Speaker 1: I miss the green. For example, I'm already upset. When
Speaker 1: I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
Speaker 1: And when I find my ball in a fried egg
Speaker 1: Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida Egg, Frida egg,
Speaker 1: fried Egg, Frida egg, bride egg Lie, I'm about ready
Speaker 1: to run off the golf course.
Speaker 2: Arnold Palmer is the master of nine.
Speaker 1: He has buddy the last two holes, two cats and
Speaker 1: that bog ahead, Oh cat?
Speaker 2: That Jory?
Speaker 1: What is the fatest lay a way?
Speaker 2: His gold I have Anybody hasn't ever seen that?
Speaker 1: Ain't play up the hill like that? And I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the greatest buddies I've ever seen him
Speaker 1: Friday Night. Maybe yes, sir, there can you believe it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: No? There? It is a wind for the ages?
Speaker 2: Is it his time?
Speaker 1: Here? It comes?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, oh wow?
Speaker 1: In your life? Have you seen anything like that? Hello? Friends,
Speaker 1: I'm Jim nansis my great pleasure to welcome you to
Speaker 1: the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before.
Speaker 2: It's a tradition unlike any other. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
Speaker 2: back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. Today
Speaker 2: we are joined by PGA Tour and Champions Tour star
Speaker 2: Craig Styler. Craig was a four time All American at
Speaker 2: USC and most notably won the nineteen eighty two Masters.
Speaker 2: Craig twenty fourteen was your last Masters. What do a
Speaker 2: typical Masters week look like for you? Now?
Speaker 1: Obviously landscape has changed a bit, but you know, I'm
Speaker 1: all week. I get in Saturday and I play Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I've got dinner dinners during the week. I've got
Speaker 1: past champions there on Tuesday. Obviously, go to was tucked
Speaker 1: a party of my wife on Wednesday, and I just
Speaker 1: kind of hang out during the week, and I got
Speaker 1: in the range little bit of like watch the guys
Speaker 1: I haven't seen just a bit because I've been so
Speaker 1: moved from the j Tour for fifteen years now. One
Speaker 1: chance I can see him was occasional, I'll watch it
Speaker 1: on TV. So I spent a mood time out of
Speaker 1: there and just kind of hang around the club and
Speaker 1: got a lot of friends and a lot of members
Speaker 1: that are friends and just kind of socialize more than anything.
Speaker 1: I guess it is kind of a work week as well,
Speaker 1: so I'm not busy all week.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Champions dinner. What's who's put together the
Speaker 2: best menu since you've attended.
Speaker 1: The best menu over all the years?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, God, I don't remember half of them. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: combinations are pretty pretty bizarre. We've had from hagas steakes
Speaker 1: to monkey sausage to barbecue. Nobody has ever sent so.
Speaker 1: I think a couple of years after I won, they
Speaker 1: started the past champions to be able to pick the venue.
Speaker 1: As far as I ever had fish interesting was kind
Speaker 1: of interesting.
Speaker 2: So you didn't get to pick the menu when you won.
Speaker 1: No, No, I think that started in eighty five.
Speaker 2: What what would be your menu if they say, let
Speaker 2: you have at it?
Speaker 1: Oh, we had had you joyed to steak, spinner fish.
Speaker 2: Any any of them stick out as the worst dinner.
Speaker 3: None of them have been bad, okay, I mean the
Speaker 3: thing that people that half the people, half the guys probably.
Speaker 1: Didn't like was the Hagis. I'm guessing that I thought
Speaker 1: it was fine, but now it's always been entertaining. I
Speaker 1: think was our one was lump meat, crabtail, cock crab
Speaker 1: cocktail with hot ressert and cheeseburger with Tiger's first win.
Speaker 2: A little bit all across the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has been. It has been. It's always been
Speaker 1: good and wonderful.
Speaker 2: I recently watched the nineteen eighty two final round when
Speaker 2: when you won, and I'm curious. You know, the seventeenth hole,
Speaker 2: you got one of the worst divot lies I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: and then you hit a great shot that spun off
Speaker 2: the front of the green that it looked like it
Speaker 2: was going to be really close. Have you ever gotten
Speaker 2: two worst consecutive breaks on a hole.
