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Speaker 1: You've been going to this tournament for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I mean that looked like Ireland. I mean that was

426
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Speaker 1: when Cam Young and John rom are struggling to hit

427
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: a two hundred and forty yards off the tea. You know,

428
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: it's not just cold. Wet means that's tough man. All

429
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: of that said, look, we can't We don't have a

430
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: direct line to Mother Nature. I don't know. Maybe people

431
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: at Augusta Nashville, if you have green jacket, you can

432
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Speaker 1: just get on the line with Mother Nature and tell

433
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: her exactly what you want. But you can't dial up

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Speaker 1: the weather. If you could. I love the idea of

435
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: having different weather patterns throughout a four round tournament, so

436
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: it's not just seventy two and sunny and a one

437
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: club wind for four days. It's not just fifty five

438
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 1: and windy for four days, not just raining for four days, Like, hey,

439
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: give me a little bit of everything. We're trying to

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Speaker 1: identify the best player, and we want to find the

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Speaker 1: best player in all different types of conditions. I thought

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00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: that part of it's great. Now, granted, half the guy's

443
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: got screwed with the wrong part of the raw. When

444
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: brooks Kepka's sitting back in the rental house sipping on

445
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: hot coco on Saturday morning and John ROMs trying to

446
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: hit a three iron one hundred and eighty yards, maybe

447
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: that's not exactly quote unquote fair, but it's the luck

448
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: of the draw, and I love it when events it's

449
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: like the Players Championship last year, which lasted five days,

450
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: but we had all four seasons. I thought it was

451
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: very much the same. And it's almost like playing a

452
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: video game, you know, the old Tiger Woods video games.

453
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: I guess there are more golf video games out there.

454
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Speaker 1: I don't play him these days, but where you can

455
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Speaker 1: just dial up the weather, say okay, this round, we're

456
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Speaker 1: gonna play in rain in a twenty five mile an

457
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: hour win. And then this round we're gonna turn up

458
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Speaker 1: the heat to ninety five degrees and just haven't be

459
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: like humid as heck. I like the fact that we

460
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Speaker 1: had different weather patterns, and I like that at major championships.

461
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: You know, you picked him before. I mean he was

462
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Speaker 1: He's been one of the best players in the world

463
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,479
Speaker 1: for a long time now. It was kind of between

464
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: the three guys. I was kicking myself immediately after he

465
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: came storming back after the four putt. This guy, now,

466
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,959
Speaker 1: you know, he's got that second major. It felt like

467
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: this year the you know, kind of the damn had broke, Like, okay,

468
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: it's on. Rom has figured it out. But at this

469
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 1: tournament specifically fourth, ninth, seventh, fifth, now he's won it.

470
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: I think most people that follow the sport would pick

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00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: this guy to win several majors just in general, whether

472
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: that's four or seven whatever, But this tournament, it feels

473
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Speaker 1: like it'd be a shocker if he doesn't win this

474
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: thing again. Yeah. I mean, look, we always say that

475
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday after a guy wins one, and we're like, wow,

476
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: if he plays like that, he's gonna win every single time. Well,

477
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: that's the whole point is he doesn't play like that.

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00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: That said, yes, I do agree with you. That John

479
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: Rom doesn't seem like a one and done in Augusta National,

480
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: like he's gonna pack it up and leave. But funny

481
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: things happened. I mean, we would have thought by this

482
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Speaker 1: point that Rory McIlroy would have three of these things. Yeah, oh,

483
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: by the way, he does not. We'll get into him,

484
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 1: I know. But I was so impressed with the way

485
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: Ron persevered. As you mentioned, I picked him last week

486
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Speaker 1: on your show. I picked him on a thousand other

487
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: shows that I did before the Masters, And I'm walking

488
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Speaker 1: through the press building in Augusta National and I didn't

489
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: see the first hole, but I look up at the

490
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: big board and all I say is Rom plus two

491
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: through one, And I'm like, you've got to be freaking

492
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: kidding me, Like I think I just picked him everywhere, Like,

493
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: give me a chance, John, just give me a chance.

494
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, everyone's chirping at me on Twitter, like, oh,

495
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: sobel jinxed him. He birdie's the next two winds up

496
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: making nine birdies on the day, shoots sixty five. It's

497
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: actually like that perseverance. And I talked about him playing

498
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: through the bad weather and him going into Sunday trailing

499
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: a guy that's known to win major championships. All of

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Speaker 1: those things together is what I thought was the most

501
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: impressive part of Rom, the fact that he persevered after

502
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: being down in each of those situations. I don't think

503
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Speaker 1: that Rom two or three years ago could have handled that.

504
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: Rom two or three years ago snaps a club over

505
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: his knee, throws something into the woods, and gets too

506
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: fired up about what's going on. I thought there's a

507
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: calmness around him that really helped this week. Totally agree.

508
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Tiger kind of had it from the jump,

509
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: the mental toughness, Phil learned it over time. You know.

510
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: I think it's a question mark with Rory. You know,

511
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: I think Jordan has it, but is good enough consistently,

512
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: Like this guy clearly is good enough, and if he's

513
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: got the mentals right, you know, holy shit. I mean,

514
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: on the flip side, a guy that's also had it,

515
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: it feels like from pretty early in his career was Kepka.

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00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: It's hard to say he choked. I mean he got

517
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Speaker 1: the better end of the draw. He definitely didn't play

518
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: well your vantage point. I mean a huge He's a

519
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: guy that which I appreciate Hal's ass when he plays

520
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: playing in front of I don't know the or behind

521
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: the slowest human being of all time in Patrick Cantley.

