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Masters Week Highlights, Predictions, and Supporting Rising Golfers · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome in to an exciting episode of the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  You are here for the first ever Scratch Project.
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  We are here for the coverage of the twenty twenty six masters.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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  I am joined by my cohost tonight and on the show, Shady Grady.
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  Shady, welcome in, brother.
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  What's up, everybody?
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  How are we?
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  I think everybody's feeling pretty darn good.
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  Round one of the masters, has concluded just, less than an hour ago.
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  A great round of golf already in the books there.
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  It looks like it's gonna be a gorgeous weekend in Georgia, in the eighties with lots of
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  sunshine.
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  So I think one of the better, weather wise, weekends for the masters that they've had in
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  recent memory.
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  You know, it can be hit or miss there.
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  It could be 81 day and then 40 the next like it is here in South Dakota today, but you never
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  know.
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  What it was this morning.
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  I I did yeah.
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  I think that's pretty accurate.
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  I think it was thirties and then 60.
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  Awesome stuff.
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  So I would love to, get some of your thoughts right off the top here.
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  Obviously, let's not bury the lead.
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  Speaking of leads Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Sam Burns and Rory McElroy grabbing a share of the lead each at five under on the day.
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  We'll go through the rest of the leaderboard and any surprises that may be on there.
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  But what were your thoughts of Sam and Rory's day?
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  I know you had it on at this dealership all
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  Sam Burns.
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  I'm looking at one that doesn't have Sam Burns on in there.
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  But, anyways, it's all yes.
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  Okay.
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  So Rory Rory and Sam came out scorching hot.
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  You know, Rory, for the last, what, ten years, has had had that kinda monkey on his back, and
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  last year, he got it off.
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  So, like, it was good to see Rory come out hot, and he looked confident.
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  The other one that I think is definitely one to look out for actually, honorable mention,
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  Freddie Couples.
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  I wanna give a big round of applause for Freddie Couples.
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  60 some years old, and I think he was either even par or maybe one over.
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  But he was under par for most of the day.
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  But, yeah, Rory come out smoking hot.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Justin Rose.
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  Justin Rose is one to watch out for, and my dark horse is probably Jordan Spieth.
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  But what do you think about round one?
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  What'd you what'd you get to watch?
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  Not much.
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  Kinda caught the, the the tail end of it here.
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  Rory was already in.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah. A
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  A little bit of Scottie Scheffler's day.
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  Not bad.
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  Right?
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  I think he he finished coming in at two under, still within striking range.
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  I guess to me and kinda cruising the leaderboard towards the end of the day, I was
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  just slammed.
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  I had, like, eight podcast interviews a day, and they're like, I was just I was too busy to
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  watch it in the background.
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  Yeah.
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  But I think the biggest surprise to me, you know, a guy like John Rahm at plus six, you're
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  like, ugh.
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  That's gonna that's tough to even manage to try and come back from.
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  Right?
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  But a lot of guys in striking range, you know, the five under, I think, on a day like today is
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  probably a pretty solid number, a lot in it, three under.
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  Right?
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  And in that striking range.
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  And I think with the weather being what it's gonna be like, the hot and sunny, these greens
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  are gonna get fast by Sunday.
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  And I think it's gonna become more and more treacherous as we go, especially with the pin
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  locations kinda gradually getting tougher and tougher.
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  So, yeah, I gotta second that.
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  I was actually just watching the Rory McElroy documentary that they had on Prime Yeah.
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  Right after the round there.
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  Yeah.
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  Hard not to get emotional watching.
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  Right?
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  And I just this weekend and I didn't even grow up like a huge golf fan.
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  Right?
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  And I'm not in the South, but it's hard not to get emotional thinking about it and just,
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  everything that it means to to everyone.
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  And, obviously, I've become a a bigger and bigger fan of golf as I get older.
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  But I love sport, and I love the emotion of sport.
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  I love the stories inside of that.
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  It's that's most of the reason why we started the Scene Project Sports Network, right, is to,
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  focus on those stories inside of the games, not so much the action itself, but the the story
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  lines.
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  And, obviously, Rory's a a massive one and getting that last bit of the grand slam last
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  year, like you said, kinda get that monkey off his back.
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  And it seemed like he played free today.
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  You know?
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  You look at his first hole, he chucks it into the trees on the left side, but comes back,
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  pars it, and then just kind of maintains, you know, and and plays consistent.
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  And I think that's what this course and this tournament demand of everyone, that you be
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  consistent and and not let the the lows get too low and being able to do and, you know, you you
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  mentioned at a Jordan Spieth, no one knows the lows of this course better than Jordan and not
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  being able to recover.
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  Right?
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  So Right.
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  I just love this weekend of golf.
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  I if you if you can't get excited for masters week, I don't know what you can get excited
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  about.
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  Right.
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  Now one good storyline, speaking of that, Gary Woodland.
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  So Gary Woodland, for those that don't know, they found a lesion on his brain.
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  And he's been open about it, and he's talked about it through, like, the past couple months
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  and stuff like that, but it's fairly new.
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  And he come back, and he won a tournament here recently.
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  But he opened up and they told a story about him.
