WEBVTT - Five Things About the 2023 Masters with Trevor Immelman 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.520 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:04.920 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.960 And when I find my ball in a bride egg 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.039 Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.000 Frida Egg, bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:36.800 off the golf course. Welcome back to another edition of 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.640 the Frida Egg Podcast. I can't believe it. It is 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.600 Master's Week and for this year's Master's Preview, the Five 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.680 Things about the Masters, we have a former champion of 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.320 the Masters, Trevor Mwelman, who will also be leading the 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.760 CBS broadcast this weekend. 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You played Augusta and Tpcsawgrass, and I remember 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.160 you posting earlier this year that he was starting to 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.760 outdrive you. I'm wondering how close are we to him 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.160 getting you outright in around? 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.720 Yeah, first of all, it was an incredible, incredible weekend 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.960 stuff dreams are made of. Really, to be honest, you know, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.720 when we play really difficult courses like Augusta National or 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.560 the Stadium course, you know, the gap is still there. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.359 It's like I was speaking to him on the drive 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.600 down from Augusta to to TPC and we were talking 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.040 through the two rounds we played, and really my advice 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.440 to him was, look, never had to develop a skill 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.560 for understanding strategy. He's just never had to do it. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.640 The courses that he plays in tournaments, our home course, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.760 it's all just pretty much right there. You know, you 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.600 get the number with your measuring device, one eighty. Okay, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.520 I'm gonna land at one eighty like that. That's how 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.000 That's pretty much how he plays. And all of a sudden, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.720 you know, we get to Augusta National, or we get 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.200 too sore grass and now you know that one eighty 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.600 to the whole location is all right. That is the 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.760 max that you can finish it, because if you go 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.520 along here, you're dead. And so this means, now with 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.760 the greens being firmer, you've got to land this thing 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.840 seventy two, seventy three. You've got a little wind helping you, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.880 so it's playing sixty eight sixty seven. So a perfect 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.120 example is we get to the first hole at Augusta 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.120 National and he just smokes a t shot down there. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.480 I mean, the kid was nervous, and you know, there 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.479 was a few people standing around the tee because they 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.760 knew that it was his first time playing the course, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.880 and he just absolutely pipes this awesome fade down the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:59.200 middle and whole location back middle, which is actually it 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.240 sounds benine. The first green complex at Augusta National one 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.200 of the toughest on the whole golf course. It is 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.000 tiny little areas that you need to keep the ball in. Also, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.800 it is the pretty much the highest or it is 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.960 the highest point at that facility, so that green can 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.840 be firm a little firmer than the others at times 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.880 and he goes ahead. He's between five and six iron, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.560 and he just hits the five perfect and he lands 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.640 it right out the hole and this thing just one 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.080 balances straight over the back of the first and we're 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.839 walking up to the green and I'm like, good luck 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.800 from there, buddy. I mean, five is going to be 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.479 a great score at this point. And that was like, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.560 he's welcome to Augusta National. He's hit two perfect shots 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.839 in a row and rarely now he's just trying to 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.479 figure out how he can make bogie and so that's 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.159 the skill that he rarely needs to develop. So when 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.080 we play pro level courses like that, those are things 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.120 that he still needs to get better at to control 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.480 the scoring. So there's still a bit of a gap there. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.760 You fake my way around because I know where to 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:02.120 miss it. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.520 Yeah, that makes sense. It's just about you know, it's 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.080 so much about misses when you get to the higher 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.600 levels of golf. It's just you know, avoiding bogies. Right, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.960 He's making big numbers because of inexperience, which is which 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.360 is understandable for he's a high schooler. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.719 Right, Yeah, sixteen years old, played in a lot of tournaments, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.080 so he has that experience. But yeah, I give him 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.200 a lot of credit because you know, he played back 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.719 on the Master's Teas and we played back there together, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.880 and so it's tough. Yeah, it's really tough because he's 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.159 not quite able to get over you know, some of 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:46.240 the ridges, like the t shot on one, stuff like that. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.760 Five is another one now with that new back tea. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.480 So he had a lot of a lot of long 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.560 clubs into into the power falls and the par fives 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:55.800 just weren't quite reachable. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.479 Yeah. So we've got the Masters. We're one week out 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.800 of Masters Week, and uh, for this, I I had 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.039 you you prepare five things are traditional five things that 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.840 we're watching heading into the Masters should be a excellent 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.960 term and I can't wait for the first major of 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.720 the year. I would uh, I'd love to hear what 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.120 you're leading off with with your five things. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.200 Well, first of all, I got to give you a 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.040 hard time because this is the first podcast I've ever 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.679 been on. Well, I've been told to do homework before 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.560 I come on, so I'm not sure you know, I'm 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.880 expecting a check in the mail for this, Andy, I 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.680 gotta I gotta let you know it. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.960 But here was a big ask. Five things. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.560 You know, do you want my number do you know? 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.360 Do you want my number one? Or do you want 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.840 me to burn through all five of them? 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.800 Well, I want your number one. We'll go, We'll go 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.280 back and forth. I've got five written down, You've got 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.120 five written down. That's how this podcast goes. You know, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.280 you want to come it? 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.320 Okay, So it's a little give and take. It's not 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:54.960 a one way. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.560 STA like it. Yeah, we both, we both. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.680 Here goes my number one. Okay, here goes my number one. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.840 My number one thing that I'm looking forward to is 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:11.880 Rory mcelroyed to complete the Grand Slam, become the sixth 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.920 human or men man to ever do it. And I 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.400 think that is it's just that that is an extremely 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.800 elite list in all of sports, and for him to 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.520 have the opportunity to do that is quite incredible. And 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.400 then you start to add the layers to that, the 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.880 fact that seemingly this golf course is made for him. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.720 You know, it's much like Ernie Els back in the day. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.920 You sort of think these guys should win two, three, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.280 four green jackets apiece with the way their game matches 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.920 the golf course. So that's the one layer. The second 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:55.960 layer is how popular he is. It's unusual. I'll say 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.360 this as an international player that has been fortunate enough 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.120 to live and work in America. It's unusual for an 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.200 international player to be as popular as Rory McRoy is. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.640 You know, Americans are spoilt with great athletes, and you know, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.320 if we drill down into our niche sport, you know, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.760 we've had had all the top stars here coming from America, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.160 and particularly right now in the game. You know, you 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.440 got the Thomas's and Chefflers and Speeths and all of 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.320 those guys. Homer who's extremely popular, but mclroy is more 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.720 popular than all of them, and he's not from here, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.920 and that's unusual. So that's another layer. And then the 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:44.440 intrigue really is that he's had a few close calls 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.320 there and he just hasn't been able to get it done. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.880 So if he does, there's two pieces. You know. Number One, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.640 he's going to have this pressure to start the week 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.680 If he manages to get his way through that and 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.320 he actually has a chance to win on the weekend, 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.520 you know, how is he going to be able to 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.120 deal with all of this extra weight. It's going to 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.720 be an incredible storyline. And if you know, never mind 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.080 the fact that he's he's been one of the guys 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.120 that is well maybe even the guy to put the 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.480 PGA two on his back for the last two years. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.880 But if he had to find a way to win 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:25.280 the Green Jacket and complete all of these various pieces, man, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.600 that will be, uh, for me, the biggest story since 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.079 Tiger's winning twenty nineteen. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.240 Yeah. I think the thing too about the Grand Slam 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.920 with Rory is that in a way is like flying 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.240 a little bit under the radar because he's had so 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.840 many chances at it. It seems like, you know, like 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.800 that the talking point of the grand career Grand Slam, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.760 it almost diminishes every year you have a shot at it. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.360 The same thing's happening with Jordan Spieth and the PGA. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.080 But also I think like one of the nice things 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.800 for Rory, and this is this ties into my big thing, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:05.040 is that we this year have Scottie Scheffler and John 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.679 Rahm are going to take up some of that oxygen 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.079 in the room. So you know it, I think storyline 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.280 A is going to be Rory, but it's also Scotty 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.760 Scheffler and John Rahm, you know, and they're you know, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.680 really like you know, John Ram three wins already this year, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.800 Scotty Scheffler seemingly kind of in the exact same form 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.400 where he blew the doors off everybody last year. So 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.040 we have these other two guys that are kind of 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.200 sharing that top of the game spotlight with Rory and 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.400 and I think, you know that Grand Slam pressure is 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.840 obviously always going to be there, but I don't think 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.320 it's the top storyline. And obviously it seems like, you know, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.080 the official field list is it out, but you have 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.640 Tiger also, they're taking up some of that oxygen. So 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.319 the nice part for. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.880 Rory he is he is the oxygen. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.720 Yeah, yeah, it's it's unbelievable. I mean last year I 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.200 couldn't believe, Like I mean, last year obviously was such 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.280 a surprise, you know that he was playing, but the 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.160 way that the attention on the golf course is just 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.480 it's just nobody even comes close. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.360 Yeah, I for sure he's He's a little further down 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.959 my list because you know, as much as I've seen 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:29.080 him do mind bending things throughout my career in the 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.200 professional game, you know, I think his chances to win 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.280 are much less than years that we've seen in the past, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.480 so so I slid him a little bit further down 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.800 my list, but he's absolutely in my top five. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.920 You know, the other thing about Rory that I wanted 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.760 to say, I think that blade putter. I don't know 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.959 if you caught any of this weekend's coverage you were 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.319 playing golf, but he. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.960 Looks infinitely I'm always watching it. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.800 Infinitely better with the blade putter. It's not it's not 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.000 a I don't think I have no mechanical things, but 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.400 it just looks so good. It looks like a Potter 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.240 that you would see a guy like Rory winning the 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.600 Grand Slam with, like you know, just purely aesthetical based 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.120 I love the blade potter look for Rory and not 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.040 the big spaceship putter. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.320 Yeah, I do agree with you. I got to say, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.440 you know, my critique over the years of Rory when 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.640 he was struggling with this putting, and he doesn't really anymore. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.800 I mean, he's vastly improved his pudding last year. You 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.160 might have to check this, but I'm quite certain last 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.080 season he was in the top twenty in strokes gain putting, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.240 which is like legit. You know, that's a good putter 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.520 right there. But my critique of his putting through the 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.520 years was, you know, when we watch him hit a driver, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.560 which is his weapon, or long irons, which is he's 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.400 just probably the best in the game at this point, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.920 it's so athletic, it's so natural, like that club just 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.080 becomes a part of him, Like he moves in unison 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.079 with this club. It's like it's it's it's an art 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.760 form watching it. But when I used to watch him 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.920 putt this is like five six years ago, it looked 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.840 so stiff and wooden, and I just wished that he 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:20.400 would find a way to start to look more like 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.120 he did with his driver. And I got to give 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.480 a lot of credit to him and Brad Faxon for 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.880 finding a way to start doing that even when he 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.520 was using the mallet, and he used the mallet to 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:35.560 put extremely well last year. But I love the mindset 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:39.240 because when you listen to what he's been saying about 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.840 the putt of change in the last two weeks, it's 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.400 exactly that he's like, Oh, I love the way it looks. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.600 I feel like I could be a bit more athletic, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.040 a bit more reactive and just let the stroke happen. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.480 So When I heard that, I was like, oh, yeah, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.360 this is this is nice. We're we're on the right 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.320 track with this. So he seemed to overall put quite 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.000 well at the match play, so hopefully you can keep 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:00.520 step going. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.160 Yeah, so what's your next thing? 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.080 So my first of all, you told me that macarroy 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.440 is not number one, So what was your number one? Was? Was? What? 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.560 Well, it was the three of them, it was Rory Scheffler. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:15.960 And but that's cheating. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.240 Well, yeah, I know I cheat. I guess what. It's 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.040 not cheating. It's my rules, it's my podcast. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.280 I guess did you do your homework for this? Yeah? 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.840 I got I got five things here, I got I got, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.600 I got five things. I I just put the top 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.360 three together. They're in a bucket. I feel like they've 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.480 elevated themselves above everybody else. They're the three best players 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.200 in the game, and you know, on a given day, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.280 it could be any of them. So that's why I 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.800 put them all together. You know, this is the problem there. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.240 They've all played too well, and they've all gotten into 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.680 this one bucket together, and you know, I'm not gonna 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.280 I'm not gonna runopolize my five things with three guys. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:56.400 You know that's the thing. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.920 Okay, you see, this is my first time doing this, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 so I didn't know what kind of leeway I had, 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.960 and I might be in a little bit of trouble 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.760 because John Rahm is not in my five. So that 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.200 is that is quite interesting. But here's my number two. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.520 My number two is the thirteenth hole. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:13.280 All right. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.360 Had the opportunity to play it a couple of times 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.760 here over the weekend. It is it's a great change 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.720 for where we are with the equipment right now. Lengthened 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.400 the hole from around forty up to about forty yards 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.400 around forty yards and so it's at five point fifty 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.000 with the huge dog leg. But I think it's a 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.480 huge storyline because you know, this is this is one 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.480 of the most iconic holes on the planet. And for 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.080 us to be at this point to where that hole 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.440 needs to be lengthened in order for it to place 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.200 somewhat how it was designed is quite something. And it's 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:01.640 also a a sign that, you know, Augusta National has 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.760 had such an incredible ability or it's more evidence to 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.119 show that Augusta National has had such an incredible ability 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.160 to move with the times and the technology and how 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.000 far these players hit it now. You know, if you 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.920 just compare the distance of the course when Tiger on 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.120 his first green jacket in ninety seven to what it's 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:24.960 going to be in twenty twenty three, I mean, it's 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:31.680 hundreds of yards longer. And so that thirteenth toll is 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:37.199 it's a cool change. It feels good. It's beautiful the 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.719 way they've taken it back, and they've built that stone 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.680 wall around there. The zaleas are absolutely popping right now, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.000 and it's kind of reminds me a little bit of eighteen. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.360 It's pulled back into a little bit of a shoot, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.960 and you just feel like you have infinite space. My 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.240 son actually said to me, Wow, I feel like I 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:03.520 have from raised Creak all the way to like the 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.960 eleventh fairway as space to hit it if I want, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.159 I can just hit it as far right as I 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.359 want to and then decide, you know, how much I 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.080 want to try and hug or cut off if I want. So, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.560 you know, players still will have the ability to try 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.600 and turn it just a little bit around the corner, 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.560 and if they managed to do that, we're going to 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:26.359 see anything from five woods and hybrids to fives and 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.439 six signs in there for the approach, but going to 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.320 be really cool to see how that hole plays. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.480 Now, yeah, you know the thirteenth. I was curious. I 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.560 wanted to talk to you about the thirteenth. So I'm 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.840 glad it made your things. It kind of made my 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.640 things in a once again, I'm bunching here, I put 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.040 the back nine par fives. Obviously. Last year the fifteenth, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.840 the length thing was a huge storyline, and it played 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.760 into that wind and it made it like you know, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.800 everybody that I think August obviously loves that momentous decision 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.800 line and it made fifteen a momentum decision. And I'm 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.199 very curious this year with thirteen. You know how it 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.640 affects it. And from the sounds of it, I think 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.040 what's exciting about the change is that if you hit 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.000 a really great T shot, you're going to be rewarded with, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.320 like you know, for a longer player, a five or 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.400 six iron. It sounded like from Rory and Scheffler that's 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.320 the type of shots. If they hit a really good drive, 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.040 they're going to hit into it. But that average drive, 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.400 all of a sudden, it's not going to be a 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.240 foregone conclusion that you're getting home into, or that you're 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.280 going to want to get home into. If you're all 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.760 sudden on that hanging lie with a five wood versus 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.000 a four iron, there's a little bit more thought in 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.240 the head. So for me, I think the back nine 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.639 has the opportunity and we'll see how it plays out. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.480 But to have not just one, but two momentous decisions, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.600 which I think is really great and obviously elevates those 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.840 par fives in the thirteenth. It's just such an icon 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:05.439 and strategical. Having that kind of left shot rewarded and 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.320 having a little bit more room on the right is 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.040 really you know, it's an exciting thing because it presents 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:12.600 almost more of a choice, right. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.719 Yeah. I was in the fifteenth tower last year, so 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.640 I really experienced fifteen and paying a lot of attention 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.320 to it, and with that wind playing into on fifteen, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.680 I wanted more players to be able to go for it. 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.240 You know, it's such a small target and that green 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:37.560 is so shallow with the shaved bank in front down 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.240 into the pond, and then you know, if you just 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.040 fly it over the back, it's a pretty steep downhill 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.320 toward the pond. On sixteen. You don't have to hit 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.440 a terrible shot to hit it into the pond on sixteen. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.080 When playing your second shot into fifteen, I mean it 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.080 comes in there as the ball is descending, it's landing 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.800 on a steep gradient, and that ball just takes off. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:05.439 So for me in the past, the beauty of the 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.639 par fives on the second nine at Augusta National is 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.159 that you can get seventy percent of players going for 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:17.320 it into Like I think that's the magic number because 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.240 then you're going to see threes. You're going to see 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.800 sixes and sevens and eights because guys are going to 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.879 rinse it. They're going to get into the creek or 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.520 into the ponds on fifteen, and so you're going to 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.760 you're going to get some spread, some volatility, some excitement. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.760 That's what I'm looking for. Last year, the way fifteen played, 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.560 in my opinion, with the wind back into too many 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.280 guys laying up, and then as an announcer selfishly, you know, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.840 I've just got I got to describe the same wedge 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.280 shot over and over and over again, rather than being like, oh, 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.920 this guy's trying to go for it. Anything could happen here, 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.720 So you know, hopefully this time around, we find that 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:59.680 nice balance to where, yes, it is a massive decision 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.640 that the players need to make. It's it's a bit 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.960 of a risk that they're going to take, but they 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.600 want to take it because there's like this carrot dangling 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.239 of I can make a three here and get some 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.760 crystal from the clubs. So you got to find you 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:15.960 got to find that nice balance to where we can 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:16.800 have the risk reward. 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:19.720 Yeah. I've said this on this podcast, but I think 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.240 I think the number of iconic shots over the recent 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:28.480 years has has skewed towards fifteen more than thirteen. Obviously, 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.480 you know you always have the fill one from the 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.280 trees on thirteen. But if you think of recent years, 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:36.080 you have that Sergio shot where he kissed the flag, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.840 you have the tig I thought the Tiger shot was 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:42.600 just like that was like the most Tiger Woods shot 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.720 of all time, just like clinical execution, twenty yards or 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.560 twenty feet, right, just like let the slope bring it 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.840 in a little bit and like dialed in perfect number. 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.680 And I think that's the thing. One of the tricky 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.520 things with Augusta. Obviously, and this is this is by 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.040 no means a critique, but you know, they love the 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.760 two T boxes. You know, they have the back tee 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.800 and the member tee and it's a very you know, 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:11.879 when you're on the grounds, it's so clean, it's so 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.639 you know, wonderful and simplistic. But one of the tricky 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.920 things that it presents is when you get an odd 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.640 wind like that into the wind on fifteen, it limits 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.760 how much flexibility you have. You know, being able to 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.360 move that tee up twenty five yards because it's into 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.480 the wind would be really nice, but they just don't. 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.680 They don't have that flexibility with the two T system. 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.280 So that's that's a tricky thing. And I hope you know, 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.199 my guess it sounded like I remember last year, the 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.919 talk was like what a weird wind you know to 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:46.600 have out there. So hopefully that that wind isn't around 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.480 this year because it made it made you know. The 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:53.399 other thing about that wind is like seven downwind, what 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.719 a nightmare? That second shot is howling down you know 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.879 to that shallow green, shallow elevated green. Like if you 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.399 think about the way that wind interacts with the course, 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.960 it is it is a brutal, brutal wind to play 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:07.000 that golf course. 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.119 In Yeah, for sure. The last couple of days it 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:14.080 was the southwest, which is ordinarily what you would get 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.680 this time of year. So when you're playing the first hole, 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:18.920 it's a little bit down and out of your left 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:23.119 m hmm. When that north wind starts to kick up, 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.240 then then three of the par fives play into the wind, 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.280 so the scoring opportunities are a little bit less. But yeah, 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:32.879 when seven is playing down wind, it is an extremely 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.440 difficult second shot because first of all, you're hitting off 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:37.720 of a downhill lie, so the ball is naturally going 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.600 to launch lower. You're hitting four or five yards uphill, 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:46.280 so that's making it even more difficult. And then yeah, 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.680 you have so little space from front to back that 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.120 you can you can stop the ball and if it's 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:58.440 if it's taking you know, if conditions are are are right, 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:03.000 you know that bowl with a short iron even it's 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:05.800 gonna be taking a five or six yard skip on 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.800 the first bounce. And at that point, really you only 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.879 have seven two yards to land it in and it 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.360 needs to be just over that steep bunker. 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:19.360 And it has to be struck perfectly. If you catch 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:21.399 it a little on the toe, it's gonna take a 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:25.560 little bit bigger that was one of my big like underrated, 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:27.960 like first like first time. Spending a lot of time 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.480 on grounds last year, one of my big takeaways was 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.639 just how shallow that green is. Like TV almost does it. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:36.840 You know, it's jallo, but like you just like when 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:39.119 you're standing behind that green and there's a great spot 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:42.640 to stand right behind it, and you're just like, holy cow, 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:44.960 like you have to hit this shot so perfect to 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.960 get you know, and obviously there's some helping contours, but 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.800 what a great little green that is. I'll do my third. 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:54.280 Since I had the par fives, the back nine par fives, 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:56.879 I'm blumping things. I'll do my third here and then 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.240 we'll kick it to you for your third. One of 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:03.600 the things this is a personal inclusion that I'm looking 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:07.240 forward to is the no cell phone policy on the grounds. 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:10.520 It applies to press also for all the people wondering 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:14.639 I personally. You know, at first it's jarring, you know, 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:17.119 like you live with like you know, I don't know 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:19.639 if you do this, but I tap my my pockets, 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:22.119 you know, make sure I got my wallet, my keys, 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.800 my cell phone. You know. That's like a thing I 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:27.080 do a lot during the day, and it's always darting. 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:28.960 You're like walking out of the press center. You can 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:31.040 have your phone in the press center. Walking out of 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:32.560 the press center, it's like, oh no, I got to 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:34.800 run back to my seat drop my phone off, you know. 