I have a thought I need to get off my chest. All right, good. I got something serious. I'm going to start with two, but you the floor is yours. Begin. No, you go. You go. You do your thing.

Are you going to save your thought? Yes. Is it funny?

I don't know. It's strenuous and deals with children.

All right. Well, then let me let me begin with this. Correct. All right. I got you. So I don't want to save this to the end.

Because I don't always know like, you know, podcasts. It's going. We get in the weeds late. Maybe maybe a listeners tap out. I want you all to hear this because it's important to me.

That we begin with a memory and a story of a friend who passed away this weekend. That's Tom Wieskopf. I would call him a legendary player. He's not in the Hall of Fame, which is kind of odd because he should be. He was a 16 time winner.

One of the open championship 1973. A course designer of massive acclaim. I mean, he's his resume says Hall of Famer had 10 top five finishes the majors outside of

winning the open, including four runner-ups at Augusta. He was he was a dude.

Legendary line 86 Jack Nickless is in the middle of that incredible charge. Jim Nance is very first masters is in the tower on 16.

And he says Tom Wieskopf. What's going through Jack Nickless's mind right now without missing a beat. Wieskopf said, if I had any idea what Jack Nickless was thinking out of one.

Turn him in a couple of times. And then he proceeded to say Jack knows this is destinies in his hands. He's going to have a great shot. Nickless stuffs it to a footing wins.

But Tom's a guy that I was lucky enough to get to know because he called some golf, including with us at the open championship St Andrews 2010 must have been the year that he and I were together on the road hole for four days.

What I want you all to understand about calling golf at the open championship is that you're in this tiny little trailer and Tom I'm big Tom was a big man six everybody six three two hundred and whatever.

And there are these two giant men sitting side by side in a trailer on the road hole at St Andrews and we're in there for like 12 to 14 hours a day.

And it's it couldn't be more awesome because you're calling golf. There's a YouTube of me and him when Miguel on hell him and it plays the ball off the wall.

He's up against the road hole wall and he stinks wedge off the wall goes up in the air lands on the green. That's me and Wieskopf. So it's great fun.

But you're in there for hours and over the course of the time you start to chat a little bit about stuff.

And Wieskopf who is a proud Ohio State Buckeye had that great kind of distinct or at least distinct to me kind of Midwestern accent.

At some point I guess Tom's getting kind of curious about who the hell is this big lumix I'm sitting next to him.

And Tom says scatter you married no I'm not married Tom.

Yeah, you ever you ever been married? No, no I haven't actually.

You got a you got a girlfriend or something. Yeah, I do Tom pause longer pause wheels returning to said.

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