Speaker 1: Now, The Shotguns Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of setup work that we
Speaker 1: have to do in order to make a tournament work.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how
Speaker 1: we do a shotgun start here and alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: dent no man, darn your.
Speaker 2: Greetings. Are welcome to a Wednesday edition of The Shotgun Start.
Speaker 2: It is April eighth, Andy, how we do it?
Speaker 1: Frenday not doing fantastic. I gotta say the weather has
Speaker 1: been au and just a wonderful.
Speaker 2: Mood down here, very just chipper. It's incredible, It's incredible.
Speaker 2: But that's what everybody wants. It's weather talk off the bat.
Speaker 1: Weather talk, Dan Hurley losing things. Things are looking up
Speaker 1: in the world. Big ten gets their first basketball title
Speaker 1: in twenty six years.
Speaker 2: Double Dipped, you got women's the historic powerhouse of Westwood, California,
Speaker 2: getting on Sunday, men getting on Monday. Dan Hurley crying
Speaker 2: in his beer Monday night. So that's good. You're happy
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, things are looking up. I'm pumped about this, masters too.
Speaker 2: I am too. There's been like a a few media
Speaker 2: members who shall remain nameless kind of come up there.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of juice. Is there anything happening?
Speaker 2: It's like, well, maybe like if there's nothing happening, that
Speaker 2: that kind of means it's gonna sound like sort of
Speaker 2: a Cohen like everything is happening. That's a good You
Speaker 2: know that that sounds sort of incoherent. But if nothing's happening,
Speaker 2: that means everything. You know, maybe having no Tiger here
Speaker 2: is maybe a decent thing. Having Phil prants around maybe
Speaker 2: like maybe we're just focused on an incredible tournament. The
Speaker 2: weather is pristine, perfect, It's been brisk the last two mornings,
Speaker 2: supposed to be tomorrow and then heat up as the
Speaker 2: weekend goes, and not a drop of rain really in
Speaker 2: the forecast. It looks like a great golf tournament. It
Speaker 2: will be allowed to be played this week.
Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is is why it feels juiceless,
Speaker 1: is that we had, you know, the story that really
Speaker 1: dominated the sport for the last ten years has been
Speaker 1: lifted off our plates. The idea of when Rory McElroy
Speaker 1: will get the Masters and the Grand Slam done. It
Speaker 1: also turned into when's he gonna win a Major? That
Speaker 1: being removed has opened up. It allows the whole tournament
Speaker 1: to breathe. I think there's so many fascinating subplots of
Speaker 1: this tournament and I'm excited to dive into it. But
Speaker 1: you know, you got a lot of guys playing really
Speaker 1: good golf, and and you know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that have played really good golf out Augusta playing well.
Speaker 1: And I think it's going to serve up with the
Speaker 1: combination of the weather and what the course is going
Speaker 1: to get to. You know, just like off the top
Speaker 1: here in the golf course is just playing faster than
Speaker 1: it has in the fairways in particular.
Speaker 2: Why is that you think mowing They're not mowing hard
Speaker 2: the tea or what you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I can use this. Joseph has has
Speaker 1: given me access to use this. Ryan Girard told him
Speaker 1: that that you know, they're able to putt from around
Speaker 1: the green to the mow heights bend lowered. So I
Speaker 1: had another player, uh say that you know a place
Speaker 1: they usually hits mini drivers short of the bunker on
Speaker 1: too ran into it this this week, so that mo height.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a little bit less
Speaker 1: of that into the grain field just because they've lowered
Speaker 1: the mow height, and uh, they may not say that
Speaker 1: they did that, but it appears so based off of
Speaker 1: how players are playing the golf course and how they're
Speaker 1: seeing the golf course play. So you know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna play a little bit different. But God,
Speaker 1: they got this weather to the spot where we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to see exactly what the green jackets say is
Speaker 1: that is the ideal Masters set up because of the weather.
Speaker 1: I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like
Speaker 1: there's no rain coming for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's been a dry Georgia. I've been a
Speaker 2: dry winter early spring for Georgia like they haven't. It's
Speaker 2: not like it's been drenched. And of course we know
Speaker 2: Augusta can figure out a way to change the condition
Speaker 2: of the course in rapid speed, whether they get a
Speaker 2: lot of rain or not, or or even if they
Speaker 2: get nothing, they can they can change it pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: And it seems like they sort of have restrictor plates
Speaker 2: on it right now, just for the practice rounds. This
Speaker 2: is often the case, and that sort of cliche goes,
Speaker 2: whatever you practice on may be very different by the
Speaker 2: time that the shots start to count and as you
Speaker 2: progress to Sunday. But yeah, it's all set up. I've
Speaker 2: just been like, it's been a fabulous first whatever, thirty
Speaker 2: six forty eight hours we've been here. You're reminded of
Speaker 2: like how it is, you know, the I think some
Speaker 2: of the analysis and the coverage has gotten too granular
Speaker 2: to be honest, too far fetched, too esoteric. I'm always
Speaker 2: looking for like interesting angles or just good stories, and uh,
Speaker 2: like it's the it's so incredible, how much bigger it
Speaker 2: is than anything else in golf, right, and so much
Speaker 2: of that is how unique it's unique approach, and however
Speaker 2: it deals with tickets, and however it deals with TV
Speaker 2: and all these things, and but one of those is
Speaker 2: just being here. You're reminded immediately how it's just so
Speaker 2: so different from anything else in golf, mostly for the better,
Speaker 2: almost exclusively for the better. And that notion of like
Speaker 2: everybody here, including the players, and is exceptionally happy to
Speaker 2: be here. I would say the loan maybe toss up
Speaker 2: for that Rory in recent years has been removed. He's
Speaker 2: obviously very happy, you know. Maybe he was more anxious
Speaker 2: or angsty in recent years, but I think it's everyone
Speaker 2: I think it's now universal thing, whether it's fans or
Speaker 2: patrons you meet, it's just all the players are so
Speaker 2: ecstatic to just be here, even if it's you know,
Speaker 2: a lot the ball ceremonial role, or it's a contender
Speaker 2: like Prices.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about with alaha ball and he's
Speaker 1: got an important job this week. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: later in the storylines. Nobody's talking about right, I love it,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I would just add in everybody's happy
Speaker 1: to be here and everybody's actually present. It's the it's
Speaker 1: that's the difference. The masters sauce. I think in the
Speaker 1: modern uh sports landscape is like the beauty of no
Speaker 1: phones on site is died. You know. It's almost like
Speaker 1: cliche to talk about it in a way because it
Speaker 1: gets talked about all the time. But it is just
Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful experience to be with people and have
Speaker 1: everybody be fully engaged in what they're doing, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's conversation or whether it's watching golf. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing, like you know, you create these vivid memories.
Speaker 1: And it was funny. I got reminded of one lash
Speaker 1: from last year just yesterday, and it's like, remember us
Speaker 1: watching that shot from that spot, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, a flood of this like vivid memory came
Speaker 1: into it because I was actually there. I was just
Speaker 1: like sitting there in the moment, watching and experiencing it.
Speaker 1: And it's just like a great reminder of all technology
Speaker 1: isn't always good, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I like being able to
Speaker 2: hit it off the toe three hundred and ten yards
Speaker 2: down the middle. That technology is good. It's very far giving.
Speaker 2: I enjoy it. So the Bob Manifesto, the Bob Manifesto,
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, trendy money coming into Bob,
Speaker 2: to Pj's chagrin. Pj's anxious about all the people on
Speaker 2: the Bob and cam bandwagons. He's like, it's over. I'm done,
Speaker 2: I'm out of here. It's over.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for PJ and Joseph with what cam
Speaker 1: be coming. But he did give a great press conference.
Speaker 1: I think he's getting, you know, this thing that happened
Speaker 1: with Scottie. And we're so quick to to label players
Speaker 1: boring or dial tones and and and their infancy on
Speaker 1: the PGA tour. But it's like, okay, like you get
Speaker 1: used to having a mic in your face all the time,
Speaker 1: and you start to see Cam Young like he's starting
Speaker 1: to deliver some good questions, good answers.
Speaker 2: I didn't catch. That's one of the few I didn't
Speaker 2: catch because I figured the boys had his covert in
Speaker 2: that press conference.
Speaker 1: But if you've been.
Speaker 2: Paying attention to Lunch with the Boys, you saw there
Speaker 2: was some some zip there and some interest in some brains,
Speaker 2: and some thought, uh, he's delivered in those settings.
Speaker 1: So that's good to do what you just said, if
Speaker 1: you pay attention to the boy Lunch with the Boys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you'd seen it, who doesn't pay attention?
Speaker 2: Well maybe with the boys, not enough people, not enough
Speaker 2: people will come in and ask, you know, but all questions.
Speaker 2: I suppose, all right, we get to the top storylines,
Speaker 2: the top contenders here, as a preview podcast might do. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the number one story is probably Rory McElroy.
Speaker 2: I guess you know. Ranking these is like ranking the instructors.
Speaker 2: It's very very arbitrary. It don't actually mean one's more
Speaker 2: important than the other.
Speaker 1: But how dare you not put a live guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That means I'm hating on live. I actually think
Speaker 2: that I said that on Sunday. I thought that was
Speaker 2: the most interesting dynamic coming into this pot. This this
Speaker 2: Master's rory. He's back. He talked today, said if we
Speaker 2: never start the next Masters again, I'd be okay. Whereas
Speaker 2: before it's like, can we start the next Masters? Like
Speaker 2: in a minute? These Tuesday and Wednesday is interminable, getting
Speaker 2: to the shots and getting into the tournament. A good
Speaker 2: press conference, that that's how we want to talk about
Speaker 2: press conferences. But he seems to be loving and reveling,
Speaker 2: and who wouldn't be in his position of defending Champ.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a completely different human being at the
Speaker 1: press conference. You know, they they last I guess I
Speaker 1: think this is my fifth year, but the last four
Speaker 1: have been in this tense of the press conference, like
Speaker 1: you know, that's just air hanging in the room of uh,
Speaker 1: is this guy going to get this done? You know,
Speaker 1: seemingly most people in the room wanting him to get
Speaker 1: it done. But but you know what, what's it gonna be?
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen this year? And and now, I mean
Speaker 1: I loved his crack about about the Irish food. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was he was laying down jokes. You know, he
Speaker 1: is he was light hearted. Yea, yeah, and uh, I
Speaker 1: gotta say, I I think I've turned on. I was,
Speaker 1: you know, he hadn't done a ton of stuff this year.
Speaker 1: He's played okay, obviously finished runner up at RIV I
Speaker 1: think the bay Hill Tournament he probably was trending.
Speaker 2: To be a.
Speaker 1: Real figurative uh uh persona in the in the closing
Speaker 1: stretches of that tournament before he hurt the back and
Speaker 1: then you have the players, which is like kind of
Speaker 1: like an incomplete right, Yeah, and you know that you
Speaker 1: it threw it throws you off the scent of him.
Speaker 1: But I think he's got a real shot of defending.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I know that's not like going
Speaker 1: out on a limb, But I the more and more
Speaker 1: I obviously watched him in the press conference, in the
Speaker 1: little golf I watched of him, he looks really sharp.
Speaker 1: In particular, the thing I was impressed with was the
Speaker 1: short game, hitting shots around the greens. He's like basically
Speaker 1: almost holding everything he was hitting. And I think he's
Speaker 1: just prime for a really good week. And I think
Speaker 1: he's kind of like you know, you listen to that
Speaker 1: Amazon doc and unlocking that that feeling of I don't
Speaker 1: have to play perfect to win. I think is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge piece of this for him. And he knows like
Speaker 1: he made a ton of mistakes last and he's still won. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that's got to be a pretty freeing feeling.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think he you know, listen, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I know, he's he's fourth in odds.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then just forget about it. Let's just not
Speaker 2: even watch it.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that was the thing last year. You know, statistically,
Speaker 1: nobody's ever come back from you know what, was he
Speaker 1: seven down in the.
Speaker 2: First round something? He was even right twenty of the
Speaker 2: last three rajors.
Speaker 1: So we stopped playing the game. We've got to stop
Speaker 1: playing the game. But I would, I would, I would
Speaker 1: bump him up on that board. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there's bigger questions about about Bryson to Shambeau and rom
Speaker 1: and you know, like Scotty, there's some questions there, like
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to win this tournament with
Speaker 1: the with the way the golf course is primed up
Speaker 1: if you're not hitting really good iron shots.
Speaker 2: It is interesting for Rory. I want to say it's
Speaker 2: opened up for him, But like that back, you know,
Speaker 2: thing doesn't creep in and we're like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: he's going to go back to back with the way
Speaker 2: that the other top names and contenders are playing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he seems it's it's interesting to watch him go around
Speaker 2: now right, and you're trying to articulate something that is
Speaker 2: not definable. It is not is to the definition of
Speaker 2: intangible tense. And we watched him at three go round
Speaker 2: and he's just like three a very very important hole
Speaker 2: to practice short game, clearly, and he's just flipping them
Speaker 2: to two feet and putting them like right on his
Speaker 2: marks from across the grain into a left pins like
Speaker 2: right in the jar at perfect pace. And he just
Speaker 2: seems like the short game, like you said, seems incredibly
Speaker 2: dialed in. I know the players thing. It's just sort
Speaker 2: of like a proof of concept that you can It's
Speaker 2: the opposite of what we've seen from Colin Morrikala this week,
Speaker 2: to be frank, like, he had speed left the field
Speaker 2: and strokes gained off the tee. His game was not
Speaker 2: sharp and he finished T forty eight or whatever. I
Speaker 2: think that's what it was made the cut. So I
Speaker 2: just like, I'm it's not ideal. I suppose that he
Speaker 2: hasn't made a PGA tour start in about a month,
Speaker 2: But it seems like it's his. It's his to repeat again,
Speaker 2: and who knows once he gets past the whole Champs
Speaker 2: dinner tonight, sounds like he's gonna be Really he's put
Speaker 2: a lot of thought into that. I think he probably
Speaker 2: wishes Tiger and Phil were there for different reasons based
Speaker 2: on what he was saying today, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, just talk about just having all the great
Speaker 2: champions in history there.
