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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. What a
Speaker 1: Sunday at the Masters. I was actually able to watch
Speaker 1: The Masters with Will Knights, who writes for The Friday Egg,
Speaker 1: as well as Fox play by play guy Shane Bacon.
Speaker 1: So Shane joined the podcast to break down a historic
Speaker 1: Sunday at Augusta. Thanks to Shane, and be sure to
Speaker 1: check out his podcast The Clubhouse when he posts his
Speaker 1: Master's recap with Joel Klatt. Without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: Shane Bacon on the twenty nineteen Masters.
Speaker 2: I miss the green for example, I'm already upset.
Speaker 3: When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
Speaker 3: And when I find my ball in a.
Speaker 2: Brid Egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg,
Speaker 2: Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready
Speaker 2: to run off with them.
Speaker 3: Course, the moment's too big for me right now. I
Speaker 3: don't know what I'm doing here. Putn't the worst what happened.
Speaker 2: Today, Well, there's just I never I said this on
Speaker 2: Twitter when it finished up, But I never thought that
Speaker 2: he'd do it. I never thought to win. I mean,
Speaker 2: I really didn't think through all this stuff he would
Speaker 2: actually win a major championship, you know, And this was
Speaker 2: probably two years ago now, with what he went through
Speaker 2: last year, I said he could get in contention and
Speaker 2: possibly do it with this leaderboard. And the wild thing
Speaker 2: that I think is getting lost so much in this
Speaker 2: is how many of the best players in the world
Speaker 2: he had to beat on Sunday Kopka, Dustin mullanar. So
Speaker 2: you think the last three major champions he had to
Speaker 2: take down a guy that's probably playing the best golf
Speaker 2: in the world, a guy that is an absolute major
Speaker 2: killer and seems not to get nervous in Keopka, Dustin, Ricky,
Speaker 2: Jason Day, Xander. I mean, these are the this is
Speaker 2: the modern day golfing a list, and Tiger outsmarted him
Speaker 2: all day long. It felt there was a hoy Lake
Speaker 2: mentioned in the broadcast with where he was hitting the
Speaker 2: golf ball all day long and where he was putting
Speaker 2: it position wise on the greens, fair ways, even the
Speaker 2: threewoodine eighteen. I mean it was chess versus checkers. It
Speaker 2: was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't make birdie on three, but he hit
Speaker 1: that iron, laid back on three. It's he's the tactician.
Speaker 1: His iron play all week was so good.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's so much stuff gushing out. I
Speaker 2: think it's really hard to speak on what happened and
Speaker 2: Tiger winning fifteen and winning, you know, twenty two years
Speaker 2: after the last. And do you know how old the
Speaker 2: guy is that finished second to him in his first
Speaker 2: majories right now? Sixty nine years old, Broca, sixty nine
Speaker 2: years old. And you've got a guy in Xander that's
Speaker 2: twenty five. That's the difference in gap of guys that
Speaker 2: are literally backing up to Tiger. And this is the
Speaker 2: career I mean, for you going into this week. Tiger
Speaker 2: is a story, of course, but there's so many stories
Speaker 2: that get lost. This is the sports story of the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is it. This is twenty nineteen sports story.
Speaker 2: This is what we'll remember today.
Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest sports stories of all time.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the hardest thing to put into perspective,
Speaker 1: is you know where it.
Speaker 3: Does it fall?
Speaker 1: Like forget like this is the biggest Masters. You can't
Speaker 1: I mean, so ninety seven would be one that you
Speaker 1: could look at as like one you could compare. Eighty
Speaker 1: six is one you could compare. I don't know, you
Speaker 1: have to go back to like the first Masters to
Speaker 1: find the next one that you could compare.
Speaker 3: Really it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing else in sports you think about where we
Speaker 1: were putting tigers come back at the Tour winning the
Speaker 1: Tour championship last year, people were saying, this is the
Speaker 1: biggest sports story this year, and now he won the Masters.
Speaker 1: Something is so fitting that it was the Mats. If
Speaker 1: he was gonna win the first major win back and
Speaker 1: we can talk more later about what could be next,
Speaker 1: but first win major win after this, you know road
Speaker 1: that you can't even so much bad stuff, like so
Speaker 1: many moments where you thought he was never coming back,
Speaker 1: and for it to be the place where his first
Speaker 1: one happened is is just so fitting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it really, it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: hard to speak on. I mean, there was a moment
Speaker 2: we're all watching it together here at the Pixby House.
Speaker 2: And and you know, when he got to eighteen and
Speaker 2: he finds the fairway I mentioned to you, you know
Speaker 2: if you go back to five the last time he
Speaker 2: won the Masters, and he hit that chip and he
Speaker 2: made it, and it was this unbelievable chip and it
Speaker 2: was one of the greatest shots in Master's history. And
Speaker 2: he was so amped that he bogied seventeen and eighteen
Speaker 2: and that's how he fell into that playoff that he
Speaker 2: eventually won. I think over to Marco, right, and he
Speaker 2: hits that shot on sixteen that we thought might go
Speaker 2: when it landed on the green, Andy, you were going
Speaker 2: right when it landed on the green, you go go in, Yeah,
Speaker 2: go in, And then we're all just going go in
Speaker 2: and it's rolling right past, obviously the cup and he
Speaker 2: knocks in the three footer, but it was just a
Speaker 2: it's a different tiger now. I mean, it really does
Speaker 2: seem like whatever energy he's got, whatever he mustered up
Speaker 2: at three forty five in the morning to prepare himself
Speaker 2: for nine am, and all these tea time shifting, it's
Speaker 2: like he understands how much energy his body has. These days,
Speaker 2: and he knows he can use this much on this hole,
Speaker 2: this much on seventeen, this much on eighteen. Don't get
Speaker 2: too hyphed, don't get too low. Let's let it play out.
Speaker 2: I was not nervous about the way he would close
Speaker 2: that thing out when he played the way he played
Speaker 2: on fifteen and sixteen, and even over shots like fifteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's two forty andy to one of the
Speaker 2: hardest greens in the world to hit in two, and
Speaker 2: it was a confident swing. It's the exact club he
Speaker 2: should hit, perfect distance control, hits it in the fat
Speaker 2: part of the right side of the green, and gives
Speaker 2: himself a perfect opportunity to put birdie. He doesn't need eagle,
Speaker 2: he just needed a birdie there. He knew he had
Speaker 2: a really good chance to build on that lead while
Speaker 2: all these other guys were doing all this stuff around him,
Speaker 2: and he just seemed to stay in this bubble that
Speaker 2: I'm only believed Tiger could do. I only think Ty's
Speaker 2: the guy that could handle that.
Speaker 1: That's what we saw, And the only guy that didn't
Speaker 1: happen to was Brooks. Where you see him push to
Speaker 1: the They pushed to the lead, They push out in
Speaker 1: front and then it's almost the moment becomes too big
Speaker 1: and they fall back. They start thinking ahead almost and
Speaker 1: Tiger his patience, which is maybe his greatest asset as
Speaker 1: a golfer of all time, is how patient he is,
Speaker 1: like ability to just sit in that moment and stalk it,
Speaker 1: like knowing that that that back.
Speaker 3: He took advantage.
Speaker 1: He took advantage of the holes he knew he could
Speaker 1: take advantage of. If you look at the back nine,
Speaker 1: the holes you take advantage of are thirteen, fifteen, sixteen
Speaker 1: easy birdies on.
Speaker 2: All three, all three easiest parties of the day.
Speaker 1: He just did what he knew he had to do,
Speaker 1: and he made the turn after the tenth hole.
Speaker 3: We were a little worried, right, but.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just hitting the It was a tough
Speaker 1: day out there, and seventy. I mean, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought seventy would have gotten it done with all those names,
Speaker 1: and it just shows the enormity of the moment and
Speaker 1: how hard it is to get done a masters that
Speaker 1: shot he hit on sixteen. I believe he hit that
Speaker 1: shot in the exact spot he wanted to, like the
Speaker 1: exact yardage and the exact spot because it was like,
Speaker 1: that's like the safe line where you know if you
Speaker 1: hit it right there, and it was like the fall line.
Speaker 1: We watched can't Ley hit a pot earlier in the
Speaker 1: day he missed the fall line. He was low, but
Speaker 1: he was hitting it right in that same area and
Speaker 1: I have to think he hit the ball within a
Speaker 1: three foot radius of where he was aiming there.
