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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast.
Speaker 1: We have made it the uh.
Speaker 3: I guess this is kind of the kickoff to the
Speaker 3: big golf season for everybody in the country. It is
Speaker 3: Master's Week, UH, and we're super excited about the tournament.
Speaker 1: It should be an amazing, amazing event. UH. The so bummer.
Speaker 3: Obviously, it's been the first time since nineteen ninety four
Speaker 3: that a Masters will not have Tiger Woods or Phil
Speaker 3: Mickelson in its field.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a.
Speaker 3: Turning of page moment, I think for the sport. We
Speaker 3: will be on site at the Masters all week. There
Speaker 3: are just storylines galore and we have covered We've dove
Speaker 3: into a ton of stuff already at the Frida Egg
Speaker 3: dot com and you'll have on site reporting from Anuel
Speaker 3: with Meg and then we obviously have done a ton
Speaker 3: of prep work for the Masters.
Speaker 1: Go over to the website. It is filled with stuff.
Speaker 3: Kevin van Volkenberg just published a giant piece on Scottie Scheffler.
Speaker 3: We have little blurbs on every player in the field.
Speaker 3: We have a interactive every Whole at Augustin National kind
Speaker 3: of feature, custom website layout where with analysis, strategy, history,
Speaker 3: quotes about each hole as well as the most memorable
Speaker 3: shots at each hole. It is something that Garrett kind
Speaker 3: of took the lead on. Garrett also has an amazing
Speaker 3: podcast about the original Augusta National with Josh Pettitt, who's
Speaker 3: been a guest on this podcast, the founder of the
Speaker 3: Alistra McKenzie Institute, as well as Brian Schneider. So that's
Speaker 3: well worth a listening over on the Designing Golf podcast.
Speaker 3: We will be doing daily podcasts on the Shotgun Start
Speaker 3: live from Augusta National. Will be me and Brenda Porath,
Speaker 3: along with the rest of our team that will be
Speaker 3: on site, PJ Clark, Kevin van Valkenberg and Joseph Lamanna,
Speaker 3: so we have a big team on site. We're really
Speaker 3: excited about this year's Masters and cannot wait to get
Speaker 3: down to Augusta. For this preview episode, we are joined
Speaker 3: by Brad Faxton obviously great player, played in twelve mass
Speaker 3: on his own. He is also a one of the
Speaker 3: lead analysts for Golf Channel on an NBC on their
Speaker 3: coverage weekend week out on the PGA Tour. He will
Speaker 3: be participating in Live from He'll be a contributor of
Speaker 3: Live from this week at the Masters during the day
Speaker 3: on Golf Channel. And obviously he is he's the coach.
Speaker 3: He's a putting coach of Rory McElroy. On top of
Speaker 3: all of that, I think it's putting coaches. I don't
Speaker 3: know what his official title is there in the McElroy camp.
Speaker 3: So it was great to get insights to Brad who
Speaker 3: just came back from a trip to Augusta. And this
Speaker 3: is our preview of the twenty twenty six Masters. We'll
Speaker 3: have a on site preview on Tuesday night that will
Speaker 3: be live on the Shotgun Start. Me and Brendan will
Speaker 3: kind of.
Speaker 1: Chop it up, so this is your early preview.
Speaker 3: That one will be a little bit, you know, more
Speaker 3: in depth with with notes from the ground and then
Speaker 3: of course after the Masters, we will be joined by
Speaker 3: Trevor Immulman to break down this year's Masters. So that's
Speaker 3: what's ahead. Can't wait for the twenty twenty six Masters.
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Speaker 3: to Brad Faxon. All right, we welcome in Brad Faxon,
Speaker 3: obviously a legend of the game, great player as well
Speaker 3: as a broadcaster we hear as contributions on NBC and
Speaker 3: Golf Channel nearly every week, as well as a coach.
Speaker 3: It's some of the best players of the world. Brad,
Speaker 3: you played in twelve Masters, You've attended so many as
Speaker 3: a you know, with your with with the Golf Channel,
Speaker 3: I'm curious, what's your favorite thing about the Masters.
Speaker 2: That it's at Augusta National, that it's in April, that
Speaker 2: it's the most anticipated event of the year by the players,
Speaker 2: it was the most fun event to be at, not
Speaker 2: only as a player, but as a spectator, as a member,
Speaker 2: as a member of the media, that the expectations that
Speaker 2: you go there are always so high and there you
Speaker 2: just can't believe that they keep surpassing expectations when you
Speaker 2: go there just to play. I was lucky enough to
Speaker 2: play the last couple of days with some member friends
Speaker 2: and the intention to detail is this truly unlike any
Speaker 2: place else.
Speaker 3: I always find when you go back to a great place,
Speaker 3: like you find yourself just marveling at something about it.
Speaker 3: Just with your last with your last trip up there,
Speaker 3: did you find yourself struck by a hole or a
Speaker 3: specific green that you hadn't really thought of that as
Speaker 3: that much that you just found yourself like thinking about
Speaker 3: while you're playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, can I we talked about a few different things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a podcast. We can talk about whatever
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: Okay, So before we get to holes, but remind me
Speaker 2: to go back there because I'll go tangentile here.
Speaker 4: When you when you arrive on.
Speaker 2: The campus and you come into Magnolia Lane, and obviously
Speaker 2: the members will have one of the staff pick them
Speaker 2: up and you drive down to magneal O Lane and
Speaker 2: they stop before you do the drive and say Does
Speaker 2: anybody want to take a picture? Does anybody want a video?
Speaker 2: As you drive down towards that clubhouse, and you know,
Speaker 2: your heart's kind of beating, Even now at my age
Speaker 2: and as many times as I've been lucky enough to
Speaker 2: go there, there's something about it when you're going, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're looking around always. That was incredible. You know, the
Speaker 2: big storm from a couple of years ago that knocked
Speaker 2: down so many trees has had a significant impact on
Speaker 2: the golf course. When you stand on the tenth t
Speaker 2: now you can look down the hill and you can
Speaker 2: see far away Augusta Country Club through the pines that
Speaker 2: are missing, and you never.
Speaker 4: Got to see it. But actually it's a cooler look.
Speaker 2: You see a little bit of Donald Ross's Augusta Country Club,
Speaker 2: some of the bunkering there, and it doesn't bother you,
Speaker 2: or it certainly doesn't bother me. But every blade of
Speaker 2: grass it looks like it's exactly the same color and
Speaker 2: the same height everywhere.
Speaker 4: That was remarkable.
Speaker 2: I saw something yesterday that I had never seen before.
Speaker 2: And the team that puts down the gallery ropes for
Speaker 2: the entire golf course, because we played the first day
Speaker 2: without any gallery ropes, so all of a sudden, there's
Speaker 2: a fence around the practice putting green, the fence around
Speaker 2: the area where the members sit by the tree with
Speaker 2: the tables starting to go up. The scoreboard all of
Speaker 2: a sudden went from being green to having all the contestants'
Speaker 2: names on it. When you first walk in under the
Speaker 2: first hole where the creek used to be. And then
Speaker 2: we saw that the golf carts that have spools behind
Speaker 2: them where they drive down, and there's probably six or
Speaker 2: seven people at each golf cart on each side of
Speaker 2: the fairway where the rope was released, and they geo
Speaker 2: fence or geo map where every single gallery state goes
Speaker 2: throughout the golf course, and they would have enough detail
Speaker 2: from the previous year or years to know exactly where
Speaker 2: they go or where they need to change if it
Speaker 2: got a little too close or a little too far away.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like that. The detail of where
Speaker 2: they put the galleries in the stands to the right
Speaker 2: of fifteen. It looks like it's moved slightly back into
Speaker 2: the right from what I've noticed, so that the people
Speaker 2: get a better angle of the shots coming down from
Speaker 2: the fairway into fifteen. They get a better angle to
Speaker 2: the players hitting their shots on sixteen and now because
Speaker 2: of some of the loss of the treets, you actually
Speaker 2: can see up into sixty. So that's an incredible spot
Speaker 2: to sit right there in that area. And you know,
Speaker 2: trying to find a place at any golf course where
Speaker 2: you can see multiple shots into multiple holes.
Speaker 4: That's the dream.
Speaker 3: It's you know, I was having a conversation with somebody
Speaker 3: yesterday and they were we were talking about a subject
Speaker 3: and they're like, you know, if someone took the Augusta
Speaker 3: national approach to things, and it was you know, the
Speaker 3: thesis is what they do is they bring in whether
Speaker 3: whatever they want to do, whether it's Berkman's or whatever,
Speaker 3: they bring in the best people in the in the
Speaker 3: said industry, if it's food and hospitality, they pick their brain,
Speaker 3: they get their advice, and they implement it. But then
Speaker 3: they continue to optimize it every year, and like here
Speaker 3: the gallery ropes being effectively like lasered and studied year
Speaker 3: over year.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Is it's just amazing because it's kind of the huge
Speaker 3: advantage that they have of it's only once a year
Speaker 3: that they get to, you know, spend so much time
Speaker 3: and energy evaluating for once a year, right, and it's
Speaker 3: it's so easy to look at this and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: what Augusta does. The PGA Tour should do that, But
Speaker 3: the PGA Tour is traveling circus around and it's just
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's amazing. It is the uh I
Speaker 3: think it's the.
Speaker 1: Gold standard in all of sports for you know, in terms.
Speaker 3: Of like the the professionalism and administration of a of
Speaker 3: a big championship or sporting event. You know, it is,
Speaker 3: it is an absolute spectacle. And every year I go
Speaker 3: back there, I'm just marvel at it almost more every
Speaker 3: time i'm there, Like I can't believe, you know, the complexity.
Speaker 3: I mean, even down to like them releasing was it
Speaker 3: last week that the vault where you can go back
Speaker 3: and watch basically any shot of the last.
