1146: Neil Played Augusta National

Music Be the right club, be the right club today. Music Now that's better than most. How about him? That is better than most, better than most. Music Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to an extremely, extremely special episode of the No Laying Up podcast. Solly here joined by a couple co-hosts and a guest today who is going to take us through something. I don't know if I've ever been more like anxious and nervous for a podcast. DJ Pi is here with me. Hello, DJ. Hello, Solly. I, yeah, let's just get into it. Good to be here. Big Randy is here. The only remaining strap boy. Hello, Big Randy. Hi guys. Hi guys. Playing Cyprus last year. What are we talking about? And the man of the hour, Mr. Icarito, Neil Schuster. What are you going to be telling us about today, Neil? Oh man, I played a GUSTA National golf club. I played golf out there yesterday. Hit the shots, gentlemen. Absolutely hit the shots. Fantastic day. It was awesome. It was hot. It was a battle. I think we rocked them though, but I'm going to say we absolutely rocked them. For the listeners' sake, we have zero details as we are about to break this down with Neil. We are in the exact same spot that you are in. We have no idea what he shot. I'm now inclined to believe he played well based on that statement, but I don't know anything of any one single shot. This is all going to be news to us as it is news to you. It kind of makes me, you know, I just said before we went live, like, you know, walking you through my fantasy baseball lineup or something, you know, it's like, I'm going to walk you. If you're not into this, I'm going to walk you through the shots. Okay, get out now. Yesterday, my phone, I think I came back to like 100 and something messages. Shout out to people or like they want to know what you shoot, how to go. It felt like has Justine landed yet. You remember that? You know, it was a lot of us like, well, you know, and I open up any social app. It's just like messages. I'm like, okay, I just, we're going to just lay it all out right here. There's very few people, Neil. I saw, I would say this about your trip around Augusta a couple years ago as well, but there, there's very few people that I would be like, man, we're not even in the clubhouse having a beer. Like I, I'm not going to hop on the phone to hear about this round. This one, I think is, I'm almost more excited for this than I would be if I had played the course myself. I just, I can't, I can't wait. I know it's a course that all of us know so well. I'm going to know every shot that you're talking about. And I just, I'm titillated already going in. I just, I can't wait. I can't wait. Well, if you're not already aware of the episode, this episode and all episodes of the no-lengar podcast are brought to you by our friends at tidalists. 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No patrons are cleared out. You see all the remnants of the golf course of the championships that was just decided less than 24 hours prior. You enter it. Nobody knows how many people enter or what the actual odds of winning are. I would say there's somewhere around 10% would be my guess. The odds of getting your name pulled. This was Neil's second time entering the lottery. He entered it on the Wednesday and take us to, to finding out that you were playing for those that didn't hear the story on the live show and kind of what the, what the buildup was like. Yeah, it's, it's a very, it's like everything. You know, you got to print out your, your press credential on paper. I was number 57. You know, you tear a lottery ticket, you stick it in a, like a suggestion box. And yeah, I was out on the golf course and I was, I came in pretty frazzled and solid. I know you said like when you walk in from the course, there is a TV that was displaying the names, but it, it had, I hit it just at the time when it said, phones are prohibited in the interview room. You know, and so I walked by and didn't see my name. So Sally, I actually let Carson, my wife know she, you know, she was like, you need to call me. So I called her and, and, or Sally called her actually like it was Cody gave me the phone. I thought something was wrong. She let me know that I was playing Augusta National on Monday. So, you know, I've been, I was, I did a lot of recon, you know, I'm in the Arcos app. I'm looking at like, what are we going to do here? So I had some specific shots. I was looking forward to hitting, but let's just get to a pre round. My tee time was 1230. You are allowed on the property at exactly 1130. No questions asked. I had a nice little sit down. I had a great stretch session. I had a nice little sit down at the waffle house. I then drove up Washington road. So I ended up sitting in a Salvation Army parking lot because I wanted to make a right turn and then a quick left into Magnolia Lane. I didn't want to wait at a light. I know you were in the Christian bookstore. So I went down, you know, kind of scouted out drove past Magnolia Lane took the first left. These are the kinds of things that these champions file away. You know, that's what you call it. I pulled it at exactly 1130 and and was one car ahead of me and it was quick. I had my my invitation physical invitation. These paper, I had it ready to go. The guards waved you through. I mean, it's like they got these pillars like steel pillars that come out of the ground like really fast. They'll just like pop up. I mean, I've never been to the White House, but it kind of felt like that. But in the Salvation Army parking lot, I sat there for about 25 minutes. And I did I just put a little playlist together. I couldn't decide on what song. So I had Megalomaniac by Incubus. Shout out to DJ Kilmore, who was on site. And I just felt like my energy was, you know, I needed I tried to play some jazz like jazz isn't working. Like I need some some juice. I had Heart and a Cage by the Strokes. Sure. Shout out to Spieth. I had JTR by Dave Matthews, the Boulder 2002 live version, which is a pretty good high energy song hysteria by Muse, which was a little too heavy. Yeah. And then Hurricane Season by Trombone Shorty. I'm just cycling through these seeing what I'm feeling. But we settled on Working Man by Rush. It was always a rush. And that's what I played coming down Magnolia Lane. I wanted a blue collar day out there, Randy, five o'clock looking for an ice cold beer. Okay. Because there's nothing going on around here. And yeah, I just it was kind of I wanted to go out and have I wanted to hit some some electric shots and that that song always gets me jacked up to go play. You know, it's pretty heavy. Some people may disagree with that selection, but it made me laugh when I rolled up to the clubhouse. Hey, the Magnolias, they're they're kind of gnarly, like they're low, they got mangled, like they've been there for 150 years, it looks like they're not like the Magnolias you see out on the course that are very tall and and and why these are a lot like lower slung to the ground. So that that was a surprise. And then I think the member range normally is on either side of Magnolia Lane, they only use the tournament driving range, which we used, I think during the jamboree for the members, which is like in early March. And then for the on what and for the masters. So, and drive chip and butt. So I rolled up I had solid to your advice. I had my golf bag ready to go. Who's ready like just plug and play. We're not we're not messing around at the trunk. We got an hour. Okay, so we were like, give me I got my shoe bag. I'm walking right into the clubhouse up the stairs to the champions locker room. I was locker number seven. Does have any any guesses on whose locker that is. He played this year. I'll tell you that. All a fable. No, Fred couples. No, Mike, we're No, it's VJ Singh and Sam Snead. Sure. He homie Sam. I don't think was using it. So they let me move in. It was over on the left side. When you walk into the champions locker room, you got you get to see the dining room up there where they have the champions dinner. And it's really shock not shocking but really cool like the masters the grounds. Everything feels so big vistas and you know, big hills and you know, even all the like the merch and the Berkman's everything just massive like the brand is just massive you get in the clubhouse it's so cozy it's almost like claustrophobic low ceilings. There's a ton of art on the walls everywhere. So the walls are like cluttered is not the right word but just a lot of collages of pictures everywhere historical stuff. Some funny cartoons in the in the champions bathroom. I went in. I wanted to see where they piss excellence. So I went in there. I grabbed some Advil. I just felt like, yeah, man, I think I could use a couple of shoes. Yeah, I changed my shoes felt kind of like man, I shouldn't be wearing shoes in here on this carpet but you know, creaky stairs coming down this little like half spiral staircase went over the pro shop, get some shopping, got some hats. I was really efficient in the pro shop, got back Randy to the champions locker put it back in me and VJ's locker. And then I shuttled over the range where I met my catty Joseph catty number 69, which I was like, oh my God, we're gonna have a good day. I was vibing really hard with my catty Joe is the man in their nine years local grew up in Augusta younger for an Air Jordan threes had a little swag right reminded me Randy my cousin RC kunk. Okay, which just, you know, which was which was great, you know, kind of kind of sarcastic, but very, very dialed knew the course really well. Learn that, you know, there's three things. There's probably more but three things you can't buy at Augusta ballmarkers, caddy books, yardage books and the caddy hats. So it was very much like he's, you know, I am his vessel he's going to tell me we're going to he's going to work the numbers out and he was nice with it. So I really had a great warm up session. I about 40 let's say 40 minutes to warm up. Hit some wedges felt good about that hit some some seven some eight irons some five irons three wood driver got a pretty good feel with the with the T shots went over, hit a few chips hit a few putts, and then we took it to the first T gentlemen. My group Brentley Roman hold on hold on. Please, please, please. You tell me where you want me to go. I'll give you as much details you want Randy. Sure. You went to awful house in the morning. Did you get to the bathroom? Yeah. What was the body feeling good and clear and loose? Yeah, I had a coffee run through you. I had a couple coffees at the at the rental house. Or I was up early. I was up at like seven, seven 30. You know, so I was probably a little over caffeinated. Hence me listening to working man by rush. But I was able to have I felt really good about my bathroom strategy because I did not want to waste any time on that. But you could you could use the champions locker room for that would have been an honor as well. I'll click a leak in there. I felt like that was, you know, what we needed to do. Yeah. And I mean, shout out shout out to a guy said just floor floor to the full length urinals everywhere, which I always just love a good full length urinal. So that's worth noting anything else, Randy. Did you sense any other tea times people warming up? Was there nervous energy around you? Yes, big time. Okay. Did you feel like you were able to be in your own little world though? I did. I felt like I had a plan. I felt like some other people got, you know, got caught in the in the pro shop, you know, like, I don't know what to get. And I was like, Nope, I know exactly what I'm getting. I'm getting hats because I, I just wanted to have I got some ball markers. I was I had a I had a strategy. I wasn't going to buy ball markers. I thought that was one of the three things. No, well, I had like the different like more they don't the little plastic ones you can't buy. You can buy like coins. You know, poker chips, not poker chips, but larger ball markers and just like the plastic ones that say about a known ball marker. Yeah. No, I didn't do that. Okay. Did you get me a hat? Here. Did you get me a hat? I did. I know you're going to talk about these these markers. I got you. You can't see him. Whatever. Beautiful. Yeah. I know you're going to talk about your group. What? Because I know this was in your head. This was probably in your head since you found out you won the lottery. What is your, what are your goals? What is your target score? What are the exact goals that you're wanting to accomplish? I, I wanted to hit cups with an out while walking through it. I will say I scooped one putt. That's it. And it was a pace situation and it was not egregious, Randy. So I felt I feel like the I accomplished that goal to the best of my abilities because the spiel on the first tee is like, keep up. You know, they're, they're moving some sponsor groups in the morning and you know, you don't want to impact anyone's experiences. A couple choke points out there that we'll get to. I wanted to hit the shots, Randy. That was a big one. I did not want to come in and I thought about it. I was like, oh, you know, there's some smart shots. Like, so it's going to be dictated on like, you know, where are we at? And, you know, are we, are we in the mega B range? Then that's going to maybe dictate what we do on a whole like 12. But regardless, I wanted to hit the shots and I wanted to be in play. So I was very on the range concerned about like, I want to find a tee, like a groove off the tee. So I'm playing from the fairway for the most part. So that was a goal of mine. Honestly, the real goal is I wanted to break 80. I was like, if I break 80, this is my fourth or fifth. I think it's my fourth round of the year, which with, you know, so it was the first round since February. 