No Laying Up - Golf Podcast - NLU Podcast, Episode 77: Masters Recap with Tron and Big Randy

Episode Date: April 10, 2017

Sergio Garcia slayed the dragon, and won the 2017 Masters, and we’re here to break it down. Tron and Big Randy join to talk about the Spaniard’s triumph, the long road that brought us to... The p...ost NLU Podcast, Episode 77: Masters Recap with Tron and Big Randy appeared first on No Laying Up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:46 That is better than most. How about him? That is better than most. Better than most! Expect anything different. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to an emergency edition of the No Laying Up podcast. We got the trap draw boys on here. It's been a while since the three of us have been on. We're in a new world currently.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Tron, Randy, how we feeling? Do you not? I don't know. This is the greatest. I've reached here, man. Real tears. I haven't processed it yet. We're recording this.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Yeah, it's 215 for me. It's like 815 for you guys, PM. It's like 815 for you guys PM. It's 215 AM for me, 815 PM. Sergio just got the green jacket put on him. How many times did you guys flip flop during the day about whether or not it was going to happen? I didn't flip flop. I texted Tron after... Tron, what shot was that? I'm like, it's done though. I was after he pulled it on 13. Yeah, I was completely out. I kept the faith. I just... God, Justin Rosalook's so solid after... I want to say I got there 14 like 13 or 14 was like damn or like he looked
Starting point is 00:02:26 unflappable to use that term that everybody's used a million times this week and then but just yeah never gave up hope man he still was pretty like he only but 17 was the only hole he bogey'd right yeah yeah yeah, he was nails. I mean essentially 13 was a bogey Yeah, right no that felt like that felt And then mayhan Tweeting that I was a great call that he chipped that or that he But he putted that that was so good you couldn't help put him on blast you couldn't wait for I had to I had he said I'm so poor yeah, I think was he making the joke
Starting point is 00:03:07 Part of me was I think that he was I don't think he was though We're not talking about Hunter Mayhem after Sir Joe Go see just one the masters Yeah, and first of all I apologize. I like I got just absolutely Weaponized today by by my allergies the pollen down here just Like I'm I'm literally like Weezing into a t-shirt right now. So paper towels tissues weren't enough. You needed those roses shades That's put that's supposedly why he wears the gigantic oversized shades. No joke dude
Starting point is 00:03:41 I had I had my mom sunglasses on at one point today. It's I've never heard of sunglasses for allergies Is that is that a real thing? Yeah, it keeps the pollen out of your eyes. Yeah, it sounds kind of But it actually works a little bit So anyway enough about me. I'm not trying to be Jay Day here Jay-jay Tron jay day here jay tron i i feel like what we saw on fifteen
Starting point is 00:04:09 i don't know i don't know what would the most exciting one what i had to be the eagle on fifteen right he had a stick did it that was incredible didn't really hit the stick
Starting point is 00:04:22 yeah it is that it was like big cat all over again Yeah, it just like a slightest the slightest ricochet But yeah, I mean cow when he made that basically when he knew he's drive down there. I was like all right Game on but Rose making par on 13 open the door. That was like hold on, wait a second, the exchange on 13, and then Sergio stuffed it on 14 and got the birdie,
Starting point is 00:04:55 and then it was like, oh, wait a second. He's not that. That was worried. I was worried he was going to like Yankee drive or something on 15 and get himself blocked out Yeah, and then like that was a big moment for me because I was like all right I mean if he gets it over the hill Season of pin there's no doubt my mind that he's hitting a
Starting point is 00:05:16 Top notch iron shot, you know what and Rose Remember Rose wind stuff on 14 when he hit the drive What what was that did he do it on 14? He did on 15 when Sergio got him by about 40 yards. That's why 15 yeah, okay 15 yeah And then and then 16 Like Alex was she was like worried for me after he missed the putt on 16 but the one that the one that I was like oh shit was the putt on 17 oh my angle the
Starting point is 00:05:51 bit shorter oh god like I know that stroke that first part oh god yeah it's a little twitchy for me dog the putt on 16 was that's a really really hard putt I mean he did stiff that in there but that's not that's not where you want to be putting from and then the one on seventeen i think it was almost like a it was like fear of swing and a pot like there was like three different swing planes and that part of that was like i need to unsee that
Starting point is 00:06:22 i think it was a little bit of a shake. Yeah. He came away from the inside. I was fearing that second putt after that first one. He claimed he hit on 18 was exactly where he wanted to hit it. As soon as he hit it, I did not think that was going in. I think you got a little negative after Rose real it off the three birdies in a row Which holes were that
Starting point is 00:06:47 It was like six seven eight. I think you birdied Yeah, I thought it was I thought it was over for sure like I'd 100% was was thought he was toast He and he went but he he he birdied three and then didn't make another birdie until 14 The but the part the part on 13 is what's gonna go down in history, I think. I mean, that's when it looked like it was absolutely over. I, yeah, I thought for sure he laid up to, to close the green on slides where he was gonna, you know, it was kind of an awkward yardage, but I mean, he knew exactly what he was doing.
Starting point is 00:07:21 I thought the bogey on ten, like after that, just a bismill second shot that he hit in there. And like Fowler is just painting every negative picture possible on every shot. Oh yeah. Fowler's nuts. Like I I honestly got think he's like high all the time. I don't all it all his calls seem to be They don't they never come to fruition There are there are a couple times like no the one the one the only on 18 Sergius putt and regulation on 18 That was dead on he was like this is a flat putt kind of yeah, there's a lot flatter and I mean, that was dead on. He was like, this is a flat puck kind of. Like it was a lot flatter. I mean, but yes, to your point, everything.
Starting point is 00:08:08 Just throughout the days, like, oh, that's impossible. Like a guy would miss, maybe like, that's an impossible up and down. And then he gets it to like six feet and makes a punch. Like, come on, foul, no, like it's not. Like, you know, he's making it sound. I just, yeah. He just talks so much that it's hard to, to like put any value in anything that he says like
Starting point is 00:08:27 I don't even remember what he said on 18 because I honestly like tune him out when he starts talking when Johnny Miller's talking Like you are listening to that like he talks. Yeah, I mean, I don't know Miller talks a lot as well But he's he's pointed he's pointed when he speaks like it makes sense like he's going somewhere. And Dan Hicks does a good job of kind of not babysitting him, but kind of baiting him in the right instances and then kind of dialing him back in other instances where I feel like Fowdo is just sitting there like, you know, doing whatever he wants, something to lose. I think I wish that I wish that I would have more perspective on Fautos career. Like, I was telling you, the golf channel I have over here was playing old highlights
Starting point is 00:09:09 of the 88 open at Lidham when he was going down the stretch with Sevy. And I think I would have a lot more respect for Fautos if I actually watched him playing growing up. I'm sure people older than me have a lot more respect for what he says in the broadcast than I do. But was he pre-pop? Like, you know, like, Sreath is post-pop, Fado might have been pre-pop because he was definitely he definitely lacked pop, I think, in general. He didn't really see it.
