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Speaker 1: Go Low podcast on the Masters week Augusta National and

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Speaker 1: thirty five Eastern time Thursday, playing again at one thirty

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Speaker 1: five Eastern time on Friday. Eldrick Tiger Woods. Uh, what

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Speaker 1: a moment, what a day. We'll talk a lot about Tiger,

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Speaker 1: also talk about just some other things. Other guys UH,

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Speaker 1: that I anticipate playing well, or that I'm interested to

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Speaker 1: see this week some of my bets. Jason Sobol of

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Speaker 1: recorded last week with him basically went over all the

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I just wanted to start with my own excitement.

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Speaker 1: I say this all the time. I was as big

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Speaker 1: as any human you've ever met. From like five to four,

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Speaker 1: it didn't get any bigger, and as I got working

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Speaker 1: in the business. It's just your relationship changes, right when

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Speaker 1: you work, like in anything, your relationship with any industry,

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Speaker 1: the moment you work in, it just changes. That's that's natural.

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing that sucks and there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of positives, and listen, I don't have anything

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Speaker 1: purity of my relationship with the sport of football, with golf,

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Speaker 1: all the sports has dramatically changed as I've met people

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Speaker 1: whether it be executives, players, whatever, It's just not quite

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Speaker 1: and people still think, like Middle Coff, you have a

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Speaker 1: big fan? Yeah? Kinda. I mean I want them to

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Speaker 1: But I can still be a huge fan of Tiger,

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Speaker 1: which is freaking awesome, and you know, obviously want him

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Speaker 1: great story. And I think him playing, the buzzing anticipation

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Speaker 1: Any guy under forty should wright Tiger Woods a personal

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tiger. We appreciate you because without you, the

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Speaker 1: His body language. If you go back a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: you know, it takes me a few weeks. You know,

427
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Speaker 1: I would start writing preview stuff and start working on

428
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Speaker 1: my content weeks ahead of time, then make that drive

429
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Speaker 1: the Sunday before to Augusta National, and uh be able

430
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Speaker 1: to be on the grounds the entire time. I'm gonna

431
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Speaker 1: be throughout the week doing uh not just my own show,

432
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Speaker 1: Hitting the Green on Masters Radio, but I'm gonna be

433
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Speaker 1: doing some hits for the pregame show. I'm gonna be

434
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Speaker 1: doing post round interviews one on ones with players after

435
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Speaker 1: they come in following their rounds them and be hosting

436
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Speaker 1: the postgame show with Drew Stoltz on Master's Radio every

437
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Speaker 1: single night after playans, which is just I mean, yeah,

438
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Speaker 1: at some point I kind of pinched myself a good

439
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous, really, like did I win a lottery

440
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Speaker 1: or something. I mean, it's crazy. I mean, you've you've

441
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Speaker 1: been out there and round. I mean, obviously Tiger is

442
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Speaker 1: the premier guy in the last you know, two and

443
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Speaker 1: a half decades, but just the Rory's the j T

444
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Speaker 1: s the spiece. It feels like they know, like walking

445
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Speaker 1: onto the ground. So, I mean it's weird to talk

446
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: about Phil but a couple of years ago when he

447
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Speaker 1: was driving down Magnolia Lane and he was this back

448
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Speaker 1: when he was really popular on social media and that

449
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: the videos and it's just it feels like these guys

450
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Speaker 1: know that they're kind of when they walk on the

451
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Speaker 1: hollow ground and their juices, Like is their focus? Does

452
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Speaker 1: it feel different when you see him at the Waste

453
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Speaker 1: Management or even Memorial or some of the bigger non

454
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Speaker 1: Master majors if you had only been to a Master's

455
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Speaker 1: I know, people say, you know kind of the other

456
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Speaker 1: way around, Hey have been to regular events and if

457
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Speaker 1: I go to the Master's, Wow, I see the palpable

458
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Speaker 1: difference in it. If you had only been to the

459
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Speaker 1: Masters and then went to a regular PGA tour and

460
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Speaker 1: you go, where's the intensity? Don't these guys care? Like

461
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Yeah? They care at those ones,

462
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: but they really care at the Masters. I mean you

463
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: can tell. It's just ratchet up a handful of notches

464
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: and these guys are all working on their games. This

465
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Speaker 1: is what they want to peak for, and you're right,

466
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Speaker 1: this is the biggest, and there might be a few

467
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Speaker 1: players out there say, you know, the the Open Championship

468
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Speaker 1: is the big one. For me, it's the oldest, and

469
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: I'd rather win a Clara jug or maybe a US Open.

470
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Speaker 1: It's the most democratic golf tournament in the world, and

471
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Speaker 1: for that reason, I want to win that. For the

472
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Speaker 1: most part, though, I would say it's eight of the

473
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Speaker 1: pros out there would take a green jacket over anything.

474
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Speaker 1: This is the pinnacle of achievement in our sport, and

475
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Speaker 1: all the best players are going after it. There's a

476
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Speaker 1: reason why in the last twelve years we haven't had

477
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Speaker 1: a player outside the top thirty in the world ranking

478
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Speaker 1: win the Masters, because the cream of the crop tends

479
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Speaker 1: to rise at this event. They tend to climb the leaderboard.

480
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Speaker 1: They know how important, how relevant it is at this one.

481
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Speaker 1: This week, well, you know, we don't know how he

482
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Speaker 1: finished at the Valero when we're recording this. Obviously he

483
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Speaker 1: wanted last year, but a fan favor and I think

484
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Speaker 1: he's kind of the modern day phil Is Jordan's and

485
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Speaker 1: you know he's he just plays well here regardless of

486
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Speaker 1: how he's coming in. Is he a guy not just

487
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Speaker 1: from a gambling standpoint, but just as a golf standpoint

488
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Speaker 1: that you just you take seriously when this thing kicks off,

489
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Speaker 1: just because regardless how his form is, he just knows

490
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Speaker 1: this place so well and he's so comfortable out there

491
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Speaker 1: that he can win it. Yeah. Absolutely, I thought last

492
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Speaker 1: year at the Valerio Texas Open, it was a little

493
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Speaker 1: bit different. He started trending in the right direction. We've

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Speaker 1: seen it in Phoenix during that third round I think

495
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Speaker 1: sixty one or sixty two, and we saw him moving

496
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. We hadn't one in four years,

497
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Speaker 1: and so we kind of thought he kind of needs

498
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Speaker 1: a win. He can't just show up in Augusta and

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Speaker 1: hope to win for the first time in four years.

