Takes

LeBron James is officially obsessed with golf

He is checked out. He's got the bug. He's officially obsessed with golf. I would like to see his YouTube stats... I think he's deep into the Pop Does Sports Universe. He probably watched the Internet Invitational.

Keegan Bradley not picking himself for the Ryder Cup is better for the team

Keegan wanted to pick himself, but he's taking, it's, it's, it was the right move, I guess to not pick himself for the team. It's better for the team and everyone can kind of rally around... you gotta win one for the captain.

Europe will win the Ryder Cup back in 2025

Of course I'm gonna stand by my boys and my team and say that, you know, I'm gonna go in with full faith in our team and say Europe are gonna bring the Ryder Cup back.

Tommy Fleetwood is now a better golfer than he is a human being

I think he's a better golfer than human being before today. Yes. Tommy Fleetwood was as good a golfer as he is. Even better human being. Yeah. Not anymore.

Tiger Woods stands alone as the best golfer the world will ever see

Tiger stands alone in the game of golf... He was by far the best player that I think we'll ever see in our lifetimes.

The rain delay at Oakmont was the only reason I was able to reset and win the US Open

When that horn blew my caddy and I looked at each other, we, we kind of just said, you know, this is exactly what we need. Kind of a little break to, to go back inside, you know, reset, collect our thoughts and, and kind of get a fresh start... I 100% [win the tournament because of it].

Putting is the most important part of golf and makes up half the game

I had always done kind of, I'd have kind of putting matches with my dad. And so I was already [good]. And that ends up being almost half the game. So I'm okay. Pretty good putter.

The best way to lower your golf score is to get good from 100 yards and in

If you wanna get good at golf, number one I'd say is get good from a hundred yards and in. 'cause then all your bad [shots] drop... get in the hole in three shots, you know, like you're gonna, your scores are gonna get lower so much quicker.

Rory McIlroy's Masters win was primarily 100% relief

It was almost all relief. And the thing that Andy North described to me... you feel so much more relief than joy... it was so obvious that sure there's joy in there... but clearly it was like, just thank God I did it.

Wearing an upside-down hat at Augusta is disgusting and beneath the tournament

I kind of agree with people who are like the upside down hat at the, at Augusta's bullshit. It's beneath Augusta. Yeah. And his defense, he was probably hammered... I saw the hat and I was like, this is disgusting. You can't do this to Augusta.

I will break 85 in golf by July

Break 85. That's my goal by... By July.

Rory McIlroy is back and this could be his year to win the Masters

My Who's Back of the week is Rory McIlroy. He's smashing. He won the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach. This might be his year... he might turn it around.

The Open Championship is essentially a 'Snow Game' in football terms

The open is a snow game. There's just so much unpredictability involved in a snow game. Maybe you can throw the ball, maybe you gotta run it. You don't know if you can depend on your kicker at all. That's what I look at here.

I have zero chance of winning the American Century Championship this year

I have zero chance of winning. Okay. In this... I've come this year with zero expectations. You know, I had a shoulder replacement in December, so I'm just getting that back... it's not pretty.

The winners of the John Deere Classic always stay in the same rental home in Illinois

For the last three years, each winner of the John Deere Classic has stayed in the same rental home in Illinois. Whoa. It's officially the trophy house. Davis Thompson, SEP Straka, JT Poston.

Three beers is the perfect amount for playing a round of golf

Drank three beers and then the round ended and he ended up in a playoff and won the playoff... he was like, three beers are gonna make me play perfect. Like yes. It's the perfect amount. It is... for the people that say like, I need, you know, you hit a bad shot or you have a couple bad holes. You're like, I need to drink three beers.

The winner of the US Open will shoot between minus five and minus one

No, I would like minus five to minus one. [to win]

Valhalla is a golf course that heavily favors players who hit it far and high

I'm looking at players to pick or favorites to kind of focus on, I'm looking at guys that hit it far and hit it high. Guys like Rory McIlroy and Brooks [Koepka]... but you gotta beat it forever and you gotta hit it relatively straight because the rough is gnarly.

The 2024 Masters feels like it is Scotty Scheffler's destiny to win

Scotty Scheffler does just look like it's a destiny. It looks like he is locked in on all accounts.

