WEBVTT - Five Things About the 2021 Masters with Shane Bacon

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<v Speaker 1>of the year, and it's upon us. It's been just

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<v Speaker 1>a few months since the last Masters. For this episode

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<v Speaker 1>to preview the Masters, I thought nobody would be better

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<v Speaker 1>than Shane Bacon. Shane is a host of Golf Today.

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<v Speaker 1>He does it with Damon Hack over the weekends and

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<v Speaker 1>tournament rounds during the week every week on Golf Channel.

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<v Speaker 1>This year, he will be part of the Live from

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<v Speaker 1>crew as well as he will be doing some Masters

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<v Speaker 1>dot Com coverage, so he's dialed in. Needed to bring

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<v Speaker 1>somebody on that's smarter than me to talk about this Masters.

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<v Speaker 1>So we each came up with five things to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about and we get into it. So this should get

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<v Speaker 1>you all primed and ready to go for the Masters.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're looking for more coverage. Just a quick reminder,

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<v Speaker 1>I am on the Shotgun Start. I host that with

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<v Speaker 1>Brendan Porath. We will be doing daily podcasts all week long,

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<v Speaker 1>so check out that in the Shotgun Start feed, on Spotify,

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<v Speaker 1>iTunes wherever you get your podcasts. But without further ado,

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<v Speaker 1>here is the great Shane Bacon.

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<v Speaker 2>I miss a green for example, I'm already upset when

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<v Speaker 2>I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I find my ball in a bright egg

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<v Speaker 2>Frida egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida Egg Egg Egg,

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<v Speaker 2>Frida egg bride egg Lie, I'm about ready to run

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<v Speaker 2>off of the hump course.

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<v Speaker 1>Shane, welcome back. It's been a while.

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<v Speaker 2>Appreciate you having me excited, uh to be on the

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<v Speaker 2>Frida Egg podcast. You've got a fancy polo on and everything.

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<v Speaker 2>Look at you with your is that a seminal polo.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a semino polo. Nice your fancy boy recently visited.

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<v Speaker 1>Always good to take a locker on that place. They

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<v Speaker 1>got that Walker cup coming up.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm jealous. I'm jealous. Have you've never been down there?

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<v Speaker 2>Never playing golf in that area? And I think we are.

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<v Speaker 2>Wife and I are planning a get out of the

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<v Speaker 2>Northeast the real winter of February trip down to Florida

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<v Speaker 2>next year. That's one of our things. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>think I'm gonna be texting and hitting up everybody I

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<v Speaker 2>can about playing a little bit of.

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<v Speaker 1>Golf the swap. Yeah, you know, outside of a few places,

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<v Speaker 1>you could kind of forget about playing golf down there,

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<v Speaker 1>but the few play. If you're only going for a

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<v Speaker 1>few days, there's plenty of good places to see.

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<v Speaker 2>I listen, I'm not that fancy. Just as long as

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<v Speaker 2>it's got a T box, a couple of greens that

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<v Speaker 2>I can swing in, and it's not you know, thirty

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<v Speaker 2>two degrees in Windy, I'm gonna be in on it.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the most amasic thing I've found was it

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<v Speaker 1>was like seventy five and Sauday every day. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>unbelievable way to live here Winters. Hey, Yeah, Golf Channel personality.

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<v Speaker 1>We haven't talked to you. You know, you are the

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<v Speaker 1>host of Golf Today, you host it with David Hack,

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<v Speaker 1>and now you're also part of Live From. I got

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<v Speaker 1>to ask, you know, as a golf fan who grew

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<v Speaker 1>up with Live Frun being kind of like an institution

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<v Speaker 1>of major championships like round ends you turn on Live From,

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<v Speaker 1>do you pitch yourself a little bit about being part

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<v Speaker 1>of that?

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely? I mean, I you know, being at the Players

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<v Speaker 2>and get a chance to kind of host it every

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<v Speaker 2>day was wild. You know, getting a chance to kind

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<v Speaker 2>of be in that seat and work with Noda and

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<v Speaker 2>Trevor and it's we're recording on Tuesday. Damon Hack and

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<v Speaker 2>I are going to host for a couple hours today

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<v Speaker 2>and take through some of the pressures. I think we

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<v Speaker 2>had Phil and Rory and Dustin, so that'll be fun.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, I mean being a part of

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<v Speaker 2>any of this stuff is just crazy. And being involved

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<v Speaker 2>in the capacity, you know, I go back to two

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<v Speaker 2>years ago, Andy with with you and I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>bumming around Augusta and you guys obviously had had a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of work. You guys were kind of getting shotgun

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<v Speaker 2>start going, and you had the big Spey house and

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<v Speaker 2>I was over there, but I didn't really have a

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<v Speaker 2>lot I was doing in the area, you know, in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of work and to kind of fast forward a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of years and kind of have these opport comunities

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<v Speaker 2>as wild. So yes, I definitely do pinch myself. I am.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm excited to be a part of it. It's very

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<v Speaker 2>very cool. I got, you know, more text during the

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<v Speaker 2>players than I've received in a long time burning I've done,

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<v Speaker 2>so I can only imagine what this week's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be like. We did a look back. We do a

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<v Speaker 2>thing tournaments, we forget. It's a little bit like kind

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<v Speaker 2>of what you guys do in terms of kind of

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<v Speaker 2>looking back. Obviously way more condensed version for TV, but

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<v Speaker 2>we did a look at Damon and I had a

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<v Speaker 2>look back. We called it a Master's worth remembering on Monday,

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<v Speaker 2>where we look back in ninety one and Woozies win

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<v Speaker 2>and then we're going to dive a little deeper into

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<v Speaker 2>Rory today. So you know, it's just fun. It's five

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<v Speaker 2>minute little hits here and there on live from and

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<v Speaker 2>involved in that coverage is very cool.

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<v Speaker 1>Sneaky underrated Old Masters. Is that Stadler one with Dan Pole.

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<v Speaker 1>I love the Dan Pole story. He's got a golf

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<v Speaker 1>course in Michigan called the pole Cat that he designed.

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<v Speaker 2>The pole Cat, the Polecat. Have you played it?

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<v Speaker 1>No?

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<v Speaker 2>I want to, though, I need to see the logo.

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<v Speaker 1>I know. And he was like he was like a

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<v Speaker 1>long hitter before and obviously a great athlete, like they

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<v Speaker 1>talked about how he could have played Major League Baseball.

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<v Speaker 1>He was, you know three. I think he was an

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<v Speaker 1>All State in three different sports in high school. So

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's that was a cool one and he

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<v Speaker 1>almost won, but it would have been one of those

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<v Speaker 1>obscure Masters winners. But yeah, looking back at terments is

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<v Speaker 1>so fun. You just find so much Little fo and

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<v Speaker 1>Woozy is always a character to pull back threads out.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I can kind of tell my wife

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<v Speaker 2>this one day. I can go back over the course

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<v Speaker 2>of my adult life and I kind of know how

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<v Speaker 2>old I was, just depending on what I was wearing

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<v Speaker 2>at the time. And one of the cool things about

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<v Speaker 2>going back in any sports writing, but especially golf, is

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<v Speaker 2>how they wrote, you know, how they wrote about the players,

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<v Speaker 2>how they wrote about tournaments, the stuff they would dissect.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, sometimes it was the way they looked. And

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<v Speaker 2>you guys have focused a lot on this, the way

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<v Speaker 2>they looked, the way they dressed. You don't you don't

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<v Speaker 2>see that as much. I don't. I don't feel like

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<v Speaker 2>writing is as revealing as in the negative as it

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<v Speaker 2>used to be. And h and so it's definitely exciting

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<v Speaker 2>to to kind of look look back on that that

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<v Speaker 2>type of stuff. And obviously, I mean you forget sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>how many people had chances to win. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 2>the thing about these major championships and these big events,

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<v Speaker 2>is you know, players that didn't win one having so

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<v Speaker 2>many opportunities. I can only imagine how many times on

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<v Speaker 2>this podcast you're gonna bring up Lee Westwood and when

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<v Speaker 2>you dive through his career to look at how close

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<v Speaker 2>he's been so many times in this particular major championship

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<v Speaker 2>and still hasn't won one. And you know, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>outside of maybe this year, probably will not win one.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it's defeating. I had a friend of mine text

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<v Speaker 2>me on Sunday. They were at Easter brunch in Florida,

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<v Speaker 2>and Ernie Els was at the table next to him,

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<v Speaker 2>and I got that text and I was bummed out

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<v Speaker 2>because Ernie should be up here, you know, Ernie should

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<v Speaker 2>be flying up to Augusta and playing on Sunday and

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<v Speaker 2>getting ready for the Masters. And the fact that he's not.

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<v Speaker 2>It just they're listened the windows short and you only

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<v Speaker 2>have so many times. It was crazy. The one player

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<v Speaker 2>I've heard mention that in this press conference this week

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<v Speaker 2>was Callin Morakal of all players, who's you know, one

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<v Speaker 2>of the youngest players in the field.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, everybody always says, oh, he'll have another chance.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's something that like we always talk about

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<v Speaker 1>with like oh, song Jay didn't get it done last Masters,

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<v Speaker 1>He'll he'll get way more chances. But the thing about

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<v Speaker 1>golf is like it is a fleet. It can be fleeting.

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<v Speaker 1>We just saw it with Jordan Speith. We see it

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<v Speaker 1>with players all all the time that just lose it.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, we saw it where Sevy played his

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<v Speaker 1>best golf at a young age. Like the chances you

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<v Speaker 1>might not get another one. People we always like to say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, he'll get way more chances at it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>good that this guy one because you know so and

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<v Speaker 1>so will has you know, ten of these. But it's

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<v Speaker 1>really hard to win one of these four events every year,

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<v Speaker 1>like everybody wants to win one of the four, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know that's that's the thing. There aren't many chances.

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<v Speaker 2>I was, I watch the Tiger this week on HBO.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd never I hadn't watched it yet, and I watched it,

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<v Speaker 2>and it to just kind of go back and remember

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<v Speaker 2>what Tiger did in the majors, And obviously that was

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<v Speaker 2>his focus, but you know India, any great player, that's

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<v Speaker 2>their focus. And the fact that he just would win

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<v Speaker 2>them all the time. He would show up the favorite

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<v Speaker 2>and win them and win them different ways. And I

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<v Speaker 2>called you a couple of days ago and was just

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<v Speaker 2>talking about Hoylake and you know, him hitting iron off

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<v Speaker 2>all those teas, like the fact that you can do

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<v Speaker 2>that and pull it off and and be that consistent.

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<v Speaker 2>And you you brought up a point, you said, the

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<v Speaker 2>difference in the mentality then, which wasn't that long ago

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<v Speaker 2>versus what we see now in modern golf. Bryson's press

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<v Speaker 2>conference was just on. He was talking, he got asked

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<v Speaker 2>and was talking about different approaches or angles he might

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<v Speaker 2>take off the tees and it's just it's just so

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<v Speaker 2>different that you know, it's it's I want to hit

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<v Speaker 2>driver unless I can't, is the mentality now, and and

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, not what fifteen years ago it was,

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<v Speaker 2>I need to find fairways. That's that's the best chance

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<v Speaker 2>of success.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you're a big basketball fan. I'm a big

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<v Speaker 1>basketball fan. But Tiger in a way is kind of

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<v Speaker 1>reminiscent of the way Jordan or Lebron has won across

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<v Speaker 1>different eras of the game and in drastically different styles,

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<v Speaker 1>where both of them did it with sheer athleticism early

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<v Speaker 1>and talent, and then as as they've aged, they've gotten

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<v Speaker 1>it done different ways, where you know, Lebron's just like

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<v Speaker 1>kind of like a bully. Now he's big, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>not just the you know in Miami where he was

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<v Speaker 1>just on a whole different athletic level than everybody else,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was thin down like now he's a little

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit more of a thick boy goes down

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<v Speaker 1>there and he's still you know, you know, reads a

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<v Speaker 1>defense unlike anybody else and knows where the ball's going,

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<v Speaker 1>where the defense is coming from. But like Tiger was

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<v Speaker 1>that way where he's won across different generations, different styles

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<v Speaker 1>in playing playing different styles, you know, like Hoylake, like

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<v Speaker 1>nobody would do that now, like where he just hit

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<v Speaker 1>iron everywhere, but he won that way.

