Two Off The Tee

Scottie Scheffler conceded a 32-foot putt at the Presidents Cup after a fan yelled in Nico Echavarria's swing. James Shin calls it the right move and says he'd do the same, because he wants to win fair and square. Jeff Shin isn't buying the halo. Scottie still had a tap-in for par, and Jeff says he doesn't give that putt if he's staring at bogey. Would you? Then the brothers fi...

Bryson posted "I'm coming home." James Shin thought it meant a return to the PGA Tour. Jeff Shin says it was a backyard hole-in-one challenge over his house with a crew of YouTubers. James fell for it, and he admits it. Then the caddie who dropped the bag on hole nine. Jeff tells the whole story: a range argument about where the bag went, an umbrella in the bag on a sunny day, a few...

Presidents Cup week is in Chicago. Jeff Shin wants Team USA at Medinah. James Shin takes the International side -- he just says Team Korea. The one clip they both actually know is Tom Kim putting his putter on the ground. Then two claimed 3-handicaps from Oklahoma booked flights after a challenge. The other group backed out. These two did not. Exhibition 2v2. James says give them strokes. Jeff say...

LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11. Jeff walks the burn rate: about $5 billion to start, with something like $15 million left. Jon Rahm is still owed about $7.5 million. Bryson about $5.8. DJ about $5.5. Rick Shiels shows up on the list too. James says nobody watches LIV and it was bound to fail. Then they ask whether the soft-money era is over, or whether LIV 2.0 and the NDAs still hide the real story...

Scottie Scheffler came from three back at East Lake, won his second FedEx Cup, and the money talk started before the trophy cooled. He passed Tiger Woods for most PGA Tour career earnings. James says comparing that number to Tiger's era is not fair : different prize pools, different decades. Jeff puts an asterisk on the dominance: half the best players left for LIV. Then they argue whether you...

Good Good made a Callaway driver ad where Garrett shoulder-tackles his girlfriend and yells don't touch my driver. James had to go hunt for it after they took it down. He called it mean. A little sexist. He wouldn't bump Ella for a driver. Jeff watched the extra 15 seconds — some other guy touches the club, looks possessed, starts ripping balls three different ways — and still thought the...

LeBron James just started a golf YouTube channel, and he is about a 22 handicap. That is the cold open, and it is why this episode exists. James has not watched a full episode yet. He already knows LeBron is out there with Bob Does Sports, nearly holed one on camera, and is posting the kind of round Jeff grew up never getting — everyone knew Jordan golfed, and nobody ever got the tape. They argue...

James read out every player he thought was getting eliminated from Sunday's playoff, and when he got to his own brother's name he didn't even pause. Jeff had to sit there and take it, on his own show, four days before he has to go play the tournament. It took about four seconds for the word "traitor" to come out, and the rest of that segment is two grown men arguing about whe...

Jeff played with a guy who put two, sometimes three balls in play off every tee and then got irritated with the group about it. His whole defense was that he's better than this. Jeff's answer, which he ends up repeating three separate times over the next twenty minutes: if you have to ask whether you can hit another one, you already know you're wasting my time. I'm not here to watc...

Jeff had already taken a penalty drop. He hacked it out, chipped on, and left himself twelve inches. He walked up expecting somebody to wave it off the way he'd been waving putts off all morning, and instead one guy said it wasn't good and another said he was too far away to tell. So Jeff putted it the way you putt a twelve-incher, missed by a hair, and watched it trickle twenty feet down...

James thinks Bryson stepped down that rough on purpose and that every golfer watching knows exactly what happened. Jeff thinks one camera angle isn't the whole story, and that the rule is so subjective you can't hang a guy on it. They go at it for six minutes — Patrick Reed's bunker, the fescue at the Internet Invitational, whether a subconscious step even counts as cheating — and neit...

Jeff dropped a comment telling Anthony Kim he should've won Comeback Player of the Year at the ESPYs — and Kim actually saw it. That sets off the argument that opens the episode: is a 12-years-gone, fought-through-addiction return a bigger comeback than an NFL star bouncing back from an Achilles tear? Jeff says it's not close. James thinks it's a great story that maybe doesn't belo...

Jeff spent last week telling amateurs they don't need a rangefinder. This week the internet came for him — and a villain was born. Now he's ready to fight every hater in his comments, and James is gleefully pouring gasoline on it. From there we get into the stuff every weekend golfer actually argues about: is YouTube golf really more popular than the PGA Tour now? Was that "plus-3.5&q...

