233: Exploring the Intricacies of Golf with our new co-host Dan Hodges
Join us as we delve into the captivating world of golf with our new co-host, Dan Hodges. A former mini-tour player, Dan brings his unique perspective to the discussion, sharing his journey in golf, from his early introduction to the game to his major victories in the VGN. Let's tee off with an engaging discussion about TPC Las Vegas, its immaculately manicured fairways and greens, and its local rate of $125 from Monday to Thursday.
Take a swing at understanding the ins and outs of golfing with us as we share our recent golfing experiences at Rio Seco. As we navigate the increasing cost of green fees, Dan provides his impressions of Rio Secco Golf and candidly shares his experiences playing on tour, offering valuable insights and lessons. We also touch upon the intriguing world of golf course preparation and the upcoming VGN tournament. We even share some of our unexpected golfing escapades, like snapping Ventus shafts in a "fit of rage," or was it a moment of clarity?
Wrapping things up, we discuss the PGA Tour playoffs, our friend Trey's discount code, and the effects of extreme heat and humidity on golfers. We also take a moment to promote the Vegas Golf Network and make known our commitment to the Vegas golfing culture. Join us as we walk the golfing fairways, learning, laughing, and sharing a mutual love for this fine game. Golf enthusiasts, this episode is a hole-in-one for you and anyone seeking fascinating conversations, engaging anecdotes, and a touch of Vegas flavor.
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What is up everybody? Welcome to another episode of the chasing daylight podcast. Those of you on YouTube right now. Thank you so much for tuning in. You'll see a new face see up there. That is Dan Hodges. Dan, the man Hodges has agreed to come on to the show and be our fourth. We have a foursome is complete now. I said on what I say on threads earlier today the negotiations were long, brutal, overwhelming, but yeah, we landed them.
Speaker 2:So, dan, welcome to the show, sir thank you, thank you, guys, for adding me to your group so Dan is we promise it will get better.
Speaker 1:This is his.
Speaker 4:He's doing this from his phone sounded like a robot.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having me there will be some glitches, but yes, so I wanted to bring. Dan on. He's been hanging out with us for many, many years. It goes back to we met him at legends never die. Just out of the blue, he joined and came out and played and, yeah, we found out quickly that he is a stick. He can absolutely play golf, is many times over champion of the VGN, known for his major victories. So, dan, why don't you let everybody know a little bit about yourself, how long you've been in Vegas for and what? What's, what's your golf jam?
Speaker 4:yeah, and let's hear the Colombian drug lord story no Colombian drug lord.
Speaker 2:But yeah, grew up. Grew up starting playing golf really early, been introduced to the game by my dad five, six years old, fell in love with it from there played my whole entire junior golf career down there, moved here to Vegas in 1999 so I've actually lived longer here in Vegas than I ever did in California, but still continued playing golf, catting at Bears Best for a while, met a guy who was super loaded. He helped me kind of achieve a little bit of my dream as far as playing playing some tour events, many tour events, and traveling to play golf. Didn't have to work for about three years and he just kind of, you know, wrote the road like checks to me. So that was kind of that was kind of cool and unfortunately reality, you know, set in after a while and had to come back to Vegas and get a real job and still playing golf, still love it.
Speaker 1:And you know, now I'm part of the VGN with you guys yeah, another reason I wanted to bring you in because you travel a lot. Joe is travels a lot now, he's Mr Golf Trip and you guys have your own little private chat where you talk about all the trips you're gonna go on and not inviting any of us to so, but you know we're going, we're all going to banded next year. You know we just played this past weekend at Rio. We played Black Desert, and so it was just a very fitting thing to bring somebody else on that is as passionate as we are about the game, loves to play, loves to travel, loves all the aspects of it and yeah, so again, welcome to the show thank you, thanks guys, it's it's pretty cool, thank you.
Speaker 4:There's no and there's no secret golf chat, it's just. It just, it happens out of nowhere.
Speaker 1:I have, actually I've received invitations but I've declined, it may not anymore.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes yes, that's 100% you see a picture and you're like, yep, yeah why is?
Speaker 2:that the ultimate boys trip for on and up for courses under $100. And then you get hooked and XCN sending, sending these things to jail and in two days later there's a trip being planned. So it's just, it's a domino that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 1:That's it that's hilarious, all right. So on this week's show and cover some things we're gonna talk about. We've got a round in it. Tpc Las Vegas. We all played Rio Seco on Sunday. We got a VGN tournament this weekend out of Ali Ante. Yonah Wilson was just in the US women's amateur. I'm unfortunately not going to sleepy hollow for the US mid-am this year.
Speaker 4:Swing changes for me, so Andrew's in it but I'm not, I'm not going but he's he, so he's not in it.
Speaker 1:He's not in it now, okay some swing changes brought along some bag changes for me, yeah, yeah. So we'll be talking about that and let's see the PGA tour playoffs just the first round wrapped up. Top 30 advanced. We got some notables who aren't gonna, who are on the cusp of missing out on the finals. So I want to start off with TPC Vegas. Gotta invite to go out there with our boy, matt Plummer. I, you know, have been hesitant to go there because that they've really jacked up the rates, even for locals. I think it's a great layout, great course, great facilities. There's not a lot wrong with it other than the price. But you know, hey, you got a nice course right now, this time of the way the economy is going, they're gonna get as much as they can. So but they had their, the TPC interclub, where all the TPC clubs have a tournament, and they hosted it at TPC Vegas. And that was a couple days prior to when we played and the course was in phenomenal condition. I mean absolutely perfect golf course conditions. The greens were a little beat up, a lot of pitch marks, but bunkers were fantastic, the fairways were excellent, the T boxes were great, the greens were fast and it was. It was a really, really good time. So I mean, if you want to book now, it's probably worth the price, because the conditions are just stupid and you're gonna have the overseas coming up here soon. Pretty sure they're doing an overseas there. So if you, if you want to play some really great condition golf right now, head out to.
Speaker 4:TPC Vegas Sean was telling me that during like the week, like Monday through Thursday, it's 125 for locals, which is, I would say, that's a good deal. For sure I mean obviously weekends you're gonna get you, it's gonna get more pricey yeah, the 175 is a hefty price tag, especially for me. I used to play for I used to be able to walk on for 40 $50 when I worked up there and it's hard to drop it's hard. It's very difficult for me to be like, yeah, I'm gonna pay $200 to play TPC Las Vegas, when I, four years ago, I was paying $40. It's hard to do. It's a great course. I love the place, probably one of the the best courses that I used to play pretty often and it's I mean. But it like it goes back to the green fees and the influx of new golfers and it's like people are willing to pay whatever they need to play pay to play golf and the. The recession is coming and the great reset is happening soon reset.
Speaker 1:Bring it on we need the great reset. But it's a great place, but it's it's very difficult to for me to pay $175 yeah, I mean, if we were to want to hold a VG internment out, there would be a $300 entry fee yeah, yeah. I mean which is?
Speaker 4:just crazy, but it's a great spot, it's a great course, you know there's. You know John Daly has a low score out there, I think.
Speaker 1:I mean there's some stuff out there that's kind of cool and the champions tour, or PG senior tour, whatever you want to call it now. They used to host an event out there back when it was called TPC Canyons. It was part of the rotation for the Las Vegas invitation a couple times, so it's a good course and it's always in good shape, but it's it's expensive it was in really good shape, like I was like, wow, this is pretty freaking awesome.
