No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 1146: Neil Played Augusta National

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

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Be the right club today. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to an extremely, extremely special episode of the No Laying Up podcast. Sali here,

joined by a couple co-hosts and a guest today who is going to take us through something. I don't know if I've ever been more like anxious and nervous for a podcast. day. DJ Pye is here with me. Hello, Beach. Hello, Sally. Yeah, let's just get into it. Good to be here. Big Randy is here. The only remaining strap boy. Hello, Big Randy. Hi, guys. My guys playing Cyprus last year. What are we talking about? And the man of the hour, Mr. Icarito, Neil Schuster. What are you going to be telling us about today, Neil? Oh, man. I played a Gusin National Golf Club. I played golf out there yesterday.

Hit the shots, gentlemen. Absolutely hit the shots. It's a fantastic day. It was awesome. It was hot. It was a battle. I think we rocked him, though. What I'm going to say. We absolutely rocked him.

For the listeners' sake, we have zero details as we are about to break this down with, Neil. We are in the exact same spot that you are in. We have no idea what he shot. I'm now inclined to believe he played well based on that statement, but I don't know anything of anyone's single shots. This is all going to be news to us as it is news to you. It kind of makes me, you. know, I just said before we went live, like, you know, walking you through my fantasy baseball

lineup or something, you know, it's like, I'm going to walk you, if you're not into this, I'm going to walk you through the shots, okay, get out now. Yesterday, my phone, I think I came back to like a hundred and something messages. Shout out to like people are like, they want to know what you shoot, how to go. It felt like has Justine landed yet. You remember that? Like, you know, it was a lot of us like, well, you know, and I, I open up any, any social app. It's just like messages.

I'm like, okay, I just, we'll do it. We're going to just lay it all out right here. There's very few people, Neil, and I'd, Sally, I would say this about your trip around Augusta a couple years ago as well, but there, there's very few people that I would be like, man, we're not even in the clubhouse having a beer. Like, I, I'm not going to hop on the phone to hear about this round. This one, I think is, I'm almost more excited for this than I would be if I had played the course myself.

I just, I can't, I can't wait. I know it's a course that all of us know so well. I'm going to know every shot that you're talking about. And I'm titillated already going in. I just, I can't wait. I can't wait. Well, if you're not already aware, this episode and all episodes of the No Langea podcast are brought to you by our

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trying to get to a build up to and golf. Make sure you got the right equipment in hand. Make sure you got the pro v. too in the bag. That's right. God, even all the wedge talk of like, did he hit the right? Did he have to lay up on 15? Did he hit the right wedge? Did he put the right amount of spin on it?

We're going to get there. The greens after after Sunday. Was it playing soft? Was it playing firm? I just, uh, y'all, I've got, for setting it back, for those that don't know, uh, this is a tradition at the Masters. If you are a media or press member, as they refer to it there, uh, a press member is able, you're able to enter a lottery,

a media lottery to play Augusta National on the Monday after the Masters finishes. Sunday pins. Uh, you are, you know, master's flags are still in. No patrons are cleared out. You see all the remnants of the golf. course of the championships that was just decided less than 24 hours prior. You enter it. Nobody knows how many people enter what the actual odds of winning are. I would say there's somewhere around 10% would be my guess. The odds of getting your name pulled. This was Neil's second time

entering the lottery. He entered it on the Wednesday. And take us to finding out that you were playing for those that didn't hear the story on the live show and kind of what the buildup was like. Yeah, it's a very, it's like everything. You know, you got to print out your press credential on paper. I was number 57. You know, you tear a lottery ticket. You stick it in a like a suggestion box. And, uh, yeah, I was out on the golf course and I was, I came in pretty frazzled. And solly, I know you said like when you walk in from the course, there's a TV that was displaying the names, but it, it, it, I hit it just at the time when it said, uh, phones are prohibited in the interview room, you know, and so I walked by and, and didn't see my name. So Sally,

uh, I actually like, Carson, my wife, no. She, uh, you know, she's like, you need to call me. So I called her and, and, uh, or Holly called her acting like it was Cody, gave me the phone. I thought something was wrong. She let me know that I was playing Augusta National on Monday. So, you know, I've been, I was, I did a lot of recon, you know, I'm in the Arcosap. I'm looking at like, what are we going to do here? So I had some specific shots I was looking forward to hitting, but let's just get to a pre-round. My tea time was 1230. You are allowed on the property at exactly 1130. No question. S. I had a nice little sit down. I had a great stretch session. I had a nice little sit down at the Waffle House.

I then drove up Washington Road. Salli, I ended up sitting in a Salvation Army parking lot because I wanted to make a right turn and then a quick left into Magnolia Lane. I didn't want to wait at a light. I know you were in the Christian bookstore. So I went down, you know, kind of scouted out, drove past Magnolia Lane, took the first left. These are the kinds of things that these champions file away. You know, that's what? Did you pull it at exactly 1130? And there's one car ahead of me. And it was quick. I had my, my invite physical invitation,

piece of paper. I had it ready to go. The guards waved you through. I mean, it's like they got these pillars, like steel pillars that come out of the ground, like really fast. They'll just like pop up.

I mean, I've never been to the White House, but it kind of felt like that. But in the Salvation Army parking lot, I sat there for about 25 minutes. And I, DJ, I was just putting a little playlist together. I couldn't decide on what song.

So I had a megalomaniac by Incubus. Shout out to DJ Kilmore, who was on site. And I just felt like my energy was, you know, I needed, I tried to play some jazz. Like, jazz isn't working? Like, I need some juice. I had heart in a cage by the strokes. Sure. Shout out to Speath.

I had JTR by Dave Matthews, the Boulder 2002 Live version, which is a pretty few good, high. energy song hysteria by muse which is a little too heavy yeah uh and then uh hurricane season by trombone shorty i'm just cycling through these seeing what i'm feeling but we settled on working man by rush it was always a rush no no no no no and that's what i played coming down magnolia lane i wanted a blue collar day out there randy five o'clock i'm looking for an ice cold beer okay um because there's nothing going on around here. And yeah, I just, it was kind of, I wanted to go out and have, I wanted to hit some, some electric shots and that, that song always gets me jacked up to go play.

You know, it's pretty heavy. Some people may disagree with that selection, but it made me laugh when I rolled up to the clubhouse. Hey, the magnolias, uh, they're, they're kind of gnarly. Like, they're low, they got mangled, like, they've been there for 150 years, it looks like. to like the magnolias you see out on the course that are very tall and and wide. These are a lot like lower slung to the ground. So that that was a surprise.

And then I think the member range normally is on either side of Magnolia Lane. They only used the tournament driving range, which we used, I think during the jamboree for the members, which is like in early March. And then for the ANWA and for the masters. So and drive chipping butt. So I rolled up. I had, Sally, to your advice, I had my. golf bag ready to go who's ready like just plug and play we're not we're not messing around at the trunk we got an hour okay so we were like give me i got my shoe bag i'm walking right

into the clubhouse up the stairs to the champion's locker room i was locker number seven guys have any any guesses on whose locker that is he played this year i'll tell you that uh all the foul no fred couples no no Mike Weir. No, it was Vijay Singh and Sam Sneed. Sure. Big homie Sam, I don't think was using it. So they let me move in.

It was over on the left side when you walk into the Champions Lockroom. You get to see the dining room up there where they have the Champions dinner. And it's really shock, not shocking, but really cool. Like the masters, the grounds, everything feels so big, vistas and, you know, big hills. and, you know, even all the, like, the merch and the Berkman's, everything's just massive. Like, the brand is just massive. You get in the clubhouse, it's so cozy. It's almost like claustrophobic, low ceilings.

There's a ton of art on the walls everywhere. So the walls are, like, cluttered's not the right word, but just a lot of collages of pictures everywhere, historical stuff. Some funny cartoons in the Champions bathroom. I went in, I wanted to see where they piss excellence. So I went in there. I grabbed some Advil. I just felt like, yeah, man, I'd think I could use a couple. Is this for me?

Yeah, come on. Comey bare, maybe. Yeah, change my shoes. I felt kind of like, man, I shouldn't be wearing shoes in here on this carpet. But, you know, creaky stairs coming down this little like half spiral staircase, went over the pro shop, did some shopping, got some hats. I was really efficient in the pro shop. Got back Randy to the Champions locker, put it back in me and Vijay's locker.

And then I shuttled over to the range. where I met my caddy, Joseph, caddy number 69, which I was like, oh, my God, we're going to have a good day. So, Joe, I was viving really hard with my caddy. Joe is the man. Been there nine years, local grew up in Augusta, younger. We're in Air Jordan threes. Kind of had a little swag. Reminded me, Randy, of my cousin, R.C. Cunk.

Okay. Which just, you know, which was great, you know, kind of sarcastic, but very, very dialed. knew the course really well. Learn that, you know, there's three things, there's probably more, but three things you can't buy at Augusta, ballmarkers, caddy books, yardage books, and the catty hats. So it was very much like he's, you know, I am his vessel. He's going to tell me we're going to, he's going to work the numbers out and he was nice with it. So I really had a great warm up session. I had about 40, let's say 40 minutes to warm up. Hit some wedges, felt good about that, hit some some seven, some eight iron, some five irons, three wood driver, got a pretty good feel

with the, with the tea shots, went over, hit a few chips, hit a few puts, and then we took it to the first tea, gentlemen. My group, Brentley, Roman. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Please, please. You tell me where you want me to go. I'll give you as much detail as you want, Randy. Sure.

You went to Waffle House in the morning. Did you get to the bathroom? Yes. Was the body feeling good and clear and loose? Yeah. The coffee run through you. I had a couple coffees at the at the rental house. I was up early.

I was up at like 7. 7.30. You know, so I was probably a little over caffeinated, hence me listening to working man by rush. But I was able to have. I felt really good about my bathroom strategy because I did not want to waste any time on that. But you could have used the champions locker room for that.

That would have been an honor as well. I took a leak in there. I felt like that was, you know, what we needed to do. Yeah. And I mean, shout out to Augusta, just floor, floor to the full length urinals everywhere, which I always just love a good full length urinal. So that's worth noting. Anything else, Randy? Did you sense any other tea times people warming up? Was there nervous energy around you? Yes, big time. Okay. Did you feel like you were able to be in your own little world, though? I did. I felt like I had a plan. I felt like some other people got, you know, got caught in the in the pro shop, you know, like, I don't know what to get. And I was like, nope, I know exactly what I'm getting. I'm getting hats because I, I, I just wanted a hat. I got some ball markers. I was, I had a, I had a, I had a strategy. I wasn't going to be. Oh, we couldn't buy ballmarkers. I thought that was one of the three things. No, I had like different, like more they don't, the little plastic ones you can't buy. You can buy like coins. Neil bought a bunch of poker chips. Not poker chips, but larger ball markers than just. like the plastic ones that say about a gnome ballmarker yeah no i didn't do that okay did you get me a hat

did you get me a hat i did i know you're going to talk about these these ball markers i got you that you can't see him whatever beautiful uh yeah very i know you're going to talk about your group what because i know this was in your head sure this was probably in your head since you found out you won the lottery. What is your, what are your goals? What is your target score? What, what are the exact goals that you're wanting to accomplish? Um, I, I wanted to hit cups, uh, with, and I'll walk you through it. I will say I scooped one putt. That's it. And it was a pace situation. Uh, and it was not egregious, Randy. So I felt, uh, I feel like the, I accomplished that goal to the best of my abilities because the spiel on the first tee is like, keep up, you know, there's,

They're moving some sponsor groups in the morning. And you don't want to impact anyone's experience. There's a couple choke points out there that we'll get to. I wanted to hit the shots, Randy. That was a big one. I did not want to come in. And I thought about it. I was like, oh, you know, there's some smart shots.