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:39.280 But going out there, it's like a digital detox week 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:42.080 for me. I think it's spectacular and I think, like 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:44.680 so one of the things that I would I would 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.520 I was going to write about was just the magic 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:50.440 of Augusta National. The magic of the roars of Augusta 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:55.160 National really centers around the atmospheres that's created. And one 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.040 of the things I just love that I fell in 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:59.040 love with with the week was the no cell phone thing. 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:03.119 You have all these people that come and you know 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:07.000 what cell phones are is a distraction At golf tournaments, 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.200 you know, people are filming things, people are looking on Twitter, 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.280 people are looking at the score or the leader boards. 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:16.240 So what happens at the Masters and what the magic 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:18.760 I think of the Masters really is is that you 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:22.400 have all these people that come in. They're with the 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:26.360 most important people in their lives, their brothers, their fathers, 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:30.399 they're you know, significant others, and there they have the 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:34.560 undivided attention they're having like a euphoric experience because they're 0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:37.440 with this person that means so much to them. They're 0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:39.960 at a place, it's a bucket list place, it's probably 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:43.199 somewhere that they're coming one time in their life, and 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:46.919 they have no distractions, and their undivided attention is on 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:51.600 this sport and what's happening, and what happens there is 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.720 that you just have these roars that don't exist because 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:57.480 somebody's not looking at their phone. They're not looking and 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:02.199 it's just it's an unbelieve It was the thing that 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.119 I just couldn't believe and I couldn't wait to just like, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:07.600 you know, ditch my phone in the press center and 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:10.359 go out in the day and just be amongst this, 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:13.080 like you know, these people that we're all having the 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:16.639 best days of their lives, and you know among like 0:28:16.720 --> 0:28:19.159 you know, these are all you know, you it's so 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:22.399 rare that you get an opportunity to spend a day 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.919 or an entire week amongst tens of thousands of people 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:28.679 having one of the best days of their lives. And 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:31.639 that's what happens out there. And for a journalist, you know, 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.080 for me, you know, all I'm thinking about is is 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.160 the golf tournament and what I'm watching, I have a notepad, 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:40.840 you know, I'm writing down notes. But you know, what 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:43.680 you're able to do from from a work side is 0:28:43.720 --> 0:28:47.280 get really lost in the golf and like you're you 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:50.360 don't have social media, you're not worried about a tweet 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.800 you're sending, You're not worried about, you know, anything that's 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:57.080 going on other than what you're watching. And it's really 0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:59.640 a special thing. And it's amazing that they're able to 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:02.320 do the cell phone thing in the modern day. 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.880 Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one, Andy, 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:07.480 I like that one a lot. And we just experienced 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:11.760 it this weekend. You know, we arrived on site, we 0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:14.800 just left our phones in the cabin, didn't didn't look 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:18.440 at them for two days. And like you say, what 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:21.720 it allows is it allows you the ability to truly 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:25.920 experience what's going on because you don't have this distraction 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:29.440 that you're constantly looking at or replying to people or 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:34.200 researching something or you know, looking for information. And so 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:38.520 it is there's something freeing about that to where you 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:44.360 can just enjoy this amazing experience of being at Augusta National. 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:48.960 And so the fans on our like you say, actually watching, 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:54.600 actually paying attention, actually noticing the little things. Firstly, the 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:57.960 sounds and the noises are different, because you know, on 0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:00.240 an ordinary week on the PGA tour, this a lot 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:03.080 of shouting going on. There's a lot of shouting going 0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:06.640 on because people's hands are full. But now all of 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:09.360 a sudden, you get to the Masters and you'll hear 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:15.000 more clapping because people have the ability to go ahead 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:18.360 and clap. You just ordinarily don't hear clapping anymore. It's 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:21.000 just people shouting when you had a good shot, and 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:25.640 there's it just feels different when you're there and when 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:29.239 you when you're there for the Masters. I've noticed they 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:32.400 have this campaign going right now on their social media channels, 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:36.760 bring your Best, and you know, you see it walking around, 0:30:36.800 --> 0:30:40.960 like people wear their best clothes or they wear, you know, 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:46.400 the shirt they bought from the merchandise facility there the shop, 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:49.040 and they dress up and they look good and they 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:52.160 feel good. And there's people wearing long pants to come 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:56.840 and watch, or woman wearing dresses, and it just it's 0:30:56.960 --> 0:30:59.120 kind of like back in the old days when you know, 0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:02.520 people would dress up to fly if they were flying somewhere. 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:05.200 You know, guys would wear suits and ties and women 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.000 would have dresses and hats and stuff like that. 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So thanks club champion, and now back to 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:25.640 Trevor Emmlman. What's your what's your number three? 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:32.480 My number three is Scottish Scheffler defending as world number one. 0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:36.440 Now I have a slightly different take than your first 0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:40.400 point when you cheated and lumped them all together and 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:45.760 so and here's my take. I think because Tiger Woods 0:33:45.920 --> 0:33:50.520 is playing, and he is whenever he teas it up 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.680 is the biggest storyline, So he's going to suck up 0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:57.920 a bunch of oxygen. Macarroy trying to complete the Grand 0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:00.720 Slam is going to suck up a bunch bunch of oxygen. 0:34:01.200 --> 0:34:05.720 I think that Scotti Scheffler is coming into this Masters 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.480 as the world number one, as a guy who's already 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:12.040 won a bunch of times this year as a defending champion. 0:34:12.320 --> 0:34:16.200 I actually feel like he's coming to this Masters with 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:19.240 less pressure on him than any of the other top dogs. 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:24.040 I feel like he's flying under the radar, and particularly 0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:26.359 with the way he handles things and the way he 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:31.440 carries himself. Everything is so calm, so matter of fact, 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.880 So I have faith that what will be will be, 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.160 And you know, I just work hard and do my thing, 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:41.759 and I accept whatever happens. Like the whole mindset, the 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.440 whole way he carries himself, and with all the other 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:48.640 storylines going on, I think he's coming in flying under 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:53.799 the radar, playing unbelievable golf, the undisputed number one as 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:55.759 we sit here, even though it changed hands a few 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:59.640 times over the last few months, and trying to become 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:02.439 let me think, I hope I don't get this wrong, 0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:06.719 but I'm wanting to say the fourth person to win 0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:10.720 back to back Masters, we have Jack, Tiger and Nick Faldo, 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:13.120 I believe, are the three that have won back to back. 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:15.399 Do you think I'm missing anybody there? I don't think 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:15.640 I am. 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.880 I think you got it. You know your master's history 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:19.719 seems spot on. 0:35:20.040 --> 0:35:24.359 So I I gosh, he's my favorite right now. He's 0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:26.759 my favorite. And this is not like recency bias. This 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:29.600 is because, like you touched on, we've got a lot 0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:31.960 of guys playing great. You throw Max Homer and they 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:34.200 can throw a few other players in there, guys that 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:38.359 have played well there in the past. But with where 0:35:38.400 --> 0:35:41.160 he's at, the experience he had last year, he's gonna 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:44.320 have all those great memories flooding back as he comes 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:47.799 down Magnolia Lane, and there's going to be so much 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:50.000 else going on. I don't think he's going to be 0:35:50.800 --> 0:35:53.880 pulled and pushed in all sorts of different directions. I 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:56.360 think he's just going to cruise the first few days. 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:58.359 I just have a feeling he's gonna win again. 0:35:59.320 --> 0:36:03.240 I feel like this was it's like playing out almost 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:06.960 exactly like last year. You know, he didn't win this 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:10.600 week at the match play, but for all intensive purposes, 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:13.960 it felt you know, getting to the final four of 0:36:14.000 --> 0:36:17.400 that tournament feels like a win. You've played exceptional golf 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:20.560 to get there. He swapped bay Hill, the Bayhill win 0:36:20.680 --> 0:36:23.000 last year with the players win. This year. Yep, he 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:26.720 won once in Scottsdale, and it's like again, he comes 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:31.200 in to this Masters like you described as almost an undercard, 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:35.400 and I'll never forget. Like I've talked about this, I 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:39.800 was watching Tiger on Friday and Tiger was playing maybe 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:43.719 two to three groups ahead of Scottie, and the patrons 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:47.280 obviously were swarming Tiger as he's trying to make the cut. 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:50.640 He's putting out on nine green and I, you know, 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:54.200 all the everybody leaves as he finishes putting. I'm still 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:56.880 standing behind that green and I look and obviously you 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:59.040 get a great vanish point to eight. You see that 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:02.120 majestic that you play up on eight from the back 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.480 of nine green, and I see Scotty Shuffler just walking. 