Speaker 3: It's cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many things that are cool when
Speaker 2: you compare. And this will happen throughout the next couple
Speaker 2: of days. Is that when you compare eighty six to
Speaker 2: nineteen is what you're gonna get. Youre can get a
Speaker 2: lot of comparisons. But for you know, Jack to flag
Speaker 2: it in eighty six there, you know, be right it
Speaker 2: is and he hits it to a couple of feet
Speaker 2: and for Tiger to do that in nineteen on the
Speaker 2: same whole, different whole location, but you know, flags it
Speaker 2: there and it was it was like you said, it
Speaker 2: was the perfect golf shot he shot on seventeen was
Speaker 2: a perfect golf shot exactly where he wanted to be,
Speaker 2: a whole high distance control. It just I mean, he
Speaker 2: was in control of his golf game. Is maybe he's
Speaker 2: been forever to shoot a solid round a golf. He
Speaker 2: didn't shoot sixty five, but he didn't need it. He
Speaker 2: shot seventy and that was the number he needed. And
Speaker 2: I mean it was we were silent, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: everybody listening was the same way. You know, he taps
Speaker 2: that put in on eighteen, He's celebrating with the guys,
Speaker 2: he's hugging Joey. They're going nuts. But I mean I
Speaker 2: almost thought for a moment that after he hugged his
Speaker 2: kids and his and his mom and everybody there that
Speaker 2: was his team, I thought, for a moment, you right
Speaker 2: run back out on the green like that's how pumped
Speaker 2: up he was. That's the most pumped up I've ever
Speaker 2: seen a golfer after a win. I can't think of
Speaker 2: another time somebody carried it. You see reactions, this pumps,
Speaker 2: high fives, hugs, you know, running and cheering with the crowd.
Speaker 2: But he kept that going for five minutes, six minutes,
Speaker 2: seven minutes, and he was he was just the the
Speaker 2: reality of the accomplishment for him. I think it's set
Speaker 2: into him the moment, it's set into everybody else too.
Speaker 2: I Mean, it was just I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: seen a player react like that to a victory in
Speaker 2: their entire life.
Speaker 1: It touches on like the greatest stories have the great
Speaker 1: they have like the most you know, like we just
Speaker 1: went in like to the lull, like this would be
Speaker 1: if we were watching Requiem for a Dream and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden the guy that was like turned into
Speaker 1: the junkie became like the like the greatest human being
Speaker 1: in the world, Like Tiger was at the low of
Speaker 1: lows as we've ever seen a truly star athlete. And
Speaker 1: and that moment, like the celebration, that was everything coming out.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was.
Speaker 1: As a golf fan as as I'm sure you're the
Speaker 1: same way. We're about the same age. Tiger Woods was
Speaker 1: the reason I'm in golf right right now, you know,
Speaker 1: and that to see it done at.
Speaker 3: At Augusta, that this was the perfect place for it.
Speaker 2: Tap yeah, And I'm and I've said this on all platforms.
Speaker 2: I've never shied away from it. You know, I've written
Speaker 2: and talked and spoke with people and and just said,
Speaker 2: you know, this is I remember, I have a story,
Speaker 2: I have a moment. I was writing for Fox Sports
Speaker 2: at the time. This was kind of when I still
Speaker 2: would write a lot for the website and uh and
Speaker 2: Tiger had announced he was going to play in the Safeway.
Speaker 2: I think this was sixteen spent three years ago, and
Speaker 2: of course it was a lesser event, and uh and
Speaker 2: I jumped on a southwest flight and was headed up
Speaker 2: to Napa to cover Tiger because it was a comeback, right.
Speaker 2: I remember PGA Tour Live had had a broadcast team
Speaker 2: set up for the Safeway, which they don't do because
Speaker 2: of Tiger. Everybody was excited to see the comeback. Mid flight,
Speaker 2: on the playing Wi Fi, Tiger announced that he was
Speaker 2: withdrawing because he just didn't feel remember either, his game
Speaker 2: wasn't there, he didn't feel good. I'm mid flight to
Speaker 2: Napa to cover this, so I landed. I called my editor.
Speaker 2: I was like, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: And he's like, well, you gotta write something, you know,
Speaker 2: go write something. So I literally had a hotel room
Speaker 2: for the week. I drove. I just checked in for
Speaker 2: the night and I went down to like a wine
Speaker 2: bar that had Wi Fi. I opened my laptop and
Speaker 2: I wrote a piece and I think the headline was
Speaker 2: something to the effect of, you know, the old Tiger
Speaker 2: will never see the old Tiger Woods again. I mean
Speaker 2: that that person is gone, and and you know it's
Speaker 2: it was a thing that I think most people truly
Speaker 2: believed and for us, as quote unquote experts, analysts, whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call us, for us to see that
Speaker 2: guy in those pits. So you know, I had a
Speaker 2: couple of articles since me today that were Tiger saying
Speaker 2: he didn't think he'd play again. These articles were eighteen
Speaker 2: months ago, Andy, I mean eighteen months ago. This is
Speaker 2: a guy that's saying I'm not sure I'll ever get
Speaker 2: back to competitive golf. And to see what he's done
Speaker 2: the last year, and this being kind of the tip
Speaker 2: of it, this being the moment for Tiger Woods to
Speaker 2: see it on his face, to see it on our
Speaker 2: faces and our voices, the way we speak. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you I'm not envy the people that have to write
Speaker 2: this story. I mean, to sit in front of a
Speaker 2: laptop on a blank screen and going, I've got to
Speaker 2: put what just happened into words would be really, really
Speaker 2: difficult to do. It's a great moment to do it,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be a hard story to write because
Speaker 2: it's there's just nothing really you can say to put
Speaker 2: it up on any higher of a pedestal than it
Speaker 2: already is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I remember I writing the Speef Collapse.
Speaker 1: There's one of like the next. It was really hard
Speaker 1: to write. I remember sitting or starting erasing, starting erasing, erasing,
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And this is a
Speaker 1: similar moment where nothing you can write can possibly live
Speaker 1: up to what we just saw. And it's funny you
Speaker 1: bring up that safeway. I wrote something like that day too.
Speaker 1: It was October eleventh, twenty sixteen. This was supposed to
Speaker 1: be an uploading piece about Tiger Woods and has come
Speaker 1: back to the PGA Tour. But as I was in
Speaker 1: the final stages of editing, he announced he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: making his return to golf this week because my game,
Speaker 1: and this is his quote, my game is vulnerable and
Speaker 1: not where.
Speaker 3: It needs to be. And I mean this was.
Speaker 1: I think the year before he was at the Hero
Speaker 1: he couldn't walk, he was riding around in a cart.
Speaker 1: I mean then he had obviously the transgressions and the
Speaker 1: personal life stuff, and now I.
Speaker 3: Mean the I feel I do feel a little bit
Speaker 3: for Brooks, right.
Speaker 1: I think he was the guy that came down the
Speaker 1: stretch and I have to say he did something that
Speaker 1: no player in the Tiger generation did where he was
Speaker 1: stood the biggest Tiger roar maybe of all time, standing
Speaker 1: on the seventeenth tee when Tiger hit that shot on sixteen.
Speaker 3: I mean, he knew what just happened and he stood
Speaker 3: up there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played the last two holes phenomenally. He
Speaker 1: had ten feet for birdie on each of them, like
Speaker 1: stones didn't make, the putts didn't go in, but it
Speaker 1: and then and then he gets asked about Tiger winning,
Speaker 1: and you know, he just loses the Masters. But that
Speaker 1: that will be the interesting thing, the fallout when you
Speaker 1: look forward to the past this we start to look
Speaker 1: at We've got Beth Page. In a month, We've got
Speaker 1: he'll be at the US Open a pebble. I mean,
Speaker 1: what an unbelievable primer for that, returning to the course
Speaker 1: that he won by you know, fifteen. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: what's the reaction in what's the future with this generation
Speaker 1: because he's playing really consistent golf.
Speaker 2: Yeah, number six in the world now I think he's
Speaker 2: jumped to I mean, this is I mean this this
Speaker 2: guy was five hundredth in the world, six hundredth in
Speaker 2: the world. Now he's one of the top, you know,
Speaker 2: and now he's And you and I were talking about
Speaker 2: it right when it ended. You said to me, could
Speaker 2: he get to number one in the world, And then
Speaker 2: you joked, he never finishes outside the top twenty. So
Speaker 2: I mean it's almost inevitable that as long as he's healthy,
Speaker 2: he's just can continue to go up this list. I mean,
Speaker 2: he won, of course, in a smaller field event that's
Speaker 2: a big event at the Tour Championship. Now he wins
Speaker 2: a major championship. Now the confidence, I really believe this.
Speaker 2: I think Carnusti was an enormous moment for Tiger last year.
Speaker 2: He got there, he had to share of the lead.
Speaker 2: You know, he was in contention on the back nine
Speaker 2: of an Open Championship on a tough golf course, and
Speaker 2: he felt it and tasted it and believed in himself.
Speaker 2: And I mean it's crazy to think Tiger needed to
Speaker 2: believe in himself. I think he did. I think he
Speaker 2: needed to see that happen. I need to be in
Speaker 2: a major situation and I need to see if I
Speaker 2: can win it. And he takes that confidence to the
Speaker 2: PGA Championship. He nearly wins there, and now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, he's going, Okay, I can beat all these guys.
Speaker 2: If I get there this many times, I can win.
Speaker 2: It might take some help. Molinari helped him out a
Speaker 2: little bit today, and as we've said, he didn't shoot
Speaker 2: sixty five. He shot two under and that was good
Speaker 2: enough to win. You know, if Molinari shoots seventy sixty
Speaker 2: nine sixty eight, which was very much out on that
Speaker 2: golf course today, he's the Master's Champion. He didn't do that,
Speaker 2: but I just believe that that the self belief in
Speaker 2: tiger Woods, which was always the most important part of
Speaker 2: his game and the part of his game that really
Speaker 2: set him apart from everybody else, is now getting to
Speaker 2: that place where at these big events he's gonna believe
Speaker 2: they've got to beat me now. And you think about
Speaker 2: the venues, as you've said, coming up, we've got beth Page,
Speaker 2: which he's one on, and then we get to go
Speaker 2: to Pebble, which he's one on. You know, he's gonna
Speaker 2: go there and instead of just being a nicee Vegas favorite,
Speaker 2: I mean he's gonna be the favorite.