Speaker 1: Do you think he wishes Jacob Bridgeman was there?
Speaker 2: Why because he's number one in the world or.
Speaker 1: What because he has such good thoughts on Tiger.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. Un quotable. The most insane question
Speaker 2: of the week goes to who Jacob Bridgman? Who could
Speaker 2: have saw that coming? Figured it would be you know,
Speaker 2: Bryson or somebody. Yeah. No, he seems like a very
Speaker 2: very strong, strong contender to repeat. I think having seventeen starts,
Speaker 2: it's a massive, massive deal. And where is like literally
Speaker 2: twelve months ago from now, it was like a sort
Speaker 2: of boa constrictor, like like ripping at him or like
Speaker 2: squeezing him, And now all of a sudden, it's like
Speaker 2: the biggest asset ever. It's an interesting dynamic how you
Speaker 2: can just flip it like that, because it is. It
Speaker 2: is a huge advantage. Now with the blend that the
Speaker 2: sort of mental strategy and the mental weight, the emotional
Speaker 2: stuff gone, it seems like all of a sudden, seventeen
Speaker 2: starts as a massive deal combined with the talent of
Speaker 2: where his game is.
Speaker 1: I mean just look at the lead up here, right,
Speaker 1: and I mean you look at what Ernie used to
Speaker 1: what he said about the place, like it's just like
Speaker 1: a torture chamber for me, you know, it's just where
Speaker 1: everything goes wrong that can't possibly go wrong. That was
Speaker 1: the road that Rory was heading down, and you saw
Speaker 1: it from his actions like he was he was spending
Speaker 1: as little time as possible here. Yeah, and then this
Speaker 1: year he's just around, you know, I think like he
Speaker 1: was so down to business last year it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, you could see you in his own world
Speaker 1: and maybe this is a reason to fade him, but
Speaker 1: I think it's just more of the comfort level and
Speaker 1: like reveling, you know, enjoying the moment, which is you know,
Speaker 1: half the battle with golf. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to like laugh about the stuff that happens. But you uh,
Speaker 1: you see it. You know, he got here on Saturday
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, he got there on Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: My favorite was the press conference.
Speaker 1: Harry was wearing eighty I think he was wearing eighty
Speaker 1: seven his caddy my share, so which means you're the
Speaker 1: eighty seventh player and check.
Speaker 2: Kid, yep, yeah, I love. The best was the press
Speaker 2: conference where like they quick walked us right the opposite
Speaker 2: of the day, where like Rory's on his way to
Speaker 2: the in and then he was already down there and
Speaker 2: then he was out right away. They gave him five
Speaker 2: questions and got all the big fat sports writers tumbling
Speaker 2: down the stairs to get to him, and then he's gone.
Speaker 2: This was quite the opposite. He was holding court today
Speaker 2: in his green jacket.
Speaker 1: So what's storyline two for you?
Speaker 2: What's I don't know, Scotti contender number two. I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna group the boys together the next that will
Speaker 2: go Ron Bryce.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that you put Scotty to and you
Speaker 1: don't have Rob and bryceon ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Well, they can come for me if they want. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're listening to Pat Reid. They haven't been playing
Speaker 2: real golf if you listen to Pat Reid. So what
Speaker 2: am I supposed to make? That's not me live bots,
Speaker 2: that's Patrick Greed.
Speaker 3: That was a guy they.
Speaker 2: Were defending for years. Scotty's number two. He's got Remy
Speaker 2: in tow so who knows what comes with that? All
Speaker 2: all the motivational perspectives Remy gives them, you know, pump
Speaker 2: up win one for Remy speeches as he walks out
Speaker 2: the door every morning.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a potential Gary Nicholas like situation
Speaker 1: where you know, Gary Gary shovels snow like everybody else.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that Scotty if thigs go south,
Speaker 1: he could blame that. The baby's been getting up and
Speaker 1: then you know, he's the first first couple of weeks
Speaker 1: are rough, rough times. I don't like the baby's got
Speaker 1: to be like a separate wing of the house.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I don't understand. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's had two kids and both of essentially been at
Speaker 2: or on the masters.
Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, whatever, that's great, but but now, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: sure he's taking care of himself. And that the baby's
Speaker 2: not going to impact. They'll they'll figure it out. He's
Speaker 2: got enough enough protocols in place.
Speaker 1: Maybe Scott's handle in it, Scott Scheffler, Yeah, Granddad sure, sure,
Speaker 1: granddad and grandma sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Meredith has it under control as well. That's
Speaker 2: really the only storyline with Scottie. He had a kid.
Speaker 2: He's one twice story joking, He's here here twice. He's
Speaker 2: sort of the great modern master's player, defining modern as
Speaker 2: you know, last ten years and multiple major, multiple Masters winners,
Speaker 2: as I talked to Joseph about a week ago, is
Speaker 2: like kind of a relic of the eighties and nineties
Speaker 2: and post Tiger and Phil era, Like that hasn't happened.
Speaker 2: Bubba's picked off two. It just hasn't been a thing
Speaker 2: like could Rory win four of the next however ten
Speaker 2: I'm joking, but three of the next ten, I don't know,
Speaker 2: three total, could be. Scotty certainly is in line for three.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean the golf course is so great for him,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at it. I mean the harder
Speaker 1: it gets too with this week, like with the expected weather,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to hit high towering precise iron shots,
Speaker 1: and the other thing is gonna put a huge emphasis
Speaker 1: on his leg putting a short game because you're gonna
Speaker 1: miss with the golf course getting you know, as firm
Speaker 1: as I would expect it to get. You know, with Scotty,
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of like the uh the interview UH,
Speaker 1: you know where the guy said like, don't don't write
Speaker 1: that I'm mad.
Speaker 2: Don't put in the paper on that time.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, he's set this absurd standard, and
Speaker 1: like part of he like sympathizes with him. He has
Speaker 1: set an insane standard the last three years, but like
Speaker 1: quantifiably he is struggling for his insane standard that he's
Speaker 1: set while still being one of the five best players
Speaker 1: in the world. You know, and you know, as much
Speaker 1: as he says that, you know, I'm not unhappy with
Speaker 1: what I'm due.
Speaker 2: You know, like your expectations of me are not my expectations.
Speaker 1: He has set this expectation and he hasn't been himself
Speaker 1: in in the last you know, six six or seven
Speaker 1: weeks of competitive play and a really all year. He
Speaker 1: didn't play great in the UH, in the PGA, in
Speaker 1: PGA West UH and he won, you know, it was
Speaker 1: like kind of his B or C game playing there,
Speaker 1: and and so now you see, like, Okay, his irons
Speaker 1: haven't been up to snuff. If that continues this week,
Speaker 1: it's gonna put a lot of pressure on a short game.
Speaker 1: But he's one of those guys that, like you watch
Speaker 1: him play and you're like, I don't know how he
Speaker 1: just shot sixty eight with what he had, but he's
Speaker 1: going to it's very you know, listen, like everybody's always like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's the next Speef. Like Spee that his prime
Speaker 1: had a great, great iron play. He made a lot
Speaker 1: of putts, mid range putts, he got up down all
Speaker 1: the time. Scotty does a lot of that. And Scotty's
Speaker 1: short game is always going to fly under the radar
Speaker 1: because of how good his iron play is. But like
Speaker 1: God like he is, he the guy can sleepwalk his
Speaker 1: way to like sixties sixty eight, sixty nine out here.
Speaker 2: He's he's yeah, he's having what a Q one going
Speaker 2: to the Masters that most every other pro would like
Speaker 2: dream about, like that would be I don't want to
Speaker 2: say career here, but I would be fully informed and
Speaker 2: extremely happy. And here we are talking about him. He's
Speaker 2: He's honestly among the best on the PGA Tour in
Speaker 2: literally almost every statistical category right now. But his iron
Speaker 2: play is by Scotty standard. I'm gonna use word bad.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use the word bad. It's middle of the
Speaker 2: pack for the tour eightieth by Scotty Seiars. That's bad.
Speaker 2: Everything else is still like top top, top tier, super elite.
Speaker 2: Can you get around Augusta? Can you win the Masters
Speaker 2: having an average ironweek? Probably not, even if you're Scotty Shuffler.
Speaker 2: But if you're around the grain is number one, maybe
Speaker 2: you make up for it. Maybe you can make up
Speaker 2: for it. It seems like it's going to be, like
Speaker 2: you said, the ideal test that Augusta would want, which
Speaker 2: you would think would be firm and fast. It was
Speaker 2: interesting to listen to Rob today say like, look, they
Speaker 2: finally have a couple of years of firm and fast, right,
Speaker 2: it's for every Masters. And Phil talked about this, you know,
Speaker 2: eight years ago or so. It's like it's never firm here,
Speaker 2: it's not firm here. Seems like they've found a little
Speaker 2: bit in mother Nature's part of that Lickser, and we'll
Speaker 2: see Scotty in those conditions which he won in twenty four.
Speaker 1: Something unique with this year is I do think it's
Speaker 1: interesting that typically you see the top contenders play one
Speaker 1: time between the players, and here, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the way the calendar felt fell, but you know,
Speaker 1: we're not getting we we didn't get that start in
Speaker 1: between from most and I think it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a grab bag like in one part, like you know,
Speaker 1: with Rory as obviously some injury rehab and then you
Speaker 1: know he he talked about getting sharper, but he was
Speaker 1: gone out of the light for three weeks, and Scotty
Speaker 1: is the same way. Scotty hasn't We haven't seen Scotty
Speaker 1: in three weeks like he could have. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: I know Brandle insinuated maybe there's an injury. Is backswing
Speaker 1: shorter than it's ever been, you know, maybe there was
Speaker 1: something there, and and he in three weeks is short
Speaker 1: up and he comes out just blazing like I to me,
Speaker 1: I expect him to be a contender deep in this
Speaker 1: this tournament. I think a dream scenario is you get
Speaker 1: any combination of of Scotty, Rory and Uh and Bryson
Speaker 1: and Ram and there, and you've got yourself an incredible term.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would think that he like a bad day
Speaker 2: for him, it's going to be a seventy three, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna post probably a sixty eight or at
Speaker 2: some point if Yeah, it's just hard to see him
Speaker 2: not being in the mix. So not the favorite though.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he is. They know he is
Speaker 2: in odds, but it just doesn't feel like it right now.
Speaker 1: Who would you say is the favorite?
Speaker 2: It feels like John Rams the favorite. It's transitioning to
Speaker 2: sort of appease the live and crowd. Here feels like
Speaker 2: John Ram is the favorite right now. He's playing excellent
Speaker 2: golf through the first quarter of the year. He's one
Speaker 2: on live, which you know is a bugaboo getting across
Speaker 2: the line. Can't top ten everything been a while, It
Speaker 2: had been a while. His statistical profile is really strong.
Speaker 2: He's won here before. We know he's if not a
Speaker 2: top the top player in the world, he's always going
Speaker 2: to be top three to four. He talked about some
Speaker 2: really bad habits and even winning with bad habits that
Speaker 2: had started on set, about the takeaway and losing a
Speaker 2: cut left, losing the ball further left, which is the
Speaker 2: worst feeling in the world as a cutter. That said,
Speaker 2: I think I have like I just have questions about
Speaker 2: both him and Bryson, but then we'll get to him individually.
Speaker 2: Of course he's a great pick go with that to win.
Speaker 2: I thought he sort of he sort of shorted himself
Speaker 2: today when he talked about how he won in twenty three. Well,
Speaker 2: like that just was a different course than what we
Speaker 2: normally play. And he wasn't saying he got lucky, but
Speaker 2: it's just it was a different tournament than the one
Speaker 2: that will be this week, and a different tournament than
Speaker 2: the one that has happened the past two years. It
Speaker 2: was just about surviving cold and surviving win and surviving
Speaker 2: rain and body bagging, body backing Brooks preciate didn't like
Speaker 2: that one, but teeing it low and just keeping it
Speaker 2: in the keeping it, you know, between the trees. Uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It felt like sort of shorting himself
Speaker 2: and like I didn't win. I don't want to say
Speaker 2: it was like that whole people you dained them if
Speaker 2: you win a real like PGA on a real course,
Speaker 2: or it was soft for your US Open, or like
Speaker 2: it was like kind of he was. This was him
Speaker 2: talking not anyone else. It felt like he was sort
Speaker 2: of dating his win.
Speaker 1: I think there's you know, he's come out and he's
Speaker 1: playing a lot of really great golf. I found there's
Speaker 1: a really interesting parallel here in similarity to Rory last year.
Speaker 1: So if you think about he talked about he got
Speaker 1: into some bad habits the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: he spent three months, he did a lot of good
Speaker 1: work and set the base of how I played this year.
Speaker 1: If you remember last year, Rory talks about going to
Speaker 1: New York and hitting golf balls into a net without
Speaker 1: like this, basically without the simulator on and not thinking
Speaker 1: about flight at all, and working out some of the
Speaker 1: bad habits he felt had gotten into his swing. And
Speaker 1: sure enough he came out the next year, he was
Speaker 1: the best player leading into the Masters, and it carried over.
Speaker 1: So if you're making when I was, I didn't go
Speaker 1: to this press conference. When I was reading this, I
Speaker 1: just immediately drew to like the idea of like he
Speaker 1: had three months off and he did a lot of
Speaker 1: work on just cleaning up mechanics, and he's come out
Speaker 1: and as data golf, you know our friends at data golf,
Speaker 1: the data world, like dat golf. I like data golf too.
