00;00;11;29 - 00;00;34;14 Unknown To divots and skins. We hear again this week to talk to you about news around golf. What we've been up to and what tour stops we've been playing, but also where we are playing later this weekend. So we're going to start out with the second part of the Fedex playoffs, which was the BMW tournament that Scottie really was struggling. 00;00;34;14 - 00;00;55;03 Unknown And it was really interesting to find out that at the end of the tournament, he shared with everybody that he had a illness that you get from toddlers. And as a guy who's a family man, I'm not surprised that that's where he got it. But he managed to play through it and it's it's called foot mouth something disease. 00;00;55;03 - 00;01;11;11 Unknown I don't even know what that gets called. Foot and mouth is the most common vernacular for it. Yeah. So he had problems where he had blisters on his hands, and he said it was really tough for him to grip the club, and he had blisters on his feet. And then he also had problems with his throat. And I'm like, how does this guy not withdraw? 00;01;11;11 - 00;01;36;24 Unknown But that's the kind of competitor Scottie is. So we saw it. He definitely struggled through the weekend. He had a couple good holes here and there, but definitely didn't play up to how he played the week before. He struggled early, struggled a little bit. Final day, you know relative to his level of play, I'm sure he wasn't where he wanted to be, but he was you know, leaders ran away day two and three a little bit. 00;01;36;26 - 00;02;01;05 Unknown But he still put up a good finish. All told I think he finished tied for 10th or 11th something thereabouts. So by our standards he had a great week. But by his standards not so much. And again, typical of his year that he's having this year he got off to a really, really rocky start. I believe he was two over after the first round, which put him 7 or 8 shots, maybe more behind the leader. 00;02;01;08 - 00;02;17;17 Unknown So it was it was a rough start for him yet again. Well, and I have to say I really give him credit for not complaining during the week, not really playing off the fact that he was sick. He did share that he wasn't feeling well, but he didn't share how bad it was until after he finished the competition. 00;02;17;19 - 00;02;39;11 Unknown Now, I watched an interview with him on Wednesday going into the final playoff round, which is at East Lake, and he was like, I'm feeling much better. He said, I have a little bit of a sore throat still, but I got to tell you that it's amazing that he's been able to bounce back that quickly and what a time to do it, because he is still number one in the Fedex points. 00;02;39;11 - 00;02;56;09 Unknown He's still number one in the world. He's had an amazing season and I really hope he played really well this week. We got to see him today. We actually got to play indoors a little bit today, and we were watching on the Golf Channel to watch him play, and he's only a couple shots off the leaders and that's a good start for him. 00;02;56;10 - 00;03;18;24 Unknown Yeah he's five under. The leaders are at eight under. And I'm sure they're all the leaders are trembling right now in their boots or in their golf spikes. I guess it would be. But to see him get off to a really solid start like that, when all year he's finished, nearly all year, he's finished top ten despite starting really poorly the first and second rounds. 00;03;18;26 - 00;03;39;16 Unknown He it's incredible the way he has bounced back and still got into the top ten and top 20 so many times. I'm sure his competition has got a lot of fear in there. In the back of their minds over the fact that he started this strongly and he usually dials it in as the week goes on. So I'm looking forward to seeing the remainder of the last three rounds of this. 00;03;39;18 - 00;04;15;03 Unknown Yeah. And it was interesting to they asked him a question about the fact that he is probably the most consistent golfer on the tour, and he said one of the things that he brings to the game is the fact that he plays with an intensity, and he shared a story that I thought was really interesting, where he said, he's only played with Tiger once in a tour event, and he said that Tiger wasn't playing great, he wasn't in contention to win and he goes, we t off we go to the first green and he's reading the green like he wants to win. 00;04;15;03 - 00;04;38;22 Unknown And Scotty said that really opened his eyes to the fact that every tournament you've got to bring that intensity that you want to win. And I know you shared with me that Tiger has said the same thing. He's like, I don't come to a tour stop to just play. And Scotty set that to on on Wednesday at the the conference he was basically saying, you know, hey I don't come here just to play. 00;04;38;22 - 00;04;58;08 Unknown I come here to win. And so I love the fact that he has that intensity and you see it on the course. He doesn't have a whole lot of emotions. He's very dialed in. And that intensity is what wins him. Tour stops. Yeah. They just showed a stat on the screen when Jake and I were in here playing some simulator golf here at the Luxury Box earlier. 