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00:00Let's talk Luke Lant.
00:02Love that. OK, so Luke, of course,
00:06has 19 of the 20 points needed to earn his PGA
00:09Tour card via the PGA Tour.
00:11You accelerated program.
00:13I was looking back at this.
00:14He's made seven PGA Tour cuts.
00:16Now he's had four top tens in those PGA Tour events.
00:19They all earned him a point.
00:20Would it earn more?
00:21He'd already have his card now if they'd
00:24retroactively apply the Luke Clanton rule.
00:26That's another bonus point for top fives to the way he played
00:29in several tournaments.
00:30He's made made the cut of the U.S.
00:32Open last year, and obviously got a point for that start as well.
00:36So Luke needs.
00:39He needs to go five under in his final eight holes on Friday
00:42to make the cut and earn that final point to get his tour card
00:45and just narrowly misses that birdie on 18.
00:48You you walked around with them on Friday.
00:51It's fun. Obviously, you know, I saw some, you know, rebuttals
00:55to your tweets that you feel gutted for the guy.
00:58We're not. Everyone knows Luke Clanton's going to make it a PGA Tour.
01:02Yeah, we're not.
01:02We're not everybody like we're not like this is last chance.
01:05This is like you school.
01:07I responded to one guy and then like there was like ten more.
01:09I was like, what?
01:10Why are people like taking this the wrong way here?
01:13Like he's not going to still make it on the PGA Tour.
01:15Yeah, it was just dude.
01:17He feel bad for the guy.
01:18He's playing hard and, you know, almost gets it done. Yeah.
01:21I mean, my perspective was is that I just walk with him the last three hours
01:25and I saw how badly he wanted it and how hard he grinded.
01:28Like, that's that's all I was saying.
01:30And he'll have other opportunities.
01:31I think he got I'm pretty sure he got a sponsor exemption to the Valero.
01:34So I have a shot there.
01:35I think he's a Valspar Valspar.
01:37So, yeah, my V sponsor events.
01:40But I think you got that one for winning the college event last year.
01:44Oh, OK. That would make sense.
01:45So so just I mean, in at some point in time,
01:49he's going to get this thing through in a season award.
01:51It's like it's going to happen this year.
01:53It just the timing is variable.
01:55And then what that means for whether or not he finishes out the season
01:58with Florida State and what sort of discussions he's had there.
02:01So just your thoughts on Luke's week, where he stands now,
02:04what you saw walking around with him, obviously not the start to the week
02:08you wanted, but Danger gets it done coming down the stretch.
02:11Did I think I think he could win it, Valspar?
02:14Like that is a such a good track for him.
02:18What now tell me why you think
02:22it like you talk a lot about like superpowers, different guys,
02:26you know what makes them good?
02:26What are Luke's it does he have a standout superpower
02:30or is it like he does everything really, really good?
02:33No, it's actually it's it shocked me how how wrong I was about this,
02:39because my just overall
02:43impressions of Luke was exactly what you just talked about,
02:46which is like, yeah, it's just, you know, pretty good at everything.
02:48Like, no, no, dude, he hammers it.
02:51He's in top ten in club at speed on the PGA Tour.
02:54I was not aware that hundred twenty two club at speed one.
02:58He's about 183 ball speed.
03:00And I didn't know this.
03:02I was not aware I had not seen him play.
03:05And then I was like, all right, I'm going to go and just kind of dive
03:07a little bit into the Luke clan stat tree.
03:09I was like, holy crap, he hammers it.
03:11And then I was walking.
03:13He was playing with JT the first two days in Phoenix,
03:16and I was walking off the 13th green and Luke was tapping in a JT
03:20and I were at the edge of the green.
03:22And it's always a lot of pressure when JT is just sitting there watching you call.
03:25Like he's literally staring at me like this close and I'm talking to a mic.
03:29He's like, don't screw up, don't screw up, don't screw up.
03:31But we're walking off the green.
03:34I was like, what do you think of Luke?
03:35He's like. His ball makes a different sound.
03:39He's like, he's really good.
03:42So that just for JT to say that, you know, for a guy who's played
03:48with however many players he's played with on the PGA Tour to say, it's like,
03:52dude, his his ball makes a different sound.
03:54That is what you need on the PGA Tour now.
03:58Well, you got to be able to compress the golf ball, hit it hard.
04:01Young guy with tons of confidence.
04:02I love his moxie, love his grit.
04:05He's like when you talk about superpowers, like, yes, he hits it long and hard.
04:10But that next competitive bucket, like he's way up there in that.
04:15Like he's in the Scottie Sheffler, Justin Thomas level.
04:18Of being able to walk in and focus
04:22and appears to me to not be much of a forward thinker.
04:27Like he's a guy that could win a lot in a season
04:30because of his ability to just walk in.
04:33Just his competitive spirit is so awesome to watch.