988: Rory wins at Augusta National!
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We told you. We told you. We called it, Deej. We called it. We finally got one. What if he wins the Grand Slam is the question we need to be talking about. That's what I asked last night. That's what I asked last night. Sully, great being with you, my man. A day, truly. Truly, we've been waiting for about 15 years. This is good stuff, man. Great being here.

It's such a weird level of emotions throughout the course of this day. I was completely convinced he was going to win by eight. I was completely convinced that this is going to be the most devastating live show in our history. It is hard to bring the complete enthusiasm I have for this moment, for this delivery of this moment, because of how...

horrible the route was to getting there excruciating painful like puts a tiny teeny tiny bit of pain in this actual final result uh do you feel any of that in this moment

Yeah. I mean, I think that makes it even better though. You know, like that was like, that's the most fun way to get there. I think, well, like it would have been way too, way too syrupy, way too saccharine to go out and he just, he plays super smart golf and it's just his time. He's a more complete player now. Like that would have been no fun. The wedge into 13. I can't wait. Oh, we're going to get the most inexplicable shot I've ever seen. And that's, that's what I'm here for.

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I'm exhausted. I mean, I'm truly from the time that the ball probably should have gone in the water on 11 until the rest. It was just it was unbelievable. I've never seen never witnessed anything like that. It was like Vandervelde and

the best four or five masters I've ever watched. And like the, the players when Ricky won and like all that shit just rolled into one. And DJ, you said it earlier, the, like the shot on 13, I think was probably like, probably like the, like just considering the circumstances, he had 50 feet to the left of that pin to work with as a bank. Considering the circumstances, I think that was the worst shot I've ever seen down the stretch in a major championship. And then the shot on 15 was,

Maybe the best shot I've ever seen. And then he hit a great shot into 16.

you know, 17 was a little wishful. I thought that, you know, if you're going to beg for it to get there like that and it ends up at two or three feet, it feels a little strange. And then, you know, just the wedge on 18 in regulation. Holy shit. It's crazy. It's a great day for golf. Great day for the sport, I think. We've been talking a lot. You know, the tour's been talking a lot about the fan forward initiative today. Almost felt like

It was like, hey, we surveyed 50,000 people. And what they really want to see is if you take John Vandervelde, Phil winning his first Masters, Ricky at the players, like you said, maybe throw in like some Ken Duke. Who else? Who else has got some ideas? Just throw them in. We're going to put them all on this one guy's back. Greg Norman, 96. Greg Norman, for sure. A little dash of Greg Norman. Nicholson winning the Masters. What was that, 04, Randy? 04, yeah. I mean, just all of it. Just put it in the blender. That's right.

You know, and like, yeah, I've just, I've never seen, I've never seen nerves hit someone like that. Who's such an accomplished player. And I said to you guys after regulation, I was like, man, I can't imagine being Rory and going back out after just all of the blood probably drained from all of his extremities and all of that adrenaline and all those endorphins going for four or five hours straight. And then everything just almost leaving you when you missed that putt on 18 and for him to,

step up and hit the drive that he did in the playoff. And it was just crazy. I mean, just no laying up right on 15th. No laying up. It was crazy.

He's like more high percentage to go after that shot than he does hitting a wedge wedge down there. And then wedging on is incredible. It's a, I'm going to give Randy a chance to speak here soon. I promise. But I got a text. I'm good. I'm all right. Got a text on the back nine from Hunter Mayhan. It said, Rory is playing the most mentally tough round of golf I've ever seen. And I, when I read it, I was like,

Hunter, respectfully, that's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. This is the most mentally midgety round of golf I've ever seen. He responded. He was like, the golf was bipolar. The mental toughness was off the charts. And like a half an hour later, thinking back on it, it was like, holy shit, he could have just collapsed, collapsed, like and not every time he did something inexplicably dumb. And he did four or five of the dumbest things I've ever seen done on a golf course from anyone trying to win a golf tournament.

He would respond with a, like a first, like a 99th percentile golf shot. The shot in the 15, the shot in the 17 were absolutely outrageous. And the shot in the playoff, like the wedge in the playoff. In 16 too. In 16. I mean, it was a,

The shot into four early in the round to kind of help swing things. That was really good. Even low key, the putt on three, like that little downhill left to right slider after you've just kind of gacked up the first two holes and you can already feel you're like you're not feel your lead. Your lead literally has already slipped away as predicted by the boys last night on the show. Is he going to be leading after number two? That was the question.

I think. And it was that was the most predictable part was the first two holes. And then everything else happened. But we've seen him like the read year, right, where he goes out and he does, you know, something silly at number one. And it's like, all right, well, I guess not my day. It's going to pack it up, you know, and like to Hunter Mahan's points like, no, I guess a lot of golf left, man. We're going to we're going to keep sticking in this thing. And he just he just kept firing.

I truly don't know. That's too big. The only thing I can compare this to is 2019 Masters, which when Tiger Woods won, we all kind of looked at each other like, dude, how are you going to do a show? What do you possibly say about this moment? But it is like... I was trying to find a way to bring this all together on Twitter, and it's probably the worst place to do it. But Rory has, I would say, made himself like...

The most emotionally available of anyone of his generation as far as golfers in terms of – Maybe not media availability. Not recent media availability. That's only recent, yeah. But just like putting himself out there, one, for on-the-course heartbreaks, two, like not as much recently, but like giving interviews, like telling people exactly how he feels, like being a part of the golf content sphere. Like he has been that person. He has put all his heartbreaks on full display, 2011 Masters.

Obviously, the Pinehurst U.S. Open, we have LACC U.S. Open, we have just Open Championship at the old course. It's all been there. Every single year, we do the eight- to nine-month lead-up of, is Rory going to complete the career? We did that for a fucking decade.

for a decade and he's got a six footer a five footer on 18 to close it and can't do it and then he's got you know got to stand over another four footer in the playoff to pour it in uh that was pretty cold they did him to put that to win the career grand slam up graphic up in the corner um and and i mean the the reaction and the emotion it just it honestly looked like he was hyperventilating there for a second of just uh like it it weighing on that much and i just it

I know all these guys want to win. I know all these guys have emotions that go up and down, but it has always felt to me like Rory wants this too much. Like he's the one that has one of the most biggest appreciation for history, knows what kind of club he would be in if he would ever win this tournament and complete this. And it's weighed on him. He's tried to pretend like it doesn't. He's taken 58 different approaches to this tournament, tried to downplay the importance of doing it.

It's all he ever wanted. It's all this guy ever wanted. And it finally happened today. And it's just totally surreal. I think you brought up 2019 and that feels like a natural comp, except the difference I'd point out is that 2019 was almost like such a fluke freak thing that I think that's where some of the I don't really even know how to describe this.

feeling came from whereas this i'm like man i've been set up for this party since 2011 really you know it's like i i've been waiting for this to happen for a really long time and i knew what it would look like and i knew what it you know kind of what it would feel like and i knew what club he would be in and like this is how it's supposed to go which is where i'm almost like yeah no i can wrap my head around this this like finally it's almost like all right now the golf world makes a little more sense you know rather than uh that it feeling too big just like beforehand just just

Thinking about like 10 years of majors, not just masters, 10 years of majors going by. Uh, TC, I looked up a couple of things, uh, just to, to put that into context, uh, because we, we throw it out a lot, you know, like 2014, like that was of course his last win. Uh,

So much stuff's happened since then. That was when the ice bucket challenge was going on. I'm sure you guys remember that. You pointed this one out, Tron. Zach Johnson and Jimmy Walker have won majors more recently than Rory. Ludwig was 14.

Big, I threw this one in there for you. 1989, a Taylor Swift album that has existed forever for all of time. Hadn't been released yet the last time that Rory won a major. Top song in the country was, there's another big Randy one, All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor, I believe. You don't have to tell me.

uh, it was the same month guardians of the galaxy came out, which again was like, Oh my God, that movie has been out for like 25 years at least. Uh, like that's how long it's been. It's it's, they've made like fucking eight of those since the first one came out. I mean, just think about what the four of us would not think about like no laying up. I, the last time Rory won a major, we had four months prior recorded a podcast from spice Bush with, uh,

with a recorder in the middle of the table. I mean, chips and salsa. Incredible. Yeah. You want to, I mean, I can measure it in our own personal lives and professional journey. It's, it's unbelievable. I think, I think the stat yesterday that Nance threw out that just shocked me, but is it right? He had not held a lead after any major since 2014. Yeah.

54-hole lead, maybe? Maybe it was 54-hole lead? I don't know. Is he not leading at St. Andrews? Nance definitely – it was either 54-hole lead or – anyway, I don't mean to bog us down, but it just – some of the stats were like – Solo. He was tied with Vic going into the final round at Open Championship. Okay. Well, yeah. Unbelievable. To that point, what's crazy about the –

I don't know. Again, I keep going back to 2011 almost more than 2014 because that was the first time to become a running bit with us now with all kinds of tournaments. But when someone kicks one away, you hear everybody say, oh, he's going to get one. Don't worry. That guy's too talented not to win one of these things. And it's like, yeah, that's probably true. But man, there's a lot of life that's going to happen in between those two things. And that's what makes it so fun for Rory. You go back and you

I don't know, man. It's just been a decade and a half of watching this guy or even more than that, right? Since he was 17, 18, 19 years old. And it's just... I don't know. It hits you in the feels for sure, especially seeing how much he cares and how much it meant to him and what a weight off and all that stuff. And all the PGA Tour stuff and everything he's done over the last three or four years, good and bad and different. And then I...

I think, too, that this is... To me, this is by far the most impressive of his major wins because it came on a firm, spicy golf course. So spicy today. Holy shit. Much more so than the last few Masters. It was a really...

that was a, that was a really, really dry, firm Augusta. We haven't seen that quite to that level in a long time. I don't think. And, uh, just, yeah, just primo conditions. And like you had to, you had to control your golf ball. Well, and, and what I keep coming back to, and I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun with a lot of the very boneheaded mistakes, but it's like a long time. He's playing that golf course while he like probably can't feel his fucking fingers or feet or, and it's just like, God, it's just so impressive. Uh,

That was the craziest part, was, like, seeing how in control he was with the full body swings. Yeah. The harder the shot, the better off he was. Yes. Except the driver, which also is, like, his superpower, which he didn't seem to have either. The driver wasn't that bad, though. He just stopped hitting it. It was just, like, fractionally off. Then he kept going to three wood, and that was not going well. I hated that every single time he did that. But, I mean, it was, like...

that's where it felt like, all right, what's going to happen here? Is he going to out, like, is the data going to win out here? Like, or are the odds going to keep punching him in the face? Like, missing by a yard on one, missing by a yard on two, Bryson snapping it off one and making par while Rory makes double. God, you were pissed. You were so pissed. It was just like, how long? But it was, like, over 72 holes is why we always say that. Like, you know, the sustainability models are going to win out. And he tried to wreck it with whatever the fuck happened on 13 that I still, like,

I have to wonder if that's going to scar him a little bit, honestly. Um, but well, Sally, I think for you guys, like on that note, I think there's a certain satisfaction synergy that you guys, that you guys and Neil should feel, especially of you won his way, right? Like he didn't, he didn't win playing percentages and playing it. He won like swashbuckling and just

putting his nuts on the table. That's pretty cool. We said that last night too. When you're on 13 and need a birdie, you're like, fuck yeah, let's go. And when you just need par, you're like, well shit, how am I going to do this? Just don't fuck it up. And then 15, alright, I need birdie. I'm going to snap hook a 7-iron around this tree and hit truly one of the greatest shots

uh, in master's history. Like it's, it almost like you almost are hesitant to go there because the only reason it's one of the greatest shots in master history, because you fucked up in such a colossal way that it was, it's honestly hard to describe. Uh, but yeah, we ended up with some of the greatest masters moments ever again, followed again with one of the, uh,

almost one of the all-time follies bogeying 18 with 124 yards in there on 18 but responding with the bird i holy shit man i'm still it's really hard to do a show like this fresh after this happening i have never ever been so anxious watching one single sporting event that was the most like i'm sitting here like how they see hitting a golf shot right now i'm legitimately trembling i'm so uncomfortable over some of these moments just knowing if he'd have lost this it would have been like

85 times worse than Spieth in 2016. Like it would have been truly, truly unrecoverable from. Yeah. Well, listen, speaking of, of recovering from things, speaking of coming back,

I, you know, we talked a lot about the end of eras moving on, uh, things like that. Uh, and I think that probably brings us to our serve pro Mulligan segment. Uh, people, people are very familiar with this segment, uh, serve pro the number one brand in cleanup and restoration known for making any mess. Like it never even happened. Let's put that to the test. Uh, Randy, I want to, I want to, I want to start with some nice words and I want to applaud you. Please. Truly. And I mean, uh,

It's one of the greatest bits in the history of bits. I don't remember specifically which tournament it was after either. You guys are at 29th is Port Rush. Okay. That's right. That's right. Port Rush. Rory goes out. He's gripping the steering wheel way too tight. Misses the cut after a little bit of a, some gases leaving the body there on Friday as he tries to make the cut. And, and big Randy declares our guy dead until further notice.

uh in lieu of flowers please make all donations to golf pass uh one of the few subscribe it was subscribed to golf as one of the greatest lives in the history of the podcast uh and and i believe that the martin hall all the hitters over there i believe the crux of of the conversation was he is dead until he wins another major and uh so here i i will turn the floor over to you yeah thank you dj well set up um

I've thought about this day, you know, what I want to say. Do I want to, you know, I'm just going to be very sincere. It was a great victory from Rory today in total. I think the emotion that he showed after that winning putt went in

That was very cool. I mean, very, very cool to see. We don't get a lot of that in pro golf, I don't think. And so I want to just say that. Great for him. And I also want to recognize how popular Rory McIlroy is. It's incredible how many people...

Since I made that dumb joke in 2019, DJ, I have gotten more comments. People want to talk about Roy. That has been the biggest thing, the biggest talking point between me and our audience over the last now six years. And so credit to Rory. I think this round in particular,

Like you guys so well put it. I mean, it just had everything. Everything you think or anything anybody thinks about Rory, the person, his golf game, like I feel like you could find

within the 18 holes today plus the playoff. And so I'm a little disappointed. Listen, I'm not going to lie. I'm a little disappointed that the bid is over. It was a hell of a run. All good things come to an end. But it was probably time. And I think for the game after,

at large, the capital G game of capital G golf. Tron, you said it in our Slack, like this was a hell of a day for golf. And again, just recognizing how many diehard, diehard Rory McIlroy fans there are out there today. Like,

Live it up. This is it. This is your Super Bowl. This has to be the happiest day that you've had following professional golf. So it's just wonderful. I don't feel like I have much to apologize for necessarily. You said he was dead. Of course you got something to apologize for.

