year at the AIG women’s open so we kind of was thinking oh no like you know there’s no new really about the injury there’s no updates at all we don’t know when she’s going to tee up next we thought it was going to be for KPMG and and she even said like hey or excuse me not KPMG but for the US Women’s Open she even said my goal was to be there for the US Women’s Open I just was not ready and I pulled some sound bites from her Winter’s press conference and I’m going to roll this into our winning advice brought to you by our friends at mizuo and listen to her and figure out kind of what’s been going on lately yeah I I’m very satisfied with this week uh my team I have the best people around me they’ve helped me get to this point obviously I was really sad to not be able to defend my title at Chevron and also miss out at the US Women’s Open but I feel like I needed those weeks off to kind of you know let my body recover and stop just playing through the pain and how did you physically feel out there did you feel Zero Effect coming up all that or did you feel 100% out there um it’s hard to feel 100% % but I think i’ I’ve been 95% and I think obviously I played more than 18 holes today so kind of feeling a little tight but it’s all good it’s not the same as before I think this is the most meaningful win because there was a time two months ago where I was just crying on the Range not being sure if I would ever play a tournament again without pain and you know like to be here today is just incredible just the team I have around me they’ve supported me through everything and I just can’t believe that we’re in this position today um definitely wasn’t in the mindset of winning I just happened to win but I’m very grateful for everything yeah I’m I mean the the support I’ve gotten at home from all of my family and friends back at the clubs at home have been so great it makes me so emotional I know like some people get emotional even wishing me good luck at this event and to know that people care and you know I just try my best for the people around me and I’m able to do this because I have them now there’s a lot that we can unpack there big and I don’t really know where you want to start at but I think you know at a at a time in professional golf when we talk about the difficulties of the grind if you want to call it the week to week you know we talk a lot about the LPGA Tour schedule and how there’s long breaks and if you happen to miss out on you know some of these weeks when there’s back to back to back to back you know events when the the schedule really starts going how far behind the eightball you are and that’s kind of how her season has played out so far but you know I think the the biggest thing that stands out here is just her overall resiliency to get through this to realize that you know eventually there is going to be another side of this injury but having her there and say you know I was Balling on the Range because I never thought I’d be able to swing the golf club again without pain I think that’s I think that’s the most um interesting thing yeah absolutely just uh her her saying this win was the most significant is really quite something given her struggles when she first turned professional you know going back onto the Epson tour really not knowing if she was going to continue playing professional golf like really thought about giving up the game at one point but stuck with it earned her her tour card again and then out last year not only win for the first time on tour but to win four three times four times excuse me plus two majors be the overwhelming Player of the Year and for her to say last week’s Meyer was like the most important win meaningful that I mean that that tells you the doubt and kind of the the depth of the the injury and and really where she was the last couple months so that’s I mean wow that is incredible to hear her say yeah it’s also nuts to think about the fact that she is the you know the reigning LPGA Tour player of the year overall most dominant last year completely you know kind of in the shadows so far this year not only because of the injury but how Nelly’s been playing so far she’s number two in the world you know she never dropped below that number two spot as soon as Nelly passed her to get to number one um but seeing her back in this position on a course that she wasn’t necessarily comfortable with I mean the scores out there were deep and you had to it was a birdie barrage and it’s crazy because we had multiple reports of like from Members out there of how they love this golf course they can get it super firm they can get the greens really really fast and then they do that because they hope that this event that they’re so proud to to host you know puts up a firm but difficult test for the best women in in the game of professional golf and then the LPGA kind of gets in there and softens things up and slows things down a little bit which kind of goes anti this but overall finish you get a three-way playoff here with Lil Lexi and you know the young Aussie Superstar searching for her second win in Grace Kim you know a pretty good finish but overall I mean Lilia all credit to her of course but her mom travels week to week with her uh an incredible support system that she has with her her caddy obviously a lot of emphasis put on Cole and what he means to her with through all those victories last year but really The Rock to what she’s been able to do has been her dad and he’s been her swing coach ever since she picked up a golf club their entire community that they they live and he works at back in California it’s just kind of incredible to see her give not only praise to them individual members of the team but really calling out like the community on a whole and I think that’s exactly what you know she stands for and wants to represent as one of the greatest women in professional golf but also you know thanks to mizuo and and winning advice and if anybody wants to check get more information from them you can visit them at mamas.com you’re you’re an expert at just weaving that in that that was good stuff there good stuff well it’s hard you know you’re trying to make it fit of course of course other I guess just quickly notable things from last week’s Meyer I I mentioned Lexi Thompson was in the playoff I mean I I just can’t figure out her her game if if you look at her results you know going back so she was she was obviously tied for second last week her prior four starts before that were all Miss cuts and then the one before that was a tied for third out at the Ford Championship uh in late March so it’s just it’s very Boomer bus for Lexi I have no idea what to expect this week from her you mentioned Grace Kim Grace Kim is somebody that’s put herself in some really good positions this year on the LPGA Tour and has just come up short but uh young Australian I I think her speaking of press I I thought she had a a a really powerful press conference after that final round just talking about like Hey listen I’m I’m in this spot I’m up against like two Titans of the women’s game and Lexi and Lilia like I must be doing something right so it it was fun to kind of see her take uh some real positives from what could be a a crushing