Like, so it's going to be dictated on like, you know, where are we at? You know, are we in the megabee range? Then that's going to maybe dictate what we do on a whole like 12. But regardless, I wanted to hit the shots. and I wanted to be in play. So I was very on the range concerned about like I want to find a tee, like a groove off the T. So I'm playing from the fairway for the most part. So that was a goal of mine.

Honestly, the real goal is I wanted to break 80. I was like, if I break 80, this is my fourth or fifth. I think it's my fourth round of the year. Which with, you know, so it was the first round since February 10th. So almost, yeah, over two months. So, you know, kind of a big ask. I mean, you know, I don't need to golf course. Yeah, the greens.

I mean, it was crazy, crazy hard out there, uh, around the greens. So those are those are my goals. But Randy, I was trying not to, and I wanted to stay like, I like golf when it's competitive, like similar to you. Like I want to hit, I want to know what I shot. And I can always, I can now hang my hat on. I know exactly what I shot at the gust of national is a, is a real deal score for me. Can I, uh, let me, let me set the line because I,

I asked everybody on our team to send in their score predictions, and we can go through, we kind of lock those in the envelope. We'll go through. I said, send through what you think he's going to shoot and one specific prediction. And everybody sent me their stuff. Those all averaged out to 81.5,

which I think is a pretty good line. Okay. So if you're, you know, for the listeners at home, you take it right now over under 81. And a half. It was a good line.

I feel like I'm hammering the under based on your confidence. The way he's talking, the way he's skilled at your line. Sure, sure. It's going to be like, no, I shot 88, but I had so much fun, guys. I have one more stage setting question. You talked about the driving range, but I'm actually more curious about practice putts and your initial reaction to the speed of the practice green and just any first reactions to hitting some puts there.

Yeah, terrifying. Candidly, really fast and kind of and grainy, like bummedy. like bumpy like not in a bat like just grainy bumpy's the wrong word but like oh man like bumpy's not going to get you invited back no it's not bumpy but it's it's like uh i mean a like i'd say half the i mean they're almost like 17 look purple yeah i mean just like bride man and so that leads to some like oh man like the the ball will uh it just moves the ball moves the ball moves and swings in places where you're like, that's kind of fooled by like, whoa, that's a lot more downhill.

And then the ones that look like they're on a big hill, like because of grain, they're not rolling as fast. So there's just like subtle. Do they water them overnight, did it feel like? I didn't feel like it. They were chewed up from like around the holes, from, you know, spikes. They felt like they, you know, a lot of foot traffic.

So it didn't seem like that they'd done much overnight. which is what that's how i want it i mean i jo said to me he's like this is as hard as it plays right it out he was like this place is like turned up to nine or ten right now this is he's like they they kind of do it up for the jamboree but like i mean this is it these pins are this is some this is tough man this is tough he was great i love joe he was great he's like let's go have a day man it's hard so who made it the rest of your group so i had brentley romine uh she's golf rider for Golf Channel, comfy, like we were, we were vibing. My guy Francisco and Argentinian from Golf Channel Latin America, jolly.

I got more to come on Francisco. But he was a first time covering the Masters, first time lottery winner. How about that? Noah was an AP Associated Press writer, first time at Augusta and first time lottery winner. So a couple of one for ones in the group. And I don't know about Friendly. how many times he's he entered but it wasn't his first uh first crack at it and honestly all uh everybody was like i'd say average to above average golfer so no issues with like you know hey man you got to

pick up like nobody was completely a couple couple xs on the card for for uh i think of two of those guys throughout the round but nothing where it was like oh man this guy can't get off the tea you know like nothing no how tongue lee situation yeah no nothing embarrassing which was great so So we get to the first T. A lot of people milling around that the master's, uh, comms teams out there love, love those guys. And there's probably, you know, 15, 20 people just kind of hanging out. People coming from 18. They're there for everybody or they're there to see this are.

No, they're there for all the media members. Sorry. These are, these are, these are green jackets or these are like tournament personnel. Tournament personnel. Okay. Did you see any jackets? Are there any jackets on property? I did not see any jackets.

around the first tee. But the starter was J. Wiver, I believe is his name. He's the head pro, PGA professional, long-time PGA professional at Augusta National. And, you know, quick spiel about pay. It's mainly pace.

And like, we, you know, guys, the phone policy is pretty simple here. Don't use one. Don't do it. Very, like, you know, just don't do it. And then a quick picture of the foursome, which I have here. Oh, that's nice.

Wonderful. Yeah, it's great. I had a nice fit. I had a red shirt on, red striped shirt, you know, some stone colored slacks, which were very comfortable. And, you know, I was very comfortable in my, my, my foot choice. So I was, it was kind of a built for comfort round. It was hot.

So the pants, they are factor late in the day. And then I was like, oh, man, did I wear the right color? Am I going to get a Lucas Glover situation? You know, but we didn't. So that, at least not that I know of. So I feel like we kept that, kept that away. So first tee, I was second guy to tee off. Guys, go ahead.

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my driver so i probably need to re-grip it because the you get the the alignment i got one right here yeah the golf pride logos on the bottom now which is it's throwing me off a little bit but uh so so yeah let's get to it first tee i teed off second guys i felt so good great little practice to swing. I had an awesome move and I hit the most majestic, towering big right miss. I've ever seen. I mean, wide open tuna melt sandwich. I hit it into the media center. Just just left of the old scoreboard. I even got a, uh, that I, uh, why don't we play a provisional from JJ? Oh, no. Which, which I learned from Joe is, is a signal for, uh, Let's not go hunt for we're not going to go look.

Joe was like, we don't, we don't go look for it when he, when he calls that out. So, uh, that was tough. Okay. I was like, oh God, I did it. I mean, but Dege, you want to talk about people coming to the show. Yeah. Right. And they want you to play the hits.

I mean, I played the. Yeah. What do we tell? California. It was straight up. Okay. You can check out, but you can't ever leave. And I think what happened, I was trying to hit a nice jamba juice, you know, little, little

smoothie, a little peeler out around the, you and Rory, go. I get 2.30 to carry the bunker, no big, so I just, I did not complete the back swing. And, you know, I just machoed it, Randy. Were you nervous? No, I wasn't like overly nervous. I felt, I felt good. I was like, I'm going to hit a good one here. And I just straight up, like, quick transition.

And it was like, oh, God, you did that? because a lot of times on the first year, I hit, I miss the, you know, I have quick left balls early in rounds. And so, you know, I have that on my, on my mind. So I hit a provisional. And guys, I hit an absolute laser guided missile straight down the pipe for, for my third shot. Up the, it landed or it ended up like left, left side of the fairway. I was 91, I was, no, it was 86 yards in on the left side of the fairway for my list. of course you're playing the member

teas at Augusta, not the tournament teas, it's about 6350 or something like that. 63.65. So you're playing the member teas. And what did JJ say about that one? Oh, they loved it. I was like, there it. Like I got some claps for the second one. Yeah, a little charity clap.

And I was like, all right, but solid freed up now. Sure, you can rally. You know, and I hit the second drive was like, okay, that's how I was hitting on the range. I hit it perfect. Like exactly. where I wanted to hit it. So we get up there. I have like 86 in. We put a 91 shot. That pin is in a pretty inviting spot there. It's like five yards off the right side, kind of middle back in this little swale. And I hit an awesome 58 degree about like 91 yards. It leaked a little bit

and drifted down like landed on that hill, that backstop, drifted down about a foot onto the green on the right. I had a 15 footer up the hill for the mega five. And great putt, rolling end over end, brutal lip out. Like only 270 degrees around the hole. You hate that, Randy. So we made six at the first, tapped in for a six. So I was like, all right, comfy. But a real stick. Real stick. I mean, the most honest six you've ever seen. Like stroke and distant six, I mean, played second ball was fantastic. My guy Francisco birdied the first. So that was that was awesome He was a big lad

And he had a nice like he could compress the golf ball Little uh you know a little all over the ballpark But it was it was fun to watch him So anyway we get to two I'm two over hold on Randy I would just say remember when we were at a big Cedar Lodge and tiger was hit in that ceremonial opening t-shot and Sniped it into the woods and you and I found the ball I feel like that ball sitting out there at the national somewhere There's a pro v2 out there. There's a pro v2 over by a little blue cross on it.

If I had to guess it's in one of there, there's like a little street over there of hospitality cabins, like midway up the first fairway on the right. Anybody, you know, that's going to those hospitality cabins next year, take take it, just take a peek. It might be around it. I bet it's on that cul-de-sac somewhere. So, yeah, we get to the second T. I check, they move the coolers up. I checked if there's any marks on the coolers from, from Sergio. Couldn't see any, any, any marks from his situation on Sunday.

Dej, you know I had this one circled. Yeah. We had this one circle of the capital S shots. The shots. Can we hit the shots? Can I bend one? Can I hit what we call the bad boy? Right.

I'm a fader. And fader's he T-bones. But I am trying to bend a bad boy around this corner. just hit a total dirt in and now i'm too over i'm freed up uh gentlemen i hit like the just the most gorgeous shot of the decade just plotted it and i straight down broadway turn hit the blinker at the corner and we're fucking rolling down the hill baby roll i mean the cat is like pitching wedge uh the county's like she i mean they were loving it my boy francisco's in the delta counter. Brentley's in the milk cart and bunker, but daddy's, daddy's down Broadway. Okay,

where I was back. I said, and I think I hit him with a you like that. You know, I, a little, little Kirk cousins in my head. I was feeling it coming down. Who specifically did you hit that with? What? Who specifically did you hit with that one? Who did you ask? Maybe like that. I was like, you like that? We love that. You like that bunker? Enjoy that bunker. No, no. I didn't, I didn't, it wasn't hostile. It was more just fun. Uh, I, I, I felt really. I, I felt really good about that swing. I had 100. So what was the number?

Because it's like what the actual, I probably had 171 into that green. I was about 20 yards up from the crosswalk. Okay. I mean, way, way down there. And, you know, that pins all the way over on the right. And we talked through that shot for a minute because it was like, it's not as down as you think.