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<v Speaker 2>It was it was it's wild. And when you watch

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<v Speaker 2>the replays of the way he approached it, in the

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<v Speaker 2>shots he hit, I was telling you, you know, this

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<v Speaker 2>guy's hitting a blade two iron. I mean I had

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<v Speaker 2>a blade titles two iron and when I had kind

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<v Speaker 2>of the driver yips in my early twenties, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you miss it sometimes and you hit it off the

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<v Speaker 2>toe and it goes like two oh five, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And the fact that this guy is hitting a blade

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<v Speaker 2>two iron in the center of the face, in the

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<v Speaker 2>middle of every fairway was wild. And again to your point,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's that mentality, what do I need to do

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<v Speaker 2>in this game against this team. You know, I've been

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<v Speaker 2>trying to think of what's the most impressive thing in sport,

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<v Speaker 2>and you brought up the lebron thing, and I think

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<v Speaker 2>I've landed on this. I think the most impressive thing

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<v Speaker 2>in sport is being a quarterback and winning super Bowls

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<v Speaker 2>on different teams. Because you go to different coaches, different staff,

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<v Speaker 2>different approach, different mentality, different players. You've got to get

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<v Speaker 2>the best out of a completely different line. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>you've got to get your defense on at least to

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<v Speaker 2>a level that can be competitive because they've got to

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<v Speaker 2>be able to pull their weight. And so when you

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<v Speaker 2>look at like a Peyton Manning, you know, winning multiple

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<v Speaker 2>super Bowls on different teams, and Tom Brady, and you

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<v Speaker 2>think about how hard that must be, it brings up

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<v Speaker 2>to what you said. It's Tiger won early in his

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<v Speaker 2>career when he was longer than everybody else, and then

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<v Speaker 2>he won a major where he didn't hit driver and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and then you watched twenty nineteen and it

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<v Speaker 2>was this. It was a different looking golf swing. It

0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.880
<v Speaker 2>was a different looking Tiger Woods. Yeah, and somehow the

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<v Speaker 2>mentality the first tea, you know, the whole story about

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<v Speaker 2>Tony fenw say, and he asked him a question, didn't

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<v Speaker 2>really get a response, And all of those things might

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<v Speaker 2>be different, but it's the same mind. And again that's

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<v Speaker 2>that's the key to it. That's why tennis players are

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<v Speaker 2>so great on different surfaces. It's because they're the same.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the same mind. Say, it's knowing what to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Tiger is the best ever in knowing what to do

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<v Speaker 2>to get it done. Because Tiger knew was a seventy

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<v Speaker 2>two whole battle, not just a one day, two day,

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<v Speaker 2>three day deal.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember who tweeted out on that Sunday morning

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<v Speaker 1>where you know Tiger is his approach and mentality and

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<v Speaker 1>relationships with his peers has changed so much in this

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<v Speaker 1>last chapter of his career, where you know, he was

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<v Speaker 1>friendly with everybody. And then I remember somebody tweeted out,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember who, but it was like, Tiger's got

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<v Speaker 1>that look, that look we haven't seen it in a while,

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<v Speaker 1>like that that early Tiger look, and and where on

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<v Speaker 1>Sunday he wasn't friends with anybody, No, And I think

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<v Speaker 1>that that's like at the end of the day, when

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<v Speaker 1>you get down to it, all time competitors, they hate

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<v Speaker 1>losing more than they love winning.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's the ones they remember, right, It's the ones

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<v Speaker 2>that came so close. I mean, it's something I've always

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to ask Tiger. You know which major that you

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<v Speaker 2>lost hurt you the most? You know which one did

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<v Speaker 2>you feel like you should have won?

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<v Speaker 1>It's gotta be y e Yang, right.

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<v Speaker 2>It's probably easy to lean on the y Yang one

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<v Speaker 2>because he was so close and actually missed some late Putts.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know there's probably some masters in there where

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<v Speaker 2>he feels like he could have got more out of it.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I go to twenty ten, you know that

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<v Speaker 2>that that press conference after in ten where you know what,

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<v Speaker 2>he finished fourth, you know, first golf tournament and however

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<v Speaker 2>many months and you could tell he was frustrated. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>there was nothing, there was no positive he was taken

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<v Speaker 2>from that finishing fourth. He was bummed that there was

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<v Speaker 2>people that beat him. So I would always love to

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<v Speaker 2>know which one he felt like that because something that

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<v Speaker 2>I found so interesting. You know, I do the podcast

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<v Speaker 2>Get a Grip with Max with Max Homa, and Max

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<v Speaker 2>said after the Waste Management, you know, Max went on

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<v Speaker 2>this great run this year, even before the win at Riviera,

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<v Speaker 2>and he said, you know, I feel like I had

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<v Speaker 2>the game to win at the Waste Management. And I

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<v Speaker 2>think he finished forty first that week. You know, it

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't he didn't finish second or fourth or eight. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>he finished in the forties in this PJ Torvent, but

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<v Speaker 2>he said, my ball striking was so good that I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like I should have won that week. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>it's so crazy how thin the line is.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, I completely agree. Like, that's the thing I missed

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<v Speaker 1>most about not being out covering these events occasionally in

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<v Speaker 1>person is when you watch it in person, you realize, like, God,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a shot here or shot there. In AUGUSTA

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<v Speaker 1>of all the places they play year in year out,

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<v Speaker 1>might be one of the where that's magnified the most.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, definitely, it's did you pull off the shot

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<v Speaker 1>on thirteen or did you hit in the water you

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<v Speaker 1>make double instead of a potential birdie. Three shots and

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<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden, the whole fabric of the tournament

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<v Speaker 1>is completely different with it with this golf course where

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<v Speaker 1>you know there's a car crash everywhere and it's not

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<v Speaker 1>the best term, but ah, you know, just a bad,

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<v Speaker 1>big number around every corner. That's the thing about this

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<v Speaker 1>tournament is the line between excellence and disaster.

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<v Speaker 2>Is so thin, and we see it and that and

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<v Speaker 2>that is again what's so great is I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>we see it to a certain extent every year. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>even in the November Masters, you know there were opportunities, right,

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<v Speaker 2>and and the golf course played so different, but I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>you've got to go get it even when it is

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<v Speaker 2>playing that gettable and so it's such a different mentality

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like, and I don't want to sneak into

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<v Speaker 2>our five things that we're gonna get in too.

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<v Speaker 1>You could. You could kick it off here, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to kick it off. We each came

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<v Speaker 1>up with five things. We'll go down them and we'll

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<v Speaker 1>probably have some overlap. We haven't talked about what our five.

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<v Speaker 2>Things are, so I want to real quick. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>you're talking about the thin line and the mentality of

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<v Speaker 2>this golf course and what I love about the Masters

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<v Speaker 2>and what I think is so special and cool about it. First,

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<v Speaker 2>obviously it's the Loan Major that we see at the

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<v Speaker 2>same golf course every year, but it's the veteran players

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<v Speaker 2>talking about Augusta National. And when they talk about Augusta National,

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<v Speaker 2>it's always about the mistakes and avoiding the mistakes. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know, sometimes I laugh about this each and every year,

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<v Speaker 2>and I've done it since I was a kid. I

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<v Speaker 2>laugh about thirteen, you know, because when the whole location

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<v Speaker 2>is back right on thirteen, everybody hits it front left,

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<v Speaker 2>and when the polocation's front left, everybody hits it back right,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, because you just can't error on the wrong side.

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<v Speaker 2>We did a deep dive on the nineteen ninety one Masters.

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<v Speaker 2>I was telling you about there was this great quote

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<v Speaker 2>Jack Nicholas talked about. So the golf course was playing

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<v Speaker 2>pretty gettable in nineteen ninety one, and Nicholas in the

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<v Speaker 2>second round was very much in contention, and he hits

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<v Speaker 2>it in the water on twelve. The whole location was

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<v Speaker 2>I believe it was front right in that second round,

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<v Speaker 2>and he went after it because he said the conditions

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<v Speaker 2>made him think it was a gettable shot, and he

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<v Speaker 2>hit it in the water on twelve, and he makes

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<v Speaker 2>triple and he of course berdi the next four holes,

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<v Speaker 2>as Jack tends to do, but he makes triple there

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<v Speaker 2>at twelve, and that kind of ended his chances. And

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<v Speaker 2>he said, he goes, you know, in a different conditioned Masters,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure I would have tried to pull that

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<v Speaker 2>golf shot off. So again, it's just you see the

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<v Speaker 2>flag on twelve and it's just floating over there on

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<v Speaker 2>the right side, and you've got a nine iron if

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<v Speaker 2>your Brooks Kopka or you're Molinari or your Tony Fena,

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<v Speaker 2>and you go, I can hit this thing to ten

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<v Speaker 2>feet And the moment you get out of what you

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<v Speaker 2>have to think on this golf course is when the

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<v Speaker 2>chances of the jacket go away. I want to start

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<v Speaker 2>my five things though with something I feel like you'll appreciate.

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<v Speaker 2>You're a guy much like me that likes weird stats,

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<v Speaker 2>so I found this one. We are in a current

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<v Speaker 2>run at the Masters of the return of the longer

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<v Speaker 2>first name winners. Okay, yeah, oh yeah. So from nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>ninety four to twenty and fourteen, nobody with a first

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<v Speaker 2>name longer than five letters won the Masters. It was

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<v Speaker 2>all short names. From twenty fifteen to now, we've had

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<v Speaker 2>four winners with first names of six letters or longer.

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<v Speaker 2>That brings in some of the players that I know

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<v Speaker 2>you love in and around the game. The long first

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<v Speaker 2>name is back.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think that's good for like Christian bozeiden Out.

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<v Speaker 2>He was one of the ones I'd circled. But I

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<v Speaker 2>was looking at some of the longer names.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that good for a guy named Lee or Rory.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they had they had the run though, you know

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<v Speaker 2>lefties have success at Augusta National. Apparently the shorter the name,

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<v Speaker 2>it helps.

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<v Speaker 1>Trying to think of who else, like what big name?

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<v Speaker 1>I guess six is six is questionable? On length. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got a netpick there, like six letters. I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like it's pretty standard. But Patrick Reid's gotta love it. Dustin,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it's six there's a lot of six letter

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<v Speaker 1>you know, almost all the top ten in the world

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<v Speaker 1>outside of job rom is six letters bad.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't Ley's got a chance? You know, the return Bryson

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<v Speaker 2>has seen this long first name resurgence help his chances

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<v Speaker 2>at August as well, so uh fitz.

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<v Speaker 1>Hard the hard hitting analysis here.

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<v Speaker 2>I love Aryl Hatton. I mean, just going down the

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<v Speaker 2>list some jay. I mean, this twenty year run is

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<v Speaker 2>thankfully for those guys attended.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Arrell's gonna get in his own way. The

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<v Speaker 1>major championships haven't haven't aligned with Tarrell.

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<v Speaker 2>So maybe this is the week he changes.

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<v Speaker 1>It exactly exactly. I love that. You know, that's a good,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, non serious, but serious first starter.

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<v Speaker 2>You're looking. This is what Andy does is he was

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<v Speaker 2>looking to the top right, which means he was thinking

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<v Speaker 2>of names. I could tell he was thinking of short

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<v Speaker 2>or long names. I'm not sure which way you were going,

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<v Speaker 2>but I could tell I could see the workings in

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<v Speaker 2>the brain.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I've got a second screen, so I was looking

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<v Speaker 1>at the second screen at the World Golf Records. I'd

0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.200
<v Speaker 1>like to think that I could just pull all those

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<v Speaker 1>names off the top of my head. Okay, I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the things I'm watching is the old guys.

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously I'm a big Lee Westwood fan. But besides Wes,

0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.800
<v Speaker 1>he was looking for his first You got Justin Rose,

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<v Speaker 1>Adam Scott, Sergio, Louis Stason, all these guys who have

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<v Speaker 1>had a ton of success. Some of them have won

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<v Speaker 1>in Augusta, others have been extraordinarily close all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>All of them are getting into a little bit of

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<v Speaker 1>their twilight of their years. Louis thirty eight, He's almost

0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.200
<v Speaker 1>a little unfair to throw in this bucket. But all

0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.800
<v Speaker 1>these other guys who we've watched for decades now play

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<v Speaker 1>at Augusta National, are in their forties, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and twenty five, especially in the case of Louis, Sergio, Scott,

0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.480
<v Speaker 1>and Rose, two hundred and twenty five players have won

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<v Speaker 1>one major championship eighty three of one two or more.

