Speaker 1: Tiger teen nineteen. He's one over par and he has
Speaker 1: been better than through two rounds. Guys like Bubba Watson,
Speaker 1: John Rong, Rory, Sergio Fleetwood, Hoveland, Adam Scott missing the cutter,
Speaker 1: Jordan's speed, Brooks kept Caxander Shafley, Bryson, d Shambo. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is guy. These guys got to take a look
Speaker 1: in the mirror and say, what is my issue? I
Speaker 1: can't beat a guy who you know, was pulled from
Speaker 1: the wreckage fourteen months ago and might have lost his leg.
Speaker 1: Another log on the fire, what he hears is give
Speaker 1: the time. All right, here we are. It's already been
Speaker 1: a long weekend. It's only Friday, Alan, it's another another
Speaker 1: their opportunity to do a little fire drill. I know
Speaker 1: you've been out there all day. Unfortunately we're down Jeff
Speaker 1: Ogilvie today as he's traveling, but we hope to hope
Speaker 1: to have him back at the end of the weekend
Speaker 1: for a recap um. And it's been great to act
Speaker 1: obviously get his perspective. But what did you see out
Speaker 1: there today? Well, it was it was quite an interesting day.
Speaker 1: You know. It was incredibly gusty and windy, early in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, and there was forecast for widespread carnage, but
Speaker 1: even the golf gods can get swept up in tiger
Speaker 1: Mania because and by the time he made the turn,
Speaker 1: the wind just laid down, and that that really helped
Speaker 1: Tiger kind of mount a rally after a very tough,
Speaker 1: you know start, and guys like Scottie Scheffler and Justin
Speaker 1: Thomas at Hedecki were playing the same time more or less,
Speaker 1: and they really took advantage of the calm conditions and
Speaker 1: softer greens and and went pretty deep. So it was
Speaker 1: kind of a tale of two days that the early
Speaker 1: starters had had to a lot rougher. Um, there's a
Speaker 1: little prelude to what's to come, you know. With tomorrow,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be windy, it's gonna be significantly colder. Uh,
Speaker 1: fairways are still soft. I mean, tomorrow could be one
Speaker 1: of the most fun moving days in a long time,
Speaker 1: where there's a lot of guys can build and sells
Speaker 1: out of tournament. Anyone who plays a good, strong round
Speaker 1: can could leave for ag a bunch of players. So
Speaker 1: it was almost like an early moving day today and
Speaker 1: it sets up for quite a unique one tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: mean it it. Some guys literally took advantage of today
Speaker 1: as a moving day. As you mentioned the Lowry's, the
Speaker 1: j T S obviously Scottie scheffler Um. Tiger was four
Speaker 1: over through five and it looked like, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: this is that was really fun yesterday. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: What a bonus that we had him. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he'll be around for the weekend. And of course,
Speaker 1: Sir grind a lot, you know, kicks it in, figures
Speaker 1: it out, and grinds it out. And he now continues
Speaker 1: his his consecutive streak of twenties, two straight cuts, of
Speaker 1: of of making the cut at Augusta National. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: in its own way, this round was as as impressive
Speaker 1: as his first round, even though he shot, you know,
Speaker 1: three strokes higher. It's just the bounce back because you
Speaker 1: could feel the deflation out there. I was out walking
Speaker 1: in the crowd. It was just the nervous energy that
Speaker 1: the sense of despair like oh, you know, here we go,
Speaker 1: like father time has caught up Tiger and the physical
Speaker 1: and emotional fatigue, and you know he's gonna miss the cut,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna break a d and it was like
Speaker 1: really tangible. Um. And but we know the guy, whatever
Speaker 1: is going on with his body or his life, he
Speaker 1: will never quit on a golf course. Yes, so much
Speaker 1: grind in him and you know, really beautiful up down
Speaker 1: at eight and then a laser approach at ten for
Speaker 1: a couple of much new Birdie's like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: He's back and then he then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: theen he bogies, you know, um, eleven and twelve like,
Speaker 1: oh no, he's gonna miss the cutting again. And then um,
Speaker 1: he gets the break of the tournament. You know that
Speaker 1: that second shild in thirteen was the worst swing of
Speaker 1: the day. He's trying to reach the green. It's it's
Speaker 1: so bad instead of it doesn't even get to raise
Speaker 1: creek and expires short and um you know that. And
Speaker 1: then he gets up and down for Bertie. That was
Speaker 1: like a two shot swing. Um. You know again the
Speaker 1: golf Cauys are smiling upon Tiger. Then he follows up
Speaker 1: with another birdie at fourteen, and then pars In it
Speaker 1: was just there's a roller coaster round and he could
Speaker 1: feel it in the dogwoods, just the attension then the release,
Speaker 1: than the fretting, than the joy and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just eighteen holes with Tigers. It's a journey right now.
