CHIPPIN’ IN – EPISODE 1
MAX HOMA & COLLIN MORIKAWA
JIMMY DARTS: What's the main camera here?
JASON KENNEDY: Right here.
JIMMY DARTS: This puppy, right here.
JASON KENNEDY: We're living right here.
JIMMY DARTS: Is this one of the harder courses to play, or easier?
MAX HOMA: This one's definitely on the harder scale.
JIMMY DARTS: But we're playing The Genesis (Invitational) tees.
MAX HOMA: The tips!?
JASON KENNEDY: It's all going to an amazing cause.
MAX HOMA: You're TV host, you can do whatever you want.
JASON KENNEDY: Carry on.
JIMMY DARTS: I'm still shaking from chunking it next to Hideki.
MAX HOMA: Nice putt, five more grand!
JIMMY DARTS: Let’s go baby.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's keep going.
JASON KENNEDY: You tweeted that golfers are a pretty psychotic bunch.
MAX HOMA: Yeah, we're some crazy people.
JASON KENNEDY: That’s on the green, that’s on the green!!
MAX HOMA: Yeah, ha ha ha, shot of the year!
JIMMY DARTS: Want to give you this brand new car.
JASON KENNEDY: We're doing hugs. Let's go.
JIMMY DARTS: Welcome to Chippin’ In.
JIMMY DARTS: A month ago, fires ravaged Southern California, leaving many families without homes or necessities. We are partnering with the PGA TOUR, FedEx and Genesis to raise money to help those affected.
JIMMY DARTS: This is a three-man scramble. We want to welcome our guest, Max Homa, today.
MAX HOMA: Thank you.
JIMMY DARTS: And I'm here with Jason Kennedy. I don't need to introduce him. He’s a world famous….
JASON KENNEDY: People honesly have no idea who I am.
JIMMY DARTS: …what do they call you? What’s your category?
JASON KENNEDY: I'm a TV host and I'm a dad.
JIMMY DARTS: We're gonna see how much money we can raise today for charity, for the California Fire Foundation. FedEx has decided to chip in $5,000 for every par we get today. JASON KENNEDY: Okay, what about birdies?
JIMMY DARTS: $10,000 for every Birdie and $15,000 for every eagle.
JASON KENNEDY: You got that, 5, 10, 15?
JIMMY DARTS: The pressure’s on.
MAX HOMA: I've never seen y’all play golf, so how much, how much lifting do I need to do here?
JIMMY DARTS: Hey, we…
JASON KENNEDY: Everything.
JIMMY DARTS: We can encourage you. He can give you reads. That’s about it.
MAX HOMA: Cool, sounds good.
JIMMY DARTS: And hole 18, we've got a special guest joining us. We might need a little extra help, because there, there might be a little obstacle in our way, but we'll just leave that for the last hole. But it could get a little rowdy.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's play some golf.
JIMMY DARTS: All right let’s get it.
JASON KENNEDY: All right, here we go.
JASON KENNEDY: So what's this one doing, Max?
MAX HOMA: Dead straight, par five. Keep it just left of that bunker. We'll be good. Don't worry. We'll use mine.
JASON KENNEDY: Thank you, Max.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby!
JASON KENNEDY: That's a little right.
MAX HOMA: That's all right, we got airborne.
JASON KENNEDY: We'll be fine.
JIMMY DARTS: She'll play.
JASON KENNEDY: Safe. Go ahead. Jimbo.
JIMMY DARTS: I've been playing on and off since I was a child.
MAX HOMA: Okay.
JIMMY DARTS: But I saw that you have the longest drive in PGA TOUR history.
MAX HOMA: Yeah…
JIMMY DARTS: Is that true?
MAX HOMA: Uphill into the wind. It actually hit somebody and went backwards a little. So, it should have been 500 yards, but 477, yeah.
JASON KENNEDY: 477?
MAX HOMA: 477, yeah.
MAX HOMA: Oh, you hit it hard.
JIMMY DARTS: Yeah. She's a little left, all right.
MAX HOMA I still like my chances.
