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Episode 56 - Catsitting and Rule Blunders
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Scottie Scheffler wins the Players... again. Cal gets back onto the course and is apparently 'grinding', while AC is looking after a kitten against his will and joins Cal after a huge weekend on the pints, enjoy.
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AC's Tiring Weekend in London
00:00:15
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Off The Tips Podcast. We're recording at a normal time of the week now. AC's phoned in from London, looking dreary eyed and tired after a big weekend. AC, how are you going?
00:00:30
Speaker
G'day cow, g'day listeners. Yeah, a little bit rough. Not quite in peak form, I'd say, but it was a good weekend. We had a gig Saturday and then St. Patty's Day Sunday. I got home at eight on Sunday, but we got after it, so just a bit tired. I just feel like I haven't spent any time at home on the weekend, so just a little bit scratchy early this week. How are you going, mate?
Kate Middleton and the Photoshop Rumors
00:00:58
Speaker
Hey, just, you know, how long you got? No, I'm chipping away. I just, just getting after it. You know, same old, nothing to report. But mate, just before we crack into the potters, I want to ask you something. It's been in the news recently. Have you got any comms on what's happening with Kate Middleton at the moment? Oh, I completely shut off from that, Karyana. No idea. No, I just heard there's some photo shopping. That's the main headline I saw.
00:01:27
Speaker
You haven't got eyes on it. No, I'm not good with that stuff to be honest. Haven't been reading the sun.
Scotty Scheffler's Triumph at the Players Championship
00:01:36
Speaker
Well, mate, what a week in the week of golf. It's a, it's a week that, you know, we've been longing for as golf fans, Scotty Scheffler goes back to back at the players. The first guy to do that in history will successfully defend his title, but it was a good week. I actually.
00:01:57
Speaker
struggled to, you know, pull myself away from the TV when I had to, which is, you know, hasn't been the case for the last kind of 18 months for AC. How did you feel about the golf and did you catch any in between your debauchery over the weekend? Yeah, I watched a heap on Thursday, Friday. I watched the replay yesterday. So yeah, watch the whole heap and
00:02:22
Speaker
I think a good tournament is probably underselling it. It was outstanding. One of the best tournaments we've had in the last couple of years, I'd say, and that's without the live guys there, which was kind of spoken about, but it just shows that you put them on a good golf course, good leaderboard, a golf course that you're familiar with too. It was just a great week and it just felt like golf was back this week. I really enjoyed it.
00:02:48
Speaker
Yeah, it did. And you say that it's the best event for a long time. And I was just kind of jogging my memory
Scheffler's Putter Switch: A Game Changer?
00:02:56
Speaker
then. And I was thinking the last time I had that much enjoyment watching a golf event might have been Brookline US Open, which was, you know, 2022. Yeah, that's not a bad shout. And just, yeah, Scotty Scheffler, you kind of run out of words to
00:03:18
Speaker
talk about how good he's going. That last round was just clinical and I saw some things on Twitter saying it was Tiger-esque and it's actually really hard to argue with that. Eight under. What have we got here? I think he was second in driving and fifth off the tee in the final round. Man, just what a time to just show up and bogey free, just didn't put a foot wrong really.
00:03:46
Speaker
He's just, yeah, it's a scary prospect for the rest of the year. And yeah, now that, like we talked about it last week, but he's found the putter, you know, he switched to the mallet and it's just, he's just reaping rewards without, you know, holding anything magnificent. It's just, he's cut out all that, that kind of shaky shit that he had around the hole for the last kind of few years. And it just,
00:04:16
Speaker
had to do to just pretty much obliterate everyone else in the world. If anyone's playing their best, do you think they can stop him? I think if he's top 30, 40 in the field and putting, look, not really. I don't know if I can. It's pretty frightening. He could feasibly win
00:04:45
Speaker
two majors and another three tour events this year. Is that over exaggerated?