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Speaker 1: And so he got the win last year, and he

501
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Speaker 1: played really well when he got to the Masters. This

502
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Speaker 1: year is a little bit different. I don't feel like

503
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Speaker 1: he needs that real big triumph going into it. He's

504
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Speaker 1: played well this year. It's not over the top grade,

505
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Speaker 1: it's not terrible, it's just sort of it's pretty well.

506
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Speaker 1: But again, Jordan's speek is a type that doesn't really

507
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Speaker 1: measure himself until he gets the major championships anyway, And yeah,

508
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Speaker 1: I expect it to be a really good week for him,

509
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Speaker 1: just because it's always a good week for him at

510
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Speaker 1: Augusta National. He figured something out early and most players

511
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Speaker 1: aren't able to do this. We know that experience plays

512
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Speaker 1: a major factor, although I will say I think experience

513
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Speaker 1: is a little bit overrated on this golf course. That's

514
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Speaker 1: sort of the old notion fifteen twenty years ago. Hey

515
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Speaker 1: you've got to have experience here, and there's only a

516
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Speaker 1: few guys who jump in and just start finding success

517
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Speaker 1: right away. I think what we're gonna find is, more

518
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Speaker 1: often than not, these guys in the in their twenties

519
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Speaker 1: who are coming up now as some of the better

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Speaker 1: players in the game. These guys are gonna find some

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Speaker 1: success in Augusta National. Jordan's speeth as sort of been

522
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Speaker 1: the leader in this current era of showing them, hey,

523
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Speaker 1: it's possible you can show up here your first time,

524
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Speaker 1: find success and then win not long afterwards. And that's

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Speaker 1: what he's done. I expect another good one from this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: before we dive into some of the guys in the twenties,

527
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Speaker 1: guy in his early thirties, who's you know he wins

528
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Speaker 1: this thing, he'd have the career Grand Slam, and it's

529
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Speaker 1: a guy that we always talked about. He's one of

530
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Speaker 1: the most famous players in history of the game. Is

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Speaker 1: Roy McElroy? Uh? Is he a guy that you have

532
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Speaker 1: any confidence coming in to the Masters in two thousand

533
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Speaker 1: twenty two? Or is is it? Is it ever gonna happen?

534
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: Because you you could never say never. But it does

535
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Speaker 1: feel like just kind of weird for him at this event,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah? I mean at some point now he's

537
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Speaker 1: trying to change it up and you played the Valerio

538
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Speaker 1: Texas Open and okay, I like that. You know, It's

539
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Speaker 1: not just I'm gonna bang my head against the wall

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Speaker 1: until something different happens. It's hey, well let me try

541
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Speaker 1: something new. I'm gonna play the week before the Masters.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe that works, And so I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see it happen for Rory. I think Rory can

544
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Speaker 1: go from not having won a major in eight years.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, it's been almost full years since Rory's won

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Speaker 1: a major. He can go from the narrative of what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with Rory? Why can't Rory win? How come he

548
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Speaker 1: doesn't want a major? Two? And this has brought up

549
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Speaker 1: to me the other day. If he wins this coming

550
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Speaker 1: week at Augusta National, he might be the best European

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Speaker 1: player of all time. I mean, he's gonna have the

552
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Speaker 1: career Grand Slam, just the sixth player ever to do it.

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Speaker 1: And he can completely change that narrative about what we

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Speaker 1: say when we talk about Rory McIlory. That said, boy,

555
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of scar tissue there for him, and

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Speaker 1: I just am I confident in Rory. Look, I'm always

557
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Speaker 1: pretty confident in Rory. I always think that he can

558
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Speaker 1: play well. It's just not at the top of my

559
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Speaker 1: list right now. Okay, let's dive into the favorite. And

560
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Speaker 1: speaking of Europeans, he got the monkey up his back

561
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Speaker 1: last year one a major John Ram. He was the

562
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Speaker 1: number one player in the world until Scotti Scheffler went

563
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Speaker 1: on a tiger like forty days stretch. But John romy

564
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Speaker 1: still the betting favorite at you know, nine ten to one, which,

565
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Speaker 1: as we talked earlier in the season, it was getting

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Speaker 1: outrageous for a guy that wasn't winning that much six

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Speaker 1: seven to one. So it's come back to earth a

568
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Speaker 1: little bit. I was on him huge to the players,

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Speaker 1: hard really to take much. That was a weird event

570
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Speaker 1: right with the weather. But you know, the short game

571
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Speaker 1: just looks a little off to me. You know, for

572
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Speaker 1: a guy that strikes the ball as well as any one,

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Speaker 1: Do you have any faith John romp at that number

574
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Speaker 1: can win the Major? Can you can win the Masters?

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Speaker 1: The putter has not been great, and he needs to

576
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Speaker 1: figure out his putting stroke, and I'm not sure he

577
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Speaker 1: can do that this quickly. That said, I will say

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Speaker 1: the one thing that John's got going in his favor

579
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Speaker 1: right now. We all know he's a hot tempered guy.