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.600 He's running away with the tournament at this point. You know, 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:12.759 he's building this lead and nobody is following him, and 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:15.560 I'm just thinking, this guy is the hottest player in 0:37:15.600 --> 0:37:17.520 the world. I think at that time he had won 0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:22.000 three of five events coming in and he gets the 0:37:22.120 --> 0:37:28.200 luxury of playing number world number one with no patrons around, 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:31.000 and I just think, like, what kind of like there's 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:35.920 never been that circumstance before where like a player like 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:40.000 is electric would be storyline one a in any other year, 0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:44.080 and here because a tiger, Tiger's attempt to make the 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:48.240 cut and just the miraculous return to golf that he had. 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:51.080 You know, Scotty in a way just got to just 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:55.600 like Saunter his way to a Saturday where he had 0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:58.839 a big lead. And I think that's like something that 0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:01.600 is just kind of playing out again this year with 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:04.120 all the different stories that are going on in golf. 0:38:04.560 --> 0:38:07.840 Yeah, I have a great feel about it. And you know, 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:12.160 he's really created such a brilliant chemistry and relationship with 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:16.839 his caddy, Teddy. And you know Ted's had a lot 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:18.960 of success around that golf course too. He was on 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:21.719 the bag both times with Bubba and then he got 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:24.720 his third time. He was around with the winner last 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:29.200 year with Scotty, and those two guys just they beat 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:32.200 off of each other in such a positive way, and 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:37.680 it never seems to be any panic or any I 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:40.399 never seem to watch Scotty Sheffler and go man, he's 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:42.759 the way out of his comfort zone right now. And 0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:45.400 this is I really look forward to watching in the 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:47.960 next ten or fifteen minutes. I think that, you know, 0:38:48.280 --> 0:38:51.560 there could be some sort of explosion. I can never 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:54.600 ever ever get that feeling, you know, I get that 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:57.960 feeling when I watched Turtle happen. I get that feeling 0:38:58.040 --> 0:39:02.160 when I watch Rory McElroy. You know, Rory McElroy can 0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:04.920 make six birdies in a row and then make. 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:09.200 An eight, and this would be in the spot Speith. 0:39:09.000 --> 0:39:11.359 Is in this bucket. You know, I know you're down 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:14.000 on speed. I still ride for speed, Andy, I still 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:14.920 ride for him. 0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:18.440 I'm worried about I'm worried about my Smith stance. 0:39:18.800 --> 0:39:22.040 I still think. I still think he's got another major 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:26.440 in him. To be honest with you, because really, all 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:28.279 he's missing right now is to run into a hot 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:30.880 putting week for four days. And that could happen to 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:32.560 any of us. It happened to me when I won 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:35.319 the Masters. I wasn't I wasn't a great Putter, So 0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:38.280 that can happen to any of us at any any moment. 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:41.320 You never know what this crazy game. But yeah, Scheffler's 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:45.600 just like so if you look at the Big Three 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:47.799 right now, and I use that term so loosely because 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:50.920 the real Big three were I mean, what those guys 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:54.239 did paulmer Nicholason player was insane. These guys have a 0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:57.360 very very long distance to go to to get into 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:01.239 that realm. But with the current Big Three, you know, 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:04.160 like I said, Rory can be pretty volatile. Not in 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:07.640 his demeanor. He's extremely level headed and calm and thoughtful 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:14.200 and mega intelligent. Rational, He's very rational, but with his game, 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:16.040 you know, it's a little bit of a roller coaster. 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:18.640 He can he can, he can do anything out there. 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:21.879 Ram is the most volatile of the lot by far. 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:24.480 You know, he's like a bull in a china shop, 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:28.640 just you know, he's almost And I enjoy watching him too, 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:30.880 because he's one of those athletes where he needs a 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:33.840 little chip on his shoulder, he needs he needs to 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:36.839 be angry with someone, it feels like sometimes to get 0:40:36.880 --> 0:40:37.759 his best out of him. 0:40:37.800 --> 0:40:40.480 Not all the time, but maybe maybe maybe it's you 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:41.959 not including him in your five. 0:40:43.800 --> 0:40:45.920 Maybe if he listens to this, he's going to be like, 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:48.360 you know what, these TV guys have no clue what 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.360 they're talking about. I'm going to go out there and 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:53.640 prove this guy wrong. And that'd be awesome because I'd 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:56.880 love to have a bit more Spanish flavor in that 0:40:57.040 --> 0:41:00.920 champion's locker room, so that'd be great. But so you 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:03.920 look at those two and then you look at Scotty 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:07.760 and he just, you know, even though he's a big, 0:41:08.840 --> 0:41:14.319 tall presence, strong, hits it a mile like, he just 0:41:14.480 --> 0:41:19.359 kind of cruises around without much fanfare, and that is 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:24.799 almost his strength from a mental and emotional standpoint. So yeah, 0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:27.160 I feel like he's coming in flying under the radar 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:30.960 without as much attention as what he could be getting 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:36.800 rolling in as the defending champion and current world number one. 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:39.840 I got a great feeling about that guy. But you 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:41.680 know that's not going out on a limb. I have 0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:43.839 a great feeling about him every time he tease it up. 0:41:44.480 --> 0:41:47.080 Yeah. Yeah, one last thing on Scotty that I think, 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:50.759 you know, when watching Tiger for years, he got spoiled with, 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:54.680 Like when things even felt like they were unraveling, Tiger 0:41:54.719 --> 0:41:58.200 would always seemingly hit a shot. And one of the 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.879 things when you're good at everything, when you're good at 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:04.120 every single aspect of golf, you know that shot can 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:06.040 come from anywhere. It can be an iron shot, it 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:08.240 could be a t shot, it could be a chip shot, 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.279 or it could be a putt. And I feel that 0:42:10.440 --> 0:42:14.600 same way with Scotty is that when things even feel 0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:17.719 like they're beginning to unravel a little bit for him, 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:21.600 he might make a twenty five footer and and turn 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:24.440 things around, or like last year, chip the ball in 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:28.600 from seemingly, you know, a disaster just waiting to happen. 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:32.680 So you know, with Scotty, he's got that that knack 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:35.759 to just hit a shot. And I you know, when 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:38.520 Bryson de Shamba played golf and wasn't a long drive 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.399 guy in YouTuber, I kind of felt like he had 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:45.600 that where he would he would just make he wasn't, 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:47.879 you know, he would just make a thirty footer or 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:50.880 you know, hit a long drive and get that. And 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:54.040 there's certain guys that that win a lot that that 0:42:54.120 --> 0:42:56.440 seems to happen to you. They just hit shots that 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:59.480 other guys don't hit in the moments that they really 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:02.799 need a shot, and Scotti. Scheffler certainly has that I've 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:05.960 got a guy. I've got My next one is Cam Smith. 0:43:06.440 --> 0:43:09.560 I think that to me, this is this is one 0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:14.279 of the big questions. Obviously, the last major championship we saw, 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:18.400 we saw one an unbelievable performance from a player that 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:22.840 had been knocking on major championships doors, namely the Masters 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:25.160 at the Old Course, where he went out and just 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:27.800 played one of the best back nines I've ever seen. 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:31.600 He's still fifth in the O W JR despite really 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:35.480 not playing any golf that would be ranked since the 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:39.440 FedEx Cup playoffs. He won the Australian PGA in twenty 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:41.560 twenty three at the very end, or in twenty twenty 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:44.279 two at the very end of the year. But this 0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:47.399 year I don't think we've really been anybody's been really 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.680 thrilled with the results and missing the cut of the 0:43:50.680 --> 0:43:54.640 Saudi event six and twenty six, which which might sound okay, 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:57.400 but when you could consider forty eight players in a field, 0:43:57.760 --> 0:44:01.760 not great results and you know his his Master's record, 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.840 he's got He's got four top tens, which include a 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:06.880 T three last year, a T two and a T 0:44:07.080 --> 0:44:10.920 five in six appearances this golf course is you know, 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:13.320 for a lot of the virtues of why Jordan Speith 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:17.239 plays well here, Cam Smith plays well here, And you know, 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:20.560 I think he's the guy that I just wonder what 0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:23.239 we're going to get from him, and I you know, 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:25.720 he could go out and be in contention, that wouldn't 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:28.000 surprise me. He could go out and miss the cut, 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:30.520 that wouldn't surprise me. And I think, like, you know, 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:33.480 I really wonder if he wasn't playing on the on 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.719 liv where where we would feel with him going into 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:39.920 this Masters. Obviously last year he was really one of 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:43.640 the players of the of the year, and this year 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:46.560 he's got no juice because he hasn't we haven't seen 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:50.200 him play a a like a top flight event, unlike 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:52.240 these other guys. I think that's the thing with these 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:56.359 elevated events, like you need to play competitive golf, and 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:58.759 the PGA Tour in a way has never been more 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:02.640 competitive with these l events, with these top players playing 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:07.440 regularly or designated And here's the guy that you was 0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:10.239 at the top the peak of his game last year 0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:13.120 in the summer, and now we see he hasn't really 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:17.360 played of extremely competitive event since last July. It was 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:18.440 almost a year ago. 0:45:19.160 --> 0:45:22.880 Yeah. Look, I have a ton of respect for Cameron Smith, 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:26.360 a ton of respect for him and for his game, 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:32.600 and I truly believe that if he didn't make the change, 0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:34.759 we wouldn't be talking about the Big Three. We'd be 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:37.400 talking about the Big four right now. Yeah, And he 0:45:37.440 --> 0:45:40.680 would absolutely be in that conversation with chef lo Ram 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:43.680 and McElroy, and we probably would have had a fourth 0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:47.360 world number one in this time. As those three guys 0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:50.560 were handing it back and forth or or shall I say, 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:53.640 snatching it from each other with great golf and wins 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:57.040 over the last few months, I truly believe that he 0:45:57.080 --> 0:45:59.520 would have been in that group doing the same thing. 