JIMMY DARTS: Behind a big oak.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, oh, baby, perfect.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's get in the cart, boys. It's Max Homa ladies and gentlemen.
JIMMY DARTS: Am I driving this this puppy?
MAX HOMA: Yeah. Everyone, we could rotate.
JASON KENNEDY: I was thinking if everybody could just say what their biggest insecurity is. Jim, do you want to start?
JIMMY DARTS: Probably my chest.
JASON KENNEDY: What's wrong with your chest?
MAX HOMA: What about it?
JIMMY DARTS: I have a concave chest. And so, when I would hug people in high school, they would always say, what's that?
MAX HOMA: Yeah.
JIMMY DARTS: You know. And they would say, like, “Oh, are you missing a rib or something?” Can I go in the green?
MAX HOMA: I don't know.
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah, you’re good.
JIMMY DARTS: All right, okay.
MAX HOMA: What's yours J? I'll go last.
JASON KENNEDY: I swear on everything. I had no idea what Jimmy was gonna say, but I have two dots in the middle of my chest.
MAX HOMA: Oh, wow. We got a lot of chest stuff going on.
JASON KENNEDY: They called me bird chest growing up.
MAX HOMA: Bird chest!
JIMMY DARTS: What kind of distance we talking?
MAX HOMA: 280.
JASON KENNEDY: Is there a strategy when the rough is so thick?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, tee it as high as you can. I'm trying to get this thing high. Get a knuckle ball that'll actually bounce up, but I don't think I can get anywhere near the front of the green. Yeah, that's left of left. That's a good start, fellas. All right, good luck. Just aim right at that middle of that green. Yeah, good one.
JASON KENNEDY: Stay.
JIMMY DARTS: There you go. Jason, right down the pipe.
MAX HOMA: We need you.
JASON KENNEDY: Come on, Jim.
JIMMY DARTS:All right. This is what they call pressure.
MAX HOMA: Oh, hell, yeah. It's a little left. That's money. I think we might be able to make birdie. We have a chance.
MAX HOMA: The first thing that comes to mind just the forehead, hat tan line, because we take our hat off every last hole and shake hands. And mine's tough. I'm quite tan where people can see me in very, very not tan everywhere else, and then I also have like, a massive nose, and I'm losing a little bit of hair on the top, so I've been trying to distract people with like, a mini mullet thing going.
JIMMY DARTS: Dang.
MAX HOMA: So a lot of my insecurities, I'm realizing are when I take my hat off, I think that's like the bulk of my issues.
JIMMY DARTS: Could we see it?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, of course.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, wow, yeah, that is…
MAX HOMA: Shiny, huh?
JIMMY DARTS: Night and day. Reminds me of my grandpa, actually, he just passed away, and his ankles were like that.
MAX HOMA: Ankles were like, what? My forehead? That was one of the weirdest things I've heard a human being say.
JIMMY DARTS: We're thinking a 60 degree?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, I'm thinking we shouldn't have very far, 70 yards, 60 yards, maybe less. Just right of the pin, just short of the pin. All right, avoid the paraglider. That was awesome.
JASON KENNEDY: That’s actually great.
MAX HOMA: That's actually, that was awesome.
JIMMY DARTS: There we go.
MAX HOMA: That was really good. We actually have a real chance at birdie.
JASON KENNEDY: Sit.
MAX HOMA: That was awesome too. Sit, sit, sit. Just long. That's all right, that was really good dude.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby, that's right at it.
JASON KENNEDY: Let’s go, Max. That’s for $10,000.
JIMMY DARTS: He’s inches. It's like a foot long away.
JASON KENNEDY: Why doyou love Tory pines so much?
MAX HOMA: I've won here, so that helps.
ANNC: Another win on California soil.
MAX HOMA: I do love this golf course, but I'd say it's mostly just because I love this city.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, I didn't even hit it.
JASON KENNEDY: You got a little nervous.
MAX HOMA: Maybe I scared you at the speed.
JASON KENNEDY: You gotta get there.
MAX HOMA: Left edge, do your thing. Okay.
JIMMY DARTS: Almost Jason.
