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Go Low - Masters 2026 Predictions: Bryson DeChambeau will WIN, Aberg, MacIntyre to place Top 10 · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. Well, hello friends, this is John Middlecoff in
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Speaker 1: the Go Lo Podcast, and the Masters is officially here.
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Speaker 1: So very very excited. I thought I'd do a little
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Speaker 1: podcast from Los Angeles about Augusta because, like many people,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. So we'll kind of go over some
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Speaker 1: big picture stuff. Who I bet on? We'll take a
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Speaker 1: couple of questions at golo pod. Is the Instagram fire
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Speaker 1: in those dms from Rory defending Scotty had a baby?
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Speaker 1: Bryson and Ram who I'm picking to win some Top
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Speaker 1: ten bets, a couple flyers, just a fun week. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're either at the office or at work watching on
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Speaker 1: your computer. If you're working at home, you got it
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Speaker 1: on the background. Amazon Prime Now is covering it. You
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Speaker 1: got Jim Nance, you got It's God Van Pelton, Butler Cabin.
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Speaker 1: It's just hard to beat. So very very excited. You
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Speaker 1: guys know the drill. Make sure you subscribe to Go Low.
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Speaker 1: We separated it from three and out. We have our
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Speaker 1: own go Low YouTube page two, so we post everything
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Speaker 1: up there and let's just dive into the Masters. I've
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Speaker 1: been thinking a lot about this is you know, we
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Speaker 1: talk a lot of football, right and the one thing.
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Speaker 1: There's multiple reasons for us explosion. Right, it's a tailor
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Speaker 1: made sport for television. Anyone that's been to an NFL game,
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Speaker 1: the event is much better on television than in person.
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Speaker 1: And the scarcity of the event, given that it doesn't
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Speaker 1: happen like you don't have three games in a week
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Speaker 1: so you can't go. This game doesn't matter because they
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Speaker 1: all matter, right, whether you're playing high school football, college football,
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Speaker 1: or the NFL, every game matters. You practice all week,
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Speaker 1: you game plan, and I think the power of the masters, right,
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Speaker 1: it's the only major that's played at the same event,
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Speaker 1: but there's this build up every single year, and lately
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Speaker 1: we've had you know, the Scottis Scheffler's, the John ROMs
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Speaker 1: and obviously Rory getting over the hump last year. So
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Speaker 1: some huge names it's historically tied with, you know, guys
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Speaker 1: like Tiger or Phil Jack Arnie, you know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: the biggest players, the most gary player, the most important
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Speaker 1: players in the history of the sport have won this event.
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Speaker 1: And there's this element of the you get the green
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Speaker 1: jacket when you get into the club, right, whether you're
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Speaker 1: a champion or whether you're a member of the club.
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Speaker 1: It's why there's always reports from the ground floor of
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Speaker 1: like I just saw Roger Goodell or Peyton Manning walk
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Speaker 1: by in a green jacket. And there's just something that
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Speaker 1: almost feels, I don't know, unattainable to this event. Right,
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Speaker 1: most of us, Right, if you're listening to this and
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Speaker 1: you're a big sports fan, more than likely you have
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Speaker 1: been to a college or an NFL game, You have
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Speaker 1: been to a aor league baseball game, you have been
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Speaker 1: to an NBA game. Right, most of us have been
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Speaker 1: to an event or two, some of us more if
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Speaker 1: you're season ticket holders, right, But this is an event
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Speaker 1: even if you're an active like attendee that you're like,
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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go to the Masters, but I
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Speaker 1: also acknowledge I may never go. It just may never happen.
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Speaker 1: So there's this it feels huge, it really matters NFL style.
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Speaker 1: And then there's like kind of this mythology to I
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Speaker 1: just don't know if I'll ever get to attend. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I hope I can attend one day, but there's no
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Speaker 1: guarantee that it ever works out, that I ever get invited,
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Speaker 1: I ever get access to tickets. That it just it
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Speaker 1: just might not happen, and I'm cool with that, Like
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Speaker 1: I've come to grips with that. But for me, this event,
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Speaker 1: and let's face it, we are in this world where
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Speaker 1: non football, in the sporting world, things have to feel
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Speaker 1: really big, right. The NCAA Tournament just happened. It felt big.
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Speaker 1: Arizona against Michigan, Michigan against Yukon, Yukon against Duke. Those
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Speaker 1: felt like moments. Whether the games worked out or not,
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Speaker 1: but going into the game it felt really important. The
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Speaker 1: World Series a couple of years ago, Yankees Dodgers, like
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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen very much, it felt massive. The ratings
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Speaker 1: reflected it was big. The Kentucky Derby always feels big,
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Speaker 1: and this is the pinnacle of golf, and they've had
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Speaker 1: a lot of momentum. The players rated well, Scottie Scheffler
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Speaker 1: over the years, like they've had more interest. More people
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Speaker 1: are playing golf now than ever. But this is the
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Speaker 1: peak of the season, and this peak of the season
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Speaker 1: because so many casual people pay attention. I love golf,
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Speaker 1: playing golf. I'm actually playing tomorrow in Los Angeles, pretty
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Speaker 1: fired up. But I understand that a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't like golf, think it's boring or historically have and
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Speaker 1: then slowly have got into it. And as you age,
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Speaker 1: I mean, hell, Lebron James now is really into golf
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Speaker 1: and it was something five years ago he probably would
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Speaker 1: have laughed at, because as you age you kind of
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Speaker 1: come and have an appreciation for it, and most of
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Speaker 1: us it's the one sport where you can play courses
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Speaker 1: that these guys play, except this one. Because even if
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Speaker 1: you play golf and know a lot of people and
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Speaker 1: have a lot of money, probably very very limited chance
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Speaker 1: that you will ever step foot with your golf clubs
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Speaker 1: on this course. Even if you get the hook up
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Speaker 1: through work through you win the raffle and you attend
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Speaker 1: this event, most people that want to play this course
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Speaker 1: will never ever get the opportunity. And so I think
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Speaker 1: there's that element of that that the Jim nance, Hello friends,
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Speaker 1: how pristine everything looks on television. I think they've adapted
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Speaker 1: pretty well to giving us what we want as the
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Speaker 1: consumer on our couch or you know, in the office
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Speaker 1: on our computer, is we want to watch as many
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Speaker 1: holes and as many players in this event starting Thursday
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Speaker 1: morning through Sunday as possible, and Amazon Prime is now
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Speaker 1: carrying this Augustine doesn't need the money. They could. They
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Speaker 1: just do not care. It's a very it's unlike anything else.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it really is from the standpoint of, like,
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Speaker 1: we don't even need to sell this. I mean CBS.
