1143: Rory McIlroy builds a big lead after 36 holes at Augusta National

The right club. Be the right club today. Yes. That's better than most. How about in? It is better than most. Better than most. Expect anything different? I'll see you at the boot camp tonight. weighing up live show. What a day, guys. We got history to talk about today from Augusta national. My name is DJ joined by my friends and associates Chris I'm great. It was a little more gettable out there. I didn't wear myself out. We almost lost it on Thursday, but we're still in the tournament here Friday evening, Friday afternoon, lot to get to tonight. Maybe some special guest popping in here very early in the show. If, uh, if we, if everybody behaves in the chat, they will speak with one of our favorite people is here very soon. Uh, Randy, how are you my man? Favorite pin of the year on 16. I know you love that. How are you? Deedj, we'll get into it. I'm good. I'm, I'm, I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to discuss today. Thank you for having me on your program. Anytime. Uh, before we get to it, guys, I think if there's one shot, uh, you really need to trust your golf ball out, out, you know, at the tournament we watched today, I think it's the shot at number 15. And I'm going to give a shout out to our guy, Max Homa and the way he and his Pro V1 X interacted on that second shot, uh, was just excellent. Our guy had a great day today. He had a really nice little high soft floater in there from about two 13 solid. I don't think that's an easy shot to, uh, to commit to and hit every time I look back in that fairway, I'm like, okay, that's a layup spot. And then just watching these guys launch it onto this thin little peninsula and to watch that ball come straight down the chimney, laying as soft as it did to put birdie for him. I am amazed at how guys control their distance on that shot on 12 on so many of the shots that Augusta, but that would definitely stood out to me today. Yeah. Max, of course, trusting his title is Pro V1 X golf ball as do we the presenting sponsor of this here live show. Thank you to our friends at title list. Go find out what golf ball is best for you at title list.com. Uh, folks, Rory McElroy is your leader by six shots at the masters tournament. Uh, we're going to talk about that is the largest 36 lead in masters history. Uh, relevant. We're going to talk about that. Uh, before we do, let's bring in a guy that was, that was also there today. So I think you're super seated by this. I know you were there, but I want to hear what this guy has to say. That's of course our old friend Scott Van Pelt. Scott, how are you my man? Uh, I'm amazed at what we just witnessed. That was just outrageous. It was outrageous. That's a, that's a good word for it. Let me, let me start with this. What's your favorite thing you saw today? I mean, I was curious, like everyone with Rory, you know, what is this? Is it a finish line? Is he out of gas or is he truly reached the no one has anything to threaten me with? And it appears it's the latter, right? I mean, you, you, I was on PTI earlier this week and will bond asked me, what do you expect? And I said, look, I don't know. I truly don't. And, um, I think there's, there's clearly a big difference between, between chasing and raining and as a raining champ, he just can let it rip. But I just, I can't figure out as I was piecing it together. Like he's out of position over and over again. I can see the trees on 13. He's in the trees on 15. He's in the trees on 17. And the good drive he had on 14, he had a crummy wedge and that was the one hole he didn't birdie. I mean, just an astounding finish and was, I mean, up six, it's not over. I'm not going to do that. I mean, we've seen too many of these to know that it isn't, but just six, six, six stuff. Perverse grotesque. Uh, you beat me to that question there. Is it over? Um, and I'm not, I'm not ready to do the crowning thing yet. I guess that comes as a little bit of seasoning of, of the masters, you know, we, well, another favorite of ours, once took a six shot lead in the back nine on Sunday and I don't believe that worked out that, that great for him. But I guess was he, where were you coming into this? Was it like, were you on team? Like, I think he's freed up. I think this is like the, the lid is off. And I think he's about, like what, it doesn't even seem like his, his, he's ever voiced the motivation to be a multiple time masters champion. Right. And it feels like, uh, I don't know. I, I felt too convenient to me to buy into the freed up narrative. And now we're watching it. I'm kind of like, dude, I, I kind of, I maybe I'm, maybe I can get there a lot faster than I thought I could. Did we lose audio? You might be on mute. Are you on mute? It doesn't show mute. Uh-oh. Randy might have lost our guy. Yeah. We might've just, we might've just lost it. And well, hey, that's okay. That's all right. Live TV. Nobody knows live TV more than, more than Scott Van Pelt. We know that. Well, it's great to see you even for a short time. Enjoy wherever your head is. I know you're off to dinner anyways. We appreciate you popping. Yeah. We look forward to watching it. Oh, we got thumbs up or thumbs down. Rory is putting on the green jacket Sunday evening. That's a resounding thumbs up. Uh, we'll see you soon. That's live TV for that was completely unplanned. That happened five minutes before we went to go here, but we appreciate that was not on our end guys. Sorry. I just found that noted. Appreciate SVP coming through though. Well, let's go, let's go back to the top of the order. We mentioned some of the, uh, kind of X's and O's here, but, uh, Rory was leading, coming into the day, goes out and shoots the low round of the day. You know, we always love, uh, when someone does that, he is leading by six. It is the largest 36 whole lead in master's history. Got off to an absolutely blistering start. Almost reminded me of Saturday of, uh, of last year, birdies, two birdies, three birdies, four, like a downhill kind of curler on four, uh, slowed down a little bit by a bogey from the fairway on five. And then just goes, I would say ape shit is the word that, that comes to mind for me on, on the back nine, the second nine, uh, six birdies after a bogey on 10 from the fairway, which was kind of a strange one in, in and of itself, but birdies 10 birdies 13 birdies 15 birdies 16 chips in first birdie on 17, just the drippiest, like of course that's in off the face type of chip there on 17 and then stuff's one on 18 and makes another birdie to shoot 65 low round of the day. Uh, solid. What, I don't know. We were, we were kind of ping ponging it back and forth with, with P paw there dancing around it, but is, is it over? Where, where are you at on this? You don't want to say it or you don't want to be wrong. You don't want to, where, where are you at here? Cause I kind of, I think it's over. I'll go and say it. That's fine. Uh, you, you're free to say whatever you like it. We've seen enough of these tournaments over the years. We've seen 96, we've seen 2016. It's a long tournament. We said, this is the players too. Like I feel like these are the two tournaments that are the longest. I mean, a guy, I mean, Cameron young look like he was completely out of it until he goes on a hot tear this, this afternoon, like a triple bogey could happen very easily for Rory. Uh, you know, tomorrow it could happen on Sunday. There's just a lot of consequence and a lot of golf shots remaining. It, the setup was softer today. It was a little bit more gentle, but it is not a, uh, everybody pass go collect $200. Like you still got to execute. We saw Bryson mess it up on the way in. We saw Akshay struggle a lot. We saw a lot of guys struggle out there as well. It's not, it's not a cinch and it's not going to be set up any easier than it was today. So that's all to say, Lord willing, that's all to say it's, it's impossible to set it up. He's got to hit a lot more shots. Uh, it is overwhelmingly, you know, he's going to be a odds on favorite to win the championship. I still think that he will, but it is not over. We have seen things flip way too quick. I mean, at one point he was tied with Patrick Reed on the back nine today and then left it, uh, you know, leading by six shots. Like a lot can change in just nine holes, much less 36 holes on this golf course. And I don't feel that way about every golf course. If this was the RBC Canadian open, I think we'd all be saying night, night, right now. Randy, where are you at? You want to, you want to give me the case that it is over? Are you any lasting kind of big takeaways? What, what, what's spring's to mine for you? Uh, I think it's smart to say it's not over. I think that's the responsible thing to say. It, it feels over to me. I, I don't, I mean, six shots. Two guys have had five shot leads at this point. Uh, Sheffler, one by three strokes, Spieth, one by four strokes. Uh, you know, there is the Greg Norman was up four after 36 holes and lost by five. I just, I, I don't see that, Deige. Um, I listen, you got to have a combination of skill and a little bit of luck to win around here. I think particularly, you know, I would like to talk about the overall setup, but I will just note like at the end of the day and Rory being in one of the last groups today, the golf course, I mean, did a golf, just posted something. Uh, this golf course got a whole heck of a lot easier, relatively speaking, in the last 90 minutes to two hours of play today and credit to Rory. He took full advantage of that. Still had to hit the shots, still had to make the putts. I don't begrudge him that. I think it's just a mixture of, Hey, he ended up having a great tee time based on what the conditions ended up being. He took advantage and he set himself up beautifully for this weekend. I think it'll get a little bit closer. You know, I don't, I don't think he's going to keep extending, but I would be pretty shocked if he's not putting on the jacket Sunday. I just feel like after last year, getting the scar tissue cleared out, I don't really foresee something happening where he's not our winner. What do you think, Deige? I think it's over. I think he's going to win. I think that for a couple of reasons. And of course, like everything you said is true. Of course, people have blown big leads. Of course, people can make back nine charges. All of those things can happen, but I am going to hitch my wagon to the guy's not even driving it good. And he's driven it good for the last 20 years. And I think he's going to figure that out over the last 36 holes. And I think he is, I just love it. I love everything you're saying, man. I think a lot of where that nervy meltdown stuff came from last year. Like I think he's been very open about where that came from. And I think it does. The freed up narrative is easy, but sometimes the narratives are right. And I think he's talked about it a lot where it's like, oh, I drove it in the trees. Oh, it's okay. We'll figure it out. We'll go figure it out. He just looks a little bit more like he's playing this cool combination of very patient and also your Rory fucking McElroy that we used to see. And I think, I don't know. I mean, he talked about how not only is his iron play been really good, not only is he played really smart golf, like he's shipping the lights out, not just a shot on 17. He's just like getting up and down when he needs to get up and down. He's playing, he's just playing the exact way you're supposed to play the golf course. He's wrecking the par fives. He's missing in the right spots. He's doing all the cliches and maybe it'll hit him on Sunday. Like, oh, holy shit, this is the masters. And maybe I can, you know, oh my God, is this too big? And I'm going to, you know, kind of dip another wedge into the tributary. But I just don't think that's the guy that we've seen, man. I think he is very comfortable front running. I just think he exercised a lot of what was holding them back last year. And I mean, at this point, like I, I hope it's close. I hope it's interesting. I hope it's fun. But like I said yesterday, I mean, I think the only thing that's more fun than one Rory masters win is to met Rory masters wins, you know? So it's, I, I, I think he sealed it today is how I feel. And I'll just add, you know, you look at the guys closest to him, like Patrick Reed's a little bit the wild card. He who knows, right? But other than that, there aren't, you know, I know he dueled with, with the great man Justin Rose last year, but there aren't got, it's not like Schaeffler sitting there at six under, right? Like best player in the world. I'm not sure there's anybody that necessarily would strike fear or should strike fear into Rory looking over his shoulder at that point at this point either. So I rose, rose looks very comfortable and, but kind of bulky with the potter. I don't know. I, I, we're, I mean, the guy had a four shot lead with like seven holes to play last year. And he's got a six shot lead with 36 holes to play. And he had to work to get into a playoff last, like it just, those are like two different human