MAX HOMA: All right. Wow. That breaks.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay, $5,000.
JIMMY DARTS: 5K.
MAX HOMA: 5K but that is just beyond disappointing.
JIMMY DARTS: Okay, that just means there's an eagle out there waiting for us to catch it.
JASON KENNEDY: We got the jitters out. What do you got?
MAX HOMA: Short par four. See that bunker dead straight, down the, like, the left most bunker, you see? That's just left of the green.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby, pure.
MAX HOMA: Stay right, stay right.
JASON KENNEDY: That's unbelievable. Should we just…
MAX HOMA: That was kind of on the pin. That might not be awful.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh low.
MAX HOMA: All right, that's safe.
JIMMY DARTS: All right.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's go.
MAX HOMA: That is safe. First cut. You have a lot of speed. Did you play baseball?
JIMMY DARTS: Yeah.
MAX HOMA: Hell yea.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, nice.
JASON KENNEDY: Left, left.
MAX HOMA: Okay.
JIMMY DARTS: I was a good pitcher, but my batting average was like, like, point 20% because I love golf. So I would play golf…
MAX HOMA: And then you practice baseball?
JIMMY DARTS: Yeah. So you had to sacrifice baseball for golf, or you were never into it?
MAX HOMA: I love baseball, but yeah, I was definitely the best at golf.
JIMMY DARTS: We're getting to know you. You’re getting to know us. When I go out to eat, I get made fun of for ordering chocolate milk.
MAX HOMA: You order chocolate milk at dinner?
JIMMY DARTS: Every time. Usually, they don't have it.
MAX HOMA: You know what I wish I did? Is order… I like Shirley Temples. I haven’t had one since I was probably 12. But when does that….
JIMMY DARTS: You’re embarrassed to order it?
MAX HOMA: I think so. It's pink.
JASON KENNEDY: I always send Shirley Temples to friends,
MAX HOMA: I love rose, I drink rose to Justin all the time…see yeah, as a prank right?
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah as a prank, you send over a Shirley!
MAX HOMA: I hope I see you next time I catch then so I can get a Shirley Temple prank to me.
JASON KENNEDY: I’ll get you extra grenadine, if you want.
MAX HOMA: Those are great, dude.
JASON KENNEDY: You kidding me?
JIMMY DARTS: This doesn't look too bad. Yeah.
MAX HOMA: No, this, we should be chilling right here.
JIMMY DARTS: Just want to hit over that hump?
MAX HOMA: Yeah. And honestly, the greens seemed really soft. I was just saying right at it. That was a great shot. Go, go, go! That hill doesn't like charity.
JIMMY DARTS: Another two feet.
JASON KENNEDY: So a little further is that the goal?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, if you can land it where his ball, like distance wise, ended.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay.
MAX HOMA: That's mint. Okay. I'm gonna give you a tip too. We're gonna go right here.
JASON KENNEDY: Thank you for saying mint. I said that in a conversation yesterday, and someone was like, do people say mint? Yeah, and I say it all the time.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh baby.
MAX HOMA: Don't hate it. If it goes.
JIMMY DARTS: He loves bunkers. Oh, look at it
MAX HOMA: All right.
JASON KENNEDY: I Just, I got nervous.
MAX HOMA: We're hanging in there. What we could do on one of these holes is one of us hits the fairway.
JASON KENNEDY: I'd like that
MAX HOMA: That could be its own challenge.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, that's good.
MAX HOMA: Sit.
JIMMY DARTS: We're back down there.
MAX HOMA: We should be good.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, yeah.
JASON KENNEDY: All right, we're putting, right?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, it looks like we're putting, I'm gonna say right in here.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay.
MAX HOMA: We could really use this.
JASON KENNEDY: All right, sounds good.
MAX HOMA: I do think we also have this par wrapped up.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's go.
MAX HOMA: Don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but…
JASON KENNEDY: You gotta hit.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby.
MAX HOMA: Dude, that was a great line, though.
JIMMY DARTS: Almost.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay.
JIMMY DARTS: Is there any chance I make this?
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah.
MAX HOMA: Let's go. Jim.
