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Hal Sutton on his head to head battles with Tiger and Jack, advice for Keegan Bradley ahead of the Ryder Cup

Subpar

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by 14-time PGA Tour winner Hal Sutton for an exclusive interview. The 2004 Ryder Cup captain reveals the advice he would give Keegan Bradley on playing at Bethpage, how often he still hears 'Be the right club today' and if it was more intimidating going head to head with Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to golf subpar with Colton Nost and Drew Stoltz.

0:13.4

The first round of the FedEx Cup playoffs is in the books.

0:16.7

Justin Rose, a 45-year-old Justin Rose, is your champion of the first one. Be JJ Spawn in a playoff, epic three-hole playoff, by the way, over in Memphis. Pretty crazy to see Justin Rose doing what he's doing at his age, sleeves. It's been so impressive. This is a man who's going to be on the Ryder Cup team once again up in September. It's his 12th win on the PGA tour. But just an incredible performance, I think, for a guy. Most guys we see when they start to get this old start to fall off a little bit, but not Justin Rose. It just takes everything so serious, cares about his body, his golf swing and the work he does with Mark Blackburn. He still got it. Got to tell you something before we get going. I feel like you've done a good job taking care of your body this weekend. Your look and sound phenomenal. Fresh off the member guest up at Gosser, which we'll get to. He's a pros, pro, takes care of himself all business all the time. I thought you're talking about yourself, but you talk about Justin Rose. We'll get to the gaza here in a moment.

1:08.5

Do you like five days of no water, constant drinking and playing golf and no sleep? And sun? Yeah, I do. Keep you young. You can hardly tell is the good news. I think I look great. Going back to Justin Rose, 45. Like you said, most people at 45, most guys, especially played as long as he have, they start to look at like, when's that, when do I turn 50?

1:29.1

Maybe I'll take a few years. Maybe I'll hang on in my car. Like he said, most people at 45, most guys, who especially played as long as he have, they start to look at like, when's that, when do I turn 50?

1:30.5

Maybe I'll take a few years.

1:25.3

Maybe I'll hang on to my cart as long as I can, and then I'll take a knee, and then I'd pop back up on Champions tour. He's playing as good as he's played, you know, a decade ago, maybe more. We're going to be back on that Ryder Cup team, like you said.

1:26.7

Runner up at Augusta earlier this year. Runner up at Augusta threw a little water buffalo on their asses coming home yesterday

1:30.3

and then went ahead and just stacked over and over on 18 that second shot he loves that second shot um on 18 and props to jj too dude i mean i think at the beginning of the year when we were kind of hyping him this was before he was like this kid's playing so. I don't think we had any idea that it would be this. I mean, dude, he is fractions away from being a players champion, a U.S. Open champion, and a winner of a FedEx Cup playoff event in the same year. It's up to two now. It's been monstrous. It's getting juicier and juicier with this writer cup stuff too who's in who's out i think ben

2:17.9

griffin i don't know what you think i thought he was in before i think he's for sure in now

2:21.6

another top 10 for him novac who'd been quiet for a little bit showed up and played good it's

2:26.9

getting it's getting juicy i don't want to say anyone's a for sure thing um ben griffin i mean he's

2:32.1

played so great we were looking at it earlier two In his last 10 events, he's got two top, two finishes outside the top 14. And they're both missed cuts. Yeah. It was John Deere in the open. Yeah. I mean, he's just played so great all year long. I think he deserves to be, but with these picks, man, it's, it's stressful. I don't envy Keegan Bradley right now having to make this decision where he's going to play, who he's going to pick. Cameron Young starting to play some really good golf again, moving up. Patrick Cantley's right there as well. You mentioned Novak, Maverick-McNeely's in the top 12 right now. Harmon's right there. It's a big couple of weeks coming up in Baltimore and then Atlanta. It'll continue to shrink and shrink and whittle. I think the spots are down to three now. Obviously, I don't make any calls, but I think there's three spots available. Two guys that were kind of, one, for sure, in the conversation, Wyndham Clark, he's out, brutal final round for him to miss out on the top 50. And then Jordan Spieth is a guy whose name just always seems to be floating around,

3:24.3

even though he's in like the mid-20s.

3:25.7

Like he was a, if he would have gone ahead, two huge weeks, like two top fives. Like he would have been very much in the middle of that thing. He's not anymore. Maybe even a bigger deal for those guys is like not being the top 50 is monstrous. I mean, monstrous now, the way the playoffs work and the way the season works.

3:23.7

Getting in those signature events, it's, I mean, monstrous now, the way the playoffs work and the way the season works. Getting those signature events, I mean, it's, you got to try to play your way out of it. By the way, back up, you're hating on my appearance right now when you got that thing above your lip. It's still there. A lot of people. It's still there. I can't quit it, dude. You can't say anything.

3:58.7

A lot of people groceries are like, excuse me, Tom Selleck, and I'm like, yes, yes, I know. I know. That's my distant relative. It's almost too sexual. I can't, I thought I was going to get rid of it, but. Pun. It's growing on me. All right. I kind of like this bad boy.

3:54.1

Moving on.

3:54.6

You should join me in solidarity.

3:56.2

Why don't you trim up that beard and give me a mustache one time.

3:58.6

Let's come in matching stashes.

4:00.0

No, thank you.

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