Starting point is 00:09:36 He definitely lived in the pre-pop world. Yeah. Nick Price was number one. Nick Price was number one for a long time. Yeah, he like Nick Price like was 1993 basically, but I feel like that like encapsulates the pre-pop era. Yeah I'm ready to move on from that eagle on 15 like that was that was I don't think you guys have given enough credit to like his ball was sitting up on the pine straw on 10 like he could have easily
Starting point is 00:10:07 gotten way under that and Chumped it into the bunker or Thin it over the green on 10 like that was to me that was a huge Just get it on the green or get it close to the green and then ensure you get down in two shots after that Like he could have made more of a mass of that put it in the bunker and then ensure you get down in two shots after that. Like he could have made more of a mass of that, put it in the bunker and then, you know, and then to put it, but instead, I think he really, he really salvaged it there
Starting point is 00:10:35 and then he angst the drive left on 11 and that was a ridiculous shot getting out of that, putting it on the front, you know. Yeah, that was really a good shot. So I thought that was huge it was battling you know. I thought on 10 and the ball was gonna be lost. I didn't think he was gonna find that. What's shocking that the CBS cameras didn't pick it up couldn't locate it after after it came down but I I don't know. I thought I thought it was gonna be even have to walk back right he would have to retie or not retie He would have to hit four from the rough, or fairway.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that would have turned him in right there. But yeah, and then, all right, so then 17, bad pod foot, crushed a drive. I mean, he was just nails. He didn't hit a bad shot after the T on 13. He didn't hit a bad shot after the T on 13 He didn't hit a bad shot after after the two shot on 13
Starting point is 00:11:27 He didn't miss a fairway or not not hitting I mean he stiffed a bunch of them and 17 was a solid shot as well It was two shots on 16 like both of them just put it in there on top of each other that was That was as good as it gets. God. It was awesome I mean it was kind of a boring day until the last five holes, but I guess that's kind of what, how they set up the Sunday pins and the tradition to be,
Starting point is 00:11:53 but I'm having trouble formulating words. That was the greatest. That was one of my favorite golf tournaments at all time. And then 18, I was like, dude, this is ridiculous when, when Rose's, you know, Rose pushes one and it keeps. Rose cuts the bounce, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:09 That was insane. And then he got the bounce again in the playoff. I know. But it's just not quite enough for bounce, you know. So, yeah, it was, I'm worn out, man, I'm exhausted. Everything felt like Rose was gonna win that tournament. For me, everything did. I mean, but it's so, like so like I'm exhausted not just from today I'm exhausted from like
Starting point is 00:12:30 the last ten years of really rooting for Sergio like I used to hate Sergio when I was a little kid and I just I went 180 on him the late 2000s and then ever since ever since he went into the wilderness and came out I've been Just so on team Sergio and The amount of heartbreak you know When he always makes the joke that we file our Our Sergio beds with our
Starting point is 00:13:01 With our tax returns like that that this is the first year that I haven't been on Sergio and the masters. Our first masters our first masters preview in 2014 that was our official pick. Yeah like like I like honestly I probably spent four hundred dollars on on Sergio master's bets and you know but but this I mean still it's just, this is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. It's just exhausting because the worst case scenario is constantly running through my mind. When I, you know, when I watch a minute situation like that, it's, like,
Starting point is 00:13:37 you never afford yourself any type of, you know, well, maybe it'll work out. Maybe he'll come through. It's always just like, no, this isn't going to happen. No, that it's like, that's what makes it so exhausting. It's so, so we're on a text thread with a couple guys from college who are like pretty casual golf fans, but they're, but they're both like pretty dialed in to, are pretty casual golfers, but they're but they're both like pretty dialed in to pretty casual golfers but they're pretty dialed in on like the tour and one of them said like oh yeah like got that
Starting point is 00:14:12 Sergio drive from the match play down in Austin cute off right here like dude stop that's not it's not cool at all like don't put that in my head That's not cool at all. I don't put that in my head The thing is it felt I mean I don't know I just got done saying it and it always felt like rose But the way it started with birdies on two and three like it was like okay This is how he has to win it when he blew that at no point that it feel any different than any other Heartbreak that he's had like I did not feel like he was gonna come back from that, but Holy shit, did he ever? Well, Neil said something about the pot. Like, when he was standing over the pot
Starting point is 00:14:50 on 18 in regulation, Neil was like, Holy shit, this is like the same scene, the exact same setting, as I think when he lost the Harrington chicken, like it just, it was eerily reminiscent of it. Car News to you,ington. Yeah. Like it just it was eerily reminiscent of it. Karnustio 7. Yeah. Oh. That putt was closer to going in than this one was though.
Starting point is 00:15:12 But yeah. I mean, he got, he's lucky. He didn't have the pressure on that putt on in the playoff. But man, I'm so glad he made that birdie too. Like that was so much more satisfying than if you would have tapped one in. Yeah. Oh, I mean, making the pot, that was like, bicing on the cake, you know, just an exc- just not just an exclamation point, an upside down exclamation point, I'm a part of the sense. But could Sergio ask for a better T-shot, like, to play when the chips are down on 18, like, just a, just a shoot with, you know, calling for a low cut or,
Starting point is 00:15:56 you know, low fade, like that's, that's just, that was what he was born for right there. That shot, you know. In hindsight, I'm thinking about, every time he was standing over a full shot coming in, I wasn't, I had zero fear. The putts is where I was, was not feeling comfortable, but I did, I, I was, I had total confidence in, in the pure, the, the way he was driving the ball and the waist, did he hit eight iron, basically, on every one of those shots coming in? I know he hit that on 15. I think he did on 16. I think on 17. It's a wedge. No, I know. I know. Okay. Yeah. I think he was 147. Sorry. I would think he'd probably probably a five-pitching wedge.
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Starting point is 00:17:32 Yeah. I mean, maybe that's always said that he said like Vamos, like, give him one. It was his tweet or something. Yeah. Props to Rose too. I mean, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can't, you know, I don't sell my favorite player, but I know ill will towards him. He couldn't have been classier about it and, you know, definitely a good
Starting point is 00:17:54 champion. I'm glad he won the US a few years ago, despite Phil's collapse. I'm glad he's a major champion, I think he'll win a couple more i think in the long run his career probably stacks up with once it's all said i think his career probably stacks up with urnies well i think he was a master's best guess or ahead of him yeah i mean always contends here man is there four or five years and a week now
Starting point is 00:18:21 can we talk about how i think I won our Friday pool the Friday pool with 6000 entries. I had Rose. I didn't have Sergio. I had Coocher. I Had Peters. I think I might I might be up there. I don't think I'm eligible for the prizes, but Can we talk about Coocher? Oh your boy My god the backdoor T4 like that was the most predictable. How do we not see that coming? And playing with Rory both days on the weekend, and then he gives the ball to a little kid wearing the orange t-shirt and a faux Gucci fedora.