00;04;58;08 - 00;05;18;19 Unknown Beautiful facility to see behind us. And we were playing around and watching the PGA guys play. And I was I was pretty amazed at the fact that one of the stats that came up, they were showing all the tour leaders on all the different categories. And Scheffler is still number one in scoring average despite all the rounds that he started off poorly. 00;05;18;20 - 00;05;44;12 Unknown You know, it says something about his level of stick to it. And my favorite stat ever for Scottie Scheffler. He leads it. He has led it for the last 3 or 4 years or something like that is bogey avoidance. It just means how infrequently he gets bogeys. It doesn't mean he puts the most birdies up on tour. It just means he finds a way to get pars. 00;05;44;15 - 00;06;02;11 Unknown And to that note, one of the stats that came up on the screen was his scrambling. He leads the PGA tour and scrambling. For those of you who don't know, scrambling just means if you didn't hit the fairway, then you still get a par. If you found a way to get a par despite not being on the fairway, you scrambled yourself to, you know, a par. 00;06;02;13 - 00;06;28;02 Unknown That means they're going to give you credit, you know, percentage and and whoever can do that the most number of times out of out of the opportunities that it happens, that's obviously going to, you know, be your total percentage for the for the tour for that number. Pretty spectacular stat. Those two things. I just think it goes to show how he, you know, never gives up on a hole, finds a way to to muster his way through no matter what the situation is. 00;06;28;03 - 00;06;47;18 Unknown And he was bogey free today. He had a couple birdies that that were great. But he was bogey free again today. And it's amazing how many rounds he goes bogey free. So I'm excited. He kicked off a really good week. Let's hope that he finishes really strong. Maybe even wins the Fedex Cup again. That'd be awesome to see. 00;06;47;20 - 00;07;09;22 Unknown And Jake, for those who might accuse me of being a Scottie Scheffler fanboy. Guilty as charged. Absolutely. I'm a huge fan of him. Both his personality, the fact that he's a family man, the fact that he's I'm not myself religious, but the fact that he is very adamant in his beliefs about his religion and everything, which I just think if you're going to go, go all in on something. 00;07;09;25 - 00;07;24;18 Unknown He goes all in on his family. When he's with them, he goes all in on golf. When he's on the golf course, I just say it's spectacular to see. And I don't think there's a better human being that I can think of on the PGA tour. As far as an example of how you want to live your life. 00;07;24;21 - 00;07;52;28 Unknown So another thing that I was sharing with Brett today was the fact that I watched this absolutely amazing video. And the Shambo does the break 50 competitions where he plays a two person scramble. And if I remember correctly, the only person he's actually broken 50 with is the basketball player. Steph Curry yes Steph Curry. So he's actually done it with Justin. 00;07;52;28 - 00;08;23;08 Unknown That's the only one. The thing that was absolutely insane about this video. And I will definitely put a link to it in the description. You got to watch it. It was with Gary Player. He's 90 years old and he's playing this round with December. And what's amazing to me is the dude can still hit it at 90. It's amazing how well he was hitting it into the fairway, how straight he was hitting it and how he was just as mobile as a 50 year old or a 30 year old. 00;08;23;08 - 00;08;44;02 Unknown And the thing I guess he's known for, I don't remember this having grown up in like, watching golf, but he's known for doing a high kick. When he does a really good putt, he can still do that, and they show that in the video. It's absolutely spectacular. But what's really amazing about him is that he has got something that's known as the double Grand Slam. 00;08;44;02 - 00;09;04;12 Unknown I didn't even know this was a thing. He's got the grand slam from the regular PGA tour, and then he's got the grand slam from the senior PGA tour. So he's got both. He's got over 100 I think 160 wins on tour. It's just it was just absolutely amazing to see this guy go out there at 90 years old. 00;09;04;12 - 00;09;26;05 Unknown And I can only hope to hit that well at 70. He Gary players from for those of you who don't know, he's from South Africa. Phenomenal player. Has been for years. He came up through the Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer generation. So he was battling the greats of all time on on a weekend and week out basis. 