beings, man. Completely different. Yeah. You said that now, but like, what if it starts to slip away? A little bit of panic slips in? Like, I don't, I'd be surprised, but I'm just like, we literally saw this guy give it away last year. And I get it that like the second one is different than the first one. But like I said, I just would feel different if it was a different golf course. I will say there was a moment, I watched a lot, I watched a lot of shots of the 12 this week. And I picked him up around that stretch here this afternoon. And he was going second, I think, on 12, somebody, maybe even 30 was not, I know he was not first. And it was, it was his turn and like, there was commotion from the most recent shot. And there was kind of somebody laughing pretty close to the tee. And then somebody dropped something on like a great, like to the right of the tee as in a spot in his swing where it would have been distracting as in like, well, you know, not at the very top, like on the way back and like maybe I could have backed off of it. And there was zero hesitation. And there was a level of commitment and compression in that golf shot that was just like, that came off differently than everyone else. And again, through the lens of like, what the stats we went over on Wednesday of how well he plays that 12th hole and how like automatic that shot feels for him in particular, a potential spot he could have messed up this tournament. And he just hits it right on the green and makes birdie. And it's a fantastic shot in there and makes birdie. It's, it was a great, great, great Friday shot. I don't know, I'm super, super keen to see a Rory with a massive lead to sleep on for a long time. It's a long way to go. Like six shot lead tomorrow night, I think we could all say night night. But six, like it's just going to be a really long 48 hours. I don't care if you feel freed up. There's just something unbelievably big about this golf tournament. And I don't know it's impossible for him to not picture himself, but putting the green jacket on himself or Fred really putting on the green jacket on him now, like it's just going to be unavoidable from here on out. And there's just such a long ways to go that it's going to be theater. I really do think it's going to be theater. I'd be stunned if there wasn't any moment of drama remaining for the rest this weekend. I totally agree. There's a little bit of a Ryder Cup singles sort of situation where at some point it's going to feel closer than it is. But then I, again, I might be totally wrong. Who knows? Maybe he goes and shoot 75 tomorrow, but it's, I think as the course, you know, if it does ramp back up and again, we'll get to some of the like setup today stuff. That's where I'm like, well, he's still the best other than maybe Scotty, not maybe other than Scotty. I mean, he's also the best like firm and fast golf course player in the world over the last couple of years. He's, he's shown that at the, I think he's shown that at the U S opens. He's shown that at like, best who's better other than Scotty. I don't know. We've called him like the guy that loves the rain forever. I don't know if he's in total 2023, 2022 when it's like, Oh, yo, this is a different player guy is playing way more patient golf. He's playing to the smart spot. He's, and now he's playing in like at this tournament where it's like all you need is expertise, expertise, expertise, expertise. He's playing in what? Like is the 15th masters or something like that? And it's just, I don't know. I think there's a lot of combinations of stuff. I loved what he said to Michael Eves afterwards is, man, look at every paraphrasing, look at everything that I've been through at this golf tournament. Like nobody needs to tell me, like, Hey, just so you know, stay in your process and don't change. Like, yeah, I know how all the different ways this movie ends. Like I just feel, I don't know. You look at some of those collapses and it's like Norman, like Norman had never won one. That's like the whole point. Spieth had never gone through any kind of like scar tissue situation. It was always just like, Oh, I'll just kind of keep firing and it's going to work out. You know, I just think this is very different. And I'm happy to happy to be wrong. And I hope it's close. And it's a really fun Sunday. I don't disagree that this is different. This is a different scenario. I just, it, I would feel differently if this was Scotty sitting here. I can confidently say like when Pete Scotty gets a six shot lead at the halfway point. I feel like you could say night night, but Rory takes us on an emotional, if anything we've learned from, from Rory, it's going to be an emotional journey. Okay. Let's, let's click into that too. Because other than last year, which, you know, again, he's dumping the wedges. He's making bad decisions. He's missing short, but like he's, he's doing a lot of the like, Oh my God, that guy's squeezing the bat way too tight type of stuff. If you look at like what he's not doing well right now is around like, well, he's not driving it well. It's like, okay, well, he happens to be at the one golf course on the PGA tour where you can get away with not driving it well as, as he's just taken a six shot lead. So I don't know. That's just, it's another like, I feel like I, I'm putting that in my pile too of like, even the thing that he's allowed to not do well is the thing that he's not doing well. And I'd say he's, he's, he's only not driving it well weirdly on the par fives. You know, the, the, the driver on the par four is very good. Yeah. And he's been birdieing all the par fives from a lot of interesting places. I, I, yeah, I just failed to see God that wedge last year into 13 when they replayed it. I was like, Oh my God, that actually did happen. I just can't. Yeah, I just can't envision a world where we get that type of meltdown now. It just doesn't seem possible, but I guess that's why they play the game. They took the words out of my mouth thing. That's what that is. Why they play the games. Well, I think Rory undoubtedly the, the story of the day big, where you want to go next for, for kind of your, your second story of the day. Well, I mean, can we, can we talk about the setup? I don't want to turn this into just a bitch fast, but I was very disappointed by the overall setup today. I think that was a huge story and I just want to talk about like why I didn't like it. And I'm curious if you guys did, I, I mean, they put a lot of water on the greens and you can tell me why and I'm sure there are good reasons and this and that, but genuinely when I came in yesterday's show, the way the golf course was playing had me excited, had me giddy. I was talking about, you know, balls trickling and getting into spots and the nervousness and the anxiety about where that ball was finishing. Was alive and well yesterday. And today I just thought it was soft. It just robbed a lot of what I love about yesterday specifically. It robbed a lot of quite honestly, like the shot value into a lot of these holes. I think, listen, if Rory shoots a 65 in very difficult conditions, like I just have a much greater appreciation. And I thought today everything was dumbed down. Yesterday felt like a true, true, true test. And today felt like, you know, a multiple choice exam, maybe even open book and maybe people using Claude, all kinds of stuff going on. Yeah. It just, I don't know if you like that type of golf. Great. If you had a great time today, that's great. I have to speak my truth. I thought, I thought after what we saw yesterday, I thought today was a big, big step back and I was very disappointed. A couple quick things. It did play about two shots easier today, just kind of a course, you know, scoring average by the numbers. Randy, we do need to talk about the, the PTI, the proper test index. Yesterday we were at nearly unprecedented two with 10 rounds in the 80s, five rounds in the 60s. Today I think we're like, there were like two rounds in the 80s and 20 rounds in the 60s or something like that. I mean, it's just, we straight from the way. The PTI does not lie. The PTI does not lie. We've strayed from the light in a big, big way. Yesterday 15 was playing over par. I think you could point to that as a, a pretty key indicator and performance metric about how giddy it was to just watch the broadcast. We were back under par on 15 today, 19 birdies versus 12 bogeys on 15 today. So I just wanted to, I wanted to get those in there. What are your thoughts here? I, I know we're going to talk coverage later, like the television coverage, but I, I came in from the golf course, saw all you guys just, just causing a hissy fit about the golf course. And I was just like, whoa, proprietary messages. I, and I won't expose them. I was like, whoa, okay. I just, that was not my experience out on the golf course. And again, I don't know what was seen on TV, you know, but I, I, I guess I saw enough bad golf shots out there. I saw enough guys getting exposed. Most of them were from Oxay. Sorry to call it out, but enough like parallel play of, Hey, here's how you execute on this whole. And if you're falling out of position, I watched a lot of speed today. I watched a lot of Scotty today in person. And maybe I just picked guys that weren't playing well, but it was like, man, when they made mistakes, when they didn't execute the shots, they were needed. Like they, there was no easy birdies to be had from, from either of those guys today. Like they really struggled. They got behind the eight ball and Jordan also, did he like putt left handed or something? I don't know what happened with his putter today because he did have a lot of looks and just fucking missed all of them. He looks, yeah, very, very bad on the green, but also they slowed down. Oh, we'll talk about it. They slowed down the greens and that was no Vax whole thing was three putt. And how slow the greens were. Except for the afternoon guys who then could see how slow they were and then went out and just rate. I feel like the take has been like, but they needed to have the green slower and then put pins on harder slopes, which is like, I did the putts didn't look putting didn't look easy today. I look like guys were absolutely flummoxed throughout the entire day. And yeah, you're going to get some of these like bullish, funnel-ish pins at the bottom, but like a huge takeaway from those is like, those putts are all really hard. Like the putts on 16, unless you stuff it on 16, it is very, it's difficult to make the birdie putt. Six, I thought was going to be a lot easier pin today than it actually ended up being because it kind of sat. It was just hard to access it. You get in that bowl, but you're going to be above it where the putts were just really difficult. I watched a lot of groups come through six and not make putts there. It did get like, it looked like it turned into a turkey shoot there at the very end of the day, which I was kind of, I was on the way back and I didn't get to see a lot of that in person. But I, again, I was just like, I was rooting hard for Scotty and rooting hard for Jordan as I was following them and not seeing the easiness out of what was happening right there. But and that's where I'm just like, I'm curious. I know the coverage can turn into a bit of highlights and birdie here. And let's watch. All right, let's go over to say, I got guys were struck. The guys I saw play 16, they were struggling. Like I don't know what's the smoke of my house percent. Well, I feel like I saw three of nine guys that I saw play 16. Did I get it actually in that strip? The rest I saw big shot Bob explode. He hit one where he hit in the water. That was awesome. That was sick. Tommy hit one up, up on top. JT missed right of the green when I was there. Like it was, it was not a gimme shot. Then I watched read just hit like a lower shot than everybody else hit enough right to left on it that I'm like, oh, that's guaranteed to take the slope as soon as that lands and it ends up, you know, in a really good spot. It just I, it was easier and Augusta's never like, I do not think they care about making it a super hard test. I don't think they care a ton about the scores. I think it make the pins more challenging than this. There's harder spots on all the greens, but they're gonna put, they're gonna use that. They use that spot one of the rounds every year on 16. They're gonna put one back right on three. That's one of the easiest spots on three. It was a pretty accessible spot on nine as well. I'm guessing they're going all the way back on nine tomorrow. It was in a little easier spot today on 18. They always use that front right hole location. Maybe they just use more hard hole locations yesterday on top of that. But yeah, there were some more opportunities for birdie. I tweeted this out this morning. I was like, I expect the scoring average to be around 73 with a lot of these easier hole locations. So it ended up being extremely close to that. And I just didn't think the conditions were drastically like create a pillow fight. I there's one guy lower than minus six right now, which without win today, it