WEBVTT - 2025 Majors Recap with Joseph LaMagna 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss the green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.920 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 bright egg 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.880 Frida egg, the dreaded Frida egg, fridagggrid egg brid egg lie, 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.080 I'm about ready to run off of the hump course. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.280 Welcome back to the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.520 Andy Johnson. UH. Today I am joined by Joseph Lamanya. 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.680 We're going to do a major championship kind of breakdown, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.440 a little debrief after major championship season and the men's 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.800 calendar has wrapped up. 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We want to start with 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:43.200 the Masters. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.520 Yeah, you know you're you're the guests, so you get 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.480 you get first pick. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.360 Let's start with the Masters. I think there's nothing Rory's win. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.360 Obviously one of the best tournaments of the twenty first century. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.600 I do think it's the best tournament that I've ever watched. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.680 I don't know if I'm just being a victim of 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.160 recency bias, But that was one of the coolest tournaments, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.360 has to be of the last thirty years. I think 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.280 the main thing I'll remember from it obviously the ups 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.720 and downs, Rory dumping the wedge in the water on thirteen, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.760 But that iron shot into fifteen one of the coolest 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.640 iron shots I've ever seen in my life with everything 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.719 on the line, and I think when you go back 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.960 to what are the best shots of all time or 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.159 the best shots of the modern era, that's in the 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.520 top five. So that iron shot into fifteen I'll remember forever. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.400 You just you know, the moment in time and the way, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.880 you know, I was on the ground, and just the 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.280 way the energy and the atmosphere of the tournament had 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.760 shifted from after he hits the after he hits the 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:56.000 green on twelve, it was like a raucous, like celebratory 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.800 like we're gett you know. It felt like that, like 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.040 almost like it was a to turn into a winner's 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.080 procession down the stretch where every green it was just 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.520 going to be this huge applause and him just kind 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.560 of waltzing to this career Grand Slam. That's what if 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.400 after he hit the green on twelve, that's kind of 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.760 what it felt like it was about to become. And 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:26.839 obviously the shot on thirteen, the soft bogie on fourteen, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.880 and at that moment it was like the it was 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:38.240 like shock in the crowd. It was it was dead, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.960 it was deflated, and everybody was watching the leaderboards and 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.279 you know, reacting to the leader boards. And he obviously 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.960 you saw him like there was a big weight on 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.719 fifteen and you saw him in the trees and being 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.920 there on the ground. It it was kind of what 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.320 is he going to do. He's got to be laying up, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.200 and then he hits this all time shot and it 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.360 pulls him back together. And obviously, you know, there were 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:13.680 there were more ups and downs after that was seventeen eighteen, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.360 the web shot that was a really bad web shot, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.360 and then the shot in the playoff. But the I'll 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:26.920 never forget that, the way the energy and the crowd 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:32.479 shifted with all these different like kind of like ups 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.240 and downs coming down the stretch. It was. It was 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.239 a wild experience to be there. In terms of where 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.480 it ranks, you know, I think it's gonna It's an 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:49.400 interesting aspect of to talk about where it ranks because 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.240 I think from like from my perspective, The Stenson Mickelson 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.800 duel was like, I don't know if we're ever going 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.640 to see it, Like, I don't know if in my 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.400 lifetime I'm ever gonna see like the sheer level of 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:11.640 play between two at the time elite elite players going 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.160 at it, like clearly the best two players in a tournament, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.240 just duking it out. I don't think I don't think 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.600 I will ever see a tournament like that in the 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.840 next like twenty five years, where you just have these 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.320 two guys that are just clearly playing on a different 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.800 level and it was just like trading blows like that tournament, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.840 it gets underrated, like this tournament was kind of just 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:40.920 like it was. Everything was around Rory in this accomplishment, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:46.400 and you know, it's an interesting question where it where 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.920 it ranks, you know, because like twenty twenty four at 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.000 Pinehurst would have to rank really high in that in 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.440 that you know situation too, because we were saying the 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.520 same things walking off that and that was more of 0:07:59.560 --> 0:07:59.960 a duel. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.400 I'm with you on the Stenson Michelson one. That's the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.040 other one that comes to mind for me, or the 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.360 two thousand and eight US Open, like those for me, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.760 are the most memorable, but any earlier than that I 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.680 was a little young, But I think the difference between Pinehurst, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.160 the back and forth nature of this one that existed 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:25.200 at Pinehurst, but the way Rose shot up. I also 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.640 think you got to tell the whole story of the 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.320 twenty twenty five Masters with Rory's two double bogies on 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.400 Thursday afternoon and just the entire arc of that tournament. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.559 To me, it reached a ceiling much higher than the 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.120 US Open at Pinehurst, even Rory starting the day shaky 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.920 on Sunday, the shot on seven like it was just 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.199 drama packed from start to finish, And I feel like 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.680 Pinehurst really hit that in the last four holes, but 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.200 it wasn't like that all tournament. It wasn't like that 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:55.640 all day. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:01.520 I think I actually know why you're discrediting because this guy, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.800 Matthew Pavaugh was in the final group. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.520 I'm not discrediting Pinehurst. That was a great golf tournament, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.440 but I think the Masters a little higher. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.280 I think this is just because you're better that Pavon 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:12.440 played well. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.920 I got nothing against Matthew Pavong, great player, good player. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.360 Uh what's your second thing about the Uh? About the Masters, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:22.720 I kind of just hit on it. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.360 But I think watching Rory's two double bogies on Thursday 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.440 afternoon in the whiplash of feeling like the tournament not 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.680 was over, but it was a massive gut punch to 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.080 his chances and to then turn around recover the way 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.280 that he did make another bad swing on thirteen. Resilience 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.360 the word that got thrown around all week, but it 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.800 really was a different side Rory than I think we've seen. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.640 So I don't know that we're gonna see too many 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.640 players make two double bogies on a Thursday and win 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.199 a major championship. Not many have the birdie making ability 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.560 to get themselves back in. But I hope people remember 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.439 the way that tournament started, not just that finish, because 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.400 it was an incredible display of bouncing back. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.080 Yeah. I think like the thing you I remember talking 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.320 about Rory's round on Thursday, and it was like he 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.160 played such great golf outside of those two holes, and 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.839 it was you know, a lot of people, a lot 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.400 of people put him, put them, buried them, you know, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.800 put the casket underground after that round, saying you know, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.040 he's out of it. But like the level of play 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.560 he was he was so dialed in that week. You know, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.280 you think about like kind of like the the whole 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.920 tournament and some of the catastrophic mistakes that he made, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.439 you know, fifteen on Thursday, chipping from over the green 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.320 from like a place that you're like, okay, he might 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.280 make a verdie here, tipping that into the water and 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.120 making a double from just over the crazy you know, uh, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:05.520 the the double vogie on thirteen in the final round 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.800 from like a great layup position, you know, just like 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.760 trying to take double out of play and making a double. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.800 And you think about that tournament, it's like, I mean, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.280 he played so well that week. He probably should have 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.480 won by like six or seven. You know, he was 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.319 just by far and away the best player of that week. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:30.000 But he made some a couple, you know, huge mistakes 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.160 that you just can't make, you know, I think, like, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.280 I think that's one of the things you're going to 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.599 walk away from. And I think I'm sure both of 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.520 us will have like Scotty's dominance at the Open is 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.239 one of our things. But you know that Master's performance, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.440 it was a playoff, but it was you could also 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:51.040 say it was one of the more dominant performances because 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.920 Rory won in spite of like some serious mistakes that 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:02.200 you usually are unable to win golf tournaments with. Yeah. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:07.000 My second thing is also I guess influence from being 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.600 on the ground at the US Open at Pinehurst and 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.200 and that Masters is it's just kind of the the 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:21.880 Bryson rivalry with Rory, and you know, it's set up 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:26.439 this you know, Saturday afternoon, it sets up this this 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:33.360 Bryson Rory you know, final pairing on Sunday, and it's like, okay, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.640 you know what's going to happen. The start that Rory 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:41.320 got off on got off to with, you know, whole 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.800 one was kind of a disaster. Uh, you know, and 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.959 uh and you know the way that you know Bryson 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.520 Birdie's two and it's like, oh my god, he just 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.760 like flipped the whole thing. He's gonna win. And then 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.800 it comes back Rory Bertie's three kind of gets back 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.120 on on the horse. But but overall, I'll never forget 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:09.079 watching the two on the practice screen and it's like 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.720 Rory McElroy putting just like around the green like you 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.000 would before you play around right like where he's like 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.480 hitting putts and it's just like there's no devices out there. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:25.720 He's he's hitting putts like different different lengths and like 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:31.760 a a really just like normal putting practice routine. And 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.720 then you have Bryson out there with like his ruler 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.840 and he's got like a track, he's got like he's 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.719 measuring stuff, and he's hitting these putts based off of 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.320 like how far back on the ruler he's going to 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.960 like random places. And I just thought it was, like, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:56.480 it's these polar opposite personalities. Obviously, Bryson has been a 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.640 you know, they play on different tours. Bryce has been 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:05.040 a flat ship player for the Live tour. Rory's like, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.520 you know, flagship player for the PGA Tour. And they 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.880 have just these two very drastically different approaches to the game. