It's nice and cozy Under The Covers this week as the guys recap the RBC Canadian Open. Bud Cauley wins his first tournament in 239 rounds.
Matt is on a dream trip to Scottland
Kevin made merch
Dominic opens the door for a comeback in One and Dones
US Open Preview at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Which amateur will excel? Will Scottie Scheffler win the Grand Slam on his birthday and Fathers Day?
Bryson Dechambeau's potential club change??
Transcript
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ Canada, you totally screwed my one and duns. Alright, we're back under the covers. Golf podcast for deep dive each week in the latest PGA tour winners bag. We're your host. My name is Dominic, and we have Matt hailing from across the pond this week. What's going on, Matt?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: That's right Dom, ⁓ just outside my window is the Carnoustie 18th Green. ⁓ Very fun day, ⁓ epic day, can't wait to dive into it. ⁓ Will not eat haggis, it looks disgusting.
Dominic Colangelo: And we also have Kevin with us with a brand new hat. What's going on, Kevin?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, nothing much, Dominic. ⁓ thanks for having me. I'm not in Scotland. I wish I was. ⁓ I would probably be willing to eat Haggis if it got me to Scotland.
Chief Wedge Officer: Okay.
Dominic Colangelo: Ooh, and Matt with the hat change rocking the golfer journal first. But the the coveted under the covers branded hat. ⁓ that's incredible. We got a fun one. ⁓ typically for our majors, major previews, we kind of split that up, but I think we're gonna kind of roll that into one episode. So we're gonna talk about the RBC Canadian Open ⁓ first. So we got Bud Collie. This Bud is for you. We're drinking Budweiser today. ⁓ Bud Collie, wild, wild tournament. ⁓ you know, we were talking about the Canadian Open, ⁓ the course last week, and it's it's an interesting course, very long course, and he really navigated it well. ⁓ it's the first win of his career, which is ending a very long streak. He had 239 starts without a win. also an incredible story out of him too. Twenty eighteen, ⁓ devastating crash that he was in, ⁓ ended up rolling over and and hitting some trees, broke his leg, collapsed lung, six broken ribs. ⁓ I don't know if he actually got him removed or if that was just like a random TikTok, but ⁓ kept playing that that year, which is insane to bounce back that quickly. ⁓ but then some of the you know, health issues started rolling in around 2020. ⁓ so took a three year break so he can kind of fully recover. I did like his mindset about it though. Instead of being kind of down on himself and stuff, he he basically whenever he was home, he wasn't out golfing all the time and he met his wife. So he was like the worst thing that happened to me is also the best thing. ⁓ so really good mindset towards the ⁓ the thing that happened to him. But ⁓ from the hospital bed to the winter circle, very good story about Bud Collie. ⁓ really good round too. What were we all seeing out there?
Chief Wedge Officer: Well, just to touch on on quickly, but Kelly, because I'm not gonna lie, I didn't watch much of it this week. I've been in I've been in Scotland, but ⁓ Bud Colley, he was like a I guess like in junior golf, he was an absolute problem. Like, I mean, he was winning everything. And it just goes to show you like, even if you're like one of the best junior golfers in the world, you're you're not guaranteed. to win on the PGA Tour right off the bat. So ⁓ it's one of those things where like he was rated higher than a lot of the guys coming out junior Jordan Speed, Justin Thomas, like Bud Colley was the dude and he now just finally won. That's pretty bananas.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, ⁓ I I thought we were gonna have a a pretty epic finish for our one and duns, which we we ended up having the exact perfect order there. And Dom got what was due to him. ⁓ but we'll get into one and duns later. The the golf course TPC Toronto added a new addition to our top ten hardest holes of the PGA tour this year. So ⁓ number thirteen became the seventh hardest hole on tour so far this year, which kicked out. Augusta number five ⁓ is now not in the top ten. ⁓ so you know the it's it's a difference of point zero one five strokes between those two. So they're real close, but ⁓ still still cool stuff that ⁓ T PC Toronto's making an appearance. ⁓ you know, there there's a a lot of like close action, you know, early in the day on Sunday, and then like Bud Collie just like took off and you know, pretty much just like commanded until the end and ⁓ the you know his what two putt on eighteen you know seemed like relatively like low stress ⁓ you know compared to what it could have been ⁓ but but yeah congrats to Bud Cauley he you know for for not having a win his ⁓ his career earnings are up to like six sixteen point five million dollars So for not having one, he's made a hell of a career, you know, on the PGA tour amid all of his ⁓ you know, accident ⁓ issues and health issues. So again, awesome stuff with Bud Collie.
Chief Wedge Officer: The hate for TPC Toronto on Twitter is crazy. I mean...
Kevin Spisak: There's hate like every week. Yeah, we we like can't avoid people like hate Riviera, you know, they hate Aranamink. Like it it's nuts. Every week.
Chief Wedge Officer: I was looking at the old course ballot because I didn't win, but I hope I win. There was like four or five tee times that just said, Erana Mink on them. I was like, huh. So that's how you get a tee time at the Old Course, okay? Got it.
Dominic Colangelo: Ha ha ha.
Kevin Spisak: Nice.
Dominic Colangelo: What kind of what kind of hate were they giving on Twitter? I didn't see that much.
Chief Wedge Officer: It was just like the course, like admittedly the court. Well, first people were hitting on the rink, like that whole, like, ⁓ you know, like that, like trying to be the 16th hole or whatever. And like, I don't know, just like the course, I mean, the course is not very good, but like, and, it's because it, it's not going to be like a super firm and fast course. Like it's Canada and you have to like, and I think some of the courses that are good are probably like pretty out there in like, in the middle of nowhere. ⁓ So like this course, think is like in Toronto, which is like the biggest major metropolitan area of Canada. And it's like a decent course. like, of course they're going to play it there. It's about the money. It's not about like the golf course, right?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: feel like there's we kind of talked about it a few times where there's kind of this ⁓ I think elitist might be a good word with golf and like what's good and what's bad. Like everybody has their own judgments and it's almost too harsh of a judgment. But now that I'm saying that, it's more of like the old golf media that kind of hates on these things. So maybe this take is horrible, but it seems like everyone expects every tournament to be the best tournament they've ever seen.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: It it doesn't make any sense. It's a little bit too too much pressure on every tournament.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, a hundred percent. And and then like everyone's like all mad when you've got like too many guys, you know, at the top of the leaderboard close together, and then they're all mad, you know, when someone like runs away with it, like you just can't win. ⁓ you know, Bud Collie clearly, you know, took advantage on Sunday, but ⁓ you know, er in the top eleven, you know, there's a a huge bundle of guys, 13, 12, 11, you know.
Chief Wedge Officer: But that's
Kevin Spisak: There's some close finishes that, you know, ⁓ made a difference of a lot of money for people. ⁓ you know, not necessarily even like the biggest names.
Chief Wedge Officer: But it's weeks like this that I think make the weeks like we're about to have next week at Shinnecock great. Right? Like if every week was like this, then we wouldn't look forward to the US Open and we wouldn't look forward to the Masters or the British Open or the Open. Sorry, not the British Open. ⁓ I made that mistake already over here. Don't say that. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, it's just like, mean, yeah, like if every course was played at Oakmont, if every tournament was played at Oakmont every week, like it wouldn't be special anymore. That's we need, we need the TBC Canada's for what we have in the next couple of weeks. So I think it doesn't, yeah, TBC Craig James. You know, I love me some TBC Craig James.