522
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: So twofold thoughts on Brooks and the slow play situation

523
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: was that, you know some of the talk of the

524
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Speaker 1: Sunday Yeah, I'll start with slow play, and it was bad,

525
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: Patrick Hanley, I get it. Look, I can see both

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Speaker 1: sides of this because I've often been a defender of

527
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: these players who, look, it's not your Sunday afternoon four ball.

528
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: We're just kind of like, hey, man, come on, hit

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Speaker 1: that butt, let's go. It's I'm playing. You can't shooting,

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Speaker 1: you can't choose. You can't shoot seventy five and go

531
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: that slow though, right, you can shoot sixty nine, seventy

532
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: five even I don't care if you're shooting sixty three. Like,

533
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: at some point, hit the ball, like you just gotta

534
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: hit the ball. You just gotta be confident in yourself

535
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: and go, all right, what's the number, got it? Let

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00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: me hit it. And you've just got to do it.

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00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: And so um, it's not a matter of like shaving

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Speaker 1: off time. It's a matter of respect for your fellow playing.

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00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: If your fellow players, i mean, kept going wrong, there's

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00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: a great shot of them sitting together and a tea

541
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: box like looking out there waiting. Kept goes asked about

542
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: it after the round and he's like, oh my god,

543
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: was it slow? He said they were slow up there,

544
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: but that was not I think he was playing with Hovlin,

545
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: wasn't he. Yeah he was. Hoblin was not slow. Hoblin

546
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: was walking ahead, hitting shots before. Can't Lee even hit

547
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Speaker 1: before him. So, um, that was one guy and Can'tl's

548
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: got to do something about it. He will be hearing

549
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: some things about that in the locker room at Harvardtown

550
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: this week, you can bet that. So getting back to Chepka,

551
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: he hasn't been the situation for a while. One year

552
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: ago he left Augusta National completely filled with doubt. So

553
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: he tried to punch a hole through his car's windshield,

554
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: the back windshield, and cried twice. Couldn't do it. But

555
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: he was very disappointed in his own in his own play,

556
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: and very uncertain about the future. And I think that

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00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: led to him going to live. I mean, we all

558
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: saw a full swing where he was doubting his future,

559
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: doubting with her he could ever beat the world's best

560
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: players again. I think that led to him going to live.

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Speaker 1: He admitted that if he hadn't been hurt last year,

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Speaker 1: if he hadn't been playing poorly, he might have thought

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Speaker 1: twice about going to live, and so the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's able to come back, I still think and I

565
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: maintain this all the time. Guys that get into contention

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Speaker 1: at major championships, even if they don't win, the general

567
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Speaker 1: public looks at it as a negative. He will take

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00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: more positives from this. He will know and understand and

569
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: coming out of this like all right, I'm good. Now

570
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: I can go out there and compete with the world's

571
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: best players. I can go win another major or handful

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Speaker 1: of majors. And so I do think that Brooks gains

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Speaker 1: more optimism from this than pessimism. That said, two of

574
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Speaker 1: the biggest alpha's in the sport playing together on Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: John Rom absolutely out Alphad Brooks kepco. I mean there

576
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Speaker 1: were times Keptca's going to hit his shot and Rom's

577
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Speaker 1: walking up ahead. Rom did the Tiger thing where look,

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00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: we all know Tiger wore red on Sundays. There was

579
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Speaker 1: a reason for that, besides just the ones he's said.

580
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: When you're standing over your ball and you can see

581
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Speaker 1: a little speck of red at the corner of your

582
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: eye on the tea box that tells you in the

583
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: back of your mind, hey, Tiger's right there. He's coming

584
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: for me and John Rob did a very good job

585
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Speaker 1: of getting in. Brooks Keptca's eyeline whenever he needed to.

586
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Speaker 1: I thought he won the mind games and that helped

587
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: him win the whole thing. Yeah, I mean, I I'm

588
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: with you. I mean it was. It was less a

589
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: moment for Brooks because it was actually overall an incredible

590
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: showing for the guy. And I think moving forward in

591
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: the majors, he's going to have to be taken seriously

592
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: on our betting cards the way we discuss and more

593
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: of just a massive muscle flex for a guy that

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00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: should go down if he stays healthy. Is one of

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00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: the great players, not just of his era but potentially internationally,

596
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, of all time. I mean, the ceilings really high,

597
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: speaking of guys with high ceilings obviously, Phil, you know,

598
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of the great players in the

599
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: history of the sport. The live guys being on site,

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00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: pretty cool moment, you know, with Jordan and Phil pe

601
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: Reid had a pretty you know, an incredible weekend. Obviously

602
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: Brooks kind of led the charge. What was the overall

603
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: reaction from your vantage point here in the roars seeing

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00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: the guys from Live and Phil specifically, who felt like

605
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: he kind of went mute at the dinner pretty quiet,

606
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: kind of started coming out of his shell as he

607
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: started playing better. It felt like, you know, from us

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00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: watching him on TV. Look, if I'm supposed to explain Phil,

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00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm going to do that. I

610
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: have no explanation for this guy. What did you hear?

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00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: What did you hear about the dinner? What was the thoughts?

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00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't hear anything different, but just that

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00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: he was a little muted. Um, you know it wasn't

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00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: the traditional film. I'll tell you that. I've written stories

615
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: in the past where Phil has stood up and held

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Speaker 1: court in the middle of the Champions dinner, just trying

617
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: to be the smartest guy in the room and explain

618
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: things to everybody. Hey, here's why they call it this.

