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Speaker 1: How are we doing? Talking golf, talking match play, talking

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Speaker 1: what happened last week? Getting ready for Augusta. Right around

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Speaker 1: where do we need to start the match play? I

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Speaker 1: watched a decent amount of it. I watched a decent

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Speaker 1: amount of it, especially Saturday and Sunday, and there is

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Speaker 1: no disputing it is really electric. Now. Part of it

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Speaker 1: being electric had a lot of big names Scheffler, Rory, Zander,

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Speaker 1: some of our most famous players in America, and obviously Rory.

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Speaker 1: But I think we all have to agree that that

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Speaker 1: lot of us play. And then you factor in that

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Speaker 1: course the course is badass. There's a quirky nature to it.

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Speaker 1: There clearly is a lot of birdie's and part of

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Speaker 1: Rory or Scottie or Zander or whatever, like if they

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Speaker 1: played a best ball today it would be fifty eight.

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Speaker 1: They've got seventeen birdies in their last thirty two holes.

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Speaker 1: Part of it is a little skewed because it's match play.

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Speaker 1: because a lot of it's like, well Rory shot sixty

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Speaker 1: Young with the MLB on his collar. Was a baseball player,

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Speaker 1: he'd be a sixty home run guy every single year

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Speaker 1: you talk about power. Scottie Rory kind of sad because

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Speaker 1: that was really fun. Yeah, Young might be Mike Trout,

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Speaker 1: you know, the guy that's a letter out there that

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Speaker 1: doesn't ever win. How's that for an analogy there? But

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Speaker 1: what was you? What was your tweet? In however many starts?

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Speaker 1: He has eight top tens or something. So he joined

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour a year and a half ago, exactly

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Speaker 1: eighteen months ago. He has ten top three finishes around

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Speaker 1: the world, not all about the PGA Tour, a couple

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Speaker 1: of the World two or other circuits around the world.

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Speaker 1: But ten top three is without a victory so far.

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Speaker 1: As for the weekend, I you know, I'm struggling to

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Speaker 1: still figure out was this the best possible outcome for

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour, having four great players in the final

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Speaker 1: match play on the weekend and anything things up on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Or did they almost want to go out with a

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Speaker 1: whimper instead of a bang? Did they almost want four

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Speaker 1: guys who everyone looks at and says, ah, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of over this matchplay thing. Let's move on

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Speaker 1: from this and let's get going. Because what happened this weekend,

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Speaker 1: I think it's fueled everybody's love for watching match play golf.

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Speaker 1: And look, I've used the analogy over the past week

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Speaker 1: or so that it's very much like the WM Phoenix opened,

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Speaker 1: and that once a year, one week out of the year,

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Speaker 1: it's really cool. Hey in Phoenix, let him party, let

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Speaker 1: him have fun. Do you want to see it every week?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not, but for one week we understand it and

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Speaker 1: it's fun. We want to see ten different matchplay events

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Speaker 1: every year? No, come on, that'd be ridiculous, But I

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Speaker 1: think having more than zero would be a really good

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Speaker 1: idea Moving forward. I do think in some shape or form,

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Speaker 1: we'll see it back on the schedule. Maybe not next season,

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Speaker 1: maybe the season afterwards. We're talking twenty twenty five, but

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Speaker 1: it's a long way away, and it's a shame that

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna have matchplay, have the world's best players

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Speaker 1: playing match play against each other moving forward. In the

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Speaker 1: short term, I think it speaks to just the depth

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Speaker 1: of right now of the tour and the talent is,

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Speaker 1: you know, with DJ Gone and Brycing Gone, I guess

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Speaker 1: at the top tier of just firepower, you would think

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Speaker 1: Rom and Rory, and I think Scotty is kind of

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Speaker 1: coming right behind him right just when you just think

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Speaker 1: like this guy's got it all, you watch Sam Burns

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Speaker 1: and Cam Young deconnect with those two guys, you can't

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Speaker 1: really notice a difference in terms of ball striking, the