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Speaker 1: I heard this couple of years ago on a podcast,
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Speaker 1: Like when they do a deal with the NCAA tournament
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Speaker 1: or with the NFL, it's usually five a ten year contract, right,
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Speaker 1: We're not giving you all this money for a decade long.
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Speaker 1: They do yearly deals with the Masters because Masters just
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Speaker 1: want even though they've done business with CBS now for
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Speaker 1: as long as I can remember, kind of keeping it
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Speaker 1: on your toes. They have certain rules that you have
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Speaker 1: to follow. We don't call them fans, call them the patrons, right,
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Speaker 1: which some of that stuff's kind of cheesy, but also
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Speaker 1: you kind of appreciate it. With Augusta, people are not
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Speaker 1: allowed to bring phones in the venue. And I can't
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Speaker 1: even imagine. Sometimes I was watching it was last week
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Speaker 1: the Valero Texas Open and there are Ludvig kind of
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Speaker 1: hits it into the trees, which he's known to do
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Speaker 1: on Sundays, and there's like this group of people in
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Speaker 1: a half circle behind him, and every single person has
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Speaker 1: their phone open to video the shot. Most of those
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Speaker 1: people and I can be guilty of this as well.
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Speaker 1: You do something like that if you're at a concert
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Speaker 1: and you like, never look at it again. You're like,
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Speaker 1: why did I just take it in? And we don't
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Speaker 1: do that as much anymore. And that's one thing that
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Speaker 1: still happens at Augusta. And I just think that if
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Speaker 1: this event goes well, because they're naturally that the Rory storyline,
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Speaker 1: you know, Bryce and rom come in with a lot
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Speaker 1: of momentum. Obviously, Scotty just had a second child, which
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated. I didn't know, you know, super young children
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Speaker 1: could fly. Did he have his child in you know,
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Speaker 1: the Augusta area and fly his doctor out, which is
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Speaker 1: something that's probably much more feasible when you have the
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Speaker 1: means of Scotty. I'm fascinated to know the logistics. I
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Speaker 1: didn't get the chance to watch his press conference yet,
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Speaker 1: but maybe it takes a little bit of a load
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Speaker 1: and pressure off of him that it's out, it's healthy.
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Speaker 1: He can just play this event he been playing bad.
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Speaker 1: Maybe takes his mind off some of his struggles. Again,
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Speaker 1: all relative, but there's just nothing better than Augusta National.
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Speaker 1: And to me, it's just the way it looks on television,
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Speaker 1: like the last couple of weeks, you just watch him,
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Speaker 1: it's just doesn't look great. I mean last week and
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Speaker 1: I get they had weather, it was just I love golf.
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Speaker 1: It was tough to watch. It did not pop on television.
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Speaker 1: And that's why that it pains me to know that
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Speaker 1: they might leave Hawaii. It's like it kind of pops
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Speaker 1: onto the players, really pops on televion. Pebble Beach pops.
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Speaker 1: Nothing pops quite like this, some of those shots, some
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Speaker 1: of those visuals. It's just the best and I can't wait.
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Speaker 1: And hopefully the Master is a little like you know, pizza,
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Speaker 1: even when it's not great, it's still pizza. Like, so
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Speaker 1: even if it's not Rory versus Bryson in the final,
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Speaker 1: in the final, you know Twosome and the ebbs and
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Speaker 1: flows of last year. And I watched the Amazon Prime
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Speaker 1: deal on Rory, which I thought was pretty good because
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes I remember in the moment, thinking this
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Speaker 1: is the craziest thing I've ever seen. But then time happens, right,
9:44
Speaker 1: life happens. You get the summer, you get a football season,
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Speaker 1: you have a child, you do whatever, and you kind
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Speaker 1: of forget. You're like, god, that was pretty crazy. You
9:53
Speaker 1: just say that because you know it's pretty crazy, But
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Speaker 1: you might if you're not like some diehard Rory fan,
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Speaker 1: Rory the Caddie or there, you kind of forget the
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Speaker 1: little details beside him chunking it into thirteen rewatching on Amazon,
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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, yeah, he doubled the first hole to
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Speaker 1: go in for a tie for the lead with Bryson
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Speaker 1: going into whole two after having a two shot lead
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Speaker 1: to start today, he doubled whole one. I can't imagine.
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Speaker 1: You're like, this is insane. It's no different, Like people
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Speaker 1: use the analogy all the time twenty eight to three.
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Speaker 1: I bet if you sat down and watched the second
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Speaker 1: half of the Falcons and Patriots again, if you're a
10:34
Speaker 1: diehard Patriot fan or a diehard Falcon fan, you probably
10:37
Speaker 1: have a better remembrance of some of those moments than me. Like,
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Speaker 1: I just remember the High Tower sack, But I bet
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Speaker 1: you think that is what did I just witness. That's
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Speaker 1: what I felt like watching Rory McElroy's Amazon documentary. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is even more insane than I remember, and it
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Speaker 1: felt pretty cool, it felt big, It was well timed.
10:58
Speaker 1: I think ship Nuck also came out of the book
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Speaker 1: talking about like his divorce, which I kind of appreciate.
