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Masters Round Two Highlights, Rory McIlroy's Finish, and Upcoming Golf Insights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  I am your host Bubba Starts flying solo tonight as we recap round two of the twenty twenty six
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  masters.
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  And once again, it was Rory McElroy dominating out there on the course.
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  Enjoy a quick hit from our music studio, and we'll be back with some more action.
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  My children growing every year.
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  Family man I am, I've left my drifting days behind for all my life.
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  My wedded wife, I'm holding dear.
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  Now I'm too old to go walking down this
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  Welcome in to this special coverage of the twenty twenty six masters tournament here on
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  the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  My name is Bubba Starts.
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  I'm the executive producer and host of this show.
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  Flying solo tonight as our guy, Shady Grady, had some prior engagements to deal with, but
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  wanted to make sure we came back, recapped an amazing round two led by royal Rory McElroy's
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  65 on the day, birdied the last three holes.
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  What an amazing, display of golf today.
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  Absolutely beautiful day down in Georgia.
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  I think it hit into the low eighties.
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  Looked gorgeous out there as if Augusta National could ever look bad.
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  the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  So let's jump right into the leaderboard.
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  Like I said, Rory McIlroy continues to ride the top of the leaderboard now at 12 under after a
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  65 today.
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  Absolutely incredible golf by him.
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  Looked like he was in trouble on seventeen today and, puts his drive into the woods down
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  the left side, plays it out safely right side, into the rough there, ends up pitching it in,
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  for a birdie.
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  Just absolutely incredible showing of poise today from Rory.
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  Hard not to be impressed with his first two rounds today and now with a six shot lead on
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  the field.
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  Notable movers today, Patrick Reed had himself a day starting out at three under, finished the
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  day at six under for the tournament.
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  Justin Rose moved, up four strokes today with a, what would that be?
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  A 68 on the day.
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  A pretty good round from him.
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  Shane Lowry coming in at five under on the day or two under on the day and then finished at
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  five under.
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  So a a good round from Shane.
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  Tommy Fleetwood had himself a day coming in at even par and then finishing out at five under.
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  So, absolutely incredible here today.
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  I think some of the, notable misses on the day, Scottie Scheffler had a tough tough finish to
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  his day, finishing even par again after starting the day two under.
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  I know he wanted a little bit more out of that.
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  Lot of folks coming in and finishing their day plus one, plus two, plus three.
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  The cut looks like, they did release it here.
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  So four, plus four was the cut line today.
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  We'll go over some notable names that missed it.
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  Bubba Watson misses the cut.
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  Zach Johnson.
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  Bryson DeChambeau, after a pretty tough day out on the course yesterday, misses the cut as
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  well.
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  We had covered a little bit.
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  Freddie Couples, unfortunately, misses the cut after having a pretty good start to his round
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  yesterday.
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  Hecheverria had an absolutely incredible shot, but misses the cut as well.
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  A really cool highlight.
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  I I highly recommend you guys get on and check that out.
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  So just a quick look there.
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  John Rom, after having a a tough go of it yesterday, finishing plus six, six over par,
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  has a decent day today finishing at four over and making the cut.
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  But the man they're all chasing out there is, of course, Rory McElroy with the largest lead
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  ever, a historic round today, finishing at 12 under with a six shot lead over the rest of the
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  field.
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  Absolutely incredible stuff from Rory today.
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  I had the pleasure.
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  I was busy most of the day.
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  I was kinda tuning in and out watching a few of the featured groups.
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  But, watching the last three holes, Rory absolutely stuck his drive off the sixteenth
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  tee on that hit.
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  Just beautiful, beautiful hole.
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  Just iconic.
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  That pond, like a mirror out there, sticks his shot, sinks the birdie, and and then I kinda
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  mentioned it off the top.
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  On 17, puts his drive left of the fairway into the trees, plays a safe shot out up to the
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  right hand side of the green, kind of into that, you know, not necessarily into the deep
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  rough, but into that second cut, and then pitches in for birdie and finishes off 18 with
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  another beautiful birdie.
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  It was really fun to watch him finish the round with the young Mason Howell out there who with
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  a finishing eight over on the or for the tournament misses the cut, but really awesome
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  watching the now little bit of the elder statesman of Rory McIl roy, giving the young
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  man some words of encouragement.
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  Mason is one of the amateur players.
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  I'm not sure how old he is.
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  He doesn't look a day over, maybe 19.
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  He's probably 21, 22.
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  I'm now at that age where everyone looks like a teenager if they're under 28.
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  But, really incredible to see Rory out there giving the young man some words of
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  encouragement there, finishing out the round.
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  And what a learning experience for someone like a Mason Howell to be out there and watching
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  Rory hit a 65 on this historic course.
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  Just, really enjoy it.
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  We talked at length yesterday with Shady on the show.
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  How important this is, this week is really for not just, the PGA, but really for the entire
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  game of golf.
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  It's so important, and you're having a lot of the players that are golfing over on the live
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  tour coming back, to play in these tournaments.
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  Obviously, the first of the majors this year.
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  I'm just so blessed to, be able to cover it with our scene project sports network.
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  I I just love this game of golf.
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  And and if you're tuning in right now, I'm assuming that you are a big fan of the game
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  too.
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  Throw a comment down, here.
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  What was your favorite moment of the day if you got to watch the round as well?
