Speaker 1: Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Shane Bacon, and it looks like we've made it. Everybody.
Speaker 1: It is Master's Week, one of the best weeks of
Speaker 1: the year on the golf calendar. It's surely feels like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know many sporting events when you sit three,
Speaker 1: four or five days out and people are sending photos
Speaker 1: of when they went and stories of the time they went. No.
Speaker 1: Five and oh seven and eighty six. And I had
Speaker 1: a threat a week and a half ago on Twitter
Speaker 1: about their best stories of times people visited Augusta National
Speaker 1: for the first time, and I had hundreds of responses,
Speaker 1: people just pouring in story after story. If you're going
Speaker 1: out this week, my goodness, enjoy it. Soak up every moment,
Speaker 1: have every sandwich, enjoy the drinks, sit down, just breathe
Speaker 1: it in. Because you know, if you're lucky to go
Speaker 1: a couple of times, if you're really lucky, you might
Speaker 1: go more than that. And uh and if you can
Speaker 1: go once, that's all you really need. And I am
Speaker 1: I'm pumped to be out there. I had that way
Speaker 1: on Monday. So by the time you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: I will be gone. We have Scott Van Pelt on
Speaker 1: the podcast. This has become a little bit of our
Speaker 1: own tradition unlike any other. We have s v p
Speaker 1: right before the Masters. Of course, he's a big part
Speaker 1: of the ESPN coverage early in the week at Augusta
Speaker 1: National for the Part three and Thursday and Friday. He
Speaker 1: does an unbelievable job. You know, Scott Van Pelt is
Speaker 1: a guy that started in golf. I mean he talks
Speaker 1: about it a little bit in our conversation, but you know,
Speaker 1: he was at Golf Channel before Golf Channel was what
Speaker 1: it is now and he was talking golf and golf
Speaker 1: only and now he has you know, he has carved
Speaker 1: out what I think is one of the more important
Speaker 1: positions and all of journalism, what he does at night
Speaker 1: on Sports Center, and his ability to weave in stories
Speaker 1: that we need to see, in stories that we should see,
Speaker 1: in stories we didn't know we needed to see. I
Speaker 1: think s VP does just an unbelievable job. One of
Speaker 1: the better guys you will ever meet knowledge journalism and
Speaker 1: uh and a guy I'm lucky to call a buddy now.
Speaker 1: And we chatted about the current landscape of the PGA
Speaker 1: tour and favorites and players to win. We got some
Speaker 1: of your questions that you sent in. They were great.
Speaker 1: He loved them, and he even gave a pick at
Speaker 1: the end of the podcast. I'm gonna give my pick
Speaker 1: on Wednesday on Twitter, as I do always, uh not like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you really care who I pick, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna crunch the numbers and see exactly who I
Speaker 1: think is is the betting favorite. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a little hint though, I think it's going to be
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Speaker 1: All right? Masters? We our tradition here on the podcast
Speaker 1: is Scott Van Pelt and he has coming up right
Speaker 1: now and we welcome back into the clubhouse, something we
Speaker 1: try to do every year around Master's time. Scott Van
Speaker 1: Pelt joins, is of course will be a big part
Speaker 1: of the coverage early in the week for ESPN And uh, Scott,
Speaker 1: I know it's one of your favorite weeks of the year.
Speaker 1: We're recording this the weekend before, so if Jordan's speech
Speaker 1: goes out and does something silly in San Antonio, we
Speaker 1: won't know it. But you know what I mean. As
Speaker 1: you prep and get closer to as you call it
Speaker 1: your favorite week of the year, you have in the show,
Speaker 1: you have to do week nights, and you've got to
Speaker 1: cover NFL playoffs in college football, and then you get
Speaker 1: into the basketball season, March madness, all this stuff. When
Speaker 1: does your focus start turning towards golfer? Do you always
Speaker 1: kind of keep a side eye on the PGA tour
Speaker 1: knowing what's going on. It's it's always there, just because
Speaker 1: it's always been my professional sort of job to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on it, you know. I mean obviously, starting
Speaker 1: with the Golf Channel, that was all I did. And
Speaker 1: and because of the relationships with people, either it's the
Speaker 1: players or the caddies or the club folks. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you know the game, you're part of it.
Speaker 1: You have you have people that you're always pulling for.
Speaker 1: Might be a caddy, right might it might be Um,
Speaker 1: might be a player or whatever. But the stories are
Speaker 1: always interesting because these are people that you know. So
Speaker 1: it's always something I keep tabs on, even if it's
Speaker 1: not something that is a an a block story on
Speaker 1: my show nightly. Um, I'm always watching always, you know,
Speaker 1: always have the Golf channel on at home during the
Speaker 1: afternoon when I'm getting ready to go in any week.
Speaker 1: And then there's certain weeks like the players obviously, like
Speaker 1: that's what that's a great event to keep caps on
Speaker 1: for a million reasons. And that was one that I
Speaker 1: probably watched more of start to finish than any um.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's always there on my radar.
Speaker 1: When you get to Augusta, you'll get there, you know,
Speaker 1: next early next week, and you'll get preparing for the
Speaker 1: week as you do every single year. You know, we've
Speaker 1: heard Jim nance will walk down to him in corner.
Speaker 1: Right when he gets there is he kind of starts
Speaker 1: to get preps and starts to get the feeling. Do
Speaker 1: you have traditions you do or there are things that
Speaker 1: you make yourself do every year when you get to
Speaker 1: August to Nashville for the first time, just to remind yourself,
Speaker 1: Holy crap, I'm doing this and this is part of
Speaker 1: my job. Yep, yep, and I do. I think we
Speaker 1: might have talked about this. If we haven't, I've shared
Speaker 1: this with people who have asked me about things I
Speaker 1: do or you know, habits, traditions and whatever you wanna
Speaker 1: call it. There's there's a T on the par three
Speaker 1: course that is the eighth T. And um, what if
Speaker 1: you walk from the television compound over to the course
Speaker 1: through the back um uh past nine on the part
Speaker 1: three Uh of course that the eighth T is right there.
