Speaker 1: The eyes of the world of professional golf on the
Speaker 1: PGA Tour are on East Lake in Atlanta, where Russell
Speaker 1: Henley is now your leader at eight under par.
Speaker 2: A lot of players going low.
Speaker 1: Always fun to catch up with our next guest from
Speaker 1: the Golf Channel, Rex Hobbard on a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Rex, How are you, sir, Amy, Thursday after in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I'm great.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good. I really appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: So tell me about the conditions in the track and
Speaker 1: what's allowing these players to go as low as they've
Speaker 1: been going so far.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's funny. We were told to expect in The
Speaker 3: PGA Tour announced this a few weeks ago that they
Speaker 3: wanted to make this a more difficult test. They wanted
Speaker 3: to add a little bit more risk reward. It was
Speaker 3: something that the fans told them that they wanted to
Speaker 3: see at the Tour Championship. So the golf course had
Speaker 3: been sort of set up a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3: I think the expectation was to maybe create a little
Speaker 3: bit more of a challenge. That's certainly not the case.
Speaker 3: As you pointed out, seven under his leading. I think
Speaker 3: at least half the field is under par and it
Speaker 3: has everything to do with I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: ever been in the South in the summertime, pretty much
Speaker 3: rains every single night, So it's just soft. I don't
Speaker 3: care what you do to a golf course. If players
Speaker 3: have irons in their hands from the fairway and the
Speaker 3: greens are soft, they're going to be aggressive. And that's
Speaker 3: what we're seeing today.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 1: So Russell Henley is now at eight under. He's your leader.
Speaker 1: He's through seventeen. But we got Colin Morikawa, Patrick Canley
Speaker 1: and Justin Thomas in the clubhouse at six hundred par
Speaker 1: after accroarding sixty fours. What does the weekend ahead hold?
Speaker 1: Are we going to see conditions change or do you
Speaker 1: think we're going to continue to see low scores.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be low scores. I think
Speaker 3: actually they moved up two times for tomorrow because there's
Speaker 3: some anticipated storms in the afternoon. There's storms around the
Speaker 3: area right now. Again it's sort of just rent and
Speaker 3: repeat in the South, so I don't think the golf
Speaker 3: course will have an opportunity to dry out. But I
Speaker 3: would look more towards just the conversation about what has
Speaker 3: changed about this event this year, where we know in
Speaker 3: previous years they've tried to do different formats, and in
Speaker 3: recent years it's been something called starting shrokes, which simply
Speaker 3: gave a lead to whoever the points leader was coming
Speaker 3: into this week, and then incrementally they work their way
Speaker 3: down on the points list until you got to number thirty.
Speaker 3: But they got rid of that this year. I think
Speaker 3: the Tour finally realized it's kind of silly, kind of confusing.
Speaker 3: Even Scotty Scheffler said it, he didn't quite understand why
Speaker 3: they were doing it. So I think the difference this
Speaker 3: year will be that the winner and all thirty players
Speaker 3: started to even part. The winner went not only win
Speaker 3: the Tour Championship but the FedEx Cup, and we haven't
Speaker 3: really had that in at least a decade, so that's
Speaker 3: kind of compelling.
Speaker 2: Do you like the change?
Speaker 1: I mean, I always found it hokey, and I'm certainly
Speaker 1: no expert like you are, but this feels any reference
Speaker 1: Scotty's comments about the new format, which he prefers. Does
Speaker 1: it feel like it's a consensus that most people do
Speaker 1: appreciate and like this new format now Rex, I think.
Speaker 3: There's simplicity of this the players appreciate, certainly the fans
Speaker 3: appreciate you're not trying to figure out the math on
Speaker 3: Thursday afternoon when Scotty's teeing off at ten under part
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense to a lot of golf fans.
Speaker 3: I will say it feels like a transition year. I
Speaker 3: think the tour is going to continue to tinker with
Speaker 3: this format. The new CEO, Brian Rollup, spoke yesterday to
Speaker 3: the media, and I think the tour is going to
Speaker 3: tinker with a lot of sorr. I would expect everything
Speaker 3: with the Tour right now to be in transition and
Speaker 3: to be under the microscope. Certainly the Tour Championship format
Speaker 3: would be one of them, and there's been tons of
Speaker 3: format suggestions. Match play and come up with some sort
Speaker 3: of round robin situation. Here at Eastlake, I don't think
Speaker 3: that's the landing spot, but I think this year it works,
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't expect it to be the future.
