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Welcome back to the smiley show, the first, I guess, not technically post-season edition, but it feels that way a little bit. We were just saying, prior to this record, it feels very foreign to be sitting in these seats recorded in the podcast at our actual homes. It sure does. [LAUGHTER] I mean, you've been on the road for-- I guess it's been close to a month now for both of us, and we had a blast on the road, but we're back. And how's it feel to be home, smiley? Do you remember what your home lay out, what it feels like to be around and sleeping in your own bed? I've put away so many projects. You know how that goes when you're on the road, and you're like, you know what? When I get back home, I'm going to do these X things. And I have no desire to do those things. And so I think that's why we're going to go out of town. [LAUGHTER] That's always a nice play. I wish I could say the same. We're in full nesting mode over here. Maybe you're all the way in October. Had the in-laws in town this last week. We had an eventful week. We had our first emergency department trip, which was interesting. Thankfully, we survived with just medical glue not stitches. I also got whacked in the lip by a walker with a truck. So it's just been full-on mayhem since I've been home, which has been fun. Listen, these are the joys of fatherhood. And then, yeah, we spent the better part of the weekend painting the nursery, doing all sorts of fun stuff like that. So I'm a little envious of your beach getaway in lieu of all the projects that I'm still working on. Yeah, that's the bummer for Walker. It was always going to happen at some point. And hopefully, my man learns his lesson. And a corner's got to ride around the corner. And I say corner, like, hopefully not hitting her head on the corner. But that's kind of how it ends up going. So yeah, she just runs so fast. She just thinks she can just go, go, go and run so fast. But she looks like the LSU football team trying to finish off a game, just never going to end well. Yeah, I think we'll delve further into the dad portion of our lives on this pod in the off season, as is appropriate. But I regret to report that he, based on the last few days, has not learned his lesson. He's running faster than ever, throwing things. Yeah, it's just-- I think that we're just going to have to just get on a first-name basis with everybody in the emergency department. But to kind of follow your line of thought there, do you have a nice table in front of you that you can slam and disgust over the LSU Tigers losing their opener against the USC Trojans? Well, if you're watching here on YouTube, you can see I got my white, blue, and white hat in support of the only one in O'Team on this podcast. It's the North Carolina Tar Heels. They won a disgusting game at Minnesota, 1917. If you had to watch it, I apologize. Most people that did watch it was either a fan in North Carolina, a fan of Minnesota, or you had family members on the team. Because boy, you just want to just scrub your eyeballs out after the end of that game. But who am I to say? You guys are 1-0. LSU, again, was as a season opener for like the 20th year in a row, it feels like I'm over the big game to start the year, because all we do is talk about it in the off season. And all we talk about is hope. And hope is just, it's gone in week one. And I've gotten really good at not making as much noise when I watch LSU football games, like in anger, like I've decided that yes, football, I care a lot about LSU football. But let's just say the good old-fashioned manual after bad things happen, or the good old knee slap, had a couple of good one of those last night. But what I really resorted to at the end was yes, one good wowed yell, which was fair, it was just, and then a pillow throw. A pillow throw, I feel like it's, you can get it all out, right? - Yes. - You can throw it as hard as you want. And it's not gonna make a mess. It's not gonna, well, it could break something. But- - Gotta give you a link. - I feel like that's kind of the move. It's like throwing a club. It's all on how you throw it. - I know it was over. I was done right after the pillow throw. And yeah, it was just so frustrating, 'cause our, we actually didn't play that bad. I thought USC played really well, too. It was a fun game to watch for people that didn't have a dog in the fight. But yeah, I believed, boy, did we get conservative in that second half? I got a bone to pick with a play calling in the second half. We just went so conservative. We forgot that Gary Nusmara was absolutely torturing this USC defense. I say torturing, he was completing every pass he threw. He was throwing cookies all over the field in the second half. We're like, oh, we're gonna turn in a Notre Dame. We're gonna run the clock out, and we're gonna win this game by running the football. And then we forgot we didn't know we can't run the football consistently. And yeah, so we got super conservative and then just choked inside the 15 yard line three times. And guess what? Lincoln Riley's a really good play caller, and they won. And yeah, no issues with anything. Besides, I don't know if you saw the unsportable like penalties that we had. It was hysterical. - That one was, that was, and then my guy comes back to the bench and we're trying to figure out what the penalties for. - What do you mean, what do you mean, he's showing his teammates how did this? Like, we were all like in the group text, like, God, these refs are brutal, man. Like, I cannot believe they're calling it on sports life. And all he did was dance. And then they showed a replay of him, like, humping the air. And then after that, they showed the Glock, Glock, pop, pop shot that he did to the USC defender. I was like, you know what? They got this one right. - Probably a good call. - Glock, Glock, Glock, pop, pop. - Yeah, that was, that was a tough scene for, oh my God, LSU. You know, it was interesting watching that game, which by the way, just to kind of set the table here, you're gonna be getting a lot of what's happening right now in the fall, as we are calling football addicts, you know, mixed a little NFL in here too. But we are, as much as we will be discussing the PGA tour, fall schedule and all the various off-season storylines we have in golf, we're gonna be going heavy into the football. At some point, we'll get our producer, Jackson Brown on, to answer for his North Dakota state bison and their season opening loss to Colorado. Really thought they had a close there. But in watching your squad last night against USC, Nussmeyer, Miller Moss, just slinging it around the field, I am coming away from this weekend, just stunned that Carolina is the one-on-one team on this podcast. Thoughts and prayers to Max Johnson. Hate that that's the way he went down, but it was a little bit of a tough scene. Prior to his leg injury, and then Connor Harrell came in and... - What a tough scene is in, like you started it. - Yeah, how much of this I wanna take credit for, or take blame for really. I mean, look, it is what it is. It's, we have a quarterback room full of guys that if they were gonna go out and win the job definitively, they would have done that. And that is not where we arrived. And then Max didn't play as best football prior to the injury, and then Connor Harrell came in. And I think we ran 97% read option in route to a last minute. Really, we won the game with a field goal, but it was really a field goal miss that got it done for us in Minnesota. And I was similar vote as you. It was a weather-delayed game, so it was a past midnight. It was just, yes, yes, very quietly watching that field goal missed to the right of the uprights for Minnesota and us walking away wanna know. But I think it's gonna be a tough scene for the Tar Heels this year, depending on how that quarterback situation shakes out. We have a, it's gonna be a real tough scene, but I feel we're not gonna be talking, and when we say we're diving into football this year, we're not gonna be diving into North Carolina football. And we will not be diving into LSU football unless they beat Alabama, then we're gonna get wall in. - Yeah, maybe even, I don't wanna tease too much, but we're back at home now, but we could be on the road. We could be on the road at some point soon. You never know, you never know, we'll see how it goes. I feel like that is probably an appropriate amount of college football discussion for this podcast, given the nature of our team's losses and wins this week. But we'll say this, we're creating a little contest for the fans here, and I guess we're sort of live workshopping this now, Smiley, but essentially, here's the gist of what we're laying out here is, we have a NFL survivor pool that we're doing, and we have a college football weekly pick 'em contest that we're doing, we're gonna use ESPN for both of these things. So stay tuned to our socials. We are at the Smiley show everywhere. We're gonna tweet out links so you can join both of those contests. The password to both is simply Smiley SMY LIE lowercase. And at the end of these contests, we should have two winners, and Smiley, would you care to just lay out there what the prize is for the winners of these various contests? - Well, as we're workshopping here, I would say that what I proposed was that the winner of the college football pick 'em and the winner of the survivor league, I'll play around and go off with 'em. And it will be, hopefully, they live, it'd be sweet if they lived in Birmingham. That would be helpful, or around Birmingham. But if you happen to live in a city I'm traveling to, we're definitely gonna try to make that work too, but if you wanna travel to Birmingham and play, then we'll go play somewhere here in town. But I would love to have that be the prize, if you will, for winning the survivor league and for winning the college football pick 'em. The only caveat I'll say in all of this is if I do win, both leagues, I don't know, I guess I'll just play golf with myself, which I'm totally fine to do. - Yeah, and we'll get that on video, just you being lonely and gloating, holding your little imaginary trophies. So that will be entertaining in its own right. But yeah, that is essentially what we're laying out for you here, still workshopping the travel piece of that, how we're gonna get you on various golf courses. But I think the headline is sign up and play these things because you could be teeing it with Smiley when this whole football season, both football seasons are said and done. - Yeah, we're firing up the chat. - Yeah, we're firing up the chat. That's also one of the works. We got some, we got Jax on the case, working on a few places where we can-- - What side are we using for that? - I don't think it's a site as much as it's a platform. - It's a platform. - Jax has a Discord in the works. I guess you could call it a nap. I mean, I guess it is also a site. - I'll go to Discord on Google and that's how it works or what? - Yeah, I think I'm, this is great. We're just laying it a lot here on, it's just live figuring this thing out. But you can go, I believe, to Discord as a website, but it's like one of those things that prompts you to download an application that you can put on your Mac or I guess your PC. And then you can just pull that up and then it's got all sorts of various-- - That's where our group chat's gonna be. - That's where our group chat's gonna be, right? For the college football pick 'em and survival league. - That's the plan. But I mean, you've just heard us lay out the plan for how this league's gonna go. So this is all in theory. And we'll see what it looks like in practice. I mean, look, here's the deal. The worst case, you sign up, you play a bunch of games, you win this thing, and we figure out how to get you