seems quite reasonable. I know what you like, Randy. I'm not going to tell you what not to what to like and what not to and I know you want it harder than this. I don't know enough about agronomy to say like that they messed this up because they have two 85 degree days to come. And I I know there's management from people a lot smarter than me that go into the golf course. I just don't know. Like is is we just saw so many squirrely shots yesterday from spots where like on a day like today, you just don't see that same squirreliness, right? Like there was a real threat of chipping back in the water on 15. We saw Ludwig chip it off 13 into the water, you know, like there just wasn't every shot into 15 felt felt consequential yesterday. Whereas it felt like a lot more a lot more guys were just kind of hitting it high and soft and landed on the green. So I'll grant perhaps, you know, there's some of this that has to do with where they cut the the pins today. But I just I don't know. I saw too many guys coming off the course just being pretty surprised by how soft it was. And I think had it been this way yesterday, I wouldn't be nearly as frustrated as I am right now. But but based on what we saw yesterday, I thought, Hey, this is the tournament we're getting, you know, we talked about like the vintage. I love this vintage that we've uncorked for this year, right? Let's let's make it firm. Let's make it fast. Let's make it a more difficult test. Sign me the fuck up for that. And, you know, today, it we just took a big step back. And I, I guess I'm really frustrated by like Jeff Yang's decision. Like it just felt unnecessary. It felt unforced. And I don't know why. I don't know why we had to do that. And it's like, Oh, maybe they'll ramp it back up this weekend. It's like, okay, well, great. But I don't know what was the point of it today? I don't get it. Yeah. That's where I throw up the same, the same caution flag that solid did is like, if it's heat coming in and it's something that they need to prepare for, then, you know, I'm not privy to that or how that works. It's just as it's hard when you see, man, you see yesterday and you see today and you see nothing really changing in between those two days except for the scoring average. Is that like, Oh, well, that's, yeah, I don't know. Yesterday was an A and I felt like today was kind of a C, you know, other than very average, other than Rory. And it was kind of one of those that's like, well, glad it was Rory. Rory highlights down the stretch. Like, yeah, obviously became the story of the day, but I thought it was a very middling masters Friday, quite honestly. Sorry, I'm battling a fuse that keeps flipping over here. But so blue is drying his hair. He's got his hair dryer out. Outside of what you were told, you mentioned like the vintage. I I don't know if Augusta National, like it's almost impossible, I think for them to get a golf course to the level that you are expecting. I know this is the line we saw it. We saw it yesterday. It's not, it's not that's not sustainable for six days though. Why? Because it's over. Why are we water? It's over seeded grass, man. Rye is dying. They're trying to, they're trying to keep as much rye on top of the brune for mutas they possibly can, which there's an argument to have there. But like there, it's just been so hot and they haven't had enough rain. Okay. I mean, sure, we got to protect it. Tons of member play coming up. It's going to be open all summer. Like this is why I'm like, it's not open all summer. I know, I know, that's, that's the point. I just don't understand why we can't push the goal. I mean, I guess why did we have it like we did yesterday then? And why did it fluctuate so greatly between rounds one and two? I'm guessing because they look at the forecast and they're like, holy shit, this weekend's going to be hot as hell. But they would have known that Wednesday. I mean, again, it's above my pay grade. I'm like, I don't know what the, they measure the soil. Like nobody like does this more intensely than Augusta does. This is where I'm just kind of like, I have to, I have to leave the fact that they probably know what they're doing and probably know how to pace it out. I honestly, they're writing their own story. They can do whatever the fuck they want to do. Of course they can. And I can like it, which is almost, I would say, yeah, that's almost, I feel like you could kind of see the seams on that today where it's like, as much as you heard every single person on the property walk off Wednesday, Thursday, being like, they have it exactly where they want it. They can do anything with this golf course. It's like, now they're like, hit the brakes today. Like, what? Okay, well, that kind of stinks. So I mean, there's, there's the rye is dying off around a lot of the greens. Like the yellow, the 11th green already looked discolored. Like it looks, it has like a brown purplish tint to it. They're in person. I went back and watched like the footage on Masters.com. It does not look like it from that angle, but I was out there like, man, it already looks discolored in a lot of these places. The bank on 15, like going down into the water and there and all the surrounding areas around 15, you can see Bermuda popping out in all those spots. That's different even from yesterday. Like again, I don't, I don't know how to maintain grass 365 days a year. Cody might probably knows more about this than I do, but hell no, I have no clue. I just know that I looked at the forecast. I'm like, wow, it's going to be hot. I'm sure they're like, how do we keep these playing conditions to peak on Sunday? Well, if it gets too hot guys, you might want to grab an ice cold high noon. Make the day a good day with the all new high noon day pack. New variety eight pack will be available year round to keep the sun shining, keep the good times rolling crafted with real vodka and real juice. The high noon day pack brings together pear, cranberry, tangerine and peach. The perfect combo of light, bright, delicious flavors for a blue sky day. Visit high noon spirits.com to find a pack near you. High noon, suns up. Guys, we've been talking a lot about what's going on on the grounds. We had another guy that was out there on the grounds today. I did two more guys. I know Neil was out there obviously as well, but I think we got a report from, from somebody else. Cody that was, that was maybe out there today as well. With the first pine cone and Magnolia leaves hanging in the air above amen corner, a legion of speech since office, all they came to the golf gods, can they will their beautiful boy back to relevance? If you listen closely, you'll hear it. The murmurs, the mantra, the prayers, he's close. He's close as he makes yet another difficult paw in the young father defeat a decade of demons and some of the kids back to life for just this one week at April. Who can say Schpiels, who's live from a national What a, what a thrill to have that reporting on the ground from our guy, Schpiel Schuster. Now joining us, Neil Schuster. Yeah. How we, how we doing Neil? Good. I've missed a lot of the actions. I was in an opium den all morning. I've been recovering from that. I mean, they need to throw in a highly addictive label on a speeth pairing on the T sheet. Randy, I haven't, I haven't followed speed in years, truly years. You know, we saw him at pebble, but I haven't watched him play competitive golf up close in a long time. And I can't confirm he's close. But, but close, you know, looks like he needs a pop on 18 from, from Rosen and Brooks. They're just in another league today. So it was a fascinating group to watch. It was very intense golf. Rose and Brooks were super, super impressive. But I just kind of want to walk you through a couple of shots here, just how close Jordan is. Hold on. Before we, before we do that, let me talk about the other two guys who are a little more relevant in this tournament. I had notes on them too, but starting with Justin Rose, shots 69 today, 70 69 for the great man, the runner up last year, Justin Rose ball struck his face off today, which I'm sure Neil's about to, to tell us about a little leaky with the putter at times, but man, he had an awesome run in the middle of that round where he was just flagging it seven, nine, 10, 11 birdies, all of those gets a little heat check on 12 flying that green and then making a bogey there to kind of, you know, come back to the land of the living, but far and away, best day on the course from a stroke, gained approach, perspective by nearly two shots over second place. It was so professional. P.J. It was so, and he's just feeding off the crowd. He's become a crowd favorite. The people love him. They love him. Rosie. Oh my God, really. He's just, you know, getting them all going. And my favorite thing, he has ILS invisible lat syndrome. If you watch Rosie walk around, he gets a little bit of this going when he's feeling himself. He starts walking a little Vince McMahon. I mean, he's got just that villain. It's good stuff and hit the difference. I'll give you tons of speed stuff if you want it, but Rose, he had a knack today. He was a little scrappy, especially early right off the first tee. He was right, but he has a knack for seizing opportunities. He just like gets in position and he goes. He doesn't hesitate. And you know, he was, he was out of position a few times, but he's just a true pro. It was really fun to watch. He takes like four or five minutes before he decides what he's going to do. And then he doesn't hesitate. That's here. He's very slow. And that was actually pissing off Brooks. I could tell he was getting a little impatient with him. The shot on one was awesome. I'm fully with you though on the like, I don't know if anybody's hitting other than maybe Rory as we were talking about in that back nine. I don't know if anybody's hitting more committed golf shots than Justin Rose, you know, and it's, it's very, very fun to, to watch. Neil, real quick, if I may, I hear you talking about the, the pomp, the bombast from, from the great man, Justin Rose, how would it compare? I'm really excited with the thought that Rose, you watch Colin Montgomery. You knew what Colin was about out there on the golf course. How does Rose's just actions and temperaments compare to the great man Colin Montgomery? He's much more engaged. He's much more engaged and aware. He is an up and out guy, Randy. And I felt like Monty was a leave me alone, you know, like, what have they done here? They both are very Monty was aware, but he was just, he couldn't believe, but he was, it was, it was, don't be a bother. Like keep those hands low and still Marshall. He was looking for a reason to call people out. Whereas grieved good example, 17 today, Rose hit a great chip or a great bunker shot out of the front bunker, made the putt and he turns around and, and he hit, he hit just like a very dramatic like, oh, like, you know, you know, like, and just, and people, they just lap it up. They lap it up, you know, it's like, he's playing to the people. He is. He's a, he's a Thesbian, Randy. He's turned into a Thesbian and this might be new. You know, like I was not a Justin Rose fan, but I'm like, oh, he's so chummy. What it is. It's like stage acting. It's like, it's not real. You know, it's like, he's just playing a part and he's very good at it. It's, it's really something. Isn't it wild to think that like, I mean, what we're, all of us, I believe rooting for last year was like, oh, not Rose over Rory. We cannot do this. No way. No, we're Carl Tavington. Kill people for the war is over. Will you? You know, it's, and he still is, he's still kind of a villain, but he's like one that you really appreciate. And then this year, it might be kind of like, Roy's guy is green Jack kind of would love to see Rose like hunt him down. Like that would be great theater. I kind of feel for the dude having lost twice in a playoff. Like, that's a flipping of the script that I could not have pictured happen. It's, it's like, truly, you, you know, live long enough to be the hero. You become the villain. It's almost the other way around with Rosen with Pete. It's like, man, this is good stuff. He's so greasy. They forgive you for that. We're over that. I see Pete coming down 11 today. I'm like, Oh, there he is. Like fire up this TV. He's in the all black. He's just looking like a little grease ball rolling down the hill. It feels a little bit like the Sergio year also over Justin Rose. But you know where it's kind of like, oh God, Sergio can have one. Come on. It's gonna be fun. You know, yeah. Yeah. All right, D. I want to test one out on you. I was workshopping this out there. All right. Could be a Jack Reacher here, but I was trying to think of a music comp for Justin Rose. And I was, I was walking up 14 just kind of mulling it over. And I came up with Bruce Bruce Springsteen. So stick with me here. I know you're like, Oh, what are you talking about? Right? Jersey ready, but you got to longevity, distinct cultural identity, very, very like dedicated. Like the songs are very regimented. And I feel like like Rose is very