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Jon Wright on day 2 of The Masters, Will Rory repeat (?), No Tony Finau or Tiger Woods + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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Speaker 1: Hello friends, Welcome to the Broadway Media Butler Cabin.
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Speaker 2: It's time for a leaderboard update.
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Speaker 1: From Augustin National and the second round of the Masters.
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Speaker 1: You're a leader on this Friday afternoon. England's very owned
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Speaker 1: to Rell Hatton Hatting on a heater today, seven under
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Speaker 1: par crew sixteen holes and fellow Englishman Rory McElroy tied
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Speaker 1: for the lead at five under par.
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Speaker 2: Rory has played a hole. He's even for the day today.
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Speaker 1: They hold a one shot lead over the United States.
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Speaker 1: Is Wyndham Clark, who's in the clubhouse at four under
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Speaker 1: at a four hunder sixty eight today. Justine making a
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Speaker 1: charge today, another Englishman two under for the day, four
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Speaker 1: under for the tournament for Justin Rose through fourteen holes.
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Speaker 1: Day one co leader Sam Burns has following a bit
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Speaker 1: off the pace today.
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Speaker 2: He's at minus four plus one for the day through
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Speaker 2: six holes.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's favorite alleged cheater Patrick Reid minus one through three
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Speaker 1: holes and minus four for the tournament. Oh here's the
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Speaker 1: name that will get peopled excited. Five time Major champion
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Speaker 1: Brooks Koepka on a roll today, three under and three
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Speaker 1: under for the tournament through fourteen holes. Shane Lowry from
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Speaker 1: Ireland minus three, one under for the day today, Jason
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Speaker 1: Day minus three even for the day today. Look out
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Speaker 1: for Scotty Scheffler making a charge. Scotty Scheffler minus two,
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Speaker 1: three off the lead and even for the day today
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Speaker 1: through twelve Sanders Schoffley also minus two and even for
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Speaker 1: the day through two two holes today and everybody's favorite
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Speaker 1: par three Dad Tommy Fleetwood even for the day through
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Speaker 1: three holes and one.
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Speaker 2: Under for the tournament.
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Speaker 1: This leaderboard update brought to you by our friends that
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Speaker 1: you went to golf from the Broadway Media Butler Cabin
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Speaker 1: in downtown Salt Lake City. Round two in progress at
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Speaker 1: the Masters.
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Speaker 2: At Augusta National. We'll keep an eye on Hatton.
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Speaker 1: McElroy, Clarke and Rose the next little while. John Wright
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Speaker 1: joins us right now to talk Masters here on a
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Speaker 1: Friday on the shadow'connell Show.
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Speaker 2: Johnny, how are you, Bill, Nice.
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Speaker 3: To talk to you again. How have you been? How's
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Speaker 3: the University of you? Tak job?
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Speaker 1: It is fantastic, John, It is doing well. I am
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Speaker 1: enjoying it a great deal. I miss talking to you
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Speaker 1: about majors. We just have to text about them now.
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Speaker 1: But that's a okay, and I don't have any Jersey
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Speaker 1: Mikes for you today. I apologize you're doing this one
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Speaker 1: pro bono.
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Speaker 3: That doesn't stop me from eating the original Italian whenever
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Speaker 3: I can.
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Speaker 1: I will make sure you next time you and I
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Speaker 1: are together, I will get you a Jersey Mike sub
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Speaker 1: on me. But I don't have any more of those
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Speaker 1: coupon cards for you.
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Speaker 3: That's all right. I'm happy to talk golf, especially the Masters.
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Speaker 3: This is my favorite week of the year.
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Speaker 2: I know it is.
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Speaker 1: You love this tournament almost as much as you love
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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. Who is not in the field right now?
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Speaker 1: We won't talk about Eldrick right now. We are a
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Speaker 1: day and a half in Right now, John, nobody is
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Speaker 1: running away and hiding. Scoring isn't crazy though. Terrell Hatten's
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Speaker 1: at minus seven so far today. What do you make
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Speaker 1: of what we've seen through a round and a half.
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Speaker 3: Well, I was expecting the scores to be a bit
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Speaker 3: higher today because we're going to see no moisture at
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Speaker 3: all from the weather all week long. So as the
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Speaker 3: days get longer and they get a little bit of wind,
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Speaker 3: we should see the golf course firming up. But it
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Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet, And these guys are taking dead aim
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Speaker 3: and hitting some amazing shots. Terrell Hatton is hitting I
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Speaker 3: mean seven hunder par with a couple of play is awesome.
