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Episode 62 - PGA Recap
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The boys look at everything that went on at Valhalla. Including spraying the setup and looking at Scottie Scheffler's stint in the slammer. All this and plenty more.
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Transcript
Xander Shelfley's Triumph
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Off The Tips Podcast. It was a huge week at the PGA Championship. Xander Shelfley getting the job done at 21 under par and to join me to break it down and all other things in the golfing world is AC.
AC's Polish Adventure
00:00:26
Speaker
AC, how are you doing mate? I'm great brother. I've got
00:00:30
Speaker
Plenty going on at the moment. Going to Poland in the weekend. Quite busy with work, but I had a great time watching the golf as well. It wasn't, we can discuss it later. It wasn't a vintage major in my opinion, but I still enjoyed it. How are you going, brother?
Filming on NSW Golf Courses
00:00:49
Speaker
Yeah, not too bad, mate. You know, being up and down the New South Wales coastline over the last couple of days, shooting some cool things on some golf courses, which has been great.
00:01:00
Speaker
Mate, what's on the agenda in Poland? Yeah, so we've got a Krakow, which is, yeah, it's pretty well known for its nightlife, but it's also got some pretty historical sites. Yeah, we are going to a concentration camp, which will be interesting, but I feel I'm going to be honest. I don't know how I feel about it, but yeah, there's a bit going on there.
00:01:32
Speaker
I think historically that'll be a great thing to go see, but it'll be pretty sombre, won't it? Oh, yeah. I was talking to a guy at work.
00:01:43
Speaker
Yeah, I was the only guy at work in jokes aside, he's like, I've never got so drunk after I went to a concentration camp. Like, he's just... Yeah, I can imagine how... So confronting. I don't really want to talk about this on a golf podcast. We just don't. It's pretty bleak and you're right, but I'm sure Poland will be a great trip nonetheless.
Xander's Victory Discussed
00:02:11
Speaker
Mate, Xander Schofle kind of gets the monkey off the back this week at Valhalla Golf Club. What are your kind of... If you could sum up, you know, in a few words what you think of Xander winning and maybe Valhalla.
00:02:28
Speaker
I think well deserved. We had the discussion in the preview pod and I saw through it out there whether he was the second best player in the world. Statistically, he actually is. I don't think he quite can carry that
00:02:44
Speaker
that sort of tag yet but man I think he's close to it and I just think like good on him for finally putting one away and hey he's giving himself enough chances and one day you're just gonna kick the kick the door down and he did that so
00:03:01
Speaker
Although it wasn't a vintage major set up, which I'm sure we'll talk about, he still had to do it. He still beat everyone else. You're playing the same golf course and he hit the shots when they're acquired. So even the way he managed 18, like that was not an easy second shot. Still got to make it up and down. The putt used a lot of the hole. But, you know, one major physander feels about right. You know, he
00:03:30
Speaker
It's not a fluke. That's, that's what I'll say. No, absolutely not. And you summed it up pretty well. Like if you keep putting yourself in those positions, you're going to win one. Like he's won the Olympics before and he's a perennial contender. He's a perennial top 10 man.
00:03:51
Speaker
He's always nearly man. And you said it last week, he never really ejects himself from tournaments on Sunday. He kind of just doesn't win them. And I think he even said afterwards, he was like, this was the one, this is the time when he was in contention. And he had a bit of a different look in his eye. He had a crazy look in his eye,
Bryson's Entertaining Performance
00:04:08
Speaker
man. And he got the job done. But Bryson breathing down his neck. Jeez, he's been entertaining when we've got to see him play this year. Oh, it was great.
00:04:20
Speaker
I loved having, like I'm not always a fan of him as a bloke more because he just lacks self-awareness. Um, but I just thought he was a great addition to this week and at Augusta, he, he played so good. Um, that shot him to 16 after that break. That was, that was pretty epic. Um, and yeah, it was just, it was just good to have him there. And I think.
00:04:46
Speaker
You know, it's it just provides something different. I actually found myself rooting for Bryson. Yeah, it's set up perfectly for him. I mentioned on the preview pod, I had some money on him as well and didn't quite work out that way, but it just did seem tailor made for a Bryson show.
