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Hello friends and welcome to this golf podcast and the other it is playoff season my birdie buddies here on fairway.

And the golf podcast on the ringer podcast network. I am your slightly horse starter Joe House. I'm horse from all the yelling at television from the BMW championship case Valley.

We have a very special guest on today's show to join Nate dog our PGA tour course on on the ground Kevin Van Baalkeberg who really wrote the definitive piece.

Immediately after the tournament was up ESPN senior writer and native of Baltimore was at caves and witness something having to do with Bryson D. Shembo that needed to see the light of day KVV caught it and wrote about it and wrote a very thoughtful piece.

So we're going to pick KVV thoughts about the Bryson conundrum and you know there's still one more gigantic money grab event out there for the PGA tour 30 professionals competing down at East Lake Dayton. I have a few picks and maybe a couple writer cup thoughts as well Patrick Reed is playing golf this week.

Let's get over to the first T KVV is waiting for us. It's going to be a three ball. Don't a peg in the ground right now my birdie buddies.

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All right, my birdie buddies very, very pleased to have today's guest. He's a new partner to the to the pod. I mean, he's out there with the no laying ups and the shotgun starts.

In fact, he gave an immediate reaction on the shotgun start pod to the what would down the BNW championship at caves.

Valley and then he wrote really the definitive piece, the definitive wrap up it went all over the internet's on. Yeah, and deservedly so this is Kevin Van Valkenberg.

Seen writer for ESPN on the show right now. What's up KVV?

Thanks was like, you know, I want you know, I may go all over. I basically fall over pods all over the world. It's always be a special place for the fairly rolling play.

Very kind of you. So you are physically presently in New York at the moment attending the US open tennis thing because you you're you you call it yourself. You're a Renaissance guy. You go right from the golf to the tennis.

It's been asked if I wanted to cover the US open. I was like, well, it seems a little bit early, but I would love to go to the US open. They're like, no, it's a tennis. It's next week. I was like, Oh, yeah, well, I'm I played tennis in high school, but I haven't thought much about it since. So yeah, so that's where I am.

Well, you stayed up very late last night. So we're happy to have you on right now. And you had to have left immediately after caves because it went.

It dribbled into prime time. So I want to begin with with this. There was this very unique thing that doesn't happen with professional golf very often, where that playoff between Patrick Cantley and Bryce Dixiembeau was the thing in the American sporting consciousness like it was everybody was watching it at the same time.

It sometimes happens with the majors, although not all the time, but it really was across the board across casual sports fans. You could see it all over the place.

It was a massive thing and an American sporting public was very taken with it. You were physically there. What was the sense like on the ground?

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