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Go Low - 2026 Masters Reaction: Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Cameron Young · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing?
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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, make sure obviously subscribe to the channel. We
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Speaker 1: like going live after these majors and after these big tournaments,
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Speaker 1: and at the beginning of the week, I did not
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Speaker 1: imagine I would be sitting here in northern California where
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Speaker 1: I currently am actually my brother's office, Jared Allen back
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Speaker 1: there or on this side. I got four him years
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Speaker 1: ago when I interned for the Chiefs. But I just
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Speaker 1: that was a thrill ride. That was a run. The
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Speaker 1: guy essentially played back to back years and did the
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Speaker 1: same thing on Sunday, where your jaw is just hitting
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Speaker 1: the floor, going, I can't believe what I am witnessing.
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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that some highlights. I wrote some
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Speaker 1: notes on my phone. I was at a family gathering
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of days, at a wedding yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but just tried to not miss a shot of this tournament.
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Speaker 1: And it lives up to the hype every year. It
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Speaker 1: really does. Just a special event, and Rory McElroy has
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Speaker 1: really elevated it. So let's just let's start with Rory,
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Speaker 1: who I don't know if this tops the iconic nature
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Speaker 1: of last year, given that it was his first Green jacket,
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Speaker 1: and given that it went to, you know, a sudden
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Speaker 1: death playoff against one of his Ryder Cup teammates who
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Speaker 1: had already lost in a sudden death playoff years previously
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Speaker 1: to Sergio Garcia. But I feel like this is like
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Speaker 1: one be like to me sometimes like, well, this is
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Speaker 1: Tiger's best Masters and the second best masters, pretty easy
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Speaker 1: to rank it. This feels it's not number one, but
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Speaker 1: it's definitely not number two.
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Speaker 2: And I think if we were just looking to describe
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Speaker 2: Roy McElroy, and this is what makes I think him
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Speaker 2: such a great TV character as an athlete, is you
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Speaker 2: have no clue what's coming. It is truly this roller
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Speaker 2: coaster ride of exhilaration that any single swing, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's not out of bounce on this course, right, so
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Speaker 2: you're not gonna pump it and have to retee.
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Speaker 1: But you can hit the water, you can hit the trees,
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Speaker 1: you can hit it way over greens or short of greens,
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Speaker 1: and at any moment over the course of the last
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Speaker 1: honestly three days. And I think what makes this tournament
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Speaker 1: for Rory such a thrill ride. And I did a
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Speaker 1: pot with Colin if this was, you know, like when
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Speaker 1: a baseball pitcher, like when Nolan Ryan or Pedro Martinez
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Speaker 1: was on, like they were unhittable, right the top pictures Scooball, whoever,
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Speaker 1: the history of times, Strasbourg, sures er Roland. When they're on,
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Speaker 1: like in their prime, no one's touching them, like they're
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Speaker 1: going nine twelve k's one hit, mowing guys down. But
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Speaker 1: the best pitchers, what make them pretty special is like
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Speaker 1: when they got their C stuff, they can still go
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Speaker 1: like one on run, seven innings, five hits and just
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Speaker 1: handle business. I thought Rory like had a C plus
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Speaker 1: game Sea game, even on Friday when he went low.
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Speaker 1: He did not hit a fair way on the par five.
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Speaker 1: He was punching out of all these crazy angles. He's
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Speaker 1: making these crazy up and down birdies. He chipped in
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Speaker 1: on seventeen on Friday from I don't know fifty yards
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Speaker 1: and he shot sixty five. But if you watch them
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Speaker 1: on Thursday, he was good. Friday, he was good relative
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Speaker 1: to his score. But like Rory sixty five and Scotty
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Speaker 1: sixty five yesterday, or would Cam Young shoot Cam Young
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Speaker 1: shot sixty five yesterday? They did not look the same.
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Speaker 1: But that's what makes his tournament so special. I just
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Speaker 1: had a buddy text me, who's a big golfer, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, this is the only major of the four
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Speaker 1: where Rory could have played like that and still been
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Speaker 1: the champion. And historically that's true. You don't Tiger didn't
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Speaker 1: have his A game in all the Masters. I bet
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Speaker 1: if we went back and broke down some of Phil's wins,
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Speaker 1: he didn't have his A plus game because you can
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Speaker 1: spray it a little bit here. There are a ton
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Speaker 1: of birdie holes, and there were so many moments that
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Speaker 1: this is what happened last year when you're like, did
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Speaker 1: he really? Just did he really just three put from
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Speaker 1: right there? And then two holes later he's back to
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Speaker 1: back birdies. I thought, like the defining I guess not
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Speaker 1: defining moment, but one of the defining moments of the
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Speaker 1: last thirty six holes for Rory was on Saturday when
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Speaker 1: he comes out of the blocks. Let me pull it up.
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Speaker 1: He comes out of the blocks on Saturday and he
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Speaker 1: bogies won. He doesn't Part two and you're like, God,
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Speaker 1: he's falling apart, and cam Young is just going nuclear.