00;09;26;07 - 00;09;44;22 Unknown Yet he still won that many tournaments he had. I think to this day, he's had the greatest fitness routine in the history of golf, and it shows by what, as Jake was saying, he's 90 years old and is still running around on the golf course and has the mobility and flexibility of somebody half his age. Certainly better than mine. 00;09;44;22 - 00;10;12;04 Unknown I know that, and it shows you like longevity in golf. If you want to stay at a high level, it's important to have that exercise routine, that fitness routine. You know, there's many videos out there of him, you know, doing 100 sit ups before around and, you know, 50 push ups or whatever it is just to, you know, make sure he stays flexible and fit and get works up a good lather before he goes out and plays pretty, pretty remarkable what he's been able to do. 00;10;12;06 - 00;10;31;09 Unknown I only wish that some people had were able to see him. I started watching golf at a younger age than Jake did, so I got to see him from when I was probably in my 20s. Mind you again, he was still in his, you know, late 50s, early 60s at that point. But I got to see how remarkable this guy was. 00;10;31;15 - 00;10;49;21 Unknown Just a great guy to watch on the golf course and to watch him plod. He reminds me a lot of some of the modern day players who had that same mentality. As we spoke of Scheffler, of kind of plotting through the course and just accepting what lies ahead of you and, you know, mustering your way through for pars and such. 00;10;49;28 - 00;11;12;13 Unknown Just a great, entertaining individual to watch. Yeah. And again, definitely check out the video. It'll be in the description. I'll put a link there. Take the time. Watch it. It's a lot of fun. Another thing about him is he has six children, 22 grandchildren, which is absolutely spectacular. And he said there's great great grandchildren coming in at 90. 00;11;12;14 - 00;11;38;14 Unknown That's not a surprise. What the quote that I absolutely love, that he said during the video was the last time he missed the fairway. The Pope was an altar boy. That's how long he's been hitting fairways. So I thought that was a great quote that he had. Again, definitely check out the video. The other thing he brought up and we're going to talk about this term, is he was like, man, that was a ham and eggs. 00;11;38;14 - 00;12;02;00 Unknown And I was like, what? Thanks for talking about. So why don't you explain what does that mean? Ham and eggs. Well, most people and I will say most not all, consider ham and eggs a classic combination. At breakfast time, nothing goes better with eggs than breakfast ham and vice versa. So they use that term in golf. When you're doing a two person team. 00;12;02;02 - 00;12;33;07 Unknown It's a classic pairing, meaning one person lifts the other or you're both on fire. If one person's hitting a bad shot on a hole, the other person you know plays the hole well and lifts that person up so they end up shooting a good score. You know, same thing can be said if, you know, one person is is having a off day across the board, not just on a hole, and the other person just plays lights out that day and kind of their scores end up reflecting the fact that one guy, you know, was really hot. 00;12;33;07 - 00;12;55;11 Unknown So it ends up making for a classic pairing just like ham and eggs. Yeah. So it's great to hear him say that term and to look into it and figure out what that means. Again, definitely check out this video. I think you'll really have a good time watching it. He is such an entertaining guy. He was so energetic and I can only imagine where he's going to be in another 510 years. 00;12;55;14 - 00;13;19;09 Unknown And he said something about retiring and December was like, you can't retire at 90. I don't think if you're still playing golf, retired, retired, whatever. Like at 90, you're still playing golf. Yeah. And I think he's probably amongst a few select people that at that age can still shoot their, their age. It's a very unique thing to be able to do that. 00;13;19;09 - 00;13;32;21 Unknown I'm hoping someday that, you know, that'll happen to me, but that means I'm going to have to live to be in my mid 90s, probably, which isn't likely. But hey, let's go for it. Yeah, so that was really fun to watch. 00;13;32;23 - 00;14;00;23 Unknown One of our sponsors is Blueprint Leadership Development. Rob was nice enough to sponsor us and I really appreciate him doing that. If you're curious about working with a coach, if you're looking for a business coach, Rob is awesome. I've worked with him for many years. I'll have a link to his information in the description. So go down there and check that out and find out more about what blueprint leadership development is all about and what Rob can do for you and your business. 