00:00Let's take a listen and a watch of this sound of an exchange between Colin Murakawa and Adam Shupak of Golf Week.
00:07Do you know who's going to caddy for you at the British Open?
00:11I don't. And, you know, I read your article that you wrote.
00:15Look, I'm not here to tell people how to do their jobs, but I don't get why you would make me sound bad because you put out my quote that I was playing with pro-am partners out front.
00:29Those guys are paying a lot of money. They're very important to the community.
00:33They're very important to the Rocket Classic.
00:35And for you to put out a quote like that, to put me down and saying, hey, wait two and a half hours.
00:42I mean, you called me up on the first tee, you know, so I'm not going to tell you how to do your job.
00:47You can write whatever you want. This is this is America.
00:50But don't put me down like that because. It's two and a half hours, Adam.
00:55I thought it's actually giving you credit that you were playing. You were focused on your pro-am partners.
01:02OK, we can all read it very differently. That's not how I read it.
01:05I don't know how. But I'm just telling you, like, I think there's a perspective where people can read it like that.
01:12So I'm just going to leave it at that, that I was I we knew I was going to have media in two and a half hours.
01:18I'm on the first tee meeting my pro-am partners as their team off.
01:21So on the caddy front, I don't. It's a process that I'm going through.
01:28Hopefully, hopefully we'll find out when the time comes and I will let everyone know.
01:32Thank you. All right, Smiley, let's start with.
01:37What how did you I read you the excerpt? You've seen the excerpt.
01:41Did you read it? Did you interpret it closer to Colin or Adam?
01:45Well, I went and tried to read the article, but I was looking in the article and I couldn't find this quote, but it was edited.
01:53So, yes, I eventually did see the the initial quote, which do you have that initial quote or do you want me to go and read it?
02:00Yeah, well, I just read it. Oh, you just read it.
02:03If you were listening to the show that we both record together, this podcast, we do call it The Smiley Show, where I can read it again if you'd like me to.
02:13So I'll start from the top of the story and read up into the end of that quote that Adam using this in the story.
02:22But it says the call Morikawa Joe Griner experiment is over.
02:26Morikawa, who is scheduled to compete this week at the Rocket Classic, confirmed as much before teeing off in Wednesday's Pro-Am.
02:32He has a friend on the bag filling in this week.
02:34It's unclear who Morikawa will have takeover permanently going forward.
02:38Quote, ask me anything you want in my press conference later.
02:41I'm with my Pro-Am partners now.
02:44All right.
02:45So I'll start from Colin's standpoint.
02:47That's he's absolutely right.
02:49That's a time in which is supposed to be spent getting ready for the golf tournament, spending time with the Pro-Am partners.
02:55And we don't mind like when I was playing, I didn't mind whether a reporter or somebody with the network that was covering it that week and journalists, if they came up and just wanted to talk, that's fine.
03:09But especially after a firing like that, that's kind of still in this gray area.
03:15Of course, it's been confirmed that Joe Griner's not working that week, but there's a time and a place to ask.
03:21And it's definitely not on the first tee of the Pro-Am.
03:23That's one where you got to catch him on the parking lot, either heading into the golf course or just the timing of that is really poor.
03:30I would say from a player standpoint, I would be totally fine if he asked me, heading into the clubhouse, leaving the range, you know, anytime I'm not working.
03:41And it would probably be a, hey, thanks for asking.
03:44Let's talk about it at the media or at the press center when I'm going to have my media obligations.
03:51So I thought Common, the way he handled it, which he's been a topic of a lot of media scrutiny as far as just his lack of wanting to do a whole lot from a media perspective after whether it's close losses or just times he doesn't want to speak with the media.
04:12And it's been criticized rightfully or wrongfully.
04:15I don't have much of an opinion.
04:17He can do whatever he wants after a round until the PGA Tour tells him he has to.
04:21So I could care less.
04:24I know he's been scrutinized for that.
04:25So I think that aspect of Colin and his willingness to do media or not do media is being tied in too much to this little snippet of this conversation where I think some people think he comes across as snippy and however you want to describe it.
04:42I personally like the directness of how he handled it.
04:47It wasn't necessarily too rude.
04:52It seemed pretty fair because if I would have read the same thing, I would have been probably pretty fired up too.
04:58I don't know when he read it.
04:59So if he was with this Pro-Am Partners, it sounds like he was reading news articles while he was out there, which I don't know.
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