Speaker 1: I miss the green.
Speaker 2: For example, I'm already upset. When I find my ball
Speaker 2: in the bunker, I'm really upset. And when I find
Speaker 2: my ball in a fried egg Friday egg, the dreaded
Speaker 2: Friday egg, Frida Egg, Frida egg, fried egg, Frida egg,
Speaker 2: bride egg Lie, I'm about ready to run off the
Speaker 2: golf course.
Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer is the master of nineteen. He has buddy
Speaker 1: the last two holes to catch a bug ahead of
Speaker 1: cat that.
Speaker 2: Jory, What are the saying? Is this a race?
Speaker 1: Is golf that anybody has ever seen? That?
Speaker 2: A place? Yeah? Up the hill?
Speaker 1: Did you ever do one like that?
Speaker 2: I think got tent of the greatest fundy I've ever
Speaker 2: seen him Friday night. Maybe yes, sir, there it is
Speaker 2: and you believe it.
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: No, there it is a wins for the ages?
Speaker 1: Is it his time?
Speaker 2: Now here it comes? Oh my goodness, oh wow.
Speaker 1: In your life that you seen anything like that? Hello, friends,
Speaker 1: I'm jim nantz. Is my great pleasure to welcome you
Speaker 1: to the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before. It's
Speaker 1: a tradition unlike any other. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast I am
Speaker 1: joined by Will Knights here on Masters Saturday. Just wrapped
Speaker 1: up watching today's third round. Quite a exhibition there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. I think we all went into today
Speaker 2: expecting some carnage from the weather and instead we got
Speaker 2: the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed like it just kind of softened up
Speaker 1: the greens. It didn't really rain as expected. There was
Speaker 1: just that one little flurry of a downpour during when
Speaker 1: the leaders were off and that kind of mucked things up.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it just seemed to make
Speaker 1: scoring conditions easier and a few guys took advantage. What
Speaker 1: were your big takeaways from today?
Speaker 2: I think the biggest one is that Rory is definitely
Speaker 2: out for Blood. He's knows reads up at the lead
Speaker 2: and he wants to definitely get him back for Hazel
Speaker 2: team there. You're definitely hear in his post round interview
Speaker 2: that all the he thinks, all the pressure is on
Speaker 2: Red and he's just ready to go out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it'll be interesting to watch those guys duke
Speaker 1: it out. You know. One of the things with Reid's play,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was unbelievable on that back nine with
Speaker 1: the two eagles, the chipping I mean on the fifteenth
Speaker 1: was insane. But what it does is really separates him
Speaker 1: from pretty much everybody. But you know, six shots is
Speaker 1: what Faldough came back on Norman from and that's about
Speaker 1: the biggest margin in recent master's history. So that puts
Speaker 1: it really to Rom Fowler McElroy as the only legitimate
Speaker 1: chasers at eight under or better. Do you see any
Speaker 1: Do you see Red potentially faltering tomorrow?
Speaker 2: I think the first few holes will definitely be a
Speaker 2: good tell. I mean, with two and three being birdie holes,
Speaker 2: if you can get through those under par, I think
Speaker 2: that'll be a good test. It'll also be interesting to
Speaker 2: see if Rory puts pressure on him quickly. I mean,
Speaker 2: he does have that tough stretch with four through seven,
Speaker 2: but I think if Reid gets out to a hot start,
Speaker 2: it'll be tough to catch him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just seems locked in this week. Obviously, he's
Speaker 1: always one of the world's best around the greens and
Speaker 1: on the greens, but since he's added that fade, it's
Speaker 1: taken his ball striking to a whole new level. And
Speaker 1: at Augusta it's amazing how how much he trusts it,
Speaker 1: you know, hitting it on set off seventeen T and
Speaker 1: eighteen today, eighteen T today and hitting perfect T shots.