Speaker 4:I mean, if I was an out of towner? I mean obviously out of towners aren't getting that 175 rate at TPC Las Vegas, but no, the out of town rate at Paiute is probably close to that. I mean, you weigh that I'd probably rather go to Paiute personally if I was visiting. Yeah, but that's got the TPC name so people think that hey yo yep, yep, yep. Okay, so you need to hit us up when you come to town. We'll let you know reasons to tune in.
Speaker 1:So Rio Seco I you know what. I was kind of surprised I I expected it to be in a little bit better shape than what it was. There was some kind of rough spots in the fairways, but I thought the I and what other than that? I thought the course was really really good, dan, let's get your. Let's get your first assessment of a golf course that we recently played. Tell the people what you think.
Speaker 2:I, I was actually, I thought it was in good shape the rough out there. There are some spots out there where, oh my god, I mean, it doesn't matter if you have a wedge or you know, whatever you have in your hand. If you don't, if you don't strike it right, that ball is going nowhere.
Speaker 1:And and fortunately, I can I tell the?
Speaker 2:spots? Yes, exactly, I was in a couple of spots a couple days ago, and other than that, though, I thought. I thought it was in good shape, the greens were healthy, they were in good shape, they were in the has to speak to them a little firm. You know, full, full shots would be received in the green pretty well, but any chip in you gotta pick, yeah.
Speaker 1:I was, I was surprised to hear Trey. I surprised to hear Trey say that he thought the greens were slow the whole group said that, though Colby said that I don't hear that I heard that from from Colby and Trey slow. I didn't think they were slow at all no, I didn't think so, hmm.
Speaker 3:I mean the the greens at.
Speaker 1:TBC Vegas were probably running 13's, maybe 13 and a half, so they were fast and I thought Brillo was 11-12's.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 1011.
Speaker 1:All right 1011, 12. I didn't think they were slow. I didn't think they were slow at all. I thought they were like the right pace. They were perfect speed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you don't lose control. I mean, there's a few where we ran them by, but when you're above the hole. I didn't feel nervous that it was going to run 10 feet by, like some places, but they're okay, they're good. Yeah, it's a fun layout. It's a fun layout. It's a fun layout.
Speaker 1:It's a fun layout. It's one of my favorite in town the range. They've done a really good job, the way they've improved everything. Range attendants or the card attendants were a little snippety in the morning. You know range is closed, Range isn't open yet and I'm like, well shit, we tee up in 15 minutes. What the hell.
Speaker 4:Well, they typically don't expect people to tee in off at 6.30, to shove it 4.30 in the morning either.
Speaker 1:So hey, calm down, I was there. Good grief, sean was there before me. Is that what you sleep here?
Speaker 4:He wakes up at 3.30 every day.
Speaker 1:He had an hour drive to get there too. Yeah, true.
Speaker 4:But speaking of the rough spots, I think most of the rough spots that you're mentioning were kind of in the low like drainage areas for the most part that I saw.
Speaker 1:So Well, I was just surprised that there was some where I saw them at, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4:It just it might have been a couple yeah.
Speaker 1:It just seemed like there was some areas that that look bad, that you know it could be. Hey, the summer grass is done and they're. Hey, we're not going to bring it back for a month before we, you know, oversee the place, so let's just let it go. I can see that happening.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like the entire Lexington golf course right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the rough was insane. I feel like like lately the courses we've been playing and I've been playing at, the rough has just been thick everywhere. I think the wet spring we had and early summer caused that, because that's this is the first time. Usually, if you want long rough, you go to like Arroyo or even Paiute sometimes gets that thick rough. Everywhere has it now.
Speaker 1:To wait till you play Allianz Saturday.
Speaker 3:I've never seen rough there.
Speaker 1:It's it's a panel it's it's a penalty stroke.
Speaker 3:I thought Rio's was a penalty stroke, because yeah 100% it's the same way.
Speaker 1:100% it's almost the same. Grass A little bit, not so much Bermuda Bermuda is that a word? But yeah, it's, it's a penalty stroke. It's because you cannot I don't care who you are, it's. It's very tough to get out of that shit.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was just kind of like an each year medicine type of situation and just you know, punch out real quick and then get on with your day, because it was. It was like sitting up but it was sitting down and it was just kind of like like I saw I had one where I was like, oh, this is going to fly, because it was sitting up on it and it's like, no, but that's probably me, because I really hit it fat as fuck and it just died.
Speaker 1:That was beyond on six. It was in the rough off the tee and I knew I was 180 yards out. I'm like I know I'm not going to get this here, I'm just going to try and muscle it up there and uh, oh my God, it like it felt like I hit a wall with the club. It just didn't go through the grass at all.
Speaker 4:It just stopped. Yeah, I mean so for for you guys, like how do you judge? I mean you have to judge your lie right. Like we hear the players talk about all the time on tour like judging or lie. In that type of situation, like I mean, how do you judge that? Like, if it looks like it's sitting up, like how do you hit that? What do you? What do you think about? Like I had that one that looked like a flyer to me and it just died.
Speaker 3:So there were some that I had where you look at the ball looks like it's sitting down in the rough and then you put your club by it and your club is lower than the ball, is lower than the ball. So there's a ton of those and I'm a sweeper. So those were. Those weren't as bad, but the ones that are really deep. I try to get steep, which is hard for me because I'm not a steep. My swinging plane is not steep, but I try to get as steep as possible and just pop it up. Dan, you're really good at that.
Speaker 1:You hit several good shots the rest of the ball.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I don't do well out of that sweeping. Yeah, so it just really depends on the lie. I think you know, if it sits down, I try to go attack a little bit more. If it sits up, or if it's like going with the rough you're going to, you know, I've got to expect to jump a little bit. It's hard to gauge the jumpers though, because, like on our very first hole, I had 110 yards in, I hit a 54 degree and almost hit the street, and so, yeah, remember that yeah. You know that was, that was a 30 yard miscalculation. So you know, sometimes you just got to get lucky. You know, either it doesn't fly or club down, and hopefully you guessed right here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I remember. I remember that one. I was like whoa shit fucking fluid, but I did the same shit and I was in a fairway so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I did these opposite. I came up short.
Speaker 4:What a game. What a game that was.
Speaker 1:That was my day. It's like one more way.
Speaker 3:The pros, the pros, I mean it's so impressive to see the the tour players because every week they play a course with different types of grass and different rough Right, and I'm sure they remember things about courses. You know they get jumpers out of this grass or they don't get the berry in this one. But for them to be able to adapt every single week, especially when these guys like these, the FedEx Cup you know the playoffs every single top players playing every week for three weeks and every course is different, and it's crazy how they can adapt and still score well out of different types of conditions.
Speaker 4:I wonder how deep those guys like go into like the agronomy of things, like like some of the players got to go pretty deep like diving deep into like grass and agronomy.
Speaker 1:Doesn't Tiger have three or four different grasses in his backyard?
Speaker 4:I think so, yeah, but like, how far, how deep does the like average tour player go with grass? And how much do they actually understand on, like the thickness of blades, on whatever the grass is, you know? Like do they wickipedia it before? I mean, that's the interesting thing, like if we could talk to Harry about that, like to understand how deep he goes into a course that he's never played like. Does he go as far down into the hole, like on the grass itself?