to play around the smile. That's worst case. Best case, you meet a bunch of new friends on the internet, talk football, find a way to pass the golf off season. And we're all in a better place when we turn the calendar and we're in Hawaii in January. - We are one really big goal, or at least the goal that I have is that we have such an organic audience. We love, I've been on the road this whole year out at golf tournaments and just so many people have said, "Hey, love the pod, love listening." And I think it's just a way for us to continue to get to know all of you. You obviously listen to Troy and I a lot just talking about our daily lives. I'm sure there's many of us dealing with a lot of the same stages of life. And then a lot can relate to all of our golf stuff, but we wanna just continue to grow and knowing you guys. And I think, why not? Pick 'em, Survivor League, these just seems like easy ways to get some good quality trash shot going on and also to get to know you guys, hopefully off of usernames, that'd be cool to meet somebody on the course and be like, "I'm Ninja Turtle 44." Like Ninja Turtle 44, my dude. That's kind of like what I'm hoping to get out of this. - Ninja Turtle 44, nice to meet you. I'm the big Butterburger. So good to finally make your acquaintance. - No, wholeheartedly agreed. I think this is, it's been a year and a half, I guess now, since the show's begun and we've done a lot of audience building and now it's time for us to kind of connect with you all on a deeper level. So we're looking forward to that. - Well, we get our guys that are usual YouTube commenters and we appreciate you guys. - Cheers. - Y'all are the OGs. I think it's like OG. - OG Jack. - OG Jack. - That's our guy. - That is always there. - If he's not in the Survivor League in the pick 'em, I'm gonna be so upset. Because we have some people that definitely are really good about commenting and which we appreciate any time anybody comments. It just helps the YouTube kind of grow. We want to reach more and more fans and yeah, so that's the play in this year is, I mean, shoot it. I mean, we even got into a championship talk. Yeah, I'm sure all of these people are like, "Are we gonna do this?" We're gonna talk about this. I was right there, man. - Hopefully the audience is so devoted that they made it 15 minutes into this podcast and we haven't said a word about golf and they're here now and that's what we're about to do. But yeah, so let's get right into that. You were on, we were on, both of us were on side at the beginning of the week. And then you obviously through the weekend, had another great Fridays of Smiley happy hour where we had JT join the show of course. But then we had I think Sam Burns, a Wyndham Clark bomb in the set, a ton of fun there. And then going on to the weekend, watching the conclusion of this tournament. So as you might already know, Scotty Scheffler is your FedEx Cup champion with the strokes adjusted, the starting strokes. He finishes at 30 under, followed by Colm Orakawa at 26 under and to hit the Gala at 24 under, that's one we wanna get into because he is only at 24 under by virtue of a penalty he called on himself out of the third bunker on the third hole on Saturday. So he finishes two shots behind Colm Orakawa and then a group at T4, Russell Henley, Adam Scott, Xander Schopley all at 19 under. We can get further down the board as we get into the show. But let's just kinda start with just overall impressions of Scotty's win, how he, you know, it got a little bit close on Sunday, got down to a two shot margin after a shake out of a bunker. He quickly, you know, got those shots back by virtue of a number of birdies in a row. So just maybe just reflections on Scotty's week, Scotty's year and then digging a little bit into the course itself, how it played, how it played this year and how we think it's gonna play in future years as the grass is, everything we talked about heading into the week is that sort of takes hold and the course matures a little bit. - Well, we're talking about it all time year. Scotty, Chef, we're just tied the knot on a year that I think we will always refer back to over, you know, the next couple of decades talking about Scotty, Chef was year in 2024. That's how good it was. I don't think we're gonna see anything like this for quite some time. I don't think even Scotty's gonna be able to potentially repeat what he was able to do this year. Maybe he will, but it would be a tall task because the golf tournament's that he won. I mean, let's just be real here. I mean, to go and win the Tour Championship, you know, you win a gold medal and then you win, I guess it would be six other times besides that, it's just insane. He won against the best players in the world. I guess the only, you know, argument you can make about his year is just that he only won one major championship, right? I think that would be the one thing you would say is that, hey, the US Open didn't really have much of a showing, the Open Championship the same way and then the PGA Championship, he got arrested. So, yes. - Which, by the way, interesting to hear him reference that in his acceptance speech with Mike Turico yesterday. - What did he say, Adam, is that? - Just essentially reflecting on the year, this actually was interesting to hear him say that he'll never forget, or he said, it'll stick with him for a long time, the reception he got on the tee on Friday, I believe it was, right? 'Cause it was Thursday to Friday, like coming straight out of jail, being escorted to the chorus, having an abbreviated warm up and then coming to that first tee on Friday, he said he'll never forget the fan reception he got at Ball Hall that day. And that's interesting to me. You know, of all the things, of all the memorable moments he's had throughout the year, you know, just the worry of how are people gonna think about me now, I have this wholesome image. And then everyone, almost unilaterally being in support of him, you know, coming to that first tee for him, that was one of his most memorable moments of the season. - And this is, and I'll say this for those that have listened to the show for a while, they know how high I've been on Scotty for quite some time now. The first time I saw him, Playgolf since college was at the US Open. This was at the country club. And I just remember watching him that day and thinking to myself, it's like, this is some of the best ball striking I think I've ever seen. But that day is exactly like every other day. It's insane what he's able to do with the golf ball, how high he's able to hit it, how much control he has, and he does it day after day after day. He's quite simply put, I think the best golfer that I've ever seen from my own eyes. And I've played and seen a lot of great golf, but I never, you know, I've watched Tiger play in this era, but I didn't get to watch him besides on TV. So it's hard for me to really say, you know, what I've seen in person, right? Like if I think I have a much different opinion, if I had been on the call or played golf with Tiger, do it during the years, you know, 97 through 2010, whatever the years are. I would probably say, you know, obviously like Tiger is the best player I've ever seen. Well, I just haven't seen it with my own eyes as much as I've seen Scotty. I've seen him play a lot of golf, and he's the most impressive player dive ever witness. It's just hard to put into words how elite he is with his ball striking, how good of a driver he is. He has speed, he's so accurate with the driver as well. And now the potter is a, it's a strength at times. And it was this week his performance and just his resiliency from a mental aspect, you know, to be in that bunker on eight, which I felt like was the easiest shot he had the entire day. It was like a simple chunk and run bunker shot. And then he shanks it and makes a bogey. And then gets up on that next hole and hits it to four feet, makes birdie, birdies 10, hits a brilliant shot at 11, makes birdie. And then it just, he just hit down, he was knocking out flag sticks ever since that moment. And there was a lot on the line for him. I really felt like he had everything to lose after that shank. And I think everyone watching probably felt like his wheels were spinning and expected, you know, Colin Morekalda have a really solid chance on the stretch. And within 15 minutes, they're like, oh, never mind, Scott, he's winning. - It's, I'll start by saying it's really heartening, encouraging to see that many of the world's best players have the wedge shanks right now. Like a lot of people are talking about that, that the wedge shanks are very common for a solid, it's a real epidemic right now. And I took some part of that. I also really enjoyed his answer to someone asking about why he shanked it. Claire Rogers made the comparison for us, which was hilarious to the, I believe it was Torion Prince. I'm probably butchering his name, the Baylor forward that was asked March Madness, you know, several years ago now about, you know, how did Yale out rebound Baylor? He said, well, grab the ball. And then when you get more of those in the other team, that's how you have more rebounds. And Scotty's answer about the mechanics of his shank was very similar to that. I think, first of all, let's kind of start with some stats. Let's paint a little picture of Scotty's year. Scott Kyle Porter at Kyle Porter CBS on Twitter and X, as a fax machine, he's got us, the first of a few we're going to read from him. Scotty Sheffler earned north of 62 million in total PGA tour money this year, which is 3.3 million per tournament, 830,000 per round, 12,000 per shot, and assuming a four and a half hour round, 3000 per minute on the course. Good work if you can get it. So I'd say that that's pretty office, you know? Yeah, it's not too many bad ones in there, even though, again, it's amazing, I think, and to go back to the entire conversation, it's amazing to look at that year and think, man, it could have been more. If he doesn't get arrested, the PGA finishes T8 there, that could have been a second major. You know, if, I don't know how US Open was never, he was never in the fight there. And I don't think, I don't think he was very comfortable with that course either, and he said as much. And I think Open Championship was a real draw situation. You know, the Open Championship is all about making the most of whatever your draw is. And he, I thought he did. Him and Xander both were in that same kind of area of the golf course during the times. And Shafler, he was in position, just wasn't able to kind of get it going, and just missed too many plots on the weekend. Yeah, and I think, you know, in that sort of, the tiger comparisons, it feels a lot to me like Michael Jordan, like a Michael Jordan LeBron conversation, where I don't, it's even, it's hard to compare eras, because we get so far into the, well, the Michael Jordan, the Tiger Woods area, there was weaker competition. And so it's, I mean, I don't know how to handicap that really, and you know, equipment was different. But I think that what's undoubtedly true is that both Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods impacted their respective sports in such a massive way, increasingly participation at grassroots level, having a bunch of kids growing up wanting to be like that person, that you have a bunch of Scotty Sheffler's coming up, or LeBron James coming up, who, you know, watched this sort of predecessor and wanted to model their game after that guy. And so we're now in an era with Scotty, where, you know, it's tough to compare to Tiger, and you look at all these stats with Tiger, that no one's ever going to attain that level of dominance ever again. But I think what he's done, and especially this year in shoring up the putting, is nothing short of incredible. And it's