Speaker 1: And I go over and I stand, and I just
Speaker 1: stand and I just look about and it's you want
Speaker 1: to call it prayer, you want to call it meditation,
Speaker 1: you want to just call it a moment of silent spot,
Speaker 1: It's that and I do it at some point every
Speaker 1: single day. It's not like a reintroduction on the Sunday
Speaker 1: or on Monday. Rather, and that's it. It's an everyday
Speaker 1: thing because it's it's this place in the world we're
Speaker 1: I'm thankful to be and it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a really good spot to to take a moment to
Speaker 1: just because it's quiet and it's beautiful and it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite places. So I do that every year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I walk over the course behind the you know,
Speaker 1: behind the clubhouse there on the oak tree and say
Speaker 1: hello to you know the people I see in many
Speaker 1: cases shange just that just under that tree, just this week,
Speaker 1: all of whom are looking over my shoulder to see
Speaker 1: if somebody more important walking by so they can say
Speaker 1: hello too. And that's fine because they're all most of
Speaker 1: the people are. And I'm probably guilty of doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. Um. It's an incredible people watching places. It's
Speaker 1: an incredible um, you know, just just a landmark to
Speaker 1: tell people how I meet you the oak tree. And
Speaker 1: you know, if even if you're late, there's a good
Speaker 1: chance that the person you're supposed to be still they're
Speaker 1: visiting with somebody or etching up. So that's all of
Speaker 1: those things are part of pretty much the daily risual
Speaker 1: of being there. You you bring up a great point,
Speaker 1: I'll meet you at the Oak Tree, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear media people talk about it all week long, and
Speaker 1: they'll talk about this being really kind of the mecca
Speaker 1: of the golf world. There's agents and players and celebrities
Speaker 1: and basically every walk of life that it isn't around
Speaker 1: the game of golf will be under there at some point.
Speaker 1: And one of the unique things about the Masters, and
Speaker 1: I know people know this and maybe some don't, is
Speaker 1: the fact that you can't have your cell phone. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you may be able to because you know,
Speaker 1: if you have somebody textion go, we need you back
Speaker 1: in studio in four minutes. And that's probably an important
Speaker 1: thing to be told. But when you say I'll be
Speaker 1: there at three o'clock, you've got to be there at
Speaker 1: three o'clock. And I got to bring my sister out
Speaker 1: to the Masters a couple of years ago, and she
Speaker 1: drove down from Charleston, and the timing and the meeting,
Speaker 1: it reminds it brings you back. I mean, it takes
Speaker 1: you back to a time where you couldn't just text
Speaker 1: and say I'm stuck in traffic when you weren't stuck
Speaker 1: in traffic. And it's, uh, it's it's one of the
Speaker 1: unique parts of the Masters that I feel like people
Speaker 1: don't discuss a lot. No, and it does remind, it
Speaker 1: does reacquaint us with the idea that three o'clock meant
Speaker 1: three o'clock and how we ever did anything without the
Speaker 1: ability to have the cell phone in our in our
Speaker 1: back pocket? Is is? You know, try to explain that too.
Speaker 1: I started to say, your kids, I try to remember
Speaker 1: it myself and it's hard to remember, but it is.
Speaker 1: It is, and but honestly, it's so much of life
Speaker 1: is missed because our noses are in screens and we're
Speaker 1: absent mindedly thumbing from one screen to another as we
Speaker 1: walk and we bump into people or you look over
Speaker 1: and you see someone next to you driving doing that
Speaker 1: and you just want to just hunt your horn and go,
Speaker 1: what in the hell are you doing? And it's nice
Speaker 1: that when you're there, your eyes are up and you're
Speaker 1: taking inventory of the place, because if there's a place
Speaker 1: not to be missed, it that so it's it's it's
Speaker 1: good that people are, they're saved from themselves else as
Speaker 1: they're not kind of tethered to the technology for that week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is an off master's topic to ask you. But
Speaker 1: you're you're connected in the world because you have to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to be on social media, paying
Speaker 1: attention to sports, because you're prepping for the night show.
Speaker 1: You have to be around this all the time. I
Speaker 1: get that same anxiety a lot because I feel like
Speaker 1: there's times where I just don't want to be around
Speaker 1: the phone. Do you have protocol you follow daily, weekly,
Speaker 1: where you go, I'm not going to use the phone
Speaker 1: on said day, said moment, and you just take a
Speaker 1: moment to get away from it. No, I don't have that.
Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of discipline. Um I wish
Speaker 1: I did. And I was waiting for something really amazing
Speaker 1: but from you, and then there you go, well, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just I just don't mean I'm guilty of it.
Speaker 1: And even as I I recognize these behaviors and other
Speaker 1: people that I find detestable, and then I realized, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm looking in the mirror. But I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: fascinating story I want if it was in the New
Speaker 1: York Times. It was about like breaking up with your
Speaker 1: cell phone. It was this whole deal, all these layered
Speaker 1: explanations of things to do, and if you recognize these behaviors,
Speaker 1: it's sort of indicative of of a toxic relationship with it.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking every one of them was me, Um,
Speaker 1: so long answer to a short question. No, but but
Speaker 1: when I'm there, I mean when i'm there, I I
Speaker 1: need to be where I need to be, and I
Speaker 1: make sure i'm there when I need to be there.
Speaker 1: And you know, short of that, I'm pretty busy. So
Speaker 1: it's it's not like I'm um, I'm sort of flipping
Speaker 1: through Twitter or whatever else. I mean, what, Matt, as
Speaker 1: long as I know my kids, my wife are good
Speaker 1: at home and I check in with them, you know,
Speaker 1: Other than that, I basically just need to know who's
Speaker 1: leading and what times our first hit, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, absolutely, I mean it's and and that's and
Speaker 1: that's where you are at that time. That's the time
Speaker 1: when you're not looking at the phone, when you gotta
Speaker 1: be on camp. Last year, I was listening to our
Speaker 1: podcast last year, and of course it was a completely
Speaker 1: different approach to the Masters. We had this Uh, we
Speaker 1: had this defined character that was undefined Tiger Woods. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was a guy coming in that had played some
Speaker 1: golf and we've seen some good stuff from him. We
Speaker 1: didn't exactly know what to expect that a major championship
Speaker 1: at Augusta Nashville. That's completely different this year. He's coming
Speaker 1: in playing good. I wouldn't say he's playing great. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's playing bad. He's been solid. I've been
Speaker 1: looking back over the career of Tiger at Augusta and
Speaker 1: he you know, it's crazy to think the last win
Speaker 1: was in two thousand and five. Does this golf course
Speaker 1: still fit Tiger Woods? Do you feel like in its
Speaker 1: iteration today ads and forcing guys to continue to beat
Speaker 1: driver around this golf course? Um? Maybe? And And the
Speaker 1: reason I don't have a yes or no is because
Speaker 1: I don't know. And it's to say no, what feels
Speaker 1: dumb to me? Because he's still figured it out four times? Right?
