Speaker 1: It was like like the Old West saloon, you know,
Speaker 1: swings open and here comes Tiger and there's that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we saw there's this corridor of humans
Speaker 1: all the way from the clubhouse down to the first tea.
Speaker 1: Just everyone just wanted a glimpse, just like almost to
Speaker 1: reach out and touch him. Another log on the fire,
Speaker 1: nobody hears get the time, all right, Jeff, we're back
Speaker 1: for another fire drill. I saw you hanging out under
Speaker 1: the tree this afternoon. We're both at the Augusta National
Speaker 1: Golf Club. Obviously the story of the day was Tiger Woods.
Speaker 1: We gotta start there. What were your impressions of his
Speaker 1: play and can he keeped up this not not the
Speaker 1: golf so much as just the physicality of walking these hills.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I'm sure he can keep out
Speaker 1: the golf. Um, it was nuts. I mean, one out there,
Speaker 1: it's not easy. I mean there's not that many people
Speaker 1: under pie. You know, he's taught for tenth which is
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. Um. He looked really tired coming up the
Speaker 1: last there's last few swings that looked like his body
Speaker 1: wasn't moving, Like it wasn't the first time, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: so I think I don't think the challenge him his golf.
Speaker 1: I think the challenge is getting around. Yeah, even like
Speaker 1: on fourteen that snipe off the tea, like that's my
Speaker 1: swing where the lower body doesn't move at all, you
Speaker 1: just come over the top, like get a little more speed.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, like that looked like a tired swing. So
Speaker 1: I mean credit Tagger that he you know, he ramming
Speaker 1: that put on sixteen, incredible up and down on eteen,
Speaker 1: like he's never going to give in even even if
Speaker 1: his body is not quite working. No, I mean you're
Speaker 1: not surprised he makes that power on the last day.
Speaker 1: Really it was amazing. Yeah, and look he might as
Speaker 1: I mean they you can get he could get fit
Speaker 1: of each day like he guess and probably walked out
Speaker 1: in holes like that like that without sort of stress.
Speaker 1: He could be better off for that tomorrow, or he
Speaker 1: could get more tired. I mean, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: he knows how he take feels except for him, but
Speaker 1: it was pretty impressive. Why not in contention? Crazy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that energy. I was right by the clubhouse door
Speaker 1: when when he came out and I put this in
Speaker 1: my store. It was like like the Old West saloon,
Speaker 1: you know, swings open and here comes Tiger and there's that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this, this corridor of
Speaker 1: humans all the way from the clubhouse down to the
Speaker 1: first he just everyone just wanted a glimpse, just like
Speaker 1: almost to reach out and touch him. And even there
Speaker 1: was a Green Jackets, hill Ear and Iansam they were
Speaker 1: there like it doesn't matter who you are, you're sort
Speaker 1: of swept up in the energy of it. And it
Speaker 1: was cool to feel that. Yeah, it was nice. It
Speaker 1: was cool. I was right there at that time too.
Speaker 1: It's like potting the red say right, it's like I
Speaker 1: need in Augusta does all of a sudden the corridor,
Speaker 1: the wide corridor just appear right. Tiger walks through and
Speaker 1: it's there. But it happens for everybody, but for him
Speaker 1: it was very defined. And there's twenty days on both sides,
Speaker 1: and um, that first taste saying, um, it's pretty special
Speaker 1: and it's the best one in golf of that we
Speaker 1: do regularly like that. It's just I don't know, all
Speaker 1: the grand Jackets under the tree and all the pretenders
Speaker 1: under the tray and then everyone around and I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's where everyone enters the course,
Speaker 1: kind of there where everyone starts they die. It's just
Speaker 1: a good spot. It's just nice. I chatted up the
Speaker 1: guy who actually opens the door. Um, I went, not quoting.
Speaker 1: Mightn't want to get him in trouble, but he's like,
Speaker 1: this is the best job in the world. Like, and
Speaker 1: not long after Tiger came through, Nicholas was just finishing up.
