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The Presidents Cup teams are officially set. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp Money is on the line. Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/WINGO Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down the captain’s picks for both Team USA and the International Team, including where each captain followed the points list, where they went in a different direction and which selections stood out the most. On the U.S. side, Brandt Snedeker added Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Jacob Bridgeman, Patrick Cantlay and 21-year-old Jackson Koivun. Koivun immediately becomes one of the most intriguing players in the event, while Cantlay brings a proven team-golf track record and Bridgeman gives the Americans another chance to see a younger player in this environment. For the International Team, Jeff Ogilvy also made some interesting choices, leaning on a mix of current form, Presidents Cup experience and players he believes can help close the talent gap against a historically deeper American roster. Trey and Justin break down the biggest surprises, the players who were left out and what each side’s selections tell us about how the captains are approaching Medinah. The picks are done. Now it’s Team USA vs. the International Team. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every NFL team works under the same cap. Every college program is in the same mess. Jake Rosenberg says neither one explains who wins. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp Money is on the line. Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/WINGO Rosenberg spent twelve years in the Philadelphia Eagles front office as Howie Roseman's right hand on the salary cap, and he now advises college programs through The Athlete Group, which helped build Oklahoma's football front office and worked with Florida to hire Dave Caldwell. He is one of very few people who has done the job on both sides of the line, and his read on why teams win is the opposite of the one you usually hear. The standard explanation in the NFL is that the cap constrains you. The standard explanation in college is that there are no rules. Rosenberg's answer is that both are alibis. Every organization in both leagues is working under the same conditions as its competitors, and the ones losing are losing on how they operate, not on the constraint they blame. Give two teams identical money and you get wildly different rosters, which means the money was never the variable. Trey does not let it go, and pushes back through most of the conversation. He makes the case that college football is genuine chaos, that the NCAA saw name, image and likeness coming and did nothing, and that colleges will not cooperate with each other the way the NFL did when free agency arrived. That disagreement is the spine of the whole thing. The NFL half is the control group. Rosenberg on what separates Howie Roseman, Les Snead, Brett Veach and Eric DeCosta from everyone else, on why so many owners want to win without having any plan for how, and on why a team refusing to do contract extensions during the season is a leadership failure rather than a policy. Trey argues the NFL only works because it is a socialist league run by capitalists, and Rosenberg traces that back to how the thing was built. The college half is the proof. What he actually finds when he spends two days inside a program talking to everyone from the head coach down, with nobody knowing what anyone else said. Why the conferences behave like cartels and why a cartel collapses the moment one member steps out. Why he thinks the LSU eligibility fight was an avoidable strategic error rather than evidence the system is lawless. And what happens to forty million dollars in the hands of a program that does not know what it is doing. Also here: why a commodities trader took an internship at thirty five and commuted eighty five miles each way, and why he did the same thing again years later when he walked away from the NFL with no backup plan. The question worth sitting with afterward is whether a cap fixes any of this, or whether it simply makes the gap between the operators and everyone else impossible to hide. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Presidents Cup teams are set, but Trey Wingo and Justin Ray are asking a bigger question: does this event now have a real competitiveness problem? Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp Money is on the line. Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/WINGO Team USA has won 10 straight Presidents Cups, and the numbers behind the event have become impossible to ignore. Trey and Justin break down what that dominance says about the state of the competition, whether the International Team can realistically close the gap, and why the event keeps running into the same core issue year after year. They also get into this year’s captain’s picks and what they reveal about both sides. On Team USA, Jackson Koivun, Patrick Cantlay, Jacob Bridgeman, Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Chris Gotterup help round out a roster that still looks deeper on paper. On the International side, the conversation turns to the biggest surprises, the players left off, and whether the roster has enough firepower to make this Presidents Cup feel different. The bigger debate, though, is whether the Presidents Cup needs more than just better picks. If the U.S. continues to dominate this consistently, does the event need a new structure, a new format, or simply more time for the International side to catch up? This episode breaks down the picks, the streak, and the biggest question hanging over the event: is this still a true rivalry, or has Team USA’s run become too overwhelming to ignore? Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card.  Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every NFL team works under the same cap. Every college program is in the same mess. Jake Rosenberg says neither one explains who wins. Subscribe to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@treywingopresents?sub_confirmation=1 Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp Money is on the line. Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/WINGO Rosenberg spent twelve years in the Philadelphia Eagles front office as Howie Roseman's right hand on the salary cap, and he now advises college programs through The Athlete Group, which helped build Oklahoma's football front office and worked with Florida to hire Dave Caldwell. He is one of very few people who has done the job on both sides of the line, and his read on why teams win is the opposite of the one you usually hear. The standard explanation in the NFL is that the cap constrains you. The standard explanation in college is that there are no rules. Rosenberg's answer is that both are alibis. Every organization in both leagues is working under the same conditions as its competitors, and the ones losing are losing on how they operate, not on the constraint they blame. Give two teams identical money and you get wildly different rosters, which means the money was never the variable. Trey does not let it go, and pushes back through most of the conversation. He makes the case that college football is genuine chaos, that the NCAA saw name, image and likeness coming and did nothing, and that colleges will not cooperate with each other the way the NFL did when free agency arrived. That disagreement is the spine of the whole thing. The NFL half is the control group. Rosenberg on what separates Howie Roseman, Les Snead, Brett Veach and Eric DeCosta from everyone else, on why so many owners want to win without having any plan for how, and on why a team refusing to do contract extensions during the season is a leadership failure rather than a policy. Trey argues the NFL only works because it is a socialist league run by capitalists, and Rosenberg traces that back to how the thing was built. The college half is the proof. What he actually finds when he spends two days inside a program talking to everyone from the head coach down, with nobody knowing what anyone else said. Why the conferences behave like cartels and why a cartel collapses the moment one member steps out. Why he thinks the LSU eligibility fight was an avoidable strategic error rather than evidence the system is lawless. And what happens to forty million dollars in the hands of a program that does not know what it is doing. Also here: why a commodities trader took an internship at thirty five and commuted eighty five miles each way, and why he did the same thing again years later when he walked away from the NFL with no backup plan. The question worth sitting with afterward is whether a cap fixes any of this, or whether it simply makes the gap between the operators and everyone else impossible to hide. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scottie Passed Tiger. Wyndham Changed the Race. We Answer Your Golf Questions. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. You asked. Trey and Justin answered. Scottie Scheffler has passed Tiger Woods as the PGA Tour’s career money leader, but does that record actually tell us anything anymore with today’s purses? That question kicks off this Golf Live mailbag as Trey Wingo and Justin Ray explain why raw career earnings are nearly impossible to compare across generations and identify a different Scottie money statistic that may actually carry historical significance. From there, the questions keep coming. Has Wyndham Clark officially turned Player of the Year into a real race? Does Michael La Sasso’s win change the perception of LIV as a destination for older stars? How close is Miyu Yamashita to entering the same conversation as the biggest names in women’s golf? Trey and Justin also debate whether it’s fair for everybody to begin the Tour Championship on equal footing, why playoff heartbreak is exactly what a postseason is supposed to create and whether college golf now needs the same kind of eligibility overhaul being debated across the rest of college athletics. And after weeks of rumors and accusations, Katrina finally makes her official on-camera Golf Live debut to prove that she is, in fact, a real person and not AI. Seven viewer questions, plenty of golf arguments and one very important AI test. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Even Greg Norman Sounds Ready to Move On. What Happens to LIV Now? Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. Was that the final LIV Golf event? LIV’s 2026 season ended in Indianapolis with the team championship canceled, uncertainty surrounding what comes next and a final broadcast that Trey Wingo and Justin Ray say felt much more like a goodbye than the end of an ordinary season. Michael La Sasso became LIV’s youngest winner at 22, then immediately filed paperwork for DP World Tour Q-School. Bryson DeChambeau followed the finale with a cryptic “great run” post. And Justin explains why the tone of LIV’s final television broadcast made it nearly impossible to believe the league will return looking anything like the product we’ve known over the last several years. Trey also looks back at his own decision not to join LIV when he was approached about hosting the tour and separates the people who took jobs with the league from the larger business problems now surrounding it. Then comes the money. LIV burned through at least billions of dollars trying to disrupt professional golf, but Trey questions what kind of lasting value was actually created once the funding disappeared. Justin explains why the entire model was always operating inside an artificial marketplace and why the clock eventually ran out. They also discuss Greg Norman’s comments about LIV’s future, Alan Shipnuck’s reporting from Indianapolis and the striking image of workers taking down LIV signage after the finale and saying they were told the signs were no longer needed. LIV unquestionably forced the PGA Tour to innovate and spend differently. Whether the league itself has any future left is now the much bigger question. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scottie Scheffler looked like he had Player of the Year under control. Then Wyndham Clark won again. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns.  Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod.  Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. After taking the BMW Championship, Wyndham now has three victories this season, including the U.S. Open, and Trey Wingo and Justin Ray believe the Player of the Year conversation has become much more interesting heading into the Tour Championship. Trey makes the case that while Scottie’s consistency remains incredible, Wyndham’s actual results may now be more compelling. Justin breaks down the statistical argument for Scheffler and what would need to happen at East Lake for Wyndham to potentially move ahead. And it may not be only those two. Matt Fitzpatrick, Chris Gotterup and Cameron Young could all force themselves deeper into the conversation depending on who wins the Tour Championship, creating the possibility that the final event of the season decides both the championship and Player of the Year. Trey and Justin also look at some of the best stories arriving at East Lake, including Gary Woodland’s remarkable return, Alex Fitzpatrick completely changing the trajectory of his career and Adam Scott finding his way back to the Tour Championship. Plus, the PGA Tour and DP World Tour are moving toward a new international stretch of events, giving the world’s best players more opportunities to compete globally and signaling another major shift in the direction of professional golf. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PGA Tour Finally Wants a Real Playoff. Match Play Could Change Everything. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. Scottie Scheffler looked like he had Player of the Year under control. Then Wyndham Clark won again. After taking the BMW Championship, Wyndham now has three victories this season, including the U.S. Open, and Trey Wingo and Justin Ray believe the Player of the Year conversation has become much more interesting heading into the Tour Championship. Trey makes the case that while Scottie’s consistency remains incredible, Wyndham’s actual results may now be more compelling. Justin breaks down the statistical argument for Scheffler and what would need to happen at East Lake for Wyndham to potentially move ahead. And it may not be only those two. Matt Fitzpatrick, Chris Gotterup and Cameron Young could all force themselves deeper into the conversation depending on who wins the Tour Championship, creating the possibility that the final event of the season decides both the championship and Player of the Year. Trey and Justin also look at some of the best stories arriving at East Lake, including Gary Woodland’s remarkable return, Alex Fitzpatrick completely changing the trajectory of his career and Adam Scott finding his way back to the Tour Championship. Plus, the PGA Tour and DP World Tour are moving toward a new international stretch of events, giving the world’s best players more opportunities to compete globally and signaling another major shift in the direction of professional golf. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

