The Ringer: All Posts by ShackHouse2017-03-14T14:12:46-04:00https://www.theringer.com/authors/shackhouse/rss2017-03-14T14:12:46-04:002017-03-14T14:12:46-04:00Valspar Championship Winner Adam Hadwin Keeps Getting Better
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<p>Hadwin joins ‘ShackHouse’ to discuss his first PGA Tour win</p> <p><em>On Monday’s episode of the </em>ShackHouse<em> podcast, Geoff Shackelford and Joe House spoke with Adam Hadwin, the winner of last weekend’s </em><a href="http://www.pga.com/news/pga-tour/adam-hadwin-wins-valspar-championship"><em>Valspar Championship</em></a><em>. Hadwin discussed preparations for the Masters, his upcoming wedding, and his first PGA Tour tournament win. Listen to the full podcast </em><a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod/ep-29-valspar-championship-winner-adam-hadwin-and-the-arnold-palmer-invitational-preview"><em>here</em></a><em>. This transcript has been edited and condensed.</em></p>
<h3><strong>The Importance of Course Familiarity</strong></h3>
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F312253613&show_artwork=true" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 400px;" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><strong>Geoff Shackelford:</strong> You made a comment in your post-round press conference [after winning the Valspar Championship]. You said you were talking to your caddy about … how you’ve been going to these tournaments on the tour and feeling like you are a better player a year later when you [return] to those places. I was just curious about that: One, when [did] that conversation [take] place — was that during the final round? And then, what exactly do you mean? Is that just knowing the courses better, or do you see how your game has improved playing tough golf courses like Innisbrook?</p>
<p><strong>Adam Hadwin:</strong> Yeah, it was during the final round. Honestly, I can’t remember exactly what hole it was. … I was talking with my caddie, Joe [Cruz]. I had felt the entire year … that every time I revisit[ed] a golf course, I felt like my golf game was in a better place. I felt like mentally I was in a better place. He mentioned what you said — being comfortable with the golf course is a little bit more [important]. I’ve played most of them two times already. Being familiar [with] the surroundings and all that probably play a large part in what I said as well. I just feel like I’ve continued to improve each and every year. That’s been the key for me. I’ve just been on this upward trend for a while now. It culminated in a win this past weekend, but hopefully, [I can] just continue that trend upwards and continue [playing] good golf.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/2017/3/14/16045708/shackhouse-valspar-championship-winner-adam-hadwin-86a236763298ShackHouse2016-08-09T18:16:00-04:002016-08-09T18:16:00-04:00Making Sense of the Ryder Cup Bubble
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<p><em>We’re 49 days out from the Ryder Cup, which means it’s time for rampant speculation on who will make the team, who will be left out, and who will be paired with whom. After the top eight players in the </em><a href="http://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.131.html"><em>Ryder Cup point standings</em></a><em>, Davis Love III will be able to pick four additional golfers to join the U.S. team. There are several players on the bubble, including Jim Furyk, who just shot a PGA-record 58 at the Travelers Championship. On the latest </em><a href="https://theringer.com/shackhouse-podcast-golf-joe-house-geoff-shackelford-12e46aba42e2">ShackHouse</a><em> podcast, Geoff Shackelford and Joe House broke down the race.</em></p>
<p><em>For the full podcast, check out the latest episode of ShackHouse </em><a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod/ep-17-olympics-preview-with-gil-hanse"><em>here</em></a><em>. This transcript has been edited and condensed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Geoff Shackelford: </strong>[There’s] an interesting dilemma for Davis Love going forward with the Ryder Cup because he’s got four picks and he’s got some very interesting names swirling around at the outer edges of the Ryder Cup list. And <a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod/ep-9-memorial-tournament-recap-with-jim-furyk">we of course talked to Jim Furyk</a>, who’s already an assistant captain, about this on <em>ShackHouse</em> a while ago, and he seemed to be pretty locked in as an assistant captain. But I’m having a hard time seeing how he gets left off the team with a second-place [finish] at the U.S. Open and rounds like [his 58 at the Travelers] and his steadiness. I mean, it’s a great problem to have for Davis Love. At least there’s that.</p>
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<p><strong>G.S.:</strong> His record is not good at all. It’s terrible, actually. So that’s something that people seize on. But Davis Love has already pretty much said he wants to pick him. And then there was an interesting story. … It was a piece where Love had revealed all the things Tiger has been texting him and telling him. And Tiger’s already decided who he thinks should be picked and he’s already working on pairings, which I think is fascinating. And I think both of those things point to Furyk already being in their plans and I completely endorse it. How can you not, the way he’s been playing? But, boy, this Olympic golf this week is going to add to some of the drama because all of the particulars other than Furyk, the people we’re talking about — Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler — are all right in those final spots, and I think one of them is not going to get picked potentially.</p>
