WEBVTT - 2019 Masters Recap with Shane Bacon

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<v Speaker 1>tdomritrade dot com. Slash frieda Egg member SIPC, Welcome back

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<v Speaker 1>to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. What a

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<v Speaker 1>Sunday at the Masters. I was actually able to watch

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<v Speaker 1>The Masters with Will Knights, who writes for The Friday Egg,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as Fox play by play guy Shane Bacon.

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<v Speaker 1>So Shane joined the podcast to break down a historic

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<v Speaker 1>Sunday at Augusta. Thanks to Shane, and be sure to

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<v Speaker 1>check out his podcast The Clubhouse when he posts his

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<v Speaker 1>Master's recap with Joel Klatt. Without further ado, here is

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<v Speaker 1>Shane Bacon on the twenty nineteen Masters.

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<v Speaker 2>I miss the green for example, I'm already upset.

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<v Speaker 3>When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

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<v Speaker 3>And when I find my ball in a.

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<v Speaker 2>Brid Egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg,

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<v Speaker 2>Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready

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<v Speaker 2>to run off with them.

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<v Speaker 3>Course, the moment's too big for me right now. I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know what I'm doing here. Putn't the worst what happened.

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<v Speaker 2>Today, Well, there's just I never I said this on

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<v Speaker 2>Twitter when it finished up, But I never thought that

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<v Speaker 2>he'd do it. I never thought to win. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I really didn't think through all this stuff he would

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<v Speaker 2>actually win a major championship, you know, And this was

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<v Speaker 2>probably two years ago now, with what he went through

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<v Speaker 2>last year, I said he could get in contention and

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<v Speaker 2>possibly do it with this leaderboard. And the wild thing

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<v Speaker 2>that I think is getting lost so much in this

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<v Speaker 2>is how many of the best players in the world

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<v Speaker 2>he had to beat on Sunday Kopka, Dustin mullanar. So

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<v Speaker 2>you think the last three major champions he had to

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<v Speaker 2>take down a guy that's probably playing the best golf

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<v Speaker 2>in the world, a guy that is an absolute major

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<v Speaker 2>killer and seems not to get nervous in Keopka, Dustin, Ricky,

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<v Speaker 2>Jason Day, Xander. I mean, these are the this is

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<v Speaker 2>the modern day golfing a list, and Tiger outsmarted him

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<v Speaker 2>all day long. It felt there was a hoy Lake

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<v Speaker 2>mentioned in the broadcast with where he was hitting the

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<v Speaker 2>golf ball all day long and where he was putting

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<v Speaker 2>it position wise on the greens, fair ways, even the

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<v Speaker 2>threewoodine eighteen. I mean it was chess versus checkers. It

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<v Speaker 2>was unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he didn't make birdie on three, but he hit

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<v Speaker 1>that iron, laid back on three. It's he's the tactician.

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<v Speaker 1>His iron play all week was so good.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, there's so much stuff gushing out. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's really hard to speak on what happened and

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<v Speaker 2>Tiger winning fifteen and winning, you know, twenty two years

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<v Speaker 2>after the last. And do you know how old the

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<v Speaker 2>guy is that finished second to him in his first

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<v Speaker 2>majories right now? Sixty nine years old, Broca, sixty nine

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<v Speaker 2>years old. And you've got a guy in Xander that's

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five. That's the difference in gap of guys that

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<v Speaker 2>are literally backing up to Tiger. And this is the

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<v Speaker 2>career I mean, for you going into this week. Tiger

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<v Speaker 2>is a story, of course, but there's so many stories

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<v Speaker 2>that get lost. This is the sports story of the year.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, this is it. This is twenty nineteen sports story.

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<v Speaker 2>This is what we'll remember today.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the biggest sports stories of all time.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's that's the hardest thing to put into perspective,

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<v Speaker 1>is you know where it.

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<v Speaker 3>Does it fall?

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<v Speaker 1>Like forget like this is the biggest Masters. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, so ninety seven would be one that you

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<v Speaker 1>could look at as like one you could compare. Eighty

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<v Speaker 1>six is one you could compare. I don't know, you

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<v Speaker 1>have to go back to like the first Masters to

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<v Speaker 1>find the next one that you could compare.

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<v Speaker 3>Really it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing else in sports you think about where we

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<v Speaker 1>were putting tigers come back at the Tour winning the

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<v Speaker 1>Tour championship last year, people were saying, this is the

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<v Speaker 1>biggest sports story this year, and now he won the Masters.

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<v Speaker 1>Something is so fitting that it was the Mats. If

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<v Speaker 1>he was gonna win the first major win back and

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<v Speaker 1>we can talk more later about what could be next,

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<v Speaker 1>but first win major win after this, you know road

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<v Speaker 1>that you can't even so much bad stuff, like so

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<v Speaker 1>many moments where you thought he was never coming back,

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<v Speaker 1>and for it to be the place where his first

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<v Speaker 1>one happened is is just so fitting.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, it's it really, it's it's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>hard to speak on. I mean, there was a moment

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<v Speaker 2>we're all watching it together here at the Pixby House.

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<v Speaker 2>And and you know, when he got to eighteen and

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<v Speaker 2>he finds the fairway I mentioned to you, you know

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<v Speaker 2>if you go back to five the last time he

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<v Speaker 2>won the Masters, and he hit that chip and he

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<v Speaker 2>made it, and it was this unbelievable chip and it

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<v Speaker 2>was one of the greatest shots in Master's history. And

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<v Speaker 2>he was so amped that he bogied seventeen and eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>and that's how he fell into that playoff that he

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<v Speaker 2>eventually won. I think over to Marco, right, and he

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<v Speaker 2>hits that shot on sixteen that we thought might go

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<v Speaker 2>when it landed on the green, Andy, you were going

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<v Speaker 2>right when it landed on the green, you go go in, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>go in, And then we're all just going go in

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<v Speaker 2>and it's rolling right past, obviously the cup and he

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<v Speaker 2>knocks in the three footer, but it was just a

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<v Speaker 2>it's a different tiger now. I mean, it really does

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<v Speaker 2>seem like whatever energy he's got, whatever he mustered up

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<v Speaker 2>at three forty five in the morning to prepare himself

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<v Speaker 2>for nine am, and all these tea time shifting, it's

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<v Speaker 2>like he understands how much energy his body has. These days,

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<v Speaker 2>and he knows he can use this much on this hole,

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<v Speaker 2>this much on seventeen, this much on eighteen. Don't get

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<v Speaker 2>too hyphed, don't get too low. Let's let it play out.

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<v Speaker 2>I was not nervous about the way he would close

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<v Speaker 2>that thing out when he played the way he played

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<v Speaker 2>on fifteen and sixteen, and even over shots like fifteen.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, he's two forty andy to one of the

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<v Speaker 2>hardest greens in the world to hit in two, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was a confident swing. It's the exact club he

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<v Speaker 2>should hit, perfect distance control, hits it in the fat

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<v Speaker 2>part of the right side of the green, and gives

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<v Speaker 2>himself a perfect opportunity to put birdie. He doesn't need eagle,

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<v Speaker 2>he just needed a birdie there. He knew he had

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<v Speaker 2>a really good chance to build on that lead while

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<v Speaker 2>all these other guys were doing all this stuff around him,

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<v Speaker 2>and he just seemed to stay in this bubble that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm only believed Tiger could do. I only think Ty's

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<v Speaker 2>the guy that could handle that.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what we saw, And the only guy that didn't

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<v Speaker 1>happen to was Brooks. Where you see him push to

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<v Speaker 1>the They pushed to the lead, They push out in

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<v Speaker 1>front and then it's almost the moment becomes too big

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<v Speaker 1>and they fall back. They start thinking ahead almost and

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<v Speaker 1>Tiger his patience, which is maybe his greatest asset as

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<v Speaker 1>a golfer of all time, is how patient he is,

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<v Speaker 1>like ability to just sit in that moment and stalk it,

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<v Speaker 1>like knowing that that that back.

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<v Speaker 3>He took advantage.

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<v Speaker 1>He took advantage of the holes he knew he could

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<v Speaker 1>take advantage of. If you look at the back nine,

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<v Speaker 1>the holes you take advantage of are thirteen, fifteen, sixteen

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<v Speaker 1>easy birdies on.

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<v Speaker 2>All three, all three easiest parties of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>He just did what he knew he had to do,

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<v Speaker 1>and he made the turn after the tenth hole.

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<v Speaker 3>We were a little worried, right, but.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's just hitting the It was a tough

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<v Speaker 1>day out there, and seventy. I mean, I wouldn't have

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<v Speaker 1>thought seventy would have gotten it done with all those names,

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<v Speaker 1>and it just shows the enormity of the moment and

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<v Speaker 1>how hard it is to get done a masters that

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<v Speaker 1>shot he hit on sixteen. I believe he hit that

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<v Speaker 1>shot in the exact spot he wanted to, like the

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<v Speaker 1>exact yardage and the exact spot because it was like,

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<v Speaker 1>that's like the safe line where you know if you

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<v Speaker 1>hit it right there, and it was like the fall line.

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<v Speaker 1>We watched can't Ley hit a pot earlier in the

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<v Speaker 1>day he missed the fall line. He was low, but

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<v Speaker 1>he was hitting it right in that same area and

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<v Speaker 1>I have to think he hit the ball within a

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<v Speaker 1>three foot radius of where he was aiming there.

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<v Speaker 3>It's cool.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's so many things that are cool when

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<v Speaker 2>you compare. And this will happen throughout the next couple

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<v Speaker 2>of days. Is that when you compare eighty six to

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen is what you're gonna get. Youre can get a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of comparisons. But for you know, Jack to flag

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<v Speaker 2>it in eighty six there, you know, be right it

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<v Speaker 2>is and he hits it to a couple of feet

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<v Speaker 2>and for Tiger to do that in nineteen on the

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<v Speaker 2>same whole, different whole location, but you know, flags it

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<v Speaker 2>there and it was it was like you said, it

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<v Speaker 2>was the perfect golf shot he shot on seventeen was

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<v Speaker 2>a perfect golf shot exactly where he wanted to be,

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<v Speaker 2>a whole high distance control. It just I mean, he

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<v Speaker 2>was in control of his golf game. Is maybe he's

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<v Speaker 2>been forever to shoot a solid round a golf. He

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<v Speaker 2>didn't shoot sixty five, but he didn't need it. He

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<v Speaker 2>shot seventy and that was the number he needed. And

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it was we were silent, and I'm sure

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<v Speaker 2>everybody listening was the same way. You know, he taps

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<v Speaker 2>that put in on eighteen, He's celebrating with the guys,

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<v Speaker 2>he's hugging Joey. They're going nuts. But I mean I

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<v Speaker 2>almost thought for a moment that after he hugged his

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<v Speaker 2>kids and his and his mom and everybody there that

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<v Speaker 2>was his team, I thought, for a moment, you right

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<v Speaker 2>run back out on the green like that's how pumped

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<v Speaker 2>up he was. That's the most pumped up I've ever

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<v Speaker 2>seen a golfer after a win. I can't think of

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<v Speaker 2>another time somebody carried it. You see reactions, this pumps,

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<v Speaker 2>high fives, hugs, you know, running and cheering with the crowd.

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<v Speaker 2>But he kept that going for five minutes, six minutes,

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<v Speaker 2>seven minutes, and he was he was just the the

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<v Speaker 2>reality of the accomplishment for him. I think it's set

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<v Speaker 2>into him the moment, it's set into everybody else too.

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<v Speaker 2>I Mean, it was just I don't think I've ever

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<v Speaker 2>seen a player react like that to a victory in

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<v Speaker 2>their entire life.

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<v Speaker 1>It touches on like the greatest stories have the great

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<v Speaker 1>they have like the most you know, like we just

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<v Speaker 1>went in like to the lull, like this would be

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<v Speaker 1>if we were watching Requiem for a Dream and all

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden the guy that was like turned into

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<v Speaker 1>the junkie became like the like the greatest human being

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<v Speaker 1>in the world, Like Tiger was at the low of

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<v Speaker 1>lows as we've ever seen a truly star athlete. And

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<v Speaker 1>and that moment, like the celebration, that was everything coming out.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, that was.

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<v Speaker 1>As a golf fan as as I'm sure you're the

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<v Speaker 1>same way. We're about the same age. Tiger Woods was

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<v Speaker 1>the reason I'm in golf right right now, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and that to see it done at.

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<v Speaker 3>At Augusta, that this was the perfect place for it.

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<v Speaker 2>Tap yeah, And I'm and I've said this on all platforms.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never shied away from it. You know, I've written

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<v Speaker 2>and talked and spoke with people and and just said,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, this is I remember, I have a story,

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<v Speaker 2>I have a moment. I was writing for Fox Sports

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<v Speaker 2>at the time. This was kind of when I still

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<v Speaker 2>would write a lot for the website and uh and

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<v Speaker 2>Tiger had announced he was going to play in the Safeway.

