The Smylie Show

At 19, Blades Brown erased a seven-shot Sunday deficit, fired a 63, and beat Ben James in a playoff at the World Wide Technology Championship to become the youngest PGA TOUR winner since 1931. Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme break down what the win unlocks for Brown — and whether he's already the best of a loaded crop of young Americans.

Plus: Ben James' clutch eagle and early Ryder Cup buzz, the FedExCup Fall race for signature-event spots, a first look at Austin, and a tease of LIV Golf show coverage to come following Jon Rahm's win in Abu Dhabi.

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Chapters

5:37 Blades Brown makes history
7:03 Next wave of young Americans
12:57 Ben James' rise
18:06 FedExCup Fall & Austin preview
21:02 Rahm wins Abu Dhabi, LIV fallout

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James Nicholas won in Bogotá, teed it up in two majors, and finished 30th on the Korn Ferry Tour points list, close enough to taste a PGA Tour card. With Q-School Final Stage a month out, he sits down with Smylie Kaufman to unpack the year, and why he's calling it the best of his career.

Plus: trading Yale football for golf, the pre-med path and family legacy he set aside, a 4 a.m. accountability plan, his mental coach's method for faster swing changes, time-blocking advice for amateurs, the PGA Tour's 2028 restructuring, a home wellness room, and a bonus question from Charlie Hulme.

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Chapters

0:00 Season recap, Bogotá win
2:37 Multi-sport upbringing
6:34 Yale football to golf
9:57 Breakout years at Yale
14:48 Pre-med and family legacy
19:08 Early pro years
22:11 Scheffler-level consistency
29:18 Swing change process
36:37 Time management advice
43:47 2028 tour restructuring
47:49 YouTube and Shinnecock
50:35 Wellness room

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Charlie Hulme sits down with both of this year's honorees at The Langley, A Tribute to Legends — the charity event named for longtime Cypress Point head pro Jim Langley. First, two-time Masters champion Ben Crenshaw shares what made Langley one of the game's true gentlemen, and lists the one part of his putting approach that has never changed. Then Charlie's grandfather, Sam Reeves, makes his first appearance on the show, with a close-up view of Tiger Woods' week at the 2000 U.S. Open.

Plus: Dr. Alister MacKenzie's camouflage roots, how Perry Maxwell reshaped Augusta's 10th, what wins Ryder Cups, a young Ben Crenshaw at the 1972 U.S. Amateur, and why Sam, at 92, thinks the game is more needed than ever.

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## Timestamps / Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:53 Ben Crenshaw on Jim Langley
3:07 MacKenzie & Perry Maxwell
5:17 Augusta's 10th hole
7:02 Crenshaw's putting philosophy
8:55 Ryder Cup leadership
10:29 Sam Reeves on Jim Langley
13:27 Pebble Beach & Tiger in 2000
17:33 Sam on Ben Crenshaw
21:43 Growing the game
27:15 Langley's life of joy

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Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme welcome Michael Brennan, fresh off his Baycurrent Classic win in Japan — his third PGA Tour win, and the sixth win of a run that started on PGA Tour Americas just more than a year ago.

Michael goes in-depth on the work he's done on his putting, and the mechanics behind his 126-mph clubhead speed that ranks him amongst the fastest, and longest, players on Tour.

Plus: Don't miss our first-ever "Talking Tennis" segment on an obsession that has Michael practicing in the heat of the Florida summer, and a hilarious story that had him mistaken for tennis pro while traveling with his racquets.

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Chapters

0:00 Michael Brennan's fall hot streak
5:12 Learning to close on Sunday
7:13 Driver as a weapon
9:17 Majors and Rory at Augusta
15:47 Putting rebuild with Marcus Potter
25:16 Speed and swing DNA
33:36 Talking Tennis with Charlie

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Smylie Kaufman is joined by Auburn men's golf coach Nick Clinard to discuss winning two national championships in three years ... and somehow, neither of those was the best team he's coached!

Clinard tells the story of a phone call from Jackson Koivun about the Presidents Cup, and answers a question from senior Tiger - and recent guest on the show - Josiah Gilbert.

Plus: the handwritten letters that nearly got Smylie to UCF, building Auburn's culture, and why roster limits are squeezing out late bloomers.

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Chapters

0:00 Welcome Coach Clinard
2:03 Recruiting Smylie at UCF
5:44 Building Auburn golf
7:19 Culture & Blayne Barber
9:01 Roster limits & House settlement
14:06 Koivun's work ethic
17:21 Koivun's Presidents Cup leap
21:56 Josiah's question: best team
24:03 Chris Williams & Buddy Alexander

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Stay tuned for part 2 with Auburn Men's Golf HC Nick Clinard, dropping Wednesday morning!

Our college golf tour continues as Smylie Kaufman is joined by Auburn senior Josiah Gilbert!