00;14;00;26 - 00;14;20;26 Unknown Our latest tour stop that we went to was Win Hurst. We had talked about it in our last episode, episode 11, where we talked about the fact that we had gotten the opportunity to go play there ahead of time, thanks to Don, and we got to see the course. Beautiful course, beautiful building, and we enjoyed doing it that day. 00;14;21;00 - 00;14;41;12 Unknown Well, obviously we had the tour stop and that's a different mentality going into that tour stop. And I'll be honest with you, I didn't shoot great. I as I always talk about, I always try to break 100. That's usually my my goal. I shot 100, so I wasn't super happy with how I shot. But I will say it was a good time. 00;14;41;13 - 00;15;00;10 Unknown We battled back and forth between a couple of us in the group. And then there's your wife. Your wife shot a what on the back 940. You'd know better. Me you were with 41. I think it was a 42. It was hilarious because I added it up. I added it up again and I added it up a third time. 00;15;00;10 - 00;15;18;28 Unknown And then I handed it to her and said, can you check this? Because that's a crazy score. She did the same thing. We both looked at each other, were like, really? And so she ended up shooting really, really well. Unfortunately, it didn't win the flight, which I was kind of happy about because I didn't need her to have another trophy. 00;15;18;28 - 00;15;41;02 Unknown But she shot really, really well and she was super happy to see that, that 42, I think it was on the back nine, which was spectacular. I know you struggled. You had a tough, tough round because you weren't feeling well. I did I don't excuse it all to that, but I would say a good portion of it was, I think I saw I was suffering from allergies for the first time in my life. 00;15;41;04 - 00;15;59;08 Unknown When I looked down, I had a vertigo, feeling very, very dizzy. It only bothered me when I looked down, which is super convenient in golf. I whether it was putting or hitting a wedge or hitting a driver, the ground looked like it was kind of doing circles, like I was walking on the moon or something. It was all floaty looking. 00;15;59;08 - 00;16;19;04 Unknown I couldn't find the bottom of the ball. I couldn't it was it was tough. And I shot my highest ever tour around. No shame in that. We're all going to have bad days. I literally couldn't do anything. Well, there's nothing I can point to. I finished the day with two parts, I guess. I guess if as far as that's concerned, I did that part well. 00;16;19;04 - 00;16;35;02 Unknown But I finished strong and I made a joke, even though I was, you know, very close to passing out on a couple occasions. And people in my foursome mentioned it to me. He said, if you want to withdraw, that's fine. It's not going to hurt your handicap. He'll put you in as a that's something to let people know on tour. 00;16;35;02 - 00;16;57;21 Unknown If you have to withdraw during the tournament because of illness or injury, it doesn't hurt your handicap at all. They can actually put it in as that, and you don't have to take the maximum stroke number on each hole and you know that's your handicap. All the heck. Instead, they put you in his injury or illness and your handicap will stay flat. 00;16;57;23 - 00;17;25;21 Unknown But anyway, it was it was an interesting day to say the least. I got to watch some amazing golf from the guys that were in my group. Two of the three other guys in my group shot hit the ball really well for the most part all day. I had my highest individual score on a tour stop also. And folks, I'm as I've said a few times on a 13 handicap, I almost shot that number on an individual hole. 00;17;25;27 - 00;17;48;23 Unknown I had an 1111 on a hole. I've never had that before and I'm hoping to never have that again. So yeah, it was definitely a tough day. We we all kind of struggled with certain parts here and there, and I commend you for the fact that you finished around, you didn't withdraw. And no, like when I saw you when we were getting ready to get going. 00;17;48;25 - 00;18;07;20 Unknown You were not feeling well. I was walking death. Yeah. Like I could tell something was spinning and you were not doing well. So I commend you again for finishing that round. Very much like Scottie did the BMW tournament. And he was that the one last week BMW I believe I think so, yes. That was the one where he was sick and he pushed through. 00;18;07;20 - 00;18;27;08 Unknown So sometimes that happens. I mean sometimes you just had things where you just don't feel good and you have a choice. You can, like you said, you can withdraw. And that isn't a big issue. But I, I find that if you withdraw for health reasons or an injury, it's a much better reason than quitting in the middle of around just because you're having a bad round. 