Speaker 1: You know, seven years on there. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody can. Yeah, it is amazing.
Speaker 2: And you know, the detail doesn't just start with the
Speaker 2: golf course and the players. It's the things you might
Speaker 2: not think of as a big deal, but when you're
Speaker 2: a patron walking in at any of the gates, when
Speaker 2: you're walking in through these gates, now it's not like
Speaker 2: it's a dirt road and you're walking through scrabble, you
Speaker 2: feel like, oh man, this looks really nice. The entry
Speaker 2: in here looks like you're going into a super Bowl.
Speaker 2: It looks like you're going into a World Series stadium
Speaker 2: from all different vantage points, even the parking areas, just
Speaker 2: being able to see the preparation when we were driving around,
Speaker 2: getting a little bit of a tour just to see
Speaker 2: what's going on, and them paving, not paving, but smoothing
Speaker 2: out the areas where the cars are going to park,
Speaker 2: or the media center is that arrival area, And to
Speaker 2: realize that they when they want to make a change
Speaker 2: inside the property, Andy, they have to do that within
Speaker 2: four or five months. So it's not like they just
Speaker 2: decide in late May, hey we're going to build a
Speaker 2: seventy thousand square foot player services building. You know, they've
Speaker 2: been studying for I don't know how long, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's Hoodie's vision, Billy Payne's vision, Fred
Speaker 2: Ridley's vision, all the three past chairmen that must have
Speaker 2: come up with these ideas and how do we implement
Speaker 2: them and how do we do it so that there's
Speaker 2: no inconvenience to the members. And it seems like they
Speaker 2: snap the fingers. They've got an idream a genie here
Speaker 2: that can do all this stuff at once. And we
Speaker 2: got a tour of the player services building. The players
Speaker 2: are going to be able to arrive and go down
Speaker 2: into the parking garage which is underground now for one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty cars. They're going to be able to
Speaker 2: drive in in their workout gear so that they're not
Speaker 2: seen walking in looking like they're not golfers. So they
Speaker 2: can eat in there. Their families can go in there,
Speaker 2: their trainers, physio those can come in there, Equipment managers
Speaker 2: can come in that.
Speaker 4: They can eat. There's a locker room there. There's two
Speaker 4: or three levels.
Speaker 2: There's recovery with I think I saw three different temperature
Speaker 2: cold plunges, a huge room to work out in. They
Speaker 2: had fifteen tables for the trainers, the therapists that work
Speaker 2: on the players pre and post playing, and they have
Speaker 2: a room for coffee, food, television, Wi Fi. That's literally
Speaker 2: one hundred steps to the practice range, maybe less so
Speaker 2: the tournament practice here, so they can go out there.
Speaker 4: I thought it was funny that the.
Speaker 2: Agents can't come in there, so the agents kind of
Speaker 2: get pushed to meet somewhere else, which is funny. But
Speaker 2: then they can valley their car underground and then when
Speaker 2: they leave there's an exit ramp that's a different way.
Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, the players want to
Speaker 2: get down to business when they get there. Most of
Speaker 2: them show up three hours at least before their tea time.
Speaker 4: And well that's early in the morning. That's an early start.
Speaker 2: And they don't have to run from the locker room
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse out to the range and then to practice,
Speaker 2: which was in a different area to warm up. They
Speaker 2: think of everything, and it's nobody thinks like they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, my experience there every year is exceptional.
Speaker 3: I'd like any sterbott The press center is as good
Speaker 3: as it's like. I mean, it's it's incredible. You come
Speaker 3: out after a week of a week at Augusta, it's
Speaker 3: you're living right. What about the holes, Let's get to
Speaker 3: the golf a little bit. Okay, you know, the amenities,
Speaker 3: the amenities are great. What about what was there a
Speaker 3: whole or two that stuck out to you just, you know,
Speaker 3: with it fresh in your mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I you know, look, I'm sixty four years
Speaker 2: old now I would love to say I played the
Speaker 2: master's tease, but I didn't. I played the members teas,
Speaker 2: which are maybe eight nine hundred yards, moved up, but
Speaker 2: I walked back to every back tee. I looked at
Speaker 2: the t shots and what's incredible to me is, ay,
Speaker 2: like the first hole. We know that can be one
Speaker 2: of the most difficult holes in the championship. And it's
Speaker 2: a fairly wide driving area up until you get to
Speaker 2: the bunker, so the longer hitter has to be more accurate.
Speaker 2: As they get up to the top of the hill,
Speaker 2: the left side tree line moves into the left. It's
Speaker 2: a big carry to carry all the way to the right,
Speaker 2: about three hundred and twenty five yards. And that green
Speaker 2: is diabolical and when the pins left it, which it'll
Speaker 2: be left a couple of times, it makes the scoring
Speaker 2: average go up maybe half a quarter of a stroke
Speaker 2: anyway versus the right sides of the green. And you
Speaker 2: know you have nerves that that hole. And I think
Speaker 2: later in the day that hole gets harder and harder
Speaker 2: as the wind picks up, as it dries out. As
Speaker 2: you know, there's a scoreboard everywhere. You can see people
Speaker 2: love to sit there. That first hole is just out
Speaker 2: of the gate.
Speaker 4: Is.
Speaker 2: I think it's one of the best holes on the
Speaker 2: golf course. And you know, we don't see or think
Speaker 2: about the front nine like we think about the back nine,
Speaker 2: but that hole, to me is incredible. The other one
Speaker 2: that is so much different now to me, and it's
Speaker 2: so hard as number seven. The back tee now is
Speaker 2: out of a shoot. It's one hundred and twenty yards
Speaker 2: farther back than the members tee. And you know, when
Speaker 2: we used to play it would have been a three
Speaker 2: wood and an eighty yard sandwich, and now it's four
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards. It's the hardest fairway on the
Speaker 2: course to hit. We saw the miracle shot Rory hit
Speaker 2: last year out of the left rough through this gap
Speaker 2: that was this big and it's a shallow green. So
Speaker 2: now when you're hitting a shot from one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty sixty seventy yards, you have to be so precise.
Speaker 2: So I mean when those two par four us, when
Speaker 2: you see those one and seven, they had an opposite directions,
Speaker 2: They're completely different with contours with the greens. You better
Speaker 2: know what you're doing on those two holes.
Speaker 3: I feel like seven is the one where like, until
Speaker 3: you're there, you don't realize how pitched that fairway is
Speaker 3: from left to right to It's like if you hit
Speaker 3: a fade, I mean, the functional width of the fairway
Speaker 3: is like ten yards. Like if you don't hit that
Speaker 3: fade on the left side of the fairway, that ball
Speaker 3: is just going to rocket into the right rough and
Speaker 3: you know, I think one. You know, it does such
Speaker 3: a nice job of being a table setter for the
Speaker 3: kind of feel of the golf course where if you
Speaker 3: hit a good drive on one, you all of a
Speaker 3: sudden are like, okay, like maybe I can maybe I
Speaker 3: can make a three. But if you get out of position,
Speaker 3: and we've seen this so many times, you're just looking
Speaker 3: at a disaster. You saw it with Rory's final round,
Speaker 3: you know, you know Rory Saturday versus Sunday, Saturday carries
Speaker 3: the bunker, makes a three and it's like hello, and
Speaker 3: then Sunday, you know, he hits in the bunker and
Speaker 3: next thing you know, he's walking off with a double.
Speaker 3: And it's just like that hole kind of presents that
Speaker 3: Augustine National feel where like, yeah, you could go make
Speaker 3: a birdie every hole and it's it's not like outlandishly
Speaker 3: challenging necessarily to make birdies there, but it is outlandishly
Speaker 3: challenging to not make bogies in doubles.
Speaker 2: I would tell you I forgot to mention when I
Speaker 2: was talking about the first that the bunker there, the
Speaker 2: lone bunker on the right side of the fairway. I
Speaker 2: got in there just to kind of take a look,
Speaker 2: like if you could hit a nice drive like Rory
Speaker 2: did on Sunday and it goes in that and you're
Speaker 2: not far off from a perfect shot, whether it's you
Speaker 2: didn't reach or you just hit it a little too
Speaker 2: far right. I got in there. I'm six'. ONE i
Speaker 2: couldn't see the, flag not the flag. STICK i couldn't
Speaker 2: see any of. It it's so, deep AND i was
Speaker 2: in the, middle not up against the. Face so you
Speaker 2: could have a drive that you missed by three or four,
Speaker 2: yards and now you're hitting a blind. Shot those are
Speaker 2: very steep face, bunkers. Intimidating second, shot sand that's the
Speaker 2: ball kind of gets down there so that a lot
Speaker 2: of the ball is not sitting above the, sand so
Speaker 2: short iron you can easily mishit that. Shot and like you,
Speaker 2: said if you hit it in the left roof those,
Speaker 2: trees come.
Speaker 4: In now you're in the.
Speaker 2: Rough it's harder to draw. It there's a front left.
Speaker 2: Bunker so if you carry, that can you stop? It
Speaker 2: do you want to draw it? Around AND i don't.
Speaker 2: KNOW i think it takes a lot of energy on
Speaker 2: that first shot into the first shot into a green
Speaker 2: on one if you've driven it in the fairway and
Speaker 2: the flag sticks on the left side and that shelf
Speaker 2: either front side or, backside if you're going at, that
Speaker 2: you don't have a lot of room to spare left or.
Speaker 2: Right and if you miss it left to that left, flag,
Speaker 2: yeah it's easy To it's easy to make a five or.
Speaker 3: WORSE i mean what you just said about energy IS
Speaker 3: i think something that is maybe a little bit under
Speaker 3: talked about with the golf course is the sheer amount
Speaker 3: of mental energy that it takes from, you shot after
Speaker 3: shot after. Shot LIKE i don't, KNOW i mean to,
Speaker 3: you you've played it so many.