10th. So almost, yeah, over two months. So, you know, they kind of a big ask. I mean, you know, I'm easy golf course. Yeah. The greens. I mean, it was crazy, crazy hard out there around the greens. So those are those are my goals. But Randy, I was trying not to and I wanted to stay like, I like golf when it's competitive. I similar to you, like I want to hit, I want to know what I shot and I can always, I can now hang my hat on. I know exactly what I shot at the Gusta National. It's a real deal score for me. Can I, let me set the line because I asked everybody on our team to send in their score predictions and we can go through, we kind of locked those in the envelope. We'll go through. I said, send through what you think he's going to shoot and one specific prediction and everybody sent me their stuff. Those, those all averaged out to 81 and a half, which I think is a pretty good line. Okay. So if you're, you know, for the listeners at home, you take it right now over under 81 and a half. I was a good line. I feel like I'm hammering the under based on the way he's talking, where he's feeling. Sure, sure. No, I shot 88, but I had so much fun guys. I have one more stage setting question. You talked about the driving range, but I'm actually more curious about practice putts and your initial reaction to the speed of the practice green and just any first reactions to hitting some putts there. Yeah, terrifying. Candidly, really fast and kind of and grainy like bumpy, like not in a bad like just grainy bumpies the wrong word like oh man like he's not going to get you invited back. No, it's not bumpy, but it's it's like, I mean, like, I'd say half the, I mean, they're almost like 17 look purple. Yeah. I'm just like, right, man. And so that leads to some like, oh, man, like the ball will, it just moves the ball moves and swings in places where you're like that. I kind of fooled by like, whoa, that's a lot more downhill and then the ones that look like they're on a big hill like because of grain, they're not rolling as fast. So there's just like subtle. Do they water him overnight to feel like I didn't feel like they were chewed up from like around the hole. Like around the holes that the from, you know, spikes that felt like they, you know, a lot of foot traffic. So I didn't seem like they'd done much overnight, which is what that's how I want it. I mean, Joe said to me, like, this is as hard as it plays right out. He was like, this place is like turned up to nine or 10 right now. This is he's like, they kind of do it up for the jamboree. But like, I mean, this is it. These pins are this is some this is tough, man. This is tough. He was great. I love Joe. He was great. He's like, let's go have a day, man. It's hard. So who made it the rest of your group? So I had Brent Lee Romine. She's golf writer for golf channel comfy. Like we were, we were vibing. My guy Francisco and Argentinian from golf channel Latin America. Jolly. I got more to come on Francisco, but he was a first time covering the Masters first time lottery winner. How about that? And then Noah was an AP associated press writer, first time at Augusta and first time lottery winner. So a couple of one for ones in the group. And I don't know about Brent Lee. I don't know how many times he's entered, but it wasn't his first first crack at it. And honestly, all everybody was like, I'd say average to above average golfer. So no issues with like, you know, hey, man, you got to pick up like nobody was completely out. A couple, couple X's on the card for, for, I think two of those guys throughout the round, but nothing where it was like, oh man, this guy can't get off the tee, you know, like nothing. No, how, no, how tongue Lee situation. Yeah, no, nothing embarrassing, which was great. So we get to the first tee. A lot of people milling around the Masters comms teams out there love, love those guys and there's probably, you know, 15, 20 people just kind of hanging out people coming from 18. They're there for everybody or they're there to see the czar. No, they're there for all the media members. Sorry, these are, these are, these are green jackets or these are like tournament personnel tournament personnel. Okay. Did you see any jackets? Are there any jackets on property? I did not see any jackets around the first tee, but the starter was a J Weaver, I believe is his name. He's the head pro, PGA professional, longtime PGA professional at Augusta National and, you know, quick spiel about pay. It's mainly pace and like we, you know, guys, the phone policy is pretty simple here. Don't use one. Don't do it. Very like, you know, just don't do it. And then a quick picture of the foursome, which I have here. Oh, that's nice. They printed out for you. Yeah, it was great. I had a nice fit. I like I had a red shirt on red striped shirt, you know, some stone colored slacks, which were very comfortable. And, you know, I was very comfortable in my my quantum's my foot choice. So I was I was it was kind of a built for comfort round. It was hot. So the pants, they are factor late in the day. And then I was like, Oh man, did I wear the right color? Am I going to get a Lucas Glover situation? You know, we didn't. So that at least not that I know of. So I feel like we kept that kept that away. So first tee, I was second guy tee off. Oh, guys, go ahead. Before we before we get to that, I I'm wondering kind of how much just like how much history. What are you thinking about in that moment? Right? Are you thinking about like for the fact that like for over 75 years, like people have been teeing it up right in this spot right now? Or are you thinking about like for more than 75 years, golf pride has been trusted by golfers at every level to deliver grips that perform when it matters most from T to green. It's all about confidence in your hands. 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I hit it into the media center just just left of the old scoreboard. I even got a, uh, that I, uh, why don't we play a provisional from JJ, which, which I learned from Joe is, is a signal for, uh, let's not go hunt for Joe's like, we know we're not going to, we don't go look for it when he, when he calls that out. So, uh, that was tough. Okay. Oh God, I did it. I mean, but Dige, you want to talk about people coming to the show? Yeah. Right. And they want you to play the hits. I mean, I played the motherfucking. Yeah. What's that? I'll California. It was straight up. Okay. You can check out, but you can't ever leave. And I think what happened, I was trying to hit a nice. Jamba juice, you know, little, little smoothie, little peeler. Uh, around the. I get 230 to carry the bunker. No big move. So I just, I did not complete the backswing and, uh, you know, I just muchachioed it. Randy just. Were you nervous? Uh, no, I wasn't like overly nervous. I felt, I felt good. I was like, I'm going to hit a good one here. And I just straight up like quick transition and it was like, Oh God, you did that. Cause a lot of times on the first year I hit, I missed the, you know, I have quick left balls early in rounds. And so, you know, I have that on my, on my mind. So I hit a provisional and guys, I hit an absolute laser guided missile straight down the pipe for, for my third shot. Uh, up the, it landed or it ended up like left, um, left side of the fairway. I was 91. I was no, it was 86 yards in, um, on the left side of the fairway for my, for my shot. Of course you're playing the member T's at Augusta, not the tournament T's. It's about 63 50 or something like that. 63 65. So you're playing the member T's. Um, and what did JJ say about that one? Oh, they loved it. I, you know, it was like, there it is. Like I got some claps for the second one. Yeah. A little charity clap. Uh, sure. And I was like, all right, but solid freed up now. I'm like, you can rally, you know, and I hit the second drive was like, okay, that's how I was hitting on a range. I hit it. Perfect. Like exactly where I wanted to hit it. Uh, so we get up there. I have like 86 in, we put a 91 shot that pin. Is it a pretty inviting spot there? It's like five yards off the right side, kind of middle back in this little swale. And I hit an awesome 58 degree about like 91 yards. Um, it leaked a little bit and, and drifted down like landed on that hill, that backstop drifted down about a foot onto the green on the right. I had a 15 footer up the hill for the mega five. And great putt rolling end over end, brutal lip out like on my 270 degrees around the hole. Oh, you hate that Randy. So we made six at the first tapped in for a six. So I was like, all right, comfy, but a real one to make double. I mean, the most honest six you've ever seen like stroking distance six. I mean, played the second ball was fantastic. My guy Francisco birdie the first. So that was, that was awesome. Yeah. He was, he was a big lad. He had a nice, like he could compress the golf ball, little, uh, you know, a little all over the ballpark, but it was, it was fun to watch. So anyway, we get the two, I'm two over. Hold on, Randy. I would just say remember when we were at a big Cedar lodge and Tiger was hitting that ceremonial opening tee shot and, uh, sniped it into the woods and you and I found the ball. I feel like that ball sitting out there at the national somewhere. There's a, there's a, there's a pro v. There's a pro v two out there. There's a pro v two over by a little cross on it. If I had to guess it's in one of, there's like a little street over there of hospitality cabins, uh, like midway up the first fairway on the right. Uh, anybody, you know, that's going to those hospitality cabins next year, take, take it, just take a peek. It might be around, I bet it's on that cul-de-sac somewhere. So yeah, we get to the second tee. I checked, they, they moved the coolers up. I checked if there's any marks on the coolers from, from Sergio. Couldn't see any, uh, any, uh, any marks from, from his situation on Sunday. Deige, you know, I had this one circled. Yeah. We had this one circled all year. In the act was one of the capital S shots. The shots. Can we hit the shots? Can I bend one? Can I hit what we call the bad boy? Right. I'm a, I'm a fader and faders eat T bones, but, uh, I am trying to bend a bad boy around this corner. Just hit a total dirt in and I'll, I'm too over. I'm freed up, uh, gentlemen. I hit like them just the most gorgeous shot of the decade. Just flotted it and I straight down Broadway turn it, hit the blinker at the corner and we're fucking rolling down the hill, baby. Roll. I mean, the catching legend, uh, the cat is like, I mean, they were loving it. My boy Francisco's in the Delta counter. Brentley's in the milk carton bunker, but daddy's daddy's down Broadway. Okay. Well, I was back. I said, and I think I hit him with a, you like that? You know, I, I, I, a little, little Kurt cousins in my head. I was feeling it coming down to who specifically did you hit that with? What? Who specifically did you hit with that one? Who did you ask? Maybe like that. I was like, we love that. You like that bunker? Enjoy that bunker. No, no, I didn't. I didn't. I wasn't hostile. It was more just fun. Uh, I, I felt really good about that swing. Uh, I had a hundred. So what was the number? Cause it's, it's like what the actual, I probably had 171 into that green. I was about 20 yards up from the crosswalk. Okay. I mean, way, way down there. And, uh, you know, that pins all the way over on the right. And we talked through that shot for a minute because he was like, it's not as down as you think. Um, but I was, I was, we were playing like a 162, 163 shot. I was kind of like, is it eight, nine? I hit nine. Yes. It's downhill lie though. What's the breeze doing? The breeze was, I think. Like, is there much? It was in. And so that's why I was like, should I hit eight? Because the breeze was coming up at me. Same as tournament day. Yeah. So I was like, man, it's like 63. I was like, what's the actual to carry the bunker? It's like 66. And I was like, OK. I mean, that's a pretty heavy nine. So I, and it's downhill lie. I got it a little back of my stance. I hit a really, really well struck, but tugged it, you know, like just a little, and I would say guys, like three yards left of that funnel that where it would take it and go right. Sure. So it stayed up there. One like on the hard, pretty hard bounce right on the back fringe. So top left, like all the way up in the P made eagle