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you about Brian's comments, and
Speaker 1: I've had Brian on the show. We actually have family
Speaker 1: friends and he's from the same footprints that I'm from,
Speaker 1: and so you know, twenty two years with the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a great hire.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be dynamite.
Speaker 1: But before we get there, it's it's interesting asking who
Speaker 1: you like now that we actually have some scores. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to this tournament at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Scotti Scheffler has the shortest odds to win
Speaker 1: it since Tiger in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 2: Who do you think sold in the trophy Rex at
Speaker 2: the end?
Speaker 3: Well, and Scotty has played well, he's won here before.
Speaker 3: But he pointed out the Colin more Kywa would have
Speaker 3: won here last year I had not been for starting strokes,
Speaker 3: and Colin Moore Kyla is right at the top of
Speaker 3: the leaderboard. I would actually lean towards one of those players.
Speaker 3: Certainly Justin Thomas has played well here in the past.
Speaker 3: They both do the one thing you have to do,
Speaker 3: and that's drive the ball well around this golf course
Speaker 3: because you can score if you're in the fairway, but
Speaker 3: from the rough it can be difficult. But Scotty is
Speaker 3: kind of Scotti eventually. I mean we saw it last week,
Speaker 3: We've seen it pretty much all year long, Like there
Speaker 3: is just a gear that he finds. So I'm compelled
Speaker 3: by the idea that Scotty is going to do what
Speaker 3: he normally does, and yet you've got all these other
Speaker 3: stars around him.
Speaker 1: All right, When when are we allowed to talk about
Speaker 1: Scotti Schuffer in the same sentence as Tiger Because when
Speaker 1: I've done that before my golf guests usually they scold
Speaker 1: me greatly. And it's interesting RECs Like whenever a stat
Speaker 1: pops up, like, for instance, I think I read that
Speaker 1: Scotty just became the first player since Tiger to have
Speaker 1: back to back years where he won five times, and
Speaker 1: Tiger did that like seven times. So I'm well aware
Speaker 1: of how audacious those comparisons are.
Speaker 2: But when are we allowed to talk about it in
Speaker 2: that space?
Speaker 3: You mean we weren't allowed to talk about it until
Speaker 3: now that that's not even get that memo you talking
Speaker 3: about it? Yeah, I just think I hate comparisons to
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods because I've done it pretty much my entire career,
Speaker 3: and it's always unfair to the player you're comparing and
Speaker 3: unfair to Tiger Woods. Like the things he did were historic,
Speaker 3: and I still think Scotty clearly still has some time.
Speaker 3: I mean, Tiger did it for the better part of
Speaker 3: two decades. You just pointed out the interesting stats that
Speaker 3: I sort of keyed in on. Twice in Tiger's career,
Speaker 3: he won at least five times for four consecutive years.
Speaker 3: Scotty hasn't done that one thing yet, and so you're
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, you're looking at it through a
Speaker 3: very narrow lens when it comes to it. But everything
Speaker 3: else he does, if you look at it statistically, just
Speaker 3: from a strokes gained standpoint, the only comparison is Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3: When you look at what he's been able to do
Speaker 3: at the major championships, Tiger is the only comparison, and
Speaker 3: they do it in a vastly different way. I think
Speaker 3: last week was interesting on this case because outside of
Speaker 3: the chip in on seventeen and I'm talk about last
Speaker 3: week at the BMW Championship for Scotty Scheffler. He showed
Speaker 3: a little bit of emotion there, but normally he's kind
Speaker 3: of a flat liner. So he is Tiger Woods to
Speaker 3: a certain degree, at least statistically, just without the flare.
Speaker 3: He's just not going to do the dramatics. But I
Speaker 3: think at this point what he's accomplished, those comparisons are
Speaker 3: perfectly fair.
Speaker 1: I was watching your coverage last night, and Brandal Shamblely
Speaker 1: actually anecdotally shared a story. I can't remember who he
Speaker 1: was speaking to. I think it was over in Dublin
Speaker 1: and somebody told him he thinks Scotty is actually I
Speaker 1: can't remember the verb. I don't want to say a
Speaker 1: better player than Tiger, but maybe a cleaner player than
Speaker 1: Tiger or something like that. I mean, Brandal said that
Speaker 1: on the broadcast last night.