LIV Wanted a Global Tour. Brian Rolapp Just Built One Without Them. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. Brian Rolapp and the PGA Tour are making major moves, and one of them may have just taken away LIV Golf’s biggest remaining selling point. On today’s Golf Live, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down the PGA Tour’s newly announced playoff format, including the return of match play and why separating the regular season from the postseason could finally make the FedExCup Playoffs feel like actual playoffs. They also get into the possibilities created by new venues, a potential World Cup-style draw and why Rolapp continues to show a willingness to listen, experiment and change the product. Then it’s on to the Tour Championship and a Player of the Year race that suddenly has real drama. Wyndham Clark now has three wins, including the U.S. Open and BMW Championship, while Scottie Scheffler’s consistency has been nearly impossible to match. Matt Fitzpatrick, Chris Gotterup and Cameron Young could also force their way into the conversation depending on what happens at East Lake. Plus, Gary Woodland and Alex Fitzpatrick arrive at the Tour Championship as two of the best stories of the season. But the biggest development may be what the PGA Tour and DP World Tour are building together. The two tours are moving toward a true international stretch of events featuring the best players in the world across different markets. For years, one of LIV Golf’s central arguments was that professional golf needed a more global product. Now the PGA Tour and DP World Tour are moving directly into that space without LIV. And that comes as LIV faces even more uncertainty after its season-ending event in Indianapolis. Trey and Justin discuss what the final broadcast felt like, Michael La Sasso already filing for DP World Tour Q-School, Bryson DeChambeau’s cryptic messaging, Greg Norman’s comments and why LIV’s enormous spending never created a sustainable business once the funding disappeared. Then we get to your questions on Scottie’s money record, Wyndham’s Player of the Year case, LIV’s young talent, the Tour Championship format, playoff heartbreak and the continuing chaos around college eligibility. And after weeks of speculation, Katrina finally makes her Golf Live on-camera debut to prove once and for all that she is, in fact, a real person and not AI. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Five Years and $6 Billion Later, What Does LIV Have to Show for It? Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns.  Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod.  LIV Golf as we knew it is over, and the biggest question left behind is simple: what did five years and roughly $6 billion actually buy? I go back through what LIV changed, what it failed to build, how the PGA Tour recovered and why the entire model fell apart once the money stopped flowing at the same level. From Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau to Greg Norman and the players now trying to figure out what comes next, this is a full breakdown of LIV’s rise, its impact and why the end came the way it did. LIV absolutely disrupted professional golf. But disruption only goes so far if the business never works. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card.  Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The NCAA Has Lost Control. Dae’Quan Wright Is Leaving the Browns to Go Back to College. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Quince. Upgrade your everyday with premium staples at 50-80% less. Go to Quince.com/WINGO for free shipping and 365-day returns.  Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod.  Momentous. Signature Spec Creatine sets a new standard for creatine quality. Go to livemomentous.com and use code WINGO for up to 35% off your entire first order. Dae’Quan Wright could be headed from an NFL roster straight back to college football, and his situation exposes a much bigger problem with the sport. Wright spent the summer in NFL training camp with the Cleveland Browns before being waived. If he clears waivers, he plans to join Lane Kiffin at LSU for the 2026 season. The issue isn’t players getting paid. College athletes should be able to maximize their value. The problem is what happened after college football changed: nobody established meaningful guardrails. Wright is the latest example of a system where roster spots, eligibility, NIL and player movement continue to evolve while nobody seems to know exactly where the boundaries are. At the center of it all is the NCAA. It saw massive change coming, failed to create a workable framework and left schools, coaches and players to figure it out themselves. Now Pandora’s box is open, and college football has to figure out who is actually responsible for governing the sport. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Savings provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Wyndham Clark Won Again. Here's What He Said About the Moment He Calls His Worst. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Wyndham Clark just won the BMW Championship at Bellerive, his third PGA Tour win of 2026, and the Player of the Year race against Scottie Scheffler is suddenly a real argument heading into the Tour Championship at East Lake. So we are resurfacing this one. In June, days after winning his second US Open at Shinnecock Hills, Wyndham Clark sat down with Trey Wingo at the Travelers Championship for a full interview about the win, the crowd and the Oakmont locker incident that followed him all year. He does not dodge it. Wyndham calls the locker his worst moment, talks about the embarrassment and shame he worked through, and explains why he believes a second US Open ends the fluke conversation for good. "I don't think they can say it's a fluke," he says, pointing to the fact that he did it paired with Scottie Scheffler and with Sam Burns chasing him down. Wyndham describes what it was like to play four days at Shinnecock with the gallery openly rooting against him, cheering missed putts and staying silent on good shots. He says it is something he had never experienced in golf outside of a Ryder Cup, and he draws a distinction he is careful about: he calls it a Long Island thing rather than a New York thing, noting that people in Manhattan kept apologizing to him during his media run. He walks through the final round in detail. The six-shot lead that shrank, the bogey on eight, the moment his caddie told him on 12 that it was down to three, and the decision on 16 to go for it rather than protect par. He also explains the putter change at RBC Heritage in Hilton Head that turned his season, the 11-under round at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson where he ran down Scheffler, and the ball striking work with his new coach that he thinks is the key to staying consistent in majors. Wyndham has been open about therapy and mental health, and he says dealing with last year was significantly harder than anything that happened at Shinnecock. Once he got through the embarrassment and shame, he figured he could handle almost anything golf throws at him. The interview closes with the Masters leaderboard game, where the names are replaced by what each player is known for, and Wyndham gets to see how he is described. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rory McIlroy Says His Game Is Far From Where It Needs to Be | Mailbag It’s time for the Golf Live mailbag, and this week the questions hit just about every major storyline in golf. Rory McIlroy heads to Bellerive after a difficult week in Memphis and admitting his game is far from where he wants it to be. Trey and Justin discuss how concerned anyone should actually be, especially with Rory already secure for East Lake and his place at the top of the game firmly established. The mailbag also gets into Scottie Scheffler’s eight-shot win and whether anyone can beat him if the putter stays hot, Jordan Spieth missing the BMW Championship, and whether cutting the FedEx Cup field from 70 to 50 after one playoff event is too harsh or exactly what a postseason should demand. Plus, should St. Louis have a permanent place on the big-time golf calendar? Is Jeeno Thitikul the best player in golf without a major? Did LIV ultimately make the PGA Tour a better product? And if you’re sitting right on the East Lake bubble at Bellerive, do you play to win or protect your spot? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

LIV Golf Says They Want to Pay. The Man Suing Them for Over a Million Dollars Has a Response. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Jared Kleinstein, CEO of Fresh Tape Media and @OnGondola joins The Trey Wingo Show to tell the story behind his company’s lawsuit against LIV Golf over more than $1.2 million in unpaid work. Fresh Tape had worked with LIV since 2024, helping produce its media days and coordinating everything from branded and commercial shoots to podcasts and content production. Jared says the relationship was positive, the work was approved and there had been no payment problems before. Then the money stopped coming. As Fresh Tape waited to be paid, Jared says his company made sure its own creatives and contractors were taken care of. “Not a single vendor was paid late” through Fresh Tape, even while the company itself was still waiting on LIV. Jared explains when he realized this was becoming more than a normal late invoice, the repeated attempts to resolve the situation, and the offer that changed everything: according to Jared, LIV offered $200,000 to settle roughly $1.2 million in outstanding invoices before reducing that offer to $150,000. He also responds to LIV CEO Scott O’Neil’s comments about wanting to do right by vendors and explains why, despite the lawsuit, he does not have the anger toward LIV that many might expect. In fact, if Fresh Tape is paid and the right protections are in place, Jared says he would work with a potential LIV 2.0 again. It’s a firsthand look at what happens when the people and companies behind a major sports operation do the work, pay their teams and are left fighting to collect what they say they are owed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The PGA Tour Moves Forward as LIV Golf Faces an Uncertain Future Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Golf Live heads into Bellerive as the FedEx Cup Playoffs move into their second week, and Trey Wingo and Justin Ray start by looking back at one of the most memorable championships the course has ever hosted. They revisit the 2018 PGA Championship, the massive St. Louis crowds, Tiger Woods’ charge, Brooks Koepka answering him shot for shot, and why Bellerive remains such a memorable venue for big-time golf. Justin also looks ahead to what the BMW Championship could demand from the top 50 players still alive in the FedEx Cup race, including why scoring could be low and what kind of game may play best this week. From there, the conversation turns to the increasingly uncertain future of LIV Golf. Trey and Justin discuss the canceled team championship, reports surrounding unpaid players and vendors, questions around the league’s future, and what could happen next for some of its biggest names. They also get into the reported possibility of Jon Rahm seeking a path back to the PGA Tour, Ian Poulter’s comments about LIV’s future, and what happens to players like Dustin Johnson, David Puig and Tom McKibbin if the landscape continues to change. The bigger question is what comes next for professional golf and whether we eventually get back to having the best players competing together week in and week out. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scottie Scheffler Is Rolling as the PGA Tour Rethinks What a True Playoff Should Be Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Scottie Scheffler is back in the winner’s circle, and the rest of the FedEx Cup field may have a problem. After an eight-shot win in Memphis and the best putting week of his career, Justin Ray explains why another week like that could leave everyone else playing for second. But Scottie’s dominance leads into a bigger conversation about the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Rory McIlroy struggled in Memphis, yet his season-long position means he is already secure for East Lake. That raises a bigger question about what a true PGA Tour postseason should look like: should every player have to perform in each playoff event to keep advancing? Trey and Justin get into the current format, what could make the playoffs more competitive, the importance of rewarding performance when the stakes are highest, and why any future system still needs consistency and player buy-in to truly matter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scottie Scheffler Set the Tone in Memphis. Now the FedEx Cup Race Tightens at Bellerive Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. This week on Golf Live, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray look back at the opening event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs and Scottie Scheffler’s dominant eight-shot win at TPC Southwind. After the best putting week of his career and another runaway victory, they put Scottie’s season into perspective, compare his level of dominance to Tiger Woods, and discuss whether anyone can slow him down over the final two weeks of the playoffs. The conversation then turns to Rory McIlroy after a disappointing week in Memphis and what realistic expectations should be for him heading into the BMW Championship. Trey and Justin also take a bigger look at the FedEx Cup Playoffs themselves, including whether the current format puts enough pressure on players to perform from week to week and what could make the postseason feel more like a true playoff. Next up is Bellerive and the BMW Championship. They look back at the incredible atmosphere surrounding Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka at the 2018 PGA Championship, what makes Bellerive such a unique venue, and what kind of golf could be coming this weekend as the field gets cut from 50 players to the final 30 headed to East Lake. They also discuss the latest uncertainty surrounding LIV Golf, including the canceled team championship, questions surrounding payments, the possibility of players looking for a path back to the PGA Tour, and what a potential next version of LIV could look like. And as always, the show closes with your questions. This week: whether LIV ultimately made the PGA Tour better, how anyone beats Scottie if he keeps putting like this, whether St. Louis deserves a regular place on the golf calendar, Jeeno Thitikul’s place among the best players without a major, Jordan Spieth missing the BMW Championship, and how players on the bubble should approach their final chance to reach East Lake. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Damien Woody on Life After ESPN and Why Offensive Line Is the Most Underrated Position in Football Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Damien Woody joins us on this episode of The Trey Wingo Show to talk about what life looks like after 15 years at ESPN, the freedom that comes with choosing what he actually wants to talk about, and why he still wants to keep the focus on real football conversations without all the extra noise. From there, Damien gets into the part of the game he knows best: offensive line play. He explains why technique matters just as much as size and strength, why the center is basically the quarterback of the offensive line, and how important continuity is when it comes to building a great unit. He also gives his thoughts on some of the best offensive lines in football heading into the season, including Denver, the Chargers, the Rams, Philadelphia, Buffalo and Dallas. Damien also looks back on his time with the Patriots and Jets, what Bill Belichick was really trying to accomplish in preseason games, and why coaches like Dante Scarnecchia and Bill Callahan had such a major impact on his career. He explains why coaching can completely change a player’s development and why landing in the right situation matters just as much as talent. The conversation also covers Will Campbell’s development in New England, what preseason football can actually tell us, why September can feel like an extension of the preseason, and why Brandon Moore deserves to be remembered for a lot more than the Butt Fumble. It’s a conversation about life after ESPN, what really goes into playing offensive line in the NFL, and why so much of what happens on Sundays still starts up front. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