Speaker 1: And but I did you know I could It seemed
Speaker 1: like he had. I didn't. I didn't see any track
Speaker 1: man stats. But he was definitely swinging the driver with
Speaker 1: a little more aggression and a little more speed. And
Speaker 1: he actually looked lighter on his feet to me out
Speaker 1: there on the hills. UM, a little more confident is footing,
Speaker 1: partly because it's probably slightly drier, But UM, you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't pushed himself and I think maybe instead of
Speaker 1: wearing down, maybe his legs are getting stronger as he
Speaker 1: goes so because he made some really great swings coming
Speaker 1: in UM and as opposed to yesterday, he looked the
Speaker 1: maze of tired swings on the back nine. So even
Speaker 1: though it was the seventy four, there was there was
Speaker 1: a lot to be impressed by and to build on.
Speaker 1: UM And it feels like, you know, he kept himself
Speaker 1: in the ball game. As he said, he's only four
Speaker 1: shots at a second place. You know, Scotti Scheffler keeps
Speaker 1: going and keep shooting rounds. In the sixth season, this
Speaker 1: thing is probably over. But if he comes back to
Speaker 1: the pack. You know, tigers right there waiting Tiger teen nineteen.
Speaker 1: He's one over par and he has been better than
Speaker 1: through two rounds. Guys like Bubba Watson, John Rong, Rory,
Speaker 1: Sergio Fleetwood, Hovland, Adam Scott missing the cutter, Jordan's Brooks,
Speaker 1: kept Caxander Shafley, Bryce and d Shambo. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is guy. These guys gotta take a look in the
Speaker 1: mirror and say, what is my issue? I can't beat
Speaker 1: a guy who you know was pulled from the wreckage
Speaker 1: fourteen months ago and might have lost his leg. Well,
Speaker 1: I talked to a lot of players and today and
Speaker 1: my my story on fire Collectives dot com is really
Speaker 1: what makes Tiger Woods Tiger? Would you know? I asked
Speaker 1: a lot of players of that question, and you know,
Speaker 1: Mark Eleesman had a great answer, said, it's just in
Speaker 1: the head. It's just the way he's wired. It's just
Speaker 1: his brain. You know, it's totally metaphysical, because I mean
Speaker 1: Tiger's got as a reconstructed knee and ankle surgically, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I blow out his achilles, blow at his knee.
Speaker 1: He's got a few spinal cord, He's got a foot
Speaker 1: made out of metal. And as you say, he's still
Speaker 1: beating all these world class players, and you know there's
Speaker 1: part of that. A lot of guys you mentioned, maybe
Speaker 1: all of them except for above, I haven't one of masters.
Speaker 1: And this course gets in your head. Whereas Tiger probably
Speaker 1: feels more comfortable here than anywhere else, Like he knows
Speaker 1: he can manage his way to a good round even
Speaker 1: when he's not hitting it great like today. So um,
Speaker 1: he has he has a comfort level here. But the
Speaker 1: big different genera he's just Tiger fucking I mean, it's
Speaker 1: that simple, Like he just knows how to play the
Speaker 1: game of golf, and uh, he has a feel for scoring,
Speaker 1: and he has a sense of the moments, and he
Speaker 1: has the grind and the grit and and the self
Speaker 1: belief and all these things you can't measure on a track. Man,
Speaker 1: they're just off the charts, and he just continues to
Speaker 1: amaze and his ability to just get it done no
Speaker 1: matter what's going on in his body. It's really remarkable.
Speaker 1: We should say that you are in the press room still,
Speaker 1: which is why the audio is is a little overpart today,
Speaker 1: So we apologize for that, but but also appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that you're still there, you know, filing your story
Speaker 1: uh and and finishing that up and uh and getting
Speaker 1: this opportunity to get your perspective as you were, you know,
Speaker 1: following the last groups coming in. Um, the the biggest
Speaker 1: surprises for you of people who missed the cut in
Speaker 1: the Jordan's Speed Kepta, Xander Bryson, you know grouping. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not Bryson. I mean, since he declared that Augusta National
Speaker 1: is a part sixty seven for him, he's just getting
Speaker 1: his teeth kicked in, like he may never make another
Speaker 1: cut here, like in this place you talked about being
Speaker 1: in someone's head like this golf course. Wow. Um, you
Speaker 1: know I thought that, you know, keptco played really well
Speaker 1: the match play, and he's been irelevant now for a while,
Speaker 1: and I feel like he's just waiting to break through.