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<v Speaker 2>I think this was sixteen spent three years ago, and

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<v Speaker 2>of course it was a lesser event, and uh and

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<v Speaker 2>I jumped on a southwest flight and was headed up

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<v Speaker 2>to Napa to cover Tiger because it was a comeback, right.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember PGA Tour Live had had a broadcast team

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<v Speaker 2>set up for the Safeway, which they don't do because

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<v Speaker 2>of Tiger. Everybody was excited to see the comeback. Mid flight,

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<v Speaker 2>on the playing Wi Fi, Tiger announced that he was

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<v Speaker 2>withdrawing because he just didn't feel remember either, his game

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't there, he didn't feel good. I'm mid flight to

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<v Speaker 2>Napa to cover this, so I landed. I called my editor.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, what do you want me to do?

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<v Speaker 2>And he's like, well, you gotta write something, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>go write something. So I literally had a hotel room

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<v Speaker 2>for the week. I drove. I just checked in for

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<v Speaker 2>the night and I went down to like a wine

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<v Speaker 2>bar that had Wi Fi. I opened my laptop and

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<v Speaker 2>I wrote a piece and I think the headline was

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<v Speaker 2>something to the effect of, you know, the old Tiger

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<v Speaker 2>will never see the old Tiger Woods again. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>that that person is gone, and and you know it's

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<v Speaker 2>it was a thing that I think most people truly

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<v Speaker 2>believed and for us, as quote unquote experts, analysts, whatever

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<v Speaker 2>you want to call us, for us to see that

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<v Speaker 2>guy in those pits. So you know, I had a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of articles since me today that were Tiger saying

0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.199
<v Speaker 2>he didn't think he'd play again. These articles were eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>months ago, Andy, I mean eighteen months ago. This is

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<v Speaker 2>a guy that's saying I'm not sure I'll ever get

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<v Speaker 2>back to competitive golf. And to see what he's done

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<v Speaker 2>the last year, and this being kind of the tip

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<v Speaker 2>of it, this being the moment for Tiger Woods to

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<v Speaker 2>see it on his face, to see it on our

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<v Speaker 2>faces and our voices, the way we speak. I'll tell

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<v Speaker 2>you I'm not envy the people that have to write

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<v Speaker 2>this story. I mean, to sit in front of a

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<v Speaker 2>laptop on a blank screen and going, I've got to

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<v Speaker 2>put what just happened into words would be really, really

0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.960
<v Speaker 2>difficult to do. It's a great moment to do it,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's gonna be a hard story to write because

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<v Speaker 2>it's there's just nothing really you can say to put

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<v Speaker 2>it up on any higher of a pedestal than it

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<v Speaker 2>already is.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, I remember I writing the Speef Collapse.

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<v Speaker 1>There's one of like the next. It was really hard

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<v Speaker 1>to write. I remember sitting or starting erasing, starting erasing, erasing,

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<v Speaker 1>over and over and over again. And this is a

0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:59.559
<v Speaker 1>similar moment where nothing you can write can possibly live

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<v Speaker 1>up to what we just saw. And it's funny you

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<v Speaker 1>bring up that safeway. I wrote something like that day too.

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<v Speaker 1>It was October eleventh, twenty sixteen. This was supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be an uploading piece about Tiger Woods and has come

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<v Speaker 1>back to the PGA Tour. But as I was in

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<v Speaker 1>the final stages of editing, he announced he wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 1>making his return to golf this week because my game,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is his quote, my game is vulnerable and

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<v Speaker 1>not where.

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<v Speaker 3>It needs to be. And I mean this was.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the year before he was at the Hero

0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.440
<v Speaker 1>he couldn't walk, he was riding around in a cart.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean then he had obviously the transgressions and the

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<v Speaker 1>personal life stuff, and now I.

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<v Speaker 3>Mean the I feel I do feel a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>for Brooks, right.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he was the guy that came down the

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<v Speaker 1>stretch and I have to say he did something that

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<v Speaker 1>no player in the Tiger generation did where he was

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<v Speaker 1>stood the biggest Tiger roar maybe of all time, standing

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<v Speaker 1>on the seventeenth tee when Tiger hit that shot on sixteen.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, he knew what just happened and he stood

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<v Speaker 3>up there.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, he played the last two holes phenomenally. He

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<v Speaker 1>had ten feet for birdie on each of them, like

0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.080
<v Speaker 1>stones didn't make, the putts didn't go in, but it

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<v Speaker 1>and then and then he gets asked about Tiger winning,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, he just loses the Masters. But that

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<v Speaker 1>that will be the interesting thing, the fallout when you

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<v Speaker 1>look forward to the past this we start to look

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<v Speaker 1>at We've got Beth Page. In a month, We've got

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<v Speaker 1>he'll be at the US Open a pebble. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>what an unbelievable primer for that, returning to the course

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<v Speaker 1>that he won by you know, fifteen. Yeah, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>what's the reaction in what's the future with this generation

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<v Speaker 1>because he's playing really consistent golf.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, number six in the world now I think he's

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<v Speaker 2>jumped to I mean, this is I mean this this

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<v Speaker 2>guy was five hundredth in the world, six hundredth in

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<v Speaker 2>the world. Now he's one of the top, you know,

0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.720
<v Speaker 2>and now he's And you and I were talking about

0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.680
<v Speaker 2>it right when it ended. You said to me, could

0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.320
<v Speaker 2>he get to number one in the world, And then

0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.440
<v Speaker 2>you joked, he never finishes outside the top twenty. So

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it's almost inevitable that as long as he's healthy,

0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.720
<v Speaker 2>he's just can continue to go up this list. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>he won, of course, in a smaller field event that's

0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.440
<v Speaker 2>a big event at the Tour Championship. Now he wins

0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.680
<v Speaker 2>a major championship. Now the confidence, I really believe this.

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<v Speaker 2>I think Carnusti was an enormous moment for Tiger last year.

0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.080
<v Speaker 2>He got there, he had to share of the lead.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, he was in contention on the back nine

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<v Speaker 2>of an Open Championship on a tough golf course, and

0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.640
<v Speaker 2>he felt it and tasted it and believed in himself.

0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.600
<v Speaker 2>And I mean it's crazy to think Tiger needed to

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<v Speaker 2>believe in himself. I think he did. I think he

0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.880
<v Speaker 2>needed to see that happen. I need to be in

0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.240
<v Speaker 2>a major situation and I need to see if I

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<v Speaker 2>can win it. And he takes that confidence to the

0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.600
<v Speaker 2>PGA Championship. He nearly wins there, and now all of

0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.399
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, he's going, Okay, I can beat all these guys.

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<v Speaker 2>If I get there this many times, I can win.

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<v Speaker 2>It might take some help. Molinari helped him out a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit today, and as we've said, he didn't shoot

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<v Speaker 2>sixty five. He shot two under and that was good

0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:20.080
<v Speaker 2>enough to win. You know, if Molinari shoots seventy sixty

0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.520
<v Speaker 2>nine sixty eight, which was very much out on that

0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.760
<v Speaker 2>golf course today, he's the Master's Champion. He didn't do that,

0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.240
<v Speaker 2>but I just believe that that the self belief in

0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.800
<v Speaker 2>tiger Woods, which was always the most important part of

0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.840
<v Speaker 2>his game and the part of his game that really

0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.919
<v Speaker 2>set him apart from everybody else, is now getting to

0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.800
<v Speaker 2>that place where at these big events he's gonna believe

0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.480
<v Speaker 2>they've got to beat me now. And you think about

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<v Speaker 2>the venues, as you've said, coming up, we've got beth Page,

0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.199
<v Speaker 2>which he's one on, and then we get to go

0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.520
<v Speaker 2>to Pebble, which he's one on. You know, he's gonna

0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.680
<v Speaker 2>go there and instead of just being a nicee Vegas favorite,

0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:54.680
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's gonna be the favorite.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got an open championship, which is great.

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<v Speaker 2>For him, always great for him. The what you.

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<v Speaker 1>Touched on with the Open last year, and it fits

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<v Speaker 1>perfectly to what a tiger, an old tiger adage reps

0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.960
<v Speaker 1>like he needed to be in the moment. He got

0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.000
<v Speaker 1>a moment at Bell like there at Belle Reeve. We

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<v Speaker 1>saw it when he was when he was coming on tour.

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<v Speaker 1>It was almost like he was like learning to win

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<v Speaker 1>again like he did, like you know, it didn't take

0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.480
<v Speaker 1>him that long when he got on tour to win,

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<v Speaker 1>but you saw what it was fiftieth at at at

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<v Speaker 1>the GMO, and then he started all of a sudden

0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.760
<v Speaker 1>just getting closer and closer, and he I think he

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<v Speaker 1>finished third before the next week he wins in a

0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.320
<v Speaker 1>playoff and then it's kind of a similar arc where

0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.400
<v Speaker 1>he finishes. You know, he gets into majors last year

0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.000
<v Speaker 1>and he has a couple scraggly finishes and then all

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden he's in it in the thick of

0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.800
<v Speaker 1>it at the Open, in the thick of it at

0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.440
<v Speaker 1>the at the PGA, and then sure enough knocks down

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<v Speaker 1>the door and it could And one of the things

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<v Speaker 1>that technology has done is obviously led to this youth movement,

0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.600
<v Speaker 1>but it's also prolonged a lot of career, right, Like

0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.399
<v Speaker 1>we're seeing VJ. And Davis Love play until they're fifty.

0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.879
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Davis Love's fifty five right right, and he's playing,

0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, he's making cuts on the tour. And Tiger

0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Woods is a Davis Love. So if this fuse back,

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<v Speaker 1>if the health is all there.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we're talking seven, eight, nine, ten more years of

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<v Speaker 2>this potentially. I mean, Brooks Koepka was asked after about

0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Tiger getting to that jack number, and he says, I

0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.320
<v Speaker 2>think we're a lot closer than it looks, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, of course, now we're one step closer. But

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<v Speaker 2>I think these guys see it. I mean, they believe it.

0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean, how cool of the moment was it when

0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.640
<v Speaker 2>he walks off after all the family stuff and it's

0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.919
<v Speaker 2>getting pretty emotional. And if you're a fan of sport

0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.159
<v Speaker 2>at all, no matter what your thoughts are on with

0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.919
<v Speaker 2>Tiger Woods, if you're a fan of sports, that was

0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.440
<v Speaker 2>an unbelievable moment, you know, you obviously get the correlation

0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.040
<v Speaker 2>in the comparison to ninety seven and his dad and

0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.679
<v Speaker 2>now it's his kids. He talked about it in Butler

0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.879
<v Speaker 2>after and I'm sure he'll talk about it during his presser,

0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.800
<v Speaker 2>probably going on right about now, we'll talk about that

0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.400
<v Speaker 2>moment and thinking back to ninety seven versus twenty nineteen.

0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.320
<v Speaker 2>But walking off that green and you've got all these

0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:12.399
<v Speaker 2>PGA Tour players standing there saying what's up, giving them congrats.

0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.240
<v Speaker 2>Koepka was there, and Justin Thomas is there. I mean,

0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.719
<v Speaker 2>these are top ten players in the world, Bubba was there,

0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.520
<v Speaker 2>Zach Johnson, Ricky, I mean, all these guys are standing

0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.000
<v Speaker 2>there to congratulate him on getting there. Because the fan

0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.320
<v Speaker 2>were all fans in some capacity. Sure, you want to

0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.080
<v Speaker 2>win this if you're out there playing, but these guys

0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.240
<v Speaker 2>were fans at one point in their lives. They were

0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.199
<v Speaker 2>kids watching Tiger win. They were either rooting for Tiger

0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.880
<v Speaker 2>or they maybe had a different favorite, but they believed

0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.040
<v Speaker 2>in the greatness of Tiger Woods. And now they're out

0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.440
<v Speaker 2>there playing the same golf course, playing in a major

0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.080
<v Speaker 2>championship against him, and he finally comes out victorious after

0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.480
<v Speaker 2>all the battle back that he's had to go through,

0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.280
<v Speaker 2>and you see that in those players, and I think

0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.720
<v Speaker 2>that's a very very cool thing to go through. And

0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to think, like what other athlete would land

0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:58.119
<v Speaker 2>that sort of reception.

0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.600
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, there's no other sport that allows

0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.720
<v Speaker 1>for this because of the career length of golf. And

0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.200
<v Speaker 1>I think this is one of the magical things about

0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.280
<v Speaker 1>golf is that the length of the career, the longer career,

0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.200
<v Speaker 1>Like you saw it at the very end of Jordan's career,

0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.080
<v Speaker 1>where like he played a year with Kobe, you know,

0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.439
<v Speaker 1>or year or two, and then you had Ai, you know,

0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.879
<v Speaker 1>the famous crossover where he crossed Jordan, and it was

0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.359
<v Speaker 1>such a big deal because of how big of a

0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:23.000
<v Speaker 1>fan he was.

0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.120
<v Speaker 3>But no nobody.

