Fore Play - The 2018 Masters Instant Reactions

Episode Date: April 8, 2018

 We recap the Masters! It's the whole gang -- Riggs, Trent and Frankie -- breaking down everything from the 82nd Masters. How do we feel about Patrick Reed winning? About Nick Faldo's weird commentary? About Rickie Fowler once again coming oh so close? About Jordan Spieth doing Jordan Spieth things? About Rory's struggles? About Rahm's temper? About the perfection that is Augusta National? About Tiger's disappointing week? It's our raw, instant reactions. It's the 2018 Masters recap recorded minutes after the conclusion of the 82nd Masters Tournament.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, four play listeners. You can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. The Masters just wrapped up, and it's the Foreplay Boys. We got a lot, a lot, a lot of things to talk about. We go through Patrick Reed, getting the first win, his first major. It's the Masters. It's a great major championship.

It was a lot of fun. We had a lot of firepower on the leaderboard, all kinds of good stuff. We get into Nick Faldo, the weird stuff that he was saying, And we also would like to say and announce and let everybody know that our Gary Player footage are week down at Mr. Gary Player's House, the Black Nighthouse. We're going to be releasing a multi-part video sort of series about the whole trip. Probably be two parts, each one around 15, 20 minutes long Monday and Tuesday. So look out on Barstoreswellsports.com for that. We got Frankie Borelli on here.

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Nice to be here, boys. Congratulations on all that you're doing as mediocre as it is. These newer, younger, hipper platforms like Barstool Sport. Tigers had three back surgeries. He's had one fusion. We welcome in from Barstool Sports. Riggs and Trent. Guys, welcome to the show. We have now got Frankie Borelli, Trent Daddy, myself. We have the Masters Reactions. We just watched it. There's a lot of emotions flowing through all of us. A lot of excitement, maybe a little bit of letdown, all kinds of good stuff.

This is the squad. We haven't had the whole squad back in a while. We haven't had all three of us. Frankie's calling in. I believe you sound really good, Frankie. Why don't you say hi to everyone? Hey, how's it going, everyone? Yeah, I'm calling in from my house.

I'm actually holding a cell phone to my ear as if I'm in like the 1980s. I'm holding like a landline. This feels real strange. Usually I'm talking with headphones in or I'm talking on a cell phone. phone or I'm texting. I mean, I don't know who calls people anymore. But I feel real strange with a phone up to my ear, but it sounds loud and clear, and I could not be more excited to talk on this Master Sunday. You know, the phone, the landline thing, I realize this because I've called in to do my radio show a couple times with the landline, and the phone, how big the landline phone is,

is like appalling. It's like a very intrusive device. My wrist is in a position right now that it hasn't been in since I was like 11 years old where I used to call my friends to see if they where they could come outside. It's an insane holding of the phone. Did you ever use to do that too where you'd call like a girlfriend and talk to her for like fucking hour and a half, like late at night on the landline? Oh, yeah. And then you heard a noise and maybe you saw someone downstairs picked up the phone and they were

listening and then you just got quiet. Yep. You're like, oh, what did they hear? Oh, no. I have older brothers and sisters and I would listen to them on the phone with people. I was on the other end of that. Oh, you creeped, Tre. You got to pick it up and you press mute and you hold the.

mute button down and then you just listen to whatever the fuck teenagers talk about. So we're throwing it way back here on this Master's Sunday. We have all kinds of good stuff to get to. We just watch Patrick Reed. A very exciting Sunday. I mean, we had guys, it was kind of like number one contender kept like, you know, one guy would step up and get thwarted away. The next guy would step up, get thwarted away.

You kept thinking nonstop like Patrick Reed is not going to win this tournament. It's like he's not, he doesn't look overly sharp. It was on the second fucking hole. Rory's got that short eagle putt to tie the lead. You're like, we haven't even, I haven't even sat down yet. I haven't even gotten popcorn yet. This leads about to vanish what's going on. He never ended up relinquishing the lead at all.

Just let's go around. Let's get everybody's first kind of reaction on thoughts on Patrick Reed in general. Feelings on him, him winning the whole deal. Frankie, how we feel it about P. Reed? I went in circles of Patrick Green today. I wanted to like him. I know that the whole story behind him is he's Captain America, but I just can't get past the fact,

although he just looks like a goober. And I wanted to hate watching him today where he wore the red, but obviously he came out in the pink, which I was shocked the entire world that he wasn't wearing his red and black today, which I wanted him to wear so barely so I can even hate him even more for wearing Tiger's outfit. But for him to win today, it just shows the guy's nails, man. He never wavers.

You always thought, like, this guy was obviously going to blow this because he's Patrick Reed, and he looks like a walrus, and he looks like a bag of milk. But he just didn't. And everyone else, it seemed as, like, I called this guy so many names today because I want them to miss these puts. And once he makes contact, he gets in the fucking middle of the hole. He doesn't even come close to missing.

He does not come close to missing whenever he puts from maybe 10 feet in. I've never once seen him even, like, rim around the hole where. even had a chance. Man, he had some clutch putts. He had the putt on 12, the birdie putt he made when it was, you know, it was the rumblings were just starting to go around Augusta, that Speeth was making an absolute charge. Ricky was making a charge. He makes a huge birdie putt on 12. On 13, he obviously gets the break. He kind of comes up a little short, hangs up on the bank. Doesn't get it up and down for birdie, but gets away with par, no damage, and then makes a huge, like, 12 foot or so, a little slider. You could tell you.

It broke pretty good left to right for birdie on 14. You're like this fucking guy. And then he made a couple huge puts down the stretch on 17. That must have been, what, a four or five foot slider? Well, he got lucky on 17 too because that ball was cooking past the hole. And then, yeah, but then he made it. I mean, he's fucking nails. Yeah, on 17.

So if we're going to, let's talk about, if we're going to do the breaks, we've got to kind of go all the way through because on, on three, he had a birdie put. He was on the back fringe on three, maybe two feet off the green. but that thing from there is unbelievably slippery and hard left to right. And he hit kind of an aggressive kind of jammed it. And if that thing misses the hole, I mean, it's literally going off the green. I don't think it would have gone all the way down the slope. But it would have been kind of where Tigers ball ended up,

where he would have had like a 12 or 15 footer uphill from like the fringe. And instead it catches the hole and goes in. But I mean, those are kind of the breaks that you need when you win a major championship. For sure. I kind of went in circles. I felt the way same way Frankie did because I went into the day. It was the Rory versus Reed Showdown, and I was very much rooting for Rory despite my American ties. But then Roy faded so much throughout the whole round that I found myself sort of rooting for Patrick Reed,

but also rooting for the guys like Spieth and Fowler and Rahm who were making a run. So like you guys are saying, he's just nails. When he needs to make it, I thought the put on 12 was massive. He's just, that was an unbelievable putt. And then he, yeah, he thwarted off everybody. And, you know, he ends up with the green jacket. I don't, you know, it's huge for his legacy. I'm wondering what his champions dinner is going to be like.

but read one of the masters, you know, I was rooting for Roy because I wanted the career grant slam, but read one in it. That's a hell of the story, too. He, let me see if you guys agree with this. He is so goddamn similar to Ian Poulter. Yeah. In the sense that he,

there's so many things that are not likable about him, but he's got these certain qualities that it's not even that they're necessarily like, likable as much as like you just have to respect the motherfucker. And then on that sense, like, it does become likable because that amount of respect, Like, his putting stroke all day looked fantastic. As Frankie was saying, it was like, you're standing there.

We kept saying the same thing. Like, come on, you bastard. Like, miss this one. Like, let these guys that are buzzing that are shooting 64s and 65s. Let these guys get back into the tournament by missing this. And he just wouldn't. And he kept, every time he even made a mistake, he fouled it up with a birdie. It was, I mean, it was amazing.

I'm looking at one. I mean, he bogeys won, pars two. So you're thinking like, all right, that's a one overstart, which should be maybe a one understart. Then he birdies three, like we talked about already. He bogeys six, but then birdies seven. He bogey's 11, birdies 12. It's like, this fucking guy with the stones, you try. It's like, I try so hard not to like him.

But then he does all these things, and it's like, dude, I got to tip my cap to that. That was awesome. You do have to respect the big talk on Master's Sunday is like, oh, the emotions are crazy. People are the nerves, the nerves, the nerves. And then it just seems like Patrick Green doesn't have nerves. He just comes up in these big spots over and over and over again. But then you got world-class players like Rory who just completely shit the bed down the stretch.

So you got to respect the guy like Patrick Reed who can rise to the moment. And you and I talked a little bit about while we were watching Riggs where who would you rather be going into Sunday? Would you rather be Reed with the lead or Rory who's just a couple behind? And you and I both said Rory, but that's just Patrick Reed is just wired differently

than the rest of these guys. I didn't say Rory as much as like I was very curious. I thought that was just a very curious, like thought-provoking question in the sense that when you T-O, it's almost like they say it too, goal leads like the worst lead in hockey and all these different kind of cliches. And in golf, it's like if you're teeing off with a three-stroke lead and the masters, it's such a nerve-wracking experience because it's like, I'm supposed to win.