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  For me, it's hard to beat the the 17 that Rory shot, but some other notables in there.
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  I mentioned the Echeverria shot that he had to to pull out a birdie pitching off the green and
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  and in for a birdie.
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  It's just this course is so beautiful, and and this week is so iconic to the game.
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  The ninetieth masters.
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  It's hard to believe, that we get to do this every year.
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  And I talked about it a little bit yesterday as well on our recap.
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  But as someone who lives in the Upper Midwest and, you know, golf season up here, starts a
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  lot later than it does, in the Southern States here in The US, this to me is always, like the
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  kickoff to the golf season.
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  I know we've already had several tournaments and the PGA, kinda kicking off with the, waste
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  management open down there in Arizona is really incredible.
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  But this is when I finally start to, think about golf and looking forward to the season.
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  I, it it becomes such an iconic moment not just for me and the players that are out on the
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  course, but for The United States and for golfers around the world.
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  I don't have a lot to say as, we're flying here solo tonight.
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  We had some movers in there, but it it really comes down to this is Rory McElroy's tournament
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  to lose.
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  And with the way he's shooting right now and the way that the weather is going to hold over
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  the weekend with no real wind or rain in the forecast.
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  It's supposed to be beautiful, sunny, hot weather.
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  I think the greens are going to speed up a little bit over the weekend, especially waning
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  into these back half of the rounds on Saturday and Sunday.
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  But at this point, it would take an epic collapse from Rory McElroy to give this
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  tournament away.
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  I think he's just putting it too far out of reach with how he's playing, but anything can
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  happen.
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  And that's the beauty of golf.
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  That's the beauty of this tournament.
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  But I think with the way Rory's swinging the club right now, he looks confident.
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  He looks comfortable.
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  It really is his tournament to lose.
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  And and exciting to watch him now after taking so long to get to his first masters win and
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  winning the tournament last year to now come in looking like a completely different player, I
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  think is really exciting.
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  And it's really exciting for the whole game of golf.
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  I I'm just thrilled to get to sit back this weekend, to watch as they, take the field
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  tomorrow, get out on that course, beautiful weather, and to just see some really incredible
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  golf and and to watch the potential for going in here.
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  So let's let's cruise back through the leaderboard a little bit here.
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  Some favorites still in here.
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  A you know, there there's only a few that are really in striking range right now.
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  You know, I would say Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, obviously, kind of a sleeper in here
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  could make a move.
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  Patrick Reed was playing very well, through the end of the day today as well.
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  And, besides that bogey, that's a disappointing bogey for him on 18 today, but shot a 69.
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  I I think it really is at this point.
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  It's McElroy's tournament to lose.
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  Watching him birdie the last four holes in a row, after really playing even golf, he had
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  those early birdies and then, the bogey on four, but then settled in, another bogey on 10.
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  But just settled in, and he's playing consistent golf.
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  And even when he gets into a little bit of trouble, he's not letting it stack up, and to
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  really sink him.
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  Don't let one hole be your demise.
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  And and this course can do it to you as we know, as we watched, you know, a a favorite of
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  the show here, Bryson DeChambeau, have a disastrous hole yesterday that really scuttled
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  his whole tournament.
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  Right?
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  So as long as we don't see that, I think you're gonna be in good shape.
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  A Hatton here, Tyrell Hatton had himself a fairly good back nine going from just one,
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  minus two through nine, to finishing minus four.
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  So, I think you have, and then Lee.
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  What who is this here?
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  Sorry.
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  I'm letting him check-in names.
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  I can't say that anyway.
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  Hotong Lee, finishing with some birdies of his own there in the back nine.
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  I just don't see anyone being able to catch Rory without him collapsing.
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  So it's gonna be exciting to watch the rest of the weekend here.
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  And I had, there was a, shout out to Pure Golf who, make custom iron sets and engraved iron
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  sets.
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  I think our buddy, Shady, is gonna have a set of those real soon in his possession.
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  But they had a, a contest running on their, social media where they were asking for who you
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  thought the winner would be and their final score.
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  And I had put down Rory McElroy as my favorite for the win, but I had his final score for the
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  tournament at minus 13, and I just don't think that's going to hold.
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  He might end up getting to minus 23, and I think that would just be incredible with as
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  challenging as that that course can be at Augusta National.
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  But I I think you're gonna see some big changes over the next few days as the course and the
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  pin positions get a little tougher out there.
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  I think Saturday and Sunday is going to test the metal of every player that's out on the
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  course.
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  This was just a quick recap of round two.
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  thought it would be really fun to bring you guys a little recap and our thoughts about the
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  tournament, that really kicks off the golf season.
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  And, absolutely incredible round by Rory McElroy today, a 65 after his 66 yesterday.
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  He's just playing so well or a 67 yesterday.
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  Yesterday.
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  Sorry.
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  And, 65 today, to come in 12 under par for the tournament.
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  He's the one to chase, and, we'll see if the rest of the tournament can do it.
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  If anyone in the field can catch him, it's going to be interesting to watch over here the
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  next few days and wrap up this masters tournament, the first of the major tournaments
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  for the season.
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  So for the Scene Project Sports Network and Skunk Golf Company, my name is Bubba Starz.
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  and the finish of this iconic golf tournament.
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  This has been Scene Project Sports Network coverage of the twenty twenty six masters.
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