No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - 988: Rory wins at Augusta National!

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

Rory McIlroy wins his first green jacket in a playoff over Justin Rose! Join us as we break down the week at Augusta National Golf Club. We run down Rory and TM Rose's round from the jump, let TC cook down the leaderboard, get an onsite update from Neil and KVV, talk through the highs and lows, and more. What a week! Presented by High Noon. Support our sponsors: High Noon - Sun's Up! Titleist - and the new GT280 The Stack - code NOLAYINGUP YETI ServPro Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining The Nest: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at nolayingup.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Be the right club. Be the right club today. Yes! Johnny, that's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different? I want it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Lang Up Live Show presented as always by our friends at high noon. We told you, we told you, we called it, Dej, we called it. We finally got one. What if he wins the Grand Slam is the question we need to be talking about. the This is good stuff, man. Great being here. It's such a weird, the level of emotions throughout the course of this day.

I was completely convinced he was gonna win by eight. I was completely convinced that this is gonna be the most devastating live show in our history. It is hard to bring the complete enthusiasm I have for this moment, for this delivery, this moment, because of how horrible the route was to getting there. Excruciating, painful, like puts a tiny teeny tiny bit of pain in this actual final result. Do you feel

any of that in this moment? Yeah, I mean, I think that makes it even better though, you know, like that was like that's the most fun way to get there. I think well, like it would have been way too way too syrupy way too saccharine to go out and he just, he plays super smart golf and it's just his time. He's a more complete player now. Like that would have been no fun. The wedge into 13. I can't wait. Oh, we're gonna get the most inexplicable shot I've ever seen. And that's, that's what I'm here for, man. We got, let's bring in the other, the other chuckle heads.

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TC how we feeling bud? I'm exhausted. I mean I'm truly I From the time that the ball probably should have gone in the water on 11 until Register the rest it was, it was unbelievable. I've never seen, never witnessed anything like that. It was like Vandeveld and the best four or five masters I've ever watched. And like the, the players when Ricky won, like all that shit just rolled into one.

And, uh, DJ, you said it earlier, the, like the shot on 13, I think was like Charlie, just considering the circumstances, he had 50 feet to the left of that pin to work with as a bank. Considering the circumstances, I think that was the worst shot I've ever seen down the stretch in a major championship. And then the shot on 15 was maybe the best shot I've ever seen. And then he hit a great shot into 16. And, you know, 17 was a little wishful. I thought that, you know, if you're going to beg for it to get there like that, and it ends up at two or three feet, it feels a little, little strange. And then, and then, you know, just the wedge on 18 in

regulation. Holy shit. It's crazy. It's a great day for golf. Great day for the sport. I think we've, uh, we've been talking a lot, you know, the tour has been talking a lot about the fan forward initiative today. Almost felt like it was like, Hey, we surveyed 50,000 people and what they really want to see is if you take John van de Velde, uh, Phil winning his first masters Ricky at the players, like you said, maybe throw in like some Ken Duke. Who else? Who else has got some ideas? Just throw them in. We're going to put them all on this one guy's back. Greg Norman, 96.

Greg Norman for sure. Little dash of Greg Norman. Nicholson winning the Masters. What was that? 04, Randy? 04, yeah. I mean, just all of it. Just put it in the blender. That's right. And like, yeah, I've never seen I've never seen, I've never seen nerves hit someone like that who's such an accomplished player. And I said to you guys after regulation, I was like, man, I can't imagine being roaring, going back out after

just all of the blood probably drained from all of his extremities and all of that adrenaline and all those endorphins going for four or five hours straight. And then everything just almost leaving you when you missed that putt on 18. And for him to step up and hit the drive that he did in the playoff. And it was just crazy. Probably, I mean, just no laying up, right? On 15th, no laying up. It was more high percentage to go after that shot than he does hitting a wedge wedge down there And then wedging on is incredible. It's I'm gonna give Randy a chance to speak here soon. I promise but I got a text I'm good. I'm alright Got a text on the back nine from hunter mayhem. It said Rory is playing the most mentally tough round of golf

I've ever seen and I when I read it I was like hunter respectfully. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen This is the most mentally midgety round of golf I've ever seen. And he responded, he was like, the golf was bipolar. The mental toughness was off the charts. And like a half an hour later, thinking back on it, it was like, holy shit, he could have just collapsed, collapsed, like, and not, every time he did something

inexplicably dumb, and he did four or five of the dumbest things I've ever seen done on a golf course from anyone trying to win a golf tournament, He was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was

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like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like,

he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, he was like, The shot into four early in the round to kind of help swing things. That was really good. Even low key the putt on three, like that little downhill left to right slider after you've just kind of gacked up the first two holes and you can already feel your, like you're not feel your lead, your lead literally has already slipped away as predicted by the boys last night on the show. Is it going to be leading after number two? That was the question, I think. And it was, uh, that was the most predictable part

What's the first right two holes and then everything else happened? But we've seen him like the read year right where he goes out and he does it, you know something silly I number one and it's like alright. Well, I guess not my day I'm just gonna pack it up, you know and like to 100 mayhem points like no, I guess a lot of golf left man We're gonna we're gonna keep sticking in this thing and he just he just kept firing left man we're gonna we're gonna keep sticking in this thing and he just he's kept firing I truly don't know that's too big the only thing I can compare this to is 2019 Masters which when Tiger Woods won we all kind of looked at each other like dude how you how do you how are we gonna do a show like what do you

what do you possibly say about this moment but it is like I was trying to trying to find the way to bring this all together on Twitter and it's probably the worst place to do it but R Rory has, I would say made himself like the most emotionally available of anyone of his generation as far as golfers in terms of. Maybe not media availability. Not recent media availability. That's really recent, yeah.

But just like putting himself out there, one, on the course heartbreaks, two, like, not as much recently, but like giving interviews, like telling people exactly how he feels, like being a part of the golf content sphere, like he has, he has been that person. He has put all his heartbreaks on full display, 2011 masters. Obviously the, the, uh, Pinehurst, the US open, we have LACC, US open.

We have just, uh, open championship open, um, at the old course. Like it's all been there. Every single year we do the eight to nine month lead up of is Roy going to complete the career grants? And we did that for a fucking decade, for a decade. And he's got a six footer, a five footer on 18 to close it and can't do it. And then he's got to stand over another four footer in the playoff to pour it in. That was pretty cold they did them to put that to win the career grant slam up graphic up in the playoff to pour it in. That was pretty cold they did them to put that, to win the career grand slam up graphic up in the corner.

And I mean, the reaction and the emotion, it just, it honestly looked like it was hyperventilating there for a second of just like it wang on that much. And I just, I know all these guys wanna win. I know all these guys have emotions that go up and down, but it has always felt to me like Rory wants this too much. Like he's the one that has one of the most biggest appreciation for history, knows what kind of club he would be

in if he would ever win this tournament and complete this. And it's weighed on him. He's tried to pretend like it doesn't. He's taken 58 different approaches to this tournament, tried to downplay the importance of doing it. It's all he ever wanted. It's all this guy ever wanted. And it finally happened today. of doing it. It's all he ever wanted. It's all this guy ever wanted and it

finally happened today and it's just totally surreal. I think you brought up 2019 and that feels like a natural comp except the the difference I'd point out is that 2019 was almost like such a fluke freak thing that I think that's where some of the I don't really even know how to describe this feeling came from. Whereas this I'm like, man, I've been set up for this party since 2011. Really, you know, it's like I've been waiting for this to happen for a really long time. And I knew what it would look like. And I knew what it you know, kind of what it would feel like. And I knew what club he would be in. And like, this is how it's supposed to go, which is where I'm almost like, yeah, no, I can wrap my head around this. This like, finally, it's almost like, all right, now the golf world makes a little more sense,

you know, rather than, than it feeling too big. Just like beforehand, just, just thinking about like, 10 years of majors, not just masters, 10 years of majors going by. TC, I looked up a couple things, just to put that into context because we throw it out a lot. You know, like 2014, like that was of course his last win. So much stuff's happened since then. That was when the ice bucket challenge was going on. I'm sure you guys remember that. You pointed this one out, Tron. Zach Johnson, Jimmy Walker have won majors more recently than Rory. Ludwig was 14. Big, I threw this one in there for you. 1989, a Taylor Swift album that has existed forever for all of time. Hadn't been released yet the last time that Rory won a major. Top song in the country was, there's another big

Randy one, all about that bass that base Megan trainer, I believe It was the same month guardians of the galaxy came out which again was like oh my god I've movies been out for like 25 years the least like that's how long it's been It's it's they've made like fucking eight of those since well, it's the first one came out. I mean just think about What? Would not think about like no laying up The last time Rory won a major, we had four months prior recorded a podcast from Spicebush with a recorder in the middle of the table. I mean-

Chips and salsa. Incredible. Yeah, you wanna, I mean, I can measure it in our own personal lives and professional journey. It's unbelievable. I think the stat yesterday that Nance threw out that just shocked me. But is it right? He had not held a lead after any major since 2014? Jim Collison-Towsey — 54-hole lead, maybe?

Jeff Sarris — Maybe it was 54-hole lead? I don't know. Is he not leading at St. Andrews? Nance definitely, it was either 54 hole lead or anyway, we don't, I don't mean to bog us down, but like it just some of the stats were like. Solo, he was tied with Vic going into the final round at Open Championship. Okay, well. Well, to that. Unbelievable. To that point, what's, what's crazy about the, I don't know, you get, again, I keep going back to 2011 almost more than 2014 because that was the first time to become a running bit with us now with all kinds of tournaments. But when someone kicks one away, you hear everybody say, oh, don't, he's going to get

one. Don't worry, that guy's too talented not to win one of these things. It's like, yeah, that's probably true. But man, there's a lot of life that's going to happen in between those two things. And that's what makes it so fun for Rory is like, you go back and you, I don't know, man, it's just been a decade and a half of watching this guy, or even more than that, right? Since he was 17, 18, 19 years old. And it's just, I don't know, it hits you in the feels for sure, especially seeing how much he cares and how much it meant to him and what a weight off and all that stuff. But, uh,

and all the PJ tour stuff and all the like everything he's done over the last three or four years, good and bad and indifferent. And then I, I, I think too, that this is, to me this is by far the most impressive of his major wins because it came on a firm spicy golf course. So spicy today. Holy shit. Like much more so than pre than the last few Masters.

And it's just, it was a really like, I was, that was a really, really dry, firm Augusta. We haven't seen that quite to that level in a long time, I don't think. And just, yeah, just primo conditions. And like, you had to control your golf ball. Well, and what I keep coming back to, and I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun with a lot of the very boneheaded mistakes, but it's like a long time he's playing that golf course while he like probably can't feel his fucking feet or, and it's just like, God, it's just so impressive. That That was that was the craziest part was like seeing seeing how in control he was with the full body swings. Yeah seeing how harder the shot the better

off he was. Except the driver which also is like his superpower which he didn't seem to have either. Which the driver wasn't that bad though it was just like stop hitting it fractionally off and he kept going to three wood and that was not going well. I hated that every single time he did that. But I mean, it was like, that's where it felt like, all right, what's going to happen here? Is he going to out, like, is the data going to went out here? Or are the odds going to keep punching him in the face?

Like missing by a yard on one, missing by a yard on two, Bryson snapping it off one and making par while Rory makes double. You were pissed. You were so pissed. It was just like, how long? But it was like over 72 holes is why we always say that. Like, you know, the sustainability models

are gonna win out. And he tried to wreck it with whatever the fuck happened on 13 that I still like, I have to wonder if that's gonna scar him a little bit, honestly, but- Well, Sully, I think for you guys, like on that note, I think there's a certain satisfaction synergy that you guys that you guys and Neil should feel especially of he

won his way. Right? Like he didn't he didn't win playing percentages and playing data he won like swashbuckling and just putting his nuts on the table. That's that's pretty cool. We said that last night too of like when you're at when you're on 13 need a birdie you're like, fuck yeah, let's go and when you just need par you're like, well, shit, how am I gonna do this? Just just don't fuck it up and then 15. All right, I need birdie. I'm gonna snap hook a seven iron around this tree and

hit one truly one of the greatest shots in Masters history. Like it's it almost like you almost are hesitant to go there because the only reason it's one of the greatest shots in Masters history. Like it's, it almost like you almost are hesitant to go there because the only reason it's one of the greatest shots in Masters history because you fucked up in such a colossal way that it's honestly hard to describe. But yeah, we ended up with some of the greatest Masters moments ever again, followed again with one of the almost one of the all time follies bogeying 18 with 124 yards in there on 18. But

responding with the bird, I holy shit, man,'m still, it's really hard to do a show like this fresh after this happening. I have never, ever been so anxious watching one single sporting event. That was the most, like I'm sitting here like, how did he hit the golf shot right now? I'm legitimately trembling. I'm so uncomfortable over some of these moments,

just knowing if he'd have lost this, it would have been like 85 times worse than Spieth in 2016. Like it would have been truly, truly unrecoverable from. Yeah. Well, listen, speaking of recovering from things, speaking of coming back, we talked a lot about the end of eras moving on, things like that. And I think that probably brings us

to our ServPro mulligan segment. People are very familiar with this segment. ServPro, the number one brand in cleanup and restoration, known for making any mess like it never even happened. Let's put that to the test. Randy, I want to start with some nice words and I want to applaud you. Please. Truly. It's one of the greatest bits in the history of bits. I don't remember specifically which tournament it was after either you guys are at it. 29 is Port Rush.

Okay, that's right. That's right. Port Rush Roy goes out he's gripping the steering wheel way too tight misses the cut after a little bit of a gas is leaving the body there on Friday as he tries to make the cut And and big Randy declares our guy dead until further notice In lieu of flowers, please make all donations to golf pass It was subscribed to golf is one of the greatest lives in the history of the podcast Uh, and and I believe that the Martin Hall all the hitters over there I believe the crux of the conversation was he is dead

until he wins another major. And so here I will turn the floor over to you. Yeah, thank you, DJ. Well set up. I've thought about this day, what I wanna say. Do I wanna, I'm just going to be very sincere. It was a great victory from Rory today in total. I think the emotion that he showed after that winning putt went in, that was very cool. I mean, very, very cool to see. We don't get a lot of that in pro golf, I don't think.

And so I wanna just say that, great for him. And I also wanna recognize like how popular Rory McElroy is. It's incredible how many people, since I made that, you know, dumb joke in 2019 DJ, like that, I have gotten more comments. People want to talk about Roy like that has been the biggest thing, the biggest talking point between me and our audience over the last now six years. And so credit to Rory. I think this round in particular, like you guys so well put it, I mean, it just had everything.

Everything you think or anything that anybody thinks about Rory, the person, his golf game, I feel like you could find that within the 18 holes today plus the playoff. And so I'm a little disappointed. Listen, I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little disappointed that the bid is over. It was a hell of a run. All good things come to an end, but it was probably time.