Speaker 1: He's got an open championship, which is great.
Speaker 2: For him, always great for him. The what you.
Speaker 1: Touched on with the Open last year, and it fits
Speaker 1: perfectly to what a tiger, an old tiger adage reps
Speaker 1: like he needed to be in the moment. He got
Speaker 1: a moment at Bell like there at Belle Reeve. We
Speaker 1: saw it when he was when he was coming on tour.
Speaker 1: It was almost like he was like learning to win
Speaker 1: again like he did, like you know, it didn't take
Speaker 1: him that long when he got on tour to win,
Speaker 1: but you saw what it was fiftieth at at at
Speaker 1: the GMO, and then he started all of a sudden
Speaker 1: just getting closer and closer, and he I think he
Speaker 1: finished third before the next week he wins in a
Speaker 1: playoff and then it's kind of a similar arc where
Speaker 1: he finishes. You know, he gets into majors last year
Speaker 1: and he has a couple scraggly finishes and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's in it in the thick of
Speaker 1: it at the Open, in the thick of it at
Speaker 1: the at the PGA, and then sure enough knocks down
Speaker 1: the door and it could And one of the things
Speaker 1: that technology has done is obviously led to this youth movement,
Speaker 1: but it's also prolonged a lot of career, right, Like
Speaker 1: we're seeing VJ. And Davis Love play until they're fifty.
Speaker 1: I mean, Davis Love's fifty five right right, and he's playing,
Speaker 1: you know, he's making cuts on the tour. And Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods is a Davis Love. So if this fuse back,
Speaker 1: if the health is all there.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking seven, eight, nine, ten more years of
Speaker 2: this potentially. I mean, Brooks Koepka was asked after about
Speaker 2: Tiger getting to that jack number, and he says, I
Speaker 2: think we're a lot closer than it looks, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, of course, now we're one step closer. But
Speaker 2: I think these guys see it. I mean, they believe it.
Speaker 2: I mean, how cool of the moment was it when
Speaker 2: he walks off after all the family stuff and it's
Speaker 2: getting pretty emotional. And if you're a fan of sport
Speaker 2: at all, no matter what your thoughts are on with
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods, if you're a fan of sports, that was
Speaker 2: an unbelievable moment, you know, you obviously get the correlation
Speaker 2: in the comparison to ninety seven and his dad and
Speaker 2: now it's his kids. He talked about it in Butler
Speaker 2: after and I'm sure he'll talk about it during his presser,
Speaker 2: probably going on right about now, we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: moment and thinking back to ninety seven versus twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: But walking off that green and you've got all these
Speaker 2: PGA Tour players standing there saying what's up, giving them congrats.
Speaker 2: Koepka was there, and Justin Thomas is there. I mean,
Speaker 2: these are top ten players in the world, Bubba was there,
Speaker 2: Zach Johnson, Ricky, I mean, all these guys are standing
Speaker 2: there to congratulate him on getting there. Because the fan
Speaker 2: were all fans in some capacity. Sure, you want to
Speaker 2: win this if you're out there playing, but these guys
Speaker 2: were fans at one point in their lives. They were
Speaker 2: kids watching Tiger win. They were either rooting for Tiger
Speaker 2: or they maybe had a different favorite, but they believed
Speaker 2: in the greatness of Tiger Woods. And now they're out
Speaker 2: there playing the same golf course, playing in a major
Speaker 2: championship against him, and he finally comes out victorious after
Speaker 2: all the battle back that he's had to go through,
Speaker 2: and you see that in those players, and I think
Speaker 2: that's a very very cool thing to go through. And
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, like what other athlete would land
Speaker 2: that sort of reception.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, there's no other sport that allows
Speaker 1: for this because of the career length of golf. And
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the magical things about
Speaker 1: golf is that the length of the career, the longer career,
Speaker 1: Like you saw it at the very end of Jordan's career,
Speaker 1: where like he played a year with Kobe, you know,
Speaker 1: or year or two, and then you had Ai, you know,
Speaker 1: the famous crossover where he crossed Jordan, and it was
Speaker 1: such a big deal because of how big of a
Speaker 1: fan he was.
Speaker 3: But no nobody.
Speaker 1: Ever gets to play the guy they grew up idolizing
Speaker 1: at that guy's best. And Tiger may never be at
Speaker 1: the same level he was in say two thousand, but
Speaker 1: he's really close to that level now, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: he's six in the world and I don't think he's
Speaker 1: even hit the qualified Like he still might be hurt
Speaker 1: by how few events he's played in, Like his ranking
Speaker 1: might be hurt by how little he's played.
Speaker 2: When did you think he was gonna win today?
Speaker 1: When Molinari rinsing it twelve at twelve was obviously that
Speaker 1: was the big but then it was anybody, you know,
Speaker 1: that really opened it up to the whole field because
Speaker 1: Molinari hadn't shown much, you know.
Speaker 2: Two bogies at that point all week. You know, that's it.
Speaker 1: I was most most nervous over that te shaw on twelve.
Speaker 1: I you know, full disclosure, I was rooting for Tiger.
Speaker 3: Today, Like.
Speaker 2: You're like, I'm gonna let you know what that was.
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, there may or may not, but we
Speaker 1: aren't in a media center. There may or may not
Speaker 1: have been a high five, right Molinari or incident. I
Speaker 1: like Mollinari a lot, but that that moment was when
Speaker 1: there was a hope.
Speaker 3: Fifteen was when you really were like, whoa sixteen? Obviously
Speaker 3: was sixteen?
Speaker 2: It was over right? I think so too. I mean
Speaker 2: I even with even with Kepka not making the put
Speaker 2: on eighteen, it just seemed like it was. It seemed
Speaker 2: that Tiger made five because he could have made five
Speaker 2: on eighteen. I mean, obviously, you know, only wins by one.
Speaker 2: But I think even if Kopka makes that putt for
Speaker 2: Birdie on eighteen, I think Tiger plays the second shot
Speaker 2: or the t shot maybe a little bit differently, knowing
Speaker 2: a four wins it not a five. I mean, of course,
Speaker 2: he basically pitches it up there to the fat part
Speaker 2: of the green with that third shot because he knew
Speaker 2: he just needed it. You know, I think about I
Speaker 2: look at this win about Tiger, and I just think
Speaker 2: about the last six months and things that have worked
Speaker 2: in his favor. He gets the win playing alongside Rory McRoy.
Speaker 2: Rory doesn't have a very good final round, Nobody really
Speaker 2: pushes him. He gets that victory at east Lake, and
Speaker 2: it's obviously just thirty players. I mean, that's twenty nine
Speaker 2: guys he's battling against. Doesn't obviously have a very good
Speaker 2: Ryder Cup, takes a break from the game, takes a
Speaker 2: decent amount of time away, never seems to be getting
Speaker 2: back into the Tiger that we saw win. Didn't play
Speaker 2: very good in Vegas, didn't play very good at the
Speaker 2: Hero World starting the season. He was fine, just not
Speaker 2: putting the ball very solidly. But you know, he loses
Speaker 2: in the match play coming into this before going into
Speaker 2: Sunday and having to play thirty six holes, because he
Speaker 2: would have had to play thirty six no matter what.
Speaker 2: I mean, he'd had to play the consolation match. If
Speaker 2: he wins against Beer Garden and it's you know, if
Speaker 2: he if he say he wins that match and he
Speaker 2: goes through a Sunday of thirty six holes and it's
Speaker 2: a grind and the weather, remember the weather was kind
Speaker 2: of tall. It just would have been one of those
Speaker 2: days to me that would have it would have felt
Speaker 2: like a week on tiger Wood's body. Him getting out
Speaker 2: of there early I think was a great thing for
Speaker 2: him coming into this week, you know, and then he
Speaker 2: gets a great break as well. Threesomes on Sunday means
Speaker 2: he's in the final group. Wouldn't have been in the
Speaker 2: final group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to think about that too.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's Molinari, fe now, molt that was
Speaker 1: a big moment. I know Molinari took him down at
Speaker 1: at at the Open, but.
Speaker 3: It was a completely different Mollinary.
Speaker 1: He's never been a fifty four whole leader in a
Speaker 1: major to my knowledge, and he kind of all the
Speaker 1: attention with with that Open was like Ei, there's so
Speaker 1: many big names there where Molinari kind of and he
Speaker 1: wasn't as on the radar, you know, he didn't have
Speaker 1: to answer the questions after the after the round about
Speaker 1: who's the favorite, right, how's it going? To be like
Speaker 1: playing with Tiger like that's that's a big fascinating and
Speaker 1: he was Molinari wasn't molinariy in today? Even absolutely the
Speaker 1: front nine he kept it together so well, But that
Speaker 1: was not the Molinary that we've seen, you know, the
Speaker 1: first fifty four holes of the Masters, and you know,
Speaker 1: the last six months he was he was visibly shook.
