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ESPN's Greg McElroy talks working with Mark Blackburn on his game and how playing for Nick Saban helped his competitive mindset

Subpar

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Sports, Sports:golf, Golf

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by ESPN college football commentator Greg McElroy for an exclusive interview. The former Alabama quarterback talks what it was like playing under the legendary Coach Saban, his work with top instructor Mark Blackburn and a not so great BBQ experience at Jason Kokrak's house.

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    0:00.0

    All right, welcome back to Golf Subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stultz, and we are back again talking Fanatic Sportsbook and Fan Cash.

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    0:54.5

    Terms apply. See Fanatic Sportsbook app. Woo, sleighs. Not much golf going on in the world. But a lot of gambling. A lot of gambling. But Tommy Fleetwood did stay hot over in India. Winning over there, first time his son's been able to run out onto the 18th green, which I thought was really cool. little Frankie Fleetwood told him a couple weeks ago.

    1:12.5

    He's like, you know, you've never won where I've been able to come out on the 18th green. So Tommy said, I've been thinking about this for a while. Had it written down, I think, in his yardage book and said, I'm going to make this happen. And damn it, he goes out there and does it. And here comes Frankie. How about the year he's had to go from just like heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak? Will you ever win on the PJ tour to all of a sudden?

    1:30.7

    How about the year he's had to go from just like heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak, will you ever win on the PJ tour to all of a sudden? How about the last handful of months? Wins out there, Ryder Cup, for my money, best player that was out there that week, goes over to India, does it again. And I think like, as far as Europeans going, it might be the most beloved non-American when he plays over here. Yeah. Everyone loves, I mean, how could you not like Thomas Fleetwood? I mean, he's as good as they come in his golf game. It just feels like it's all kind of coming together right now. It's a shame he's got to wait so long before Augusta and major season right now because he is going. I mean, he's one of the best, kind of similar to how Victor Holland was after the Rome Rider Cup.

    2:04.1

    I was like, that's the best player in the world right now. Tommy may be it right at this very moment. He's up there. There's a one other guy, but after him, he might be next up. Pretty damn good. But congrats to Tommy on another win. Always rooting for him. one of the nicest guys in the business. Justin Leonard won on the PGA Tour Champions.

    2:34.4

    Eagle in the last hole to beat Ernie Ells and Thomas Bjorn by one. But there was some golf talk going on this past week, thanks to a little video that we put out. Talking about how I applied for my ambitor status. You got a lot of people in your corner. Yeah. A lot of people pulling for you.

    2:35.6

    Really a lot of nice people out there, by the way. The things people say are just absolutely ridiculous. They want you back and playing some AM stuff immediately. I think we just need to clear a few things up here because, look, it was a five-minute comment. They got broken down into a little video. and I understand, like part of the video you could see why you might think, like,

    2:52.6

    I'm totally doing this out of spite and I'm doing it to try to win the midam and play in the masters. That is not the case. We were joking around. The whole thing dirt, we're joking how you and I might be matched up against each other in it one day. First off, could you imagine? I haven't even been giving my amateur status back. I don't even know how long it's going to be. I've not heard from the USGA. By the way, talk's clicking. Or talks clicking. The talk's clicking. You might have CTE. The clock is ticking because I believe right now we're at like business day number eight. And they say they respond within six to ten. Yeah, it's coming. It should come this week. Okay. And yeah, I think we do,

    3:24.2

    like, we did have a discussion about it. We even had some, like, off air. It's like, the whole,

    3:28.7

    the intent of this is not, and correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. Like, hey, I want to get my amateur sales. I'm going to play the midam. I'm going to play all the USGA stuff. I'm by every single tournament that matters.

    3:36.8

    Like, do you want to play some rag tag pro scratches, things,

    3:40.9

    you know, maybe some fun mid-em tournaments

    3:42.5

    that honestly don't affect 99.9% of the... Like, do you want to play some rag tag pro scratches things?

    3:45.3

    You know, maybe some fun mid-am tournaments that honestly don't affect 99.9% of the people like commenting and things like that.

    3:46.7

    Just have fun.

    3:47.5

    Like, I would be shocked if you ever, like, I'm signing up for the mid-am.

    3:52.1

    Like, I don't think that's the intent or the goal.

    3:55.2

    Like, in reality, this isn't going to affect, like like the competitive landscape of mid-am golf. I would hope not. Right? Am I off on any of that? No, I mean, I enjoy playing pro scratches, which forever, I've been the pro. We have one at Whiskbrook. There's a big one out in the desert at the plantation, which is a lot of fun.

    4:31.6

    I am technically a pro. Playing in those events, which, by the way, they're not cheap. Okay, the entry fees a decent amount of money. Odds are, we're not going to make any of that money back. We're going to go have some cocktails and have a lot of fun, but it'd be nice to be the scratch person on that team and then go team up with one of the pros. It would never work scheduling-wise with what I do, but like the four ball, I know how much

    4:36.6

    fun that is for y'all. That would be a blast to go playing. If the mid-am worked out and I was

    4:40.8

    able to tee it up possibly in a qualifier and go do it, yeah, maybe one day I would do it. But that

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