Starting point is 00:19:03 That was for you. Like, yeah, he sought that kid out just to spite me even more. Unbelievable. It was incredible. Huge. Do we want to get on CPS yet or do we want to keep talking about players? We have a lot to cover with Rory, Spieth, Fowler. Let's keep it positive.
Starting point is 00:19:25 All right. Let's go positive then for Thomas Peters. Um, this guy's a, this guy's a freak. How? I think CBS. Well, it's hard not. Sorry. I know we, it's hard not to do a CBS one. Because I think they showed like two of his full swing today. They showed like two of his full swing. He's got one of the most beautiful golf swigs I've ever seen. And they don't show him. He shot 68 today finished T4.
Starting point is 00:19:47 That guy is an absolute beast. If we're choosing between ROM or Peters, who are you taking? I'm not saying I got to take ROM, but that's like saying, you're choosing between like, you know, DJ and yeah, I mean, it's just terrifying either way. They're awesome. I would I would equate Peters to like, like early 90 or early to mid 90s NATO. Like he's like, He's like a missile defense system paying out to Central Europe. What does that mean? What does that mean? He's just like a counterbalance to all the terrorists out there. He's a freedom fighter, man. He's the, he's the big waffle. Yeah, no, I like it. I like it.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Like ASAP, like Lego or like some sort of waffle company needs to sign him up. All right, I'll shut up now. Very best and Belgian waffles. No, I like his game. I, you know, I don't know who I would take between Peters and Rom. It's too early to call. They both look really good. They both are super confident. I was really... I loved what he said after the second round. When did he say Augusto? It was like it's just another golf course. I think it was not one. It might have been, but he shot 72-68, so that would make sense if it was after the second.
Starting point is 00:21:30 I thought it was after round one, but yeah, he's... Yeah, and I texted Tron, I was like, oh, he's due for at least the 75-plus after saying that, and he struggled a bit in the third round, but he came back, yeah, credit to him. I like his confidence god that guy can strike a golf ball and the some of these young guys that can putt so well is what like really impresses me uh... i mean it's what it's what a lot of it's a couple while for surgio to
Starting point is 00:21:57 become an efficient putter but like some of these guys that come out of twenty two twenty three that are fearless on the greens are what really terrifies me. How about Rob's outfit today? Like is that gonna be his Sunday thing? Like the bass colors? Green, white, green. Yeah, it was a green and red with a white belt.
Starting point is 00:22:18 A lot of white belts out there today, Tron. Oh, a lot of white belts. Sunday and Augusta. lot a lot of people were baiting me trying to bait me in to talk about you know just shit on spieth or uh Sergio's belt and like Sergio's just he's above all that yeah like like it doesn't matter what Sergio wears how bad bad it is, anything like that. He's exempt from all that. Can I ask you honestly, what do you think of Fowler's outfit?
Starting point is 00:22:54 Like honestly, it was brutal. It was like that. It was like that alternate Tennessee volunteers uniform that they wear. Like once a year, a man like a man like a home non-confidence can. The gray jersey. The gray, oh, just so bad, yeah. It's really bad. You need to have a seat. It was like a spieth,
Starting point is 00:23:12 it was like if spieth, like war is normal like gray and then like went hunting afterwards. He feels like he had settled down the Sundays for a while there, he would go like a subtle orange shirt with like gray pants or something like that and that didn't look too bad But the orange pants is not not a good look but even like the white like I don't know I didn't mind stuff the last couple days but even the white pants with the orange shirt and the orange
Starting point is 00:23:34 Yeah, that wouldn't have been nearly as bad now. Yeah, but he was totally all right So on Fowler he was totally under the radar like you he was gonna, he was at 500 all the way until 10. And then, and then he bogeed 11, bogeed 12, bogeed 16, bogeed 17, bogeed 18. And it was just, so really even yesterday, like he was writing the hunt, but he was just totally just treading water you know not making any noise but not doing anything stupid either
Starting point is 00:24:10 was just a weird weekend from Fowler. It was one effort. I forgot that he was one shot back going into today and he was a complete almost a complete non factor. I mean yeah I don't know. I don't remember him being that close even as a as of the 11th hole. I think Rose had it to to nine at that point, maybe. Rose had it to eight. And then I mean, he was only three back. Okay. Going into going into 10. Yeah, it was like 885 at one point. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't see those two going 7675 today,
Starting point is 00:24:41 him and speed. No, no, no, now granted granted i'm looking at the scoreboard and hindsight and that's like obviously they were playing ten simultaneously to so he was actually you know like but if you look at where they work concurrently through the round he was only three back when they when they both made a turn so
Starting point is 00:25:00 uh... we talk about your more speed yeah what do you got what do you got? What do you got? Yeah, I don't know. I'm a little disappointed to say the least, round 175, round 475. I don't know. I don't really know what to think.
Starting point is 00:25:17 I thought we'd see a lot more out of them on Sunday. I feel like with the lesser, the milder conditions is like, is perfect for him in it being such an emphasis on second shots on this golf course and the way he was hitting his irons on in round three, I thought it was going to be like a green light special for him today. I feel like he was almost, I don't want to say like too over confident going into it. Like some of the, some of the quotes He was saying you know, you know leading into the week about striking fear in people and saying you can't Jordan proof this course I know there was more to those quotes than what like went into tweets, but I don't know I don't know it just did not add up for me today
Starting point is 00:25:58 I'm surprised by I don't really have a full on take on it. I don't think it's necessarily means anything I know people will make a big deal about getting wet on 12 today. But I mean, he didn't make a bogey from like the the fourth hole in round two until the 16th on Saturday afternoon. And then today he bogey'd won three six ten. He doubled 12 bogey and bogey'd 14. He finished with three birdies. He carried his wrecked rig across the finish line but uh... no little disappointed really read too much into the into the double and twelve
Starting point is 00:26:31 no it was because he was out of it by then exactly and i was such an exhausting week to i mean i was like this is probably the most probably uh... you know mentally exhausting masters in recent memory just because of how brutal the conditions were the first two days. That was not fun. I did not enjoy those first two days. I'll be completely honest. It's fun at first and then it just kind of wears on you. You're like, all right, this isn't why I threw into the masters. To watch guys just grinding their asses off, you know.