00:05:06
Speaker
Absolutely. And like you said, you found yourself rooting for him. I did a little bit as well. I just feel like he's kind of reinventing himself as a bloke for us and he's kind of turning into, he's gone from this villain, this outspoken villain. He still says some fucking weird shit, but he's kind of turning into a lovable character, you know?
00:05:28
Speaker
he's morphing into this guy that you want to root for, which is a weird, weird feeling as a guy who I've like, who's historically not enjoyed seeing Bryson contend at golf tournaments. I mean, wooden foot would be up there with one of my least favorite majors of all time. But hey, it's good to see him. The video that's been going around where he, he tossed the ball into the crowd and, um,
00:05:56
Speaker
just absolutely called out that adult for snatching off a kid. I was like, that's good shit. I enjoyed seeing that. I was like, he's definitely, he's got something about him. He was pretty angry at that guy. And to be fair, I'd hope most pros do it. Like what's a grown man doing snatching a golf ball off a kick? I have some issues with grown men at golf tournaments. Like that is one.
00:06:23
Speaker
golf shoes. I could maybe accept it on a wet Valhalla but can't cop golf shoes and like just blokes hanging over kids to get high fives from from other adult males like come on team. It's it's not great but what I did like was um the fact that when Scotty Sheffler made his way out of the the slammer that there was already people with his mug shot on his
00:06:52
Speaker
on their T-shirts, which is an incredible turnaround.
Scotty Sheffler's Legal Troubles
00:06:56
Speaker
And I suppose we'll address the elephant in the room now. We'll talk about that. AC, did you have Scotty Sheffley going to the big house on your bingo card this week? I didn't. I definitely didn't. Yeah, just the shock. I was just scrolling through Twitter. Twitter was just outstanding. There was plenty of... Unbelievable. ...of good content on there.
00:07:21
Speaker
I've seen on this pod before, if you're into your golf, get a Twitter because it's the best social media platform for golf. A lot of, a lot of middle aged white men just throwing some chat out, really. I want to address it. What about your comment, Cal calling it, what did you call it on the group chat? It was something... I called it shocking. That was uneducated, just quietly.
00:07:50
Speaker
He said, what, Scotty Sheffield, it was shocking. I said, mate, let's just hold your horses here. I'm sure you've done worse than you have. I should have. Well, I say, I haven't driven a car with a police officer attached to the back of it, but, um, just, just quietly. Uh, but yeah, what did you make of the whole situation in the end? Like it was just, I think going on to win the event, mate, we'd be making a movie out of it.
00:08:20
Speaker
Oh, a hundred percent. The thing that sort of, I can't get over is, is the fact it's like the most dominant golfer in the world happened to be the one person that that happened to. Like, I don't know, that could have happened to Taylor Gooch. Yeah, it could have been, like what I'm saying, it could have been anyone. And it happened to be Scotty Sheffler, which was just
00:08:46
Speaker
so random and I couldn't believe why I can because he's so unflappable just the way he came out and just shot like a cruise he sucks under after it too after warming up in his cell. What are you getting done behind bars? Do you reckon maybe he, for his one phone call, he called Angel Cabrera to ask him how he stayed a limber in the cells?
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's good. Yeah. I don't know if, and how would have been, would have been on speed dial. Oh, and you'd have to, do you have, would you have to know their number? Because man, that's hard these days. Do you reckon they are the yellow pages? I'm not sure. I don't know. I'm sure like they'll just, they'd take your phone off you and you'd, and you'd get to use your phone nowadays, wouldn't you? I don't know.
00:09:45
Speaker
I don't know. Hopefully I don't. Maybe I have one on a cord. Yeah. I don't really hope to find out. Um, but just reverting to the Twitter memes and Instagram memes, jeez, you just, it's a credit to how creative people are. What were your two favorite memes that popped up over the kind of 24 hours of Scotty Sheffler?