Right. It's the same reason that like a four-and-a-half foot put down the stretch is so much like trickier and more pressure-packed than like an 11-foot put because a four-and-a-half foot puttut, you're supposed to make it. Right. And if you miss, you're like, that was a fuck-up. That was a collapse. That was a choke.

When you miss like an 11-foot puttut, it's like, well, I'm not supposed to make it. like it'd be nice. It's the same kind of deal. It was like, Frankie, I'd be curious to see what you think about this idea of like, would you rather be Rory teeing off today, who's three shots back, but like he birdied 18 yesterday. He's buzzing. He's got all this momentum. He's won four majors. Or Reed, who's at the top, but like one little slip up and it feels like you're leaking. Do you think that's actually any validity of that, or do you just want to be the guy with the three-shot lead? Yeah, I think it all has to do with the type of person that Patrick Reed, like, looks like he is.

Like we just said, we think that he's always going to fuck up. So when I was going into this final day, I'm like, oh, my God, Rory McElroy is going to step up to this tea today. And Patrick Reed is going to shit his pants. Because Rory McRoy is like, he was like an animal looking for blood. Like that's how I felt Rory was coming into today. And for me to actually go into today, thinking that Patrick Reed, a guy was never won major in his life, and going up against Rory was one four, and he knows how to win and he knows how to compete. for me to think that that guy was just going to hold that lead.

I mean, I would have given you a million dollars in beginning of the day. That's how confident I was in Rory Macro. I was like, this is over. I was calling it over when Rory stepped up to the first tee, especially after the bogey-birdie. So it was, I mean, you know what it is? It's the guy just, he proved something that I don't think anyone saw that he had. He's always been in contention.

Patrick Green is the name that you always see up there, but it's just like he had to prove this to us that he could do it. and fuck, he really can do it because, like we were saying before, anytime he thought he wasn't going to prove it, he fucking just shoved it right down on the throat and hit a put. Yeah, it's such an interesting dynamic. Anyone in the world, though, especially at the Masters, no one was rooting for Patrick Reed down the stress.

I mean, you have Ricky Fowler going crazy. It's like, are you really rooting for Patrick Reed to keep that lead? There's no chance. No, we'll root for bogeys. No, but I guess I would wonder, like, where's the cutoff in player that you would root for the guy that's leading? to just continue to lead, right? Like, isn't that just the nature of it?

You, like, want it to be more interesting. If you're watching, like, a football game, and you don't care about either team, but one's up by four touchdowns, you root for a turnover or something so that the game becomes closer, becomes more intense, all that. So it's like, I guess where's the cutoff or where's, like, the threshold on type of player where you don't want them to kind of, like, slip up down the stretch so that you bring all these other guys into it.

Right. I think it probably has something to do with, like, repeat. Like, if it's someone going for their second mass or something, and you just want him to just break away. Like if it was Rory, if Rory had a three-stroke lead, we're all hoping he has a three-stroke lead the entire day. See, I don't know about that. Like, I don't know.

If Rory turns the tables and he's, you know, he like birdie's 13 to get to a three-stroke lead over like Jordan Spieth, and Speath's kind of, you know, on fire and he's Bernie and 16 all that, I think I would be like, all right, I want Rory to make a bogey or two coming in so that we get to a playoff or something like that. It's true. Every single tournament, I always think that I'm going to go into it, the opposite of kind of what Dave makes fun of us for,

how we like everyone, golf fans. And I'm like, oh, I'm just going to root against one guy, and I'm going to root for one guy, but then you see this leaderboard's like, fuck, I want Ricky to win, I want Jordan to win, I want Rorer to win. I have like 15 different people I'm rooting to win this goddamn tournament. It's such a mind fuck because, like, it comes to the point. It's like, I really don't care.

As long as anyone but Patrick Reed at one point I was thinking. I agree with that. Any guy behind him, any guy behind him, any guy behind Patrick Reed I was like I was going to be like doing laps around my house like in excitement that they won that message just for just for no reason at all

and I've said I've said many many times in the show that I like Patrick Green like I like I like that he's different I don't think I would ever enjoy like having dinner getting like a beer with Patrick Reed but like in the golf world the fact that he's got the Ryder Cup stuff the fact that he's like this cocky like asshole

the fact that he's got the whole backstory with like he'd like you know abandoned like his whole family because of like his new family with his wife and stuff like is that admirable stuff no but it makes him so fucking fascinating and he's like our american guy but i've just always been like yeah i kind of like him he had the comments about spieth when he was having the rules violation thing a couple weeks ago like all that stuff you throw all that into the mix and it's like you know what this guy's more interesting than a lot of other guys i dig it but then down the stretch it was it became like anybody but patrick

reed or at least like let him get us into a playoff like let him have to make like a birdie on 18 to win or something. We got close. It was such a weird tournament in that we continued to get just so and so close it felt like, but yet he never gave up the lead. He led the entire day. There was also, there's this really interesting kind of dynamic in golf where, like, you can do it in the Ryder Cup, right? Like Patrick Reed can do it in the Ryder Cup better than anybody ever, maybe, or at least like for how short of a sample size he's got, how small of a sample size he's proven to be able to do it as well as anybody. You got the same thing with Polter, where it's well, he has never won until last week.

He'd never won a stroke play event in America, yet he's, like, the biggest savage in the Ryder Cup, and they're supposed to be more pressure in the Ryder Cup than anything else. But then you kind of look at it, you're like, well, in the Ryder Cup, you do have, like, you're just one of 12 matches on the course, or four matches on the course, five matches on the course, and you kind of have a teammate. And it's like, is that pressure really the same?

Does it translate to, like, winning a major championship? So you're thinking about all that, and you're, like, not sure how he's actually going to do. And then you can even tell, like, Lee Westwood, I pulled up, Like, you can tell these guys have these deep, like, Rider Cup allegiances. And you could see, like, Lee Westwood tweeted right when they teed off. He just tweeted, I'd like Roy McElroy to win, is all he tweeted. Like, kind of, like, so subtle that it was very, like, very much like, no, I fucking hate Patrick Reed.

I want Roy to win really badly. And there were a couple other European guys that were tweeting the same type of stuff. So it was like, this was a bigger final group. It sucked. It was very unfortunate. It didn't end up becoming those two battling it out because that, I mean, I mean, mean when they teed off that's you thought like these are kind of the only two guys with a chance unless somebody goes crazy low and then those other two guys did Jordan speith went nuts and

Ricky and Ricky it was nuts so it's like and then those guys they did that and they came up short so I mean yeah let's talk about Ricky like where does this leave Ricky because he's had now he's had kind of both experiences where one where he's teed off with the lead or tied for the lead or whatever in a major on a Saturday or Sunday and played like shit never got it going today he comes from way back. He was, he was, what, five shots back when he teed off and plays great. I mean, he birdied, let's see, coming in down the stretch, he birdied 12, 13, 15, and 18 to get in with a 67. So he throws everything he's got at Augusta National at the Masters, the biggest tournament the world, comes up one stroke short. It's like, does this dig deeper into kind of the hole

in Ricky's game where he can't break through. I don't know. What do you guys think about? Like, where does this leave Ricky? How's he feeling right now? I didn't think of it as that, Riggs. Honestly, the front nine kind of put him in a hole. So for some reason, I always look to the back nine as like that's where he was at the top of his game.

For some reason, he just couldn't get it going. So I'm not going to knock him on him being kind of even through the first eight holes. It's like it was just an unfortunate to start to the round. And then he showed who he really was in the back, like, to just turn around and, like, turn on the engines. And, like, you said, Bertie, 12, 13, 15, and just put up a – and freaking put up a 67 on Sunday, and, like, come out of nowhere, come out of the clouds. I mean, Ricky – Ricky is due.

I mean, we've been saying it for a while, but he is – he's such a player that can just dominate, I think, at one point. I think he's going to go on a tear real soon because he's hitting the ball so well. And he's just got to get rid of those, like, seven or eight holes. where he just doesn't, like he just makes pars and pars, and it feels like you're just running out of holes. And then he turns it on it, and that's what ends up happening. He runs out of holes.