Starting point is 00:27:05 I think what makes Augusta so great is that even in like conditions like today, like go very mild conditions, it has a ton of those like half-par holes or holes that it's it's if you execute like two shots very well, you can make a birdie quite easily like holes like 13, 14, 15 and 16 all of them Like if you hit good approaches into the right spots, it is very easy to make birdies for the most part. But if you're not executing your shots, if you're off by 15 feet, like if you miss 15 feet right of the flag on 16
Starting point is 00:27:35 and you don't catch the slope, like you get punished pretty badly. So I don't know, I know they can't control the wind, obviously, but the course is play, the event plays so much better when it's not super windy and gusty in my opinion. Yeah. I mean, like, I was surprised it didn't play a little bit easier the last two days. I was the lowest round we saw. 60 total for the tournament was 65.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Half a minute. total for the tournament was 65. Half men in front of one. Which is insane. It really is. I think historically that probably goes up there with Ken Dukes round at the players last year. Another Englishman, God saved the Queen. I think was low round on the weekend 67. I think Kuture, yeah 67. Matsu Yamashita 67 today.
Starting point is 00:28:23 And then yeah Kutcher and then Rose yesterday Chuck Hoffman stuck around for a long time. He I was sad to see him paid with the 78 today, but He I don't know why how he plays this golf course so well I wouldn't think of it as a as a Charlie Hoffman golf course, but this is not the first time he's messed around at Augusta He's got a pretty repeatable swing. I think it's just a matter of the putters just gotta get hot. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:28:51 He's a great ball striker. What do you got for me on McRib? Uh, just, you don't look comfortable. He doesn't, I mean, something's off with him and a guest. You think he's trying to ask for a present to hard. He was he was for under on the weekend. Yeah, he just but it but it was like it never any like it was never any momentum or never any confidence Like, there was never any momentum or never any confidence. You know, I don't know, it just seemed like he was,
Starting point is 00:29:27 not going through the motions, but it seemed like he just didn't really, he never truly inserted himself or, strutted around like he felt like he had his A stuff that really even his B stuff and he could string together nine and 15 holes, a good golf. I'd have to look at it, but I feel like he probably made around the same amount of birdies as Sergio did,
Starting point is 00:29:51 just made way more mistakes and way more bogie. Sergio only had one, Sergio didn't have any doubles this week and he had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven bogies the whole week, whereas I can't, I don't even wanna know how seven bogies the whole week. Whereas I can't, I don't even want to know how many bogies Rory made. But for every, every, you know, every step forward, he makes it, a gust that feels like he makes a step
Starting point is 00:30:12 backward immediately. He finished very strong today. He only made one bogie the whole day today, but I mean, I don't know. I mean, Rory only made two, he only made, he made two bogies in one double in the weekend. But I think it just felt like that because, like when he parred 13 yesterday,
Starting point is 00:30:26 from 175 yards out, like that felt like a double almost. Yeah. I think some of it with Rory is like, like he parred 15 Saturday and Sunday, actually Friday, Saturday and Sunday, he parred 13 Friday and Saturday, like some of that's just, you know, I feel like he, those feel like
Starting point is 00:30:46 bogies and doubles. You know, just, I don't know. I think it'll still happen for him there. I know, I don't know. T7, it's, I don't know. It feels, I hate when people get up, you know, poke at somebody for like seemingly backdoring because it's a four-round golf tournament, right? But it is it does seem like this is like three years in a row basically that he's finished near the back end of the top 10 without really really hunting it down at the end
Starting point is 00:31:14 but I Don't know what it all means. I think it I mean I think it definitely will happen for him I just I don't know I get I'm already tired of like the whole Is this third go around the chance at the slam? Like that this even becomes a story. I know it was kind of even a lesser deal this year than I think it was in previous years, but I mean, it's called, it's called the career grand slam for a reason. I can't, I just can't, we're all going to lose enthusiasm for this if we,
Starting point is 00:31:41 if we do this for 10 more years, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know, I know it can't stop the narratives from going but I don't know it's already it's already wearing on me. I read how about your boy Westwood sorry what it was what it was would finish yeah he finished uh I'm 24 today finished 18 I want your big rib take did you have a McRib take, Phil? Well, I was just going to say, I definitely think Rory's going to win in Augusta.
Starting point is 00:32:08 It just seemed like, I don't know. This might be crazy. It just seems like he was never really on the offensive. Maybe the conditions obviously weren't easy. The first couple couple rounds. But I just think he's got a, you know, he's almost playing a part 70 in a lot of respects. You know, he should, that course is, those part 5s are mega-gittable for him. I just, I just never felt like he was on the offensive at August.
Starting point is 00:32:47 And I guess I haven't felt like that in a few years now. I don't know what... Do you guys feel like the whole like wet, long-course thing is overstated for him? No. I don't. Back to what you were saying though, Phil, I feel like the guys that have done really well here the last few years are
Starting point is 00:33:11 and this is why I had trouble talking myself into DJ out there is it really isn't that much of a course that you can overpower anymore. I know Spieth made this point that he's like, when he said you can't Jordan prove this course, he's like, it't we said you can't jordan proof this course is like it's because i don't overpower it it's not uh... and there's certain holes where you can hit into spots where you know if he gets down that hill on two i think what i don't know what of the days he had like one seventy in the number two
Starting point is 00:33:36 but one of the days he had yesterday he had three would and laid back to the top of the hill and it could still reach from there i feel like guys like rose and surgio i mean i know they hit it plenty far enough but they're not like the top 10 longest guys in the game. I could be wrong with that on Sergio, I don't think he is but I don't think it's necessary to be super, super long and super like attacking everything. I feel like playing, if you're playing your irons to the right spots in the green and avoiding the bogies is more important than like There's enough birdie holes out there that you're gonna run into a few if you're giving yourself enough 15 footers that
Starting point is 00:34:10 It almost seems like like roaring to a like a much lesser extent like JT Those guys that play hyper aggressive and are always seem to be on the offensive to me Augusta is gonna catch you enough times over the course of four days It's offensive to me. Augusta is going to catch you enough times over the course of four days. It kind of baits you into that. Yeah. Like some of those pins you can't get after. And if you're wayward off some of these teas at big time, it punishes you on seven,
Starting point is 00:34:35 on eleven, and seventeen, a lot of those holes. So number one. Yeah. If you're missing the fairway on one, like you're making bogey. Like that. So I don't know It's it's I think I was Going back to your point about to like when you get down the hill going back to Sergio
Starting point is 00:34:51 That was probably the one point today At least until that that second shot into ten Well, I was I was legitimately worried like because he just he just didn't like that was a green light special You had what 180 yards and 195 yards in on two was it that little well It just it just dumped it in the bunker You know that was just poor, but yeah, and then speaking of your guys Who kind of fit that mold of guys that try to overpower golf course? Pretty good weekend from Keppka.