0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.480
<v Speaker 1>So you're getting you know that adding that second major

0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:20.080
<v Speaker 1>championship really does propel you into a different class player,

0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, like it's one thing in this sounds this

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<v Speaker 1>is the rich. You know, this is like being a

0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.000
<v Speaker 1>ten one hundred millionaire and getting to the billionaire level.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like in golf, but there aren't that many

0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.880
<v Speaker 1>guys that have won multiple major championships. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>in this era of golf, we're going to see less

0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:42.160
<v Speaker 1>of the eight plus major champions, six even six plus

0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.320
<v Speaker 1>major champions. I think they're going to be rarer. So

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<v Speaker 1>getting to two is such a big deal in terms

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<v Speaker 1>of legacy when you're looking at the post Tiger era

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<v Speaker 1>of golf.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I've called this era the era of the one

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<v Speaker 2>time major winner for a few years now, and I

0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.960
<v Speaker 2>think that's only getting easier to call the run. I

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<v Speaker 2>mean when you look at the some of the players,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't call any major win a fluke,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. I mean, obviously you've got to play really

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<v Speaker 2>well to win a major.

0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:10.159
<v Speaker 1>Not even Jimmy Walker.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I mean, you know, Jimmy player, I mean Jimmy,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, Jason Day tried his hardest to win that,

0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:16.680
<v Speaker 2>you know. I mean he makes eagle, two iron, two

0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.360
<v Speaker 2>iron to make eagle and force Jimmy to to make

0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.360
<v Speaker 2>par there at the last I mean he was being

0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.119
<v Speaker 2>pushed his hardest. I mean, you think about Jason Duffner

0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.119
<v Speaker 2>and Kevin Bradley, and there's these players that you know,

0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.200
<v Speaker 2>I think you consider a notable player that's that's probably

0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:33.480
<v Speaker 2>gonna end their career with one major win. I love

0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.840
<v Speaker 2>the idea of who can get to two. And I think,

0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, this is a golf course that favors experience,

0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.879
<v Speaker 2>and this is a place that favors experience. And when

0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:46.160
<v Speaker 2>you're Louis, You're Adam Scott, you're Sergio, you're justin Rose,

0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.440
<v Speaker 2>you're in that crop of players that obviously understand AUGUSTA

0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.200
<v Speaker 2>National and understand to a point what we talked a

0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.840
<v Speaker 2>little bit about with Tiger, right, it's it's understanding. This

0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.760
<v Speaker 2>is four day's you know, you the first day is important,

0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.679
<v Speaker 2>but it's not overly important. Just get yourself out there

0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.120
<v Speaker 2>and just get things going. Don't shoot something nasty, don't

0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.439
<v Speaker 2>come out there and shoot thirty nine on the front

0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.320
<v Speaker 2>on Thursday. And so yeah, it's it's gonna be. I

0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:12.919
<v Speaker 2>don't know, I have a feeling, you know that I

0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:14.640
<v Speaker 2>think that some of the names you mentioned could really

0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:16.760
<v Speaker 2>get in the mix. I mean, you know, you obviously Lewis.

0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.680
<v Speaker 2>What is a name that hasn't won a major yet,

0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:20.440
<v Speaker 2>but I feel like he falls right under this, right,

0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:22.600
<v Speaker 2>a guy that tends to play well if this golf

0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.560
<v Speaker 2>course totally understands, it's been playing some great golf this year.

0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:30.879
<v Speaker 2>So it's just this year, twenty twenty one, we've seen

0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:34.560
<v Speaker 2>this run of older guys playing well. You know, We've

0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:36.840
<v Speaker 2>got a couple of guys in their forties that won

0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:38.520
<v Speaker 2>in the in the early part of the rap around

0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.160
<v Speaker 2>the season, and Brian Gay and Stewart sinc. Obviously, we've

0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:44.679
<v Speaker 2>seen some great play from Sergio and yeah, I mean

0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:45.919
<v Speaker 2>we're just kind of waiting for some of the other

0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.680
<v Speaker 2>names to step up. But it's I always feel like

0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:50.280
<v Speaker 2>this is a place. I mean, we saw Freddy Couples

0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:52.040
<v Speaker 2>do it for what like thirty years. It's a place

0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:56.719
<v Speaker 2>that if you get Augusta, you can play it. And unfortunately,

0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:58.480
<v Speaker 2>for a lot of the players, if you don't get Augusta,

0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.200
<v Speaker 2>if you're a Lee Trevino or a Martin Timer, it's

0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.280
<v Speaker 2>not it just doesn't ever make sense to you.

0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.520
<v Speaker 1>I think the other thing with the if the weather

0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.880
<v Speaker 1>holds off, if I saw there might be some rain Friday, Saturday.

0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:14.040
<v Speaker 1>If there's no rain and it plays firm and fast

0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:16.560
<v Speaker 1>the way they're talking about it, I think that is

0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:20.600
<v Speaker 1>only going to play into the experienced player's hands more

0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:25.040
<v Speaker 1>this year, just because it soft Augusta is a lot

0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.080
<v Speaker 1>different than firm Augusta, and all of a sudden, being

0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:31.199
<v Speaker 1>in the right place is magnified so much because you know,

0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:35.320
<v Speaker 1>chipping from the wrong spot is infinitely harder when the

0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:37.560
<v Speaker 1>when the Greens have a little fire to them.

0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:41.680
<v Speaker 2>My second thing is obviously something I think a lot

0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:44.119
<v Speaker 2>of people are focused on Andy and it's not some

0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:45.840
<v Speaker 2>sort of a surprising thing, but it's I think it's

0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:48.960
<v Speaker 2>what My number one thing I'm circling is just speak.

0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I just want to see speed that Augusta again.

0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:55.919
<v Speaker 2>Watching Jordan's speed play Augusta was poetic early in his career.

0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:59.399
<v Speaker 2>It was he was the next guy, you know. I mean,

0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.080
<v Speaker 2>I feel like when you start to tick off the

0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:03.960
<v Speaker 2>names that just seemed to get here every year, and

0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:05.680
<v Speaker 2>and the Gulf, and it was they were gonna be

0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:07.520
<v Speaker 2>in contention. I mean they might not win, but they

0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:11.159
<v Speaker 2>were gonna be in contention. It was Jordan speed. I

0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:13.680
<v Speaker 2>saw there was this crazy stat that are our boy,

0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:17.120
<v Speaker 2>Justin Ray sent out. Speak has already led or co

0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:20.360
<v Speaker 2>led nine rounds at the Masters. There's only four players

0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:24.679
<v Speaker 2>all time with more Jack Palmer player in Woods and

0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:28.040
<v Speaker 2>Tiger's Tenbelieva. That's the number. If he has one more,

0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:31.720
<v Speaker 2>he ties Tiger's number at Augustin National. You know, obviously

0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:34.520
<v Speaker 2>getting the win is getting to win. I don't think

0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:36.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna go either way with that. If he wins

0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:38.120
<v Speaker 2>I Vleiro, it doesn't win of Leira. I don't think

0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:41.439
<v Speaker 2>it hurts or helps his chances this week. But I

0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:43.920
<v Speaker 2>just I'm excited to see Jordan Speed play this golf course.

0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.560
<v Speaker 2>To me, it's it's what we're supposed to see in

0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:50.640
<v Speaker 2>the modern game. Is is this is the next Masters guy.

0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.280
<v Speaker 1>I you know, the thing with Speak too, is like

0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:57.600
<v Speaker 1>even when he was in dark place as the last

0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:01.040
<v Speaker 1>couple of Masters not playing well, he's still around, still

0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.879
<v Speaker 1>taking cuts, Like I think. The thing that amazes me

0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:09.760
<v Speaker 1>always and with no player I've ever you get this

0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:13.000
<v Speaker 1>playing competitor, like playing golf at a fairly high level.

0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:15.840
<v Speaker 1>Like there are guys that you just watched play and

0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:18.560
<v Speaker 1>you're like, I don't understand how he just did what

0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:22.800
<v Speaker 1>he did with like I imagine it's so frustrating for players

0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:25.520
<v Speaker 1>that play with speed, because you know, you can walk

0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.399
<v Speaker 1>off the golf course and feel like you've hit it

0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:29.880
<v Speaker 1>so much better than them. And I think this happened

0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:33.880
<v Speaker 1>with Rory famously when he played with Speth and speeds

0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:37.439
<v Speaker 1>all over the place. He's in these weird spots, but

0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.840
<v Speaker 1>he's never in horrible spots. Like he he knows where

0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:42.480
<v Speaker 1>to put it around the green so he can get

0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:44.920
<v Speaker 1>up and down. But and then he just takes advantage

0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:46.840
<v Speaker 1>of And I think that's the thing. He's got this

0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.879
<v Speaker 1>patience where he knows there are birdies out there to

0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:53.720
<v Speaker 1>be made. But the key is his His will to

0:26:53.880 --> 0:26:58.040
<v Speaker 1>not give shots up is so incredible. And his ability

0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:02.000
<v Speaker 1>to shoot sixty seven when you think about almost any

0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:05.160
<v Speaker 1>other player in the same positions would have shot seventy four,

0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.679
<v Speaker 1>you know, like it is an astounding thing. I'm so

0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:12.119
<v Speaker 1>the other thing, I'm just so happy he's back. I

0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.840
<v Speaker 1>think going through what he just went through is going

0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:18.600
<v Speaker 1>to be such a big thing for the rest of

0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:21.800
<v Speaker 1>his career because I think it teaches him that it's

0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.760
<v Speaker 1>not a given, that is not like necessarily a foregone

0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:27.680
<v Speaker 1>conclusion that you're going to be one of the best

0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.360
<v Speaker 1>players in the world all the time, and the fragility

0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:32.679
<v Speaker 1>of the game and all the work that has to

0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.120
<v Speaker 1>go in. I think it's it's just going to help

0:27:35.200 --> 0:27:38.000
<v Speaker 1>him in the long run going through this adul drum

0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:38.680
<v Speaker 1>that he went through.

0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:43.919
<v Speaker 2>So we've always tried to find the next Tiger. I

0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.240
<v Speaker 2>think we all label to Rory that. I think I

0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:47.919
<v Speaker 2>was easy to do, you know, wheor he drove the

0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:50.560
<v Speaker 2>ball unlike really anything we'd ever seen in our entire

0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:52.720
<v Speaker 2>lives when he first came out and still to this

0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.800
<v Speaker 2>day drives it incredibly well. Homa tells a story about

0:27:55.800 --> 0:27:57.520
<v Speaker 2>playing with him with the Wells Fargo and he really

0:27:57.520 --> 0:27:59.399
<v Speaker 2>never just missed a driver all day. Instead, on eighteen

0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:01.560
<v Speaker 2>he kind of hits one and Max said he was

0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:04.160
<v Speaker 2>going okay finally and he said it starts drawing back

0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:05.720
<v Speaker 2>middle of the fairway and just he hit like a

0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:07.760
<v Speaker 2>twelve yard draw there and not a six yard draw.

0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:10.159
<v Speaker 2>And he was like, this guy's a machine. This is crazy.

0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:14.600
<v Speaker 2>But you know, why is it that we have continued

0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:17.160
<v Speaker 2>to skip over Speeth as the next Tiger. I mean

0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:21.720
<v Speaker 2>their games are so similar, right, I mean Tiger was longer,

0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, Tiger was one of the longest guys in golf,

0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:27.440
<v Speaker 2>much longer than everybody was playing against in his prime especially,

0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:30.760
<v Speaker 2>but never a great driver of the golf ball, would

0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:32.960
<v Speaker 2>miss the drives in the right spot, much like what

0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:34.760
<v Speaker 2>you were just saying about Jordan Speed. I mean, I

0:28:34.800 --> 0:28:37.520
<v Speaker 2>always think about where Tiger hit it on eleven at Augusta.

0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:39.640
<v Speaker 2>You know, during his prime, it's like he'd always miss

0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:41.520
<v Speaker 2>it right because he knew he could make par. He

0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:43.360
<v Speaker 2>knew he's not gonna hit a left, he's gonna make

0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.880
<v Speaker 2>six right, and was an unbelievable iron player. Speats an

0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:50.400
<v Speaker 2>unbelievable iron player, and their refusal to make bogey right,

0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:53.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean, the mentality of I'm not gonna make bogey here.

0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:55.640
<v Speaker 2>I don't care what I have to do. I go

0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:57.680
<v Speaker 2>back to fifteen all the time. You know that last

0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.400
<v Speaker 2>that third round where he makes double one set seventeen

0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:02.320
<v Speaker 2>on Saturday. You know, he hits it over the green

0:29:02.360 --> 0:29:03.640
<v Speaker 2>on eighteen, and all of a sudden, you're kind of

0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:06.600
<v Speaker 2>sitting there, going, this could get bad for Speed, right,

0:29:06.920 --> 0:29:08.160
<v Speaker 2>this is not what he wants to do. And he

0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:10.520
<v Speaker 2>hits that shot, that flopshot from over the green at

0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:13.160
<v Speaker 2>eighteen at Augustin makes Parr and obviously goes on to win.

