Speaker 1: Now, the Shotgun Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of setup work that we
Speaker 1: have to do in order to make a tournament work.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how
Speaker 1: we do a shotgun start here.
Speaker 2: And all right, alright, alright, did no man?
Speaker 3: Darn your.
Speaker 4: Greetings, and welcome to a Thursday edition of The Shotgun Start.
Speaker 4: It is April ninth, Andy, how we doing, Brendan.
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic. I can I can safely say
Speaker 2: that I am doing better than Bob McIntire.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're not a Bobby mac fan, and you know,
Speaker 4: shame on you. There's no reason to not be a
Speaker 4: Bobby Mack fan, or at least shown some reasons. He's
Speaker 4: kind of a poudy. He's a powdy boy out there.
Speaker 4: The birds were birds were just you know, present at
Speaker 4: AUGUSTA National. He's flipping off inanimate water hazards more than
Speaker 4: just apparent curse words. There you go, cheeky U curse
Speaker 4: words you know, just discussed generally. Yeah, you are doing
Speaker 4: better than Bob. Most people are doing better than Bob.
Speaker 4: He's a motive, I mean, he's got personality happy, sad, angry.
Speaker 2: I didn't write this down, but I mean he must
Speaker 2: have like smashed the ground or done some sort of
Speaker 2: reaction on at least eight shots coming in. I didn't
Speaker 2: count exactly, but man like, basically every shot he hit
Speaker 2: on the bacnine led to some sort of reaction of negativity.
Speaker 4: He is t eighty two. He's shot eighty. Not a
Speaker 4: great situation for Betty Bob. Bratty Bob. I mean a
Speaker 4: word of encouragement.
Speaker 2: You know, nobody, nobody got off hot, and Curtis Strange
Speaker 2: started shot in eighty and that's true and found himself
Speaker 2: in the leader exact in the eighty five Masters.
Speaker 4: There's time yet for Bob Mack. He's a good he's
Speaker 4: a good thirteen shots back of the leading pace after
Speaker 4: round one, set by Sam Burns and Roy McElroy, who
Speaker 4: each shot sixty seven five under on a course that
Speaker 4: was firm in the morning or quick in the morning.
Speaker 4: Fast in the morning. It was firm, firm, but not
Speaker 4: as firm as it got later in the afternoon. I
Speaker 4: spoke to someone who's been on the Greens all week
Speaker 4: and said they showed up today and they were like
Speaker 4: a different shade. They were just very much a different
Speaker 4: shade and they were ready to rock. And you know,
Speaker 4: the early numbers I guess were mostly there in the
Speaker 4: morning and it was not it was sort of hang
Speaker 4: on in the afternoon. Now real wind. It wasn't like
Speaker 4: dramatically changed when but just kept getting harder and harder. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, if you if you think about what makes
Speaker 2: ideal conditions for getting greens really firm, it is when
Speaker 2: there's no humidity and you have cool nights. And we
Speaker 2: had a very cool night. Woke up this morning. I
Speaker 2: was like, it's cold. It was cold in our house. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you go out and then and then it warms up
Speaker 2: and there's just still no humidity in there. And it
Speaker 2: leads to this and it it seems like it's gonna
Speaker 2: get hot this weekend, but it doesn't look like it's
Speaker 2: gonna be humid. If the humidity stays out of it,
Speaker 2: it's going to be just assuming. You know, I think
Speaker 2: the Masters and the tournament committee there at the Competition's
Speaker 2: committee has the course right where it wants it, and
Speaker 2: I think they wanted they this is the their view
Speaker 2: is the way to challenge these guys, you know, Ridley,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure We're going to talk about Ridley at
Speaker 2: some point, maybe on Sunday Show.
Speaker 4: But uh, with the way.
Speaker 2: Technology is, these guys having a one dimensional game where
Speaker 2: they hit wedges into tons of greens. The best way
Speaker 2: to separate good from great wedges is with greens as
Speaker 2: firm as they are. And we saw it, you know,
Speaker 2: we saw it where you know, in particular, I thought
Speaker 2: the thirteenth hole was illuminating where Woodland and Scheffler kind
Speaker 2: of hit those like kind of low running shots. Maybe
Speaker 2: they didn't hit them exactly how they wanted to rolls
Speaker 2: out over the green.
Speaker 4: But they have these little wedge shots.
Speaker 2: But then Harris english Comes puts a little bit more
Speaker 2: height on it, a little more spin on it. He
Speaker 2: hits it to you know, tap in range. So the
Speaker 2: shots were out there, but you had to hit great shots.
Speaker 2: And if you didn't hit great shots, then you're gonna
Speaker 2: be scrambling. For part it was really like Augusta National
Speaker 2: at the peak of its powers against the modern game.
Speaker 4: And okay, can you use the word peak? Do you
Speaker 4: think we may be going beyond the peak thing? Because
Speaker 4: there's three days to go here, and we do know
Speaker 4: Augusta obviously monitors as closely and can control things as
Speaker 4: they want. Like there were sixty sevens available, there were
Speaker 4: also there was also an eighty. There's you know a
Speaker 4: broken body too. There was an eighty four. But it
Speaker 4: wasn't like everybody was shooting eighty. You just had to
Speaker 4: be you can be a slop. Yeah, you just had
Speaker 4: to be tidy. You had to be smart.
Speaker 2: And I think Rory talked about a ton in his
Speaker 2: in his post round press conference where he's he said, listen,
Speaker 2: I didn't hit a lot of good t shots, but
Speaker 2: I was super patient. I put the ball into the
Speaker 2: spots where I could then get up and down from.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the name of the game here.
Speaker 2: You get get yourself out of position. The number one
Speaker 2: thing you got to do is get yourself back in
Speaker 2: position to make par It is. You know, I saw
Speaker 2: a few tweets out that are talking about the US
Speaker 2: Open breaking out. This is you know, this is going
Speaker 2: to be the most US Open like conditions we've seen
Speaker 2: at at Augusta National. And it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun to watch, and uh, it's gonna be fun
Speaker 2: to see. I you know, if we get four days
Speaker 2: of this, we never see players criticize Augusta nationally. But
Speaker 2: if we got four days of this, somebody's gonna crack.
Speaker 4: That's where I was going next. Like, you know, there
Speaker 4: are places that feel like kind of above beyond reproach.
Speaker 4: I'm not suggesting that it's it's you know, you can't
Speaker 4: criticize the place, but you know, you talk about Memorial
Speaker 4: Jack's allot to sort of put his thumb on the scale,
Speaker 4: and Bayhill that has this sort of history, and you know,
Speaker 4: the US Open has sort of lost it right because
Speaker 4: they just they went so hard for so long that
Speaker 4: the players just said, you know, we're done with this
Speaker 4: and and felt emboldened to say whatever they wanted, even
Speaker 4: when they just got maybe slightly hard but fair. But
Speaker 4: even if they were just emboldened to go, you don't
Speaker 4: really have that dynamic or history with Augusta. They obviously
Speaker 4: have the gravitas, weight and sort of authority to to
Speaker 4: let it rip. And they're in beyond reproach level obviously,
Speaker 4: so you have to wonder what could be coming. We
Speaker 4: getting know they lost it. They lost Zach Johnson staring
Speaker 4: into the camera. I don't think that's gonna happen, but
Speaker 4: you know, there's no rain coming and there's no you know,
Speaker 4: maybe no humidity, like you said, could be interesting. Do
Speaker 4: we do we get that thing where they push it
Speaker 4: too far or it becomes sort of a real contentious
Speaker 4: issue with the players.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, because I think Augusta understands like
Speaker 2: and I think this is an important thing while you
Speaker 2: watch this weekend, it's your your immediate inclination is going
Speaker 2: to be if there are is there some run of birdies,
Speaker 2: is gonna be like, oh they went soft?
Speaker 4: Like Augusta always has.
