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Dominic Colangelo: Hello and welcome back to Under the Covers, a golf podcast where we deep dive each week in the latest PGA tour winner's bag. We are your hosts. My name is Dominic, back from a hiatus, and we have Kevin with us today. How are you doing today, Kevin?
Kevin Spisak: Doing good. It'd be much better if Matt was here. But you know, he just doesn't care about us. But ⁓ no, just kidding. ⁓ doing great. Had a great family weekend. Yeah. ⁓ how are you doing, Dow?
Dominic Colangelo: No, he's dead to us. I'm good. I interrupted you. ⁓ you were talking about your family weekend. It sounded like a a pretty good time.
Kevin Spisak: No, yeah, it's all good. Lots of kids stuff. Zoo, pool, children's museum, yeah, all the non-golf stuff.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice. That's fun. I also had a pretty good weekend, celebrated the the one year anniversary. So that was a great time. Yeah. Thank you, thank you. The the classic saying it flew by. It it doesn't feel like a year, which is I guess it's a good thing. But like you said, Matt is not with us today. He's I think he's on a work trip. I think we've each had a work trip recently, which is kind of fun. But ⁓ he'll join us next week.
Kevin Spisak: Nice. Congratulations on your anniversary. Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ whenever we kind of go through the US Open preview. But today we are here to talk about JT Poston at ⁓ the memorial tournament at Murifield. ⁓ he got his f I know. I knew I was reading four things at once. Fuck.
Kevin Spisak: What course? ⁓ You gotta leave that in there.
Dominic Colangelo: I read it. I read it letter by letter. Either way, he gets his fourth career win, had a ⁓ four stroke lead going into Sunday, and ⁓ really wanted to make it interesting. He was three over on the day until like whole fourteen, and then there was five people who had were that were tied for the lead. ⁓ Wyndham, ⁓ Sam Burns, Tommy Fleetwood. Gerard, obviously, and then Poston all were at I think it was ten or eleven under. and then they kind of all went one and one all the way up until the eighteenth hole. There was some some pretty clutch shots, I would say. So Gerard, he was lights out all day. He seemed like he couldn't miss. ⁓ I think he was actually ranked number one for putting in the tournament. And then Poston was actually number three. So on eighteen They both hit one on the green, had a putt. Gerard blew it past, and then ⁓ poston made it for Birdie, and then Gerard didn't have an easy putt coming back. So that I would say that was a clutch putt as well, even though he misses Birdie. But insane to cause a playoff, and then the playoff lasted two holes. ⁓ and then, you know, leading the the tournament and putting Absolutely bonkers and then misses a little six foot wipey par putt to lose it to JT. Just a tough scene. but if they weren't showing the names on the screen, I would not know who was playing. They were dressed the exact same. It was it was a little confusing. What were you seeing out there, Kevin?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, it's it of the same thing. ⁓ I I was getting really excited about the possibility of a five man playoff as we were getting close to the end. Cause didn't we have exactly like five players? We're at eleven under with like two or three holes to go. ⁓ so that would have been absolutely electric. ⁓ you know, JT Poston and Ryan Gerard, not the two biggest names on tour, but ⁓ you know, Poston's got four career wins right now. So, You know, he's had a nice career. You know, Ryan Gerard's done, you know, some good stuff too. ⁓ you know, both were fun to watch. It it's definitely a bummer that in the playoff, you know, it was sort of like the did someone win it or did someone lose it discussion with like, you know, Gerard makes a a bogey kind of thing. All right, he lost it rather than like JT going out and like, you know, making a birdie and win you know, quote unquote winning it.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ you know, but JT can only do what he can do. He made par, Gerard didn't, so therefore we have a winner. ⁓ you know, but that that course is so hard, you know, so much water conditions are tough. ⁓ you know, I I think a lot of people would agree that it's like one of the best and biggest non majors of the entire golf season, you know, year after year. And I d I'd almost like question if it's even like a more important tournament than like the players. You know, we we talked about the players being the fifth major. Yeah, I I don't know. I I think there's just something to Memorial and Jack's course and all that that ⁓ you know, this this could be the fifth major if we ever got one, but I don't think that's happening.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, a ton of iconic shots have happened there too. And I was I was watching ⁓ a compilation of missed shots and it was a fifteen minute video. There's so many. It's crazy. Like ⁓ the one I was cracking up at was ⁓ Victor Hovlin. He was maybe two feet from the green and then tried to flop it, but the green is so hard or sorry, so fast, difficult.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: that he had to barely land it so it'd roll all the way to the pin. And then he flops it like three inches in front of him. And he's just ⁓ looking up at the sky like, ⁓ that sucks, man. And then weirdly, so many sculled shots ⁓ out of the sand and rough. It was it was really interesting to see just a a replay of all those over the years. Yeah, very difficult course. ⁓ you were talking about Gerard and ⁓ post and playing
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: So they actually played together on both Saturday and Sunday, which is interesting. And I'm curious if does that help or hurt? You know, like you you're playing with a guy that you're going against. So does it make you more comfortable where you're not guessing what they're gonna do? Or does it kind of help someone like Gerard, who kind of gained some strokes on him? Like it it's kind of an interesting dynamic there where they they played e played together the whole time and then had two extra holes to play against each other.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: So that was that was kinda interesting.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think it would be, you know, different depending on the person. You know, someone, you know, could use it like as fuel, you know, that they know where their competition has to, you know, where where their competition is and where they have to be to keep like pushing them forward. ⁓ you know, someone else might prefer the other guy like fall off and, you know, they feel like they can cruise or something. I I I would think most people would like to be with their competition so that they know what they have to match, you know, hole after hole.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's good point. Yeah, so JT Poston, ⁓ go throughing going through his rounds, started with a 70. ⁓ so par 72, hit with a 70, 65, 69, and then final round of 72, even par, like we said, to to get into that playoff. Finished at 12 under. ⁓ interesting note about JT Poston. So with the rain delay on Saturday that pushed most a lot of these people into Sunday.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: He played thirty three holes on Sunday. And if he didn't win, I'm actually curious. I need to relook. If he would have gotten second place, I wonder if it's the same thing, but ⁓ he was trying to get up in the the world golf rankings. If he didn't qualify, then he would have had to play thirty three holes on Sunday, and then on Monday he would have had to play the US Open qualifier to get into Shinikako. Which it it's a thirty six holes. Thirty six holes on that.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ jeez. Yeah, I do the longest day of golf. ⁓ boy. Right. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: to get into there. So that would have been insane. But luckily he doesn't need to and he and he got in.