0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:18.200
<v Speaker 2>I feel like Speeeds comparisons to Tiger are as close

0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:21.680
<v Speaker 2>as anybody since Tiger's prime. Yet we're always searching. We're

0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:24.120
<v Speaker 2>looking at Dustin, we're looking at Rory, now, we're looking

0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 2>at Bryson, and I think the guy's been there the

0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:27.040
<v Speaker 2>whole time.

0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:32.400
<v Speaker 1>I think it's because the number one easiest thing to

0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:36.280
<v Speaker 1>pick out from Tiger at an early age was his

0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:41.120
<v Speaker 1>sheer overpowering nature comparison to other pros, and because it

0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:44.160
<v Speaker 1>was mine though right, I know this is you know,

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.960
<v Speaker 1>I think over time as he developed, I think like

0:29:47.080 --> 0:29:50.320
<v Speaker 1>Speith is more like a later Tiger Woods, like maybe

0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:54.080
<v Speaker 1>twenty thirteen, twenty eleven Tiger Woods where there have been

0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:58.400
<v Speaker 1>other but like that, that sheer overpowering nature. And I

0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:02.760
<v Speaker 1>think the thing is is that nobody's Tiger because nobody's

0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.800
<v Speaker 1>been able to combine all of those things, right. Nobody's

0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:09.440
<v Speaker 1>got combined the work, ethic, the iron play, the power,

0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:13.520
<v Speaker 1>the incredible short game, the you know what you tell

0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:16.480
<v Speaker 1>what we both talked about, the you know, refusal to

0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:20.120
<v Speaker 1>give away shots. I think everybody's got some Tiger qualities,

0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:23.240
<v Speaker 1>but in general, these great players are all missing one

0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:25.760
<v Speaker 1>of them. Like you look at Rory, it's like god,

0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:29.600
<v Speaker 1>those like the short iron play just leaves you wanting more.

0:30:29.640 --> 0:30:32.360
<v Speaker 1>But then you watch Tiger play it is probably short irons.

0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.400
<v Speaker 1>It was like, Okay, well he's in the fairway, this

0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:36.320
<v Speaker 1>is gonna be ten feet. Yeah, you know, even if

0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:39.720
<v Speaker 1>even if it wasn't ten feet all the time, that's

0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:43.200
<v Speaker 1>how you felt. There was an air of inevitability versus

0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:47.560
<v Speaker 1>like Rory's got this era of unpredictability. Rory's one of mine,

0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:51.680
<v Speaker 1>And you know, the guy's his record at Augustus outstanding,

0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:54.040
<v Speaker 1>his record in general, like even when he's in these

0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:57.240
<v Speaker 1>doldrums of struggles, Like you look at his results and

0:30:57.280 --> 0:30:59.760
<v Speaker 1>you're like, god, he finishes like top ten every week.

0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:02.880
<v Speaker 1>But Rory at this point, I have no clue any

0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:06.480
<v Speaker 1>result was surprised me. I actually I kind of like

0:31:06.560 --> 0:31:09.880
<v Speaker 1>the fact that he's coming in here. There's no expectation

0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.280
<v Speaker 1>on him for like the first time that I can remember.

0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:16.520
<v Speaker 1>In the lead into the Masters, nobody is like, oh,

0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:19.640
<v Speaker 1>Rory is a favorite. Everybody is kind of and I

0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:22.960
<v Speaker 1>think not having that bright spotlight on him might be

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:26.200
<v Speaker 1>able to help. And like, as you know now, dealing

0:31:26.240 --> 0:31:30.080
<v Speaker 1>with winter. Sometimes when you don't have expectations as a golfer,

0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.160
<v Speaker 1>like you come out and you're always surprised, Like the

0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:34.800
<v Speaker 1>first round, you're like, huh, I hinted that bad, like I,

0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:38.240
<v Speaker 1>but you had zero expectations. I think with Rory, one

0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:40.440
<v Speaker 1>of the things that he's really struggled with, and I

0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:42.360
<v Speaker 1>think this is, you know, where we could talk about

0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 1>differences besides the short iron play with Tiger is like,

0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:49.440
<v Speaker 1>I think Rory struggles a little bit with the heightened expectation.

0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:53.440
<v Speaker 2>I think it's so wild to think about the confidence

0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:56.000
<v Speaker 2>right for Rory McElroy, considering what he's done with the

0:31:56.040 --> 0:31:59.040
<v Speaker 2>golf ball his entire life and the fact that he

0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:01.239
<v Speaker 2>you know, mintioned things. Maybe I'm not as good as

0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:03.320
<v Speaker 2>I used to be, you know after the PGA Championship.

0:32:04.000 --> 0:32:06.360
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, Rory gives Rory's one of those

0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:08.000
<v Speaker 2>guys that gives us everything we ever asked for in

0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.360
<v Speaker 2>a professional athlete, and then sometimes we grow him for it,

0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:14.479
<v Speaker 2>which is ridiculous. But you know, he's just unbelievably honest,

0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:16.640
<v Speaker 2>and he talks about everything, and he doesn't shout away

0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:19.200
<v Speaker 2>from any subject, and there's a ton of respect you know,

0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:21.480
<v Speaker 2>on my end, on your end, you know, people to

0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:23.920
<v Speaker 2>cover the game. To get these things from a guy

0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:26.800
<v Speaker 2>that is one of the top names and faces in

0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:30.240
<v Speaker 2>the sport is refreshing. I mean, I think about Dame Lillard,

0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:32.280
<v Speaker 2>you know, my favorite player in the NBA now, and

0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:35.800
<v Speaker 2>just how every time Dame talks it's impactful. You know,

0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:38.240
<v Speaker 2>every time he says something, I feel like I'm listening.

0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.360
<v Speaker 2>I want to I want to go back and find

0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.160
<v Speaker 2>clips from the night before if I fell asleep because

0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:43.520
<v Speaker 2>I live on the East Coast. In these games, one

0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:44.200
<v Speaker 2>end till midnight.

0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and so by the way, well it's a struggle.

0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:49.280
<v Speaker 2>Stayed up for the National Championship game last night, stayed

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.240
<v Speaker 2>up for the whole thing. It was like eleven forty

0:32:51.240 --> 0:32:52.400
<v Speaker 2>five when I went to BET. I don't know how

0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.280
<v Speaker 2>people do it, but yeah, I appreciate everything Rory says.

0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:59.440
<v Speaker 2>You know, for me, I think you nailed It's it's

0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:02.040
<v Speaker 2>having no flue. You know. The problem is is that

0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.120
<v Speaker 2>you say what you said about expectations, and I agree

0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:07.240
<v Speaker 2>with you that he's coming in with lessoned expectations. I

0:33:07.280 --> 0:33:08.720
<v Speaker 2>think about a couple of years ago, you know, coming

0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:10.200
<v Speaker 2>in after the win at the players and the way

0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:12.160
<v Speaker 2>you've been playing. I think he had seven top tens

0:33:12.200 --> 0:33:14.080
<v Speaker 2>and a row headed into the Masters, and we're all going,

0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:16.600
<v Speaker 2>this is going to be it, right uh, And it wasn't,

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 2>as it continues to be not it. But the moment

0:33:19.800 --> 0:33:22.400
<v Speaker 2>that first tee shot happens on Thursday and he makes

0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.080
<v Speaker 2>his first thirty and the first time he's on that

0:33:24.160 --> 0:33:27.040
<v Speaker 2>leader board, I think the entire narrative changes. I think

0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:30.840
<v Speaker 2>we all change when Rory does what we expect him

0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:32.800
<v Speaker 2>to do. You know, this year for Rorri is he's

0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:34.200
<v Speaker 2>got to get off to a better start. We've seen

0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:36.200
<v Speaker 2>how brutal he's been in these opening rounds at the

0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.040
<v Speaker 2>Majors the last few years. And then we're actually on

0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:42.040
<v Speaker 2>Tuesday's Live from We're going to dive into I'm calling

0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:45.720
<v Speaker 2>it that round. Rory continues to have that round at Augusta.

0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:48.440
<v Speaker 2>And that's the thing he's got to somehow delete from

0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:51.360
<v Speaker 2>his game plan is is the there's been just one round,

0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:55.040
<v Speaker 2>one nine, one run for Rory that's basically ruined his chances,

0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:56.760
<v Speaker 2>and no matter what he does on Saturday or Sunday,

0:33:56.760 --> 0:33:58.720
<v Speaker 2>when he's eight or nine or ten back, it's just

0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:01.320
<v Speaker 2>not going to be enough that's the difference to any now.

0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:03.680
<v Speaker 2>I feel like with the talent on the PGA Tour

0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:07.000
<v Speaker 2>and with the talent and professional golf is, I think

0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:09.759
<v Speaker 2>it used to be a lot easier to make up

0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.960
<v Speaker 2>for a bad round, you know, especially a bad round early,

0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:16.759
<v Speaker 2>and now at a place like Augusta National, when it's

0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:20.040
<v Speaker 2>playing a little softer like we saw in November, you

0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:22.200
<v Speaker 2>just can't afford to shoot over par. I mean, if

0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.600
<v Speaker 2>you shoot over par, you're not gonna win. It's just you.

0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:26.520
<v Speaker 2>You can't make up the ground. There's too many good

0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:29.440
<v Speaker 2>players that are always locked in. So you know, I

0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:31.120
<v Speaker 2>was going through this, you know, to look through some

0:34:31.160 --> 0:34:33.360
<v Speaker 2>of the Rory rounds. It's like he's he's you know,

0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:36.280
<v Speaker 2>he's eight back, ten backs, seven back after the opening

0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:39.360
<v Speaker 2>round or after the first two rounds. Yeah, you gotta

0:34:39.400 --> 0:34:41.560
<v Speaker 2>be perfect going into a weekend if you're gonna have

0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:44.880
<v Speaker 2>even a chance to win. I know, Kyle Porter jokes

0:34:44.880 --> 0:34:46.359
<v Speaker 2>about this all the time. You know, it's, well, if

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:48.839
<v Speaker 2>Rory shoots sixty five on Sunday, it's like people don't

0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:51.480
<v Speaker 2>shoot sixty five on Sunday, you know, so he's got

0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:54.439
<v Speaker 2>to shoot seventy on Thursday. Yeah, don't shoot, worry about

0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:58.520
<v Speaker 2>shooting sixty five on Sunday, shoot seventy one on Thursday,

0:34:58.560 --> 0:34:59.080
<v Speaker 2>and then you'll have.

0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:02.640
<v Speaker 1>A chance exactly. And I think that comes with that

0:35:02.800 --> 0:35:06.160
<v Speaker 1>heightened expectations. It makes it hard to get off to

0:35:06.200 --> 0:35:09.560
<v Speaker 1>a good start. I look at championship golf too, and

0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:15.080
<v Speaker 1>I think that there's always a six to nine hole

0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:21.720
<v Speaker 1>stretch outside of the just utterly dominant performances in every major,

0:35:21.840 --> 0:35:24.359
<v Speaker 1>the guy that wins has a six to nine hole

0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:27.760
<v Speaker 1>stretch where he does not hit the ball very well

0:35:27.920 --> 0:35:31.120
<v Speaker 1>and the wheels can come off, and it becomes about

0:35:31.560 --> 0:35:35.359
<v Speaker 1>how they manage and get through that stretch, whether they

0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:38.239
<v Speaker 1>make bogies and doubles or if they're just if they

0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:41.600
<v Speaker 1>get make those ten footers, those twelve footers that save

0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:45.240
<v Speaker 1>those clutch pars that feel like birdies after the places

0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:47.840
<v Speaker 1>they've been like, it is so pivotal, and it's okay

0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:51.000
<v Speaker 1>for Rory to have that bad stretch out of the gates,

0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:53.919
<v Speaker 1>But what it's turned into is like what you said,

0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.480
<v Speaker 1>it's like forty one on a nine. It's like McLeroy

0:35:57.560 --> 0:36:01.240
<v Speaker 1>should not shoot thirty nine nine holes, especially at Augusta

0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:04.840
<v Speaker 1>where the par fives. He doesn't he hasn't been feasting

0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:07.200
<v Speaker 1>on the par fives the way he used to feast

0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:07.600
<v Speaker 1>on him.