Speaker 1: And so this guy, he's just a random security dude.
Speaker 1: It's only a second year. He's not like an institution.
Speaker 1: But him and Jack were chatting and it was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's where the whole golf worlds converges, right in that spot.
Speaker 1: And it just made a little extra energy around around
Speaker 1: Tiger's opening shot. And even though it's kind of this
Speaker 1: little wipey you know, he'll slice, that's actually progress usually
Speaker 1: he like he's a violent hook into the ninth fairway, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, one, it's not his favorite T shot, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I mean, the time you build up that
Speaker 1: T shot for so long though in your head, you
Speaker 1: know it's a hard one to hit. Um, but he
Speaker 1: got away with it, and yeah, and he shot one
Speaker 1: under on a tough day. I mean it's not. It's
Speaker 1: not that easy out there, really. I mean it looks soft,
Speaker 1: but soft men is long, and it was Wendy at
Speaker 1: this place. Anytime it's Wendy is hard. So fifteen seems
Speaker 1: like it's playing really long. I mean, he played the
Speaker 1: part five is what even for the day and looked
Speaker 1: like he's about one yard off on a few of
Speaker 1: his iron shots like ten, perfect drive around the corner
Speaker 1: and then just just missed it like one yard short,
Speaker 1: rolled all the way back and he got up and down.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I feel like he didn't max out
Speaker 1: his round at all. You know, only putty made of
Speaker 1: length was on sixteen, So I don't know. It's easy
Speaker 1: to get carried away and talk yourself in like you
Speaker 1: could do it. I don't know if you can do it.
Speaker 1: But his golf looks good though. I think if he,
Speaker 1: if he does have that gets better every day fitness squads.
Speaker 1: You know, his body gets more used to it. Like
Speaker 1: who knows, I mean, you certainly know what he's he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing on the last night, holes right,
Speaker 1: if you can get into the mix, Yeah amazing, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you were saying before we start taping, this is all
Speaker 1: over again. We have we have Sunjay, we have camp Smith,
Speaker 1: we have Dustin. What stands out to you about this
Speaker 1: early leaderboard that it's quite I mean, it's that it's
Speaker 1: the finishing top three. Um and maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: you try to get by right in my head it's like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the same same about this? It's really the only
Speaker 1: nothing to say really except that it was quite soft,
Speaker 1: and it was quite soft today. They were big pitch
Speaker 1: marks and girls. So Sunday spun it all the way
Speaker 1: off the tenth grain, which from the middle of the grain,
Speaker 1: which I had seen ever before. UM, so that it
Speaker 1: was playing not like a traditional Thursday maybe a bit
Speaker 1: of a bounce on the green and firm. It was
Speaker 1: one of the softer ones. That was the only thing.
Speaker 1: But the leader board always seems it always seems to
Speaker 1: throw up sort of names that you expected, and it
Speaker 1: seems to like a few guys that you thought we're
Speaker 1: going to go great struggle a little bit. Um Cam's
Speaker 1: obviously been almost the form player. Him and Scotty Scheffler
Speaker 1: are the form players of the year. Not surprising. Sun
Speaker 1: Jay's thoroughbred who's going to be up in these for
Speaker 1: a long time and d J, well, I mean he
Speaker 1: was all of our pick right, So yeah, exactly what
Speaker 1: about Cam? He doubled Boogie's the first hole. We know
Speaker 1: it's a tough start, but mostly as a player when
Speaker 1: you double the first hole, like what does that do
Speaker 1: to you? And how impressed you that he was able
Speaker 1: to bounce back that way? It's incredible. It's either good
Speaker 1: or bad. We were actually talking just before this, but
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you build up that the Master so
Speaker 1: much in your head. It's the first major for a
Speaker 1: long time, and like you're just you're just there's too
Speaker 1: much stress and like inten city there and a double
Speaker 1: on the first it gets all half the year comes
Speaker 1: out of your balloon, you know, I mean, and you
Speaker 1: sort of you relax a little bit. It's like, oh
Speaker 1: you sort of your expectations go down. Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to have a bad days. I will just relax and
Speaker 1: then and then you're away, right, So or it can
Speaker 1: just send you crazy and you go the other way.