And I think for the game at large, the capital G game of capital G golf. Tron, you said it in our slack, like this was a hell of a day for golf. And again, just recognizing how many die hard, die hard Rory McElroy fans there are out there today. Like, live it up. This is this is it. This is your Super Bowl. Like this has to be the happiest day that you've had following professional golf. So it's just wonderful. I don't feel like I have much to apologize pretty dead i mean he had 40 majors in a row that he didn't win guys like that's it and he stomped on his grave after generational talent dude you know i mean even today god he wanted to give it away he didn't want to win it but he did he did and that's the bottom line congrats to rory kudos to rory fans everywhere. I don't wanna, I'm not gonna take away from any of that.

Yeah, truly, great match. For those who didn't watch last night, for those who didn't watch last night, so this last night, but he, Rory, this got to Rory. Like he has heard the bit. He is familiar with the bit of him being gay. Oh, well and he has- And he's and I met him in Branson.

And he's made the comment, he's like, he said, he's told me I can't wait to win a major and call Randy out from my press conference. Do you remember what else he said? But it's been so long that I don't know if he's gonna remember that, but no, what else did he say? I remember you and I had coffee with him, maybe six months after the Rory's dead bit,

and I think maybe he'd been listening to the podcast a lot at that point, and you know, Augusta was coming up and he goes He goes, yeah, you know, I can't wait to go like win the Masters. I'll come back on the pod big rain He can hold my fucking green jacket after that. And so I don't know if he remembers that either but I certainly do and and nothing would make me happier Honestly, and I'm game for it, right? II know my role. I know. Hey, there are

two sides to a bit and so if he wants to come back, I will stand in the corner and hold his jacket like the best god damn waiter in the world. I would be happy to do that. Yeah, I I truly would be. I mean, I've had so much fun. Uh at his expense, you know, II hope he realizes like none of it's a lot of fun. Uh eating a McRib. Yeah, you know, I know.

And get attention. Exactly. So I don't know. Uh, that'd be funny, but I feel like our relationships change a little bit with Rory since all those comments were made. So I don't know. Who knows? Uh, well, thanks to big pure class as always. Thanks to serve pro, making any mulligan and giving us a chance to make it like it never even happened. Visit ServPro.com or call 1-800-SERV-PRO today.

Soly, where should we go next? Don't put that on me. I mean, I could do this back and forth for another hour, I honestly think, just the emotions of the day. What's the most- Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Were you more excited for today or more nervous for today? Sorry. So good question. I was more excited. I think

No, you guys were nervous as fuck. I was nervous. I was very nervous. Well, yeah, admittedly, I thought it was gonna be Bryson not team Rose, but I was very nervous. And then that first hole was like, yeah, no, that's kind of the guy I was pictured. He knows how big this is. I was more suspicious than I was nervous. It was like, what's it gonna be? What's the guy I was pictured. He knows how big this is. I was more suspicious than I was nervous. It was like, what's it gonna be?

What's the catch here? What's it gonna be? And when he got through 12, I was like, and he hit the, you know, laid up off 13, I was kind of like, man, he almost can't screw it up from there. 14, there's no trouble. Probably play 15, like a three,

like we're kind of dumped it in the water. All right, there it is, there it is. Like there is, I would have been reckless if it was not for 2016. Like we've all been, I will never assume anything for any Masters back nine after what we experienced in 2016. And this, again, like I said, this would have been worse. But I go back to like why I, I broke my promise of never picking Rory to win the Masters again. Or, you know, I think I said when he

wins his Masters, I won't be the one to predict it. I go back to like, dude, I've felt for months like we're watching a different golfer, like we're watching somebody actually evolve, which is really, really, really hard to do for the level of player that Rory is, but to clean up and to become TCU long accused of being a thrower, not a pitcher. It died. It died at Pinehurst though.

I said that like he played so well at Pinehurst. He did so many great things at recent majors. And he just kind of fucked up the easy stuff. He did that again today and almost cost him dearly. I was going to say. But it made me honestly think, I'm like, dude, the Rory that when you declared him dead, Randy, I was like kind of with you because he was just wandering listlessly around these majors, psyching himself out, playing himself out of the tournament on Thursdays.

And just like JP had to tell him like, Hey, you're Rory fucking Mattlroy. That was seven years ago, seven and a half years ago. But it honestly just felt different. And it was when he hit the shot in the playoff on 17th, the players, that was when I fully committed to like, I'm picking them to win the Masters. Like when needed to like he's got the shots now he really does. And man for the the two doubles on Thursday bouncing back from that and the myriad of

fuck ups today bouncing back from all that bouncing back from 40 plus straight major failures. Like it just you do have to tip your cap at the resilience of this dude. And like that's like the name of the game when it comes to golf. You're gonna lose a shit ton more than you're gonna win. And nobody got dunked on harder. I mean, it didn't help that Bryce and a Liv guy beat him at the US Open with all the Liv stands,

just adding fuel to the fire. That already hated Rory, just made memes out of him, crying and all this stuff. To bounce back from what he's done, it just kind of felt like, you know, made memes out of him, you know, crying and all this stuff. Like to bounce back from what he's done, it just kind of felt like how much how much you can't kill me anymore is what it felt like going in. I regret that part of it. Because this would have been the worst of all of them. But he's evolved, man. He's evolved. And I would be, I'll say this here now, I'd be stunned if this was his last major. I really would like it monkey off the back situation. Like it's, yeah, I hate to like put more expectations on it. But you got

to go be Capcom now said that last night, too. It was like, you got to go be the major winner of this generation. Well, that was the thing. I mean, we were talking about it last night on the pod was like, the divergence of if Bryson wins, which almost feels laughable. It's right now sitting here,, or Rory wins. And we said it last night. We're like, Oh dude, like the next manager is at Quill Hollow and then, you know, Oak wants a true toss up, but then like he could, he could

do a grand slam in a year at, at a Port Rush. Like that's crazy. What do you think about that, Randy? I love it. I love it. I am happy for you guys. Because it doesn't seem like the rest of them are mean as much. Now that he's got this one, he's like, cool, like my trophy case is complete. That was my biggest goal in my career. And now it's like, everything else is gravy, right? It feels like a pretty free roll at this point.

Maybe, I made a prediction back in say 2014 that I declared dead. I might have to in say 2014 that I declared I declared dead I might bring it back. I said Roy's gonna get to ten majors. I'm halfway there I might have to bring I might have to I have to go buy back into that one See if I what kind of price I get on that at this point I think you know what it's got a light of fire under Scotty to put that jacket on him like man Scotty Scotty had his C-plus game this week and you know, he's right there and I think we're looking at a fucking monster in the making with Ludwig.

We'll get there. We'll talk about how it ended and all that. You lit, you know, a house on fire basically. But as we're here, I'm just kidding word. As we're starting to pass out majors, I believe we have a guest who's's gonna join. This guest has some intro music that was just sent to me. I have not listened to it yet by our guy Charlie Van Kirk, maker of course of the famous Big Cans. Remake Sokoti if you'll do us the honor. I want Rory to win so bad. I want Rory to win so bad.

I want Rory to win so bad. So bad. I want Rory to win so bad So bad The emotional player The emotional player So bad I'm the king of shooting 72 in the first round of this golf tournament I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king

I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king, I'm the king Let's see if it just flies gay So bad The land journey is over! McElroy has his masterpiece! Of course, that couldn't be the intro music of nobody other than our guy, Neil Schuster, who was on the grounds all day following his guy. Neil, how are you? Go off as the commenters are saying.

Your mic's not working. Moms for KVB. Mike is not working. That is sick. God, we hate that. Still not working. Still not working. the it's been a day gentlemen it's been a day I'm not gonna lie thought they had it in the first half okay it was time I get to you and after the third quarter and with about two minutes left

I picked them up on two and god the three and four were unbelievable just all the audio you just heard in that song is all stuff I got today I'm so jacked up I mean it was the coolest not even there's nothing even in the realm of how cool this sporting event was. I'm gonna take these glasses off so I can see you guys. Truly like, I mean, I'm standing up there. I couldn't see the putt on 18. So it's all based on audio and you're just making friends with people. I mean, this old lady were crying next to each other. We made the putt in a playoff straight up. I

put my glass on crying the club. I mean, just making friends everywhere, hugging people up on chairs and securities like get off the chairs. I mean, it was scenes, Randy, absolute scenes. Everybody on the grounds was around 18. I've never seen so many people. It was unbelievable. And you know what, guys? It happened. I saw every hole, but number one, number five, and I missed nine and 10. And he did it exactly how I wanted him to do it. Like a fucking moron. Like I play golf. Like 13. He called the C-suite on 13. I mean, I don't know if I love the layup, but like how do you dump a wedge?

I was standing right there, everybody's celebrating and was like, oh my God, he just missed it right of that pin. Like, what are you doing? And then he bogeys 14 and then guys, I'm not kidding. I picked this spot like, I don't know, 15 minutes before he showed up. Right there, he picks up a couple of pine cones on 15 to throw him away. He like whiffs on throwing him.

We're standing 20 feet away. I'm standing next to this guy who's been there for two hours. He smoked two cigars. He's crunk and the ball. Here comes Rory's ball right there and we saw it up close and personal. The coolest shot of all time into 15.

I just we all thought that the club looks so lofty. We were like, oh, he's laying up. Everybody thought he was laying up. Like I'm standing right there to the left of that pine tree. And I felt like the fucking Pied Piper DJ. I'm picking up fans like, oh my God. It's like, come on, Gary, we're going down to the green.

It was unbelievable. Picked up, got poor, got poor. I mean, all the boys were streaking. We're gonna jump in the pond. You know, Bryson's dumping it in there. the about that. I'm like, Oh my God, like what window are you looking at, dude? Like don't fucking blow it. Like Bryson just hit it in the bunker. Don't do something stupid here. And he, you know, he lifted out. I heard, I didn't see it, but like the, you know, the roar was incredible on seven and then God, the shot of the 17 I'm standing back left to the green. And from what we could just see his hat and everyone's like, there's, he's got no shot from over there. And I mean, that ball almost fucking went in.

Like if it rolls out, you know, three more feet. And then I, God, I don't know what happened on 18. Just couldn't see anything. Like it was, I'm so- We're all over the line. Kind of a weird line with the wedge and just dumped in the bunker and then- Where were you on 18?

It's probably- I was behind the green. But every, you know, kind of of kill kind of rolls back over. So you just horrible viewing spot like you can't you're not there early you do not get to watch the final part. So then I was able to finagle during the playoff I finagled in with it with a nice family and I think me and maybe the grandmother I mean she she had crying together. I had a lady on my left. It was fantastic. These people were were so lovely this other lady on my left was

like faking like she was an usher. She's like down in front, please down in front. And so we got this perfect view of roses putt. And then obviously when Rory, we saw him line up the putt. And I mean, it was just like it was an emotional release for like, I don't know, 50,000 people. I don't know how many people were there. I've never seen anything like it. Perfect light, perfect day. Everybody's a little sunburned. Everybody's a little tipsy. It was just the coolest sporting event I'll ever go to.

This is it, guys. I don't know where to go from here. I really don't. That was the coolest thing I've ever like as a group, like been a part of, you know what I mean? Neil, what was the, like, take us through when he missed the pot in regulation? It was really tough TC and we're relying on just the groans.

It's like, it was kind of like never the, the, I don't know how close the pot was, but the roar never got to like, Oh, it was just, it was just kind of a groan. Like it kind of sounded like speech in the fairway on Friday. So frustrating. Oh, it kind of sounded like speech in the fairway on Friday. So frustrating, you know, just like everybody was pissed, really pissed. And people, everybody, a lot of people thought the playoff would start on 10. So they gave up their spot. And so that's how I was able to finagle a little bit better view. Fucking first timers out there.

It's serious. It was been a while since we've been a playoff. Right. Yeah, you got that answer on the podcast last night. I heard that golf last night. I said bonus golf. I mean, it's been a playoff. Right. Yeah. You got that answer on the podcast last night. I heard that one is golf last night. I said bonus golf. I mean, it was that kind of week, man. It had to be extra holes. God, we got Stiney out there just waiting for team Rose behind the 18. I mean, it just seems TC.

It was unbelievable. What do you think? Were people just like confused by team Rose? What do you mean? Done here? What are they? Oh, so all right. So I have all this audio is we're putting together this narrative pod. just like confused by team Rose. What do you mean? Done here? What are they? So all right. So I have all this audios, we're putting together this narrative pod. I'm so overwhelmed because I think,

like, it'll be up all night. It's gonna be sick. All night. I have so much stuff. But like, nobody knows what's going on, especially on that spot on 15 on the left. And so Rory's on 13t did he have a four or five stroke lead on 13T? He was up four. He was at 1,300, I think. And then it's tied up on 14T. I mean, nobody knows.

Like, this news is spreading word of mouth around, because there's not really a good scoreboard view up by 15. And you know, you hear this news about the Rose stuff. And I started doing the thing from the Patriot. Kill me before the war is over will you you know just like here comes Justin Rose team rose unbelievable he's the one that's gonna cut us no he's not we can't let that happen it was unbelievable like me and this guy smoking the stogie he was like nah no way no way rose is getting

us man no way you know he's just crunk. It was awesome. It was fucking awesome So anyway, I don't know ask me something else. I don't know where to go from here. Well Bacon bacon said this on twitter, which I really liked basically just said this is our 86 masters Which I thought was a really really good take. Yeah, it's just like Because what I think is going to be so fun about it is i've rewatched a lot of the tiger ones and they're very fun But also like he just hits the fat part of the green a lot and he makes a lot of pars and occasionally he makes birdies where you know he's gonna make birdie this is gonna be the best rewatch of any Masters ever like it's gonna it's just gonna be

absolutely like yeah I got I can't wait to rewatch I saw probably 80% of Rory's shots and that's about it I mean he played oh god how about him getting saved by the like last blade of grass on. I mean he played. Oh God. How about him getting saved by the Like last blade of grass on 11 I mean what a what a moment but that ball comes trundling down because you can't really see i'm in the grand stands And everybody just sees this ball up here. We don't know whose it is and it hits the hill and it's like oh no No, no, no. Oh my god. Is that bryson is that rory and then and then what the fuck was bryson doing? Is he going at that pin like b, he was just missing left again. Yeah, he was missing left all day.

And he was like five back at that time and had to like first fairway and hitting a while and he needed to, he needed to chip one. Yeah, he was mad. Yeah, Neil, but then Rory, he missed Bogey. But then that shot into 12, like that's when everybody had a big exhale. Everyone's like starting to celebrate, you know, so we walk, I walk up, I KVV and I had a date to meet at the phone bank on 13 after Rory teed off, not at a specific time, but at a specific moment in the round.

And right on, we were both there. We watched Rory play a three wood. I think he hit three wood off that tee. It was like, okay, he's taking the decision. Like I have no problem with that. And it seemed like he laid up to a pretty good spot. And then it was just like, I mean, truly guys, like I said to KVV, the analogy I have is he's like the best writer of a generation, but he had he just can't help typos. Like he just it's like, dude ending slur that ended up in the normal word. How do you do that? Like, you know, typically, like writers have editors and he's also like, he's like, I don't

need an editor. I just want to do it myself. Yeah, no, don't proofread this thing. I'm just gonna just send it to press baby. It's like, we were all standing there on the rope and nobody was really paying that close of attention. And I just happened to look up like as he's hitting that wedge, cause everyone is like, oh, he's up by four. He's golden.