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:03.080 The ability that he has on and around the greens 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:08.920 is like something we haven't seen since Peet's heyday, you know, 0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:13.919 in that twenty fifteen kind of era, and his long 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.560 game was improving so much, with tons of pop in 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:22.400 the bats, sneaky long rarely at times, and the way 0:46:22.719 --> 0:46:26.839 he won the one hundred and fiftieth Open. He has 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:35.480 that intangibles, He has that inner determination, that that big 0:46:35.520 --> 0:46:38.640 match temperament, the ability to stand up on the biggest 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:42.200 stages and pull off shots that people at home are 0:46:42.239 --> 0:46:45.359 sitting going, how on earth did he just do that 0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:49.280 in this moment? And so he rarely is a full package. 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:52.239 But like you say, it's been a little bit of 0:46:52.320 --> 0:46:55.479 a case of out of sight, out of mind, and 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:58.640 then you know, so far in twenty twenty three, he's 0:46:58.640 --> 0:47:06.160 only played two events, very lackluster golf. And I believe 0:47:06.200 --> 0:47:10.080 they play this week in Orlando. 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:10.439 In your town. 0:47:11.640 --> 0:47:17.719 There you go, he'll have another event. Be extremely interesting 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:21.560 to see how he performs there and seen as though 0:47:21.719 --> 0:47:24.840 you know you've got these buckets of things for your points, 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:30.200 I'll throw I will throw DJ and Bryson into that 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:37.000 same camp Smith bucket. DJ. I'm less concerned about of 0:47:37.040 --> 0:47:40.879 the three because you know, he just has this way 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:44.080 about him of you know, I know that I'm great, 0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:49.120 I know that I'm elite, I never panic, I'm never concerned, 0:47:49.520 --> 0:47:52.320 And so I think he may be able to bounce 0:47:52.480 --> 0:47:57.880 into it, having won there before and and knowing the 0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:01.959 course really well. But with those three guys, like you say, 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:04.960 if they had to have a top ten, I would 0:48:05.000 --> 0:48:08.480 be okay. Yeah, look, these guys are elite golfers. But 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:10.879 if if any of them or all of them missed 0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:13.239 the cut, I just wouldn't be all that surprised either. 0:48:14.000 --> 0:48:17.000 I mean, I mean Bryson. I'm more worried about Larry 0:48:17.400 --> 0:48:22.000 Yes and Bryson's rivalry, you know, than than anything. Well, 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.560 I'm worried about him taking down the shortest driver in 0:48:24.600 --> 0:48:29.640 the in the in the tournament, Mice clipped him by one. Yeah, 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:30.319 forget that. 0:48:30.360 --> 0:48:34.080 Ye yep, I won't forget that. I'm struggling to keep 0:48:34.120 --> 0:48:35.600 a straight face on that one. 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:39.960 Almost it almost was my fifth dade. 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.440 I think this is Larry Miser's last Masters if I'm 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:48.560 if I'm not mistaken, so a shout out to the 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:49.680 eighty seven champion. 0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:54.799 It's unbelievable. Last year, I think Garret Morrison from our 0:48:54.840 --> 0:48:58.160 team tracked Larry Mice and all the shots he was 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:01.200 sitting in. I mean the them ount of three woods 0:49:01.200 --> 0:49:03.040 that he was sitting. It was just three wooding it 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:05.000 to death, you know, driver through work. 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:07.760 Yeah. I remember playing a practice round with Gary Player 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:10.600 in two thousand and nine when he was playing his 0:49:10.760 --> 0:49:15.440 fifty first and final Masters, and I was joking with 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:18.480 him as we were playing because there were nine greens 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:25.040 that he couldn't reach in regulation, and he actually, we 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:28.239 need to go check this but his score was like 0:49:28.800 --> 0:49:31.960 seriously respectable. I'm wanting to say, he shot like eighty 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:35.680 or eighty one and he couldn't reach halfway greens in regulation. 0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:39.640 And here's a guy that would have been been maybe 0:49:39.680 --> 0:49:44.719 in his late sixties, right around seventy, and he goes 0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:46.960 out and still has the hands and the nerve to 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:49.840 be able to chip and put his way around Augusta National. 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:52.520 I mean it was like it was like, you know, 0:49:52.560 --> 0:49:54.680 in two thousand and nine, I could still play, I 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:57.680 was defending champion, but his eighty or eighty one would 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:01.360 have been like me shooting sixty eight. You know, like 0:50:01.400 --> 0:50:03.840 it would have been a great round of golf. 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:07.680 If Jacob your son's smart, he would he'd be watching 0:50:07.960 --> 0:50:13.200 how Nice and Sandy Lyle dissect Augustin National and taking 0:50:13.239 --> 0:50:17.200 some notes. He you know, you've got that every shot capabilities. 0:50:17.200 --> 0:50:19.799 He should be studying those rounds seeing where they leave 0:50:19.840 --> 0:50:22.160 the balls because they can't get you know, they can't 0:50:22.320 --> 0:50:25.120 definitely can't get it pinned, but they can't get you know, 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:29.200 it's like it is like a masterclass in how to 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:31.520 get around that place. Is when you watch some of 0:50:31.520 --> 0:50:36.120 these past champions play, they're they're kind of in their 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:39.160 twilight years. Is like those guys have played it so 0:50:39.239 --> 0:50:42.120 many times they know exactly where to where to missshots 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:45.000 to still make the pars and and and take advantage 0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:48.160 of certain spots. What's your what's your fourth thing? 0:50:48.440 --> 0:50:50.520 So before I get to my fault, I'm just gonna 0:50:50.600 --> 0:50:52.680 lean in on something that you just said that. That's 0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:57.560 another reason why I love scottis Schiffler's position so much 0:50:57.600 --> 0:51:00.440 for me, out of the top three right now, he 0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:04.080 has the best course management and strategy. The way he 0:51:04.160 --> 0:51:10.040 manages his ball and chooses his shots, with his capability 0:51:10.120 --> 0:51:13.880 and what the golf course is offering him, he's he's 0:51:13.880 --> 0:51:15.839 he's wise beyond his years. 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:19.560 In that strategy aspect, There's there's a certain like it's 0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:22.520 almost like humility. I think one of the things that 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:24.840 happens when you're one of the best players in the 0:51:24.840 --> 0:51:26.920 world is you feel like you can take any shot 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:29.920 on and with all you know, with you know, a 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:31.520 lot of times you take the shot on and they 0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:34.680 hit it. And that's the spectacular thing about those elite, 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:36.960 elite players, as they can hit shots that nobody else 0:51:37.000 --> 0:51:40.239 can hit. But Scotty is very very smart with when 0:51:40.280 --> 0:51:43.719 he when he with his risk management really around there 0:51:43.840 --> 0:51:46.840 around any golf course, and and that we've seen with 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:51.000 I think Jordan, I think Scotti Scheffler. He's basically just 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:53.600 a you know, at this point it's young in his 0:51:53.680 --> 0:52:00.760 career still, but he is a a effectively longer Jordan Speith. 0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:03.319 You know, he's got that skill around the greens and 0:52:03.360 --> 0:52:06.800 on the greens. Maybe not quite as as magical around 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:09.080 the greens and on the greens, but that thing, like 0:52:09.440 --> 0:52:11.600 with Augusta, so much of it is like you're going 0:52:11.680 --> 0:52:13.480 to run into a bunch of birdies out there when 0:52:13.520 --> 0:52:16.360 you're as long and a talented sky shuffler. It's just 0:52:16.440 --> 0:52:19.000 keeping the bogies off the cart. We see it every year, 0:52:19.320 --> 0:52:21.920 you know, we see guys that make you know, makes 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:25.319 five six birdies around and you know they probably walk 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:27.600 away thinking, oh, I could have won if I hadn't 0:52:27.680 --> 0:52:30.960 made that six on fifteen and thirteen. You know, not 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:34.239 not subjecting yourself to the big numbers is so much 0:52:34.280 --> 0:52:37.080 a part of playing Augusta National. All right, what's your 0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:37.600 fourth thing? 0:52:38.160 --> 0:52:40.680 Yeah, his strategy reminds me a lot of Jack and Tiger, 0:52:40.760 --> 0:52:45.440 but here and saying Tiger Tiger is my fourth before 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:49.879 on my list. I apologize to him for sliding him 0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:51.440 down from his rightful place. 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:53.720 He's at number one to make my list. 0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:57.279 Yeah, well you see, you know that's a fail right there. 0:52:57.520 --> 0:52:58.520 That's a fail right there. 0:52:59.360 --> 0:53:01.400 That's my job. I have a contrarian blogger. 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:03.880 I mean, you had cell phones on this, but you 0:53:03.880 --> 0:53:06.080 don't have Tiger Woods on the list. You know, that 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:07.520 just shows where your mind is. 0:53:07.520 --> 0:53:09.400 That But anyway, I knew you were going to have it. 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:11.920 I didn't want to. I don't want to cover common ground. 0:53:12.000 --> 0:53:15.160 Oh you see, I'm playing checkers, you're playing chess. You're like, well, 0:53:15.239 --> 0:53:17.040 I know he's going to have this, so I'm going 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:18.719 to have a little bit of this. Okay, I like that. 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:22.200 So Tiger is my number four. It's not that long 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:26.400 ago since he won his fifth Green jacket in twenty nineteen, 0:53:27.800 --> 0:53:31.799 but so much has happened to him personally since that 0:53:31.840 --> 0:53:36.000 win in twenty nineteen. And you know, like we touched 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:39.200 on earlier, anytime he pitches up at a tournament, particularly 0:53:39.200 --> 0:53:43.520 a major championship, the whole dynamic of the week changes. 