Philly Cricket Club shows why location, venue matter to PGA Tour
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Hello and welcome into this edition of the Golf Show Podcast with Rex and Lav. Well, Sepp Straka is the winner of the Truist Championship for Philadelphia Cricket Club. Certainly showed out. Our minds are also, folks, on the PGA Championship, which begins in earnest on Monday, tournament week. It could be a soggy start to the week in Charlotte. Rex, happy Mother's Day to Bunk and all the mothers who are listening to this very podcast. What's on your mind?

this Sunday on the eve of the PGA championship. I'll let you jump ahead to next week and Quail Hollow and the weather report. I'm not going to touch that. I wouldn't dare step on your toes when it comes to a good weather report, since we've been texting about it for the last, I don't know, week, it seems like so.

I'm not going to get in your way on that one. I'm going to gush a little bit more, probably for the last time, at least this year, about Philly cricket. I don't know about you, but I probably watch more golf this week than I do in a normal week, just because I wanted to see the golf course. And the more I saw it, the more I became interested in it. And I started breaking down stats and I started doing some research and reading about it. It's such an absolutely cool place. And I think it's that golden age trick, right? Architecture. It's all the half part.

You start essentially with a half par four. It's a par three and a half. If we're being honest, it's, I think it's pretty on the short side for PGA tour players and it played that way. And then you get to the par three eighth, which plays to about a three and a half as well. Cause it's, I think today it was playing 256 yards or something crazy like that. And there's so many of those, uh,

peppered in around that golf course. I know this is a slightly different routing than what the members play, but what a cool spot. And I will say that coming off last week, and it's probably not the most fair comparison here because I don't want to beat up too much more on TPC Craig ranch. Cause I think you and I both took our turns last week, beating up on TPC Craig ranch, which is going to be redesigned by the way, but I've made this argument before. It's probably not going to help. Yeah, no, probably not. Uh,

I've made this argument before when it comes to, we start talking about the argument that it has the game become too easy for the top players. I think that's a ridiculous argument. However,

You can say something along the lines of yes, as the distance that they hit it have made some courses obsolete. This is a great example. Philly cricket club is a great example of how you don't need longer golf courses. You need better design golf courses because this golf course held up to some of the game's best players playing some of the best golf that we've seen all season long. And it was the greens. It was the rough. It was the undulations. It was how the fairways can't everything about it. I thought it was brilliant. I can't believe it. That's 16 under par.

Won this golf tournament with the very best players on the PGA Tour. When you had the early week rains on Thursday, it was seemingly record low scoring. I think the scoring average was sub 68, if not sub 67 on a par 70 golf course, which measured out at about 7,100 yards. I think everyone was a little concerned like, oh my God, they're going to just absolutely massacre this place. You know, one of the gems that's been around for decades

basically a century and a half, they're going to just shoot 2025 under par, even deeper, basically a Scotty Scheffler, TPC, Craig ranch redux. And I don't think anyone wanted to see that. And yet, as you saw the week go on, the greens got firmer. They were a little bit more baked out. The, the, the downhill putts were certainly scary. I'm with you. This was the first time that I'd ever seen it. I'd never been there in person. I'm not sure about you. I had never covered a tournament there. Loved it. Like the variety of,

Of the holes, there was a 95-yard par 3 on Sunday, the shortest hole in PGA Tour history. As you mentioned, like a 240-yard par 3 as well. The par 4s all had a lot of character. It's not a quirky golf course. I think quirky has a sort of negative connotation. I think of quirky, I think of like Tobacco Road in North Carolina, which is quirky, if not wacky. This is charming golf.

It seemed like a charming golf course, an easy walk. The greens and tees were close by, just like all the courses that were designed in this sort of era. Greens have a lot of shape and contouring to them. It's not overly taxing in terms of yardage, except for a couple of the par threes. And I think, obviously, as you saw the players come into the flash area, one after another, they were asked, should the PGA Tour come back

to this style of golf course? Do you enjoy playing this style of golf course? Should they come back to the Northeast? And I think obviously the answer is we're going to be yes. Like we absolutely should play more golf courses like this. The question is, why don't you? The question is, how can you make that happen? Because it's not just as simple as saying, all right, Philly Cricket Club, you were a smashing success. Let's sign you up for a 10-year deal beginning in 2026.