Speaker 1: Times is there a moment in the round where.
Speaker 3: You feel like you you kind of can relax a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: Only when you walk off the eighteenth. GRADE i don't
Speaker 2: know what makes What mackenzie And jones did and the
Speaker 2: golf course so, good is you can hit a nice
Speaker 2: drive on. One you can have a short eye and
Speaker 2: a wedge to that whole. Location you can hit a
Speaker 2: really good shot that ends up four or five feet
Speaker 2: right and just trickles. Down and now you have a
Speaker 2: putt that's from a low area up a, hill and
Speaker 2: then when it gets to the flat, area it's kind
Speaker 2: of down grain and downhill a little bit Towards Ray's,
Speaker 2: creek the low spot and all the, players all the
Speaker 2: caddies know that is, fast but you're never quite certain
Speaker 2: on that first. Green is it going to be like
Speaker 2: the practice putting. Green there's a practice putting green by the,
Speaker 2: range and then there's one behind the first t and
Speaker 2: tenh t which one's going to be morelike what's on
Speaker 2: the golf. Course you can feel it in your, feet
Speaker 2: you know your texture. There but it's. Stressful every shot is.
Speaker 2: Stressful what they did un two is. Remarkable the back
Speaker 2: tee that is back Where Berkman's road used to. Be
Speaker 2: now you know it's a three hundred yard shot to the,
Speaker 2: fairway and they added a tree which is behind the.
Speaker 2: Nineteen now it's a tall pine tree that has some
Speaker 2: branches that are in the player's, eyes so you can't
Speaker 2: hit a big. Cut if you're going to hit it
Speaker 2: left of that, bunker you don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: room to start it left and let it move that.
Speaker 2: WAY a lot of players like to hit a. CUT
Speaker 2: i Saw Shane lowry off the tenth tee and his
Speaker 2: practice around a few days ago hit a big high
Speaker 2: cut over the trees down onto the flat shot that
Speaker 2: was rarely ever played. Before but you can't do that
Speaker 2: on number. Two so you're stressed out by that t.
Speaker 2: Shot you, know if you got a real chance to
Speaker 2: make a birdy, eagle, maybe but if you miss that,
Speaker 2: fairway you can make easily make a five to six or.
Speaker 3: Worse, yeah it's the whole dynamic. Everywhere it's it feels
Speaker 3: that way where it's just like you got to hit this,
Speaker 3: shot and if you can't hit that, shot then all
Speaker 3: of a, sudden you're like you're scrambling for a par
Speaker 3: THE I i'd love to get into some of the
Speaker 3: big storylines for the twenty twenty Six. Masters obviously we're
Speaker 3: coming off an all, timer absolute all, timer but we're
Speaker 3: also on a run of of big time. WINNERS i,
Speaker 3: mean we've Got scotty rom sandwiched in there And.
Speaker 1: RORY i found. IT i found it.
Speaker 3: Interesting you, Know Data golf did a newsletter that came
Speaker 3: out this.
Speaker 1: Morning this Is thursday Before masters.
Speaker 3: Week we're recording this where basically talked about like the
Speaker 3: last four, years every all the winners have absolutely dominated
Speaker 3: the lead up.
Speaker 1: To The major to The.
Speaker 3: Major my my first thing That i'm looking at is,
Speaker 3: that you, know in this, year it's kind of a.
Speaker 3: Different we've had some guys pop up that are. Different you,
Speaker 3: Know we've got two high profile rookies that have been
Speaker 3: the two best players statistically according To Data golf.
Speaker 1: In golf this.
Speaker 3: Spring uh it Is chris Godder up And Jacob. Bridgeman
Speaker 3: they have been the two best players by the same
Speaker 3: statistic they, measured you, Know scottie And rom And rory
Speaker 3: in the last Four. Masters do we see a high
Speaker 3: profile rookie at The. Major it's kind of. Crazy the
Speaker 3: two best players in the spring statistically are Rip masters.
Speaker 3: Rookies and that doesn't even include Another master's rookie who's
Speaker 3: a top ten player and A ryder cupper In Ben.
Speaker 3: Griffin is this the best rookie class we've ever seen At?
Speaker 2: AUGUSTA i think it, Is AND i would Add Marco
Speaker 2: penje definitely in. There Jake knapps qualified to play long,
Speaker 2: hitter extremely long.
Speaker 4: Heter both of them long.
Speaker 2: Hitters you, know if they get that driver going at
Speaker 2: how fast they can hit, it they Punk eat or
Speaker 2: another long. Hitter his first time playing young player and
Speaker 2: typically you discount, them, right they don't have a. Chance
Speaker 2: nobody ever seems to win on the first. Time go
Speaker 2: still go back To Fuzzies eller and, said, nine could that? Change,
Speaker 2: yeah it could.
Speaker 4: Change.
Speaker 2: BRIDGEMAN i think there's no weakness in his. Game he
Speaker 2: hits it long. Enough phenomenal short iron, player maybe the best.
Speaker 2: Potter he's kind of taken over The yeah it. Is
Speaker 2: he used to Watch denny all the time and now
Speaker 2: it's Like bridgman is the.
Speaker 1: Guy what do you like about how he puts the?
Speaker 4: BALL i think he looks.
Speaker 2: Organized to, me he's being able to keep what everybody
Speaker 2: tries to make complex very. SIMPLE i talked to him
Speaker 2: just two weeks ago WHEN i was at the vals
Speaker 2: bar and his coach when he started With Larry, penley
Speaker 2: who actually played against WHEN i was At, firman he
Speaker 2: was At, clemson And penley was, just, hey this is
Speaker 2: all about. Routine this is all about. Process it's never
Speaker 2: more than. That and he hasn't made it too. DIFFICULT
Speaker 2: i don't think he's had a lot of. Instruction looks
Speaker 2: like he's on. Go like he looks like the horse
Speaker 2: that wants to get out of the gate. Fast when
Speaker 2: he walks up to hit a, putty he can't wait
Speaker 2: to put. IT i think there's something comforting and seeing
Speaker 2: that rather than somebody that it looks like timid and
Speaker 2: what's going to?
Speaker 4: Happen AND i don't.
Speaker 2: KNOW i think the players that put the best aren't
Speaker 2: worried about. Missing you, know when they miss, it it's
Speaker 2: not something that stabs them in the. Heart they just
Speaker 2: pick it up and start all over. Again and he
Speaker 2: always looks to me like when he hits a, putt
Speaker 2: every putt has the chance to go. In if it
Speaker 2: doesn't go, in it's hitting the edge of the. Hole
Speaker 2: AND i think he he has that inner. CONFIDENCE i
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised to see him be the first guy
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: That this since, Fuzzy.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know what you, said is like not not being.
Speaker 3: Afraid it feels like the best putters are never worried
Speaker 3: about what their next putt might look like because they're
Speaker 3: just focused on making that putt.
Speaker 2: Before shot, link before we knew anything about a three putt,
Speaker 2: avoidance let's call. It you, know with all these stats that,
Speaker 2: were you, know made up by smart guys that want
Speaker 2: to show everybody more. INFORMATION i putted well for a long,
Speaker 2: TIME i never thought ABOUT i don't want a three.
Speaker 2: PUTT i never thought is that a stat that meant
Speaker 2: anything to. ME i remember having a stretch of some
Speaker 2: three hundred holes without a three, putt and then they
Speaker 2: mentioned to me in the press, room AND i started
Speaker 2: thinking About i'm, like this is the last THING i
Speaker 2: want to think. About he putts like he doesn't have
Speaker 2: to think about that. Stuff AND i had an argument
Speaker 2: or a discussion with one of the guys at a
Speaker 2: decade AND i, said, listen IF i knew the percentage
Speaker 2: of putts made from certain, feet would that have made
Speaker 2: me a better?
Speaker 4: Putter And i'm, thinking no.
Speaker 2: Way you, know IF i knew that from eight feet
Speaker 2: the two are average is fifty three percent or whatever it,
Speaker 2: IS i don't think that would have helped me be
Speaker 2: a better. PARTTER i didn't want to know any of that.
Speaker 2: Stuff and now they're presented with that every time they.
Speaker 2: Play but WHEN i look At Jacob, bridgeman he looks,
Speaker 2: unencumbered you, know he just looks like this is this is.
Speaker 4: Fun this is a. Game this is something That i'm
Speaker 4: not going to let anything get in the. Way. Great
Speaker 4: it's a.
Speaker 2: Great feeling to have when you go to sleep at,
Speaker 2: night not having to worry about. That, yeah peace of,
Speaker 2: mind peace of.
Speaker 4: Mind you know.
Speaker 3: It's Uh Is bridgman your favorite of the of the
Speaker 3: kind of high profile or do you feel like got
Speaker 3: her up could be could.
Speaker 1: Be the the the guy.
Speaker 2: Here i'm a big fan of god her up in his.
Speaker 2: Approach love watching his golf. Swing he reminds me Of Big.
Speaker 2: Jack When jack.
Speaker 4: Started the amount of lower body actually, had you, know
Speaker 4: the amount of, turn the length of his swing after
Speaker 4: us was cup, crup club was across.
Speaker 2: The, line just wallops, it you. Know AND i think
Speaker 2: he likes to hit it lower and he likes to
Speaker 2: cut it a little. Bit some people say that would
Speaker 2: be a. DISADVANTAGE i don't think that will be for.
Speaker 2: Him he looks like he likes to be in the
Speaker 2: mix that he. BELONGS i still think something about this Kid.
