Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: all here, spend a lot of time. First hour, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Phil Mickelson. We talked to Reggie Miller. Bring
Speaker 1: back some of his comments. He compared to what Phil
Speaker 1: Mickelson did yesterday to what Kobe did in his final
Speaker 1: NBA game, which is really interesting. We'll bring that back
Speaker 1: what Reggie had to say, the comparisons between those two.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's an age difference there, but just that feeling
Speaker 1: you get when you get in the zone, you get
Speaker 1: in the moment there, and you saw that yesterday with Phil.
Speaker 1: He fed off the crowd, hit big shots, and Phil's
Speaker 1: usually his worst enemy, but he seemed patient, he was
Speaker 1: in the moment there. A lot of times, you have
Speaker 1: so much ability that you don't think your way through
Speaker 1: a course or a game or a sporting event. You
Speaker 1: have to when you get older, you have to think
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And when you're young, you just swing.
Speaker 1: You just go basketball, football, baseball. The same way. It's
Speaker 1: that player who's a little bit older is seasoned and
Speaker 1: they should use their experience, and you saw that with Phil.
Speaker 1: Nick Faldo, who like Phil has won six majors. Sir
Speaker 1: Nick Foulder will join us coming up at about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: NBA Playoffs Sunday Winners seventy six or Sons, Hawks Grizzlies
Speaker 1: tonight you have the Heat and the Bucks, and the
Speaker 1: Blazers and the Nuggets. There were all sorts of cool
Speaker 1: storylines in the opening days of the NBA Playoffs. Trey
Speaker 1: Young coming up big at Madison Square Garden, Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: leading the Blazers past the Nuggets, the Big three of
Speaker 1: the Nets a postseason debut, But right now Lebron and
Speaker 1: the Lakers seemed to be the focal point, neither positive
Speaker 1: or negative. It started out this weekend with the report
Speaker 1: that he was at a promotional event for his tequila
Speaker 1: brand and might have to sit out for COVID reasons. Well,
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. The NBA wasn't going to do that,
Speaker 1: But then the Lakers dropped their series opener against this UNS.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker played great, and I know that we overreact
Speaker 1: to that first game. Let me wait till game two.
Speaker 1: I always say wait till game two. And now if
Speaker 1: you're down, oh two, Now we have some concerns. No
Speaker 1: reason to panic yet, but it's the way they played
Speaker 1: that concerned me. Lebron started out great and then disappeared.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis didn't start out, didn't end well, and this
Speaker 1: is where the rest of the lineup has to come through.
Speaker 1: But Lebron's got to take it upon himself. Well, hopefully
Speaker 1: you're healthy enough and you're able to do this. But
Speaker 1: you know, the COVID thing, like, come on, you've got
Speaker 1: to be smarter than that. You're out there with Drake
Speaker 1: and you're promotional opportunity with your tequila brand. Really, but
Speaker 1: I've been saying you got to catch the Lakers early
Speaker 1: because you've got Lebron missing time with the ankle injury
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis is not one. By the way, Anthony
Speaker 1: davis best game of the season came a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago against the Phoenix Suns. He doesn't look anywhere
Speaker 1: near what he did a couple of weeks ago. If
Speaker 1: Phoenix keeps it rolling, this is going to be all
Speaker 1: Lebron all the time if they bow out. But if
Speaker 1: you're the Phoenix Suns, you're expected to win. In their minds,
Speaker 1: they're like, yes, we're a better team. We've been more consistent,
Speaker 1: we're healthier, we have home court advantage here. Let's wait
Speaker 1: until after game two. Then I think we'll have a conversation.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with what Memphis did to Utah
Speaker 1: as Donovan Mitchell going to play Game two. I picked
Speaker 1: Portland to beat Denver. I would never pick against Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: not in a moment like that, the Hawks against the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I picked the Hawks to beat the Knicks. Trey Young
Speaker 1: had a big moment there in the garden and when
Speaker 1: the garden you know you've arrived, when the garden acknowledges
Speaker 1: you and they were chanting. Here is Trey Young after
Speaker 1: the win against the New York Knicks in the garden.
