Monday Q Info founder Ryan French on what makes Monday Qualifiers so special, the biggest Q-School cheating scandals he's covered

Subpar

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Sports, Sports:golf, Golf

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by Monday Q Info creator Ryan French for an exclusive, in-studio interview. He breaks down his unique coverage of professional golf events, some of the biggest Q-School cheating scandals over the years and Phil Mickelson's advice to him on how to eliminate his chipping yips.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz.
0:12.9	And this episode is brought to you by Fanatics.
0:15.6	So, ladies, we had one hell of a players championship this past week.
0:19.9	Roy McElroy picking up his 28th PGA Tour win in a playoff over former guest,
0:25.6	JJ Spawn of golf so far.
0:27.3	Yeah, back-to-back, fun weeks to watch of golf where they actually got challenged,
0:31.1	you know, coming off Bay Hill, which is a monster.
0:33.0	Then this week with the wind that they had, I mean, Saturday was absolutely brutal.
0:37.4	It was sweet because you'd see like 76 I mean, Saturday was absolutely brutal. It was sweet because
0:38.0	you'd see like 76 and 77, 78 from Justin Thomas, right? Back it up with low scores, too.
0:44.8	They're both out there. Jay did something good last year? Shot a low one. Shot a low one, which we'll talk
0:48.9	about. A lot of tweets, a lot of tweets he made that day. But dude, it was a great, I thought the setup was awesome.
0:56.5	We got lucky with the weather, getting some challenge in there.
1:01.7	And the ending, I mean, dude, you get the three-hole aggregate at the end, which I love, especially on those three holes.
1:08.5	And, yeah, huge put on regulation, I would say, for Roy McElroy for a number of reasons on that 72nd.
1:13.6	That thing's an inch longer, and every inch matters, as we talk about, the narrative could be completely different than it is right now.
1:16.1	But his hype train heading into Augusta will be full steam ahead.
1:20.6	Yeah, look, man, he's playing some serious golf right now.
1:23.6	This is a second win of the year, both obviously and against the best fields you can pretty much have.
1:29.5	Pebble Beach and now here at the players.
1:32.0	But that golf course, it's the star every year.
1:34.6	I just absolutely love it.
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