Speaker 2: A mixture of setups and they like to create a
Speaker 2: setup where you know, there can be fireworks. And and
Speaker 2: the beauty of this is they have the course where
Speaker 2: they can they can create fireworks still because they have
Speaker 2: you of these great whole locations that feed in you know,
Speaker 2: and you can create shots. But you know, one of
Speaker 2: the nice things when it's firm is that you still
Speaker 2: have to hit quality shots to get the get the
Speaker 2: funnels in. And and then there's also, as we saw today,
Speaker 2: a a a great opportunity for high variance moments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's sort of that like the razor's edge
Speaker 4: of like hitting your spot but missing your spot. By
Speaker 4: two feet three feet and the in the punishment being
Speaker 4: sort of exponential, right, and that we saw that quite
Speaker 4: frequently today, is there you know that the recent trend
Speaker 4: is it for for it to get by scoring average.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying necessarily by play easier almost each day,
Speaker 4: but certainly easier by Sunday, easier by Saturday Sunday. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I think Augustin wants that to happen. Let's go and
Speaker 4: you can kind of have fireworks on Sunday, And I
Speaker 4: think that that they will figure out a way to
Speaker 4: make this. It's not like we're going from hardest to
Speaker 4: even more hard hardest, you know, beyond the superlative for
Speaker 4: the next three days. So I think we'll see a
Speaker 4: balance going forward.
Speaker 2: You know, I just I I I look at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the leader board and I know this happens
Speaker 2: at you know a lot of things. But like I
Speaker 2: gotta say, if you said to me, like, you know,
Speaker 2: outside of a couple names here who had bad days,
Speaker 2: like put together the group of the weakest players in
Speaker 2: the field, they're all at the bottom.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, outside of a couple of names, You're right,
Speaker 4: you know, it's it is John Brown the golf court.
Speaker 2: You know, you get John and Bob down there, but
Speaker 2: like if you if you just said, who are who
Speaker 2: are the weakest players in this field? Like a lot
Speaker 2: of the first ones you go to are at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the board.
Speaker 4: It's interesting, I don't know, like.
Speaker 2: You could not go out there and fake your way around.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was reading some of the data boys, Data
Speaker 4: Golf and others like that they've sort of augustus figured
Speaker 4: out a way to be less bomber, like just most
Speaker 4: bomber rewarding bomber prevalent. And I watched Jose Maria like
Speaker 4: for five hours. I was writing that no matter what,
Speaker 4: I was kind of mad. The story got too hot
Speaker 4: and everybody came out. I was writing that whether he
Speaker 4: shot eighty five, seventy five or sixty five, I was
Speaker 4: just doing that today. The got and then it got
Speaker 4: too hot, when I was like, he was too wonder
Speaker 4: and then he went you know, too many people wanted
Speaker 4: to watch the potty training.
Speaker 2: It felt like it feels like a situation where you know,
Speaker 2: you parents say we're this weekend, we're starting potty training.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and you might have wanted to give up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was ready to go in there's it was
Speaker 4: too hot, The story got too hot. Too many people
Speaker 4: were out there by fifteen. I was like, Oh, this
Speaker 4: kind of sticks. But is that? How are they doing that?
Speaker 4: How would you explain that they're doing We're like just
Speaker 4: bomber prevalence. And we could probably bake this and talk
Speaker 4: about it more on Sunday, quite frankly. But it is
Speaker 4: interesting that obviously Jose Maria gets around there because of
Speaker 4: his exquisite short game. It's not his distance. You know,
Speaker 4: people like a Russ Henley like you do not there
Speaker 4: is penalty I think for not being accurate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is this is a great, great question.
Speaker 2: I think there's a couple core ingredients to this. There's
Speaker 2: enough space where precise players can confidently feel like they
Speaker 2: can hit every fairway. You know, the hardest fair way
Speaker 2: to hit out there's probably seven. And if you're a
Speaker 2: really great driver of the golf ball, you go to Augusta, Nashville,
Speaker 2: and you think, I can hit all fourteen fairways today,
Speaker 2: and I can get it into the places where I
Speaker 2: can attack.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the second piece of that, the places where I
Speaker 2: can attack or play more aggressively to very severe greens.
Speaker 2: And what that severity does is it doesn't allow the
Speaker 2: bombers who aren't great wedge players to just bomb it
Speaker 2: up there and wedge it to fifteen twenty feet and
Speaker 2: just be like, Okay, I'm going to roll in a
Speaker 2: couple of these around. I'm going to take care of
Speaker 2: business on par fives. Because I don't know, I haven't
Speaker 2: looked at the stats on this, but I would surmise
Speaker 2: that like twenty five foot make percentage at Augustin National
Speaker 2: is significantly lower than run of the mill TPC course
Speaker 2: because of the severity of the greens. So that combination
Speaker 2: where you have to be super precise and actually if
Speaker 2: you drive the ball really well with precision, then you
Speaker 2: get the advantage of actually being less having to be
Speaker 2: less precise on your second shot, right. Like the the
Speaker 2: thing about Augusta is like, yeah, I could not be
Speaker 2: super sharp off the tee, but I still could have
Speaker 2: success if I'm super shot sharp on my approach shots.
Speaker 2: If you're not really sharp on your approach shots, you
Speaker 2: could still get it around because you could be super
Speaker 2: sharp around the greens or on and around the greens,
Speaker 2: and really, like we saw Rory do a masterclass of this, today,
Speaker 2: where like he wasn't really firing, and he hung in
Speaker 2: there and didn't make any mistakes per se, and then
Speaker 2: he got hot and went on a run and took
Speaker 2: care of business on the part five, ironically took care
Speaker 2: of business on the part fives without with only hitting
Speaker 2: one of them in two, you know, and having to
Speaker 2: like wedge it full webshots on three of them. So
Speaker 2: I think that's the thing with Augusta is it gives
Speaker 2: you some grace where you can, like, if you aren't
Speaker 2: really dialed in on one area, you can make up
Speaker 2: with it by being exceptional in another area.
Speaker 4: Very insightful, Very insightful. You mentioned Rory obviously, Rory Burns.
Speaker 4: He's sixty seven six birdies for Rory, all four par
Speaker 4: fives on Orthodox Fashion nine fourteen Burns, PJ. You were
Speaker 4: on the Burns beat. He's had another sixty seven. He
Speaker 4: was out early doing a clean sweep. As what we'll
Speaker 4: talk about later.
Speaker 2: This is the first storyline that nobody's talking about.
Speaker 4: We'll do that later. Don't worry about it, PJ. But
Speaker 4: you know, I did the Burns capsule, and like, there
Speaker 4: wasn't a lot to suggest this was coming. Now it's
Speaker 4: one day and you know whatever, by the end we
Speaker 4: may he's just like his he's kind of okay everywhere,
Speaker 4: but he's a sublime putter, and that's not what necessarily
Speaker 4: gets it done at Augusta. And he's not done much
Speaker 4: at Augusta, and this is his first round. He's not
Speaker 4: done much this year either. There wasn't like a lot
Speaker 4: to show that this was coming. But it's one day.
Speaker 4: It was impressive. He's a great player. I got a
Speaker 4: new street. He's not on my real leader board. All right,
Speaker 4: all right, we'll get there then, I guess the kitty
Speaker 4: cat Jason Day. It's a great leader board. P Patrick
Speaker 4: Reid went eagle through eagle, two and eight. I believe
Speaker 4: on the front nine was the race out leader early on.
Speaker 4: Word from the ground, as Patrick Greed played like fifteen
Speaker 4: practice rounds in the last three weeks. There was up
Speaker 4: here just living up here. And obviously he has had
Speaker 4: a strong start to the unsurprising.
Speaker 2: You're the only place he has to players across the world,
Speaker 2: so actually, you know, it might actually he might have
Speaker 2: been looked at the schedule and been like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I guess I'll just go to Augusta.
Speaker 4: Bunch instead Scotty. Any reaction to Scotty early on it
Speaker 4: felt like he was back to being the sky working
Speaker 4: it both ways. Obviously got a little little loose there
Speaker 4: coming in. Listen.
Speaker 2: We talked about this in the lead up. When the
Speaker 2: golf course is this way, with the green so firm,
Speaker 2: the skill, the skilled players, the top of the barrel
Speaker 2: players are going to stand out. The players that know
Speaker 2: how to hit real golf shots, that can hit the
Speaker 2: different spins. It's not surprising to see the likes of
Speaker 2: Rory Xander p up there, Jason Day, like these are
Speaker 2: guys that have seen the golf course a ton justin
Speaker 2: Rose to know how to get it around this. When
Speaker 2: with the golf course playing this way, I just have
Speaker 2: a hard time believing that somebody without a lot of
Speaker 2: golf shots isn't going to be in the mix late
Speaker 2: and and particularly, I think the thing that is going
Speaker 2: to play itself more and more throughout the week is
Speaker 2: the high ball hitters, especially if we don't get a
Speaker 2: lot of win the Rys, the Scotties, the ability to
Speaker 2: launch it way up.