Speaker 3: That might be a recent advice. I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: One can say again, Tiger sustained this over two decades,
Speaker 3: and I mean, that's amazing to think about the things
Speaker 3: he accomplished over the course of his career. And even
Speaker 3: Scotty will dismiss this a little bit. He has had
Speaker 3: a magical three and four year run, and the things
Speaker 3: he's been able to accomplish we didn't anticipate because parody
Speaker 3: has become the normal on the PGA tour. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't see that. This is just starting to feel
Speaker 3: like Lebron Jordan debate. Like, I guess it depends on
Speaker 3: what error you grew up in, but I still say
Speaker 3: that Tiger Woods was better across the board.
Speaker 2: Randall seems like an interesting fellow, what's he like.
Speaker 3: I have nothing but respect for brand I've worked with
Speaker 3: him luckily over the last decade or so, and no
Speaker 3: one works harder. And that's the part that just blew
Speaker 3: me away. It's one thing. He has opinions on everything,
Speaker 3: and he's very good on TV and his knowledge of
Speaker 3: the game is amazing. However, it's the one thing when
Speaker 3: you get in the trailer with him six seven, eight
Speaker 3: hours before the broadcast and he is just grinding over
Speaker 3: notes and stats and historical references. He never goes into
Speaker 3: a take without being educated. He never says anything just
Speaker 3: off the top of his head, just trying to be
Speaker 3: flamboyant or trying to create a headline. That's not what
Speaker 3: he does. He truly believes what he says. Now that
Speaker 3: being said, he says plenty of things that I don't
Speaker 3: agree with, but I know he gets to him in
Speaker 3: a very good way.
Speaker 2: Well said, all right, let's move over to the comments,
Speaker 2: and we.
Speaker 1: Talked about it on the show yesterday and again for
Speaker 1: golf fans that don't know Brian Rollout, this is a
Speaker 1: dynamite sports executive, a sharp person and a very good guy.
Speaker 1: So for the first time we were able to kind
Speaker 1: of hear from him in you know, kind of an
Speaker 1: official media setting about what he sees as it pertains
Speaker 1: the future of the sport. And they're putting together a
Speaker 1: committee that will be led by Tiger Tiger Woods. I
Speaker 1: wonder what your thoughts were as you digest the comments
Speaker 1: and when it comes to this the quote the goal
Speaker 1: is not incremental change. Quote, the goal is significant change. What, Rex,
Speaker 1: do you think that means?
Speaker 3: He's three weeks on the job. This was his third
Speaker 3: week on the job and he stood in front of
Speaker 3: everyone and talked about and we're not talking about incremental change.
Speaker 3: We're talking about significant change and what he has proposed,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure what is actually being thought about it. It
Speaker 3: is going to be dramatic. When you look at sort
Speaker 3: of the three pillars that they leaned into, it's parody
Speaker 3: and we already have that. And when it comes to
Speaker 3: the PGA Tour, it's simplicity. We do not have that.
Speaker 3: We just had a long conversation about the confusion here
Speaker 3: at the tour Championship and it's scarcity. And I mean,
Speaker 3: you can use another word, but I think scarcity can
Speaker 3: only be in one way. That means less is more
Speaker 3: to a certain degree, the idea that he wants to
Speaker 3: get the best players together more often on the best
Speaker 3: courses and the best cities at the best time of year,
Speaker 3: and condense this into a window that works for everyone.
Speaker 3: I think even players that I talk to who aren't
Speaker 3: here at east Lake to be fair so not top
Speaker 3: thirty players, even they were intrigued by what this seems
Speaker 3: where this seems to be headed. Even they were intrigued. Again.
Speaker 3: Three weeks on the job and I talked to over
Speaker 3: a dozen tour players and all of them had not
Speaker 3: only had conversations with Brian and not hello, my name
Speaker 3: is Brian, conversations. We're talking about hours long conversations about
Speaker 3: the tour and the way they think the directions should go.