Kevin Spisak: Yep. The longest day of golf like always surprises me with the big names who aren't already qualified for the US Open. It's nuts. Like I saw highlights of like Billy Horschel and ⁓ Neil Shipley and stuff. There there's always just really, really good players who for whatever reason hadn't qualified yet. That that would have been absolutely brutal. Like just being able to you know, walking all of that and all those golf swings that'd be a real toll on the body.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Unreal. Do you know what does it take to qualify like in that US Open qualifier? Is it like top amount of places?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, there's like it you know, it's like a network of you know there's like the amateur events, ⁓ and like local qualifiers and region qualifiers and state qualifiers that like all lead into these, you know, big ones that ⁓ you know, the like bigger name players can skip kind of the first couple rounds, but ⁓ but yeah, then then there's just per per region tournament, there's like two or three spots or something and you gotta be in you know one of those to get the get the spot in the US Open. You know, some amateurs do it, ⁓ you know, and get into the US Open. You know, the winner of the USAM gets in. ⁓ yeah. It it's it's huge, like all that goes into who can make the US open.
Dominic Colangelo: Brutal. Mm. Well, on that note, JT posting, Kevin, tell us what's under the covers.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, so ⁓ JT Poston, title this guy. ⁓ got an interesting bag. ⁓ you know, but pretty straightforward, I guess. ⁓ so driver's titles GTS three, so the one that just came out, ⁓ pretty sweet looking. ⁓ it's got the Mitsubishi Diamana BF sixty T X. So an older model of their blue board ⁓ shafts ⁓ the BF Being in the blank blue family, so that would be their like mid-launch, mid spin, ⁓ similar to like the Ventus blue. ⁓ still tour stiff, so you know, pretty darn stiff, but looking for that mid-launch. Then his three woods, an older one. So the he's got the title as TS2 with ⁓ graphic design iz7x. The ⁓ as as Matt says, you know, a lot of these tour players, once they find a three wood, they seem to hang on to it. So clearly that's what he's doing with this TS2. Cause I think the T S came out like in 2018. ⁓ 'cause then yeah, we went T S I and then T S R, then GT now GTS. So older three wood, ⁓ pretty cool shaft. And then he's got a matching shaft in his seven wood. Which is then ⁓ Tailormade QI four D. So the the Tailor made QI four Ds are just making all sorts of appearances across the PJ tour, particularly with the Fairway Woods for n for non Tailormade players. ⁓ so that's gonna be fun to watch when we get to the end of the year with our club tracker for you know who or which clubs, you know, are winning the most. ⁓ The Tailormade Spider and the Tailormade QI four D are just blowing it out of the water when it comes to you know woods and putters. ⁓ do you have any thoughts on his woods?
Dominic Colangelo: Well obviously we've talked about ⁓ I I like my graphite tour design. ⁓ but what I don't know I don't think I've seen the I Z. What is the I Z?
Kevin Spisak: so the ⁓ the I Z would be ⁓ higher launching but like low mid spin shaft. ⁓ so with with those fairway woods he's trying to launch it up in the air, still control spin so he doesn't like balloon it. ⁓ you know, and and then keep it ⁓ under control, I guess, you know, get some more distance by the high launch. ⁓ you know, and then just keep it like nice and controlled. So y the one that you have is the HD where you're like mid to high launch and then low mid spin. So ⁓ this one in terms of like graphite design shaft profiles is like quite a bit more high launching.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha, gotcha.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ the one I tested out before ⁓ was the VF. ⁓ just, you know, I have a tendency to overspin the ball, so I was looking for r their lowest launching, low spinning. and I could not hit that to save my life. So I'd be pretty interested to try out like the graphic design DI. ⁓ so that's like mid to high, but that one of their lowest spinning. so that would be ⁓ that would be a cool test, but
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Kevin Spisak: That is unrelated to JT's bag, so we'll g get back to his clubs.
Dominic Colangelo: I was interested to see that cause typically a seven wood will replace a four iron, but he also has a four iron too. So like like maybe that four iron is just maybe gets more distance and like you've mentioned before, like seven wood, people like to launch that high so you can kind of float it onto the green, land it soft, or like what what are you kind of thinking there?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, he ⁓ my guess is that he probably hits the seven wood further than the four iron. You know, and the the four iron would also have, you know, a lower trajectory. ⁓ you know ⁓ it most players have you know the like the three woods like driver but not three wood but three woods ⁓ so driver and then two other woods, you know, or they'll have like a three wood and a utility or something. ⁓ but I I think
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Kevin Spisak: I think his bag is kind of like the current craze right now, going driver three with seven wood. ⁓ you know, lots of people are doing that both professionally and amateur wise.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. Yeah, I think we're I'm getting a little ahead, but like the the shafts and his irons are the six point five, where the seven wood is an eight X. So like is that is that kind of doing anything with the distance for that seven wood and having an eight X? Or is that just normal for a seven wood?
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ no, no. That's just like swing weight and swing weighting. ⁓ you know, he's it's just it's getting heavier as the club gets shorter.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. That makes sense. Okay. Well, with that let's let's get into the irons then.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. So his irons, ⁓ pretty sweet ones, just really, really good looking clubs, ⁓ titles, everything they do is really good looking. ⁓ so he's got the T one fifty four iron, ⁓ and then the T one hundred through the five through nine. So, you know, players sort of cavity back ⁓ looking clubs. ⁓ and then he's got the Project X six point fives. So that's some pretty stout shafts. ⁓ Some would classify them as, you know, swinging a a flagpole, but ⁓ you know, plenty of guys on tour, you know, play the six point fives. ⁓ that would be, you know, for us, that would be, you know, the extra stiff model, you know, of a already very stiff shaft. ⁓ and then his wedges, you know, he continues on with being full titleist, you know, ⁓ other than two clubs, ⁓ where he's got SM tens on his Fort 46 degree, so his pitching wedge, then he's got ⁓ 50, ⁓ 56, and ⁓ 60 wedge works. ⁓ and he's got F grind on the 46 and 50, S grind on the 56, and then L grind on the sixty. And then those he's got the dynamic gold S four hundreds as his wedge shaft, so getting a little more spin than you know what's in his irons right now. ⁓ Yeah, ⁓ Matt's given us some lessons in the past on all the grinds and ⁓ you know, these these Vokies are other clubs that keep making an appearance, you know, when it comes to wedges.
Dominic Colangelo: It's interesting too 'cause ⁓ up until PGA championship we hadn't seen any L grinds. The Wedgeworks, and then now this is the third one in four weeks. Very interesting.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it takes a good player to play the L grind. ⁓ and then his putter for the billionth time of the year. ⁓ we've got another spider, got the Tour X, now the torched finish, so the one that just came out. ⁓ and that they came out with that ⁓ paint look to model Rory McLaroy's ⁓ torched finish on his spider. ⁓ but ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: JT's has the like true path alignment that Rory's doesn't. So Rory's is, you know, naked with the the line. ⁓ but yeah, this the spider just won't go away. ⁓ you know, it looks like it's it's here to stay. Every other manufacturer is copying it. So, you know, the the spider and spider lookalikes are gonna be here for quite a long time. ⁓ and then lastly, his ball, ⁓ fun one here with the Pro V one X left dash. So they're higher launching but lowest spinning golf ball. So ⁓ you know, that kind of matches what he's looking for with those wood shafts being high launch, low spin. ⁓ and he's trying to match that with this golf ball. ⁓ some say the the left dash feels too hard for them on short game shots, ⁓ compared to say like the Pro V one X. ⁓ you know
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Kevin Spisak: they'll not like the feel, but you like it with like long woods. ⁓ but you know, some people if you are looking to control your spin and not overspin stuff, that is the ball for you. So pretty cool bag for JT.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. And that that was a Yeah, pretty straightforward bag, I feel like, too. Like nothing nothing too flashy, nothing too like there's a lot of tinkers out there, which nothing wrong with it. But ⁓ yeah, like the the only quote weird thing would maybe be the seven wood in there. But like you said, that's kind of the the rage nowadays.