Speaker 1:Well, Dan Dan, how, how deep did you go when you were playing courses on the main tours, or did you just show? Up and light it up.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't really light it up a whole lot, but yeah, I just pretty much just showed up and played. I didn't really didn't really have. You know, those guys are privy to getting to the course early and then playing a couple of practice rounds and all that stuff and spending all day out there. I didn't have that. I was more like, you know, go check out the course like the day before for a couple hours and then show up and get ready to go. You know, so I also feel too, like a lot of their caddies take on that responsibility. Maybe, you know, they go around, scope out the course, really get in deep, you know, just so they can take a little bit out of the mind of their player and just let them golf. You know, so they don't have to think about oh, I kind of like that. You know, they just get out there, give them their number, you know, go. I think the caddies do, on tour, do a big job of really getting into the roots and getting into the details of how the course is going to play. But as far as me know, I just kind of showed up, you just soul golfed it.
Speaker 3:Huh yeah, I just kind of winged it. There was a I can't remember who it was, but I saw I think last year on golf channel they were showing it might have been a major someone's caddy was out there and he actually had like a wedge with him and he was dropping balls in the rough and just hitting like chip shots out, hitting full shots. It was interesting. I never saw that, but I think there's some caddies are probably a lot more into that than others.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know you also have your pros out there that are nerds. You know, like Phil, you remember that one interview where you're talking about the wedges flying in the grass and do in the morning.
Speaker 1:You know there's kind of be some pros out there that have that stuff on lock, how much percent he's taken off a trajectory and a 45 degree weather, with dew and a blade of grass that's bending to the right and sun hasn't hit it yet. Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:And they know, you know, because a lot of these courses they're repetitive, they play in the year after year after year, and they play during certain times of the year and during certain seasons, so they already kind of remember from the year prior. I remember this, when it was like a little dewy in the morning, we kept, you know, this ball was knuckling out of here, we couldn't get any spin on them or flying them, you know. So I think a lot of that plays in there too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1:All right. So we got the VGN tournament this week. It's. It sucks. Dan hasn't been able to play a lot this year because he's had a lot of going on at work, but I mean, you're still you're still really close to the top and the point standing, so it's not like you're taking a beating, jeremy, though. Jeremy's coming for you, though, but we got 48 players going to be teaming it up Saturday morning, kind of a little. 730 am shotgun and I'm surprised. I really thought we were going to get more people for this one. It's, you know, kind of a chorus that the North people of North of the Valley really like, and did not get some of those guys to show up for it. And you know, it is what it is but I think it's going to be a good day. The weather is supposed to be typical monsoon thunderstorms, maybe maybe rain, maybe lightning. It may be 105. You just never know right now. So I'm looking forward to that and, like I said, the course it's in really good shape and we got a. We got a pretty balanced fields. We got, I think, 12, 12, 12 and 11. Of course, there are maybe 13, 12, 12 and 11. It's just going to be a good time.
Speaker 4:So I think I've only played Alliantay one time when there was grass there, and I think that was with Jeremy. Every other time I've played it it's just dormant, firm, hard run out. Yeah, I think. Look, I'm not a big fan of the Alliantay layout, but I think it's a fun course. I think it's kind of wonky after number one, I think it is and then you go two, three, four and then you kind of turn back around and but there's some good holes out there. I'm excited. I typically play pretty well out there, so I like that place, but it's all. It's, of course, going to be fun to see it with grass, because I don't see that very often.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think when you leave two and you come around to three and you get that mountain the very first time, you see the big ass mountain on the golf course in the background. I think that's a really cool view, that a green golf on part five. That's got the ravine that runs sideways across it. You know I'm talking about yeah yeah, yeah, right before the part three yeah, great view of the mountain there and it's just like, wow, that's a really big ass mountain. You don't realize it. You know you're so close to it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because you're always so far away from it, because it's on the other side.
Speaker 1:It's a little dot for me, but hey, I will tell everybody that is headed that way. From the south side of the valley, take the 15 out to the new to 15 out by the speedway and cut back up. It is an incredibly fast way to get out there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you stop it. Taco Zogordo two over there on Craig as well.
Speaker 2:I've been to that one.
Speaker 3:That's the only time I've been to Taco Zogordo, and it was that one.
Speaker 1:And it was like 10 pm.
Speaker 3:It was very strange.
Speaker 4:Those fools are good on those fucking spickets man, those fucking slice them shits up, real nice. Sorry that transitioned quickly Spicy pork on them.
Speaker 1:Oh, good lord, I'm excited I can't wait. Yeah, I think it's going to be a good time. So the pairings got sent out to everybody today. Side money you and you. You need to pay your side money. It'll come.
Speaker 3:Don't worry about me, me, me, me, me, I got an email today hey all my slackers.
Speaker 1:Yep, because you, I, you know why, you know, I said that because I do it just to irritate you. We have a lot of people that have already paid.
Speaker 4:I'm kind of happy about that. I get that email Just to irritate you a little bit, that's. That's the only reason I wait till the end.
Speaker 1:Well, what I do is I won't remind you, and then, you'll send me 30,000 emails. Yeah, I just won't let, you won't be in the game, and then you're like you know, oh, come on, you knew I was in it.
Speaker 4:The rest of the field gets 29,999. I get 30,000.
Speaker 1:So now I I I don't send you to quite a few that I send everybody else. Just imagine that, yeah, okay. So, uh, yeah, andrew, my buddy, andrew Ganey, uh tried last week, qualified for the U S mid-am. Uh was hoping he got through, like he did a couple of years ago, cause it's at sleepy hollow and I really want to go to sleepy hollow and also made a connection, uh for somebody at winged foot, so we were going to have a really good week but uh fell a couple of strokes short. So no, uh, new York trip for Matt and uh, we'll have to wait again until next year to see if he can do that.
Speaker 4:Hey quick, quick little shout out real quick. Um, at JSH underscore golf on Instagram he is a fellow uh true links where collective member. He won the Jake Hutt uh giveaway for the Shrixon iron. Oh nice yeah. So shout out to him I, he just messaged me. I messaged him a little bit but he was like never played the ZX irons from Shrixon. And yeah, I was telling him, like you know, they're great, like good win, you know that's a huge win to win some iron. It's like, yeah, I didn't know Jake Hutt was going to give away five sets it looks like it was five sets Like that's a hell of a win. I did watch the video but I may have had a few hazees, but, um, he won. Fellow true collective member. Um, good on him. He's. He's up in. I think he's in Wisconsin or real, I think he's in Wisconsin. He was the guy that came out here and he was asking for advice on the on the discord and we told him go to pay you at any way to pay you, and he loved it. So, um right, shout out to him Like that's a big win, man, a full set of irons $2,000 right there. Fuck yeah, that is, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm you do Do. Oh, yeah, I cross over. Yeah, did you guys watch that at all?
Speaker 4:Did you watch any of the or watch some like a little bit the laws are made into the finals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, she, she.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, Does that place not look amazing? I mean to be the fresh prince.
Speaker 4:Good, sick. Yeah, I mean shout out Will Smith that place. I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It. I thought it looked way better than the LA Country Club. I thought it too. I mean, how are they not playing the US Open there?
Speaker 4:Good Lord, and maybe it's not long enough. I don't know the yardage of that, but some of that bunkering looked really sick, like those green complexes looked dope.
Speaker 1:Dan, have you been on the property?
Speaker 2:No, that's super exclusive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, super, super, the only thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the only thing I know about that place is I don't know if you guys are familiar with Eddie Marins, the somewhat someone called a legendary teaching professional. He's pretty sure he's long gone now, but yeah, he used to teach at a country club.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that place is sick, I mean that, that bridge that crosses. That's the one with the bridge.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, so freaking, cool and they have.