Speaker 1: I think it was. I mean, you know you've you've
Speaker 1: been in the biggest stages. I mean when you're I
Speaker 1: mean in his own and uh, everybody's saying, f you.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of y'all had that, but
Speaker 1: I've had it. A co had it in college, and
Speaker 1: I had it again at night, So I mean, it
Speaker 1: got real quiet at the end, and for me, I
Speaker 1: wanted to hear that a few chance again. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And he's a kid That's what's interesting when you look
Speaker 1: at today's NBA players, Like Luca feels old at twenty three, right,
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, I think is twenty four. This is when
Speaker 1: stars like Larry Bird is just starting his NBA career
Speaker 1: at this age. I think he might have been twenty three,
Speaker 1: Like they're just starting, like Trey Young is twenty two,
Speaker 1: Like Luca's what twenty two? Yeah, it just turned away two? Yes,
Speaker 1: like that's what me you see, but it feels like
Speaker 1: they've been around a long time. Well Lucas got the
Speaker 1: old man game on top of that. Yes, well does
Speaker 1: so does Joki. Yeah. See that's gotta be a real
Speaker 1: like I made it moment for Trey Young. You're in
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, they're chanting fu at you, and you
Speaker 1: think a game winner, Like that's it, I've arrived, this
Speaker 1: is I'm on my way. Yeah, Paul joke. It should
Speaker 1: be wearing like load Key LOWD Top New Balance and
Speaker 1: like Jean Shorts out there. Um, you know what Portland's
Speaker 1: game plan is. To let him score, just don't let
Speaker 1: him be a facilitator. Don't let him rack up assist
Speaker 1: because he's a wonderful passer there and they did a
Speaker 1: good job in Game one. Yeah, McClements, he had a
Speaker 1: little trouble if the Lakers, I know, it's one game
Speaker 1: and you can't but if they lose this, the West
Speaker 1: is all of a sudden looking a little parch. Well,
Speaker 1: it's wide open, as we like to say, it is right. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe the Clippers act like they're supposed to, but in
Speaker 1: game one, I just don't who's the guy that you
Speaker 1: have to stop? In Game one? You have two of
Speaker 1: the best wing defenders in basketball, or so I'm reminded
Speaker 1: all the time. The Clippers drive me crazy. You're coming
Speaker 1: every Monday. I just you know, because remember we had
Speaker 1: that period where you had talking heads, analysts, radio hosts
Speaker 1: trying to tell everybody that Kawhi kawhi' is a better
Speaker 1: play He's past Lebron. No, he hasn't. Where is Kauai?
Speaker 1: We we love when he plays well. I like when
Speaker 1: he had great numbers, and I go, well, those are
Speaker 1: Lebron's career averages. You let Doc Rivers go, You're running
Speaker 1: out of excuses and you got to stop Luca. And
Speaker 1: I'm watching this. You got two of the best wing
Speaker 1: defenders and you're guarding a guy on the wing and
Speaker 1: you can't you can't stop him. And it's not one
Speaker 1: of those where you god that guy out there. He
Speaker 1: seems to be doing pretty well, like you can't be surprised,
Speaker 1: and the whole Patrick Beverley and he's a past on Luke.
Speaker 1: Luca is going you gotta be kidding me, But you
Speaker 1: got the best wing defenders. Isn't it time somebody? When
Speaker 1: Jordan and Pippen were in their prime, there was nobody
Speaker 1: better on the perimeter, like those were lockdown defenders. These
Speaker 1: two I'm still waiting. It feels like a lot of
Speaker 1: people have the combination for that lockdown defense, like eighteen
Speaker 1: to the right, nineteen over here, twenty two. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a triple double for Luca Dunchick. But game two, how
Speaker 1: about we guard Luca? Now? Do I think that those
Speaker 1: players are going to continue the supporting cast? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the Clippers have a great opportunity here. Look, you
Speaker 1: mailed it in against Oklahoma City. You wanted Dallas, You
Speaker 1: didn't want to be in the side of the bracket
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. Okay, you all this strategy here, Let's
Speaker 1: see it and if and if they do produce, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear from you. Hey, do you see
Speaker 1: what they did? They're supposed to produce a guy whose
Speaker 1: nickname is playoff Pe. I think the l is silent.
Speaker 1: Let's just payoff Pe and and Kawhi. Okay, he's got
Speaker 1: two titles. Yes, wonderful what he did in Toronto wonderful.
Speaker 1: That's that's in the scrapbook here. How about we do
Speaker 1: something else. How about we take control. How about we
Speaker 1: have one of those great nights that great players do.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm waiting for. And maybe I've overrated them.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it is that we keep thinking. Okay,
Speaker 1: well they got Kawhi, Leonard, Okay, they got Paul Okay, like,
Speaker 1: what else do they have? And don't say Serge Ibaka,
Speaker 1: Oh that Patrick Beverly's a past Okay. I just don't
Speaker 1: think we hold Kawhi accountable the way we do Lebron
Speaker 1: and everybody was just waiting for Kawhi. He's going, oh,
Speaker 1: he's better than Lebron. No, he's not. By the way, Lebron,
Speaker 1: you can't miss three free throws. I know, I nitpick,
Speaker 1: but these are things that great players do. At the
Speaker 1: end of games. You make those free throws. You can't
Speaker 1: go one for four, but you can't be mailing this
Speaker 1: in against the Suns. We saw that last year in
Speaker 1: the bubble. They won every all eight of their games.
Speaker 1: They were not messing around. And with Chris Paul, they're
Speaker 1: going to keep that team in every game. They just will.
Speaker 1: He knows how to be a leader on that team.
Speaker 1: We've seen that this year. So that's why I said
Speaker 1: you want the Lakers early because I think once they
Speaker 1: start to get a little healthier, then you're not going
Speaker 1: to stop them. If they don't win the title, I
Speaker 1: think it's because they got knocked off early. Yeah. Point,
Speaker 1: would you love to have seen the meeting at NBA
Speaker 1: headquarters when they heard the Lebron was at a tequila
Speaker 1: event and broke protocol. That's that's probably commissioners silver. That's
Speaker 1: so we have some audio of his reaction. Yeah is that? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the actual audio of the commissioner. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're Lebron, do you do a commissioner silver tequila?
