WEBVTT - Masters Thursday: Round One Recap from Augusta 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.160 Now, the Shotgun Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.240 a lot of a lot of setup work that we 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.200 have to do in order to make a tournament work. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.120 So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:13.640 we do a shotgun start here. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:22.000 And all right, alright, alright, did no man? 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:25.560 Darn your. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.800 Greetings, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The Shotgun Start. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.280 It is April ninth, Andy, how we doing, Brendan. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.519 I am doing fantastic. I can I can safely say 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.840 that I am doing better than Bob McIntire. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.280 Yeah, if you're not a Bobby mac fan, and you know, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.320 shame on you. There's no reason to not be a 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.119 Bobby Mack fan, or at least shown some reasons. He's 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.920 kind of a poudy. He's a powdy boy out there. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.959 The birds were birds were just you know, present at 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.360 AUGUSTA National. He's flipping off inanimate water hazards more than 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:26.639 just apparent curse words. There you go, cheeky U curse 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.400 words you know, just discussed generally. Yeah, you are doing 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.479 better than Bob. Most people are doing better than Bob. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:37.120 He's a motive, I mean, he's got personality happy, sad, angry. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.680 I didn't write this down, but I mean he must 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.160 have like smashed the ground or done some sort of 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.840 reaction on at least eight shots coming in. I didn't 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.440 count exactly, but man like, basically every shot he hit 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:56.440 on the bacnine led to some sort of reaction of negativity. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.680 He is t eighty two. He's shot eighty. Not a 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.640 great situation for Betty Bob. Bratty Bob. I mean a 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.720 word of encouragement. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.200 You know, nobody, nobody got off hot, and Curtis Strange 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.639 started shot in eighty and that's true and found himself 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.920 in the leader exact in the eighty five Masters. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:20.200 There's time yet for Bob Mack. He's a good he's 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.120 a good thirteen shots back of the leading pace after 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.200 round one, set by Sam Burns and Roy McElroy, who 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.959 each shot sixty seven five under on a course that 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.880 was firm in the morning or quick in the morning. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.600 Fast in the morning. It was firm, firm, but not 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.440 as firm as it got later in the afternoon. I 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.000 spoke to someone who's been on the Greens all week 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.040 and said they showed up today and they were like 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.320 a different shade. They were just very much a different 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.520 shade and they were ready to rock. And you know, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.800 the early numbers I guess were mostly there in the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.120 morning and it was not it was sort of hang 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.320 on in the afternoon. Now real wind. It wasn't like 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.480 dramatically changed when but just kept getting harder and harder. Yeah. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.120 You know, if you if you think about what makes 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:13.520 ideal conditions for getting greens really firm, it is when 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.200 there's no humidity and you have cool nights. And we 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.040 had a very cool night. Woke up this morning. I 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.880 was like, it's cold. It was cold in our house. Yeah, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.200 you go out and then and then it warms up 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.480 and there's just still no humidity in there. And it 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.720 leads to this and it it seems like it's gonna 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.680 get hot this weekend, but it doesn't look like it's 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.320 gonna be humid. If the humidity stays out of it, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.440 it's going to be just assuming. You know, I think 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.279 the Masters and the tournament committee there at the Competition's 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.960 committee has the course right where it wants it, and 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.920 I think they wanted they this is the their view 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.200 is the way to challenge these guys, you know, Ridley, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.280 and I'm sure We're going to talk about Ridley at 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.400 some point, maybe on Sunday Show. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.160 But uh, with the way. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.640 Technology is, these guys having a one dimensional game where 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.000 they hit wedges into tons of greens. The best way 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.480 to separate good from great wedges is with greens as 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.520 firm as they are. And we saw it, you know, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.640 we saw it where you know, in particular, I thought 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.960 the thirteenth hole was illuminating where Woodland and Scheffler kind 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.240 of hit those like kind of low running shots. Maybe 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.159 they didn't hit them exactly how they wanted to rolls 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.400 out over the green. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.799 But they have these little wedge shots. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.560 But then Harris english Comes puts a little bit more 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.400 height on it, a little more spin on it. He 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.680 hits it to you know, tap in range. So the 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.000 shots were out there, but you had to hit great shots. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.960 And if you didn't hit great shots, then you're gonna 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.200 be scrambling. For part it was really like Augusta National 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.240 at the peak of its powers against the modern game. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:57.200 And okay, can you use the word peak? Do you 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.880 think we may be going beyond the peak thing? Because 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.279 there's three days to go here, and we do know 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:08.039 Augusta obviously monitors as closely and can control things as 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.960 they want. Like there were sixty sevens available, there were 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.359 also there was also an eighty. There's you know a 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.800 broken body too. There was an eighty four. But it 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.279 wasn't like everybody was shooting eighty. You just had to 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.000 be you can be a slop. Yeah, you just had 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.719 to be tidy. You had to be smart. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.320 And I think Rory talked about a ton in his 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.520 in his post round press conference where he's he said, listen, 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.520 I didn't hit a lot of good t shots, but 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.320 I was super patient. I put the ball into the 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.920 spots where I could then get up and down from. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.960 And I think that's the name of the game here. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.560 You get get yourself out of position. The number one 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.200 thing you got to do is get yourself back in 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.320 position to make par It is. You know, I saw 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.720 a few tweets out that are talking about the US 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.479 Open breaking out. This is you know, this is going 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.039 to be the most US Open like conditions we've seen 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.040 at at Augusta National. And it's gonna be it's gonna 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.880 be fun to watch, and uh, it's gonna be fun 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.320 to see. I you know, if we get four days 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.080 of this, we never see players criticize Augusta nationally. But 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.599 if we got four days of this, somebody's gonna crack. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.240 That's where I was going next. Like, you know, there 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.760 are places that feel like kind of above beyond reproach. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.960 I'm not suggesting that it's it's you know, you can't 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.080 criticize the place, but you know, you talk about Memorial 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.600 Jack's allot to sort of put his thumb on the scale, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.039 and Bayhill that has this sort of history, and you know, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.280 the US Open has sort of lost it right because 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.880 they just they went so hard for so long that 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.240 the players just said, you know, we're done with this 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.640 and and felt emboldened to say whatever they wanted, even 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.520 when they just got maybe slightly hard but fair. But 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.919 even if they were just emboldened to go, you don't 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.400 really have that dynamic or history with Augusta. They obviously 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:57.320 have the gravitas, weight and sort of authority to to 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:03.640 let it rip. And they're in beyond reproach level obviously, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.159 so you have to wonder what could be coming. We 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.920 getting know they lost it. They lost Zach Johnson staring 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.320 into the camera. I don't think that's gonna happen, but 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.640 you know, there's no rain coming and there's no you know, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.320 maybe no humidity, like you said, could be interesting. Do 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.200 we do we get that thing where they push it 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.520 too far or it becomes sort of a real contentious 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:28.760 issue with the players. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.200 I don't think so, because I think Augusta understands like 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.160 and I think this is an important thing while you 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.920 watch this weekend, it's your your immediate inclination is going 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.320 to be if there are is there some run of birdies, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.960 is gonna be like, oh they went soft? 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.239 Like Augusta always has. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.680 A mixture of setups and they like to create a 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.040 setup where you know, there can be fireworks. And and 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.400 the beauty of this is they have the course where 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.600 they can they can create fireworks still because they have 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.520 you of these great whole locations that feed in you know, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.080 and you can create shots. But you know, one of 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.440 the nice things when it's firm is that you still 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.760 have to hit quality shots to get the get the 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.000 funnels in. And and then there's also, as we saw today, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.640 a a a great opportunity for high variance moments. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.960 Yeah, it's it's sort of that like the razor's edge 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.440 of like hitting your spot but missing your spot. By 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.360 two feet three feet and the in the punishment being 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.240 sort of exponential, right, and that we saw that quite 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:39.800 frequently today, is there you know that the recent trend 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.320 is it for for it to get by scoring average. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.480 I'm not saying necessarily by play easier almost each day, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.720 but certainly easier by Sunday, easier by Saturday Sunday. So yeah, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.560 I think Augustin wants that to happen. Let's go and 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.840 you can kind of have fireworks on Sunday, And I 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.000 think that that they will figure out a way to 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.000 make this. It's not like we're going from hardest to 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:06.160 even more hard hardest, you know, beyond the superlative for 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.560 the next three days. So I think we'll see a 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:10.840 balance going forward. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.680 You know, I just I I I look at the 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.520 bottom of the leader board and I know this happens 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.679 at you know a lot of things. But like I 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.840 gotta say, if you said to me, like, you know, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.480 outside of a couple names here who had bad days, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:34.280 like put together the group of the weakest players in 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.400 the field, they're all at the bottom. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.240 So yeah, yeah, outside of a couple of names, You're right, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.240 you know, it's it is John Brown the golf court. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.920 You know, you get John and Bob down there, but 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:49.880 like if you if you just said, who are who 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.560 are the weakest players in this field? Like a lot 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.959 of the first ones you go to are at the 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:56.720 bottom of the board. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.600 It's interesting, I don't know, like. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.240 You could not go out there and fake your way around. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.640 Yeah. I was reading some of the data boys, Data 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.960 Golf and others like that they've sort of augustus figured 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.439 out a way to be less bomber, like just most 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.840 bomber rewarding bomber prevalent. And I watched Jose Maria like 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.040 for five hours. I was writing that no matter what, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.800 I was kind of mad. The story got too hot 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.280 and everybody came out. I was writing that whether he 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.440 shot eighty five, seventy five or sixty five, I was 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.880 just doing that today. The got and then it got 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.040 too hot, when I was like, he was too wonder 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.680 and then he went you know, too many people wanted 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:35.840 to watch the potty training. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.640 It felt like it feels like a situation where you know, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.440 you parents say we're this weekend, we're starting potty training. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.800 Oh my god, and you might have wanted to give up. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.719 Yeah, I was ready to go in there's it was 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.680 too hot, The story got too hot. Too many people 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.280 were out there by fifteen. I was like, Oh, this 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.480 kind of sticks. But is that? How are they doing that? 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.000 How would you explain that they're doing We're like just 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.319 bomber prevalence. And we could probably bake this and talk 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.439 about it more on Sunday, quite frankly. But it is 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.480 interesting that obviously Jose Maria gets around there because of 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.200 his exquisite short game. It's not his distance. You know, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.679 people like a Russ Henley like you do not there 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.640 is penalty I think for not being accurate. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.160 Yeah, I think this is this is a great, great question. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:31.320 I think there's a couple core ingredients to this. There's 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:37.080 enough space where precise players can confidently feel like they 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.839 can hit every fairway. You know, the hardest fair way 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:44.599 to hit out there's probably seven. And if you're a 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.319 really great driver of the golf ball, you go to Augusta, Nashville, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.560 and you think, I can hit all fourteen fairways today, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.960 and I can get it into the places where I 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:54.560 can attack. 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:55.360 Yeah. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.360 And the second piece of that, the places where I 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:06.120 can attack or play more aggressively to very severe greens. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.840 And what that severity does is it doesn't allow the 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.559 bombers who aren't great wedge players to just bomb it 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.120 up there and wedge it to fifteen twenty feet and 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.040 just be like, Okay, I'm going to roll in a 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.720 couple of these around. I'm going to take care of 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.240 business on par fives. Because I don't know, I haven't 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.679 looked at the stats on this, but I would surmise 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.520 that like twenty five foot make percentage at Augustin National 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:38.280 is significantly lower than run of the mill TPC course 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:43.439 because of the severity of the greens. So that combination 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.600 where you have to be super precise and actually if 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.679 you drive the ball really well with precision, then you 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.320 get the advantage of actually being less having to be 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.200 less precise on your second shot, right. Like the the 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.880 thing about Augusta is like, yeah, I could not be 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.800 super sharp off the tee, but I still could have 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.760 success if I'm super shot sharp on my approach shots. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.760 If you're not really sharp on your approach shots, you 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.640 could still get it around because you could be super 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.560 sharp around the greens or on and around the greens, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.600 and really, like we saw Rory do a masterclass of this, today, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:30.400 where like he wasn't really firing, and he hung in 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.520 there and didn't make any mistakes per se, and then 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.679 he got hot and went on a run and took 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.920 care of business on the part five, ironically took care 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.480 of business on the part fives without with only hitting 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.679 one of them in two, you know, and having to 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.160 like wedge it full webshots on three of them. So 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.800 I think that's the thing with Augusta is it gives 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:58.080 you some grace where you can, like, if you aren't 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.320 really dialed in on one area, you can make up 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.480 with it by being exceptional in another area. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.240 Very insightful, Very insightful. You mentioned Rory obviously, Rory Burns. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.200 He's sixty seven six birdies for Rory, all four par 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:18.480 fives on Orthodox Fashion nine fourteen Burns, PJ. You were 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.960 on the Burns beat. He's had another sixty seven. He 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.560 was out early doing a clean sweep. As what we'll 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:24.240 talk about later. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.240 This is the first storyline that nobody's talking about. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.440 We'll do that later. Don't worry about it, PJ. But 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.480 you know, I did the Burns capsule, and like, there 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.720 wasn't a lot to suggest this was coming. Now it's 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.880 one day and you know whatever, by the end we 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.840 may he's just like his he's kind of okay everywhere, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.680 but he's a sublime putter, and that's not what necessarily 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.320 gets it done at Augusta. And he's not done much 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.880 at Augusta, and this is his first round. He's not 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.440 done much this year either. There wasn't like a lot 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.360 to show that this was coming. But it's one day. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.080 It was impressive. He's a great player. I got a 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.440 new street. He's not on my real leader board. All right, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.080 all right, we'll get there then, I guess the kitty 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.280 cat Jason Day. It's a great leader board. P Patrick 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.440 Reid went eagle through eagle, two and eight. I believe 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.280 on the front nine was the race out leader early on. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.840 Word from the ground, as Patrick Greed played like fifteen 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.120 practice rounds in the last three weeks. There was up 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.280 here just living up here. And obviously he has had 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.240 a strong start to the unsurprising. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.080 You're the only place he has to players across the world, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.400 so actually, you know, it might actually he might have 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.360 been looked at the schedule and been like, you know what, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.960 I guess I'll just go to Augusta. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:40.200 Bunch instead Scotty. Any reaction to Scotty early on it 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.360 felt like he was back to being the sky working 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.040 it both ways. Obviously got a little little loose there 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:46.400 coming in. Listen. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.360 We talked about this in the lead up. When the 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.920 golf course is this way, with the green so firm, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.160 the skill, the skilled players, the top of the barrel 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.800 players are going to stand out. The players that know 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.920 how to hit real golf shots, that can hit the 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.040 different spins. It's not surprising to see the likes of 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:13.600 Rory Xander p up there, Jason Day, like these are 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.400 guys that have seen the golf course a ton justin 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.760 Rose to know how to get it around this. When 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.240 with the golf course playing this way, I just have 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.160 a hard time believing that somebody without a lot of 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.480 golf shots isn't going to be in the mix late 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.480 and and particularly, I think the thing that is going 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.800 to play itself more and more throughout the week is 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.280 the high ball hitters, especially if we don't get a 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.880 lot of win the Rys, the Scotties, the ability to 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.720 launch it way up. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:45.040 In the air. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.240 Jason Day and his heyday, this was kind of you know, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.200 he had a high trajectory player, because like you have 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.280 to be able to hit those shots too to get 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.040 it into these precise locations. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.560 Jose Maria did not have that, and we'll watching today. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.680 Are you So what I'm hearing is your bullish onm 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.240 Brian Campbell top ten after the first round. You're a 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.960 fellow line I one under. You know he didn't make 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.080 my board? All right? Okay, maybe not then? All right, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.160 so we've hit on most of the leaders. Let's talk 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:17.560 a few other notables real quick. Jordan Speith, we all 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.440 know you've come to become a agreement. You're full agreement 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.480 that he would be the best possible story would be 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.600 him winning. That would put the biggest charge into the grounds, 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.879 would be Jordan Speith winning. So I'm glad we all 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:28.359 agree with that. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:29.199 Uh. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.080 I don't know. I think Rory might have just overtook 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:32.800 him today. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.600 I feel like it was kind of like a weird 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.359 situation where nobody really like it was the least, you know, 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:40.840 I get it, like we didn't have. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.520 The Rory buzz. We peaked with Rory last year, but 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.639 like that doesn't mean time, Yeah doesn't mean like it 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.560 would be bad, that would be underwhelming if he won again. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.600 Is that where you're getting like you and. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.119 I feel like it just was like kind of like 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.359 tossed aside, like you know, looking around, you're looking around 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.760 at experts. I was talking to Paulo Yughetti out there 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.119 on the golf course who works for ESPN, and we 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.240 were talking because we're watching Rory coming down the stretch 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.080 just you know, and uh, and he's like, you know, 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:18.119 it's crazy, like nobody on our entire staff picked, you know, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.199 and it was just this weird situation with obviously the 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.680 back injury that we didn't see him at all any 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.919 any But at the same time, it's it's crazy. This 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.440 is this would be an amazing story of a guy 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.920 that didn't couldn't get it done until his seventeenth appearance 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.159 and then guess it's done in successive years becoming what 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:45.120 is it, the third fourth player, Yeah, fell Nicholas and Tiger, Yeah, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.720 fell Nicholas and Tiger and like all of a sudden, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.560 going from the most snake pit snake bit of participants 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.520 in the Masters tournament to joining like a a great 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.840 list of Masters champions. You know that that's to me 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.240 the obviously Spieth's winning would be this surprise. It would 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.600 kind of feel like a pill or a Tiger moment, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.479 you know, Phil at Kiwa or Tiger at ut in 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.800 twenty nineteen, where you just kind of this unexpected, you know, 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.600 great player that maybe his prime was in another generation. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.240 But that Rory storyline is, I mean, that's ripe story. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.040 Ridley putting the code on on on Rory. There was 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:27.840 a funny to that point. There was a funny tweet 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.359 I saw earlier in the day, Ryan noonan fellow by 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.399 the name of Ryan Noon, and said with a picture 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.280 of Scottie and Rory kind of cracking up at last 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.280 year's jacket. Sermon said, they said it's quote more wide 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.479 open this year, and the vault are howling laughing at 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.920 He's like, you know, you can kind of just talk 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.800 yourself into the most obvious and simple like storylines and 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.920 talk yourself out of the most obvious and simple storylines 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:50.399 in front of you. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.720 Well, I saw p Pee and his presser. He said, 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.719 there's like ten to twelve guys that can win this. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.400 Yeah, I mean he's spot on. They basically are all right. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.880 There is Jordan Speed one of the ten. I don't 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.480 think so he's even part a very just Jordan Speed 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.880 kind of place to be even right now. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.359 I mean where he is is great. Like if you 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.600 if you're if you believe in speak, yeah you you should, 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.480 you should feel great. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.399 I just don't see it. For seventy two hole he was. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.879 He was moderately interesting and competitive to watch, certainly in 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:26.720 the afternoon. I have a question for you. Can I 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.480 ask you a question? Yeah, I was watching read a 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.719 little bit. If you had told me in like twenty 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:38.280 sixteen that this would be a real question, like who 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.160 will be relevant for longer out augustin National Jordan Speith 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.879 or Patrick Reed? If you'd asked me that in twenty sixteen, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.000 I would be like, that's like, that's the most preposterous question. 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.840 And the mckreed was a very, very very elite player 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.000 in twenty sixteen. Jordan Speeth was the master's whisperer and 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.160 all that. But I think that's like a pretty easy 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.920 answer now. In twenty twenty six I mean, he finished third, 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.200 kind of nuts that I could see Patrick just sort 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.040 of kind of making his way around here for a 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.240 long time, and I don't know, you just hasn't done that. 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.480 You would never especially twenty sixteen, Spee sat the top 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.440 of the game, and his ball striking numbers are incredible. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.440 He's got the short game, the putting, he's got everything, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.199 every intangible that you would look at, you know, and 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.680 he's got this like beautiful record there. And Patrick Reid 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.800 the iron the inconsistent iron play throws you off the scent, 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.200 but and the and the not great driving throws you 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.119 off the scent. But the guy hits it right to left. 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.880 That's an advantage, right, And then the magical short game. 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.720 And I think, like you know, Patrick Reid has done 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.160 a lot of got himself into a lot of questionable 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:51.720 situations throughout his career, questionable work. 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:57.040