So he can just get off to faster starts. I think he's going to be, I think Ricky's going to be here for a long time playing real good golf. Yeah, I think of the narrative about Ricky Fowler might deepen. People are still going to be like, oh, he still can't win when he still can't win one. But if I'm Ricky Fowler with a person, I look at my round today, I look at the back nine, and I think I have as much confidence as I've ever had. up a little bit short, but he just keeps knocking on the door. You keep knocking on the door enough times he's going to be fine. Like I said, the narrative is going to, because it gets more

interest where it's like, oh, Ricky just can't win one. But if I'm Ricky foul with a person, I'm thinking I'm fucking right there every single time. I crush it in the majors. It's just a matter of time before I get one. Yeah, and he's got two, I mean, he's got probably the greatest finish in players championship history. For sure. I think he was five under over the last four holes. And then birded 17, like 100 times in a row to win that. So he's clearly got the mojo. He's got what it takes. I think I saw a tweet too. I think the number, this was the number, but I believe he's five years younger than Phil was when Phil won his first major. And in a lot of people's minds, you know, Phil's a top 10, top 15 player of all time with five major championships. 40 plus

PGA Tour wins, I think he's got so. Well, and yeah, his peers, his peers are Jordan Speath and Rory McElroy. So the curve is kind of skewed a little bit. Everybody thinks these guys should be good right now. And then it's, yeah, but I guess also like the golfs, like your peak years are also changing. Like they're curbing down to the lower, younger years because guys are putting so much stress so much more into their games, like the physical toll that it takes

in the gym, all this different stuff. Like that, the golf peak years used to be like low 30s, mid-30s. Now it seems like it's a lot younger. I think a lot of that, too, is kind of the function of guys make so much money now that like you're going to become more content when you've got $20, $30, $40 million

and you're 38 years old or 35 years old, rather than back in the day, it used to be like, no, you had to continue and continue and continue to like your late 40s to make enough money to kind of like feel like your family's good forever and all of that. So there's kind of a counter argument is that like, well, he's actually going through his like golf peak years right now. He's what, 28?

Is that what he is? Yeah. And he still hasn't kind of broken through and he's like, played it. He just played his best. He fucking played awesome down the stretch of Augusta and still came up short. It's like, that's got to hurt. And to that point where you're just talking about where endorsement deals make enough money. He's probably got himself set up to make the most out of these guys. He has the most

appeal. So he might be the most content out of them all. And that's where I would get a little concerned. You know, you hope like, and he, look, it's, it's digging too deep into it, right? For sure. But that's what we're supposed to do. That's kind of what we're doing. It is, it's awesome that he's proven that he can do it down the stretch. Like I said, he did it at the players championship. Now he did it at the Masters. You could always, you know, you could say this a lot of different times, but any other year there's a really good chance he wins with that kind of close. And, you know, his ball striking, his putting is absolutely phenomenal. He seems to be getting over the hurdle of kind of being rattled down the stretch or whatever in a major championship,

fueling the pressure too much, whatever the hell you want to say, and played phenomenal. Jordan Spee, I mean, can't say enough things about this fucking kid. Again, it felt like he didn't even have his A game. And today, I mean, he was, he was one swing away, really, his T-shot on 18 from probably having a birdie look to shoot 62. and shoot the tournament record at Augusta. He had that put on 13 that we, I mean, we were like, this is going to. He's going to make this eagle put, and he's going to be tied for the lead, and it's going to be a fucking shit show down the stretch.

Miss that, but. So this kid, I mean, this kid's scorecard, right? He came into today nine shots back. He birdies one, two, five, eight, nine, twelve, and then on 13 from the pine straw hits a ball that I'm talking, like, what do you have, like that hybrid thing he uses? Yeah. In his hands, and that thing, you know, it's. It's not going to get the same spin as a mid or short iron, obviously.

So he hits it out of the pine straw, and I'm talking he hit it to the only spot he could possibly hit it to get it close, which is that little knob, like the closest little knob over the tributary to raise Creek from him. And it barely clears and then trundles all the way up there because it doesn't have any backspin, all the way up there to like eight, 10 feet, whatever that was. You're thinking he's going to make fucking eagle after knocking off all those birdies I just talked about, like what is happening. He doesn't make that, but makes Bertie. Bertie's 15 and then cans that bomb on 16 And at that point you're thinking like this is

This is the British Open all over again Where he made that, you know, he almost looked like he was going to point at the hole To Greller, get my fucking ball That was just, Spieth is going, he's just always in the mix I mean, how many green jackets is he going to end up with? It's like, I can't even imagine. He's like, he's another guy, he's like, what is he, 23, 24 still? It's unbelievable.

And then the drive on 18, which that'll, you would say it's almost like a dick out situation where he sets himself up for not so good of a shot. But, I mean, coming back from being nine down or whatever it was, that's just something like I've never seen before. Almost the greatest round in Master's history. Yeah, he was, I mean, Jordan Speeath has just huge nuts. That's just a fact. Huge.

He has huge balls. And every time you think that he may be out of it, he just fucking sinks those, like you were saying, those huge pots. And, I mean, I'm just looking at his round. He put up a freaking 66 in round one and then put up a 74. He could have ran away with this thing the way he played today. I mean, Jordan's the type of guy that's one day at the master. I think he's going to go like minus 24.

Like he's just going to absolutely dominate because he plays so well, so fast at this golf course. You blink and he's down seven strokes. It's crazy. I never see anything like it. He's just one of those guys, man. He just knows how to play this course so well. The other thing, dude, that I want to talk about is that Augusta National. Okay, I want to talk about this because every year, because we see the finishes that we just saw, you go into every new Masters.

I always go in thinking that the course is just easy. I just think that it's like Bertie Central, right? Because we always, always, always, we come away from every Masters with the fireworks in our head. That's like the memory that we have, right? Last year we had Sergio making Eagle on 15, and then those guys, then he birdies the 18th in the playoff to win. And it's like fireworks, fireworks, jacks goes back 930 in 1986. to win. It's like Phil in 04 when he's going birdie, birdie, birdie, birdie, I think he shot a back 930 to win. So you have it in your brain that like, oh,

Gus is the easy like cool, fun, birdie eagle golf course. It's a hard fucking golf course. And it's like when guys, I just, I forget that every year when like when Speath, when he shoots that opening around 66, I'm like, you just part of you, even though you know it's not true, you know they always come back. You know it's always closer than you think it's going to be. Part of you is like, oh, speed's going to win wire to wire again. This course, just he's going to keep making birdies he's going to birdie all apart five and then he comes out and shoots a 74 and you're like oh yeah augusta's really hard and it's like he just he has this though he has such a it's such like a i hate to make all the compares there it is but it's a jack tiger

type thing where every time you turn around in a major championship he's just there and he he's got like the way that he talks in his post rounds too where he's like looking at at leaderboard a certain time he did have an interesting comment today where he said he was so far back that he didn't look until after he putted out on 18. He didn't even look at a single leaderboard. He was just focused. He referenced the 12th hole and how he's like, I got over my little thing there. Like he said that out loud, which is such a mature type approach to it.

Because you know everybody's thinking it. He put his arms up. That was a great sound. Great reaction. I mean, it's a 150-yard fucking hole. He's got like a lot of these guys. I think Rory hit a pitching wedge today. And he hits it, you know, speed hit it like 30 feet onto the back fringe from 150 yards and put his hands in the air.

Like, hell yeah, I did it. can that pot, but it's just Speeth, man, he's different. Brandel said it. Brannel said it's Spieth does speed things, and that's just what he does. He's so fun to watch a major championship. It's amazing. Isn't it amazing you're saying how hard the golf course is, and

we often forget, I feel like, that there's the only major that they play at the same exact golf course every single year. These people know this, they know this golf course, like the back of their hands, and they're still hitting shots that are making, like, John, like, freaking ROM throw his golfers, like, helicopter them into the, like,

gallery. Like, I thought that guy today was going to explode into a million pieces, and, like, and these people know this golf course because they play it all the time. Jordan Speed will still put up a 74 on round two, and he knows this golf course like the back of his hand. They come back every single year. It's the same pin plates. It's the same golf course, same T's selections. Everything is the same, and they still have so much trouble with this golf course. It just shows how insane it is. It's so good. That thing triumphs every year. year. It just comes out as the most glorious thing every year. The one thing about this year I thought was that the course, I think Augusta, I don't want to say, got tricked up, but everybody kind of wasn't sure how to

prepare and react to Saturday because the forecast all week was that Saturday is going to be miserable. It was like 100% rain, potentially going to be like windy storms. And what they ended up getting was literally the easiest imaginable conditions for professional golfers, which is that, yeah, it was off and on rain, but the rain, the actual, like, wetness wasn't a factor because there was no wind, and all the rain did was soften up the course so the guys could actually stop the ball on the softer greens. They were running slower so the guys could be more aggressive with putts. And Saturday, it just kind of, they had set the course up a little easier, like the fourth

hole, for example, it's usually that part three that plays 240 yards, was playing like 180 and everything was softer. And those guys, I mean, guys went low on Saturday. That was, I mean, it's kind of cool. It's fun because you saw guys, you know, chase, but unfortunately you also saw like Patrick Reed kind of looked like he was running away with it. You had like two Eagles, the Eagle, what, 13 and 15,

which were phenomenal. And again, you've got to just tip your cap to that motherfucker. Be like, Jesus Christ, this guy just continues to have stones and prove that he's got the biggest stones. But it's like Augusta, man. Augusta just comes through every year. It's so fun to watch guys play it. It's so fun to watch them hit these crazy pit shots

into like different slopes moving the ball around. It was just, it's just, it's, I can't believe we have to wait a whole other year now to watch guys play Augustin National. Speaking of, I brought up John Ram, what do you guys think about that crazy person? He's going to, he's going to either hurt someone or himself or both on a golf course at some point in the very near future. That's the way he bogeyed 15, I think, and I remember on 16, I'm like, oh, man, just, I want this guy to just fucking put this one right in the drink.