<p><strong>J.H.: </strong>So that’s precisely my question to you: Who do you leave out?</p>
<p><strong>G.S.: </strong>I<strong> </strong>don’t want to make too much of a judgment on this because I don’t know the particulars, but I watched the threesome of Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar, and Bubba Watson play while Patrick Reed was playing about two holes back here at the Rio Olympic golf course. And as far as I know, he was welcome to play with his American teammates but just chose not to. Now, I don’t know what those things you read into a selection, because they love to profess “it’s a team event” and “you have to bond.” And, yes, you have to kind of bond with your partner in foursomes and four-ball. But the idea that somebody is good in the team room — I just don’t know how important that is. It will be interesting if Patrick Reed’s more loner style ends up being a problem for him. Personally, I think Bubba would be the one who would be left out if it were me, just based on Reed’s play in the Ryder Cup and wanting to have a younger player who’s got an attitude. But I think Bubba’s gonna contend for a medal here in Rio, so that’s going to throw a little bit of a curve into this mix.</p>
<p><strong>J.H.: </strong>Well, Reed right now is <em>eighth</em>. He went from tenth to eighth in the Ryder Cup point standings based on his performance — I think he snuck in with another [top 11] at the Travelers.</p>
<p>So now he’s on the list, he’s on the team, he’s not a selection. The guys nine through 12 are Snedeker, Bubba, Kuchar, and Rickie. Those are your nine-through-12 spots, and all of those guys would have to be selections, so we’re talking about, at the moment, Furyk replacing one of those guys. And you think Bubba could be the guy that’s on the outside looking in — except you’re expecting big things from Bubba this week.</p>
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<p>Joe House and Geoff Shackelford explain how Jimmy Walker won the PGA Championship</p> <p><em>Jimmy Walker took home the PGA Championship on Sunday, edging Jason Day by one shot to claim his first major. What’s more, after Henrik Stenson’s win at the British Open earlier in July, the 37-year-old Walker becomes the second major winner this year older than 35. What’s with all these older players winning in golf? On the latest </em><a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod">ShackHouse<em> podcast</em></a><em>, Geoff Shackelford and Joe House look at how Walker won the PGA Championship.</em></p>
<p><em>For the full breakdown, check out the latest episode of </em>ShackHouse<em> </em><a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod/ep-16-pga-championship-recap"><em>here</em></a><em>. This transcript has been edited and condensed.</em></p>
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F276375702&show_artwork=true" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 400px;" allowfullscreen></iframe><p><strong>Geoff Shackelford:</strong> House, how about that PGA Championship? Yeah it took a while to get going. It was like a horse — it was a deep closer. You just kinda kept waiting and waiting but then we had that great rush at the end and Jimmy Walker won the PGA Championship over Jason Day and it was, as billed, those par 5s at the end [that] made things interesting.</p>
<p><strong>Joe House:</strong> So let’s talk about Jimmy Walker for a second. Where’d this come from? Another old guy, not a millennial, and it’s kind of been the theme this season — especially the second half of the majors, [with Henrik] Stenson, and our boy here Jimmy Walker. What’s going on?</p>
<p><strong>G.S.: </strong>Well, yeah, especially if you looked at his finish in the majors prior to this year, he hadn’t done much. I think T29th at the Masters [and] he missed the cut at the next two [majors]. But if you listen to his interviews, it was one of those things [that] just reminds you what a wacky, goofy game this is.</p>
<p>He found something on his last nine. … And then he mentioned he played <a href="http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/mickelson-practice-rounds-anything-routine">those money games that he likes to play with Phil [Mickelson]</a>. You know he’s in that group of guys who play [money games] to kind of hone their Ryder Cup match skills and then also just to make a practice round interesting, and he actually said that was really kind of important for him to have a grinding practice round. He didn’t really reveal what it was that kind of keyed in his swing and got his game going.</p>
<p>And then you know he’s always been a good putter, he’s always been super long and those are pretty [good] things to be in golf, and when it all comes together as it did for him — and then his body held together, as he says he fought some injury issues — I guess I would say it was not a huge surprise, except for the fact that his form had been pretty, pretty poor up to this point.</p>