Speaker 1: Boom wow, boom Yep, maybe we just come up with
Speaker 1: a commissioner silver tequila. Here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: They got to be sitting there at the office thinking, well,
Speaker 1: we can't suspend Lebron because that's horrible for business. We'll
Speaker 1: take a couple of days a heat for giving him
Speaker 1: a special treatment, but commagine him event the other way.
Speaker 1: They said, we're gonna for fourteen days? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I know, I know. He could have been crowd diving
Speaker 1: at a Lallapalooza event and they're not suspending Lebron. No,
Speaker 1: he would have been in the gallery behind Phil Nicholson
Speaker 1: yesterday with no clothes on, and they're not spending him.
Speaker 1: There's nothing he could do to get suspended for more
Speaker 1: than a game. Eight seven seven three D P show
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Speaker 1: We'll get some phone calls and then Sir Nick Feldo
Speaker 1: will join us. Most impressive old guy feed in the
Speaker 1: last few years. The choice is worth Serena Williams winning
Speaker 1: at thirty sixty Australian Open, Tom Brady forty three Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: Phil Mickels said, or Lebron in thirty five Phil is
Speaker 1: beating Tom close Recency bias. Fritzie has a limerick on
Speaker 1: the PGA Championship by the way Greek freak Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: make free throws. I was about to ask what you
Speaker 1: said Lebron had trouble. I was like, oh, what about it?
Speaker 1: You must not have been happy with the honest on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then they called him for a violation he went
Speaker 1: longer than ten seconds at the free throw line. But
Speaker 1: make free throws. I should not be able to shoot
Speaker 1: free throws better than Ben Simmons and the Greek free
Speaker 1: I shouldn't, but I can anytime they want to shoot.
Speaker 1: We don't eate the money to charity. I'd be more
Speaker 1: than happy to do that. I'd even help them with
Speaker 1: their free throw shooting. Yes, Todd, are you ready with
Speaker 1: your life? Okay? This is a PGA Championship Limerick with
Speaker 1: Sir Todd Fritz. The cheers at eighteen gave a chill
Speaker 1: at the edge of our seats. We were still at
Speaker 1: times he's been hefty, but he's always been lefty. Another
Speaker 1: Wannamaker trophy for Phil. Okay. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would have gone with the hefty, but yeah, I needed
Speaker 1: a good word to rhyme with Lefty. He'd been a
Speaker 1: little bit of a heavy side and I want to,
Speaker 1: unfortunately know what it's like to have a well, good
Speaker 1: luck getting Phil on the show. Did you just go
Speaker 1: I can make that joke on him? He kind of
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, but it's okay, I can make that joke.
Speaker 1: Why don't you do what Phil does now and work out?
Speaker 1: That's not a bad idea than you who wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to work out like philm michiels, Yeah, who wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to slim down? Yeah? Would people be going crazy if
Speaker 1: he was only forty nine? They wouldn't. But it's it's
Speaker 1: the five. Oh, he's fifty, And there's nobody who think
Speaker 1: Phil Micholson looks, acts, sounds, plays like he's fifty. No one, Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 1: If someone tells you, hey, you're in good shape for
Speaker 1: your age, is that a compliment? No, it's not a compliment. No,
Speaker 1: because my wife will say, God, you look good for
Speaker 1: your age, and I go, do I look good? How
Speaker 1: about you just stop there? But she'll compare me to
Speaker 1: guys that I hang out with and she'll say, you know,
Speaker 1: I was looking at such and such, you look good
Speaker 1: for your age. I said, wait, so I look good?
Speaker 1: Because he doesn't look good. That's not bad though it's
Speaker 1: not good. Yeah, no, no, no, no, how about you
Speaker 1: just look good? Yes time. There are also people men
Speaker 1: and women that intentionally hang out with people that I
Speaker 1: know they're more attractive then yes, so they can kind
Speaker 1: of feel a little bit better about themselves. And that's
Speaker 1: why we hang out with you. I just walked ready.
Speaker 1: I always look like I'm in good shit. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's why I hang around you. If I
Speaker 1: hang around you all the time. Andrew back there there's
Speaker 1: back row buddy. Yep, yep. Oh you're the good looking
Speaker 1: guy on the back row. That was a stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Davis in Tennessee. Davis, welcome to the program. Hey Pete,
Speaker 1: how's it going good? Davis? My best and work for
Speaker 1: the weekend the best. I got a trader over the
Speaker 1: weekend and it is great. My wife thinks I'm a
Speaker 1: girl master. Now I can make anything. Yeah, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the mystique. That's my favorite so far, and
Speaker 1: more so the weekend. I think mclem will appreciate this.