from. Yeah. But I'm above the hole. And it was like, welcome to the party, pal. I had to play it through the fringe for about, I don't know, 10, 15 yards to then basically stop it there so it can turn directly right and go down the roller coaster. So we had a spot picked out. I hit a really good putt. Just didn't quite have the juice. So it got down the first part of the roller coaster and then it stayed up. So it was probably about 25 feet straight now, straight down the hill. The next one I hit, like probably a three foot putt. Excellent putt came in like I was probably foot and a half. So three putt, three putt par, you know. So I felt like, hey, that was. The models. Yeah. It's like good. And I would love that nine iron back, but it's like the downhill lie, I got a little back in my stance. Right now early season, I got a real, real problem with the outside to in path, which is going to lead to like the two way miss. It's either going to be that quick, you know, really, really well-struck, but left ball and not like chloroform, but just left or it's going to be that weak, like I early extend and, you know, we miss it right ball. So that's, that's tough at Augusta. You also just been standing on the tee thinking about, I can't wait to hit this massive draw as hard as I can. Yeah. There's maybe a little remnant of that float around. But like I hit the center of the green, I just probably missed the spot by three to five yards. And so we walk away with, with a five there. So how fun is that shot though? Like that shot is so, there's just so much like, you know, you see your three yards away from like maybe having a really good look at Eagle. But then it's like, dude, I got to kind of, I got my work cut out for me. Like a two-putt here would be somewhat miraculous from probably where that ball is coming around that corner on two. That's my favorite, one of my top three spots on the property. Just the course unveils to you. Joe was telling me how they cut the fairways. So on two, the grain is into the players. So it kind of holds the ball up. And then on eight, he's like, look back at eight, you're up, you know, you're down grain, so it's going to almost help the ball get up the hill. So it's like little stuff like that. He's pointing out all throughout the round cameras on net right of one. There's 60 feet up in the trees. There's cameras like two, I don't know if there's security cameras or what. I saw one on two. There's one behind three green. You start. So now I'm looking in the trees on every hole. Like where's the, I bet there's one on every hole, which is just kind of a funny thing for me. That's the kind of shit I love. I love checking out. Were the ropes still up or do they have all those down? No, ropes are gone. The TV towers were still up, but the like awnings and the shade was all down. Scoreboards are still, but they take everything down. So I did confirm the scoreboards are technically TIO. They will be, he said they'll probably be down by the first week in, in last week in May, first week in June. He said they get that scoreboards are like the last thing to come down. He said they have so much pain on them that magnets don't work. He's like, there's probably like three inches of green paint. They paint them every year. So it's just like probably just this much paint on those, on those pillars of the scoreboards. Let's get to the, one of the main events here. No, I'm just fascinated to hear my second favorite hole at Augusta National. I've watched so much golf at three above the green on the right there. Gentlemen, I hit driver. What's the yardage? The yardage for me was three 40 on the card. So yeah, about three 40, three 50, little bit of a weight on the T. I hit a, I executed my game plan kind of a sloppy, but like vintage F 15 ball stored. I was trying to hit a cut trying to get up on that right side to play. I am. I'm trying to get the high ground. Yeah. I, that was my plan and I got it and it leaked just into the, to the second cut. I had a slight overhanging pine branch, but nothing, you know, so that's gonna, I can't, you know, I was 54 yards away with all the green in the world. I mean, full view of the green. We're looking down high ground. I'm spotting it. Love where we're at. And I was like, I know exactly what to do. Joe and I talked through it front, right of the green. There's a trench there. He's like, we got to put this like either in that trench or like right here on this like fringe before the green. I pulled 54 degree wedge. I hit the shot of my life. I put it, I landed on the, uh, like right side of the trench. So, you know, kind of down and then it hit quick on the other side of the trench, kind of popped it up and it just trundled down about 18, 20 feet middle of the green. Uh, pin high, just like, I was like, I, the patrons would have been buzzing with that. Like just the cheekiest play of my life. I loved it. This was the shot of your life. You said, what was the drive on to the shot of the decade? Uh, the drive of the decade. Yeah. I mean, just like Randy, we're hitting the shots, man. Like I saw it and I hit it and I loved it. So really fast putt, uh, from there, uh, break in right to left. Probably not as much as, as you think. So I'll probably a cup or two and I left it kind of in the jaws about three feet short. I, a lot, a lot of, uh, I was, uh, I was hearing footsteps on the greens early, you know, just like, ooh, I don't, you know, that, that green is so scary. That's one you get on that's like, ooh, this is different than just even standing up on that hill behind it, watching putts. Like this is this like just the right to left tilt of that one is, it's kind of crazy. Yeah. It just almost gives you like vertigo. You're like, oh, yeah. You know, and so I, uh, I marked it and I, that was a, that was a good, uh, three footer that I made, you know, straight down the hill for par there. I want to shout out Brent Lee. Uh, he was from the fairway. He fucking flagged one. It's like four feet on that peninsula and made the birdie. So I was like, man, put that in the personal collection, like, like shot of the sense right there. Oh, um, so that three, I just love three. And so I'm getting a, uh, quality par there was, was thrilling. No one's ever taken that one away from you, Neil. No one has ever taken that away from me. So we've, we've rided the ship a bit, right? We're feeling like, okay, opening double, but we're two over heading to 40. Ready to get punched in the face by four. Uh, yes. So four, it was playing. I think the number was on the card. It's 170, but I think we had 176 to that back left pin, which sits up on that second tier of the green shelf up there. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and I don't think the right side of that green doesn't get enough credit for what a little island that's on. They put the pin there on Thursday and, and seeing that up close, it's like, man, no wonder I was playing over par even from like 175 for those guys. Um, so it was 163 to carry the bunker. And that was my number. I was like, I just need to carry this bunker. So I hit eight iron and I caught it a little thin and I carried the bunker by about a foot center of the green, probably a 35 footer for birdie, um, right at the base of, of the steep hill where it tears up to the top shelf. My guy Francisco, just Icarito, Naish put it up behind us. The, uh, the bleachers up to the left there. And this is like, so his, all the caddies are great. We had this guy, Evan, I can't remember Francisco's caddy, but he was a pro and he was like really intense. And he was like, man, I think it's nine older guy, like leathery skin. He's like, I want you to know, he's like, no, this is an eight, you know, like South American, uh, accent. And he just airmails the green with eight. But gorgeous. That guy was compressing these tight draws, just like one hop into the over the green. It was so sick. So let's see, 30, 35 footer. It's like up this hill and then it's racing away from you down to the left to the pin. So I, uh, and it probably breaking about eight feet. It was a very difficult putt. I left it about five feet short and I made that putt for par. Let's go. I was so, so excited about, um, that was a really quality par there. Uh, and I had another one where I was like, man, that was tracking. I just, it's not a putt I'm going to get aggressive with. And I was, I was, uh, you know, I was a little tentative on the greens. So, I mean, that's great. Sign me up. Yeah. We're feeling good. So five T I got stuck on five T between, and we're going to hit a second server. We're going to hit a bad boy. You know, we going back to the well, T-th way up bunkers that probably earned in play really. Right. And it's like, okay. You know, and I kind of already had driver out. So I, I hit a pretty much a straight ball and not where, where, because I was kind of like, oh, let's hit the bad boy. Uh, hit a good, pretty good one, but just right at that Magnolia tree that's on the far side of the fairway and the right side of the fairway. Uh, I got crowned here. I mean, one hopped it in the Magnolia spits it out left. Uh, and in the second cut, I had, uh, 155 was the number terrifying shot. Gentlemen, uh, pin is. I mean, better stuff or I should shout out in the dog, because he was out there all week. It ran. He talked five yards off the back and five yards off the left with that bunker that you can't see back there. Balls teed up like an inch in the second cut, just sitting up like flyer, niche, I'm like, Oh my God. So I is no pin here. We're just trying to get the middle of the green. I've got, uh, 44 degree and just smooth one. And I hit a pretty good, pretty good shot. Uh, came up about two yards short of the elephant, like back and I. It one hop popped and then it rolled all the way to the front of the green. So I'm front left. I probably had a 95 foot putt here. I watched a couple of other guys in the group, you know, chip up from the front fringe, just like, it looks like a freaking big air snowboard jump, like up, up, up, and it just looks like it's going to like, you know, do a 1260 off the back into the, you know, into the Magnolia, into Berkman's place. So I got a hammer this putt. It's, it's up the hill. I left this one about 12 feet short, which I was like, whatever. And then I, uh, really good putt here, uh, missed kind of burn the edge low side. So we tap in for a five. I'm kind of taking that gentlemen. Sure. You know, that's just we out of position. I could have done wrong. I could have gone away. Yeah. I just, I some, some real struggles from behind the green for my, uh, for my playing partners also just shot for the golfers. I'm not seeing. I'm not seeing the road hole inspiration at five. I'm just not seeing it guys. I don't know. I mean, call me crazy, but I'm not, I'm not, I just don't see it. That was one in the preview show. I just couldn't really see it either. Yeah. It's not, not really there. That's kind of like the original idea behind it, but it wasn't really executed in that way. Like in seven, it's supposed to be eight. I kind of inspired by 18 at St. Andrews, which that has been changed a lot over the years, of course. So, uh, and I should note this is where with the two par threes, it gets a little slow here. So there's a pretty long wait on four and then a really long wait on six. And between four and six, I've always thought about those two holes as like equally hard. Uh, six is so much more intimidating with a club in your hand. I, one, I just another great view of Vista, the property, like down that cart path on the left, if you go attend the masters, go check that out. You see 16, 15. It's just a really special place. Uh, so wait on that teeth for probably 10 and plus minutes. Uh, that pin is, it looks like it's sitting on an exercise ball in the top right. I mean, truly, I, it's like outrageous how inaccessible that pin is, but the rest of the green also looks inaccessible. And I just had a 90 footer up, up over, you know, the elephants back. So I don't, I'm like, I'm middle of the green. I don't really want to hit it there. So I, you know, not a comfy tee shot there. I, it's 165 on the card. I think it with the pin back, it was playing like closer to 180. Again, down the hill, but it's not down as much as you think when was kind of helping. I hit nine iron, Sally, which I was very proud of. Uh, we talked through it. Joe and I, I was thinking eight. I was like, no, let's go nine. And I hit a, I made a really good pass at this one. And no, sorry, the wind was off the left weirdly. And it could, because I thought I hit a really good one. And then it gets, I hit it really high cause I hit a hard nine, sky high. And it almost like apexed and I think it got gusted. So it starts moving right comes down pin high, just on the fringe, almost stays right there, but then it rolls down into this well, first short side of the day, gentlemen, not a spot you want to be. There's nowhere to hide though. With that shot, there's nowhere. I get over there and I'm like, Oh my God, like how am I going to, if I put this, there's no way I keep it up on the shelf. So I try to play