No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 208: TIGER WOODS HAS WON THE MASTERS

Episode Date: April 14, 2019

Tiger Woods has won the 2019 Masters, and I can't believe that is a sentence that I'm typing. The guys try to come to terms with the new world and put his 15th major into context. We discuss where this puts him in pursuit of Jack's record, the guys he beat, the fashion, and all of the hilarity from the best week in golf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can Tiger Woods compete with the Justin Thomas's Jordan Speeth's Dustin Johnson's? No. Is the short answer. I've been tricked into this question a lot. Do you think he'll return his previous form? No. Do you think he stands a chance of being the Tiger Woods be once again? No.

No, no, no. Here's what's going to happen. He is not ever going to win another tournament. I don't think we'll ever see Tiger Woods win the Gulf tournaments again. He's showing up at these tournaments and pretty much knowing that he's not going to be there. The short game is gone. His health is gone. The next press release, Tiger Woods, Ship Release, should be on retiring. I have considered him now for the last five, six years of former golfer.

Your loss just to give up all your head, retire with some dignity. Tiger Woods, that we all knew he will never ever be that guy again. Get the right club. Be the right club today. That's better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most. Better than most. Expect anything different.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No-Lang Up podcast. Credit to Scratch for the audio you heard before the intro there. Tiger Woods has won the 2019 Masters. Where do we go from here? What do we do? I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do with my hands.

I have no idea. I don't know what to say. We've got what, like, four weeks till the next major? It's coming quick, actually. So we're just gonna dive right back in. I mean is it hyperbole to say I don't think it is for myself I've been thinking about this for last hour. Is that the coolest moment you've witnessed in golf? I mean yeah, I don't know what else you would even put close I would put it up there with 2008 with when he had the broken leg

That's the only time I've felt anything even close to what we felt today I would say it's the coolest moment. I've seen only time I've felt anything even close to what we felt today. I would say it's the coolest moment I've seen in sports. Yeah. Not even just golf. Big Randy, are we getting that over our skis here? No, no, it teaches on. I think, you know, I'm probably supposed to say yes,

but it affects people different ways. So, Randy's a fob before you guys. He's still guy. Exactly. So, like for me personally, 2004 is still the coolest moment in golf, but I don't want to make this about me and Phil. First masters in 14 years, Trond, do you want to give us kind of some of the things that we're going on in the world in 2005? Let's talk about where we've been. Yeah, O5. When Tiger won Pope John Paul the second

and just died, I think they were in the concave wall while Kat was winning in a garter. Yeah, the Airbus A380 made its first flight. Alex Smith was drafted later on that month number one by the 49ers. Okay. Terry Shivo thing was popping off the office premiered on NBC. Mariah Carey released Weebelong together. I believe number one on the charts was candy shop by 50 cents and let me love you by Mario. It had a long run. The supersonics were still in Seattle. Oh my God. This was two years before the first iPhone was released. That's the craziest stat that the iPhone did exist. Well, we were just reminiscing here a bit to Tron and I were actually at in Porter Hall freshman year of college in the spring watching the masters watching Tiger chip in on 16 and here we are 14 years later

Yeah, I mean who raised your hand if you had given a if you did not think this was gonna happen my hand is raised my hands raised for sure I never I don't know like I mean everybody thinks I'm like anti-tiger because I did the RIP cat that bumped into 150 times, but no, I've always like, you know, randios me a thousand bucks. We'll have to talk about that later. What does that mean? We shook on a bet a few years back, I would say five, maybe five years ago, about whether Tiger would win another major. I said he'd win at least two more. I legitimately do, like, this is not me being coy.

I do not remember this at all. I think you have locked out. I think, yeah, either I was over served or I just don't remember. I got a couple more points here in AO5. T.O. was the just played for the Eagles and the Super Bowl here in Jacksonville against the Patriots. Many people's least favorite Super Bowl. Bart Bryant won the Torch Championship that year.

Really, really cool. And then really perhaps the biggest thing to happen in No 5, Rachel Usch tell moved to Vegas to become a VIP host at Tau. So the storm was going to be exact. Wheels were in motion. I think this is the exact situation that we dreamed of, I think, or hypothetically been like, man, can you imagine what if he came back? What if he did this?

What if? But I never really fully allowed myself to actually think it would happen. I was like, dude, Twitter would break. The golf world wouldn't be able to handle it. That's actually, that's real true. I had nothing to say when it happened. I couldn't even like, muster the words. Well, I think that's a really interesting point. And I don't want to sound like a cynic, but it is really hard to,

for the reality to live up to the expectation. And it's a moment that we've talked about for so freaking long, for, you know, 11 years since the last major championship and it's so hard once it actually happens. It's like, man Okay, like that's that was it like now what now what are we just it's just this almost kind of like empty feeling It's very it's extremely weird. I feel differently. I feel like I feel like it's almost a validation that I don't have anything to say that it's It speaks for itself. It speaks for itself. Yeah, maybe that's a better way to say it like there's no sense in trying to make sense of it like it's almost a validation that I don't have anything to say. It speaks for itself. It speaks for itself. Yeah, maybe that's a better way to say it. There's no sense in trying to make sense of it because it's inherently just magical.

I'm glad it happened in Augusta. I think, versus, say, just a weird PGA championship location, or unless it was like the British Open presented by by her majesty the queen at St. Andrews Or something would be cool, but if that's not gonna happen, I think I think Augusta was the most fitting spot where it all started Really, but that's what makes it even more of them. Exactly. Like it's a dude. No, I mean you did in your defense You did predict last night on the live show that you thought Tiger was gonna close it I thought Mow and Ari was gonna do it But even then like we didn't allow ourselves to believe this as the last night.

It still felt like it was gonna be another one of those close calls. He just had that look in his eye. Yesterday when he walked off 18 green and even I think Thursday or Friday, he had a drive on 13 that just ripping draw. I was like, man, I haven't seen that from him in years. I wanna do, don't do it directly into the mic,

but people are asking, like, oh, you guys gotta go live from the kill house last few holes. I want you to do your reaction that you do whenever he hits a striped shot. Please don't do it directly in the mic, but do it. What is it? Woo!

Woo! Woo! Woo! It's like when Mark, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, hope we're kind of looking each other today. Like, dude, this is actually happening. I'm so glad that it happened the way that it did. We were talking about kind of the different scenarios and stuff. And I love, love, love the idea that after mid-Birdie on 13, he was up by two, I was like, all right, three holes.

Like, we know exactly what the plot is. He's got a hold on for three holes. Can you do it or not? And it was really cool, especially after, you know, you had seven, eight, 9, 10 guys in the mix. And then the plot became very focused very quickly. And that was just a cool way for it to happen.

Well, the take of the tiger has this effect on players when it's the final round and whatnot. Kind of a lot of people have questioned whether that still exists or what the actual math or science behind that is. But that moment where Keppga's on 17t and the fans to the left of 17t are standing up to look down at 16 green and Keppga looks over to see like where Tigers ball rolled out at The crowd hadn't even stopped cheering yet and he just like teed off was like, okay, this thing is a very very real thing

It's a place like a gust of where everything is so close in together. You can't avoid it And I can't imagine what I'm sure that this is kind of one of those classic, there was 15,000 people there today, and a hundred thousand people are gonna say they were there, but I can't imagine what it was like to actually be on the ground. So you imagine that ball would have gone in on 16. Oh my God.

I thought it looked really, really good for a long time, going down that slope. What do you think the most important shot that he hit today was? I said this on Twitter, and I'm not afraid that I probably have the most important shot of his hit today was. I said this on Twitter and I'm not afraid of the hyperbole. I have the most important shot of his entire career. It was a second shot into 15. And we watch guys hit that shot and it looks really easy.

We've all been there to Gusta and seen that shot and it is not. And that could have gone wrong. It could have gone long. It could have been able to struggle to get up and down. And it would be short. He probably loses the tournament and he hit on the green and two putted. And I thought it was two from 240 yards and that shot is not as easy. So it's guys make it look.

I got the one on 12 after Mullen are a dunked it and you know, in what four out of the six guys and those two last groups hit it in the water. And the wind seemed to be doing funky stuff up there. I thought that one was set to stage for everything to come. And really even the second shot on 11. That was like it. I'd never seen that alley before ever. And then he hit it in there. It was a two day row. Yeah, the whole weekend. Well, how rainy. What's your, what's your, what's your, what's your

bit most important shot? Yeah, I was going to say 12. I agree with that. And then making that, you know, little three and a half four foot par put to validate it, you know, if he misses that, he kind of gives back a lot of that momentum. Just seemed to free him up then for the stretch run. I don't disagree with any of those by any means, but the drive on 17 for me was, I mean, he had, it could have, it's very easy to go bogey bogey on 17 18, which he has done in the past with the lead by two in a mock turtle. Yeah.

And that drive that he had on 17 was like, dude, there was just no, there was no doubt. And that hole is tough and it can bite you, but it's a lot easier from 140 yards in the middle of the fairway. Well, I wanted to look it up. It's like everyone's like, hey, he's really driving the ball really well. He was still below field average in fairways hit.

This dad is kind of mislead around anyways, but he missed seven greens on Thursday, and then missed seven greens for the final three rounds combined. That was the thing that struck me the most, and I know it's so obvious because people say it all the time, but God, his iron plate is out of control. It's just every hole, man. He's in the right spot. He misses in the right spots.

He's pin high. It was an absolute freaking masterclass. And he missed a lot of slope, just barely missed a lot of slopes today where if the ball rolls out another three inches, he's down 15 feet closer. Right. Today was also, I don't know if, I felt like we've seen flashes of good play.

Obviously, on the torch championship at the end of last year and we've seen like little glimpses of it. Today was the most I've felt like, dude, holy shit, like he's gonna win five times this year. And this was the least fluky thing I've ever seen or since the comeback, the least fluky thing we've seen out of him.