580
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Speaker 1: He gets fired up. I've heard from players who play

581
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Speaker 1: small money games with him back home in Scottsdale that

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Speaker 1: if he loses, he's throwing clubs and he's cursing. He's

583
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Speaker 1: getting mad about stuff. It's not just in a major championship.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy who runs hot on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the best thing for Rom was getting eclipsed on

586
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Speaker 1: the world ranking just last week by Scottie Scheffler, who

587
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Speaker 1: won the match play and moved into number one in

588
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Speaker 1: the world. I wonder if Rom not that he was

589
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Speaker 1: getting complacent whatsoever, but I wonder if Rom just needed

590
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Speaker 1: to kind of get that edge back a little bit

591
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Speaker 1: to have people say, hey, you know what the eight

592
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Speaker 1: number one, number one anymore? Now your number two? How

593
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Speaker 1: does that feel? And maybe even if he's not hearing

594
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: that from the outside, even that's just an internal voice

595
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: telling him that maybe just fires him up a little

596
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: bit more to kind of, you know, go out there

597
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: and and play some better golf. But yeah, he's he's

598
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Speaker 1: been good. Look I still think he's you know, if

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Speaker 1: if you had a draft you line him up right now,

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Speaker 1: who's the best player in the world. I still take

601
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Speaker 1: John rom over Scottie Scheffler or anybody else. But yeah,

602
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: he's got to start making some putts, and I don't

603
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: know that Augustin National is the place where you start

604
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Speaker 1: making some putts. Um My pick to win the Major

605
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Speaker 1: or win the Masters and his second major, which is

606
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Speaker 1: crazy because he feels like he's one more than one major.

607
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: But he struggled in majors and he struggled at the Masters.

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Speaker 1: And that's justin Thomas. But he has a new running

609
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Speaker 1: mate name name Bones, who has been a who's been

610
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Speaker 1: on the bag for a guy that's won this tournament

611
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Speaker 1: a few times. And you guys that are in the

612
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: deep in the game always talk about the the nuances

613
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: of this course the guys, you know, that's what Tiger

614
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: and Phil kind of hang their hat on why they

615
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: can compete at older, you know, as they get older,

616
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Speaker 1: because they know this place so well now just it's

617
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: played here a lot. But adding Bones feels like does

618
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: this take him over the edge? And I know he

619
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Speaker 1: struck the ball as well as anyone. This year's putter

620
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Speaker 1: has been a little hit or missile like John rom

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Speaker 1: But I love him this week so well at you know,

622
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Speaker 1: twelve thirteen to one. Talk me off that ledge, now

623
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Speaker 1: I can't. I really like j T as well. He's

624
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Speaker 1: not quite at the top of my list, he's certainly

625
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Speaker 1: within the top five. Though I would venture to say

626
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Speaker 1: that with Bones by his side, j T will he

627
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: he will know a few more things about Augusta National

628
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: by the time he teas off Thursday than he knows

629
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: right now as we're speaking. He's gonna he's gonna learn

630
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: some things from Bones and look even for for guys

631
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Speaker 1: the highest level, even the most subtle, little you know,

632
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: detail here and there can really help a guy out.

633
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Speaker 1: So I do think that JT is a very viable candidate.

634
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: I I don't have necessarily a negative against j T.

635
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: Other than just it's been a long time since he won.

636
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: It's been over a year now since he's won a

637
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: golf tournament. That's way too long for a guy who

638
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: has his talent level. I just wonder if he gets

639
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: under the gun and he presses so much that it

640
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: hurts him a little bit. But that said, that's that's

641
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: a very very small complaint right there, very small little

642
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: dose of pessimism towards Justin Thomas, because I like everything

643
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: else about him going into this week. It's weird. We've

644
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: talked about a bunch of names. We haven't even mentioned

645
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: the number one player in the world. Now he's won

646
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: three times, I mean, which feels like a Tiger like heater,

647
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: right that you just don't see in modern day golf

648
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: winning that many especially, I mean, he's weren't just some

649
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: random tournaments in Puerto Rico. I mean these were fields

650
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,479
Speaker 1: that were tough, big time golf tournaments that have been

651
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: won by some of the best in the history of

652
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: the game. But my pushback on not betting Scotty Scheffler

653
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: at least as to win and I bet these odds.

654
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: You probably know better than me. I mean, I see

655
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: sixteen to one. What do you think it was at

656
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season for Scotti Jeffler with the

657
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: mass thirty so that they've been cut in half, probably

658
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: in the last several weeks, it's hard to say he

659
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: doesn't have a legit chance because if no one's playing

660
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: better than him right now. But and he's played only

661
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: there a couple of times, but he's had, you know,

662
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: some success for a younger player. What are your thoughts

663
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: on Scotty Scheffler heading into the Masters. Yeah, you know

664
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: what they say about the stock market, past performance is

665
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: not indicative of future success, and so I think a

666
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: lot of people right now are saying, Scotty Scheffler has

667
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: won three of his last five starts. The guy can't

668
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: lose number one in the world. I'm gonna take him

669
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: for the Masters. Look, I'm not saying it's a bad

670
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: play by any means. I'm not saying, you know, this

671
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: is not some anti Scotty Scheffler rant by any means.

672
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: At some point, it's just, look, there's so many good players.

673
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: You're only gonna win so many events. If your name

674
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: isn't Tiger Woods in the year, isn't two thousand. You're

675
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: not gonna win every single time you tee it up,

676
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: and so I just wonder, like, look, it's not knock

677
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: on Scottie. I still think he's a great player. He's

678
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: won three times. He's just not gonna win nine times

679
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: and four majors this year. It's just things don't work

680
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: out that way. And so, uh, you know, he might

681
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: rather trade the the A p I and the matchplay

682
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: victories for a green jacket instead, but it's just not

683
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: how it works. And so I tend to look at

684
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: Scotty and say he's maybe peaked a little bit too early.

685
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: The game's best players trying to peak four times a year.

686
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: I've asked them about it for years. The best answer

687
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: I ever got was from Jason Day, who literally looked

688
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: at me through his hands up and just kind of shruggling.