0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Ever gets to play the guy they grew up idolizing

0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:33.040
<v Speaker 1>at that guy's best. And Tiger may never be at

0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.359
<v Speaker 1>the same level he was in say two thousand, but

0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.760
<v Speaker 1>he's really close to that level now, Like I mean,

0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.240
<v Speaker 1>he's six in the world and I don't think he's

0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.600
<v Speaker 1>even hit the qualified Like he still might be hurt

0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.040
<v Speaker 1>by how few events he's played in, Like his ranking

0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.399
<v Speaker 1>might be hurt by how little he's played.

0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.000
<v Speaker 2>When did you think he was gonna win today?

0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:02.280
<v Speaker 1>When Molinari rinsing it twelve at twelve was obviously that

0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.320
<v Speaker 1>was the big but then it was anybody, you know,

0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:09.040
<v Speaker 1>that really opened it up to the whole field because

0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.600
<v Speaker 1>Molinari hadn't shown much, you know.

0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.560
<v Speaker 2>Two bogies at that point all week. You know, that's it.

0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I was most most nervous over that te shaw on twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>I you know, full disclosure, I was rooting for Tiger.

0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:25.879
<v Speaker 3>Today, Like.

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<v Speaker 2>You're like, I'm gonna let you know what that was.

0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.359
<v Speaker 1>Like, I mean, there may or may not, but we

0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.280
<v Speaker 1>aren't in a media center. There may or may not

0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.800
<v Speaker 1>have been a high five, right Molinari or incident. I

0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.560
<v Speaker 1>like Mollinari a lot, but that that moment was when

0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:41.960
<v Speaker 1>there was a hope.

0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:52.000
<v Speaker 3>Fifteen was when you really were like, whoa sixteen? Obviously

0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:52.800
<v Speaker 3>was sixteen?

0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.320
<v Speaker 2>It was over right? I think so too. I mean

0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:57.200
<v Speaker 2>I even with even with Kepka not making the put

0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.840
<v Speaker 2>on eighteen, it just seemed like it was. It seemed

0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:01.720
<v Speaker 2>that Tiger made five because he could have made five

0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:03.840
<v Speaker 2>on eighteen. I mean, obviously, you know, only wins by one.

0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.680
<v Speaker 2>But I think even if Kopka makes that putt for

0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.800
<v Speaker 2>Birdie on eighteen, I think Tiger plays the second shot

0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:11.680
<v Speaker 2>or the t shot maybe a little bit differently, knowing

0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:14.720
<v Speaker 2>a four wins it not a five. I mean, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>he basically pitches it up there to the fat part

0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:19.120
<v Speaker 2>of the green with that third shot because he knew

0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:22.000
<v Speaker 2>he just needed it. You know, I think about I

0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.960
<v Speaker 2>look at this win about Tiger, and I just think

0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.560
<v Speaker 2>about the last six months and things that have worked

0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.440
<v Speaker 2>in his favor. He gets the win playing alongside Rory McRoy.

0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.200
<v Speaker 2>Rory doesn't have a very good final round, Nobody really

0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:36.960
<v Speaker 2>pushes him. He gets that victory at east Lake, and

0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:39.040
<v Speaker 2>it's obviously just thirty players. I mean, that's twenty nine

0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.359
<v Speaker 2>guys he's battling against. Doesn't obviously have a very good

0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.359
<v Speaker 2>Ryder Cup, takes a break from the game, takes a

0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:48.879
<v Speaker 2>decent amount of time away, never seems to be getting

0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.480
<v Speaker 2>back into the Tiger that we saw win. Didn't play

0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:53.600
<v Speaker 2>very good in Vegas, didn't play very good at the

0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:56.879
<v Speaker 2>Hero World starting the season. He was fine, just not

0:23:56.920 --> 0:24:00.719
<v Speaker 2>putting the ball very solidly. But you know, he loses

0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:03.880
<v Speaker 2>in the match play coming into this before going into

0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:05.480
<v Speaker 2>Sunday and having to play thirty six holes, because he

0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:06.919
<v Speaker 2>would have had to play thirty six no matter what.

0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:08.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he'd had to play the consolation match. If

0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.560
<v Speaker 2>he wins against Beer Garden and it's you know, if

0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:17.040
<v Speaker 2>he if he say he wins that match and he

0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.040
<v Speaker 2>goes through a Sunday of thirty six holes and it's

0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:20.840
<v Speaker 2>a grind and the weather, remember the weather was kind

0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:24.000
<v Speaker 2>of tall. It just would have been one of those

0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.800
<v Speaker 2>days to me that would have it would have felt

0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:29.280
<v Speaker 2>like a week on tiger Wood's body. Him getting out

0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.000
<v Speaker 2>of there early I think was a great thing for

0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.280
<v Speaker 2>him coming into this week, you know, and then he

0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:37.480
<v Speaker 2>gets a great break as well. Threesomes on Sunday means

0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:39.560
<v Speaker 2>he's in the final group. Wouldn't have been in the

0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:40.160
<v Speaker 2>final group.

0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you have to think about that too.

0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:52.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean, if it's Molinari, fe now, molt that was

0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:55.040
<v Speaker 1>a big moment. I know Molinari took him down at

0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:56.680
<v Speaker 1>at at the Open, but.

0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:58.040
<v Speaker 3>It was a completely different Mollinary.

0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:00.320
<v Speaker 1>He's never been a fifty four whole leader in a

0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:05.600
<v Speaker 1>major to my knowledge, and he kind of all the

0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:09.040
<v Speaker 1>attention with with that Open was like Ei, there's so

0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:12.000
<v Speaker 1>many big names there where Molinari kind of and he

0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:14.960
<v Speaker 1>wasn't as on the radar, you know, he didn't have

0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:18.439
<v Speaker 1>to answer the questions after the after the round about

0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.439
<v Speaker 1>who's the favorite, right, how's it going? To be like

0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:25.960
<v Speaker 1>playing with Tiger like that's that's a big fascinating and

0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.159
<v Speaker 1>he was Molinari wasn't molinariy in today? Even absolutely the

0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:34.000
<v Speaker 1>front nine he kept it together so well, But that

0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:37.080
<v Speaker 1>was not the Molinary that we've seen, you know, the

0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:40.080
<v Speaker 1>first fifty four holes of the Masters, and you know,

0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.080
<v Speaker 1>the last six months he was he was visibly shook.

0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:46.280
<v Speaker 1>And what would that You never know what it would

0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:48.960
<v Speaker 1>have been if it was regular to some Right, Yeah.

0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.880
<v Speaker 2>It's fen now and Molinari in the final and then

0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.280
<v Speaker 2>Tiger's chasing, and it's just it's afternoon, and you know,

0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:58.040
<v Speaker 2>and the preps different, and you know, just the adaptability

0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:00.880
<v Speaker 2>of Tiger Woods just continues to make me. His ability

0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.800
<v Speaker 2>to adapt to all these types of situations. He gets

0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:05.840
<v Speaker 2>in these moments, he hits the shots, he plays the

0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:07.800
<v Speaker 2>game the way the golf course is playing that week.

0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:09.960
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't bring his game and hope it adapts to

0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.399
<v Speaker 2>the golf course. You know, he hit a lot of

0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:16.280
<v Speaker 2>really quality golf shots today and they were smart, smart

0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:20.000
<v Speaker 2>golf shots, and he outsmarted everybody else. And that's why

0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:22.520
<v Speaker 2>he has a fifth green jacket. And you know it's

0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, you're in Butler cabin and you're hearing him

0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.679
<v Speaker 2>talk about the day and he can't talk about it.

0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:30.879
<v Speaker 2>You know, Tiger can't speak of it. And Tiger's one

0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.119
<v Speaker 2>of the most well spoken guys in all of golf,

0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:36.280
<v Speaker 2>and he has nothing to say. It's just it's unreal,

0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:38.560
<v Speaker 2>it's surreal. It's crazy. I think you can hear it

0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:41.680
<v Speaker 2>in both of our voices where you're trying to put

0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:45.760
<v Speaker 2>words to a moment that almost doesn't need words. You know,

0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.280
<v Speaker 2>it's just looking at the image or the video or

0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.840
<v Speaker 2>the celebration at the end, and you just got a

0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:55.240
<v Speaker 2>smile and take your hat off and say congratulations, because

0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:58.719
<v Speaker 2>you know that the way he was, the way he

0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.240
<v Speaker 2>reacted to it was kind of all of us, you know. Finally, finally,

0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:03.439
<v Speaker 2>finally he.

0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:10.080
<v Speaker 1>So Hank Haney's book, The Big Miss. This was quintessential Tiger.

0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.639
<v Speaker 1>There was no he was never even close to a

0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:16.760
<v Speaker 1>big miss. Right, everybody else on that leaderboard was a

0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:21.199
<v Speaker 1>big miss. Like Chaflet rinsed it, Molinari rinsed it, Koepka

0:27:21.320 --> 0:27:25.320
<v Speaker 1>rinsed it, like all these guys. I mean, I didn't

0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:29.840
<v Speaker 1>see enough of DJ you know, the day before Jason Day,

0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:33.760
<v Speaker 1>hidden in the water on fifteen mixed double. Tiger really

0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:37.280
<v Speaker 1>was the only guy and this is why he was.

0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:41.679
<v Speaker 1>He's the greatest tactician ever to play golf, like, you know,

0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.960
<v Speaker 1>just never he understands the bogies and you know he

0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:48.040
<v Speaker 1>made a fair amount of bogey day, but he knows

0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:51.040
<v Speaker 1>bogies don't hurt it, right. Doubles are the ones that

0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.800
<v Speaker 1>you don't win majors with doubles. And you look at

0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:56.880
<v Speaker 1>his scorecard, no double bogies for Tiger Woods. You look

0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:01.080
<v Speaker 1>at at uh at DJ's card, you know, no double bogies.

0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:04.560
<v Speaker 1>But he never had his like a game really, you know,

0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.240
<v Speaker 1>like that's that's one. At Dustin Johnson, you probably look

0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:09.480
<v Speaker 1>at and say, like, this guy.

0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:12.360
<v Speaker 2>Did close again, Huh. Think about how many of these

0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:16.760
<v Speaker 2>guys are close? Okay, outside of Tiger. If you look

0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:21.640
<v Speaker 2>at this board. And I preach this a lot, everybody

0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:24.800
<v Speaker 2>always uses lazy terms about guys when they get close

0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:26.760
<v Speaker 2>to winning stuff and they go, they'll be here again.

0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.560
<v Speaker 2>They'll have another chance. They'll win a Masters, they'll win

0:28:29.600 --> 0:28:33.200
<v Speaker 2>the US Open, er, a PGA, they'll get one eventually.

0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:39.440
<v Speaker 2>Dustin a shot back, Xander so Close, Brooks a chance

0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:42.560
<v Speaker 2>now for another major title and again a chance at

0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.440
<v Speaker 2>his first Masters, and then you keep going down. Molinari

0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:47.720
<v Speaker 2>obviously was there. Tony Fenale had a chance in the

0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:50.200
<v Speaker 2>final group again, was the final group at Chinnacok last year.

0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:52.200
<v Speaker 2>You know, there are a lot of guys that had

0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.200
<v Speaker 2>a chance today to add their name to that very

0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:58.040
<v Speaker 2>very short list of young players that now have won

0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:01.240
<v Speaker 2>the Masters, and they couldn't get a Do you think

0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:07.040
<v Speaker 2>it is for these guys mentally the toughest major to

0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:11.560
<v Speaker 2>win because they know a what comes with the win

0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:15.000
<v Speaker 2>and b how hard it is to always be back here.

0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:16.920
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you expect to always be back here. Of course,

0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:19.120
<v Speaker 2>like a Dustin Johnson doesn't necessarily have to worry about that.

0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:21.280
<v Speaker 2>But I mean, if you're Tony Fenow and you have

0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:23.680
<v Speaker 2>a couple of bad years, you know you could not

0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:25.719
<v Speaker 2>be in the Masters in twenty twenty two.

0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:29.040
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think that you only have to look

0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:31.960
<v Speaker 1>at like the comments that came from Ernie Elves this

0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.240
<v Speaker 1>year right as to what happens when you're the guy

0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:38.480
<v Speaker 1>that's there all the time and eventually and I think

0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:43.240
<v Speaker 1>that's I think that's what we're seeing and out a

0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:48.360
<v Speaker 1>little bit with Rory at this point, is that he

0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:50.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, when he came out and he was a

0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:54.200
<v Speaker 1>young kid, it was like, how many of these is

0:29:54.200 --> 0:29:56.720
<v Speaker 1>he going to write? There's never been a player that's

0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:58.960
<v Speaker 1>better fit for this. The guy loves to just hit

0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:01.800
<v Speaker 1>that rip draw the tee. You know, nobody hits his

0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 1>effortlessly great draw t shot ever, maybe than Rory McElroy.

