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The Sports Junkies recap the 2026 PGA Championship.
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00:00I met a couple people out during my appearance in Fredericksburg that said they're going to be joining us in
00:05Dewey.
00:06Excellent, making that trip.
00:07The place is going to be packed.
00:08I heard that it might be a little chilly, a little chilly on Friday.
00:12The weather's not looking great, but you know what?
00:14We're not going to let that spoil a great time.
00:16We will have an amazing time at the starboard, no matter the weather.
00:19No, just bring hoodies.
00:21Yeah.
00:21Just bring an umbrella.
00:23Bring a rain jacket if you've got one.
00:25Well, I mean, I'm going to be inside.
00:26I'm not going to stand outside and get rained on.
00:28No.
00:28You know what I'm going to be honest with you.
00:29I would assume that at least the broadcasting area is going to be covered.
00:32Yeah.
00:33I would think.
00:34They've got plenty of covered spots.
00:35A trip to Fredericksburg, left the house at 920, which late, according to you, made it there by 1050.
00:40Oh, very good.
00:41Used the express lane.
00:43Oh, yeah.
00:44Sometimes that's what you have to do.
00:45And then on the way back, how long?
00:47Oh, the way back was a different story.
00:50When I first put home into my navi, it said two hours and 15 minutes.
00:57Yeah.
00:57So I ended up kind of taking my time, and I got a little bite to eat.
01:02Dagger!
01:04Local subway, right before 95.
01:07And actually, a huge listener of the show has owned it.
01:09He ended up talking to me like he recognized me, and he said he'd owned the spot for 35 years.
01:15It wasn't our guy Sal slash Saul from back in the day, was it?
01:19Not him?
01:19No.
01:20From the Fairfax subway?
01:21No.
01:22Different guy?
01:22He's got to be dead.
01:23Different guy.
01:24I'm going to say dead.
01:25No.
01:26I don't know.
01:27I have no idea.
01:28How would I know?
01:28I can't remember how old he was.
01:30He was probably 10 years older.
01:31He was definitely older than us.
01:32Yeah.
01:32Back in the day.
01:33So 65 then, 75.
01:35Close to dead.
01:36Close to dead.
01:37Sal, Saul from Fairfax.
01:39If you're still out there, we love you.
01:40You're our guy.
01:41Yeah.
01:41He was a nice guy, but probably no longer listening to you.
01:45Plus you got daisies.
01:46No, so then I kind of just chilled for about 20 minutes, and then when I got in the car,
01:52it said an hour and 57 minutes.
01:56So it took about two hours to get home.
01:58Wow.
01:59Two hours.
02:01It was about four hours of driving.
02:03I thought people were going south.
02:04Why are people coming north?
02:05I thought the people are all going south.
02:07Well, no, no.
02:08Those are the people coming home from their vacations.
02:10Oh, okay.
02:10That's what he's running into.
02:11Well, the thing is-
02:13That's true.
02:13Some people told me, they were like, oh, the express lane will open up back towards
02:20D.C. at 1 o'clock.
02:21No, it didn't.
02:22There's little as more of stressing when you're driving back from South Carolina on 95, and
02:27you're just making amazing time, but you know that you're going to get to Fredericksburg,
02:30and you're just going to hit a massive slowdown.
02:33I mean, it happens probably 90% of the time.
02:36Yeah, and then you've got 100%.
02:37And then you've got the slowdown from Tyson's till the American Legion Bridge.
02:41It's a double slowdown.
02:42Yeah, it sucks.
02:43It's like once you pass the aquan and you start flowing again, then you're going to
02:48get that Tyson traffic.
02:49But you know what's about to happen.
02:50It is what it is.
02:51You know what's looming out all through the distance.
02:53It is what it is.
02:53But I had a good appearance.
02:54Everybody who came out to Radley Mitsubishi for Mitsubishi Mania.
02:59It had a good time.
03:01So thanks for coming out and support.
03:02Did you bring some books?
03:03Brought some books.
03:05Gave away, I don't know, 20, 25 books.
03:06Good.
03:07That's good.
03:08So, yeah, good time in Fredericksburg.
03:11Excellent.
03:11But yeah, it ate up my Saturday.
03:12I don't know what you guys did on Saturday.