regimented. Not the most talented, you know, as far as golf and I would say guitar with Springsteen, but a lot of discipline works his ass off. They both have large teams that they've leaned on for years. I mean, there's something there, right? The East street bands have like 40 people. I think you're closer than, uh, closer than it seems, but very far off. I think Bruce is the he's the poet of the working man. He's the like, I think he's Billy Joel. I told you, I think he's I was going to guess unbelievably uncool, but very popular. I think he's very safe, but also a little dark. If you kind of look at it and, uh, massive staying power. Phil Collins is that's actually, that's a lot. I keep Phil Collins. Yeah. What else you got in those notes? No, I'm glad I brought it up. It was a good, like I'm out there alone, just kind of thinking about this. The best I could come up with was the boss, you know, and I'm like, now I'm like, nah, it's a bad take. So thank you. This is good. What's workshop here? Who are you, Neil? I don't mean to put you on the spot, but obviously the, the once proprietor of the block party. I mean, Rory's leading by six. Who would you rather see win a green jacket this year? Rosa Rory win another one. Um, I don't know. I haven't watched any really other than those first seven holes on Thursday. I haven't watched much of Rodgerson staying away because I might need to get you back out with Randy. Yeah. This thing's over. If you don't get back out there tomorrow for that. Oh God, this is your nightmare, Randy. There's just, you know, inundating the course and Rory's up by six. Uh, I'd like to see some drama. So yeah, maybe Rory can, you know, drop a couple and raise Creek for us, make it interesting again. But like a historic back to back is pretty, would be pretty fun to watch as well. So I'm definitely rooting for Rory. He's got, he's a fucking freed up. It's unbelievable, man. He's just so in his process. It's something we talked about it before you hopped on. You think it's over or no? Uh, I don't think it's over. I really don't know. I think they have a lot. I caught a little bit of the course discussion. I think there's two days left. I think these guys could, you know, you guys, oh, you want to see us ramp it up? Like there's a lot of golf left guys. We're halfway. So I think they, that we're halfway and we're sending the pretenders home now. Like I don't think Roy's going backwards, but I could see a couple guys, you know, getting up within two or three and making things interesting. I'm not in that cut line today. What's that? A lot of pretenders snuck in that cut line. A lot of people make it. I don't like, you'll see a lot more going on. You know, Randy, the only thing I'd say, cause I agree with a lot of how you feel in person. It didn't come out that the course was playing easy. So I'll say that, but the scores, it's like, okay, but, you know, Brooks and roses 69 felt really good to me today. Three under. I was like, those are, that's good golf. And there wasn't a lot else in that, that range. I think Wyndham played really good this morning. Um, but on Thursday, when it was really hard, I liked it. I was like, oh my God, let me watch all these guys hit this. What looks like to a casual fan of boring chip shot from behind 15. And I'm just like locked in on it, but it does that the crowds a little dinner when there's no birdies in person. And I think I would, you know, I'm pontificating a little bit, but I would think that, uh, the jackets want some birdies, you know, it gets the people going. They like, they like the logo today. I think you're right. I like that. I'm just saying, I think that's a factor though. I think you're absolutely right. And I guess I, I, I, I, I've already harped on it, but, but I do want people to know it's, I'm more frustrated because of how much I enjoyed yesterday and not as much of how much I didn't enjoy today. If that makes sense. It took coffee away in the break room. So you felt like that a little bit. It's like, what the hell took the coffee away? That's bullshit. Before we move off, Justin Rose, I do want to shout out the guy in the comments who said Justin Rose is sting. I think that's an incredibly, incredibly good take. I don't know. I got the conversation going. Hand out bad, bad take by me. Well, also an incredible team, incredible team guy, you know, once he gets to the Ryder cup, you know, the police like who's better than that team. Let's talk about Brooks a little bit. There's a lot of other guys to talk about, but I know he's, he's heavy, heavy in your notebook, 69 today, three putt of the first, and then just absolutely locked in, made six birdies, looked the part today. I thought he, he was Extraed Moknak too. Looks like he's very much visually looked the part of great outfit in the gym. He looked great. Gritty. He looked gritty. He was, yeah, wasn't like, it wasn't effortless. Brooks, it was like locked in. There was a lot of intensity in that group, including speed. They were all three of them were grinding. So it was, it was fun to watch today. Bit of a driver kerfuffle going on with, with Brooks, he said after the round that he noticed at the round yesterday, after the round yesterday, sorry, that he noticed at the range that his driver was set on B one instead of a one. I'm the kind of sure fit Hossel. And so he, he changed that and, you know, drove it much better today. Didn't drive it particularly well yesterday. And then I think it was Jack Hirsch from golf.com posted some photos from Phoenix this year. It said, yeah, I don't know. His Phoenix, his driver was also on B one back at Phoenix. So like, I, I don't totally know what's going on there. Other than to say, that's kind of funny. And it seemed like he, he figured something out today. It's something that happened to me. Oh, God. Yeah. That's right. I messed the settings up. It sounds a little bit like Craig Stadler reliving some of his master's memory of just like, yeah, you know, I just found this out. Well, it's, it's funny to bring that up because he, one of the best shots I saw today, he had driver off the deck on two. And, you know, he pulls the districts on head cover out and it's like, oh, no, that's a GT. That's, and I think it apexed like 110 feet. It was one, it was unbelievable. I think he put it in the front right bunker, but he was way back off the tee on the right side. And it was one of the most beautiful golf shots I've ever seen. He's, he's another one. I feel very dumb when I talk about the golf swing, but much like what I was saying about P yesterday, I'm like, man, I don't know how to explain it, but Brooks's swing looks so much better. It does. Whether that's a health thing. He's feeling more mobile, whether he's just, I don't know, knocking rust off. I don't know what's going on, but he just, I mean, it looks, it looks really, really good. And I had a really fun time watching Brooks today and I hope he's involved going down the board just a little bit, Neil, before we get to, yeah, you guys, you, you, uh, he's speech. It seems we dodging that conversation. Listen, it goes up to me and be an entire speed episode. I that's the only thing that's interesting. His bosses are making them. Sam Burns gets it back under par. He is at six under along with P anything we want to, we want to talk about with the great man P. He was bogey free until the 18th on, on his way to his second straight 69 bird, just clean card, man. Birdie's at three, eight, 12, 17. He's getting up and down. He's doing all the P things. He looks, it looks very real to me. It, I saw a lot of this group again today and I was kind of trying to catch Rory, but it was too crowded around that one. I'm just like, I'm gonna catch with my guy P again and watching everybody hit the shot on 12. I talked about Rory hitting a really good shot in there. P was the, as soon as the ball came off the clubface with P to that back is right. Pim, but not quite the Sunday whole location. I was like, up wet. All right, it's over. Like that, that's over. That is coming off the wrong window. I've watched everybody play this whole and it comes out of a totally different window. And nope, it's Patrick Reed playing a draw to the back right whole location on 12. I mean, it was nobody else was doing that. And I, we know he hits a draw every time, but still, I don't know what, I don't know what I was expecting, but I still wasn't expecting somebody to start it right of that pin and go after that pin. And he made an excellent birdie. Two people clap for that birdie when it went in. I counted. There's two people and I get that's a weird separation there. Not everybody was paying attention, but two people clap. So easy to zone out at any corner. It's just really far away, but you're just, you're chilling. You're having a cold beer, Randy. You know, it's like, it's like, you're looking at a painting with like the, it's like a Harry Potter painting, you know, when the people move around in it. That's kind of what even corner is. It's like far away. I do want to issue a male couple. I think I said this earlier that there were 19 birdies on 15. That was actually 12. I was talking about there were 19 birdies on 12 today, which is just a lot. That's a lot compared to 11 crown them. Randy just presented without comment. Yeah. DJ, I, I almost looked away when P came through. It's like, I'm me saving a treat for tomorrow. Well, it's not like you're saving your fucking candy bar for tomorrow too. Big M. Find one could not find one. They might be selling out of these things. Oh, I couldn't find one. They're not testing well. Randy, I'm trying. I promise you, I will get what I let you know. That's helpful. Thank you. We were under the impression. You just didn't do it or forgot. No, I looked. They don't have them in the media center and I went to two concession stands on my way out. They didn't have them. So maybe it's late in the day and there are people are just non on those things. Maybe grab that thing first thing in the morning and jam it down in your pocket. That's what I didn't want to do. I thought about that. So that's why I waited because I was like, I don't want to melt my pocket all day. It's hot out there. Hey, I want to be a true taste test. I'm trying to make sure we don't lose the bar. You got to keep the integrity of the bar. Right. Yeah. One thing broadly on P, we need, if Rory doesn't collapse tomorrow, assuming Rory is one of those two in the final group, we need P in that final group for Sunday. If we're going to have any chance at some real drama, I think, like Patrick Reed is who I'm looking at. 100%. They should just pair them together tomorrow. Again, this is a block I'll be on forever. Rory's not playing with, he's playing with Sam Burns. He's playing with Sam Burns. Like when guys are tied, I think tournaments should have the ability and the masters used to just pair whatever the hell they wanted in the final round. They could do anything with these groups right now. P, Justin Rose, an ultimate pairing. That's, is that happening? I think so. He's with Rose. Okay. Yeah. So that's good. But I just, you know, they're writer cup history. P relishes the, you know, he's just a great match play player. Like we need P tomorrow. Writer cup history. I mean, his P's lawyer subpoenaed, served Rory on Christmas Eve a couple of years ago. He went to go shake Rory's hand in Dubai, wherever that was. Rory wouldn't do it. Like through a T Adam. There is history there, man. Like these two do not like each other. I know. That was the, that was the cherry on top, Randy. When it was like, nobody chipped into the water today and fuck P missed that point on 18. Now he's not the final group. I was like, ah, this is just, you know, I a birdie coming in today. I kind of came back on my radar last year. I watched him on the front nine. I think on Friday and I was like, I missed this guy. I mean, it's just like the hands. It's unbelievable. It's, it's great. Data golf had an awesome post. Uh, just basically best short games at Augusta national since like 2021 and Patrick Reed is just far and away the, the best. It's, uh, that was a good chart. Um, outside of that, Shane Lowry at five under Tommy Fleetwood at five under. He had a 68 today, two Eagles. Uh, kind of epic pants. Uh, people are kind of bagging them. I think baggy's in. It looks, I think it looks swaggy. He pulls off. Again, it's not better. Does that, is that going to be a DJ pie outfit? No, I don't think so, but I think he looked great. You know, I'm glad he's doing it. I will say one of the cool things too is, you know, Tommy had an afternoon tea time, but, uh, you know, I was going out for the morning groups and I, you can't miss him. You see Ian Finnis out on the golf course. He was out scouting, watching whole locations, like watching putts, like ready to take a bunch of stuff back. He actually, uh, one of our reporters was on the ground with him and got a bunch of insight, um, into, into what he had gathered. I, I, it was great to view everything through this lens throughout the course of the day. 