Dominic Colangelo: T B C Craig James. Yeah, so Bud Collie, lucky break on sixteen is going through the news ⁓ this week where he fans his drive right and hits a golf cart that was just passing through and it stayed in play. ⁓ could have been super juicy, but I mean he was up four strokes at the time ⁓ and s and one by two, but that could have been a little wild, that went O B. ⁓ and then he was
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Dominic Colangelo: He had a pretty cool bunker shot where he like almost fell into the bunker. And the human body is wild and it recovers and heals. But like any movement he was making after hearing his history, I I was just like, is he just gonna crumble? Like, is he gonna get hurt again? Like, I don't want that to happen. But he ⁓ so his scores, we didn't go through these. ⁓ sixty-nine, had a really nice sixty-three on s on Friday, ⁓ and then finished with ⁓ sixty six and a sixty five for a total of seventeen under on the week. ⁓ Kevin, why don't you go through and tell us what he has under the covers?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, so pretty, pretty fun bag. ⁓ love his putter. We'll get to that. ⁓ driver GTS two, so more forgiving head, ⁓ eight degrees. Then he's got the Ventus Black Velicore Plus Six X. So brand new ⁓ version of Ventus Black Velicor. ⁓ pretty common one that we've seen, you know, a lot on tour. You know, Ventus Black is in a lot of bags. ⁓ you know, for someone who's not you know, giant of stature and doesn't have like the fastest swing speed on earth, he definitely can still hit it a ton. So you're looking for the low launch, low spin there with his shaft, ⁓ to pair with a really forgiving head. Then on his three wood, he uses a less forgiving model, ⁓ the GTS three, ⁓ fifteen degree, and he uses the Tensei One K Pro Red seventy TX. ⁓ so the yeah Tensei 1K being, you know, another nicer version of ⁓ you know tenseis are out there in all sorts of different fashions, but ⁓ you know he plays the pro red. And then he goes straight into long irons. ⁓ so this has been that that's something that's a little bit ⁓ uncommon now for ⁓ the players we've been following, having like one fairway wood, ⁓ and no No big hybrid or seven wood or five wood. ⁓ he goes straight into ⁓ utility three iron. ⁓ I don't think we've really said three iron all that many times this year. ⁓ but he's in a more forgiving head style of that three iron. ⁓ he's got ⁓ titles T 250 ⁓ four iron and then he goes into blades for the rest. So ⁓ yeah, I would kind of consider his iron setup to be rather unforgiving ⁓ you know compared to some of the others we've covered. ⁓ so titles six twenty MBs five through nine. ⁓ what you got, Matt?
Chief Wedge Officer: old school. It's old school right like most a lot of guys used to go three wood right into like the three iron right that was like now you see seven wood five wood Hybrid whatever right it just feels like old school where he is of a little bit of an older generation I guess in some ways where he has he goes right into that like low launching Kind like piercing three iron fairway finder almost rather than like hit the seven wood out of the rough club
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, ⁓ you know, shaft-wise on his irons, he's got the Ventus Black ⁓ hybrid 8x for his ⁓ four iron, and then the S300s on his five through nine. So interesting that he's got S300s, you know, versus say like X100s or something else, ⁓ but get a little more launch out of those blades.
Chief Wedge Officer: He's a pretty smooth swinger, like he's not going after it very much it feels like. It's probably maybe why he goes down to the S300s and the Irons or something.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ I was thinking like his swing seemed it it was like interesting that it was like so simple, almost like a Ludwig type of swing, but not nearly as powerful looking. And and but he could still boom it. It ⁓ you know, I'm someone who like doesn't swing out of my shoes even though I feel like I am. And everyone always tells me, you know, like, ⁓ you're you're a smooth swinger and I'm like, Really? 'Cause it feels like I'm like going after it as hard as I can. ⁓ and I I think Bud Collie might be kind of like that. ⁓ you know, he's just a smooth player, very simple swing. ⁓ you know, I wouldn't say his swing looked quite as like sexy as like Ludwigs or or maybe Nelly Cordas, but ⁓ you know, still you know, a a swing that amateurs can ⁓ model themselves after.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, the pop he has off the ball, it sounded really nice too. He d he must just be flushing it perfectly in the middle to get all that power.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Mm-hmm. And then ⁓ moving on to his wedges. So ⁓ frequent return here of the Vokey SM elevens, ⁓ forty-eight ⁓ F grind, fifty two F grind, fifty-six F grind, so it's full soul. ⁓ and then Wedge Works 60 K Star. So Matt, I believe you know a little bit about the K star.
Chief Wedge Officer: Heck yeah, man. The thing is, this is a godsend out of these bunkers over here. ⁓ It's just, gets the ball up out of the bunker, super high, super forgiving. ⁓ It's just a great all around wedge. I think we're seeing more more K-Star popularity almost every week. ⁓ I think James Nicklaus, the YouTuber corn fairy player, went into the K-Star. So that was a, that was a big move. He was talking all about it and yeah, it's just, I it might be one of their best wedges.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: best wedge grinds they make out there. I wonder if they'll ever put it to the public because you have to, again, you have to order through Wedgeworks right now, which anybody can do. So if you're out there and you and you want to test the K-Star, you can go to Wedgeworks and it'll cost you more money than buying a Vokey wedge off the rack.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I I saw them on online for I think it was like two thirty on their website, ⁓ that you could order the K Star and ⁓ I was pondering getting one myself 'cause of going through a little bit of a mental head case of ⁓ wedge stuff right now. Matt just really opened my eyes into all these grinds and I've always been a putter nerd, but now I think I'm morphing into a wedge nerd too.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Man, I like to open your mind and open your face and your wedge as well. You're welcome for that.
Kevin Spisak: Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Let me know when you want to open my shaft too. ⁓ and then ⁓ the so the F grind, interesting that he plays that on three. You know, the F grind kinda ⁓ I think it's described, Matt correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's described as more of like the the full shot grind. You know
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I played in my pitching legend 50. It's just best for full swings. It's not going to dig.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, that's what ⁓ you know, that's what we've seen in other people's bags, but him using it in the fifty six seems curious.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, it seems like he's one of those guys. ⁓ I feel like you're up to like, obviously, there's there's guys that use a ton of different wedges around the greens. And then there's guys that just when I'm around the green, I just pulled my 58. And the reason for that is they just know exactly how to play every different shot with the 58. And they practice it so much that they're so comfortable with it or whatever that higher loft that higher lob wedges and bud seems to be of that nature where he just like
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: Around the green, I'm pulling 58. Doesn't matter what shot it is.
Kevin Spisak: Yep, yep, yep. ⁓ he's got an interesting stamp on it. Do you know what it means, the like I think it's like a Bokey proto stamp on there? Is so it is is his K Star something even more unique than the typical Wedgeworks K star?
Chief Wedge Officer: He probably has like an even custom, know, heel grind on it or something cool too. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, very cool. ⁓ and then his putter is a a pretty sweet one, a little intr you know, goofy to look at kind of from the back, but ⁓ Scotty Cameron Golo seven S one prototype. So center shafted. ⁓ you know, the the Scotty typical, you know, dots on the the back side of the face are like off center shifted to the right. ⁓ so that far left dot is in the middle of the face. I don't I don't recall ever seeing that before. ⁓ I saw it on ⁓ the camera on the broadcast and you know thought that was ⁓ certainly ⁓ something that stands out, but you know, the Golo head being ⁓ a w a wider kind of mid mallet, you know, not as big as the spider, but offer a little more forgiveness and MOI over, you know, a standard blade, feel like a blade, you know, being a full milled head. ⁓ you know, and then the center shafted and all of that is like probably gotta be the hottest equipment, you know, ⁓ buzz here this year. But with you know, with all the lab stuff and ⁓ the you know, the ping with their onset ⁓ putter. ⁓ you know, this wouldn't be considered necessarily a low torque putter, ⁓ but it I guess be lower than than some other options.