Speaker 1: I don't like some people's interpretations of data golf. But
Speaker 1: you know, but the you know, categorically just like Rory
Speaker 1: has been the best player in the world since he's
Speaker 1: done this work, cleaning up his root, his his kind
Speaker 1: of habits and and just technique. It's and his run
Speaker 1: leading into this well, it's a completely different tour is
Speaker 1: very similar. All high finishes a couple of wins and
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta think, I mean, he he's a
Speaker 1: force man when he gets out there. I you know,
Speaker 1: I constantly find myself wondering about, like what would Scotty's
Speaker 1: run look like if Rom was around on tour as
Speaker 1: he was like basically in that year that Scotty ascended
Speaker 1: to the player we know, And I wonder would we say,
Speaker 1: would Scotty have a couple less tournaments if John Rom
Speaker 1: was around? Because to me, John Rahm is an intimidating
Speaker 1: guy we just talked about like that. You go back
Speaker 1: to that Brooks Major, and he is he is a
Speaker 1: force in there. He's he's a yeah, he's a physical guy.
Speaker 1: Like he's a tough guy to go against. We see
Speaker 1: it every year in the Ryder Cup, there's something that
Speaker 1: he has an edge to him, and I you know this,
Speaker 1: this just drew such parallels to Rory last year, and
Speaker 1: the statistics kind of bear it out.
Speaker 2: No real, no real like pressure about like getting across,
Speaker 2: Like he has the jacket all right, he's already done,
Speaker 2: and he's talked about the treasure of going to the
Speaker 2: Champions dinner. So yeah, he's, uh, he's an easy pick
Speaker 2: to win. What about Bryson, his compatriot on the Live tour,
Speaker 2: on the l iv tour as couples for a couple
Speaker 2: seems to call it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Bryce's press conference has always cinema.
Speaker 2: You know, we sat in there and I had to
Speaker 2: stifle a laugh like five or six different times. Not
Speaker 2: because he's I'm mocking him. He's just an incredible show,
Speaker 2: an incredible roller coaster. It's just what changed between being
Speaker 2: unable to do anything here and now and winning, you know,
Speaker 2: top ten in the last two years. Equipment number one reason.
Speaker 2: Equipment two was mentality, though he didn't talk too much about.
Speaker 2: Then three was body. He said he was huffing and
Speaker 2: puffing because he was too burly. Early on five six
Speaker 2: years ago, it was a total show. About equipment, a
Speaker 2: lot of growing the game talk and YouTube talk per usual.
Speaker 2: And he's building. He's building clubs himself, like he's in
Speaker 2: the garage. He's building clubs himself. You know, he's he
Speaker 2: wouldn't say with who, he's just I don't know what
Speaker 2: that means. They wouldn't say with them, just building them myself.
Speaker 2: You know, he's you know, we got the tools going.
Speaker 1: I thought his most interesting answer was talking about why
Speaker 1: he's had trouble with approach play here with the into
Speaker 1: the green I don't think he you know, I guess
Speaker 1: the likes when players talk about that. But because he
Speaker 1: was quick to try and like change it the way
Speaker 1: they bow, I think he said uh uh. The end
Speaker 1: of the green grass coupled with wind and his ball
Speaker 1: coming out spinny, what I thought was fascinating. And there's
Speaker 1: gotta be you know, I assume he's put this together.
Speaker 1: But he talked about three shots in particular, the second
Speaker 1: shot into seven, the second shot in to nine, and
Speaker 1: the second shot into eighteen. Brenda, what are all those
Speaker 1: have in common? What'd you say uphill seven? He's see
Speaker 1: He called those out as the ones he struggles with
Speaker 1: the most. It's kind of like, I don't think this
Speaker 1: stuff gets asked enough, like what what do you struggle with?
Speaker 1: But it's fascinating. Two with Rory last year his bain thing.
Speaker 1: I struggled with seven of fourteen and seventeen teen. They
Speaker 1: all run in the same direction with the same cant
Speaker 1: and the slope. And here's bryceon talking about I struggle
Speaker 1: with seven, nine and eighteen all approach shots with the
Speaker 1: with the grain judging distance, you know, which is always
Speaker 1: kind of the issue with him, the spin in the
Speaker 1: distance on approachests to go uphill. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you go about like you know,
Speaker 1: if you're him dialing in the spin. It seems like
Speaker 1: maybe one of the aspects he's obviously a very high
Speaker 1: spin player, is when the ball gets up over the
Speaker 1: over the tree line, you know where, how do you
Speaker 1: gauge that? And thankfully here, unlike the PGA tour, you're
Speaker 1: know how to use phones to gauge things.
Speaker 2: I'll push back about the phone.
Speaker 1: It's a compass, but still I'd love if the guy
Speaker 1: carried a compass, had a real compass.
Speaker 2: I just the visual of the guy taking the phone
Speaker 2: out on those it's just not a good look. The
Speaker 2: grain talk is they made the maybe they don't like it.
Speaker 2: But Ron was talking about that too. Underrated hard shots,
Speaker 2: he said, into the grain approaches on thirteen fifteen when
Speaker 2: you're playing a three shots like those are undered because
Speaker 2: you're into the grain half wedges. But like that is
Speaker 2: a common theme throughout it.
Speaker 1: Why do they can we take a pause here though,
Speaker 1: with the Rom sidebar. So you talked about I loved this,
Speaker 1: so everybody all the rage is risk reward holes right
Speaker 1: short par five's short part fours and people talk about like,
Speaker 1: what do you you know? What makes this great hole?
Speaker 1: And I think Rom's answer about those two shots being
Speaker 1: underrated and under talked about hard shots is the web
Speaker 1: shots into thirteen and fifteen illuminate. Why those holes are
Speaker 1: so great is that you stand in.
Speaker 3: The fairway.
Speaker 1: And the shot into the green is exceptionally hard, and
Speaker 1: at the core of you you don't really want to
Speaker 1: hit it m M because there's so much trouble. You
Speaker 1: can see all the things that can go wrong. I'm thirteen.
Speaker 1: You've got that azaleas on the left, the creek on
Speaker 1: the right, no good spot to bail, and you're terrified
Speaker 1: of it and you have this hook lie that like,
Speaker 1: if you underread it, you go into the creek and
Speaker 1: the ball and if you overready or you overread it,
Speaker 1: you go in the creek. If you underread it, you
Speaker 1: go in the azaleas. Fifteen. You just look at that
Speaker 1: and it's just like, how do I hit this pimple
Speaker 1: that's coming up out of the ground and like get
Speaker 1: my ball to stop on the hood of a car? Right,
Speaker 1: But the aspect of that, these are shots you don't
Speaker 1: want to have to hit. You think about, oh, I
Speaker 1: can lay up, but then the layup you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hit the wedge either, So you're
Speaker 1: laying up into a spot you don't want to be.
Speaker 1: But you're then you're making a decision from a shot
Speaker 1: you don't want to hit. So it's like pick your poison,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes the hole so what so great.
Speaker 1: It's not this like risk reward where you just have
Speaker 1: like this easy shot. There's still hard shots.
Speaker 2: We watched Cameron Young yesterday at fifteen and the layup
Speaker 2: zone middle middle, middle back, a little bit not not
Speaker 2: down too close to the water. Middle hit one into
Speaker 2: the front bank, right back into the water, hit one
Speaker 2: law by a good through the green, hit one in
Speaker 2: the middle and spun it off into the water. And
Speaker 2: at that point Pj's like it's over. It's so over.
Speaker 2: He's freaking out. Three like nowhere closet.
Speaker 3: Cam, Mercedes Benz producer Cam here to fire the first
Speaker 3: it was over.
Speaker 1: I don't know you could get it get it up.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you you you could figure that technology out.
Speaker 4: You know it's no g OS technology. But I think
Speaker 4: I think we're pretty good. Yeah, you've been riding around
Speaker 4: in the geo ho. What are your thoughts. You've been
Speaker 4: in the back seat mostly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, back seat, but warmer, that's the good stuff right there.
Speaker 1: Did you use it this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He did? Cooling seats they can call later.
Speaker 1: That could be this weekend. We could be hitting the.
Speaker 2: Out at four or five o'clock and it's hot.
Speaker 3: I like that seat. I want to fire back. The
Speaker 3: wedges are always bad, Okay, they're never good.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the end of what's in the
Speaker 1: water in the in the met section. Got her up's
Speaker 1: not good with wedges, and Cam's not good.
Speaker 3: We're just we're just here to bombing around.
Speaker 2: Just basher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that all that's going on up in New
Speaker 1: York is New York descilling the game.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I walked myself into a trap here.
Speaker 3: I don't like where I'm at taking myself.
Speaker 2: Probably gotta get your wedges right if you want to
Speaker 2: play Augusta. No, that seems like a yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean you would think that he's done all right
Speaker 3: for himself to this.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, I want you to interject. BP's just
Speaker 1: had the run of the show, of the storylines, what
Speaker 1: would be your next storyline after after Bryson.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to the course according to my PTI
Speaker 3: sidebar here, So you guys, you guys, take it away.
Speaker 1: We have talked.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the course plenty. I honestly I'm going
Speaker 2: off with BP's run. Just I didn't send you that.
Speaker 2: I just send it that in order. You're you're off.
Speaker 2: You're off on that. One more thing on Bryson, he
Speaker 2: is the most by far like trick or treat player
Speaker 2: in this field for me, like it could I have no,
Speaker 2: he's one last two live. I have no idea what
Speaker 2: to expect. It seems like he's cracked the code here.
Speaker 1: He's gotten over his emotional burden in South Africa too.
Speaker 2: Not talking about it, not talking about We're not talking
Speaker 2: about it. Brennan Quinn trying to go there. He couldn't
Speaker 2: finish his question. God knows what happened. He just seems
Speaker 2: the most fascinating player by a mile in the field.
Speaker 2: I he could win it if he wanted. It would
Speaker 2: not be surprising if he m seed. I also wouldn't
Speaker 2: be surprised at all. That would be more surprised VM
Speaker 2: seed than he wanted, quite frankly. But like the last
Speaker 2: time we saw him here was so bad, like the
Speaker 2: last three four hours. Then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: know he was bad at Oakmont. Finally gets it going
Speaker 2: at an open in Port Rush, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden he's like, I'm not I honestly don't know what
Speaker 2: to make And there was all the you know is
Speaker 2: around the game. Greame hasn't been good enough for Augusta
Speaker 2: and the single length Wedges it all like he is
Speaker 2: the most He's incredibly talent. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: know what to make of Bryson. Probably top ten, but
Speaker 2: that feels like the most likely thing. It's crazy. He
Speaker 2: feels like a real Trigg or treat.
Speaker 1: Guy right now, we've gone We've come so far from
Speaker 1: his days where we could put him in a prop
Speaker 1: bet against Larry Mice.
Speaker 2: That was a real thing.
Speaker 1: The I think the thing about Bryson, he talked about
Speaker 1: it in this press or about he's just gotten gotten
Speaker 1: a little bit more conservative around here and realize, like
Speaker 1: I think this is just the reality of the super
Speaker 1: duper elite guys. Yeah, August is set up. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna run into Birdie's. I mean, if you are a
Speaker 1: good player, you are going to make Birdie's here, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to do you don't have to move
Speaker 1: heaven and Earth to get on the leaderboard and moving
Speaker 1: up the leader board. As long as you is, you
Speaker 1: don't make like huge cataclysmic mistake mistakes, catastrophic mistakes, you know.
Speaker 1: And and I think that's the thing. You know, he
Speaker 1: just talked about playing a little bit defensive. I feel
Speaker 1: like we we have hit the big time competitive contenders. Yes,
Speaker 1: Like I think those four are kind of like out
Speaker 1: in front of everybody else right now in terms of
Speaker 1: who would you put. You talked about Spieth being the
Speaker 1: most interesting story possible, the best story.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of support for that take on
Speaker 2: the ground when I walked in.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you did. I mean, you're not going to
Speaker 1: find more support for you know, the player that's that's
Speaker 1: been middling uh over the last you know, five years,
Speaker 1: six years? Say he was going to win, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just he's not a real contender.
Speaker 2: People put a charge into the ground and even your
Speaker 2: can't deny it.
Speaker 1: I'm not. It's not cold heart, just operating from a
Speaker 1: state of reality. Okay, but if we take nation, I
Speaker 1: don't disagree that Speeth would be like the best possible winner.
Speaker 2: There we go. Ok So we're all in agreement.
Speaker 1: But who do you think of the other guys is
Speaker 1: the most realistic contender?
Speaker 2: Cameron Young?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think, so what about you?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't I appreciate your support. Not where,
Speaker 3: not even where I would have gone as the fifth player.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would have been Colin Morricowo. But obviously
Speaker 2: I don't know that he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: That seems like a nicey situation playing in a foursome
Speaker 1: yesterday but not playing.
Speaker 2: It's like, why is he with four or three other
Speaker 2: guys just walking to the front of the Green.
Speaker 3: It was kind of depressing. I feel bad. I hope
Speaker 3: he's okay.
Speaker 2: Bad.
Speaker 1: I probably feel the best about Ludwig being in the mix.
Speaker 2: Yep, he was up there for sure.
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot of talk about him
Speaker 1: having Sunday struggles, and I think the name of the
Speaker 1: game in this sport is just putting yourself into this
Speaker 1: into contention. Cameron Young talked about this a lot in
Speaker 1: his in his presser, and he's so spot on. You
Speaker 1: just have to get there. You have to get to
Speaker 1: the spot and give yourself a chance to have good
Speaker 1: things happen to you, and give yourself a chance to
Speaker 1: play a great round of golf. And I think like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are are down on Ludwig because
Speaker 1: of what happened at Valero. To me, what I see
Speaker 1: as a guy that has gotten in the mix multiple
Speaker 1: times in the last month, and I think, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be in the mix again.
