Speaker 1: I miss the green, for example, I'm already upset.
Speaker 2: When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
Speaker 1: And when I find my ball in a.
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Speaker 6: Is it his time.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: In your life that you seen anything like that?
Speaker 1: Hello, friends, I'm jim NANTZ. Is my great pleasure to
Speaker 1: welcome you to the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before.
Speaker 1: It's a tradition unlike any other.
Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 5: Frida Egg Podcast. It is Tuesday before Masters, and I'm
Speaker 5: joined by PGA tour Sean Martin, sp Nations, Brendan Porath,
Speaker 5: and the creative director for Summit Brands, Billy Draddy. Guys,
Speaker 5: welcome on.
Speaker 2: This is this is groundbreaking. We're all in the same room.
Speaker 5: It is amazing. It's gonna be a whole new dynamic
Speaker 5: live pod.
Speaker 6: We're sitting here in this grand Augusta house that the
Speaker 6: Drady b Draddy's gracious enough to host us with. That's
Speaker 6: a new frontier in your pod empire.
Speaker 3: I think next step we have to be at the
Speaker 3: media center, right yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: Do they have little pod centers yet?
Speaker 2: I heard they do. I don't know. You're the take
Speaker 2: smith among us, Brendan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I went looking for that this today. They have
Speaker 6: radio like radio slots, you know, to fire off all
Speaker 6: the audio takes. But I'm more of a man of
Speaker 6: a man of letters.
Speaker 2: You want to take her into cendiary takes off property.
Speaker 2: You don't want to get escorted off the future. You know,
Speaker 2: they need to have little pod rooms. Let's get phones
Speaker 2: on the golf course first, then we'll work on the
Speaker 2: pod rooms next. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, uh Master's Week, what uh is your favorite
Speaker 5: what is each of your guys' favorite master's tradition or
Speaker 5: part of the aspect of the Masters.
Speaker 6: I'll go, I mean, I it's not exactly like, you know,
Speaker 6: an underrated one. The champions dinner. I think that's cool.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's very obvious, but I think it's cool
Speaker 6: that the champ, defending champion gets to set a menu.
Speaker 6: A ton of people care about what this menu is.
Speaker 6: You know, PGA Championship has one. No one cares, you know,
Speaker 6: And how often do we see like, honestly, Gary Player
Speaker 6: and Jack Nicholas and those people in public life together anymore?
Speaker 6: We don't like and you know what, we've heard them talk.
Speaker 6: They've you know, contributed a lot to golf and sometimes
Speaker 6: you know, their thoughts aren't always the most original. We've
Speaker 6: heard them for twenty thirty, forty fifty years now. But
Speaker 6: like I think, you know, not to be morose, but like,
Speaker 6: we never know how many years we have with them,
Speaker 6: and it's good to kind of for the one week
Speaker 6: a year they're all together in public view. And I
Speaker 6: think that's still cool.
Speaker 5: If you won the Masters, what would be your champions dinner?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good crocakes.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously we know the beverage would be a
Speaker 6: monster energy.
Speaker 2: You can't and you can't complain about this on Twitter
Speaker 2: and then go straight to the monster.
Speaker 6: I wasn't complaining.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'd have to think about that. It'd probably be pretty basic.
Speaker 6: I'm just a fat, corn fed Midwest you know, you know,
Speaker 6: meeting potatoes of some sort.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool the years that Tiger wasn't going to
Speaker 2: play and his back was horrible, that he would fly
Speaker 2: up just for that, and it shows what a big
Speaker 2: deal it is that he was, you know, talking about
Speaker 2: lat year he could barely sit in. Yeah, nerve pain
Speaker 2: is shooting down his leg and he still flies up
Speaker 2: to do the Master's Champions dinner, which I mean, to
Speaker 2: your point, shows how how cool it is and what
Speaker 2: a big deal it is for guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know that's kind of an obvious one.
Speaker 6: I'm not really going off the books there, but I
Speaker 6: still whatever, I think it's cool.
Speaker 2: I actually I made the phones joke, but I actually
Speaker 2: like the no phones. Like I was walking around this
Speaker 2: morning taking some photos and just enjoying the golf course,
Speaker 2: not checking my mentions or you know, getting texts. I
Speaker 2: like the no phones.
Speaker 5: I'm like all in on the no phone country clubs.
Speaker 5: Like when I get to put the phone away and
Speaker 5: I like, you're just out there playing golf. It's so
Speaker 5: much more peaceful.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't need to make an Instagram story of my round,
Speaker 2: no need to see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so billy. You've been coming here for how
Speaker 5: many years now?
Speaker 3: I guess this will be maybe my nineteenth in a
Speaker 3: row something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My favorite is actually just getting here right as the
Speaker 3: gates open and everyone everyone walks briskly to go put
Speaker 3: their chair out, and I kind of just walk slowly
Speaker 3: and you and just the procession and it changes a
Speaker 3: little bit every year, and that's part of the fun
Speaker 3: as you see all the newness that the that the
Speaker 3: club brings to the event. But there's a real, uh,
Speaker 3: there's a real serenity to the grounds. As the championship's
Speaker 3: going on, it's just like, uh, there's a great feeling
Speaker 3: that everyone is here for all the right reasons, that
Speaker 3: we're about to see something great. And I mean, the
Speaker 3: club does. I think it's the best sporting event in
Speaker 3: the world. So to just walk in slowly and kind
Speaker 3: of take everything in is always my favorite part of it.
Speaker 5: Sean, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I have to agree with that. I did an early
Speaker 2: morning walk today. I wish the gates open at eight.
Speaker 2: I wish that they'd opened it like s in. It
Speaker 2: would have been awesome. You know, you lose, you lose
Speaker 2: some of that good light when the gates on opening
Speaker 2: you can go.
Speaker 5: You're worried about your Instagram page.
Speaker 2: Well, I've used the point shoot, so I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to take up lestra steps. Gotta upload my computer first
Speaker 2: and then edit them, and then you know, I can't
Speaker 2: just or you're.
Speaker 5: Not worried about your story, but you're no.
Speaker 2: I like to take some good photos, so with some
Speaker 2: two thousand and five technology I love. I love under
Speaker 2: rated tradition is when like Tiger was playing, everyone's holding
Speaker 2: up these like two thousand and five point shoots because
Speaker 2: they all save their cameras for this one week a
Speaker 2: year because they need them because you can't take your
Speaker 2: phone on the grounds.
Speaker 6: This is like a super nerdy inside baseball on. But
Speaker 6: the thing I like is that in the media center
Speaker 6: press building, I should say he's the correct terminology, they
Speaker 6: have these like notepads for It's like the same kind
Speaker 6: of note style that like whatever Grantlin Rice and Herbert
Speaker 6: Warren Wind would take when they when they go out
Speaker 6: on the course, and like when you assume there's no
Speaker 6: video footage of everything, it's every whole with like note slots.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm talking about eight and a half by
Speaker 6: eleven pad, Right, Yeah, it's like an eight and a
Speaker 6: half by eleven pad. It's as like masters on it.
Speaker 6: You know, you have each hole where you're supposed to
Speaker 6: note you know what happened with the shots, presuming there's
Speaker 6: no video record of it or anything like that. So
Speaker 6: that's like shot meg and nerdy, super nerdy. So that's
Speaker 6: a cool tradition. I always grab one go out there,
Speaker 6: and I mean, I don't pretend I'm you know, Grantlin
Speaker 6: Rice or anything like that, but I don't know. That's
Speaker 6: how I like to take notes of the round. And
Speaker 6: another cool aspect of not having your phone there usually
Speaker 6: just plugging those notes into your phone at the other majors,
Speaker 6: But I don't know, that's a that's a kind of
Speaker 6: off the record one. They are, you know, an underrated
Speaker 6: one you wouldn't see.