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I might not like how this goes On that on that note, you know, we bagged a lot on the live guys yesterday to your a hat and shot 66 was the low round of the day until Rory made that birdie on 18 fantastic round of golf for him how Tong Lee just was quote living in the bathroom last night He was super sick last night and as has survived it all to shoot 69 in Augusta National This is just it just tickles you already Is that a quote would he say that for the round? Oh, it's deathly ill. Yeah, I didn't yeah We don't have to get into the details, but it was bad it required a lot of the bathroom Any trips to the toilet? Yeah, so he's survived it. So any did say he survived. He did Christopher right tan Jason day and cam young rounding out that group at four under Cody I got to give you a big shout out on cam young probably give cam young a big shout out as well But he was he was he was seven over through four Sorry four over through seven and has fought it all the way back to four under par Just gritty stuff man. He clearly doesn't have it in spots But taking advantage of when he does made four birdies in a row from 12 to 15 today And is now a proper factor in the tournament. You love to see it, you know, who's who says no to that? So Neil I feel like with all that read into the record we can legally talk about speed if you Would have been a pretty big no Bob middle finger to the all those guys I can only speak to what I saw I can only speak on what I saw brother and I saw a lot of speed and I you know He hit like a step back Like step three to start the day, you know I'm the fairway bunker out of the fairway bunker drains like a 20 footer and it's just it just sucks you in Randy I mean, oh here we go. Not only that then he hits the green in two We're gonna just like you're you're so in you know, and then yeah, okay three but but we're fine You know, we're close right and then we get to three he hits his Just a speethy and chip to three and a half feet doesn't even hit the hole on the three footer You know, you're like, okay, that's tough and then he goes to four Well, not only that on it was closer to five feet by six foot putt but before he hit the bar before we hit the putt It was just something you just don't you're not seeing a guy on offense he called Mikey in for the read on that one and It's just not a lot going on with that putt man Like it breaks a little bit But to just hitting the fucking back of the hole and he didn't even like hit the putt He's so many times they just like didn't hit these are just like so afraid of all of these putts He's not hitting the putt like trying to get it in the back of the hole I think he's worried about the next one way too much and you just got to hit five six footers at Augusta with with some of Like you have to ram it but it's just got to go in at make speed not crawl over the front lip It was a scared effort and that's when it was like I think we're in trouble here Only counter yet only counter idea to that is this is where the Novak quotes are just and Sheffler and a bunch of other guys who are just like man I was shocked at how slow the greens were is kind of ringing in in the back of my head because he hit that as if it was like Sunday Greens are turning purple. This is like this can go off the green Type of speed and was shocked as soon as he hit it at just like why did that not get to the hole? And then the same thing happened on eight same thing happened again somewhere else and it just was that was very I Don't know that looked like a guy that Was just not playing the greens. He thought he was playing which to your point you got to make an adjustment You got to figure it out like I do get that but that was Yeah, bummer one thing I'll say is all day a lot of the body language with speed is He's like doing practice putting strokes like all and when other people are putting like all over the green It just it doesn't feel like joyous. It feels like nervous and defensive and I don't like that And it bums me out because I do refers to me I mean I I didn't think he was gonna be a threat this year, but I the minute he made that birdie at the first I was like, oh my god, maybe what if what if what if it would be such a joy And he used to play the game with such a joy that I wish that would come back And then for it comes for hits a great iron off the tee comes up a foot short in that front bunker You know and to his credit he grinded out a bunch of tough pars made an awesome up and down on seven And then a great example of him being close But like how far away is close on eight? He hits it up the left side and it's just like yeah, that's close man But like that is the complete wrong place to be off of AT room got a challenge to bunker up the right And so that you know, I think he makes par there And he's just a par fest on the way in and then he kind of just starts getting the lefts in play So I'm on 14 he hits it left hits it through this crack in the trees great shot You know and and makes par at 14, but he's off schedule. Yeah Gentlemen, it was the most like it was just the speed experience all all all of it I'm on the left side of 15 all comes down like five feet for me I swear to God some some ball nowhere in the crowd goes. I bet my house. That's Jordan's ball Just add t-shirt Just you know spit in his club walking up doing as much as idiosyncratic Jordan here comes and to move a TV truck and he and he and Mikey they're looking at it They talked for about 90 seconds over this like window. He's like I see it. You know, it's the only option Mikey It's the only option. I got to go here. So he steps up over the ball for a layup by the way Like a nine iron out and so he and he's like I right there, you know, but there's just one branch And I can get it by I think it's gonna be under that and just this whole conversations having in front like 40 people is awesome So he's about to he's about to hit it. It's very tense because I you know Michael was I think I get you okay You know, I see the window too Sure enough like a rifle crack rings out Brooks just plays from like up and it was his honor But I think the two of them were so locked in they didn't even check and Jordan steps off as I guess Brooks is playing, you know, it's just totally flummoxed and they steps in he hits a great shot He catches like the this clump of pine needles Like if he gave him a hundred shots, he wouldn't hit this clump again And it's just hanging in the only branch he could hit and he barely gets it out of the trees He's so pissed. He's like Mike. That was great shot. My I hit just where I wanted to Michael, you know And then he hits and then he's making the heart himself shot of the day shot of the day on 15 And he just can't convert all day same thing on 17 It's a great shot of the 17 can't convert and then just one for the road Randy Let me just almost make this bunker shot on 18 and then just walk off of the fucking bogey hang dog all the way to the scoring Meanwhile team Rose is dappin up every kid. He's like he's like trying to get kids to come over say hey you kid come over here Dap me up Jordan won't say hi to anybody. You know, it's just unbelievable. It was such a juxtaposition it Man the way he was hitting it through like We can wrap the speech. I know we're going No, no, no, I'm so with you. I watch it all and I was like through four five six seven holes I'm like if this is it man. He's hitting a grown-up round on the front He's hitting it the way he needs to hit it and then he missed that putt on eight. I'm like, yes We're done. This is not there's not it, but that's Maybe the possibly we'll see what happens last thing I'll say on speed for the week is he did hit it Genuinely like good enough to be in contention obviously was not gonna do what Rory's doing But he hit it good enough to shoot for under today and he just fucking didn't do it like he just he forgot Yeah, it's didn't yeah, there's just no offense Yeah with the putter and that's he always used to hit in these dumb spots But he just would get out of jail with like the magic on the greens and he just yeah, re was a perfect example It's like it's just not Certed, I don't know. All right on this on the spot musical comparison Jordan speed. Oh gosh In my head immediately the strokes, you know, I mean there was a time and a place where it's like Yeah, you've never seen anything like it. This is just feels like we're chasing it And now it's just like oh the new album coming out in July. I'm like Okay, you know, I feel like take like Mike Posner take an appeal and a visa in Just like yeah, he's not doing it anymore. He's not really doing music anymore He is doing music though. That's the whole thing. Yeah, but it's like making music this week It's the music's about how I'm not who I used to be like his new song Mike Posner's new song is like I went back to a bees and how it's not the same anymore, man like y'all are just like live in a different reality, I think and I I want to live it but It's just that the magic just isn't there like it's just not and it's not just the putting it's just like there's just no It feels it used to feel inevitable with Jordan in the opposite direction that it now feels inevitable There's some good suggestions coming just Justin Timberlake But it was gonna ruin the tour today. Yeah your boy the Sorry, I feel like the the stats are gonna show maybe speed didn't have his best putting day today You think it's worth kind of everybody else diving into their stats or no Yeah, I'll show I wasn't ready for that. Yeah, come on Down at Augusta this week, which is honestly the perfect place to talk about our stats in Arcos because this is where core strategy Matters more than anywhere. That's exactly what Arcos AI strategy is built for so if you got a golf trip coming up Or an event at a new local course or a new course in general You can pull up the course in the Arcos app and see exactly how you should be playing it builds a full game plan Before you even step on the first tee. It's not generic. 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Arcos golf comm code NLU 15. Let's save you 15% See a deals face during that ad read When you're going through and you're like if you know, it's just like if you were gonna play against it Ashley, you could see what clubs you're supposed to hit you can see all these things you're supposed to do Neil won the lottery today Clip your face Just like oh, yeah, okay All right, I gotta get I gotta get in the lab to figure out what I'm hitting on 12 You know sometimes sometimes life's pretty cool man Sometimes sometimes life's pretty good. It's solid. So you know what handshake to you. So I walk in from the course My I'm all scattered. I get up to the Desk and he's like, hey, you know, I got Cody on the phone. He wants to talk to you and it's it's my wife's Carson I'm like, what's up? Wait, what what's up? She's like, she's like, I you know, I need you to call my wife is everything okay Oh my god, you know and and he shared the news with her and she broke it to me, which I was like They're playing on you know, it was nice. It was very nice. The plan was gonna I was gonna I was gonna have him Like I was gonna have the golf course because that's like the only way that he wouldn't have known would have been if he's out And golf course if I ran into him be like hey Carson wanted to call you or you to call her It's not an emergency. Everything's fine. But she just wanted something about she needs a password or something So I wanted her to share it share it with him But then he came back in and it was on the sign when you walked in and he didn't see it somehow He was looking for candy bars. No, I didn't see it. I could tell he hadn't seen it I was like he didn't even ask about it or anything. So I I faked it what not but I was I was nervous I was as soon as they announced that it was coming up. I ran down there to see it I'm sure enough. I saw the name up there and was just I'm so stoked. It's so excited for him How about that Randy? You know what sometimes? We got what our beak, you know Yeah, we're supposed to do a strapline I'm truly stoked straight up. I was like that's that's a thrill. It's a it's a thrill and a delight What you have to do though on Monday what you were supposed to do what you will well, they had a secondary option for members of the media to play the patch, which I believe is the Renovated municipal golf course down the street and I'm gonna have to respectfully I'll get I hope someone can fill my time. I'll free it up. We'll send the elevator back down unreal Congratulations, you've changed that range. Look at me change. Yeah fucked up, man. I Think we got it, you know, we got to do it just like we did for solid We got to do a big debrief of shop. I shop. I shot That's a good Patch the patches VJ's new nickname. I think we should do another segment. I saw the patch up up close and personal today I'm 15 T it's something man. It is nice nice edging there. It really is. It's like a little Snow cone on his chin. We All right, we gotta get this thing back on the rails whip this thing whip this thing back Scotty shot 74 today. I feel like we probably need to talk about that thing a little