I just want to see him just helicopter this club, right? I was literally saying, go in the water, go in the water, because I wanted him to take that iron and just chuck it right into the water and maybe even just drown himself. Dude, take a brick and just jump to the bottom of the water and just never come back out because he looks like, he looks at points like he doesn't want to live anymore when he's on that golf course. We've seen people get mad on the golf course before, right?

People have tantrums, all that, but when John Romm hits a bad shot and gets mad, it feels different. I can't even imagine what it feels like if you're a gallery member at the course because we could feel it through our TV. We're like, he is going to hurt someone with a golf club. Dude, we covered our eyes every time he hits a bad shot. Tret and I covered our faces. Like, oh, my God, what's you going to do here?

He does that, like, he does that scream. He's like, yeah. He doesn't even know what he said. Yeah. And he slams the ground. And half the time, it's not even that bad of a shot. I think he did it on 17. He, like, fucking cursed, and he screamed to the heavens.

And the ball, like, ended up coming, like, within 15 feet of the hole. It's like, all right, John. Like, you're obviously out of it. You've had a couple bad holes. Like, why are you screaming? That's the old Hedekhi-Maziyama. That is. I did not realize John Rom was like this until I forget which players it was,

where they finally caught him on camera, losing his shit. And ever since then, I've had a little bit of a detector of, like, watching John Rom every time he does something wrong. But this master's, the camera was right on him because he was in it down the stretch. Did you notice he was making eye contact with the camera sometimes, too? He looked down, he looked like he was plotting a way that he could, like, explode himself on the T-box, and then he just looked up very slowly. and he always locked eyes with the camera.

I thought he was looking right into my freaking living room. So growing up, my brother and I would play video games against each other all the time. My brother's four years older than I am. But there were certain games that we would play. He would pretty much beat me most of the time. But there were some games we'd play where I could get pretty close. We would play NHL like 94 all the time. And there were games where I'd be like red hot.

And I almost would get to the point. He would get so pissed off when I would beat him and when I would score that I would actually be like nervous to score. because he'd like throw a fucking controller or just beat me up, like literally just would beat me up because he's four years older than I am. And I'd be nerve legitimately nervous to score and be like, well, I'm up two goals. Do I really need to score like a third? Because Kyle's going to lose his fucking mind and like beat the shit out of me.

Like we'll literally beat the shit out of him. Parents aren't home like our older sister's babysitting, which means she's not really babysitting. But I don't think this goal is worth it. That's how I felt with Rob. It was like I don't know if I want him to win, but like I really don't want to hit a bad shot because he's going to kill somebody in the gallery. Well, yeah. I feel like if John Rom has a brother, he's watching that, the same way you were playing video games with your brother.

He's like, I hope he shoots well because he's going to come into this clubhouse afterwards and just beat the shit out of me because he played so badly. It was scary to watch him. It's very scary down the stretch. Real violence. It felt like there was real violence in the air, which you don't get often in any sport. It's terrified. I'm telling you, I just wanted him to just toss a club into the trees. I thought he was so close to just like he just makes contact with the drive and just does a crow hop and just launches the club.

He just walks off as this, keep your fucking green jacket, and he just storms off into the distance. We've got a long time with John Rom. It's going to happen. We're going to see one epic meltdown, at least one from John Rob. We have to do John Rom watch. We have to now root for his demise so that we can just watch him explode. Yeah, we'll have it. We'll keep a close eye on that.

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this is the hardest I've laughed in a very, very long time. When he went back to the well for the Imagine Dragons and said, welcome to the New Age, welcome to the new age, I thought I was going to piss my pants. Trent had tears in his eyes and was like uncontrollably laughing by himself, basically, in the office because we're watching together. And I mean, Sunshine and I thought it was funny. Don't give me wrong, it was very funny. But we laughed for a minute or two, and there was done. Trent for like 10 or 15 minutes just had tears in his eyes. and kept laughing at this. But let me tell you why just really quickly.

Because you know that somewhere early in the week, they interviewed John Rom. And they were getting nuggets from everybody. Or not John Rom. I'm sorry, Patrick Reed. They were getting nuggets from everybody. And Faldo got this Imagine Dragons nugget from Patrick Reed and looked up the lyrics and had that planned out.

Because, you know, Nancy does that with his too. He's like, oh, Captain America gets his green jacket. And you know Faldo was like, all right, he's going to say that. And then I'm going to say, welcome to the new age. Welcome to the New Age. And he did it. And it was awful and awkward. and I could not stop laughing.

So, yes, it was very weird. It was funny, too, because the people that, right, if you missed the first part, which you, I think you did, which it sounded like a lot of people on Twitter did too, right? Like, if you're just not paying attention, like, whatever, especially watching golf. Like golfs, golf a lot of times, like, you're not really that queued into every word that they're saying because it's such a slow kind of methodical process of, like, the guy hits. And then especially when they focus only on, like, one or two groups at the end, there's going to be a good. like five, six, seven minute break before he hits against.

You can kind of tune out. You can check in on Twitter. You can talk to your buddies, whatever. So a lot of people, I feel like missed that first part. And then when he just started going on about Imagine Dragons, that must have, like, people on Twitter, especially like non-Golf people who just tuned in for the last couple minutes, they were losing their minds. They were like, what the fuck is golf talking about?

Like, golf has lost its mind right now. And that was all because of Sir Nick Falto. And on top of that, he kept saying earlier in the weekend, he kept saying this he spread eagled the field thing. What does that even mean? He's been doing that a lot. Spread eagle the field, he kept saying, well, he continues to spread eagle. Like, what are you talking about, dude?

I think he's, like, lost his mind. I don't, I'm worried about Nick Fowler. I don't know if they can continue to keep him in the position. He's like, he's a lunatic, I think. Yeah, it's something about him saying, though, just reciting those lyrics very seriously with his accent, and then looking at the masters, like, knowing what type of event it was and how important and how, like, classy and unbelievable this event was, and him saying, like, welcome to the new age.

And what's the other one he said after that? He's like, I feel it in my bones. No, yeah, the original one where he talked about Patrick Reed about. He said, I'm waking up. I feel it in my bones. Yeah, so he's like, Patrick Reed, his favorite musicians, Imagine Dragons. I'm waking up. I feel it in my bones.

What are you talking about, dude? This is like this dude, this is this guy's biggest moment in his life. Why are we fucking talking about Imagine Dragon lyrics? He honestly made Patrick Reed look even more of a goober than he is because I bet you Patrick Reed is not that big of a fucking Imagine Dragons fan Like you were saying, Tren, he probably just mentioned it Like, yeah, I like to listen to them They get me in my zone

Like I like this one song fucking radioactive And like Nick Valdow went back and was like I'm gonna fucking kill this one. He's just on lyrics.com Like I'm gonna fucking drop this sucker on Sunday He's on lyrics.com Just looking it up like the one highlighted part Like he probably looked

I'm surprised he didn't dig deeper into that And say like it meant more Because sometimes you go on those lyric websites It says what that shit means. It's like, I mean, Nick, he needed to relax with the Imagine Dragon stuff. And what's actually said for Patrick Reed is that that is now the most viral part of the Masters is this Imagine Dragon's lyrics. I mean, you have everyone tweeting about it, and no one even cares that this guy won the Masters. Aside from, like, the golf world, like, you have guys like Big Cat just chirping Patrick Reed about it.

They think he's like a groupie. They think he tours with Imagine Dragon. I mean, Faldo did him dirty with him. That was ruthless. You guys are right. I'll forget my own name. I'll forget my parents' names before I forget the moment

that Nick Faldo dropped Imagine Dragons' lyrics on a Master's Sunday. You'll never think of Patrick Green without associating him with that song. Correct. The crazy thing, too, is it's like, you could tell Nick Faldo's brain, usually this is the Jim Nance's time to talk.

He does the iconic call. He puts the line that, like, people remember. That's a win for the family when, like, Phil won in 2010. That's, like, his thing. And you could tell Faldo, he was, like, prepared for like, this is what I'm going to drop. I got the lyrics. I'm going to tie it together.

It's going to be so iconic. And that image of like the camera's panning the scene at the 18th at Augusta, you can see the scoreboard in the background, the clubhouse, the huge amphitheater. And then those words, it's almost like one of those fucking accounts on YouTube that like parodies the actual call to make it sound super absurd. Except that's, he actually said that shit. It's like, Nick, what are you talking about, dude? What do you do it?

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Jim N. Nance gave Nick Faldow a talking to after today's master's. This is when I talk. Yeah, this is when I talk. I know what I'm doing. And Nance is smart enough where he doesn't bring up references that will date over time. Everything he says, like, Captain America wins his green jacket. You can use that clip forever.

They are never, ever going to use the clip where Nick Follado says, welcome to the new age. Welcome to the next song came out in 2012. It's 2018. Like, you can't do references like that. I could totally see Jim Nance just turning to his right and looking at Fowler and just be like, goodbye, Nick. And then Nick Fowler just gets swept away and he's never, ever seen that the Masters ever again.