00:04:52
Speaker
I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility, the way he's playing. It doesn't seem like there's anyone remotely on his level. I mean, it'll be interesting to see what the Masters looks like and how Jon Rahm comes back. I'm sure he'll have a chip on his shoulder and want to prove some people wrong. But man, outside of Rahm, Rory's not playing his best golf and he's kind of the only other one that you think
00:05:18
Speaker
can handle them, really, if you're being honest. Yeah, and the thing with Scotty as well, his ball striking, again, harp on about it, but it's so consistent that it just doesn't feel like, it just feels really sustainable. And it's just if that putter's rolling half decent, then it's sort of all over. Augusta can't come around quick enough.
00:05:44
Speaker
I couldn't agree more. It will be interesting to see how he responds if he does have a bad putting day though, how he bounces back, whether the scar tissue is still there and he's just
00:05:57
Speaker
This phase of, you know, the honeymoon phase where you like that everyone's had when they sub a new club or it's not a new career better to the bag. It's just, it just feels different. But if that runs out and the same areas and.
00:06:18
Speaker
to see how he answers back from that because man, like I imagine coming out of it and then dipping back into it would be even more challenging than kind of what he's been experiencing. But yeah, in short, he's going to be a hard man to stop. But I'll just rewind briefly to the first round where, you know, it was pretty well documented.
Rory McIlroy and the Rules Disputes
00:06:41
Speaker
Rory was involved in a couple of
00:06:42
Speaker
rules disputes with his playing partners. Uh, for those of you that might not have caught the first round, Rory hit one OB on 18, his ninth hole of the day in round one. And AC, you were watching this live, were you? It was a bit late in the night for me over here. So maybe you run through the listeners through that one and then I can help you out with what happened on seven later on.
00:07:11
Speaker
Yes, on 18, obviously with water on the left, he's hit this sort of draw and it's probably gone in the water by one yard. And yeah, there was just a little bit of chat about where they think it crossed, whether he needed to re-tee. He felt that it went over land at some point, so he dropped it. I think it was about 180 yards away from the tee, hit a three wood on the green.
00:07:41
Speaker
Victor and his kitty were okay with it. Spieth seemed a little bit more skeptical. And then Radar thought, as soon as Rory hid in the water, he's like, oh, Rory fans, he'll be able to drop one up there. It definitely crossed somewhere. So on the balance of
00:08:03
Speaker
sort of all the opinions, I think they probably got it right. Like you put it, it's just a tough spot for everyone, I feel. It's really hard to tell. As a player, I think when you've hit it, you've got like a little bit of emotional attachment to it. And I think that can sometimes cloud it a little bit. But I don't know, Spieth, we can talk about it, but Spieth in both situations just didn't help it because he'd
00:08:30
Speaker
He'd question Rory, and then Rory's like, okay, so what do you think? And he's like, I don't know. So it's like, well, what? I just think if you want to step in, it means you should feel strongly about it. And you know, you'd be like, no, it went in there. But the fact he'd come and say, like, get his bacon, but then not offer any opinion or any thoughts on where it went in. I just thought that he made the situations worse.
00:09:00
Speaker
Yeah, I tend to agree with that. On the second one, there was so much guesswork going on. I wasn't there on seven, and then he storms over from the other side of the fairway for his two cents.
00:09:18
Speaker
A noted winder, Jordan Spee, hasn't he? Like, got a bit of a track record for just a bit of winching, a bit of complaining, but I just don't, yeah. It was just, it just looked like a guy that was in a bad mood, having a bad day on the golf course and just kind of wanted to fucking ruin someone else's day, a little bit to make. Yeah, I think you're probably right there. And I don't think anyone was really in the wrong, I just
00:09:46
Speaker
It was just like it was just a classic golf thing that gets maybe blown up a bit more than it needs to. Yeah. I don't know. I think they might need some spotters or someone that a bit more that has no emotion in it that does it. I just think there's just so much at stake. It's a massive event. I feel like they could handle it better. Yeah. And why wasn't someone there on on seven? Like I feel like
00:10:15
Speaker
Balls wouldn't be too uncommon for a ball to go out there and there was just no one there spotting, which I thought was pretty interesting. But, you know, I suppose you can only spread them out on a certain.