bit got wet on both 15 and 15 Sully will you apologize? This is this is your boy Yeah, no, I won't apologize yet He's 12 back with 30 with 36 to play you think you might not win. I'm not gonna apologize just yet It's not good. Yeah, I don't I don't I don't know I didn't catch any any poster and press or anything like that I'll say it was it was an interesting moment. He so goes long on 15 goes in the water Takes like a really interesting drop And like gets it like kind of on the upslope of the bank like he took a drop really close to the hazard And I wasn't quite sure why and you go back and watch I mean, I'm missing the pot but watch the shot he hits from the bank long of 15 today Like lands it on like the spin he put on that one from you know from a really really precarious spot was one of the cool Shots I saw all day, but not sharp. I it was interesting As he was getting on the green he got marked his ball And he was one under I think at that point and at that moment We heard a roar on the other side of the course kind of kind of close to where we were and At that moment they posted Rory's birdie on four which put him at eight under and like he was like walking towards He's looking right up at the board and just looking up at like I just went in the water and now I'm like seven back of this guy and it was You know just imagine that more like moment two years ago walking off 20 24 when he wanted in and it's like Cruising fashion to like oh shit like this guy like might have as many green jackets as I do like in about like two days It was just a kind of unavoidable moment of how fast things can change and it's not going Scotty's way right now It looks just kind of those those sliding Somewhere between six to nine foot putts that Scotty has made the years He's won the Masters and not made the years that he doesn't we're just it was like it's been like that for two days Just missing low on several birdie putts on par fives and just hasn't been hasn't been clean hasn't been efficient hasn't been full on Scotty golf and I I'm surprised Body language totally fine. I didn't see a single thing that was you know, bitchy or or Anything that was kind of in line with what we'd seen in recent weeks when he's not played really well He looked he seemed totally fine. I think he did it is a weird It almost reminds me a little bit at the beginning of the year where it's like he I think he's hitting it better than he probably scored But not you know just can make any pots and then the two big like Yeah, when you hit unbecoming. Yeah, when you like the punishment for those two misses is just like so much more heightened Not only this week, but on those two holes to where it you know kind of derails the day a little bit Even though I think he hit it pretty solid the rest of the day You know, it's it's not as bad as it probably looks but it's also not even close to to what the guy at the top of the board Is doing and he lost two strokes on the greens I mean and yeah, you got two penalty shots on approach shots lost lost strokes approach And I mean the whole thing with Scotty is that it's it's not when he plays well It's unspectacular like he just doesn't make the mistakes and he just wears you down and like he's making the mistakes right now and there's just It's been a bit of a shocking decline, you know, it's not been horrible golf, but it's a Hard fall off from like winning half of the events you're playing essentially to like not being competitive over the last month and a half or so is Not something I saw coming. Yeah Still your favorite player Yeah, he is I you know, how are you taking this then? Oh, I'm disappointed. Yeah, I was disappointed. It's I I think I talked myself into the possibility of Scotty and Rory perhaps dueling this weekend and Probably shouldn't do that on a Thursday, but I was dreaming big and You know, he was going okay. It was looking quite honestly like okay, you know salvage a 70 today Let's move on moving day, you know Obviously didn't see Rory finishing at 12 under like he did but the just a bad Scrapey miss on 13 and then to follow it up on 15 with poor distance control. Yeah, just not good enough disappointing Neil your your agent sent me a note and said You're you're interested in debuting a new segment tonight. Is that yeah? I kind of Did we let some of these out of the back? the Chamber cup on a couple of these are firing all over but it came from so specifically it came from on the first hole today I got off to a hot start gentlemen. I had a bit of a tough interaction with radar Really the radio guy. Well, not like he didn't do anything wrong I just I got all excited the last night after listening to you and CBS cameraman type of situation. Yeah a little bit. Yeah. Well said Just talking about him saying immense. Yeah, you know, and so I was like right next to him and he's you know kind of He throws off the gallery because it'll be dead silent and he'll be like Behind the behind the green, you know, and everyone's like who is this guy with the cowboy? You know the Indiana Jones had on anyway Jordan hits that awesome shot or I think no rose hit an awesome shot from the trees Yeah, and and I just kind of took my chance and I was like that was immense and he was like Yeah, like right out like Hard I just didn't know what to do so I kind of walked off So in honor of that I was gonna introduce a new segment Icaritas immense moments of the day and that was that was the first one That was the first one but one specifically we talked about speed on 15. I do want to give mr. Michael Greller a shout out Just the immensity of his presence. He walks right in behind Jordan to this golf ball and immediately says I'm gonna need five feet here ladies and gentlemen, I need five feet and Audible three separate big strong men Randy said oh, yes, sir Yes, sir to Greller. I swear to God. Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir I was like right down the line of just frat stars. I was like hell. Yeah, Greller Just taking control of the situation. Everyone's backing up immediately five steps on command. It was immense gentleman That's the old teacher. It is it was just handling his business very respectful for the way he said I'm gonna need five steps here Pencils pencils down Yeah, nobody was messing with Greller and then he's got got into this back and forth with Jordan about the windows It was it was that was a really really fun fun part of the day He should have given him the his shot does not release you I release you and I will tell you you can get back into position I I had the Brooks driver off the deck is gonna stick with me. That was immense. I had that in there I just had just team Rose just what can we say about him? I he might have graduated to immense from from great to immense. I mean he's a lion Randy Just a total pro out there. Where do you go describing him after great man like literally like we've Amense in my great man. Yeah These are great. These are great men the last one on my way down Washington Road tonight. I I've been kind of turned around so I but I kind of knew my had my bearings I was able to kind of take in the billboards Yeah Classy Rolex one with Scotty and Rom and then you got Ludwig in that AI lawyer company But looking super classy and then you got Larry Maiz Hawken a roofing company and then you got just these big chicklets You got big Bryson D. Shambot and his crushers gear up there pushing Kalshi Just staring down at you at the stoplight and I was like man It just made me feel like an immense moron We're picking him yes to win this week and I just want to call that out. I was just like fuck you man You know, it's just I'm an idiot. What am I doing? Just smiling back at me Kalshi pushing Well, if you push in the prediction markets tough scene for me if you missed it Bryson Plain plain solid made four birdies Today was was one inside the cut line after yesterday's 76 heading to 18 hits it in the green side bunker and we we find more trouble with the with the immense wedges that he has Munk is wedges that wasn't my head all day rain. Yeah, that's got humongous wedges Yeah, what are we doing? He hits one out of the bunker tries to try to hit one out of the bunker. It catches the lip very hard bunker shot admittedly Comes back to you know back down to the bottom of the bunker chips another one out Rolls off the green chips on two putts for a triple smell. Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be end of his week triple Two to finish the week and shoot shoot 74 today I got nothing else other than that You know, I think you covered it pretty well on kind of the feelings of predictions versus reality there. Yeah, I Hand up hand up on that one. I got sucked in Randy. I went, you know It's kind of like when I was using that Tom Watson like mental app. Yeah Kind of hate to see you go down this path like we all know Bryson won't change anything in his setup, right, but Like he's got to for this course, right? If he ever wants to win here, but then it's I mean, how do you possibly? Like He gave up the the hat he's he's like I feel like he tinkers I could see him I could see him changing If there was anything I give him credit for I feel like he he's Just a single wedge like yeah, like can you wedges himself? Yeah, just Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, gotta wonder if he missed his I don't want to say that Maybe I will did he miss his window with like two decent runs at the Masters like it just doesn't doesn't add up for me I don't know how he did it even last couple of years. I Randy said it so well, he doesn't have the touch the artistry like he just he just does not he's not playing the same level of golf Yeah, I mean Yeah, maybe it's stained city was not the best preparation You know in terms of the execution of the golf shots that are needed around this I know Brinnell had a heyday with that one this past week guy who's gonna get that in But it's hard to think about that Curry shooting free throws and the rims But like yeah look at Rom and Bryson are like the torch carriers for for that tour and like I don't know why it Wish somebody would ask and I'm getting I'm a credential press member and I'm capable of asking this as well to either of them It's like What does what how would you assess? You know assess how the the run up here? Improved affected your chances of your preparation for the first major of the year. They they were asked Rom was asked that Hatton was asked that what after the after they played or yes after today's rounds What's the what's the prep? You know how does live prepare you for coming into these events and they just kind of both brush it off Well, yeah, same as every other same as every other tournament expected next topic yeah, Rom to his credit shot 70 today played played very good golf made the cut after yesterday's embarrassment but Yeah, I mean better than better than you know having to tail between his legs and going home So you put a pin in the Bryson dude conversation after that. I think that's that's I rest my case on that one It's a good point Big I asked you coming into today and I feel like this may have changed with the last hour of Golf and and Rory playing his last time his last five holes in 72 under par But I said Randy, what are the best? What a power ranking? I know your big power rankings guy Power rank the 10 your 10 best scenarios for the weekend here and I'm just you know Rory six ahead But you heard where I stand I think we're gonna need to come up with some stuff to talk about the next couple days So we'll start now. Just just dream for me a little bit. What do you what do you got? What are your dream scenarios for the weekend? Well, keep in mind when I when I texted Cody this yeah, Rory I think was either taught maybe one up. It was a whole different whole different tournament I in honor of David Letterman is top 10 Cody. I don't know if we have any kind of graphic here, but We'll run it down from 10 to 1 these were my favorite potential storylines come Sunday afternoon Number 10 Randy the fool. I was thinking man if Sam Burns ends up winning this golf tournament It's gonna be a tough look for you boy after that drive-by comment. Yeah, what did you say yesterday? I think it was I'll say it birds. Thank God. We don't have to worry about him winning this Greatest know you won't Know ready By that Even though you're the ones I won't let you go on that alone. We all felt that like everybody listening as well ready My number nine storyline was twice as nice dot dot dot I guess And this is kind of covering down on you got your Shane Lowry You got your Wyndham Clark you got your Hideki Matsuyama guys who could potentially win a second major But quite honestly guys I don't care about I and in fact I I'll share something Shane Lowry winning would be my biggest fear. I really do not like Shane Lowry the golfer I'm sure he's great to have a beer with take it all the way on the golf course So that was number nine. I believe you I believe you call them the sum of all fears today As he made birdie on what was at 18? This horrible horrible can't can't stand to watch it number eight storyline guys Do