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Speaker 1: Scott he's gone already gone nuclear, and You're like, these
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Speaker 1: guys are coming, bro. Patrick Reid had birdie won, birdie two,
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Speaker 1: birdie three, and then Rory steps up the whole three
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Speaker 1: three and he drives the green. It was just like
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Speaker 1: every single guy who's just hitting bombs has a thirty
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Speaker 1: foot chip up the hill on whole three, and Rory
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Speaker 1: when it leaves his club, because he had just got
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Speaker 1: off to a weird start, You're like, where did he
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Speaker 1: hit this thing? And he's kind of watching it, but
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Speaker 1: he kind of does his lean and it rolls to
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Speaker 1: the right side of the hill and kind of comes
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Speaker 1: back and You're like, he's got like a fifteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty foot eagle putt. And to me, that was the
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Speaker 1: defining moment of the last two days. Is every single
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Speaker 1: time that that damn was not just about to break,
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Speaker 1: but I mean flood Rory's house and ruined his tournament,
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Speaker 1: he would come back with a birdie, he would make
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Speaker 1: a big putt, he would hit a big shot, especially today,
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Speaker 1: like he pumped some drivers in huge spots right down
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Speaker 1: the pipe. And I think there's an element of mental
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Speaker 1: fortitude and mental toughness that he was able to carry
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Speaker 1: over from twenty twenty five because I don't think if
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Speaker 1: let's say last year didn't happen, and Scheffler wins or
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Speaker 1: Fleetwood or just just some random rows just wins, and
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Speaker 1: Rory just finished his like tenth solid tournament, but like
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Speaker 1: the previous decade, just kind of a non competitive top
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Speaker 1: five or top ten. He one does not win this week,
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Speaker 1: No fucking chance, because when he had a six shot
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Speaker 1: lead one. This is a unique tournament to have a
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Speaker 1: big lead because there are so many birdie and eagle
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Speaker 1: holes right like a US Open. Let's say you had
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Speaker 1: a four shot lead going into Saturday, it's not that
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Speaker 1: big because at any moment you could double a hole,
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Speaker 1: and if you double hole someone else behind you birdie's
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Speaker 1: a hole, all of a sudden, your lead goes from
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Speaker 1: four to two or four to one. That's kind of
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Speaker 1: the Masters. But there's also an ebb and flow to
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Speaker 1: the order of the holes. So if a guy's ahead
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Speaker 1: of you, and all of a sudden, Rory is two back,
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Speaker 1: three back, I don't think he ever finished. He was
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Speaker 1: two back, but at one point in time today he
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Speaker 1: was nine and Rose was eleven. Rose is multiple holes
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Speaker 1: ahead of them, So if all of a sudden he
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Speaker 1: birdies one of the holes. That's not like a Locke
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Speaker 1: Birdie for Rory. Like if you birdy nine or you
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Speaker 1: birdy ten and you then go from two to one
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Speaker 1: shot back and that guy's two shots ahead of you,
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Speaker 1: it's not a true two shot lead. So I'm watching
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Speaker 1: it with my wife's aunts and a bunch of her family,
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Speaker 1: and you gotta be careful about that when you're consuming
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Speaker 1: it because you're so caught up in Rory. Who I
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Speaker 1: think CBS, I mean these last two years, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the ratings will top last year,
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Speaker 1: just be because of the storyline of Rory winning it,
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Speaker 1: but in terms of the on the edge of your
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Speaker 1: seat excitement about nobody and I would imagine his father
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Speaker 1: would agree with this. I would imagine his caddy, Harry
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Speaker 1: would agree with this. And I didn't even imagine a
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Speaker 1: little part of him doesn't know what's coming. Say this
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Speaker 1: for Rory, I don't believe he's scared, Like I don't
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Speaker 1: believe that he messes up. I don't even know if
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Speaker 1: he's nervous. I just wonder even on eighteen, it's like, bro,
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Speaker 1: got a couple of shot lead, Uh, maybe just hit
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Speaker 1: hit your five iron two hundred and twenty five yards.
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Speaker 1: Why don't we just pump a five iron out there
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Speaker 1: and then pump another six iron up to the green
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Speaker 1: and just find a way to get an easy bogie.
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Speaker 1: It seems like fuck it, give me the give me
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Speaker 1: the driver, and he pumps it almost into another hole.
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Speaker 1: I mean, here, see some bad shots on eighteen right
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Speaker 1: whether I mean most of them aren't hitting crazy hooks left.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to cut that fade to lessen their approach distance.
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Speaker 1: And some guys, like most of us mortals, pump that
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Speaker 1: thing into the trees. Right, If most of us could
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Speaker 1: clear that little sliver of blue sky and we hit
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Speaker 1: a cut, we would be in the trees, and like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Sometimes to me, it's not like
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Speaker 1: I think this like Vandervelt or see some of these
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Speaker 1: guys they get really fast and they're like this guy,
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Speaker 1: this guy's choking because he's just unraveling. And golf's a
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Speaker 1: game where you think and you walk much more than
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Speaker 1: you play. But if you just add up the time
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Speaker 1: you're over a ball and swinging relative to the time
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Speaker 1: that you're walking throughout a whatever four and four and
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Speaker 1: a half hour round, the ratio is enormous on the
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Speaker 1: side of walking, not actually playing. It's like football. A
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Speaker 1: football game is whatever, three three and a half, four
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Speaker 1: hours spending college or pro. But the actual game action,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think people have done the math. It's
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Speaker 1: like twelve or thirteen minutes, like it's not that actual
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Speaker 1: much action. And that's the thing with golf. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: where it's in relation. Like kicking or a batter in
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Speaker 1: baseball you get four abst So what's most of your
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Speaker 1: day not hitting thinking about the abs? Especially if you're DH,
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Speaker 1: you just sit there the whole time, like, God, this
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Speaker 1: is not going well. So he's getting your own head.
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Speaker 1: And Rory clearly is a deep thinker who is just
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Speaker 1: immensely talented. And you know, there is a Phil Mickelson,
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Speaker 1: Jordan Spieth element of unpredictability, And to me, that's the
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Speaker 1: key to golf, right, unless you're gonna have this all time,
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Speaker 1: like I would obviously if I could choose any lane,
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Speaker 1: you would just choose. I would want to watch Tiger,
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Speaker 1: greatest player ever, dominates everybody. But even with Tiger in
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Speaker 1: his heyday, and part of it was the equipment, he
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Speaker 1: could be a little unpredictable. Some of His most famous
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Speaker 1: shots are around a tree at Pebble Beach, out of
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Speaker 1: a bunker, over a bush, over water at the Canadian Open. Right,
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Speaker 1: they're not all the most insane putts. The chip at
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Speaker 1: the Masters. Part of Tiger's uh I would say, misteak
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Speaker 1: and legend was the crazy shit he was doing, right,
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just oh, Tiger's hit an eight iron from
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Speaker 1: one sixty nine hit three feet. Yeah, all these guys
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Speaker 1: can do that. Tiger like Phil even more on steroids.