Speaker 3: And he listened, he didn't talk, which I think is
Speaker 3: a sign of a very good leader. That to me,
Speaker 3: is the part they should get you aside him, One
Speaker 3: player told me, and I agree with this, He's going
Speaker 3: to break some eggs and along the way he's probably
Speaker 3: going to make some players and some constituents angry. But
Speaker 3: I think that's how you get the tour in the
Speaker 3: best possible position.
Speaker 1: What is fair to say about Jay Monaghan as he
Speaker 1: makes his exit from his position with the Tour.
Speaker 3: He certainly is happy. A couple of us talked about
Speaker 3: it today when we see him there this week, and
Speaker 3: of course he would be. I mean, the weight off
Speaker 3: his shoulders must be enormous. And I have not want
Speaker 3: to be the apologist for j Monahan. However, I will
Speaker 3: point out that during his tenure as commissioner, he dealt
Speaker 3: with a couple of things that were unprecedented. The pandemic,
Speaker 3: which buying large. Everyone says the Tour handled the pandemic
Speaker 3: better than almost any other sports league. He dealt with Livedolf,
Speaker 3: which is, in his words, not mine that irrational threat,
Speaker 3: a pile of money that didn't expect I mean, you
Speaker 3: have a backer that has a pile of money that
Speaker 3: doesn't expect a return that's that's hard to compete with sometimes.
Speaker 3: And then on top of all that, you lost the
Speaker 3: one player that made everything work, Tiger Woods. I think
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods only played if I did the math correctly.
Speaker 3: At one point during Jay Monahan's tenure, and he's still
Speaker 3: commissioner to be fair, but since he took over as commissioner,
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods hasn't even played thirty regular PGA tour events,
Speaker 3: and so you add all those things together. He got
Speaker 3: dealt a tough hand. I think, buying large, he did
Speaker 3: the best he could. Some people are going to disagree
Speaker 3: with the way he handled Live I certainly have criticisms,
Speaker 3: but you certainly look at the job and I don't
Speaker 3: know that any commissioner in any sport has ever faced
Speaker 3: what he faced.
Speaker 1: So, Rex, I have a confession and I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask for your forgiveness. Prior to my brother and sister
Speaker 1: in law reside in Carmel, Indiana, and I went to
Speaker 1: visit them a week ago and as I landed and
Speaker 1: we were driving home from the airport, he said, I
Speaker 1: have a surprise. And Scott O'Neill, who is the commissioner
Speaker 1: of Live Golf, worked with my father at Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: so we have a connection there. And he said, I
Speaker 1: got us passes to go to the Live Golf event
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Now I am a tour guy, so I
Speaker 1: need your forgiveness. However, I could not be struck by
Speaker 1: sitting there on eighteen on what they call ten fifty
Speaker 1: four and watching Bryson and watching John Rahm and watching Brooks.
Speaker 1: I mean they do have a lot of really, really
Speaker 1: good players, obviously, and I thought Brian's response to the question,
Speaker 1: but he said, look, if you're gonna ask me a
Speaker 1: live question, he just asked me a live question. But
Speaker 1: Brian did reference that he is not engaged with the
Speaker 1: Public Investment Fund or anybody from Live Golf. And look,
Speaker 1: I know you're probably tired of talking about it, You're
Speaker 1: probably tired of the question. But if the goal is
Speaker 1: to reunite the best players in the world, at some
Speaker 1: point you're going to have to engage with Live. What's
Speaker 1: your understanding of where we stand right now with the
Speaker 1: relationship or lack thereof, between the PGA Tour and Live Golf.
Speaker 3: I think Brian sent a clear message during his press
Speaker 3: conference that he didn't want to address live because he
Speaker 3: knew that was going to overshadow what he was trying
Speaker 3: to get across, and that's this new committee with everything
Speaker 3: he's trying to do. I also think he wanted to
Speaker 3: show some peace, and he certainly did that. Whether people
Speaker 3: agree with and Ron, I think you have to show
Speaker 3: strength in a situation like that. To be fair. I
Speaker 3: have gone to numerous live golf events, so there's absolutely
Speaker 3: no reason at all. I mean working jearnalists, but there's
Speaker 3: no reason at all to apologize. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: the one last year at the rally went to was amazing.
