WEBVTT - 2018 Masters Preview 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.600 I miss the green, for example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.000 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:06.480 And when I find my ball in a. 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.240 Fried egg Friday egg, the dreaded Friday Egg. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.000 Frida Egg, Frida egg, fried egg, Frida egg, bride egg Lie, 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.200 I'm about ready to run off the golf course. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.320 Arnold Palmer is the master of nineteen. He has buddy 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.520 the last two holes to catch and got over ahead 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.400 of catch that. Jory, what are the things you lay 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.400 races golf? I mean, have Anyboddy you haven't ever seen that? 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.600 A play up the hill. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:40.880 Like that? 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:46.280 And I think that's fine. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.040 Of the greatest funny I've ever seen. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.040 Him Friday Night. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:01:00.800 Maybe yes, sir, there it is, and you believe it? 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:08.039 Pick now, No, there it is a. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.280 Win for the agents. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:21.440 Is it his time. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:30.720 Here it comes? Oh my goodness. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.880 Oh wow. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.840 In your life that you seen anything like that? 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.440 Hello, friends, I'm jim NANTZ. Is my great pleasure to 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.200 welcome you to the Master's Tournament. I've heard it said before. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.720 It's a tradition unlike any other. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.560 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.919 Frida Egg Podcast. It is Tuesday before Masters, and I'm 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.679 joined by PGA tour Sean Martin, sp Nations, Brendan Porath, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.280 and the creative director for Summit Brands, Billy Draddy. Guys, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.280 welcome on. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.720 This is this is groundbreaking. We're all in the same room. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.920 It is amazing. It's gonna be a whole new dynamic 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:41.840 live pod. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.520 We're sitting here in this grand Augusta house that the 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.400 Drady b Draddy's gracious enough to host us with. That's 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.200 a new frontier in your pod empire. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.560 I think next step we have to be at the 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.720 media center, right yeah, I mean. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.040 Do they have little pod centers yet? 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.760 I heard they do. I don't know. You're the take 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.080 smith among us, Brendan. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.360 Yeah, I went looking for that this today. They have 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.480 radio like radio slots, you know, to fire off all 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.280 the audio takes. But I'm more of a man of 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.160 a man of letters. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.079 You want to take her into cendiary takes off property. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.760 You don't want to get escorted off the future. You know, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.200 they need to have little pod rooms. Let's get phones 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.360 on the golf course first, then we'll work on the 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:25.840 pod rooms next. Yeah. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:31.560 Yeah, So, uh Master's Week, what uh is your favorite 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.040 what is each of your guys' favorite master's tradition or 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.800 part of the aspect of the Masters. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.320 I'll go, I mean, I it's not exactly like, you know, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.440 an underrated one. The champions dinner. I think that's cool. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.080 I mean, that's very obvious, but I think it's cool 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.480 that the champ, defending champion gets to set a menu. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.560 A ton of people care about what this menu is. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.360 You know, PGA Championship has one. No one cares, you know, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.680 And how often do we see like, honestly, Gary Player 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.920 and Jack Nicholas and those people in public life together anymore? 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.160 We don't like and you know what, we've heard them talk. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.880 They've you know, contributed a lot to golf and sometimes 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.640 you know, their thoughts aren't always the most original. We've 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.440 heard them for twenty thirty, forty fifty years now. But 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.400 like I think, you know, not to be morose, but like, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.560 we never know how many years we have with them, 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.240 and it's good to kind of for the one week 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.680 a year they're all together in public view. And I 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:36.640 think that's still cool. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.719 If you won the Masters, what would be your champions dinner? 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.240 Oh, that's a good crocakes. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.720 I mean obviously we know the beverage would be a 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:45.360 monster energy. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.839 You can't and you can't complain about this on Twitter 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.120 and then go straight to the monster. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:53.799 I wasn't complaining. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:55.120 I don't know. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.919 I'd have to think about that. It'd probably be pretty basic. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.160 I'm just a fat, corn fed Midwest you know, you know, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:03.760 meeting potatoes of some sort. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.000 It's pretty cool the years that Tiger wasn't going to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.280 play and his back was horrible, that he would fly 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.760 up just for that, and it shows what a big 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.159 deal it is that he was, you know, talking about 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.240 lat year he could barely sit in. Yeah, nerve pain 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.480 is shooting down his leg and he still flies up 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.240 to do the Master's Champions dinner, which I mean, to 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.599 your point, shows how how cool it is and what 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:22.719 a big deal it is for guys. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:23.479 Yeah. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.400 I mean, I know that's kind of an obvious one. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.400 I'm not really going off the books there, but I 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.360 still whatever, I think it's cool. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.320 I actually I made the phones joke, but I actually 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.320 like the no phones. Like I was walking around this 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.839 morning taking some photos and just enjoying the golf course, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.640 not checking my mentions or you know, getting texts. I 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:41.159 like the no phones. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.839 I'm like all in on the no phone country clubs. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.120 Like when I get to put the phone away and 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.560 I like, you're just out there playing golf. It's so 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:51.560 much more peaceful. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:52.240 You know. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.240 I don't need to make an Instagram story of my round, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.200 no need to see that. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.600 Yeah, it's so billy. You've been coming here for how 0:05:58.600 --> 0:05:59.320 many years now? 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.919 I guess this will be maybe my nineteenth in a 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.000 row something like that. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:04.479 Yeah. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.159 My favorite is actually just getting here right as the 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:12.400 gates open and everyone everyone walks briskly to go put 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.920 their chair out, and I kind of just walk slowly 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:20.080 and you and just the procession and it changes a 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.760 little bit every year, and that's part of the fun 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.560 as you see all the newness that the that the 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.320 club brings to the event. But there's a real, uh, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.520 there's a real serenity to the grounds. As the championship's 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.880 going on, it's just like, uh, there's a great feeling 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.960 that everyone is here for all the right reasons, that 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.600 we're about to see something great. And I mean, the 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.360 club does. I think it's the best sporting event in 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.440 the world. So to just walk in slowly and kind 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.200 of take everything in is always my favorite part of it. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.400 Sean, Yeah, I think. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:55.960 I have to agree with that. I did an early 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.400 morning walk today. I wish the gates open at eight. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.360 I wish that they'd opened it like s in. It 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.600 would have been awesome. You know, you lose, you lose 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.160 some of that good light when the gates on opening 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:05.479 you can go. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.760 You're worried about your Instagram page. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.400 Well, I've used the point shoot, so I'm gonna have 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.520 to take up lestra steps. Gotta upload my computer first 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.000 and then edit them, and then you know, I can't 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.680 just or you're. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.040 Not worried about your story, but you're no. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.360 I like to take some good photos, so with some 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.440 two thousand and five technology I love. I love under 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.120 rated tradition is when like Tiger was playing, everyone's holding 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.960 up these like two thousand and five point shoots because 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.920 they all save their cameras for this one week a 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.920 year because they need them because you can't take your 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:33.760 phone on the grounds. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.200 This is like a super nerdy inside baseball on. But 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.640 the thing I like is that in the media center 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.560 press building, I should say he's the correct terminology, they 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.560 have these like notepads for It's like the same kind 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.000 of note style that like whatever Grantlin Rice and Herbert 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.920 Warren Wind would take when they when they go out 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.760 on the course, and like when you assume there's no 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.080 video footage of everything, it's every whole with like note slots. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.320 You know what I'm talking about eight and a half by 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.880 eleven pad, Right, Yeah, it's like an eight and a 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.040 half by eleven pad. It's as like masters on it. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.040 You know, you have each hole where you're supposed to 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.680 note you know what happened with the shots, presuming there's 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.240 no video record of it or anything like that. So 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.760 that's like shot meg and nerdy, super nerdy. So that's 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.320 a cool tradition. I always grab one go out there, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.920 and I mean, I don't pretend I'm you know, Grantlin 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.040 Rice or anything like that, but I don't know. That's 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.480 how I like to take notes of the round. And 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.240 another cool aspect of not having your phone there usually 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.200 just plugging those notes into your phone at the other majors, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.520 But I don't know, that's a that's a kind of 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.800 off the record one. They are, you know, an underrated 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:37.680 one you wouldn't see. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.640 I love that the champions get to keep playing forever, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.080 because what it leads to is like Bernhard Longer a 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.520 couple of years ago in contention on a Sunday Freddie 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.040 Couples making his run and getting to see like that. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.360 You know, Augusta has become a place that is tougher 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.760 to compete at as an older age, but it's still 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.640 you can still get it around there. And if you 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.680 take advantage of the holes like that, you only learn 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.520 more and more and you get better at playing the 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.040 golf course with age. So it's cool that these guys 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:11.920 got to keep playing. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.160 I mean even like Larry Miies is fifty nine, I think, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.880 and it's not like he's burning up the Champions Tour, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.319 but he's made three the last four cuts. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.040 Yeah, I think that's a cool aspect of it. Like 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.920 you can have a tournament where like Trevor Illmoman plays, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.760 but like Ernie Els can't. It's an exclusive. You know, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.040 I'm not saying Andy's vig Ernie El's guy, but it's 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.319 not Ernie. You know, someone who's super competitive right now, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.520 say like the fifty fifth player ranked player in the 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.559 world that wasn't otherwise exempt, but you also have Trevor emblem. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.760 Like that's still a cool thing. To Andy's point about 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.760 all the former champs coming back. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.920 It does make like a sudden death playoff so much 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.959 more high stakes. So you think about it, like, you know, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.840 Kenny Perry in two thousand and nine loses if Nny 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.640 Perray won, that he's coming back to the champions and 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.600 every year he's coming and playing. Every year he's playing 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.400 the Part three contest with his grandkids. Now like he's oh, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.760 this week, I get you know it. And so not 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.160 only did you lose the Masters and lose the title 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.280 and all that, but you lost like the opportunity to 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.679 come back every year and do all those awesome traditions. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.800 So I feel like it does add weight to like 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.040 to the playoffs when those do happen. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.320 So nineteen years, that's a lot of time. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.959 I mean, short sleeve rain sure. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.360 No, no, no, no, no no no. That was the 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.600 US Open. It was zero restriction. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.200 But that was of course Payne Stewart at the US right. Yeah, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.880 he cut the sleeves off his rain jacket and we 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.200 created a little subcategory and rainwear. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:36.880 Thank god. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.520 I remember my dad after that cut off the sleeves 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.400 of his rain jacket and started wearing it around. He thought, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.680 I mean, if there's ever a market for short sleeve 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:50.280 rain shirts. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.559 He's the guy. He loves him. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:59.800 So transitioning to this year, what's uh, you know, Tiger's 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.800 out obviously the big storyline. What's the storyline you're watching 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.920 going into this year that you're you're excited to see unfold? 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.520 I wonder if people are more excited for a Tiger 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.679 Phil showdown or like a Tiger JT showdown, Like I 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.720 feel like Tiger. I think the bigger thing. I know, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.280 like the intergenerational thing is huge, but I'd be more 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.600 excited basically pitching all this buddy buddy stuff were seeing 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.760 there playing practic runs together. But like we could see 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.360 a Tiger Phil showdown, which we've wanted for decades, And 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.320 so I think that's the one really gets me more 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.480 than even like a Tiger JT or Tiger Speed. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.280 So does Tiger have to be part of the equation? 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.640 No? No, no, Doctor Redmond can be in there. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.240 I think the Rory Fel thing is fantastic. I think 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.040 obviously Tiger is like the elephant in the room. But 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.040 and again that's why this you hear like Nance and 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.160 others say this most anticipated masters ever, and we kind 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.800 of always come to the Masters with the little extra 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.800 enthusiasm and maybe get a little hyperbolic about where it 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.840 stands beforehand, but like he's not out of line. There, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.400 there's so many things to choose from. I think that the 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.800 cross generational thing, as Sean alluded to with Phil and 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.520 Rory and then like the amount of history between on 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.560 the line, if you had them, you know, Phil, what's 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:18.319 the four jacket Club is Tiger Arnie and Jack. I mean, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.720 and Phil has talked about this at length with his 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.959 like eyes bulging and grinning like, I mean, three is great, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.360 Jimmy Demerit, Sam Sney, but four like that is a 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.520 you know how Phil gets all worked up and with 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.840 Rory obviously whatever six guy to win the Career Slam. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.840 I think like if you got and they have, they've 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.959 had moments of I don't know, tension or needling in 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:46.000 the past, certainly have Valhalla, Ryder Cups, twenty four Glenn Eagles, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.760 Phil you know made a joke about him suing Graham mcdal. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:50.960 So. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.600 I think if you got Phil Rory with the the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.079 Career Slam versus the four Jacket Club and oldest to 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:02.120 win like that would be just credible and the personalities. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:01.880 That they are. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.480 You know, the media just loves them. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.040 I don't really remember anyone remembers the tiny spats of 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.440 golf better than you do. I totally forgot about the 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.840 phil commented Glenn Eagles about Rory sueing Cray McDowell. But 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.600 now I totally remember any feringce of back. But you're 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.760 always good for those tiny those spats in press conversa. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.240 I always, you know, I try to make mountains out 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.560 of all hills. It's a member of the fake news, 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.200 you know. I got all these little needles. I gotta 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:23.920 make a big deal. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:31.640 So Billy, Uh, I'm excited for to see Tiger and 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.440 where he ends up and for everyone to see just 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.040 how far behind the curve he really is. I mean, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:42.160 he hasn't won anything yet, and we're talking about a major, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:42.600 you know. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.720 And and the reason why. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.400 We call majors is because it's so difficult to win 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.880 at and all he's done is placed up until now. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.679 And so you add on the anticipation. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.880 The strong field, uh, plus the fact that he hasn't 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.600 done anything yet, you know. So I'm excited to see 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.360 just how far back in the field that he's going 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.360 to end up. I mean, that's the way I think 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:05.800 about it. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.840 I mean, I think that his driver's been the issue 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.120 with his comeback. It's the only club that's kept him 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.320 out of it. And of all the majors, Augusta is 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.880 the place where the driver means the least in terms 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.320 of accuracy, which. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.480 Is something I mean, there's not as much with as 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:24.200 there once was. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:25.960 Where's he going to hit it on one? 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.320 But when he was winning, it was his putter. Yeah, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.120 that was winning everything and keeping him in championships and 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.720 making him the greatest player that he ever was, you know. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.960 And he's not where he was at that time either, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.560 so you know, and the one thing about this course 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.720 is the greens They get everybody, you know. So if 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.680 he was putting like he did ten years ago, I 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.560 would be a lot more excited for him. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:59.160 It's interesting today he's talking to I think Shackelford asked 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.600 him about bent. You know, it's been two and a 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.360 half years since he played on ben Crass or you know, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.320 played consistently on Bank Graft. He's been on Bermuda and 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.280 obviously on the West Coast. And then also I thought 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.680 one thing that was I took away from that is 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.080 press conference was the uneven lies. He's like, I've just 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.440 been playing like flat Florida courses. I've been, you know, 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.520 He's like, I haven't played on a bunch of uneven lies. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.560 And obviously he smoked one from thirteen on the handing 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.000 line to day. I was like, you know, it was beautiful, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.440 incredible shot. I'll remember, you know, for the rest of 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.480 the week, no matter what happens, just on top of 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.960 the flag and tapped it in for eagle. But I 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.920 thought that was something to keep an eye on. Is like, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.720 I've been playing kind of flat golf for at least 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.120 in this run up, and this is a little change, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.240 obviously the ben grass. And then we always hear about 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.280 how you know, you can't tell how much undulation, how 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.920 much you know, elevation change there is on Augusta on TV. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.640 Obviously it's everywhere. It's significant and extreme and and it 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.800 makes you a little uncomfortable. You remember Jordan Speed actually how. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.520 A great quoterre about how uneven lies making more athletic 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:10.080 and he's. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.200 Yeah, technical and he's less technical like someone he was 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.480 at Cappel. No one's thinking about this stuff. And he's like, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.360 I play well here because like Augusta and I mean 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.480 one of the rare times Capello and Augusta are probably 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.000 throwing in the same sentence. But he's just because there's 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.120 so much elevation change are on the side of the mountain. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.280 Not everything is just this flat perfect like robotic kind 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.160 of golfing machine Dschambeau one plane swing. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.200 You know the John Deere. The John Deere has some 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.680 of the most uneven lies and gotten on tour. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:41.440 Is that true? 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.600 You know who won at the John Deere. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:50.760 Jordan Speed and Zach Johnson, Bryson, that's true. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.320 And Bryce was containing as an amateur here lest we 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:54.200 not forget. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.440 Right, So Andy, what do you make of that? The 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.040 uneven lies thing in the bent like. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:16:59.720 Thing is overrated real quick? 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.600 The ban grass is like the easiest grass to play 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.080 on in the World's there's no grain. It's everybody's always 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.400 like which is green? There's no great event. I grew 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.080 up playing event like I have never I never once 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.680 thought about grade until I got to Florida's. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.280 Basically saying I'm gonna have to transition to putting the 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.879 best putting services I've been on. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.320 Tucker's like, yeah, you just don't grain. It doesn't it 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.280 goes exactly where. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.200 Yes, bent grass is the greatest grass in the world 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.920 to put on, so you know, and uh, I think 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.320 uneven lies is total factor. What it What it does 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.080 is it separates the men from the boys, Like you 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.360 can't be a pretender with your irons and hit good 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.960 shots off on even lies. Like the greatest iron players 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.560 play well at augusta year and year out because they're 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.520 the best. That's where it separates it. In the golf course, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.600 if you it asked you to hit spectacular, world class 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.359 shots time after time to make birdies. It's why we 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.399 see these big swings on the back nine especially, is 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.240 the golf course just over and over again, asks you 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.560 to hit this great shot. If you hit it, you've 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.000 got a great look at Bertie and you're probably going 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.679 to score really well. But if you don't, that's when 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.000 you know the fun starts and you got you know, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.760 it's tough to you have to hit a great shot 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.600 to make a four. It's it's such a position golf course. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.040 If you're in position, you can attack it, but you 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.679 still have to hit a great shot. If you're out 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.240 of position, you have to have a miraculous shot to 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.160 make that Bertie. So with that, the I mean, if 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:33.920 you go down the list of the guys that have 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.399 played the best at Augusta over the years, they're all 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.960 exceptional iron players. And if you look at this current generation, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:48.880 who are the best Augusta players? Phil he can't drive it. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.480 I mean one of the worst drivers. He's probably the 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.119 worst driver of the golf ball. Of the twenty greatest 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:59.000 players in the world of all time, You've got just 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.000 You've got d and speed led the tour and strokes 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.359 gained approach last year. Tiger Woods is the greatest iron 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.919 player ever. I mean, you keep going down the list, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:16.200 justin Rose, exceptional iron player, like Paul Casey, great iron player, 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.760 like these these guys, they're they're there for a reason. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:26.280 I can't believe Sergio, how nobody cares about the defending champion. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.880 And it's not like it's It's not like it's Danny Willett. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.040 It's not like it's Trevor Immleman. It's Sergio Garcia. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.600 I mean, that's just that's poor Sergio. You know, he 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.200 just he caught it out a year. That's whatever. Tiger 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.320 hasn't been here for two years. And Phil's one and 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.359 Rory's one, and all these things have happened in the 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.520 Q one, the first quarter or that. You know, the 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.040 most notable thing is Sergio named his daughter Azalea. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.320 It's tough to find you follow up storyline on Sergio 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.880 because for so long it was Sergio hasn't won a major, sure, 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.880 and now it's like, well, Surgia is really good and 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.040 he's got a major. He's got everything. He's got a major, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:02.520 So we don't really talk about that. He's married. I 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.760 want to talk about his love life, you know, like 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.440 all we can talk about Sergio is he's really really good. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.320 But that's not a good take. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.840 I think actually for Sergio, it takes the pressure off 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:12.399