WEBVTT - Gary Woodland & Masters Recap 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.320 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.959 you every Wednesday. I'm your host, Claude Harmon. One. Guess 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.480 what we're talking about this week on the Son of 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.680 a Butch podcast. It is the Masters. Scotti Scheffler, a 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:22.239 two time Major champion, a two time Masters Champion. We 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.799 will get into it. Lots of storylines, the weather, Bryson 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.360 lighten it up on the first day, Tiger making the cut. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.200 I mean, there was a lot to talk about and 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.879 we will get to it. But first, I've been a 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.240 partner with Rapsodo for a while now and their launch 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.479 monitors have changed the way players can practice. 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Feel the way 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.560 that he has been playing, the form that he came 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.920 into this tournament with, you just felt like it was 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.840 his to lose in the form that he's in. And 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.200 I'll be honest, I haven't seen anyone play golf with 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:38.239 this kind of ease and consistency, right, I just haven't. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.600 I just have not seen anyone play golf the way 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.160 that he is playing. It's it's been an absolute joy 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.320 to watch. It's been incredible to watch the way that 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:56.400 he he just play. He makes the game look so easy. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.880 Everyone thinks his footworks all over the place. His footwork 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.400 is one hundred percent functional, right. He does exactly what 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.280 all the long drive guys do. The feet go back 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.240 and even though it doesn't look necessarily pretty, it's one 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.239 hundred percent functional. But the biggest compliment I think that 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.320 I've heard from Scotty Scheffler are about his game is 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.239 I've starting to Shane Lowry last week and Shane O 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.680 said he played with him in the final round of 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:25.600 the bay Hill that the Bayhill Imitational that Scotty won, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.800 a paired together in the last group and he said, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.519 he's so impressive because it doesn't look like he's doing 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.040 anything special. It's not overpowering the golf course with his length. Right, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.080 He's not putting you off the golf course with his potter. Right, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.560 He's not hitting you know, three fifty high bomb draws 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.520 like Rory. You know, he doesn't have the firepower of 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.360 Rory or John Robbie. Still hits it a long way, 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.280 but those guys can overpower the golf course. But I 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.000 think Scotty is kind of an old school combo of 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:03.080 kind of like kind of like Ben Hogan. He just 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 he's not going to beat himself. He's not going to 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.480 He's just not going to beat himself. And even though 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.480 he made some mistakes last week, maybe he didn't have 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.240 his best stuff last week, but he started the final 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:21.080 round seven under. Doesnt Birdie two Bertie's three? And I mean, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.039 if you look at some of the birdies he made 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.839 the third round, right, he misses it pins kind of 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.800 up on the top on the right, he misses it left. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.440 I mean it's a brutal chit. I mean it's a 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.919 brutal It's a brutal one. Right, It's brutal for to 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.240 get the ball close to that hoops, it goes in 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.920 right and around the turn, right around the final round turn, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.960 when everybody was kind of making a run, Max homes 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.960 making you know, he's right there. More Coward doesn't look 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.400 like he's going anywhere. They've got the par five. More 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:00.560 Coward gets you know, Bertie's eight gets seven, chef Bertie's 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.719 eight gets seven, and then Morkowen makes double on nine. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.640 Scotty makes Bertie on soy, Bertie's eight nine and ten. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.040 And in my head when he did that, I'm thinking 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.080 he wins by four. And that's what he did. He 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.520 got to eleven under, wins by four over lud big Alberg. Right, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.840 but Bertie's at eight, nine and ten. That's where you 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.960 make your run, right, that's where you make a run. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.520 Made a bogie at eleven. But Bertie's thirteen, Berty's fourteen, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:42.000 Bertie sixteen, and it's game over. And listen Colin more Coowen. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.200 He's a two time major champion, right, he's right there. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.680 Max Homer. Everyone thinks that he's got the game to 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.400 me be a major champion. But this lude big Alberg, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.360 I mean, this is the first major he's ever played. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.599 He finished second. Joe Scovern, who have had in the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.520 pod before Longtime Catty for Ricky Fowler. You want to 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.960 know how good lud big Augberg was. He didn't have 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.080 a bag after Ricky Fowler and Joe parted ways, and 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.360 he picked up Tom Kim, who everyone thinks is a stunt, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.279 who everyone thinks has big game. And as soon as 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.400 lud big Alberg came available, Scoby went straight there and 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.400 he told me, it's like Adam Scott in two thousand. Man, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.560 he's just you can just tell this kid he's going 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.240 to be a superstar. I was so impressed with the 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.159 way he played, to play in his first major, to 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.960 play it against he'd never been there before, never played 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.280 that tournament before, To do the things that he was 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.120 able to do in that tournament was it was just 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:42.800 so impressive. The golf swing is so impressive. But what 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.240 more now can we say about Scotti Scheffer. I mean, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.800 he's a legit. I mean he's got a legit chance 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.680 to win every single major he plays in this year. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.840 I mean he could win all four, that's how good 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.040 he is. Yes, the stars have to align for that, Yes, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.960 that's very, very difficult to do, but that's how good 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.200 he's playing. And that's how good he is, and he 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:09.200 just keeps things incredibly simple. He doesn't mess around with 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.280 his golf swing. As golf coach Randy Smith, they've been together, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.800 you know, since he was a junior. They're very low key. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.040 Scotty's incredibly low key off the golf course. I think 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.960 all of that helps him. And he's a very kind 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.720 of unassuming kind of guy. But you could tell that 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.960 he had game right, you could tell that he was good. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.120 We played Brooks, played a practice round with him in 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.960 Aaron Hills. They share the same agent, Blake Smith, and 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.360 this was when Scotty was still at the University of Texas. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.120 They share the same agent, Blake Smith. Blake Smith's father. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.040 One guess who his father is, Randy Smith. That's his coach. Right. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.000 Everything is simple, everything's kind of under the radar. You 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.920 never hear him beat in his chest. You never hear 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.000 any controversy, you never hear any you know, any negative 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.920 things about Scotty. He's one of the most likable. He's 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.400 Tom Hanks, right, I mean, he's one of the most 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.760 likable people on tour. But he's a competitor. He has 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.960 a big time game and everybody was thinking that Rory 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.240 was going to get. When Roy started winning majors early 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.520 in his career, everybody thought Rory was going to get 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.560 to double digits. I think Scotty Scheffler can get the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.640 double digits. I think he can win multiple I think 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.520 he can clip off years where he wins, you know, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.000 two majors in a year like Brooks, Koepka has, like 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.760 some of the great players, like Tiger Woods has. But 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.880 I haven't seen anyone play golf like this in a 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.280 long long time. And I haven't seen anyone make golf 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.720 look as kind of stress free and easy as Scotti 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.480 Scheffler had. We've had Gary Woodland on the pod, and 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.320 was recording a pod earlier the day with Gary Woodland 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.840 and some of the people from Volition, the clothing line. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.960 He wears we'll put that out later this summer. But 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.800 he had a really unique take on kind of Scotty 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.600 how he plays, how the course was set up. He 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.679 got to Bryson for the first two rounds and he 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.040 had a ringside seat to Bryson leading the tournament and 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.720 playing some great golf, but wanted to kind of get 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.840 his take on the course set up, what the week 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.480 was like, and kind of get his kind of take 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.400 on Scotty Scheffler. This is what Gary Woodland, who won 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.840 the US Open out at Pebble Beach, this is what 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.960 he had to say about a guy that's now a 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:31.079 two time major champion. You've won a major champion in 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.400 the US Open, you know how difficult it is to 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.840 win these. That's two for Scotty now two at Augusta. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.680 He is playing golf g dub in a way right now, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.760 which I got to be honest with you, I haven't 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.040 seen anyone have this much control and make it look 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.920 this easy in a while. What impresses you the most? 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.199 And it was funny yesterday morning I was sitting having 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.240 coffee with Shane Lowry and Shane said he played in 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.840 the final group with him at Bayhill when he won, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.640 and he's like, yeah, he hits good shots that every 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.120 tour player hits. But he said the most impressive thing 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.120 about what Scotty is doing right now, and I wonder 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.720 if you agree is and this isn't a knock, is 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.120 how unimpressive it looks Rory when he's in full flow. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.800 It's impressive because he's hitting the ball, he's doing things 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.320 that other people can't do dj can do that. John 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.320 Rahm can do that. They can overpower golf course. You've 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.640 been able to do that in your career with the driver. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:34.240 But Scotty just hits so many quality golf shots that 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.280 are twenty feet fifteen feet. They're not the hero shots. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.840 I mean, what do you think he's doing right now 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.280 that is letting him play on this run. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.480 I'd agree with that assessment, especially when you're playing with 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.680 him like he doesn't. It doesn't look amazing. I don't 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.520 watch a ton of golf, and I watched this weekend 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.839 and watching him play this weekend, I'm like, holy cow, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.240 this is unbelievable. Like he hits every shot where he's 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.480 trying to hit it. The distance control is an absolute joke. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.959 And I've known Scotty since he was six years old. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.000 I worked with Randy Smith for a long time. He 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.360 grew up there. I've seen him since he was six 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.360 years old. And you can say this about a lot 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.200 of kids, We're like, this kid got it, man, He's 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.720 just absolutely got it from six, Like he grew up 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.040 around tour pros out there watching Randy Smith give lessons. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.959 He's had putting lessons and shipping lessons with I mean 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.600 practice competitions with tour pro since he was walking like 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.680 the kid. And he just handles himself, and that's what 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.560 I would respect him. Obviously, have a great family. He 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.040 just handles himself so beautifully. He always says nothing's changing him, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.080 and it doesn't. Man, He's the same person now as 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.560 he was when he was six years old, and I 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.760 love that about him. I love Scotty to death, But 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.480 watching him on TV, I will say, I mean, I 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.959 played with Scotty earlier this year. I was so much 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.800 more impressed with everything he does watching him on TV, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.360 because you know where the SHOT's supposed to go, and 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.560 that's where he hits it. So when you're playing with him, like, ah, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.720 you hit it to time twenty ft fifteen feet, but 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.000 watching it on TV, like that's the only place he 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.920 can hit it, and he does it is distance controlled. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.160 Coming down the stretch yesterday was as good as I've seen, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.560 you know, maybe in a long long time. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.280 Well, I was watching, and I was watching with some people, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.079 and right around that front nine it got really really 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.640 close and everybody's tied. It looked like Ludwig's gonna make 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.400 a move. And I said, when he when Scotty ted 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.600 off the back nine, I was like, guys, you realize 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.120 he wins this by four And everybody's like, what the 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.839 hell are you talking about. I'm like, I promise you 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.400 he is gonna win this by four shots. Because going 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.360 down to Amen corner and we saw this, it happened 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.439 same thing, you know, that kind of Amen corner again. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.600 It was like when Tiger won in nineteen. We saw 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.640 everyone else mess it up. And we know Scotty is 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.000 playing Tiger like golf right now to where he's not 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.480 gonna He's gonna make some mistakes, but he's not going 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.080 to shoot himself in the foot. And for his nice 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.800 and his kind of Tom Hanks is, he's got this 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.000 Tom Hanks kind of care. He is a fierce competitor. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:09.480 Like his personality outwardly the all shucks kind of all American, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.840 good old boy, just always saying the right thing and smiling. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.839 It belibs the fact that he wants to rip your 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.920 heart out and he is a fear s fearce competitor. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.439 And he said yesterday when he got done, he's getting 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:23.920 ready to have a baby, which I'm so happy for 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.160 him to have his first child. And he's like, you know, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.720 with my wife and my family and now my baby. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.640 You know, golf's going to be fourth on the list. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.280 But I love to compete. Yeah, he loves to step 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.480 on people's throats, and that's what he's been doing really 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.160 for the last two years. When it comes down right now, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.760 he's the best player in the world, and I don't 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.319 think it's closed right now. He just loves to compete 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.440 in battle, and I don't He's young, too, so hopefully 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.559 he stays healthy and this could be a very dominant 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:52.440 run for a long time. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.000 So, I mean, yeah, there's a guy that's one one 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.600 a major before, you know, one of the longest hitters 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.320 in the game, and he's just heaping heaping praise on 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.920 Scotti Scheffler, how good of a player he is. And 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.120 he's known him, as he said, I mean, he's known 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.040 him a very very long time. He's known him since 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.880 he was six years old. He used to work with Randy, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:24.520 and I do think that the simplicity is very very 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:30.760 important in what he does. But it was a really 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:36.360 really special Masters Tiger Woods, coming back making the cut. Listen, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.840 I honestly didn't know what we were gonna get from Tiger, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.360 and you know when you watch him warm up, if 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.400 you when you watch him, I mean, the weather did 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.600 not help Tiger, right, I mean I think if if 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.640 Tiger could have gotten some if he didn't have to 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.320 play over twenty holes on that Friday morning, I think 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.880 maybe we get a little bit out of it. I mean, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.320 the golf swings still looked good, and the golf swings 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.640 that didn't look good. To me, it looked like it 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:04.640 was more his body than anything else. The quick turnarounds. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.680 His trainer, Kolby Tellier, I've had him on the pod, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.360 did one with he and Joey d I talked to 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 him and he said his body is is taking to 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:18.200 the taking to the treatments better. He's able to recover faster. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:20.560 They still have to do a lot of work to 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.480 get teed up ready, but I thought it was a 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:29.200 win for Tiger, especially after what happened out a Riviera. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.480 I thought Tiger coming back and playing the way he 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:36.360 played on a body that listen, it's still not great, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.320 it's still a work in progress, but it was impressive. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.880 The short game was a joke, right, I mean some 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.200 of the short I mean he hit a he hit 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.320 a little soft, little pitching wedge. I want to say 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.880 it was either. I think it was Friday. He had 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.120 a little pitching wedge in there from a short distance. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.200 One bounce stopped it. I mean it was just vintage Tiger. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.560 He had a beautiful, beautiful chip on eleven down the 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.080 start of a man corner, hit it right on the 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:12.880 front edge and just hit this beautiful little pitch checks in. Listen. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.920 Tiger's short game has always been a joke, right, It's ridiculous, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.920 and he knows how to play, Augusta. I think right 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.120 now it's a case of, you know, he feels like 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.240 he can play, he feels like he can win, he 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.120 feels like he can compete, but there is still a 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.720 scent a part of his body that just doesn't allow it. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.680 So I'm excited to see. I mean, that is the 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.040 toughest test that we're going to see for Tiger, right 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.320 for tetub to get four rounds around there with the 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.960 hills and Tiger, you know, in talking to his the 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.320 guys on his team, the foot on a flat surface works, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.240 but when it starts to move around his right foot 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.640 and he's on slopes and he's on hills and stuff 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.440 like that, so I think Pinehurst sets up great for him. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.320 It's flat, it links truon where they'll play the Open 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.800 Championship this year sets up great for him. Flat and 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.359 there aren't a ton of hills at Valhalla where the 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.600 PGA will be. So a really really good showing from 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:15.240 from Tiger. Shout out to Max Holme. Maxhoma been on 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.520 the pod before, but pretty impressive, right. I mean Max's game, Uh, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.320 the work that he's done with Mark Blackburn. I like 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.240 his golf swing. I think he's gonna have more chances 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.520 to win. He was right there at the turn. I 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.040 mean he got at seven under two back Scottie Scheffler, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.479 you know when they were just making the turn and 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:42.600 unfortunately bogie twelve or double bogie twelve and then you know, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.760 made some bogies coming in finishes four under seven back, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.679 but he was right there. I thought it was a 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.359 really really good Masters. I mean, obviously with the Masters, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.240 given the current state of the PGA Tour versus Live, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.400 everybody was talking about how the live guys would play well. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.920 Ricen's leading after the first round finished, the top ten, 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.600 Cam Smith came in not a lot of form, wasn't 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.840 feeling well he finished the top ten. Teryl hatton top ten. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.879 So three of the guys, three guys on live finished 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.640 the top ten. Yeah, they didn't win, but I don't know. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.639 I think if your narrative is that these guys can't compete, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.640 you got three guys on live playing in the top ten, 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.879 and one thing I will say, I don't like to 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.359 do this, but uh, last week I heard a lot 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:41.760 of the commentators that were commentating on the broadcast saying 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.480 that they didn't know how the live guys were playing 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.840 because they weren't able to see them. If you are 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:54.679 hired by a broadcast network to commentate on television or 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.880 on radio at a major championship at the Masters, isn't 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.320 it your job to kind of know what everybody's doing 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.120 and how everybody's been playing. But I heard so many 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:07.720 times last week, Yeah, we just don't know how these 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.879 guys are playing. If you want to know how they're playing, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.840 you can find out. I mean, if Duke gets to 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:19.000 the final, gets to the national championship game for March Madness, 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.240 and you've got a team that isn't a big team, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:27.000 isn't a big conference, and makes Cinderella run plays not 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.600 in a big conference. Isn't playing on TV all the time? 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.040 Is it acceptable for you to go, Yeah, I just 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.520 have never seen them play. You've got to do your homework, right, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.320 You've got to do some work. And I thought last 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.720 week it was kind of a joke that a bunch 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.000 of the commentators were just like, yeah, we just we 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.560 don't know how they're playing. If you don't know how 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.159 the guy's on Liver playing, that's because you're choosing not 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.120 to watch. And that's and listen, that's fine, that's your choice. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.720 But if it's your job to commentate, shouldn't you know 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.720 and shouldn't you do some homework and shouldn't you want 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.440 to know these guys are playing seen as they're gonna 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.600 be in this this first major. So I just thought 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.600 that was a bit I thought that was a bit much, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.679 to be honest with you. I saw I heard a 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.679 bunch of people say, yet you know the guys on 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.760 live from Yeah, we don't really know how they're playing. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.040 You can find out how they're playing, and yeah, if 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.040 you don't think the competition they're playing against is is 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.000 worthwhile And don't think that that gets them ready. I 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.040 think that says more about you than it does about them. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.520 There are enough good players, major champions, some of the 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.800 best players in the world, former world number ones. You know, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.840 the guys playing on live in twenty four versus the 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.960 first year. It's very different, and there's some great players there. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.160 There's some great players everywhere in golf. There's some great 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.280 players on the PJ Jar. My point in all of 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.240 this is, if you're going to commentate, it's your job 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.080 to do your homework, and I think some people just 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.359 kind of hid behind the fact that, oh, well, we 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.199 don't know how to live guys are playing and we 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.720 never watch them on TV. You didn't do your homework 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.080 and you didn't do your job. In my opinion, some 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.200 really good other stories, Like I said, I was really 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.080 impressed with the way that Colin Morikawa plays. Listen, the 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.080 guy's won two majors. If you would have won last week, 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.160 he's one win away from the Grand Slam. Nice little 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.920 return to form for Tyroll Hatton. I mean he said 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:23.800 at the beginning of the week or at the end 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.000 of the live week in Durrau, he had no chance 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.199 to win, and the guy finish his top ten. I 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:35.320 love him. He's hilarious. Will zlatorres good to see him 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:40.879 back playing. The back looks better. The guy seems to 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.040 show up in major championships, which leads me to believe 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:45.720 that he's got big time game. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:45.919 Right. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.360 If you if your game shows up in the majors, 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.000 you can play, You can really really play, you can 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.520 get the job done, you can hit the right shots. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:57.760 He's had a bunch of second place finishes in majors, 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.640 and now that he healthy, I think we will see 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:06.680 him start to show the form that everybody expects of him. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.399 So after a long layoff, it was really really cool 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:13.480 to kind of see him come back. But as I 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.280 said last week, the golf course for me is always 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.040 the star of the show. It is always the star 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:25.879 of what everybody does. And yeah, I mean it's just 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:30.679