Speaker 3: The crowds were incredible, the scene was cool. As you
Speaker 3: pointed out, they have incredible players. If you were a
Speaker 3: top ten player in the world when you join live golf,
Speaker 3: you're still a top ten player, whether or not if
Speaker 3: the world renting agrees with that or not. But I
Speaker 3: see what you're going and I think eventually I don't
Speaker 3: know how to get there, But you're right, reuniting the
Speaker 3: game has to be on the back burner somewhere for
Speaker 3: not only Brian Rolapp, but Scott O'Neil. And to your point,
Speaker 3: one of the things I was drawn to in the
Speaker 3: first interview I did with Brian was at the Travelers
Speaker 3: Championship back in June. There was no line of communication
Speaker 3: between jm and handing Praig Norman. It was pretty clear
Speaker 3: those two were not friends, so there was never going
Speaker 3: to be dialogue between the two sides in this particular case.
Speaker 3: Scott O'Neill Brian Rollout they went to the same college.
Speaker 3: I know for a fact they each have each other's
Speaker 3: phone numbers and their phones. That to me is at
Speaker 3: least a sign that we can get to there some way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hopefully that happens at some point. Now, one
Speaker 1: more live question. So when the whole thing first burst
Speaker 1: on the scene, there was so much anger, there was
Speaker 1: so much passion, there was so much divisiveness. In retrospect,
Speaker 1: did Live accomplish something that we didn't see coming, Because
Speaker 1: it's pretty undeniable RECs that the PGA Tour did make
Speaker 1: some adjustments after realizing like, yes, this is a real threat,
Speaker 1: we are losing some of our best players. And did
Speaker 1: Phil Nicholson and Greg Norman actually force the PGA Tour
Speaker 1: to adjust like they said they were going to, even
Speaker 1: though nobody believed them at the time.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's perfectly fair, especially when it comes
Speaker 3: to Phil Nicholson that his argument all along was we
Speaker 3: should be playing for bigger purses and in big tournaments,
Speaker 3: and we should be focusing on the star players. Now,
Speaker 3: it sounds a little selfish coming from one of those
Speaker 3: guys that falls into that category, but what we've experienced
Speaker 3: over the last three years, and certainly the long conversation
Speaker 3: we just had about Brian Rolout's plan goes to the
Speaker 3: idea that on a certain level some degree, Phil was
Speaker 3: absolutely right. Now the disruptive nature of how Livoff entered
Speaker 3: the landscape. I think that's certainly our conversation we can have.
Speaker 3: But I don't think there's anything that you can look
Speaker 3: at the product like it or not, and it's innovative.
Speaker 3: And that's the one line that we've heard roll Ups
Speaker 3: say over and over again, that's what the sport needs.
Speaker 1: So we are broadcasting about five miles away from where
Speaker 1: Tony Fenale cut his teeth, and you know, once upon
Speaker 1: on a time it felt like Tony was evolving and
Speaker 1: growing into potentially one of the best players in the world.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he's not that now, but this
Speaker 1: was not a great year for our local player who
Speaker 1: we all pull for on the tour. What do you
Speaker 1: think plagued Tony the most this year? And do you
Speaker 1: think he can bounce back next season.
Speaker 3: I actually was kind of going down the list, and
Speaker 3: I was taken that he wasn't here because he's become
Speaker 3: such a staple and the tour championship is one of
Speaker 3: those benchmarks that you look at great players and how
Speaker 3: many times did you qualified for the Tour Championship. I
Speaker 3: think this year was a combination of things. It seems
Speaker 3: to me he lost something on the ball striking front, which,
Speaker 3: at least off the tee is what's going to carry him.
Speaker 3: I mean, he has power that other players, most other
Speaker 3: players can't find, but if you look at it statistically,
Speaker 3: it's really on the greens where he seemed to at
Speaker 3: least lose that edge whatever it is that separated him
Speaker 3: from playing in the first playoff event and in the
Speaker 3: last playoff event being here at East Lake. So it
Speaker 3: seems to me across the board he regressed for some reason,
Speaker 3: and we don't know. There could be a very good
Speaker 3: reason for that. There could have been injury, there could
Speaker 3: have been distractions. There's all kinds of reasons players games
Speaker 3: fall off one season. However, I don't think he's the
Speaker 3: kind of guy that doesn't find a way to rebound.