Speaker 1: I'll I don't look all the breaks. I mean, there
Speaker 1: just matters where your ball goes. But you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly what I want to see after the tea shot,
Speaker 1: But you know the pen on the front right there
Speaker 1: from that giant it was I did. I hit a
Speaker 1: heck of a second shot. It almost went in, but
Speaker 1: uh yeah, anything on the anything on the right over there,
Speaker 1: if if you leave it, George's got to cut back
Speaker 1: off the ring, which I couldn't really too much about
Speaker 1: that it was buried. Yeah, I chipped up about six
Speaker 1: inches or so many an easy park, so it was,
Speaker 1: but it was a trying back nine obviously. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got forty by opening nine on Thursday, and I shot
Speaker 1: forty like closing nine on Sunday, So not very good games.
Speaker 2: They usually say, you know, if you can avoid one
Speaker 2: bad eighteen hole, so you just you bookended it.
Speaker 1: I did. I got seventy five the first time in
Speaker 1: the seventy three the last round. But the Thursday and
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, we're very decent in the Queens. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: that was the uh that was the second year they'd
Speaker 1: come back to that past. And the greens were were
Speaker 1: really fast, probably the fastest a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: They were really quick, probably about the same bit. They
Speaker 1: were actually lightning fast, but they were really spiked it.
Speaker 1: They're just a year old, and and we didn't have
Speaker 1: sauce spice back then, and they that's piped up pretty good.
Speaker 1: So which I mean, is any reason that the four
Speaker 1: apartment the.
Speaker 2: Cur Yeah, yeah, it was. It seemed like the conditions
Speaker 2: were really tough the first two rounds too, with with
Speaker 2: the wind in the second round, and and then obviously
Speaker 2: the fast greens. It's in terms of playing at Augusta
Speaker 2: on like a normal week, say you know, a month
Speaker 2: or two before the tournament versus the practice rounds versus
Speaker 2: the actual tournament. How does the golf course change.
Speaker 1: Uh, the greens are slower. You know. I never I
Speaker 1: never came in early and play practice founds. But the
Speaker 1: last oh eight or ten years, I've taken a couple
Speaker 1: of buddies once or maybe sometimes twice a year in
Speaker 1: a year, and the golf course of immaculate shape year round.
Speaker 1: The greens are definitely a bit slower than they are
Speaker 1: during the tournament. I tend to when I when I
Speaker 1: do bring somebody's friends that, uh, we play the overseas
Speaker 1: because it's pretty much the same as it was back
Speaker 1: in the ages distance wise. Now that I'm sixty five
Speaker 1: and it's thirty years later, the golf part is not
Speaker 1: same for the members. He's maybe a little shorter, but
Speaker 1: I think for me it's a lot more time from
Speaker 1: me because I enjoyed that course a little shorter than
Speaker 1: the considers now. But the link that is now is
Speaker 1: for these guys is the place basically plays the same
Speaker 1: as it did for us thirty years ago. They're at
Speaker 1: nine irons when we're at porn.
Speaker 2: Now that we're onto the course. Outside of obviously the distance,
Speaker 2: what I what would you say are kind of the
Speaker 2: biggest changes that have happened over the years.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, not much. They don't. They don't make
Speaker 1: major major changes. The only one they really made major, well,
Speaker 1: two of them may exactly did the green on thirteen
Speaker 1: and uh one kime ago. And then every year they
Speaker 1: see every other year they seem to slowly build the
Speaker 1: hill the exact same way and create that tea back
Speaker 1: on eleven to where from the bottom you go off
Speaker 1: ten it looks the same. All of a sudden you
Speaker 1: get up there, and now it's what seventy eighty yards
Speaker 1: longer than they're seventy yards longer than it used to
Speaker 1: be eased three four or forty of sixty yards five
Speaker 1: o'h five I think. But most are the two major changes,
Speaker 1: most of it, and moving the first tea back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you remember way back, remember back in the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties, and naturally the nineties, early nineties or mid nineties,
Speaker 1: probably the back of the first T used to be
Speaker 1: in front about eight yards in front of the Magnol three,
Speaker 1: and now the front of the first T is about
Speaker 1: twenty yards be kind of Magnolia three. Yeah, they've moved
Speaker 1: that whole back sixty yards.