you know what the Chinese zodiac is this year? The rooster you're the rooster. No, it's the year of the horse and when how long Lee starts looking you can cancel Christmas I mean think about this is probably under ranked at number eight But how long Lee winning the Masters think about the ripple on effects think about the how the week after we're popping off Yeah, I think it is popping off. Yeah the dinner next year the Opening the Chinese market the flood of golf in China like it would be big things so Also, I mean how telling me just objectively very funny and the more that the more we can get him in front of a microphone The better so I'm with you here big. Let me shout out his podcast He did he did with smiley Kaufman yet again. It was it was hilarious like if there was he's just he's he's an absolute riot He's a survivor too It's survived that that night in the bathroom. Yes number seven listen This one this one's a little red meat for the Rory fans Rory runs it back This this was gonna be you know, hey not my favorite, but I recognize it's an important thing That's that's listen nine for me one for you guys Plenty plenty of time to talk about this over the next two days. I think but getting to six is I mean men's Some would say immense cement. Yeah, it's important number six I I called we need a miracle. This is obviously you guys know I don't think any masters winner has been outside the top 25 at least in Gosh knows how long at this stage of the tournament So this this covers down on your Jordan Spieth who's just outside of that top 25 This is maybe Ludwig if he wants to make a run certainly Scottie Schaeffler guys that truly would need a miracle over the weekend to come Get it. That was number six number five I've labeled our friend the major winner question mark Max Homer Max Homer looked like he was getting involved I mean he still is I caught him on 17. He almost chipped in he looked he looked bouncy You know when max is feeling it he starts to get a little spring Yeah, a little bit of a Rory bounce when max is playing well I would say two things on max one go look at where he made birdie from on number two Fantastic stuff way over in those holly bushes or whatever TC pointed this out to guys keep finding more and more just messed up spots on number two It feels like there's a lot of jump scares when they cut back to guys on number two and they're just in horrible spots Max had like this little window punched it through knocked a wedge on and like actually not So what knocked a wedge on and then it rolled like 30 feet down and then he cashed that so it was a very eventful hole But to like go read his comments about how he is swinging it right now take it for what you will I know the results have not been there. He had a big like yo the back nine was this was a dream for me It finally felt different. It finally felt better. So just you know, just call that look good He had a nice dark green shirt on he looked really Like he looked like a pro. Yeah pro 6.0 potentially hated that bird Yeah Number four we we called great men do great things Neil and this of course is is Justin Rose Can you imagine him coming down? Well, you asked me earlier deeds like who would I rather see I might say Rose just because of the like to see a truth. There's bein take the stage on 18 You know like what what would that scene look like Randy? You know, I just Imagine the next 30 years as like the globe theater and Augusta, Georgia, you know Just true true Shakespearean stuff the guy, you know finally gets it done The people love him. That's all I'm gonna say just Counterweight, you know, it's podcast just presented the other side like what if he does it? What if he's like It doesn't I'm like, that's I don't know Justin Rose like that's interesting too, you know, he seems like a great guy You know, but if I'm just watching a sporting like that's pretty fun to Doesn't he completely snaps someday exactly With this tournament alone, isn't it like Sometimes a little uncomfortable with somebody like going for the first that would mean the absolute world to them and somebody just like getting They're set with the attorney of the green jacket and the champions dinner and somebody's already got all of that stuff The second one of that versus me give the first I've been to feel just a little like a little cold blood It's like a little for sure for sure, but that's why I'm like, you know, you know, who's also interesting is Greg Norman, you know Not Colin Montgomery like that. I don't know there's there's I can see that one cuts both ways is all I'm saying This is where we get back close No, Augusta. No, he some I didn't I looked this up and somebody pointed this out If you go to the Masters vault like if you search for Colin Montgomery There's no shots televised on Sunday throughout his entire career at the Masters like which doesn't seem right because he was involved in 97 but yeah, that was that was if that is if that is factual No, he was he was never close to winning him actual Masters. I have him looks like maybe T8 best finish in 1998 Then no other top 10s The uncomfortable question is if Rose doesn't get it done is he a great man because great men do do great things But you said Roy's a great man too after the Ryder Cup last year, you know, like I at some point they got to cancel each other out Right like if I mean Roy just takes it that there's only so much Rose could do if you lose to another great man, you can still be happy. He's one back of you take Rory out. He's one back of the lead Okay Moving on number three Remember when Brooks was here. I I think Brooks Reannouncing himself trying to close a Masters on Sunday that got me very excited with the possibilities Obviously that would take him to six, you know this this Hopefully fledgling kind of race to six with him and Rory I just want Brooks to be rejuvenated and he looks rejuvenated. He looks like he's got that that pop back I Hope he makes a charge. I was getting really excited thinking about him, you know, trying to close this physically Like healthy Randy. Yeah, like he slimmed down. I I was Again, I don't think he's gonna win this week But I don't think we've we've seen the last of them like I would I do think Brooks is gonna win another major I think that's that's a very reasonable It could be this year like I would absolutely Think we got a guy get the mention in in the first 30 minutes of the next major preview for Brooks Kepka Do you think the mink? I think it may number two my number two favorite potential Sunday storyline. I called no water no inclusions no apologies Patrick Reed winning the Masters again just Lady J One Hold on for one. I He is so antithetical. I think to what everything Augusta Nationals Stands itself up to be and I just love the idea of Patrick Reed being like, you know what all that I'm winning this thing you guys are stuck with me. Yeah, I Got so with you. It's shocking. I know Tron talked about this last night, but it's shocking how much I'm Pulling for him. I don't like what happened every time he's on the screen. I'm like, ah I just missed all right. We'll get him on the next one. Come on. Come on captain. Come on. Come on cap It's crazy His crew is still out there the cap crew is still out there still be the only ones referring to him that as he you know Taps in par putt right. We're just P is so ingrained. We gotta start working the captain in I think it's so good And then my number one nearly you said what could possibly be better than that my number one I called Tom Tron God help us all Tommy Fleetwood trying to win a masters on the back nine at Augusta just Everything that would entail it's all of our dreams that Tommy wins a major that TC didn't pick him for it's the it's the great It would be the greatest possible thing to happen to any of us. They got it They got a metro diner down the street That's what I was gonna say with TC be able to find a badge for Sunday I mean would he pay out the note like there's just so many possibilities Tommy choking down this, you know It's like God. I was really getting excited about the idea of Tommy trying to win a major especially here Then they soak the course and ruined it Warring as hell Man Ready that was excellent. I think that you took us inside the mind of the big guy there. That was that was great stuff Tron and God help us all what uh, what else you guys having the notebook before we wrap this one up I can dump through mine if you want we do have an update from the four please guy can confirm We got closer that he is yelling now. I don't know why we couldn't hear yesterday, but it was it was a lot going on We heard what you heard up close and in person there on the first tee I think if I correct me if I'm wrong or check me here. I think he's yelling for the big groups There were a couple of your groups that came through and he was very he was a little more subdued Yeah, it's just a little more kind of normal voice But then you get you get a Jordan speed roaring Mackerel you get some of those big ones and he's he's hamming it up a little bit Second thing Brian Campbell, I believe is stunting all over the belugus big board made cut Sure is plus one or he's right around the mix his wife has on a had on a Jacket of some kind kind of kind of like a white jean jacket Maybe a tan jean jacket had like masters on this and I was like, oh, I was just kind of looking at it from the front And she was walking by me. I'm like, oh, I haven't seen that's kind of a cool like masters They're not selling that it says masters on that was like custom-made turn around a giant mural of Brian Campbell Underneath it like so I can paint it on there And sure enough like I look at the board and Campbell was turning over to play to begin the back nine like clearly his wife But just you will not miss. I doubt she's wearing the jacket this week It's gonna be 85 but congrats to Brian Campbell for making the cut we get our hands on one of those That might be like the the now you're having hat If you haven't seen it yet where Gary Woodland hit it on the second hole Which time which he was in the left rough on the seventh fairway Trying to chip through that was if I was to bend over backwards to make an excuse for Scotty Like the pace on that's again a very straightforward chip into the second green that like you know Chip that up there make your birdie get your day going like Woodland took forever like forever Has his caddy aim pointing, you know his bogey putt and it's just like just bad vibes on that on top of big shot Bob just making a mess all over the place for two days were bad mojo with that group But where Gary Woodland hit that shot and the shot trackers not doing justice for how far right he hit a second shot You got to go back and watch actually watch the replay of that one I will apologize. Oh, yeah, I think maybe we're on the same page here. I'll apologize for big shot Bob I mentioned him as you know, hey watch this space like he could easily win the Masters That was a dumb thing to say I very very dumb thing to say He not only he denies media two days in a row of course flicked off the pond yesterday and then throws this up on his Instagram story of a Nome version of him flicking everybody off Yeah, I'm sure that people saw that circulating on social media But just an absolute home first There's a gnome like a like a box gnome version of big shot Bob like flicking off Like somebody made it made an AI gnome of him doing the middle finger thing and posted that right to Instagram after denying media After two days and missing the cut by a mile and just acting quite petulant. You want you want to media come find me the rage room. Yeah Damons rage There you go Very funny, but maybe not on the day when it's like, yeah, I don't know. I don't like I feel hesitant to take the side of the green jackets like You know condemning behavior and we just simply can't be having that type of language type of type of stuff, but yeah Having that and then putting that up on Instagram was like a little bit of a little bit of a weird one Just tough a slammed his bag after hitting the water on 16 it just made it made a whole scene out of it It was just not not good. You can do that. Just talk to the media. You know, like yeah, all your obligations and then make a joke Yeah, it's like come on man. You gotta be better than that I this was I don't know how you feel watching this deal But I I said this sent this in we posted on Instagram and then Roy went up and chipped in as soon as I said this but like Almost nobody knocks chips stone dead at Augusta like you know what I mean? There's very few true gimmies it ends up rolling out enough You got to put a coin on it and there's so many putts between like three and six feet on this course That seems to happen there more than anywhere else I couldn't tell you exactly why maybe it's just a little bit of detail and where they end up cutting the cups But feel like this happens anywhere more here than anywhere else of like there's always some kind of consequence in from long lag Lag putts just seems to very rarely is it just very easy to clean up I agree with you on the chipping it almost