Speaker 1: He joined a list of golfers of of he could
Speaker 1: be the fourth player that finishes in the top ten
Speaker 1: in his first three Masters, it's Xalatorus, Ralph Goodal and
Speaker 1: I can't remember the fourth was a problem yeah, he
Speaker 1: was a problem, but it was another player of the
Speaker 1: Ralph goodal uh yeah, person, it wasn't a lot. I
Speaker 1: can't remember who the fourth is, but he could he
Speaker 1: joins his list. It's just I don't see foresee a
Speaker 1: situation where he is not in the mix, given his
Speaker 1: run from Bayhill up and I he's been right there.
Speaker 1: And what's you know the story, you know is we've
Speaker 1: seen this like it flips quick on like if you
Speaker 1: get in the mix a lot of the masters from
Speaker 1: where it becomes like, oh he's a great fit. He's
Speaker 1: a great fit. He's a snake bitten and he's had
Speaker 1: some like kind of like you know, tough moments, whether
Speaker 1: it's the ball in the water on eleven in twenty
Speaker 1: four or the finish last year seventeen. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: but I think he's going to be god Man FaceTime
Speaker 1: a FaceTime somebody's breaking through the do not just or
Speaker 1: But anyways, the I think that's the thing with.
Speaker 2: Yourself in the battle he's Yeah, he seems like it's
Speaker 2: a fair assessment. He should probably be in the mix.
Speaker 2: We know he will be arriving to the course in
Speaker 2: comfort and in style because he is a Mercedes Benz ambassador.
Speaker 1: Everybody is he sounded advantage this week?
Speaker 2: They do. They do have a lot of cars in
Speaker 2: the Augusta. All the guys are driving if they want.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they all are, but yes, that
Speaker 2: was by the way, that was the best story from
Speaker 2: Rory's press conference. Is like last year he got invited
Speaker 2: to the dinner at the clubhouse and he drove in
Speaker 2: at whatever six o'clock on Tuesday, and all the past
Speaker 2: champions were out on the balcony. I think I assume
Speaker 2: the front balcony outside the champions locker room, and like
Speaker 2: He's like, oh shit, they can't see me. I just
Speaker 2: want to go to dinner. I got invited to dinner.
Speaker 2: That was great, Like a great visual and piece of
Speaker 2: color driving it.
Speaker 1: It gives you such a lens into why Rory McLeroy
Speaker 1: is this unique star. Yeah, he gave you like he
Speaker 1: basically gave you his inner thoughts of this would be
Speaker 1: so awkward if I drove up here and got out,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna like drive over here. That's exactly the way.
Speaker 2: For a few weirdos in this field, right, Like that's like, oh,
Speaker 2: why I gotta figure this out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's kind of like when you like know
Speaker 1: you're going somewhere that like maybe an axis has been
Speaker 1: it's like, well, oh, like I see him, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go this way.
Speaker 2: I'm here for dinner, but not your dinner. Sorry, is
Speaker 2: like running. Yeah, of course it's an incredible bit. But
Speaker 2: we do know whether you're driving for the champions dinner
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. You know, I think for sure
Speaker 2: is in a Mercedes bed.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I think our covers is gonna be
Speaker 1: better because we're so comfortable.
Speaker 2: We are so comfortable, we're safe. They offered a wide
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Speaker 2: the g LS this week with three rows.
Speaker 1: Interject here, Yes, these SUVs are awesome. I got in
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Speaker 1: it's one of their smaller ones. It's got three rows,
Speaker 1: and I was sitting in it, and I was in
Speaker 1: the back seat like you get in a lot of
Speaker 1: the smaller recupes. Yeah, the way they have they have
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Speaker 2: you mentioned Ludwig golf Course. I honestly don't think we
Speaker 2: need to say much more about the golf course other
Speaker 2: than it is perfectly set up. I would say my
Speaker 2: big like red flag warning flag is like whatever you're
Speaker 2: hearing these first two days is probably not what it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Thursday and Friday, I think allegedly not Like definitely,
Speaker 2: Rory was overheard saying like this was absolutely totally different.
Speaker 2: They've totally taken like the fire out of it from
Speaker 2: a week ago, like they can do that here.
Speaker 1: Also, I would just point out, because this is what
Speaker 1: generally happens, there will be knee jerk reactions on Thursday
Speaker 1: and be oh what, Like the point of a setup
Speaker 1: of a golf tournament they to get the golf course
Speaker 1: playing the best it possibly can on Sunday afternoon. So
Speaker 1: you are, you are trying and obviously you wanted to
Speaker 1: perform at a great level every single day, but you
Speaker 1: want that thing to peak on the weekend. So you are,
Speaker 1: you are just it's kind of like a swimmer, you know,
Speaker 1: where you caper and you get like they put I'm
Speaker 1: sure they it's it's a little bit slower, but like
Speaker 1: this is this is all the stories of old This
Speaker 1: is what you used to hear, and I think you
Speaker 1: hear it way less than you used to. Was Like,
Speaker 1: you know, the difference between Wednesday and Thursday is greater
Speaker 1: than any golf tournament in America. The speed and the
Speaker 1: ferocity of the golf course.
Speaker 2: A unique aspect of the Masters, though, is that it's
Speaker 2: usually the hardest on like Thursday, Friday, and then Sunday.
Speaker 2: Like if you're just talking about heart set up, you're ye,
Speaker 2: sad set up, Yeah, just talking about hard. It's like
Speaker 2: conditionings may be perfect for Sunday, but that does not
Speaker 2: necessarily mean like the US Open fashion of like this
Speaker 2: is going to be as hard as possible.
Speaker 1: It just means they want the fireworks. Yeah, they want swings.
Speaker 2: They want a sixty five out there, if you can
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: I think that the steps that they've taken in recent
Speaker 1: years have kind of undoing what they did to the
Speaker 1: course in two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight era,
Speaker 1: the thick rough, the over planeted trees. Like what you're
Speaker 1: seeing is the golf the club, in the in the masters,
Speaker 1: the tournament committee. Really I understanding the golf course. The
Speaker 1: golf course is built. What makes this place special, what
Speaker 1: makes people love it is the variability and the idea
Speaker 1: that anything can happen out there.
Speaker 2: So golf course is set up perfectly. Any other names,
Speaker 2: top names, favorites who want cam Colin, I think we're
Speaker 2: going to get to pee read here in a minute, Bridgeman, others, uh.
Speaker 3: Peach, Sanders, Shaffley, I have a big pick. My number
Speaker 3: five is forgotten. The top four I just forgotten. I
Speaker 3: think I think the forum coming in and you want
Speaker 3: to talk about a guy Andy who has found himself
Speaker 3: in situations a lot and chances to win, specifically here,
Speaker 3: I I think It's setting up very very well for
Speaker 3: Xander right now.
Speaker 1: He'd be all a sudden in the Grand Slam cop
Speaker 1: and the US.
Speaker 3: Opens his best major right traditionally.
Speaker 1: Would be kind of a Scottie and him Duke.
Speaker 3: That would be nuts, that would be sick.
Speaker 1: Well, honestly, I think that just bumped up that that
Speaker 1: potential just bumped him up in in storylines. Maybe I
Speaker 1: think he's the best story.
Speaker 2: Xander hasn't even had like a press conference yet, has he?
Speaker 2: They didn't have it.
Speaker 1: He's got the Brooks slight too.
Speaker 2: He does have the Brooks chip on.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's all setting up for x Baby.
Speaker 3: There was an app update this week. I will confirm
Speaker 3: app update. He's just got new merch on the app.
Speaker 3: There's a photo gallery from the players now. Uh. And
Speaker 3: there's one little like you know, ap news blur about
Speaker 3: Xander's playing the Masters. Fun fact from the app though,
Speaker 3: skip being Quail Hollowsander is is he not on his schedule?
Speaker 3: Announcements no truth trust.
Speaker 1: No Xander or Scott gott who could both be going
Speaker 1: for the career Grand Slam.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Interesting, Well, I'm glad we got truest trues, you know.
Speaker 2: I try to love it.
Speaker 1: Well, they probably just don't want to go there because
Speaker 1: it's Rory Alley.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's I mean that it is interesting how
Speaker 2: Xander's just I'm sure that the touts and tipsters have
Speaker 2: Xander all in their crossairs, but he has been gone
Speaker 2: under the radar.
Speaker 1: I asked one of our favorite favorite gambling colleagues what
Speaker 1: his models were looking at, and he said, my models
Speaker 1: don't spit out anything until until the game's biggest gambling
Speaker 1: podcast goes.
Speaker 2: I love that. We'll do picks here at the end.
Speaker 2: We've we've up to our gambling podcast Bona Fides with
Speaker 2: a family member of mine winning eight hundred person entry
Speaker 2: uh a tournament.
Speaker 1: She going to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: I don't know. The six year old came into several thousand.
Speaker 1: What have we got next on our schedule?
Speaker 2: Let's do tea times, times to watch the best and
Speaker 2: worst times.
Speaker 1: This is a favorite tradition. I gotta say, can we
Speaker 1: just all go around. We'll do this like a draft,
Speaker 1: our favorite one and then our favorite.
Speaker 2: All right, number one, number one, you can go first. Ah,
Speaker 2: there's so many to choose from. There's so many to
Speaker 2: choose from. I'm gonna go number one with a bullet
Speaker 2: down bad the twenty twenty two or is the twenty
Speaker 2: three US Open, twenty three US Open champion, But he's
Speaker 2: down bad. If he's in this, he was in this
Speaker 2: teeth time. But he should consider it a privilege, in
Speaker 2: an honor to be playing Wyndham Clark alongside Mike Weir
Speaker 2: and the great amateur Matteo Paulsini, the Burliest of Boys,
Speaker 2: Amateur Asia or South Latin America Amateur winner. What a
Speaker 2: pairing number one and clearing away? What a trio you have?
Speaker 2: A guy ostensibly at the top of the world rankings
Speaker 2: should be at the top of his game. One of
Speaker 2: major is in you know all these rankings is you know,
Speaker 2: the speed boy. He should be there playing with Mike
Speaker 2: Weir who's just throwing wounded ducks up in the air
Speaker 2: left and right. Matteo Pulcini, who like to be to
Speaker 2: be you know kind wasn't really in the Arkansas rotation
Speaker 2: and sort of what what are you looking at?
Speaker 1: Sho you steal my pen?
Speaker 2: No, this is my pen, Absolutely my pen, Get the
Speaker 2: hell out of here. And Matteo Pulcini, who just can't
Speaker 2: get a cup of coffee at Arkansas and because sort
Speaker 2: of just found his way into the masters field and
Speaker 2: you know, it's just the shirttail fighting for its life.
Speaker 2: That is an incredible tea time. I love it all. Three.
Speaker 1: Hey, I think it's time for our first storyline that
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about.
Speaker 2: DJs on the Fritz.
Speaker 1: Now, well we're on this topic. I was walking up
Speaker 1: towards the eighth t yesterday and you know, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things is walking around here alone, no cell phone,
Speaker 1: nothing to distract me, fully present, sure, and some patrons
Speaker 1: were chatting and they were like, who is that up
Speaker 1: on this he and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: I start I start looking up and they can't tell
Speaker 1: who it is. And the ball he swings and he hits,
Speaker 1: you know, eight full flaps driver swing there, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it just makes this muffled sound and
Speaker 1: the patrons go, oh, that sounded terrible. And one of
Speaker 1: them goes, he sounded like one of my drives. And
Speaker 1: my question is, is wounded duck We're back?
Speaker 2: I love that that. Those are the reviews from the ground.
Speaker 2: I mean wounded Duck weirds back? I mean that goes.
Speaker 1: I think we playing by himself. He just was the
Speaker 1: last prost.
Speaker 2: Up. Come on, you wanted to play to get with
Speaker 2: your man?
Speaker 1: You know, I saw he was on a podcast, and uh,
Speaker 1: I thought it was really strange. You know, we had
Speaker 1: the run in with Buddy Ball, you know, Bud Bud Martin. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but Pud Martin sitting in on the podcast like like
Speaker 1: overlord with us. But you know, he wasn't, at least
Speaker 1: like on camera. He did a podcast. His wife was
Speaker 1: sitting right next to him.
Speaker 2: And let you know, she's a celebrity.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were interested. It was like a
Speaker 1: golf podcast.
Speaker 2: Oh, Michelle Money from The Bachelor or Bachelor Wretch.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they requested it having her on
Speaker 1: or what. But she's just sitting right now to just
Speaker 1: telling like in depth golf stories and she's just there,
Speaker 1: sit in there.
Speaker 2: You know, that's tough, tough scene. Wound, he's weird, he's back.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's my number one sea that in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen first ever SGS and the Masters.
Speaker 1: Unless I witness a shank live, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hear a worse golf shot than that.
Speaker 2: This week On Substantiated Rumor or like apparently Russ Ba
Speaker 2: Russ Henley. This is from Lamaia. Give me. It's playing
Speaker 2: a driver that's like six years old and they're asking
Speaker 2: him like, you know, you could get some more yardage
Speaker 2: and he's he's not a wounded duck territory, but it's
Speaker 2: efforting to get that ball out there. It's just an effort.
Speaker 2: It's sort of a heave and uh it's just no.
Speaker 2: I like this. I hate it straight like, well, you
Speaker 2: could get like five more miles an hour? Like no,
Speaker 2: like this guy. So all right, that's my number one
Speaker 2: teeth type.
Speaker 1: Did you pick out tea times? I'll give you the
Speaker 1: second pick here.
