In our High Noon Happy Hour show, we chat Quail Hollow with esteemed member Johnson Wagner as we preview the 2024 Wells Fargo, answer some questions, check in on some guys having sneaky good and sneaky bad seasons, chat about Rory's comments Wednesday about him not returning to the board, and a ton more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 08, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 832
Four years after his first appearance on the pod, we welcome back Jim Nantz of CBS to detail the changes in the network's golf coverage, offer some context around the growth of the Masters coverage and infrastructure, Scottie Scheffler's recent dominance and the current fractured environment in pro golf. We also get some amazing stories from Jim's time on the road, his favorite meal spots at various tour stops, and an incredible story to close us out surrounding an encounter from early in his ca...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 831
Taylor Pendrith birdies the 72nd hole to win the Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch while Ben Kohles bogeys the final hole to miss a potential playoff. Meanwhile, at LIV Singapore (24:00), Brooks and Ripper GC win while TC's Cleeks made their first podium appearance of the year. We break down both events and a few other news and notes from the world of pro golf, Soly's trip to Bandon Dunes (53:00) before opening up the listener/reader mailbag to answer your questions (1:04:30). If you enjoyed this ...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 830
Coming off his first PGA Tour win and first Masters appearance, Austin Eckroat joins the pod to recap his trip to Augusta National, competing against Scottie Scheffler as a pro and during his junior career. We also cover his ascension up the rankings, playing into the Tour's signature events, managing his playing schedule and life on the road, and a ton more. fanduel.com/nlu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
May 01, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 829
This week on the recap pod we open with a recap of the better-than-expected-Zurich Classic where Rory and Shane Lowry win in a playoff. Then we call in KVV for a segment we've been workshopping all week in conjunction with the NFL draft: comparing pro golfers and pro quarterbacks and vice versa (24:00). From there we pivot to LIV Adelaide (54:00) as well as the LPGA at Wilshire, Rory's potential return to the PGA Tour policy board, tour players receiving equity, and more. This episode is present...
Apr 29, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 828
After winning the media lottery, Soly wrapped up his week covering the Masters with a chance to play Augusta National the day after Scottie Scheffler won his second green jacket. After some time to process the experience, Soly is joined by Neil and KVV to relive the anticipation leading up to the round, offer a hole-by-hole recount of his day on the course, and answer some listener questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 24, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 827
Nelly Korda joins the podcast (29:30) to chat about winning her 5th straight tournament at the Chevron, what's changed for her, the nerves of the final round, and the jump into the pond on 18. We also chat about the first women's major of the year, Woodlands, get a call-in from T3 finisher Lauren Coughlin (41:45), and discuss the coverage of the Chevron. We check in on the leaderboard as it stands at the RBC Heritage (1:31:20), the bizarre decision not to move up tee times, and other notes from ...
Apr 21, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 826
We are 36 holes complete at the 2024 Chevron Championship with two atop the leaderboard. Jin Hee Im and Atthaya Thitikul are tied at -8 with Nelly Korda 1 shot behind. Our very own Lauren Coughlin played tough trying to keep the momentum going after her opening 66. She sits at T5 with a host of others. We run down the leaderboard, discuss the other events going on, and close with our ESPN+ experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 20, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 825
A double dip this week as we preview the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town, and the first women's major of the year at the Chevron. We talk course fit at both places, our favorite Harbour Town memories, what's changed at the Chevron, Nelly's run, and preview our travel series that debuts tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 824
The ninth installment of Tourist Sauce premieres Wednesday night on our YouTube channel as we return to Australia where the first season of our travel series was filmed. Our itinerary for our return down under: New South Wales: 34:00 Bonnie Doon 43:00 Royal Adelaide: 53:45 St Andrews Beach 1:17:30 Lonsdale Links 1:30:45 Penn Kingswood 1:38:00 Cape Wickham 1:58:00 Ocean Dunes 2:23:10 Royal Melbourne 2:35:40 Kingston Heath 3:01:45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 17, 2024•3 hr 25 min•Ep. 823
Randy, TC and Cody are back with an LPGA preview pod as we gear up for the first major of the women's season with the Chevron Championship. To help us set the table for the week ahead, we call upon friend of the pod Justin Ray for some statistical research with his ten favorite stats from the dominant run of Nelly Korda who enters play this week winning her last four events. After our chat with Justin we look at the schedule for the week, some of our favorite potential storylines at the event an...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 822
Scottie Scheffler is now a two-time Major Champion, joining Tiger Woods winning The Players and The Masters in the same season and multiple times. He is the fourth youngest player to win his second green jacket (Tiger, Jack, Seve). We run through the day's events: Ludvig's solo 2nd at his first Major, a disappointing final 9 for Max finishing T3 with TommyLad, and Collin. Biggest stories of the week, a couple leaderboard rundowns, future Major predictions and more. We close it out with a lengthy...