<p><strong>J.H.:</strong> Yeah we’ve seen Jimmy Walker get hot before and look unstoppable. And when he gets on one of those runs like he has a couple times over the last 24 months, he especially gets the short stick rolling. It was the thing that made me feel like he was a deserving champion. He putted the best of anybody and everybody this week. I don’t know if the stats backed that up, but to my dumb, TV-viewing eye, he was making putts from all over the place. The putt that he made on 11 yesterday afternoon, the putt he made on 17 yesterday afternoon, and the two-putt on 18 was no small thing. He played the best, you know, tee-to-green but especially putting on the green and so I felt like he was a worthy champion.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/2016/8/1/16038066/jimmy-walker-pga-championship-winner-shackhouse-podcast-19f53681c977ShackHouse2016-07-28T13:50:06-04:002016-07-28T13:50:06-04:00Jim Nantz Says We Need to Accept Instant Replay
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<p><em>On the latest </em>ShackHouse<em> podcast, Geoff Shackelford and Joe House laid out their predictions for this weekend’s PGA Championship. They also brought on Jim Nantz for the second half of the show, during which the broadcaster talked about the controversy that replay has brought to other sports — and argued that golf can never go back now that the game has adopted it.</em></p>
<p><em>For all things golf, check out the </em>ShackHouse<em> feed </em><a href="https://soundcloud.com/shackhousepod"><em>here</em></a><em>. This transcript has been edited and condensed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Geoff Shackelford: </strong>Jim, you [cover] a lot of sports and juggle a lot of different rules. Would you say that replay in golf is probably the one sport where it’s added an element that has not improved the game and has maybe even put players in an awkward position? It feels like replay works pretty well for the most part in every other sport you do, but golf …</p>
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<p><strong>G.S.:</strong> No.</p>
<p><strong>J.N.:</strong> Because I know, I read you every day, so I know how immersed you are in [the golf] world.</p>
<p>But if you got a group of coaches in the room and try to talk to them about replay in the NFL, then you start to take situations like the Dez Bryant catch/no catch in the divisional playoff game a year ago up in Green Bay that ultimately, you know, knocked the Cowboys out of the playoff chase and chance for a possible run to a championship. Who knows? They were a 12–4 team that year.</p>
<p>There is still tremendous controversy out there about the rules and how replay fits into it and people’s interpretation of what they’re seeing. Now, I get it. It really hits close to home with you, especially after what we just had with <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/dustin-johnson-ball-moved-penalty-video-putter-usga-us-open-video">Dustin [Johnson] at Oakmont [during the U.S. Open]</a>, and then what happened <a href="http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/16964418/penalty-anna-nordqvist-delivers-us-women-open-brittany-lang">at the Women’s Open</a>, but I don’t know what people want.</p>
<p>The bottom line is it’s not going to go away. We have the technology or the innovation to see things that 20, 30, 40 years ago great broadcasters were not able to see or present. It’s not going to come back. You can’t dial it back. You know, you can’t go away from the high-speed cameras. You can’t go away from all the cameras that are now positioned on the golf course. … There’s just so much out there now.</p>
<p>The volumes of technology, it’s the world we live in, and even though at times it creates a very unhappy, controversial view of it, in the end it’s the world we live in. And we just got to figure out how to — like, you take what happened with the USGA at Oakmont. I think that hopefully some people learned some valuable lessons from that and how to handle that better the next time when you’re on the last nine holes of a major championship.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/2016/7/28/16043232/jim-nantz-instant-replay-pga-championship-72e0d4fbfb5ShackHouse2016-07-17T16:44:36-04:002016-07-17T16:44:36-04:00Henrik Stenson’s Open Championship Mindset Before the Tournament
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<p>The new Open winner talked about how he prepares on ‘ShackHouse’</p> <p><em>A few weeks before the Open Championship, </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/sports/golf/henrik-stenson-beats-phil-mickelson-in-british-open-duel.html?_r=0"><em>newly-crowned winner</em></a><em> Henrik Stenson called into the </em>ShackHouse<em> podcast. Stenson talked about many topics, including how he prepares for this tournament and why he has performed well in it. His comments turned out to be more prescient than he could have known. Read an excerpt from the interview below, and listen to the entire episode </em><a href="https://theringer.com/shackhouse-podcast-golf-joe-house-geoff-shackelford-12e46aba42e2#.iqidr6f9h"><em>here</em></a><em>. The transcript has been condensed and edited for clarity</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Joe House: </strong>You were off this week and then you play the Scottish at Castle Stuart then the Open Championship at Troon. Can you take us through those two golf courses? You’ve played Castle Stuart before, I don’t know if you played Troon. You did not play in the 2004 Open Championship there.</p>