week going into the final round with a with a five shot lead and and coming up short and then the only other one Cody I I thought we we should note especially ahead of the major is uh Allison corpo had a really good week and I think is somebody that uh if she is on form and and she seems to be finding form for sure I feel like sahali we’ll get into the course and and what type of player it favors but we saw Allison really really play well at at a tough Pebble Beach setup last year for the US Women’s Open and um it’s it’s fun to see her kind of really find some form and and hopefully bring her aame up to uh up to the KPMG this week yeah I completely agree I mean she’s I I honestly thought the US Women’s Open last year was going to be her like okay we figured out how to do this on the professional level uh and we’re just going to start kind of picking everything off but it’s clearly just winning is so hard and I don’t know like what other evidence we need to prove it besides like watching golf every every single week and you just realize like man you know even when you put yourself in the perfect position like just getting over that hump is so freaking difficult man yeah uh which somebody that had made winning seem downright easy was of course Nelly Corda and I think I I said one other interesting but I lied I I think we need to talk about you know Nelly missing the cut last week and after the Mis cut at the US Open at Lancaster uh to to miss the cut up at Michigan that’s two straight miscuts I don’t think there’s any cause for concern Cody but but let me ask you are are are we worried or is this just kind of like hey she’s going to miss Some Cuts eventually her her unbelievable hot streak was was never gonna just keep going and going and going yeah I mean she’s human right and I I understand that on paper it says two cuts in a row but I’d even say like you know Nelly got she played one hole wrong at Len and that’s what resulted in it and she played 71 other holes excuse me I’d say 35 other holes you know the way that she should have and outside of that one hole and and that’s golf right so yeah you know either way it’s going to be a cut now I was completely shocked you know I did not see her her opening up with a 76 of course she backed that up with a 67 I don’t see anything really too wrong here um you know even that the 76 she started her day out with a double at the very first hole she went double bogey bogey finally settled out par par birdie bogey birdie par shoot 39 on her front side in round one and you know she’s just she’s got so much going on it I think this is okay it sucks for the people at Meer who want to see her play on the weekend and I guess we could probably have that conversation later on and see if if what is happening in the men’s game would also benefit on the women’s side but at the end of the day I that’s not really how I want to see my golf you know she didn’t play well she didn’t make enough to make the cut and you know she went home now I don’t think that that’s like ruining her entire season no and I would say like knowing Nelly and the thoughts that she puts into it she got two extra days to rest recover and prepare for a major championship that she is thinking about that truly does matter so we’ll see of course we picked up the win I think that the truly the win that mattered at Chevron extremely disappointed at the second major championship of the year the US Women’s Open this is a big week for Nelly Corda and the year that she wants it to shape up to be potentially one of the greatest of all time yeah um and I think that’s when we’ll really know where we’re at with with her game I think that’s extremely well said uh we we do have some audio clips I don’t know if you have uh her discussing going back to the US Open and making that 10 and I I thought this was a very interesting audio clip from Nelly I mean I’m not going to say that I was happy with the way I played I was happy with the way I fought I I fought really really hard to make the cut and I think that was probably the proudest I’ve I was um of myself actually throughout all the events that I’ve played this year is how fought how hard I fought after making that you know that 10 on that part three so it reminds me a little bit of what we just heard from Lilia you know hearing Nelly talk about what you said a great season historic season already and for her to single out like how she fought mentally how she stayed in it after making that 10 on her what third hole of the US Open being like the most proud she’s been of herself this year I think that’s really cool to hear and I I think that speaks to just the maturity and her her ability to kind of get past uh what was like it it wrecked her whole week like I can’t imagine how deflating that is coming in as she did on on the run that she had been on with with the expectations not only that she has for herself but from the outside and you know it’s it’s the preeminent week on the LPGA Tour year in and year out and to just have it go completely sideways early um could just be the most deflating thing but awesome to hear that you know she she stayed in it she fought to make the cut she ultimately came up just short uh but kudos to her I I love I’d love hearing her say that Cody yeah absolutely and if you go back and like if you want to into to her KPMG performance insights just based off of those these two events that we’re highlighting here obviously we know that that horrible number that she made on her third hole of that opening round but it’s funny so we only have data from the two rounds that she played there she she gave up 6.3 Strokes TAA green and obviously a lot of that you could focus in on that single par three but really just driving the rest of it she was off of her game and then you compound that with with giving up a little bit over four strokes gained around the green uh excuse me lost around the green compared to the field it just wasn’t good and then you flip over to Meyer this week and kind of how her game is trying to steady you know steady itself out she’s back to gaining you know almost two and a quarter Strokes Tia green back positive Strokes gain the ground the green she’s positive of course in driving and then there we have it just her really what her Bugaboo would admire was putting and I hate to say that but she gave up three and a half Strokes to the field putting and that’s just not g to help you know when we start talking about sahali what these big greens that they do have but they’re slick and they got a lot of movement in it and and I’m not talking about like little short breaks here real long slopey breaking putts that she’s to have so it’s going to definitely test her leg putting but really those those shorties that we know from time to time pop up and she struggles with so lest we think that Nelly’s game is out of sorts or or we’re worried you know two straight miscuts what what’s this going to do she had another wonderful clip about you know going through this little bit of Rush rough patch in in her game I love when golf humbles me not to that extent but I do love when golf humbl me um because you know sometimes you R ride the highs but um it’s always it’s always in a sense nice