J.T. Poston is seemingly good now. Greater than two years later, by all accounts, he’s forgiven his man.
However the PGA Tour professional nonetheless thinks you and a worldwide viewers could need to hear about how his bagman missed a yardage on the 2022 Farmers Insurance coverage Open at Torrey Pines — then missed one other one a dozen holes later.
Delayed punishment? Possibly somewhat. Signal of the bond between Poston and Aaron Flener, the place it’s all good to broach such topics? Yeah, extra that. Flener was recreation. He was speaking on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar podcast — which you’ll be able to watch in full right here — when co-host Drew Stoltz requested the longtime caddie this:
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“Why do you assume it’s that math appears to be harder within the metropolis of San Diego than wherever else, significantly, possibly Torrey Pines?”
Flener laughed.
“That’s an awesome query,” he mentioned on the podcast. “I can consider at some point it was actually powerful. I feel the explanation was as a result of they began that event on a Wednesday, and often I’m not able to — Thursday is often my math day, like once I actually begin entering into it. Wednesday is often like a observe day the place I’m identical to, if I get it mistaken, it doesn’t matter. J.T. clearly advised you that one.”
Mentioned Stoltz: “Yeah, he mentioned simply ask him about a few of these digits that he nonetheless offers you a tough time about.”
Requested co-host Colt Knost: “It was a number of?”
Mentioned Flener: “I missed two in the identical spherical.”
Requested Stoltz: “By how a lot?”
Mentioned Flener: “The primary one was by like in all probability 10 yards. The second was by like 18.”
So what occurred? Flener defined.
“The primary one was on — we began on the again, we have been on 13, he drove it within the bunker, chopped it down the hill, so I needed to rake the bunker and he went on down,” Flener mentioned on the podcast. “And so as soon as I acquired down there, he had already stepped some stuff off, he was saying all these items to me and I’m making an attempt to do the quantity and I feel I added one thing that I used to be imagined to subtract or one thing, and he hit it over the inexperienced, which is a good place to be on 13 at Torrey Pines. I all the time fess up. I acquired up there, I used to be like, dude, that quantity was mistaken, in order that’s my unhealthy.”
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And the second mis-yardage?
It got here 12 holes later.
“Then we acquired all the best way round to 7,” Flener mentioned on the podcast, “and we’re again on observe, all is forgiven, like all people makes errors, and there was a center head that had a quantity on it after which there was the identical entrance quantity head like proper up in entrance of it. And I went off the center quantity head’s entrance quantity as a substitute of going off the precise entrance quantity. And the pin was like again proper, actually exhausting pin.
“And he hit this stunning shot — I imply, it’s going proper on the flag — and we don’t see it land. And he’s like, the place is that? I used to be like, I feel it flew over the inexperienced. I feel it hit the TV tower again there. I imply, if it wouldn’t have hit the TV tower, it might have gone within the canyon. So he snaps his head again round at me [and says:] ‘Was that quantity mistaken?’ I used to be like, yeah, it was mistaken.”
Mentioned Knost: “It’s simply two.”
Mentioned Flener: “We gained’t undergo the play-by-play of what was mentioned after that. I’ll simply say we didn’t speak a complete lot the subsequent two holes, and we had somewhat chat within the parking zone after he got here out of scoring. However since then, I haven’t had any mess-ups.”
Mentioned Stoltz: “It was a Wednesday, dude. You get a go.”
Mentioned Knost: “I feel it’s Torrey Pines as a result of your man Matt Erwin, when he was on the bag for me, acquired one mistaken as properly. So I feel it’s simply San Diego’s fault.”
Mentioned Flener: “Yeah, however round there, there’s a variety of good misses. So in the event you blow it over the inexperienced, it’s not an enormous deal.”
Mentioned Stoltz: “Lengthy is generally nice nearly in every single place.”
Editor’s word: To look at all the podcast with Flener, please click on right here or scroll under.
