Speaker 1: We're walking down Tin Fairway and I'll see Tiger kind
Speaker 1: of walk over like he's about to say something to me,
Speaker 1: you know, like you're kind of walking to your path
Speaker 1: down down the hill and our balls were in similar
Speaker 1: spot and he kind of walks over. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: he's about to say something again, and he's like, wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be fun to just get like a running start
Speaker 1: and slow down this hill. I'm like, what put another
Speaker 1: log on the fireboy here is to get the time.
Speaker 1: Andy Ogletree just drove down here today. Andy ago Tree
Speaker 1: U s M winner multiple All American at Georgia Tech
Speaker 1: played in the Masters, was low amateur. They're played with
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods and Shane Lowry. He stops by and shares
Speaker 1: his story and where he's at. I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: To get started, my name's Andy Ogletree, um in the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen US Amateur Champion and Georgia techon graduate from Mississippi.
Speaker 1: How soon after you finish off your handshake, had off handshake,
Speaker 1: whatever the case is, you're the U s M champ,
Speaker 1: how quickly do you think masters? Thinking Masters? Before the
Speaker 1: thing before tell your one in the US am I
Speaker 1: mean Tiger one the Masters in nineteen, so everyone knows
Speaker 1: leading up to the U s M. If you win
Speaker 1: the U s M, then you're playing with Tiger at
Speaker 1: the Masters the following year. So UM, all throughout the
Speaker 1: week during press conference and stuff, that's all they're talking about.
Speaker 1: So there's no way to there's no way to really
Speaker 1: avoid that. UM. I was thinking about it for sure. UM.
Speaker 1: I remember the most nervous I was the semifinal match,
Speaker 1: because so much FRIZ on that semifinal match and if
Speaker 1: you if you don't win that one, then you basically
Speaker 1: getting nothing out of the US AM. Um, you win
Speaker 1: that match, you get into the US Open and the Masters,
Speaker 1: and you don't get in the British but unless you win.
Speaker 1: But UM, a lot rods on that match. And I
Speaker 1: remember that morning. I mean, I'm like, goly, like, this
Speaker 1: is the most nervous I've ever been and never really
Speaker 1: felt this. And that was a really good experience for
Speaker 1: me to have, UM, learn how to deal with that adrenaline,
Speaker 1: learn how to deal with the emotions and kind of
Speaker 1: put everything aside. And for the first nine holes or so,
Speaker 1: I didn't really get a hole to my game, and
Speaker 1: lucky for me, the guy was planning it's was kind
Speaker 1: of the same way and ended up hitting a few
Speaker 1: quality shots down the stretch and got my emotions under
Speaker 1: control and um closed it out. But you know that
Speaker 1: was that was one of the hardest rounds of golf
Speaker 1: I've ever played. Tell me, talked me through that hole?
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah? Um, how many times do you think
Speaker 1: you had played the golf course before? You? Really? We
Speaker 1: get to go over once a year in college. Um,
Speaker 1: so I played four times with the college team, and
Speaker 1: then it got to be really close with a few
Speaker 1: of the members and they would take me over on
Speaker 1: weekends and stuff. So I must have played twelve times
Speaker 1: before the week started, maybe thirteen fourteen times. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You love the golf courtion? I love it, absolutely love
Speaker 1: it since the first time I went. I mean I
Speaker 1: was obsessed with Augusta National. What do you love about it?
Speaker 1: It's just every hole it tells you what to do.
Speaker 1: It's like, you're supposed to hit it here to this pen,
Speaker 1: you do this, to this, when you do this, Um,
Speaker 1: you can't hit it here. It's just very like straightforward.
Speaker 1: I mean, that sounds weird to say about Augusta, but
Speaker 1: it really does tell you where to hit it and
Speaker 1: where to miss it. And I like golf courses like that.