also, you know, you kind of wonder, where's that going to stop? You know, I think next year we'll see, we'll get into some stuff a little bit later in the show. Ludwig Oberge, it's been confirmed he's going to undergo a procedure to repair a torn meniscus in his knee. Todd Lewis is reporting that. Kind of explains the latter half of his season. That's a guy that would really kind of outline as a potential foil for Scotty Sheffler in the years to come. Sandra Schofly, of course, coming on strong, kind of the middle to the end of the season, and winning two majors, you know, putting himself a contention. He's a guy that if he continues to form next year, could be a foil for him. But, you know, it's tough to kind of look at this right now and say, where does Scotty's dominance, you know, in? And to me, it feels like we're had rolled this right into next year, and maybe he does pick off more majors. - Yeah, no, totally. And I'm just looking at just the OWGR, just I wanted to see like how big of a lead he had on the next guy, his average points. And I don't really, I'm not probably good at knowing what a good average is in this, just besides seeing what I'm looking at. So I see Scotty Sheffler is an average of 18 points. Xander is at 11 points, and then Rory's at eight, Collins at six. So basically looking at this, you know, Scotty Sheffler has a 10-point average lead on the third ranked player in the world. And I'm just kind of thinking to myself, right, if Rory had, I mean, he can't even like do the math because if he had a 10-point lead over something, well, he only has eight points, and he's third in the world. So it just goes to show you how big of a lead he has as the number one player in the world. He could probably play the next nine months and still remain the number one player in the world. That's how good it is. But we are not OWGR people. So just so all the folks that are shaking their head. We don't, we're just using this as a guideline. It's not the truth. - Right, and I think what will be interesting to see is, and you could even hear it a little bit in his remarks after winning yesterday, is just what the offseason looks like for him. Because we've seen the past two years, Presidents Cup at Quill Hollow, where we've talked a lot about how he didn't play his best golf there. And it's really Sam Burns who played really well in partnership with him and kind of carried some of those partnerships, even though they didn't necessarily win all their matches that Sam was the stronger of the two in those pairings. And then of course, we saw what happened at the Ryder Cup last year. Rome also not his best golf. Now you add in the variable of, you finally get some time to hang out at home with your wife and your son, you know, you're off the road. Now you get to watch Bennett grow up a little bit. So I assume he's gonna take some time away from the course and maybe kind of relax and recharge a little bit. - Yeah, just Presidents Cup and the tail wrap. - Maybe he plays Euro again. You'll win there last year? I assume he'll probably play that. - Yeah. - I don't think he's playing Zozo. So yeah, he's probably gonna be chilling this fall. - He's better over here. - Now at T-Mobile, get four 5G phones on us and four lines for $25 a line per month when you switch with eligible traders, all on America's largest 5G network. - Minimum of four lines for $25 per line per month without a paid discount using debit or bank account, $5 more per line without auto pay, plus taxes and fees and $10 device connection charge. The phone to be at 24 monthly bill credits for well qualified customers. Contact us before canceling entire accounts to continue bill credits or credit stop and balance on a required finance agreement too. Bill credits end if you pay off devices early. ctmobile.com. - The $5 meal deal at McDonald's means you get to pick between a McDouble or a McChicken. Then get a small fry, a small drink and a four piece McNuggets. That's a lot of McDonald's for not a lot of money. Get the $5 meal deal today. Prices and participation may vary for a limited time only. - Yeah, and then we'll see what version of Scotty shows up at Kapalua. - He's got a lot of time to come on a podcast. - He does have a lot of time. You know, wouldn't hate if it was this one. So we'll have to keep an eye on that. Put a little tab in that. I think the kind of playing this forward a little bit too and looking at-- - I never got to your E-Slate question though. - You did never get to my E-Slate question. - Sorry, it was kind of a loaded first question. - There was a lot packed into that first question. I mean, it is a little strange, you know, being back at home in front of computers. - Get a little excited. - You just got a little excited. - I just was like, I was trying to catch up. We did a lot of college football talk. I was trying to catch up on golf topics. So yeah, I mean, and I think that it's interesting, this first year at E-Slate, just to kind of set the table a little bit is, we saw pins kind of in the center of the greens on Thursday, you know, just accommodating for the fact that they were really firm greens. And I think the scoring, you know, we saw Scotty get to 20 under, you know, without the starting strokes this week. Colin Morekawa got to 22 under. So scoring was definitely there. I just wonder going forward, you know, your thoughts on just the way this course played. And do you think we're going to see it like this in future years? Are they going to be able to kind of do different things with this course? You know, once that, you know, that grass, that Bermuda on the green takes a little bit better. - I was always kind of an East Lake Hater when it came to just like watching it on TV. And this, you know, seeing the restored golf course, I really liked it. It's a golf course I'd want to play, especially just mainly because of the playing conditions. The Zoysia fairways, the prism like approach grass around the greens is so fun to play off of. I had a couple of chips with Johnson Wagner's wedge on 16 yesterday and it was so pure. And I just liked the layout. I think it's got a really nice mix. I'll say this about just East Lake. Yes, I think it's a really good golf course. I think it's worthy of having a tour championship, maybe in a rotation. I just don't, this golf course to me without any wind, with how hot it always is going to be this time of year, everybody kept talking about how the fairways seem like they were easier to hit. And there's way less trees. So there's a lot less trouble to get into. And around the greens that grass that I was talking about, just that prism Zoysia, that used to be grainy Bermuda. It was much, much easier to get up and down this week, just because guys aren't worried about that grain in the leading edge. I think most of the time when guys were around this golf course, they spent a lot of time chipping just to get comfortable with the grass. And now it's that prism Zoysia, which is so pure, you just didn't see as much hiccups this week. And guys getting up and down from a lot of different places. So when you throw no wind, you throw a lot of wedges because of the how warm it is. And then when guys drive it offline, instead of having to pitch it back into the fairway, because of tree trouble, they're able to play at the green. You know, that all becomes wide depending on how heavy the Bermuda rough is and it was spotty in places. So yes, I really liked the renovation or the restoration that Andrew Green did. But with all that being said, I just think that the tour championship and just the playoffs in general just need reimagined. Because, you know, if Scotty Shuffle doesn't shank that bunker shot and Colin doesn't get up and down and doesn't get the two shots, that day was going to be a snoozer. And I don't think that's what the playoffs should be all, all should be about, right? I think we need to identify the season long race to the FedEx Cup at the end of the year. Or whenever you deem it, you know, if it's at the FedEx St. Jude, like just set a cap at that. And then let's find a way to really get creative, to make every single day impactful and meaningful for not only the fans, but for the players. If you like, when they wake up every day, it's a new challenge they got to go get. And I'm not saying that this system is broken, it's just that I think we can do better. Like there is a way in which you can have thrilling finishes with this and I've loved covering the FedEx St. Jude, the BMW and all the storylines that we've had. And they've been great. But when you get to the tour championship and you have this starting scoring format, I just think that it could go wrong a lot more times than it can go right. - I agree completely there. And there are two pieces of what you just said that are both worth unpacking. One is venue selection. And there have been a lot of, you know, lines of thought or proposals that, you know, suggest. I think Tron Carter of no laying up has been the most vocal about saying, hey, let's get some of these West Coast swing courses and use at the end of the season. Like let's do a tour championship at Pebble Beach. Don't necessarily hate that idea. I think you have to kind of dig deep into that and acknowledge the realities of sponsors and, you know, things that fund charities and fund the tour and where they're aligned and, you know, how you're gonna make that whole puzzle. If you're gonna make Pebble be the end of the year event, what are you doing with, you know, Eastlake Foundation and Coca-Cola and the city of Atlanta and where you kind of moving them in the schedule and does it align with, you know, the health of Bermuda grasses and spring fall. I don't, so that's one whole thing. You start to lead us into format, which I think is the big discussion that everyone's having, you know, coming out of this. And I just love to hear, 'cause I definitely have thoughts about this. We talked about this before the show, but what does an ideal world look like for you in terms of a both rewarding season long performance and then an entertaining postseason structure? 'Cause that kind of, the points you're making, Wyndham, Memphis, and, you know, BMW, or, you know, so St. Jude and BMW Championship, all three of those have compelling storylines. It's just when you get to tour championship and you separate everyone with strokes, where you can start losing some of that intrigue. - Well, I'll get there in a second. I think just to kind of finish that conversation on, like Pebble Beach, for instance, for the tour championship, I'm hitting you with double questions today. - Yeah, no, I just, I feel like I still wasn't quite finished with that thought there. And you know how much I believe that we should be going to Chicago, New York, Boston during the playoffs, because I've played in the playoffs, I know what these crowds are like, and the support and that those events get are fantastic. I just feel like for our playoffs, like we have to be in the big cities with good weather. You just like, I love everything about the Memphis event. Like you have FedEx there, you have like St. Jude is just, it's awesome the fact that, you know, you have these patients that come out on the 18th, it is a great event. But I think personally that event should never be when it is. I think it should be in the springtime. You know, that event should be in the spring. It should be a signature event. Have it be the first signature event for all I care? But Memphis, that crowd, like everybody's dying out there. It's so hot and they're just trying to cram it in there because FedEx is paying the most amount of money. And I get that they want to be a part of the playoffs. They want like the more, you know, drama. But personally, I just think that that Memphis being won and then Atlanta and other like, I would love to play Eastlake every year, but I don't want it to be, you know, I think it should be somewhere like a Wells Fargo where Eastlake can have their own event. And then every now and then be a host of a tour championship and then have it rotate, you know, whether it's East, North, South and West and Eastlake be the course that gets it in the South, that'd be great. But I just, I haven't gotten past the point of that our playoffs should be probably played in Chicago, LA, New York, Boston, like these big cities because why not, right? It just seems, it seems so obvious to me. - I agree with that. Like even as you're saying that, and to be fair, the BMW-- - But Denver was great. - Denver was awesome. - Denver was awesome. Great crowd. - It's a good course. - We're calling Olympia Fields. That's Chicago adjacent. That's Chicago enough for us, right? - Oh, 100% yes. - And Kays Valley is like Baltimore adjacent. So, you know, we're doing some of the city things. - Well, BMW doesn't, I mean, they go to different courses, different venues. That's what we're looking for. And I think, unfortunately, the tour is, they're just in this handshake with Coca-Cola, the FedEx and just all these big, big sponsors that are paying a lot of money that yes, the players are probably, well, you know, if the tour comes in and say, well, like we don't, if we don't play there, they're not gonna pay you 20, 25 million dollars if you win the golf tournament. It's like, well, okay, we'll play Atlanta. You know, it's a, it's a two edge, it's so much sword there, right? 