03:14Oh, your Saturday was filled with just sitting on 95.
03:18Sunday, I went to the pool, though.
03:20Lifetime Fitness has already opened up their pool.
03:22I guess this is the weekend when all the pools open.
03:24But it was pizzacked yesterday.
03:27Oh, I bet it was.
03:28Usually the pools open Memorial Day weekend.
03:30It's not usually the weekend before.
03:31But hey, I guess some people are getting a jump on it.
03:34No, they've got a huge pool.
03:36And it's a scene because it is what I've said this before.
03:41It's mostly families.
03:43But because it's a club and they sell alcohol, you can tell there's a hollering scene.
03:49Oh, really?
03:52It's like family pool meets Vegas pool.
03:55Got it.
03:56It's quite a mix there.
03:58I mean, I would say maybe 10% to 20% Vegas pool.
04:02But that's what it's like.
04:03I don't take advantage enough of the booze being offered at the Norbeck pool.
04:07I've dabbled here and there.
04:09But I haven't just committed to one Saturday or Sunday.
04:13I just had like a half dozen drinks.
04:16Back when I used to drink every day, we would use that on the days the clubhouse is closed.
04:23But the golf course would be open.
04:25But the pool bar was always open.
04:27So if you hit the turn, hit the pool bar.
04:29You can't bring your own cooler.
04:30No.
04:30You can't do that.
04:31No, that's...
04:32I mean, people might do that.
04:33People probably do.
04:34But yeah, that's for both.
04:35And they sneak it.
04:36That's frowned upon.
04:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:38I mean, probably going to get tossed out of the pool.
04:40You can understand.
04:41Of course.
04:41No, I understand why.
04:42They're running a business.
04:43I get it.
04:44They're running a business.
04:44Now, when I was at the gym and I was at the pool, I was checking my phone to see
04:50if
04:50McElroy or Jon Rahm would make a run.
04:52And some guy I'd never heard of won the PGA Championship.
04:55Aaron Rye.
04:56Yeah.
04:56But those of us that watch golf, we know Aaron Rye just because he's been,
05:00in the mix for years.
05:02Yep.
05:02I didn't realize he was still only 31 years old.
05:05Yeah.
05:05This guy wears two gloves.
05:07He's been made fun of for using iron covers.
05:10Well, the thing which jumped out to me just when I was looking him up on Wikipedia, well,
05:14he's a buck 50.
05:15He is a tiny guy.
05:16Tiny dude.
05:17Yeah, I didn't realize he was that light.
05:18He had 100.
05:19I mean, he might be...
05:20That's a listed weight.
05:21He looks bigger.
05:22He looks bigger than that.
05:23He looks bigger than that.
05:24But it's possible.
05:24I'd be shocked if he's won 50.
05:26But he's been around.
05:27That was an incredible win by him.
05:30Super accurate.
05:31Guys, they turned...
05:32You know, Valdez and I were talking about it a little bit on Friday.
05:35They turned a PGA Championship kind of into a U.S. Open.
05:39U.S. Open, yeah.
05:39Yeah.
05:40With how difficult it was.
05:41Uh-oh.
05:42I hear some pain in Kix's voice.
05:44We didn't have that intel before we placed our big bet.
05:47Like, we...
05:48Just...
05:49What are you going to do?
05:50Yeah.
05:50Sometimes you make bad bets.
05:51Yeah.
05:52You got to pay the piper.
05:53I mean, the fairways were so wide.
05:54So you're like, of course we're going to hit the fairways.
05:56Yeah, but we didn't take into account all the slopes.
05:57And everything's going to hit the fairway.
05:59Just slope into the rough.
06:00And the fact that Jason, as he brought up last week, there's no graduated rough, right?
06:04No.
06:04It just kind of went into just kind of regular rough.
06:06There's no first cut.
06:07So it just...
06:08It made it brutal.
06:08And Rory was in every freaking hole.
06:11Yeah.
06:11The guy could not hit a fairway yesterday.
06:13Actually, all weekend.
06:14I was actually rooting for Rory because, you know, I like to see first-time guys.
06:18It's life-changing.
06:19It's life-changing forever.
06:20I was just rooting for low scores.
06:21Yeah, yeah, I know.