0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.360
<v Speaker 2>I feel like, well, and one more thing on this

0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:12.880
<v Speaker 2>and then I'll throw out another one at you. Is

0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:15.680
<v Speaker 2>to your point, and I agree with you. That stretch,

0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:18.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, that run you talk about where everybody has them,

0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:19.480
<v Speaker 2>I mean outside of you know a few of the

0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:22.919
<v Speaker 2>incredible dominant wins or you know the great runs we've seen.

0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:26.080
<v Speaker 2>I agree with you, there's always that stretch. Right. What

0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:28.439
<v Speaker 2>that says to me is short game, because your short

0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.160
<v Speaker 2>game's got to get you out of those stretches. You know,

0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:31.719
<v Speaker 2>you've got to be able to get it up and

0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:33.600
<v Speaker 2>down from a bunker. You've got to be able to

0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:36.600
<v Speaker 2>make a twelve footer for par And when we circle

0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:39.319
<v Speaker 2>the parts of Rory's game that's lacking, that's less than

0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:42.160
<v Speaker 2>those are the parts. I mean. He's just never been

0:36:42.160 --> 0:36:44.560
<v Speaker 2>a great scrambler and he's never been a great putter.

0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:48.560
<v Speaker 2>And so when you look at those things, when you're

0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:50.600
<v Speaker 2>not hitting it great, you've got to lean on the

0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:51.920
<v Speaker 2>short game to get you out of it until you

0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.879
<v Speaker 2>find it again. And these pros find it in five

0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:57.040
<v Speaker 2>holes or eight holes or nine holes. They find the

0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.920
<v Speaker 2>swing again, they find what was not working. I mean,

0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:01.600
<v Speaker 2>you go back, you know, you go back to ninety

0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:04.080
<v Speaker 2>seven and again we've talked Tiger a lot, but just

0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:06.440
<v Speaker 2>to go back to ninety seven and think about Tiger

0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:11.280
<v Speaker 2>opening his Masters and shooting forty and you're kind of going, okay,

0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:13.799
<v Speaker 2>you know, he didn't have it. This is this is strange,

0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:16.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, but he could when he found it. It was

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:19.080
<v Speaker 2>thirty on the way in, right, and when he found it,

0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:21.360
<v Speaker 2>it's still getting getting in it under par and so

0:37:21.840 --> 0:37:23.879
<v Speaker 2>and to me, that's so much about the short game. Sure,

0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:25.880
<v Speaker 2>he could, you know, attack these par fives and hit

0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:27.920
<v Speaker 2>it close on fifteen like he did, and things like that.

0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:30.520
<v Speaker 2>But it's the short game that saves you. And when

0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:33.239
<v Speaker 2>you look at any great player, any great run they've

0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:35.480
<v Speaker 2>had to win a major or to kind of keep

0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:38.759
<v Speaker 2>the ship afloat, it's almost always, you know, getting the

0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:40.600
<v Speaker 2>ball up and down in a couple of bad spots,

0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:42.560
<v Speaker 2>make it a couple of great par saves, and then

0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:44.200
<v Speaker 2>you get a chance to make the Verdier eagle.

0:37:45.120 --> 0:37:48.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the small things like it's easy to look at

0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.000
<v Speaker 1>strokes gained and say, oh, short game is the least

0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.120
<v Speaker 1>important part of the game. But when you reach the

0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:55.960
<v Speaker 1>highest level of the game and the highest level of

0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:59.520
<v Speaker 1>championships with the best players in the world, the littlest

0:37:59.600 --> 0:38:03.200
<v Speaker 1>thing are the things that separate the great and the

0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:06.680
<v Speaker 1>winners from the guys that finished tenth. Like the line,

0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.480
<v Speaker 1>like we've talked about already in this podcast. That line

0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:12.480
<v Speaker 1>is so thin, and it's just the simple little things

0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.279
<v Speaker 1>I even think back to, like the Annua just this

0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:18.680
<v Speaker 1>last weekend, Like Migliaccio, she hid it in the bunker

0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:21.920
<v Speaker 1>like so many people did on eighteen, but she gets

0:38:21.920 --> 0:38:24.359
<v Speaker 1>it out. She's still got a wedgend and she got

0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:26.840
<v Speaker 1>up and down unlike a lot of people from that position.

0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:29.360
<v Speaker 1>It's like it's when you have to chip out because

0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:31.000
<v Speaker 1>you're in a bad spot and you get up and

0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:33.239
<v Speaker 1>down and you make a par and it feels like

0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:36.160
<v Speaker 1>you made a birdie. Like those are the things that

0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:40.160
<v Speaker 1>just in a competitive and championship setting are the things

0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:43.880
<v Speaker 1>that just make you go because it's so mental. You

0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:46.319
<v Speaker 1>have to have that positive vibe. And Rory more so

0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:49.359
<v Speaker 1>than almost anybody is, like he is so easy to

0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:52.240
<v Speaker 1>tell when things are going and when he's got it going,

0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:54.239
<v Speaker 1>Like in a way, he's a little bit of a

0:38:54.280 --> 0:38:55.239
<v Speaker 1>front runner, you know.

0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:01.399
<v Speaker 2>So one of my things is we have as good

0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:03.520
<v Speaker 2>a shot as ever to see a back to back winner.

0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:05.400
<v Speaker 1>I have this on my list.

0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:08.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, you go back to twenty sixteen as

0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.120
<v Speaker 2>good a chance as ever to see somebody went back

0:39:10.160 --> 0:39:12.759
<v Speaker 2>to back. But you know, I mean, who better to

0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:14.719
<v Speaker 2>do this than Dustin. I haven't seen it since O

0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:17.400
<v Speaker 2>two with Tiger hard to do. Not a lot of

0:39:17.440 --> 0:39:19.919
<v Speaker 2>back to back winners at any major championship, much less

0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:22.680
<v Speaker 2>the Masters. But I feel like this is as good

0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:24.640
<v Speaker 2>a chance as we're ever gonna see to see somebody

0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:25.160
<v Speaker 2>do it again.

0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:28.480
<v Speaker 1>Do you feel this is kind of what my note

0:39:28.560 --> 0:39:31.400
<v Speaker 1>on DJ was. Do you feel in a weird way

0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:34.240
<v Speaker 1>that he's like flying under the radar? Is you remember

0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:36.440
<v Speaker 1>one player in the world he won, He'd won in

0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:43.080
<v Speaker 1>dominant fashion, like a record and somehow, like the air,

0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:48.360
<v Speaker 1>the vacuum of coverage. You've got Speith and you've got

0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:52.560
<v Speaker 1>Bryson and jt Is is obviously a favorite. But like

0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:56.480
<v Speaker 1>somehow DJ is not really being talked about as much

0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:58.960
<v Speaker 1>as I think we should, and I don't understand, like,

0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:02.040
<v Speaker 1>sure he has he didn't play well at the WGC

0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.120
<v Speaker 1>or the Players, but you know the players. He can't

0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:08.520
<v Speaker 1>hit driver a lot of places there, like it kind

0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:10.600
<v Speaker 1>of mitigates the and then he didn't make it out

0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.480
<v Speaker 1>of his pool and match play. But like, we just

0:40:13.560 --> 0:40:16.320
<v Speaker 1>went through a stretch where he went from the PGA

0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:20.680
<v Speaker 1>on he went T two one two, second T third,

0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:25.360
<v Speaker 1>which was a win at the Tour Championship of Shadow,

0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:29.560
<v Speaker 1>T third win and in the Net Division T six,

0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.640
<v Speaker 1>T two, first T eleven, first T eight.

0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:35.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean, like that, it's insane.

0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:38.760
<v Speaker 1>We're like two months removed from that stretch of golf,

0:40:38.800 --> 0:40:41.680
<v Speaker 1>and somehow it seems like he's kind of flying under

0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:42.160
<v Speaker 1>the radar.

0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:45.080
<v Speaker 2>And the best part about it is Andy is I

0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:48.200
<v Speaker 2>don't think it matters either way to Dustin, right, I

0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:50.560
<v Speaker 2>think there's so many players you brought up, Rory, I

0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:53.359
<v Speaker 2>think that helps. I think over the last few years

0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:55.759
<v Speaker 2>it was nice for Jordan Speed not to be, you know,

0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:58.040
<v Speaker 2>captain feature group and to be the guy that was

0:40:58.120 --> 0:41:01.040
<v Speaker 2>kind of featured in every tournament every single week. We

0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:03.400
<v Speaker 2>allowed him to kind of breathe and try to figure

0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:06.080
<v Speaker 2>things out on the golf course. For Dustin, I don't

0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:08.040
<v Speaker 2>think it matters. I mean, I think Dustin goes about

0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.000
<v Speaker 2>his business the same each and every week, whether it's

0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:13.279
<v Speaker 2>a major championship, it's a PGA Tour event, if he's

0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:15.960
<v Speaker 2>playing you know, a charity event, whatever the thing may be.

0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.400
<v Speaker 2>I just feel like Dustin's mentality is very similar and

0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:21.520
<v Speaker 2>his approach is very similar. Like Dustin's one of those

0:41:21.560 --> 0:41:24.879
<v Speaker 2>guys to me, is that has figured out his process, right.

0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:28.320
<v Speaker 2>I think there's so many players still searching for their process.

0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:31.000
<v Speaker 2>You know, they're still searching for what's the best for

0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:33.440
<v Speaker 2>me this week. I'm working on this. I'm trying to

0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:36.000
<v Speaker 2>tweak this. To me, Dustin has figured out what works

0:41:36.000 --> 0:41:37.839
<v Speaker 2>best for him, and you know, some week he goes

0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:39.440
<v Speaker 2>out there and has a great week, and some weeks

0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:43.000
<v Speaker 2>rarely he doesn't. But yes, I absolutely get that feeling

0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:44.960
<v Speaker 2>of Dustin kind of flying under the radars and the

0:41:44.960 --> 0:41:47.560
<v Speaker 2>defending champion. You know, he speaks today with the media,

0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:49.200
<v Speaker 2>so you know, we'll get some stuff out of that

0:41:49.280 --> 0:41:51.800
<v Speaker 2>as well. That you know, they obviously have the champions

0:41:51.840 --> 0:41:53.680
<v Speaker 2>dinner on Tuesday nights, so we'll get stuff out of

0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:56.239
<v Speaker 2>that as well. But for a guy that just won

0:41:56.280 --> 0:41:59.000
<v Speaker 2>a few months ago here to kind of snag to me,

0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:02.680
<v Speaker 2>the really important major championship for his career, the second one,

0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:04.799
<v Speaker 2>as you said, kind of off the top to kind

0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:06.920
<v Speaker 2>of open the open the floodgates, if you will, for

0:42:07.000 --> 0:42:09.560
<v Speaker 2>Dustin Johnson to maybe win five or six majors in

0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:12.200
<v Speaker 2>a latter part of his career. I do. I do

0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.000
<v Speaker 2>since that he's he's not. He's a little bit of

0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:16.360
<v Speaker 2>the forgotten number one.

0:42:16.920 --> 0:42:20.040
<v Speaker 1>And that just like we we talked about, with two majors,

0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:23.680
<v Speaker 1>get the three. Crazy when especially when you put up

0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:29.040
<v Speaker 1>his his PGA tour resume, which is just astounding, his WGC,

0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:33.880
<v Speaker 1>his his playoff record. I mean, he he only wins

0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:37.319
<v Speaker 1>big events, and if he gets the three majors, it

0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:41.160
<v Speaker 1>is a he is probably by far the greatest player

0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 1>of his generation. If you take ten years on either side.

0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:48.000
<v Speaker 1>I know he might butt into Butte, into Tiger, but

0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:53.520
<v Speaker 1>from Ricky to to Sergio Area, he's by far the best,

0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:58.600
<v Speaker 1>and it's preposterous that he's Ogilvy talked about this on

0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:01.319
<v Speaker 1>my pod U after the last Masters. He told a

0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:04.760
<v Speaker 1>story about playing a practice round with DJ at Augusta.

0:43:04.840 --> 0:43:07.160
<v Speaker 1>It was like maybe his first time out there, and

0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:09.800
<v Speaker 1>he talked about how he was just he he played

0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:12.640
<v Speaker 1>nine holes or I can't remember exactly how many holes

0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:14.520
<v Speaker 1>and he walked off and he goes, oh my god,

0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:17.160
<v Speaker 1>I just saw like the guy that's built to play

0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:19.880
<v Speaker 1>at this golf course. You know, It's like he's like

0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:22.640
<v Speaker 1>it just was so easy for him. And I think

0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:26.880
<v Speaker 1>that's the thing is he's had just unbelievable stretch of

0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:30.200
<v Speaker 1>top tens. Is he can play bad and finish six here.