But I was, I was, we were playing like a 162, 163 shot. I was kind of like, is it eight? Nine. I hit nine. Yes. Downhill lie, though. What's the, what's the breeze doing? The breeze was, I think, like, is there much?

It was in the breeze. And so that's why I was like, should I hit eight? Because the breeze was coming up at me. Same as tournament day. Yeah. So I was like, man, I, you know, it's like 63. I was like, what's the actual to carry the bunker? He's like 66.

And I was like, okay. I mean, that's a, you know, pretty heavy nine. So I, and it's downhill lie. I got it a little back in my stance. I hit a really, really, really well struck. but tugged it, you know, like just a little. And I would say guys, like three yards left of that funnel that where it would take it and go right. Sure.

So it stayed up there. One, like pretty hard, pretty hard bounce right on the back fringe. So top left, like not all the way up in the. Pea made eagle from on. Yeah, but I'm above the hole. And it was like, welcome to the party, pal. I had to play it through the fringe for about, I don't know, 10, 15 yards. to then basically stop it there so it can turn directly right and go down the roller coaster.

So we had a spot picked out. I hit a really good putt. Just didn't quite have the juice. So it got down the first part of the roller coaster and then it stayed up. So it was probably about 25 feet now straight down the hill. The next one I hit like probably a three foot put. Excellent put. came in like I was probably foot and a half so three put three putt par you know uh so I felt like

hey that models yeah it's like good and I would love that nine iron back but it's like the downhill lie I got a little back in my stance right now early season I got a real real problem with the outside to in path which is going to lead to like the two-way miss it's either going to be that quick you know really really well struck but left ball and not like chloroform but just left or it's going to be that weak, like I early extend and, you know, we miss it right ball. So that's, that's tough at Augusta. You also have just been standing on the T thinking about I can't wait to hit this massive draw as hard as I can't. Yeah.

There's maybe a little of some remnants of that float around. But like I hit the center of the green. I just probably missed the spot by three to five yards. And so we walk away with with a five there. So how fun is that shot, though? Like that shot is so. Oh, it's awesome. There's just so much like, you know, you see you three yards away from like maybe having.

a really good look at Eagle. But then it's like, dude, I got to kind of, I got my work cut out from me. Like a two putt here would be somewhat miraculous from probably where that ball is. Just coming around that corner on two, that's my favorite, one of my top three spots on the property.

Just the course unveils to you. Joe is telling me how they cut the fairways. So on two, the grain is into the players. So it kind of holds the ball up. And then on eight, he's like, look back at eight. You're up, you know, you're down grain.

So it's going to almost help the ball get up the hill. So it's like little stuff like that. He's pointing out all throughout the round. cameras on right of one there's 60 feet up in the trees there's cameras like two i don't know if there's security cameras or what i saw one on two there's one behind three green you start so now i'm looking in the trees on every hole like where where's the i i bet there's one on every hole which is just kind of a funny thing for me that's the kind of shit i love uh i love checking out were the ropes still up or do they have all those down no ropes are gone the tv towers were

still up, but the like awnings and the shade was all down. Scoreboards are still, but they take everything down. So I did confirm the scoreboards are technically TIO. They will be, he said they'll probably be down by the first week in, last week in May, first week in June. He said they get that scoreboards are like the last thing to come down. He said they have so much paint on them that magnets don't work. He's like, there's probably like three inches of green paint. They paint them every year. So it's just like probably just this much paint on those pillars of the scoreboards. Let's get to the one of the main events here.

Third hole. One of my second favorite hole at Augusta National. I've watched so much golf at three above the green on the right there. Gentlemen, I hit driver. What's the yardage? The yardage for me was 340 on the card. So yeah, about 340, 3.50, a little bit of a weight on the T. I hit a, I executed my game plan, kind of a,

sloppy but like vintage f15 ball started i was trying to hit a cut trying to get up on that right side to play i am i'm trying to get the high ground beach i i that was my plan and i got it and it leaked just into the to the uh second cut i had a slight overhanging pine branch but not nothing you know that's gonna i can't you know i was 54 yards away with all all the green in the world i mean full view of the green we're looking down high ground i'm spotting it uh love where we're at And I was like, I know exactly what to do. Joe and I talked through it. Front right of the green.

There's a trench there. He's like, we got to put this like either in that trench or like right here on this like fringe before the green. I pulled 54 degree wedge. I hit the shot of my life. I put it. I landed on the like right side of the trench. So, you know, kind of down. And then it hit quick on the other side of the trench kind of popped it up.

And it just trundled down about 18, 20 feet. middle of the green, pin high. Just like, I was like, the patrons would have been buzzing with that, like just the cheekiest play of my life. I loved it. This was the shot of your life. You said, what was the drive on two, the shot of the decade? The drive of the decade. I mean, just like, Randy, we're hitting the shots, man.

Like, I saw it and I hit it and I loved it. So really fast put from there. Break in right to left. Not as much as you think. So probably a cup or two. I left it kind of in the jaws about three feet short. A lot of, I was, I was hearing footsteps on the greens early. You know, just like, ooh, I don't, you know, that green's so scary.

That's one when you get on that's like, oh, this is different than just even standing up on that hill behind it watching puts. Like this is this, like just the right to left tilt of that one is kind of crazy. Yeah, it just almost gives you like vertigo. You're like, oh, yeah, you know. And so I, I marked it. And I, that was a, that was a good three foot. that I made, you know, straight down the hill for par there. I want to shout out Brentley.

He was from the fairway. He fucking flagged one. Really? He put it like four feet on that peninsula and made the birdie. So I was like, man, put that in the personal collection, like shot of the sentch right there. Oh. So that three, I just love three. And so getting a quality par there was was thrilling.

No one's ever taken that one away from you, Neil. No one is ever taken that away from me. So we've, we've righted the ship a bit, right? We're feeling like, okay, opening double, but we're two over, heading to 14. Ready to get punched in the face by four. Yes. So four, it was playing. I think the number was on the card, it's 170, but I think we had 176 that back left pin,

which sits up on that second tier of the green. It's a little shelf up there. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think the right side of that green doesn't get enough credit for what a little island that's on. They put the pin there on Thursday and seeing that up close, like, man, no wonder I was playing over par, even from like one, seven. Yeah, for those guys.

So it was 163 to carry the bunker. And that was my number. I was like, I just need to carry this bunker. So I hit eight iron and I cut it a little thin. And I carried the bunker by about a foot, center of the green, probably a 35 footer for Bertie, right at the base of the steep hill where it tiers up to the top shelf. My guy, Francisco just Icarito Nash put it up behind the bleachers up to the left there. And this is like, so his, all the caddies were great. We had this guy, Evan, I can't remember Francisco's caddy, but he was a pro.

And he was like really intense. And he was like, man, I think it's nine. Older guy, like leathery skin. He's like, I want you to hit nine. He's like, no, this is an eight, you know, like South American accent. And he just airmails the green with eight. But gorgeous. That guy was compressing these tight draws.

Just like one hopping it over the green. It was so sick. So let's see, 35 footer. It's like up this hill. and then it's racing away from you down to the left to the pin. So I, and probably breaking about eight feet. It was a very difficult put.

I left it about five feet short, and I made that putt for par. Let's go. So, so excited about. That was a really quality par there. And I had another one where I was like, man,

that was tracking. I just, it's not a put I'm going to get aggressive with. And I was, I was a little tentative on the greens. So, I mean, that's great.

Sign me up. Yeah. We're feeling good. So 5T. I got stuck on 5T between and we're going to hit a second server. We're going to hit a bad boy. You know, we're going back to the well. Teeth way up.

Bunkers are probably aren't in play. Really. Yes. And it's like, okay. You know, and I kind of already had driver out. So I hit a pretty much a straight ball. And not where, because I was kind of like, oh, let's hit the bad boy. I hit a pretty good one, but just right at that magnolia tree that's on the far side of the fairway on the right side of the fairway.

I got crowned here. I mean, one hopped it in the magnolia, spits it out left. In the second cut, I had 155 was the number. Terrifying shot, gentlemen. Pin is, I mean, better stuff. Or I should shout out in a doll because he was out there all week. Randy tucked five yards off the back and five yards off the left with that bunker that you can't see back there. Balls teed up like an inch in the second cut, just sitting up.

like flyer nash i'm like oh my god kind of feel like there is no pin here we're just trying to get yeah so i'm middle the green i've got uh uh 44 degree and just smooth one and i hit uh pretty good pretty good shot uh came up about two yards short of the elephant like back and i one hop hopped and then it rolled all the way to the front of the green so i'm front left i probably had a 95 foot putt here i watch a couple other guys in the group you know chip up from the front fringe just like it looks like a freaking big air snowboard jump like up up up and it just looks like it's going to like you know do a 1260 off the back into the you know into the magnoil into burkman's place

so i got to hammer this put it's it's up the hill i left this one about 12 feet short which i was like whatever and then i uh really good putt here uh missed kind of burn the edge low side so we tap in for a five i'm kind of taking that gentleman sure you know that's just we out of position wrong that could have got yeah i i just some some real struggles from behind the green for my uh for my playing partners also just shout for the golfers i'm not seeing i'm not seeing the roadhole inspiration at five i'm just not seeing it guys i i don't know i mean call me crazy but i'm not i just don't see it that was one in the preview show i just couldn't really see it either it's not not really there that's kind of like the original idea behind it but it wasn't really

executed in that way. Like in seven, supposed to be eight, like kind of inspired by 18 at St. Andrews, which that has been changed a lot over the years, of course. So, uh, and I, I should note, this is where with the two par threes, it gets a little slow here. So there's a pretty long wait on four and then a really long wait on six. And between four and six, I've always thought about those two holes as like equally hard. Six is so much more intimidating with a club in your hand. I, one, I, just another great view of vista of the property. like down that cart path on the left. If you go attend the Masters, go check that out.

You see 16, 15. It's just a really special place. So wait down that T for probably 10 plus minutes. That pin is, it looks like it's sitting on an exercise ball in the top right. I mean, truly, it's like outrageous how unaccessible that pin is. But the rest of the green also looks unaccessible. And I just had a 90 footer up over, you know, the elephants back. So I don't, my God, middle of green.

I don't really want to hit it there. So I, you know, not a comfy T shot there. It's 165 on the card. I think it with the pin back, it was playing like closer to 180. Again, down the hill, but it's not down as much as you think. Wind was kind of helping. I hit nine iron, Sally, which I was very proud of. We talked through it, Joe and I, I was thinking eight.

I was like, no, let's go nine. And I hit eight. I made a really good pass at this one. And no, sorry, the wind was off the left weirdly. Because I thought I hit a really good one. And then it gets it, I hit it really high. because I hit a hard nine, sky high, and it almost like apexed, and I think it got gusted. So it starts moving right.