Speaker 4:Don't they have the coolers with the uncrustables on them too? I think that's the place where it's like.
Speaker 2:You know how, like when we went to Purcell Farm.
Speaker 4:They had the apples and the coolers. I think I think at Bel Air they have uncrustables in the coolers so you can just grab an uncrustable and get on your way. That's nice. Yeah, yeah, that's very nice, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, it's a couple million dollars a year to be a member there, but they got uncrustables. Let's do it.
Speaker 4:Hey, a lot of those people are going to be coming to Vegas soon.
Speaker 1:So yeah, right, but yeah, so Yana had a heartbreak, she it was. It was crazy because she was up five and I texted these guys and I'm like, hey, yana's up five, and then Yana's up four, yana's up three, yana's up two, they're tied, she's down. It was like just the. What had happened was a girl she was playing, just started putting her ass off and was making everything that ironically, she gets to the first playoff hole and has a two footer to win and misses it. So then they go to the next hole. Yana sticks it to 10 feet, girl hits it long, she's got a 30 foot putt coming back and drains it and Yana ends up missing hers. But congrats to her for making the 16. You know she didn't make it last year. So to the to the round of 32, I think they're 64. So big accomplishment. You know these are the best young women players in the world. So Yana is going to be fine.
Speaker 4:Oh, she's going to be fine.
Speaker 1:She's, she's, yeah, she's going to be fine. So, all right, can I talk about this?
Speaker 3:It's a trophy.
Speaker 1:So this is this is one of my my favorite clubs in my bag. I love to hate it.
Speaker 4:It's. What is it because?
Speaker 1:for the non viewers, oh yeah, it's, it's a tailor made Sim titanium, the original Sim titanium five wood. It's, you can see, it's, it's getting you know those of you who are watching. You can see it's getting a sweet spot. No, yeah, most most legit players. There's like a little bit of silver right here. Yeah, I like to use the hole. I like to get all aspects. Don't want to waste any of this metal. But yeah, so this is. This is the first for me. I've I've never broken a club, never broken a club, never in a fit of rage of throwing a club or, you know, got in an alter. You've never thrown a club. I mean I've like tossed one up in the air just, but not like chucked it across the course. So I'll tell you what?
Speaker 4:it was my first time, whitney, seeing someone snapping a ventis over their knee.
Speaker 1:So that's the second, to me it's like that's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4:That's the second ventis I've seen snapped over a body part, though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was blue, it's it, bobby's was blue.
Speaker 1:I'm starting to think it like grass fed rib eyes right there.
Speaker 4:I mean, come on, goodness, did it feel good after?
Speaker 3:or was the?
Speaker 4:guilt immediate.
Speaker 3:Oh no, I had no remorse whatsoever.
Speaker 1:I know, that's my thing I would have been so pissed off I mean I was like I'm not gonna get it.
Speaker 4:I'm so pissed at myself if I did that.
Speaker 1:Well one. I was ready to take that shaft out of that club because it has not been doing well for me. I thought it might help with my just what.
Speaker 4:It was the shaft.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, 100 percent.
Speaker 4:Nothing to do with me. My swing the shaft has not been doing what it needs to do for me.
Speaker 1:This shaft was clearly the issue, not my literate golf swing right now. No, I had. I had a UST in there that I was hitting fairly well and I thought the ventis would help tighten up my dispersion a little bit with it. And it just has not. It has not jived well for me. So I was telling these guys Joe, before you hopped on that, you know I started OK, hit a good drive. Proach came up short, whatever. Hit a good drive on two. What kind of? In the bunker wasn't great. Hit a OK shot on three. Chipped up, made the par Fairway green, two-putt par. Hit a great drive on five. And then the water started heating up. You know I shanked that Joe. Joe hits his tee shot 10 feet off the green into a tree, and so this is a hole we pop on. And I'm like, ok, I hit a good drive. Right, I said OK, I got to, I got to play this. While I did this, this one's on me. And I shanked it like like all hosel, 100 percent, 90 degrees to the right in a bush. And I was like and there's no finding, there's, there's no looking for it, there's no. So I just I just dropped and hit my next shot out of the. The Mowed down rough, that was still nasty and shanked. That again it was on the car path that took the drop, hit that chip short and then hit another chip over the green and almost hold that putt. But yeah so the wheel, the, the, the water was hot, the water was hot. And then six we get there. I hit the green three putt like a turd just hit the worst putt of the day. End of three putting. Get on the seventh. Hit a weak T shot. I'm in the rough. Chunk out of that. I end up in a swampy marsh. I chunk out of that, I'm in the bunker. I thin it over the.
Speaker 2:I just fucking bladed out of that ball there.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, and I was just and Dan's like oh, I saw where it was.
Speaker 4:I'm like no there's a lot of balls flying at Dan. There's a lot of balls flying at Dan. Oh yeah, Joe hit him in the head. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1:So then we get up to the eighth hole I hit, I hit my drive and it's another weak drive. Get out the five wood and just cold cold top, cold top.
Speaker 4:And then the second golfer topped it too.
Speaker 1:Well, that and that's that's where, that's where the the, the, the.
Speaker 4:The lady I could have seen you snap in the second golfer.
Speaker 3:I expect the first. I expected the hybrid to go to.
Speaker 1:Oh, this, yeah, this, so yeah, just a horrible top. And so I'm like fuck. I mean, it didn't even get to where Dan and Jeremy were playing from. That's how bad it was. And so I said I'm going to hit another shot. I got it. This is like killing me. And so, had I not hit the exact same shot, the the shaft probably would have made it through the rest of the day, but the fact that I dropped a ball and my second on the first one no, no is the second one.
Speaker 4:No, it was the first hybrid with the second one. Yes, I was there. No right next to you snapped it on the first shot. No, I didn't All right, that's what you want to tell yourself.
Speaker 1:No, no, I hit it, I topped it, I went over.
Speaker 4:Snap. No, you hit it, you topped it, you snapped the club. You did it again.
Speaker 1:I dropped a ball, hit it, did it again, snapped it. And that's when I said I took out my hybrid and I said to Jeremy Jeremy, I said, or maybe it's you, joe. I said if the same thing happens, there's a good chance that that happens to this shaft as well.
Speaker 4:No, you didn't say anything to me. Ok, I said that.
Speaker 3:I was trying not to. Yeah, I was just in a bunker.
Speaker 4:It just turns quiet. It's just quiet after that.
Speaker 1:I know and I feel bad because I you know you don't want to be that guy, but it was, it was. It was like I said, the water was percolating and after I topped that first one it went. You know, it was full on, Full on and it just it needed to go. It needed to go.
Speaker 4:All right. So me being the soul golfer that I am and almost converting the other two that are not you to soul golf, Mike, how much does that help you? Does that help you Breaking a club? Are you happy?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm 100 percent. I would that you love yourself Always.
Speaker 4:I'm always going to love myself. I'm just, I'm just making sure. Oh, I'm taking it on a friend.
Speaker 1:I am mentally fine, I am, I'm just I, just I just want to know that.
Speaker 2:Mentally you're as you are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as a retic, as you are mentally, I mean, we saw this coming obviously. Oh, no, I need to.
Speaker 4:So a few weeks back, like Max Homer wrote on his club NFG no fuck's given. So I think you need to write in your little crust here on the thumb and I, I Jack. It's just a game, little I Jack, actually I Jack.
Speaker 1:It's just a game. Yeah, I Jack Right there.