619
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Speaker 1: And you know, Adam Scott brought have LoVa for dessert

620
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: one time and Phil Nicholson stood up and he said,

621
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: have Lova's Actually, because this old peastry maker was in

622
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: love with the Russian ballerina and he named it after her.

623
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Speaker 1: And there was none of that this week. And I

624
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: think Phil, even on the golf course, seemed a little bashful,

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00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: almost seemed you know, this wasn't the usual Phil where

626
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: it was a little arrogant, a little brash. This was

627
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Phil sort of just hey, I'm playing golf. Thanks guys,

628
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: We'll give you a little thumbs up. But it was

629
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: not the same old film. There's more gratitude, more thankfulness

630
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,239
Speaker 1: for being able to go out there and play. So

631
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: it reminded me a lot of Kiwa and Kiwa two

632
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: years ago. Phil kept telling everyone, Hey, I'm playing really well.

633
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: It's coming real soon, and everyone else is going no,

634
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your results, it's not coming soon. And

635
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: Phil proved himself right. And same thing here. Phil said

636
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Speaker 1: from the beginning of the week, Yeah, I know good

637
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: things are right around the corner. I'm playing really well,

638
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there looking at his live results. They

639
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: only have forty eight players in these events. He hadn't

640
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: finished better than twenty seventh all year, so I'm like, no,

641
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: he's kind of all of a sudden play well at

642
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: the Masters, and yet well in old there's Phil playing

643
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: really well. So that's the part of Phil that I

644
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: thought was very intriguing. As for the live players themselves,

645
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: I think anyone who wanted to come into this with

646
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: the belief that, hey, they don't play quote unquote real

647
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: golf anymore, and they can't play more than fifty four holes,

648
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: and they can't play without music blaring, and they can't

649
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: play in long pants, I think all of that can

650
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: be dismissed now, and I think we understand these are

651
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: still world class golfers. They can show up for a

652
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: week in Augusta and play good golf. I wouldn't be

653
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: surprised at if at the PGA Championship a month from

654
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: now we see a handful of more live players on

655
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: the leaderboard once again. And I'll also throw out John

656
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: that there. Look, I'm an optimistic guy. I'm gonna give

657
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: you the silver lining here. There's a non zero chance

658
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: that not having the best players in the world all

659
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: playing against each other on a regular basis almost makes

660
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: us anticipate the four majors even more. Now we don't

661
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: get John Ram and Brooks Kepka against each other for

662
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: the three months first three months of the year, all

663
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: of a sudden. Okay, now let's see what those guys have.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what these guys have. Let's see him up

665
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: against each other. I think it makes the majors even

666
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: more exciting than they were before. Totally agree. I mean,

667
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw this morning the ratings were up.

668
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: You know, the kepca verse rom I mean by no

669
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: means is that Tiger verse? Phil, But holy, I mean that.

670
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: I think that's a direct reflection of that story transcended,

671
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 1: you know, quote unquote niche Golf right, it became a

672
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 1: non sports story because of the political aspects of it.

673
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: You know, I was reading your gambling column this morning

674
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: and I was texting with someone because buddies with Spencer Levine,

675
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: who Monday qualifies for the corn Ferry. I'm like, why

676
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: do you have to do that? And it's because all

677
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: these guys, the PGA Tour guys are playing in it

678
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: because it's an elevated week. It's like, listen, I don't

679
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: pretend to be Jay Monahan here, but what are we doing? Like?

680
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: Should should we take a week off after? Just you

681
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: just keep rolling off? Obviously they've always played after majors,

682
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: but they're not taking a week off and look, if

683
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: RBC wants to put in the money as a sponsor

684
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: and say, hey, we'll step up, We'll put in the

685
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: money to have a designated event and have the best

686
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,959
Speaker 1: players at our event. They go, okay, sounds good to us.

687
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you've got the best players

688
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: showing up to Hilton Head this week. And my guess

689
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: is you're gonna see a lot of top players. We're

690
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: gonna know who wants to be there and who doesn't,

691
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: because you're gonna see a lot of top players going

692
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: home on Friday afternoon. You just are guys who are

693
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: just wiped. Jordan Spieth, who's the defending champion and would

694
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: have been showing up anyway, talked about after the Masters

695
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: being exhausted, and I'm almost surprised that he's teeing it up.

696
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy isn't teeing it up. I don't understand it.

697
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: He's only allowed to skip one designated event. Essentially, they're

698
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: supposed to give up their Player Impact Program money if

699
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: they don't play all but one designated event. He's skipped.

700
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: Cappelloua already now skips this one. He made twelve million

701
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: dollars in the pit. I can't imagine that he's saying, Hey,

702
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna snip Harbor Town. I don't need the extra

703
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: twelve mill. That's sort of the point of giving them

704
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: all more money. I don't understand that whatsoever. But Rory

705
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: won't be there, most of the big names will be.

706
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if. Look, it would take a

707
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: lot for John Rom to miss the cut, but I

708
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if John Rom's somewhere in the twenties

709
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: or thirties on the leaderboard this week. He just he's

710
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get up for it. Like,

711
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if John Rom can play this thing. Roy,

712
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: you didn't do anything all weekend, you know, unless you're

713
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: injured or something, and that's mental anguish. I don't know. Well,

714
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: back to Rory, what happened. That was appalling. I don't

715
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: know how to else put it. That was one of

716
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: the most disappointing rounds of golf I've seen from a

717
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: professional golfer in a long time. He shot seventy two

718
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: in the first round. Okay, not terrible, We're seven back.