689
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how I try to peak four times

690
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: a year. It's like, it's not like I'm trying to

691
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: play worst two weeks ahead of time so that I

692
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: can play better when I get to Augusta. But uh,

693
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: he's kind of Scottie Cheff. I feel like it's has

694
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: sort of played some of his better golf and again

695
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: maybe it means nothing, but the law of averages just

696
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: kind of tells us that at some point he's gonna

697
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: stop winning, isn't he. Yeah, you would think. One of

698
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Jeff's on the internet streets is

699
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: when the Undertaker, you know, he comes out of the

700
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: casket and he's alive again. And I felt watching the

701
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: match play two guys that have a combined six majors,

702
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: they've both been number one in the world, and they

703
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: were good friends a couple of years ago. It feels

704
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: like their friendship doesn't In Brooks kept going, Dustin Johnson,

705
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: but a couple of Florida guys that obviously when they're

706
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: on can beat anyone ever, right, I mean, they are

707
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: as good as it gets. Looking at those two specific players,

708
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson, Brooks kept who who has more win equity

709
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: coming in to this masters John for a few years

710
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: after he won the two thousand seventeen was the p

711
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: G A I believe PGA or US Open the first

712
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: one p G A UM After he won to UH

713
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, I looked at us. You know,

714
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not buying into this whole narrative that

715
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepta can essentially just show up to a major championship,

716
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: flip the switch and say, hey, look at me, I'm

717
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: the best player in the world. Now, I just I

718
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: wasn't buying it. I finally started to buy it. I

719
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: finally just started to buy into You know what, Brooks

720
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: is that good? He doesn't necessarily it doesn't mean he's

721
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: not trying to play well at other events. But he

722
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: might give it at other events and then give it

723
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten at the majors and just stepping

724
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 1: up a few notches. And so I'm all over. Brooks

725
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: kept here this week. He's my favorite outright play on

726
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: the board. I do think that. Look he understands how

727
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: to win major championships. He's scared of nothing. He plays

728
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: with a chip on his shoulder. There's no weakness in

729
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: his game. Look at he drives in a long way.

730
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: He's great ball striker. He's an underrated putter. He's really

731
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: good with a flat stick in his hands. Uh, he's

732
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: contended Augusta National in the past. He's healthy now, he's confident. Now,

733
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: he's played well. He's put up some uh some decent performances. Really,

734
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: other than his two thousand, nineteen major win. This is

735
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: the best he's played before any potential major championship title.

736
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: And so I look at all those things, put them

737
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: all together. I said, there's no reason not to play.

738
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: Brooks kept here this week. One thing I will say

739
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: about DJ, now, granted it was Sunday at the players,

740
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: not much. He was well out of it. I think

741
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 1: he shot sixty three. And then at the match play

742
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: you could just tell. I wouldn't say he's got all

743
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: this swag back, but it looked a little bit more

744
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: like the DJ we knew from seventeen and eighteen that

745
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: was the best player in the world. So I to me,

746
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: both those guys, I could see him both like, just

747
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: like a couple of years ago when Tiger one, they

748
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: were both there, would not shock me at all. If

749
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: they're both in the top five coming into the back

750
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: nine another name. I mean, this guy is just a

751
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: top five machine. When Tiger wanted, he was the guy

752
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: sitting next to him in the in the Mike Gundy

753
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: orange And I have a I have a wager on

754
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: Victor Hovelin at eighteen to one. I actually got him

755
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 1: at twenty two to one. It's been moving up because

756
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: he's been playing so well he can't chip, but luckily

757
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: he just hits fairways and greens. He might can avoid that. Now,

758
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: historically you know better than me. It feels like you

759
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: cannot win Augusta if your short games a little off.

760
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: It's just it's too difficult. Uh. What do you think

761
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: about Victor Hovelin is is chipping? Is that too much

762
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: to overcome to win this term? I think we're all

763
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 1: confident he could be top ten with his eyes closed

764
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: in any major right now. But to win a major

765
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: in a word, yes, I mean yeah. You don't find

766
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: top ten players, the elite level players with a glaring

767
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: weakness in their games right now. I mean, the only

768
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: other guy I can I can really compare to Hovland

769
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: is Will's Alatoris, who's not in the top ten. He's close,

770
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: but rules Alatoris was struggling with his putter and has

771
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: struggled with his putter for so long. It looks really

772
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: good at the match, but it looks like he's turned

773
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: things around until Victor Hovland turned things around with the

774
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: wedge from around the greens. I just don't see him

775
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: showing up at Augusta. Nashally, he's gonna have to hit

776
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: seventy two greens this week for him to have a

777
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: serious chance of contending. And so, uh, you know, at

778
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: some point is he gonna win a major? Absolutely? At

779
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: some point is he gonna figure out how to chip

780
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: better from around the greens? Absolutely? Is it gonna be

781
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: this week again? I just don't think you turn right

782
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: from Washington Road onto Magnolia Lane and all of a

783
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: sudden you ah, now, I got it all right, I

784
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: figured it out. I know how to chip. Now. If

785
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: you've got a weakness, Augusta National is just going to

786
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: uh to show off and magnify that weakness. And I

787
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be the issue for Victor Hovland for

788
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: this one. Is there any of the top dogs? I mean,

789
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned more Kawa can't lay any of the

790
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: top dogs that I we haven't talked about that you

791
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: know you're intrigued by or want a little action on.

792
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: Can't Ley is certainly a guy I've I've had three

793
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: futures just just for a couple of weeks. I like

794
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: to wait on this stuff. But Can't I mentioned, Yeah,

795
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: brooks kept guy mentioned I really like brooks Kepta. Patrick

796
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: Cantley is the guy who if you had asked me

797
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: two or three months ago, and people were trust me

798
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: asking me two or three months ago, who I like

799
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: to win the Masters, it was Patrick Cantley. Came out

800
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: of the gates two thousand twenty two, uh, playing really well,

801
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: four finishes between second and ninth place, so four top

802
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: tens to start since then a thirty third place finish

803
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: at Riviera, which should suit him as well as any

804
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: golf course in the world, miss the cut at the

805
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: players he is on the right side of the draw,

806
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: but doesn't tend to play his best golf in Florida anyway,

807
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: and then played okay the matchplay, didn't advance out of

808
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: his group. None of those individually are are things I

809
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: look at and say, well, that's you know that that's

810
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: not good for can't Ley. But you put them all together,

811
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: you say hasn't played his best golf. Essentially, what it

812
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: it's done for me is dropped him from the top

813
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: of my list down to maybe second or third on

814
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: my list. I still really like Patrick can't Ley and

815
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: the other name and John. As we're talking right now,

816
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: week ahead of time, I'm looking at draft kings. There

817
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: are thirteen players who are twenty to one or shorter,

818
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: which is unbelievable. How are we supposed to make money

819
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: doing this stuff? I mean, you know, the the amount

820
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: of short odds. I love parody in the game of golf,

821
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: but parody has also brought so many guys close to

822
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: the top of the odds board that it makes it

823
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: really difficult. So when looking for a bargain, there just

824
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: aren't a whole lot of bargains out there. One guy

825
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: that I find a bargain on is a guy who

826
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: was at the top ten. He's just outside the top

827
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: ten right now. Sam Burns at forty to one. I'm

828
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: telling me the only thing separating him from being twenty

829
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: to one instead of forty to one is the fact

830
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: that he has yet to play in a single Masters

831
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: We all know the last guy to win in his

832
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: Master's debut was Fuzzy Zeller back in nineteen seventy nine.