He had 40 majors in a row that he didn't win. He stomped on his grave after every major. For a generational talent to...

you know, I mean, God, he wanted to give it away. He didn't want to win it, but he did. He did. And that's the bottom line. Congrats to Rory. Kudos to Rory fans everywhere. I, I don't want to, I'm not going to take away from any of that, which for those, for those that didn't watch last night, for those that didn't watch last night, uh, uh,

uh, so this last night, but he, uh, Rory, this got to Rory. Like he has heard the bit. He is familiar with the bit of him being. Oh, well, and he has, and I met him in Branson and he was made the comment. He's like, he said, he's told me, I can't wait to win a major and call Randy out from my press conference.

Do you remember what else he said? But it's been so long that I don't know if he's going to remember that. But no, what else did he say? I remember you and I had coffee with him maybe six months after the Rory's dead bit. And I think maybe he'd been listening to the podcast a lot at that point. And, you know, Augusta was coming up and he goes, yeah, you know, I can't wait to go, like, win the Masters. I'll come back on the pod. Big Rainy can hold my fucking green jacket after that. And so...

I don't know if he remembers that either, but I certainly do. And nothing would make me happier. Honestly, and I'm game for it, right? I know my role. I know, hey, there are two sides to a bit. And so if he wants to come back, I will stand in the corner and hold his jacket like the best goddamn waiter in the world. I would be happy to do that. Yeah, I truly would be. I mean, I've had so much fun, and...

at his expense, you know, I, I hope he realizes like none of it's really personal, but listen, you, you, if you're the most popular best golfer in the world for that many years, like that's, that comes with the territory. So Randy, I'll like to do that. I would sit over in the corner. I would sit over in the corner, standing next to you, eating a McRib. Yeah. You know, I know. Yeah.

Exactly. So I don't know. That'd be funny, but I feel like our relationships changed a little bit with Rory since all those comments were made. So I don't know. Who knows? Well, thanks to Big. Pure class, as always. Thanks to ServPro making any mulligan and giving us a chance to make it like it never even happened. Visit ServPro.com or call 1-800-SERVPRO today. Solly, where should we go next? Don't.

Don't put that on me. I mean, I could do this back and forth for another hour. I honestly think just the the emotions of the day. What's the most? Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. Were you more excited for today or more nervous for today? Sorry. So good question. I was more excited, I think. No, you guys were nervous as fuck. I was nervous. I was very nervous. Well, yeah, admittedly, I thought it was gonna be Bryson, not Team Rose, but I was very nervous.

And then that first hole was like, yeah, no, that's kind of the guy I was picturing. He knows how big this is. I was more suspicious than I was nervous. It was like, what's it going to be? What's the catch here? What's it going to be? And when he got through 12, I was like – and he hit the – laid up off 13. I was kind of like, man, he almost can't screw it up from there. 14, there's no trouble. Probably play 15 like a three – like we're kind of dunked in the water. All right, there it is. There it is. Like there is –

I would have been reckless if it was not for 2016. Like we've all been, I don't, I will never assume anything for any masters back nine after what we experienced in 2016. And this, again, like I said, this would have been worse, but I go back to like why I, I broke my promise of never picking Rory to win the masters again. Or, you know, I think I said when he wins his masters, I won't be the one to predict it. I go back to like, dude, I,

I I've felt for months, like we're watching a different golfer. Like we're watching somebody actually evolve, which is really, really, really hard to do for the level of player that Rory is, but to clean up and to become TCU long accused of being a thrower, not a pitcher. It died. That died at Pinehurst though. And I said that like he, and he played so well at Pinehurst. He did so many great things at recent majors and,

And he just kind of fucked up the easy stuff. He did that again today and almost cost him dearly. But it made me honestly think, I'm like, dude, the Rory that when you declared him dead, Randy, I was like kind of with you because he was just wandering listlessly around these majors, psyching himself out, playing himself out of the tournament on Thursdays.

Remember when JP had to tell him, like, hey, you're Rory fucking McElroy? That was Burtdale, 2017. That was seven years or eight years ago. Seven and a half years ago. But it honestly just felt different. And it was when he hit the shot in the playoff on 17 at the Players.

That was when I fully committed, like I'm picking him to win the masters. Like when, when needed to, like, he's got the shots now he really does. And man, for the, the two doubles on Thursday, bouncing back from that and the myriad of fuck ups today, bouncing back from all of that, bouncing back from 40 plus straight major failures. Like it, it just, I, you do have to tip your cap at the resilience of this dude. And like, that's like the name of the game when it comes to golf, like you're going to lose a shit ton more than you're going to win. And it,

You know, nobody got dunked on harder. I mean, it didn't help that like Bryson, a live guy, beat him at the US Open with like all the live stands, like just adding fuel to the fire that already hated Rory, just, you know, made memes out of them, you know, crying and all this stuff.

Like to bounce back from what he's done, it just kind of felt like how much – you can't kill me anymore is what it felt like going in. I regret that part of it because this would have been the worst of all of them. But he's evolved, man. He's evolved. And I would be – I'll say this here now. I'd be stunned if this was his last major. I really would. Like monkey off the back situation, like it's –

I hate to put more expectations on him, but you got to go beat Koepka now. I said that last night, too. It was like, you got to go beat the major winner of this generation. Well, that was the thing. I mean, we were talking about it last night on the pod. It was like the divergence of if Bryson wins, which almost feels laughable at this point now sitting here, or if Rory wins. And we said it last night. We're like, oh, dude, like the next manager is a Quill Hollow.

And then, you know, Oak wants a true toss-up, but then, like, he could do a grand slam in a year at Port Rush. Like, that's crazy. What do you think about that, Randy? I love it. I love it. Because it doesn't seem like the rest of them mean as much. Now that he's got this one, he's like, cool, like, my trophy case is complete. That was my biggest goal in my career, and now it's like everything else is gravy, right? It feels like a pretty free roll at this point. Yeah.

I made a prediction back in, say, 2014 that I declared dead. I might have to bring it back. I said Roy's going to get to 10 majors. I'm halfway there. I might have to go buy back into that one and see what kind of price I can get on that at this point. And you know what? It's got a light of fire under Scotty to put that jacket on him. Like, man, Scotty had his...

C plus game this week and you know he's right there and I think we're looking at a fucking monster in the making with Ludwig we'll get there we'll talk about how it ended and all that he lit you know a house on fire basically but yeah

As we're here, I'm just getting word as we're starting to pass out majors. I believe we have a guest who's going to join. This guest has some intro music that was just sent to me. I have not listened to it yet by our guy, Charlie Van Kirk, maker, of course, of the famous Big Cans remix. So, Cody, if you'll do us the honor. I want Rory to win so bad. I want Rory to win so bad. I want Rory to win so bad.

So bad. Emotional player. Emotional player. So bad. I'm the king of shooting 72 in the first round of this golf tournament. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. I'm the king. So bad. The man journey is over. McElroy has his masterpiece.

Of course, that couldn't be the intro music of nobody other than our guy, Neil Schuster, who was on the grounds all day following his guy. Neil, how are you? Go off, as the commenters are saying. Your mic's not working. Mom's for KBB. Mic is not working. That is sick. God, we hate that. Still not working. Still not working. God, the ultimate heat check here. You're professional podcasters, folks. Oh, man.

This is what you get for doing it live. Yeah. All right. I switched it to my AirPods. There we go. It's been a day, gentlemen. It's been a day. I'm not going to lie.

I thought they had it in the first half. Okay. It was tough. And after the third quarter and with about two minutes left. I picked him up on two and God, the three and four were unbelievable. Just all the audio you just heard in that song is all stuff I got today. I am so jacked up. I mean, it was the coolest, not even, there's nothing even in the realm of how cool this sporting event was. I'm going to take these glasses off so I can see you guys.

Truly, like, I mean, I'm standing up there. I couldn't see the putt on 18. So it's all based on audio. And you're just making friends with people. Me and this old lady were crying next to each other when we made the putt in the playoff. Straight up. I had to put my glasses on. I'm crying in the club. I mean, just making friends everywhere, hugging people up on chairs. The security's like, get off the chairs. I mean, it was scenes, Randy. Absolute scenes. Everybody was.

On the grounds was around 18. I've never seen so many people. It was unbelievable. And you know what, guys? It happened. I saw every hole but number one, number five, and I missed nine and ten.

And he did it exactly how I wanted him to do it. Like a fucking moron. Like I play golf. Like 13. He called the C-suite on 13. I mean, I don't know if I love the layup, but like how do you dump a wedge? I was standing right there. Everybody's celebrating. And it was like, oh my God, he just missed it right of that pin. Like what are you doing? And then he bogeys 14. And then guys, I'm not kidding. I picked this spot like, I don't know, 15 minutes before he showed up.

right there. He's, he, uh, picks up a couple of pine cones on 15 to throw them away. He like whiffs on throwing them. We're standing 20 feet away. I'm standing next to this guy who's been there for two hours. He smoked two cigars. He's crunk and the ball here comes Rory's ball right there. And we saw it up close and personal, the coolest shot of all time. Uh,

into 15. I just, we all thought that the club looked so lofty. We were like, oh, he's laying up. Everybody thought he was laying up. Like I'm standing right there to left of that pine tree. And I felt like the fucking Pied Piper DJ. I'm picking up fans like, oh my God. It's like, come on gang. We're going down.

It was unbelievable. Picked up, got poor ass, got poor. I mean, all the boys were streaking. We're going, we're going to jump in the pond. You know, Bryson's dumping it in there. I, I, you know, I don't want to just go shop by shop, but I will, if you guys want me to. He did. By all means.

The hard stuff, the shot into seven was like, you know, he's talking to Harry about God about that. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, what window are you looking at, dude? Like, don't fucking blow it. Like Bryson just hit it in the bunker. Don't do something stupid here. And he, you know, he lipped it out. I heard I didn't see it. But like the, you know, the roar was incredible on seven. And then, God, the shot of the 17. I'm standing back left of the green.

And from what we could just see his hat and everyone's like, there's, he's got no shot from over there. And I mean, that ball almost fucking went in. Like if it rolls out, you know, three more feet, it's,

And then I, God, I don't know what happened on 18. Just couldn't see anything. Like it was kind of a weird lie with the wedge and just dumped in the bunker. And then where were you on 18? I was behind the green, but every, you know, kind of kill kind of rolls back over. So you just horrible viewing spot. Like you can't, you're not there early. You do not get to watch the final.

So then I was able to finagle during the playoff. I finagled in with a nice family, and I think me and maybe the grandmother. I mean, she and I were crying together. I had a lady on my left. Were you Billy Zanon out there, Neil? I mean, it was fantastic. These people were so lovely. This other lady on my left was faking like she was an usher. She was like, down in front, please! Down in front! And so we got this perfect view of Rose's putt. And then obviously when Rory, we saw him line up the putt and

And I mean, it was just like, it was an emotional release for like, I don't know, 50,000 people. I don't know how many people were there. I've never seen anything like it. Perfect light, perfect day. Everybody's a little sunburned. Everybody's a little tipsy. It was just the coolest sporting event I'll ever go to. This is it, guys. I don't know where to go from here. I really don't. That was the coolest thing I've ever like as a group, like been a part of. You know what I mean? Neil, what was the, like, take us through when he missed the putt.

in regulation it was really uh tough tc and we're relying on just the groans it's like it was kind of like never the the i don't know how close the putt was but the roar never got to like oh it was just it was just kind of a groan like uh it kind of sounded like speed in the fairway on friday so frustrating you know just like

everybody was pissed really pissed and people everybody a lot of people thought the playoff would start on 10 so they gave up their spot and so that's how i was able to finagle a little bit better view first timers out there seriously it's been a while since it's been a playoff right yeah you got that answer last night i said bonus golf last night i said bonus golf i mean it was that kind of week man it had to be extra holes

god we got steiny out there just waiting for team rose behind the 18th i mean just scenes tc it was unbelievable what do you think were people just like confused by team rose like

What do you mean? What are they doing here? What are they? Oh, God. So, all right. So, I have all this audio. We're putting together this narrative pod. I'm so overwhelmed because I think, like. You're going to be up all night. It's going to be sick. All night. I have so much stuff. But, like, nobody knows what's going on, especially on that spot on 15 on the left. So, Rory's on 13T. Did he have a four or five stroke lead on 13T? No.

He was up four. He was at 13 under, I think. And then it's all, it's, it's tied up on 14 T I mean, nobody knows like this, this news is, is spreading word of mouth around because there's not really a good scoreboard view up by 15 and,

And, you know, you hear this news about the Rose stuff. And I started doing the thing from the Patriot. Kill me before the war is over, will you? You know, just like here comes Justin Rose. Team Rose. Unbelievable. He's the one that's going to cuck us. No, he's not. We can't let that happen. It was unbelievable. Me and this guy smoking a stogie. He was like, nah, no way. No way. Rose is getting us, man. No way. You know, he's just crunk. It was awesome. It was fucking awesome.

So anyway, I don't know. Ask me something else. I don't know where to go from here. Bacon said this on Twitter, which I really liked. Basically just said this is our 86 Masters, which I thought was a really, really good take. Because what I think is going to be so fun about it is I've rewatched a lot of the Tiger ones, and they're very fun. But also he just hits the fat part of the green a lot, and he makes a lot of pars.

and occasionally he makes birdies where you know he's going to make birdies. This is going to be the best rewatch of any Masters ever. It's just going to be absolutely – Yeah, I can't wait to rewatch. I saw probably 80% of Rory's shots, and that's about it. I mean, he played – oh, God, how about him getting saved by the –

Like last blade of grass on 11. I mean, what a moment. That ball comes trundling down because you can't really see. I'm in the grandstands and everybody just sees this ball up here. We don't know whose it is. And it hits the hill and it's like, oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. Is that Bryson? Is that Rory? And then what the fuck was Bryson doing? Is he going at that pin? Like unbelievable. Unbelievable.