Speaker 1: I mean, he made some runs at the Major last year, Um,
Speaker 1: but he kind of went backwards, sort of damaged his
Speaker 1: brand as a guy who's like a closer and so um,
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to play a little more
Speaker 1: fire in his eyes this week. It just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: You know, speech has been a little scratchy, but I
Speaker 1: mean to double the thirty six hold of missed the
Speaker 1: cut by one. That's just it's a brutal man. You
Speaker 1: feel for the guy, you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw he made a six on the twelfth hole
Speaker 1: and brought back a lot of battle memories for a
Speaker 1: lot of people watching it from that drop circle. So
Speaker 1: I thought I was wrong. I thought I was watching replaced.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, wait, at least he's got Thank
Speaker 1: god he's got a jacket, because he's another one where
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's just like a cat on
Speaker 1: a hot on a hot tin roof here. It just
Speaker 1: that he just looks jumping and so um. It's really
Speaker 1: never surprised me when anyone misses the cut at the Masters,
Speaker 1: because these guys build it up. You know, it's now
Speaker 1: nine months from the British Open to the Masters, and
Speaker 1: it's incredible weight to get a major in and all
Speaker 1: the pageantry and pomp that comes with augusta National and
Speaker 1: dude just psyched themselves out. And you know, obviously Rory's
Speaker 1: been dealing with that now for a decade. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at Justin Thomas, who played great today, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gotta win a green jacket some day. But Um,
Speaker 1: you know said about Johnny Miller and about Ernie l
Speaker 1: about Greg Norman and Tom Wise Cooff and you going
Speaker 1: down the list, Lee Trevino. I mean, many of the
Speaker 1: best players in the world couldn't handle Augustin National for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, and so the list just keeps growing every year.
Speaker 1: Scotty Scheffler is you know, ties the largest thirty six
Speaker 1: whole lead. It's been done five times. The last to
Speaker 1: do it was Jordan's beat Four out of the five
Speaker 1: guys who had that thirty six whole five shot lead
Speaker 1: went on to win. The only one who didn't was
Speaker 1: Harry Cooper in nineteen thirty six, who lost to Horton Smith.
Speaker 1: By way, I'm sure everybody would know that. But but
Speaker 1: you know, to say this is over, which doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like it makes any sense where at halftime and it's
Speaker 1: Augustin National. But Scotty Scheffler, the fact is is won
Speaker 1: three out of the last five. He is the world
Speaker 1: number one right now and just seemingly unbeatable. Um, do
Speaker 1: you think it's over? Well, I always say her a Cooper,
Speaker 1: not a not a closer, But yeah, I mean, for sure,
Speaker 1: would you take would you take Cheffler? Or the field
Speaker 1: right now, I think you'd take Scheffler as you say,
Speaker 1: he's been on an almighty tear and the turnency one
Speaker 1: where big time fields and these people was a't backing
Speaker 1: into the lists victories. I mean, so he knows in
Speaker 1: his heart he can do it. Um, Tomorrow is just
Speaker 1: absolutely crucial day for Scheffler because if he's missing the
Speaker 1: center of the club pace, I mean, he could shoot
Speaker 1: seventy nine easily and let the whole world back into
Speaker 1: this tournament. If you shoot something about par I mean
Speaker 1: that that's gonna be a great score tomorrow. So, um,
Speaker 1: the conditions aren't right right for a lot of people
Speaker 1: to go low. Um, if one person does it, you
Speaker 1: know who's on the board, like maybe a Lowry or
Speaker 1: a Justin Thomas, and it can turn this at least
Speaker 1: into a two person race on on Sunday, that would
Speaker 1: that would change things. But the thing about Scheffler that's
Speaker 1: so impressive is he's really a throwback. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got that that foot action reminds me of Greg Norman.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not what you teach and he and
Speaker 1: one knows he likes to shape the ball both ways.
Speaker 1: He plays funky little little shots and knockdowns and chips,
Speaker 1: little little long irons, and um so, I think he's
Speaker 1: well equipped for a windy, firm test, you know, more
Speaker 1: than a lot of guys. And um so, if you
Speaker 1: can just shoot you know, seventy one or seventy two tomorrow,
Speaker 1: he's in great stape. But we've seen it many times,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Rory or other people, would you
Speaker 1: you got to lead it Augusta National and it starts going,
Speaker 1: starts going sideways. You can start spending strokes really fast.
