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In the first segment of this week's hour of intelligent golf talk, Holly G, Host and Producer of The Golf Insiders, along with Will Perry, Social Media Expert, EVVUS, kick off the show talking about the Chicago Cubs vs the Cleveland Indians Game 7 where history will be made one way or the other.
Holly and Will discuss Hideki Matsuyama's win at the WGC- HSBC Champions event by seven strokes. Matsuyama finished second in the event prior to the WGC. The duo talk about another young talent who notched his first win on Tour, Cody Gribble won the Sanderson Farms Championship by four strokes.
A quick look around the Tours, Shanshan Feng won in Malaysia on the LPGA Tour. Feng is a student at the Orlando area Gary Gilchrist Academy where Will Perry used to work. Juli Inkster won on the Legends Tour and Tom Pernice Jr won the first of the final 3 Champions Tour events of the season for the Charles Schwab Cup title.
In the second segment, Bob Harig, ESPN.com, calls in to talk with Holly and Will. Bob is a long time Cubs fan.
Holly asks Bob about Hideki Matsuyama's win and how he has played lately. When Hideki Matsuyama can putt well, he is a force to be reckoned with. He won the Asian Amateur twice. Holly and Bob talked about Hideki taking a backseat to Jordan Spieth and the others who have dominated over the past few years.
Will asks Bob which Major event fits Hideki's game? He is a long hitter off the tee. Bob says that Hideki can win the Open Championship or any of the majors if he could get his putting dialed in.
Bob talks about how tough it is coming from Japan and trying to learn the language in the U.S. as well as adapt here is a very tough task for anyone.
Holly asks Bob about Tiger's official announcement that he will play in the Hero World Challenge. Also the two discuss Tiger's chipping issues and whether there is any truth to the rumors.
Bob talks about how so much clamor over Tiger was made officially announced that he was going to play. Everyone expected him to after he said that he would. Tiger still has four more weeks to get ready for the tourney. Bob said that it was a shame that Tiger couldn't play at the Safeway and get all the media attention surrounding his return out of the way.
Bob said to expect a lot out of Tiger's game when he first comes back. It would be silly to expect it. It is going to take some time for him to get comfortable inside the ropes again.
In the third segment of this week's show Terrie Purdum, Southern Golf Central Magazine's publisher, calls in from the Villages to talk about the latest issue that is a tribute to Arnold Palmer. Terrie and Turf Life have a booth at all the local tournaments like The PNC Father and Son Tournament and the CME Title Holders in Naples. Stop by the booth and pick up bottles of free sunscreen.
Terrie also talks about youth golf sensation Bella Dovhey from Oviedo, Fla, whose interview with The King is published in this month's commemorative issue of Southern Golf Central Magazine (pages 10-11). Bella is also an incredible young golfer who has won 3 Jr World Championships and many other tournaments in U.S. Kids Golf.
In the final segment of this week's show Todd Lewis, The Golf Channel, calls in to help wrap up another hour of intelligent golf talk. Holly asks Todd about Cody Gribble's win on the PGA Tour. Gribble is from Texas and played alongside Jordan Spieth when they won the National Championship. Todd is amazed of how ready that the players who come out of college today and are ready to play so well on the Tours.
Will asks Todd about some other young players who may play well this week at the Shriners. Todd says to watch for Grason Murray, who won his first event on the Web.com Tour in September.
Todd talks about Tiger Woods. Unlike any other player, every swing if not every step Tiger Woods makes will be shown on the Golf Channel and he is the only player in the world like that. So when he pulled out of the Safeway Open, Todd says that Tiger wasn't close to being to his level of play that he wanted to be. Todd said that the starts Tiger wanted to have this fall at the safeway, in Turkey and at the Heroes World Challenge were more to prepare him for 2017.
Will and Holly both pick Ryan Moore to win this week's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and Will's backup pick is Scott Piercy, Holly's second pick is Smylie Kaufman.
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