Was Justin Rose’s Dominance Boring? Plus, LIV Gets Rankings Points, and a WM Phoenix Open Preview

Fairway Rollin'

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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House and Nathan start the show by discussing what was so impressive about Justin Rose’s win at the Farmers Insurance Open and consider whether it was so dominant that it became boring. Then, they discuss the implication of LIV now receiving world golf ranking points before closing the show with a preview of the WM Phoenix Open.(0:00) Welcome to Fairway Rollin’!(1:15) Justin Rose’s record-breaking win(9:35) Grading Brooks Koepka at Torrey Pines(16:45) Who else impressed this weekend?(28:00) LIV to get world rankings points for top 10(40:40) WM Phoenix Open preview(49:55) How we’ll be betting this weekHosts: Joe House and Nathan HubbardProducers: Tucker Tashjian and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends and welcome to this golf podcast unlike any other oh yes my friends we've done it we are back
0:25.4	this is fairway rolling a golf podcast on the ringinger podcast network and on Netflix.
0:40.7	I am your starter Joe House.
0:42.1	My birdie buddies, my par saving pals.
0:45.2	My eagle enthusiast joined as always by our incomparable accomplice,
0:50.6	our PGA tour boots on the ground.
0:52.8	His boots were on the ground this past weekend at Torrey Pines.
0:57.0	Nathan Hubbard is here. It is just a two ball here early in the season.
1:02.0	We're getting our swings adjusted. Pegs are in the ground and off we go.
1:16.0	Nate dog, did you enjoy the wire to wire?
1:23.3	I enjoyed the walk. Let's put it that way. I mean, it's nice to see an old man picking himself up and kicking a little ass. We looked at his odds coming into Amex, and I don't know how you're supposed to bet on golf
1:32.4	if a guy misses a cut one week and then beats Tiger Woods record at Tori the next week.
1:38.6	What's going on now?
1:40.4	Yeah.
1:40.7	You're supposed to bet golf very carefully.
1:44.8	Some might say don't do it at all.
1:47.8	I mean, look, we look for momentum plays and we saw his odds at Amex and they looked
1:53.5	actually sort of tasty because that was supposedly a putting contest and Justin Rose makes
1:59.1	big putts.
1:59.9	But it just didn't, it just didn't come together out there.
2:03.1	There was a lot of weird things in the desert. There were some weird misses of that cut.
2:07.5	But man, it is pretty hard to walk away from, I mean, guys walked off the green on Friday.
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