WEBVTT - Takeaways from the 2026 Masters with Trevor Immelman 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.520 I miss the 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 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.960 In a brid egg Friday egg, the dreaded Frida egg 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.360 Friday Frida egg egg fridagg brid egg Lie, I'm about 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.080 ready to run off of the hump course. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.080 Welcome back to the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.880 Andy Johnson. I'm very excited to talk about this. Obviously, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.839 the twenty twenty six Masters has coming gone. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.760 We have a repeat champion. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.960 Rory McElroy gets it done, wins his second green jacket 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.320 in as many years. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.120 Really a thrilling tournament. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.120 He went up, then lost the lead, and then came 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.880 back and got it done on Sunday. Really, I would say, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.800 cementing himself among the greats of the greats, I think 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.600 he was already one of the great players of the game, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.440 and now, especially with many years ahead of him, I 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.840 would say that it is more of a matter of 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.920 what level does he get to, And I think there's 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.759 you know, you could you could say there's an opportunity 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.760 if things really kind of pick up for a second 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.479 big run from him here the next few years that 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.679 Rory could get into, you know, the conversation of a 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:44.040 spot on Mount Rushmore, given his accomplishments, his longevity, and 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.760 just where he might get to in terms of majors. Obviously, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.280 the man who finished in second is going to have 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.880 a lot to say with that. Scotty Scheffler another great 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.080 tournament despite kind of a slow start. So I'm joined 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.360 by Trevor Emmlman, a Master champion in his own right, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.720 as well as CBS's lead analysts to break down this Masters. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.600 Sorry we were a little delayed. I am currently in Scotland, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.239 so I had to get over here and nobody would 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.399 have liked to hear me talk yesterday after my flight over. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.360 So it had to be today. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.680 And yeah, so I hope you guys enjoyed this podcast. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.400 A huge thank you goes out to our friends at 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.000 Mercedes Benz. 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It was 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.360 a dramatic wire to wire win, and Rory McElroy repeats 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.520 as Masters Champion, and uh it kind of brings a 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:53.159 whole new life to kind of the where does Rory 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.919 go career wise? And it's a it's a fascinating win. Uh, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.320 and I'm I'm really excited to kind of break down 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.760 not just what happened, but. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.080 Where do we go from here? Uh with it? 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.480 So what uh what are your you know, big picture 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.280 thoughts on on Rory and and the twenty twenty six Masters. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.800 Well, big picture is that it was another phenomenal Masters 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.240 and just flat out brilliant week, you know, starting with 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:27.800 the weather and the heat, and you know how the 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:33.920 golf course was presented and how these uh incredibly elite 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:38.840 athletes performed throughout the week. But you know, the the 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.440 overarching thought is naturally about the guy that puts on 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.560 the green jacket and so much fun to see this 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.920 back and forth battle that all of them had. I mean, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.160 if I remember correctly, you know, I'm still still of 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.600 gathering all my thoughts, to be quite honest with you. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.920 But if if I remember correctly, we had we had 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.880 three different players with two shot leads at some point 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:08.000 in the final round in McElroy, Rose and Young Young. Yeah, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.760 and you know, then you make the turn and you 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:19.000 enter one of the most perfect and brilliantly designed and 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:24.120 anticipated second Nines and see these three guys going at it, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.719 and then you include Scheffler that's making this late round. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.160 It was just so brilliant. But getting back to Rory 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.640 the roller coaster, alright, he's taken us on for the 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.080 last two years at the Masters, is just being electric. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.960 And you consider last year with the history around the 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.119 Grand Slam, this year the history around being the fourth 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.680 guy to go back to back, and it's not over 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.279 yet because now we have twelve months before we get 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.120 back to Augusta National and the ninety first Masters, and 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.640 he tries to create history for the third year in 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.800 a row, to be the first guy ever to win 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.080 three times in a row. So gosh, I mean, my 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.600 mouth's ordering just thinking about that and we're twelve months 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.560 away from it. But yeah, what What a week? What 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.400 what a week? Man? 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.440 Yeah? I said this on the Shotguns start. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.240 But it feels like Rory is like a kid playing 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.960 a video game where you get to the final boss 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:34.960 and he, you know, for for seventeen years, Augusta National 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.600 is this final boss that stands in his way, and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.239 every time he goes up against it, you know, he loses. 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.560 And then you know, last year. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:49.679 In the most dramatic of fashions, he in playing extraordinary golf, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.560 particularly Tea Green. He was so sharp last year, and 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.960 he finally figures out how to beat the boss. And 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.720 then it came back this year, and the first two 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.440 days it's like, oh, he's got like he knows the 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.440 exact sequence that he needs to beat the boss, which 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.000 is Augusta National, and he's running away with this thing. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:15.760 But I think, like it's impossible, it's impossible to not 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.240 think about the history aspect, and to me, it's like 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.560 he was floating so freely and playing so freely the 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.880 first two days without his a game. Yeah, and then 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.320 it came like the weekend and that reset created almost 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.320 this time to think about the history that winning a 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.720 second time and back to back would present, you know, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.920 and that all of a sudden, you know, the psychological 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.160 aspect of winning a major championship, and not just any 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.280 major championship, the Masters sets in and it's a whole 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:52.520 new challenge on the weekend. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:58.559 Yeah. Look, it has been fun to observe how he's 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.120 gotten it done after the last you know, for the 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.120 last couple of years, in my opinion, two different ways. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:10.319 You know, last year felt like the ball striking was 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.160 seriously impressive, and in fact he's you know, other than 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.760 a few wed shots, and he kind of missed a 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.560 few putts down the stretch, particularly on the last hole 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.560 from four feet to win the tournament. But this year 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.840 he won it in a different fashion, and it's just 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.520 really showing the culmination of all this experience he's gathered 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.480 around Augusta National over the last eighteen years. I mean, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.040 this year he rarely didn't have his best stuff at all, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.760 particularly off the tee. You know, the power is always there. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.600 I Mean, we know that he's an extremely explosive player, 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.960 but man, he was driving it all over Agusta National. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.560 And he won this tournament like a in a Ben 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:56.560 Crenshaw or a Sevy fashion by scrambling and by wedging 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:01.400 and chipping and putting just in an incredible ash and manner, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.640 and it was it was really cool to watch. I mean, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.760 even down to the last few holes. You know, the 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.959 two put on sixteen, which is you know when you 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.920 it's so so, so, so so good. And I said, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.839 you know on the broadcast that him getting it within 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.360 five feet would be really good. And he hit it 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.240 down there to tap in. You know, I know how 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.840 tough that putt is. I've hit that putt and try 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.640 to chip it and done all sorts of things to 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.240 try and get it close. I mean, you are you 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.880 have to be so precise with where you let the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.840 ball fall off the ridge to funnel down to the hole. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.080 And you know he's putting through a yard or so 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.199 a fairway, a rye grass fairway that can be quite sticky, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.000 particularly later in the day. And then you add in 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.720 the pressure of the moment and the magnitude of trying 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.079 to win back to back and the touch that he 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.840 shows to do that. It's like a one in fifteen 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.160 putt right there. And then the up and down on seventeen, 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.520 pretty basic up and down. He was smart to leave 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.839 himself short of the hole, but still, you know he 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.199 had to land the ball into an upslope. You know, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.319 it's one of those where if you just catch it 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.360 a hair thin and it launches a bit lower with 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.240 more spin, it doesn't fly far enough into that false 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.720 edge and then it grabs on top and could easily 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.640 even roll down. You get afraid of that and you 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.280 nuke it and it goes seven feet by. That's easy 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:37.280 to do. So you know, he hits a wonderful, wonderful 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.679 little chip there. So the short game was Stella Man 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.800 and overall, though if you look at him, you look 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.120 at Scotti Scheffler, the guys who finished first and second, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.960 the fact that they're one and two on that leaderboard 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.840 when both of them rarely didn't place their best. I 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:04.400 think we're in for quite an exciting next five years 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.520 or so at the Masters with those two like having 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.640 some great battles, and then you throw in others that 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.240 will step up and have a great week to throw 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.079 their hat in the ring as well. It's it's setting 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.480 up to play out quite nicely over the next few years. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.440 But and excuse me, because my mind's going all over 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.320 the place, and you mentioned a lot of different things there. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.559 You know, it's hard to win any tournament's it's extremely 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.040 hard to win a major championship and the Masters, and 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.720 when you're trying to join like an elite list at 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.840 the time of trying to win that tournament, you know, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.320 it just starts to add these extra layers of pressure. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.480 And I actually felt like, you know, the way he 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.440 finished round two with all of those birdies and the 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.000 brilliant player on the back nine. I think he finished 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.040 with four birdies in a row. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.760 Yeah, and he built up his seven. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.400 Yeah, so six of the last seven, and he builds 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.800 up this six stroke lead in a certain way. It 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.720 almost added more pressure, you know. And I came on 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.520 the air for our on camera on Saturday, and I 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.240 said to Jim Nantz, I was like, you know, we've 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.000 seen big leads last year before. I mean, we all 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.000 remember Norman with six shots after fifty four holes in 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:29.520 ninety six. We remember Speace with five up with nine 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:34.000 to play and lost in twenty sixteen. We remember McElroy 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.680 four up with eighteen to play in twenty eleven and 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.439 last and I just sort of wanted to throw that 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.000 caution out there of you know, we've seen this happen before. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.040 Rory in his own right, has experienced and felt the 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.880 pain of losing a big lead, and I felt like 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.040 that really put even more pressure on the moment because 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.280 at that tournament, at that moment, the tournament was in 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:04.280 his hand, and it's a tough spot to be, you know. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.560 I think playing with a big lead, I think it's 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:15.400 an underratedly challenging situation at a normal event. I do 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.720 think Augusta National lends itself quite well to these, you know, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.240 whatever you want to call them, but these big lead losses, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.720 because whether you're doing it consciously or not, I think 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.320 when you have that big lead, your subconscious just starts 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.000 to play a little bit more conservatively. And the thing 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.800 with Augusta I feel like is the targets are so 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.320 small that the second, whether you or not you know 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.160 you're consciously doing it, the second you start to shade 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:54.000 just a little bit more conservatively, it gets exceptionally more challenging. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.480 Like you have to hit those those tiny targets, and 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.600 you have to swing with such freedom to to get 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.880 the ball into the right places for the ball to 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.920 funnel in or for you to have like a reasonable, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.600 you know, birdie pipe. The second you get out of 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.400 those places, it just leads to a lot of stress. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.280 Yeah, well, you know better than anybody with your expertise 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.960 in course design and understanding nuance of those kinds of things. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.480 There's so many things to love about Augusta National and 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.640 the Masters, but when you just you know, isolate the 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:41.640 golf course, it rewards high quality shots and severely punishes 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.720 average to poor shots. And that's why leads on safe 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.720 because you know, you can have a guy like Scheffler 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.800 that can hit high quality shots for two straight days 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.720 and be twelve back after thirty six holes and not 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.960 make a bogie on the weekend, which is mind blowing golf. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.480 How how you don't make a bogie on the weekend 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:08.640 at the Masters when it's firm and fast, is I mean, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.600 we need to do a deep dive in in how 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.440 he got that done. And conversely, if you go ahead 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.720 and hit some poor shots or you string five average 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.120 shots in a row, there's double bogies around every corner 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.040 even when there's no water in play, and so things 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:34.520 are very very volatile, and gosh, it's just it's just 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:41.760 such an amazing big tournament championship style course. Uh and 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.840 and and so much fun to watch elite athletes at 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.440 the top of their game compete around there. It's it's marvelous. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:51.680 That's the. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.000 You know, Scotty's really the only one we've seen play 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.240 great with a big lead, Scotty and Tiger, you know. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:16:59.920 And I think. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.119 It's just where they have this, you know, when they're on, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.600 you know, and when Scott he's really on, as we 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:14.159 saw this weekend, there's just this an insanely elite precision 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.240 that comes with it, you know, where they're able to 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:23.560 just just tactically take on you know that those targets 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.760 don't seem that small with their with their skill level. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.040 And I think, like you know. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:35.000 Rory's, Rory's game has always been kind of built around 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.120 the power. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.520 And the the. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.399 The driving ability and everything else is kind of a 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.640 part of that. I think over the last few years 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.720 he has gone into the top ranks of the game 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.320 with his short game and his his putting ability, But 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:56.680 like from a precision, precise, preciseness with with the Irons, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.840 I think it's always been just a tick below the 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.400 likes of a Scotti or a or a Morikawa when 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.159 when Moricow is really on. And I think that's like 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.880 what shows like I just think playing out there, when 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.800 you have like in your mind even you know lightly 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.240 that that you have this big lead, you just are 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.239 are going to be a little bit more conservative. And 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.679 that's that's when trouble appears. And it's like, I don't know, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.159 it's I think it almost gets harder. Probably as you 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.960 age too. You just generally as you get older, get 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.119 more conservative by nature of you know, when you with 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:33.000 decision making. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:34.960 Yeah, look at it's interesting. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:42.400 You know I would throw I would throw Jack and 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:51.600 Tiger and Scotty in a similar bucket of unemotional, very 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:56.920 clear thinking and strategic gulfers at a supremely high level. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:05.000 Uh. And they just pick golf courses apart, particularly Augusta National, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.199 which is what we're talking about now. But Rory is 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.160 totally different. Whilst on this, you know, on the same level, 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.200 let's you know, let's just throw that out there when 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.200 you know, I'm not trying to be controversial in any way. 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.800 I understand how many majors Jack has won. For all 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.200 our listeners out there, I understand how many majors Tigers won. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.359 And these two guys are behind, but they're they're you know, 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:33.359 they're trending nicely but Rory is is is so totally different. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:38.440 He's so emotional. He he takes on shots that sometimes 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.200 he shouldn't. He gets into much more trouble than what 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.720 those other three golfers do. And it's one of the 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.720 reasons why we enjoy watching him because, much like at 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.679 Jordan's speech, we're not certain about what's going to happen 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.439 next with Rory. I mean, look how he played the 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.560 last hole. For goodness sake, He's closer to the tenth 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.160 fairway than the eighteenth fairway. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.879 And I was actually a great break that he was 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:02.040 like that far right. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.760 I think it's the best break I've ever seen on 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.480 the eighteenth hole in a major championship. I mean, the 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:15.320 quality of the shot was actually quite similar to if 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.479 you think back to wingfoot and the t shot did 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.920 Mickelson hit on the eighteenth hole. Yeah, the quality of 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.879 shot was very, very similar. Michelson got severely punished and 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.679 threw away the US Open, and Rory somehow just found 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.200 this perfect gap that he could hook an eight iron 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.639 over the trees and the leaderboard back into play and 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.800 comfortably make bogey. But yeah, you know, Rory's just different 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:46.600 that way, and he's always been that way. And what 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.000 I'm sort of starting to appreciate and a jaw enjoy 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.280 from him is that he's he owns that he knows it, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.399 and he's owning that he's not trying to change his 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.960 DNA or be unauthentic and anyway he understands that that 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.959 it's somewhat going to be a roller coaster ride for him. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.680 I mean, the whole week he was talking about how 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.640 Jack gave him advice, you know, no double bogies. Make 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.320 sure you keep double bogies off the card. Jack and 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.359 Tiger and Scottie, you know, in a certain sense have 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.720 an ability to do that, but I'm just not sure 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.679 Rory does. But on the flip side, you know, he 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.200 has the ability to do what what he did on 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.600 Friday and thirty sixth the last seven and just like 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.560 rarely put himself in a great position for the weekends, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.119 so different ways to get it done. And even with Rory, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.040 we've seen seen him get it done in different ways 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:40.960 the last two years. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:46.800 I mean, the psycho analysis analysis of golfers obviously is 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.280 you know, it's always fun to do, but you know, 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.760 the way Rory kind of goes through these things feels 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.960 like the way that normal human beings experienced life. Yeah, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.280 he gets it, he gets it done, but it's not 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.200 you know, you think about most stuff in your life. 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.400 It doesn't happen easily, and there's a lot of moments 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:10.040 of doubt while you're going to a destination and you know, 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:12.920 through two rounds, it's like this thing might be over. 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.960 But like so many times in life, you get to 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.239 these points where it's like, all right, we did it, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.800 and it's like hold on, there's like four more huge 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.840 things that are gonna happen before you actually get done 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:26.840 with this life. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.880 Achievement that you're you're working towards. And I think that's 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.359 what that's what draws people in. You know, he. 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:40.720 Has like a you know, he has a self. He's 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:44.199 very aware of of himself and and the things that 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.200 like he goes through. It's it's fascinating. He said something 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:52.040 that I talked about this on Saturday, but he says 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.159 something about how you know, somebody asked him about planning 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.240 his Champions dinner and he mentioned He's like, oh, I'd 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:02.240 love to say I did it really in advance, but 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:07.560 I'm a big procrastinator, and I think about like maybe 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:09.520 that has something to do with when you get a 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:14.640 big lead, like then you you like I I relate 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:16.320 as a huge procrastinator. 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:22.240 But you know, one time there's breaking. 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.040 News that's not breaking news, right there. 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.199 A friend of mine tweeted something once that was like 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.000 I thought my wife was coming home on Saturday, so 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:35.280 I cleaned my entire house and then I found out 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:37.760 it was that she was actually coming Sunday, and I 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.800 was upset because I didn't get the chance to procrastinate 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:43.640 another day, you know, And that's kind of my. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:44.440 Bucket of things. 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.040 But I think if you get a big lead in 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.520 your procrastinator, like your mind just kind of like it's 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:53.880 like shuts off a little, like you need there is 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:59.639 something to me for somebody that is a procrastinator that golf, 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:05.840 there's like different When you have urgency, you fire a 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:08.320 little bit more. And maybe that's what it is like 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:12.159 with a big lead, is like some people whose minds 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.679 are made up in different ways, the big lead, it 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:21.600 just you lose the urgency of the moment. I'm not sure, 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:24.879 but that I will say. You know, he struggled with 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:30.040 the with really like tee to green the first three rounds, 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:33.399 but in the moment when he needed it. And I 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.520 think this has probably been a little bit under talked 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.359 about in the post of it. I thought he was 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:42.600 really good tee to Green in the middle part of 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:46.399 that final round from basically five on, and that's what 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:48.120 stealed the championship. 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:53.720 Yeah, yeah, I totally agree with that. I mean the 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.520 double bug at four was just like, well, that was 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:59.680 ugly right there. I mean, he hit a hook off 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.240 the t for the second day in a row and 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.639 got quite fortunate because he's obviously got a great lie 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:08.879 on the Fairway's on a little upslope. He's pitching up 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:14.240 hill and he hit an okay pitch, but he left 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:16.560 it in the wrong spot about six feet above the hole. 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:20.120 And that putt. You know, I've hit that put many times. 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.280