<p><strong>Henrik Stenson: </strong>That’s correct. I’ve got a similar prep [as] I had in ’13, which worked out really well for me. I play the Scottish Open as a lead-up to the Open Championship. Castle Stuart is more of a resort link, so you get the feel of links but it’s not killing you and the rough is playable. There’s not too much bunkering. You get a good, soft start-up to links golf, rather than [the] thick, high rough and deep bunkers that you expect at the Open. Troon I didn’t play in ’04, and I hear it’s a pretty tough one.</p>
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<p><strong>H.S.: </strong>Well, I think it’s hard to go from regular target golf training to links. That’s been the way I’ve looked at it in the past. There are two ways to go about it: You either play the Scottish Open the week before, if it’s at a links course. Which, back in the day, at Loch Lomond, it wasn’t. It didn’t make as much sense back then, but now we’re playing links courses.</p>
<p>The other option would be to go either to Ireland or Scotland and just play some rounds — links golf practice, get a feel for it in the lead-up to the Open Championship … I don’t feel like I can spend a month trying to prepare for the Open. I think if you’ve got a good week before the tournament, that’s enough [time to prepare], and, like with anything, too much or not enough is never going to be great. I think a week is probably the best.</p>
<p><strong>J.H.: </strong>You’ve had a lot of great finishes at the Open. What do you love about that championship more than maybe any of the others?</p>
<p><strong>H.S.: </strong>I think it’s the possibility to be creative. There’s not a right or a wrong on any shot. You can play along the ground, you can flop it, you can play something halfway between. There’s always a lot of different ways to play a shot, and you’ve got to make up your mind and go with the one that you feel is the most efficient.</p>
<p>There [have] been … windy and tricky conditions, [but] I’ve had a lot of good results and played a lot of good tournaments … The harder it gets, I’m pretty sharp with my long irons and finding fairways when I need to. The tougher it gets the more it kind of plays into my hand as well.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/2016/7/17/16044594/henrik-stensons-open-championship-mindset-before-the-tournament-shackhouse-e356e28624b6ShackHouse2016-06-20T20:39:29-04:002016-06-20T20:39:29-04:00The USGA Is in Need of a Sports Czar
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<p><em>On the latest </em>ShackHouse <em>podcast, Geoff Shackelford and Joe House address the </em><a href="http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/16374733/usga-apologizes-distraction-caused-late-ruling"><em>Dustin Johnson debacle</em></a><em> at the U.S. Open. Read a transcript of their conversation below, and listen to the entire episode </em><a href="https://theringer.com/shackhouse-podcast-golf-joe-house-geoff-shackelford-12e46aba42e2#.yxwx5gl1c"><em>here</em></a><em>. This transcript has been lightly edited and condensed.</em></p>
<p><strong>Geoff Shackelford:</strong> I’m curious what your big-picture take [was] watching that whole fiasco starting at the fifth hole, followed by Dustin Johnson later being informed that they would be reviewing his putt after the round.</p>
<p><strong>Joe House:</strong> I was blessedly home on my couch watching the final round. There are many, many, many things about the way it went down that the whole golf world commentariat and Twitterati will cover. The thing that jumps out at me is: With an organization whose motto right now is “#growthegame,” who do they think they are serving by interjecting this into their premier event, the one time a year when all eyes are on them? Who do they think they’re serving by interjecting all of this craziness into the entertainment, which is really, at the end of the day, what this is about?</p>
<p>They have a TV deal with Fox. Fox is paying them money. Lots and lots and lots of money for the entertainment value. I’m a dude sitting on my couch on Sunday … and we can’t make any sense out of what they’re doing. We don’t really understand the rule and nobody can really articulate it that well. We don’t really understand the application of that rule. We certainly don’t understand the enforcement of the rule. And nobody gets the idea of how you have a referee there in the moment, [he makes] a judgment, and walks away. Then somebody else can come back later — much later, an hour and a half later, seven holes later — and say, “Hey, we think whatever ruling was judged and assessed back then, an hour and a half ago — we’re going to have to take another look at that.” It doesn’t make any sense to a sports-viewing public, to people at large that would be sitting on their couch Sunday, like I was, consuming the broadcast. So that’s one of the [one] million takes out there.</p>