00:10:11
Speaker
I'm getting out of the slammer. I'm blanking out. I'm blanking out. You go first. I need to find them on my screenshots. Well, mine was, there was, and I wish I could credit the meme accounts that do this, but these are just off the top of my head, so I apologize. But the one of Scottie Scheffler rolling up to the first tee with the teardrop tattoo,
00:10:41
Speaker
was great. Scotty on the first tee this morning and he had a teardrop and then just an absolute simple classic was him walking out of the clubhouse with his umbrella and his golf kit with many men playing in the background. Oh, that was right up there. Yeah, they were good. I think the teardrop one was definitely my number one. Yeah, I'm not sure. Even just like there's a few comments just like
00:11:09
Speaker
Oh, this is how Scotty must feel this Scotty getting a taste of how we feel like stressful morning. You got a kid rushing to the first tee and just shit like that happens. But it was yeah, it was it was just like comical and just something that you just like you can't describe how unlikely that whole scenario was. Yeah.
Valhalla Golf Club Critique
00:11:35
Speaker
Like, I just can't believe he was genuinely handcuffed and put in the back of a cop car. It's just beyond belief. And I found it pretty funny that, like, as soon as he arrived to the golf course, that Ricky Fowler was the first person to greet him. Just always just looking out for his mates, Ricky Fowler. Yeah, Ricky, he's just always there, isn't he?
00:12:03
Speaker
I'm trying to think, I was trying to think the longest yard. So was Adam Sandler watching the game in the prison when he came, when he came back? Or was he? He was in the prison, wasn't he? He was the failed quarterback. Yeah, that's right. And he went to the slaver. I was giving him one of those vibes. The longest yard. Well, we gave the longest yard penance team, maybe Tiger, John Daly, Scotty Scheffler and Angel Cabrera.
00:12:32
Speaker
That's a good side. Good luck beating them just quietly. Yeah. The orange jumpsuits. But mate, we'll move on from, I could talk about Prism memes and Scotty Scheffler all day, but it seemed as over the weekend that the charges were going to be dropped, but I don't know if they are now. They're talking, I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about court dates and stuff, but you'd think he gets off. I think it's also like, I don't really care.
00:13:02
Speaker
but he's not a bad dude. It was just a mistake. Like I don't really, the charges story now just doesn't really, it's not going to be anything ridiculous, is it? So I don't know. I don't know. I get a criminal record. I just think it's irrelevant. Yep. Fair enough. Um, should we move on to the golf course, mate? Valhalla. I've got some phones to pick. Okay. Well you,
00:13:32
Speaker
air out your dirty laundry mate, just let me have it. I just thought it was a PGA tour set up. The thing with majors for me is normally it's quite enjoyable the whole week through, whereas this time I didn't enjoy watching rounds two and three. Just the path to get to that finish was just awful. No consequence for bad shots.
00:14:02
Speaker
The design is just a disgrace. You only got to think, I think it was the second hole. It was early in Xander's round, he pulls the shit out of this drive, probably 15 metres left of the fairway. It probably ends up five metres away from the water, which is 20 metres left of the fairway with thick rough. It's just like, why
00:14:26
Speaker
Why isn't that hazard being used? Why wouldn't you just have tight grass? Why wouldn't you try make them take it close to the water? It's just staggering. It's confounding. And then I know some of it's soft greens, but I didn't see one difficult up and down all week really. It was just...
00:14:46
Speaker
I don't know. And so what happened, I found is watching that last round is it never really felt like someone was going to just spew all over themselves. Um, but there was no, it didn't feel like something could change massively. Like, yeah, someone's going to make a birdie, but it didn't really feel like someone had a big number coming up. And then, yeah, I just thought there was no shots that you watched and you're standing there, like scared for the player. Like there wasn't any shots with real consequence is probably what
00:15:16
Speaker
how I'm trying to say it, flat greens as well. Geez, I could goal day. Yeah. Well, yeah, like I'm on the same page as you, mate. It's just, it was just a shootout and that's not what major championship golf is. Like it's, was just get to fucking 20 plus under and, and my gripes are like,
00:15:41
Speaker
Man, 500-yard par 4s and 250-yard par 3s just do absolutely nothing for me. I know you said it to me, if there's any reason or any proof that we need to do something about the equipment, whether it be roll the ball back or make the driver head smaller, just
00:16:03
Speaker
it's that like it is just beyond ridiculous and it's it's not fun to watch especially on a soft soft golf course is that like you rule out half the field essentially with just with length and uh and i don't know maybe i'm just a purist and enoughy but i i found it really hard to not not enjoy because it's still a major championship and you get a great leaderboard regardless but it was
00:16:32
Speaker
It was not like a last year's PGA that was, you know, entertaining to watch. Maybe that was because the block party was happening, but I don't know. For me, it was that the shots didn't have you on the edge of the seat. It was just the fact that it was quite close. But there just wasn't any, yeah, it just wasn't inspiring.