Speaker 1: And and was it the same then? Obviously not. But
Speaker 1: the things that that the question that you ask really
Speaker 1: would apply to any golf course that that he's on,
Speaker 1: and that's can you drive it well enough to to compete?
Speaker 1: Because it's the second shot golf course, which means your
Speaker 1: first shot needs to be somewhere where you have a
Speaker 1: reasonable second shot. So you know, you look at someone
Speaker 1: who and I'm sure we'll get to the topic of Rory,
Speaker 1: you look at a guy like that who pulls the
Speaker 1: pulls the driver out and has absolute confidence in it
Speaker 1: for good reason, and he's gonna hammer it all day long.
Speaker 1: And with Tiger, you know, like if there's a prop
Speaker 1: bet to hit the fairway in the first I'm betting
Speaker 1: everything I have that he doesn't, right, because you never
Speaker 1: never what he won. He never did what he won.
Speaker 1: But but but but to say shame like that, it
Speaker 1: doesn't that it doesn't fit him because it's been so long,
Speaker 1: I think would be it just feels ridiculous because of
Speaker 1: who we're talking about. But it also if there were
Speaker 1: anyone else, fourteen years after the fact, it would feel
Speaker 1: ridiculous that we would say it's ridiculous Or did you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like I last year to me
Speaker 1: and you're right, you know, you're go. We didn't know this,
Speaker 1: even though I had been told by those that had played,
Speaker 1: you know, rounding him. Look, he can do it. He's
Speaker 1: gonna win and it was like wow, really, and then
Speaker 1: as it turned out, you know, he he did, and
Speaker 1: he had a lead on the back nine of the
Speaker 1: the open um and he was right there. And in St.
Speaker 1: Louis at bell Reeve, I mean, you're talking about back
Speaker 1: to back majors where he was in the mix and
Speaker 1: very solidly in the mix. So that was more than
Speaker 1: I would have believed. And to think that he couldn't
Speaker 1: be very solidly in the mix of Augusta, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. It's just been a long time
Speaker 1: since he's won there, and so it's hard to remind
Speaker 1: yourself of what it feels like when he's in the lead.
Speaker 1: There were in contention there because bell Reeve, Carnousti, cool,
Speaker 1: Augusta totally different things, absolutely, and and it brings up,
Speaker 1: you know, to me, the Ernie Els quotes this year
Speaker 1: about the Masters and how he kind of just poured
Speaker 1: everything out about the golf or so, and this is
Speaker 1: a guy that nearly won multiple Masters. I do wonder
Speaker 1: if this golf course, I wonder if more than any
Speaker 1: golf course in the world, it's right out in front
Speaker 1: of you. There's not out of bounds, really anywhere on
Speaker 1: the property there's water, you see it. There's not a
Speaker 1: lot of tricks. I wonder if the longer you go
Speaker 1: here to these types of players, Tiger of course being
Speaker 1: in a different category, but an Ernie Els who thinks,
Speaker 1: how can I not dominate this place? How do I
Speaker 1: not win? I wonder if a little bit of that
Speaker 1: bleeds in the Tigers when he thinks back, I was
Speaker 1: looking in two thousand five, I was a junior in college.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a long time ago, Scott. You know,
Speaker 1: like that's crazy to think of how long ago it
Speaker 1: was when he won at the Masters. Yet when we
Speaker 1: get here wherever, you you think, well, he knows this
Speaker 1: golf course, he knows every bump on on the grounds.
Speaker 1: He does. But see, that's the thing about this that
Speaker 1: I love. The reason, one of the many reasons let
Speaker 1: me let me start that again that I love this
Speaker 1: event is because there's so many people who show up
Speaker 1: with It's like your Gusta National is the most beautiful
Speaker 1: woman in the world because everyone is in love with her.
Speaker 1: Everyone's in love and everyone thinks they know her best. Right.
Speaker 1: Phil Michelson feels the exact same way, the exact same
Speaker 1: way he has the same level of love, the same passion,
Speaker 1: the same understanding, the same knowledge, and with good reason.
Speaker 1: He's figured it out two on on on three different occasions.
Speaker 1: Tiger has done it one more. But you know, you
Speaker 1: think Justin Rose doesn't feel the same way. You know
Speaker 1: you think Rory McElroy doesn't feel the same way. You think.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could keep going. There's so many players
Speaker 1: who Rory's got five straight top tens. You know, Justin's
Speaker 1: only finishes in the top ten, or so it feels
Speaker 1: last year he was just on the outside, but he's
Speaker 1: been running up twice. So the list of players who
Speaker 1: show up believing that they know how to, that they
Speaker 1: know it, that they love it, and that some part
Speaker 1: of him isn't owed it, but it's almost like their
Speaker 1: cosmic fate to do it. And Ernie's the perfect example.
Speaker 1: He's on the list with Greg Morman and Tom wise
Speaker 1: Cough And we could keep going, David Duval of players
Speaker 1: who when they were in their prime, who were absolutely
Speaker 1: certain would win the Masters, and they never did. So
Speaker 1: it's that's what to me, is that how many how
Speaker 1: long the list is of people who if they did,
Speaker 1: you'd think it's entirely appropriate. And yet if they don't
Speaker 1: when their chances there, maybe a guy like Danny Willis
Speaker 1: who only gets one chance grabs it, or Charles Schwitzel,
Speaker 1: who gets one chance grabs it. That's what makes the masters.
Speaker 1: To me um that that element is just so intoxicating,
Speaker 1: is that every great player thinks he can. Most of
Speaker 1: them have a reason to to to validate that feeling,
Speaker 1: and yet it doesn't always happen. And why, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man. Sometimes maybe a guy makes a putt,
Speaker 1: or maybe you miss one, or you fan one or
Speaker 1: whatever it's it's and yet you come back next year.
Speaker 1: Every bit is in love that you know, you don't
Speaker 1: ever feel scorned like Ernie's just his heart was broken.
Speaker 1: They're broken, but he never fell out of love, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Absolutely. I mean I was rewatching.