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Speaker 1: I saw someone on Twitter this morning say something like
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Speaker 1: Alan Schipnuk gives zero fucks just put out the book
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Speaker 1: of Rory Master's week when he's a defending champ, talking
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Speaker 1: about like his alleged affair that everyone's you know, denied,
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Speaker 1: and his divorce, and like, God, this guy's kind of
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Speaker 1: respected in a weird way. Just really, I don't even
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Speaker 1: think I could do that, but I just don't think
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Speaker 1: he cares. And I don't think Rory cares that much either. Again,
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Speaker 1: he's probably you know, eating his Wagoo's steak right now
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Speaker 1: with a with a glass of Pinot and just enjoying
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Speaker 1: life with a smile, ear to ear as he should,
11:37
Speaker 1: which kind of sucks because I've been thinking a lot
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Speaker 1: about part of that documentary and it's, well, you know,
11:43
Speaker 1: he's talking about it for his whole career. Is a
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Speaker 1: lot of golfers his age, right in their thirties idolized
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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods when they were young. He was their golf hero,
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Speaker 1: no different than Kobe looking up at Michael right or
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Speaker 1: you know, some of these guys, they grew up on
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Speaker 1: Brett favre idolizing him. Where now some of these guys
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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady, that's who you look up to, and
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Speaker 1: you finally get this moment after a decade, plush your
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Speaker 1: Grand Slam. You've won the career Grand Slam. You've really
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Speaker 1: just cemented yourself as like an all time legend. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he already was, but really this was kind of the
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Speaker 1: icing on the cake. Whether he never wins a major again,
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Speaker 1: which I think he will, not necessarily this week, but
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Speaker 1: just over the course of the next five years, hell,
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Speaker 1: he might win a couple and Tiger was doesn't attend
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Speaker 1: like that kind of sucks. You know, There's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of people like I feel for Tiger. He's battling
12:34
Speaker 1: some issues. Yeah, we've known, We've known for twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Tiger's got a lot of demons. I know a lot
12:39
Speaker 1: of people with demons. I'm not trying to act like
12:43
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal, but like Pukunaku is down
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Speaker 1: the road right now in Los Angeles in a rehapp
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there are a lot of individuals there just
12:51
Speaker 1: like I bet if we drove to Palm Springs to
12:53
Speaker 1: Betty Ford Clinic, be fucking packed. You know, he ain't alone,
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Speaker 1: and if you're Rory like it probably would have been
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Speaker 1: a bet. He dreamed about the moment of like his
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Speaker 1: cheers and looking and seeing Tiger Woods, and then he
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Speaker 1: looks and Tiger's out there, Like that sucks. I mean
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Speaker 1: that that really sucks. So you know, it's the first
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Speaker 1: time in thirty two plus years the Tiger and Phil
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Speaker 1: are not attending this event. You know, Phil put out
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Speaker 1: a statement he's they've had some personal health issues, which
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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure. I mean, it hasn't been reported
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Speaker 1: what's going on. But I just think that the good
13:29
Speaker 1: part right now about the PGA Tour and these majors
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Speaker 1: is for whatever two decades, it was always considered, you know,
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Speaker 1: or always said Tiger didn't move the needle, he was
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Speaker 1: the needle, which is true. Golf was I mean a
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Speaker 1: niche's niche like, it was very limited to the amount
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Speaker 1: of power it had in this country in terms of
13:55
Speaker 1: getting random people to watch a tournament, especially when I
13:58
Speaker 1: was a kid. And then he came around and he
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Speaker 1: just became a fucking worldwide rock star. That even if
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Speaker 1: you didn't like golf, and a lot of people did not.
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Speaker 1: Twenty years ago, a lot of people did not. Fifteen Hell,
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, when Tiger was on and Tiger was
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Speaker 1: playing well and Tiger was in the mix, people tuned in.
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Speaker 1: I remember Barry Bonds and the peak of his steroids
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Speaker 1: use when Barry Bonds got up to bat, whether you
14:25
Speaker 1: couldn't stand him or you were like me, you loved him,
14:30
Speaker 1: you watched him hit, and a lot of people thought, like,
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Speaker 1: how what's gonna happen when Tiger goes away? Well, Tiger
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Speaker 1: kind of unofficially did go away, and when he got
14:40
Speaker 1: in the car crash at Riff and ruined his angle,
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Speaker 1: that unofficially ended his career. Never been the same, never
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Speaker 1: will be. I consider him now like unofficially done, never
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Speaker 1: playing again. Don't expect him really to ever play in
14:55
Speaker 1: these events that matter, like those days are gone. And
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Speaker 1: for a long time it was you know, Jordan Speed,
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Speaker 1: the Brooks DJ Can they carry it? I think there's
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Speaker 1: enough momentum now with and Live participated in this, just
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Speaker 1: creating conversation. Obviously, Bryson, Rahm Bryson and ram Or big
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Speaker 1: time you got Rory Scotty and some of these other
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Speaker 1: random guys on the PJ Tour who are really good.
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Speaker 1: I think the Ryder Cup buzz and golf just doesn't
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Speaker 1: need him as much as they once did. I ideally
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Speaker 1: he'd be fifty and still be pretty decent and still playing,
15:29
Speaker 1: but that's not the world we live in. He's currently
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Speaker 1: in some rehab across the pond doing who knows what.
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Speaker 1: And Phil obviously his career kind of unofficially ended on
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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour when he won at Kiawa and won
15:42
Speaker 1: the PGA Championship was a pretty cool moment as well.
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Speaker 1: But I think both those guys, they're kind of swan
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Speaker 1: songs on the course were the nineteen Masters and the
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Speaker 1: twenty one PGA Championship, and they're never coming around it again,
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Speaker 1: and they're obviously not factoring in. I don't Phil finished
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Speaker 1: second here a couple of years ago with the crazy
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Speaker 1: Round on Sunday, But I think golf's in a position
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Speaker 1: now where they can handle those guys going away. It's
16:07
Speaker 1: a big question with the NBA, like in four years
16:10
Speaker 1: when Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and Lebron James are not
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Speaker 1: playing in the NBA, what do you do because I'll
16:16
Speaker 1: promise you that's like the thunder are not going to
16:18
Speaker 1: carry you. They just will not. And I think probably
16:23
Speaker 1: a lot of people are nervous, and that was the
16:25
Speaker 1: case with golf with Tiger Woods, and now I think
16:28
Speaker 1: that we saw earlier this year the players that Cam
16:32
Speaker 1: Young won it, like did five million people watch? You're like, okay,
16:36
Speaker 1: this is all gonna be okay. And this week draws
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Speaker 1: in a lot of casual people. And I think the
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Speaker 1: Rory storyline, obviously Bryce and Rom I think is a
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Speaker 1: big deal because one of those two guys, I think
16:48
Speaker 1: as it wouldn't shock me both of them are in
16:51
Speaker 1: the mix come Sunday. And obviously Scotty playing well. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think the Masters, which has had some random winners
16:58
Speaker 1: over the years, but I also I think that kind
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Speaker 1: of speaks to the crew of guys in the PGA
17:03
Speaker 1: Tour at the time. I'd be stunned if our leader
17:06
Speaker 1: board doesn't look incredible. I mean, just look at the
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Speaker 1: winners over the last handful of years. Even the twenty
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Speaker 1: year was DJ, A couple of years of Scottie Rory Rom.
17:15
Speaker 1: I mean we have had last year the final group
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Speaker 1: is Rory and Bryson. A couple of years before it
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Speaker 1: was Rom and Brooks. I mean, you're getting the heavy
17:25
Speaker 1: hitters coming around, so I'm really fired up. And that's
17:29
Speaker 1: what I think makes this tournament so cool. Is unlike
17:34
Speaker 1: a lot of Majors, where it's one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two guys. This is someone told
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Speaker 1: me ninety one players. Well, there's a lot of When
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Speaker 1: you win the Masters, you technically can play for your
17:44
Speaker 1: entire life. And there are a lot of guys that
17:47
Speaker 1: get in, like the US Amateur winner, you know, international
17:50
Speaker 1: players that win certain events. There's like thirty guys that
17:53
Speaker 1: can win this tournament, and that honestly feels extreme, But
17:57
Speaker 1: it also feels like the guy Matt fit Patrick if
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Speaker 1: you just did a power ranking, or Bob MacIntyre right so,
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Speaker 1: or Tommy Fleetwood is in this tournament as much as
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Speaker 1: say Scotty or Rory right or as equally as a chance.