Comes down pin high just on the fringe, almost stays right there, but then it rolls down into this swell. First short side of the day, gentlemen. Not a spot you want to be. There's nowhere to hide, though, with that shop. So then I get over there and I'm like, oh, my God, like, how am I going to, if I putt this, there's no way I keep it up on this shelf. So I try to play a little, like, kind of, have a bump and run with the 44 where can I just get it to like trundle on almost do it kind of a little

heavy not not my best you know this is where it's like okay neil's nil's winter hands are going to get exposed here so it it almost makes it and then it rolls back about five five feet five yards in front of me so then i pull putter i hit that one up to about five feet and then i just make a really poor pass at this one damn so it rolls out to about three feet randy this is the one i scoop because we're everybody that we are just all this whole group like everybody's all over the map at six just a bad hole for the squad it's a double i think that's an honest double i would it's an uphill three-footer i didn't feel good about scooping that one we'll give you i've never seen you miss what had he's kind of well you know it's questionable caddy's bringing the flag

you know what i mean i'm like i don't know if i'm gonna go more because i would have like wanted to take my time on this one and i scooped it so i'll just i hand up on that one um but double there. It's a relief. It's a relief to have that out of the way. You know, now we know we're playing real golf on the way in, which is great. Yeah. So, but, you know, so now we're five over. And I'm like, okay, that one, that one just jumped up like truly bit me in the ass. Like, damn it, especially after like what I thought was a really good T shot. You know, it's just like, again, similar to two, just a little off, man. Like that's, that's the shot, though, Neil, that is one of the closest that in 12 and 16 really are the, the closest you get to playing the tournament

hole like four you're way up from where they play it that's way harder for them but that's like you got to experience almost the tournament shot you're only 10 15 yards maybe in front of the tournament tee i mean because joe was saying he's like man i i was like man i i kind of i'm gonna try to fade this but i'm gonna try to hit this shelf he's like yeah because if it rolls like directly back he's like that's not quite as hard of a he's like we probably put that one up in the shortgrass but we got on like the right back right and that was where the it almost like NASCAR where the hill so putting it up that hill you got a it's a ton of break so i just got yeah he's got a fucking spot it's a hard green like the back left whole locations are hard as well and the

even the bottom left whole location does not play to the funnel way that it kind of maybe used to in my mind like it just that one was that's a that's six is a litmus test now yeah it's i mean new appreciation for those guys sending them in and and and the way they send them in and they're okay if they drift down the hill they still miss left to the flag. They give himself a chance to get up there and then, you know, if it comes back to the middle, they're, they're fine. So I probably got a little, I probably got a little greedy there, but I was, I thought I hit a good shot. Randy, I tried to hit the shot and, uh, hand in the cookie jar. So if you miss left and on down there, that's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, I'm being

honest. I'm thinking I'm three putting anyway, you know, so maybe we're walking away of four instead of five. You could put off the green from down there too. It's not, I'm curious and hopefully this doesn't spoil anything down the, down the line here, but like, do you, did you feel, I, I, I, I remember feeling the challenge of the fringes and the short grass and the way they kind of cut into greens and the shapes around those corners to be really difficult. Like you go to 44 degree there, which is not like where you, what you would usually pull there. But like the bat and you putted it on two, you said like, can you kind of take us to how the, uh, how the fringes kind of play around the greens? Well, I was on, on two, I was on the collar. So it wasn't even really fringe. That was a,

that was a putter for sure. This one, I, I, I didn't want to play it up in the air. It was grainy, really grainy over there. So I was like, I was almost putting this 44. And I had worked on that pre-round. And Joe was like, I think if you're going to hit that shot, this is a spot for it of like just almost like you're putting this one. But if we can just get it bouncing a little bit, you know, and we almost pulled it off. It was just not, it wasn't crisp contact, though. I kind of, I kind of panicked.

I was, I was playing scared there. I did not hit the shot, the chip shot I wanted. Well, you, you bounce back from the last double, you know, hit the drive of the deck. Okay, seven eerily straight. I know you struggle with the eerily straight holes. I do. I do. So seven was a, I pulled three wood because I talked it through with Joe.

I was like, I was like, I probably hit this like 260. I'm looking for like an 80. I want to be in that 80, 90 range like we had on one. I feel like I had a good feel for that distance. I'm going to say your T's what, three 60? It was on the card. It was 3.30, but it was playing more like 350. It was a little bit back of the box.

And so he's like, okay, let's hit, let's hit three wood then. And I, guys, I, and I turn, you know, I turn three woods. I hit the fucking best three wood of my life. Just a like, like good apex really high, dead straight, right at the flag, three wood. I had 43 yards to the goal. Oh my gosh. And so I got up on that hill and the balls like above my feet slightly, you know,

like I cannot emphasize enough how impactful the uneven lies are. I know everybody says that, but I, I, I, I, I have not given it enough credit. It turns a simple shot. It goes from like, Dej, I'm a line cook, all right? I can make, I can rock out in a diner and I could cook good food. I am not a baker. This turns it into baking.

It's like you've got to have your measurements dialed. Where you're putting the ball in your stance is going to cancel out, left, right, if it's above or below your feet. And I just didn't have, on this one, I did not have my measurements dialed. What left? I, uh, and then of course, I was pissed at myself. I picked up a new shot like kind of open base when I was out of TPI. I kind of wanted to flight the wedge like up with because it was front. So I had to get it right over this bunker.

And I just didn't hit a good one. I left it in the front bunk. Oh, Cam Young. Yeah. And so I splash it out of the bunker just over the lip, trundles on. I had a inside 10 feet up the hill and power lift it. Oh, damn. Tap in for bogey there.

So that was a tough bogey. The course is turning into like just the most diabolical pitching putt. And I'm getting baptized. And that green is, you know, with all the sand and just a lot of foot traffic in that front right quadrant. That was a, that was a tougher put, grainy putt up the hill. And I, I missed out on the high side because I did get that was one of the, I got that one of the hole. So I gave it a run, but I didn't make it. Would you play it over again?

Would you hit three wood off the tee? or would you do something different knowing you were going to have 44 yards. I know. I honestly, I probably hit iron. I mean, because I don't know if I'm or it's like, do I just hit driver and put it in the front bunker? I don't know. That's a question mark, Randy. It's because I said to myself, man, should I, maybe three wood wasn't the club, but I hit such a good drive. I dead straight shot. I executed. I, I, I aced the test there. I just got to be better with the wedge. I mean, I got to be able to get a 43 yard pitch up onto a. but a green, that's just, that's just bad, you know, just a poor execution. No excuse there. Like, I can't be scared of a 43-yard shot. What I should have done is put it back in my stance, simplified it, and just kind of popped one up there and hopefully it drifts back down on that hill,

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Six over. Yes, we're trying to break 80. I know you're thinking about, oh, my God. But in my head, honestly, at that, at that, I was, I was upset about that wedge, but I'm like, man, I'm, like, I'm hitting good shots. Sure. You know, like, on, especially other than that wedge there, I was like, man, I hit a great drive. on three. Like I'm putting myself in position to like play good golf. It's just high. It's a nice edge. You feel like if you went back and did it again, you're like, oh, now I know what to do here.

I would do that differently and I would totally make par here. That would be really easy. I would have simplified. I did not give enough credit to the uneven lies on how that that would impact some of these what would what felt like easy shots. Eighth to eight just can't be up the left. Can't be up the left. Can't be up the left. I hit another F. 15 ball executed the game. A little sloppy, but well past the bunker. Got to be able to get there. And then almost, almost rounded around one of those. There's like a pine up there and it kind of came around. So I was just like a foot into the second cut on the right side of the fairway. Good awesome spot to be. Great angle.

No tree trouble. Walked up and talked it through with Joe. And he's like, okay, the flag was like 205, I think. But all the way back. He's like way back left. He's like, I think the shot is like, I don't want anything more than 200. Anything between 190 and 200. So I was like, all right, six iron. And I can't see. The only thing I could see was like the very top of the TV tower. And then there was like a gap, like a little bit of blue sky and then a tree.

And we were like the blue sky. He's like, I want this ball in the blue sky. And we're going to be, we're going to love it. I hit a, I just compressed rope right into the blue, into the abyss. I walked after it. I was like, yep, that's it. You like that? Yeah.

How's that pace, Francisco? No, I wasn't. I wasn't doing that. I was like, porcue puesto, baby. No, I just, I was a fantastic swing. Awesome, six iron ball. You know, I put it back in my stance because I was kind of like up the hill. But you're playing like a little, the hill's going this way and the green's going this way.

So zero turn on that golf ball. I got up there dead center of the green. Oh, love it. Maybe just left of center. And I had a, but I still had about 40 feet. I hit it like 190 exactly. About 40 feet up over this massive ridge. Joe, I was like, man, this one looks like it's going to race away for me.

He was like, it looks that way, but it's not. He's like, this one doesn't as fast as it looks. This is one place where I got a little scared. I didn't trust him. And I left this put 12 feet short. I was pissed. It just looks like it's going to run right off the back of the green there. So you got to get it up and over.

He's like, it's steep on the front side. and then and I didn't go back and look at the other side. I would have done that if I had to do it over again. Hit it on a good line, just left it way short. Guys, another lip out. Come on. I thought we were making that way. I thought we were making that too.

I put a really, really, really good stroke on this golf ball. Damn it. No, no, actually, no, that's not right. No lip out. I left it short. Left it the jaws like three inches short. This one, I just, I left a cup short. So three pup par, which is a bummer.

Two three pup pars on the front. the first one's understandable that one i i got a i got to give the first putter run and uh we just didn't do it um but eight yeah it's just an awkward hole i think it's fun it's so cool though yeah it but it's it's a thrill to walk up and we had three balls on the green there and we didn't know who was who uh and that was that was really fun so we we the group had a good time on the eighth hole i think the ninth fits you suits you the ninth i mean god it reminds me it just like bomb and a ski slope on a snowboard just like are like just keep one edge all the way down dege committed to the bad boy uh right off the tree to the right of the scoreboard on 18 it's like a big ass like oak tree

i don't know what it is i guess you're moved up you probably have to drop more than they do from back there i hit the just a missile just a scud wrapped around the corner guys i was in the crosswalk i was literally on the paint that that uh outlines the lower part of the crosswalk on the upslope i had 91 yards to the flag. It was on the, it rolled over to the right side. We wanted a hundred to 102 yard shot. Are we thinking spin control here? We can't, we can't see one rolling back off.

I hit, I hit 54, back of my stance, choked up, gorgeous shot. Probably landed it. You know, you can't see it, but I asked Francisco, he said, landed like eight, eight feet, eight yards past it and came back to seven feet. Just upright, on the proper shelf, slightly downhill. slider. Yeah boy. Missed it on the high side.