Speaker 1: I think, didn't Earnie make money at eight or nine
Speaker 1: or something when the first and still only miss the
Speaker 1: gap by a shot two years ago? So it happens,
Speaker 1: and it's a sort of whole the sort of thing
Speaker 1: that can happen. Um, But he shot sixty eight with
Speaker 1: a double on the first and the double on the last,
Speaker 1: which is um zianing. Yeah, it's like crazy. So he's
Speaker 1: actually probably played the best today for sixteen of his
Speaker 1: holes at least. Um. I mean, us golf fans have
Speaker 1: gotten to know Cam obviously in the last twelve months whatever.
Speaker 1: He's been on such a tear. But you guys are
Speaker 1: different generations, but you can give us some insight into
Speaker 1: him as a person as a player. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a lovely man. He's a bit of it, like
Speaker 1: a proper Australian smartass. Like he's always sort of being
Speaker 1: a little bit chirpy and get it. He gives it out,
Speaker 1: but he takes it pretty well too, and he's fine.
Speaker 1: Everybody likes him. Um. Incredibly hard worker. He's he's very
Speaker 1: disciplined in his approach. He has he has his things
Speaker 1: that he likes to work on in his swing and
Speaker 1: he makes sure he's very diligent. He makes sure he
Speaker 1: does them at the same thing with the putting he
Speaker 1: goes through. He's got his little programs that he goes through.
Speaker 1: Um understands his game really well, doesn't seem to get
Speaker 1: flustered if he's playing Paul, you're playing well. He just
Speaker 1: keeps doing his thing. So I mean, for a guy
Speaker 1: who's got the most undisciplined haircut on tour, the way
Speaker 1: he approaches it is it's there's guys who practice longer,
Speaker 1: but he does it right. He's just doing it, always
Speaker 1: doing it the same, never getting ahead of himself. He's
Speaker 1: like he's putting his building it brick by brick. It
Speaker 1: feels like the way he goes about his golf. So
Speaker 1: it's not surprising to see him do so well because
Speaker 1: and he's he loves the bigger the moment the better
Speaker 1: he gets, you know, like he just he loves this,
Speaker 1: the momentum, the big times. You know, presidents can't be
Speaker 1: beat JT. I think they're end like pretty big win. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he needs fifth. In his first he was
Speaker 1: opening at Chambers Bay, which was like sort of who's
Speaker 1: camp Smith, you know, I mean he just got someone starting.
Speaker 1: He was over finished fifth. It'side well, but that's always
Speaker 1: a good sign, right that he was like up there
Speaker 1: top ten and his first major, like I think it
Speaker 1: was his first major. So he just loves these times.
Speaker 1: He loves this moment. So I imagine now he's on
Speaker 1: the leader board, you would expect him to hang around
Speaker 1: most of the week. I mean, there's going to be
Speaker 1: against some thorough breads up there. It's a hard tournament
Speaker 1: to win, but you would expect him to still be
Speaker 1: there at the end because that's how it's been recently. Right,
Speaker 1: where does his short game stack up to you know,
Speaker 1: the all time short games? Oh yeah, he's good. Um,
Speaker 1: But there's two shots. There's two ways to measure short game,
Speaker 1: and there's one that like the efficiency of it and
Speaker 1: how well do they get it up and down on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, And he's like right at the top
Speaker 1: on that level. And then there's the freak shows, you
Speaker 1: know that Savvy's and the Fills and the Tigers that
Speaker 1: can just hit the shots that no one else can hit.