a little like, uh, kind of a bump and run with the 44 where it can just get it to like trundle on almost do it kind of a little heavy, not, not my best, you know, cut. This is where it's like, okay, Nils, Nils winter hands are going to get exposed here. So it, it almost makes it. And then it rolls back about five, five feet, five yards in front of me. So then I pull putter, I hit that one up to about five feet. And then I just make a really poor pass at this. Damn. So it rolls out to about three feet. Randy, this is the one I scoop because we're everybody that we are just all this whole group, like everybody's all over the map at six, just a bad hole for the squad to double. I think that's an honest double. I would, it's an uphill three footer. I didn't feel good about scooping that one. I've never seen you miss one. He's kind of, well, you know, it's questionable. Caddy's bringing the flag. You know what I mean? I'm like, I don't know if I'm going to go more, cause I would have like wanted to take my time on this one and I scooped it. So I'll just, I hand up on that one. Um, but double there to relief, it's a relief to have that out of the way. You know, now we, we know we're playing real golf on the way in, which is great. Yeah. So, but, you know, so now we're five over and I'm like, okay, that one, that one just jumped up like truly bit me in the ass. Like, especially after like what I thought was a really good tee shot, you know, it's just like, I'm just a little, again, similar to two, just a little off man, like, that's, that's the shot though, Neil, that is one of the closest that and 12 and 16 really are the closest you get to playing the tournament hole. Like four, you're way up from where they play it. It's way harder for them. But that's like, you got to experience almost the tournament shot. You're only 10, 15 yards, maybe in front of the tournament tee. I mean, cause Joe was saying, he's like, man, I, I was like, man, I, I kind of, I'm going to try to fade this, but I'm going to try to hit the shelf. He's like, yeah, cause if it rolls like directly back, he's like, that's not quite as hard of a, he's like, we probably put that one up in the short grass. But we got on like the right back right. And that was where the, it almost like NASCAR's where the, the hill. So putting it up that hill, you got to, it's a ton of breaks. So I just got, yeah, he's got a fucking spot. It's a hard green. Like the back left hole locations are hard as well. And the, the, even the bottom left hole location does not play to the funnel way that it kind of maybe used to in my mind. Like it just, that one was, that's a, that's six is a litmus test now. Yeah. It's, I mean, new appreciation for those guys sending them in and, and, and the way they send them in and they're okay if they drift down the hill, they still miss left to the flag, give himself a chance to get up there. And then, you know, if it comes back to the middle, they're, they're fine. So I probably got a little, I probably got a little greedy there, but I was, I thought I hit a good shot. I try, Randy, I tried to hit the shot and handed the cookie jar. So if you miss left and down there, that's not, it's far from a guarantee. I'm being honest. I'm thinking I'm three putting anyway, you know, so maybe we're walking away with four instead of five. You could put off the green from down there too. It's not, I'm curious, and hopefully this doesn't spoil anything down the, down the line here, but like, do you, did you feel, I, I, I remember feeling the challenge of the fringes and the short grass and the way they kind of cut into greens and the shapes around those corners to be really difficult. Like you went, you go to 44 degree there, which is not like where you, what you would usually pull there, but like the back and you, you putted it on too. You said like, can you kind of take us to how the, how the fringes kind of play around the greens? Well, I was on, on two, I was on the collar. So it wasn't even really fringe. That was a, that was a putter for sure. This one, I, I, I didn't want to play it up in the air. It was grainy, really grainy over there. So I was like, I was almost putting this 44 and I had worked on that pre round. And Joe was like, I think if you're going to hit that shot, this is a spot for it of like just almost like you're putting this one, but if we can just get it bouncing a little bit, you know, and we almost pulled it off. It was just not, it wasn't crisp contact though. I kind of, I kind of panicked. I was not, I was, I, I was playing scared there. I did not hit the shot, the chip shot I wanted. Well, you, you bounced back from the last double, you know, hit the drive of the drive of the decade, seven eerily straight. I know you struggle with the eerily straight hold. I do. I do. So seven was a, I pulled three wood because I talked it through with Joe. I was like, I was like, I probably hit this like 260. I'm looking for like an 80. I want to be in that 80, 90 range like we had on one. I feel like I had a good feel for that distance. I'm going to say your T is what? Two, three, 60. It was, it's on the card. It was 330, but it was playing more like 350. It was a little bit back of the box. And so he's like, okay, let's hit, let's hit three wood then. And I guys, I, and I turn, I, you know, I turn three woods. I hit the fucking best three wood of my life. Just a like, like good apex, really high, dead straight, right at the flag three wood. I had 43 yards to the. Oh my God. And so I got up on that hill and the balls like above my feet slightly, you know, like I cannot emphasize enough how impactful the uneven lies are. I know everybody says that, but I, I, I have not given it enough credit. It turns a simple shot. It goes from like, Dige, I'm a line cook. All right. I can make, I can rock out in a diner and I could cook good food. I am not a baker. This turns it into baking. It's like, you got to have your measurements dialed where you're putting the ball in your stance is going to cancel out left, right. If it's above or below your feet. And I just didn't have on this one, I did not have my measurements dialed. What led I, and then of course I was pissed at myself. I, I picked up a new shot, like kind of open base when I was out at TPI. Kind of one of the flight, the wedge, like up with because it was front. So I had to get it right over this bunker and I just didn't hit a good one. I left it in the front. Oh, came young. Yeah. And so I splash it out of the bunker just over the lip, trundles on. I had a inside 10 feet up the hill and power lifted. Oh, damn. Tap tap in for bogey there. So I was these cups. I mean, it's just turning the course turned into like just the most diabolical pitch and putt and I'm getting baptized. And that that green is, you know, with all the sand and just a lot of foot traffic in that front right quadrant. That was a, that was a tougher putt grainy putt up the hill. And I, I missed out on the high side because I did get that was one of the, I got that one to the hole. So I gave it a run, but I didn't make it. Would you play it over again? Would you hit three wood off the tee or would you do something different? No, you were going to be a 44 yard. I know, I honestly, I probably hit iron. I mean, because I don't know if I'm or it's like, do I just hit driver and put in the front bunker? I don't know. It the that's a question, Mark Randy. It's because I said to myself, man, should I maybe three wood? It wasn't a club, but I hit such a good drive. I dead straight shot. I executed. I aced the test there. I just got to be better with the wedge. I mean, I got to be able to get a 43 yard pitch up onto a green. That's just, that's just bad. You know, just a poor execution. No excuse there. Like I can't be scared of a 43 yard shot. What I should have done is put it back in my stance, simplified it and just kind of popped one up there and hopefully it drifts back down on that hill. But I didn't sound like it would have been a great opportunity to consult with our friends at Arcos. 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But in my head, honestly, at that, at that, I was, I was upset about that wedge, but I'm like, man, I'm like, I'm hitting good shots. You know, like on, especially other than that wedge there, I was like, man, I hit a great drive on three. Like I'm, I'm putting myself in position to like play good golf. It's just high. You feel like if you went back and did it again, you're like, Oh, now I know what to do here. Yeah, I would do that differently and I would totally make par here. That would be really easy. I, I, I would have simplified. I did not give enough credit to the uneven lies on how that that would impact some of these, what, what felt like easy shots. Eight to eight. Just can't be up the left side. Can't be up the left. Can't be up the left. I hit another F 15 ball executed the game. A little sloppy, but well past the bunker. Got to be able to get there too. I imagine it's way up. Almost rounded around one of those. There's like a pine up there and it kind of came around. So I was just like a foot into the second cut on the right side of the fairway. Good awesome spot to be great angle. No tree trouble. Walked up and talked it through a Joe and he's like, okay, the flag was like 205. I think, but all the way back way back left. He's like, we, I think the shot is like, I don't want anything more than 200. I anything between 190 and 200. So like, all right, six iron and I can't see the only thing I could see was like the very top of the TV tower. And then there's like a gap, like a little bit of blue sky and then a tree. And we were like the blue sky. He's like, I want this ball in the blue sky and we're going to be, we're going to love it. I hit, I just. A compressed rope right into the blue, into the abyss. I walked after it. I was like, yep, that's it. You like that? I mean, just yeah. How's that taste Francisco? No, I wasn't, I wasn't doing that. I was like, PORSU Puesto baby. Uh, no, I just, I was a fantastic swing. Awesome six iron ball. You know, I put it back in my stance because I was kind of like up the hill. You're, but you're playing like a little, the hills going this way and the greens going this way. So zero turn on that golf ball. I got up there dead center of the green. Love it. Maybe just left of center and I had a, but I still had about 40 feet. I hit it like 190 exactly. Uh, about 40 feet up over this massive. Ridge. Joe, he, I was like, man, this one looks like it's going to race away from me. He was like, it looks that way, but it's not. He's like, this one doesn't as fast as it looks. I, I, this is one place where I, I got a little scared. I didn't trust him and I left this put 12 feet short. I was pissed. Uh, I, it just looks like it's going to run right off the back of the green there. So you got to get it up and over. It's, he's like, it's steep on the front side and then, and I didn't go back and look at the other side. I would have, I would have done that if I, uh, had to do it over again, hit it on a good line, just left it way short. Guys, another lip out. Come on. I thought we were making that. I thought we were making that too. I put a really, really, really good stroke on this golf ball. Damn it. No, no, actually, no, that's not right. No lip out. I left it short. Left in the jaws, like three inches short. This one, I just, I, uh, I left a cup short. Um, so three putt par, which is a bummer. Two, three bars on the front. The first one's understandable. That one, I, I got a, I got to give the first putter run and, uh, we just didn't do it. Um, but eight, yeah, eight's just an awkward hole. I think it's fun. It's so cool though. Yeah. It, but it's, it's a thrill to walk up and we had three balls on the green there and we didn't know who was who. Uh, and that was, that was really fun. So we, we, the group had a good time on the eighth hole. I think the ninth fits you suits you. The ninth, I mean, God, it reminds me of just like bombing a ski slope on a snowboard. It's like, like, just keep one edge all the way down. Dige committed to the bad boy, uh, right off the tree to the right of the scoreboard on 18. It's like a big ass like oak tree. I don't know what it is. Uh, I guess you're moved up. You probably have to drop more than they do from back there. I hit the, just a missile, just a scud wrapped around the corner. Guys, I was in the crosswalk. I was literally on the paint that, that, uh, outlines the lower part of the crosswalk on the up slope. I had 91 yards to the flag. Uh, it was on the rolled over to the right side. Um, we wanted a hundred to 102 yard shot. Are we thinking spin control here? We can't, we can't see one rolling back. I hit, I hit 54, uh, back of my stance, choked up, gorgeous shot. Probably landed it. You can't see it, but I asked Francisco, he said landed like eight, eight feet, eight yards past it and came back to seven feet. Hmm. Just upright, um, we're on the proper shelf, slightly downhill slider. Yeah, boy. Missed it on the high side. Come on. God, you can't tease us like this. I missed it on the high side. Could make any