I honestly don't hate that. He's just, he's kind of like, it's almost you're tuning out, you're not paying attention, and he says things that are so bad that you're like, wait, what the fuck did he just say? And then you start paying attention for like the wrong reason. So he really blew his cover because for the most part, like you're saying, I think Nick Fowell is good, but that's just because he kind of stays under the radar. You start dropping Imagine Dragon lyrics, and then you're on my radar,

and you got to get the fuck out. I just, I miss Johnny Miller during every single one of these, this, coverage. He's so much better. He's so much funnier. He's so much more memorable. These guys, what the fuck is, what is he even talking about? Anyways. What did you guys think of Vern Lundis this year? The yes on speech putt. How awesome was that? Awesome. Perfect. I mean, Vern's he's an icon. He can't. He knows how to rise up to those moments. He's been doing it for decades. His voice runs right through your spine. Whenever they kick it to him, what is he on 16? He's on like the 15-16. Yeah, he's always on 16. Yeah, so he's on 16. And like, whenever they kick it to him,

his voice just like, it vibrates your back. It's so, I don't know what it is about, I don't know if they have his microphone just like with a lot of bass in it or that's just how his voice is naturally. But when he speaks, it's like, holy fuck, I got to listen and I need to know exactly what's going on. You know what the beauty of Vern is is that I feel like the first time that it registers in my brain that I hear his voice every year on Sunday of the Masters is when they cut to some clown on 16 that they haven't shown the entire tournament.

And it shows them on the T on 16. you just hear Vern go, and this a moment ago. And then they hole out for a hole in one every time. And you're like, Byrne's bad, all right. The Matt Sunday has begun it. We got that during the Hoffman hole in one. He's like, Charlie Hoffman. Came back from Bragg.

We're like, and this, a moment ago. And he does it. His timing and like enunciation with it, an emphasis is so perfect. He just goes, and this a moment ago. And you're like, oh, here we go. Yeah, here we go. He's not going to, like, hit it within, like, two feet. It's like, this sucker's going in.

Somebody said they should mix in every year. they should mix in one where they cut to a random guy that says in this moment ago and the guy hits it to like 40 feet oh i like like that yeah just to keep people guessing a moment ago and they cut to john rime just chucking his golf golf like on to the side the side road like behind the buttless cabin just not just cut to like a random guy who hits it to 40 feet and then verne's like he's going to have that uh it's going to be a tough two put to stay within 11 and then they just you know what i mean like 11 strokes they just cut to somebody like why the fuck do they just show that it's to keep you on your time you're toes, but he's, he's so good.

He too, like you said, he kind of just, it's almost like he's like hiding in the bushes. They only give him 16. He doesn't have like enough time. He's not given enough camera time to like really spoil it or like get overplayed in any way. It's just he's the perfect amount. And then like Trent said, he rises the occasion. He could say like, he's been saying yes, just forever. Yeah.

And that it works every time. I mean, he's like, yes, sir. Like he's literally just been saying yes forever. And it works every time. It's like that was the perfect call. I'll never forget that. So he was awesome. My friends, if you've tried or are trying online dating,

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incredibly disappointing week, if we're going to be honest. Not from an overall trust-of-process standpoint. We're fine in that regard. Just from a... He built our expectations up so high going into this week. All it would have taken was, like, he was subtly in the mix today. Yeah. That's kind of all we would have needed.

But, like, when he finishes on 18, basically, before the leader's tee off, it's like, it's the most depressing thing in the world. And we had it set up... Yeah, it wasn't fun to see. almost like, it was like an old man. They were just like, I didn't like today. I didn't like, I didn't like the whole vibe around today. It was like they were just giving him respect. Like, Tiger's back, he doesn't need to like have this.

I just didn't, I didn't want to see him on the TV tell. I don't know if you guys felt the same way. I didn't, it almost felt like they were like paying homage to him on 18. They're talking about him getting back to even. Like, I didn't like this whole thing like this guy. Like we're talking about a wounded soldier out here. It's like, no. This guy's back.

He had a bad fucking couple days. he is back. It doesn't matter what he did this week. He's still going to be playing at the top of his game this year. I'm 100% confident in that. Today was a very weird feel for me. I felt dirty watching it. Yeah, you're right. It's almost like when they panned like Larry Mize on the 18th hole. And they're like, there's Larry Mize, our 1987 champion finishing up. He's 32 over part. And I have a Tom Watson feel back when he was like finishing up and like everyone's taking pictures. And he's taking his moment walking up 18th. Like, oh, Tiger's, smiling again. It's like, get the fuck out of here. Tiger's going to be ripping everyone's

throats out like in two more months and he's going crazy. So let's let's stop it with all this bullshit. Yeah, I agree. I will say that it was, it was, I felt a very refreshing and positive vibe after he was done that. I really, it didn't affect me at all. And he wasn't needed down the stretch for it to be an awesome masters. Like the leaderboard and how it was shaping up with Ricky, even Rahm getting up there with Rory with Speeth making a run with Reed trying to like fend them all off it was like I didn't even think about Tiger for two and a half for three hours which is awesome

I mean because we've talked a million times on the show about how like yeah the new age they're great they're incredible talents they don't have like the charisma the personality the magnetic drawl that Tiger has to have the tiger effect and they don't but it was awesome to just see that like all right he's gone he's off the stage let's do this And I didn't think about him for a second after he was done.

And that was awesome. That was good because these other guys were captivating enough. And it just didn't matter, which was good. Yeah, we had, you and I went to the practice round earlier in the week. And I guess the disappointment for me comes where he was playing so well during the practice rounds. So we got all amped up about him like, oh, he's going to go low this week. And he's going to be involved. But I'm actually with you, Riggs.

I didn't think about him the later part of the day with all those names up there. So he's going to be fine. And yes, it felt a little weird where he was just done before the leader's teed off and people were just happy that he was there. But he's going to be fine. I trust the process as well. Yeah, I mean, he drove the ball great today. He shot 69 today. Very nice.

Yeah, one over for the term. I think he ended up finishing top 35. What's his exact number? I don't know what's the exact number. I'm looking at him right here. But anyways, he, again, he played well today. He had signs of life. He was way too rusty and pretty much every part of the game.

I mean, he was 32nd. Is that what you're saying? So I try. Sounds like he finished high for 30 seconds. So, I mean, he played about as badly as he could have played, it felt like. Like we were all disappointed, dejected, sad about the whole thing. Still finished tie with 30 seconds. So I still think to come back, trust the process, all that.

I did see that he jumped into the, with that finish. He jumped into the top 100 for the first time like three years. I think he's 88th in the world. Yeah, I want to see him start getting into the WGCs and all that. So again, he's working his way back up. All good stuff. up to see. I got an interesting question for you guys. If you're, so watching the golf down the stretch today, right, with those five names or so

that we just mentioned, you're sitting there as, let's say you're Adam Scott and you've got an open seat next to you at the Champions Dinner. You know that someone's going to be filling that seat sitting next 50 years at the Champions Dinner every Tuesday. Who are you pulling for in that crew down the stretch? Like, who are you thinking like, oh, yeah, that got to be a great addition. I want that guy to win because I don't think it was Patrick Reed. No, it's not Patrick Greed.

My answer is not going to surprise anyone. It's Roy McElroy. Because he's the most interesting guy out of all of them, and he would make for good conversation. I feel like he's lived a very, very interesting life through this point. And to have him next to me, I think he would be very good dinner conversation. It's Rory, not even close for me. My guy is definitely Ricky.

Just because Ricky is such a cool guy, I definitely feel like I'm sitting at the cool table in high school. Like Ricky brings that vibe where it's like, oh, fuck, I'm sitting at this guy's table. So yeah, Ricky fell out from me I mean, the guy's unbelievably good-looking So anytime you're in a mix with that guy I mean, he just raises your level Just being around him

So, and I mean, he's just, like I said, He's cool Joe, so I mean, I fucking love Ricky And that's my guy Yeah, he'd be a great addition to the picture The Champions Center picture every year I feel like he would just look sharp as up Remember all the Ryder Cup team pictures He always looks fly as fuck

Yeah, that might be why I don't... It's talking about his new gear, too. Puma's new gear with like that P. It almost looks like he's playing for like a college, but he's just like... I thought that hat today was so cool. That's great. I don't love that Pia. I think he looks like he's playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah, there's...

I don't know. I think that's way better than their like swoopy Puma thing. That is true. That logo stinks, in my opinion. That little like... That P is sharp, the simplicity. We're all kind of getting back to this minimalist in terms of like logo stuff. you bringing up the Ricky being such a good-looking guy

I would want the ugliest person ever to win so Patrick Reed winning they're probably pumped about that I don't want the I want it to stay ugly I because if the ugly people look the better that you look around them it doesn't go the other way in the room and they're looking at you sitting next to Ricky like you automatically look better looking because you're just in that like you're on that side of the room with like the good looking dude

yeah it kind of it kind of goes both ways I also think like that that crew it's such a an exclusive thing where you're in there they take like one picture the rest of the time it's kind of you're just in there with the boys it's like I don't know I feel like

I feel like Rory would be a great addition to that. Oh yeah. I feel like Rory's kind of like a sneaky like beauty when it comes to that kind of stuff but then again I mean Ricky seems like a really nice guy I think the last I think like Adam Scott was like I'll trade seats with somebody if like Patrick Reed wins

he's probably I feel like Patrick Reed's which again this is just a hypothetical I don't know who said And my next comment is hypothetically. Patrick Reed smells a little bit probably, and he's all over the place. He doesn't have a shirt that fits. He's all ruffled. I don't know. I wouldn't want to sit next Patrick Reed.