Speaker 4: In the air.
Speaker 2: Jason Day and his heyday, this was kind of you know,
Speaker 2: he had a high trajectory player, because like you have
Speaker 2: to be able to hit those shots too to get
Speaker 2: it into these precise locations.
Speaker 4: Jose Maria did not have that, and we'll watching today.
Speaker 4: Are you So what I'm hearing is your bullish onm
Speaker 4: Brian Campbell top ten after the first round. You're a
Speaker 4: fellow line I one under. You know he didn't make
Speaker 4: my board? All right? Okay, maybe not then? All right,
Speaker 4: so we've hit on most of the leaders. Let's talk
Speaker 4: a few other notables real quick. Jordan Speith, we all
Speaker 4: know you've come to become a agreement. You're full agreement
Speaker 4: that he would be the best possible story would be
Speaker 4: him winning. That would put the biggest charge into the grounds,
Speaker 4: would be Jordan Speith winning. So I'm glad we all
Speaker 4: agree with that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think Rory might have just overtook
Speaker 4: him today.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was kind of like a weird
Speaker 2: situation where nobody really like it was the least, you know,
Speaker 2: I get it, like we didn't have.
Speaker 4: The Rory buzz. We peaked with Rory last year, but
Speaker 4: like that doesn't mean time, Yeah doesn't mean like it
Speaker 4: would be bad, that would be underwhelming if he won again.
Speaker 4: Is that where you're getting like you and.
Speaker 2: I feel like it just was like kind of like
Speaker 2: tossed aside, like you know, looking around, you're looking around
Speaker 2: at experts. I was talking to Paulo Yughetti out there
Speaker 2: on the golf course who works for ESPN, and we
Speaker 2: were talking because we're watching Rory coming down the stretch
Speaker 2: just you know, and uh, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's crazy, like nobody on our entire staff picked, you know,
Speaker 2: and it was just this weird situation with obviously the
Speaker 2: back injury that we didn't see him at all any
Speaker 2: any But at the same time, it's it's crazy. This
Speaker 2: is this would be an amazing story of a guy
Speaker 2: that didn't couldn't get it done until his seventeenth appearance
Speaker 2: and then guess it's done in successive years becoming what
Speaker 2: is it, the third fourth player, Yeah, fell Nicholas and Tiger, Yeah,
Speaker 2: fell Nicholas and Tiger and like all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: going from the most snake pit snake bit of participants
Speaker 2: in the Masters tournament to joining like a a great
Speaker 2: list of Masters champions. You know that that's to me
Speaker 2: the obviously Spieth's winning would be this surprise. It would
Speaker 2: kind of feel like a pill or a Tiger moment,
Speaker 2: you know, Phil at Kiwa or Tiger at ut in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, where you just kind of this unexpected, you know,
Speaker 2: great player that maybe his prime was in another generation.
Speaker 2: But that Rory storyline is, I mean, that's ripe story.
Speaker 4: Ridley putting the code on on on Rory. There was
Speaker 4: a funny to that point. There was a funny tweet
Speaker 4: I saw earlier in the day, Ryan noonan fellow by
Speaker 4: the name of Ryan Noon, and said with a picture
Speaker 4: of Scottie and Rory kind of cracking up at last
Speaker 4: year's jacket. Sermon said, they said it's quote more wide
Speaker 4: open this year, and the vault are howling laughing at
Speaker 4: He's like, you know, you can kind of just talk
Speaker 4: yourself into the most obvious and simple like storylines and
Speaker 4: talk yourself out of the most obvious and simple storylines
Speaker 4: in front of you.
Speaker 2: Well, I saw p Pee and his presser. He said,
Speaker 2: there's like ten to twelve guys that can win this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's spot on. They basically are all right.
Speaker 4: There is Jordan Speed one of the ten. I don't
Speaker 4: think so he's even part a very just Jordan Speed
Speaker 4: kind of place to be even right now.
Speaker 2: I mean where he is is great. Like if you
Speaker 2: if you're if you believe in speak, yeah you you should,
Speaker 2: you should feel great.
Speaker 4: I just don't see it. For seventy two hole he was.
Speaker 4: He was moderately interesting and competitive to watch, certainly in
Speaker 4: the afternoon. I have a question for you. Can I
Speaker 4: ask you a question? Yeah, I was watching read a
Speaker 4: little bit. If you had told me in like twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen that this would be a real question, like who
Speaker 4: will be relevant for longer out augustin National Jordan Speith
Speaker 4: or Patrick Reed? If you'd asked me that in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 4: I would be like, that's like, that's the most preposterous question.
Speaker 4: And the mckreed was a very, very very elite player
Speaker 4: in twenty sixteen. Jordan Speeth was the master's whisperer and
Speaker 4: all that. But I think that's like a pretty easy
Speaker 4: answer now. In twenty twenty six I mean, he finished third,
Speaker 4: kind of nuts that I could see Patrick just sort
Speaker 4: of kind of making his way around here for a
Speaker 4: long time, and I don't know, you just hasn't done that.
Speaker 2: You would never especially twenty sixteen, Spee sat the top
Speaker 2: of the game, and his ball striking numbers are incredible.
Speaker 2: He's got the short game, the putting, he's got everything,
Speaker 2: every intangible that you would look at, you know, and
Speaker 2: he's got this like beautiful record there. And Patrick Reid
Speaker 2: the iron the inconsistent iron play throws you off the scent,
Speaker 2: but and the and the not great driving throws you
Speaker 2: off the scent. But the guy hits it right to left.
Speaker 2: That's an advantage, right, And then the magical short game.
Speaker 2: And I think, like you know, Patrick Reid has done
Speaker 2: a lot of got himself into a lot of questionable
Speaker 2: situations throughout his career, questionable work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know where we really want to play, questionable.
Speaker 2: Questionable situations that he has thrust himself into throughout his career,
Speaker 2: which I think obscures that you could make an argument
Speaker 2: and just based off of skill set like this guy is,
Speaker 2: here's this guy is, Here's a guy I'll tell you
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 4: All right, sorry, go ahead, this guy Patrick Reed.
Speaker 2: Is. I think he's probably the golf savant of the generation.
Speaker 4: He's so like that was the thing. He was such
Speaker 4: such a cover your ears kids prick so many times
Speaker 4: that obscured how beautiful it was to watch him play
Speaker 4: golf and work the ball and get up and down.
Speaker 4: He's incredible. So maybe this is a new era of
Speaker 4: Patrick Reed. We'll see where he's going. He's in line
Speaker 4: to certainly be in contention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's gonna hang around. I mean, like, if
Speaker 2: you start to look at this leaderboard, it's super early.
Speaker 2: You got just like some amazing if you if we
Speaker 2: got if you know, everybody's gonna clamor for the Scottie
Speaker 2: Rory showdown right, Yeah, but then you could also have
Speaker 2: like the the Read Rory re Ducks. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you could have Jason Day and you could have an
Speaker 2: old man y m c a game with Jason Day
Speaker 2: and Rose backing each other down, you know, with the
Speaker 2: knee pads on.
Speaker 4: Jane Lowry's in the mix. Right now, you got on
Speaker 4: your real leaderboard after after hanas year after Honda. I
Speaker 4: just I last year's Masters too. I mean, I just can't.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can be trusted.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Honda was like the you know,
Speaker 2: I don't want to see him on the back nine.
Speaker 4: I go after I saw him at the back nine
Speaker 4: of Honda. We'll get to your real leaderboard. In a second,
Speaker 4: not in contention at the minute, but but certainly not
Speaker 4: in the hunt. Maybe maybe certainly not out of the
Speaker 4: tournament just because there's fifty four holes to play. Are
Speaker 4: the two pillars of live hope? Bryson and Rob Bryson
Speaker 4: shot seventy six, Rom shot seventy eight. You know, we're
Speaker 4: not at Sentosa anymore, John, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: this is like, you know, the non conference schedule and
Speaker 4: you're playing South Directional State University. I know he's wanted Augusta.