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  And turns out the lesion on his brain was located on the actual part that, I guess,
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  deciphers anxiety and fear.
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  So he is really fighting anxiety and fear, and he opened up and said that he feels like in the
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  moment, even though he knows it's not gonna happen, he feels like he's about to be
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  attacked.
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  That's what the feeling feels like.
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  Everything's, like, closing in on him.
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  And he says that it'll happen at random times, but he's struggling with that on the golf
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  course.
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  And, you know, everybody's rooting for him.
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  It's a really good story, and he's being open about it with his PTSD and stuff.
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  But it's a crazy story, and I think today, he started out really good.
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  I mean, he was going three under into, I think, nine or even 12.
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  But I think he ended up being even par as well, but his round kinda unfolded there at the end.
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  But that's another good guy.
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  Like, I
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  hope Yeah.
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  And Woodland finished one under, but, yeah, at that point at the turn, he was three under.
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  Yep.
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  Not, not a bad day.
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  And, really, I I think anyone
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  that in it.
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  You know, if you're within five of the lead heading into this Monday, right, you you're in
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  good shape.
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  I this this course can just be absolutely treacherous.
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  And you would think with the weather being as nice as it is with all the sun and things that
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  Perfect.
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  Things wouldn't be a problem, but I think, especially for this course with the way the
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  greens are and the rolls to them that as it wears on into Sunday afternoon as we're
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  finishing this tournament out, these greens are gonna be fast.
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  They are going to be dry.
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  You know, the South in general has just been in this drought for a couple of years now.
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  So and the course already, I think the greens look pretty dry out there.
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  So I think there's a little bit of an advantage to the to the guys that are teeing off early in
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  the day for the rest of the weekend.
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  You'd think the course will be playing a little bit
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  Sticky.
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  Slower and more true with a little bit of that morning dew on it yet.
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  So look for some guys in those mornings to kinda make some runs, on these leaders, and
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  it's really gonna put a lot of pressure on Arroyo McElroy and especially, you know, young
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  man as Sam Burns out there, to maintain this lead now going through the rest of the weekend.
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  Yeah.
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  Sheffler's off early in the morning.
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  I think Kepka's also off early in the morning, and both of them were knocking on the door of
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  being able to break through.
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  Yeah.
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  Not gonna be surprised at all if Scheffler is, when he's in, tomorrow, being at the top of the
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  leaderboard.
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  His first three holes was four under through four holes.
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  Like, he started off really hot.
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  It looked exactly like a Scottie Scheffler kind of day, and then it all, like, pimento cheesed
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  out, and we appreciate that from the Scotties out there.
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  Y'all gotta chill, man.
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  Where's where's JT Posten?
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  Can we can we get a JT Posten sighting?
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  Let's, I wanna jump in.
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  I'm gonna actually throw the leaderboard up onto the stage here.
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  We can all kinda get a look at it together.
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  So I'm going to pull myself.
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  I will just go full screen with the leaderboard and take a look.
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  So, obviously, we talked about Burns, McElroy up there.
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  Kitayama, you know, you got three tied there in second at three under.
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  Lot of you know, the few two unders, lot of ones.
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  Right?
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  Yep.
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  I just to me, anybody who's in in in even par.
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  Right?
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  Anyone in here is in play.
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  Right?
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  Kepka, Thomas, Spieth, all sitting even par, had up and down days through here.
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  You know, I think there's a lot to be decided.
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  Obviously, you know, Friday being move in day.
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  What do you think the cut line is gonna be at?
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  Kinda looking at where everybody's at a couple of 12 overs here.
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  That would be me through nine, hopefully.
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  That
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  was the question today.
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  What would from the tees of where they are today, what do you think you would score?
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  37 over.
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  Oh god.
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  See, I think I would shoot, like, a 140.
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  Like, there's no telling.
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  It's, yeah.
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  And you're probably gonna end up with that cut line.
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  What are we looking at?
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  I mean, that cut line's probably gonna be at, like, a what?
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  Two over maybe?
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  At the end of the day tomorrow?
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  Yeah.
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  It could be.
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  Maybe two, maybe three.
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  So you really have to move.
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  You know?
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  Guys like a a Ram and Uh-huh.
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  Freddie just kinda fell apart at the end of the day.
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  That's kinda sad looking at his scorecard here.
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  Couple of double bogeys.
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  Oh, a four.
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  Right.
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  Man, the those last four.
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  And I wonder if that's just fatigue, right, from from a guy.
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  It's gotta be.
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  I mean,
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  he's 16.
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  They're making him walk all 18.
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  I hope they never make me walk all 18.
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  I don't know if I ever have.
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  Maybe when I was a kid.
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  I don't ever remember.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I I must have.
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  No.
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  I definitely walked nine.
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  I don't know if I ever walked a full, 18 holes.
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  That's for certain.
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  So We're waiting for you.
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  Shady, who's, I picked I there was a a well, friend of ours, Pure Golf.
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  They kinda had their little contest they were doing and asked you to pick a, pick the winner
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  and their score.
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  I picked Rory at minus 13, kind of as that number to win.
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  What was your pick for, for a win here?