Speaker 1: If lebron his acting job, especially yesterday with this whole
Speaker 1: armed thing, he acted like Fucky Barnes, like his arms
Speaker 1: just fell off. I can but yeah, I can understand
Speaker 1: the flopping, but the fact that he's acting and all this,
Speaker 1: he's hurt all the time, I just I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't get develop it. Yeah, I mean, this is one
Speaker 1: of the best athletes we have in the world, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest athletes, and it just feels like when
Speaker 1: Lebron gets injured, goes down falls, it's dramatic. He doesn't
Speaker 1: hide anything. He wants you to know. You know that
Speaker 1: Chris Paul boxed him out, and you know he went
Speaker 1: down hard. And Draymond Green with the uh you know,
Speaker 1: the smack to the either Yeah. See. And the play
Speaker 1: by play is so dramatic too, you know the little
Speaker 1: Bron James he's down on one knee like he's a
Speaker 1: boxer or something. Yeah. Uh Chris and North Carolina, Hi, Chris,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Kind and sixty three two
Speaker 1: twenty five. That's the worst of the weekend. Want to
Speaker 1: say Phil Milkerson, for sure, man of his age when
Speaker 1: in a major championship like that's what an astounding accomplishment.
Speaker 1: The worst of the weekend, I would have to say
Speaker 1: is the crowd there at the end. Yeah. I did
Speaker 1: enjoy seeing them surround the golfers. But as soon as
Speaker 1: Phil hit his approach shot and seeing the crowd basically
Speaker 1: swarm both him and Brooks kept I was very concerned,
Speaker 1: especially for Brooks. I was really waiting for Bill Murray
Speaker 1: to show up to start setting off explosives, Rodney danger,
Speaker 1: Phil to show up with a convertible and the dancing,
Speaker 1: you know, dancing a little furry free and there at
Speaker 1: the end with the credits rolling, so right, he had
Speaker 1: a little Caddyshack reference there. Yeah, that crowd surprised me.
Speaker 1: We've seen that a couple of times before. But when
Speaker 1: you have a security guard, so they have a like
Speaker 1: a thin piece of rope there, and what it is
Speaker 1: is it's an agreement that hey, I can't stop you guys.
Speaker 1: There's five thousand of you and there's three of us here,
Speaker 1: and we have an agreement. Can you stay on the
Speaker 1: other side of this thin rope? When I put my
Speaker 1: hands up, then you got to be quiet, and it
Speaker 1: just felt like you weren't going to listen to the
Speaker 1: crossing guard anymore. You're like, nope, we're jaywalking here. No
Speaker 1: crowds for what almost two years, Phil Mickelson is gonna
Speaker 1: win at age fifty sorry, we're gonna blow right by you.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened yesterday. All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Sir Nick fouled up. By the way, George Foreman was
Speaker 1: forty five when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in
Speaker 1: the world and he defeated twenty six year old Michael Moore.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty big deal. It was back at the
Speaker 1: time that George did that at the age of forty five.
Speaker 1: By the way, more went into that fight with a
Speaker 1: record of thirty five and zero. George dedicated his win
Speaker 1: to all my buddies in the nursing homes. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. How significant was this win for Phil Mickelson?
Speaker 1: What does it mean for Phil Mickelson? Twenty after the hour,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Sir Nick Foudo right after this and
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Speaker 1: for Nick Foudo ser Nick Fouldo to join us. If
Speaker 1: you start to look at athletes with long stretches of
Speaker 1: sports relevancy, famous great on the field or court, Lebron
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, Serena nineteen ninety nine, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady two thousand and one, Michael Phelps was two thousand
Speaker 1: and three to two thousand and sixteen. Phil Mickelson was
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, still going, Lebron, Serena, Brady, Phil still
Speaker 1: going pretty incredible. Have that longevity, but you have to
Speaker 1: invest in your health. And Lebron has done that. Serena
Speaker 1: has done it. We know Brady's done it. Phil had
Speaker 1: to do it. But I think to have this longevity,
Speaker 1: there's no secret to it. You know, Brady talks about pliability,
Speaker 1: just stretching, just you know, having elasticity and then you
Speaker 1: know you eat right, you do the right things. Lebron
Speaker 1: has done this, Serena has done this. You know, Brady's
Speaker 1: had two knee surgeries, had one many years ago against
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs that knocked him out for a season,
Speaker 1: and then offseason had knee surgery. And the fact that
Speaker 1: he was playing in the Super Bowl and he needed
Speaker 1: knee surgery is still pretty impressive. But I said, you
Speaker 1: could have anybody's career out of that group. You can
Speaker 1: have Lebron, Serena, Tom Brady, Phil Nicholson, or Michael Phelps.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Lebron. I'm going to take Lebron on.
Speaker 1: But I'm factoring in everything with Lebron, He's a billionaire,
Speaker 1: Brady's greatest of all time, Serena's greatest of all time.
Speaker 1: Phil is just one of the greats of all time.
