2026 Masters preview live from Augusta

Now the shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. And here we go. Alright, alright, alright. Gentlemen! Start your engine! Music Greetings and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the shotgun start. It is April 8th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! I'm doing fantastic. I gotta say the weather has been in just a wonderful mood down here. Very just chipper. It's incredible. It's incredible. That's what everybody wants. Weather talk off the bat. Weather talk, Dan Hurley losing. Things are looking up in the world. Big Ten gets their first basketball title in 26 years. Double dipped. You got women, the historic powerhouse of Westwood, California. Getting on Sunday, men getting on Monday. Dan Hurley crying in his beer Monday night. So that's good. You happy about that? Yeah, things are looking up. I'm pumped about this masters too. I am too. There's been like a few media members who shall remain nameless. Kind of come up. There's not a lot of juice. Is there anything happening? It's like, well, maybe like if there's nothing happening that that kind of means it's going to sound like sort of a co-in. Like everything is happening. That's a good, you know, that sounds sort of incoherent. But if nothing's happening, that means everything. You know, maybe having no tiger here is maybe a decent thing. Having Phil prance around. Maybe like maybe we're just focused on an incredible golf tournament. The weather is pristine. Perfect. It's been brisk the last two mornings. It's supposed to be tomorrow and then heat up as the weekend goes and it not a drop of rain really in the forecast. It looks like a great golf tournament will be allowed to be played this week. I mean, the reality is, is why it feels useless is that we had, you know, the story that really dominated the sport for the last 10 years has been lifted off our plates. The idea of when Rory McElroy will get the masters and the grants that I'm done. It also turned into when's he going to win a major? Another major. That being removed has opened up. It allows the whole tournament to breathe. I think there's so many fascinating subplots of this tournament and I'm excited to dive into it. But, you know, you got a lot of guys playing really good golf and, you know, a lot of guys that have played really good golf at Augusta playing well. And I think it's going to serve up with the combination of the weather and what the course is going to get to. You know, just like off the top, here in the golf course is just playing faster than it has in the fairways in particular. Why is that, you think? Mowing? They're not mowing as hard against the tee or what? You know, I feel like I can use this. Joseph has given me access to use this. Ryan Gerard told them that they're able to putt from around the greens. The mow height's been lowered. So, I had another player say that, you know, a place they usually hit some mini-drivers short of the bunker on two ran into it this week. So, that mow height, I think it's going to be a little bit less of that into the grain field just because they've lowered the mow height. And they may not say that they did that, but it appears so based off of how players are playing the golf course and how they're seeing the golf course play. So, you know, it's going to play a little bit different, but God, they got this weather to the spot where we're going to get to see exactly what the green jacket says is the ideal master setup because of the weather. I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like there's no rain coming for a while. Yeah, and it's been a dry Georgia, a dry winter early spring for Georgia. It's not like it's been drenched. And of course, we know Augusta can figure out a way to change the condition of the course in rapid speed, whether they get a lot of rain or not, or even if they get nothing, they can change it pretty quickly. And it seems like they sort of have restrictor plates on it right now just for the practice rounds. This is often the case and that sort of cliche goes, whatever you practice on may be very different by the time that the shots start to count. And as you progress to Sunday, but yeah, it's all set up. I've just been like, it's been a fabulous first, whatever, 36, 48 hours we've been here. You're reminded of like how it is, you know, the, I think some of the analysis and the coverage has gotten too granular to be honest, too farfetched, too esoteric. I'm always looking for like interesting angles or just good stories. And like it's the, it's so incredible how much bigger it is than anything else in golf, right? And so much of that is how unique its unique approach and however it deals with tickets and however it deals with TV and all these things. And but one of those is just being here, you're reminded immediately how it's just so, so different from anything else in golf, mostly for the better, almost exclusively for the better. And so that notion of like everybody here, including the players, is exceptionally happy to be here. I would say the loan may be tossed up for that. Rory in recent years has been removed. He's obviously very happy. You know, maybe he was more anxious or angsty in recent years, but I think it's everyone. I think it's now a universal thing, whether it's fans or patrons you meet, it's just all the players are so ecstatic to just be here. Even if it's a lot the ball ceremonial role or it's a contender like Price. What are you talking about with a lot the ball? He's got an important job this week. We'll get to that later in the story line. So nobody's talking about it. But yeah, I would just add in everybody's happy to be here and everybody's actually present. It's the it's that's the difference. The master sauce, I think, in the modern sports landscape is like the beauty of no phones on his height is died. You know, it's almost like cliche to talk about it in a way because it gets talked about all the time. But I mean, it is just a wonderful, wonderful experience to be with people and have everybody be fully engaged in what they're doing, you know, whether it's conversation or whether it's watching golf. You know, it's amazing. Like, you know, you create these vivid memories and it was funny. I got reminded of one last from last year just yesterday and it's like, remember us watching that shot from that spot. And I was like, you know, flood of this like vivid memory came into it because I was actually there. I was just like sitting there in the moment watching and experiencing it. And it's just like a great reminder of all technology isn't always good, you know. I mean, I don't know. I like being able to hit it off the toe 310 yards down the middle. That technology is good. It's very forgiving. I enjoy it. So Bob Manifesto, the Bob Manifesto, a lot of, you know, trendy money coming into Bob to PJ Shagrin. PJ's anxious about all the people on the Bob and Cam bandwagon. He's