WEBVTT - Andy and Garrett Go to Augusta National 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.960 And when I find my ball in a bride Egg 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.039 Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg, 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.080 brigg Frida Egg, Bride Egg Lie. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:40.080 I'm about ready to run off the. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.320 Welcome to the Frida Egg Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison, and 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.360 today we are debriefing our own Andy Johnson's media lottery 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.960 round at Augusta National. Here to discuss that with me 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.640 is Jeff shackle No, it's Andy himself. Andy. It's now 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.800 a couple of days since you played Augusta. Have you 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.240 snapped back to reality at this point? Have you had 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.760 any sort of humbling experiences that have brought you back 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.440 down to a sort of regular level. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.120 Well, I think that would have been the case if 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.440 I had returned immediately to my my wife and daughter 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.440 and been you know, just as anytime you're gone for 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.440 a while, as you and Shane talked about on Tuesday, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.560 you kind of you kind of assume assume heavy duties 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.399 right away on the home front. And I have yet 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.520 to return, so I'm still. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.040 Kind of living. I'm still buzzing. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.720 I saw the park, a new Gil Hanson design here 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.400 in West Palm Beach, which was really cool. I'm excited 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.520 to talk to about that at a future date, but 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.959 like definitely saw some stuff out there that you know, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.160 you maybe maybe the first green there had a little 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.360 bit of Augusta National flare to it, So it is, uh, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.040 I'm still kind of buzzing on it. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:46.800 You know. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.360 The amazing thing I think, like, I obviously I never 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.320 expected to be playing Augusta National. You know, if you 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.840 said at twenty seven year old me would pretty much 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.440 the dream of playing Augusta Nashville was gone. But you know, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.400 getting getting to play it was amazing. And I think 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.680 the thing that I'm shocked by is like how many 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.080 people from my my life have reached out about about 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.560 like wanting to talk about the round. And it just 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.720 shows like how much of a special place Augusta National holds. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.919 And everybody's like, you know, golf life, right, it's a 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.000 uh And I think, you know, for me being a 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.880 kid that like grew up watching the Masters and and 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.120 grew up going to the putting green at my local 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.760 Muni and hitting putts to win the Masters and different 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:37.000 things like it's it's super understandable why it is. It 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.480 is a golf it is a golf course in a tournament. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.640 That really is one of the big things that makes 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.399 people love the sport more, you know. And I think 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.960 that's the thing that the couple of days after I've 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.320 kind of picked up on just from people reaching out 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.520 spent it's spent kind of nuts. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:54.680 Ay. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.639 Uh, so many text messages and phone calls. Uh, and 0:02:58.720 --> 0:02:59.840 you know, everybody wanted. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:00.600 To hear you know. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.120 It's like I wrote twice seven hundred words that people 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.280 still have more questions. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.720 You know, Well, maybe we can get to some of 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.519 those questions in this episode. You know, you can bring 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.040 up stuff that people have asked you. I'll bring in 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.080 some stuff from Twitter. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.200 Well, I wanted to talk to you. It was your 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.000 first time there. I think that we're burying the lead here. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:19.800 This is you. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.560 This is your first time seeing it in person. I 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.560 wanted to hear about. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.600 You, you know, I try to keep it under wraps 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.760 a little bit that I had not been to Augusta 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.200 National before because it's just one of those things that 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.240 gave me ongoing imposter syndrome. You know, I had studied 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.200 the course so much, but never actually set foot on 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.400 the property. I had read everything I could about it, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.400 watched every Masters for a few decades, right just as 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.600 you have, and done as much as I could to 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.000 learn about the course without actually going there. So I 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.240 got to cover the Augusta National Women's Amateur a couple 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.400 of weeks ago, and for the first time actually, you know, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.080 have Augusta National grass under my feet and go walk 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.920 the golf course, and so that was an amazing privilege, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.680 really fun, enlightening. And so I can talk a little 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.840 bit about that, but you know, people really want to 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.000 hear about your round, and I can kind of chip 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.159 in my own observations here and there. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.360 Before we get into to something that I don't really 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.200 like talking about my golf round. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.080 We won't focus too much on your golf shots themselves. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.320 We can talk about the course. We're in a safe 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.000 space here the Friday Podcast. I mean, I think people 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.880 expect you to talk about the architecture as opposed to 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.960 your birdies and bogies. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.800 What was your like if you had one big takeaway? 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.040 What would be like one big takeaway from you know, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.280 obviously studying, watching and then being there. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.719 You know, you can go hills. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.360 This is no, no, no, I mean well because I 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.640 expected that, right everybody says the hills are bigger in 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.240 person than they are on TV. That's become a cliche. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.520 It's become a joke at this point, right. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.240 Well, I mean it's insane, though it is, it is 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.000 really impressive. That was something for me, well, being out 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.600 there when no people were around. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.520 I was looking at two and I'm like, that looks 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.680 like a fricking ski run right down the hill and 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:17.640 ten and. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.520 Then how amazingly uphill eighteen is. But the thing is 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.280 people have heard other people say these things before, and 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.520 so I think that they've lost impact. So saying just 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.800 saying like, no, really the hills are really big, I'm 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.120 not sure is going to convince people any further. One 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.040 thing that I did pick up on related to the 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:43.560 topography was how many shots have obscured sightlines. I think 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.880 that that's something that people maybe don't appreciate enough because 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.640 the land is so dramatic. There are a lot of 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.320 not necessarily blind shots, but partially blind shots. There are 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.840 a lot of t shots where if you hit the 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.719 ideal landing zone, you don't see your ball come to 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.880 rest and that's something that is the result of the topography. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.440 You can't build a course on land that dramatic and 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.640 have every shot be kind of perfectly visible from beginning 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.160 to end. Really, the eighth hole is the only tea 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.599 shot on the entire course where you can completely see 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.239 your tea shot come to rest. Otherwise, you know, there's 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.760 a situation on every hole where you can kind of 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.400 be blind as to where your ball ends up. And 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.159 so you know, that's that's a little thing about the 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.120 land that really struck me. But you asked for a 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.359 big takeaway, I really don't have one. I just have 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.039 a lot of details, right. That's the big thing for 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.280 me is that I you know little details about each hole, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.400 about each green that I didn't really appreciate until I. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.960 Saw them, to be completely honest, I think like your 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:53.280 takeaway about the obscured site lines off the tee that 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.039 makes a huge impact on. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:57.320 The T shot. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.960 I like, I was shocked at how hard and uncomfort 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.839 the T shots are. Yeah, like I hit a fade 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.280 so that like that doesn't go well there. I mean 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:12.120 you think about the T shots like two, five, seven, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:13.880 even you kind of want to draw the ball in 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.600 seven because of the slope of the fairway and it's narrow, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.600 like you don't have a lot of space. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.320 Nine ten. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.240 All of the t shots are uncomfortable in some way 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:27.360 or another. They really are. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.400 But all those are draw holes. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.280 But the thing about it is the obscurity of the 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.560 sight lines also makes it because there are these big 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.120 cascading slopes and it makes you feel like you need 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.280 to do more than you actually do need to do. Right, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.760 but like sometimes like you feel like you're hitting especially 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.880 it was pretty gusty wind the day I played, and 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.760 the wind out there it's nuts. It's just you hear 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.600 the South of telcasts and I like, I know people 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.559 give tell broadcasters a lot of shit about talking about things, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.920 but the wind out there is crazy. Like you you 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.760 stand one place and it feels one way, and then 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.880 you're in a different place and you're like, well, it 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:12.400 was down on two. It can't be, you know, it 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.520 can't be a like down on four. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.280 But you know, you get. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.160 Into these little tunnels and you're it's like, no, it 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.040 actually might be. And then you hit shots and it 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.520 all leads to this like obscured sight lines. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:27.640 The wind thing. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.000 What it does is it creates doubt and that's the 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.360 thing out there that you cannot have, Like uncommitted swings 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.800 are just like the death. Like I was like very uncomfortable. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.199 I wrote this in the article, but I it's been 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.480 a long time since I played a tournament, like probably 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.760 like four or five years since I played my last 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.360 tournament round, and I kind of felt like I felt 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.480 it would feel on like the first hole of a tournament, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.600 like a say like a state qualifier, USGA qualifier, where 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.800 you have this like nervous energy about you, and you know, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.520 I think the thing about it, and this is what 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.720 happens to so many inexperienced tournament players, Like it's always 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.560 like I always found a humorous like people like, oh, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.480 he's the best player at this club, and then they 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:22.160 go out and shoot eighty and every qualifier, right, and 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.800 it's like it's different golf than club golf, right. And 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.680 that's the thing out there that I noticed is like 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.280 it puts you on tilt because of like you really 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.360 want to play well, Like it's around you want to 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.640 play well, and you put a little bit more pressure 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.120 on yourself to play well, but you're also nervous because 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.880 of the place, the reputation of the place and all 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.520 the golf shots that you've watched out there over the years, right, 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.040 it's impossible to not be nervous. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.320 I think out it's sort of like what happened to 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.760 Gordon Sargent at the Masters. All this type leading in. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.800 This guy has unbelievable skills, he's so long's his practice 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.080 rounds have been unbelievable. He gets in the tournament and 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.920 things go sideways really really quickly, And I think that 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.520 that's something that this type of course does. I don't 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.120 know if there's a type of course that Augusta National 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.120 and bodies, but there are just a lot of variables 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.760 out there. It's not one of these courses where you 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.840 can ever get into a groove and feel like you're 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.679 hitting driving range shots. It's just one where when you're 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.760 hitting a shot, and I would I'm asking for confirmation 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.679 here because I haven't actually hit shots there. When you're 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.560 hitting a shot, it just seems like you have so 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.360 many different variables to go through and you end up 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.000 focusing on a couple and forgetting about one or two. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.200 And those one or two variables that you forget, whether 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.600 it's the wind or the lie that you have or whatever, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.920 those end up coming back to bite you. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:50.400 Yeah, exactly. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.240 Like the only it's the only time you get like 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.920 relief is on part threes when. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.120 You're on flat tea ground. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.880 Yeah, Like they're actually kind of like your sanctuary where 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.320 you get to hit the driving range shot, right, Yeah, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.720 and those happen to be they're tough, like they aren't easy, 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.599 Like twelve is twelve you can't figure out the wind's 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.400 that's totally a thing. But yeah, you know, like a 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.360 couple examples of that, right, and these are things that 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.880 you just don't like you can't pick up even watching, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.199 Like I think the other thing to preface this with 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.440 is like I've gone the last two years as media, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.680 I've walked the course probably twenty plus times. I'm very 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.000 familiar with the golf course, but you don't really know. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.400 Like we got a mailbag question about this in Club 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.720 TFE our membership that I did a mailbag for is like, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.840 you know, what are the advantages disadvantages of walking versus 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.640 playing when you're kind of like seeing a golf course. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.600 And one of the things I said is like when 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.559 you walk a golf course, one of the tough things 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.040 is you can't feel the shots, like you don't feel 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.840 what it's like to stand on the tee and like 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.480 you're addressed to the ball looking out and the stuff 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.040 that's going to go through your mind. Yes, and likewise, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.800 like that's I think that's the big thing. The difference 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.280 between walking Augusta National twenty times and playing it is 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.800 that when you're playing it, you get these weird feels 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.200 and you you just like that's that's the stuff that 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.120 I took away the most. You know, example, the second hole, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.360 I was playing the members teas. I played person a 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:29.440 person driver and uh in seventies blades. So like one 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.400 of the nice things with that is I I can 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.680 hit the ball pretty far. Is that it brought a 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.000 lot of hazards back into play. It didn't bring all 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.600 of them into play that the pros content with with 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.160 the with the back teas, it made some T shots harder, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.160 Like five, I found it to be a really hard 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.440 T shot for me from the Members ta's because like 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.560 I had like a a diagonal right hazard with those trees. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.240 But like the second hole, for example, I hit it 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.080 over the bunker. I think that bunker shouldn't be there. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.240 It wasn't an original bunker, and I've always said that 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.560 it stops balls from running into the pine straw on 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.560 the right. My ball ran into the pine straw on 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.120 the right. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.080 Yeah, which is where John Rum was in the in 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.440 the final round actually, because he carried the bunker and 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.520 he kind of ran down there. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.640 And it's not it's like a it's a cool place. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.000 It's like if it was just fair way grass, it 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.800 would be like a delightful place to hit a shot from. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.320 I would I would really enjoy hitting a shot from 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.160 there because you've got like you kind of have this way. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.600 You get a really nice angle to swing it into 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.040 that back right pin, you know, with the contour. But 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.800 I'm standing over the shot and the ball's like, you know, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.680 five or six inches below my feet, you know, and 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.280 then it's on a downslope and I was like standing 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.640 over the shot and I'm like, I'm really worried about 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.480 just hitting the ball right now because like if my 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:52.120 foot slips, like I might shank this because like you're 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.679 it's just like you're on this lie. And then it's like, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.040 you know, I hit a pretty good shot, but like, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.640 what what didn't happen? Why I didn't hit it perfectly 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.840 flushed and hit a great shot was like I didn't 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.880 engage my lower body the right way like so in 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.680 that case, like one of the things I was so uncomfortable, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.839 I forgot to move the right way right and when 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:14.720 you so, I caught. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.520 It just a little thin. It tailed a little bit 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:17.959 on the right. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.640 I had a left to right wind there a down 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.880 left to right wind, and it got in the wind. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.640 A little because it just wasn't hit as crisp as 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:26.520 it should. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.000 Have been, and it ends up in the bunker, you know. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.280 And then from that bunker, it's not an easy shot. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.400 It's deep, you know, the back right pin, you're in 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.040 the right bunker, Like you have no green to work with. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.640 I try to use the slope, hit a little too hard, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.720 end up on the back edge of the green, and 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.920 I have that downhill putt and it's like you can't 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.960 keep that putt, Like a great putt is six feet away. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:50.800 So then all of a sudden you got six. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.800 So I three putt, I make a six, and I 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.040 had two hundred and twenty yards in you know, And 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.960 it's just that's the way that golf course works. It's 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.560 just like, you know, you get out of position and 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.560 it doesn't feel like you did anything that wrong, but 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.160 it gets you and it's like funny because like you 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.640 think about Augusta National As, it's like fun court, Like 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.080 there's space right, you can make a lot of birdies. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.040 It is like if you hit great shots, you you 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.520 will make birdies out there. But the thing about it 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.240 is it's really freaking hard if you if you just 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.680 get a little out of position. And I think that's 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.880 the thing. It's like it's super fun. It's super fun 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.760 to play. But one of my big takeaways is like, god, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.280 it's freaking hard. And obviously I played in the Sunday 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.760 Masters Pins and with the way the weather was, the 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.680 course had firmed up from Sunday because it was really cool, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.120 crisp and windy. So like I you know, like I 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.680 hit a wedgend of three. I couldn't believe I barely 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.880 made a ball mark. Like it was like you know, 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.360 it's got it got kind of firm, and you know 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.680 that's that you just have to be so precise. So 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.000 like that's the case on on two and I don't 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.120 I hope, but this isn't a long winded But then 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.680 the one I wrote about in the article is ten 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.480 so ten I had a really good three wood down 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.840 there and I had I think it was one ninety 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.680 uh and I. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.040 Were you on the right side or the left side. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.160 So there's a there's a ridge in the middle of 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.080 the fairway. I don't know if you've seen that. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.200 Yeah, I mean there's sort of a plateau. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:22.680 Yeah. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.280 And and that used to be a really good place 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.960 to approach where the green was to the right of 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.880 the famous bunker. Right, it's kind of you're sort of 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.040 on on on high ground there. And the trick was 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.440 on the old hole that if your ball kicked down 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.920 to the left, then you had a really hard shot 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.320 over that bunker. But if you managed to keep it 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.880 up to the right, you you know, you could go 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.760 straight into the green. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.720 But now it's the opposite, yeah, exactly. So my ball 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.760 ended up like right on the edge of the ridge. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.080 So I had a really severe side hill. Yes, So 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.160 it was like not on the top on the right side, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.160 It wasn't on the left side. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.120 It was kind of in the middle. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:01.760 And it was right by that tree that a few 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.639 people got caught behind Morikawa and Kopka, and maybe the 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.000 third round it was they got caught back there. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.480 Maybe this maybe the final round. I can't remember. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.399 It's kind of all running together the way the tournament worked. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.560 But anyways, so I'm there. So I got one ninety. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:24.480 It's downhill, it's downwind, and I hit what what would 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.040 be like a modern six iron. I think maybe it 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.800 might have been two hundred. I'm not sure. I can't. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.640 I can't remember exactly. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.679 But I had the side hill downhill lie, very severe 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.080 sidehill lie, downhill lie. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.520 You know I got. I got comfortable over the shot. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:41.719 I was ready to hit it. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.959 You know, one of the things with that lie, with 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.960 the down with a downhill lie, my tendency is to 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.400 miss right. It kind of squeezes out right and fades 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:53.000 on me. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.040 Yeah, you might hit it thin sort of healing. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.959 So that the tendency now of the side lie is 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.920 the for the ball to go left right. So you're 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.439 thinking about both of these things, right, And I'm choking 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.399 up to make sure I hit it solid because I 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.560 like to choke up when I'm on a side hill 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.080 and take a little extra club because I'm choking up 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.719 four inches. So anyways, I hit the shot and like 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.879 the last thing I thought versus two, like my body 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.280 didn't move right when you get this awkward lie. My 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.000 body didn't move and it's an easy thing to forget. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:28.520 To do right. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.720 And when you have these lies, if your body doesn't move, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.919 it extent accentuates your miss is way more than a 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.160 flat lie. Like you can get away with not having 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.520 great body movement from a flat lie. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.120 When it's an uneven lie. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.119 Usually if your body doesn't move right, it's going to 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.879 be a pretty poor shot. So anyways, I really focus 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.439 on that and I just flushed it like hit it perfect. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:56.920 It was one of the best iron shots I hit 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.560 of the day. And I just one of the things 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.960 I didn't consider enough was the wind. You know, I 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.360 just it wasn't in my thought process as I got 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.960 up to the shot. And that's the tough thing is 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.679 that you have the physical nature of the golf course 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.479 where you know, i'mlike, by like the eighth hole, I 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.080 was kind of like, wow, this place is a beast 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.719 walking wise, and I know that from walking around it, 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.240 but it's just like you know, like you really feel 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.600 it in your body. But then on the you know 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.240 the other part of it is it will mentally exhaust 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.200 you as well because of how engaged and how many 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.800 things that you have to consider on every shot that 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.680 that shot landed pin high five feet left of the flag. 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.040 It was a great iron, bounces over the green, and 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.000 you know, I hit a great pitch, but I still 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.320 had eight feet and it's just like, you know, you 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.080 hit that shot, and it's like, Wow, I hit a 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.600 great drive, a great second shot, and I'm and I'm 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.440 walking up and it's like, well, I'm probably going to 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:56.800 make another bogey, you know. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.480