719
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: Look the way he came back on the weekend last

720
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: year that's fine. Seventy seven and round two he tied

721
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Jose Maria othabl who doesn't even plan on the senior

722
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: Tour anymore. And it wasn't even just the score, it

723
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: was the way he did it. I watched him that

724
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: day and after a few of the bogeis, he had

725
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: this little smile on his face. And I'm not suggesting

726
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: that Rory was happy about making bogies. It was almost

727
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: like he was resigned to the fate. He was resigned

728
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: to all right, gust National, I can't do it, never

729
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I can't win here, sort of like

730
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: what Sergio said before he finally did win. And maybe

731
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: maybe Rory needs to get to that point where he

732
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: tells himself, I'll never win here, so I'm gonna give up,

733
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: and then he goes out and wins the next year.

734
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's tried everything else. He's tried to

735
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: make it mean everything. He's tried to trick himself into

736
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: having it mean nothing. He's tried to play no golf

737
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: there beforehand. Last week he played eighty one holes of

738
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: golf of the week leading up to it. I don't

739
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: know that there's a strategy that's gonna work for him

740
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: other than just saying, Okay, I give up, Augusta wins,

741
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: I lose. I'll never win there. It works for Sergio,

742
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: maybe it works for him, But that was that was terrible.

743
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: Rory mclroy missus a. Was it fifty four man cut

744
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: in an eighty eight man field? That's embarrassing. I totally agree.

745
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you saw Scottie Scheffler couldn't put to save

746
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: his life and was still battling his ass off, right,

747
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: You know that there's a level of you know, I

748
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: think in sports, whether it's Steph Curry, Onis and the

749
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: top guys in basketball and football, like, there's just a

750
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: level of expectation when the moment's the biggest for you

751
00:38:54,920 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: to try hard. No, so this week is the strategy

752
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: I know you have son JM. You know you've taken

753
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, there's a lot of guys

754
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: that a little under the radar last year that or

755
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,479
Speaker 1: last week they played well. I saw Gary Woodland some names,

756
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: and some of these guys that feel like they're just

757
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: kind of out of gas, or a Davis Riley or

758
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: Ricky Fowler that didn't play last week. You know, to

759
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: come in fresh to get an advantage. It feels like

760
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: there's a hard gambling card. Yeah, so in the past,

761
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: there are a handful of players that would go from

762
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: the Masters to Harbor Town and they now he's trying

763
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: to fade them, the narrative being oh, they played the

764
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: pressure cooker and you know, now, how are they going

765
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: to get up for the next event, And let's just

766
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: go on to the other guys, and narrative doesn't really

767
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: play out. I mean, we saw Jordan'spethan Patrick Canley in

768
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: a playoff here last year. Both players are good no

769
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: matter where they're playing. They probably got a nap on

770
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, just like I did, and they're ready to

771
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: go this week, so I'm not necessarily crossing them off

772
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: the card. The guys that I'm looking at, though, are

773
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: the ones that normally play at Harbor Town anyway, and

774
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: not the guys who are only playing because it's a

775
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 1: designated event. So Rom for instance, played there in twenty twenty.

776
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: That was during the pandemic, and that's the only time

777
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: he played here, and he doesn't usually show up. I

778
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: can't imagine they're just gonna show up and play good golf.

779
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: Max Hooma same thing played in twenty twenty. That's the

780
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: only time he's played here. I can't imagine he's gonna

781
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: show up and play his best golf. So I'm looking

782
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: at the guys who normally come year after year anyway

783
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: and are used to this Sounjay plays a ton of

784
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: golf anyway, so it's not going to really bother him.

785
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: And playing the week after the Masters, branding in the

786
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: right direction, does everything really well. The one thing he

787
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have against the best players of the world is

788
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: driving distance, and that's the one thing you don't need

789
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: this week seventy two hundred yards. Most of the big

790
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: names will leave driver in the bag on a lot

791
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: of these holes. Anyway, I think it's a great course

792
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: for son Jay to go out there and get that

793
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: third win. Well, Fagala, who had about seventeen different moments

794
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: at the Masters, ugly great. He's all over the map.

795
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: He's i mean, probably the best player on tour that

796
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: can't really drive it straight at all. Does that benefit

797
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: him here this week? You just don't even pull it

798
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: out because a short game and obviously he can score,

799
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: and his odds just looking at it for guys that

800
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: you know he's not a guy that's mailing and at

801
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: this point in time of his career, so you get

802
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: him sixty sixty five to one. Is there some value

803
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: you know this course? Is it? You know? It hasn't

804
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: like Harmon, I mean Kisner, I mean guys like that

805
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: can really have success here. So it's it's not your

806
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: typical modern day PGA Tour course anymore, right, Oh, shorter

807
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: golf course. Everyone has a chance here, no matter if

808
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: you hit it two sixty or three thirty. I like

809
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: the Gala for outrights because I think that ceiling is massive,

810
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: and I think he might be coming off some momentum

811
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: last week. I don't like him as much for props

812
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: for dfs, for other safer plays because I do think

813
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: there's a wide variance there, and we've seen that from Sciath.

814
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: As much as I like him, and I think he's

815
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: gonna be an absolute superstar if he's not almost there already,

816
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: I do think that there's a wide range of outcomes

817
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: for him as opposed to some of the other players

818
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: and his price range that maybe they won't win, but

819
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: they're pretty good bet for a top twenties saw. It's

820
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: still a little all or nothing on a regular basis.