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Speaker 1: And over the last couple of years, like I loved
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Speaker 1: Rory last year, you know, and I love Bryson last year.
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Speaker 1: Now I parlayed them all. I didn't have him individually,
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Speaker 1: but it was pretty clear, like a heavy hitter was
18:25
Speaker 1: gonna win. It doesn't feel like that right now, Like
18:28
Speaker 1: I'd be stunned, honestly of Rory top Ten. I just
18:30
Speaker 1: think he's in a good mood. There's gotta be an
18:32
Speaker 1: incredible feeling walking around the grounds with his green jacket.
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Speaker 1: Every clip I've seen of him, he's had a massive smile.
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Speaker 1: This is it doesn't professionally, this has to be one
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Speaker 1: of the most surreal, cool weeks of his career. Might
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Speaker 1: be and I bet he might say this later on
18:52
Speaker 1: in the season, He's like, that was one of the
18:54
Speaker 1: more genuine, just excitement level weeks I've had to be
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Speaker 1: around a golf court in a long long time, and
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Speaker 1: I just I don't expect him to win, you know.
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Speaker 1: And Scotty, I think it's really hard the kid. The
19:11
Speaker 1: play has been off. But you know, I think we
19:15
Speaker 1: have this group of you know, Matt Fitzpatrick's, Cam Young's,
19:21
Speaker 1: Bob McIntyre, Ludwig some of those guys just this is
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Speaker 1: a great opportunity and I think that makes it really fun.
19:31
Speaker 1: You know, Marikowa his injury, what is that going to
19:34
Speaker 1: be like Xander? You know, Justin Rose was in a
19:38
Speaker 1: playoff here last year, he already won this year. He's
19:42
Speaker 1: a guy that's had a ton of success here. Adam
19:44
Speaker 1: Scott previous winner, older guy that you just that's the
19:47
Speaker 1: thing about this tournament. You know, a guy can be
19:50
Speaker 1: playing really shitty, like I put a little money on
19:53
Speaker 1: Jordan speeth in over the Texas events and you're watching
19:56
Speaker 1: me like this is tough to watch. But then he
19:59
Speaker 1: can show up here in and all of a sudden
20:00
Speaker 1: be tied for the lead on like midday Saturday. Because
20:04
Speaker 1: this is an event about course history, course knowledge, comfortable
20:09
Speaker 1: in the environment, there's a level of nerves involved in this.
20:14
Speaker 1: All these guys talk about the way the greens are
20:17
Speaker 1: so difficult. I was talking to a buddy. I'm not
20:20
Speaker 1: going to give him away because he wanted to keep
20:22
Speaker 1: it under wraps. Who got the opportunity to play here
20:24
Speaker 1: like a year ago. And he's you know, a high handicapper,
20:28
Speaker 1: like probably like a twenty but most of us, you know,
20:32
Speaker 1: he plays a decent amount of golf. He's got a
20:33
Speaker 1: lot more into it, he said. The caddy, because you
20:36
Speaker 1: go out with the caddy points at a place when
20:38
Speaker 1: you're on the green two putt and you're like, what,
20:42
Speaker 1: why would I hit the ball there. He's like, trust me,
20:44
Speaker 1: you got to hit it here, tap it, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: it's like a fifteen foot putt and it's a crazy break.
20:49
Speaker 1: And he's like, and not in a million years, if
20:51
Speaker 1: that caddy didn't exist, I would aimed like a ball
20:54
Speaker 1: outside and my ball would have ran off the green.
20:58
Speaker 1: And there's clearly a level. This is why. But years
21:00
Speaker 1: ago Phil Micholson fin a second, this is why Justin
21:03
Speaker 1: Rose can shoot like sixty four on a Sunday because
21:06
Speaker 1: your understanding of the greens, which is a big deal.
21:10
Speaker 1: It's why Jordan Speed, I'm just not gonna count him out.
21:13
Speaker 1: And my pick to win the Masters this year is
21:16
Speaker 1: Bryson d Chambeau, which a couple of years ago you
21:19
Speaker 1: would have laughed me out of the room, like you're
21:21
Speaker 1: picking Bryson d Chambeau who famously called this like a
21:24
Speaker 1: parse sixty seven and then proceeded to shoot like seventy six,
21:29
Speaker 1: and everyone and their mother rightfully so made fun of them.
21:31
Speaker 1: I don't think Augusta was happy with those comments. He
21:34
Speaker 1: was talking about like hitting balls over trees onto other holes.
21:38
Speaker 1: It's like, Bryson, just play the fucking golf course, especially
21:41
Speaker 1: because you famously. You know a lot of people have
21:44
Speaker 1: said it's an advantage to be able to draw the ball. Well,
21:48
Speaker 1: anyone that's watched Bryson D. Chambeau's YouTube channel, let alone,
21:53
Speaker 1: watched him play over the course of his career, especially
21:55
Speaker 1: since he has this new kind of swing setup. He
21:59
Speaker 1: works the ball right to left, which can be an
22:02
Speaker 1: advantage and his comfort level because they don't allow green
22:05
Speaker 1: reading books at the Masters. Over the last couple of years,
22:08
Speaker 1: I mean, he was two down going into Sunday and
22:11
Speaker 1: it was tied for the lead after I'm trying to
22:14
Speaker 1: do the math here with seventeen holes to play. And
22:18
Speaker 1: two years ago he finished tied for sixth, and he
22:21
Speaker 1: did not play well in the weekend. Last year he
22:25
Speaker 1: finished I guess two years ago he finished tied for
22:29
Speaker 1: six and he shot seventy five to seventy three. Like
22:33
Speaker 1: to me, this is a guy I will be stunned
22:36
Speaker 1: if Bryson D. Chambeau doesn't win the Masters, or I
22:39
Speaker 1: mean over the course of his career. I'm not saying
22:41
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick him this week. Who knows, it's hard.
22:44
Speaker 1: I think over the course of the next five six years,
22:47
Speaker 1: Bryson D. Chambau is gonna be a Master's champ, which
22:50
Speaker 1: will be incredible. No player could win the Masters, and
22:54
Speaker 1: people be more interested in what he would pick on
22:59
Speaker 1: the menu, Like is there a chance you're getting a
23:02
Speaker 1: chocolate protein shake? Is there a chance you're just getting
23:05
Speaker 1: like a grilled piece of chicken and some brown rice.