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.520 So different personalities, different tours, different approaches to the game, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.760 and I think like you could probably say they genuinely 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.960 see the world differentely, right, So you have these just 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.120 like two polar opposites, and it's, you know, honestly, you know, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.680 one of my hopes for twenty twenty six, can we 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.520 continue to get this rivalry delivering more. Obviously the fallout, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.880 Bryson says Rory didn't talk to me all round, you know, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.920 and it's clear between some of the things that Bryson 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.640 said he had that jab at Rory. I'm sure that 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.280 Rory didn't appreciate during the match in Vegas last year, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.000 you know, I'm sure that Bryson didn't appreciate Rory kind 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.600 of just iceing them all Master Sunday. But you know, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.600 that's what your job is, to go into the ring 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.720 and win a golf tournament. And I think there's like 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.240 this great kind of icy rivalry that I don't think 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.240 they're sending each other Christmas cards, and it's like something 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.000 we want. This is what we want in golf. And 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.960 my hope is that we get more of this. And 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.440 we've gotten it at a Major two years in a row. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.040 Could we get a thirty third of this? 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.720 I feel like often in golf rivalries get overstated. Maybe 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.080 there's not genuine disdain there, or they match up so 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.480 infrequently that it's not even a true rivalry. I think 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.720 Rory and Bryson is a legitimate rivalry and that there 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.280 is a little bit of dislike there. I don't know 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.440 if they're spending a ton of time thinking about each other, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.600 but I don't think they're pleased to be paired together, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.120 or maybe they are because they enjoy the rivalry of it, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.640 but I don't think they like each other. So the 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.520 other part of it is that their skill sets are connected. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.920 They're two of the longest hitters in golf. So when 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.360 you get a major championship setup that's favorable to distance, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.160 like we could actually see them matched up again, which 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.240 you know, it's just increases the chances that that rivalry 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.840 could come to a head versus if their skill sets 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.800 were completely opposite. So I don't know that it's unlikely 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.320 we'll ever see them in a final group in a 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.320 Major again, but the chances aren't zero. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.720 Yeah, I think, you know, like there is. It doesn't 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.080 seem to be. They aren't friends, yeah, fair, And I 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.360 think like that's the thing is, like you they talked 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.280 to Rory after the Open about Scotty and I couldn't 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.600 be happier from He's he's a great person, you know, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.800 is what he said, And like that's not like the 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.520 basis for a great rivalry is when there's like mutual 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.200 admiration for the other one. From like a personal standpoint, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.080 I grew up a Bulls fan. The Bulls Nick's rivalry, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.280 the Bulls Pacers rivalries, and the nineties were and the 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.160 you know, we're just like rooted in the Bulls and 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.560 Pistons obviously in the earliest or early nineties they're rooted in. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.480 This is just general dislike for each other like that, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.800 you know, there there is like a level to that. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.119 And it's like, I don't think no matter who it is, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.080 there's going to be that like kind of contentious rivalry 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.080 with Scotty because like Scott, he's just generally likable. He 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.479 does doesn't do anything that's going to like upset people. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.600 But where Rory, you know, we'll we'll speak his mind 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.000 in press conferences and you know, and and kind of 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.560 tell you. You know, he's authentic, he'll tell you how 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.840 he feels about things. And Bryson, you know, kind of 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.240 being Bryson will will rub people certain ways. And I think, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.359 like you know, you think about it as like Bryson's 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.800 ascendants and ability to play Augusta. Obviously that opens that 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.239 up every year as a potential. I think next year, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.400 if you want to circle another one where it could 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.679 happen ironom Innk I think will set up very well 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.600 for for long hitters next year, So like a Bryson 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.640 Rory ironom Innk duel could be something that you look. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.000 At that would be that would be incorrect just getting 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.360 them in the final group again this year. You're right, 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.560 like that that should be one of the lasting takeaways 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.679 the excitement everyone had on Saturday night seeing them paired together. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.359 But if we get them again every time in the future, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.280 now that's going to be appointment viewing, even if it's not 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.080 a major. But I don't know what other tournament you 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.320 could get it at the Ryder Cup. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.840 But Ryder Cup. Yeah, yeah, that's you know, I don't know. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.040 I might put somebody else against against Rory. You know, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:33.320 I might put Andrew Novak. You think you know he 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.880 went toe to toe with him on Oakman on Sunday, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:42.720 So see the Rory killer. All right, let's move on 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.479 to the PGA. What is one of your takeaways from 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:47.760 the PGA Championship. 