821
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: So I like the outright play, but I'm not playing

822
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: him for top twenties because I think there's there's too

823
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 1: much of a range there that you can finish outside

824
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: of that. I know this. I started seeing Sam Burns

825
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: creep up around forty to one, thirty five to one range.

826
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: It's like he's I liked that him last week at

827
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: the Masters, and then he started his boging everything in sight.

828
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: But his pants are tight. Thans were way too tight,

829
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: like to me to meet him in Hoblin are like

830
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: having a tight pants off? By the way, can I

831
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: please just mountain support of Hoblin's third day shirt, which

832
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: I told Victor. I interviewed Victor after the round. I'm like, dude,

833
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: I like it, and he kind of looked at me

834
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: like like like he didn't like it, but he's like, oh, well, thanks,

835
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: like you can have it if you want one of

836
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: those other things. But I thought it was good. That

837
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: was good. Look. I also, are you coming are you

838
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: coming around on my guy Hoblin? I mean, this guy

839
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: he's getting bad. What's your what's your issue with him?

840
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: Did your chip scarrible around the Greens perpartown this week

841
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: at my podcast with Ben Ever last night, and Ever

842
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: picked Hoblin for something and I go, it's it's a

843
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: short course with small greens, you're not going to hit

844
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 1: them all, which means you have to get up and now.

845
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Speaker 1: And he sucks at chipping. I mean, that's not my words,

846
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: those are his words. We know this. I just I

847
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: find I'm my mind is actually blown by Victor Hoblin.

848
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: How he can be a top ten player and still

849
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: have one aspect of his game as poor as it

850
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: is right now. I think it's getting better, He's talked

851
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: about it getting better, but until it gets just to

852
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: build average level, I have a hard time going after

853
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: Hoblin unless it's, of course where it's big fairways and

854
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: especially big greens. Give me a big resort course, which

855
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: is where he's won before, big little resort course with

856
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: those big greens where he doesn't have to chip because

857
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: he's hitting sixteen seventeen greens and Greg every round. Are

858
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: you better off in your career around these guys being

859
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: like the Zalaturus or more cowiss I know, kind of

860
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: struggled at both, but just struggling at putting. Kegan Bradley historically,

861
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: or a guy that just can't really chip. Would you

862
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: rather have one? Because if it does feel like amateur

863
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: golfer here, chipping is more improvable than if putting is

864
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: always in your head. Yeah. I mean, you know, all

865
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: striking obviously sustainable. They can all putt. There are very

866
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: few bad put If you're a bad putter, you're not

867
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: playing on the PGA Tour. You're either a Yeah, which

868
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: is weird that Victor Hofland is he's a pretty average putter,

869
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 1: like average in relationship, like any level of professional golf,

870
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: not just EGA Tour level. So you know that's what

871
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: It's not that you know, oh, he's not great at chipping.

872
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,439
Speaker 1: It's like, no, it's like really bad at it. Um.

873
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: I guess, let's say, I would you rather be a

874
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 1: bad chipper or a bad putter? I I guess chipper

875
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: you can get away with like you can improve you can.

876
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: It's easier to make an improvement there, I suppose. So

877
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: I suppose so it's also easier to get away from it.

878
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: I played a member guest a couple of weeks ago

879
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: with a buddy who was really struggling with his chipping.

880
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: By the time we got to our second or third match,

881
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: we're talking over shots and he goes, yeah, what do

882
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: you like here? I go put it in the middle

883
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: of the green so I don't have to see you

884
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: chip anymore. And so essentially, if you're Shane Knight Victor

885
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: Holland's caddy at some point when he's not chipping, well

886
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: you go just the middle of the green and yeah,

887
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: so I don't have to watch you chip. Did you

888
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: see the picture of Phil using the putter on the

889
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: driving range. I did not see that. Someone's like, it's

890
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: a bold move. Did he use the Texas wedge on

891
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: the driving range? But Phil did it so well, I'm

892
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: glad you recovered. And let's let's you know, we get

893
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: a nice chill weekend now little RBC Heritage. Now it's

894
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: not quite the Masters cover this one time back in

895
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, I followed Jordan there after he won the Masters,

896
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: and I'm telling there is no better chill spot after

897
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: a major championship to go. Whether you're a competitor in

898
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: the field and playing, whether you're someone in the media

899
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: covering it, whether you're a fan and wanted to watch

900
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: both of them, it is a very cool spot for

901
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: these guys. So even the guys that don't show up

902
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: every year. They're gonna enjoy it this time. I agree. Well,

903
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: so we'll have a good week and we'll talk to

904
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: you next weekend. And the second Major is not too

905
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: far away. We're getting there. Can't wait. Bundle up fifty

906
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: degrees in Rochester next month. Let's do it, Okay, Let's

907
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: bang out a little mailbag at Golopod. At Golopod, firing

908
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: those dms on Instagram, try to throw up some content

909
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: of me golfing, my golf takes, as well as just

910
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: other golf stuff. So it's just I dedicated Instagram feed

911
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: to golf from Reece. The first tournament I followed was

912
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: the eighteen Masters. I'm a casual golf fan who is

913
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: getting more into it every year. Since I don't know

914
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of the sport, I want to

915
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: know if my cynicism towards Rory is warranted or totally unfair.