Speaker 1: And what would that You never know what it would
Speaker 1: have been if it was regular to some Right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's fen now and Molinari in the final and then
Speaker 2: Tiger's chasing, and it's just it's afternoon, and you know,
Speaker 2: and the preps different, and you know, just the adaptability
Speaker 2: of Tiger Woods just continues to make me. His ability
Speaker 2: to adapt to all these types of situations. He gets
Speaker 2: in these moments, he hits the shots, he plays the
Speaker 2: game the way the golf course is playing that week.
Speaker 2: He doesn't bring his game and hope it adapts to
Speaker 2: the golf course. You know, he hit a lot of
Speaker 2: really quality golf shots today and they were smart, smart
Speaker 2: golf shots, and he outsmarted everybody else. And that's why
Speaker 2: he has a fifth green jacket. And you know it's
Speaker 2: you know, you're in Butler cabin and you're hearing him
Speaker 2: talk about the day and he can't talk about it.
Speaker 2: You know, Tiger can't speak of it. And Tiger's one
Speaker 2: of the most well spoken guys in all of golf,
Speaker 2: and he has nothing to say. It's just it's unreal,
Speaker 2: it's surreal. It's crazy. I think you can hear it
Speaker 2: in both of our voices where you're trying to put
Speaker 2: words to a moment that almost doesn't need words. You know,
Speaker 2: it's just looking at the image or the video or
Speaker 2: the celebration at the end, and you just got a
Speaker 2: smile and take your hat off and say congratulations, because
Speaker 2: you know that the way he was, the way he
Speaker 2: reacted to it was kind of all of us, you know. Finally, finally,
Speaker 2: finally he.
Speaker 1: So Hank Haney's book, The Big Miss. This was quintessential Tiger.
Speaker 1: There was no he was never even close to a
Speaker 1: big miss. Right, everybody else on that leaderboard was a
Speaker 1: big miss. Like Chaflet rinsed it, Molinari rinsed it, Koepka
Speaker 1: rinsed it, like all these guys. I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: see enough of DJ you know, the day before Jason Day,
Speaker 1: hidden in the water on fifteen mixed double. Tiger really
Speaker 1: was the only guy and this is why he was.
Speaker 1: He's the greatest tactician ever to play golf, like, you know,
Speaker 1: just never he understands the bogies and you know he
Speaker 1: made a fair amount of bogey day, but he knows
Speaker 1: bogies don't hurt it, right. Doubles are the ones that
Speaker 1: you don't win majors with doubles. And you look at
Speaker 1: his scorecard, no double bogies for Tiger Woods. You look
Speaker 1: at at uh at DJ's card, you know, no double bogies.
Speaker 1: But he never had his like a game really, you know,
Speaker 1: like that's that's one. At Dustin Johnson, you probably look
Speaker 1: at and say, like, this guy.
Speaker 2: Did close again, Huh. Think about how many of these
Speaker 2: guys are close? Okay, outside of Tiger. If you look
Speaker 2: at this board. And I preach this a lot, everybody
Speaker 2: always uses lazy terms about guys when they get close
Speaker 2: to winning stuff and they go, they'll be here again.
Speaker 2: They'll have another chance. They'll win a Masters, they'll win
Speaker 2: the US Open, er, a PGA, they'll get one eventually.
Speaker 2: Dustin a shot back, Xander so Close, Brooks a chance
Speaker 2: now for another major title and again a chance at
Speaker 2: his first Masters, and then you keep going down. Molinari
Speaker 2: obviously was there. Tony Fenale had a chance in the
Speaker 2: final group again, was the final group at Chinnacok last year.
Speaker 2: You know, there are a lot of guys that had
Speaker 2: a chance today to add their name to that very
Speaker 2: very short list of young players that now have won
Speaker 2: the Masters, and they couldn't get a Do you think
Speaker 2: it is for these guys mentally the toughest major to
Speaker 2: win because they know a what comes with the win
Speaker 2: and b how hard it is to always be back here.
Speaker 2: I mean, you expect to always be back here. Of course,
Speaker 2: like a Dustin Johnson doesn't necessarily have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if you're Tony Fenow and you have
Speaker 2: a couple of bad years, you know you could not
Speaker 2: be in the Masters in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that you only have to look
Speaker 1: at like the comments that came from Ernie Elves this
Speaker 1: year right as to what happens when you're the guy
Speaker 1: that's there all the time and eventually and I think
Speaker 1: that's I think that's what we're seeing and out a
Speaker 1: little bit with Rory at this point, is that he
Speaker 1: you know, when he came out and he was a
Speaker 1: young kid, it was like, how many of these is
Speaker 1: he going to write? There's never been a player that's
Speaker 1: better fit for this. The guy loves to just hit
Speaker 1: that rip draw the tee. You know, nobody hits his
Speaker 1: effortlessly great draw t shot ever, maybe than Rory McElroy.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, like it's more it's
Speaker 1: a surprising when he's in it at the Like last year,
Speaker 1: we were all amped because he was in it, and
Speaker 1: we've we've the last say seven or six years since
Speaker 1: what was a twenty eleven he's kind of just been
Speaker 1: a shadow. You know, he makes the cut, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's and I think that's what the tricky thing with
Speaker 1: this is when you miss a couple of times at Augusta,
Speaker 1: that's when you start strolling around the back nine with demons.
Speaker 2: And I mean it's just I think that I think
Speaker 2: it's the perfect storm of of you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's this big golf event that battles nothing else. You know,
Speaker 2: there's no other sports really. Of course, there's some early
Speaker 2: early season playoffs going on right now, but I mean,
Speaker 2: eyeballs are on this every single year. I think the
Speaker 2: long wait plays into it. I mean you go from
Speaker 2: the PGA Championship months in months and months and months
Speaker 2: and months of waiting until the Masters, because it's a
Speaker 2: major championship and it's the first of the year, and
Speaker 2: you've had some big events going into it, but of
Speaker 2: course this one is way way bigger than anything else
Speaker 2: on the schedule leading into it, and if you go
Speaker 2: through it. I mean Nicholas used to talk about it
Speaker 2: when I didn't. Nicholas used to say, when I didn't
Speaker 2: win the Masters, it bummed me out for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year, you know, and that you think about
Speaker 2: all the events that come after the Masters, I mean
Speaker 2: all these other major championships, huge events, you know, career
Speaker 2: changing types of things. And Jack said this would this
Speaker 2: would really bumb them out. So it's just when you
Speaker 2: look at this board after two or three days, or
Speaker 2: a week or two weeks or even next year, when
Speaker 2: we're like researching the twenty nineteen Masters, you'll probably forget
Speaker 2: how many of the one name guys Brooks, Dust and Rander,
Speaker 2: those guys Ricky were right there on Sunday with a
Speaker 2: decent chance to win this thing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I want to read this El's quote because it's
Speaker 1: it's it's just so when a thing stings you, it
Speaker 1: when a thing stings you, it keeps singing you. When
Speaker 1: it gives to you, it keeps on giving. I've seen
Speaker 1: that with Gary Player, I've seen that with Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 1: I've got a love hate relationship with the place. It
Speaker 1: was always almost like a curse to me. It was
Speaker 1: not a romantic deal.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: It was a It was a fucking nightmare. And you
Speaker 1: start to wonder when you when you miss like or
Speaker 1: is this where we're going with some of these guys,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, like Ricky last year, this year, and
Speaker 1: so many other times, and like you said, you don't
Speaker 1: know if he's ever gonna get it done.
Speaker 3: He's right, Like, man, it'd be weird.
Speaker 1: With with his record at the Masters if Ricky Fowler
Speaker 1: is in that Lee Westwood Ernie Els type sphere where
Speaker 1: like when when he's forty forty two and no longer
Speaker 1: like forty five whatever that age is, and no longer
Speaker 1: based off his merits, Like you're the one who's saying
Speaker 1: like he should get an exemption in he should get
Speaker 1: an exemption in right, And And there's gonna be someone
Speaker 1: from this camp.
Speaker 3: Is it is it Ricky? Is it DJ?
Speaker 1: Is it Rory that's gonna fall into this thing? Sure?
Speaker 1: Because like it's all the great swint at the Masters
Speaker 1: except for a few.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, Wiskoff never one should have won, Miller
Speaker 2: never won, should have won. Trevino of course didn't didn't
Speaker 2: play the golf course because it wasn't the golf course
Speaker 2: that he liked to play. But I mean that's the
Speaker 2: hole on his resume. You know, you talk about Ernie,
Speaker 2: David Devaul played well here in his prime a lot
Speaker 2: and came really really close even you know, I think
Speaker 2: about a lot that doesn't get talked about in this
Speaker 2: conversation is Goosen. No, Goosen nearly won the Masters a
Speaker 2: few times, and he played the golf course great, and
Speaker 2: now he looks back on it and goes, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not gonna win the Masters, and I
Speaker 2: think it's a it's a big bummer. I talk about
Speaker 2: it a lot when I talk to some of the
Speaker 2: guys I work with, guys like Curtis who were so
Speaker 2: close to winning the Masters a few times, and you know,
Speaker 2: when they talk about it, it is it bums them
Speaker 2: out because you know it was it's a whole, it's
Speaker 2: that they'll never be able to fill. So it's crazy.