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Speaker 1: power those guys possess, the ability to just make shit

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Speaker 1: happen around the greens. I mean for guys that aren't

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Speaker 1: really considered top ten guys, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 1: gambling on you know, major fields, maybe when when they're

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Speaker 1: a little deeper, those guys clearly their high end talent

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Speaker 1: is pretty freaking eye. For those people like myself who

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Speaker 1: are putting together lists and rankings of their favorite Masters

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Speaker 1: contenders for next week, I think you probably before this

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Speaker 1: past weekend had a list that, okay, you've got, like

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Speaker 1: you said, Scotty Rom Rory, of people like Jordan Spieth,

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly on that train as well, Patrick cantleys Ander Shaffley,

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Speaker 1: Colin Morrikawa, Justin Thomas. I mean, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: really good players. You want to throw in Cam Smith

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Speaker 1: and Dustin Johnson who are gonna move over from live

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Speaker 1: and playing the Masters. They're qualified. I certainly think that's

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Speaker 1: within the rom of possibility. But then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you're like, well, that's more than ten players already.

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Speaker 1: I've got my top ten. I've got twelve players in

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Speaker 1: my top ten. And maybe you didn't have Sam Burns,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you didn't have Cameron Young, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you're going, what am I gonna do? I

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Speaker 1: got I gotta cross a few names off that list

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Speaker 1: to fit them in there somewhere. And I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I say this every year,

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Speaker 1: but very honestly, this year, I'm gonna have twenty seven

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Speaker 1: guys in my top ten. I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: create a top ten list going into this one, because

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Speaker 1: there are so many guys who are playing really good

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Speaker 1: golf going into the year's first major, and I just

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's a process of elimination. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you start eliminating players. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you look at any of these guys and say

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Speaker 1: he just doesn't have it right now. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 1: a couple of him. You and I talked about Wills

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Speaker 1: Alatoris a little bit before he started the pod. I mean, okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe you know, there's injury concerns, there's putter concerns, but

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Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of players in that top

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Speaker 1: twenty of the world ranking where you go, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: crossing him off my list right away. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he can do it, even Xander, right, I mean, he

512
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Speaker 1: kind of had a weird season then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you watching this week or like, god, he looks pretty

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Speaker 1: dialed in, you know, I mean he would you know,

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Speaker 1: he went I think it was toe to toe with Rory. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, before we dive into this week. It's obviously

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Speaker 1: we got a kind of a big three, and the

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Speaker 1: odds reflected it does feel like Scottie, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean his three so far, the tournaments that he won

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Speaker 1: last year, he won the Phoenix Open, he has finished

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Speaker 1: you know, he finished fourth last week, but really it's

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Speaker 1: it feels like, what the hell's the difference is? Like

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Speaker 1: fourth and second? I mean, he feels like, how are

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Speaker 1: you gonna knock have some exposure on that guy? Going

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Speaker 1: into AUGUSTA the way you don't have exposure is you

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Speaker 1: look at him and say, he's really short right now,

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Speaker 1: he's seven to seven and a half to one depending

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Speaker 1: on the book, and you just don't want to go

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Speaker 1: chase a short number. But look, if you still weren't

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Speaker 1: sold for some reason on Scottie Scheffler, I'm gonna sell

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Speaker 1: you even more on him. He has now defended three titles,

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Speaker 1: his first three titles on the PGA Tour from last

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Speaker 1: year at Phoenix he won yet again, successfully defended his title,

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Speaker 1: and Bayhill finishing his share of fourth place, and then,

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Speaker 1: as he mentioned the match play, he finished in fourth again.