Speaker 2: It's like a bunch of little changes. Obviously they've never
Speaker 2: never done anything significant with the routing of the course.
Speaker 2: But it always seems like there's a few tweaks every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they usually tweak some greens. They haven't done really
Speaker 1: much of anything in the last two or three years.
Speaker 1: The last thing I remember them doing was building well.
Speaker 1: They they messed around a little bit with the front
Speaker 1: right of three, and then they added that little plateau
Speaker 1: on the right side of seven. I don't think anything major.
Speaker 1: They're not even really major, but something that catches try
Speaker 1: the first time you walk on a green or something.
Speaker 1: I don't think anything like that at Second In five
Speaker 1: six years.
Speaker 2: Now, you had a great deal of success at Augusta.
Speaker 2: Outside of your wind, you had a number of top tens.
Speaker 2: Was there something about the golf course that fit your
Speaker 2: eye or something about the golf course that really suited
Speaker 2: your game?
Speaker 1: No, not really. I mean everybody says it's a hooker
Speaker 1: the ball golf course, but I never thought it was
Speaker 1: other than the obvious. On ten and fifteen and thirteen,
Speaker 1: and a little bit on fourteen, we really had somewhat
Speaker 1: of an entertaining to draw off the team. Other than
Speaker 1: that golf course never bothered me. Not being able to
Speaker 1: the ball very well, and uh, I just love playing that.
Speaker 1: I love the golf course I won early in my career,
Speaker 1: which gives you some you know, gives you a good
Speaker 1: attitude going in every year. But I love putting in
Speaker 1: the greens as opposed to a lot of guys you know,
Speaker 1: being greens. I love paying And yeah, I just got
Speaker 1: along with the place well, which usually happened to go
Speaker 1: somewhere where you played well and you won or come
Speaker 1: close to winning, you afford to going back to the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that I mean the positive attitude, I feel like
Speaker 2: is huge for anything when you go back to a
Speaker 2: place that you've won, having whereas other people have been
Speaker 2: burned by it. And I think about Rory a lot
Speaker 2: now with you know, some of the some of the
Speaker 2: troubles he's had out there, is almost becomes a mental thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that you
Speaker 1: get going good and if it's happened a lot in
Speaker 1: the past, back in the back of your mind, is
Speaker 1: I hope I'll do this again, you know, or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I'm sure it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a factor.
Speaker 2: People always talk about, you know, for first timers. The
Speaker 2: advice they get from different players. If you say one
Speaker 2: of the amateurs like Doug Gammer, Doc Redman came up
Speaker 2: to you and asked for a piece of advice, what
Speaker 2: would it be.
Speaker 1: Oh, their games are so well. But you know, the
Speaker 1: talunting thing about it, Gus is you never in a
Speaker 1: year or a few or three can learn the greens
Speaker 1: and around the greens. I think that, of course, is
Speaker 1: a constant learning process forever. And you know you have
Speaker 1: to know where you miss where you can't sure decided
Speaker 1: obviously with the irons to the greens. But you can't
Speaker 1: go everywhere in three days of practice. You can't go
Speaker 1: actually everywhere on the else you can try, but you
Speaker 1: can go out there for ten hours a day, and
Speaker 1: you know, the the live and learnt. It's pretty good there.
Speaker 1: When you miss a green and a couple spots for
Speaker 1: a pin is and you get down and see if
Speaker 1: they have those are the ones you don't forget, and yeah,
Speaker 1: those stick in your mind and you know it's times
Speaker 1: you be there to see that pin like you know what,
Speaker 1: I can't just sit there. So it's a constant learning process,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody talks about you know, approach shots distance, and
Speaker 2: as you alluded to, that right to left shot, but
Speaker 2: it seems like the recovery shot is so important from
Speaker 2: around those greens there.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just too short side yourself there. It's impossible.
