WEBVTT - Augusta Archives: Craig Stadler 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.120 I miss the green. For example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.240 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.200 And when I find my ball in a fried egg 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.360 Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida Egg, Frida egg, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.880 fried Egg, Frida egg, bride egg Lie, I'm about ready 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:15.400 to run off the golf course. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.680 Arnold Palmer is the master of nine. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.760 He has buddy the last two holes, two cats and 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.320 that bog ahead, Oh cat? 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:29.960 That Jory? 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.919 What is the fatest lay a way? 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.600 His gold I have Anybody hasn't ever seen that? 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:47.120 Ain't play up the hill like that? And I think 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.239 that's one of the greatest buddies I've ever seen him 0:00:49.240 --> 0:01:02.120 Friday Night. Maybe yes, sir, there can you believe it? 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:03.840 Now? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:10.480 No? There? It is a wind for the ages? 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:24.479 Is it his time? 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.640 Here? It comes? 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:38.520 Oh my goodness, oh wow? 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.680 In your life? Have you seen anything like that? Hello? Friends, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.280 I'm Jim nansis my great pleasure to welcome you to 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.400 the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:02:19.120 It's a tradition unlike any other. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.200 back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. Today 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.440 we are joined by PGA Tour and Champions Tour star 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.400 Craig Styler. Craig was a four time All American at 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.280 USC and most notably won the nineteen eighty two Masters. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.640 Craig twenty fourteen was your last Masters. What do a 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.560 typical Masters week look like for you? Now? 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.560 Obviously landscape has changed a bit, but you know, I'm 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.079 all week. I get in Saturday and I play Sunday, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.680 and I've got dinner dinners during the week. I've got 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.440 past champions there on Tuesday. Obviously, go to was tucked 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.560 a party of my wife on Wednesday, and I just 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.320 kind of hang out during the week, and I got 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.600 in the range little bit of like watch the guys 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.400 I haven't seen just a bit because I've been so 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:16.040 moved from the j Tour for fifteen years now. One 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.840 chance I can see him was occasional, I'll watch it 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.200 on TV. So I spent a mood time out of 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.680 there and just kind of hang around the club and 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.359 got a lot of friends and a lot of members 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.760 that are friends and just kind of socialize more than anything. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.440 I guess it is kind of a work week as well, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:31.640 so I'm not busy all week. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.760 Speaking of the Champions dinner. What's who's put together the 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.960 best menu since you've attended. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.080 The best menu over all the years? 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:40.760 Yeah? 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:47.480 Yeah, God, I don't remember half of them. Yeah, the 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:52.360 combinations are pretty pretty bizarre. We've had from hagas steakes 0:03:52.400 --> 0:04:00.200 to monkey sausage to barbecue. Nobody has ever sent so. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.000 I think a couple of years after I won, they 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.040 started the past champions to be able to pick the venue. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.520 As far as I ever had fish interesting was kind 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:11.080 of interesting. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.600 So you didn't get to pick the menu when you won. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.760 No, No, I think that started in eighty five. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.800 What what would be your menu if they say, let 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.160 you have at it? 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:32.840 Oh, we had had you joyed to steak, spinner fish. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.440 Any any of them stick out as the worst dinner. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.840 None of them have been bad, okay, I mean the 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.320 thing that people that half the people, half the guys probably. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.479 Didn't like was the Hagis. I'm guessing that I thought 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.080 it was fine, but now it's always been entertaining. I 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.799 think was our one was lump meat, crabtail, cock crab 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:57.880 cocktail with hot ressert and cheeseburger with Tiger's first win. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.360 A little bit all across the board. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.000 Yeah, it has been. It has been. It's always been 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.800 good and wonderful. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.800 I recently watched the nineteen eighty two final round when 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.960 when you won, and I'm curious. You know, the seventeenth hole, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.440 you got one of the worst divot lies I've ever seen, 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.760 and then you hit a great shot that spun off 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.720 the front of the green that it looked like it 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.599 was going to be really close. Have you ever gotten 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.040 two worst consecutive breaks on a hole. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.080 I'll I don't look all the breaks. I mean, there 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.120 just matters where your ball goes. But you know, it 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.119 wasn't exactly what I want to see after the tea shot, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.880 But you know the pen on the front right there 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.839 from that giant it was I did. I hit a 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.880 heck of a second shot. It almost went in, but 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.000 uh yeah, anything on the anything on the right over there, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.240 if if you leave it, George's got to cut back 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.160 off the ring, which I couldn't really too much about 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.200 that it was buried. Yeah, I chipped up about six 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.359 inches or so many an easy park, so it was, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.560 but it was a trying back nine obviously. Yeah, I 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.240 got forty by opening nine on Thursday, and I shot 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.159 forty like closing nine on Sunday, So not very good games. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.000 They usually say, you know, if you can avoid one 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.240 bad eighteen hole, so you just you bookended it. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.960 I did. I got seventy five the first time in 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.680 the seventy three the last round. But the Thursday and 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.560 Friday and Saturday, we're very decent in the Queens. Excuse me, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.520 that was the uh that was the second year they'd 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.680 come back to that past. And the greens were were 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.960 really fast, probably the fastest a couple of years ago. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.000 They were really quick, probably about the same bit. They 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.640 were actually lightning fast, but they were really spiked it. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.120 They're just a year old, and and we didn't have 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.120 sauce spice back then, and they that's piped up pretty good. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.960 So which I mean, is any reason that the four 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:05.720 apartment the. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.359 Cur Yeah, yeah, it was. It seemed like the conditions 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.760 were really tough the first two rounds too, with with 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.840 the wind in the second round, and and then obviously 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:21.080 the fast greens. It's in terms of playing at Augusta 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.680 on like a normal week, say you know, a month 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.520 or two before the tournament versus the practice rounds versus 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.480 the actual tournament. How does the golf course change. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.360 Uh, the greens are slower. You know. I never I 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.160 never came in early and play practice founds. But the 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.600 last oh eight or ten years, I've taken a couple 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.720 of buddies once or maybe sometimes twice a year in 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.120 a year, and the golf course of immaculate shape year round. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.560 The greens are definitely a bit slower than they are 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:02.560 during the tournament. I tend to when I when I 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:08.360 do bring somebody's friends that, uh, we play the overseas 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.680 because it's pretty much the same as it was back 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.440 in the ages distance wise. Now that I'm sixty five 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.880 and it's thirty years later, the golf part is not 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.760 same for the members. He's maybe a little shorter, but 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.960 I think for me it's a lot more time from 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.520 me because I enjoyed that course a little shorter than 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.760 the considers now. But the link that is now is 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.440 for these guys is the place basically plays the same 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.040 as it did for us thirty years ago. They're at 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.640 nine irons when we're at porn. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.560 Now that we're onto the course. Outside of obviously the distance, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.040 what I what would you say are kind of the 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.559 biggest changes that have happened over the years. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.480 Uh, you know, not much. They don't. They don't make 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.520 major major changes. The only one they really made major, well, 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.760 two of them may exactly did the green on thirteen 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.360 and uh one kime ago. And then every year they 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.000 see every other year they seem to slowly build the 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.280 hill the exact same way and create that tea back 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.679 on eleven to where from the bottom you go off 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.000 ten it looks the same. All of a sudden you 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.760 get up there, and now it's what seventy eighty yards 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.599 longer than they're seventy yards longer than it used to 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.720 be eased three four or forty of sixty yards five 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.000 o'h five I think. But most are the two major changes, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.880 most of it, and moving the first tea back. Yeah, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.080 if you remember way back, remember back in the seventies 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:40.160 and eighties, and naturally the nineties, early nineties or mid nineties, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.640 probably the back of the first T used to be 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.240 in front about eight yards in front of the Magnol three, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.800 and now the front of the first T is about 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.360 twenty yards be kind of Magnolia three. Yeah, they've moved 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.400 that whole back sixty yards. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.960 It's like a bunch of little changes. Obviously they've never 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.640 never done anything significant with the routing of the course. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.200 But it always seems like there's a few tweaks every year. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.719 Yeah, they usually tweak some greens. They haven't done really 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.160 much of anything in the last two or three years. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.440 The last thing I remember them doing was building well. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.240 They they messed around a little bit with the front 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.600 right of three, and then they added that little plateau 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:30.200 on the right side of seven. I don't think anything major. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.880 They're not even really major, but something that catches try 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.480 the first time you walk on a green or something. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.920 I don't think anything like that at Second In five 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:39.760 six years. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.080 Now, you had a great deal of success at Augusta. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.920 Outside of your wind, you had a number of top tens. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.880 Was there something about the golf course that fit your 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.520 eye or something about the golf course that really suited 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:52.000 your game? 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.280 No, not really. I mean everybody says it's a hooker 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.960 the ball golf course, but I never thought it was 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:09.560 other than the obvious. On ten and fifteen and thirteen, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.240 and a little bit on fourteen, we really had somewhat 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.679 of an entertaining to draw off the team. Other than 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.160 that golf course never bothered me. Not being able to 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.439 the ball very well, and uh, I just love playing that. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.199 I love the golf course I won early in my career, 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.959 which gives you some you know, gives you a good 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.839 attitude going in every year. But I love putting in 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.520 the greens as opposed to a lot of guys you know, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.719 being greens. I love paying And yeah, I just got 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.960 along with the place well, which usually happened to go 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.600 somewhere where you played well and you won or come 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.000 close to winning, you afford to going back to the time. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.160 Yeah, that I mean the positive attitude, I feel like 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.160 is huge for anything when you go back to a 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.920 place that you've won, having whereas other people have been 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.800 burned by it. And I think about Rory a lot 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.640 now with you know, some of the some of the 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.560 troubles he's had out there, is almost becomes a mental thing. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.520 Yeah, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that you 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.160 get going good and if it's happened a lot in 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.679 the past, back in the back of your mind, is 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.760 I hope I'll do this again, you know, or something 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.240 like that. So I'm sure it's a little bit of 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:27.720 a factor. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.440 People always talk about, you know, for first timers. The 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.400 advice they get from different players. If you say one 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.120 of the amateurs like Doug Gammer, Doc Redman came up 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.040 to you and asked for a piece of advice, what 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:42.640 would it be. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.640 Oh, their games are so well. But you know, the 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.520 talunting thing about it, Gus is you never in a 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.240 year or a few or three can learn the greens 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.240 and around the greens. I think that, of course, is 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:02.719 a constant learning process forever. And you know you have 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.120 to know where you miss where you can't sure decided 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:11.240 obviously with the irons to the greens. But you can't 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.600 go everywhere in three days of practice. You can't go 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.199 actually everywhere on the else you can try, but you 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.800 can go out there for ten hours a day, and 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:24.160 you know, the the live and learnt. It's pretty good there. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.839 When you miss a green and a couple spots for 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.080 a pin is and you get down and see if 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.240 they have those are the ones you don't forget, and yeah, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.520 those stick in your mind and you know it's times 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.240 you be there to see that pin like you know what, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.800 I can't just sit there. So it's a constant learning process, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:42.679 no doubt about it. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.600 Yeah, everybody talks about you know, approach shots distance, and 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.840 as you alluded to, that right to left shot, but 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.000 it seems like the recovery shot is so important from 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.240 around those greens there. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.600 Well, it's just too short side yourself there. It's impossible. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.839 In terms of the most underrated great hole out there, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.480 what's your favorite hole that might be a little less 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.480 talked about than the obvious ones. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.240 That's a good I'm not sure I have an answer 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:19.360 for uh. I think, uh, my mind, number five used 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.280 to be the hardest holes out there, but with the 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.640 guys away as far as they those days hit now, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.960 you know, and every hole has its character. I think 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.400 number nine is a lot harder are than people give 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:40.600 it credit for us. It's not these you know, But 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.240 then again, he's the guys out these days. If they 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.800 get down there and they get somewhere, they miss the 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.720 trees going down, then they're gonna watch them. So, you know, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.200 it takes away a lot of a lot of the difficulty, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:53.920 that is if you're stuck way back in the side 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.200 