Chief Wedge Officer: That was what I was gonna say. It still balances face balance, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yep, yep, hundred percent still face balance. It it could have a smidge of toe hang, but it's not you know, not lie angle balanced or zero torque of any kind.
Dominic Colangelo: Are those dots purely cosmetic or are they weighted to where maybe it it's little forgiveness?
Chief Wedge Officer: It's the mark of a player.
Kevin Spisak: Purely. Yep. Yeah, the circle T is on that left dot. It it's just cosmetic. It's one of Scotty's, you know, calling cards, obviously. ⁓ and then it
Dominic Colangelo: For two or youth only.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, Victoria's son.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: He's got a couple, he'll, they'll, supposedly their stories, like, if you try to like recreate his, his trademarks, like the three dots or like the, the planetary marks that he has, which he does like a planetary thing, like you'll get, you can get sued for it.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Kevin Spisak: I would imagine.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, or some of his like shapes that he does like he has the smiley face one. He has the the tour rat. He has the junkyard dog. Yeah, you'll get if you try to like recreate those shapes, can they can sue you for it.
Kevin Spisak: The dog. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Ask Timu how that's going for them. ⁓
Chief Wedge Officer: Look.
Dominic Colangelo: That's awesome.
Kevin Spisak: And then ⁓ his ball, ⁓ you know, one that's appeared a couple times this year, but not not overly ⁓ making appearances, but the Pro V One X. ⁓ so higher spinning model provid one. Yeah. Anyone?
Dominic Colangelo: That's that's nine winners. It's I think it's nine winners in a row that are titless balls.
Chief Wedge Officer: and number one, Bonga.
Kevin Spisak: Volunteur.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Yeah, RBC ⁓ Canada Open, ⁓ Dominic's dumb question corner. So when it's an open tournament of any sort, like is it specific to that nation? Like only Canada people can qualify, or you can qualify you playing in a Canada tournament, or is it just an open for any open for PGA players?
Chief Wedge Officer: If you're on the PGA Tour, forget what Open means. Like Open doesn't mean anything anymore on the PGA Tour. It's just a historic thing. So like the Canadian Open was always called the Canadian Open. The Genesis, you know, the Genesis Open or Elv- Invitation. Like it's all just the PGA Tour now. Now, do they give more sponsor exemptions to Canadian players for this very tournament? Absolutely. Yes. But...
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓
Chief Wedge Officer: There's no, it's not like open. It's like a PGA tour event.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, and I think that's just like a naming convention like like the Genesis we talked about before is considered an invitational, even though it says open in the name.
Chief Wedge Officer: Whereas But like even like like the US Open is is and the and Open Championship are probably the truly only like true open tournaments because you can actually just like go try to qualify for it.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha. Okay. That answers my question. Yeah, because there's a there's a good amount of ⁓ news now where it's people qualifying, and that's for the US Open. So I just didn't I wasn't sure if there's any for like this one, but that makes way more sense. But ⁓ getting into it, you know, just kinda doing some highlights about the the tournament. ⁓ Kevin, your boy, Wyndham Clark, is he is he getting more is he getting more likable?
Kevin Spisak: It's Matt's boy. Wouldn't say that. H his putter makes him a little more likable, but ⁓ it he has been on fire. ⁓ you know, the last couple of weeks. He's been at the top of the leaderboards every week.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. And he wore the Jack Hughes hurt ⁓ jersey during the ⁓ the rink. Yeah, that was pretty funny.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, that was pretty sweet. And then he did the, you know, I can't hear you after he made the birdie on that hole. It was pretty sick.
Chief Wedge Officer: I think his PR team's like, window, go buy that jersey and put on that thing. His PR team's doing pretty good these days.
Dominic Colangelo: It is ballsy too.
Kevin Spisak: I feel like with h your love your love of Patrick Reed, I feel like you would like also love Wyndham. I don't know how you how you don't like him.
Chief Wedge Officer: Patrick Reed can win us a Ryder Cup. Wyndham can't win us a Ryder Cup. That's where the love and hate ends. Wyndham can only... Allegedly.
Kevin Spisak: US Open winner? Ha ha ha.
Chief Wedge Officer: Did you not hit him? He hit that like wifey that wipey fade on 18 at LA that wasn't even he didn't deserve to win that USO.
Dominic Colangelo: Does that you still want it?
Chief Wedge Officer: That wasn't a real US Open because the fans at the members of the LA Country Club were buying all the US Open tickets so the public couldn't come in. So it doesn't count as a real US Open. That was the wildest story.
Kevin Spisak: I forgot about that. I forgot about that.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Then they came out with all the all the tax stuff going on with LA country clubs too. That was a wild read.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, how they do they? They don't pay taxes. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, ⁓ Wyndham in twenty twenty four, he made it to number three in the world golf rankings in April. And then he dropped like as low as like ninety-seven recently. ⁓ you know, so he hit kind of a roller coaster going up real fast and then falling off real fast, and now it looks like he's on that that roller coaster back up. ⁓ right now he is ⁓ world golf thirty-fourth.
Dominic Colangelo: Where's he at now? Okay.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, FedEx Cup eighteenth.
Chief Wedge Officer: Kevin, if you believed in Wyndham, you'd pick him for the open this weekend.
Kevin Spisak: I heard I used them.
Dominic Colangelo: I think we'll we'll allow that if you wanted to choose them.
Chief Wedge Officer: I would have, if you want to pick Windham for the US Open this weekend. ⁓ yeah, okay.
Kevin Spisak: N No, I I already pre bought Rory weeks ago. Don't don't we didn't let you out of your Ludwig.
Dominic Colangelo: That definitely wasn't I'm definitely not trying to coerce you into not choosing Rory.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I think my Rory pick will look better than Matt's ⁓ pre-bought Ludwig pick.
Dominic Colangelo: Potentially, potentially. We'll see, we'll see. But ⁓ Kepka withdraws early. He ⁓ had some it was his pinky and index finger. He was saying was numb, which I would you could argue those are pretty important when you're trying to swing a golf club.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, he didn't know what was going on, right? And he's gonna get it checked out, but doesn't that put like his status this week, you know, in jeopardy?
Dominic Colangelo: I was wondering if there was somebody that you know, people in the comments are ruthless, but they're just saying, Yeah, he knew he was gonna lose, so he just said, I'm just gonna dip out so I can practice for the US open more.
Kevin Spisak: That's hilarious.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, it feels like whenever it's before major and there's any sign of injury, they all just dip.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. So we'll see. We'll have to monitor that throughout the week, but I'm sure we'll see something coming up here in the next couple of days to see what he actually is going through. Yeah, I think I'm not sure how much other news y'all had with the RBC o ⁓ Canada Dude. B banana banana dude, my pronunciation the last few weeks has been abysmal. So, anyways, that's the RBC. ⁓ there's really only maybe a couple things of news that going on. ⁓ there was a picture floating around during the practice round with Bryson where
Kevin Spisak: Canada.
Chief Wedge Officer: The RBC banana open?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ he's potentially gaming a tailor made QI four D prototype. ⁓ that I don't know if that's actually what's happening or if they're on the T box and I've I've been in part of the situation before where nobody has a golf club and they go, ⁓ we need somebody's gotta hold a a driver. So maybe he's just using somebody else's for the picture. I don't know.
Chief Wedge Officer: Well, they, the USDA dropped a new, a new driver on the conforming list. So that's why everybody thinks that they made it specifically for Bryson.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. What's different about it, do you know?
Kevin Spisak: The bottom is like totally smooth with which Bryson is used to playing that. ⁓ and then weren't they saying it it would have like the bulge face, like what he was trying out with LA golf or something. I think it was
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, they removed all the weights, right?