0:53:43.560 --> 0:53:49.520 It brings a whole different energy and experience to everybody, 0:53:49.520 --> 0:53:52.920 whether you're a patron in this case, or a journalist 0:53:53.160 --> 0:53:57.759 or another player, and we'll see, you know, watching him 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:03.160 closely and speaking to him regularly and watching him closely 0:54:03.400 --> 0:54:07.840 at his tournament out in La the Genesis. The game 0:54:08.000 --> 0:54:11.279 is still there. And you know, there's a part of 0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:15.799 me like, as I'm slowly but surely getting rid of 0:54:15.880 --> 0:54:20.439 the the golfer mindset, like I can still play kind 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:23.399 of thing, but there's a part of when I'm watching him, 0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:25.480 like I'm still mad at him. My whole career, I 0:54:25.560 --> 0:54:27.480 was mad at him because he was so good, and 0:54:27.520 --> 0:54:30.200 I just I couldn't understand it. I couldn't fathom it. 0:54:30.320 --> 0:54:32.000 I knew that there was going to be no amount 0:54:32.040 --> 0:54:34.040 of work that I could put in to be able 0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:36.920 to match what he was doing. And so you know, 0:54:36.960 --> 0:54:41.480 while I was competing was I was constantly mad at 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:44.840 him because he was so damn good. And now still 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:46.520 you look at what he's been through and the way 0:54:46.560 --> 0:54:49.760 he's still able to play. Still got tons of speed, 0:54:49.840 --> 0:54:53.239 so I'm not worried about that. Still able to move 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:56.680 the ball both directions, trajectory up and down. He still 0:54:56.719 --> 0:54:59.520 has great distance control with the irons and wedges. The 0:54:59.520 --> 0:55:01.919 wedge game might be better than what it's ever been 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:06.000 and he still has the touch on and around the greens, 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:10.840 so all of that is still there reps. So you know, 0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:13.560 he's always been a guy that's spoken about reps to 0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:15.680 be able to be ready, and now he's only had 0:55:15.719 --> 0:55:20.280 this one tournament in LA to be able to dial 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:24.239 a lot of those fields in his playing fields, so 0:55:24.400 --> 0:55:27.839 that is a question mark. And then the walk. You know, 0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:30.440 the walk, we know how tough the leg is. We 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:33.960 saw him in LA. You know, the shoes on and off, 0:55:34.000 --> 0:55:37.160 he's adjusting the sock and the brace and everything that's 0:55:37.200 --> 0:55:43.320 going on there. He's wearing shoes that are extremely firm 0:55:43.520 --> 0:55:46.839 and stable and they basically like lock your foot in, 0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:50.360 so that he's got a hard platform to be able 0:55:50.400 --> 0:55:53.520 to walk on. And even though that he's made great 0:55:53.600 --> 0:55:56.520 strides with his gait and the way he walks to 0:55:56.600 --> 0:56:00.120 be able to limit the pain, you can still see 0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:04.520 how uncomfortable he is. And we measured this weekend. If 0:56:04.560 --> 0:56:08.359 you playing the Master's Teas at Augusta National, you're in 0:56:08.480 --> 0:56:16.000 for between seventeen and twenty thousand steps on massively undulating terrain. 0:56:17.200 --> 0:56:21.240 So you know it's not just the walk and the terrain, 0:56:21.400 --> 0:56:25.680 But then when he's hitting the shots. Has he done 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:29.960 enough work, enough testing, enough practice on hitting these shots 0:56:30.000 --> 0:56:33.840 from uneven lies and all sorts of different stuff to 0:56:33.880 --> 0:56:37.840 where he knows exactly how that leg is going to react. These, 0:56:37.880 --> 0:56:40.319 to me are the question marks. I don't doubt his 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:44.719 talent and his skill and his ability at all, but 0:56:44.800 --> 0:56:47.359 I'm just wondering, you know, how this leg is going 0:56:47.440 --> 0:56:50.239 to be able to react when the gun goes off. 0:56:50.920 --> 0:56:54.359 Yeah, yeah, I think that's That's one thing I think 0:56:54.400 --> 0:56:57.040 that is looking good. It looks like it's going to 0:56:57.040 --> 0:56:59.480 be a warm week in augusta, which I think it's 0:56:59.520 --> 0:57:02.719 really important for the rest of the body beyond the leg. 0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:05.520 I think that people people forget, you know, you get 0:57:05.800 --> 0:57:09.040 the leg was obviously a catastrophic injury, but you know, 0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:11.239 the back was not in good shape before the leg, 0:57:11.400 --> 0:57:14.359 And I think that's one thing that he got kind 0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:17.280 of a bad weather draw last year when he was 0:57:17.280 --> 0:57:20.360 playing these tournaments with with how the you know, almost 0:57:20.440 --> 0:57:22.400 every major, it had to be one of the coolest 0:57:22.760 --> 0:57:27.120 collection of major championships and weatherwise in the history of golf. 0:57:27.560 --> 0:57:30.880 And hopefully this one it looks like it's warm, Hopefully 0:57:30.920 --> 0:57:35.640 the rain stays away. Obviously, walking on wet, big golf 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:38.160 courses is a little bit more taxing than when it's 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:43.000 a little bit firmer. So anything Tiger does doesn't surprise me. Yep. 0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:45.720 So I think that's the way you have to look 0:57:45.720 --> 0:57:48.680 at it is he could do anything. The ultimate wild 0:57:48.720 --> 0:57:51.120 card at this point in his career. And like you said, 0:57:51.360 --> 0:57:54.680 I mean, I couldn't believe the speed at Riviera that 0:57:54.760 --> 0:57:57.360 he had. I mean that he was out driving Rory. 0:57:57.480 --> 0:57:59.640 It was nuts. It was absolutely crazy. 0:58:00.440 --> 0:58:05.080 You could argue, you could argue that he made Rory 0:58:05.200 --> 0:58:10.919 change his driver, and then Rory's been on a two 0:58:11.000 --> 0:58:14.760 months like excursion trying to find the right set up 0:58:14.760 --> 0:58:18.200 with his driver. Yeah, you know, when I spoke to 0:58:18.240 --> 0:58:23.320 him about it at Waste Management, he said that, you know, 0:58:23.640 --> 0:58:27.680 he put a click extra of loft on there going 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:30.840 into riv just to get a little bit more spin. 0:58:31.280 --> 0:58:33.400 But then the face looked a little funky because it 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:36.440 appeared more close to him and it was a bit 0:58:36.480 --> 0:58:39.400 more upright, and he didn't feel like he could go 0:58:39.560 --> 0:58:42.440 with this power fade that he was hitting, so he 0:58:42.520 --> 0:58:45.840 was hitting spinners. So he said that that was the 0:58:45.880 --> 0:58:49.720 reason Tiger was kind of knuckling it past him there 0:58:49.720 --> 0:58:51.920 because Rory said he was hitting spinners and wasn't quite 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:55.160 catching the middle. But since then, you know, he's been 0:58:55.200 --> 0:58:58.040 on this process of trying to find a driver that 0:58:58.080 --> 0:59:00.320 he can dial in. Looks like he finally made to 0:59:00.360 --> 0:59:01.800 do that this week at the match play. 0:59:02.640 --> 0:59:07.240 All right, my final one is looking for one. We've 0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:11.720 got a slew of top players that don't have a major, 0:59:12.000 --> 0:59:14.480 some of them with a lot of major success and 0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:18.640 just haven't done it. A few with not a lot 0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:20.720 of major success that are playing the best golfs of 0:59:20.760 --> 0:59:23.680 their golf of their career. So we've got Patrick Cantley, 0:59:23.920 --> 0:59:27.919 Max Homer, Xander Schoffley, will Z l Taurus, Cameron Young, 0:59:28.360 --> 0:59:32.760 Victor Hovelind, Sam Burns, Tony Fenow. To me, all of 0:59:32.800 --> 0:59:35.160 those guys are kind of in this bucket of players 0:59:35.200 --> 0:59:38.800 that you know, they're not quite first page favorites, but 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:41.960 you know some of them are you know, going to 0:59:42.000 --> 0:59:45.400 be top five favorites. But you know, all of them, 0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:48.240 you know, seem like they should win a major. But 0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:51.480 unfortunately for all of them, there's only four of them available, 0:59:51.760 --> 0:59:54.880 and there's some really really good players just in a 0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:58.440 tier above them. So to me, you know, all these guys, 0:59:58.640 --> 1:00:02.640 you know in the burns, the Homa and the can't 1:00:02.720 --> 1:00:05.760 lay bucket is kind of like, let's see some success, 1:00:05.880 --> 1:00:08.920 and then you've got guys like Cameron Young, will zl Torus, 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:12.560 Xander and Fenow who have been in the mix late 1:00:12.600 --> 1:00:14.960 on a Sunday and just haven't gotten it done. 1:00:15.320 --> 1:00:18.080 So after all of that, are you going to tell 1:00:18.120 --> 1:00:20.800 me one name out of those that you like most 1:00:21.080 --> 1:00:21.840 for the Masters? 1:00:22.160 --> 1:00:27.480 I think Cam Young is a tough one to ignore 1:00:28.080 --> 1:00:30.560 based off of what we've seen from the last two 1:00:30.920 --> 1:00:33.680 at the PGA and the Open, and then what we 1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:36.680 saw from them this week that I think that there's 1:00:36.880 --> 1:00:40.680 you know, there's certain players that are a little bit different, 1:00:40.760 --> 1:00:43.480 and watching Cameron Young hit a golf ball, I think 1:00:43.600 --> 1:00:45.720 is a little bit different. I'm a little worried, you know. 1:00:45.720 --> 1:00:48.080 I think Zal Torris would be my pick if if 1:00:48.120 --> 1:00:51.000 there wasn't, you know, the struggle. I think coming back 1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:54.040 from the injury has been tough. Obviously he said make 1:00:54.080 --> 1:00:57.480 some swing changes and the putter's not been great lately. 1:00:57.560 --> 1:01:00.160 But I think Cam Young to me looks like a 1:01:00.200 --> 1:01:03.640 guy that is going to win some major championships. 1:01:03.720 --> 1:01:07.760 Yeah, he sure does have the tools. Enjoy watching him 1:01:07.800 --> 1:01:13.200 play man the the the explosion and the speed that 1:01:13.280 --> 1:01:17.480 he's able to create pretty much only with his downscreen 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:20.080 because he pauses at the top. So, okay, he has 1:01:20.120 --> 1:01:23.720 this massive load, I'll give you that, and he's loaded up, 1:01:23.960 --> 1:01:26.480 but then he doesn't keep that momentum going. He has 1:01:26.520 --> 1:01:29.200 this little pause and then the speed that he creates 1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:32.600 from that pause into impact. It is if you can 1:01:32.640 --> 1:01:35.360 watch that live, if you have, you know, for any 1:01:35.400 --> 1:01:37.240 fans out there, if you go to a tournament and 1:01:37.240 --> 1:01:40.680 he's there, make sure you go and watch that. 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:43.520 Yeah, I get it down the line view of his driver. 1:01:43.840 --> 1:01:46.680 I think real quick on Cam Young before we move 1:01:46.760 --> 1:01:51.400 off this. It's unfortunate. Obviously Cam Smith is the story 1:01:51.400 --> 1:01:54.560 of the Open and then story b one Bee is 1:01:54.680 --> 1:01:59.840 Rory not getting it done. But Cameron Young, the dry 1:02:00.400 --> 1:02:04.920 the shots he hit down the stretch absolutely deserve a 1:02:05.200 --> 1:02:08.600 you know, he's the forgotten guy, but like I'll never forget, 1:02:08.920 --> 1:02:11.120 you know. I was kind of toggling between those two 1:02:11.120 --> 1:02:15.120 groups in the tribe. He hit on sixteen and seventeen 1:02:15.560 --> 1:02:19.440 were unbelievable coming down the stretch that lines the lines 1:02:19.440 --> 1:02:22.440 he took in the commitment in just what you're saying, 1:02:22.480 --> 1:02:25.520 this speed is just out of this world and then 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:26.880 obviously eagling eighteen. 1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:31.280 Yeah, the thing that would concern me about him getting 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:34.960 the wind next week would be the lack of experience 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:38.480 around that golf course, the fact that there's no Greens 1:02:38.480 --> 1:02:41.720 books at all, but there have never been at at 1:02:41.760 --> 1:02:44.080 all now, but they have never been at Augusta National, 1:02:44.160 --> 1:02:49.000 So you can't fast track your experience through using the 1:02:49.000 --> 1:02:53.200 Greens book. But to counteract that, the caddy chains to 1:02:53.320 --> 1:02:57.360 Paul Tassori, who's been around there a million and one times, 1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:01.160 could absolutely help him. And I'll just throw my name 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:03.920 out the out of those Kent player has all the experience. 1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:07.320 He has a very very rounded game, brilliant short gamer 1:03:07.360 --> 1:03:10.720 and putter smooth stroke, so I'm not worried about any 1:03:10.760 --> 1:03:14.880 speed control issues, So I would throw can lay out 1:03:14.920 --> 1:03:18.440 with those group of players that you had mentioned. 1:03:19.000 --> 1:03:22.600 He's gotta there's got to be. He's just too good 1:03:22.760 --> 1:03:24.520 to not contend at these majors. 1:03:24.920 --> 1:03:28.320 And Home is obviously in there too, but hasn't had 1:03:28.560 --> 1:03:31.760 really any success at all so far in major championships. 1:03:31.760 --> 1:03:33.680 So that's the next step for him is to step 1:03:33.760 --> 1:03:36.520 up at the big ones and rarely say Okay, look 1:03:36.600 --> 1:03:39.600 I'm I'm for real, I'm here. I'm a problem for 1:03:39.640 --> 1:03:40.360 you guys. 1:03:40.640 --> 1:03:43.040 His his year has been unbelievable, and I think if 1:03:43.040 --> 1:03:45.920 you look at him statistically, he's gotten a little bit longer, 1:03:46.280 --> 1:03:49.160 the iron play is ultra elite, and he's really good 1:03:49.200 --> 1:03:52.160 on and around the greens. It just hasn't It's like 1:03:52.200 --> 1:03:54.360 what it just I feel like he's kind of in 1:03:54.400 --> 1:03:57.360 the same bucket as Scantley. It's just like it hasn't happened. 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:00.640 And I imagine I think he's going to be in 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:03.640 the mix late at something this year, if not more 1:04:03.680 --> 1:04:06.520 than one of these majors, because he's just playing too 1:04:06.560 --> 1:04:09.600 good a golf. Yeah, I mean, like the results are unbelievable. 1:04:09.640 --> 1:04:12.280 What I keep saying to him before I get to 1:04:12.320 --> 1:04:14.280 my fifth one, what I keep saying to him is, 1:04:14.560 --> 1:04:17.480 you know a lot of players believe that when they 1:04:17.520 --> 1:04:20.720 get to majors they have to do something different, and 1:04:21.400 --> 1:04:24.640 really you don't. Max Homer just needs to go there 1:04:24.680 --> 1:04:28.040 and play his game and stick to his strengths and 1:04:28.080 --> 1:04:31.720 bring his strategy to Augusta National and have belief in 1:04:31.760 --> 1:04:34.640 it because he has everything it takes to win there. 