Speaker 2: PENGE i remember When gordon's. Sergeant the amateur played With
Speaker 2: roy and a practice on a couple of years. Ago
Speaker 2: ry was, Like i've never Seen. Himbero, yeah, Yeah brooks
Speaker 2: was in. It and you, Know rory, said this guy
Speaker 2: is the most, composed has a chance to. Win and
Speaker 2: maybe that a lot put a lot of pressure On
Speaker 2: gordon because he didn't play that. Well but this Guy
Speaker 2: penge has, that he has that ability to hit it
Speaker 2: out there and those ball speeds over one. Ninety and
Speaker 2: by the, way today WHEN i was at the grove
Speaker 2: With roy for just a couple, hours is he just
Speaker 2: we did a little practice plutting before he went out to.
Speaker 2: Play Garret woodland was, there and you know they talked
Speaker 2: about that win For woodland And gary, said how about
Speaker 2: this forty one year old with that one ninety five
Speaker 2: ball speed in that one thirty three club head. Speed
Speaker 2: And i'm, like this is. Awesome here we got the
Speaker 2: defending massive champion in the last week's champion talking about
Speaker 2: how old they are thirty seven and forty one and talking, about,
Speaker 2: hey LOOK i can get older and get faster and they.
Speaker 2: Can AND i think that's.
Speaker 3: Good, YEAH i mean it was WHEN i saw the
Speaker 3: one ninety six From.
Speaker 1: WOODLAND i was, like, whoa but he's always been able
Speaker 1: to move, it you know he.
Speaker 2: Has and you know he went back to an old,
Speaker 2: school old fashioned coach that he had, Before Randy, smith
Speaker 2: who obviously he's Coached scottie for a long. Time he's
Speaker 2: got a little butch harm in, him a lot of
Speaker 2: butch harmon in. Him and he's the one who, said,
Speaker 2: hey why don't you start swinging at it? Again they
Speaker 2: had to he had to tell, him, look you're not
Speaker 2: swinging hard. Anymore come, on just because you know you were.
Speaker 2: Hurt you had to surge you can still swing at.
Speaker 2: It and he's working out hard in the. Gym they
Speaker 2: went back to the old chaff that he used to,
Speaker 2: use which is much. Stiffer and look what he. Did
Speaker 2: AND i said to, Him, look coming from you, know
Speaker 2: THE nbc side of, this and being able to call
Speaker 2: golf on A saturday and A sunday with the, leaders
Speaker 2: you know you're you're really only Watching gary and a
Speaker 2: few other players. Hit it's it's hard to talk about
Speaker 2: one player but for four, hours but not not when
Speaker 2: It's Gary, woodham nor would it be About. Rory but
Speaker 2: you know when you're with the Story gary.
Speaker 4: Had.
Speaker 2: Uh you, Know Randy smith called in on our. SHOW
Speaker 2: i don't know if he saw, that but he called.
Speaker 2: In we facetimed. Him he had on AirPods LIKE i
Speaker 2: do right.
Speaker 4: Now he was.
Speaker 1: Tremendous what, uh what's the story you're watching this? Year
Speaker 1: for this Year's, Masters.
Speaker 2: Well you, KNOW i put a few lists down to
Speaker 2: think about who are the the young, players AND i
Speaker 2: think we hit every single one of. Them we didn't
Speaker 2: talk About tommy mckibbon Or Min Wu, lee two guys
Speaker 2: that move it pretty, hard that kind of brash sort of.
Speaker 2: Guys can they be in the? MIX i think there's
Speaker 2: a real chance of a first time player or a
Speaker 2: young player can make this their first major championship to.
Speaker 3: Win BUT i also it feels like we're due for
Speaker 3: like a new. WINNER i don't know, why BUT i
Speaker 3: drive this, down you, know beyond the just the high profile,
Speaker 3: rookies like whether they're like a distinctly different. Generation it
Speaker 3: feel it, just you, know we've had such a good
Speaker 3: run of high profile, winners it feels like there's going
Speaker 3: to be, there that it's bubbling for somebody else to.
Speaker 4: WIN i agree with.
Speaker 2: THAT i don't know IF i want, that BUT i
Speaker 2: think there's a chance for, that a really good chance
Speaker 2: Pot keater would if he gets it. Going is he
Speaker 2: got his game solid enough to do. It and you
Speaker 2: know the same THING i said, about you, know If
Speaker 2: penge is going to win and he's driving, it, well
Speaker 2: he's gonna be hitting short irons. In But, kenny can
Speaker 2: he dial in his short irons so that he's hit
Speaker 2: in the right distance and that that's going to become,
Speaker 2: crucial crucial On sunday and the you, know particularly a
Speaker 2: hole like, one a hole like seven where you can't
Speaker 2: afford to mishit a wedge and miss hit a green twelve.
Speaker 2: Obviously but the other Thing, ANDY i was thinking, About,
Speaker 2: okay we've, had like you mentioned right at the start
Speaker 2: of the, podcast you've Got Rory scheffler And rom that
Speaker 2: have been your, champions and you, know how could you
Speaker 2: pick better? Players and you, know data golf has Showing
Speaker 2: rom maybe the best right now of. All you, Know,
Speaker 2: scott he's a little bit of an unknown right. Now you,
Speaker 2: know he's had a few weeks off the birth of
Speaker 2: their second. CHILD i haven't heard any news about whether
Speaker 2: he's Visited Augusta. National his game hasn't been. ON i
Speaker 2: was kind of, wondering you, KNOW i Saw brandle did,
Speaker 2: that you, know a little analysis of his golf swing
Speaker 2: Like brandal always likes to, do and it was a little,
Speaker 2: shorter a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Cupped has he been? Hurt you?
Speaker 2: Know and players don't like to tell anybody when they're.
Speaker 2: Hurt has he been? Hurt is that causing some of these?
Speaker 2: Issues and THEN i, said, okay so if he took
Speaker 2: those three guys, away who would be some of the
Speaker 2: past champions that would you you would give a chance.
Speaker 4: Which guys could could.
Speaker 2: Win AND i Saw Patrick reid the last two days
Speaker 2: with his short game Coach Eddie, Pells Dave pell's son
Speaker 2: who he's worked with for a. While AND i don't
Speaker 2: know about, you but when you look at guys that
Speaker 2: have incredible, SHORTCAMES i Mean Patrick reid and he's been
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 4: Before Eddie.
Speaker 2: Pells you, know he's been the guy that can spin
Speaker 2: the ball as much as anybody around the. GREENS i
Speaker 2: think he can take any of the different wedges and
Speaker 2: play those variety of different.
Speaker 4: WAYS i, mean he's an.
Speaker 2: Artist he still can curve the ball both ways with
Speaker 2: you know driver throughout the. Bag could you know any
Speaker 2: boy has since he Left Live he's played amazingly. Well
Speaker 2: he's going to get his status back to come play
Speaker 2: THE Pga tour AND i think this, WEEK i, mean
Speaker 2: how much would that mean to? Him and you know
Speaker 2: one of the, villains you know that the, Left Patrick
Speaker 2: reid has a real good chance to. Win and you
Speaker 2: know the other storyline THAT i guess you could put
Speaker 2: these together Past masters champion have a. Chance and THEN
Speaker 2: i was thinking old guys that have a. Chance we
Speaker 2: just talked About guy woodin forty. One that's that's. Older
Speaker 2: you got forty five year Old Adam scott Justin rose forty.
Speaker 2: Five last year's you, know lost in the playoff To.
Speaker 2: Rory he was there these last two days with his
Speaker 2: short game Coach James ridyard motivated as if he was
Speaker 2: twenty one or twenty two years. Old how About Zach
Speaker 2: johnson with his start on The champions for one, right AND.
Speaker 3: I think he's top ten a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Ago, yes last.
Speaker 2: Year he was on the leader board and you know
Speaker 2: he's full of. CONFIDENCE i think you know that the
Speaker 2: the weather this week is supposed to be, dry there
Speaker 2: hasn't been any rain up. There when he. Won it
Speaker 2: was that, colder windier week when he was was he
Speaker 2: fourteen under part or twelve under par in the par
Speaker 2: fives without going at a? Green he's back To, puttingwell
Speaker 2: could you see? That so think about. That you've Got
Speaker 2: zach's fifty or fifty, One you've got the two forty
Speaker 2: five year Olds woodland at forty.
Speaker 4: One, jeez.
Speaker 2: How outstanding would that be to see in those final
Speaker 2: Groups scott you, know But rory and There scotti in
Speaker 2: there with you, know throw a little, rum throw Little Zach.
Speaker 4: Johnson who would you want to? Win?
Speaker 3: YEAH i, mean, OBVIOUSLY i think Like Justin rose is
Speaker 3: just with with last, year how he's handled.
Speaker 1: IT i think how his career.
Speaker 3: Has aged the the obvious like meticulous effort that he's
Speaker 3: gone through to to kind of peak for these. Majors
Speaker 3: uh that is that is a juicy. Storyline AND i
Speaker 3: think obviously the ONE i think the the the general
Speaker 3: public wants to get, behind right is they want that you,
Speaker 3: know he's been so. Close you think between The sergio
Speaker 3: playoff obviously and The rory, playoff where you know it
Speaker 3: it's JUST i mean and the fact that he won this.
Speaker 3: YEAR i, mean this is the, thing is he comes
Speaker 3: in it's been like it's been a weird lead up
Speaker 3: in the sense of like you didn't expect to See
Speaker 3: scotty like, struggle especially after what happened At amax where
Speaker 3: he comes out of the gate blazing and you, know
Speaker 3: he said he might say he's not, struggling but like
Speaker 3: the standard that he set the last three, years he's
Speaker 3: playing not as good a golf as he was in,
Speaker 3: particular like the iron play is is, alarming but like you,
Speaker 3: know the iron play just hasn't been, there and it's
Speaker 3: like that's that's kind of one of his superpowers and
Speaker 3: that obviously rory with the with the. Injury it looked
Speaker 3: like at Bay hill he was like kind of starting
Speaker 3: to get hit his stride and really start, peaking and
Speaker 3: then he has had the had the. Injury so it's
Speaker 3: kind of allowed this like wide open feel to This
Speaker 3: masters where, like you, know PLAYER i have on on
Speaker 3: the past champion.