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  That's not a bad guess.
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  I was gonna go with Tommy Fleetwood at minus 11.
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  Speaking of Tommy, he was having some fun out on the par three day.
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  I think that's the thing about this week.
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  Right?
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  Is that, like, it's so these guys get to bring their families out, and you have the Caddy day,
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  and you just, like it's just such an iconic, not just the round, but the entire week of
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  events that are going on.
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  Tommy was having some fun out there.
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  Yeah.
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  I saw his kid.
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  Yeah.
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  That was a good one.
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  And, whose little girl?
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  Bubba Watson's little girl rained one in from the other end of, the putting green.
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  I mean, rained that thing in.
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  So that was a good one.
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  No.
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  The par three contest is always my favorite because you never did you see Kevin Hart?
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  I didn't.
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  Oh my god.
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  Okay.
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  So Kevin didn't hit it a 100 yards.
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  They put him on like, I think Kevin was caddy in for Bryson DeChambeau, and it's the hole
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  that goes over the water and the green.
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  It's, like, a 170 yards.
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  It's not an easy shot.
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  Kevin hit it about 65 yards into the water and then proceeded to go on ESPN this morning and
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  blame the outfit and said they gave him a kid's large.
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  I don't know if Kevin's getting the invite back.
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  Oh, that's funny.
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  That's
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  The stars come out.
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  The par three is good.
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  There was four hole in ones.
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  Fleetwood had a hole in one.
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  JT had a hole in one.
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  Can't remember the other two.
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  But, yeah, there was some good action in par three.
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  Yeah.
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  It's just a ton of fun.
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  The great weekend, these guys get to share it with their families, and the caddies get to
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  have fun.
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  And I think that it's just it it's really what makes this weekend so special and kinda kicking
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  off the major run here, and it it feels like summer's right around the corner.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  And I know that we're still, you know, a month and a half away, and I I feel like, you know,
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  I'm at least six weeks away from from warm weather here in South Dakota.
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  But it it feels like the that that change of the season.
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  Right?
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  Spring is upon us.
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  You're dreaming about the summer.
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  I I don't know how you're not grabbing the clubs and swinging them in the backyard all
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  weekend, and it's just, an amazing time and such a beautiful tradition.
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  I'm really, grateful, and I'm looking forward to the day, Shady, that we all get to go as a
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  team, you know, the SPSN team, and to get out there altogether and experience that.
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  And I had gone to my first, my first PGA event was the Tour of Champions event that we
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  covered, the Sanford International, just this last September.
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  Right?
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  And getting to interview guys that had won it.
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  Right?
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  Cernick Faldo most famously, given me a good ribbing about calling the, The Open one of the
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  other majors.
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  I didn't mean to, sir.
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  I'm sorry.
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  Hey.
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  They they're particular.
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  Particular.
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  I just I wasn't I didn't have any questions prepared beforehand.
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  I didn't know they were gonna let me in, Shady.
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  All of a sudden, you're up there interviewing Ronda Barber and Chris Carter and Yeah.
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  Sir, a literal knight.
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  Like,
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  I'm His name's sir Nick.
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  Like, you kinda put behind the eight ball.
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  I get it.
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  I'm a I'm a little, you know, I'm a kid from, you know, rural South Dakota, man.
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  I grew up in the woods.
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  Yeah.
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  So, it's pretty incredible.
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  But having taken part in the event and walking out there and great.
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  It's a good tour of champions event.
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  Right?
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  Like, it's not the big tour and but it's still an amazing atmosphere.
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  You see the what really did it for me was, like, all the money that's being raised for
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  charities out there and what they're doing for a lot of causes, a lot of causes like First
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  Tee.
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  You know, I got to meet the president of our South Dakota chapter, everything that they're
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  doing to get kids out on the golf course.
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  And to me, that's what it was like.
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  Okay.
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  We wanna do more golf events.
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  Right?
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  We we wanna do more of this stuff.
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  We wanna be involved.
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  Yeah.
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  Getting to, you know, interview the greats is amazing, but I had just as much fun
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  interviewing all the people that were out there supporting really incredible causes.
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  And I'm sure that these other PGA events are no different.
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  Yeah.
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  Got a big episode coming up with one of the founders, Aubrey Smith, tomorrow on the
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  Make sure you all are checking that out.
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  We love YouTube.
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  Yeah.
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  Callaway's got nothing on this.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Unless they wanna be a sponsor.
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  Yeah.
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  Hold my head for
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  a moment.
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  I I saw you posted a video on your YouTube channel today out there practicing.
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  You got yourself a golf coach.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  To the local golf course that you're getting to hit them at.
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  Yeah.
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  Good old good Silver Creek there.
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  Luckily, I have a golf course nearby.
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  But, yeah, that over the last two weeks, been making moves with shady golf.
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  So, you know, as a as an athlete, like, I can't I can't half anything.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Whether you're good or bad, it doesn't matter.
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  It's about how much work you put into it.
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  That's what's gonna determine the result.
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  So, you know, load it up.
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  I'm single.
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  I got, you know, full time job.
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  But other than that, I like to play golf, so let's load it up.