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Speaker 1: And so you look at the guy and say, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he's specifically a horse horse type of

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Speaker 1: player where he's going to play the same play really

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Speaker 1: well at the same golf courses year after year after year,

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Speaker 1: but he's certainly showing that so far. And the next

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Speaker 1: one he's getting to where he's going to defend the

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Speaker 1: title is next week at Augusta National, and he's playing

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Speaker 1: really good golf. You take horse history and you take

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Speaker 1: recent form and you put him together. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a very inexact science when it comes

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Speaker 1: to prognosticating golf tournaments. But there are two big things

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Speaker 1: we look at, and that's form in history. He's got

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Speaker 1: both of them right at the top level, and probably

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Speaker 1: better than anybody else. I don't see how you overlook

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Speaker 1: him either. I don't know that you necessarily want to

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Speaker 1: go all in on Scotty and say that's my guy

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Speaker 1: and I'm betting on him this week, because quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: you can't fill up the card. I don't see how

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Speaker 1: you can if you're gonna bet Scottie and you said, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm almost gonna bet rom and you know I kind

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Speaker 1: of like Rory as well. That's not a money maker

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Speaker 1: for you right there. I just don't I don't understand

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Speaker 1: necessarily the thought process beyond doing if you're going Scotty,

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Speaker 1: you sort of have to go all in on Scotty.

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Speaker 1: But again it might not be a bad idea. He's

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Speaker 1: proven it before that he plays well, same course year

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Speaker 1: after year. I went all in last week. Now again

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Speaker 1: I started getting in my fields on on Rory after

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Speaker 1: you know, the driver started looking good and the putter.

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Speaker 1: Clearly you just fell a lot more confident. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I if you had money on any of the big three.

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Speaker 1: I don't if I could debate you. You know, last

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Speaker 1: year Ricky was obviously he was a headliner at this event.

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Speaker 1: It feels a little bit different this year. And I

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Speaker 1: think he was asked about it last week and he

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Speaker 1: had I think his response was basically like, listen, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I get in, great, but I feel pretty good

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Speaker 1: about where we're headed, and he should. And when he

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Speaker 1: beat Ram last week on Wednesday, or like, god, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna make the Core finals, like this thing has opened up.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously Horsell got him, derailed him. It's hard

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Speaker 1: in this situation, But do you feel pretty bullish on

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Speaker 1: Ricky just where he's headed. I mean, Jordan came out

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Speaker 1: of the ABYSS, Jason Days come out of the BYSS.

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Speaker 1: It feels like Ricky has really come strong out of

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Speaker 1: the ABYSS. He is very very close to playing some

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Speaker 1: really really good golf. I do think it might happen

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Speaker 1: on a week when there's maybe less pressure on him.

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Speaker 1: This week in the Valero Texas Open, it's essentially all

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Speaker 1: or nothing. I mean, he's making no bones about the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's going to play these events to go

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Speaker 1: win and get into Augusta hasn't played an Augusta since

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Speaker 1: twenty wants to get back in the field. There's that

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Speaker 1: one invitation that's left out there. But man, it's hard

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Speaker 1: enough to go win on the PGA Tour any week,

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Speaker 1: let alone on a week win. You absolutely have to

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Speaker 1: have a win to get what you're looking for. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think it's gonna be that easy for Ricky

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Speaker 1: this week. But I think it's gonna be another fine

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Speaker 1: week for him. And I do think that at some

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Speaker 1: point down the road, at some point this summer, maybe

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Speaker 1: when we're leased expecting it, Ricky goes out and wins

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Speaker 1: a golf tournament and climbs up that world ranking and

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to worry about all this trying to get

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Speaker 1: into majors moving forward, that he can move high enough

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Speaker 1: in that ranking that he doesn't have to worry about

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Speaker 1: those things. Who do you like this week? I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at a couple of Davis's. I got Cam Davis at

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Speaker 1: the top of my list. As you probably noted, John

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Speaker 1: that he was terrible at the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 1: He missed five cuts in a row. He's a guy.