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Speaker 3: And then Brooks, Keopka has hit a lot of great shots,
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Speaker 3: and Justin Rose he hit it within five feet for
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Speaker 3: Bertie about three times. So the guys are the guys
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Speaker 3: are feeling it, and they're hitting it close and some
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Speaker 3: are making putts and some aren't. But this is this
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Speaker 3: is going to get more and more exciting as the
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Speaker 3: days go on, because I think it's going to get
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Speaker 3: a little bit tougher each day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Englishmen and the Americans are dominating right now.
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Speaker 1: The top seven scores on the board are American in Englishmen.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's more just the superstars are commenting.
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Speaker 3: I mean there's a couple of guys that your regular
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Speaker 3: listeners that casual golf fans may may not know, But
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Speaker 3: casual golf fans know Rory, they know Clark, they know
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Speaker 3: Rose and Burns and Keopka and Lowry and Day. I
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Speaker 3: mean these are big names, lots of former champ, Major champions,
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Speaker 3: and that's what's going to make this so amazing. Over
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Speaker 3: the weekend is you've got guys. These aren't guys trying
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Speaker 3: to win their first time or win their first major.
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Speaker 3: These are guys that have won majors and they're ready
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Speaker 3: and they're used to this, and they're gonna they're gonna
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Speaker 3: shoot some low scores. You're not gonna see people luck
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Speaker 3: into this tournament. You're gonna have to go low to
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Speaker 3: win this.
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Speaker 1: John, you said it that there's no rain expected all
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Speaker 1: weekend long, which is very unusual. Sometime in the four
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Speaker 1: or five six days that people are at Augusta, you
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Speaker 1: generally get rain, you generally get thunderstorm, something's in.
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Speaker 2: They're not getting any of that.
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Speaker 1: So are these golfers gonna be okay with this course
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Speaker 1: firming up or would they rather have some rain and
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Speaker 1: wind in the forecast?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think they'd like it to firm up on
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Speaker 3: the fairways because we're seeing some of these drives where
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Speaker 3: they carry two seventy five and then roll out five yards.
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Speaker 3: They'd love to get some rollout so they could get
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Speaker 3: some shorter irons in their hands. But it's the greens
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Speaker 3: that they like. They're they're able to hold them. In fact,
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Speaker 3: they're a little bit softer today than they were yesterday.
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Speaker 3: From my observation, so the Augusta National they have the
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Speaker 3: ability to take moisture out of the greens without any
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Speaker 3: natural that every green has a subair system. So I
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Speaker 3: have a feeling the powers that be there are going
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Speaker 3: to take a little bit of moisture out of them
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Speaker 3: this evening and firm them up for the weekend.
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Speaker 2: I love the fact. I know he's not everybody's favorite.
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Speaker 1: He can be a bit prickly at times, but I
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Speaker 1: love the fact that Brooks kept because near the top
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Speaker 1: of the leaderboard right now.
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Speaker 3: Oh I do too. I'll tell you what. He's hitting
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Speaker 3: the ball really well. It's for him. It's all about
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Speaker 3: the putter, and he's rolling good putts. They haven't really
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Speaker 3: gone in for him today. I've been watching while working
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Speaker 3: and that was their quotes, by the way, But he's
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Speaker 3: rolling them over the edges and they're good putts. And Brooks,
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Speaker 3: as we know, is a major major champion. He's won
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Speaker 3: five Majors and really nothing else, so he's he has
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Speaker 3: the mental makeup for it. I mean, it could goes
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Speaker 3: back to that. It goes back to that all he
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Speaker 3: does is catch touchdown passes. Well, yeah, but that's the
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Speaker 3: whole point, right. So it's the same thing with Brooks.
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Speaker 3: He's won a handful of tour events, but five majors,
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Speaker 3: So it's really he has the mental makeup for it.
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Speaker 3: I think he's back from live and he's feeling good
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Speaker 3: and he's comfortable again, and if he can just get
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Speaker 3: a couple of putts to go in, he's going to
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Speaker 3: be very dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Well, he filled his bank accounts with that live money.