Starting point is 00:35:26 I thought that was coming next. I just was gonna shock you. Didn't see a lot of it on TV, but he did close, Bertie doubled 17, and Bertie, every other hole between 13 and 18 to shoot 69 today and finished T11. So, I don't have much to say on it because I didn't get to see any of it, but that's that's that's one of the most impressive major finishes
Starting point is 00:35:49 He's had and he's had a couple top 10 so How about the group at t 11 Matsuyama who shot 67 today Henry Kebka Fowler's feet all one under minus Matsuyama. That's like a rider cup team right there All one under minus Motsayama. That's like a Ryder Cup team right there. Yeah. Yeah. He's not. And then how about striker? Sticker shot 68 today. That's how what how was striker qualified for this? 2016. Uh, he finished top five at like one PGA or something last year.
Starting point is 00:36:18 Did he really pull it? I don't know. I don't know. That's your go-to for to for when somebody somebody qualifies. So yeah, I think Porter said that about somebody the other day. Some are hate. Wow, he finished fourth at the open last year. Is that how he got in? I don't know that at all. Yeah, got in. Yeah. I think, let's see, anybody else we didn't cover that needs to be covered. Sad to see Ernie go out with a DFL, if everyone that made the cut. I don't know, maybe that gives them some closure for what he's been through out there. I had a gust of specifically.
Starting point is 00:37:00 It sounds like mentally he's done with the master. So good riddance for him, I think he's like, dude, I'm good. I'm good on this place. All right, Randy, can we talk about your boys, do slender man? Yeah, man. I think he's anchoring his putter. Big big big. Big big so how does anybody know? I don't know they've messed that rule up so badly Hey, the rules definitely designed to eliminate whatever he does with the pilot that that shouldn't be the story though
Starting point is 00:37:38 We should not be talking about his is no, I don't I don't I know yeah, he had a really good showing that. I mean, first, first mid-AM to ever make the cut of the masters. It was a great one. It was a birdie today. Yeah, low-am. That's a heck of a week. How do you work as a financial analyst in New York City, where you can only play golf certain amount of months of the year. You can't go play golf really after work unless you're going to Chelsea peers and all of the simulator game dude but still man like and make the cut at the masters that is so massively impressive like I'm blown away by that.
Starting point is 00:38:17 I'd like to I'd like to get a better understanding of his actual work schedule before I come in on that like you, you see really? I was talking to him on the trap job before the Masters, and we just couldn't figure out the right time, but I'd like to get him on some sort of recap to just talk about his experience and kind of talk through the week. I think that would be really interesting. He's shut Nance down when Nance tried to suggest that he turns pro. He just destroyed him. He's shut nance down when nance trying to suggest that he turns pro He just destroyed him But that was like
Starting point is 00:38:51 That was like and I don't want me to bring him up because I think we're in the post Jeff Knox era like yeah It's almost gotten to the point where people are beating Jeff Knox to death so badly that by the time we get around to it next year like Jeff Knox and like a post-hype sleeper because like you know he's just been played out so badly by everybody. But I do think like that was kind of the Jeff Knox quote was like why would I turn pro and make and like have to work a lot harder and make less money than I'm making now. You know, which is sweet. It's just so massively impressive. What do you all think occurred as luck?
Starting point is 00:39:28 More importantly, his look is get up. I'm down with it. I like him. I think it worked. Strange, weirdly, I was really okay with it. I didn't like his move at the ball is not that intriguing to me. It's a little LPCP.
Starting point is 00:39:46 He's kind of like an Australian luck. He quite literally is an Australian. Yeah I could see that. If it's Patrick I mean I don't remember where he finished but he had some moments this week. Oh he's got 78 in round two. I didn't realize that. But, um, yeah, I'm gonna show you battle back today. Yeah. How about Brian Stewart making the cut? I mean, I asked he was just dumping all over him prior to the Masters, said that he, you know, he was like, man, I'm shocked that Brian Stewart has these odds. And he was like, I was like, really? Like, why? And he was like, no, like no like like I'm shocked at Brian's foods and the masters that he has odds at all like that was kind of and then I mean finished t 36 70 round two 74 round three 73 round four so a little bit disappointed and soren kelsen faded faded big time on sund. Didn't expect to see that.
Starting point is 00:40:46 That Whisperger guy played well today. A lot of guys bounced back and round four. Bubba had no interest in making the cut. Bubba did not want to be there that weekend. Somebody was saying... Yeah, really sickly. It's not good. Something that pescatarian tip, it was funny.
Starting point is 00:41:09 Some one of the guys was like, yeah, Bubba was saying something. I think it was one of the alternate streams where they were saying something about Bubba talking about how much he can spin this golf ball. I was like, yeah, I think he, I think that's kind of the problem. Like he can spin this golf ball. I was like yeah, I think he I Think that's kind of the problem like he can spin it too much. He doesn't know what it's gonna do He just look lost on some of those shots out there
Starting point is 00:41:39 This interested to pop his wrist back in we didn't even talk about Phil Yeah, I mean what's there to say? You had a classic field tournament. I feel like he's so many bogies. Like so many great shots. Gay boys, so many, you know, strokes just up and down. I made right a lot of, he made bogeys and two doubles and shot two over He legitimately had a shot at like three Eagles just today 13 I think he eagle to you know, he was I yeah, I feel like every time I was I was turning around it was
Starting point is 00:42:25 like Phil was either ramming one by the hole for Paul or putting for Eagle there was no middle ground at all. I think he was like 80 over for the week on hole number three he could not figure out hole three. He played eight double twice. In the second round. Yeah he doubled it round three rounds. I thought when you all were talking about speed, he played and I had a Mikkelson as a tournament. He played two and six under for the week. Subssured. Yeah. What's your speed? Played a Mikkelson like tournament. What's your what's your angle here? Well, just, you know, Tony Bogie's made a quad. You know, just highs and lows.
Starting point is 00:43:10 You know, I thought that was, you know, his kind of four day score card was one that Nicholson would be very proud of. Phil really does look like he tires out pretty easily at this age. Was he trying to win the tournament? easily at this age. Was he trying to win the tournament? I think when he was going to the back nine on Friday afternoon, I thought he was right
Starting point is 00:43:34 in it. And then he had a couple of three puts. He just got really sloppy on Friday afternoon coming in. I killed him. You were texting me, you said he's, he wrapped his, he wrapped his rig around like the emergency barrier or something in the middle of it. No, the garage partition at his home, like he got home, but it was like major damage to the car in the house at home. Like, you know, he didn't leave it out there in the freeway. But he
Starting point is 00:44:05 wrapped it around like the the the divider on his garage. It's like that wolf of Wall Street scene where the guy he uh he makes it home on the in the uh whatever drug street. Lutze stay, Kweilud stays he's in. Um are we are we can we cover the players because I've waited like 42 minutes now to get just lay waste to CBS. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, do it. Fight up. Does somebody want to go first or can I go first? You go first.