833
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 1: That said doesn't mean it can't happen. I think Sam

834
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: Burns is good enough to at least give it a

835
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: run at forty one. I'll take a shot on him.

836
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: I had a group which I considered long shots thirty

837
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: five to forty five range. It was Shane Larry Daniel, Berger, Louis,

838
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 1: and Burns. If you were ranking those you Burns would

839
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: be your guy of that group. Yeah, I think he's

840
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: that good. And like I said earlier experience, I think

841
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: tends to get overvalued just a little bit. I feel

842
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: like it's an older notion that you know, ten, fifteen,

843
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, we might have looked at the guys. Hey,

844
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: he's playing his eighth, ninth, tenth Masters, he's finally figured

845
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: it out. I think these guys are starting to learn.

846
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: The learning curve is a little quicker when they're getting

847
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: out there, and so I expect uh, some younger players.

848
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: Look if Wills Alator's finished second last year, there's no

849
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: reason SAMs can't make a run at it this year.

850
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: In that group, Lowry, Burger, Louis maybe not to win,

851
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: But if you were going to take a top ten

852
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: out of one of those three, any of them, did

853
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: you buy into the notion of you know, obviously some

854
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 1: of those guys play a cut that it's a drawers

855
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: course for right handed A little bit. Yeah, I think so.

856
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: I think there's something to that. Burger certainly, Uh plays

857
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 1: that cut a little bit. I've been waiting for Burger.

858
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: I keep getting Burger wrong in the weeks that I

859
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: like him. He doesn't necessarily show up. Although I had

860
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: him at the Players Championship. I think he was one

861
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: of my favorite players that week and just kind of

862
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: came up a little bit short. I Shane Lowry is

863
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,479
Speaker 1: intriguing to me. Um, I just don't know that he's

864
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: he's got what it takes to be there down the stretch,

865
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: seriously in contention, um to win this thing. But yeah,

866
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: I can go for a Lowry top ten again. I'm

867
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: gonna have my rankings out at the Action Network, the

868
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: entire field. I can see each of those three guys

869
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: being somewhere on the teams for me, So, you know,

870
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 1: maybe not a great top ten bet, but all of

871
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: them is top twenty bets. Sure, I'm okay with that.

872
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: How about the group of guys former champions from Hideki

873
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: to Bubba to Sergio to Patrick Read to Adam Scott,

874
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: kind of that group of guys that you know, obviously

875
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,439
Speaker 1: Hadecki recently, want to know, he's banged up a little

876
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: bit right now, but guys that you'd say a little

877
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: past their prime, little older. Not Patrick who's just playing bad,

878
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: but like the Adam Scott, Sergios and any of that

879
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: group that would maybe not to win it, but wouldn't

880
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: shock you if they're just in the mix come the

881
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: weekend without having that whole list in front of me.

882
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna take the name just kind of

883
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: the big four or five guys, I we'll go with.

884
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: I'll go with Adam Scott. Adam Scott's obviously a classic

885
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,439
Speaker 1: ball strike and we all wish we had to swing

886
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: that looks anything close to Adam Scott swing. We know

887
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 1: how good he is. From t to green, He's become

888
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: a pretty good butter. You know, the guy can roll it.

889
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: He's got that longer putter um, you know, switch back

890
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: and forth every once in a while. But Adam Scott

891
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: got this rip reputation for the first eighteen years as

892
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: a professional that he can't make any putts. He's actually

893
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: a pretty good putter these days. And so uh, combined

894
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: with the fact that he knows Augusta National, he knows

895
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: these greens, he's one in the past. Yeah, Adam hasn't

896
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: isn't a guy that's been contending for titles on a

897
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: regular basis. But the floor is very high for Adam.

898
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: So I look at that, and I say, look, the

899
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: floor is really high. You know, worst he finishes top twenty,

900
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: top thirty. But at best he can give this thing

901
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: a run again. Sure, and he probably knows that window

902
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: of opportunity is starting to close just a little bit

903
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: for him and says, you know, I go out there

904
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: and give it my best, because who knows how many

905
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: more years I have of coming back to Augusta, where

906
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm a legit uh candidate, to go out and possibly

907
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: win this golf tournament. You know it's crazy. I'll get

908
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,479
Speaker 1: you out of here on this. I realized, I would say,

909
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: coming into last year's Masters with Tiger out, it felt

910
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: like the biggest story was Bryson that cracked the code

911
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 1: and he dropped it. He said it was a bar

912
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: sixties seven or sixty eight or whatever the hell he said.

913
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: Now he's got a broken handmade bone or a fracture

914
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: that happens like baseball players when they get hit. He's

915
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: got a labor him in his hip. Uh you watched him,

916
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure a little bit last week. Just the vibe

917
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: of anyone you talk to, do you have any expectations

918
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: for him coming into this? I mean, obviously, the Masters

919
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: when he was healthy with his new style, kind of

920
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: owned him. Uh now he's trying to take a little off,

921
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,879
Speaker 1: but it's just it feels like he's in a little

922
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: bit of no man's land for his own game right now.

923
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: This is the second shot golf course. And so Bryson

924
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: when he's at his best, when he's a hundred percent

925
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: healthy and he's playing well, Bryson is a bomb and

926
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: gauge player is the ultimate bomb and gauge players. Let

927
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: me hit driver, let me hit some little wedges, and

928
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: let me make some putts. He's actually a very good putter.