I know now that my great golf is good enough to win a major

I know for a fact my great golf's good enough. It just needs to come out the right week. So let's just hope it's this week. It's a big difference. It's, it's a little bit more calming knowing that like, it doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be good. I've done that enough times to know. I think it would be the pressure on Sunday, that would be the most unique thing. But as far as the golf goes, like I think fortunately I've lived enough of this golf, these golf like experiences to know like I can physically do what needs to be done.

Walking nine holes is the best way to experience golf

If you find a course and you find like a, a slot of time where You can walk, it's amazing. I sound kinda like the old like romanticism of golf guy... recently, within the last couple years I would walk nine holes, never 18. I'm gonna die out there if I walk. But if I walk nine holes, it's fucking beautiful. Yeah. Because in a cart you almost aren't looking at the scenery around you.

Masters TV coverage is a joke because fans can't watch it all live

Best golf tournament of the year. And we cannot watch all of it live in 2024. It's a joke. Put it all on TV or online. I don't care. But I wanna watch it Thursday morning.

The rule that disqualified Jordan Spieth for an incorrect scorecard is the dumbest rule ever

That Jordan Spieth rule was the, it's the dumbest rule ever because it's not even his, it's his partner filling out the scorecard and he signs it. That's stupid.

Doubling the first hole of a major is the best time to do it

If you're going to make a double bogey right. Might as well be that the first hole of the tournament when you have 71 holes to make it up or like Scottie [Scheffler] did the year before, do it on the last hole when you already know you've won and you can afford to do it.

I love golf courses that make pro golfers look as unathletic as regular people

I just love a course that makes everyone look at moments like they're us out there. Wyndham Clark had one of the most unathletic swings I've ever seen in my life... I bravo. Good job [Royal Liverpool].

Brooks Koepka at 18-to-1 is the best value to win the Open Championship

I like Brooks [Koepka] a lot this week. Whenever we go into these majors, he's right there with the top three or four guys... except he's whatever, 18 to one. And you've got Rory... at plus six 50. I'm taking Brooks Koepka, I watched his presser, he seemed incredibly confident.

Golf ball manufacturers should put tracking chips in balls to prevent loss

They need to make a fucking golf ball with a chip in it that you can locate on your phone when you lose it in the Woods or in a bush or in tall grass. ... Let's make a golf ball with a chip in it. We we're way overdue for that

My struggles in Majors are due to being too anxious and trying too hard

I can just tell I'm like more anxious, trying too hard... it's not a mental block. It's like I know what I'm doing but I just feel more like high strung, more wound up instead of just playing golf.

The winning score of the 2023 US Open will be 6 to 8 under par

I think honestly I think winner will probably be six to eight under.

A bomb disposal expert is the ideal person to be a golfer's mental coach

Having a bomb disposal, that's probably the best person in the world to talk to about remaining calm. Rom wanted to fix his temper because he has all these outbursts... and the bomb disposal guy was like, let's just not talk about golf. Let's just talk about your normal temper.

Brooks Koepka is officially back as a top-tier golfer

Is Brooks officially back? Is he back? Yes. A hundred percent. It was good to talk to him Friday... he's healthy and if he's healthy he's rom strong. Brooks is strong too, man. Unequivocally Brooks Koepka back.

Expected rain at the Masters will lead to low scores and lots of birdies

I saw a lot of rain next week, so you guys might have a tough week there. I think it'll be soft, so might be a lot of birdies. Big hole. I think 13 always plays, they changed it a little bit this year, but that one always seems to be really important... I think there might be [low scores].

LIV Golf will never be a team sport because golf is inherently individual

My four-year-old son Chris walked in the other day and he was like, dad, can we watch the ACEs? He's a Big ACEs player. I don't know why they thought like, golf is not a team sport. No. It's never gonna be a team sport. Ryder Cup is countries, America. People are watching for America on that one.

The Masters and The Open are the two tournaments I want to win most

The Masters is special... that in the open are my two favorite events... that would be, that would be definitely way up on that list.

You don't need to be the best at every area of the game to be successful in golf

You absolutely do not need to be the best at every area of the game to be successful. So I'm chasing something that I, I know like that that was unattainable to be that good at, honestly. But besides Tiger Tiger's the only person in history that's been the best at like four to five things in golf.