0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:12.800
<v Speaker 1>And now all of a sudden, like it's more it's

0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:16.400
<v Speaker 1>a surprising when he's in it at the Like last year,

0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:18.440
<v Speaker 1>we were all amped because he was in it, and

0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:22.120
<v Speaker 1>we've we've the last say seven or six years since

0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:26.080
<v Speaker 1>what was a twenty eleven he's kind of just been

0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:30.080
<v Speaker 1>a shadow. You know, he makes the cut, but you know,

0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:33.040
<v Speaker 1>it's and I think that's what the tricky thing with

0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:35.920
<v Speaker 1>this is when you miss a couple of times at Augusta,

0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.600
<v Speaker 1>that's when you start strolling around the back nine with demons.

0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:42.880
<v Speaker 2>And I mean it's just I think that I think

0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:46.000
<v Speaker 2>it's the perfect storm of of you know, it's it's

0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:48.680
<v Speaker 2>it's this big golf event that battles nothing else. You know,

0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:50.880
<v Speaker 2>there's no other sports really. Of course, there's some early

0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.239
<v Speaker 2>early season playoffs going on right now, but I mean,

0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.840
<v Speaker 2>eyeballs are on this every single year. I think the

0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:58.200
<v Speaker 2>long wait plays into it. I mean you go from

0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:01.160
<v Speaker 2>the PGA Championship months in months and months and months

0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:03.760
<v Speaker 2>and months of waiting until the Masters, because it's a

0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:05.880
<v Speaker 2>major championship and it's the first of the year, and

0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:07.760
<v Speaker 2>you've had some big events going into it, but of

0:31:07.760 --> 0:31:10.120
<v Speaker 2>course this one is way way bigger than anything else

0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.880
<v Speaker 2>on the schedule leading into it, and if you go

0:31:12.960 --> 0:31:14.440
<v Speaker 2>through it. I mean Nicholas used to talk about it

0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:16.000
<v Speaker 2>when I didn't. Nicholas used to say, when I didn't

0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:18.920
<v Speaker 2>win the Masters, it bummed me out for the rest

0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:21.240
<v Speaker 2>of the year, you know, and that you think about

0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:23.200
<v Speaker 2>all the events that come after the Masters, I mean

0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:26.640
<v Speaker 2>all these other major championships, huge events, you know, career

0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:29.240
<v Speaker 2>changing types of things. And Jack said this would this

0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:31.720
<v Speaker 2>would really bumb them out. So it's just when you

0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:34.160
<v Speaker 2>look at this board after two or three days, or

0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.720
<v Speaker 2>a week or two weeks or even next year, when

0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:40.640
<v Speaker 2>we're like researching the twenty nineteen Masters, you'll probably forget

0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:44.400
<v Speaker 2>how many of the one name guys Brooks, Dust and Rander,

0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.320
<v Speaker 2>those guys Ricky were right there on Sunday with a

0:31:47.360 --> 0:31:48.640
<v Speaker 2>decent chance to win this thing.

0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:52.120
<v Speaker 1>Hey, I want to read this El's quote because it's

0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:56.320
<v Speaker 1>it's it's just so when a thing stings you, it

0:31:57.360 --> 0:32:00.480
<v Speaker 1>when a thing stings you, it keeps singing you. When

0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:03.120
<v Speaker 1>it gives to you, it keeps on giving. I've seen

0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:05.920
<v Speaker 1>that with Gary Player, I've seen that with Jack Nicholas.

0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:09.080
<v Speaker 1>I've got a love hate relationship with the place. It

0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:12.040
<v Speaker 1>was always almost like a curse to me. It was

0:32:12.080 --> 0:32:13.280
<v Speaker 1>not a romantic deal.

0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:13.800
<v Speaker 3>To me.

0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:19.280
<v Speaker 1>It was a It was a fucking nightmare. And you

0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:22.400
<v Speaker 1>start to wonder when you when you miss like or

0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:24.640
<v Speaker 1>is this where we're going with some of these guys,

0:32:24.680 --> 0:32:29.600
<v Speaker 1>Like I mean, like Ricky last year, this year, and

0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:34.840
<v Speaker 1>so many other times, and like you said, you don't

0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:36.640
<v Speaker 1>know if he's ever gonna get it done.

0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:40.040
<v Speaker 3>He's right, Like, man, it'd be weird.

0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:45.080
<v Speaker 1>With with his record at the Masters if Ricky Fowler

0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:48.840
<v Speaker 1>is in that Lee Westwood Ernie Els type sphere where

0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:53.960
<v Speaker 1>like when when he's forty forty two and no longer

0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:57.720
<v Speaker 1>like forty five whatever that age is, and no longer

0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:01.240
<v Speaker 1>based off his merits, Like you're the one who's saying

0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:03.479
<v Speaker 1>like he should get an exemption in he should get

0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:06.200
<v Speaker 1>an exemption in right, And And there's gonna be someone

0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:07.880
<v Speaker 1>from this camp.

0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:10.120
<v Speaker 3>Is it is it Ricky? Is it DJ?

0:33:10.400 --> 0:33:13.120
<v Speaker 1>Is it Rory that's gonna fall into this thing? Sure?

0:33:13.360 --> 0:33:16.200
<v Speaker 1>Because like it's all the great swint at the Masters

0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:17.200
<v Speaker 1>except for a few.

0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Right, I mean, Wiskoff never one should have won, Miller

0:33:19.520 --> 0:33:21.840
<v Speaker 2>never won, should have won. Trevino of course didn't didn't

0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:23.600
<v Speaker 2>play the golf course because it wasn't the golf course

0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:25.400
<v Speaker 2>that he liked to play. But I mean that's the

0:33:25.440 --> 0:33:27.880
<v Speaker 2>hole on his resume. You know, you talk about Ernie,

0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.280
<v Speaker 2>David Devaul played well here in his prime a lot

0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:32.760
<v Speaker 2>and came really really close even you know, I think

0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:34.400
<v Speaker 2>about a lot that doesn't get talked about in this

0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:38.120
<v Speaker 2>conversation is Goosen. No, Goosen nearly won the Masters a

0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:40.720
<v Speaker 2>few times, and he played the golf course great, and

0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:42.800
<v Speaker 2>now he looks back on it and goes, you know,

0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:45.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm not I'm not gonna win the Masters, and I

0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:46.680
<v Speaker 2>think it's a it's a big bummer. I talk about

0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:48.080
<v Speaker 2>it a lot when I talk to some of the

0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:51.320
<v Speaker 2>guys I work with, guys like Curtis who were so

0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:54.160
<v Speaker 2>close to winning the Masters a few times, and you know,

0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.280
<v Speaker 2>when they talk about it, it is it bums them

0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.920
<v Speaker 2>out because you know it was it's a whole, it's

0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.680
<v Speaker 2>that they'll never be able to fill. So it's crazy.

0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:05.360
<v Speaker 2>You look at Ricky listen, Ricky since twenty fourteen the

0:34:05.400 --> 0:34:09.760
<v Speaker 2>Masters T five, T twelve, missed the cut in sixteen,

0:34:09.920 --> 0:34:14.319
<v Speaker 2>T eleven, two T nine. I mean, he is very

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.560
<v Speaker 2>much in the conversation every Sunday at August.

0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:18.960
<v Speaker 1>It seems like yeah, and I think that's everybody says,

0:34:19.040 --> 0:34:20.880
<v Speaker 1>like all you can ask for is to have a

0:34:20.880 --> 0:34:21.720
<v Speaker 1>shot coming.

0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:22.120
<v Speaker 3>Down the street.

0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:24.080
<v Speaker 2>Tiger had the day get a shot on the back,

0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:26.840
<v Speaker 2>and he was patient, very patient.

0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:27.759
<v Speaker 3>That was the thing.

0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:31.160
<v Speaker 1>He just didn't put himself in any situation where like

0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:33.000
<v Speaker 1>if you're going to miss one way on eleven, you

0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:35.879
<v Speaker 1>miss right right. He missed it blaster right, and sure

0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:37.840
<v Speaker 1>enough he gets into the same pocket he was the

0:34:37.920 --> 0:34:40.200
<v Speaker 1>day before, which is actually the best spot you can

0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:42.400
<v Speaker 1>be on the golf ball. You know, it's in the trees.

0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:44.279
<v Speaker 1>It used to be the ideal of place to be.

0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:46.279
<v Speaker 1>But then same thing with twelve. He just hit it

0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:48.719
<v Speaker 1>right into the middle of the green, which I think

0:34:48.760 --> 0:34:51.520
<v Speaker 1>that's a hyperbology, like you know, not a hyper but

0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:54.399
<v Speaker 1>like a misleading like, oh, just hit in the middle

0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:56.800
<v Speaker 1>of the green. It's a lot harder than it looks, obviously,

0:34:57.040 --> 0:35:00.279
<v Speaker 1>But then with thirteen, you know, he just hit hit

0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:02.279
<v Speaker 1>a safe shot. I think we talked about that a lot.

0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:06.400
<v Speaker 1>Here is like the safe shot into thirteen and I can't.

0:35:06.840 --> 0:35:10.000
<v Speaker 1>I gotta go back. So you said one name company,

0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:12.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, the one name leaderboard guys, and one guy

0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:17.160
<v Speaker 1>you put on there, Xander, Xander underrated. He's he's getting

0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:18.360
<v Speaker 1>close to the one name company.

0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:21.120
<v Speaker 2>He's He's He's I think he's the most underrated guy

0:35:21.120 --> 0:35:24.520
<v Speaker 2>in golf. I mean, I think he had a look

0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:29.480
<v Speaker 2>today and yesterday that looked like he believed he could

0:35:29.520 --> 0:35:32.799
<v Speaker 2>win this. It didn't seem like he And you know,

0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:36.040
<v Speaker 2>he's such a he's such a nice, kind hearted kid

0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:38.879
<v Speaker 2>that when he does the interviews after, I think it's

0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:41.400
<v Speaker 2>easy it'd almost look past that in a way. But

0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:46.080
<v Speaker 2>he seems like the type of player that relishes these

0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:50.120
<v Speaker 2>types of moments and believes that when he's hitting it well,

0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:52.839
<v Speaker 2>he's gonna have a real good chance. And I mean,

0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:57.240
<v Speaker 2>you know, we we always forget about Brooks, always forget

0:35:57.280 --> 0:36:00.000
<v Speaker 2>about Brooks, but Brooks is like that, and I feel

0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:02.280
<v Speaker 2>like Xander's like almost like Brooks. Light, you know where

0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:04.160
<v Speaker 2>he's got all the game in the world to do it,

0:36:04.560 --> 0:36:07.440
<v Speaker 2>and he's continually getting closer and closer to and you

0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:09.400
<v Speaker 2>know he's he's on a short list of mind that

0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:11.200
<v Speaker 2>if you were gonna pick, if you were right now

0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:13.160
<v Speaker 2>gonna pick who's gonna win the next three majors in

0:36:13.200 --> 0:36:16.040
<v Speaker 2>twenty nineteen, and you had three names to choose from,

0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:18.360
<v Speaker 2>I would be surprised if Xander wasn't on a lot

0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:20.320
<v Speaker 2>of people's list that pay a lot of attention to golf.

0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we had we had a we had a statistician

0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:25.560
<v Speaker 1>on the Shotgun Start, Joe Peta.

0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:27.600
<v Speaker 2>And he talked great, a great interview, talked.

0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:31.240
<v Speaker 1>About clustering, like when you're close and so so Xander.

0:36:32.200 --> 0:36:35.880
<v Speaker 1>He's a fascinating study because he's under hyped out of college.

0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:40.040
<v Speaker 1>He went to San Diego State, you know, under hyped

0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.080
<v Speaker 1>coming out of the web. He barely got his card

0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:48.799
<v Speaker 1>at the US Open. He's locals in, locals through, sectionals in,

0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:51.000
<v Speaker 1>and then he's right on the first pay of the

0:36:51.000 --> 0:36:54.040
<v Speaker 1>liborg the first day, and all you're doing is sitting

0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:56.000
<v Speaker 1>there waiting like when's this going to collapse?

0:36:56.080 --> 0:36:56.239
<v Speaker 2>Right?

0:36:56.400 --> 0:36:59.040
<v Speaker 1>Like when this guy's not going to be here on Sunday,

0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:01.120
<v Speaker 1>T five at Aaron Hill's right right.

0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:04.120
<v Speaker 3>Then then Open he's T. Twenty.

0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:07.000
<v Speaker 1>But then next year, you know, first Masters he struggles,

0:37:07.000 --> 0:37:09.399
<v Speaker 1>but then he goes T six at the US Open.

0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:10.600
<v Speaker 3>Didn't think he was gonna be.

0:37:10.600 --> 0:37:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Then on the Open Championship, he's standing on the seventy

0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:16.600
<v Speaker 1>first hole, he's really the only guy that's got a shot,

0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:19.000
<v Speaker 1>and he's got a baby crying in the back and

0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:20.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, right behind him, and you're.

0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:22.120
<v Speaker 2>Like, can you do anything about that?