100% and I think that there are, you know, what we all want to see. And there's like merging that with the realities of corporate sponsorship and available venues and timing because if you're trying to take these things and move them to a different part of the year, it's finding the part of the year that gets rid of what's wrong with these events, which is, you know, it's insanely hot and humid in both Memphis and Atlanta in August and even leading in the September. And that makes things very difficult. But if you're, if you're trying to move that into the spring, which to me, that'd be my first choice. Cause, you know, especially with Bermuda surfaces, you need time for them to come out of dormancy and get healthy unless you want to look at like an overseas sort of setup. So now we're talking about- - That golf course with wind and like not being hot changes a lot. You have those wedges turn into nine and eight irons. - And so, you're looking at like the Florida swing, Texas swing part of the schedule in and around the masters and the players championship. Not saying it couldn't be done, I just think, you know, it would, you really need to look at the entire schedule and almost have like that, you know, Charlie Day, it's always sunny, like, yarn board of like where, this move, the events moving here because we want to use this venue at this time of year and figuring out what makes the most sense for, because I think there's a great opportunity in the summer and the hot months when it's hot in California, Texas, Florida, the South to do a bunch of these, you know, both New York City adjacent locations, Midwest location, Chicago, places like that, where you could hit some of those big cities and larger, you know, fan bases and do it in a way that also, you know, makes it, the course will be in perfect condition. - I think there's only argument about how Memphis and East Lake play, you know, that it's Bermuda rough. And Bermuda rough really doesn't come in until shoot, sometimes even June, it's like, you know, in the South. Like July is like really when it starts to kind of come in where it's like, oh, you know, I don't have a perfect lie every whole. So that's the only other thing about those two courses in particular. - And then that conversation is nature versus the NFL. You're like, really, like that's what we're talking about is it's tough to, the reason why the tourism play past, you know, the beginning of September is because what's starting this week, the NFL schedule and you do not want to compete with the NFL on a Sunday. - So it's such a tough one and it's so layered. And I agree, like in a vacuum with everything you're saying, it's just how do we reconfigure this in a way that finds the happy medium and then let's be fair about the criticism too of like, this is the way we'd like it to be, but also we understand why it's set up the way it is. - Well, and this is where you're going with this conversation was to try to reimagine what the format would be. And if we're keeping with the three tournament format for the playoffs, which it used to be for, which I think three is actually a sweet spot in all of this, that I think just the common word that everybody keeps bringing up is like, how do you make it a match play deal? Because some of the, you know, some of our best events when you look at just, you know, the Ryder Cup match play, right? Presidents got match play, you know, and one that everybody used to like to watch on TV, which is no longer a part of the PGA Tour schedule, which is the Austin event, which used to be the PGA Tour match play event. It was a WGC tournament. Everybody liked it. It was a pool play format that went to around a 16 that, hey, that would be kind of cool. Or if you were able to do some, you know, some guys that make it in the top four that have buys that are not subject to the stroke, like, you know, portion of the qualifying and a tour championship and then do have a pool play format with, you know, similar kind of how it is. I just feel like we've got to figure out a way, like I said earlier, to make it a season-long race and then playoffs. Like we need to identify that these are two separate things, pay the season-long race much more than what they're probably making now and then make the playoffs before, you know, if you make it half and half or whatever you want to do, I mean, these guys can still double dip. - 100%. And so I want to respond to that because I have, I think, a comparison in sports that works. I'll just say, to start things, if you're looking for what a straight-up match play bracket could look like or a pool play heading into a match play could look like, Friday golf's got a pretty cool sketch of what that would look like this season. So you can get a feel for how the tour could potentially set it up and how it could potentially play out. And I think it's, you know, make any criticism you want of match play, but you can't tell me that the potentially anti-climactic nature of that is any worse than what we saw even this weekend where Scotty, essentially, the closest they get is two shots on a Sunday, but other than that, there's really not a ton of intrigue. So I just don't buy that match play isn't, at least as compelling as that, if not more so. Now- - I think we'll get there, like next year we've got a, I really think that you've got to make a change next year. I just feel like you can't do another year of this format. I just think it's gotten too much criticism from the fans, even when you have Scotty Sheff where we're talking about it in the media, right? Like you just don't need that. - Yeah, you don't need it. And you were leading into this a second ago, and here's where my head goes on this is, if you were a fan of, you know, international like soccer, I'm really soccer at any level, but it's particularly like, let's just use the English football structure as a reference point, both the Premier League and the Cup competitions that happen outside of it. There is the Premier League that is played over the course of the entire season, that's 38 matches, and the team with the most points at the end of that is schedule is your Premier League champion. Doesn't matter how many points they are ahead of second place and how anticlimactic that finishes, you're rewarding that team for season-long excellence. And the same way that, you know, you should reward Scotty Sheffler, even if he's a zillion points up in the FedEx Cup, like he was heading in the playoffs, he should be rewarded for being the best player over the course of this season, and which he kind of essentially, that's what he's alluding to in his remarks before the Tour Championship. Separate of that, you can have what in that English, you know, or other European soccer structure are cup competitions. In England, it's, you know, obviously you have the FA Cup, and then at a larger European scale, you have the Champions League, the Europa League. So those things obviously are higher variance. A team can get hot and go and win that thing. And, you know, but you're winning hardware, but it's just, it's, and they're, you can argue about which is more important to win, whether you'd rather win a Premier League or a Champions League, whatever it is, you're rewarding two different types of competition excellence. And that's what I feel like the Tour could do with their sort of structure. And you really wouldn't have to go too far to create something out of thin air. Like, I look at the Comcast business topped in, and I, in some ways, it's weird to say this out loud. Like, I feel bad for Comcast because they have this thing that rewards season-long excellence, yet we hardly ever talk about it because it's like we already have the FedEx Cup structure in place and we're playing it forward towards the playoffs. Like, let's increase the size of whatever the Comcast business tour thing is, make that a big deal for the, you know, maybe even even those purses out. You're getting just as much to win that as you are to win the FedEx Cup playoffs. You know, whenever you want to end that, after a window, after Memphis, make that a big deal. And then you go into this sort of cup competition type deal where you're, you're, you're seeding into match play or you don't run into match play. And, and that's, and that's your, your playoff champion. And if someone comes out of nowhere and beats Scottie Scheffler wins it, okay, that's, that's cool, that's wild. There's some variance there. It's probably intriguing. It's probably compelling television product. But it's not like Scottie Scheffler isn't earning his due for playing the best over the course of a season. - Here's where I see the holes in this, in this, in this proposal is that, yes, I would love to reward the end of the year champion. Like for instance, the number one in the Comcast list would have Scottie Scheffler. That would be the, the, the season long race champion. I, I just feel like we have such an anticlimactic end to our season when it comes to, to this, like it, our, our FedEx Cup points all goes towards that tour championship and the way the schedule is set up right now that players play the Open Championship and their next start that are, are guys are in that top 10 or maybe a couple of guys will play either Minnesota. Most guys won't, world will play, play at a Wyndham, which most of the guys, they won't play. So you, you basically go, you know, have this, this season long race or whatever that you're talking about rewarding the, the, the overall points champion at the Open Championship. It would be the last time these guys play, which is not a PGA tour event. That, that's where I see that that last event. If, if you don't have, 'cause right now that event is just about player eligibility really, you know, and then a couple of guys that are trying to get in the top 10 to make an extra 500K or something like that. So that's, that's where I just see the hole in the argument. It's like, okay, cool. Like that, let's make it a big deal, but your schedule doesn't say that that's what's, what it's going to be right now. Because these guys, they, they plan and plan and plan to where they're Open Championship and then they play playoffs. Now, if you do the Open Championship and let's say you have another signature event after the Open