He was missing left again. Yeah, he was missing left all day, and he was like five back at that time and had to – like first fairway hit in a while, and he needed to chip one. Let's just call it. Yeah. But then that shot into 12, like that's when everybody had a big exhale. Everyone's like starting to celebrate. So I walk up. KVV and I had a date to meet at the phone bank on 13 after Rory teed off, not at a specific time.

but at a specific moment in the round. And right on, we were both there. We watched Rory play a three wood. I think he hit three wood off that tee. It was like, okay, he's taking the decision. Like I have no problem with that. And it seemed like he laid up to a pretty good spot. And then it was just like, I mean, truly guys, like I said to KBV, the analogy I have is he's like the best writer of a generation, but he had, he just can't help typos.

like he just it's like dude you're doing it the hard stuff so well just typos like a slur though it's like a career-ending slur that ended up yeah it's like how do you do that like you know typically like writers have editors and he's also like he's like i don't need an editor i just wanted to do it myself yeah no don't proofread this thing i'm just gonna just send it to press baby it's it's like i we were all standing there on the rope and nobody was really paying that close of attention

And I just happened to look up, like, as he's hitting that wedge. Because everyone is like, oh, he's up by four. He's golden. And just fucking dubs in the creek, in the tributary race creek. What did you think on – going back to, like, one and two. What did you think on one? I didn't see one. I went because that triangle between two fairway, three green, and four tee is, like, such a good spot. So I was able to watch –

pretty much all when he appeared in that bunker on two fairway, I actually TCS spent the whole day with Felipe from Argentina. It was fantastic. So he walked up and he's like, I was like, what happened on one? Like I saw the scoreboard. He's like, he made double. I'm like, how? And it was kind of like on and three.

Like, on and three. This is my bogey. And I was like, man, I've started so many rounds like that. Like, just, yeah, how do you make six? Well, I hit it on a three, and then I three-putted. Like, pretty simple. He was nervous on the first. He talked a lot. Yes, I went back and watched his presser from yesterday where he was like, man, I had so much more speed going into yesterday's round. They're asking him, like, you know, how are you feeling about the 66? He's like, oh, I had an extra, like, three or four miles an hour on the driving range that I haven't had all week.

He's like, I just knew that the bunker on one, the bunker on two were going to be no problem. And for him to leave it in that bunker today was just like, okay, well, something has changed from yesterday. We're not quite freewheeling it the way that we were. And a hanging lie. You don't see that often in these fairway bunkers. He'd stand up on the incline part of the bunker. And the wedge was not awful, but just kind of one of those just keeps going and going and going and trickling away. And then the putt was very bad. Absolutely.

after that to to not be able to get it down for both but see i think like if that ball goes in the water on 11 that might have just been his all right fuck all right i made double there now i'm not i'll do whatever on 12 and i'll go try to birdie 13 like that might have i mean he might have been better off if that went to water honestly truly yeah but he but then i wonder if he goes in the water there then i don't think bryson goes in the water i think bryson plays it way out to the right you know like okay i got an opening here bryson had no idea where the ball was going

Yeah, I don't think it mattered by that point. He had to shock the water in Rays Creek for the offensive earlier this week. I don't know. If Bryce doesn't drop two there, he's right in it, you know, because then he started pressing. I still dropped one in there earlier. God, dude, I just – it was – going back to that putt on three that he made, the downhill slider on three was electric. I mean, the place went nuts. That was one of the biggest holes of the day. Imagine if you had seen the first two holes, yeah.

And then, oh my God, the irony hit into four was unbelievable. The thing, it was like a rifle crack coming out of there. And just, you know, there was a lot. And then he hit a crazy shot on five. I mean, it was just, people were overall riding for Rory, obviously. But like Bryson had some loud, loud fans out there too. And he was, you know, early in that round, it was really, really, really fun before he, you know, things went sideways for him. So just an all-time day, man. It really was. It was awesome.

I don't know if it's been said. I just want to give Rory props for hitting two fantastic drives off 18T. Seriously. I mean, he still bogeyed it in regulation, but man, to hit perfect high fades, middle of the fairway, gap wedge in, that was big time also.

And I think next time Rory's in this situation, do you think he's just like, my superpower is like hitting these majestic long irons and I'm sending it on third. Like, I'm not doing that again. I'm not trying to protect anything ever again. Right. Because we talked about that last night when he hit that six in the water and to totally, you know, hit it in to take your draw. You know, at worst, you're making six probably. Which is solid to your point there. Like, I think I agree with his.

With his strategy on 17 in regulation of like hitting the three woods, got a little bit more spin on it because I don't think he's hitting that fairway with driver. I don't think he's very well, but he didn't either. But like having a longer long iron in, I don't think necessarily hurt him with how he was hitting all the half shots and everything, you know?

That's for me, Randy. I appreciate you cracking up. You know what, Randy? It's good to see you, man. We don't hang out enough anymore. It's good to have you. You all got a funnel at this party? Dad's got to get a little... Randy's got to catch up. Come on. See you here too, man.

The TC and Randy been nothing but class, Neil. It's been very cool so far. And I'm going to be nothing but class back. I mean, it was just like, what's like, as far as just like a day of golf, uh,

I mean, you know, if Rory loses that, it's, it's just devastating. And for me personally, but like either way, like that was going to be like, that's an all time round win or lose. Well, you know what? That one goes down in history. You know, what's crazy unlikely about this from how like our predictions and projections have gone for the history of this podcast, Cody, get yourself in here right now. Four of us picked Rory to win this week. Like,

Group high fives right here. Group celebration right here of actually getting this one right. Because the only time I got worried about those picks, when I was like, oh, God, everybody's on this. That could not be a good sign. Well, I got to shout you out, too, for even getting more specific. Well, back to back. Sure. I mean, Scotty and Rory, so don't pat yourself on the back.

I thought you were you did as well right didn't you I did but who's counting but the like what I was gonna say was uh you declaring it like I'm picking him this one time and if it doesn't happen this week it's never happening which I was gonna ask you guys like do you think that's true if Justin Rose makes his putt in the playoff and Rory Gax another short one like that's it right like he doesn't ever there's no fucking way

That would have been truly debilitating. We don't ever have to worry about that, brother. I need Brother Marty in here talking about gratitude. And how does it feel, Neil? It feels fucking awesome, Marty. I'll tell you that right now. God, man, what a day. You speak on this, brother. Well, here's the question. Way too soon question. Does Roy ever win another green jacket? Yes. Yeah, for sure. I think so. Yeah.

I do. That's great, man. It kind of feels like a Phil situation. I mean, that emotion. It really does. It's like, okay, now I know what to do. Now I'm completely freed up. Now everyone's scared of me. He's very dangerous again. Yes, very dangerous is a good way to put it. Going into Quail Hollow. I mean, guys, the actual Grand Slam is in jeopardy. Come on. Really?

Neil, I was saying that last night when I picked him on the live show last night. I was saying that if he wins today, we are talking about the Grand Slam because he's going to Quail Hollow and he's going to Port Rush. He missed the cut at Port Rush last time. I don't care. That's because it was the dude that we saw today on the first tee who was like...

squeezing the fuck out of the steering wheel and just trying to keep it on the rest. You think this fucking guy that almost gagged it in epic fashion gets to Port Rush to close out the Grand Slam? You think he's closing the door on that one? We slayed the dragon today. Which, guys, I also, I haven't made a call, but I picked Rory not to win. That's tough. Oh, that's really tough, TD. That's two in a row for you. I think that's two in a row, Xander and Rory. That's cool. Hey, Liz, I'm self-reporting it. Scotty and Rory to win the Masters is not that cool at that.

Getting that wrong two times in a row is very cool. So I'll say he will win another green jacket, but again, I want to alert. Why, again, I was so amped on this one was I think the Scottie surgery thing was not nothing. Scottie has not been the sharpest. Pop.

possible asterisk here? No, I'm saying this was a great opportunity for it. Scotty was not at his best. Rom clearly not at his best. You know, Ludwig still only second time around. He's obviously a predator on this golf course. C plus game. So something you probably didn't see on TV, but Rom's coming up 17 as Rory and Bryson are going teeing off on eight. And I mean, just a sea of people, all energy and Rom and, and,

My guy keen, like nobody watching them. And he just, I was just watching Rom walk up and looking over. He was, you know, he was looking the whole time up the fairway, just kind of like,

You know, just kind of feel like, man, you know, I'm missing out. And it was kind of one of those moments where I was like, man, this is kind of an interesting view. Because I was up in the grandstand on 17 watching the T-balls on 8. And it was just a really interesting snapshot of like, I would not have pictured us being here two years ago. And you know what? God, if Scott doesn't make that ravioli.

I mean, who knows? Who knows, man? Unbelievable stuff. Butterfly effect stuff. Hope it was worth it. Yeah. Scotty, Scotty is coming back. I don't know when, but it's, it's again, this was a great, wonderful, wonderful window here. I have a question for Randy. No, hold on. I got a question for Randy. Randy, what was, what did you say or do when Rory made that putt in the playoff?

I had some private communications. Yeah. I need a picture, Big. You're in your new place. Was it like a Rudy, you know, that gif? Was it respect? Was it like the little kid with the Jeter hat? You know, a little hat tip? It might have been like the coach of the Mighty Ducks with the pop collar, you know? Yeah. No, it was Mickelson to Rosie. Too good there. Pick that one up. No, I...

It's not a great answer. I was just watching on the couch in our basement. My wife was actually down there who picked a Rory. She was pretty chuffed about that. But it felt like a foregone conclusion. Once Rose missed that putt,

you know it just is what it was and you know I yeah hey that's it nice tournament you know and and we started to get ready for the podcast I don't have anything better than that's fine I just wanted I was just curious on the ride home I was like I wonder what Randy did was he like man that's I I was wondering if you're like you know what that is pretty cool man like making wow or anything like that coming down the stretch and regulation though was that was pretty wild I mean I did yeah

I mean, so it sounds like if I'm counting, I didn't see the putt on 14. It sounds like Rory really didn't make a putt.

No. Like 10 was the last putt he actually made. Right. Cause he missed the par putt on 11. Fine. Two putt on 12, but missed the eight footer, nine footer on 13, 13 footer on, on 14, missed the six foot Eagle putt on 15 and miss like an eight foot birdie putt on 16. Like it was, it was 17 and missed a six foot. Well, how long was the putt on 18 and regulation said five feet. Cause I couldn't get in like always, always low, always left. Well,

And on that one, there was a close-up of him. You can see the putter lifting up. Kind of the same. Yeah, very Pinehurst-y. But it just went beyond regulation. Right to left instead. Neil, you were talking about getting information out on the golf course, which I think brings us to our Yeti coldest moment of the week. We had kind of a group conversation before we hopped on. And

This was on the broadcast, but obviously you'll have some firsthand perspective. But when he made double on 13, they showed there's the epic grandstand on 18. And...

They have the analog, you know, scoreboard. Oh, it's the best. Of course. And the video that they showed on CBS was the best I think I've ever seen. Everybody's sitting there waiting, waiting, waiting. And he goes from 13 under to, okay, they're taking it down. Okay, hold on. They're grabbing the tile. They're hanging up. Oh, 11 under. He made double on 13. And all the surrender Cobras. Everybody, I mean, it's just, it was epic. And I'm curious what that's like on site.

It's the, it's honestly like the best part of the, like one of the best parts of the experience is just like you have, you're forced to talk to the people around you because you're always searching for information.

And the collective...

including if it's the leaders, like the guys walking off the green. And so then it's like everybody's – the murmurs start like, oh, look, Scotty's making a move. We're like, Justin Rose, Rosie doing things. And so I found it to be like –

part like one of my like highlights of the week was just like always trying to find a spot to watch where you had access to a scoreboard is like you know you're kind of kind of hunting for that kind of location um but I happen to be with uh or run into Jamie Weir uh down at uh uh 13 um and like you know he's a massive Rory guy so it's like oh my god like just tough like like

we were standing there with him when he chipped in the water he's like well what and so he had just called his dad so he had all this intel because he had just come from the phone bank so he was giving us like updates james's dad or rory's dad no he called his own dad who was in spain on vacation he called his dad and his dad gave him like 10 minutes of like you know details on like rose is doing this this and this so we we walked up to him he's like all right here's the situation

which is kind of like a funny thing. Like people are over by the phones, like working the phones back home to get Intel on what's going on down the Amen corner. It's like going back in time. It's incredible. Are there any radio pieces at the masters? No. Yeah. Real quick, real quick. Thank you to Yeti. Of course, for presenting that coldest moment there, please everybody check their full product line out at Yeti.com. And also I,

I think Rory had a safety blanket out there right now. Somebody was carrying around something. I don't want to say who it was. Yeti packing cubes are huge. Listen, I've been riding with these. You see something, you say something. Check them out, yeti.com. Of course, thank you to them for presenting the coldest moment of the week.

Neil, it sounds like there's an opportunity out there for like a Paul Revere. You know, you get a little info, you start writing around the grounds. That's right. I can't run though. Randy, Rosie is coming. Rosie is coming. No, it filters through. What am I saying to, if I tree, I had, I had scoops call that. And also Cody note to you, I called in a, uh, a spiel Schuster, uh,

call from the front nine after... ...from Augusta National Golf Club. It's been a big opening salvo. The Irishman hits puberty and drops two at the first, but he gets off the mat and takes it to the big golfer at the third hole. He regains his one-stroke lead, hits an absolute rifle shot into the fourth hole, and boy, oh boy, the Irishman's coming. The big golfer, dazed and confused, walking up to the fourth. We'll get back to you later. Again, Spiel Schuster reporting live

from Augusta National Golf Club. What is spiel? I don't know, spiel? Like, I talk a lot. I couldn't come up with anything, so I went with that. Spiel, what's it like to record that in front of a ton of people around the phone banks? I had somebody recognize me right after I walked out, and I was like, what are you doing here? I was like, I don't know, I'm calling in some stupid spiel schuster. Oh, that's spiel. Oh, shit, spiel schuster.

I didn't want to go scoops. I want to step on scoops his toes. Well, thanks to all of our reporters on the ground this week. Huge, huge help to have some eyes and ears out there. Are we, are we, are we able to move off Rory now as we enter the 56 minute of this show? Um, there's a lot, a lot of other stuff to talk about here. You guys tell me I'm not, I'm not going to force the issue. It's your night. I mean, we'll pick back up with another hour on Rory. I think on the back half, I think we're going to have another guest who wants to talk a little more Rory too. I think we, we will, uh, as well. Uh,

Do you want to do that now? Or what's the schedule here? What's the Cody's pop-up in here? No, sorry. That was me. I clicked Cody. It's okay. Yeah, we can bring him in. Of course, you guys, we're a serious operation here. We had to leave somebody behind temporarily. You never leave a man behind. But temporarily, he was out there picking up all the quotes and quick notes and everything he could. Of course, it's our guy, our big J. When KVV comes marching in.

When KBB comes marching in. Oh, how I long to make more buddies. When KBB comes marching in. Hello, friends. Hello, Kev. Good to see you. God, what a day. What a day. What are you feeling right now? Yeah.