Speaker 4: He's an elite talent, but that was a shocking seventy
Speaker 4: eight for a guy who's played well this year, and
Speaker 4: you know, was one of the most trendy picks, you know,
Speaker 4: for good reason. He's you know your guy, Yeah, my
Speaker 4: pick shot seventy eight alarming for both. Bryson's irons were horrible.
Speaker 4: He's hooking the ball. He's like another hook again. You know,
Speaker 4: is he's in the bunker on eighteen? Did you want
Speaker 4: you want a little scuttle butt?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: I love scuttle butt. Little little I've in the notebook
Speaker 4: here in a minute.
Speaker 2: I you know, Bryson, he had that three D printed
Speaker 2: five iron in the bag yeah, was it just like
Speaker 2: one single three printed iron? I mean, I don't know anyways,
Speaker 2: I uh, brice it to Shamba equipment coming to stores soon, oh,
Speaker 2: branded single length, Like I don't know why anybody will
Speaker 2: watch when he does it a gust with his iron
Speaker 2: play and be like I want that?
Speaker 4: God dude? Is that what we really need? More equipment?
Speaker 4: I mean god blossom, I mean whatever, go get it
Speaker 4: feels like a.
Speaker 2: That's that's what's coming. That's what's coming to stores near you.
Speaker 2: Do we need another hard goods like entry. I'm just trying.
Speaker 2: This is this is just this was a juicy scuttle
Speaker 2: but that I didn't even have to write down to
Speaker 2: remember there's some good there.
Speaker 4: We've gotten a lot or saving the big stuff maybe
Speaker 4: for Sunday anybody else. You want to talk about specific
Speaker 4: players we get maybe hit on the course. Let's what.
Speaker 4: It's easy to do this in retrospect. But rom is
Speaker 4: most disappointing. Can I just put that out there? Rom Ron? Yeah,
Speaker 4: for day one, most disappointing. And we know other guys
Speaker 4: shot bad rounds, didn't have great round ro was the
Speaker 4: most shocking. Golf is a game iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm stealing that from our friend on Live,
Speaker 2: from Paul McGinley. That line that feels like something he'd
Speaker 2: say iron.
Speaker 4: You know that also like Live doesn't play real golf courses.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, they don't play we beg on PGA
Speaker 5: Tour courses. Live courses are like floating between corn Ferry
Speaker 5: Tour and PGA Tour.
Speaker 4: That Hong Kong one that's really short, right, Sis Sentosas
Speaker 4: and whatever was going on in South Africa and Rio
Speaker 4: and the the whatever adelaide the top of the top
Speaker 4: of the barrel for it. Yeah, looks aesthetically pleasing. I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's challenging, but.
Speaker 2: But anyways, these guys play these just the effect of
Speaker 2: pitch and putt golf courses. It's gonna be a just
Speaker 2: a total shock to the system when you tee it
Speaker 2: up and a golf course just gets like I think Wednesday,
Speaker 2: you know, I started to hear Wednesday. I heard a
Speaker 2: ball hit the green on Part three and I kind
Speaker 2: of like turned around. I was like, whoa, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: like that, that golf course got turned up two nachs overnight.
Speaker 4: And if you have not been playing really.
Speaker 2: High level golf courses, this is like a shock to
Speaker 2: the system.
Speaker 4: And you see this all the time.
Speaker 2: Like the way I would compare this is you see
Speaker 2: this with kids who qualify for their first USGA event
Speaker 2: and they're used to playing you know, junior setups, and
Speaker 2: then they go play a us AM and they just
Speaker 2: get completely blown out to see and it's not like talent.
Speaker 4: There's obviously a huge moment, but there's.
Speaker 2: A lot of times just a shock of what the
Speaker 2: golf course severity in the in the level is and I,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know those guys weren't ready to
Speaker 2: get off the bus though.
Speaker 4: They weren't they got popped. But there there's you know,
Speaker 4: there's plenty of time to certainly make the.
Speaker 2: You know, you know who was ready to get off
Speaker 2: the bus this morning we got were early.
Speaker 4: Not the not the the you know, figurative bus, not
Speaker 4: the literal bus, the figurative bus, which for us is
Speaker 4: quite stylish, quite luxurious and comfortable. We are riding to
Speaker 4: the course in a Mercedes GLS down here in augusta
Speaker 4: Mercedes all week. They offer a wide range of SUVs
Speaker 4: from compact to full size. We were with Loodi Ludwig
Speaker 4: last night. What was his favorite SUV the GLS not
Speaker 4: favorite Mercedes Coop sorry, g L Coop favorite Mercedes. He
Speaker 4: was a GLI Coop guy, you know.
Speaker 2: In prep, you know, for this week, I went to
Speaker 2: a dealer and test of a bunch of cars.
Speaker 4: The g L prep for this week feels like just
Speaker 4: sort of a fun out and you know prepes that work,
Speaker 4: did you you know you know what that was on
Speaker 4: office hours?
Speaker 2: Just Coop has some Gideo. Yeah, it is a very
Speaker 2: nice car. I uh what I said? When I went
Speaker 2: in testro they put me in a V eight with
Speaker 2: the AMG. I mean the thing was like a rocket.
Speaker 4: There were some nice looking cars, some good ones.
Speaker 2: I love the you know this is that we went
Speaker 2: to a great mersides dinner last night and they had
Speaker 2: all you know, the show ponies were out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. They had the Maybach ones out front.
Speaker 2: I love the old school the front ornament that's elevated.
Speaker 4: Out Yep, that's a good one. Uh. The GLS comes
Speaker 4: with Burmister three D surround system that creates an immersive
Speaker 4: acoustic experience. Did I get that right? I think? So
Speaker 4: what's the giggles? PJ?
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, he said, well, he said, he said,
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Speaker 4: We wish we had a promo code to give you,
Speaker 4: but we can't recommend it high enough for your friend. No,
Speaker 4: there we go. Thanks to them for for helping us out,
Speaker 4: supporting us this week, our coverage, these live shows you're
Speaker 4: watching and listening to. Thanks to them. All right, let's
Speaker 4: do a couple awards. Can we do awards? Real quick,
Speaker 4: rapid fire, Good Guy Jerry Award. We have a good
Speaker 4: Guy Jerry Awards, which is so let's let's give the backstory.
Speaker 4: Please go do you want, you want to do it. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: this goes back four years ago maybe, yeah, probably four
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 2: You know, Rory's playing, you know, he's doing his typical
Speaker 2: Rory mind Thursday routine back in the day where you
Speaker 2: know it was not pretty. You know, it's a bad day,
Speaker 2: spirits are down trotten.
Speaker 4: I watch it. I see Jerry walking.
Speaker 2: Across father Jerry McElroy yeap on fifteen and there's like
Speaker 2: this tiny little piece of cell phane that's way out
Speaker 2: of his way and it's in the fairway at eas
Speaker 2: sandwich right. No, No, it was like a little piece
Speaker 2: of plastic like hardly's visible, okay, And he walked over,
Speaker 2: picked it up and then walked like one hundred yards
Speaker 2: back down fifteen through the through the plastic out. So
Speaker 2: there's that was the birth of the Good Guy Jerry Award.
Speaker 2: That yes, an act of good service.
Speaker 4: We were what we were doing, made up awards every night,
Speaker 4: and we like we created the good Guy Jerry Award.
Speaker 4: So our first award winner this week, we'll try to
Speaker 4: do this nightly daily. Uh is to Mike, another father,
Speaker 4: another father of one of the better great modern pros
Speaker 4: here in this current moment, justin Thomas, Mike Thomas. This
Speaker 4: was from Wednesday at the par three. A media official
Speaker 4: not a green jacket, was trying to fish a sandwich
Speaker 4: wrapper out of the pond on the par three course.
Speaker 4: They had no luck and everyone is staring at it, debating,
Speaker 4: flummoxed how to get this loose piece of detritus and
Speaker 4: floating away floatilla. All of a sudden, Mike Thomas, the
Speaker 4: father of Justin, springs into action, goes belly down, you know,
Speaker 4: reaches on his tummy, you know, gets you know, down
Speaker 4: on the stomach, slides down the bank a little bit,
Speaker 4: extends his arm into the water and grabs the wrapper.