to know where you can improve too I love it God I I just feel like everybody else should be really really worried when Nelly starts talking like this because to to your exact point you know she she would have left Michigan knowing exactly what she needs to work on in some of her other press conferences she talked about you know feeling good with her irons I I I think she felt good about how she was hitting the ball she talked about just flying it over the flag and not quite having those distances exactly dialed in but the putting was the glaring weakness and now she knows she that’s exactly what she needs to work on like you said a couple extra days to prepare I just feel like weirdly I I love where Nelly is coming into this week and and a lot of that is because of you know what she’s telling us in these press conferences yep I completely agree with you big I’m again I I’m not concerned the year in nelli is rolling on this is going to be a big week for that but every time she tees it up we say that it’s a big week and it’s just one of those things where yes golf can be a very very humbling game but also she’s human and you know as much as everybody’s out there searching for Perfection she’s the first person to say that’s just not obtainable at all so I’m going to be comfortable with the results can’t win them all but she’s going to give everything that she possibly can well two more things to uh we can quickly touch on that have happened since uh since the US Open a few weeks back a couple weeks ago at the shoppr right in New Jersey LPGA history was made lanaa stom from Sweden she became Cody the first person in LPGA history to shoot a Sunday 60 she started her round t52 and ended up winning I I mean it’s the largest comeback so so a few more just quick stats it’s the biggest comeback by position that that t52 to winning uh in LPGA history and she becomes the seventh woman overall to shoot a 60 uh on the LPGA Tour just an unbelievable day from from Lana Stam um a cool little you know damn didn’t didn’t see that coming anywhere but uh when she goes out and Fires at Sunday 60 you got to tip your hat that’s that’s pretty amazing it’s truly amazing and she wasn’t you know a proud Alum from the Arizona State University not the only sundevil to win that weekend as well but if you want to take a look at and be like wait a second who’s L strong where did she kind of come from uh not having the season that she planned so far I mean she has eight mixed cuts on the year outside of that her best finish so far has been a t18 out at La in the fur Hills saory Pac Championship just one of those things where you know you get a good feeling you kind of find fine little lightning and you go out and do it because it’s hard to say uh you know even her first round she shot 6970 and then back that up with that final round 60 she teed off I mean she was in the last group or second the last group or something like that she was done hours and hours before anyone else truly unbel unable stuff I know I think she had like a 4H hour wait and it just goes back to your point like winning is unbelievably difficult here you are you know aaka fway Megan Kang they were Runners up but certainly they weren’t expecting somebody that didn’t have a top 10 on the lpj all year to come out and shoot a 60 and clip them you know you just you just never know where those threats are going to come from so that was really cool not only that it’s not like they played bad in the final round either I mean I I could shot 6 five Megan shot 66 like ataya shot a final round 65 to end up losing by two like it’s just truly like oh my goodness I can’t believe that happened yeah yeah and and like you said not the only swed to pick up a a a really cool Victory uh we’d be remiss not to shout out Lyn Grant her teammate at Arizona State her fellow swed she went over and won the Scandinavian mixed event on the DP World Tour making history there becoming uh well she was the first woman to win on the DP World Tour a couple years ago when she won the event and now becomes the first woman to win twice on the DP World Tour um and she started her round just like lanaa she started her round I think 11 shots back of Sebastian Soderberg um he had a you know it’s tough he had a little bit of a collapse but Lynn was right there she played a Flawless final round and put herself in position to uh to win that title which is um again I think it’s wonderful you know that’s that’s her last start she’ll be over here at the KPMG and is somebody that you know God I hope she brings her aame because she is certainly capable of of winning this major and and many more Majors to come yep no I agree and you know it’s for her to win that event twice uh to have the final round that she had uh a devastating finish I I we obviously like I cannot believe that I saw that kind of I don’t want to call it a collapse but it was really a collapse on 18 and Lynn end up you know coming out with that dub but uh it’s great to see and for you know I understand a couple weeks ago and even when we had Maya on we were talking about like wait a second what’s going on with Lyn and MAA this year like not the season that we thought with thought they’re going to come out and and play like Gang Busters now you know Lynn got that dub and Maya’s still searching for it but putting herself in great positions each time it it’ll be very very interesting to see all of that why does that matter solheim cup year Olympic Year all that stuff deadlines coming through soon it’s truly uh very fascinating to watch absolutely uh you mentioned the Olympics the Olympic standings for the women will be set at the conclusion of the KPMG so as of uh Sunday night or I guess Monday morning June 24th we’ll get the final rosters for those Olympic teams uh some real competition with with the last spot for Team USA I I believe Megan Kang and Allison Lee both are are jockeying for that position you mentioned Lynn and and Maya and team Sweden I believe both of them are set to be on the team barring you know an Anna norquist or or something happening this week um and certainly you know Japan South Korea it’s it’s crazy competitive so we’ll see how that ends Cody I think this is a good segue into the KPMG I I think you know given what we’ve talked about with Nelly with Lilia with with ly Grant you know we we saw Yuka Sasso put on a dominant performance the last time we saw her at Lancaster in the US Open let’s talk about some of the storylines we’re most excited for this week and and I think we can then get into the course and um we’ll make some picks and predictions but let’s let’s fire it up I’ll start I mean not going out on a limb here I just going back to Lil AV vu having her healthy and and coming in off of a victory I just don’t think it can be said enough that you know last year she was the player and she asserted herself as the best player in the world really the best American female playing golf won two majors was the LPGA player of the year I mean just just every Accolade well-deserved and then you flip to 2024 and we see Nelly go on this CRA historic run she’s won six times she won the first major of the year but we haven’t seen him head-to-head really you know Lilia had to withdraw