And this is where we are not this podcast, by the way. I don't know that you and I have ever spoken uninterrupted for five minutes about a golf course before in the history of this podcast. That's not what we do. But I think both of us can appreciate sort of the golf nerd architecture that brought this out. And to answer your question, it's a really good question. It's the experiment that I always want to do. It's always the fun thing that I feel like is the perfect sports radio thing to do. Because if you and I went through every PGA Tour event, go to every town and we can start here in Orlando.

for example, we can start in Jacksonville. You're adopted hometown. I would say TPC Sawgrass is not the best course in Jacksonville, Jacksonville beach, Ponte Vigil, whatever it is you want to call it. I would say, I would say, I would say Tim Aquana, which is a champions of Pablo Creek is an amazing place. I mean, there's a lot of really good places that you can play in the Jacksonville area here in Orlando. My hometown, Bay Hill is not, I wouldn't put Bay Hill in my top 10. I know that's kind of disrespectful, but,

to the King. And that's nothing against Arnold Palmer. He just probably tinkered with it. It has a bit of a Frankenstein feel after all these fields of him tinkering with it. And you could probably make that argument at every PGA tour event in every town every week. And I think the easiest answer is a lot of times the best course is not going to be the best course to host the event. And I am curious on the flip side of this, how the logistics went.

at Philly Cricket Club? How many people did they allow on property each day? Did they have to take a hit like the US Open did a few years ago at Marion and sort of cut attendance because you want to play these classic golf courses, but you can't have 60,000 people out on a tight, intimate, I think is the word you use, golf course. And so there are going to be trade-offs. And if it's going to be economic trade-offs, my guess is

the tour is always going to lean in to the side that no, we want to make maximum money. We're a business. This is all about making money, but you're right. We can have this argument about almost every town, every PGA tour event. Yeah. I think that's, that's certainly fair. And when I get roasted for having these takes on the schedule and when the week's

could, you know, sort of be utilized in a better fashion. I'm thinking like pie-in-the-sky stuff, where if you were blowing up the PGA Tour, which we keep hearing, Rex, that the PGA Tour is supposed to be not just reimagining their schedule, but basically...

clean slating this thing that the PGA tour of the future is not supposed to look like the PGA tour of the past. And if you were building a PGA tour sort of from scratch with a blank slate, I think you would first look at location and making sure that you are satisfying parts of the country that are, that are golf starved, say what you want about live golf. And I don't think live golf goes to the best venues, but at least when it comes to their domestic us stops, uh,

whether it's Miami or DC or Dallas, they had the Vegas stop. Like they're, they're at least Chicago for the, for the team championship. Like they're at least going to spots in the country that makes sense. They're not going to the best golf courses, uh,

in those cities, but at least the location makes sense that you could get a turnout. And so if you're the PGA Tour, I think that is one of the most important aspects is making sure you're going to the Northeast. Make sure you're going to Philadelphia. Make sure you're checking a box with New York City or Boston or Chicago. I know they had the Detroit stop, but like these are obvious to me that you should be checking off, particularly in the summertime. If you were going to maximize Philly Cricket Club, Rex, it probably wouldn't be

the first or second week of May.

Right. Like you, you would probably want to host this June and July. Yeah. I was going to say, you'd probably want to host this golf tournament in July. Then you would have the rough, an opportunity to have the rough, even thicker and even have more of a defense of the golf courses against the games of a player. I mean, can you imagine really firm, fiery, fast greens with thick four or five inch rough hitting into the greens? Like it would be an absolute thrill to see that on television against the games as players. We didn't have it this week, but I still think that it held itself up pretty well. But like,

The dark period of the PGA Tour schedule is the late spring and the summer. And I don't think they've quite optimized that part of the schedule where there's just so many ordinary, mundane, sort of faceless events during a time of year. Name names. Go ahead, name names. I mean, look, you can say what you want about the Travelers Championship. Like, should TPC River Highlands...

host a signature event on the PGA Tour? Probably not. I think it's a... Oh, no, I put it back on that one. It's quirky. It's different. It's a really good golf course. River Highlands is a fantastic golf course. I wouldn't go with fantastic. I don't see that ranked anywhere inside the top 100 on any U.S. ranking. When it comes to tour golf, fine. When it comes to TPCs, I'd probably put it inside the top five of TPCs. Like, it's a good enough golf course. I'm saying it's fine. And Travers is a good enough sponsor. Now, we can sit here and argue, is Hartford...