Uh, kind of, I, you know, relief, I think, uh, I, you know what, I'll say this relief, not because I was like flat out cheering for Rory. I think I probably was, but just because the fucking storylines can reset. Now we don't have to talk about, Oh, can he get it done? The masters, can he win a grand slam? And Rory's opening comments, his press conference were guys. I'd like to ask you a question. Like, what are we going to talk about next year? Which I thought was kind of a fun thing. Like it's just, I imagine it was exhausting for him to have to do this the last 10 years. Uh,

And now it finally can be about something else. It can be about whether he can win seven, eight majors. It can be about whether he can go on a run, like a Phil-like run late in his 30s and stuff. It's just, it was a fun day. I swear, like, you know, when I came work for you guys, I said I'm part of the reason I did it because I didn't want to miss any more like Haley's Comets coming by. Like I missed Tiger. I missed Phil. God, I'm fucking glad I was here for this one.

Because it was just really... I think Neil and I died a thousand deaths on the back nine. I could not believe when he hit that ball in the water on 13. I think there were people in media leaving and just basically saying, like, yeah, no, we're good. We're going to write the story. And all of a sudden, he's down one, walking up 15 fairway. I...

When he hit that shot into 15, it was hard to see. And I basically just closed my eyes and let the crowd kind of tell me what happened. And that was an all-time cool moment to just hear the, like, to have your eyes closed and hear the eruption and thought, fuck, that's got to be close. It just, I think Porter kind of like punched me in the chest when I opened my eyes and

It just was a really cool thing and really cool just to see like, you know, him hug his daughter and just to kind of, you know, have all of that come washing out of him on 18 green. Really, really psyched that I was there for this. What anything of note? It's going to surprise you, but we have talked about Roy for the last hour. But anything of anything of note and otherwise in the press conference, any highlights from that or anything that that stuck out?

I just like that he kind of felt just an overwhelming sense of relief. He basically said there was no joy like right away. It was just like, okay, finally, like I did this. He got really teared up one, one moment in the press conference when Eamon asked about him and Harry and you know, that Harry had grown up in a little tiny town and,

Roy told a story about he met Harry the first time when he was seven years old on the putting green at Hollywood Golf Club. What a cool thing it was for them to get to do this together. All of his other majors came with J.P. Fitzgerald. I just think that's kind of cool. Whatever you feel about Harry, your best friend from the time you were a little kid is... Harry tried to talk him off a couple shots today on seven, and he was like, no, I got this, man. You almost see them never communicate. For him to share a little bit into that...

I just think it's like, where is the most self-aware, like super famous athlete that we have. And it was interesting to hear him kind of talk about like what it's like to be like psychoanalyzed by all of us, not just us, but like the whole world for the last 15 years and just have those people kind of live in your head. And, uh, I just think that that's kind of a fascinating thing to have that unburdened now to just basically be like, okay, I can finally think and talk about something else.

unburdened by what has been uh KVV I saw that conversation on seven from across the fairway and that's that's really good insight because I mean Roy's it's like a Phil bone situation he's like pointing he's like no I got it's up here like I'm gonna and I'm just on everybody on the other side they're like don't do something stupid man and I don't know did it because his reaction to that shot was like oh god like

I think it caught just one piece. It didn't hit a lip. It brushed a pine, like a straw off a pine. Because you're looking 150 yards back, and it's like, oh, God, his reaction is not good. And then all of a sudden, the Aurora roughs ball appears and lips out. I mean, just...

You expect that kind of shot like once in a round like this. It felt like there were three or four of those shots, like the ball hanging up on 11, just like by a hair a few different times. It was an incredible day. I don't know if you guys saw the quote that just Bryson came out with, but said that he several times tried to talk to Rory during the round, and Rory just would not acknowledge him, would not have conversation with him at all. He just like silenced him the entire way. Which like anybody that like gets pissed off at that,

I like we would celebrate the hell out of that from tiger. He did that. That's literally, he now came up to him on seven when they played together in 2019 and was like, so how the kids, man, he goes, they're good.

And didn't say another word to him. The rest, he's like, and Tony's like, okay, well, I'm not there. One other thing I saw, I wrote it down on six, six green. Rory hit it just over. He's in the fringe. And then Bryson hit it like just inside of him, like same line. So Bryson had to move his, his mark. And there was this, this moment where they both went to read the putt on either side of the hole. And they both in like synchronized, went down into a crouch and they were both like staring at each other.

on the same line it was just like one of those moments you're like oh my god like total face off like 20 feet away and they both stood up at the exact same time and then like circled around the hole and i was like and then bryson stepped out you know and like that world but it was kind of one of those i was like god we you know it didn't turn out to be bryson at the end but for the i mean pretty much full front nine it was like a total showdown which was which awesome to watch yeah

There's no scenario which I could have imagined after one. I was out there on one and as I walked down to I was like, I have not seen this horror movie too many times. Like I can't be here. I was joking in our slack when I came back like I might be the cooler. So maybe it was time for me to go inside for a little while. And then I went back out and I didn't want to tell Cody that I was going back out because I know he was like, you know, saying I should basically just drive home because he didn't want me fucking up the block party.

But you know what? After he birdied nine, I saw him birdie 10. I was like, oh, I'm not the cooler. Like this is his own volatility, man. That's like, it was, it was so fun. You guys, I heard you guys a little bit talking about the, you know, the town crier. Like it is really fun to hear the news ripple throughout the course. Like what did, what did Rose do on 17? Oh my God. He made a boat, you know? And just to see like that stuff travel. It's so incredibly old school. Like on 18, no one could see shit. And there was a, probably a, a,

13 year old kid who got up on his dad's shoulders. And this kid was like, all right, Rose has got 12 feet. And so this sounds like scoops, the hero to all of us. And I was like, go forth and spread the good news. It was neat. KVV. I think like, you know, obviously Phil and Rory like this, but, uh,

A, it'll be a really interesting champions dinner next year. But B, I think there's a lot of synergies there. They both won their first Masters at 34. They both had kind of seven top tens and a lot of close calls prior to that. And then, but, you know, where do you net out on? Do you think this opens the floodgates for Rory moving forward, both in majors, but more specifically in the Masters? Yeah.

I think so. I mean, you know, could you see him winning another Masters? Absolutely. Like, I think that we've always kind of said, you know, he's going to rip off one or two more. I mean, winning majors is hard. So to say he's like going to get to 10 now, I think that's unrealistic. Like he burned a whole decade. Nobody would say that. I don't know, Jim.

We'll see. We'll see. Hopefully I have this conversation in five years, but man, I, you know, I would be impossible for him to, to not be unburdened at like quail hollow. Like how would you, you've your year, everything that you get now is like house money, you know, for this year, all the way through the masters next year, even that, um,

So I think we got a five major run where he's going to be completely like freed up. And I think the most interesting thing about him, and he said this in the press conference, he's like, I'm such a better golfer today than I was in 2014. And I think that's so true. The most like disciplined thing all week was just watching him hit these like

sawed off iron shots, you know, where he wasn't the only time he really ripped through with a full follow through was on seven when he had to just absolutely just smash that nine iron as hard as he could. So to see him be like super conscious of the fact like, Hey, I got to hit this trajectory. I got to do this. I got to make sure that I don't control my spin.

man, that was not a kid in 14, you know, or certainly 11 who could do that. He just, somebody asked him, what'd you think of, if you could go back and talk to yourself in 2011, what would you say? And he was like, I don't know what I'd say, but I know that that kid is a kid who didn't know like who he was. He didn't know how he got there in the first place. He didn't know how he collapsed. He didn't know how to deal with it. Uh,

And I had a lot of learning to do. He didn't know anything about the world. He's like, I'd like to think that I've learned a lot in the time since. And that's what's something he's always led on both privately and a little bit in public of like, he's kind of always had this thing of like, dude, like,

I'm just like a 5'9 kid from like a small town in Northern Ireland. Like I'm not like a prodigious athlete, right? I don't think he like planned on like four major success by the age of like 15, 16, 17. And like when it came, it hit really, really hard. And I think there's just been this kind of thing in the back of his head this whole time. Like, dude, I'm not like Tiger. Like I'm not like –

Like this level. And that, you know, that's kind of like a Bob Rotella, like subconscious thing that probably worked against him over the last several decades. But he got to four so fast of like, Oh dude, I don't think I'm supposed to be this many under par. Like I got to call the C-suite now. Like it just starts to feel a little bit more awkward from there. But the fact that I have it on 13 was like, I just can't believe 13 today. But KVV to your point, the sawed off shot he hit into 12 was just mindboggling.

grown up. I'm going to bed early. I'm waking up and working out every day. I'm taking the kids to school golf. I mean, it was just like, oh, we did it. Like hit the dead center of the green and two putted 12. It was kind of like, all right, we're good, man. Like we're

We're good. And then we're going to miss the trophy. I'll see you. Every part from here on out. Like the vibe coming out of the grandstands, everyone's doing this big Exodus. That was kind of the vibe. Like, Oh, we're dialed. He didn't, he didn't do a speech basically was kind of the, the vibe like, okay, then, then it's pretty much smooth sailing on the way home. Like, just don't like, you know, don't be a moron. And sure enough, like just give it about 15 minutes, Randy. I know that. I know how that goes.

i'll make one final point about like the presser in the sense i remember very vividly this is one of my favorite quotes of all time in the lacc after that one i said you know are you kind of tired of us like psychoanalyzing you and asking you what you learned and he said i'd go through a hundred sundays like this to have another chance to win a major championship and i really think like the all those heartbreaks and disappointments

kind of like showed up today in the sense of like he never really having out dealt with the worst of the like the worst of the worst like he felt said again like the us open was really bad it

It was really hard to recover from. And I think like knowing you've already, all right, it wasn't the end of the world when that shit happened. He kind of like died three different times in this round and was like, okay, like I'm okay. I'm already dead. And so, you know, the, the, on one, on 13, I'm not on 18, you know, three different chances that sort of felt like they were thrown away in the masters and he still ended up master champion. I think that's only because he went through all this shit.

that he did and didn't kill him. There's some dick and stuff there. It's kind of like meeting these different ghosts along the way. And I think the only thing that maybe he didn't have to do was like... He didn't have a drive that went out of bounds or a drive that really screwed him. But otherwise, it's kind of... Yeah, I'm meeting all of these...

You know, like Neil, you were talking about your ex-girlfriends. It's like if you see your ex-girlfriend. Yeah. Like that's almost like with Rory. Trying to accomplish a life goal. And it's like, oh, yeah. How are you? Yeah. Things are good with me. I'm just like. You see, when he hit that shot, when he hit his drive on 10, I was like, ah, he's defeated another boss on the way to the final boss. There were so many bosses. How about Team Rose being the final boss? I mean, that's like the Kristoff is up in the booth.

Unbelievable. I think Andy Johnson made a really interesting point on Shotgun Start earlier this week. It was unrelated to this, but he was talking about how much better... They were talking about press conferences and Xander getting much more interesting and JT getting much more interesting. And his point was like kind of two different things. Like the youth craze in golf is fun and exciting and sugar high-ish. But man, golf is so much better when the stars are...

32, 33, 34 years old because they've lived so much more life. They have so much more experience. And that's just a really, when you combine that with technology and venues and all these different things, I just thought he said it really, really well. And it made me think about a lot of that stuff, especially as you're summing it up, you know, his press conference. You'll think about

like this scene of walking, like we're not good. I would, I'm trying to envision a scenario in our careers where we're going to see a scene like walking off that 18th green. Like we saw the tiger one, which was a comeback from, you know, it was a fifth green jacket.

this was a slaying of a different dragon. This was 10 years of, of angst build up. Like we're not going to have, I mean, maybe if Jordan wins a PGA 10 years from now, after a bunch of crazy heartbreaks, that'll be for the career grand slam. But like, there's nothing we're going to experience like this. Like just, uh, we're not going to see somebody, uh, we might see somebody like on the 18th green crying coming off of it, like laying, literally laying on it. But we all watching on TV won't feel like what we felt watching that because it was a, uh,

that's a true once-in-a-lifetime thing. And it was like the biggest storyline in golf. I can't believe it's over. I can't believe it's over. No one even asked him in the press service. They're shocked about this. But, you know, Sarazen, Hogan, Jack, Jerry, Tiger, Rory. I mean, whoa. Like to say those words out loud is kind of wild. Like that's your place in history. Welcome to the club, Rory. Welcome to the club.

completely grand slam it welcome something special your determination during the round and proud of you our journey has shown through i'll tell you something interesting that's really good just looking at like recent major champions there's this entire like everybody's going nuts about all these these young guys coming up right nobody like in the last three or four years like nobody's really want like nobody under the age of

26, 27 has won a major. It's all been these guys that are kind of like Xander Brooks. You know, Scotty, I guess was what? 2026, but feels like he's 40, 46. Yeah. Where did Clinton finish this week? Oh yeah. I mean, right. Where'd Lucas Glover finish this week? You know, it was different in our dreams, but, but like, but there's this whole youth movement of foot, but these, it's like the guys that kind of, we came up with over the last,

10 years or so are buckling down and really, you know, saying, Hey, like we're, so the, the stage is still ours. We are not, we are not relinquishing this thing. Yeah, for sure. Hey guys, uh, Neil and KVV, they got to get going. They got a lot of, uh,

real work to do guys. I know you got a big project going on. It's going to come out tomorrow ish, maybe Tuesday, Tuesday is what we're, we got a lot of work to do. Can I give you one more? Like the funniest moment of the day was KBB and I were left at 15 green and

after Bryson had hit it in the pond. And we were laughing that like, you know, maybe Bryson asked his, you know, asked in the comments, like, what if I, you know, if I get 30,000 views on this video, I'll hit it and I'll hit it in the pond, you know, like just, I don't know. It was a lot funnier when we were doing it out there, but it's just like, Hey, comment below what you'd want to see on 15. I'll swim across the pond. If I get 10,000 likes in the next four minutes.

But that's going to be on my channel. That's next week. True. We were cracking ourselves up. Absolute glee out there. Unbelievable stuff. Guys, thanks for having me on your program. I'm going to go celebrate. We're going to go break down some audio. Very, very, very fired up. And love being with you. All-time performance here, Neil, tonight. Thank you, Spiel.

Spiel Schuster out, KBV out. Thank you guys so much. So one thing I just couldn't help but marvel at was, I mean, the prodigious, like the final pairing, the prodigious length of both of these guys of just like, yeah, you can lengthen 14 holes. You can move a road. You can buy a hole from another golf course and still just,

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It's one of those ghosts he's going to have to conquer. I promise we'll move off the Rory thing. I think there is one thing I do want to address, and KBV mentioned this, and this came up in the presser as well, I guess, the criticism of Harry as a caddy.

I can only speak for myself personally when I have challenged this, like Rory on this, of having Harry on the bag. And I've said out loud, do I think Bones could save you more shots around Augusta National than Harry? I still say yes to that. And I think I've always, at any point, at least speaking for me personally, the criticism was never about Harry as a caddy.