Speaker 1: SIDE i love The Patrick reed call. Out what About
Speaker 1: hideki Mass, Yama.
Speaker 2: Yeah another. ONE i didn't have him on my, list
Speaker 2: but of course.
Speaker 1: He's played good golf this. Year he looks, healthy AND
Speaker 1: i think like something that like, you you've.
Speaker 3: Kind of hit on with some of, These LIKE i
Speaker 3: think one of the skills that doesn't get talked about.
Speaker 3: Enough and it's, like when was the last time someone
Speaker 3: Wanted augusta that doesn't have like a marvelous short.
Speaker 2: Game, okay so let me go To rose on, that
Speaker 2: Because rose doesn't leave any stone. Unturned and when you
Speaker 2: talked about, Him James richards An english guy that knows
Speaker 2: as much about the short game as anybody ever, seen really,
Speaker 2: qualified and he's he's got the ability to take what's
Speaker 2: very complicated to make it very, simple whether it's how
Speaker 2: you play a shot out of a, bunker how do
Speaker 2: you change clubs on these? Lies and the one thing
Speaker 2: THAT i love That Augusta national has, done AND i
Speaker 2: wish more golf clubs would do what they do is
Speaker 2: they have one height to cut from the tee all
Speaker 2: the way to the. Green they don't have second cuts for.
Speaker 2: Fringe if you're going to hit a shot that's five
Speaker 2: feet or five yards off the, green it's a default
Speaker 2: putter almost everywhere players play now now they've made it
Speaker 2: because two things the rough the fairway, cut the closing
Speaker 2: on area isn't really closely. Mown's there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of room, there and to put it along the on
Speaker 2: the round along the, ground it's, slow and then you
Speaker 2: get to these greens that are anything But plus it's
Speaker 2: against the, grain so there's some bounce on. It they're
Speaker 2: asking you to chip, it they're asking you to make a,
Speaker 2: choice and you, Know Rory rory talked about some of
Speaker 2: the best shots he hit last year and one thing
Speaker 2: he called out that you wouldn't ever thought. That he,
Speaker 2: said this is one of the best shots he hit all,
Speaker 2: week all, week not On, sunday but all. Week On,
Speaker 2: sunday he drove it up the right side of number.
Speaker 4: Three he was.
Speaker 2: Down in the valley and he hit a bump and
Speaker 2: run with a sixty that he had to, land you,
Speaker 2: know in the collar before it landed on the. Green
Speaker 2: and he hit a, low, firm spinny sixty degree that
Speaker 2: hit into the fringe bounce on the green started to
Speaker 2: check and then still went seven or eight feet, by
Speaker 2: maybe even nine feet, by and he made that purler
Speaker 2: left to. Right Nasiyama Rose patrick, reed oho chip's better Than.
Speaker 4: Scotti And rory's been amazing at it. Too but you
Speaker 4: made a great.
Speaker 2: Point you cannot be timid around these greens when you
Speaker 2: took out your sandwich to hit a chip.
Speaker 3: SHOT i think part of it is is that the
Speaker 3: immense challenge of the approach, shots like you get into
Speaker 3: positions where you know you're going to have to just
Speaker 3: like bail out and take your medicine certain. Times and
Speaker 3: it's like all these GUYS i think with like analytics
Speaker 3: and and these in kind of like the game management
Speaker 3: strategy that has really come into.
Speaker 1: The sport in the last ten.
Speaker 3: Years you see people that they bail out, regularly like
Speaker 3: and it's just, like you, know Like scotty On eleven's
Speaker 3: like a perfect.
Speaker 1: Example scotty on.
Speaker 3: Eleven he just Is he's just going to toss it
Speaker 3: right all day, long and if he pulls, it it's,
Speaker 3: great LIKE i have a birdie, putt but if he
Speaker 3: plays it out to the, Right like the advantage that
Speaker 3: you earn out there by having this short game is
Speaker 3: the ability to just take a pass on some like
Speaker 3: extraordinarily hard, shots knowing like from from a tight, Lie
Speaker 3: i'm so good with my. Wedge i'm going to get
Speaker 3: this up and down a lot of times BECAUSE i
Speaker 3: AND i think Like Mike, clayton the the the former
Speaker 3: Euro tour, player always, says like the best golf is
Speaker 3: is from perfect like perfect, lies but like really hard
Speaker 3: high degree, Chips like that's where you see the skill come.
Speaker 1: Out and you think about like some of the.
Speaker 3: Players that you that you, think, oh they should have
Speaker 3: won The, masters Like Lee westwoods obviously one that comes
Speaker 3: to mind all the. Time well you never.
Speaker 1: Shipped it well enough to win The.
Speaker 4: Master, no, right.
Speaker 1: You go down the line, like.
Speaker 2: Let me just go because when you're On chefler and,
Speaker 2: eleven you, KNOW i think there's theories on what happens
Speaker 2: in the off season At Augusta, national what holes get?
Speaker 4: Changed are there holes that are?
Speaker 2: Changed AND i think there's a theory that they use
Speaker 2: usually do something with three, Greens and in my opinion
Speaker 2: WHEN i, played it looked like fourteen was completely. Redone
Speaker 2: there were certain areas that look like there might be
Speaker 2: a pen as you could put on the front left
Speaker 2: over the. Mound it looked like a different. Texture it
Speaker 2: felt a little firmer that that could be. One AND
Speaker 2: i think eleven it looks like the right side of
Speaker 2: the green is a little bit higher and from that
Speaker 2: back bunker if you look down like if you if
Speaker 2: you hit it into that backplunker and had to hit
Speaker 2: a chip shut down or a bunker shot down towards.
Speaker 4: The, water that looks, fast that looks.
Speaker 2: HARD i had a YEAR i was playing on The,
Speaker 2: masters AND i hit it to the.
Speaker 4: Right and this is.
Speaker 2: Before this is more when it was larry my, eyes
Speaker 2: when it was probably smooth and you could just hit
Speaker 2: a chip shot along the ground Almost now it's low
Speaker 2: and you have to you have to almost fly.
Speaker 4: It to the.
Speaker 2: GREEN i hit one of those AND i bounced it
Speaker 2: just a little. BIT i hit it so it didn't
Speaker 2: quite have the. Spin AND i was really good short,
Speaker 2: game and the pin was left AND i hit the,
Speaker 2: shot and it was to anybody that was, watching it
Speaker 2: would have looked like. Perfect and when the, WATER i
Speaker 2: made an eight AND i WAS.
Speaker 4: I was tenth ninth, maybe and you, know your heart.
Speaker 4: Sinks it's.
Speaker 2: Treacherous, nobody nobody knows how difficult that shot. Is and
Speaker 2: that's where the hands of someone Like, scheffler someone Like
Speaker 2: reed who can spin it more Than rory hitting those.
Speaker 2: Shots you, know he he gets that club where it's
Speaker 2: outside on the way back and it's almost like he's
Speaker 2: going the other way sometimes with his. SHOTS i remember
Speaker 2: In italy on seventeen That shody hit from left of
Speaker 2: the green and the ball almost backed up from twelve.
Speaker 2: Yards having having that confidence to do that off those,
Speaker 2: lies it's so so important for.
Speaker 3: Success, yeah all into the grain, too which is one
Speaker 3: of every ALL i we would be remiss that not
Speaker 3: talk About rory obviously gets the bucket off his. Back
Speaker 3: that's been you, know outside of Like tiger storyline a
Speaker 3: for the last decade has been Can rory complete The Grand?
Speaker 1: Slam can he win at The?
Speaker 3: Masters now The rory storyline for this year at least
Speaker 3: shifts to does this free him? Up AND i want you,
Speaker 3: know that's that's the THE i think the presiding. Question
Speaker 3: obviously he's going to be defending the, title and, uh you,
Speaker 3: know what do you expect to see Ow? Rory do
Speaker 3: you see see a more Free rory At augusta or
Speaker 3: or more of you, know kind of what we saw
Speaker 3: in the final round where it seemed to be just
Speaker 3: jeckle and hiding between being free and big, big you,
Speaker 3: know kind of struggle with the.
Speaker 2: MOMENT i think we can see a freedom And rory
Speaker 2: like we've never seen. Before you, know he's he's embraced
Speaker 2: this role as the, champion as a defending. Champion members
Speaker 2: of the Club Fred ridley have said there's nobody that's
Speaker 2: done more For Augusta national than What rory's. Done he's
Speaker 2: taking that green jacket around the, world literally To, australia To,
Speaker 2: india back To. Ireland he's had a documentary made on
Speaker 2: The Grand slam and The masters. Win he knows history
Speaker 2: of the, game his his, recall his. MEMORY i don't
Speaker 2: think there's a player out there that knows What rory
Speaker 2: does about the. Games he understands and he. Embraces addition
Speaker 2: to the way he was raised by his. Parents you
Speaker 2: know that this. Documentary you know when you listen to
Speaker 2: his Mom rosie and his Dad jerry talk about Raising,
Speaker 2: rory they've done everything. RIGHT i think This that's why
Speaker 2: his reaction on eighteen when he finally made that putt to, win.
Speaker 4: You, know it's it gets your teary.
Speaker 2: OUT i, mean the years to build to that, spot
Speaker 2: to get him to make that putt in that, position
Speaker 2: and do you remember what he said To scotty When
Speaker 2: scotty was putting the coat. On, finally in the, Presentation murray,
Speaker 2: SAYS i want to put this on myself next. YEAR
Speaker 2: i thought that was one of the great lines that
Speaker 2: really NOBODY i don't know if they didn't hear it
Speaker 2: or they didn't think that was.