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  Been with this guy.
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  His name was, BSG, BS Golf, which I like.
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  That's pretty that's pretty good with Shady.
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  And, he's been a pro, and he's been a coach for about twenty years now.
• 19:47
  And he said a lot of smart I mean, just off the bat, like, I've had a lot of good trainers in
• 19:53
  my life.
• 19:54
  And any any good coach, any real and, I mean, as far as sophistication goes, go to the most
• 20:01
  sophisticated gyms in the world.
• 20:02
  They're gonna tell you the same thing.
• 20:04
  All your power comes from right here in this triangle.
• 20:07
  It's from, like, your nipples to your belly button to your hips, and that's about it.
• 20:12
  Every bit of your power goes there.
• 20:14
  And after a couple things he said, and I was like, alright.
• 20:17
  Yeah.
• 20:17
  Let's let's see what we can do.
• 20:19
  Let's see what we can generate.
• 20:20
  And he all he wants to do is generate more power and swing speed and stuff like that.
• 20:26
  And I'm like, alright.
• 20:27
  Let's do it.
• 20:28
  I'm not gonna spoil all the spoilers, but, I mean, he said he said we had a pretty good
• 20:33
  swing, guys.
• 20:33
  Alright.
• 20:34
  I'm just I'm just gonna say it.
• 20:36
  I'm just gonna throw that one out there.
• 20:39
  But make sure you check it out, and I'll just play.
• 20:41
  It's a lot of hacks, but make sure you check it out.
• 20:43
  It's good stuff.
• 20:44
  But definitely rep and skunk.
• 20:46
  Gotta gotta have something breathable during the heavy reps.
• 20:49
  But, yeah, I'm gonna be sore.
• 20:50
  I'm gonna be real sore for a while.
• 20:52
  This is gonna be a good three month trial.
• 20:54
  We're going to break 80.
• 20:55
  That's the idea.
• 20:57
  That was why I asked, what do you think you'd shoot out there?
• 20:59
  I think I'd shoot a 140.
• 21:00
  I'd double 80 out there at the masters at a 160.
• 21:05
  No.
• 21:05
  I was like, par fours, bro.
• 21:07
  I was looking at the yardages.
• 21:09
  Par four, you got a 190 in if you hit a a 300 yard drive.
• 21:17
  I I I I can't go driver five iron and get in there feeling good about myself.
• 21:24
  It's not gonna happen.
• 21:26
  Have you ever the guy that designed I believe I'm correct.
• 21:30
  We can Google this real quick.
• 21:31
  But did Donald Ross design, Augusta National?
• 21:41
  Because I worked at a Donald Ross course.
• 21:45
  And if you ever played a Donald Ross course, he did not design Augusta National.
• 21:51
  He was designing the original course.
• 21:53
  Oh, which was created by Alistair Mackenzie.
• 21:58
  Okay.
• 21:58
  So he designed the original course.
• 22:00
  I'm sorry.
• 22:00
  Let's get a little deeper in the history.
• 22:03
  Donald Ross designed the original master's course.
• 22:06
  This old guy was sick in the head, man.
• 22:10
  I mean, sick in the head.
• 22:12
  There's some, like, famous people out there, and you just start finding how, like, weirdly
• 22:18
  smart they were.
• 22:19
  This guy knew how to mess you up.
• 22:22
  So every golf course he designed, they've made it a lot further than the original.
• 22:28
  But every golf course they designed, you'll notice this at Augusta National.
• 22:33
  Most of the greens, even if you start at the tee box and you're going downhill, when you get
• 22:40
  to a certain point, you begin to become lower than the green.
• 22:46
  The green will auto automatically be whether it's here, here, here, here, or here.
• 22:51
  It's somewhere above you.
• 22:52
  You're always gonna have to fly the green.
• 22:55
  And I'm just I never noticed that.
• 22:57
  But after ten years of working on this man's courses like, I worked on his course, but I was
• 23:03
  like, this dude had to be sick.
• 23:05
  Like, I never shot a good round at this guy's course, but it was always one, I think it was a
• 23:11
  mental game, but two, it was always a challenge because you were always no matter if it was a
• 23:17
  short shot or not, you're gonna have to go at this.
• 23:20
  And that was kind of like a sick challenge that I kinda, you know, tipped my hat to mister Ross
• 23:24
  there.
• 23:25
  I see what you did there.
• 23:26
  I'm like, okay.
• 23:27
  Well and there's something to, not being able to quite see it up there that becomes a mental
• 23:33
  game even because it doesn't have to be that much higher than where you're at, you know, on
• 23:37
  the fairway to
• 23:40
  We're talking about degrees.
• 23:41
  Yeah.
• 23:42
  Yep.
• 23:43
  Well and then you get to Augusta and the way that they roll and twist and turn and slide
• 23:49
  right off into the water and and just and that's why I think it's gonna be such a
• 23:54
  challenge moving through the weekend while the weather is going to be absolutely beautiful and
• 23:59
  you're not gonna have a lot of wind to deal with, which we've had obviously had some years
• 24:03
  like that where the wind is just whipping and carrying the ball all over the course off the
• 24:08
  tee box, or it may be a little wet and that changes things as well, makes the course play a
• 24:14
  little slower.