Speaker 1: But um they're just the thing I also like about
Speaker 1: Scheffler is he just looks like he's having fun out there,
Speaker 1: which is an underrated quality because you watch Rory play
Speaker 1: at Augusta or you watch some of these other guys,
Speaker 1: they look oppressed, they look tight, and they look stressed out,
Speaker 1: and that this golf course will do that. You're really fast,
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many there's so many make or
Speaker 1: break swings. But I just love the energy that that
Speaker 1: Scheffler projects out there, and I think it's a really
Speaker 1: underrated quality of these high leverage events. So, um I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing. You know, there was a little
Speaker 1: bit of chirping about him taking over world number one?
Speaker 1: Uh so quickly? You know, he and three wins nothing
Speaker 1: to sneeze out, But those aren't the entirety of his
Speaker 1: of his body of work. It's like, all right, is
Speaker 1: this guy a true number one? And if he goes
Speaker 1: out here and grabs his jacket, um, then it's a
Speaker 1: resounding answer to that question. So it's all it's been
Speaker 1: really impressive performance so far. The hard part is still
Speaker 1: in front of him, but you know, so far, so good.
Speaker 1: What's your sense of his relationship with Ted Scott? And
Speaker 1: how much do you think a guy who has been
Speaker 1: in in that situation and and gotten it done twice
Speaker 1: with Bubba is going to be a fifteen club in
Speaker 1: in Scotty's bag for the net for the weekend. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Ted Scott has been a great caddy for
Speaker 1: a long time and you just just to manage Bubba's quirks.
Speaker 1: And it's like writing Bucking Bronco the way he plays
Speaker 1: the game and how high strung he is, and for
Speaker 1: them to have so much success tells you that, you know,
Speaker 1: Ted Scott has extremely high emotional EQ. Right, like even
Speaker 1: beyond pulling clubs and all that stuff. I don't think
Speaker 1: really pulled the clubs for Bubba. That wasn't impossible. But
Speaker 1: the way Bubba plays a game, it's just he was
Speaker 1: more of a sports psychologist and a caddy. And that's
Speaker 1: gonna be really important. Is as carefree as as Cheffler appears.
Speaker 1: You know, he's never been in this situation before, but
Speaker 1: Ted Scott hasn't. You know, Caddies can choke just like players,
Speaker 1: And so to have a guy who's already want a
Speaker 1: couple of masters, and again he's if you following on
Speaker 1: social media or whatever, you know that Ted Scott is
Speaker 1: like a fun, goofy personality and I think that is
Speaker 1: exactly what Scheffler needs just to be himself. You know,
Speaker 1: he put Steve Williams on his bag, you know, so
Speaker 1: I this sort of grumpy, grinding personality, like that's contagious,
Speaker 1: and I think that would inhibit who who Scheffler is.
Speaker 1: But in Ted Scott's he's out of sidekick and um
Speaker 1: and they just like to having fun out there and
Speaker 1: speaking there on there and they speak the same language
Speaker 1: and they're always smiling and laughing, and that's that's great.
Speaker 1: And you can ask for anything more than that in
Speaker 1: your caddy well as I always appreciate your time, Alan
Speaker 1: and uh and like to you and to everybody, to
Speaker 1: all listeners and watchers and readers and viewers like this
Speaker 1: is uh. The weekend is of the Masters is upon us.
Speaker 1: It's I get chills saying it. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see it. I've made it back home to ocean Side
Speaker 1: and playing in the goat Hill Masters tomorrow morning, where
Speaker 1: the low m and low gross will be getting green
Speaker 1: jackets and we'll be eating pimento cheese sandwiches and ocean
Speaker 1: side before I race home to my couch to watch
Speaker 1: the Leader's tee off Saturday's Torture. The last group is
Speaker 1: in Bufti too fifty. I mean it's an endless wait.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine, like you've got to leave me wake
Speaker 1: up at six thirty in the morning. It's like, what
Speaker 1: do you do. You can read a whole book, you
Speaker 1: can write a book. I mean, you can work out,
Speaker 1: you can have three meals. Like it's just torture. So
Speaker 1: that's part of the mental challenge. I hope for Scotti.
Speaker 1: Scheffler said he sleeps till eleven. But um, it's even
Speaker 1: as hard on the writers man like I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get here. So yeah, it's it's it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: But you know, everyone knows that Sunday at Augusta is
Speaker 1: so exciting, but this Saturday is gonna be something else
Speaker 1: with the weather, so I think we're in for for
Speaker 1: quite a treat. All right, get some sleep, everybody. We
Speaker 1: got a big weekend ahead of us. Talk soon. Put
Speaker 1: another log on the fire. Nobody here is get the time.