0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:32.759
<v Speaker 2>Again, kind of going back to what is so cool

0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:35.640
<v Speaker 2>about the Masters. In terms of the players, you are

0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:37.880
<v Speaker 2>a get it or don't get it player. Dustin is

0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:39.800
<v Speaker 2>in that camp of get it. I mean each and

0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:41.520
<v Speaker 2>every year he's going to be in contention. We know

0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:43.040
<v Speaker 2>what he's done on these par fives. He you talk

0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:45.880
<v Speaker 2>about Rory struggling on the par fives, you know, Dustin

0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:48.720
<v Speaker 2>feasts on the par fives that Augusta he always has.

0:43:49.080 --> 0:43:51.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, when you could bind strength and

0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:54.040
<v Speaker 2>obviously incredible accuracy with the irons, that's gonna happen. But

0:43:54.200 --> 0:43:56.799
<v Speaker 2>the way Dustin plays the par fives makes me think

0:43:56.840 --> 0:43:59.280
<v Speaker 2>of that two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand

0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:01.440
<v Speaker 2>and two stretch for t when he played these four

0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:03.040
<v Speaker 2>fives and it just seemed like you'd have ten feet

0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:04.400
<v Speaker 2>for eagle each and every hole.

0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so forty six players have three majors or more.

0:44:08.239 --> 0:44:11.520
<v Speaker 1>So it gets from eighty four or eighty three to

0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:15.800
<v Speaker 1>forty six, pretty good jump. It basically cuts in half

0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:18.160
<v Speaker 1>every major you add that number.

0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:22.520
<v Speaker 2>Andy, I I got something that's concerning as my next

0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:27.359
<v Speaker 2>thing here, it's concerning as a left hander, do we

0:44:27.440 --> 0:44:32.400
<v Speaker 2>have a serious lefty this year? Shot Bob Well, So

0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:35.480
<v Speaker 2>you know it's I mean Phil obviously here, Mike, Mike

0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:38.439
<v Speaker 2>Weir's here, Brian Harmon's in the field who's been playing great,

0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:42.000
<v Speaker 2>and then Bob McIntyre as you mentioned, but we had

0:44:42.000 --> 0:44:44.920
<v Speaker 2>that great run of south Pause at Augusta National, and

0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:48.640
<v Speaker 2>then I'm a little concerned with the crop we have now.

0:44:48.680 --> 0:44:50.520
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Phil is you never know what the heck

0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:53.000
<v Speaker 2>Phil's gonna do. I mean, you know, I think Brian

0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:55.719
<v Speaker 2>Harmon could could could play Augusta well. I think Bob

0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:59.200
<v Speaker 2>McIntyre could play Augusta well. But gone or the days

0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:00.759
<v Speaker 2>we're you know, one of the top two or three

0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:01.960
<v Speaker 2>favorites was a left hander.

0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:05.920
<v Speaker 1>We've got a dearth of left handed talent and the

0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:08.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, I can't think of any young left handers

0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:13.040
<v Speaker 1>outside of McIntyre. There's a uh, there's a really good Australian,

0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:17.200
<v Speaker 1>young Australian, like a teenager who just turned pro. Elvis Smiley,

0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:19.480
<v Speaker 1>who I think is a left hander. But I can't

0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:23.400
<v Speaker 1>think of many high profile young Americans that are lefties.

0:45:23.800 --> 0:45:26.960
<v Speaker 1>I apologize to anybody that I'm I'm disregarded here, but

0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:30.480
<v Speaker 1>all the big young names are are all right handers.

0:45:30.520 --> 0:45:32.240
<v Speaker 1>This is a sad day for you lefties.

0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:34.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Oksha is kind of the guy we're leaning on

0:45:35.040 --> 0:45:37.560
<v Speaker 2>right now. I mean he's Aksha's got a chance right

0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:40.600
<v Speaker 2>if he could find it. But uh, I mean outside

0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:42.759
<v Speaker 2>of that, yeah, it's uh. We had we had a

0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.160
<v Speaker 2>great run left He's had a great run. We lean

0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:47.880
<v Speaker 2>on Bob a lot. You know, Bubba was unbelievable, and

0:45:47.920 --> 0:45:49.600
<v Speaker 2>you never know right with Bubba, who knows what he

0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.120
<v Speaker 2>could do when he shows up. But it was a stretch.

0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.640
<v Speaker 2>I'll say that. I feel like our great stretch might

0:45:54.920 --> 0:45:55.560
<v Speaker 2>might be ending.

0:45:56.560 --> 0:45:58.720
<v Speaker 1>The thing too is like you would think that there'd

0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:01.480
<v Speaker 1>be more of a leftis explosion because when you were

0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:04.520
<v Speaker 1>growing up, left the equipment was like hard to find

0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:08.319
<v Speaker 1>still and now all these kids they could get left

0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:12.080
<v Speaker 1>the equipment is readily available, in some cases more available

0:46:12.160 --> 0:46:17.279
<v Speaker 1>than right handed equipment and now we've got this, and

0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:20.479
<v Speaker 1>where are all the lefties? It could be a great

0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:24.840
<v Speaker 1>investigative journalism peace. Do you think there's something Maybe golf

0:46:24.880 --> 0:46:27.759
<v Speaker 1>coaches can't coach lefties as well as righties because there

0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:30.719
<v Speaker 1>are so few left handed golf coaches. Maybe this is

0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:33.680
<v Speaker 1>where the deep rooted problems exist.

0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:37.200
<v Speaker 2>When I was in high school, the only golf club

0:46:37.239 --> 0:46:41.120
<v Speaker 2>I really wanted in my life was the titleist PT three.

0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:42.520
<v Speaker 2>Would you remember that thing? I think it was the

0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:43.960
<v Speaker 2>one touch. I still have one.

0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:47.000
<v Speaker 1>I have one, yeah, a size of like a dime.

0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:50.120
<v Speaker 2>You know that thing was tiny? Uh? And I always

0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:51.680
<v Speaker 2>want to win left and I could never find it,

0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:54.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure. So there was a kidnamed Drew Pigg

0:46:55.120 --> 0:46:57.840
<v Speaker 2>who was a lefty out of the Dallas here. I

0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:00.680
<v Speaker 2>think he played for one of the Plano schools. I remember,

0:47:00.760 --> 0:47:02.680
<v Speaker 2>I believe he had one. And I remember I was

0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:06.399
<v Speaker 2>seeing an AJG A tournament. And uh, I'm not really

0:47:06.560 --> 0:47:09.680
<v Speaker 2>much of at a thief. I don't really like to

0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:12.320
<v Speaker 2>consider myself someone that wants to go steal things from people.

0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:14.799
<v Speaker 2>But the thought at least crossed my mind to go,

0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:16.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, I could just go walk by this guy's bag,

0:47:16.480 --> 0:47:18.440
<v Speaker 2>and all of a sudden i'd have the PT three

0:47:18.480 --> 0:47:20.880
<v Speaker 2>would have in my hands. But that was the lefty

0:47:20.880 --> 0:47:22.800
<v Speaker 2>club of all the lefty clubs that I wish I

0:47:22.800 --> 0:47:24.720
<v Speaker 2>would have had him in my back of my heyday.

0:47:25.200 --> 0:47:28.160
<v Speaker 1>I occasionally put the PT in the bag, but I

0:47:28.239 --> 0:47:30.960
<v Speaker 1>need to be in one in a groove like where

0:47:31.000 --> 0:47:35.240
<v Speaker 1>I know the last few times, the last few times

0:47:35.280 --> 0:47:38.080
<v Speaker 1>out I've been playing well. When you put it, when

0:47:38.280 --> 0:47:40.279
<v Speaker 1>the ball's on the ground and you're hitting like a

0:47:40.320 --> 0:47:42.680
<v Speaker 1>second shot out of the par five, you're just looking

0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:48.600
<v Speaker 1>at and you're like, please hit this airborne. Please. I

0:47:48.600 --> 0:47:51.000
<v Speaker 1>mean that is like the sides of the ball.

0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:53.880
<v Speaker 2>That's the difference in so and then and then you

0:47:53.920 --> 0:47:55.399
<v Speaker 2>go to the other side of it at the same

0:47:55.680 --> 0:47:58.080
<v Speaker 2>the same time, right you had the title lies in

0:47:58.120 --> 0:48:01.400
<v Speaker 2>the or Lamar three would come out. Lamar was incredible,

0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:04.800
<v Speaker 2>paper thin, and those were awesome on the fairways. But

0:48:04.840 --> 0:48:06.600
<v Speaker 2>when you had to tem up, I would always stand

0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:08.600
<v Speaker 2>it over and going, don't make a dummy mark, don't

0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:10.360
<v Speaker 2>make a dummy mark. Don't make a dummy mark. You know,

0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:12.760
<v Speaker 2>because you had to. You had have the smallest peg

0:48:12.800 --> 0:48:15.239
<v Speaker 2>in golf history, uh to peg it up with with

0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:17.520
<v Speaker 2>those things. So we needed to find the great combo

0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:19.520
<v Speaker 2>of those of those of those fairway woods.

0:48:19.680 --> 0:48:22.680
<v Speaker 1>I will die on the hill that the sonar tech

0:48:23.080 --> 0:48:26.160
<v Speaker 1>was the greatest three wood of all time, the s

0:48:26.160 --> 0:48:30.280
<v Speaker 1>S O three. I played golf with somebody with one recently.

0:48:30.400 --> 0:48:32.560
<v Speaker 1>I still have bene they're in the garage. I haven't

0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:35.160
<v Speaker 1>used it, but somebody had one and they were they

0:48:35.160 --> 0:48:38.359
<v Speaker 1>were playing with it, and I was so envious. Now

0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:40.200
<v Speaker 1>that I think about it, I'm back. I might be

0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:41.360
<v Speaker 1>putting it back in the bag.

0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:44.279
<v Speaker 2>This what this is what people people wanted to hear.

0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:45.960
<v Speaker 2>What do you have as as as one of your

0:48:46.000 --> 0:48:46.720
<v Speaker 2>five things.

0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:50.279
<v Speaker 1>I've got the the young crop of players, so I'm

0:48:50.360 --> 0:48:57.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at Sung, Jay Morikawa, Hovland, uh Nieman. All

0:48:57.239 --> 0:49:00.279
<v Speaker 1>these guys. They they've now for the most part, all

0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:04.120
<v Speaker 1>had one trip around Augusta, which we we know, like, hey,

0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:08.200
<v Speaker 1>expectations are what they are the first year, like get it,

0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:12.080
<v Speaker 1>somebody get in contention, but you know, likely winning your

0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:17.000
<v Speaker 1>first time around. So slim. But we see, like we've

0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:21.000
<v Speaker 1>talked about Speth, like these guys that just gravitate towards

0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:23.920
<v Speaker 1>Augusta's success where they just play this golf course better

0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:28.600
<v Speaker 1>than their peers. And I'm really interested to see if

0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:31.879
<v Speaker 1>we start to see some trends emerge. The big one

0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:34.959
<v Speaker 1>would be does sunk Jam contend again? If he does?

0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:40.160
<v Speaker 1>Is he this Augusta iron man of these young you know,

0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:43.000
<v Speaker 1>twenty three twenty four year olds that have kind of

0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:46.440
<v Speaker 1>exploded into golf and our household names now or is

0:49:46.440 --> 0:49:49.799
<v Speaker 1>it more Kaala like Morikawa seems to have all the

0:49:49.840 --> 0:49:55.120
<v Speaker 1>skills that you want in terms of a a Augusta thoroughbread,

0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:58.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, the iron play. Obviously, putter could be a

0:49:58.480 --> 0:50:00.560
<v Speaker 1>little shaky. I think short game is kind of the

0:50:00.640 --> 0:50:03.720
<v Speaker 1>underrated thing. Augusta, though, is the one. And that's where

0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:04.880
<v Speaker 1>I love sucking pitching.

0:50:05.040 --> 0:50:08.719
<v Speaker 2>It's pitching right. I mean, I always say, we talk

0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:11.000
<v Speaker 2>so much about putting right at Augusta National, and we've

0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:13.680
<v Speaker 2>seen unbelievable putters win at this golf course. But we've

0:50:13.719 --> 0:50:16.319
<v Speaker 2>seen some pretty bad putters, you know, in terms of

0:50:16.360 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 2>statistics in professional golf win here. I mean, you think

0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.400
<v Speaker 2>about Adam Scott of recently, and you think about Sergio.