Come on. God. You can't tease us like this. I missed it on the high set. Could make any puts. I mean, it looked like it was going to rip. I,

after the putt on eight, I wanted to get it to the hole. It was a good put. I mean, I thought it was going to fall in. I kind of had the fill meme with the guy in the background. You know, like,

I'm down and I'm going to, you know, you know, my catty standing behind me. Like, oh. Yeah. So that one, that one stunk because I was hoping.

I was like, God, let's get a birdie headed in the back nine. We're going to be running downhill, Randy. Could a shot of 32 coming in. I know. So 42 on the front, gentlemen. 42. Four, I'd say, you know, four of seven fairways, seven greens, 21 putts ain't going to get it done. Did you make the putts?

Well, I made a, you know, five foot on four and a slider, like a little three foot slider on three. So I felt good about about those. But yeah, I just didn't lag putts on five and eight cost. me big time. And then I just didn't make the 10 footers. It's, uh, seven greens shooting 42 is like, oh yeah, well, that's, that's the experience. There you go. That's it, man. But I mean, like I say this all the time, golf's fun from the fairway. Like, I had a blast. Like, I feel like I hit some, like definitely hit more good shots than bad ones. I had one just rogue miss on the first tee. You know, you take that away and that's a, you know, you're probably shooting 40. So,

hey, it's going to happen. So I'm thrilled heading to the back nine. Great. Uh, you saw Rafi on a doll coming off 18. Of course. He's finishing up his round. I gotta give credit to getting in the doll. He was walking step for step with Rory Saturday and Sunday out there. That guy got his steps in all weekend. So rolled down to 10T, grab a Snickers bar, some peanut butter crackers, chugged a water.

We're ready to go. I hit three wood. How long did it take you to play the front nine? Any idea? It was, I didn't have any watch or phone on. But I would say it was two hours. It wasn't. Not bad for a four ball.

Pace was tough on four, five, and six. And then a little weight on eight and then we were good. No weight on 12? Well, I haven't gotten there yet. It got a little slow through A man corner. But the front nine, there was just a couple choke points, which the caddies kind of called out. They're like, we're going to get two par threes coming through here.

It's a pace problem. All right. So 10, I hit three wood. Definitely the right club. I hit a really good one. I over executed Dej. turned it turned it around the corner tight but it was like okay yeah yeah we thought it was going to be in the in the second cut

it leaked into just into the pine straw blocked out by a bush because i had to punch it out uh sideways took my medicine uh got it almost up to a flat spot on the right side of the fairway but still just a little bit of a hanger um so right center of the fairway i had we had 163 164 in uh to that back left Kind of middle back left on 10. Balls slightly above my feet. We put in nine iron because wind's now coming. Feels like it's coming in.

And this is where, again, I just subtly, I kind of canceled out my baking recipe a little bit. I put the nine iron. I felt like with the wind, I need a little juice on the nine, but I'm aimed. I don't know what I thought I would cancel out. I hit a like a really well-compressed shot, but it starts moving left on me, which is, the cops ball like oh my god no get on the ground like just feels like the world's fallen away for me there down by dan by where dan pole putted it in the playoffs for me correct that's right uh yeah so i it landed just on the fringe left side so it wasn't a huge like

it wasn't a tidal wave but i just i got to line that one up on the left edge of the right bunker and i just i was misaligned there for that for how that ball's going to come out i didn't account for the ball being above my feet i it trickles down into the state in the grass uh just into the second cut. A little bit of a clanky chip. Got it up to about 14, 15 feet up the hill. For bogey. That was for bogey.

Left that one about a cup short, made double. Damn it. That just was like a, like, you know, a couple. Again, nothing on that hole that was egregious. Three wood, just to overcook the three wood a little bit. And that, you know, take my medicine. And then I just didn't, I was going to have to hit a really good recovery shot on that approach. and I didn't execute.

So how far? Kind of a kind of a, Randy, kind of a Pinehurst number two double. Like, huh. Yeah. Like,

damn, I didn't, they're way too easy. I didn't see. That was a very elegant double. Yeah. I probably would have had like 1.30, 120 into that, if I hit that three wood a little straighter. So it's right club, you know, just maybe not the best swing, but I'm just going to repeat, like, not when I watched that ball.

I was like, that's not, that's, that felt like a decent shot, you know, I just overturned it. I did what I was trying to do. I was trying to turn it. And it just, it was just a tighter draw than I wanted. Sure. All right. Well, now it's time to go eat. Yeah, baby. So no, and so I'm walking through the woods. Awesome walk behind 10. You know, you kind of walk through. a little like a forest trail to get to 11T. And I was in a great mood. I was like, fuck that double. And now it's like, okay, I'm eight over.

I'm like, man, I'm going to hit the shots, Randy. That's my mindset. We're going to hit the shots. Came here to hit the shots, all right? Like, come what may through this through this back nine. I had this drive planned out the night before. I'm going to hit second serve down 11 fairway. The target was the right side of the scoreboard down over the pond.

You can see it's just sitting there like right on the horizon. A fucking awesome shot, guys. I didn't leave the right side of the scoreboard. I mean, Caddies were just like giving me the field goals. Like, hell yeah, you know, it was awesome. It's a bummer. Francisco hit a good one down there. We were all in play coming, you know, just rolling down into aiming corner.

So that was great. Wind is straight into us coming up from the green. I'm down on the left side of the fairway. I had 118 to the stick right over the pond. The, it was awesome. I was a little bit stuck on this one between clubs. 118 is my favorite number in the bag. DJ, you know this.

For sure. The number I want before I die. But with the wind, and I was a little concerned about like with the wind, compressing a 48 degree. Like that is a solid 48. I did not want to spin one back into the water. And now thinking back, I'm like, I'm like, I'm probably not going to spin one there.

But I just, I went with 44. kind of a knockdown 44 and I hit an awesome shot it was just a little too much club and I ended up about five four or five paces directly just right of the flag on the back of the green so back bunker left corner that back bunker um I mean it was just a a bullet and really really really good swing hit my target just a little too much club so I had about a 30 35 footer down the hill um and I almost jarred it I it left it probably six inches to the right it didn't turn left, like as much as we thought it would. Tap in par, thrilled.

Oh, that's great. I play that whole fantastic. It's a bummer. Nadal wasn't there to see that second serve. I know. I got, that drive was awesome, man.

I was, I was vibing walking down that fairway. I think one of the moments of the day, I've always just loved, wanted to know, like stand on the back of 11 green, maybe even more so than like on 12. The dam,

the little bridge over the dam. I took a little walk down there. I mean, what just well constructed, little pathway. you know, just a cool, cool bridge over Ray's Creek there. Joe's telling me that that pond, you know, Ray's Creek used to go right along 11 green.

He's like, the reason they have this pond is to keep the integrity of the hole before they damned up Ray's Creek and made it kind of go straight there. So he's like sometimes that pond kind of stands out as like a little bit like, what's that doing there? That looks a little artificial, but he's like, it's for the integrity of the whole, which I never knew. So, yeah, had a great time. So then, guys, we're walking up.

we're walking up to the tea i'm just hearing walking up to uh to 12 the main event patrons are all standing up and yeah it's just like that hill where the gallery sits and stands is a lot steeper than you then you realize it really looks like an amphitheater back there i can only imagine that feeling if you're if you're planning the masters pretty you know pretty long wait on on 12 which is fine everyone's taking pictures on the hogan bridge got you know group ahead of us everybody's no

one's on the green everyone's everywhere got a caddy fishing balls out of raised creek so we're just chilling my guy francisco goes first he fucking he thought of that way gee it's nine he hits it up in the bushes yeah he's so pissed he looks at me he's like what the fuck man he also had a moment earlier on on eight where he was like you got to fucking trust me on this one on a pot you know it's like francisco english is like a second language he's like yo you got to fucking trust me you got to hit it up here and he did like it's it's stone dead to like 18 and she's like see see i know know what i'm doing you know so he just kept he just kept calling off the cad he's like i think he should hit wedge he just kept taking one more club and kept air mailing the par three's for for

for he'll laugh at it i mean this was this was like icorito's cousin like truly i was like dude this is so much fun to watch it was awesome and then he would turn around and be like huh that's long like i mean i thought that was eight in the cat he just just like what the fuck man it was awesome i loved it feels like me primo yeah exactly i was like oh for su puesto it's a little italian there in there but yeah i know um what's uh all right what's our number our number is uh 153 is the number uh winch be a little like down off the left just the hair no wind coming down 11 it was straight into us and when i hit that 44 uh joe was like i think the wind it just kind of died over the ball so he's like i you know understandable

that we were long at 11. He's like, I still think that was the right club. So then the wind starts coming left, right? It does. It starts swirling. I'm like, but I feel like the prevailing wind of the day has been coming from basically 13T, right? Kind of straight down the shoot. So he's like, let's, you know, let's play that.

And he's like, it's wedge if you want to hit the center of the green. It's nine iron. It's just a solid nine iron if you want to go with the flag. I was like, let's go with the flag, baby. It's nine. Give me the nine. And we're going right off the right edge of that back. bunker and I felt the wind and I put a decent move on it.

It apex, it starts leaking. Gentlemen came down right pin high on the right fringe, bounces, brundles. Rolls back in the water. Oh, he's done it. But it was so electric. It was like the full experience, rinsed in Ray's Creek, but in a way that was like, you know, kind of like, oh, that one's good.

Oh, no, it's leaking. It's leaking. It was just like just try motor, just motor into the wind. Just getting spit like go, go, go. And it just comes down like just on the flat spot, but it bounced right. And then it kind of settled. And then it probably took like five seconds for it to. Oh, I mean, it was so it was the drama, Randy. It's like, no, my God. And I was like, I did it. I hit it and raised. I'm a moron. You're such an idiot. But I tried to hit the shot, Randy. And I always have that in my back pocket you always have that our whole group misses the green uh everyone's

everywhere and he's like so what do you want to do i was like i'm not going anywhere near where spith went i was like give me a ball we're hitting another one which is kind of the hack you know play the course once played 12 twice so i put i was like give me a ball i hit nine iron guys i like fucking flagged it i hit it like right where rory landed it probably six feet spun back so i had about uh i want to say 15 footer. It was coming back where we were worried it was going to spin back off the green. But to about 15 feet uphill, left to right, breaking putt. I burned the edge, low edge, double. Great role on that one, though. I mean, that was, that was a, I just, we didn't play enough break, but good pace and we gave

it a really good run, but we made double at 12. But I was thrilled with my second. I hit such a good nine iron on the second one. So it's like, dude, I, yeah. Like, I'm, I would do it the exact same way all over again. Not, not the, the second one was, was better. The first one was a little, you know, just a, just a little. Just tried to nudge it over there. Yeah, I, I tried to fade it is kind of, and I didn't have to try to fade it. It was kind of the, the, the, I should have just hit the target.

And I almost, like, tried to hit a fade. It's like, don't try to hit the fade. Just hit, I fade the ball naturally. Just hit the ball solid. But, you know, I'd be lying if I didn't have like a, you know, I don't want to hit that quick left nine iron that I hit on two. You know, it's just, anyway.