Kevin Spisak: Mm. Yep, yep, yep. A pretty straightforward bag. And, you know, we talked about Nellie Corda's bag in the past. You know, her bag is like really bizarre because she has like the Ventus red, black, and blue all in her bag. So she's looking to do something different with each shaft, with each club. ⁓ you know, where most people don't do that. But she's like one of the best golfers in the entire world, male or female. So yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Huh. Gosh. I know. Yeah, we have no place to talk about that. Which ⁓ we we can talk about her a little bit later. ⁓ I we should talk about the tournament, which ⁓ like we talked about a little bit, the ending was very fun. ⁓ it's always fun when people are battling when there's a chance for a five person playoff. No one can be mad at that. ⁓ and you know
Kevin Spisak: Who are we to say what she's doing is weird. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: I don't know if it's hot take or not, but it's it is fun when someone who doesn't normally win wins. When it's not one of those big names.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, I I agree. And ⁓ you know, it's it's good to see like someone's career like blossom like JT's has and you know, had a newborn come out and congratulate him again with with it so his second child. ⁓ but we, you know, kinda unintentionally followed him. I think it was at the Valero, Texas Open a couple of years ago. He was playing with the person that we were there to go see. ⁓ And he seemed like a really nice guy while we were there. So it was it was cool to kind of recognize him and have seen his game before in person. ⁓ but I I should rewind a little bit on you know, saying the like who won it versus who lost a thing on the playoff. Because actually ⁓ eighteen at Muirfield took over the number one hardest hole on the PGA tour for twenty twenty six.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ nice.
Kevin Spisak: So it had the highest scoring average of any hole that they've played so far. So you could say that like making a par is is kinda like going out and winning it. ⁓ birding eighteen is is a tough ask. ⁓ so the the scoring average for hole number eighteen it was ⁓ four point three eight four. So point three eight four shots ⁓ you know over par. ⁓ for the for all rounds combined there was
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa.
Kevin Spisak: 20 birdies, 134 pars, 76 bogeys, and 20 double bogeys. So tough, yeah, 76 bogeys and 20 double bogeys. Pretty, pretty tough showing.
Dominic Colangelo: My goodness. That's insane. Yeah, those greens and the rough is obviously a a huge talking point, but it looked terrifying. Like it it just shows how good these guys are. And, you know, they had mess ups too, but we would have been a hundred twenty plus.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. ⁓ yeah. We would have been eaten alive for sure. But course is so hard. You know, just playing it on the track man, like I do. I've played it, you know, a whole bunch of times on the track man and I do absolutely terrible every time. You just gotta be so accurate with your T shots.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ really? Jeez. ⁓ yeah, for sure. That's ⁓ so w I'm gonna just gonna sprinkle in some of Matt's th ⁓ thoughts that he texted. ⁓ so on that vein of the playoff, he said that ⁓ Jack Nicholas he wanted to get up and go back inside watching those house cats make pars in the playoff.
Kevin Spisak: I don't know what that means. Like I felt like I had a similar response to some of your notes w you know, when there's like no explanation behind it. I'm like, what is what does he mean by house cats?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Whenever I was I was listening to the to the episode and I was like, you know, I probably should have given some some background on what I was saying because it made no sense. And then Matt just has a mind of its own. I I love that it's he calls my house cat. ⁓ he also agreed that Memorial is the best non major course. ⁓ there's so much history behind it and it it's just so much ⁓ fun to watch, but ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: He he also mentioned that Scotty is just a better and likable version of Bubba Watson.
Kevin Spisak: I also have no clue what that could possibly mean.
Dominic Colangelo: I I feel like I I might know what he means where he's good and wins a little bit, but then I mean, if he's saying that he's doing bad, his bad is tied for twelfth. You know, like whatever he finished, he's still top twenty and he's been top fifteen for the last five weeks. So I mean, his bad is everyone else's good, you know?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. I I get you know, he's better th I don't know. Yeah, better and more likable version than Bubba, like but Bubba's like, you know, curving the ball around stuff, playing the big power fade, like big you know, banana ball and hitting huge hooks and you know, the whole like Bubba golf thing. I don't really see like a correlation in their playing style other than like if you just call it unconventional, you know, because of Scotty's footwork. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: I I guess maybe that's the connection he's thinking. Like, you know, Scotty is unconventional with his putting where he, you know, uses a traditional grip and then switches to the claw when he gets close. ⁓ but outside of that, I'm not sure I see many parallels.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. I I would argue that Scotty Scheffler is more of a Patrick Mahomes. And follow me here. So both super hot start being compared to the debatable go goat of their sport. So being compared to Tom Brady all the time. ⁓ few massive wins, so Super Bowls majors. There's a s a slight injury that give ⁓ gives them a setback. One is an ACL, one is a wrist, a little bit different. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: You could even say going to jail could be an injury. Who knows? but now you can really tell that the announcers really want Scotty to do well because he's I think he was like four over at the time, three over, and then chips in this like four foot birdie chip, and they're just like, Yeah, Scotty like really cheering him on. Like we obviously we want them nobody hates Patrick Mahomes.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: People just hate the way the announcers talk about ⁓ And nobody hates Scotty. You know, it's that's that's my kind of parallel. But maybe maybe in a few years we might be agreeing with the Bubba Watson take, who knows?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I I think that's a pretty good comparison. ⁓ yeah, I'd say Scotty's probably one of like my favorite guys to watch right now, as you know, a lot of people would think. His rant on Ted Scott, his caddy, like about the wind. Did you see that? That that was a strange look, you know, just r grilling his caddy on the hot mic, you know, for the wind direction. It's like, all right, dude, like
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, that was weird.
Kevin Spisak: you know, same team here. Like w you know, I guess I guess you need criticism if you do something wrong, you know, to correct it. But like you just really was giving it to him and letting him have it the whole walk up to his his drop.