Like that, that is not it. It was about hiring a best friend rather than an experienced caddy, somebody that can maybe separate their friendship from you can maybe hold you a little bit more responsible, help you make more sound decisions rather than like Rory had the attitude. And I talked to him about this when he made the change back in 2017 of like, I wanted to be more involved in my own decisions. I want to get my own yardages. I wanted to just like be in control and basically like do it myself. I'm paraphrasing that of course, but yeah,

I found flaws in that under the highest of major championship pressure. And we've seen that come out again. They can dunk on any of us that have criticized any of that. They got a green jacket as of now, but yeah,

I wouldn't say the path to it was flawless today. And, you know, sometimes, you know, there was a great nugget. It seemed like he was pretty solitary out there. Well, there was a good nugget that Harry said after the 72nd hole. I just saw this on Twitter that was like, hey, we would have taken this at the beginning of the week, like a good caddy line to say going back to the tee of a playoff. And again, it's not that Harry is an incapable caddy in any way. It was just like at times it felt like

Again, this is where we are just kind of chucking them from the cheap seats and we have no real way of verifying this. But it has felt like a more veteran caddy could have helped him out of certain scenarios at times. And that's at least – that's how I would kind of sum up the situation. I don't know if anybody has any – Sully, I feel similarly of like – I don't think the criticism was ever of Perry. It was –

Of Rory. Rory's choice and what the alternative was. But to Rory's credit, like we said earlier, he won playing his way and he won making his own decisions. And I think...

you know, that's a credit to him. Now, I like if Rory were to be sitting here right now, I would say like, all right, well, like what about the 24 majors prior to this that you didn't win? Right. Like 40. Yeah. Yeah. But like with, with Harry on the, on the bag. Right. And I think there's something, something to be said there. Like he ultimately, he got it done and that's what matters. But I think,

There's different ways to skin the cat, right? There's different ways to get it done. And it just seemed like, you know, like, like there's, there's, there's plenty of shots that he didn't pull off through, through the years where like an experienced hand could have, could have had him, but also who knows, like, you know, he needs somebody to pick him up on Friday after he plays poorly and like,

Harry's probably a better guy to do that than some stranger on the back. That's what I was going to say, TC. It's very easy to quantify or quote-unquote quantify like, oh, I bet Billy Foster would have been better with that read. I bet Bones would have got that read. I bet whatever. But you also talk about the intangibles of traveling the world and having someone to go to dinner with. Think about how many life changes he's gone through in the last seven, eight years, whatever it's been since he's been on the back. It's like

having some sort of rock from your childhood or some sort of grounding agent has to be worth, at least the calculus to Rory seems like it is worth way more than those ad hoc, you should have hit this club instead of that club type of moments. And that moment today was probably 10 times more special because Harry was on the bag and they did it together and they'd been through all those previous heartbreaks together. But I think also Rory's such an emotional player.

And it was so nervy today. And you're thinking, man, how can you get some like someone that recognizes that and can kind of guide him a little bit more like a jockey almost instead of like, hey, my horse is jittery today. Cool. We're going to go to the outside. Stay away from the rail here for the first six holes. And then, you know, that that sort of thing. Right. I think it's one of those things, guys, where we use the word experienced a lot. But Harry's been a full time professional caddy for six years now.

Like he's almost eight years. It was summer of 17. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. So we're almost at eight years of him being a full time professional caddy. I think it's one thing when we say experience versus being able to separate the friendship and like have it be a work environment to be able to pull Rory in for a second and be like, yo, dude, like, let's just take a second. I don't know if they have that. I don't think we're saying professional. I think we're saying assertive.

Correct. I think those are two different things. But we also wouldn't have this. And I'm going to show this video here. It's an amazing video from Hollywood Golf Club, the moment that the putt rolled in. And if it wasn't for Rory and Harry being together, we wouldn't have had moments like this. It's the block party. Yeah, that's the real block party. Oh, God. What do you think, Randy? You think they're hamming it up? No, I mean, that's cool. That's awesome. Yeah.

I mean, gosh, like me today. Yeah. No, I was just going to say like this, this weekend, everything that men's pro golf has been through the billions invested here, the billions invested there. Like at the end of the day, like you can't, none of these people are going to be able to buy what this weekend meant to Rory and all of his fans, the world over. Like it, it, it just is wonderful from that perspective.

Totally agree. I think also, I think just with Rory from a

I'm very curious to see, like, all right, does he party like crazy over the next week and then lock back in? Like, how does this look, you know? Because you know he wants to go rock up at Coil Hollow and just send it. But also, like, is that kind of the hungover Rory, like the hungover DGAF Rory that, like, we've kind of wanted to see for a while? Like, that almost plays into it. And heard that, like...

Rotella doesn't ever really come into majors anymore. Like he doesn't really travel all that much. He was there the entire week, heavily involved. So that's pretty cool. I think that's, I think that's an interesting thing. Yeah. Well, and it's also, again, we've, we've mentioned it many, many times over the last probably two to three years of just like,

If you go back and watch Rory play a major in 2019 era, and now the ball speed difference is staggering. I mean, it's as it's pretty much as staggering as the leap Bryson made. I mean, I know Bryson kind of went up to this top level and kind of started dialing it back from there, but

Rory just like easily accessing three 30 plus carries is it feels very normal now, but that's like, that's not a, that's a superpower. That is what has helped elevate his game to a completely different level because it's, it's absurd. It's absurd how far he's hitting it, how fast he's hitting it, how he can just, you know, hit it over into the trees on five and have nine iron in, uh, on

On that hole and how well he played the par fives this week and getting to those distances where he can shoot the seven iron up into the air around a tree and hold that green. The driving is, that is what's included in the package of what has made Rory very different in this era. That's what makes me think he might go run down two more in the next two years, like majors. That's not outside the realm of possibility at all.

That's where I'm kind of at too. To your point, Tron, I don't think he's going to go take some massive victory lap. I feel like he's just going to exist with a little more lightness rather than have this big thing hanging around his neck. It almost goes from massive projection for me, but I could see how it would almost go from oh shit, I hope this is the year I finally do this to oh my god, what if I win the next three? That's

I don't know. It should be very scary. Yeah. Too, too bad though. He has to show up at, at Harbortown next week for the signature event. He doesn't have to. He's not happy. He set up that he set up, right? That was his. He does not have to, that did not end up going through. He has, is taking it. I know. I know. That was, that was something that he, that like he proposed initially. I just think that's kind of a funny full circle thing. Part of the tapestry, baby. Yeah.

All right. Hour and a half more on Rory, and then we'll get to Team Rose. Team Rose ruled, man. Team Rose ruled. He truly did. Straight up. You do quote, got to hand it to him. You got to hand it to him. He won me over, man. Incredible. Incredible. I mean, he's talking about it the whole week, too. Like, he didn't, like, you know, he was talking about how great of a round he played yesterday. He didn't bottle it.

Yeah, it was. I don't know. I've never. He made 10 birdies today. It was a fucking incredible round of golf, like incredible round of golf. It's so steady. Danny Willett adjacent in 2016. I think Willett shot that he shoot 67 that day. I forget. I forget what it was. It was an incredible round. And that's what it felt like was going to happen as well. But he was pretty like unsustainable in the early part of the week, just making a ton of putts and like the ball striking arrived today. He was absolutely stuffing the pinata.

I think he's going to root. I mean, I know he made the putt on 18. He's probably gonna look back at that 17th and that putt that he had there and, and, and probably end up regretting that one a fair amount, but yeah,

man there i i didn't have time to look this up i'm sure jay ray is all over it and i'm sure somebody's all over it is there another guy that lost two playoffs at the masters like the twice has played the masters and nobody beat him over 72 holes and he got zero green jackets out was that a trivia question did demarco lose marco was only once it was only one playoff playoff okay well

Rose made 24 birdies. He birdied 33% of his holes. He didn't make any eagles. He birdied 33% of his 72 holes this week at Augusta National. I don't know, man. On a really, really tough week. Again, this is all the stuff I would have normally made fun of. And still kind of the line's blurry. I get it. But TC, you of course sent me the...

the golf.com recovery trailer from the video from last year that Claire Rogers did, I believe. Cody's been amped about this for a year. He's been talking about it, I know, a bunch. But he's got the whole retrofitted RV. He's driving around with the red light bed, the pure oxygen tanks with the spin bike, the cold plunge, the warm plunge, the sauna. He's doing all of this stuff. And again, it's straight-faced, and it's just him being like, I had an abysmal back injury.

And in order to keep putting myself in positions to maybe possibly one day, maybe have a chance to win another major. This is the stuff I'm going to be doing. And I'm going to keep working my ass off trying to just keep putting myself in these positions. And I'm not going to overdo it, you know, by trying to win 30, you know, 30 events on the PGA tour, grinding it out from week to week. Like I'm, I'm picking my spots.

And I'm going to go hard. And he's fucking finished running up at the last two majors, man. And it's crazy. And you just, you truly saw, you gotta, you gotta hand it to him. You gotta, you gotta hand it to him. And what, like what a career, right? I mean, just like, I don't know. Like I, that's probably the ultimate mea culpa for me of just like,

shitting on team rose for a long long time and he just keeps it was never about his game like it was that it was even like the earnestness and all of the the stuff on social it's like it's truly like i appreciate him more knowing that he's just that locked in and yeah i don't know i mean it's a rider cup year you know that that means deeply to him but just thinking like dude like this guy's doing it since 1990s like what was it 97 yeah

That he was like the low amateur. Yeah, 98. And how bleak it got. And he's been a top 100 in the world since 2002. That's 23 years in a row. And with some injuries sprinkled in. Yeah. And a Hanma deal. Yeah. And could have gone to live.

Well, and unlike when he lost to Sergio, where I think he totally lost his drive and Sergio ended up making birdie, but it was kind of a foregone conclusion. I mean, Rose played a hell of a playoff. That was a great drive, put the pressure on Rory, hit a great eight iron. 100% thought he made that shot. I know. I thought that went in. Yeah. He was game, man.

massive respect i thought after yesterday's 75 he would fade uh he's nothing but respect that was pure grit today i mean you're great because he was fighting his he was fighting it off the tee like oh seemingly all week and you know he just he didn't have a par after 11.

The golf tournament truly is never over. Like he was dead. He was like dead yesterday. I was dead early on today. Now he's back. He's dead again. He's back. Like it is. This was like, this was a fricking all time. He made birdies with a back nine today. The last par he made was on 10. Yeah. From 11 through 18. He made eight birdies in his last 12 holes. We're in seven, seven, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 18.

So, yeah, it was incredible. You know, underestimate him at your own risk, DJ. That's exactly right. I've been telling you for years. I know. Well, they made the point, like, had he won today, that's a Hall of Fame career for Justin Rose, you know? And who knows what will happen. I still think it's a Hall of Fame career, just with, like, the longevity and, like, what he's gone up against. And you know what else was Hall of Fame? The people sitting out there on the driving range watching him stay warm for the playoffs. It was psychotic. Yeah.

psychotic stuff. The only thing I'll say to that is like, truly, if you're late to 18, there's nothing to see. You can't see a damn thing. Like you're looking at the back of like 18 people's heads. And that's, that's, you might as well be like, Oh, watch this guy warm up. Uh,

I guess. I, I, I, to your point, I thought he made, I thought he made the second shot in there. It's crazy. Yeah. I think, uh, yeah, the hall of fame thing is, I wish in a, in a way I wish it was more like baseball. I wish people cared about the hall of fame. It kind of feels like, yeah, it kind of feels like one of those things. People are just like, Oh yeah, that, that wears it again. They moved it. I think, uh, but like, like having a green jacket feels like the hall of fame. Right. Totally. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

11 BJ Tour wins, 12 international wins, one major gold medal. I thought it was the gold medal. Ryder Cup stuff is a little hard to quantify. You have your record, obviously. It's a touch light, maybe. Who knows? What you're saying. Who cares?

Well, laugh at it at your own peril. Like, the Data Golf Points List is like a formula that adds up BDEs, like weighs different events, you know, different ways, gives majors certain weight, and Rose is 11th all-time going into this. The top 10 all-time are Tiger, and this is like, I think, counting since 1983, I shouldn't say all-time. Okay. But

Tiger, Phil, Vijay, Rory, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Davis Love, Sergio, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, Justin Rhodes is 11th. DJ is 12th. Then Nick Price, Adam Scott, Bernard Longer, Payne Stewart, Nick Faldo. That's Hall of Fame. Yeah. That probably is.

I mean, just the putt on 18 in regulation. There's no way that wasn't going in. Honestly, it disappointed the reaction. I thought we were going to get some major rosy hysterics on that. Just removing your hat to go shoot 66 to go run down Rory. And credit to him, too. He doesn't... I don't know. I guess I was expecting a little more emotion after a close call. He just kind of...

Did media, and it was just like it was just any other day. And that's just a seasoned professional, almost too professional, honestly. I kind of wanted to see somebody cry of just – I can't imagine the emotion of losing two playoffs. You got this guy Chris in the comments. He's saying they're going to put Frank Gore in the NFL Hall of Fame. You got to put Team Rose. Wave him in. Wave him in. You wore us out. You're in. You wore us out. How about your guy P? P.

Hole-in-one late, finishing solo third. Not hole-in-one. Hole-in-one late. I thought he was going to hole-in on 18. It wasn't outside the realm of possibility. There's two-two.

I'll say this, man. God, you want to talk about kicking yourself? P turned a good birdie into a bogey on 13 or else he would have been in position to be in that playoff. God, hell. I mean, that's weird. That would have been, I think, I think that would have been more demoralizing for Rory than losing to Bryson. Totally. Losing to P. Whoa. You still play golf. Holy shit. Yeah. God, he did all that with obviously Eagle 17. No birdies though.

anywhere he hit some of the greasiest greasiest short game shots i've ever seen before like the bunker shot on 12 was insane i mean just just silky silky johnson guys i miss p weeks like this i miss p being in our life lady j all of it

how Scotty finished three shots out of a playoff. I mean, there was about like C minus game. Every time it cut to him. Yeah. I was like, he was doing something bad and I was like, ah, all right, he's out of it. All right. Well, he's still around. Ah, now he's out of it. He missed that one too. I missed that one too. He's probably out of it. He ends up three back shots, 69 today.

that's again where I'm like, dude, thank God Rory got this one. Uh, because I think Scott, he's going to, he's going to, he's going to find some for, I doubt he gets back to where he did last year, but he's going to find a form that's better than the current one. And the golf world will remember, uh,

Remember the name. Solly, what does stats say for Scotty this week? Scotty's week? Yeah, kind of. I'll get you that. Where did he kind of trip up this week? He was negative 0.1 average off the tee, which doesn't sound massive, but he's a great driver of the golf ball. That is not good. But only plus 0.63 on average on approach.