like, it's over. I'm done. I'm out of here. It's over. I feel bad for PJ and Joseph with what Cam's becoming. But he did give a great press conference. I think he's getting, you know, this thing that happened with Scotty. And we're so quick to label players boring or dial tones and their infancy on the PGA tour. But it's like, okay, like you get used to having a mic in your face all the time and you start to see Cam Young. Like he's starting to deliver some good answers. I didn't catch that. That's one of the few I didn't catch because I figured the boys had his cover in that press conference. But if you've been paying attention to Lunch with the Boys, you saw there was some zip there and some interest and some brains and some thought. He's delivered in those settings. So that's good to hear. Think about what you just said. If you pay attention to the boys. Lunch with the boys. Yeah. You'd seen it. Who doesn't pay attention to Lunch with the Boys? Not enough people. Not enough people to come in and ask, you know, but all questions, I suppose. All right. Should we get to the top storylines? The top contenders here as a preview podcast might do. Yeah. I think the number one story is probably Roy McElroy, I guess. You know, ranking these is like ranking the instructors. It's very, very arbitrary. I don't actually mean one's more important than the other. How dare you not put a live guy at first spot? Yeah, that means I'm hating. I'll live. I actually think that I said that on Sunday. I thought that was the most interesting dynamic coming into this pot, this Masters. Rory, he's back. He talked today. Said, if we never start the next Masters again, I'd be okay. Whereas before it's like, can we start the next Masters like in a minute, these Tuesday and Wednesday is interminable. Getting to the shots, getting to the tournament. A good press conference, if that's how we want to talk about press conferences. But he seems to be loving and reveling in who wouldn't be in his position of defending champ. I mean, just a completely different human being at the press conference. You know, the last, I guess, I think this is my fifth year. But the last four have been this tense feeling of the press conference. Like, you know, that's just air hanging in the room of, is this guy going to get this done? You know, seemingly most people in the room wanting him to get it done. But, you know, what's it going to be? What's going to happen this year? And now, I mean, I loved his crack about the Irish food. I mean, he was laying down jokes. You know, he was lighthearted. Contemplative, reflective, yeah. And I got to say, I think I've turned on, you know, he hadn't done a ton of stuff this year. He's played, okay, obviously finished runner up at RIV. I think the Bay Hill tournament, he probably was trending to be a real figurative persona in the closing stretches of that tournament before he heard the back. And then you have the players, which is like kind of like an incomplete, right? Yeah. And, you know, that, it throws you off the scent of him, but I think he's got a real shot of defending. And I don't know, I know that's not like going out on a limb, but the more and more I obviously watched him in the press conference and the little golf I watched of him, he looks really sharp. In particular, the thing I was impressed with was the short game, hitting shots around the greens. He was like basically almost holding everything he was hitting. And I think he's just primed for a really good week. I think he's kind of like, you know, you listen to that Amazon doc and unlocking that feeling of, I don't have to play perfect to win. I think is a huge, huge piece of this for him. And he knows like he made a ton of mistakes last year. Doubles out the wazoo. And he's still won. Yeah. And I think that's got to be a pretty freeing feeling. And I think he, you know, listen, I wouldn't, I know he's fourth in odds. But then just forget about it. Let's just not even watch it. Well, I mean, that was the thing last year. You know, statistically, nobody's ever come back from, you know, what was he seven down in the first round? Something. He was even, right? You know, it's 20 of the last eight majors. So we stopped playing the game. We've got to stop playing the game. But I would bump him up on that board. So I think there's bigger questions about Bryson DeShambo and Rom. And, you know, like Scotty, there's some questions there. I don't think you're going to win this tournament with the, with the way the golf course is primed up. If you're not hitting really good iron shots. It is interesting for Roy. I don't want to say it's opened up for him, but like that back, you know, thing doesn't creep in. We're like, oh my God, he's going to go back to back with the way that the other top names and contenders are playing. Yeah. He seems it's, it's interesting to watch him go around now. Right. And you're trying to articulate something that is not definable. It is not to the definition of intangible, tenseness. And we watched him at three go around and he's just like three, a very, very important hole to practice short game, clearly. And he's just flipping them to two feet and putting them like right on his marks from across the green to a left pin. There's like right in the jar at perfect pace. And he just seems like, like the short game, like you said, seems incredibly dialed in. I know the, the players thing, it's just sort of like a, a proof of concept that you can, it's the opposite of what we've seen from Colin Moricala this week, to be frank, like he had speed, led the field and strokes gained off the tee. His game was not sharp and he finished T 48 or whatever. I think that's what it was made the cut. So I just like, I am, it's not ideal, I suppose that he hasn't made a PGA tour start in about a month, but it seems like it's his, it's his to repeat again. And who knows, once he gets past the whole champs dinner tonight, sounds like he's going to be really, he's put a lot of thought into that. I think he probably wishes Tiger and Phil were there for different reasons based on what he was saying today. And I don't know, maybe, you know, just talk about just having all the great champions in history there. Do you think he wishes Jacob Bridgeman was there? Why? Cause he's number one in the world there. What? No, because, because he has such a good thoughts on Tiger. We'll get to that. Incredible. The most insane question of the week goes to who? Jacob Bridgeman. Who could have saw that coming? Figured it would be, you know, Bryson or somebody. Um, yeah, no, he seems like a very, very strong, strong contender to repeat. Uh, I think having 17 starts is a massive, massive deal. And where it is like literally 12 months ago from now, it was like a sort of boa constrictor, like, like ripping at him or like squeezing him. And now all of a sudden it's like the biggest asset ever. It's an interesting dynamic. How you can just flip it like