Championship, maybe Wyndham Week, where that would be the last event, where it's like your last chance, like still more amount of points available. But then the next week you have the playoffs. It's like, now you're getting to a crazy stretch for these guys at the end of the year that, guys are, oh God, I mean, it just doesn't, doesn't end. But that's where I see the hole in the argument is that the way the schedule is now. Hey, these guys are playing Minnesota, they're not playing, they're not playing Wyndham. - It's, and it's a fair one too. It all, it did strike me as interesting that we don't have, like the last signature event is Travelers, which is the week after the US Open. And then we're done until we get to the Fedice Cup playoffs, which are elevated purses, more points, but they're not, you know, signature events and the way you see those early on in the year, leading into majors and things like that. I mean, Timmy. - Just me and Ray, what league can you think of where the champion has decided, you know, three weeks in advance? Like where the guys don't even play the last two events. - Well, I mean, like my rebuttal, that would be, you know, look at some of these Premier League seasons where-- - I guess what it's, it's equenched way in advance. - Yeah, it's like, I mean, like, you know, man cities, you know, 12 points up and it's like, okay, we're playing the rest of the year out, but, but what we're, and this, and that's why I say there are parallels here, is like a lot of these Premier League seasons, you get to the end of them and there is no intrigue at the top of the table, but you're looking at the relegation zone, you're looking at, you know, 18 through 20 and that's 17, you know, 16, 15, in a very similar way the way we're looking at that top 70 at Wyndham. - That's where our intrigue is. And that's what we've talked about, that's what we like. I like to see guys' jobs be on the line who steps up, but what we haven't figured out is how to make the top, like, as interesting, I feel like. - Right, and I think at this point it's, you know, it's a tough solve no matter what way you cut it. Let's try match play, especially 'cause now we don't have a match play event on the calendar since it, since, you know, the WGC event in Austin went away. Like, let's give that a shot. - You know, the argument, right? What is it, the player's argument is that, so you're telling me that we determine entire year based off stroke play and then we get to the end of the year and then we're going to determine the, you know, all of this money that we're giving away based off match play 'cause like, in a world in which you look at this year, I'm just going to throw out a name, a guy like Ben Onk could have won the FedEx Cup and won $25 million in a match play thing 'cause he got hot on a golf course that, you know, just beat a guy that he played better than that day than maybe he wouldn't have beat half the field or 20 guys that, that particular day. But match play is such a who you play that day and how you play. - I mean, I guess my rebuttal to that would be to borrow Colin Work, I was a joke on Instagram. It's like, you play all year gross and all of a sudden now we're showing up at it's a net club championship in Atlanta, like that doesn't make a ton of sense either. - No, it doesn't. Listen, there's a lot of arguments and I just think. - That's why I say, you gotta buy in from the players on this. - Which, of course, all this stuff would have to be run through them and you make sure that it works. But that's why I say, so I think Scotty Scheffler made, I think, 8 million this year for winning the Comcast Business Tour. And it's, what is it, is it, is it 30 million for the winner of the FedEx Cup? I think I have that right. - 25. - 25, 25 million. So even it up or make the Comcast Business Tour winner a $20 million purse and make the whatever this match plate version of the FedEx Cup is like payout. - I mean, I'm sorry. Go ahead, $20 million to the winner. Yeah, make the purse larger. However you want to do that. Just 20 million to the winner of the season long deal and then like 10 million or 15 million to the winner of this, whatever this playoff thing becomes. - So the fans don't care about the money. And I think that's something that, you know, every now and then on TV when you're watching, like I am curious about like a $2 million putt, like or a $2.5 million, let's see if for Seth, his two-stroke penalty that he took. Like I am interested in those type of storylines when he comes to that much money because you can't really even fathom it, right? But yeah, I still, there just needs, there needs to be something that I feel like needs to change about it. And we've said this a lot, like we've, they know they need to continue to innovate, right? Like I think the SSG group, them being a part of this and the players wanting the product to be better, the networks wanting it to be better. I think there is going to be a bit of a push to try to make some changes and as we head to next year, whether they get approved or not, that's the question. But just know that there's definitely going to be some action in the bullpen from what I've heard. - That's, I think trying things at this point is a worthwhile venture, you know, like let's just see what works and what doesn't. Same thing as last year with just the swing five and next 10 sort of deal and the signature events and turnover and things like that. And you're heading into the year, a little skeptical of it and then turns out that you get the turnover on the high end. And let's try some stuff, let's see what works. And hopefully that leads to a better product because it's clearly the last two iterations weren't working for the fans. And it'd be nice to get to a place that does work for the fans and also keeps the players happier, makes them feel like it's a fair setup. So we want to keep it on. - I mean, I know we're probably about to change subjects to a couple of different other items who we want to get to like President's Cup. But as we kind of head out on this 2024 season, right? Like I think, you know, it was, if you're with us the whole ride at, I was just kind of thinking in my head, like what were some of your favorite moments and just highlights from just the PGA Tour season this year? - Oh man, golly, that's a loaded question. I'm trying to think back now. I feel like I kind of want to do this as a separate episode to produce this live. - Unless you know, we totally can. I just thought like, you know, if there's just some moments from this year that just stick out like a sore thumb, you know, it was a really fun year in golf. I thought there was a lot of really good tournaments that I didn't think we're going to be compelling were. And I don't really necessarily have an answer because I was on the ground for a lot of these. So I didn't get to experience it as much as a viewer, which is why I posed the question to you as you're workshopping the tour schedule to see who the winners these weeks. (laughing) - Yeah, well, I mean, I think this is deserving of what I'd love to do at some point is, well, plenty of time this off season is kind of go back and unpack this entire season. And winners and losers is probably too reductive, but guys that really kind of, you know, made their mark and did a good job of, you know, either improving their status or playing their way on to the tour, like if we're talking about highlights off the top of my head, Nick Dunlap winning the AMX as an amateur. And that was a massively cool storyline. I think that things like that, you know, are going to be worth recapping in depth and just kind of going through the season and talking about a whole variety of different storylines, but- - I thought the players- - Players amazing sky kind of- - I really thought the players wasn't like just, we had like four dudes that are duking it out. Scotty coming from behind with the neck. That to me was just like a really great build up to that point 'cause you had Wyndham playing so well, you had Scotty playing good, Sander, like beginning to these final groups, hadn't really done it yet. And I just felt like that one with harm in there as well as the fourth guy, just like that. That to me was probably one of my favorite events, but it's hard not to go past the US Open in the Open. I know these are not PGA tour official events, but guys those events were so good this year. Bobby Mack with his dad winning. That was super cool too. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff like that. I'm not gonna do this season justice right now by skimming through the schedule and trying to remember all the things I like, but I will make that list for you and I will get back to you when you do it in the full. - Well, just remember Scotty won a lot of them, so like you can probably just- - What was your favorite Scotty victory? How about that? - That's an easy one. - Ooh, that's a great question. I think it's probably was players. Like I think just the way that whole one unfolded, also 'cause I think I picked him and wanted him to players. So that was a really, I think you were texting me live from the ground that day and you're like, "This cannot happen, this cannot happen." It's like, "Oh, it's happening, it's happening all right." But I mean, I think for me this season with Scotty, and we've talked about this a lot, it was just cool seeing a guy that is so phenomenally talented and the best ball striker since Prime Tiger both finds something with his putting and it feels like it's gonna give him some consistency going forward. And also become a dad for the first time as we talk about this a ton on the pot. I think those two things were the coolest for me just this year for him, because of course you're rooting for the guy. Like you don't want a guy like that to just toil with that struggle forever. And so it's nice to see those two things happen for him in a way that he clearly is two very, very important areas of his life. But that was a fun subplot for a while where it's like, "Hey, are you gonna leave the masters if you're leading and go to the birth of your size?" I was like, "Yeah, absolutely. I don't care when it happens." So yeah, it's, I mean, players is probably my favorite one for that reason, but I even say kind of towards the end of the season. Again, not a PGA Tour win, but how much that Olympics win meant to him? - That was gonna be my answer with the Olympics. - Super cool. - The Olympics was mine. ♪ He's been up on here ♪ - After investing billions to light up our network, T-Mobile is America's largest 5G network. Plus, right now you can switch, keep your phone, and we'll pay it off up to $800. See how you can save on every plan versus Verizon AT&T at T-Mobile.com/KeepAndSwitch. 