It just fucking dumps in the creek, in the tributary race creek. What'd you think on, going back to like one and two, what'd you think on one? I didn't see one. I went because that triangle between two fairway, three green and four T is like such a good spot. So I was able to watch pretty much all, when he appeared in that bunker on two fairway, three green and four T is like such a good spot. So I was able to watch pretty much all when he appeared in that bunker on two fairway. I actually

TC, I spent the whole day with, uh, Felipe from Argentina was fantastic. So he walked up and he's like, I was like, what happened on one? Like I saw the scoreboard. He's like, uh, he made double. I'm like, how? And it was kind of like, like on three. Like, on and three. This is love for Bogey. And I was like, man, I've started so many rounds like that. Like just, yeah, how do you make six? Well, I hit it on and three and then I three putted. Like pretty simple. He was nervous on the first.

He talked a lot. Yes, I went back and watched his presser from yesterday where he was like, man, I had so much more speed going into yesterday's round. They're asking him like, you know, how are you feeling about the six? He's like, oh, I had an extra like speed going into yesterday's round. They're asking him, how are you feeling about the 66? He's like, oh, I had an extra three or four miles an hour on the driving range that I haven't had all week.

He's like, I just knew that the bunker on one, the bunker on two were gonna be no problem. And for him to leave it in that bunker today was just like, okay, well, something has changed from yesterday. We're not quite freewheeling it the way that we were. And a hanging lie. You don't see that often in these fairway bunkers.

He'd stand up on theline part of the bunker. And the wedge was not awful, but just kind of one of those like just keeps going and going and going and trickling away. And then the putt was very bad. After that to not be able to get it down for both of you. But like if that ball goes in the water on 11, that might have just been his all right, fuck. All right, I made double there. Now I'm not, I'll do whatever on 12 and I'll go try to birdie 13. Like that might've, he might've been better off

if that went in the water, honestly, truly. Yeah. But then I wonder if he goes in the water there, then I don't think Bryson goes in the water. I think Bryson plays it way out to the right, you know, like, okay, I got an opening here. Bryson had no idea where the ball was going. Yeah, I don't think it mattered by that point. He had to shot water on in Rays Creek

Fence of earlier this week. I don't know if he if Bryce doesn't drop to there. He's right in it You know cuz he then he started pressing there dropped one in there earlier Dude I just it was Going back to that putt on three that he made the downhill slider on three off was so good electric I mean the place went nuts that was one of the biggest holes yeah and then oh my god the irony hit into four was unbelievable the thing it was like a rifle crack coming out of there and just many. It was a lot five. I mean it was just People were overall writing for worry obviously but like Bryson had some loud loud fans out there, too

And he was you know early in that round it was really really really fun before he you know things went sideways for him, so Just an all-time day man. It really was it was awesome Queen I don't know if it's been said I just want to give Rory props for hitting two fantastic drives off 18T. I mean yeah position still bogeyed it in regulation but man I took to hit perfect high fades middle the fairway gap wedge in that that was big time also. And I think you know if we're next next time Roy's in this situation Do you think he's just like fuck my superpower is like hitting these?

Majestic long irons, and I'm sending it on third like I'm not doing that again I'm not trying to protect anything ever again right because we talked about that last night when he hit that six iron They're all seen in the water in two Like you know hit it in two take your draw you know worse, you're making six probably. Which is solid to your point there. Like I think I agree with his, with his strategy on 17 in regulation of like hitting the three woods, got a little bit more spin on it. Cause like, I don't think he's hitting that fairway with driver. I don't think he's doing it very well, but he didn't either. But but like having a longer long iron in I don't think necessarily hurt him with how he was hitting all the half shots and everything.

You know, that's for me ready. Thank you. crack. party. You know what ready? It's good to see you, man. We don't hang out enough anymore. You know, it's good to have you just stop. You all got a you all got a funnel at this party. Dad's going to get a little uh that's going to get a little. Randy's going to catch up. Yeah. Come on. Raise it. You're too man.

The TC and and Randy been nothing but class. You know, it's been very cool so far and I'm going to be nothing but class back. I mean, it was just like what's like as far as just like a day of golf. Uh I mean, you know, if Rory loses that it's just devastating. And for me personally, but like either way, like that was going to be like, that's an all time round, win or lose.

Well, you know what, that one goes down in history. You know what's crazy unlikely about this from how like our predictions and projections have gone for the history of this podcast. Cody, get yourself in here right now. Four of us picked Rory to win this week. Group group high fives right here. Group group celebration right here of actually getting this one right because the only time I got worried about those picks when I was like, Oh, god, everybody's on this. That could never that could not be a good sign. But

well, I gotta I gotta shout you out to it for for even even getting more specific. Well back to back. Sure. I mean Scotty and Rory so don't pat yourself on the back. You you I thought you were you did as well right? Didn't you? I did but who's who's counting but the like what I was gonna say was you declaring it like I'm picking him this one time and if it doesn't happen this week it's never happening which I was gonna ask you guys like do you think that's true if if Justin Rose makes his putt in the playoff and Rory Gaks, another short one, like that's it, right? He doesn't ever, there's no way.

For me, it would have been, it would have been truly, you know, what if we don't ever have to worry about them, brother. I need brother Marty in here talking about gratitude. Well, and how does it feel, Neil? It feels fucking awesome, Mario. I'll tell you that right now. God, man, what a day. Well, here's the question. Way too soon question. Does Roy ever win another green jacket? Yes. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I do. Let's go, man. Yeah. It kind of feels like a Phil situation. I mean, that emotion really, it really does. It's like, okay, now I know what to do. Like now I'm completely freed up. Now everyone's scared of me.

He's very dangerous again. Yeah, it's very dangerous is a good way to put it. Going into Quail Hollow, I mean, guys, the actual Grand Slam is in jeopardy, come on. Neil, I was saying that last night when I hit him on the live show last night I was saying that like if he wins today We are talking about the Grand Slam because he's going to quell hollow and he's going to port rush Little as the cut at Port Rush last time I don't care

But we need we know that's because it was the dude that we saw today. Yes, he who was like yeah Squeezing the fuck out of the steered oil the road. You think this fucking guy that almost gagged in an epic fashion gets to Port Rush to close out the grants, you think he's closing the door on that one? We slayed the dragon today. Which guys, I also, I have a minute call, I picked Rory not to win.

That's Todd's sick. Oh, that's really Todd TC. That's two in a row for you. I think that's two in a row, Xander and Rory. That's cool. Hey, I'm self-reporting it. Scottie and Roy don't win the Masters. It's not that cool.

Getting that wrong two times in a row is very cool. So I'll say he will win another green jacket, but again, I want to alert why again I was so amped on this one was I think the Scottie surgery thing was not nothing. Scottie has not been his sharpest. Oh wow, you're saying we need a possible asterisk here? No, I'm saying this was a great opportunity for it Scottie was not at his best Rom clearly not at his best, you know, Ludwig still only second time around He's obviously a predator on this golf course like C plus game

So something you probably didn't see on TV But Rom's coming up 17 as Rory and Bryson are going on teeing off on eight and I mean just of sea of people, all energy, and Ram and my guy Keane, like nobody watching him. And I was just watching Ram walk up and looking over. He was looking the whole time up the fairway, just kind of like, you know, just kind of feel like, man, you know, I'm missing out.

And it was kind of one of those moments where I was like, man, this is kind of a interesting view. Cause I was up in the grandstand on 17, watching the T-balls on eight. And it was just a really interesting snapshot of like, I would not have pictured us being here two years ago. And you know what? God, if Scott doesn't make that ravioli, I mean.

Who knows? Who knows, man? Unbelievable stuff. Butterfly effect stuff. Hope it was worth it. Yeah. Scottie is coming back. I don't know when, but it's, again,

this was a great, wonderful, wonderful window here. I am a fan of Randy. No, hold on, I got a question for Randy. Randy, what did you say or do when Rory made that putt in the playoff? Some private communication. Yeah.

Picture big. You're in your new place. Was it like a Rudy? You know, that gift, was it respect? Was it like the little kid with the Jeter hat, you know, a little hat tip? Like, did you get that was it respect with it like the little kid with the Jeter hat, you know, little hat tip like Did you? It might be like the like the mighty ducks with the with the pop collar, you know?

Yeah, no, it was Nicholson DeRose in the you know, too good there. Pick that one up. Uh, no, I it's it's not a great answer. I was just watching on the couch in our basement. My wife was actually down there who picked a Rory. She was pretty chuffed about that. But it felt like a foregone conclusion. Once Rose missed that putt, it just is what it was. And yeah, hey, that's it. Nice tournament.

And we started to get ready for the podcast. I don't have anything better than that. That's fine. I was just curious on the ride home. I was like, I wonder what Randy did. Was he like, man, I was wondering if you're like, you know what, that is pretty cool, man. Like making Brits a wow or anything like that. Coming down the stretch and regulation though,

that was pretty wild. I mean, yeah. I mean, so it sounds like, if I'm counting, I didn't see the putt on 14. It's not like Roy really didn't make a putt. No. Like Ken was the last putt he actually made. Right?

Because he missed the far putt on 11. Fine, two putt on 12, but missed the eight footer, nine footer on 13. Missed the eight footer on 14. Missed the six foot eagle putt on 15 and missed like an eight foot birdie putt on 16. Like it was, it was. And then it kicked in on 17 and missed the six foot eagle putt on 15 and missed like an eight foot birdie putt on 16. Like it was, it was. Then it kicked in on 17 and missed a six foot. Well, how long was the putt on 18 in regulation? It said five feet.

Oh, it was five feet. God, because I couldn't get any good intel. Always low, always left. Well, Neil, you're talking about. And on that one note, there was a close up of him. Like you can see the putter lifting up. And he just. Kind of the same, yeah, very Pinehurst-y.

Yeah. On that one in regulation. But it just wouldn't be able to try to left her instead. Neil, you're talking about getting information out on the golf course, which I think brings us to our Yeti coldest moment of the week. This was, we had kind of a group conversation

before we hopped on. And this was on the broadcast, but obviously you'll have some firsthand perspective, but when he made double on 13, they showed there's the epic grandstand on 18 and They have the analog, you know scoreboard the best That they showed on CBS was the best I think I've ever seen Everybody sitting there waiting waiting waiting and he goes from 13 under to, okay, they're taking it down. Okay, hold on. They're grabbing the tile. They're hanging up. Oh, 11 under. He made double on 13. And all the surrender cobras. Everybody, I mean, it's just, it was epic. And I'm curious what that's like on site.

It's honestly like the best part of the, like one of the best parts of the experience is just like you have, you're forced to talk to the people around you because you're always searching for information and the collective. You want to share stuff with people too. Yeah. And so it ebbs and flows. So like they never changed the scoreboards when somebody's putting on the green. So they wait.

So then there's always this release of energy when these guys walk off. So say you're sitting in Amen Corner, scoreboards behind 11 over the pond, the guys will walk to 12 T and as they're doing that, they'll usually change a couple of scores, including if it's the leaders, like the guys walking off the green.

And so then it's like everybody's, the murmurs start like, oh, oh, look, Scotty's making a move. We're like, Justin know, Rosie doing things, you know? And so I found it to be like part, like one of my highlights of the week was just like, always trying to find a spot to watch

where you had access to a scoreboard is like, you know, you're kind of hunting for that kind of location. But I happened to be with a run into Jamie Weir down at 13. And like, you know, he's a massive Rory guy. So it's like, Oh, my God, like, just tough, like, like, we were standing there with him when he chipped in the water. He's like, well, what and so he had just called his dad. So he had all this Intel, because he had just come from the phone bank. So he

was giving us like, Jamie, he called Jamie's dad or Roar's dad. No, he called his own dad who was in Spain on vacation. He called his dad and his dad gave him like 10 minutes of like, you know, details on like Rose is doing this, this and this. So we walked up to him. He's like, all right, here's the situation, which is kind of like a funny thing. Like people are over by the phones, like working the phones back home to get Intel on what's going on down the A-Men corner. It's like going back in time, it's incredible. Are there any radio pieces at the Masters? No, no radio.

So, yeah. Real quick, real quick, thank you to Yeti, of course, for presenting that coldest moment there. Please everybody check their full product line out at yeti.com. And also I think Rory had a safety blanket out there righti.com and like there's an opportunity out there for like a Paul Revere, you know, you get a little info, you start riding around the grounds. That's right. You can't run though, Randy. You can't. Rosie is coming. Rosie is coming. No, it filters through. What am I saying to

a fight tree? Well, I had scoops call that. And also Cody, note to you, I called in a spiel Schuster call from the front nine after. This is the big opening live from Augusta National Golf Club It's been a big opening salvo the Irishman hits puberty and drops to it the first but he gets off the mat and takes it To the big golfer the third hole he regains his one stroke lead hits an absolute Rifle shot into the fourth hole and boy. Oh boy the Irishman's coming the big golfer days in confused walking up to the fourth We'll get back to you later again. Be you'll shoot up reporting live from Augusta national golf club.

I don't know. Spiel like I talk a lot. I couldn't come up with anything. So I went with that. And he's the best I got. Neil, what's it like to do to record that in front of people, a ton of people around the phone banks. I had somebody recognize me right after I walked out and I was like, did you like we know here?

I was like, I don't know. I'm calling in some stupid God I didn't want to go scoops. I want to step on scoops his toes Well, thanks to all of our reporters on the ground this week. Huge, huge help to have some eyes and ears out there. Are we, are we, are we able to move off Rory now as we enter the 56 minute of this show? There's a lot, a lot of other stuff to talk about here. You guys tell me. I'm not, I'm not going to force the issue. It's your night. I mean, we'll pick back up with another hour on Rory, I think on the back half. I think we're going to have another guest who wants to talk a little more Rory too. I think we we will as well.

Do you want to do that now or what's this? What's the schedule here? What's the Cody's Puff? Sorry, that was me. I clicked. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, we bring him in. Of course, you guys We're a serious operation here. We had to leave somebody behind temporarily. You never leave a man behind but Temporarily he was out there picking up all the quotes and quick notes and everything he could of course this is our guy our big J when KVV comes marching in when KVV comes marching in the the the the

the the the the the the the I'll say this relief not because I was like flat out cheering for everything. I probably was but just because the fucking storylines can reset now We don't have to talk about oh, can he get it done the Masters? Can he win a Grand Slam and Roy's opening comments his press comments were guys?

I'd like to ask you a question like what are we gonna talk about next year? Which I thought was kind of a fun thing like it's just Imagine it was exhausting for him to have to do this last 10 years And now it finally can be about something else can be about whether can Roy can win seven eight majors I imagine it was exhausting for him to have to do this the last 10 years. And now it finally can be about something else. Can be about whether he can win seven, eight majors, can be about whether he can go on a run like a Phil like run late in his 30s and stuff. It's just, it was a fun day, I swear.