that because it is a, it is a huge advantage now. When you blend that, the sort of mental strategy and the mental weight, the emotional stuff gone, it seems like all of a sudden 17 starts is a massive deal combined with the talent of where his game is. I mean, just look at the, the lead up here. Right? And I think you look at what Ernie used to, what he said about the place, like it's just like a, a torture chamber for me. You know, it's just where everything goes wrong. That can't possibly go wrong. That was the road that Rory was heading down and you saw it from his actions. Like he was, he was spending as little time as possible here. And then this year he's just around, you know, I think like he was so down to business last year. It was like, you know, you, you could see us in his own world. And maybe this is a reason to fade them, but I think it's just more of the comfort level and, and like reveling it, you know, enjoying the moment, which is, you know, half the battle with golf, you have to be able to like laugh about the stuff that happens. But you, you see it, you know, he got here on Saturday. You know, last year, last year he got there on Tuesday afternoon. My favorite was the press conference. Harry was wearing 80s. I think he was wearing 87 his caddy. Last year. So, which means you're the 87th player in check in. Yep. Yep. I love the, the best was the press conference where like they quick to walk us right. The opposite of the day where like Rory's on his way to the interview and then he was already down there and then he was out right away. They gave him five questions and got all the pigs, fat sports writers tumbling down the stairs to get to him. And then he's gone. This was quite the opposite. He was holding court today in his green jacket. So, um, What's storyline two for you? What's the, I don't know. Scotty, Scotty contender number two. I think I'm going to group the live boys together. The next, we'll go Ron Bryson. I believe that you, you put Scotty to and you don't have Ron Bryson ahead of them. Well, they can come for me if they want. Um, I, you know, if you're listening to Pat Reed, they haven't been playing real golf if you listen to Pat Reed. Uh, so what am I supposed to make? That's not me live bots. That's Patrick Reed. Um, that was a guy they were defending for years. Uh, Scotty's number two. Uh, he's got Remy in tow. So who knows what comes with that? All the motivational perspective is Remy gives them, you know, pump up win one for Remy's speeches as he walks out the door every morning. Um, do you, do you think there's a potential Gary Nicholas like situation where, you know, Gary, Gary shovels snow like everybody else. Do you think that, that Scotty, if things go south, he could blame that the baby's been getting up and that he, you know, he's the first, first couple of weeks are rough, rough times. You don't like the baby's got to be in like a separate wing of the house. Right? Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't understand. Well, yeah, he's had two kids and both of them essentially been at, at or on the master. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. I mean, yeah, whatever. That's great. Um, but, but now, yeah, he, I'm sure he's taking care of himself and that the baby's not going to impact the, uh, they'll, they'll figure it out. He's got enough, enough protocols in place. Um, maybe Scott's handling it. Scott Schaeffler, granddad. Sure. Sure. Granddad and grandma. Sure. I'm sure Meredith has it under control as well. Um, that's really the only storyline with Scotty. He had a kid. I, there's way more story lines. I'm joking. He's one here. Here twice. He's sort of the great modern masters player of defining modern as, you know, last 10 years and multiple mage, multiple masters winners. As I talked to Joseph about a week ago, it's like kind of a relic of the 80s and 90s and post tiger and fill air. Like that hasn't happened. Bubba's picked off too. There just hasn't been a thing. Like could Rory win four of the next, however, 10 or I'm joking, but three of the next 10, I don't know, three total could be. Scotty certainly is in line for three. Yeah. I mean, the golf course is so great for him. You know, you look at it, I mean, the harder it gets to with this week, like with the expected weather, you're going to have to hit high towering precise iron shots. And the other thing is going to put a huge emphasis on his leg putting a short game because you're going to miss, uh, with the golf course getting, you know, as, as firm as I would expect it to get. Um, you know, with Scotty, I, you know, he's kind of like the, uh, the interview. Uh, you know, where the guy said, like, don't, don't write that I'm mad. Don't put in the paper. I'm not mad. He's like, you know, he's set this absurd standard and like I, part of me like sympathizes with him. He has set an insane standard to the last three years, but like quantifiably he is struggling for his insane standard that he set while still being one of the five best players in the world. You know, and he, you know, as much as he says, you know, I, I, I'm not unhappy with what I'm doing, you know, like, your expectations of me are not my expectations. He has set this expectation and he hasn't been himself in, in the last, you know, six, six or seven weeks of, of competitive play and a really all year, he didn't play great in the, uh, in, in the, uh, PG and PGA West. Uh, and he won, you know, it was like kind of his B or C game there. And, and so now you see like, okay, his irons haven't been up to snuff. If that continues this week, you, you, it's going to put a lot of pressure on his short game, but he's one of those guys that like you watch him play and you're like, I don't know how he just shot 68 with what he had, but he's going to, it's very, you know, listen, like everybody's always like, Oh, this guy's the next speed. Like speed is prime. He had a great, great iron play. He made a lot of putts mid-range putts and got up and down all the time. Scotty does a lot of that. And Scotty's short game is, is always going to fly out of the radar because of how good his iron play is. But like God, like he is, he, the guy can sleepwalk his way to like 60, 68, 69 out here. He's, he's, yeah, he's, he's having a Q one going into the masters that most every other pro would like dream about. Like that would be, I don't want to say career year, but I would be fully informed and extremely happy. And here we are talking about him. He's, he's honestly among the best on the PGA tour and literally almost every statistical category right now, but his iron plays is by Scotty standards. I'm going to use the word bad. I'm going to use the word bad. It's middle of the pack for the tour. 80th by Scotty standards. That's bad. Everything else is still like top, top, top tier super elite. Um, can you get around Augusta? Can you win the masters having an average iron week? Probably not even if you're