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Speaker 1: It was really bullish on coming off last season. He

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Speaker 1: missed five cuts in a row. Revealed during the Players

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Speaker 1: Championship that he had had an illness and he felt

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Speaker 1: lethargic the golf course, wasn't able to practice the way

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Speaker 1: he wanted to, and so so he's just not playing

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Speaker 1: playing well at all, but finished in six of the

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Speaker 1: players two one and oh record at the match play

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Speaker 1: last week. He beat Aaron Wise and Tom Hogi in

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Speaker 1: those last two matches. I have reason to believe he's back.

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Speaker 1: I did a podcast yesterday my buddy Ben Everel from

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Speaker 1: golf bet Our Links and Locks podcast, and Benny said

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Speaker 1: he sat down with Cam last week and he is

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy and recovered and ready to go.

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Speaker 1: If I can throw another Davis in there, Davis Riley,

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Speaker 1: the young kid who won a corn Ferry event on

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Speaker 1: this very golf of course a few years ago, and

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Speaker 1: so he's been playing some good golf ever since they

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Speaker 1: left the West Coast. Have to coincide with him hit

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Speaker 1: a new caddy, James Edmondson, who used to be on

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Speaker 1: Ryan Palmer's bag, and everything's kind of pushing together now

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Speaker 1: for Davis Riley as well. So I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have a really good week. So I'm looking at those

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Speaker 1: two guys, Davis has a Cameron Day excuse me as

630
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Speaker 1: longer odds, and so he might be worth a little

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Speaker 1: more of a play there. Yeah, if somehow Davis Riley

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Speaker 1: could win this week, you know, you look at he

633
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Speaker 1: only played two majors last year and he was pretty good,

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Speaker 1: made a cut in both of them. I think one

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Speaker 1: he had Top fifteen. He's a guy, you know, I

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Speaker 1: played at Alabama. I'm sure he's played Augusta before. I'd

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Speaker 1: be interested, Like, if he somehow pulls it off T twenty,

638
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: you probably get four or five to one odds on

639
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: a guy like that. I mean, I'm bullish on Davis

640
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Speaker 1: Riley winning an event sooner than later. So I like

641
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: that bet a lot on Davis Riley. Any other top

642
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: ten bets guys you liked it are trending pretty well.

643
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: How about Thomas Dtree. We talked about Cameron Young having

644
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: ten top three around the world in the last year

645
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: and a half. Almas Dtree is a guy who has

646
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: nine top three finishes on the DP World two or

647
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: where he's played most of his career. He's got another

648
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: one here on the PGA Tour in his rookie season.

649
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: He was eighth last week at the Corralis Punta Kana Championship.

650
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: He's a really good player, can't quite get over that

651
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: hump yet to win one, but I like him to

652
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: come close yet again this week. He's playing some really

653
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: good golf and he's the guy that's gonna be very

654
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: very good moving forward. Don't be surprised if he sort

655
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: of sneaks his way onto the European Ryder Cup team

656
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 1: later this year. You know what's crazy as the caddies

657
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: and we talked a little bit about it last year,

658
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: the impact some of these veteran guys that came from

659
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: established players that transition to the younger guys. You immediately

660
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: see it with Cam Young and Webb's guy. You've seen

661
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: it with Scottie now for you know, a year and

662
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: a half with Bubba's guy. I mean the impact you

663
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Speaker 1: just talked about Davis Riley, These guys, younger players get

664
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Speaker 1: a guy with a lot of experience. You showt for

665
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: years with JT and was weird as when he transitioned

666
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: to Bones from with Jim Johnson. It's kind of gone

667
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Speaker 1: the other way, Like JT feels like he's lost a

668
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: lot of momentum. Someone texts me in the golf business,

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Speaker 1: like he's out of the top ten for the first

670
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: time since twenty seventeen. Yeah, now we can talk about

671
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: the owg ror whatever. But he's just not playing as

672
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Speaker 1: well as he had been in previous years. Like makes

673
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: me a little nervous. I heard someone say that he

674
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: this year has lost like ten yards in driving distance.