Speaker 1: I like the like how heart it is. I like
Speaker 1: how punishing it is for bad shots, but it also
Speaker 1: rewards good shots. And um, I think they have the
Speaker 1: greatest part fives in the world. Um, the greatest green complexes.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just really cool golf course. And obviously
Speaker 1: Augusta National just has a different feel about it once
Speaker 1: you get on property than anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 1: I haven't really experienced that. I mean, I've played all
Speaker 1: the all the cool places been done, the pun Valley done,
Speaker 1: Cyprus Seminal, I mean, all these places are amazing, but
Speaker 1: I guess it just has a different feel and attention
Speaker 1: to detail than anywhere else in the world. And it's
Speaker 1: just special Augusta National Masters. So you get in, tucked
Speaker 1: me through, you got a lot to manage, You've got family,
Speaker 1: got tickets, you've got you know. That just sort of
Speaker 1: walked me through sort of the chaos that is Masters
Speaker 1: we compared to everything else. So I mean normally, um,
Speaker 1: I was preparing for playing in April, and I would
Speaker 1: sit in class in college and I had these spreadsheets
Speaker 1: of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I made all these spreadsheets of
Speaker 1: who's getting tickets on what day and texting all my friends, Hey,
Speaker 1: can you go on this day? Can you go on
Speaker 1: this day? And uh, I finally got to get eight tickets.
Speaker 1: I had it all spread out. I was going to
Speaker 1: give my high school friends the day, you know, high
Speaker 1: school coaches, everybody that's kind of brought me to where
Speaker 1: I'm at. Um, everybody was going to get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: And then they say, you know, the Masters just put
Speaker 1: spawning in November. I'm like, oh my gosh, I've done
Speaker 1: all this. I've done all this work. We've got the
Speaker 1: house set up, we know who's going, we know what
Speaker 1: day we're getting there, like everything's everything's very planned out.
Speaker 1: And you were handling all of that him. You were
Speaker 1: managing that. Yeah. I mean I never asked my parents
Speaker 1: to do anything. Um, I kind of like to to
Speaker 1: do it all on my own. So um yeah, I
Speaker 1: had it all, had it all ready to go, and
Speaker 1: then um we did. We ended up having no fans,
Speaker 1: no spectators, so all those tickets, nobody could go. A
Speaker 1: lot of people from my hometown had spent, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of money for them to be able to go,
Speaker 1: and um, even a few people had reached out like, hey,
Speaker 1: is it okay if we like sleeping yell floor will
Speaker 1: bring like a pullout couch or blow up bed or something.
Speaker 1: And uh so it was gonna be a really fun
Speaker 1: week and it still was. I mean, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but um, hopefully we'll get back soon and uh give
Speaker 1: everybody the tickets and they were gonna have I'll probably
Speaker 1: still have this spread sheets. That's amazing. So now so
Speaker 1: it bummer that you didn't have all that, but in
Speaker 1: a way it kind of simplified. It also simplified your
Speaker 1: life in a sense that you know, I mean, there
Speaker 1: was a lot less to worry about, um getting there
Speaker 1: in November. It was just me and my caddy and
Speaker 1: my parents. My grandma came over from Mississippi to cook
Speaker 1: every night. We had a super cool setup. We had
Speaker 1: a we had a nice house and um my brother
Speaker 1: was there or my brothers were there, and um, how
Speaker 1: many who's your caddy? My assistant coach in college caddy
Speaker 1: for me, he caddy for me and all the all
Speaker 1: the term ats how players and am and he caddy
Speaker 1: for me at the U S M two so I
Speaker 1: felt like he kind of helped me get to that point,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to I didn't want to take a
Speaker 1: different caddy. I want to take somebody else comfortable with,
Speaker 1: especially to a place like Augusta. I mean, there's enough
Speaker 1: stuff to make you uncomfortable already then um adding a
Speaker 1: new caddy of the mix. So I wanted to take him.
