WEBVTT - 2018 Masters Recap with Brendan Porath 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.560 I miss the green. For example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:04.960 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.000 In a fried egg Friday egg, the dreaded Friday egg, 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.959 Frida egg, Frida egg fried egg, Frida egg, bride egg Lie, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:19.680 I'm about ready to run off the golf course. Arnold 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.439 Palmer is the Master of nineteen. He has buddy the 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:25.919 last two holes to. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.680 Catch a bet bove ahead of cat that Jory. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:29.640 What are then say? 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.200 This is a races gold? 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.320 Anybody has ever seen that? 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:34.840 A play? 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.839 Yeah up the hill? Did you ever do one like that? 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.680 And I think that's one of the greatest buddies I've ever. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:48.519 Seen him Friday Night. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:01:00.840 Maybe yes, sir, there it is you believe it? 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:02.600 Now? 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:13.680 No? There it is a win for the ages? Is 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.280 it his time? 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:30.520 Now here it comes? Oh my goodness. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:44.119 Oh wow? In your life? 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:45.720 Have you seen anything like that? 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:47.160 Hello? 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.800 Friends, I'm jim NANTZ. Is my great pleasure to welcome 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.160 you to the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 It's a tradition unlike any other. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.400 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:24.320 Friday Podcast. Today I'm joined by Brendan Porath from SB 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.320 Nation and we're going to break down the twenty eighteen Masters. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.160 Brendan, welcome on, Andy. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.000 Good to be with you. It's always an honor and 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.440 a pleasure and pretty exciting week to break down here. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.600 Finally back back in the DC area after a full 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.119 week down south and excited to chop it up. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.079 Yeah, it was tough to get the schedule scheduling, and 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.000 you know, I needed to. I felt like I needed 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.359 to go through your agent that you don't have and 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.240 smart and also Smarten is on the golf course, so 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.000 he will not be joining us today. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.000 It's like the the Monday media blitz that they send 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 the winner up, you know, to New York. I saw 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.919 Reid was doing all this stuff, went to the next 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.480 game MSG. It's like that Monday after. It's just a 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.880 little little hectic, gotta do all the media blitz. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:22.560 I just enjoyed sitting and only like really tweeting stuff 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:28.040 and not really doing anything. Is the decompression is real 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.680 on Monday after the Masters? 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.920 Yeah, absolutely absolutely. You gotta kind of just start coming 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.000 up for air right now, you know, back in the grind, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.080 taking kids to school and stuff, like that. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:47.240 So with Reid, you were on the ground, what do 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.960 you think about the twenty eighteen Masters champion. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:57.160 I think he's a deserving champion. There's been the Internet 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.920 being the Internet, There's been a backlash to read winning, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.800 and then a backlash to that backlash, and then I 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.320 think now we're at a backlash to the backlash to 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:12.560 the people Matt criticizing Reader saying Reid is a little 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.160 a little different kind of champion. We'll just use the 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.520 word different, so that that's that's the way the internet 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.200 works here. I did not I don't know that I 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:27.440 anticipated the kind of explosion of debate and drama around 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.640 Pat Reid. But again, I think it's a reminder of 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:35.080 the Masters being this this broader kind of pop cultural moment, right, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.240 It's not I mean more so than the US Open, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.599 more so than all the other majors, obviously ANYPGA tour event. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.640 It's this broader cultural moment. Just like we talked about, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.640 the winner goes up to New York, he's on these 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.200 late shows, he's you know, the green jacket has it's 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.719 it's it's a different kind of brand, and you know 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.400 that I guess the winner immediately goes in the crosshairs, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.520 and and obviously the winner has some oddity, you know, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.120 odities about him and his family situation and his past, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.080 and I don't know that he and his family probably 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.560 anticipated those crosshairs. Fully, I didn't, and I didn't kind 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.479 of see this explosion coming. I don't know that we 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.359 got it with Danny Willett. I mean, I guess the 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:24.279 focus then was probably more on on Jordan's speed. But yeah, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.400 it's just a reminder of of really how much the 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.039 Masters resonates beyond just the golf world, and you know, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.560 the golf nerds like us that are on the internet 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.920 all day who know his story so well and are 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.000 kind of like, yeah, yeah, we know that's a part 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.960 of the part of the part of the package now. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.560 So yeah, it was it was really kind of interesting 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.240 to see what's what's transpired here over the last twenty 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.960 four hours now that we're Tuesday, A week. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:55.040 After I tweeted something about how Nance came in on 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.120 the coverage and immediately said like great buddies about Spieth 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.320 and Thomas, and I uh, one of one of my 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.240 followers tweeted back at me something about, like, you know, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.640 the magnitude of the Masters and how you have millions 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.320 of it and that kind of clicked with me. I 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.360 was like, oh, that is so true. Is that there 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.679 are you know, like I have a ton of buddies 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.719 that don't really watch golf, don't aren't really into golf, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.800 but this week they watch the every minute of the 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.520 telecast and they might not know that Spieth and Thomas 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.479 are good buddies. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.200 So like it. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.479 It is something And I think that's a great point 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.800 about Reid and his family situation is is that we've 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.080 known this for years, but not everybody else knew this. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:47.080 And I think, looking beyond the family thing, read deserve 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.480 to win this. And I think you have to always 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.719 applaud people on golf when they clearly improve on their 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.400 deficiencies as a player. And I think that's the greater 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.000 takeaway if you look beyond on his personal life is 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.000 as a player. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.160 There aren't a lot of guys that we. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.840 Saw Martin Kaimer try and build his game for Augusta 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.520 by trying to learn how to hit a draw off 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.160 the tee and it like kind of killed him. You know, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.800 We've seen Luke Donald try and chase distance and that really. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:19.240 Set him back. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.080 But we see Patrick Reed like really learn how to 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.720 hit different style golf shots than he's you know, comfortable with. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.240 And that's pretty cool to see a guy that like 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.800 clearly saw what his problem was and went and fixed it. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.600 And you know, he's become a really way more complete 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.600 player since he's been able to start to move that 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.400 ball left or right and uh and I mean it 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.680 just opens up the golf golf course for him. And 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.480 he's such a great putter, so good around the greens 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.680 that if he can hit it at all kinds of 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.120 flags and have some success, I think we're going to 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.200 see more wins from him. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.440 Yeah, that's that's the thing, like we that's kind of 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.280 been obscure and all the drama about people figuring out 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.400 finding out who is who he is, his personality and 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:12.480 his background, is that like this guy, I mean, was 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.720 this that unexpected? Was this like you know, Zach Johnson 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.680 or Trevor Ellmolman winning I don't know that it is. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.320 I mean, we've seen this guy be like kind of 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.080 a stone cold killer and some pretty big events, and 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.720 he's had the pedigree since college and junior days, and like, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.080 of course he's not as popular as Ricky and speech 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.400 and and Justin Thomas and he made He doesn't have 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.000 all those accomplishments either. I'd say he's got a better 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:42.959 career than Ricky for. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.000 Sure right now. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.079 But like he's had the pedigree, he's you know, worked 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.080 to get better obviously with finding new shots. And we 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:57.480 saw the helicopter stuff all all week again, and you know, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.959 I don't I think that that's kind of been last 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.120 unfortunately here in the washout the day after because of 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.680 all the broader cultural pop culture debates about who he 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.880 is and what's off and on limits, because this guy 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.000 is like just nails. He's an incredible golfer. He you know, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.280 chips in for eagle when he needs too, he makes 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.320 putts when he needs to. He gets maybe he caught 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.680 a break or two, but every Master's winner catches a 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.760 break or two. And he beat Jordan Speed, Ricky Fowler, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.240 and Rory McElroy. Like this wasn't like, you know, just 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.120 kind of cruising in. He shot seventy one in his 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.440 highest round of the week. But I think if you 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.480 ask a lot of people on Sunday morning, they thought 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.600 it'd be over par, they thought it'd be higher, but 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.320 he made putts in the biggest moments, whether that was 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.320 Saturday afternoon when Rory was kind of losing his mind 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.280 a group ahead and shooting sixty five, and then against 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.440 Sunday at the very end on seventeen at eighteen with 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.240 Ricky pushing him and knowing that speed had so like, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.080 I think we lose sight of fact that, like, the 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.040 guy has been really one of the best golfers in 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.680 the world now for years and this wasn't like that surprising, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.480 even if it wasn't as palatable as people wanted it 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:14.720 to be. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.680 You know, the putts at twelve and fourteen were just massive, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.559 and I think what gets lost is kind of what 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.760 you said is that this guy's been a great player, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.160 and a year ago the story was like why can't 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.439 Patrick Reid play in majors? And now we're like shot, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.600 you know, the general public shock that he won this 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.880 is he's I mean, he's a world class player, and 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.959 I mean he's got now six titles. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:46.480 On his career. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:52.880 He's twenty seven, he's got a WGC, he's got a 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:59.120 FedEx Cup win, and he's got a major. And it 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.840 used to be when you hit twenty seven that you 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.880 were just you know, kind of getting into your prime, 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.800 and now the way that golf has shifted, it's almost 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:13.439 that now is twenty five year prime. But I really 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.720 think that this generation, there's so many good young players 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.160 that we're going to see a renaissance of like the 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.320 thirty two to thirty five year old prime. It's just 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.120 you know, it's just taking time for these guys to 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.520 develop into those players. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.720 Yeah, I completely agree, and we could probably maybe say 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.200 maybe say the same for Rick. But I mean Rick 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.600 has all the kind of the popularity and notoriety and 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.400 brand endorsing stuff, so we know all about him and 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.000 assume he's already you know, one of the best in 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.520 the world or a major winner, you know, has of 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.040 that same class you know, Big three, Big four, all 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.480 that stuff. But you know, maybe he is just maybe 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.719 he is as well, just kind of coming into it. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.960 I don't know. I think like Reid has kind of 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.320 at every stage shown us that he belongs in that 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:14.480 kind of that that upper class conversation and isn't really 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.679 a one hit wonder or a fleeting thing. Now he 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.160 gets lost sometimes and you don't hear from him for 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.280 a couple of months, but you kind of can count 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.160 on him season in and season out here through the 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.599 first whatever six years of his career, however, four or 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.880 five years of his career to at least make some 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.480 noise every single season, and I think there's something to 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.800 be said for being able to do that. And this 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.840 win was not that big a surprise, obviously, like he's 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.880 he's a weird dude, and talking to him, you kind 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.920 of you don't get very far and it's it's a 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.079 little icy. But you know, if we just want to 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.439 talk about the golf, I don't think it's that surprising. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.199 Yeah, I mean, he's always been an elite player from 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.880 inside one hundred and twenty five yards. He's one of 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.360 the best around the greens. He's a great putter, and 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.440 I think where you've seen him go silent for a 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.640 little while is just is the ball striking is not 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.600 always there and but when but when it's there, there's 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.280 few I mean, he's one of the five best players 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.840 in the world because he's so good around the greens, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.920 I mean getting it in the hole and especially on him, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.400 we saw it in a Major on a Major championship Sunday. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.040 You know, things don't always go right, and that's where 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.760 you need to have that game inside one twenty five 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.080 to really take advantage of when you get opportunities and 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.000 also recover from you know, the bad shots, the shaky 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.679 shots he hit when you're not, you know, feeling as 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.520 comfortable as you did the rest of the week leading 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:54.040 up to it. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.600 Yeah, I've read. I think like Ryan Lavner Golf Channel 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.920 talk to Josh Gregory, former college coach and now performance coach, 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.480 whatever that means. But you know, he's obviously like sharp 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.000 guy with with with the talents, and he mentioned like 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.400 if just obviously Reid has some deficiencies, but he's like 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.760 if he if he just kind of if he keeps 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.080 it between the pines off the tee, like look out, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.320 you know, like it's ball striking isn't always the sharpest, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.400 but it's a matter of just keeping that that slinging draw, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.200 you know, between the pines and it's you know, look out. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.160 He's going to contend as long as that that that 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.720 when he catches a week like that, and we saw it. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.880 So let's talk about rick You touched on him. What 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:48.240 do you take away from Ricky Fowler's performance? Obviously another 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.640 runner up, another top five in a major. He's twenty 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:57.320 nine and what is Ricky Fowler going to get a major? 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.840 Oh yeah, I think he's gonna get a MA for sure. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.880 I thought this was a different kind of contention for 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:11.520 him going sixty seven sixty or sixty five sixty seven 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:16.040 on the weekend and come on, that's that's worthy of praise, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.160 even if he came up one shot short with a 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:23.640 birdie on the eighteen. I I thought this was like, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.200 I also think this was like the perfect spot for Ricky, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.640 Like all of Sunday was about Reid and Rory that 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.880 you know, we're gonna get this like match play thing 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.520 in the last group, and then it turned to speed 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.200 and like we're gonna get We're getting the greatest final 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.120 round of Major championship history and the greatest comeback ever, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.280 and Ricky was just kind of there in between those two, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.560 slowly plodding the law and then he hit the back 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.760 nine and when he shoot thirty two coming in, that's 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.840 kind of like the perfect spot for Ricky to get 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.680 a major in my opinion at this stage of his career. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.160 Maybe that changes later, Like I don't know if he 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.240 wants to be the guy one or two up going 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.960 into Sunday or playing with Reid in that final Sunday 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.960 pairing right now, and he admitted that after the after 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.320 the round, he was pretty candid. It was it was 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.760 kind of a different kind of Ricky. We've seen him on. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.800 You know, he was on. He was he was in 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.560 tears for all intentsive purposes at twenty fourteen at Valhalla, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.040 right he was choked up talking about how like he 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.800 was close, you know, top five every every major that year. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.920 He was, you know, emotional after losing again to Rory 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.640 and feeling like, you know, his day would come, it's 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.760 it's gonna come. But this time he was like, this 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.760 is the first this Sunday, He's like, this is the 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.040 first first major. I really really felt comfortable. And I 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.680 thought that was pretty candid, and we haven't really we 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.400 don't always get that from Ricky obviously, He's usually pretty straightforward, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.640 like I hit good shots, it wasn't there today, that 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.080 kind of stuff. It's always very cliche and nebulous. But 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:02.160 he said, you know, I really felt comfortable. It's the 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:07.320 first major Sunday. I really felt comfortable. And I think 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.399 that was kind of the spot for him, kind of 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.480 in between the speed and then the Reid Rory show, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.360 and then all of a sudden, it's the eighteenth pole 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.960 and he's one shot off the lead. So at least 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.359 that was a sense you get on the grounds. You 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.760 don't get this holistic a view watching on TV because 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.560 everyone's darting back and forth between reed and then the 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.360 speed run, and then all of a sudden, Ricky was there. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.119 So I think that was like the ideal spot for 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.280 him to really make his run towards the board. And 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.480 I think one of these days, obviously it's going to happen. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:41.800 There's there are so many kind of just minuscule bounces 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.600 that have prevented him from winning a major, and if 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.320 he keeps putting himself in position, he's going to get one. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:48.800 Yeah. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.760 I think he's become so much more of a patient 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.960 player over the years, And I think what I look 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.560 at is last year Fouler was essentially in the exact 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.119 same position on Sunday. He shot even par on the 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.000 He was in the second to last group, you know, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.160 well within striking distance, just like this year. He shot 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.960 even par on the front nine last year. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.200 This year he shot one. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.960 Under and then the back nine you could tell he pressed. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.920 And it's the worst thing you can do at Augusta 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.040 National is the birdies are out there, but you can't 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.080 push it. And he shot forty on the back nine 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.639 last year. This year he shoots thirty two. He'd really 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.439 let the course come to him and let the moment 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.920 come to him by just executing on his game plan. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.359 But then you look, you finished one shot out of 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.520 the lead. And it's it's a testament to the major 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.399 championships of having your game plan and sticking to it, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.080 because I keep going back in my head, you know, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.359 on thirteen on Saturday, he just he goes for the 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:53.360 green from. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.920 A bad lie with a fairway wood. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.679 In the right rough with that backpen, and I get it, like, 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.640 if that fairwywood carries up to the front of the green, 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.520 it runs right back to that backpen, it could make 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.440 an eagle. But if you just lays it up, it's 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.560 such an easy up and down. And I mean he 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.879 got it up and down for par essentially where he 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.480 could have laid the ball up to and he makes 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:16.720 verdie and he's in a playoff. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:18.880 Like it's crazy to. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:23.800 Me how narrow the margin for winning is. And and 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.960 it the one moment where Ricky really pushed and was 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.440 a great you know, tried to try to get make 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.440 something happen in the whole tournament. He it, he doesn't 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.359 get the good break and that's the difference between winning 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:40.159 and coming. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.679 In second or you know, playoff and second. 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.360 Yeah. I think that's a good point, man. The balance 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.439 there is so I mean, that's kind of why make 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.000 what makes golf, you know, so great is when do 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.800 you try to push down at what day, at what 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.120 position on the leader board, and do you at all? 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.840 I think because Ricky he caught some he caught some 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.480 crap last year, and I thought, rightfully so for the 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.280 way he played that last round of the US Open, 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:17.320 or you know, with he he really hung back and 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.360 never kind of tried to get aggressive as Kopka took 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.840 the lead. Now would it have mattered, Probably not the 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.639 way Keopka played, and Ricky said as much. But he 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:33.679 played extremely conservative golf for being in contention on Sunday 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.119 at a major and needing to close a gap between 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.520 him and the leader. And he was conservative definitely at 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.080 the PGA, stuck to his game plan. Like you said, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.840 I remember following him a couple of days and he 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.680 was with Rory and different players and Ricky was one 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.879 hitting not driver off every off the most t boxes, 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.560 whether it was a driving iron or a three wood 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.320 or hybrid on a lawn and course, it was always 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.240 Ricky kind of had his game plan. He was playing 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.159 pretty conservative golf. He never It's like an incredible balance 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.600 there with when and where you make a move, or 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.520 do you make a move, or do you change your 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.639 game plan at all? And I think you kind of 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.000 make the point at Augusta you just you can't do 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.800 that or you're screwed. And Rory made that same case 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.399 this week. He's like, I've tried to learn just to 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.840 be patient. That's the biggest problem I've had here is thinking, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.360 you know, because there's birdie chances out there, I need 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.280 to shoot sixty four and I need to eagle or 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.800 birdie every you know, part five and then pick up 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.840 Bertie's at three and wherever else. And that's been my 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:46.840 problem is because the margin there between you know, screwing 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.040 yourself by getting too aggressive and needing to shoot a 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.000 low number is kind of what makes golf so great. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.320 Yeah, I think Jeff Ogilvie said something to me once. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:03.439 He said, Augusta's great because if I want to shoot 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.399 seventy two, I can do it every single time. But 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:07.439 the second I try and. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.680 Shoot sixty six, I shoot seventy six. 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.400 Yeah, yeah, I mean that's yeah, that's a perfect way 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:16.399 to capture it. I mean, what do you think of 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:22.400 This seems to be Ricky's approach. This is always and 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:26.119 I think it's worth applauding that he never kind of 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.959 he's not going to change his game plan him in Scavron, 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.400 just stick to what they do all week, whether it's Sunday, 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.320 late Sunday or you know, early Thursday. And I think 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.520 like he had one stretch this week where he had 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.040 three three plots I think in nine holes or maybe 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.200 it was a round and right there, you know, clean 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.800 that up and you're winning by two shots. 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.479 So I wonder how many major champions have taken a 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:52.359 penalty stroke. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:56.880 It's a good question. I'm trying to think. 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.119 But I mean Ricky last year of the pg A, 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.119 he had that triple bogie in the first round, yep, 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.560 and that like that's the difference. It's just it It's 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.080 to me, it seems like it's just you know, it's 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.280 getting to the point where it's just one moment you 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:16.080 can almost zero in on every single major with him, 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:18.200 and uh, I think he's gonna win. 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.679