If You Take Mulligans, You Can't Break 100

James read out every player he thought was getting eliminated from Sunday's playoff, and when he got to his own brother's name he didn't even pause. Jeff had to sit there and take it, on his own show, four days before he has to go play the tournament. It took about four seconds for the word "traitor" to come out, and the rest of that segment is two grown men arguing about whether one of them is the LeBron James of a golf league that started with six people. That's the middle of the episode. The end is worse, and it's why this one is titled the way it is. Jeff brought the comment section with him — the people who keep writing in that we're not on tour, we're not professionals, so the rules of golf don't apply. He takes it apart: the breakfast ball, the foot wedge, the five-minute search for a ball everybody watched go out of bounds, the mulligan because you didn't leave the house early enough to warm up. His verdict is that the guys who need a mulligan are the guys who can't break 100, and he tells a story about shooting 55 on the front nine to explain how he knows. James agrees with all of it. Then James mentions, in passing, that Jeff fidgets with the ball when he takes a drop — and Jeff comes back with dates, courses, and a full accounting of James's own breakfast balls from last year. James's defense is "I don't recall." It goes about as well as that has ever gone for anybody. Before any of that: the guy who faked a hole-in-one. He put a ball in the cup before sunrise, told his group his grandmother was dying so he could go play the hole alone, and claimed the ace with five figures on the line. His club had him on camera. We get into the part nobody else is arguing about, which is whether the internet's response has outrun the actual crime, and whether you would genuinely turn in a guy in your own group on a Sunday. Plus Jon Rahm, who is reportedly still owed more than $100 million by a league that just cancelled its own season finale. Jeff says you fight for every dollar of it. James says you can't collect from someone who doesn't have it. Neither gives an inch for six straight minutes. Also in this one: why course reviews should show the reviewer's handicap before you take them seriously, the courses around Chicago we are not going back to, the burden carried by the one guy in every group who books the tee times, and a shout-out to a man who changed his flight home from a wedding in Colorado and upgraded his seat four rows closer to the exit so he could sprint off the plane and make his tee time. WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODE- The fake hole-in-one, the grandmother, and the security cameras- Would you hire a guy who cheats at golf if he brought you $10 million?- Jon Rahm, $100 million, and a league that turned off the money printer- Why a year away from the tour is never really just a year- Sunday's playoff: 15 players, 7 advance, and both hosts pick the whole field- James picks against his own brother- Golf course reviews are lying to you- Good, fast, cheap — you only get two- "We're not on tour" and the case against the mulligan- The hypocrite verdict, and no free relief Does a mulligan belong in a friendly round, or is it just vanity? We ruled against it. Come tell us we're wrong. Follow the show so you don't miss the next one, and leave a rating if this one made you argue with your steering wheel — it helps people find us. Two Off the Tee. Jeff Shin and James Shin.