Scotty Shelfler, but if you're around the grain is number one, maybe you make up for it. Maybe you can make up for it. It seems like it's, it's going to be like you said, the ideal test that Augusta would want, which you would think would be firm and fast. It was interesting to listen to Rom today say like, look, they finally have a couple of years of firm and fast, right? It's from every master's and Phil talked about this, you know, eight years ago or so. It's like, it's never firm here. It's not firm here. It seems like they've found a little bit in mother nature as part of that lickser and we'll see Scotty in those conditions, which he won in 24. Something unique with this year is I, I, I do think it's, um, interesting that typically you see the top contenders play one time between the players and here. I don't know if it's the way the calendar felt, uh, fell, but you know, we're not getting, we didn't get that start in between from most. And I think it's kind of like a grab bag. Like in one part, like, you know, with Rory is obviously some injury rehab and then, you know, he, he talks about getting sharper. But he was gone out of the light for three weeks and Scotty, it's the same way. Scotty hasn't, we haven't seen Scotty in three weeks. Like he could have, you know, you know, I know Brandl insinuated, maybe there was an injury is backswing shorter than it's ever been. You know, maybe there was something there and, and he in three weeks is short up and he comes out just blazing. Like I, to me, I, I expect him to be a contender deep in this, this tournament. I think a dream scenario is you get any combination of, uh, of Scotty, Rory and, uh, and Bryson and Rahman there. And, and you've got yourself an incredible tournament. Yeah. I, you would think that he, like a bad day for him is going to be a 72. Yeah. And then he's going to post probably a 68 at some point. If, yeah, it just, it's hard to see him not being in the mix. So, uh, not the favorite though. I don't, I don't know if I'm going to Scotty's shop. They know he is in odds, but it just doesn't. I feel like it right now. Who would you say is the favorite? It feels like John Rom's the favorite. He's transitioning to, to, to sort of appease the live crowd here. Um, feels like John Rom is the favorite right now. Uh, he's playing excellent golf through the first quarter of the year. He's won on live, uh, which, you know, is a bugaboo getting across the line. Can't top 10 everything. Been a while. It had been a while. Uh, is the statistical profile is really strong. He's won here before. Uh, we know he's, if not a top, the top player in the world, he's always going to be top three to four. Um, he talked about some really bad habits and even winning with bad habits that had started on set about the takeaway and losing of cut left, losing the ball further left, which is the worst feeling in the world as a cutter. Um, um, that said, I think I have like, I just have questions about. Both him and Bryson, but then we'll get to him individually. I, of course, he's a great pick. Go with, go with that to win. I thought he's sort of, uh, he sort of shorted himself today when he talked about how he won in 23, well, like that just was a different course than what we normally play. And I wasn't saying he got lucky, but it's just, it was a different tournament than the one that will be this week and a different tournament that the one that has happened the past two years. It was just about surviving cold and surviving wind and surviving rain. And he would see it. And body bagging Brooks. And body bagging Brooks, um, pre did it like that. But teeny low and just keeping it in the, keeping it, you know, between the trees. Uh, I don't know. It felt like sort of shorting himself. And like, I didn't win. I don't want to say it was like that whole people, you dang them. If you wouldn't win a real like PGA on a real course or it was soft for your us open or like, it was like, kind of, he was, this was him talking, not anyone else. It felt like he was sort of dating his win. I think there's, you know, he's come out and he's playing a lot of really great golf. Um, I found there's a really interesting parallel here and similarity to Brewery last year. So if you think about, he talked about, he got into some bad habits the last couple of years and he spent three months, he did a lot of good work and set the base of how I played this year. If you remember last year, Rory talks about going to New York and hitting golf balls into a net without like this, basically without the simulator on and not thinking about flight at all and working out some of the bad habits he felt had gotten into his swing. And sure enough, he came out the next year. He was the best player leading into the masters and it carried over. So if you're making that, I, when I was, I, I didn't go to this press conference. When I was reading this, I just immediately drew to like the idea of like, get three months off and he did a lot of work on, on, on just cleaning up mechanics. And he's come out and as data golf, you know, our friends at data golf, the data world, um, like data golf, I like data golf too. Yeah. I don't like some people's interpretations of data golf, but, you know, um, but, but the, you know, categorically, just like Rory has been the best player in the world since he's done this work, cleaning up his root, his, his kind of, um, habits and, and just technique. It's, and his run leading into this, well, it's a completely different tour is very similar, all high finishes, a couple wins. And you got to, you got to think, I mean, he, he's a force man. When he gets out there, I, you know, I constantly find myself wondering about like, what would Scotty's run look like if Ram was around, um, onto her as he was like, basically in that year that Scotty ascended to the player we know. And I wonder what we say, would Scotty have a couple less tournaments if John Ram was around? Because to me, John Rom is an intimidating guy. We just talked about like that. You go back to that Brooks major and he is, he is a force in there. He's, he's a boss. Yeah. He's a physical guy. Like he's a tough guy to go against. We see it every year in the Ryder Cup. There's something that he has an edge to him. And I, you know, this, this just drew such parallel sorority last year and the statistics kind of bear it out. No real, no real like pressure or about like getting across, like he has the jacket. All right. He's already done it. He's talked about the, the, the treasure of going to the champion's dinner. So yeah, he's a, he's an easy pick to win. What about Bryson, his compatriot on the live tour on the LIV tour as, as couples, Fred, a couple seems to call it. I mean, Bryce's, Bryce's press conference is always cinema. You know, We sat in there and I had to stifle a laugh like five or six different times, not because he's mocking him. He's just an incredible show, an incredible roller coaster. It's