Speaker 1: I think that'll carry over. I think, you know it
Speaker 1: really will. As you said, come down to that first
Speaker 1: three holes and who sets the tone potentially. I mean,
Speaker 1: if one of these guys could go out in thirty,
Speaker 1: it could put a little bit of pressure, but that's
Speaker 1: so tough to do on that front nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean we saw have Fleet would make that
Speaker 2: run today on the back, but on the front nine
Speaker 2: you don't really have a good stretch. It'll be interesting
Speaker 2: to see if the typical Sunday pins are out there,
Speaker 2: maybe they want to increase some birdies. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: think unless McElroy Fowler a Ram put pressure on him early,
Speaker 2: that's the only people who could really catch him at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the that front nine stretch with like four
Speaker 1: or five, six, seven. It's just so hard on those
Speaker 1: three holes to really make birdies, and it's it'll be
Speaker 1: really interesting to see how Red handles this pressure because
Speaker 1: he's never been in this type of moment before. He's
Speaker 1: had mixed results with holding the lead. I mean his
Speaker 1: last one came at that Barclays. A couple of years
Speaker 1: ago and he was a little shaky coming down the
Speaker 1: stretch there, but obviously he's he's shown that in high
Speaker 1: pressure situations in the Ryder Cup, he's been nails. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: will be a little bit different, beast right.
Speaker 2: I think definitely we know that he's not wanting to
Speaker 2: shy away from it. As you said, though this is different,
Speaker 2: it's the Masters. I think he knows it's different, and
Speaker 2: it'll be interested to see how he looks on the
Speaker 2: first tea tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So what over the course of this Masters has h
Speaker 1: have you been surprised by most.
Speaker 2: Will Honestly, I'm a little surprised that it's played out
Speaker 2: kind of how we wanted it to. I mean, we
Speaker 2: were all building it up as one of the most
Speaker 2: anticipated Masters, and we've so far we've really gotten it.
Speaker 2: I mean, DJ Speath, JT, Bubba Stenson, Rom Fowler, McElroy,
Speaker 2: they're all there, just whether they or not they can
Speaker 2: make the move on Sunday and see if Reid can
Speaker 2: hold on here. But I think just getting this leaderboard
Speaker 2: has kind of been surprising, and that we've gotten everyone
Speaker 2: we wanted to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd agree a like at one point we were
Speaker 1: talking there were the leaderboard was just not to At
Speaker 1: the beginning of the round, there were seven of the
Speaker 1: top ten guys on the leaderboard were within the top
Speaker 1: ten in the world rankings. Now it looks like you
Speaker 1: got Speth Thomas at t ninth and then rom and
Speaker 1: Fowler and McElroy sou you're down to five. But the
Speaker 1: other five players or no slouches with like Reid, Stenson, Fleetwood,
Speaker 1: Bubba Watson, Leishman, all those guys are top twenty five players.
Speaker 1: So it I just don't see a way that anybody
Speaker 1: outside of those four guys can can really take it
Speaker 1: home tomorrow. I mean, there's no way that Reid and
Speaker 1: Rory fall that much.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I definitely agree. I mean, the only way
Speaker 2: this leaderboard was going to be better is if Tiger
Speaker 2: Phil actually showed up. But I mean, once you get
Speaker 2: over that fact, I think we're left with just about
Speaker 2: as good a leaderboard as we can expect. Will definitely
Speaker 2: be interested to see that final pairing tomorrow. Patrick Reid's
Speaker 2: going to show up in his Sunday Red and he's
Speaker 2: gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 1: So you think he's going to ditch the scripting for
Speaker 1: the pink that Nike laid out for him.
Speaker 2: I think his wife wore the hot pink pants after
Speaker 2: the round today, so I think all the Nike pinks
Speaker 2: men used this week.
Speaker 1: It's we got a pair of a pair of Nike
Speaker 1: guys going at it, and we do we do any
Speaker 1: blake going out?