06:22I mean, I've never checked a golf scoreboard as much as I did over the weekend.
06:27I know.
06:28And I texted Valdez.
06:29I was like, we might have a grass bird.
06:31He's like, this bet is dead.
06:32What are you talking about?
06:33He's like, you're so delusional.
06:35This bet is over, Johnny.
06:37I mean, you needed Smalley to shoot like 63.
06:41We needed him to go low.
06:42You needed him to go low.
06:43He, of course, came back to Earth on Sunday.
06:45Yeah, yeah.
06:46So...
06:46What are you going to do?
06:47It is what it is.
06:47I mean, the scores were lower on the weekend, but they were...
06:50Especially on Sunday.
06:51Yeah, but it was so difficult on Thursday and Friday, especially with the wind.
06:54Yeah, a lot of people were complaining.
06:56They didn't like it.
06:56Online, on my feed, you know, they didn't like that they didn't know some of the names
07:01on the leaderboard.
07:02They didn't like that the stars weren't running away with it.
07:06They didn't like that there were a lot of birdies.
07:08Yeah.
07:09You know, I watched the whole thing, so...
07:12It was my favorite ever, but it wasn't my worst ever.
07:14I mean, Rye shows zero emotion, but I like the fact that he's a first-time winner.
07:17I was rooting for him, because that's just such a life-changer.
07:20And he's such a...
07:21Like, literally, everyone says, you're not going to find one person that doesn't like him.
07:24Yeah.
07:24And his wife is a pro golfer.
07:26Wife's a pro golfer.
07:27So, Yahoo has him as 5'11", 150 pounds, but then I clicked on something else that has
07:32him 5'11", 195.
07:34Yeah, there's just no way.
07:35He looks like a normal human to me.
07:36There's just no chance he's 150 pounds.
07:38He doesn't look like 150 pounds.
07:39No way.
07:40He doesn't look like it.
07:41I mean, if he's actually 5'11...
07:43I mean, he's a bigger guy.
07:45He's built up.
07:46You know, he's got some muscle.
07:47They say he's in the gym every day.
07:48150, he'd be a shoestring.
07:50Doesn't sound right.
07:51That's what it says on the buy-in.
07:53Yeah, that's wrong.
07:53From Wolverhampton, Great Britain?
07:55Yeah.
07:56Don't know where that is.
07:57I definitely had to prepare my wife for...
08:00Because I knew we were going to talk about the bet.
08:02Oh, yeah.
08:03So, I had it on Sunday when I knew it was dead.
08:05I was like...
08:06How am I going to approach this?
08:07So, she didn't even know you placed it.
08:09Placed it?
08:09Oh, you didn't.
08:10No, I placed it.
08:11Of course, she didn't know I placed it.
08:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:12So, on Sunday, I was like, I got some bad news for you.
08:16Potentially bad news.
08:17Placed a wager a little bit out of the norm, and she actually handled it relatively well.
08:24Like, I thought she'd be upset.
08:25That she was...
08:25I mean, I could tell there was disappointment.
08:27Disappointment.
08:28But...
08:28You know what?
08:29Amy was disappointed in the case.
08:31First time ever?
08:32That's a first.
08:34But, like, she handled it remarkably well.
08:37Yeah.
08:37For the amount of the bet.
08:39To be fair, your gambling balance sheet is probably on the plus side.
08:42Because you've won some money playing poker.
08:45Okay, but I mean...
08:45No, no.
08:46But you're forgetting about the blackjack.
08:49You're forgetting about that one.
08:50No, but I'm saying this year.
08:51Oh, this year.
08:52Oh, maybe this year.
08:53This year's ledger for poker is a big...
08:55It's a big don't.
08:56Oh, you're in the negative side.
08:58Okay.
08:592026 has been a lean year poker-wise so far.
09:02Look, she knows you gambled.
09:03Oh, she knows...
09:04Yeah, she knows who she's married to.
09:06She knows what she...
09:08She knows what she got into.
09:10Okay, so...
09:11I'm just so happy your wife is disappointed in you.
09:13That, to me, is more important.
09:14I would say it was minor disappointment.
09:16I believe that.
09:17It wasn't outrageous.
09:18I believe it.
09:18Well, this is the other half of the bet.