Jeff has a hill he's willing to die on: if you're a 20-plus handicap, you do NOT need a rangefinder — the cart GPS is free, front-middle-back is all you can actually use, and lasering every shot is why your group plays so slow. James pushes back hard, and the "do amateurs need a rangefinder or is a cart GPS enough" debate turns into the most hate-comment-worthy take we've don...

Golf turned into a courtroom this week. After Bob Does Sports' Joey Coldcut got accused of lifting an embedded ball (and threw a fit on camera), we spent the whole episode building rules to stop "sus" activity in our own league: declare your ball, mark your opponent's ball ("the Cowboy Rule"), and a "call sus" penalty where a wrong accusation costs YOU a strok...

We teamed up for Brother vs Brother, and it fell apart: James shot 116 — twelve drops, nine lost balls on the back nine, zero pars — two days after we both shot our best rounds of the year (83 and 84 walking the tips). Now we're on the longest losing streak of our careers, and we spent hole 10 arguing about who's the worst teammate. Then the hard truth: a kid three years into golf is beati...

Brother vs Brother is still unsettled — Jeff says the Bridges of Poplar round "doesn't count" because James switched the venue with no notice, and we never got a verdict. So you decide: counts = Jeff's 0-2, doesn't = 0-1. New twist for Game 3 — Jeff calls James with one hour's notice, names the course, and James can't say no. James says he'll sweep it 4-0 and stil...

Brother vs Brother Round 2 took place at Bridges of Poplar; Jeff lost again — and now he says it "doesn't count" because James switched the venue with two hours' notice. James says Jeff asked if it counts, agreed, recorded the whole thing, then backpedaled after getting spanked. So we're letting you decide: counts = Jeff's 0-2, doesn't = 0-1, and we replay at Mount Pr...

Our first-ever Path to Par major became the "Squawk at the T-Hawk." Tom won the Members Open at Thunderhawk by playing the senior tees as a single-digit handicap. Legal, but is it a championship or an asterisk? The brothers fight over tiered tee boxes versus a single standard tee for everyone. Then the receipts: Brother vs Brother Round 1 finally happened at Highlands of Elgin, and Jeff...

Brother vs Brother Round 1 is happening on camera Sunday at Highlands of Elgin — and Jeff picked the course on purpose because James plays well there. The whole plan is to beat him on his home turf and break him for Round 2. GoPros mounted, stroke play, same tee box. Before the reveal, the brothers fight about the PGA Championship winner showing up in iron covers AND two gloves, a $288 bet that tu...

The brothers finally drop the name of the indoor golf sim business — SIMMIES — and the landlord agreed to their terms on Location 1 in Carol Stream. Six bays. 24/7. Lease being drafted. Before the reveal, James locks Jeff into Brother vs Brother Round 1 next Wednesday at Mount Prospect with a $200 dinner on the line, McLaren is now selling $4,000 golf irons, Jon Rahm hit a volunteer with a divot s...

$80 to WALK a course in Chicago? Jeff and James open EP26 with a real rant on amateur golf pricing — Mt Prospect, Chevy Chase, Seven Bridges — and ask, "When did this get this expensive?" Inside the episode: Jeff shot 95 at Seven Bridges and walks through how a guy named Tom went minus-five on the front, then blew up the back with two ill-advised 3-wood decisions. James played Chevy Chas...

Jeff finally admits on camera that he's been letting James win for years — then the brothers lock in a 7-game Brother vs Brother series, first to 4 wins, gross stroke play, course picks week-of. Before that, James is tied for first in the Path to Par league for the second event in a row. The brothers argue Old Oak's pin placements were illegal, Nelly Korda dominates the Chevron, Charlie Hu...

Jeff and James finally reveal the golf project they have been working on: an indoor golf simulator business with multiple bays, 24/7 access, and extensive AI support behind the scenes. The episode starts with James having to admit Jeff beat him straight up, then moves into LIV Golf's future, Chicago handicap friction, Golf Genius, and the great golf cart vs. walking debate. Leave a review and...

Jeff played two rounds this weekend and both were a disaster. Not his game (okay, also his game) but the people around him. Six guys showed up to one tee time at White Pines. Speakers blasting. Groups skipping holes on a packed Saturday. A five and a half hour round. COVID golfers are out of control and we are not holding back. We also react to Rory McIlroy winning back-to-back Masters titles, Ser...