Starting point is 00:44:32 You're the child of the bit. Yeah, just go ahead. I tried my absolute hardest not to tweet too much about it today. I really don't know where to start other than I can't under sell the disservice they're doing to the game. And Tron, I know you pointed out, and I didn't notice it as much until you pointed out. So you hindered my viewing experience that they're only showing puts. Like, they wouldn't, they refuse to show full golf shots.
Starting point is 00:45:00 We know what we can, if you're using the tracker to follow any player, which the tracker tracker is not an immediate update you can see like 90% of what they do before it's even shown on TV. I when the when the feature groups came out today. I was like stunned that spieth and foul or weren't one of them and I legitimately was upset knowing. That we were gonna see less than half of either their shots and that ended up happening because they both dropped off but I The it started out horribly Thursday. They got it together Friday. They came in strong yesterday on Saturday But it's so bad. It's it's amazing that I have that you can we can see action going on all of us can see action going on from home And they can't display it on our screens are so obsessed with the storytelling and you know going with the narratives that they've already decided on versus reacting to what's going on out there. Half the time when they when they go over to
Starting point is 00:45:55 Doddy Pepper on 13 it looks like she doesn't know that they're even coming to her and they they don't even know that she doesn't know that people are playing the whole it it's so bad I can't lost over on that whole so the big like first of all they spent however many minutes this morning or this after early this afternoon like right when they let into the telecast showing them repairing the whole oh my god number like like after Henry obliterated it when he dumped it. Like, that was so gratuitous and like that just set the tone for the whole day. And then, it's like they're totally rudderless when some of the guys that are contending come into 13 and what they still have to show the guys on 8 and 9. Like they can't multitask whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:46:41 And then Kymur, like Kymur was, they were showing his T-shot on 12 and he was staring at an eagle putt on 13. Like, it was like tape delay, like legitimately, like NBC Olympic style tape delay. I will say they got it to get, well, they didn't know how much of a choice come down the stretch. It became a two-man show, and you can't really screw that up. But the end was fantastic theater, I thought. But man, it captured it well last hour and a half or so. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:12 And the Thursday, Friday, was the worst. I mean, it's CBS crew that's running the ESPN broadcast, and it's at the helm. And you could tell within 20 minutes of the opening broadcast that it just had the CBS stink all over it. I don't know. Every time I feel like they're making progress, I feel like it gets worse and worse. It just makes me so... It makes me not want to watch it. I have to keep two screens going. One for the A-men corner and 15 and 16 because they don't show those holes. They don't show anyone teeing off on 13. They don't show that they refuse to show the T-Shot on 13 at all,
Starting point is 00:47:49 which is except for like the last group or two. I feel like they're set up as part of their problem. I feel like those other live streams get them in trouble because are people supposed to have multiple screens open or are we supposed to be able to rely on the broadcast to show us, you know, all of that? I think that's the question. They're like stuck in no man's land.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Where, they're so frustrated with somebody claps back at me on Twitter and says, oh, well, that's what this stream is for, like, why weren't you watching? And I'm like, I am watching that. But like, I don't want to sit on eyes, guys. Like, I'm not, you know, and I'd rather watch it on the high definition screen than on my computer or on my phone you know All right, so I got so they they shoot they showed so we got some knowing of interns working on the working on charging some shots today
Starting point is 00:48:40 This one cursing my man Malcolm Herbert up in Boston This one courtesy my man Malcolm Herbert up in Boston, he said roughly 380 shots shown on the main telecast, 200 full shots, 180 pots, but that full shots is including anything even like from just off the green. So that was kind of how I deleted it. So probably closer to a little bit more than half being pot search ships. More than, and then he counted more than 15 quote, this just a moment ago. And then another 20 instances where, and he wasn't even looking for this, but another 20 instances where he was watching something on the one of the other feeds and then saw it three minutes later and they didn't say this just a month ago.
Starting point is 00:49:33 So, yeah, so just not just no flow in the middle of the broadcast at all the last couple days. It becomes rudderless like between whole four, you know, kind of once they get to four and like until they get to the back nine. Yeah, coming on the air today at two Eastern, you know, with like basically, you know, there's a two oh five, there's a two 15, two 25, two 35 and two 45 T time. They didn't show the two5 and 225 t times.
Starting point is 00:50:07 That made like zero sense. Look at me. Good groups. Right. One was Peters and Westwood I think, and I forget what the other one was. Well, it was what Schwartz on Scott, I think. And they didn't show them Tying Off.
Starting point is 00:50:20 I can't understand. And that's where they were showing them repairing the couple on five. How do you need us to even mention or anybody to mention that we'd rather see two masters champions and two other excellent players teeing off in their third and fourth the last groups on a master's Sunday, the final round. It makes absolutely no sense. I'm a follow-up. Fowdo was doing play by play for the whole repair though. So that was sweet.
Starting point is 00:50:52 I actually did kind of laugh a few times. I think what got me in the mouth. I think CBS is, I think their setup is the root of their problems in that regard but i think what got me was on their alternate on the internet streams their use of graphics was i i guess so much better that they don't use graphics on the main broadcast and i don't understand why they're so has to do that i get the sense that that's like a masters that
Starting point is 00:51:24 that's like an aug Augusta national directive though. You mean protracer though, right? With the graphics. Yeah, pretty much. Like they have, you know, quite a few drives where they're like right behind the player. It's a great angle. But as soon as, you know, after contact, you can't see the ball. So it's, it's wasted and then they cut to the ball in the air.
Starting point is 00:51:44 But you have no idea where it is I don't know Well, then it's tough to like they're when they're planning the back nine Some of the some of the camera placements like you can't you can't see the ball on 13 at all Like on the drive You can barely see it on the second shot in the green like if they put a if they put a camera up Kind of like on the right side of the fairway like at the top of the fairway kind of like that would that would help immensely Like you can't see the drive on 14 or 17 like the shadows or you know some of it like it's just it's begging for protracer
Starting point is 00:52:20 And I know that would detract from The natural beauty of the tournament, but to me, I don't know, seeing Sergio's drive, on 18 with a pro-tracer on it would be pure ecstasy. My problem with the pro-tracer that they had on the internet streams, they wouldn't show the ball land. They would show on the graphic, you, you know, you could see the color tracer and see where it landed, you know, according to the graphic, but they wouldn't cut to where the ball was rolling.
Starting point is 00:52:51 We only need the graphic for when the ball is in the air, for like a few seconds. It's all we really need, and then they wouldn't cut to the ball. I didn't understand that, but I don't know. It's still, they still got a ways to go with, you know, they gave us all these channels and whatnot, but there's still so many, there's feature groups those first two days were rough to say the least. They got it together. It's so graceful.