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Speaker 1: Just their greatest shots are the craziest of shots because
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Speaker 1: they found themselves in bananas like places. You're like this,
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna was gonna be there. Kopka, who was
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Speaker 1: rattling off majors like it was kind of boring. He
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Speaker 1: just hit fairways, hit the middle of greens too. Button
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Speaker 1: Scotty is starting to become a little bit more thrilling,
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Speaker 1: but like he can be kind of boring when he wins, too.
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Speaker 1: There is an element to and Jordan definitely had this
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Speaker 1: and this is why Jordan became so famous in the
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Speaker 1: mid twenty tens. Now Rory has more game than Jordan, right,
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Speaker 1: more powerful, just just got more in the tank. But
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Speaker 1: he's got some of that, like I don't know where
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Speaker 1: this is gonna go, and I don't know if he's
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Speaker 1: gonna make the right decision, which is the most relatable
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Speaker 1: thing in golf. It's like, yeah, I probably should lay
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Speaker 1: up here, but you know, hand me the hybrid, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, I probably shouldn't go out this flag. I
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Speaker 1: got the entire green to my right, but I got
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Speaker 1: that little sliver and I can fly that bunker and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Like most of us, just seepin,
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Speaker 1: hit it at the pin, see the fairway, try to hit.
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Speaker 1: That's not the way these guys play. But that's the
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Speaker 1: way Phil played, That's the way Rory plays. That's the
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Speaker 1: way sweeth way. Tiger actually did not play like that,
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Speaker 1: but because he could be a radic off the tee,
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Speaker 1: he just found himself having to do some crazy stuff.
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Speaker 1: But Tiger was like a Belichick Levy level technic tactician.
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Speaker 1: Where there's a freelance element to Rory that just I'm
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Speaker 1: not even talking his story. I'm not talking his accomplishments
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Speaker 1: or his history at this course. There is an element
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Speaker 1: to Rory for just sitting on the couch and you
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Speaker 1: don't know much about him like personally, what he's like
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Speaker 1: as a guy. If you're just watching the golfer, it
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Speaker 1: is a roller coaster. And if you can get a
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Speaker 1: great player who's a roller coaster, that's as good as
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Speaker 1: television as you can get. There was a reason in
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Speaker 1: Tiger's heyday in the two thousands, he was the most
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Speaker 1: famous athlete, the most highly paid athlete. There was a
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Speaker 1: reason Phil was drafting right off him because Phil brought
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Speaker 1: something to the table, a little pizzazz that was just like,
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Speaker 1: what did he just do? Because at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, like Tiger wouldn't do the dumb thing, or
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Speaker 1: Phil Wood, Rory Wood, Jordan Wood, like Scotty not really
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Speaker 1: even Scotty today, which is insane. He finished second in
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Speaker 1: this tournament. It's just like the story so far of
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Speaker 1: Scotty's year is he's one round away, right if he
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Speaker 1: just instead of that seventy four on Friday, she was like,
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Speaker 1: seventy one, he wins his tournament by multiple shots. Let's
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Speaker 1: just say he plays well that day. She's like sixty nine.
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Speaker 1: What if he runs away with this thing? You know,
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Speaker 1: because I watched him yesterday and Jason Sobles my guy.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who's been listening to me for a while talking golf.
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Speaker 1: He used to come on this show. He's the fucking man.
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Speaker 1: He asked him a question like essentially what year round
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Speaker 1: could have been on Saturday? And I understand from Scotty's standpoint,
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Speaker 1: like i just shot sixty five at Augusta. I'm actually
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Speaker 1: within if things get weird striking distance of the defending champ,
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Speaker 1: Rory McElroy. And he just called it like stupid question,
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Speaker 1: like I'm not it, which I get. He shot sixty five,
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Speaker 1: but I watched because the wedding wasn't until five in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon Pacific tan of time, and so when we
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Speaker 1: were flying, I was watching Scottie's round for an hour
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Speaker 1: and a half on my phone. He probably could have
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Speaker 1: shot sixty one. He looked like Tiger meets Arnold Palmer
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Speaker 1: meets Jack in his price, but he missed a couple
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Speaker 1: of pots. It could have been really low, really low.
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Speaker 1: And I just think Rory never felt like that the
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Speaker 1: last couple of days, Like it never felt like, you know,
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Speaker 1: Rory's just a couple shots away from shooting sixty four. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: it felt like he was a couple shots away from
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Speaker 1: shooting seventy eight, and that's what makes his tournament because
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Speaker 1: at the other two real majors. I know, the PGA
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Speaker 1: is a major, but the US Opened, which is extremely difficult,
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Speaker 1: and the British Open, which at any moment the weather
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Speaker 1: can play apart. If you're playing like Rory just played,
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Speaker 1: there's no chance of winning because I get you have
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Speaker 1: a six shot lead. But he just his driver this
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Speaker 1: first on Friday Saturday looked like me or you not
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Speaker 1: in terms of the distance, but he did not quite
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Speaker 1: know where it was going and he was just pumping
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Speaker 1: it into the trees. Well, he's one of historically the
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Speaker 1: greatest drivers of the golf wall. That to me clearly
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Speaker 1: like I don't pretend to be some swing analysts, but
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Speaker 1: I played golf long enough to know like, something's just
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Speaker 1: the timing, something's a little off, and there doesn't kill
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Speaker 1: you because even at that course when you're a little off.
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Speaker 1: This is what kind of saved him is at Augusta,
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Speaker 1: when you're pumping it all over the map on the
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Speaker 1: par five, you're still burning on the par four is
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Speaker 1: like if you can still make a great four, which
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Speaker 1: he did sometimes, but worst case scenario, you're gonna get
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Speaker 1: a bogie like you have to for the most part,
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Speaker 1: unless you pump it into the water, which he did
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Speaker 1: yesterday which caused him to get a double Bobie double double.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna get a double at Augusta and you're
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Speaker 1: in the top, I would say tennish, you're probably gonna
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Speaker 1: three putt, right, it's gonna be one of those where
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Speaker 1: you had to chip out. You're putting for par in
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Speaker 1: you three putt. That's I would guess if we pulled
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Speaker 1: up the stats, the stats, that's the majority of double
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Speaker 1: bogies at Augusta. It's it's either a water ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: on eleven or one of the par fives, or a
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Speaker 1: three putt on one of the par fours, and like that.