Speaker 4: FUNNY i thought it was. HYSTERICAL i want to put this.
Speaker 2: On, Myself AND i don't even know who does put
Speaker 2: the jacket on the defending.
Speaker 4: Champion if he win.
Speaker 1: The scott to do it, Again, no he'd be long.
Speaker 2: Gone but here's the difference Between rory And scotty and
Speaker 2: total respect to both of. Them you, know When rory
Speaker 2: won last, year he went to the press room and
Speaker 2: spent longer than anybody would ever. Spend he did little
Speaker 2: single interviews with other people afterwards that he's known for.
Speaker 2: Years he went into the members room in the clubhouse
Speaker 2: and had his family with him and his team with
Speaker 2: him and didn't want to. Leave and he's been up
Speaker 2: multiple times this. Week he's played with Chairman Fred, ridley
Speaker 2: who actually played the bacts with, him WHICH i thought
Speaker 2: was really. Cool he's, gonna you, know go up this
Speaker 2: week and watch some of the final nine holes from an.
Speaker 2: WHAH i think that's not something the other champions would.
Speaker 2: Do he's going to help hand out trophies and shake
Speaker 2: hands for, drive chip and. Putt he's got his dad
Speaker 2: coming up to play a practic just fround him On.
Speaker 2: SUNDAY i can't tell you how meaningful this is for.
Speaker 4: Him and.
Speaker 2: He might set a record off that first seed for
Speaker 2: fastest ball, speed highest club ed speed of any player
Speaker 2: that's ever.
Speaker 3: Played, yeah it's it's it's it's. FASCINATING i feel like
Speaker 3: that the documentary did a great job of kind of
Speaker 3: pushing and pulling on on the. On you, know what
Speaker 3: he said is LIKE i play my best golf When i'm,
Speaker 3: free WHEN i When i'm not thinking about, anything When
Speaker 3: i'm just, myself and like WHEN i struggle is WHEN
Speaker 3: i get. Tight and like that's kind of where you
Speaker 3: saw the whole in that documentary On. Amazon we had
Speaker 3: the director on two weeks ago to talk about, it
Speaker 3: but like that's where you had That they kind of
Speaker 3: like they did it without saying. It like you could
Speaker 3: just feel him toggling between the two and you see
Speaker 3: these great shots and then these, others and you you
Speaker 3: kind of go through the ten year recall of like
Speaker 3: all the things he.
Speaker 1: Tried, uh you.
Speaker 3: Know the the thing that's neat now is like it
Speaker 3: feels like that that his whole feeling towards the place
Speaker 3: has shifted where he. Is you, know you, win and
Speaker 3: like how could you not, like if you win The,
Speaker 3: masters you kind of just embrace The masters as the.
Speaker 3: Thing it's like otherwise you go the way Of Ernie
Speaker 3: els where like you, know a couple of years, ago
Speaker 3: he's like that place torments, me you, know and.
Speaker 1: It's like you go one way or the.
Speaker 3: Other and it seems like to, Me i'm fascinated to
Speaker 3: watch this year as you know he will he you,
Speaker 3: know he was like the last. PERSON i think he
Speaker 3: was Number harry was WEARING bib number eighty seven IF
Speaker 3: i remember, correctly which WAS i think he was the
Speaker 3: last player to check in this, Year he's going to
Speaker 3: be there From saturday. On he might be the first
Speaker 3: player there this, year, yes you, Know and just the,
Speaker 3: dichotomy the shift of Like i'm trying to treat this
Speaker 3: as a normal, event you, know IS i think where
Speaker 3: he got to with?
Speaker 1: It you, KNOW i show up late.
Speaker 3: And now it is you, KNOW i want to spend
Speaker 3: as much time there AS i possibly can because it's
Speaker 3: a place of.
Speaker 2: Comfort, yeah he'd be the perfect member there with. Me
Speaker 2: he'd bring the most guests and he'd have so much
Speaker 2: fun when he was. There you, know HE'S i didn't
Speaker 2: know about this tradition about the chairman playing with a defending.
Speaker 2: Champion they kind of go over the order of the
Speaker 2: week what they, expect and For, rory this is an,
Speaker 2: honor you, know to be able to do that, stuff
Speaker 2: it's not a. Burden it's part of. History you. Know
Speaker 2: you can tell by the care in which he chose the,
Speaker 2: menu having something with peaches in the one of the.
Speaker 2: Appetizers that's the high quality wines and foods that he's.
Speaker 2: Picking and then you, know the exchanging of the gifts
Speaker 2: and to be able to take that, photograph the drone
Speaker 2: photograph of him on his hands and knees after the,
Speaker 2: victory and he had an artist you heard sketch all
Speaker 2: the the patrons that were there and present that it
Speaker 2: took the artist six months to do this and to
Speaker 2: give that to the. Club he but he also got
Speaker 2: three hundred to give to every single member so that
Speaker 2: they'll have that the ability to hang that in their.
Speaker 2: HOUSE i, mean that's somebody that cares deeply about the,
Speaker 2: traditions the, cherishes The masters when obviously The Grand slam
Speaker 2: that went along with.
Speaker 4: It BUT.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how important that is to all
Speaker 2: the young people that are. Around the more you know
Speaker 2: about that and appreciate, it the better you, look the
Speaker 2: better it, feels the story it TELLS i keep every
Speaker 2: TIME i See, ROY i pinch. MYSELF i can't believe
Speaker 2: that this kind of guy that he.
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Speaker 3: back to Brad faxxon, obviously you, know talking about some
Speaker 3: other big time players they play on The Live Golf.
Speaker 3: TOUR i, think, like you, Know John, rahm obviously the
Speaker 3: champion two years, ago And bryson To, shambeau who has
Speaker 3: been a factor in the last Two, masters you, know
Speaker 3: deep in, contention you, know fascinating career At augusta in
Speaker 3: the SENSE i wrote this for a little blurb we
Speaker 3: did on the, Website but like if you took Out, Rory,
Speaker 3: bryson of all the big, names has probably had the
Speaker 3: most interesting career at The, masters you, know as a
Speaker 3: as a, rookie as an. Amateur you, know he was
Speaker 3: right around the lead On, thursday and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden he hit the ball way left on. EIGHTEEN i
Speaker 3: think he made a double or. Triple and after that
Speaker 3: t shot it seemed like his career was just tortured At. Augusta,
Speaker 3: now you, know the last couple of years he's been
Speaker 3: in the, mix played the final group With.
Speaker 1: Rory after two, holes it looked like he was gonna.
Speaker 3: Win but, like WHAT i find is interesting because you
Speaker 3: had done this, before Like Data, golf this is as
Speaker 3: good Of john Rom. Is John rom's played since going
Speaker 3: To live coming into this, tournament and it's as good
Speaker 3: As bryson has ever played since he went To. Live
Speaker 3: coming into the, tournament these two are in top. FORM
Speaker 3: i think like anybody would have them in the top
Speaker 3: six seven players in the game of. Golf what are
Speaker 3: your expectations for rom And? Bryson you do you see
Speaker 3: those two factoring laid On, sunday.
Speaker 2: No doubt about. IT i know it's hard to measure
Speaker 2: exactly how all these players are. PLAYING i love what
Speaker 2: data golf does and how they seem to find a
Speaker 2: way to be a little bit better than their Official
Speaker 2: World golf ranking does to evaluate players and performance and
Speaker 2: strength of. Fields, obviously they both have the game to
Speaker 2: compete there win major.
Speaker 4: Championship and.
Speaker 2: You Know, bryson with that big draw that he, plays
Speaker 2: it's a huge advantage on certain holes. There AND i
Speaker 2: would say that it went on holes like two when
Speaker 2: he can't carry the, bunker, five when he can carry that, bunker,
Speaker 2: nine when he can get it all the way down
Speaker 2: to the flat from the back ten easily around there. Eleven,
Speaker 2: now with the way that tea has been moved more
Speaker 2: to player, left it's not really a fade shot to.
Speaker 2: Do that is a draw that works. There, obviously you
Speaker 2: do that on thirteen and, fourteen hugely. Important the ability
Speaker 2: to reach all the par fives in almost any wind.
Speaker 2: CONDITION i would Put bryson right back. There and you
Speaker 2: know BOTH i think the With bryson and With, ROSE
Speaker 2: i think they're they're extra incentivized from last year to you,
Speaker 2: know get back into the, mix get back into the
Speaker 2: picture On. Sunday be more surprising if he. Wasn't if
Speaker 2: If bryson wasn't than if he, was in my opinion And,
Speaker 2: rom you, know he's got a little. Strife you know
Speaker 2: some of the players on The european. Team you know
Speaker 2: the Way bryson hasn't been willing to pay off his.
Speaker 2: Fines he doesn't like the treatment that he's. GOTTEN i
Speaker 2: don't know if he's loved being on The live tour
Speaker 2: other than the money that's in his. Pocket and how
Speaker 2: will that play out the? Week you, know these, players
Speaker 2: the top, players when they go in for what can
Speaker 2: be a very detailed press conference and you know the
Speaker 2: player that they're going to, be those questions will be
Speaker 2: raised For, rom like is he going to be ready for?
Speaker 2: That and you, know like THE Us Ryder cup team
Speaker 2: and he they weren't ready for the question about you
Speaker 2: guys are getting? Paid should you be getting? Paid AND
Speaker 2: i Think rom's going to have to steady the ship
Speaker 2: when he gets.
Speaker 3: There he's been known to get a little grumpy and
Speaker 3: press conference to you, know LIKE i feel like maybe
Speaker 3: it was last year he was, Like i've been playing.
Speaker 1: Fine you, know it's not a big deal THAT i haven't,
Speaker 1: won you, Know.