Speaker 2: You look at Ricky listen, Ricky since twenty fourteen the
Speaker 2: Masters T five, T twelve, missed the cut in sixteen,
Speaker 2: T eleven, two T nine. I mean, he is very
Speaker 2: much in the conversation every Sunday at August.
Speaker 1: It seems like yeah, and I think that's everybody says,
Speaker 1: like all you can ask for is to have a
Speaker 1: shot coming.
Speaker 3: Down the street.
Speaker 2: Tiger had the day get a shot on the back,
Speaker 2: and he was patient, very patient.
Speaker 3: That was the thing.
Speaker 1: He just didn't put himself in any situation where like
Speaker 1: if you're going to miss one way on eleven, you
Speaker 1: miss right right. He missed it blaster right, and sure
Speaker 1: enough he gets into the same pocket he was the
Speaker 1: day before, which is actually the best spot you can
Speaker 1: be on the golf ball. You know, it's in the trees.
Speaker 1: It used to be the ideal of place to be.
Speaker 1: But then same thing with twelve. He just hit it
Speaker 1: right into the middle of the green, which I think
Speaker 1: that's a hyperbology, like you know, not a hyper but
Speaker 1: like a misleading like, oh, just hit in the middle
Speaker 1: of the green. It's a lot harder than it looks, obviously,
Speaker 1: But then with thirteen, you know, he just hit hit
Speaker 1: a safe shot. I think we talked about that a lot.
Speaker 1: Here is like the safe shot into thirteen and I can't.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back. So you said one name company,
Speaker 1: you know, the one name leaderboard guys, and one guy
Speaker 1: you put on there, Xander, Xander underrated. He's he's getting
Speaker 1: close to the one name company.
Speaker 2: He's He's He's I think he's the most underrated guy
Speaker 2: in golf. I mean, I think he had a look
Speaker 2: today and yesterday that looked like he believed he could
Speaker 2: win this. It didn't seem like he And you know,
Speaker 2: he's such a he's such a nice, kind hearted kid
Speaker 2: that when he does the interviews after, I think it's
Speaker 2: easy it'd almost look past that in a way. But
Speaker 2: he seems like the type of player that relishes these
Speaker 2: types of moments and believes that when he's hitting it well,
Speaker 2: he's gonna have a real good chance. And I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, we we always forget about Brooks, always forget
Speaker 2: about Brooks, but Brooks is like that, and I feel
Speaker 2: like Xander's like almost like Brooks. Light, you know where
Speaker 2: he's got all the game in the world to do it,
Speaker 2: and he's continually getting closer and closer to and you
Speaker 2: know he's he's on a short list of mind that
Speaker 2: if you were gonna pick, if you were right now
Speaker 2: gonna pick who's gonna win the next three majors in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, and you had three names to choose from,
Speaker 2: I would be surprised if Xander wasn't on a lot
Speaker 2: of people's list that pay a lot of attention to golf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had we had a we had a statistician
Speaker 1: on the Shotgun Start, Joe Peta.
Speaker 2: And he talked great, a great interview, talked.
Speaker 1: About clustering, like when you're close and so so Xander.
Speaker 1: He's a fascinating study because he's under hyped out of college.
Speaker 1: He went to San Diego State, you know, under hyped
Speaker 1: coming out of the web. He barely got his card
Speaker 1: at the US Open. He's locals in, locals through, sectionals in,
Speaker 1: and then he's right on the first pay of the
Speaker 1: liborg the first day, and all you're doing is sitting
Speaker 1: there waiting like when's this going to collapse?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Like when this guy's not going to be here on Sunday,
Speaker 1: T five at Aaron Hill's right right.
Speaker 3: Then then Open he's T. Twenty.
Speaker 1: But then next year, you know, first Masters he struggles,
Speaker 1: but then he goes T six at the US Open.
Speaker 3: Didn't think he was gonna be.
Speaker 1: Then on the Open Championship, he's standing on the seventy
Speaker 1: first hole, he's really the only guy that's got a shot,
Speaker 1: and he's got a baby crying in the back and
Speaker 1: you know, right behind him, and you're.
Speaker 2: Like, can you do anything about that?
Speaker 1: And if you went into that day, he was the
Speaker 1: guy that every nobody was picking Xander to win, but
Speaker 1: he was right there. And then this week, this again
Speaker 1: he hits a ball, he hits balling water day and
Speaker 1: he's still he finishes one back. It's just it's like
Speaker 1: what you said, you never know how many chances you're
Speaker 1: going to get, but you have to believe that he
Speaker 1: is going to win a major very very soon.
Speaker 2: What was the biggest surprise for you this week? I mean,
Speaker 2: outside of obviously the Tiger win, when you look at
Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen Masters right now, what surprised you the most,
Speaker 2: either be a positive or negative, Was anything really stand
Speaker 2: out to you that was really shocking from the week.
Speaker 3: Is it outside of a player hitting the.
Speaker 1: Ball with a practice because that was pretty shocking, or
Speaker 1: a guy falling down when he was the green?
Speaker 2: This this master's at at all?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Did it? Did?
Speaker 3: I think? I?
Speaker 1: I I think it sticks. It's either speed or Rory.
Speaker 1: I think more so Rory. I think Spiek's in a
Speaker 1: in a funk right now, you know. And he finished
Speaker 1: T twenty one.
Speaker 2: He actually played pretty well after the second hole. Uh,
Speaker 2: after the second hole on Saturday he went on a run. Man.
Speaker 2: But but he just loves this place.
Speaker 1: But he lost it on on Thursday, right, oh for sure.
Speaker 1: And to a certain extent, Rory lost it on Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is not what you expected with Rory coming in.
Speaker 3: And and that's the that's the thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to, you know, but you start
Speaker 1: to look at the guy that you know, there's always
Speaker 1: one guy that doesn't get, that doesn't get the one
Speaker 1: you know chant there's always a hole. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing that's starting to kind of crystallize. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Adam Scott's putter doesn't That can't be surprising.
Speaker 1: That's just you know, the way it's been his career.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing how certain guys just fall into the
Speaker 1: into the role that you like grow to expect him,
Speaker 1: Like coucher T twelve, like never had a chance, but
Speaker 1: was just somehow there all the time. And that's like
Speaker 1: kind of his like Augusta. And if you look at Poulter,
Speaker 1: Poulter's kind of had a similar career at Augusta, Like
Speaker 1: he was there, but he wasn't really there, right, And
Speaker 1: that's I think the thing about Augusta is that there
Speaker 1: are certain players that will always be there.
Speaker 2: Right safe bets for top fifteen every single season. Go
Speaker 2: look at how Coocher's played the Masters the last ten years.
Speaker 2: It's it's unreal how he's always around the number he
Speaker 2: was today. You know, it's just where he sits. And
Speaker 2: it goes back to again to the guys that okay,
Speaker 2: so that's a theme, and then the guys that win
Speaker 2: are a theme. Tiger's a winner. He knows how to win.
Speaker 2: He's figured it out, doesn't matter the golf course, the situation,
Speaker 2: or the weather, or the tee time movement or anything
Speaker 2: like that. He's has this mentality his entire life that
Speaker 2: he can find a way to figure out how to
Speaker 2: be victorious. I think Kopka has that same type of mentality.
Speaker 2: He can figure out a way to win late. And
Speaker 2: then unfortunately there's guys that don't do that. You know,
Speaker 2: there's guys that don't that when they're close to winning
Speaker 2: the moment is too big. And you know, again I
Speaker 2: I don't fault any guys for that. You know, people
Speaker 2: are what's wrong, Why did this guy win more? Why
Speaker 2: can't he win?
Speaker 3: It's really hard.
Speaker 2: It's really hard to win. It's really hard to win
Speaker 2: the Masters. You know.
Speaker 3: I always like to say that winning's overrated.
Speaker 2: I'm the same, I'm in the same camp as you.
Speaker 1: But then like the guys that get in the moment
Speaker 1: and win, it's hard to say that's overrated, right because
Speaker 1: like there's something there and you know it's I was
Speaker 1: talking to somebody and they and they were described they
Speaker 1: were saying, oh, he doesn't he never had the sack
Speaker 1: to win, And there's something, you know, I don't. That's
Speaker 1: something there about winning, because like we saw today, like
Speaker 1: that Tiger coming down the stretch.
Speaker 3: And he even dj to a certain who wins a.
Speaker 2: Lot, ns wins all the time, wins way more than
Speaker 2: people think he does.
Speaker 1: But then when you look at him and majors, you
Speaker 1: just keep finding these like, how do you not win?
Speaker 2: She's like Tiger. Now, this is what's so wild about this.
Speaker 2: Tiger stopped so many legends from having these unbelievable careers.
Speaker 2: Ernie is the best example. Filled to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: VJ would have won more majors. Goosen again, Duvall. You
Speaker 2: know those are the names and you go outside of that.
Speaker 2: You know, DeMarco wins the Masters without Tiger there, and.
Speaker 3: Poddrick you're forgetting.