00:16:57
Speaker
I had a good rant, but that thirteenth hole is the worst short par four I've ever seen on a tour event. Like that is deplorable. Yeah. Two people went for it all week. Yeah. And they would, it was just because they're like, fuck it, I'm out of this tournament. But it should be a decision. It's like 350 yards and you have to land on an island green.
00:17:26
Speaker
And then they decide and then they're like, OK, we'll make this lap so fucking easy. We've got bunkers here, but they're actually in the rough. And then I didn't see one. I don't think I saw someone miss that fairway on the layup. So you all just end up with a little flick wedge in onto soft greens. Yes, it was. I don't know. And then I thought on the last day, just throw it.
00:17:51
Speaker
put the T's 30 yards forward to 320 and see if someone wants to make that. They probably still wouldn't because you still have to hit an island green with a three wood. But like, I don't know, someone might have tried it. Like Rory probably would have. And I think that was the biggest thing. Rory's like, had nothing to lose and he didn't even go for it because it's not even a decision. It was like, oh, I couldn't believe, even 18 is another example where it's about
00:18:21
Speaker
15, 20 meters of water, uh, rough, sorry, between the field and the water. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Uh, it was, I hope that never taking a major back to Val. No, they're not. Well, after the Scotty Scheffler thing and someone, you know, tragically dying out the front. But I think the PGA championship used to own the golf course.
00:18:51
Speaker
So then they put it on the router, but now they don't. So, but it was already locked in. So now I don't think they'll go back there. Oh, good riddance. Just quietly. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I've got nothing to add on the golf course. I think you hit the nail on the head there.
Impressive Performances at the Tournament
00:19:13
Speaker
Should we talk about some surprises and some disappointments, mate? Who surprised you this week? Victor.
00:19:20
Speaker
I think he's surprised everyone. We all know how good he is, but this week he's, this year, sorry, he's been, he's been awful. Hasn't been himself. It was tinkering of the swing. Went to Joe Moe for a week and just seemed to have completely turned around. It was, he actually, he admitted in an interview that he was considering not playing this week. His game felt that far off. So to shoot.
00:19:48
Speaker
to be a putt away from T second. Yeah, it's good. It's good to see Vic back and hopefully that's just a sign of things to come. For sure. Yeah. I was surprised by the Europeans, Thomas Deetri, Bobby Mack and Shane Lowry all having really good weeks. I didn't think it was a great course fit for Lowry, but I didn't either.
00:20:17
Speaker
He played really well. He made 161 feet of putts on the Saturday. So that's, that's pretty good going. And Bobby Mack, I was really impressed with him. It was great to see a fellow Scotsman in the mix. So yeah, they were, they were three surprises for me. Yeah, same here. I thought of course, Lowry wasn't like for the beer. He sprayed his caddy a couple of times the last round. I think he got a couple of shit numbers.
00:20:45
Speaker
Um, he flew two greens and then he did his putter was a bit cold. Um, yeah, Bobby Mack little sneaky, good PGA championship record. He went well last year. Um, he's had a tough year, but he's, it was good to see him, um, play like that booked his spot in there for next year as well.
00:21:08
Speaker
Yeah, great to see he's a ripping, a ripping fella, but, uh, disappointments.