When I came work for you guys, I said I'm part of the reason I did it because I didn't want to miss anymore like Haley's Comets coming by, like I miss Tiger, I miss Phil. God, I'm fucking glad I was here for you guys. I said, I'm part of the reason I did it because I didn't want to miss any more like Haley's Comets coming by like a mist Tiger. I miss Phil. God, I'm fucking glad I was here for this one. As it was just really, I think I Neil and I died 1000 deaths on the back nine. Just I could not believe when he hit that ball in the water on 13. I think like, you know, we were there were people media leaving and just basically saying like, Yeah, now we're good. Like we're going to write the story. And all of a sudden, like he's down one, uh, walking up, you know, 15 fairway. I, when he hit that shot into 15, it was hard to see like, and I basically just

closed my eyes and let the crowd kind of tell me what happened. Wow. And that was an all time cool moment to just hear the, like, to have your eyes closed and hear the eruption and thought, that's glad to be close uh it just and i think porter kind of like punched me in the chest uh when i opened my eyes and just was a really cool thing and really cool just to see like you know him hug his his daughter and uh just to kind of you know have all of that come washing out of him on 18 green really really psyched that I was there for this. What, anything of note?

This is gonna surprise you, but we have talked about Roy for the last hour. But anything of note, otherwise in the press conference, any highlights from that or anything that stuck out? I just like that he kind of felt, or just an overwhelming sense of relief. He basically said there was no joy, like right away. It was just like, okay, finally, like I did this he got really teared up one one moment in the press conference

when Eamon asked about him and Harry and you know that Harry had grown up in a little tiny town and Roy told the story about you know he met Harry at the first time when he was seven years old on the putting green at Hollywood Hollywood Golf Club and what a kind of like cool thing it was for them to get to do this together and all his other majors came for JP Fitzgerald. And I just think that's kind of cool. Like whatever you feel about Harry, like your best friend from the time you're like a little kid is, you know, Harry tried to talk him off a couple shots today, like on seven and

he was like, no, I got this man. Like you almost see them never like communicate. And so for him to like share a little bit into that, I just think it's like where is the most self aware, like super famous athlete that we have. And it was interesting to hear him kind of talk about like, what it's like to be like psychoanalyzed by all of us, not just us, but like the whole world for the last 15 years, and just have those people kind of live in your head. And I just think that that's kind of a fascinating thing to have that unburdened now, to just basically be like, okay, I can finally think and talk about something else.

Unburdened by what has been. KVV, I saw that conversation on Seven from across the fairway, and that's really good insight because I mean, Roy's, it's like a Phil Bone situation. He's like pointing, and he's like, no, I got, it's up here. Like, I'm gonna,. I'm just on everybody on the other side. I don't do something stupid, man. And I don't know, did it? Because his reaction to that shot was like,

oh, God, like, the thing was caught like just one piece. Yeah. Okay. Because like, brushed on like a pine like a straw off a pine. Because we're you know, you're looking 150 yards back, and it's like, oh god, his reaction is not good. And then all of a sudden, the Rora Ruff's ball appears and lifts out. I mean, you expect that kind of shot once in a round like this.

It felt like there were three or four of those shots. The ball hanging up on 11. Just by a hair a few different times. It was an incredible day. I don't know if you guys saw the quote that just Bryson came out with, but said that he several times tried to talk to Rory during the round and Rory just would not acknowledge him, would not have conversation with him at all. He just like silenced him the entire way. Which like anybody that like gets off at that.

I like, we would celebrate the hell out of that from Tiger. He did that. Literally, he now came up to him on seven when they played together in 2019 and was like, so how the kids man, he goes, they're good and didn't say another word to him. The rest he's like, and Tony's like, okay. One other thing I saw, I wrote it down on six, six green. Rory hit it just over, he's in the fringe and then Bryson hit it like just inside of like same line So Bryson had to move his mark and there was this moment where they both went to read the putt on either side of the hole And they both in like synchronized went down into a crouch and they were both like staring at each other

On the same line. It was just like one of those moments You're like, oh my god like total face off like 20 feet away and they both stood up at the exact same time and then like circled around the hole. And I was like, and then Bryson stepped out, you know, and like, but it was kind of one of those, I was like, God, we, you know, it didn't turn out to be Bryson at the end,

but for the, I mean, pretty much full front nine, it was like a total showdown, which was awesome to watch. There's no scenario which I could have imagined after one. I was out there on one and as I walked down to, I was like, I have not seen this. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not the cool guy. I'm not

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know what? I've after he birdie birdied nine, a sunburny 10. I was like, Oh, I'm not the cooler. Like, I got his own volatility, man. That's like, oh, it was so fun. You guys, I heard you guys a little bit talking about the, you know, the town crier, like, it is really fun to hear that the news ripple throughout the course, like what what did Rose do on 17? Oh, my god, he made it. And just to to see like that stuff travel. It's so incredibly old school like on 18. No one could see shit. And

there was a probably a 12 13 year old kid who got up on his dad's shoulders. And this kid was like, All right, roses got 12 feet. And the arc arc. So this sounds like scoops. The hero to all of us and I was like, go forth and spread the good news. It was neat. KVV. I think like, you know, obviously

Phil and Rory like this, but, uh, a, it'll be a really interesting champions dinner next year. But B, I think, uh, there's a lot of synergies there. They both won their first masters at 34. They both had kind of seven top tens and a lot of close calls prior to that. And then, but, you know, where do you net out on, do you think this opens the floodgates for Rory moving forward, both in majors, but more specifically in the masters? I think so. I mean, you know, could you see him winning in other masters? Absolutely. Like I think that we've always kind of said, you know, he's going to rip off one or two more. I mean, winning majors is hard.

So to say he's like going to get to 10 now, I think that's unrealistic. Like he he burned a whole decade. Nobody would say that. I don't know, Jim. We'll see. Hopefully, I have this conversation in five years. But, man, you know, it would be impossible for him to not be on birthday like Quail Hollow.

Like how would you, everything that you get now is like house money. For this year, all the way through the Masters next year, even that. So I think we got a five major run where he's gonna be completely freed up. And I think the most interesting thing about him, and he said this in the press conference, he's like, I'm such a better golfer today than I was in 2014 and I think that's so true the most like discipline thing all week was just watching him hit these like sawed-off iron shots you know where he wasn't the only time he really ripped through the

full follow through was on seven when he had to just absolutely just smash that nine ironer as hard as he could so to see him be like super conscious of the fact like hey I got a hit at this trajectory I got to do this, I got to make sure that I don't control my spin. Man, that was not a kid in 14, you know, or certainly 11 who could do that. He just, somebody asked him, What'd you think of, if you could go back and talk to yourself in 2011? What would you say? And he was like, I don't know what I'd say. But I know that that kid is a kid who didn't know, like, who he was. He didn't know how he got there in the first place. He didn't know how he collapsed. He didn't know how to deal with it. And I had a lot of learning to do.

He didn't know anything about the world. He's like, I'd like to think that I've learned a lot in the time since. And that's what somebody he's always led on both privately and a little bit in public of like, he's kind of always had this thing of like, dude, like I'm just like a five nine kid from like a small town in Northern Ireland.

Like I'm not like, I'm not like a five nine kid from like a small town in Northern Ireland. Like I'm not like I'm not a prodigious athlete, right? I like a certain I don't think he like planned on like four major success by the age of like 15, 16, 17. And like when it came, it hit really, really hard. And I think there's just been this kind of thing in the back of his head of this whole time. Like, dude, I'm not like Tiger. Like, I'm not like Tiger. Like, I'm not like this level. And that's kind of like a Bob Rotella subconscious thing that probably worked against him over the last several decades when he got to four so fast of like, oh, dude,

I don't think I'm supposed to be this many under par. Like, I got to call the C-suite now. Like, it just starts to feel a little bit more awkward from there. The fact that I had it on 13 was like, I just can't believe 13 today But KV to your point the sawed-off shot he hit into 12 was just a mature grown up. I'm going to bed early. I'm waking up and working out every day

I'm taking the kids to school golf. I mean it was just like oh we did it like hit the dead center of the green and Two putted 12. It was kind of like, all right, we're good, man. Like we're good. And then we're going to miss the trophy. I'll see you. We're giving us every putt from here on out. It was like the vibe coming out of the grandstands. Everyone's doing this big Exodus.

That was kind of the vibe. Like, oh, we're dialed. He didn't, he didn't do a speech basically was kind of the vibe. Like, okay, then, then it's pretty much smooth sailing on the way home. Like just don't like, you know, don't be a moron. And sure enough, like just give it about 15 minutes, Randy. I know that, I know how that goes. I'll make one final point about like the presser

in the sense, I remember very vividly, it's one of my favorite quotes of all time. In LACC, after that one, I said, you know, are you kind of tired of us like psychoanalyzing you and asking you what you learned? And he said, I'd go through a hundred Sundays like this to have another chance to win a major championship. And I really think like the, all those heartbreaks and disappointments kind of

like showed up today in the sense of like, he never really having dealt with the worst of the, like the worst of the worst. Like he felt said again, like the US open was really bad. It was really hard to recover from. I think like knowing you've already, all alright, it wasn't the end of the world when that shit happened. He kind of like died three different times in this round and was like, okay, like, I'm already dead. And so, you know, the on one on 13 on 18, you know, three different chances that sort of felt like

they were thrown away in the Masters. And he still ended up Masters champion. I think that's only because he went through all the shit that he did. And there's some stuff there. It's kind of like meeting these different ghosts along the way. And I think the only thing that maybe he didn't have to do is like, like he didn't have a drive that went out of bounds or a drive that really screwed him. But otherwise, it's kind of, yeah, like I'm meeting all of these, you know, like Neil, you were talking about your ex-girlfriends either. Like if you see your ex-girlfriend, that's almost like with Rory.

Like trying to accomplish a life goal and it's like, oh, yeah, how are you? Things are good with me. I'm just like, You see, when he hit that shot, when he hit his drive on 10, I was like, ah, he's defeated another boss on the way to the final boss. There's so many bosses. How about Team Rose being the final boss? I mean, I think that's like the Kristoff is up in the booth.

Unbelievable. I think Andy Johnson made a really interesting point on the Shotgun start earlier this week. It was unrelated to this, but he was talking about how much better, they were talking about press conferences and Xander getting much more interesting and JT getting much more interesting.

And his point was like kind of two different things. Like the youth craze in golf is, uh, is fun and exciting and sugar high ish, but man golf is so much better when the stars are 32, 33, 34 years old because they've lived so much more life. They have so much more experience. And that's just a really, when you combine that with technology and venues and all these different things, I just thought he said it really, really well and it made me think about a lot of that stuff, especially as you're summing it up, you know, his press conference.

Think about like this scene of walking, like we're not good, I'm trying to envision a scenario in our careers where we're gonna see a scene like walking off that 18th green. Like we saw the tiger one, which was a comeback from, you know, it was a fifth green jacket. This was a slang of a different dragon. This was 10 years of, of angst build up. Like we're not going to have, I mean, maybe if Jordan wins a PGA 10 years from now,

after a bunch of crazy heartbreaks, that'll be for the career grand slam. But like there's nothing we're going to experience like this. Like, uh, just, uh, we're not going to see somebody, we might see somebody like on the 18th green crying coming off it, like literally laying on it. But we all watching on TV won't feel like what we felt watching that, because it was a true once in a lifetime thing. And it was like the biggest storyline and I can't believe it's over.

I can't believe it's over. And no one even asked him in the press service or shocked about this, but you know, Sarazin, Hogan, Jack, Jerry, Tiger, Rory. I mean, whoa, like to say those words out loud is kind of wild. Like that's your place in history. Welcome to the club, Roy.

Welcome to the club, Roy. Welcome, Roy. Completely grand slam it. Welcome, Roy. It's something special. Your determination during the round. Proud of you. Your to Custis. It's something special. Your determination during the round and proud of you. Our journey has shown through. I'll tell you something interesting that's happening too.

Just looking at recent major champions, there's this entire, like everybody's going nuts about all these young guys coming up, right? Nobody like in the last three or four years, like nobody's really want like nobody under the age of 26 27 has won a major it's all been these guys that are kind of like Xander Brooks You know Scotty, I guess was what 2026 but feels like he's 40 46. Yeah, we're client and finish this week Yeah, I mean right Where Lucas Glover finishes week, you know, it's different in our dreams. But like, but there's this whole youth movement of foot, but these, it's like the guys that they kind of we came up with over the last

10 years or so are buckling down and really, you know, saying, Hey, like we're, so the stage is still ours. We are not we are not relinquishing this thing. Yeah, for sure. Hey, guys, Neil and KVV, they got to get going. They got a lot of real work to do. Guys, I know you got a big project going on. It's going to come out tomorrow ish, maybe Tuesday. Tuesday. Tuesday night is what we got a lot of work to do.

Can I give you one more like the funniest moment of the day was KVV and I was left to 15 green after Bryson had hit it in the pond. And we were laughing that like, you know, maybe Bryson asked his, you know, asked in the comments, like, what if I, you know, if I get 30,000 views on this video, I'll hit it and I'll hit it in the pond. You know, like just, I don't know. It was a lot funnier when we were doing it out there, but it's just like, Hey, comment below what you'd want to see on 15.

I'll swim across the pond. If I get 10,000 likes in the next four minutes, but that's going to be on my channel. That's next week. We were, we were cracking ourselves up. Absolute glee out there. Unbelievable stuff. Guys, thanks for having me on your program. I'm going to go celebrate. We're going to go break down some audio. Very, very, very fired up and love being with you. Appreciate your spirit. All-time performance here, Neil, tonight.

All-time performance. Thank you, Spiel. Spiel. Spiel Schuster out, KVV out. Thank you guys so much. So one thing I just couldn't help but marvel at was, I mean, the final pairing, the prodigious length of both of these guys, of just like, yeah, you can lengthen 14 holes. You can move a road, you can buy a hole from another golf course

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Harry as a caddy like that that's not it. It was about hiring a best friend Rather than an experienced caddy somebody that that's not it. It was about hiring a best friend rather than an experienced caddy, somebody that can maybe separate their friendship from you, can maybe hold you a little bit more responsible, help you make more sound decisions, rather than like Rory had the attitude, and I talked about this when he made the change back in 2017 of like, I wanted to be more involved in my own decisions. I want to get my own yardages. I wanted to just like be in control and basically like do it myself. I'm paraphrasing that of course, but I found flaws in that under the highest of major championship pressure. And we've seen that come out again,

they can dunk on any of us that have criticized any of that. They got a green jacket as of now, but I wouldn't say the path to it was, was, was flawless today. And, you know, sometimes there, you know, there was a great, like it was pretty solitary out there for, well there was a good nugget that Harry said after the 72nd hole, I just saw this on Twitter that was like, hey, we would have taken this

at the beginning of the week, like a good caddy line to say, going back to the tee of a playoff. And again, it's not that Harry's incapable caddy in any way. It was just like, at times it felt like, this is where we are just kind of chucking them from the cheap seats, and we have no real way of verifying this.