0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:24.960
<v Speaker 1>And if you went into that day, he was the

0:37:25.000 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 1>guy that every nobody was picking Xander to win, but

0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:30.400
<v Speaker 1>he was right there. And then this week, this again

0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:33.400
<v Speaker 1>he hits a ball, he hits balling water day and

0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:39.400
<v Speaker 1>he's still he finishes one back. It's just it's like

0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:41.480
<v Speaker 1>what you said, you never know how many chances you're

0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:43.200
<v Speaker 1>going to get, but you have to believe that he

0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:45.759
<v Speaker 1>is going to win a major very very soon.

0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:48.640
<v Speaker 2>What was the biggest surprise for you this week? I mean,

0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:51.839
<v Speaker 2>outside of obviously the Tiger win, when you look at

0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:56.120
<v Speaker 2>the twenty nineteen Masters right now, what surprised you the most,

0:37:56.200 --> 0:37:58.720
<v Speaker 2>either be a positive or negative, Was anything really stand

0:37:58.760 --> 0:38:01.720
<v Speaker 2>out to you that was really shocking from the week.

0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:04.080
<v Speaker 3>Is it outside of a player hitting the.

0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:10.960
<v Speaker 1>Ball with a practice because that was pretty shocking, or

0:38:11.000 --> 0:38:13.560
<v Speaker 1>a guy falling down when he was the green?

0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:16.400
<v Speaker 2>This this master's at at all?

0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:16.960
<v Speaker 3>It?

0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:17.759
<v Speaker 2>Did it? Did?

0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:20.040
<v Speaker 3>I think? I?

0:38:20.280 --> 0:38:24.400
<v Speaker 1>I I think it sticks. It's either speed or Rory.

0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:29.200
<v Speaker 1>I think more so Rory. I think Spiek's in a

0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:32.760
<v Speaker 1>in a funk right now, you know. And he finished

0:38:32.760 --> 0:38:33.359
<v Speaker 1>T twenty one.

0:38:33.760 --> 0:38:38.400
<v Speaker 2>He actually played pretty well after the second hole. Uh,

0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:42.359
<v Speaker 2>after the second hole on Saturday he went on a run. Man.

0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:44.680
<v Speaker 2>But but he just loves this place.

0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:47.640
<v Speaker 1>But he lost it on on Thursday, right, oh for sure.

0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:50.040
<v Speaker 1>And to a certain extent, Rory lost it on Thursday,

0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:52.440
<v Speaker 1>which is not what you expected with Rory coming in.

0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:55.080
<v Speaker 3>And and that's the that's the thing.

0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:58.120
<v Speaker 1>And I don't want to, you know, but you start

0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:00.320
<v Speaker 1>to look at the guy that you know, there's always

0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:03.120
<v Speaker 1>one guy that doesn't get, that doesn't get the one

0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:06.520
<v Speaker 1>you know chant there's always a hole. And that's that's

0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:08.840
<v Speaker 1>the thing that's starting to kind of crystallize. I think,

0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:12.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, Adam Scott's putter doesn't That can't be surprising.

0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:14.960
<v Speaker 1>That's just you know, the way it's been his career.

0:39:15.280 --> 0:39:18.640
<v Speaker 1>It's it's amazing how certain guys just fall into the

0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:21.799
<v Speaker 1>into the role that you like grow to expect him,

0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:27.400
<v Speaker 1>Like coucher T twelve, like never had a chance, but

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:29.840
<v Speaker 1>was just somehow there all the time. And that's like

0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:32.960
<v Speaker 1>kind of his like Augusta. And if you look at Poulter,

0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Poulter's kind of had a similar career at Augusta, Like

0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:39.239
<v Speaker 1>he was there, but he wasn't really there, right, And

0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:42.279
<v Speaker 1>that's I think the thing about Augusta is that there

0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:45.880
<v Speaker 1>are certain players that will always be there.

0:39:45.920 --> 0:39:49.400
<v Speaker 2>Right safe bets for top fifteen every single season. Go

0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:52.439
<v Speaker 2>look at how Coocher's played the Masters the last ten years.

0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:55.920
<v Speaker 2>It's it's unreal how he's always around the number he

0:39:56.040 --> 0:39:58.560
<v Speaker 2>was today. You know, it's just where he sits. And

0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:01.080
<v Speaker 2>it goes back to again to the guys that okay,

0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:03.600
<v Speaker 2>so that's a theme, and then the guys that win

0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:06.120
<v Speaker 2>are a theme. Tiger's a winner. He knows how to win.

0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:09.360
<v Speaker 2>He's figured it out, doesn't matter the golf course, the situation,

0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.040
<v Speaker 2>or the weather, or the tee time movement or anything

0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.840
<v Speaker 2>like that. He's has this mentality his entire life that

0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:17.080
<v Speaker 2>he can find a way to figure out how to

0:40:17.080 --> 0:40:21.840
<v Speaker 2>be victorious. I think Kopka has that same type of mentality.

0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:24.920
<v Speaker 2>He can figure out a way to win late. And

0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:27.560
<v Speaker 2>then unfortunately there's guys that don't do that. You know,

0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:30.880
<v Speaker 2>there's guys that don't that when they're close to winning

0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:35.200
<v Speaker 2>the moment is too big. And you know, again I

0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:37.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't fault any guys for that. You know, people

0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:39.399
<v Speaker 2>are what's wrong, Why did this guy win more? Why

0:40:39.480 --> 0:40:40.000
<v Speaker 2>can't he win?

0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:41.120
<v Speaker 3>It's really hard.

0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:43.839
<v Speaker 2>It's really hard to win. It's really hard to win

0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:45.040
<v Speaker 2>the Masters. You know.

0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:47.600
<v Speaker 3>I always like to say that winning's overrated.

0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:49.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm the same, I'm in the same camp as you.

0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:53.640
<v Speaker 1>But then like the guys that get in the moment

0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:58.240
<v Speaker 1>and win, it's hard to say that's overrated, right because

0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:02.560
<v Speaker 1>like there's something there and you know it's I was

0:41:02.920 --> 0:41:05.880
<v Speaker 1>talking to somebody and they and they were described they

0:41:05.880 --> 0:41:08.640
<v Speaker 1>were saying, oh, he doesn't he never had the sack

0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:12.319
<v Speaker 1>to win, And there's something, you know, I don't. That's

0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:16.239
<v Speaker 1>something there about winning, because like we saw today, like

0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:18.560
<v Speaker 1>that Tiger coming down the stretch.

0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:22.399
<v Speaker 3>And he even dj to a certain who wins a.

0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:25.080
<v Speaker 2>Lot, ns wins all the time, wins way more than

0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:25.879
<v Speaker 2>people think he does.

0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:28.560
<v Speaker 1>But then when you look at him and majors, you

0:41:28.719 --> 0:41:31.359
<v Speaker 1>just keep finding these like, how do you not win?

0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:38.200
<v Speaker 2>She's like Tiger. Now, this is what's so wild about this.

0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:44.840
<v Speaker 2>Tiger stopped so many legends from having these unbelievable careers.

0:41:45.040 --> 0:41:47.880
<v Speaker 2>Ernie is the best example. Filled to a certain extent,

0:41:48.239 --> 0:41:51.680
<v Speaker 2>VJ would have won more majors. Goosen again, Duvall. You

0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 2>know those are the names and you go outside of that.

0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:56.360
<v Speaker 2>You know, DeMarco wins the Masters without Tiger there, and.

0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:57.960
<v Speaker 3>Poddrick you're forgetting.

0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:02.600
<v Speaker 2>Uh, Bob May, Bob May you know, you know all

0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:05.960
<v Speaker 2>of those guys that Bob may kick out. But I mean,

0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:08.440
<v Speaker 2>when you think about what Tiger did in the sense

0:42:08.480 --> 0:42:12.359
<v Speaker 2>of halting careers, all these young guys now and I'm

0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:14.200
<v Speaker 2>gonna throw DJ in the young category and he's only

0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:18.440
<v Speaker 2>thirty four years old. But now Tiger has halted this

0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:23.319
<v Speaker 2>generation potentially say he wins So right now, if I

0:42:23.360 --> 0:42:24.920
<v Speaker 2>said one and a half majors for the rest of

0:42:24.960 --> 0:42:30.279
<v Speaker 2>Tiger's career right now, is it is it irresponsible to

0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:31.200
<v Speaker 2>say under now?

0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:33.759
<v Speaker 3>I think so.

0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:35.880
<v Speaker 1>I said I think at the beginning of the year,

0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:37.920
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I didn't think he would win another major.

0:42:38.920 --> 0:42:42.919
<v Speaker 1>But then he did to this these guys, as we've

0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.040
<v Speaker 1>talked more, he kind of he did to them. What

0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.479
<v Speaker 1>the I So, if you take Tiger out of the mix,

0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:51.040
<v Speaker 1>who wins today? And I don't think there's a question

0:42:51.120 --> 0:42:51.840
<v Speaker 1>in my mind.

0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:52.120
<v Speaker 3>Who wins?

0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:54.120
<v Speaker 2>You're saying Brooksy, Yeah?

0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:57.279
<v Speaker 3>Does he? He makes those putts on seventeen eighteen.

0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:59.000
<v Speaker 2>Right, makes one of them. It's all they needed.

0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:01.320
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you've called the last to us o rights.

0:43:01.719 --> 0:43:03.160
<v Speaker 3>You've seen what Brooks does.

0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:05.239
<v Speaker 2>He just hits golf shots and makes putts when he

0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:05.520
<v Speaker 2>has to.

0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:10.440
<v Speaker 1>And those putts on seventeen and eighteen were so reminiscent

0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:13.439
<v Speaker 1>of last year at Shinney, coming down the stretch.

0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:15.360
<v Speaker 2>Like and when he flew through that that one and

0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:17.840
<v Speaker 2>at sixteen when nobody was getting it close to the

0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:19.799
<v Speaker 2>hole and he makes that bad boy. Yeah, I mean

0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:22.200
<v Speaker 2>he was just making it up and down on fourteen. Oh,

0:43:22.280 --> 0:43:23.879
<v Speaker 2>unbelievable from what it.

0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:28.160
<v Speaker 3>Was fifty yards short, dead down wind, like just an unbelievable.

0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:31.279
<v Speaker 1>Similar like shots that hit into seventeen and eighteen where

0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.120
<v Speaker 1>he hit it, same distance, same type of putt, not

0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:36.480
<v Speaker 1>a ton of movement, and like I mean that one

0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:37.839
<v Speaker 1>on seventeen.

0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:38.000
<v Speaker 3>He gassed.

0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:39.960
<v Speaker 2>He did gas yet like that that.

0:43:40.040 --> 0:43:43.080
<v Speaker 1>Was actually an anxious putt.

0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:45.320
<v Speaker 3>That's a putt you make.

0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:48.920
<v Speaker 1>When when you're in the moment and you know you

0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:51.799
<v Speaker 1>gotta make it, like the miss is either short right

0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:55.880
<v Speaker 1>or too hard left, and that was he kind of

0:43:55.920 --> 0:44:00.000
<v Speaker 1>had both of the misses, Like neither of those were

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:01.399
<v Speaker 1>really close to the hole right.

0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.359
<v Speaker 2>But it's it's just it's so wild that. I mean again,

0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:07.880
<v Speaker 2>you go back to ninety seven. I mean, nineteen ninety

0:44:07.920 --> 0:44:12.200
<v Speaker 2>seven was so long ago, and Tiger wins his first Masters,

0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:15.400
<v Speaker 2>in his first major, and he's upsetting from that point on.

0:44:15.480 --> 0:44:18.919
<v Speaker 2>He's upsetting people over and over again that either would

0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:20.919
<v Speaker 2>add to a legacy that was already impressive or would

0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:23.960
<v Speaker 2>completely change their lives. And now it's twenty nineteen and

0:44:24.000 --> 0:44:27.040
<v Speaker 2>he's doing something similar, you know, one of the biggest

0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:29.160
<v Speaker 2>events in the entire year. It's just it's still wild.

0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:31.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's gonna take some time. You're gonna have

0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.040
<v Speaker 2>a moment on like Wednesday, where you wake up from

0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:36.560
<v Speaker 2>sleep and you're gonna go Tiger win the Masters on Sunday.

0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:39.200
<v Speaker 1>I just had this visual pop in my head.

0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:40.520
<v Speaker 2>I can't wait for this.

0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:44.560
<v Speaker 1>Imagine if you put up like a slide show of

0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:47.760
<v Speaker 1>the guys that Tiger beat ninety seven, and a slide

0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:50.960
<v Speaker 1>show of the guys that he beat this and this masters,

0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:56.040
<v Speaker 1>and and that shows the seismic impact that he's had

0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:01.479
<v Speaker 1>on the game. So everybody, you know, Tiger completely revolutionized

0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.240
<v Speaker 1>the game of golf and brought on this new generation

0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:09.759
<v Speaker 1>of players. And without a question, I can say at

0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:14.759
<v Speaker 1>this point, like in any Jack Nicholas supporter, he's the

0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:18.080
<v Speaker 1>best player of all time because he created a whole

0:45:18.120 --> 0:45:21.000
<v Speaker 1>new generation of golfers, a whole new era of golf,

0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:22.439
<v Speaker 1>and just beat them all.