Speaker 1: This is a dorky admission. I'm just gonna let you
Speaker 1: know this. I was rewatching two thousand sixteen a couple
Speaker 1: of nights ago. And you know, we all remember the
Speaker 1: speed shot at twelve. I'd completely forgot that Danny will
Speaker 1: It hit a t shot on twelve that could have
Speaker 1: easily taken a bounce right and gone in the water.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I I vaguely remember the birdies that
Speaker 1: Danny will It made that round. I know he had
Speaker 1: a great shot on sixteen. I know he had that
Speaker 1: great crazy birdie at one, but that shot was afoot,
Speaker 1: was six inches from kicking straight right and going in
Speaker 1: the water. Famously, Fred Couples did the same thing. It
Speaker 1: It does seem like the golf course picks and choose
Speaker 1: as it's champion year to year, and it says this
Speaker 1: is yours to have or this isn't and and that's
Speaker 1: a great analogy you had with It's it's this, it's
Speaker 1: this Adonis where you think, how how can I not
Speaker 1: win this? If I'm at the top of my game?
Speaker 1: And I feel there are more guys flying under the
Speaker 1: radar this year than ever before because of what Rory's done,
Speaker 1: because of obviously Tiger Rolling. Phils already got a winder
Speaker 1: and under his belt this year. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: look at the list of Justin Thomas and John Rohm
Speaker 1: and even d J and Justin Rose, who you already mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, these guys all have to show up believing
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the year I win the Masters,
Speaker 1: and I don't really feel like there's been much buzz
Speaker 1: about those guys because there's been other storylines, and I
Speaker 1: think it's basically been Rory and everyone else because of
Speaker 1: the way Rory's played all season long. Yep. And and
Speaker 1: and you were just guilty of something that we will
Speaker 1: probably be guilty of on Wednesday, went Andy and I
Speaker 1: and forget billions, No, no, just you hear me out.
Speaker 1: When we do our preview show, will we mention Brooks Captnfriences.
Speaker 1: All they've done has won the last three. All they've
Speaker 1: done when the last three majors and Molinari's won in
Speaker 1: the last month. You know that's that's happened. Will we
Speaker 1: mentioned Paul Casey's name, he won again at vaus Bar
Speaker 1: and he's only got five top ten's here and and
Speaker 1: tried to shoot sixty nothing last year. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Jane, That's what I'm saying in that
Speaker 1: that that this place with you mentioned name, that will
Speaker 1: certainly mention. And then there are all of these other
Speaker 1: guys and for one reason or another, whether it's at
Speaker 1: Augusta or this year, Uh, everyone's gonna show up with
Speaker 1: the same level. Like you know how it goes and
Speaker 1: when you guys cover the US Open, you show up
Speaker 1: at at a certain course, maybe you show up a
Speaker 1: shinnecock last year. There's certain guys you go, man, you
Speaker 1: just so you just player aid doesn't drive it well enough,
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't can't not clever enough around the greens
Speaker 1: that you just count a certain percentage. In some case
Speaker 1: there's a pretty significant percentage. And Augusta like, you're not
Speaker 1: really discounting anybody, um because everyone slows up with with
Speaker 1: uh and that's enthusiasm and hope that and maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit of foor here or maybe a little perform
Speaker 1: this year or maybe both that the list at the
Speaker 1: top is so freaking crowded. It's like it's like the line.
Speaker 1: It's like you go to that exclusive club and they're
Speaker 1: like there's the regular line, and then there's the v
Speaker 1: I P. But then there's a zillion people that are
Speaker 1: superstars at the b I P line, Like not everybody
Speaker 1: gets to get in, man, hold on, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait and then everyone's kissed off, but sorry,
Speaker 1: like you know, we gotta make room for dj Y
Speaker 1: and here's crew. How many have got three? You've got three? Well,
Speaker 1: you're you're one friend's got on sneakers, so he can't
Speaker 1: come in and say like it gets proud of over
Speaker 1: there at at that entrance to the Gusta because everybody's
Speaker 1: in line, uh, and everybody's got a reason to think
Speaker 1: that they're supposed to get in. Yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: like zone three on American airlines. So just everybody stands up.
Speaker 1: Nobody's zone three. Nobody has ever been Zone three ever,
Speaker 1: but they all stand up trying to get in. I
Speaker 1: will say the one thing we can bank on is
Speaker 1: I think Charlie Hoffman will probably open with sixty five.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time he hasn't got out
Speaker 1: and shot like six under on Thursday. I feel like
Speaker 1: it happens every single year. I've only been in the
Speaker 1: Butler cabin twice, so this will be my third year.
Speaker 1: They are both years Charlie was in on the on
Speaker 1: the on the first or second day because you went, well,
Speaker 1: I believe no. I I think two years in a
Speaker 1: row it was Charlie was in there in the first round,
Speaker 1: which you know, and that's the other thing, as we know,
Speaker 1: even though it's smallest feel like eighties six. I think
Speaker 1: it is right now or something like that, which I
Speaker 1: wish it were bigger. I wish they were like a hundred.
Speaker 1: You know, you could you go a little deeper in
Speaker 1: the world golf rankings and not worry about who's being
Speaker 1: you know, allowed in. Yes, certainly, but it's still it's
Speaker 1: it's it's intimate, it's small. A name it probably isn't
Speaker 1: said on the Golf channel's air or on our our
Speaker 1: air um leading up to the event, has a great
Speaker 1: chance of being someone that goes out and shoot sixty
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Speaker 1: get back to SPP. So we talked a little about
Speaker 1: Rory and and I and I and I feel like
Speaker 1: this year his approach and and it's not just been
Speaker 1: us guessing this. He has done this. His approach has
Speaker 1: been different. He changes schedule it up. You know, he's
Speaker 1: talked a lot about the way he thinks about golf
Speaker 1: now compared to how he used to think I thought
Speaker 1: you did a great job interviewing him after the Players
Speaker 1: when he jumped on on your show, And I just
Speaker 1: I love the conversation and I just love listening to
Speaker 1: Rory mc where we talk about golf and talk about life.
Speaker 1: He's one of the most introspective players we've ever had
Speaker 1: in the game at just twenty nine years old. And
Speaker 1: I and this is one of those those lines that
Speaker 1: it's going to be settled out. I feel like Master's
Speaker 1: Week and we're gonna say it, is this his best chance?
Speaker 1: And I say that because how can you come in
Speaker 1: in better form? And is that a good thing or
Speaker 1: a bad thing for Rory mcwrey, considering how much pressure
Speaker 1: he already puts on himself at the Masters? Well, yes
Speaker 1: to it certainly feels like it's as good at a
Speaker 1: chance as he's likely to have. Um and I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the conversation we have with him, And then that the
Speaker 1: night that night I went home after doing Sports Center
Speaker 1: and Live fromaz On which I'd like to say here
Speaker 1: when I always tell my friends that I love that.