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Speaker 1: That's it's you're not gonna get a crazy blow up.
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Speaker 1: So it's basically gonna be guys birding holes than you birdie.
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Speaker 1: And Rory would go through these stretches where he would
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Speaker 1: have a couple of birdies and you're like, God, it
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Speaker 1: feels like he could just rattle off five straight and
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Speaker 1: then randomly and like on whole three or four like
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Speaker 1: of that stretch he would just pump one way over
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Speaker 1: the green way left of the green even early on
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Speaker 1: the jitters like you know today, I think it was
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Speaker 1: it was a whole four. He pumps it way left
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Speaker 1: on the par three. It's like god, it's just is
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Speaker 1: he off again? And I don't know what he said
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Speaker 1: in the press conference. I would be stunned if he said,
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Speaker 1: like god, I just I didn't have a great feel
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Speaker 1: his greatest attribute over the last really two days. But
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Speaker 1: I would even go back to Friday when he built
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Speaker 1: the big lead, was just like head down, We're just
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Speaker 1: gonna keep swinging. We're just there's enough out there. This
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Speaker 1: course is scorable. There are so many par fives that
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Speaker 1: I've proven to score well on here. There are part
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Speaker 1: fours that if I do hit it straight off the tee,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a short club in my in my hand.
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Speaker 1: But I am not playing well, you know, relative to
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Speaker 1: typical Master winners. Right Like last year he had a weird,
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Speaker 1: weird Sunday, but he played well in that golf tournament.
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Speaker 1: Like I just don't view him playing well. But that's
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Speaker 1: the reality with this tournament is if you have the knowledge,
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Speaker 1: which he's been going here for fifteen plus years, you
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Speaker 1: have the the like confidence I've won this before. Like
18:29
Speaker 1: that's one thing with Justin Rose, who to me is
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Speaker 1: one of the best players of like the Tiger Phil era. Right,
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Speaker 1: He's honestly, he might be like a top ten player
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Speaker 1: of the Tiger Phil era. Right, I'm talking like Ernie Els,
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Speaker 1: DJ Spieth, Koepka. Obviously Rory it's a furic like he's
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Speaker 1: he's one of the great players of that era. And
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Speaker 1: he's got to be thinking when he goes to bed
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Speaker 1: over the course of the month Postmasters and just looking
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Speaker 1: at the ceiling lamb like maybe the golf gods don't
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Speaker 1: want me to win this tournament because there was a
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Speaker 1: moment today you're like, he's gonna do it. But this
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Speaker 1: gets back to the he's a couple holes ahead. It's
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Speaker 1: like all Rory needs to do is birdie one of
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Speaker 1: the holes that isn't viewed as like a Locke birdie
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Speaker 1: a nine to ten, and then you get to the
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Speaker 1: par five's, Like today he didn't birdie either one of
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Speaker 1: those holes, but then he knocks the stiff on twelve,
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Speaker 1: and when he birdies twelve, you're like, Okay, that's a
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Speaker 1: big swing hole because he's got the two par five's
19:30
Speaker 1: coming up, he can birdy fourteen, he can he can
19:32
Speaker 1: birdie seventeen, and if he has a multiple shot lead,
19:36
Speaker 1: really with a couple holes to go, he can just
19:39
Speaker 1: play somewhat conservative. But this gets back to the Mickelson thing.
19:43
Speaker 1: They even speed thing. They don't really have the conservative
19:47
Speaker 1: play mindset, which I respect. And as a fan of golf,
19:52
Speaker 1: as a fan of just entertainment, I'm glad if Rory
19:58
Speaker 1: was a One. If he was more boring in terms
20:01
Speaker 1: of the way he played, he wouldn't be as popular.
20:04
Speaker 1: But two, he wouldn't have as many wins, right, So
20:09
Speaker 1: it goes hand in hand. It's like I remember watching
20:12
Speaker 1: this documentary on Arnold Palmer and someone like they, you know,
20:17
Speaker 1: Arnold Palmer was a big investor in the Golf Channel
20:19
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four or nineteen ninety three, one of
20:23
Speaker 1: those two years they started the Golf Channel, and Arnold's
20:26
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was like one of his
20:28
Speaker 1: holding companies or just him personally, was investing a lot
20:31
Speaker 1: into it. And he's in a boardroom and a man
20:34
Speaker 1: at the time in the mid nineties, Arnold Palmer's like,
20:36
Speaker 1: you know, pre Tiger one of the biggest businesses him
20:39
Speaker 1: and Jack and probably Greg Norman, just in terms of
20:41
Speaker 1: a business entity themselves. So he's got a room of
20:44
Speaker 1: accountants and lawyers, and I would imagine I've met a
20:47
Speaker 1: few business people that said, you got to be careful
20:49
Speaker 1: sometimes of listening to the advice of an accountant or
20:53
Speaker 1: a lawyer, because at the end of the day, some
20:56
Speaker 1: of the great business decisions aren't just black and white.
20:59
Speaker 1: There there's some gray area, right, and you gotta trust
21:02
Speaker 1: your gut. It's like a great play call, a great
21:05
Speaker 1: golf shot, a great you name it right. Sometimes like
21:09
Speaker 1: I have the number, say I shouldn't put this guy
21:12
Speaker 1: up in the eighth inning to hit here. But there's
21:15
Speaker 1: I got a feeling he's telling me. I just we
21:17
Speaker 1: talked about it before. I'm gonna go with my gut.