916
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: The way the media talks about Rory, especially during Sunday

917
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: at St. Andrews for the twenty two Open, was hard

918
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: to listen to, and no other sport would we be

919
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: okay with the commendators openly pulling for a team to

920
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: win Sunday at the Open was eight hours of the

921
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: entire golf world is pulling for Rory, and then camp

922
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: Smith spoils Rory's day. To me, has never earned the

923
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: outlier status that he's been crowned with, and I made

924
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: some money off Rory's poor Master's performance. I have a

925
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: few theories about why he's received this way, but wanted

926
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts. I'm a former Kansas football player,

927
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: rock jock, Jayhawk Kansas fan. My favorite golfers Gary Wooden,

928
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: love me some Gary Woodland. Did you know that Gary

929
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: played basketball? I did. I went to the US Open,

930
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: Gary one. I've gambled on him several times. Last year.

931
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: He had a pretty good run, getting top fives. Well

932
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: the first and foremost. The Open championship at Saint Andrew's

933
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: is just kind of a defining win for a golfer,

934
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: right Tiger Jack, And it's a really big deal. And

935
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: anytime you get you know, I would say someone from Ireland,

936
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: you know, Europeans in general, like that tournament is really

937
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: the way we view kind of the Masters in US

938
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: Open combined. Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it's not

939
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: a big deal for a euro or An Irishman to

940
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: win the Open, the US Open, but most of them

941
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: would definitely choose the Open, and a lot of them

942
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 1: would take the Masters. But it would have been a really,

943
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: really big deal for Roy to win that tournament. Now

944
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: part of the reason he's heels in such high regard.

945
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: He's a four time major champion and he's thirty three

946
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: years old. He has not won a major in nine years,

947
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: so it shows you how fast that he jumped on

948
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 1: the scene. He's won the Players, he's won the FedEx

949
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: several times, but he's also very very accomplished, right he's

950
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: won whatever twenty three, twenty five times on the PGA Tour.

951
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: But he's very good, you know, Like I think we're

952
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: doing him, like looking at his major career, sixteen top fives,

953
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: six top threes, twenty seven top tens, so you know,

954
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: last year I think he was top five in every

955
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: major and obviously he should have won. Not should have

956
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: because cam stole it on Sunday, for sure. But Rory's

957
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: really good. He's one of the greatest drivers of all time.

958
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: I don't think he's one of the greatest players of

959
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: all time. To me, I think if you really nitpick,

960
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,959
Speaker 1: but his career's at over. He's thirty three years old,

961
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, at the same age Phil Mickelson. What was

962
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: Phil like thirty two the first year he won a major.

963
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: Now it's harder probably once Phil started winning majors in

964
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:57,280
Speaker 1: the early mid two thousands, little less competition than currently,

965
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: Like ultimately Rory's got Rom Scottie, you know Cam Smith,

966
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: Brooks Kepka as well as Jordan. It's just to me,

967
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: it's just deeper. Then you've got the Cam Young's coming home,

968
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: who eventually is gonna play well in a major. So

969
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is how you start,

970
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: and anytime you start fast in a career, like let's

971
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: say Patrick Mahomes doesn't win a super Bowl for the

972
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: next five years, or excuse me, not a super Bowl,

973
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Let's say the Chiefs. Let's just five

974
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: years a long time. Let's just say the next three playoffs,

975
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are one and done in the playoffs. Right,

976
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: we would say that is a massive disappointment for Andy

977
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: and Mahomes, But they'd also say, yeah, we went to

978
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: three super Bowls, you know, in four years, and one

979
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: two of them. So like you have success, you just

980
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: get held in really high regard, So I agree in

981
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 1: a weird way he's a tadbit overrated because I think

982
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: we try to be like this guy's the next like

983
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: Tiger or Jack, and like, no, he's probably just the

984
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: Irish version of Phil And there's nothing wrong with that.

985
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna win thirty plus times on tour.

986
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: He'll win another. Hell, maybe he could win six or

987
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: seven majors in his career, right, he could easily win

988
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: a US Open, a PGA Championship, an Open championship. Probably

989
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: he might never win the Masters, like I've after watching

990
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: this week, like, yeah, he might never win the Masters,

991
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: which is okay, right, some great players, Ernie Els, I

992
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: think that's what four majors never won a Masters. It happens.

993
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: Lee Trevina one of my favorite players of all time,

994
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: even though I never watched him his prime, but he

995
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: never won a Masters. Hey John, curious listener of three

996
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: and Out in a big fan of this spot, Curious

997
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: to get your take on Rory after the Masters. You

998
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: were big on him going into the tournament, yet he

999
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: obviously performed very poorly. I have many debates with friends

1000
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: about McElroy over the years, and I perceived him to

1001
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: be hugely overrated. Nearly ten years without a major is

1002
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: almost criminal for a player of his obvious talent. He

1003
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: claims he wants to win the Career Slam and that

1004
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: the Masters is important to him, Yet he gets miked

1005
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: up to do live interviews on the course. Surely a

1006
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: huge distraction and something Tiger would have never done during

1007
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: his comeback. Yeah, I think it's a little different in

1008
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: two twenty three. Like part of the business now is

1009
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: the micd up thing. You know, JT did it, homadut it,

1010
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: Speeds can eventually do it, Rob will do it. Like

1011
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: it's just part of the business. Like businesses change. You know.

1012
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: I used to do what I'm doing right now, I

1013
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: would have had to have a radio show. Now radio

1014
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: is hanging on for dear life, and you know we're

1015
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: stealing all the advertising. Right Like once upon a time,

1016
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: Tier could just be an asshold. Everybody didn't have to

1017
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: do anything. He's a major outlier, you know. I think

1018
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: part of it, like say this about Phil and the

1019
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: Arnies and the Lee Trevinos, and part of it is

1020
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: being a showman to help the old the overall business,

1021
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: which I think Rory is, which is why he gets credit.

