Smyile Kaufman Braves Storms at PGA Tour Event

Introduction and Welcome course. I loved every minute of it. Keep it up, bro. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate it. My man there is Riley Kaufman, of course is with us here on Sea to Sea. Catch a smiley show right here on Sports Grid and Smiley. Good to see you again, my man. AI Recap of the Toughest Day think we have to start there. As Farrell was just saying, you did a great job out there. I want you to tell me which day was the worst. Let's be fair. I thought Sunday was Sunday. Clearly, clearly was the nicest day out of the four. Was it Friday or was it Saturday where you were standing out there and you're just like, man, I can't wait to get in the clubhouse. Which day was it, Friday or Saturday? Listen, everybody knows they're hardcore golfers at their country clubs and the guys that will be out there in the 40 degrees and playing in the rain, I'm telling you, even those guys wouldn't have wanted to play on Saturday. That's how bad Saturday really was, for me being out there, it was raining start to finish. It was blowing. Gosh it got on the back nine, probably blowing a really stiff, consistent 20 miles an hour, which is just insane how with the temperature and the rain. Visibility was low and it was and it was cold on top of that. So Saturday, 1,000%, those leaders like Shane Lowry starting the day with the 3 or 4 shot lead, I think it was, it was it was just really difficult to, to make pars. It was like Following Rose and Horschel six par fives. It felt like on the back side. And that had to probably make it even more fun for you because I believe on Saturday, the worst day is when you had Rose and Horschel, that you were falling around. So to be with two grizzled veterans of the PGA tour and of golf and of major championships and playing all these and watching them play in those conditions, Horschel throwing the hat backwards on a couple of those holes like that. I thought that you did have the fun you listen to. Everybody was having a tough time out there, but the interesting and fun group to follow on Saturday was Rose and Horschel. Yeah, it didn't expect to go in into into the day, right? I mean, it just felt like, you know, especially the coverage, over on that side of the pond typically really lends itself to the Europeans. And, you know, I got Billy Horschel, Justin Rose, who, you know, is in the part of his career, I think would be on the back side of it. But the golf that these two guys played insane, Justin Rose felt like every single shot that he hit that day just he wasn't going to hit a shot until he was ready, it just showed the commitment. The dedication and just how meticulous he was in his process to make sure he wasn't pulling the trigger until he was ready. And Billy Horschel, just my goodness, it was so fun to watch a guy like Billy who, you know, he he has not had the major, career that I wish he he that he wished he probably did have, you know, not really. I don't think any top tens heading into the open Championship, where he ended up finishing in the top three. So a huge week for Billy. I think it proved a lot to himself that he's, you know, capable to win a major championship, even at this part of his career. We're talking with Smiley Kaufman. Of course you can Xander Schauffele's Major Wins catch the smiley show right here on Sports Grid. Couple times a week, great stuff, as always. Smiley. The beginning of this year, we talked. Everybody talked about Xander Schauffele. And is he finally going to win a major? Is he finally going to win big ones. Is he going to do that? He not only wins one smiley, but now having two in the same year, some rarefied names that he is with in that club of two majors in the same year. Your thoughts on Zander's performance this past weekend at Royal Troon? You know, it's what really good players do, the elite players, which is having the ability on a week in which the weather was the story, Thursday, Friday, the wind blowing like crazy, he was in I would say the draw that was not the easier of the draws, but still he was able to just to hang around, hang around. And he knows exactly what a good score was that day. Never got too out of touch with the leaders, and was able to then have a Sunday where the weather finally turned. Like you mentioned Mike, where he had an opportunity to hit some shots, make some putts and for a while on Sunday it felt like we didn't know who was going to win. It was like the whole week you felt like, oh, it was going to be Shane Lowry's event. You know, it just kept rotating. Guys and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, Xander Schauffele is going to win. Oh, and by the way, it's over. That's how quickly it The Turning Point at Hole 11 felt like it was for Xander Schauffele. It felt like smiley. The turning point was when he hit that that ball out of the deep stuff on 11. Right. Like when he was off to the left on that had to be where you thought Xander is going to win. When he put that, stuck that on the flag from that deep stuff. Yep, 100%. That's a t call because 11th hole was the story of the week. All you know, even going into it, we knew exactly what that 11th hole was going to be. And then we had the perfect weather for it for, for viewers, and for commentators, not not necessarily for players because it was wreaking havoc all week. And he was able to pull a wedge from 173, stick it, make birdie, then goes on to win. But to answer your original question about Xander, in two majors, he's in rarefied air. I mean, he's a player that we've been waiting for the breakout. And, you know, we always seem to say, and whether it's golf or other sports, that they just need to win one. And then the floodgates will open. And most of the time it never happens like that win. And then the floodgates actually open. It actually feels like that's the case with Xander Schauffele. It feels like the floodgates are open when his stuff is on. Which, by the way, he's always on. He always makes cuts. He's always in the top 20. So for a player that knows how to hang around and be inside the top ten, it's scary now that now he knows how to win. So he's he's getting better and better each year. His speed is up. His ability to be pretty much elite across the board is you could put a gun against anybody, I'm taking Xander Schauffele over everybody, even Scottie Scheffler, because Xander is a much, Player of the Year Debate much better putter. I feel like than Scottie or at least a more consistent one. And I think that's going to be the talk now. Right smiley. As we get towards the end of the year. Now we still have a couple you know ten flag events to go here. We got the gold medal next week in France. We have the Fedex Cup championship when we get through the playoffs. But two majors for Xander, six wins and a major for Scotty, including a bunch of, big elevated events. Your player of the year right now. Who is it? You know what I think it's going to come down to Tour Championship. And if you'd have told me, coming into the year that that it was going to be anybody other than Scotty, I would have told you you're crazy. But, you know, when you win two major championships that to I think a lot of the players is going to be a huge difference because two majors in one year is, like I said, just a moment ago, it's rarefied air. So you got to see how Xander finishes the year off. Let's see what happens in the playoffs, who of the two maybe wins a gold medal? But