00;18;27;09 - 00;18;46;23 Unknown And we've seen that on tour this year. It's been unfortunate. There was a guy that walked off at Wilt Country Club. I don't know what hole it was on, but he was close to the parking lot, I guess, at that particular point. So I'm going to guess somewhere between 8 and 11, somewhere in that number. And I guess, you know, he knew he wasn't in contention and he had better things to do. 00;18;46;24 - 00;19;09;09 Unknown He was so far over par, he said. And he just walked out, carried his clubs off the cart and walked away. It's unfortunate to see that we do side bets on tour and almost everybody joins them. Our tour is small enough that I would say the vast majority of people join them. We do a skins contest that's on the side and we do super skins, which is against all the handicap groups. 00;19;09;12 - 00;19;30;06 Unknown So if you've entered into one of those, just a little bit of advice, because I've had this happen to me on tour before where a guy in my foursome walked off. You know, the great thing about skins is all it takes is 1 or 2 good shots and you've won a skin. And at times if if there weren't a lot of skins won that day, you know you could win what you paid to golf in that tournament just on that one skin. 00;19;30;06 - 00;19;49;09 Unknown So there's no point in quitting. You might as well get it out. Yeah, yeah, I think I actually walked away with the skin at winners, didn't I? I believe so, I think I did and it was a good amount of money. It paid for a couple beers, the important things you know. But yeah you're right. Like there are times that you may shoot some bad holes. 00;19;49;09 - 00;20;06;17 Unknown Now, I'll be honest with you, I totally understand the wanting to walk off thing too, because I've had a couple sessions this year where I'm like, man, why am I here? Why am I doing this? What the heck is going on? But I think if you stick it out, it is definitely a mental game and we'll keep talking about that as we do more podcasts. 00;20;06;19 - 00;20;29;09 Unknown It is definitely a mental game and it's a lot of mental reset. It's about thinking about, okay, what's the next hole, what's the next shot going forward and and leaving the stuff behind. I'm not great at that, as you know. I struggle with that a lot. So it's definitely something that I'm working on, something that I think a lot of golfers have to work on is saying, okay, I'm not playing well, but I just got to keep hitting. 00;20;29;09 - 00;20;58;21 Unknown And I think that's what you did at Win Hurst. As you just said, I'm not feeling good. I'm just going to go out and I'm just going to keep hitting. And if something comes together, something comes together. Yeah, I it didn't help. Probably my matters as far as my mentality. When I started the day I had one of my purest drives of the year, almost drove the green on a par four, ended up with a walk away with a par, which was funny because I out drove my, you know, a guy in my force on my out drove him by 30, 40 yards. 00;20;58;21 - 00;21;15;10 Unknown But he chipped his way closer and and tapped in for, for a birdie. And I ended up with a par. But that par was kind of encouraging to me that maybe despite being sick, I can I can muddle my way through and shoot a halfway decent score. And I was dead wrong. The very next hole was when I shot my 11. 00;21;15;11 - 00;21;41;01 Unknown Yeah, yeah. And I am being plagued by some insects that come out and they're they're haunting me like the Bethpage Black rough. All right. There's one of them. He he is not totally insane, just slightly. So if he's looking around, that's what he's doing. So. Yeah. So hers is a beautiful course. Small greens. I think that was something we found that was small greens, a lot of up and down, but in really great shape. 00;21;41;01 - 00;22;02;19 Unknown They took really good care of us. Slow greens. Slow greens. Yeah. Especially after Wilt Wick. Yeah. They were like putting through sand. That was that was back to back tour stops that nobody would like to be a putter on those two, because one of them was lightning fast and the other one was definitely slow. It's so that concludes our 2026 season. 00;22;02;21 - 00;22;20;28 Unknown Except for nationals that is going on in September, middle of September. They have the regular nationals and then they have the senior nationals. And those are out in Oregon. We are not participating in those this year. We have decided that we have another trip coming up the end of October that we decided that's what we wanted to focus on. 00;22;21;04 - 00;22;40;20 Unknown We're hoping that when it comes either to the middle of the country or maybe the East Coast that will participate in that, I'm sure in the Albany region, we're sending some guys out there. I know some guys were talking that were in the Hudson Valley region and the Long Island region that they were planning on going out. 00;22;40;20 - 00;22;59;09 Unknown So unfortunately, we're not going to do that, but we'll be following it to see how people do and see what's going on out there. We will certainly have someone on the podcast that will review what they thought of the course. This year. They're doing it in some river, Oregon. It's a beautiful resort that has multiple, I believe, three different courses. 