Speaker 4: The messenger of the witness says, a good guy. I
Speaker 4: can't think of a better one. Good guy. Jerry Ward
Speaker 4: loved that runner up tonight for me goes to Jose
Speaker 4: Maria Oloft, the ball who just won my heart in
Speaker 4: many ways, but one of them was and he walks
Speaker 4: onto the t box the marshals who waved the flat.
Speaker 4: He shakes their hand. The other guys he was with
Speaker 4: the young pups, which is no, this not customary. They
Speaker 4: just go to their t shot. He shakes the hands
Speaker 4: of the volunteers waving the waving the all clear flag.
Speaker 4: I think he could win it for the week.
Speaker 2: He could have won it for the week if he
Speaker 2: had just gone and put his arm around Potty after
Speaker 2: he bleated one of his chips across the green and said, son,
Speaker 2: we'll straighten this out, all right.
Speaker 4: So that's a good guy. Jerry Warren, let's go. Quote
Speaker 4: of the day. I need you, PJ please to join
Speaker 4: in on this. Andy. I need you to guess this
Speaker 4: comes from Cameron Hurtis who heard it uttered by a
Speaker 4: fan or a patron. I should say early in the
Speaker 4: morning or not early in midday. I don't want to
Speaker 4: give it away.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, the.
Speaker 4: Quote is fifteen years ago. That was the next Tiger.
Speaker 4: Who do you think the subject of this quote was about?
Speaker 4: From a patron? I just want to suggest Cameron's bit
Speaker 4: this week is how funny some of the most absurd
Speaker 4: things he hears from fans.
Speaker 2: I hate that that PJA told me this quote this morning.
Speaker 3: I did not Kevin did. I unfortunately know the answer.
Speaker 4: I know the answer as well. It was not.
Speaker 3: It was not me who shared it, actually shared it.
Speaker 3: Actually it was not Kevin either. It was Kyle Porter
Speaker 3: who shared it.
Speaker 4: Porter now that I'm thinking of it. Damn it all right,
Speaker 4: So I was already to see you guys up for
Speaker 4: the audience fifteen years ago. That was the next Tiger
Speaker 4: is a quote that was uttered today by a patron
Speaker 4: about Keegan Bradley roll Storm. Did that happen? Was there
Speaker 4: a moment when we said it was the next title? Oh? Okay?
Speaker 4: Good won the twenty eleven PGA fifteen years keek and.
Speaker 2: Bradley was like, I can't believe this guy played golf
Speaker 2: in Saint John's.
Speaker 4: In his winning major major a major.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, yeah, you know who he wasn't Who he
Speaker 2: wasn't Chad Campbell.
Speaker 4: Jack Campbell was a cover of us the High with
Speaker 4: the smoking iron, right.
Speaker 2: Know what I said to somebody earlier this week we
Speaker 2: were talking about Patrick Reed, and I said, p P
Speaker 2: stands for problem. Might be he might be an all
Speaker 2: caps problem.
Speaker 4: He is shot of the day. Could I give you
Speaker 4: a quote I heard? Overheard, overheard?
Speaker 2: You know, there's been a lot of lamenting the uh
Speaker 2: I guess like you know, Kevin Hart showed up at
Speaker 2: the part three, We got we got Kelsey on the broadcast.
Speaker 2: You know, we got a bunch of stuff that's just
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit a lot of blowback, a little
Speaker 2: bit different than normal, you know, the Kevin Hart. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine the Kevin Hart situation is going to and
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna end and maybe probably like a
Speaker 2: stipulation about who who can and can't caddy.
Speaker 4: For you thurs not welcome at the part three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, apparently Sunday had like Gabby Herzig uncover this
Speaker 2: Sunday had like a Korean actor in sir Oh. It's
Speaker 2: like I apparently like, yeah, so he was he was
Speaker 2: doing he was our farming, just like Bryce.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, it's continental a farming going on.
Speaker 2: So anyways, there's been a lot of lamenting about about
Speaker 2: uh about the the Masters and some of the Master's
Speaker 2: traditions maybe maybe being washed away with the times. One
Speaker 2: of those that on the ground is undeniable is is
Speaker 2: the skipp of culture and the.
Speaker 4: Lead up to the Masters on sixteen. This is a
Speaker 4: little more traditional than aur a farming caddie like this
Speaker 4: has been sort of a Master's practice round tradition.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of like gotten a little a
Speaker 2: little too high here. I'm not a gatekeeper though, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to be a gatekeeper, go to a golf
Speaker 2: furm and do whatever you want. But anyways, go up
Speaker 2: in the stance and I just go to peak my
Speaker 2: head to see if there's a there's a good seat
Speaker 2: for me to sit in and watch Rory come through.
Speaker 2: I didn't see anything I liked, but I did hear
Speaker 2: something that then just tickled my heart. The security the
Speaker 2: security guard, unnamed security guard that's work in the stands.
Speaker 2: He's talking to a patron and he goes, I'm just
Speaker 2: so glad. The skip it part is so hopefully nobody's
Speaker 2: trying that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Think about that sober, sober security guard. It's just there working.
Speaker 4: Just can't handle skip a culture. I like that best
Speaker 4: shot of the day, Peach, you were on this one
Speaker 4: burn You were on Burns Beat today, you were on
Speaker 4: Sammy Burns Beat. What was your best shot of today?
Speaker 3: I was I will just say my number one pick
Speaker 3: in the Tea Time draft got relentlessly mocked and ended
Speaker 3: up with the first round leader. So show me something
Speaker 3: Tea Time cash.
Speaker 4: Cash it.
Speaker 2: Peach told me he made an air strike two a m.
Speaker 2: He can't gamble down here, He texted his buddy. He
Speaker 2: puts some puts some uh put him in the morning,
Speaker 2: just you know, going through data with the morning puts
Speaker 2: in an air strike this morning, seth buddy who phoned
Speaker 2: a friend who was available to play the bat for
Speaker 2: him for FRL first round leader. For those not in
Speaker 2: the gambling community like us, Sam Byrn, no way does
Speaker 2: a tie count. I'm not used with thanks worry for that,
Speaker 2: but there you go. Split it will refund you. Are
Speaker 2: you sure at two am you were?
Speaker 4: Were you? Did you go back to the CIA party?
Speaker 4: Hain Elephanta. I think that's so you went back to
Speaker 4: close down the seat last night.
Speaker 3: Shot of the day Sam Byrd's on two puts from
Speaker 3: three hundred and ninety two yard drive two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirteen yard six iron to ten feet makes an eagle
Speaker 3: to effectively really start the.
Speaker 4: First really good worst shot of the day. We can't
Speaker 4: show it. Look it up, go find it. The t
Speaker 4: shot of the Japan Open winner Naoki Kadaoka tea shot
Speaker 4: at twelve golden bell notable. Part three does not have
Speaker 4: you heard of it? Cross the hazard, nice little layup
Speaker 4: make of four. Please go look at this shot track
Speaker 4: that's first shot of the deck.
Speaker 3: Certainly look at.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, injection. That wasn't that shot wasn't
Speaker 2: worse than Potty's Chip on one Oh that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? God, you know we called this after contact.
Speaker 2: If everybody go watch the Aldrich Pott Geeter, that's who
Speaker 2: we you know, we lovingly call Potty.
Speaker 4: Like we called this on the previous show Jose Maria,
Speaker 4: Like it's like the Michelin star chef trying to play
Speaker 4: with Applebee's with the ship. I talked to somebody who
Speaker 4: was there, like an instructor. He was like, I felt
Speaker 4: so bad for You could see his face, like a
Speaker 4: twenty year old old kid who looked like he was
Speaker 4: like naked out there with everybody looking at him, and
Speaker 4: like golf is a game of just controlling, managing your
Speaker 4: demons and that we all have. And it was right
Speaker 4: there on one and it looked like I felt so
Speaker 4: bad for the kid with everybody looking. But that was
Speaker 4: I mean, he bladed through the green to the back,
Speaker 4: to the to the Grand State leachers. Yeah, maybe you
Speaker 4: should have gone driver. Check out the Japan Open Winter
Speaker 4: Not Kadoka is shot on twelve. Bird of the Day
Speaker 4: goes to Bobby Mack, which we've already noted. Those are
Speaker 4: some awards all right, what else you want to do
Speaker 4: while we're here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you feel like you need to apologize for
Speaker 2: Bobby mac I acting like a you know, whiny boy
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 3: Absolutely unequivocally rebuke the actions of Bob mcattire on fifteen,
Speaker 3: especially today. I will not distance myself from my guy.