675
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: I used to be a point of differentiation for a

676
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: little guy, and you just wonder, is it hard for

677
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: a guy to maintain that when he's it's not like

678
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: he's two hundred and ten pounds. I mean, he's just

679
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: a smaller player. Yeah. I don't know if it's necessarily that.

680
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: I will say that every time I see JT these days,

681
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: there's like this cloud of consternation around him. There's like

682
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: this there's this anger, there's this mood that he you know,

683
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: he's frustrated and he wants to go play better golf.

684
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: And even I sat down with him on our radio

685
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: show at the end of last year during the the

686
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: PNC Championship where he's playing with his dad, and I

687
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: asked him to assess his year and he goes, man,

688
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: it was really bad year. And I didn't play my

689
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: best and I should have played better. I could have

690
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: played better. You know, you want a major championship this year, right,

691
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: you want the PJ Goes. Yeah, I know. And Tiger

692
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: always tells me when you win a major, you have

693
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Speaker 1: to consider it a good year, no matter what else happens.

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Speaker 1: And so I know I'm too hard on myself. I've

695
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: got to be easier on myself. And I win a

696
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Speaker 1: major and I've got to like be happy with that

697
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: and just be satisfied. But I'm not satisfied. I'm frustrated.

698
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to play better golf. And so, look, I

699
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: can't delve too far into the psyche of Justin Thomas,

700
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: but I do think there's something to the fact that

701
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: he just can't quite get to the point where he's

702
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: happy with himself, his game, his results, and I don't know. Look,

703
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna play amateur armchair psychologist here, but it

704
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: almost seems like a chicken or the egg kind of thing, like, Hey,

705
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: be a little happier with your play and your results

706
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll play even better rather than trying to

707
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: play frustrate and play angry. Yeah that's yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it feels like raw, I'm unlocked. That a little bit

709
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: like a balance, you know. And look, I mean he

710
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: hasn't looked back since. Yeah, I'll get you out of

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Speaker 1: here on this. Obviously last year, you're probably right around

712
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Speaker 1: this time Tuesday or Wednesday, the week before kind of

713
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: came out Tiger was going to play, and that was

714
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: the biggest story of the week. Obviously Tiger. I mean,

715
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: we all expect him, you know, he hasn't officially announced,

716
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: but he's gonna play. Does feel like the story that's

717
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: to be a little secondary to this, just Phil DJ

718
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Speaker 1: cam Bryson, I mean, what is eighteen of those players?

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Speaker 1: Do you think you've been going to this event for

720
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Speaker 1: a long time? Is this is this going to be

721
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: one of the most unique kind of head storylines headed

722
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Speaker 1: into a Masters that you can remember. Yeah, probably, it's

723
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting. I was starting to break

724
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Speaker 1: down some numbers on those eighteen players. They've combined in

725
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: thirty six combined starts, they've totaled for five top ten

726
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Speaker 1: finishes on Live in forty eight man fields so far.

727
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Speaker 1: So none of them are playing great right now, although

728
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: we all know Cameron Smith is a fantastic world class player,

729
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: Dustin Johnson has won the Masters in the past. He's

730
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: played really well there. These guys can show up and

731
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Speaker 1: play their best goals if they're not playing their best

732
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Speaker 1: golf on the live circuit on a regular basis. I

733
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Speaker 1: look at Patrick Reid, who gets fired up for the

734
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Speaker 1: Masters every year. I look at Taylor Gooch and Abraham Answer,

735
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: who are underrated players. I don't think they're gonna win,

736
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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be surprised to see their names on

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Speaker 1: the leaderboard for at least a few days at Augusta.

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Speaker 1: And so they're viable players. I mean, it's twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of the field. They're ninety guys in the field, and

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00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: eighteen of them play for live. Yes, we're a lot

741
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Speaker 1: of them. We're going to see them infiltrating our TV

742
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: screens and we're gonna be talking about them just because

743
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: you can't ignore it. They're going to be out there.

744
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: Is it going to be what you expect, because remember

745
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: last year there was some not on the TV screens.

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Speaker 1: You know you expect them to be all paired together.