00;22;59;11 - 00;23;18;16 Unknown And it's it's I'm sure it's going to be an absolutely fantastic time. You don't have to stay on premises. One of the things from looking it up that I did see that if if you are staying at the resort, you can essentially golf to your heart's content user golf facilities, meaning the drive range, stuff like that to your heart's content. 00;23;18;16 - 00;23;36;19 Unknown So for those of you who are thinking that you know something like the US Amter would be something that's interesting to you, there is a little bonus, you know, apple hanging over, over your head at the end of the year. And again, as we say, end of the year. We've talked about it before, but I just want to quickly mention it again. 00;23;36;21 - 00;24;05;13 Unknown The calendar for for the tour is year round. Right. So meaning yes, they have nationals which ends the year. But again that's in middle of September. Third week of September is when it starts from that point till the end of the year, it's it's the next. It counts towards points, towards the next year. And even locally here in upstate New York, we're playing, you know, a lot of times into late October, early November, as long as the weather cooperates. 00;24;05;13 - 00;24;28;26 Unknown So you can accumulate points towards going towards nationals the final year pretty much. I think regardless of how everybody finished, I won't say across the board, but I looked up the numbers they had for nationals. Pretty much anybody that wanted to go this year could. It's something you do have to qualify for, quote unquote. But that that's to qualify to be one of the first, you know, invites. 00;24;28;28 - 00;24;48;10 Unknown After that, they open it up to the general, essentially the general tour. Anybody that wants to go can at that point, it's fantastic system. It does give preference to the people who golfed well all year. And but and then after that it opens it up to anybody who's willing to, you know, put forth the money and go and have a great trip. 00;24;48;10 - 00;25;06;10 Unknown And the great thing about this tour is it's four day tour events. So you're it's like a PGA tour event. You're four days, you know. What are they. What is the old saying. You know, water finds its own level. It's over the course of four days. The tours I've done in the past have been three days, which have been great. 00;25;06;10 - 00;25;21;19 Unknown But four days I like even better because I think, you know, the cream is going to rise to the top over the course of four days. If you were faking it for a day or two, I think eventually it's going to bite you in the butt and you're, you know, you're going to find out, you know, where the cream of the crop lies. 00;25;21;19 - 00;25;42;04 Unknown So the other thing is, like he was talking about, it kind of resets the end of September once those nationals are done. And Don is already set up a couple of tour stops for the 2027 season. It was, I guess we would call it for us in October. But what's interesting is a lot of places down south because obviously they've got better weather. 00;25;42;04 - 00;26;08;11 Unknown They don't have to deal with snow and ice and that kind of stuff. They're playing year round. And so we have looked at, okay, when it comes to winter or even the end of October when we're traveling, we're we're thinking like, where can we find other tour stops? So just because the season in upstate New York is going to basically halt for a couple of months, doesn't mean that there aren't events going on all over the country, especially the southern part of the country. 00;26;08;11 - 00;26;27;26 Unknown And so we're definitely looking forward to try and see if we can find some tour stops in the southern part of the country to get some other stops in and hopefully earn some more points. Yeah, when I go and make Myrtle Beach ashamed of New York golfers, I know when we all when Jake and myself and my wife Erin go there in October. 00;26;27;28 - 00;26;50;27 Unknown We're going there third week of October. We've already discussed it at length. We're going to certainly look at one of the states, either that surrounds South Carolina region or even on our way down. If it's even if it's, well, north of South Carolina, we're going to find a tour stop and make that like our kick off to next year to, as he said to the 2027 season. 00;26;51;00 - 00;27;14;19 Unknown So we're I'm looking forward to it a lot. I'm hoping to find it. We're hoping to find a two day event, but we'll see how that goes. But so talk to you about that. What we're actually going to do is we're going to start our season two of Divots and Skins and October when the tour resets. And so we're going to kind of make our seasons for this podcast very much the same as the US amateur. 