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ no, there there's like two models that came up on the conforming list. One has two weights and one has three. So the the weight in the back of the head ⁓ is the difference between the two.
Chief Wedge Officer: Okay. Okay. Yeah, I, it's probably just a Bryson spec essentially. And it was, it was probably over a percentage difference that they had to put it on the conforming list or something.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. It looks like, you know, the the LA Golf ones that were coming out that he you know was behind making, it looks like you just removed all the LA golf stuff and slapped some tailor made logos on it and called a good. They're like very s similar looking. Sorry.
Chief Wedge Officer: I'm sure somebody will ask him about it at his press conference this week. I think his press conference is either today or tomorrow or whatever Wednesday maybe, yeah, we'll definitely. Usually if it's going around Twitter, someone's enough, you know, on it enough to ask about him. So we're excited to see what he says because if I say some dumb ass shit like he's 3D printing it with TaylorMade or something.
Dominic Colangelo: I can absolutely see that.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: 'Cause I thought it was doesn't he currently have the curved face with ⁓ is he still using a crank driver or is he using like off's head?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. He yeah, he still crank. I don't know if he ever I I could be wrong. I don't think he ever put into play the LA golf head that he was like all about. I think he kept using the crank. Yeah, I may be wrong there, but you know, he was pushing it pretty hard with that like bulge face.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I don't think you ever put it in.
Dominic Colangelo: Which like in theory that makes sense, but I feel like you still have to you have to be way more precise with that kind of thing. We'll have to see. Yeah. I'll have to ask my LA golf contact.
Kevin Spisak: Not according to him, but I don't know. He there's a lots of stuff that he thinks different than everyone else.
Dominic Colangelo: Right. Which I think is good for the game. Like trying to bust down barriers and stuff, you know? Just the way he does it is a little cringy sometimes.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. ⁓ other thing at golf news, ⁓ Jackson Coyvon turned pro. You guys see that?
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-mm.
Kevin Spisak: Is that the Auburn guy?
Chief Wedge Officer: So yeah, number one world ranked amateur, really good player. ⁓ He won like everything at Auburn ⁓ this year. And just finally, he secured his tour card through PGA Tour U, but he stayed in college through the national championship so he could play in the national championship. And then ⁓ he just turned pro. he'll make his major debut, I think, or his pro debut at the...
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ nice.
Chief Wedge Officer: John Deere, think I want to say that if I'm not thinking about that correctly. So, ⁓ yeah, excited to see him play. He's like, you know, it's kind of crazy. I feel like we've seen a couple of guys, Luke Clanton. ⁓ There was the guy that won as an amateur at the Amex. I forgot his name, but really they haven't really made ⁓ big waves on the tour, right? ⁓ Gordon Sargent. He was another really high ranked amateur. They really haven't been playing that well or haven't found their way to the tour yet.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ So it'll be interesting to see what he does as like one of the most high ranked amateurs kind of coming out and making a splash.
Dominic Colangelo: Is he the one who won ⁓ like he had a streak of events in a row that he was winning? Okay. Gotcha.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, he won like, yeah, three or four straight events or something crazy.
Dominic Colangelo: So how does that work? I figured any of those would be enough to be I don't know if qualify or invited to the US Open. But does none of that kind of qualify to for him to start playing? But why is it John Deere Classic?
Chief Wedge Officer: I don't know. ⁓ He might be making his debut. I don't know if he's in the US Open this week or not. can't remember. But he might not be a pro yet. Like he might be making his pro debut. because a lot of times they'll, you you get, you get the invitation as an amateur and you have to stay an amateur to accept the invitation. Yeah. Yeah. And so he might be making his pro debut.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha.
Chief Wedge Officer: TPC deer run that's when officially he's like a pro but he's still an amateur right now
Dominic Colangelo: Okay. That makes sense. Well speaking of US Open, I think we can kind of get into our little preview if y'all are ready for that. Yeah. So Shinnikock. Very cool course. Widely considered one of the favorites of I don't know. Do players still the they rather a Riviera over Shinnicok or people liking Shinnikok?
Chief Wedge Officer: I think Shinnecock, just don't see it very much. So I think they love it. I think they know it's really freaking hard. There's some famous quotes we can get into from the last couple of years. Remember Zach Johnson talked about, you know, they've lost the golf course, they've lost the golf course, golf course is gone. They can't get it back. He did that whole like song and dance or whatever. That was funny. I think it just causes carnage. think it's just like, it's just, the greens are insane. If you've seen some like close up videos of them.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: It's just like they're so built up and they're so penalizing it's nuts.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, the I've seen a few just like golf YouTube guys saying it's just classic ⁓ use what's working or use what's popular is can I break eighty at Shinnikok? Everyone's doing those kind of videos, but ⁓ it seems like I I can't get a read though. You can tell me, is it can you bomb it and it's fine or the fairways tight? I'm I'm getting multiple kind of reviews there.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. From what I've seen, it looks like the fairways are wider than they were in 2018 when Brooks won last time. So I think they're still narrow, but they're wider than they were. So I think it's going to allow more length, but I think the greens are going to be firmer and harder. it's kind of a one, you you're either going to get really wide fairways and really tough greens, or I mean, it shouldn't get both. It just depends on how mean the USDA wants to be. Cause I think what was Brooks plus one last year or in 2018, that's crazy for pros to be plus one.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. It's it's bonkers. Yeah, all the stats. There's ⁓ so there's six hundred fifty nine total rounds played for the US Open and and I hope this wasn't a trivia question for you, Kevin, but there's only been three that are under par.
Chief Wedge Officer: That's...
Dominic Colangelo: after a weekend. I think that's what the the stat I was looking at. What what was it? I don't even I don't even know what I was looking at really, but the numbers are staggering. Like there's not even that many that are under ten over. You got muted, Kev.
Chief Wedge Officer: Kevin, you're on mute.
Kevin Spisak: Sorry, dog was barking in the background. ⁓ so you're saying for US opens at Shinnikok there's only been three people under par? I I do know who those are. ⁓ I it it may be more though maybe more than three.
Dominic Colangelo: You're good. All good. Mm-hmm. ⁓ yeah? Yeah, it was one of those I I I should have double checked it, but I quickly saw it on screen. I was like, I gotta write that down because it's like there's really not too many finishes that are under par at this course.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, so ⁓ one of my trivia questions was related to that, ⁓ but not ⁓ not necessarily that exactly. But ⁓ Ratif Gusen was under par in two thousand four. I think Corey Paven was in ninety-five. ⁓ and then I think f Phil may have been he was either like one under or even par in two thousand four. I'd I'd have to look that up again. ⁓ but ⁓ Yeah, some some tough numbers for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: Just really shows how hard it is. ⁓ Yeah, the the par threes are widely considered as just super difficult. I don't know if that's just because the is it 'cause they're long? Like what why is there why are they so hard?
Chief Wedge Officer: No, the greens are like postage stamps. You have to land them in like 10 foot circles. Like it's not, and like if you miss, it's like you're down 20 feet below the level of the green chipping up to like, again, like a postage stamp. it's so, it's so insanely hard. Like I, you can, I feel like we're just gonna like watch people play ping pong all week, which is gonna be great.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ man. I mean and not only is the the course hard, but it's like twenty five mile an hour winds today and it's supposed to pick up this weekend.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Cause it's close to the ocean. It's not on the ocean, but you get that ocean wind and yeah, there's nothing like it. I mean, people say it's like, people put it, I know, um, I think it was Tom, I don't know if it was Tom coin or not, but he, he said it was like the best links tests in the United States, like, the best golf course in the United States. Like people highly, highly regard Shinnecock Hills. So I'm, I'm so excited for it. I think it's.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: I think it's one of the best US Open venues we have out there, hands down.