00:10:31
Speaker
amount on the golf course, but yeah, I don't know. It was pretty clear that Rory was trying to make the right decision by the guy he was playing with. It was not like he was trying to gain any form of unfair advantage, like I've seen suggested on Twitter. He was blatantly trying to do the right thing.
00:10:53
Speaker
Man, I don't know. Yeah, a little bit of a non-event really. Like it's, that happens, I'd say that would have happened 15 times on the golf course and over the course of the tournament and other groups, but obviously because it's those three and obviously blow up a bit. And do you think Victor gets a little bit hasty in those sort of situations? Well, he had a similar scenario with
00:11:22
Speaker
was it Daniel Berger? Daniel Berger, yeah. A few years ago on 16 at the players, so he's definitely been involved. Yeah, I think he's just like protecting the field and which is fair enough. I don't like think Victor is a, is a Mona, to be honest. I don't know. Have you had any rules disputes before?
Golf Rules Disputes: Personal Stories
00:11:49
Speaker
Nah.
00:11:50
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Not really. I haven't played enough tournament golf to get in any rules disputes. Obviously, you and I were playing in the group behind at the famous Hillary Cup when there was a phone call made to the Jack's Point Clubhouse about a local rule. AC, do you want to fill the listeners in a little bit more on what happened there? Because I completely forgot about it until you reminded me.
00:12:20
Speaker
When we play the Hillary, we have two groups and Cal and I were in the group behind and there was the 15th at Jax. A lot of people would know the whole and seen photos of it. There's this sort of stone wall that goes kind of through the left of the fairway. And then on the other side is like a paddock, but you can play from it. But our mate Bill hit one.
00:12:45
Speaker
hit one and it hit the wall. And basically they rung up the pro shop to ask if you can re-hit it because it's a man-made object. And the answer was you could. So Bill was right. I think Monty was skeptical about this from Bill. And so that's sort of how it all started. There was obviously a Hillary cup on the line. And so they got the pro on the blower.
00:13:11
Speaker
Um, it was pretty fun. Me and Cal were losing it. We're like, what's this come to? Yeah. Well, we were pretty fed up with the pace of play in front of us. That's for sure. And look, we weren't afraid to make that known on the day, but I say you've obviously you've played a bit more competitive and tournament golf than I have. Have you been involved in any rules disputes?
00:13:37
Speaker
I've been completely stitched up by one before. So we, oh, I wouldn't honestly mean about, I'm going to say like 11 at T-row and I was playing for narrows in the pennant side and we, oh, I hit one, I hit one into the power line and it's like ricocheted sort of into the junk and
00:14:04
Speaker
The person I was playing with said, you got to play as it lies. I was like, I can re-hit this. I can. And they were just adamant that I couldn't. So I just had to keep playing the hole despite just smoking one into this power line. And so I probably lost a shot or two from that. But that's my sort of rules running I've had. I can't think of any more. Actually, no, at Intercollegiate, I shanked one.
00:14:32
Speaker
under the bridge on the third at Lock Hill. I don't know if you remember that whole, but I had a bit of a rules thing there too. I don't know. I don't really like tournament golf because, I don't know, it just intimidates me. I don't know the rules that well. It's not good. I've actually, I've done the exact same thing at TROW. I've hit that power line.
00:14:57
Speaker
Yeah, as you should. I remember feeling like crying as an 11-year-old. It just felt like such a big deal at the time, like everything does. Wasn't JC involved in a rules debacle, your brother? Yeah, my brother got disqualified.