Rory was 2.3 on a project. Rory actually was negative stroke scheme putting for the week. That was almost all in the back nine, I think, this afternoon. But he chipped it really well. Scottie chipped it really well and putted it really well. So, I mean, that's a good sign for when the ball striking does inevitably come back, which it will. He is getting it in the hole pretty relatively well. But, man, Rory answered the bell with iron play. I know we've done an hour plus on Rory. No, hold on. While we're talking about Scottie, question for the group. It's just occurring to me.

Now that Rory has not only won a major, but has his green jacket, if there is a sense of pressure on anybody, I would throw out Scotty winning a non-Masters major would have to be up there. I think Jordan Spieth winning any major, although that seems pretty far off still. I think it's kind of like Scotty, dog. It's time to win...

outside of Augusta. There's nothing better than the night of a major when one storyline ends and just... You're up! What do you think? And I'm not trying to... No, no, no. No, you're exactly right. I think that's what's the fun of being a golf fan is like, yeah, we can't talk about this stuff. Randy, on that point too, like, hat off to Xander. Came in...

Kind of scuffling, a little rusty, just not a great year so far. And the new McRib, like, hurt with that, you know, intracostal injury. And finished T8. He almost beat Zeke. Yeah. Crazy. I think to your question, Randy, it's like, I think that is the next one. It's like, all right, where else is Scotty going to do it? Is he going to get it back? What's going on with Scotty? And I think the other one, and it's almost like,

Yeah, it's almost like worst case scenarios, like nobody cares enough to talk about it. But it's like if you do care and if you do follow golf and if you do want to know who the best players in the world is just like, what's up with Rom? Are we are we doing it or are we not doing it? Should we care? Should we not care?

you know and that that's like sounds extra harsh but that's like it's kind of how i feel because ron kind of did the apple here yeah yeah 75 in the first round and then you know three rounds under par after that so and yeah if this was rory's week right here we would be talking about it for 20 this has been rory's week i know 40 times you know and that's where it's like to your point randy it's like yeah it could be a similar maybe it's a similar life cycle who knows

Sungjae, T5, non-competitive T5. Are we going down the leaderboard, TC? Are we? I don't know. I've been pushing so much T over here to try to keep my voice going. I've got to take a bathroom break. Go ahead. I was going to say, I've got to take a bathroom break. I just wanted to get to Bryson. Brandon, I can ad-lib if you guys need to take a... Ad-lib real quick. Okay, go ahead. We can talk to Big Golfer. I mean...

He should wear this one. He should wear this one. Two-time U.S. Open champion, content maker. Like, this was a very bad... He's never won a green jacket. It was a total no-show. He honestly... I mean...

On one hand, I want to give him credit for like scraping and getting, getting into that final group without his best stuff leading up to it. But I let's, let's just put a big pause on like celebrating hit a hitting a thousand golf balls on the range all week. If you're going to hit it really shitty and play like he was, he lost almost a shot per round on average off or with, with his iron play, which is you cannot win a major that way. He,

He was best in the field off the tee of guys that made the cut. Actually, Tyrell Hatton was best off the tee of guys that made the cut. That's kind of a stunner. But he basically, it was his iron play, and his putting lasted as long as it possibly could, but it just ran out of steam, and sustainability models did not like what he was up to. I mean, a T5 finish, if you're zooming out, is, of course, a very nice finish. Yeah, he'll look good. He gave Rory nothing today. Well, and I thought...

After that start, right, where he had the lead after the second hole, I mean, it's imperative on him to at least just make a few pars, right? Like, keep the pressure on Rory. Make Rory feel like he's got to do something. And for him to give it away on three with a bad three putt and then just a bad shot on four, it –

Yeah, it just wasn't impressive at all from Bryson, which was disappointing to me because this was the heavyweight fight we all wanted. This was the rematch from Pinehurst. And we didn't get it, but thankfully it was still a hell of an afternoon. But I never would have guessed that Bryson would be as uncompetitive, I guess, as he ended up being. He got back down a little bit. Yeah.

I mean, again, it's a compliment when we call you out like this, right? We don't do that for the people that don't matter. It's a compliment from a playing style perspective. I thought it was a weird thing from a, you know, not that, of course there were massive nerves for Bryson, I'm sure. But it also is such a different thing than what Rory was going through, right? Where it felt like Rory's, I don't know, Rory had to be walking to that first tee a little bit like,

oh my god what if i miss another putt at pinehurst uh i'm sure that's not how bob rotella was talking to him about thinking but i feel like bryson had to come into this thing as just like oh my god i get to go toe-to-toe in the last group of the masters today and he just seemed like he'd be i don't know seemed like he'd be more up for the fight but maybe he was fighting the swing or who knows there was one one comment in there about when he missed left i think he was talking about like that's what i was talking about on the range uh which again was like

I kind of was shitting on the range tracker a little bit, but just knowing like, dog, didn't you hit like 1500 golf balls this week is, you know, that's just interesting context. I think to put in the notebook for events going forward. That's what, that's what freaks me out, guys. Like I went to the range this week and then I played the next day. I played so bad. I was like, I'm never practicing again. This is, this is awful. Well,

Which, I mean, I'm sure it is like he was struggling and like trying to find something is probably why we end up. Yeah, totally. It still was an absurd total. And like, honestly, seemed like he was trying to win that win that battle. Did you guys hear the story that Colt told this morning about Bryson, you know, kind of restless last night, struggling to wind down? So he went on a walk around the neighborhood.

and stubble the prawn somebody you know uh airbnb or whatever it was there people putting in the backyard i heard it was friday for a couple minutes or a couple hours friday night it was friday night and yeah the details were wrong but yeah he was playing with like a 74 degree wedge which is sick

do you do you make anything of this crowd being way more pro rory than we experienced at pinehurst last year it's a pretty felt like it was bro bryson yeah that made that makes sense for one like people wanting to be there to witness like history like bryson winning a master's would be cool to see but it's not historic in the sense of rory completing the career grand slam is one and two like

A little bit more on the hooligan side, probably at the U S open than, than at Augusta. Uh, so I would say accessible, maybe a little more accessible to the people, uh, and not much of a chance to kind of whip themselves into a frenzy for, uh, you know, kind of that other storyline, I think. So this, we asked like Bryson was going on the road and he just wasn't wise. I can watch big dog. Yeah. Can,

Can I ask this question? For like the four and five footers or like the five and six footers. So good. He's he's nails on. That's crazy, man. It just seems like he's going to miss all of them. And he got there dead center. Like arm lock still rubs me wrong. No, it should be illegal. I think so. For sure. Well, and like, you know, now it's a burn hard for retiring from the Masters this year. Maybe we can finally do it. You know,

We asked this on the preview. We did an exercise of will blank win a major. I don't even remember what I said for Bryson, but I want to have that conversation again tonight to put on the record. Will Bryson win a Masters in his career? Because I think my answer is yes, and I want to get that in with the recency of having just watched him on this golf course. If he has a decent week with the Irons, and I get it, single length,

Off uneven lies like there's a there's probably an issue here, but like the dude figures stuff out like he he goes back into the lab and like solve stuff and the course fit is outrageous with the way he drives the golf ball and how smooth he is on the greens kind of made me feel like, dude, it kind of feels inevitable. He's going to win one of these things.

I feel differently. Prestige worldwide. He's doing the science. I feel differently than when he called it a par 67, how he played this golf course. He kind of seems to have figured out how to play this golf course. Yeah. I guess I would be a touch surprised if he went. There's just something about him that I never feel comfortable with him around Augusta. I do think, like, Sully, I think he's probably, he's got to be one of the top three favorites to win at Quail Hollow.

That I can get down with, for sure. In the interest of being provocative, I'm going to say no, he doesn't do it. I think your case is very well-reasoned, but I still think there's too many weird quirks. I just don't see it. I just also see, like, you got Xander, Scotty, I mean, Spieth seems to be coming, Rory, Ludvig. Lucas Glover might win next year.

But I mean, you know, all right. Is it time to talk Ludwig? TC, I would ask you the same question. Yeah, I think it's time. He competed with his, I would say, B-minus game today. I don't want to overstate how poorly he played the first three rounds, but...

you know just didn't didn't quite have it uh putter kind of let him down on the stretch 18 was obviously an anomaly with seven hundred thousand dollars on fire there but i think everything kind of goes out the window when you're like you're trying to make you know he's trying to make birdie or he's trying to hold it on 18 and he hits the lip of the bunker and it's kind of

That's not really representative. The three putt on 17 was his first of the week, which is really disappointing. Such a bad first putt. Oh my God. Just out of nowhere. Yeah. And even like the, I think on two today, like that was, that kind of summed up his week for me. Cause he was, you know, he, he drove it in the tree. He didn't drive it great this week. He kind of drove it in the trees on two today and then punches out and he's got a easy, like a very, very comfortable wedge in his hand. And he,

just gets hung up on the back bank on two and he did that all day on saturday uh i mean he must have he must have gone long on it was like watching neil out there he must have gone long on six of eight or six of nine holes at one point and but it was just missing his spots by not very much but um you know and but he was still he was still right there towards the end so i think it's

you know, it's more experience in the bank. I was really, really proud of the way he putted yesterday, especially. And, and, and, you know, I thought the putt on seven was going to go down today, clean card there until like, you know, 11, we can talk about some of the design stuff there, but you know, same thing both with Rory and with Ludwig down the right side of 11, but,

That was a really disciplined play from him. If people miss that, what was it? Yeah, so there's this godforsaken trees down the right side. I will disagree with you on this take, but... You like the trees? It's better than how it was when it was just all trees over there. Now it introduces some temptation, some variability over there. Rory almost got caught with his hand in the cookie jar because of that. Seriously.

Yeah, well, I mean, Sully, do you want to say something about shaving that bank down a little bit more, similar to TPC River Highlands? No, it was going slow enough. That was a crowning. No, I don't know. I think they could do some things to orient that green to make the angle matter a little bit more. Like, all right, if you want to go up the left side, you're going to be rewarded. If you want to bail out up the right, you're going to have to either lay up

way to the right or contend with these mounds and worry about running into the water. That's how it is. I want that to be even more magnified so you can take out the trees and don't have to worry about that. The right side should just be wide open. It's like, cool, if you want to chicken out and hit it over there, be my guest. The tee shot on 12 really bugged me. It just felt really uncommitted. He had a really good second shot in the 13 and

And then, yeah, I mean, he was just, you know, he kind of he was right there, man. I mean, he hit him. He hit an awesome shot, you know, 15. I wanted a little bit better from him on 15 in there. He kind of he was up above that bunker. Good birdie there. And then 16, he like he played the par threes really, really well for the most part today. I thought that the shot that he hit into four today was exceptional. Didn't make the putt.

Made a birdie on six, which was one of the better birdies all day. And then hit an absolute seed into 16. And I wish he could have given that a better run, that putt. He went long with a green on 16. He was on the back fringe. He was on the back fringe. He hit a 12-footer. Yeah, like a putt through the overseed. That was a tough putt. I'll say this about Ludwig. I'm going to count this as a top five. He finished seventh. This was a top five performance. Triple on 18. Kind of throw that out.

I would say definitely top tens, top fives, top eights at Augusta. Not even in question for me, for Ludwig. That just seems like standard. And when it syncs up, it's going to happen, right? No, that I'm not willing to say out loud yet. That's where I'm like, well, let's just not crown him too early here. He's got some questions still to answer. It's his second Masters. Got all the time in the world. Just not too early of a crowning to say. Ludwig's in contention so often, it just seems like he hits the gas early

and goes and gets it infrequently for how often he's in contention. And that's something that I'm just, we're just monitoring. He's young and we could look back in the next 20, he could win five times in the next 20 starts. And that can, you know, that can, that question will be answered, but that question has not been answered just yet. And I think that's just awesome. It's been a weird year, I think, for him. It's been, you know, obviously he played well at the Genesis, but I think overall, like,

It doesn't seem like he's had his best stuff and he's kind of learned how to be gritty and grind through it. He certainly didn't have his best stuff this week. So I think when he syncs it up, like watch out because I think he's going to go on a sustained prolonged run. But it's also worth noting like somebody like like P like Rose is

And I would, I would put definitely put Ludwig in this category of like having an Augusta course fit is one of the great assets you can have for your career. Look at somebody just a very accomplished player, but like Justin Thomas, like never plays this tournament. Well, like never. And like Ludwig shows up and he's right there immediately. It's like a great, great sign. Yeah. Yeah.

That's been noodling in my brain. If you're not a good course fit at Augusta, I feel like that's almost disqualifying as being one of the best of... I don't know. It just puts you a tier below... Who's the all-time historic worst course? I was going to say, Trevino's the all-time most out of balance with his legacy versus his... I think he had a good finish, he just never won, right?

He had six majors. Ernie was close, but obviously never got it done. It just feels like it's a course, obviously, that the guys see every year. It's the only major championship that they see every year. I don't know. The way I would equate it to any other sport, like a quarterback,

can you just throw a certain defense at a quarterback and they can't handle it? Or, you know, Hey, can you go double Jokic? And he does. I don't, I don't know. It's like, if you're actually that good of a golfer, you should be able to, to figure out Augusta. I totally agree. Big, the biggest compliment I can pay Ludwig TC is, is purely eye test.

I continue to just love his presence. Like, that's what shines through to me. The way he carries himself is so impressive. Yeah. I take it back on the Trevino front. Only finished in the top 10 twice. And 20 starts. Yeah. That's crazy. I didn't realize it was that bad. He won two of every other major. So, yeah. I mean, it was a different era at Augusta. Probably a little...

The race was not nothing in that time period. For sure. Johnny never won there either, right? He never won a Masters. What was his record? What's Rory going to serve next year? I think Rory... Augusta's got one of the best wine sellers in the world. Supposedly, there's a bottle of Bordeaux. It was Thomas Jefferson's bottle. Come Rory out.

I'm grabbing that bottle. Give me Thomas. I think Eisenhower had this bottle and all that. Give me that bottle. They'll send you the bill for that too. That's not on the house. Honestly, dude, the bill is like

they, you saw, you want to talk about dollar cost averaging? You get it at cost. You get it. They send their sum out every year with, I don't know, five, $10 million to all the first growth and, and, you know, premier spots over in France and elsewhere. And I mean, they, they, they literally just keep it pegged to inflation. They don't keep like, it's, it's the craziest costing I've ever seen on that, that, uh, that's a wine list. So Johnny Miller, three runners up, uh,

Can I get on the leaderboard? Yeah. You better start with somebody at T8. You gotta hate it to him. The biggest disappointment of the week, Zach Johnson. I mean, dude. T8 minus five. I'll just salute that, man. Five under par. He finished sixth back of Rory as he won his first green jacket. So 66-71 on the weekend. Hell yeah, man.