Speaker 1: So I think Rich and Randal and David and Frank
Speaker 1: such a good job. They've got such a great dynamic
Speaker 1: and different personalities, and they had Ruryal and they must
Speaker 1: have had him for twenty minutes. And Rory is just
Speaker 1: doing what Rory does. He's telling you, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say bearing his soul because that makes it sound
Speaker 1: so much more serious than it is. He's just talking
Speaker 1: like a human being about about golf and where what
Speaker 1: it represents in his world and what it doesn't and
Speaker 1: the comfort that he has with who he is, and
Speaker 1: the fact that, honestly, yes, it was important for him
Speaker 1: to play that Sunday the way he did on that
Speaker 1: course against that field. So every year he'll arrive having
Speaker 1: to answer questions about this for the Slam, which is
Speaker 1: a real heavy weight because as we've already established, everybody
Speaker 1: else is just as geeked up to be there as
Speaker 1: you are. But he comes in his confidence. He can
Speaker 1: be with his driver, which puts him in great position
Speaker 1: theoretically off the tea to attack it this second South course.
Speaker 1: His life is good, he's sordid, he's in order um
Speaker 1: And having said all those things, it doesn't mean he can.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that that that this is his year.
Speaker 1: I think it just means that all of the other
Speaker 1: possible obstacles or reasons to discount him are null and void.
Speaker 1: It'll be just a matter of does he play well enough,
Speaker 1: does he make the right pot at the right time,
Speaker 1: does he does he know what I'm saying? Does he
Speaker 1: take on a shot? Is it a green lightning? And
Speaker 1: he takes it and he makes it work? Um? And
Speaker 1: if he does all those things, could he win and
Speaker 1: and and could he get could he have on those
Speaker 1: weeks where he gets spooky and he goes low and
Speaker 1: goes crazy like congressional Sure, because when he gets that,
Speaker 1: when he gets it going, you know, him and djare
Speaker 1: the two guys that I feel I can run away
Speaker 1: from people more than anyone else. Um. So yes to
Speaker 1: the question, is it his best chance? Yes? Is his
Speaker 1: life in order? Yes? Yes? Yes. Does it mean someday
Speaker 1: he's in there with you know, Jim and the chairman?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily man, There's there's just so many, as we know,
Speaker 1: there's just so many variables that have to that have
Speaker 1: to be you know, sorted. Um. But he's he's he's clearly, clearly,
Speaker 1: clearly in a great place. And um, just watching him
Speaker 1: dissect the golf course, um, at the players was was fun.
Speaker 1: When he wobbled, but then he when he got his
Speaker 1: feet back beneath him, because that Sunday was obviously gonna
Speaker 1: be difficult, but he Um, when he had to have it,
Speaker 1: he had it. And UM, I think it's crazy to
Speaker 1: think about, but like you look at a guy like speech,
Speaker 1: like when you lose that, when you lose that edge
Speaker 1: and you lose that confidence, I mean that's real. And
Speaker 1: and he I don't know if he lost his confidence,
Speaker 1: but I think it he needed to be reminded of
Speaker 1: what it felt like to to finish it off on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and he did well. I ask people on Twitter to
Speaker 1: send their best s v P questions and I got
Speaker 1: some good ones Twitter. You know it comes through with times,
Speaker 1: you know that, Um, Dylan and some guys asking about waffles.
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat waffles. I don't like waffles.
Speaker 1: I like, I like, I mean, you know about pancakes rather,
Speaker 1: I'm out of team Waffle. This guy wanted me to
Speaker 1: eat pancakes, and what's coming. I don't want your pancakes. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like waffles. Some care what states for him? I
Speaker 1: don't care who. I don't care if your grandmama's your
Speaker 1: grandma was making a full and I'll eat it. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked me why you won't go hang out with them
Speaker 1: at their golf course. I'm like, well, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: a random human being and he's a busy guy. So
Speaker 1: the answer is that's why. That's why he's not going
Speaker 1: to be my friend. My friends would like me to
Speaker 1: do that and so and I'd like to do bring
Speaker 1: up with my friend around the time to do that.
Speaker 1: So I appreciate the invite, but I'm afraid that's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So here's your first question. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is this segways right into it. Bruce Rogers said,
Speaker 1: favorite course in Connecticut slash New England. I don't get
Speaker 1: around a lot to play many. There's a course my
Speaker 1: my home course is called Wampanog and it's a It's
Speaker 1: a Donald Ross, uh course, which is funny. I was
Speaker 1: talking one ton of Peter Costous and I think I
Speaker 1: think I called it an old Donald Ross. If you
Speaker 1: stopped me, because are there any new Donald Ross? Said?
Speaker 1: You know you know what, No, there aren't, so noted.
Speaker 1: It's just that Donald Ross. But it's it's really playable,
Speaker 1: it's got really good greens, it's not the kind of
Speaker 1: course it's gonna eat you alive. It isn't. It isn't
Speaker 1: overly low. Um. But this is the sad, sad truth.
Speaker 1: Last year, UM, I have three young children, got married late,
Speaker 1: three young kids. We went to the pool a bunch.
Speaker 1: I had a whole lot of golf balls in advance
Speaker 1: at my annual summer Part three tournament, and I played
Speaker 1: zero holes of golf at the course where I paid
Speaker 1: my monthly dues. So I paid a lot of money
Speaker 1: to hit range balls, uh, to get ready for a
Speaker 1: Part three tournament. So this is a long answer to
Speaker 1: a short question. I just don't play enough to have
Speaker 1: any real great knowledge of of the of the local
Speaker 1: golf courses. My wapan us of really fun plays. I
Speaker 1: just wish i'd played it. It's expensive pool fees, that's
Speaker 1: what you're telling me. That's that's really got good fries,
Speaker 1: and the kids like it. I've got. I've got my
Speaker 1: first kid on the way in a month and a half,
Speaker 1: and and I'm already getting the feeling that the golf
Speaker 1: clubs are are gonna get hit the most. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm okay with. I'm thirty five, I've played a
Speaker 1: lot of golf. I'll play them later. Um, here's here's
Speaker 1: a question for you. Why did you not done the
Speaker 1: Pebble Beach pro am. You're famous enough. Uh, they've been.