• 24:15
  You know?
• 24:15
  That I think this weekend is going to be a massive challenge to control your speed on the
• 24:23
  putting surfaces.
• 24:25
  So I think you're gonna get a lot of guys that are, you know, making the green.
• 24:30
  Right?
• 24:30
  A guy like Bryson can you know Yeah.
• 24:33
  You know how hard he can hit the ball, how far he's gonna drive it.
• 24:36
  He he's gonna get on the green, but then there's still a lot of work to do even if
• 24:41
  you're landing in regulation.
• 24:43
  And I saw they had a couple a couple of eagle lot of eagles actually early on There was a
• 24:47
  lot.
• 24:47
  In these rounds.
• 24:48
  Yeah.
• 24:48
  Yeah.
• 24:49
  The par fives, I mean, they're long.
• 24:52
  I mean, it's 7,000 yards, I think, this year, but they're still reachable.
• 24:58
  So, yeah, there's eagles to be had.
• 25:01
  Could be a double eagle to be had.
• 25:04
  But, yeah, poor poor, DeChambo.
• 25:07
  He couldn't get out of the bunker today on 12.
• 25:09
  That's why his score went sky high.
• 25:12
  He three he chunked it twice, and then he got out of the bunker.
• 25:19
  And it was it was pretty rough.
• 25:22
  Yeah.
• 25:22
  Well and that's, I mean, that's this course is that it can just live.
• 25:26
  One one hole, man, can totally sink your day.
• 25:31
  Obviously, Amen Corner gets a lot of, you know, attention for obvious reasons.
• 25:39
  But this is, you know, just looking back at the leaderboard and kinda seeing the the
• 25:44
  troublesome areas for them.
• 25:47
  So here's DeChambeau.
• 25:48
  Let's see.
• 25:48
  And there it is right there.
• 25:50
  Even par through ten and eleven just ate him up.
• 25:55
  Ate him up.
• 25:56
  And I I it's hard not to like Bryson.
• 25:59
  I I don't I I know that, you know, you considered him a he was a really polarizing
• 26:03
  figure, I guess, early on in his career.
• 26:07
  I don't know how you don't like the kid.
• 26:09
  Always thought Probably not fair to call him a kid anymore.
• 26:12
  Right?
• 26:12
  He's he's mid twenties now.
• 26:14
  But He's a big fan.
• 26:16
  What he's doing for the game with with the YouTube stuff, I think, is really awesome and
• 26:21
  just being real.
• 26:23
  And and I think it's really opening up the rest of, you know, the league.
• 26:28
  But, yeah, look at hey.
• 26:29
  Was a couple of Sammy Burns had a a nice eagle on two today.
• 26:34
  Patrick Reed.
• 26:35
  Yeah.
• 26:37
  Scheffler had a had an eagle on two.
• 26:41
  So, yeah, a lot a lot of guys playing well early.
• 26:44
  It's been the maintaining that as you move through the day and that consistency.
• 26:52
  And then you have a guy like Rory, that is just steady.
• 26:57
  Right?
• 26:57
  You know, one and then gives it back on three, gets a couple of back, and then just steady par
• 27:03
  and and coming through Amen Corner here and what most would consider kind of the toughest
• 27:08
  stretch of it, you're walking away with a couple of birdies.
• 27:11
  Right?
• 27:12
  And the same with with Sam Burns playing really well through there.
• 27:15
  So I think the tomorrow's gonna be an interesting day.
• 27:18
  Obviously, Friday of any tournament is going to be, you know, moving day as they call it.
• 27:24
  A a lot of opportunities out there for everyone to make some moves, and it's just gonna be
• 27:30
  absolutely beautiful tomorrow.
• 27:31
  Right?
• 27:31
  It's gonna be Oh, yeah.
• 27:32
  Low eighties.
• 27:33
  It'll probably reach that by, I would assume, probably by 11:00 in the afternoon or, you
• 27:38
  know, 11:00 in the morning, Right?
• 27:42
  It's gonna be warm.
• 27:43
  It's gonna be sunny.
• 27:44
  It's gonna be absolutely gorgeous out there.
• 27:47
  Great for the fans that are out there enjoying the the spectacle that is the masters.
• 27:54
  I just I can't wait till we get to go together, man.
• 27:57
  We're gonna be.
• 27:58
  I think we probably need to go and get, like, the the waste management open out of our system
• 28:03
  first.
• 28:04
  Yeah.
• 28:06
  And just because that's probably more your and I vibe out there at TPC Scottsdale.
• 28:13
  Yeah.
• 28:13
  But I need to be I feel like I need to come in, like, a little bit tired, having maybe, like,
• 28:19
  already been on tour, so I'm not too hyped for the masters.
• 28:22
  I I wanna, you know, maintain a little bit of class.
• 28:25
  The dinner will smooth you right into that, I think.
• 28:28
  They, you know, they can give out the dinner that one then the first night, yeah, you
• 28:31
  that'll put you to bed.
• 28:32
  You'll be rested up, and then probably cheese for the next five days, apparently.