just what changed between being unable to do anything here and now and winning, you know, top 10 in the last two years. Equipment, number one reason, equipment to was mentality, though he didn't talk too much about then three was body. He said he was huffing and puffing because he was too burly early on five, six years ago. It was a total show about equipment, a lot of growing the game talk and YouTube talk per usual. Um, and he's building, he's building clubs himself. Like he's in the garage. He's building clubs himself. You know, he's, he wouldn't say with who, he's just, I don't know what that means. He wouldn't say with him, just building them myself. You know, it's, it's, you know, we've got the tools going. Um, I thought the, his most interesting answer was talking about why he's had trouble with approach play here with the end of the green. Uh, I don't think you, you know, I guess the likes when players talk about that. But cause he was quick to try and like change it though, the way they mow. I think he said, uh, the, uh, the green grass coupled with wind and his ball coming out spinny. What I thought was fascinating and there's gotta be, you know, I, I, I assume he's put this together, but he talked about three shots in particular. The second shot into seven, the second shot into nine and the second shot into 18. Brennan, what are all those having common? Uh, what'd you say? No uphill, nine, seven, yeah, 18. Up hill. He's, he's, he's, he's, he called those out as the ones he struggles with the most. It's kind of like, I don't think this stuff gets asked enough. Like what, what do you struggle with? But it's fascinating too. With a Rory last year that his main thing I struggled with seven, a 14 and 17 T and they all run in the same direction with the same can't in the slope. And here's Bryson talking about, I struggle with seven, nine and 18. All approach shots with the, with the grain, judging distance, you know, which is always kind of the issue with them, the spin and the distance, uh, on, on a protracted to go uphill is, you know, I don't know, I don't know how you go about like, you know, if you're him dialing in the spin, it seems like maybe one of the, the aspects he's, he's obviously a very high spin player is when the ball gets up over the, over the tree line, you know, where, how do you gauge that? And thankfully here, unlike the PGA tour, you're not allowed to use phones to gauge things. We got to push back about the phone. There's a compass, but still, I'd love if the guy carried a compass. It had a real compass. I just, the, the visual of the guy taking the phone out on those. So bad. It's just not a good look. Uh, the, the grain talk is, I made, maybe they'll, maybe they don't like it, but Ron was talking about that too. Underrated hard shots. He said into the grain approaches on 13 and 15, when you're playing it as three shot, like those are under it. Cause you're into the grain, I have wedges, but, but like that is a common theme. Throughout. Why do they, can we take a pause here though with the rom sidebar? So he talked about, I, I loved this. So everybody, every, uh, all the rage is risk reward holes, right? Short par fives, short par fours. And people talk about like, what do you, what do you, you know, what makes this great hole? And I think roms answer about those two shots being underrated and under talked about hard shots is the, the wedge shots into 13 and 15 illuminate why those holes are so great is that you stand in the fairway and the shot into the green is exceptionally hard. And it, and at the core of you, you don't really want to hit it. Mm hmm. Because there's so much trouble. You can see all the things that can go wrong. I'm 13. You've got the azaleas on the left, the creek on the right, no good spot to bail and you're terrified of it. And you've had this hook lie that like, if you underread it, you go into the creek and the ball in, and if you overread it, are you overread it? If you go in the creek, if you underread it, you go in the azaleas 15, you just look at that and it's just like, how do I hit this pimple that's coming up out of the ground and like get my ball to stop on the hood of a car. Right. But the aspect of that, these are shots you don't want to have to hit. The, you think about, oh, I can lay up, but then the layup, you're like, wait, I don't want to hit the wedge either. So you're laying up into a spot you don't want to be, but you're then, you're making a decision from a shot you don't want to hit. So it's like pick your poison and that's what makes the hole so great. It's not this like risk reward where you just have like this easy shot. There's still hard shots. We watched Cameron Young yesterday at 15 in the layup zone, middle, middle, middle, back a little bit, not, not down too close to the water, middle. Hit one into the front bank, right back into the water. Hit one lawn by a good, through the green. Hit one to the middle and spun it off into the water. And at that point, PJ was like, it's over. It's so over. He's freaking out three, like nowhere close. We're bringing up Mercedes producer cam, Mercedes Benz producer cam here. First, the first one. Well said, it was over. I didn't know you could get it, get it up. I didn't know you, you, you, you could figure that technology out. I, you know, it's no GLS technology, but I think, I think we look pretty good. Right now. You've been riding around in the G. How's it? How is it? What are your thoughts? You've been in the backseat mostly. Yeah, backseat but warmer. That's the good stuff right there. Did you use it this morning? Oh yeah, I use it this morning. Cooling seats. They can cool. Oh, I didn't know that. Later. I was, I was, that could be this weekend. We could be hitting the cool. Get out at four or five o'clock and it's hot. I love cooling seats. I want to fire back. The wedges are always bad. OK, they're never good. What's up? I don't think it's the end of the world. What's up in the water in the, in the, in the met section? Got her up. It's not good with wedges and cams not good with wedges. We're just, we're just here to bomb it around. It's just bashers. Is that all that's going on up in New York? Um, is New York de-skilling the game? Ooh. Yeah. Yeah. I've walked myself into a trap here. I don't like where I'm at. Taking myself off the screen. Probably got to get your wedges right if you want to play Augusta. No, that seems like a... Yeah. I mean, you would think that, but he's done all right for himself to this point. All right. Hey, well, PJ, I want you to interject. BP's just had the run of the show, the storylines. What would be your next storyline after, after Bryson? Well, we're, we're going to the course according to my PTI sidebar here. So you guys, you guys take it away. We had talked about the course. We've talked about the course plenty. I honestly... I'm going off of BP's run. Just, I didn't send you that. I didn't send it that in order. You're