21:19
Speaker 1: Bochee won some world series going with his gut. And
21:23
Speaker 1: the accountant got up in the room and said, Arnold,
21:27
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a good idea. And Arnold's
21:31
Speaker 1: response essentially was well, hitting some of the shots I
21:35
Speaker 1: did from the trees over the course of my career
21:39
Speaker 1: weren't viewed as good ideas either. But if I hadn't
21:42
Speaker 1: done that and executed some of those shots when everyone
21:45
Speaker 1: thought I was nuts, none of us would be sitting
21:48
Speaker 1: in this boardroom. And I think sometimes like that's part
21:52
Speaker 1: of the deal here. You gotta kind of go for glory,
21:57
Speaker 1: and sometimes you go for glory, which he has in
21:59
Speaker 1: the past, and you get burned. And in golf, that's
22:03
Speaker 1: it's not a team sport. It's not like you get
22:05
Speaker 1: to say it's it's us, it's the group. It's just
22:09
Speaker 1: kind of you. You know, you're like Reavis or Dion
22:12
Speaker 1: out there on an island, and you could feel it
22:14
Speaker 1: today and the leaderboard, you know, with Scotty going nuts,
22:20
Speaker 1: justin Rose who felt like, is this guy inevitable, He's
22:22
Speaker 1: just gonna win this thing, you know, Cam Young just
22:25
Speaker 1: kind of hovered. Sam Burns kind of gave it away
22:27
Speaker 1: early with a double and a bogie. I think back
22:29
Speaker 1: to back holes. But no one will remember in twenty
22:34
Speaker 1: years that, like, yeah, he's kind of all over the map.
22:37
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yes, guy, especially if he wins a
22:39
Speaker 1: couple more, which he easily, because like eh Roy won
22:41
Speaker 1: four Masters, no one remembers that, like Peyton Manning didn't
22:45
Speaker 1: play that well in the Super Bowl. Right's Super Bowl
22:48
Speaker 1: champ that's all it matters, and as time goes people
22:53
Speaker 1: forget the details. Hell, we were a year removed when
22:57
Speaker 1: a week ago or two weeks ago I threw on
23:00
Speaker 1: that Amazon Prime documentary on the final round last year
23:05
Speaker 1: on Rory and you're sitting there going, this is way
23:08
Speaker 1: crazier than I remember. And there were times the last
23:11
Speaker 1: two days because you're thinking about last year and there's
23:15
Speaker 1: so much content that came out about last year that
23:18
Speaker 1: you've consumed that, so it's fresh on your mind. You're going,
23:22
Speaker 1: this is kind of crazy like last year, and then
23:26
Speaker 1: he would lose the lead and then he'd kind of
23:28
Speaker 1: gain it back, and it's like, listen as someone that
23:31
Speaker 1: loves golf, but even if I didn't, I just love sports.
23:35
Speaker 1: The entertainment value of the last two days was ten
23:42
Speaker 1: out of ten. Feels pretty strong, but like minimum nine,
23:46
Speaker 1: nine and a half. I think it was elite TV
23:49
Speaker 1: because we all know what's on the line too, right,
23:52
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he doesn't need to win it already,
23:56
Speaker 1: what but this guy's gonna just blow it. And essentially
23:59
Speaker 1: he kind of did blow it because the lead was gone,
24:01
Speaker 1: it had vanished, it was over, and then he would
24:06
Speaker 1: not only at one point time. Today he's down a
24:09
Speaker 1: couple of shots and Rose feels like he could birty
24:12
Speaker 1: every hole coming in. And that's the magic of it all,
24:16
Speaker 1: because like Arnold Palmer sending that boardroom, he just did
24:19
Speaker 1: some magical shit. He got it done, made some huge shots,
24:23
Speaker 1: didn't end up making a mistake that derailed them and
24:27
Speaker 1: gets them essentially put a green jacket on himself, not
24:30
Speaker 1: a jean jacket. And now he's a multiple time master winner.
24:34
Speaker 1: Now his story of legendary status of like well, can't
24:39
Speaker 1: compare him to Kopka anymore because over the last two
24:42
Speaker 1: years now he's tied and pasted him. And we all
24:44
Speaker 1: know Rory non Majors is a way better player than
24:47
Speaker 1: Brooks speak and DJ and all like his other contemporaries
24:53
Speaker 1: of his era post Tiger Phil, he's the king maker,
24:57
Speaker 1: you know, and it show you know, Scott, he's a
25:00
Speaker 1: good example of well, he's just one round away. Well,
25:03
Speaker 1: that's Rory probably like google my resume, google fifth some
25:08
Speaker 1: of my years of like one round away, hell, I
25:10
Speaker 1: was one or two shots away. I could have twelve
25:13
Speaker 1: majors right now. So that's part of golf. Hey, if
25:16
Speaker 1: I could have and That's why Scotty, I think, kind
25:18
Speaker 1: of snapped back on Sobol was like, yeah, I show
25:23
Speaker 1: sixty five, it could have been sixty Fuck. I mean
25:26
Speaker 1: that's golf. That's every round. My seventy four that I
25:30
Speaker 1: shot on Friday, hell could have been seventy eight, probably
25:34
Speaker 1: could have been seventy two, could have been seventy's that's
25:37
Speaker 1: every round of golf. Ever, So I just think Rory
25:41
Speaker 1: sitting here is like not my greatest performance, but like,
25:46
Speaker 1: over the course of my work, I've earned it, you know,
25:51
Speaker 1: for every twenty eight to three or Malcolm Butler pick
25:54
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage to win a Super Bowl
25:57
Speaker 1: in just the most insane fashion thirteen and three game
26:01
Speaker 1: against the Rams, which no one really talks about, no
26:03
Speaker 1: one really remembers. It's just part of the resume. It's
26:06
Speaker 1: like just one of the Super Bowls, you know. And this,
26:09
Speaker 1: to me is not going to top last year because
26:13
Speaker 1: it's impossible to do that. But it's just like, as
26:16
Speaker 1: time goes on, this will age. Not the biggest wine guy.
26:22
Speaker 1: So I use this like age like a fine wine.