either goes in or But it rarely is a You know a tap in Another shout out to Brooks. I thought his lag putting today was fantastic So that just made me think of that like it was noticeably better than obviously Jordan and Rose He just made it a lot of comfy two-putts. I feel like I'm the thing you're you're chipping up Up hill so much not like not up the grade, but you're chipping up over a big Yeah, so much that it almost is that's got to make it harder to stop Close to the hole and then obviously just greens are firm and fast and it's hard to you know You get on the wrong side and you're you're if it's running away from you It's just it's hard to get close and it's not always going past It's just like it. I just man guys just struggle to chip it You see on the pediatric tour a lot dudes just chip it like stone dead and it just does not seem to happen very much Which is why I thought that Rory the very chip I'm just like oh that was gonna be six inches from the hole if it didn't go in that was a perfect chip And that's stuck out because after watching guys chip all day long I watched oxy chipping into the water on 13 from a really tough spot there Just I don't have you that was a tough pace day like that was just tough like that was gonna be one of my wrap-up No, Xander Bryson group was atrocious and I saw Steve Fox out there. He would they I think they were on the on the clock I guess maybe Xander had a ruling on 13 so they were a whole and a half behind like it was the gallery It's like where is the where is this group? It was Tommy and those guys were up hitting their They were on 17. I think like it was slow for sure and then can't lay in nor in that group at the end was just Glacial yeah, just it just not a great not a great flow to the day out there watching in person Just kind of felt like everything was was kind of dragon I want to shout out the guys that are working the bathroom behind the 16th hole. Do you have you visited that one? Also, I mean Honestly, just all the bathroom attendants though on 16 They are like auctioning off the stalls and like when you emerge from the stall after you've done your business You get like a standing ovation from the crew like they get and they're counting you down Yeah, like we got to keep it moving because I mean it's a six flags line out outside So they they're just they're just it's like a stand-up comedy routine and anybody that comes out Here we go. We got two is available to the Peking and more peeing gentlemen. Yeah, a lot of a lot of one-liners flying around man They're giving your Dap you up on the way in there Dap you up on the way out. Everybody's got a good attitude. It's incredible everybody And what do you think the correlation is there with nobody has phones on them? I feel like that just massive kind of generally Lot there that I'd love to unpack at a later date I've been thinking a lot about it. It's just from I mean everybody that works there. It's just it's Precious yeah, man. It's really cool. I thought I think it was so bull Jason so we'll had a post to that I'd never heard it put this way, but I thought it was very smart that Augusta is one of the few places It's what it's one of the masters is one of the few things you can experience in life where everybody's exactly where they want to be You know, nobody like everybody is just like I can't believe I'm here This is this is exactly where I'm trying to be today like a great example I just thought that was a very good way. I was coming out out of the concession line looking for a candy bar couldn't find it and I I got a water turn and I almost bumped in this guy and spilled all his beers You know and like normally that'd be like oh my god. I'm sorry though, you know the guy I was like man I was ruined your day. He goes, nah, they're so cheap. It doesn't matter man. You know, you know, yeah brother Everybody's just jolly. It's great somebody said one of the The shuttle driver said this to me earlier this week said here. There's good days and there's better days Can we do a quick update just I mean I haven't checked the standings I got I got one notebook thing I want to shout out. Yeah, I'd rather do that and check the standings. Sorry. Sorry I Also, I want to give a shout out to two guys. The names are Henry and Alex two brothers I met standing next to 13 fairway and other backs turn when I walked up. I saw him from a distance Or what? No, they were fitted up with the Malben bird outfit. Oh sure pants and shirt I was like man, that's a great like like how I didn't know they were I didn't even know they were selling it I thought it was just kind of a you know a gimmick turn homey's wearing a NLU hat And so I went over talk to her from Dallas it was it was just you know a great interaction It just cracked me up. I was like what an immense collab that was on my that was on my immense list there Did you just made my day? I was like, how about that man? I was like just looking at the the birds and I was admiring the birds. I was like, there's the logo That's fantastic. You'll have complimented two different people on their no-laying up hats Did that just oh, thanks? All right, Cody, let's take a look at the standings from our track on Monday I got fifth draft pick overall and you guys left Rory for me there. So I am projected Overall Neil second. He's got P and their TC's got team Rose Sitting there at in fourth place big Randy comes in and fourth and Deej did get two cut makers You're on your own came back and came back and made the cut and you got Tommy in there in the top five So you could clear a million bucks. What a I mean you guys got to just take this to task This is like this is all for Brenda's, but it was bad when you did it. It's not bad now It was bad when you did it it seemed better Neil Was bad, but it's burger wrong. I mean wrong. I still am like I don't really know how that happened yesterday But Bryson is like, what did you think was gonna happen burger? It was a time to talk myself I keep trying to make Daniel burger happen. Min Woo Lee was just like dude. What do you do it? I So stupid hate this it's all I congratulations is a great to hell of a school I'm ready to call our competition And you know what's all it's good. It's they're fine young men too you got on that TV Better young man. Yeah, exactly right. I'm proud of my squad. I'm proud of you know my guess through a fifth round in there I got max in that one Yeah, but yeah, Neil Neil had oxhaye first overall that was that was First in his or sorry that was in round three. Never mind. I'm going back to the draft board. I'm sorry. I regret it I I regret it live. I regret it. That was wrong. Neil took Scotty first I think you took Scotty first reading it wrong. I'm reading the yeah, that hurts. I tell me still I would do it all over again. He was a great great value at 10th overall there though. That was hell. Yeah Uh guys, what do you think anything else kind of in the In the annals of your notebook that we need to we need to go through should we should we go watch tomorrow? Well, we got to get Neil with Rory Need Neil to get that morning candy bar He has to carry it all day long to make sure it doesn't get melt because it might ruin the chew ability of it guys Have a couple things while you think about what you need to your taskings for tomorrow are gonna be first one Austin Butler won a drawing yesterday He still haven't emailed me. Come on. He might be on set. Yeah, he might be If he doesn't I don't know maybe I give him till To come back around because give him another day Cody, you know We're limited on codes here and speaking of codes guys today's drawing is is team rose. So I'm gonna draw this I do I got codes for tonight tomorrow, and then of course Sunday. We'll see if Austin comes back around I appreciate everybody getting involved in the live chat while we're here. Congratulations Ethan Sadler 2048 nice email Is he running? You know me at Kodi had no like up Just set up he's running Anyway guys, what's your plan for tomorrow? I Don't know we got P and Rose in the second to last group. I think it's final group and penultimate group, right? Yeah, I mean watching Rory and the watch and rose. Yeah, it's hard work. It is tough You got to like get ahead. We've got a hope that's men on it. Oh, I'm saying like it's difficult to see It's a big ask For us it's extremely difficult to see like hard work, which I think is why I would probably pick If there's any chance it's going with Patrick Reed's group It's just bless people. I don't care good point But you got rose just you know the hammered it up They're pretty good. We line out the door to go see that tomorrow I Love to follow groups when I go to tournaments and I it is taking me three go-arounds of this term to learn like this is Not a good term to follow people like it's straight up bad Like we can't go inside the ropes one and like the routes don't support it kind of ping pong You could see them on a few featured holes Like there's good holes to see people but like you're better off trying to see a couple groups play that same set of holes Then you are trying to see one group play every hole because you're just working too hard if I and Get to you get to some of these holes and it's really crowded when you get there and you don't have a good view So it's I did find a couple chairs. They were empty right of nine Fairway like in the trees in the shade On the hill wonderful and they just had this like panoramic view of the amphitheater of nine the clubhouse and I was just like man This is like what a these are a couple of legends. Whoever chairs these are I sat down for a little while. It was great It was fantastic Then like you know I now am I gonna do that tomorrow? No, but I think that that would that that sounds like an ideal day Tomorrow is to find a spot like that where it's like Yeah, let's just watch somebody come through like a random hole like nine There are so many spots when you're walking out there. They're just like do this just like I was walking in the evening As Tommy's group is coming around and I got around like to the left of 17t looking back through the trees at 16 green That's setting with all the people in the pond there. It just looks like Unlike anything my eyes have ever laid it I've ever laid eyes on it just looks like a movie set it just it's insane It's so hard to describe and you want to take a picture of it You obviously can't I know we've all seen a gajillion pictures of Augusta But I just something about the way the light hits that color of grass and the yellow flags and the white sand like it is It is epic and you feel that in so many different places around there, but that that spot today I was just like man. This is you know hot take Augusta is really pretty But it you know whatever 30 30 loops I've made around this place by now like walking it through different days And like it still just blows you away Well that Sorry if you guys are not one to be in the massive humanity around the final two groups I would say a couple fun pairings Scotty is playing with Ludwig earlier in the day Do we want to discuss Ludwig? Where's he at here? It's some strikes and gutters today to under 70 Capital C conversation, but I need somebody else to be here for that Yeah, I know we had we had to see and scheduled the conversation for tonight But he was not here, but he appears to be active in the comments Yeah, we could maybe revisit that one tomorrow. We'll say tomorrow's the day I think all the data was inconclusive today, Randy. You know, sure we throw it we throw it to the whole round out Max is playing with Benny Booms. That's a fun little it's a good one to ball and then the two beefy boys got her up And Kepka are playing together. Yeah, go watch maybe go watch one of those early groups And then and then circle back for the leaders playing the the second nine My speech and speed and sep will be we'll both be out with that one. I'm sure that's how you guys are telling us That sounds great, too See one thing real quick. I can't remember who told me this But I think they the Masters has some AI touch-ups going on on some of these headshots here And the reason why I bring this if you look really closely at Ryan Gerard It appears that the grip of his golf club is an umbrella It's not good Yeah, that's bad tricks me now I don't want to get played because all these videos are shown What are we doing? That's a Sunday conversation too. We'll we'll I'll see if I can get a bigger one for us Oof yeah, no, I'm looking at it up close. It's that's tough That is tough not good Cody good spot or good pass along for whoever spotted it All right, if we're getting into the Ryan Gerard Photoshop, I think it's time to probably Shut it down Guys great day. Congrats to you. Congrats to Rory on his Masters victory We will be here after each round Saturday and Sunday I hope you guys have a hell of a day Neil go find a candy bar and We will talk to everybody. I will fix tomorrow Please throw please throw a thumb on the video on your way out. Please subscribe. Please. Please please Neil Please Very very good. Thank you to titleist high noon and Arcos will be back tomorrow night