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Speaker 1: Now he can come back to the PGA Tour and
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Speaker 1: win majors, right because people only nobody remembers if you
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Speaker 1: win the Greater Screen Door Open in Greensboro. They remember
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Speaker 1: if you win championships or a Player's or something like that.
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Speaker 1: But you do need to pay the bills. So Kopka's
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Speaker 1: got a lot of that live money in his back pocket.
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Speaker 1: Now he can just come back and work on his
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Speaker 1: game and be on the PGA Tour again.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think you're absolutely right about that. And along
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Speaker 3: those same lines, Rory McElroy is playing extremely freely. He
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Speaker 3: doesn't have to worry that he's chasing his first Masters,
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Speaker 3: he doesn't have to worry that he's chasing the Grand
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Speaker 3: Slam that only four other players have ever done or five.
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Speaker 3: So he gets to play for free. Now he doesn't
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Speaker 3: have any all that pressure, all most of itself imposed,
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Speaker 3: by the way, but he doesn't have to sit down
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Speaker 3: for every media interview and talk about, hey, maybe this
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Speaker 3: is the year you complete the Grand Slam, maybe this
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Speaker 3: is the year you win your first bat. He didn't
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Speaker 3: have to answer that anymore. He did it, and so
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Speaker 3: now he just gets to go up and play. And
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Speaker 3: you saw it yesterday in his first round. He just
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Speaker 3: he even said it in his press conference. He said, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it was great. I just went out and played golf.
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Speaker 3: I had no expectations and nobody was wondering asking me
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Speaker 3: all those questions. And all I did was go out
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Speaker 3: and shoot file under par. And he hit a great
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Speaker 3: T shot off the first tee just now made an
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Speaker 3: easy part on the first hole. He hit a poor
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Speaker 3: t shot on second on the second hold, but he's
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Speaker 3: he's got a short bird he putt because it's an
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Speaker 3: easy part five. So he's playing freely, just like Brooks is,
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Speaker 3: And those are the players that have a chance to win.
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Speaker 3: You can't be tight, you can't be careful, and you
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Speaker 3: can't be worried about what might or might not happen.
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Speaker 3: You just have to hit the shot and hope it
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Speaker 3: turns out, and if it doesn't, hit a recovery shot.
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Speaker 3: And that's that's the key to Augusta National because the
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Speaker 3: margin for error is so small. When you hit a
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Speaker 3: great shot, you might get a terrible break and have
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Speaker 3: it in an possible spot, or you might hit one
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Speaker 3: a little off and he catches the right mount and
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Speaker 3: goes right next to the whole. So it's the guys
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Speaker 3: that can accept that and and that play play with uh,
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Speaker 3: with this freeness to them so they don't worry too
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Speaker 3: much about it. Those are the guys that are going
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Speaker 3: to be able to close this out on Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: One guy that is having to answer lots of questions,
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Speaker 1: And I was watching some Golf Channel coverage Wednesday Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night, and they spent a whole bunch of time
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Speaker 1: talking about this guy because he's just given everybody word
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Speaker 1: salad answers these days. Is John Rahm. As it stands
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Speaker 1: right now, he's not gonna make the cut. Now, he's
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Speaker 1: got a chance, he's right on that cut line, but
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Speaker 1: he's not played well. Shot at seventy eight yesterday. He's
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Speaker 1: getting all kinds of questions about Live. Still he's not
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Speaker 1: really given great answers.
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Speaker 2: Do you do you think? And he to be very.
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Speaker 1: Fair, since he joined the Live Tour, he has not
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Speaker 1: done anything in majors, John, he has been bad in majors.
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Speaker 1: So you tell me what what what do you think this?
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Speaker 1: This h this is in first of all the week
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Speaker 1: to week stuff, but then having to come and answer
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Speaker 1: a bunch of questions.
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Speaker 2: Do you think that's getting to John Rohm?
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Speaker 3: Well? I do absolutely. I think it's getting to him,
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Speaker 3: and I think that he has a little bit of
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Speaker 3: I call it sellout remorse, which is just go take
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Speaker 3: the money and leave. And now he's realizing for the
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Speaker 3: last two years that he's playing exhibition golf and there's
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Speaker 3: nothing wrong with that. And if they would offered me
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Speaker 3: six hundred million dollars to it, I would do. So
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Speaker 3: there's no judgment here. I'm just saying, when you're playing golf,
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Speaker 3: it really doesn't matter. I mean, you mentioned who who
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Speaker 3: cares about the Greater Greensborough Open, Well, people do care
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Speaker 3: about it, and it's a real tournament and it matters
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Speaker 3: that week now in the history. You're right, it doesn't.