Speaker 2: In terms of the most underrated great hole out there,
Speaker 2: what's your favorite hole that might be a little less
Speaker 2: talked about than the obvious ones.
Speaker 1: That's a good I'm not sure I have an answer
Speaker 1: for uh. I think, uh, my mind, number five used
Speaker 1: to be the hardest holes out there, but with the
Speaker 1: guys away as far as they those days hit now,
Speaker 1: you know, and every hole has its character. I think
Speaker 1: number nine is a lot harder are than people give
Speaker 1: it credit for us. It's not these you know, But
Speaker 1: then again, he's the guys out these days. If they
Speaker 1: get down there and they get somewhere, they miss the
Speaker 1: trees going down, then they're gonna watch them. So, you know,
Speaker 1: it takes away a lot of a lot of the difficulty,
Speaker 1: that is if you're stuck way back in the side
Speaker 1: of the hill. But obviously there's some guys that don't
Speaker 1: hit it a mile still, but not many. But you know,
Speaker 1: duty that's the beauty of that golf course. Every hole
Speaker 1: has its own character. Every hole is different. The part
Speaker 1: three is all different. Uh, you've got one that's long
Speaker 1: and then really hard for the back edge of the sea,
Speaker 1: top of the back tea. It's fifty at you Now
Speaker 1: on four, you've got one hundred and eighty yards one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy sixty way put the pens right down,
Speaker 1: you know. Six we've got obviously twelve a little greenover
Speaker 1: raised creek. And then you've got sixteen, which is fairly
Speaker 1: the nine hole, except when they put the pins, if
Speaker 1: anywhere they put them, they put it front right for
Speaker 1: the top right, it's really hard. They put it back
Speaker 1: after to get a good person. So every every hole
Speaker 1: is different, the parts are different, are different, and which
Speaker 1: which is my side of one of the classic golf course.
Speaker 1: I love the golf course. You play it once, you're
Speaker 1: every hole in the golf course, and I guess it's
Speaker 1: definitely one of those courses. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always think something else you will too, is how
Speaker 2: you said you learned something every time you go around it.
Speaker 2: And I think that's another thing about great golf courses
Speaker 2: is every single time you play it, it reveals itself
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: More, especially with August I mean, because you know, au
Speaker 1: Gussa is for the most part, very easy driving golf course.
Speaker 1: It's not difficult to get the ball in the fairways.
Speaker 1: But then that's where the fun begins.
Speaker 2: Obviously you talked about the distance a little bit. I
Speaker 2: mean I didn't I didn't know. I'm I'm a I'm
Speaker 2: thirty one, so I wasn't around it. When you know,
Speaker 2: Dan Pole was in his heyday, I didn't realize how
Speaker 2: such a prodigious driver of the golf ball he was,
Speaker 2: and and you know what a great athlete he was.
Speaker 2: And then in the playoff with you guys, I saw
Speaker 2: he was hitting a seven iron into the tenth green,
Speaker 2: which was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you could do it on I had to
Speaker 1: do over the hill, and you know it was starred
Speaker 1: and fast all the way when we drove it, probably
Speaker 1: three stemps apart. But he was he had he had
Speaker 1: a really short backsway he still does, and but just
Speaker 1: got a lot of strength in his legs and his arms,
Speaker 1: and it was very long hitter back in those days.
Speaker 2: So everybody with the I don't know if you've seen,
Speaker 2: they put all the final rounds onto YouTube. The last
Speaker 2: fifty years of the Masters everybody's talking about their favorite years.
Speaker 2: What shots are in tournaments in years? Do you think
Speaker 2: don't get spoken enough or forgotten?
