If you spend a lot of time on the internet,
it does feel like golf is crumbling professional golf.
It's tough to decipher because when we're on the grounds of events, it's amazing.
Well, yesterday was slammed pack PGA championship 2024
made it here.
And now we are witnessing the very best golfers in the world.
And what's maybe my favorite time of the whole week
to come out and be on the golf course.
It's not a guy who was the apple of everybody's eye here, Ludwig Oberg.
Two months ago, I was at the players championship with him.
He was walking around on Monday like this,
not a soul song.
Nobody came up to him. Nobody stopped him
a
month after finishing second at the masters.
He is suddenly the guy that everybody wants to speak to.
Everybody wants his autograph.
You don't think a major championship can change someone's life.
Like again, we're seeing it right here. The sky isn't even one.
Take care. Now,
Scottie
Scheffler is here.
World number one has arrived.
What is your simplest piece of short game advice?
Just imagine a golfer he knows lost deep in the woods,
trying to figure out how to hit a simple web shot.
Oh, no, that sounds what you call
forward,
forward weight like anything, anything fall first.
What?
All right, I'll take it,
I'll take it
Monday at the PGA Championship here at Valhalla.
When you talk about Valhalla, how can you not speak about the last hole?
The 18th hole, a long par five tees off just over there,
bends down around a creek, split,
fairway into a green guarded by a massive bunker straight in the center.
But the interesting thing about this golf hole is not the strategy.
It's not the layout.
It's the history. It's what's happened here in the past.
Of course, you've got Tiger in 2000 chasing after his ball into the hole.
And then you've got Rory mcilroy here in 2014 in near pitch darkness.
Back in that 2014 PGA when Rory and Phil and
Ricky were trying to finish out here on the 18th.
It was just about darkness.
There had been a rain delay,
there were storms rolling in from just beyond the clubhouse and something that,
you know, you kind of always hear people talk about on golf TV.
It's much darker than it actually looks here.
It's because you can actually change the camera setting.
So it looks much lighter than it actually is when you're covering an event
back in 2014,
3 of them teed off and
played most of the 18th hole together because they were scared that the
horn was gonna blow before Rory had teed off on the 18th,
which would have meant he had to come back here on Monday and finish the tournament.
Then
the two players allowed him to play up with them just so that
he could start the hole and then finish out the hole before the,
before the round was over.
Rory. Of course, finishes with a party gets up and down from that front bunker
and
the rest is history. He's a major champion here.
He's got his fourth and his last major championship at the PGA.
And it all came in probably the strangest and most bizarre of weather
and timing related circumstances we've seen in
recent history in a major championship.
Yeah.
That one
that passed along
this gift to you from the Augusta National Pro Show.
Oh, sweet
little Augusta National Journal. This is awesome.
James won the media lottery to play Monday after the masters.
But on
Saturday morning, I said, we're both entering whoever loses,
gets a present from the winner.
And I agreed and I would like to be clear that Sean said,
Sean said seconds after I won the lottery that I
was gonna buy him the cheapest gift I could find inside
inside the pro shop.
That is, that was not the cheapest gift in the pro shop. I would like to be clear
handmade in Italy,
eight o'clock and this is probably the nicest,
it's gonna be because it's gonna rain all day.
Word is that all the players are on the driving range now because they realize
it's gonna be down pouring and lightning and thunder in the afternoon.
So like they're getting their work in now,
Scotty
Scheffler, New Father, we get to talk to him today,
but he said like he made a point to get to Valhalla Monday
because he knows he's not going to get any practice in today.
Good.
Thank you.
Here comes Jordell,
help.
You know,
if
a stronger player
driven part of the board,
if that's empowering or if that's at all distracting to
your other job of trying to win golf tournaments,
it's just balanced. It's not, it's not player driven.
Um,
so we just got it.
You guys have got to stop saying that, like, it's not the case,
Jordan as a dad who's a golf pro.
What advice would you give to Scotty Shuffler?
I think it's probably the number one piece of advice you guys would,
would say is don't tell someone else how
to parent because everyone does it differently.
And,
um,
it's, uh, I'm glad everything's gone.
Well, and, and they're doing great there at home and,
and, and, and he's able to be here this week.
Just, just how much, uh,
like
time it's gonna take Scotty to get back into like, ok, I'm in tournament mode.
Yes, you
took time off to have a kid but you, like, took time off like,
it's been weeks since he competed.
Um,
it does take these guys a little bit to flip it back on.
Like,
I could totally see him going out
in like, one over par
in the first round in the, like the front nine
and then shooting like 300 in the back. Settling in. Ok, that's two under.
Now we go and then going low on the weekend.
First of all, congratulations.
And how have the first few days of father had been?
Uh, yeah, first few days have been nice.
Um, it was good getting some, some time at home. Um, but
yeah, yeah, it's pretty wild. A lot of fun.