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Speaker 3: But the live golf tour, it doesn't matter that week,
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Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter next week, and it doesn't matter
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Speaker 3: the following week. Nobody's ever going to say, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that guy wonts five times on lib Nobody cares. And
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Speaker 3: he's finding that out. And so it's very difficult for
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Speaker 3: a high level professional golfer to go from a very
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Speaker 3: relaxed atmosphere wearing shorts, everybody screaming music playing no one
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Speaker 3: really cares about the outcomes, more of a party, more
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Speaker 3: of an exhibition. Shotgun starts, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: now you're back. You're at the top. If the highest
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Speaker 3: pressure high it's just not the same. You can't replicate it,
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Speaker 3: you can't practice for it. Tiger said it many times.
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Speaker 3: Head show up for a major ever having not been
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Speaker 3: able to play due to injury, and he's just not
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Speaker 3: ready because he doesn't have reps under pressure. And I
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Speaker 3: think that's the biggest problem with what's going on with
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Speaker 3: John Rahm is he just doesn't have any meaningful golf
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Speaker 3: under his belt, and then he shows up at a
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Speaker 3: major and it's foreign to him. It's that there's just
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Speaker 3: the slightest difference in the way your body reacts, the
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Speaker 3: way you think, the way you feel, and here you
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Speaker 3: go seventy eight, and again he may make the cut.
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Speaker 3: He's a good enough player to make the cut, but
11:54
Speaker 3: he's put himself ten shots behind. So I just think
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Speaker 3: it's a preparation thing, and it's he can't be prepared,
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Speaker 3: because you can't prepare when you're playing exhibition golf.
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Speaker 2: Is it the same thing with d Schambeau as well.
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Speaker 3: I think that has a lot to do with it.
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Speaker 3: Now with Bryceon I think it was a little bit
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Speaker 3: different with it looked like he was playing so great
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Speaker 3: on the live Tour, which he was. He won three
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Speaker 3: or four or whatever it was. But they're there, those
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Speaker 3: courses if you really dove down deep in it too
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Speaker 3: it I saw I saw an article and they just
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Speaker 3: weren't difficult golf course and they were set up perfectly
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Speaker 3: for him. So again and and he's just throwing. He's
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Speaker 3: he knows he's the best or second best player on
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Speaker 3: that tour, and he doesn't really worry about it. He's
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Speaker 3: just free, free, free hitting and just not not thinking
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Speaker 3: too much about it. And and he's and he's just
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Speaker 3: shooting these crazy low scores. And making tons of money.
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Speaker 3: But again now you show up and it's the Masters.
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Speaker 3: Money doesn't matter. It's all history and it's and it's
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Speaker 3: where your place in professional golf when you're when you're
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Speaker 3: no longer with us, or when you're no longer playing,
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Speaker 3: and it's a different level. No one cares about live
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Speaker 3: and they know it.
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Speaker 1: John joining us usually what you and I do before that,
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Speaker 1: We we used to talk every day back in the day.
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Speaker 1: We would Thursday and Friday, we'd make our predictions on
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Speaker 1: a Wednesday and all that good stuff.
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Speaker 2: So we didn't have a chance to do that this year.
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Speaker 1: Going to hold you to the honor system here and
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Speaker 1: if any of your buddies at the country club were listening,
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Speaker 1: they will tell me or text me and tell me.
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Speaker 1: John's full of you know what? But who did you
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Speaker 1: like going into this thing? And does your has your
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Speaker 1: mind changed? It all since the since the start yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with full disclosure. We have an annual
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Speaker 3: Master's draft with a bunch of my friends, are we.
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Speaker 3: We picked fifteenth, so I didn't have a great draft order,
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Speaker 3: and I picked Robert McIntyre, who was about the worst.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I picked six, and I'm in danger of
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Speaker 3: nunning them, none of them making me.
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Speaker 2: Do you see what MacIntyre did? He's in trouble. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he did. He pulled a John Wright.
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Speaker 3: No, we did not. I would never do that at
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Speaker 3: Augusta National.