09:20I know on Friday you were lamenting that Steve Sands gave you the kiss of death on this show
09:26by basically saying that it was a no-brainer.
09:29Yeah.
09:29I think he maybe even said he'd bet his vacation bill.
09:32He did.
09:32He did say that.
09:33That line was the unit bumper.
09:36Yeah, I think so.
09:37Because I was already in for like a hundred.
09:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:39He's like, let's go bigger.
09:41I was like, you know, I was swept up in the mania of it.
09:43I got swept up.
09:45These things happen sometimes.
09:46Yeah, because he predicted 20 under par was going to win.
09:49Yes, exactly.
09:50You know what?
09:51Lesson learned.
09:52And was the final score nine under?
09:54Nine.
09:54Yes, nine under.
09:55Of course, it couldn't get to 13 under.
09:57I mean, it was just on the table.
09:58Ryan was balling yesterday.
10:00I mean, he was just on point.
10:02Yeah.
10:03Fitting every fairway, middle of the green, making long putts.
10:05He was just awesome.
10:06The disappointing thing to me was for somebody that was mostly just checking on the phone
10:10and then I did watch the last three or four holes is that it just didn't come down
10:14to the last couple of groups even.
10:16People like, yeah.
10:17Because Ryan finished early.
10:20Relative to the, you know, probably like on the fourth and last group.
10:23There was a couple holes, but they were meaningless.
10:24There was a couple groups.
10:25I know, but my point is you like it to come down to kind of the last hole, the last
10:28group.
10:28It kind of did.
10:29He cemented it with the eagle putt.
10:31The eagle putt just finished it off.
10:32It was weird when they were etching his name into the trophy.
10:36And there's still guys on the course.
10:37Yeah, there's like three holes left.
10:39I mean, if a guy pulls out from 18 for an eagle, it might have been possible.
10:45That's like a JP thing, though, like calling game at halftime.
10:47I was grasping.
10:48I was like, okay, well, what if John Ronald gets an eagle here and then he gets a birdie
10:52on the last hole?
10:53Maybe he can catch him.
10:54No, he needed like two eagles, I think.
10:57I think he needed an eagle on the par five, which looked like it wasn't going to happen,
11:02and then he needed the eagle out of the fairway.
11:04Yeah.
11:05So that's why they started at you.
11:06Yeah, because it was impossible.
11:07Trust me, I was doing all the math.
11:08I was looking at guys who were like six or seven under, and they had like eight holes
11:12left, and I was like grasping.
11:14I was like, well, it's just not going to happen.
11:16He's got to give up the ghost.
11:18It's dead.
11:19So all of our money.
11:19You've got to make it up somehow.
11:20Our money gets tabled to the next one, right?
11:23Yes.
11:23Yeah, I couldn't even get John Robb to take 70 or 80 bucks away from my loss by winning it.
11:30I was excited because Goddard was in the mix.
11:32Every time he got in the mix, he'd chunk a chip or something.
11:35He'd put it in the rough near the green, and it just kept sinking.
11:39I mean, at one point, he was like five under.
11:40It was right there, and he just kept falling, kept falling.
11:43Get up there, fall.
11:45Probably finished even or over par or something.
11:47Just couldn't stay up there.
11:50Nope, no winners from our junkies pool, so that'll carry over.
11:54I like the Liv guys.
11:54Double the money for the next time.
11:56The Liv guys played pretty well, especially if you consider Reed still a Liv guy.
11:58Yeah, I still kind of do.
12:00I kind of do, too.
12:00But yeah, I mean, Cam Smith played great.
12:03Reed played really well.
12:05Koepka played pretty well for the most part, except he couldn't make a putt.
12:09I know Koepka's not Liv anymore, but it was interesting.
12:13Coming up later in the show, David Aldridge is going to join us from The Athletic.
12:17We can get into what the Wizards may or may not do in the NBA draft coming up next month.
12:25So David Aldridge will join us, and Luke Thomas is going to join us at 945.
12:28A couple things combat sports-related to get into.
12:32There was a big Netflix card over the weekend with Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano headlining it.
12:38Hope you didn't blink.
12:39You definitely missed it.
12:40So we can get into that, plus the return of Conor McGregor.
12:43So we'll get into that at 945 here on The Junkies.
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