JIMMY DARTS: All right.
MAX HOMA: I've seen the movie ‘Miracle.’
JIMMY DARTS: Oh!
MAX HOMA: That was a really good putt.
JASON KENNEDY: We're in for $5000.
MAX HOMA: That was a really good putt. We're in for five.
JASON KENNEDY: Stay right.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh baby, that was a good look.
MAX HOMA: Okay. 10K In the bank, we got 10K.
JASON KENNEDY: Let’s keep going.
JIMMY DARTS: What is golf like 5% mental?
MAX HOMA: And when you get to, like, the top of the top, it's probably like 90% mental. When you're just learning, it's mostly just all physical. It's just the hardest sport in the world.
JASON KENNEDY: What's a positive affirmation that you've read or heard lately that stuck with you?
MAX HOMA: You're never as far away as you feel like you are, I think that's pretty much as I've gotten older out here, that's that's the thing I noticed the most.
JASON KENNEDY: This is when I fell in love with this dude, in a great way. I was at JT's house, Justin Thomas, and I said, who do you talk to in this crazy profession…
MAX HOMA: My accountabilibuddy.
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah, and he shared just a little snippet with me of something that you said that really encouraged him. And I love your friendship. And I'm like, this dude is special.
MAX HOMA: Yeah, it's been nice having Justin, because it's like, it's a very individual sport, and I want to beat Justin's brains in every week, and I know he does back to me, but it's very cool to have somebody I can talk to the… to about just like, how hard this game is. And like, it's great to talk to your wife or your friends about it, but when you know somebody who's been inside the ropes and has hit bad golf shots and like, how do you overcome that? It's nice. So I do think community is a big part of all this.
MAX HOMA: 150 downwind, probably playing 40-45. We could use a birdie.
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah, birdie would be phenomenal.
MAX HOMA: That is great. It is gonna go 160?
JIMMY DARTS: Dang it too deep. Oh my gosh.
MAX HOMA: Hey, home run. Go, go!
JIMMY DARTS: Give him a members bounce.
JASON KENNEYD: So bad, so bad.
MAX HOMA: This one's on me.
JASON KENNEDY: Pretty much every shot again, I haven't really been doing enough. I’m doing enough to give you guys some pars. Cut ball. Do not hit that ridge. Golly.
JIMMY DARTS: Hey, we're putting, let’s go.
MAX HOMA: We are, but that is not a fun putt.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay,
JIMMY DARTS: Hey, I like a thrower, a 10-footer for birdie.
MAX HOMA: I wish we were closer, but at the end of the day, this would be much cooler for the video if we somehow made this putt. All right, it's going pretty hard to the right.
JIMMY DARTS: You got it J?
JASON KENNEDY: I’ll let it rip.
MAX HOMA: I'm gonna say, Yeah, I'll let it rip. You're gonna aim it somewhere in this vicinity. Do something awesome.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's go, baby.
MAX HOMA: That is such a good line, but we gotta go.
JIMMY DARTS: Little soft.
JASON KENNEDY: Bro, what is going on?
MAX HOMA: We gotta go. Most people when they get nervous, everything's too firm, so maybe you're not nervous enough.
JASON KENNEDY: Get it there, Jim.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh she moved.
JASON KENNEDY: Sit, sit, that was so good.
MAX HOMA: All right, good try. Now can I do something cool? Go.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby, it's coming.
MAX HOMA: Wow, that was slow.
JASON KENNEDY: Let's get our par.
JIMMY DARTS: Good putt.
JASON KENNEDY: All right, while I'm making this, tell me the funniest story that you've seen at a Pro Am because you're playing with people who…
MAX HOMA: Oh boy…
JASON KENNEDY: …because they're trying to just impress you.
MAX HOMA: I don't know about I gotta, I would have to think on the funny story, but the moment you know it's gonna be bad is when they say, what's the lead at? And you're just like, ‘Oh no.” We're all really …nice putt…5 more grand!
JIMMY DARTS: Oh baby.
JASON KENNEDY: In other words, you've seen it all.