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Speaker 1: Well, Augusta National, but you might have done it a
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Speaker 1: Bottleville a bunch of times.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure I've buried plenty of wedges in the green,
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Speaker 3: not in the green in the fairway, but I'm sure
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Speaker 3: I fixed the damage. But no, I uh. As far
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Speaker 3: as before the week, I was really hoping for Justin Rose,
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Speaker 3: and I'm happy to see him playing well. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the guy's forty five years old. I can I can relate,
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Speaker 3: sort of. He's still ten years younger than me. But
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Speaker 3: it's great to see a guy of that age and
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Speaker 3: who's worked that hard for that long and is really
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Speaker 3: careful about his body and about how he prepares himself,
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Speaker 3: so he's he's elongated his his career by years and
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Speaker 3: he's come so close three runner up finishes, lost in
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Speaker 3: a playoff twice. I would love to see him come through,
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Speaker 3: and he has hit some really good shots today, so
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Speaker 3: make no mistake, I think he'll be there for the weekend.
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Speaker 3: That was my hope. And then I love to see
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Speaker 3: Rory play well. I think he's good for the tour
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Speaker 3: and he's the closest thing we have to a superstar
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Speaker 3: that gets the casual golf fan interested. And so and then,
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Speaker 3: and then I thought Xanderschockley had a real good chance.
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Speaker 3: He finally came off a really poor year last year,
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Speaker 3: recovering from an injury, and he looked to have been
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Speaker 3: making progress. We'll see he's he's on the leaderboard, but
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Speaker 3: he's super early in his round today, so we'll see
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Speaker 3: how he finishes up. But those were my three, And
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Speaker 3: you know, it's always easy to pick Scotti shuffers. He's
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Speaker 3: as close as we had to this generation.
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Speaker 2: He's having He's not having a great day to day.
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Speaker 1: Though he's plus one through thirteen, he's only minus one
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Speaker 1: for the tournament. It looks like the damn Ryder Cup
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Speaker 1: right now, John Rory at six under, Tyrell Hatton at
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Speaker 1: five under, and Justin Rose at five under. That that's
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Speaker 1: like the leaders of the of the European Ryder Cup.
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Speaker 3: Well and Sam Burns was also on the Ryder Cup
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Speaker 3: team for the US. It was Wyndam Clark and and
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Speaker 3: Patrick Reed. He's Captain America. When he's not at Live
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Speaker 3: he'll be on the next Ryder Cup team. So and
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Speaker 3: Brooks kevk. I mean it really is. This is gonna
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Speaker 3: be one of those major league shootouts. It's not going
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Speaker 3: to be some guy who has held it together for
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Speaker 3: three rounds and let's see if he can finish it
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Speaker 3: off and win his first major. This is These are
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Speaker 3: heavyweights going at it over the weekend. It's gonna be
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Speaker 3: really fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Do you think do you worry at all about Jeffler
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Speaker 1: or do you think he's still in the mix at
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Speaker 1: one under.
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Speaker 3: No, he'll be in the mix. He hit a poor
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Speaker 3: shot into fifteen and made a bogey there. I'm still
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out why he tried to hit that
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Speaker 3: green with a driving iron from two hundred and seventy yards.
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Speaker 3: But he's so good that he'll get on one of
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Speaker 3: his little runs where he hits it to five feet
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Speaker 3: a few holes in a row and then make some
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Speaker 3: of those putts. I watched a lot of his round
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Speaker 3: this morning, and he looks very solid. The only thing
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Speaker 3: missing from he's driving it better than he normally does,
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Speaker 3: and his irons aren't as good as they normally are.
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Speaker 3: So I think if he could just figure out those irons,
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Speaker 3: because his strokes proximity of the hole is way better
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Speaker 3: than anyone on tour and he's not showing that yet.
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Speaker 3: But he's driving is really good, so once he figures
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Speaker 3: those irons out, he can make some birdies pretty quickly.
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Speaker 1: By the way, just one more thing on are we
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Speaker 1: past the golden age of Speith and Thomas? It feels
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Speaker 1: like Speith and Thomas are no longer real. I know
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Speaker 1: they're still good golfers, but it doesn't feel like these
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Speaker 1: two guys were what they were five or six years ago.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think Thomas as a result of injury. He's
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Speaker 3: still working through his surgery from last year, so I'm
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Speaker 3: not prepared to close the book on him yet. Way
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Speaker 3: too much talent. And then Jordan is playing actually really well.