• 28:37
  Pimento cheese and egg salad sandwiches.
• 28:40
  I've had a buddy that's gone before.
• 28:41
  I've had a couple buddies that have gone before, and they go to the practice round, I
• 28:47
  think.
• 28:48
  And everybody that I've ever talked to, they freaking love it.
• 28:52
  Like, we have the Quail Hollow in Charlotte, and you'll see, like, Lou Keekeley and people
• 28:57
  like that.
• 28:58
  That's pretty cool.
• 28:59
  But I've never been to that.
• 29:00
  My buddies go to that.
• 29:01
  And that's pretty official.
• 29:03
  But, I mean, from what I hear, it's very affordable, and not only are the grounds
• 29:08
  impeccable.
• 29:10
  Yeah, I think the environment is just through the roof, but the prices, think, are incredibly
• 29:16
  low.
• 29:17
  Like, you can get a sandwich and a drink for, like, $5.
• 29:20
  There you go.
• 29:21
  You can't get that anywhere these days.
• 29:23
  I know.
• 29:24
  Yeah.
• 29:25
  Shady, how far are you from Augusta?
• 29:28
  Probably about five hours.
• 29:30
  That's not too bad.
• 29:31
  No.
• 29:31
  That's not bad.
• 29:32
  Not too bad.
• 29:33
  I'm probably about eighteen.
• 29:36
  Yeah.
• 29:36
  You know, we yeah.
• 29:37
  We get there.
• 29:38
  We get there.
• 29:39
  Or, no, actually, I remember what okay.
• 29:41
  You were talking about the greens and everything.
• 29:43
  I don't know what they rolled at today, but I I did have to cut greens when I was doing it.
• 29:49
  When we would double cut or triple cut, I don't know what they do.
• 29:52
  This was for g tour and, like, CPGA events.
• 29:57
  So, like, this is the bottom.
• 29:58
  This is single a of the PGA tour.
• 30:03
  That was rolling at a seven, which is like a pool table.
• 30:08
  I would hate to that was point zero eight of a inch.
• 30:13
  I don't know.
• 30:14
  I don't even know how they said it.
• 30:15
  I don't get paid enough to do that.
• 30:16
  I just mowed it.
• 30:17
  I smoke it, I mow it.
• 30:20
  But no.
• 30:21
  I'm playing.
• 30:22
  No.
• 30:23
  He's not.
• 30:23
  Seriously, seriously, I on Saturday, I would hate to go to a couple of those greens.
• 30:31
  And if you fly a couple of them and try to come back, that slope is gonna put you right in the
• 30:38
  water.
• 30:39
  There's no way.
• 30:40
  It's like linoleum with a thin film of Windex.
• 30:46
  Yeah.
• 30:46
  It's gonna be tough, man.
• 30:48
  Saturday, if you don't get yourself into a position, where you are, you know, I would say
• 30:55
  within three or four strokes of the lead by end of day tomorrow, it's gonna be really tough, to
• 31:03
  come back.
• 31:03
  I think it's just gonna be really hard to even maintain for the leaders.
• 31:07
  Right?
• 31:07
  You you're hoping at that point that, somebody at the top and everyone at the top, starts to
• 31:14
  to really just fly them all over the place.
• 31:17
  But, you know, I that's why it's so important to go out and play well on Thursday.
• 31:21
  Right?
• 31:21
  And to have that.
• 31:23
  And I feel like, you know, we kinda touched on it early with Rory kinda having that monkey off
• 31:29
  his back.
• 31:29
  Hey, babe.
• 31:32
  Appreciate you tuning in.
• 31:33
  You.
• 31:34
  Yeah.
• 31:35
  Well, she's excited to get out on the golf course too, man.
• 31:38
  It's just we it's hard to even think about it when it's 40 degrees outside in the afternoon
• 31:43
  here in South Dakota still, but we'll get there.
• 31:45
  I was actually in some of my memories on Facebook that popped up.
• 31:48
  We were out golfing in, like, March a few years ago.
• 31:51
  Right?
• 31:51
  So you never you just never know how it's gonna be.
• 31:55
  But, yeah, back to back to Rory that I feel like with that pressure off now, he's probably
• 32:02
  playing the best golf of his life.
• 32:05
  Right?
• 32:05
  Like, you you are now you've completed that grand slam.
• 32:09
  There's no more questions about it.
• 32:12
  You you've become one of the greatest ambassadors of the PGA still.
• 32:17
  You I mean, for all intents and purposes, I mean, Rory is the man in the PGA right now.
• 32:21
  You you are the biggest ambassador with so many of the top golfers going over to live and
• 32:26
  playing in that, you know, in that tour now.
• 32:30
  And I don't think that it's killing the game of golf whatsoever.
• 32:35
  I think it's opening the door for a new generation of golfers.
• 32:39
  But there's, you know, and having talked to quite a few guys that have been on the tour now
• 32:45
  and, which, you know, we're gonna we're gonna have some really awesome interviews for you
• 32:49
  guys, coming down the pipeline here.
• 32:52
  A lot of PGA professionals that I've talked to, but it it's a stressful job.