from Chevron she didn’t play at the US Open this is going to be the first major since like all of this going on where these two women are going to be competing you know hopefully head-to-head God it’d be awesome if they if it came down the stretch Sunday and they were both in it but I I think just having Lilia healthy and and you know having the top two players in the world it’s it’s it’s cool that you know we’re American it’s cool that they’re American um I just think we I I want to start there like I can’t wait for this week and and I hope both ladies play just really good golf and we can kind of get to see like hey if they’re both playing their best who’s who’s best is better yeah I think there’s a couple others that would like a word and be included in that conversation uh as well and I probably start i’ be remiss if I didn’t start with yucas Sasso I mean complete dominant performance that she put on at the US Women’s Open clearly in fine form somebody who might you know hasn’t really gone out and like got a ton of Dubs so far but ataya is playing so good I think this golf course sets up perfect for the way that ataya plays golf uh again you might as well put everything in the Pacific Northwest and kind of shift it to what that area means not only for Brooke but for Canadian golf as a whole I mean she’s what I would say was like the last defending Champion kind of in sorts obviously I’m not taking anything away from ronning Yin who truly is the KPMG uh PGA women’s PGA defending champion this week who also is finding really good form but the last time this Championship was at sahal it was all about Brooke and it was all about Lydia and if I was going to pick two I’m going to go uh with BR or pick one I’m going to go with Brooke here because she talked about it last time one one of the things that she credited to her success there is just how much at home she felt that it truly reminded her of the majority of golf courses that she grew up playing at home in Canada and this is a pretty big ballpark it they’re not going to stretch it out quite as far as it it was at the US Women’s Open but we got very narrow Fairways we have thick rough and it’s truly one of the most claustrophobic golf courses that we’re going to see on the men’s or women’s side all year long I mean there’s just these massive massive pine trees and everything else that you can think of that just kind of suffocate you uh from every tea boox and you know you have big putting surfaces that are pinched majority from back to front with big long slopes they’re going to be quick um and in doing some research for this I went back and watch and I’ll start here big what was the the the first memory that you have of sahal oh gosh like truth be told it it’s honestly like highlights of Davis Love up there and and I I say highlights because I don’t know where I was in my life I don’t know what I was doing that specific week but I don’t think I I really watched the event so this is this is a bit of a blind spot as a course for me because admit I I didn’t the the 2016 women’s KPMG I I didn’t see that one either so so Holly’s weird it’s like I I’ll see pictures of it and and it’s so striking the the tall you know fur trees and Pines and Evergreens out there um it’s really a visual of a course that we just don’t see a lot of certainly for for major championships um but I don’t have a deep reservoir of of memories Cody I I’m I’m kind of coming in a little bit fresh this year I feel like let me ask you here here uh before we have to go back and edit this whole thing but Davis what what what event do you think Davis Love won I don’t know that’s I guess that plays into my point I I feel like we need to keep this who who won it does it does feel like it would be a Davis course but I I’ll go back and say the first big event that that sahali Country Club hosted of course was the 1998 PJ Championship okay so that’s the one who won the 1998 PJ that’s the one I’m thinking of I was it VJ I want to say either VJ okay all right so VJ ended up winning there played a a pretty good final round and I went back and again you can watch all this stuff on YouTube but like watching the highlights from vj’s Final Round there um he was the person who ended up taking second to him he was in the final group with him uh which is you know a great short game master from Wisconsin uh and I I’ll say that his highest finish that he ever had to but watching the greens and watching how VJ puted them and then going back to to 2016 the last time they HED the or the first time they hosted the KPMG women’s PJ Championship there that that Brook won beat Lydia in a playoff man they turned the greens up and it was like kind of scraggly and some bare spots and you know mowing lines that weren’t quite the same uh you know they didn’t match up all over the place in 1998 well all that was fixed by 2016 and oh my goodness and then uh you know being on YouTube and everything else so one of the uh he’s not in good good anymore but Luke K Quan went and did a video last fall I think and I watched his round around sahali and I was like oh my goodness it was even he said it was like it’s the most claustrophobic I’ve ever felt on a golf course you have to be able to work the golf if if you plan on hit driver which is why Brooke was so successful there is that she hit her at the time 48 inch driver 19-year-old Brooke Henderson both ways she could work it right to left and left to right and she birdied almost every par five and hard par 3s and picked up a couple Strokes on par fours but truly put on a driving display like she was able to move her driver everywhere and I don’t think that there’s a lot of people currently in the modern game that that can move their driver both ways quite like Brooke was able to because I don’t even know if Brooke can still do that um now you can play if you if you’re going to stick to one predominately uh golf shot you can you’re just not going to be able to get the ball around some of these big dog legs because the trees are so freaking massive man like it’s like you are lining every single one of these Fairways it it it blew my mind it it’s it’s just crazy to look at but but they’re you know Fairways po uh a mixture of rye and po out there and then they have po putting surfaces that look so slick and like I said not crazy like sharp breaking putts that you you know that we saw last week at pineur how there’s all these like little tiny movements all over the different uh plateaus and and sections of each green they’re all long drawn out slopes and that’s kind of the golf that I grew up playing and that’s what I love watching people putt on but man there’s such a big difference from watching that tape from 1998 to 2016 to last year and I’m like holy cow so Holly grew up and they’ve made some you know coarse improvements over time they just they redid all of their bunkers not only like resanding putting new Bottoms in them to improve drainage and everything else but they moved bunkers around specifically to match the women’s game and they took everything and plotter maps from the 2016 championship and we’re like oh okay well you know most golf courses are built with the men’s game in mind well we want this to be stand up