2024 Travelers Championship Mega Preview - Picks, Storylines, One & Done | The First Cut Podcast

Rick Gehman, Kyle Porter, Patrick McDonald and Mark Immelman preview the 2024 Travelers Championship.
0:00 Intro + Kyle’s Reds hat is causing chaos
2:45 News & Notes: Framework Agreement? Maybe? + Rory’s WD & Olympic field set
32:30 2024 Travelers Championship Preview
34:35 Best Bets
52:00 One & Done
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[@SiLoMixMaster]

The only change that's really needed is to let LIV players be able to play at The Players Championship (Top 10 and or previous year winner and event winners or whatever) and also allow them to play non-designated PGAT events on LIV's off weeks when they aren't playing. This would boost the attraction to those events on the PGAT, increase crowds, purses, sponsors, and strengthen the fields for those events. Keep the designated events for the top 50 in the PGAT. Also LIV should have 1 team from the PGAT that comprises of 4 from a pool of players who are willing to play on LIV when they are available and willing to play on their off weeks that don't clash with PGAT schedule.

[@billfairless6256]

If Bryson got FedEx points he would be in the top 10 by only playing 3 events.

[@carsonselby4079]

man, the rocket mortgage next week is going to be like an alternate event field. no way any of these guys are playing 4 weeks in a row

[@dinglbarry1275]

Rick is a stud! I 100% agree with his take on the Olympics and all of his points... and I would add even more to it. It's elaborate with many different layers, but just one of many thing is it screws over the athletes more than anything (it makes them volunteers under the guise of doing it for their country, but you know and I know that all those years those athletes busted their tail had absolutely nothing to do with their country nor should it)... this is only the tip of the iceburgh, there are dozens of more reasons. Another elaborate component that ties into this... and it's a difficult concept for people to grasp because it's all we've ever known... but sports being baked into the education system is sinister crap (BTW sports would obviously still exist and would thrive)... but governments if you will have no business in sports business and it's not a coincidence that they're inter joined.. I would easily go onto say that governments should have no business in our educational system either but that's an argument for another time. I just recently found out that the WNBA requires a player to attend college for 4 years before they can enter the WNBA, which is the most extreme example and completely absurd. These are side points to the principle, but... but some people aren't going to have an aptitude for school while being an insane talent in their sport. It shouldn't be mandatory to grind out the books in order to do what they excel at. Imagine if before an engineer can go into their field they must put several years into training for a triathlon and must get necessary times/scores before they could pursue their true passion/skills. Also the whole nationalistic - blindly support and trust your nation because you were born on a geographic plot of land vs. another land, is pretty juvenile and not healthy if the goal is a more peaceful future. I'm drifting a little off base but it ties in to this.... there's this weird rule that's been embedded in many of us. When you have a favorite sports team, which often times people's favorite teams are based on where they were born or lived for a period of time... you must always support your team through thick and thin... even if your favorite players and coach get traded and the owners are chincy bastards and the vast majority of people abide to this weird rule that doesn't make any sense. It's a very nationalistic way of thinking and it's not a coincidence. When you actually trace the incentives of politicians it shouldn't take a genius to recognize that their personal incentives don't necessarily trace back (and rarely do) to the good of the people.... so there's a major assumption and trust that if your country is warring that your country is warring for the benefit of "your" country and even if by chance it is, it's almost certainly not good for the country "your" country is attacking. Ultimately you should't question or think, you need to trust your nation. I realize with this way of thinking it's been ingrained in us to think that our country is better and or ethically superior therefore "our" countries attack is justified. I'm ranting, but this is a nationalistic mindset and the Olympics further ingrains it. Blind trust, blind support isn't a good thing. So let the Hunger Games begin.

[@dlwitthoft]

Bro - drink a beer and relax

[@swirvine40]

Ricky my man the olympics is goated from a sports perspective but I get what your saying I think if we looked deep into every sport you’d find examples of that however sadly

[@LegolasFan69]

Exactly… tax dollars indirectly or directly subsidize every sport to a disgusting degree…. The PGA Tour’s existence is one massive tax fraud scheme

[@greghags5024]

For 2.3 million winnings, you would think Rory would do his job and interview... 2.3 million for 4 days that the least you can fkn do!!