Speaker 3: I'm honored. I'm going to take the show me literally,
Speaker 3: any Proof of Life group of Cam Smith, Sam Burns
Speaker 3: and Jake Napp? Anything Can I get anything out of
Speaker 3: any single one of them? I mean, Jake Knap's been
Speaker 3: playing great, I know, but not in a major so far?
Speaker 3: Are people are interested in Jake Napp? I've I had
Speaker 3: a long conversation with somebody about Cameron Smith today. Apparently
Speaker 3: last year he had a kid and that took away
Speaker 3: the focus from all for majors.
Speaker 1: You're talking to Australian I won't.
Speaker 3: Say the nationality of this person, but I will say
Speaker 3: that Cam Smith is apparently.
Speaker 1: Australia without a doubt. You talked to an Australia.
Speaker 3: You get a kid. I'm just saying I I I have.
Speaker 3: This was one of the first three groups I had start.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's good. That's good. I I don't.
Speaker 3: Know you don't you don't like that pick?
Speaker 1: I tell you, I just don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 3: I want to see if cam Smith has any absolutely
Speaker 3: anything to offer, because there's.
Speaker 1: There's two clear groups just left from here, and I
Speaker 1: can't believe you did pick this one. And I'm so
Speaker 1: honored that I get this one. And it brings us
Speaker 1: to our second game storyline nobody's talking about. I've got
Speaker 1: the eight oh two a m T time our favorite
Speaker 1: pasters Masters Jose Maria. This is not where I thought
Speaker 1: you were going Restsneerguard, Peterson R and P. And actually
Speaker 1: we can knock out two storylines that nobody's talking about,
Speaker 1: and and the in the big Potty Aldrich Pott.
Speaker 3: Surprise surprise for you, We're gonna knock out three right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a good one. I got nowhere it goes.
Speaker 1: We got three storylines. I'm gonna start here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start with here with with with our first game within
Speaker 1: the game of the year, of the of the of
Speaker 1: the tournament. Can Jose Maria take down the big potty?
Speaker 2: I absolutely is the answer.
Speaker 1: Will Jose Maria take it to We've seen him him
Speaker 1: take on this golf course. He's made the cut a
Speaker 1: couple of times.
Speaker 2: Within the last four years, and.
Speaker 1: He's got the big potty. Who it's gonna be to
Speaker 1: be clear, all right, he's a big poty. He I'm
Speaker 1: I think Jose Maria, this is gonna be the group
Speaker 1: that I go out and watch from. We had the
Speaker 1: Bernie Longer Noah Kent croup last year, where you got
Speaker 1: just somebody who's just gonna be shipping it everywhere and
Speaker 1: far in pot eater and then you're gonna have Jose
Speaker 1: Maria playing all the angles, all the angles. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be the best group to watch the shot trails
Speaker 1: in comparison, when you can get with those shots early
Speaker 1: on Thursday morning, load up and you can just you're
Speaker 1: you're just watching shots. This is the group to watch.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's uh, that's one of my storylines that
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about.
Speaker 3: I think mine should go next. I have I have
Speaker 3: a potty storyline. Potty is getting prepped for this tea
Speaker 3: time because I was with him. He was playing the
Speaker 3: first hole today he's short sighted, trying to get to
Speaker 3: the pin. Hits three bad wedges said, you know what,
Speaker 3: screw it, give me the driver, playing it on the ground,
Speaker 3: chipping with a driver.
Speaker 1: Jose Maria is gonna offend, is Potty short game.
Speaker 3: Patty is prepping and is ready for a lesson from
Speaker 3: Hose Maria. Putting with a driver.
Speaker 2: I mean this is honestly like taking you know, a
Speaker 2: master chef, like a Michelin three star whatever chef, dropping.
Speaker 1: Him into frat house and dropping him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, being like just just here, make these robindle, make
Speaker 2: these two children just tyson dinam nuggets. I mean, think
Speaker 2: about Jose, like the horrors running through Jose's head. His
Speaker 2: Potty is just the hands in the short game. What
Speaker 2: an incredible this is Tea times must watch.
Speaker 1: When he pulled the driver the third pick, I.
Speaker 2: Can't but that was my number one.
Speaker 3: He pulled the driver, I gassed, I actually audibly gassed.
Speaker 1: I want to remind you to vivid memory that I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. Last year, Jose Maria was literally ten feet
Speaker 1: away from the ninth, the ninth, the hole on nine,
Speaker 1: maybe twelve feet fifteen feet, one foot on the fringe,
Speaker 1: and he was chipping last year a master. God, he's
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 2: I can't believe He's got to watch potty around the
Speaker 2: greens for the next at least two days, three days.
Speaker 3: We do our third storyline on there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, storylinely zeroed in here R and P.
Speaker 1: Rasmus Nierguard Peterson, big fan of Rasmus. He has a
Speaker 1: chance to do a rare, rare accomplishment. I don't know
Speaker 1: if this has ever been done. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: the Fiery Mackenzie Double. He has the chance to win
Speaker 1: on two famed arguably the two you know you throw cypress,
Speaker 1: but the two best tournament courses the Mackenzie built within
Speaker 1: six months of each other, Royal Royal Melbourne and uh
Speaker 1: and then obviously augusta national.
Speaker 2: Love it the Mackenzie Double. R N. We spoke to
Speaker 2: a source close to R.
Speaker 5: M P.
Speaker 2: Love the mindset there this morning. He wants to win
Speaker 2: the par three. I'm gonna win the par three, and
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna break through that bear or win the Master.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying this was his. He has a mindset
Speaker 2: of I'm not gonna be he's not calling a shot here,
Speaker 2: but I can win the part three, break that curse,
Speaker 2: and I can break the rookie curse andokie.
Speaker 1: Other cool piece of this was he he was obviously
Speaker 1: in the ned Bank. He had his car locked up
Speaker 1: ned Bank, much higher perse total than than the Australian Open.
Speaker 1: The same week he said to his team, I'm going
Speaker 1: down to Australia and I'm qualifying for the Masters. And
Speaker 1: he went down, won the won the Australian Open to
Speaker 1: get in the Masters. Here's a trend. R and P
Speaker 1: also humorous for this pod. We learned, UH learned that PPJ.
Speaker 1: Pitts spirit Tunior, he is aware of his nickname, does
Speaker 1: not like it, and I would prefer the gentleman in training.
Speaker 3: Maybe I didn't know that far the first part. I
Speaker 3: didn't know the punch lines the.
Speaker 2: Gentleman in training, gentleman training no longer pittsp He's still
Speaker 2: paying for the sins of his elders. Yeah, that's all right,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: But also as a gentleman in training, which I liked.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: I do like the name.
Speaker 2: That's a good one, all right, So I'll go I'll
Speaker 2: go right behind them with my next pea.
Speaker 3: I knew this is where you're going.
Speaker 2: We are just rumbling and stumbling and opening up holes.
Speaker 2: We're putting it, putting the ball in the ground.
Speaker 3: RTDB baby rt D.
Speaker 2: Just open up the so holes you could drive a
Speaker 2: truck through with on Hell Cabrera, Sammy Vallamachi and Jackson Harrington.
Speaker 2: The Fridge just this is like a straight out of
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen us GA. I don't think they.
Speaker 3: I told Paul in the media center. I comped it
Speaker 3: to win. They Shane Lowry group together, and yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it's dead.
Speaker 2: On Ah, that's a great group. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, you got a guy named Fridge, Sammy and
Speaker 2: on Hell who just you know Sauncers down the Fairway.
Speaker 2: A great group that will bring up another storyline nobody's
Speaker 2: talking about after them. Woe is Charles Schwartzel, Max Grazerman
Speaker 2: and Ryan Fox Because we got intel from people who
Speaker 2: may have to play that. You know, there's aim pointing
Speaker 2: impacts from the Burley boys when they aim point. When
Speaker 2: the burliest amongst us aim point, you can kind of
Speaker 2: hear the integrity of the turf. What if you're in
Speaker 2: the next group. Yeah, it's tough that these are competitors
Speaker 2: who've been with the Burley aim pointers say you know
Speaker 2: the integrity of the turf you've been stopping around may
Speaker 2: have a bigger impact. Nothing against them, but we did.
Speaker 2: That was a good nugget we got from someone on
Speaker 2: the ground. Who what's your next tea time?
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see where Peach goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I apparently botched my first kick. Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3: We all make bad ones. I will go. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take the final tea time of the day. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take the two Brits and see who kim hers English.
Speaker 3: Marco Penge formerly known as Pengji, currently known as and
Speaker 3: sew Kim I was.
Speaker 1: Part of a podcast that's covered Marco Pens in great details.
Speaker 3: Marco penj Win's The Masters You Know Where to find Us?
Speaker 1: I love this. I think that an underrated story from
Speaker 1: uh from Masters of Old was Seawoo Kim in the
Speaker 1: heat of contention, breaking his putter and putting with the three.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that him putting with a threewood on fifteen. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, I wish I would have thought about the storyline.
Speaker 1: I bumped into some some friends of Harry English and
Speaker 1: we were talking about how he's got a real shot here.
Speaker 1: You know, every time he teased it up in one
Speaker 1: of these majors, low Englishmen is in in in the
Speaker 1: in the cards, and I was, I was a low Englishman,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of times in majors here.
Speaker 2: Love that love that good pick. That's a good pick.
Speaker 1: Back on track, baby, all right, I got I'm up
Speaker 1: next here. I mean, I'm just gonna go with a
Speaker 1: chalky pick here. P read Tommy.
Speaker 3: Fleetwood an ox pati going on there?
Speaker 1: Now. You know, I've got mixed feelings about going out
Speaker 1: and watching this. Obviously he read really fast player Tommy,
Speaker 1: aesthetically pleasing pace of play. It's just got to get better.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 1: I wasn't back from being like peak watchable.
Speaker 3: It uh at the players I was. He was playing
Speaker 3: with Brooks and Tony fen now and I was very frustrated.
Speaker 3: I just straight up quit on it. I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1: He more frustrated that Tony fenw was in the group
Speaker 1: or was in the pace of play.
Speaker 3: It's more frustrated by.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you haven't lost all objectivity. Tony not
Speaker 1: in the Masters first time in a while, even though
Speaker 1: every everybody in golf is doing their best to get.
Speaker 2: Him in there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sponsors exemption, they are.
Speaker 2: Fleetwood had a great press or to just talking about
Speaker 2: coming here as a fan first. He's so he's so endearing.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm not a you know, I'm not a doom
Speaker 1: all private equity human being. You know, that's all private.
Speaker 1: Actually got the Blackstone hat soap bad, so bad, it's
Speaker 1: so big after wearing such tasteful.
Speaker 2: He didn't have it on in the pre tasteful reason, tasteful.
Speaker 1: Stuff all all year, and it's just like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is such a wonderful throwback to the days of Yesterdayear
Speaker 1: we're talking Tommy knocka Gia. We didn't even talk about
Speaker 1: it in the eighty six flashback from last Friday is
Speaker 1: wearing a Master's hat. We we now have just it's
Speaker 1: so bad.
Speaker 2: He was he was give.
Speaker 1: The money back and give that, give the hat back.
Speaker 2: Setting the money back. He was incredible listening he's perfect.
Speaker 2: Nine would course that's what he said, nine would's coming out.
Speaker 1: You know, this was illuminating. Actually this place can be
Speaker 1: firm and you always listen to the you know what
Speaker 1: was Jack's superpower towering long irons and Tommy who's like
Speaker 1: every body would put in like the top tier. And
Speaker 1: this is the difference between like the dudes, dudes and
Speaker 1: like the really good guys. Him basically saying like I
Speaker 1: don't have the towering four iron, so I use this
Speaker 1: nine one. There's it's always like forever, there are only
Speaker 1: a couple guys that have the towering nine or the
Speaker 1: towering long iron. I would actually put in there for
Speaker 1: your tea time. Peach the pinch. The pnch man hits
Speaker 1: it high.
Speaker 3: He does, ye he does.
Speaker 1: Could be an asset. This week could be a.
Speaker 3: Great podcast where you can hear about it if you're interested.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that that wasn't talked about with
Speaker 1: Penche was this high trajectory.
Speaker 3: Everything else was covered.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's a great one. Fleetwood was fabulous.
Speaker 3: Is that your first on the snake or is that
Speaker 3: your second?
Speaker 1: Am? I I don't, I don't guess.
Speaker 2: One more. Let's do one more each all right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna take the well, no, it's pretty p peace turn.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go for one here. All right, you
Speaker 2: guys can tell there are two millennial parents. Just for
Speaker 2: millennial fans only the twenty tens to twenty twenty twenties,
Speaker 2: Hey day.
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 2: Where DJ Shane and J Day all one majors in
Speaker 2: that decade. Or you could go speed Rose in Brooksy
Speaker 2: just pure millennial play. Those are the glory years of
Speaker 2: twenty ten to twenty twenty. Uh, those are those really
Speaker 2: jumped out to me. The Speak Group's fabulous. I love
Speaker 2: the Speak Rose and Brooksy.
Speaker 1: Group's they they're doing everything that Canada to get him
Speaker 1: in the hunt.
Speaker 2: Why what do you mean via tea time yea, he
Speaker 2: still got to play the ball.
Speaker 1: I think he should have gotten the max treatment you.
Speaker 2: Talk about talk about the Jammy. This was playing with
Speaker 2: Tiger like two years ago. In this Masters, he's with
Speaker 2: the Japan Open winner who's never played a major. It's
Speaker 2: like just fluked his way into the Japan Open. And
Speaker 2: Carlos Ortiz, who I asked p J. How is he
Speaker 2: in the field? He like top five at the USO.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a real one you literally could late
Speaker 1: on Sunday where you're like, no, no way, we Carlos
Speaker 1: Ortiz can't win this.
Speaker 3: I believe we said we'd cancel the podcast if Carlos
Speaker 3: Ortiz won the USO.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're.