But it has felt like a more veteran caddy could have helped him out of certain scenarios at times. And that's at least that's how I would, you know, kind of sum up the situation. I don't know if anybody has any. Sorry, I feel similarly of like, I don't think the criticism was ever of Perry. It was of Rory's choice and what the alternative was. And but to Rory's credit, like we said earlier, he won playing his way and he won making his own decisions. And I think, you know, that's a credit to him. Now, like, if Rory were to be sitting here right now, I would say like, all right, well, like, what about the 24 majors prior to this that you didn't win? Like, yeah, yeah, but like with Harry on, on the bag. Right. And, and I think

there's something, something to be said there. Like he ultimately he got it done and that's what matters. But I think there's different ways to skin the cat, right? There's different ways to get it done. And it just seemed like, you know, like, like there's, there's, there's plenty of shots that he didn't pull off through, through the years where like an experienced hand could have could have had him but also who knows like you know he needs somebody to pick him up on friday after he plays poorly and like harry's probably a better guy to do that than than some stranger on the bag that's what i was gonna say tc is like you can it's very easy to quantify or you know quote unquote quantify like oh i bet billy foster would have been better with that read i bet bones would have got that read i bet you know, quote unquote quantify like, Oh, I bet Billy Foster would have been better with that read. I bet bones would have got that read. I bet you know, whatever. But

when you also talk about the intangibles of travel in the world and going to get having someone to go to dinner with, having someone to go like, think about how many life changes he's gone through in the last seven, eight years, whatever it's been since he's been on the bag. It's like having some sort of rock from your childhood or some sort of kind of grounding agent has to be worth, at least the calculus to Rory seems like it is worth way more than, you know, those ad hoc kind of you should hit this club instead of that club type of moment. And like that moment today was probably 10 times more special because Harry was on the

bag and they did it together and they'd been through all those heartbreaks together. But I think also like Rory's such an emotional player and it was so nervy today and you're thinking, man, how can you get some, you know, like someone that recognizes that and can kind of guide him a little bit more like a jockey almost instead of like, hey, my horse is jittery today. Cool. We're going to go to the outside, stay away from the rail here for the first six holes. And then, you know, that, that sort of thing. Right. I think it's one of those things guys, where we use the word experienced a lot, but Harry's been a full-time professional caddy for six years now. Like he's almost eight years. Almost eight years. It was summer of 17, yeah. Yeah, you're right. So we're almost at eight years of him being a full-time professional caddy.

I think it's one thing when we say experience versus being able to separate the friendship and have it be a work environment to be able to pull Rory in for a second and be like, yo, dude, let's just take a second. I don't know if they have that. I don't think we're saying professional. I think we're saying assertive.

Correct. I think those are two different things. But we also wouldn't have this. And I'm going to show this video here. It's an amazing video from Hollywood Golf Club. The moment that the putt rolled in. And if it wasn't for Rory and Harry being together, we wouldn't have had moments like this. It's the block party.

That's the the block party. Yeah, that's the real block party. Oh God. What do you think, Randy? You think they're hamming it up? No, I mean, that's cool. That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, you know what struck me today?

Yeah. Go ahead, Randy. No, I was just kidding. the the the the the the the

the the the the Like you can't, none of these people are going to be able to buy what this weekend meant to Rory and all of his fans the world over. Like it, it, it just is wonderful from that perspective. Totally agree. I think also, I think just with, with Rory from a, I'm very curious to see like, all right, does he party like crazy over the next week and then lock back

in? How does this look? Because you know he wants to go rock up at Quail Hollow and just send it. But also is that kind of the hungover Rory, the hungover DJAF Rory that we've kind of wanted to see for a while? That almost plays into it. And heard that Rotella doesn't ever really come into majors anymore. Like he doesn't really travel all that much. He was there the entire week.

Heavily involved. So that's pretty cool. I think that's I think that's an interesting thing. Yeah. Well, and it's also, again, we've mentioned it many, many times over the last probably two to three years of just like, if you go back and watch Rory play a major in 2019 era, and now the ball speed difference is staggering. I mean, it's pretty much as staggering as the lead Bryson made. I mean, I know Bryson kind of went up to this top level and kind of started dialing it back from there,

but Rory just like easily accessing 330 plus carries is it feels very normal now. But that's like, that's not a, that's a superpower. That is what has helped elevate his game to a completely different level because it's absurd. It's absurd how far he's hitting it, how fast he's hitting it, how he can just, you know, hit it over into the trees on five and have nine iron in on that hole, and how well he played the par fives this week, and getting to those distances where he can shoot the seven iron up into the air

around a tree and hold that green. Like the driving is, that is what's included in the package of what has made Rory very different in this era. That's what makes me think, he might go run down two more in the next two years, like majors, like that would not that's not outside the realm of possibility at all. That's that's where I'm kind of at too is, you know, to your point, Ron, like I don't I don't think he's gonna go take like some massive victory lap, I feel like he's just gonna kind of exist with a little more lightness, you know, rather than kind of have this big thing hanging around his neck. Now I almost hope it almost goes from massive projection for me, but it I could see how it would almost go from, oh, shit, I hope this is the year I finally do this to,

like, oh, my God, what if I win the next three? You know, and like that that's I don't know, should be very scary. Yeah, too bad, though. He has to show up at at Harbortown next week for the signature event. He doesn't have to Set up that he set up right that was he does not have to that did not end up going through he is Taking it. I know I know That uh, he like he proposed initially

I just think that's kind of a funny full circle part of the tapestry, baby All right hour and a half more on rory and then we'll get the team Rose. I think Rose ruled man Team Rose really did trade-off you do quote gotta hand it to God. I handed to him. He won me over man credible incredible I mean He's talking like the whole week too. Like he didn't like, you know, he he was talking about how great He didn't like, you know, he he was talking about how great Yeah, it was I don't know I've never he made ten birdies today It was a fucking incredible round of golf like incredible round of golf is so steady Danny Willett adjacent in 2016 I think will it shot did he shoot 67 that day? I forget I forget what it was it was an incredible round and that's? I forget what it was. It was an incredible round.

And that's what it felt like was gonna happen as well. But he was pretty unsustainable in the early part of the week, just making a ton of putts. And the ball striking arrived today. He was absolutely stuffing the pinata. I think he's gonna root, I mean, I know he made the putt on 18. He's probably gonna look back at that 17th and that putt that he had there and probably end up regretting that one a fair amount.

But man, I didn't have time to look this up. I'm sure J Ray is all over it and I'm sure somebody's all over it. Is there another guy that lost two playoffs at the Masters? Like twice has played the Masters and nobody beat him over 72 holes and he got zero green jackets out. Was that a trivia question? Did DeMarco lose? DeMarco was only once. It was only one playoff playoff. Okay. Can you read?

Great question. Rose Rose made 24 birdies. He birdied 33% of his holes. He didn't make any Eagles. He birdied 20 like he buried 33% of his 72 holes this week at Augusta National. 72 holes this week at Augusta national. And he, I don't know, man, I really, really tough week. I got like, again, this is all the stuff I would have normally made fun of and still kind of the, the line's blurry. I get it. But TC, you of course, sent me the, uh, the golf.com, uh, recovery trailer, uh, from the video from last year that Claire Rogers did, I believe Cody was, Cody's been amped about this for a year. He's been talking about it. I know a punch, but he's got the whole like retrofitted RV.

Let's drive around with the red light bed, the pure oxygen tanks with the spin bike, the cold plunge, the warm plunge, the sauna. He's doing all of this stuff. And like, again, it's straight faced and it's just him being like, I had an abysmal back and in order to keep putting myself in positions to maybe possibly one day, maybe have a chance to win another major, this is the stuff I'm going to be doing. And I'm going to keep working my ass off, trying to just keep putting myself in these positions. And I'm not going to overdo it,

you know, by trying to win 30, you know, 30 events on the PGA tour or grinding it out from week to week like I'm I'm picking my spots and I'm gonna go hard and he's fucking finished runner up at the last two majors man and it's crazy it's crazy and you just you truly saw you gotta do gotta hand it to him you gotta you gotta hand it to him it's and what like what a career right I mean just mean, just like, I don't know, like, I that's probably the ultimate mea culpa for me of just like, shitting on Team Rose for a long, long time. And he just keeps it was never about his game. Like it was that it was It's truly like I appreciate him more knowing that he's just that locked in and Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's a Ryder Cup year, you know that that Means deeply to him, but just thinking like dude like this guy's doing it since

1990s like what was it 97 that he was that he was like the the low low amateur yeah, 98 like that's and and how how bleak it got. And then, and he's just, he's been in the top 100 in the world since 2002. That's 23 years in a row. And, and like with, with some injuries sprinkled it like, yeah. And a Hanma deal. And could have gone to live. Well, and unlike when he lost to Sergio, where I think he like totally lost his drive and Sergio ended up making birdie, but it was kind of a foregone conclusion. I mean, Rose played a hell of a playoff. That was a great drive, put the pressure on Rory,

hit a great eight iron. 100% thought he made that shot. I know. Thought that went in, yeah. He was game, massive respect. I thought after yesterday 75 he would fade He's nothing but respect. I was pure grit today I mean you're great cuz he was fighting his he was fighting off tea like all seemingly all week and You know he just golf tournament is never over after 11

You know, he just golf tournament is never over. He didn't have a par after 11. The golf tournament truly is never over. Like he was dead. He was like dead yesterday. I was dead early on today. Now he's back. He's dead again. He's back.

Like it is. This was like, this was a freaking all time. Yeah, he made birdies on the back nine today. The last par he made was on 10. Yeah, par a hole from 11 through 18. He made eight birdies in his last 12 holes. Birdies 7, 8, 7, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 18. So, yeah, it was incredible. You know, underestimate him at your own risk, DJ. That's exactly right. Yeah, I've been telling you for years. I know. Well, they made the point, like, had he won today, that's a Hall of Fame career for Justin Rose, you know, and who knows what I still think it's a career just with like the longevity

and like what he's gone up against. And you know what else was Hall of Fame, the people sitting out there on the driving range watching stay warm for the psychotic stuff. The only thing I'll say to that is like truly if you're late to 18, there's nothing to see. You can't see a damn thing. Like you're looking at the back of like 18 people's heads and that's that's you might as well be like, Oh, watch this guy warm up. I guess I do see your point.

I thought he made I thought he made the it was crazy shot in there. It's crazy. Yeah, I think. Yeah, the Hall of Fame thing is I wish in a in a way I wish it was more like baseball. I wish people cared about the Hall of Fame. It feels like it's something. Yeah, it kind of feels like one of those things. People are just like, oh, yeah, that that it where's it again? They moved it, I think. But like, like having a green jacket feels like the Hall of Fame. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. 11 PGA Tour wins the who knows? Little Fred Couples-y. Little Fred might be a little bit. Like what you're saying, who cares?

Well, laugh at it at your own peril. Like the Data Golf points list is like a formula that adds up BDEs, like weighs different events, different ways, gives majors certain weight, and Rose's 11th all time going into this. The top 10 all time are Tiger, and this is like, I think counting since 1983, I shouldn't say all time.

Okay. But Tiger, Phil, VijayJ Rory, Ernie L's, Jim, Furek, Davis loves Sergio, Greg Norman, Fred couples, Justin, roses 11th, DJ is 12th. The Nick Price, Adam Scott, Bernard Longer, pain Stuart, Nick Fowdo. That's, that's all thing. Yeah, no, probably. The I mean, just the pot putt on 18 in regulation. There's no way that wasn't going in. And honestly, it disappointed the reaction. I thought we were gonna get

some major rosy hysterics on that. There's the just the removing your hat to go shoot 66 to go run down Rory to win. And he didn't and credit to him too like he doesn't I don't, I guess I was expecting a little more emotion after a close call, like he just kind of did media and it was just like it was just any other day. And that's just a seasoned professional almost too professional. Honestly, I kind of I don't want to see somebody cry. Just, I can't imagine the emotion of losing two play.

Because this guy Chris in the comments, he's saying he's they're gonna put Frank Gore in the NFL Hall of Fame. You gotta put team Rose. Wave him in. Wave him in. He wore us out. You're in. How about your guy P?

Hole in one late, finishing solo third. Did not have that on my... Not yet. Hole in 17. Hole in one, sorry. Got it. Hole in one late. I thought he was gonna hold on 18.

Like it wouldn't have, it wasn't outside of the realm of possibility. I'll say this man, God, you wanna talk about kicking yourself, P turned a good birdie into a bogey on 13 or else he would have been in position to be in that playoff. God, I mean that's like- That's how weird that would have been.

I think that would have been more demoralizing for Rory than losing to Bryson. Totally losing to P. Whoa, you still play golf. Holy shit. Yeah, God, he did all that with obviously Eagle 17. No birdies, though. Anywhere he had some of the greasiest, greasiest short game shots I've ever seen before, like the bunker shot on 12 was insane. I mean, just, just silky silky Johnson guys.

I miss P weeks like this. I miss being in our live, Lady J all of it. How Scotty finished three shots out of a playoff. I mean, there's about- With his C minus game. Every time it comes to him. Yeah. I was like, he was doing something bad and I was like, all right, he's out of it.

Make, I was still around. Now he's out of it. He missed that one too. I missed that one too. He's probably out of it. He ends up three back, shot 69 today. That's again where I'm like, dude, thank God Rory got this one. Because I think Scotty's going to find some form. I doubt he gets back to, he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna find some for I doubt he gets back to what he did last year, but he's gonna find a form

that's better than the current one. And the golf world will remember. Remember the name. Sorry, what the stats say for for Scotty this week? Scott is far as Yeah, kind of like what like that's like, where did where did he kind of trip up this week? He was negative point one average off the T, which doesn't sound massive, but he's a great driver of the golf ball.

That is, that is not good. Uh, but only plus 0.63 on average, uh, on approach. Actually really well this week, 2.3 on a prayer. Correct. Rory actually was negative strokes, keep putting for the week. That was almost all in the back nine, I think, uh, uh, this afternoon, but and he chipped it really well, Scott. He chipped it really well and putted it really well.

So, I mean, that's a good sign for when the ball striking does inevitably come back, which it will. He is getting it in the hole pretty relatively well. But man, Rory answered the bell with iron play. I know we've done an hour plus on Rory, but. No, hold on. While we're talking about Scottie, question for the group. It's just occurring to me.