Speaker 5: I love that the champions get to keep playing forever,
Speaker 5: because what it leads to is like Bernhard Longer a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago in contention on a Sunday Freddie
Speaker 5: Couples making his run and getting to see like that.
Speaker 5: You know, Augusta has become a place that is tougher
Speaker 5: to compete at as an older age, but it's still
Speaker 5: you can still get it around there. And if you
Speaker 5: take advantage of the holes like that, you only learn
Speaker 5: more and more and you get better at playing the
Speaker 5: golf course with age. So it's cool that these guys
Speaker 5: got to keep playing.
Speaker 2: I mean even like Larry Miies is fifty nine, I think,
Speaker 2: and it's not like he's burning up the Champions Tour,
Speaker 2: but he's made three the last four cuts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's a cool aspect of it. Like
Speaker 6: you can have a tournament where like Trevor Illmoman plays,
Speaker 6: but like Ernie Els can't. It's an exclusive. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm not saying Andy's vig Ernie El's guy, but it's
Speaker 6: not Ernie. You know, someone who's super competitive right now,
Speaker 6: say like the fifty fifth player ranked player in the
Speaker 6: world that wasn't otherwise exempt, but you also have Trevor emblem.
Speaker 6: Like that's still a cool thing. To Andy's point about
Speaker 6: all the former champs coming back.
Speaker 2: It does make like a sudden death playoff so much
Speaker 2: more high stakes. So you think about it, like, you know,
Speaker 2: Kenny Perry in two thousand and nine loses if Nny
Speaker 2: Perray won, that he's coming back to the champions and
Speaker 2: every year he's coming and playing. Every year he's playing
Speaker 2: the Part three contest with his grandkids. Now like he's oh,
Speaker 2: this week, I get you know it. And so not
Speaker 2: only did you lose the Masters and lose the title
Speaker 2: and all that, but you lost like the opportunity to
Speaker 2: come back every year and do all those awesome traditions.
Speaker 2: So I feel like it does add weight to like
Speaker 2: to the playoffs when those do happen.
Speaker 6: So nineteen years, that's a lot of time.
Speaker 2: I mean, short sleeve rain sure.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no no. That was the
Speaker 1: US Open. It was zero restriction.
Speaker 3: But that was of course Payne Stewart at the US right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he cut the sleeves off his rain jacket and we
Speaker 3: created a little subcategory and rainwear.
Speaker 1: Thank god.
Speaker 5: I remember my dad after that cut off the sleeves
Speaker 5: of his rain jacket and started wearing it around. He thought,
Speaker 5: I mean, if there's ever a market for short sleeve
Speaker 5: rain shirts.
Speaker 2: He's the guy. He loves him.
Speaker 5: So transitioning to this year, what's uh, you know, Tiger's
Speaker 5: out obviously the big storyline. What's the storyline you're watching
Speaker 5: going into this year that you're you're excited to see unfold?
Speaker 2: I wonder if people are more excited for a Tiger
Speaker 2: Phil showdown or like a Tiger JT showdown, Like I
Speaker 2: feel like Tiger. I think the bigger thing. I know,
Speaker 2: like the intergenerational thing is huge, but I'd be more
Speaker 2: excited basically pitching all this buddy buddy stuff were seeing
Speaker 2: there playing practic runs together. But like we could see
Speaker 2: a Tiger Phil showdown, which we've wanted for decades, And
Speaker 2: so I think that's the one really gets me more
Speaker 2: than even like a Tiger JT or Tiger Speed.
Speaker 6: So does Tiger have to be part of the equation?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, Doctor Redmond can be in there.
Speaker 6: I think the Rory Fel thing is fantastic. I think
Speaker 6: obviously Tiger is like the elephant in the room. But
Speaker 6: and again that's why this you hear like Nance and
Speaker 6: others say this most anticipated masters ever, and we kind
Speaker 6: of always come to the Masters with the little extra
Speaker 6: enthusiasm and maybe get a little hyperbolic about where it
Speaker 6: stands beforehand, but like he's not out of line. There,
Speaker 6: there's so many things to choose from. I think that the
Speaker 6: cross generational thing, as Sean alluded to with Phil and
Speaker 6: Rory and then like the amount of history between on
Speaker 6: the line, if you had them, you know, Phil, what's
Speaker 6: the four jacket Club is Tiger Arnie and Jack. I mean,
Speaker 6: and Phil has talked about this at length with his
Speaker 6: like eyes bulging and grinning like, I mean, three is great,
Speaker 6: Jimmy Demerit, Sam Sney, but four like that is a
Speaker 6: you know how Phil gets all worked up and with
Speaker 6: Rory obviously whatever six guy to win the Career Slam.
Speaker 6: I think like if you got and they have, they've
Speaker 6: had moments of I don't know, tension or needling in
Speaker 6: the past, certainly have Valhalla, Ryder Cups, twenty four Glenn Eagles,
Speaker 6: Phil you know made a joke about him suing Graham mcdal.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 6: I think if you got Phil Rory with the the
Speaker 6: Career Slam versus the four Jacket Club and oldest to
Speaker 6: win like that would be just credible and the personalities.
Speaker 2: That they are.
Speaker 6: You know, the media just loves them.
Speaker 2: I don't really remember anyone remembers the tiny spats of
Speaker 2: golf better than you do. I totally forgot about the
Speaker 2: phil commented Glenn Eagles about Rory sueing Cray McDowell. But
Speaker 2: now I totally remember any feringce of back. But you're
Speaker 2: always good for those tiny those spats in press conversa.
Speaker 6: I always, you know, I try to make mountains out
Speaker 6: of all hills. It's a member of the fake news,
Speaker 6: you know. I got all these little needles. I gotta
Speaker 6: make a big deal.
Speaker 3: So Billy, Uh, I'm excited for to see Tiger and
Speaker 3: where he ends up and for everyone to see just
Speaker 3: how far behind the curve he really is. I mean,
Speaker 3: he hasn't won anything yet, and we're talking about a major,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: And and the reason why.
Speaker 3: We call majors is because it's so difficult to win
Speaker 3: at and all he's done is placed up until now.
Speaker 1: And so you add on the anticipation.
Speaker 3: The strong field, uh, plus the fact that he hasn't
Speaker 3: done anything yet, you know. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 3: just how far back in the field that he's going
Speaker 3: to end up. I mean, that's the way I think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that his driver's been the issue
Speaker 5: with his comeback. It's the only club that's kept him
Speaker 5: out of it. And of all the majors, Augusta is
Speaker 5: the place where the driver means the least in terms
Speaker 5: of accuracy, which.
Speaker 2: Is something I mean, there's not as much with as
Speaker 2: there once was.
Speaker 5: Where's he going to hit it on one?
Speaker 3: But when he was winning, it was his putter. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was winning everything and keeping him in championships and
Speaker 3: making him the greatest player that he ever was, you know.
Speaker 3: And he's not where he was at that time either,
Speaker 3: so you know, and the one thing about this course
Speaker 3: is the greens They get everybody, you know. So if
Speaker 3: he was putting like he did ten years ago, I
Speaker 3: would be a lot more excited for him.
Speaker 6: It's interesting today he's talking to I think Shackelford asked
Speaker 6: him about bent. You know, it's been two and a
Speaker 6: half years since he played on ben Crass or you know,
Speaker 6: played consistently on Bank Graft. He's been on Bermuda and
Speaker 6: obviously on the West Coast. And then also I thought
Speaker 6: one thing that was I took away from that is
Speaker 6: press conference was the uneven lies. He's like, I've just
Speaker 6: been playing like flat Florida courses. I've been, you know,
Speaker 6: He's like, I haven't played on a bunch of uneven lies.