Speaker 1: You know, Cam's got one of the best, um functioning
Speaker 1: short games like that, and they're not in a derogatory
Speaker 1: way like he just hits great shots from everywhere. You know,
Speaker 1: But if he was twenty yards over the back of
Speaker 1: the fifth that the Master's I'd take Fill every time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But if you take it.
Speaker 1: There's eighteen up and downs for the day you miss
Speaker 1: If you missed eighteen greens camp. If every to a
Speaker 1: player missed eighteen greens in the same spots came, would
Speaker 1: probably win or he'd be right up there, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: So what was your day like as as a spectator
Speaker 1: out there? When if you're jiffcuse we had do you
Speaker 1: spend through the Masters? I'm probably a little bit of
Speaker 1: a snob and that I have trouble going to watch golf. Now,
Speaker 1: I'd be quite happy to, like if I had some
Speaker 1: friends out there and I'd go watch them. But it's
Speaker 1: I've been inside the ropes and played and like fighting
Speaker 1: with the people on the outside of the the ropes. It's
Speaker 1: not my like my favorite thing. I mean, I can
Speaker 1: stand in the spot for a little bit and so
Speaker 1: you see how the eight greens playing, or like watch
Speaker 1: people coming to the first or something like that. Just
Speaker 1: the thing. But I spend most of my time in
Speaker 1: the clubhouse or near the clubhouse, just because I bumped
Speaker 1: into people I've met and known over my last twenty years,
Speaker 1: and it's just spun to chat to them, you know,
Speaker 1: and be a part of it. But I watched a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, that's cool. I just want to go
Speaker 1: back to Tiger because we can parse you know, he
Speaker 1: played this sole this way, he did this, or did that.
Speaker 1: But there's just something supernatural about the guy that no
Speaker 1: matter what he does to his body, no matter how
Speaker 1: many times his swing changes or different coaches or whatever, controversies,
Speaker 1: he drags himself through like he just has ability to
Speaker 1: play this game in a way that almost nobody has
Speaker 1: ever had. And um, you know I remember back in
Speaker 1: I think it's two sixteenyear and I talked and that
Speaker 1: was when he was kind of his night deer and
Speaker 1: trying to understand it, and you gave me this great
Speaker 1: quote about you know, there's the Tigers have all great,
Speaker 1: but you know how dondes of people can do that?
Speaker 1: And you went through all this stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's like there's like there's like a magic. There's like
Speaker 1: a and ephemeral, undefinable thing that makes him Tiger wood
Speaker 1: like and we just see that over and over and
Speaker 1: it hasn't changed. And we saw two thousand nineteen here
Speaker 1: and might see it again this week. Who knows. I mean,
Speaker 1: how would you describe that, that that X factor that
Speaker 1: Tiger has I don't know. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: ultimately comes down to it ultimately proves that of his
Speaker 1: more in the head than it is in the body.
Speaker 1: You know, he's clearly a specimen of an athlete, one
Speaker 1: of the best to ever play golf, played it from childhood,
Speaker 1: so he had more miles on his legs or more
Speaker 1: competitive golf by the time he was sixteen than most
Speaker 1: people had by the time the twenty five. So he
Speaker 1: had all those sort of things go for him. But
Speaker 1: ultimately the part of Tory and the chips at Memorial
Speaker 1: and the chip in at sixteen against De Marco, when
Speaker 1: all those things, that's just there's a level there that
Speaker 1: no one else has ever reached. And I just think
Speaker 1: it's ultimately like his determination or his desire to refusal
Speaker 1: to lose, desire to win, has just been stronger and
Speaker 1: better than I mean, it's like phelps, you know, come
Speaker 1: down the last it's like it's not swimming anymore. Like
Speaker 1: there's something else there. You know, they just wanted more
Speaker 1: than everybody else, with a better level of focus and
Speaker 1: everybody else or something the better than anyone's done it.
Speaker 1: Look at Jordan, how do you make those shots? You know?