Well, Mollinari crowned him a little bit. A little bit. He did crown him a little bit. I did not think he was gonna, he really actually hit it really poorly. I think we finally jinxed him. It was kind of, we talked about this a little bit. It was like really undeserved hate

that he was gonna get if he held him off. I would root for Molenari in a lot of situations, just not this one. The Molenari thing was weird, when you get through, he made the up and down on six from the just death spot behind the green. And it's one of those things where you're looking, like, God, this guy is so solid,

he's getting up and down from everywhere. And then when you really kind of start thinking about it, you're like, shit, he's kind of had to get up and down from everywhere. He's not like, this might not last very much longer. Scott Michaud tweeted something about like, oh, you know, Mollenari's just managing the course and everything.

Short-centered himself from like three out of the last seven holes. Like, it's weird. I'm missing both ways. But that's what made it feel like he was gonna survive. It was like, he can't even, you know, he with all these mistakes, he still, he takes so many consecutive mistakes for him to actually make a bogey and then he just made one giant one which I mean it maybe the mega bogey

which we didn't see a lot of fireworks at 12 all week I felt like and right three two groups in a row that wind really must have picked up that was that's a good point I just didn't feel like I saw any disasters anywhere there wasn't much bite to the court the course train wreck the only whole Tiger bogey'd five all four days. Yeah, which I think a lot of guys made a mess on five They might move that tea back to the other side. I gotta say I don't know. I was skeptical of five Coming into this week. I thought it was actually pretty cool. It's cool to see the the bite like kind of exactly We're saying it's cool to see that bite in the front nine and that was a hole you had to really get through

and par was a good score and all that. I think it is time to move the tee back on 13. I was anti it for a long time. What did Cat have like 160? Did they under had like 152 or something? It's time. Well DJ, you said yesterday, rather yesterday and today, like yeah, he's a 43 year old.

He's a 43 year old restaurant to her with a fused back and had a bunch of surgery and he's got 160 yards in almost iconic far five in the world. It's a tough scene at that point. Again, back to the Tiger thing, and I said this around this time last year after he came back and was at least competitive, and I'll say it again. I don't want to over-saturate it a little bit because a lot of what he's had to overcome is self-inflicted, like of the worst kind. I mean, but the embarrassing stuff he's had to put up with and has faced

the music on and come back from. I mean, not this isn't even going to be a complete history. If you want the complete history, go back to the trap draw episode from last August where we went through shot, like basically shot by shot everything he's been through since 2008, but maybe the most embarrassing cheating scandal in sports history, at least, like, it's up there. Again, he brought that on himself, and extremely costly and public divorce, back injury, back injury, surgery, surgery,

and getting his spine fused together, his newt's leaked, which again, is the thing that nobody ever really even talks about anymore. Honestly, that even feels light on the nobody ever really even talks about anymore. Honestly, that even feels light on the surgeries. It even feels like six more than that. Oh, he leaves. There's two or three knee surgeries.

There's a broken leg. Oh, this is again, this is not all encompassing. There's tag, there's his dog's double ACL surgery. Of course. Thank you for it. Taz. Yeah, shout out to Taz. The ugly DUI, the insanely embarrassing arrest video that came along with that. The chipping yips

He shot 85 memorials, or blading bunker shots into the grandstands at Scottsdale. And 18 months ago, he wasn't hitting anything longer than 60 yard pitches. Like if you saw this coming this quickly, I can't believe that. I honestly, that's only the stuff we know about. Right. That's a good point. Yeah. Shout Shout out Steini that's a really good point Wild yeah, like we're all looking at each other like what to say. It's just it's just mind-blowing like this is kind of what I'm saying It's you I don't know how you even react to mo I tweeted something earlier But dude imagine trying to write like a column tonight and trying to put this on perspective in like a thousand words Like I would just close my lap, throw my laptop and raise creek.

Like yeah, I don't know, dude. You guys saw it. Like what the fuck am I supposed to say? Which I'm very curious to see what guys actually do. They might be some colossal. This is kind of like the, this is the absolute moment for a lot of these sports riders out here. Look, look, are you gonna rise to the occasion? No, or I'm gonna have to.

I would much rather right the, right the guy that lost them. He had a one this week. Yeah, I'll take feed out today, you gonna have to have the same way up? I would much rather write the guy that lost than had it won this week. I'll take feedback today, guys. How good was the putt on nine? Oh, okay. It was disgusting. What a range of emotions, does that think it was rolling for like 20 seconds?

What a range of emotions the entire house went through? His weight the whole day. I mean, I know he left himself a few testers, but his weight the whole day was pretty. He really didn't solve. I'm trying to think of any like bad putty hit. Maybe 12 was a little short, but like, other than that, God, he was like, tap it everywhere. How about Joey Likaba? I know.

That's it. That had to be a big exhale. But it's like, here's, I knew this was going to work. I told you guys, this was going to work. When did he come on? What year? I think like 2011 or 2012. Yeah, like when it was bleak, man. I mean, I think he had that, who's that guy Brian, Brian Sump, Brian Bell, or Byron Bell?

Yeah, Byron Bell, yeah. I remember he cadded for him at the, maybe you see it, Akron. And then that was when he like shot 78, 79, or whatever. And then I think like, I became on like shortly after that. He left DJ's bag, and he waited out a lot. And that's a thing about trying to sum up the last few years in a couple minutes

of a conversation. It's like, dude, the reason why we followed every little surgery and update and like, Tiger feels good, he's feeling good. If he's coming back and all this. Was the hope that we would come to this moment and we actually got it. Well, I think even beyond that,

and this is where I kind of nut out, thinking even saying that he was gonna win another major or two, you expect it to be a burned out British open, presented by her majesty, the Queen, where he can just hit two iron stingers, you know, and not even have to pull the driver, or he can totally game manage it, like Craig Crenzel style, all around the property,

whereas like here, he won playing like vintage tiger woods golf, like absolutely bombing the ball, and playing some of the most precise iron shots you've ever seen, like he won playing the old way, which is, I don't think we, I don't think there's a single person on the planet who expected that. I can't believe we, I don't think there's a single person on the planet who expected that. I can't believe we haven't addressed

the biggest question out there from reading Twitter this week. What the hell is he chewing on? What's his mouth? A lot of gum. There's a huge week for gum, shout out to gum. Yeah, there were some oils being slugged out there. There was a lot of weird shit going on out there. I don't know. It would've been like a zeliot oil or something

that Phil was ejecting into himself. Somebody will have the scoop on the other. It's the flowering peach oil. I think Robert Garigas got suspended for flowering peach oil. Do we have any insight on any of that? I mean, is it officially the Chew and CBD gum? I would assume, I mean, I would assume there's,

if you're not Chew and CBD gum, you're gonna be using CBD oil, which is better than being all piled out on pain killers. I was shocked by talking to some people on just how deep the professional tour is in the CBD game. It's kind of wild. It's joints, it's sleeping, it's everything. I'm not, I don't really, I'm not into it, but like, you know, this isn't an advertisement.

I'm curious now. Yeah, so my mom's been sending, you know, she's like, oh, you got to try it. It's all my surgery, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She just had her hip replaced, so. Well, it was a great week for the world of golf and another great week for our friends at Callaway and Odyssey Golf, starting with Odyssey winning the putter count at Augusta National and ending with Xander Schoffley finishing T2 in his second ever Masters start.

Between Xander and Francesco, they had the leaderboard surrounded, but there was a lot of epic flash on the leaderboard this weekend and that's been a trend so far this year with the flash face technology having more wins worldwide than any other golf brand in 2019. That's by pretty wide margin actually. So visit calaway golf dot com to see exactly what clubs were in Zander and Francesco's bags and while you're there, build yourself a little personalized epic flash driver with calaway customs or stock up on Chrome soft golf balls golf season has officially begun. Let's get back to our Master's recap podcast.

Does this change your guys' thoughts or on his chances to get to 19? For sure. Absolutely, right? Were you saying no before and now saying yes? Yes, I've said no for like five years or so. But you think you will now. I don't think he will, but it's changed.

Like I don't know. I don't know. Everybody's done what everybody's looking at me. Nobody's stopped looking at me. No, I think like fundamentally to answer your question, it changes. Is the answer yes? Exactly.

And does it change my thing? Are two different questions? Does it change? Yes, it's significantly more possible. I still don't know. Three more is a lot. There are four more is a lot more. But that's how I am.

It's almost got me thinking now, where did the injuries and did some of the layoff time almost prolong his career and keep the fire burning versus if he doesn't have that. So are you a speedaway? If he doesn't have that time on the shelf or that time to really miss the game, does he just kind of burn out and lose a little bit of interest

as soon as he gets to 18 or 19 whereas now it's like Hey, what's you know? What's the number now and I and four more majors after this one seems like that's so many hell of a lot That's really really that seems like harder than getting to the 15 in the first place But I don't know I mean we'll see it's it's just look. It's gonna be fun to watch it is I could know Which not what about you you can't just ask the questions. What do you what do you think? I don't know, I mean we'll see it's just. Look, it's gonna be fun to watch. It is, I could know. Which, not to say. What about you? You can't just ask the questions.

What do you think? I now think that he can. I did not think that he could. I thought we were gonna do, even that back nine, and it's easy to look at it now that he's won, that he was like, oh yeah, at least I like coming, but it was so close.

Even with six holes to play, five holes to play, the amount of guys were making runs. Can't lay took the lead, the solo lead on 15 the port tiger? I got in there very very briefly Yeah, and like he acre he wrote and it felt like we were gonna deal with about five more of these Close calls. I mean he was close to the British He was close to the PGA and I just felt like there's just too many guys and it's you know It's it's a very common thing to say of like it's a different ball game now and all this generation of athletes that he's helped create that are now in the game that

now he's got a beat is like kind of like wow yeah he's dealing with a lot more now this is a lot harder for him to win than it was in 2005 so yes in that regard I was like do we're going to see so many of these in getting over that hurdle of winning 15 is so huge but I do think that was the biggest hurdle. But I think that's like the point, and I think this is what Tron was saying earlier too, is I kind of always pictured, if he was gonna win another one,

it was gonna be, he's hanging around the lead and then everybody kind of shits themselves and he's the last man standing. And God today was so not that. I don't know, he didn't really miss a shot. Kind of hoi-like-ish. Yeah, he just, you know, it's a burned out course and he's just figuring out

what to do with the ball on the ground and kind of banding and around. I'd be really interested to go back and read. I mean, I'll do this tonight, but go back and read some, some of the 1986 columns and gamers and stuff after Jack won, because we're there a lot of people like, like right now it's like, oh, dude, that's like the weirdest fluke thing ever.