Dominic Colangelo: And then Ted Scott's like, I can't hear what you're saying. Pretty great comeback when you're getting yelled at. ⁓ what? What I I was ⁓ some some people are saying that like, you know, you compare Scotty to Tiger all the time, and Tiger would never complain about that, like on the course. And which is a good point. Tiger wouldn't say anything, he would just call off the caddy the rest of the tournament. You know, like ⁓ that sick HBO documentary.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah. I can't hear you. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ I I should remember the tournament, but it's whenever he was hitting and his his cleats were on the cart path, and then he like almost broke his knee when he turned. And then he's just like, We should withdraw. And he's like, We're winning this tournament. He's just like, I'm not listening to you anymore. He is still listening to him like with all the putts. It's definitely d different situation, but Tiger would just kind of go into a tiger mode and figure it out himself, where Scotty seems to be very ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: dependent, reliant on Ted, which who wouldn't be because he's incredible. He's a great caddy. But yeah, it is a very weird, interesting look that he he keeps outwardly complaining. And I don't know if he's complaining at Ted or like complaining that Ted is doing bad. Does that make sense?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. mm. I think ⁓ you know, I'll let me preface with this, like who who am I? You know, I'm just like a normal guy sitting on my couch right now. But, you know, Scotty in h all of his press conferences, you know, talks so much about like, you know, life is bigger than golf and you know, he doesn't care about, you know, this and that with performance and he just wants to be the best man he is and stuff. And then when he's playing and the TV's like camera showing him on TV, it's like, you know, he's like, you know, agonizing over putts and he's, you know, in his, you know, thoughts about, you know, the wind stuff. And when he hits a bad shot, you know, he he seems just like any one of us who get really frustrated when we hit a bad shot. So it's like, you know, on one hand, he's all like nonchalant, like golf isn't that important and then on the other hand he's like, you know, it's back breaking work, you know, to hit a good golf shot.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. That's very true. His his PR team is very good before his interviews is what we're learning. Scotty, we love you if you're listening, 'cause we know you are.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Still one of still definitely one of my favorites.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, I wanna shake your hand. so I did want to shout out Sam Burns. I feel like he's just he's really been in the mix lately. ⁓ I don't know I don't really know too much of his game, but I just see him kind of battling on those leaderboards in some of these tournaments. ⁓ did you see the ball land on the bridge on seventeen?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. No, I didn't see that one.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ so he skied the green. And if it landed anywhere else, it was I guess no, it could have been caught up in the rough, super thick rough, or in the little creek that's right there. But it landed on top of the little walking bridge that has like turf lined, and it just stops right on it. And then, you know, it'd be silly to take relief because then you're in thick rough. So he's choked up like crazy on it. And then the it's a very elevated green, so he chips from the bridge. And then it's a super hard shot, but he gets it on the green, which is really nice. And then I don't know the number, but it seemed like a fifty yard putt. I mean a fifty foot putt. So to go up and down, he hits it and it it's like a centimeter away from going in. But then he makes bogey on it. So then that takes him out of contention. ⁓ by one. So he like he could have been in the playoff by a centimeter.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ jeez. Yeah. Yeah. That is a tough scene. Yeah, good on him to get that on the green. Yeah, he's he's a very good putter. ⁓ I think he may have like led the PJ tour in strokes and putting last year. I think I think I'm if I'm remembering correctly.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. ⁓ really? Yeah, look that up because same green, ⁓ Gerard hit I think it was like forty foot putt for a birdie and it was electric. He hit it and then I'm assuming he was looking at his caddy, but he's just like, Yeah, come on like pointing at him. But he was he was a little active and a little feisty with the crowd this tournament.
Kevin Spisak: Mm. Yeah, Sam Burns was ⁓ he he led the to the tour in strokes game putting last year, and this year he's fourth. Can you guess who number one is?
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, nice, nice. ⁓ In which category?
Kevin Spisak: Strokes gained putting. Just putting. Whew. And number six. That's another good one. Yeah, for this here.
Dominic Colangelo: And this is for this year? Would it JJ? ⁓ No. JJ Spawn, sorry.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ I don't know who JJ is. ⁓ no JJ spawn that would be wild if he was that high up and went through a putter change. ⁓ Vince Whaley.
Dominic Colangelo: So who's number one? ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Exactly. And then number six is your boy Matt Couture.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Ooh. We will get into Matt Couture later. I tell you what. ⁓ so that's that's kinda all I had for ⁓ for memorial. ⁓ did you have anything else?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. No, that's it for memorial.
Dominic Colangelo: So we we slightly touched on Nelly Corda and I think it's time to talk about her. unreal what's going on this year, especially after last year when she didn't win a single tournament. So she's now played in eight tournaments, and she has been either one or two in seven of them. And the one time she was not one or two, she was tied for eighth. Which is just unreal. It makes no sense.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ going into Matt's notes, he said, and I 100% agree with this, he said ⁓ we need to put Nelly on the Ryder Cup team. I think that'd be sick. Yeah. And like, what if we just get a woman spot on each side? I'm sure Europeans can find it'd be hard for them to choose, because there is a lot of great golfers, but that'd be kind of fun to to see that.
Kevin Spisak: That would be awesome. Yeah. That would be awesome. I would absolutely love if there was like more mixed events. ⁓ you know, if the Ryder Cup did something, or if the President's Cup was like totally mixed, you know, if it was fifty-fifty men and women, I think that would be cool because there are a ton, you know, of phenomenal, you know, Pacific ⁓ you know, golfers that would be on the world team and such.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. That's actually yeah, that's a good point where like why not use a president's cup to do it? It's essentially the same thing. So like that could be kind of a fun little twist and keep the router cup the same. ⁓ Matt Matt said that Nelly missed the putt on eighteen, but Jesus willed it in.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Ha ha
Dominic Colangelo: I I think she thought that too, the way she reacted to that. I there's no way that should have stayed in. That was crazy.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah that Yeah, the look on her face was priceless.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. So in the LBGA, there's a a huge ⁓ point of contention going on where s ⁓ PGA, you win all four majors, it's a career grand slam. In the LPGA, there's technically five majors, but they're giving people the career grand slam if you win four of them. Which In theory, on paper, it makes sense because four Grand Slam, you know, makes sense. But then if you win the all five, which only one person has done, Carrie Webb, then it's the career super grand slam. And I just feel like there there's gotta be another name that can be created from this. ⁓ I don't really know what it is, like whether you pull from a sport that includes fives or You know, I was even thinking like you could name it after Carrie Webb, like the Carrie Slam or the Webb Slam. ⁓ getting webbed. I'm gonna I'm gonna go through some of these. The the Pentagonal Palooza, the career pentachlon, ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Nice. Did you come up with these or these AI?
Dominic Colangelo: There was the ⁓ the getting webbed was AI. And then this one is AI, but I think this actually could be really sick. Just go way overboard. The ultra mega grand slam.
Kevin Spisak: Nice, nice. Nice.
Dominic Colangelo: But yeah, the the Fab Five, Career Fab Five, if we're going basketball, the ⁓ pentathlon, the Career Five Guys, Burgers and Fries, presented by Wendy's. The ⁓ the Quintuple Crown, that could be cool. And then I was thinking like, you know, majors, military, then you can kind of work in some kind of like military rank, like
Kevin Spisak: Okay. Okay.
Dominic Colangelo: Like the corporal crown or something or five star major, which that one seems a little on the nose. And then ⁓ th then I was thinking the general slam, 'cause it's five spots above a major, but then that more sounds like a breakfast item. So I was like, meh. I don't want to do that one.
