Recapping the Podium for Men's Golf at the Olympics

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00:00But if we do look at the podium there over in Paris gold went to Scotty Sheffler silver went to Tommy Fleetwood bronze with the

00:06Hideki Matsuyama when it looked like it was gonna be John Rahm here of Spain to get that gold medal

00:11How do you feel about that? One, two, three finish and also what did happen to John Rahm?

00:16Well, I tell you what the John Rahm thing is interesting

00:19All of a sudden live is catching a lot of heat outside of Bryson

00:22These guys are fading late in tournaments is the three-round format that they play over there at live

00:28Is this causing these guys issues? Are they not getting the reps and that they need to go deep enough into tournaments?

00:33I mean, it wasn't like Rahm was playing bad

00:35He shot 31 on the front and then he went 39 on the back

00:39He lost to Scotty by 10 strokes on the final nine holes. He was up by four with eight to go

00:45I mean

00:45There's a lot to look in the mirror about there and you can see it on Rahm's face when he double bogeyed the 14th hole

00:50The par-5 you could see it

00:52He knew he had lost that tournament and he didn't know why he's got to figure that out

00:56And here's the thing. We won't be talking about John Rahm till the 2025 Masters, right?

01:01That's like seven or eight months away. So Rahm's got a lot of time to get get back into it

01:06But boy, that was a huge disappointment and you got to feel good about Fleetwood and Matsuyama. He was there in 2021

01:13He lost a heartbreak in a playoff for bronze right in his home country of Japan

01:18He comes back and he wins bronze here finishing. Well on those final four holes. You got to give it to the deck