He came back and he had one good Sunday and blah, blah. But were there people after that, were kind of like, you know what? I mean, like, is he now, is he still who he was? You know, now he's back. I don't know, it's going on. I'm curious what people thought then. That's interesting.

46 is different than 42, though, too. I mean, he's 43. He's 43? 43. It's a 43 year old restaurant, too. Right, that's my fault. Listen, I regret the error. And again, that's not true. I don not to talk to all the people woods Jupiter how cool is this gonna be for that? He can the boss. He can make it back in time for happy

Not to make it you know two sentimental as well because again a lot of a lot of way we touched on here was Self-inflicted and I certainly don't view Tiger as like this great person that I admire in any way but from a sportsman and athlete perspective I root for him and we all kind of do but like seeing him walk off the green and think about some of his quotes of like his kids have never seen him win a major they think he's the YouTube golfer and things like that. What does that even mean? Like, big randys the YouTube golfer. And to see him walk off the green, just truly excited. Not fit. I mean, he's kind of a robot in a lot of situations,

but the fist pumps were like, he was so truly excited. And to see his son run out through that little walkway where he hugged his dad 22 years ago, was kind of like, that hit me in the fields. Like, it did, it didn't hit you at all, but you don't have a heart. I'm sorry, you at all, but you don't have a heart. I'm sorry, big ranny, you don't have a heart. Did you guys cry?

No. I bet there were a lot of people crying. Oh my God, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. I have no judgment for those. No, I don't either. I didn't really look at you guys though after. I did not cry.

I did not cry. I felt that tear ducts start working. That's the only thing that happened. I got chills for sure, but no tears. Which, I... That's not, you know, trying to sound tough, I am. Yeah, good job, but hey, good job. Good job, fist bump, thank you.

Thank you, thank you. Whenever I felt a tinge of sentimentality, I just thought of all the shit from 2008. I used on the front page of the New York Post, like 45 days in a row or something. That's maybe the most impressive stat of his entire career, which I think we talked about in the journey of Tiger Pod is. He was on the front page of the New York Post more days in a row than 9-11, right? Yeah, that was a stat.

You could try taking up a better, like, a more impressive Tiger stat than that. I'm not one of the, I told you guys Tiger was going to win all this, blah, blah, this blah blah gloting but I will glow to about one thing what did I say after the players? I don't know. I said. Every one of the masters he's won has come when the players was in mark. Oh that's right. Yeah that's right you did say that. That was on the tip of my talk. There you go. There you have it. I got to I got to attribute a question. Five guys shot under par all four rounds this week. Who are they? Cat. Besides the cat. I just like to get a computer tronum.

So I've got your scumbag. Xander? No. Xander shot 73 the first day. Sandy Lyle. Brooks? No, Brooks is one over. No, Brooks is one of them.

DJ. DJ. Well, in the last two, really surprised me. Rom and Fowler. Ooh. I mean, Rom shot 6970, 71, 68, and I felt like he totally lit himself on the side of the last three days. Gosh, how good. Man, how good does Ricky look for Beth Page, me and he?

Oh, God, he's... His dial. Yeah,, he's dialed. Yeah, he is so dialed. I think that's gonna be the one for sure. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's like a duck stout, Zach John. It's really cool. He's been party to some really big moments in golf. What if Catwin's a grand slam to Ty Jack? Oh, God. He could win it. So that's kind of another thing where I'm talking to him.

I wouldn't even know how to react. If he won the US Open at Pebble, does he have good memories there or no? Would that be a sentimental win? I couldn't have pictured him doing it in the best page. Does he like that place or no? Oh my God, this is scary. You know what I mean?

It's fucking nuts. That's a lot of golf coming up in the next one. Yeah, let's see. We're gonna get a little bit of it. Yeah, let me ask you this. And it's somewhat related. How much more does Tiger have? Like, it's near the best he is.

You know, this week. Like, that was the A game, absolutely. Because I'm just trying to think in relation to like, I still think like Kebka, it just looks like he's almost that guy now expect to win every mate. That seemed like his B game this week. Yeah, it wasn't. I think that was like a B plus A minus for Tiger.

Well, that didn't feel like he made everything he looked at. I was gonna say, I think he can put better. Yeah, that's the one thing. And he's still early in his process. As far as coming back from all this stuff, you know, but it does seem like he's working really, really, really hard again, which I don't think he'd done for a while. He just seems so freaking comfortable, you know?

And like, so in control, and I know that that, I know that's kind of how it felt when he was winning a lot of majors. I just have not seen him in that kind of control and calm levels, I guess, since in that, you know, in the last 10 years, I wouldn't say. I don't like, I don't want to mut, I'm not trying to throw shade or stir the pot or like, you know, or jump into the deep end here, but like, I sincerely hope in like five years, we're not looking back at this. It's like a Lance Armstrong thing.

She said, God, Tron, you just got my attention. I'm here for that. No, I'm here for that. I'm not saying that to stir shit up. I'm saying it like, he said so many injuries and so much shit has happened to his body and his body's been so broken down. And now he's just, like, I'm not accusing him,

I'm just saying, God, I hope that's not the case. Well, I'm not saying I've just said. No, I think, I totally agree with what you're saying, but not just to be glib. It's, I think if there's one thing we've seen over and over again, if something seems too good to be true, usually it's turned out, you know, it's not true. And it's not like there haven't like, like the only reason to go to that Canadian doctor,

Dr. Galea in the past was like to get to know we're ventricanistered. I'm just saying there's these little red flags back or like the whole Ryder Cup thing when the French authorities or like the whole Ryder Cup thing when the French authorities you know, picked out three or four random guys to test during the Ryder Cup. Listen, I don't have notes prepared for this take. I'm just sorry, I don't mean to go thermonuclear here. All I'm saying is that I hope, you know, I hope in five years we're recalling this even fondlier

than we are now. Yeah, I hope it gets lost in the shuffle of like several more of these. Yeah, that's true. I guess my faith couldn't be higher than it currently is that we will see more of this. I wouldn't be surprised at all if you went on another major this year. Because, and the reason I say all that too is because he is the needle. He's making everybody so much money and they're going into negotiating their next TV contracts

and all that stuff. So it's like, cool, is there a motivation to, let's say Tiger did test positive for something, would there be a massive cover up? I don't know, probably. That's how so. Yeah, I mean, at this point, like I think if you voted on with the tour,

they'd be like, absolutely. Let's just give this roll on, you know? I have a question for Big Randy, you being more of a Phil guy, and Tiger. Is this version of Tiger easier for you to root for? Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah. And that's like, don't get me wrong in that opening.

It's very cool as a golf fan, as a fellow human. Like that emotion, that's assuming a lot. As a fellow resident of Earth. Yeah, it's so cool. The emotion on display was so genuine and It like of course it's cool and in this version of Tiger He's just so much more humanized I think and Certainly because of that easier to root for so at what point do we call him mr. Woods?

Oh, that's a great point. Listen. That Like, are we being disrespectful right now calling him Tiger? I think there could be an argue, especially, I mean, shoot. 15 majors, five green jackets. It's... Yeah, if he's not a mister, nobody's a mister. How many top tens? How many top tens away in majors is Ricky away from being Mr. Fowler?

You guys. Well, I think the mister things not completely results-based. A lot of it's in tech. Some of it's class. Yeah, some of it's pure class. Well, speaking of class, how awkward is it when Tiger goes in? Like, that was really the first time that he was in Butler Cabin since all this shit went down, right?

Oh, yeah. And after Billy Payne gets up there and lectures him, like, that was one of the most cringeworthy things that's ever happened in the history of golf. Just so pretentious. Oh, I know. Like that was one of the most cringe-worthy things that's ever happened in the history of golf. Just so pretentious. Like nothing's ever pissed me off more, or like, who are you to get up there and lecture this guy on his personal life?

We need to try to find the audio of Billy Payne's life. And then the blue screen at PGA Tour. Dude, it's the D for you dig into it. The crazier it gets. It was so bleak. Yeah, but like him sitting there in Butler cabin with the redler and it was like the whole thing he couldn't script it. Yeah, and then Victor Hove and so on.

And that Norwegian guy. What was the bleakest it got for you guys with the cat? Yeah. What was the moment that we're like dude, it's not going to get shank. Or the yips, yeah, the chipping. What was the moment that really did it? It's not gonna get shanked. The shanks. Or the yips, yeah, the chipping hip. That was really cool. When he, he, he, he, uh, he was between release patterns, he couldn't, he couldn't find it.

Right. Or when he dumped those balls at, uh, congressional. Dude, I think spring 2017, that was right after they'd come back, and he played the hero, and then he went out to Tori and got her himself again. I'm like, dude, this is gonna happen five more times. It's not, he's not gonna come back from this. the hero and he went out the Tory and got her himself again. I'm like, dude, this is going to happen five more times. It's not, he's not going to come back from this. Like, if he keeps having this surgery, what could possibly cure him?

The answer is fusion. Well, because it, it just to follow up on that, you know, it's one thing when he's hurt, you can still dream, right? You can still hurt. But when you see him playing terrible golf, that's when it was like, when he's saying that he's healthy. Yeah. That's like, this isn't he's saying that he's healthy. Yeah, that's like this isn't good. Like, that's very true. I think I think the the par three at Congressional. That was the media day. Like that.

Like if you're going to distill it down to one to one particular very specific instance. I was like the media day for the Quickenloans National. Yeah, and there's so they're hitting balls at number 10. Yeah, I think the part three over the water right next to the classic congressional But the part three is like 200 yards. They were hitting these from like 110 or something Yeah, maybe yeah right about there and it was like I think the story I heard was it was kind of like yeah We're gonna have these like first-tea kids come out and like hit balls and then I don't know if it was the tournament director or the charity director or whatever and someone was kind of like hey, talker come on like you can hit some balls right and He's kind of like dude like no, I don was kinda like, hey, like, come on, dude.

