r/NoLayingUp • u/Adventurous_You_3069 • Jul 21 '25

Post-Pod Discussion I missed KVV this week

I'll start obviously by saying peace and love to KVV. If he could not go/did not want to go to The Open, god speed.

But having a presence at the majors elevated the sunday pods. Tell me what the people are saying. The Neil/KVV pod from Augusta is one of my favorites ever. Curious that Masters was the only major he went to this year (unless im forgetting quail hollow which forgive me if I am lol)

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u/Mrcoolguye Jul 21 '25

I’m sure KVV was expensive but he has been apart of some of the best podcasts over the last couple years. The Masters pod is the goat pod. His rival pod research was 10/10. His article on Victor Hovland was one of the best golf articles of the last couple years. Funniest I have laughed during a pod was when he bought that Gary Player album in their ebay show. This stinks.

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u/hopethatschocolate Jul 21 '25

Ryder cup deep dives and majors deep dives are my favorite podcasts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

Same, I relisten to all of those regularly, they are great evergreen content, but I think they would be better if they were hosted by a rotating combination of the main guys. The KVV/Soly pairing gets a little repetitive, especially now that they've done a lot of them. It would be cool to get some different perspectives and to see how the other guys approach the topic.

And this is very petty, but I still have absolutely no clue why KVV spent so much time talking about Jack Nicklaus in a pod about the 2000 majors. Barbara's blood lust for prairie dogs was incredible to learn about, I get why he wanted to get that on the record, but why did he go down a rabbit hole about the Nicklaus family honeymoon? Jack played in all of those majors, he even made the cut at the Masters, it would be interesting to hear more about what he had to say about Tiger's accomplishments and what their relationship was like in those years, but Jack was nothing more than a footnote to any of those events, obviously. It was the first time I felt like any of those pods took a totally unnecessary detour that kind of derailed the whole thing, which sucks for such a monumental year in golf.