WEBVTT - Five Things About the 2022 Masters with Shane Bacon 0:00:00.080 --> 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 --> 0:00:06.960 And when I find my ball in a brid egg 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.000 Frida Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:12.959 Frida Egg, Bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:13.280 off of. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:14.080 The hump course. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.600 Welcome back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.360 It is Masters week. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:47.080 I'm excited for another major championship at Augusta National. We 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.040 will be on the grounds. We are credentialed media for 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.360 the first time. It's very exciting. So we will be 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.240 churning out a lot of content, lots of articles on 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.520 the website, some podcasts. The Shotguns Start will be air 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.200 daily and this is our first preview pod and we 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.759 are joined by none other than co host of Golf 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.680 Today on the Golf Channel and you know, really golf 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.360 media Extraordinay Shane Bacon. So Shane is also the host 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.920 of Get a Grip podcasts and you can find that 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.880 wherever you get your podcasts. I love listening to Get 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.960 a Grip. He just fired it back up after a 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.920 little break and he had Scott Van pelt On to 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.240 talk about the Masters, So I recommend listening to that. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:42.759 And without further ado, here is Shane Bacon. All right, Bacon, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.040 you're back. It's another Masters. I feel like we had 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.560 you on last Masters and then we did the recap 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:54.480 the last time Tiger played the Masters? And how's life 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:55.160 with two kids? 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.040 You know, it's it's been easier than everybody said it 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.680 was going to be. And I don't even want to 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.760 knock on wood or any of that stuff, but uh, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:08.120 you know, people tend to like they project their negative 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.880 parental experiences on you, and it's a reminder that everybody's 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.760 experiences their own experience, right, But it's been it's been lovely. Uh. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:20.680 The little little girls nine days old, almost almost double digits, big, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.680 big do you do like a celebration? Is that like 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.560 a Patton Oswalt birthday celebration when you get to double 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:26.639 digit days? 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.000 I don't know. You know. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.639 The thing that I always wonder about is like I'm 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.400 at the I'm at nineteen months. Now, when do I 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.480 get to drop the months and just go she's one, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:37.480 she's two. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.600 I did it too, I did it too. But the 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.960 problem is now is my is Henry is almost three. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.200 But he's not right there. So do you say two 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.359 because two years eight months is a lot different than 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.600 two years one month, right, I mean, it's a completely 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.800 different child with experiences and what they're doing. And so 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.079 I least I used to always trash the month thing, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.840 and now I at least understand it to a certain extent. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.840 Now I don't do it, but I at least understand 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:06.680 the people that do it. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.320 I have this whole theory. I think I've said this 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.320 either here or the shotguns start on time. And why 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.400 as you get older it seems like the years go 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.880 faster and faster is because it's a smaller sum of 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.400 your life, Like it's a smaller percentage of your life 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.760 a year. So when you're when you're thirty five or 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.120 thirty you know, I'm just gonna embarrass myself with math, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.560 but you know, that's such a smaller percentage than when 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.600 you're ten. So months actually makes sense, I think almost 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.120 until you're probably like four, because it's just a month 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.960 is such a huge part of part of their life. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.480 When they're under two years old, especially. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.040 Three months is a big Yeah, three months is an 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.360 enormous difference in the child as they're moving Three months along, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.800 Like my one of my best buddy's son is exactly 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.880 three months older than Henry. And as I'm watching you know, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.000 their Instagram videos and things like that, I get excited 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.120 for what comes three months later. You know, Like right now, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.880 Henry's been hitting golf balls, by the way, hitting golf 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.040 balls lefty, which I'm very excited about. I've got to 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.880 actually after this, I'm going to the hardware store to 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.920 buy one of those things that can cut metal, and 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.040 I'm gonna cut some clubs down and see if he 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.640 actually will like regrip some little clubs and see if 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.160 he's actually gonna be a lefty. We'll see. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.960 Wow, that's gotta be exciting. You're you're doing it the 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.200 old fashioned way. You aren't gonna go get a fancy 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.880 set of beginner clubs. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.440 You're just gonna cut down some old ones. He's gonna 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.040 be He's gonna be swinging some hafty swingways. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.159 I gotta So. I went through this phase where I 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.160 was asking a titleist sent me like a seven eight 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.880 nine iron in blades because I was thinking about doing 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.159 a combo set, and I think I'm gonna cut the 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.159 seven iron blade down. And this kid's gonna have the 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.800 coolest little kid club of all time, Like a blade 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.080 seven iron is pretty sweet. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.080 You're gonna be like Tiger. You're gonna be giving your 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.479 kid blades from. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.159 This very much like sure? Is that the segue? Yeah, I. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:03.560 Don't even know that. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.840 I didn't even know, so it wasn't professional's it was 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.000 just dumb luck. But uh, I guess this is what 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.080 we have to talk about as of this is Friday afternoon. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.680 I thought by this time we were gonna know, but 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.640 we still don't know. He's waited till the very last minute. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.839 Uh Tiger Wood, it seems all signs point to him playing. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.240 Seems like that. Yeah, yeah, I think that's so. So 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.120 I'm I'm bringing back to Get a Grip podcast. I 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.840 did an episode on Thursday with Scott Van Pelt that's 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.159 drop it on Monday, and much like you and I 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.279 are doing here, we basically just talked as if Tiger 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.080 was in the field, and if he's not, it's going 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.240 to be an awkward first twenty minutes of the podcast. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.960 But it feels like he's going to be doing it, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.640 and it feels like he's going to be in the field. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.240 It is like I wrote something already about this, Like 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.920 I haven't. I haven't posted an article in a year. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.320 I mean, it is so bananas to me that this 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.880 guy is actually going to play professional golf again in 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.560 any capacity. And then it's the Masters, right, I mean 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.080 it's his place. He's the modern Masters guy, and he's 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.400 gonna make the return here. I mean, like, is the 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.240 week a win? That's what That's what I wrote. I 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.560 wrote it, the week's a win. No matter what happens, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.440 this is a win for this sport. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.240 I think I had gotten to the point with Tiger 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.320 before this injury where. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.479 I literally nothing surprised me. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.800 Right, if he went out and he finished dead last, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.040 I wasn't surprised. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.599 If he went out and won, I wasn't surprised. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.680 I mean, I think we just have to look back 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.120 to what happened with the FedEx Cup playoffs and a 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.520 couple of years ago when he wins the Tour Championship 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.640 and one week later he's the worst player maybe outside 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.000 of Phil. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.000 At the Ryder Cup. You know it, just. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.239 The Varians. You know this at this point of his career. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.560 I just I don't ever know what to expect. I 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.840 think it's a huge win, no matter what that he's 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.640 even playing. I think Brenda por F wrote something on 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.760 The Frida Egg this week where he compared it to 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.480 Alex Smith, who obviously came back from a similarly gruesome injury, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.600 and he said along the lines, I'm gonna misquote this, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.320 but he said it wasn't you know that that first 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.480 play back for Alex Smith, nobody remembers the results of 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.000 the play They just remember him. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.440 Being in the game again. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.080 And I think that's the mentality that everybody should take 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.480 with Tiger, who knows. One of the things I think 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.800 is crazy is like, when the injury to the leg happened, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.840 he was rehabbing another major back surgery, right, and nobody's 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.600 talking about the back. I put as a subhead for 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.000 an article that'll be live by the time of this pod, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.360 is Tiger's back. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.320 You know, we haven't heard anything about the back. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.840 And I think that's another layer to this that makes 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.480 this return so crazy, is that he already was rehabbing 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.320 a major back injury and then he almost lost his 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.120 leg and he's back playing a little more than a. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.920 Year later, competitively potentially, right. I mean that again, is 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.400 what is so wild. This is a guy I talked 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.400 to Van Pelp a lot about Tiger and one of 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.880 the things I said was, this is the toughest athlete 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.120 of this generation of athletes. And it's crazy to think 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.640 that a golfer can be the toughest athlete. And you know, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.280 Scott was mentioning, I mean, there's a difference in toughness 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.880 in hockey and football versus golf, obviously, but in terms 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.160 of finding a way to come back from these types 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.319 of injuries that put people out of the sport forever. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.240 I mean, you mentioned the Alex Smith thing with the 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.400 poor ath article. You know, I go back to Sean 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.600 Livingston a lot, and when Sean Livingston had that horrible, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.120 horrible injury and the video is like unwatchable, right, and 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.200 the fact that he was able to come back was 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.280 so incredible just to watch him be athletic again. Alex 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.160 Smith much of the same. The difference being is you're 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.840 talking about two very good athletes and now you're talking 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.400 about who I think is probably the most famous athlete 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.080 in the world, definitely the most famous athlete in the 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.040 United States to make a return like this after all 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.720 these injuries and everything he's gone through and what is 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.559 this now? Like the third or fourth return for Tiger Woods, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.120 and to me, this is the biggest one to this point, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.920 considering you know, we were asking a question almost a 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.040 year ago, is he going to walk again? And now 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.800 there's a chance that he's gonna walk one of the 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.640 toughest golf courses on the PGA Tour to walk and 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.000 play in a major championship. It's you, guys. I thought 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.040 you guys nailed it on the shotgun start earlier this 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.120 week or late last week when you guys talked about 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.600 this event kind of sneaking up on you a little bit, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.839 it just felt like the Masters kind of poked its 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.280 head and all of a sudden, it's here, and we're 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.840 getting the story that everybody in the world would hope 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.040 to get. Right, So, even though we haven't seen a 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.120 lot from Rory and DJ and Rom and those types 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.600 of names that you hope are playing well coming into 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.400 the first Major, you are getting the biggest story you 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.280 could ever ask for in golf and outside of golf, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.880 and that is Tiger coming back. I mean, who do 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.800 you compare him to Andy? I mean Brady Serena. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.199 You said when he said he's the most famous athlete. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.679 I don't think I necessarily disagree. I think the people 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.199 that you would put him in it put in that 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.080 you named him Serena Lebron, Tom Brady. I don't think 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.080 anybody in baseball gets there. I mean Michael Jordan would 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.120 be the other guy that he hasn't played in forever 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.160 that might be able to even I think Michael Jordan 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.920 would probably be the guy that was the only, maybe 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.080 the only athlete that's more famous than Tiger. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.000 I keep hoping Tiger fax is the note in like, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.600 just find a way to send faxes out, you know, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.040 when he makes the actual return like full Goordan just 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.200 I don't even know who would get a fax, Like 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.280 would the AP even know what to do if it 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.120 popped on their machine? But it would just be unbelievable 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.160 if he just sent faxes out. If Steinberg was faxing 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.600 out all this information to the world, letting him know 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.680 that Tiger was back as a true you know, hat 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.080 tip to mister MJ. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.120 What I mean, we did the recap show after he 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:01.840 won in twenty nineteen. What is there any result short 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.080 of winning that would eclipse that in terms of a 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:04.920 sports moment. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.319 I think if he got in contention at this Masters, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.400 and again I'm I've said this, I wrote something about it. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.720 The week is a win. If he's playing golf on Thursday, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.480 he won the week he won the twenty twenty two Masters. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.720 To me, if Tiger Woods is actually playing in the 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.760 field on Thursday, let's say we're actually talking about the golf. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.640 If he found a way, and he's gonna need conditions, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:27.640 and I know you and I were going to talk 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:28.920 about our five things we're watching. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.160 This is number one. This is the first. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.400 Thing everything Tiger, right, But I. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.480 Mean he's this is the first thing for both of us. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.840 This is all bold, all italicized in like font thirty. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.120 But he's gonna need Augustin nationalill cooperated. When I say that, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.959 I mean he's gonna need a golf course that could 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.960 play into his hands. He's gonna need it to be firmer, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.360 he's gonna need to play faster. He's gonna need a 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.800 place that's not soft, and it's going to play into 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.160 the hands of guys that could hit it three oh 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.680 five and three ten in the air. Right, But if 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.200 it does play like that a little bit. What the 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.480 forecast looks like for Thursday through Sunday of next week. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.160 But if it can play in his hands there and 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.160 he does find a way to do those old Tiger 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.360 tricks right, go out and shoot even par in the 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.960 opening round, shoot one under on Friday, make a little 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.880 bit of a move on Saturday, and he's just around 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.160 like Jack was in ninety eight. And to me, that's 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.719 the comps. It's not Jack at eighty six, this is 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.960 Jack in ninety eight, when Jack found a way to 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.360 finish in the top ten coming off Tiger's win in 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.240 ninety seven. You know, kind of the one We forget 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.360 about a lot that Jack actually had a chance to 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.520 win the Masters in nineteen ninety eight, which is so 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.959 silly to think about, But that is the comp I 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.400 would compare it to, is there if Tiger got in 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.400 contention and was just a storyline simply making the cut 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.520 into the storyline on the weekend. I think we will 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.960 remember this, probably not as much as nineteen, but we 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.880 will remember twenty two as much as maybe three of 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.520 his wins at the Masters. I mean, I think ninety 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.959 seven and nineteen are forever going to be one and 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.240 two in some way, right with Tiger. And then you 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.880 probably make an argument that Tiger slam is third because 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.280 he one of four straight majors. For goodness sakes, the 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.760 return is gonna be in those top two three four 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.920 experiences of Tiger at the Masters, which is crazy to 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.760 think considered he has won it five times. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.440 It's it's wild the whole thing. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.200 I did not expect this to be a real thing, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.280 even like when he was playing the PNC. I felt 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.480 like we were stealing when we got him playing the PNC, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.920 and it's like, oh, there's a PNC gonna be this. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.320 But I think we're gonna see Tiger probably from what 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.840 he said, we might only see him four or five 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.199 times a year from now on, and it could be 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.680 just centered around these majors, And I think that's I mean, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.440 that's a huge win for for all the majors and everything, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.439 but it's a huge win for golf. I mean, the 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.520 general interest of this event. If Tiger's playing is spiked 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.160 so much because of everything that he's gone through, and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.360 obviously I think this is a huge win for the Masters, because, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.120 like we were talking about, it was kind of it 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.760 kind of stuck up on us. Everything about golf has 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.480 been about the Saudi's. The big names haven't been winning 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.600 golf tournaments leading up to the Masters. I think you 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.800 made this point on Golf Today a couple of weeks 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.800 ago about the names of that were winning last year 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.560 versus the names winning this year. So you don't have 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.760 that lead up where you typically like to see you 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.120 like to see Rory win, knock one off at bay 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.280 Hill or something, you like to see John Rohm win, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.520 but all of them have been kind of mired. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.880 And even I was looking into it, like Klin. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.760 Marcus hasn't been talked about much because he hasn't been 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.160 on leader boards that much because he's kind of been 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.760 having a down year by his standards, and obviously it's 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.080 a small sample size, but the ball striking, which is 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.440 something you know, the iron play hasn't been there at 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.840 the level that it had that we come to expect 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 over his short career, and I think, you know, coming 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:54.680 into this event, that's obviously you know, Tiger just just 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.280 shot this thing to the moon when it was one 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.080 of the most under hype Masters of all time, is 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.600 now going to be one of the most hyped. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.600 You said something interesting about Tiger's scheduling kind of going forward, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.760 and again we're assuming that he's playing right, we're assuming 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.400 he's going to play the Masters. So then you start 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.760 to think about when will we see Tiger the rest 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.320 of the year. I just finished that great Roger Federer 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.480 book that came out this year, and I know Federer 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.640 and Tiger were like buddies back in the day, and 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.440 I hope Tiger takes a page out of the way 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.360 Federer kind of spent the last five eight years of 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.320 his career where it was all about the Slams, but 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.480 it was all about the specific slams. I mean, if 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.600 you remember, Federer would skip the French I mean he 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.440 would skip clay season even when he was healthy, because 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.520 he understood his best potential to win was on grass, 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.720 was at Wimbledon, and was around those types of seasonal events. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.200 And I think for Tiger, and you and I have 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.480 made this point many times, is going forward, Tiger's going 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:48.800 to have as good a chance to win and Open 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.880 as he is anything else. Right, if he's healthy and 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.160 can walk on a golf course again, if he can 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.760 play four days of professional golf at some sort of 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.320 a tournament level, his best option to win another major 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.440 championship is going to be the Opens. It's gonna be 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:04.440 very interesting if he decides to skip PGAs and decides 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.920 to skip US Opens at times, understanding that those golf 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.040 courses and he'll his skill set might not kind of 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.280 you know, congeal if you will, I mean, it might 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.360 not work out that way. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.080 How great would it be if Tiger is playing like 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.880 the Irish and Scottish and the lead up to the 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.040 the Open Championship. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.720 Not certain majors would be pretty wild? 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.800 And it's like, then the Masters he plays, you know, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.400 he plays bay Hill and maybe what other and those 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.360 are his six events of the year. Is like he 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.680 plays just he just plays the Open and he just 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.880 plays the Masters, because I think those are the two 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.520 tournaments over the years that have shown they're not I 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.440 think this kind of parlays into one of my first 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.200 points is the youth movement has overtaken golf. It has 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.360 been something that we've been talking about for five years 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.560 and it's now fully realized, I believe with if you 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.320 look at the official World Golf rankings, it's here, he's. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.200 Not coming anymore. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.240 It is here that it can't get much younger than 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.879 it is right now. And with that, the two majors 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:12.040 that have been the most equitable to older players over 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:16.159 the last five ten years have been the Masters in 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.520 the Open Championship and partially the Masters because of the 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.240 field makeup, but also because of the golf course and 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.679 there's a lot of little local knowledge in it. But 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.679 one of the things that I'm watching this year is 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.080 in this is years going forward, something's got to give. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.440 There's never been a first time winner at the Masters. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.280 We've got a younger than ever top ten in the world, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.639 the top five in the world right now, the entire 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.760 top five is sub thirty years old. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:44.360 Something's got to give. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.600 There's going to be a first time player to win 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.280 the Masters at some point in the future. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:50.280 Could it be this year? 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.400 And obviously if we're talking about this year, we're talking 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.000 about maybe Sam Burns. He's a top ten player in 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.800 the world and he's never played the Masters, which I 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.640 don't know. I don't I should have asked justin Ray 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.040 ahead of this. I don't know if that's ever happened before. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.919 Top ten player coming in and making his debut at 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.240 augusta National. Yeah, yeah, I mean you got to you 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.080 gotta go back to Fuzzy, right, Fuzzy was the last 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:13.840 player that won in his debut, right, Is that the 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:14.680 last player that won. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.160 The last players start. Yeah. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.119 Yeah, Well that kind of parlays into one of my 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.720 points since we're talking about young players, and obviously we 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.000 have both spoke on the superstar names that haven't shown up. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.439 And I think when you say that, you have to 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.560 bring up Scotty Scheffler because you talk about you talk 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.960 about surprising the world in terms of becoming something, and 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.680 he's all of a sudden the number one ranked player 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.480 in the world. It's still even when you look at that, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.639 it seems a bit surprising Scotty Scheffler, and I know 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.359 you and I are going to talk about Justin Thomas 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.520 in a bit. Scotty Scheffler's major resume to this point 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.200 is astonishine le good. And again this is the number 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.280 one ranked player in the world, coming in totally under 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.040 the radar, you know, three wins, He's played great golf. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.800 But when you're talking about young players that could have 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.720 major success and win majors quickly, Scotty Scheffler has played 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.240 let me see here, I got it. He's played in 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.800 nine majors. Okay, two of those is an amateur. He 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.920 was low amateur at Aaron Hills at the US Open 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.040 where he finished and a tie for twenty seven, so 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.919 that was a top thirty. As an amateur player, he 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.160 played in the twenty nineteen US Open at Pebble Beach 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.879 and he missed the cut. Since then, he's played in 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.760 six majors, all of them are top nineteen finishes, three 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.000