Speaker 1: And he came over on a few trips with me before,
Speaker 1: and um he always loved golf and uh kind of
Speaker 1: learning about the game. So he was obsessed with learning
Speaker 1: everything you could have about august And I feel like
Speaker 1: he knows more than you know most of the caddies
Speaker 1: now because he studied it so much, and he helped
Speaker 1: me a lot. Had you had a couple of really
Speaker 1: low rounds, had you had some success at playing in
Speaker 1: all those years, I think the first time I played,
Speaker 1: I was like five over through five and shot even
Speaker 1: a bogey the last sole to shoot even I was
Speaker 1: so mad about that. But um, I always shot around
Speaker 1: par I don't think I ever had like a really
Speaker 1: great round or a bad round. It was always around
Speaker 1: par Um. Fun fact, actually, my my senior year of
Speaker 1: college I was playing basketball. It was like early November
Speaker 1: and we were playing at the campus Recreational Center and uh,
Speaker 1: I went up for a rebound and got mad because
Speaker 1: this kid like stole the rebound from me. I went
Speaker 1: to jab the ball and I I had a bone
Speaker 1: bruise in my thumb, hairline fracture, and I was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to Augusta the next weekend, and so like,
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody, don't tell anybody. In my hands like
Speaker 1: super swollen, and I come to Augusta anyway. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to play Augusta. But my hand was broken
Speaker 1: and I had to shake like a hundred hands that
Speaker 1: week because everybody's like, oh, congrats on the us AN.
Speaker 1: I was like wincing every handshake. But I didn't play
Speaker 1: well that time. But I ended up just getting a
Speaker 1: cast like the next week and took like a month
Speaker 1: off or something, but cut it off for a cruise
Speaker 1: for New Year's Eve. Doctor. The doctor was not happy
Speaker 1: about that. But yeah, I mean, you can't take a
Speaker 1: cast on New Year's Eve cruise. Talk me through your
Speaker 1: practice rounds of Augusta and who you played with, any
Speaker 1: kind of memorable stuff that happened before you. That was
Speaker 1: a great question. I think I play with Lucas like
Speaker 1: every day. Um, Lucas Glover's kind of taking me under
Speaker 1: his wing, especially on on tour, and uh, I been
Speaker 1: kind of a mentor for me and kind of showing
Speaker 1: me the ropes and gotten onto me for playing too
Speaker 1: much on Monday and Tuesday, and UM kind of tell me,
Speaker 1: you know, how to be a pro and how to
Speaker 1: go about it. So he was definitely someone that's helped
Speaker 1: me a ton since I've turned pro and and kind
Speaker 1: of how to how to do it. And obviously he's
Speaker 1: been out there for so long he he knows, he
Speaker 1: knows what it's like. And UM gave me a lot
Speaker 1: of good advice. And he's played Augusta so much that
Speaker 1: he gave me, you know, a lot of different opinions
Speaker 1: and and pointers. And I played a few times with
Speaker 1: Roberto Castro to another Georgia tech guy, UM, on my
Speaker 1: trips over here. We did a couple overnight weekends together
Speaker 1: with Roberto and and he kind of told me everything
Speaker 1: that he knew about it as well. So I had
Speaker 1: a lot of different people always bouncing information off of
Speaker 1: and trying to trying to learn as much as I could.
Speaker 1: What was some of the what what some of the
Speaker 1: advice you that that stuck out that really helped you
Speaker 1: that kind of I mean, I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: in any PG tur event or major championship is just
Speaker 1: not wearing yourself out early in the week. Um I
Speaker 1: never played more than nine holes of the Masters verse
Speaker 1: is the U S Open, I played probably eighteen Monday Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and then um, I remember the first week that I
Speaker 1: was playing in a professional tournament was Colonial. I think
Speaker 1: I played eighteen on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. And because
Speaker 1: I got all these different people reaching out, Hey do
Speaker 1: you want to play practice drum? And I thought it
Speaker 1: was just like cool that I was playing with all
Speaker 1: these guys and didn't really even think about the tournament.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I'm gonna go play with Phil this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go play with Davis this afternoon, or
Speaker 1: you know, all these different people, and uh, obviously that
Speaker 1: was super cool, but it didn't help my golf game.