Speaker 2: Uh, Bob May, Bob May you know, you know all
Speaker 2: of those guys that Bob may kick out. But I mean,
Speaker 2: when you think about what Tiger did in the sense
Speaker 2: of halting careers, all these young guys now and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna throw DJ in the young category and he's only
Speaker 2: thirty four years old. But now Tiger has halted this
Speaker 2: generation potentially say he wins So right now, if I
Speaker 2: said one and a half majors for the rest of
Speaker 2: Tiger's career right now, is it is it irresponsible to
Speaker 2: say under now?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 1: I said I think at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: I don't think I didn't think he would win another major.
Speaker 1: But then he did to this these guys, as we've
Speaker 1: talked more, he kind of he did to them. What
Speaker 1: the I So, if you take Tiger out of the mix,
Speaker 1: who wins today? And I don't think there's a question
Speaker 1: in my mind.
Speaker 3: Who wins?
Speaker 2: You're saying Brooksy, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Does he? He makes those putts on seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2: Right, makes one of them. It's all they needed.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've called the last to us o rights.
Speaker 3: You've seen what Brooks does.
Speaker 2: He just hits golf shots and makes putts when he
Speaker 2: has to.
Speaker 1: And those putts on seventeen and eighteen were so reminiscent
Speaker 1: of last year at Shinney, coming down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Like and when he flew through that that one and
Speaker 2: at sixteen when nobody was getting it close to the
Speaker 2: hole and he makes that bad boy. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he was just making it up and down on fourteen. Oh,
Speaker 2: unbelievable from what it.
Speaker 3: Was fifty yards short, dead down wind, like just an unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Similar like shots that hit into seventeen and eighteen where
Speaker 1: he hit it, same distance, same type of putt, not
Speaker 1: a ton of movement, and like I mean that one
Speaker 1: on seventeen.
Speaker 3: He gassed.
Speaker 2: He did gas yet like that that.
Speaker 1: Was actually an anxious putt.
Speaker 3: That's a putt you make.
Speaker 1: When when you're in the moment and you know you
Speaker 1: gotta make it, like the miss is either short right
Speaker 1: or too hard left, and that was he kind of
Speaker 1: had both of the misses, Like neither of those were
Speaker 1: really close to the hole right.
Speaker 2: But it's it's just it's so wild that. I mean again,
Speaker 2: you go back to ninety seven. I mean, nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven was so long ago, and Tiger wins his first Masters,
Speaker 2: in his first major, and he's upsetting from that point on.
Speaker 2: He's upsetting people over and over again that either would
Speaker 2: add to a legacy that was already impressive or would
Speaker 2: completely change their lives. And now it's twenty nineteen and
Speaker 2: he's doing something similar, you know, one of the biggest
Speaker 2: events in the entire year. It's just it's still wild.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna take some time. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: a moment on like Wednesday, where you wake up from
Speaker 2: sleep and you're gonna go Tiger win the Masters on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I just had this visual pop in my head.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for this.
Speaker 1: Imagine if you put up like a slide show of
Speaker 1: the guys that Tiger beat ninety seven, and a slide
Speaker 1: show of the guys that he beat this and this masters,
Speaker 1: and and that shows the seismic impact that he's had
Speaker 1: on the game. So everybody, you know, Tiger completely revolutionized
Speaker 1: the game of golf and brought on this new generation
Speaker 1: of players. And without a question, I can say at
Speaker 1: this point, like in any Jack Nicholas supporter, he's the
Speaker 1: best player of all time because he created a whole
Speaker 1: new generation of golfers, a whole new era of golf,
Speaker 1: and just beat them all.
Speaker 2: Just beat them all and beat all the best U.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, outside of Rory Rose and Speeth
Speaker 2: really being in the mix, JT was there a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, Ricky and DJ and Kepken, all those guys.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read you that. The leaderboard for ninety seven.
Speaker 2: You're ready for this, Yeah, all right? Tiger wins at
Speaker 2: eighteen under. Okay, second place, Tom Kite, third place, Tommy Toles,
Speaker 2: Tom Watson, Tommy So, Tommy Toles fired sixty. For a second,
Speaker 2: you were going to say, Tommy too clubs. Tommy Tolls third,
Speaker 2: Tom Watson.
Speaker 1: Fourth, he how old he was forty one in ninety one,
Speaker 1: so he had when Woozy won forty seven, forty seven
Speaker 1: year old Tom Watson.
Speaker 2: Roka and Paul Stankowski finished t fifth. Paul Stankowski couples longer,
Speaker 2: Justin Leonard Davis love the third, and Jeff Sluman round
Speaker 2: out the top ten. Compare that, as you said to
Speaker 2: the leaderboard of the top ten in twenty and nineteen.
Speaker 1: It's you know what I love about this too, is
Speaker 1: that you know, he went through so many times where
Speaker 1: he was rebuilding a swing with so and so so
Speaker 1: and so high name instructor, Like this comeback He's done
Speaker 1: all himself, Like he just finally in a way, it
Speaker 1: was a return to like and the celebration was really similar,
Speaker 1: like the emotions in the ninety seven and this one
Speaker 1: and and both of them were so emotional because he
Speaker 1: did it all himself.
Speaker 3: Like there are moments where you were like, yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: You know, he got here because of him, not because
Speaker 1: of anyone else. And I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that happened to Tigers. He got you get big,
Speaker 1: and there's so many you know, hanger ons like types
Speaker 1: and and these this win with the other one were
Speaker 1: because of so much of their own you know, his
Speaker 1: own time, all of you know, it was ninety seven
Speaker 1: was an underdog story, and this was an underdog story.
Speaker 2: You know. I mentioned this to you guys during the
Speaker 2: coverage on Sunday of the final round is and I
Speaker 2: mentioned a little bit of it early about energy. But
Speaker 2: you know, Tiger is obviously a veteran now and mature
Speaker 2: in a scene all of it. He's seen the good,
Speaker 2: the bad, and the ugly. He never one time today
Speaker 2: changed his demeanor, never up, never down, No fist pumps.
Speaker 2: Can you was there one fist pump? I don't think
Speaker 2: there was. I don't think he made if you okay,
Speaker 2: was there a putt? He made a distance today that
Speaker 2: really mattered because a lot of the birdies were two
Speaker 2: putts are tapins.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. Like he did it.
Speaker 1: That's the other scary thing about this. He did it
Speaker 1: without his a game right like he was. He didn't
Speaker 1: drive the ball great, which is this is the.
Speaker 3: Place where he can do that and get away with it.
Speaker 1: And he didn't putt great like he He left a
Speaker 1: lot out there early in the week, and then on
Speaker 1: yesterday he putted really well on Saturday, but today there there.
Speaker 3: Were no fist pump moments none.
Speaker 2: I mean, he made he made a great putt on eight,
Speaker 2: but he didn't fist pump. That was when he hit
Speaker 2: that three wood and he chopped it over the back
Speaker 2: and he had that great up and in there, and
Speaker 2: it was one of those moments that seemed like at
Speaker 2: the time, must make had to make it to stay
Speaker 2: with Molinari. Mollinari made Birdie as well. You know, he
Speaker 2: obviously flags it on seven and makes that good up
Speaker 2: and in an eight, and that putt was of distance
Speaker 2: probably twelve to twenteen feet something like that. Other than
Speaker 2: that Birdie's go what about that two putt on nine?
Speaker 2: That was great, That was an That was maybe the
Speaker 2: best shot he hit all day.
Speaker 3: That that's the shot that will get forgotten.
Speaker 2: The putt from all the way to the top of
Speaker 2: the green when he had the mudball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's where. But then you know, he made
Speaker 1: the bogey on ten, which was felt like a killer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that the eight, the putt on eight and
Speaker 1: the put on nine were the two pivotal moments.
Speaker 2: You know, it was you're you know, I hadn't thought
Speaker 2: about this yet and you made a great point. It
Speaker 2: wasn't his greatest stuff now. I mean, you know, we're
Speaker 2: what thirty minutes into talking about this, and it was
Speaker 2: never It wasn't It wasn't a flag fest. It was
Speaker 2: a smart shot fest, you know. It was it was
Speaker 2: putting the ball in smart positions, as you mentioned, to
Speaker 2: avoid doubles. And when you look across the day, it
Speaker 2: is it is wild to think that, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: he didn't make birdie on two, he bertie two once
Speaker 2: this week. You know, he plays eight one under this week.
Speaker 2: You know, the front nine was never great. He bogied
Speaker 2: five all four days. Obviously, the new t at five,
Speaker 2: bogue on five all four days this week. You know,
Speaker 2: he makes the turn and makes that bogey on ten,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of a it was a sloppy
Speaker 2: T shot and obviously had to kind of punch out
Speaker 2: and then kind of just a sloppy T shot on eleven,
Speaker 2: and he didn't necessarily flag it on twelve. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about the safe shots. Of course
Speaker 2: that happens when both guys you're playing with hit in
Speaker 2: the water. But he had to make a lengthy putt
Speaker 2: there to save par at twelve, another shot that'll probably
Speaker 2: get forgotten. It's kind of like the lag on nine.