of the hill. But obviously there's some guys that don't 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.200 hit it a mile still, but not many. But you know, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.840 duty that's the beauty of that golf course. Every hole 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.200 has its own character. Every hole is different. The part 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.720 three is all different. Uh, you've got one that's long 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.160 and then really hard for the back edge of the sea, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.960 top of the back tea. It's fifty at you Now 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.400 on four, you've got one hundred and eighty yards one 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.240 hundred and seventy sixty way put the pens right down, 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:27.160 you know. Six we've got obviously twelve a little greenover 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.480 raised creek. And then you've got sixteen, which is fairly 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.960 the nine hole, except when they put the pins, if 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:36.760 anywhere they put them, they put it front right for 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.560 the top right, it's really hard. They put it back 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.560 after to get a good person. So every every hole 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.280 is different, the parts are different, are different, and which 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.720 which is my side of one of the classic golf course. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.280 I love the golf course. You play it once, you're 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.520 every hole in the golf course, and I guess it's 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.760 definitely one of those courses. Yeah. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.840 I always think something else you will too, is how 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.920 you said you learned something every time you go around it. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.720 And I think that's another thing about great golf courses 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.840 is every single time you play it, it reveals itself 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:11.560 a little bit. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.840 More, especially with August I mean, because you know, au 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.880 Gussa is for the most part, very easy driving golf course. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.240 It's not difficult to get the ball in the fairways. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.640 But then that's where the fun begins. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.120 Obviously you talked about the distance a little bit. I 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.600 mean I didn't I didn't know. I'm I'm a I'm 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.880 thirty one, so I wasn't around it. When you know, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.840 Dan Pole was in his heyday, I didn't realize how 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.560 such a prodigious driver of the golf ball he was, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.200 and and you know what a great athlete he was. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.600 And then in the playoff with you guys, I saw 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.120 he was hitting a seven iron into the tenth green, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:47.640 which was pretty crazy. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.600 Uh yeah, you could do it on I had to 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.360 do over the hill, and you know it was starred 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.720 and fast all the way when we drove it, probably 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.560 three stemps apart. But he was he had he had 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.240 a really short backsway he still does, and but just 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.040 got a lot of strength in his legs and his arms, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.120 and it was very long hitter back in those days. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.480 So everybody with the I don't know if you've seen, 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.560 they put all the final rounds onto YouTube. The last 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.840 fifty years of the Masters everybody's talking about their favorite years. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.840 What shots are in tournaments in years? Do you think 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.400 don't get spoken enough or forgotten? 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.240 Well, they get fairly easy. He's forgotten because there's so 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.760 many of them. These guys are so good these days, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:43.520 and you know you've got them from gosh, however far 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.120 back you want to go back in the seventies, you've 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.360 got Jerry Pate sticking at the foot of the Atlantic 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.639 Athletic Club. You got early eighties, you get Watson chipping 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.960 in at seventeen at Tebble. All kinds of shots to 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.800 choose from god knows how many Millan and Nicholas and 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:09.639 rned Player and you know player that little kind of 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.680 short shot he hid and there's something he's stuck in 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.840 the foot on seventeen guests. I mean, all kinds of 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.399 shots that uh, you know have room for all. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.080 Yeah, yeah, to the game, to the games, to the games. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:29.040 Made an eighteen to beat Norman, the the bunker shot 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.399 of the Twain may to beat Norman. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.879 There's all kinds of choices out there, the shot and 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.840 not to bring up Norman. But the second shot he 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.360 had an eighteen to get me, which was probably one 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.280 of the one of the worst golf shots on finishing 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:50.840 home other than you know the guy at Memphis that 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:59.399 made nine, or or versusly Van de Veld at Turnberry. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.280 But uh, you know, the get a perfecting a perfect 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.199 they are and missed it right at the right bunker. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.439 It's kind of do you got the lies in that 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.360 last hole? You don't? You wonder where the stuff come from, 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.280 you know, good batter and difference. There's a whole rash 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.480 of eighteen hole shots to choose from. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.440 It especially, I mean when you think about if you're 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.320 leading a major championship, you're clearly pretty locked in. So 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.000 that's you know, missing right of the the right bunker 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.080 is even bigger, like outside the dispersion for a guy 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.119 that week, because if you're leading, you're obviously hitting the 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.280 ball really well. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.200 Exactly and you know the mindset. You wonder what changes 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.600 from the se from playing seven to one holes brilliant 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.200 or to the last hole. I mean, it should be 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.560 you know, it should be the mentality all the way 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.320 through and well this is what got here. You know, 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:56.879 I'm not going to hope I stay there. I'm just 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.800 gonna get one. More So. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.520 When I play amateur golf, like a mid am and 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:09.600 state am stuff, and I'm usually more nervous on the 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.280 first t than I am coming down the stretch at 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.000 a tournament. Or is that the way you felt in 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.960 your career or is it was there specific spots on 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.280 golf courses you were most nervous. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.520 No, I think I was fairly fortunate. I didn't. I 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:34.199 didn't get real nervous. I kind of was when I 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.240 started talking, Well, I loved it. I played better, which 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:43.760 wasn't all that often, well that often, but but yeah, 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.680 a difference. It's difference for everybody. But you know, some 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.680 guys basking the fact that they're the three every week 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.320 coming down the stretch and they played better like Tiger 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:59.560 obviously when you got better almost almost one hundred percent 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.800 of the time. But so yeah, everybody's different than everybody 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.879 handles whatever you want to call it, nerves pressure or 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.240 why is being in the position they're in, not being 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.120 in a position they're in they want to be. Everybody 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.159 handles it different. You can't really pull out water or 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.239 the other you know, talk about a lot of these 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.280 nunchers talk about you know Gin that show by that show, Well, 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.040 that's free plays, you know, that's what it does. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:32.600 Everybody always likes to talk about Augusta using a Master's ball. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.679 That might be reduced distance if they put that into place. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.240 And on the first t they said, you have to 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.720 play this ball or you don't play. Do you think 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:43.680 all the players would play. 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:49.119 I don't think it will ever be a question. I 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.480 don't see how they can do that. I don't see anyway. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:59.040 There's so many contracts, ball contracts, how many different companies 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.000 balls are being you every week. It's that's what they 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.480 sell golf ball with m that's their advertising, right there, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.439 Guys using the majors. And you know, a guy likes 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.840 the softball like I like a hard ball. Guys a 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.080 little less, spend, little more than you tell everybody. If 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.040 the select few they build the ball's exactly when they're playing, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:22.600 somehow change balls and after your career, in the middle 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:27.080 of your career, and I just don't see. I don't 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.000 see it happening. I don't know. The Masters is probably 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:34.400 the only then you work happen because they're their their 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.000 own event. They can just say, you know, that's the 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.080 way it is. And if that will happen, I think 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:42.679 it won't come. But if it were too I'm guessing 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.960 that everybody would still play. But when you're gonna share 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.639 the ball, you're gonna give them a couple of months 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:50.120 to play a new ball while you're playing an old 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.240 ball and regular two events. Uh, it's just it's it's 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.359 I don't think it's a viable concept. Sounds good, but 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.320 the planning the same as the same as Nicholas wanting to, 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.320 you know, make one ball for the tour. M Well, 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.560 who's gonna make it? Are you're gonna say, is that 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:09.959 PJA tour gonna make it? The stamp it with everybody's 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.000 all the different companies, all of those But even though 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.560 it's the same ball, they don't make it. Uh, it's 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.960 just it's not something that that can work. I don't think. 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:22.920 Yeah, it's it's tricky. It's uh like to see it. 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:23.879 I don't see it happening. 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.679 Most great ideas in executing them are are two different 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:34.919 challenges and uh, but it's you know, with the fairways 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.520 and how I guess had they started cutting them the 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.600 different direction towards the end of your playing career there. 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:50.600 Uh, they've done various things over the years. I know, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.440 you know, one of my favorite stories the past champions. 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:59.199 One year they we played on Expand on Tuesday, and 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.920 they had about donald The moors are probably ten football 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.080 and they went down home the creek towards the green. 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.199 Next one came back towards the tee down and they 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:12.479