Smylie Kaufman Joins to Talk the Latest on the PGA Tour

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00:00Every week we love having our man smiley Kaufman with us here on C2C

00:04You can catch the smiley show right here on sports grid a couple times a week new episodes always getting pumped out

00:11And we are really this is the week where I think smile. I might mention this to you last week Mike

00:16This is the week. I think a lot of people

00:18Start to go Oh PGA here. We go Pebble Beach

00:21Then the waist things start to really roll

00:25And then we head towards the players, and I'm looking forward to it smiley great to see you as always my man

00:30Yeah, it's a good time for Mike and yeah great being on you know typically in the past

00:36It was always San Diego it felt like kind of the first big week of the year

00:40But last year or so I should say last week was during the NFC AFC championship

00:45Weekends everybody's minds kind of on it even though it finished on Saturday

00:49Harrison was getting it done, but to your point this week all the stars are out

00:53You got all the big guys plans in your shop boys the only guy not playing with a rib injury so

00:58Iconic venue and pebble really looking forward to the week

01:02Let me ask you about

01:03Tori first here and the farmers over the weekend because we did lose a lot of the heavy hitters Ludwig was there

01:10But he got sick on Friday and Saturday and didn't didn't play very well. You had a kind of leaderboard

01:18He didn't hold names at the top of it, but whenever you have

01:23A weather element that gets thrown into the mix you have a bunch of guys trying to get their first ever win on tour

01:30But then there's an old reliable guy

01:32Kind of just sitting in there like Harris English. What'd you think of how the farmers played out?

01:38Definitely the the golf course was very difficult. It was dry really windy for two days

01:42They had to stop play on Friday because the wind was blowing so hard

01:46But yeah, it was a bummer Ludwig was the guy I really liked heading into the week shoots nine under at the north course

01:51And if he just basically shoots even par the rest of the week, he wins the golf tournament gets sick

01:56It's a whole nother deal. But you know, Torrey Pines

01:58I'm looking forward to seeing it come back there in a couple of weeks to watch all the best players show up for the signature

02:03Event that's now being relocated from through the era due to the fires

02:07So, you know, it's a course that it can be a little boring at times

02:11But to me somebody who loves high shot value and being able to put the ball where you're looking

02:16Torrey Pines is it you just got to play boring simple golf and if you're able to go out and shoot 500 one day

02:22It's that's definitely a really good score

02:25What did you think about stopping for the wind because me and Pharrell had quite the discussion about it?

02:31While we were on what did you think of stuff?

02:35Well, well tell me this what side of the fence is Pharrell on here. Well, he absolutely hated it

02:42But he was much stronger on the I hated the fact that they stopped the golf tournament I did I didn't love it either smiling

02:49Well, here's the thing if the golf ball when you're standing over it and you're having golf balls move

02:55They're gonna have to halt play because it gets so, you know on those really windy days

03:01Which I've played on a day where it was 50 60 mile an hour gusts

03:04It was that crazy day back with Grant Seneca one on a eventual Monday finish

03:09It's it's it's tough to because the course was so dry

03:13If there was some moisture maybe to kind of keep the golf ball from not moving

03:17But when the greens are that dry and the winds humming that much the balls moving on the green

03:22I mean I get it a lot of people complain about the PGA Tour and the scores or you know

03:28That's sometimes like we started the year Hideki shoots 3,500. Well this week, you know Harris English shoots 800

03:35Everybody was just complaining about man, you know, there's not enough birdies like where can we win here Mike, right?

03:40Can't win can't win. I can't win at all

03:43How could you complain about not enough birdies in an event like that this past weekend?

03:47Everybody wants to see challenging things

03:50And for them to not do that, it makes no sense. Sometimes you're right smiling

03:53Nobody's ever happy with whatever the setup and the situation is going to be let's get to pebble now this week

04:01Signature event everyone loves pebble. It's outstanding and we have some guys we haven't seen yet this year period

04:08Of course Rory hasn't played an event yet

04:10He's gonna play in the computer screen tonight at the TGL and then head out over and head to pebble

04:16But Scott he's playing for the first time since cutting his hand back during Christmas time

04:23And look, I know he's the best but man

04:26He's a heavy favorite for a guy that hasn't played any competitive rounds yet smiley

04:30I wouldn't even come close to taking Scotty this week, right?

04:34It just seems like there's so much other guys that have had some reps this year

04:39They've had good good experience at this golf course and remember the old AT&T Pebble Beach used to be three golf courses

04:46You played Monterey spyglass and pebble

04:49It was a much bigger field the this this now

04:52Much smaller field being the signature event close to 70 80 guys and then just two golf courses

04:57So spyglass, which I think is the sneaky probably hardest in the rotation

05:03That it used to be now. I think spyglass on a tough day is very very challenging at times if it's firm

05:09But yeah pebbles, you know if there's wind that's a protection and if it's firm, it's definitely hard

05:16But typically this time of the year

05:18You know, you're you're taking one or two clubs more to try to take the spin off of the golf ball

05:23So you really have to have a guy that you know doesn't hit their wedges very hard and it's comfortable taking spin off of a golf

05:30ball

05:31Of course, they didn't even finish last year. Remember Wyndham Clark one and they didn't play on Sunday

05:37Who do you like this week out there? Who's your pick?

05:39well, it seems like Mike I'm like a week early on guys and

05:43It's unfortunate because I think Ludwig's gonna have a really good week

05:47and if you do remember last year, like you said Wyndham did have a

05:51Big Saturday to eventually be the champion, but Ludwig was playing some incredible golf. He finished second

05:57I really like him this week

05:58But another player who plays well at Pebble Beach is a Patrick Cantlay and he's kind of been sneaky to start the year

06:06I'd say that he has gotten better. It seems like every single round he plays and

06:11With good experience at this golf course and having enough reps under his belt to start

06:172025 can't lay I think it's gonna probably be my wanted out pick

06:21Smiley I've only got about 30 seconds left. What do you got on the smiley show this week for us?

06:27We're gonna be breaking down a little bit of TGL

06:29But we also have next week. We're gonna have Joel Damon on we got a lot of guests and on on the books right now

06:35We're really excited about

06:37As we really kind of head into golf season Mike once we get through that Super Bowl everybody's gonna be asking what's going on the

06:43Golf course and I got you. You know that

06:45We know you do smiley looking forward to it. And yes, there is TGL tonight

06:50Tiger and Rory's teams are playing down at the big at the big screen

06:55So we will see how that goes to smiley. We will see you next week. Joy Pebble great tournament waste management next week

07:02Let's go, baby

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