Speaker 3: I will still plant the flag, but I hope he
Speaker 3: gets a good night to sleep and comes back ready
Speaker 3: to attack the field tomorrow.
Speaker 4: All right, let's empty, I'm going to empty my notebook
Speaker 4: real quick. Jack. We went up and did the honorary starters, saying.
Speaker 4: I found that quite frankly moving and powerful. I know,
Speaker 4: there's like a lot of pomp and circumstance and some
Speaker 4: you know, master streakle that makes people roll their eyes.
Speaker 4: I find that powerful, Like how many times do those
Speaker 4: guys make public appearances together alone at all? And certainly
Speaker 4: swing a golf course at a golf club at you
Speaker 4: don't know, a moment of this kind of prominence and significance.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Like it's not It can get macab
Speaker 4: to think about, like how much more time do we have?
Speaker 4: But he's eighty six, he's struggling to walk. I just
Speaker 4: found it powerful to see him swaying the club and
Speaker 4: be there in present. I found an amusing that they
Speaker 4: take bags full of clubs too, but you know what
Speaker 4: kind of clubs make the bag and carry that out.
Speaker 4: But that was that was quite frankly being up there.
Speaker 4: I'm glad we've got up and we're there for it.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, I mean, the zest of life of GP
Speaker 2: Gary player.
Speaker 4: I loved the high kick always sure. Yeah he bolted.
Speaker 4: He got out of there quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, but he wanted to get get it,
Speaker 2: get that first burst of fanfare.
Speaker 4: Yeah, going first, the first one round of applause, go first.
Speaker 2: It seemed like Jack was pretty emotional there, kind of like, I,
Speaker 2: you know, if it's the allergies, you know this, I
Speaker 2: didn't guess see it with like, but it looked like
Speaker 2: he was fighting back tears.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it was. I'm very glad we went
Speaker 4: up there. I don't know, you never know anymore. You
Speaker 4: have left Tom Watson. Great to see him. Is there
Speaker 4: somebody else that would be like sir Nick was out there?
Speaker 4: He is he could he be the next honorary Sorry,
Speaker 4: that's always I got a guy who I'll tell you about.
Speaker 4: This guy woozy. I mean, I think you gotta win
Speaker 4: more than one, right or maybe not. Let's get with
Speaker 4: je Sarson never won more than one. He was a starter.
Speaker 4: Other notes. I saw I met ray Lewis in the
Speaker 4: hole every running back's worst fear. I was going through
Speaker 4: this tunnel of people to get across from the front
Speaker 4: from the first nine to the back guy behind the
Speaker 4: tenth tee. And I look up and it's just me
Speaker 4: and ray Lewis in this tunnel. It's ray Lewis coming
Speaker 4: at me. I did not try to break through the
Speaker 4: tackle side step. I was like, oh my god, Lewis
Speaker 4: all that talk about Ravens And it was literally literally
Speaker 4: met him in this talk while.
Speaker 2: We're here, you know, p J and I had a
Speaker 2: theory of of of what to what could explain John
Speaker 2: Ram's pour around? What is that somebody met him in
Speaker 2: the hole with with Haft and Burrell. Chris got her up,
Speaker 2: meets John Ram in the hole, and and just senses
Speaker 2: top and and and rom encountered a force that he
Speaker 2: hasn't seen yet, you know, and and realized, you know
Speaker 2: what he just got matched with with with Haft and Burrel.
Speaker 4: Other quick notes, This came out and Golf Week Calcavecchia
Speaker 4: booted for phone former major winner thrown off the grounds
Speaker 4: for having a phone offense. Like that's crazy, but you
Speaker 4: know the rules of rules and gusta.
Speaker 2: What's the threshold of number of majors that you think
Speaker 2: that you don't get thrown off the like?
Speaker 4: Apparently and definitely not above it.
Speaker 2: Like, here's a question if if this happens to DL three,
Speaker 2: is he thrown off the ground?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. Definitely not. He feels like more
Speaker 4: of a like a state promise, Yes, the statesman of
Speaker 4: the game. That's interesting, that's an interesting hypothesis.
Speaker 2: Definitely, there's definitely a level of player that does not
Speaker 2: get thrown off like definitely.
Speaker 4: And then one more romantic little bit of emptying the notebook.
Speaker 4: This came from Brentley Roman in front of the program
Speaker 4: at Golf Channel. Uh, Charles Coody, who's you know getting
Speaker 4: up there struggling to move around. You know he's using
Speaker 4: as a cane standing out over the first hole, a
Speaker 4: person with the persimmon wood the grip in the in
Speaker 4: the ground using the an old persimon club as a cane.
Speaker 4: I just found that kind of cool image of him
Speaker 4: standing out looking over Augusta and using a persimmon wood
Speaker 4: as a cane. So that's those are odds and ends
Speaker 4: random Thursday notebook stuff. I got, I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 2: I saw a kid eating ca andy bar, young kid seven,
Speaker 2: the new Master, obviously all the rage.
Speaker 4: I asked for a review. What do you say? So
Speaker 4: it's okay? He said? He said, well, where's the stack up?
Speaker 2: He goes, you know, it's definitely no Snickers bar, but
Speaker 2: it's better than a plane.
Speaker 4: Hershees, bar. Okay, okay, that's where it's where it's sitting.
Speaker 4: And can't and talk about the candy bar. PJ is
Speaker 4: going to do an on camera review at some point.
Speaker 4: The candy god over there. We'll do it, do an
Speaker 4: on camera review.
Speaker 3: I will say I had a Snickers today.
Speaker 4: It was great.
Speaker 3: I still have not touched the Master's candy.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll do it. We'll do it on the
Speaker 4: Instagram story.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what's going on with the
Speaker 2: with the with the with your agenda here.
Speaker 4: Where the storylines. Nobody's talking about.
Speaker 3: My active People want the PTI sidebar and the pt
Speaker 3: what did we miss side We're just We're just going
Speaker 3: all over the place.
Speaker 4: I can't keep up. You know, the moment that the
Speaker 4: show comes from script is the moment we quit. I agree,
Speaker 4: just might as well fire us in the sun.
Speaker 2: All right, we won't be scripted except by that's just
Speaker 2: I'm not going off.
Speaker 4: That was incredible, incredible.
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I lost my scripting. So I'm just
Speaker 2: wearing one. I'm not actually.
Speaker 4: Being scripted, all right. Storyline one that nobody's talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about the olds. I'm worried about the olds
Speaker 2: out there. It appears that there is a there's a
Speaker 2: widow maker on the golf course. I think i've I've
Speaker 2: started to identify this is where the olds lose their round.
Speaker 2: We saw two stringing together miraculous rounds today and sure enough,
Speaker 2: here comes the fifteenth.
Speaker 4: It is the widow maker. I'm a golf course. The
Speaker 4: olds were getting popped there and.
Speaker 3: They were ready nine. I believe that was a question
Speaker 3: in the will Knights f e pool was over eight
Speaker 3: and a half for highest score this week, which has
Speaker 3: cashed already.
Speaker 4: Oh wow. You know this is the thing. If they
Speaker 4: hit a good drive, they don't have the option to
Speaker 4: go for it.
Speaker 2: They have to go to this miserable layup, which nobody
Speaker 2: wants to lay up because it's just a it's a
Speaker 2: super hard webshot, and then you know they don't have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to do this, which I heard on the telecast,
Speaker 2: which I loved, you know, and this is why.
Speaker 4: They should abolish.
Speaker 2: They should get the next renovation at Augusta Nashville should
Speaker 2: be removing the right bunker, which is unoriginal, the right
Speaker 2: bunker on the green. I will continue to yell this
Speaker 2: at the top of the top of the mountain for
Speaker 2: everybody to hear. Trevor Immelman, great great, great color guys,
Speaker 2: Champion Masters, champion analysts, because this is on the broadcast.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when players are between clubs on the fifteenth, they
Speaker 2: try and put it in that bunker the bail out
Speaker 2: and he goes down to be like I love that play,
Speaker 2: you know, like great strategy, and it's just it's a spot.