Speaker 1: And then Michael Phelps is the most decorated athlete, Olympic
Speaker 1: athlete that we have. Yeah, Polly. In my mind, I
Speaker 1: want to say Phelps because he seems like historys me
Speaker 1: really good to him. Like a hundred years from now,
Speaker 1: I think he's still be the greatest Olympian. But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want that lifestyle where you work and work and
Speaker 1: work and you only get to kind of apply your
Speaker 1: trade a couple of times a year or every four years. Really. Yeah, See,
Speaker 1: when you run down a list like this, it's kind
Speaker 1: of almost like, what did you imagine as a kid,
Speaker 1: and then that's the one you would pick? They I
Speaker 1: would probably think Lebron because I spent so much time
Speaker 1: as a kid imagining being an NBA player or playing
Speaker 1: in college and then going to the draft and doing
Speaker 1: your little highlight reels you know in your head while
Speaker 1: you're out there playing that it's tough to not go
Speaker 1: with that. Springing Foundo, the CBS lead golf analyst, was
Speaker 1: on the call yesterday at Kiowa. Phil let me start
Speaker 1: out with her. Nick, let me start out with the
Speaker 1: poll question. Mclovin, would you give Nick the poll question? Okay,
Speaker 1: most impressive old guy feed Phil Mickelson winning at fifty,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady winning a Super Bowl forty three, Serena winning
Speaker 1: a Major at thirty six, or Lebron winning an NBA
Speaker 1: title at thirty five. You know I'm going with Phil
Speaker 1: because you know out game demands is an indi individual sport. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so it's tennis, but you know, we have to
Speaker 1: deal with so much. TENNISI is a reaction sport, isn't
Speaker 1: that you somebody wax a ball at you and you
Speaker 1: leap around and get it. But golf you've got to
Speaker 1: stand and think about it. And for a long time
Speaker 1: you're you're doing You're in the golf course at five
Speaker 1: plus house and it's all that thinking time and to
Speaker 1: deal with you know, the negativity or you know, anything
Speaker 1: from negativity and frustrations to loss of trust or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I think is so impressive with this.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get older, you look, you definitely
Speaker 1: lose your earth fields. Had to fight that in different ways.
Speaker 1: And this has been a really long process. Is this
Speaker 1: he didn't fix this in the last three weeks or
Speaker 1: have this dream I'm going to win. This has probably
Speaker 1: been a three year project, you know, to get himself
Speaker 1: physically strong enough, fit enough, you know, the dietary side,
Speaker 1: all that sort of thing um. But then this mental
Speaker 1: strength is for me, the most interesting one. I when
Speaker 1: we sat together at augusta champions locker room and you know,
Speaker 1: he asked me, how do you able to concentrate on
Speaker 1: I said, well, I was fine, I said, because you
Speaker 1: know I had you know, I had purpose in every shot,
Speaker 1: even as even in practice. I had purpose probably came
Speaker 1: from when I was a kid, because I you know,
Speaker 1: when I started playing golf, I only had one green,
Speaker 1: one bundle of one flex. I was constantly aiming at something.
Speaker 1: So every shot had purpose that happened accidentally or naturally.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think maybe he gleaned a little
Speaker 1: bit from this, and he went into this new mode
Speaker 1: of being able to really focus and have clear intentions,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent commitment. But more importantly, he dealt with
Speaker 1: the couple of those bad shots on Saturday really well,
Speaker 1: you know the two paws on You know, there was
Speaker 1: a twelve and thirteen with the tea, a couple of
Speaker 1: little blocks, but he hit a couple of great irons.
Speaker 1: You know, fourteen and seventeen on Saturday comes out. They
Speaker 1: first green. How about that leads the first part fifteen
Speaker 1: feet short and you think, wow, well that makes sense.
Speaker 1: You're fifty. The nerves are going to get a bit jangled.
Speaker 1: And no, he had this. You could see the way
Speaker 1: he was completely in the zone. Whether that was probably
Speaker 1: manufactured in some ways, you had to push himself to think,
Speaker 1: think through the process. I can relate to that. That's
Speaker 1: what happened to me in ninety six. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: it was best my best mental round because I wasn't
Speaker 1: as super confident early nineties and you have to mentally, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. What am I trying? What
Speaker 1: I want to do? Am I going to do it?