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.480 We've seen it with Scottie before the late Saturday afternoon 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.080 charge where he finished eagle birdie, par birdie birdie to 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.800 just completely grab the tournament. I can remember I was 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.800 in a wedding that Saturday night, so I had to 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.000 be like looking at my phone and tracking that Saturday 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.520 evening and had it recorded, and that tournament was so 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.040 wrap up for grabs. I could not believe looking back 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.439 at my phone and then seeing how quickly the tournament 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.440 had changed. And this is what Scotty does. He's done 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.560 it at Players in the past, He's done it at 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.959 the Masters, unlike anybody else in the modern era besides Tiger, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.280 taking a tournament that's in doubt and just grabbing it 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.720 and showing that nobody else really has a chance and 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.920 no one else really did have a chance from then 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.399 on in. He stumbled a little on Sunday, but that 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.879 Saturday afternoon charge, I think that's just something at this 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.840 point that we've come to expect with Scotty. He did 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.960 it at Memorial this year, like all right, the tournament 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.879 kind of hanging in the balance late Saturday afternoon, it's Scotty's. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.960 So that's what I'll always remember from the PGA. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.920 Yeah, you know, to that point with Scotty, I think 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.800 like you could make a lot of cross sport references 0:19:55.560 --> 0:20:03.160 and just you know, if you're watching the NBA, it's that, 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.679 you know, kind of like third quarter run where a 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:11.040 super duper star just you know, he'll he'll take over 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.840 and score you know, twelve points in four minutes and 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.520 it's just like whoa, Like what just happened? And the 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.840 lead opens up and it feels like a golf you know, 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.439 you see this all the time, and I think like 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:30.040 with Scotty, it is a like it's a the ability 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:34.240 to rise to a certain moment and right when that 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.679 tournament is you know, is gettible, you know. And and 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.240 the way he did it too on like the hardest 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:48.200 holes on the golf course, you know, where like sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.440 we're brutal holes and you know, to to to do 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.760 it where he just took took control. Obviously the fourteen, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.920 fourteen and fifteen were the gettible holes on that back nine, 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.960 but like to just sees control and do it you 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.560 know where. I think that's like one of the things 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.719 you see from Scotty and maybe one of like the 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:13.000 marks of greatness is you know, his ability to hit 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.640 shots close on holes where nobody hits shots close all day. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:18.920 It's like, well, nobody said it close to this all 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.159 day and it's like, oh, then Scotty hits it to 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.560 twelve feet and rolls a putt in you know, it 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:29.800 is he has just this knack to make extraordinarily difficult 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:36.040 shots look routine, and he is he operates. I think, 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:41.280 I think the irons are just I don't think enough 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.240 gets talked about and I don't really love that expression, 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:52.000 but like his iron dominance does not get talked about enough. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:57.960 How good the irons are, Like how generational the iron 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.679 talent is. I mean, you think about five years ago 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.400 before we were in the Scotty era, like the excitement 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:11.200 about Colin Morikawa and how he was, you know, replicating Scotty, 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.480 or the excitement about will Z l Trus's iron play, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.199 and it's you know, Scotty is just just in a 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:23.680 different stratosphere. And when you hit great iron shots, great 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.639 approach shots, it's it's like hard to play bad golf. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.360 He's also leading the tour this year. Strokes ginned off 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.960 to Tea like you could make the argument that Scotty's 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:37.159 driving ability is not talked about enough. Like so I 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:42.800 think that again, two years ago, all anybody said, correctly 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:44.720 was if Scotty ever learned how to put average, is 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.000 gonna win everything. And to your point, now we are seeing, 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.639 especially on the most demanding setups where he can separate himself. 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:52.920 Tea to green, that's what's happening. He learned how to 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:54.440 put a little bit. He's killing everybody. 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:59.639 Yeah, yeah, it's it's I like the call out of that, 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.640 that ability to just kind of like burst out right, 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.640 like the ability to like in a blink of an 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:11.439 eye put a tournament away. My big thing was was 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:17.720 actually from Sunday. You know, I think that what he 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:21.440 did on Saturday set him up to have this wonderful cushion. 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.720 And we haven't really seen Scottie Scheffler out of sorts 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.199 tea to green in a in a big moment, and 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:33.359 we saw it for nine holes on Sunday, and I thought, like, 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:37.520 you know, when we look back on his career, one 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.120 of the things that I will always remember is that 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:45.840 Sunday at Quail Hollow because that was a moment where 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:50.760 he could have like given one away. And once you 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:55.560 give one away, I think that winning them gets a 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.639 lot more difficult because there's way more doubt in your head. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:05.080 Golf is a sport that it preys on your insecurities 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:11.639 and your anxiety, and for Scotty Scheffler to to play 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.040 the front nine he played to have John Ram catch 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:19.040 him on the back nine and to have him go 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.399 from hitting it just just horrendously. It was about as 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.200 bad as I've ever seen him hit the ball, to 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.680 clicking in finding something and then playing a nearly flawless 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:33.960 back nine to win the tournament. Put pressure back on 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:38.560 John Rahm, who you know. It's like these these majors 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:42.919 are hinging on so many moments, and that major, like 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:46.679 the major moment. One of them I will remember is 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:51.960 that the lipout rom had on thirteen where he hit 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:57.000 an incredibly great putt and an insanely great putt and 0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:00.520