parts. I mean, it looked like it was going to rip. I, I, after the putt on eight, I wanted to get it to the hole. It was a good putt. I mean, I, I thought it was going to fall in. I kind of had the fill meme with the guy in the background, you know, like I'm down and I said, you know, my cat, he standing behind me like, uh, yeah. So that one, that one's stuck. Cause I was hoping I was like, God, let's get a birdie head in the back nine. We're going to be running down hill. Randy could have shot a 32 coming in. I know. So 42 on the front gentlemen, 42, four, I'd say, you know, four of seven fairways, seven greens, 21 putts ain't going to get it done. Um, you make the putts. I mean, well, I made a, you know, five footer on four and a slider, like a little three foot slider on three. So I felt good about, about those. But yeah, I just didn't lag putts on five and eight cost me big time. And then I just didn't make the 10 footers. It's a seven greens shooting 42 is like, Oh yeah. Well, that's, that's the experience. There you go. That's it man. But I mean, like I say this all the time golf's fun from the fairway. Like I had a blast. Like I feel like I hit some, like definitely hit more good shots than bad ones. I had one just rogue miss on the first tee. You know, you take that away and that's a, you know, you're probably shooting 40. So, hey, it's going to happen. So I'm thrilled. Heading into the back nine. Great. You saw Raffi on the doll coming off 18. He's finishing up his round. I got to give credit again in the doll. He, he was walking step for step with Rory Saturday and Sunday out there. That guy got his steps in all weekend. So roll down to 10 tee, grab a Snickers bar, some peanut butter crackers, chugged the water. We're ready to go. I hit three wood. This is how long did it take you to play the front nine? Any idea? It was, it was a little, I didn't have a lot of time. I didn't have any watch or phone on, but I would say it was two hours. It was, it wasn't bad for a four ball. Pace was tough on four, five and six and then a little weight on eight. And then, then we were good from the way on 12. Well, I haven't gotten there yet. It got a little slow through a man corner, but the front nine, there was just a couple of choke points, which the caddies kind of called out. They're like, we're going to get two par threes coming through here. It's, it's a pace problem. All right. So 10, I hit three wood. Definitely the right club. I hit a really good one. I over executed Dige turned it, turned it around the corner tight. Um, what? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We thought it was going to be in the, in the second cut. It leaked into just into the pine straw blocked out by a bush. I had to punch it out sideways, took my medicine, got it almost up to a flat spot on the right side of the fairway, but still just a little bit of a hanger. Um, so right center of the fairway, I had, we had 163, 165. Four in, uh, to that back left pin, kind of middle back left on 10. Balls slightly above my feet. Nine, we pray nine iron cause winds now coming. It was like it's coming in. And this is where again, I just subtly, I kind of canceled out my, my baking recipe a little bit. I put the nine iron I needed, felt like I, with the wind, I need a little juice on the nine, but I'm aimed. I was, I don't know. I thought it would cancel out. I hit a like a really well compressed job, but it starts moving left on me, which is the cops ball. Like, oh my God, no, get on the ground. Like just feels like the world's falling away from you there. It's not like Dan, not by where Dan pull putted it in the playoffs. Courtney correct. That's right. Uh, yeah. So I landed just on the fringe left side. So it wasn't a huge, like it wasn't a tidal wave, but I just, I got to line that one up on the left edge of the right bunker. And I just, I was misaligned there for that, for how that ball's going to come out. I didn't account for the ball being above my feet. I, it trickles down into the state of the grass, just into the second cut. Uh, a little bit of a clanky chip got it up to about four, see probably 14, 15 feet up the hill. For bogey. Um, that, that was for bogey left that one about a cup short made double. Damn it. That just was like a, like, you know, couple again, nothing on that whole that was egregious, three would just to overcook the three would a little bit and that, you know, take my medicine and then I just didn't, I was going to have to hit a really good recovery shot, uh, on that approach. And I didn't execute. So how far kind of a, kind of a, Brandy kind of a pinehurst number two double. Yeah. Like, damn, I didn't see, I didn't see that was a very elegant double. What, uh, how far was it playing from your tea? Uh, it was 450 and probably playing exactly that. So, you know, because I chipped out almost like 90, I was going to say you had to punch it out like dead sideways. It sounds like, But I'm guessing it got held up, you know, turning left. I probably would have had like 130, 120 into that, uh, if I hit that three with a little straighter. So it's right club, you know, just maybe not the best swing, but I'm just going to repeat like not when I watch that ball. Like, oh, that's not, that's, that felt like a decent shot. You know, I just overturned, it just turned it. I did what I was trying to do. I was trying to turn it and it just, it's just a tighter draw than I wanted. Sure. All right. Well, now it's time to go eat. Yeah, baby. So no, I, and so I'm walking through the woods, awesome walk behind 10. You know, you kind of walk through a little like a forest trail to get to 11t. Uh, and I was in a great mood. I was like, fuck that double. Who can, and now it's like, okay, I'm eight over. I'm like, man, I'm going to hit the shots, Randy. That's my mindset. We're going to hit the shot. Came here to hit the shots. All right. Like come what may through, through this, through this back nine. I had this drive planned out the night before and it hit second serve down 11 fairway. The target was the right side of the scoreboard down over the pond. You can see it's just sitting there like right on the horizon. A fucking awesome shot. I didn't leave the right side of the scoreboard. I mean, I caddies were just like, give me the field goals. Like hell yeah, you know, it was awesome. It's a bummer that Francisco hit a good one down there. We all, we were all in play. Come, you know, just rolling down into a man corner. So that was great. When did straight into us coming up from the green? I'm down on the left side of the fairway. I had 118 to the stick right over the pond. The, it was awesome. I, I was a little bit stuck on this one between clubs. 118 is my favorite number in the bag. DJ, you know this, the number I want before I die. But with the wind and I was a little concerned about like with the wind compressing a 48 degree, like that is a solid 48. I did not want to spin one back into the water. And now thinking back on my guy, you're probably not going to spin one there. But I just, I went with 44 kind of a knockdown 44. I hit an awesome shot. It was just a little too much club and I ended up about five, four or five paces directly just right of the flag on the back of the green. So back bunker left corner of that back bunker. I mean, it was just a bullet and really, really, really good swing hit my target. Just a little too much club. So I had about a 30, 35 footer down the hill and I almost jarred it. I left it probably six inches to the right. It didn't, it didn't turn left like as much as we thought it would tap in par. Thrilled. Oh, I played that whole fantastic. It's a bummer. Nadal wasn't there to see that second serve. I know. I got that drive was awesome, man. I was, I was vibing walking down that fairway. I think one of the moments of the day, I've always just loved one of the no, like stand on the back of 11 green, maybe even more so than like on 12. Uh, the damn, the little bridge over the dam, I took a little walk down there. I mean, what just well constructed little pathway, you know, just, just a cool, cool bridge over raised Creek there. Joe's told me that that, that pond that, you know, raised Creek used to go right along 11 green. He's like, the reason they have this pond is to keep the integrity of the hole before they dammed up raise Creek and, and made it kind of go straight there. So he's like, sometimes that pond kind of stands out as like a little bit like, what's that doing there? That looks a little artificial, but he's like, it's for the integrity of the whole, which I never knew. So, so yeah, had a great time. So then guys, we're walking up, uh, we're walking up to the tea. I'm just hearing. Walking up to, uh, the main event patrons are all standing up and yeah. Yeah. It's just like that hill where the gallery sits and stands is a lot steeper than you, than you realize it really looks like an amphitheater back there. You can only imagine that feeling if you're, if you're playing in the masters, pretty, you know, pretty long wait on, on 12, which is fine. Everyone's taking pictures on the Hogan bridge. Got a group ahead of us. Everybody's no ones on the grid. So I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, no one's on the green. Everyone's everywhere. Got a caddy fishing balls out of raised creek. So we're just chilling. My guy Francisco goes first. He fucking. He thought of that wedge. He hits nine hits it up in the bushes. Yeah. He's so pissed. It looks to me like, what the fuck, man? He was at a moment earlier on eight where he was like, you've got to fucking trust me on this one on a pot. You know, it's like Francisco English is like a second language. He's like, yo, you've got to fucking trust me. You got to hit it up here. And he did. He likes it's at stone dead to like 18 and she's like, see, see, I know what I'm doing, you know? So he just kept, he just kept calling off the caddy. He's like, I think he should have wedged. He's just kept taking one more club and kept air-marrying the part of three. For real. He almost hit it. I mean, this was, this was like Icarino's cousin. Like truly, I was like, dude, this is so much fun to watch. It was awesome. And then he would turn around and be like, huh, that's long. Like, I mean, I thought that was eight in the cash. It's just like, man, it was awesome. I loved it. He was like, me primo. Exactly. I was like, oh, for supuesto. It's a little tally in there in there, but yeah, I know. What's, uh, all right, what's our number? Our number is, uh, 153 is the number. Winch me a little like down off the left, just the hair. No, when coming down 11, it was straight into us. And when I hit that 44, uh, Joe was like, I think the wind, it just kind of died over the ball. So he's like, I, you know, understandable that we were long at 11. Um, he's like, I still think that was the right club. So then the wind starts coming left, right? It does. It starts swirling. I'm like, I, but I feel like the prevailing wind of the day has been coming from basically 13 T right? Kind of straight down the chute. So he's like, let's, you know, let's play that. And he's like, it's wedge. If you want to hit the center of the green, it's nine iron. It's just a solid nine iron. If you want to go with the flag, I was like, let's go with the flag. It's nine. Give me the nine. And we're going right off the right edge of that back bunker. And, uh, I, I felt the wind, uh, and I, I put a decent move on it. It apexed. It starts leaking. Gentlemen came down right pin high on the right fringe. Bounces, bundles, rolls back. Oh yeah. But it was so electric. It was like the full experience rinsed in, in raised Creek, but in a way that was like, you know, kind of like, Oh, that, that one's good. Oh no, it's leaking. It's leaking. It was just like, just try to motor, just motor into the wind. Just getting, like, go, go, go. And it just comes down like just on the flat spot, but it bounced right. And then it kind of settled. And then it probably took like five seconds for it to, I mean, it was, so it was the drama, Randy. Please. Oh my God. And I was like, I did it. I hit it in raised Creek. More on, you're such an idiot, but I tried to hit the shot, Randy. And I always have that in my back. You always have that whole group misses the green. Uh, everyone's everywhere. And he's like, so what do you want to do? I was like, I'm not going anywhere near where speed went. I was like, give me a ball. We're hitting another one, which is kind of the hack. You know, play the course once, played 12 twice. So I put, I was like, give me a ball. I hit nine iron. Guys, I fucking flagged it. I hit it like right where Rory landed it, probably six feet spun back. So I had about a, I want to say 15 footer. It was, it was coming back where we were worried it was going to spin back off the green, but to about 15 feet uphill, left to right, breaking putt. I burned the edge. Low edge. Double. Great role on that one though. I mean, that was, that was a, I just, we didn't play enough break, but good pace. And we gave it a really good run, but we made double at 12. But I was thrilled with, with