929
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: But it's the stuff in between that Bryson doesn't excel at.

930
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: And so that's the thing. Those are the things that

931
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: you need to do well. Augusta National. So even when

932
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: he's on his game, even when he's completely healthy, this

933
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: isn't a course that really suits his game. I think

934
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: when he's something less than a hundred percent and when

935
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: he's not playing his best, it's even gonna be worse

936
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: for him. So I don't like Bryson whatsoever moving forward.

937
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of the fact that he

938
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: tried to play through it. The match play didn't get

939
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: out of his group. He's going to try to play

940
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: the Valero Texas Open. We're again speaking before uh that

941
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: tease off recording early in the week of Texas Open week,

942
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: so I don't know how he's gonna wind up playing,

943
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: but now I don't like him moving forward for Augusta.

944
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: It's not just this week, but it's really every year

945
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: until we see something different from from Bryson. I think

946
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna be more of a US Open, PGA Championship

947
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: type of player than a Masters type of player. So uh,

948
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: enjoy it because it doesn't get any better. Tell us

949
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: again you listen off. I know the after the round

950
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: you said you and sleez on Sirius x M tell

951
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: tell Sleees Middlecoff says, what's up? Love that guy? So

952
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: let us know where we can hear you next week? Yeah,

953
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,240
Speaker 1: all over Masters Radio, which is the series x MPGA

954
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: Tour channel, and then um yeah, I'm gonna be all

955
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: over Action Network and Golf Bet as well, and we're

956
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: gonna have so much content I'm I'm working on already. Again,

957
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: we're speaking before the Valero Texas Open even starts. I

958
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: can tell you that this past Sunday. I even tweeted it,

959
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: I'm watching the final match of the w g C

960
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: match Play, I'm writing up a preview for the Valero

961
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: Texas Open, and I'm writing about eight different previews for

962
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: the Masters. At the same time, I was confusing myself, John,

963
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know what day it is, what week

964
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: it is anymore. But you're right, I can't wait for this.

965
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so good. By the way life hack,

966
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: if and when you do go to Augusta National, you

967
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: open up one of those egg salad sandwiches or the

968
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: Pimento cheese sandwiches, You get them to give you a

969
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: little crispy bacon. You throw the bacon inside those sandwiches,

970
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: close it back up. There you go. Bacon makes everything better.

971
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: It makes those sandwiches about twenty times better. Didn' Dustin

972
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: say the Pimento cheese sandwiches favorite sandwich on Earth? He

973
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: did say, like sandwiches when he asked, like, what's your

974
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: favorite thing about Gusta Sandwiches, I'm not far off. I'm

975
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: right there with what what you're over under a number

976
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: of slam down when you're there throughout the week, Uh,

977
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: it'll be a lot it's mostly the egg salad. The

978
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: egg salad goes down really easy. It's hey, look, it's eggs.

979
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: It's morning, the morning, seven o'clock in the morning, You're like, hey,

980
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: I want some eggs, you know, So it'll be the

981
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: eggs salad, sandwiches will be and you know, maybe up

982
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: to the high teams up to maybe twenty or so,

983
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: which it seems like a lot over the course of

984
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: seven days. All Right, I know that they don't allow

985
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: the patrons to bring in the Are you allowed to

986
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: bring in your cell phone as a as a member

987
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: of the working media? I'm gonna tell you that not

988
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: only am I allowed to bring in my cell phone.

989
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 1: Last year, I was doing uh interviews on the course

990
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: and we're a right solder with Series XM, and I've

991
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: still got the sticker. You can barely read it anymore.

992
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: I'm showing you on our zoom call right now. I've

993
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: got that sticker sort of still on the back of

994
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: my phone. I was one of I don't even think

995
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: many of the members have stickers on their phones, but

996
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: it was one of very few people who could bring

997
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: their phone out on the because when that sticker, they

998
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 1: can't confiscate it correct. That's you could. You could sell

999
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: that thing on the black market for a lot of

1000
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: money there, so I just have to make more money

1001
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: than I was losing my job. So now you don't

1002
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: want to lose the ability to go to the Masters,

1003
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: so that that thinks priceless. Thanks, enjoy the week I

1004
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: will try. Thank you. Okay, let's do a little uh

1005
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: golf mail bag at go low pod is the instagram

1006
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: at go low pod is the instagram, Go up, follow

1007
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: that and slide up in my d MS asked the

1008
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: question if you want let's start with with my man

1009
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: Fergus not really a question, but I was speaking to

1010
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: my dad over the weekend, and he's a long time

1011
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: golf fanatic. We were talking about the potential of Tiger

1012
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: come back to the Masters, and he said how important

1013
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: that was to glaze over the Phil Mickelson controversy. I

1014
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: thought it was an interesting point because it does feel

1015
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: like it is the main story for the tournament now,

1016
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: and no one even remembers that Phil will be absent.

1017
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: Trying to get him to listen to go low pod,

1018
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: but he doesn't really do podcasts. I appreciate that. I agree.

1019
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 1: I think Tiger, you know, Obviously, if he physically wouldn't

1020
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: have been able to play, he couldn't have played, but

1021
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: he did the Master as a major solid one. The

1022
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: television ratings, I saw someone tweet out that last night,

1023
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,320
Speaker 1: so I'm recording this on Tuesday. So Monday night, Golf

1024
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: Channel set a Golf Channel UH ratings record during Masters week.

1025
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: Golf Channel existed for two and a half decades. Tiger,

1026
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, is the straw that stirs the drink here,

1027
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: and Phil, for as big as he is, doesn't sniff Tiger. Hey,

1028
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: John needs some help with picks here. My buddy and

1029
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 1: I do a pool every every year where we pick

1030
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: eight golfers and the Masters, and the person who golfs

1031
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: the person whose golfers average the lowest score wins. In

1032
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: the pick above is the group you can choose from.

1033
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go j T Can't, Ley, Scheffler, Matziama for

1034
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: the first four and I'm lost and after that I'm lost.