Dominic Colangelo: I've heard a lot of ⁓ Pinehurst comparisons out there. Would you agree to that? Pinehurst too? Like you kinda have to play it similarly?
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I mean, it's accurate and the greens are hard. You have to be accurate and the greens are insanely hard. Yes. I mean, in theory, I think they play super differently. think Shinnecock, think Pioneer has its own challenges with like the way, the, with the type of grass they have out there, but yeah, Shinnecock is just going to be, ⁓ I can't wait. I love it when, I love it when tour pros get mad. It's my favorite thing in golf. It's truly like,
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: I get going back like the RBC Canadian Open is like fun to watch, but like it's not. It's not entertaining. Like this is entertaining because like you get people being all mad about their golf game, kind of like us. So.
Dominic Colangelo: I love it. Yeah, it'll be fun. I think it's just US Open in general is always fun to watch. ⁓ these guys are gonna compete. We have obviously the live guys are in play, so that'll be interesting to see. ⁓ I saw Joaquin Neiman got an invite. He's he didn't do the best at the PGA championship, but he turned around and won like his eighth live event or something like that.
Chief Wedge Officer: He's racking them up. He's racking up the invites, man. That's crazy. Cause he got an invite to the PGA. I think he got an invite to the U S open last year. So, ⁓ who knows? There might not be a lipstick. We'll see. We'll see.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. ⁓ Adam Scott, his one hundredth consecutive major start, which is just bonkers. Longevity and still playing at a high level. ⁓ quick trivia question. There's only been one other person to do it. Do you know who that is?
Chief Wedge Officer: hundred straight major.
Kevin Spisak: Hundred straight starts.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, a hundredth str consecutive major starts.
Kevin Spisak: Jack.
Dominic Colangelo: It was Jack. I had no idea.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. I no idea either.
Dominic Colangelo: Building up to it, I was thinking I don't know why I thought I heard it, but I thought he was the first person to ever do it, Adam Scott. But then I saw today that it was it was actually Jack, which is pretty good company to be in. Mm hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Talk about news we missed. ⁓ we, we obviously didn't hit on the Phil stuff. We'll probably let the allegations sit over on the, yeah, over there. But it sounds like this stuff has been like it from what, like some of the people reported, like no leg up and like some of them seems like this has been being like churned about for like a long, long time. And they find like, I guess the club finally confirmed it. So yeah, it seems like.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, that's a great idea. ⁓ okay. I was thinking it it's kind of a weird one.
Chief Wedge Officer: No, it seems like this has been out there for a long time, but a lot of people were like, this has obviously dropped right as Tiger got back from rehab and like, because he was going to be in the news, they like figured out a way to drop the film. For film, man. Actually not for film, whatever. Allegedly.
Dominic Colangelo: Poor Phil.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: We'll yeah, alleged. Alleged. We'll we'll wait on that reaction. ⁓ man, the ⁓ so Scotty obviously going for his career grand slam. ⁓ called it a little bit ago. The jury's sell out if I'm choosing him for one and done's this week. We'll get to that, but ⁓ it's gonna be wendy. And based on what?
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. He gets mad when it's windy.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, man, that's where I'm like, is he still gonna do it? I mean it's Scotty. He'll be fine. But ⁓ whenever there's elements like that, like and correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems like it when there's that much wind, it just kinda evens the playing field a little bit. But like it just means that whoever's gonna be the person to adjust the best is gonna do well. And like, I don't know about y'all, but I feel like Tommy Fleetwood's been the best at adjusting.
Chief Wedge Officer: He just-
Dominic Colangelo: Like all these courses I wanna say the last month or so, l month and a half have been like very different ⁓ conditions. And Tommy's been top ten for a lot of these. So I feel like he could do pretty well this week.
Chief Wedge Officer: I believe you already used Tommy Fleetwood though.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ I'm not choosing my wanna done right now. I'm just saying.
Chief Wedge Officer: Then you choose them at Riviera. I think that's right, yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: I did.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, n I wasted him like right after and it was like his worst week of the year.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ he shot.
Dominic Colangelo: I remember 'cause I chose ⁓ and Matt was like, Well you're not even you don't have ⁓ for any majors.
Chief Wedge Officer: I I think he shot what 63 on the final day of 2018 to almost win.
Kevin Spisak: Well, there's my other trivia question. You guys I've got I've gotta relook at my ⁓ I've got I've gotta redo my my trivia questions twice now.
Chief Wedge Officer: Oh yeah, that would have been, that would have been too easy, Kevin. Trust me. would have, no, that would have been easy too. Yeah, I would have, that one would have, you would have gotten a smile on my face from that one. But yeah, hopefully what I really want this week for the US Open, it's what I want every year for the US Open is it's for the USGA to do some dumb ass shit and the players get all mad and then the players start.
Dominic Colangelo: My nose ball. Like as he's reading it.
Chief Wedge Officer: getting on the USGA about stuff and it just gets back to this like back and forth cat and mouse game. That's my favorite thing that happens to us Open Week. It's just unlike anything else. it's just, get so, Chambers Bay was a content, remember when like the course was like, they were like, this is a public golf course or whatever. it was just like, yeah, that was, yeah, he said the greens are broccoli.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. That's awesome.
Chief Wedge Officer: It's just, it's my favorite thing. So that's what I'm hoping for this week. Tease and peace.
Kevin Spisak: Alright, before we keep talking about stuff, let me just throw a trivia question out there. And otherwise we're gonna we're gonna answer it unintentionally. So as usual, if either of you get it right, other two drinks a beer. So ⁓ I referenced Corey Paven a little bit ago. ⁓ he won in nineteen ninety-five. He had an iconic shot from two hundred and twenty-eight yards, put the ball up on ⁓ eighteen and then secure the win.
Dominic Colangelo: All right, there we go.
Kevin Spisak: What club was this iconic US open shot at Shinnecock from 228?
Chief Wedge Officer: what manufacturer and what club like.
Kevin Spisak: No, what what was the club? Like driver, pitching wedge, eight iron, putter.
Dominic Colangelo: It was a K grind, K star grind, sixty degree.
Chief Wedge Officer: to 28.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: I believe it was a famous 3 wood.
Kevin Spisak: Hey Dam.
Dominic Colangelo: Well, it's nineteen ninety five, so he's not playing a seven wood. And they didn't hit it as far.
Kevin Spisak: Was he? D didn't you get a seven wood from your grandpa?
Dominic Colangelo: No, I got a fifty a fifty degree. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ I thought you did. No, like but way back when when you had your like ping I twos, I thought you had a seven wooden there.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ you know what? You're right. But that was I'll have to look whenever he made that, or whenever that was made. But I'm gonna guess, give me a driver off the deck. Maybe there's like a ton of wind in his face or something.
Kevin Spisak: You are close. It was a forewood. Corey Paven's famous for wood.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ that's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: That's a good one. That's a that's a little trickery 'cause no one really plays the forward.
Chief Wedge Officer: Corey Pavin.
Kevin Spisak: I thought Matt was gonna get it for sure.
Chief Wedge Officer: I, ⁓ you know, that was before my time of golf watching, but I do remember that shot. It's a very famous shot and it was on 18th. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, the my first trivia question was gonna be in two thousand four, Retif Gusin, you know, one at four under who was the only other player under par. And then yeah, Dom, you had to just bring that up is f is Phil. Mm-hmm. Yeah, one of his many runner-up runner-ups, runners up. How however you say that?
Dominic Colangelo: Raymond Floyd.
Chief Wedge Officer: out.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ that year. Do you got it?
Chief Wedge Officer: Ask Phil, he probably knows how to say it. Ooh!
Dominic Colangelo: Who
Kevin Spisak: Nice.
Dominic Colangelo: You dirty dog.