Starting point is 00:53:12 It was odd. That was so brutal. Like, what a waste. Do you know of all this infrastructure to do, you know, magnificent things with these groups and you choose to, you know, parade out out a couple groups that nobody really gives a shit about. I love Hendrix's sense in the death, but he's kind of irrelevant at the Masters. It's just not a great track for him. And people were getting on us for complaining about him saying it's an international game
Starting point is 00:53:42 and we wanted to see some of the international players. Like, I want to see Roy. Roy, Roy, I mean, like, it was, you know, that was three international guys paired together right there. You know, it just, um, and you can't even, you can't even stream those online streams from overseas without a VPN. Like, I had no access to it. I had to cheat my way into it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:04 I, so I got a couple takes. Costless. I thought costs did a good job on 15. And people always keep me and giving him a free pass. But I like costs. I think he's. He's good. Goes a little bit too hard on Paul Kasey.
Starting point is 00:54:16 Or go a little bit too focused on Paul Kasey sometimes. Like the beginning of the day today, in the whole package of Paul Kasey highlights, which thought were kind of misplaced. But Kasey had a good day. But like show more of the day today, in a whole package of Paul Casey highlights, which thought were kind of misplaced. But I mean, Casey had a good day, but like show more of his shots live instead of, yeah, just that kind of bundle in the beginning. But yeah, I thought he was very good on 15.
Starting point is 00:54:37 Bill Macaties, like the most of the Nila dude, like somebody tweeted the other day that they could basically record his sayings or his, his, you know, euphemisms and comments and just play them back every year because they're so impersonal and vanilla and bland and they're, and like, don't really add anything to the proceedings whatsoever. That's, that's kind of my take on him. I think Dottie's struggling on 13.
Starting point is 00:55:03 Like, she's just not either miscast for that spot. Um, and then yeah, I mean, Vernon on 16. He had a great oh wild today. And he went silent. He went silent as those guys were coming up like 16. And think, I mean, think about that. He sets there all day waiting for that final group. That's his chance. That's his walk up. Grab the mic and he just stayed silent, let them walk up 16. I thought that was so perfect.
Starting point is 00:55:29 He's the best. And Costas really added to the moment, Sergio's eagle, I thought his call there was fantastic. So. I thought he was very capable. And then, I mean, 15 just looked great today. Like the way that the light was hitting it, you know, the time, I don't know, just look, that just looked great today, like the way that the light was hitting it,
Starting point is 00:55:49 you know, the time, I don't know, it just looked like a resplendent hole today. I was just starting to start. Yeah, great optics. I'm glad we got that weekend, kind of the conditions soften up the nice weather, the sun, like that's what it's all about. It was a good mixture, you know, of, uh, kind of weeded some guys out that weren't quite there mentally those first two days and then, you know, kind of green light special without it being too easy. It wasn't like 2015 all over again where guys were just throwing darts all over the place. So I thought it was a nice mix. A Gus says just it is such a great tournament golf course and I know it's it's everyone's effusive in their praise of it. But it really is fantastic. It's not
Starting point is 00:56:23 a perfect course. There's some holes I really dislike out there and don't enjoy watching guys try to play, but man, it's a lot of fun. Especially that final stretch, those few holes, 17s kind of boring, but that stretch from like 13 to 16 is there's not a better stretch in golf. Yeah, so all right, anything else that we missed, I'm sure there is. I mean, I think we can talk about this tournament for like a week and pretty sure. Am I crazy in thinking that after Sergio is won the Masters that now I think Phil's going to win the US Open. God, that'd be great. That's going to be a four-meal-one track up there. I think it's's gonna be like Kebka, DJ, Day, just battling it out, cutting it over dog legs.
Starting point is 00:57:10 I'm starting to worry if Phil can grind like that for four days. Yeah, I'm already off this take that I just had 30 seconds ago and I'm back on DJ. I mean, sorry, I've been working on the red up for the bird tail round. We did over in England The more and more I think about that the more and more just like speak speak speak Don't we're sorry. I mean Sergio now. I mean all right. That's a question. Do the do the floodgates just open up for Sergio now? I don't Not like DJ not in my opinion. No, I don't think this changes a whole lot
Starting point is 00:57:44 I not like DJ not my opinion no I don't think this changes a whole lot I think I mean it changes the way that we'll talk about him if he's coming down the stretch of a major now I mean it won't be like that sad free show that I mean Twitter was hilarious this afternoon like everyone was resigned nearly everyone was resigned to this not working out including myself I did I did, again, I did not think this was gonna happen. We can't really do that anymore. Now that he's done it, we can't, I was refreshing Dan Jenkins Twitter
Starting point is 00:58:14 like multiple times today. He has to say something here he has to. God, Sergio Twitter. So I'll go back, so you always talk about the Ryder Cup in 2024, at the webpage. So I'll go back so you always talk about the rider cup in what 2024? Yep, I think Sergio needs to play captain there. How old will he be now? Is he 37?
Starting point is 00:58:34 He's 37. Yeah. So he'll be 44 or 45? Whatever. I think he's got to be, I think Pol Polter's gonna captain that team isn't he? do you want to do your retake by the way? what's that? do you want to do your retake? oh that he stinks he's like the American Polter.
Starting point is 00:59:00 I mean there's not really a take like he's like you know honestly I mean, there's not really a take. Like, he's like, you know, honestly. I mean, you and a couple other guys have just been carrying his bath water when I'm not seeing a whole lot of a whole lot of difference between him and Poulter. He's 26 year old, four time PGA tour winner. He's never finished top 10 in the major. He's not. He's got to get going a little bit. I think it is fair to start Kind of talking about that five time tour winner. Sorry
Starting point is 00:59:33 Yeah, the major thing it's not good. He has he does have he does have five Five top 25s though, you know, I mean, you know, all right, all right. No, I think he's good I think he's good, but he's got to start it's time It's not been a good season. It's not been one to follow up on whatever he did at Hazel team But no, I thought you'd take was this little harsh on the American polter thing but and it's it much it pains me to say it though polter did have some very very good years in there, but Yeah, he's totally but Right, so all right. I'm going all right. I'm looking up polter the whole
Starting point is 01:00:18 Pulitzer So this is match play From whoever says that Pulitzer never won anything, he won two WGC's first of all. So that was, you know, that needs to be on the record. And he won him pretty late in his career. So that's fair. That's fair, Chris.
Starting point is 01:00:41 He won the first one at 34, the second one at 36. But by the same token he was stacking up a lot of European Tourism wins from like 2000 to 2006 or so When the Italian opened twice when the Moroccan open the Nordic open the Volvo Masters end of Asia the Celtic man or whales open he was stacking up national opens which you love the best and and granted he in his first two three four probably in his first four years or so playing majors consistently, he get a top 11, you know, T411 at the 05 open chain championship, but then from 2006 to like 2013, he had
Starting point is 01:01:35 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, he had seven top 10s and majors including a solo second and two T3s. Yeah, and then after the, basically after the 2012 Ryder Cup, though, team he's been a non-factor for the most part on the world stage. That's my saving grace when it comes to Polter. But... All right.