MAX HOMA: But that's also what I tell the guys I play with. Someone will come up and say, “I'm so nervous,” and I try to always tell them, I said, well, here if this gives you any comfort, I've never gone home from a pro-am and told my wife, you won't believe how good or bad this guy just played with was because I've seen all of it.
JIMMY DARTS: Is there anyone on TOUR that you feel like is a child figure to you, and then someone that's a father figure?
MAX HOMA: Oh Collin Morikawa, I would call kind of like my little son.
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah?
MAX HOMA: Father figure….
JASON KENNEDY: Oh he’s here.
MAX HOMA: He finally got out of the car seat.
JASON KENNEDY: We were just talking about you.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: What’s up, boys!
MAX HOMA: We need help, brother, we need help.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: I'll be honest. I just watched that shot. I can't believe you put them there.
MAX HOMA: We're at zero. Why do you have a blindfold? You're freaking me out.
JASON KENNEDY: What’s up, Collin. Jason. How you doing?
MAX HOMA: We need to make a birdie.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: No, they, these happen to just pop up out of my pocket randomly, and I think we're just gonna play the whole blindfold.
MAX HOMA: Okay, maybe we'll do better.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: You know, life sometimes you gotta make it a little more difficult, because golf is not hard enough.
MAX HOMA: Such an easy game.
JIMMY DARTS: If we get a par better, FedEx is going to donate $35,000 on top of what we already raised, and Genesis is going to throw in that car right there. So, we're going to give it to a family, if we can come together as a family.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: We can do this.
JIMMY DARTS: Do y'all have any strategy.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: I, honestly, I don't think I've ever hit one blindfolded.
MAX HOMA: I've never done this.
JASON KENNEDY: We can line you up.
MAX HOMA: Just tell me if I move off of it.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Okay, you're a little on the heel. Is that fine?
MAX HOMA: Why am I also closing my eyes?
JASON KENNEDY: Keep ‘em open.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Hey, that's center.
MAX HOMA: That could not have been good. That's one of the most unsettling feelings ever. JIMMY DARTS: For some reason I feel great right now. I don't know if something came over me…
MAX HOMA: Collin, I have this weird suspicion you're gonna be good at this.
JIMMY DARTS: All right. Holy buckets. I feel like I'm on a roller coaster, like, this.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay, well, you’re gonna…
MAX HOMA: Jimmy at some point you’re gonna have to put the blindfold on. It’s not just a headpiece, brother.
JIMMY DARTS: All right, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on all right, Jason, I'm good here? We're lined up?
JASON KENNEDY: You're lined up. Nice and easy.
JIMMY DARTS: Does the club look good?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, literally perfect. Great. Great. Great.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: That’s fairway.
MAX HOMA: That is ideal. We needed that so badly.
JIMMY DARTI: It’s some…it’s straight?
MAX HOMA: it is right in the fairway.
JASON KENNEDY: Collin you feel good going last week?
COLLIN MORIKAWA: You go ahead. Go ahead, yeah, I'm the hope. Hope we hit the ball.
MAX HOMA: I have this weird feeling Collin is going to stripe it.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Jason doesn't even need us.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby. Good contact.
JASON KENNEDY: Where did it go?
MAX HOMA: Yeah, you hit that great.
JASON KENNEDY: But not in the right direction?
MAX HOMA: No.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Oh boy, okay, hold on.
MAX HOMA: you can do this, dude.
JASON KENNEDY: Yeah, get lined up.
MAX HOMA: You're still good.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, baby!
MAX HOMA: That was sick.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh my gosh. He striped it.
MAX HOMA: I knew he was gonna be good at that. Oh, it might be the right rough, but it's like, very far.
JIMMY DARTS: Right edge, deep.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Did it go far? Centered?
MAX HOMA: You centered it.
JASON KENNEDY: Wait, how did you know? I felt like you just knew.
MAX HOMA: Yeah, I knew he was gonna be good. He’s. a human robot.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: I might close my eyes in the real, in the real swings, yes.
MAX HOMA: So do we all have to give the masks back to Collin after so he can put him back in his pocket?