Rory McIlroy's Major Struggles
00:21:13
Speaker
I'm sure there's one bloke that's on the top of both of our lists. So we might as well get straight to him. Rory. Yeah. Very disappointing. Um, just, just finds ways to get in his own way at majors. It's, it's hard to see like, yes. Um,
00:21:37
Speaker
He didn't completely stink it up, but I think by his standards, it's still probably a three out of 10 week, given the formula is carrying into it. Yeah, just too many numbers on the card again. Just seems to take one step forward, two steps back. Because the game is there. There was flashes this week, and it's
00:22:06
Speaker
It's just mental errors. It's, I don't know what it is. It's just like, it's just, it's hard to watch is what I'll say. And that, that second round going even where everyone was lighting it up, that was, it was just unacceptable. And yeah, like he, he could have shot a lot better yesterday. He was just chasing, chased a few pins and hit them in the water, but
00:22:33
Speaker
It was that second round. There's no excuses for that. A bad round for him on
00:22:45
Speaker
Friday should have been two or three under and he's still riding the golf tournament. But to shoot even par, I don't know man. He's just, I think there's, it's obviously all mental. I just think time and time again, he just doesn't show up at these things to his kind of standards and he finds ways to get out of the tournament. I'm actually, I'm out on him at the majors. I'm
00:23:10
Speaker
If it happens, I'll be happy, but I'm not going into any more thinking that he's going to win. You can clip this up, do what you want, but I'm taking a backwards step. I was bullish on him this week. I thought, fuck, we're going to Valhalla, probably a course that's just tailor-made for Rory, and then it's going to be soft too. And he just, yeah, again, just let himself
00:23:35
Speaker
put himself down really. And I'm sure, like, I'm sure he was super disappointed with the week, but oh man, it's just, it's so common. It's, I don't know, he needs to see a therapist. I am a little bit sick of people sort of, I do think he's a very different player to 2014. The guy used to just eat soft courses up.
00:24:04
Speaker
think about his two best major finishers in the last 10 years. St. Andrews was playing very firm. LACC was playing very firm. I just don't get that narrative as much as other people. But he still wins on a lot of soft golf courses. Oh yeah, he should win on any fun golf course. I'm not saying that, but I don't look at it like, oh,
00:24:30
Speaker
he's no chance for a major. This is his only chance. I don't look at it like that. I don't think so either. But I do think, yeah, there's obviously there's a lot of scar tissue there. There really is. I think it's one of those things where I actually don't think being experienced helps you. Like he couldn't close it out at LACC, couldn't close out St Andrews. It's not like he's completely no showed in the last couple of years, but it's just
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, there's just a lot of, I think there's a lot of scarring. I've talked about it before. I think a senior caddy might be, it might be time for a senior caddy. I just think he needs to take, it just might take that 5% of pressure off you. And that might be what needs to happen. I don't know. Yeah, that's not a bad, bad shot at all. I don't know. It's like, we were talking about it earlier in the week that, do you think that for Rory to win one,
00:25:32
Speaker
Now, he has to just be close and just get to the top of the leaderboard and hope. Or do you think he's still got, you know, closing it out late? Well, he's definitely got it in him. But it's been the story for the last fucking 11 years, or 10 years, that he hasn't been able to close one out. So I don't know. I think the thing with him is he's so obsessed with golf history and
00:26:00
Speaker
everything about golf that it's like it's like he just wants it too bad that's the vibe I get from from him and it's like I don't know that it's such a weird thing in sport where you can like try too hard like I don't know I think we probably move on from Rory but yeah it's just
00:26:27
Speaker
It's the same convo every year after every major. It's just sort of like this puzzling thing, but it's actually, it's quite fun to talk about in some ways. It's sad, but it's also like, I don't know, an amount of air time it still gets. Like people don't get sick of talking about it. No. No, they don't. Well, it's just because I think it's just...
00:26:50
Speaker
he's so fucking good it's like man like and he's gotten too close it's like when is this gonna happen again man it's but hey like look I'll be I'll be there when he when he wins it when he wins another one I think he will one day but it's just I don't know I'm
00:27:08
Speaker
I'm tempering my expectations going into the next couple. Maybe you can maybe tickle my fancy at Portrush next year, if I can tip them to go on as a favorite. But yeah, you won't see him on any of my bed slips for the rest of the year. I don't think. Another disappointment was Ludwig. He's clearly injured though. So I don't think we need a 12. I'm chalked me up to the knee, my boy. He'll be right. He just needs to get healthy.