LIV Golf Is Running Out of Road. What Happens to Rahm and Bryson Now? Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Kevin Van Valkenburg joins Trey Wingo for a wide ranging conversation about where LIV Golf stands right now and what could be coming next. With Indianapolis approaching, they get into what Kevin expects from the event, why there is so much uncertainty around LIV’s future, and why the idea that the money would simply be there forever was never as straightforward as people made it sound. They also look at how LIV got to this point and whether the league was ever really built to function as a sustainable business. Kevin explains why he always viewed LIV as more of a disruptive force, what may have gone wrong along the way, and why it now feels like the league is running out of road. Then the conversation turns to Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau. What would a path back to the PGA Tour actually look like for Rahm? Why could Bryson’s situation be very different? And how would the players already on the Tour feel about either of them coming back? From there, Trey and Kevin get into Rory McIlroy and how his priorities have changed after winning the Masters, why regular PGA Tour events may not carry the same weight for him anymore, and what still motivates a player who has already accomplished so much. They also talk Scottie Scheffler, what separates his competitive mindset, and why Kevin believes he is as well positioned as anyone to pile up majors over the rest of his career. Plus, Kevin gives his thoughts on Brian Rolapp, the changes that could be coming to the PGA Tour, and the challenges ahead as the Tour figures out its next version. And because it is Trey and Kevin, they eventually find their way to football. They talk about the new look Ravens, Caleb Williams and the Bears, and whether the NFL may finally be approaching a point where putting games on more and more days of the week starts to take something away from what made the league so powerful in the first place. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Playoff Pressure, LIV Fatigue and the Questions That Matter Now Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. In this Golf Live mailbag segment, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray react to the latest uncertainty around LIV Golf, including the reported investor situation and why the weekly updates still do not feel like real clarity. They also discuss Joaquin Niemann’s continued success on LIV and why major championship contention is still the piece that could change how his career is viewed. From there, Trey and Justin turn to viewer questions. Was Michael Brennan’s Wyndham win one of the best pressure performances of the PGA Tour season? What comes first for Brooks Koepka’s putting struggles — fixing the stroke or fixing the confidence? Does Beau Hossler need something more in his game, or just the right Sunday to finally break through? They also get into Scottie Scheffler’s Player of the Year case, whether Presidents Cup captain’s picks should reward the full season or the hot hand, and whether three straight PGA Tour winners age 24 or younger means golf is watching a changing of the guard happen in real time. From LIV updates to FedEx Cup pressure to the biggest viewer questions of the week, this is the Golf Live mailbag. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Football Is Back. Here’s How to Enjoy It Responsibly. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Football is back, and yes, we’re all excited. Over seven million people watched the Hall of Fame Game because we missed football that much. Preseason is here, the uniforms are back, and every good drive suddenly feels like it might mean something huge. But August football comes with a few reminders. Preseason games do not count, but they do matter. The key is understanding what actually matters: execution, comfort, command, and whether players can translate what they have been practicing in training camp into a real game setting. So when young quarterbacks like Fernando Mendoza or Drew Allar look sharp, enjoy it. Be excited. That is always better than seeing them struggle. Just do not turn one preseason series into a Hall of Fame case. There is no real game plan. Defenses are not throwing everything at rookie quarterbacks. Coaches are not showing future opponents anything they do not have to show. Preseason football is useful, but it is not the same thing as regular-season football. Football is here. We are all happy about it. Just remember what you are watching, what it means, and what it does not. Enjoy football responsibly. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jon Rahm Is Leaving. The Team Championship Is Canceled. LIV Golf Is Done. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. We’ve talked about LIV Golf time and time again, but the signs are getting impossible to ignore. LIV Golf, as we know it, is reaching the end. Jon Rahm is reportedly all but gone after 2026. The LIV team championship in Michigan appears unlikely to happen. Players are signing up for conflicting DP World Tour events. Reports of unpaid vendors continue to grow. And the investor “announcement” at Bedminster raised more questions than answers. This episode lays out why all of those pieces matter. Rahm is one of LIV’s biggest stars, and losing him would be a massive blow to any version of LIV 2.0. If investors need stars to stay, if vendors are questioning whether they will be paid, and if players are already acting like the team championship is not happening, then the picture becomes pretty clear. We have been saying this for months. Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed wanting a path back was part of it. The PIF funding pullback was part of it. The lack of clarity around LIV’s future has been part of it. Now, the questions are no longer theoretical. LIV did prove one thing: there is an appetite for professional golf in different formats and different places. Adelaide worked. South Africa worked. The fans showed up. But the business model did not. And if the money is uncertain, the stars are leaving, the vendors are waiting, and the league still cannot clearly explain what comes next, then LIV’s biggest problem is no longer perception. It is accountability. And those are straight facts, homie. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Memphis Heat, Bubble Pressure and the Start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. The FedEx Cup Playoffs are here, and the first stop is Memphis. In this Golf Live segment, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray preview the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind and break down the biggest storylines heading into the PGA Tour’s postseason. They discuss the players who made it, the surprising names who missed out, and why the smaller playoff field has changed the stakes for veterans like Jason Day and Keegan Bradley. Justin also explains why TPC Southwind tends to reward strong iron players, why momentum matters this time of year, and why Hideki Matsuyama and Sam Burns stand out as players to watch. Trey and Justin also get into the playoff bubble, Harris English sitting right on the edge, Rory McIlroy being in the field, and why big names like Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns and Si Woo Kim are still looking for wins this season. The segment closes with Brooks Koepka’s candid reaction to missing the playoffs, why his frustration says something about how much he still cares, and what he needs to fix going forward. From Memphis heat to bubble pressure, this is Golf Live’s preview of the FedEx Cup Playoffs Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael Brennan Breaks Through as Beau Hossler Keeps Chasing Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Michael Brennan delivered when he had to. On this Golf Live segment, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down Brennan’s win at the Wyndham Championship, how his putting helped push him over the top and why his ball-striking makes him one of the more interesting young players on the PGA Tour. Brennan’s win also continued a rare run on Tour: three straight PGA Tour winners age 24 or younger, joining Jackson Koivun and Michael Thorbjornsen. Trey and Justin discuss what that says about the PGA Tour’s next wave and why the depth of the Tour keeps getting harder to ignore. But Wyndham also came with another side of the story. Beau Hossler came up just short again, finishing second while still chasing his first PGA Tour win. Trey and Justin talk about Hossler’s career, his 65 top-25 finishes, five runner-up finishes, 252 PGA Tour starts without a win and why they still believe his breakthrough is coming. From Brennan’s rise to Beau’s near-miss, this segment is about how hard it is to win on the PGA Tour — and how thin the line can be between a career-changing Sunday and another painful close call. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Steve Keim Addresses the Stories Circulating About Him — Setting the Record Straight Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Steve Keim is a founding member of Inside Football. When this show launched, the promise was simple — when something is real, we are going to be real about it. No spin. No PR. Just the truth, on camera, from the person involved. Two stories have been circulating that attach Steve Keim's name to serious allegations. He is here to address both directly. The Drop Shipping Scam Last July, Steve Keim was introduced to a man named Mohamed who presented a drop shipping e-commerce business opportunity. The rates of return looked legitimate. Other people Keim spoke to confirmed they were receiving payments. Over several months Keim invested, brought in members of his family including his ex-wife and son, and ultimately eight friends as well. By March and April things changed. People Keim had brought in stopped receiving payments. Keim himself was not being paid back on seven stores he had purchased. He became, in his words, extremely animated. He flew to Philadelphia to meet with Mohamed directly and verify that funds existed to cover what was owed. The walls were closing in on Mohamed. He was recently found dead in his pool in New Jersey — either murdered or by suicide. The investigation is ongoing. In the days that followed Steve Keim was contacted by the FBI. He spoke with them today. Their message was direct — he is not a suspect. He is not a person of concern. He is a victim. He has made available to investigators every text message, email, and contract he received throughout the business relationship. Between himself, his ex-wife, and his son, Keim estimates seven figures in losses. He is working with legal counsel to recover what he can. But his focus is not on himself, but on the eight friends and two family members he brought into this. He apologizes to all of them. He made a poor decision doing business with this man and owns that completely. What is also clear — Mohamed used Steve Keim's name and reputation to legitimize his operation. He kept the full picture hidden because he knew Keim would never have supported him if he understood what was actually happening. That does not make Keim responsible for what happened. It makes him a target. The DeAndre Hopkins Allegation The second story involves former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who made a public allegation that Steve Keim manipulated his drug test during his time with the Cardinals. Keim's response is direct and unequivocal. All NFL drug tests are administered by the National Football League — not by teams, not by general managers, not by anyone within a franchise. The only information a team receives is the result. It is physically impossible for a general manager or anyone within an organization to contaminate, manipulate, or interfere with an NFL drug test. The allegation is baseless. It is irresponsible. Hopkins subsequently deleted the comment. Keim's read on that — deleting the comment is a judgment of guilt. If you make a serious allegation publicly you stand behind it. You do not delete it. Trey's read — if you say something like that publicly you better have receipts. Because without them you are in serious legal waters. Keim does not know with certainty why Hopkins made the allegation. His best assessment — sometimes people are not fully informed about what they see on the internet, and sometimes people say things out of frustration when business relationships end in ways they did not want. He believed he had a good relationship with Hopkins. He cannot speak for him. But he can be clear that the accusation is highly inaccurate. Why This Conversation Is Happening Here This is Inside Football doing exactly what Inside Football said it would do from day one. When something real comes up involving someone on this show, we address it. On camera. Directly. From the person involved. Not through a PR statement. Not through a third party. Not through a carefully crafted response designed to say as little as possible. Steve Keim made a mistake in judgment doing business with someone he should not have trusted. He owns that. He is sorry for the people it affected. He has nothing to hide and is cooperating fully with law enforcement. And a baseless allegation about something physically impossible deserves a direct response — so here it is. That is what this show is. That is what this show will always be. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hall of Fame Weekend Is Over. Now the 2027 Debate Begins. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Football is officially back, but for Trey, the Hall of Fame Game has never been the real story of Hall of Fame weekend. After years of covering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Trey explains why the gold jacket dinner, the enshrinement ceremony and the gathering of football legends in Canton matter far more than a preseason game. He looks back at this year’s Hall of Fame class, including Drew Brees, Luke Kuechly, Larry Fitzgerald, Adam Vinatieri and Roger Craig, and explains why the moment these players put on the gold jacket is what the weekend is really about. Then the conversation turns to what comes next. With the next Pro Football Hall of Fame class already becoming a major debate, Trey breaks down which names feel like obvious cases, which ones will be argued over, and which players may have to wait. Bill Belichick? Trey says there should be no debate. Rob Gronkowski and Adrian Peterson? They feel like first-ballot locks. Eli Manning? A fascinating case built on durability, consistency and two unforgettable Super Bowl runs. Ben Roethlisberger? Likely in, but maybe not as clean of a first-ballot conversation. Antonio Brown? One of the most complicated Hall of Fame cases in recent memory. Trey also weighs in on Richard Sherman, Andrew Whitworth, Cam Newton, Le’Veon Bell, Alex Mack, Gerald McCoy, Eric Weddle, Otis Anderson and Darren Woodson. From this year’s gold jackets to the names that could define the next Hall of Fame debate, this is a full breakdown of what Canton means — and who may be next. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