Were you thinking about making an ace and then, you know, maybe they invite you to become a member and the painting and all that. Who knows what I'm. The second one bounced like pin high kind of slightly. I was like, man, that might I might jar that one. And then it kind of zipped back. And I mean,

it was an awesome third shot. There's also something to, you know, Icarito, the grown man not hitting it into the azaleas as well. You know, not hitting it up into the bush. I haven't missed long once yet. Yeah, I know. You know, it's great.

It was probably something that's like, I'd rather hit it dramatically in the front creek than just do the, I'm not going to do what everybody thinks. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, you know, I didn't hit a limp one that hit the bank. You know what I mean? Like I tried to flag a nine iron and I just got my hand in the cookie jar. So we went and got that ball, Stought and Ray's Creek, Joe went and dug it out. That's going on the trophy. Yes. that's going that's going up on the shelf in the office like what's that ball that's the one i put in

race creek uh that that that one's that's for the personal collection um and then yeah so yeah yeah you know you walk across hogan bridge i do think you know they grass the bridges over to 13 i feel like they should grass them instead of the astro turf how do you guys feel about that over uh you know the hogan and the in the in the nelson bridge i don't know how steep they are would they get slippery if it gets wet that's a good point uh they had a nice they got a nice little spring to him under there fred couple slip and fall and they got some good rubber uh under the astro turf so i was kind of rory bouncing over over ray's creek got a couple pictures on the bridge uh you get back there it's it's really something looking back i mean it is like you feel like you're in a a very exclusive museum

um and there's like rock i didn't realize there was almost a rock cliff there on the left that has you know it's kind of has some shrubs hanging down but uh yeah special spot back there well um you've got the draw moving We know that. Yeah, we do. So on the 13 T. I, hold on real quick. Did you take a piss back there? Did you take a piss anywhere? I took a piss on. There's a bathroom. This is 6T. I walked back down the, I actually briskly walked up the hill to get a look at the shoot, you know, the $40 million shoot up there. I mean, God, it's so far back there. The tournament teas. Sally, I did not see that there's no bathroom up there. The bathrooms down to the left.

Yeah. Over the Hovey T off. Over the Nelson Bridge. So no, Randy, I did not relieve myself back up in the trees. Definitely some cameras up there. Some, you know. But it's a very, it felt like a very lonely place because you get up in that shoot. You can't see the crowd.

You can't see the stands. Like so it was, it was really cool to go walk up there and check out the tournament tea. Came back down to the T. I was the second guy to T off. I have driver in hand. We're going bad boy. Bad boys, bad boys. What you're going to do?

Just aiming right at the corner of the trees or what? Yeah. Basically, I try to think what my target was. It was like I had a tree picked out. Not the final tree on the corner, but one of the last ones. I hit a, it did not draw. I hit one of the, like, just a straight bullet up the left. As Joe said, you just hit it through a keyhole.

Didn't touch a thing. Right. I mean, the Mondo angle. I had one, one 70 in. Well, you just hit it through the trees on the left. Not right, right on the edge of the trees. There's like one overhanging branch and like, I kind of hit it through this, this shoot, like right up the creek line, basically. It didn't turn left.

It was just like the straightest distance between two points, like just a bullet. And it kind of like a chloroform that you can get away with there a little bit. Clean exit wood. A little scummy? Is it like a little scummy? Potentially. I mean, it was an aggressive line, Randy. It wasn't in the trees, but it could have caught like, it was like, oh, God, get over that one.

Okay, it was like one, it was almost like Spieth on 18. Like, if it clears that one branch, we are so good. And then it did. And it was just like out, outrunning in open territory. Unreal. So I was out, up high right side of the fairway, past all the trees, just almost up where, like, patrons would be in, But it's still inside the ropes because it was it was perfect grass. And I had, yeah, what was the number I had?

170. I can't see if that's one. Yeah, 171. Big, big flag hanger or pretty flat? So this is an interesting one. It felt to me like a big hanger. And so I played, I had eight iron, felt really good about the club. And I was playing for a hanger.

Guys, I put it right into the tributary. Pin high, pin high. Just like couldn't have placed it. better in the tributary. You were just begging for that ball to move in the air. And Joe, and I said to him, was like, man, I canceled out. I put it back in my stance a little bit. I kind of canceled out the hanging. He's like, you know, this is a funny one. He's like, people think this part of the fairway is not hanging. It's more of a downhill lie. And I just comes out kind of flat and straight. Yes, dead straight. I hit kind of hit the target, which I was kind of trying to aim, maybe a,

you know, maybe a little right of the target. But I was kind of aiming at the left corner of the bridge back there and just hoping it would turn into the green. I was, again, I'm trying to hit the shot. I just made double at 12. I'm trying to, I'm trying to flag it, man. Like left of the flag on the hill and I wanted it to drip down. I had, I was visualizing what I wanted. I had a lot on the line for this one, Neil, for my taking the envelope. I appreciate you trying the shot. Uh, so I, I hit it in the create. It might have bounced once on the right side. We saw it bounce. We thought maybe I used all of the layup area and I was going to be maybe just because he's like, there's a flat spot down there, like pin high that you might be on, but it was sitting in the middle of the tributary,

which was a little disheartening. So we went on the line with the flag and where it entered. And so I pulled it back to about 30 yards is a full flop for me, 35 yards. I was like, and I found a flat spot. And I hit an awesome flop shot. Just flopped it up, landed in between. The pin was probably five yards off the right. And I probably landed it two yards on.

But it hopped, rolled up the hill, rolled back down to a, about 15 feet. But I mean, I collapsed from the caddies like, you know, the Icarito just threw a gainer over the tribute carry. You know, just like evil caneval shit.

Like I was pretty proud of that one. Shafua Nash. So we put that one in the memory bank, Randy. Did not make a great pass at this ball. Came up low, short. So we made bogey there.

That was a sick. Okay. We're plus 11. 11. Yeah. All right. So we get to 14. 14.

I can't think of a more uncomfortable for me personally. I have never given this enough credit. A more uncomfortable looking T-shot. And I, you know, I was, I wasn't, I was a little bit, I don't know, gas isn't the right word, but a little bit like, damn, I'm like, now I'm starting to make a mess, right? And I was the first to play because everybody made a mess on 13. And I, I keyed the ball up and I was standing behind and I looked. I was like, okay, this fairway is slanting like, it's probably like a 10 yard at the, on the, on the, top left, it's probably 10 yards lower on the right. And you're trying to bend a draw around

the corner. I'm like, oh, my God, it's just like, again, vertigo. I'm like, oh, God, it's just going to trampoline into the trees over here. I got to hit a draw. I probably should have hit three wood, but I already had driver. And I, you know, I try to hit a draw and I just let the hips go way too soon. And I, we're swinging the day. I hit a sloppy cut basically into the retreat, which is like the members only club down there. Just one hopped it past the magnolia. We found it. It was in an azalea. Had to take it on playable. But I had a window and I hit a really good recovery shot. Always have a window. I had from the pine straw I had 144. So I hit a nine iron. But again, it's a little more uphill than you think. And I came up short and it rolled back to the

front of the green and then i played a 44 degree up the hill and you got to like find the almost like the the river gorge to get it up to this shelf it sits in this little like hollow at the back of the green this is awesome pin back there but i was trying to play a 44 degree up the hill and have a drift back to the hole missed the ridge line went barely missed it and it probably rolled 45 feet down to the right just around the volcano crater and just It took like 10 seconds to come to a rest. It's like, very cool. Okay.

Very cool. So now I have a 45 footer for, uh, bogey. I leave that one about seven feet short, missed that putt, triple bogey at 14. Oh, my. And I was, that's where I was like, oh, man, this is, this is bad. Uh, and I'll be honest, made a pretty good, uh, pretty good putt for triple, Randy. Downhill three foot slider for triple was. was uh you know but we're hitting cups baby at this point we're hit we're we're gonna we're

gonna come what may um so this you know i had something go through my head you know i love analogies the scene from the patriot when colonel tavington slices like his his tendons behind his knee you know he's like you know but he's still alive it's like i just felt hobbled you know i'm on one leg now it's like that's that was a death blow but we're we're not quite a death blow but we're we're we're we felt hobbled coming off 14 i i just i i i i'm be honest with you i i probably mentally took a break there you know 14 almost feels like a break and i just you know i just come through a man corner hit some some what i thought were really good shots and you know got detonated and then 14 i was like all right a little breather nope uh that's

that's that's gonna be a triple sir so we come to 15 which is my favorite hole in deed i had tom doke in my head was this is pretty much my favorite hole in golf yeah uh on the t i was committed same swing as I hit on number three. I want to be up the right side, high ground. I am committed to getting this ball at the right side. Hit a pretty good T-shot, a little bit too much spin on it. And it rolled in. I thought it was going to be in the trees,

but it bounced off a tree, Joe told me, and came back. So I was in the fairway, but blocked out. Kind of like in between on the right. So in between 17, because he said it hit a tree pretty hard and came back probably 20 yards. Probably like just left to where Scotty was. No, much farther back than that. Okay.

So like in between 17, like there's fairway in between 17 and 15. And so it's like a clearing before the like trees starts. So I was like way back. I was like, I'm like two, I was probably like 260. So like I don't really know what happened to that ball. But on the T I was like, okay, like maybe we'll get a window up in the trees. But I think I one hopped it into a into a pine and it came back. So I'm like, damn it.

So I try. I'm like, all right, we can. And I didn't really, I'm like squarely, the whole line of trees is like between me and the hole. So it's like, okay, I got two options. I can bend like a seven iron around this. But there was just no, no possible way for me or I can hit a punch for. And I was like, I'm going to try to hit the punch shot. I had a pretty good window.

And, uh, guys, it sounded like uncorking a champagne bottle. Oh, with how square I hit a pine tree about 40 yards up. It was like, you know, and it's like, oh, pass that one, past that one, past that. was like, oh, no, no, no, no. Boom, like dead center pine tree comes racing back out into the fairway. Fastball middle, middle, right? Right down, right in the catcher's mid. Just like, I, like, what is it? Like a thoyink, you know, it was just a deep cork sound. Like, oh my God, just nutted that pine tree. Barc came off. It was it was it was compressed,

punch shot. If it misses that tree, it's down like we're, we're in business. So it spits out, though, to the left, into the fairway. Great. And I've got a little bit of an overhanging branch. And I had 247 to the front. So it came back a good way. So I probably like 20 yards up from where I started. But now in the fairway.

Now you get to hit the shot. Now you get to hit the fucking shot, boys. Let's go. I'm so jacked up. Joe's like, what do you want to do? I was like, what do you think, man? Like give me like, you know, so let's talk throughout going. I was like, I got seven wood.