Speaker 4:Jack, just a game, bro.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know, and and and this is just a shaft. It's just a golf shaft.
Speaker 4:And you are just a person.
Speaker 3:Can you be a soul golfer if you break clubs or have a history of the only way to know that?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, that might be yeah, Like if you sign the terms, the terms of conditions.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 4:I don't know if that would have been in there because I've broken, I've broken, I'm a soul golfer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I know, Jeremy you're, you're a club breaker.
Speaker 4:Now look, there is redemption from that area of your life.
Speaker 3:You know, like if you give the club to your friend that you broke that, there you go. Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 4:Yeah, now you have to give that five, but this is something I'm in the clear Now.
Speaker 1:I've. I've got an adapter, I've got a really good head.
Speaker 4:So who are you giving it to?
Speaker 1:A really good grip.
Speaker 4:Who are you going to give it to? I'm, I'm putting my USP rent back in it and OK, so that's not soul golf. You need to give that club to someone and get a sim.
Speaker 3:the new sim to five would yeah, I need to.
Speaker 4:If you snapped it, like Jeremy snapped his, he gave it to me. Now you have to give it to someone else.
Speaker 3:Actually I didn't. I think you got it out of the garbage can. But, yeah, either way, I definitely got out of the Changed hands.
Speaker 4:I know that. Yeah, now that if you want to be redeemed as a soul golfer in the future, I that has to club has to be given. Well, all right. Well, we're growing man, we're growing Army of ones turning into an army of many.
Speaker 1:I, I like this club and I was mad at the shaft. Ok, shafts fault, I get it 100 percent, 100 percent, not so why get? Of course it's not true, it's fucking me. But at that time at that time, at that moment, this piece of shit shaft.
Speaker 4:I jagged to go, I jag.
Speaker 1:It had to go and it's gone, and so now I'll have a nice ventist or a UST Link read in there.
Speaker 3:I'm Saturday and no.
Speaker 4:So I guess I like that. I jacked like the WW. What would Jesus do, thing we're going to get some bracelets to say I jag.
Speaker 1:Some shirts I jag.
Speaker 2:I'd like to jag off.
Speaker 1:I, jag off, I jag off.
Speaker 4:It's just a game off.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a million dollar shirt. Right there, I jag off.
Speaker 4:Coming soon.
Speaker 1:There's your, there's your next one, joe, but for that, chippy, right here, chippy dice man. I jag off, he's happy because he jags off. Oh, that's fucking funny. Now the the reason for all that is I'm going through some swing changes and if anybody has ever gone through some swing changes, you know that once you've, you're grinding it in and then you take that to the course. It's going to be terrible, it's going to be bad and, no matter what, you're going to have some bad outings. And it's how well you can learn from the bad and and stick with it. It's really it's super easy to just revert back to what you know. And you know all the changes that I've I've gone through over the years. It's, it's gotten better after each. You know this, this lull where you go down and then you, you know you rise back up to the game you can play. You know, and I have people say, hey, you're playing really well, what are you doing? And it's like well, I saw a flaw in my swing. That's costing me going from, you know, a high single to a low single. Yeah, Q for P, Q for P. What's Q for P now?
Speaker 4:That's for perfection, oh, not perfection.
Speaker 1:Not perfection. Quest for par. I go, I'll go quest for par, not perfection, but yeah, so it. And I played Friday and the changes I could. I had a couple bad swings but I could feel that they were really working. And after starting somewhat OK, you know, I was two over three, four holes not awful and then in the fairway on a really tough dog leg hole just to shit the bed. The next couple holes, it just yeah, a moment of weakness.
Speaker 2:What it?
Speaker 1:was but.
Speaker 4:I feel you I mean I when I started playing like I really focused heavy on my swing, you know, feels like really trying to like dive deep in the YouTube and like just, and that's what probably helped me get to the level I got to at one point. And now I obviously don't care as much as I used to because I just enjoy playing the game and I love spending time with the homies and I like playing new golf courses and I like the architecture of things and like trying to plot my way around places and courses. But I did see, like John Daly the other day, like Talking about you know, I mean it comes up all the time like 150 and 150 and 150 and it I mean, and that's that is a lot of the game, like that's a huge part. Like even if your like driver goes out, you punch out to 150 or wherever the you know 160, 120, wherever it is, whatever the yardage on the whole is, if you feel comfortable from that spot, like Do you guys think it is all swing? Like do you, matt, do you think it's all swing or do you think it's yardage and 150 and in, like, are you in? Are you in a hole of like swing dynamics, like does my swing have to fit my shot or do I need to be in this spot, or do I need to be able to hit it to a spot If I'm 150 and in Because, do you like?
Speaker 1:what I'm getting at you talking.
Speaker 4:Yeah, is John Daly correct, or is swing mechanics more important to you?
Speaker 1:No, I don't think swing mechanics are more important to me. I think I. What happened is I saw a flaw in my swing and that I wasn't aware. I thought I had eradicated it. I thought I had made some progress in getting rid of the early toss. Dan, how you doing there? Yeah, we're getting psychedelic.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4:There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3:Um. Are we having some sound issues?
Speaker 1:Now a little delay on his end, that's good, yeah, we're fine yeah we're fine. So I saw the swing flaw and then when I see something like that I get obsessive. It's like a compulsive obsessive disorder where I, if it was a flaw that wasn't costing me Accuracy and distance. You know, I'm not. I'm happy with the yardages that I hit my clubs. I'm not like you know, my seven iron is my seven Seven iron is my 155, 160 club. I'm not a beast, I don't. You know I don't hit it. You know 200 yard seven iron and that's just not me and I'm I'm okay with that. I mean it does not bother me, I'm not a. I have to get it further. But when I see this, this early throwing of the club and knowing that my dynamic loft is zero or, like you said, negative. Yeah, and I'm like fuck, that's. That's costing me, you know, the nine iron versus a seven iron. You know why would I not want to improve that?
Speaker 4:No, I just want to say like, is it like this? You know, this is, this is shift in tectonic plates. This is fucking San Francisco earthquake, this is. You know there's two sides. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know either. Do you, do you focus on your swing or do you play your swing? Because that, that is what it is, it's. Do you play your swing or do you find find your swing?
Speaker 1:Think about this last round that we just played. I've been I've been hitting a draw for two months.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, yeah, I do see that.
Speaker 1:This adjustment that I'm making right now, it's turned into a fade.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, I was playing the fade, hard to commit, hard to commit to that yeah.
Speaker 1:I get it, yeah and so, and. But I knew, hey, all I got to do is go back to my old setup and I'm going to hit that draw. And you know, visually for me that's what I want to see, that's what I visualize as a draw when I when I look at a hole and I'm visualizing the shot, so it's, it's like it causes anxiety when I'm hitting a fade and I'm not visualizing it. So standing up there yet the other day on the range and I'm hitting these, I'm like, okay, hey, today we're playing a fade. So you know, I wasn't going to try and in the middle of a round, figure out why the ball's not drawing. It's just, hey, right now, this setup, I'm just going to stick with it, work on it and just keep it going.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, I mean you have to really dive deep and like commit to everything that you're doing on your swing for sure, 100%. But I'm just, as a friend, I just I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just. I just want you to play your game, Whatever game that is, whatever game that is, I just want you to play your game. This is an intervention.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's an intervention. Oh, so all I gotta do is break a club, and you guys are all of a sudden my friends now.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're worried about you. Now we are worried about you. It's a downward spiral.
Speaker 1:There's no reason to worry. I am fine.