Chief Wedge Officer: Oops. Sorry, Phil.
Dominic Colangelo: Matt, have you taken a look at the first timers this year? 'Cause there's a record breaking twenty one amateurs competing in the US Open.
Chief Wedge Officer: No, I haven't. Name some off and I'll give you a quick if I know them or not and a quick if they have a chance or they don't have a chance.
Dominic Colangelo: I don't have a full list, but which I can get, but I think the most popular one I would say is Miles Russell. Have you heard much about him?
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, ⁓ chopsticks down there in Florida, skinny boy. He's, he has Charlie, he had Charlie Woods on the bag ⁓ at the qualifier, but yeah, he is like the next, again, it's like these really good junior golfers, these can't miss junior golfers that are coming up and he is right now the can't miss junior golfer. It'll be interesting to see how his career plays out and kind of follow that through the, think he's
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: I want to say he's committed to Florida State, but I could be wrong. I don't know on that. ⁓ But yeah, I mean, I think he's probably gonna get bodied by Shinnecock like he's used to playing. Not Shinnecock.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it's true.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ our our ⁓ all of our BFF Alex Fitzpatrick is making his US Open debut. ⁓ so it'd be exciting to see how he plays.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, you could play well. ⁓ What was it? Three Sundays ago, Don, I was teeing off my home course and this guy was in front of me on the putting green and he made like 10, 15 footers in a row, just like dead center from like all different parts around the hole. And I was like, geez. And ⁓ he gets up on the first tee and the putting green is like close to the first tee and he hits a shot and it sounds like a gunshot went off. And I was like, turned around, was like, whoa. ⁓ and I asked the pro and he's like, ⁓ yeah, that's Ethan bang. it was raining that day in Dallas and he needed somewhere to play. And we were like the only course open that day. So he called up and he was out there. ⁓ and he's played, I think he's a first timer in the U S open this year. So that's pretty cool.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay. Yeah, it I had texted you what it what it sounded like. You said like he hit the center of the face.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, ⁓ it was a different noise for sure. was pretty nuts.
Dominic Colangelo: 'Cause I am not familiar. So I I'm gonna rapid fire some lists for you, some names. ⁓ do you think do you think Jackson Coivin's gonna do well? It says that he's competing.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ no. Too much pressure.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ Miles Russell, ⁓ Ben James.
Chief Wedge Officer: I've heard, I don't know Ben James, but I've heard the name recently.
Dominic Colangelo: Jack Schoenberger.
Chief Wedge Officer: No idea. These could be qualifiers too.
Dominic Colangelo: Brian Lib.
Kevin Spisak: Are you looking at like all amateurs? Okay.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, because they could be like random qualifiers.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Or how about I know ⁓ this one's kinda getting some some traction. Giuseppe Puebla. How much do you know about him?
Chief Wedge Officer: I know nothing about disability.
Dominic Colangelo: I I have no no idea who that is. I just wanted to say his name.
Kevin Spisak: What a question. You said it like it was such a tee up, like it was like built into our show. Like like Matt's got some real talking points on Giuseppe Puebla.
Chief Wedge Officer: you
Dominic Colangelo: He he texted us ⁓ beforehand, like hey, let me talk about old Puebla here.
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha ha.
Chief Wedge Officer: This I mean, it's a sick name. So I'm more yeah Man, that's good stuff
Dominic Colangelo: It is a cool name.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ some some first timers that we know about. ⁓ Jake Knapp. I was very surprised about that. ⁓ and also of course Jacob Bridgman, you know, newcomer.
Chief Wedge Officer: Really?
Kevin Spisak: Jake Knapp played two years ago. He he he was cut.
Dominic Colangelo: Maybe maybe this is first timers for Shinokok.
Chief Wedge Officer: could be.
Kevin Spisak: That would be a lot of them because the what well two thousand eighteen's eight years, so
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, 'cause it's what, fourteen years ago? No. Eight eight years ago. Eight years ago.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Well that just pokes holes in my segment.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ yeah, I was scrolling through and I saw it was like ⁓ Jaden ⁓ I don't know how to pronounce his last name. Jaden Shaper from South Africa is a first timer. He's 69th in the World Golf Rankings. ⁓ Alex Alex Fitz Fitzpatrick. ⁓
Chief Wedge Officer: It's crazy to me how many high level tour pros have to go through Monday qualifying. Billy Horschel was in Monday qualifying and that's like, Billy Horschel is a good player. The field for USGA is so limited, it's nuts.
Kevin Spisak: Totally.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: And like Max Holm was not in it this year.
Dominic Colangelo: He's not?
Kevin Spisak: ⁓
Chief Wedge Officer: No, he missed. He looked out of putt in a play out for a spot.
Kevin Spisak: So brutal. Ryo Hisatsune is making his US Open appearance. ⁓ he's 62nd in the World Golf rankings.
Chief Wedge Officer: could win. Good win, for sure.
Kevin Spisak: Lefty boy made a good appearance at ⁓ Canadian Open. I'm gonna really butcher his name, but ⁓ Sudarshan. I'm not even gonna try his last name.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ Shudarshan Yelamaraju baby, let's go, he can win.
Kevin Spisak: Thank you, thank you. Yeah, lefty, big boy. in in stature, not in not in weight. ⁓ and then Max McGreevy is another first one. ⁓ he'd be ninety-ninth the World Golf Rankings. And John Perry is a hundred and second in World Golf Rankings. And then there's a whole bunch down below when you get into the amateurs.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, okay.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ real quick, a as I mentioned the Canadian Open, ⁓ Matt, you really mistimed your pick of Chandler Phillips because he had a nice week, so pour one out for Matt.
Chief Wedge Officer: Dude, he's trending. I always like to see my high school boys do well. It's cool to see.
Dominic Colangelo: It's called loyalty. So I think that's a good time. W should we get into one and duns?
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: Absolutely.
Dominic Colangelo: All right. So I've been putting it off this whole time. No. ⁓ I had a bad week, but our boys did not. So, ⁓ going back to the RBC. ⁓ I had chosen Corey Connors, ⁓ after Kevin had snaked Wyndham Clark in a smart fashion. And then Matt had Sam Burns. So y'all were on the top of the leaderboard pretty much all week. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: And it was it was very fun. Not fun for me. I got cut. ⁓ Corey Connors ended at eighty nine. ⁓ but yeah, Winam Clark looking sick lately. Sam Burns, like we had mentioned, he's just kind of there. He's kind of around all the time. I was about to make a how about your mother joke, but I forgot the exact joke. But anyways, ⁓ so Sam Burns, he ended at T twenty and then Wyndham Clark at T eleven. So that brings the totals to I'm at three seventy four. Kevin is at five thirty seven and then Matt at eight ninety three. So with that, hey, under nine hundred, that's huge.
Chief Wedge Officer: Not too bad.
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha Every time you say Matt's number, I'm floored at how high it is. I hear it every week.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: damn you, Juan Pueblo. Or is that who I'm gonna pick this week? Just EpiPueblo.
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha. Giuseppe.
Dominic Colangelo: I like that. Giuseppe Pueblo. That's the thing, it's like You know ball and and you wanted to choose these value picks early and they make perfect sense. All of ⁓ should have done well. Maybe not Alex Alejandro Toasty.
Chief Wedge Officer: I know.
Kevin Spisak: No. No, no. These are not value picks. These these are just total Matt was using Hail Mary's, not value picks. The PGA tour is is not long enough for him to get into these players.
Chief Wedge Officer: Toasty loves the Houston Open. Don't give me that. He's a bona fide player.
Dominic Colangelo: That's a good point.
Kevin Spisak: To be picking guys who are outside the top sixty in the official world golf rankings. That i that's further than a value pick.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ Matt, care comment?
