Ed Chao

@Top100Rick @Bad_Bad_Golf Timothy 2 Putts must have 3 putted today

@Bad_Bad_Golf Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

What an arrogant fucking cock face thing to tweet Congratulations man you’re beyond privileged, we get it

@Top100Rick You’ll get there… maybe just not with a major winner in tow!

What chance does an idiot mediocre golfer like me have? Congrats to Grant Horvat. He got his first lifetime hole in one. Bonus: playing in a match versus Justin rose. One day it will be my turn. Must stay strong and believe. My faith will be rewarded.

Rooting for them to be successful, but it’ll be tough. My favorite YT golf vids are the ones with pros where you get to see their personalities and how they approach the game. This is fundamentally counter to that. Also, although the Internet Invitational from Barstool was entertaining for its novelty, it got hard to watch that much bad golf and some annoying personalities. Money with ams brought out some of the worst in the players, making me gag from the lack of integrity and respect for the game.

A Pro Golf Tour…for Content Creators? Are you interested in this? Is this doomed to fail? The big news in the social media world is Grant Horvat and the Bryan Bros forming a golf tour for social media influencers. Before you write it off, keep in mind these guys have MILLIONS of followers. Generate millions of views. Have more fans than your average PGA Tour player. The winner will get a million bucks. I’m not saying it’s a success yet. But imagine if ten years ago I told you that people would watch normal great players golf. Just dudes. For thousands of hours. And that these dudes would make more than many PGA Tour players. You never would have believed it.

@mfc248 @NateSilver538 Agreed. But this is a clear case where Occam’s Razor should have prevailed.

@NateSilver538 I think they’re intended to account for games ending early due to the mercy rule

I think (?) the U.S. has made it thru but I still want to know what kind of hallucinogens the person who came up with these WBC tiebreakers was taking.

@JoshKale Starlink’s Direct to Cell will be unable to connect with cell phones indoors due to limited signal strength. As such, Starlink will generally need to roam with the cellular carriers for indoor coverage.

Quiet part loud: SpaceX now owns every layer of the stack needed to be a global cellular carrier. And now has a plan to beam it direct to your cell phone. Starlink Mobile v2 sits on top of: - The rockets (Starship) - The satellites (15,000 approved) - The spectrum ($17B from EchoStar) - The chipset partnerships (Qualcomm, MediaTek) - Carrier deals across 32 countries on six continents They're currently partnering with T-Mobile and a dozen more carriers serving as invisible infrastructure underneath. But Elon has publicly talked about competing directly with carriers. Just last week they laid out their plan launch 1,200 satellites in six months starting mid 2027 50 per Starship. Each satellite carrying antennas five times larger than the current fleet. Hundred-foot solar arrays. Custom SpaceX silicon. 20 times the throughput of what's in orbit today. 100x data density of V1 The result: 150 Mbps download speeds beamed directly from low Earth orbit to the phone in your pocket anywhere on earth 70% of the planet has no service. Starlink will make that 0% and now every carrier in the world is forced to partner with the company that could eventually replace them

@CowMowTV1 @SawyerMerritt @Starlink They mentioned 20x20 MHz channels for gen2 in the S-Band. 150 Mbps would then be the shared capacity for each beam. As they deploy more sats, they can focus beams to effectively increase capacity per square mile.

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink I'm wondering about the technical details. As far as I'm aware, they right now use a 5 MHz wide channel and 150 Mbps would be what a 20 MHz channel wuth 64QAM and 2x2 MIMO would line up with. Wouldn't expect anything close to that, maybe 30 Mbps, though if the beams get smaller…

SpaceX announced yesterday that it expects to have over 25 million active @Starlink Mobile users by the end of this year (2026), up from 6 million in December 2025. And this is before the V2 Starlink Mobile satellites have even launched (mid-2027), which will enable download speeds up to 150mbps on your phone in the middle of nowhere (5G from space).

@GOLF_com With a Practice Ball? C'mon man, Yanks are paying you enough to at least use a Kirkland!

Par-4 hole-in-one!?! Yankees second-baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. posted that he made a hole-in-one on a 323yd par-4 yesterday.🤯 (🎥 _jazz3 // IG Story)

@Top100Rick And they will be joined by AK! It's the first time I'm excited to watch LIV.

Even if you hate LIV, watch this. Careful, it’s LOUD. Rahm holes out for eagle on 18 to tie Bryson…Adelaide erupts! Bryson and Rahm will enter the final round 5 shots clear of the field. This is the duel LIV needs. Tonight will be epic.

@MyGolfSpy @bridgestonegolf Found a matte black Vice once and only way I could find it is by stepping on it by accident.