and P the the predominant Women’s Championship cores so we’re going to put them where we think that it would be you know hazards need to be put and I think that’s like the coolest thing because I can’t remember any other big Club ever doing that specifically focused on the women’s game that’s really cool and just just hearing you describe the type of course and and the type of play that will be tested this week it it really fits in well I think with what we’ve seen recently at the KPMG with you know last year um we were at balst Raw which is you know kind of big sprawling certainly you know talking about the putting I I I felt like we saw a lot of just like broad slopes you know you you have these big greens and you’re trying to navigate both the speed and kind of the the big broad slopes of them and then the year before you know when when they were at Congressional another just kind of big ballpark again with those big sloping greens I think as you said the cool thing this year is it seems like we’re going to have that type of putting challenge with like a totally different look off the tea and so as I look at the KPMG performance insights you know who’s who’s the best on the LPGA Tour this year shots gained off the te there’s there’s a surprising woman first uh which would be Alexa Pano I I never would have guessed that but right behind really yeah oh yeah oh man listen if people ever doubt uh how Alexa Pano is so good and like where she truly makes everything up on the golf course Titus does an awesome job of how they do their not just social Med media but the some of the YouTube stuff that they do they have a couple driver specific videos with Alexa and they have a couple practice round videos I encourage everyone to go watch those because not only you’re going to understand who she is a little bit better but you’re going to understand how she thinks around getting off the tea because it it’s it’s crazy to see and for her to be number one not surprised who’s in number two outside of the fact that she’s not number one in Nelly Corda makes a lot of sense yeah if like getting off the T is at a premium it’s it’s cool you know right there in in third place this season is Charlie Hall you have ly Grant in fifth you know Yuca Sasso in in eighth on the season Strokes gained off the te and then Brooke Henderson I believe what is she 10th so it’s like some of these names that that we would talk about anyways it’s man if if that’s really where kind of the the the competition’s going to be fought and and ultimately decided God sign me up you know if if Brooke and Yuka and Lynn and Charlie and Nelly like that’s that’s awesome and then you know obviously you’re gonna have to lay I do have something to report yeah we we might have some issues here and I don’t want to go completely into trop land but British Airways lost Charlie’s Bay so she doesn’t have her golf clubs right now and I I don’t know feeling I don’t know if the Taylor Made trucks there I’m sure she could find some you know I’m sure they’ll get her clubs somehow but honestly for somebody the last time that Charlie teed it up was at the US Women’s Open she’s notorious for being a home body all she wants to do is be at home if she outside of like the a couple of Le events that she picks up she’s not going to be she’s not going to be on the road for three weeks at a time she plays two tournaments in a row and then comes home but she’s been home for a long time and has been putting in a ton of work of course not Just Fitness wise big I see what you’ve been watching but also on her golf game all right and I had such high hopes uh for Charli I I I’m begging please British Airways if there’s anybody out there that listens to British Airways Charlie why are you flying British Airways okay I don’t even know can ba get her all the way to Seattle is in there can’t we get her uh Delta or United it seems like on the lpj tour they’re throwing these Delta sponsorships around come on help a girl out what’s going on here I know that’s a God that’s a great point we we’ll have to we’ll have to keep tabs on the the status of Charlie’s bag um I do we talked about venues past venues I will say obviously this year we’re at this awesome Golf Course theol Country Club talked about how great of it is not only for a club but KPMG and the PG of America’s investment and everything to make this fit specifically for the women’s professional game next year we got to figure out something on this calendar because next year is going to be the first time that the women get a look at the East course at Fields Ranch just a couple miles north of me big fella and if we’re playing planning on playing this you know women’s PGA Championship in the middle of June where it’s at now oh my goodness it we cannot do this so I hope they move this this got to go somewhere in in early May yeah please it’s got to be in early May or late in the fall which I don’t know what’s going to go on there but uh it’ll be very very interesting and sure they have the dates being how big the hotel and everything I’m sure they’re zoned out somewhere I just didn’t look for it after that 20126 we’re going to go to Hazel teine 2027 we’re back at Congressional and then they don’t have anything else posted yet on venues except for 2031 they’re back of course home of the PGA of America Fields Ranch the East course there so it’ll be very very interesting to see is balst going to get another look because we know the relationship with the PGA of America they really like balastra is sahali gonna get another look like I think there’s a lot of other courses the biggest thing that we got to figure out here again on the LPGA side and the overall scheduling of things is we got to figure out how this is going to work like I feel like the KPMG women’s PGA the US Women’s Open and the AIG Women’s Open they’re all just bouncing around and it’s like we’re giving extreme preference to the Olympics and I understand that they’re setting you know Olympic schedules are out 10 12 years in advance how come we can’t figure out the the year toe calendar guys I know what’s going on I know because last year you’ll remember it was back to back the the KPMG and the US Women’s Open yeah I’d like to see him get some more stability and and kind of carve out spots on the calendar for these bigger events Cody you know something as as you were talking about Brooke and and you know what she did here in 2016 this this kind of dovet tales into something I find interesting we have a lot of the preeminent golfers right now on the LPGA Tour have two major victories and so if if you go back to 2016 these are the women that currently are sitting on two major championships you have Nelly Corda she just got there earlier this year you have Lilia Vu she won her two last year you have Brook Henderson she’s got two total you got M Lee she’s got two total yucas Sasso just won her second Jin young Co has two total Lydia Co has two total it it’s just an incredible kind of bunch up that we have now with with these women sitting on two majors and I think that’s something fascinating you know out of those out of that cohort will we see one of those women you know kind of break free and and win that third major this week