1:04:34.680 --> 1:04:40.160 For sure. Here's my number five. My number five is 1:04:40.880 --> 1:04:47.080 live players playing first time all year in the same 1:04:47.160 --> 1:04:51.600 build as PGA two players interested to see what the 1:04:51.720 --> 1:04:55.160 dynamic is going to be. There's a lot of moving 1:04:55.280 --> 1:04:59.440 parts to this. There's lawsuits and all sorts of things 1:04:59.480 --> 1:05:04.800 going on. There are friendships that have been strained, There's 1:05:04.920 --> 1:05:08.680 been things that have been said in the media. So 1:05:08.920 --> 1:05:12.840 just rarely fascinated to see how the sun falls on 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:16.880 the biggest stage at the biggest tournament in our sport. 1:05:17.920 --> 1:05:20.320 And when you take a look at the two buckets 1:05:20.680 --> 1:05:24.200 of players, the two tours. You got the PGA Tour 1:05:24.920 --> 1:05:27.040 and you take a look at the last three or 1:05:27.040 --> 1:05:29.880 four months on the PGA Tour with the advent of 1:05:29.920 --> 1:05:33.880 the designated events, I mean, it is like iron sharpening 1:05:33.920 --> 1:05:38.160 iron out there. We got the best players go and 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:41.000 at it, go and at each other. Yesterday at the 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:45.200 match player another brilliant example. You know these guys are 1:05:45.240 --> 1:05:48.440 toe to toe like, Okay, that's what you've got, That's 1:05:48.480 --> 1:05:51.920 what I've got. Weeks off, they're grinding because they know 1:05:52.080 --> 1:05:54.200 next week I'm gonna have to go up against this 1:05:54.320 --> 1:05:58.600 lot again, and they are rarely bringing it. I mean 1:05:58.640 --> 1:06:05.440 the product the actual golf as man, it's been impressive 1:06:05.440 --> 1:06:08.120 to watch. I'll go there with you. It's never been better. 1:06:08.320 --> 1:06:10.560 I hate to say that, because you know, just not 1:06:10.680 --> 1:06:14.920 to disrespect previous generations of players, but man, is it 1:06:14.960 --> 1:06:17.160 fun to watch these guys just going at it so 1:06:17.200 --> 1:06:20.720 they are they are in tip top form. I mean, 1:06:20.760 --> 1:06:24.520 these guys are like thoroughbreds, just like waiting to come 1:06:24.560 --> 1:06:27.440 out of the gates here for this Masters. And then 1:06:28.000 --> 1:06:31.240 you look over at the other tour this week. They're 1:06:31.240 --> 1:06:33.240 only going to play their third event of the season. 1:06:33.680 --> 1:06:38.640 They're lightly run. They are playing against the same forty 1:06:38.720 --> 1:06:43.440 seven forty eight guys all the time. Competition, with all 1:06:43.560 --> 1:06:48.800 due respect, is just not as stiff as what we're 1:06:48.800 --> 1:06:52.120 seeing out of the designated events. The fields aren't as deep, 1:06:53.040 --> 1:06:58.080 and you know, how are their games going to be 1:06:58.120 --> 1:07:03.440 able to match up to the magnitude of the Masters 1:07:03.880 --> 1:07:06.880 when they haven't been competing all that much. And that's 1:07:07.000 --> 1:07:09.400 just the golf side. Then you start to look at 1:07:09.440 --> 1:07:13.720 the mental and emotional side when you know, as these 1:07:13.760 --> 1:07:17.120 players are going to be interacting with the media, and 1:07:17.240 --> 1:07:19.520 correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me 1:07:19.840 --> 1:07:23.640 as a as a golf fan that all the media 1:07:23.840 --> 1:07:27.880 hasn't rarely had that much access to these players, and 1:07:28.560 --> 1:07:32.760 when they do have tournaments, it feels like the questions 1:07:32.760 --> 1:07:37.200 aren't necessarily all that pressing. And that could be different 1:07:37.720 --> 1:07:41.440 at the Masters, because now you know there's going to 1:07:41.480 --> 1:07:44.680 be a vast majority of people in that press building 1:07:45.240 --> 1:07:49.040 being able to ask some some really hard hitting questions, 1:07:49.400 --> 1:07:53.200 and how will that throw them off? If any will it, 1:07:53.280 --> 1:07:55.640 will it not? You know, I was a type of 1:07:55.720 --> 1:07:59.040 player that quite honestly, you know, maybe I was just 1:07:59.120 --> 1:08:04.000 mentally weak, but I purposefully did not do pre round 1:08:04.040 --> 1:08:07.640 interviews because I was concerned that I would ask be 1:08:07.840 --> 1:08:11.200 asked a question that could get stuck in my mind 1:08:11.320 --> 1:08:14.680 or that could get me thinking in a direction that 1:08:14.720 --> 1:08:17.880 I that I didn't necessarily want to in that moment 1:08:18.120 --> 1:08:20.240 as I was about to compete, So I had to 1:08:20.280 --> 1:08:24.479 absolutely crawl into my shell, my cocoon and be mega, 1:08:24.560 --> 1:08:29.400 mega focused. So there's just so many question marks to 1:08:29.520 --> 1:08:34.120 see how everybody is going to react and how it's 1:08:34.120 --> 1:08:36.320 going to play out. So for us as fans, it's 1:08:36.320 --> 1:08:37.240 going to be fascinating. 1:08:38.120 --> 1:08:42.280 Yeah, you know, it's just unnecessary. I feel like so 1:08:42.400 --> 1:08:46.120 much golf is limiting your stress, you know, you see 1:08:46.160 --> 1:08:49.720 it with having just easy tap in powers versus when 1:08:49.760 --> 1:08:52.800 you're you know, having to make five footers all all 1:08:52.880 --> 1:08:55.760 round long, like eventually you're going to crack. And one 1:08:55.760 --> 1:08:57.920 of the things that can add stress is just being 1:08:58.000 --> 1:09:01.719 a little bit less comfortable than usual. Maybe you don't 1:09:01.720 --> 1:09:04.600 have as many friends on the driving range. Maybe you 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:07.040 just feel a little bit less awkward or a little 1:09:07.080 --> 1:09:10.519 bit more awkward walking around than you usually do. And 1:09:10.640 --> 1:09:13.479 also like a little it's just a different feel than 1:09:13.479 --> 1:09:15.760 what you're used to in these fifty four hole no 1:09:15.880 --> 1:09:17.880 cut events. You know, when you tee it up in 1:09:17.920 --> 1:09:21.080 a major championship, everybody talks about that first tiat Augusta 1:09:21.240 --> 1:09:23.639 just hitting different. It's going to hit a lot different. 1:09:23.960 --> 1:09:26.720 I think for some of these guys that haven't played competitively, 1:09:27.360 --> 1:09:31.280 you know, at a high competition level since really last year, 1:09:31.400 --> 1:09:35.040 the last Year's Open, I think, you know, I also 1:09:35.120 --> 1:09:38.599 think that like we could probably look at like we're 1:09:38.600 --> 1:09:42.439 starting to see the returns, but like guaranteed money in 1:09:42.479 --> 1:09:45.760 an offseason might not be the best combination for some 1:09:45.840 --> 1:09:48.679 of these guys. You know, there might be a little 1:09:48.680 --> 1:09:50.960 bit less I don't want to call them to work 1:09:51.000 --> 1:09:54.000 ethic or anything. And obviously, if one of these guys 1:09:54.080 --> 1:09:56.160 comes out and wins, but the early results of the 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:59.880 big payout guys, the courses, of course, haven't really fit 1:10:00.280 --> 1:10:03.240 their games. I think great and that if I was live, 1:10:03.280 --> 1:10:06.080 I'd probably be trying to pick courses that fit my 1:10:06.080 --> 1:10:10.639 my big money acquisitions. But I think, you know, when 1:10:10.640 --> 1:10:12.920 you look at some of these guys games early in 1:10:12.920 --> 1:10:15.680 the year with the guaranteed money in a in a 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:18.640 real offseason, they haven't been as sharp as they you 1:10:18.760 --> 1:10:20.559 would be if they were playing on the PGA Tour. 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:24.960 Yeah, you know, for me, I understand your point. I 1:10:25.040 --> 1:10:28.000 probably want a biggest sample size before I go ahead 1:10:28.400 --> 1:10:33.240 and say that, and I will qualify everything. I said, Wow, 1:10:33.280 --> 1:10:35.880 we'll add this extra layer. You know, is it Dustin 1:10:36.000 --> 1:10:40.000 Johnson or Cameron Smith? Do they have the ability to 1:10:40.080 --> 1:10:46.040 be able to win the Masters next week? But well, 1:10:46.080 --> 1:10:49.280 you know, it just remains to be seen how this 1:10:49.360 --> 1:10:52.040 run up has affected their game and their preparations. So 1:10:52.520 --> 1:10:56.120 that's why it made my list because I am excited 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:58.559 to see how it all plays out. 1:10:59.680 --> 1:11:02.120 Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be fascinating. It's a 1:11:02.120 --> 1:11:06.080 little bit different narrative than last year's Who's going it's 1:11:06.080 --> 1:11:08.920 going to be? How are these guys playing good point 1:11:08.960 --> 1:11:12.320 with with regard with regard to picks, it sounds like 1:11:12.360 --> 1:11:14.400 you're on team Scheffler this week. 1:11:15.439 --> 1:11:18.800 You know, I hate making picks this early in proceedings. 1:11:19.120 --> 1:11:21.160 Maybe I'll take a leaf out of your book and 1:11:21.240 --> 1:11:24.519 say one and pick five. You know your your five 1:11:24.560 --> 1:11:30.919 points turned into about ten. But I will go because 1:11:31.640 --> 1:11:33.680 you know I'm on here now and you've asked me 1:11:33.720 --> 1:11:37.639 to do this. I'm gonna take Chefler as my pick, 1:11:38.080 --> 1:11:41.640 and I'm going to take Sun j m as like. 1:11:42.280 --> 1:11:43.840 I don't know what you want to call it, like 1:11:43.880 --> 1:11:47.639 a outside shot dark horse. I don't know what type 1:11:47.680 --> 1:11:50.439 of explanation you want to give give on that one. 1:11:50.880 --> 1:11:55.120 I like that. I like that you're given given a sleeper, right, that's. 1:11:54.960 --> 1:11:57.880 A sleepers I like that. I like that that's cooled 1:11:57.880 --> 1:11:58.479 sleeper pick. 1:11:58.840 --> 1:12:01.080 I mean, it's crazy that some I think that speaks 1:12:01.120 --> 1:12:04.240 to the talent level that Sung Jim is actually kind 1:12:04.240 --> 1:12:07.360 of a sleeper. All right, I'm gonna take I hate 1:12:07.360 --> 1:12:09.920 that I'm doing this. I've taken Rory he You know, 1:12:10.560 --> 1:12:14.240 what are the reasons. I told myself two weeks ago 1:12:14.320 --> 1:12:17.679 that I wasn't taking anyone but Shuffler, and I've I've 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:22.479 talked myself into Rory my my sleeper. I don't think 1:12:22.479 --> 1:12:25.880 he's a sleeper anymore. And this this was my sixth thing. 1:12:26.160 --> 1:12:29.120 If I had decided to bump something out mid conversation, 1:12:29.240 --> 1:12:33.600 I had this one ready. Jason Day. What an unbelievable 1:12:33.720 --> 1:12:37.240 year so far from him. He looked phenomenal at the 1:12:37.280 --> 1:12:39.280 match late. It seems like he's just getting better and 1:12:39.320 --> 1:12:42.439 better every week is the thing. The distance is back, 1:12:42.479 --> 1:12:45.040 the iron play is great, and you know, the one 1:12:45.080 --> 1:12:47.760 thing you never have to worry about with Jason Day 1:12:48.080 --> 1:12:50.200 around the greens and on the greens, that's what made 1:12:50.240 --> 1:12:53.720 him such a great player. And the Masters records unbelievable. 1:12:53.960 --> 1:12:56.280 I think there's gonna be I don't think he's necessarily 1:12:56.320 --> 1:12:59.280 a sleeper that long, but for people listening to this podcast, 1:12:59.720 --> 1:13:02.800 he was a sleeper for the Masters like six weeks ago. 1:13:02.920 --> 1:13:05.400 So I feel like I've staked my claim there. It's 1:13:05.400 --> 1:13:07.280 a great it's a. 1:13:07.200 --> 1:13:10.559 Great sleeper pick. I'm so pumped to see him playing well. 1:13:11.080 --> 1:13:14.120 You know, if you take me back about eight months 1:13:14.200 --> 1:13:17.880 or so, like I so badly pick him for the 1:13:17.920 --> 1:13:21.320 President's Cup team, like I so badly wanted to pick him. 1:13:21.920 --> 1:13:24.760 He started working with Chris Como just over a year ago. 1:13:24.840 --> 1:13:28.680 Chris is one of my best friends, and so I 1:13:28.760 --> 1:13:33.120 had some inside knowledge on what they were doing, what 1:13:33.160 --> 1:13:36.040 they're working on, how things were starting to improve, how 1:13:36.080 --> 1:13:40.679 he was starting to really believe and understand the process 1:13:40.760 --> 1:13:43.120 that they were on. And I knew he was going 1:13:43.160 --> 1:13:45.160 to start playing better. I just knew it because I 1:13:45.160 --> 1:13:48.000 could I could see the trends. I could see, you know, 1:13:48.040 --> 1:13:50.400 when Chris would share some videos with me of their 1:13:50.439 --> 1:13:54.840 practice sessions and stuff that Jason was starting to do. 1:13:54.960 --> 1:13:56.960 I knew he was going to start playing better. It 1:13:57.000 --> 1:13:59.439 was just a matter of him being able to be 1:13:59.560 --> 1:14:01.519 more comfort to be taking it to the course. And 1:14:01.680 --> 1:14:04.160 I so badly wanted him on the team for the 1:14:04.160 --> 1:14:08.080 President's Cup because, you know, we rarely needed experience. We 1:14:08.160 --> 1:14:10.800 needed somebody who'd been there before. He's a former world 1:14:10.920 --> 1:14:14.400 number one, Major Champion, Players champion. The guy's done everything 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:16.840 there is to do, and we needed a little bit 1:14:16.840 --> 1:14:19.440 of that. We needed a bit of big name firepower, 1:14:19.960 --> 1:14:23.760 and I just unfortunately couldn't couldn't quite get there. His 1:14:23.880 --> 1:14:28.040 game wasn't there yet. But it's been so so impressive 1:14:28.560 --> 1:14:33.360 the way he's played this season, and yeah, earlier this year, 1:14:33.400 --> 1:14:36.519 like in January sometime, I tweeted out that he and 1:14:36.600 --> 1:14:40.000 Fowl are going to have big years, and I just 1:14:40.080 --> 1:14:43.040 get that feeling watching them, watching how comfortable they're starting 1:14:43.080 --> 1:14:46.280 to get. So I like that day pick. That's a 1:14:46.320 --> 1:14:46.679 good one. 1:14:47.040 --> 1:14:49.800 Yeah. Well, hey, Trevor, thanks so much for coming on 1:14:50.160 --> 1:14:53.719 giving us your valuable time here and good luck, good luck. 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:59.040 The first year is the lead lead I guess an analyst, 1:14:59.200 --> 1:15:02.080 lead analyst for I'm butchering the title here an hour 1:15:02.080 --> 1:15:05.479 and a half and lead lead analysts at the at 1:15:05.479 --> 1:15:08.320 the Masters. It's uh it's I can't wait to uh 1:15:08.479 --> 1:15:11.760 hear uh here intermixed with me being out there here 1:15:11.800 --> 1:15:14.040 your hear your calls on the on the TV. 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:16.920 Yeah. Thanks, I'm really pumped about it. It's going to 1:15:16.960 --> 1:15:20.439 be full circle for me too, to be back in 1:15:20.520 --> 1:15:23.639 Butler cabin, sitting next to Jim Nantz call in the action. 1:15:23.760 --> 1:15:26.479 It's it's gonna be great. I can't wait. 1:15:27.920 --> 1:15:32.000 Well deserved, You've been fantastic this year on CBS and 1:15:32.080 --> 1:15:36.880 CBS has been unbelievable. How much, how much, how much 1:15:36.960 --> 1:15:39.960 you guys have taken your broadcast to the next level 1:15:39.960 --> 1:15:40.360 this year. 1:15:40.520 --> 1:15:42.400 Well, I appreciate it. I enjoyed this check. 1:15:42.439 --> 1:15:56.120 Thanks so much and thanks Trevor. Thank you for listening 1:15:56.160 --> 1:15:59.680 to another edition of the Bride Egg podcast. Today's episode 1:15:59.840 --> 1:16:03.280 was edited by Matt Rushes. Thank you Matt. As a 1:16:03.320 --> 1:16:06.320 quick reminder, I mentioned it at the top, but a 1:16:06.360 --> 1:16:09.320 big part of our Master's week coverage is going to 1:16:09.360 --> 1:16:13.280 be CLUBTF. 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