The Smylie Show

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme are LIVE at the 16th hole for this week's competition at Medinah #3, breaking down:
- The just-released Presidents Cup pairings for Thursday four-ball matches
- Smylie's notes on Medinah after walking the course
- Answering viewer questions & comments
- Predictions for the week
Tune in for live shows every day as we break down all the Presidents Cup action as soon as matches are complete!

Before they head to Chicago to cover the Presidents Cup at Medinah, Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme discuss wins for Jacob Bridgeman - a captain’s pick in excellent form - and JJ Spaun - snubbed for a pick despite finishing Top 12 on points - and whether the right team was picked.
We also look ahead to a new two-part series dropping today: Smylie and Justin Thomas reliving the 61 JT shot at Medinah for the course record in 2019. Don’t miss it!
Chapters
0:00 Intro & Presidents Cup week
1:50 Smylie's Austin golf trip
3:28 Charlie's Hope Valley weekend
4:17 Alternate-shot format fun
5:50 This week's golf news tease
9:04 JJ Spaun wins & gets snubbed
11:23 Ryan Gerard's Medinah case
12:16 Jacob Bridgeman's big year
13:27 Bridgeman wins Biltmore Championship
15:26 Bridgeman's quiet confidence
18:05 Biltmore's fan support & future
19:18 BMW PGA leaderboard recap
20:05 2028 tour restructuring preview
22:11 JT's Medinah 61 video series
23:29 Sign-off & what's next
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Smylie Kaufman sits down with NBC/Golf Channel analyst and four-time PGA TOUR winner Notah Begay III, fresh off his Payne Stewart Award, to discuss the state of the Presidents Cup as member of the 2000 USA team which won on home soil (including a rarely-told Tiger Woods story from that competition).
Plus: the NB3 Foundation's 20-year, $10 million run investing in Native communities, Notah getting back into the grind of competition on the Champions Tour, Jackson Koivun's leap from Notah's Junior Presidents Cup team to Team USA at Medinah, and a pitch for fixing the Presidents Cup format for good.
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Chapters
0:00 Payne Stewart Award
3:56 NB3 Foundation's impact
6:04 Duff Foreman AI reveal
9:30 Naming Duff Foreman
11:11 Champions Tour return
14:31 Left-handed putting fix
18:16 Tiger Woods yardage standoff
22:31 Jackson Koivun's rise
23:41 US vs. International depth
27:14 Sign-off & Medinah preview
#golf #notahbegay #tigerwoods #presidentscup

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme sit down with Mike Cocking - the "C" in OCM Golf, the "O" belonging to International Team Captain Geoff Ogilvy - days before the OCM redesign of Medinah #3 takes the stage as the host of the Presidents Cup.
Mike explains how the closing stretch of the storied American venue was reimagined to better bring natural features into play, and what that means for strategy and entertainment as the world's best prepare to take it on.
Plus: OCM's origin story (including the "M" - Ashley Mead), inspiration from a childhood spent playing golf on Melbourne's Sand Belt, the Kingston Heath and Shady Oaks projects (including a Ben Hogan keepsake story), the agronomy issue that drove the Medinah rebuild, whether Ogilvy has a built-in edge as International Team captain, and Cocking's prediction for who wins at Medinah.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro & OCM's origin story
3:47 Sand Belt & UK inspirations
6:34 Strategy over penal golf
9:04 Kingston Heath project
11:21 Width over narrow fairways
14:04 Shady Oaks & Ben Hogan
17:03 Favorite Hogan story
19:23 Landing the Medinah job
22:39 Medinah's pedigree & old bunkers
26:41 Rebuilding holes 13-18
30:40 New short par-4 16th
32:56 Another standout short par-4
34:52 New routing for Presidents Cup
39:06 Ogilvy's captain's edge
43:45 Agronomy problems drove renovation
47:42 Cocking's Presidents Cup prediction
50:09 Next up & sign-off
#golf #presidentscup #Medinah #pgatour #smylieshow

Akshay Bhatia joins Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme for his third appearance on the show (rising up the all-time leaderboard - watch out Justin Thomas and James Nitties!).
Fresh off his third straight Tour Championship, Akshay opens up on why he's calling his 2026 season "mediocre," the exact swing changes he's targeting this off-season to fix his driver, and what it would mean to finally crack the top 20 in strokes gained off the tee.
Plus: his partnership with caddie Joe Greiner after their first year together, his cross-handed chipping technique and elite bunker play, the mind-blowing way he uses ball speed as a distance control mechanism with his irons, and with a childhood spent in North Carolina - his go-to Cook Out order.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:00 Magic Shoes?
7:07 Ground rules for the dogs at home
8:19 NC golf courses & Cook Out order
11:38 2026 season reflection
14:05 Marriage & life at 24
16:22 Tour friend group & housing
18:33 Tuesday money games
20:39 Three straight Tour Championships
23:04 Caddie Joe Greiner
25:33 Driver rebuild for 2027
33:00 Playing golf with Joe
34:44 Cross-handed chipping technique
40:49 Ball-speed feel for distance
43:28 Best bunker player on tour?
46:54 Lining up the golf ball
51:30 Sign-off & Japan trip
#golf #pgatour #akshaybhatia #smylieshow