23:09
Speaker 1: I mean, you probably do some swanky shit, But I
23:12
Speaker 1: think he wins. He's played great and live for whatever
23:16
Speaker 1: that means. But to me, whether you're playing a muni
23:21
Speaker 1: or whether you're playing the toughest course in the world.
23:23
Speaker 1: If I'm playing one on one against John Ram, which
23:26
Speaker 1: he did in South Africa, and I beat him in
23:29
Speaker 1: sudden death, like that's saying something because a lot of
23:32
Speaker 1: people are gonna pick John Rahm this week, who also
23:34
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if he's in the mix as well.
23:37
Speaker 1: If there was a bet where you could take Rom
23:40
Speaker 1: and Bryson one of the two guys to be in
23:42
Speaker 1: one of the final three groups on Sunday, that would
23:45
Speaker 1: be an auto hammer to me, I'm taking Bryson of
23:48
Speaker 1: the two, but and you can get him right now
23:51
Speaker 1: hard Rock bet nine to one. I just think if
23:55
Speaker 1: you can hammer him Top five top ten. I'd just
23:58
Speaker 1: be stunned if he's not in the mix, I really would.
24:01
Speaker 1: I think he's confident coming in. I think the last
24:03
Speaker 1: couple of years has given him the capability to go, Okay,
24:07
Speaker 1: I can play here, Okay, I'm comfortable in this environment.
24:11
Speaker 1: I got Rory a couple of years ago at Pinehurst.
24:13
Speaker 1: He got me last year at the Masters the other thing,
24:16
Speaker 1: and I was thinking this like a basketball coach, a
24:19
Speaker 1: football coach. Rory on the doc said that after a
24:24
Speaker 1: whole nine, when Rory Birdie's Bryson misses and Rory is
24:29
Speaker 1: a four shot lead over him, he said, walking the
24:32
Speaker 1: whole ten, I looked at Bryson and I thought he's
24:35
Speaker 1: out of the tournament, which turned out to be true.
24:38
Speaker 1: But if I'm Bryson, I would use that as motivation.
24:43
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24:47
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Speaker 1: a lot. This week is by all accounts this tournament.
26:53
Speaker 1: The weather has been fantastic, it has not rained much
26:58
Speaker 1: and currently it is rock hard, which it could play
27:02
Speaker 1: very difficult in terms of obviously the putting around the green.
27:07
Speaker 1: Chipping around the green could be diabolical. If you miss
27:09
Speaker 1: approach shots, you are down right you are rolling off
27:13
Speaker 1: the green different angles. It can be very difficult chipping
27:18
Speaker 1: and approach play like to avoid crazy hard chips, approach
27:22
Speaker 1: plays key. Say what you want about Ludwig, He's had
27:26
Speaker 1: some He definitely imploded at the players. Hard for me
27:30
Speaker 1: to say that at last week when he had a
27:33
Speaker 1: lead and then it started a torential downpour and crazy
27:36
Speaker 1: wins and he played like shit. There is not a
27:40
Speaker 1: guy that I'm more confident like. If all the players
27:44
Speaker 1: in the field, I won't count Scotty because historically he's
27:48
Speaker 1: like a top ten master. There is no one I
27:51
Speaker 1: like more to top ten than Ludvig at plus one eighty.
27:55
Speaker 1: Just you can't take him to I know he's gonna
27:58
Speaker 1: be kind of a sexy trend deep pick to win.
28:01
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to pick him to win when
28:03
Speaker 1: he just doesn't win very often, and when he is
28:06
Speaker 1: leading these tournaments or tied for the lead, he something
28:09
Speaker 1: weird happens. But one thing he does, and this is
28:13
Speaker 1: what he shares in common with Scotty, is his floor
28:16
Speaker 1: is extremely high. So to me plus one eighty to
28:19
Speaker 1: top ten, I don't like it. I love it. And
28:23
Speaker 1: there's a reason, you know, they say in what does
28:25
Speaker 1: Ludwig do? He can, you know, work a work, a fade,
28:28
Speaker 1: work a cut. But to me, when I think Ledvig,
28:31
Speaker 1: I think a drawer of the golf ball, high ball flight,
28:34
Speaker 1: drawer of the golf ball. Bryson de Chambo fits this place. Well,
28:40
Speaker 1: why do lefties have success? Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Mike
28:47
Speaker 1: weir have success here because those guys, they're ball flight,
28:50
Speaker 1: not a drop. They can play a cut, whether it's
28:53
Speaker 1: on whole two, whether it's on hoole ten, whether it's
28:56
Speaker 1: you know, if you get behind, like the Rory shot
28:59
Speaker 1: last year, on a whole fifteen. They can cut the
29:02
Speaker 1: ball at the bunker on hole eighteen right where sometimes
29:09
Speaker 1: it's a harder shot for the right hander that if
29:11
Speaker 1: he plays the cut there, he's in the trees and
29:13
Speaker 1: he's fucked, which we've seen happen sometimes. Bob McIntyre has
29:17
Speaker 1: really turned into a high level golfer. I mean, you
29:21
Speaker 1: watch him, I kind of appreciate the body type. To me,
29:24
Speaker 1: you get him top ten plus two thirty. So I'm
29:27
Speaker 1: taking Bryson to win nine to one. I'm taking Ludvig
29:31
Speaker 1: and McIntyre to top ten plus one eighty and plus
29:35
Speaker 1: two fifty. Excuse me, now, I am gonna take a
29:38
Speaker 1: couple of flyers. If you've watched him play this year,
29:42
Speaker 1: he's all over the map and anytime you look up,
29:45
Speaker 1: and I did this the other day at Valero, he
29:47
Speaker 1: was between two trees. I think I saw something online
29:51
Speaker 1: where someone's like, no, one's more likely if you see
29:55
Speaker 1: someone in the trees. If you're at a golf tournament
29:58
Speaker 1: and go, I wonder who that is. For it to
30:00
Speaker 1: be Jordan Speed, he can be all over the map.
30:03
Speaker 1: But that's the thing with Augusta. You don't this isn't
30:06
Speaker 1: the players, this isn't Oakmont. You can spray it around
30:10
Speaker 1: a little bit and course knowledge and just kind of
30:13
Speaker 1: understanding the moment and being comfortable in the environment matters
30:17
Speaker 1: a lot. Now, Am I confident Jordan Speed? Like? Would
30:21
Speaker 1: I put a lot of Nuggies on it?
30:22
Speaker 2: No?
30:23
Speaker 1: But when you can get Speed at fifty to one,
30:26
Speaker 1: to me, there was enough there to be like, I'd
30:29
Speaker 1: like a little magic and I'm biased, Like I just
30:31
Speaker 1: want to root for the guy now something I'm a
30:33
Speaker 1: little more confident. I know he just had a bad week.