my, my second, I hit such a good nine iron on the second one. So it's like, dude, I like, I'm, I would do it the exact same way all over again. Not the second one was, was better. The first one was a little, you know, just a, just a little. Just trying to nudge it over there. Yeah. I, I, I tried to fade it is kind of, and I didn't have to try to fade it. It was kind of the, the, I should have just hit the target and I almost like tried to hit a fade. It's like, don't try to hit the fade. Just hit, I fade the ball naturally. Just hit the ball solid. But I, you know, I'd be lying if I didn't have like a, you know, I don't want to hit that quick left nine iron that I hit on two. You know, it's just anyway, were you thinking about making an ace and then, you know, maybe they invite you to become a member and the painting. Well, the second one bounced like pin high, kind of slightly. I was like, man, that might, I might jar that one. And then it kind of zipped back and I mean, it was an awesome third shot. There's also something to, you know, Icarito, the grown man, not hitting it into the Azaleas as well, you know, not hitting it up into the bush. And I haven't, I haven't missed long once yet. Yeah. I know it's great. It was probably something that's like, I'd rather hit it dramatically in the front creek than just do this. I'm not going to do what everybody. No, it wasn't like, I didn't, I didn't, you know, I didn't hit a limp one that hit the bank, you know what I mean? Like I tried to flag a nine iron and I just got my hand in the cookie jar. So we went and got that ball, thought and raised creek, Joe went and dug it out. That's going on the trophy. Yes. That's going, that's going up on the shelf in the office. Like, what's that ball? Oh, that's the one I put in raised creek. That one's, that's for the personal collection. Um, and then, yeah, so, you know, yeah, you walk across Hogan bridge. I do think, you know, they grass the bridges over to 13. I feel like they should grass them instead of the astroturf. How do you guys feel about that over, uh, um, you know, the Hogan and the, and the Nelson bridge, I don't know how steep they are, but they get slippery. If it gets wet, that's a good point. Uh, they had a nice, they got a nice little spring to them under there. Fred couple slip and fall and they got some good rubber, uh, under the astroturf. So I was kind of Rory bouncing over, over raised creek. Got a couple of pictures on the bridge. You get back there. It's, it's really something looking back. I mean, it is like, you feel like you're in a very exclusive museum. Um, and there's like rock. I didn't realize there was almost a rock cliff there on the left that has, you know, it's kind of has some shrubs hanging down, but, uh, yeah, special spot back there. Um, you've got the draw moving. We know that. Yeah. We do. So on the 13 T I hold on real quick. Did you take a piss back there? Did you take a piss anywhere? I took a piss on. Uh, there's a bathroom. I walked back down the, I actually, um, briskly walked up the hill to get a look at the shoot. Uh, you know, the $40 million shoot up there. I mean, God, it's so far back there that the tournament tease. Um, Sally, I did not see that. There's no bathroom up there. The bathroom's down to the left. Yeah. Over the whole tee off over the Nelson bridge. Um, so no, Randy, I did not, I did not relieve myself, uh, back up in the trees, um, some definitely some cameras up there. Um, some, you know, but it's, it's a very, it felt like a very lonely place cause you get up in that shoot. You can't see the crowd. You can't see the stands. Like, so I, it was, it was really cool to go walk up there, uh, and check out the tournament tee came back down to the tee. I was the second guy to tee off. I have driver in hand. We're going bad boy. Bad boy, bad boy. What you're going to do. Amen, right at the corner, the trees or what? Yeah. Basically, I'm trying to think what my target was. It was like, I had a tree picked out one, not the final tree on the corner, but one of the last ones, uh, I hit a, it did not draw. I hit one of the, like just a straight bullet up the left. Uh, as Joe said, you just hit it through a keyhole. Didn't touch a thing. Yeah. Uh, right. I mean, the Mondo angle I had one, uh, 170 in. Well, you just hit it through the trees on the left. So not right on the edge of the trees. There's like one overhanging branch and like, I kind of hit it through this, this shoot, like right up the creek line, basically, it didn't turn left. It was just like, uh, the straightest distance between two points, like just a, uh, a bullet and, um, it kind of a, like, uh, a chloroform that you can get away with there a little bit. Clean exit. We're a little scummy. I mean, it was, it was an aggressive line, Randy. Uh, it wasn't in the trees, but it could have caught like, it was like, Oh God, get over that one. Okay. It was like one brain. It was almost like speed on 18. Like if it clears that one branch, we are so good. And then it did. And it was just like out, out running in open territory. Real. So I was out, uh, up by right side of the fairway, past all the trees, just almost up where like patrons would be in, but it's still, it's still inside the ropes cause it was, it was perfect grass. And, uh, I had, yeah, what was the number I had? 170. I can't see if that's one. Yeah. 171. Big, big, uh, flag hanger or pretty flat. So this is an interesting one. It felt to me like a big hanger. And so I played, I had eight iron, felt really good about the club and I was playing for a hanger, uh, guys, I put it right into the tributary pin high, pin high, just like, couldn't have placed it any better in the tributary. You were just begging for that ball to move in the air. And Joe, and I said to him, it was like, man, I canceled out. I put it back in my stance a little bit. I kind of canceled out the hanging. He was like, you know, this is a funny one. He's like, people think this part of the fairway is not hanging. It's more of a downhill lie. And I just, It just comes out kind of flat and straight. Yes. Dead straight. I hit, kind of hit the target, which I was kind of trying to aim, maybe a, you know, maybe a little right of the target, but I was kind of aiming at the, uh, left corner of the bridge back there and just hoping it would turn into the green. I was, again, I'm trying to hit the shot. I just made double at 12. I'm trying to, I'm trying to flag it, man. Like left of the flag on the hill and I wanted it to drip down. I had, I was visualizing what I wanted. I had a lot on the line for this one, Neil, for my take in the envelope. I appreciate you trying the shot. Uh, so I, I hit it in the crea. It might have bounced once on the right side. Cause we saw it bounce. We thought maybe I used all of the layup area and I was going to be maybe just because he was like, there's a flat spot down there, like pin high that you might be on, but it was sitting in the middle of the tributary, which was, uh, a little disheartening. So, uh, we went on the line with the flag and where it entered. And so I, I pulled it back to about 30 yards is a full flop for me. 35 yards. I was like, I, and I found a flat spot and I hit an awesome flop shot. Just flopped it up, landed in between the pin was probably, it was five yards off the right and I probably landed it two yards on. Um, but it just, it hopped, rolled up the hill, rolled back down to about 15 feet. Um, but I mean, I clapped from the caddies. Like, you know, the Icarino just threw a gainer over the tributary, you know, just like evil, conneval shit. Like I was pretty proud of that one. Uh, Shafua, Nash. So we put that one in the memory bank. Randy did not make a great pass at this ball. Uh, came up low short. So we made a bogey there. I was a sick. Okay. We're plus 11. Yeah. Um, all right. So we get to 14 guys 14 rocks. I can't think of a more uncomfortable for me personally. I have never given this enough credit a more uncomfortable looking T shot. Uh, and I, you know, I was, I wasn't, I was a little bit, I don't know. Gast isn't the right word, but a little bit like, damn, I'm like, now I'm starting to make a mess, right? And I, I was the first to play because everybody made a mess on 13 and I, I teed the ball up and I was standing behind and I looked, I was like, okay, this fairway is slanting. Like it's probably like a 10 yard. At the, on the top left, it's probably 10 yards lower on the right. And you're trying to bend a draw around the corner. I'm like, oh my God, it's just like, again, vertigo. I'm like, oh God, it's just going to trampoline into the trees over here. I got to hit a draw. I probably should have hit three wood, but I already had driver and I, I, you know, I tried to hit a draw and I just let the hips go way too soon. And I were swinging the day. We're swinging the day. I hit a sloppy cut basically into the retreat, which is like the members only club down there. Just one hop that passed the Magnolia. We found it. It was in a Nizalia. Had to take it on playable. Um, but I had a window and I hit a really good recovery. You always have a window at a go. Always have a window. I had from, from the pine straw, I had, uh, 144. So I hit a nine iron, but again, it's a little more uphill than you think. And I came up short and it rolled back to the front of the green. And then I played a 44 degree up the hill and you kind of like find the, almost like the river gorge to get it up to this shelf. It sits in this little like hollow at the back of the green. This is awesome pin back there. But I was trying to play a 44 degree up the hill and have it drift back to the whole, miss the ridgeline went, barely missed it. And it probably rolled 45 feet down to the right. Just around the volcano crater and just took like 10 seconds to come to arrest is like very cool. Okay. Very cool. So now I have a 45 footer for, uh, Ogie. I leave that one about seven feet short, missed that putt triple bogey at 14. Oh, and I was, that's where I was like, Oh man, this is, this is bad. Uh, and I was, I'll be honest, made a pretty good, uh, pretty good putt for triple Randy, downhill three foot slider for triple was, was, uh, you know, but we're hitting cups, baby. At this point we're hit. We're, we're going to, we're going to come what may. Um, so this, you know, I had something go through my head. You know, I love analogies. The scene from the Patriot when Colonel Tavington slices like his, his tendons behind his knee, you know, and he's like, you know, but he's still alive. It's like, I just felt hobbled. You know, I'm on one leg now. It's like that's, that was a death blow. We're not quite a death blow, but we're, we're hobbled. We felt hobbled coming off 14. I just, I, I'd be honest with you. I, I probably mentally. Took a break there. You know, 14 almost feels like a break. And I just, you know, I just come through any man corner, hit some, some, what I thought were really good shots and, you know, got detonated. And then 14, I was like, all right, a little breather. Nope. Uh, that's, that's going to be a triple, sir. So we come to 15, which is my favorite hole. Indeed. I had Tom Doak in my head. Was this pretty much my favorite hole in golf? Yeah. Uh, on the T. I was committed same swing as I hit on number three. I want to be up the right side, high ground. Uh, I am, I am committed to getting this ball at the right side. Hit a pretty good tee shot, a little bit too much spin on it. Um, and it rolled in, uh, kind of, I thought it was going to be in the trees, but it bounced off the tree. Joe told me and came back. So I was in the fairway, but blocked out. Like, I'm like in between on the right. Right. Um, so in between 17, cause he said he hit a tree pretty hard and came back probably 20 yards, right? Like just left to where Scotty was. No, much farther back than that. So like in between 17, like there's fairway between 17 and 15. And so it's like a clearing before the like tree starts. I was like way back. I was like, I'm like two, I was probably like 260. Um, so like, I don't really know what happened to that ball, but on the tee, I was like, okay, like maybe we'll get a window up in the trees, but I think I one hopped it into a, into a pine and it came back. So I'm like, dammit. So I try, I'm like, all right, we can, and I didn't really, I'm like squarely the whole line of trees is like between me and the whole. So it's like, okay, I got two options. I can bend like a seven iron around this, but there was just no, no possible way for me, or I can hit a punch for. And I was like, I, I'm going to try to hit the punch shot. I had a pretty good window. And, uh, guys, it sounded like uncork in a champagne bottle. Oh, with how square I hit a pine tree about 40 yards up. It was like, you know, when it's like, oh, past that one, past that one, past that one, it was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Boom. Like dead center pine tree comes racing back out into the fairway. Fastball, middle, middle, right? Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. It just like, I like, what is it? Like a thwink, you know, it's like, it was just a deep quark sound. Like, Oh my God, just nutted that pine tree. Bar came off. It was, it was, it was a compressed punch shot. If it misses that tree, it's down, like we're, we're, we're in business. So it spits out though, to the left, into the fairway. Great. And I've got a little bit of an overhanging branch and I had two 47 to the front. So it came back a good way. So I probably like 20 yards up from where I started, but now in the fairway. Now you got to hit the shot. I get to hit the fucking shot. Boys, let's go. I'm so jacked up. Joe's like, what do you want to do? I was like, what do you think, man? Like, give me, like, you know, so let's talk throughout. I'm going, I was like, I got seven wood. I hit that about two forties. Like, well, you got to, you're going to have to like to get anywhere near this pin. You're going to have to hit a, you know, like a mega cut. I was like, OK, I was like, I think it's three wood. I'm going to try to turn a three wood. You know, it's 247, 248 to the front. He's like, I like that. He's like, and you know, like that, that he's like, I think let's do it. So I, I set up, I choked up a bit and I can hit that shot. Like, you need me to hit a big cut. I can fucking do that. Gentlemen, I hit such a good three wood, such a good three wood and it hit. It didn't turn as much as I wanted to, but it was high and just gorgeous. Heading for the left corner of the green. Randy LaCrosse bounce. Just go, boom, trampoline. See you. I was complaining early in the week about not enough balls going in that back pond. Paste it, Schuster. Paste it. I one hopped it into the back pond on 16. Nice. Again, I was thrilled. I couldn't hit the ball anymore. I mean, I could cut it more, but like I kind of was like, hey, because we said it's like, hey, if you hit this three wood and it goes straight, like, you're probably going to be all right, you know, because it's going to land around to 48 if it has spin on it. And it just took such a big bounce over that green. It's like, you know, it's now it's like late afternoon, you know, probably at this point, 430, let's say, maybe a little or maybe four. And so the light, it's like, it's starting to get really bright. So I couldn't see it. You know, I was like, oh, man, that looks good. That looks good. And then the last thing I see is the ball like bouncing like, wait, you meet up in the air. I'm like, oh my God, that's so fucked. So we walk up. That was a fun walk. I got I love that hole so much. And I was a little bit like, damn, this is about to get out of hand. But at the same time, I'm like, I'm like, oh, maybe it stayed up. Maybe it stayed up. Okay. I walked down some guy in the group ahead. It was like, we got two in the water down here, gentlemen. I'm like, Dick head, like, you know, like, kind of wanted to find that out for myself, walk across, walk across the bridge. One thing I want to shout out, both in raised Creek and there, just like some prehistoric turtles. Absolutely. Mondo turtles in, in, in the, in the waterways at Augusta National, which I'm a big turtle fan. I saw probably like 30 turtles around the back nine. So shout out to turtles. So we get back there, drop one. And I'm like, at this point, almost pin high, like looking straight down at the, the, and this is such a hard shot. Uh, I had 58 out. I had it back in my stance. Kind of what the, the, the chef had taught us at, uh, at that photo shoot. D. I'm trying to hit like a, a lower one with a ton of spin on it. And I caught it a little thin, a decent shot. I caught it kind of clanky though. Kari, I was trying to land in the fringe, carried it. Um, it had spin on it. It kind of checked and then rolled out, uh, left of the bunker, but like just almost passed like almost even with the, the, uh, bunker on the right side of the green. So now I'm like pin high, putting back up into the green from there. Honestly, not my best chip. Uh, I probably was a, I didn't go on offense on that shot, um, but it could have been a lot worse and it, you know, it is what it is. So now, uh, it's right where Justin Rose was on Sunday. Yeah. I was like, he putted it. I'm putting this one. Um, so I putted it up to about five feet and, uh, another like fantastic shot there. Uh, so I have a five footer for double bogey, power lifted baby triple snowman. It'll cost you. And now I'm like, I feel like I got to the bottom of the roller cause I might throw up. I don't, I'm locked up here. Now we're worried about 90. We are worried about 90. So that's what's going through my head. I haven't shot 90, um, in three years. You know, and again, Hey, we're, we're counting triples, right? So that equitable screw control throw it out. Like we're come what may. So we go to 16, but you can put it in the gin app though. Like, uh, I did shoot 94, but I hit the shots. Like, yeah, that's just a note. Ash, asterisk there. I hit the shots. Uh, and 16 16s in auto too. At least we know that for sure. Yeah. Funnel pin. So easy. Uh, it was 154. Oh my God. Just a little wedge up there. Wind was, we thought it would be down, but it just didn't feel like much of anything. Uh, even on 15, I didn't, didn't really feel much wind. So we hit nine iron. Which I was between like, uh, uh, 44 and nine. And he was like, I like, I like, he kind of flight in a nine iron down. Um, and I just hit a really bad one here. Guys, like just a whitey ass one into the front, right bunker. Oh, just like kind of just like, like, just like, what are you doing, man? Like that was a little bit of like, if, if, if it was the patriot up in, in, you know, on 14 green, that was William DeFoe on, you know, on 16 T from, from platoon. He's just getting, I'm just getting to take me like it's, it's over. The choppers flying away. We're done. He's cooked. And now he's cooked. The Icaritas cooked. Wish, wish I was younger. Uh, guy stinks. Uh, shout out to Francisco. Absolutely nuked one. One of the shots best, most compressed irons I've ever seen. Uh, probably hit it 10 yards over the green roll back to like right where Rory was on Sunday. Uh, he was a caddy. Caddy was apoplectic. Fuck man. Did he get it up in that? Um, he met, he almost did. Uh, Randy, he had like a 10 footer for, for par. I think he missed it. Um, but still, you're going to have a, it's a harder shot than it looks. So you can do it's, it's not as easy to get that one. It's not as hard as people think, but it's not as easy. It's right in the middle, Randy on that, that shot from behind the green. Uh, so I had a long bunker shot. I hit, I pulled 54 degree. I hit a awesome bunker shot right to the, uh, to the ridge, rolled it down four footer up the hill, missed it. Made bogey there. Uh, I was pissed. I missed that putt. Um, it, that one's a tricky one though. It, it, it breaks, uh, this way. So it breaks right down the hill, but then it kind of, this one goes up, goes left to right, you know what I mean? It almost flips right at the hole. And so I missed mine on the left, on the high side, and then, uh, Noah had the same putt, like almost marks are on top of each other and he missed his on the, on the right. So it was just almost like we, you know, none of us, like we did neither of us scared the whole there. So four, four at 16. So if I'm doing the math, we, we need a birdie on 17 or 18 to break 90. Yes. And unless we had stinky Nandi in a circle, what's the lifetime? That's kind of the rival at the end of the season. You're a road. There's records out, throw the records out. It doesn't matter. This is pride. This is all pride. You're coming in with a kit with a thrashed Achilles. You know, try to lineups beat up, you know, we got guys that are day to day, but you know, they're going to play, you know, they're going to take some court of zone, they're going to, they're going to be out there, Deej. So we tee it up and I hit a, I mean, again, just a magnificent drive, split the fairway. Just couldn't hit it. Couldn't hit a straighter drive. And I said, I said, I'm going to hit this as hard as I can. I just fucking nuked it up on top of the hill. I had 86 yards to the green. Flat lie. And I mean, late afternoon sun, he starts to get a little like depressings, not the right word, but like, oh man, like quiet. We, we go back to number 10. Like, you know, that's how I feel on 17 with the tournament too. It's just like, you know, it's a little bit like the Jew, like the adrenaline wears off. But I'm sitting up here on this plateau. That's it. That was an interesting pin. So we were trying to play it like the number because I was like a full swing 58. And I guys, I caught it heavy, really poor swing. I wish I would have put this one a little farther back in my stance. I just like didn't bad pass, bro. Yeah. Left it short of the front bunker. Okay. Hit a fantastic nippy hip over the bunker. Kept for me. And solid to your point about like balls. I mean, I thought this might go in and it kind of just like drifted and then it just like five feet away. Right. I'm like, how is that not like a tap in five footer? Burn the edge, Mr. Putt. Oh, come on. Five at 17. That green look purple guys like zombie grass. It was just that and 15 were just burned out like so sick how firm they were. So I was pissed. Are you? How's your relationship with Joe going here? Fantastic. Burn putts are you taking the blame? Are you shoulder in it? Is he trying to tell you? No, he like, like I said to him, hit pretty much all of these putts. Or no, I didn't burn. What did I do? I did burn the edge on this one. Most of the putts though, I was leaving short because I was given these. I was terrified of these greens. I really was. I was just giving them too much. I wasn't getting the ball to the hole early in the round. And then I was pressing late in the round. But like his lines were money all day. And some of these putts were like good. I like I'm going to make a confident stroke here. Like the one on 17 was a confident stroke. It just didn't go in. Same with the one on 15. The one on 16 wasn't wasn't a good putt. I got to put I got to just put that in the hole. Like I got to make that putt. But a lot of the putts on the back nine were just they just didn't go in. Oh, my gosh, this beef. Yeah, so I can't confirm. I am close guys. Yeah, exactly. Much like Jordan. I am close. All right. 18 T. I had this one circle. Yeah. A member T on 18. So 17 was 370 member T is 385. And it was playing a little probably right right at the number. It was probably middle box. This one was a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit this one fits like my shot shape really well. Let it let it eat. And I sometimes I guess sorry, Neil. I guess I'm just curious like that is such having been to a couple practice round days at Augusta, you know, that back T where the pros play it is such an intimidating little shoot for me. Do you still feel that same claustrophobic feeling from the member T or was it not quite as bad? Not there's just not as much up the right. Probably 40 yards up. So it just doesn't feel as much like a tunnel. And knowing that those bunkers really aren't in play makes you feel a lot more comfortable. Like man, I can if I hit a good drive, like I'm just going to peel one off these bunkers like this. It's it's tailor made for my, you know, all flights. So for that shot, like I just don't have to close my shoulders and swing hard. Like I'm going to hit a high fade. And it's just make sure you swing hard is going to prevent the big right miss is kind of like I just got to make a really aggressive swing. And I did. I hit a fucking gorgeous drive and make sure it fades and make sure it fades. Yes. Rose, one of the caddies gave me a clap. She's like, that was awesome drive. Just fantastic. I had 91 yards into the 18th hole. I hit an excellent wedge just past the hole about three, three yards right of the stick. I think it had some cut spin on it because it kind of came off the hill one bounce and rolled down pin high, probably about 20 footer. I left this. I left this putt two inches short. No, awesome putt just left it and I was pissed. I got to get that one to the hole, but it was an excellent putt and I made part 18 and I shot 91. And I'm fucking proud of it because you know why Randy? Why the shots? We hit the shots and we hit as many cups. We hit 17. We had 17 cups. I'm disappointed I didn't hit 18, but we hit the shots. We went, we, we, we went for it and I'm proud of that. And 91's tough. I haven't shot 91 in a long time. And what better place to do it gentlemen? 