Speaker 2: Oh? I uh, you know, I think Mike will respect
Speaker 2: the Sunday at Augusta. They might not have during the
Speaker 2: practice round. I think we all saw Tiger wearing his
Speaker 2: blade collar against Phil's button down. But I uh, I
Speaker 2: think it's Sunday at the Masters, they'll they'll put some
Speaker 2: collars on their guys.
Speaker 1: Ricky and Rom played it shot sixty five, so I
Speaker 1: guess Roy shot sixty five to today. But one of
Speaker 1: the things with Ricky's round was that, you know the
Speaker 1: thirteenth hole where he went for it. Obviously it's hindsight
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. He doesn't make it, and you think, hey,
Speaker 1: the you know he should he shouldn't have done this,
Speaker 1: But it was a questionable call to go for it,
Speaker 1: and you think here, it's like, you know, one more
Speaker 1: shot could be the difference. And that's the with major championships.
Speaker 1: It comes down to, you know, the smallest margins and
Speaker 1: he got up and down for par But you lay
Speaker 1: that up with that backpen, it's an easy birdie and
Speaker 1: that one shot would go a long way. You know,
Speaker 1: being at being within four and five is a big, big.
Speaker 2: Difference, right, Yeah, exactly. I mean essentially his up and
Speaker 2: down for Parr would have been the up and down
Speaker 2: he would have had for Birdie. I mean, it would
Speaker 2: been the exact same shot. So making that mistake just
Speaker 2: kind of really cost him. I mean, who knows it
Speaker 2: might have cost him the final group. Honestly, Rory would
Speaker 2: have known that he needed to make that birdie to
Speaker 2: put the or to get into the final group. I
Speaker 2: think he was gonna pretty much attack regardless, But who knows,
Speaker 2: Ricky might be the one in the final group with
Speaker 2: Patrick Greed tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so tomorrow, weather conditions are They're saying it's going
Speaker 1: to be sixty three, so it'll be a lot cooler,
Speaker 1: moderate winds. I think the one thing that will happen
Speaker 1: is with the rain. It will be it actually will
Speaker 1: be tough conditions because they'll crank those subairrors and the
Speaker 1: greens are going to be really firm. But then there
Speaker 1: are the rounds of the greens will be really soft,
Speaker 1: which always makes things tricky. If anything, I think that
Speaker 1: favors a guy like Rory who comes in with that
Speaker 1: towering ballflight.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, as we saw today,
Speaker 2: Rory's just hitting it past everyone. I mean he was
Speaker 2: consistently forty fifty yards past Stenson. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: see that not continuing. I just do remember read at
Speaker 2: the US Open last year he was chipping pretty well
Speaker 2: off those tight lines. I mean, if he's missing greens
Speaker 2: with a little bit of pressure, we'll see how his
Speaker 2: short gam holds up. But he has shown in the
Speaker 2: past that he's been able to get it up and
Speaker 2: down from those areas.
Speaker 1: That's what's impressed me the most about Rory this week
Speaker 1: is how he's gotten kept the momentum going. It seems
Speaker 1: to me like in recent years with major championships, he
Speaker 1: just has always missed that five foot or for par
Speaker 1: and this week he's making all those. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw two really clutch up and downs from him on
Speaker 1: the par threes on the back nine. And that's the
Speaker 1: key for Rory is always that momentum. I feel like
Speaker 1: he just really feeds off momentum more than almost any
Speaker 1: other player in golf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I mean I think once he got up
Speaker 2: and down on thirteen there, it was very similar to
Speaker 2: what Sergio did last year, kind of saved his whole tournament.
Speaker 2: And then Rory just down the stretch was just firing
Speaker 2: a pins, knowing he needed to make a few more
Speaker 2: birdies and put some pressure on I mean, he's been
Speaker 2: here before, He's been in the final groups of Majors.