Speaker 6: And obviously he smoked one from thirteen on the handing
Speaker 6: line to day. I was like, you know, it was beautiful,
Speaker 6: incredible shot. I'll remember, you know, for the rest of
Speaker 6: the week, no matter what happens, just on top of
Speaker 6: the flag and tapped it in for eagle. But I
Speaker 6: thought that was something to keep an eye on. Is like,
Speaker 6: I've been playing kind of flat golf for at least
Speaker 6: in this run up, and this is a little change,
Speaker 6: obviously the ben grass. And then we always hear about
Speaker 6: how you know, you can't tell how much undulation, how
Speaker 6: much you know, elevation change there is on Augusta on TV.
Speaker 6: Obviously it's everywhere. It's significant and extreme and and it
Speaker 6: makes you a little uncomfortable. You remember Jordan Speed actually how.
Speaker 2: A great quoterre about how uneven lies making more athletic
Speaker 2: and he's.
Speaker 6: Yeah, technical and he's less technical like someone he was
Speaker 6: at Cappel. No one's thinking about this stuff. And he's like,
Speaker 6: I play well here because like Augusta and I mean
Speaker 6: one of the rare times Capello and Augusta are probably
Speaker 6: throwing in the same sentence. But he's just because there's
Speaker 6: so much elevation change are on the side of the mountain.
Speaker 6: Not everything is just this flat perfect like robotic kind
Speaker 6: of golfing machine Dschambeau one plane swing.
Speaker 5: You know the John Deere. The John Deere has some
Speaker 5: of the most uneven lies and gotten on tour.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 5: You know who won at the John Deere.
Speaker 6: Jordan Speed and Zach Johnson, Bryson, that's true.
Speaker 2: And Bryce was containing as an amateur here lest we
Speaker 2: not forget.
Speaker 6: Right, So Andy, what do you make of that? The
Speaker 6: uneven lies thing in the bent like.
Speaker 2: Thing is overrated real quick?
Speaker 5: The ban grass is like the easiest grass to play
Speaker 5: on in the World's there's no grain. It's everybody's always
Speaker 5: like which is green? There's no great event. I grew
Speaker 5: up playing event like I have never I never once
Speaker 5: thought about grade until I got to Florida's.
Speaker 2: Basically saying I'm gonna have to transition to putting the
Speaker 2: best putting services I've been on.
Speaker 6: Tucker's like, yeah, you just don't grain. It doesn't it
Speaker 6: goes exactly where.
Speaker 5: Yes, bent grass is the greatest grass in the world
Speaker 5: to put on, so you know, and uh, I think
Speaker 5: uneven lies is total factor. What it What it does
Speaker 5: is it separates the men from the boys, Like you
Speaker 5: can't be a pretender with your irons and hit good
Speaker 5: shots off on even lies. Like the greatest iron players
Speaker 5: play well at augusta year and year out because they're
Speaker 5: the best. That's where it separates it. In the golf course,
Speaker 5: if you it asked you to hit spectacular, world class
Speaker 5: shots time after time to make birdies. It's why we
Speaker 5: see these big swings on the back nine especially, is
Speaker 5: the golf course just over and over again, asks you
Speaker 5: to hit this great shot. If you hit it, you've
Speaker 5: got a great look at Bertie and you're probably going
Speaker 5: to score really well. But if you don't, that's when
Speaker 5: you know the fun starts and you got you know,
Speaker 5: it's tough to you have to hit a great shot
Speaker 5: to make a four. It's it's such a position golf course.
Speaker 5: If you're in position, you can attack it, but you
Speaker 5: still have to hit a great shot. If you're out
Speaker 5: of position, you have to have a miraculous shot to
Speaker 5: make that Bertie. So with that, the I mean, if
Speaker 5: you go down the list of the guys that have
Speaker 5: played the best at Augusta over the years, they're all
Speaker 5: exceptional iron players. And if you look at this current generation,
Speaker 5: who are the best Augusta players? Phil he can't drive it.
Speaker 5: I mean one of the worst drivers. He's probably the
Speaker 5: worst driver of the golf ball. Of the twenty greatest
Speaker 5: players in the world of all time, You've got just
Speaker 5: You've got d and speed led the tour and strokes
Speaker 5: gained approach last year. Tiger Woods is the greatest iron
Speaker 5: player ever. I mean, you keep going down the list,
Speaker 5: justin Rose, exceptional iron player, like Paul Casey, great iron player,
Speaker 5: like these these guys, they're they're there for a reason.
Speaker 5: I can't believe Sergio, how nobody cares about the defending champion.
Speaker 5: And it's not like it's It's not like it's Danny Willett.
Speaker 5: It's not like it's Trevor Immleman. It's Sergio Garcia.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's just that's poor Sergio. You know, he
Speaker 6: just he caught it out a year. That's whatever. Tiger
Speaker 6: hasn't been here for two years. And Phil's one and
Speaker 6: Rory's one, and all these things have happened in the
Speaker 6: Q one, the first quarter or that. You know, the
Speaker 6: most notable thing is Sergio named his daughter Azalea.
Speaker 2: It's tough to find you follow up storyline on Sergio
Speaker 2: because for so long it was Sergio hasn't won a major, sure,
Speaker 2: and now it's like, well, Surgia is really good and
Speaker 2: he's got a major. He's got everything. He's got a major,
Speaker 2: So we don't really talk about that. He's married. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about his love life, you know, like
Speaker 2: all we can talk about Sergio is he's really really good.
Speaker 2: But that's not a good take.
Speaker 3: I think actually for Sergio, it takes the pressure off
Speaker 3: him totally.
Speaker 2: I mean, I totally agree, but I think.
Speaker 3: He couldn't ask for better conditions to try and defend
Speaker 3: his title.
Speaker 2: And he's playing well, like he played about the match play.
Speaker 2: His daughter was born like days before the match.
Speaker 3: Play, and he's not even in the discussion with all
Speaker 3: these big names. He's no one's even saying it. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's in great shit.
Speaker 5: His last three starts t seventh at the Mexico WGC
Speaker 5: Mexico fourth at vallast Bar and he made it to
Speaker 5: the round of sixteen at Austin.
Speaker 2: With his wife about to give birth, and then days
Speaker 2: after his wife does give birth. So like he's playing
Speaker 2: well enough that he played great wall handling all those distractions.
Speaker 6: And he won the Santapore Open. Don't forget about that.
Speaker 6: He's already won this year, big, big time. Steith couldn't
Speaker 6: win the Santaporn Open a couple of years ago, remember
Speaker 6: that through off his whole year. Yeah, they sent him
Speaker 6: out to Singapore and he was just never chasing dollars.
Speaker 6: Is exhausted the rest of the year. But Sergio want.
Speaker 5: It all right. So Tea Times came out today. What
Speaker 5: are the Tea Times you're watching? We're gonna exclude Tiger
Speaker 5: from this.
Speaker 2: I was disapointed with the Tiger repairing real quick. I
Speaker 2: thought that they kind of eased him into it. It
Speaker 2: kind of reminded me in twenty ten they put him
Speaker 2: with kJ and Matt Kucher. I don't know nothing. It's
Speaker 2: Mark Leishman, great year, last year. Nothing, it is Tommy Fleewood,
Speaker 2: two of the best players in the game. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: They just they had there's a Pizaze, to put him
Speaker 2: with a speed or a Roary, or just with someone
Speaker 2: else another epic name, and I feel like this kind
Speaker 2: of I was surprised by who they paired him with.
Speaker 2: We'll put it that way.
Speaker 6: What are you what are you looking for? Underrated tea time?
Speaker 6: A tea time?
Speaker 5: I like, which one are you most excited about?
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 5: I love?
Speaker 6: I love the fred Couples, how Tom Lee and Joaquin
Speaker 6: Neeman trio. I mean, that's that's howdible. There's just storylines
Speaker 6: for days.
Speaker 2: He's a global ambassador.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've got Asia and South America and like mister
Speaker 6: America Freddie Couples and they all hit a different you
Speaker 6: know how Ton and Nieman obviously they destroy the ball.