Speaker 1: How's it going to feel that I do all your
Speaker 1: check go through the checklist, where before it happened like
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So I think that's why putting
Speaker 1: all of that together, this really is and off the
Speaker 1: charts incredible performance. What's the first thing to leave you
Speaker 1: though as you get older as a golfer? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I guess it will be some say touch. I would
Speaker 1: say it's trust or self belief whatever that might, you know,
Speaker 1: and and that gets dented. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: percentage would be, but obviously when you face shots what
Speaker 1: you saw last week with incredible demand and you can
Speaker 1: see all the hazards everywhere, you know, darn well if
Speaker 1: I pull it into that bunk and I go in
Speaker 1: the hey, I am in trouble. So that I think
Speaker 1: is what goes you look down at golf and you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't like to look at that one. I don't
Speaker 1: look at that shot, and you don't know and you
Speaker 1: try to deal with it and you can't. And so
Speaker 1: if you've gone into a shop thinking I don't like
Speaker 1: this is a bit of negativity and then it comes
Speaker 1: off negative, it gets what It's almost like a tick
Speaker 1: in the negative box, isn't it where if you can
Speaker 1: you face that challenge, you look down and I don't
Speaker 1: like that light, or this is a really difficult shot,
Speaker 1: but I can move my target to yeah, that will
Speaker 1: do me. And I can do this and I can
Speaker 1: do that. So you've watched his way through it and
Speaker 1: then you stand up and do it. Well, then you've
Speaker 1: dealt with the situation, and that's what you know. That's
Speaker 1: what pressure is all about, isn't It's when you're when
Speaker 1: you're when the level of the intensity or the situation
Speaker 1: you're not prepared for it, that's pre pressure. But if
Speaker 1: you know how to you have prepared and you know
Speaker 1: how to handle the situation, that's how you get you
Speaker 1: deal with pressure. Why do you think fills the people's champion? Well,
Speaker 1: he gives, he gives back, It gives good entertainment. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know he's not it's a full on entertainment. Now
Speaker 1: look at the you know he's social media or you know,
Speaker 1: he loves to entertain and he comes up with his
Speaker 1: own words. Now and what have your first man to
Speaker 1: call a a chip shot sexy? You know, so things
Speaker 1: like that. So, but you didn't play that way. You
Speaker 1: you were pretty focused. Like could you have engaged played
Speaker 1: to the crowd at all? I would have. I would
Speaker 1: have loved it because I I believed, um, get into
Speaker 1: your beliefs, isn't and where you're, where you come from,
Speaker 1: and how you taught you know, I believe to stay
Speaker 1: focused and play within myself and you know, and I
Speaker 1: had to do that, and I kind of kicked myself
Speaker 1: because as you can tell, I've got a bit more
Speaker 1: personality than what I probably displayed on the golf course
Speaker 1: that my very good friends sports psychologists. I could have
Speaker 1: taught you to switch in and out. You could have
Speaker 1: switched off and gone and reacted with the crowds. Stolen
Speaker 1: the kid's bag of chips or something, you know, something silly,
Speaker 1: come back to the bag and then go. As soon
Speaker 1: as you grab put your hand on the drive ahead
Speaker 1: or something you can go back into golf mode. So
Speaker 1: I kind of wish i'd known that a lot earlier,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. But you know, Phil stayed in golfing
Speaker 1: mode that whole weekend and probably the whole week but
Speaker 1: obviously very evident of the weekend. How you know, some
Speaker 1: psychologists were so you've got to wander off and dream
Speaker 1: of the purple monkey and all this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But no, he he walked and he was completely engrossed
Speaker 1: in what he was doing and staying and controlling himself.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure his heart was leaping out his chest
Speaker 1: at times, but you know, he didn't. And you know
Speaker 1: he played great. Yes, he hit some really great shots,
Speaker 1: some unsound great shot that hit a fivebine apple rough
Speaker 1: of the ninth. I mean that was a seriously good
Speaker 1: gold shot. You know, that won't get talked about. But
Speaker 1: for me, when I saw that, you know, landed at
Speaker 1: twenty feet, I was like, wow, you know, that was
Speaker 1: very impressive. The two shots down ten very impressive. And
Speaker 1: to have all and to have all of that that incredible.
Speaker 1: That atmosphere between all those exchanges, you know, we've never
Speaker 1: known anything like Internet. They have five exchanges of two
Speaker 1: shots and more three shots on the second. That's we
Speaker 1: get one of those a weekend in a tornment we
Speaker 1: all got or maybe there's a two shots were and
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, but have five of them in ten holes.
Speaker 1: That was I thought that was riveting stuff, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: I thought you couldn't go for Ormung golf for that
Speaker 1: was that was worth watching. More impressive though, Tiger in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen yet Augusta or Phil this weekend. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Tiger is another amazing you know, Tiger in eleven years
Speaker 1: and all the surgeries and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Um and and yes, of course Tiger's number one, number one,
Speaker 1: your choice, Jack or Tiger? Who who's the greatest? So
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Tiger comeback was greater than
Speaker 1: this film one. But you know, this is incredible. It's like,
Speaker 1: it's why you have these shows. You can sit and
Speaker 1: argument for hours with its one, two or three, but
Speaker 1: it still doesn't act, look or play like he's fifty neck. No,
Speaker 1: well that's he that's credit to him commitment, but unbelievable,
Speaker 1: but unbelievable commitment. You've got to give him credit for that.
Speaker 1: He's changed. I spoke to him the Masters in November,
Speaker 1: and because I went straight to so you know, how
Speaker 1: do I get more club ed speed? Because he's done
Speaker 1: a great job very few. You know, you get older,
Speaker 1: the club goes slower, doesn't it. But he suddenly comes
Speaker 1: out with six miles an hour more club as where
Speaker 1: six threes or eighteen? That's how we work at six
Speaker 1: you know milin agat three yards, at eighteen more yards,
Speaker 1: twenty more yards? And I said, like a rookie, how
Speaker 1: do I get more clubs? At Wren? He went from
Speaker 1: starts with the mind. You've got to train the mind
Speaker 1: to get tell a body to move faster. And you know, okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm taking and then you go to the gym
Speaker 1: and you start working specific exercises, you know, to get
Speaker 1: the power in the body in the right place the explosion.
Speaker 1: So you go through all the different posts before you
Speaker 1: start swinging speed sticks and things. I had to get
Speaker 1: the club. You know, boys, you tear your shoulders or something.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't a that was not a five minute process.