100%. My short game got exposed. And if you just get, you know, out of position a couple of times, the uneven lies in the short game, you know, the putting is where I just, I got exposed. I had 40 putts, which is tough, very tough. You had played me golf. That's the, I know that's my fourth round. Eight of 14 fairways, nine of 18 greens and 40 putts for a 91. And that was, so DJ was almost, well, no, I had a ton of doubles. I was like, almost pitched a perfect game. You know, I lost three balls. I had a lot of doubles. Four, five over us. I had two triples. So close to perfect. But I hit the shots, Randy. Hit the fucking shots. I feel like I had such a good day. I had a great attitude all day. The only place I got a little down was 14. Cause I was just like, you know, I was like, Oh my God, what did you just do? Why did you do that? I let lost focus on 14. I had a great attitude on 15. I got a little pissed about 16 and then awesome on the way in. So I feel like, uh, in a way, if I'm trying to be an optimist, you shooting 91 and walking away with just like a bit of a, a smile on your face and a holy shit is, is better than you shooting 71 and being like, like, it wasn't as hard as I thought it was. You know, it's like, yeah, that's what I mean. I think that's for a lifetime of watching the masters. I think that's a, it's a great takeaway to have. I had a couple takeaways. I will never underestimate the, uh, course knowledge or picks in the future. I think like Roy saying it's his home course, like he might win five more. Cause it, it's like, and the uneven lies, it's baking. It's not cooking out there. Did it's baking? Like you have to measure your sugar. You have to make sure you have enough molasses. And if you don't, and if you leave it in the oven for three minutes too long, it's going to taste like shit, which is where I think the Rory versus Scotty thing is like the Rory versus Scotty, the masters might be the best thing we have going at in golf for the next thing. The way these guys can navigate those hanging lies is just like the 13 fairway. It's like, it's like NASCAR. It's like a turn three at Daytona. Uh, it's just hanging like this and, and 14. I just didn't realize, uh, I will never ever, uh, you know, disgrace Chinese for again, Chinese for, uh, got up in my key. So, um, that's, that's a much more difficult. T shot than, um, than it gets credit for. I'm proud of you, Neil. This is, this is an electric recap. I'll never forget it. It was awesome. I loved it. Um, and I, you know, a couple of times out there, Deej, a 14 on, well, one tee and on six and on 14, I was like, Oh man. Like it kind of was like, you know, I wasn't really mad about the, the, it was like college football over again. It's like, I wasn't mad. I missed the tackle. I was like, man, this is going to look bad on film. I had to tell everybody I just did this on 14, you know, like, and then I had my Cook Norris Wilson in my ear on 15. Is this game too fast for you? Should you, sir? Are you going to quit? No, sir. Walking to 16 T is this too fast for you? No, sir. And then I dumped it in the bunker. Do you, uh, do you want to hear the predictions for the rest of the squad? Yeah. Yeah. They're all way off. Uh, all right. I'll start, I'll start with myself again. Our, our over under was 81 and a half. Uh, just over. Uh, I had over is always more fun to bet on. That's right. I had you at 83 and I, my, my prediction was that you were going to make a birdie on 16 forever, cementing Randy's legacy as, as that whole anybody can make to, which I think you, you did a lot to kind of undo. Right. He's like, you see there. So, uh, it is pretty, pretty easy shot. It's a big catcher's mid out there. Ben, uh, Ben had you at 84. That was the highest prediction. I believe Ben takes the price, the prices, right? Uh, prize. His prediction, which was looking, I mean, it was pretty good. Uh, you will double the first without the ball hitting the hole. I'll pick up double. Uh, I know it was an honest, not far off. Uh, Casey had you at 82 said he's going to bogie 16. You cash cash that one. Cody had a lot of faith in you. I said, going to be a smooth 79. He says you blasted over 12 and you double 13 on 15 and two with three putts. Uh, you know, a couple of file tips maybe, but not quite. Yeah. Uh, solid had you at 81 said you're going to make a triple on 12, not far off. Uh, since you're going to eagle 13 quite far off. Oh, uh, but I like that you went for that pin. Like that's what we need. I tried to stuff that pinata just, just left of the flag. Uh, Jordan said you were going to shoot 82 and three putt 17. Uh, miss the green. Otherwise maybe, uh, TC lengthy prediction from TC said you were going to shoot 79. Quote, uh, Neil is going to tear the par fives on the front up, play the front and 37 and then make a couple of shitty bogies on 10 at 11 at double 12. He rebounds for an easy par at 13, 14 gives him trouble. Shot of the day is his second into eight and he's going to get his dick knocked into the par threes, especially six and 12. Uh, that's pretty close. He did because I did hit a great shot on eight. He did. Yeah. That's, that's pretty, pretty solid. And I got my dick knocked in on six and 12 for sure. Uh, Randy says 81. He rinses it on 12. Uh, good stuff there. And, uh, Matt Ramers said 83. And I was hanging on this as you were describing it. Matt says 83 and he says he will try to play a shot from the tributary. I'd raise Creek at their. It was dead center, probably like a foot submerged in, in, uh, in the Creek. Could have been an all timer for Matt there. Yeah. No, I thought I looked at, I was like, man, I don't think we can get a club through this much water. Um, and it's really steep. Like that's not a, the, especially the right side. Where you want to be areas, not, not, not a spot you're, you're going to, uh, going to play from, but no, I mean, it's, it's a secret garden, man. When there's nobody else out there, once you get past a man corner, like the group spread out again. So it's like, nobody's on 13 with you. Nobody's on 14. And then by the time you crest the hill on 15, it was like that other groups back behind the, you know, the grandstand. So you just got that whole arena. It's like all to yourself. Um, I, I kind of wish I would, you know, better T shot on 15. It was probably honestly the biggest regret even more so than like the, the bad wedges on, um, uh, on 17 and on seven, those were, those were the like the two just stinky, stinky swings and, and the T shot on 16. Would you classify that as the greatest golf experience you've ever had? It's the, I thought the caddy, I thought Joe was awesome, just super knowledgeable and like, uh, fun to like, you know, get in the lab with on, uh, I mean, I was really engaged on every shot. So yeah, like it was, uh, it's just a really stimulating golf course because of the ups and the downs and the hanging lies that you're just never comfortable. Uh, and then I was just terrified on the greens. So like, yeah, if I had to do it over again, I wish I got more putts to the hole. I was, I was, um, I was putting a little wimpy. Um, but I think I picked that up on the back nine. They just, they didn't fall. Like my God, I left like three or four on the front nine. I played good on the front. I just left in the jaws too many times. What did I ask? Is it the best golf experience? Well, it's, it's a fantastic golf experience. I, I'm a little bit more like laid back. You do feel like you're on eggshells because you don't want to do something wrong. Um, so it felt like the most special golf experience, but it feels like you're on a knife's edge a little bit, both with how difficult the course was and with like, I'm not supposed to be here. Um, so like, I think I'll, I'll, you know, I'll never forget it. Um, but it wasn't, I didn't find it to be a relaxing experience. Um, but that's just, that's kind of part of how I like to play. Like I wanted to compete out there. Um, and listen, we got, you know, they, they hold a number on us, Randy. Right. I mean, you know, Cliff and, and Alistair and Bobby Jones put the, you know, put the second string in around 15. So the scouting report maybe was out. I'm, you know, they, they, they did. I did. I'll tell you this. I did not airmail one green. I two was the only time I was above the whole all day. Uh, so I'm proud of that shit. Um, God, I'm, I'm exhausted. Yeah. I, so if you ask me, like if I could shoot 85, I don't know, like that was, that was awesome because I hit the ball really well. It just didn't go where I wanted it to go. And that's a problem. Like I wasn't, it wasn't coming out in the windows. Like I hit the eight iron into 13. I hit it great. It just went like, it just went straight right. You know, and that's just going to cost you, but it's better than like, I didn't duff it around. I, I hit the shit out of it off the tee. Like I had to have gained strokes off the tee. I just did not, I, I, my short game is not tidy. We got to go work on our wedges, man. I found it. Everybody wanted to ask me immediately what it, what did you shoot? What'd you shoot? Would you shoot? And I'll be like, I'll tell you, but like, it truly wasn't about that. It wasn't like, I did not care about the, I cared about what I did on each individual whole and with each individual shot, kind of like you're describing, but like, what it added up to was not important to me. Like, and that's where I helped me with the experience of like, dude, I'm not, I don't care about like scoot shooting an actual specific score. I just care about like remembering and taking in every single shot that, that is put in front of you. So I feel like you got that experience, even though you didn't have the score. I did. I, I feel like I got to hit like every shot I wanted to hit. I got a, I got to look at it. Um, and I wish I didn't shoot 91 for sure. But I, like, it was really fun doing it. And like, what a bet. What, what other place do you want to shoot 91 at? Like that's sick. You know, like, yeah, I had triples on 14 to 15. Who cares? That's here. Here. I agree. Well, no, this was, this is a great, just a great way to spend the morning here. I appreciate you. Randy, thanks for sticking around. I know, I know you wanted every, every shot from Augusta national. I know that's how you do on your morning. How did it end? Like, what do you, what do you, how do you, you know, I took a picture with Joe on 18. Um, we timed up the battery on the camera perfectly on this crappy little digital camera, like ran out of battery as we were walking to the clubhouse. Um, did you listen to Quad City DJs on the way out? No, cause they valet pulled up and it was, uh, it was a hurricane season by Trombone shorty, which, so the horns put me in a good mood. Mr. Schuster, we parked your, uh, your cars over at the salvation RV. You can, you can, you can, I had the worst rental car. This like broke ass Nissan Ultima that smelled like someone's smoke, like nine pack of cigarettes in it. So like after I get it in every day after it's be hot and just smell like, just like carcinogens and nicotine. I was like, Oh God, just heavy air in that car. Uh, so I rolled back down Magnolia lane. They dropped the good RV. They dropped the armored barriers for me. And I, I'll see you guys later. Uh, no, I didn't have time to go to our bees. I had to, I had to get showered up and, um, head out, but I did. I, I lingered a little bit in the champion's locker room, looked at the, uh, at the lockers, you know, they got Rory's green jacket from last year up there with his seven iron, uh, on display. And, um, yeah, it's just, it feels like really cozy museum up there. It's, it's, uh, the wrap around porch is awesome. Um, everybody was delightful. Um, so I felt very welcome. So I don't want that me being on eggshells to feel like it was, uh, not welcoming. It was very welcoming. It was just like, you feel like you're on hollow ground. So, uh, it's very special, solid, but like, you know, knowing you're never going to do it again, you're like, uh, you know, I don't know if it's like the, the, it's not a relaxing experience because you're just trying to, like, you're just trying to soak in every single second of it. And, um, and I think I did that. So I'm pumped. Right. Good stuff. Very happy for you. Very excited. Thank you. You got to do this. It was, uh, I got a lot of, a lot of thrill listening to all of this and know a lot of people will. I straight up, it'll make like next year and the year after and the year after, like a better coverage of the golf tournament. You know, I'll never think about the 14th hole the same again. You know, I'll, I'll feel like, you know, if someone hits it too far up on seven, like just these little spots where they go, that sucks. Don't go there. You know, even watching where some of like my, uh, my partners hit it, you know, you're like, Oh God, that didn't realize how bad that was. Like that sucks. So, all right. I'm going to move us towards wrapping Neil. Uh, great. Congratulations on a true, you know, life long story. 91. No, it's, it's awesome, man. It's, uh, it's, it's, it's one of the few rounds of golf that you could ever play where people will be hanging on every word of description you have. I've been going, I'll listen back to this one. I want to hear it all over again. Yeah. And like everybody, you know, knows every hole so well. Like, you know, it's, yeah, in 10 years, I'll know exactly what I did on six on 14. You know, like I'll never, you remember every shot vividly, which you can't say that about every golf course, right? There's just so much context out there. That's what makes it really special. All right. That's going to do it for today's episode. Shout out to our friends at Titleist, golf pride and Arcos. 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