Jul 10, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min · 10 segments
We have a guest join us Under The Covers this week to discuss Chris Gotterup's late surge on Sunday to win the John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run Our guest, Brendan, went through a Titleist…
We brought Brendan on because he recently went through a TPI club fitting, which is the Titleist Performance Institute.
We'll get into that a little bit later because we have some important stuff to talk about first.
He wins at the John Deere Classic at TPC Deer Run.
and he just kind of he did it again essentially uh insert jesse pinkman he can't keep getting away with this he ended up going crazy on sunday to end up with the lead uh started off with a hot 66 and then a couple 68s and then a final round of 62 to end at 20 under this is his fifth career win third this year winning the sunny open and waste management um I mean, five back on the day ends up nine under to tie with with Coles and very unfortunate ending there.
Matt, why don't you take us through the
tournament a little bit? it's his hometown tournament
absolutely
he's from cedar rapids which is which is about an hour away so home home state home state tournament yeah what do you say about that matt And the swamp ass.
I
was going to say the same thing.
I wanted
to say quick, whenever we were texting about this, I was like, wow, Max Homa, where did he come from? This could be awesome.
And then he missed his putt and Matt immediately text Challenger Series.
Any guy who's doing bad was just Challenger Series.
We can't wait to see him there.
What you got, Brendan?
Yeah, on the drive home, I heard a really cool note about Chris Garotta up.
So back in 2022, he actually reached out to the John Deere Classic seeking a sponsor's exemption.
So that was actually his first tournament that he got into as a pro.
Fast forward a few years later, he actually wins the tournament and was actually the highest seeded player playing in the tournament coming off of, I think, uh three or four weeks straight of playing and then now he's gonna go play scottish and and the open so uh really cool guy really cool story going from sponsor just jumps into several years later actually winning the tournament i didn't know that's
awesome and now he's
gonna go defend his title at the scottish so he's on a eater So Scotty every single week.
What's like what Matt was saying last week, Scotty would, he would get second place and everyone says he's washed.
You just expect so
We brought Brendan on because he recently went through a TPI club fitting, which is the Titleist Performance Institute.
We'll get into that a little bit later because we have some important stuff to talk about first.
He wins at the John Deere Classic at TPC Deer Run.
and he just kind of he did it again essentially uh insert jesse pinkman he can't keep getting away with this he ended up going crazy on sunday to end up with the lead uh started off with a hot 66 and then a couple 68s and then a final round of 62 to end at 20 under this is his fifth career win third this year winning the sunny open and waste management um I mean, five back on the day ends up nine under to tie with with Coles and very unfortunate ending there.
Matt, why don't you take us through the
tournament a little bit? it's his hometown tournament
absolutely
he's from cedar rapids which is which is about an hour away so home home state home state tournament yeah what do you say about that matt And the swamp ass.
I
was going to say the same thing.
I wanted
to say quick, whenever we were texting about this, I was like, wow, Max Homa, where did he come from? This could be awesome.
And then he missed his putt and Matt immediately text Challenger Series.
Any guy who's doing bad was just Challenger Series.
We can't wait to see him there.
What you got, Brendan?
Yeah, on the drive home, I heard a really cool note about Chris Garotta up.
So back in 2022, he actually reached out to the John Deere Classic seeking a sponsor's exemption.
So that was actually his first tournament that he got into as a pro.
Fast forward a few years later, he actually wins the tournament and was actually the highest seeded player playing in the tournament coming off of, I think, uh three or four weeks straight of playing and then now he's gonna go play scottish and and the open so uh really cool guy really cool story going from sponsor just jumps into several years later actually winning the tournament i didn't know that's
awesome and now he's
gonna go defend his title at the scottish so he's on a eater So Scotty every single week.
What's like what Matt was saying last week, Scotty would, he would get second place and everyone says he's washed.
You just expect so
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