I don't know where else this is going to... He raided the patrons last year and told them to fuck off. That was sick also. I respect that. He should be banned for life. The Biostare...

I don't know where else this is going to fit into the show other than the way the scoring works at Augusta. I've hinted this already of how you're almost never out of it. I don't know how to describe this, but the way the scoring works and how you can play your way back into this tournament almost when it seems like you're completely gone is like...

number 85 on the list of why this is the greatest golf tournament in the world and it just it's so sick like it is awesome that one a player that can hit that that short uh can like beat he almost beat bryson which is like truly incredible he made the cut on the number like and and sally to that point too like it's almost like rally scoring or like tilt a little bit

Yeah. Like our toe came. We're like, you like, you can get over aggressive and get caught with your hand in the cookie jar so fast. And then you're back to square one. It's like, you know, no, like you're going to jail and you got to give up 200 bucks to come back. You know, it's crazy as, as you go through this TC, it's crazy how reliably once the cut gets made, some weird stuff happens Thursday, Friday, some guys miss the cut, whatever. It's just, it's so crazy. The leaderboard gravity of like how, how,

The top 20 players in the world end up in the top 20. Just like there were three guys in here that I was like scrolling through. I was like, God, Xander T8. Holy shit. Like John Robb, of course. Spieth, of course. Like, it's just it's crazy how they all just kind of eventually settle in, you know, in those those good Wikipedia spots.

Uh, Jason day T eight. Great. We can, a T eight 70, 70, 71, 72, uh, you know, faded a little bit around three and four, but I think Jason day is going to win another major and, and I don't know where it's going to happen. Um, but I think his, he's just, he played such tidy golf this week.

And I think he's looking great doing it, too. The Malbon stuff, it's just freaking working, man. It kind of threw out the whole like, hey, look at all this attention over here. No, I'm just going to show up and I'm going to look good and fresh and clean and all that. So,

This is a night full of you got to hand it to him on a lot of different fronts in that top 10. No, but he's playing great golf. And I think, you know, I think a place like Oakmont or Port Rush is going to suit him really well. And Corey Connors. He's on the Jason Day front, too. I wonder if he's.

I don't know. He doesn't get as much run as Rory. So I feel like we don't get as many interviews and get as many questions and whatever, but like his game must have evolved in a massive way, like a massively similar way. Right. Like he was such a power player who just made so many putts, you know, and like he, he has to have reinvented himself a little bit over the last decade, you know, and it's, it's interesting to see those guys.

Sorry, Connors, as you've labeled him before. God, his putter was terrible. Borey Connors. TC, I want to congratulate you personally on the missed one-footer. I never won. I know that was how we knew it was going to be a day today.

Listen, I want to give a shout out to this lady, Nancy, up in Western Prince Edward Island. That was a sick email. She keeps sending me emails, really, really nasty emails. She called me a fucking moron last night. That was sick. I don't know. I got to hear both sides. I think she's like the president of the tourism board in Western. Like, she's like a, you know, reputable figure up there. She's like, you're a typical American. Like, you're a piece of shit, all this stuff. Like, whoa, Nancy. And I emailed her today. And I was like, Nancy.

easy on the Chardonnay. How are we feeling today? She's like, no, I'm a Sauvignon Blanc. It's not Chardonnay. She's going to be apologizing. Corey Connors did exactly, exactly what we thought Corey Connors was going to do. Play really well this week, not make any putts on the weekend, and finish top 10. It was preordained. Remember him for your master's pool next year. Kind of a group C, group D type of...

of selection. It's a no-brainer. The guy does flush it. It's very nice to watch. It's crazy, though. The thing that I just kept thinking watching Corey Connors was like, he is so close, but yet there is a Pacific Ocean-sized gulf between him actually competing and winning a Masters. I mean, Randy, would you... Alright, if you had to pick between Corey Connors and Tommy Fleetwood, who would you pick? Tommy Lee Fleetwood.

dc i think i think they're more similar than you might like to think oh no no can i tell you how hard i was laughing at the time i made this one from uh no country for old bed the other tommy lee westwood uh really really made me laugh speaking of tommy can we can we bring up the the uh the frankie fleetwood god that was awesome

i mean i hate practicing nobody on the ninth team oh uh play it now if you're ready uh frank and flea this is with sky sports earlier so i just want to make sure we're good though this next shot on the ninth team well i've been doing my hardest to get it over the green i've been practicing as hard as i can just not reaching it this year but i'm just trying the hardest

You've got this, Frankie. You're going to hit this. Oh, my God. Heart melter. Fingers does.

The facial expressions in that interview were so awesome. Try my hottest. And Tommy. Tommy's trying his hardest too, guys. Fucking lay off of him. We need to play that if Tommy dunks one of the water in a key spot in the majors. Couldn't hit it over this year, but I'm working my hardest. Try my hottest. Well, I mean, Frankie was like Frankie had just been born when we were in Abu Dhabi with him in

you know similar age to freddie my son i don't know it's tommy's the best man like and tommy was waiting there like you can shit on that all you want but tommy was waiting we're not ever afterwards we're shitting on you always clarify holy shit i got you always clarify yeah it's never about tommy couldn't be much of a bigger tommy fleetwood fan i hope he wins eight majors honestly

Speaking of flushing, Corey Connors is a flusher. H-E, 68 today.

Shot 284 this week. Four under. H-E. Exempt into next year. Somebody's had some injury and some dips in world ranking and all that stuff. It's got to be nice to walk off and know you're exempt for next year. Speaking of which. Speaking of. Yeah. Except for next year. Made a sweat into this year. Max Holma T12. Where are the haters at? With a double on 17, too. It could have been.

Could have been better and came in fighting it, a new caddy, all that stuff. And I mean, Max should have been probably T seven. He doesn't make that double there late. So immensely proud of him. I think there's good things in the off thing and he's not full of shit when he says he's, he's hitting it. Well, he's flushing it. Like he, like some of the shots on the back nine today, some of those irons, like,

fearless swings of you know what like go get it hopefully somebody picked up on our on the ground reporting from sunday when we first person we see was him on the ground he just walked off the ninth green and he uh said he missed an eight footer on nine to shoot 28 uh on the front hopefully somebody got a top 20 action uh leave in the comments if you did uh bubba t14 i think i think he got it handed to him did not see that one coming

Yeah, you got to hand it to him. Bubba, a really interesting group at T14. Bubba, Rahm, Spieth, Hatton, McCarty, Hoagie, and Morikawa. Where is the cutoff for you guys for like, it's the Masters, it's a limited field, this finish is not as impressive as it sounds? Because T14 is where I'd flag right here. It's like a T30. I'm 68 on a pretty tough golf course today.

Yeah, I look at McCarty. Shout out TC. I know I gave him a drive-by, I think, on Friday, maybe. His T14, super impressive. Some of the others, Colin, even Jort. That does nothing for me. That's my point. Colin should be embarrassed. 72-69, 72-72. You guys should on...

you know, a Sung J or Tommy or whatever, like Morikawa's played some of the best golf in the world this year. And just, I don't know. It's just, it's just not there. And I, like, I want to see more and,

Like I want to see Colin win Oakmont. That's what I want to see. I'm going to put my finger in his chest and I'll say, I want to see you win Oakmont. You're a, you're a premium iron player. You are the, the biggest Dick iron player in the world. I want to see you win at Oakmont. Isn't Oakmont going to be bombers delight? Like without the trees, uh,

i think they're gonna grow i don't know the rough i'm sure it'll be but you say as soon as you say they're gonna grow the wrap up that only plays into that right like i feel like bryce in it i know it's yeah that'd be three three us opens in this decade but i don't know man it doesn't versus and i guess it's a commentary on speed that i'm gonna like pat him on the head and be like oh t14 for speed like hell yeah brother

Like, we're back. Yeah, same kind of thing. I mean, it's like, you know, it's great. We'd rather have that than missing the cut. But, you know, hopefully he found something. He must have. He's five under on the weekend. He must have got a lot of mud balls in the fairway this week because he was minus 1.33 average on stroke-scan approach, which is the worst of anybody in the top. God, that might have been worse than anybody that made the cut. Like, he was... Yeah, that's worse than anybody that made the cut. Hatton? I think Hatton, like...

Do you think Hatton wins a major? No. I'm going to say no. I think it would be way more fun to be on the side of no for this one. Yeah. Doesn't strike me as having the temperament.

Kind of feel like he had a bit of a window there for a while where it wouldn't have scared me, but I don't know if we're going in the right direction. Guys, just back on Spieth. He's got two wins in the last seven plus years on tour. What are we doing? They called me a bad guy when I pointed that out. Can we put a bony finger in Spieth's chest? Is Spieth and Hoagie the same player these days?

Back on Hatton, Hatton's got one top five in 38 majors. Six top tens in 38 majors. He's only got 13 top 25s. Get out. I mean, that's five more than the Blowpig. Blowpig's won a major. Still. Yeah, the Blowpig hasn't validated his major. What else we got? Yeah, Hoagie. We got to give a shout out to him.

And then we've got, you know, T21 group, Matsuyama, Davis, Riley, Riley Davis, Fleetwood. I know Fleetwood broke some hearts down the stretch with a,

bogey on 15 to kind of take him out of the running for a top 20. That crushed a lot of top 20 accumulators. DB Straight vibing was vibing pretty hard today for a little bit. I think I'm buying. I continue to buy up stock. Dollar cost averaging solid on DB Straight vibing. Ben Ahn

Pretty good final three rounds. Hovland completely spit the bit. 73-73 on the weekend. Hate it. Will you? Yeah, listen, I'll apologize. Neither leg of the Scandinavian Supernova play hit. Stolle, any apologies to TI83? Absolutely not. T27 is very hardcore for him to compete on. He did not compete on it. I apologize for nothing that was said there.

He beat the likes of Sawhith Tagala, Joaquin Neiman. I'm off Sawhith right now. JT, the Pat. Randy, I know you're amped that Neiman's still looking for that first top 10. Yeah, like, hey, does Mickelson want to apologize? You want to come in here, dog? You want to apologize for anything?

I mean, get out. You're just not serious. You're just not serious. You're just not serious to go win an open championship. Just do that. Matt McNeely, T32, I was expecting a little bit better from him. Sahith continues to confound me. I'm officially worried about Sahith.

Rasmus, T32, Max Grazerman, good debut from him, I would say. Harmon made the cut despite a 71-71, 77-71. Cantlay, just too many Delta commitments this week. What else we got? You know, going back to that earlier discussion, I think Cantlay's kind of low-key under the microscope, too. Yeah. Yeah.

And that's where, Randy, I think we get to those age-old truths of the only thing worse than criticism is people just not talking about you. Exactly. You know, and I think that's kind of where we're at with it. I think Randy might start buying up some of those. Was it Apollo or BlackRock that was doing the death? They were doing the death stuff.

The death stuff. Sure, they're both in it now. The death stuff. Shorting debt. Yeah, they were basically shorting people's... They were doing all sorts of life insurance stuff. Life insurance policies or something. Shane Lowry, 81 today, after getting really, really bitchy.

I thought that was kind of fair. I kind of rode with Shane a little bit on that. Did you watch the whole thing? I did. I did. Yeah. That was, that was very much like, you know, like, yeah, like some of you guys do need to be asking better questions. Yeah. And his, if you missed it, he was doing media and I think he got a couple of questions about Rory and he basically said like, look guys, I'm not going to just sit here and answer questions about Rory for 15 minutes. Like I'm trying to win the golf tournament too, because he was still very much in it. Uh, and then, uh,

you know, a couple other questions. He basically like,

he kind of quoted all the Colin stuff and he was like, look, listen, I love talking to the media. It's all good. Uh, but I am thinking like we should probably have 30 minutes because I just finished bogey bogey. I'm super mad. I probably already said something stupid and now I'm just going to keep saying stupid things. And he's like, actually, you know what? I think I'm good. Thank you guys. We'll see you tomorrow. And then he walked away and I was like, yeah, props to him for showing up. Yeah. Talk us through his process. Uh, then he did shoot 81 today. Unfortunately. Yeah.

Randy, a couple of guys that are on notice for me. The Blow Pig. Sure. T46. Sam Burns as well. I think it's time for Sam Burns to kind of let's shit or get off the pot. Those are two guys for me that are like, all right, you guys can feed on PGA Tour setups and all that, but...

Let's see it in a major. Proper G. Yeah, some G. Nico Echevarria shot 84 today after his 69 yesterday. I missed that. He's a Jacksonville guy. I don't want to drive by him. You know who finished DFL? The guys who made the cut? Two guys did. Two guys did. T for DFL. D's FL.

I'm going to guess Tom Kim. He did. Yeah, 79 today. Hate that. Hate that. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. So anyway, that's the Donald leaderboard. I also do want to give a shout out again to Nick Dunlap for not mailing it in on Friday. That was one of the most Herculean things I've seen in quite a while. Koala Carl, we'll see what happens there with the whole thing.

breaking, you know, the girlfriend was scrubbed from Dunlap's socials and all of that. She's bad news. Both of them need to stay away from her. I missed that. Past the two hour mark is the best part of the major spots. I'm going to whip this around. Some updates here. We did me, TC, and Randy

Did a little pre-tournament, 11 bets head-to-head of different guys. Oh, God. I forgot about that. This year? I hit 7 of 11. Randy hit 7 of 11. TC hit 6 of 11. Wow. Lowry, the Lowry one really flipped. Lowry was up 8 on Hideki going into today and did not beat him. So that one hurt me a little bit. Okay.

The winner's draft that we did this year, KBV had Rory to win the BMW Championship, so he gets a point or two points. I forget how the system works, but he gets something for that. TC had Scotty Scheffler to win this week back at the beginning. And I will say for the Pro Golf Fantasy Draft that me... On the draft, I had Scotty to win. Correct. The winner's draft. Yeah, the winner's draft. I had Ludvig, I believe, to win.

Yeah. No, you picked Hovland to win this week because you changed it from Ludwig. You did have a Ludwig, but then he changed it after the graphics were built. It picked Hovland. So around Bay Hill last year, we did a, a pro golf fantasy draft that we did. It made up a point system, me, Neil and TC, uh,

You get to keep guys for six years. The next six years, how many points you're going to get? You guys let me get Scotty, Rory, Xander, and Bryson, which means I've won all five of the majors since we started that one. So early. We're so early. I got the horse in the back. So, yeah, those are the updates. If you left a comment on our happy hour,

I think it was our happy hour. It was our preview. It was the happy hour or one of the two. If you have to comment, making a bunch of picks, I said, whoever gets the most picks, right. It gets a gift card.