Kevin Spisak: I think all of them remind me of a breakfast item. I just keep thinking of Denny's.
Dominic Colangelo: Just super cheesy. Does it doesn't really make sense? Did you did you have any ideas?
Kevin Spisak: I think you stole every single one of mine. I was gonna s say all of those exact same things. No, I everything that went through my head, I was like, This is dumb. It's not better than like, you know, super mega or ultra or, you know, whatever whatever word to add on to the beginning.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it it's hard to think about it 'cause I was I was kind of poking fun, like, this is such a lame name. And then you try to think of names and you're like, ⁓ boy, these suck.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you c you could do like the Pentagon since it's like you said like the five star, you know, general or whatever. I don't know how the ranks work, but
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ but I like that. The career pentagon. That's actually sick. LPGA, I know you're listening. That'd be great. Trademark. You have to pay us for the rights on one. So Nelly Corda, she currently has the KPMG women's PGA championship. She has two Chevron championships. And then now the women's open. So ⁓ she has a couple options. She can win the Amundi, Amundi.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: the Evian Championship or the AIG Women's Open. So I think a lot of people would say four counts as a grand slam. There's some golf purists out there that say you have to win five. But again, if only one person has done it, then that's like upper echelon kind of stuff. You know? So I think she could win both. At this rate, is she gonna get outside the top ten ever? Who knows?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. She's got ⁓ T two at the British Open in twenty twenty four and then T eight at the Evian twenty twenty two. ⁓ you know, and has won the last two majors, right? So ⁓ you know, she is certainly flying high and on the top of her game right now. It it seems inevitable that she'll win the next you know, the British Open in the Evian sometime. She's just playing too good.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah. My my big question is how many how many girls do you think are gonna be named Nelly in the next ten years?
Kevin Spisak: Or boys. Shout out Stl.
Dominic Colangelo: Or boys. They they they come out of the womb with a little sticker under their eye. Like
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, definitely.
Dominic Colangelo: Also, I think I said corporal is higher than major, and I think that's very wrong. I think it's colonel. Nah, whatever. Don't come at me. Colonial
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ no.
Dominic Colangelo: So moving into the RBC Canadian Open. ⁓ that's the next tournament going on. It's up in the Great White North TPC Toronto at and again, my pronunciation is just garbage, but the Osprey Valley North course. ⁓ do you know much about this course? They've they played it one time ⁓ last year or two years ago, and that's kind of the only time.
Kevin Spisak: Canada. Yeah, wasn't it at Hamilton Country Club before?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, I'm not too familiar with this tournament in general. ⁓ but doing some research, it's par seventy, but it's seventy four hundred yards, which is bonkers. Yeah, there's ⁓ it was recently renovated to basically to fit towards the PGA tour so they would play there more often. and it's weirdly similar yardage to Shinnecock.
Kevin Spisak: That's insane.
Dominic Colangelo: So it seems like a little bit of a tune up for some of these guys. And ⁓ the other the renovation includes six of the twelve par fours are over four hundred and eighty yards. Which is Yeah. So there's 12 par forests. Six of them are over four hundred and eighty yards. Unreal. So ball striker bombers course. It it really rewards like T to green type players. I don't really know like the layout. Like, is it gonna be like if if you're off, if you're bombing the mess out of it and not really like spraying and praying.
Kevin Spisak: Sorry to say that again. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: like people thought ⁓ the mink was gonna be, then are you gonna be in trouble? Like are is the rough long? Is like there's so many things that can happen here, I feel like.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I think Matt is our, you know, golf course expert. ⁓ so we'll have to see what he thinks, you know, next week after ⁓ after the tournament. But it sounds, you know, there's long long yeah, gotta be accurate. You know, there's there's plenty of, you know tough spots to land in, you know, if you're not in the fairway. ⁓ you know, I think I think keeping your ball under control, you know, when you're when you have an errand drive is gonna be absolutely crucial. ⁓ do you know Th so this is the th the second time they're playing at at this course. and it looks like yeah, in twenty twenty seven they'll be back. So it they it could be cool to, you know, have the Canadian open, you know, have some staying power at a specific course. But Toronto's basically the the United States, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Sure, some Canadians would be mad at that, but
Dominic Colangelo: Fine. We don't We're more focused on our Norwegian listeners.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, exactly.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it'll it'll be fun though. ⁓ so last year Ryan Fox won and we just talked about Sam Burns. He lost in a playoff. And an interesting note about last year was none of the top five finishers last year were in the top forty five of around the green play. So like up and downs, chipping, putting, like very interesting stat there. So I think that really rewards approach play ⁓ and hitting maybe. I don't know. It seems like a very interesting kind of kind of stat there.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, that is a a very interesting stat there that, you know, around the green play wouldn't be like a premium. ⁓ you know, I I guess with it being so long, you know, you just gotta be, you know, accurate, having fair ways into greens and not missing greens, ⁓ you know, to have a to win. ⁓ looking at the hardest holes on the PJ tour for twenty twenty five, ⁓ TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. Number 17 was the hardest hole of the course last year. ⁓ and that was forty-first ⁓ for the whole season. ⁓ so that was point two seven seven shots above par. ⁓ you know, so compared to some of the other courses we've talked about this year, doesn't look like ⁓ it has any of those like really wow like There's six extremely hard course or hard holes on this course. ⁓ but you know, it's long enough to create a challenge for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, it'll be fun to see how it translates. If it translates, I guess is a better way to say it. If it translates into Shinnokok and just how they how people approach it, you know, kind of testing things out this week, knowing that maybe you're not you might not do too well, but you can kind of practice for the US Open like a lot of these guys are. Yeah, it'll be fun.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ I think that'd be a good segue to talk about trivia. You wanna go into trivia? so this this one is this one's brought to you by AI because I needed some help crafting a question and I feel like this is perfect one. So ⁓ I didn't know this. Feel like I should have, but do you know what the triple crown is in golf?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Let's do it. Mm-hmm. In golf? Is that the trivia question? ⁓ okay. Triple crown in golf. ⁓ would that be would that be the the last three playoff tournaments? Okay.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. It'll make sense once I tell ya. No. So ⁓ that's the winning the countries open, so the Canadian Open, the US Open, and the British Open.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ okay.
Kevin Spisak: So ⁓ the the triple crown has only been done by sorry, and that's in the same season. ⁓ so that's only been done by two people ever to win Canada, ⁓ US and British Open the same season. One of them is obvious. Tiger Woods in two thousand. Can you name the other one? I'll give you a hint. It was in the seventies. And as always, if you get it right, I'll chug a beer.
Dominic Colangelo: Boy. Shoot. Is it an obvious one?
Kevin Spisak: It's someone you know.
Dominic Colangelo: Give me like ⁓ Ernie L's?
Kevin Spisak: In nineteen seventy one. I think Er Er Ernie Ellis was like a child.
