1159: McNealy/Smalley lead, but setup is all the talk

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Alex Smalley (-4) and Mav McNealy (-4) have a one-stroke lead over six others after 36 holes at the 2026 PGA Championship. Notable chasers include T9 Cam Young (-2) and T9 Scottie Scheffler. Is it an interesting setup to blame for the bunched leaderboard? Join us as we break it all down, discuss some disappointing missed cuts (Blockie, Tommy, Vik Hovland, Bryson, Max), run down news and notes, and a bunch more. Presented by Titleist. Titleist - #1 Ball in Golf High Noon - Sun's Up! Arccos - NLU15 for 15% off at https://www.arccosgolf.com/ Looking to travel this year, check out East Sands Golf Co.: https://www.eastsandsgolf.co/nlu Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: https://nolayingup.com/esf The NLU email newsletter: bi-monthly updates on all things NLU: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/subscribe Join The No Laying Up Nest: https://nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club.
0:06.9	Be the right club today.
0:09.6	Yes.
0:11.8	Johnny, that's better than most.
0:16.2	How about him?
0:17.2	That is better than most.
0:19.4	Better than most.
0:24.6	Yeah. It is better than most. Better than most. Expect anything different?
0:34.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we are halfway home in the 108th PGA Championship.
0:45.3	Welcome to the Noleng a podcast presented, as always, by our friends at Titleist Live Show Edition.
0:50.9	I am Salli, joined by Mr. T.C. Hello, T.Rong.
0:54.1	Greetings. No puck tonight, Sali. We're just talking golf. No puck. Guy was glued to his TV set all day long. Neil Schuster. Hello, Neil. I was. T.C. We'll be playing blue line to blue line tonight, brother. We're going to dump and chase. Dig it out of the boards. I'm ready for a good one tonight. A good clean fight with you, brother. Let's go. Love it. The No Langa podcast and live show, of course, brought to by our friends at Titleist, the number one ball at the PGA championship with 106 players at Aronimic teeing up at Pro v1, Pro V1 X or Pro V1X left dash golf ball. I got a big list here, guys.
1:28.2	I'm not going to name them all, but a lot of guys on the leaderboard play a title is golf ball. We have Aldrich Potkeeter plays a ProV1X. Alex Smalley plays a Provee 1x. Stephen Yeager plays a Provee 1x. Cameron Young plays a Provee 1x, Double Dod. Justin Thomas plays a Provee 1x. Maverick Manili plays a ProVee 1.
1:42.1	Ricky Fowler plays a ProV1.
1:43.4	Jordan Speef ProV1X left dash.
1:46.0	And why?
1:46.6	And how's he driving it?
1:48.0	Solid. Prov1x. Maverick Manili plays a ProVee 1. He plays a ProVee 1. Jordan Spee, ProVee 1X left dash. And why and how's he driving it, Sali? Fourth in the entire tournament in strokes gained off the T has hit 21 of 28 Fairways, averaging 307.6 yards off the T. So is there a ball that helps with your putting? They're not going to promise that it fix your putting.
2:02.4	They're not going to, but tea to green, gosh, is it really helping Jordan's feet.
2:05.7	It just warms my heart.
2:06.8	As a left dash man, welcome to the squad for the experience and love seeing him keep it in play.
2:14.2	I found the same for my game, so that's awesome.
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