The place you want to go to have one of your biggest events? Probably not. There's a reason why the Whalers aren't there anymore. How about that? Well done. But I'm thinking of the 3Ms and the John Deers and the Rocket Mortgages of the world. We've talked about putting some West Coast venues. I think that makes more sense in June than where it's currently positioned on the PGA Tour schedule. If you're going to go to the Northeast...

Having that in the summer as well makes a lot of sense. It all goes hand to hand, right? Rex, like you need the location and you also need the golf course. But I think this was a perfect indication to get back to the truest championship that venues matter to the fans. It matters to who's going to turn out, but also matters to the players. They want to be tested. They want to have good showcases of golf as well, which is why I think this was such a smashing success.

And I would just want to circle back around to one thing you said about the idea of markets. Like, let's move on from golf courses for a moment and go to the probably the bigger conversation, which does the tour go to the right markets? And the answer to that is absolutely not. You don't have a regular tour stop in the New York metropolitan area or Chicago or Philadelphia or any of these big cities where you should have a regular PGA tour stop. And this is all about economic realities. I mean, FedEx.

wants one of their playoff events to be in Memphis. That's why it's so hot. It's a terrible time of year to play there. And again, FedEx is a fantastic sponsor. I'm not passing judgment on them at all. It's just a bad place to be. You can make the same argument about Eastlake for the tour championship. It's a terrible time to be in that part of the world. You could pick so many better places, but Coca-Cola, Southern Company, they're all huge sponsors and they want it in Atlanta. So all of these are economic realities. Yeah, it's just a little bit unfortunate. However, we will savor it.

we will relish it and that's why i think the truce championship resonated as it did with golf fans how about sep strokka rex now a two-time winner this season for pga tour titles overall you buying sep strokka european rider cup hero major championship contender where do you think he can go

I don't know about major championship contender because once you start sort of breaking down his stats, what he did so well at Philly cricket club is he putted so well, but then you break it down. He's a very inconsistent putter. It's not as though he regularly ranks inside the top 10 on the PGA tour relative to his

playing partners. However, when he's on and I had to go, I was at the American express and I had to go back and look at the stats and look at what he did there. And it was a very similar formula when he's putting well, he strikes the ball plenty well enough to contend on any golf course. Cause no one's ever going to confuse any of those golf courses out in the Coachella Valley for Philly cricket club. And he's also won down in South Florida, PGA national. I will be curious because he has had a little bit of success at

Quail Hollow. I'm not quite sure I would immediately put him, plop him on any list that we're going to come up with for next Wednesday's podcast as we get closer to the PGA Championship. But certainly he is the type of player that, yes, Luke Donald knows he has a trump card when it comes to not just Sepp Straka, but so many other players. Just fill those roles.

So well that you wouldn't necessarily think that, oh, they're going to be at the top of the marquee. It's going to be him and Rory and Shane Lowry and all the American heroes. I mean, all the European heroes. That's not the case at all. He's just a really good role player. I'm really surprised that Sepp Straka's major championship record is not better than it is just given his skill set, in particular, like the U.S. Open.

He went miscut, miscut, another finish outside the top 50. Sepp Straka's game is predicated on driving accuracy. And I know venues change for that championship. It's straight a little bit from what sort of your grandfather's U.S. Open probably was, right? With really tight fairways, really thick rough, and really fast greens. I don't think Oakmont is necessarily a great fit for Sepp Straka. But then I look back and say, yeah,

Shane Lowry had a huge 54-hole lead heading into the 2016 U.S. Open before he was eventually passed by Dustin Johnson and had a struggling Sunday as well did Shane Lowry. So that could be a good fit. We've seen videos that have already emerged from Media Day at Oakmont where it's just going to be absolutely punishing. And if Sepp Strzoka is repeatedly putting himself in position, I think he can get away with being not just an average player,

of average length in the PGA Tour. He's below average length on the PGA Tour. 137th

In driving distance, 13th in accuracy, one of the best iron players on the PGA Tour as well. Hello, Tito. Happy Mother's Day to you as well. I do like Sepp Straka in the major championships. I will be curious to see how he plays at Quail Hollow, which I think is probably a good segue to where we could go from here, Rex. Because, yes, you mentioned the early week forecast. God awful. Absolutely awful forecast.