Dominic Colangelo: I don't know. I know, I was like, that's it's gonna sound horrible. What about ⁓ yeah. It wouldn't be Jack.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ it's not Jack, but it's a good guess. Is Lee Trevino?
Dominic Colangelo: Ooh. Yeah, that that Ernie Ells pick that seems pretty pretty fucked up.
Kevin Spisak: I kept I still look up when he was born now.
Dominic Colangelo: It was like I as I was saying it, I'm like, he literally played with Tiger. He did and he played it he played recently.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ He was born in nineteen sixty nine. Two years old. He wins the Canadian, US and British Open. What a phenom South African.
Dominic Colangelo: Man, that's impressive. That's impressive. I think I'll chug for that one, that's bad.
Kevin Spisak: His his parents must have been loaded to be able to fly their two year old from South Africa.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. ⁓ boy. All right. That was gross. Well, I'm dumb. But that's okay.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, your second guess was better.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. We'll use my second guess. We'll just we'll we'll edit it out. It'll sound way better. ⁓ so in other news, I have been traveling for work and I've been playing some very fun golf courses lately, and I wanted to tell you about one of them. ⁓ L' Lasonia Golf Course in it's kind of like central Wisconsin. It's in ⁓ it's called Green Lake, which the entire time I was replaying holes quotes in my head. ⁓ so
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ yeah? Where'd you play?
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ shout out Gimme Golf. They had an incredible video. It's on YouTube. Go check it out about this whole course. ⁓ Birch. It's he says it's his favorite course that he's ever played, and I can see why. It is so fun. It's very cool. Are you still hitting draws or are you kinda back and forth?
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ draws that become hard hooks, yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, well then you'll love this course as much as I like this course because there's no left holes. The the only dog legs are to the right. Yeah. So
Kevin Spisak: Like they're all rights. Huh. That is my kind of course. I gotta go play there.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it's a nice little handshake in the in the front. So ⁓ is three hundred and sixty yards. And there's there's a few blind shots, but it's not like it's not super blind. Like you can still see roughly where you need to go. ⁓ but you can hit a straight shot, but you can really cut the corner with a driver. So bomb it on the first hole. And then if you don't hit it correctly, there is a pretty big bunker in that spot. So like Handshake depending on how you want to see it, but I really enjoyed that hole. And then their claim to fame is their greens. They're all super elevated. And by that I mean not just they're higher or lower. It's literally like the green is on an island. And they tell you, they warn you, if you're gonna miss, miss short. So that way you still have a a solid, you know, ramp up to the green. And they were not lying. And it is so cool.
Kevin Spisak: Okay. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: It's very fun to play, very fun to look at visually. ⁓ I'm sending you a few picks while I'm talking. So the second hole is actually pretty blind, but once you drive up, you see there's a good aim point, super wide open, hard to miss. ⁓ that being said, I topped it really bad. Yeah, so I'm gonna pull it up on the screen as well. So what I'm showing Kevin right now, ⁓
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ geez.
Dominic Colangelo: So this is hole seven and this is it gets juicy on like hole six and seven. So actually I'm gonna I'm gonna go back. So hole six, downhill par four. ⁓ there are some bunkers in play, but you know, the there's one bunker that's like I think it's like three three ⁓ five. So for most people that's not in play. So if you hit one good, you're good. ⁓ all downhill and then the green is a thirty degree angle up or Whatever number that would be, 60. And it's it's ridiculous. It's a two-tier green. The pin was on the other side of it where and of course I landed it on top of the tier. So like it was one of those where you had to dribble it on top of the little ridge. And then it and it slides down the whole way. ⁓ but that's like those are so fun to do. Obviously, they they're hard, but like it's very fun. So then you go to seven. Seven is the picture that I showed you.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ slightly downhill par three. And if you miss right, you are toast. And again, the picture is so funny because the hill, I am 6'3, 6'4, and I look like an elf compared to this this this wall. It is crazy. And then I strategically did not show you the video because I I thought I would pop it up enough with my normal chip and like opening the face a little bit.
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha ha.
Dominic Colangelo: with like the distance, whatever. And I made it like halfway up the hill. It was bad. So I I ended up and then I had a good chip and got up and down, which is thank goodness, 'cause it was a ridiculous green too. but then between seven and eight, ⁓ Kyle had said that that's one of his favorite parts. And I totally get that as well, because it's ⁓ I think it was called Zimmerman's Parkway. And there's like a little street sign they made. But it is such a little quaint
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ geez.
Dominic Colangelo: Pretty drive. ⁓ like you're kind of in the surrounded by woods driving up. And it's a short drive, but nice breezy. It was a hot day, and ⁓ just super ⁓ kind of quiet compared to everything else. You're on one of the like on the corner of the lot, and then you come up, and everything just opens up. You see the green that you just played on, and then this one if you're if you're feeling bold, it's drivable. It's like two ninety. But it's around a tree. It's ridiculous. There's no reason to do it. So you just hit a little like a seven wood or a five iron or whatever ⁓ under the fairway. So that's super fun. ⁓ but then the back nine is super fun. ⁓ it's cut out of this massive plot of trees, and you can pretty much see every hole from every part of the the back nine. It's very cool. ⁓ so link style course. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Nice.
Dominic Colangelo: Massive slopes, massive greens, and ⁓ again, still elevated, still kinda punishes you if you miss. And then I did send I'll put up another picture of my my co-worker. He's he's in the bunker and we were joking. He was very familiar with the bunkers that day. And every single one, whether it's a fairway or a green, it was a a seven to eight foot like wall right in front of him. It was crazy. But All around, incredible course. ⁓ I'm definitely gonna go back if I have a chance. Like we were we had a meeting in Milwaukee, so we drove on the way. ⁓ the logo is very cool. It's it's very ⁓ simple. It's this like deer that's kind of looking back. ⁓ the I will say the polos, I was a little bit ⁓ not disappointed. It it seemed like a little bit like not as Like they could have done a lot more with them. But the like the head covers had like deer hide on them. They had really cool hats. They had all these other stuff. ⁓ so it was like a very fun f ⁓ clubhouse kind of vibe. And like the history behind the course is crazy. So that seven green I was just talking about, the course designer, he this is back in like the twenties or thirties, if I remember correctly. They're they're one of the few or first people to use ⁓ heavy machinery to put courses together. And they're driving on the road and they saw a abandoned box truck. So think like a, you know, like a dump truck or whatever. So they ⁓ hitched that out. They got it to the course and that box truck is where that seven green is. Yeah. So they put the box truck there and then covered it in sand and then that's where that green is.
Kevin Spisak: Really? Gosh. ⁓ my gosh. Jeez.
Dominic Colangelo: That's how tall. Yeah, that's why it's so tall. It's super creative. I think it's awesome. Mm-hmm.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. That is really cool. Yeah, I'm looking at some of the pictures on their website and it looks immaculate there.