off. You're off on that. One more thing on Bryson. He is the most by far like trick-or-treat player in this field for me. Like it could... I have no... He's one last to live events. I have no idea what to expect. It seems like he's cracked a code here. He's gotten over his emotional burden in South Africa too. Not talking about it. Not talking about it. We're not talking about it. Brennan Quinn tried to go there. He couldn't finish his question. God knows what happened. He just seems the most fascinating player by a mile in the field. I, I, he could win it if he wanted, would not be surprising. If he MC'd, I also wouldn't be surprised at all. That would be more surprise if he MC'd than he wanted, quite frankly, but like the last time we saw him here, it was so bad. Like the last three, four hours, then all of a sudden, you know, he was bad at Oakmont. Bloody month. Finally gets it going at an open and Port Rush, and all of a sudden he's like, I'm not, I honestly don't know what to make. And there was all the, you know, is around the game. Green hasn't been good enough for Augusta and the single length wedges and all. Like he's the most, he's incredibly talented. I don't know. I don't know what to, to make of Bryson, probably top 10, but that feels like the most likely thing. It's crazy. He feels like a real trick or treat guy right now. We've got, we've come so far from his, his days where we could put him in a prop bet against Larry Meiss. That was a real thing. The, I think the thing about Bryson, he talked about it in his presser about, he's just gotten, gotten a little bit more conservative around here and, and realize like, I think this is just the reality of the super duper elite guys. Yeah. Augusta set up. You're just going to run into birdies. I mean, if you are a good player, you are going to make birdies here. So you don't have to do, you don't have to move heaven and earth to get on the leaderboard and moving up the leaderboard as long as you, as you don't make like huge cataclysmic mistake, mistakes, catastrophic mistakes, you know? Yep. And, and I think that's the thing. He, you know, he just talked about playing a little bit defensive. I feel like we, we have hit the big time contenders. Yes. Like I think those four are kind of like out in front of everybody else right now in terms of who would you put? You talked about speed being the most interesting story possible, the best story. I got a lot of support for that take on the ground when I walked in Monday. I'm sure you did. I mean, you, you're not going to find more support for, you know, the player that's, that's been middling, uh, you over the last, you know, five years, six years. I didn't say he was going to win. Well, I'm just, he's not a real contender. He would put a charge into the ground and even your cold heart can't deny it. I'm not, it's not a cold heart. It's just operating from a state of reality. All right. Okay. But if we take him out, I don't, I don't disagree that speed would be like the best possible winner. There we go. Okay. Great. So we're all in agreement. Love it. But who do you think of the other guys is the most realistic contender? Cameron Young. Really? I think so. Okay. I think so. What about you? I don't know. I don't, I appreciate your support. Not where, not even where I would have gone as the fifth player. I mean, it would have been Calamore, Cala, but obviously I don't know that he's going to play. That seems like a, a dicey situation. I was just playing in a foursome yesterday, but not playing. I was like, why is he with four or three other guys just walking to the front of the green? It was kind of depressing. I feel, I feel bad. I hope he's okay. Yeah. That was too bad. I probably feel the best about Ludwig being in the mix. Yep. He was up there for sure. Um, I think there's been a lot of talk about him having Sunday struggles. And I think the name of the game in this sport is just putting yourself into this, in the contention. Cameron Young talked about this a lot in his, in his, in his presser and he's so spot on. You just have to get there. You have to get to the spot and give yourself a chance to have good things happen to you. And give yourself a chance to play a great round of golf. And I think like a lot of people are, are down on, on Ludwig because of what happened at Valero. To me, what I see as a guy that has gotten in the mix multiple times in the last month. And, and I think he, I, you know, listen, I don't think he's going to be in the mix again. He joins a list of golfers of, of, he could be the fourth player that finishes in the top 10 in his first three masters. It's Zalatoris, Ralph Goudal. And I can't remember the fourth. I used to like, Goudal was a problem. Yeah. He was a problem. But it was another player of the Ralph Goudal era. Lawson little. Yeah. Or something. It wasn't a lot. I can't remember who the fourth is, but he could, he joins this list. It's just, I don't see for see a situation where he is not in the mix, given his, his run from Bay Hill up and I, he's been right there. And what's, you know, the, the store, you know, is we've seen this like it flips quick on like, if you get in the mix, a lot of the masters from where it becomes like, Oh, he's a great fit. He's a great fit. He's snake bitten. And he's had some like, kind of like, you know, tough moments, whether it's the ball in the water on 11 and 24 or the finish last year. 17. 17. Yeah. And, but I think he's going to be, God, man. He's got a face time. Got a face time. Somebody's breaking through the do not disturb. But anyways, the, I think that's the, the, the thing with yourself in the battle. He's good. Yeah. He seems like it's a fair assessment. He should probably be in the mix. We know he will be arriving to the course in comfort and in style because he is a Mercedes Benz ambassador. Well, everybody is. He's not an advantage this week. They do, they do have a lot of cars in the August area. All the guys are driving. If they want, I don't know if they all are, but yes, that was by the way, that was the best story from Roy's press conference is like last year, he got invited to dinner at the clubhouse and he drove in at whatever six o'clock on Tuesday. And all the past champions were out on the balcony. I think I assume the front balcony outside the champion locker room. And like, he's like, oh, shit, they can't see me. I just want to go to dinner. I got invited to dinner. That was great. Like an in great visual piece of color driving it. It gives you such a lens into why Rory McElroy is this unique star. Yeah. He gave you like, he basically gave you his inner thoughts of like, this would be so awkward if I drove up here and got out. So I'm going to like drive over here. That's exactly the way. Everybody would treat that for a few weirdos in this field. Yeah. Right. Like that's like, oh, I got to figure this out. Yeah. It's kind of like, it's kind of like when you like, no, you're