WEBVTT - Masters Takeaways: Rahm vs. Koepka and a Mailbag with Shane Bacon 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green. For example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.440 And when I find my ball in a. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:11.119 Brid Egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg Egg, 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:11.880 Bride Egg. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:40.320 Lie, I'm about ready to run off the. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:38.000 Up So Joseph the Friday eggs own. Andy Johnson won 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.239 the media lottery at the Masters because some people just 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.800 have all the luck. And he is playing Augusta National today, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.360 What do you think he will shoot? 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.760 It's a good question. I believe he's playing with Persimmon drivers. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.160 It does yes. Before I answer that, Gary, am I 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.360 correct that he also won a Frida Egg event recently? 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:58.240 Is that true? 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.040 I think I feel like he's won multiple Frida Egg events. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.520 I was gonna say between a win at a Friday 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.440 Egg event and winning the Masters lottery, things are starting 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.160 to stink, maybe a little bit at the Friday Egg. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.080 So I don't know how corrupt things have gotten, but 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.720 just seeing his name pulled it raises some questions. Per 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.880 Simon driver are in they're playing the championship teas. I 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.520 think Andy, I haven't looked at the forecast today. I've 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.480 been more checking it for the tournament days. I should 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.800 have been checking it for media day. I'm gonna go 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.920 with this is a hard question. Per Simon driver. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.680 Long, per Simon driver PT three wood that he had 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.919 bombs by the way, like that carries farther than the driver, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:38.720 but the driver gets run out. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:38.920 You know. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.080 He hits kind of this knuckle cut with a driver 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.240 sort of low. The PT is a high, you know, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.840 sort of straight ball that he hits. And then he 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:54.360 has Wilson's staff seventies. I believe Era irons goose neck 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.280 and that's his. That's the setup he's going with. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.880 Look, I'll give Andy his flowers around with him in 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.680 the fall at Essex County Club and he shot a 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.800 bogie free sixty six with a person and driver. I'll 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.400 say eighty three, eighty three at Augusta. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.040 Eighty three, Okay, yeah, I mean, what do you think 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.600 I think he might not keep score. That's sort of 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.239 a cop out, though I would I would say, I'm 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.280 not sure what his form has been like lately, but 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.520 maybe he'll break eighty. I think I'll go with seventy 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.320 nine just to take the under on yours and we'll see, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.519 we'll see how it turns out, I'll get in touch 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:29.760 with him. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.000 He's gonna beat Jason Day. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.280 He's Jason Day. Well, they're playing I believe they play 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.280 from the members teas, so yeah, then you know, if 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.880 they were playing from the championship tees, then that would 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:40.520 be one thing. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:41.480 But from the. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.160 Member tees, I feel like the courses, you know, I mean, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.799 it could be gettable, but the greens are going to 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.760 be really really tough and so, but yeah, you never 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.600 know what anything. Sometimes he goes super low. Obviously a 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.160 good player. I was just joking earlier about him winning 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.840 Friday events. I'm not sure that he's won one. He 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.440 may have won the one at Lake Mercaid recently. But also, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.160 you know who else has won Frida Egg events, Cameron 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:08.040 Heurdis and Will Knights and so, honestly, the corruption sort 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.919 of has eaten its way through the entire company fair enough. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.040 I actually I thought he's playing the championship teas. If 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.959 it's member t's a'll go with like eighty. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.760 Okay, okay, I think we're converging around the same number. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.960 I feel like that's probably a good guest. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:21.280 There. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.600 You are listening to the Frida Egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.200 That is Joseph Lamania, and this episode is of course 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.359 a Master's recap. We're not going to be talking about 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.000 Andy Johnson's golf very much more during it. We're going 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.680 to bring on Shane Bacon a little later to answer 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.280 some of your male bag questions. But first, Joseph and 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:46.200 I will cover the headline stories, which include John Rahm 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.520 versus Brooks Koepka. First and foremost, Ram is the best 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.200 player in golf right now. I think most people agree 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.680 with that, and Keopka is the best Major championship player 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.400 of the past decade or so. So it's very siding 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.480 to see these two go head to head. Rom came 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.000 out on top shooting a final round sixty nine. Do 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.760 I have that right? Sixty nine to win by four shots? 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.240 I probably should have looked that. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.200 Up for sures be trying to finish to win by 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:16.000 four shots, You're. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.280 Good sixty nine to win by four shots. I've got 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.000 my facts straight. So that's John Rahm. He is a 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.680 Master's winner. That's his second career major. Now, Joseph, in 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.120 the past, you've said that Rom has a tendency to 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:32.680 be over aggressive strategically, whereas Koepka at least in majors, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.320 is very patient and smart. From what you saw this week, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.279 do you think Rom has turned a corner and become 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.640 more like Major Championship Kopka in his strategic approach? 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:44.320 Uh? 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.960 Maybe I don't. I think not necessarily. But part of 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.279 the beauty of Augusta to me is that you don't 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.400 have to be conservative everywhere. There's such a good blend 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:59.400 of aggressive shots and conservative shots, So I don't necessarily 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.480 take huge sho with like John Ram's course management in general, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.880 I think he can get over aggressive, and he's had 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.640 those moments like at the Players Championship some other moments 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.440 like even at bay Hill. Just I'd probably advise him 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.760 playing the course a little bit differently. But like an 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.280 example would be the approach on six at Augusta. Right 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.720 when that pins up on the top right there, that's 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.920 not a concert that's not a shot you need to 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.000 hit a conservative approach into it would just if you 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.680 hit into the center of the green, it would end 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.760 up all the way at the bottom. So I think 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.920 Augusta is great in the way that it rewards both 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.279 aggressive and conservative play depending on the pin locations. And 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.279 John Rom did a really good job handling all of that. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.520 By the way, that pin position on six was interesting 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.159 in the final round because John Ram came up short. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.800 I think he misstruck his iron. I don't think that 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.320 that was a good shot for him, but he ended 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.000 up hitting a good lag putt, or at least a 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.840 good second putt. He two putted from which it was 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.400 off the chip. Yeah, yeah, and he lag putted on five, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.159 That's what I'm thinking of. He was kind of front 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.520 of green on five and he putted from there, but 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.159 on six he was off the green front. Koepka was long, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.039 and that is like really not where you want to be, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.599 and Kepka ended up making bogie. And so when you're 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.680 going at that pin, I found myself wondering, wanting to 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.280 ask you, like, where are you aiming for that? Because 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.440 it seems like if you aim at that high right 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.360 shelf that you're risking going over and that's the deadly, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.599 deadly spot, Whereas if you're down on the lower level, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.680 you know you're not making birdie more than likely. But 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.039 two putting from there, or even getting up and down 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.640 from where John Ram was seems pretty feasible. So what's 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.720 the what is even the approach there is it just 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.120 like hit it anywhere and just don't go long. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.880 It's a really difficult approach shot. So I actually think 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.960 John Rahm, I'd have to go back and Rewatch. I 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.000 don't think he misstruck it. I think he misjudged the 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.120 wind and got a little gust or something, because I 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.960 think he thought that shot was better than it ended 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.360 up being. Generally on six, when the pin's on the right, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.680 if you're kind of pin high on the right or 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.640 just somewhere over there, you're okay that putt from down 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.400 below lagging it fifty seventy feet. That is such a 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.960 hard putt to get the speed right that I'm not 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.960 just taking some kind of conservative approach and accepting a 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.920 fifty foot putt. I'm not doing that. So I think 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.960 you are trying to kind of go at that pin 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.000 or keep it pin high a little bit right. Just 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.120 a tough shot. It's a really tough shot at Augusta. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.400 That separates the strikers from the non strikers. It's a 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.360 great hole. I think that's such a great example of 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.280 how Augusta has so many of these different targets. They're small, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.840 and sometimes you can be aggressive with them. Other times 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.240 you have to play defense, often on hole one, right 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.360 when you get a backpin on hole one, if you 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.720 go over. If you go over that pin, you're dead. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.480 So it's cool that there's just this blend of shots. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.800 Got to be aggressive some places, got to be conservative 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:58.200 in others. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.560 I believe jo Justin you have an extensive notebook on 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.520 what happened in that final round at Augusta National, So 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.640 I'll kind of let you guide things from here. Where 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.160 do you want to start with emptying your notebook on 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.560 this duel between Brooks Koepka and John Ram. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.040 Yeah, I'm interested in your opinion. I think this is 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.200 a pretty sleepy Masters. Even though it had all the 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.440 ingredients of being a really exciting duel, it didn't really materialize. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.720 Like one note I have is that I think this 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.840 will end up being one of the leader boards that 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.880 when you look back on fifteen years from now, it 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.719 will be like the least reflective of who actually had 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.559 a chance to win. Like Phil and Jordan Speith are 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.120 going to show up there. They never had a chance 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.120 to win this golf tournament. They got I mean, they 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.880 made some birdies down the stretch, but they were never 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:50.080 live to win. Read maybe could have Charles schwartzeld it 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.480 and like maybe got into minus ten and had an 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.600 outside chance. Russell Henley, Russell Henley. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.160 I was going to say he had. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.600 A prayer, because I think he was. I think he 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.040 played his back nine even so if he had shot 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.880 like three under, he could have posted minus ten. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.320 Yeah, he was like minus seven in the middle of 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.600 the back nine. I remember him seeing and I was 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.480 kind of like, well, he could do it, but you 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:14.680 know it's gonna. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.880 Take a lot exactly. And you know, one of my 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.559 notes is that some of the players who had the 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.800 chance to step up and win just didn't perform. And 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.160 the names that kind of come to mind there for 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.520 me would be Brooks. Kopka obviously really was flat, played 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.679 a terrible round of golf. Victor Hoblin didn't didn't do it. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.920 He's got some short right from the beginning. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:37.600 Didn't do it. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.600 Victor Hoblin was out of it. I'm not sure it 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.200 was even just the short game. He just didn't show 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:43.440 up with anything on Sunday. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.880 Yeah, And I think that is one of the things 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.520 to keep in mind with Hoblin. The short game is 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.480 still a problem. He's an amazing ball striker, but it 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.640 makes you a little nervous when you don't have a 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.200 great short game and how you have to attack some 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.760 of those targets. At Augusta, the other player was Patrick Cantley, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.199 who was actually kind of live this tournament, and then 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.840 I believe he shot plus three on the back nine, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.200 like he had a real chance to win that golf 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.320 tournament and just kind of didn't give it much. So 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.800 that's kind of one of the stories for me. John 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.800 rom played excellently, but there wasn't a lot of There 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.360 was a lot of pushing at the end. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.520 Yeah, I agree. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.600 You know, this had this setup of my favorite type 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.560 of major championship, which is the dual runaway. You know, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.920 think of Troon Stenson versus Mickelson. You know, even though 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.800 that ended with Stenson kind of separating himself a bit 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.199 from Phil, that was just so incredible to watch that 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.000 quote unquote match play situation between those two with really 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.640 high stakes, both players playing incredibly well, and so in 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.000 the morning on Sunday when they were finishing up that 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.880 third round, I was seeing that sort of come together, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.760 like these two guys could kind of separate themselves a bit, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.559 put some distance between themselves in third place and just. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:00.160 Have it at out. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.880 But the problem was that neither of them, and especially 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.960 Brooks Koepka, really played well enough to create that true dynamic. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.520 Even John Ram, you know, he didn't advance much. He 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.400 did what he had to do. He played a great, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.800 great final round of golf, but it was a sixty nine. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.160 It wasn't a sixty five. You know, he didn't shoot 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.920 the round that Phil Mickelson shot in the final round, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.320 and so it wasn't really a true situation. It was 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.800 more like these two guys were separated enough so that 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.400 there wasn't a real threat coming from behind. A few 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.720 of the guys who sort of had a chance fell away, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.040 and then by the time we got to Hoole ten, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.400 I think it was pretty clear that Rom was in 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.760 the driver's seat. And unless Koepka did something incredible or 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.839 Rom had a little collapse on a man corner, which 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 is always a possibility, it just didn't seem like that 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.280 was going to happen. As soon as Kopka missed that 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.080 putt on nine and did not make the par to 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.520 Rom's bogie, it just seemed like this was going to 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.720 be sort of a cruise into the finish and it 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:10.040 was and it wasn't unimpressive, Like it was really impressive 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.000 to see John Rohm do what he did on the 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.240 back nine. I think he played incredible golf on the 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.760 back nine, but it didn't quite turn into that sort 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.400 of battle to the death that I was sort of 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.000 hoping for on Sunday morning. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.559 I agree, and I think Brooks is I'm very impressed 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.480 with what Brooks did this week. For the record, I 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.480 think that's a fascinating story going forward. His version of 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.560 the events in his post round with Amanda Renner I 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.760 didn't quite agree with Like he talked about not getting 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.600 some good breaks and how the approach on nine could 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.240 have rolled down to a couple feet. Yeah, that wasn't 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.720 a great approach shot either, and it could have been 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.440 in the bunker. Like Brooks was just not sharp. I 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.920 will say I have quite a few notes on Ram 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.480 and I think his round was pretty brilliant. I know 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.840 it was only he only shot three under par, but 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.200 if you go back and click through his round, he 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.400 hit some exceptional golf. Show the chip the kind of 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.320 half wedge into number three making birdie. That was a 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.880 phenomenal golf shot, even the approach into four like, that's 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.599 not an easy shot and it was conservative, like he 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.280 hit a kind of into the center left of the green, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.839 but it was a phenomenal shot. His pitch on number 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.000 eight turning that into a birdie, that was a golf shot, 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.040 rolled in, believable shot, unbelievable shot, and there were just 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.080 so many The approach into fourteen obviously one of the 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.280 best shots of the tournament. He played really well. I'd 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.880 even say that the chip in eighteen Scotti, Scheffler, and Tiger, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.400 their wins weren't the most glamorous the way that they finished, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.280 and Rom's had the opportunity to kind of be a 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.400 little bit ugly too with his t shot, and he 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.640 turned it into a really nice par So I think 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.040 Rom played a pretty flawless round. Not flawless round, but 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:50.600 exceptional round. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.760 Yeah, it seemed really really solid, like he wasn't hitting 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.679 an exceptional number of brilliant shots. He clearly didn't have 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.640 his A plus game for long stretches this week. For 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.640 long stretches he had his like B game, but he 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.480 managed it really well. And when I'm looking at Ram's 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.080 final round, I'm kind of looking at that stretch between 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.680 like whole seven and whole fourteen, the heart of the 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.920 round and his T shots. Huge T shot on seven, 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.520 three twenty five fair way, huge T shot on nine. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.040 He hit a bad approach and that hole didn't turn 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.560 out well, But he hit that T shot three twenty 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:35.880 six down the hill, good position ten three sixteen, perfect position, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:42.160 eleven three forty three, perfect position thirteen three oh seven, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.520 perfect position down the left. That's an uncomfortable shot for him. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.760 He got it around the corner. He was able to 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.920 make the the area of the green into comfortably. This 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.160 is just sort of bludgeting, you know, just like ball striking, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.800 ball striking. And then his approaches were often just sort 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.960 of to the middle of the greens, sane approaches, easy 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.480 two putts, and on fourteen he was able to attack 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.360 that pen, get pretty close and make a birdie. But 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.840 this is the type of game that's just really really 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.160 hard to catch. Like that kind of performance off the 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.000 tee is so dominant, and he does it with seeming 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:20.880 relative ease. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.560 Totally, So I have I've been digging through some gen 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.200 Rahm's stats because I want to give a testament to 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.560 how well he's played at Augusta, and I think I 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.600 found an interesting one for you, Garrett, So okay talking 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.640 to obviously like John Rahm off the tea performance this 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.880 past week was amazing. He's one of the best drivers 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.000 of the golf ball in the game. If he's not 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.960 number one, he's number one A one B with Cameron 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.720 Young and he started to put together quite the resume 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.080 at Augusta. So recently been working on putting together a 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.200 historical database of all Masters results going back to the 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.520 first edition of the tournament. John Ram has now in 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.600 his first seven starts at Augusta. Do you know how 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:04.360 many top tens? 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.960 He has a lot, probably, but what is it? 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.120 He is five in his first seven starts. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:12.960 Okay, how many? 