<p>[Tell me] a little bit about what was going on in your world while you watched it.</p>
<p><strong>G.S.: </strong>Ultimately, there’s a big problem with [the USGA] in that this is [its] one week a year that they’re in the spotlight, and [its] old executive director, Frank Hannigan, always warned that they had a need to be loved. Any time they wanted to be loved, that was going to get them in trouble. They’ve gone down a bit of a rat hole in a number of ways.</p>
<p>One of them is this “grow the game” idea. They really have become a “grow the game” organization, and that can lead you into trouble when you get in a situation like this because they’re sticklers for the rules. They have these unbelievably absurd rules of golf. The decisions are unbelievable. They’re so snooty about people who don’t know the rules, and they put down players when they don’t know the rules. “It’s your job as players to know the rules.” Well, the decisions book is two and a half, three inches thick. Even a lawyer who’s argued before the Supreme Court came to the organization, became the president, and said, “You’ve got to simplify these things. These are ridiculous.” This guy is like a legal genius, and he’s looking at [this rulebook] like, “You’ve gotta be kidding me.”</p>
<p>[The USGA has] one week a year where they get to be in charge and they inevitably do something to screw it up. Had this impacted Dustin in any way, golf was done. The black eye on golf for the next 10 years — [it] would have been insurmountable had he lost this tournament, so he saved their rear end. Video reviews are not unusual, but they took it a step further. They have this problem, House, where they don’t want intent to ever be part of these rules discussions, [but] it has to be sometimes. They have a referee on site. He saw it; he was good with it. The rules say that’s the final word, and they chose to overrule part of his decision.</p>
<p>It’s mind-boggling to me that they wheeled this whole thing out. They did it on television. They didn’t do it well. They’re tone-deaf, generally. I don’t think they have any idea what people were saying out there [on the course]. In the press center, it was stunning what people were saying. Writers were getting mad, and that had nothing to do with their travel schedule. They just couldn’t believe that they would interject themselves in the tournament this way.</p>
<p><strong>J.H.:</strong> Well, that’s precisely the point. We as sports fans, sports consumers, loathe it. Loathe isn’t even strong enough. When the referees interject themselves into outcomes and produce what we, the viewing public, regard as unjust results — this particular showdown that happened on the fifth green emphasizes all the wrong things that people think about golf: All of that elitism, all of that absurd, inscrutable application of rules. Tens of thousands of folks like me who play the game and enjoy the game, these rules don’t work for any of us. They don’t make sense to any of us.</p>
<p>Bill Simmons has long been pining for a sports czar, someone who could come in in any situation and apply a quick dose of common sense. Who can do that for the USGA? They need a commissioner of common sense to join that outfit just to help them understand. You said it perfectly. Tone-deaf. To let them understand what they’re walking themselves into with this mess.</p>
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<h4>June 26</h4>
<h3>Travelers Championship, Rory’s Putter Problems, and the Phil and ‘Bones’ break-up.</h3>
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<h4>June 19</h4>
<h3>U.S. Open Recap-tacular</h3>
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<h4>June 12</h4>
<h3>U.S. Open Preview With Mark Loomis</h3>
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<h4>June 6</h4>
<h3>The U.S. Open Pre-Preview Edition With Mike Davis</h3>
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<h4>May 30</h4>
<h3>Tiger’s Arrest, Memorial Tournament Preview, and Kevin Kisner</h3>
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<h4>May 9</h4>
<h3>The Players Championship Preview With Tommy Roy and Travis Fulton</h3>
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<h4>April 25</h4>
<h3>The Zurich Classic, the Future of Broadcasting, and PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan</h3>
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<h4>April 9</h4>
<h3>Redemption for Sergio García</h3>
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<h4>April 6</h4>
<h3>Day 1 of the Masters: Pop-Up Pod</h3>
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<h4>April 3</h4>
<h3><strong>The Masters Preview</strong></h3>
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<h4>March 20</h4>
<h3>Arnold Palmer Invitational Winner Marc Leishman and Austin Golf</h3>
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<h4>March 13</h4>
<h3>Valspar Championship Winner Adam Hadwin and the Arnold Palmer Invitational Preview With Gary Williams</h3>
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<h4>Check out these other Ringer podcasts:</h4>
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