Dramatic Win For Max Homa! Fortinet Championship, Italian Open & LIV Chicago Recap Podcast
The First Cut Golf
CBS Sports, Golf, PGA Golf Tour, PGA, LIV Golf, Golf Picks, Golf Bets, Tiger Woods
4.5 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Rick Gehman and Greg Ducharme recap a full weekend of global golf action.
0:00 - Homa's Dramatic Win
20:30 - Italian Open
26:00 - Cam Smith Wins LIV Chicago
31:00 - Betting Challenge
PGA Tour Fortinet Championship: The weirdest golf year in recent memory delivered perhaps the strangest start to a season in PGA Tour history. Max Homa (-16) won the Fortinet Championship on Sunday over Danny Willett (-15) by a single stroke, but that doesn't even begin to tell the story of what happened at Silverado Country Club on Sunday afternoon.
LIV Golf Chicago: It lacked the historic nature of his final round at this year's Open Championship or the lights-out golf of his last 18 holes at the Tournament of Champions or the dramatic finale at TPC Sawgrass when he took the Players Championship in March, but the result for Cameron Smith at LIV Golf Chicago as he shot 69 in the final round of his second LIV event to finish at 13 under was exactly the same: a trophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Freaking first cut. |
| 0:06.6 | Golly. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to the first cup podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Rick Damon, joined tonight by G.R. E.G. Greg, Greg. How about those jets? |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, how about it? Yeah. Today, there was a while. It was looking a little bit sour, |
| 0:25.0 | not only for the Jets for my fantasy football team. And I was rooting for Max Homa in this event. |
| 0:31.5 | That was looking sour for a while. And boy, did it turn around. So rather impressive. |
| 0:37.6 | Lots of late drama for the Jumbo Jets. |
| 0:41.0 | Lots of late drama for Max Homa and the Fortnite Championship. |
| 0:45.5 | Max Homa does indeed, Greg, successfully defend his title. |
| 0:51.0 | This is something we saw a ton last year, |
| 0:53.5 | five successful title defenses. We saw |
| 0:56.7 | maybe the chalkiest year of sports betting where a ton of favorites ended up winning last year. |
| 1:02.1 | We start off this new season with more of the same. Yes. And I think my rule is officially |
| 1:09.1 | shattered. Yes. It's just shattered. |
| 1:11.7 | I mean, look, I mean, all at all, still five times is a lot for the PGA tour. |
| 1:17.1 | It's not that often in the grand scheme of the season. |
| 1:21.0 | No. |
| 1:21.5 | The last time that we had five successful title defenses outside of last year was 2007. |
| 1:27.0 | So it was 15 years and Tiger had four of them. |
| 1:30.8 | Right. So that that's where the rule comes from. And look, I don't know. It still, it still makes |
| 1:39.8 | sense. It just, you know, it happens five times. It's a lot. And now it happens again, the first event of the next season. It's crazy. I just, I couldn't believe how this unfolded. It was looking very, you know, disappointing for Homa. You see Lauer and Willett not able to get it up on that shelf on 17. And I felt like Homa was kind of ready for that moment. And he didn't get it up on that shelf on 17. And I felt like Como was kind of ready for that moment. |
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