00:00But Smiley, we'll start first. Of course, the reason why you're out there in the desert with the Amex and it is it is growing inevitable, Smiley, by the tournament, by the moment, as you mentioned on the Golf Channel broadcast, we are truly running out of superlatives for Scotty Scheffler.
00:17He wins yet another. I'll say this, though. The most relatable moment that I saw all week for Scotty was when he tried to hand Bennett a club after the win and Bennett swatted it away angrily.
00:28And I'm like, hey, you know what? That's I get that. I can relate to that. There's nothing like being a dad to keep you grounded.
00:34So, I mean, we started this week, Smiley. We all had a laugh when we looked at the odds. He was sub three to one to be in the week.
00:41We even suggested fading him. That was I hope you did not take our advice on that front.
00:47And as we do in times like these, we go straight to Justin Ray's Twitter to get a couple of great context nuggets on just Scotty's dominance.
00:56So he's in the he's taking the third fewest PGA Tour start since 1960 to reach 20 wins.
01:04He's behind Tiger, who was first and Jack Nichols, second one ahead of Arnold Palmer.
01:08Tiger did that in 95 starts, by the way, which is just stupid.
01:11And by the way, his 20th was at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach in 2000, which is, I mean, that's cap it off.
01:19It's like, all right, Pebble U.S. Open 2000, Amex 2026.
01:24Pretty relatable things if you had to compare the two.
01:27Both. I think it ends in being in the same state.
01:30But, you know, beyond.
01:33This is another great one from Justin Ray.
01:35This is Scotty's 14th win in his last 35 starts.
01:39So he's winning his last 35 starts.
01:41He's winning at a rate of 40 percent.
01:43Just casual stuff for Scotty.
01:46And then also using the OWGR as a reference point against Tiger.
01:50You sent this over.
01:51Love this.
01:51The gap between world number one, Scotty Scheffler, and number two, Rory McIlroy,
01:55is greater than the gap between Rory and world number 58, Matt McCarty.
02:01And this is per Scheffler Legion on X.
02:04Scotty, at the beginning of this week, began his 140th consecutive week as the world number one.
02:09He's just under halfway to Tiger's record of 281 weeks in a row, which means he'd have that record on Monday, October 16th, 2028, if he kept up the street.
02:19And so let's, I mean, with the world ranking thing, real quick.
02:25Somebody had said to us, this is a stat that I heard, and I'm not sure how accurate it is because it doesn't even make sense.
02:34But this is without Scotty Scheffler winning at the Amex.
02:38He could have sat out the rest of this season, and Rory McIlroy could have won five players championships, and he still would not have cliffs world number one.
02:47And I say that stat, not crunching the numbers myself, just relying on that stat from somebody else.
02:55So I'm sorry if it's not true, but we're rolling with it.
02:58That is just stupid, just contextualizing that.
03:01It's amazing.
03:02You read some of these things, and they feel like misprints.
03:04And that's why it leads perfectly to where I want to go with you now, which is that was Tiger's whole career.
03:11I was reading stats that felt like they were misprints, and I know people talk about, oh, it's lazy to compare Scotty to Tiger, but where else can we go in moments like this and looking at the next great reference for greatness?
03:23And so you made note of this on the broadcast that I thought was really interesting of Scotty wins lots of different types of tournaments, which is reminiscent of Tiger.
03:31You know, he can win close ones.
03:33He can win U.S. Open tests.
03:34He can win shootouts, as he did this week at the Amex.
03:36For me, I can't remember Scotty really giving away a tournament he was supposed to win since maybe the 2022 Tour Championship.
03:45You can fact-check me there if you can think of another one.
03:48That reminds me a ton of Tiger always winning the tournaments he was supposed to win, or when he was chasing, just striking this fear in the rest of the field and forcing mistakes so he could bring them back into play and then, of course, win that tournament.
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