26:25
Speaker 1: I don't technically know know what that means because I'm
26:27
Speaker 1: not a big like fine wine drinker, but clearly as
26:31
Speaker 1: wine ages, I guess it clearly tastes better. That's what
26:34
Speaker 1: I think will happen with this, and we'll lose touch
26:37
Speaker 1: with the true nitty gritty details and just be like,
26:41
Speaker 1: he showed a lot of heart, he showed a lot
26:42
Speaker 1: of mental fortitude, he showed a lot of mental toughness,
26:45
Speaker 1: and he just found a way and he willed himself
26:47
Speaker 1: to this championship after you know, essentially blowing a big
26:51
Speaker 1: lead on Friday, which how often do you see these
26:55
Speaker 1: tournaments where a guy went in by you know, five, six,
26:58
Speaker 1: seven shots not really have the master works. I mean,
27:01
Speaker 1: it's why so many times in my memory I can
27:04
Speaker 1: remember this tournament going into extra holes because of the
27:07
Speaker 1: thrilling nature of the course, and the course is always
27:10
Speaker 1: such a big winner because we have such a history
27:14
Speaker 1: with the holes, especially on the back nine. You know
27:17
Speaker 1: how ten curves. You know how tough that second shot
27:20
Speaker 1: on eleven. For whatever reason, the hold twelve is the
27:24
Speaker 1: hardest par three that's like one hundred and sixty yards
27:27
Speaker 1: in the history of America. You know, the two par fives,
27:30
Speaker 1: that eighteenth hole, the driveable, you know, or I mean
27:33
Speaker 1: the drive on eighteen is just just feels like an
27:36
Speaker 1: iconic view and when you get an iconic winner, it
27:41
Speaker 1: just it's just one of those you remember. And I
27:45
Speaker 1: think Rory is just kind of cemented his status where
27:49
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago I thought this is like
27:52
Speaker 1: it's inevitable he's gonna win more majors, but you never know,
27:55
Speaker 1: like you'd be like I think Scott's gonna win five
27:57
Speaker 1: or six more majors. It's fucking hard to do, you
28:00
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's just difficult, Like you do
28:03
Speaker 1: have to play four good rounds or you can't have
28:06
Speaker 1: one round that just derails you, right, and it's just
28:09
Speaker 1: hard to not do that. Right. He's already won a
28:12
Speaker 1: ton of majors, right, it's gonna be difficult for him.
28:15
Speaker 1: Like I most people bet he's got a bunch more
28:18
Speaker 1: in the back. Maybe I hope. So I find him
28:22
Speaker 1: pretty enjoyable, but there's no guarantee. That's not the way
28:26
Speaker 1: it works. I mean we thought that with Jordan Spieth.
28:29
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28:32
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30:34
Speaker 1: I was wrong on this shit. I had Bryson who
30:38
Speaker 1: all time meltdown by Bryson. I was watching Friday afternoon,
30:41
Speaker 1: you know, Thursday, he goes viral for the bunker shots. Friday,
30:46
Speaker 1: he feels he's on eighteen. All he's got to do
30:48
Speaker 1: is bogie the hole. He makes the cut and it's like, yeah,
30:51
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have a great master's, but you never know,
30:54
Speaker 1: maybe he shoots sixty five on Saturday or Sunday and
30:56
Speaker 1: kind of like Colin Moore Cowa, you know, the books
31:00
Speaker 1: a little bit and makes it look a little better
31:04
Speaker 1: than it actually was in terms of their competitiveness when
31:06
Speaker 1: you look back ten years from now. But he just
31:09
Speaker 1: melts down. And you saw Sergio today just absolutely snapping
31:14
Speaker 1: his driver getting yelled at by one of the Green jackets.
31:18
Speaker 1: You saw Bob McIntyre flipping off. I don't know the cameras,
31:21
Speaker 1: the patrons, like some of these guys just lose it
31:26
Speaker 1: and like it's it's crazy environment. But sorry, I lost
31:31
Speaker 1: my train of thought there. My point is is that
31:33
Speaker 1: Cam Young who oh, I was talking about Bryson and uh,
31:39
Speaker 1: I thought Bryson. Listen, it's hard to pick a winner,
31:43
Speaker 1: like I mean, I bet on winters in golf. If
31:45
Speaker 1: you the guy that you picked to win is just
31:47
Speaker 1: in the mixed on Sunday and has a chance like that,
31:50
Speaker 1: that's an incredible feeling, right to not making the weekend.
31:53
Speaker 1: It's just epic failure. I think I think he clearly.
31:57
Speaker 1: I know Rom takes a lot of shit, Like at
31:59
Speaker 1: least I turn on the TV Saturday and Sunday in
32:01
Speaker 1: the morning and watch Rom play golf. You know, Bryson
32:04
Speaker 1: was an embarrassment relative to the hype, and I bought
32:08
Speaker 1: it relative to winning these live events, relative to how
32:11
Speaker 1: good you know, his status in the game is and
32:14
Speaker 1: should be based on his recent form, but this week
32:18
Speaker 1: and that performance on Friday, Like, I'm not a huge
32:22
Speaker 1: fan of front runners, because whether you're a golfer, whether
32:25
Speaker 1: you're a football player, whether you're you know, a businessman, like,
32:28
Speaker 1: life's full of ebbs and flows, and most people are
32:31
Speaker 1: defined by their their shittiest times. Like everyone can smile
32:36
Speaker 1: and have a good time when you're you know, winning
32:39
Speaker 1: games or making money or you know, everyone's happy in
32:42
Speaker 1: the in the honeymoon phase when you first start dating someone,
32:45
Speaker 1: like tell me two kids, and you know someone loses
32:49
Speaker 1: their job four years later, how it's going because that's
32:53
Speaker 1: how that's what defines people through the toughness or the
32:56
Speaker 1: tough times. And Bryson, when the times get tough, sometimes
32:59
Speaker 1: he acts like a different human being and this is
33:02
Speaker 1: why people push back. And I'm a fan, but I
33:04
Speaker 1: do get where it's like, this is totally authentic? Is
33:07
Speaker 1: he kind of faking it what times are going good
33:08
Speaker 1: and when times are going bad, he kind of turns
33:10
Speaker 1: into like the sulky guy. But I just think that, Yeah,
33:15
Speaker 1: I couldn't have misread that one anymore. And I was
33:19
Speaker 1: off because I thought cam I thought I reversed him.
