WEBVTT - Episode 41: Bubba Watson 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.400 The guys from paying They've kind of showed me how 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.120 much the equipment matters. I just love that I can 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.160 hit any shot I kind of want. We're gonna be 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.040 able to tell some fun stories about what goes on 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.039 here to help golfers play better golf. Welcome back to 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.920 the Pink Proving Grounds Podcast. We've got an awesome reserve 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.880 in today, Christian Payne. You filling in for Marty Jertsen 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:20.799 here at Augusta National. We also got a guy by 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.360 the name of Bubba Watson. You may have heard of 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.520 him before. Two time Masters champion, Christian. I want to 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.520 start here though. Bubba, the nice guy that he is, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.360 brought you to Augusta National a couple of years ago 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.520 and you got a chance to play alongside Bubba, although 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.000 he made you play pretty far back. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.680 Well it was far back. And the one thing about Bubba, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.519 he's got a great heart. And he brought me to 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.080 Augusta National end John K. Solheim our president last March, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.000 and did dream come true for me? Loves I'm playing 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.599 first time, Oh yeah, first time pretty much on the 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.880 golf course because as a rep when I worked here, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.160 you're not allowed to go inside the ropes. And so 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.520 we came. We had a great time. I mean, Bubba 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.200 did say, hey, Christian, you were not playing the members teas, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.240 you were gonna come back and play with me like 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.720 a man. And so I manned up, even though all 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.640 fifty five years as well, I was fifty four last year. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.360 But it's really long, I'll just say that. And I 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.960 didn't know that there's only championship teas and member tees 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.720 and but it was fun. It was a dream come true. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.000 We had a great time. Bubba's taking care of me 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.600 over the years, Like I've played a lot of golf 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.360 with him, and he's taken me to some really cool places. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.640 This is number one. So anyway, it was great. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:32.839 Tough to beat that Bubba. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.080 Can you kind of dive into the experience how his 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.959 game was, how he played from the back to how 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.560 many head covers he pulled out on the par fours? 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.560 Oh gosh, I lost count. But the key is, though 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.840 you don't want to leave a guy being a ex 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.680 professional golfer as you are and a champion in. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.080 Japan, it is yeah, hey, good memory. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.360 And so I love when the Japanese media comes up 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.320 and takes pictures of you and talks about all the 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:01.320 history anyway, that's a different podcast. So my thing is, though, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.400 when you come to Augusta and you play, and you 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.960 have any kind of ability, you want to be back 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.840 there totally. You have to like, why say that you 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.520 played Augusta National and you played the uptease like you 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.880 want to say, you played all the way back. You 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.919 saw how difficult it is, you felt it, and you're like, man, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.800 and now you can appreciate it when you watch it 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.200 on TV, right, you can see the struggles. You can 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.400 be like, oh, yeah, I felt that struggle. Number eleven 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.080 is a struggle for everybody. So there's guys this week. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.600 I don't even know what the weather's going to be 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.520 on Saturday, but this week guys are going to have 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.440 head covers off. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.320 So yeah, it was He's right. It was a great 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.480 experience from the back. And what is always amazing to 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.760 me is Bubba and how he plays the game and 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.000 like from the back tease, how easy he can make 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.600 the golf rush look and the shots that he hit. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.600 I remember, I'm just gonna tell sorry, sorry, Shane. So 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.600 fifteen he had like a little he has two drives, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.720 his denk driving in his bomb and he hit the 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.880 little dinker out there, didn't really hit one hard, and 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.680 he was probably two fifty to the pin and it 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.560 was back left. He says, you know what, I want 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:04.919 to try out this three, but I want to try 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.000 to hit this shot. And he hit this forty yard 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.360 slice three wood that I swear was coming in sideways 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.079 to that pin. I don't even know if it went 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.840 over the water. I think it went around the water 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.560 and then hit like the middle of the green and 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.160 rolled right past the pin. I think he almost made 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.160 it too. It's probably the best shot I've ever seen. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:26.760 It was just it. I mean, it was amazing. So 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.480 like for me, I'm just like a you know, a 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.760 giddy guy just watching a great player play golf, and 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.440 it was it was amazing, Bubba. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.080 The way you've played golf over the years, I mean, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.120 it's it's must watch TV. I mean, you know, especially 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.160 when you're winning those Masters Championship. I mean, I will 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.880 never forget the t shot you hit on thirteen. We'll 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:43.720 get to that in a little bit. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:44.720 I don't know if that was a line. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.120 You were picking, but we'll ask you about that in 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.600 a bit. But shots like that, you know, the forty 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.880 yard cut or you know the wet shot you hit 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.640 in the playoff. Do you see lines or is it 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.400 just the feel in your hands that makes sense to 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.960 you to be able to pull off these golf shots 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.280 that even a lot of pros wouldn't have either the 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:00.720 guts or the abilit to pull off. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.440 Yeah, it comes down to feel, right, you see the shot, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.960 you visualize the shot you've hit it before the shot 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.000 that he was talking about with the slice three wood, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.480 that's two fifty, right, So a three wood's gonna go 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.320 further than that if I hit a dead straight three wood. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.479 So you don't have the club right, you can only 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.720 allow fourteen's right. You've got to figure out a way 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.640 to do it. And so the forty yard slice is 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:22.760 just the way for me to get it up and 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.600 get spin on it, then slow it down right, And 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.039 so that's what I envisioned. That's what I see with 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.760 the pin on that side, the left side. So I'm 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.320 always trying to figure out so about don't slice it now. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:35.760 We still have a room over here and we can 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.560 chip to the hole. So that's what I'm seeing in 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.440 my head now to pull it off as a whole 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.200 right front ball game. But yeah, so visually, mentally, I 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.240 picture this shot and I can can see myself pulling 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.120 it off because I've done it with buddies and things 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.479 like that. Now under the gun, can you pull it 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.800 off of that one moment? And luckily I've pulled the 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.200 shots off twice around this place, so it worked out. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.520 Do you see like a start line pick? You know, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.600 like Jack Nicholas famously picked a spot, you know, three 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.480 or four feet in front of him. Are you picking 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.880 a spot to kind of cut it off of or again? 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.600 I mean, I know you're such a feel player. Does 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.800 it just again your hands in your brain? It just 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.320 kind of makes sense to be able to kind of 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.880 cut something, you know, forty yards onto a pin that 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.240 you know it's gonna kind of land in the area too. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.359 Yeah, So it depends on the shot, right, So like 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.640 a three wood, it's more of like I want to 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.120 aim it far enough over so you're gonna and then 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.479 off a tee. You're actually looking for something, right, So, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.920 so I'm looking for a tree maybe if it's a crowd, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.160 it's a person, or an edge of a bunker. I'm 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.000 looking at something way in the distance to start it 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.160 and then just then feed it off of there. The 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.279 big slices, you're basically, especially under the under gun or 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.400 under the pressure, you're aiming it and going, Okay, if 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.800 I really slice this, I'm barely gonna get in the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.520 rough on the left. If I underslice it, we're just 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.159 gonna be in the right rough. So long as I 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.920 slice it, I'm good. Right, you hit it perfect in 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.240 the middle the fairway, So you're trying to You're trying 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:57.719 to play the percentages in your favor. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.920 So this is your sixteenth start here to go oh lash, Okay. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.440 I wanted to go back to your first It was 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.800 two thousand and eight. I believe you got into that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.120 because of your great play at the US Open at Oakmont. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.280 I think that's how you got into it at oh eight. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.480 Do you remember your first Masters? Can you kind of 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.960 take us back to like nervy young Bubba Watson playing 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.680 at the Masters for the first time, obviously having so 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:17.840 much history in the state, you know. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.440 There was a there was a lot going on that 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.880 week two thousand and seven, finished finished fifth at the 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.479 US Open. Not that I'm mad about going bogie bogey 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:28.920 the last week I was gonna bring up. I wasn't 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.800 gonna bring it up exactly. So so you know, I 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.080 got to call my dad. How was Father's Day? After 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.560 the US Open? And it called my dad and said 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.360 we're going to the Masters, and he was excited. And 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.520 so we get there and boo weekly he's slop them. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.720 They're my idols. There were the guys I looked up 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.960 to when I was in middle school. They played him 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.800 the same high school I went to. They were older, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.280 so they were out of high school and I got there. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.159 But those are the two guys that I wanted to 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.039 emulate when I got to high school, and so so 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.640 for them to be at the Masters, that's the only 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.640 year that all three of us were at the Masters, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.560 and so our hometown, that was a big news for 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.560 a hometown, right It's it's one of those things that 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.840 I think there was a couple of stories written about that. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.320 But three guys from the same small town, same high 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.520 school were here. So that's really what I remember. I 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.040 remember playing a practice round with them, goofing around with them, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.840 and always seeing them. Those are the faces I can 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.560 remember I knew and I could talk to and it 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.440 was all new to me with the other guys, and 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.000 the Masters was new and my caddy, Ted Scott at 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.040 the time was he's like, man, just drink it in. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.160 You know you're good enough, You're gonna be back here. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.560 You know, you never think that, you know, you shouldn't 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.880 think that you should always be grinding towards making it back. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.320 But so really the golf itself, I really didn't pay 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.080 much attention about that, So I don't even know what 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.080 I finished. I think it was pretty high up. I 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.560 know I made the cut, but but then O nine 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.280 I wasn't here, so that one's kind of upset me. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.280 So then I went to twenty nine, by the way, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.920 twenty that week, but it was a low last round. Maybe. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.840 Yeah, I think you played really well the last year. Yeah, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.240 So I want to talk about twenty twelve because you 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.920 were trailing headed in the final round. I'm not sure 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.720 people remember that you went on that tear late. I 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.320 think you birdied four holes in a row right started 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.760 at thirteen, yep, what not in the playoff. But what 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.920 was it like for you? I know you're a guy 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.720 like you've talked about dealing with pressure and how it's 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.880 been like for you to deal with pressure over the years. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.800 What was it like in that atmosphere comparatively to other 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.320 golf tournaments that you've been in the hunt end and 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.240 that you've won in in the past, And how did 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.320 you handle those nerves coming down the stretch with that 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:22.040 great play late? 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.880 You know, it was crazy. Louis Ustasen made the double 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.040 legal right too. Right then he had a four iron. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.240 I had an eight iron in there and he had 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:29.720 a four iron. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:30.960 She had an eight iron into two. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.439 Yeah, I I it was. The wind was just perfect. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.400 I hammered one, but Louis his ball like took forever. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.319 It lanted like I think it lanted just short of 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.840 the green, but it was firm, so it rolled and 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.319 took the break to that backpen and went in. By 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.160 the time I'm getting ready to hit the crowd of erup, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.240 so I was like, the ball hasn't stopped rolling yet, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.199 and so then I sliced it over into the left trap. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.360 But at that moment when he hold that and I 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.439 think I might have made birdie, I might have made 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.920 par I'm not sure, but I'm four back of him, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.959 and so at that moment, you know, I'm like, oh 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.480 my gosh, I'm four back of him, and I think 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.400 somebody else might have been he might have been tied 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.280 to the lead at that moment or one up. So 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.520 I'm looking at this going, okay, we've just played two 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.960 holes and four back. Let's have a top ten. Let's 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.040 have a top five, because I remember the US Open, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.880 how big this is to get a top ten or 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.319 top five. It gets you another eventsah blah blah blah. Right, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.800 and so I wanted to be able to say I 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.720 played well at the Masters at least one year. So 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.360 that's where my mindset went. And then Teddy on the bag. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.080 Teddy always tried to keep me in the moment and 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:34.960 he was always talking about that. He was always like, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.199 look at top five, here is amazing. I mean, things 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.720 can happen you just you shoot, even from here out, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.480 you'll probably move up the board right just because of things, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:48.120 because of pressure. And then so we just keep battling, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.800 and the next thing, you know, I bogie. I'm just 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.520 off the green on twelve, but I bogied it a three. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.280 I counted as a three putt even though it wasn't 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.439 a three putt. And then that's when again Teddy was 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.319 in my ear and I would and I was already 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.360 saying it to myself, but keep fighting like you've got 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.280 a part you got two part five's. You can still 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.240 have a great finish. You're still top ten, you're still 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.120 this And and then you go Birdie. And then me 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.440 and Teddy we were we were on what was at 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.319 fourteen and I remember it years ago, if I don't 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.480 know if y'all remember, but I remember. I remember shots 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.480 and Tiger, and I've seen other people do it where 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.160 you hit it to that back friend ran it up 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.880 the hill, it spins, or you hit it or if 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.760 you hit it long enough drive you spin it back right. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.200 And so I told him. I told Teddy, I said, hey, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.440 what if we hit it to that fringe just to 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.520 the left and spin it back down the hill. And 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.480 he was like, yeah, that's perfect. Or roll it back 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.440 down the hill whatever, how firm the greens are. And 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.280 it rolled back down to I don't know, seven feet 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.000 and I made it. And then you know, okay, we 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:47.800 still have a great finish, We still have great Let's 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.679 just finished strong. Let's finish strong. So you're not even 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.520 thinking about anything like that. You're not thinking about winning, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.080 You're not any of that. So I hit a great 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.040 t shot freight down the middle, hit a seven ron 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.280 in there, left it about three feet short from twenty 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.160 feet on fifteen. Yeah, on fifteen. So I made that 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.600 putt and I still at this moment, I don't even 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.079 I mean, I sit there, we talk about, yeah, we're 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.079 one back, but you don't really put any thought into it, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.599 because at the whole time, all you're talking about is 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.760 a good finish, a good finish. And then when I 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.240 hit the eight iron and sliced the eight iron in 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.600 there and made that and my putter raised, that's the 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.520 first moment I was like, here we go. And then 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.120 when I walked to seventeen, I'll never forget it. This 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.960 is the worst thing I could ever do. I was like, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.200 oh my gosh, we're tied for the lead, we have 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.680 a chance to win. And Teddy goes, yeah, I know, man, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.240 and he goes and then but like it's the same 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.560 thought he had maybe I had. It was just like 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.480 that moment where we forgot everything we talked about all week, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.400 you know, having my son, we just adopted my son 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.079 and all these things, and so we were talking about 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.119 all this positive stuff and that one moment we elapsed 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.920 and went and I sliced that drive. So far on seventeen. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.400 Was I was an hour still up at that time. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.319 It had to have been right in twenty twelve. I'm 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.760 assuming there had been that tree over there on seventeen. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:01.800 I'm assuming in twenty. 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.880 Twelve, Yeah it could, yes, yes, but you know we 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.640 don't even see that tree because I guess play right. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.000 So but yeah, so we we we lost our minds 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.160 for a second and just enough where I could slice it, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.559 and so that's where we just yeah, so coming back 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.600 those four birdies in a row was amazing, but it 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.440 was just we never thought about winning. We never did. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.319 We just focused on having a good finish and then 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.880 we get panicked on seventeen. But but yeah, May. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.520 Seventeen and eighteen obviously, yeah, you know you I've read that. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.160 You you said I'm never gonna go down there and 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.280 hit that wedshot again, right the playoff a wedgshot you've hit. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.600 Do you ever go down there and look. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.240 I've hit it one time. I hit it with Ted. Ted. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.600 Scott brought Ted to play, and I used a nine 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.480 iron with him because you was gaff hit it. That 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.559 was a gaff wege fifty two degree. But I I 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.840 flipped over a nine iron and hooked it with a 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.520 right handed club hit the green. Maybe it doesn't matter 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:58.760 all right, all right, maybe. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.199 We've been trying to go down there and find I 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.400 think have they changed trees. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.040 They've added some trees. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.720 Okay, that's what I thought, because every time, well the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.200 time we came out and even when we go gallery 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.920 out there, we go down there, I'm like, I don't 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:11.920 know where the spot is. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.480 Yeah, they've added some trees. I remember a couple of 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.079 years ago before they added the trees, Me and Angie 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.040 flew in here to play and and they they they said, hey, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.640 do you want to see the spot? And it's just like, yeah, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.200 I'll see it. And so they got it GPS pinpoint 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.360 and when where our group was on eight, they said, hey, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:30.680 they came up to us and said, we put a 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.320 flag right where it is because there's nobody in front 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:34.800 of us, so nobody else would know what they were doing. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.679 So they did it secretly. And so we went over 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.080 there and guys we were playing with went and looked 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.480 at it. But they had a flag, you know, a 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.760 little little flag just sit around. Yeah, they can do 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:43.360 it with GPS. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.839 I mean, it's one of the one of the great 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.080 I mean one of the great shots in master's history. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:48.240 I mean, when you really think about it, I think 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.160 every time I watch it, not only am I impressed 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:51.720 by how much you move the ball, but I mean 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.840 it was it's just so cool because it rips close, 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.920 you know, I mean it had so much side spinning. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.280 Yeah, you rip it up the hill, which is just 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:58.920 so wild. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.439 Where's the gold wedge, because ping major of the gold 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.880 wedge is the post of the gold putter. Where's the 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.640 gold wedges at home? Is it a case? 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.800 It's at home in the trophy in the office, in 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.880 the trophy room. Yeah, so I am am sitting right 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.199 there and the same as the the putter as well. Yeah, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.560 that's awesome. I think it saved I think it saved 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.559 the money by doing a wedge because it was it 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.640 was hollow inside. So they were like, hey, saved us three. Great. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.440 They need more players to hit wedg shots to win 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.040 major championships. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.000 Well, I mean gold putters major you get a solid 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.480 gold putter, right, So he's got a couple of them, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.280 and we're we're counting on him. I mean, we're we're 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.880 really looking forward to another major winner, and so we 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.440 need you to be our guy. You've been our guy 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:39.000 in the past. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.880 I got I got lucky too. By the way, my wedge, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.040 I have a gold plated because they make gold plated 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.520 for inside the vault and and so I have a 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.240 gold plated wedge that they did special for some reason, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.600 and so they already had one in the vault. So 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.040 they're like, hey, man, do you want this one too? 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.800 So I have that in mind too. So I've got 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.600 the gold plated one just like the vault, and I 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.280 have the the solid going. Uh. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.240 I want to ask about twenty fourteen, Okay, I mean, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.280 you know, like everybody knows Jordan's speed now at the time, 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.920 he's this kid, I mean, he was still burst on 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.560 a scene. What is he twenty twenty one years old 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.560 when he's battling you that he takes the lead early 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.760 in that final round and you made birdies in the 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.920 middle of the round to kind of grab hold of 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.120 that Master's But I mentioned the t shot on thirteen. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.360 I remember this was like hot and heavy Twitter days, 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.640 Bubba when this was happening, and this was like pre 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.120 video all across the board, like you didn't have every 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.120 shot like they have now on the Masters app. And 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.080 I remember I screen grabbed the t shot because it 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.920 looked like when you hit it. I don't know if 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:34.960 you remember. I mean it was an anxious look. Everybody 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.840 was kind of looking and then it flies and you 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.160 have what like sand wedge into to thirteen? Was that 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:40.080 left of your line? 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.520 What was the line? Years take on thirteen? So let's 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.280 go with the first part. Though. Jordan Speed was coming 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.280 on the seas great player obviously, and he's young. I mean, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.920 I don't even know if he was twenty one was he? 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.000 And so he Birdie's he Birdie's seven the bowlpen I 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.600 plug it in the lip on seven, but I can 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.840 use the bowl to help me. So I hit it 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.240 make par So I'm three down with and I and 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.520 Teddy and me we were talking about it and we're like, hey, man, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.440 he doesn't know the pressure yet. You've dealt with the pressure. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.560 You've succeeded in the pressure two years ago. You know 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:09.920 what the pressure is going to be like, you know 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.440 what you have to do, and then you know, luckily 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.840 for me, bad for him. I birdy Ate hit six 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.960 hundred and eight. It was down Win hit six hundred 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.040 and eight just over the green made Birdie he hits 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.800 it off to the side, hits it on about thirty 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720