Speaker 1: And I would get to Friday afternoon, I'd be exhausted,
Speaker 1: and I t off last off ten and every tournament
Speaker 1: that I played in, every sponsor in about your last
Speaker 1: off ten, and then you'd wake up super early Friday
Speaker 1: morning and play again. So I needed to I needed
Speaker 1: to be a lot more disciplined with um kind of
Speaker 1: how it went about the week, and um, the stuff
Speaker 1: that I could do off the course to to give
Speaker 1: my off a lot better advantage versus I thought I
Speaker 1: had to go see the golf course because I hadn't
Speaker 1: seen these golf courses and everybody else has played it,
Speaker 1: you know, ten times and tournaments. So you know, that
Speaker 1: was definitely a learning experience for me, and UM, those
Speaker 1: guys helped me a lot with different advice and not
Speaker 1: just on the course stuff, but off the off the
Speaker 1: course stuff as well. So you're pairing for Thursday of
Speaker 1: Masters in November, is, Yeah, I play with Tiger and
Speaker 1: Shane Lowry and uh, Shane's a beauty. He's he's super
Speaker 1: fun and UM cuts a lot of jokes and man,
Speaker 1: we had we had so much fun and Tiger was
Speaker 1: so nice to me. Um, you don't really know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna say to Tiger, how that first encounter is
Speaker 1: gonna go. You don't want to really want to bother
Speaker 1: him and um, so I was just not gonna really
Speaker 1: say anything, you know, good luck before I tee off
Speaker 1: or something like that, and he comes over to me
Speaker 1: on the putting green and slaps me and let's let's
Speaker 1: go do this thing today. And I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: that's super cool. You probably had a couple of the
Speaker 1: words slipped in there as well. But broke the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I broke the ice made it a lot more comfortable
Speaker 1: for me. And uh. We tee off on Tin and
Speaker 1: we're walking down the fairway and we had just had
Speaker 1: a rain delay that morning. As if you're not like
Speaker 1: already worked up too much and then you gotta wait
Speaker 1: around another two hours for a rain delay. I think
Speaker 1: we're supposed to see off at like eight something, ended
Speaker 1: up teeing off at like ten something, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was. We're walking down Tin Fairway and I see
Speaker 1: Tiger kind of walk over like he's about to say
Speaker 1: something to me, you know, like you're kind of walking
Speaker 1: to your path down down the hill and our balls
Speaker 1: are in similar spot and he kind of walks over.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's about to say something again, and
Speaker 1: he's like, wouldn't it be fun and just get like
Speaker 1: a running start and slide down this hill. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what that's what you just said? And I kind of
Speaker 1: gave him some crap about that. From then on we
Speaker 1: were we were buddies. So, um, I think he likes
Speaker 1: people that kind of give it back to him and
Speaker 1: and aren't really like that intimidated by him, and kind
Speaker 1: of treat him like a normal person. So that's what
Speaker 1: I try to do. And I think he appreciated that.
Speaker 1: So it was fun and talk me through that round.
Speaker 1: I mean you start on ten, you're yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty funny. So I stay in the crow's nest the
Speaker 1: night before, and uh, no one ever does that, the amateurs.
Speaker 1: They don't want to stay there the night before. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll stay there Monday night or Tuesday night or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna get the full experience, Like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay there, stay there Wednesday night, and do
Speaker 1: it like they used to do in the old days.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, I by myself, I was the only
Speaker 1: one there. Creepy a little better, I mean not really, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not really want to be scared anything, but um, actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's super cool. You hear every door shut in the
Speaker 1: whole clubhouse. So I've probably got like three hours of
Speaker 1: sleep and they're out blowing off the lawn at three
Speaker 1: am and getting ready for the day. I'm like, golly,
Speaker 1: setting up the umbrellas and stuff outside, Like, can you
Speaker 1: guys just put that off for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sleep. Um, but now it was it
Speaker 1: was cool and you know, one of those things you
Speaker 1: can only do it once. And Tiger actually I asked
Speaker 1: about that during the round. He's like, dude, how cool
Speaker 1: was it? I guess he found out I was staying
Speaker 1: in the Crow's Nest that night, and how cool was
Speaker 1: the Crow's nest last? He was like, I would love
Speaker 1: to stay there again. I'm like, that's you know that,
Speaker 1: How cool is that? That? Like someone who's probably rented
Speaker 1: the biggest house at Westlake and has chef and everything
Speaker 1: there at his disposal, and he would rather stay in
Speaker 1: the Crow's Nest. And that just shows like how cool
Speaker 1: the amateur tradition at the Masters is and how well
Speaker 1: they treat you, and just that tradition of amateurs the
Speaker 1: Masters is super cool and you know, very grateful that
Speaker 1: they even let amateurs play. Also kind of revealing a
Speaker 1: little bit about Tiger wear. He's just a big kid,
Speaker 1: like I mean, wants to slide down the Hill, wants
Speaker 1: to stay in the Crow's nest. I'm joking around around
Speaker 1: talking about his kids, and you know, I was like, so,
Speaker 1: what's what's next for you? And this is before he
Speaker 1: announced that he was going to play The Father's Son.