1035
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: Any suggestions? So group five has who stays in Hatton Burns,

1036
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: Casey Fleetwood. I would go with Burns. Group five or

1037
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: excuse me, Group six has Corey Connors, Fitzpatrick, answer Sonjay,

1038
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler. Well, Ricky's not even in. I would go

1039
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick group seven. No brainer. Tiger Woods don't even need

1040
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: to read you. The rest of the groups, like I said,

1041
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Gary Woodland Billy Horschel, are my two UH longer shots

1042
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: that I enjoy. UH. You consistently have at least one

1043
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: take per pod that I openly laugh out loud. To

1044
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: your take on iron covers and ending with unless you're

1045
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: a granny, don't use iron covers is one of my

1046
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: all time faiths. As for my question, we're the same age,

1047
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: born in eighty four and I lived in San Ramon

1048
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: for four years and now live in SoCal So like you,

1049
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: I started playing golf because of Tiger Woods. For me

1050
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 1: to watch golf these days, it's still buy an area.

1051
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,479
Speaker 1: If Tiger plays, I watch. If not, I might even

1052
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: skip the majors. I don't think there will ever be

1053
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: another Tiger Woods in terms of skill plus enamored plus polarization.

1054
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: So what in the way of UH in the way

1055
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: forward for the p G A In terms of viewership

1056
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: and excitement, there are so many good young players, but

1057
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: besides d h mbou keepica feud, they still don't collectively

1058
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: bring the intrigue of Tiger Woods. Uh, just keep keeping

1059
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: it real. It's refreshing. Unlike Brandon Staley. Yeah, I mean

1060
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do once you lose Michael Jordan,

1061
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: once you lose the Tiger Woods, because he'll eventually retire.

1062
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: You just have to cultivate and get new stars. And

1063
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: a lot of that is out of your control. But

1064
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: part of that is how you market the game. I

1065
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: think there's so much money involved with the game. I

1066
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: think that helps. I think this Netflix special there's a

1067
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,439
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on that thing to be big because

1068
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: if that thing is big, we know it'll translate. It

1069
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: has for racing and it will for golf if it's

1070
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: done right. Now will it be done right? I don't know,

1071
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: no one, We won't know until we watch it. But

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00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: I think that's a huge element because all these guys

1073
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: are making a ton of money. You get to play

1074
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: golf for a living. Uh, it's pretty You get to

1075
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: live wherever you want to, pretty cool lifestyle. So yeah,

1076
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if some of it's just out of your control,

1077
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, I I I I don't know what to

1078
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: tell you. You You know, you just you need a Kobe,

1079
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: you need a Lebron to come around you need. You know,

1080
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: from far of Aikman Young, they transition pretty well into

1081
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: Brainy Manning and Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers. Right. You

1082
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: just you just need star players to be studs and

1083
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: to be stars. You know, it's pretty easy to spot

1084
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: a star. You know a star when you see it,

1085
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: Nick Fan, Uh, think this is really neat. You dedicate

1086
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: time to the pod to answer questions for the mail bag.

1087
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: Want to flip the script and give you a chance

1088
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: to gas your golf game up. What's your strongest part

1089
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: of your game? Uh? Nothing, I'm playing terribly right now.

1090
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: What's your area improvement? Ball striking off the tea so

1091
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: I would say irons and my driver putting in short

1092
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: game actually is coming around. But right now, you know,

1093
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: I've shot eighty four the last two rounds I've played.

1094
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm a four handicap. I'm terrible right now. I need

1095
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: a major reset, major reset. No one wants here about

1096
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: my golf game. Best public golf course is to hit

1097
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: up in l A or San Diego. Not super high

1098
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,799
Speaker 1: on Tory Pines, Bomb and Gouge golf course thumbs down.

1099
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm looking for fun, not punishment. Googled Coronado golf course,

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00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: any others you've played in San Diego. I've actually never

1101
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 1: played golf in San Diego. I haven't really even played

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00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: that much golf in in Southern California. Played l a

1103
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: country club. I played a country club by by whatever

1104
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: it is six Flags or you know, up by the

1105
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. I played when I went to a Fox

1106
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: deal with Coward. The course by Newport Beach. I think

1107
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: it's Monarch Dunes. I think that's a public worse not

1108
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: bad kind of in the you know, in in the

1109
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: o C. But I honestly haven't played that much golf

1110
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: in southern California, So I'm a bad guy to ask. Uh.

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00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: Like you said, Tory Pines to me is a rip off.

1112
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can find some golf courses around there

1113
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: that aren't bad, but I'm no help there. Try to

1114
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: get on Riviera or something. Big fan of the pod

1115
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: insights you provide both golf and football. My question is

1116
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: about Rory and the Masters. For as good as Rory is,

1117
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: why hasn't he been able to push through outside of

1118
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: Tiger somehow? Winning the Masters again this year? I think

1119
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: Rory winning the Masters finally would be the biggest story

1120
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: with competing the career Grand Slam. He starts terribly at

1121
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 1: the Masters, he doesn't start well in Majors, and let's

1122
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: be real, he just hasn't played that well the last

1123
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: several years relative to his talent and his standards. Now,

1124
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna have a big season. He

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00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: just missed the cut at the Valero Texas Open. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I don't have very much faith for him going on

1127
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: this year. And if you've listened to this podcast the

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00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: whole time, you know I had a lot of faith

1129
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: for him coming into this season, but I am not

1130
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: high on him going into the Masters. But I'm with you,

1131
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: it would be him or Speak probably non Tiger would

1132
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: be the biggest story by far. Just got back from

1133
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: a Phoenix golf trip. Ever played action in uh Maracopa

1134
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: south of Phoenix. Highly recommend hitting gems for snowbird golfers.

1135
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: I have not, but I can't wait to get back

1136
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: to Arizona in the near future, even though I just

1137
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: got my tax bill and uh, maybe I'm broke. Now,

1138
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: why have we not discussed that Netflix will be present

1139
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: at Augusta during Tiger's return. Can you imagine what that

1140
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: episode will look like would love to see the story

1141
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: behind it, him playing the practice rounds and how he

1142
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 1: decides if he plays or not. I agree, I do

1143
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: wonder how much access Tiger will give them. You know,

1144
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: they had you know, quote unquote deals with a group

1145
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: of like younger guys in Bubba. I don't know. Now,

1146
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: maybe Tiger, you know, he's in a good place, he's happy,

1147
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: he's left like, uh, you know, less of a stick

1148
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: in the mud, I would say, and much more open.