According to my Apple weather, they're predicting 2.25 inches of rain on Monday, another three quarters to a full inch on Tuesday. And then it should should be blowing out of there by early Wednesday. It does not look as though the actual tournament rounds are going to be affected. But boy, it is going to be soggy.

is going to be saturated and an already brutally long test. I mean, having looked at the card 76, 7,700 yards is going to play even longer. Uh,

And that's fine with me. Someone asked me, actually my mother-in-law, we had lunch over at their place today. She was quizzing me on Quail Hollow and she was worried about the rain just as much as you were. I should have just given her your phone number and you guys could have hashed out how you're going to fix this problem. Because I said, it's going to rain Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. And I don't care about those three days. I only care. I only dial in on the fourth day. That's the day I need to start paying attention. And that's the day that it matters.

That it's not going to rain. But you're absolutely right. There's a stats guy that I work with, Mark Hortz, who's just brilliant at predicting things and coming up with whatever a golf course is, whatever the secret sauce is on certain golf courses. He's really good at discovering that. And I texted him later this afternoon and asked him specifically, does it narrow the list? The more and more rain. Oh, yeah. And his response was probably goes from 10 to 5.

which I thought 10 would be wildly low for a PGA championship because it has a tendency that 156 guys. I know I was a little surprised that he said it, but I get his point. Like when you talk about set being not even middle of the pack, back of the pack, when it comes to driving distance, what chance do you think he really has? And I don't want to pick on set because that was a brilliant victory. It's really cricket club. But what chance do you think he has on that particular golf course after that much rain?

I mean, probably not good. I'd be very curious to see who the stats expert would be winnowing down those five choices. Five seems very low for what is the deepest, strongest field of major championship golf. You'll get it on Wednesday. That's just a sneak peek. You'll get it on Wednesday.

Five. Five guys. It might have been some hyperbole along with that. However, his point is valid, where you and I both know that the list of players who can now win there is we can start with Rory, probably go to Scotty Scheffler. JT seems to be in just fine form. I'm not quite sure how you're going to rank those three. And then pick me another three to four to five bombers that who are in good form right now, have played well on that golf course before. And that's probably going to be the list going into it.

Yeah, it is interesting. A little bit of a quirk this year because it is a regular PGA Tour venue. We're intimately familiar with Quill Hollow. We know all the holes. We know the routing. We know how it's going to go. We know what sort of player profile fits. And yet, Scotty Scheffler, the prohibitive world number one and a player who's coming off an eight-shot victory, has never played.

Quill Hall before. He played it once in the President's Cup, a team competition. He never played, obviously, the PGA Championship back in 2017 because he was still in college and has not played the Wells Fargo Championship. Just falls at sort of a funny point in the schedule where the Texas kid likes to play all the Texas events. Last year, of course, he missed the Wells Fargo Championship with sort of celebrating the

birth of his first child along with wife and Meredith. So he did not play in the Wells Fargo championship last year as well. So like, I'm curious to see how Scotty fares. There's not a golf course on planet earth that,

in which you would not think that Scotty Shuffler can contend. However, I'm not sure even he likes the prospect of going up against a Rory, a four-time winner at Quail Hollow, a Bryson DeChambeau who's driving the golf ball better than he is, better than he has in his entire life, whaling away on that golf course, which is not expected to have overly penal rough, according to Johnson Wagner, who is a member out at Quail Hollow. What else, Rex, are you looking forward to as we spin it ahead?

to PJ championship week. I know you're flying out early Monday. I'm setting, um, my alarm for four 30 to drive up, uh, to Quail Hollow on Monday morning as well. What's got your attention?

as we look ahead to the pga well i think going again off the top of our heads trying to come up with some sort of list because i don't know of those three players that we just mentioned scotty rory and jt as well as jt is playing i think he's moved himself into the conversation and i don't want to be dismissive probably like a different tier though right like we're talking i don't know rory i don't know not on this golf course under these circumstances i don't know i think you can make a really good argument that those three would be one a one b and one c i don't know i've ever done that

It's a trick to go all the way out to one C before. However, only because it's at this golf course where he has had so much success and you look at the things he does. Well, there's a reason why he plays Quail Hollow very well. He hits the ball a mile high, hits it a long ways. He can pitch it well. He can wedge it well. All of those things matter on that particular golf course.

course. So those three are interesting to me, but there was one player that stood out. Well, two of them actually from the leaderboard to go back to the truest. That's interesting. There's two players really that are fascinating to me going into next week at Quail Hollow and one of them is going to be Xander Shoffley. And you and I probably are going to spend a lot of time over the next few days talking about him because of the struggles. We know that he went through the injury, the rib injury. It's taken him a while to get back to where he wanted to. I guess I did not realize how much he has struggled off the tee in the

in relation to how well he played off the tee last year and how much he struggled on the greens. He's outside the top 160 in both of those categories. He was well inside, I think, the top 10 in both those categories last year. I think what he was able to do, I think he finished and ended up finishing tied for 11th at Philly Cricket Club. What he was able to do well there that impressed me was not just drive the ball well, but he also putted the ball a little bit more what we're expecting out of him because I would think Quail Hollow would be a perfect test for him.