Speaker 2: Max ol Man, you look at your left and you
Speaker 2: look to your right, and you're like Wyndham Clark, same deal.
Speaker 2: You see, we're in Paul Chini, you got you like,
Speaker 2: how did we get here? So all right, what's your
Speaker 2: next thing?
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm on the board here, I got
Speaker 1: Ory cam Young and and Mason Howell, you can my one,
Speaker 1: my one anecdote here. I know I just jumped you.
Speaker 3: You can take that. I was taking it.
Speaker 1: The Mason Howis got the shake Shack sponsorship really interesting
Speaker 1: because I read a tweet that went somewhat viral this
Speaker 1: week calling Mason Howell a true amateur. He's got the
Speaker 1: shake shack clearly not a NASCAR driver. I love Mason Howe. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: he's been a podcast of podcast guests. He's a big
Speaker 1: boy to like. Not he is. He's gonna be He's
Speaker 1: gonna I think his holl is gonna be problems.
Speaker 3: Watched him play a corner today with Harrison Tank little
Speaker 3: Dogs barking out.
Speaker 1: There was a group weird. I got it. I got
Speaker 1: to follow up with uh with Mason Howell about about
Speaker 1: dog football.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Bubba had a really weird quote about like
Speaker 2: being able to talk to him because of the recruiting violation.
Speaker 2: But Bubba's a odd duck these days.
Speaker 1: But Bubba doesn't doesn't. I don't know. The pop's not
Speaker 1: in the bat.
Speaker 2: He's kind of hobbling.
Speaker 1: I was watching watching him as it's kind of like
Speaker 1: somebody pointed out though it never looked like it came
Speaker 1: off that hot, but it just kept.
Speaker 3: It just kept going, yeah, flying, Yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2: Who's your last pick? Peach?
Speaker 3: I'll run us out here with I'm gonna call us
Speaker 3: the hype Beast group. Oh god, twelve fifteen pm. You
Speaker 3: got Malbourne, Freddy Couples, min Wu and Fifa. Who's getting
Speaker 3: a lot of media attentions, Pockety hype piece HiPE East Only.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of social catnip coming out
Speaker 3: of that group.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I kind of love min Wu right now.
Speaker 3: Agree. I think he got totally jammed.
Speaker 1: With this t tex What are you talking? Anytime you
Speaker 1: play with Fred couples. It's like the that's like as
Speaker 1: good of a pairing as you're gonna get. Maybe listened
Speaker 1: to Freddy Stories for for four hours.
Speaker 3: Has rightfully elevated himself into a position where he should
Speaker 3: be in one of these.
Speaker 1: Kids as you can. I ask you a question, can
Speaker 1: you promise to be honest? Should min Wou be in
Speaker 1: the speak spot?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just it's not it's detached from reality.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Basically a better chance to be I mean
Speaker 2: DJ is playing with Lowry and Jad, I don't know, Like,
Speaker 2: come on, I.
Speaker 3: Think min Wou is way above that ground.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, it's a good pick. It's a
Speaker 2: good pick.
Speaker 3: He's a decent I would put min Wu in the
Speaker 3: no Offense to Alex Norn, who I like a lot.
Speaker 3: I would put him in the Can't Lee Hovelin. I
Speaker 3: think he's in that teer good trio.
Speaker 2: All right, what about worst Tea Time? Our worst Tea time?
Speaker 1: Out? There is it?
Speaker 3: Max?
Speaker 2: He's in the running.
Speaker 3: I had Weird Wyndham Pulcini, but my other one was
Speaker 3: Danny Willet, Davis Riley ethan fan.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a that's pretty bad. I hate
Speaker 1: to keep doing this to my boy. A beautiful line. E.
Speaker 1: He's probably really after our game on Saturday. Novak, mckivin
Speaker 1: and Campbell's not doing much for me.
Speaker 2: Not gonna be a lot of people out there. I'm going.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Kurt Kitty Ama the Kitty Cat, Christopher Wright,
Speaker 2: Tan and Casey Jarvis. He's played well.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed that.
Speaker 2: Really good player lately on the euro Tour. But there's
Speaker 2: just not gonna be you know, Arnie's Army's not gonna
Speaker 2: be out there following that group.
Speaker 1: You catch want your Nico minute? Sure he was on Monday.
Speaker 1: He was wearing a shirt, a baby blue shirt with
Speaker 1: with big hot air balloons on it. Look like something
Speaker 1: you'd put a four year old.
Speaker 2: Boy in, like for Eastern Mouth Easter Sunday. That's good,
Speaker 2: that's good, all right, that's worst tea times with a
Speaker 2: lot of storylines nobody's talking about mixed.
Speaker 1: You know what we're gonna look, we brought up the apparel.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to smirch what Nico is wearing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be comfortable. We're gonna be We're gonna be in
Speaker 1: in our scripting, scripting, the Hurley. I was able to
Speaker 1: wear this because Dan Hurley lost last night, was able
Speaker 1: to wear this. This is the hurliest one of my
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Speaker 1: and check out all their new spring stuff, all their
Speaker 1: new cool fabrics. We're gonna be decked out every day
Speaker 1: in that uh, in that in that gear. We've got
Speaker 1: our I think our scripting what comes out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They shouldn't be scripting podcasters. It's a
Speaker 2: bit people. It's toned cheek.
Speaker 1: I hope the photo shoots stuff to us.
Speaker 2: The photo, the photo shoot from the yards. Ever, it's
Speaker 2: just it's one of those things. This is your master scripting.
Speaker 2: Let's do a shoot. As we were doing it. There's
Speaker 2: not a usable shot anywhere amongst this.
Speaker 3: I mean, you guys are able to wear sunglasses, so
Speaker 3: it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2: I couldn't see just glaring sun.
Speaker 3: I could not see one thing.
Speaker 2: I found a new respect for models other than just
Speaker 2: looking to track like actually, it seems probably pretty hard
Speaker 2: because I couldn't get there anyways.
Speaker 1: On the next storyline, nobody's talking.
Speaker 3: We're just going back.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, what do we got for today?
Speaker 2: Nobody's talking about.
Speaker 1: Have you heard about the parking gate this year?
Speaker 3: Oh? I didn't make a graphic for this because we
Speaker 3: didn't take a picture of the parking lot, but you
Speaker 3: could talk.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to put it like a
Speaker 1: people camping. So anyways, a problem illuminated for the for
Speaker 1: the green I hadn't heard about this.
Speaker 3: Okay, a problem.
Speaker 1: Illuminated for the green jackets. They had to solve.
Speaker 2: A parking illuminated. That's yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: It revealed himself nobody could be camp being in the
Speaker 1: parking grounds. That is distasteful. So they instituted new rules
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, but here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When you put in new laws, new new rules, you know,
Speaker 1: things changed. Everything changes. So there's new rules. The parking
Speaker 1: lots are now close. They close. You have to be
Speaker 1: out of the lots.
Speaker 3: Did they not previously?
Speaker 1: No, you have to be out of the loss at
Speaker 1: ten pm.
Speaker 2: I think I know people have left their car there overnight,
Speaker 2: not because they were trying to have some advantage. They
Speaker 2: just you know, went out and went home or something.
Speaker 1: So the loss now closed and they reopened at six am. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: You know, people are driving from high and far in here,
Speaker 1: and people get here this is the biggest day of
Speaker 1: their lives.
Speaker 2: Met a couple that will come at three thirty driving
Speaker 2: from like an hour away yesterday.
Speaker 1: They get here before six am. So what happens The
Speaker 1: cars just start piling up.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, they traded. They traded a
Speaker 1: few people camping camping out just in the lot to
Speaker 1: do a traffic jam in washing road in every direction.
Speaker 1: This was this weird and ugly head for Antwha where
Speaker 1: they debuted this on the weekend was a disaster. Apparently,
Speaker 1: huge traffic issues at early hours of the morning with
Speaker 1: like people, the people that need to get there early
Speaker 1: in the morning are stuck in traffic. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: has been this is a this is a storyline to watch.
Speaker 2: Oh you want a good story speaking of camping, I
Speaker 2: love that heard a story unsubstantiated, extremely unsubstantiated that back
Speaker 2: in the eighties that a traveling group from a different country,
Speaker 2: what they've been called foreigners. Back then, you could come
Speaker 2: in like Monday for nothing like five bucks or whatever
Speaker 2: you could get in and they stayed and camped in
Speaker 2: that pocket between where there's now a structure left of
Speaker 2: six green behind seventy. It was it was very dense
Speaker 2: woods then, and they stayed through the week and then
Speaker 2: they started like grilling something and this smoke ratted them out,
Speaker 2: like they got they got found out because they got
Speaker 2: smoked out very or like old one of those Augusta legends.
Speaker 2: But I heard that today that there was a group
Speaker 2: following one of their you know, foreign icons, and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I was camping there. This is a different era. It
Speaker 2: would not fly today. All right, what else we got?
Speaker 2: We're doing storylines? Nobody else is talking aboutline? What else
Speaker 2: do I have?
Speaker 5: Her?
Speaker 2: Oh? Postgrad life?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 2: Postgrad life?
Speaker 1: This?
Speaker 2: These are just notables we should have talked about already. Anyways,
Speaker 2: postgrad life can keepka and read find life in the
Speaker 2: real world after getting out of after graduating from Live.
Speaker 2: This is a new one life. This was the early
Speaker 2: start was can live guys win at majors?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Now, how can Live grads win at majors? We haven't.
Speaker 2: This is the first time ever you've been to Live,
Speaker 2: you've been out of the fire. Can you win at
Speaker 2: a major?
Speaker 1: How about Reid's commentary about the tournament, like how so good,
Speaker 1: Like you know, he for anybody that missed it. He
Speaker 1: basically talked about, like how nice it is the feel
Speaker 1: of a golf tournament, a feel of golf tournament, and
Speaker 1: this is so true. Anybody that's played in their club
Speaker 1: championship has felt this probably and gotten to the finals
Speaker 1: or the in the mix of a you know, a
Speaker 1: club tournament where the range is busy and then it
Speaker 1: just like slowly dissipates out and finally if you're playing
Speaker 1: at the end, if you're playing the last pairing, you're
Speaker 1: the only ones there. You know, we saw this last
Speaker 1: year with like it was like, you know, the stage
Speaker 1: was set for Rory and Bryson. They're the only two
Speaker 1: on the range hidden balls, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: this this great moment and there's almost like this tension
Speaker 1: between the players. And Reid talked about just like how
Speaker 1: that had been missing from his life and how nice
Speaker 1: it was for that to be back in his life.
Speaker 2: And it's like, yeah, that was a great quote like
Speaker 2: the dynamic of I mean, as a podcast called the
Speaker 2: Shotgun Start, it felt pretty like in a personal attack.
Speaker 2: But he's not not big on the Shotgun Started as
Speaker 2: a comes to a competitive environment. It did sound like
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that was really spur the
Speaker 2: moment or fly bys. It sounded like he might have
Speaker 2: just been in Dubai and feeling it, like, hey, I
Speaker 2: want to go back. I want to go back and
Speaker 2: do like competitive PGA tour golf. It kind of maybe
Speaker 2: that happened quicker than we thought. Maybe it didn't, but
Speaker 2: but the way he was portraying it great quote postgrad life.
Speaker 2: One more storyline. No one's talking about skip It aftermath.
Speaker 2: I think skip it might be screwing up players and
Speaker 2: players swings. I think we need to end skip It.
Speaker 2: I think I'm done. It feels like just a content thought.
Speaker 2: Skipp It card Arnival. You got these people in these
Speaker 2: stands urging everybody to skip it. Now there's caddies skipping it.
Speaker 2: They're getting in the way of pace of play. For
Speaker 2: practice rounds, we watched one caddy to top it in
Speaker 2: the drink two feet in front of him. Another hit
Speaker 2: a driver across. I just think we need to do
Speaker 2: away with skip It. I'm no fun league. I'm done
Speaker 2: with skip it that thing. I mean, you know, my
Speaker 2: personal thoughts on them.
Speaker 1: We might be sending PJ PJ into the merch tent
Speaker 1: to get get a skip it hack. We might for
Speaker 1: a potential experience with you. Those are more few more storyline.
Speaker 3: I got a couple that that you guys haven't seen
Speaker 3: yet that what's that? I'll throw up here one day more?
Speaker 3: Can Zach Johnson play four days after dominating three day
Speaker 3: events recently? Can he go back?
Speaker 1: Oh? This is a this is a question he could
Speaker 1: lean on with his uh, his friends on the Lift Tour.
Speaker 1: Maybe he could ask UH, I don't know DJ related
Speaker 1: they were a Baster's champions. Maybe that's what they're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about it.
Speaker 3: They could chop it up, yeah, they there's plenty of
Speaker 3: live representation, Sergio. He could chop it up with anybody.
Speaker 1: But I think J top ten last year here.
Speaker 3: People forget that. People do forget that. And then we
Speaker 3: have one from from La Manya that I'll throw in uh.
Speaker 3: An anonymous player upset about in early morning tea time
Speaker 3: not not thrilled was not breaking breaking news to this player.
Speaker 3: Mamaya witnessed it live and this player was laughing maniacally
Speaker 3: at the fact that he had to get up early
Speaker 3: tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: So just wait you Thursday morning?
Speaker 3: Thursday or Thursday morning?
Speaker 2: Should that be key for Homa? We're just we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's what about big potty?
Speaker 2: He likes to giggle.
Speaker 3: Couldn't be big potty?
Speaker 1: All right, great, big partty. I've embraced the opportunity to
Speaker 1: learn from the legend.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hope he he has the driver and
Speaker 3: he starts. I want to see Ali's head explode. That'd
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure she should.
Speaker 1: Probably ask Alli about it if he gets the drive.