Speaker 1: He was like, it's so excited that he was going
Speaker 1: to play in The Father's Son. And uh was telling
Speaker 1: me about it, and he was like, man, like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be awesome, like all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that's so cool that, like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's playing the Masters, but he's already thinking about playing
Speaker 1: the Father's Son for the first time. And I don't
Speaker 1: think he announced it for like another three or four weeks,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't tell anybody. I'm like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: kind of like confidential. UM. I didn't want to be
Speaker 1: the guy that goes out and says, you know, Tiger's
Speaker 1: gonna play with the Father's Son, and so, UM, I
Speaker 1: think you know all that stuff. I'll definitely remember all
Speaker 1: these conversations, and UM just sound nice. He was. He
Speaker 1: didn't have to say anything to me. And obviously playing
Speaker 1: with a guy like Shane too. UM. I had also
Speaker 1: played with Shane the U s Open. I think five
Speaker 1: out of six rounds I've played in majors I played
Speaker 1: with Shane, so I've got to know him pretty well,
Speaker 1: which is yeah. I mean, it's just the best group
Speaker 1: you can ever have because you've got some guy over
Speaker 1: here cutting jokes and um, keeping everything pretty light until
Speaker 1: he hits a bad shot, and then uh, you got
Speaker 1: uh Tiger who's obviously my childhood hero. So um, really
Speaker 1: cool grouping. Another cool story that Thursday, I'm in uh
Speaker 1: player dining, and player dining is different than it normally is.
Speaker 1: It was like left of the range because of COVID,
Speaker 1: they had to space out of the the lockers, and um,
Speaker 1: We're in this big building and I'm scrolling through Twitter
Speaker 1: or whatever I'm doing eating breakfast. Probably should have been like,
Speaker 1: you know, thinking about the round or something, but I'm
Speaker 1: like watching a lot from the Masters and like scrolling
Speaker 1: through Twitter and you know, looking at the hype for
Speaker 1: for the round, and h Henrik Stinson, who had played
Speaker 1: a practice round with at the US Open, walks over
Speaker 1: and I didn't even know this, but in the in
Speaker 1: the locker room they had all the pin sheets. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously an amateur golf. You wait until you get to
Speaker 1: the first team, and then you fold your pin sheet.
Speaker 1: On the first team, you don't even know like where
Speaker 1: the pins are. Um, like, golly, I don't even think
Speaker 1: about that. But I go to where's that out? But
Speaker 1: he walks over and lays a pin sheet in front
Speaker 1: of me and just winks at me and walks off,
Speaker 1: and almost like that is the coolest thing ever. Like
Speaker 1: he didn't say anything. Um, didn't even you know, really
Speaker 1: acknowledged me, just winked at me and walked off. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, that's pretty badass. I love that guy. So, um,
Speaker 1: that was really cool and kind of got me, got
Speaker 1: me going that morning and kind of got me into
Speaker 1: the competitive mind frame versus just like oh, the Master's
Speaker 1: week sick, you know. And so we start and I'm like,
Speaker 1: pipe it down one. Um, it wasn't as nervous I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be. I think, you know, some
Speaker 1: of those I was way more nervous that, like the
Speaker 1: Walker Cup or you know, some of those other events
Speaker 1: versus that first tea shot and no gallery though that helps.
Speaker 1: No gallery definitely helps, kind of like you guys are
Speaker 1: out there and yeah, I mean when they say like yeah,
Speaker 1: I say, like Andy Orgatree, now driving it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you definitely get something, but it it wasn't what I
Speaker 1: was expecting. And uh, Everyone's like, oh, you got up
Speaker 1: to the best. Are how nervous were you? Like you
Speaker 1: must have been so nervous. I'm like, you know, I was,
Speaker 1: but like I felt like I channeled it well and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, more excited for the round versus nervous.