Speaker 2: But it was just there were so many round savers
Speaker 2: today and then he turned it on when he needed
Speaker 2: to on the holes that you talked about, and you
Speaker 2: talked I know, people don't hear Jeff ogilvi much. You've
Speaker 2: talked with Jeff Ogilvie at length about this golf course
Speaker 2: and the holes you can take advantage of, and Ogilvie
Speaker 2: was spot on. You can take advantage of thirteen, obviously,
Speaker 2: you can take advantage of fifteen. Obviously, whole location on
Speaker 2: sixteen on Sunday is a birdie flag and you better
Speaker 2: make a two. I was trying to think about this,
Speaker 2: and I mean, I'm sure if I looked back, I
Speaker 2: could probably count the number of guys. I would like
Speaker 2: to know over the last ten years how many guys
Speaker 2: birdied sixteen on Sunday and went on to win, because
Speaker 2: I bet it is high. Cabrera did it, will it?
Speaker 2: Did it? I'm i Sergio did it right?
Speaker 1: No, he had he had like a four foot or
Speaker 1: that nasty fore foot slider. He didn't make it, but
Speaker 1: he hit really close, like it's almost it's indicative if
Speaker 1: he you know what it is is that's that shot
Speaker 1: and it's not overly hard, but if you have if
Speaker 1: you're feeling the nerves, that's the shot that you're gonna fan. Right,
Speaker 1: And we saw it like can't lay got into the
Speaker 1: lead like and that's like almost it's almost an indicator
Speaker 1: indicator if you're in the lead and you get to
Speaker 1: that tee and you that's the shot.
Speaker 2: You can't head. Yeah you can't bail.
Speaker 3: Out, Yeah you can't. You have to.
Speaker 2: Ina did it too. He kept ga bailed out. For
Speaker 2: a guy that that seems to always have those shots,
Speaker 2: he hit that little fanny one.
Speaker 3: And he was like about eighteen inches.
Speaker 2: I know, but still you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 2: mean his ball and Tiger's ball were probably two feet
Speaker 2: for each other.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: They probably landed two feet apart, right, And that's like
Speaker 1: that's the beauty of the golf course though, is that
Speaker 1: the line is so thin. And this week wasn't the
Speaker 1: best week for Augusta National with how soft and how
Speaker 1: much rain they got, like there wasn't as much fire.
Speaker 3: But on Sunday with the wind, that wind gave it.
Speaker 1: That little extra thing to make it special where we
Speaker 1: finally saw like we had been missing the the the
Speaker 1: back half of the line where like disaster, and we
Speaker 1: saw it with Molinari. Molinari like you know, had skirted disaster.
Speaker 1: But then he finally, you know, he got to you know,
Speaker 1: he fell apart. And I think Tiger and Sergio or
Speaker 1: Tiger and Jordan, two great Masters players, they're like more
Speaker 1: of the tactician what you were talking about, like missing
Speaker 1: into the right spot, not taking on too much risk.
Speaker 1: And then you have the other end of the spectrum
Speaker 1: of great Masters players that are like the daring. You
Speaker 1: have the phills right who like the course asked him
Speaker 1: to always take on the shot and they win because
Speaker 1: they pull off the most miraculous shots of all time.
Speaker 3: And there's and that's.
Speaker 1: What the beauty of the whole event is is that
Speaker 1: there's so many ways for people to win.
Speaker 2: Right, It's just it's it's crazy. I uh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know I asked you when I when I when
Speaker 2: you thought Tiger would win? And you said twelve. And
Speaker 2: what was your I think when the ball landed on
Speaker 2: the green on fifteen and where he hit it, the
Speaker 2: swing he made, I told Will he made that swing
Speaker 2: and I said, I said, God, he's swing looks so good,
Speaker 2: you know, And I mean I didn't. We didn't see
Speaker 2: the word it landed. It was just in they had
Speaker 2: the CBS had this great look. It was it was
Speaker 2: like face on of his swing and it was just
Speaker 2: that tiger swing. It was the power, but it looked effortless.
Speaker 2: You know. It was probably a five iron from two
Speaker 2: forty and just got through the ball and it looked
Speaker 2: like remember the Nike commercial where you were all black
Speaker 2: and it was the driver and it was the music.
Speaker 2: That is what that swing looked like on fifteen. And
Speaker 2: if if the if the if a storm would have
Speaker 2: blown over our house in Augusta, over the Bigsby House
Speaker 2: and the and the and the network would have cut out,
Speaker 2: I would have said, that's on the green. I'll bet
Speaker 2: you whatever I have in my wallet. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: how good the swing was before it landed. When that
Speaker 2: one landed on there, I was like, he's winning. I mean,
Speaker 2: I and again, uh, who's what's the quote about not
Speaker 2: going for eagle? Who said that? Hogan said it? You know,
Speaker 2: the amateur asked Hogan. I think it was thirteen or
Speaker 2: fifteen and he was playing really well and he lay up, right,
Speaker 2: he didn't. He didn't, he didn't, he didn't go for
Speaker 2: the green. He laid up and he said, you know,
Speaker 2: mister Hogan, why didn't you go for it? And he said,
Speaker 2: I didn't need eagle. You know, Birdie was fine. I
Speaker 2: felt like Tiger played like that today. I don't need
Speaker 2: eagle to win, but I'm gonna put it in this
Speaker 2: part of the green guarantee. I'm gonna two putt this
Speaker 2: for Birdie. His speed was great today too, by the way.
Speaker 2: I mean, he left a couple short, like twelve, but
Speaker 2: the one on nine thirteen was great, you know, fifteen,
Speaker 2: eighteen was great, eighteen was great. You know, just kind
Speaker 2: of trickle it down there, do you He wanted to
Speaker 2: make that for par but I mean, you know it's
Speaker 2: there's there's no stress, right.
Speaker 1: I think what you what you just hit on might
Speaker 1: be what we've been searching to say the whole time,
Speaker 1: is that the truly great champions have like the feel
Speaker 1: for the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he knew what number he needed almost, you know.
Speaker 1: And he didn't take on a risk that he didn't
Speaker 1: need to take on. And he knew it and that's
Speaker 1: where you see so many He didn't push it because
Speaker 1: he knew he didn't need to push it.
Speaker 3: Like, who knows if.
Speaker 1: He was two behind there, what we would have seen, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we probably would have seen him take the flag on.
Speaker 3: And that's.
Speaker 1: There's a feel and maybe that's what makes the winners
Speaker 1: and what makes the guys that that constantly come up shore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was. It was a beautiful win.
Speaker 2: It was a beautiful seventy two whole victory, Like from
Speaker 2: whole one to eighteen on Sunday, it was like Tiger
Speaker 2: was painting his masterpiece, you know. I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 2: winning by fifteen, It wasn't winning by twelve. It was
Speaker 2: winning by one shot against the best new generation of golfers,
Speaker 2: and he used every shot he needed to. It was,
Speaker 2: it was, it was. It was perfection.
Speaker 3: You know. So he's eight under on the back line.
Speaker 3: It's not bad.
Speaker 2: Works it worked, yeah, Tiger woods Man. Yeah, twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: wins the Masters.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I mean I could talk about this for hour,
Speaker 1: but any what are your parting parting thoughts? I think
Speaker 1: feel like we've been parting thoughting at the whole time.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I mean I just I mean, I I mean,
Speaker 2: you know this, this is gonna be the story that
Speaker 2: people are going to talk about for weeks and weeks
Speaker 2: and weeks, and it's gonna lead us into bed Page
Speaker 2: and the PGA and and of course Tiger's going to
Speaker 2: be talked about, and he's gonna go in with commnfidence
Speaker 2: and belief and you know it's it's gonna carry us
Speaker 2: through the twenty nineteen golf season at every event. This
Speaker 2: is going to be what we talk back on and
Speaker 2: touch back on all those things. I'm I'm bummed again
Speaker 2: for Rory, honestly, I mean, I just, I think even
Speaker 2: no matter what he says, no matter how he talks
Speaker 2: about this week, him leaving another year without a green jacket,
Speaker 2: I know it wears on him. I know it's a bummer.
Speaker 2: I know he'll think about it. He didn't really ever
Speaker 2: sniff anything this week in terms of playing well and winning.
Speaker 2: I'll feel a little bit for guys like Mulinari. I mean,
Speaker 2: who had one, you know, sleeve in the green jacket.
Speaker 2: It seemed like standing on twelve t and you know,
Speaker 2: Rinse sit there and then basically was never the same
Speaker 2: after that golf swing. But you know, there are a
Speaker 2: lot of storylines that'll be easily forgotten from this week.
Speaker 2: But I just I just I you know, from from
Speaker 2: the depths, man Tiger did it.
Speaker 1: If Tiger's on the eighteenth hole in the first round
Speaker 1: next year at the Masters and he's got like a
Speaker 1: two footer for sixty nine, does he miss it on purpose?
Speaker 2: Always in the first round? Seventy always takes it. I
Speaker 2: always say this, if you were on eighteen for Birdie
Speaker 2: and you'd made seventeen straight pars, like, I think I
Speaker 2: would want to miss it to have an eighteen straight
Speaker 2: par day, you know, as opposed to having one score better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: shoot seventy in the first round. Tiger his number, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think four times right, four times in his five victories.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think with the guys that have the pressure on him,
Speaker 1: like you've got you've got Spieth looking for a Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: you've got Rory looking for a Grand Slam, you got
Speaker 1: Phil looking for a Grand Slam, this is actually like
Speaker 1: a great thing for them because the biggest story going
Speaker 1: into every major from now on is Jack's record. That's right,
Speaker 1: And that's a story a thing that I didn't think
Speaker 1: would be resurrected. That is resurrected and now is the
Speaker 1: biggest story, and you know, arguably sports is you know,
Speaker 1: this is like a I don't think that record will
Speaker 1: ever be touched by anybody other than Tiger, like especially
Speaker 1: with the new generation of golfers. And it should take
Speaker 1: the pressure a little bit off those guys in those
Speaker 1: big events because it's not what everybody's asking about.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if he ticks off the PGA? Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if he wins Beth Page and goes into
Speaker 2: Pebble too straight majors?