Speaker 6: Couples kind of just has that old man game to
Speaker 6: get around, you know, obviously doesn't hit it as far
Speaker 6: like I think that's like loaded with all sorts of storylines.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty excited they put champions or amateurs all play
Speaker 6: with the former first timers. Yeah, yeah, I love that trio.
Speaker 2: I actually love I love the there's a traditional Master's champion,
Speaker 2: US AM Champ and US Open Champ, but with Brooks
Speaker 2: out Justin Thomas Fille's that role. So Sergio and Justin
Speaker 2: Thomas is a good twosome. And I don't know what
Speaker 2: we'll see from Doc Redmond. He made the cud of
Speaker 2: bay Hill, but sometimes an amateur plays well. It's a
Speaker 2: cool story. But I think Sergio and Justin Thomas together
Speaker 2: is is pretty sweet. And I like that one.
Speaker 1: Brendan, I just met you.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to one up you, but I actually
Speaker 3: like the Sandy Lyle Seawu Kim who are here is
Speaker 3: a great conversationalist out there. And Doug Gim pairing. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know Sandy Lyle personally, but I hear he's
Speaker 3: a little bit salty, and you put him with Seawu
Speaker 3: Kim and Doug Gim right after Here's the lineup, the
Speaker 3: Zach pairing, the Tiger pairing, the Sergio pairing, the Bubba pairing,
Speaker 3: the Reed Hoffman pairing, the Horsel pairing, and then boom,
Speaker 3: Sandy Lyle with Seawu Kim and Doug Gim. He is
Speaker 3: he could get thrown off the grounds. I mean, again,
Speaker 3: I do not know him personally, but I hear he's salty.
Speaker 3: I think you put it with those two guys that
Speaker 3: he can't really air anything out with.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be an accident winning to happen.
Speaker 5: If only he could add Manty in there, Yeah, yes, exactly,
Speaker 5: a little cross British rivalry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would be great.
Speaker 5: I think this is kind of a cop out.
Speaker 6: It's a big time pairing.
Speaker 5: But the philm Michaelson, Ricky Fowler Matt Kutcher pairing something
Speaker 5: that is crazy. As this crop of major lists, there's
Speaker 5: no like really great player without a major, Like I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: like I'm not putting Ricky Fowler in the same conversation
Speaker 5: as Sergio or like Lee Westwood even or like because
Speaker 5: Ricky he's won what seven times in his career if.
Speaker 2: You're counting international, it sounds about right, seven and those
Speaker 2: are two big European Sergio had thirty.
Speaker 5: I mean, and you know, Matt Coocher, he's been a
Speaker 5: really regular contender. He's probably he's probably an other guy
Speaker 5: that you could consider the best player without a major.
Speaker 5: And over the last three years we've just seen this
Speaker 5: flurry of first time major winners, so that we've depleted
Speaker 5: the stock of great players without a Major. But they're
Speaker 5: playing with the guy that was the greatest player without
Speaker 5: a Major for the probably the longest time outside of Manty.
Speaker 2: Speaking the best players out of Major. I do like
Speaker 2: the Hideki and Paul Casey pairing along with Pat Desider
Speaker 2: like Paul Casey and little under under the radar, but
Speaker 2: a good master's pikes played well here a lot few
Speaker 2: years one valast Bar Hideki has always played well, plays
Speaker 2: well here. Been a little slow start for my guy.
Speaker 5: But I gotta ask, you can hideki Win?
Speaker 2: He is a cape. Yes, he's capable of winning. When
Speaker 2: he was number two in the world rankings and people
Speaker 2: would ask that question and guys they're like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean he's literally the second best player in the world.
Speaker 5: Did that get asked at all?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I know my favorite Twitter account can hideki Win. Uh
Speaker 2: t tweeted it someone or we responded to someone who
Speaker 2: said that the Schamanker Sharma questions today were the Hideki questions.
Speaker 6: That's true. That's a great.
Speaker 2: Conker Sharma is a big deal man. There was twenty
Speaker 2: one years old.
Speaker 6: That's a There was a Sharma theme through everyone's press conference.
Speaker 6: Everyone got asked about Sharma.
Speaker 5: Who's more important in terms of international is that how
Speaker 5: Tang Lee from China or Sharma from India.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think you're asking questions above our pay
Speaker 6: right and you're getting into geopolitics.
Speaker 2: And those are both. Those are both two tough countries
Speaker 2: because they both there's so many things conspiring against the
Speaker 2: larger populace playing golf. You know, shamank Er Sharma could
Speaker 2: win the Masters, but what is there There's like seven
Speaker 2: golf courses in India and they're all private or you know.
Speaker 5: I think they should do a Battle of Big Horn
Speaker 5: a pay per view with Sharma against how Tong Lee.
Speaker 5: It'd be like the most watched event of all time.
Speaker 2: Put on ESPN plus a little over the top content.
Speaker 3: No, the Ocho, it's got to go on. Theo Ocho
Speaker 3: needs that comment.
Speaker 2: Big Congress would pick a better venue.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, it wouldn't be Bigger Horn. We we could
Speaker 5: do it out in uh at that course in India,
Speaker 5: The Hero of course with Gary player Special.
Speaker 2: I actually love that course. It's like so egregious that
Speaker 2: I enjoy it completely agree. It's like playing a Disney World.
Speaker 6: It's not subtly bad. It's in your face bad and
Speaker 6: you can enjoy it for that reason.
Speaker 5: It went so far that it's good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. But kind of one thing I like about
Speaker 6: the Masters is they they they don't acquiesce to television
Speaker 6: demands and the fan demands of like we need Tiger,
Speaker 6: Phil and Rory all the day. Other you get that
Speaker 6: at the other majors.
Speaker 2: Well, they did stack those feature groups pretty good if
Speaker 2: you look. I felt like the teacher.
Speaker 5: They don't have as deep of a field though.
Speaker 6: They give you Tiger and you're upset because he's playing
Speaker 6: with Leash and Fleetwood, like you're at well, not upset.
Speaker 5: You're upset that he's playing with two other top twenty
Speaker 5: players in the world.
Speaker 6: But they don't. They never kind of I mean PGA
Speaker 6: obviously they put the three major winners together, but like
Speaker 6: a lot of the they usually give you the big
Speaker 6: guns all together, whereas Masters will kind of like a
Speaker 6: big gun, kind of like the top twenty player and
Speaker 6: then maybe an amateur or lesser guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, give me his genesis open pairing of him
Speaker 2: and JT and Rory. I mean that they've seen it,
Speaker 2: I guess already, but I mean, come on.
Speaker 6: That's Big Tour just trying to get like over the
Speaker 6: top subscriptions for PGA Tour Live. You know they can.
Speaker 6: They're just that's a business with masters, like they don't
Speaker 6: need to dabble with that.
Speaker 5: Can we talk about Phil's outfit today in the practice
Speaker 5: round the dresser.
Speaker 6: I'm not the expert here on this.
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot about this stuff, but I
Speaker 3: could give you what I do know, okay, and that
Speaker 3: is that Rene Lacoste in nineteen thirty stopped wearing woven
Speaker 3: shirts to play tennis because people decided that knit shirts
Speaker 3: were more comfortable and actually truly performed better. So the
Speaker 3: fact that Phil says they're stretchy, meaning his woven shirts,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean my boxer shorts. My old boxer
Speaker 3: shorts were stretchy too, But now I've got on knit
Speaker 3: boxer shorts and it's like almost like stealing. I mean,
Speaker 3: it should be against the rules. It feels so good.
Speaker 3: So if that's if that's what Phil's reason for it
Speaker 3: is because it's stretchy, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like there's something else behind it.
Speaker 6: He didn't really have a great answer for it. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's a stretchy comfy.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I wanted to try it. It was stretchy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he needed more. He needed a better description and
Speaker 6: more prepared answer coming in for that.