Yeah, I wonder if... The most interesting thing is he's like, past the gravy. Like, he has nothing interesting to say. He's probably listening to Imagine Dragons and his headphones while he's eating dinner like a fucking weirdo. Yeah, it's just an interesting thing to think about. I did see people talking on Twitter about the hypothetical Patrick Reed champion's dinner menu. I don't know if you guys have any thoughts on what it might be, but that should be. should be pretty interesting, I think.

I don't know. I've never really cared about the menu. I don't know. I don't really care what other people are eating. I just never, I just don't really care. All right. But I mean... It's probably mashed potatoes like a big glass of milk.

I love you say. It looks like a glass of milk. A bag of milk? A jug of milk? He looked... I mean, I called him a walrus today. It just came out of me. I don't know why.

Like, he made a pot. I was like, you fucking walrus. Yeah, I mean, you can't... You know what it is, too? He does this weird, like, fist pump where he keeps it really. close to his stomach. Like, most people have, like, Tiger has a very, very strong fist pump.

Like, he has that iconic. I mean, he has that iconic. He reaches it out. You can see the muscles in his arm, and you can make logos out of it. Like, if you try to make, like, a silhouette logo of Patrick Reed fist pumping, it's, like, one big, like, just, like, marshmallow.

He also keeps it real tight. It's, like, real inside his gut. You know what I'm talking about it's, like, a really weird fucking thing. I don't know how to explain it. Well, what I was going to say is he simultaneously has the fist of a man and a baby. Like, it's, it's all very small and close to him.

It keeps his fist pump tight to the body, but I don't, I mean, Tigers is obviously massive, and there's a lot of separation between the body and the fist pump, but, like, I don't think that's, I don't know. It does look a little dorky, but he's a dorky guy. Like, that's just what he is. He's also, it looked off to me. It looked like he was stabbing himself in the gut. Yeah, he, like, he's always done it.

Even in his Rider Cup highlights, he does that little fist, like, very rarely does he get a lot of separation, keeps it tight to his chest and all that, but. that's just kind of what he does. He's like a dorky, kind of quirky, weird guy. But again, people got to remember, like, he is our Rider Cup fucking savage. He's like the reason that we won the last Rider Cup. That, to me, I mean, that just trumps so many things that it's like, yeah, there's some, he's a diss. I said in my blog this morning, like Patrick Reed, like a lot of people look at him and just get pissed off, I think.

You just look at his face and you just get mad. You're like, but you got to just remember that he's a heroic figure. The fact that he had the umbrella out yesterday, the Ryder Cup umbrella out in the rain while leading the Masters? That was so heroic. I tweeted it, but his never-ending quest to be like, I'm playing in the Ryder Cup right now. I'm always playing in the Ryder Cup. I'm never going to think about anything else. He wears the umbrella. I feel like he's going to wear a shirt at some point. How do we not like that?

We do, but I'm just saying, it's what you're saying. There's parts that I like, I go back and forth on Badger's Greed. I can't decide. I know I decided that I like him, but there's just parts of him that make me cringe. I know he always hate, like Tiger Woods is an American, and half the country hates him, too. I mean, you got guys who. What? What do you mean half the country hates him? What are you talking about?

Tiger Woods is the most... Tiger Woods is literally, every time he's in it, the rating spike, everybody goes nuts on Twitter. Congratulations, Tiger. No, there are people that hate Tiger. That's crazy. Regardless of what he does, there are people that still hate Tiger Woods. So just because Patrick Reed had a good performance at the Ryder Company,

he's like, all of a sudden Captain America, does not mean that when I see him, like, I always have to like him. What I meant by Tiger Woods is like, no matter what accomplishments is Tiger Woods at, He also is an American. He also goes to these tournaments. He also wins all these tournaments, and people still find a way to hate him. I will always still find a way to hate Patrick Reed, regardless of how well he did in one rider cup. They're polarizing.

Multiple rider cups, Frank. They're polarizing guys. And he needs to – It's tough to reinvent the wheel with celebrations. I know the fist pump is a popular one. He needs to do like a shoulder-high kick or something. Give me something new. Look, I'm not saying that I don't understand that they're dislikable things about him,

but I'm trying to basically continue to plant into your guys' brains the important memories from the Ryder Cup because when the Ryder Cup comes around, everyone's going to be going fucking nuts. I love Patrick Green. He's fucking awesome. Hell yeah, USA. And it's tough. It's going to be tough for me to be like, hey, you don't get to have both sides. You had the perfect way to put it on a couple podcasts ago where it's, at the further we get away from the Rider Cup, the more hate he gets.

But as soon as it happens again, he'll be loved for a few months, you know, six, eight months after. for that and then it'll get to a point again where it's like you know what fuck this guy why do I like this guy again because the memory of the writer cup fades I agree that's what I'm saying I'm trying to keep you guys I'm stringing you guys kind of along here on the member he's the USA hero guy it was it is kind of

it is crazy that he didn't wear black and red today I know it's a Nike decision but unbelievable that they didn't let him wear that um yeah I mean I don't know I don't know if they were saying are they officially saying like it's a Nike decision they are not you could wear whatever he wants they are not officially saying it was But all of the Nike people had to wear some sort of pink.

That seems like a strange decision to me. Yeah, all of them except for Tiger who just wore red. Right. Yeah, no, that was kind of an interesting, weird thing. Again, Trent and I talked about it. We don't know if, I don't know if Patrick Reed wears black and red every single Sunday, and if he's done that forever. I know he has a lot lately.

I'm going full conspiracy. I'm saying that Nike, the narrative that they put out is that, oh, we want all of our people, minus Tiger to wear this nice shade of pink. Everybody looks nice. But I think that was just a way to make Patrick Green not wear black and white. right on Sunday. Yeah, no, that's a popular theory. Okay. I understand that. I actually thought that, too. I mean, that's the first thing.

I think that's the first thing everyone thought when they saw him in pink. It's like, oh, I mean, Tiger has something to do with that. Which, yeah, I mean, Tiger's, so, yeah, I don't hate it, but, again, I get it. I mean, whatever. He won, so it doesn't really matter. You know, he basically, like, he'll probably, maybe he'll just... It'll be interesting to see. I mean, he should wear pink now every single Sunday. Right, he should start wearing that color every time. He's won the fucking Masters. You can do whatever he wants.

Right. He's won the Masters. He just won the Masters. He just won the Masters. Tiger hasn't won the Masters in 13 years. It's like he can kind of do whatever he wants. Coverage thoughts. I mean, this happens every time. It's so unbelievable. The actual coverage doesn't start until 3 o'clock, especially on like Thursday,

Friday when you're sitting there. People are freaking out about this. The streaming is great. But then there also was a period where like when Spieth, I think when Spieth was leading the tournament and teed off on Friday morning, he wasn't in a featured group. And so there was like a couple whole period where you literally couldn't watch the leader of the golf tournament play the golf course. Yeah, the streaming has really improved.

I don't mind the coverage thing anymore when the coverage is so good with the streaming. But you're right, the decisions that they make sometimes don't make any sense. I don't know the people who are making these decisions, but they need to always show the lead of the tournament, especially if it's a guy like Jordan Speed. That seems like a very baseline thing that they fumble fuck this year. I don't know how that happens. But the streaming has really doled my hatred for, you know, the crying about how bad the coverage. Overall, very good. Yeah, very good.

Frank, what do you think? Yeah, there was. There's always those times where before the streaming has, I mean, I thought the streaming had been perfected this year. Anytime you went on Massachusetts.com and automatically played, I mean, there was no waiting. You didn't have to put in any TV provider and no bullshit, no circus to get into and watch. You literally just typed in message.com.

You went to watch live and it was already playing perfectly. Before those times, it was really, like you said, people always used to complain because, I mean, sometimes the leaders would just, you couldn't watch until three or clock and a guy would get hot and you can never watch them and they didn't have featured groups. Well, there used to be times, too, there used to be able to- Complaining this year about that just because of Jordan Spee for those couple of holes, because I actually didn't, I didn't have one. Like, I could not, if you didn't even tell me that this was like an issue this year,

I would have, I mean, I thought it was great this year. I had no complaint. Yeah, no, overall, I think it's great. I think that there's a good argument that people make that it's absurd that the official coverage doesn't come on because if you're at a bar or something at like 11 in the morning or noon or whatever, like getting a couple beers during lunch at work. Like, you can't really watch it because it's not on TV. So unless like you're...