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So let's just quickly go over each of this, the set rosters, the qualifiers. On the American side, Scotty Scheffler, Sandra Schofle, Colin Workawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantley to hit the gala. On the international side, Hideki Matsuyama, Sung J.M., Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day, and Ben On. And Todd Lewis reporting today that that international team scheduled a play of Royal Montreal to get there. They're on a little scouting trip right now. Getting to know the chorus, building some unity. So it'd be interesting to see who is part of that trip. Is there any tips as to who's gonna qualify? - I saw I did see as I was pulling out of the gates of Eastlake on '18, like this van with people getting loaded up in it. And I saw Ben On and he's obviously on the team. I saw another player as well get on this van and I was like, huh, that's kind of weird. That's, you would think that volunteers typically take, they put all of the luggage in a player's courtesy car typically and drive that player to the airport in their courtesy car. This was like this big van. And so I was trying to figure out, I was like, what would this, this is different. Like, this is like one of those big, you know, sprinter vans that they're putting all their luggage in. I was like, huh, what if this is a little international team thing? Maybe these picks are already made. And so I've heard some rumors about somebody who's not getting picked. And I guess when I do my projections in my team, you might find out who one of those players might be. - Well, so let's start on the international side of things and I have to preface that. But again, by, I don't know if you wanna share this or not, but there's been yet another breaking piece of news related to the number one player on the international team. And yeah, the I have craze continues. I mean, it's like, at this point, it's not even breaking news. So we all know Hadeki Matsuyama loves IHOP. That was your other international team scoop of the week, where you were just, you were all over the Hadeki IHOP beat. - Yes. If you listened to an episode, I think it was Wednesday, our Wednesday episode from the tour championship, you would have seen me talk about how I ran into Hadeki's translator with a bag full of iPod and also just drink carrier with these big gulps with IHOP printed on them. And then Sunday, as I got my luggage, I'm heading down to this parking garage elevator and I see, I'm waiting for the elevator to turn around and I see the elevator to go up to the rooms. And I see when it's somebody from Hadeki's team with three massive bags of IHOP. And I said, you've got to be absolutely (beep) me. (laughing) - It's, I think at this point, they're trolling you. That's the only explanation. - How much IHOP can one guy eat? - I mean, apparently a lot of it. And this is something that I think we need to, again, you know I'm pushing for the off season IHOP meal with Hadeki. We'll have to talk to their team. They seem to have been enjoying the fact that we've been all over the IHOP beat. But let's just hope that there is IHOP and Montreal 'cause he's going to need a lot of it that week to keep him fueled up. But let's, okay, so let's international team. - Who are you projecting as your six captain's picks? - Okay, as I sit here and look at this, I just think Corey Connors is going to be a no-brainer. Cam Davis is getting picked. I think Minwily at nine, where he's sitting right now, I don't think he gets picked personally. And Christiane Bezane-Hute, I think he's going to get picked. Taylor Pendreth is definitely getting picked based on how well he's played the second half of the season. Nick Taylor, this is the one that I've heard potentially is not a pick. And that one to me would be absolutely shocking. This is the player that I feel like has hit the most famous shot in Canadian history at the Canadian Open last year, sinking that long pot. Now, this may not be true. This is just a rumor I heard that he's not getting picked. I think Seawoo Kim gets picked. So, how many do I got there? I got one, two, three, four, five. So, there would be one other player getting picked. So, you're looking at either Minwily, Nick Taylor, Adam Hadwin, and maybe like an Eric Van Royen, maybe Mackenzie Hughes, good putter. But this is just what I heard that Nick Taylor maybe wasn't getting picked. That would shock me. I hope he's on that scene because I think he should be. I don't know who you pick, to be honest, if I personally thought it was gonna be Nick and thought it's kind of a no-brainer. I think Seawoo Kim is a no-brainer in my mind. So, I don't know, what do you think? So, here's who I'd be picking if I was in my gris position. So, I'm kind of looking at these things and obviously pods have been in vogue in recent years. And I'm also looking at this from the perspective of, it's been very difficult for the international team to win these Presidents' Cups. So, we gotta try some stuff. We gotta throw some stuff at a wall and see what sticks, right? So, if I'm looking at the Canadians, I'm thinking like, what's gonna give my team the most energy, the biggest bump? It's like the maximum out of Canadians possible. So, I'm taking four of them. I'm going Corey Connors, Nick Taylor, Taylor Pendreth, Adam Hadwin. Give me all four of them. Because I just think that you're gonna get more crowd juice that way you're gonna get people back in the team. - I don't disagree with you. - And I think you either go two or four, like three's almost a weird number for me. It's like, give me, I wanna be able to send out if I want to depending on how the sort of pairings go. I wanna be able to send out to at least two Canadian teams if I need a little energy bump. So, taking four, I think worked for me. Or splitting those four guys up and having a little bit of Canadian support across four different groups. That would help, I think. So, that leaves me with two additional captains' picks. As you all know, we're very partial to Minwalee on the show. I will not leave Minwalee at home. I think he's a budding star. I know that maybe the season didn't finish the way he wanted it to, and just the season itself was he had some opportunities to play his way in and play one signature event. And maybe just didn't play the way he wanted to. But I still think this is a guide that you want to play in these types of events as he continues to grow and develop. And so, I gotta have that guy. - It'd be fun for him to be on that team. I want him to be on the team. I just don't know if it's gonna happen this year. - Yeah. - He to me reminds me so much of Keith Mitchell. Like just they're maybe not like similar players or stat profiles, but they both hit it long. And I just feel like both, you know, just were so close to getting over the hump this year that just came up short. Whether it was just not doing enough to make that next event and the playoffs. And just, I don't know. I feel like both of those two players are much better than where they finished on the FedEx Cup this year. - Well, I think it's, I always think back on these teams to what Jordan Speed said when he was on the show for the first time about how playing in these teams early on. And listen, I don't wanna say unlike Mimouli. I'm not saying Mimouli's played terribly, but like Jordan obviously did a lot to earn his spot on those American teams early on. And then he gets in those positions and that experience gives him the confidence he needs to handle the pressure of trying to close out a major championship win. And I think that if you're willing to take Mimouli, even if there are other resumes that are better, you potentially give him some of that experience, that crunch time feeling for him to make a leap in his career to where now he's a lock on every president's cup team for years forward. And it helps him individually too. That's the way I'd be thinking about it. And again, I'm thinking about this also from the perspective of you probably need to take a few risks on this team if you wanna pull off a massive upset. So that's why I'd be taking him. Now, he's not even my wild card. I've got a wild card for you, okay? Looking at the composition of this team. I'm trying to find pairings for guys. Trying to find some young talent obviously. So you can do a lot of, I gave you a Canadian matchups, right? You got some good Aussie matchups in there. You've got Adam on the team. You've got Jason Day. You've got some Korean matchups in here. Sungjay M, Tom Kim, Benon. You can even mix up a little bit. You can do Broomstick Boys with Adam, Scott, and Benon. And I feel like Tom Kim, Jason Day, pretty happy old luck. You can pair them with anybody. But I need somebody that can play with Hideki Matsuyama that can bring out the best in him. I'm looking down this list. And there's a young star who graduated from the DP World Tour, the PJ Tour this last season. Didn't play great this season, but it's last time out. T3 at the Wyndham Championship. Maybe gets another, I don't know if he's gonna play a nap up but maybe gets another crack at it. Rio, he's sat Sunae, 12th guy on the team, 21 years old. Potential star in the making, Japanese. Let's do this for Hideki. Let's take Rio, give him a little bit of juice, give him a potential partnership to bring out the best in him. That's my wild card for the Nationals. - All right, I'm here for that. - You like it? - Yeah, I like it. I don't know enough about his game to let you know how good he is. I haven't seen him play yet. So I'm just gonna take your word for it. - Well, I think it's a guy that clearly is, like played as well, you know, played well in Japan prior to playing on the DP World Tour and clearly did not there. One on the DP World Tour to earn his promotion to the PJ Tour. And it's honestly, I mean, it's probably not gonna happen. The unfortunate thing that I think Mike where he has to deal with with this international team is what a crowded seven through let's say like 14 or 15 situation he has and making these picks. And there are a lot of deserving guys he's probably gonna have to take instead. But that's, I would lobby for that just as a, let's bed in some new town, let's try some new things, let's get the next generation of this team in a good place. So that's my vote there. So now let's flip over to the American Smiley. I've read to you the automatic qualifiers. - Yeah. - Who you got for your six captain's picks? - Sam Burns is a no brainer to me. He's, I think definitely gonna get a pick. He's an obvious pairing for Scottie Sheffler as well, being that they're good buds. - How about what he did in the playoffs to go from - Yeah. - I think it's 13 to 11 to seven in those standings. Just like went from maybe outside looking into like you cannot leave him off this team. - Yeah, he really did. He actually, he finished 11 under this week. So if you started at even finished T-13 in that format. This is where I think this gets kind of confusing and maybe I think if the US team wasn't already decided, I think that the captains and Jim Furyk and the assistant captains are probably trying to sort through what they saw at the tour championship. And so when you look it down the Swiss, let's look at Tony Final, who's eight. Actually, let's skip one pass to him at Russell Henley, not at nine. To me, he just played his way onto the team. I think he solidified himself on the team at Shot 17 under. I just think Russell is a super competitor, an ultra guy that's a team room player, guy you can pair up with anybody. Really solid, you know, a player that's been inside the top 50 seems like forever. So Russell Henley and Sam Burns are my two walks along with Keegan Bradley, who I think played his way on the team winning at the BMW. Didn't necessarily have a good week this last week. We're just hoping that that it's hard to play a week after you win. But so if we have Sam Burns, Russell Henley and Keegan Bradley on the team, let's look at the rest of the options. And like, who played well, who didn't play well this week? And so Tony Final, Chris Kirk, Akshay Batia, Billy Horschel. Let's just look at those names in particular. Chris Kirk shot three under total this week. Just a reminder, Colin Warkow shot 22 under. Akshay Batia three under this week. Keegan Bradley, two under this week. We already kind of mentioned that we're omitting that. It's hard to play after a win. Billy Horschel, five under this week. And the other person who's near the standings who we didn't mention, Tom Hogi, he's not going to get picked most likely. He shot three over for the week. But let's go, let's stretch past that to the 15th person on the standings. And Justin Thomas, I think he benefited a lot with these guys playing poorly this week and then himself having a really nice week shooting 14 under. Not saying that this event is what gets you