• 32:59
  Right?
• 33:00
  Okay.
• 33:01
  And we're gonna get a little taste of that even here with our, you know, cohost and friends.
• 33:07
  Shout out to Lance Christensen junior out there winning tournaments with his team, in the
• 33:12
  collegiate level in the last two weeks.
• 33:15
  So we're really proud of him, but, you know, his dream is to, whether it's this year or
• 33:20
  next, to get into q school and to get on that Korn Ferry and and to rise that.
• 33:26
  But the amount of money that it costs, not just in travel, but everything else to get there,
• 33:32
  the coaches and everything that you're paying out of pocket to have a chance at making money.
• 33:37
  And if you don't finish, you don't get paid.
• 33:40
  Right?
• 33:41
  And I think that that stress, it's hard for guys that are sitting in that bottom half of
• 33:48
  the tour.
• 33:50
  It it makes it that much harder, right, to to think about, especially if you're the
• 33:55
  breadwinner of your family.
• 33:57
  Right?
• 33:57
  To I mean, not that these like, the kids are gonna starve at home or something, but still,
• 34:01
  you're trying to provide for your family out there.
• 34:03
  And granted, you're playing a game, but, you know, in a in a game such as golf where nerves
• 34:09
  are everything, which makes the Gary Woodlands story even more, incredible, right, that he's
• 34:15
  even out there playing, I would have already shat myself, that you when you add more stress
• 34:23
  onto that, it just becomes, even harder task, for you and to go out every single weekend and
• 34:30
  have to perform.
• 34:31
  It's really it's very unique in that.
• 34:35
  Right?
• 34:35
  Because other guys and you, obviously, with your history in baseball, you know, even if you
• 34:41
  once you get out of the minor leagues and the minor leagues can be a grind, I know, for a lot
• 34:46
  of guys trying to get out of there because you're not making a lot of money.
• 34:48
  But once you make it to that majors and you've signed your major league contract, you're
• 34:53
  pretty well set.
• 34:54
  Right?
• 34:54
  And in the NFL, if you just make it to the practice squad, you're making 6 figures.
• 34:59
  Right?
• 35:00
  So you you're doing very well for yourself at that point.
• 35:03
  You probably got the NFL insurance.
• 35:05
  You're pretty well taken care of.
• 35:06
  PGA Tour players don't have a lot of that security.
• 35:09
  So it's definitely a unique sport and a unique batch of athletes that are out here competing
• 35:15
  every single weekend.
• 35:17
  Yeah.
• 35:18
  I that's actually one of the sports I didn't get to study as much as I wish I would have in
• 35:23
  sport management, but golf, like, I I guess, I mean, you really are like a ten ninety nine.
• 35:28
  You are just yourself.
• 35:30
  But, yeah, I talked to a couple of, BS, like, the coach that I was talking about, Blair.
• 35:35
  He he was a pro, but he, you know, had to get his PGA associate, had to go through all that.
• 35:42
  And his son is, I think, on either was qualifying for Korn Ferry or is on the Korn
• 35:50
  Ferry.
• 35:52
  But, yeah, it's it's very similar, man.
• 35:56
  Depending on where you finish, how much you're making month to month, you're already forking
• 36:00
  out to enter into the event, which is a huge amount.
• 36:04
  Yeah.
• 36:05
  I don't even wanna guess how much that is.
• 36:07
  But, you know, you're taking a loss a lot of times if you don't win.
• 36:13
  So thank god.
• 36:14
  Fingers crossed for sponsors.
• 36:17
  Yeah.
• 36:17
  Well and that's the name of the game.
• 36:19
  Right?
• 36:19
  And that's why when we, you know, started talking to Lance about having him on the show
• 36:25
  and bringing him in to do on some of these, It was with that in mind.
• 36:29
  Now, obviously, we kinda have to let him get through and finish his collegiate career Right.
• 36:33
  Out, and I I we don't wanna distract him now away from the job at hand.
• 36:38
  But a a big part of what we want to do with our, you know, coverage and and having him on
• 36:44
  the show is to help him grow that profile so when he steps out, you know, into the run.
• 36:50
  It's a reason that he has the driven brand and is sharing his story now ahead of all of this
• 36:55
  is to set himself up to have those sponsorship talks and offering more than just, hey.
• 37:02
  I'm on the tour.
• 37:03
  You know, come and support me in this journey.
• 37:07
  It's like, well, you're getting, you know, this social media play.
• 37:10
  You're getting the network play, and we really hope to be a big part of his career.
• 37:15
  I mean, that's kind of why I was so adamant about having him around and as part of the SPSN
• 37:22
  family because I I wanna be along for this ride.
• 37:25
  Right?
• 37:25
  I'm not I'm never gonna make the tour.
• 37:27
  Right?
• 37:27
  No.
• 37:27
  Yeah.
• 37:28
  No.
• 37:28
  You know that?
• 37:29
  It's not happening.
• 37:30
  I can't even win a local tournament.
• 37:33
  So this is my opportunity to kind of ride along on his coattails and, you know, be there.
• 37:40
  And if we can put some cameras on it and capture that story, then then what an
• 37:44
  opportunity for guys like you and I who are never gonna sniff anything like that.