Speaker 1: And I had on the left side of the green
Speaker 1: on on tin, which was my first sole, hit it
Speaker 1: up to like four ft lip that one out, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, like hit three pretty good shots and part
Speaker 1: eleven and then Tiger kind of holds one up into
Speaker 1: the wind on twelve, and I saw that he hit
Speaker 1: nine iron, and I'm like, it's gotta be a nine iron,
Speaker 1: So I like bride the wind a little bit and
Speaker 1: it carries in the back edge of the back bunker plugged,
Speaker 1: and I'm like standing like half in, half out, trying
Speaker 1: to like somehow keep this thing in the green not
Speaker 1: go into the creek and left in the bunker end
Speaker 1: up making double snappoging the trees on thirteen. So I'm
Speaker 1: four over three four and I'm just like, what has happened?
Speaker 1: Like I'm so into this round, like gonna get going,
Speaker 1: get off to a good start, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: it's just like four over, three four, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's reach out of here. UM ended up getting
Speaker 1: back to one over. Anything to Chane, say anything to
Speaker 1: you when you're sort of struggling, And now they're probably like,
Speaker 1: who is this freaking hack of here? How this guy
Speaker 1: getting the tournament? Yeah, I didn't know this was a
Speaker 1: Wednesday pro am. Uh. They were super nice the whole time.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't really say anything, but you could tell,
Speaker 1: like throughout the round they kind of realized that I
Speaker 1: was playing some good golf, and UM a lot more
Speaker 1: good shots were said in the in the end of
Speaker 1: the round versus the beginning shot. One over the first
Speaker 1: round not bad considered I was four over therefore, UM
Speaker 1: played played pretty nice coming in and actually lipped one
Speaker 1: out to get back to even. My goal was to
Speaker 1: get back to even, and looked one out in the
Speaker 1: ninth hole to get back to even. But you know,
Speaker 1: still super solid round considering considering that start. UM, and
Speaker 1: then I played pretty good the rest of the week,
Speaker 1: just didn't didn't make enough bodies to to kind of
Speaker 1: get back into the tournament. But what was your low round?
Speaker 1: I think I should one over, two under, three under
Speaker 1: one over. I don't know if I shot two or
Speaker 1: three second round, that's bad. Um, I ended up shooting
Speaker 1: too under for the tournament. I think I shot one
Speaker 1: over two under one under even that's what I shot.
Speaker 1: And you were t I think it was like T
Speaker 1: thirty four or some something something or something like that.
Speaker 1: But and low Am yeah, low Am, So that was
Speaker 1: that was really cool. Um. Obviously you know you want
Speaker 1: to win the tournament, but on the back of your
Speaker 1: head you're also thinking, okay, let's win low amateur. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not a loss, so to speak, if you
Speaker 1: if you can win low m And um, you know
Speaker 1: that was that was cool. Butler Cabin, Yeah, Butler cabin.
Speaker 1: So right after you finish, um, they take the amateur
Speaker 1: to Condoleeza Rice's cabin and they have this huge spread
Speaker 1: of food and you know, whatever you want before you
Speaker 1: before they take you over to Butler cabin. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a holding sale before you go to
Speaker 1: Butler and all all the members come by and say
Speaker 1: hello and congrats, and um get to meet a lot
Speaker 1: of cool people and stuff like that, but um, it's
Speaker 1: kind of just a debrief from the week and they're like,
Speaker 1: what do you want? And we order like fried chicken
Speaker 1: to the uh to this cabin and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and um, a member takes me over to to Butler
Speaker 1: cabin and Tiger had already beat me there and I'm
Speaker 1: standing right outside Butler cabin. It's kind of underground and uh,
Speaker 1: someone comes up and slaps me on the butt. I'm
Speaker 1: like who and the you know, turn around real quick,
Speaker 1: like who's that? And it was Tiger and he was
Speaker 1: just laughing and he was like, oh, congrats man, like
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you, stuff like that. And we we
Speaker 1: chatted for a while, but I was like about the
Speaker 1: turn around and like get mad at somebody. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who is that? And it was Tiger. So definitely some
Speaker 1: memories like that that I look back on. And then
Speaker 1: we go into uh, we go into Butler Cabin and
Speaker 1: before Jim Nance comes on for the whole presentation, there's
Speaker 1: like five minutes of just like chat between me and
Speaker 1: the chairman and Nance and Tiger before DJ got there
Speaker 1: and We're all just you know, talking golf and talking
Speaker 1: about DJ and how cool it is that he wanted.