0:45:22.600 --> 0:45:24.560
<v Speaker 2>Just beat them all and beat all the best U.

0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:28.200
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, outside of Rory Rose and Speeth

0:45:28.320 --> 0:45:31.359
<v Speaker 2>really being in the mix, JT was there a little bit,

0:45:31.560 --> 0:45:33.839
<v Speaker 2>you know, Ricky and DJ and Kepken, all those guys.

0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:35.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna read you that. The leaderboard for ninety seven.

0:45:35.520 --> 0:45:37.719
<v Speaker 2>You're ready for this, Yeah, all right? Tiger wins at

0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:42.600
<v Speaker 2>eighteen under. Okay, second place, Tom Kite, third place, Tommy Toles,

0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:48.760
<v Speaker 2>Tom Watson, Tommy So, Tommy Toles fired sixty. For a second,

0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:54.160
<v Speaker 2>you were going to say, Tommy too clubs. Tommy Tolls third,

0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:56.279
<v Speaker 2>Tom Watson.

0:45:56.239 --> 0:46:00.839
<v Speaker 1>Fourth, he how old he was forty one in ninety one,

0:46:01.360 --> 0:46:05.520
<v Speaker 1>so he had when Woozy won forty seven, forty seven

0:46:05.600 --> 0:46:07.280
<v Speaker 1>year old Tom Watson.

0:46:07.160 --> 0:46:14.160
<v Speaker 2>Roka and Paul Stankowski finished t fifth. Paul Stankowski couples longer,

0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:18.239
<v Speaker 2>Justin Leonard Davis love the third, and Jeff Sluman round

0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:21.279
<v Speaker 2>out the top ten. Compare that, as you said to

0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:25.000
<v Speaker 2>the leaderboard of the top ten in twenty and nineteen.

0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:29.000
<v Speaker 1>It's you know what I love about this too, is

0:46:29.040 --> 0:46:31.520
<v Speaker 1>that you know, he went through so many times where

0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.040
<v Speaker 1>he was rebuilding a swing with so and so so

0:46:34.080 --> 0:46:37.839
<v Speaker 1>and so high name instructor, Like this comeback He's done

0:46:37.920 --> 0:46:44.600
<v Speaker 1>all himself, Like he just finally in a way, it

0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:51.720
<v Speaker 1>was a return to like and the celebration was really similar,

0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:55.040
<v Speaker 1>like the emotions in the ninety seven and this one

0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:58.799
<v Speaker 1>and and both of them were so emotional because he

0:46:58.960 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 1>did it all himself.

0:47:00.120 --> 0:47:02.799
<v Speaker 3>Like there are moments where you were like, yeah, he did.

0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:06.320
<v Speaker 1>You know, he got here because of him, not because

0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:08.080
<v Speaker 1>of anyone else. And I think that's one of the

0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:10.879
<v Speaker 1>things that happened to Tigers. He got you get big,

0:47:10.920 --> 0:47:14.200
<v Speaker 1>and there's so many you know, hanger ons like types

0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:18.919
<v Speaker 1>and and these this win with the other one were

0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:22.040
<v Speaker 1>because of so much of their own you know, his

0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:27.440
<v Speaker 1>own time, all of you know, it was ninety seven

0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:29.880
<v Speaker 1>was an underdog story, and this was an underdog story.

0:47:31.239 --> 0:47:34.000
<v Speaker 2>You know. I mentioned this to you guys during the

0:47:34.040 --> 0:47:36.960
<v Speaker 2>coverage on Sunday of the final round is and I

0:47:37.000 --> 0:47:38.560
<v Speaker 2>mentioned a little bit of it early about energy. But

0:47:39.520 --> 0:47:42.640
<v Speaker 2>you know, Tiger is obviously a veteran now and mature

0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:44.319
<v Speaker 2>in a scene all of it. He's seen the good,

0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:49.200
<v Speaker 2>the bad, and the ugly. He never one time today

0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:52.600
<v Speaker 2>changed his demeanor, never up, never down, No fist pumps.

0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:54.919
<v Speaker 2>Can you was there one fist pump? I don't think

0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:57.720
<v Speaker 2>there was. I don't think he made if you okay,

0:47:58.080 --> 0:48:01.520
<v Speaker 2>was there a putt? He made a distance today that

0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:03.640
<v Speaker 2>really mattered because a lot of the birdies were two

0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:04.400
<v Speaker 2>putts are tapins.

0:48:04.560 --> 0:48:06.160
<v Speaker 3>That's the thing. Like he did it.

0:48:07.000 --> 0:48:09.480
<v Speaker 1>That's the other scary thing about this. He did it

0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:13.399
<v Speaker 1>without his a game right like he was. He didn't

0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:15.480
<v Speaker 1>drive the ball great, which is this is the.

0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:17.640
<v Speaker 3>Place where he can do that and get away with it.

0:48:18.400 --> 0:48:21.120
<v Speaker 1>And he didn't putt great like he He left a

0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:23.640
<v Speaker 1>lot out there early in the week, and then on

0:48:23.840 --> 0:48:29.880
<v Speaker 1>yesterday he putted really well on Saturday, but today there there.

0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:31.960
<v Speaker 3>Were no fist pump moments none.

0:48:32.239 --> 0:48:34.120
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he made he made a great putt on eight,

0:48:34.120 --> 0:48:35.560
<v Speaker 2>but he didn't fist pump. That was when he hit

0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:37.200
<v Speaker 2>that three wood and he chopped it over the back

0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:39.400
<v Speaker 2>and he had that great up and in there, and

0:48:39.440 --> 0:48:41.200
<v Speaker 2>it was one of those moments that seemed like at

0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.880
<v Speaker 2>the time, must make had to make it to stay

0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:46.600
<v Speaker 2>with Molinari. Mollinari made Birdie as well. You know, he

0:48:46.840 --> 0:48:49.520
<v Speaker 2>obviously flags it on seven and makes that good up

0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:51.240
<v Speaker 2>and in an eight, and that putt was of distance

0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:55.560
<v Speaker 2>probably twelve to twenteen feet something like that. Other than

0:48:55.600 --> 0:48:58.480
<v Speaker 2>that Birdie's go what about that two putt on nine?

0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:00.840
<v Speaker 2>That was great, That was an That was maybe the

0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:01.839
<v Speaker 2>best shot he hit all day.

0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:05.080
<v Speaker 3>That that's the shot that will get forgotten.

0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:06.360
<v Speaker 2>The putt from all the way to the top of

0:49:06.360 --> 0:49:07.440
<v Speaker 2>the green when he had the mudball.

0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:11.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that that's where. But then you know, he made

0:49:11.680 --> 0:49:15.520
<v Speaker 1>the bogey on ten, which was felt like a killer.

0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:18.960
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, that the eight, the putt on eight and

0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:22.480
<v Speaker 1>the put on nine were the two pivotal moments.

0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:25.759
<v Speaker 2>You know, it was you're you know, I hadn't thought

0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:27.440
<v Speaker 2>about this yet and you made a great point. It

0:49:27.600 --> 0:49:29.520
<v Speaker 2>wasn't his greatest stuff now. I mean, you know, we're

0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:32.120
<v Speaker 2>what thirty minutes into talking about this, and it was

0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:36.360
<v Speaker 2>never It wasn't It wasn't a flag fest. It was

0:49:36.400 --> 0:49:39.239
<v Speaker 2>a smart shot fest, you know. It was it was

0:49:39.280 --> 0:49:41.800
<v Speaker 2>putting the ball in smart positions, as you mentioned, to

0:49:41.840 --> 0:49:45.520
<v Speaker 2>avoid doubles. And when you look across the day, it

0:49:45.560 --> 0:49:48.400
<v Speaker 2>is it is wild to think that, you know. I mean,

0:49:48.440 --> 0:49:50.800
<v Speaker 2>he didn't make birdie on two, he bertie two once

0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:54.479
<v Speaker 2>this week. You know, he plays eight one under this week.

0:49:54.680 --> 0:49:57.040
<v Speaker 2>You know, the front nine was never great. He bogied

0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:59.479
<v Speaker 2>five all four days. Obviously, the new t at five,

0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:02.840
<v Speaker 2>bogue on five all four days this week. You know,

0:50:02.880 --> 0:50:04.799
<v Speaker 2>he makes the turn and makes that bogey on ten,

0:50:05.440 --> 0:50:07.600
<v Speaker 2>and it was kind of a it was a sloppy

0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:10.000
<v Speaker 2>T shot and obviously had to kind of punch out

0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:14.160
<v Speaker 2>and then kind of just a sloppy T shot on eleven,

0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:17.200
<v Speaker 2>and he didn't necessarily flag it on twelve. I mean,

0:50:17.320 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, we talked about the safe shots. Of course

0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:20.640
<v Speaker 2>that happens when both guys you're playing with hit in

0:50:20.680 --> 0:50:23.160
<v Speaker 2>the water. But he had to make a lengthy putt

0:50:23.200 --> 0:50:26.120
<v Speaker 2>there to save par at twelve, another shot that'll probably

0:50:26.160 --> 0:50:28.080
<v Speaker 2>get forgotten. It's kind of like the lag on nine.

0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:31.840
<v Speaker 2>But it was just there were so many round savers

0:50:31.840 --> 0:50:34.239
<v Speaker 2>today and then he turned it on when he needed

0:50:34.239 --> 0:50:35.719
<v Speaker 2>to on the holes that you talked about, and you

0:50:35.760 --> 0:50:38.600
<v Speaker 2>talked I know, people don't hear Jeff ogilvi much. You've

0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:42.840
<v Speaker 2>talked with Jeff Ogilvie at length about this golf course

0:50:42.880 --> 0:50:45.600
<v Speaker 2>and the holes you can take advantage of, and Ogilvie

0:50:45.640 --> 0:50:48.200
<v Speaker 2>was spot on. You can take advantage of thirteen, obviously,

0:50:48.239 --> 0:50:50.640
<v Speaker 2>you can take advantage of fifteen. Obviously, whole location on

0:50:50.680 --> 0:50:53.600
<v Speaker 2>sixteen on Sunday is a birdie flag and you better

0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:55.719
<v Speaker 2>make a two. I was trying to think about this,

0:50:55.800 --> 0:50:57.520
<v Speaker 2>and I mean, I'm sure if I looked back, I

0:50:57.560 --> 0:51:01.400
<v Speaker 2>could probably count the number of guys. I would like

0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:03.040
<v Speaker 2>to know over the last ten years how many guys

0:51:03.080 --> 0:51:05.440
<v Speaker 2>birdied sixteen on Sunday and went on to win, because

0:51:05.480 --> 0:51:08.520
<v Speaker 2>I bet it is high. Cabrera did it, will it?

0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:11.919
<v Speaker 2>Did it? I'm i Sergio did it right?

0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:14.360
<v Speaker 1>No, he had he had like a four foot or

0:51:14.360 --> 0:51:17.360
<v Speaker 1>that nasty fore foot slider. He didn't make it, but

0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:20.680
<v Speaker 1>he hit really close, like it's almost it's indicative if

0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:23.920
<v Speaker 1>he you know what it is is that's that shot

0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:28.520
<v Speaker 1>and it's not overly hard, but if you have if

0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:32.239
<v Speaker 1>you're feeling the nerves, that's the shot that you're gonna fan. Right,

0:51:33.560 --> 0:51:35.600
<v Speaker 1>And we saw it like can't lay got into the

0:51:35.680 --> 0:51:38.759
<v Speaker 1>lead like and that's like almost it's almost an indicator

0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:42.120
<v Speaker 1>indicator if you're in the lead and you get to

0:51:42.160 --> 0:51:44.520
<v Speaker 1>that tee and you that's the shot.

0:51:44.600 --> 0:51:46.360
<v Speaker 2>You can't head. Yeah you can't bail.

0:51:46.239 --> 0:51:47.759
<v Speaker 3>Out, Yeah you can't. You have to.

0:51:47.840 --> 0:51:50.719
<v Speaker 2>Ina did it too. He kept ga bailed out. For

0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:53.320
<v Speaker 2>a guy that that seems to always have those shots,

0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:54.879
<v Speaker 2>he hit that little fanny one.

0:51:54.800 --> 0:51:58.000
<v Speaker 3>And he was like about eighteen inches.

0:51:58.000 --> 0:51:59.600
<v Speaker 2>I know, but still you know what I'm saying. I

0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:02.839
<v Speaker 2>mean his ball and Tiger's ball were probably two feet

0:52:02.880 --> 0:52:03.399
<v Speaker 2>for each other.

0:52:04.719 --> 0:52:05.000
<v Speaker 3>That's it.

0:52:05.040 --> 0:52:07.600
<v Speaker 1>They probably landed two feet apart, right, And that's like

0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:10.120
<v Speaker 1>that's the beauty of the golf course though, is that

0:52:10.440 --> 0:52:14.719
<v Speaker 1>the line is so thin. And this week wasn't the

0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:17.680
<v Speaker 1>best week for Augusta National with how soft and how

0:52:17.719 --> 0:52:20.760
<v Speaker 1>much rain they got, like there wasn't as much fire.