Speaker 1: There have been like test balloons floated by from some
Speaker 1: of the folks that were involved there, which has I
Speaker 1: greatly appreciate. Um, and we haven't had my schedule hasn't
Speaker 1: hasn't worked yet. And then the one year I just
Speaker 1: I hadn't played and I was I want you to
Speaker 1: imagine this. I want you, I want you to imagine
Speaker 1: not playing golf for an extended period of time and
Speaker 1: then having to put it on display at Pebble. Well,
Speaker 1: let's say it isn't one of those beautiful days. Let's
Speaker 1: say it's some one of those forty five degree caramel
Speaker 1: days and you're on television and you're just you might
Speaker 1: as well be but ass naked, um, because you're so exposed.
Speaker 1: And the fear of that is something that has also
Speaker 1: kind of gotten in the way. But it's been talked
Speaker 1: about maybe some day would happen, and if it did,
Speaker 1: I would grind my butt off to try to make
Speaker 1: sure I had something something of a swing. It just
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Yet you need to show up like an
Speaker 1: in the office where you have both the gloves on
Speaker 1: with the lotion I hit yesterday. That's me. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm preppy late, but I'm gonna be ready, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for I'm excited for the s v P
Speaker 1: day day we'll we'll have I'll have to get like
Speaker 1: a live PGA tour live came or something. UM Andrew asked,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear your greatest golf memory and to
Speaker 1: understand how golf has influenced him off the course, both
Speaker 1: professionally and personally. That's a pretty deep question. If you
Speaker 1: want to give us your greatest golf memory, that'll work. Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean I got to playing Augusta National with UM
Speaker 1: with the late great Jim Hubert. Um when I won
Speaker 1: the lottery is certainly very high on the list. Because Um,
Speaker 1: I want to say nine. Maybe maybe I'm getting the
Speaker 1: years wrong. It was around that time. It was around
Speaker 1: the time of like a really heavy pleaded khaki and
Speaker 1: a really not breathable cotton shirt button to the top. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was in there. And it was also
Speaker 1: pre cell phone, so it was like I had a
Speaker 1: Kodak Instematic, and I was a tourist man. I took
Speaker 1: pictures of every moment that I was out there. But
Speaker 1: I'll I'll say this, like, look, I'll joke around plenty
Speaker 1: about golf, and I'll roll my eyes a little bit
Speaker 1: about when people talk a little too reverentially about it.
Speaker 1: I'll say this. You walk across that bridge on twelve
Speaker 1: and stand on that green, and you know that everybody
Speaker 1: that's ever mattered in the game, and lots of people
Speaker 1: outside the game have stood there, and very few sort
Speaker 1: of mortals have and I count myself among the mortals
Speaker 1: because I am I just mean that that that piece
Speaker 1: of land is is really something special. And when you
Speaker 1: stand there and I had absolutely nuked an eight iron,
Speaker 1: that laid it up on the hill and it somehow
Speaker 1: rolled down into the pine straw, so I was actually
Speaker 1: able to make a pretty miraculous three. No one cares
Speaker 1: about your score, but people always well what you hit, um,
Speaker 1: But just standing there and looking around that whole day
Speaker 1: is um. It's the kind of thing that that it's
Speaker 1: seared on your brain. And I'll tell you one more
Speaker 1: thing from that that round. It was Davis's love had
Speaker 1: just hit here's your context. Davis loved that week had
Speaker 1: hit the famous up and down shot that Tiger Woods
Speaker 1: did after Love Davis loved it it first the first
Speaker 1: guy I ever saw do it, and so I had
Speaker 1: a horrible two shot in sixteen. I was over on
Speaker 1: the right and the Caddy Winds stood on the top
Speaker 1: of the hill and he said, but your bone needs
Speaker 1: to stop here, And I gave him a look and
Speaker 1: I said, what have I done today? It would lead
Speaker 1: you to believe I'm capable of stopping it there, and
Speaker 1: you know the file to me for a second, Well,
Speaker 1: I hit that little pinch and it takes two hops
Speaker 1: and it's stopped dead words speetwere and I just put
Speaker 1: my hands up and started walking because it trickles down
Speaker 1: and it's, you know, a kick in for a three um.
Speaker 1: But that that is my greatest memory is is just
Speaker 1: that day of being allowed to uh, to be around
Speaker 1: there and the and to play there and like, how
Speaker 1: does it kind of impact your life or whatever? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it gave me my life. You know. I went
Speaker 1: to the Golf Channel as a guy that had never
Speaker 1: been on television as a production assistant. That I got
Speaker 1: on TV because I met a and then I met
Speaker 1: a guy named Tiger Woods, and he and I had
Speaker 1: a great professional relationship. So I mean, how does the
Speaker 1: game influenced my life? It gave me my life. My
Speaker 1: entire existence is because I got to be at a
Speaker 1: fledgling network that became what it's become and and get
Speaker 1: to do what I did. So and I don't say
Speaker 1: that lightly, like I mean every bit of that. It's
Speaker 1: the game gave me my life. It's pretty good. That's great.
Speaker 1: I love that. I also love one of my favorite
Speaker 1: golf things from golf people, and it's everybody we all
Speaker 1: have this is you can remember shots from the ninety
Speaker 1: My mom used to make fun of my dad and
Speaker 1: I when we would drive home from a golf tournament.
Speaker 1: We would be talking about every shot from every day
Speaker 1: of the tournament, and she'd always go, how do y'all
Speaker 1: remember that? And it's just they're serious. They can't get
Speaker 1: out of there. Of course. I mean there's more. I'm
Speaker 1: I hit a five wood from the pine straw or fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the good shots that I hit were
Speaker 1: they were they were spectacular. Mostly they were horrible, um,
Speaker 1: but the good ones like the one on sixteen and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: But you know, Jim Hebrew was one of the kindest generalists,
Speaker 1: most talented souls in our business who unfortunately we lost,
Speaker 1: but he was. He was part of the group that day,
Speaker 1: and he didn't he didn't make fun of people much,
Speaker 1: but he made fun of me just because I couldn't
Speaker 1: stop taking pictures of what, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: didn't want to forget it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to let the day get away
Speaker 1: from me. And of course, you know, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: in my mind, like I can close my eyes as
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you right now and I can see,
Speaker 1: you know, the shots and the moments, and it was
Speaker 1: it was, you know, as good as you think it
Speaker 1: would be. It's it's better than that. Better. In Booth Snack,
Speaker 1: Dylan asks the biscuits at the open or he says, pimento.