30:37
Speaker 1: But if you tell me, this place is rock hard
30:40
Speaker 1: and it's playing hard, and this is a tournament between
30:44
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty guys, like I've seen this song and
30:48
Speaker 1: danced before. There's a guy named Brooks Koepka that broke
30:52
Speaker 1: it down years ago. That why he's successful in majors.
30:56
Speaker 1: He's like, you can cut out half the field immediately,
30:58
Speaker 1: then the next half there is going to be overwhelmed
31:00
Speaker 1: by emotions, and then the next half of the next group,
31:04
Speaker 1: who even if they are mentally dialed in and can
31:07
Speaker 1: handle everything, their game's not going to be really playing well.
31:11
Speaker 1: So then you're at such a small percentage of people
31:13
Speaker 1: who's actually playing well and who can handle the pressure
31:16
Speaker 1: that they don't really know how to navigate mistakes. Now,
31:19
Speaker 1: Brooks is not putted well this year, but Tita Green,
31:22
Speaker 1: he's been excellent. And if you tell me that this
31:25
Speaker 1: course is like ball striking, is going to be put
31:31
Speaker 1: at a premium because the greens are going to be
31:33
Speaker 1: rock hard and this isn't the DJ Fall Masters where
31:36
Speaker 1: it's soft and balls are, you know, stopping on the green.
31:40
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Brooks a fifty to one, and I
31:42
Speaker 1: look hard. I bet has him fifty to one, Like
31:45
Speaker 1: I like having a little juice on a guy that's
31:47
Speaker 1: comfortable in the bright lights. Now, if you don't want
31:50
Speaker 1: to bet them to outright win, to me top ten,
31:53
Speaker 1: top five, like I can see scenarios where Kopka is
31:58
Speaker 1: just in the mix in this event. Now, my one flyer,
32:01
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have brought up justin Rose.
32:05
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with another former champion who's in his forties,
32:08
Speaker 1: just because I like the odds at seventy five to one,
32:10
Speaker 1: and that's Adam Scott. One thing I did is I
32:13
Speaker 1: actually have a parlay with Adam Scott to win and
32:16
Speaker 1: Ludwig the top ten last week, which he did. But
32:20
Speaker 1: Adam Scott's a guy that I threw a couple of
32:22
Speaker 1: nuggies on at seventy five to one to just hope
32:25
Speaker 1: Kent lightning in a bottle. I think there are a lot,
32:27
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people are on Cam Young personally.
32:30
Speaker 1: For me, Cam Young is I'm gonna place a very
32:33
Speaker 1: aggressive wager at the PGA Championship in a month at Aronomic.
32:38
Speaker 1: I think Cam Young wins an ironomic, he wins a
32:40
Speaker 1: pg Championship, or he wins the Open. I don't necessarily
32:44
Speaker 1: see him winning this tournament. Could be wrong, and I'm
32:47
Speaker 1: a Cam Young Stan I'm rooms for the guy. Xander
32:52
Speaker 1: is a guy that I think is flying under the
32:53
Speaker 1: radar a little bit. I think Marikawa would have been
32:56
Speaker 1: a sexy pick if he hadn't fucked up his back
32:59
Speaker 1: at the Players. I think, obviously Fleetwood's a guy that
33:03
Speaker 1: can kind of turn on, but he's been off. He's
33:05
Speaker 1: got this. You know, he's always wearing different clothing. A
33:07
Speaker 1: little weird because he can't get a clothing deal. Hurd
33:12
Speaker 1: some details on that. Kind of weird that business they're
33:14
Speaker 1: in that way. But he probably made a lot of
33:17
Speaker 1: money on Nike in his prime. So to recap Bryson,
33:22
Speaker 1: my flyers are Brooks and Speed and just in terms
33:24
Speaker 1: of little longer odds, and my big time flyer is
33:27
Speaker 1: Adam Scott. My two top ten bets are Ludwig and
33:32
Speaker 1: Bob McIntyre. I think what makes this event so cool
33:37
Speaker 1: is you just turn on. You just feel good. And
33:40
Speaker 1: there's something about how pristine the grass, the vibes look
33:46
Speaker 1: when it goes viral. That you get a sandwich for
33:48
Speaker 1: two or three dollars when you can get a beer
33:50
Speaker 1: for three dollars, it's like that stuff doesn't exist any anymore.
33:55
Speaker 1: I got a small coffee, now I get it. I'm
33:57
Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills at this hotel. You go downstairs like
34:01
Speaker 1: I just need a cold brew for the afternoon. I
34:02
Speaker 1: need a little juice, and they're like, that'll be ten dollars.
34:05
Speaker 1: I'm like Jesus Christ. You go to the airport You're like,
34:09
Speaker 1: I'm so thirsty, and then you get a water It's
34:12
Speaker 1: like twelve dollars, Like this is egregious. But what am
34:15
Speaker 1: I gonna do? Fucking go to the bathroom and drink
34:17
Speaker 1: sink water like you gotta got it? Got you by
34:19
Speaker 1: the balls? The Masters could break people over the coals.
34:24
Speaker 1: I see it with the Players Championship. You know those things,
34:28
Speaker 1: uh and went viral this year. How expensive everything is,
34:32
Speaker 1: And to me, that's always something that you share on
34:34
Speaker 1: group text, like God, I want a pimento cheese sandwich
34:39
Speaker 1: or do you know what the key is? You go
34:40
Speaker 1: with the barbecue chicken and you mix it with the
34:42
Speaker 1: pimento cheese and it melts in your mouth. I'm like, oh,
34:46
Speaker 1: hell yeah. So I'm excited, I really am, and I
34:53
Speaker 1: can't wait for this thing to get going. Let me
35:09
Speaker 1: answer a couple quick golf questions from the at Golo pod.
35:14
Speaker 1: This is from so you just instagram me. I will
35:16
Speaker 1: answer your questions here on the pod. This from Jared.
35:19
Speaker 1: I've heard you mentioned that golf has really taken off
35:22
Speaker 1: in the last five years. Made me think of all
35:24
Speaker 1: these golf simulator businesses that seem to be popping up everywhere.