00;27;14;20 - 00;27;32;28 Unknown So season two will start when we talk about the next tour stop that we have that is actually at the beginning of October. So be sure to stay tuned, because we're just going to go right into that now. We know things are going to change, things are going to get colder. We're not going to be playing outside, but we'll be playing in here. 00;27;32;28 - 00;27;56;05 Unknown And like you said, luxury boxes got the spot that we love to play. We actually played here tonight because it was raining out. We took advantage of the fact that we were like, okay, we don't want to get stuck in what sounded like a freaking freight train going through a couple times when we were playing, and I'm glad it's not doing it now while we're recording, but we had some really massive thunder a couple times tonight, so we're glad we were not outside. 00;27;56;06 - 00;28;26;00 Unknown We played a couple rounds indoor, got our swings down so we felt better. I'll be honest with you, I think I swung better here than I have in a couple of weeks. Felt really good. So yeah. So we'll be resetting to season two. Come on Tober, the cool thing about the Luxury Box two is he's downloaded so many courses, I think he's got well over 1000 in the database at this point today, Jake and I, the second course we played was the course at the PGA Fedex Cup finals is going on right now. 00;28;26;02 - 00;28;43;20 Unknown We played that course. I hit it almost as well as Scheffler. I was going to say it tried to beat him, but he was. He was fine. Scheffler was five under today I think I was 15 over so I'm pretty close. Yeah a few more shots and I would have had him right right. All right so that's enough about USM tour. 00;28;43;23 - 00;29;15;01 Unknown Let's talk about your rule today. What do you got? I got a good one folks. I traveled all over this beautiful country and golfed a lot of different golf courses. Some I would like to take back. You know, I've got some really awful courses, but I've got some beautiful ones. And there is a unique rule that I have come to learn that would have been handy to know when I was playing at a course, that situation might have come up, and that is the cactus rule. 00;29;15;03 - 00;29;44;23 Unknown Now, Jake, animals last week and I started with animals. Now we're going to cactuses. So cactuses I said that wrong cacti. If if you are in a situation where your golf ball lands next to a cactus, you have an option. You cannot throw anything over the top of the cactus, i.e. a golf towel or something like that, so that the cactus doesn't poke or braid you on your follow through or on your back swing or whatever. 00;29;44;29 - 00;30;06;07 Unknown You are, however, allowed to wrap your arm in said golf, Powell, or any other thing you have. You can put on a jacket, you can wrap a jacket just around your arms. You can do whatever you want. You only are allowed to do that because of the fact that the cactus is considered a dangerous outside element, but it only can be surrounding you. 00;30;06;07 - 00;30;29;17 Unknown It can't be surrounding the plant. I'm going to give people at home a little tip here. Don't hit it near a cactus. That's that's I know that's insider information. I should probably be arrested for that. It's like insider trading. But I will say that I played in Arizona a fair amount with my uncle. God bless you, Uncle Scott. 00;30;29;17 - 00;30;52;26 Unknown He's 82, I believe 83 something thereabouts. And he is still swinging as he said, his towards is broken. Sometimes he still insist on playing from the wake tees with me. He can still get it out there. He's a six foot four guy and he can still get it out there quite a ways. But that's where I, you know, I learned this rule after the fact. 00;30;52;26 - 00;31;10;29 Unknown I wish I had known it while I was down there because we played a course called Arizona Grand Gorgeous. But the desert was right there on top of you if you went astray. They don't waste a lot of energy in the southwest part of the country. For those of you who don't know, pretty up anything outside of the rough. 00;31;10;29 - 00;31;31;13 Unknown So outside of that, you're in the wild, which would mean cactuses, rattlesnakes, and everything else. Scorpions is a big one down there. I waited into a cacti area and my uncle said, what are you, nuts? And I said, I'm not afraid of rattlesnakes. And he said, no, it's the scorpions you want to be afraid of. He said, they hurt like hell. 00;31;31;16 - 00;31;50;21 Unknown So, so so you're telling me that unlike the northeast region, be by a pine tree and you just kind of lean back on that branch? You don't do that with a catus. Not a good idea. I would strongly recommend, if you're in the south keeping it on fairway southwest, keeping it on the fair. Yeah. Yeah. That's I did not know that that was a rule. 00;31;50;22 - 00;32;14;25 Unknown We it's funny, we have talked about different rules and different ones that we want to bring up. And I swear he finds the most odd rules. And you're like, somebody must have done something to make this a rule because you have come up. I mean, the animal went last week was completely bizarre, but now the fact they actually have a cactus rule is another one where you're like, really? 