I I just thought it was interesting you know all these young names and I mean even like Brooke and Lydia who’ve been around forever they’re they’re still quite young just find it interesting you know when when you look at the whole nobody’s really honestly since like MB Park you know MB Park won what what she won six Majors but in that void uh since since she’s kind of taken a step back and and is now out of the game and and starting a family we have a lot of women jockeying for position here and so I I I think it is is really cool you know if Yuka were to to win a third or M Lee it’s like there there is some some standing that I think you know you and I care about and and it’s kind of fun to talk about the women’s game in these terms so uh I I just found it interesting we we we kind of have a a big two major club and maybe somebody joins that two major Club you know you talked about ronning Yin she certainly could uh Alison corpo certainly could maybe a TI tium wins to before any of these other wins through you know I I just think there’s a lot a lot of directions we could go right now in the women’s game yeah it’s truly uh uh who could say but again I just go back to like man how how lucky we are to talk about like so many really really good players finding Awesome form at the right time of year right now and and with Nelly clearly on top Lilia back I mean it’s so much we haven’t even talked about Lydia still one point away uh I think I got to go back and and check check here but I’m pretty sure the last time this event was played here somebody else needed to clinch a Hall of Fame point to and I don’t know if they quite got it done but just just crazy craziness alog together big uh 156 players in this field big tournament lots of te times of course we got eight players that have qualified true professionals out there LPGA professional staff uh through the corebridge financial they’re throwing their money out there still so see how the those eight professionals stack up against the best players in the women’s game but I’m excited you got some uh like what are we doing television wise yeah um so broadcast schedule anybody that hasn’t seen that yet Thursday in Friday these are all Eastern United States times Thursday and Friday from 4: to 6: PM peacock is going to be the place to watch and then from 6: to 10 p.m. Eastern on Golf Channel again that’s Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday it’s going to be really 1 to 8:00 pm on peacock with a 3 to 6 PM window on NBC and then Sunday 12 to 7 p.m. on peacock with a 3 to 7 PM window on NBC so Cody this is something I want to talk about we we don’t let’s go what what what is up with this TV schedule well we don’t have to belabor the point but I I really do think you know you compare the TV schedule for the women’s PGA compare it to what we had for the men’s PGA where it was truly wall to- wall and I get that you know that the men’s PJ CBS and ESPN had the rights for the women’s PJ it’s it’s NBC with Golf Channel but I I just feel like there there should be a bit more of a of a burden or an initiative on the part of the PJ of America as a national Organization for both female and male Professionals for them to put on their championship and and to have really quite a disparity in in the broadcasting of those two championships I I just feel like it’s a little off and I wish we could see more of an effort to at least get to where the men’s PGA Championship has been which is again there were over 250 hours of coverage you had dedicated you know featured holes featured groups [ __ ] we’re we we’re on an ALT cast on ESPN you know the there just is so many more ways to engage with the men’s PGA Championship and and I just think it’s it’s it’s not great that the women’s PGA Championship is not being pushed to at least be on the same type of broadcast platform as the men’s again because it’s a National Organization I would say the same thing about the usgaa in their credit I feel like they’re making the men’s championship and the Women’s Championship much more commensurate in how they’re broadcast and presented and I just don’t quite see that yet with the PGA yeah you know I agree with you there big the one thing that I would say let’s see Saturday so I was shocked when you said Saturday is 1 to8 Eastern peacock 3 to6 NBC there is on Saturday that 6:00 to 800 pm. there’s a Golf Channel slot uh that we didn’t I miss we didn’t get in the notes but uh you know why aren we taking advantage of West Coast some prime time options here why are we constantly like what’s the point of of putting it on NBC for the three hours and then we’re we’re sliding it over to the Golf Channel well that’s what excuse me the channel so so they’re not finishing in prime time on Sunday and and I guess my question to you would I feel like they should is they must feel like they can get better ratings maybe if they go in that traditional like 3 to 7 window you know it’s kind of more of an East Coast finishing time I I was curious your thoughts on that and whether that’s a mistake well of course it’s a mistake but I’m sure there’s Olympics or something else going on that uh I’m trying to pull up right now on my old TV Guide here to to figure out give somebody the benefit of the doubt here at least um because this is it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me big uh but I don’t know again this kind of case and point of somebody who has all the rights for everything but like what’s the point of holding all those rights if you’re just going to do stuff half ass right I’m not saying this is 100% on NBC I still think a lot of the B like the buck should this needs to go to the PGA of America and I I harp on this every year and I understand we’re only 10 years into the PGA of America investment into this event and it’s come a long way we talked about the 2016 playing of this Championship the last time it was at sahali and the purse there the total prize fund in 2016 was $3.5 Million that they haven’t announced officially what the the prize fund is going to be this year but last year is 10 million bucks so I assume it’s going to be at least that or a little bit more we’ll see where it goes there but winner share for Brooke when she won $525,000 last year of course you know Ronnie taken I think a million plus home she had to pay the landlord that’s good she did she did great to see but uh you know with with growth in prize funds there’s also uh an extreme you know if companies that are putting that type of money out there also needs to be the a change in the media rights because I I guarantee you at some point in time all this money via in investment in purses is going to catch up with the LPGA Tour and it’s going to put Molly in a very difficult position to finally have to make those hard decisions because the way currently going about overall brand exposure is not equal at all to the amount of financial investment that these companies and and thank God these companies are putting the money up there but it has to find a balance sometime and and from the fans perspective right it’s listen the the the the purses becoming again more commensurate between male and female in in something like the PGA Championship and the US