I hit that about 240s. like, oh, well, you got to, you're going to have to, like, to get anywhere near this pin, you're going to have to hit a, you know, like a mega cut. I was like, okay, I was like, I think it's three wood. I'm going to try to turn a three wood. You know, it's 247, 248 to the front. He's like, I like, and you, you know, like that, that, he's like, I think, let's do it. So I, I set up, I choked up a bit.

And I, I can hit that shot. Like, you need me to hit a big cut. I can fucking do that. gentlemen i hit such a good three wood such a good three wood and it hit uh it didn't turn as much as i wanted to but it was high and just gorgeous heading for the left corner of the green randy lacrosse bounce just go boom trampoline see you i was complaining early in the week about not enough balls going in that back pond paste it schuster paste it i one hopped it into the back pond on 16 Nice. Again, I was thrilled. I couldn't hit the ball any better. I mean, I could cut it more. But like, I kind of was like, hey, because we said it's like, hey, if you hit this three wood and it goes straight, like you're probably going to be all right. You know, because it's going to land around 248 if it has spin on it. And it just took such a big bounce over that. It's like, you know, it's now it's like late afternoon, you know, probably at this point, 430, let's say, maybe a little, maybe 4. And so the light, it's like, it's starting to get really bright.

so I couldn't see it. You know, I was like, oh, man, that looks good. That looks good. And the last thing I see is the ball, like bouncing like, like, when you meet up in the air. I'm like, oh, my God, that's so fuck. So we walk up. That was a fun walk.

God, I love that hole so much. And I was a little bit like, damn, this is about to get out of hand. But at the same time, I'm like, oh, maybe it stayed up. Maybe it stayed up. Okay. I walked down. Some guy in the group ahead was like, we got two in the water down here, gentlemen. I'm like, dickhead.

Like, you know, like, kind of wanted to find that out. for myself. Walk across the bridge. One thing I want to shout out, both in Rays Creek and there, just like some prehistoric turtles. Absolutely Mondo turtles in the waterways at

Augusta National, which I'm a big turtle fan. I saw probably like 30 turtles around the back nine. So shout out to turtles. So we get back there, we drop one and I'm like at this point almost pin high, like looking straight down at

And this is such a hard shot. I had 58 out. I had it back in my stance. Kind of what the chef had taught us at that photo shoot, Dej. I'm trying to hit like a lower one with a ton of spin on it. And I caught it a little thin. A decent shot. I caught it kind of clanky, though.

I was trying to land in the fringe, carried it. It had spin on it. It kind of checked and then rolled out left of the bunker. Okay. But like just almost past, like almost even with the, the bunker on the right side of the green. So now I'm like pin high putting back up into the green from there. Honestly, not my best chip.

I probably was a, I didn't go on offense on that shot. But it could have been a lot worse. And it is what it is. So now it's right where Justin Rose was on Sunday. Yeah. I was like he putted it. I'm putting this one. So I putted it up to about five feet.

And another like fantastic shot there. So I have a five footer for double boat. Togie. Power lifted baby. Triple. Snowman. It'll cost you. And now I'm like, you know, I feel like I got to the bottom of the roller because I might throw up. I don't I'm locked up here. Now we're worried about 90. We are worried about 90. So that's what's going through my head. I haven't shot 90 in three years. You know, put that with. And again, hey, we're we're counting triples, right? So that equitable screw control throw it out. Like we're come what may. So we go to 16. But you can put it in the gin app though. Like I did shoot 94, but I hit the shots.

Like I hit the shots. Yeah, that's just a note. Ashtrix there. I hit the shots. 16. 16's an auto to at least. We know that. For sure.

Funnel pin. So easy. It was 154. Oh my God. Just a little wedge up there. Wind was, we thought it would be down, but it just didn't feel like much of anything. Even on 15, I didn't, didn't really feel much wind.

So we hit nine iron. I was between like a 44 and 9. And he was like, I like he kind of flighten a nine iron down. And I just hit a really bad one here. Guys, just a whitey ass one into the front right bunker. Oh, just like kind of just like, what the fuck? Like, just like, what are you doing, man? Like that was a little bit of like if, if it was the Patriot up in, in, you know, on 14 green, that was William the foe on.

you know, on 16T from platoon. It's just getting, I'm just getting to take me. Like it's, it's over. The choppers flying away. We're done. He's cooked. NLU's cooked. Icarito's cooked.

Wish I was younger. Guy stinks. Shout out to Francisco. Absolutely nuked one. One of the shots, best, most compressed irons I've ever seen. Probably hit it 10 yards over the green. Roll back to like right where Rory was on Sunday. Did he get up and down?

I'm caddy. Caddy was apoplectic. Fuck, man. Did he get it up and dad? Um, he met, he almost did. Uh, Randy, that'd have been big for Randy. He had like a 10 footer for, for par. I think he missed it.

But still, you're going to have a, it's a harder shot that it looks. It's, it's not as easy to get that one. It's not as hard as people think, but it's not as, it's right in the middle, Randy on that, on that, that shot from behind the green. Uh, so I had a long bunker shot. I hit, I pulled 54 to. I hit an awesome bunker shot right to the ridge, rolled it down, four footer up the hill. Missed it. Made bogey there.

I was pissed. I missed. I missed that putt. That one's a tricky one, though. It breaks this way. So it breaks right down the hill, but then it kind of, this one goes up, goes left to right. You know what I mean? It almost flips right at the hole. And so I missed mine on the left on the high side.

and then Noah had the same put, like almost marks were on top of each other, and he missed his on the on the right. So it was just almost like we, you know, none of us, like we did, neither was scared the hole there. So four, four at 16. So if I'm doing the math, we, we need a birdie on 17 or 18 to break 90. Yes. And listen, we had stinky Nandina circle.

Once in a lifetime, bottle of life. That's kind of the rival at the end of the season. You're a grow the records out. Throw the records out with these two. This is pride. This is all pride. You're coming in with a kit with a thrashed Achilles. Yes.

You know, lineups beat up. You know, we got guys there day to day, but, you know, they're going to play. You know, they're going to take some cortisone. They're going to be out there, Deidj. So we tee it up and I hit a, I mean, again, just a magnificent drive. Split the fairway. Just couldn't hit it. Couldn't hit a straighter drive.

And I said, I said, I'm going to hit this as hard as I can. I just fucking nuked it. Up on top of the hill, I had 86 yards to the green. Flat lie and, I mean, late afternoon sun. He starts to get a little, like, depressing is not the right word, but like, oh, man, like, quiet. Can we go back to number 10? Like, you know, that's how I feel on 17 with the tournament, too. It's just like, you know, it's a little bit like the adrenaline wears off.

But I'm sitting up here on this plateau. That's it. That was an interesting pin. So we were trying to play it like the number because I was like a full swing, 58. And I guys, I caught it heavy. Really poor swing. I wish I would have put this one a little farther back in my stance. I just like, didn't bad pass, bro.

Yeah. Left it short of the front bunker. Okay. Hit a fantastic nippy hip over the bunker. checked for me. And, Sally, to your point about, like, balls, I mean, I thought this might go in. And it kind of just, like, drifted. And then it dressed like five feet away.

Right. I'm like, how is that not like a tap in? Five footer. Burn the edge. Missed the putt. Come on. Five at 17. Oh, my God.

That green look purple, guys. It was like zombie grass. It was just that and 15 were just burned out, like so sick, how firm they were. So I was pissed at my stuff. How's your relationship? with Joe going here. Fantastic. Burned putts.

Are you taking the blame? Are you shouldering it? Is he trying to tell you? No, he, like I said to him, pretty much all of these puts are, I didn't burn, what did I do? I did burn the edge on this one. Most of the puts, though, I was leaving short because I was given these,

I was terrified of these greens. I really was. I was just giving them too much. I wasn't getting the ball to the hole early in the round. And then I was pressing late in the round. But like, his lines were. money all day. And some of these putts were like good. I'm going to make a confident stroke. You're like the one on 17 was a confident stroke. It just didn't go in. Same with the one on 15.

The one on 16 wasn't wasn't a good put. I got to put, I got to just put that in the hole. Like I got to make that putt. But a lot of the puts on the back nine were just, they just didn't go in. A homage to speech. Yeah. So I can't confirm. I am close, guys. Much like Jordan. I am close. All right, 18T. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I had this one circle. Number T on 18. So 17 was 370. Member T is 385.

And it was playing a little, probably right at the number. It was probably middle box. This one fits like my shot shape really well. Let it, let it eat. And I sometimes. I guess, sorry, Neil.

I guess I'm just curious. Like that is such, having been to a couple practice round days at Augusta, you know, that back T where the pros play it is such an intimidating little shoot for me. Do you still feel that same, claustrophobic feeling from the member teeth or was it not quite as bad not there's just not as much

up the right it's probably 40 yards up so it just doesn't feel as much like a tunnel and knowing that those bunkers really aren't in play makes you feel a lot more comfortable like man i can if i hit a good drive like i'm just going to peel one off these bunkers like this it's it's it's tailor made for my you know ball flight so it for and for that shot like i just don't have to close my shoulders and swing hard. Like I'm going to hit a high fade. And it's just make sure you swing hard is going to prevent the big right miss. It's kind of like I just got to make a really aggressive swing.

And I did. I hit a fucking gorgeous drive. And make sure it fades. And make sure it fades. Yes. Rose, one of the caddies, she gave me a clap. She's like, that was an awesome drive. Just fantastic. I had 91 yards into the 18th hole. I hit an excellent wedge. Just past the hole about three three yards right of the stick. I think it had some cut spin on it because it kind of came

off the hill one bounce and rolled down pin high probably about a 20 footer i left this uh i left this putt two inches short no awesome put just left it and i was pissed i got to get that one to the hole but it was an excellent put and i made par at 18 and i shot 91 jane and i'm fucking proud of it because you know why randy why we hit the shots we hit the shots and we hit as many cups we hit 17 We had 17 cups. I'm disappointed. I didn't hit 18, but we hit the shots. We went, we, we, we, we, we, we, uh, we went for it.

And I'm proud of that. Uh, and 91's tough. I haven't shot 91 in a long time. Uh, and what better place to do it, gentlemen. 100%. My short game got exposed. Uh, and if you just get, you know, out of position a couple times, uh, the, the uneven lies in the short game with, you know, the putting is where I just, I got exposed.

I had, uh, 40 putts. which is tough very tough i didn't play me golf that's no i know that's my i know that's my fourth round uh eight of 14 fairways nine of 18 greens and 40 putts for a 91 uh and that was so dj was almost well no i had a ton of doubles i was like almost pitched a perfect game you know i lost three balls i had almost a lot of doubles of four five over i had two triples um so close to perfect uh but i hit the shots randy hit the fucking shots God, I feel like there's such a good day. I had a great attitude all day. The only place I got a little down was 14 because I was just like, you know, I was like, oh my God, what did you just do? Why did you do that? I let lost focus on 14. I had a great attitude on 15. I got a little pissed about 16 and then awesome on the way in. So I feel like, uh, in a way, if I'm trying to be an optimist, you shooting 91 and walking away with just like a bit of a smile on your face and a holy shit is is better. than you shooting 71 and being like,

like wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. You know, it's so hard. Yeah, that's what I mean. I think that's for a lifetime of watching the masters. I think that's a, it's a great takeaway to have.