I haven't had enough, man. It's a third one in. But the best was the conspiracy theories that came from that was like, oh, he did that on purpose. People said that about everything. I said that about the bunker thing at waste management when he was like thinning, like yipping bunker shots and blading them into the grandstands

at 16 like home run balls. It was like, yeah, dude, he was doing, like you see him smile afterwards, he was like, like doing that on purpose to give those people a ball I was like I do not think so The most proudest guy in the year exactly Guys, I just want to I want to give some credit to TC here. We're about 33 minutes in here And we haven't I've been diverted to any fashion takes just yet. I honestly I can't believe it I'm so I'm, I'm.

I think he committed to the mock turtle neck this week. Can you talk to the fact you were a fucking mock turtle neck all week? We, we even talked about the fact that he wore a fucking lavender mock turtle neck yesterday. It was kind of like a mock mock though. It was smaller than the 2005 version of the turtle neck. Fairly. It was a blouse. Yeah. I thought it was a handsome blouse.

Blouses. Was it lavender or lilac? That's a great question, Randy. Be a little bit more qualified to answer that and myself. You got how bad was the fashion this week though? It was, it was, it had me questioning a lot of things. I don't think I understand. Well, you said something earlier that I thought was really interesting.

Like the gap between, the gap between what the pros on TV wear and what people actually wear to play golf maybe has never been bigger. It's a cast. Like I would never buy any almost all the shirts we saw. And I get that part of the reason they wear some of these shirts is like so you can have, you know, they probably don't wear a lot of like striped stuff like we sell in our shop at store.knowland.com. Because they want the sponsors to pop off of the shirts. I would imagine that would be most of the reason. But man, some of this stuff

would just look like all these horrible block colors and like weirdly put together patches on these shirts. And everybody is guilty. That's the thing. There's nobody's, nobody's interested here. Who was best dressed today? This week? I always think Xander looks good. It almost looks like Adam Scott's trying to throw one back to the field. He's got good takers. Like the medieval gesture gal tropants?

Yeah. What pleats in him? What is the story there? I mean, he's gone from being the best dressed guy on tour to wearing stuff that is terrifying. Well, we can't verify whether this is true or whether the exact same pants or not, but someone's living the DMs with a screenshot from the Uniqlo website that they

were selling those pleats on clearance for $5.98. It's a randy, I didn't even want to bring up with you because I know how the whole fast fashion thing really gets you pretty worked up. Thank you. I wish that apparel manufacturers wouldn't make all their guys wear the same shit in the same day. It doesn't make sense. It's like this whole uniform thing where, you know, and like the guys that weren't wearing certain stuff some day, like how Tong Lee was wearing a Dita stuff when everybody else was wearing the

Gaudi stuff and he looked great. What is the Chinese DJ? He is. He is. He is. DJ always looks good. Alvaro or Teeze was really well dressed this week. Capca looked like.

Capca look good. Yeah, look like he'd been working out. Besides that hat. He's that you guys. That was bad. Hats. Thursday and Friday. He was committed to it.

He doubled down on that one. So one more fashion thing was Phil going all black on Saturday. We're in the aggressive colors, which is a nomage, to among what I would say, I tweeted something about my favorite masters quotes of all time, and I really forgot to include studies have shown that NFL teams get more penalties when they wear all black. So that's why I'll be wearing all black on Sunday, which is Phil Nicholson, my aggressive

colors. The aggressive colors, it was the absolute best. He revealed that in among the great masters highlights of our time, that weird video that he tweeted, driving up Magnolia Lane. Talk to me, try to talk to me about seeing that for the first time. Like, what a lunatic. What a cigarette word.

It's a great word. And he detonated, there was like nine different layers to that. He detonated, he shouted out Dave Pell's. It was like a minute 20. And then he went out and got dusted by My favorite part is he timed it up with like pulling into the parking spot like I don't know how many times It's a little around Magnolia Lane to get that to happen my Absolute maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen on Twitter,

favorite golf player I've ever seen was somebody did, saw a tweet, I retweeted it, it was, Phil Poyn, it's like, all right, pulling in, nothing better, pulling in Magnolia, waiting on the weekend, and then it cuts to Michael Scott, hitting Meredith with a car from the office, and the office, I've never laughed so hard. That was great.

It's something on Twitter, I'm very upset I didn't think of that myself. But last thing I'm fashion, if anybody wants to take on a project the rest of the year, I'm convinced Mikkelsen places worse when he dresses in that all blue blue area outfit. Yeah, so if somebody wants to do some research. The crazy's been beating this horse.

And Track is scoring average by what colors he wears. I guarantee you that all Navy outfit is like, that was his second round outfit. This week in shots 73, it was his worst round. Makes you think. Yeah, it's, is Kat gonna have to add a belt loop? Well, dude, have we confirmed that there's 14 belt loops?

It's more belt loops than, I thought was humanly possible. So it's the only possible theory that he has 14 belt loops in the future. And the explanation that a bunch of people have said is that he gets like size 38 pants and then get some taken in at the waist because he likes the way the actual thighs fit better, but he wants the waist taken in. So that's why he needs so many belt loops.

Can we just have fun with the 14 belt loop theory? So that kind of makes sense. But yeah. Every time I see how many belt loops he has in shock, it's so gratuitous. That would make sense as to why he used to wear the big, he used to have the big like goucho-looking pants back in the day. But everybody did.

That was kind of on brand for everybody. I also want to give a quick shout out to Zach Johnson, who created one of the great memories of my master's watching careers Well, I understand I didn't get to watch it with you guys But I understand it was quite an experience. I was the highlight of the week I think it's a John Jeep leapt off the couch It was absolutely jumped up It was the practice swing if you didn't see it

He was trying to take a practice swing on 13 among the most iconic T-boxes in in golf trying to take a practice swing Hits his ball and accidentally bangs it off the little, deep branch, T-Marker, says, oh shit. And then turns to his partner and says, what happens now? There was like a silence in the room right after it happened, going on like a,

oh, yes! I just had to say, I mean, I thought it was a real swing at first, too. What even made it better, you know? Somebody slid in the DMs and said he did it again today on Sunday and it was on the A-man corner. I couldn't get it. I would have imagined that would have been a replay.

But if anybody has that footage up there, please send it our way. Can we even talk about Friday? We didn't talk about the security guard yet. See how much stuff happened this week? I mean, that guy, he was a police officer. He wasn't just a security guard. He was a police officer. You're good looking out. Thank you for respecting all our you know nobody respects the troops and police officers weren't T.C.

Blue lives matter. Friday was absolutely absurd. I mean we had that we had Abby Bonrat falling over trying to hook a ball around a tree. We had the ZJ. Which I think that was underrated. Yeah, that was. We had the ROMSank, which got scrubbed from the telecast for some reason. Yeah, and then Ian Baker Finch tries to say, oh, that wouldn't hit a tree. It's about to clump to tree. From the middle of the fairway.

Oh yeah, this hit a tree. He's under this limb now. It was like today on 15 when Mullenari hit it in the wild. One of the best wedge players in the world hits it in the water from You know chunks one in the water from a hundred yards out He's like oh like like like 15 seconds later. Oh, I think that man hit the tree like no shit guys One of the best wedge players in the world came with 60 yard short that ball was to hit something the ball was in the air And we all like that hit the tree because the crowd reactors like that had to hear the crowd The ball was in the air and we yelled, like that hit the tree, because the crowd reacted. It was like, do that head to it. If the tree could hear the crowd.

And it boom right in the water, I think that hit the tree. What do you think of Fowdo and his astrology takes there on the 17th green? I couldn't follow it. I missed that one. The way that Vern set everything up on 16, I think is to be applauded.

I mean Vern is one of the masters of that. And then you get, you know, well a whole later and you got, Fowdo just absolutely vomiting all over the telecast, just he won't shut up. It's amazing, Vern, like after Tiger hit the shot, he calls it and then Tiger makes the birdie, the crowd goes nuts, he doesn't say anything

until Tigers off the green. It was the rare moment when a broadcaster lets you feel like you're actually there in the moment and then he just says, I feel compelled to say, oh my goodness. That was really good. And Fern had a few little weeks. Yeah, totally redeemed himself. And that is a big moment.

But Fern's earned the right to having a few weeks to, like he doesn't, he's basically retired every other week except for this one. He doesn't do college football anymore, but he still does this tournament and he'll have to drag him out of the tower, which is his right. I think he's an absolute legend. I got to say I do want to give a quick up to to master's.com. The tracker thing, I think, is well documented how phenomenally awesome that was. Nothing but good things to say. There were a lot of people who were saying that the ROM shank got scrubbed from the like watch every shot. Not true. It's on here. They showed it. When they say show every shot, they show every shot, which is pretty cool. On themasters.com.

On themasters.com. Yeah. The telecast didn't, do you think it would compel the show as it was? Which kind of makes it even worse at the telecast. Was that a telecast? Was that a telecast? The cast take from you? No, thosemasters.com take. I'm retired. Okay.

I just want to make sure. I have another telecast take. It's not related to the masters though. The PGA tour, like every time I got on Twitter this week, the PGA tour, it would pop up. PGA tour Latino America was showing the Manuelo, cleanness. It was broadcast live on Periscope the entire week, the PGA tour Latino America event.

But we can't televised the last hour of a web tour event. Look into that. Yeah. I'm just bringing to his attention, the statement of fact. But on that note, and I think we were all kind of stunned by, first of all, the casual way in which it was rolled out, that, oh yeah, if you want to see every shot from the masters, like it's online, it does suck that some of the stuff, it's not live. Obviously, it takes a production to do all that.

But for the people that missed Thursday, Friday, like if you missed and you are a big Roy McRoy fan, you can go home and literally press a button and it plays every shot from his round. It was amazing. It's absurd and has never existed anywhere. And it's so much cooler. I was catching up on, I think it was Friday,

catching up on like Bryson's round. After Bryson played well on Thursday, you wanna see what he's doing. And it's just, it's so much different than seeing ShotTracker like, oh gosh, did he really miss the green? Like, you know, 15 yard short on number one, that's crazy.