1022
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: He is just he's an all in guy. Is he

1023
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: lacking something? Maybe when I'm saying lacking like to be

1024
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: an eight ten time major champion, which his talent you

1025
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: could argue is worthy of that. So yeah, is he

1026
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: a little bit overrated? I think it's fair to say.

1027
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: But I also think we're diminishing. Remember last year when

1028
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 1: he beat Scotte Scheffler for the fifteen million dollars FedEx,

1029
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: like took his ass down, like like, let's you know

1030
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,399
Speaker 1: part of what's weird about golf. Like in football, either

1031
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: win or you lose. Right, the forty nine ers have

1032
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: not won a Super Bowl with Kyle Shanahan. They've been

1033
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: bounced three of the last four years NFC Championship Game,

1034
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and it's devastating. Like that loss to the

1035
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: Eagles sucks, Right, that is a shitty of a losses

1036
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: you can get like brooks Kepka kind of the equivalent, right,

1037
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: big lead kind of crumbles down the stretch. Phil's still

1038
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 1: finishes tied for second, Right, that is tied for second,

1039
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: and the Masters you take that all day long. So

1040
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: it's just golf is a little bit different. I don't

1041
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: know if we give enough credit to guys that finished

1042
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: consistently second, third, and fourth. It's what makes like Jack

1043
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: so incredible as how many times he finished second. Honestly,

1044
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: it's what phil He's never gonna have the majors of Tiger,

1045
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: but look at his success. I mean, it's it's outstanding. Honestly.

1046
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: The only place he didn't really have success is the players, which, shit,

1047
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: I wouldn't either place looks way too hard, but I

1048
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: do think we have to give like ram right. A

1049
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: lot of people would be like, he's just only got

1050
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: the one major. Well, look at the way he's done

1051
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: the last five years. He's dominating. Come, He's kicking everyone's ass.

1052
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: So like Jordan hasn't won a major in a while,

1053
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: but like you watch him in these big tournaments, he's

1054
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: played pretty well. Immediate question following this Master's finish is

1055
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: from Wade. I'm seeing some online take about the victory

1056
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: lap of Live with Rom being the guy to pull

1057
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: it off. My reaction is, I'm generally impressed with the

1058
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: Live Players result. No one had two of the top

1059
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: three guys being Live players. We knew they'd be on

1060
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: the board Sunday, but I didn't see anyone taking T

1061
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,720
Speaker 1: two for two live players, especially Phil am I reading

1062
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: this wrong. Was this performance not the AMMO the shark

1063
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: needs to show up to the world His guys can

1064
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 1: still tee it up. Well, yeah, I mean I was

1065
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: thinking this because I listen you get on the internet

1066
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: bots screaming at each other. Think about the two of

1067
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: the guys right that finished tied for a second, Brooks

1068
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: and Phil. He gave Phil two hundred million dollars. He

1069
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: gave Brooks. I don't have the exact amount, but everyone

1070
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: has agreed. It's not quite DJ, but it's you know

1071
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 1: about Bryson, like one hundred and fifty, not one hundred

1072
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: fifty excuse me, like one hundred to one hundred and

1073
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: twenty five. So those two guys got a combined three

1074
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars for a reason. Now, Patrick Reid like

1075
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: pretty good player, and the other thing, if Brooks is healthy,

1076
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: like he's an ass kicker, Like if DJ cares like

1077
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: he's an ass kicker, Cam Smith, the reason you give

1078
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 1: him a hundred million dollars fucking guy can play. I mean,

1079
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: it's not like they gave you know, if some rival

1080
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: football league was like, yeah, we're just gonna steal all

1081
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: the XFL and USFL players, You'd be like, good luck.

1082
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: But if they took you know, if they signed Nick Bosa,

1083
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Fred Warner, Micah Parsons, Justin Jefferson and George Kittle,

1084
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: and then they played an NFL team with a bunch

1085
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: of other dudes and gave him a game, would it

1086
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,280
Speaker 1: be that crazy? Like they took a bunch of sweet guys.

1087
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: I mean, DJ won a tournament every single year for

1088
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: like fifteen straight years, easily could have like five majors.

1089
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: Camp Smith looked like a shooting star. Patrick Reid is

1090
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,760
Speaker 1: just dude, has won on tour several times. Obviously, brooks

1091
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: resume speaks for itself. Bryson, the crazy thing is he's

1092
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: just irrelevant. But like Joakee Neeman remember last year at Riviera,

1093
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: beat the shit out of everybody, Like Joaukee Neeman's a stick.

1094
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: So they got good players, man, they really do. And

1095
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: the other thing is, it's not like these guys. Phil

1096
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: mckinson's played on the PGA tours. It's like the early nineties.

1097
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: Brooks has been a stalwart on the tour now for

1098
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, close to a decade. So these guys have

1099
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: the reps even if they were a little rusty or whatever.

1100
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: Now my overall take is and I talked to Sobel

1101
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: a little bit about this. The Masters is unique because

1102
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: these guys like Patrick Reid's been playing there forever. Down right,

1103
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: Phil has been playing there for twenty five years? Right?