35:28
Speaker 1: I went to one recently that served good cocktails and
35:32
Speaker 1: it was fun. Have you ever been and did you
35:35
Speaker 1: enjoy it? They seem to be popular enough, although do
35:40
Speaker 1: you see those being a fad and eventually suffering the
35:43
Speaker 1: same fate as top golf. I think they are. I
35:51
Speaker 1: went to one probably in the last six months in Scottsdale,
35:55
Speaker 1: same thing. It was really fun. We had some drinks,
35:59
Speaker 1: we got some app tizers, you know, they were the
36:02
Speaker 1: girls could come. There were a bunch of dudes there
36:04
Speaker 1: could bring their girlfriends or their wives. A couple of
36:07
Speaker 1: babies were there. It was just an easy hang. But
36:14
Speaker 1: I enjoy it more in top golf. Hot take. I
36:16
Speaker 1: don't really like top golf. Never really did. Like if
36:19
Speaker 1: I'm hitting outside, I just would rather be on a
36:23
Speaker 1: driving range. Now I get the The first time I
36:28
Speaker 1: ever went to top golf, I went in Vegas, which
36:31
Speaker 1: Vegas's Top Golf has the big screens in the back
36:34
Speaker 1: with the games on. It's pretty cool. It's right there
36:36
Speaker 1: on the strip. But like, if you told me, hey,
36:40
Speaker 1: you want to meet me at top golf, my first
36:42
Speaker 1: reaction is probably no, not really where if you go, Hey,
36:46
Speaker 1: I got this cool place? Got sweet simulators. They got
36:48
Speaker 1: a bar, you want to come, have a beer and
36:50
Speaker 1: hit some shots. I'd probably be interested. Do I think
36:54
Speaker 1: it's a little fatty? Probably?
36:56
Speaker 2: Do?
36:57
Speaker 1: I think the simulator now, I don't know about the cost,
37:01
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, like top golf, you got
37:03
Speaker 1: overhead costs. It's expensive. The time I went, the one
37:07
Speaker 1: in Scott's Tale was pretty empty. So you know, I
37:11
Speaker 1: don't know what you need to you know, to make
37:13
Speaker 1: your money and just to break even. It's it's not
37:16
Speaker 1: a cheap endeavor. So you know that the simulators by
37:21
Speaker 1: themselves are not inexpensive. My guess would be are they
37:26
Speaker 1: everywhere in five years? Probably not, But I don't think
37:30
Speaker 1: they hurt currently. I'd probably bet against the big picture,
37:34
Speaker 1: but I could be wrong. You know, technology has just
37:36
Speaker 1: exploded in all of all of our lives. I do
37:39
Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool to just be able to go
37:40
Speaker 1: to a simulators like you want to play Pebble Beach,
37:44
Speaker 1: you want to play Augusta, you want to play St Andrews,
37:48
Speaker 1: you want to play you name it, you can play
37:51
Speaker 1: the course. That aspect of it to me is pretty cool.
37:56
Speaker 1: I do enjoy that. Uh So maybe I'll be a
38:01
Speaker 1: little one. Maybe I won't totally bet against it. Would
38:04
Speaker 1: love to hear your thoughts on Tiger's train wreck or
38:07
Speaker 1: Tiger's wreck and DUI kind of ironic. On your last
38:11
Speaker 1: podcast on Go Low, you said Tiger is back. I
38:18
Speaker 1: think I talked about this a little bit on a
38:20
Speaker 1: football mail bag. It was hard for me to watch
38:24
Speaker 1: and I didn't really you know. I saw the clip
38:26
Speaker 1: of him talking to Trump, which I was with the
38:29
Speaker 1: buddy last night, and I saw this reported that most
38:33
Speaker 1: people think that Tiger called Donald to try to get
38:38
Speaker 1: out of the DUI, and it was reported like at
38:40
Speaker 1: that time Donald was in Air Force one and you
38:44
Speaker 1: can't get a direct line there, so he called Tiger
38:48
Speaker 1: and a lot of people, you know in the golf world.
38:52
Speaker 1: Trump a couple of weeks ago said Tiger was not
38:54
Speaker 1: playing in the Masters, and it was almost like Donald
38:57
Speaker 1: had called him, like hey, I didn't mean because then
38:59
Speaker 1: Tiger had claim that he was trying to play. It
39:02
Speaker 1: was almost like Donald just happened to call Tiger at
39:04
Speaker 1: that time, is what a buddy of mine thought. That
39:08
Speaker 1: was more likely than Tiger called him to get out
39:10
Speaker 1: of the DUI, because he would just call his lawyer
39:14
Speaker 1: and then that guy. They got direct lines of Donald like,
39:16
Speaker 1: what's he going to get him out of the UI
39:17
Speaker 1: right there? Which maybe he did, but it was just
39:23
Speaker 1: he didn't feel that. Again, I could only watch like
39:25
Speaker 1: five minutes. I didn't really watch much of him hiccupping
39:28
Speaker 1: in the back. When he was doing the different things,
39:31
Speaker 1: he looked pretty normal to me. He clearly pops a
39:34
Speaker 1: lot of pills. That's been pretty well established. He literally
39:37
Speaker 1: had him on him. I've said forever, if you like
39:41
Speaker 1: doing something a lot, like I really enjoy talking for
39:44
Speaker 1: a living. It's one of the only things in life
39:46
Speaker 1: I'm decent at right most things I can't do. I
39:50
Speaker 1: can't do DIY projects at home. I can't do a
39:54
Speaker 1: lot of things. So the things that you can do,
39:58
Speaker 1: and if you get good at him, if you prefer actually,
40:00
Speaker 1: if they become lucrative, you almost like triple down and
40:03
Speaker 1: it becomes a defining aspect of your life, whether you
40:06
Speaker 1: like it or not. Golf has defined this guy's life
40:09
Speaker 1: since he was two years old. He became one of
40:11
Speaker 1: the most famous athletes of his generation any sport worldwide
40:17
Speaker 1: because he could swing at golf club and he's a
40:20
Speaker 1: golf nerd like he's a golf nerd. He can talk golf.
40:26
Speaker 1: He can like he just the golf world is in
40:30
Speaker 1: his soul. Well, the only way that he can play
40:34
Speaker 1: at this point in time. With I don't know fifty surgeries.
40:37
Speaker 1: There's like twenty five that we know about. There has
40:40
Speaker 1: to be countless more that we don't. He has, you know,
40:43
Speaker 1: essentially a fake ankle. He has a fuse back. He
40:47
Speaker 1: has a fucked up knee towards Achilles last year. He'll
40:51
Speaker 1: never be If you and I were in the same
40:53
Speaker 1: scenario with those injuries, our golf career would be done.
40:58
Speaker 1: We would not be At most, maybe we get an
41:01
Speaker 1: elliptical and the sonnet feel good. Well, lookie Tiger, what
41:05
Speaker 1: does he like to do? Like to lift, likes to
41:07
Speaker 1: work out, so he likes golf and working out. Those
41:09
Speaker 1: are like his two things that he does. He has
41:13
Speaker 1: unlimited money now, and I just think it's if you
41:19
Speaker 1: tell me that the rehab or whatever works and he
41:22
Speaker 1: no longer can take the powerful pills, I'll tell you
41:25
Speaker 1: he's never swinging a golf club again. He's never played
41:28
Speaker 1: on the Champions Tour. He's more likely to be in
41:30
Speaker 1: a wheelchair in ten years than he is fucking thriving
41:33
Speaker 1: on the golf course, and clearly he has abused him
41:38
Speaker 1: and had issues with him. But I just think if
41:41
Speaker 1: the pill thing goes through like tiger Woods in a
41:43
Speaker 1: golf club, it's cyonar, It's over. That's all she wrote.