Open where it’s these National bodies that serve both men and women I I I absolutely love that and I think it’s it’s crucial but eventually you’re exactly right where this purse increase you know from a fans perspective it’s like that’s wonderful but like where’s the increased broadcast option or you know where can we get better access to watch these events you know at a certain point they’re they’re really going to have to start focusing on the viewer and the fan and and building it that way as well I I think that’s really well said about like those things should go hand inand and I think right now we’re seeing you know far heavier emphasis put on the purses which again is great for the competitors it’s it’s wonderful for a lot of reasons but at some point we got to talk about the broadcast and and how these events not only you know the majors but certainly week to week are are presented just to close out a couple of these notes Here uh I went up and I I pulled the old TV Guide up and I was right so the the US Summer Olympic time trials start immediately after NBC’s coverage on Sunday that’s why they’re getting bumped over to the channel or excuse me they’re not even getting bumped over it this is going to be very interesting because if they do not say something happens and they do not fin or finish play by 700 p.m. Eastern on NBC what’s NBC going to do because we know I mean the Olympics is it for them yeah and are they gonna ride and finish this tournament out or are they gonna you know something else happens and I know this year there was we got in a big fuss Twitter complaint last year because we were promised these commercial free hours paid by cway or something like that and that actually didn’t even come to fruition we got commercial 3 uh like 37 minutes or some crap like that so we’ll see I’m just prepared to be pelted by commercials I understand people got bills to pay and everything else like that but I don’t know what what where are streaming options where are you know just put it on the website somewhere what why can’t why can’t I watch us sing on kpg KPMG PG women’s PJ championship. comom we’re we’re constantly jumping through hoops for a partner that that seems you know we obviously know they care a lot about the women’s game um but trying to figure out how the how the financials of it make sense for them uh seems to be like priority number one yeah and and again just to put a fine point on it would back last month at Valhalla you could watch granted this was streaming plus you know regular cable television but Thursday and Friday there was it went from 7 am. to 8:00 pm so it’s blanket coverage of the entire day that you can watch of this major championship and and we get with betting shows with our shows with with you get less than half of that on the women’s side I I think that’s kind of what we need to start you know there needs to be more so I had hope obviously we’re uh well we didn’t really sign a deal to be completely honest we we basically volunteered to do the LPGA streaming option on ESPN Plus on select tournaments and the fact that this wasn’t on the schedule that they sent over to us it kind of gave me hope I was like oh wait a second they must have figured some other streaming option out to or you know whether that’s Golf Channel or USA or whatever NBC one of NBC’s channels going to carry a lot more of this golf tournament because we’re not going to have an ESPN plus option yeah well that doesn’t look like the case from the schedule that you laid out no no um just to finish up on the schedule we will have a happy hour nlu live show uh tomorrow afternoon we will be that’s kind of going to be a split between KPMG and The Travelers Championship over on the PGA tour but then Friday night you and I I believe suly you know we were not to air out we were really hoping Jane Park and she was trying to work on a friend to join her Friday night that is not going to be the case anymore so I apologize in advance it’s it’s going to be me and you Cody I think su’s going to join us we we may we’re going to work on some some guests to to lighten the mood around there but folks can check us out at the end of coverage 10 p.m. Eastern Friday night and then also Sunday at the inclusion of play we’re going to go live uh reacting of course to the KPMG The Travelers and everything going on in the world of golf so that’s the broadcast schedule I say we end this with some official picks what do you say I love it buddy all right give me can I put a caveat in here real quick I want an asterisk just like a GU asterisk that we put into men’s Majors I want an asterisk put in here that says strictly for in the fine print this is all subject to when Charlie Hall gets golf B I think that’s I think that’s well said I think that’s well said thank you um all right let’s start here let’s go do you have a surprise miscut I I will lead us off I’ll give you a second to think about it I’m gonna take Jin young CO as a surprise miscut and I say that because um I if I look at her driving performance this year she’s losing half a shot per round uh off the te and I just feel like man if if you’re a little bit wild if you’re spraying the ball it’s not a good recipe around sahali so I’m gonna take Jin young CO as my surprise miscut this week Cody I actually agree with that and uh you you kind of hit the nail on the head there I think there is there’s such a premium around here for driving accuracy and I’m going to go somebody who you know I know TC had very very high hopes and she’s playing really really good almost got a dub couple weeks ago my surprise Miss Cut’s going to come from I hate to say the 16th rank player in the world somebody who needs to get in that top 15 by the end of this week that’s Megan Kang there’s major Olympic implications here she needs to get in the top 15 in order to get that last spot for Team USA there’s a lot writing on it I I just don’t think really course match here which is I don’t know now I’m seeing now I’m trying to talk myself out of it because of you know she played so good in Canada and in Portland last year and those are kind of there’s a lot more breathing room there but kind of the same versions of this golf course now I’m gonna stick with it Megan Kan I’m sorry love you working that out in real time all right how about a surprise we’ll call it a surprise top 10 and you know your definition of surprise might vary but again looking at the stats somebody that I think profiles really well and it’s not just my heart speaking Cody but if if you look at what meline sagstrom does really well it’s hit the ball off the te and Putt and if she can that the big thing with meline and Lord knows I’ve watched so much of her golf in person trying to follow on the broadcast even just like dissecting her scorecards she has a real problem avoiding the doubles and triples and the blow up holes and so I I really do worry about that at sool right she she could drive the ball flawlessly for you know minus the par 3es let’s call it 13 holes right but she could hit a squirly one out of nowhere I say all that though she I I I I haven’t crunched all the numbers but just a cursory glance through the KPMG performance websites page she’s among the top rated if