Speaker 2: It was put in there to be like a hazard,
Speaker 2: and it's turned into just a place to bail. And
Speaker 2: that shot would have so much more cinema if there
Speaker 2: wasn't that spot to bail. Like how fun was Gary
Speaker 2: Woodland's ball, which like he hits it and it's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, he just flagged that great round by
Speaker 2: Woodland by the way, awesome, awesome round and then it
Speaker 2: and then it goes over and it's bounding down.
Speaker 4: It's like that. It would just be so much better
Speaker 4: without them. Counter Would they start bailing out into the
Speaker 4: grandstands right and just shipping balls into the fans standing
Speaker 4: and then putting dropping in front of it. Then they
Speaker 4: could take out the grand stand. I guess yeah, then
Speaker 4: that's easier to remove. Then you'd even just take out
Speaker 4: the whole grand stand. That would be cinema. Would you
Speaker 4: get a bad bounce off the grand stand? Would it stay?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Maybe it's actually the thing is they could angle the
Speaker 2: grand stand in a way that it shoots him back
Speaker 2: into the water.
Speaker 4: There you go, that's a good one. Whittle Makers. Too
Speaker 4: bad for Maria. He was coming for a red round
Speaker 4: there and got popped.
Speaker 2: Okay up next uh the pass rush our offensive line pairing.
Speaker 2: They just couldn't get off the ball this morning, Lamachi,
Speaker 2: Cabrera and Fridge.
Speaker 4: I was in front of them, following the group, and
Speaker 4: I just kept looking back how the hogs doing the
Speaker 4: rough day? I saw like midway through the through the turbine.
Speaker 4: That are all the big pluses.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where they all figured it finished, but
Speaker 2: but that was tough.
Speaker 4: We're opening up holes for the run game, all right, Okay,
Speaker 4: they couldn't run the ball there, just could never establish
Speaker 4: the run. Today up next, nobody talking about we've got uh.
Speaker 2: This is a case of manifesting not working out. Our
Speaker 2: and p says he's gonna go win the par three
Speaker 2: competition and the Masters. I think he said to plus
Speaker 2: seven second plus five seven, that's not gonna happen. Didn't
Speaker 2: win either.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he could win the Masters, it would
Speaker 3: be incredible, I guess, but.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna win. Follow this morning.
Speaker 2: And then uh, and then we got we got the
Speaker 2: clocked man, he got the front road. It was Aldrich
Speaker 2: Pater is so lost. I felt replaced. Come back with
Speaker 2: a new model next year because this this isn't gonna
Speaker 2: work out, clog.
Speaker 3: Serious issues.
Speaker 4: I was told that they Aldrich pot Geater has the
Speaker 4: largest team in golf by note. It was like the
Speaker 4: team being you know, whatever, guy who gets your meal, dietitian,
Speaker 4: no stretch guy, all these things. I saw his dad
Speaker 4: on He's got a big team people.
Speaker 3: Dad's still wearing the matching scripting.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, you know, I think we sort of had
Speaker 4: this one. We sort of called this one early. You know,
Speaker 4: if you're just if you're just speed demon and your
Speaker 4: speed demon is not playing well, you know in this season.
Speaker 4: You know, unfortunately for Potty too, we like this sort
Speaker 4: of saw this coming, and you know, he was so
Speaker 4: wild with the driver, just left, left, left, left the
Speaker 4: whole way, or at least for the front nine that
Speaker 4: I watched that part, he was just a mess, a
Speaker 4: total mess. Obviously, the bladed chip to start the day
Speaker 4: is not going to put you in a good mindset
Speaker 4: when that's already a weakness of your game. Potty is clogged,
Speaker 4: it's just overflowing. We have a total mess on our hands.
Speaker 4: DFL eighty four the Beauty.
Speaker 2: Though he's a young player, this kind of experience can
Speaker 2: harden him and he could come out of the other
Speaker 2: side a better player.
Speaker 4: Any other storylines no one is talking about. Final one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did the sheriff send out the deputy for a
Speaker 2: tactical sweep?
Speaker 4: The Savans team went out.
Speaker 2: Depe Sam went out this morning, swept area, made made
Speaker 2: made sure it was safe for the sheriff to come through.
Speaker 2: I will say, Sheriff's got to do kid.
Speaker 3: He can't be getting into any accidents out there. He
Speaker 3: needs some help from his boy to make sure the
Speaker 3: land mines were put down.
Speaker 2: I gotta say the sheriff, he played it. That was
Speaker 2: an impressive afternoon round. I would be uh, I'd be frightened.
Speaker 2: I would be frightened if I'm in the field that
Speaker 2: he goes out tomorrow morning hangs a number. And we've
Speaker 2: seen this from Scotty here where it's like that second
Speaker 2: and third round he just goes and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's like, all right, well I didn't expect that to
Speaker 2: be that quick. So Scotty, Scotty there, I will point
Speaker 2: out for Sam. You know, this could be a storyline
Speaker 2: later in the week. There is there a promotion in
Speaker 2: the works. I think he's been eyeing the lieutenant positions.
Speaker 2: What where does he need to finish in this field
Speaker 2: to get the get the lieutenant bars.
Speaker 4: He needs the top five, top five. Top five is fine.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have a lot on the resume yet. Top
Speaker 4: five will get him there, and then we're starting to
Speaker 4: work our way up. There's many ranks to work your
Speaker 4: way up. All right, do we do your real leaderboard?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: All right, let's do We're gonna close it out. Andy's
Speaker 4: real leader.
Speaker 2: You don't even remember who's on it.
Speaker 4: I'll do it just I'll do it live.
Speaker 2: Look he has a graphic. All right, right, I got it,
Speaker 2: I got it. I gotta figure it out. He's leading
Speaker 2: at five hundred. This is no surprise. He's alone at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 4: He made it. Huh. Alright, he's alone at the top.
Speaker 2: All right, this is the first in a while that
Speaker 2: Sam doesn't exist there.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, all right, I have to see you more. Okay.
Speaker 2: The good news for Sam, he's not gonna encroaching any
Speaker 2: uh you know, standing water here we go, yeah, right
Speaker 2: up next, you know, you know it's not on the leaderboard.
Speaker 4: Was shot this morning.
Speaker 2: When I saw his name jump up on the leaderboard,
Speaker 2: I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 4: He's a great tee and green player gets a little
Speaker 4: sideways sometimes. But okay, up next, we got Jason Day.
Speaker 4: All right, so we go, Rory Ja Day on your board. Honestly,
Speaker 4: this would be a great, great story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I I I love I've been a long
Speaker 2: time Jason Day. Yeah, you know, he's played this is
Speaker 2: it's not in the same vein of Rory. But you
Speaker 2: look at like the first five years of Jason Day's
Speaker 2: career and you're like, this guy is going to win
Speaker 2: a Masters, and there's so many times this happened in
Speaker 2: the history of golf. Then they just don't do it,
Speaker 2: and it would be so awesome to see.
Speaker 4: Him get it done at age thirty eight. I think
Speaker 4: that sounds about thirty eight would be amazing, he would be.
Speaker 4: It would be great. He was sort of an icon
Speaker 4: for us the last last decade coming up and not
Speaker 4: as well, you know, knowing maybe this decade, but you know,
Speaker 4: by next week we could all be blowing in balloons
Speaker 4: before rounds. That's the bird watching year. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Up next p he stands for problem. He Reid is
Speaker 2: on the board. We're gonna skip over Shane Lowry. Uh
Speaker 2: the Honda, the Honda experience.
Speaker 3: Shane Lowry We've never discussed at all. I was stunned
Speaker 3: to see he's in the top ten.
Speaker 4: I mean he does this. He does this though.
Speaker 2: Xanderschofle up next at two under with Justin Rose. Great
Speaker 2: round from Rosie, I mean battling late in the day
Speaker 2: you know he's got the first round Magic Sky Scheffler
Speaker 2: at two under and uh, and we're gonna wrap it
Speaker 2: up with uh, do we go Bridgeman, Tommy Scottie and
Speaker 2: then Bridgeman Bridgeman, Bridgeman, Tommy's Tommy's probably there.