And then you click in the video and it's like, no, he actually hit right next to the pin and sucked it off the green 30 yards. It just adds all this crazy context that ShotTracker just doesn't have. That being said, I felt like the feature group choosing for the first couple of days still could use a bit of work. Some flexibility there would be nice.

And it's still, I mean yesterday, come on over here and Saturday afternoon and you gotta wait till 3 p.m. for the real telecast still come on. It kind of jolt you back to some suspended reality a little bit where, hey, we have all this technology and our fingertips and all this stuff, but like one of the days we couldn't watch Cat.

Yeah. Which is messed up a little bit. Terrifyingly bad. Shout out to, I mean Augusta. It's funny to hear like players talk about listen to Jeff Ogleville on the Friday egg podcast. Just how much praise he had for how they get everything right, how they get the pin positions right,

and how they're not like in freaky spots, and how the USDA just doesn't like have the same, he's not to pick on the USDA, but they just don't have the same experience in like setting stuff up. These guys do go in the same course every, the decision to go off two T's on Sunday morning, like that had to be a bad business decision for them, but they had the foresight to say, all right, let's move everything around. They were way ahead of schedule. We'd heard Saturday morning, this was going to happen. The amount of stuff that has to go on behind the scenes to move all your programming to

show a live sporting event. I have no idea what that's like, but that is to be commended. And there were people like, damn it, it's going to be tape-lay. It's like, no, it's not. Not for Augusta. They would not have screwed that up in a million years. Can you imagine if Tiger winning the Masters was on tape-de-lay? It's disgusting.

Oh my gosh. That would have been the content supernova. Guys, what happened to Joe Ford? I don't know. You know Joe Ford disappears from public view and the amount of commercials goes through the roof. That's true. I don't think that's the coincidence.

I hope he's doing well. There did seem to be a solidly high amount of commercials. Which I know they got to pay for all this technology and all this stuff So no, it's a trade-off. We're not you know, we're not totally blind to that right But they've stopped even saying with limited commercial and eruption thanks to our partners anymore, so a Proud Apartment played says capital. They got a buy all that land too. Yeah, true They kind of move some tea box. We also got to find the money for these to move these tea boxes back

Who are you guys most disappointed in? I think Roy's the answer there, right? I'm not gonna think he was gonna win, but Yeah, yeah, I think the easy answer is Roy I'm disappointed in speed like I know it's hard to be disappointing in him because he just so clearly didn't have it You know, it's hard to be disappointing in him because he just so clearly didn't have it. I'm still disappointed that we didn't get to, it's more disappointed that we didn't get to watch him. Because I love watching him and I got to, I love what he's in the mix and he kind of kept flirting with it and just couldn't quite get there. It was kind of a microcosm of his struggles. It was like, we saw some plashes of brilliance, like there it is, but just making too many mistakes and pin the ball in places you can't and few short missed putts.

And he started the week missing a two footer on one. Which this is another cool aspect of that track every shot thing too because we've long mentioned down here that the TV producers are the keepers of the takes and every time they showed us Jordan's beef he was missing a short putt. So going back and watching, again like tonight you can go back and watch all 72 holes of his if you want and really see where he's struggled and where he missed and all that stuff. So that's a pretty valuable thing to be able to do. I think Bryson's my choice there.

He shot 66 in the first round and then totally spit the bit. 75, 73, just didn't, it was just weird, you know. Because I mean, he looked at it figured out completely on Thursday. Yeah. That was the layup tweet was the terminal velocity of his fall down the down the leaderboard, which Rory and Speedh ended up tied for the week. They both shot over par in the first round and then both both of them finished with low rounds or under par rounds in the last three.

That's just noteworthy, I think. I mean, what do we think about Rory's chances of winning a Masters? He'll win one. I believe he'll win one. How old is he? 30. He's 29. He'll take 30 this I believe he'll win one. How old is he? 30. He's 29, I'll tell you the share.

Yeah. Shady's got another 20 years. It will like 10 years of his prime basically. He's in good shape. Yeah, I think he'll be fine. Shout out to Matti Fitzpatrick, 78, 67, 68, 70. Yeah. Randy, who are you most disappointed in?

Oh, Bryson. Yeah. From a personal standpoint, I was hoping he'd be in contention in the weekend. I think it's always interesting. Um, if we're giving shout out, so I thought Justin Harding would go away, um, and he's strung together a solid weekend. I believe he gets an invite next year. He made a pot on 18 to finish T12 back. Yeah, so that's commendable How about making a huge run of it at the end? He got within one of the lead Yeah, I was kind of your thing on the par 5s though is it just creates this like inflated sense of who's really the mix

That's what and that's what you know It just adds that other layer of pressure and that's kind of why I was saying about Tiger shot into 15 was like Yeah, it looks easy because like they'll show the highlights of the guys hitting the close and making the eagles and making the birdies to climb up the leaderboard. There's also a lot of guys that played it before that hit in the water and don't make those. And you just kind of get trained to expect the guy to execute that shot perfectly and it doesn't always happen that way, but he did.

He had to hit that right exactly where he aimed it. I know we don't want to, but we need to give a reluctant shout out to Jason Day. 67 on Sunday. He played well all week, for sure. Tron seems to have come down to something. Tron's got some snow. I've been raising my hand for 30 seconds before they even brought that up, so it was completely unrelated. Tron, he waxed poetic, I've got Jason Day for us a little. No, he played great. Well, that's about enough time we have. Yeah, no, I mean, he played great. I think that's never been the issue, right?

Enough said. He certainly made it dramatic. But I think that is kind of the point, though, is he's playing totally fine golf, and the dramatic injury almost, I don't know how many majors this is that this is happening. I feel like he's got to be for him to do what he's doing and play it up in the media and do all this like I don't doubt that he's hurt but just stop talking about it and just go to your thing. His wife said suck it up. That was the PGA tour post like suck it up. And then you

got guys talking about you know oh he's you know he's a father and all these guys are fathers. Like who are you sub tweeting he's a father and all these guys are fathers. Like, who are you sub-tweeting that's a shitty father? Very good point. It is, I mean, it's amazing that like, it's part of it. You do get the most hot and bother by it, obviously, but every time it pops up, I'm like, dude, how is this the only guy that this always happens to? I don't understand this. I really don't. I mean, there's guys who be aware of this budding culture

of people that get pissed off every time he does this now. So I would think he would steer the opposite direction, even if your hurt don't say anything about it and don't draw any attention to it. And I know the other play, like, because they reach out, the other players are like, do keep fighting, they could fight. Like this, like we are rolling our eyes every time he does this

because there's other guys that have the exact same injuries and are, most of the guys out there are hurt. They're dealing with some sort of ailment or another. Don't ask me if I'm hurt dog. Exactly. Of course I'm hurt. Shout out to both DJ and I for I mostly to DJ for almost getting the back-to-back DJ Pym Memorial award for yeah. Every year on the Masters preview, we are the both last two years, we pick somebody who's not going to win last year DJ selected Patrick Reed. This year he selected Dustin Johnson who finished one shot behind time.

Well, I want to be clear that the whole goal of this award is to try to fly as close to the sun as you can. And so honestly, to pick the guy who's the runner up is, I mean, I never got this far in my dreams, you know. For there to be five guys who have won majors within two shots of Tiger at the finish, the tournament's the best. It's crazy. The tournament is truly the best.

It is so much fun to watch those guys execute on that back nine especially. I know it's good to start to live in. And I know it's a limited field event. Tiger has a wonderful field event in Tiger has a one a full field event yeah in his return so we have voice mail to that effect we'll get to those we can we talk about DJ of course maybe it was quietest runner up that's what I was just getting ready to say it was so quiet 68 70 70 68 and he made only keeper of the takes he made only

five bogies the whole week which in CBS's defense there was so much going on today And they have to give Tiger the appropriate amount of attention and It was it they did get kind of screwed a little bit like Bubba going off at the end kind of put them in a tough spot Can't lay coming out of nowhere like I don't expect you to show me If we you know it's kind of one of those things where it's, if can't lay six back and they show him making a birdie, we're like, well, how the hell they show in this guy for? And then, you know, when he makes the run, it's like, whoa, I don't even know

he was in the tournament. But the flip side of that is, we got T.K. Kelly who's down playing in the Latino America, I've had down in Argentina, talking about how, you know, how many more shots they showed between this shot and this shot, like between the shots on nine, the tiger hit or whatever. There's just so much fluff.

And there's so much. Even when they do a little tribute or something like that, it goes on for another 20 seconds that's totally unnecessary. Did you guys like that little montage with the kid going to bed and the guy working that sand? I know T.C. That really. Reminded me of a young kid. Put a smile the guy working that sand. I know TC that really reminded me of a young kid smile on your face. Yeah. That was the most overrides like uncomfortable just junk

that I have ever seen. I think it was you know the boot the boot is very into painting with sand like the mandala stuff and I think it was a tribute to the cat so you're you're disrespecting the cat. How hard do you think Nance when a tribute to the cat. So you're disrespecting the cat. How hard do you think Nance, when they went to commercial, how hard do you think he fist pumped after making Fowl-Dow cry this morning? Like, you think he was happy about that? That was so weird.

It was awful. He tried to get Tiger to cry. He tried. He went for it. But like, one way to start the day. I know. Like, hey, everybody's jacked up this morning. People woke up early. They're, they went and got

coffee. They went and got breakfast. They came back. They fired up the TV. Like every, I would imagine that every single person, like there was more people watching the start of that broadcast than the start of any other masters, because everybody was like, there was nothing else going on. It's prime time. Everybody's just up and out of it. And first thing we see is about sobbing about it was pitch perfect. It was perfect. It was a perfect microcosm of how much they celebrate themselves and

Don't have a pulse for you know the finger on the pulse of what people would actually want to be seeing It was absolutely perfect. I loved it for that for that matter. I mean Legally, I'm not allowed to come in. I can't see you just trying to hold back. I'm so excited. Listen, I thought everybody did great today. I think we got two guys that we haven't talked about yet. In the, we kind of touched on Shoffley, so we'll skip him.