Speaker 5: I went to ESPN and the the photo on the
Speaker 5: front page was Tiger in his blade collar T shirt,
Speaker 5: next who looked like he just got done with like
Speaker 5: a workout. Next to Phil in this button down treashshirt,
Speaker 5: who looked like he just got off the office.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a dad's standing at a little league game
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, I mean long sleeves with like the cuffs.
Speaker 6: It had his logo on the cuffs. Its just was.
Speaker 6: I walked up and I couldn't. I walked up to
Speaker 6: the tent tee at eight thirty this morning. I'm like,
Speaker 6: got my coffee, trying to get in, get in the flow.
Speaker 6: I'm looking for Tiger more than anything. And then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, Phil stre I was like, wait, why
Speaker 6: is he wearing long sleeves? Like wait, why is it?
Speaker 6: I's got that pattern? And then I whip around the
Speaker 6: front and I see it's buttoned out all the way.
Speaker 6: I just it took me like ten minutes to figure
Speaker 6: out what what he was wearing. And then I get
Speaker 6: back because you have no phone. I get back to
Speaker 6: the press center and it's obviously all the rage. It's like,
Speaker 6: what the hell is he wearing?
Speaker 2: Also, he saved it for a big moment the practice
Speaker 2: on the Tiger. He knew all eyes with me on
Speaker 2: him today and so he decided this is what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna this is my statement I make with my fashion today.
Speaker 6: It's just with the gloves and the pants. It was
Speaker 6: just a very odd ensemble. But that's what we expect,
Speaker 6: I guess from Phil at this.
Speaker 5: Point, What's what's the worst Master's look of all time?
Speaker 5: I mean there's been some Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: Pij loves his Phil's silver surfer outfit.
Speaker 5: He looked like the tin man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was gray on gray. I just I'm not
Speaker 2: a big I'm not a huge fashion guy, but I
Speaker 2: do know that gray on gray is not a great one.
Speaker 6: We're talking, we're talking about fashion and then different like
Speaker 6: making judgments when we're actually in the room with the expert.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to reserve it for this year actually
Speaker 3: because I think the blade collars are actually the worst.
Speaker 1: That I've seen.
Speaker 3: You know, in fact, that they call them collars is
Speaker 3: completely incorrect. It's a collar band that then collar is
Speaker 3: attached to you know, that's what they're They're wearing a
Speaker 3: shirt with a collar band. And of all the people
Speaker 3: that I thought would kind of put a halt to it,
Speaker 3: I thought Augusta was the was the group that would say, no,
Speaker 3: we're sorry that you know, you have to have a
Speaker 3: traditional shirt on.
Speaker 1: But they didn't.
Speaker 3: And I guess that's okay, but I truly think they
Speaker 3: look ridiculous.
Speaker 6: You're in You're in good company on that day. We've
Speaker 6: been railing against us now for more than a year, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, they're offensive. They look like you should be
Speaker 6: going down Washington Road to Planet Fitness or something and
Speaker 6: getting a quick lift in. And you know, Billy Payne
Speaker 6: was asked about this last year. It was my favorite
Speaker 6: moment maybe of the week.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Somebody asked Billy Payne, like, you know, uh, you know, chairman,
Speaker 6: what do you think of these Nike shirts? You know,
Speaker 6: what is a I mean, it's not a collared shirt.
Speaker 6: And he kind of like it's like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 6: not familiar with what you're referring to, and they like
Speaker 6: moved on. But the moment between that question and waiting
Speaker 6: for the answer was like one of my favorite moments
Speaker 6: of the week. It's a legitimate question, is it not?
Speaker 1: It is? It is.
Speaker 6: I think if you're some like fifteen handicap and you
Speaker 6: show up at a course that requires a collared shirt,
Speaker 6: they're probably telling you to go home exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm so surprised that.
Speaker 3: I mean, they had a year to I guess they
Speaker 3: and they've covered it. They think it's okay, which to me,
Speaker 3: you know, I liken it to Paul Goidos wearing a
Speaker 3: mock turtle neck. You know, I think I think good
Speaker 3: looks will prevail and people realize that, you know, putting
Speaker 3: a collar on actually looks better. It does serve a function.
Speaker 3: It blocks the back of your neck from the sun.
Speaker 3: So they got, well, we'll be able to spot all
Speaker 3: the Nike guys in the airport is all have sunburned
Speaker 3: back of necks after they missed the cut.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite looks is when Day pairs the
Speaker 5: blade collar with his kevlar vest.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean kevlar vest slash, you know, Joe West
Speaker 6: behind the plate.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 6: You know, he looks like he's ready to call balls
Speaker 6: and strikes and some of that stuff, but I you know,
Speaker 6: like he's a That's the problem is Like I've said
Speaker 6: this before, I generally don't mind Nike. I get a
Speaker 6: lot of stuff from my kids that's Nike. I get
Speaker 6: some other stuff from myself that's Nike. But Nike Golf
Speaker 6: tends to offend my sensibilities. But I think you guys know,
Speaker 6: like Tiger's blade collars are like a little different because
Speaker 6: his shirt seemed like different than like the rary ones
Speaker 6: in the day ones. I don't know if he's got
Speaker 6: like a different maybe it's just the way it's tailored,
Speaker 6: but they're like baggier, like he was.
Speaker 2: At the hanging down. Yeah, yeah, pull it.
Speaker 6: Up because like the V was going up into like
Speaker 6: his Adam's apple and you have to like readjust it
Speaker 6: and pull it back down. I don't know, it's a
Speaker 6: lot of fashion talk. I'm not an expert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just poor fitting, either as the wrong size
Speaker 3: on or it just doesn't fit them well.
Speaker 5: But Billy scripting's become really big, and I feel like
Speaker 5: the last five years, everybody puts it out there, what's it.
Speaker 5: What's the key to good scripting?
Speaker 3: And I think you know, from a brand standpoint, it's
Speaker 3: it's just it's being able to remember what they were
Speaker 3: wearing so that you know, when you make it to
Speaker 3: your your pro shop or your retail venue, you you
Speaker 3: you can resurrect what was in what was out on
Speaker 3: the course. Uh So, to me, that's always consistency. I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I think the people that either have a
Speaker 3: Sunday shirt or something like that, that's always it's memorable
Speaker 3: and it I think, yeah, I think just consistency is
Speaker 3: the best. If you're sending a message, just send one message.
Speaker 2: The one movement I did not like though, was when
Speaker 2: staff they'd have a staff would have their entire team
Speaker 2: in the same outfit. So you'd have like two guys
Speaker 2: from the same company, We're in the same exact thing,
Speaker 2: looking like they can line up for batting practice or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3: I think you can, you can stay to consistency but
Speaker 3: have have variant within guys. I think whatever a guy
Speaker 3: wears should match his personality for sure.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Uh, and all the brands that are in this you
Speaker 3: know kind of scripting game have enough product that they
Speaker 3: could do that.
Speaker 6: The scripting, I mean, it's an entire it's like a
Speaker 6: cottage industry now, you know, they've really how old is
Speaker 6: a phenomena what would you say, it's like a decade now.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a byproduct of our content environment
Speaker 2: which needs more content and.
Speaker 6: More mostly Nike. The Nike started probably and then they.
Speaker 2: They probably started with Tiger, and then it's just trickled
Speaker 2: down to more and more obscuter players.
Speaker 6: So this week chees Reevey got a scripting release. Do
Speaker 6: you know that there's some people who like kind of
Speaker 6: like try to figure out, like, and I'm not could somebody.
Speaker 5: Just get him a hat that fits? Just happens.
Speaker 6: It's a good it's it's it's just interesting now, like
Speaker 6: what's the last frontier of who gets.
Speaker 2: Script what's his company? I guess I get that if
Speaker 2: you're like that, if Chezu is your one guy, I mean,
Speaker 2: you gotta do it right. It's your big it's your
Speaker 2: super Bowl for whatever your brand is. If if a
Speaker 2: guy is wearing your stuff in the Masters, it's more
Speaker 2: when you're like, what.