Speaker 1: Well, they get fairly easy. He's forgotten because there's so
Speaker 1: many of them. These guys are so good these days,
Speaker 1: and you know you've got them from gosh, however far
Speaker 1: back you want to go back in the seventies, you've
Speaker 1: got Jerry Pate sticking at the foot of the Atlantic
Speaker 1: Athletic Club. You got early eighties, you get Watson chipping
Speaker 1: in at seventeen at Tebble. All kinds of shots to
Speaker 1: choose from god knows how many Millan and Nicholas and
Speaker 1: rned Player and you know player that little kind of
Speaker 1: short shot he hid and there's something he's stuck in
Speaker 1: the foot on seventeen guests. I mean, all kinds of
Speaker 1: shots that uh, you know have room for all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, to the game, to the games, to the games.
Speaker 3: Made an eighteen to beat Norman, the the bunker shot
Speaker 3: of the Twain may to beat Norman.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of choices out there, the shot and
Speaker 1: not to bring up Norman. But the second shot he
Speaker 1: had an eighteen to get me, which was probably one
Speaker 1: of the one of the worst golf shots on finishing
Speaker 1: home other than you know the guy at Memphis that
Speaker 1: made nine, or or versusly Van de Veld at Turnberry.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, the get a perfecting a perfect
Speaker 1: they are and missed it right at the right bunker.
Speaker 1: It's kind of do you got the lies in that
Speaker 1: last hole? You don't? You wonder where the stuff come from,
Speaker 1: you know, good batter and difference. There's a whole rash
Speaker 1: of eighteen hole shots to choose from.
Speaker 2: It especially, I mean when you think about if you're
Speaker 2: leading a major championship, you're clearly pretty locked in. So
Speaker 2: that's you know, missing right of the the right bunker
Speaker 2: is even bigger, like outside the dispersion for a guy
Speaker 2: that week, because if you're leading, you're obviously hitting the
Speaker 2: ball really well.
Speaker 1: Exactly and you know the mindset. You wonder what changes
Speaker 1: from the se from playing seven to one holes brilliant
Speaker 1: or to the last hole. I mean, it should be
Speaker 1: you know, it should be the mentality all the way
Speaker 1: through and well this is what got here. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hope I stay there. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna get one. More So.
Speaker 2: When I play amateur golf, like a mid am and
Speaker 2: state am stuff, and I'm usually more nervous on the
Speaker 2: first t than I am coming down the stretch at
Speaker 2: a tournament. Or is that the way you felt in
Speaker 2: your career or is it was there specific spots on
Speaker 2: golf courses you were most nervous.
Speaker 1: No, I think I was fairly fortunate. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't get real nervous. I kind of was when I
Speaker 1: started talking, Well, I loved it. I played better, which
Speaker 1: wasn't all that often, well that often, but but yeah,
Speaker 1: a difference. It's difference for everybody. But you know, some
Speaker 1: guys basking the fact that they're the three every week
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch and they played better like Tiger
Speaker 1: obviously when you got better almost almost one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the time. But so yeah, everybody's different than everybody
Speaker 1: handles whatever you want to call it, nerves pressure or
Speaker 1: why is being in the position they're in, not being
Speaker 1: in a position they're in they want to be. Everybody
Speaker 1: handles it different. You can't really pull out water or
Speaker 1: the other you know, talk about a lot of these
Speaker 1: nunchers talk about you know Gin that show by that show, Well,
Speaker 1: that's free plays, you know, that's what it does.
Speaker 2: Everybody always likes to talk about Augusta using a Master's ball.
Speaker 2: That might be reduced distance if they put that into place.
Speaker 2: And on the first t they said, you have to
Speaker 2: play this ball or you don't play. Do you think
Speaker 2: all the players would play.
Speaker 1: I don't think it will ever be a question. I
Speaker 1: don't see how they can do that. I don't see anyway.