But, Webb, we haven't talked about Webb. Webb had a great week. Shot 64 yesterday. Webb had a bad outfit on. That bright yellow and ball. For sure, it's not good. Listen, for sure. I mean, softly bogeyed 15 and 18 to finish one back.

Like he, that was... Cat dig a crown a little bit. Let's... I saw a few people bitching about the fact that nobody in the field challenged Tiger on 17 and 18, which there's something to be said for that, but at the end of the day, also, those are really hard.

For sure. Yeah, exactly. And that's kind of the whole thing with Augusta's. Dude, you get all your birdies out of the way. To 16 is, I mean, I don't want to trigger big rainy. It's basically pitch and putt whole at this point, isn't it? It's, I'm so over the sun they've been location on 16. But yeah, then 17 and 18 is like, dude, just hold on.

You are trying to win the most famous golf tournament in the world. You hit fucking golf shots. And hold on. Capca had a shot, man. Yeah. Good looks at 17 and 18, and he finished one back. But then the entire day, we were doing, like,

what we thought weren't impressions of Capca. What? Well, there's just the way he smiled after he hit in the water on 12, which is very like two, two, three, whatever. Like, you guys think I care about this? Yeah. I think I can't believe you guys are taking this so seriously.

I'm not even, I'm not even a fucking golfer. I don't know if it's easy this is for you. You know, like, you just want to play part five. Yeah, I'm just gonna play part five. Make fucking eagle on 13. I don't care if I double this. I'll go eagle the next one. Yeah, I did.

Yeah, I do. That's like 13. Yeah. I wouldn't give shout out to Fina, because I thought that was the other guy. I thought he was gonna get absolutely boat- absolutely boat race and he made double on 12. Obviously it kind of looked like he hit. They were kind of saying that in the broadcast too.

It looked like he hit a better shot than what more and I hit. He's kind of, you know, got a gust at the wrong time or something. But I thought he held in there and didn't really didn't really get eviscerated kind of the thought out of the way I thought he was going to. I mean, he had three birdies in his last six or five holes. Yeah. Well, and big greenie caught this too. So when Tiger hit a shot on 12, I thought he nuked it.

I thought it was way long. And obviously Fina went in the water and sort of Mollinari. Tiger gets up there and marks his ball on the greenie, yells back at the official back there like, you guys got the blowers going back there? Yeah. And I'm surprised no one else really picked up on that. What an alpha man. Really was.

But it was kind of like a, a, a wily vet who's been in this situation before just knew like, all right, if that ball ended up short and Mollinari was kind of stunned by it. He covered the ball. Yeah, I'm blasting this to the middle of the green. I'm not going in the water in that one in the tournament. The only other guy I've ever seen pull the, the blower move is DA points.

Number two, with the heritage of years back. Do you stop for like 35 minutes? Wait, to get these blores out there. To blow the pollen and stuff on the... I think you had barely made the call. It was so good. Which Fina, looking at Fina's card this week, he played number eight in five under,

and he played number 15 in four under. That was nine of his 11 under, was on two different holes. Is that good? He might have all the speed. Did we talk enough about Keppka? I mean, this guy is a legitimately serious. I know he didn't win, but like he is. Is this a serial, a serial major contender?

Correct. And this was him not coming in with like his best game by his own words. What do you think a brand-o's take on him? Which was something of the most reckless, self-sab self sabotage he's ever seen of an athlete in his lifetime From a distance I Thought it was sweet and I totally agree, but it's from a distance And I have no I have no real good insight on what Brooks is doing or how much it affected him or anything

But like if I'm looking at it on paper It's like dude you lost a bunch of weight and intentionally didn't eat and you feel like your swing has changed, going into like the biggest tournament of the year. Like, yeah, that would be completely... Any only lost by one. Like maybe, like it's kind of a game, the margins are very narrow. You say that before the week. Yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. No, in defensive brando. Like, hey, that makes it even more, like, it's kind of counterintuitive, but that makes it even more... You know, because that's, that could be the little difference right there.

Which also in defensive brand, don't Keppka was hard on himself for it. He said he regretted doing it and that he had had a negative effect on him. So. Keppka did also have the like, everybody tells me I'm too big. And now I'm too small.

Yeah, I don't think anybody's, nobody said you were too big. No one's changing yourself, dude. You have all the abilities. Which I think someone was kind of tweeting, like it's, it's kind of straight out of the Michael Jordan playbook where it's just like inventing these,

everybody's gonna be me. Nobody believes in him. And I'm like, whatever you gotta do. Do you guys wanna hear Crazy Capca, Stat? Absolutely. He made 11 birdies and two eagles on the part five. Oh. Oh.

Out of how many times playing them? Out of 16. 16. And it made a double. 11 birdies, two e And it made double. 11. 30's two Eagles at the double. The double he made in round two was really like the difference.

Yeah. Jesus. But essentially, he truly is playing a par 68 at a guess. I mean, good Lord. That's wild, man. That's wild, man. He was at. He made two par's on par five this week.

That's absolutely. Can I like like like like I just can't bring myself to like Patrick can't live. Oh I really like him. You do? Yeah. A day's fucking nut. Why is he nuts? Apparently like he's just he's he's he's almost like a little sociopathic like I I think we all hope speed would be. Like he doesn't care about being anybody's friend. He's not gonna go out his way to say hi to anybody. He doesn't care about being liked. He's just, you know, in the parlance that we like,

he's a little bit of just a killer. He's kind of like an under the radar Patrick Reed. Yeah. But you gotta win. He's going to. Well, I know he's going to be I think he's, he's getting there. I mean, this is, it's funny. Sure.

When I did the, when I was at the, down there in Austin to do a speed interview, he, uh, speed, can't lay and JT were all staying in the same house. We do this interview and a bunch of people had come back from the course and are parked behind where I parked and it's like one in, one out, kind of situation in the driveway. And like JT's got to go out and move a car and like JT's dad's got to go move one and like Patrick Cantley, like go has to go out and move a car as well. And I was like, trying to talk to

him. I was like, hey, thanks for doing this man. And like he just did not even look my way. He like wasn't being a dick about it. He just like, I just did not exist like in his world. And I was looking at it and I was like, man, maybe I interviewed the wrong guy when I was at that house. There you go. He almost won the master's. You're starting to win me over here, Salt. That's the kind of stuff we like to hear. Which speed, you know, I mean, we touched on him,

but he didn't quite get the full bump, or maybe we used it up too early or just ran out of steam. But I guess going back, I guess what I, where it doesn't square up with me is, like, speed's outwardly nice and outwardly. And then under the surface, you wanted there to be this just total, you know, FU attitude and really sociopathic

killer tendencies, but I can't really doesn't have any of the outward niceness, which, I don't know, I always appreciate. I don't know. A little triangle. Like, sweet fluff to little. I like a little warm fuzzy with my superstar athletes, you know? No, he's just an interesting cat.

I think that's where I net out. I wish he played a little faster, that's my one-graded one. He seems to have kind of a little faster with the wax. Yeah. Or CBS's. Or they just cut to them later on in the process. Keeper the takes. Keeper the takes, guys.

DJ, that's technically a coverage take. Every time you take a key for the takes. Well, that predates now that was before I retired. I hung that take on the wall way before I retired. I think you're wearing the 4-5 right now. No not yeah. No you'll know when I come back. He's playing a good day. Well listen I'm just trying to go I'm trying to go one for four with a double vent right now. He's right. He's right at the Birmingham bar. DJ's riding the bus. Exactly. We've been talking for a long time here. We actually did put out a call for voicemails,

but we didn't leave the line open for very long before we got on the mics here. But I think you did compile a few of them for us. We got a couple. Let's get in the voicemails here. Gustavo and New Jersey. Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! There were quite a few of them, like that's what we're looking at. That was probably perfectly encapsulates a lot of people's reactions pretty good all right let's move on hey this is the kikorito up in uh in bk question to the boys uh can we all finally agree that nandina is truly stinky

nandina higher comes off what should have been a hole in one and it's just like the air comes out of the balloon They go straight to commercial. Ix3 is gone forever They got to do something about the travesty that is 17 would love to hear your thoughts. I'll hang up and listen That's Icarito from BK All right, okay. We got it. Thank you. Also doing business as Neil. Thursday, Icarita. Thursday, Icarita. I gotta say, Icarita was kind of vindicated a little bit for me this week.

And I don't think it's necessarily that 17 is a bad hole because the green is so freaking interesting and good. It's more that it just doesn't get shown in the right light. It's a coverage date. No, it's not. No, no, no, no, no. He walked no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no It's a really really cool piece like piezo in on the property. It's a little high spot You know you got 18t right there. You can see up over kind of the remainder of the back nine. It's cool. I just write the second nine Second it's a cool thing. It's a term second nine

Hey listen, I'm just I'm just honoring history, but it's But and it's a great green and it's a demanding t-shot for you. You got to, you got to, you got to hit two, two really, really good balls in there. It's not sexy. It's, you know, it's not a show or evidently for Icarito. It's not a grower either. Well, I think it, where it nets out for me is like so many, if not all of the shots on the back nine have an element of shot shape to them. And there is a curve, some kind of curvature to the hole. And it's the only hole where it's like, just hold on.

Like that tee shot, it's kind of like seven, it's kind of like, a lot of us don't like seven, is like, it's just, hit it dead straight, that's your play here. At least seven, there's at least like the slope to the fairway that you gotta consider, and you can draw it against the slope. 14 is kind of that way,

that slope's left to right in the fairway, and you gotta hit a draw to kind of hold that fairway. I love 14. 14 is a really good hole that slopes left to right in the fairway and you got to hit a draw to kind of hold that fairway. I love 14. 14 is a really good hole. You know, You're trying to shine to this week. And that's where it was like with the eyes and how are three when it was there on 17,

it looked at least like a dog leg hole. And then Tiger said this when they took the tree down and he's like, dude, I had no idea this was a straight hole. I always pictured it as a dog leg. And that was, it was even more interesting with that factor even there. And now that it's just like,

here's dead straight, hit it and hit it again It's kind of like probably why Neil feels so strongly about 17 I can read it. Yeah, excuse me If we're gonna change 17 what would you change? I don't know I A lot of people have said make it drivable or make it kind of this like fireworks par four There's like a millennial. There's too many other holes like that. There's too many easy quote unquote, easy birdies. There's plenty, yeah, there's plenty of,

I think there's too many trees on it. Like they planted a bunch of trees. That was kind of what, it's one thing if like a course kind of evolves and trees grow and trees that were like indigenous and native there, but every instance where they've just planted trees has not added to the excitement.