Speaker 6: Kind of coverage are you expecting out of that?
Speaker 5: I did a Master's scripting search on Twitter before this,
Speaker 5: and uh popped up Robert Streb with PGA Door Apparel
Speaker 5: master scripting from twenty sixteen. I mean, this stuff lives.
Speaker 6: You're getting up in Martin's kitchen with PGA Tour apparel
Speaker 6: and Streb. That's like where I.
Speaker 2: Would honestly think that Streb would dress himself a little
Speaker 2: bit surprised by that.
Speaker 5: How does it work?
Speaker 6: Do you do you?
Speaker 5: Does the player have any input in this?
Speaker 1: I think every deal is different.
Speaker 3: You know, in my experience, you you put together a
Speaker 3: script and you you send it, you know, to the event,
Speaker 3: and you know, in some cases they wear it, in
Speaker 3: some cases they don't. You know, It's it all depends
Speaker 3: on the deal and how I think each apparel deal
Speaker 3: with each player is probably a little bit different. So
Speaker 3: you know, in some cases, when I worked with Tom Watson,
Speaker 3: if he didn't want to wear something, he just didn't
Speaker 3: wear it.
Speaker 1: But he's Tom Watson, so you know, you just said it's.
Speaker 3: Okay, And so I would I would assume that, you know,
Speaker 3: with some of the bigger companies where the money is
Speaker 3: really it's tied to it is tied to what this
Speaker 3: guy's wearing in the event. They have to wear it.
Speaker 6: So what's what's like the exposure like of a of
Speaker 6: a day at the Masters versus no the other forty
Speaker 6: eight events. You know, I mean I assume it's it's
Speaker 6: pretty substantial that if you're signed or you're under contract,
Speaker 6: unless you're say Tom Watson, Tiger Rory, things like that.
Speaker 6: I mean, you need to kind of get on board
Speaker 6: with the Master's plan and their mark because I assume,
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not Darren Ravel, but I assume like
Speaker 6: the marketing opportunity for you know, an hour of Masters
Speaker 6: coverage is equal to the other forty eight events. I
Speaker 6: don't know, So I think you got you gotta get
Speaker 6: on board.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta, you gotta be you gotta be a
Speaker 5: team player. What at a regular event, do you just
Speaker 5: did they just get a pick from Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you you have a seasonal wardrobe that you
Speaker 3: give them and and and it'll rotate over the course
Speaker 3: of a month.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't wear anything twice.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's but it's it's less rigid than with
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, when when Saturday and Sunday come
Speaker 3: along for the Masters, you want you want to be
Speaker 3: knowing what what your guys gonna be wearing.
Speaker 6: Speaking of twice, Tiger has been in that same grotesque
Speaker 6: like pink gradient to gray, you know, going from like
Speaker 6: the like left shoulder down to the right shoulder at
Speaker 6: least twice in this comeback, because I mean, it's the
Speaker 6: shirt you can't forget, but he wore it at the
Speaker 6: Hero What. Yeah, he wore a vals bar, but he
Speaker 6: wore at the Hero too. I mean it's it's a
Speaker 6: shirt you never forget, but he's definitely worn it at
Speaker 6: least twice. You figure, like just a plain navy or
Speaker 6: something that you could wear that multiple times, but this
Speaker 6: is one you can't wear it twice in the you know,
Speaker 6: same timeframe of a year, but he already.
Speaker 5: Has so picks. Who you guys got predictions for what?
Speaker 6: Low am low aussy?
Speaker 2: Well we're not.
Speaker 5: We're going We're gonna stay mainstream here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going pretty far off the We did get
Speaker 5: off the rails there, but we're raining it back end.
Speaker 6: I kind of enjoyed it, to be honest with you.
Speaker 6: How many how many podcasts are you gonna listen to?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go on another divergence here. How many podcasts
Speaker 6: are you gonna listen to that are just talk about
Speaker 6: picks the cores Tiger being back. I enjoyed talking about
Speaker 6: collars and scripting. That was more fun than the usual
Speaker 6: content you got to you gotta stand out and.
Speaker 2: When the golf media zigs the fried eggs eggs, that's
Speaker 2: the point.
Speaker 6: Gotta be distinct add value. I don't need to hear
Speaker 6: any more about Tiger's you know, strokes, gaining this and that,
Speaker 6: rather talk about his collar.
Speaker 5: He hasn't won in a blade collar.
Speaker 6: Is that true?
Speaker 5: That might be a big.
Speaker 2: Storyline existed in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has never won in a blade collar, that's true.
Speaker 2: The mock turtlenecks, though, he had some good years in
Speaker 2: the mock turtlenecks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was his sweet spot, was the
Speaker 3: mock turtlenick years.
Speaker 5: How did the mock turtleneck come of being?
Speaker 3: It was in the seventies and it was really hot
Speaker 3: out and a guy was wearing a turtle neck and
Speaker 3: he's about to win the event and he cut off
Speaker 3: the sleeves and all of a sudden he had a
Speaker 3: short sleeve.
Speaker 1: Mak no, I actually have no idea.
Speaker 2: The names of these things fascinating me, like mock, Like,
Speaker 2: all right, we got this thing. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: a turtle neck, but it's not what are we gonna
Speaker 2: call it? I guess, you know, kind of a mock sure,
Speaker 2: but like we've got this collar, I guess a blade.
Speaker 2: It's not really a blade.
Speaker 1: I mean a mock turtle neck.
Speaker 3: Sounds like something that Uncle Eddie would wear in in
Speaker 3: Christmas vacation, right, you know then, Dicky, you know it's
Speaker 3: that that's kind of like a mock turtle neck.
Speaker 2: There's no there's a collar. There's no collar, there's no blade.
Speaker 2: Why does a blade collar? Something?
Speaker 5: Something I noticed watching all those old masters was how
Speaker 5: a few guys wore hats back in the day.
Speaker 2: And Roy didn't wed the hat a hazel team. That
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that. I think we gotta get rid
Speaker 5: of hats. But that's where a lot of money is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I noticed they were making them take them all off.
Speaker 2: Them run a wet comb through the hair, because they
Speaker 2: all looked slightly like they'd done a little bit with
Speaker 2: their hair. Hair.
Speaker 6: Usually those press conferences that keep.
Speaker 5: Mob I think filter beat up. He like tired Phil.
Speaker 6: There were some grays in there, for sure.
Speaker 2: I love the shaggy hair. I don't know, he looked,
Speaker 2: he looked crazy. The shaggy hair, the button down I love.
Speaker 2: I love disheveled Phil. He's got the whole, like just
Speaker 2: mad sciences vibe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you guys, you guys don't want to don't
Speaker 5: want to say reveal your picks.
Speaker 2: I mean I think I really like Rose. I just
Speaker 2: that's very trendy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm joining that, jumping on that bandwagon. I think
Speaker 6: it's like.
Speaker 2: I think Speed could do it. I don't know you do.
Speaker 2: He's yeah, I mean, no matter how he plays in Houston,
Speaker 2: I mean the week before, he plays well here. I
Speaker 2: mean every he's played four times, he's had the fifty
Speaker 2: four hole lead three times and the other time he
Speaker 2: was two shots back. He always plays well here. That's
Speaker 2: not like and everyone's like always playing horrific and like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he missed the cut of Avalas where he played really bad,
Speaker 2: but he had like four strate top twenties before that,
Speaker 2: Like his bad he was hitting it so good that
Speaker 2: his bad putting was Still he's still finishing top twenty.
