Phil On Charlie Rose

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It's about 20 minutes long and you've heard some of the answers, but there was also some fresh stuff. Plus...

A) You get to see Phil dressed like a Nucky Thompson

B) Hear Charlie interrupt Phil just like he interrupts everyone else

C) Get to hear Charlie and Phil open up with some major name dropping (Aspen, Ari Emanuel, zzzz...)

D) Phil start every answer with "So," his equivalent to Tiger's "It is what it is" and "It's a process"

E) Hear Charlie use multiple tennis analogies because he really doesn't know anything about golf

F) Phil say that no one has benefited more from Tiger's success than Phil

They Didn't Say That Did They? "The top guys in college, the top 20 or 30 guys, can beat the top 20, 30 guys on the PGA Tour."

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Harris English, understandably confused for a character in a P.G. Wodehouse novel, did not win a Nationwide Tour event Sunday. Instead, it was Harris English from the University of Georgia, who outdueled another amateur, LSU's John Peterson. Throw in another impressive PGA Tour performance from UCLA's Patrick Cantlay at the Canadian Open, and you have to be impressed with the showing of college golf's finest.
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"The whole situation has gotten out of hand."

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I remember the good ole days when I'd suggest distance gains were not good for the game and I'd get funny looks, nasty looks, and in general, suggestions I was a communist-sympathizer.

Even better were the times I'd suggest course setups were rigged to offset/emasculate/cover-up regulatory incompetance and I'd get the look folks used to give to those who suggested the moon landing was actually shot on a San Fernando Valley soundstage.

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