Speaker 2: This is the first time he's been in the final
Speaker 2: group at the Masters though, since his meltdown in eleven,
Speaker 2: So we'll be interested to see what he looks on
Speaker 2: the first t tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then he had the meltdown in fifteen in the
Speaker 1: final group Saturday, so it'll be Sunday is completely different
Speaker 1: beasts than Saturday. The pins get tougher, and especially today
Speaker 1: with the soft condition that it'll be a whole different
Speaker 1: ballgame tomorrow, soft and calm. What do you make of
Speaker 1: the thumb?
Speaker 2: The thumb, Yeah, put on a show today for us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: quite the charge on the front nine there and then
Speaker 2: continued it on the back. I thought he was going
Speaker 2: to be the only non Jeff Knox player to make
Speaker 2: birdie on eleven, but I mean, he's right there. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't put it past him to make a charge early tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We know he has the firepower to get to two
Speaker 2: and with that pin, eagles are definitely in play, so
Speaker 2: we'll see if he's able to make a couple early
Speaker 2: birdies or eagles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was so under the radar coming in. Nobody
Speaker 1: was talking about him because he, you know, compared to
Speaker 1: what his usual standards are with you know, essentially he
Speaker 1: was a top ten, top five machine, and he had
Speaker 1: a kind of string of top thirties which got everybody
Speaker 1: off him. But he is he is built for this
Speaker 1: golf course heat. For a guy that's only twenty three
Speaker 1: and has had what less than thirty PGA Tour starts,
Speaker 1: he's one of the most complete young players we've seen
Speaker 1: come up through the ranks in a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so this is his second year at
Speaker 2: Augusta now, so, I mean it didn't he didn't look
Speaker 2: great on Thursday opening I think he was seventy five,
Speaker 2: But I mean ever since then, he's just been nails
Speaker 2: coming down the stretch today, especially through a dart in
Speaker 2: there on sixteen and then seventeen made that birdie as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, we all know he wants to prove that
Speaker 2: he is one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 2: in the world, so he needs majors to prove it.
Speaker 1: Anybuddy, you were disappointed with today that you kind of
Speaker 1: expected to see jump up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean definitely with the soft conditions. I think
Speaker 2: earlier we were thinking JT was going to make a run, especially,
Speaker 2: I mean he birdied too, but then just kind of
Speaker 2: fell flat the rest of the round. I mean, when
Speaker 2: everyone else is out there shooting sixty six and for
Speaker 2: him to only shoot seventies kind of disappointing. We saw
Speaker 2: Rory take advantage of his length on the course, but
Speaker 2: JG just couldn't take advantage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a little disappointed with Leishman. I kind
Speaker 1: of thought he'd hang around a little bit more, but
Speaker 1: it it just expected more than seventy three out of him,
Speaker 1: especially with how soft it was. I thought he was
Speaker 1: going to be a guy in the mix tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: now he's a eight shots back. That just seems like
Speaker 1: too much to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just burned a couple edges early there and
Speaker 2: never got any momentum going, and once Patrick Reed just
Speaker 2: started pulling away. I think you can kind of see
Speaker 2: he just had a couple of flat tires and just
Speaker 2: couldn't keep it going.
Speaker 1: Who's your prediction for the back door special tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Back Door Special? You know, I think Rose had a
Speaker 2: ton of pressure on himself coming in to this tournament,
Speaker 2: and now that he's just out on the outside looking in,
Speaker 2: he's definitely just gonna I think he's gonna go low tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I mean, as we've seen, Speeth has not done anything either.
Speaker 2: I think he could back to our top five here
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. I mean after round one, I was
Speaker 1: worried that we were going to see twenty fifteen like
Speaker 1: all over again, where it was essentially over on Saturday
Speaker 1: or on Friday. But he that Putter, he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been the same this year over especially short putts.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean we saw well Thursday. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: goes out hot and then just completely gives it all
Speaker 2: back early Friday and just never found it again. I
Speaker 2: mean with him and DJ today, I thought they were
Speaker 2: gonna kind of put some pressure on each other to
Speaker 2: play well, and they both really just fell flat.