Speaker 1: All right, Rex, before I say you loose, We also
Speaker 1: have a really cool new thing in our stayed down
Speaker 1: south in Saint George, Black Desert Resort. I've had a
Speaker 1: chance to play it a couple of times. It is awesome,
Speaker 1: and for the second straight year, the PGA Tour during
Speaker 1: their Fall Fall Tour portion of the calendar will stop
Speaker 1: at Black Desert for the Bank of Utah Championship. I
Speaker 1: don't want to diminish the field a year ago, but
Speaker 1: of course the best golfers in the world don't need
Speaker 1: the points, but Tony might, maybe Jordan Speth. I don't
Speaker 1: know any thoughts on the potential field we could see
Speaker 1: out here for the Black Desert Championship.
Speaker 3: You look at the guys who are scrambling outside the
Speaker 3: top seventy, those who didn't qualify for the playoffs, or
Speaker 3: those who are right there on the edge. I think
Speaker 3: the entire fall could be benefited by this, for right
Speaker 3: or wrong, but yeah, I think you could end up.
Speaker 3: I mean it makes sense for Tony to play there,
Speaker 3: certainly where he is on the points list. Jordan Speed
Speaker 3: is a little bit different animal because there are exemptions
Speaker 3: that he can fall back on from previous victories and
Speaker 3: previous accomplishments. But I think the entire fall, including your event,
Speaker 3: I will say I was speaking with my colleague Todd
Speaker 3: Lewis just now about his fall schedule, and he actually
Speaker 3: added that event, and he's looking forward to it for
Speaker 3: good reason.
Speaker 2: I lied to you.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you one more question, is the
Speaker 1: expert before I set you loose? Obviously the Ryder Cup
Speaker 1: is right around the corner. Cannot wait for that. We
Speaker 1: know who the six qualifiers are at Scotty, JJ Spahn,
Speaker 1: Xander Russell, Henley Harris, English Rice and Deshambeau.
Speaker 2: Who fills out that team? Rex, give me your best
Speaker 2: guest before I set you loose.
Speaker 3: We were just going around and round about this. I
Speaker 3: think you can point to some I think Colin Moore,
Speaker 3: Kawa and jt are clearly say if they're right there
Speaker 3: on the list, that makes sense to add them to
Speaker 3: the team. I think Ben Griffin has done enough this
Speaker 3: season two wins to top ten finishes in a major.
Speaker 3: I think he should be on that team. And then
Speaker 3: you start talking about some combination of Patrick Cantlay. He
Speaker 3: brings so much to the team, Cameron Young breaking three
Speaker 3: and getting that victory. I think he would be a
Speaker 3: good addition, and of course I mean Sam Burns. I
Speaker 3: think is another interesting edition. But the one that all
Speaker 3: of us is going to be watching is Key no captain.
Speaker 3: No one has ever been in the position he's in
Speaker 3: as a captain and as someone that I think the
Speaker 3: other players will tell you he should be on that
Speaker 3: team by any measurement. He is a top ten, I
Speaker 3: mean top twelve American player, but it is going to
Speaker 3: be so difficult for him to try to do both Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Can't get here fast enough. That's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1: Rex, thank you for the time. We'll set you loose.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the rest of the tournament and love to.
Speaker 2: Do it again.
Speaker 1: Okay, Any kinn thanks all right, Rex, Hodgrid from the
Speaker 1: Golf Channel. Really nice of him to actually join us.
Speaker 1: He's been on TV all night and all day in
Speaker 1: Atlanta at east Lake at the Tour Championship, where Russell
Speaker 1: Henley just birdied eighteen to cart A sixty one nine under.
Speaker 2: Russell Henley is your leader in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1: He's three shots clear of Colin Morikawa, Patrick Cantley and
Speaker 1: Justin Thomas in addition to Robert McIntyre.
Speaker 2: They're all six hundred par.
Speaker 1: Tommy Fleetwood is still on the course as a Scottie Scheffler.
Speaker 2: They're both at five under par.
Speaker 1: Then at Talk Shape, Tia Ludwig Obert, Rory McElroy four under,
Speaker 1: and then a group of players at three under this
Speaker 1: is a massive event with the best golfers in the world,
Speaker 1: so appreciate rex of time.
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