00:15:27
Speaker
He basically, he declared it all lost and then found it and then kept playing it. And so that got him pink. I thought it was a little bit over the top. Jake's not going to win the golf tournament. He gets them off the map. Like it was just there for a day off school. Just leave him alone. I thought it was a bit unfair. I didn't even know that was a rule. So that would have done them. That would have done.
00:15:57
Speaker
see hell over as well but mate I briefly mentioned it before we went on to our own rules disputes but Foxy made an ace on 7-8 things you love to see I guess absolute scenes actually JC my brother he sent through a bet slip before the tournament for a hole-in-one to be on 17 he's like oh never crack at this I think it was like 275 and so
00:16:25
Speaker
There's a bit of skin in the game there too. It was, it was good to see Foxy. What a
Ryan Fox's Ace and Near Miss
00:16:30
Speaker
moment. Like that's, um, and the fact that he eagled 16 beforehand as well. That's a serious run of holes. And then proceeded to just miss the cut. Yeah, that's tough. That was tough. Um, just looking at the top of the leaderboard, you know, you had Wyndham, Brian Harmon. What, what did you make of, you know, Wyndham's game? He's, he's becoming,
00:16:55
Speaker
are regular in these situations now and I suppose you could argue Brian Harmon is as well.
00:17:03
Speaker
Yeah well I obviously had him in our weekly punts as well and I had a decent crack in him in my own account. I just can't believe the bookies at the moment with Wyndham. I put him up at 48 to 1. I could probably argue he's the second best player in the world right now. So I just, I can't believe they let him go around at that price.
00:17:28
Speaker
Unfortunately, just missed out on that punt, but I don't know. I'm not a big Wyndham guy. The putting routine, mate. That putting routine is pretty egregious. I don't like watching it. I think it just seems like the Caddy is way too involved, like the way he lines them up and stuff. I don't know. It's tough to watch. Wyndham does fucking nothing for me, I think.
00:17:57
Speaker
I think him and Scotty Sheffler could have a contest to who's the most boring golfer alive. Those two guys, they just scream boarfest. I don't know. As exciting as the golf was, those two guys being in contention, it's vanilla plays vanilla, isn't it?
00:18:26
Speaker
One thing I will say about this week is our punts were in play.
Betting Strategies in Golf Tournaments
00:18:30
Speaker
We had several punts in play. I didn't exactly stick my neck out by punting Scotty, but you didn't. Hey, I'm pretty happy with what unfolded. I think I've punted a winner, an actual tournament winner since C, we won last year in May or maybe even longer. It was in Hawaii.
00:18:52
Speaker
Yeah. It was the Sony. Yeah. It's been a tough road for you, mate. You've banged one this week. It's actually so good that we've actually had a few in the mix, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It makes us an incredible source. I don't know about that. Yeah. I think we need a bigger sample size. I've got a hypothetical for you. So say I
00:19:20
Speaker
go and every time he's in the field and I just go $50 on Scotty from here on out for the rest of the season, do you think I would end the year in the green? I'd have to do some maths, but I guess they're going to give you $6.50, maybe $6 each tournament.
00:19:47
Speaker
How do you even work that out? You're probably going to have to get... You're going to have to get five wins out of him. Probably. I don't know. I think it would be close. It's food for thought, isn't it? You've got to factor in. The Offertips account has given us 100 for the majors. He gave us 200 last year. I think he's cut that in half. Yeah, he has. A bunch of cuts.
00:20:17
Speaker
Hey mate, anything else on the players? Zander, I just...