Speaker 1: You know, that was months of training to build up
Speaker 1: to get to that. And you know the diets. He
Speaker 1: doesn't crazy diet things. You know when he goes on
Speaker 1: whatever he goes on, you know, his fruit diet for
Speaker 1: a week or so right before the open a couple
Speaker 1: of years. But anyway, it's commitment, incredible commitments. You can't
Speaker 1: you cannot knock that in any way. I thought what
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepco was attempting to do was equally impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, Nicky had a dislocated knee, he had ligament damage,
Speaker 1: he had surgery in March. Yeah. I mean he's on
Speaker 1: one leg at Augusta. Yeah. But for him to be
Speaker 1: out there in the final group, I mean that again,
Speaker 1: I did mention if Phil was the weekend goes it's
Speaker 1: a mental game. Phil's looking mentally, looking after his actual
Speaker 1: mind and his technique, and Brooks his mind was looking
Speaker 1: after his body. I gleaned that his team unbelievably concerned,
Speaker 1: as he even said, when you got five people watching
Speaker 1: New Trade and watching his knee. But he said he
Speaker 1: was taped up, he was on pain killers, all sorts
Speaker 1: of things like that. But they just wanted to get
Speaker 1: him to Monday. You know that he knew. Actually, the
Speaker 1: hardest thing apparently was you know, walking from green to
Speaker 1: teeth through all the different sand areas of the wood planks,
Speaker 1: and now he was really concerned that one little slip,
Speaker 1: and he was even concerned apparently even playing off unevil lives,
Speaker 1: you know, even one knee up, one knee down, So
Speaker 1: you know that was a that was a huge mental
Speaker 1: effort on him and just making it just coming out
Speaker 1: and driving it poorly for that front nine. And if
Speaker 1: he hit a decent te shot on number two after
Speaker 1: birdie birdie and one might have been a very different shoot.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't it. You know, he faultered. He really
Speaker 1: struggled to get the ball on the failey until he
Speaker 1: finally found a couple at the end so that the
Speaker 1: Phil got the up. You know, I need to get
Speaker 1: the upper hand. But also you look at the par fives,
Speaker 1: that was the difference. Phil was three under and Brooks
Speaker 1: was three over. Three Yeah. Brutal, yeah, brutal. You know,
Speaker 1: So he pulls the t shot on two clatters in
Speaker 1: the trees. Probably fortunate he didn't go in a hazard
Speaker 1: or and then I don't know why I called it
Speaker 1: on there, I said, I don't know why he tried
Speaker 1: to hit a three wood on a left or right
Speaker 1: wind on seven and blocks it into those trees. You know,
Speaker 1: if that would have been for me, sensible knock it
Speaker 1: down front edge, would you rather eighty yards sixty eighty
Speaker 1: yards pitched in that? It would have been a different story.
Speaker 1: So and again. And then then he was struggling off
Speaker 1: the tea through down eleven ten and eleven cost him
Speaker 1: a couple there. So yeah, he phil played beautifully. You know,
Speaker 1: he thought about every shot to everything. Short game was amazing.
Speaker 1: Didn't really miss a put that really was going to
Speaker 1: be like, wow, he's in trouble. So it was excellent stuff.
Speaker 1: What would you have shot on that course yesterday? I'll
Speaker 1: still be finishing it. He's still out. No, It's like
Speaker 1: they run the marathon and then there's the guy who
Speaker 1: has taken eight hours to run the marathe he comes
Speaker 1: in the next morning. No, I would, I would hate.
Speaker 1: I would hate to think on that wind um. No,
Speaker 1: I would be I'd be lucky to break eighty. I
Speaker 1: really would. I really would. I think I actually might
Speaker 1: take I would take a seventy a right now, sitting here,
Speaker 1: right now, what's the biggest number you ever had on
Speaker 1: a whole? I think I think I had a ten once.
Speaker 1: I think you kind of delete that from your mind.
Speaker 1: So I'm going with one. If I'm being really honest,
Speaker 1: I think it's once, but i'd probably tell everybody no.
Speaker 1: Nine was my worst. What's that like though? When you're
Speaker 1: writing down at ten it's it's It's numbing, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Because you think I can tell you how I feel
Speaker 1: when I Yeah, yeah, when you got you got three
Speaker 1: on the car, but yeah, when you do it for
Speaker 1: the first time. And so I used to pay with
Speaker 1: Simon Hobby and you know he took a ten on
Speaker 1: one hole and he goes, Okay, Simon, Simon, he's a
Speaker 1: relax you know, takes counter ten. Good idea to Simon
Speaker 1: counter ten. It's three, four, five, six, and eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Let's out your mightiest screaming across the gold of course. Okay, Simon,
Speaker 1: I feel not better. Now that's better. Okay, off the case.
Speaker 1: So there's great players who put up big numbers. Well,
Speaker 1: last week I came up with a stat which was amazed.
Speaker 1: Twenty ten they had one hundred and ten players had
Speaker 1: seven or more. Wow, well shows one hundred and ten times.
Speaker 1: It happened, yeah, and I think we may have we
Speaker 1: were very close to again. So that is quite shocking,
Speaker 1: is it. It's that there was seven eight ninths and
Speaker 1: tens last week. Yeah, humbling sport. He sure is, sure is. Wait,
Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you. And all right, thanks.