Speaker 3: If it happens, I yeah, I think I think I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna watch that Thursday morning.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Love it all right? All right? What else do we got?
Speaker 2: Any other storylines? Quotables? Do we want to get the quotables?
Speaker 2: I don't have a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I don't have time. I think we've already talked to
Speaker 1: out most of the quote.
Speaker 2: I just have the quote of the week, the quote
Speaker 2: of the week or the question of the week. Can
Speaker 2: you guess who this was asked to? That's from a medium?
Speaker 1: I think I know.
Speaker 2: If you had Tiger Woods in front of you right now,
Speaker 2: what words of encouragement would you give? Him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think about like Justin Thomas would be
Speaker 1: a good person to ask this too. Freddie, Yeah, Freddy
Speaker 1: Jason Day gave a good a good response to these questions.
Speaker 2: If you had Tiger Woods in front of you right now,
Speaker 2: what words of encouragement would you give him? Who would
Speaker 2: you ask this to? Well, this guy asked a Jacob Bridgeman,
Speaker 2: number one player in the world. The Bridgeman was asked
Speaker 2: for his thoughts on what lecture he would give Tiger
Speaker 2: What an insane question from someone who clearly has no
Speaker 2: concept of the current golf moment. And Bridgeman, like to
Speaker 2: his to his credit, de mourd and gave him something
Speaker 2: to work with, and everybody's thinking about him and hoping
Speaker 2: he can do what's best. Then this dufus follows with
Speaker 2: the same sentiment with Phil not being here.
Speaker 1: Bridget Richard's never played with Richmond.
Speaker 2: Says, yeah, I don't know. I don't know actually, and
Speaker 2: he goes, is it going to be odd not to
Speaker 2: see Phil around here? This is Bridgeman's first so he's
Speaker 2: never been here. He would doesn't know what odd even
Speaker 2: or anything. He goes, yeah, I've only played two tournaments
Speaker 2: in my life. That Phil has been in So not
Speaker 2: a big change for me, but maybe if I was
Speaker 2: a spectator watching on TV. But not a big change
Speaker 2: for me. Who's going at Bridgman about Tiger and Phil?
Speaker 1: I can tell you I was. I was watching this unfold.
Speaker 1: But I have to give this person props because it
Speaker 1: also he also I believe, I don't want to I
Speaker 1: believe this was the same person asking about Tiger rolled
Speaker 1: over to Jason Day and delivered this question. For long
Speaker 1: time shotgunners, this was a moment of our Early Masters
Speaker 1: podcast when we found out that Jay Day was using
Speaker 1: balloons twenty nineteen. He was using balloons first back issues,
Speaker 1: and this same reporter did have the wherewithal ask Jason
Speaker 1: Day do you still do that thing with the balloon,
Speaker 1: to which Jason Day said, yeah, every now and then,
Speaker 1: love the balloons. Essentially, what happens is you have to
Speaker 1: really understand why things go wrong in your body. So
Speaker 1: for me, my diaphragm tightened up a lot. So the diaphragm,
Speaker 1: oh god, that like this is you know the transcriptor
Speaker 1: did not get this right. So when my diaphragm gets
Speaker 1: a little off, gets a little tight, then things start
Speaker 1: to react. And you know, I start getting a little tight.
Speaker 1: Other things happen limits my range of motion through the
Speaker 1: swing and rotation, so then I creates bad tendencies. So
Speaker 1: he does a lot of breath work, works with the diaphragm,
Speaker 1: but still does those balloons, still working with balloons. He's
Speaker 1: still the balloon boy. Maybe he should have looked into
Speaker 1: I mean, I loved I loved the best with all
Speaker 1: the birds on it. Yeah, that was objectively great.
Speaker 2: You liked it, all right?
Speaker 1: Maybe he should he should talk to Nico about getting
Speaker 1: the hot air balloon.
Speaker 2: Shore love that the hot air balloon.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: One more quote, I would just say Bryson shouting out
Speaker 2: the Texarcana golf courses breaking fifty is a great master's
Speaker 2: prep was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Former former length for Moreau golf course. Yeah, I hope
Speaker 1: one day they restore their length for bureau Greens.
Speaker 2: It looks really cool. Empty in the notebook. Any other
Speaker 2: quick odds and ends empty in the notebook.
Speaker 1: I know you have them. But we're gonna have live
Speaker 1: shows every night. A lot of these are ever green.
Speaker 1: I gotta see anything that has to go.
Speaker 2: We could do. A great one we saw was four
Speaker 2: Caddies from number one t You know, this is just
Speaker 2: a practice round tradition. At this point, four caddies in
Speaker 2: their white jumpsuits got her up. It was Xander's caddy,
Speaker 2: a couple of.
Speaker 3: There's spawning kitty Cat.
Speaker 2: They were looking at a provocative line off number one,
Speaker 2: like right into ninth ninth fairway off one that left
Speaker 2: right over the trees. They were gunning it from that
Speaker 2: angle up and over the trees to one green. They
Speaker 2: were all there together shooting it together. Interesting right at
Speaker 2: the leaderboard. That's a note from the board. Another note
Speaker 2: hearing rumblings. You know how they collect all the range
Speaker 2: data on the Masters app and all that that they
Speaker 2: might bring that to the live leader board. So if
Speaker 2: so kitty Cat pulls a nine iron on the third
Speaker 2: why or whatever the fifth toll, they will show you, well,
Speaker 2: here's this dispersion when he was hitting the nine iron
Speaker 2: on the range, and they'll have like this are the
Speaker 2: data front. So that's interesting. I got data overloaded.
Speaker 3: I got a data note.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you got on that?
Speaker 3: I talked to a veteran data collector today who told
Speaker 3: me his veteran data collector his favorite player is Patrick
Speaker 3: Cantley because there was lots of time to input the data.
Speaker 1: I gotta I got a couple of notes here. What else?
Speaker 1: I noticed that Bubba and Max Grazerman were playing together,
Speaker 1: and I was just wondering, what do you think they
Speaker 1: were talking about?
Speaker 3: BK joined that group too. When I picked that up,
Speaker 3: that was an interesting.
Speaker 2: By the way, we gotta we gotta put BK and
Speaker 2: read in the like mid WU right, right, We're not
Speaker 2: disrespecting in the mid WU category. Right. It was like
Speaker 2: sneaky people we should be.
Speaker 3: I don't even think any of them are sneaky at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 1: I also just want to get in front of this.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a question on
Speaker 1: on on social media platforms. What's going on with John
Speaker 1: Rom's hair?
Speaker 3: I noticed that last night.
Speaker 1: I just think this is gonna be a story when
Speaker 1: when people see it on the cover. Yeah, it is like, wait,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, what is going on with it? With what's
Speaker 1: going on in the bag. It's a party in the back.
Speaker 1: It's it's a different kind of party, different kind of
Speaker 1: vibe in the back. Yeah, what else?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Then I had one other question. I had a question
Speaker 1: for you, for you guys. As I watched him stand
Speaker 1: over a wedge for like ten minutes. Oh boy, is
Speaker 1: Aaron Rye Washable?
Speaker 3: Watchable?
Speaker 2: We watched him with Michael Brennan, Yester who apparently can
Speaker 2: watch him to save his life. Michael Brennan, it was tough.
Speaker 2: We watched him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard, methodical. I don't think he's watchable.
Speaker 2: I mean, practice rounds are extra grueling. If you're trying
Speaker 2: to watch too, I think it's probably comes out even
Speaker 2: worse there. He's bad. Last last one one more note
Speaker 2: for me. Uh, Tiger is really not persona non grata
Speaker 2: as much as he could be anywhere, right. I don't think,
Speaker 2: you know, with what they had planned for the patch
Speaker 2: and the big rollout and all this stuff, and Tiger
Speaker 2: was going to be a part of that, I don't
Speaker 2: think the membership and the club and the Master's tournament
Speaker 2: are super thrilled with the Tiger. And that's just you know,
Speaker 2: Phil's gone and it just seems like not. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he was going to try to play, but
Speaker 2: it just and he's told not. It just doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like they're super thrilled with how the timing of all
Speaker 2: that happened right as they were going to do the patch.
Speaker 1: Seems like the PG of America might have dodgable it too.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you. Yeah. On the timing.
Speaker 2: Yeahah, so we have no Phill, no Tiger PJ. By
Speaker 2: the way, last a little bit of no merch report.
Speaker 2: You had a great article in the merch tent today.
Speaker 2: We had sanity. We had a yeah, nomes everywhere. We
Speaker 2: got prices for the maj On set, three ninety five
Speaker 2: for tiles, one hundred for the board, and eighty for
Speaker 2: the bag.
Speaker 3: I don't really play in the Majong marketing place, so
Speaker 3: that might be a fair price. I couldn't tell you,
Speaker 3: but it seems like a lot of money.
Speaker 2: We also got word that Golf Channel ran rough shot
Speaker 2: over early access to ours. Golf Channel people came in
Speaker 2: and just started apparently.
Speaker 3: Early access for the partners like Ups Mercedes. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: you know, let them in a little bit early to
Speaker 3: get some stuff. An apparently Golf Channel heard this, hit
Speaker 3: it hard hard.
Speaker 2: So let's your merch report read that one. Yeah, we're
Speaker 2: gonna bring him in. What time? How much more time
Speaker 2: you got you gotta go?
Speaker 1: I've got twenty minutes, twenty minutes, all right?
Speaker 2: We could do kV I should do all.
Speaker 1: My crazy It's crazy that I have somewhere to go,
Speaker 1: but I do have a very important dinner date here.
Speaker 2: To You got stuck. Kvv's coming in with his KVV three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't have a chair.
Speaker 1: You can't do you have enough cord? Do you need
Speaker 1: to go over the top over over the VP? Yeah?
Speaker 3: There you go?
Speaker 2: All right, what's your CAVV three?
Speaker 1: Why are we stuck here?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: So I was I was my first one is is
Speaker 6: kind of small. I was devastated to learn this afternoon
Speaker 6: that Tom Watson does a.
Speaker 5: Better Jack Nicholas impression that I do.
Speaker 6: And if you guys saw him on Live from he
Speaker 6: was talking like Jack is telling a story about one
Speaker 6: of the Masters where Jack beat him. I think so
Speaker 6: many five i'vean he was saying, you know that. He's like,
Speaker 6: what why did you hit six iron there? And Jack
Speaker 6: was like, wow, club wouldn't win me the tournament and
Speaker 6: it was so good, it was so much better that.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm kind of devastated.
Speaker 6: This is another example of athletes taking media jobs. This
Speaker 6: is like what over ran ESPN is like just all
Speaker 6: the all the people.
Speaker 1: Is probably going to be talking golf this week. He
Speaker 1: Talked Talked to College Hoops the other day for pte
Speaker 1: J m Army Knights.
Speaker 5: See it's been love making Dan into a hot take.
Speaker 5: Guy's you know my secon one. I was a little
Speaker 5: more serious. Bryson's got the weirdest vibe going on.
Speaker 6: I know this isn't gonna come as a shock, but uh,
Speaker 6: Shane Ryan wrote something this today that kind of came
Speaker 6: just like a vibes check on every player in the field,
Speaker 6: and he sort of basically described Bryson's vibe as I'm
Speaker 6: going to get this right here. Uh, if you were
Speaker 6: going to rank his bad vibes, it would be just
Speaker 6: the unshakable, upsetting sense that everything you see is artific
Speaker 6: and exists atop a layer of unsatisfied yearning and incurable sadness.
Speaker 6: And like that's I if I were to sort of
Speaker 6: ask someone to kind of nail Bryson's whole m O,
Speaker 6: I think that would be it like obvious that Bryson
Speaker 6: has done a lot of work on himself and wants
Speaker 6: to sort of be seen as a kind of you know,
Speaker 6: more mature person, person with a little bit more grounding, yeah,
Speaker 6: and intellectual who doesn't want to be snippy and combative,
Speaker 6: and yet there's just like a little tinge of like
Speaker 6: this is all kind of a show, like this is
Speaker 6: all sort.
Speaker 5: Of a living YouTube.
Speaker 2: Video that's in pretty conspicuous layer and the tinge.
Speaker 6: And I am someone who I think has had a
Speaker 6: more sympathetic view of Bryson and a lot of people,
Speaker 6: I feel like, I just you know, I want him
Speaker 6: to find contentment and happiness and I just don't know
Speaker 6: what exactly the the answers for him. But he you know,
Speaker 6: it's interesting today he there's something going on too with
Speaker 6: him where he won't quite dig into where he's crying
Speaker 6: by the green side in South Africa, but he keeps
Speaker 6: saying I won't talk about that, and I just, you know,
Speaker 6: someone brought it up again today in the presser.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely can't talk about that.
Speaker 6: And you know, it's a little weird like why he
Speaker 6: keeps hinting at it but then like refusing.
Speaker 5: To address it.
Speaker 6: You, I don't know, like something in your personal life
Speaker 6: or whatever, did you have a bad breakup something? You know,
Speaker 6: his father passing years ago was sort of a big
Speaker 6: part of his emotional kind of journey, but that's that's
Speaker 6: been a while now.
Speaker 5: It's happened anyway, so he was.
Speaker 6: Of course today he goes into the whole thing about
Speaker 6: he might change his clubs. You know, literally right before
Speaker 6: the tournament, he's been building out these new clubs. And
Speaker 6: you know someone's asking, well, you know, are you working
Speaker 6: with Bettnardi to sort of you know, do his No, no, no,
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just doing them with myself, which is insane.
Speaker 6: It conjured up an image to me of like Bryson
Speaker 6: with his three D printer, like in the garage late
Speaker 6: at night, like sparks flying, you know, like just metal
Speaker 6: dripping on the floor, Like.
