That Video of Rob Riggle Sinking a 100-Foot Putt as Definitely NOT A.I. Slop! | The Rich Eisen Show
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That Video of Rob Riggle Sinking a 100-Foot Putt as Definitely NOT A.I. Slop!

Rob Riggle's 100-foot putt was everywhere on Rich's Instagram and Threads feeds. It was real, it had stakes, and Riggle still sounds a little amazed by it.

"I've been getting a lot of messages saying, you know, 'Holy cow,'" Riggle told Rich.

The putt came during a derby at a tournament at Pebble Beach, played at Spanish Bay. Riggle's partner was his girlfriend Kasia, whom he described as "a really, really good golfer." She is, as was pointed out on set, a pro.

The format was alternating shot. Every team started on the first hole, and after each hole more teams were eliminated, so that by the sixth or seventh hole the tournament was over. On this par four, Riggle teed off and found a sand trap, leaving the ball "right up on the lip." His girlfriend hit what he called a miracle shot out of there and put it on the back of the green. Then it was Riggle's turn.

"I just wanted to get it down close," he said. "And miracle of miracles," it went in. That was for birdie, and it was what they needed to advance.

Rich had a parenting comparison ready. Leaving your partner a brutal sand shot in a high-stakes moment, he suggested, is like walking out of the house while one kid is having a tantrum and saying, "I got to run." Riggle went further. It's like getting a call from your wife asking when you'll be home because she needs help, "as you're sitting in the parking lot of Dairy Queen eating a peanut butter parfait going, 'I'm doing my best. Traffic's a nightmare.'"

How did his girlfriend react to the tee shot? Riggle said he gave her the "Sorry, babe," the "Hey, baby." His reasoning: "Only one of us is a pro here, baby."

Riggle broke down the putt itself. He was on the fringe, "almost up against the tall stuff," so even getting his club on the ball was tricky. It was probably 50 or 60 feet to a dip, and he knew that if he reached the dip it would roll pretty hard. "The whole thing was just get it to the thing and it just barely made it over that hill," he said. "It almost slows to a stop, but it catches a couple extra rotations."

Rich said the only thing missing was running past a bunch of porta-potties to get to the next shot, a nod to "Holey Moley," the show Riggle did with Joe Tess. That opened the floodgates. How do we bring it back?

Riggle is all for it. He said he hopes the good people over at ABC or Disney see the wisdom. "Bring it back. The people want it." He said he runs into more people who ask about that show than anything else he does. It was family entertainment, the kind a whole family would sit down and watch together, and Riggle said he and Joe were "absolutely having a blast."

"I wish they'd bring it back," Riggle said.

Watch the full interview with Rob Riggle on The Rich Eisen Show, streaming live on Disney+ weekdays Noon-3PM ET.

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