I had a couple takeaways. I will never underestimate the, uh, course knowledge or picks in the future. I think like Roy's saying it's his home course. Like he might win five more. Cause it, it's like,

and the uneven lies. It's baking. It's not cooking out there, Dege. It's baking. Like you have to measure. your sugar. You have to make sure you have enough molasses. And if you don't, and if you leave it in the oven for three minutes too long, it's going to taste like shit. Which is where I think the Rory

versus Scotty thing is like the, Rory versus Scottie the Masters might be the best thing we have going in golf for the next 10 years. The way these guys can navigate those hanging lies is just like the 13 fairway. It's like it's like NASCAR. It's like a turn three at Daytona. It's just hanging like this. And 14. I just didn't realize I was. never ever, you know, disgrace Chinese fur again. Chinese fur got up in my key store. That's a much more difficult T shot than it gets credit for. I'm proud of you, Neil. This is an electric recap. I'll never forget it. It was awesome. I loved it. And I, you know, a couple times out there, Dege, a 14 on, well, one, T, and on six. And on 14, I was

like, oh man, like, it kind of was like, you know, I wasn't really mad about the, the, it was like college football over again. It was like, I wasn't mad. I missed the tackle. I was like, man, this is going to look bad on film. I had to tell everybody I just did this on 14, you know, like, and then I had my court, Norris Wilson in my ear on 15. Is this game too fast for you? Schuster? No, sir. Are you going to quit? No, sir. Walking to 6TTT. Is this too fast for you? No, sir. And then I dumped it in the bunker. Do you, uh, do you want to? hear the predictions for the rest of the squad yeah yeah they're all way off uh all right i'll start i'll start with myself again our our over under was 81 and a half uh okay i think just over is always more fun to bet on that's right i had you at 83 and my prediction was that you were going to make a birdie

on 17 cementing randy's legacy of just like this is bullshit uh so wrong on both accounts wait on 17 or 16 uh 16 uh 16 Okay. I think you said, sorry, sorry. Here, I'll take, let me take that again. My prediction, I had you at 83. And I, my, my prediction was that you were going to make a birdie on 16 forever cementing Randy's legacy as that whole. Anybody can make. Yeah, which I think you, you did a lot to kind of undo Radies legacy there.

So, uh, it is a pretty pretty easy shot. It's a big catcher's met out there. Ben, uh, Ben had you at 84. That was the highest prediction. I believe Ben takes the price the price is right. Uh, prize. His prediction, which was looking, I mean, it was pretty good. Uh, you will double the first without the ball hitting the hole. A pickup double.

Uh, I know. It was an honest double. Not far off. Casey had you at 82 said he's going to bogey 16. You cash, cash that one. Cody had a lot of faith in you. He said it's going to be a smooth 79. He says you blasted over 12 and you double 13.

Uh, on. on 15 and two with three putts. So, you know, a couple of foul tips maybe, but not quite. Yeah. Sully had you at 81 said you're going to make a triple on 12, not far off. Said you're going to Eagle 13 quite far off. But I like that you went for that pin. I did.

I tried to stuff that pinata just left of the flag. Jordan said you were going to shoot 82 and three put 17. You missed the green, otherwise maybe. Tc lengthy prediction from TC said you were going to shoot 79 quote Neil is going to tear the par fives on the front up play the front in 37 and then make a couple shitty bogeys on 10 and 11 at double 12 he rebounds for an easy par on 13 14 gives him trouble shot of the day is his second into eight and he's going to get his dick knocked in the par three's especially six and 12 uh that's pretty close he did because I did hit a great shot on

he did yeah that's that's pretty pretty solid and i got my dick knocked in on six and 12 for sure uh randy says 81 he rinses it on 12 uh good stuff there and uh matt maramer said 83 and i i was hanging on this as you were describing it's matt says 83 and he says he will try to play a shot for the tributary at raise creek at their no it was it was it was dead center probably like a foot submerged in in uh in the creek could have been an all-timer for me at there. Yeah. No, I thought of, I looked at it.

I was like, man, I don't think we can get a club through this much water. And it's really steep. Like, that's not a, especially the right side of the tributary is not, not, not a spot you're, you're going to, uh, going to play from. But no, I mean, it's, it's a secret garden, man. When there's nobody else out there, once you get past A man corner, like the group spread out again. So it's like nobody's on, uh, 13 with you.

Nobody's on 14. And then by the time you crest the hill on 15, it was like that, that other group's back behind the, you know, the grandstand. So you just got that whole arena. It's like all to yourself. I kind of wish I would, you know, better T shot on 15 was probably honestly the biggest regret, even more so than like the bad wedges on 17 and on seven. Those were those are like the two just stinky, stinky swings and the he shot on 16. Would you classify that as the greatest golf experience you've ever had? It's like I thought the caddy, I thought Joe was awesome. just super knowledgeable and like,

fun to like, you know, get in the lab with on, I mean, I was really engaged on every shot. So yeah, like it was, it's just a really stimulating golf course because of the ups and the downs and the hanging lies that you're just never comfortable.

And then I was just terrified on the greens. So like, yeah, if I had to do it over again, I wish I got more putts to the hole. I was, I was, I was putting a little wimpy.

but I think I picked that up on the back nine they just they didn't fall like my god I left like three or four on the front nine I played good on the front I just left it in the jaws too many times what did I ask is it the best golf experience well it's you it's a fantastic golf experience I I'm a little bit more like laid back you do feel like you're on eggshells because you don't want to do something wrong So it felt like the most special golf experience, but it feels like you're on a knife's edge a little bit, both with how difficult the course was and with like, I'm not supposed to be here. So like, I think I'll, you know, I'll never forget it. But it wasn't, I didn't find it to be a relaxing experience.

But that's just, that's kind of part of how I like to play. Like, I wanted to compete out there. And listen, we got, you know, they hung in number on us, Randy. right i mean you know cliff and and alister and bobby jones put the you know put the second string in around 15 yeah so sounds like the scouting report maybe was out you know they they've done their homework i did not airmail one green i two was the only time i was above the hole all day uh so i'm proud of that shit that's good god i'm i'm exhausted yeah i so if you have you have Like if I could shoot 85, I don't know.

Like that was that was awesome because I hit the ball really well. It just didn't go where I wanted it to go. And that's a problem. Like I wasn't, it wasn't coming out in the windows. Like I hit the eight iron into 13. I hit it great. It just went like it just went straight right. You know, and that's just going to cost you.

But it's better than like I didn't duff it around. I hit the shit out of it off the T. Like I had to have gained strokes off the T. I just did not. My short game is not tidy. We got to go work on our wedges, man. I found it. Everybody wanted to ask me immediately,

what did you shoot? What did you shoot? Would you shoot? And I'll be like, I'll tell you, but like it truly wasn't about that. It wasn't. Like I did not care about,

I cared about what I did on each individual whole and with each individual shot, kind of like you're describing, but like what it added up to was not important to me. Like, and that's where I helped me with the experience of like, dude, I don't care about like shooting an actual specific score.

I just care about like remembering and taking in every single shot that that is put in front of you. So I feel like you got that experience even though you didn't have the score. I did. I feel like I got to hit like every shot I wanted to hit. I got a look at it. And I wish I didn't shoot 91 for sure. But I like it was really fun doing it. And like what about what what other place do you want to shoot 91 at?

Like that's sick. You know? Like yeah, I had triples on 14 to 15. Who cares? It's here here. I agree. Well, Neil, This is a great, just a great way to spend a morning here.

I appreciate you. Well, thanks for Joe. Randy, thanks for sticking around. I know, I know, I know you wanted every,

every shot from Augusta National. I know that's how you do spend your morning. How did it end? Like, what do you, how do you, you know, I took a picture with Joe on 18.

Um, we timed up the battery on the camera perfectly on this crappy little digital camera. It like ran out of battery as we were walking to the clubhouse. Um, did you listen to, uh, Quad City DJs on the way out. No,

because of, They valet, pulled up and it was, it was a hurricane season by trombone short. Which, so the horns put me in a good mood. Mr. Schuster, we parked your, uh, your cars over at the Salvation Army. You can, you could go over there. I had the worst rental car. This like broke-ass Nissan Ultima that smelled like someone smoked like nine pack of cigarettes in it. So like after you, I'd get it in every day after it's be hot and just smell like, just like carcinogens and nicotine.

I was like, oh, God, just heavy air in that car. So I rolled back down Magnolia Lane. They dropped the armored barriers for me. And I'll see you guys later. No, I didn't have time to go to Arby's. I had to get showered up and head out. But I did, I lingered a little bit in the Champions locker room, looked at the at the lockers.

You know, they got Rory's green jacket from last year up there with his seven iron on display. And yeah, it's just, it feels like. really cozy museum up there. It's, I love the wrap around porch is awesome. Everybody was delightful. So I felt very welcome. So I don't want me being on eggshells to feel like it was not welcoming. It was very welcoming.

It was just like you feel like you're on hollowed ground. So it's very special, Sally, but like, you know, knowing you're never going to do it again, you're like, you know, I don't know if it's like the, the, it's not a relaxing experience. because you're just trying to like you're just trying to soak in every single second of it and um and i think i did that so i'm i'm pumped right good stuff very happy for you very excited that you got to do this it was uh i got a lot of a lot of throw out of listening to all this and know a lot of people will as well straight up it'll make like next year in the year after and the year after like a better coverage of the golf tournament you know i'll never think about the 14th hole the same again you know

I'll feel like, you know, if someone hits it too far up on seven, like just these little spots, you're like, oh, that sucks. Don't go there. You know, even watching where some of like my, my partners hit it. You know, you're like, oh, God, I didn't realize how bad that was. Like, that sucks. So, all right. I'm going to move us towards rap and Neil.

Great. Congratulations on a true, you know, lifelong dream. A historic 91. No, it's, it's awesome, man. It's, it's one of the few rounds of golf that you could ever play where people will be hanging on every word of description you have. I'll listen back to this one, so I want to hear it. Yeah, and like everybody, you know, knows every hole so well.

Like, you know, I, it's, yeah, in 10 years, I'll know exactly what I did on six, on 14, you know, like I'll never, remember every shot vividly, which you can't say that about every golf course, right? There's just so much context out there. That's what makes it really special. All right. That's going to do it for today's episode. Shout to our friends at Titleist, Golf Pride and Arcos.

Thanks to Neil for detailing everything. DJ Pie and Big Randy for being here as well. We'll be back this coming Sunday with a live show recapping this week's Heritage. Crack on, cheers.