WEBVTT - Fire Drill 005: Masters Memories with Andy Ogletree 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:08.639 We're walking down Tin Fairway and I'll see Tiger kind 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.320 of walk over like he's about to say something to me, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.040 you know, like you're kind of walking to your path 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.520 down down the hill and our balls were in similar 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.840 spot and he kind of walks over. Oh my gosh, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.000 he's about to say something again, and he's like, wouldn't 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:21.560 it be fun to just get like a running start 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:30.680 and slow down this hill. I'm like, what put another 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:38.320 log on the fireboy here is to get the time. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.839 Andy Ogletree just drove down here today. Andy ago Tree 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.200 U s M winner multiple All American at Georgia Tech 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:56.360 played in the Masters, was low amateur. They're played with 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.760 Tiger Woods and Shane Lowry. He stops by and shares 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.080 his story and where he's at. I hope you enjoy it. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.240 To get started, my name's Andy Ogletree, um in the 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.920 twenty nineteen US Amateur Champion and Georgia techon graduate from Mississippi. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.839 How soon after you finish off your handshake, had off handshake, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.959 whatever the case is, you're the U s M champ, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.840 how quickly do you think masters? Thinking Masters? Before the 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.080 thing before tell your one in the US am I 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.640 mean Tiger one the Masters in nineteen, so everyone knows 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.560 leading up to the U s M. If you win 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.280 the U s M, then you're playing with Tiger at 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.319 the Masters the following year. So UM, all throughout the 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.240 week during press conference and stuff, that's all they're talking about. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.280 So there's no way to there's no way to really 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.600 avoid that. UM. I was thinking about it for sure. UM. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.040 I remember the most nervous I was the semifinal match, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.400 because so much FRIZ on that semifinal match and if 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.960 you if you don't win that one, then you basically 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.160 getting nothing out of the US AM. Um, you win 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.520 that match, you get into the US Open and the Masters, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.560 and you don't get in the British but unless you win. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:12.440 But UM, a lot rods on that match. And I 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.880 remember that morning. I mean, I'm like, goly, like, this 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.639 is the most nervous I've ever been and never really 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.520 felt this. And that was a really good experience for 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.600 me to have, UM, learn how to deal with that adrenaline, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.160 learn how to deal with the emotions and kind of 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.480 put everything aside. And for the first nine holes or so, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.360 I didn't really get a hole to my game, and 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.760 lucky for me, the guy was planning it's was kind 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.799 of the same way and ended up hitting a few 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.280 quality shots down the stretch and got my emotions under 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.240 control and um closed it out. But you know that 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:41.760 was that was one of the hardest rounds of golf 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.120 I've ever played. Tell me, talked me through that hole? 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.560 You know. Yeah? Um, how many times do you think 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.040 you had played the golf course before? You? Really? We 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.560 get to go over once a year in college. Um, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.640 so I played four times with the college team, and 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.400 then it got to be really close with a few 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.320 of the members and they would take me over on 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.639 weekends and stuff. So I must have played twelve times 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.600 before the week started, maybe thirteen fourteen times. I don't know. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.480 You love the golf courtion? I love it, absolutely love 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.480 it since the first time I went. I mean I 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.000 was obsessed with Augusta National. What do you love about it? 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.240 It's just every hole it tells you what to do. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.639 It's like, you're supposed to hit it here to this pen, 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.280 you do this, to this, when you do this, Um, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.280 you can't hit it here. It's just very like straightforward. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.880 I mean, that sounds weird to say about Augusta, but 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.240 it really does tell you where to hit it and 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.480 where to miss it. And I like golf courses like that. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.280 I like the like how heart it is. I like 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.200 how punishing it is for bad shots, but it also 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.720 rewards good shots. And um, I think they have the 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:47.040 greatest part fives in the world. Um, the greatest green complexes. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.960 I mean, it's just really cool golf course. And obviously 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.280 Augusta National just has a different feel about it once 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.600 you get on property than anywhere else in the world. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.920 I haven't really experienced that. I mean, I've played all 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.760 the all the cool places been done, the pun Valley done, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.240 Cyprus Seminal, I mean, all these places are amazing, but 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.720 I guess it just has a different feel and attention 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.000 to detail than anywhere else in the world. And it's 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:17.040 just special Augusta National Masters. So you get in, tucked 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.800 me through, you got a lot to manage, You've got family, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.640 got tickets, you've got you know. That just sort of 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.800 walked me through sort of the chaos that is Masters 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.360 we compared to everything else. So I mean normally, um, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.479 I was preparing for playing in April, and I would 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.360 sit in class in college and I had these spreadsheets 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.159 of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I made all these spreadsheets of 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.280 who's getting tickets on what day and texting all my friends, Hey, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.479 can you go on this day? Can you go on 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.039 this day? And uh, I finally got to get eight tickets. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.200 I had it all spread out. I was going to 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.840 give my high school friends the day, you know, high 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.920 school coaches, everybody that's kind of brought me to where 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.480 I'm at. Um, everybody was going to get an opportunity. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.000 And then they say, you know, the Masters just put 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.800 spawning in November. I'm like, oh my gosh, I've done 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.440 all this. I've done all this work. We've got the 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.640 house set up, we know who's going, we know what 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.760 day we're getting there, like everything's everything's very planned out. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.280 And you were handling all of that him. You were 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.279 managing that. Yeah. I mean I never asked my parents 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.000 to do anything. Um, I kind of like to to 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.680 do it all on my own. So um yeah, I 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.760 had it all, had it all ready to go, and 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.240 then um we did. We ended up having no fans, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.880 no spectators, so all those tickets, nobody could go. A 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.800 lot of people from my hometown had spent, you know, 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.240 a lot of money for them to be able to go, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.200 and um, even a few people had reached out like, hey, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.719 is it okay if we like sleeping yell floor will 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.960 bring like a pullout couch or blow up bed or something. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.960 And uh so it was gonna be a really fun 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.400 week and it still was. I mean, don't get me wrong, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:56.480 but um, hopefully we'll get back soon and uh give 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.320 everybody the tickets and they were gonna have I'll probably 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.960 still have this spread sheets. That's amazing. So now so 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.279 it bummer that you didn't have all that, but in 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.800 a way it kind of simplified. It also simplified your 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.600 life in a sense that you know, I mean, there 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.520 was a lot less to worry about, um getting there 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.560 in November. It was just me and my caddy and 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.680 my parents. My grandma came over from Mississippi to cook 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.240 every night. We had a super cool setup. We had 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.400 a we had a nice house and um my brother 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.240 was there or my brothers were there, and um, how 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.279 many who's your caddy? My assistant coach in college caddy 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.960 for me, he caddy for me and all the all 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.159 the term ats how players and am and he caddy 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.839 for me at the U S M two so I 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.839 felt like he kind of helped me get to that point, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.400 and I wanted to I didn't want to take a 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.480 different caddy. I want to take somebody else comfortable with, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.200 especially to a place like Augusta. I mean, there's enough 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.440 stuff to make you uncomfortable already then um adding a 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.480 new caddy of the mix. So I wanted to take him. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.040 And he came over on a few trips with me before, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.880 and um he always loved golf and uh kind of 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.280 learning about the game. So he was obsessed with learning 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.839 everything you could have about august And I feel like 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.120 he knows more than you know most of the caddies 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.000 now because he studied it so much, and he helped 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.239 me a lot. Had you had a couple of really 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.160 low rounds, had you had some success at playing in 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.080 all those years, I think the first time I played, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.040 I was like five over through five and shot even 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.640 a bogey the last sole to shoot even I was 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.640 so mad about that. But um, I always shot around 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.400 par I don't think I ever had like a really 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.240 great round or a bad round. It was always around 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.320 par Um. Fun fact, actually, my my senior year of 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.080 college I was playing basketball. It was like early November 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.760 and we were playing at the campus Recreational Center and uh, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.560 I went up for a rebound and got mad because 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.280 this kid like stole the rebound from me. I went 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.920 to jab the ball and I I had a bone 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.800 bruise in my thumb, hairline fracture, and I was supposed 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.640 to go to Augusta the next weekend, and so like, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.080 don't tell anybody, don't tell anybody. In my hands like 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.160 super swollen, and I come to Augusta anyway. I'm like, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.200 I'm going to play Augusta. But my hand was broken 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.080 and I had to shake like a hundred hands that 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.040 week because everybody's like, oh, congrats on the us AN. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.120 I was like wincing every handshake. But I didn't play 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.920 well that time. But I ended up just getting a 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.520 cast like the next week and took like a month 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.440 off or something, but cut it off for a cruise 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.839 for New Year's Eve. Doctor. The doctor was not happy 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.240 about that. But yeah, I mean, you can't take a 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.560 cast on New Year's Eve cruise. Talk me through your 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.440 practice rounds of Augusta and who you played with, any 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.199 kind of memorable stuff that happened before you. That was 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.760 a great question. I think I play with Lucas like 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:54.080 every day. Um, Lucas Glover's kind of taking me under 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.000 his wing, especially on on tour, and uh, I been 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.480 kind of a mentor for me and kind of showing 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.800 me the ropes and gotten onto me for playing too 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.959 much on Monday and Tuesday, and UM kind of tell me, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.319 you know, how to be a pro and how to 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.840 go about it. So he was definitely someone that's helped 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.439 me a ton since I've turned pro and and kind 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.240 of how to how to do it. And obviously he's 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.360 been out there for so long he he knows, he 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.120 knows what it's like. And UM gave me a lot 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.280 of good advice. And he's played Augusta so much that 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.880 he gave me, you know, a lot of different opinions 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.199 and and pointers. And I played a few times with 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.200 Roberto Castro to another Georgia tech guy, UM, on my 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.720 trips over here. We did a couple overnight weekends together 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.640 with Roberto and and he kind of told me everything 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.280 that he knew about it as well. So I had 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.000 a lot of different people always bouncing information off of 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.840 and trying to trying to learn as much as I could. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.760 What was some of the what what some of the 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.520 advice you that that stuck out that really helped you 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.800 that kind of I mean, I think the biggest thing 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.280 in any PG tur event or major championship is just 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.719 not wearing yourself out early in the week. Um I 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.920 never played more than nine holes of the Masters verse 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.040 is the U S Open, I played probably eighteen Monday Tuesday, 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.720 and then um, I remember the first week that I 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.719 was playing in a professional tournament was Colonial. I think 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.839 I played eighteen on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. And because 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.880 I got all these different people reaching out, Hey do 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.040 you want to play practice drum? And I thought it 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.880 was just like cool that I was playing with all 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.120 these guys and didn't really even think about the tournament. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.319 It's like, yeah, I'm gonna go play with Phil this afternoon, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.520 and I'm gonna go play with Davis this afternoon, or 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.920 you know, all these different people, and uh, obviously that 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.520 was super cool, but it didn't help my golf game. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.480 And I would get to Friday afternoon, I'd be exhausted, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.080 and I t off last off ten and every tournament 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.920 that I played in, every sponsor in about your last 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.800 off ten, and then you'd wake up super early Friday 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.400 morning and play again. So I needed to I needed 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.200 to be a lot more disciplined with um kind of 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.720 how it went about the week, and um, the stuff 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.760 that I could do off the course to to give 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.040 my off a lot better advantage versus I thought I 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.640 had to go see the golf course because I hadn't 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.679 seen these golf courses and everybody else has played it, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.000 you know, ten times and tournaments. So you know, that 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.000 was definitely a learning experience for me, and UM, those 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.880 guys helped me a lot with different advice and not 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.800 just on the course stuff, but off the off the 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.640 course stuff as well. So you're pairing for Thursday of 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.480 Masters in November, is, Yeah, I play with Tiger and 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:31.240 Shane Lowry and uh, Shane's a beauty. He's he's super 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.040 fun and UM cuts a lot of jokes and man, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.600 we had we had so much fun and Tiger was 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.959 so nice to me. Um, you don't really know what 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.520 you're gonna say to Tiger, how that first encounter is 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.160 gonna go. You don't want to really want to bother 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.400 him and um, so I was just not gonna really 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.199 say anything, you know, good luck before I tee off 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.800 or something like that, and he comes over to me 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.640 on the putting green and slaps me and let's let's 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.680 go do this thing today. And I'm like, oh, you know, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.480 that's super cool. You probably had a couple of the 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.160 words slipped in there as well. But broke the Yeah, 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.240 I broke the ice made it a lot more comfortable 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.520 for me. And uh. We tee off on Tin and 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.880 we're walking down the fairway and we had just had 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.280 a rain delay that morning. As if you're not like 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.439 already worked up too much and then you gotta wait 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.679 around another two hours for a rain delay. I think 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.559 we're supposed to see off at like eight something, ended 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.520 up teeing off at like ten something, but um, yeah, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.440 that was. We're walking down Tin Fairway and I see 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.520 Tiger kind of walk over like he's about to say 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.120 something to me, you know, like you're kind of walking 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.559 to your path down down the hill and our balls 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.240 are in similar spot and he kind of walks over. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.880 Oh my gosh, he's about to say something again, and 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.520 he's like, wouldn't it be fun and just get like 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.160 a running start and slide down this hill. I'm like, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.400 what that's what you just said? And I kind of 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.800 gave him some crap about that. From then on we 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.880 were we were buddies. So, um, I think he likes 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.960 people that kind of give it back to him and 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.400 and aren't really like that intimidated by him, and kind 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.640 of treat him like a normal person. So that's what 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.960 I try to do. And I think he appreciated that. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.199 So it was fun and talk me through that round. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.400 I mean you start on ten, you're yeah, it's it's 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.760 pretty funny. So I stay in the crow's nest the 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.240 night before, and uh, no one ever does that, the amateurs. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.600 They don't want to stay there the night before. They're like, oh, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.160 we'll stay there Monday night or Tuesday night or whatever. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.319 I was like, I'm gonna get the full experience, Like 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.760 I'm gonna stay there, stay there Wednesday night, and do 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.080 it like they used to do in the old days. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.920 So um, yeah, I by myself, I was the only 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:34.880 one there. Creepy a little better, I mean not really, no, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:41.680 I'm not really want to be scared anything, but um, actually, yeah, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.680 it's super cool. You hear every door shut in the 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.839 whole clubhouse. So I've probably got like three hours of 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.840 sleep and they're out blowing off the lawn at three 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.240 am and getting ready for the day. I'm like, golly, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.000 setting up the umbrellas and stuff outside, Like, can you 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.680 guys just put that off for a couple of hours. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.760 I'm trying to sleep. Um, but now it was it 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.000 was cool and you know, one of those things you 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.120 can only do it once. And Tiger actually I asked 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.760 about that during the round. He's like, dude, how cool 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.320 was it? I guess he found out I was staying 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.800 in the Crow's Nest that night, and how cool was 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.400 the Crow's nest last? He was like, I would love 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.679 to stay there again. I'm like, that's you know that, 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.600 How cool is that? That? Like someone who's probably rented 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.920 the biggest house at Westlake and has chef and everything 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.040 there at his disposal, and he would rather stay in 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.640 the Crow's Nest. And that just shows like how cool 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.760 the amateur tradition at the Masters is and how well 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.440 they treat you, and just that tradition of amateurs the 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.480 Masters is super cool and you know, very grateful that 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.640 they even let amateurs play. Also kind of revealing a 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.480 little bit about Tiger wear. He's just a big kid, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.280 like I mean, wants to slide down the Hill, wants 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.560 to stay in the Crow's nest. I'm joking around around 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.160 talking about his kids, and you know, I was like, so, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.120 what's what's next for you? And this is before he 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.040 announced that he was going to play The Father's Son. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.960 He was like, it's so excited that he was going 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.360 to play in The Father's Son. And uh was telling 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.840 me about it, and he was like, man, like, it's 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.880 gonna it's gonna be awesome, like all this stuff, and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.280 I'm like, man, that's so cool that, like, you know, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.560 he's playing the Masters, but he's already thinking about playing 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.880 the Father's Son for the first time. And I don't 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.240 think he announced it for like another three or four weeks, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.080 and I couldn't tell anybody. I'm like, you know, that's 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.160 kind of like confidential. UM. I didn't want to be 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.480 the guy that goes out and says, you know, Tiger's 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.600 gonna play with the Father's Son, and so, UM, I 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.920 think you know all that stuff. I'll definitely remember all 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.200 these conversations, and UM just sound nice. He was. He 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.080 didn't have to say anything to me. And obviously playing 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.440 with a guy like Shane too. UM. I had also 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.760 played with Shane the U s Open. I think five 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.560 out of six rounds I've played in majors I played 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.920 with Shane, so I've got to know him pretty well, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.400 which is yeah. I mean, it's just the best group 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.880 you can ever have because you've got some guy over 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.880 here cutting jokes and um, keeping everything pretty light until 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.560 he hits a bad shot, and then uh, you got 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:59.040 uh Tiger who's obviously my childhood hero. So um, really 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:04.320 cool grouping. Another cool story that Thursday, I'm in uh 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.120 player dining, and player dining is different than it normally is. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.880 It was like left of the range because of COVID, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.920 they had to space out of the the lockers, and um, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.280 We're in this big building and I'm scrolling through Twitter 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.280 or whatever I'm doing eating breakfast. Probably should have been like, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.720 you know, thinking about the round or something, but I'm 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.840 like watching a lot from the Masters and like scrolling 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.680 through Twitter and you know, looking at the hype for 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.320 for the round, and h Henrik Stinson, who had played 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.520 a practice round with at the US Open, walks over 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.800 and I didn't even know this, but in the in 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.200 the locker room they had all the pin sheets. You know, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.080 obviously an amateur golf. You wait until you get to 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.720 the first team, and then you fold your pin sheet. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.120 On the first team, you don't even know like where 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.720 the pins are. Um, like, golly, I don't even think 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:55.840 about that. But I go to where's that out? But 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.640 he walks over and lays a pin sheet in front 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.240 of me and just winks at me and walks off, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.480 and almost like that is the coolest thing ever. Like 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.640 he didn't say anything. Um, didn't even you know, really 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.520 acknowledged me, just winked at me and walked off. And 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.520 I'm like, you know, that's pretty badass. I love that guy. So, um, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.400 that was really cool and kind of got me, got 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.640 me going that morning and kind of got me into 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.679 the competitive mind frame versus just like oh, the Master's 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.840 week sick, you know. And so we start and I'm like, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.320 pipe it down one. Um, it wasn't as nervous I 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.159 thought I was gonna be. I think, you know, some 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.160 of those I was way more nervous that, like the 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.160 Walker Cup or you know, some of those other events 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.680 versus that first tea shot and no gallery though that helps. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.160 No gallery definitely helps, kind of like you guys are 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.840 out there and yeah, I mean when they say like yeah, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.720 I say, like Andy Orgatree, now driving it's like, you know, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.639 you definitely get something, but it it wasn't what I 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.560 was expecting. And uh, Everyone's like, oh, you got up 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.280 to the best. Are how nervous were you? Like you 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.439 must have been so nervous. I'm like, you know, I was, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.919 but like I felt like I channeled it well and 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.000 I was, you know, more excited for the round versus nervous. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.119 And I had on the left side of the green 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.040 on on tin, which was my first sole, hit it 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.280 up to like four ft lip that one out, you 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:20.400 know whatever, like hit three pretty good shots and part 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.960 eleven and then Tiger kind of holds one up into 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.120 the wind on twelve, and I saw that he hit 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.879 nine iron, and I'm like, it's gotta be a nine iron, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.480 So I like bride the wind a little bit and 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.000 it carries in the back edge of the back bunker plugged, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.960 and I'm like standing like half in, half out, trying 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.080 to like somehow keep this thing in the green not 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.720 go into the creek and left in the bunker end 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.960 up making double snappoging the trees on thirteen. So I'm 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.639 four over three four and I'm just like, what has happened? 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.440 Like I'm so into this round, like gonna get going, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.359 get off to a good start, blah blah blah, and 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.840 it's just like four over, three four, and it's like, okay, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.920 let's let's reach out of here. UM ended up getting 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.320 back to one over. Anything to Chane, say anything to 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.119 you when you're sort of struggling, And now they're probably like, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.080 who is this freaking hack of here? How this guy 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.000 getting the tournament? Yeah, I didn't know this was a 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.400 Wednesday pro am. Uh. They were super nice the whole time. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.680 You know, I didn't really say anything, but you could tell, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.840 like throughout the round they kind of realized that I 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.840 was playing some good golf, and UM a lot more 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.359 good shots were said in the in the end of 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.040 the round versus the beginning shot. One over the first 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:37.840 round not bad considered I was four over therefore, UM 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.760 played played pretty nice coming in and actually lipped one 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.040 out to get back to even. My goal was to 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.639 get back to even, and looked one out in the 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.399 ninth hole to get back to even. But you know, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.679