Speaker 3: Are we talking to Grand Slam?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, could could you imagine if he did it? Though?
Speaker 2: What if he wins the PGA Championship in a month
Speaker 2: and now has two straight majors going to Pebble Beach.
Speaker 1: If he just if he ties Jack this year? I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm ready for that.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know what to believe anymore in golf.
Speaker 2: I I am so okay, how about this? Now? We
Speaker 2: have a chance. For now, we got a chance for
Speaker 2: Tiger to win the Masters. We got a chance to
Speaker 2: have Speace the Grand Slam, Philam take the Grand Slam
Speaker 2: in a row all in and these are legitimate things
Speaker 2: that could happen. I think Speed could play well at
Speaker 2: Beth Page if he started his driver a little better.
Speaker 1: Pebble could be better for Phil and Tiger.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's it's an interesting I think that that we got
Speaker 1: Beth Pages of young is gonna be a younger guys
Speaker 1: of course, right, especially with the PGA setup. Then we
Speaker 1: go to the the Open, I think that'll be that'll
Speaker 1: favor a little bit the older players, and then port
Speaker 1: Rush should be really anybody's game. It probably favors experience.
Speaker 1: This is a great year for the Vets.
Speaker 2: It's gonna it's gonna be great. Tommy Towles, maybe it
Speaker 2: did you like his chances of port Rush.
Speaker 1: Paul stankowskiak, I've gone.
Speaker 2: Stankowski told me a story one time about he was
Speaker 2: he did. He got interviewed and then the ninety seven
Speaker 2: Masters about Tiger like mid round, like during the week
Speaker 2: or something, and I can't remember what exactly he said,
Speaker 2: but it was it was something to the effect of,
Speaker 2: you know, it's he's not gonna keep this up, or
Speaker 2: you know it wasn't Curtis, you know where Curtis was saying,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, yeah good yeah, second when he
Speaker 2: said second sucks, you know, but it was something like
Speaker 2: he can't keep this great playoff or he can't keep
Speaker 2: doing this to the golf course. He's like he says,
Speaker 2: every time they run that one hour special about ninety seven,
Speaker 2: he's on it, you know, saying that he's like, oh god,
Speaker 2: I can't believe I said that. In the brisk conference,
Speaker 2: it was there.
Speaker 1: It was a it was like Monte Prix and post
Speaker 1: Uh playing with Tiger to the third round where he was,
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna really feel it before and then
Speaker 1: after there's no human way, a human way possible that
Speaker 1: Tiger was does not win this turn.
Speaker 2: Five on Saturday, He's gonna be real nervous out There
Speaker 2: is this in sports when you look back historically at sports,
Speaker 2: will this whole Tiger thing the last let's say five
Speaker 2: eight years to this point winning the Masters in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: Will this rank up there in best sports stories across
Speaker 2: all platforms?
Speaker 1: So let's talk about about where this is. We're both
Speaker 1: sports hands so in terms of in terms of biggest moments,
Speaker 1: like miracle on ice is something that obviously pops in
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 2: And that and that was bigger than sports.
Speaker 3: That's a big yeah.
Speaker 2: So that was that's Trump's just a sports story.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've and I think we talked. I
Speaker 1: think we talked a ton about this when Tiger was down.
Speaker 1: Is that there was never a star athlete's fall from
Speaker 1: grace as fast and as severe as.
Speaker 3: What Tiger went through.
Speaker 1: And in a game that's so mental, it's hard to
Speaker 1: think of a moment like baseball. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have anything that comes close football.
Speaker 2: I mean you think about I think stuff like like
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson's story is a is just a bigger what
Speaker 2: I always going to call it humanitarian or it's just
Speaker 2: a bigger story for a change in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And it was an unbelievable moment that happened to be
Speaker 2: attached to sports, right, and sports was just part of
Speaker 2: the catalyst to push that through because it was just
Speaker 2: such a cool thing to see happen and it was
Speaker 2: just such a world changing event. This is I just
Speaker 2: feel like with Tiger, it's just more about the sport,
Speaker 2: right he was. I mean, he couldn't play golf, he
Speaker 2: couldn't play golf professionally, with the way he was playing.
Speaker 2: He was shooting numbers that if you were and I
Speaker 2: went and played on the PGA Tour and shot those numbers,
Speaker 2: we would be without a job in four or five
Speaker 2: six months. He couldn't hit chip shots, he couldn't hit
Speaker 2: driver in play, he couldn't play the game that he dominated.
Speaker 1: He was he was really he was embarrassed at every
Speaker 1: level that you can be embarrassed at to a certain extent.
Speaker 2: Right And now you see guy, they're channing Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2: The crowd at Augusta is chanting his name, he's walking by.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He's the coolest guy.
Speaker 1: And as as I've gotten older, you kind of realize,
Speaker 1: you laugh, like, how you know, Tiger might not be
Speaker 1: that cool, but when he's on the field, when he's
Speaker 1: on the course, on our field, he's the coolest.
Speaker 3: Guy that's ever happened to golf ever.
Speaker 1: And David Devall said on Live from last night, and
Speaker 1: it was kind of like a precursor. And he's the
Speaker 1: guy that's seen it, he said, everybody's talking. You know,
Speaker 1: Brandal goes down as his stats and everything, and he's
Speaker 1: I'm going to look at something that nobody else is
Speaker 1: looking at his eyes and he said it's back like
Speaker 1: the clarity like and and that that was like.
Speaker 3: When I think I just thought about that.
Speaker 1: When I think about that, David Duvall might have been
Speaker 1: the only guy that really knew because he was the
Speaker 1: guy that stared down those eyes and and and he
Speaker 1: saw it it and he's one of the greatest champions
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 2: It's just it. I mean, it will be one of
Speaker 2: the you know, the sports stories that we'll remember in
Speaker 2: our lifetime, you know, when we're when we're fifty and
Speaker 2: sixty five and seventy years old, if you know, if
Speaker 2: we have enough fix but we can get to that point,
Speaker 2: if we get there at seventy and seventy five and eighty,
Speaker 2: I mean, you'll remember twenty nineteen. You'll remember watching this
Speaker 2: win the way he did it, you know, extending all
Speaker 2: of everything he had in it to pull out the victory,
Speaker 2: the reaction, the emotion. It's just man, it's it's it
Speaker 2: was really cool to see. And I mean, you you know,
Speaker 2: the the love and the outpouring, the TV numbers, all
Speaker 2: that stuff is gonna it's just gonna help that because
Speaker 2: you know, this will be this will be what we
Speaker 2: remember from this season, and this will be what we
Speaker 2: might remember from Tiger's career. Really, I mean, this might
Speaker 2: be the moment that is one a in Tiger's career.
Speaker 2: Is he won the twenty nineteen Masters.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is got as.
Speaker 1: I don't want to I wasn't there in eighty six, right,
Speaker 1: but this is, you know, probably the golf moment of
Speaker 1: all time. And I think the lasting effect is that,
Speaker 1: like just like he did in ninety seven, this is
Speaker 1: the win. It's going to re energize golf because he
Speaker 1: a generation that never saw Tiger win. Watch Tiger win today, right, which.
Speaker 2: And again it's goes back to what I said when
Speaker 2: I said if you ranking important stories, I mean outside
Speaker 2: of stuff like miracle on ice and Jackie Robinson, and
Speaker 2: you put those stories one and two or one two
Speaker 2: and one or whatever however you want to list those
Speaker 2: types of things that were that were changing things for
Speaker 2: people for the rest of the rest of life. You know,
Speaker 2: when you look at this story, I mean, it's going
Speaker 2: to be in that top ten of of of sports stories.
Speaker 2: Is going to be Tiger winning this Masters today. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just so wild.
Speaker 1: To think and and you know, you'll probably have a great,
Speaker 1: great pod. Everybody should check out the clubhouse pod. You
Speaker 1: know who your guest's going to be.
Speaker 2: I think we're doing it with Joel Clad again. We're
Speaker 2: going to kind of do the recap this year over
Speaker 2: all the majors jowels, so I got to kind of
Speaker 2: prep for that. But yeah, I think he'll.
Speaker 1: Be great because he has so many I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess sports that's the thing that I really I think
Speaker 1: that's something that will have come out from you know,
Speaker 1: various people that have covered a lot of sports. Is
Speaker 1: where this thing ranks. And that'll be really cool. So
Speaker 1: everybody check out your your pot and what a great,
Speaker 1: great lead up for us.
Speaker 2: Oh can you believe this?
Speaker 1: It's just fun day. It was awesome, awesome. Glad you
Speaker 1: were over watching this and Glad we got to talk
Speaker 1: about it because it's, uh, this is it, this is
Speaker 1: this is as good as it guts