[@Jackielikeskillersmiles]

I don’t agree with Mark! If Grayson Murray said he needed a break and needed to bounce without an interview people would understand. Even though Rory is shown as being so strong usually and media friendly doesn’t mean he didn’t need some grace and needed to mentally bow out and had a bad day. You don’t know what people are going through. It’s funny a month later we already forget that people struggle differently

[@jj354fun]

I will be there Saturday!

[@dinglbarry1275]

One of the weirder Data Golf ranking positions is they have Correy Conners as #13 and don't get me wrong I really like Conners (seems like a good person)... i tend to like the guys who are good, who are on the bubble of potentially being great, but likely won't break it, but there's always that long shot hope. The Conners, The Harmen's the Keegan Bradleys etc, but Conner at #13 is an odd ranking. I'll take their ranking system over the OWGR, but that's a weird one.

[@PoseidonArm]

Rick- stop playing 😂 21:55

[@mikewojtulewicz6522]

Good god the world's worst is back, kyle insert loud fart noise here * Porter!! Welcome back Mark!!!

[@mrrational2046]

Rory with the biggest choke in 10 years

[@joeblowmha]

What happened to the coach?

[@mrrational2046]

Wyndham Clark being ranked top 5 in the world even top 10 is a joke

[@the_elder_gamer]

I'm happy to accept the Olympics take, for all the reasons Rick mentions, but how many of those same reasons could you apply to the gambling industry writ large? (scandal, corruption, misallocated funds, hurting individuals/taxpayers, leaving people with no discernable life skills, etc., the overlap is unambiguous) As I've said previously, I have no qualms with people wagering with friends over the outcome of an event, but when you scale that up into a trillion-dollar global industry, it's indefensible. At least the Olympics requires world-class skill to participate in.

[@LegolasFan69]

Agree… they are preying on young men and it’s going to be a massive problem in time

[@RickRunGood]

There are lots of problems with the American gambling model, for sure. There’s a freedom of being able to opt in and opt out of gambling with your funds that is not extended to how your tax dollars are spent. There are also examples and blueprints of that tax revenue going to education and other public services. It’s clearly not perfect, but they should put me in charge of that too 😂

[@PyramidHead316]

There's a lot to unpack here. I'll split it into two comments, because there's two separate issues here. The problem with Rick's take on Olympic sports is that it's a very America-centric based view, like many of these similar objections. All that money Rick mentioned, all the stuff devoted to bribes, and stadiums, and prep, and forms of expenses both legit and corruption based, would just be sunk into baseball, football, and basketball if the Olympics go away. And in Europe and Asia and South America, it would just go to soccer/football. You would change nothing, except that now the big four would be forced even more down our throats. I've come to respect basketball and football after betting on them, because it forced me to learn the intricacies of them, whereas before I just saw them as sh*t (thanks to the middle and high schools shoving them down our throats), but I appreciate being able to see sports that aren't just good ol' f*cking U.S.A. team sports. Sports where people are playing not for some billion dollar contract, but just for the love of the game, and because they want to accomplish something extraordinary in their youth. Much more *interesting* sports, than just a guy tossing a ball. Americans in the media, for whatever reason, cannot comprehend that a lot of us like to view stuff that isn't just baseball, football, and basketball, and soccer for the times every four years that it matters. And they always try to put down other sports. If you're gonna take away the Olympics, you damn well better give us a channel streaming all those alternative sports, or three. None of this bullsh*t "let's cover two or three events a year" stuff we get with USA Network. But that was what the NBC Sports Network was in its basic idea, and they got rid of that! This is why we can't have nice things. As for the life skills thing, Kyle doesn't know what he's talking about. Most of the Olympic athletes in the US have a formal education, and get other jobs when they complete their sports career. Some of them are outright geniuses, they just love swimming or gymnastics. Kyle's a major contributor to the show, but it has to be said: he doesn't know what he's talking about on a lot of subjects. (Which is why he's the source of gentle mockery on Twitter; any man that says "I don't know" 30 times in one podcast, on which he's supposed to be an expert, is just asking for it.)