747
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're just a lot of unknown. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be all paired together. I

749
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: could be wrong about this, but I think Augusta National

750
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: will treat them just like any other players. Try to

751
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: mix it up and all the guys look. I think

752
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: everyone at this point has said their piece, And if

753
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: Rory McIlroy happens to get paired with Rys and Dashambo

754
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: and Bubba Watson for two days, they're just gonna go

755
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: play golf. I don't think there's gonna be any sort

756
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Speaker 1: of awkwardness, any sort of weird conversations. Yeah, I've heard

757
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: a lot about the Champions dinner. Could be very interesting

758
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: with six of those players two day night going into

759
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: the Champions locker room and they have dinner there in

760
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: the clubhouse. You know. I just I still don't quite

761
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: see it. I feel like we're past it again. Everyone

762
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: spoken to everything they're going to speak about this situation.

763
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: I don't know where you go from it moving forward

764
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Speaker 1: other than hey, let's go play some golf on it's

765
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: nothing else John. Just from a fans perspective, I think

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Speaker 1: it's incredibly intriguing. You're throwing guys who haven't really been

767
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: playing that much golf, first of all, and haven't really

768
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: been playing it the most competitive tour they could play

769
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Speaker 1: on and all of a sudden throwing in a major

770
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: championship like this, I am fascinated by walking out. Totally agree. Well,

771
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Speaker 1: so well, I will talk to you next week from

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Speaker 1: the grounds of Augusta National. Have a great week. I

773
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: think you're playing a little golf. Enjoy it and talk

774
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: to you soon. Man, Thanks buddy. Nothing better than driving.

775
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't get to drive down Magnolia Lane, but I

776
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: can take like the street just after it and just

777
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Yes, it could be worse, you know,

778
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: take it easy, Thanks buddy. Okay, let's dive into the

779
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Speaker 1: mailbag at Golo Pod is the Instagram. At Golo pod

780
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: is the Instagram. Fire in those dms and get your

781
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: question answered here on the show. I have to push

782
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 1: back on some of your golf takes this month. After

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Speaker 1: the first round of the Armor of Palmer, you compare

784
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Speaker 1: John Ram to Tiger Woods. I can see he is

785
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: one of your favorite players and a West Coast swing

786
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 1: was impressive, but Tiger Woods never in a million would

787
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: have withdrawn after first round with the players with a

788
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: tummy ache and let Scottie Scheffler become world number one.

789
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Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing with that. I compared him to playing

790
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: like Tiger Woods. I did not compare him to Tiger Woods.

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Speaker 1: The guy, the way John rom was playing on the

792
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: West Coast swing was elite. I never said the guy is,

793
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: you know, Tiger Woods reincarnated. He's not. You talk about

794
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: toughness a lot, and it seems Rom struggles with adversity.

795
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: I saw him completely melt down at Terry Pines this year,

796
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: and Scottie beat him head to head in Phoenix. I

797
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: think if you want to compare a player to the

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00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: big Cat, why don't you talk about Scottie's greatness more. Listen,

799
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Speaker 1: you're comparing no one to Tiger Woods. You can earn

800
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: an individual tournament Scottie Scheffler right at the waste of

801
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: management John Rom at where did he win earlier this year?

802
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: He went riff On an individual basis, you can talk

803
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: about it. There is no comparison to Tiger Woods. He

804
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: is dramatically better than all these guys. It's not even close.

805
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: He has nothing in common with any of them. So

806
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: if I do say like he's playing like Tiger Woods,

807
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean in a vacuum, in a vacuum on those

808
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: four days, or maybe over a month span. But I'm

809
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: not actually comparing them to Tiger Woods. Hell, it's hard

810
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: to comparing these guys like Phil Mickelson. You know that.

811
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: I'm just when I'm talking if a guy's playing well

812
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: like Tiger, like on the week where Rom didn't even

813
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: make it to his group. Yeah, I mean I listen,

814
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: I think John Rom when he's on, it's fun to watch.

