1153: Best PGA Championship Draft

29.039 - 50.253 Rich Beem

ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the no laying up podcast solly here got another draft best of major championships you guys seem to really dig uh when we drafted our favorite majors best majors uh into our collection we did it again for the pga championship very different exercise we break down all of that here uh as we get into it we got three new judges this time around.

50.273 - 67.429 Rich Beem

So stick around to the end to see who actually wins the greatest collection draft of PGA championships. We might as well just do these for all four majors this year, assuming this is going to continue to be a hit. So thank you very much for tuning in. We'll give a shout out to our friends at Titleist, of course. Golf ball fitting. Massively important. Just ask Cameron Young.

67.489 - 83.511 Rich Beem

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83.731 - 101.552 Rich Beem

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101.572 - 114.825 Rich Beem

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173.287 - 188.844 DJ

Yeah, I think we started just trying to get people frothed up for the masters, which is, which is turns out very easy to do. Right. And so we're just kind of like, well, you know, let's get in a, in a digital room and just start chopping it up about old masters. Everybody pick your favorites, put together a little collection.

188.864 - 199.395 DJ

Uh, and then that went well and we kind of painted ourselves into a corner. I feel like where it's like, well, now we gotta do the PGA. Uh, and it's just very different exercise, TC. I mean, this is a, this is a very different situation.

199.375 - 217.975 Soly

yeah uh i've never felt more confident that the pga should just blow everything up rethink rethink it all a lot of golf courses that don't exist anymore a lot of golf courses in ohio as you mentioned a lot of random places in new york

217.955 - 241.758 Rich Beem

pga national ncr in august pga national in august that they did in 1987. i learned a little bit about the pga one i learned my memories about this tournament are not nearly as strong as they were uh you know maybe the us opens or even open championships uh a lot of man that really happened that that totally happened A lot of bad AI in this one, too.

241.778 - 243.42 Rich Beem

I hope you guys didn't use too much AI in this one.

399.434 - 404.14 Rich Beem

No, we're not all picking one. You know what? I might have to outsource this to Cody, I think. Yeah.

404.693 - 411.142 TC

Don't do anything. Get him. No, I'm going to get Seth. Get him. Get him in the building. He's got a good one.

411.162 - 429.688 Rich Beem

He's got a dog in this fight anymore. You have to drop the Keegan one if that's the case. What? Okay, so explain the collection. Again, what are what are we? If we're drafting this, you want the best collection of PGA championships, but kind of explain that that kind of process.

429.668 - 452.944 DJ

well i think this just kind of naturally uh happened last time where it's like the the the analogy we kept using was like records on a shelf right you're trying to you're trying to amass some collectibles which is much easier again with the masters uh i think that it is necessarily with the pga championship even though there's far more pga championships I guess slightly, slightly more.

453.946 - 468.096 DJ

But yeah, so I think we were kind of looking at it. You know, Randy was trying to have these unique championships. That's where he went with his collection for the Masters. It was, he picked one of the COVID Masters. He picked the first international winner. I forget what other bad.

623.851 - 642.781 Rich Beem

I don't know how, but... was rigged he's winning you guys got all the good draft picks and you left me rory and cam young thanks for that you guys left me bryson and john rob i don't know how that yeah that didn't go so well So all that to say the order will be me, then Neil, then TC, then DJ. Randy's unable to be with us today because he is on vacation.

643.241 - 648.068 Unknown

Yeah, he hates the PJs. He's a conjecture to the PJ championship as well.

648.708 - 660.083 Rich Beem

We will be snaking from there. So DJ will go five, TC six, Neil seven, I'm eight. And then we will repeat the process all the way to four rounds, four rounds, a collection of four PGA championships.

660.063 - 675.405 Rich Beem

unless we decide to add a fifth yeah unless you really hate your teams like you tried to do at the masters draft which only made my team stronger so do that would you pick up with your last pick when we did max oh that's right i think you beat your whole team for sure you definitely did

676.82 - 697.697 TC

any macro pga championship takeaways we want to want to get on the record or you want those just come out naturally match play was sick that's the big one for me it was glory's last chance uh i think added added juice to this major shot last shot i mean yeah choose your own adventure there

1244.022 - 1259.938 Soly

uh it just feels like like ray floyd is first round leader uh you got sam sneed who's 62 years old at the time finishes tied for third for his third consecutive top 10 finish in the event