Speaker 1: There's so many contracts, ball contracts, how many different companies
Speaker 1: balls are being you every week. It's that's what they
Speaker 1: sell golf ball with m that's their advertising, right there,
Speaker 1: Guys using the majors. And you know, a guy likes
Speaker 1: the softball like I like a hard ball. Guys a
Speaker 1: little less, spend, little more than you tell everybody. If
Speaker 1: the select few they build the ball's exactly when they're playing,
Speaker 1: somehow change balls and after your career, in the middle
Speaker 1: of your career, and I just don't see. I don't
Speaker 1: see it happening. I don't know. The Masters is probably
Speaker 1: the only then you work happen because they're their their
Speaker 1: own event. They can just say, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: way it is. And if that will happen, I think
Speaker 1: it won't come. But if it were too I'm guessing
Speaker 1: that everybody would still play. But when you're gonna share
Speaker 1: the ball, you're gonna give them a couple of months
Speaker 1: to play a new ball while you're playing an old
Speaker 1: ball and regular two events. Uh, it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a viable concept. Sounds good, but
Speaker 1: the planning the same as the same as Nicholas wanting to,
Speaker 1: you know, make one ball for the tour. M Well,
Speaker 1: who's gonna make it? Are you're gonna say, is that
Speaker 1: PJA tour gonna make it? The stamp it with everybody's
Speaker 1: all the different companies, all of those But even though
Speaker 1: it's the same ball, they don't make it. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: just it's not something that that can work. I don't think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's tricky. It's uh like to see it.
Speaker 1: I don't see it happening.
Speaker 2: Most great ideas in executing them are are two different
Speaker 2: challenges and uh, but it's you know, with the fairways
Speaker 2: and how I guess had they started cutting them the
Speaker 2: different direction towards the end of your playing career there.
Speaker 1: Uh, they've done various things over the years. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, one of my favorite stories the past champions.
Speaker 1: One year they we played on Expand on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: they had about donald The moors are probably ten football
Speaker 1: and they went down home the creek towards the green.
Speaker 1: Next one came back towards the tee down and they
Speaker 1: went opposite directions every ten field going the fairway towards
Speaker 1: the tee or towards the green. And after the dinner
Speaker 1: it was kind of a Q and A for the
Speaker 1: for the chairman and who was Hour Harden at the time.
Speaker 1: This is probably in the early nineties, and Arnold got
Speaker 1: on thirteen, you've blowed the fairways. If a direction every
Speaker 1: every width of the mower going down hole or going
Speaker 1: into the into the back towards the tu If you
Speaker 1: hit a drive and hit the down green, you roll
Speaker 1: around a quarter forty yards. You hit it six instance, right,
Speaker 1: you get one more towards the tea. It's going to
Speaker 1: check roll five feet and have mud on the ball.
Speaker 1: The reason for that part just looked at Arnold and
Speaker 1: he said, well, we'll take that up in front of
Speaker 1: our board of experts, and I'll looked at him because, well, Hard, what,
Speaker 1: what exactly do you think you have this one? Good night?
Speaker 1: And Hard just looked at him. We'll take that from
Speaker 1: the front of the board of experts. So that was
Speaker 1: rather rather humorous and rather rather just unbelievable, just really
Speaker 1: and he had a perfect point. M h. And come Thursday,
Speaker 1: they're all Mode, the Sanderson, all the fairways. So it
Speaker 1: did change it, we're saying because it took it took
Speaker 1: a fairly large amount of fairness out of the game
Speaker 1: on that whole. Especially.
Speaker 2: Do they ever ask past champions or players for input.
Speaker 1: Uh, there are a couple of past champions involved in
Speaker 1: the decision to way back when to tell you back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, or to tell you that
Speaker 1: turned sixty five he could play anymore, Yeah, which is
Speaker 1: probably you'll come make him back to fite him in
Speaker 1: the butt. Is one of the worst decisions they ever made,
Speaker 1: but they did fortunately reverse it like three four months later. Mh.
Speaker 1: You know you got you got Jack at sixty five,
Speaker 1: who still plays pretty good, and thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: people want to come out and watch Nicholas and the
Speaker 1: same with partner. You're gonna tell them both a sixty
Speaker 1: five they can't play.
Speaker 2: Anymore, Yeah, I mean, I mean Tom Watson.
Speaker 1: Didn't take long that didn't take long. Drivers. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: took like a couple of months to reverse.
Speaker 2: At the season, Tom Watson almost won a major championship
Speaker 2: at sixty.
Speaker 1: So yep.