815
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: He's good and he's awesome. I mean, he's an elite

816
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: player when he's on. But I by no means comparing

817
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: the guy to Tiger Woods career. Three and Out podcast

818
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: got me through very short football coaching career. I love

819
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: Go Low And my question is this, don't the gambling

820
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: operators as like Fandel and DraftKings as well as TV

821
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: networks have leverage over the PGA to ask them to

822
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: injury updates. I lost money on Rom being out with

823
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: a stomach virus. Yeah, the previous instagram or is not

824
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: happy with that stomach virus. Here's the thing, Like, it's

825
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: one thing if you're coming into a tournament hurt, right,

826
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: if I got a bad risk, Right, I got a

827
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: bad back. We should kind of know, right, But if

828
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: you get sick at a tournament or get injured, at

829
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: a tournament, I have to withdraw. It's kind of like

830
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: if you're gambling on the Chiefs. Malomes goes out, Burrow

831
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: goes out, Bosta goes out. Like it is sports and

832
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: human beings. To me, there is a lead up to

833
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: the event if you're battling something, but if you're not,

834
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: then there's a balance. To me, it's more about guys

835
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: being hurt going into the event, which they clearly do

836
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: not do a good job of. But guys can't get

837
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: hurt at the event and withdraw like there's nothing you

838
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: can do about that. I'm sure you're already talked about

839
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: this on the pod, but what on earth is going

840
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: on with Rory upset with this driver and using his

841
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: old Scottie camp putter? Is he considering switching from Taylor

842
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: made Morikawa saw him hitting the sim driver. I think

843
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: that's the twenty nineteen model. Two questions, are these guys

844
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: really gonna make an equipment change before the season really

845
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: gets going? And how bad of a look Taylor made?

846
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: Is this their number one guy for ten years? Is

847
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Speaker 1: DJ on the Lift Tour and now these guys are

848
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: upset with the driver? Not to mention Rom switches a

849
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: year ago to Kallaway, sorry for the long question. I

850
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: have less of a problem with the putter right Listen,

851
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: if I was a PGA Tour player, I'm not anywhere

852
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: close struggling to break eighty right now, swings terrible. I

853
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: don't think I would use like the spider putter. So

854
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: him going to the Scottie Cameron no issue with. I

855
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: actually think it's the right move, and I think it

856
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: paid dividends when you watched him play at Austin Country Club.

857
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: Now the driver thing. You know sometimes in other sports,

858
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: when you have a bad game, and like a quarterback

859
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: throws a wide receiver under a bus or a coach

860
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: throws someone under the bus. I think Rory just had

861
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: a bad moment. I don't like if you're comfortable with

862
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: a driver. You're comfortable with a driver, whether it's a

863
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: twenty ten driver or whether it's a brand new driver.

864
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: So I don't blame Rory. Like what if he just

865
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: doesn't like the new equipment, Now, that's no excuse. These

866
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: guys have too many people on their team, too many

867
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: resources to get it figured out. But look pretty good

868
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: to me last week. I've been a fan since day won.

869
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: I'd ride into battle for you, and I appreciate that.

870
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: Sobel made a great point on your pod last week.

871
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: Instead of rolling back the ball, take away a club.

872
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: These dudes are insane with wedges and they have three

873
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: or four of them. What are your thoughts? Don't want

874
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: to hate it? You only get one wedge right now?

875
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: You probably have to give two because I would imagine

876
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: most guys use a sixty degree out of the sand

877
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: and you either have to pick like a sand wedge,

878
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: so whether a fifty four or fifty six and a

879
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: gap wedge. Honestly, that never crossed my mind, though I've

880
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: seen a couple of people on the internet. Even Rory

881
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: was like, I don't even He was talking to no

882
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: laying up guys about why he's pro the rollback, and

883
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: he was like, I can't remember the last time in

884
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: an individual round I use every club. I guess it's

885
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: different for pros like most of us, because even if

886
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: you shoot seventy eight, you know you're gonna spray it

887
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: enough to use a four iron out of a tree,

888
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: to use a gap wedge here, to use an eight

889
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: iron here. I can see where those guys like go

890
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: rounds where they don't use anything and they You're right,

891
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: they definitely use the wedges. I don't know, I haven't

892
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: thought that one through enough. I kind of like the

893
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: fourteen clubs. You know, some people like just pick seven clubs.