Speaker 4:All right, I just I just want you to know that we care about you. I love you. Play your game.
Speaker 1:And gosh darn it.
Speaker 4:Enjoy it, People like me, Enjoy it. It's just a game I jack hey.
Speaker 1:I had a blast yesterday. It was I had an absolute blast. I, you know, played like a fucking rookie, but I had a blast. It's my, and I even said I said this sucks playing bad golf You're one of your favorite courses in town. Hey, you know that's. That's the cards that were dealt in my hand yesterday.
Speaker 4:You should have seen me in white horse Fucking.
Speaker 1:I lost 30 balls. I didn't because I wasn't invited.
Speaker 4:You were invited. You had to take Emma to fucking college trips.
Speaker 1:Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4:I don't think that's right. Are you going to band next year? Of course?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I gotta get knee surgery, but that's true. I went to go meet Brooklyn at the bus stop today because her high school bus stops like kind of far from the house and so she walks a long way by herself, and so I said I'll meet you so you're not walking alone. And I left the neighborhood and I was walking up the hill and I'm like I couldn't walk, banding right now. There's no way. So I need to seriously get this thing looked at. It's not good. Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 4:Jeremy, starting taking collagen pills?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Um, you know, turmeric.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm, I'm. I'm a pound away from 200 pounds, so I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm close.
Speaker 1:I'm close and look, Joe, I actually got to bring this out the closet.
Speaker 4:Nice. Yeah, mine doesn't fit me because I'm getting too much beer.
Speaker 1:Mine hasn't fit, since I got it.
Speaker 2:So I was like.
Speaker 1:I have a stack of shirts and I'm like, oh, this is the you're too fat stack, nice. So I've been wearing those all week.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's great shirt.
Speaker 1:All right, so let's get into some PGA tour talk. The first round of the playoffs took place at Memphis. Nothing like 99% humidity on 100 degree day, filled for those boys, man, a couple of caddies didn't make it all 18 couple days. Uh, you know we, we know the heat, we don't know the humidity. So the times that we have been out in the Midwest and the South, uh, when the humidity and the heat is there, I feel for you guys.
Speaker 4:So yeah, I need a lot of liquid IV, a lot of relight, a lot of needed. A lot of salt, too much sugar. Yeah, relight, relight, relight's the way to go. Hey, and a trade trade off. Our buddy Trey has a discount code, so go go follow him. He's got 50% off.
Speaker 1:It's in his bio 15. Oh, 15. Yeah, 50 is a damn good deal, yeah, All right. So, uh, Taylor Montgomery missed out couple, couple spots. He was close, played a good round on Sunday to try and get there but fell a two point shy. So it does not get to advance onto this event. Kurt Kiteyama, however other you know, V kid is in the top 50. So he is there. He's in the 33 spots. Some of the other notables that are on the bubble uh, the Gala is at 31. Justin Rose is at 32. A shame, his powers at 35. Matt Fitzpatrick is at 40. Cam Young is at 46. Matt Siamma is 47 and Patrick Rogers is the person who sneaked in in the number 50 spot. Did you watch much golf?
Speaker 2:It was a little on.
Speaker 1:Saturday for me it was kind of nice because it was on that rain delay all morning while we were golfing and then so I got home and got to watch the whole end of it. It was pretty nice. Freakin Lucas Glover who knew Back to back. Did you?
Speaker 4:see that thing where it said if you would have put, if you would have parlayed him going back to back for $100, you would have won $820,000. Holy, I mean, that's, that's a stretch. Like nobody did that, nobody was going to do that, but I mean you would have been a millionaire, almost Wow. Yeah, no one was expecting him, he just lathered in fucking sunscreen and links all year Like he looked white, bro, did you see his pants?
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, it's horrible.
Speaker 4:He looked like he looked like he looked like a five guys prize bag.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:That was a good look.
Speaker 1:No, it wasn't a good look at all. They're made of wool or something.
Speaker 4:Well, dan, the father of the color changing foot joy polos, I mean that probably would have been you.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely, there's no doubt. There's no doubt in the sweater.
Speaker 4:Your light gray foot joist turned into dark gray quick.
Speaker 2:I provide my own camo patterns.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you you, your sweat glands go. Nope, we're out like immediately.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Because, I yesterday, yesterday I'm like man, it's getting just a little warm out here and I look over at you and you look drenched.
Speaker 2:My whole, entire back was soaked.
Speaker 4:Yeah, just turns into camo real quick. Just, you're a chameleon, bro, you're a chameleon.
Speaker 2:I'm just thankful that you know, I don't sweat in the in the seats area. You know that was so bad. That'd be the last thing I want. Why'd your ass all wet?
Speaker 4:Sad in some medulla or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I spilled something. Sorry to worry about it. It'll dry, yeah.
Speaker 1:Smells like funk, yeah, yeah. The are those? Were those a links where pants I'm assuming so I mean ready.
Speaker 4:Where's the shirt?
Speaker 1:Where's the?
Speaker 4:shirt. I mean I don't know, I mean I would assume. So I mean he's been around a while, so he's probably close friends with John Ashworth, I would think so that's.
Speaker 1:That was just crazy, crazy weather, I mean that was not.
Speaker 4:I mean, yeah, that's. I mean, yeah, I mean they were playing in some rough shit. I mean that, I mean, and that that goes to show Lucas Glover Like that's, that's got to be a really fucking hard turn. It's winning that kind of humidity and that kind of heat, like yeah and grinding it out like that Back to back, yeah. I mean I would I probably would have gave up. Personally, I mean, that's and what it was. 110 with humidity you would have given up Shut up Dude. Ok, so 110 in that humidity 100 percent humidity.
Speaker 1:Almost it was 99 degrees, yeah, but feel, the real feel was 109.
Speaker 4:Joe, I mean, that's like I Jack, I mean, it's just a game, that's the game, wait, wait. So you're giving up all these.
Speaker 1:FedEx Cup points and a chance to go to the finals and win $10 million. Sam out, that's the game.
Speaker 4:That's the thing. It is just a game. But I'm just a, I'm just a human, I'm just a life Like do I want to die? I just Do I want to die you be.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you feel like you're going to die, then you do it Exactly. If I felt like I was going to die, yes.
Speaker 4:If I felt like I was going to die, I would probably call it quits, but I would play.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could fan yourself off with the three million dollars you win, Joe.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I think that's the thing. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:Hey bring, did you get the new William Hill? So is he. Hold on, so is he, is he?
Speaker 2:rider crap now. No, God no.
Speaker 1:OK, not even a captain, no.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:I mean he's hot, so do you take the hot player?
Speaker 2:I think you do. If he's hot and the rider cups, what? The month, month and a half? If he's hot, he's hot.
Speaker 1:Well, we'll, we'll see how he does at at Olympic Fields, and if he's still playing hot, then hell yeah, I had no problem with it. But after two wins, one of the events, not really a big one, we'll see, I think. I think he would be valued, one against older and he's, he's one.
Speaker 3:He won US Open at Beth Page right Yep, and I don't know I mean he doesn't have the rider cup experience but yeah, I mean, I think he's in the championship.
Speaker 4:If you have to pick him, then yeah, you have to pick him.
Speaker 1:Oh, he'll have enough points if he does that, because the they get extra points for the playoffs. So I mean he moved up 32 spots, yeah, so, but he's still way back though.