you combine Strokes gained off the te with Strokes gained putting she’s she’s gaining nearly a stroke per round on the greens so I just think that combination could be a a beautiful match for the venue this week of course I’m always rooting for meline she she holds a spot near and dear to Har heart at nlu she’s somebody that we support so I hope this is a great work a great week for her and and I I think she qualifies as what would be a surprise top 10 I mean 38 in the world I don’t know if if we would go on yeah thanks than but no I I agree with you I mean course match wise it it truly makes sense I’m I’m going to go uh there there’s no data that’s telling me that this is a smart thing this is truly an ey test thing all right all right now this player has one if I told you that this player wanted event this year okay has played in Eight other events and either has missed cut or withdrew in six of those eight events you would not say that there is any form or anything coming in here and I’m talking about the lovely bayy tardy yes all right since her win at the Blue Bay L LPGA she has a lot she has six or excuse me five miscuts actually six miscuts and one withdrawal she she pulled out of the Jam eagle La championship her only finish that she had is a tie for 34th at the mizuho Americas open but what I like and if for really talking about like driving here she is really good off the tea she’s 21st according to KPMG performance ins size 21st um for strokes getting off the te it kind of matches up she’s you know in the top 50 for total Strokes gain Tia green her total Strokes gained are not good she’s a 91st but really what her true Bugaboo is is around the green and putting but I think this is one of those courses just like we saw not so much at Lancaster um but kind of like Valla where because there’s so much thick rough around these greens you’re really just chopping it out and like every shot is kind of the same there’s not a lot of tightly moan areas or anything else like that which I think AIDS somebody like her and as long as you know these are Big Green get them on the green she can putt you know she just got to get hot and when she gets hot there’s truly nothing that’s going to stop her and like that’s kind of how she played last year at the US Women’s Open when she had that major glow up through three rounds and then life kind of Came Crashing Down um but I wanted to get really really far out there and make some you know make a pick hey Shock the World here and this this is what I’m riding with so come on Bailey I I love it I mean that’s way more of a guts here pick than than I gave you um well then let’s let’s get to our winner pick this is this is honestly you know for the first time it’s not just an automatic Nelly pick for me Cody and you mentioned earlier like a TI tium I think is oh I was going there too buddy like hard hard to ignore I honestly think Yuka Sasso is gonna be right there I think Ling Grant is gonna be right there I hope Ling Grant is right there uh but I am gonna come back to Nelly I I just I I love I know I know I I I I really tried to talk myself into all these different directions but I’m coming back to Nelly I’m coming back to I’m riding with her I’m riding with where she is mentally we we heard those clips earlier in the episode I I just I don’t know I I want this like I’m just openly rooting for this already historic season like you said to turn into like one of the greatest of all time and I think certainly another major if not two is going to be key to that and so I hope it’s this week I’m I’m picking Nelly all right well wait way to get out there and change change it up of course I got my my my yearlong Nelly prediction as it is I’m very firmly and comfortable in the Nelly bucket I mean I know you’re the one that’s trying to make it get back on Nell’s Nelly’s side here so that Mak sense of course Nelly you know she is clearly the favorite at this event and I would say you know it’s nice to see Lilia back supposedly being healthy winning last week I just don’t know how long you know we also said that earlier this year about angel and Angel played awesome at match play and then was like I know it takes time you know it do it takes time to build those reps back in and and you know it’s kind of like your first uh round of golf coming out of winter break you’re like oh my goodness like I haven’t lost anything I played so good and then all of a sudden you got a bad month here not saying of course not wishing that for Lilia but I think if you want to talk about current form somebody who else struggled with an injury kept her out for a long time in the beginning of the season of course I’m talking about a tatical first event back was Chevron she ended up taking 12th there in the eight events that she’s actually played she’s only missed a cut one time her highest finish so far this year has been that 12th a first week back at the Chev she’s coming off of a T8 at Myers a solo four at the shoppr right and tied for six at the US Women’s Open I don’t know where else you can look right here outside of the train that is Nelly out you know a tie is it and a win is coming why not this week she drives the ball really really good she hits greens and again it’s just that Putter and she seems to have found something with that putter she she she’s she’s coming like she’s still just 21 years old she won uh I believe she won the VAR Trophy last year but she she led the LPGA in top 10 by a mile in 2023 and and as you just said once she’s gotten back and and with her feet underneath her this season she’s a top 10 machine like it’s it’s really really incredible the golf that she plays and I think like she is going to force her way into the conversation with Nelly and Lilia and all these other women we speak of I would love it if ataya broke through this week that that’s a fantastic pick I went the safe route with Nelly but um she she is a force to be reckoned with so Cody I can’t wait man this not only you know Prime Time like I said some new visuals of sahali for me uh just some a different looking Golf Course than what we typically see even at major championships I I think this is going to be a really really fun uh exciting week and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you and and the rest of the audience as we get going here yeah I agree buddy I’m pumped big trees get me fired up and man this it’s just such a different look I’m really really excited for it and you know excited to watch a lot of commercials probably but we’ll have it come check us out we’ll be back tomorrow afternoon happy hour show Friday evening could be a late night potentially for us big we got we might have to work on some timing here I don’t know if we can stay all the way to that 10:00 Eastern but we’ll see and then of course we’ll be back on Sunday for the big live show presented by high noon thank you to Yeti thank you to our friends that Titleist and of course thank you to mizuo Americas for our winning advice segment anything else before we get out of here buddy no thanks everybody listening and enjoy the week cheers
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0:20 Say it with me, Cody… “sə-MAM-ish”
Native PNW tongue!
Suh-Mam-Ish Cody