1259.918 - 1285.352 Soly

this championship coincided with the resignation of president nixon who left office on the friday of the event just a lot of like a very specific place in time for our country and for for golf specifically got ray floyd hubert green tom watson jim colbert you know all them kind of involved here dave hill gary player finishes solo seventh al guyberger

1285.332 - 1307.261 Soly

It's like the pictures really set this one off for me when I when I looked at everything. I'm like, man, that's it truly felt like almost like Mike Davis, maybe before Mike Davis was even Mike Davis as far as we're going to play this thing on a true muni. I don't know. I don't like I've never heard anything about that course ever since. Never laid eyes on it.

1307.501 - 1309.964 Soly

It's it's Yeah, I'm just fascinated by it.

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So

1517.836 - 1533.027 Soly

so uh first year on cbs sports in 25 years they've been on abc there you go good ratings boost yeah 76 i think macro question do you think pga i know we've had some random open championship winners but

1534.407 - 1558.356 TC

more Cinderella stories for PGA than any other major like like this a rich beam you know is that would you Sean McKeel Sean McKeel exactly Jason or even Keegan winning his first one yeah is that just because the field's so big I think there's something there with the Masters of even when like setting maybe Danny Willett aside even when a Cinderella wins the Masters he comes back

1558.336 - 1567.637 Soly

every year for the rest of his career. And he feels like less of a Cinderella because he becomes so much more familiar in your consciousness.

1568.478 - 1594.587 DJ

yeah i also think he's there but i mean maybe it's just because we just came off of the masters but there's also just so much course history and course knowledge that goes into that particular golf course that it feels like it's veterans that have been around for a long time that end up winning there uh whereas the pga different course every year it's not necessarily the the toughest test in golf like the us open which i think weeds a lot of people out so it's kind of just like

1594.567 - 1621.215 DJ

still it's like what is it random field random courses yeah i mean i think this kind of speaks to the whole the whole problem with it just be really hot in florida yeah go to oklahoma in the middle of the summer yeah so i'll take 1991. i think that's a great pick i love that pick i i was gonna take it was i was between that one it just wasn't weird enough i just didn't have the chance i didn't have the opportunity to take that one no i think i i appreciate it

2191.125 - 2193.388 Soly

I was hoping this was going to fall to me, Neil.

2193.408 - 2214.091 TC

Awesome course. Just two characters. Just two of the great characters of our time. You know, or before our time. But, I mean, Elk, like the best storyteller in golf. Monty, this is probably... I mean, I know a few U.S. Opens, but this was a tough one for him because he didn't really lose this one. He just got straight up beat. So Elk started six shots back, balls out.

2214.111 - 2230.548 TC

He's got a great – I was watching a clip this morning of him recounting this round. He's like, I'm just hitting these beautiful fades, you know, just fades. I was worried about two tee shots, the one on five and the one on 13 where he had to hit a draw. He does it. He points out the second shot in the 13 is the best golf shot he's ever hit.

2230.888 - 2234.892 TC

Like if I have to go to one shot where my body's doing exactly just –

2234.872 - 2258.938 TC

exactly what i want just l go go it's on like secret tour youtube channel secret go watch this secret golf yeah his god that was great it was like the original uh content he was like the original golf content creator yeah he's just ahead of his round and there's nothing better than when elk gets on a roll telling a story so he hits his awesome shot in the 13 pin high and uh i think he shot 64.

3026.242 - 3053.149 Rich Beem

it was the third hole i think uh par three if i remember right this when tiger stuffed it into that pin one of the loudest like gallery sounds uh i can recall of a sunday like a tiger chart like that was just such a real tiger charge uh on that day i think he bogeyed what what hold he bogeyed six and he bogeyed 14. Okay. And he didn't birdie was 17 a par five. Like he had a chance in this one.

3053.931 - 3058.2 Soly

He shot 64 with, with a bogey on the back nine and a par on a par five.

3059.683 - 3070.543 TC

And I feel like I remember Brooks hitting just like a five, four or five iron into one of the par threes on the back. That was just like a, you know, Lights out.

3071.024 - 3075.088 Soly

Lights out. Special, like just deep cavernous. Damn.

3075.108 - 3081.656 TC

He hits like 10 feet from like, you know, two 40 or whatever, you know, whatever it was, it's hot balls, balls jumping out there.