Um, it's a pretty exciting time for MEREDITH and me. Um,
but as far as this week goes, yeah, excited to be here, excited to play,
be here and compete.
You know, this is, uh, you know, it's a major championship week and, um,
you know, this is what I, I practice and prepare for, is to play,
play my best at these events. And, you know, hopefully
the trend will continue.
Max as a, as a golf pro. Who's a dad? What advice would you give to Scottish Shuffler?
Be really nice to your wife.
Uh, find a thing
that you're, you,
you, you are good at, you can help as best you can
watch your back
dad back is a real thing.
I mean,
I'm sure he'll just be giving me advice soon because he's so good at everything.
He and MEREDITH are fantastic, you know, having
their, their first and
those are, those are, as we are, all of us who have had
Children.
Uh, those are some tough years and
ahead of them. Uh,
as I said, uh, trying to get some rest and
as much as you possibly can, I mean, he's number one player in the world
and
having a great stable family life at home. Um, it is important to
having a great life, uh, out here on tour.
All right, just heard from
Woods for the first time this week.
Um, spoke a little bit about the fact that, uh,
we have had a high profile departure on the PGA tourist policy board last night,
Jimmy Dunn, Jimmy and the amount of,
of work and dedication that he put into the board and to the PGA tour.
Um, it's been incredible and, uh, it was a
bit surprising that, uh, he resigned in
well yesterday and just how it all came about.
Um, but no, his role and his, his help then what he's been able to do for the PGA tour.
Uh, it's been great
people who watch golf need information.
They need to know what's happening with their sport
to be incentivized to keep watching on TV.
We're seeing that that's not really happening anymore. So
I guess I'm not terribly surprised that he didn't say very much,
but I'm a little disappointed too because
I was I was hoping to get
a little bit more than I think we received.
So you guys keep saying the other side.
But I'm still a PGA tour member, whether it's suspended or not.
I still want to support the PGA tour. Uh,
and I think that's an important distinction to make.
I, I feel like I haven't really been too involved for a while.
I just, um, I'm just trying to play as, as good a golf as I possibly can and, um,
and try to win golf tournaments, that stuff's very important.
But to me it's not as important
as winning major championships and winning tournaments.
And,
um,
if I could choose which one, II, I know which one I'd choose.
So that's the thing I think I need to give attention to.
Ok.
Yes,
I
do.
It's like
we had the best,
best Masters weather I think we've had in the last like 10 years this past in April.
It was perfect that entire week. That course, get so crispy and firm.
And now this week it's like just gonna rain
all week as payback for that. Did you see those approach shots in the 13? On the way in?
It
is like back pin on 13. It's a wet shot. The grass is wet,
the ball is gonna spin like crazy.
First one like bounces forward, checks to a stop 15 ft from the hole.
Second one hits the ridge spins like crazy rips back 20 ft,
you're now 40 ft away from the hole. That's a hard three put
like
it is, it is gonna be a spin control wedge fest on some of these golf holes.
And if you can't control your spin your loft, all these things like
you won't be coming close to the lead. It's still
a bummer if only because I gotta bring this freaking rain jacket with me everywhere.
Ok.
I find it funny that finally these people are leaving.
It's what,
five o'clock
on,
probably the rainiest day of the week.
More than a quarter inch of rain has fallen here at Valhalla.
And like, generally that stinks for a major championship but it
could not stink any worse for, like, the people who have tickets
to a day like today.
And I think that that's kind of what's going to stick with us on this rainy,
crappy Tuesday.
These people don't see these guys come to town often.
These people were,
they were out in droves on a Tuesday. We really couldn't even see much golf.
You know, they wore their golf shoes, they muddied up their
tennis shoes.
Uh,
they had umbrellas out like crazy.
They, they're standing in the rain asking for autographs.
I watched a bunch of little kids like
the signatures on their flags are all ruined by the rain, but they're like,
so stoked to see Xander
Shawley in person. That's kind of,
it's a kind of like wholesome beginnings of the week we haven't had a
whole lot of good vibes from this major yet because of the conditions,
Jimmy Dunn resigning from the PGA tour policy board.
News of Rory mcilroy's divorce, John Ram,
acting like he's still supporting the PGA tour.
There's kind of just not a lot of good vibes, but
at the very least the people here of Louisville have made it a good vibe because
they're showing up.
So,
yeah, I I it is troubling.
However, it, it's just difficult because we come here and this, you know,
yesterday was slam packed and it was awesome and
everyone just seems like in such a good,
in such good spirits.
I hope at some point soon we can just get back to entertaining people.
Hey, the uh the internet is loving the goatee.
Is it uh
is that a conscious choice or laziness? And, and is it here all week?
It's, it's the second, I'm definitely lazy.
Um So
I
cut myself this morning trying to trim it up. So it is what it is.