Josiah grew up in an Outback mining town where the only golf course used red dirt for fairways, and didn't take golf seriously until he was 12. Three months after his family moved to Alabama, he was committed to Auburn. Josiah tells Smylie how one casual round with the team changed everything.

Plus: junior golf alongside Aldrich Potgieter, living with Brendan Valdes through his cancer fight, and why he switched his flag from Australia to the USA. Josiah also leaves a question for Coach Nick Clinard, who joins the show Wednesday.

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Chapters
0:00 Welcome Josiah Gilbert
1:19 Mount Isa upbringing
7:53 How Auburn found him
12:18 Learning from Auburn's leaders
14:47 Brendan Valdes' cancer battle
17:19 Cracking the lineup
25:30 Auburn's best team
27:48 Choosing Team USA
31:25 Question for Coach Clinard

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We are checking in on the world of collegiate golf with a bonus episode this week!

Charlie Hulme sits down with UNC sophomore Carson Bertagnole ahead of the Williams Cup at Eagle Point (Oct. 18–20) - a course that both Carson and Charlie love.

Carson takes us inside the four-man playoff that punched his ticket to the Puerto Rico Open, what two PGA TOUR starts showed him about the gap between college and tour golf, and the importance of "process" and using certain triggers to reset during a round.

Plus: his first college win at the Fighting Irish Classic, the best hole at Eagle Point, NIL in college golf, a course-record 61 at Atlanta Athletic Club, and the perfect Chapel Hill day.

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Chapters

0:00 Williams Cup preview
1:01 Fighting Irish Classic win
4:11 Eagle Point favorite holes
6:40 Playoff for Puerto Rico Open
9:00 Lessons from PGA TOUR starts
15:00 NIL and college golf
17:29 Record 61, Walker Cup snub
19:29 Perfect Chapel Hill day

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With Jon Rahm's announcement that he will not participate in LIV 2.0 - and a number of other LIV players looking to follow suit in breaking their contracts - Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme discuss the current state of LIV Golf, what to make of the years that Rahm spent on that tour, and which pathways should be available to Rahm should he want to come back to the PGA Tour.

Also: Will Bryson DeChambeau participate in LIV 2.0, or do something else entirely? How many LIV 1.0 players will we see on the DP World Tour next year, and how many cards will be available as the PGA Tour changes its competitive structure in 2028? And why is Charlie broadcasting from a golf cart in his garage?

Plus: A shoutout to Austin Hitt as he wins the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, and Smylie laments the state of LSU football.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Golf cart garage studio
4:22 Jon Rahm leaves LIV 2.0
12:44 LIV exodus to DP World Tour
15:48 DP World Tour cards
17:18 Rahm's road back
26:09 Championship Series exemptions
31:14 LIV 2.0 deadline & Bryson
35:54 LIV postmortem
41:29 Merit & Challenger Series
48:25 Going global like the NFL
1:00:40 Austin Hitt & UNC on tour
1:02:55 Lane Kiffin's punt
1:06:09 Sign-off

This week on the show - we are taking a deep dive into all of the incredible work happening at the Cobbs Creek campus in West Philadelphia!

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are joined by Jim Wagner of Hanse Golf Course Design, who alongside Gil Hanse and a team of "cavemen," are bringing a historic canvas for golf back to life: the Olde Course, originally established in 1916. Jim walks Smylie and Charlie through the history of the property, its connection to other historic Philadelphia golf clubs, holes and green complexes that are coming to life, and the future of the Cobbs Creek campus - including the potential to host a PGA Tour event.

If you'd like to support the Cobbs Creek Foundation - a mission which includes a classroom impact for the youth of West Philly, in addition to making golf accessible to that neighborhood - you can do so here: https://cobbscreek.app.neoncrm.com/forms/donate

Down 10.5-7.5 heading into Sunday, with the Internationals leading on American soil for the first time ever, Team USA took 9.5 of 12 singles points to win the Presidents Cup 17-13 — the largest final-day comeback in the event's history. Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are back from a week on-site at Medinah to break down how it happened, who carried the back half of the lineup, and why the win shouldn't end the conversation about how Team USA picks and pairs its players.

Plus: Jackson Koivun's statement point against Si Woo Kim, Morikawa's iron play, Cantlay's bomb on 16, Medinah's tricky chipping turf, Sungjae Im and Tom Kim's weeks, and Geoff Ogilvy's captaincy.

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2:39 USA rallies to win 17-13
4:04 Snedeker's Sunday pairings
9:41 Koivun beats Si Woo Kim
14:11 Singles heroes
15:58 Power pairings and fatigue
20:05 Medinah chipping conditions
22:33 Gotterup, Morikawa, Cantlay
30:37 International standouts
35:17 Ogilvy's captaincy
37:30 Sign-off

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