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.560 Where do you think that puts him historically? How many 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.880 golfers do you think have done that? Five top tens 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.160 and their first seven starts at Augusta. Just what are 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.720 your thoughts on that? Who do you think is the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.800 last player to do it? Like any thoughts? I know 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.400 I'm really putting you on the spot here. I would 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.360 have had no clue before I checked this morning. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 I don't really have any clue, but it feels like 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.440 something that Jack Nicholas might have done. It feels like 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.480 something that somebody like Tom Weiskoff could have come out 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.240 of nowhere and done. There are a few players who 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.040 started off their careers really really well at Augusta. Ben 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.840 Crenshaw did, but maybe none of them. I don't know, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:50.800 what did you find? 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.880 So only nine golfers have ever done it, and John 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.360 Rahm is the tenth. And part of what's I think 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.680 particularly impressive about John Rams is that, especially back in 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.040 the day in the Masters, it was a lot of 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.320 guys first seven starts, right, like if it was the 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.000 nineteen thirty eight edition of the Masters, like no one 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.840 had played at more times than the people, so could. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.880 Have been like Horton Smith or somebody like that, could have. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.159 Exactly Ed Dudley has had six top ten finishes in 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.480 his first seven starts, right, Okay, the most recent player 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.360 to do it was Hale Irwin in nineteen seventy eight. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:30.200 So since nineteen seventy eight, no player has had five 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.240 top ten finishes in their first seven starts at Augusta. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.960 John Rahm has now added his name to the list. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.399 I think that's a really interesting statistic. He also has 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.560 a win right this year and so he joins just 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:47.920 Arnold Palmer, Byron Nelson, Gary Player, and Henry Picard as 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.760 being players who have five top tens in their first 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.800 seven starts at Augusta with a win included. I think 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.720 it's pretty interesting statistic and way to view John Rahm 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.959 within a historical context. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.520 Well, got just the fact that Tiger Woods didn't do that. Now, 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.040 I mean, I guess he played as an amateur for 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.000 two years before he won the ninety seven Masters, But 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.960 then I would have thought that he would have just 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.080 reeled off, you know, five straight top tens. But I 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.400 guess maybe he didn't. Maybe nineteen ninety eight was an 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:18.880 off year. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.000 Tiger's first two starts at Augusta were a tied for 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.960 forty first as an amateur, and then he missed the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.600 cut in ninety six and he finished eighteenth and ninety nine. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.480 So that's disqualifying. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:31.320 John Ram There it is. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.240 John Rahm is the only player since nineteen seventy eight. 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.720 I'm putting this database to the test, So I hope 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.560 this is kind of a buzzer beater in terms of 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.359 pulling the statistic before we started recording. Somebody can fact 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:42.800 check me, but I'm pretty. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.679 Sure this is the golf record by the way that 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.280 you're putting together with Kyle Porter and others. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.160 Right right, Yes, So I'm pretty almost I'd say ninety 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.600 nine point nine percent sure the statistic is correct. John 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.240 Rahm is the first player since Taylor went in nineteen 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.600 seventy eight to finish in the top ten five times 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.639 in his first seven starts at Augusta. And I think 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:04.119 that's much more impactful than any other major championship venue 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.359 or tournament because this is the one held at the 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.840 same course every year. So to start to put together 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.040 such a resume on the course he's going to be 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.919 at every year, you gotta take note. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.879 So then what is it about this course that you 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.360 think suits John ram so well? Because when I think 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.080 of John Rahm, I think of like, no one's gonna 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.560 beat him at Tory Pines, no one's gonna beat him 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.399 at Oak Hill coming up for the PGA Championship. That 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.600 kind of course, if it's sort of wet, if it's narrow, 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.040 if there's some rough, if it just really rewards somebody 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.920 who can bludgeon the hell out of the ball as 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.720 he did on the back nine at Augusta this year, 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.320 then that's going to be the kind of course where 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.520 he really thrives Augusta National. You know, it rewards his 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.760 type of game, there's no doubt about that, but it 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.439 also rewards other types of games. So why is it 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:53.680 that he does so well here? 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.760 Well, So, first of all, I guess is a hardcore 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.720 long iron approach test, and John Ram is one of 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.120