Apr 15, 2024•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 821
Scott Scheffler is leading the 2024 Masters Tournament through 3 rounds. D.J., Randy and Soly break down the day's action with special appearances from Tron and KVV. Plus we welcome special guest Johnson Wagner to break down Scottie, the chasers Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Aberg, and Max plus what weird stuff he saw Bryson do today. We close it out by picking winners and Jordan and Soly's Champions dinner menus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 820
The Pro John Maxwell Homa along with Big Bryson DeChambeau and Scott Scheffler sit atop of the leaderboard at -6 through 36 holes. We break down all of the day's action to include Bryson moving signs, Zatch not cussing at Patrons, The Rib and J. Spieth's troubles and more. TC pops in to shout out the young Swede Ludvig and Neil runs our lingering or loitering game. We close it out with Neil and Big Randy's Champions Dinner menus and the debut of the new hit song "Big Cans." Learn more about your...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 819
The opening day of the 2024 Masters saw the artist formerly known as The Big Golfer jump out to an early lead. Bryson is one ahead of Scott Scheffler and two clear of Nicolai Hojgaard as round 1 is not yet complete. We run down the leaderboard, get caught up with Soly and KVV, call in Big Randy from the bullpen, try not to ice Max Homa and talk a little Tiger Woods. We close the show with some fashion takes and Cody and D.J. present their Champions Dinner menus. A ton of fun, a whole lot more go...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 818
We are back with the High Noon Happy Hour Preview show Augusta edition. We run down news and notes, pairings and featured groups, reaction from early week pressers and more. Plus our final picks at the end of the show on the eve of the first Major of the year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 817
Soly, Tron and KVV fire up our preview pod for the 2024 Masters with a look at what we're most excited for this week at Augusta and offer some darkhorse picks to claim the green jacket on Sunday. We also go through some listener questions, data points for the week, our Who Won't Win picks, the odds sheet, course changes and a ton more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 816
We have a jam packed pod this weekend as Akshay Bhatia wins the Valero, Nelly Korda wins the LPGA Match Play, and Lottie Woad claims the 5th Augusta National Women's Amateur. We start in San Antonio where Bhatia won in a playoff over Denny McCarthy after McCarthy's back nine 28 (!!) to force extra holes. We talk Akshay's career outlook in light of his second win on tour and try to make sense of McCarthy's incredible run of birdies before his chunked wedge in the playoff. We also talk Rory, Spiet...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 815
Soly and KVV are back with another deep dive episode - this time we look at four specific Masters tournaments: 2011 - a year famous for Rory's collapse, Tiger's Sunday charge and Charl Schwartzel's closing run of birdies to win 1977 - Tom Watson holds off Jack Nicklaus to win the first of his two green jackets (59:40) 1980 - After winning the Open the year before, Seve Ballesteros goes wire to wire to win by four strokes (1:38:00) 1989 - Faldo emerges as the winner in a playoff after Scott Hoch'...