I mean, really, what is on before, you know what I mean? They might as well just start at like 11. Whatever's on from 11 and 3 cannot be better ratings than the master is starting on at 3 o'clock. So, yeah. So, I mean, I think that's a very legitimate argument that I think people have. But overall, the streaming is awesome. I mean, you get to watch every single one of Tiger shots. You can just end, you know, with the beauty of the streaming with the feature group and the fact that he's always in it is that, like, you get to watch his entire round.

him even like walking between shots and things like that. Like for guys that are really into Tiger, like we are, like that's fascinating to us. Watching him interact with Joey and like smile and like muck it up with Rafa Carrera Beo, who he's played with today is like that stuff's fascinating. Just watching that stuff, seeing how it all unfolds, seeing like his whole five hours out on the course if you want to and having that option for him and a lot of different other players is great. So I thought it was overall very good. Masters knows what they're doing.

Their digital's great. They're pumping out highlights on their Twitter accounts. There's the Masters highlights Twitter. That's really good. They post all this different stuff. You can go through the leaderboard and click on certain holes that they have, they've yellowed out, which means that there's a replay. And you can literally, I mean, I'm going through like 80% of all of Tigers holes on his scorecard right now.

You can just click on and get the full video from that hole. So, I mean, overall, their digital is just fantastic. Yeah, I realized two this year for that. Twitter, when they were popping out those highlights, they were making it almost as if it was like a historical highlight. It was like Tiger Woods, 2018 Masters, Whole Four. It was like, the way that they titled these videos, when I first started watching, I'm like, oh, should, they're like re-showing Tigers like all-time shots.

But meanwhile, they were just showing like his awesome shot from today. They labeled them all with like 2018 Masters, round one, whole three. I was like, holy fuck, this thing's historic already. This is instantly historic. Wow. No, I thought all that stuff was great. Patrick Reed, the other thing I'd come back to is some of the breaks that he got

that I just, it's so funny to think about how that's the difference. I mean, he won by one stroke. We talked about the putt on three, and then Trent mentioned it, but the put on 17, that was like, that thing was going at least like 15 or 20 feet by, plus there's a false front there that, like Ricky's ball trickled down off of,

I believe, was it, somebody else's ball, was it, like, Ram was over the right side as well? Like, that is the, slope that that ball was trundling towards kind of catches like the right side of the pin and the hole and slows up to four or five feet but it also

could have hit the pin and gone it. Right. So it's like you're watching it's like Jesus Christ it was just kind of his day and he also again if that goes 20 feet by like maybe he makes the 20 foot or you don't know. But it was those couple breaks again the one on 13 like that is definitely that's how you win major

championship especially when it gets that close especially when it looked like today he didn't have his A game and all that. So So I'm trying to think of there's anything else we missed. But, man, it was a great tourney. Oh, the Masters, they're putting out Augusta National. They're doing, they announced a women's amateur tournament that they will be doing next year,

where the final 18 holes, I think it's a 72 hole event. They're playing at maybe the Champions retreat for a couple rounds, and then it sounds like it will culminate with 18 holes at Augusta National this Saturday before the Masters. The amazing thing about this is that this is instantly going to become the number one women's amateur tournament in the world. that's going to like, in my opinion, it's going to trump like the U.S. women's amateur because you get to play.

I mean, imagine you're going out there, these young women, these college golfers that are battling against each other, they get to go out and play for the Augusta women's amateur title at Augusta National, like five days before the master starts. That's just awesome. For a lady golf guy, I'm very excited. You're a huge lady golf guy. When I saw this announcement, we were down in Augusta when this announcement came out, I was shocked.

I thought I had like, I was still dreaming or I was in some sort of waking, state. I don't know. I didn't think it's 2018, but whatever. I didn't think I would ever see this happen, and now it isn't. What a thrill that's going to be for those ladies. It's a thrill for me. Yeah, it's going to be an awesome tournament. It's going to be cool to see, I'm assuming they're going to be putting in

new teas, right? Because they don't have women's teas there. They have members' teas. I mean, the members' teas are like 64, 63, so I imagine they'll be able to use what they've got. But the other cool thing is... Will this be, like, will this be able to watch it, you think? So I was just going to say... I would have said...

I would assume this will be televised the final round, in which case, like, go back and think, like, a week ago or a week and a half ago, how jacked up you are to, like, just see Augusta National. So, like, even just, like, for a normal family, like, I can tune in for the back nine of, like, this, this is going to be great. I get to see Augusta. Get a sneak peek at Amen Corner before the big dogs. Watch people play, like, the 13th and the 15th holes with, like, a big title on the line. Like, I think people are going to be more jacked up for that than they're thinking right now just because it seems like we just watched fucking Masters. And now you're talking about we're going to watch a women's amateur tournament. But if you think about, like, the kind of the chronological way it plays out excitement-wise,

I think people are going to be pretty into this. Oh, yeah, and also what's interesting is you're going to be seeing shots hit from a different side of, I guess, you've never seen before, right, if it's going to be from the members' seats. And they're all amateurs. They're all amateurs playing in this tournament. So you're also seeing kind of a level of golf closer to the average golfer as opposed to. watching these superstars that are fucking destroying this golf course. So now I get to watch something.

I mean, obviously these women are unbelievable golfers, and they smoke the average golfer out of the water. But it's closest since they are all amateurs to the average golfer. And I think that's awesome to watch them play Augusta National. It's like we always have these hypotheticals. Like, how do you think you'd do on Augusta? It's like, well, let's watch all these amateurs go out there and, like, try and handle it. Yeah, especially on like distances.

Obviously they'll move up the teas and all that stuff, but it'll be really interesting to see, like, distance-wise. because, like, these women amateur golfers, like, they don't hit it anywhere near the distance of, you know, the top men in the world, obviously. So kind of seeing, like, it's going to be, you're right, that they're going to have to, like, play the course so much differently and hit a lot of different type of style shots. I wonder, too, if, like, Augustel even toy with moving T's up to make, like, certain holes maybe even driveable or, like, make them, you know. Or change a par five, or change a par five or something like that. Imagine they change the whole scorecard. Right.

These could be options because, again, the holes are going to, they're going to play. so much differently. Like there's certain shots that, like, they're just not going to be able to play the same way with spin and with the trajectory of the ball and all that that these young women are going to have. So I think that's really cool. That's Fred Ridley, who's the new chairman of Augusta National. This was his first year as the chairman. You can tell he's a little nervous.

I believe he said that on the opening ceremony opening T-shot, he said that Jack and our good close personal friend, Mr. Gary Player, had a combined 10 green jackets when they actually have nine. So he's a little nervous, but I thought people were pretty, they're raving about him. I believe he played in like three Masters well before he was a member, of course, so he's a hell of a player in his own right. And again, he's kind of got the reins. He announced this whole new, the women's amateur and all that.

So a lot of cool, a lot of good stuff. It's the Masters. Masters is over. Next up, we got the Players Championship next month. We've got the RBC Heritage, which is basically like the, it's this next tournament this next weekend at Harbortown. is like a laugh out loud funny tournament to watch because you're just like especially on Thursday we just watched the back nine at Augusta and now you're telling me we're going to watch

like Matt Cocher battle it out at Harbortown like are you fucking kidding me um so it's it's fucking coocher I know it's like it's sad but it's like Hooscher like whisper something to Patrick Reed's like wife and he was walking up to Green like what the hell's Coch are talking about up there like Cochard just looks so like sneaky like Cooch is like whispered something in his He's over here like, oh, yeah, you're happy about your husband? Get the fuck out of here. Like, you gotta go back and watch this. He, like, does a little smirk with, like, his red face.

I'm like, what is Kooch doing sitting in the stands? He's creepy. Have you seen his, like, Skechers commercials? Those are some of the most awkward commercials out there. It was funny to see the whole office react to seeing him wear the sketches. I know, like, Koli and a couple people were walking by the TVs, and they were saying, like, any guy that wear Skechers, like, I mean, how is this guy even allowed in the golf course?

You know who else, I think? He just looked like a little ridiculous on like their on Thursday. It was pretty funny. I think Wesley Bryan too does the sketchers. Does he? Yeah. But he's funny in the commercials. And, you know, I mean, if you can become, especially your guy like Cucci,

you can become like their main guy that they're going to pay a bunch of money. Yeah, okay, I'll rock whatever the fuck you want for sure. I don't really care. Right. But all right. That's pretty much all I got. It was once again an awesome masters. The back night at Augusta just delivers every single time.

It was a little weird because we never got over that hump of like someone actually overtaking and Reed, which it kind of felt like, but again, kudos to him. I feel like it's going to take me some time. This happened with Sergio, too, where you've got to recalibrate your brain, like, all right, Patrick Reed has a master's now. He has a major. He won the Masters.

Yeah, he won the fucking Masters. Masters champ. So, I mean, he's been, what was it, four, five years ago when he said I'm a top five player in the world and he never got to the top five, but he's got a green jacket now so we can do what he wants. He's a Ryder Cup stud, and he's literally a master's champ forever. Pretty crazy. I'm jealous, too.

