Hello, friends, and welcome to this golf podcast, unlike any other.

Oh, yes, my friends, we've done it.

This is Fairway Rowland.

A golf podcast on the Ringer Podcast Network.

I am your starter, Joe House, joined, as is our case, by my inimitable accomplice, our PGA tour boots on the ground.

Nathan Hubbard, my birdie buddies, my par-saving pals, my eagle enthusiasts.

It's a historical moment.

Not only has Scotty Sheffler won 20 events on the PGA Tour before the age of 30.

Not only do we have a prominent, one of the most prominent players of the last 15 years coming

from Live back to the PGA Tour. But my birdie buddies, this show, the

fairway rolling right here brought to you by our good friends at Netflix. It's a two ball this

week. Off we go. Nate Dogg, how you doing? Can we do a full hour glazing Scotty Schaeffler and nothing else?

Is that what our Netflix intro is going to be, House?

Well, I've been warned on Twitter that if Scotty comes out and wins every week like this,

that nobody's going to watch the PGA tour, there is no interest. It's extremely boring.

If Scotty just comes out

and dominates every week. We tried to caution everybody when we were doing our handicapping,

our forecasting of how the field might perform at this MX event in our rearview mirror now.

And we said like the best price you might get Scotty Sheffler at is the price available

at the outset of the golf tournament.

Well, lo and behold, he came out and was within one shot of the lead after the first round

and hovered around the leaderboard for the remainder.

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