00:20:27
Speaker
He's just a bit of a fluffer, isn't he? He's not, he doesn't, he doesn't melt. He just doesn't make anything happen in contention. It's, it's not like he's playing terribly. It's just, he sort of reminds nearly every time he's in contention, it's almost like how Rory played it last round the US Open. Just doesn't make putts when you need to, but doesn't play terribly. But you Zander's, Zander's interesting. So I actually saw on the,
00:20:55
Speaker
The No Laying Up boys said it would have been funny if Zand had to shake J. Monaghan's hand after his comments earlier in the week. That would have been pretty frosty. Yeah, it would have been. And just going on from that, you see a few player representatives are heading over to meet with Yasser from the PIF. I didn't see that, no. Well, they're going over, you know,
00:21:25
Speaker
to discuss some business. You'd like to think if you went over there, you know, yes, is by lunch. Oh, surely. They'd better not have seen that Peter Melinati there. That guy is a pelican. Yeah. In his bucket hat. Well, he's on the player advisory board and doesn't know what equity is. That's been part of the discussion lately, so I just don't know how he doesn't know what it is.
00:21:54
Speaker
I don't know what. I know Tiger, apparently Tiger's going, so that's sending the big guns out. Yeah, okay. Well, I see, I don't really have anything else on the players, but I have been, I've got a bit on my own golf if you want to hear it.
Hillary Cup Preparations
00:22:15
Speaker
Fire away. I've been out, you know, Hillary Cupp month away. You know, the biggest week of the year itself started grinding. I haven't played a whole heap of golf since January. Like since I got home, I think I've played, I played nine holes before the weekend and it wasn't really nine holes. It was like a pitch and punt. So I got out during the week, did a lot of short game stuff. There is a
00:22:41
Speaker
a part three course up the road from my house that I've talked about before on this pod. So I went out there and used it practice facilities, you know, I've gotten the bunkers, uh, things of that nature. And then Sunday I went out to a lovely track out in Sydney's Northern beach at all North. I don't know if it's Northern beaches or just North, but it's, it's out that way. Terry Hills and, and played out there and you know,
00:23:09
Speaker
It didn't score overly well, but there's a lot of signs of life from driving the ball pretty well. It's a lot better than my lead into the Hillary Cup last year. So I just thought I'd fill you in on that. And then maybe be unprepared. Well, it's such early days, I see.
00:23:31
Speaker
We've got to just remember that, but A.C., what do you think why you saw a lot of my golf last year at the Hillary Cup? What do you think is an area that I probably need to work on from from I obviously came in under done, which I won't make that mistake again. And my handicap was far too low, considering I'd played one competitive round or something in the lead up.
00:23:59
Speaker
What would work ons be after seeing my game in action at the Hillary under the gun? I think just eliminating that big left ball. That one that just starts left, continues left. It's just never coming back. That's probably the one. And then putting, just tidying up the putts inside 10, 6 feet, I feel. That was probably, that's what I felt where you were lacking.
00:24:29
Speaker
Yeah, the putting, you know, through the week felt really good, but obviously there's no pressure there. Big time mojo is just focus on the stroke, not the outcome. I've been drilling that into myself. You know, don't worry about what happens as long as you put a good stroke, you light it up, you make a good stroke, you miss, it's okay. That was quite hard to come to terms with, you know, when I was,
00:24:57
Speaker
midway through my round and I'd missed a couple of very makeable birdie putts. I think I missed, I almost four birdie putts from, you know, inside 15 feet on the, on the first 11 holes. So I was actually hitting the ball. Okay. And not capitalizing and then not being, not have played 18 holes in a while, you know, the wheel started that fell off about, about 14 and started to, you know, hit some big day for you, mate.
00:25:25
Speaker
It was, it was a big day, big walk, but you know, like, it's kind of long story short. I'm feeling, I'm feeling good leading into it. Good stuff. It would definitely be a different Hillary this year where it's the venues aren't as tricky and they're a bit more sort of park landy. I think, I think it could be a different sort of the teams have changed. I think there's going to be a different vibe this year. Um, and I don't know a lot of tau mood who,
00:25:56
Speaker
Springfield just reminds me of TR Moody. So maybe that's, are you playing there? Yeah. Maybe you're probably, you're probably lucky you're not there. You might be, um, trespass from that place after you run it with Danny Lee. So yeah, Danny Lee just get me booted. Man, I can't, that's tough golf course to get around. Yeah.