Dominic Colangelo: Go check it out. Lasonia golf course in Green Lake, Wisconsin. The we get up to the we had a 9 a.m. tea time and we're going to pay. And then the guy's he just kind of very nonchalantly, he's just like, Are y'all playing or how much are y'all playing? And then in my head, I'm like, We're definitely playing 18. Like, why are we why would we play nine? And he goes, and then we he kind of realized we were confused and he goes, Are you playing 18 or 36? And I was like, Is that an option? He goes, Yeah, it's included in your tea time. Like, ⁓
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ wow. Nice.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. So if you wanted to, if you're doing like a I think there's probably been a few batcher parties out there. There was a pretty big group on one of the on the first T whenever we were making the turn. But I'm assuming that's a pretty popular spot to go play thirty-six for a day.
Kevin Spisak: Nice. It ⁓ is it pretty walkable?
Dominic Colangelo: Yes and no. Depends on how brave you are that day. Like I've I've walked plenty of courses that are they seem pretty ridiculous. ⁓ but the the carts included, they don't even ask if you want one or not. And I didn't see anybody No, I did see a couple people walking, but it was like I said, a couple. It really wasn't too many. But there's some like ⁓ Go ahead.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ looking at the pictures like it I don't see car paths.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it's it's one of those like mid very midwest course where there's a car path by the T box and then it just fades into the fairway. ⁓ do you have those in St. Louis?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I remember playing a ⁓ no, we don't have any of those around here. Or if you do, it's like a dog track that can't afford car paths. ⁓ I played a course in Michigan that was like that where the the ground, you know, is there's so much sand underneath from like this the sand dunes in western Michigan that, you know, water just penetrates the ground and it doesn't like swamp up and stuff. ⁓ so I you know, this course was like we played it right after a thunderstorm.
Dominic Colangelo: No way. Mm-hmm.
Kevin Spisak: And there wasn't like no then not a second thought. Like, yeah, you can drive the cart, you know, all over. It's like, ⁓ and there's no car pass anyway. So ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. St. Louis the soil here is just all clay. So water just pools and you know, it just becomes a sloppy mess.
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa. Yeah. It feels weird every time you do it. Yeah. If 'cause there's a there's a good amount of those here in Minnesota. So I wonder if it's like a snowy state kind of thing where, you know, concrete bends and cracks and raises and whatever with the weather. So I'm curious if maybe it's it's easier upkeep to just not have a fairway. 'Cause like I've played a course where they say drive on the rough and just try not to get onto the fairway if it's, you know, been rainy or whatever.
Kevin Spisak: Really? I think huh. Interesting. Yeah. Drive on the fairway. Drive on the fairway, 'cause you don't want to flatten down the rough, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Wait, I think I I flipped those. Drive on the rough, don't drive on the fairway.
Kevin Spisak: the fairways already flattened down. That's that's how I've always been yeah, always been taught.
Dominic Colangelo: That would actually make way more sense. I did have it right the first. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe it's just like a Midwest thing or, you know, snowy state thing, but ⁓ they didn't have it when we were there, but they have those motorcycle golf carts. I really wanted those to be out, but I think it's maybe later in the season they do that. I'm not really sure. But yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Ooh, nice. That'd be fun. Is this up by like Sand Valley area?
Dominic Colangelo: It's it's pretty close. ⁓ I don't have the exact but I wanna say Stan Valley's not too much of a detour off of the the main highway. I I was considering doing that, like maybe like a Mammoth Dunes. ⁓ 'cause I played that on the simulator a time or two. But that was a one we wanted to get back 'cause it's a six hour drive to Minneapolis. So then but then it's also like a three hundred fifty dollar round.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ damn.
Dominic Colangelo: Like yeah. But I've heard it's so worth it doing that.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ yeah, it looks like it's an hour away from Sand Valley.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ that's not bad at all. I'm assuming they must have done that when they did their Sand Valley trip, gimme golf.
Kevin Spisak: I I think they've gone there several times. ⁓ yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ cool. Okay. Yeah, next trip I might have to join them. That's incredible. So I think it's time for one of dunce. What do you think?
Kevin Spisak: It was a juicy week for one and duns. Juicy week. Matt tried to give you the shaft. Really tried to give you the shaft. I would have not been as as quote unquote mean, but that probably would have worked out worse for ya. So let's let's hear how your player pick went.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. The probably the funniest thing yeah, the the funniest thing that possibly could have happened happened. So as a quick recap, I was not on last week's episode, and I forgot to send in my pick and Matt was mad at me for winning again. So as a punishment, he chose my player and he gave me Matt Couture. ⁓ so going over picks, I had Matt Couture. For for Matt's choice for me. Kevin, you had Xander Shoffley and Matt chose Ben Griffin. So Ben Griffin, he missed the cut in a big way. Just just classic Matt. I can't like so Ben Griffin was what runner up last year? I'm pretty sure. Like he was he was up there, so it makes sense to choose him. And he it's something bad happened. I don't know, but it's a tough week for Matt again.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ and then Xander was killing it all week. And then on f on Sunday, it it just they slowly started to get closer to each other. And then at one I wanna say Kutra was on like fifteen or sixteen. He ended up being ⁓ two up on Xander and I was dying laughing. That was so funny. I was like, there's no way this is actually happening. So then Xander brings it up, he birdies two in a row, and then
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha ha.
Dominic Colangelo: Bogeys, Birdies, and then he's on seventeen and Shoffley and Kutra are tied. And then Xander goes par 17. And then I put my phone away for a second. And then I look back and he bogeied 18. So So final scores. Matt with Ben Griffin was ⁓ sixty-two. Kevin with Xander was twenty-nine. And then me with Kutcher was twenty two. So that brings our totals to Matt, a staggering eight seventy three. Kevin, five twenty six, and then I'm at two eighty five.
Kevin Spisak: It's insane that you're not at three hundred yet.
Dominic Colangelo: It it doesn't make sense. I don't know what's happening. And like, so let's see. I don't know what I'm gonna do for the playoffs. That's gonna be hard.
Kevin Spisak: Because you're running out of good guys.
Dominic Colangelo: Exactly. Like ⁓ I I haven't called them officially, but a while ago I predicted that Scotty's gonna win the Grand Slam at Shinnokok. So and y'all have both chosen, so it's not gonna be a surprise when I choose ⁓ in two weeks. So that could be fun if it really happens. But I've no idea. No. Haven't used Scotty, haven't used ⁓ Rory either.
Kevin Spisak: Wait, you you haven't used Scotty yet? Okay. Yeah, because I pre-bought Rory for the US Open.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yep. I'm curious what who Matt goes with there, but he'll be choosing first regardless, so that won't be like stepping on toes. So ⁓ so going into the picks for this week. ⁓ Matt sent in his pick, and he I guess he just loves going with the choose who almost won the year before, and he's going with Sam Burns.
Kevin Spisak: Pick someone just absolutely terrible.
Dominic Colangelo: Lost in a playoff at ⁓ RBC Canada Open and at the same course. So really not a bad option. Kevin, who are you choosing?