I don't think it makes it a little bit more challenging, but I don't think it makes it that much more exciting. Total non-sequitur, but speaking of indigenous, a lot of people, one of my favorite conspiracies has always been that there's no squirrels. Did you guys see the photo of the snake eating the squirrel of Augusta? Oh, no. Oh my god. My gosh, please send me that. It's amazing. Look at up Google snake squirrel Augusta and it was just like literally the furry tail was coming out of this snake's mouth. It was crazy. So anyways, that might, your thought on like things that are indigenous to Augusta is like, oh squirrel. So if they, no word on whether or not, like the trees that got planted there are the ones with

the USB drives in them. That's another good conspiracy. That's the, that's, I think that's my favorite. There's theoretically that there's trees with USB ports in there that photographers can upload photos really quick., I think that's my favorite. There's theoretically that there's trees with USB ports in there that photographers can upload photos really quick, which I think we uncovered a new favorite theory this year that we heard from, through the grapevine, definitely didn't make up ourselves. There's a guy in the woods left of 13 with a cannon,

with a different kinds of balls back there. So like when Tiger hooks his ball, left of 13, somebody's back there and shot it back into the... Yeah, the way that I heard it slash made it up was it's like that table. It's like that table when you're at the driving range and they have like Prove one, Calaway, Crimson, Bridgestone, all these different balls and you pick which ball you want. They have a table like that and then whoever's on the tee, they just throw it back in the ball. It's like it's like one of those pot

pot holes where you can hit it and like one four different holes. It comes out in a different spot down there. Nothing ends up in those trees, at least that they show. It's crazy. I'm 100% not convinced that Kat didn't just totally rope one into the trees and then it ends up, come on. That literally never happens to anyone

sitting in this room right now. No. But it was crazy watching it like every time Tiger would spray a drive the honest true feeling I had was oh, I mean somebody's gonna put that in a good spot Like he's gonna have a shot like it's just absolutely good. Oh like on 11 last two days I mean it was Bob Megas All right, let's keep moving cool Hey guys, this is Patrick from New York. Just wondering how you think Tiger feels about its first major victory coming in a limited

field event against pretty couples and very mild. It looks like it might be a little overplayed in the media right now. Hang on to listen to them talk about it. That's a great day. Very, very interesting. Well, you throw that in also with the tour championship, weighted. It's got a, you know, what's he be to total of 120 guys in two events? Maybe. Yeah. Makes you think.

Well, you know, you kind of want to roll your eyes at that, but then you also look and Rory got a T21 this week. Just a resume is the guy. Well, I was like T21 for, you know, he played pretty horrible, I would say this week. And he still finished T21. I was like, all right, there is like 40 guys in this tournament.

Sure. But it's all the best players. That's what makes it what it is so you take it up against the field that's there though it's a great take I'm pretty I'm pretty in on that. Just down to me cracking a monster Tigers one big question what flavor do you think the Tiger Monster will be? See ya. That's a great question I don't even know if we're qualified to answer that one. I think coffee Tigers big in the coffee.

That like the Java monster. Yeah, that's gotta be it. Well, he matched up his shirt with the drink and whatever was water bottle was. The lavender. It was like an elder flower sports drink, I think. I think the question remains, over under 0.5 monster beverages consumed by tiger in his life.

I'm going to wail. I found a photo, we were kind of all digging up photos of ourselves from 2005 when Tiger last won the Masters and I found one of myself where I happened to be double fistic monsters actually. A lot of people can say, you know, it was kind of predictive of this day. I'm going to roll through a couple that this is a list I found of the top 10 monster flavors. You guys just stop me when you think that we've hit the celebratory flavor.

Top 10, sorry, in terms of just popularity, like sales? No, I don't know. It's the top10s.com. I'm not gonna look into the methodology of how they picked it. Original, green, low carb, blue, you can see that. Assault is the red. Assault?

That is the winner right there. The red? Yeah. There it is. Well, I looked at the list, I'm going to keep going. The most military sounding one. This is chaos. K-H-O-S.

That's the orange one. There's got to be an anarchy on red. This one's mixed with three X's. Possibly a shout out to you as some of his former indiscretions. M80 is the yellow one. This is a tough one too. The gold flavor is called rehab. Eight is the monster's zero ultra.

Nine is the pipeline punch. I'm trying to get the pipe. And ten is the mean bean, which is the Java that was aforementioned. I'm going with the salt. That's my way of doing it. I think the Sunday Red Monster. Yeah, that's good. That's a no brainer probably. Yeah. Great question. What else we got? Yeah. Hey guys, this is Miles from Pittsburgh. And I'm just wondering, you know, the tournament is still playing on PBS right now. So is there still a chance that

Jordan Speed could still win the 20s and 19 masters. Question especially for you, Sally. Let me know because I still think it could shoot a 62 or a 60 through to take this thing from Tiger. Alright, cheers. I didn't give up until I think the fifth hole today. What hole did he bogey today? We started the day, yeah, he five he bogey'd and 60 Mr. Shorty. Yeah. He started day with like yeah. Five, he bogey'd, and 60 missed a shorty. He started the day with like nine back or 10 back. He buried the first two, I'm like, oh, here we go! Here we go!

We got a chance. If he just goes out and shoots 56, hangs up a number. Well, I mean, if he would have tied the court, so he shot 64 on Sunday last year. He, you know, if he doesn't bogey 18, he shoots 63. If he would have shot 63 today, he would have shot 13 under and tied the cat. So like, there was a chance.

It was out there. It's wild. He felt just short and he shot one under today. So that's wild. I got a couple updates from the FedEx cup. Yeah, it's just great segue. It's a great segue. This is a spieth, finish T21 and a major.

He went from 170 to 140 second, which that's like, it's still bleak. Oh, yeah. Oh, halfway through the like the PGA tour season. Hats win doesn't even get him to crack the top 10. People have been going ham. And the FedEx go points. They're talking sweepstakes. He's 13th.

It's a free for all out there. Yeah, those are the two takeaways I had. All right. I mean, I, you know, I went all weekend without seeing a FedEx cup update like that's true for bringing it to the table here. All right, let's keep moving. Chance, first time long time. I'm just curious, how was Big Randy's nap today?

Try it on. Mm. Well, it kind of threw the move up kind of through all the time I'm just curious, how was Big Randy's nap today? Try it on. Well, the move up kind of through all the time, we might be interrupting your nap right now. Yeah, the schedule, the schedule certainly threw a wrench in it. I got a little, I got a little horizontal there for a second, right around when Tiger was making a turn, I think I missed that putt on nine that y'all were talking about. It's all like all that the greatest putt on nine that y'all were talking about. It's all I called it the greatest putt in human history. I didn't go in.

It ain't another one. Yeah, no, I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying it's a travesty you were asleep. Well, I didn't actually fall asleep though. I don't think that was the bummer today, but I had some great naps this week. Spencer Hall, possibly my favorite sports rider out there right now. He always has various tributes to the master's nap every year. It's like one of his favorite. Did he live stream at one? Yeah, yeah, he was sleeping in a hammock in his backyard.

So maybe you and him could possibly find some new game at that. Yeah, that would be for sure. One quick shout out. I just saw coming across Twitter. I can't believe we haven't named yet. Congratulations to Tiger. He is now qualified for the century tournament of champions. That's true. That's huge. That's huge. Toughest field in golf to get in. That's true. I think he should have played it this year, but that's another issue. All right, last question. Hey, Noah, Noah, enough career. This is Bryce Room. How in Michigan? I got one

simple question after Tiger's fifth-green jacket. Now what? People with a good work. That might be the only question. I think he should retire. I think he should have retired in his post game speech today. I think it would have been the greatest moment and go, I legitimately was thinking about that last night, like falling asleep, I was like, God, what if he just walked off tomorrow? Your take of he should have picked up.

Oh, go one further. Yeah, he should've, that winning putty should've just scooped it with his putter, walked off the green and just kept going. That would have been, I would have had all the respect. Total walkoff. Yeah, it's a walkoff. Deq, leave the two million on the table. Exactly. Yeah. Which by the way, when's two million dollars for this event? It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. Always good to see you know, life changing amount of money for someone. For sure. I don't know who

knows it could be a life changing amount of money. I don't know. I don't know who knows. It could be a life-changing amount of money. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think he's saying no to it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what's next. I don't know how you can possibly, how I can even hold a candle to this. I'd say what would be sick if you played heritage this week. That's very much like what's next.

Telling you that immediately. That would be such a perfect course for him. I think I got to think he's a little sleepy. Are you guys going gonna watch the replay? That's gonna be on here this afternoon. I might turn it back on for that final stretch. I'm, yeah, I might. What do you think next in all honesty?

I mean, I think it validates. Well, let's define the question. What's, I mean, like, what's next for him? What's next for Groph? Humanity. Humanity. He's a couple of those. For him, I think it validates, you know,

it's almost like LeBron's title in Cleveland, right? It just means more. Yeah. And I think it probably frees him up, right? I think everything from now on is gravy. And you just keep going as long as his body will hold up. I've filled a lot, it sounds like a weird comparison, but it feels a lot like Sergio's win

from a couple years ago, where it's like, dude, this was coming for so long. It's finally here, like dude, Sergio, you can miss every cut for the rest of your life and like, you did it. We all know that you can do it and nobody can say anything to you ever again about not winning a major and all that stuff.