Speaker 3: AND i, think you like that is like it's gonna
Speaker 3: be different, too BECAUSE i think like all the other
Speaker 3: guys have agreed to the, setup you, know and he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Come it's like.
Speaker 3: One of the things since the, split since The LIVE
Speaker 3: Pga tour, Split it's like The masters ends up being
Speaker 3: the first time they're all back together.
Speaker 1: Every, year you know, Exactly and it could.
Speaker 3: Maybe at men's, fenses maybe it leads to like, him
Speaker 3: like why why DON'T i just do? This but it
Speaker 3: is like it does you, know players play their best
Speaker 3: golf when they're, comfortable and maybe you, know like you,
Speaker 3: know he's playing great, golf AND i you, know LIKE i,
Speaker 3: think like ANY i think the world Of John, rahm,
Speaker 3: like you, KNOW i tend to wonder what What scotti's
Speaker 3: run would look like Had rom stayed on THE Pga.
Speaker 3: Tour would there be a couple of tournaments that that
Speaker 3: ro might have you.
Speaker 1: Know picked off in that.
Speaker 3: Mix but like since Since rom, LEFT I i you,
Speaker 3: know like there are real questions about him being under the.
Speaker 3: Gun and we saw it last year at THE. Pga
Speaker 3: you know where he got into the. Mix he got
Speaker 3: under the gun and as soon as he got, there
Speaker 3: he he kind of like kind of imploded a little
Speaker 3: bit down that. Stretch, now like he hit a great
Speaker 3: putt that didn't go, in and you, know you could
Speaker 3: play it a lot of. Ways and BUT i we
Speaker 3: haven't Seen. Scotty we've outside Of Quail, hollow which wasn't
Speaker 3: a good, result compete can tend deep into a h a.
Speaker 3: Major and the other data point we have is The
Speaker 3: olympics where that didn't go well either when it looked
Speaker 3: like he was gonna Win olympic. Gold SO i, uh
Speaker 3: adding in like the the there might be some, uneasiness
Speaker 3: is it makes it a little bit more. Challenging i've
Speaker 3: got a stat for a stat for. You so there's
Speaker 3: four golfers in the history of the sport that have
Speaker 3: finished in the top ten in their first Three. Masters
Speaker 3: do you know who they?
Speaker 2: Are they four players have finished in the top ten
Speaker 2: in there how many.
Speaker 3: Starts first Three masters appearances two of, Them, no, no,
Speaker 3: No i'll give. You i'll give you the first. Two
Speaker 3: and then there's two modern, players one of which is
Speaker 3: not in the. Field so we Got Paul runyon And
Speaker 3: Ralph goodall who did it in the.
Speaker 1: Thirties that those.
Speaker 3: DON'T i don't want to dismiss anything that those two
Speaker 3: great players. Did it was a little different time. Then
Speaker 3: and then you got two modern. Players and then one
Speaker 3: more can join this list this, Year. Oberg, No oberg can, Join,
Speaker 3: Yes and that's Who i've, got like, obviously played played.
Speaker 3: Great the other two Are Jordan spieth And will Zl,
Speaker 3: toaurres who UNFORTUNATELY i think the the back injury will
Speaker 3: keep him out from qualifying for this year unless he
Speaker 3: wins this this.
Speaker 1: Week but.
Speaker 2: He got off to a good start so. Far today
Speaker 2: the first round of The. VALARO i saw his name
Speaker 2: pretty good up there on the. LEADERBOARD i haven't checked late.
Speaker 3: Recently, yeah But ludwig, obviously you KNOW i. Don't he's
Speaker 3: probably the only person that could say that he had
Speaker 3: a real shot to win the last Two, masters and
Speaker 3: you know he's coming down the stretch Against scotty got
Speaker 3: in the, mix and OBVIOUSLY i think it was eleven
Speaker 3: that kind of caused, him caused, him uh you, know
Speaker 3: uh to kind of bow out of that. Championship and
Speaker 3: then last year all of a sudden After rory put
Speaker 3: it in the, water you're looking at Uh.
Speaker 1: Ludvig there he.
Speaker 3: Is what do you think about about his game and
Speaker 3: what makes Him it's such a tailor fit For augusta.
Speaker 2: Nashvial esthetically the prettiest looking swing you've. Seen it's A
Speaker 2: Steve elkinton like move where you just can't believe a
Speaker 2: player can make it look so, easy so, rhythmical so.
Speaker 2: Athletic put the power in That Sam snead like in the,
Speaker 2: tempo the speed in which he Plays trevino like his
Speaker 2: decision MAKING i think is. Good you, know we saw
Speaker 2: him in contention again at The players with a real
Speaker 2: chance and. Falter BUT i think FOR i think he's twenty,
Speaker 2: SIX i think he's. YOUNG i think he's young for twenty.
Speaker 2: Six you, know he's he's still a little bit inexperience
Speaker 2: for as as much success as he's had a right
Speaker 2: but he likes he can draw the ball HE'S i
Speaker 2: think he's so far he's a streaky. PUTTER i think
Speaker 2: he's found. That and he's so. LIKABLE i, mean he's good,
Speaker 2: looking he's nice to. People you, know you shake your
Speaker 2: head at the simplicity of his approach to.
Speaker 4: The, game you.
Speaker 2: Know BUT i, again he'd be Like bryson to me
Speaker 2: if you IF i didn't see him in the top
Speaker 2: ten on The, leader But i'd be more surprised and less.
Speaker 3: Surprised, yeah you, know at the beginning of the, years
Speaker 3: he kind of had some you, know mediocre results by his,
Speaker 3: standard which you know obviously he said has said a
Speaker 3: very high. Standard but him coming on basically Bay hill
Speaker 3: and the, players it puts him right up there on
Speaker 3: on the on the first page of, Favorites and, UH
Speaker 3: i think it'll be it'll be fascinating to. Watch one
Speaker 3: THING i wonder about is, like you, know we just
Speaker 3: Saw rory kind of go through.
Speaker 1: This is, like when do the close calls become scar
Speaker 1: tissue versus learning?
Speaker 2: Experiences, well that's that's a great question that the answer
Speaker 2: would be is to, me it always is going to
Speaker 2: depend on that, person because who would have had more
Speaker 2: scar tissue Than rory and you, know not just in The,
Speaker 2: masters but who would have had more scar tissue Than Jack.
Speaker 2: Nicholas how many runner roughs did he have in major? Championships,
Speaker 2: right more than he?
Speaker 4: Won and.
Speaker 2: The best players know what it's like to get hit
Speaker 2: and get back. Up and to, me there's two WORDS
Speaker 2: i put Along. RORY i love the adjective. Grinder you,
Speaker 2: know when you see someone and you always thought of
Speaker 2: a grinder as somebody that might hit it all over
Speaker 2: the place and scrape around. Out and that would have
Speaker 2: been A sevy or A Corey paven that could shoot
Speaker 2: great scorers From hitt and To Tom. Watson But rory's got.
Speaker 2: That you don't ever see him. Quit you see him
Speaker 2: playing a lot of Great, friday's a lot of Great.
Speaker 2: Sundays AND i love that that that to me means a.
Speaker 2: Lot and For, OBERG i think he's still young enough
Speaker 2: that he can recover easily from the scar. Tissue he's
Speaker 2: going to get more of, it and you you better
Speaker 2: know how to recover from that or or you're done
Speaker 2: in this.
Speaker 1: GAME i uh, YEAH i think.
Speaker 3: That you, know it's like you get these players that
Speaker 3: get the tag of like they can't get it. Done you,
Speaker 3: know and my flipping of that is you can't get
Speaker 3: it done unless you're there a, Lot and the only
Speaker 3: way you get the tag of not being able to
Speaker 3: get it done is if.
Speaker 1: You're there a. Lot it is like.
Speaker 3: Winning you, know obviously you get flukey winners that win
Speaker 3: once every, time but it's often a byproduct of just
Speaker 3: putting yourself in the position to win and getting the,
Speaker 3: bounce getting the break that you need that creates that
Speaker 3: little two shot swing within your own score where you
Speaker 3: get a great bounce and you make a birdie where
Speaker 3: you might have made a bogeater or a. Double and
Speaker 3: that's the slimmest little margins of the. Sport which is?
Speaker 1: IT i, mean it's just.
Speaker 3: FASCINATING i, mean you look at last year's tournament and
Speaker 3: it's like perfect example of. That Once rory hit the
Speaker 3: ball in the water on, thirteen it was, like all
Speaker 3: of a, sudden like all these people are back at
Speaker 3: it and it seemed like the turnamo was.
Speaker 2: Over, WELL i Think rory thought for a, while like
Speaker 2: what DID i just do on a shot that we
Speaker 2: feel like anybody in the world could at least knocked
Speaker 2: it on the green and made a Par BUT i
Speaker 2: think it worked well for the, event and it certainly
Speaker 2: worked well FOR tv for everybody to not turn THE
Speaker 2: tv off because he had a three or four shot
Speaker 2: lead with a whole or two to. Go, yeah by the,
Speaker 2: way forgot to Put Tiger wood's name down there as, grinder,
Speaker 2: right who who is better at gutting out wins and
Speaker 2: making putts when he had.
Speaker 1: TO i Think bryce is a, grinder no doubt about.
Speaker 4: It like everybody.
Speaker 3: Talks about the, Power but the thing that always WHEN
Speaker 3: i Watch, bryson WHAT i think is like he's a
Speaker 3: natural scorer of the golf. Ball like the guy he
Speaker 3: just knows how to get the ball into the. Hole
Speaker 3: like it is wild like to, watch like just like the,
Speaker 3: sheer like you're just Like, God like he just does
Speaker 3: not give stuff.
Speaker 2: Up, Yeah and you, know when you when you define,
Speaker 2: grinder you know you have to have great short.
