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“I went to Buffalo Wild Wings... I just kind of needed to throw a few back.” - Jordan Spieth on coping with the US Open setups or me every other weekend in high school battling with the "too spicy" Asian Zing sauce and pretending my diet coke was a cold one.
B-Dubs—ah, the memories.
No idea where I'd put this thing but...
A WHOLE NEW TAKE ON MINI GOLF
The algorithm really went deep this week as it surfaced a company producing golf art I never knew I needed.
The company is called Micro Landscapes and its founder Sam Carpenter essentially re-creates famous and/or meaningful golf holes in miniature. The idea being that if you had any sort of memorable moment on a golf course, all you have to do is send the details over to Sam and he will re-create it down to the flowers in bloom.
Fun fact, my uncles were actually world renowned miniature artists with a permanent display of their work at the Art Institute of Chicago. They focused on true-to-period recreations of famous rooms like the West Wing.
They met major celebrities who commissioned them to re-create rooms for them—and one of my biggest regrets was not taking them up on their standing offer to visit their workshop and studio in the city. I was 13 at the time and seeing a bunch of "doll house stuff" seemed like the last thing I wanted to do, especially when I had Halo 2 to play. Gosh, don't you just want to smack your old self some times.
My question now becomes where on earth would I even put this thing? And would I take the over or under on 60 seconds before Jack destroys it after pretending to have Chase and Marshall from the Paw Patrol chop down the trees?
The correct answers are, no clue and under 60 seconds.
Also, no prices listed on the site sooooo get your wallets out people.
This week on r/golf
"APPARENTLY I'M SERVING FAMOUS GOLFERS TODAY"
In the spirit of Jordan Spieth's Buffalo Wild Wings excursion, this week on Reddit I caught a post showing a text exchange between a boyfriend and girlfriend as the girlfriend reveals she is waiting on a golf legend...
The post begins with screenshots of their texts and the boyfriend gently pointing out that the Tour isn't in town so it's probably not a famous golfer. The boyfriend signs off asking her to find out who—and for 99% of these interactions, that's usually where it ends.
However.
She responds "Jack Nicklaus?"
Cue boyfriend losing his mind. Rattling off Jack's accomplishments and sharing that he was just watching a documentary on Jack before asking her to get him a Muirfield tee time.
And, as they sign off, it all comes crashing down when she reveals she isn't actually talking to them—dashing dreams of a photo opp and tee time.
(Also, while I like to imagine this all taking place in a 50s diner, ChatGPT missed the age of Jack's son by about 40 years.)
ESPN is throwing it all out there at the Travelers
SCHEFTY DIVERSIFIES HIS PORTFOLIO
Nepo hire alert!
This week's PGA Tour stop at the Travelers marks the only time the Tour will visit the Northeast. But lucky for ESPN it's in their backyard and boy are they taking advantage. Starting with letting NFL Insider and hopelessly addicted to his phone Adam Schefter do a little field reporting on-course.
What makes him qualified to be an on-course reporter for golf? Great question. But it's really sounding like he's just a bored dude who's hitting his mid-life-career-crisis.
Adam said on the Pat McAfee Show, “I love what I do. I’m very happy doing what I do. I want to keep doing it. But I’ve done it for 35 years, too. And if you have grilled chicken every night, every once in a while, it’s nice to have the stir-fried chicken and just mix it up a little bit, right? And so try some different things. And that's all this is."
Side note, kudos to any of you who can do the grilled chicken thing. I always envy how healthy you appear to be, but I just love bad food so much to ever do it myself. I need the flav.
Did anyone watch Stick?
YOU SAND BAGGIN' SON OF A—
A while back I mentioned an AppleTV comedy called Stick after they released a pretty tight teaser trailer that had me expecting pure golf comedy gold.
Well, it premiered a few weeks back. And beyond not hearing about it from any of my various social circles or algorithms—we watched the premiere and left feeling much like the "Owen Wilson-like" person's expression above.
It was fine. Kind of boring. And felt like it was stuck in no-man's land between going full bright and funny Ted Lasso and takes itself a shade too seriously FX auteur comedy series.
Some light Googling shows a decent amount of positive reviews though my tried-and-true Vulture weren't fans either. And I'd love to know your opinions if you watched it!
Another reason I bring this up is because of the AI image run I've been on recently. For a peek into how I create these, I used ChatGPT to hone in on a look and feel and once I found the style above, I started asking it to create the exact same style images with different subject matter prompts each time. For instance, "show me an Owen Wilson-like man sitting in a bunker shrugging his shoulder while a golf cart burns in the background."
By and large, it's been working. But for keen readers, you'll notice what snuck into this image... the bento box sandwich from a few issues ago! It seems that because I use the same chain, it's occasionally pulling in hallucinations of prior images and I'm loving the Easter egg potential of this.
In a few weeks I could have it create an I Spy style layout featuring every single character and image from weeks prior. This could be a book deal, people.
Anyways, who cares if AI is already out of control, look at the cute tiger it added to the lunch box!