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Yeah I'm gonna go to sleep with these.
JIMMY DARTS: They should have let us drove, drive the cart on the fairway. Blindfolded. MAX HOMA: Found my ball.
JIMMY DARTS: How deep do you think Collin went?
JASON KENNEDY: He was dead center…
JIMMY DARTS: Oh there he is, he’s right on the fringe there?
MAX HOMA: Oh, Collin!
JIMMY DARTS: Wow you made the fairway.
MAX HOMA: And we get a club length.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: And we get a club length.
JIMMY DARTS: Bro, if we birdie this, that's gonna be wild.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: 215…your centered.
MAX HOMA: Blindfold engaged.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: You’re good.
JIMMY DARTS: Hey it’s straight.
JASON KENNEDY: That's straight and we'll take it.
MAX HOMA: How are you guys so good at this?
JIMMY DARTS: I'm looking good?
MAX HOMA: Sick. Okay.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: I mean, we are two for two in the fairway.
MAX HOMA: We are hitting a wedge in for our third.
JASON KENNEDY: Quiet please.
MAX HOMA: You're perfect.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, J….
MAX HOMA: Dude, that was really solid.
JIMMY DARTS: Good contact.
MAX HOMA: You're two for two on pure.
JASON KENNEDY: But where's it going?
MAX HOMA: Very far left.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: American flag.
JASON KENNEDY: Okay, gosh, someone got injured.
JIMMY DARTS: We will two putt for sure, if we can just get on and…
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Oh, got it. Okay.
MAX HOMA: Just get it on, Collin.
GROUP: Oh my god!
JIMMY DARTS: Oh baby!
MAX HOMA: Go sweetheart, oh my god, we have to bunker shot blindfolded. Yeah!
MORIKAWA: Oh it’s on the green. It’s on the green!
MAX HOMA: Shot of the year.
JIMMY DARTS: We love you! Dang, he's got a new style.
MAX HOMA: I've never seen you draw it before until you close your, turned your eyes off. That was awesome.
JIMMY DARTS: That was the best shot I’ve ever hit in my life.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: That was in the air for a long time.
MAX HOMA: If Collin makes this, it is the coolest hole of all time.
JIMMY DARTS: This is great. We're lined up good?
MAX HOMA: So good. Slow down. Hit it.
JIMMY DARTS: Oh, dang that was hard, all right. Oh, my goodness.
JASON KENNEDY: Too far right.
MAX HOMA: Too far right. Gotta go more. Left, left, there you go.
JASON KENNEDY: Killed it.
MAX HOMA: Boys.
JASON KENNEDY: Killed it.
MAX HOMA: Boys!
JASON KENNEDY: I couldn't see man!
MAX HOMA: Jason hadn't gotten a putt to the hole yet either, and he made up for it.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Move your putter a little towards you. You're a little on the heel, barely right there. Good.
JASON KENNEDY: For $35,000 and a car.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Straight, straight. Straight!
MAX HOMA: Okay.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: That was a great putt.
JASON KENNEDY: Great putt.
JIMMY DARTS: Is that what they call a ‘leave’?
MAX HOMA: Take the natural eagle.
JASON KENNEDY: Great leave?
MAX HOMA: Come on. Collin.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: That felt thin.
MAX HOMA: It was a little heely, you almost made it. Gosh, that was really close. All right, why don't you guys tap this thing in blindfolded.
JIMMY DARTS: All we have to do is make it. We sink this. Do I get the honor?
MAX HOMA: You get the honor.
JIMMY DARTS: You sure? I mean, yeah…
JASON KENNEDY: Get the honor.
JIMMY DARTS: I'm a nice guy, but all right, if I whiff this I'm moving to Nebraska.
MAX HOMA: We're not giving you any help on this one.
JIMMY DARTS: Am I lined up?
JASON KENNEDY: For $35,000 and a car? Yeah! Let's go.
JASON KENNEDY: Max, great job.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: You did it!