FedEx Cup Playoffs Preview: Michael Brennan, Beau Hossler and the PGA Tour Pressure Cooker Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live is back, and the PGA Tour is officially in the home stretch. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down Michael Brennan’s win at the Wyndham Championship, where he delivered under pressure and kept his season alive heading into the FedEx Cup Playoffs. They also get into what Brennan’s win says about the PGA Tour’s youth movement, with three straight winners age 24 or younger: Brennan, Jackson Koivun and Michael Thorbjornsen. On the other side of Wyndham, Beau Hossler came up just short again. Trey and Justin discuss why Hossler keeps putting himself in position, why winning on the PGA Tour is so difficult, and why they still believe his breakthrough is coming. Then it is onto the FedEx Cup Playoffs, with the top 70 heading to Memphis for the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Trey and Justin look at who made it, who missed out, how the playoff structure changes the stakes, and which players could make a move before East Lake. Justin also explains why TPC Southwind favors strong iron players, why momentum matters this time of year, and why Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama are two names to watch. The episode also covers Brooks Koepka’s putting struggles, LIV Golf’s latest uncertainty, Joaquin Niemann’s growing resume, Scottie Scheffler’s Player of the Year case, Presidents Cup picks, and whether golf is watching a changing of the guard happen in real time. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Beau Hossler Came Close Again. This Conversation Hits Different Now. Download the Kalshi app and use code WINGO to get up to $500 in bonus credits when you trade $25. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/kalshi/id1652717295 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalshi.android Download Cash App Today: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/pt7csdwp #CashAppPod. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Beau Hossler has been close before. After another second-place finish at the Wyndham Championship, Trey Wingo revisits his conversation with Hossler about the highs and lows of life on the PGA Tour. We spoke with Beau last year about the mental grind of professional golf, the thin line between winning and finishing second, and how hard it is to keep perspective when the breakthrough still has not come. After Wyndham, that conversation feels as relevant as ever. Hossler first burst onto the golf scene as a 17-year-old amateur at the 2012 U.S. Open, where he became one of the youngest players to make the cut and even held the lead at one point. Years later, he has built a strong PGA Tour career with millions in earnings, dozens of top-25 finishes and multiple runner-up finishes — but he is still looking for that first win. In this conversation, Hossler opens up about how thin the line is between success and failure on the PGA Tour, why there are so many different ways to finish second, and why one week can still change everything. He also talks about separating self-worth from score, finding balance away from golf, playing at the University of Texas, watching Scottie Scheffler’s rise, the changing PGA Tour schedule, and building his coffee brand, Bo-Rista. From his teenage moment at Olympic Club to his years grinding on the PGA Tour, Beau Hossler’s story is a reminder of how hard it is to win in golf — and why coming close can be both encouraging and heartbreaking. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

J.R. Smith on Falling in Love With Golf, LeBron’s Swing and Life After the NBA This episode is sponsored by Quince. Free shipping and 365-day returns at Quince.com/wingo J.R. Smith joins Trey Wingo on The Wingo Network to talk about the game that took over his life after basketball: golf. J.R. explains how Moses Malone first put a club in his hands, why one 300-yard drive got him hooked, and how the game became more than just something to do after NBA practices. From NBA Champion to College Golfer After winning championships with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers, J.R. found himself asking what came next. That answer eventually became school and college golf. J.R. talks about going back to college, joining the golf team at North Carolina A&T, and what it was like competing with players nearly half his age after spending years at the highest level of the NBA. LeBron Finally Gets Golf One of the funniest parts of the conversation comes when J.R. explains how he tried to warn LeBron James about golf. J.R. told LeBron it would become the most addictive thing he had ever done. LeBron did not believe him at first. Now, according to J.R., LeBron is sending him swing videos, tips, and fully understands what the golf obsession is all about. J.R. also talks about Bronny’s swing, LeBron’s golf etiquette, and why some natural athletes pick up the game faster than everyone else. The 2016 Cavs and Life After Basketball Trey and J.R. also look back on the 10-year anniversary of the Cavaliers championship, the bond between those teammates, and their recent golf trip through London, Scotland, and France. J.R. shares stories about Kevin Love, LeBron, Tristan Thompson, and what it was like getting the band back together. Golf, Tattoos and What Comes Next J.R. opens up about his tattoos, the connection he feels with artists, and why golf now gives him a new competitive outlet. He also talks about playing in celebrity and athlete golf events, how good he thinks he can become, and why tournament golf is completely different from casual rounds with friends. From NBA Finals runs to college golf tournaments, J.R. Smith’s story is about competition, reinvention, and the game he says you can never really escape once it gets into your soul. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jackson Koivun beat Scottie Scheffler. How real is the hype around golf’s newest star? Go to Quince.com/WINGO. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK. Jackson Koivun needed only three PGA Tour starts to earn his first victory, and he did it by holding off world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Now the real question begins: How much should golf believe the hype? Trey Wingo and Justin Ray examine what made Koivun’s breakthrough so convincing, from a dominant weekend of iron play to a short game already being described in generational terms. They also compare his college résumé with some of golf’s biggest modern stars and explain why this arrival may be different from other highly touted prospects who never reached their expected ceiling. But nothing is guaranteed. Koivun’s aggressive, unconventional swing raises long-term questions, and one victory does not automatically make someone a future major champion. Trey and Justin break down what the win actually tells us, which parts of Koivun’s game appear sustainable and how quickly he could move from rising prospect to the FedEx Cup playoffs and the Presidents Cup conversation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The World Cup was a massive success. Now the fight over money, media rights, and access begins. Go to Quince.com/WINGO. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK. The World Cup delivered massive television audiences, brought international fans into cities across the United States and created one of the biggest sports-media opportunities in years. Now the real questions begin. Margaret Fleming of Front Office Sports joins Trey Wingo to examine who actually benefited from the tournament, why the full economic impact may take years to understand and what happens when FIFA negotiates its next American media-rights deal. The current rights were secured for far less than networks pay for properties such as the NFL and NBA. With future bidding potentially starting around $1 billion, companies including Netflix, YouTube and Disney could enter the competition. That could drive the value of the World Cup higher, but it also raises a major concern for viewers: will future tournaments remain widely available, or will more matches move behind subscription paywalls? Trey and Margaret also discuss the uneven returns for host cities, the public money invested in transportation and operations, and why restaurants and hotels did not all experience the same financial windfall. They examine the increase in interest around American soccer and why the tournament’s true impact may not be measurable for years. The conversation also explores how international supporters experienced a different side of the United States, from Kansas City and Texas to distinctly American stops such as Buc-ee’s and Texas Roadhouse. That change in perception may become one of the tournament’s most valuable long-term legacies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ryan Fox Just Made the Biggest 36-Hole Comeback in Major History Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Ryan Fox is the Champion Golfer of the Year, and his Open Championship win was even crazier than it looked. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray break down how Fox went from T-52 after 36 holes to winning The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, completing the biggest 36-hole comeback by position in men’s major championship history. Ryan Fox Makes History Fox completely changed the tournament with a Saturday 62, then finished the job on Sunday with a birdie on the 72nd hole. Justin explains why that comeback was not just rare, but record-setting. The previous biggest 36-hole comeback by position in a men’s major came from 39th place. Fox came from outside the top 50. A Throwback Champion Trey and Justin also explain why Fox became such a popular winner. His swing is not picture-perfect. His game is not overly mechanical. His pace of play is fast, simple, and refreshing. He sees the shot, hits the shot, and moves on. At a time when golf can feel overanalyzed, Fox won The Open by playing golf his own way. The New Zealand Legacy Fox also joins one of the most exclusive lists in New Zealand golf history. Trey and Justin discuss his sporting background, his family’s athletic roots, and why this win puts him alongside New Zealand’s major champions. Why Birkdale Delivered Royal Birkdale produced four rounds of 62 in Open Championship history, including three this week alone. But the winning score was still only 10-under, which made the week feel different from a normal birdie-fest. Justin explains why the course allowed historic low rounds while still producing a dramatic and difficult championship finish. Ryan Fox rewrote the record book, won his first major, and gave golf one of the best stories of the year. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Majors Are Over. Now Golf Has to Wait Nine Months. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. The Open Championship is finished, Ryan Fox is the Champion Golfer of the Year, and the men’s major season is officially over. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray recap a wild week at Royal Birkdale, from Ryan Fox’s historic comeback to Bryson DeChambeau’s penalty controversy, Scottie Scheffler’s strange Sunday, Cameron Young’s near-miss, Sam Burns’ heartbreak, and the bigger question golf now has to answer: why are the majors done in July? Ryan Fox Makes History Ryan Fox went from T-52 after 36 holes to winning The Open Championship, completing the biggest 36-hole comeback by position in men’s major championship history. Justin explains why Fox’s Saturday 62 changed everything, why his win was so rare, and why his style, pace of play, and New Zealand sporting background made him such a popular champion. The Bryson Penalty Debate Trey and Justin break down the Bryson DeChambeau two-shot penalty, why the R&A was in charge instead of the PGA Tour, and why intent was not the only issue. They also discuss Bryson’s reaction, the idea that he may have threatened to leave the championship, and why both Trey and Justin believe golf is better when Bryson is relevant in majors — even when the drama gets complicated. Scottie, Cameron Young and Sam Burns Scottie Scheffler had one of the strangest final rounds of the week, including a wild break on 17 and a ruling that could have created even more controversy. Cameron Young shot 64 on Sunday and still came up one shot short. Sam Burns had another major chance slip away, but Justin explains why he may be one of the best bets to break through soon. Why Is Major Season Already Over? The Open was the final men’s major of the year, which means golf now waits roughly nine months until the next one. Trey makes the case for moving the PGA Championship back to August, why the current major schedule feels too compressed, and why golf is better when the major season has more room to breathe. Mailbag Trey and Justin also answer viewer questions on scoring records, whether strokes under par or total score matters more, major championship experience, video review in golf, future multiple-major winners, and whether players owe the media post-round interviews. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ryan Fox Just Pulled Off the Biggest Comeback in Major Championship History. Here’s What It Means. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Ryan Fox is the Champion Golfer of the Year. At 39 years old, Fox won The Open Championship for his first major title, his third PGA TOUR win, and one of the most unlikely major victories golf has ever seen. After two rounds at Royal Birkdale, Fox was tied for 52nd. By Sunday night, he was holding the trophy. Trey Wingo reacts to Fox’s historic comeback, his 72nd-hole birdie to edge Cameron Young, and why this win was not just a great finish — it was a career-defining moment. The Record Ryan Fox did not just win The Open. He pulled off the largest 36-hole comeback by position in men’s major championship history. After sitting T-52 through two rounds, Fox shot into contention with a Saturday 62, then finished the job on Sunday with four birdies in his final six holes. That included the birdie on 18 that gave him the championship by one. The Rarity Fox also joined a very short list of golfers who have won their first major at 39 or older in the last 30 years. Trey breaks down why that matters, what it says about Fox’s career, and why this was not some random one-week story. Fox had already won twice on the PGA TOUR in 2025, both times in playoffs, and he brought that same toughness into the biggest moment of his career. The Legacy Ryan Fox became just the second player from New Zealand to win The Open Championship, joining Bob Charles in 1963. Trey looks at Fox’s athletic background, his New Zealand roots, his pace of play, and the calm mentality that helped him handle bad breaks, pressure, and one of the toughest closing stretches in golf. The Chasers Cameron Young shot 64 on Sunday and still came up short. Sam Burns had the lead and another major chance, but could not close. Scottie Scheffler had one of the strangest final rounds of the week. Bryson DeChambeau’s penalty controversy still hung over the weekend. Trey breaks down how all of it shaped the final round at Royal Birkdale. The Major Season Is Over The Open Championship was the final major of the year, which means golf now waits roughly nine months for the next major at Augusta. Trey explains why he still believes the PGA Championship belongs back in August, why the current major schedule feels too compressed, and why golf is better when the major season has more room to breathe. Ryan Fox won The Open. He made New Zealand history. And he pulled off one of the greatest comebacks major championship golf has ever seen. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau Still Has a Chance. But He Has to Get Out of His Own Way. Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. After three rounds at Royal Birkdale, The Open Championship has two major stories. The first is the leaderboard. Sam Burns heads into Sunday with a two-shot lead at 10-under, after putting together one of the best 36-hole stretches in major championship history. Ryan Fox, who fired a 62 on Saturday, will join him in the final pairing. Si Woo Kim, Ryan Gerard, Tommy Fleetwood, Ludvig Aberg, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler and others are all still within range. And then there is Bryson DeChambeau. After Friday’s two-shot penalty, Bryson remains one of the biggest stories of the championship. Trey Wingo breaks down why the penalty ruling was not a PGA Tour conspiracy, why the R&A had jurisdiction at The Open, and why the rule did not require intent. If officials believed Bryson’s actions had the potential to improve his swing, that was enough for a penalty. Trey also reacts to the way Bryson handled the fallout. For two straight days, Bryson did not speak after his round. After the animated discussion with rules officials, the delayed uncertainty around whether he would continue, and the possibility that he may have threatened to disqualify himself, Trey says Bryson owed people an explanation. But the golf part is still very real. Bryson is only four shots back entering Sunday. Nobody ahead of him on the leaderboard has done what he has done: win multiple major championships. Sam Burns, Ryan Fox, Si Woo Kim and the others in front of him all have a chance to change their careers, but Bryson already knows what it feels like to close. That makes Sunday about mindset. Does Bryson look at the leaderboard and focus on the penalty he believes cost him? Or does he realize he is four shots back at the final major of the year, with no major champions ahead of him, and a real chance to turn his entire season around? Trey compares the situation to Rory McIlroy at the Masters, when Rory had to reset mentally after missing a putt to win and still found a way to finish the job. The Open Championship is bigger than one player. But Bryson DeChambeau has made himself one of the biggest stories of the week. Now he has one round left to decide what kind of story it becomes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau’s Two-Stroke Penalty Changed The Open Championship Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Subscribe to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@treywingopresents?sub_confirmation=1 Bryson DeChambeau thought he had shot a 66 in the second round of The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Instead, everything changed after he walked into the scoring area. The R&A rules officials reviewed Bryson’s actions on the fifth hole, where his drive ended up in deep fescue. The question was whether Bryson had improved his lie by walking around the ball and pressing down the grass behind it before hitting his shot. After a long and animated discussion, officials assessed a two-stroke penalty. That moved Bryson from seven-under to five-under. Instead of sitting one shot off the lead and playing in the final group on Saturday, he dropped farther down the leaderboard. Trey Wingo breaks down why the penalty matters, why the R&A was never going to bend on protecting the integrity of the rules, and why Bryson had to be careful not to let his frustration ruin the entire tournament. Because according to Trey, if Bryson had disqualified himself over the penalty, it would have been one of the worst decisions in professional golf history. Even after the penalty, Bryson is still right in the mix. The leaderboard entering the weekend is wide open. Lucas Herbert leads at eight-under after shooting 62. Jackson Suber, Cameron Young and Ryan Gerard are at six-under. Sam Burns and Bryson are at five-under. Behind them are names like Scottie Scheffler, John Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre and Francesco Molinari. And that is what makes this so interesting. Many of the players ahead of Bryson have never won a major. Bryson has won two U.S. Opens. He knows what it takes to close on the weekend. The biggest question now is whether he can calm down, reset mentally, and turn this controversy into fuel. Trey also explains why the penalty changed the Saturday pairings. Without it, Bryson would have played in the final group with Lucas Herbert. Instead, Herbert now gets Jackson Suber. That is a very different dynamic. The Open now has everything heading into the weekend: controversy, record-setting rounds, young players at the top, proven major champions lurking, and Bryson DeChambeau trying to turn his entire year around. The penalty hurt him. But it did not end his championship. More Straight Facts Homie! Episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLihC6TAafKWcDbvIlAMc87HibcOlDYf8c&si=sPioGmRdOG8yZOVk Find us on all platforms here: https://linktr.ee/thewingonetwork Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Is the NFL Giving Fans Too Much Football? Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Andrew Brandt joins Trey Wingo to talk about one of the biggest questions around the NFL: can the league ever become too big? Trey starts with the idea of scarcity. Part of what made the NFL so powerful is that fans had to wait for it. Sunday mattered. Monday night mattered. One game a week made the product feel special. But now the NFL is everywhere. There are games all day Sunday, including early international games. Monday Night Football. Thursday Night Football. Thanksgiving games. A Black Friday game. Christmas games. Saturday games late in the season. And now even Thanksgiving Eve is becoming part of the NFL calendar. So Trey asks the real question: is the NFL messing with the formula that made it so valuable? America’s Addiction Trey says football is not America’s pastime anymore. It is America’s national addiction. Andrew says he would like to think the NFL could eventually go too far, but the evidence still says no. The league has survived concerns over protests, concussions, politics, sports betting and oversaturation, and the appetite for football is still massive. Trey brings up Mark Cuban’s old warning that “pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” Andrew’s response is simple: the hogs are not close to getting slaughtered. Schedule Overload The conversation gets into whether fans will keep planning every other day of the week around NFL games. Trey points out that players like Jason Kelce have talked about what makes football special: you only get one game a week, and everyone builds toward it. Andrew admits that even he has had moments where it felt like there was too much football, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas. But whether that feeling becomes universal is still the question. Cowboys Value and the Next Sale From there, Trey and Andrew connect the schedule conversation back to franchise value. After the Seahawks sold for nearly $10 billion, Trey asks what the Dallas Cowboys could be worth. If Seattle is worth almost $10 billion, is America’s Team worth $20 billion? Andrew explains that some franchises may never actually hit the open market, including the Cowboys, Patriots, Bengals, 49ers and Eagles, because they are family-controlled teams. Still, the larger point is clear: NFL ownership has become one of the most valuable assets in sports. Green Bay and the NFL’s Secret Sauce The conversation ends with one of the most interesting parts of the NFL business model: Green Bay. Trey points out that the Packers play in the smallest market in major American professional sports, yet they are able to compete because the NFL shares revenue equally across teams. Andrew calls it “corporate socialism.” The league’s owners are extremely capitalist in almost every other business sense, but the NFL works because every team gets an equal share of the national revenue. That is why Green Bay can compete with New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami. It is also why NFL franchise values keep climbing. The question is whether the league can keep adding more games, more windows and more money without damaging what made the product special in the first place. For now, the answer still seems to be yes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Who Actually Fits Royal Birkdale? | Mailbag Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live wraps the episode with an Open Championship mailbag from Royal Birkdale. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray answer viewer questions on which players benefit most from the firm and fast setup, whether this year’s major venues have been fair, what to make of Scottie Scheffler’s season, and which non-obvious Open winner would create the best story. They also get into Tom Kim’s future, the state of the DP World Tour and why Birkdale may not reward the same players we usually expect at a major. Who Benefits Most at Birkdale? The first big question is about fit. With Royal Birkdale playing firm and fast, Trey thinks almost everybody is in play. Distance does not carry the same advantage when the ball is running this much, and the shortest players in the field may have a better chance than usual. Justin points to accurate players who can control their ball flight: Russell Henley, Collin Morikawa and Tom Kim. Those players may not have the same extra gear off the tee, but this setup can narrow that gap. On the other side, Justin is staying away from Cameron Young because of how much he has struggled on the greens. Have the Major Setups Been Good? Trey and Justin also discuss the major setups this year. Justin thinks they have been strong overall. Everyone is going to complain about the U.S. Open setup, but he thought the USGA did a good job with what it had. Trey agrees. He thought the courses have generally been difficult but fair, and he expects Royal Birkdale to create its own kind of test because of the weather and firm conditions. There will be strange bounces. There will be shots that make players wonder how the ball ended up there. But that is part of the Open. Is Scottie’s Season a Failure Without Another Major? The answer from both Trey and Justin is no. Scottie Scheffler has set the bar so high that anything short of constant winning starts to feel disappointing, but Justin says he is still statistically elite across the board. He compares it to Nelly Korda’s season after her seven-win run: still excellent, even if the wins do not come as easily. Trey’s point is that Scottie’s hold on world No. 1 is still massive. It would take a huge drop from him and a huge leap from someone else to change that. The Best Open Storylines The mailbag also looks at which non-obvious Open winner would create the best story. Tommy Fleetwood winning in England would be huge. Justin Rose would be emotional. Robert MacIntyre winning would have a Scottish-conquers-England feel. Jon Rahm remains fascinating. And Bryson DeChambeau trying to avoid missing the cut in all four majors is another storyline to watch. There are a lot of ways this week could get interesting. Tom Kim and the DP World Tour Trey and Justin also talk about Tom Kim’s future after his Scottish Open win. Kim turned pro at 15, won early on the PGA Tour and became a Presidents Cup star before hitting a rough stretch. Now, he may be coming out of it. The episode closes with a bigger DP World Tour discussion. Justin says the tour still has strong events ahead, especially with the national opens and late-season championship run. A strong European tour is good for the entire golf world. And at Royal Birkdale, the mailbag question is pretty simple: Who actually fits the test? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryson DeChambeau Answers Nick Faldo’s “Zero Strategy” Criticism Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Bryson DeChambeau finally gave The Open Championship something extra to talk about. After missing the cut in the first three majors of the year, Bryson opened at Royal Birkdale with a three-under 67. That round put him within striking distance of the lead, but the bigger story was what came before it. Sir Nick Faldo, a six-time major champion and three-time Open Championship winner, was asked about Bryson’s struggles in majors this season and did not hold back. Faldo said Bryson has “zero clue of strategy,” arguing that links golf cannot simply be attacked with power. At The Open, especially on a firm and fast course like Royal Birkdale, players have to think their way around the golf course. They have to understand where the ball will bounce, where it can run, where the bad misses are, and how to keep it on the short grass. Faldo’s point was that Bryson cannot just bomb driver and expect links golf to reward him. Bryson clearly heard it. After his round, Bryson talked about being “incredibly strategic,” staying focused, and placing the ball in the right areas. Trey Wingo breaks down why that response mattered, why the pettiness is good for the tournament, and why Bryson’s opening round gave The Open a much-needed storyline. But Trey also explains why the question is not fully answered yet. Bryson played well, but he still missed a lot of fairways. On a links course, that matters. At Royal Birkdale, the ball can take hard bounces, run into rough, find bad angles, or leave a player blocked out. One day, the bounces work. The next day, the same misses can turn a three-under round into a three-over round. That is what makes Bryson’s week so interesting. Did he actually find the right strategy for links golf? Or did Thursday’s round work because the bounces went his way? Trey also gets into why Bryson remains one of the most compelling players in golf. He is a two-time U.S. Open champion, one of the most powerful players in the world, and never afraid to respond when he feels criticized. After being a non-factor in the first three majors of the year, Bryson suddenly gave the final major of the season a little edge. The rest of the Round 1 leaderboard is just as interesting. Jackson Suber opened with a surprise 65. Collin Morikawa stayed in the mix on a course that should suit his iron game. Scottie Scheffler bounced back after a missed cut and sits within reach. Rory McIlroy had an up-and-down putting day. Xander Schauffele had a rough finish. Justin Rose, one of the sentimental favorites at Royal Birkdale, put himself in a difficult spot with a disappointing opening round. The Open is firm, fast, and already full of storylines. Bryson vs. Faldo. Power vs. strategy. And one last chance this year to win a major championship. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Week Golf Reminded Everyone How Hard This Game Is Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf had one of those weeks where the only real takeaway was simple: this game is hard. Scottie Scheffler missed the cut at the Scottish Open. Nelly Korda missed the cut at the Evian Championship. And according to Justin Ray, it was the first time the reigning men’s world No. 1 and women’s world No. 1 both missed the cut in the same week. Trey’s reaction was pretty simple. If you had told him that was going to happen, he would have said there was no chance. But that is golf. Scottie and Nelly Both Miss Nelly’s missed cut at Evian added another strange chapter to a tournament Justin had already called unpredictable. Even without Nelly, Evian still delivered. Brooke Henderson made six eagles for the week, including three on Sunday to get into a playoff. Hyo Joo Kim shot 60 on Saturday. The week had plenty going on. For Scottie, Justin is not worried. He did not embarrass himself at the Scottish Open. He just did not make enough birdies, hit only ten greens in regulation on Friday, and never saw enough putts fall. The bigger point is that even the best players in the world can have one week where they just do not get to the weekend. The Tiger Cut Streak Reminder Scottie’s missed cut also ended his streak at 78 straight cuts made. That led Trey and Justin right back to Tiger Woods. Trey makes the point that Scottie’s streak was impressive, but it still was not the same as Tiger’s 142 consecutive cuts made. To even get close, Scottie would have needed 64 more. And Justin adds another reminder: Scottie’s top-25 streak lasted almost two years. Tiger had one that lasted six. That is why Trey keeps saying people need to be careful with the Scottie-Tiger comparisons. This is not about taking anything away from Scottie. It is about remembering how absurd Tiger’s prime really was. If you did not see it live, Trey says, you missed something you will probably never see again. Tom Kim Gets Back The other big story of the week was Tom Kim winning the Scottish Open. Trey and Justin talk about how quickly Tom burst onto the scene. He became the youngest two-time PGA Tour winner since Tiger Woods, then the youngest three-time winner since Tiger. He became a Presidents Cup star, brought real energy to the International Team, and then went through a stretch where things just got harder. That is what made this win matter. Justin points to the Dallas U.S. Open qualifier as a possible turning point. Tom lit it up against a strong field, then contended at Shinnecock, then won in Scotland. His short game looked great, his confidence looked back, and his game may be trending at the right time. Trey sees it as a good sign for golf. Tom Kim has too much talent and too much personality not to matter. And after a difficult stretch, he looks like a player who could start showing up again a lot more often. The Lesson Rory McIlroy hit one bad shot at the Scottish Open and told himself he was terrible at golf. Trey’s response: you do not get to say that. But that is the point. Scottie can miss a cut. Nelly can miss a cut. Rory can feel lost after one swing. Tom Kim can go from rising star to struggling and back again. This game makes everybody doubt themselves eventually. Even the best in the world. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Andrew Brandt Explains the NFL Money Machine Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Andrew Brandt joins Trey Wingo to break down why NFL money keeps getting bigger and why team valuations are reaching numbers that used to seem impossible. Trey starts with the sale of the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion. The number itself is massive, but what stood out even more was how quickly NFL franchise values have exploded. The Washington Commanders sold for more than $6 billion just a few years earlier. Before that, the Carolina Panthers sold for $2.27 billion and the Denver Broncos sold for $4.6 billion. Andrew explains why the NFL finally opened the door to private equity and what that actually means. These investors are not controlling coaches, players, concessions or football decisions. They are mostly putting money into the system because NFL ownership has become one of the most valuable assets in sports. The conversation also gets into fractional team sales with the Bills, Raiders, Eagles and Giants. Andrew points out that the Giants selling 10 percent for $1 billion implies a $10 billion valuation, even without a full team sale. From there, Trey and Andrew discuss the bigger question: where does the money stop? The NFL has survived concerns around concussions, politics, protests and oversaturation, and Andrew says there still does not seem to be any real threat to the league’s dominance. The league has long-term media deals, an owner-friendly CBA, and a fan base that keeps watching. Then the conversation shifts to tech money and media rights. Trey points out that 90 of the top 100 rated TV shows last year were NFL games, and that traditional networks cannot really exist without the NFL. But companies like Apple, Google, YouTube and Amazon operate differently. They do not need the NFL the same way legacy networks do, but if they decide they want it, they have the money to drive the price even higher. Andrew explains how quickly streaming-only NFL games have become normal and why the next media rights cycle could change the entire sports television business. This is the NFL money machine: franchise values, private equity, streaming, tech companies and media rights all pushing the league into a financial universe of its own. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Matt Fitzpatrick Might Be Built for Royal Birkdale Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live continues its Open Championship preview with a closer look at Royal Birkdale, the history of champions there, and the players Trey Wingo and Justin Ray trust most this week. Royal Birkdale may not always get talked about like St. Andrews, Carnoustie or Muirfield, but the winner’s list says plenty. Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Johnny Miller, Tom Watson, Mark O’Meara, Padraig Harrington and Jordan Spieth have all won Opens there. As Trey puts it, Birkdale produces real major champions. The History at Birkdale Trey and Justin go through the names that have won at Royal Birkdale and why the course has a habit of finding elite players. There is also the strange history. Mark O’Meara beat Brian Watts in a playoff in 1998. Ian Baker-Finch won there in 1991 before his game unraveled years later. And Jordan Spieth’s 2017 win became one of the most chaotic masterpieces of his career, complete with the wild miss, the long ruling and the “go get that” eagle putt. Birkdale does not always look like the most famous course in the Open rota, but it has created plenty of memorable Open moments. Experience Matters at the Open Justin brings one of the biggest stats of the segment: over the last 15 years, Open Championship winners have averaged their 38th career major start at the time of victory. That is higher than the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open. The point is simple: experience matters at the Open. Playing links golf, handling the schedule, accepting bad breaks and staying patient all matter more this week than they might at other majors. That is why Trey keeps coming back to mental strength. At Birkdale, players are going to get bad bounces. They are going to end up in spots that feel unfair. The winner has to be able to absorb that and keep going. Why Fitzpatrick Makes Sense Justin’s pick to win is Matt Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick has rebuilt his approach game in a massive way, going from 127th on the PGA Tour in strokes gained approach a few years ago to first this season. Justin compares that improvement to the way Fitzpatrick added speed and power before winning the U.S. Open. Trey agrees with the pick. For Trey, Fitzpatrick’s biggest edge is how cerebral he is. He takes notes, studies everything and approaches the game with a level of preparation that fits this kind of course. If Birkdale requires discipline, patience and problem-solving, Fitzpatrick checks a lot of boxes. The Other Picks Justin also likes Russell Henley for a top-five finish. Henley is accurate, controls his ball flight and could benefit from firm conditions that reduce the gap between him and longer hitters. Min Woo Lee is Justin’s top-ten pick. He finished second at the Scottish Open, has shown stronger ball-striking this season and tends to get hot in bunches. Trey also likes Collin Morikawa, who has already won an Open at Royal St. George’s and knows how to handle a quirky links setup. His other pick is Justin Rose, partly because of the story. Rose first became known at Royal Birkdale in 1998 as a 17-year-old amateur, and winning the Open there now would be a full-circle moment. At Royal Birkdale, the best pick may not be the loudest name. It may be the player built for the test. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Andrew Brandt Explains Why Sports Business Has Never Been Bigger Head to cozyearth.com and use code WINGO for an exclusive 20% off. Andrew Brandt joins Trey Wingo for a wide-ranging conversation on the business of sports, the NFL’s financial power, media rights, franchise valuations, league ownership and the behind-the-scenes stories that shaped his career. Brandt spent years as an agent, worked in the Green Bay Packers front office, became one of ESPN’s most trusted sports business voices, and now has a new book out called Smarter About Sports. Why Sports Business Is Everywhere Trey opens with the idea that 2026 has become the year of sports business. Andrew explains why the business side is no longer a niche part of sports coverage. Media deals, salary caps, ownership structures, franchise sales and private equity now shape almost everything fans see. They discuss the NBA tripling its media revenue, why the NFL may reopen its own media deals, and how the league’s next rights package could climb even higher. The NFL Money Machine Andrew and Trey break down the massive rise in NFL franchise values and what it says about the league’s power. They talk about the Seahawks sale, private equity entering the NFL, why team valuations keep climbing, and why past threats to the league’s dominance have not slowed it down. Trey also asks whether the NFL risks pushing too far by adding more games across more days of the week. Media Rights and Streaming The conversation also looks at the future of television. Traditional networks need the NFL. Tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and YouTube can afford to chase live sports in a completely different way. Andrew and Trey discuss what that could mean for the next era of sports media. Green Bay, Favre and Rodgers Andrew shares stories from his time with the Packers, including what it was like managing the transition from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers. He explains how difficult those years were inside the building and why the team eventually knew it was time to move forward. Stories From Inside Sports The interview also includes Andrew’s stories about Ricky Williams and Master P, the undrafted free agent who misunderstood a signing bonus, Daniel Snyder, stadium deals, LIV Golf, the World Cup and why sports business keeps getting bigger. This is a conversation about money, power, media and the decisions behind the games fans watch every week. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Royal Birkdale Is Firm, Fast and Wide Open Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. The Open Championship is here, and Royal Birkdale already looks like it is going to have a huge say in who wins. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray start this Golf Live breakout by talking about why the Open has become their favorite major. The history, the links golf, the global feel, the old venues — all of it makes this week feel different. And this year, the golf course itself may be the biggest story. Royal Birkdale Is Already Running Justin is on site in Liverpool and says he has never been at an Open Championship on a Tuesday where the fairways looked this brown. The course is firm, fast and already running. Trey compares it to Muirfield in 2013, when the conditions were so dry that Tiger Woods hit a five-iron from 290 yards and watched it run over the green. That is the kind of setup this could become. Why That Changes Everything When the course plays this firm, power does not mean the same thing. Trey and Justin explain why these conditions could bring more players into the mix. Bombers may have to throttle back. Accurate players who can control their ball flight may suddenly have a bigger edge. The shorter guys are not automatically behind if the ball is running like this. That is why this Open feels so open. The Bounces Will Matter Royal Birkdale is also going to ask players to live with some uncertainty. Balls are going to run out. Good shots may end up in bad spots. Bad shots may catch a break. Trey says players hate that kind of vagary, but Justin points out that for fans, it adds to the drama. At a course like this, one bounce can change a hole. One big number can change a championship. Why Birkdale Is So Interesting Royal Birkdale may not have the instant signature identity of St. Andrews or Carnoustie, but it has plenty going on. Justin points to the dunes that frame the holes, the changes to the fifth, the new green on seven and the straightened 18th hole bringing more bunkers into play. It is a course that is going to ask a lot of questions. And if the forecast stays calm, scoring might be there. But that does not mean this place will be easy. At Royal Birkdale, the winner may not be the guy who overpowers the course. It may be the guy who handles it best when Birkdale bites back. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Open Championship Preview: Royal Birkdale, Final Picks, Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda and Mailbag Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live is back for Open Championship week. Trey Wingo is in California after surviving the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe. Justin Ray is in Liverpool getting ready for the Open at Royal Birkdale. Naturally, the show starts with a missing rental car key fob, European ice issues, Bucky’s, and why the Open Championship has become the favorite major for both of them. Then it gets to the real point: Royal Birkdale, firm and fast conditions, and the final men’s major of the year. The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Trey and Justin break down why this Open feels especially wide open. Royal Birkdale is already firm, brown and running fast. Justin says he has never been to an Open on a Tuesday where the fairways looked this brown. Trey compares it to Muirfield in 2013, when Tiger Woods hit a five-iron from 290 yards and watched it run over the green. That kind of setup changes everything. Bombers do not have the same advantage. Accurate drivers and elite ball-strikers come back into the mix. The rub of the green matters. Bad bounces are coming. And whoever wins will need the patience to survive the chaos. Final Picks for the Open Justin is looking past the obvious Rory and Scottie answers and lands on Matt Fitzpatrick as his winner. Fitzpatrick has completely rebuilt his approach play, going from 127th on the PGA Tour in strokes gained approach a few years ago to first this season. Justin also likes Russell Henley for a top-five finish and Min Woo Lee for a top-ten finish. Trey also picks Matt Fitzpatrick, largely because of how cerebral and mentally strong he is. If Royal Birkdale gets unpredictable, Trey trusts Fitzpatrick’s ability to stay disciplined and think his way around the golf course. Trey also likes Collin Morikawa, who has already won an Open on a quirky links setup, and Justin Rose, whose Open Championship story began at Royal Birkdale in 1998 when he holed out on 18 as a 17-year-old amateur. Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda Miss the Cut The show also gets into a wild week across golf: Scottie Scheffler missed the cut at the Scottish Open and Nelly Korda missed the cut at the Evian Championship. Justin notes that it is the first time the reigning men’s world No. 1 and women’s world No. 1 both missed the cut in the same week. Evian still delivered its usual chaos, with Brooke Henderson making six eagles for the week and three on Sunday alone. For Scottie, Trey and Justin are not worried. Statistically, he is still elite across the board. But the missed cut did bring up another reminder of how absurd Tiger Woods’ 142-cut streak really was. Tom Kim Gets Back in the Winner’s Circle Tom Kim winning the Scottish Open was another major topic. Trey and Justin talk about how quickly Kim arrived, how hard the game pushed back, and why this win could matter going forward. He was the youngest two-time and three-time PGA Tour winner since Tiger Woods, then hit a difficult stretch. Now, after contending at the US Open and winning in Scotland, his game looks like it is trending again. For a player with that much talent and personality, that is good news for golf. Mailbag The episode wraps with your questions. Trey and Justin answer who benefits most from Royal Birkdale’s firm conditions, whether the major setups have been good this year, whether Scottie’s season would be a failure without another major, and which non-mainstream Open winner would create the best story. They also get into Tom Kim’s ceiling, the future of the DP World Tour, and whether it has become more entertaining than the PGA Tour in certain weeks. Plus, Trey shares what it was actually like playing competitive golf at the American Century Championship, why Steve Young wanted to leave after one tee shot, and why a six-foot par putt in a celebrity event can suddenly feel like the biggest putt in the world. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Is It Put Up or Shut Up Time for Jordan Spieth? Plus Early Open Championship Picks | Mailbag Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Golf Live mailbag is back. Trey Wingo and Justin Ray answer your questions this week on Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, early Open Championship picks, Sergio Garcia missing the field, US Open setups, dream courses and why Justin somehow has not played golf yet this year. Duncan is also back from paternity leave, which means the disembodied voice has officially returned. Jordan Spieth and Sponsor Exemptions The first question gets right to it. If sponsor exemptions are going away, what does that mean for Jordan Spieth? Trey’s answer: play better and stop hitting it crooked. Justin’s answer is basically the same. If the PGA Tour is leaning harder into meritocracy, even someone as accomplished and popular as Spieth cannot just be a famous name and expect to get into events. At some point, it becomes put up or shut up. Trey also points out the stat that still feels hard to believe: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have both won majors more recently than Jordan Spieth has won on the PGA Tour. Where Is Justin Rose’s Game? Justin Rose came out hot this year, but the bigger point is where his focus is now. Justin Ray says Rose’s best weeks are still coming in the events he cares about most. Third at the Masters. Top ten at the PGA. Tied for 11th at the US Open. He is gearing everything toward the biggest championships because, at this stage of his career, those are the weeks that matter. Trey compares it to the veteran mindset. The majors, the old courses, the events with history. That is where the energy comes from. Early Open Championship Picks The mailbag then turns to Royal Birkdale. Justin starts with Scottie Scheffler. Everyone keeps asking what is wrong with him because he only has one win this year, but statistically he is still almost exactly where he was at this point last season. Trey brings up Rory McIlroy, who has only one Open Championship win, back at Hoylake in 2014. If Rory is going to keep chasing the second leg of a double career grand slam, this is another real opportunity. Matt Fitzpatrick also gets mentioned as a strong fit because Birkdale is not only about power. It is about avoiding the right trouble, managing the bunkers and playing smart. And then there is Jon Rahm. A strong Scottish Open week could send him right back up the Open odds board. Sergio Garcia Missing the Open The biggest surprise non-qualifier? Sergio Garcia. Justin says it first, and Trey agrees immediately. Sergio has played the Open Championship 26 times, with ten top-ten finishes and two runner-up finishes. For a generation of golf fans, he has always been part of this championship. For European players, the Open is different. It is their championship. And with Seve Ballesteros as Sergio’s idol, never winning it is probably going to stick with him more than anything else. US Open Setups and Bad Breaks One viewer was tired of “tricked up” US Open courses, where good shots can roll away and bad misses sometimes get better breaks. Trey gets the frustration, but he is fine with the US Open making players suffer a little. There are plenty of weeks where the PGA Tour sets up for low scores. The US Open is supposed to be different. Justin’s view is simple: you cannot please everybody. Some of the bad breaks, good breaks and strange bounces are part of what makes the US Open unique. The One Course Question One course for the rest of your life turned into about 30 answers, which feels right. Trey loves links golf, but if he had to play one course forever, he wants something fun. Cabot Cliffs is near the top of his list. He also mentions Lanai, Pinehurst No. 4 and Pinehurst No. 10. Justin refuses to pick something he has not played, so Augusta is out for now. He considers Carnoustie, Pebble Beach and Kapalua, then lands on Pebble because of the balance of beauty, shot-making and fun. Why Justin Has Not Played Golf This Year Finally, the question everyone needed answered: how has Justin Ray not played golf yet this year? His answer: business building, young family, too many jobs and Dallas heat. Trey’s answer: because Justin has 74 jobs. Justin takes the L, but he does have rounds planned during his upcoming UK trip, including Formby. Trey, meanwhile, is headed to the American Century Championship in Tahoe, where his goal is simple: enjoy the weekend and not hurt anyone. Low bar. Clear it first. Then reassess. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nelly Korda Is Still the Story. But Evian Is the Wild Card. Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. The Evian Championship is the fourth major of the LPGA season, but it is not the last one. And even after everything that happened at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the conversation still starts in the same place. Nelly Korda. She is still the main story. The only question is whether Evian lets this week play out the way everyone expects. The Nelly Standard Justin Ray puts it in perspective right away. An eighth-place finish at a major somehow felt like a letdown for Nelly Korda. That says everything about the level she has been playing at. Through the first three majors of the season, Nelly has gained more than 46 strokes total. That is 16 more than anyone else. Gabby Lopez is second, and the gap is still massive. So yes, Nelly is the favorite. She is still the player everyone is chasing. And if you are asking which of the final two majors she is more likely to win, Justin still leans toward the AIG Women’s Open. Not because Nelly cannot win Evian. Because Evian has a way of turning normal Sundays into something completely different. Why Evian Is the Wild Card Justin went back and watched highlights from last year’s Evian Championship, which he admits is a perfectly normal thing for a person to do on a summer Sunday night. And honestly, he had a point. Last year’s finish was insane. Jeeno Thitikul had a 98.6 percent win probability standing on the 18th tee. Grace Kim made eagle in her group. Jeeno missed an eight-footer that would have won it outright. Then they went to a playoff. On the first playoff hole, Grace hit her approach into the water, took a drop, then holed out from off the green for birdie. Jeeno made her birdie putt to extend it. Then Grace came back and made eagle on 18 to win her first major. Eagle. Birdie from the water. Eagle. That is why this tournament is so hard to predict. It is beautiful. It is dramatic. And it has created enough Sunday chaos that Justin thinks it may be the hardest women’s major to forecast. Who Could Pop This Week Trey asks Justin for a name that could make sense if Evian gives us another unusual outcome. Justin points first to big-name players who could bounce back after missing the cut at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Charley Hull. Minjee Lee. Hannah Green. Players with enough talent to win anywhere if the week turns their way. Then there is Miyu Yamashita, the reigning AIG Women’s Open champion. She is 4-foot-11, does not overpower golf courses, and does incredible work in and around the greens. If you have never watched her play, Justin says she is worth your time. Lottie Woad is another name to watch, even if Justin admits that is not exactly a deep cut. She is fourth in the world and nearly won this event as an amateur last year. Gabby Lopez also deserves attention. She has built her schedule around the majors and has been one of the best major performers this season. Lauren Coughlin’s ball striking continues to show up too, even if the putting has come back down a little. That is the thing about Evian. It does not always give you the obvious answer. The Four-Major Question Then Trey gets to the bigger question. If Nelly wins the final two majors of the season, she would have four major championships in the same year. But because the LPGA has five majors, what do we actually call that? Justin’s answer is careful, because golf history is not as fixed as people sometimes think. The definition of a major has changed over time, especially in the women’s game. The du Maurier Championship used to be a major. The Titleholders Championship used to be a major. Evian became a major in 2013. Even on the men’s side, Jack Nicklaus was once described during a Masters broadcast as going for his 20th major because they were including his two U.S. Amateur wins. The point is simple: golf history changes. The labels change. The way we talk about records changes. So if Nelly wins four majors in a five-major season, maybe it is not a clean single-season Grand Slam. But it would still be one of the greatest major seasons the sport has ever seen. What Counts as a Major Anyway? Trey makes the point that there is no official bylaw that permanently defines what a major is. There is no article, code, paragraph or governing-body rule that says these are the majors forever and nothing can ever change. A lot of it is history. A lot of it is perception. A lot of it is what the golf world decides to value. That is what makes the Nelly conversation so interesting. If she wins Evian and the AIG Women’s Open, the label may be complicated. The achievement would not be. Four majors in one season is four majors in one season. But first comes Evian. And at Evian, nothing ever feels guaranteed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Scottish Open Is Giving Golf What It Has Been Missing Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. The Scottish Open has always been one of the best lead-ins to the Open Championship. Rory McIlroy’s shot into 18. Robert MacIntyre winning his national open. Phil Mickelson using it as a springboard before winning at Muirfield in 2013. But this year feels a little different. Because this year, the Scottish Open has something golf fans have wanted since the sport split apart: a field that actually brings everybody back together. Everybody in the Same Place Justin Ray put it perfectly. This is the most excited he has ever been for the word co-sanctioned. Because with the Scottish Open co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour, the field gets a lot more interesting. Jon Rahm is there. Tyrrell Hatton is there. Patrick Reed is there. Rory McIlroy is there. Chris Gotterup is defending. And suddenly, this feels like more than just the week before the Open Championship. It feels like golf looking the way it is supposed to look. Trey’s point is simple. Whatever happens next with LIV, the PGA Tour, the DP World Tour or the future structure of the sport, this is what fans want. The best players competing against the best players. That part does not need to be complicated. Why the Scottish Open Works National opens just feel different. The US Open. The Italian Open. The Spanish Open. The Scottish Open. There is a pride and energy around those events that you cannot fake. The crowd cares differently. The players feel it differently. And when Robert MacIntyre nearly won in 2023, then came back and won his national open in 2024, it reminded everyone why this tournament matters. The Scottish Open is not a major. But when the field is this strong and the Open Championship is sitting right behind it, the week has real weight. Justin also makes the point that this tournament has quietly delivered year after year. Aaron Rai beating Tommy Fleetwood in a playoff. Min Woo Lee beating Matt Fitzpatrick in a playoff. Xander Schauffele winning by one. Rory beating MacIntyre by one. MacIntyre winning by one. Gotterup beating Rory and Marco Penge by two. As Justin says, it has been banger after banger. The Rahm Factor Jon Rahm is one of the biggest reasons this field matters. Justin brings up a wild stat: Rahm is still third on the PGA Tour in wins in the 2020s, behind only Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, even though he has been gone for more than two years. That is the reminder. Rahm has not disappeared as a player. We just do not see him in this kind of setting as often anymore. So when he does show up against Rory, Hatton, Reed, Gotterup and the rest of this field, it gives the week a different kind of edge. This is the part golf has been missing. What It Means for the Open Trey asks the question everyone asks this time of year: how much does the Scottish Open actually tell us about the Open Championship? Justin says there is some correlation, but it is not perfect. Sometimes it is just hot players staying hot. Sometimes the conditions line up. Sometimes they do not. Phil Mickelson won the Scottish Open in 2013 and then won the Open Championship the next week. Chris Gotterup won the Scottish Open last year and played well at the Open. So it can matter. It is not a guarantee, but it gives us clues. And this year, with the kind of field that is showing up, those clues are a lot more interesting. The Phil Mickelson Conversation The Scottish Open also brought the conversation back to Phil Mickelson. In 2013, Phil won the Scottish Open, then went on to win the Open Championship at Muirfield. For a player who never got the US Open, that Open title became one of the defining wins of his career. Trey and Justin talk about how strange it is to look at where Phil’s story is now compared to where it was just a few years ago. After winning the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah and becoming the oldest major champion ever, Phil had a very different place in the sport. He was still not Tiger, but he had become something like golf’s cool uncle. The Wanamaker Trophy. The jokes. The “hit bombs” persona. The whole thing worked. And then it changed fast. The LIV fallout, the gambling stories, the reported allegations and everything else around him have completely reshaped the way people talk about Phil. Trey is clear that none of the alleged behavior is being excused. Justin’s word for the whole thing is simple: sad. Maybe there is another chapter eventually. But right now, it is hard to know what that would even look like. Why This Week Matters That is why this Scottish Open feels bigger than usual. It has Rory. It has Rahm. It has Hatton. It has Reed. It has Gotterup defending. It has a national open crowd. It has the Open Championship waiting on the other side. For one week, golf gets closer to what everyone has been asking for. The best players. Same field. Same tournament. That is what we wanted. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Chris Gotterup Is Suddenly in Scottie and Rory Territory Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Chris Gotterup just won again. And the list he is now on is almost hard to believe. Since mid-May of 2024, the players with the most wins on the PGA Tour are Scottie Scheffler with ten, Rory McIlroy with five, and Chris Gotterup with five. That is the conversation now. Not whether Gotterup can have a nice career. Not whether he can occasionally pop up on the leaderboard. Whether he has become one of the most dangerous American players in golf. And after another final-round charge at the John Deere, Trey Wingo and Justin Ray are starting to look at Gotterup differently. The List That Changes the Conversation Justin puts the number in perspective right away. One year ago, Gotterup was heading into the Scottish Open as a one-time PGA Tour winner. Now he has five PGA Tour wins. The company matters. Scottie. Rory. Gotterup. That does not mean he is Scottie Scheffler or Rory McIlroy. It does mean the résumé is changing quickly. And the way he is winning might be even more impressive than the total itself. There have been four times this season where a player has won on the PGA Tour with a final round of 64 or lower. Three of them belong to Chris Gotterup. The other was Wyndham Clark shooting 60 in Dallas. Justin could not find another modern-era example of a player winning three PGA Tour events in one season with a final round of 64 or lower. That is not normal Sunday golf. That is a player who can go nuclear when the tournament is there to be taken. Why Gotterup’s Ceiling Looks Different Now The obvious part of Gotterup’s game is the power. He is excellent off the tee and that has always been the starting point of the conversation. But Justin points out the part that makes the ceiling feel real — he is also a top-30 putter this season in strokes gained. That combination is why this is no longer just a “hot player” conversation. He has won on different kinds of golf courses, in different environments, with different asks. The Scottish Open is not Phoenix. Phoenix is not the John Deere. That matters. He is not proving he can only win one specific type of event. Trey asks the bigger question: is this a guy you now have to think about as a major championship factor for the next decade? Justin’s answer is pretty clear. He would be surprised if Gotterup does not pick off a major in the next few years. He already had a strong Open Championship last year. He now returns to the Scottish Open as a defending champion. And if this version of Gotterup shows up overseas, he is going to be a problem. The PGA Tour’s New Gotterup Problem The conversation gets more complicated when Trey brings up the PGA Tour’s new two-track future — the working-title Championship Series and Challenger Series. Gotterup just won the John Deere. The event clearly matters to him. But if the John Deere eventually becomes part of the Challenger side of the new structure, what happens if Gotterup is a Championship Series player and still wants to go back? What happens if Scottie Scheffler wants to play the Byron Nelson? Or Colonial? What happens when the biggest names in the sport want to support events that mean something to them, but their presence takes a spot from a player trying to earn his way up? That is the issue Trey had not fully considered until a friend brought it up. If a top player drops down for one week and takes a spot, and someone else misses a chance to move into the Championship Series because of it, that becomes a real problem. Justin thinks there will have to be some kind of middle ground. Maybe a once-a-year exemption. Maybe a past champion rule. Maybe a compensatory points system. Nobody has the exact answer yet. But this is the kind of detail that will decide whether the new structure works. Rigid in the vision. Flexible in the details. This is one of the details. Max Homa and Lucas Glover Deserve a Mention The John Deere also gave Trey and Justin two other stories worth noting. Lucas Glover nearly won again in his mid-40s and led the field tee to green. Trey has said it before and says it again here — years from now, Lucas Glover as PGA Tour commissioner would not shock him. The way he thinks about the game, the way he talks about structure, and the way he carries himself all point in that direction. Then there is Max Homa, who finally looked more like Max Homa again. Justin noticed it on the back nine Sunday. The walk. The expression. The look of a player who believed he was going to make the next one. For a guy who has been grinding through a difficult stretch, that is not a small thing. Trey puts it simply: it looked like Max was playing golf again, not playing golf swing. The Morikawa Reminder Colin Morikawa also enters the conversation after Trey sat down with him at the Travelers. The line that stuck: until you win all of them. That is the goal stated without fully stating the goal. Justin brings the numbers behind why Morikawa can talk that way. He leads the PGA Tour in strokes gained approach this season. A few years ago, he led the tour in average proximity from 125 to 150, 150 to 175, and 175 to 200 yards — what Justin calls the iron play triple crown. When Morikawa is in full flight, the only real debate is whether he or Scottie Scheffler is the best approach player in the men’s game. He already has a PGA Championship. He already has an Open Championship. If the game is getting healthy again, nobody should be surprised if he shows up overseas and posts one of those rounds that changes a tournament. The Open Championship Build Begins Trey and Justin also start the show with a reminder of why this stretch of the golf calendar is different. The Scottish Open comes first. Then the Open Championship. The history, the links golf, the weather, the early mornings, the coffee, the entire experience of going overseas for the oldest major in the sport. For Trey, the Open Championship is still his favorite major. Justin is right there with him. And now Gotterup enters that stretch as one of the most fascinating players in the sport. Five wins since last May. A Scottish Open title defense coming. A major ceiling that suddenly feels much more real. Scottie. Rory. Gotterup. That is the list. And that is why the conversation has changed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Xander Schauffele — Two Majors, a Gold Medal His Dad Slept With, and What Comes Next Go to https://kachava.com and use code WINGO for 15% off your first order. Xander Schauffele sat down with Trey Wingo at the Travelers Championship for a conversation that goes well beyond what most golf interviews cover. Two majors. Ten consecutive top-15 finishes at the US Open — a streak only Jack Nicklaus has exceeded in the history of the championship. A gold medal his parents still have because it means more to his family than it could ever mean to a trophy case. And an honest assessment of where his game is, where it is going, and why his time will come. The US Open Streak — Badge of Honor or Badge of Frustration? Ten US Opens. Ten top-15 finishes. The only player in the history of the US Open with a longer consecutive top-15 streak is Jack Nicklaus. Xander found out about this stat recently — he is not on social media and has not been since the 2020 Masters, which he says has helped him live longer. His wife has Instagram. He gets screen recordings from the group chat when something is funny. That is the extent of it. His honest reaction to the streak — a mix of both. Having his name on a list with those names is something he is not complaining about. Objectively it is remarkable. Personally it would be nice to be a little closer to the lead. Be a little more a part of the mix. But his answer on where that leaves him is the line that defines the whole conversation — my time will come. He is going to keep paying it forward and he genuinely enjoys what he calls the psycho challenge of trying to play good golf on really hard golf courses. Shinnecock — What Actually Happened Xander's honest assessment of his week at Shinnecock is refreshingly direct. He felt like he could never get anything going. Leaving putts short. Not making birdies. Running out of holes. He tried to stay patient and let the golf come to him and it just never did. He was not playing good enough and he knows it. What he does know is that his game is built for US Open setups. The risk management, the course management, the discipline of knowing when to be aggressive and when to lay back — that is the kind of golf he enjoys and the kind of golf US Opens reward. His caddy Austin has become exceptional at analyzing risk in major championship settings, understanding exactly what score is needed on any given hole across any given round. The example that sticks — on 13 at Shinnecock coming off two doubles, Austin told him to hit driver when Xander had a four-iron in his hand. He hit it to a foot and made birdie. Small moments, big decisions, trusted relationships. US Opens are war. That is his word for it. Mental war first, physical war second — dinner at 10 PM, up at 3:30 AM for a restart, grinding for four days on courses designed to punish you for every small mistake. And that is exactly why winning one feels so validating. The difficulty is the point. The New PGA Tour Structure Xander has been paying attention to what Rolapp announced and his overall reaction is genuinely positive — but the thing he keeps coming back to is not the match play or the iconic courses or the regular season champion. It is the certainty. The last four years of his career have been all over the place in terms of knowing what events are happening, who the sponsors are, where the schedule is going, how the points system works. The points structure changed every year. The playoff format kept evolving. There was no stable foundation to plan around. The new structure — whatever the working titles end up being — gives players a framework that is supposed to be set for generations. He knows what he is playing for. He knows what it looks like. He knows what the path is from February through the playoffs. For a player who is a creature of habit, that matters enormously. His take on the core philosophy — Brian Rolapp used the phrase "you eat what you kill" in the meetings. Xander loves that framing. If you want to play professional golf and you are not ready for that kind of language, professional golf is probably not for you. Play bad, make zero dollars. That is how it has always worked at the highest level and the new structure just makes it more explicit and more honest about what the meritocracy actually looks like. He also loves the match play concept — thinks Brian's background in the NFL means he understands what fan interaction looks like and if match play is done at the right venues it could be genuinely incredible for the sport. And when the subject of Pine Valley, Seminole, and Cypress Point came up in the press conference — those whispers are real and he is excited about them. Harry Higgs — The Most Heartwarming Story of the US Open Xander had a moment at Shinnecock that had nothing to do with his own round. Harry Higgs made the cut. The Big Rig — who had not made a single cut all year, had made zero dollars on the PGA Tour in 2026, and was fighting his way back from losing his tour card — made the cut at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills. Xander gave him a huge hug. They are both new dads. Their kids were born not far apart. He knows Harry is super happy at home right now and super unhappy with his golf. Seeing him make the cut and make some money and get back on the horse — Xander hopes that is the beginning of the comeback. That one moment was one of the more heartwarming things of the entire week for him. The Gold Medal — The Real Story This is the part of the conversation that stays with you long after the interview is over. Xander's father was his swing coach until Xander was about 30 years old. Before that — before any of this — his dad trained to be a decathlete in Germany. He trained hard, worked toward competing in the Olympics, and got in a terrible accident that ended all of it. Everything he had learned, everything his coaches had taught him, all the wisdom and discipline and mental preparation that goes into being an elite Olympic-level athlete — he poured all of it into Xander's brain from the time he was a young kid. When Xander won the gold medal in Tokyo it was at the COVID Olympics — no crowds, no spectators, almost no one allowed in. His caddy and his dad. Those were the two people with him. That was it. His dad slept with the gold medal the night they won. Xander does not have the gold medal. His parents have it. And the way he says that — the tone, the matter-of-factness of it, the quiet pride — tells you everything about what that moment meant and still means to his family. His dad gave his Olympic dream to his son. His son gave him the gold medal back. Two majors. A PGA Championship. An Open Championship. A gold medal. And a US Open streak that only Jack Nicklaus has beaten. Xander Schauffele is 33 years old. His time will come. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.