Speaker 4: There's only seventh spots on the board, Tommy and Bridgeman
Speaker 4: at one. You'll went to the Bridgeman before Tom. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right? That one great finish for Bridgeman. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would just say anybody that's plus one or better
Speaker 2: has to feel really good.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do you think? I agree with that?
Speaker 2: What would be your like number where you feel okay with?
Speaker 4: You'll find I think it depends on the talent.
Speaker 3: You know, who's is balented at plus one?
Speaker 4: Who's that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Is fits feeling okay at two over? I think I
Speaker 4: would throw him in the like you're okay? I don't
Speaker 4: think so all right. I don't think he's got the horsepower.
Speaker 2: I just think, you know, like with so, like with
Speaker 2: Cameron Young, he shot forty on the front nine. I
Speaker 2: wrote about Cameron Young and Rory for the newsletter Watch
Speaker 2: that group.
Speaker 4: At this point.
Speaker 2: He played that round and he's got to play just
Speaker 2: and he played a sensational back nine to get himself
Speaker 2: back in the mix. He's got to play that way
Speaker 2: the rest of the tournament. He can't afford to have
Speaker 2: kind of another lull. You can afford to have one
Speaker 2: bad stretch of golf in a tournament and win. Rory
Speaker 2: dabbed in four bad holes last year, which you know
Speaker 2: equates like one bad stretch.
Speaker 4: This is not to suggest like anyone beyond one is
Speaker 4: like completely toast, but you're saying in a good spot,
Speaker 4: feeling good, like you think Bryson's toast at four over.
Speaker 2: I don't foresee away with the board there, with McElroy,
Speaker 2: with Scottie, with Justin Rose, with Xander who's you know,
Speaker 2: been playing exceptional golf, with Patrick Reid, you know, Tommy,
Speaker 2: you just I just don't see a way where though,
Speaker 2: like all these guys that are like super world class
Speaker 2: players and absolute menaces at Augustin National, I don't see
Speaker 2: a way where all those guys kind of fall off.
Speaker 2: But if you do something absolutely spectacular, you know you
Speaker 2: can get back into it, you know, just a side note,
Speaker 2: and I don't think a lot of people will. This
Speaker 2: sucks for Colin Morrikawa Yeah, he absolutely sucks. He's like
Speaker 2: so wounded. I was listening to him. He's like, I
Speaker 2: want to sco at it, but I can't because my
Speaker 2: legs don't trust that. Like I can't fire because my
Speaker 2: legs don't.
Speaker 4: And he's hitting it.
Speaker 2: He's hitting little poofballs out there. He's still at two over.
Speaker 2: But you're talking about a guy playing as good of
Speaker 2: golf as he had ever as he's played in a
Speaker 2: really long time in the lead up. The back injury hurts,
Speaker 2: and this is a course that he has played so
Speaker 2: well on.
Speaker 4: It's awful. It's awful. It would have been him on
Speaker 4: the four or five favorites for sure had he proceeded
Speaker 4: without the injury. It's it sucks quite frankly. All right,
Speaker 4: I think that does it for this Thursday Night Live episode.
Speaker 4: Anything else you want to throw out there? Yeah? One other,
Speaker 4: one other thing? Okay, low am, low am. Watch. Yes.
Speaker 2: I think like Ethan Fang gets some flack even from
Speaker 2: his peers.
Speaker 4: This is we heard it on Tuesday about how he
Speaker 4: hit slap cuts from certain college piece.
Speaker 2: He is not like a track man golfer, like you're
Speaker 2: never gonna be wowed by his numbers. But This was
Speaker 2: a day where where you got to know how to
Speaker 2: golf golfer ball and if you don't have those TrackMan numbers,
Speaker 2: you got to be a real, real golfer ball er.
Speaker 2: This guy is a real golfer. He is awesome at
Speaker 2: playing golf. I don't know what he's gonna if he's
Speaker 2: gonna have a great professional career, but you look at
Speaker 2: the you look at the way he plays, the way
Speaker 2: he hits the golf ball, and then you look at
Speaker 2: what he's done in his amateur and collegiate career, and
Speaker 2: it is he is so impressive for the way when
Speaker 2: you watch him t off and it made me think.
Speaker 4: It gets across the lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like, I I hope he gets it
Speaker 2: done because this is the setup that just favors somebody
Speaker 2: that knows how to play golf doesn't know how to
Speaker 2: you know, you don't have to know how to you
Speaker 2: just have to know where to leave. And this is
Speaker 2: you know, the whole point with Ali, Like you could
Speaker 2: get around that golf course if you knew where to
Speaker 2: leave it. And I thought that's the biggest thing that
Speaker 2: stood out to me with Rory's round was like he
Speaker 2: did not play well, but he left it in all
Speaker 2: the right places.
Speaker 4: Ali. If you go on eighteen, go watch Olie's.
Speaker 2: Round like you will, you will see the exact spot
Speaker 2: to hit the ball and when you know you're not
Speaker 2: gonna hit the green all right, the exact spot to
Speaker 2: hit the ball, to get up and down.
Speaker 4: Yep, it was. It was awesome. I've wrote about him today.
Speaker 4: You can read that on the Friday Golf website. We
Speaker 4: are churning out a lot of writing, social videos, journals
Speaker 4: with Ryan Gerrard, firsthand journal as a rookie with Joseph Almania,
Speaker 4: a great project he's been working on. We're busting our butts.
Speaker 4: We appreciate all the support. We're only doing it because
Speaker 4: people listen and watch and read and all these things.
Speaker 4: We're very fortunate. We're gonna be doing it daily. Thanks
Speaker 4: to Mercedes be Tratty for supporting our work, kind of
Speaker 4: enabling us to come down with that amount of people
Speaker 4: to produce that work. We'll be back Friday night after
Speaker 4: play another daily nightly recap. We're gonna have cutwatch miss
Speaker 4: Cut Fellas. Go ahead, check out the website.
Speaker 2: This is a second You know, we have such a
Speaker 2: wide array this year that's you know the best part
Speaker 2: about you know, so many people have stopped being asked
Speaker 2: me like, you know, it's gotta be great watching This
Speaker 2: is what I love about you know. Where we're at
Speaker 2: now is like we can create a wide array of stuff.
Speaker 2: KVV wrote a great article this morning about Jack. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Jack and a longtime golf writer. That's like, it's just
Speaker 2: not something you're gonna read. It's not a gamer's ever.
Speaker 2: You can read it tomorrow morning when you wake up.
Speaker 2: It's so good. And then and then Joseph's stuff with
Speaker 2: Ryan Girard is really cool.
Speaker 4: It's been great to get to know Ryan.
Speaker 2: He is just like such a golf yeah chat, and
Speaker 2: but yeah, thanks thanks to everybody on our team and
Speaker 2: everybody behind the scenes on our team that's helping get
Speaker 2: all this stuff out the door.
Speaker 4: We will be back Friday night, same place, about the
Speaker 4: same time, probably seven fifteen is seven thirty on YouTube. Obviously,
Speaker 4: will be in your podcast feeds thereafter. Thank you, mister
Speaker 4: PJ for producing a lot of a lot of compliments
Speaker 4: about all your fancy graphics. I heard you. I heard
Speaker 4: his story. Yeah that that.
Speaker 2: You got that someday came up and said, oh my God, PJ,
Speaker 2: I love your work. And you two were together.
Speaker 4: I don't know, and and you Yorks to do her together.
Speaker 2: And then the guy turned and asked you to take
Speaker 2: the guy who said something along the lines I love
Speaker 2: the shotgun start and then asked you to take a
Speaker 2: picture of him and PJ.
Speaker 4: I don't think that happened, but I would love it
Speaker 4: if it did, with both of us. And BP was
Speaker 4: just like, no, just take it with him. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: would say, is the star. I think this has got lost.
Speaker 4: That's totally fine. We just want to elevate PJ as
Speaker 4: much as possible, as often as possible. Please keep me
Speaker 4: out of it, all right, enjoy your Thursday's Friday mornings.
Speaker 4: We'll going back to you and talk to you on
Speaker 4: Friday night.
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