Kevin Spisak: I am gonna go with not my favorite guy, but ⁓ he is playing really well right now with his his brand new lead tape covered putter on Wyndham Clark. Wyndham Clark. Was that your pick? ⁓ that's awesome. That I know he'll do well now. Wouldn't it be something if I like stole your pick and then now he misses the cut? It's probably gonna happen. But yeah, he's playing
Dominic Colangelo: Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Yes. That sucks. ⁓ my gosh. That'd be sad. That's like the one week that he does, man.
Kevin Spisak: He's playing so well and ⁓ I was watching a video on him here the other day that ⁓ Titless Performance Institute put on Instagram that was talking about like when he tries to, you know, lay off his swing, he like gets all his like timing is all out of whack and his you know, everything is like totally out of rhythm. And the like coach was basically like par five and two You gotta let it rip. And then they were like, you know, have all the centers and they were tracking him. And they're they're like, you know, be an athlete, go after this one. And then when he like tries to, you know, swing real hard, everything's like perfectly in sync and in rhythm. And he's like a way better player when he swings hard. So, ⁓ yeah, just seeing that, seeing how he's putting, you know, we saw him when he won the other week. He's just letting that driver, you know, he's just wailing on it. ⁓ Yeah, I think ⁓ he'll he'll do well in Canada with with this long course.
Dominic Colangelo: I like that. Yeah, I was gonna say he he definitely found something. Whatever it is, he found it. So if he can continue to do that, like you said, just keep keep that in his ear of don't be soft on it. Like that could be fun. He really came out of nowhere too. Like that that could be fun. I mean, like you said, not everyone's favorite player, but I don't think he's our least favorite player. You know, like he's just kinda middle of the road.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. He's not Patrick Reed for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Kevin Spisak: Is that
Dominic Colangelo: I think ⁓ Matt Matt would go, Hey, easy.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ Never understand why he likes him, but alright.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. ⁓ okay. Love the pick. I do love Matt Sanburn's pick. That's gonna be good. ⁓ you took my Windham. So and I'm not happy about it because this my next one was a little bit of a not a Hail Mary, but a little bit of a value pick. So I am choosing the king of Tempo Town, a can a Canada native. He has played well at ⁓ like the the long ball courses like ⁓ valero ⁓ and some of the majors and he's very good at the the iron play and his name is Corey Connors. He finished last week at dead last after making the cut and he was plus eighteen. So we'll see he was he was eighteen over at the end of the tournament.
Kevin Spisak: Nice. What?
Dominic Colangelo: That's why I'm a little bit worried, but like like we just talked about, it is an incredibly hard course. So it's one of those where he just couldn't figure it out, you know, and I'm not gonna knock him for it. I think he's gonna at least make the cut here. So I just have to outlast Matt. I'm good.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ my gosh. Ha ha. Yep. Th you just have to outlast both of us, which I think is not gonna be a problem. Yeah. You know what would be wild is if we get to like the tour championship and you don't have anyone to pick.
Dominic Colangelo: You never know. With the major, that it could be bad. Yeah, that'd be insane. I'd have to really find something.
Kevin Spisak: But I I think that's so unlikely though, you know, that you would have used all of the top thirty
Dominic Colangelo: I'm kinda that's what I'm banking on though, is just like use good people now and then figure it out later 'cause hopefully I have a big enough lead.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, I don't think there's enough events, you know, before the tour championship that you're gonna like run out of players.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. We'll have to find out. It would be very interesting because, you know, two majors coming up. Could be a lot of points. Could be a lot of points.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Let's see. So yeah, between between this week and the tour championship, got three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen events. So yeah, there's no way you use all of the top thirty, you know, for what you've already used and then the next fifteen. Yeah, the John Deere Classic, you know, you're not gonna like you're not gonna have someone who's like
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: really up there, so make it fourteen events. You know, and then when we get into the playoffs, you know, with the the three ⁓ and Rocket Classic and Windham and stuff, you know, you'll have, you know, a huge pool to pick from. So I wouldn't be worried. I think you got this in the bag.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. I think you're using reverse psychology and I want you to stop right now.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ it's guaranteed. Lock it up. Give ⁓ the trophy now. I've
Dominic Colangelo: Shut up. I'm curious what Matt thinks about my pick if if he's listening, because he loves Corey Connors and I don't think he wants to root against that man. So yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. I f I forget, what did we say the win the winner gets at the end of the season for this?
Dominic Colangelo: think we didn't say the winner. I I think we said what does the loser do?
Kevin Spisak: Feel like we had some mistakes. ⁓ well yeah, what is that?
Dominic Colangelo: Didn't Matt say an ass tattoo?
Kevin Spisak: I thought I thought that was if he doesn't birdie like all four or every hole every hole on his home course.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ you're right. Yeah, you're right. We'll have to listen back, 'cause I have no idea. Yeah. We'll update you on the next.
Kevin Spisak: Well, we'll have to go back and listen. Or if any of our listeners remember, you know, shoot us a comment.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. All right, well if you made it this far, thank you for listening. ⁓ excited to to watch this upcoming tournament. ⁓ Kevin, did you have anything else for the people?
Kevin Spisak: All good. I'm just waiting for you to buy that Alley Blue onset putter. It's clearly working for Wyndham, you gotta get one. If Windham wins, you have to buy it.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ my god, that's gonna be a I was literally I was waiting for you to say that. I knew you were going to bring it up. ⁓ also to to hype up your pick a little bit more, Wyndham last week was he gained two strokes on approach and a three strokes on T to Green, which is exactly what we need on this course. Could be kind of cool. But all right.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, let me throw in one more bit about the Alley Blue onset to really just wet your whistle here. ⁓ I I saw a video that Ping posted that you know, the alignment line, so it's it's a line and then there's a dot, so a little space and then a dot. They got that from tracking like have you ever heard of quiet eye? It's like it's like you the your eye movements when you're like really focused on something.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay. Mm-mm.
Kevin Spisak: You know, you kinda like glance around and like when you're like really focused, you're just like locked on to something. ⁓ and they apparently they got that from like studying like snipers. So like apparently this like alignment line is like inspired by that and trying to like enhance your quiet eye so you like lock on to that alignment line. ⁓ and it's supposed to, you know, help you, you know, line up your putts. ⁓ and know, you know.
Dominic Colangelo: That's cool.
Kevin Spisak: Like, you know, again, just really like focus on your target. So I thought that was pretty cool. You know, th there's always like something that comes out that's like, this, you know, optometrist said that this alignment line is better, you know, the triple track and the true path and blah blah blah. ⁓ I don't know. I just thought that one was pretty cool.
Dominic Colangelo: I like that. That is fun. I I wonder if it's similar. You saw my phone screen the other week where these dots are on the sides and it helps with like motion sickness. I wonder if that's the same thing. Where it your eye knows where to focus on instead of like the everything moving in the background or on in the windows. I wonder if it's a similar like scientific dealio.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ huh. Maybe. We should go test one out. See how do. Yep.
Dominic Colangelo: Might as well buy one. All right. Well, follow us. Thank you. We love you. Bye.