0:52:20.840 --> 0:52:25.200
<v Speaker 3>But on Sunday with the wind, that wind gave it.

0:52:25.160 --> 0:52:27.960
<v Speaker 1>That little extra thing to make it special where we

0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:32.400
<v Speaker 1>finally saw like we had been missing the the the

0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:36.759
<v Speaker 1>back half of the line where like disaster, and we

0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:41.200
<v Speaker 1>saw it with Molinari. Molinari like you know, had skirted disaster.

0:52:41.320 --> 0:52:44.480
<v Speaker 1>But then he finally, you know, he got to you know,

0:52:45.160 --> 0:52:49.759
<v Speaker 1>he fell apart. And I think Tiger and Sergio or

0:52:49.920 --> 0:52:55.080
<v Speaker 1>Tiger and Jordan, two great Masters players, they're like more

0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:58.120
<v Speaker 1>of the tactician what you were talking about, like missing

0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:00.760
<v Speaker 1>into the right spot, not taking on too much risk.

0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:03.320
<v Speaker 1>And then you have the other end of the spectrum

0:53:03.480 --> 0:53:06.560
<v Speaker 1>of great Masters players that are like the daring. You

0:53:06.600 --> 0:53:09.640
<v Speaker 1>have the phills right who like the course asked him

0:53:09.680 --> 0:53:12.200
<v Speaker 1>to always take on the shot and they win because

0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:15.400
<v Speaker 1>they pull off the most miraculous shots of all time.

0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:17.040
<v Speaker 3>And there's and that's.

0:53:16.840 --> 0:53:18.920
<v Speaker 1>What the beauty of the whole event is is that

0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:21.240
<v Speaker 1>there's so many ways for people to win.

0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:25.160
<v Speaker 2>Right, It's just it's it's crazy. I uh yeah, I mean,

0:53:26.800 --> 0:53:29.080
<v Speaker 2>you know I asked you when I when I when

0:53:29.440 --> 0:53:32.359
<v Speaker 2>you thought Tiger would win? And you said twelve. And

0:53:33.040 --> 0:53:36.480
<v Speaker 2>what was your I think when the ball landed on

0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:39.840
<v Speaker 2>the green on fifteen and where he hit it, the

0:53:39.880 --> 0:53:42.439
<v Speaker 2>swing he made, I told Will he made that swing

0:53:42.480 --> 0:53:45.120
<v Speaker 2>and I said, I said, God, he's swing looks so good,

0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:46.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, And I mean I didn't. We didn't see

0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:48.600
<v Speaker 2>the word it landed. It was just in they had

0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:50.400
<v Speaker 2>the CBS had this great look. It was it was

0:53:50.440 --> 0:53:52.719
<v Speaker 2>like face on of his swing and it was just

0:53:52.800 --> 0:53:56.480
<v Speaker 2>that tiger swing. It was the power, but it looked effortless.

0:53:56.480 --> 0:53:57.920
<v Speaker 2>You know. It was probably a five iron from two

0:53:58.040 --> 0:54:00.840
<v Speaker 2>forty and just got through the ball and it looked

0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:03.160
<v Speaker 2>like remember the Nike commercial where you were all black

0:54:03.200 --> 0:54:04.960
<v Speaker 2>and it was the driver and it was the music.

0:54:05.400 --> 0:54:07.920
<v Speaker 2>That is what that swing looked like on fifteen. And

0:54:07.960 --> 0:54:10.239
<v Speaker 2>if if the if the if a storm would have

0:54:10.239 --> 0:54:12.879
<v Speaker 2>blown over our house in Augusta, over the Bigsby House

0:54:13.800 --> 0:54:16.080
<v Speaker 2>and the and the and the network would have cut out,

0:54:16.640 --> 0:54:18.919
<v Speaker 2>I would have said, that's on the green. I'll bet

0:54:18.960 --> 0:54:20.759
<v Speaker 2>you whatever I have in my wallet. I mean, that's

0:54:20.760 --> 0:54:22.520
<v Speaker 2>how good the swing was before it landed. When that

0:54:22.560 --> 0:54:25.000
<v Speaker 2>one landed on there, I was like, he's winning. I mean,

0:54:25.000 --> 0:54:28.560
<v Speaker 2>I and again, uh, who's what's the quote about not

0:54:28.640 --> 0:54:31.279
<v Speaker 2>going for eagle? Who said that? Hogan said it? You know,

0:54:31.520 --> 0:54:33.719
<v Speaker 2>the amateur asked Hogan. I think it was thirteen or

0:54:33.760 --> 0:54:36.520
<v Speaker 2>fifteen and he was playing really well and he lay up, right,

0:54:36.520 --> 0:54:38.040
<v Speaker 2>he didn't. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't go for

0:54:38.120 --> 0:54:39.960
<v Speaker 2>the green. He laid up and he said, you know,

0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:41.640
<v Speaker 2>mister Hogan, why didn't you go for it? And he said,

0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:44.000
<v Speaker 2>I didn't need eagle. You know, Birdie was fine. I

0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:46.399
<v Speaker 2>felt like Tiger played like that today. I don't need

0:54:46.440 --> 0:54:48.480
<v Speaker 2>eagle to win, but I'm gonna put it in this

0:54:48.560 --> 0:54:51.920
<v Speaker 2>part of the green guarantee. I'm gonna two putt this

0:54:51.960 --> 0:54:54.000
<v Speaker 2>for Birdie. His speed was great today too, by the way.

0:54:54.120 --> 0:54:56.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he left a couple short, like twelve, but

0:54:56.040 --> 0:54:58.960
<v Speaker 2>the one on nine thirteen was great, you know, fifteen,

0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:01.680
<v Speaker 2>eighteen was great, eighteen was great. You know, just kind

0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:04.120
<v Speaker 2>of trickle it down there, do you He wanted to

0:55:04.160 --> 0:55:06.200
<v Speaker 2>make that for par but I mean, you know it's

0:55:06.280 --> 0:55:07.839
<v Speaker 2>there's there's no stress, right.

0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:10.799
<v Speaker 1>I think what you what you just hit on might

0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:14.520
<v Speaker 1>be what we've been searching to say the whole time,

0:55:15.320 --> 0:55:21.280
<v Speaker 1>is that the truly great champions have like the feel

0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:22.240
<v Speaker 1>for the tournament.

0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:24.879
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he knew what number he needed almost, you know.

0:55:25.520 --> 0:55:29.080
<v Speaker 1>And he didn't take on a risk that he didn't

0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:31.600
<v Speaker 1>need to take on. And he knew it and that's

0:55:31.640 --> 0:55:35.040
<v Speaker 1>where you see so many He didn't push it because

0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:36.799
<v Speaker 1>he knew he didn't need to push it.

0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:39.240
<v Speaker 3>Like, who knows if.

0:55:39.120 --> 0:55:42.560
<v Speaker 1>He was two behind there, what we would have seen, right, Like,

0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:45.080
<v Speaker 1>we probably would have seen him take the flag on.

0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:46.400
<v Speaker 3>And that's.

0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:52.320
<v Speaker 1>There's a feel and maybe that's what makes the winners

0:55:52.440 --> 0:55:56.239
<v Speaker 1>and what makes the guys that that constantly come up shore.

0:55:56.520 --> 0:55:58.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was, it was. It was a beautiful win.

0:55:58.920 --> 0:56:02.640
<v Speaker 2>It was a beautiful seventy two whole victory, Like from

0:56:02.880 --> 0:56:08.000
<v Speaker 2>whole one to eighteen on Sunday, it was like Tiger

0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:10.399
<v Speaker 2>was painting his masterpiece, you know. I mean, it wasn't

0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:13.480
<v Speaker 2>winning by fifteen, It wasn't winning by twelve. It was

0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:18.160
<v Speaker 2>winning by one shot against the best new generation of golfers,

0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:22.880
<v Speaker 2>and he used every shot he needed to. It was,

0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:24.840
<v Speaker 2>it was, it was. It was perfection.

0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:31.640
<v Speaker 3>You know. So he's eight under on the back line.

0:56:31.760 --> 0:56:32.399
<v Speaker 3>It's not bad.

0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Works it worked, yeah, Tiger woods Man. Yeah, twenty nineteen

0:56:37.760 --> 0:56:38.719
<v Speaker 2>wins the Masters.

0:56:39.360 --> 0:56:39.720
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:56:39.760 --> 0:56:42.080
<v Speaker 1>So, I mean I could talk about this for hour,

0:56:42.360 --> 0:56:45.440
<v Speaker 1>but any what are your parting parting thoughts? I think

0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:47.759
<v Speaker 1>feel like we've been parting thoughting at the whole time.

0:56:47.800 --> 0:56:49.799
<v Speaker 2>Well, no, I mean I just I mean, I I mean,

0:56:50.080 --> 0:56:51.800
<v Speaker 2>you know this, this is gonna be the story that

0:56:51.800 --> 0:56:53.359
<v Speaker 2>people are going to talk about for weeks and weeks

0:56:53.360 --> 0:56:55.160
<v Speaker 2>and weeks, and it's gonna lead us into bed Page

0:56:55.600 --> 0:56:57.600
<v Speaker 2>and the PGA and and of course Tiger's going to

0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:00.360
<v Speaker 2>be talked about, and he's gonna go in with commnfidence

0:57:00.400 --> 0:57:03.799
<v Speaker 2>and belief and you know it's it's gonna carry us

0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:05.920
<v Speaker 2>through the twenty nineteen golf season at every event. This

0:57:05.960 --> 0:57:07.279
<v Speaker 2>is going to be what we talk back on and

0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:11.600
<v Speaker 2>touch back on all those things. I'm I'm bummed again

0:57:11.640 --> 0:57:14.759
<v Speaker 2>for Rory, honestly, I mean, I just, I think even

0:57:14.760 --> 0:57:16.959
<v Speaker 2>no matter what he says, no matter how he talks

0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:20.560
<v Speaker 2>about this week, him leaving another year without a green jacket,

0:57:20.720 --> 0:57:23.040
<v Speaker 2>I know it wears on him. I know it's a bummer.

0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:25.439
<v Speaker 2>I know he'll think about it. He didn't really ever

0:57:26.040 --> 0:57:29.480
<v Speaker 2>sniff anything this week in terms of playing well and winning.

0:57:30.640 --> 0:57:33.600
<v Speaker 2>I'll feel a little bit for guys like Mulinari. I mean,

0:57:33.640 --> 0:57:35.959
<v Speaker 2>who had one, you know, sleeve in the green jacket.

0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.160
<v Speaker 2>It seemed like standing on twelve t and you know,

0:57:38.280 --> 0:57:40.240
<v Speaker 2>Rinse sit there and then basically was never the same

0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:42.400
<v Speaker 2>after that golf swing. But you know, there are a

0:57:42.400 --> 0:57:45.040
<v Speaker 2>lot of storylines that'll be easily forgotten from this week.

0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:48.960
<v Speaker 2>But I just I just I you know, from from

0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:50.560
<v Speaker 2>the depths, man Tiger did it.

0:57:50.840 --> 0:57:53.320
<v Speaker 1>If Tiger's on the eighteenth hole in the first round

0:57:53.360 --> 0:57:55.240
<v Speaker 1>next year at the Masters and he's got like a

0:57:55.280 --> 0:57:57.600
<v Speaker 1>two footer for sixty nine, does he miss it on purpose?

0:57:57.640 --> 0:58:01.160
<v Speaker 2>Always in the first round? Seventy always takes it. I

0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:03.240
<v Speaker 2>always say this, if you were on eighteen for Birdie

0:58:03.240 --> 0:58:05.800
<v Speaker 2>and you'd made seventeen straight pars, like, I think I

0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:07.840
<v Speaker 2>would want to miss it to have an eighteen straight

0:58:07.880 --> 0:58:10.840
<v Speaker 2>par day, you know, as opposed to having one score better. Yeah,

0:58:10.880 --> 0:58:13.640
<v Speaker 2>shoot seventy in the first round. Tiger his number, Yeah,

0:58:13.680 --> 0:58:16.520
<v Speaker 2>I think four times right, four times in his five victories.

0:58:16.880 --> 0:58:17.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:58:17.480 --> 0:58:20.000
<v Speaker 1>I think with the guys that have the pressure on him,

0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:24.280
<v Speaker 1>like you've got you've got Spieth looking for a Grand Slam,

0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.560
<v Speaker 1>you've got Rory looking for a Grand Slam, you got

0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:29.600
<v Speaker 1>Phil looking for a Grand Slam, this is actually like

0:58:29.640 --> 0:58:32.960
<v Speaker 1>a great thing for them because the biggest story going

0:58:32.960 --> 0:58:36.520
<v Speaker 1>into every major from now on is Jack's record. That's right,

0:58:37.600 --> 0:58:41.360
<v Speaker 1>And that's a story a thing that I didn't think

0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:44.920
<v Speaker 1>would be resurrected. That is resurrected and now is the

0:58:45.040 --> 0:58:50.040
<v Speaker 1>biggest story, and you know, arguably sports is you know,

0:58:50.120 --> 0:58:52.520
<v Speaker 1>this is like a I don't think that record will

0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:55.920
<v Speaker 1>ever be touched by anybody other than Tiger, like especially

0:58:55.920 --> 0:58:58.720
<v Speaker 1>with the new generation of golfers. And it should take

0:58:58.760 --> 0:59:01.280
<v Speaker 1>the pressure a little bit off those guys in those

0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:03.600
<v Speaker 1>big events because it's not what everybody's asking about.