Speaker 1: DJ walks in, he comes around and hugs me and
Speaker 1: hugs Tiger, hugs Nance and you know, him and Tiger
Speaker 1: have a moment and DJ's like, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: tearing up and he's emotional. He's like, I don't even know,
Speaker 1: Like he's like, I'm not gonna be able to talk
Speaker 1: to Jim like all this stuff. So, um, what an
Speaker 1: incredible Yeah, just that experience what is going on in here?
Speaker 1: And then population nothing to Butler Cavin. I wasn't really
Speaker 1: nervous for Butler Kevin, which was kind of surprising too.
Speaker 1: Like I was just kind of hanging out talking and
Speaker 1: looking back, I'm like, I'll, you know, that is kind
Speaker 1: of nerve wracking standing there, you know, talking to the
Speaker 1: audience that's that's watching the Butler Kevins everyone. He's pretty big,
Speaker 1: and uh, I was just you know, hanging out more so,
Speaker 1: I thought it was cool that Tiger and DJ were there,
Speaker 1: and um, getting to see someone put the green jacket
Speaker 1: on someone else up close and personal just makes it
Speaker 1: you know that much cooler for me and um, not
Speaker 1: not to mention Bobby Jones Georgia tech U s m
Speaker 1: u U Sam, Now you're a brother cabin Bobby Jones
Speaker 1: built build the Master. I mean, was we must see
Speaker 1: paintings of Bobby. I mean like some of that part
Speaker 1: of I mean some of those overnight trips, Like I'd
Speaker 1: stayed in Clifford Clifford Roberts little cabin in his room,
Speaker 1: and like all night I would just you know, look
Speaker 1: at all the pictures on the wall and read all
Speaker 1: the different things around the clubhouse and branch off from
Speaker 1: the members at times, and you know, read all this
Speaker 1: different stuff and get to know little tidbits about the
Speaker 1: club and you hear all these like myths and Clifford
Speaker 1: Roberts has the only fireplace in his room, and um,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I don't know, he wanted to
Speaker 1: be like it's far from the main clubhouse as he could.
Speaker 1: He wanted to kind of get away, which was only
Speaker 1: you know, thirty yards, but he was the last the
Speaker 1: last room on the end. And I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: just so many different things that um about Augusta that
Speaker 1: make it special. And I was able to you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I feel like I have a lot of
Speaker 1: I know a lot of things that people don't really
Speaker 1: hear about. And uh, I guess I really feel comfortable
Speaker 1: around that place just because you know, I know so
Speaker 1: many people there and I've been there more than most
Speaker 1: people they get to play the tournament, So it was
Speaker 1: always like weirdly calm around that place. You see yourself
Speaker 1: in your mind. This is all part of the process
Speaker 1: to slipping on the jacket something. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: would be. That would be the one that if you
Speaker 1: ask me if you could win any of them, I'd
Speaker 1: probably say that one. I'd probably say that one over
Speaker 1: two of any of the other ones. Just I just
Speaker 1: think it's the coolest tournament in golf, and um, it's
Speaker 1: probably the easiest to win. But I think that place
Speaker 1: fits my more than more than US Open. Er. Um,
Speaker 1: I really like Links golf too, but I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to play British Open, so I don't really know
Speaker 1: what that experience is like. And then obviously the PJ
Speaker 1: is super cool, but there's something different about winning a
Speaker 1: green jacket. You would trade you would trade one green
Speaker 1: jacket for an Open and the US Open probably, I
Speaker 1: mean great, yeah, well wouldn't you No, Yeah, you get
Speaker 1: to play the same I think there's a right or
Speaker 1: wrong would have to you know, Jack, Gary, Tom Watson
Speaker 1: on the first that you know you're champions dinners. Maybe
Speaker 1: my perspective will change when I play British Open or something,
Speaker 1: But UM, understandable considering your history, your connection you, I
Speaker 1: think that place just means a little more to me
Speaker 1: than um other places right now. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: a long career and that could definitely change. But UM,
Speaker 1: right now, I would say that's the one that that
Speaker 1: I could see myself winning. Put another log on the fire.
Speaker 1: Nobody here is getting time