Speaker 1: That it's not just because you're shooting actions better than
Speaker 1: everyone else's. It's more there, and it's got to be
Speaker 1: somewhere inside between the years or in our makeup, not
Speaker 1: not the physical side of it. So he's whatever that is,
Speaker 1: whether it's determination, desire, will focus, or of all of
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. He just said more of it
Speaker 1: than anyone's ever had. You know. That's it's it's incredible.
Speaker 1: So let's let's let ourselves dream. It's Sunday and Tiger
Speaker 1: is still in contention. I mean, can we see if
Speaker 1: we say, if he were to pull us off, it
Speaker 1: would be the greatest achievement in golf history. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be pretty amazing. Um, I mean, Hoggans was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: That was eighteen months after he was never gonna walk again,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, But this is at a much older age.
Speaker 1: Hogan was like like sort of a bit primer in
Speaker 1: his age. You know, this is I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: young Tiger forty six Jack. I mean there's there's a
Speaker 1: little you know, there's a little something there. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is something there. I mean it would be that it
Speaker 1: would be nuts and surely it would be the best.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we said that in nineteen they do, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I just like, um, it would be more
Speaker 1: impressive than nineteen by a long way. I mean it
Speaker 1: as at night was pretty crazy. I mean, you were
Speaker 1: there like that was something else. He was like, I mean,
Speaker 1: people can be playing golf, but he was like he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been playing golf, you know, And so that
Speaker 1: was pretty nut. And the US hoypened too, but this, yeah,
Speaker 1: next level most crazy thing. I probably I was chatting
Speaker 1: a pillar when after right around you know, the first tea,
Speaker 1: and you know, he was a he was an All
Speaker 1: Big eight defensive back and he's from a different generation,
Speaker 1: like those were tough guys, right, And we're talking about
Speaker 1: Tiger and Hogan because he knew Hogan a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, the only difference is, you know,
Speaker 1: Tiger got rebuilt with all this metal and all these plates,
Speaker 1: and Hogan it was just his body. So he's like,
Speaker 1: I kind of give the tiebreaker to Hogan. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's that's an old school point of view,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, Tiger has obviously some some modern
Speaker 1: medicine on his side. But we're even discussing this and
Speaker 1: debating it. It's just It blows the mind, like, well,
Speaker 1: that's what he's done, and he's boning m on since
Speaker 1: the mid on he's wrong. He just extited our expectations
Speaker 1: every time, you know, in every way. So that's just
Speaker 1: who he is. Well, if you had to put you
Speaker 1: on the hot seat, what will you shoot tomorrow on
Speaker 1: Friday second round? I don't know. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: really tough tomorrow and it's actually to be fair. Probably
Speaker 1: a good forecast for Tiger because they most of the
Speaker 1: field wouldn't have seen the course play as tough as
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be the next two days.
Speaker 1: Super windy's getting cold, So I would you would go
Speaker 1: to the experience there because they won't have seen it
Speaker 1: play like that, or less of them have seen it.
Speaker 1: You've seen that before. Um, so I think that's actually
Speaker 1: to his advantage. I don't know if cold weather it
Speaker 1: is good or bad for the state of his body.
Speaker 1: It might be good, right, I don't know. Um. And
Speaker 1: by the way, no one even talks about his back anymore,
Speaker 1: Like that was the you know, fifteen months ago, that
Speaker 1: was the defining question. Well, Tiger's back, let him play golf,
Speaker 1: and we've just completely forgotten about it. Obviously, had not
Speaker 1: playing golf for a year or whatever helped them heal
Speaker 1: the back and rest in a way he never had recently.
Speaker 1: But we have no idea, Oh yeah we have. There's
Speaker 1: zero way of guessing, you know. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be fun to watch, I agree. All right, Well, another
Speaker 1: fire drill in the books. Thank you for your time
Speaker 1: and your insight. Servill do it again tomorrow. Hopefully done Dale,
Speaker 1: I'll lock it, put another log on the fire? Are
Speaker 1: we here? Is get the time