Chief Wedge Officer: Imagine if I won... ⁓ No, I mean, you know, I do know ball. I don't have a gambling bone in my body, I just... Gambling's not my thing. But I was trying to try to think of a Project Hail Mary joke because he me tell, said Hail Mary, but I think... ⁓ I'm like Rocky, I'm still trying to learn the ways of the gambling world. The way of the...
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha.
Dominic Colangelo: I also think my joke was gonna be a new girl joke where they're at the wedding and this girl she's new ⁓ Jess is competing for the best man and they call it the Joe Biden. You just gotta be there. Did y'all watch New Girl? Okay. All right, beautiful. Well, anyways, who do you have for ⁓ the US Open at Shinnikok?
Chief Wedge Officer: All right. ⁓ yeah, one of my favorite shows. Not going to beat around the bush here, Tommy Lee Wood, going to win the US Open. I think he's, I think he was trending at Canadian Open and I think he's got, I think he has good vibes from Shinnecock, obviously from last time. I think, I think he might run away with it and that's going to be dangerous for people.
Dominic Colangelo: I like it. Ooh, Tommy Fitwood.
Kevin Spisak: According to datagolf.com, he has the fifth best chance to win at four percent.
Dominic Colangelo: And is that good or?
Kevin Spisak: Well, Scotty's the highest at twelve, so yeah, I guess.
Chief Wedge Officer: Every tournament's got a place in, he has the best chance of winning though.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yep, yep.
Dominic Colangelo: We should go back. Is Tiger Woods the only person to ever have minus odds to win a golf tournament in the history of the betting era?
Kevin Spisak: I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Dominic Colangelo: I th I feel like there was one tournament he was like minus one twenty, which is a fifty fifty, like you're supposed to win. But maybe it was more like a plus one plus one or plus two hundred or something. It was an unreal.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, golf is tough. I don't think you'll ever get to win. it's like a lot.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah, obviously.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. There's ⁓ there's so many of those Tiger stats out there that you read and you're like, there's no way this is real. Like it's like him and like Barry Bonds and you know, there's yeah, all those like just random stats that make no sense. ⁓ there was like what in it was like two thousand, two thousand one, like the amount of tournaments Tiger won, you know, was like higher than certain NBA players three point percentage. So it's like
Dominic Colangelo: For sure.
Kevin Spisak: Tiger is more likely to win a PGA to our tournament than this guy is to make one three-pointer. Yeah. I I love those.
Dominic Colangelo: I think I think Tom Brady had one where he was like he had ⁓ he was more likely to win a Super Bowl than a lot of people to to make a three pointer or something like that.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was like it was higher than like Steph's. You know, he's the best three point shooter of all time.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Unreal. All right, Kevin, who who you got this week?
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ yeah, as I said, Rory McElroy has been my pick for a few weeks. ⁓ he hasn't won a US Open in quite a long time, but he is playing very well. Data Golf's got him as the second best odds to win at five point eight percent. So less than half the chance of Scotty being ⁓ number two. But ⁓ I I think he's gonna be, know, dialed accurate this week. I'm looking forward to it.
Chief Wedge Officer: a good pick. He's literally just playing for the majors now.
Kevin Spisak: Mm. He's got the strength to, you know, get the ball out of the rough and it'd be nice.
Chief Wedge Officer: Here's a bit of He doesn't even show up for anything else anymore. It's crazy.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Which is weird, 'cause wasn't it last year that he was saying that people should show up for the signature event no matter who you are? It's a little ridiculous.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: He kinda says lots of stuff that's like, you know, applied for everyone else.
Chief Wedge Officer: Now he's just like, F this. He'll change his mind. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay. This this is where my downfall starts because I'm getting ridiculous with it. I I didn't pre buy Scotty on purpose. 'Cause I haven't used him and both of you have officially. So I can use them whenever I want. Right? Didn't you use Scotty? Yeah you did, Kevin. And he got third sick.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, and ⁓ and mate majors are worth double, so
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, so and are we counting like ⁓ FedEx, BMW and tour championship as majors, like for double or just the four majors?
Kevin Spisak: I would say just the tour championship. Well, yeah, we we said at the beginning of the year just majors, so I guess not.
Chief Wedge Officer: Decimate.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Chief Wedge Officer: We can't give the PGA tour what they want. Don't do that, Kevin.
Dominic Colangelo: So the the biggest reason why I'm going back and forth on another guy is because any time I bet on Scotty to do well, he does so bad. And that's where it scares me. ⁓ I did I did think he's gonna win the Grand Slam. It'll the Sunday round will also be his birthday and it'll also be Father's Day. So that could be sick if he actually does pull it off. ⁓ Give me Patrick Reed.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ my goodness.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, he's gonna miss the cut.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ dude, I'm rooting for you,
Dominic Colangelo: P Reed, baby. So I want I want Scotty later on because I'm gonna run out eventually. ⁓ but Patrick Reed, you can't use him all the time. So this is like the only time I can use him ⁓ for the rest of the year. He went T12 at the Masters, T10 at PGA Championship. And was it last year? No, last time they played at Shinnikok. He had a sixth Sunday round and ended up T ⁓ or solo fourth place. So I'm using that and I think he's gonna definitely not definitely. I hope he does well. Hope he makes a cut so I don't have two missed cuts in a row.
Kevin Spisak: I'm very surprised you didn't pick Scotty to ⁓ complete the career grand slam this week.
Dominic Colangelo: Well, that's the thing. I I think he's gonna do it, but if I bet on it, then it's not gonna happen. So you're welcome, Scotty.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: All right, we got anything else for US Open Preview?
Chief Wedge Officer: Dom, that's all I got. You know, I saw some content creators out here today in Scotland. Pretty nuts, man. There was like a bunch of people on the greens. Also, I just also want to say about Shinnecock is Brooks Kepka got crowned. I was rewatching some of the shots. Do you see that shot he hit in 18 where he hit the stands and it came back like out on a thing? I don't know. Allegedly. You should go watch the 18th hole of Shinnecock, after this.
Dominic Colangelo: No. Okay.
Chief Wedge Officer: I don't I don't know if Brooks Capgear should have two U.S. Opens, we'll see. But I'm still deciding.
Dominic Colangelo: I will say we skipped over your ⁓ Scotland trip if you wanted to talk about
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I am here for 13 total days in Scotland. I figured if I'm going to do Scotland, I'm going to do it big. ⁓ I'm going to hit all the places that I want to hit and do all the things that I want to do. ⁓ That way, the next trip I plan doesn't have to be back to Scotland. I feel like if I do it, I can do it once. ⁓ So I car news today. I like to open it up with an easy round. That was my first round was car news. ⁓ which is like the hardest, they say is like one of the hardest courses out here. ⁓ so yeah, starting there tomorrow, playing a different course in carnivore. And then I play Royal Aberdeen on Wednesday. And then I basically gave myself three days to try to get on the old course. ⁓ essentially, ⁓ for the end of this week. ⁓ so if you're not familiar, right, the old course is a lottery system. You can't just go make a tee time. It doesn't matter. Unless you're a member at Eronomic, sounds like, but that's beside the point. And yeah, I mean, it's, it's going to be a fun, fun week. then week two, I actually started a trip with the golfer's journal. So part of, I won two spots on a trip over here. So if you're not familiar with the author, Tom Coyne, he wrote a course called Ireland and a course called Scotland. ⁓ really cool books, good books would recommend. ⁓ he's actually going to be coming on the trip with us. It's 24 guys. yeah. And so one of my buddies is coming along, which would be good. We play, ⁓ the Glenn Kilspindy. we were doing a solstice at Galane, ⁓ which is, so we're playing 54 holes in one day, all the Galane courses in one day.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ Well
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ I can't remember the other course that playing and then we end on North Barrick, which is like the Scotland golf course that everybody wants to play. ⁓ So yeah, and then that's and then the last day happens to fall on on my birthday. So pretty good celebration and then then fly home. So it's gonna be pretty nuts.