Apr 04, 2024•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 814
We've got a busy episode tonight as Randy, Cody and Jordan preview the upcoming LPGA Match Play in Las Vegas and the 5th edition of the Augusta National Women's Amateur with both events getting underway on Wednesday. We also catch up with Stanford's Rachel Heck (1:11:00) to discuss her recent essay, "Why I'm Remaining an Amateur." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 813
Scottie Scheffler's win streak is no more as Stephen Jaeger wins in Houston by a shot over Scheffler and four others for his first PGA Tour win. KVV, Randy and Cody make sense of Jaeger's win, Scheffler's putting down the stretch and the comps to Tiger. We also talk Alejandro Tosti and Memorial Park before we shift gears to the LPGA Tour (39:00) where Nelly Korda won for the third time this year. We look at the dominant start to the year for Nelly, Lexi's close call, and some other news and note...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 812
Over recent months the phrase "improve the product" has become a crutch phrase for players, tour officials, TV executives, and virtually anyone with a stake in the health of professional golf. We try our best to actually define the phrase and its various forms, the biggest hurdles standing the way of progress, and what we view as most important to actually making meaningful improvements for the benefit of golf fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 811
Peter Malnati is the Valspar champion - his second win on tour and first in over eight years. We break down Malnati's triumph, plus a look at the week for Cam Young, Keith Mitchell and JT, amongst others - plus some listener questions. Then it's time for a great deal of speculation around the meeting in the Bahamas between the Tour / SSG and the PIF (43:00). After a careful review of the flight tracking data and how close - or not close - a potential investment deal may be, we move on to Nelly K...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 810
Randy, TC and Cody are back with another LPGA check-in as we recap the tour's Asian Swing highlighted by a pair of wins for Patty T and some other notable performances from the last three tournaments. Then it's time for a look ahead to the upcoming event at Palos Verdes and beyond as the tour returns stateside for a three week run of events before a week off ahead of the first major of the year - the Chevron. We also touch on the rumors regarding a mixed event at the 2028 Olympics and some other...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 809
Soly catches up with former PGA Tour pro Ken Green who has some amazing and hilarious stories about his career on tour, his numerous fines, sneaking his family into Augusta for the Masters and getting to play with the biggest superstars of his era. We also hear about the traumatic events over the course of his life which he has detailed in his book Hunter of Hope: A Life Lived Inside, Outside, and On The Ropes. Soly has an editorial note at the 55:45 mark that introduces this portion of the podc...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 808
Scottie Scheffler's final round 64 has us creeping into uncomfortable territory with some of the comparisons that we make. Plus, we discuss how Wyndham's putt stayed out, his last 12 months, who the top 5 players are in the world right now, what makes the Players special, and a ton more. Thanks to everyone who tuned in live all week, these are always a blast to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 807
Xander Schauffele leads by one heading into the final round of the Players, as we recap our day out at TPC Sawgrass, Wyndham's chunk, Harman's 65, Scottie's health, some course setup issues, and a lot more from Saturday at the Players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 17, 2024•57 min•Ep. 806
Wyndham Clark races out to a 4-shot lead. Will Soly's pre-tournament pick go on to win? We chat about a Friday out at TPC Sawgrass, Scottie's neck, what makes the Players experience special, Roger Maltbie, Rory, a fun trivia game, and a ton more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 805
The first round of the Players is in the books, Rory, Xander, and Wyndham all shoot 65 to race out to the lead, Vik and Jordan confront Rory about a couple of drops, TPC Sawgrass plays benign, and everything else from our day on site at the Players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 804
Our High Noon Happy Hour Preview show covers our week at the Players to date, reactions to Jay Monahan's press conference, Rory's comments, as well as Xander, Scottie, and others. We also make our picks for the week, what groups we want to follow, what hole at TPC Sawgrass we would tweak if we could, and a lot more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 803
