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He is 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.120 obviously one of the co hosts of golf channels Golf Today. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.920 He's on TV almost every day there as well as 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.680 the host of Get a Grip with Maxhoma, a stellar 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.560 podcast that I'd highly recommend to anybody listening to this. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.960 You're clearly a golf fan. If you're a golf fan, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.240 Max and Shane have an awesome podcast that gives you 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.360 unbelievable insights. So Shane joined and we talk about the 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.920 twenty twenty one US Open, everything that happens Sunday, and 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.880 then some more big picture things and a little bit 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.240 of chat about the Olympics and the Open Championship. At 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.480 the end, without further ado, here is Shane Bacon. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.600 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.720 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.760 And when I find my ball in a brid egg 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.400 Friday egg, the dreaded Frida egg Friday, Frida egg Brian Egg, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.760 Frida egg Bride egg Lie, I'm about ready to run 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:12.880 off of the hump course. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.160 Hey Shane, how much does the East Coast time zone 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:38.359 suck to watch sports? 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.040 Andy, I'm trying so hard to be positive about all 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.000 of these things. But I got home from Tory Monday 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.359 at about one am, traveling across the country with the 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.360 two year old on an airplane and on all I 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.239 wanted to do Tuesday night to stay up and watch 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:00.240 the Suns, and it just took everything I have. Like 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.920 I it was my Jordan flu game to stay up 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.480 to watch the entire Sun's game, and I did it, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.680 and I'm so thankful I did it. I saw the 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.480 eight and put back What a finish. But this, it's 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.760 it's insanity, Dude, Dave, I told you my my, my rule. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.480 I think should be the case of this. Have I 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.800 told you this about East Coast sports? Much like relegation 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.320 in soccer, if you're the worst record in the league, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.960 or even just the worst record in the Eastern Conference, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.440 the next year, you have to play all your home 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.160 games at noon Eastern, so it gives people something to 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.600 watch during the day, or maybe it's four pm. I 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:40.320 don't care. But some of the players, they play hard 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.440 not to finish the lot dead last. It gives them incentive, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.760 but at least give me something. It like, give me 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.840 a sport at three pm. I mean, if it's not baseball, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.040 it's just not go. I'm not gonna do it, man, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.160 I'm trying to. I'm trying to pay less attention to things, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.680 not more. And uh, when I stopped playing baseball in 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.640 my teenage years, I was kind of out and I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:02.800 don't think I'm gonna get back in. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.920 It's it's the baseball is like the perfect argument for 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.880 having scarcity in your sport. You know, one hundred and 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 sixty two games just too many. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.160 Somebody I don't remember who it was that was on 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.080 Twitter during the US Open, but they were in New 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.440 York and they said the Yankees game was starting at 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.080 like three pm on Saturday, and it might have been 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.600 like Peter Burns or something and said, all the TVs 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.840 in the bar flipped to this random middle of the 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.800 season Yankee game and the US Opens going on like 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.359 Saturday at the US Opens, like sorry, it's game fifty 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.800 four of the Yankee season. We're turning all the TVs 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.320 to that. It's I don't know, I'm I can't do 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.320 the baseball thing. I don't fault anybody that loves the sport. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.080 It's just not for me, you know, it's just not 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.760 there's I mean a lot of people trash NBA and 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.160 it is what it is. But I'm just not gonna 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.039 spend my time watching a baseball game. I watched playoffs occasionally. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.160 You know, many are saying that the key to the 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.040 Sun season was you leave in Phoenix. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:06.400 It's a it's been a circulated rumor. I'm I was 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.720 texting with some friends last night about Game two. I 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.240 think we're going to try to get tickets and go 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.600 to Game two, and apparently we have ends. If they 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.960 make the finals, I feel bad if I fly back. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.360 Are they going to lose by forty to fifty? I mean, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.680 you know, it might have been me holding him back 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.640 this whole time. But from afar, it's nice to watch. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.200 It's like the most fun basketball team since the early 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.680 season Warriors, and I'm not in Arizona for the first 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.680 time in like fifteen years. It's very special. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.040 Yeah, I remember talking to you at the beginning of 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.160 the year about this. It's like if Suns are finally 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:42.200 fun and you're gone, you know, it sucks. Anyways, you 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:46.960 were out at toy doing live, from doing golf today, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.320 all sorts of stuff out there. What will be your 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.279 lasting impressions from the twenty twenty one US Open, Big 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.359 big question here. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.960 I think you know, for me, like honestly, looking back 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.560 on this, it'll be finally getting a young player that 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.720 won a major, you know, I mean, that went out 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.800 and won it. I've been talking to a lot of 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.080 people as listening to you guys on shotgun Start. I 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.839 don't know if this is just a thing that doesn't 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.880 happen as much in majors, or we maybe just think 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.360 it happens more often than it does. But like going 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.320 and getting it, winning a major championship, you winning it, 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.400 not waiting for somebody else to lose it. It just 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.880 doesn't happen as much as you think it does. I mean, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:33.120 even thinking about the PGA, I mean, Phil played fantastic 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.200 in solid golf, but there was never that push that 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.360 made it necessary for Phil to make those late birdies. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.520 I think the ROM finishes the first time since Phil 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.279 at Mirfield where somebody birdie the last two holes in 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.040 a major to win, And so you think about that, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.400 what was that eight years ago? I mean, that's a 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.200 long time, and we're not talking about Schwartzel's finish, just 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.159 two birdies over the last two holes. So I think, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:06:59.640 you know, in three or four years, when we think 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.400 about in twenty one, I think it'll be the WROM 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.920 finish that we go back to, because you know, I mean, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.600 you guys talked a lot about this throughout the week, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.240 you and Brennan did, But it doesn't have to be 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.760 a great golf course to have a great championship. And 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.960 I think it was a great championship considering all the 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.560 names that we're in it, and I think it was 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.880 as exciting as you're gonna get, especially you know, with 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.559 all the characters involved. So it'll be the wrong finish 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.280 that I'll remember, I think in five years from now. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.480 Yeah, that's the thing I think about major championships, and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.000 I always think the best championships are when you look 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.440 up at the top of the leader board and if 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.320 you're a player that's in tenth, you say to yourself, man, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.760 I didn't really see that score out there. That wasn't 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.080 in the bag this week, because you know, but this 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:51.080 major championship in terms of like television drama, compelling Sunday coverage. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.760 This outside of like a two person duel was about 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.480 as good as it guess, because there's twelve guys that 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.559 could win in the middle of this. You know, golf 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.320 course to a certain extent, keeping people close together also 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.440 has a very high entertainment value, and I think it 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.520 also it aided the finish here. I mean, who would 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.480 have said to with the way things were going on 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.480 that back nine for everybody. When Louisu stays in makes 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.840 par on twelve, if you say, oh, you play even 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.680 par in you win everybody everybody would have been like, yeah, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.480 he's going to win if he plays even par. And 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.920 because at that time Harris English all of a sudden 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.959 looked really good three under. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.440 Three, I legitimately thought three might be a playoff, you know, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.200 once he finished and shot sixty eight. So I was 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.640 doing featured holes all week with Trevor Immelman, and our 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.360 holes were eleven, twelve, thirteen, And that's where all the 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.559 craziness was happening, you know, on Sunday, and so we've 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.679 got all this stuff going on and ball stuck in 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.560 trees and Colin morricawb kind of forgets how to play 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.079 golf on thirteen for half an hour and Bryson slips 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.320 on thirteen and his he ends his championship on the 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.640 par five. You know, I mean there was there was 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.520 a moment where I was convinced one hundred percent that 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.640 Briceing was gonna win. There was a moment I was 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.640 convinced one hundred percent that Kopka was gonna win or 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.959 at least getting a playoff. I felt a little bit 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.920 like it felt a little for a while like there 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.520 was it wasn't gonna be wrong, and then all of 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.360 a sudden, it might be wrong. He makes the Pudd 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.600 on seventeen. I'm like, okay, maybe Rom gets in a playoff, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.800 and then the Verdy at eighteen and you're at six 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.560 and you go, okay, now Louis got to catch you. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.120 It's crazy to think that there was a time where 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.560 I was convinced one of, like, what the top seven 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.240 best players on the planet, we're gonna win a major. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.680 I can't really remember the last time. I keep going 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.559 back to twenty eleven Augusta, when all those guys were 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.400 in the mix late, you know, and you had and 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.280 if you think about it, it was kind of Pete Jason 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.079 Day and Adam Scott was in the mix, Tiger was 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.480 kind of flirting with it for a bit, and then 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.760 Schwartzel goes out and wins it. It felt a little 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.120 like the Eleven Masters to me, and there was equal 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.319 amount of throwing up on yourself equal Mount Birdie's right, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.680 So that's why it was. It was cool because you 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.360 were getting both the good and the bad of major golf. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.360 So listen, I know you're not an enormous fan of 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.760 Tory Pines. You and I've had conversations about it before, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.360 but drama wise, I mean, you know you kindor are 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.439 two for two and what you're looking for in a 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.400 major because it was exciting and again, you could have 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.440 an exciting major championship on a dirt track if you 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.720 have the best in the world involved. And we got 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.040 exciting golf again at Toris, So you know, you got 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.319 to I guess you got to give it credit for 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.280 at least giving us great majors when it comes around 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:33.600 to it. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:39.160 Yeah, I mean, obviously storybook finishes both times around, and 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.719 I think I think I struggle with that that kind 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.559 of defense just because like when do we have the 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.840 best players in the world get together and they don't, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.840 you know, we don't have a great leader board. Every 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.920 single time they get together, the best players in the 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.040 world get together, we have a great leader board, you know. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.560 I think I I got questions about eleven through thirteen. Yeah, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.360 I mean it seemed like Rory hit perfect shots, the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.719 best shots of any player on eleven, and he like 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.959 would make both he made both pars. And then how 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.000 many guys hit that putt on twelve on Sunday, like 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.120 twenty feet by? And then what happened on the thirteenth 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.040 t Like, what was going on? Did you have any 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.080 insight into those? 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.680 So eleven? Okay, tell me you know as much about 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.640 architecture as anybody I know. I keep going back to 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.240 eleven at Tory, especially this week at the US Open, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.560 it felt a little like seventeen at Bayhill. Does that 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.640 make sense? It's it's a long iron. You can't really 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.760 get the ball close. The best shot you can hit 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.079 is to hit it to about twenty twenty five feet, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.480 But it's the smart shot, right You're playing it to 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.520 the fat part of the green. You've got to use 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.240 the slopes to get the ball close. And then Rory 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.840 gets up there and hits exactly what you're looking for 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.400 nobody hit it was nobody was hit it hole high. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.400 And he gets on the tee and he hits a 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.880 dead center of the green to thirty feet and you 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.640 go perfect, You made par eleven was the hardest hole 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:10.640 for the entire week. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.160 That's where you thought he might win. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.840 Exactly exactly, considering the way he played twelve throughout the week. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.920 He birdied in each of the first three rounds. So 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.560 he hits it to thirty feet, he hits just an 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.200 awful putt, I mean just awful, leaves it six feet 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.920 low and short. And I was on live from on 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:35.040 Saturday talking about Rory and I said, what we've seen 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.080 from Rory this week is different than what we've seen 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.440 from Rory in the past. I went back to Thursday 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:41.920 when he finished in the dark. I remember when they 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.480 made Justin Rose run up to the tee at eighteen. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.360 Rory's playing basically in the dark and he wedges it 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.560 to that back left hole location, which typical Rory over 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.240 the last seven years. Hits that there, it rips back 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.400 thirty feet, two puts. He two putts for par. He 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.600 gets off the golf course and you kind of go, ah, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.680 you probably left one out there did eighteen, he wedges 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.920 it to eight feet and makes that putt. There was 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.520 a moment on what was it fifteen where he hits 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.720 it left or fourteen where he hit left on Saturday 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.000 and he somehow saves bogey and you go, that's a 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.520 place where Rory makes double a lot and he's saved five. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.560 It just there were these moments with Rory throughout the 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.640 week where that was where he would typically let these 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.840 majors get away from him, and he wasn't letting him 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:25.719 get away from him. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.600 Yeah, and Sunday he's just kind of like plugging along. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.160 He's not doing anything spectacular, but he's done. You know, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.680 everybody's shooting themselves out of the tournament and you're and 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.760 all of a sudden names are falling out and you're like, oh, Rory. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.440 Yeah, so he hits it there, he hits just I mean, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.960 he hits just the typical Rory putt that he's done 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.679 over the last you know, five six years, where he's 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.680 got six feet, doesn't hit the hole, does the hand thing, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.480 you know, the thing I love where he's you know, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.960 he's kind of doing this and you're like, well, you 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.559 didn't the hole from six feet I don't really know 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.719 which way you thought it was gonna break. Then he 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.839 hits in the fairry bunker on twelve, he gets an 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.560 awful break. A lot of those balls we're kind of 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.440 feeding into the bunker. Of course, his plugs into that 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.079 the down slope lip. I mean, you can't, that's. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.080 Just it was a terrible bunker shot though too to 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:08.880 hit it over there. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.320 Oh yeah, it was the Fanny one. I mean, you 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.319 can hit middle of the green he had. I think 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.840 he had like one seventy nine or something. It's like, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.360 hit in the middle of the green with an eight 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.360 iron and you're fine, maybe a seven iron and he 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.400 hits that the scared swing where you miss it right, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.760 plugs in there and then it's done. He makes double 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.560 and it's over. I'll tell you this, he hit the 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.920 best shot. I'm thirteen. I saw all week. Give him 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 a chance at the eagle. I have a lot of 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.640 takes on thirteen. I'd like to get with you on 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.200 at some point. I talked about it and get a 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.600 grip with Max yesterday. That episode's out, but he's still 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.480 but it's like he makes double and you know he 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.880 hadn't really done that throughout the week and you were 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.200 kind of waiting, is Rory gonna finally not have this 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.520 this hole that shoot him out of a championship, out 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.240 of a major. And he goes bogey double there and 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.440 he's done, and that's that's it for Rory. Uh. I've 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.320 talked about this to Andy, going from Rory to Koepka. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.680 Kept had a chance at post five, you know, which 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.920 would have changed the entire dynamic of this this late 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.520 major championship. And he just makes an awful bogie on eighteen. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.160 Terrible bogey on twelve too. The three putt on twelve 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:13.960 was really bad. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.040 Yeah, And you asked about the three putts on twelve. Everybody, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.880 Kepka did it, Bryson did it, Paul Casey did it. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.920 Everybody was running that putt not four feet by, I mean, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.000 had Kepka had twelve feet. Louis ran it by and 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.320 made it from like nine feet, Bryson ran it by 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.840 and missed that putt. Everybody. I don't know what was 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.320 going on on twelve, but everybody that hit it late, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.280 that hit it over there on the right, that gave 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.920 themselves the putt you need, because there were three birdies 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.520 on twelve all day long. Everybody that hit it over 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.240 there ran it by eight or nine feet. I mean, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.040 you never see that, Andy, you never see that anywhere 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.320 to run it that far by. And we kept getting 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.240 player after player after player doing it. It was so wild, 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.640 and of course Louie gets up there and makes the 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.720 comebacker that everybody he was missing. Everybody was missing. It left, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.440 and then you get to thirteen. They've got the tea 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.960 moved up. We saw players slipping. I don't know if 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.600 it made the telecast, but Patrick Can'tley was was fairly 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.680 close to whipping his t shot. That's how much he 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.800 slipped on the tee there at thirteen. Like for him 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.040 to make contact, Trevor and I were talking about it's 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.360 like it was unbelievable athleticism for him to make contact 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.240 his right foot was possibly it was I don't know, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.360 it's just close to the ocean. It's I don't know, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.880 it's you know, it was like it was just that hangy, 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.640 heavy air all week and for whatever reason that tea 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.920 players were slipping on. I don't know what the reasoning was, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.320 but it was more it was you saw more slips 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.200 there than anywhere else. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.000 I wonder if spikes were actually a detriment on that 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.880 tea box, because like, if you're playing in tennis shoes, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.960 I feel like you'd never slip even if it's wet. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.920 Yeah, but bryceon Bryson said it right when he made contact, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.800 he goes, I can't. I did it again, and he 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.080 looked at his shoe and he goes, my shoes clean. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.920 I'm wondering if Bryson needs nail. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.160 I feel like Bryson was a well I think he 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.120 has nails. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.440 But I think he might have changed because I didn't 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.600 hear him as much this week, so maybe he's gone 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.520 to side soft. Maybe that's something he's going to change 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.240 after he does some serious experimental uh you know, you know, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.679 uh proceeding a guy, get a spike guy, get a 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.400 fan guy, get a light guy, get an umbrella guy. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.760 But it was wild. That thirteenth holl was wild. And 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.040 then you had you had Colin Morerikowa make the most 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.520 confusing decision of the week. He had three eighteen in 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.960 and hits three wood and blows it in the right roff. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.159 You can't be there, he makes double. Bryson lays up 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.520 in the right rouff. You can't do that, you know, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.119 say Louis hits his layup in the right roff and 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.840 then his ball somehow stays on that ledge, which had 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.080 to have been about a two foot area that the 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.240 ball doesn't roll back on. But you know, I loved 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.440 I love the USGA and I love the US Open. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:55.920 I mean, it's been a big part of my life 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.960 and it's been a big part of my career. That 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.440 thirteenth hole was bad all week. You know, I watched 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.760 a lot of golf there and there's no reward. That 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.600 was my big thing is there was no way to 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.600 get rewarded there. On Saturday, the best shot we saw 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.639 in Kopka banged his second shot into the lip of 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.840 the bunker and it landed on the grass slip of 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.960 the bunker and then kicked on the green. Balls that 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.080 were landing on the green were rolling over, balls that 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.720 were landing short, rolling back seventy yards. There was no reward. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.600 That's the issue is you at least need to be 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.600 rewarded if you can hit a good golf shot. I 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.719 talked to home about it. He was saying that that 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.240 back tee it just doesn't it doesn't help the hole 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.479 at all. It's a tough t shot. Unless you're one 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.800 of the top ten longest guys on tour. I just 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.680 felt like thirteen played poorly all week. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.000 Phil talked about that a lot in his pre show. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.480 Actually after the first round, you know, he was just like, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.960 there's just nowhere to hit it that I don't know, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.800 I don't know, I don't know exactly what the number is. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.280 That The thing that I think with it is that 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.360 if you lay up short of the big valley, you're 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.400 just too far away then, you know. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.280 And Max talked about it being a blind layup. Max 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.480 was saying on get a grip, you guys, listen to 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:03.960 it if you want. He was great this week, as 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.560 he always is, but he was talking about he said 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.680 the thing he dislikes the most in golf is blind 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.720 layups because he says, it's like they're trying too hard 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.879 to make it difficult. And you know, he's saying, you're 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.600 laying up with an eight iron. You know, you're laying 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.080 up with an eight iron to a blind area and 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.720 then to hit a wedge. It's just not it doesn't 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.639 really make a lot of sense for for trying to 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.760 test the best in the world. It was, but it 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.120 was it was. It was a game of avoiding dibbots. Again, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.400 that's so locked. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.600 And that's where every municipal Joe hits it too. Everybody 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.040 hits from there. So it's just it's going there's not 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.280