Now that Rory has not only won a major, but has his green jacket, if there is a sense of pressure on anybody, I would throw out Scottie winning a non-masters major would have to be up there. I think Jordan Spieth winning any major major although that seems pretty far off still like I think it's like it's kind of like Scotty dog it's time to win outside of Augusta there's nothing better than the night of a major when when one storyline ends it just you're up like and I'm not

trying to know you're exactly right what's the fun of being exactly right is like, yeah, we can't talk about this stuff. Brandy on that point to like, I had off the to Xander came in kind of scuffling little rusty just not a great year so far and and and the new McRib like hurt with that, you know, intracostal injury. Yeah, and finished T8. I think to your question, Randy, it's like, I think that is the next one is like, all right, where else is Scotty going to do it? Is he going to get it back? What's going on

with Scotty? And I think the other one, and it's almost like, yeah, it's almost like worst case scenarios, like nobody cares enough to talk about it. But it's like, if you do care, and if you do follow golf, and if you do want to know who the best players in the world is just like, what's up with Rom? Are we doing it? Are we not doing it? Should we care? Should we not care? You know, and that sounds extra harsh, but that's like, it's kind of how I feel. Because Rom kind of kind of did the Rory thing. Yeah, yeah. 75 in the first round and then, you know, three rounds under par after that. So yeah, if this was Rory's week right here,

we would be talking about it for 20 minutes. This has been Rory's week. I know. 40 times, you know, and that's where it's like, to your point, Randy, it's like, yeah, it could be a similar, maybe it's a similar life cycle. Who knows? It's like yeah, it could be a similar maybe it's a similar life cycle knows

Sung J T five non-competitive t5. Are we going down the leaderboard TC? Are we sure that I don't know I've been pushing so much tea over here to try to keep my voice going I gotta take a break so I don't go ahead. I was gonna say I gotta take a bathroom break I just wanted to get the Bryson you could take we could we can bring it I can add lip if you guys need to take a. Ad lib real quick. Okay, go ahead. We can talk to Big Golfer. What, what, I mean.

He shouldn't have it. He should wear this one. Two time US Open champion. I agree. Content maker. Like this was a very bad, he's never won a green jacket. It was a no show. It was a total no show.

He honestly, I mean, on one hand, I want to give him credit for like scraping and getting into that final group without his best stuff leading up to it. But let's just put a big pause on like celebrating hitting 1,000 golf balls on the range all week if you're gonna hit it really shitty in play. Like he lost almost a shot per round on average with his iron play, which is you cannot win a major that way. He lost almost a shot per round on average with his iron play, which is you cannot win a major that way. He was best in the field off the tee of guys that made the cut.

Actually, Tyrell Hatton was best off the tee of guys that made the cut. That's kind of a stunner. But he basically, it was his iron play and his putting lasted as long as it possibly could, but it just ran out of steam. And sustainability models did not like what he was up to. I mean, a T5 finish if you're zooming out is of course, a very nice finish. Nothing. He gave Rory nothing today. Well, and I thought after that start, right where he had the

lead after the second hole, I mean, it's imperative on him to at least just just make make a few pars, right? Like keep the pressure on Rory, make Rory feel like he's gotta do something. And for him to give it away on three with a bad three putt and then just a bad shot on four, it, yeah, it just wasn't, it wasn't impressive at all from Bryson,

which was disappointing me because this was the heavyweight fight we all wanted. This was the rematch from Pinehurst and we didn't get it, but thankfully it was still a hell of an afternoon. But I never would have guessed that Bryson would be as uncompetitive, I guess, as he ended up being. He got back down a little bit.

Yeah. I mean, it's again, it's a compliment when we call you out like this, right? We don't do that for the people that don't matter. It's complimented from a playing style perspective. I thought it was a weird thing from a, you know, not that, of course there were massive nerves for Bryson, I'm sure. But it also is such a different thing

than what Rory was going through, right? Where it felt like Rory's, I don't know, Rory had to be walking to that first tee a little bit like, oh my god, what if I miss another putt at Pinehurst? I'm sure that's not how Bob Rotella was talking to him about thinking, but I feel like Bryson had to come into this thing as just like,

oh my god, I get to go toe to toe in the last group of the Masters today. And it just seemed like he'd be, I don't know, seemed like he'd be more up for the fight, but maybe he was fighting the swing or who knows. There was one, one comment in there about when he missed left, I think he was talking about like, that's what I was talking about on the range. Uh, which again was like, I kind of was shitting on the range tracker a little bit, but just knowing like, dog, didn't you hit like 1500 golf balls this week is, uh,

you know, that that's just interesting context. I think to put in the notebook for events going forward, that's what, that's what freaks me out guys. Like I went to the range this week and then I played the next day. I played so bad. I was like, I'm never practicing again. This is, this is awful. I'm sure it is like he was struggling and like trying to find something is probably why we ended up in a total. It still was absurd total. And like, honestly seemed like he was trying to

win that win that battle. Did you guys hear the story that Colt told this morning about Bryson, you know, kind of restless last night struggling to wind down. So he went on a walk around the neighborhood and stumbled upon somebody, you know, Airbnb or whatever it was there people putting in the backyard for a couple minutes or a couple hours friday night i heard it was friday night and yeah the details were wrong but yeah he was playing with like a 74 degree wedge which is sick do you do you make anything of this crowd being way more pro-roary than we experienced at pinehurst last year it's a pretty where it felt like it was pro-Rory than we experienced at Pinehurst last year. It's a pretty blue blood crowd.

Where it felt like it was pro-Brizen. That makes sense for one, people wanting to be there to witness history. Bryson winning a Masters would be cool to see, but it's not historic in the sense of Roy completing the career Grand Slam as one. And two, a little bit more on the hooligan side, probably at the US Open than at Augusta. I would say accessible maybe, maybe a little more accessible to the people. And not much of a chance to kind of whip themselves

into a frenzy for that other storyline, I think. So we asked this- It's not like Bryson was going on the road and he just wasn't looking for it. Bryson-wise, I do think- I can watch Big Dog. Can I ask this question for like the four and five footers or like the five and six footers? So good. He's nails on that. It's crazy, man. It just seems like he's going to miss all of them.

He got there. Dead center. Armlock still rubs me wrong though. Should be illegal. I think so too. For sure. Well, and like, you know, ballots of Bernhard for retiring from the Masters this year. Maybe we can finally do it, you know? We asked this on the preview. We did an exercise of Will Blank win a major. I don't even remember what I said for Bryson, but I want to have that conversation again tonight to put on the record. Will Bryson win a Masters in his career?

Because I think my answer is yes, and I wanna get that in with the recency of having just watched him on this golf course. If he has a decent week with the irons, and I get it, single length off uneven lies, there's probably an issue here, but the dude figures stuff out. He goes back into the lab and solves stuff,

and the course fit is outrageous with the way he drives the golf ball and how smooth he is on the greens. Kind of made me feel like, dude, it kind of feels inevitable that he's gonna win one of these things. I feel differently. It's prestige worldwide.

He's doing the science, figuring stuff out. I feel differently than when he called it a par 67, how he played this golf course. He kind of seems to have figured out how to play this golf course. Yeah he kind of seems to have figured out how to play this golf course. Yeah. I guess I would be a touch surprised if he went, I think I don't, there's just something about him

that I never feel comfortable with him around Augusta. I do think like, Sali, I think like he's probably, he's gotta be one of the top three favorites to win at Quail Hollow. That I can get down with for sure. In the interest of being provocative, I'm going to say no, he doesn't do it. I think your case is very well reasoned, but I still think there's too many weird quirks and I just don't see it.

I just also see like, all right, you got Xander, Scotty. I mean, Spieth seems like seems to be coming. Rory, Ludwig. Lucas Glover might win next year. But I mean, you know, all right. Is it time to talk Ludwig? TC, I would ask you the same question. Yeah, I think it's time.

He competed with his, I would say B minus game today. I don't want to overstate how poorly he played the first three rounds, but just didn't quite have it. Potter kind of let him down on the stretch. 18 was obviously an anomaly with $700,000 on fire there, but I think everything kind of goes out the window when you're like, you're trying to make, he's trying to make birdie or he's trying to hold it on 18 and he hits the lip of the bunker and it's kind of, that's, that's not really representative. Uh, the three pot on 17 was his first of the week, which is really disappointing. Yeah. And even like the, I think on two today, like that was, that kind of summed up his week for me, because he was, you know, he, he drove it in the tree. He didn't drive it great this week.

He kind of drove it in the trees on two today and then punches out and he's got a easy, like a very, very comfortable wedge in his hand and just gets hung up on the back bank on two. And he did that all day on Saturday. I mean, he must have gone long on, it was like watching Neil out there. He must have gone long on six of eight or six of nine holes at one point. But it was just missing his spots by not very much, but he was still right there towards the end. So I think it's more experience in the bank. I was really, really proud of the way he putted yesterday, especially. And I thought the putt on seven was going to go down today. Clean card there until like 11. We can talk about some of

the design stuff there, but same thing both with Rory and with Ludwig down the right side of 11. But I thought that was a really disciplined play from him. Laying out if people miss that, what was the yeah, so you like, you know, there's this like, God forsaken trees down the right side. There's I will disagree with you on this take, by the way, you don't like you like you like the trees. It's better than how it was when it was just all trees over there. Now it introduces some some temptation, some variability over there.

Like Rory almost got caught in his hand in the cookie jar. Seriously. Yeah. Well, I mean, solid. Do you want to say something about, you know, shaving that bank down a little bit more similar to TPC? It was going slow enough. That was a crowning.

Yeah. No, I like, I don't know. I think they could do some things to like orient that green to make, make the angle matter a little bit more to like, all right, if you want to go up the left side, you're going to be rewarded. If you want to bail out up the right, you're going to have to either lay up way to the right or contend with these mounds and worry about running into the water. That's how it is.

Like that's literally, that's, I want that to be even more magnified. So you can take out the trees and don't have to worry about that. The right side should just be wide open It's like cool. If you want to like kick it out and hit it over there be my guest, you know The t-shot on 12 really bugged me just felt really uncommitted he had a really good second shot into 13 and And then yeah, I mean he was just you know, he kind of He was right there man. I mean he hit him. He hit an awesome shot. You know, 15. I wanted a little bit better from him

on 15 in there. He kind of he was up above that bunker. Good birdie there. And then 16. He like he played the par threes really, really well for the most part today. I thought that the shot that he hit into four today was exceptional. Didn't make the putt, made a birdie on six, which was one of the better birdies all day and then hit an absolute seed into 16. And I wish, I wish he could have given that a better run. That putt. I mean, it went long with the green on 16. Like he was on the back fringe.

That was in the back fringe. He had a 12 footer. Or like I put through the oversea. Like that was that was a tough putt. I'll say it's about Ludwig. I'm gonna count this as a top five. He finished seventh is the top five performance triple on 18 kind of throw that out. I would say top five definitely top 10s top fives top eights at Augusta, like not even in question for me for Ludwig. That just seems like standard.

When it syncs up, it's gonna, it's gonna happen, right? No, that's my, that, that I'm not willing to like say out loud yet. That's where I'm like, well, let's just, just not crown him too early here. Like, well, he's got some questions still to answer. It's his second masters got all the time in the world. Just not too early of a crowning to say like, I still Ludwig's in contention so often, it just seems like he hits the gas and goes and gets it infrequently for how often he's in contention. And that's something that I'm just we're just monitoring. He's young and we could look back

in the next 20. He could win five times 20 starts and that can you know, that can that question will be answered. But that question has not been answered just yet. And I think that's been a weird year. I think for him, it's been, you know, obviously played well at the Genesis, but I think overall, like, it doesn't seem like he's had his best stuff. And he's kind of learned how to be gritty and grind through it. He certainly didn't have his best stuff this week. So I think when he syncs it up, like, watch out, because I think he's going

to go on a sustained prolonged run. But it's also worth noting like somebody like P, like Rose, and I would definitely put Ludwig in this category of like, having an Augusta course fit is one of the great assets you can have for your career. Look at somebody just a very accomplished player, but like Justin Thomas, like never plays this tournament well, like never.

And like Ludwig shows up and he's right there immediately as a great, great sign. Yeah. That's been noodling in my brain. If you're not a good course fit at Augusta, I feel like that's almost disqualifying as being one of the best of... I don't know, it just puts you a tier below. Like, who's like the all the players in a race course? Like, Trevino? Yeah, I was gonna say who's Yeah, like Trevino is the all time kind of most out of balance with his legacy versus his his I think he had finishes. He just never won, right? He had six earning money on six majors. I mean, Ernie was close but obviously never never got it done. Yeah, it just feels like it's a course obviously that the guys see every year. It's the only major championship that they see every year and and it's I don't know the way I would equate it to like any other sport, right? Like a quarterback. Can you just throw a certain defense at a quarterback and they can't handle it? Or, you know, Hey, can you go double yolk

itch? And he does it. I don't, I don't know. It's like, if you're actually that good of a golfer, you should be able to figure out Augusta. I agree. Big, the biggest compliment I can pay Ludwig TC is purely eye test. I continue to just love his presence. Like that's what shines through. The way he carries himself is so impressive. Yeah. Yeah. I take it back on the Trevino front only finishing the top 10 twice. And 20 starts. Yeah, that's crazy. I didn't know that. He won two of every other major. Um, so yeah. Uh, I mean mean, it was a it was a different era at Augusta and probably a

little. Yeah, the race. In that time period. For sure. He's talking about that. Yeah, for sure. Johnny never won there either. Right. He never won a master's No. What was his record? What's more serve next year? I think it was so I think a I think Rory I mean Augusta's got one of the best wine sellers in the world. I think supposedly

there's a there's a bottle of Bordeaux that I think Thomas Jeff, it was Thomas Jefferson's bottle. I'm Rory. I'm grabbing that bottle. Give me Thomas. I think I think I'm grabbing that bottle. I said, give me Thomas. I think, I think, I think Eisenhower had this bottle and then all that. Give me that bottle. And we'll send you the bill for that too. I guess that's not, that's not on the house. Yeah. But honestly, dude, the bill is like, they saw you want to talk about cost averaging. You get it. You get it. What they send their Psalm out every year with, I don't know, $5, $10 million to all the first growth and premiere spots over in France and elsewhere.

And I mean, they literally just keep it pegged to inflation. It's the craziest costing I've ever seen on that wine list. So. Johnny Miller, three runners up at a okay. Okay. Yeah. I can't I can I get on the leaderboard? Yeah. You better start with with somebody at t8. Because you know, you gotta hate it to appointment of the week. Zach Johnson. I mean, dude, he minus five. I'll just salute that bad 500 party

finished six back of Rory as he won his first green jacket to 6671 on the weekend like, hell yeah, man. And I don't know where else was going to the patrons last year and told him to fuck off. That was sick. Also, I respect that he should be banned for life. The biosterity. I don't know where else is going to fit into the show other than like the way the scoring works at Augusta and I mentioned I've hinted this already of like, you're almost never out of it

like you can just I don't know how to describe this but the way the scoring works and how you can play your way back into this tournament almost when it seems like you're completely gone is like Number 85 on the list of why this is the greatest golf tournament in the world And it just it's so sick like it is awesome that one a player that can hit it that that short Can have like beat you almost beat Bryson, which is like truly incredible. He made the cut on the number Like and solid at that point to like it's almost like rally scoring or like tilt. Yeah. Like our tilt came where you can get over aggressive and get caught with your hand in the

cookie jar so fast and then you're back to square one. It's like, you know, no, like you're going to jail and you got to give up 200 bucks to come back. It's crazy as you go through this, TC, it's crazy how reliably once the cut gets made some weird stuff happens Thursday Friday some guys miss the cut whatever it's just it's so crazy the leaderboard gravity of like how the top 20 players in the world end up in the top 20 just like there were three guys in here that I was like scrolling through and was like, God, Xander T8, holy shit. Like, John Rahm, of course, Speed, of course, like it's just, it's crazy how they all just kind of eventually settle in, you know, in those those good Wikipedia

spots. Jason Day, T8. Great. Speaking of T8, 7070, 7172. You know, faded a little bit round three and four. But I think Jason Day is going to win another major and I don't know where it's going to happen. But I think he's just, he played such tidy golf this week. And I think he's looking great doing it too. The mile bond stuff. It's just freaking working, man.

