WEBVTT - Takeaways from the 2025 Masters with Trevor Immelman 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.520 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.920 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.920 And when I find my ball in a fried. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:11.080 Egg Friday egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida egg, fridagg 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.280 bride egg, Lie, I'm about ready to run off of. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:41.800 The Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.560 I am your host, Andy Johnson, and I am back 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:52.760 at home after an unforgettable Masters Uh tournament. I am 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.720 not sure if we will ever see as thrilling of 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.640 a tournament for my lifetime covering the sport, however long 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.280 that goes after this year. I am just so grateful 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:11.520 that I was there. Rory McElroy just went through it all. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.399 There were the highs, lows, a lot of other highs, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.959 and a lot of other lows on his way of 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.480 capturing his first major championship since twenty fourteen, completing the 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.760 career Grand Slam, becoming the sixth player in the history 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.400 of golf to do so, joining Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.040 Gary player Ben Hogan, and Gene Sarazen and the players 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.120 that have accomplished that. I was on the grounds and 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.880 I followed the final group all day on Sunday. Brendan 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.920 Porath and I did a long recap of what it 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.800 was like to be on the ground on Sunday night 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.680 on the shotgun start. But I mean, I don't know. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.320 I have a buzz and I'm not sure I'll lose 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.520 that buzz. It's just it's a reminder that the Masters 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:10.480 is just this unbelievable tournament because of the the players, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.720 the history and what it's been able to become with 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.800 the you know what winning a green jacket and tails 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.880 and you know that gravity of that, and then the 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.080 golf course. I mean, the the golf course is just 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:30.960 an extraordinary test. There are no places to hide. Every 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:36.080 year going down there, I'm just amazed at how you 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.880 just have to hang on and in every part of 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.640 your game you just cannot hide. There are you know, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.079 if you're worried about your chipping, you're going to find 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.080 yourself in some very difficult locations that you need to 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.799 hit good chips or else you could make a double 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.520 or worse from as we saw with blood Big on 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.400 the eighteenth hole or Rory in the fourteenth hole, like 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.400 you can be in what seems like a fairly benign 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.000 position and and everything can get away from you so quickly. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.040 It's just an amazing golf course. You have to put 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.840 it well, you have to drive it well, and you 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.560 have to hit your approach shots great. I'm thrilled to 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:19.120 be joined by Trevor Emmmelman, master Champion himself lead analyst 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.320 on CBS. He was doing the telecast with Jim Nantz, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.280 which I thought was phenomenal. It was great. I had 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.119 a long flight home that I was able to sit 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.440 and sit down and watch the telecast. I thought it 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:37.360 was really spectacular. The team at CBS is doing really 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.000 great job showing golf and I thought that was a 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:47.280 extraordinary telecast and was awesome to watch after being out 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.880 on the ground. You you know, out there with no 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:55.400 phones and you know, kind of a very large patron 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.760 gallery you are, you're seeing what you see and relying 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.800 on roars and and kind of murmurs through the crowd 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.320 to know what else is going on on the golf course. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.840 And uh, coming back and watching the telecast was was 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.120 just extremely additive and it was a great way to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.680 relive what was a sunday I will never forget. Big 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.080 congrats to Rory McRoy for getting it done, getting across 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.000 the line, ending the drought, and UH launching what now 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.720 looks to be a extraordinary major season set up for him. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.839 We'll see if he can snag another one or more 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.479 with with what's coming down the pipe with Quail Hollow 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.680 just a couple of weeks away. So Trevor, Trevor joined big. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.800 Thanks to him for carving some time out in his 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.279 busy schedule. I think we will be doing these after 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.279 every major ME and Trevor, so lock in and enjoy 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.680 this one. It was great to unpack everything with the 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.599 UH with the great Trevor Immelman. All right, before we 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:05.159 get to Trevor Big, thanks to be Dratty. 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For you are you have 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.400 you processed where this sporting event might sit in terms 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:19.880 of all timers for golf. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.120 First of all, it's awesome to be with you. Man, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.360 saw you from a distance last week, didn't didn't didn't 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.920 get up to you to be able to shake your 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.040 hand and say hi. I know, busy you guys were. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.520 I was reading all the newsletters and all that kind 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.360 of stuff, keeping track. But you know, I'm this is 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.720 the first time I'm starting to think about it. Yesterday 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.959 went up to congaree and rarely just tried to unplug 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.720 from the whole thing and not think about it at all. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:56.120 We did fifteen hours of live golf television on the 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.680 weekend on CBS, which is it's kind of hard to 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.960 even wrap your mind around the intensity of that. But 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.040 as you start to let it settle and let your 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:15.600 your thoughts start to fall in line, it's an all timer. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.360 You know, you start to throw it up there with 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.520 Jack in eighty six and Tiger in twenty nineteen. And 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.160 you know, Tiger had a bunch of them when he 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.880 completed the Grand Slam in two thousand, when he was 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.840 winning those majors by you know, eight, ten, twelve shots 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.680 all the time you won four straight majors. This is 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.280 going to be thrown right in there the meaning of it. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.840 Look winning a green jacket, And I don't say this 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.760 just because I'm lucky I've to have done it. You know, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.720 it might sound a little weird. That's not my style. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.040 You guys know that, But winning a green jacket is 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:02.640 it's such a monumental moment in your life anyway, And 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.719 now for him, after all these years of like anticipation 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:13.000 and build up and heartbreak, for him to get that 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:18.280 done is tremendous in its own aspect. But the fact 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.360 that he's done it to join this list of five 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.200 other guys, you know, sort of like a mount Rushmore 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.520 with an extra little piece on it, with six of 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:34.160 them now is it's going to be remembered for a 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:39.200 very very very long time and spoken of as you know, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.160 where were you on that day when McElroy felt like 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.400 he choked it away every third hole but eventually ended 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:51.079 up winning. I mean, it was a remarkable week. Everything 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.240 was great about it. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:58.000 I think something that was telling when he talked afterwards 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.280 was and I think, like, I think this puts it 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.840 into perspective a little bit, because everybody was like talking 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.200 about the time span of the chances at the career 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:15.720 Grand Slam you know, and the pressure of coming there, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:20.240 for this was the eleventh year in a row with 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.480 the chance to win the career Grand Slam. He kind 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.839 of joked, like, what are we going to talk about 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.520 next year? But then when you add in what he 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:34.520 added in was like my disappointment since twenty eleven. Yeah, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.439 And so just if you looked at just the Masters, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:45.199 it's just this, you know, fourteen years of disappointment and heartbreak. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.280 And whether it was one of the years that he 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.319 missed the cut and bombed out, that's like one type 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.720 of heartbreak. Whether it's twenty eleven where he had the 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.560 tournament in his palm on the back nine, and that's 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.160 a whole different type of heartbreak. The middle period where 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.920 he like is resigned that he's so happy that he 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.800 finished second in a non competitive second, like he's just 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.080 elated that he had a good memory leaving there. But 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.200 then when you add on top of that the last 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:21.240 three years of major championship, like the close calls, the 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.800 not getting across the line at the old course, LACC 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.960 and Pinehurst, it's just like, I think the thing that 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.200 I took away from watching the telecast when you were 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:36.439 on the ground, you felt you felt the energy and 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.200 like you you felt these like raw emotions of like 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.320 in the swings and watching the telecast seeing just seeing 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.280 Rory's face. Yeah, and what you could just see the 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:56.480 the enormity of the moment, the enormity of the accomplishment, 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.679 and also all the things that he was trying to 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.000 get through and get across the line. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:11.960 Yeah, what was quite fascinating to me. And you know, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.560 Jim Lanson, I sit down in Butler Cabin, our little studio, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.120 Our little booth is down in the back of Butler Cabin, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:25.120 right next to where you guys watched the presentation. So 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:30.280 that's the room we sit in. And you know, I 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.400 had that line at the end when he reacted and 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.560 he went down to the ground and you could see 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.320 he was like so emotional about it, and it almost 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.560 looked like he was struggling to breathe at one point. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.960 And I had a line that I threw out there, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.400 something something like you know that that's eleven years of 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.319 a built up emotion coming out right there. And then 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.760 he came in and Jim mentioned that to him in 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.160 this in the presentation, and when he said, oh no, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:05.520 that's actually fourteen years since twenty eleven. I was like, Wow, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.120 we when we think of Rory, we think of oh, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.640 he's you know, where's his emotions on his sleeve. He's 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.280 the most open and honest golfer out there. He answers 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.120 every question. He tells you exactly how he feels, maybe 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.400 even at times to his own detriment because he can 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.560 contradict himself because he's been around for so long and 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.880 his positions have changed, and you know, people call him 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.960 a flip flopper, but it's like, hey, this guy's been 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.680 around for like, you know, almost two decades. He's allowed 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:41.440 to change his opinion as he matures. But what I 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.880 realized was, man, that even though he had won four majors, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.440 since he had won I don't know, what is he 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.560 like twenty nine PGA Tour events, probably twenty DP World 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.560 Tour events. I mean, this guy's won all over the world. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.360 I think he's that thirty nine DP World PGA Tour 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.120 winds Okay. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.960 So even though he's done all of that, that twenty 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:12.800 eleven Masters was like a thorn in his side. Man. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.120 It was the thing that has made him get up 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.600 in the morning for the last fourteen years. And that 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.720 to me was we learned something about him that we 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.840 didn't know because a lot of people would say, Okay, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.320 well he choked that Masters in twenty eleven, but then 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.600 he went to the next year so open and won 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.240 by I don't know how many went by six or 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.880 eight or something like that, and they're like, oh, he's 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.280 put the demons to best bed. No, no, no, no, 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.280 this has been bothering him for fourteen years, bro. I 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.320 mean that to me was something like, Wow, I just 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:56.920 learned something about Rory McElroy. And the atmosphere was so 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.240 thick and heavy the whole day, all the way through. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.720 I mean, he was still super emotional when he came 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:09.280 into Butler Kevin, What a day? What a week? 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.200 Yeah, the the I think you nailed it. Like the 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:18.520 emotions were that, the outpouring of them. I was standing 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.920 where like kind of in that tunnel where they walk 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.520 off the green and by the time he got to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.400 scoring scoring it look, I mean he was he couldn't 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.280 control them, like they were like just flying out like it. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.520 And it's just like you see like this, and I 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:39.400 think like the thing with with golf is people say, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.480 like you, when you play competitive golf, you never forget anything. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.080 It's like you can you remember the smallest little details 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.720 of these innate in these like innocuous rounds of golf. Yeah, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.040 but for Rory, I have to imagine that twenty eleven 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.040 was kind of like the first time that that that 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.720 sort of he felt, that meltdown kind of happened, that 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.879 sensation of that happened. And one of the hard things, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.680 and I'm sure you could speak to this much more 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.919 than I can opine and project, but one of the 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.040 hardest parts about the Masters is you have to keep 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:24.880 coming back to the place that you've you've experienced failure 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.159 or coming up short. And we've seen it with so 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.760 many players, whether it's Ernie El's, you know, Greg Norman, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.200 Tom Weiskough, Phil for years. It took Phil forever to 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.080 get over the line, and now Rory it's like these 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.920 the year after a year of having to go back 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.560 to that same place, Like you just have that association 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:53.040 and that deep rooted association. You could tell yourself, oh, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.320 I'm not I love this place, I'm happy here, but 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.760 deep down you have those bad memories. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.280 Yeah, for sure. Hey, you can add Justin Rose's name 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.879 to that list. Now he's had so many close calls. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.200 Now had two shots at it in playoffs. I mean, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.600 this one was a little bit of a gift. He 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.119 played brilliant golf, and you know, Rory kept bringing everybody 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.680 back into it, but yeah, you're right. And I brought 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.359 that up on Sunday when they got to the tenth tee, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.720 and you know, we realized afterwards that twenty eleven is 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.480 clearly in his mind, and you know, he had to 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.760 face that situation again of here I am with the 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.159 lead nine holes to go, and now I've got to 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.840 hit this t shirt where it all started to come 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:53.439 unglued last time, and he ended up making a birdie 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.000 at ten this time, And at that point was one 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.919 of the many, many many times during the week that 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:06.000 I thought, oh, he's got this. I'm not ashamed to 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.280 say it. I'm sure I'll take some heat for this, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:19.800 but whatever. On Thursday already, when he was what four 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.840 or five under going to the fifteenth holl four under was. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.560 It and just over the green like he hits that 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.320 iron shot. It was a good iron. It came out 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:29.400 a little flat. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.199 Came out a little flat. He must have popped up 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.960 his drive just a little bit and didn't quite catch 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.480 it because he was quite well behind the guys he 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.159 was playing with, but he's still got an iron in. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.640 I mean, we know how high this guy can hit 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.600 his irons probably, you know. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.680 We saw it the next two days. Yeah, two of 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:47.880 the next three days he. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.520 Could probably launch it up, you know, higher than anybody 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.439 since Tiger. At that point already, I was like, Okay, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.080 everything is starting to play out for him to win 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:01.240 this tournament. And then he goes double bogey double bogie's 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.439 seventeen and shoots even power and he's seven back, and 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.399 you're like, oh, there's another year, another year that he's 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.600 let slip by coming in in good form. And then 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.000 he shoots sixty six the next day and you're like, Okay, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.359 he's gonna win it. This is it. He's back, no problems, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.919 and he keeps it going on the third day and 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.640 it's like this is meant to be, and he's got 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.800 the big lead and then he hits it up the 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.440 face on the first just completely butchers the hole. On Sunday, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.280 I mean takes four to get down from I don't 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:43.919 know sixty yards or. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:45.760 So with a lot of green. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.600 Yeah, yeah, with the whole location all the way in 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:54.639 the back and you're like, oh no, it's heartbreak again 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.240 for this poor guy. He plays the first and second 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.840 and two over, he's thinking about playing him in one. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.040 That's a three shot swing. And then he birdies three 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.639 and you're like, okay, he's back. There's no problem with me. 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.639 Birdi's four and you're like, oh, he's going to win again. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.480 So from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon must have been 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.760 ten times where I thought to myself he had lost 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:26.520 it and won it. It was the most volatile mental 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.440 experience at a major championship that I've ever experienced as 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.840 a fan, ever had to go through as a fan. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.199 You know, by the way, and I will just say this, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.000 it's not just Rory that that's happening with. There's so 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.880 many other players too that are they are up there. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:51.399 Rose shoots the sixty five on the first day and 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.199 it's the same kind of back and forth, and then 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:59.880 he shoots the seventy five on Saturday. Just puts terrible. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.159 He averaged more than two putts a hole. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.000 That was that to me is like one of the 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:10.000 like the sliding doors things about this is like the 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:14.360 putter on Saturday afternoon just completely abandoned him, Like, I mean, 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.040 I can't remember exactly which hole he three punted from, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:23.160 like four feet on sixteen? Was it eight or fifteen? 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.200 He three punted from four feet somewhere on Saturday, and 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.639 it's just like he was hitting it so close and 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.400 just getting nothing out of it all Saturday afternoon. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:35.679 Yeah, do you want to know what's not? So he 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.000 had three three putts on Saturday, and he had two 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.520 three puts on Sunday and still made ten birdies on Sunday. 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:49.440 But on Saturday he averaged two point zero six putts 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:54.400 per green and the field average was one point sixty three. 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.560 So I mean, he just got absolutely crushed on the greens. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.440 So but anyway, I was saying, you go through these 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.320 ebbs and flows with all these players, the shambo as well. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.600 You know, he would hit two or three good irons 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:09.560 in a row and you're like, okay, he's found something. 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:12.959 And then he'd have a wedge into a green and 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.520 hit it twenty yards short and you're like, dude, what 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:19.800 is that? You know, the wind's not blown that hard 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.439 out there. The lie wasn't you know in a first 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.359 cut or second cut, excuse me? And something that you 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.960 think could jump will come out soft? The amount of 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:32.480 iron shots that he hit off of a tee on 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.119 a part three and from the fairway there would go 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.480 twenty yards long and twenty yards short. If he somehow 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:42.440 finds a way to clean that up, he is a 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:46.160 problem for these guys. Man, he is a problem. 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.440 I uh, I want to get to Bryson. I think 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:54.119 like one of the things that I while watching the 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:58.560 telecast I was thinking about was, you know, we talked 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.840 about all the build up of of in the scar 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:08.639 tissue of the the from twenty eleven on here also 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.120 in the round like everybody talked to you know when 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:16.359 he talked about Rory before this year at the Masters, 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.600 like how does he need to get it done? He 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:23.439 needs to avoid double bogies or worse, he has to 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:28.600 avoid soft boat, like the quintessential soft bogies, and like 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.520 you think through it, he made four double bogee. Yeah, 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.920 he had bogey's like the eighth on Saturday, where you're 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:39.360 just like what what how did you make bogey here? 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.320 You know, and you think about like the whole totality 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:47.920 of the tournament, and it was like he literally had 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:53.760 to overcome like every every like obstacle of of like 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:58.520 what has snake bitten him at augustin National Ye double bogies, 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:03.479 the big numbers, the you know, the soft bogies, and 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:08.840 he did it by like what tantalizes everybody about him 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:14.040 as a player is just the the sheer explosiveness in 0:25:14.080 --> 0:25:18.120 his game, the shot making, the ability to come out 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:21.000 of the gate with six straight threes, you know, like 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:25.119 being able to go to gear that nobody else in 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:26.560 the game can really touch. 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:31.840 Yeah, well, I've said that before in this kind of 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:37.800 setting and probably on TV as well, when when Rory 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:42.359 is it full flight, He's the closest thing we've seen 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:47.520 to Tiger in his prime. There's been other players that 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:51.000 are very good, good, good good Hall of Fame style players, 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.720 major champions, World number one's great players. Tiger Woods is 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:59.120 on a completely different level to basically everybody but Jack 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.960 and Rory. One of the reasons why it's been so 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.280 frustrating to watch him over the years is because every 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.159 now and then he touches that like he dips his 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:14.920 toe into those waters. But then he does ridiculous things 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:19.760 to where you like it's head scratching moments and mistakes 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:24.320 that those two players Tiger and Jack never ever made. 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:29.600 But when he's rarely going, when he's feeling it, gosh 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.320