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Speaker 3: He's lest I looked before I came on with you.
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Speaker 3: I think he was two under par and hanging in there.
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Speaker 3: He's kind of scraping around a little bit here and there,
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Speaker 3: but he's making those Jeordia' speeds up and down, those
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Speaker 3: saves that we've used to see when he was winning major.
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Speaker 3: So no, I'm not ready to write him off. He's
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Speaker 3: too young. I mean, what is he thirty one or two?
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Speaker 3: I mean, these guys, these guys can play well in
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Speaker 3: their primes all the way through their thirties. So no,
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Speaker 3: they're you know, golf is so cyclical, and it's so
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Speaker 3: up and down, and just when you think you have it,
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Speaker 3: you don't. And when you think you'll never want to
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Speaker 3: play again, you go out and choot five hundred part
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Speaker 3: and you can't figure it out.
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Speaker 1: So speak, by the way, even par today, even for
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Speaker 1: the tournament, is where he's at through fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Last thing certainly with a striking just distance at that number.
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Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, but you've better make a birdy or
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Speaker 1: two because it looks like that these got rory might
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Speaker 1: go low. I mean he's at six under right now
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Speaker 1: and he's just under way, so he might be a
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Speaker 1: ten under, and then you don't want to be ten
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Speaker 1: shots back heading to the weekend. So last thing, the
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Speaker 1: old guys the other day got up and they made
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a statement to Tom Watson, Jack Nicholas,
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Speaker 1: Gary player after hitting their ceremonial shots the other day,
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Speaker 1: they want golf ball technology to get rolled back. Should
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Speaker 1: golf ball technology get rolled back?
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Speaker 3: John No, I just think that that if that were
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Speaker 3: supposed to have happened, if that were the right move,
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Speaker 3: that should have happened about fifteen years ago. I think
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Speaker 3: we're too late for that. Now. Will Augusta National and
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Speaker 3: introduce their own golf ball so when you come and
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Speaker 3: play the Masters, you play a roll back golf ball. Maybe,
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Speaker 3: And if they do that and it becomes a successful
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Speaker 3: kind of operation, well then it might spread. But I
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Speaker 3: just I think part of the fun and part of
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Speaker 3: the part of the appeal of golf is is that
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Speaker 3: everybody get I mean, we get to play some of
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Speaker 3: the same golf courses they play. Obviously not Augusta unless
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Speaker 3: you're super lucky, but you know, you can go play
19:17
Speaker 3: Capaloua where they play the Tournament of Champions. You can
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Speaker 3: and you can play with the same driver and the
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Speaker 3: same irons and the same putter, and I think there's
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Speaker 3: something cool about that. And so to take that away,
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Speaker 3: to biprecate the rules where pros use one thing and
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Speaker 3: amateurs use another, I just think it kind of separates things.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know, I think it might hurt the
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Speaker 3: popularity of the PGA Tour. And besides, what did they say,
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Speaker 3: what did Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin? Chicks dig the
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Speaker 3: long ball? So I mean people like to see these drives.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Rory hit a couple over three point fifty
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Speaker 3: yesterday at sea level. I mean, that's that's pretty cool. Now, Luckily,
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Speaker 3: Augusta National has the room and the money to buy
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Speaker 3: the room to lengthen the golf course, which they have
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Speaker 3: over the years. They're up over seventy six hundred yards now,
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Speaker 3: So I mean, if it keeps going this direction, I
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Speaker 3: think we might have to roll back the golf ball.
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Speaker 3: But way do you see the new golf course the
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Speaker 3: Tiger designed up in Park City, Marcella. That's gonna be
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Speaker 3: over eight thousand yards Just for that.
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Speaker 1: Very reason, Who's who gets the green jacket put on
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Speaker 1: their shoulders on Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the sentimental Justin Rose. Okay, I
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Speaker 3: think I think the smart pick is Rory. He looks
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Speaker 3: awfully tough right now.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough, there you go, John Wright with us, presented
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Speaker 1: by our friends that you went to golf, Johnny. Great
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Speaker 1: catching up with you. We'll talk to you soon. Go
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Speaker 1: hit it well this.
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Speaker 3: Afternoon, you too, Bill. Let's go play.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it. John Wright with us here on the
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