0:59:03.680 --> 0:59:06.240
<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine if he ticks off the PGA? Can

0:59:06.320 --> 0:59:08.200
<v Speaker 2>you imagine if he wins Beth Page and goes into

0:59:08.200 --> 0:59:09.760
<v Speaker 2>Pebble too straight majors?

0:59:09.760 --> 0:59:11.000
<v Speaker 3>Are we talking to Grand Slam?

0:59:11.320 --> 0:59:11.400
<v Speaker 1>Like?

0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:18.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying, could could you imagine if he did it? Though?

0:59:18.600 --> 0:59:22.600
<v Speaker 2>What if he wins the PGA Championship in a month

0:59:23.360 --> 0:59:26.240
<v Speaker 2>and now has two straight majors going to Pebble Beach.

0:59:26.880 --> 0:59:31.600
<v Speaker 1>If he just if he ties Jack this year? I

0:59:31.680 --> 0:59:32.960
<v Speaker 1>don't know if I'm ready for that.

0:59:34.400 --> 0:59:37.840
<v Speaker 2>I just I don't know what to believe anymore in golf.

0:59:37.920 --> 0:59:41.800
<v Speaker 2>I I am so okay, how about this? Now? We

0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:43.600
<v Speaker 2>have a chance. For now, we got a chance for

0:59:43.600 --> 0:59:46.320
<v Speaker 2>Tiger to win the Masters. We got a chance to

0:59:46.640 --> 0:59:52.760
<v Speaker 2>have Speace the Grand Slam, Philam take the Grand Slam

0:59:52.800 --> 0:59:55.720
<v Speaker 2>in a row all in and these are legitimate things

0:59:55.720 --> 0:59:57.440
<v Speaker 2>that could happen. I think Speed could play well at

0:59:57.440 --> 0:59:59.000
<v Speaker 2>Beth Page if he started his driver a little better.

0:59:59.400 --> 1:00:01.800
<v Speaker 1>Pebble could be better for Phil and Tiger.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's an interesting I think that that we got

1:00:07.600 --> 1:00:10.240
<v Speaker 1>Beth Pages of young is gonna be a younger guys

1:00:10.360 --> 1:00:13.560
<v Speaker 1>of course, right, especially with the PGA setup. Then we

1:00:13.640 --> 1:00:16.800
<v Speaker 1>go to the the Open, I think that'll be that'll

1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:20.080
<v Speaker 1>favor a little bit the older players, and then port

1:00:20.160 --> 1:00:25.000
<v Speaker 1>Rush should be really anybody's game. It probably favors experience.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a great year for the Vets.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna it's gonna be great. Tommy Towles, maybe it

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<v Speaker 2>did you like his chances of port Rush.

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<v Speaker 1>Paul stankowskiak, I've gone.

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<v Speaker 2>Stankowski told me a story one time about he was

1:00:38.880 --> 1:00:40.720
<v Speaker 2>he did. He got interviewed and then the ninety seven

1:00:40.760 --> 1:00:43.760
<v Speaker 2>Masters about Tiger like mid round, like during the week

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<v Speaker 2>or something, and I can't remember what exactly he said,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was it was something to the effect of,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, it's he's not gonna keep this up, or

1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:52.800
<v Speaker 2>you know it wasn't Curtis, you know where Curtis was saying,

1:00:52.800 --> 1:00:55.480
<v Speaker 2>you know, you know, yeah good yeah, second when he

1:00:55.520 --> 1:00:58.200
<v Speaker 2>said second sucks, you know, but it was something like

1:00:58.240 --> 1:01:00.560
<v Speaker 2>he can't keep this great playoff or he can't keep

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<v Speaker 2>doing this to the golf course. He's like he says,

1:01:03.040 --> 1:01:05.520
<v Speaker 2>every time they run that one hour special about ninety seven,

1:01:05.600 --> 1:01:07.720
<v Speaker 2>he's on it, you know, saying that he's like, oh god,

1:01:07.760 --> 1:01:09.960
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe I said that. In the brisk conference,

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<v Speaker 2>it was there.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a it was like Monte Prix and post

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<v Speaker 1>Uh playing with Tiger to the third round where he was,

1:01:18.120 --> 1:01:20.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, he's gonna really feel it before and then

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<v Speaker 1>after there's no human way, a human way possible that

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<v Speaker 1>Tiger was does not win this turn.

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<v Speaker 2>Five on Saturday, He's gonna be real nervous out There

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<v Speaker 2>is this in sports when you look back historically at sports,

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<v Speaker 2>will this whole Tiger thing the last let's say five

1:01:43.440 --> 1:01:47.320
<v Speaker 2>eight years to this point winning the Masters in twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 2>Will this rank up there in best sports stories across

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<v Speaker 2>all platforms?

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<v Speaker 1>So let's talk about about where this is. We're both

1:01:58.360 --> 1:02:04.040
<v Speaker 1>sports hands so in terms of in terms of biggest moments,

1:02:04.120 --> 1:02:08.040
<v Speaker 1>like miracle on ice is something that obviously pops in

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<v Speaker 1>my head.

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<v Speaker 2>And that and that was bigger than sports.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a big yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So that was that's Trump's just a sports story.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think we've and I think we talked. I

1:02:19.640 --> 1:02:22.280
<v Speaker 1>think we talked a ton about this when Tiger was down.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that there was never a star athlete's fall from

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<v Speaker 1>grace as fast and as severe as.

1:02:29.920 --> 1:02:31.040
<v Speaker 3>What Tiger went through.

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<v Speaker 1>And in a game that's so mental, it's hard to

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<v Speaker 1>think of a moment like baseball. I don't think we

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<v Speaker 1>have anything that comes close football.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean you think about I think stuff like like

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<v Speaker 2>Jackie Robinson's story is a is just a bigger what

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<v Speaker 2>I always going to call it humanitarian or it's just

1:02:53.320 --> 1:02:57.600
<v Speaker 2>a bigger story for a change in the world. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>And it was an unbelievable moment that happened to be

1:03:00.280 --> 1:03:03.480
<v Speaker 2>attached to sports, right, and sports was just part of

1:03:03.520 --> 1:03:05.600
<v Speaker 2>the catalyst to push that through because it was just

1:03:05.680 --> 1:03:08.640
<v Speaker 2>such a cool thing to see happen and it was

1:03:08.760 --> 1:03:12.400
<v Speaker 2>just such a world changing event. This is I just

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<v Speaker 2>feel like with Tiger, it's just more about the sport,

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<v Speaker 2>right he was. I mean, he couldn't play golf, he

1:03:19.360 --> 1:03:23.080
<v Speaker 2>couldn't play golf professionally, with the way he was playing.

1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:25.840
<v Speaker 2>He was shooting numbers that if you were and I

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<v Speaker 2>went and played on the PGA Tour and shot those numbers,

1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:30.560
<v Speaker 2>we would be without a job in four or five

1:03:30.600 --> 1:03:33.520
<v Speaker 2>six months. He couldn't hit chip shots, he couldn't hit

1:03:33.640 --> 1:03:37.280
<v Speaker 2>driver in play, he couldn't play the game that he dominated.

1:03:37.400 --> 1:03:40.280
<v Speaker 1>He was he was really he was embarrassed at every

1:03:40.440 --> 1:03:44.120
<v Speaker 1>level that you can be embarrassed at to a certain extent.

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<v Speaker 2>Right And now you see guy, they're channing Tiger Woods.

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<v Speaker 2>The crowd at Augusta is chanting his name, he's walking by.

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<v Speaker 2>It's unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 3>He's the coolest guy.

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<v Speaker 1>And as as I've gotten older, you kind of realize,

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<v Speaker 1>you laugh, like, how you know, Tiger might not be

1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:05.000
<v Speaker 1>that cool, but when he's on the field, when he's

1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:09.040
<v Speaker 1>on the course, on our field, he's the coolest.

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<v Speaker 3>Guy that's ever happened to golf ever.

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<v Speaker 1>And David Devall said on Live from last night, and

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<v Speaker 1>it was kind of like a precursor. And he's the

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<v Speaker 1>guy that's seen it, he said, everybody's talking. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>Brandal goes down as his stats and everything, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to look at something that nobody else is

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<v Speaker 1>looking at his eyes and he said it's back like

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<v Speaker 1>the clarity like and and that that was like.

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<v Speaker 3>When I think I just thought about that.

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<v Speaker 1>When I think about that, David Duvall might have been

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<v Speaker 1>the only guy that really knew because he was the

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<v Speaker 1>guy that stared down those eyes and and and he

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<v Speaker 1>saw it it and he's one of the greatest champions

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<v Speaker 1>of all time.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just it. I mean, it will be one of

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<v Speaker 2>the you know, the sports stories that we'll remember in

1:05:04.760 --> 1:05:07.040
<v Speaker 2>our lifetime, you know, when we're when we're fifty and

1:05:07.080 --> 1:05:10.080
<v Speaker 2>sixty five and seventy years old, if you know, if

1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:12.040
<v Speaker 2>we have enough fix but we can get to that point,

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<v Speaker 2>if we get there at seventy and seventy five and eighty,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you'll remember twenty nineteen. You'll remember watching this

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<v Speaker 2>win the way he did it, you know, extending all

1:05:23.520 --> 1:05:26.520
<v Speaker 2>of everything he had in it to pull out the victory,

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<v Speaker 2>the reaction, the emotion. It's just man, it's it's it

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<v Speaker 2>was really cool to see. And I mean, you you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the the love and the outpouring, the TV numbers, all

1:05:34.000 --> 1:05:36.600
<v Speaker 2>that stuff is gonna it's just gonna help that because

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<v Speaker 2>you know, this will be this will be what we

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<v Speaker 2>remember from this season, and this will be what we

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<v Speaker 2>might remember from Tiger's career. Really, I mean, this might

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<v Speaker 2>be the moment that is one a in Tiger's career.

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<v Speaker 2>Is he won the twenty nineteen Masters.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, it is got as.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to I wasn't there in eighty six, right,

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<v Speaker 1>but this is, you know, probably the golf moment of

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<v Speaker 1>all time. And I think the lasting effect is that,

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<v Speaker 1>like just like he did in ninety seven, this is

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<v Speaker 1>the win. It's going to re energize golf because he

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<v Speaker 1>a generation that never saw Tiger win. Watch Tiger win today, right, which.

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<v Speaker 2>And again it's goes back to what I said when

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<v Speaker 2>I said if you ranking important stories, I mean outside

1:06:22.680 --> 1:06:26.240
<v Speaker 2>of stuff like miracle on ice and Jackie Robinson, and

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<v Speaker 2>you put those stories one and two or one two

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<v Speaker 2>and one or whatever however you want to list those

1:06:30.720 --> 1:06:33.520
<v Speaker 2>types of things that were that were changing things for

1:06:33.600 --> 1:06:36.760
<v Speaker 2>people for the rest of the rest of life. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>when you look at this story, I mean, it's going

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<v Speaker 2>to be in that top ten of of of sports stories.

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<v Speaker 2>Is going to be Tiger winning this Masters today. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just it's just so wild.

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<v Speaker 1>To think and and you know, you'll probably have a great,

1:06:50.560 --> 1:06:55.000
<v Speaker 1>great pod. Everybody should check out the clubhouse pod. You

1:06:55.040 --> 1:06:56.120
<v Speaker 1>know who your guest's going to be.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we're doing it with Joel Clad again. We're

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<v Speaker 2>going to kind of do the recap this year over

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<v Speaker 2>all the majors jowels, so I got to kind of

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<v Speaker 2>prep for that. But yeah, I think he'll.

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<v Speaker 1>Be great because he has so many I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>guess sports that's the thing that I really I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's something that will have come out from you know,

1:07:13.200 --> 1:07:17.080
<v Speaker 1>various people that have covered a lot of sports. Is

1:07:17.240 --> 1:07:19.480
<v Speaker 1>where this thing ranks. And that'll be really cool. So

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<v Speaker 1>everybody check out your your pot and what a great,

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<v Speaker 1>great lead up for us.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh can you believe this?

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<v Speaker 1>It's just fun day. It was awesome, awesome. Glad you

1:07:29.960 --> 1:07:32.560
<v Speaker 1>were over watching this and Glad we got to talk

1:07:32.560 --> 1:07:37.480
<v Speaker 1>about it because it's, uh, this is it, this is

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<v Speaker 1>this is as good as it guts