00:27:38
Speaker
Yeah, I think we don't need to dwell on that. Yeah. Did you have any other disappointments come to mind? I think I suppose Brooks was pretty disappointing. Yeah, he was for sure. He got very chirpy with the question where they said, what do you think of this week? And he was obviously not good at all. And yeah, sums it up well. I think a little bit putter terribly, missed a lot of short ones.
00:28:08
Speaker
Um, I don't know, almost not hard enough for him, maybe. I think. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. That's sort of my take. I think another one we need to talk about is just Colin. I just think he, he showed what we sort of talk about, um, just laid in the egg on Sunday. Like he, yeah, he, the putter just goes ice cold. I'm in contention a lot for him.
00:28:38
Speaker
He looked a bit like Xander last week at Carl Hollow, actually. Just the putter starting seriously squirrely. He just knew when he didn't birdie those par fives on the front that he was kind of done. He's a tough guy to root for, Colin. I don't know why. I have no reason
00:29:07
Speaker
to not like him but I was, well I don't not like him but I was just, he does kind of nothing for me, he's an absolute flusher but it's yeah you're right with the closing out tournaments we've seen it kind of over the last two years he just hasn't been able to do it when he's probably a far better player than that like man you don't get two majors to your name without
00:29:32
Speaker
being able to close out golf tournaments. I don't know. I don't know what's going wrong with them. That's more what I'm trying to say. You're always made as you closed out with no crowd. So maybe that has a... That is a very good point. Yeah, the other one's Cam Smith. I don't think it's a soft long golf course, not
00:29:56
Speaker
Not good for him. Let's see how he goes at Pinehurst. But T63 for him. Not good. And Ram.
Ram and LIV Golf Decision
00:30:07
Speaker
Ram is, yeah, I don't know. I'm off him, man. I'm out on him. Unbelievable golfer. But those comments he made, I just...
00:30:25
Speaker
I just don't know what he, what he expected from going to live. Like, I don't know. I think he thought the golf wheel would come back together quicker. I think he, it just reeks like he regrets leaving. For sure. I think he massively regrets it. Um, and Twitter said that, so this is, take this with a grain of salt, but you know, like apparently there are a few blokes on the putting green that weren't given a much from the PGA tour and then, uh,
00:30:55
Speaker
The only person that did was allegedly Colin Morikawa who said, nice outfit, Johnny. Cute outfit, Johnny. Cute, cute outfit, Johnny with his, uh, liaison 13 live kit on, which I just thought was fucking brilliant chat. If it happened, like, you know, you get that. Oh, that would really hit your heart if you just, it's kind of like being buddied with champ.
00:31:22
Speaker
Just like, just cute. It's very, if we did say that, Colin's just gone at my rankings. Yeah. Getting sledgered by a bloke that puts shoes on his dog. Shout out to my layup for that one. That's, I went and did some digging on that and that is wild. But, um, Mike, should we talk about our punts for the week before we wrap up the pod?
00:31:52
Speaker
You know, I had a pretty outlandish multi in there. I tried to include Taylor Gooch missing the cut, which I believe he made on the number. So I was going to be butchered by that regardless. And I had Lardvig top 20. Top 20, yeah. Yeah. And Zander top 20. And was it Scotty top 10? I can't remember exactly what it was. Yeah, it was Rory top 10, Scotty top 10, Lardvig top 20 and Gooch missed the cut.
00:32:21
Speaker
Yeah. Well, no, I had to take out the guch to miss the cut because you couldn't actually make that a multi, which was kind of lucky for me. But well, it wasn't because Ludwig fucking made miss the cut. But I thought I thought that was a pretty safe bet heading into. Yeah, I would have agreed. I would have agreed. I had what I had 30 on Scotty, 25 on Rory, 20 on Brooks, 15 on Ludwig and 10 on Bryson.
00:32:52
Speaker
Yeah. I think that's why I might've been rooting for Bryson actually. Cause I also did the same bits out of my own pocket. So yeah. Um, yeah. But yeah, I can see Bryson just put going on a bit of a run in the majors. I'm not saying he's going to win heaps, but, but put, put a few like get in the, put himself in the mix. Yeah, absolutely. And for those who have been looking out for our weekly punks, we'll
00:33:21
Speaker
We haven't been great at posting them so we're going to post them. That's my job usually. You don't need to take any rap for that. The time zone always gets me a little bit. That's no excuse.