894
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: To me, that's kind of a different game. Live is

895
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: never gonna fold. Was never their intention to be a moneymaker.

896
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: How long do you think it'll take before big name

897
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: Live guys want to go back to the PGA Tour.

898
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: There have been some rumblings, you know, the reality is

899
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: like Kea Bryson, how would they look on the PGA

900
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: Tour right now? You know Bryson was like anti establishment.

901
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,479
Speaker 1: Bryson wanted to be a YouTuber as well as play golf.

902
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: Well you're not allowed to do that really on the

903
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: PGA Tour because they own your rights. You know, Patrick

904
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Reid everyone hated him, so why does he want to

905
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: be somewhere where everyone hates you? DJ doesn't care, right,

906
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: is just completely over it. You know, Brooks would be

907
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: the one guy that likes competing, but is he any

908
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: good anymore? Cam Smith? You know, he's not even American,

909
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: so what does the PGA Tour actually mean to him?

910
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: Also not talked about enough how Live is literally owned

911
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: by a monopoly. Capitalism is out of the picture with

912
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: the sadis you know, even if you have unlimited money.

913
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: Clearly they've cut costs because one of the stories is

914
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: they're not paying for the caddies anymore. I one of

915
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's friends came with us to a spring training

916
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 1: game last week. She went to the live event, and

917
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: she was like, they went to the seventeenth hole. They

918
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: got a free ticket to the gallery. It costs like

919
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars a ticket. It was only beer and wine.

920
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: You had to pay for the cocktails. She's like, the

921
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: food was just kind of average. She's like, it was

922
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: cool because we didn't pay for the ticket, but if

923
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: we had paid six d her boyfriend each for the

924
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: ticket would have been like, this is a rip off.

925
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: So it's not like you're going and getting incredible amenities.

926
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: And that's a reflection of Live. So I would say

927
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: that business is business, and you know you can you're

928
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: only especially when they've cut such big checks. And I know,

929
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: relative to the amount of money they have, it's not

930
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: actually that big, but relative to like the business of golf,

931
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: you know, they've cut several hundred million, hundred and fifty

932
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: million dollar checks. It's like, and those guys aren't even winning.

933
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: So I don't think lives in a bad spot in

934
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: the sense of like they're gonna fold, but it definitely

935
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,479
Speaker 1: is not in a great spot, Like it doesn't feel

936
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: like they're just crushing it that it's must watch. And

937
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: I like golf, and I'll watch if you tell me

938
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: DJ Bryson Brooks are in the mix this week, I'll

939
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: turn on the television. But they just haven't been and

940
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: clearly the rest of people that follows the sport don't

941
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: tune into that. So I think live's kind of in

942
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: a weird, weird place. I think the Masters week is

943
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 1: gonna be big for them. They could, and I don't

944
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: think necessarily just because you know, DJ or Cam or

945
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: one of those guys wins means necessarily that they would

946
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: get an increase in viewership. But it would be big

947
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: for the way we talk about the you know, maybe

948
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: not even Cam, but like I don't even know, Like

949
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: I guess DJ and Cam they're the best two players

950
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: on the tour. Could any of the other guy's gonna

951
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: do anything? They got eighteen guys going, I don't know.

952
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily have the answer all have a better

953
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: feel after the Masters. The impact Live had on the Masters,

954
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna be one of the biggest talking points in

955
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: the tournament. Thanks for everyone for listening. We'll be back

956
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: next week, Augusta. Right around the corner. Let's go. That's

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Speaker 1: the but