WEBVTT - Reviewing 2023 in Golf with Shane Bacon and Kyle Porter 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:05.960 And when I find my. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.719 Ball in a brid egg Frida egg, the dreaded Frida 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.800 egg Frida egg, Frida egg bride. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.120 Egg, Lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:39.520 Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.240 I am your host, Andy Johnson, and uh oh, it's 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.959 great to be back. I apologize to listeners. I had 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.519 to take a little hiatus from the podcast. My October 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:57.920 late September was just absolutely crazy. I would some might 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.400 say I was a little over subscribed with the travel 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.840 and different things that I needed to get done. So 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.840 I needed to take a little break from the pod. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.880 But I'm excited to be back. I'm excited to have 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.720 things slow down from the travel standpoint a little bit 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.120 in the coming weeks and through the end of the 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.360 year so I can get back down and focused on 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.920 producing episodes of this podcast. So I saw a lot 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.200 of cool stuff, lots of great golf courses, lots of 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.160 awesome events that I went to and really excited to, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.520 you know, share some of those experiences. But to get 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.000 things back up and running with me. Obviously, Garrett's been 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.280 holding down the pod, producing some really really great episodes 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:50.360 that I've enjoyed listening to. I had Shane Bacon and 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.200 Kyle Porter come on. It's kind of like the idea 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.640 of this podcast was just to have some fun talk 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.880 about twenty twenty three in the Gulf. With the Ryder 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.600 Cup ending, it is kind of, you know, it kind 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.240 of feels like the end of the golf year. I know, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:10.720 the LPGA's in European Tour and Champions Tour, I guess 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.160 are still cooking, but want to kind of talk about 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.959 all the stuff that's happened this year while it's fresh 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.640 in our mind. So the topic for this podcast is 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:24.440 to rank the five people or you know, loosely people 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.960 that twenty twenty three has been best to And I 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.120 think we covered a lot of different ground, you know, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.720 had a lot of conversations with about things that I 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.399 didn't expect to have and it was it was great fun. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.079 So thanks to Kyle Porter and Shane. I highly recommend 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.240 following them and getting all their different content. We talk 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.120 about it at the end of the pod as well. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.200 But thanks for their time and for them to come 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:57.200 on and talk with us. All right, well we are 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.560 back with another show. I'm excited. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.280 Here is that your intro? And we're back with another 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.080 show with some people, with some people. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.560 Yes, this is gonna how I'm lockcast. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.440 Turn it off, Go do something more productive with your life. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.400 It's gonna be it's gonna be a pod. It's gonna 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.720 be a podcast. It's it's gonna be a little off 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.320 the wall. We're back. I haven't been on the pod 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.760 in like a month. I've been taking a little hiatus, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.840 a little recharge. I haven't been recharging. I've been depleting myself. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.359 But I'm back and I want to have a little fun. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.120 So we're We got Shane Bacon and Kyle Porter, two 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.200 great golf mindes, two great golf personalities, men of many, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.960 many talents. Right now, Kyle looks like he's the offense 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.080 coordinator of the Miami Dollars. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.080 I need like a a headset or something. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.600 You gotta have those. You have those. McDaniel joggers on, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:52.440 I do, I actually do. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.800 Okay, I didn't. I didn't plan that, but I do. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:04:00.000 We were playing fourth grade five football the other day. Okay, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.160 you guys will love this the coach of the other team. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:03.360 You get to you get to be on the field 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.320 when you're calm plays. So you got the little I've 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.760 got the playbook right here. I mean, I can send 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.000 this to you guys if you need it, if you 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.440 need it for future use. But the coach of the 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.760 other team has one AirPod in just one. And I 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.120 looked at I looked at my buddy that I coached with, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.120 and I said, do you think he's do you think 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.920 he's getting plays from the from the from the booth, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.160 like do you think he's got a green Does he 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.159 have a green sticker on his hat and he can 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.479 receive them play there's some guy. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.279 There's some guy sit in the back of his truck 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.560 a little higher than everybody else. Well, they played lived 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.320 down on the field. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:42.160 I recently had a neighbor asked me about my drone 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.159 and was asking me about if if I thought it 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:51.120 could be useful for uh like uh, young football, Like 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.360 I don't know what the youth football if if I 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.120 if I thought we could there's possibility to record things 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.919 with a drone so they could replay it. And I 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.000 was like, you know, I think that's possible, but that's 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.360 not so. Maybe that was it may he was communicating 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:07.240 with the drone pilot. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.360 We played a team last year that how did they 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.800 ran a drone over the field they were watching They 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.960 were doing film of like third grade five football. It 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.159 was I told you poorath about this. He said that 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.240 they had like a lacrosse or something where they did 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.240 the same. It's it's out of control. You think pr 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.159 emails are out of control, Shane, fourth grade five football 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:27.960 is out of control. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.240 Well, you're in Texas. You're in the heart of it. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:31.440 You're in Texas. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.520 Every email is out my school emails. Yesterday I told 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.719 my wife it was Monday morning. I got a school 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.200 email where they on the third paragraph to find what 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:44.160 diarrhea was like literally hoppy pasted the terminology. I was like, oh, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:45.760 that's a nice way to start your Monday. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.080 All right, I'm taking control of this. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.320 We're moving away from this. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.800 This is we're already off the rails. We're three minutes in. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.880 This is the topic of today's podcast and why I 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.080 brought these two a steam people on is we're talking 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.599 about the five people who have had the best year. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.839 We each came up with a list of five. Mine 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.159 might be four until the moment I have to hit 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.000 the fourth the fourth person. But the people that have 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.240 had the best year in golf in twenty twenty three, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.200 that golf spend the best too in twenty twenty three. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.960 So we each came up with a five person list 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.800 and uh, and we're going to go from there. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:27.920 And that's if you would, If. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.560 You would, I would like to lead off onto my 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:30.880 number five. If that's okay with you. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.599 That's is since you asked for it, you can have. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:35.800 The okay, go ahead, go with KP. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.679 Well, you're asking two things. I want to know y'all's 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.760 process and then two can I can I do? Honorable? 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.200 Process is still happening, so it's real time. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:48.480 I was. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.599 I looked at results for the year in terms of 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.680 tournament golf, and then I was, it's funny I scrolled 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.400 through podcasts. So I scrolled through like a few of 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.200 the popular golf podcasts to see who'd come on on 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.160 why they'd come on for the year, Like was there 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.520 something I was missing? Which I actually got one of 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.720 my five off the list from but I was trying. No, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.440 I didn't get Flocky didn't make my list. Andy I was, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.040 Andy asked us to try to not just focus on 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.800 the golfer golfer people and try to kind of think 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.280 a little bit outside the box. So KP, I was 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.440 trying my hardest to hit at least a few different 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.000 genres of golf person, if you will. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.440 Yeah, that's that was kind of mine as well. Do 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.080 you have an honorable mention? Shane? 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.640 No, I I cut it all the way down to five. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.440 I listened to h to our bosses instructions. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.280 I think you got to go with honorable mentions after 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.560 after the okay, so after the five because one of 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.160 your honorable mentions might be on our list of five. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:47.840 Right. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.720 Andy showed up to the pod. How many minutes in 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.920 are we? We're five minutes, five minutes. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:53.560 Andy's here now. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.280 Now he's done well. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.360 And to be clear with the way this went down 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.920 is is Andy asked us to to go through this exercise, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.440 and Shane and I are just you know, we've got kids, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.240 and we've got a bunch of stuff. And when we 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.120 you know, my Rangers are in the World series, and 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.800 you know, we we get the work done, we go 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.560 through it, and then we and then we show up 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.160 and andies, I don't know, I got like three and 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:17.520 a half. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.360 You know, I'm four. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.040 I have trouble making decisions. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.880 The instructions are five. He's got four. Hey, you know what, Hey, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:27.800 it's close enough. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:28.760 I'm gonna pick. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.000 I'm gonna pick up a fifth while we're talking. That's 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.680 the thing. I'm keeping a spot open. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:36.600 You know. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.320 It's like the like the team that's keeping a spot 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:40.400 open and free agency. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.560 We aren't set on our team. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.360 We're gonna wait to see who gets bought out, and 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.840 we're gonna bring them on at a at a low cost. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:47.240 You know. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.440 Can I ask you guys a question when you do 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.600 these podcasts? How often are you looking at the other 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.240 people versus looking at yourself? 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:55.280 What do you guys? 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.040 What would you guys say? The process is? 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.160 I think about this all the time. I think I 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.760 I think I do better when you can turn your 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.080 your own view off. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.679 Yep. I cover myself with my notes, by the way, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.520 That's what I do too, Colin, Can you. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.960 Turn it off on? Here? There's some software where you 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.000 can can you can block yourself, which I think is 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.200 way better because you're not it's weird to look at yourself, right. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:17.840 I hate it. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.000 I hate it so much for how much I pay 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.960 for this service, you should be able to turn it off. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:24.480 But I don't know. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.960 There you go, I don't think. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.160 I don't think they would want me to do adrees 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:30.720 for them. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.160 All right, Andy, my number five, I'm gonna start us 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.160 off here. Five people in golf. What did you say 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:37.640 that had the best year in golf? 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:37.720 That? 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.520 Yeah, just like the best best year, you know, the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.560 just in terms of you know, twenty twenty three has 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:45.480 treated them well. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.040 Okay, My number five is a guy I'm a fan 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.240 of and I've been a fan of for a long time. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.319 Number five on my list, Andy Johnson, been a. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.360 Big year for the Egg. Wow for Andy. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.680 I feel like this has kind of been the breakout year, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.560 the glow up year, if you will. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.320 I mean, he's shooting commercials the other day. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.439 I saw at his house he played Augusta National this year. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.760 I mean, how do you have a better twenty twenty 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:12.800 three than that? 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:13.439 I love that. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.199 I'm by the way on the call here, I'm the 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.600 only person on the call that hasn't played Augusta National. 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 But uh yeah, I just say the Egg in general, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.520 the brand, the shotgun start, the popularity of of what 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.000 Andy's been able to do has I felt like taking 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.120 a big leap in twenty three, so Andy Johnson my 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:31.720 number one. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.000 We got we gotta move on. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:34.959 Well, no, no, no, I want to I want to give 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.520 you an opportunity here because I know you don't want 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.200 to talk about yourself, so I want to give you 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.560 an opportunity to attribute that to somebody else within uh, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.400 within the egg, because I know there's a bunch of 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.360 people behind the scenes. So I'm in front of the scenes. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.760 But how do you what do you because I agree 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.480 with Shane, but what do you attribute that to? 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.199 I always say that you hire people that are smarter 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:00.560 and more talented than you, so you know, just in general, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.760 it's been a long, long road. A lot of people 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.160 here that are listening probably listened to early episodes of 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.360 the pod when I was recording Skype calls with my 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.920 cell phone and that over the speakers of my laptop, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.880 and that was that was the podcast audio, right like it. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.240 But I didn't know how to do anything, so I'm 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.000 figuring it out. So at this point, I mean, like 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.160 you look at it. You know, we went from me 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.600 editing video and that was like me learning how to 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.800 edit video, which was like I'm bad at it. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.280 I'm not good at it, but I was editing video. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.200 Now we have Matt Rush's and Cameron Hurtis who who 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.480 produce our videos, and it's like I don't even open 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.400 video editing software anymore. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:46.160 That's amazing. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.439 Whether it's Garrett and what he's done with with this 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.200 pod and you know, the written stuff, and or Brendan 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.520 what he's brought. You know, there's a million things. Will 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.199 runs our events right, It's it's impossib well, Meg runs 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.160 everything in the pro shop. It's just you know, honestly 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.120 hiring people that are better at things than you, and 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.200 you know, identifying that they're better. It's the big thing 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.760 I think is like I'm an idiot. I'm not very 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.720 good at a lot of stuff. But you know, so 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.840 I just have to find people that are better than 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.320 me at stuff and then and then have them run 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.240 that part of the business and and then I, you know, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.079 I get to do what I do. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.240 You know, can I ask the both of you guys 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.480 a question? I mean, you guys are are golf people obviously, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.160 I mean you've been doing this for a long time. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.880 You get the note that you're playing Augusta because I mean, Kyle, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.199 you had it what three four years ago? 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:37.679 Is that right? 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.280 Kyle Kyle? Kyle, Kyle's the one that told me Kyle 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.320 blew the surprise. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.240 Well, I mean when you're coaching, sometimes you got to 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.200 let people in on that. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.320 God, I will ahead from a day out of the 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.000 golf course. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.440 He said, congratulations. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.559 But I mean, you know, like we could be cynical 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.559 about a lot of stuff. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.560 I mean, what is that first he experience, Like, I'd 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.440 like to hear from you first, But I mean, as 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.320 cynical as we can be about the game and as 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.000 much as we can roll our eyes about the stuff 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.160 that's happened over the last year and a half, has 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.960 there been a better, more like holy crap moment than 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.080 first tea? There going all right, here we go. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.199 That's up there, I think. I think walking into the 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.200 Champions locker room is up there also, right because it's 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.280 such a and I presume they still do that, Andy, 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.559 But I don't know how much we were even allowed 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:26.280 to talk about this. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.720 But I forgot who. I forgot who my champions I had. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.680 I had a non descript Champions lockers That's how bad 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:33.080 it was. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:41.240 No, I was waiting for this so good, that is 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.120 so good. I think. I think the I think the 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.760 hard part about first t and even into the round, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.760 but also like the cool part is it feels you've 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.840 seen that course, You've seen those holes so many times 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.199 that it almost feels like you're it almost feels like 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.280 you're watching a movie of yourself as you're at you're 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.240 acting it as you're like living it out. And that 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.719 that that that was the part that was I think 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.200 the most surreal for me was like having like putting 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.760 myself into this almost set movie set if you will, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.760 that I've seen ten thousand times like that that made it, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.960 it almost made it difficult to play, but it made 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.080 this the entire experience very surreal. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:29.040 Yeah, I mean I would agree with a lot of that. Yeah, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.720 I wrote this and the thing that I wrote, but 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.920 like it honestly, like I was like nervous. It was 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.200 like I felt like I was teeing off in like 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.560 a us AM qualifier, right, Like I was like I 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.960 had this like I'm the first tea. I was like, God, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.080 you gotta heart, Like you know, it's just it's crazy, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.040 like I've honestly it felt like I played a tournament 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.800 where like I'm I'm an habitual slow starter and tournament golf. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.600 And I got off to a really bad start at Augusta, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.160 and like then I. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.920 Started to play really well, which is like my tournament golf. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:05.120 Mo. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.160 I honestly liken it to that. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.920 I think, like, as Kyle said, like it's a super 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:17.480 hard experience to rate, like quantitatively, because of how many 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:23.120 memories flood into your brain from like your childhood, your 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.600 you know, coming of age moments in life watching the Masters, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.680 or you know, in your twenties. And and I think 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.960 that's like the thing that's just so hard to It's 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.280 just an amazing thing. And then and then like before 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:38.640 you know, it's over right. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.000 Yeah, Andy, Andy, how many times did you how many 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.160 times were you on a hole going I know, Woozy 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.080 hit it here before. I remember when Woozy was here 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.600 in seventy nine. 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:55.960 Yeah, twelve, Yeah, I did, Ayby tell you the story 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.000 about the Japanese reporter who had never played golf before 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.520 played with like an played Augusta National with just the 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:04.200 seven iron. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.760 Yeah, I've heard. I think I think you did. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.000 You might have you might have. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.440 Told And she got to twelve and she asked the caddie, like, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.040 what should I do here? And he was like, well, 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.720 you have to hit the seven iron, he's our only club, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.640 and she hit it right into the lotter. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:22.480 I don't want to, by the way, I don't want 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.720 a sidetrack on Augusta National playing Augusta National stories. But 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.280 I just I just Andy, you're my number five. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:29.680 That's my list? 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:30.240 Insane. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.240 I just figured out my my, my four, my number four. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.520 By the way, is it woozy, No, it's not woozy. Kyle, 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.680 who's your number five? 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.720 I went, I went way off the board on all 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.360 of mine. I'm actually more excited about the honorable mention 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:48.040 than the actual list. But number five for me is 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.800 uh is newsletters. So this is a little bit of 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.640 a testament to Andy as well. But just I've never 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.480 been a big fan, I guess of newsletters. I thought 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:04.160 I'd always connotated like it's not it's not technology forward, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.760 it's it feels like like a you know, eighty year 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.399 old writing jotting down a grocery list and sending it 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.840 to somebody. But I have found, maybe this year more 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.800 than ever, that my consumption of smart golf people and 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.040 golf news in general has come through newsletters. Whether it's 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.359 fried egg, whether it's La Manya, whether it's data Golf, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.960 whether it's the normal sporter, normal. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.640 Sporter, Shackleford, there's Shackleford. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.040 Yeah, and I think that I think that's a really 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.840 and that's maybe a shift in media in general. But 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.359 I I felt it for the first time. I mean, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.360 you've been doing the Fridagg newsletter Andy for seven years now, 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.320 but I felt it for the first time broadly within 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.600 the golf media landscape in twenty twenty three. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.919 Are you saying I was just seven years early? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.360 I think so. Here's Yeah, I've always I've always said 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.240 you're ahead of the cultural curve. F you're you're way 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:00.920 ahead of the game. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:02.280 The uh. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.320 I mean newsletters are amazing because this is uh I've 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:12.040 obviously long believed in newsletters, but like the idea of 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.920 of somebody effectively cutting through all the noise for you 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.280 and giving it to you in in really easy you 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.679 don't have to go anywhere, right, you're checking your email. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.520 It's a super intimate relationship to right, especially like good 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.760 newsletters do not sell you down a river, right, you're not, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.440 but you know when something comes from them that it's 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.480 like something you want to open and you want to 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.440 engage with and you know, it's been uh, it's been neat. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.240 I I I consume a lot of newsletters too. There's 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.199 a lot of great newsletters that aren't golf specific. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.520 But there is. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.000 There one that stands out to the both of you 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.439 that's not golf, that you guys look forward to or 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:52.520 that you read through every time. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.480 I've allow got named named Nathan Barry. He runs a 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.600 company called convert Kit, which is kind of like a 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.199 it's like it's like a niche mail chimp. It's just 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.320 a it's a newsletter service. I actually don't use it, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.679 but he has built that company, and I'm interested in 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.159 people who have entrepreneurial journeys like that. He's got a 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:18.879 really cool journey, and he writes smartly about the future 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.440 of business, future of email, all those different things. And 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.199 I think, to to Any's point, like the incentives and 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.679 when you have a newsletter, I think are more aligned 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.200 with the reader's incentives because when you have a website, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.719 you're constantly trying to pull people in, pull people in, 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.840