That'd be so nice. Imagine winning of the Masters? They just, it'd be like, you know, we saw Sergio put the ball in the water five times in a row on 15. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters anymore. You can do whatever you want and things are just fine because you got a green jacket. Yeah, that was interesting. When Sergio did that, that's, you're right, though.

That's just like, whatever, dude. I'll put this ball in the water fucking 10 times. I can do whatever I want. So it's good stuff. It's also, it's cold up here in the Northeast still. It's supposed to be golf season. I want to play golf. Nothing makes you want to play golf more than watching the Masters.

It's true. And you and I mean, I'm ready to like buy new clubs and shit. Like I'm like, totally get to the golf store and just like buy everything. I cleaned my clubs last night, my house. I just cleaned them. So I was like, I was watching fucking master's highlights. Nothing else going on. I had a couple like, I had a couple transfusions, me and Lurch.

I just cleaned my clubs. I was like the clubs that just need to be clean. You're drinking golf drinks too. Did you put like the, did you put the cup inside the cup? No, but you know what we did? We drank them out of Augustic cups from last year. Nice. Frankie, I saw you were drinking.

You were drinking water out of a Master's Cup. Yeah, so your last time I got messed up. I sang some karaoke last night. What's your karaoke song? I got to tell you, Trent, I fucking burnt the house down last night to Arrowsmith from the Armageddon song. Oh, I don't want to close my eyes. I swear to go, when we got back to the, when we got to that empire where he starts, like, screaming, I had the whole place to end on tables.

It was nuts. They had lighters in the air asking for autographs and shit? I mean, yeah, it was a scene. I'm not going to lie, it was a scene. And I got back and my McDonald's ended up on like my bedsheets that I ate. So, I mean, it was a bad night last night. It's a famous Riggs move. That was when Tiger, last time Tiger died and, like, threw out his back when he was playing in Dubai,

I was watching him at like 2 in the morning because I've been out drinking, got McDonald's on the way home, fell a son. sleep in like a pile of like McDonald's and like sadness because tiger had withdrawn from the tournament. Yep. Yeah, I woke up in a pretty fucked up state this morning. But, uh, but so I needed to drink a lot of water. And what better way to drink water than out of that master's cup?

I mean, it was so, I could have taken water out of the toilet and put it in that cup and it would have tasted, it would taste it pristine. I'm not kidding. I swear to God, I think the inside of those cups are filled with like, like, like, just the best, like, electrolytes and shit. Like, I just feel so much better. Yeah, the cups are definitely laced with like Augusta's like magic for sure. It's like the water's colder and like crisper and like better for your immunizes.

Like if you're sick and then you drink a glass of water out of the Masters cup, you're just instantly like not sick. I'm kind of pissed too because I made it a point this year. I'm pissed I like woke up too late this morning because I wanted to go get like Powerade and like I was going to try and make my own sports drink this year and just try and like mix in some water. And I got to figure out how they get it to be so good. but I didn't get a chance to do that so maybe by next year maybe I'll have the right formula to get my own sports drink I know I'll never come close to the actual thing

you won't I mean the only way to make it like that is you have to serve it at Amen Corner in an Augusta Cup during the Masters and that's literally the only way to get it that way I'm gonna try maybe I'll go down to Augusta and start talking to people like I'll go to like the back roads of like Augustine National see if I can see some trucks coming in and out and I may have something going on

because I got to get myself some sports drink Nobody's going to say a word to you down there. No, yeah, you'll be fine. Yeah. I love, you're looking for the secret recipe for Augusta's sports drink, which I'm pretty sure it's just, like, Power A that they pour into. Maybe a little... Power A's...

I think it's Power Aid with, like, a little sugar in it, because it's a little sweeter than your normal power rate, but... Everything about Augusta is just normal shit, but being in Augusta National makes it so much better. Like, it's just egg salad, but on that sandwich, like, I had 15 egg sandwiches when I was there. Dude. Like, I would never do that anywhere else.

I was just, I was like, when they, when they show a player really close up view during the broadcast, you can always see, like, the crowd really well behind him. And I could see guys taking sips of their beers and just like the, ah, that they gave afterwards. I was like, that was just the best beer that anyone's ever had. And the next guy would have one, I'd be like, that's the best beer anybody's ever had, because he's there having it at Augustus. It's just like, I could taste through the screen how good that beer tasted to that guy, because it's at Augustus. Isn't it amazing, too, on the broadcast when you're looking at the crowd,

how many fucking people actually buy the merch. I mean, I know you have to do it when you're there because it's the only place you can get it, but every single person is wearing new merch. Dude. Every single person in the crowd. It's the only place in the world at an event where people walk around with head-to-to-toe logo

of the place that they're at. Right. You can wear fucking like Augusta. Everybody has like an Augusta pullover and an Augusta hat on and drinking out of like an Augusta cup that they bought everybody at Augusta. Like a match if you just did that in the other event, isn't it?

It's like it's nuts. but it's just at Augusta it's like you almost have to do it they are the best event in the world they've made themselves secreted they made themselves secluded they've made it like they've made it a novelty to get there it's everything that you can think of to make a tournament as best as it can possibly be that's what the masses yeah we perfected an event we talked about it when we were down there if any other company was like all right we're not going to sell any of our stuff online we're just going to sell at this one store

at this one location, they would go bankrupt in two days. But Augusta makes more money than anybody else over the stretch of this last week. It's crazy. I mean, the same commercials rerun. It's like IBM and AT&T. They have like two sponsors. Like they don't put any sponsors on their beer. They don't put any sponsors on their food or their soda.

It's like they just do things their own fucking way. They don't give a shit and they still make a billion dollars somehow. Dude, it's so... I just don't get it. Everything about it is so perfect. I'm even thinking like the back nine, the way the golf course plays, Like the A.man Corner, the fact that they have a stretch of holes named A. Men Corner is like off the charts. And that's one of eight million things about the tournament that are just so perfect.

Like they don't allow logos on the golf course. They have all this history. They have a big tree in front of the clubhouse called the Big Oak Tree. And everyone's like, that thing's awesome. And it's like, it's just a big fucking oak tree. It's like everything about it is perfect. They're so, they're so secretive that they'll just like, because now that the tournament is over, it'll just close up. And then there'll be something new next year.

Like this year, it was the new merch place where it's, they just drop it on your head. the week of the tournament, and it's the nicest thing in the world. They just don't tell anybody, and they do, and people go nuts for it. And we agree, too, that we don't want it to start getting, like, they can start adding new things, but don't want it too far, right? Like, this new merch room is as, like, close to, like, new technology that I wanted to Augusta. Yeah.

Because when I go there, I want to feel like I'm in, like, another world. I want to feel like I just went to, like, a Jurassic Park world or something. Like, I want to feel like I'm in a new world. Frank, I agree with you. Like, when I saw the video of that thing, I was like, that kind of looks like a brand-new science center, like a new college that like some rich new money guy came in and like donated. But when you're actually there, that thing, I don't know how they did it, but this giant, like state-of-the-art, like merch mansion thing is like hidden behind trees.

You like turn the corner. It's like, oh, that, what is that little door there? And you walk in and you're in like a fucking, you're in like la-la land in there. And all of a sudden, there's, they're like throwing corner zips at you left and right. They're the coolest things you've ever seen. You spend $1,308. It's like that place. Does it take, does it take the place of the old merch?

place or it? Yeah. They literally knocked the old one down and just built a castle on top of it. And you can't, you just can't tell anything has ever been different. It looks perfect. So when you walk in, it's to your right, and it's like right before the first hole, right before you get out to the whole. Yep.

Yep. And from outside, it looks like it's been there for 100 years. That's amazing. It's great. It's just perfect. It's inside. I love that fucking place. All right.

That's all I got for this show. Masters was great. Can't wait until next year. I think that's all I got. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Frankie. Speaking of hitting hard on April 13th,

witnessed the greatest event in Barstool Sports History. Rough and Rowdy three. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Knockouts, ring girls, the best commentary team on the planet. How about this team, Trent Dutt. We got Dave Portnoy and Bill Burr are going to provide an entire night of unfathed. I mean, I'll tell you what, I've been a fan of Bill Burr for a long time.

It's just like probably everyone else in this room is, you never know when the Barstool World is going to cross paths of some of your favorite stand-up comedians or people in the entertainment world. Bill Burr, at the side of the box matches with Dave Portnoy is honestly going to be some of the best entertainment you'll ever find. Bill Burr. Bill Burr. He is fantastic. What a star. And Dave Portnoy is pretty good himself too. But Bill Burr is the guy. Headlining the card is the one-man thrill ride coming out of professional wrestling retirement to write some wrongs against the Bavarian Hercules. That is April 13th, Rough and Rowdy.

Let's go. Hard man, hard man. Rough, I've seen these ups and downs. Somehow I just keep on playing through. So all you critics pull up a chair. At the winter circle soon, I'll be there with a high five and a smile for you. These lawyers and strings spending money like my ex-wives. Sure I gamble and a drink and smoke three packs a day.

Hell, ain't country music. supposed to be this way it's from the hard man I hit it hard man