Oh, yeah. Most certainly. I mean, he almost won the golf tournament last year at the Wells Fargo Championship. Had a big lead before he got hunted down by Roy McIlroy on the final day. It has been sort of a slow burn for Xander Shuffler. I think I'm a little bit surprised that he has not put himself in contention. I know he missed...

You know, the better part of now three, excuse me, he missed two months. He's now three months into this comeback for consecutive. Now top 20 finishes. You mentioned the driving. It's been a struggle. The putting has been a struggle as well. I still think he has the tools to be the, to be a possible world. Number one player. Like he's that complete. He's that powerful. Now he has the enough big game experience and a lot of,

validation to get across the line. I'm just a little surprised he has not put himself in the mix yet. I think it might be a little bit

too optimistic to think all of a sudden he can put himself back in a major championship contention just because he, I mean, he has not had a realistic shot to win a golf tournament so far in 2025. And that's fair. However, I'm not going to be under the mindset that Xander's struggling and he's going to struggle until he proves this otherwise. I think I have a little bit more confidence in his game, not just what he did last year, but I mean, you of all people camped on him for every major championship for the Metapark

part of five years. So for him to break through and did what he did last year, I think this all goes to you're a little dismissive on the injury, I think, there. I don't think you can be... I don't think you can overstate how difficult it is from a golfer's perspective to have a rib injury, even though it's not...

It's not going to keep you from playing golf. It's not going to keep you probably from playing good golf, but it's going to be painful. It's going to be uncomfortable and you're probably going to start flinching in some times that you don't want to flinch. So that would be the one player that I looked at. The other one's going to be Ricky Fowler. He played well at Philly Cricket Club. You go back to his history at Quail Hollow, go back to 2017 when the PGA was there last time he finished tied for fifth. I like the way his game is at right now. I would kind of put him in that category that we just talked about with Sepp.

If we get all of that rain and Ricky is plenty long enough, but he, he isn't long. You're putting Sepp Strzok and Ricky Fowler in the same category. No, no, no. When it comes to the degree of difficulty on this golf course, like no clearly Sepp is here. I mean, Sepp's won twice this year on the PGA tour, but when it comes to the one thing you have to do well there, which is drive the ball and drive it a really long ways, Ricky's long, but he's not that long. I mean, story one, a B C D E and F next week is, is Roy McIlroy.

I'm whether he can check off a six major champ, all of those things, his second in a row. Yes, he is. He is one a through F. What about Jordan Spieth? You're not going to put Jordan Spieth in F. Come on. I think Jordan Spieth, when he saw that weather forecast was probably like a lot of players. If, if Horsey is, is narrowing the field from, from 10 possible winners to five, Jordan Spieth will not make the cut. Unfortunately, just because of the distance and the inaccuracy that he has coming into those greens. Yeah.

those distances from really thick,

juicy, wet, rough is not a recipe for success as it relates to, to Jordan's beef for Rory. I mean, I didn't take anything necessarily definitive away from how he played. I feel like cricket club. He was still hammering the ball. We knew that that was going to be his strategy going in. We talked about that on the Wednesday, Wednesday podcast. He was just going to take driver everywhere. He said it was very similar to how he played in Houston, where, when he was just swinging with reckless abandoned with the driver, uh,

he really struggled with his driving accuracy and just sort of seeing his lines.

