Fore Play has been on a heater all week — Kisner already dropped in to recap his Colonial return, the Hole In One Challenge tour is rolling toward Long Island, and Riggs has been grinding indoor putting greens in Scottsdale. But everything else got shoved to the back burner the second the pod teased what's coming tomorrow.
The reveal: John Daly and Kevin Kisner together, with a 'hit it hard' tagline that basically writes itself.
This is the kind of booking Fore Play was built for. Daly is the most quotable man in the history of the sport and Kisner has already proven he's a top-tier hang on the pod — the Colonial recap they ran yesterday was him breaking down his first PGA Tour start since November, including the all-time detail that his buddy caddied for him but Kiz refused to let him touch the bunker rake.
Kisner telling on himself about the bunker-raking trust issues at Colonial.
CaptainCons is already hyping the Daly sit-down as a generational cart ride, promising the golf will be special and the conversation in the cart will be off the charts. Which, fair — you put Long John in a cart with Kiz and a couple of mics and you don't really need a script.
Cons setting the bar for tomorrow's drop.
The golf will be special The convo in the cart will be off the charts
The only thing slowing the rollout down is Cons getting dragged into the dumbest possible side quest: a Golf Twitter slap-fight over breakfast balls. Nicky Smokes posted a 'play 3 holes' video, carded a birdie on the first without mentioning the first-tee mulligan, and the rules sickos descended. Cons stepped in to clarify that yes, most people take a breakfast ball, no, it doesn't mean everyone takes one every round, and the actual issue was the unacknowledged mulligan on a posted video — not the existence of the concept itself.
Cons throwing his hands up at the niche corner of the internet that turned a mulligan into a federal case.
*takes a breakfast ball at some point in their golf life Yes, many of us don’t take them ever. No, people do not take them every round. My point was just that breakfast balls are a thing that happen but that wasn’t the crux of the issue here Golf Twitter might be the worst corner of this app
None of it matters by tomorrow morning. Daly and Kisner in a cart wipes the timeline clean — breakfast balls, John Deere relocation rumors, Brad Dalke's PGA Tour return at the Rocket Classic, all of it gets shelved the second that episode drops. Buckle up is right.