Speaker 6: I am for sure a Rose guy. I know, I
Speaker 6: hate how mainstream it's become. But he's gone T second,
Speaker 6: T six, T second obviously last year. I think he's
Speaker 6: playing well. He's been playing well since the end of
Speaker 6: twenty seventeen. He's a ball striker like Andy alluded to
Speaker 6: knows every position to be in on this course. I think, like,
Speaker 6: if you were to ask me, you know, of the
Speaker 6: top ten to fifteen players in the world, who is
Speaker 6: most likely to at least be in the hunt or
Speaker 6: be around I think would be Rose, of course, Like
Speaker 6: who's the most likely to shoot like sixty six, sixty six,
Speaker 6: you know, seventy and win by like four. Probably not Row,
Speaker 6: probably like say Justin Thomas. But you're gonna ask me,
Speaker 6: like who's like, who can I bank on being there?
Speaker 6: Like in the top five to seven players and one
Speaker 6: or last tea times on Sunday. I go with Rose,
Speaker 6: And that's just where you know. That's why I'm gonna
Speaker 6: take him. I think he has the best chance to
Speaker 6: be there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think he's uh, he hasn't finished
Speaker 5: up probably like the top twenty in like the last
Speaker 5: decade or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think it's worst finished since twenty
Speaker 6: eleven is T twenty five?
Speaker 5: Yeah, top twenty five. I think he hasn't finished out
Speaker 5: side of the top twenty five and just automatic.
Speaker 3: So I like Rory with a recent victory under his belt.
Speaker 3: I think he really likes his golf course. I can
Speaker 3: remember watching him play this golf course, thinking that, you know,
Speaker 3: he wasn't gonna lose this thing.
Speaker 1: For a couple of years, and he did.
Speaker 3: But I like the fact that he's got a recent
Speaker 3: w and I like how much he plays well at
Speaker 3: this golf course.
Speaker 1: So I like Rory.
Speaker 2: He sounded good in his presser. He's talking about how,
Speaker 2: you know, because augustin National we talk so much about
Speaker 2: how experience and missing it in the proper places is
Speaker 2: so important, and he's kind of talking about how that
Speaker 2: had gotten him into this very conservative mindset and so
Speaker 2: he'd get on the grounds and he would be too
Speaker 2: like he said, I'd give the golf course too much respect.
Speaker 2: He said, this year, I'm just gonna try and go
Speaker 2: out and play more aggressively. And I mean that's what
Speaker 2: Rory has to do. You know, we see him when
Speaker 2: he's playing his best. He's shooting fine a round sixty
Speaker 2: fours to win at bay Hill, and I was like
Speaker 2: his final round scoring average in his stroke play with
Speaker 2: on tour sixty six point seven, which is nuts.
Speaker 5: So he just has to get it. Seems to me
Speaker 5: that he has had trouble avoiding like the one bad,
Speaker 5: like his bad round needs to be seventy two, oh
Speaker 5: to seventy four, seventy five, that because he's he's been shooting,
Speaker 5: you know, he's finished in the top ten ton, but
Speaker 5: it's like he's never been in contention in those rounds
Speaker 5: because in early round seventy five or that you know,
Speaker 5: seventy seven on Saturday and when Speef won, like he
Speaker 5: just hasn't avoided the disasters and and just it's the
Speaker 5: key to Rory is always keeping the momentum going with
Speaker 5: those par saves, because like he's a guy that I
Speaker 5: really feel like has like you know, he needs that
Speaker 5: momentum to keep going to like he's not, but we'll see.
Speaker 5: I think his I've heard he's been talking to facts
Speaker 5: and more so.
Speaker 2: They've played nine. I think last week he was last
Speaker 2: year he was talking. I think he was being a
Speaker 2: little bit half joking. But last year he left and
Speaker 2: he's like, hey, Lisa, I didn't have any nines in
Speaker 2: the forties this week. That's progress.
Speaker 6: That's that's why I kind of love That's why I
Speaker 6: like him. Though he shoots at forty and then like
Speaker 6: comes in like thirty two. You know, he's just I
Speaker 6: don't know, he's got what you have forty on it
Speaker 6: in somewhere in his card and a lot proceeding like
Speaker 6: two or three years at the Master.
Speaker 2: Six of his past eight Masters, he's had a score
Speaker 2: of seventy six or higher.
Speaker 6: So what did you think about his his line today
Speaker 6: that he needs to be more aggressive. He's talking about
Speaker 6: I mean two and three. He's like, I put on
Speaker 6: Thursday morning and I want to put you know, numbers
Speaker 6: up on the board.
Speaker 2: I loved it, but it doesn't I'm the only problem
Speaker 2: with that. That might not be the year that this
Speaker 2: that pays off. It's gonna be colder. It seems like
Speaker 2: there's cold front coming in Wednesday. It's gonna rain Wednesday,
Speaker 2: which always gets people excited about Rory's chances. But it
Speaker 2: seems like I.
Speaker 5: Kind of for that a couple of years ago. What
Speaker 5: I remember, I was going to take speeth and then
Speaker 5: it rained, and I was like, Rory, everyone falls for that.
Speaker 2: But I think it's gonna be It's gonna be cold
Speaker 2: and hard and firm. I mean, it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: a year where guys are challenging to seventy.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm taking j T.
Speaker 5: I think this is gonna be the coronation of JT
Speaker 5: is the best player in it all, back to back majors. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's I think he's the best player in the world.
Speaker 5: And he's good at everything. Great short game, great iron player,
Speaker 5: drives the ball really far and can really putt. And
Speaker 5: I think this is the week where it all comes together.
Speaker 5: He's played pretty well here in his two appearances. Not great,
Speaker 5: but when you look at everything you want at Augusta,
Speaker 5: he's got it. And last year he played a really
Speaker 5: good round one of the rounds. But I think this is, uh,
Speaker 5: this is the year for JT. You guys got any sleepers,
Speaker 5: anybody you're gonna surprise.
Speaker 6: I'm a We talked about his pairing kind of being
Speaker 6: a rough draw earlier. I like Burger a lot. I
Speaker 6: think he's in the positive on all the Strokes game numbers.
Speaker 6: It's two starts. I think it's like thirty seventh is
Speaker 6: his worst appearance. This is his third start.
Speaker 5: I think he was twenty, top ten, top seven. I
Speaker 5: think he finished seventh. Is a rookie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think like he can be long enough
Speaker 6: when he wants to be. In his odds, it's more
Speaker 6: like an odds play. He's like he was like one
Speaker 6: hundred to one when I was looking at this seemed
Speaker 6: really high given the talent and press performance. And he's
Speaker 6: been fine this year. He's not there's been no weakness
Speaker 6: in his game. He's in the positive on all the
Speaker 6: strokes game metrics. I think Burger's odds are a little off.
Speaker 2: I feel like Oustasan will just finish top five because
Speaker 2: he just does that. He does nothing all year and
Speaker 2: then he comes to a major finish top five.
Speaker 5: Billy, you're going with Sandy Lyle, right, yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, him and on hell Cabrera. I always like he's
Speaker 1: always my dark horse.
Speaker 2: On Hill's a bad pick. He shot seventy seven to
Speaker 2: the Monday qualifier for Houston's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well from Argentina.
Speaker 5: Probably.
Speaker 3: You know that's even when he's won, he's been a
Speaker 3: long shot.
Speaker 1: So the fact you're saying that he might not play with.
Speaker 6: The masters at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Also, don't forget ted Potter Augusta favors left handers,
Speaker 2: so you heard that in her first.
Speaker 6: He's worried about the Part three contests, the.
Speaker 3: First he might win, which would chink him on the
Speaker 3: regular one.
Speaker 2: No, he'll break that defend our first Part three contest
Speaker 2: to win the Masters.
Speaker 6: He's defending Part three champions. Last appearance he won.
Speaker 5: All right, I I like, can't lay, Let's get it in sleep.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll go, I'll go deeper, I'll go. I'm going. Well,
Speaker 5: is Bryson a sleeper? Sure, I'll take it Bryson. I
Speaker 5: actually think Bryson could win.