Like it's kind of throughout the whole like, Hey, look at all this attention over here. And it's no, it's just like, no, I'm just gonna show up and I'm gonna look good. Ration clean and all that. So this is a night full of you gotta hand it to him. Yeah, on a lot of different fronts in that top 10. No, but he's he's playing great golf. And I think, you know, I think a place like Oakmont or Port Rush is going to suit him really well. And

Corey Connors, he's on the Jason Day front, too. I wonder if he's I don't know, he doesn't get as much run as Roy. So I feel like we don't get as many interviews and get as many questions and whatever. But like his game must have evolved in a massive way, like a massively similar way. Right. Like he was such a power player who just made somebody putt, you know, and like he has to have reinvented himself a little bit over the last decade, you know, and it's interesting to see those guys. Sorry, sorry, Connors, as you've labeled him before. God is utter was or Bori Connors.

I want to congratulate you personally on the missed one footer. I never won. I know that was that was That's how we knew it was gonna be that's how we knew it was gonna be a day today Listen, I want to give a shout out to this lady. Nancy up in Western Island that was a she keeps she keeps sending me emails really really nasty emails. She called me a fucking moron last night I was like, I don't know. I gotta hear both sides That was a sick. She keeps sending me emails, really, really nasty emails. She called me a fucking moron last night. I don't know. I got to hear both sides. I think she's like the president of the tourism board in Western. Like she's like a, you know, reputable figure up there. She's like, you're a typical American, like you're a piece of shit. All this stuff.

Like, Whoa, Nancy, I emailed her today and I was like, Nancy, easy on the Chardonnay, how we feeling today? And she's like, no, I'm a Sauvignon Blanc. It's not Chardonnay. Corey Connors did exactly, exactly what we thought Corey Connors was going to do. Play really well this week, not make any putts on the weekend and finish top 10. It was preordained. Remembering for your Masters pool next year, you know, kind of a group, a group C group D type of of of selection. It's a no brainer.

Yeah, the guy does flush it. It's very nice to watch. It's crazy though. The thing that I just kept thinking watching Corey Connors was like he he is so close but yet there is a Pacific Ocean size golf between him actually competing in the Masters.

Yeah. Like, I mean, Randy, like would you all right, if you had to pick between Corey Connors and Tommy Fleetwood, Tommy Lee, who are you? Who are you? DC. I think I think they're more similar than you might like to think. Oh, no, no. Can I tell you how hard I was laughing at the Ease

I made this one from no country for old bed the other Tommy Lee Westwood Really really made me like speaking of Tommy. Can we can we bring up the the the Frankie Fleetwood? That was awesome. I mean, I hate nobody. Oh, play it now if you're ready. Frankie Fleetwood, this is what Sky Sports earlier, so just want to make sure we're good. This next shot on the ninth T. Well, I've been doing my hardest to get it over the green. I've been practicing as hard as I can. Just not reaching it this year but I'm just trying my hardest. You've got this Frankie. You're gonna hit this green. Oh my god. Heart melter. Biggest stars in

the media training already. The facial expressions in that interview were so awesome. Just try my hottest. And then Tommy, Tommy's trying his hardest to fucking lay off. We need to play that if Tommy ducks one of the water in a key spot in the majors. Couldn't hit it over this year, but try my hottest. Well, I mean, Frankie was like Frankie had just been born. So we were in Abu Dhabi with him and you know, similar age to Freddie.

I don't know. It's Tommy's the best man. And Tommy was waiting there like you can shit on that all you want. But Tommy was waiting there. We're not ever. Rory afterwards. We're sitting on the. Tommy fans always clarify.

Holy shit. I got you. Always. Yeah, it's never about Tommy. Couldn't be much of a bigger Tommy Fleetwood fan. I hope he wins eight majors. Honestly. Speaking of flushing, Corey Collins and flusher, HEE, 68 today. He's got 284 this week, four under HEE. Exempted in the next year. Some of his had some injury and some dips in world ranking and all that stuff.

It's very, very, very, four under H-E. Exempt into next year for some of those had some injury and some dips in world ranking and all that stuff. It's very, it's gotta be nice to walk off and know you're exempt for next year. And speaking of which. Speaking of. Yeah. Except for next year. It's been a sweat into this year. Max Homa T12. Where the haters at?

I'm a dog. 12. Where the haters at? With a double on 17 too, it could have been, could have been better and came in fighting it, new caddy, all that stuff. And I mean, Max should have been probably T7. He doesn't make that double. They're late. so immensely proud of him. I think there's good things in the off thing and he's not full of shit when he says he's hitting it well. He's flushing it like he like some of the shots on the back nine today some of those irons like fearless swings of you know what like go get it. Hopefully somebody picked up on our on the ground reporting from Sunday when we first person we see was him on the ground he just walked off the ninth green and he said he missed an eight footer on nine to shoot 28 on the front hopefully somebody got a top 20 action leave in the comments if you did uh bubba t14 i think i think he got it handed

to him did not see that one coming yeah you got it handed to him Yeah. Bubba, a really interesting group at T14. Bubba, Rom, Spieth, Hatton, McCarty, Hoagie, and Morikawa. Where is the cutoff for you guys for like, it's the Masters, it's a limited field, this finish is not as impressive as it sounds because T14 is where I'd flag right here. Yeah. It's like a T30. I think you shot 68 on a pretty tough golf course today. Yeah. I, I like, I look at McCarty shout out TC. I know I gave him a drive by I think on Friday, maybe, uh, like his T14 super impressive. Some of the others,

Colin even Jordan, like it does nothing for me. That's my like Colin Colin should be embarrassed 7269 7272 like that's that like you guys shit on you know a sung J or Tommy or whatever like more call was played some of the best golf in the world this year and Just it's just it's just not there and I like I want to see more and like I want to see Colin win, Oakmont That's what I want to see. I'm gonna put my finger in his chest and I'll say I want to see you win Oakmont You're you're a premium iron player. You're the the biggest dick iron player in the world I want to see you win at Oakmont. Isn't Oakmont gonna be Bombers delight like without the trees I Think you know grow like without the trees, I think they're gonna grow.

I'm sure it'll be. But as soon as you say they're gonna grow the wrap up, that only plays into that, right? Like, I feel like Bryce in it. I know it's, yeah, that'd be three, three US opens in this decade, but I don't know, man. It doesn't. And I guess it's a commentary on speed that I I'm gonna like pat him on the head and be like Oh t14 for spieth like hell. Yeah, brother Like we're back. Yeah, same kind of thing. I mean, it's like It's great. We're missing the cut but you know, hopefully found something. He must have under on the weekend

He must have got a lot of mud balls in the fairway this week because he was minus one point three three average Strokes skin approach, which is the worst of anybody in the fairway this week because he was minus one point three three average on stroke skin approach Which is the worst of anybody in the top? God that might have been worse of anybody that made the cut like he was yeah, that's worst of anybody that made the cut Hatton I think Hatton like Do you think Hatton wins a major? No, I'm gonna say no. I think it'd be way more fun to be on the side of no

for this one. Yeah, doesn't strike me as having the temperament. Kind of feel like he had a bit of a window there for a while where it wouldn't have scared me, but I don't know if we're going in the right direction. Guys, just back on Spieth, he's got two wins in like the last seven plus years on tour. Like, what are we doing?

Yep. They called me a bad guy when I pointed that out. Can we put a bony finger in Speets chest? Like, come on dog. Speets and Hoagie the same player these days. Back on Haddon. Same players. Haddon's got one top five in 38 majors.

Six top tens in 38 majors. Oh, he's got he's only got 13 top 25 Get out. I mean that's that's that's five more than the blow pig Blow pigs want a major still Yeah, yeah, the bull thing hasn't validated his major. I what else we got? Yeah, hoagie We got a guy get a little escrow And then we've got you21 group, Matsuyama, Davis Riley, Riley Davis, Fleetwood. I know Fleetwood broke some hearts down the stretch with a bogey on 15 to kind of take him out of the

running for a top 20. That crushed a lot of top 20 accumulators. DB straight vibing was vibing pretty hard today for a little bit. I think I'm buying, I continue to buy up stock dollar cost averaging solid on DB straight vibing been on pretty good final three rounds. Hovland completely spit the bit 7373 on the weekend. Hate it. Will you? Yeah, listen, I'll apologize. Neither leg of the Scandinavian supernova play hit. Stali, any apologies to TI-83?

Absolutely not. T-27 is very hardcore for him to compete on. He did not compete on it. I apologize for nothing that was said there. He beat the likes of Sahith Tagala, Joaquin Neiman, JT, the pattern. I know you're amped that Neiman still looking for that first top 10. Yeah. Like, Hey, does Mikkelsen want to apologize? You want to come in here, dog? You want to apologize for anything? I mean, get out.

You're just not serious. Go win an open championship. Just do that. Rassman, like out. You're just not serious. Go win an open championship. Just do that. Rasmus, like Matt McNeely, T32, I was expecting a little bit better from him. Sahith continues to confound me. I'm officially worried about Sahith. Rasmus, T32, Max Grazerman, good debut from him, I would say. Harmon made the cut despite a 71-71, 77-71. Cantlay, just too many Delta commitments this week.

What else we got? You know, going back to that earlier discussion, I think Cantlay's kind of low key under the microscope too. Yeah. And that's where, Randy, I think we get to the those age old truths of like the only thing worth and worse than criticism is people just not talking about you. Exactly. You know, and I think that's where we're at with it. I think I think Randy might start buying up some of those. What was it Apollo or Blackrock that was doing the death? They were betting they were they were doing the death stuff. The death stuff.

Sure. They're both in it now were doing the death stuff. The death stuff. Sure, they're both in it now. The death stuff. You're shorting that. Yeah. Yeah, they were they're basically shorting people's like they were they were they were doing all sorts of life insurance, life insurance policies or something. Shane Lowry, 81 today after getting really, really bitchy. Yeah, I thought that was kind of fair.

I kind of rode with Shane a little bit on that you watch the whole thing I did I did yeah, I was kind of that was that was very much like, you know Like yeah, like some of you guys do need to be asking better questions. Yeah, it is Well, what happened if you missed it? He was doing media and I think he got a couple questions about Rory and he basically said like look guys I'm not gonna just sit here and answer questions about Rory for 15 minutes. Like I'm trying to win the golf tournament too, because he was still very much in it. Uh, and then, uh, you know,

a couple other questions. He basically like, he kind of quoted all the call and stuff and he was like, look, listen, I love talking to the media. It's all good. Uh, but I am thinking like, we should probably have 30 minutes because I just finished bogey bogey. I'm super mad. I probably already said something stupid and now I'm just gonna keep saying stupid things and he's like actually, you know what? I think I'm good. Thank you guys We'll see you tomorrow and then he walked away and I was like Yeah props to him for showing up. Yeah, I talked to his process

Then he did shoot 81 today. Unfortunately. Yeah, Randy couple couple couple guys that are on notice for me the blow pig. Sure, T 46. Sam Burns, as well. I think it's time for Sam Burns to kind of let's shitter get off the pot. Those are those are two guys for me that are like, all right, like you guys can feed on PGA tour setups and all that but let's let's see it in a major um proper g tz yeah yeah some g uh nico etch have already shot 84 today after 69 yesterday miss that which you know he's a he's a jacksonville guy don't want to don't want to drive by him you know who finished dfl the guys who who made the cut two guys did two two guys did yeah t for dfl Two guys did two two guys did yeah T for DFL DSFL I'm gonna guess Tom Kim. He did. Yeah 79 today Hate that hate that hate it. Hate it. Hate it. So anyway, that's that's that's it on the leaderboard I also do want to give a shout out again to Nick Dunlap for not mailing it in On Friday, that was one of the most herculean things I've seen in quite a while. Koala Carl, we'll see what happens there with the whole

girlfriend breaking up. The girlfriend was scrubbed from Dunlap's socials and all of that. She's bad news. Both of them need to stay away from her. I've missed that. Pass the two hour mark is the best part of the major spots. I'm going to whip this around. Some updates here. We did me, T.C. and Randy did a little pre tournament. 11 bets head to head of different guys. I hit seven of 11. hit seven eleven TC at six of eleven Wow, Lowry the Lowry one really flipped Lowry was up eight going on Hideki going into today and did not beat him so that one that one hurt me a little bit okay the winners draft that we did this year KVV had Roy to win the BMW championship

so he gets a point or two I forget how the system works but he gets something for that. TC had Scottie Scheffler to win this week back at the beginning. And I will say for the pro golf fantasy draft that me, On the draft, the draft I had Scottie to win. Correct, the winner's draft. Yeah, the winner's draft. I had Ludwig, I believe.

No, you picked Hovland to win this week. Because you changed it from Ludwig. He did have Ludwig, but then he changed it after the graphics were built. It picked Hovland. It didn't sound like TZ. So around Bay Hill last year, we did a, uh, a pro golf fantasy draft that we did, made up a point system, me, Neil, and TC. Uh, and you get to keep guys for six years, the next six years,

how many points you're going to get. You guys let me get Scotty, Rory, Xander and Bryson, which means I've won all five of the majors since we started that one. So, uh, so early in this. I got the horse in the back. So yeah, that wouldn't, uh, those are the, those are the updates. If you, if you left a comment on our, on our happy hour, I think it was our happy hour or it was our preview. Uh, preview is the happy hour or one of the two. If you left a comment making a bunch of picks, I said whoever gets the most picks right gets a gift card. You're gonna have to do your own research on this one. If you got like 10 out of 11 alert me to it email me something. I'll go back and flip through some of them. I'm not going to come through all of them. But if you think you won, anybody that emails in the answer of like, Yeah, I got nine out of 11 or whatever. Whoever claims the best score that gets verified is

going to win a gift card. gift. I need to shop. Yes, I just want to confirm once you tell us we will verify it that it's going to verify kind of verify. Yes, of course, I will verify it. But you got to come to the prize first. Yeah. Must be present to win. Anything you want to, you know. Anything we want to empty the chamber on anything we want to kind of. I got some parting thoughts. Yeah. DJ there were some there were some John legend appearances this week. Yeah. Everything I need to say about John legend. Russell Wilson

launched a golf brand this week. Good man golf. Um, Randy, I know, I know he's your guy. Uh, no, I don't put that, you know, Noah, Noah Khan or Khan or Khan, he, he did a rendition of, uh, Georgia, Georgia. Yeah. So I covered that in the back nine a couple of weeks ago. People were just bad as hell about that. I covered that in the back nine a couple weeks ago people were just bad as hell about that I think they brought in John Legend to kind of stabilize the Stabilize the formula a little bit with stable

Yeah Yeah, I got a couple of thoughts real quick So not to go full hamster damn here But it appears that the tracers were a little off on CBS's package. Tracers were not abundant. They were missing at some pretty key times. And are you saying they were off like on the actual illustrations? No, they're MIA.