• 37:51
  You had your chance, buddy.
• 37:52
  You couldn't make a move.
• 37:54
  Who else wouldn't you rather have saying coming down the seventeenth green today after shooting
• 37:59
  immaculate 72?
• 38:04
  We hope.
• 38:05
  We hope you shoot a 72.
• 38:08
  You say on the front nine?
• 38:13
  We made it that far?
• 38:15
  I've I ran out of balls after the third hole.
• 38:18
  Oh, man.
• 38:20
  I just I'm so excited.
• 38:22
  I feel like this is, and especially because of where I live, right, in the the Upper Midwest
• 38:29
  that, like Yeah.
• 38:30
  I'm not even thinking about golf until the masters tournament.
• 38:34
  Right?
• 38:34
  Like, until masters week have even sniffed it because it's usually you know?
• 38:39
  I mean, we had snow on the car the other day.
• 38:41
  Yeah.
• 38:42
  Hard to think about going out and hitting balls on the course when there's snow flying.
• 38:47
  Look at that.
• 38:48
  But, man, I was very grateful to get out when I was on tour, get out into Burnet, Texas.
• 38:53
  We didn't get an opportunity, to hit some balls together, unfortunately, this time, but,
• 38:58
  looking forward to doing it, in the future.
• 39:01
  I have to see how how much it's cost us to fly you out and to take part in the skunked golf
• 39:06
  classic.
• 39:07
  100%.
• 39:08
  Happening, June 27.
• 39:11
  Obviously, another shout out to our guys with the Skunked Golf Company and, everything that
• 39:17
  they're doing.
• 39:17
  Big charity golf tournament up there in Minot, North Dakota.
• 39:21
  See, they don't unthaw until June.
• 39:23
  So that's why the tournament was, you know, close to the July 4 as weak as it could get.
• 39:29
  That's crazy, though.
• 39:31
  That makes sense.
• 39:32
  But, yeah, I mean, that is North North.
• 39:36
  That's why.
• 39:37
  Yeah.
• 39:37
  I mean, they're practically Canada.
• 39:39
  But then all summer, it's, you know, 95 degrees, and they don't get as humid up there
• 39:44
  as we like, I'm I'm pretty close to the Missouri River, and we're in corn corn and
• 39:49
  soybean country, farm country, so you get that corn sweats, man.
• 39:53
  Yeah.
• 39:53
  And it is it gets sticky here in Southeastern South Dakota, but makes for great golfing
• 40:00
  weather, makes for a lot of fun.
• 40:02
  We love spending time on the course as I know you do as well.
• 40:06
  Looking forward to some great tournaments this year.
• 40:09
  Looking forward to, watching the rest of this tournament.
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  I got a little bit lack, more slack schedule the next three days, so I'll be able to watch a
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  little bit more of it in the background as I'm working away here in the lab.
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  Thank it's gonna be a a great weekend.
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  I I think there's still a lot of amazing golf to be played.
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  You can't take your eyes off Scottie Scheffler.
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  The guy's too good.
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  You know, obviously, Rory in the lead here.
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  Young man, Sam Burns, making a run.
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  You know, I I I love a Cinderella story, and who doesn't?
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  That's the beauty of this tournament.
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  No.
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  100%.
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  I was gonna say Shane Lowry's scaring me right now.
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  Justin Rose is one to look out for.
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  I'm still on Jordan Spieth, but Brooks Koepka taking off tomorrow morning.
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  You never know.
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  You never know.
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  Those early guys do have an advantage.
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  Adam Scott.
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  I don't know.
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  Justin Rose is the one to look out for, though.
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  Yeah.
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  Justin Rose is on it.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, Shady, appreciate you jumping on.
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  Little impromptu, recap coverage around one here.
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  We'll do the same thing tomorrow, probably at the same time as it seems to be that
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  everybody's in by this time.
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  We have a great look.
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  We'll recap the, you know, top stories of the day, take a look at the leaderboard, and kinda
• 41:35
  give you a little recap.
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  We're obviously gonna talk about our friends at Skunk Golf every chance that we get on our golf
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  coverage here.
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  And, looking forward to, just an amazing next, you know, three days of golf coverage here with
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  the masters twenty twenty six.
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  Any parting shots on the way out here, Shady?
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  Guys, hey.
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  You were always gonna be here.
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  Yeah.
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  I love that we got, three days of getting to hang out and talk sports now, and it's only
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  going up from here.
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  So, this has been a lot of fun.
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  I appreciate you being along for the ride.
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  I'm sure our guys, coach Cody and Big B, will be dropping in at some point.
• 42:28
  Lance, obviously, with his collegiate career, rocking and rolling right now.
• 42:33
  As that starts to wind down, we'll see a bit more of him.
• 42:36
  And, yeah, looking for some crossover, episodes with Shady and SPSN on giving you some tips to
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  I'm Bubba Starts for Shady Grady.
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  This has been Masters Coverage from the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  We will see you tomorrow at the same bat time, same bat channel right here, eight eastern,
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  We'll see you tomorrow night, everybody.
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