Starting point is 01:01:59 Hour in, have we wrapped the 2017 Masters? One of the greatest tournaments I've ever seen honestly or one of the greatest finishes greatest thrills of a finish I would say. It's behind me also know for me. Yeah, that's that's definitely a tough one to to bypass, but is it runner up to Michelson's you think Phil? Yes, yes. For me, it was probably it was the best I've ever seen.
Starting point is 01:02:27 It was a triumph of the human spirit. Seriously, they should do like a one shining moment of just surgery of missing puts down the straight, but just like stuffing irons and then missing putts and then finally Like it's like one shining moment. He he finished it off like he couldn't He couldn't mess it up. It was it was incredible. Do you guys at least understand People that dislike Sergio at this point I Do but I'm not sure they fully realize kind of the transformation he's undergone. What do you mean by transformation? Well, you know, just how brutally honest he is about, or he was about his game and, you
Starting point is 01:03:16 know, his doubts. And, you know, I think he owned a lot of, a lot of his past behavior. I think he got a lot more human for me and when he talked openly about, you know, it may never be good enough, you know, my best, maybe I'm just playing for a second. Like that's when I really started to root for him and like him more because that's,
Starting point is 01:03:42 you know, that's as real as it gets. And so I think, I think a lot of people who hackle him and I think certainly 10 years ago, 12 years ago, he deserved some criticism. I don't think he deserves as much as he gets. But I think anybody who sells a problem with Sergio doesn't quite understand what he's kind of the transfer of them problems, not a Sergio. Yeah, yeah, at this point, it's a you problem.
Starting point is 01:04:13 Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, even like, even today when I see replays of the 99, like PGA at Madonna, like I still, like I don't You know physically turned off by that That Sergio that image of Sergio, but then at the same time I'm thankful for that Sergio because it It helps me appreciate his current state that much more But I mean, I think it would have been really easy for him to mail it in after the shit that he went through with this game and his personal life and like oh nine
Starting point is 01:04:43 and mail it in after the shit that he went through with his game and his personal life and like 09 2010 and and he he battled back and buckled down and like you know Took took the hard route to get back to the top of the world. I mean, I think that's That's something about his character, you know and just because he's he's honest about it or he's somewhat You know somewhat vulnerable about it. You know, I think people kind of dog Okay, but if anything to me that just means I don't know that's just more strength For him that he's able to to do it also publicly
Starting point is 01:05:23 I'm just sitting over this like a shitty being grand on my face listening to this like it's so awesome that he won. He's been through so much like So much heckling. I don't and I know some of it gets shown on TV I'm not sure if people really have the full appreciation for how much he goes throughout on the course sometimes are Our fans can you know don't have the best reputation worldwide and especially when it comes to Sergio It's it's not a strong history. So I think that definitely helped so that it's Augusta and he doesn't really deal with that nearly to the extent that he would if it was in New York. But when that stands out was the players a couple years ago to me. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:57 He took much. Yeah, that was bad. We played with JT that Saturday round I think or something like that. But I don't know, just to see somebody that we've watched for our lives, we're all around the same age. He's a little older than us, but we've watched him play for almost two decades now to have this inner struggle and this battle, and to overcome that,
Starting point is 01:06:18 and to see that emotion on that 18th green and it all come together when it just did not feel like it was gonna to ever happen. I don't know. That was historic. That was amazing. I'm just going to completely different high than I, than I hope, than my reaction to the 2016 Masters, that's for sure. This sounds like a kind of a Johnny come take, but I remember thinking when he did it but like watching the big year event in Dubai at the beginning of this year Like he I think he was like wired a wire there and didn't like didn't even show any shades of pissing in a way and he had some pretty good players on his on his heels
Starting point is 01:07:00 extension and Patton and like I want to say Fitzpatrick was there and like I mean just it was a quality field and Basically, he you know, he just Tokio didn't ran with it and like to me that was that showed a shitload of growth at the time But I was like man like I remember a few years back when he won in codder in 2014 or 2015 and I was like, oh man, like he has five and heading into the West Coast swing, like he likes playing kind of a sparing schedule heading into the
Starting point is 01:07:32 spring. And then, you know, just didn't really, but it was like, it was kind of like fool me once, shame on you. You know, fool me 14 times. Like shame on it. Everybody. I'm an idiot. You know, so. But yeah, I mean, it just feels good to be, to be vindicated a little bit,
Starting point is 01:07:55 especially with people outwardly rooting against them on Twitter today, too. Fair enough. I, uh, to me, it doesn't, I don't feel like anything changed with Sergio other than it's like, it's his time. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:08:07 He's been this kind of guy for several recent years. It's not like he went through some transformation that made it happen this week. It's just kind of, it all finally fell together. Is that, is that a fair assessment? Yes, I agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it literally goes back to the whole, the numbers game.
Starting point is 01:08:26 You put yourself in position to win enough times. You know, at some point, I mean, granted, you can point this to me like Monti and say, all right, well, that's bullshit. Like, Monti never want to meet you. But I mean, if you keep knocking on the door and putting yourself in as good a position as Sergio has put himself in over the years. You're bound to get a, it's like he, like on 13 yesterday when he hit it,
Starting point is 01:08:49 like I thought that was wet in the creek for sure. Yeah. And then it was up, like you need a call. And he finally got a couple of them, you know? So. Can we talk about people thinking that me saying, I'm so sick of Sergio getting all the breaks, thinking that I was serious.
Starting point is 01:09:09 People replied to me thinking that I was serious. Twitter was not good. Some of the prize were not good this week. You need a sarcastic font. Twitter does definitely need that. All right, Gents, it's about 3.30 here. We're an hour and seven in anything else. Cool.
Starting point is 01:09:28 Randy's gonna be on site. Yeah, Heritage. What do you got planned for? Yeah, down in Hilton Head. I'm cattying in the Pro Am Wednesday, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm gonna plan to probably write something up about that. And then I'll be on the grounds all week
Starting point is 01:09:48 Try to get some good intel follow some guys Should be great weather find out who you're caddy and for the program not till Tuesday Okay, yeah, not Well, yeah, I'll be down. I'll be joining you. I think we're gonna drive up and Thursday Yeah, I thought I think we're gonna try to do a little podcast from the Karama Hibashi Japanese steakhouse the site of the And the board of directors meeting in 2014. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be lit
Starting point is 01:10:22 Well, Randy enjoy that if you if you guys are going to the heritage and see a six foot seven guy wandering around in a bucket hat. Please roast, please roast his catty, his catty. I'll be riding, I'll be riding my chicken all around the ground. Slender man. All right, gentlemen. Thank you for jumping on Yeah, yeah, see you guys cheers boys That's better than most That is better than most. Better than most!

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