Speaker 1: You know you're not a pimento person. I'll just say
Speaker 1: any of the sandwiches at Augusta National Chicken Sandwiches and
Speaker 1: august are pretty good. But the did did gestive UM,
Speaker 1: which for those that are unfamiliar, um the best way
Speaker 1: to just to describe a digestive, what it is is
Speaker 1: a cookie kind of like a Biscoff cookie on an airplane.
Speaker 1: It's got that same consistency, in that same sort of sweetness.
Speaker 1: And when you do like fourteen consecutive hours of the
Speaker 1: Open Championship, you can wreck asleeve of the gestice, like
Speaker 1: by accident. You know, you don't fit out to eat
Speaker 1: that many. But then like you've watched the morning wave
Speaker 1: and the afternoon wave and you realize, oh crap, I've
Speaker 1: eaten an entire thing of digestives down. I'm ready for more. Uh.
Speaker 1: It seems like you're leading to it seems like that's
Speaker 1: you're that's what you're leaning towards. Possibly, I we have
Speaker 1: to get your shifts some for the for open viewing
Speaker 1: this year. Digestives, that's the answer, that's what you all right?
Speaker 1: Dan said, Um, you raved about his guy, Taco Fall,
Speaker 1: the tall dude from UCF. He said, who's a golfer
Speaker 1: that he thinks is as good of a story as
Speaker 1: the big man in the master's field this year. Now,
Speaker 1: that is has got to be an impossible answer. Well, so,
Speaker 1: so for the backstory on Taco Fall was he was
Speaker 1: a young man who he's seven six. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: now people probably are familiar with the story because he
Speaker 1: was the guy that almost helped U c F beat
Speaker 1: Duke and then they were a roll away of from
Speaker 1: from winning it. And and he's from from Africa, and
Speaker 1: he's a brilliant kid who had like a four oh
Speaker 1: in high school. But his his acceptance into college was
Speaker 1: being held up because he had gone to so many
Speaker 1: different schools that were like kind of basketball factory, so
Speaker 1: they almost they like red flag his graves. He actually
Speaker 1: was majoring in engineering, speaks like five languages. He's a
Speaker 1: brilliant kid and a wonderful kid. And so I took
Speaker 1: up his cause because I'm like, hey, end to double a.
Speaker 1: It's just you got the wrong dude. Let him in school. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: this was four years ago. He got in and it
Speaker 1: almost ended with an incredible story of beating Duke. But
Speaker 1: I think still there. The story of he and his
Speaker 1: team became well known because of how close they came.
Speaker 1: So who's the same as that in the master's field
Speaker 1: beats the hell out of me, man, Like I'm give me,
Speaker 1: give me somebody off the radar that you can root for,
Speaker 1: or somebody who's overcome something. I guess. I mean I
Speaker 1: I don't know that there are I there there aren't enough.
Speaker 1: It's like the U S Opens where you could find
Speaker 1: those stories, right, or your Open championships. So some qualifier
Speaker 1: that the guys like a blacksmith and he played with
Speaker 1: someone his granddad's Mashi Niblick or something like. That's where
Speaker 1: you're going to find a Taco Falls story. Those there aren't.
Speaker 1: There aren't as many of those to find in a
Speaker 1: very small and elite field at Augusta. Yeah, half a
Speaker 1: barn Rat's obsession with Air Force one isn't exactly going
Speaker 1: to land on the list. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what it's gonna be. What's the funniest thing,
Speaker 1: Paul said, what's the funniest thing you've seen or experienced
Speaker 1: at the Master's Um? This is so inside the belt way,
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, UM, when we when we we
Speaker 1: used to be over at the Augusta Country Club, UM,
Speaker 1: taping our segments at night. UM, and the god this
Speaker 1: is funny because it was so long ago from a
Speaker 1: technology standpoint that like now things are like they're done
Speaker 1: on computers and the utes done and it's over like
Speaker 1: you don't have to tape and read like it's just
Speaker 1: the process is so so streamlined. It used to be
Speaker 1: much a much more kind of laborious task. It would
Speaker 1: take forever, and we'd be over at the Augusta Country
Speaker 1: Club and Andy North and I would be um waiting
Speaker 1: to do stuff, and we'd get punchy because we've been
Speaker 1: at it all day. And there were these books on
Speaker 1: the set, and the books are actual books, and they
Speaker 1: were like, I don't know what they are. They're like
Speaker 1: eighteenth century literature, and it's kind of pretentious, sort of
Speaker 1: English prose about who knows what. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: one of the nights I took down the book and
Speaker 1: began reading in this very affected, sort of pompous British accent,
Speaker 1: which turned into like these nightly readings, and I would
Speaker 1: do them when I got the sense that the crew
Speaker 1: was at we were all collectively done. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that this would sound funny to you or to
Speaker 1: anyone who's listening, but trust me when I tell you,
Speaker 1: a bunch of punch drunk TV people at the end
Speaker 1: of a sixteen hour day listening to me, and I
Speaker 1: pick up the book and I they start playing like
Speaker 1: symphony music, and I'd say, you are reading from the
Speaker 1: book of such and such, and we would just read
Speaker 1: these nonsensical things and North would get to the point
Speaker 1: where he was weeping. And Andy is such a gem
Speaker 1: of a human. Anything you can do that knocks him
Speaker 1: off off his balance and gets him to the point
Speaker 1: where he's crying tears from laughing, like you just gotta
Speaker 1: do it. So again, that's a real inside the belt
Speaker 1: Way story, but that's what we would used to do
Speaker 1: over the Augusta Country Club late late, late at night,
Speaker 1: UM when we were taping our segments and just hoping
Speaker 1: that they would make their slot on Sports Center listens.
Speaker 1: As a person that that it gets to be about
Speaker 1: the seven hour on Saturday at the US Open and
Speaker 1: your duct taping your eyeballs open, I totally appreciate it
Speaker 1: because it's there's always a little thing that all those
Speaker 1: all those people are going. What. So last year at
Speaker 1: the US Open, we have the Curtis Cup up until Sunday,
Speaker 1: five hours no commercials Monday off and on Tuesday we
Speaker 1: had a new event that we put out and it
Speaker 1: was all the champions of the U s g A
Speaker 1: events were brought out to play this little four whole
Speaker 1: exhibition and I was I was tired on Tuesday. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we we've done a couple of weeks back
Speaker 1: to back and I just come off fifteen hours straight
Speaker 1: with no commercials. I decided to have a red bull
Speaker 1: before the broadcast, and I mean, I don't drink. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I was nervous for myself to just speak words.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, this is the first day of the
Speaker 1: US Open. What am I thinking? So I'm pounding waters
Speaker 1: during break just like thinking that's it's almost like it's
Speaker 1: an alcohol, you know, I'm like trying to bleed it
Speaker 1: through my system. It was an awful, awful idea that
Speaker 1: will not be my move this week this year during
Speaker 1: the US Open at Pebble, no red bulls around me.
