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Fairway Rollin'

The Ramifications of the PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger With Smylie Kaufman

Fairway Rollin'

The Ringer

Sports

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

House and Hubbard start the pod with their initial thoughts on the merger, the timing of the deal, the reckoning of the PGA Tour’s hypocrisy in regards to Saudi Arabia, and how Tour players must be feeling (03:02). They are then joined by Smylie Kaufman, host of 'The Smylie Show' on SiriusXM, to get his perspective on the deal, how the PGA Tour will take care of golfers like Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, and the transition from player to media personality (28:35). They end by giving flowers to Denny McCarthy and Rose Zhang, and a quick preview of the Canadian Open (68:39). Hosts: Joe House and Nathan Hubbard Guest: Smylie Kaufman Producer: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:11.8

I'm your host Rob Harbilla here to bring you more true musical analysis,

0:15.8

poignant nostalgic reveries, crude personal anecdotes, and rad special guests,

0:21.3

all with even less restraint than usual.

0:24.6

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0:29.6

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0:32.0

Hello friends and welcome. This golf podcast, unlike any other,

1:02.0

oh yes my friends, we have done it this is fairway roll.

1:12.5

A golf podcast on the rigger podcast network. I am your starter Joe House by Bernie

1:18.4

Buddies. My parsaving pals, my eagle enthusiast, this is a day in professional golf,

1:26.0

unlike any other, we are going to do our very best to give you our immediate reaction and go

1:33.1

through all of the questions that we have that must be answered. I am joined as always by my

1:40.5

incomparable accomplice, our PGA tour boots on the ground, Nathan Hubbard who's been working

1:46.6

tirelessly to get us information and the golf gods are good, my birdie buddies.

1:53.6

Just by happening since we had this gentleman lined up to join us today, smiley Kaufman

1:59.9

from the golf channel, from NBC sports, from serious XM who's got his own podcasts,

2:06.4

the smiley show. He is on to help us break this down a unique perspective as a guy who both

2:13.6

played on tour and in the media now by birdie buddies. This is a good one. Buckle up. The first

2:21.6

T is wide open. It's going to be a two-wall for a little bit and then it's a three-ball almost

2:26.2

all the way home. Let's put some pegs in the ground and get this thing going.

2:34.5

Nate Dogg, it's the biggest news in the history of modern golf, which I think makes it the biggest

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