0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:25.480
<v Speaker 1>But Sergio is a great pitcher, unbelievable, like maybe the

0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:28.959
<v Speaker 1>most underrated pitcher of the golf ball of all time.

0:50:29.040 --> 0:50:31.279
<v Speaker 1>Because everybody like the way he drove it, the way

0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:35.400
<v Speaker 1>he hit irons was mesmerizing, but the way he pitched

0:50:35.719 --> 0:50:39.240
<v Speaker 1>his short game has been so underrated for twenty years.

0:50:39.640 --> 0:50:42.160
<v Speaker 2>So I want to piggyback on what you just said

0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:44.720
<v Speaker 2>as one of my things, and one of my things

0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:47.000
<v Speaker 2>is Justin Thomas, and it kind of plays into the

0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:51.000
<v Speaker 2>same thing because Jordan Spieth maybe tainted the way we

0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:53.000
<v Speaker 2>look at young players who play Augusta. I mean, we

0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:55.160
<v Speaker 2>saw what Tiger did in ninety seven. Took a long

0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:58.240
<v Speaker 2>time before we got another young player kind of bursting

0:50:58.239 --> 0:51:00.279
<v Speaker 2>on the scene, having a chance to win his first

0:51:00.320 --> 0:51:03.280
<v Speaker 2>Masters and then winning a second. Right for Justin Thomas,

0:51:03.360 --> 0:51:05.120
<v Speaker 2>it's taken a little bit of time to understand Augusta,

0:51:05.120 --> 0:51:08.080
<v Speaker 2>which is a natural progression. I mean that's what typically

0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:11.000
<v Speaker 2>happens at this golf course. So JT at the Master's

0:51:11.040 --> 0:51:14.600
<v Speaker 2>twenty sixteen, T thirty ninth, twenty seventeenth, T twenty second,

0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:20.200
<v Speaker 2>twenty eighteen, T seventeenth, twenty nineteen, T twelve, twenty twenty fourth.

0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:21.840
<v Speaker 1>Is that is that a good trend?

0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:23.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I would say I would say it's helpful. I

0:51:23.920 --> 0:51:26.560
<v Speaker 2>would say if you own stock in Justin Thomas, you're

0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:29.719
<v Speaker 2>making money, life, life looks better than worse. So you know,

0:51:29.719 --> 0:51:32.719
<v Speaker 2>when that's the way it's going, obviously it's a guy

0:51:32.760 --> 0:51:35.400
<v Speaker 2>that's getting more comfortable and understanding the golf course. You know,

0:51:35.480 --> 0:51:39.279
<v Speaker 2>maybe we play up at some places experience. I think

0:51:39.280 --> 0:51:40.960
<v Speaker 2>this is one of the places where we probably don't

0:51:40.960 --> 0:51:45.560
<v Speaker 2>talk about experience enough because obviously it's huge, right, I mean,

0:51:45.800 --> 0:51:46.759
<v Speaker 2>understanding what to do?

0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:46.920
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:49.520
<v Speaker 2>Lee Westwood talked about it in his press conference, just

0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:52.600
<v Speaker 2>about the experience around this place. Bryson talked about trying

0:51:52.600 --> 0:51:55.560
<v Speaker 2>to get more comfortable with his iron shots, his approaches

0:51:55.600 --> 0:51:57.279
<v Speaker 2>in to greens, and making sure he's in the right

0:51:57.320 --> 0:51:59.000
<v Speaker 2>areas where the whole locations are going to be cut.

0:51:59.080 --> 0:52:01.839
<v Speaker 2>So when you talk about experience, this is the place

0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:03.960
<v Speaker 2>you've got to talk about it. For JT, I mean,

0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:06.040
<v Speaker 2>you know, and now he's got to finish third, second

0:52:06.239 --> 0:52:08.960
<v Speaker 2>or win right to continue that upward trend. But I

0:52:09.000 --> 0:52:11.280
<v Speaker 2>feel like he's in a place where that could easily happen.

0:52:11.400 --> 0:52:14.000
<v Speaker 2>So for me, when you talk about these young players,

0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:16.000
<v Speaker 2>sure it'd be great if Sujay went out there and

0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:17.560
<v Speaker 2>won this week, And I think some Jay's gonna have

0:52:17.560 --> 0:52:19.720
<v Speaker 2>an unbelievable chance at winning with the way he's played

0:52:20.160 --> 0:52:22.000
<v Speaker 2>at the at Augusta Nashvillal in November, with the way

0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:24.360
<v Speaker 2>he's played this year. But for a lot of guys,

0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:26.279
<v Speaker 2>it's looking at what Justin Thomas has been able to

0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:29.080
<v Speaker 2>do over the last few years and trying to replicate

0:52:29.120 --> 0:52:31.520
<v Speaker 2>what JT has done. Let's let's improve each and every

0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:33.239
<v Speaker 2>year and then we can get to a position where

0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:34.520
<v Speaker 2>we have a chance to actually win this thing.

0:52:34.840 --> 0:52:39.120
<v Speaker 1>With JT. Last year, I thought he played as well

0:52:39.160 --> 0:52:42.719
<v Speaker 1>as DJ. It was just a few big mistakes that

0:52:42.800 --> 0:52:46.120
<v Speaker 1>cost him. It was, you know, he made the double

0:52:46.200 --> 0:52:48.279
<v Speaker 1>or a triple in one of the early rounds that

0:52:48.920 --> 0:52:51.560
<v Speaker 1>and it's just these little things. But when you look

0:52:51.600 --> 0:52:55.600
<v Speaker 1>at all of his skills, he drives it unbelievably well.

0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:58.479
<v Speaker 1>His iron play is he's one of the five best

0:52:58.480 --> 0:53:02.239
<v Speaker 1>players in the world with with his irons, and then

0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:05.120
<v Speaker 1>he's a great he's got an unbelievable short game. Some

0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:08.080
<v Speaker 1>of those shots around the greens that he hits are

0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:11.399
<v Speaker 1>just outstanding. And he's got a different style, like it's

0:53:11.440 --> 0:53:14.360
<v Speaker 1>not everything's not just like it doesn't seem like everything's

0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:17.719
<v Speaker 1>just auto lob wedge. He hits some really crafty little

0:53:17.760 --> 0:53:23.000
<v Speaker 1>bump and runs you know he has the requisite shots

0:53:23.160 --> 0:53:26.560
<v Speaker 1>and the shot making ability that I think it suits

0:53:26.600 --> 0:53:30.080
<v Speaker 1>so well at Augusta, and I think where the struggle

0:53:30.120 --> 0:53:32.440
<v Speaker 1>has been. And I don't know if this is real

0:53:32.600 --> 0:53:35.840
<v Speaker 1>or not, but when I think about players that utilize

0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:40.680
<v Speaker 1>green reading books heavily, maybe highest usage on tour, he

0:53:40.840 --> 0:53:43.600
<v Speaker 1>falls into the bucket. And I think that is a

0:53:43.600 --> 0:53:46.680
<v Speaker 1>big deal playing golf. When you're used to playing with

0:53:46.719 --> 0:53:49.080
<v Speaker 1>a green reading book and going to Augusta where they

0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:52.200
<v Speaker 1>are not allowed, it takes time to learn those greens.

0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:55.719
<v Speaker 1>Like then that's why maybe experience matters here more than

0:53:55.760 --> 0:53:58.640
<v Speaker 1>anywhere else. Is one of the factors is like you

0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:01.480
<v Speaker 1>don't get this tool that tells you contours, Like I

0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:04.280
<v Speaker 1>know they're very complex to use, but you know JT.

0:54:04.440 --> 0:54:08.520
<v Speaker 1>And Bryson is another guy. Bryson, you know, he's probably

0:54:08.520 --> 0:54:10.480
<v Speaker 1>better at using green reading book than anybody in the

0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:13.080
<v Speaker 1>world and he doesn't get to use that. And he

0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:15.759
<v Speaker 1>talked about it in a I saw a clip that

0:54:15.840 --> 0:54:19.200
<v Speaker 1>a follower sent from the Aussie's Fox Sports where he

0:54:19.239 --> 0:54:21.640
<v Speaker 1>talked about like how it's a challenge, like I used

0:54:21.640 --> 0:54:24.120
<v Speaker 1>to read greens when I was in junior golf, Like

0:54:24.520 --> 0:54:27.520
<v Speaker 1>that's the last that's the last time Bryson played without

0:54:27.600 --> 0:54:30.520
<v Speaker 1>green reading books junior golf except for this tournament once

0:54:30.560 --> 0:54:33.560
<v Speaker 1>a year. So it's definitely And you can point to

0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:36.440
<v Speaker 1>JT like where he was historically like one of the

0:54:36.440 --> 0:54:39.960
<v Speaker 1>worst putters ever at Augusta his first few years out here,

0:54:40.239 --> 0:54:42.680
<v Speaker 1>and and all of a sudden that's turning around. He's comfortable,

0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:45.800
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's, like you said, a perfect example

0:54:45.840 --> 0:54:47.759
<v Speaker 1>of the progression of a young player, and I think

0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:51.000
<v Speaker 1>he will be a factor at Masters for maybe decades

0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:51.319
<v Speaker 1>to come.

0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:55.880
<v Speaker 2>He made he made four sixes in twenty twenty for

0:54:55.960 --> 0:55:00.400
<v Speaker 2>the week, four sixes. If you remember, he bogie fifty,

0:55:00.280 --> 0:55:03.479
<v Speaker 2>He bogey thirteen to one round, bogey two to one round,

0:55:03.480 --> 0:55:06.319
<v Speaker 2>made a double on one in the second round. So

0:55:06.440 --> 0:55:08.440
<v Speaker 2>I mean he made the numbers you can't make right.

0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:10.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean this kind of goes back to things you

0:55:10.760 --> 0:55:12.960
<v Speaker 2>can't do right, and you just kind of can't boge

0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:16.400
<v Speaker 2>thirteen and fifteen, and you definitely can't both bogey multiple

0:55:16.480 --> 0:55:18.399
<v Speaker 2>times throughout the week if you want to have a chance.

0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:21.839
<v Speaker 2>That's how important those holes are, especially in a week

0:55:21.880 --> 0:55:24.080
<v Speaker 2>like this where we think it's gonna play tougher, you've

0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:25.600
<v Speaker 2>got to take advantage of the holes you can take

0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:30.439
<v Speaker 2>advantage of, So that will be something that'll be worth watching, right,

0:55:30.680 --> 0:55:32.399
<v Speaker 2>is how he's gonna get around and how he can

0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:35.279
<v Speaker 2>avoid those mistakes. And also, I mean you said it,

0:55:36.080 --> 0:55:38.640
<v Speaker 2>You've said it multiple times about being a great pitcher.

0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:41.879
<v Speaker 2>I think Justin Thomas is an unbelievable pitcher. I don't

0:55:41.920 --> 0:55:43.560
<v Speaker 2>know a guy that holds out more from off the

0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:44.760
<v Speaker 2>green than JT.

0:55:45.480 --> 0:55:48.680
<v Speaker 1>It's something whether you're a great ball striker like Sergio

0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:52.440
<v Speaker 1>or like JT is. I think that the billity the pitching,

0:55:52.480 --> 0:55:56.439
<v Speaker 1>because we don't see it that much, gets overshadowed. It's

0:55:56.560 --> 0:55:58.879
<v Speaker 1>just he's so good. It's so much fun to watch

0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:03.520
<v Speaker 1>him hit shots around. My last one the Ams, this

0:56:03.640 --> 0:56:06.080
<v Speaker 1>is the smallest group of AMS we've had in forever.

0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:09.600
<v Speaker 1>I feel like they must feel lonely. You know, they

0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:11.960
<v Speaker 1>don't have and it's talk about like you don't want

0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:13.160
<v Speaker 1>to finish last and Ams.