Speaker 2: So the twelfth hole obviously gets talked a lot about.
Speaker 2: Is is that kind of the point of the golf
Speaker 2: course that is the toughest single shot out there? Or
Speaker 2: is there another one that makes you think a little
Speaker 2: bit more?
Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't think there's a shot on that
Speaker 1: golf course that has the same the same scrambled news
Speaker 1: and winds and you know what, your thoughts are not news,
Speaker 1: but you know what, you what you think your head
Speaker 1: can change so often with the wind and and everything else.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a there's a harder golf shot
Speaker 1: in golf twelve, possibly with a with a down wind
Speaker 1: forty mile on our wind, which it never happens. But
Speaker 1: if it was seventeen, the TPC might be as hard
Speaker 1: a shot. But you know, it's uh as good as
Speaker 1: these guys are, it's still very very much. I guess
Speaker 1: the game on that tea every day you just caeh.
Speaker 1: You look at eleven and the pins and the flags
Speaker 1: blowing straight back at the tea. You look at all
Speaker 1: the flags blowing the right stand up blowing to the right,
Speaker 1: and you look over to the right on thirteen and
Speaker 1: the trees as low to the left, so you just
Speaker 1: never know what's going on with that hole.
Speaker 2: So you don't have any any little tricks for the
Speaker 2: wind there.
Speaker 1: No, you're just very happy to get it out. You're
Speaker 1: very happy to get it on the green if it's windy,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much always windy down on that corner
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: So we get last question, then we'll get you out
Speaker 2: of here with our we do this overrated, underrated segment.
Speaker 2: But who are you picking this week?
Speaker 1: Picked anybody? I started? I thought about it last week
Speaker 1: we were doing a radio show and all about twenty
Speaker 1: five names popping in my head. So you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys playing really well right now. You got
Speaker 1: Phil playing well, Tiger's coming back, Murray's playing well, Dustin
Speaker 1: Thomas is playing great. Just a number of guys are
Speaker 1: playing really, really good. It'll be a good event, it
Speaker 1: always is. But I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: pick one, well, I really don't know. You know, Rubble
Speaker 1: one last week, he loves the place. So you just
Speaker 1: have a little players that could win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was putting together a story lines piece, and
Speaker 2: I mean I was kept writing and I got to
Speaker 2: like sixteen hundred words, and I felt like I left
Speaker 2: some stuff out. I can't remember a Masters that has
Speaker 2: had so much interesting kind of build up with big
Speaker 2: name winners. Obviously Tiger coming back. It should be a
Speaker 2: great week this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tire come back. Phil's playing great. I mean you
Speaker 1: can just you can go down and on ten hands
Speaker 1: you can cut him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's about twenty guys that you wouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprised if they won, which is which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: Wow. So and you know you talked about those eight
Speaker 1: we just talked about and then you're leaving out you
Speaker 1: leave it out Jason Day and whoever else, whoever else,
Speaker 1: whoever else. There's just there's potential for a lot of peoples. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean we didn't even bring up Speed or Rory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you goes. I mean yeah, yep.
Speaker 2: So overrated, underrated, you just uh you can just say
Speaker 2: you know one, or you can expand uh. Tomento cheese sandwiches. Uh, underrated,
Speaker 2: especially for the price there.
Speaker 1: Definitely underrated.
Speaker 2: Driving down Magnolia.
Speaker 1: Lane extremely underrated.
Speaker 2: The fourteenth hole, it's got.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's got a lot of hype too,
Speaker 1: it's still underrated. What's that?
Speaker 2: And then the fourteenth hole.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I would say about either, it's probably you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you want to, it's in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1: But as opposed to pastors, I would say probably Now
Speaker 1: it's a little overrated because they lost that big pine
Speaker 1: tree on the left side of the green made that
Speaker 1: second shot to the left hand a lot easier than
Speaker 1: it ever was.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I didn't even think about that. All right. Well, Craig,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for your time, and we look forward
Speaker 2: to watching the Masters and appreciate your insights into AUGUSTA.
Speaker 1: My pleasure would be a great week again as those
Speaker 1: is