Speaker 1: Do you do you have any of your trophies there?
Speaker 1: I do? What do you want to say? Well, let
Speaker 1: me see what so you got? You got you got
Speaker 1: three masters? Yeah, give me a second. Okay, So Nick
Speaker 1: found out there with his he won three Open Championships
Speaker 1: and won the Masters three times, finished second at the
Speaker 1: PGA Championship and second at the US Open. So these
Speaker 1: are really special because look they're like half size. So
Speaker 1: originally so the clart, so originally we weren't allowed to
Speaker 1: make a full size one as our replicab. I had
Speaker 1: to do ourselves. So I had these made by the
Speaker 1: garrets to the Garage of London at the Crown Jewelers.
Speaker 1: And because but these are so unique because even on
Speaker 1: the flute, all the names, he took him three months
Speaker 1: to engrave them. So these are works of art because
Speaker 1: all the names as best we can, and the and
Speaker 1: the plints, so those are pretty down special. Can you
Speaker 1: drink out of the Claire John? Of course you can.
Speaker 1: Let's see the question. Yeah, looks. It works, it's got
Speaker 1: its own. Have you have you had a drink out
Speaker 1: of the clare job? Yeah, of course, of course you've
Speaker 1: got gotta have a splash of claret and then you
Speaker 1: have your They give you a miniature masters. Now hang on, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's running like a little kid. It's like he's in
Speaker 1: somebody else's house here. Yeah, whoa, Okay, you go. I
Speaker 1: love that. Days are days are really special. Where's the
Speaker 1: where's the front door? Yeah that's the that's the right
Speaker 1: way around. So we we didn't get these until nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety was the first one, so I had to have
Speaker 1: another one for eighty nine made which which you is?
Speaker 1: This one? That's always nice when you could break which one? Oh?
Speaker 1: There we go? That is nineteen n eighty nine. You
Speaker 1: know your first one? Pretty good? Yeah, that's great. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's great to always catch up with you. Thanks for
Speaker 1: thanks for guided Yes, yes, well it's nice to have
Speaker 1: a trophy case. Let's put it that way. That's yours.
Speaker 1: That's yours in front of you, isn't it. I got
Speaker 1: some I got some sports emmys here, But how about it?
Speaker 1: Could I give you three sports Emmys for one claret
Speaker 1: jug no okay, all right, four fours No, okay, that
Speaker 1: would be a okay, fair enough, fair enough. These are
Speaker 1: well I'm sure your immage are light babies too as well,
Speaker 1: but these are these are babies. Yeah. Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: won those. I needed help to win mine. Yeah they go. Well,
Speaker 1: Fanny helped you too. Yeah, she did good job, called
Speaker 1: the right club here and there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: you listen to her. Hey, thanks as always, great stuff
Speaker 1: this past weekend. Thank you, Bunny, all right, Jess, good
Speaker 1: to see it, Nick Jo, No more phone calls. Our
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Speaker 1: your podcast. Foundo was fun. He's a guy that when
Speaker 1: he played, didn't have any personality, or at least you
Speaker 1: didn't think he had any personality. The fact that you're
Speaker 1: not quite sure which Masters trophy was this eighty five
Speaker 1: ninety six. A couple of phone calls best and worst
Speaker 1: to the weekend, And I was there with his last
Speaker 1: major when he won the Masters, when he beat Greg Norman.
Speaker 1: And famous quote from Rick Riley. I talked to him
Speaker 1: on Saturday night and you had Greg Norman I think
Speaker 1: had a six stroke lead, and I said, what do
Speaker 1: you think tomorrow? And he goes Greg Norman always finds
Speaker 1: the banana peal. Never forget that comment from Rick Riley,
Speaker 1: Uh Jordan and South Carolina High Jordan, Hey, DP, how
Speaker 1: you guys doing great? Best and worst for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Best of the weekend obviously was getting to follow Field
Speaker 1: down the eighteenth fairway. It was special moment in my
Speaker 1: life and something I would definitely cherish the rest of
Speaker 1: my life. Worst as a weekend, unfortunately, was my Sarcolhamic
Speaker 1: game Collocs baseball team losing the Rubber Magic Ast Tennessee,
Speaker 1: which will probably hinder us from being a host in
Speaker 1: the regional this year. Did they tried to security try
Speaker 1: to stop you from surrounding field? Now, no, they didn't.
Speaker 1: They So the lines were up and they kind of
Speaker 1: just like dropped, and so we just kind of just
Speaker 1: fall right in. It was like almost like a mob.
Speaker 1: It just kind of pushed us and we just followed
Speaker 1: right on through. It was pretty pretty intense. Well, thank you, Jordan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was wondering about that because when you have security,
Speaker 1: there's an agreement that you're just going to obey what
Speaker 1: they say. Now, you could push through a piece of rope,
Speaker 1: go go underneath it, drop it. But it just felt
Speaker 1: like you had five security people there and you had
Speaker 1: a couple of thousand fans that wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy the moment there. With Phil Mickelson, all right, Final
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