33:22
Speaker 1: I thought Bryson was gonna do what cam Young did,
33:24
Speaker 1: and Cam Young maybe not quite to the degree that
33:28
Speaker 1: Bryson did, but I was like, everyone's picking them. And
33:31
Speaker 1: then at one point on Saturday, like, is this the
33:33
Speaker 1: best player right now in the world, Like are you
33:35
Speaker 1: watching this guy? And then even a couple of times
33:37
Speaker 1: a day, You're like, Camo's gonna win this tournament. Cameo
33:41
Speaker 1: is gonna win this tournament. Putter kind of let him down,
33:43
Speaker 1: which is weird because Putter's fantastic and by the end,
33:46
Speaker 1: you know, you're just kind of out of it. He
33:47
Speaker 1: pumps one and the trees left. But he was good man,
33:52
Speaker 1: he was I thought, like, love him in Philadelphia in
33:57
Speaker 1: a month at the PGA Championship, I'm gonna double down
34:00
Speaker 1: on that. I think this is this guy is poised. One. Also,
34:06
Speaker 1: if Scotty's gonna play like this, like kind of muscle
34:10
Speaker 1: flex a little bit, like guys, I still got it.
34:12
Speaker 1: I still got to figure out just one of these rounds.
34:15
Speaker 1: But much closer than that tee whatever at the players
34:18
Speaker 1: like I got it, Guys like I'm right here, I
34:21
Speaker 1: finished second. I'm a shambles. I got the second, kid,
34:25
Speaker 1: I'm not playing that well, Like I'm still pretty good.
34:28
Speaker 1: But Cam Young since the Ryder Cup has been a
34:32
Speaker 1: fucking monster. And we talked about this a lot. Most
34:38
Speaker 1: guys do not have ten to fifteen twenty year dominant careers.
34:43
Speaker 1: That's for a very very small percentage of guys. If
34:45
Speaker 1: you look historically, I'm talking like Hall of Fame guys,
34:49
Speaker 1: Potty Harrington, right, Marco Miro won a couple of majors.
34:53
Speaker 1: You take advantage of that moment for a year or
34:55
Speaker 1: two when you're humming. Speed did it, and right now
35:00
Speaker 1: Cam Young is humming. So you can have a year
35:04
Speaker 1: where it's like remember when he finished top five in
35:06
Speaker 1: every major and one two of them. Now, obviously winning
35:08
Speaker 1: two of the four majors is extremely hard, but like
35:12
Speaker 1: he is going to be the heavy favorite, excuse me,
35:15
Speaker 1: one of the heavy favorites for anyone with a brain
35:19
Speaker 1: going into the next three tournaments, because especially with the
35:22
Speaker 1: PGA and the and the British whereas it Shinnecock is,
35:27
Speaker 1: which is a historically very very difficult course. Like to me,
35:32
Speaker 1: I'm putting I'm putting him ahead right now, Like I
35:36
Speaker 1: just trust him more than Bryson and John Rahm. I mean,
35:39
Speaker 1: John Rahm was obviously pretty disappointing, a rough kind of
35:43
Speaker 1: week for Live, which I think sometimes people go back
35:46
Speaker 1: and forth on Twitter's like I just want to see
35:49
Speaker 1: John rom and Bryson play well in these majors, Like
35:51
Speaker 1: I just would like him in the mix. Marikawa went
35:55
Speaker 1: kind of nuts sixty nine, sixty eight, sixty eight. God,
35:58
Speaker 1: Sam Burns is going to have a chance over the
36:01
Speaker 1: course of the next week to think to himself, could
36:06
Speaker 1: I have won this tournament. It's another example of sometimes
36:11
Speaker 1: you get in these kind of modes where you have
36:15
Speaker 1: an opportunity and you never get it back, Like how
36:19
Speaker 1: many times Sam Burn's gonna be like legitimately in the
36:22
Speaker 1: last or second to last group on Saturday and Sunday
36:24
Speaker 1: of these of a master specifically, I can see him
36:27
Speaker 1: winning a major, But like for guy from the South,
36:31
Speaker 1: clearly a really good player just kind of have that
36:34
Speaker 1: meltdown early in the day to day and kind of
36:37
Speaker 1: derailed them. Max Homa Sneaky Top ten Xanderschoffle actually having
36:42
Speaker 1: a good season. Speak. I watched a decent amount of
36:47
Speaker 1: Speak over the last three days. There was a stretch
36:52
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday where it's like he's putting like
36:55
Speaker 1: a twelve handicap, Like his putting couldn't have been any worse.
37:00
Speaker 1: He had a stretch of probably like twenty seven holes,
37:03
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know how many other guys in
37:05
Speaker 1: this tournament are hitting the ball better than him, Like
37:08
Speaker 1: if you just put both guys from one hundred and
37:10
Speaker 1: eighty from one hundred and fifty from two hundred yards,
37:13
Speaker 1: I would trust Speed as much as I would trust
37:15
Speaker 1: anybody in this tournament right now, beside like maybe Cam Young,
37:18
Speaker 1: and then he would get up there from seven feet
37:20
Speaker 1: and it's like, did he just missed that putt by
37:22
Speaker 1: three feet? So I Speed is going to have a
37:25
Speaker 1: week where it's like he finished five twelve seven shots back.
37:33
Speaker 1: I mean seven shots a lot. But he has to
37:36
Speaker 1: be thinking like I easily should have been like nine
37:38
Speaker 1: to ten under in a weird way. And this is
37:41
Speaker 1: a positive because I'm a big Jordan guy actually threw
37:44
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks on him this week. He's got to
37:47
Speaker 1: be thinking I'm actually much closer to ten under than
37:51
Speaker 1: I am to be in over par in this tournament.
37:54
Speaker 1: And I think that's the truth. Like to me, Rory
37:57
Speaker 1: is much closer to be in five under in this
38:01
Speaker 1: tournament than he was to be in eighteen under and
38:03
Speaker 1: winning this tournament by six seven shots. I think we'd
38:06
Speaker 1: all agree. I'm not trying to diminish or talk shit
38:09
Speaker 1: or anything, but like it just it's just a fact,
38:11
Speaker 1: you know, it really is. Like you watch Scotty and
38:14
Speaker 1: Cam Young when they're peak of this tournament, they just
38:17
Speaker 1: looked way better than Rory did. I mean, Rory was
38:20
Speaker 1: just pulling some crazy shots out of his ass. You know.