I have the golf bug now and want to play outside in the winter

I played a little golf. I'm a big time par now. I got the bug. I got the golf bug. That's my big takeaway. Same. You let me take one vacation and and play golf for about six hours. And all of a sudden I'm like fully in, fully back in on golf.

Max Homa 'blew it' at the Genesis Invitational

I want credit too. I I held back as long as I could to not say he blew it, but he blew it. He blew it. He blew blew it. He blew, blew fucking blew it.

I am going to break 120 in golf this off-season without cheating

I think this is the off season that I get really into golf... I'm gonna break 120 before, and not by cheating. I'm not gonna cheat except on maybe one water hole I'll cheat on one water hole. But besides that, I'm gonna do it straight up, just clean as can be.

Rory McIlroy is playing the best golf of his career

Credit to us though, because we're the first people I think on the planet that told you that Rory McIlroy was playing the best golf of his career before the season even started.

Familiarity with Brookline was a massive advantage in the US Open

[Knowing the course] Massive. Yeah. I just feel like, because I had success there before I just felt, I did feel like really confident throughout the whole week. I just felt I was so comfortable where I needed to go... There wasn't one shot out there that I felt intimidated by.

Will Zalatoris has to figure out his putting based on vibes

I actually afterwards said that Will Zalatoris has to figure out his putting... I do strokes gained by vibes. He missed a big putt. He, I would say he lost somewhere around $50,000 worth of strokes gained for me personally.

Matt Fitzpatrick's bunker shot on the 18th was iconic

We got an iconic shot out of it. We got a shot that we remember, the shot from the bunker on 18. That was an incredible, incredible approach that Fitzpatrick hit on that hole.

Justin Thomas is a top pick for the US Open because his motivation is higher after nearly winning the week before

Justin Thomas to me seems a good pick right now. I mean, I think it's actually good. He didn't win last week. It gives you just that little, extra bit of motivation and you don't get complacent because you're coming off a win.

Mito Pereira's PGA meltdown wasn't as bad as Jean van de Velde's in 1999

He does have the fact that it's not the worst 18th hole meltdown of the history of the majors that will forever be [Jean] van de Velde, the French guy that ended up taking off his socks. I wish that Mito had tried to do that.

Winning tournaments when no one is watching is my MO

I fly way, way, way under the radar. I'm glad this tournament didn't sound like a video game... I saw the Derby yesterday. Everyone's very, very focused on other things other than the golf. And that's, I feel like when I'm the most, most powerful.

I would shoot a 13 on the 18th hole at Augusta if I was lucky

I think I'd go 13. I would, I documented I'd slice it into the woods. I would hit it into a tree... piece of shit, one good shot. Then I'd just go bunker, bunker, maybe like, like a, sorry, a sand wedge that I can't hit for shit for five yards. Then another one on then I'd put like five times 13.

Tiger Woods is the only person who can pull off a mock turtleneck; anyone else would look like a tube of cookie dough

The mock turtleneck, short sleeve, tight shirt, people are going nuts over and you're going to see a lot of guys that try to pull off this look that Tiger's got right now. And it's only Tiger that can pull this off. If you or I showed up, it would look like we got a big tube of cookie dough that got left out in the sun for three days.

Having PFT and I as caddies will be a huge advantage for Brooks Koepka

I honestly think that having me and PFT on the bag is going to be a huge advantage for [Brooks Koepka] for at least like the first hole until Big Cat and I get too tired. It's gonna inevitably ask him to just carry his own club. It's going to be an emotional jolt for about 15 minutes for him.

Tiger Woods' nickname is better than any other because it's synonymous with his dominance

This one is another synonymous name. It's an all time nickname... it is Tiger Woods. He's Eldrick Woods. His nickname is Tiger. It was given to him when he was a kid. There's nothing better. Like when he's in his red shirt on a Sunday hunting down his prey, Tiger Woods.

Phil Mickelson is the only reason The Match is successful

Phil Mickelson, he's the guy. He's the guy who makes [The Match] go, and he gets all the credit in my mind for being just fun to be around.