00;32;14;26 - 00;32;31;00 Unknown That's why you got to tune in for the whole podcast, folks, because at the end, we usually do the, you know, the rule of the day. And I got some really good ones coming in. You're going to want to hear these. They're super unique. There's super applicable in a lot of situations. So you're going to want to hear these. 00;32;31;00 - 00;32;55;13 Unknown So the last thing we want to talk about is we actually have a fun round coming up this weekend. We're playing Saturday. It's going to be Aaron myself and Brett hopefully a fourth person. But Don Jack from tour is going to be there and we're playing Amsterdam Uni and it's going to be interesting because we haven't actually played this course before and they have a brand new clubhouse from what we heard. 00;32;55;13 - 00;33;15;02 Unknown And I know that part of the reason Don wants to go play this, to see if this is somewhere we can actually bring the tour. And I think that's some of the fun stuff that we've gotten to do with Don is Don is going around to these different courses because it's a brand new region to say, hey, like, what would it take to get a tour stop here? 00;33;15;02 - 00;33;31;26 Unknown So I'm looking forward to Saturday at going playing there and see what the course is like. It'll be a new one for both of us. That's the other thing. We love playing new courses and adding it to our list. It'll be, what, 101, 102 for you? 103, 103 for him. I think it's going to be like 8081 for me. 00;33;31;26 - 00;33;50;14 Unknown I got some catching up to do to catch him, but yeah, we're looking forward to playing there. We're going to be playing with a bunch of friends of ours, and obviously afterwards we're going to give you a review of what we think of the course. And again, you got to stay tuned, folks, because we got a bunch of other new courses that neither Jake or I have ever done before. 00;33;50;17 - 00;34;11;05 Unknown They're coming up in there in different parts of New York State. And then also, obviously, we'll be reviewing the courses we do on our either on our way down to Myrtle Beach or while we're in Myrtle Beach. Myrtle beach, super popular destination for golfers. So if you want a sneak peek at a little bit about what the course plays like, of course conditions, how it plays for individual handicaps. 00;34;11;05 - 00;34;29;09 Unknown And again, him and I are in two separate handicap groups, so we can give you a good indication if you're a high handicap golfer or if you're a mid handicap golfer, we can let you know like, hey, this course is or isn't worth playing, or it's incredibly difficult or whatever, because some people like to tailor make their golf trips around courses that are suitable for them. 00;34;29;09 - 00;34;39;20 Unknown Nobody wants to go and, you know, shoot 50 over par every time they go because they're playing a course that's for PGA players and not for, you know, the amateur hacks. 00;34;39;22 - 00;35;04;29 Unknown I also want to do a shout out to Luxury Box. As I say every episode, it's where we get to record this. This is actually in one of the simulators that Dave has here at Luxury Box, and it's a great opportunity for us to showcase the room that we're in and showcase the screens and stuff like that, and eventually down the road, we hope to do more with the simulator to have some fun with people we have on the podcast. 00;35;04;29 - 00;35;31;22 Unknown But thank you, Dave, for allowing us to come here to use this facility and to record the podcast here in this room. It's a great opportunity for us, but if you're looking for somewhere to swing when it's raining out or it's cold or it's the winner, the luxury box is the place to go. If you are listening to this or you're watching this and you have a suggestion for us, for somewhere for us to play now, obviously if it's California, it's going to take us a little bit to get there. 00;35;31;22 - 00;35;52;01 Unknown But if you're on the East Coast and you've got some suggestions, especially Myrtle Beach, if you've got Myrtle Beach suggestions for us, put them in the comments. We really want to hear. Like, where do you like playing? Where do you recommend that we play? And maybe we'll come and check some of those places out. I would love to see one of our listeners at some point reach out to us and say, hey, come golf with us. 00;35;52;03 - 00;36;11;26 Unknown Yeah, while you're in our region or whatever, and we're not afraid to travel again. We're both self-employed and my wife gets way too much vacation time courtesy of my tax dollars. She she travels with us everywhere or not everywhere but a lot. Awful lot of places. So, you know, it's easy to make a force if you want to give us a holler. 00;36;11;28 - 00;36;26;17 Unknown So don't be afraid to give us a shout through one of the links and we'll figure it out from there. All right. And as always, remember, never leave a birdie putt short like Jake did today at Simulator Golf.