going somewhere that like maybe an axis has been. Yeah. And it's like, well, oh, like I see I'm going to go this way. I'm here for dinner, but not your dinner. Sorry. Isn't it like run in? Yeah, of course. It's incredible bit. But we do know if, whether you're driving for the champions dinner, whatever it is, you know, I got to say for sure, as in a Mercedes Benz, I got to say, I think our, our covers going to be better because we're so comfortable. We are so comfortable. We're safe. They offer a wide range of SUVs from compact to full size. We got the GLS this week with three rows of seating. Can I interject here? Yes. These SUVs are awesome. I got in a Uber that was a GLB. Okay. It's one of their smaller ones. It's got three rows. And I was sitting in it and I was in the backseat. Like you get in a lot of the smaller SUVs. Yeah. The way they have, they have manufactured space. Yeah. It's so comfortable in the backseat and that is so comfortable for a smaller SUV. Like these, you know, masters of engineering. Love it. They got the Burmester 3D surround system, which we put to the test this morning with Burmester, not Burmester. It's not me and D. It's not the BD. I have a one track mind. I want to Burmester 3D surround system. We put to the test this morning on the way to the course. You can experience the power, precision and versatility of the Mercedes Benz SUVs at MBUSA.com slash the dash masters. MBUSA.com slash the dash masters. Check it out for the check it out there. And we're pumped to be riding in style this week with them. All right. Last big storyline. You mentioned Ludwig golf course. I honestly don't think we need to say much more about the golf course, other than it is perfectly set up. I would say my big like red flag warning flag is like whatever you're hearing these first two days is probably not what it's going to be Thursday and Friday. I think allegedly not like definitely Rory was overhurt saying like this was absolutely totally different. They've totally taken like the fire out of it from a week ago. Like they can do that here. And also, I would just point out because this is what generally happens. There will be knee jerk reactions on Thursday and be, oh, what? Like the point of a setup of a golf tournament is to get to get the golf course playing the best it possibly can on Sunday afternoon. So you are you are trying and obviously you wanted to perform at a great level every single day, but you want that thing to peak on the weekend. So you are you are just it's kind of like a swimmer, you know, where you taper and you get like they put I'm sure it's a little bit slower. But like this is the this is all the stories of old. This is what you used to hear. And I think you hear it way less than you used to was like, you know, the difference between Wednesday and Thursday is greater than any golf tournament in America, the speed and the ferocity of the golf course. A unique aspect of the Masters, though, is that it's usually the hardest on like Thursday, Friday and then Sunday. Like if you're just talking about hard setup, your setup. Yeah, just talking about hard. It's like conditioning is maybe perfect for Sunday, but that does not necessarily mean like the US Open fashion of like this is going to be as hard as possible. It just means they want the fireworks. Yes, they want swings. They want a 65 out there, if you can do it. I think that the steps that they've taken in recent years have kind of undoing what they did to the course in 2007, 2008 era, the thick, rough, the over planted trees. Like what you're seeing is the golf, the club and the in the Masters, the tournament committee, really understanding the golf course. The golf course is built. What makes this place special, what makes people love it is the variability and the idea that anything can happen out there. So golf course is set up perfectly. Any other names, top names, favorites, we want Cam, Colin. I think we're going to get to P Reed here in a minute, Bridgeman, others. Peach, you know, Xander Shoffley. I he's a big pick. He's my number five. Is he the forgotten man? The top four. I just forgotten. I think I think the the form coming in and you want to talk about a guy, Andy, who has found himself in situations a lot and chances to win specifically here. I think it's setting up very, very well for Xander right now. He'd be all of a sudden in the Grand Slam. And the US opens his best major. Right. The traditional. Wow. Yeah. Would be kind of amazing. Scotty and him duking it. That would be nuts. That would be sick. Well, honestly, I think that just bumped up that potential, just bumped him up in in in storylines. Maybe ahead of me. I think he's the best story. Xander hasn't even had like a press conference yet. Has he? They didn't have him. Oh, he's got the Brooks light, too. He does have the Brooks chip on his shoulder. Let's go. I love it. Oh, it's all setting up for X, baby. There was an app update this week. I will confirm app update. What is that? He's just got new merch on the app. There's a photo gallery from the players now. And there's one little like, you know, AP News Blur about Xander is playing the masters. Fun fact from the app, though. Skipping quail hollow Xander is- Is- Not on his schedule- On- but he has gone under the radar. I asked one of our favorite, uh, favorite gambling colleagues, uh, what, what his models were looking at. And he said, my models don't spit out anything until, until the game's biggest gambling podcast goes live. Oh, I love that. Well, we'll do picks here at the end. We've, we've, we've upped our gambling podcast bona fide. So with a family member of mine, winning a 800 person entry, uh, uh, turn to NCAA tournament pool. And she going to Disneyland. I don't know. She, I don't mean to see the six year old came into several thousand bucks. What do we got next on our schedule? Let's do tea times, tea times to watch best and worst tea time. This is, this is, this is a favorite tradition. I gotta say, can we just all go around? We'll do this like a draft, our favorite one and then our least favorite. All right. Number one, number one, you can go first. Oh, there's so many to choose from. There's so many to choose from. Uh, I'm going to go number one with a bullet down bad the 2022 or is the 23 us open, 23 us open champion, but he's down bad if he's in this, he's in this tea time, but he should consider it a privilege and an honor to be playing Wyndham Clark alongside Mike Weir and the great amateur, Matteo Palteschini, the burliest of boys, uh, amateur, Asian or South Latin America amateur winner. What a pairing. Number one, clear and away. What a trio. You have a guy ostensibly at the top of the world rankings should be at the top of his game. What a major is in, you know, all these rankings as you know, the speed boy should be there. Play with Mike Weir, who's just throwing wounded docks up in the air left and right. Matteo Palteschini, who would like to be, to