38:23
Speaker 1: Scotty's just pounded down the middle, hitting at six feet
38:26
Speaker 1: making the putt, but he just came through what he
38:30
Speaker 1: had to. And now he's won back to back Masters,
38:33
Speaker 1: and this tournament I think is and I mentioned this
38:36
Speaker 1: to Colin, I think it's elevated its status. You know,
38:39
Speaker 1: sometimes we thought for a long time, how do we
38:41
Speaker 1: do without Tiger? This tournament's always been able to kind
38:45
Speaker 1: of carry itself on its own a little bit, but
38:48
Speaker 1: I think Rory has re elevated it, obviously in the
38:51
Speaker 1: way in the fashion in which he played, but that
38:56
Speaker 1: was as just a fan and lover of entertaining sports.
39:01
Speaker 1: Like I'm not a huge soccer fan, but if you
39:03
Speaker 1: tell me I'm about to watch the greatest World Cup
39:05
Speaker 1: game ever, I wouldn't miss it for the world, right.
39:10
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge hockey guy. The Olympic hockey those
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Speaker 1: games were incredible. Let me repeat incredible. I'm a big
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Speaker 1: moment things that matter in terms of athletically, that carry
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Speaker 1: over culturally, and that's where I think that Rory has
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Speaker 1: kind of elevated kind of this thing. And for a
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Speaker 1: guy that we saw what it meant to him last year,
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Speaker 1: this one, I haven't seen everything because we hopped right on.
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Speaker 1: But having your dad there at the moment with his family,
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Speaker 1: I just it's going to be difficult, and I think
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Speaker 1: the only thing he can chase now, I guess I'll
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Speaker 1: end on this is like all time great status because
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Speaker 1: at this point in time, like what else, He's won
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Speaker 1: every major, He's won the Asters twice. He joins Tiger
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Speaker 1: Jack and Nick Faldo. Is the only guy is to
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Speaker 1: do it back to back like what he's just chasing
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Speaker 1: now Like other great golfers, he's just chasing this list
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Speaker 1: of humans, Like what's his next goal? Could I win
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Speaker 1: nine more and catch Tiger? I mean that sounds crazy,
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Speaker 1: but like what else are you going to use to
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Speaker 1: motivate you? Like? What else is why would he ever
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Speaker 1: play some of these random events ever again in his career?
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Speaker 1: It's very difficult, you know, where at this point in time,
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Speaker 1: his you know, Ship Nuck just reported he's closer to
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Speaker 1: being a billionaire than not a billionaire, uh golf wise.
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Speaker 1: I mean these last three or four years, he's playing
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Speaker 1: at such an elite level. He's dominated these majors, and
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Speaker 1: now the accomplishments, like he's actually done it. It's not like, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's really close. He's playing at a high level, he's
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Speaker 1: already accomplished the majors years ago. But like he's clearly
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Speaker 1: one of the best. It's like this guy's winning the Masters.
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Speaker 1: Last year he won the Players, Like how do you
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Speaker 1: stay motivated? And that's that's really difficult, you know. It's
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Speaker 1: it's easy for some guys where they just have the
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Speaker 1: one event, like every single year. It's like I want
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Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. I want to win the
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Speaker 1: Daytona five hundred. I want to win like this guy.
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Speaker 1: There's a tournament every week, you know, and as this
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Speaker 1: thing changes, like you can't just part of golf. It's
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Speaker 1: not just the four majors, you know. He's a big
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Speaker 1: part of the PGA Tour, the reimagining of it in
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Speaker 1: terms of the elevated events, and he's got to go,
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Speaker 1: like how does he get up for which I've always
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Speaker 1: said this forever. I have nothing but respect for humans
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Speaker 1: that still grind when financially they have nothing to gain
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Speaker 1: in terms of their life. Is completely sad and they're
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Speaker 1: they've accomplished what they need to in said field, and
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Speaker 1: I I think the thing with Rory is what's going
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Speaker 1: to be his Like Tiger was just a psychotic sickoh
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Speaker 1: like MJ, like Tom, you know that's not That's not
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Speaker 1: Rory that He's like, I'm not he said, I'm not
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Speaker 1: wired like that. I heard a question on Friday when
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Speaker 1: I flew back from LA when I was driving home,
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Speaker 1: I flipped on like PGA Tour radio on serious news
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Speaker 1: press conference, and they asked him do you ever feel
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Speaker 1: intimidating to your partners? And he's like, that's not the
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Speaker 1: way I play golf. They're essentially saying, do you ever
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Speaker 1: feel kind of like Tiger Woods out there, like you
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Speaker 1: intimidate the field and he's like, that's not the way
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Speaker 1: I'm wired. That's the way I think. And he's being honest,
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Speaker 1: that's not and that's the way Tiger thought. It's not
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Speaker 1: really the way like Speed or Phil think. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to play really good golf. And how he can stay
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Speaker 1: motivated at this point in time, I'm gonna be fascinated
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Speaker 1: to watch, because for us to be entertained for the
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Speaker 1: game of golf, it's pretty important they stay is motivated, right,
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Speaker 1: like in just in terms of his in shape, practicing,
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Speaker 1: like best case scenario Lebron Tom Brady, like into their forties,
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Speaker 1: they were still very driven and he's clearly a driven,
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Speaker 1: ambitious guy. But it's gonna be fascinating if he's able
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Speaker 1: to sustain it because at this point in time, like
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Speaker 1: he's just kind of chasing ghosts, like chasing debate shows
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Speaker 1: like Rory or Tom Watson, you know, Rory or Ben
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Speaker 1: ho Like that's there's nothing left money accolades, it's just
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Speaker 1: to just keep racking them up. And part of that
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Speaker 1: motivation in golf is like you've got the practice is
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Speaker 1: so important. That's what you have to do leading up
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Speaker 1: to these events, and it's gonna be fascinating to see
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Speaker 1: if he's able to maintain, sustain and stay dialed in.
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Speaker 1: What a master's audios and congrats s Ry McElroy. The volume. Yeah,