Dominic Colangelo: What a trick. That's crazy. Were you were you watching the World Cup game with anybody?
Kevin Spisak: Sounds absolutely incredible.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ the Scotland game? No, so that was the night we flew in. ⁓ but Scotland is playing on Friday night. They play Morocco, which is going to be crazy. I'll be in St. Andrews for that. I'm very excited. And then on Monday night, they play, ⁓ Brazil. So it's going to be bananas around here. So yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. ⁓ okay. Yeah. Unreal. Those are very winnable games for them, apparently. I was talking to my my World Cup my World Cup aficionado, my soccer guy. He was saying that Morocco is not very good. So we'll see.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Well Brazil hasn't lost like an opening around game in like a hundred years or something.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, it was, I guess the games are on, I mean, the games are on late here. And I guess the Scotland game from the couple of nights ago was on at like 2 a.m. here. So we were driving from the Edinburgh airport tour to St. Andrews on that morning after. And Carly was like, all that there's nobody in any of the towns and all the towns are dead that we were driving through. And Carly was like, is anybody like?
Dominic Colangelo: That's a bum.
Chief Wedge Officer: Is anybody alive? And then we found out that the Scotland game was like the night before and everybody was up until five in the morning. Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Jeez, that's cool. That'll be fun to be around some natives watching that game.
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ for sure. I can't wait. It's gonna be time of our lives. So yeah, I'm usually like, I'm a bit worried I'm gonna get worn out by the end. I think that's my only worry of like, I'm doing too many days here and too many straight, straight rounds and stuff. But while you're here, you just got to do it. So today was my first taste of links golf. I absolutely love it. ⁓ I love the pace of the greens. I love how aggressive you can be because the greens aren't super fast. ⁓ And yeah, every the, you you play the ball on the ground, it gets windy. ⁓ I only got into two bunkers today, so saved myself from some too many bad spots, but like I hit one in the fairway bunker today and I just had to chip out sideways because I had no chance.
Dominic Colangelo: I was about to ask if you had to just take her medicine.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I mean, I was up against like a ⁓ 10 foot wall. it's just you have to just go sideways. Like it's a true penalty, which is cool. So yeah. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing for that K star to handle.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. The improv. Yeah. Have you have you whipped out the two iron yet, or did you keep it keep it out of the bag?
Chief Wedge Officer: ⁓ yeah. Now put the two iron in play. It's perfect. Hit it a bunch today. Out at, out at Carnegie East. So yeah, it's the, the biggest thing I noticed when I was walking the old course. So Sunday, the old course is a public park. No golf is played. So on yesterday, I was able to just go walk the old course in case I don't get on. And I was surprised about how subtle everything was. I thought everything was going to be much bigger and much grander.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice. Mm-hmm.
Chief Wedge Officer: Everything is very subtle there here. Like it's still, you can see what the breaks are and everything and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, it's not like, there's nothing crazy. I guess I'm what I'm used to is when I'm traveling, I'm playing courses like band in or sand Valley or that are, Aaron Hills that are big and, and, you know, uh, like crazy and like really wow you. And these courses do wow you. think they just do it in a different way because they were built 200 years ago, right? When when there wasn't bulldozers and whatever, whatever,
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. So are you meaning like like on T V or how people talk about it, it seems like they're massive rolling hills. So you're saying it by the naked eye it looks a little more flat. When you're playing it, it's crazy.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Like, okay. A good way I explained it was everybody says when you went to Augusta, you're going to be, it's going to be hillier than you think it is. Right. It's going to be bigger than you think it is. And that was absolutely true. Like it was, it was, it was crazy how like up and down that course is here. I feel like. I thought it was going to be grand, but it's, but like the 17th hole is so subtle at St. Andrews. It's just, it's the road hole. It's there. There's the road. there's but the like the slopes aren't that big there's definitely slopes there they're just not like grand
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. Okay.
Chief Wedge Officer: if that makes sense. I don't know if that makes sense or not, but...
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I'm following ya. I mean, enough to make a putt really challenging, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Chief Wedge Officer: I'm- I- Exactly. Everything is very subtle out here and it's like so that's really cool. ⁓ I love the way the turf plays. It plays super fast and bumpy and bouncy like it bounce the ball doesn't really spin around the greens like it kind of just bounces around. So that's really fun. ⁓ But yeah, know, cross fingers I get on the old course. We'll see if works.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. I'll say keep us updated, send us some picks, 'cause it'll be what, like eleven ish if by the time you're like going to line up, right? You gotta get to like four o'clock.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah. Well, they stopped that. it's, you just do a daily ballot now.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, and so you just go there the day before and you put your name in. It's basically like you getting in line at the middle of the night or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha. Well if you don't get on, you gotta hit the the famous shot over the hotel.
Chief Wedge Officer: you
Dominic Colangelo: From the from the street. I forgot who did that.
Chief Wedge Officer: It's crazy. You can just walk on. I mean, people are walking around there like all day.
Dominic Colangelo: Like kinda like Pebble, where it's like technically a public park where you can just walk on.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, it's crazy.
Dominic Colangelo: Like the the no ling up videos where th they're they're like taking a picture with a club on the on the bridge.
Chief Wedge Officer: Dude, I saw that happen in real life today at Carnesi. It was so gritty. They like, someone like went... No, they were just walking around. Somebody like went on the 18th green and pretended to like hold the flag up. It was funny. The guy from inside had to come out and like tell him to get off the green. Cause there's players trying to come up. Yeah. No, I, but... He's just like, hey, get off the green. This party's coming.
Dominic Colangelo: Were they playing or just walking? ⁓ man. Can't do that. Can't do that. Right. Just to hit him with the ball.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. What did he sound like telling them to get off? Ha ha ha.
Dominic Colangelo: That was pretty good.
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, yeah, thank you. I'm learning. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: It's almost like wearing two pieces of a golf course that you've never played before.
Chief Wedge Officer: That's right. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: I got the Shinnakock stuff on my grandpa gave it to me for the listeners. But anyways.
Chief Wedge Officer: I love it. No, I'm just a big fan. think everybody, think the Scott is that I mean, it's just, it's a cool place. Like it's just, it's everybody, everybody loves golf here. So it's just, it's a cool place to, to, to live for two weeks. Right. So.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. You have to go ⁓ let us know how the pub life is if you go stop for a beer or two.
Chief Wedge Officer: Oh, I've had a couple of pints. I'm trying my way. I'm trying to drink some scotches, trying to, you know, trying to do all the things. So we'll see how it goes. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: I like it. My brother gave me a hilarious saying where it's When in Rome, do the same as you do at home.
Chief Wedge Officer: Well, there's not bourbon here.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ that makes sense. Yeah, you gotta you gotta have a scotch. Are the beers warm?
Chief Wedge Officer: Yeah, I'm... Yeah, so... No, they're all cold. I haven't had a Guinness here yet, though. Maybe I'll have one. Who knows? Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Be cool. There you go. Well, beautiful. like I said, send us a pics, post them on Twitter so everyone can see too. ⁓ I think ⁓ we're all pretty pumped to see this US Open coming up. Let's see P read so Kevin can have an aneurysm. ⁓ that'll be great. We'll we'll keep everyone updated on on how things go. But ⁓ yeah, if that's it, then we'll see you next week.
Chief Wedge Officer: If you listen in, Phil tells us how to spell runner up. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Ha ha ha!