He's looking forward to getting on a golf course like Quail Hollow, a little bit more tree-lined that also has sort of the defined landing spots. It's very generous in spots. It's going to be even more generous, obviously, with all the rainfall as well. I think Rory did everything he wanted to do this week from a physical standpoint. Now it's just about sharpening the mental tools, probably being a little bit tighter with his approach play as well. He struggled a couple days earlier.

with that affiliate cricket club. But again, the clubs that he's hitting into the greens affiliate cricket club, a lot of wedges based on how he was driving the golf ball. He's not going to have that scenario at the PGA championship. I'll give you storyline a and storyline B. I think once you start getting, but I will draw a line at C and D. I think I've had enough of your nonsense because you've leaned into this too much. Yes. We all want to see how he picks up this sort of this major championship chase now,

Because the narrative after he wins at the Masters is, okay, he's got the monkey office back. Now the floodgates are just going to open and it's going to be just like it was earlier in his career when he was just rattling them off. And we were talking about him catching Tiger or catching Jack. These ridiculous conversations that we always seem to have. I am fascinated. And this golf course certainly is right there for him. And because I think that's going to be the B storyline.

is his history on this golf course. I was trying to find the photo. It's one of my favorite photos, but they have the picture of his scorecard the year he set the course record. And it's right as you walk into the locker room at Coyle Hollow. And if you're 155 other players,

And I think that the line on the, on this oversized scorecard is if you're wondering what the, what the course record is, this is it. The first T is that way. And it's, it can be kind of intimidating if you're one of the, those other 155 guys sort of glancing at that every time you walk to the first T. So I'll give you A and B. I think there's some other C, D, E, and Fs that I would dig into.

namely Scotty Scheffler, the world number one. Scotty Scheffler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Speed. Eight-shot victory at the GOAT track that is TPC, Craig Grant. We're going to get into many more of the players on Wednesday. We do a full preview edition. This was just a sneak preview, folks, what we're going to be doing. We're going to have our ear to the ground. We're going to have our boots on the ground.

We're going to be pounding the pavement for scoops, trying to bring you guys all the latest information on Wednesday. Rex, what are your duties as it pertains to the PGA Championship and what you have to offer the people? I'm taking a flight because I live in 2025, and that's what people in 2025 do. They take flights to other cities, apparently, and not you. You decide that it's best to go ahead and drive, so I'm going to take a very early flight. I'm actually getting up an hour before you. I have to wake up at 3.30, so thank you.

Thank goodness we were able to knock this out earlier. I think both of you, both you and I have a litany of duties when it comes to next week. I believe you're sitting on the desk a few days and you and I will not be doing our song and dance for the early show because of that. I don't appreciate that. I feel like they're robbing the public of what the public really wants to see. But I'll be reporting Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then late live from with my man T. Lou at night.

Yes, I am on Tuesday and Wednesday. Part of the reason why I drove to Charlotte, other than it being just five and a half hours from my home here in Ponte Vedra, was I mistakenly thought that we had live from duties all week long. And so rather than schlep six or seven suits up to Charlotte on an American Airlines flight, I can say just pack the car, head north on 95, and all of a sudden I'm in Charlotte. However...

It does seem needless now that I have just two suits for Tuesday and Wednesday for this show. And I do want to point something out. You sent a text. I let it go. You asked, are we supposed to wear – this is really inside baseball stuff. I apologize. I'm pulling back the curtain probably too much. On certain weeks, we can wear Golf Channel shirts, the Foot Joy Golf Channel shirts that we wear. Other weeks, we have to wear NBC Sports shirts.

And you were asking which one of those do we need to wear at the PGA Championship. I don't know what the answer was because I tuned out. Because we're not wearing those things at all next week. You either wear a suit or you can wear whatever you want. You don't have to wear the uniform. You're not on TV. No, but if the camera catches me, I like to rep the brand. I like to let the people know.

exactly who I'm proud to represent. That's all it is. Plus, of course, we forgot to mention we will be doing mini pods. Of course, we have the full preview pod for the PGA Championship that'll drop on Spotify, iTunes, wherever it is you get your podcast, Golf Channel YouTube page on Wednesday. Then Rex and I will have the mini pods, 15 to 20 minutes if you're new here, after each and every tournament round.

Thursday through Saturday. And then on Sunday, we will do the full 52 minute edition made for TV on Sunday night from Quail Hollow Club. Always look forward to doing that. So it's going to be a jam packed week. Catch us on TV. Catch it with the podcast. Catch us on YouTube. And of course, you guys in the drill NBC sports dot com slash golf.

For all the latest news, notes, and updates, I'll have a Xander Shoffley feature that's dropping, I believe, on Monday afternoon. You can catch that one. We should probably sign off now with Tito going absolutely ham. Thanks for listening. Thanks for the support. We'll talk to you guys on Wednesday live. We'll follow. There's two contributors cutting it up.

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