Speaker 4: Game it's.
Speaker 2: Hard if you don't have great short. GAME i don't
Speaker 2: think you can be a. Grinder you can try, hard
Speaker 2: but grinder is the way when you're when you're playing
Speaker 2: and all things aren't, working you just find a. Way
Speaker 2: you will shots shots that you've never seen. Before you
Speaker 2: can manage the stress that goes with. That that's AND
Speaker 2: i think it's a big.
Speaker 1: Compliment this might be a good question for.
Speaker 3: You as you, KNOW i remember last Year bryson when
Speaker 3: he talked, about you, know the year before and what
Speaker 3: he needed to. Do they talked about he talked about
Speaker 3: how he just struggled getting the pace of the. Greens you,
Speaker 3: know he struggled with this the pace of the. Greens
Speaker 3: and and so then fast, forward he's in the, Mix
Speaker 3: he's in the last, group And i'll never, forget Like
Speaker 3: i'm sitting, there, uh in the lead, up it was
Speaker 3: like a it felt like it was like a gladiator
Speaker 3: moment where these, two you, know like it was it
Speaker 3: Was rory And bryson was the. Story everything was fixated on.
Speaker 3: That and you're watching the two of them put hip
Speaker 3: putts on on the putting green practice putting, green And
Speaker 3: bryson's out there with a ruler measuring his. Stroke you,
Speaker 3: know he's GOT i think his manager was video it was.
Speaker 3: Tape it was videoing it with a, iPad and he's
Speaker 3: like hitting them to. Nothing and then you Have rory
Speaker 3: who's just like hitting a single ball all over the
Speaker 3: green like you would if you were a.
Speaker 1: Kid you, know from hole to hole.
Speaker 3: Like seemingly like like such a contrast in. Styles but
Speaker 3: then you go out and you Watch bryson and like
Speaker 3: once again he talked about like struggling with the speed
Speaker 3: of the. Greens the pace of the greens Is augusta
Speaker 3: a place that you can have it can that you
Speaker 3: can thrive putting with with that scientific that that type
Speaker 3: of like Where i'm measuring with a tape, measurer how
Speaker 3: Far i'm taking it back to, deem how Far i'm
Speaker 3: hitting a? Putt Is is that just like not going
Speaker 3: to mesh?
Speaker 1: Long? Like is? It does there have to be feeling? It?
Speaker 2: God, YES i don't think you can do math like
Speaker 2: that At Augusta. NATIONAL i Mean alistair McKenzie flip over
Speaker 2: in his. Grave and you Know, bryson like you, said
Speaker 2: he he can pace off a. Putt he has he
Speaker 2: measures what he anticipates green speed to, be has a
Speaker 2: formula for how far back the putter goes for every
Speaker 2: mile per hour the ball is going to leave the
Speaker 2: putter face and how far that ball will.
Speaker 4: Roll And i'm, like how do you do?
Speaker 2: THAT i learned a lot, from you, know playing With Ben,
Speaker 2: Crenshaw Greg Norman Tom, watson PARTICULARLY Augusta, national and how
Speaker 2: important feel was and taking high, lines playing more break
Speaker 2: than less.
Speaker 4: Break AND i see that In, rory.
Speaker 2: You, know And, rory you, know he's he's so different than.
Speaker 2: That and he's really good at throwing one ball down
Speaker 2: and you, know making that like a PuTTY's going to
Speaker 2: hit on the golf course and with less effort than more.
Speaker 2: Effort and you, know he's he made a great comment
Speaker 2: to me one. TIME i don't even know if he'd
Speaker 2: remember saying, this and he, said you, Know i'm taking
Speaker 2: the putter back what six eight ten inches back and?
Speaker 2: Through why DO i need to measure? That and there's
Speaker 2: a beautiful simplicity to. That and, LOOK I i'm not
Speaker 2: as smart as some of these great putting coaches are
Speaker 2: and have. IT i haven't measured everything like they. Have
Speaker 2: BUT i don't know IF i IF i if they
Speaker 2: need to do. That, yeah you, can you can unlock
Speaker 2: a lot of, things BUT i don't know if it
Speaker 2: always solves.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it's SOMETHING i wonder about because you, know
Speaker 3: you hit on this. Earlier it's like it feels like
Speaker 3: so many of those putts when you're when you're hitting
Speaker 3: you know the lag puts out. There they go up
Speaker 3: and then they come down like they go up and then,
Speaker 3: down and that's like that heart really hard put unless
Speaker 3: you're just like literally looking at it and feel, it you,
Speaker 3: know to hit those. Putts those are the ones THAT
Speaker 3: i think when you're short just trying to start trying to,
Speaker 3: measure are the ones that get really hard out.
Speaker 2: There LIKE i mentioned earlier on that first, hole that's
Speaker 2: the from the lower area on the right that up
Speaker 2: and then. Down there's nothing quite like that. Putt there's
Speaker 2: a putt like that on seventeen from the left side
Speaker 2: when the when the pins up on the top right
Speaker 2: when you're sevy had that in three pooted there when
Speaker 2: you lost snow a couple of couples and you can't
Speaker 2: believe how difficult that. Is there's that put on thirteen
Speaker 2: that you have from past the whole dat, uh, yeah it's.
Speaker 2: It it'll drive you, crazy and you better have your
Speaker 2: field turned all the way. Up you, know the volume
Speaker 2: of your field that are be all the way up,
Speaker 2: there and that's you, know you can see it in your,
Speaker 2: eyes you can feel it in your. Feet but you
Speaker 2: also have to just remember past puts you've had.
Speaker 1: All, Right, brad we got to we got to get
Speaker 1: you out of. Here.
Speaker 3: Uh one last, Question who's Is? Thursday the week before
Speaker 3: this can?
Speaker 1: Change? Obviously who's your winner of the twenty twenty Six.
Speaker 4: Masters, well everybody.
Speaker 2: Knows i'm going to Say rory, because as you, know
Speaker 2: being involved with, HIM i really really WANT i want
Speaker 2: to see a defending champion. DEFEND i think that there's
Speaker 2: so many great stories out. There you, know If Gary
Speaker 2: woodland could could win after, winning you, know last week
Speaker 2: In houston and what he's. Overcome If Justin rose could
Speaker 2: come back from last year and lose him in the
Speaker 2: playoff To, rory would be an incredible. Story if one
Speaker 2: of these rookie young studs came out here and then you,
Speaker 2: know And god helped THE Us Ryder cup. Team if
Speaker 2: it's another Different european Like, Penge can it be a
Speaker 2: live player that that wins The? Masters could It could
Speaker 2: it be rom to solidify his position as you, know
Speaker 2: one of the top, Players but there would be nothing
Speaker 2: quite Like.
Speaker 4: Rory i'm going with.
Speaker 3: Him all, RIGHT i bet Take i'm gonna go out
Speaker 3: on a limb. Here this is, uh this is this
Speaker 3: is a tough. One i'm Taking Scottie. Scheffler i'm GONNA.
Speaker 1: I, KNOW i, know But i'm gonna Take. Scottie you,
Speaker 1: know that's sow we draw it.
Speaker 2: Up So, okay by the, way we haven't even Mentioned Matt,
Speaker 2: fitzpatrick have?
Speaker 1: We? No see this IS i think there's so many.
Speaker 2: Guys, YES i mean the Odds maker's got to be
Speaker 2: a little bit like who who DO i not put up?
Speaker 2: There BECAUSE i Mean, fitzpatrick what he's done and the
Speaker 2: two tournaments previous to come into The, masters and how he's,
Speaker 2: played and how good he's been with his driving and
Speaker 2: the speed that he has his distance. CONTROL i, mean
Speaker 2: you know we always talk About tiger being, pinheide It's
Speaker 2: patrick's spin that way.
Speaker 3: TOO i, mean If markow didn't hurt his, back he'd
Speaker 3: be first page, favorite you, Know and that's a huge.
Speaker 1: Question what's what's going on with the? Back you?
Speaker 3: Know obviously everybody always has high hopes For Justin. Thomas
Speaker 3: he's coming off an, injury but like the way he
Speaker 3: played at The players makes you wonder, like, Hey canny
Speaker 3: can he get into? It so and then obviously we
Speaker 3: haven't even talked About xander who's been.
Speaker 4: How About Cam. Young, yeah talked About Cam.
Speaker 1: YOUNG i, see this is the.
Speaker 3: Thing there's two many guys this. Year it's not it's
Speaker 3: not like the way it usually. Is it's It's golf's
Speaker 3: in a great. Spot I'm i'm, like it's as excited
Speaker 3: AS i.
Speaker 1: Am for The.
Speaker 3: Masters and part of it is Because scotty And rory
Speaker 3: haven't had as dominant as a lead in as they usually,
Speaker 3: do and it is opened up all these these other potential.
Speaker 1: Winners.
Speaker 2: Right i'll tell you one. Thing Tim, fincham you, know
Speaker 2: past commissioner of THE Pga. TOUR i was on the
Speaker 2: policy board with him with a couple of. Times he
Speaker 2: made a great. Point one time in the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: Free.
Speaker 2: Tiger you know we had normally had Fal Though, price
Speaker 2: and he, said THE Pga tour survives live parody and
Speaker 2: without and not that we have.
Speaker 4: Parody.
Speaker 2: NOW i, Mean scotty's so far ahead points wise in
Speaker 2: the official world, ranking but we have two dozen legitimate contenders,
Speaker 2: here don't. We, yeah we just named fifteen. Players and it's,
Speaker 2: exciting isn't It if you were Only, scotty and as
Speaker 2: good as he isn't as much as respect his.
Speaker 4: Game it's way more fun right.
Speaker 3: Now, Absolutely, brad people will be able to watch you
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Speaker 1: All.
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