00:26:24
Speaker
There is a lot of Tiamuru about it, I guess. So, you know, there's a lot of Tiamuru natives in the field. Yeah. Myself, Zach, Jake, Gibson, obviously the two professional cricketers are from Tiamuru. And then I actually, did you know Monty has never played Tiamuru? No. No, I can't believe he never has just run into that with some of the boys. It was a bit of a,
00:26:54
Speaker
It was cheap green fees. So that used to be on the, on the hat list a little bit. Yeah. Especially when boys are at, you know, uni, it's a, it was an absolute go-to and you could. Yeah. Is it one of my favorite places to play? So, you know, actually now that you bring it up, probably like we're dribbling about the Hillary. Yeah. And this is a high chance of getting cut out of the podcast, but I think going to prepare at TR mood for, for a Rotorua Hillary cut might not be the worst shout.
00:27:23
Speaker
I agree. I don't think, I think you'll get similar conditions there. If that last eight minutes has been left in the pod, I've given up on the edit probably. And I say move into play-off holes before I send you on the tube to get on the grind. Do you have anything to tee off on this week? Any tough scenes?
00:27:50
Speaker
No, not particularly. There's nothing that's... Oh, actually, yes, yes, I do.
AC's Unexpected Kitten Duty
00:27:56
Speaker
So, flatmate. She's been looking after a cat for two weeks. There's my... But she hasn't really been looking after her. It's a friend's cat and she's just sort of gone away and left me in Swanee to deal with it.
00:28:14
Speaker
And it's a kitten. It's an absolute maniac. It's been tucking into food on the bench. And she's just nowhere to be seen. She's gone MIA. I don't know where she is, but she's basically just left me and Swanee with a kitten. And it's driving us nuts. And I don't mind cats, but I just don't need that responsibility in my life right now.
00:28:42
Speaker
getting messages like, can you clean its litter box? Like, no, that's not my job. It is not my job. It's your friend. Yeah. I'm not doing that. And yeah, I'm just tearing off about. Yeah, it's just we've we've got some interesting. We've got an interesting living arrangement here. Let's say that. I hope she's not a closet. I can guarantee she isn't. Like,
00:29:11
Speaker
We're looking after it because we feel bad for it, but it's just not, it's not a situation the boys need to be put in, especially the tolerance when you hung over for that sort of, for some meowing and nagging for food's just been really, you don't have tea off on anything? Oh, no. Well, my Saturday was ruined with that, the way the Warriors finished. That really hurt my feelings, that last minute try.
00:29:42
Speaker
What can you do? You know what's annoying me, Cal, is we had Izzy Dagg was on there saying that you should never lose that. It's such a warrior's thing to do. And I actually think back to it. And yes, warriors in the past have done a lot of that shit, but
00:30:00
Speaker
one of their tries, they were both good tries. I don't think there was anything that we did that particularly, particularly bad. And they're just getting slated for like typical old warriors. And I'm like, I don't know. I think that's just like just a narrative that they're trying to make out. I don't actually
00:30:19
Speaker
The Storm are a good footy team and they scored two pretty unbelievable tries. It's not, it come back like they've happened before. It's not like they never happened. That's not a way the Warriors would traditionally, you know, in the past decade throw a game away. It's like that, that second to last try was just as champagne footy as footy gets. It was pretty impressive. And then obviously.
00:30:44
Speaker
Mate, Xavier Coates could try to finish that, tried nine times. And the way that that charge down could have easily gone into a warrior's hand and the game's over. Exactly. Yeah. Don't actually get me started on Izzy Dagg on the radio. I could ramble forever as I tune in every morning when I'm getting ready for work. I was definitely shaking my head at that as well. But A.C., look, mate.
00:31:13
Speaker
It's been great. I'm happy you got up and got after it this morning and hopefully you started your day well. Guys, I appreciate you tuning in. This was a little bit rogue. We'll just catch you next week. See ya. He's one of our things to say.