Dear @BridgestoneGolf, We mocked this up and now we can’t unsee it. Matte black. Prototype vibes. No gimmicks. We’re not saying this should be a real ball…but we are saying we’d test the hell out of it. If this hits 1,000 likes, we’ll start seriously bugging you to make it. Your move, internet 😎

@TheBrianGraf @SawyerMerritt @TeslaBoomerMama @aelluswamy Had the same experience. Model 3 decided to back into the driveway and Rey confidently started to park into our garage. It then hit the side of the entrance just before I was able to hit the brake. Seems like there’s a pattern here.

Been bragging to my dad about how good 14.2.1 FSD is and that he needed to try it out. First time out using it he had it back into the driveway and.... yep... Turns out it backed into the corner of his truck (which was stationary) @SawyerMerritt @TeslaBoomerMama @aelluswamy

@doomerzoomer @sama Seems inevitable given global hegemony. To me the key question is how we co-exist with AI and maximize human transcendence. Work as we define it today (blue-collar/ white-collar) does not need to define us.

@LouStagner Best take! Needs to get steeper :)

Chipping on Bermuda (into the grain) 😀

@Dru8484 @MidwestGolfJake Remote control

@MidwestGolfJake GM... I want to get a cart as well ... I will look into the Alphard, what are the top features you feel I/we should consider

Hands down the best golf purchase I've ever made is my Alphard V2. I love to walk, and with the V2 that's all it is. I'm not carrying or pushing, I'm just walking. There are some great Black Friday deals at Alphard right now, including $300 off the V2. And if you don't have a push cart, they have an option there too. This video is from my maiden voyage with it back in March. Note: I'm not affiliated with Alphard in any way. I just love the product.

@zagnut @MidwestGolfJake Remote works great. I like having the cart ahead of me to make sure it doesn’t hit a hole or the mud.

@MidwestGolfJake Is the Sidekick option worth it?

@philpancrazio @MidwestGolfJake Battery snaps in and out so you can charge and store the battery indoors (in a controlled temp, which is better for the life of the battery anyway).

@MidwestGolfJake Recharge batteries after each round? I like leaving my push cart in the back of my truck. How easy is it to recharge?

@Top100Rick Completely agree! You’re trip to Scotland seems have had the same effect it did on me. On revenue, I make it up to the course by buying more from the beverage cart (soft drinks at least until I get to the back nine!).

How the golf cart destroyed American golf culture: Disclaimer: I play in carts sometimes. This isn’t “You suck if you play in a golf cart”. Public golf culture in the USA has a lot of problems. And imo the golf cart was what changed the game. In the UK and Australia, golf is seen as a healthy social hobby. It’s a nature walk while hitting a golf ball and then a beer with friends afterwards. In America, it’s mocked. A lazy man’s game. Driving around getting smashed. It’s slow and often tense. It’s like sitting in traffic. How did the golf cart hurt the game? Takes away the health benefits Horrible for the turf Makes expensive and ugly cart paths mandatory Allows for more drinking, most don’t want to get drunk while walking Takes away the natural high Allows for bad golf course design Almost all of the great private golf clubs in the USA are walking only or highly encourage walking. This isn’t a coincidence. Golf is simply a walking game. It’s better for all involved. (With exemption for the handicapped.) As American golf evolves, thankfully we are seeing a move back to walking courses. The Park in Florida mandates walking in the mornings. Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley are walking only. And golfers are buying in! I learned playing cart golf as an adult. Walking 18 holes seemed like a chore. But once you start walking, you get it. And it becomes easier and easier and then becomes what you crave. The walk. Yes in Texas or Florida summers, carts will be used. Yes at mountain and some desert courses they are needed. But for a normal parkland course, we need to eschew the cart. It’s better for the game and for everyone who plays it. For all the cart golfers, give it a try if your course is walkable. It’s better in all ways.

When was the last time you took 2 weeks off without an agenda? Use that time to do a mini reboot to surface the why. What makes you tick, what things make you happy when nobody is looking. Try to tie all the things that you list above to those… if you can’t then you’re listing the wrong things in “I Have”. Or, get an Oura Ring to make sure you’re achieving a Readiness and Sleep score of over 85 most days of the week.

i have... - an amazing girlfriend - making ~$450k this year - can work anywhere / anytime - live in a house w/ a pool yet i have anxiety every damn day, tight chest, hard to take a deep breaths, intrusive thoughts, always feeling not enough, can never relax what went wrong

@Top100Rick Euros are just slower to change than the US (as with most things) and will eventually get there (maybe in 20 years!). But I don't think going to LIV has anything to do with it - that was an individual choice.

Is Luke Donald a bit of a hypocrite when saying it’s not about the money for the European Ryder Cup team? A bunch of his players risked their Ryder Cup careers for LIV cash. A bunch of guys gave up their Ryder Cup captaincy for cash. Money talks.

@Top100Rick Awesome, keep the momentum going into next year!

Michael Kim for the win in France!!!! Clutch!!! Let’s go!!!

@MidwestGolfJake Close Encounters of a birdie kind, hopefully!

Great spot for today's round!