picked, but I think it was a really important week for Justin Thomas while other guys are sitting at home like Max Homa and Brian Harmon, who I would have put in a bucket in a category of three experienced players that you feel like are guys that you can go and put out against the international team's best. So Justin Thomas, with all the experience that he has had in these events, and I know last year, I think people were still frustrated by all the picks that Zach Johnson made, I still think when you look at Justin's season, it was very, very close to being a very good season. And when you just look at maybe the points are a little lower than you think they should be, he just didn't, it's just been the majors for him. You know, just hasn't had quite the major season that he's accustomed to having. So, but when you look at all the other events, I still am happy with Justin's resume, how well he's really like been close to playing really well. And you get him in this format, he's able to turn off the brain a little bit and just get into international team mode. We've seen how well he's done in this format. So I think Justin gets a pick, I know it's a long wind winded way of getting here, but Justin, Sam Burns, Russell Henry, Keegan Bradley. So we got two more picks left. And I think they're really difficult to make. I think these are really tough picks. I think Tony Fino is where I lean. I think his ball striking, his ability to be a fantastic iron player. I'm really concerned about his putting. I think that's an aspect that in these team competitions, you've got to be able to make putts. I'm a little worried about that, but I love the fact that Tony Fino in a best ball format, if you've ever played at home and best ball and you're playing it at two versus two, you always like to have guys that are closer than the other guys. And Tony Fino does that better than anybody. So I think Tony Fino gets a pick and gosh, I think that Brian Harmon gets the last pick. Although I could see a guy like Akshay Batilla getting picked because of his ball striking. But to me, if you're picking between Tony Fino and Akshay, which ball striker do you want of those two? And I think you probably take Tony Fino and then Brian Harmon to me is a guy that I just think is a bulldog. We saw it at the Ryder Cup and I want to see, I want to see more of it. - I can't believe it took me this long in the show to gloat over my one and done season ending championship. The next cup. - Yeah. - You were going this whole thing on JT and the starting strokes. And I was like, wait a second. I picked JT this last week. I had a seven shot start. We finished at 21 under. You had Zander and five, you start at 500, you finished at 16 under. So JT, thanks for bringing it home. The inaugural winner of the Smiley Show FedEx Cup won and done championship. But I think that that's very well, where do you land on all that? Do you agree with most of it? Is that, I agree with the JT piece for sure. Like, so I'll just all quickly zip through what I had on my sheet. And first ones, you agree with like Sam Burns lock. JT for me, for all the reasons you stated and just seeing him kind of play his way into form, really going even back to like the Scottish Open was where I first started saying, wait a second. You had that first round where he played really well. Same thing, the Open Championship where he's getting the putter going a little bit. And you're starting to kind of see him seemingly get back to a place of comfort with that. Like the ball striking has always been incredible. We were looking at a stat on T to green stats. This is your correlated to earnings and looking at where JT fell on that list. And you're like, it's crazy that he didn't make more money or put himself in position to win more this season with just how good he hit it to T to green. Now you're starting to see the punting come around. You see a week like this at East Lake and like he's getting it back. So for that reason, and a guy that, you know, even in talking about the major performances weren't maybe his best, really the last two years, but this guy thrives in these team match play settings. Like I think you'd be a fool to lead JT at home, regardless of all the baggage that, you know, exists from last year's picks and, you know, that that was a debacle in its own right. - I was out there and watched JT a lot of play a lot of golf last year at that Ryder Cup, he didn't play bad. - No, not at all. Like he was, he was not the problem on that team. And so, so I think Sam Burns, JT on the team for me, I think I've definitely taken Keegan Bradley as well for the reason that I thought it was so interesting sitting with Keegan at East Lake and hearing him say that when he got the call to be the Ryder Cup captain that within like that first sentence of that phone call, they said, we want you to be the first playing captain since Arnold Palmer in '62, I think it was '62 or '63. And just give me a ride if you didn't get picked, by the way. - And it's, I think Jim has to think of it for that reason. - 100, and I think too, it's like, if that is your stated goal, if you want this guy to be a playing captain next year at Bethpage, then you'd be crazy to not at least let him get some experience being, and I know that the assistant captain thing is a much lesser job and you're really kind of a support system, but at least let him dip his toe in that pool of a little bit of leadership, a little bit of playing and kind of get some experience there. And then I think it just, it helps, even if it's not the same as being the actual captain on the team, you let him kind of feel that out a little bit so he can learn some stuff, maybe even probably alter as approach for Bethpage. So I think-- - 100%. - I think you take him, I think you take Keegan for that reason. Now, you hit on a couple names there with those last few. I would take Tony Fiena as well. I think you outlined that perfectly. Like, you want a guy like that, even if his putting is a little shaky, you want that guy as like a plus plus skill in terms of like distance and long iron play, that, you know, going both ways, you know. - Underrated chipper and bunker player too. Very, very strong in that aspect. So he just, he checks off too many boxes, right? - Right. - Not quite the five-tool player, but he checks off pretty much every single box. - And sticking with a good putter and some of these, you know, team, like, I know it's like he's not gonna, you can't guarantee that in all shot format, he's not gonna putt every time. Like, inevitably, he's gonna have to hit some putts that matter, but, you know, there's a way you can kind of set the sub to protect that part of his game and his positive attributes. I think are two outstanding to leave him home. So Tony would be on my team. Now it comes down to, got two more picks here. And I'm kind of turning in the same direction I did as where I kind of landed on the international team, which is I take Akshay Batilla, because this is a guy that has all the talent in the world. He's gonna be on one of these teams at some point. Why not make this his first sort of opportunity to play on one of these teams? He, you know, if this roster, the way it's constituted, they should be good enough to get a win regardless. And if a guy like that is around all these superstars and a team setting, getting experience, that's gonna do wonders for him going forward. So I don't think this is a no brainer U.S. win, by the way. Nor do I. I think this is becoming more and more competitive, but I think if you're looking at like, I mean, the U.S. will be favored and they'll be favored not by a margin, it'll be heavily favored. Now it won't be as much of a slam dunk, I think it's in past years, but I think that you should be, I'd say it this way. - I'd say the international, wait, we'll just talk about some of the international team, right? Like Hadeki, Sung-J-M, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day, Ben Ott, like these are all really good players. And I think they can, with the crowd on their side, I just feel like the international team already going to Royal Montreal. And I don't think any of the U.S. players are playing anything leading up to Royal Montreal. I think they're gonna be rusty. And I think the international team is gonna say, hey, we wanna win this more. That's why I think it's gonna be a very competitive president's cup. And I think the international team is a really good chance of winning. - 100% agreed. And I think it'll be interesting to see, 'cause a lot of this, obviously, you're playing 12 singles matches on Sunday. And so, of course, Thursday through Saturday matters. They have that extra day in the president's cup instead of three days like the Ryder Cup. But I think a lot of it comes down to like, how are you stacking up 1v1 going down to the bottom of the roster? And that's where I think you get to the end of the international roster, depending on who you take. And I think there's more talent at the end of that American roster. But anyway, who's your last two? I mean, that's where it comes down. - Oxy would be my 11th. And then again, I'm going with a guy where I'm trying to kind of get him some experience 'cause I feel like he's gonna be a star. I take Nick Dunlap. I really would. - He's not getting picked. - He's not getting picked in the same way that Rio Satzuni's probably not getting picked either. But, you know, you're gonna give it. - Who thinks he's gonna get picked? - Who I think's gonna get picked. I mean, I think you listed a lot of good options there. Like, Harmon probably, match play, Bulldog, you know. - Who loves Max Homa? - I think that, you know, Max is a phenomenally talented player. He's going to get it back. But you and I have talked on the air and off the air the past couple of months of just like, he's going through some stuff he's trying to figure out right now. I think it's almost unfair to a guy to ask him to grind through swing changes and clearly not playing as best golf and then go throw him in a match play scenario where it, like, it's all, I'm not saying this is Max's talent level, but it's like drafting a rookie quarterback and just throwing him right in with a bad offensive line or no weapons round up. And it's like you risk doing more damage. Like, for Max, like, I feel like what he needs is some time to kind of work through all that stuff and get to a better place with his game so he can come back next year and play with some confidence. - He's only a player like Max Homa. I can't figure out just getting it off the tee with one shot in three weeks. He's a world-class player. That's just my general opinion is of the opposite note. If I were Jim Furek and say, hey, Max, I'm going to pick you for this team, but the only way that you will be on the team is you have to play in Napa. And it's a term he's played most years but he's not playing this year, I think, 'cause Fortinet's not the sponsor anymore. I would say, hey, you're either playing that event or you're not. And if you don't play, you're not on the team. And to me, like, for guys that you feel like need the reps, that's the way I would approach it if I was Jim Furek, the captain. Like Scottie Shepard doesn't need the reps. But Max Homa on the other hand, like, we need to see more driver reps 'cause if you go look at his stats, the BMW, it's obviously the off the tee stuff is where he's been struggling just with a couple of bad drives around. He hits plenty of good ones, but he hits a couple of wayward ones that when he got out of bounds that tight, like he did at the BMW, some loose shots got penalized, roll Montreal, I'm not as much from what I understand. But if you go look at the, what's what passed the driver? At one point he was losing 11 strokes off the tee, but he was first in approach game. So in this