So yeah, I think it just adds, I'm on the opposite side. I think it just adds to the urgency for cat. Really? Because he knows he's a more retired. That's why he should retire. But he knows he's here. Well, I think it's, you know, the biggest, I guess, I don't know if

regret is the right word, but the worst thing of his whole career was that it was going to be this giant, what if question mark, right? You won your last major at age 32. You got to 14 at age 32 and you never won another one. Like this, no athlete has really achieved so much by that age and then had that heart of a fall off. Imagine looking back at the history books, it like, it like 60 years. Like, God, this tiger guy, man, he was a menace. He got to 14 by 32.

And then what happened? What did he just like, dropped off for like 11 years? Have you seen this guy's wicked pedigree? His dog had double ACL surgery. I mean, it is crazy to think about that there's 15, 16, 17, 18 year olds that really haven't seen Tiger ever want to master's before. Yeah. And for reference, for, I don't know, the age variance people to listen to this podcast

is pretty big, but like we all were at our most impressionable ages as golf fans when he was the absolute best and changing the game and winning all these majors. And I remember and I've told the store on the podcast before when he made the putt to force the playoff at the 2000 PGA. I was at like a golf, a golf team banquet at this guy's house. And all the adults in the room erupted when he made the putt. And all the kids were kind of like, well, yeah, of course he made it. There was no doubt. And that's kind of what it was like to grow up in that era when you haven't seen,

you didn't really experience guys failing because we were so used to tiger succeeding. And we just have watched him go down the spiral of not being able to execute it for so long was, has been spellbounding for like a lot of us that experienced it when we didn't know any better. I don't know if that's making sense, but we saw this guy and experienced the game and the best way you could come into it. I think the reason why there's so many golf fans today is because the Tiger, that's well known, but man, to see it go so far down and then come back, I don't know what the right

word is. Nostalgia isn't really the right word. It was like, it is groundbreaking. It really, you know, we were 21 when he won his last one. Like, like, I could barely drink the last time he won a major. You couldn't DJ. I'm sure you weren't. Yeah.

Or no. In college. Yeah. I don't know, whatever. Neil couldn't legally drink, but he was. I picked your slogan back. I picked your way. Neil in 2005 at the Reds game.

He's like 17 drinking. Red socks game. Red socks game. Statutial limitations. It's probably up on that. Yeah, I think we's a little bit of a tiger bump here for the next few years, but I think it, like we've talked about before, it kind of feels like a supernova, right? It feels like a big sun that's on its last, like one big bright blowout. Does it also allow time for, like I feel like guys, it didn't really allow for guys to graduate to that next level because they never, like it was just like tiger ended and then these guys just kind of came on the scene.

Whereas now if these guys solidify their reputation by beating tiger, that allows them to really come into their own and be a lot more noteworthy. Like a Rory Tiger battle royale or a Brooks Tiger, JT Tiger, all that stuff. I think those guys will only gain more credibility and more legend and personality with a tie-up battle. Yeah, yeah, there's various like you that happen with Molenari.

And I like it's still even today. People are kind of like, oh, yeah, I guess he kind of beat him at the open, but like, I don't know. He's going to be shaken with playing with Tiger, which maybe it was, but who knows? I think golf's opportunity has never been greater than it currently is because I think like when Tiger faded into injury like around 2014, he won five times in 13 and then when he got hurt in 14, it was right when we kind

of started knowing up, we were like starting, I went back and listened to some of those really old podcasts, really good audio quality. But another note, we're kind of like, dude, this is terrible. Like there's no storylines in golf, there were no stars. It was, let's say it was on like a three from like a one to 10 standpoint. I think in the time that Tiger was still out, it probably got up to about a six like the emergence of speed, Rory winning a couple majors, like a golf came to a six, Tiger coming back on top of that makes it a 10. It's like a 60. The opportunity has never been greater and that's kind of why we bang on the

torso so much. It's like, guys, why is this not interesting for me to watch? Because it's not going to get better than this situation. I know Tiger doesn't have an Arnie or like a Gary play or rival but like why is this not a bigger deal every weekend? Why don't I want to watch this? Like we all love golf. This is the best opportunity they're gonna have to draw fans into the game. I hope they take advantage of it. I would push back and say Tiger being back, it just puts in a perspective for me personally. Like it makes everybody else just irrelevant. It's important.

I like it. Yeah, that's really interesting. I don't know where, I'm of two minds. Where one is there could have been a great reckoning where all of these things, whether it's with the tour or the broadcast or not developing new stars or TV ratings, dropping or all these things. There could have been this reckoning if Tiger had just disappeared.

And it would have been like, oh gosh, we didn't really develop other stars, we didn't really do a lot of things, like how are we gonna fill this vacuum? And that could have happened. With what happened with Tiger today, it's like either people are going to say, okay, now we've got a little stay of execution

and now we can work really hard at doing those things or it's gonna be like, dude, we were right all along. Let's keep doing the same thing, okay, now we've got a little stay of execution and now we can work really hard at doing those things or it's gonna be like, dude, we were right all along. Let's keep doing the same thing, man, because Tiger's gonna be around forever. And it's a really weird time because the TV negotiations are gonna be coming up and I think that this is gonna ripple like so obviously into that.

And I don't know, it's almost like you're kind of selling the next five years based on what happened today, which is Wild especially when you think about like the economy and you think about TV and how everything could change Any given time. That's I think that's why it's such an opportunity For I think there's like three guys, right? It's Rory And Rory's kind of the first guy that needs to They're the one that springs to mind for me that needs to step up

and kind of challenge Tiger because before, like even last year when it was, guys going to wire to wire a Tiger, okay cool, it's kind of a novelty Tiger's not necessarily back, we don't know if he's playing, his quote unquote best golf. Now let's say today Tiger and Rory would have gone head to head fast forward two months or three months and Rory and Tiger go head to head again and Rory would have gone head to head, fast forward two months or three months

and Rory and Tiger go head to head again and Rory clips and then you get a like a late career rivalry and then it's like, you're starting to, you're starting to get some true foils and some true rivalries there. The next time Tiger's in contention at a major, it's not about the comeback anymore and it's like the surrealness of it isn't,

like we're all kind of looking around each other today, is this real, is this really happening, is this real? Holy shit, is this real? And we have to keep saying it. Next time is not gonna be like that, it's real now, we know that. And that's where guys like JT and Roy are probably sitting on their couch just tonight thinking,

like shit, man, I need to, I wanna be in the mix with tiger trading blows, head to head. And, you know, I think there is some semblance of, guys aren't, they're probably not necessarily scared. They're more excited for the opportunity to do it, which I think is sweet. Well, yeah, like I said earlier though, that we kind of got back to that.

I think it was definitely a different scene in the mid-2000s for us, what he was up against, right? And the effect that he had on people, and the mystery is kind of like, is it gone? I do not, I legitimately think he had an effect on the rest of the field today, without any stress. So, all right, every time I walk into the bathroom here in the Kihl House, and look at the,

like I'm serious, we need to take that picture down. It's not coming down. It's a 2006 Ryder Cup team. And every time I look up at it, I'm like, it's like for Ireland, yeah? I just get more, like I I spiral I go down this wormhole You know, I see Brett wetter cup there or Vaughn Taylor or JJ Henry or Scott Verplank you all Decent players in their own right but for these guys to be you know think about it today

Like those guys wouldn't be sniffing You know the tense spot on a rider cup team and the first spot on our cup team sniffing, you know, the tenth spot on a rider cup team, the 12 spot on a rider cup team. But, you know, it does go to show you how much deeper it is these days. Oh, without a doubt. The only way we're taking that poster down is if we're sending it to the Louvre.

Wear a ball. All right. And that's, I guess the flip side of what was kind of a cynical take that I was talking about, extending, you know, the next five years kind of being sold on today is, like the optimistic side is maybe the next five years are the best golf that we've seen, you know, in the last 30 years because of exactly what you guys are saying. And if that plays out then obviously no one will be more excited to watch than me, but that hasn't played out yet in Tiger's career basically. He's never really had that person. He's never really had that kind of like Sunday duel with Phil or anything like that.

We didn't really have it today again. And so I don't know. Hopefully we keep getting more because these fields are getting so top heavy and we don't really get these faker majors anymore. It just seems like the last, I don't even know, the last 20 majors have all been these kind of like heavy weights that have walked away. Certainly feels like pebble. I mean I know we got Beth Page, but I feel like that when the weather can be squirrely and all that, but pebble is going to be an

absolute sweepstakes. Like anybody can win there. It's you know you got D, you know DJ, Tiger, Speed, Mikkelson. They've all played well there. It's crazy. But on the flip side of that, though, looking back at the master's champs the last three years, you get Patrick Reed, Sergio, and Willett, like, which feels kind of off looking back at it, right? Willett's a little mislead, because he was like, he was like top 15 in the world,

or something when he, for sure. For sure. For sure. Yeah, history doesn't really, history didn't really treat that one very well. Ever since his brother wrote the letter, his, I like the letter, I thought the letter was funny. All right, we're gonna wrap it at that. We might need another breakdown pod because I think we're still kind of on fumes riding this high, but shout out to Augusta for

moving up the tea times because this makes the editing process a lot easier this evening and done in time for Game of Thrones. I know you guys are big big fans of that and I'm excited about that. I'm excited. I thought the cross promotion in the last couple days has been absolutely nauseated. I hear a shout out to all the brands who've been getting involved with the Game of Thrones tweets. I think that's been really...

You know what a reminder me of Star Wars. For sure. I'm out on Star Wars. It was my block for a long time. It's gone too far. It's hit the tipping point. Did we go see Star Wars in concert the other night? That was different. There was an orchestral performance. Never lost Star Wars before. All right, we're gonna wrap it up at that. Thanks everybody for tuning in and for participating in the live show this week and all the social media stuff around the how I'll say it. The greatest golf event probably of our lifetimes. Yeah. The cat literally won the masters. That's wild, man.

That's wild, man. That is wild, man. We're closing it with that. Cheers. Crack on good songs. Cheers. Cheers. Get the right club.

Be the right club today. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That is better than most. How about in? That is better than most. How about in? That is better than most. Better than most.

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