WEBVTT - 2023 Memories and 2024 Predictions with Shane Bacon 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.920 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.920 And when I find my ball in a Frida Egg 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.600 Friday Egg, the dreaded Friday Friday, Frida Egg brid Egg, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.160 Friday Bride Egg, Lie, I'm about ready to run off 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:14.120 of the course. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.080 Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Egg Golf Podcast. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.319 I'm your host, Andy Johnson. Happy New Year. I hope 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.320 everybody had is off to great start in twenty twenty four. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.000 I hope you all had a great holiday season in 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.640 twenty twenty three. I'm not gonna lie. I'm still kind 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.960 of shaking off the holiday blues. 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Shane, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.280 welcome back another new year. Are you a big resolution guy? 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.000 Are you in New Year's resolution guy? 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:36.960 No, we we've started doing like extremely attainable things, like 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:42.400 what's something that's attainable that's not a year long process, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.080 but maybe you want to do a little thing different. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.680 We lived in this house now andy since twenty March 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.440 of twenty one, so we'll be coming up on three years. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.480 We've never had like full grass before, you know, like 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.240 seated and sold it and all that. And you know 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:00.880 in this and now with the putting green I have 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.560 in the backyard, there's not a ton of grass to 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.640 do that too. But I told my wife yesterday, my 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.160 quote unquote New Year's resolution is to have like a 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.280 grass yard this year. So that's I feel like that's 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.080 extremely attainable. Like we could do that this year. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.680 You know, maybe maybe you could get a local agronomus 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.360 to stop by and uh. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.920 You know, anybody sending my way, please thank you. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.560 You know, if you got a lot of shade, they 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.920 might have a different grass recommendation. Try and make your 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:28.600 life easy. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.039 Yeah, I would like multiple strains, is what I'm thinking, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:37.120 So as we if we could introduce multiple like exactly 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.760 how do I need to like do we need to 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.680 have water more in one part of the yard than 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.239 the other part of the yard. And we're also andy. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.280 We're also so my kids this year are going to 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.280 be five and two, and we threw around the idea 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.200 of getting a trampoline as their Christmas present, but we 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.280 live in Connecticut. Connecticut, it's not extremely trampoline weather right now, 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.719 but I think we're going to do trampoline like mid 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.640 Mar early April, and so we have also got to 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.279 factor that into the this to the grass. But what 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.680 about you? Are you doing a resolution? 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.200 You know, I'm not like a resolution guy. I do 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.880 do make decisions and try and stick with them. Last year, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.480 I gave up soda. I didn't have a soda all 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:20.400 year last year. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.560 Real quick, let me let me interject. Were you a 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.400 what was your soda A choice? 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.839 I mean I didn't drink a lot of soda, but oh. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.200 Yeah, I know. I'm the same way. Like I'll have 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.440 one on an airplane. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.880 I'll have I'll have like a I would have like 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.200 a coke, okay, just a regular regular. I don't do 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.279 the diet stuff. I think the diet coke might be 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.320 worse for you than regular coke. I don't want to 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.160 go down that that rabbit hole. But I just gave 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.719 up soda. It was crazy because like I didn't even 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.599 really notice, and then it was like October and I 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.760 really wanted a soda one day and I was like, oh, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.840 I haven't had one of these all year. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.880 Now, will you bring those back into your life in twenty. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.279 Four I don't think so. I think I'm done with them, okay, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.280 but this year. So something that's stuck with me all year. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:12.000 Last year was in the US Open, they interviewed Novak 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.920 Djokovic's wife and they asked what Novak liked to do 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.680 at home, okay, and she was just like, you know, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.760 he just stretches all the time. And they're like, what 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.240 stretches all the time? They like ask some questions and 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.359 she's like, yeah, we'll watch TV stretches the entire time. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.560 So my kind of this year, my thing's going to 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.359 be like I'm going to really focus on trying to 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.880 stretch every day, just like it's super easy to do, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.960 but it's super hard to do, right, Like something very attainable. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.159 But like if I'm just I feel like, if you're 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.520 just more flexible, life is easier. It's easier to get 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.880 out of bed, it's easier to pick up your kid. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.719 Like it just there's no excuse either. It's like the 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.960 easiest thing to do in the world. If you're watching TV, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.039 you could just stretch while you watch TV. It's like, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.440 legitimately the easiest thing to do. I'm gonna try and 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.200 do it, but it's like one of those hard things 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:08.160 to do well. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.320 I mean, it pulls you off the couch, right, which 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:11.520 is you know, the place you want to be if 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.000 you're watching TV. I remember I had I had justin 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.840 so we did an in person podcast last year. I 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.240 get a grip and I think he said four to 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.840 six hours a day he stretches, which again, that's like 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.840 that's like an enormous percentage of the day you're spinning stretching. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.160 But again, I mean he's a professional athlete like Novak, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.920 so you know, you've got to be focused on your 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.160 body as much as possible. If Tom Brady taught us anything, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.960 you know, it's it's elasticity in the body is one 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.280 of the more important things in terms of longevity, right. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.400 You know what's the one thing for me because I 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.400 do a little bit of what you talk about with Novak, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.200 Like we're upstairs watching you know, Survivor or Amazing Race 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.760 or something like that. I'm probably on the floor half 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.520 the show, rolling out on the phone roller or just 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.600 stretching in general and the other But I've been trying 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.240 to I know, you're a runner, so I've been trying 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.400 to Somebody told me that you've got to stretch half 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.800 the amount of time you exercise. So if you're gonna 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.240 go a thirty minute run, you need to stretch fifteen 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.680 minutes before the thirty minute run. I've been trying to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.360 dedicate myself to that over the last four or five 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.560 six months, and I do notice a completely different change 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.080 to begin the run, not necessarily mid run, late in 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.120 the run, but to start off the run. I do 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.040 feel like I'm almost warmed up as I've gotten going. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.720 You stretch before you run, Yeah, yeah. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.880 Like fifteen minutes. I mean, I'll do foam roller, I'll 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.360 do some stretching myself. I've got a couple of stretching 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.920 things that a PT taught me. And then I'll go 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.840 outside and I'll do like hamstring and stretch the legs, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.320 like just basically my front yard before I get going. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.240 But yeah, I mean, as opposed to kind of going 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.760 out there cold run is what I've I've tried to do. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.719 By the way, if anybody hope that this podcast will 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.480 be normal and Andy and I are on it, you're 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.480 getting like eleven minutes of stretching talk to start well. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.880 It's funny because you know, you go out to run, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.200 and the first half mile the run is just like 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.040 it feels like if you take one bad step, the 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.040 run will be over. Yeah, you're gonna break. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.040 Your grip at acl or something. Yeah yeah, yeah, I 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.480 mean especially you, I know you do a lot of 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.520 trail running, you know, so it's like when your trail 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.600 running and obviously step per step is is you know, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.959 not as predictable as like somebody like me who's running 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.839 on the pavement a lot. You know, you just gotta 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.600 be you got to got to keep your eyes in 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.000 wits about you. By the way, trail running and hiking 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.720 I love because I do feel like it's a little 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.440 bit more of a mental workout than just like running, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.240 like street running like I do most of the time, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.760 because you're paying a lot of attention to where you're stepping. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.679 I remember when I used to hike camel back when 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.680 I lived in Arizona all the time. You know, it'd 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.880 be like thirty five minutes up right, and I'm busting 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.200 my ass and I'm sweating, and I'm tired, and I'm 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.680 I'm winded. But I always said going down was my 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.600 mental workout because a wrong step and you might twist 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.880 an ankle or you know, cut an arm or fall 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.040 or do something like that. So it was I felt 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.120 like it was a great kind of mix of both 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:57.760 those worlds. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.160 Yeah, the trail I run on a lot, it's like 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.600 a it's like a five six hundred foot uh incline 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.320 pretty quick. And what I find is that that it's 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.640 like a it's awful. I'm not gonna lie like you 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.640 do it and you're just like this is this is terrible. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.199 But the only way to do it is like focus 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.360 on really like breathing. Well, like you it becomes almost 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.520 like meditative, right, because you're so focused on your breath 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.600 in order to get up. But I think, like I 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.160 think it, I've been wondering. I you know, I haven't 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.880 played competitive golf for a while long time, and I 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.040 haven't really played golf for a while now now that 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.840 I think about it, But I think about that breath 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.319 work with golf, Like if you just focus on breathing, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.720 it helps so much in those high leverage moments in golf, right, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.880 is like really being able to lock in on how 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.920 you're breathing to keep things normal. Because that's what I 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.480 think sometimes happens when you get nervous, uh or you 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.720 just lose the regularity of your breath and you see 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.319 how how powerful it is when you run up a hill. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.120 Is like, it's not bad if you focus on the 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.800 break the breathing. It's hard if you lose track of 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.280 your breathing and you lose your breath. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.680 Then, I mean, I feel like, I mean, as we've 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.720 kind of as pro sports have evolved a lot over 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.199 the last let's call it seven years in terms of 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.400 the mental focus as much as maybe the physical focus. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.480 And you know, I mean this is NFL players and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.720 NBA players, right, I mean you hear so much about 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.200 like the work Lebron puts in and the stuff Steph 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.960 does mentally to keep the focus, you know, as he 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.680 gets older. I feel like golf has kind of got 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.880 there as well. I would love to hear more of 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.000 this from pro golfers, by the way, about how they 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.960 go about their process in a golf round. I mean, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.320 you know, like we do these do we? I know 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.840 CBS did a great job last year of the like 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.640 on course interviews. I love one of those interviews one 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.560 day this year, it's like, what's the breathing like? Over 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.160 the shot, you know, like, how are you going about 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.520 the breathing technique as you prepared to hit a golf shot? 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.640 Are you do you have a breath hold? Do you? 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.800 You know? Like, because I'm sure they do, I'm sure 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:10.719 they're thinking about that. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.720 Yeah. I feel like people probably are afraid to ask that, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.200 especially in one of those settings, because you'd be worried 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.560 that the guy is then started to think about it. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.360 Yeah, it's like the Rick Rally book where he talks 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.800 about the guy looking at a shadow over the swing, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.319 you know, and you're like, yeah, totally. But I mean again, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.040 I like that's the space for those types of questions, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.040 and I'd love to get a little bit more in 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.400 depth on that because I you know, I mean, the 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.560 stuff that these these top tier pros do outside of 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.040 just going to the gym, I feel like hasn't totally 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.160 been as explored as maybe I'd like it to be 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:45.880 or or I haven't read the article yet, but I'm 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:46.640 sure it's out there. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.240 I think too. Some of them are super secretive about 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.200 what that, like think about Koepka, like, wouldn't tell anybody? 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.319 Still hasn't said it, right, Still hasn't Yeah said what what? 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:02.160 It was that he. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.360 Walks slower or something. Right, it was like, let's just 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.040 slow down. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.319 That was one of the things. One of the things 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.160 was to slow down. But he said it was something else, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.360 you know that that you know, after the Masters, him 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.640 and his buddy stayed up, and you know it was 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.560 his buddy was yelling at him about it. But like, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.120 I think that, like we've seen it with Tiger, Tiger 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.480 is so much more open about his process and himself 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.800 and the way he thinks about the game now, right 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.600 than he was at age thirty three when he earthed, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.880 you know, twenty eight, when he was in his prime, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.720 just knocking down majors and trying to like inflict harm 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:44.439 on his competitors, right, Psychological warfare, Andy. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.880 I have a question before we kind of dive into 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.960 the topic here that we're going to talk about, because 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.680 I know I felt this yesterday, so we're recording this 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.920 on January two. I felt this on New Year's Day 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.440 as we're kind of getting into the college football playoffs, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.400 you know, I mean East Coast person, It's it's five 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.200 pm when the first game starts, right, I miss golf. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.520 I miss a little bit of golf. It's so wild 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.240 how this happens. You take a few weeks off of 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.000 paying attention to it and watching it all the time. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.880 And I'll be honest with you, I didn't watch any PNC. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.160 I don't think I watched a minute of the p 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:17.600 and C. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.000 I hear you weren't plugged into the Hero. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.640 I don't think I watched the second of The Hero. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.080 So I don't think I watched literally a second of 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.360 golf in the month of December that was That wasn't 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.200 Q school that I covered. So outside of that, it's 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.200 I've been four or five weeks off, which has made 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.640 me kind of excited about Hawaii, you know, like that's 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.320 why breaks are good. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.280 Yeah, I mean there's a lot to be excited about 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.560 with the West Coast swing in my opinion, you know, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.360 include Hawaii in that is the best, you know, like 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.400 this to the Masters is the best season for golf. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.040 People are inside, people have time to watch stuff. People 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.040 aren't You're not competing with people playing golf on the weekend, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.200 which I think is like an underrated thing that people 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:10.320 don't talk about enough. It's like you capture. Yeah, like 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.760 people who watch watch golf like to play golf too, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:15.720 Like and. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.720 They don't work Saturdays and Sundays. Right, this is what 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.720 what a what a what a weird phenomenon there, And 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.360 I can't believe you cracked that code. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.520 So so we're here, we're the like I think that's 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.480 the most interesting. Golf is is really key one to 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.440 the masters, right and and I you know, we have 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.720 a lot of great events in the summer, but this 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.280 this time of year is really great. And I agree, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:44.440 like I I kind of I'm itching to see golf again. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.640 I'm I'm a little bummed about the ram defection. Yeah, 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.080 I feel like he always played well at Cappel And 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.240 you know, you think about a couple of years ago 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:00.480 we had that amazing Rom cam Smith duel, which was 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.200 I think one of the better terms. Both of them 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.520 are gone. Now Rory's not going to be there because. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.320 He watch that battle on the c dub. You know, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.120 you can just get just clue into that. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.600 But we're here. So to kick things off, I figure 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.760 we'll do a part reflection on twenty twenty three, just 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.320 three big picture kind of takeaways from the year, and 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.200 then uh and then we'll dive into some predictions thoughts 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.240 on twenty twenty four. So what uh what's your what 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:30.880 are your takeaways from twenty twenty three? 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.080 Well, I had this. It's kind of my last one, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.400 but I'll start with this just because of what we 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:39.480 just talked about. I felt like last season golf on 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.360 the men's side was extremely front loaded in terms of 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.800 the storylines, and when you go back to early twenty 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.240 twenty three, you know it was our introduction into the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.720 signature or elevate. I don't know what they're called. What 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:51.320 do they call now? 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.720 Are they signature this year, signature, signature. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.640 Elevated signature, They'll change. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:01.800 It'll designated, designated or elevated be a signature I'll give you. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:07.440 I'll give you over under October one, twenty four that 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.920 has a sponsorship to it. Are you going to take 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.920 the over or the under? So it's not gonna be 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.200 it'll be like over. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.320 I don't think. I think they're gonna try and sell I. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.880 You know, one one crazy prediction I almost put down 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:24.760 this is jumping ahead, and I almost said that the 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.360 PGA will change dates by the end of twenty twenty four. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.880 That would be super good, going back to old may 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.960 or sorry, going back to August. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.160 Maybe, Yeah, that's I just I just like I think 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.760 with the private equity money, the PIFF money, there could 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.800 be just like another massive schedule shakeup. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.280 Andy, Can I say this to that point? Yeah, the 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.320 MAYPGA stinks. Get it out of my face. There's way 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.439 too many good tournaments bunch together. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.640 Well, it kills the summer. It kills That's what I'm saying. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.760 It kills every event, every event between. That's not a 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.960 maze between the Masters and the Open. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.840 Yeah. I couldn't agree with you more. Take it back 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.120 to August. It was nothing wrong with that date, by 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.240 the way, not that it was awesome. It was the 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.639 only identity the PJA Championship had pre Blockie was the 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.280 fact that it was the last major, and it was 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.280 it was Glory's last shot, and that was obviously, you know, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.440 crushed and killed like the Western. But I was writing 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.800 that early in the season, we had this new thing 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.199 in golf on the PGA Tour that was really cool 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.720 and unique and different, and it was one of those 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.560 things where you went, why isn't this Why isn't it 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.040 like this all the time? Right? The fact that everybody 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.119 got together and played the same golf tournaments. You know, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.760 you think about like the Tiger Ernie phil Era and 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.720 they would just play random events that the other two 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.760 guys wouldn't be there, and VJ. It's like such a 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.480 bummer that that was the case. But so we got 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:55.479 Century with Rom Farmers was great, Phoenix Open, Scheffler wins, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.880 Rom wins at Riv, Scheffler wins the Players, and then 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.879 ra wins the Masters, and it was literally Andy, if 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.199 you remember, it was like, this is it, man, Like, 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.680 these are the two best golfers in the world. We're 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.320 getting them playing well week after week after week, and 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.600 this is gonna be twenty twenty three and neither one again. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.760 It's just crazy that neither of those guys won another 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.720 golf tournament at all, after this incredible run early in 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.120 the year where it felt like we were gonna get 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.560 this juggernaut battle of these two names. So I would say, 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.720 when I look back on twenty twenty three, remembering how 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.960 good those two guys played early in the year and 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.880 how freaking awesome it was watching them go head to head, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.720 is gonna be was one of my big takeaways, you know, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.199 from then on. But I mean after that, so Andy, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.560 after those guys, after the Masters, right, I was looking 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.359 at impactful wins on the PGA Tour were in a 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:55.720 major championship by certified stars. Okay, these are like the 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.399 guys that you turned the TV on on Saturday and 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.840 Sunday if they're in the Hunt at the PGA, Hoveland 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.600 at the Memorial, Ricky Fowler at the Rocket Mortgage, Rory 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.480 at the Scottish and then Hoveland goes back to back 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:13.040 in the playoffs. So you basically had like five impactful 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.680 weeks and you kind of combine the two with Hobland 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.240 there after April. It wasn't a great PGA Tour season 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:22.199 after the start of it. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.720 You know, there were a lot of really good tournaments 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.840