1104
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: Who else am I missing? DJ? I mean, these guys

1105
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: have played there forever. The other tournaments change, right, like

1106
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: the what's it gonna look like? I think it's fascinating,

1107
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: enormous win for live if they keep getting guys in

1108
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: the top ten in every major, Right, is this what

1109
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like? At wherever the PGA Championship is,

1110
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: and obviously LACC and I gotta look where the Open

1111
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: Championship is. I've had a pretty good major run here.

1112
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: What's up, big fan from Australia? My girlfriend and I

1113
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: are planning a four week road trip next year in California, Arizona, Nevada.

1114
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: If you recommend ten must play courses, what would they be?

1115
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: Preferably no more than two hundred dollars around? Well, I

1116
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: don't know about you guys in Arizona, or excuse me,

1117
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: in Australia, in places like Arizona, the Bay Area in

1118
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. We got this thing called inflation, and it

1119
00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: is very, very difficult to find two hundred routes. Now,

1120
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: if you're in northern California, if you could play Yo Chadaishi,

1121
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: it is in Cash Creek in northern California, it's a

1122
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: hidden gem. Now I cost you one hundred and fifty bucks.

1123
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: The Bay Area, I would recommend TPC Harding Park. Now

1124
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: that might be a little more than two hundred, but

1125
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: it's a good track. I think in southern California. Honestly,

1126
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: I've never really played that much golf there beside a

1127
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: country clubs. I think that Tory Pines people listening that

1128
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: live down there. My brother played a couple months after

1129
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: Ram won the Major, and he's like, he paid, you know,

1130
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: four hundred bucks, said it was shitty, said it was awful.

1131
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: Arizona's got incredible public golf TPC Scottsdale, Grayhawk, and in

1132
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: the summer you can find pretty good deals. Weikapau Quintero.

1133
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: But in California it's a little more difficult to find,

1134
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: like really nice public courses in my experience. Maybe it's

1135
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: a little bit easier in LA, but in northern California,

1136
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: I TPC Harding Park, which is, you know, really right

1137
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: next to Olympic Club and in Yoshidishi a little out

1138
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: in the Booneys. But anyone listening that lives in northern

1139
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 1: California that's ever played it it's sweet, might even be

1140
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: saying it wrong. Yoshi Daishi, it's hard to say. Hey,

1141
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,160
Speaker 1: question for the Golo mail bag. Heard you talking about

1142
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: bones and got me thinking, as a newcomer to golf,

1143
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: what's the significance of a caddy? Oh, I think we

1144
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: answered this question. I think caddy's being a lot man.

1145
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: I mean you see the reaction of some of these

1146
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: younger guys, right Scotti with his caddy, who used to

1147
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: be with Bubba forever, John Ron with his caddy now

1148
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: obviously what Greller means to speak Listen, I think, you know,

1149
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: for whatever it's it's weird now, but it feels like

1150
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: Tiger and his caddy have always been pretty close. Right.

1151
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: Stevie Williams, I think was the best man at his wedding. Right,

1152
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: Look how him and Joe Lacava. I mean, those guys

1153
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: they're just like in the trenches together. I would be

1154
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 1: all in on my caddy if I was an agent

1155
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: to one of these guys. If I was a coach,

1156
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: that would be a really really big deal that relationship,

1157
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty three with social media and just

1158
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 1: all the negativity that can fly through all of our lives.

1159
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: I think having a guy that you can lean on,

1160
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: that you trust, that knows what he's doing is a

1161
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: really really big deal. I mean, what was everyone saying

1162
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: last week about God this guy? I mean he is

1163
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: hopefully stays healthy because he's kind of got like a

1164
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: bigger version of Zalaturus vibe and that Zalataurus swing hurt

1165
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: his back. But Cam Young, I love watching that dude

1166
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: play man. I'm gonna head to the range and recording

1167
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: this Tuesday afternoon. I'm gonna try to do some Cam

1168
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: Young swings that like pause, load up. I've been saying forever.

1169
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: It's it's ironic that he's sponsored by Major League Baseball

1170
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: because he feels like a power hitter. He feels like

1171
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: a dude in the middle of the lineup, like when

1172
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: I was a kid that like would have been in

1173
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: the middle of the lineup like Fred McGriff or Frank Thomas.

1174
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: Just like, yeah, he's good, forty four home runs a year,

1175
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: just hits, fucking laser beams, seeds. I'll tell you this.

1176
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: San Franco Giants don't have any of those guys. But

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01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: appreciate everyone listening. It's it's a good year to have

1178
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: a good year. Baby. Let's keep it rocking and rolling.

1179
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: The volume dot com, check out the go Low merch,

1180
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: some polos, some hats, and we'll just keep rocking and rolling. Baby,

1181
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: keep working on that golf game. Let's try to go low.

1182
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: And the key to go low is not, you know,

1183
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: go low the entire round if you can play so shitty.

1184
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: But if you have a birdie in that round, it's okay, right.

1185
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: And if you're a twenty handicapper and you have a

1186
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: couple of pars, you feel pretty good, right, especially like

1187
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: a non part three part like you par a tough

1188
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: part four. You hit a couple of greens in regulation,

1189
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 1: so it keeps us coming back. You hit a good

1190
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, seven iron from a buck sixty five or

1191
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: Buck seventy, You hit a good long five iron, you

1192
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: hit a straight three? Would no feeling like it? Man,

1193
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: It's we don't get to when you're forty years old,

1194
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: get to keep playing football or baseball. For some of

1195
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: you Herdos that are still playing hard pitch. God speed

1196
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: to you. I couldn't do it, can't risk tearing Achilles.

1197
01:01:46,400 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: So talk to everyone soon ideos but stop, but stood

1198
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: in the do