41:49
Speaker 1: So I just think that a huge part of that
41:52
Speaker 1: pill addiction that he has is because of what he
41:56
Speaker 1: does right now. I obviously it has addicted of qualities
42:00
Speaker 1: and people that don't play golf or lift weights have
42:03
Speaker 1: been addicted to these is ruined countless people's lives. But
42:06
Speaker 1: I think it's directly correlated to what he loves to do,
42:11
Speaker 1: and that's pumping iron and fucking playing golf, which you
42:16
Speaker 1: can't have that many surgeries, and lift clearly the amount
42:19
Speaker 1: that he does, and play golf, which is not a
42:22
Speaker 1: normal movement on a body that is like duct taped
42:26
Speaker 1: together with just a couple of tailand all on Adville.
42:30
Speaker 1: So I think it's just a sad story. He's led
42:34
Speaker 1: a chaotic life. I think when it's all said and done,
42:39
Speaker 1: you know the story of his life is going to
42:41
Speaker 1: be closer like Elvis or Michael Jackson or something just
42:46
Speaker 1: outrageous that it is just Tom Brady, you know. So
42:50
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it made me sad, but it also
42:54
Speaker 1: is what it is. I mean, I just.
42:57
Speaker 2: Yeah.
43:00
Speaker 1: They say basketball is a game of runs. I think
43:02
Speaker 1: golf is a career of runs. Do you think Scotty
43:06
Speaker 1: is ending a generational run and will slowly regress speed?
43:11
Speaker 1: Had one of the best years the game has ever
43:13
Speaker 1: seen in twenty fifteen and has not come close to
43:17
Speaker 1: that since. It's a great line. If you look historically
43:22
Speaker 1: at the non all time great players, they have a
43:26
Speaker 1: stretch of a year or two where they pounce. And
43:30
Speaker 1: Mark o'meira right won the Masters, won the British Open.
43:34
Speaker 1: I was been looking at joining this club around where
43:37
Speaker 1: I live, and Tom Lahman is redoing it. The year
43:41
Speaker 1: he won a major, he also like top two to
43:44
Speaker 1: another major and had like a two year career where
43:47
Speaker 1: he really peaked. Now, guys like Rory or Dustin Johnson
43:52
Speaker 1: or Kopka can make Bryson Rahm the all time great
43:56
Speaker 1: players have long careers. I would put Scotty under that.
44:00
Speaker 1: Jordan kind of took advantage of his twenty fifteen seventeen
44:07
Speaker 1: window and since has kind of been average. You know,
44:09
Speaker 1: Justin Thomas kind of took advantage of two or three years,
44:12
Speaker 1: three or four years a little longer. Right, But if
44:14
Speaker 1: you're an all time great player Tiger one in ninety seven,
44:17
Speaker 1: one again in twenty nineteen, Phil one PJ event in
44:22
Speaker 1: the nineties, won a major in twenty twenty one, Right,
44:25
Speaker 1: So those guys can go through lolls. Golf can be
44:29
Speaker 1: to me like baseball as a hitter, where you can
44:31
Speaker 1: just have you know, a hitter can just have an
44:33
Speaker 1: awful month, like an all time Hall of Famer can
44:36
Speaker 1: have a month where he bats like one to eighty.
44:39
Speaker 1: Golf can be like that. You can just have a
44:40
Speaker 1: couple of years where you send them mud. Rory had
44:43
Speaker 1: some weird years between, like twenty fourteen and two thousand,
44:47
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, right, and then you figure
44:49
Speaker 1: some out and then you flip it back in to me,
44:52
Speaker 1: Scotti is much closer to a Tiger of Phil Rory,
44:56
Speaker 1: or at least what I would imagine his career being then.
45:00
Speaker 1: Just like you know, Scotty had the craziest three year run. Now,
45:02
Speaker 1: this might be the best three years of his career,
45:06
Speaker 1: but I would imagine five years Scotty is still a
45:10
Speaker 1: major factor, or in ten years he might go through
45:12
Speaker 1: some crazy lolls that you know, the great players do
45:15
Speaker 1: tired it Fiel died, but I would expect like, is
45:19
Speaker 1: he gonna win twenty majors? No? But is Scotty more
45:23
Speaker 1: likely to win eight than never win another one? I
45:26
Speaker 1: would say yes, could be wrong. Golf's really hard. The
45:29
Speaker 1: competition has never been harder. Like, like you said, you
45:34
Speaker 1: can go cold for a while and then you start overthinking.
45:36
Speaker 1: It started overcompensating. But I don't know. I think I
45:40
Speaker 1: think Scotty is somewhat of a master of his craft.
45:44
Speaker 1: And the other thing is he's been winning for a
45:46
Speaker 1: long period of time. I think when you watch him play,
45:52
Speaker 1: he's you know, like speech, for example, can be very
45:56
Speaker 1: inaccurate off the tea, it's like he just to me,
46:00
Speaker 1: he's Scotty even when he's a little off, like he
46:02
Speaker 1: was off of the players, and he's still got top
46:05
Speaker 1: twenty five, you know, so even when he's off, it's
46:08
Speaker 1: still not crazy off. It's not like, oh this, guys, fucks,
46:11
Speaker 1: what is going on here? Which he's gonna have one
46:14
Speaker 1: of those events where it's just like he missed a cut,
46:17
Speaker 1: it's inevitable. But to me, he's under much more control.
46:21
Speaker 1: Now we'll see. Maybe this week is.
46:23
Speaker 2: Terrible, but I would bet he's more likely to have
46:29
Speaker 2: a long, illustrious career than like a short lived four
46:33
Speaker 2: your window, even if that four year window is the
46:36
Speaker 2: best golf he ever played.
46:38
Speaker 1: Right, Tiger won Torrey Pines No. Eight, but the best
46:41
Speaker 1: year of his career was two thousand. Right started playing
46:44
Speaker 1: well again four or five years later, and then played
46:47
Speaker 1: great in twenty eighteen and nineteen. So when you're an
46:50
Speaker 1: all time great, which I do believe Scotty is, you
46:53
Speaker 1: can kind of figure it out even through the wolves.
46:56
Speaker 1: Enjoy the Masters. I will see you guys later. The
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Speaker 1: volume