JIMMY DARTS: Well, thank you guys so much, man, for helping us raise some funds. We were able to raise, with that last hole, $50,000 to California Fire Foundation, and we're going to actually be able to give away this car. Now, this Genesis, they actually have a family here that they brought out to the weekend to just have a good time at the golf tournament, and they don't know they're winning anything. You ready to surprise them?
JASON KENNEDY: I'm so excited. Let's meet them.
JASON KENNEDY: How are you all I'm Jason. Kennedy. How you doing? What's your name? Mia, how sweet are you? Nice to meet you. I'm Jason. So, I was driving down here from Los Angeles, and I was reading about your story, and I was in near tears just about what has happened to you, what's happened to your community, and I can only imagine the feelings now that you've had a couple of weeks to process it. Where are you guys at with it?
CARLA CRUZ: I feel like she's been taking it the hardest, because she knows if it wasn't for smoke detectors, her and my parents wouldn't be here right now. The smoke detectors woke them up, and she was traumatized because she thought that she was going to burn in the house because she went back to get her dog. And we re literally jumping from hotels to Airbnbs and just going back and forth. It's been really, really hard.
JASON KENNEDY: My God. And Chris, is it true, you were actually at one of the shelters helping others out when you got a call?
CHRISTIAN CRUZ: Yes, or my boss called me when this fire was going on. They were going to use our center to as a shelter again, but when they saw it was big, they moved it to Pasadena Convention Center. And yes, I was one of the first responding, trying to get the shelter ready, and then getting that call like 3:30 in the morning that the house was burning. I didn't get a chance to take out anything. But luckily, my parents were safe, my niece, and but it really got to me, even though I lost the house that she called me telling me, “Nino, I thought I was gonna die, and you went there to protect me.”
JIMMY DARTS: We were out here today golfing with Collin and Max, and we were able to raise some money for different people that were affected by the fires. And so, we just wanted to let you know that, yeah, we want to donate $10,000 to y'all to help you out with as much as we can.
CARLA CRUZ: Thank you so much.
CHRISTIAN CRUZ: Definitely. Yeah, thank you.
JIMMY DARTS: And yeah, we also have one more surprise for you, if you haven't seen where we're standing right now, but yeah, we actually want to give you this brand new car. So this is yours as well.
JASON KENNEDY: Our friends at Genesis said it was so important …we're doing hugs. Let's go. They knew how important this was, and we want to thank them and bless you guys with a new car.
MAX HOMA: You can kind of start to understand the impact and the devastation of it a little bit more when it is something that's closer to where you're from. But it's been really cool to see the community in general coming together to make the best of a really bad situation.
COLLIN MORIKAWA: Its awful to see what families have gone through, what people have gone through, and what has happened to their families, friends. But LA Strong all the communities have come together. People have helped their neighbors. People have helped strangers that they don't know about. People have helped all reaches of life around them. And I think that's what LA represents. That's what LA is always gonna represent.
JIMMY DARTS: Mike, how's it going, man, you got a smile that can light up the whole world. On behalf of FedEx, we just want to bless you with this right here. And this is $50,000
MIKE LOPEZ: Wow. Thank you. This is going to go a long ways for the firefighters to put out the fires and give back. And I'm very fortunate, I'm retired, just to be part of our foundation, the California Fire Foundation. And just as another part of being one big family California.
JIMMY DARTS: Thank you, Mike, it was so great to meet you. And, yeah, we couldn't have played today for a better cause, and what you're doing out there in that work.
JASON KENNEDY: We appreciate you. Thank you for your service, and we're honored to meet you today.
MIKE LOPEZ: Oh, let’s go, baby.
JIMMY DARTS: God bless. You, Mike, thank you guys.
MIKE LOPEZ: Thanks, Max. Thank you very much.
MAX HOMA: Great job with everything.
MIKE LOPEZ: Absolutely.
JASON KENNEDY: That's a wrap, right? That's that's our first episode of Chippin’ In. Thanks for watching.
JIMMY DARTS: FedEx thanks for chipping in to the California Fire Foundation. And we can't wait to see who we have on our next episode.
JASON KENNEDY: Thank you, Genesis, and thank you to the PGA TOUR and again, Collin and Max, we'll see you next time. Bye, guys.