0:56:13.200 --> 0:56:16.719
<v Speaker 2>There's only three of them, right, It's like it's like

0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:20.160
<v Speaker 2>it's such a condensed battle for lowa Ham and being

0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:23.279
<v Speaker 2>Lowham at the Masters is such a huge thing. It's

0:56:23.320 --> 0:56:26.520
<v Speaker 2>such a historically huge thing. I mean, I always think

0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:29.680
<v Speaker 2>about the moments in those in those you know, four

0:56:29.760 --> 0:56:32.600
<v Speaker 2>day tournaments right at the Masters, and I think about

0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:34.560
<v Speaker 2>the US Open, I think about the Open Championship, about

0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:37.879
<v Speaker 2>being low am there and the list of the historically

0:56:38.000 --> 0:56:41.600
<v Speaker 2>great players that tick that off their list. It's really

0:56:41.680 --> 0:56:43.919
<v Speaker 2>hard to win US Amateurs. It's really hard to win

0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:46.160
<v Speaker 2>US Junior amaters. I mean when you go through the

0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:48.680
<v Speaker 2>list of the players that we talk about these days,

0:56:48.680 --> 0:56:52.640
<v Speaker 2>how few of them won US Amateurs? Right, Dustin Johnson

0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:55.960
<v Speaker 2>never won one, John Rahm never won one. Justin Thomas

0:56:56.000 --> 0:56:58.359
<v Speaker 2>never won one. I mean kind of going down that list, right,

0:56:59.160 --> 0:57:02.880
<v Speaker 2>But to be low AM is something attainable for these players,

0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:06.280
<v Speaker 2>and it's something that we've seen from Nicholas and Palmer

0:57:06.360 --> 0:57:09.400
<v Speaker 2>and Tiger and Phil and all of these greats, you know,

0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:13.480
<v Speaker 2>speed on down the list, Bryson and so to go

0:57:13.520 --> 0:57:17.040
<v Speaker 2>out there and be low AM is a stepping stone

0:57:17.520 --> 0:57:20.040
<v Speaker 2>of the greats. And so when you have a small

0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:22.680
<v Speaker 2>group like we do this year, it's really important to

0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:25.360
<v Speaker 2>go out there and play well because again, this this

0:57:25.520 --> 0:57:29.600
<v Speaker 2>means something. Low amateur means something at these huge golf events.

0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:34.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah totally, And it's just uh yeah, unique opportunity where

0:57:34.440 --> 0:57:37.680
<v Speaker 1>you can easily finish last of the ams and easily

0:57:37.720 --> 0:57:39.479
<v Speaker 1>finish first because there's only three of them.

0:57:39.920 --> 0:57:43.040
<v Speaker 2>It's a it's wild again, I think, Uh, you know,

0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:45.680
<v Speaker 2>there's so many cool traditions. Obviously to Gusta National for

0:57:45.760 --> 0:57:49.360
<v Speaker 2>Masters Week, you know, the way the ams are celebrated

0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:52.120
<v Speaker 2>is one of my favorite parts of it. You know,

0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:54.959
<v Speaker 2>how much they're talked about, how much respect goes around

0:57:55.000 --> 0:57:56.640
<v Speaker 2>with what they've been able to accomplish in their career,

0:57:56.640 --> 0:57:59.000
<v Speaker 2>how much, how much how much love we give them

0:57:59.040 --> 0:58:01.400
<v Speaker 2>for what they did to get here. Obviously, I'm a

0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:03.360
<v Speaker 2>huge fan of amter golf and kind of getting a

0:58:03.440 --> 0:58:06.840
<v Speaker 2>chance to cover those amateur events with Box and the USGA,

0:58:07.320 --> 0:58:09.240
<v Speaker 2>it opened my eyes up to a world that I

0:58:09.240 --> 0:58:12.400
<v Speaker 2>didn't even know existed in certain in certain parts of

0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:15.520
<v Speaker 2>that and so to kind of see that celebration happen

0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:19.120
<v Speaker 2>at the biggest stage in professional golf, in the biggest

0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:22.480
<v Speaker 2>stage of golf is something that I really appreciated and

0:58:22.520 --> 0:58:25.000
<v Speaker 2>really to come off the Augusta National Women's Amateur into

0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:28.520
<v Speaker 2>Masters Week and uh and seeing the way the amateurs

0:58:28.520 --> 0:58:31.600
<v Speaker 2>are treated, it's it's it's really really really special week.

0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:34.280
<v Speaker 2>And so yeah, who's your pick? Who's your low MP pick?

0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:38.040
<v Speaker 1>I think the you gotta go with Strafashi. He's by

0:58:38.120 --> 0:58:41.880
<v Speaker 1>far the highest ranked. That said, he's coming off an injury.

0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:45.280
<v Speaker 1>He heard his ribs, so he hasn't really played much golf.

0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:50.200
<v Speaker 1>So that's the one, one kind of alarming thing. Who

0:58:50.200 --> 0:58:53.000
<v Speaker 1>about what about you? Who's your pick to win too?

0:58:53.520 --> 0:58:56.440
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking about this throughout the week. I just

0:58:56.560 --> 0:59:00.280
<v Speaker 2>I love Sung Jay's chances. I and the I try

0:59:00.320 --> 0:59:02.120
<v Speaker 2>not to go with a chalk pick when I do these,

0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:05.320
<v Speaker 2>because picking stuff is ridiculous to begin with, especially in golf.

0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:08.400
<v Speaker 2>But I try to go with somebody that's not right there.

0:59:08.560 --> 0:59:10.440
<v Speaker 2>You know that that's not the top five, it's not

0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:12.880
<v Speaker 2>the top eight, it's not the most obvious. I like

0:59:12.960 --> 0:59:15.080
<v Speaker 2>Sung J going in. I think some Jay's got a

0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:17.960
<v Speaker 2>great chance to get himself in the conversation. Again, so

0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:20.960
<v Speaker 2>I think the easy picks j T or Speed or

0:59:21.040 --> 0:59:24.880
<v Speaker 2>DJ or whomever. But I think Sung J is who

0:59:24.920 --> 0:59:26.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm kind of circling, is who I think has the

0:59:26.720 --> 0:59:30.040
<v Speaker 2>most the most likely chance to do something special.

0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:34.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think obviously when you remove rom Deshambo, j T,

0:59:35.360 --> 0:59:38.080
<v Speaker 1>DJ and Speith, then you get a little bit it

0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:40.640
<v Speaker 1>opens up a little bit. You know, I probably am

0:59:40.680 --> 0:59:42.800
<v Speaker 1>gonna pick one of those five, I'm still not sure

0:59:42.880 --> 0:59:43.680
<v Speaker 1>who I'm gonna pick.

0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:45.120
<v Speaker 2>But you're not gonna pick west Wood.

0:59:45.320 --> 0:59:51.640
<v Speaker 1>No, he's broken my heart too many times here. I uh,

0:59:51.920 --> 0:59:54.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm kind of I'm sneaky thinking he Deci's

0:59:55.000 --> 1:00:00.000
<v Speaker 1>got a good, good shot, he hasn't done anything well recently.

0:59:59.640 --> 1:00:02.200
<v Speaker 2>But maybe an underrated pitcher as well. I mean, I

1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:03.800
<v Speaker 2>think that's kind of what we're circling at least on

1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:06.280
<v Speaker 2>this podcast, is if you're gonna look at somebody to

1:00:06.680 --> 1:00:10.680
<v Speaker 2>love this week, especially Andy, especially if we're gonna see

1:00:10.680 --> 1:00:12.760
<v Speaker 2>it fast. I mean, if it's gonna stay like this,

1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:15.080
<v Speaker 2>and I'm expecting it to stay like this, if it's

1:00:15.080 --> 1:00:18.320
<v Speaker 2>gonna be firm and play, you know, really really tough

1:00:18.560 --> 1:00:22.160
<v Speaker 2>Augusta National. It's gonna be so important to be able

1:00:22.200 --> 1:00:23.400
<v Speaker 2>to get the ball in and around the hole when

1:00:23.440 --> 1:00:26.160
<v Speaker 2>you miss greens, because you're gonna miss greens. So those

1:00:26.160 --> 1:00:26.880
<v Speaker 2>are something.

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<v Speaker 1>It's gonna magnify. It's gonna magnify hitting into the greens

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<v Speaker 1>and then hitting around the greens.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, absolutely, because you're gonna you're going to miss greens.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, real quick, people are gonna see hearing more of you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's exciting. I didn't even know about this until we

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<v Speaker 1>started recording.

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<v Speaker 2>What's that this week?

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<v Speaker 1>They're gonna hear more from you than just live from right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm a part of I'm a

1:00:50.400 --> 1:00:52.959
<v Speaker 2>part of the Masters dot com digital coverage as well,

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<v Speaker 2>which starts obviously on Thursday. So super pumped about that.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel, you know, you pinch yourself sometimes when you

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<v Speaker 2>get these opportunities, and this is obviously as as big

1:01:02.360 --> 1:01:05.200
<v Speaker 2>a pinch as I've ever u I've ever done to myself,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, getting a chance to to to be a

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<v Speaker 2>part of that. So very honored, very excited. It's uh again,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just it's just wild to get the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 2>be here and and get a chance to kind of

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<v Speaker 2>be a part of these teams. Is uh. It's such

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<v Speaker 2>a cool thing. And you know, I I still go

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<v Speaker 2>back to four. You know, I was a left hander

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<v Speaker 2>in East Texas. It was Easter Sunday. We're at my

1:01:23.960 --> 1:01:26.560
<v Speaker 2>aunt's lake house. We had like a I don't know

1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:29.040
<v Speaker 2>what twenty inch TV in one of her bedrooms with

1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:32.160
<v Speaker 2>you know, rabbit ears and Phil's gonna win his first

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<v Speaker 2>Masters potentially, and Phil was my guy, and uh, and

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it was the moment of all the moments

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<v Speaker 2>as a kid, I remember that was the one that

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<v Speaker 2>really kind of comes to mind, was was oh for

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<v Speaker 2>Phil having that chance there and obviously pulling it off

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<v Speaker 2>with the putter. Remember there's like fifteen of us hubbled

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<v Speaker 2>around this very small TV watching the end of it.

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<v Speaker 2>So to kind of be here in this capacity now again,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's it's it's pinch It's pinchworthy, that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm very fired up for the week.

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<v Speaker 1>It's uh, nothing better than getting the uh, the soothing

1:02:00.760 --> 1:02:03.200
<v Speaker 1>tones of Shane Bacon's voice in your living room on

1:02:03.280 --> 1:02:06.120
<v Speaker 1>Thursday and Friday mornings. You know you're gonna be with

1:02:06.200 --> 1:02:09.080
<v Speaker 1>us before the coverage comes on. I feel like that's

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<v Speaker 1>a you know, Masters dot Com probably I would love

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<v Speaker 1>to know the ratings that it would get, because I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like everybody Thursday morning, there's no heighten, more heightened

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<v Speaker 1>excitement about the Masters than Thursday morning, very.

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<v Speaker 2>Very excited, excited for the week. I I'm about to

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<v Speaker 2>go back out there in a few minutes. I take

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<v Speaker 2>a shower and go out and uh thanks for the time,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, of course, uh anytime, you know that. But

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<v Speaker 2>I'm excited about it. So yeah, thanks for the time

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<v Speaker 2>as well. I always love chatting with you. I knew

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<v Speaker 2>you know what. We only overlap like one or two things.

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<v Speaker 2>I was very proud of us. We did we not,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, we didn't bring up Brooks kept go

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<v Speaker 2>once on this podcast, Andy, we didn't. I don't even

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<v Speaker 2>know if we didn't know his name.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got he's gonna have the receipts. We're gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>getting tweets at us.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe, I know that's that's a great point, and it.

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<v Speaker 1>Does seem it seems great here real quick. It seems

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<v Speaker 1>crazy to be able the sway of golf club all

1:03:01.720 --> 1:03:04.080
<v Speaker 1>out but struggle to walk well.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I told you I watched that Tiger doc

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<v Speaker 2>on HBO and they focus obviously a lot on his

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<v Speaker 2>injuries and him being injured and playing through it. And

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<v Speaker 2>you see him and he would literally be win seen

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<v Speaker 2>to kind of stand up and to kind of extend

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<v Speaker 2>the knee, and then he's hitting you know, these three

1:03:20.360 --> 1:03:23.360
<v Speaker 2>woods on greens and stuff, and it's just I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if it's the it's accepting the pain in your brain,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, over the golf shot going, I'm gonna make

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<v Speaker 2>a move who cares if it hurts. I can deal

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<v Speaker 2>with it knowing that the golf swing is such a

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<v Speaker 2>short amount of time. But something of these guys man there,

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<v Speaker 2>they're a different breed. To go out there with a

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<v Speaker 2>major injury to be able to play through it is

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<v Speaker 2>pretty crazy. And so whatever he does this week, mad

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<v Speaker 2>respect for him to show it up. Well.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for the time, Shane, and we'll talk

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