Speaker 4:To me, I think Zach Johnson is going to pick the homies first, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So if I have a read on Zach Johnson, he's going to pick the homies. So who's he taking the homies? Whoever's homies are Whoever's homies are Does he have my homies, yeah, I'll be playing Ryder Cup.
Speaker 1:Does he have homies? He doesn't seem like a liked person on the PGA tour.
Speaker 3:I think he's like. He just doesn't seem. He's an under the radar guy, Seems boring.
Speaker 4:He probably like invites him to the fucking, like you know, secret underworld parties. I don't know, I don't know. I'm just saying like if I have a read on Zach Johnson, he's picking the people that he's closest with is what I'm saying. And whoever they are, I don't know who they are, but like if I was captain and you got in and Matt was 180th in the fucking Fedescu points, I think I'm you know he fucking would break a shit ton of shafts during the Ryder Cup.
Speaker 1:You break one shaft. You break one shaft.
Speaker 4:I'm just saying I would want to be out there with my homies because it's soul golf, you know like we're playing in Rome, and I want the homies there.
Speaker 1:It's for the Ryder Cup. You wouldn't take the better player.
Speaker 3:It's just a game. What if they pick Phil, hi, jack, oh Lord, can you imagine? Phil Mickelson on the Ryder Phil's not coming bro.
Speaker 1:Did you get the new William Hill app?
Speaker 4:No, but I did see an email. I haven't even logged in because Okay Hockey is not hearing it.
Speaker 1:So Jeremy's got a bounce soon, so I wanted to have you go over the odds and for this tournament and he won the week because he had Cantley, he freaking did.
Speaker 3:I thought he was going to do it.
Speaker 1:You had a chance. I had Sepsraca. He did terrible. I only got 18 points for that. Joe had Fleetwood. He finished third, 650 points you got for that, which really bumped you up. But then Jeremy has Cantley. He gets 1200 points for that. So Jeremy now has a 1500 point lead on Joe, 2200 point lead on me. I am going to need back to back FedEx Cup playoff wins to even have a chance. So you know who I'm picking.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't have a. I logged in. I don't have an update notification or anything like that. I don't think it's ready yet. Do you have it? I haven't looked. Yeah, I don't think it's ready yet.
Speaker 1:I think it's coming out today. So no, I think it's a night at midnight.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it's the 14th at midnight or 15th at midnight, so we're going to get it soon. But your your odds for the BMW championship. Your favorite Roy McRoy six and a half to one. John Rom seven to one. Sheffler seven and a half to one. Cantley. Victor Havan 12 to one. Max Homer 14 to one. Xander 20 to one. Tommy Fleetwood 22 to one. Cullinmore and Calva 25 to one. Jordan Spieth who Jeremy or Jeremy's probably going to pick, 28 to one.
Speaker 2:Lucas Slover, 30 to one.
Speaker 4:Montse Yama 33 to one, tony Fiena and Matt Fitzpatrick, along with Cameron Young and Ricky Fowler, as well as Sun J M and Tarell Hatton, 35 to one. Corey Connors, brian Harmon, russell Hanley, tom Kim 40 to one. Young Hunt on 45 to one. Sam Burns 50 to one. All the way at the bottom we got Seamus power 175 to one.
Speaker 1:Wow, seamus is last. Yep. Wow, wow, wow, all right, all right.
Speaker 3:Jeremy, who are you picking? I'm going. Patrick Cantley, three Pete.
Speaker 4:Oh, 12 to one. Fuck Patrick Cantley.
Speaker 3:Pete Cantley. I'm a closet Patrick Cantley fan.
Speaker 4:You better reclose it on that one.
Speaker 1:Oh, we lost Dan again.
Speaker 4:Good 12 to one for Patrick Cantley 12 to one.
Speaker 1:All right, Joe, who are you taking?
Speaker 4:You know I'm going to go with I don't know yet. Do you want to pick? You can pick if you want.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm taking, I'm taking Rom, I'm taking Rom 71. Yep, I need, I need a win. Don't care about the bonus, I need points, and yeah, so I'm, I'm taking Rom.
Speaker 4:All right, I'm going to go. I'm between two really distant players Between Schaeffler and Fowler. Oh yeah, I don't really go this deep or this far in the odds, I don't go that chalk. So I just feel like Schaeffler's putting has to come around soon and if Schaeffler drop I've said this every, said this before like if he would have dropped 12 more putts this year, he won 12 more tournaments.
Speaker 1:The cup was an eighth inch wider, he'd have five more wins.
Speaker 4:Yeah, if he I mean he just it's, it's been right there. So does he find it that this week? That's where I'm at right now, but I'm going to go. I think I'm going to just go. Ricky Fowler, try get some bonus points Right. Where was he? At 35 to one, he released the card suit clubs. Today, the TV fives picks. So that's a little Vegas style.
Speaker 2:So he went all in today.
Speaker 4:I don't know if you guys saw the video, but no, I'm going, ricky All right, let's go, dan.
Speaker 1:So, uh, make a pick and and you got a chance, I don't know. We'll give you a head start in the next season.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to go. I think he played pretty well this week and, if I remember correctly, he played pretty well. Yeah, or is it an? Would be a field? Yes, the next tournament? Yeah, anyway, I am Corey Connors. I'm going to roll with.
Speaker 4:Corey Connors. Corey Connors 40 to one. Nice, I like it Little little Canadian.
Speaker 2:Canadian. Yeah, I think he finished top 10 this week and I think he finished top 10 there last year, if I remember correctly. So so see here.
Speaker 1:Data golf. He's a baller. Data golf has him middle of the field. Middle of the field, he's down. He's down there. They got the Schaeffler. Mcelroy, rom, cantley, shawthly, hovlin, terrell, haddon, tommy Fleawood are their tops. They have Tom Hogi the sandwich. That's who, I swear. That's who Joe picked when he said Tommy last week. So I may have to go back and re-listen to the tapes. Nope, take some of his points away. But then, yeah, seamus Powers and Brendan Todd down at the bottom.
Speaker 4:I haven't picked Tom Hogi since he won bro Tommy's close, though Tommy Fleawood is close man Like.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's so close.
Speaker 4:Did you see that thing where he was like the highest winner, a PGA money list, without a win?
Speaker 1:Without a win. Yep Longest on tour. What do you think?
Speaker 4:Dude, just Tommy, get a fucking win. Man Like dude as a beast of a swing, we all love watching it. I know that guaranteed, and everybody that listens. I know you like watching Tommy Fleawood swing at golf club. I just want to see it. I just want to see him bring one home man and I thought he almost did it at the open. Call it now Tommy Fleawood, 2024. Open winner. Let's go.
Speaker 1:Oh bold, early prediction.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 4:Winner. Put all your, put your mortgage on it. Garin fucking teed. As erratic as you are mentally.
Speaker 1:There it is. I'm going to give a quick shout out to Omar from think media. I played with him and Matt Plummer he if you watch think media at all on YouTube, they help entrepreneurs grow their YouTube and social media accounts. So I've been watching some of his videos over the last couple of days just trying to get a better idea of how we can go about growing this channel, growing the podcast, in a lot of different ways. He had a thing about these headphones, so I don't have the big bulky headphones on anymore. Trying to make my old ass I look a little bit more appealing. Got some new lights in the background to add it up a little bit. Hopefully let's see where Joe he is. Let's see when is he there on this thing. Yeah, Hopefully his ass will take some pointers from this and go, I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a look at the pointers from this and go Wow, I need to stop looking like I'm calling in from a bunker.