Speaker 1: How I was taking a samples and hitting him over
Speaker 1: his house.
Speaker 6: Yes, how is this like is there does the USGA
Speaker 6: person have to come in and like sort of check
Speaker 6: these clubs for you know, their whether they can form
Speaker 6: or not.
Speaker 5: It's kind of crazy. I will say.
Speaker 6: You know, I like asking these questions that sort of
Speaker 6: force these people to look inward on themselves. And so
Speaker 6: I asked him a question today and I said, you know,
Speaker 6: every time I'm on YouTube, it's like serving me up
Speaker 6: this algo of the secret of Mo Norman or like
Speaker 6: Ben Hogan's like uncovered footage whatever, and his face lit
Speaker 6: up because he knew exactly what I was talking about.
Speaker 5: He's like, oh, I get that all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he loves talking about YouTube.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And so I was like, this is a good way
Speaker 6: to engage him, because I'm going to meet him on
Speaker 6: his level if I'm gonna, you know, writ about Scotty's religion,
Speaker 6: and I can talk about Bryson's religion, which is YouTube.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 6: I but you know what, he gave this really great
Speaker 6: answer about it. He said, you know, I remember when
Speaker 6: I was first getting on YouTube, when it first kind
Speaker 6: of was a thing, and I remember there was this
Speaker 6: video called The Hogan Mystique, and I would watch it
Speaker 6: on a loop over and over and over again while
Speaker 6: I would do my homework. He's like, I probably should
Speaker 6: have been paying more attention to my homework whatever, but
Speaker 6: I just like was obsessed with watching it. And Carr
Speaker 6: was like, I kind of said, you know, do you
Speaker 6: think ever to yourself that you're leaving like this historical
Speaker 6: record for like future people to be able to study
Speaker 6: what golf was or ball striking was or whatever this stuff.
Speaker 6: Now He's like, oh, you know, of course he was
Speaker 6: kind of leading question, but he was like yeah, yeahah definitely.
Speaker 6: Like I feel like that is part of you know,
Speaker 6: passing some of this stuff on and like leaving historical record.
Speaker 6: And I think he's right, Like I think it is
Speaker 6: like the same way that people would study like old
Speaker 6: gamers or old footage. But people are going to watch
Speaker 6: this YouTube stuff that Bryson's done for decades to come,
Speaker 6: and like you've just created a hundred Bryson dose chambos,
Speaker 6: you know, a million these gambos. We're going to see
Speaker 6: more of these kind of generation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my fast pick is generation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my my final one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: It's just the kind of you guys touched on this
Speaker 6: a little bit as the Tiger stuff. You know, one
Speaker 6: thing the media stories always kind of fascinate me and
Speaker 6: annoy me, but like there there's one person out there
Speaker 6: who's asking all those tiger questions, right and look good
Speaker 6: for you. You're writing a story like people feel like your
Speaker 6: readers want to get the tiger dish of things. But
Speaker 6: then what I think bugs me a lot is like
Speaker 6: all these headlines that are like Tiger on everyone's mind,
Speaker 6: you know, come at Augusta.
Speaker 1: That's just not true.
Speaker 6: He's on Jacob Bridgman spot Yeah, but like Jacob Bridgman
Speaker 6: didn't come here being like, well, I hope I get
Speaker 6: asked the Tiger Woods question.
Speaker 3: It's probably like holy grade the.
Speaker 1: Pain I was standing there, what Day went through this
Speaker 1: ringer h and like you know, he he stood up
Speaker 1: there and gave like really good responses for like five minutes,
Speaker 1: and you could just see him get done and just be.
Speaker 7: Like, oh, thank God, good for Day for like answering
Speaker 7: like in some kind of honest way, Like I think
Speaker 7: it was selfish whoever to drive like that's you're risking
Speaker 7: like giving like being excommunicated from the Tiger circle forever
Speaker 7: just by being a little bit honest.
Speaker 2: Did we wad into that that was a plot.
Speaker 6: So, but it's a tough position to put these guys
Speaker 6: in and then to frame it as if like they're
Speaker 6: the ones who brought up Tiger throughout the day, like
Speaker 6: grabbing media people as they walk by and be like, hey,
Speaker 6: I just want you to know I have some Tiger
Speaker 6: thoughts and get off my chest. Yeah, that's the way
Speaker 6: it was sort of framed in some places.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not been like a competitor here since
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, even if he were playing he's not the
Speaker 2: defending champ. It's just insane how we force him into this.
Speaker 6: Listen, then, in some respects, like the Masters is with
Speaker 6: the best media is like gets produced all year for golf,
Speaker 6: and also some of like the absolute worst. Sure sure,
Speaker 6: I think you know, there's a real case to be
Speaker 6: made that of course, like the Ownship nuxt book about
Speaker 6: Rory is coming out this week whatever, and I think
Speaker 6: it's like from what I understand, I haven't gotten all
Speaker 6: the way through it, but it's fair he did a
Speaker 6: very you know that he worked really hard to kind of.
Speaker 5: Make sure that it wasn't sort of sensationalist or whatever.
Speaker 6: But of course, like the British tabloids and New York
Speaker 6: Posts or whatever immediately like rip the middle of it
Speaker 6: out of the context with stuff with his marriage and
Speaker 6: just you know, use it to kind of like trash
Speaker 6: things and like surface rumors and stuff. And it's just
Speaker 6: it's like using that which is like a you know,
Speaker 6: fairly nuanced and responsible something that's been vetted by legal
Speaker 6: something that he literally handed a copy of it to
Speaker 6: Rory to then like it becomes like a headline in
Speaker 6: the daily news in York Post just kind of gross,
Speaker 6: And the only reason they're doing it is because you know,
Speaker 6: it's the Masters, and they know that people are gonna
Speaker 6: like be vampires and click on it who don't follow
Speaker 6: golf whatever, And it just I'm always like just in
Speaker 6: awe of some of the great media that gets produced
Speaker 6: and always kind of like cringe at some of the
Speaker 6: how bad the bad media makes the media look during
Speaker 6: the Masters.
Speaker 5: It's just something they have to kind of live through.
Speaker 2: Bryson was an interesting cap to the day. Let's see,
Speaker 2: I'd like your you know, diagnose this there he's interesting,
Speaker 2: uh tiger stuff. I think it's done though, right Oh
Speaker 2: Bully Champions dinner. Maybe there'll be an anecdote it or something,
Speaker 2: but that's it. Should we pick winners winners? You got
Speaker 2: KVV three, were got winners all the way around. Let's
Speaker 2: go four wide? Uh, PJ you want to leave us off?
Speaker 2: I don't go PJ. KVV me in. Then Andy can
Speaker 2: cap us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't think this should come as
Speaker 3: a surprise to anybody. We're steering into it. I do
Speaker 3: love Xander this week, but ride or Die, let's go time.
Speaker 3: Cameron Young.
Speaker 1: Imagine if Cameron Young launched his own app I.
Speaker 3: Mean, remember how we were, Remember how we were saying
Speaker 3: that I should go be a copywriter for the Xander app.
Speaker 3: If somebody could teach me how to code, I would
Speaker 3: do the cav Young app.
Speaker 1: I would just think you could use AI now use
Speaker 1: flawed or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you gotta you know.
Speaker 5: You were probably told when you left journalism learn the code.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mister, time to see this thing through. I can't
Speaker 3: can't leave now at the eleventh hour. I'm planning the flag.
Speaker 3: I mean, the flag has been planted for a long time.
Speaker 2: So keV, who do you like this week?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Rum.
Speaker 6: I really think that he has something to prove. You know,
Speaker 6: he is one of the five best players in the world,
Speaker 6: and I think he would like to remind people.
Speaker 5: I don't you know.
Speaker 6: I we all know kind of how I feel in
Speaker 6: general about the live stuff. But I think like he's
Speaker 6: played well enough to know that he's like coming in
Speaker 6: pretty sharp, and I think like grievance helps him, and
Speaker 6: the stuff with the DP World Tour is going to
Speaker 6: be like a good you know, motivator to basically be like, oh,
Speaker 6: really you want to hold a Ryder Cup without me?
Speaker 5: And like a cycle where I won the Masters, you know,
Speaker 5: and I think.
Speaker 6: He'll probably have a pretty good public relations argument anyway, like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, you can't leave the Masters champion at home.
Speaker 6: And I just feel like we're trending to a time
Speaker 6: when he is going to like, if he gets off
Speaker 6: to a good start, I think he's gonna be really
Speaker 6: tough to beat.
Speaker 2: I have rom too. That's my pick. I don't need
Speaker 2: to add a tohole lot. You've covered the basis, Andy,
Speaker 2: who do you like?
Speaker 1: All right? I picked it. You know I'm covering my
Speaker 1: basis because if you only listen to the fried egg Pot,
Speaker 1: you heard me pick Scotti. I have, I've swerved.
Speaker 2: I love this. I love doing multiple pic.
Speaker 1: I serve. I like it. Well, you know, I saw
Speaker 1: I had to make a decision before I got on
Speaker 1: the ground. I seen the looseness, I saw the I
Speaker 1: saw some good shots. I saw some shots I wanted
Speaker 1: to see. I saw a sharpness, and I did. This
Speaker 1: is a time on her tradition, get on the grounds
Speaker 1: early week. I'm not picking Rory. I'm picking Rory, come on,
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 2: I love it. I was almost if you were going
Speaker 2: to pick him, I was gonna go back on my
Speaker 2: rom pick. That's great. Screw it. Well, take Rory.
Speaker 3: This guy. This guy watched the hype video today and
Speaker 3: was in This guy saw a hype video.
Speaker 2: I was that before.
Speaker 3: I almost brought it up. We were talking about the
Speaker 3: pressure before.
Speaker 1: That was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I've been coming to press conference since that building was open.
Speaker 2: Were supposed to clasp It's the first time they've ever
Speaker 2: put a hype video.
Speaker 3: I actually asked if we were supposed to clap.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 2: That's a great pick. That's a great Honest to god,
Speaker 2: I sold. I mean, that's a great pick.
Speaker 1: Back to back. He delivered.
Speaker 2: He delivered for me last year when I picked him
Speaker 2: one and done. Were touting gambling pot. Gambling POD's gonna
Speaker 2: delivered for you when.
Speaker 6: Your when a guy went back to back, Do you
Speaker 6: know who puts the coat on him?
Speaker 1: It's chairman, chairman. I found that out after I didn't
Speaker 1: know during my pod.
Speaker 3: That's why you do a prepot, Yeah, so you can
Speaker 3: make it.
Speaker 1: I can do two preview pots. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: podcasters going to do.
Speaker 3: You can make a pick and then you can make it.
Speaker 6: You know what I will say is if he's three
Speaker 6: shots in the lead, on Sunday, like house money, baby,
Speaker 6: what do you have to lose? Like you can absolutely
Speaker 6: come running down at people and you're basically like, you
Speaker 6: know what if I win the Masters, Oh well, people
Speaker 6: will still think it's good defense.
Speaker 1: This is the thing I said it earlier. I just
Speaker 1: think he he like fully, there's a freeing aspect to
Speaker 1: something when you know you don't have to play perfectly.
Speaker 1: And last year making four doubles, you made four doubles
Speaker 1: in one.
Speaker 2: Shave that I love that. We spent ten years picking
Speaker 2: Rory like. I just like the juggling routine. I think
Speaker 2: he's got figured out that. And then Wednesday, we're gonna
Speaker 2: still just keep doing it. We've all we're we're going
Speaker 2: When do you think.
Speaker 3: The first matter? It's twenty twenty six? What year is
Speaker 3: the first Masters where nobody reasonably expects Rory to win?
Speaker 1: Now he did say I've got ten more jes Can
Speaker 1: I raise my hand please? Is this the first Masters
Speaker 1: where nobody thinks Jordan Speth's gonna win?
Speaker 2: Uh No, I'm sure there's some people out there.
Speaker 1: So this is the actually the first Masters that you
Speaker 1: have to worry about Jordans.
Speaker 5: I actually you know early this season.
Speaker 6: When he was putting really well, I thought, man like
Speaker 6: we could get back in the here and then he horrible.
Speaker 5: Seek does it matters a little?
Speaker 1: It matters for.
Speaker 2: With God, Sam Burns, you know put your way to
Speaker 2: T forty eight.
Speaker 1: I don't know his deputies week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the deputies are in the street, all right.
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: That does it for a shotguns start preview of the Masters, Kevin,
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us, PJ. PJ To say, PJ
Speaker 2: has been stressed about producing. This would be the understatement
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: Your review ended today has been the day I made.
Speaker 1: Him get a camera too. I made him get a
Speaker 1: real camera.
Speaker 2: Shout, PJ. Pj's you know, approval rating obvious sky high.
Speaker 2: But you've been working hard and you've been very anxious
Speaker 2: about this. So thank you for your work here.
Speaker 3: Andy.
Speaker 2: Great to be with you again for another Masters. We
Speaker 2: will be doing dailies every night after the conclusion of
Speaker 2: play Sunday TV, maybe.
Speaker 1: Five minutes before. Sometimes we like to go like jump
Speaker 1: the gun, nothing's going on on Friday now.
Speaker 3: And making that put on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: We're gonna jump in our gls and scoop back to
Speaker 2: the house and get going here. But every night, Thursday night,
Speaker 2: Friday and Saturday, and then we'll figure out Sunday. Honestly,
Speaker 2: like it's like sign off, it's incredible that we get
Speaker 2: to do this as a job. We have no no harbor,
Speaker 2: no cockiness or delusion about the Who's responsible and it's
Speaker 2: the audience. So thank you guys for listening, giving a
Speaker 2: damn paying any amount of time or attention to this
Speaker 2: now hour and forty five minutes. Can't wait to cover
Speaker 2: the Masters with you guys over Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you then