Speaker 1: Yes, it almost worked in the opposite way where they
Speaker 1: both didn't do anything and it was probably just like
Speaker 1: watching everybody running and you're stuck in quicksand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I think when you're in a
Speaker 2: good pairing that you guys can kind of feed off
Speaker 2: each other and make birdies. That definitely helps, and with
Speaker 2: both of them just being unable to get going, that
Speaker 2: just hurt him both.
Speaker 1: All right, keep this thing tight. What's your prediction for tomorrow?
Speaker 2: I think, honestly, I think Patrick Reid pulls it out.
Speaker 2: I know Rory's coming for him, but I think he's
Speaker 2: just he wants it, and he's gonna go out there
Speaker 2: ready to go. He's gonna be able to hold off
Speaker 2: Rory early, and I think he wins by two.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I.
Speaker 2: You think Rory gets it done.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I don't I don't want hands
Speaker 1: on my head, in my heart, my head, says Reid.
Speaker 1: He's just been nails all week. But I I just
Speaker 1: don't want to see and every master's till he's like
Speaker 1: sixty five or seventy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think definitely some of those guys in the
Speaker 2: Champions locker room or rooting against him, but yeah, I
Speaker 2: just think it's his time. I will see if anyone
Speaker 2: can put pressure on him, but I think unfortunately we're
Speaker 2: going to see Patrick Reed draped in green tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a it's from his hard work too.
Speaker 1: You have to give props where it is. He's identified
Speaker 1: what he couldn't do and what was holding him back,
Speaker 1: and he's he's gotten remarkably better. And that's what this game.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why it's so important not to judge
Speaker 1: guys when they're twenty five twenty six, because they still
Speaker 1: have so much time. And reads a perfect example of that.
Speaker 1: Just vast improvement and you know, learning how to hit
Speaker 1: a shot and then pulling it off under pressure.
Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, I think. I mean, ever since his top
Speaker 2: five comments, I think he's really come a long way.
Speaker 2: Definitely matured. I don't I still think he rubs a
Speaker 2: lot of people the wrong way, but he's addressed the
Speaker 2: weaknesses in his game and obviously it's paid off for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Overrated, Underrated Patrick Reeds apparel.
Speaker 2: Now that he's Nike, I mean, he's kind of dressed
Speaker 2: the same as everyone, but he's definitely overrated. This swosh
Speaker 2: does not really fit Patrick Reed's body type.
Speaker 1: Overrated, Underrated, the term patrons.
Speaker 2: The term Patrons is highly overrated, but patrons in general
Speaker 2: definitely underrated. There's no yelling, no tom foolery. They just
Speaker 2: go out and watch golf and cheer. It's a good
Speaker 2: time for them.
Speaker 1: It's the way the Masters runs their whole thing is.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a tight ship out there.
Speaker 1: You know. Everybody's kind of their toes. They don't want
Speaker 1: to get thrown out. They've heard of the you know,
Speaker 1: the Pinkerton running around there kicking people out. You know,
Speaker 1: I think there's certain things. If you say certain things,
Speaker 1: you're out immediately. And just in general, the way Augusta
Speaker 1: just strong arms everybody, whether it's CBS, whether.
Speaker 2: It's for sure it's their partners, it's their way or
Speaker 2: the highway, and you walk in there, you better be
Speaker 2: on your best behavior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then in turn they deliver the best sporting event,
Speaker 1: definitely the best golf event and arguably the greatest sporting
Speaker 1: event out there. So absolutely you gotta give them props
Speaker 1: for just running their thing the way they want to
Speaker 1: run it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we all know coming in it's going
Speaker 2: to be immaculate on the course and broadcast is what
Speaker 2: it is. We got to live with it. But I
Speaker 2: mean it delivers every year, like this tournament just doesn't
Speaker 2: get any better.
Speaker 1: All right, well we will, Uh they'll wrap and uh
Speaker 1: hope everyone enjoys a great Master Sunday. You've been listening
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