Speaker 2: I agree that I was waiting for Brendan to bring
Speaker 2: up an artist joke and I was going to pipe
Speaker 2: in the Brendan but actually or that Bryce would actually
Speaker 2: be a good pick.
Speaker 6: But I was between him and Burger. I mean, it's hard.
Speaker 6: I have an unrequited love for Bryson.
Speaker 2: So playable at bay Hill, playable here, he's amateur.
Speaker 5: He's gonna go full Necker soon bring it he should? Yeah,
Speaker 5: all right. Overrated, underrated golf shoes.
Speaker 6: As a golfer or a golfer as a golfer. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think underrated. I think I kind of enjoy the
Speaker 6: new era of you know, different styles and comfort and
Speaker 6: it's not so rigid as it used to be, you know,
Speaker 6: with the saddleshes. So they're underrated.
Speaker 2: I think overrated. We've gone way too far away from
Speaker 2: spikes of any kind, like these plastic ridges just aren't
Speaker 2: doing it for me. They're basically we're basically wearing sneakers.
Speaker 3: I mean, I support golf shoes because I truly like him.
Speaker 3: I run the spectrum from what what you like is
Speaker 3: what I like, which is you want the most comfortable
Speaker 3: pair of shoes that are sneakers that you can play
Speaker 3: golf in, And I love that. But I also have
Speaker 3: a pair of like six hundred dollars bench made Tassel
Speaker 3: killed d shoes, which I think are the coolest things
Speaker 3: on the planet, and I actually like playing in them
Speaker 3: because they're handmade shoes and they actually just feel great
Speaker 3: on your feet.
Speaker 1: You know, they're really well, well, well made shoes.
Speaker 3: And I think if you're gonna have to wear a
Speaker 3: traditional golf shoe, that's the way to go.
Speaker 5: I'm going way overrated, don't I don't think spikes are necessary.
Speaker 2: Sam snee played barefoot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've come to the realization that I play better
Speaker 5: without spikes.
Speaker 3: He also had five inch toes, though he could grab
Speaker 3: into the ground with his toes.
Speaker 2: Just kid out, you.
Speaker 1: Guys, believe me. That's how rich you guys are. You
Speaker 1: guys actually believe me.
Speaker 5: Underrated, Amen, corner.
Speaker 2: The holes are the name the holes. I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: overrated only because I think what they did to eleven
Speaker 2: was a travesty and I'm thirteen. I'm not sure what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do with that, So I think I'm offended
Speaker 2: by eleven. I wish they had kept it. Those trees
Speaker 2: on the right you need to go.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's hard to say it's underrated, right, I mean,
Speaker 6: it gets like more puff and praise than any stretch
Speaker 6: of holes in the world.
Speaker 2: So what's the bear trap?
Speaker 6: It's just snake pit.
Speaker 5: It ushered in the era of naming holes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ushered in one hundred years ago, seventy five years ago.
Speaker 6: I think it's overrated because god, that's I mean.
Speaker 2: It's hurst to say a little bit. But sure, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 6: It can't possibly be underrated.
Speaker 2: It's actually the fiftieth anniversary of the naming of a
Speaker 2: man corner. I heard someone asking questions about it in
Speaker 2: the press, as if something's perfect, can it be overrated? Wow?
Speaker 1: Because I think that's the perfect name. I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it's the perfect name, and when you nail.
Speaker 3: It, people could talk about it a lot. But it's
Speaker 3: only because they nailed it. You know, nothing else has
Speaker 3: had the teeth that a man corner has. And I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's right on, and I love it.
Speaker 3: And I love it when they start menching it the broadcast,
Speaker 3: you get excited because you know the fun part's coming up.
Speaker 2: So and I said that, and it is the first
Speaker 2: place you had when you get on the property. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you go right there. I mean there's nothing cool in
Speaker 2: that that spot. And then especially if you get to
Speaker 2: play Augusta, like getting on to twelve is otherworldly because
Speaker 2: that's the one spot.
Speaker 3: That you can't go or yeah, you can't see you've
Speaker 3: never seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think it's the whole thing is.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna sound Disney like, it's magical. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: So I love a man corner.
Speaker 2: Change my opinion, I might reach in my take.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a trained designer, was born a salesman.
Speaker 5: All right. So most underrated item at Augusta, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna go Pmento cheese. I think it's been a bad
Speaker 2: few years for Pmento pr and I love Pmento. So
Speaker 2: I think Pento or I got the question wrong. I
Speaker 2: think Pento is underrated it got overrated for a while,
Speaker 2: and then it just got bashed down and beat new oblivion.
Speaker 2: So I think Pimento needs to kind of be brought
Speaker 2: back up in it's proper space.
Speaker 5: The Master's menu board was a stock exchange, you would
Speaker 5: be buying pimento.
Speaker 2: Pimento got pummeled the Plento bubble burst. But now yeah,
Speaker 2: buy low and it's back on the way up.
Speaker 6: I think you can't. I mean, you can't overrate the
Speaker 6: the biscuits, the chicken, sausage, biscuit. I could sit there
Speaker 6: and have like twenty five of those. If the problem is,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm in public, and I don't want to
Speaker 6: look like a sociopath. The biscuitsandwiches are amazing. You can
Speaker 6: give me chicken, you give me sausage, does not matter.
Speaker 6: It's the biscuit. Maybe these are well publicized, you know,
Speaker 6: and everyone thinks they're the best thing already. But like
Speaker 6: I could not possibly say enough good things about the biscuit,
Speaker 6: sandwiches underrated.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the barbecue. I remember the day
Speaker 3: when they used to serve barbecue sandwiches that weren't hot,
Speaker 3: and those those were closer to cat food than really
Speaker 3: eating a sandwich is really disappointing.
Speaker 1: But now that they're.
Speaker 3: Hot, it's you know, you come from the cold North
Speaker 3: and you come down here and you're itching for some
Speaker 3: good barbecue, and that now is a great sandwich. And
Speaker 3: I actually like it if it's been in the warmer
Speaker 3: for a little a little bit longer, because then the.
Speaker 1: Edges are crispy, so good.
Speaker 3: I mean, I literally can't pass one of those green
Speaker 3: huts without grabbing one. And you guys, you can't see
Speaker 3: me on the podcast, but I look like I've had
Speaker 3: a couple of barbecue sandwiches.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: That that'll do it for the preview, and uh, we
Speaker 5: will be back maybe after I don't know.
Speaker 2: Analyzing Doug Game's low Image performance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know who's gonna be low AM.
Speaker 2: I'm very curious toe what Neman does.
Speaker 5: I think he's obviously the odds on favorite.
Speaker 2: He is number one in the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not going out on a.
Speaker 6: Lamb, you you two. Debating the low am is a
Speaker 6: proper way to end this podcast, you.
Speaker 5: Know, Doug Him, Doug Him, I don't know if he hits,
Speaker 5: He's not that long. Yeah, you know, Doug Him's a
Speaker 5: Chicago product Arlington Heights, grew up in my backyard, but.
Speaker 2: Literally just quite a story he did.
Speaker 5: He he needed a place to stay and I said,
Speaker 5: you can, you can stay under the start.
Speaker 1: I would like see what's his home course Sunset Valley.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's out in Arlington Heights.
Speaker 3: Is that Is that closer to him on the line? No, No,
Speaker 3: it's losing my Chicago like.
Speaker 5: I think he. I don't think he had a home course.
Speaker 2: For a while. I think he.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I would love to see Nemen do it,
Speaker 2: just because I mean he's Chilean. I can't name the
Speaker 2: second best Chilean golf forever, so it would be sweet
Speaker 2: to see him get low am and have a good
Speaker 2: pro career after he know.
Speaker 5: I think Neiman will get it. I'm bummed that toto Ghana.
Speaker 6: Shout out toto Ghana. Big dreams for that guy last
Speaker 6: year and he just got nuked off the course.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, guys, thanks for coming on, Thank.
Speaker 6: You, Thanks Andy bye.
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