1149
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: So maybe he will give these guys some access. Because

1150
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: if they get access for that, then we're in good

1151
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: shape because that episode will do a lot of eyeballs. Hey, John,

1152
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: question for the podcast. I'm a double amputee below the

1153
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: knee and I'm looking to get back into golf and

1154
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you could give me any tips as

1155
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: far as clubs, balls, et cetera. Thanks. Jeremy loved the podcast.

1156
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: Having golfed in almost twenty years, I have a lot

1157
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: of admiration for you, Bro to keep on keep on

1158
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: rocket and trying to play golf. That's impressive. Uh, I

1159
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: would say, just go to your local golf mart or

1160
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: golf store. A lot of them now have simulators and

1161
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: just screw around, hit some hit some balls. I mean,

1162
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: if you haven't played golf in twenty years, um, obviously

1163
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have to work through your swing.

1164
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 1: I would say just get the cheapest balls, vice balls

1165
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: or whatever, and just screw around until you find something

1166
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: that you like. But I think when you're first getting

1167
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: back into it, it's less about the equipment and more

1168
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: about just what you feel comfortable doing. Joaukin Neeman was

1169
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: one of my big plays this week, but the group

1170
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: just came out and looks like he's appared with Tiger

1171
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: round one and two. I'm concerned about this as he's

1172
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: still a young player now and it's gonna have tons

1173
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: of people following his group. How much should I factor

1174
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: this into this week's bets? It would make me a

1175
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: little nervous. Now, what's cool about Joaukein Neieman is he

1176
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: won Riviera, Tiger handed him the trophy a month and

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00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: a half ago, and then he gets to play with Tiger.

1178
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: So Riviera is a big time tournament and Joakin Neeman

1179
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: beat the ship out of everyone, So this kid can play.

1180
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: But this is another animal Masters with Tiger and Louis.

1181
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: That's no joke. I would not like Joauki Neeman as

1182
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: much if I was you, and now that you know

1183
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I would pivot from waking. Neman saw

1184
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: Tiger at plus one oh five to make the cut,

1185
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 1: which is easy money in my opinion. I also saw

1186
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,919
Speaker 1: the over under of seventy five and a half first round,

1187
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,439
Speaker 1: which again seems to be an easy bet. Take the under.

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01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: Any other Tiger bets you love this weekend? Now, I

1189
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: think I might have mentioned this. I record this podcast

1190
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: in two parts, so the first part maybe I said this,

1191
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't. I don't think it's crazy to bet

1192
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: Tiger round one to be leading the tournament because I

1193
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think he's gonna win. But I could see

1194
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: him coming out shoot four or five under, just on adrenaline,

1195
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: and maybe everyone else kind of stumbles and he's the

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Speaker 1: round one leader. I looked on FanDuel earlier. It's fifty

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01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: two one. Now I know historically hasn't played very well

1198
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: round one, I'd say this is a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a different animal. So I think that is my favorite

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Speaker 1: Tiger bet. Round one, fifty two one be the first

1201
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: round leader because you can get him fifty or forty

1202
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: eight to one or whatever to win it. I mean

1203
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: that seems like a pretty big stretch. I hate betting

1204
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: against Tiger Woods, but how cool would that be if

1205
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: he's leading Day one? Can you imagine that place on Friday?

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Speaker 1: If Tiger was your round one leader, that would be badass. Again,

1207
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm emotional, I like I admitted, I'm a fanboy with

1208
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: this stuff. I do not think straight. I can be

1209
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: very very objective with football, no emotion. I'm emotional here,

1210
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: So maybe you're listening and think that's a stupid bet.

1211
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: I also dabbled a little Adam Scott uh Taylor Gooch,

1212
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: not Taylor Gooch, but Tom HOGI as some first round guys.

1213
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: I like a good first round leader. Bet you can

1214
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: get stupid odds like fifty sixty seventy one. I mean,

1215
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: if you just throw ten bucks on seventy one, that's

1216
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: seven bucks. Where can you get the r o I

1217
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: of ten bucks into seven in four hours? This has

1218
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: to be the strongest best field Augusta National has ever had.

1219
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: My picks for the masters in this order, cam Smith

1220
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: and Scottie Scheffler at fifteen to one, Speed and Morricale

1221
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: at twenty one and I'll take the greatest golfer to

1222
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: ever walk the planet at fifty one, let's go. I

1223
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: like that. My only issue with Scottie Scheffler is that's

1224
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 1: Scottie Scheffler has won three of the last seven events,

1225
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: so if he were to win this event, maybe it's

1226
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: three the last six events. So if he were to

1227
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: win this event, he would have won four of the

1228
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: last seven events. That's like the greatest run non Tiger

1229
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: in the last two decades. I think it's like statistically impossible.

1230
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: And I know camp Smith super hot, and he played

1231
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: well here a couple of years ago. Remember he was

1232
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: with Dustin Johnson Sun Jay that final round. But I

1233
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: like more of the speed. I actually think Jordan, who

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01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: finished t three here last year, who's finished second here before,

1235
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: who's won this tournament before, I like. I like Jordan Speed,

1236
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: And I think we're all nuts if we just don't

1237
01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: sprinkle a little something on Mr Tiger Woods, the five

1238
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: time Master's Champion. Enjoy Augusta, enjoy the week, and I'll

1239
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: be back on Friday and then have the mail bag

1240
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: for Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff is the Instagram

1241
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: again over the weekend and we'll just keep on rock

1242
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: and rolling. Thanks everyone for listening, and again Master's Week, Baby,

1243
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Have a few pops, sit back, you know,

1244
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 1: just relax. It's the springtime. It's the time to chill

1245
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: and take in the greatest tournament in the history of

1246
01:03:29,800 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: golf tournaments. Audios the volume