Yeah, like they were kind of, they were missing some tracers out there, I thought. And they have a little tendency, I don't know if this is Augusta thing or CBS thing, they have a tendency to give you a really bad camera angle on some of the most key shots. Like I just need a tracer on 12 and they never do tracer on 12 And some some key moments like they they go away from the tracer, which I don't like but I will say I thought CBS captured

The drama of today 10 out of 10 like they were all over for IVF IVF calling in Ludwig iceberg. Yeah, I know I stand with that. I thought a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of

I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of uh, Trevor, like all over the putt, this putt does not break left and sure enough, Rory misses it right. Uh, they just think and the, the, like the enormity of the shot into 15 was captured really well. 17 that shot in there. It was really, really good. Uh, whole walk Rory's walk from, they didn't say a word of the whole silence. They probably could have on the Trevor front. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. I

was just gonna say on the Trevor front. Uh oh sorry go ahead. Go ahead. I was just gonna say on the Trevor front. I mean I think this is his third year doing it and seems like he's been doing it for fifteen and I hope he does it for another fifty. Like he he

is. Yeah I like Trev. The goat already at like adding value, adding perspective, uh doing the research like he's just he's awesome. Can't say. Again for a guy too who like absolutely could be playing in this tournament. Yeah. If you wanted to and he's like, nope, I like this. He's got the orthorhic feet. Of course, but I mean he

absolutely could. He uh he should wear the green jacket during the this the uh the broadcast. I think that's your call. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I had three three three parting thoughts if you'll allow it. Yeah, I was struck this week by how Augusta can deliver an experience to such a wide variety of fans like Both like within let's just take within factions of golf fans like architecture nerds and strategy nerds and Shot value nerds that I would put myself in that category. This is like 10 out of 10 week, just absolutely geek the fuck out. The golf fan that just likes it green and pretty stuff,

this is the greatest week of the year. A casual sports fan, if you're gonna watch golf, it's gonna be this one. Not even, sports fans in general, even if you're not a golf fan, you're gonna wanna flip this on and get it. Moms, grandmoms, aunts, uncles, like the family aspect tie into like the fact that just such a

bucket list like experience to go see in person one and be there. And two, just to watch on television, like I'm, it might be an obvious take, but I was just, that was a big takeaway for me of like, they literally hit like every they hit everything. That's, it's not perfect. Like there's some syrupy stuff that I think is, you know, does it kind of can rub me the wrong way at times, but like, dude, it, it, it delivers. And it's like the greatest thing we have in the golf world in terms of a

tournament, that's one don't want this to get in the way of conversation during the course of the week and enjoying it. It's completely ridiculous that they lengthen 14 of the 18th hole 18 holes moved a road bought a hole from an adjacent golf course and Roy and Bryson still blow it over bunkers and hit wedges and mid-wedges into par fours and mid irons and par fives totally lost the plot on technology. Don't know how that doesn't stick out to everybody again, I don't want to spend the whole week harping on that but

like, it's a joke. It's a complete joke that's gotten to this far and it's only going to continue to get worse. I know the rollback is coming, but like. Which shout out to Augusta for being the adult in the room on that with the USGA. I think the Augusta USGA ties are stronger than they've ever been. Like there's a green jacket on one of the USGA or like the USGA executive committee, Kim Gori, now, I don't know, I just think there's props to Augusta for being the bulwark against all the bullshit. Yeah, that's not me ripping on them

for lengthening the holes, it's like ripping the technology management over the last 25 years. And lastly, this is gonna be a hard one to get through without you guys calling me Super H on this one. It was a cool week at Augusta, so like sweaters, pants, this is not a Super H comment. I want to compliment the ladies that attended the Masters this year. Some of the classiest and greatest styles I've seen. Awesome hats, plaids, crispy sweaters, like everybody was just out there flying. It was fantastic. I just, I have, I salute you. I tip my cap to the style of the

women that were attending the Masters because it was 10 out of 10. I appreciate you sharing that. Yeah, that's great on the ground insights. Hey, a couple things because you were there in person, obviously, you got torn apart by a really bad storm. How do you think the cores played? How do you think the telecast showed off? We mentioned a couple of times them close to showing a couple angles that they weren't supposed to, but overall, what were you guys thoughts? I thought it played better than ever.

And I thought some of the tree loss was a net gain. I'd say all of it was honestly, I mean, for a tournament, a course like this that is so, uh, most of the experience on the course is about the in person fan experience. Like you do want trees out there for shade when it gets to be 85 degrees, but like other than that, they don't need the trees. Like the didn't need the tree behind 11, the trees being gone behind 15 are great.

Thinned out left of 10 is great. Like you can just see a little bit more the golf course it flows a lot better. I'm I think they should shave that entire bank left of 10. Like cool if you want to like miss 10 left, you're gonna be 70 yards down the hill, you're gonna be in the woods, you'll be back by 11 t. Yeah. No, I thought it was I thought it was great. I don't I don't care that you can see Augusta Country Club. I'm sure that they'll have that part fixed in advance of next year. But I don't think it matters that you can. It'd be a silly thing to worry about.

And I think 13 played better this year than it did last year. Like it seemed like there was more you know, I think if it, if they hadn't lengthened it, Rory's probably hitting a towering driver left and he's in it and either, you know, hitting a mindless pitch out or even being able to get there regardless of whether he's in the pine straw or not, you know, whereas I feel like, I feel like it actually brought drama back. So almost like I may have called her there of, Hey, like I, you know, I was a little bit harsh on it last year. Like it made it more one note, but I think kind of they didn't get that wind direction that made 13 and 15 into the wind, which they did get last year, which made the holes kind of dull.

Like they didn't get that severity, which like, should there be more optionality on maybe a couple holes as far as tee boxes go? Yeah, probably. It is a flaw of Augusta. Yeah. But also like, and like even, I don't know, I think, I think the coolest thing about Augusta is the fact that holes like three, you know, regardless of technology and all of that, the more technology gets out of control, the cooler three gets.

T.C., you're going to freaking love this, three, it ended up being the sixth hardest hole, but it was like the third hardest hole at one point. It averaged over par today at 350 yards. Yeah. And I think we're getting to the point too, same thing with nine, and I wish they would bring back a little bit more of that boomerang craziness to that green with the original, you know, kind of, kind of iteration there.

But like geyser, I mean, Ludwig had 78 or 80 yards in there today. Rory had, that's a terrifying little shot in there, especially with where the pin is today. I've just, hey, you got to worry about that slope. And then when the pin goes back, you got to worry about going long. It's like, I love nine. I think, I think think I think nine is is Is gonna be a grower over the next couple years as they realize kind of what they've got there Randy one big change today you being our resident funnel pin expert. What'd you think of 16? Yeah, I didn't I I didn't end up maybe Like loving the new pin as much as I thought I would when I saw the the pin sheet this morning I was glad for a little mix-up

But yeah, I guess I don't know it take it or leave it Golf course played awesome. Yeah, that's fine. I love the golf course played awesome. Honestly, I mean, it was really, really good setup. I mean, for not getting very much wind. It was not a turkey shoot out there. Yeah. If you were to nominate a hole, you think it's likely to be lengthened. I mean, they quietly lengthened some stuff almost on a year to year basis. There was no

no new teams this year, I don't think but what would come to mind except might be nine for me. I don't know if there's space to do that. But like, just like Roy bombing it over all the trouble and just laying at the bottom of the hill kind of felt like a little, little cheap but yeah, we could think on that. I mean, that's where I think that that green, you almost make that green a little bit, you know, you just make it a little bit more shallow or a little bit more narrow. And I think that gets interesting.

Yeah, but I mean, it's all your point, like, it was pretty benign conditions overall, as far as wind goes. And like, I feel like every other major we're rooting for wind, like, oh, man, if there's no wind, like we're fucked, it's gonna be a turkey shoot. And this place, you know, I think the wind coming along Thursday and Friday to kind of dry things out was good. But like, that was that was as benign as it probably could have been from a wind perspective. And it was just it was spectacular Saturday and Sunday. So I mean, it's, it's all are they doing something behind 12 to make it like a like, there's like a, there's an arm that's just

forcing balls out of the bushes there, but also just like making it really, really hard to get up and down from back there. Like, I don't know if it, but you got up enough in the bunker. You know what I'm saying? From the even harder the grass. Uh, I couldn't left. They don't, they don't let anybody, uh, pass there. I did not see anything different, different back there. Um, it didn't, didn't notice a whole, a whole lot, um, to the eye test, but. All right. We're closing in on two and a half hours. Uh, any final parting thoughts on that?

I think we're going to have to, uh, we're going to have to, uh, we're going to have to, uh, we're going to have to, uh, we're going eye test. But alright, we're closing in on two and a half hours. Any final parting thoughts here before we end up back at Rory and his legacy because I think if we keep going, we'll probably end up back there. I think good week from Adidas. I thought they the ideas guys look sharp. People were shitting on Ludwig's pleated pants, but I thought the overall fit Randy Randy, when I were talking

about that today, the overall fit was was pretty close. Nike, I thought, was just spit the bit this week. Really, really uninspired. A lot of weird Browns and just bad tailoring, I think. The fireballs continue to slap. Solly, I'll stand with. So I'll stand you I'll stand with you stand proudly on that block with you the Sergio look. And then we we got to get rid of the pimento hats. And

skip it the skip it hats. Yeah, skip it. Zalia. Shit is over man. When the tweets were really fly. I forget who said this somebody was like I'm surprised we didn't skip it off the pond on 16, that got me good. Like for the flood of emotions from 13 to 15, like that one got me really good. I don't know, great week, man.

Awesome, I mean, this is easily a record for most live viewers we've ever had during a single show. Like it almost, it probably doubles any other live major show. I think the, when Rom left for Liv, I think it was the first time we cracked 10,000 live during a single show. Like it almost probably doubles any other live major show. I think the, when Rom left for live, I think it was the first time we cracked 10,000 live people watching the show. I think I saw it creep about,

I don't know if it touched 20. But yeah, this is, I mean, this is truly like a, gosh, I mean, the chase for the Grand Slam has been going on for as long as we've been doing this. And pretty remarkable moments to cover. Rem cover remarkable to have been there this past week and guess what we got more to come because I think whatever Neil and KVV have cooking up is gonna be freaking awesome so you can expect that on Tuesday and I think it got a whole heck of a lot better based on what happened

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When's it coming? Coming. Watching Neil Hanna with the date was like, and watching their faces, they're like, really? Really? It's coming. So they're very out of respect for for mr. Palmer's you know green jackets we didn't want to drop it this week but yeah look for that look look for that this coming week if you like this content guess what we're gonna be back Wednesday we gotta have to hour honestly there's a lot to unpack for sure it's always fun to sit after after major for couple days. I'm always a little

bit jealous. Yeah. And I think that's the thing. I think Rory's been such a, I don't know, everything kind of run in parallel. And he was really important to this podcast coming up. He kind of gave us Lentz's credibility and came on and said, hey, you guys are doing cool stuff and I support you guys. And so I think we're, you know, bits aside and everything. I think we're all like, we're all always indebted to him for what he's lent to us as far as just support, professional credibility and peace of mind a little bit too. Not to mention all the entertainment, you know,

like through the years. So yeah, like head off to Rory. Awesome stuff. Like legitimately very, very, very, I don't know if, if, if, if there'll be another event in my lifetime where I'm this happy for a person, max aside, maybe that I'm actually like this happy for the actual person. Yeah. Cause guys been through a heck of a lot and, uh, and he, he's, he deserves to be, to have this level of stature in the game. And, uh, it was very human when yeah, yeah. Absolute thrill to cover and shout to Cody. And he deserves to have this level of stature in the game.

And it's been absolutely- It was a very human win. Yeah, absolute thrill to cover. And shout to Cody for, of course, running all the ones and twos for many, many, many live shows this week. Appreciate high noon standing up these live shows, whether or not Rory McIlroy is winning the major or insert who that's not as good of a storyline that I don't feel

like defending the drive by on at this exact moment. Sorry before you go to complete wrap I do have one thing DJ brought in yes Strapped announcement we're to be on the lookout for the trailer this week we'll talk about when that's actually gonna publish later on but the next major championship if people are in a hankin for more major championship golf the PGA championship in Charlotte Thursday round one live show we will be live It's the first time ever the no laying up is taking the live show on the road to a studio audience We're going to be at platform sports in

Charlotte Open to anybody. Okay, I think the doors are gonna open at four. You can come by. We're gonna be watching. In-person block party. A true in-person block party. We're gonna kick off the PGA Championship in style as we watch, who knows? Roy might put the second leg of the Grand Slam together.

Who knows? But we're gonna be there live in person. If people are in the Carolinas or traveling in, make sure you put that on the agenda. We're very excited about it and that's kind of the next big thing that we're reaching forward to on the live show side. That's gonna be awesome. Can't wait. That's gonna be fantastic. Shout out of course the Titleist as well as the Stack, Yeti, Serve Pro, The Nest, everybody. Shout out to everybody that tuned in all week. Shout out to the DJs, personal, you know, like the, the position, whoever he's seeing up in, up in Milwaukee for nursing him back to life.

Who gave me no medicine and just said, come back in two weeks if you're still coughing. Also congratulations to your brother. And your brother. Congratulations to my brother. Tom and Bryn. What a lovely ceremony. What a lovely day yesterday. Panther Mike. Yeah, everybody. Everyone and all the people of course that tune in to every single live show, listen to the podcast, leave such great reviews and keep us going. Two and a half hours into this thing, there's 14,000 people.

I'll tell you the music. Tell a friend and sincere thanks to everybody that came up and said hello on the grounds at Augusta. It seems like that happens there more than any other place and it is honestly just always a great refresher. I mean, the numbers are the numbers, but like to meet the people and talk with you guys for a little bit is, uh, is what makes it feel all that more real. So, can I, can I close it out? Please. Whoever is meant to win will win. I believe is whoever's meant to win is is meant to win and that was Tara who gave us that cart ride.

Been thinking about it all week my man. She was spot on. True words were never spoken. She could not have been more right. That's it. Thank you everyone for tuning in. We'll be back on Wednesday for happy hour. It might be just hungover hour. My party continues. Crack on. We rock.