Speaker 4:Hey, we just need some sponsors. So anybody, anybody out in Las Vegas like, hey, we talk Las Vegas golf all the fuck of time. We we collaborate with people that own businesses from every industry in VGN like.
Speaker 1:Got Brad Thompson coming on later on this week.
Speaker 4:So we're here every single fucking week. We're here to talk about your business or your product or whatever it is, and if you need product, you can go to hitting greenscom. I got a couple shirts on there Promote yourself. But no, seriously, like hey, we're here every single week, like and we have. We have a pretty loyal listener base. We average 400 listens per week, roughly right 350 to 450 every week, high episodes or a thousand. But and we're we're strictly Vegas based. We talk a lot of Vegas and we're here, we're here for you, we, we rep Vegas really hard and I know we should probably go think more globally.
Speaker 1:But we're Vegas residents Hubs, hubs, nuts we get a shout out every now and then.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and we'll give you a shout out, but hey, we got friends with. Pxg. Yeah, we know Eric Greenley. Like he's got to know a lot of people in Brazil or something I don't know.
Speaker 1:We talk shafts.
Speaker 4:Yeah, golf works. He gets a lot of business from Matt because he snapped shafts and I don't snap a lot of shafts. Well, it's the first one. We're just worried, we're worried about you.
Speaker 3:It was a snap heard around the world.
Speaker 1:It was a snap. Yeah, oh, I would have loved like somebody out enjoying their Sunday morning coffees and watching that going.
Speaker 4:That just happened, it'll be anyway. We are. We are here for the Vegas culture, we're here for the Vegas golf network. The Vegas golf aspect, the anybody that listens. You can hit us up anytime. We're here to give you recommendations. We're here to take recommendations if we're traveling to your area and we're down to play golf with you anytime. Should we wait for Dan to get back before we give the outro?
Speaker 1:Oh, we can, we can ramble on for a few.
Speaker 2:Jeremy, do you got a balance? I know you-, Jeremy.
Speaker 3:I got color time, you're good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, cool Shit. Now I don't know what to talk about, no. So, omar, he's looking at the pages and they're gonna, let me know, give some insight on what he thinks that we could do. But we're trying to put some content out here, if you know. Let us know what you wanna see. Let us know what you wanna hear. You wanna see more about the Vegas courses? I've been posting a lot of shorts just showing off our golf swings. You know, I think if everybody knows who we are, it's a little bit easier to connect with us, not so much like crazy funny content or anything, it's just golf, just golf, just us golfing the stuff. I'm gonna start throwing some of Dan's videos on there, since he's a part of the crew now. That's gonna bring a lot of people in Dan has got one of the sexiest swings in the history of golf.
Speaker 4:Just that fucking piercing ass, little bitch.
Speaker 1:Dude, dan, did you like your Rio Seco video? I mean?
Speaker 2:holy crap.
Speaker 1:And if you watch it on YouTube because I try to upload high quality on YouTube it is an amazing golf shot. Just crushed it. That one drive not the one you peek at and look that was going left, but the other one on 11. What was that a 340 yard drive 327.
Speaker 4:I think it was 307, because we were technically playing from the blues or the whites.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that one was a little bit. Where'd you say 345, dan.
Speaker 4:I was like well, we're playing up a little bit. There we are, joe quick to you know, I just you know.
Speaker 1:I did outdrive Joe a couple of times yesterday too, so I was off the hill, bro, Mm-hmm yeah, hey, you're off the hill is not as good as my shitty fade crap.
Speaker 4:No, your good ones were past my heel shots.
Speaker 1:No, oh, is that what? Oh, they were good. I had good ones okay. I wasn't aware of that.
Speaker 2:Oh, dan, dan.
Speaker 1:Dan Dan. Thank you so much, brother. We're glad you're here. We're gonna get all the technicalities and the issues taken care of, so don't sweat it. You should go back and listen to the first episode of this show. It was bad. It was bad, Not gonna lie.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was in a car, I think no, and that was probably episode five.
Speaker 1:No, that was later on. That was me testing stuff out.
Speaker 4:We're driving at the PGA show right now. We're in a car.
Speaker 1:It was live from the Mercedes-Benz studio.
Speaker 4:Yep, I remember that. Yeah, my first appearance was with Ryan Golf.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Brian Golf, we had a round table in the backyard. It was freezing.
Speaker 4:It was in February, yeah that was a while ago. Yeah, hey, we've come a long way. We have come a long way, a lot of diversity overcome and we've found ourselves. Matt might need a little more finding after snapping a club this past weekend.
Speaker 1:What if me snapping the club was me finding?
Speaker 4:myself. Yeah, that's right, it could be Did you ever think?
Speaker 2:of that.
Speaker 4:You snapped a little chicken in a biscuit and then welcome to your life.
Speaker 1:I am fuck soul golf. I'm hostile golf.
Speaker 4:Well, that would go towards do host life.
Speaker 1:I hate, I hate golf.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that might be a little different.
Speaker 1:All right, so the iJag shirts coming soon.
Speaker 4:Yep.
Speaker 1:The moniker, the moniker the crest.
Speaker 4:We're gonna eat a crest with the iJag and it's gonna be sick. We're gonna start a whole society all over the world. It's gonna be similar to random golf club, but way more spiritual.
Speaker 1:Way more spiritual than Eric Anders Lang Way more culty.
Speaker 4:Sponsored by the E-Sando.
Speaker 2:E-Sando's everywhere, I mean like you know, we're gonna have like salt. You put it in your hand.
Speaker 4:You just spread it across your face, rip out your pores, like just a lot of cool shit happening.
Speaker 1:Rip up your pores. The rails have officially come off. All right, Joe, let's end this nonsense and bring us home.
Speaker 4:All right, well, that was that. That was the Chasing Day Live podcast. This week, jeremy's gotta get on a call with India. Thanks to Dan for joining us. He'll be here every week completing the foursome. The foursome is complete. The foursome is complete. So, yeah, if you wanna invite us to your club, you're out.
Speaker 1:So yeah, sorry, we kinda screwed ourselves there, but I don't think you ever really took advantage of the three of us.
Speaker 4:So hey, a couple times Shout out Matt Snapping Clubs, but being able to fit into his band and solstice shirt, so shout out Chippy Dice man and thank you for tuning in every single week. We're here every Monday 8.30 pm. Live on Instagram or no YouTube.
Speaker 2:And maybe one day.
Speaker 4:Yeah, maybe one day, but we go. Episodes are up every Wednesday at 5.30 pm, pacific Standard Time. Tell your friends, we talk golf. We talk a lot of bullshit. I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time, but it's cool and we. Thank you for listening. We'll see you next week. Shout out, dan, he disappeared, but we're gonna get him. He's hooked up and we're gonna get him.
Speaker 1:We're gonna sound really good. Oh, here he is.
Speaker 4:And we'll give the last words to Dan.
Speaker 1:The last words Dan.
Speaker 4:Send this out Dan Go Send this out.
Speaker 1:Man of many words.
Speaker 4:Who me? Yeah, you, you send this out. I just finished the rant, you send it.
Speaker 2:The thing just froze on me. But yeah, thanks again guys.
Speaker 1:Dan's a new iPhone user, so yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so far I'm not happy with it.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, well, you got one that's 10 years old, so you gotta baptize the show, so send us out.
Speaker 2:Anyway, yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate you letting me join the group and we'll see y'all and everybody next week. May your drives be straights and your birdies plentiful Later.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:Later, damn yeah. Also say yes, we are, yes, yes, sure is yes, we are.
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