00:33:36
Speaker
It's a muck around, but like, yeah, we'll post a bit of a wrap of our punts over the last few weeks and where we stand maybe this week, but yeah. To wrap up the pod, let's have a reflect on a couple of our takes from the preview pod and see how they aged. You said that Victor was going to have a terrible week, so that didn't age real well.
00:34:04
Speaker
I said Spieth would have a bad week. I think he did in the end, but he started really well. I was like, oh shit, that's another bad take. I said Cam Smith would struggle, which I got right. I was keen on Bryson. I said, I'd be shocked if Roy didn't make the top 10. He was T12, but that's not, wouldn't call that too egregious. Yeah, that's all the ones I can remember. What about you?
00:34:29
Speaker
Well, I just said that Scotty wouldn't make the top 10.
00:34:34
Speaker
and he flew home for a TA. I wasn't far off the mark there. Admittedly, I didn't have him go into the slammer. So I think probably if he hadn't gone to jail, he would have probably finished well in the top 10. But I actually think that third round was more down to him not having Ted Scott on the bag than it was him going to jail.
Scotty's Over-Par Round Issue
00:35:00
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I think
00:35:01
Speaker
He's, um, I think he must, he obviously relies on him a lot and he didn't have him on, on Saturday. So, and that was his first round over par since August, which is just bananas, but yeah, that's wild. Yeah. So I think that, that actually rattled him more cause like, he's pretty unflappable on the, on the Friday as we spoke about, and then Ted Scott was back on the bag and he fired a number on the Sunday. So.
00:35:31
Speaker
have to be a detective to figure that one out. But yeah, Scotty missed the top 10. He didn't, but look, I didn't disgrace myself, T8. Yeah, that's fine. There's nothing too wrong about that take to be fair. But if you've got any kind of
00:35:53
Speaker
parting words on the PGA Championship. We're heading to the Charles Swab this week, and then next week we've got the US Women's Open, so we aren't short of good golf coming up, but anything to add, mate, before we knock this one on the head? No, not really. I'm just looking forward to the next major now. There's the memorial in between that as well, which is always quite a good tournament. So, plenty of good golf coming up the next sort of month.
00:36:23
Speaker
Yeah, but nothing really to say other than I just hope Pinehurst turns it on better than Valhalla. Cause I want to be a Grinch, but yeah. Before we go, actually, mate, we'd better talk about the Kiwis. Uh, cause Zuma Kibori missed the cut, but he'll be better for the run. He was plus eight.
Zuma Kibori and Course Conditions
00:36:45
Speaker
She's just didn't probably set up for him real, real well. I don't like, I don't like,
00:36:53
Speaker
Regardless of the rain, I just don't think it could have been a worst set up for him. Like doesn't hit it long, flat green. So as long as the greens are flat, he can't show off his best skill, which is with the putter. Um, long. Yeah. I hope it was better for the run though. I hope, I hope you learned a lot out of it, but yeah, nothing like it literally couldn't have rolled up to a worse set up for him.
00:37:21
Speaker
Yeah. And, and Foxy kind of 75th, uh, you know, another made cut at the majors and, uh, probably like by his standards, a disappointing finish, I'd say like he's, he's better than that. But, uh, like, mate, he's playing the weekend at this, these things all the time. So he's obviously starting to get into life in America a little bit more.
00:37:46
Speaker
getting around it so that that was good for him and Harry Hillier winning on the PGA Tour Latin America which is huge. Yeah awesome stuff from him. Shot 59 as well which you know that you got a long way to winning a golf tournament when you do that. Yeah yeah you do and you don't see them on par 72s often at all but that's
00:38:12
Speaker
That's lights out, my God. Yeah, that's a proper number. So congratulations to him. And well, I say thanks for joining me late at night over there. The listeners appreciate your dedication to the pod. And guys, we'll catch you next week for a bit more dribble and a bit of golf chat. And we'll look forward to the US Women's Open at Lancaster Country Club. So thanks for tuning in and we'll catch you next week.