[@PyramidHead316]

My issue with the anti-gambling stance is that it's basically telling other people what to do with your money. We don't get to choose whether Congress uses our tax money to send bombs overseas and bomb brown kids, but god forbid you want to wager ten dollars on Will Zalatoris to win the Masters. It's hypocrisy at its purest form, and I'm not surprised that many of the anti-gambling advocates, especially the religious ones, are some of the most corrupt, filthy people you can imagine. They have no moral standing to speak of, they just enjoy having massive control over people's lives, and money. Even wagering with your friends was technically considered illegal in many places, until recently. Puritans love to control everything, even while they commit the most extensive of crimes, and the anti-gambling movement is largely based on that. The people who genuinely care about things like "addiction" and "integrity of the game" are being used by malcontents who are just pissed you don't follow their religion, or beliefs. It's "virtue signaling" in its purest form, as conservatives like to use that term a lot. There are legitimate organizations for helping people with gambling addiction, and trying their best to preserve the integrity of sports. Those are to be praised for their work, no doubt about it. And they have very little to do with the popular anti-gambling movement. Like someone said about prohibition on PBS, "roughly 10% of adults have a problem with alcohol. You don't pass a law based on 10%"; not when it's trying to take away people's rights to use their money as they see fit, without harming anyone else. Sorry for the long , long diatribe; it's usually not my thing, I'd rather talk about golf, but there's just so much wrong with these two anti-Olympic and anti-gambling takes that people ignore, that it's not even funny.

[@the_elder_gamer]

​@@PyramidHead316 Not to put words into Rick's mouth, but I'd expect he is not suggesting more varied sports coverage is bad, only that the format, how venue cities are chosen, and the costs involved in putting on an Olympics is. It's not really all that hard to find coverage for non-American-centric sports on the Internet, but I think I more or less get your point. The Total Running Productions YT channel has been pushing for better access to more track and field coverage on KZbin and I suspect we'll see that happen more as the online media landscape continues to evolve. Unrelated, I'm not sure the drive-by on Kyle is quite warranted. He's a take machine, sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. He seems like a good guy, a good father, and I find him entertaining. He doesn't need to be "right" all the time and I don't always need my media personalities to conform/align with my point of view on all topics. Kyle goes to church on Sundays, I don't, but I'm glad it's there for him. I'm able to make up my own mind on things. I don't know when disagreements on things solely became points of contention. We're all just strangers who like golf. Sometimes we share opinions...and that's okay.

[@gregsj1]

the goat ledecky is unlikely as she has the 400 free prelims the next morning and she will face the future goat canuck summer mcintosh in the final

[@elikane4963]

Tell um Rick. 100% onboard with the Olympics take

[@SiLoMixMaster]

Woah was not expecting Rick to have such a terrible woke take on why the World Cup should not exist 🤦🏾‍♀Corruption and doping etc exists everywhere not just in national sports tournaments, you might want to look into the PGAT's 'relaxed' drug testing measures over the years for a start....😬

[@PyramidHead316]

Oh boy, where to start? I think the problem is if you got rid of the Olympics, there are a lot of sports you wouldn't get to see in the US. Imagine if all we got was the bullsh*t baseball, football, and basketball coverage, and the remaining sports had to fight for the 5% of coverage left? Pardon my strong language, but f*ck that! Americans can't look past their own noses most of the time, to see how other countries see things, and this is one of them. As for job qualifications, most Olympic athletes do study other things in college, and don't just rely on that. These people have MBAs, and engineering degrees. I don't know what planet KP is living on. Probably one completely alien to us, considering how much he says "I don't know" every show. O_O And talk about corruption, the NFL and NBA are fixed some of the time! Not always, but you can tell when they're nudging games in one direction or another. Also, most of the scandals in the Olympics stem from when Russia started the trend decades ago. Blame them, if you're dissatisfied. I just think it's nice to see a show case of athleticism and skill that isn't f*cking baseball, football, basketball, or soccer. I like seeing swimming, track and field, snowboarding, skiing, and many other sports, that aren't just f*cking team sports in the good ol' U.S.A. I also find it funny that the US is not allowing LIV golfers to participate, but they're sending our biggest cheater Wyndham Clark to France to represent us. WTF? There goes your argument about corruption, guys. US golf is corrupt as hell.