format, you're able to hide a little bit if, you know, a guy, you know, it's like put him on the odd holes. Those are the easier driving holes, no OB and let him hit irons on part three. He's it's like Max Homa's a dude. So let's not forget that aspect about Max and that he's had really nice moments this year. I struggled the second half at times. So if Max was picked, it wouldn't surprise me, but that to me would be the thing if I was Jim, say, Hey, go play Napa. Yeah. Well, and I think the thing that makes it doubly difficult is he has been probably the best, you know, national team player in the past two competitions. President's Cup and last year's Ryder Cup, he's been, you know, two competitions in a row where he's been the guy for the U.S. One in a win and one in a loss, but the standout performer and he's talked about how big, you know, that putt on 18 is singles match. You know, in Rome was so huge in terms of building confidence and, you know, a down year. But this is why to go back to another thing we discussed on the show before we need the Zurich in the fall. Like I would just so love to see Max go to Zurich with a guy that they're theoretically going to partner him with and, you know, make some sort of incentive through sponsorship or how or else to get those guys there as one last tune up and let's see how he's doing with a partner and feeling less stress off the tee when it's not just him. What would be so helpful. What about Billy Horshel? So Billy's another guy where like I, you know, and again, like I'm not saying my picks are what he should do. I'm saying like this is crazy. Charlie got to take over the international, you know, and the American team for a day and he gets to make his crazy picks and go in a weird direction. Cause like Billy very much feels like he nobody's going to want this more with the exception of maybe Keegan Bradley than Billy Horshel. Like he cares so much about these teams and he played well to open championship and obviously played his way to East Lake and it didn't play great this last week at East Lake, but he, you know, - He's a good second half of the year, man. - Great second half of the year. - I just think he's an energy guy and like it's similar to Keegan Bradley. I just think too, like if you felt like Billy Horshel, you like where his game is at and his ability and you see like really good pairings for him through all your, the models that you run and stuff as captains. I feel like then you add it's like, all right, what, besides like, all right, we see him that he pairs well with Sam Burns, we think it's a good course fit. And then it's like, all right, what else does he bring to the team? Oh, he would be a leader. Oh, he would be a high energy guy. He would be a guy that puts your arm around and then that would be totally fine, you know, sitting out matches. Like he, he's, he's a type of player that is, listen, I'll do what's best for the team, like no ego. That's what Billy brings to the team. And then he also, I think if you look at the list of guys that we've been talking about, I would say that Billy has been in more form than any of them. Maybe not so much last week, but I see Billy Horshel in better form over the last couple of months that any of the guys we've been discussing outside of, outside of Sam Burns and maybe Russell Henry. Yeah, I could easily see it being Burns, Bradley, JT, Billy Horshel, Brian Harmon, Max Homa. That would make complete sense. Now, I think there's, there's a part of it too of like, you know, you got to pick to win the competition. You have to, but like, is there less value having a leader like Billy Horshel on a team if there aren't young players around that are benefiting from his leadership and experience, you know, like, is that almost like a wasted attribute? I don't know. But that would be, it just, it's a tough thing. The picks are tough and never be somebody that's right, I mean, there's options on both sides. I think if a guy like Justin doesn't get picked or Tony Feanell doesn't get picked, I think the, you'll look at how they picked these teams and you'll say, you know what? I think they valued putting this week. You know, like being able to make a lot of putts is what this golf course calls for. And then if you go and look at JT and maybe Tony Feanell's putting stats, you'll be like, you know what? The putting hasn't necessarily been there this year. We're going to go with a guy who's, we feel like can make more putts. Now, I don't, I still feel like Justin should be on the team. That's not me being biased as a friend. I just, I just think what he brings, that team is much more than what Tony Feanell would bring. As far as just what he's been able to do in these competitions. But I still, it wouldn't surprise me if Tony didn't get picked, mainly just because of his shaky putting. - It'll be an interesting one. And those picks, as mentioned, Tuesday midday. So that's, that's tomorrow. We're recording this on, on a Monday. And you're either watching this or listening to this on a Monday, or you're watching this on sports grid on Tuesday morning. And those picks are just hours away from being made. So we'll see how we shook out on predictions, but wow, smiley, an hour and a half episode in the, in the game. - We need to. And I feel like there's a lot to get to. I mean, I think the tour championship, the whole year, you know, I think we'll continue to unpack the year because it, if we covered every week, but it really, it, it takes a while to, to go back in the memory bank and try to relive the year and the highlights, the lowlights. But it was a good year for growth for us as a show. I think getting on site so much was really fun. The playoffs was fantastic to be able to get the access from the players. We're going to try to do more of that next year again. We're excited about some fall projects as well, coming up that I think will continue to keep you guys entertained in the fall, where football season, I know is, is king, but we'd like to continue to, to bring you guys new, new content, maybe some new series as well when it comes to the show and our guest. So lots to be excited about. President's Cup is, I feel like we're going to, what do we want to recap all these picks on the President's Cup? We want to get to that next week. - We will get to that next week because the episode you're going to find near feed on Wednesday is from Adam Chernoff, who is, I guess, he is a lot of things, but he is most importantly, at least in connection to this show, he is Smiley's NFL guru. He is like Smiley's guy. - The many guys. - And we taped this several weeks ago, I think this is actually on the front end of Memphis and either between Memphis or Denver, the whole last month is running together for me. But so to understand there are a couple of predictions, we talked about the Vikings quarterback situation, prior to JJ McCarthy's injury. Some of that stuff is ever so slightly dated, but largely, Adam's kind of laying out a lot of things he can help you this season. - God, it was so good, man. - Oh, crubbedding the NFL, drafting your fantasy team, any number of things you can kind of look at heading into the season, Adam was awesome on. So that's going to be in the feed on Wednesday to get you ready for this NFL season. And then, of course, there is no PGA Tour event this weekend. So, we'll react to those President's Cup picks a week from whenever you're listening to this, and then maybe some big picture of season thoughts, things of that nature. But, Smiley, I feel like that just suffices your final thoughts there. Let's do anything else you want to add before we wrap this thing up. - Man, nothing other than-- - Baying in that table. - Yeah, we're still owning one. - We're still owning one. - We're still owning one. - Oh, gosh. But, man, I'm kind of excited about golf season for me. My golf season is just starting around the corner. Had such good range sessions at the BMW. I got to remember what I did, but I really think that I was kind of onto something there. - I love that for you. I love that for you. - I don't remember what it was. I need to start writing these things down. (laughing) - That would probably help. I'm thrilled for you because I am, I got, you know, we've got a couple of projects coming up. I've got member guests in a few weeks, and then I am going to be putting those clubs up for a while once Baby Girl arrives. So we'll, and then breaking it back out in November to come see you in Birmingham. So looking forward to that. - Well, that wraps it for us today, I believe. We appreciate you watching and listening as always. And yeah, chime in in the comments with your President's Cup picks. We want to hear from you. - Yeah. - We want to get you in the mix for football. We want to do more at the audience. - Well, real quick on the way. - Sure. - Remind everyone about the ESPN pick 'em thing. I assume we're going to put stuff out on our socials, but you'll just be able to go and search that on, where do you go and search that on ESPN? - So it's technically a private group, although I could make it public. I'll be honest to saying this is the first time I've moderated one of these groups. So all of these things are asterisk, subject to change. We might flip this over to a public group and just make it easy for anyone to search the smiley show 'cause they're both labeled. But at time of recording, my plan is to push these links on social media, and then you go and click that link and you go into the password, all lowercase, S-M-Y-L-I-E, that's smiley, of course. And type that in, you get into the group and you should be good to go there. And then there's also a locking mechanism that I'm trying to figure out with a college football pick 'em, where basically it makes it so that you can't swap in a better entry once we've started playing. So essentially what's going to happen is-- - Oh yeah, once the game starts, they lock. - So I'm hoping to get everybody in in the next couple of days. Everyone participating, we'll put this little video out, let people know what the prize is, playing golf with you. And then we'll lock that thing up and then we'll be good to go for the rest of the season. That's kind of what I have in mind. - I can't wait to overthink to survive really and be out week one. (laughing) - Yes, I fear I'm going to be in the same place. I actually did a test run for the college football pick 'em and did a pretty good week one. Really deep, pretty good, like 97% of my picks hit. So we'll see. And we're excited to go on this little journey with you this fall. A little football, little golf. - Next and last question on the college football pick up. - Sure, please, this will be against the spread, right? - Against the spread, correct. - Okay, good. Just didn't want this to be some fantasy land, college pick 'em. This needs to be hardcore. How good at picking games, are you? - Yeah, there are three options. They're standard against the spread and confidence, which I don't- - Confidence is dumb. - Confidence is dumb. - Of course it's always 10 out of 10 until you're down 14, nothing. - Yeah, against the spread. That's what we're doing. Even, you know, simple enough. So that's what we got for you. Love the simple little coffee mug. - Out of coffee, so I'm out of here. - Out of coffee, very good. 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Scottie Scheffler is your 2024 FedEx Cup champion, and after three weeks on the road for the FedEx Cup playoffs, Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are back at home recapping the final event of the PGA TOUR season at East Lake Golf Club. Smylie and Charlie discuss Scottie's incredible season, what type of adjustments they'd like to see for the FedEx Cup format, and make predictions for the Presidents Cup captain's picks slated for announcement on Tuesday 9/3.