Speaker 1: A couple of more questions and let you go, this
Speaker 1: one's pretty good. Two years ago, DJ falls down the stairs.
Speaker 1: Last year, Fenale blows out his ankle. What should be
Speaker 1: the best prop bed for contender most likely to suffer
Speaker 1: a stabilitating fluke injury during the Masters week? Man, can
Speaker 1: I just can I can I punt on the question
Speaker 1: and tell you? I like I'm picking female. I like
Speaker 1: out a win. How about that I don't have how
Speaker 1: about how about this prop bet? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't predict the future of someone of random injury, but
Speaker 1: I will predict Feenale. Take a flyer on Fetale. I'm serious,
Speaker 1: he a he's if he makes a hole in one
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, he's not jumping. I promise you he will
Speaker 1: not leave the he will not leave the ground. But
Speaker 1: he's got the goods and I think he played. He
Speaker 1: played excellent last year's Sunday and played his way into
Speaker 1: the top ten. That was his first time he'd ever
Speaker 1: been there, and on a basically broken foot, he shot
Speaker 1: in the sixties on Thursday. I love his game. And uh,
Speaker 1: your prop bed is Fenale to win? Or play him
Speaker 1: like whatever it is to bet him for a top
Speaker 1: ten or for a top five. I think he can.
Speaker 1: I think he can make noise. That was gonna be
Speaker 1: my question. You picked j T last year. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a great pick. I think I'm leaning towards
Speaker 1: Justin Thomas this year because of how great his wedge
Speaker 1: play has been. But Phenee is a great pick. You
Speaker 1: know people are gonna go, well, he hadn't won. That
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's played great, has played great for the
Speaker 1: last year year and a half on tour. Uh And
Speaker 1: I also just want to say, if you can get
Speaker 1: into a couple of people's years, especially the big players
Speaker 1: during the Part three, let's just get the guys to
Speaker 1: finish out this year. Let's let's let's break the curse.
Speaker 1: I want the curse to disappear, no more Part three curse.
Speaker 1: After there are guys, there are some guys out there
Speaker 1: who aren't afraid to win it and will try to.
Speaker 1: I'm will be there. I like that. And the reason
Speaker 1: I picked fen now is just because I don't want
Speaker 1: to say the same name everyone else says. And and yes,
Speaker 1: the just the if people want to make the dismiss
Speaker 1: it because he hasn't won, that that's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's there's there have been a lengthy list of major
Speaker 1: winners who hadn't won prior to I just I have
Speaker 1: to believe that the name comes them inside a top
Speaker 1: top what twenty. I mean, it just doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: given how many players there are of the caliber we've
Speaker 1: got right now, who have who have all had recent
Speaker 1: or past his recent history this year or past history Augusta.
Speaker 1: I just can't fathom that it would be a name
Speaker 1: that come Monday morning, everyone's going Huh. I didn't think
Speaker 1: we'd see that. The Phenademy is just enough off the
Speaker 1: main stage where I feel like maybe no one else
Speaker 1: will say it. Um, but it's I just feel like
Speaker 1: Shane is gonna be I mean, I've said it every
Speaker 1: time I've talked to you about this week. It's my
Speaker 1: favorite week. I I just know comes Sunday something great
Speaker 1: will happen and uh, you know, we get to be
Speaker 1: there and and talk about it. What could be better
Speaker 1: than that. I just don't drink any red Bull. That's no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no more, never again. I appreciate it. S v P.
Speaker 1: I Uh, I always enjoy having you on. People love it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great week. As you said, it
Speaker 1: seems to be trending toward a great Masters. I feel
Speaker 1: like all the last few major championships have been awesome.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, if if if Speed gets in
Speaker 1: the hunt again, and be surprised if Rory wins this,
Speaker 1: it'll be great. If we see anything with from Tiger
Speaker 1: and Phil, the storylines continuing to continue. Uh, have a
Speaker 1: great week, enjoy it, and we will catch up with
Speaker 1: you soon. I look forward to it, man, And you
Speaker 1: keep doing your thing. I've told you this, you know
Speaker 1: on air. Offer just you're so good at this and
Speaker 1: I just enjoy how you do what you do, so
Speaker 1: never change, just keep being you and that's enough. So
Speaker 1: I I appreciate you having me on and I hope
Speaker 1: we do it again. Thanks, buddy, I appreciate it. You
Speaker 1: got it. It looks like I'm act. It's a big
Speaker 1: thanks again to Scott Van Pelt, who is just always
Speaker 1: a treat tab on the podcast, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: of the year. I love chatting with him, I love
Speaker 1: talking masters and uh he is, like I said to
Speaker 1: start the show, one of the great guys in the
Speaker 1: business across all platforms, and I think there are plenty
Speaker 1: of people that would agree with me. A big thanks
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Speaker 1: big thanks to Title of Course and the new Vokey wedges.
Speaker 1: Do me a favor, get some new edges. If it's
Speaker 1: your birthday coming up, asked for new edges. We got
Speaker 1: Father's Day coming up fast approaching new edges. Hey, I
Speaker 1: need a new lab which I'm gonna get a new vokey.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check out all the grinds. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: improve my golf game. All of those things sound great.
Speaker 1: If you're out of Augusta, come say hi if you
Speaker 1: see me. If you're around the town, don't hesitate to
Speaker 1: say what's up. I might even buy you a drink
Speaker 1: if you're being massively nice. It's an exciting week for everybody.
Speaker 1: It's an exciting week in sports. All the focus turns
Speaker 1: to golf and that is really really what we want.
Speaker 1: And major championship season is upon us. We just had
Speaker 1: the first major of the season in the A and
Speaker 1: A on the female side, and now we get the
Speaker 1: first one on the male side. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great week. I'm excited. We will check back with you
Speaker 1: Sunday night. We'll have a reaction podcast Sunday night with
Speaker 1: our good friend Joel Class, so make sure you look
Speaker 1: for that after all the action wraps up. Have a
Speaker 1: great week, soak it in, enjoy it, and we'll be
Speaker 1: back with you on Sunday.