You're going to have to do your own research on this one. If you got like 10 out of 11, alert me to it. Email me something. I'll go back and flip through some of them. I'm not going to comb through all of them. But if you think you won, anybody that emails in the answer of like, yeah, I got nine out of 11 or whatever. Whoever claims the best score that gets verified is going to win a gift card. Yes. I just want to confirm. Once you tell us, we will verify it. That's going to verify. Yes, of course. I will verify it. But you got to come to the prize first. Yeah.

Must be present to win. Anything we want to empty the chamber on, anything we want to kind of... I got some parting thoughts. Yeah, DJ, there were some John Legend appearances this week. Yeah, I feel like I've said everything I need to say about John Legend. Russell Wilson launched a golf brand this week. Good man, golf. Randy, I know he's your guy.

uh noah you know noah noah khan or kahan or khan he he did a rendition of uh georgia georgia yeah i covered that in the back nine a couple weeks ago people were just mad as hell about that i think they brought in john legend to kind of stabilize the the uh stabilize the formula a little bit which is probably a good move by them yeah

I got a couple of call outs real quick, Sully. Not to go full Amsterdam here, but it appears that the tracers were a little off on CBS's package. Tracers were not abundant. They were missing at some pretty key times. And are you saying they were off like on the actual illustrations? No, they're MIA.

Yeah, they were missing some tracers out there, I thought. And they have a little tendency. I don't know if it's a Gusta thing or CBS thing. They have a tendency to give you a really bad camera angle on some of the most key shots. Like, I just need a tracer on 12, and they never do tracer on 12. And some key moments, like, they go away from the tracer, which I don't like. But I will say, I thought CBS captured the drama of today 10 out of 10. Like, they were all over every moment. Except for IBF.

calling him Ludwig Iceberg. Yeah, I know. I stand with that. I actually was like, oh, that's cool. I got to write that down. And then he went bogey triple after that. I thought they covered the Rory stuff magnificently. Titanic. The wedge into 13. They were all over just roasting him on that. Trevor, like all over the putt. This putt does not break left. And sure enough, Rory misses it right. They just think and the the

Like the enormity of the shot into 15 was captured really well. 17, that shot in there. It was really, really good. The whole walk, Rory's walk from five minutes of silence. They probably could have. On the Trevor front. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. I was just going to say on the Trevor front. I mean, I think this is his third year doing it. And it seems like he's been doing it for 15 years.

And I hope he does it for another 50. Like he is the goat already at like adding value, adding perspective, doing the research. Like he's just he's awesome. Again, for a guy to who like absolutely could be playing in this tournament. Yeah. So if you wanted to. And it's like, nope, I like this. He's got the orthotic feet, of course. But I mean, he absolutely could.

He should wear the green jacket during the broadcast, I think. That's your call. I had three parting thoughts, if you'll allow it. I was struck this week...

How Augusta can deliver an experience to such a wide variety of fans, like both like within let's just take within factions of golf fans like architecture nerds and strategy nerds and shot value nerds that I would put myself in that category. This is like 10 out of 10 week. Just absolutely geek the fuck out.

The golf fan that just likes it green and pretty stuff, this is the greatest week of the year. A casual sports fan, if you're going to watch golf, it's going to be this one. Sports fans in general, even if you're not a golf fan, you're going to want to flip this on and get it.

moms grandmoms like aunts uncles like the the family aspect tie into like the fact that just such a bucket list like experience to go see in person one and be there and two just to watch on television like i'm it might be an obvious take but i was just that was a big takeaway for me of like they literally hit like every they hit everything that's it's not perfect like there's some syrupy stuff that i think is you know does it kind of can rub me the wrong way at times but like

Dude, it delivers. It's like the greatest thing we have in the golf world in terms of a tournament. That's one.

Don't want this to get in the way of conversation during the course of the week and enjoying it. It's completely fucking ridiculous that they lengthened 14 of the 18th hole, 18 holes, moved a road, bought a hole from an adjacent golf course and Roy and Bryson still blow it over bunkers and hit wedges and mid iron wedges into par fours and mid irons and par fives. Totally lost the plot on technology. Don't know how that doesn't stick out to everybody. Again, I don't want to spend the whole week harping on that, but like,

it's a joke. It's a complete joke that it's gotten to this far and it's only going to continue to get worse. I know the rollback is coming, but shout out to Augusta for, for being with the adult in the room on that with the USGA. I think the Augusta USGA ties are stronger than they've ever been. Like there's a green jacket on one of the USGA or like the USGA executive committee. I'm gory now. And I don't know. I just think there's,

Props to Augusta for being the bulwark against all the bullshit. Yeah, that's not me ripping on them for lengthening the holes. It's like ripping the technology management over the last 25 years. And lastly,

This is going to be a hard one to get through without you guys calling me super H on this one. It was a cool week at Augusta. So, like, sweaters, pants, this is not a super H comment. I want to compliment the ladies that attended the Masters this year. Some of the classiest and greatest styles I've seen. Awesome hats.

plaids, crispy sweaters. Everybody was just out there flying. It was fantastic. I salute you. I tip my cap to the style of the women that were attending the Masters because it was 10 out of 10.

I appreciate sharing that. Yeah, that's great on the ground insight. Hey, a couple things because you were there in person. Obviously, it got torn apart by a really bad storm. How do you think the course played? How do you think the telecast showed off? We mentioned a couple times them close to showing a couple angles that they weren't supposed to. But overall, what were your guys' thoughts? I thought it played better than ever.

And I thought some of the, some of the tree loss was a, was a net gain. Um, I'd say all of it was honestly, I mean, for a tournament, like a course like this, that is so, uh,

most of the experience on the course is about the in-person fan experience. Like you do want trees out there for shade when it gets to be 85 degrees. But like, other than that, they don't need the trees. Like the didn't need the tree behind 11. The trees being gone by 15 are great. Thinned out left of 10 is great. Like you can just see a little bit more of the golf course. It flows a lot better. I think they should shave that entire bank left of 10.

Cool. If you want to miss 10 left, you're going to be 70 yards down the hill. You're going to be in the woods. You're going to be backed by 11T. No, I thought it was great. I don't care that you can see Augusta Country Club. I'm sure that they'll have that part fixed in advance of next year, but I don't think it matters that you can. It'd be a silly thing to worry about. I think 13 played better this year than it did last year. It seemed like there was more...

you know, I, I think if it, if they hadn't have lengthened it, Rory's probably hitting a towering driver. Yeah. Left. And he's in it and either, you know, hitting a mindless pitch out or, or even being able to get there regardless of whether he's in the pine straw or not, you know, whereas I feel like, I feel like it actually brought drama back. So almost like a mea culpa there of, Hey, like I, you know, I was a little bit harsh on it last year of,

Like it made it more of one note, but I think they didn't get that wind direction that made 13 and 15 into the wind, which they did get last year, which made the holes kind of dull. Like they didn't get that severity, which like, should there be more optionality on maybe a couple of holes as far as tee boxes go? Yeah, probably. That is a flaw to Augusta. Yeah. But also like, and like even, I don't know, I think, I think the coolest thing about Augusta is the fact that holds like three holes.

you know, regardless of technology and all of that, the more technology gets out of control, the cooler three gets. TC, you're going to freaking love this. Today, three ended up being the sixth hardest hole, but it was like the third hardest hole at one point. It averaged over par today at 350 yards. Yeah.

That pin's so gross. And I think we're getting to the point, too, same thing with nine. And I wish they would bring back a little bit more of that boomerang craziness to that green with the original, you know, kind of iteration there. But, like, Geiser and Ludwig had 78 or 80 yards in there today. And that's a terrifying little shot in there, especially with where the pin is today. Just, hey, you got to worry about that slope. And then when the pin goes back, you got to worry about that.

going long it's like i love nine i think i think nine is is is is going to be a grower over the next couple years as they realize kind of what they've got there randy one big change today you're being our resident funnel pin expert what'd you think of 16. um

Yeah, I didn't end up maybe loving the new pin as much as I thought I would when I saw the pin sheet this morning. I was glad for a little mix-up, but yeah, I guess, I don't know. Take it or leave it. Yeah, I thought it was fine. I thought the golf course played awesome, honestly. I mean, it was a really, really good setup.

I mean, for not getting very much wind, it was not a turkey shoot out there. Yeah. If you were to nominate a hole you think is likely to be lengthened, I mean, they quietly lengthened some stuff almost on a year-to-year basis. There was no new tees this year, I don't think. But what would come to mind? Because it might be nine for me. I don't know if there's space to do that. But just like Roy bombing it over all the trouble and just laying at the bottom of the hill kind of felt like a little cheap, but...

We can dig on that. That's where I think that green, you almost make that green a little bit... You just make it a little bit more shallow or a little bit more narrow. I think that gets interesting. Yeah, but I mean, Sal, to your point, that was pretty benign conditions overall as far as wind goes. I feel like every other major we're rooting for wind. Like, oh man, if there's no wind, we're fucked. It's going to be a turkey shoot. And this place...

I think the wind coming along Thursday and Friday to kind of dry things out was good, but that was as benign as it probably could have been from a wind perspective, and it was spectacular Saturday and Sunday. So, I mean, are they doing something behind 12 to make it, like, A, there's an arm that's just forcing balls out of the bushes there, but also...

just like making it really really hard to get up and down from back there like i don't know if it's the way they're mowing stuff or can't be that hard i got up down from back there i mean it can't be that hard but you got up enough in the bunker you're not saying from the even harder the grass uh i couldn't left they don't they don't let anybody uh pass there i did not see anything different different back there um it didn't didn't notice a whole a whole lot um to the eye test but

All right. We're closing in on two and a half hours. Any final parting thoughts here before we end up back at Rory and his legacy? Because I think if we keep going, we'll probably end up back there. I think good week from Adidas. I thought the Adidas guys looked sharp.

People were shitting on Ludwig's pleated pants, but I thought the overall fit, Randy and I were talking about that today, the overall fit was pretty close. Nike, I thought, was just spit the bit this week. Really, really uninspired. A lot of weird browns and just bad tailoring, I think.

The fireballs continue to slap. I'll stand with you. I'll stand proudly on that block with you, the Sergio look. And then we got to get rid of the pimento hats.

And the Skip It hats. Skip It, Pimento. That shit is over, man. When the tweets were really fly, I forget who said this, somebody was like, I'm surprised Rory didn't skip it off the pond on 16. That got me good. The flood of emotions from 13 to 15, that one got me really good.

I don't know. Great week, man. Awesome. I mean, this is easily a record for most live viewers we've ever had during a single show. It probably doubles any other live major show. I think when Rom left for Live, I think it was the first time we cracked 10,000 live people watching the show. I think I saw it creep about... This is a better moment for golf. Yeah, this is...

I mean, this is truly like a, gosh, I mean, the chase for the Grand Slam has been going on for as long as we've been doing this. And pretty remarkable moments to cover. Remarkable to have been there this past week. And guess what? We got more to come. Because I think whatever Neil and KVV have cooking up is going to be freaking awesome. So you can expect that on Tuesday. And I think it got a whole heck of a lot better based on what happened out there today. So.

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One more housekeeping thing. Strap trailer this week. Look out for that. So many people came up to us on the grounds and just didn't even say hi. Just like, hey, we need a strap. Got to have a strap. When's it coming? Coming. Watching Neil hit him with a date was like, and watching their faces, like, really? Really? It's coming? Out of respect for Mr. Palmer's green jackets, we didn't want to drop it this week. But yeah, look for that this coming week.

If you like this content, guess what? We're going to be back Wednesday. Honestly, there's a lot to unpack. For sure. It's always fun to sit after Major for a couple days. I'm always a little bit jealous. Yeah, and I think that's the thing. I think Rory's been such a

I don't know, everything kind of run in parallel. And he, like, he was really important to this podcast coming up. He kind of gave us, lent us credibility and came on and said, Hey, you know, you guys are doing cool stuff and I support you guys. And so I think we're, you know, bits aside and everything. I think we're all like, we're all always indebted to him for what he's lent to us as far as just support, professional credibility and peace of mind a little bit too. Not to mention all the, all the, all the entertainment, you know,

Like through the years. So yeah, like really well off the Rory stuff, like legitimately very, very, very, I don't know if, if, if there'll be another event in my lifetime where I'm this happy for a person max aside, maybe that I'm actually like this happy for the actual person because guys been through a heck of a lot. And, and he, he's, he deserves to be, to have this legacy.

level of stature in the game and uh it's a very human win yeah absolute thrill to cover and shout to cody for of course running all the ones and twos for many many many live shows this week appreciate high noon standing up these live shows whether or not uh rory mcelroy is winning the major or insert who that's not as good of a storyline that i don't feel like defending uh the drive by on at this exact moment solid before you go to complete wrap i do have one thing uh

DJ brought in, yes, strapped announcement. Be on the lookout for the trailer this week. We'll talk about when that's actually going to publish later on. But the next major championship, if people are in a hankin' for more major championship golf, the PGA Championship in Charlotte,

Thursday, round one live show. We will be live. It's the first time ever that No Laying Up is taking the live show on the road to a studio audience. We're going to be at Platform Sports in Charlotte,

Open to anybody. Okay. I think the doors are going to open at four. You can come by. We're going to be watching in person block party, a true in person block party. We're going to kick off the PGA championship in style as we watch you. Who knows? Roy might put the second leg of the grand slam together. Who knows? But we're going to be there live in person. If people are in the Carolinas or traveling in, make sure you put that on the agenda. We're very excited about it. And that's kind of the next big thing.

that we're reaching forward to on the live show side. That's going to be awesome. Can't wait. That's going to be fantastic. Shout out, of course, the Titleist, as well as the Stack, Yeti, ServPro, The Nest, everybody. Shout out to everybody that tuned in all week. Shout out to the DJs, personal, you know, like the...

physician, whoever he's seeing up in Milwaukee for nursing him back to life. Who gave me no medicine and just said come back in two weeks if you're still coughing. Also, congratulations to your brother. And your brother got married. What a lovely ceremony. What a lovely day yesterday. Panther Mike.

Yeah, everybody, everyone. And, and all the people, of course, that tune into every single live show, listen to the podcast, leave such great reviews and keep us going two and a half hours into this thing. There's 14,000 people. I'll tell you, tell a friend and sincere, sincere thanks to everybody that came up and said hello on the grounds at Augusta. It seems like that happens there more than any other place. And it,

is honestly just always a great refresher. I mean, the numbers are the numbers, but like to meet the people and to talk with you guys for a little bit is, is what makes it feel all that more real. So can I, can I close it out? Please.

whoever is meant to win will win. I believe is whoever's meant to win is meant to win. And that was Tara who gave us that cart ride. I've been thinking about it all week, my man. She was spot on. She couldn't have been more right. We're never spoken. She could not have been more right. So that's it. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Uh, we'll be back on Wednesday for happy hour. It might be just hung over our, uh, my party continues. Crack on. We rock.

I want it.