be, you know, kind, wasn't really in the Arkansas rotation. It's sort of, what are you looking at? And steal my pen. No, this is my pen. Okay. Absolutely. My pen. Get the hell out of here. And Matteo Palteschini, who just can't get a cup of coffee at Arkansas and cause sort of just found his way into the master's field and you know, it's just the shirt tail fighting for its life. That is an incredible tea time. I love it. All three. Hey, I think it's time for our first, uh, storyline that nobody's talking about as well. While we're on this on the fritz. Well, we're on this topic. PJ's on the fritz. I was walking up towards the eighth tee yesterday and you know, the, one of my favorite things is walking around here alone. No cell phone, nothing to distract me, fully present. Sure. And some patrons were chatting and they were like, who is that up on the tee? And all of a sudden, you know, I start, I start looking up and they can't tell who it is. And the ball, he swings and he hits it, you know, eight full flaps driver swing there. And all of a sudden it just makes this muffled sound. And the patrons go, oh, that sounded terrible. And one of them goes, this is not like one of my drives. And my question is, is wounded duck, we're back. I love that. That those are the reviews from the ground. I mean, wounded duck, we're back. I mean, that goes, I think we could also play by himself. He just was the last president. Cup captain like Connors pick your man up. Come on. Come on. Taylor, get with your man. You know, I saw you was on a podcast and, uh, I thought it was really strange. You know, we had the run in with Buddy ball, you know, Bud, Bud Martin, Bud Martin sitting in on the podcast, like, like overlord with us. But, you know, he was at least like on camera. He did a podcast. His wife was sitting right next to him. I'm like, well, you know, she's a celebrity. I don't think they were interested. It was like a golf podcast. Oh, Michelle Money from the bachelor or bachelor, right? I don't know if they requested having her on or what, but she's just saying right now. He's telling like in depth golf stories. And she's just there. Just to sit in there. You know, that's tough, tough scene. The wounded duck. He's weird. He's back. I love that. That's my number one. Honestly, that in like 2019, first ever SGS on the masters. Unless I witness a shank live. I don't think I'm gonna hear a worse golf shot than that this week. I'm substantiated rumor or like apparently Russ bus Russ Henley. This is from LaManya. Give me this. It's playing a driver that's like six years old and they're asking like, you know, you could get some more yardage. He's not a wounded duck territory, but it's efforting to get that ball out there. It's just an effort. It's sort of a heave. And he's just, no, I like this. I hit it straight. Like, well, you could get like five more miles an hour. Like, no, like this guy. So, all right. That's my number one tee time. Pete, should you pick out tee times? I'll give you the second pick here. I'm honored. I'm going to take the show me literally any proof of life group of Cam Smith, Sam Burns and Jake Knapp. Anything. Can I get anything out of any single one of them? I mean, Jake Knapp's been playing great. I know, but not in a major so far. People are people are interested in Jake Knapp. I've had a long conversation with somebody about Cameron Smith today. Apparently last year he had a kid and that took away the focus from all four majors missing the cut. Sounds like you're talking to Australian. I won't say the nationality of this person, but I will say that Cam Smith has apparently circled his masters. Making excuses there, Australia. Without a doubt, you talked to an Australian. He had a kid. I'm just saying, I have, this was one of the first three groups I had start. Oh man, that's good. That's good. I don't know what to do. You don't like that pick. I can tell you don't like that pick. I just don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Why are you in that group? I want to see if Cam Smith has absolutely anything to offer. Gosh, you left them. There's so many on the board. There's two clear groups to select from here. I can't believe you did pick this one. And I'm so honored that I get this one. And it brings us to our second storyline that nobody's talking about. I've got the 802 AMT time. Our favorite masters, masters player Jose Maria Olavol. This is not where I thought you were going. Rest with near guard Peterson. RMP. RMP. Actually, we can knock out two storylines that nobody's talking about. I love it. And in the big potty, Aldrich Potty. Surprise for you. We're going to knock out three right now. Yeah, I got a good one. I got a good one. We got three storylines. I'm going to start here. I'm going to start here with our first game within the game of the year of the tournament. What do we got? Can Jose Maria take down the big potty? I think absolutely is the answer. Will Jose Maria take it too? We've seen him take on this golf course. He's made the cut a couple of times. Twice within the last four years. And he's got the big potty who it's going to be huge. Aldrich Potty to be clear. He's a big potty. All right. He's a big potty. He I think Jose Maria, this is going to be the group that I go out and watch. It's a great group. This reminds me of the Bernie Langer Noah Kent group last year. Where you got just somebody who's just going to be shipping it everywhere and far in Potty. And then you're going to have Jose Maria playing all the angles, all the angles. This is going to be the best group to watch the shot trails in comparison. When you can get those shots early on Thursday morning, load up. And you can just you're just watching shots. This is the group to watch. So yeah, that's that's one of my storylines that nobody's talking about. Can I I think mine should go next. I have I have a potty storyline. Potty is getting prepped for this tee time because I was with him. He's playing the first hole today. He's short sided trying to get to the pin hits three bad wedges said, you know what, screw it. Give me the driver playing it on the ground, chipping with a driver. God, Jose Maria is going to think about. I was running through my head. He's offended by potty. Short game. Potty is prepping and is ready for a lesson from Jose Maria putting with a driver. I mean, this is honestly like taking, you know, a master chef, a like a Michelin three star, whatever chef dropping them into frat house. Yeah, dropping. Yeah. Being like, just just here, make these Robin noodles. Yeah, make these two children just Tyson dino nuggets. I mean, think about Jose, like the horrors running through Jose's head as potty is just the hands and the short game. What an incredible this is tee time is must watch. Holy crap. When he pulled the driver, I can't. Well, that was my number. He pulled the driver. I gasped. I actually audibly gasped. I want to remind you to vivid memory. They'll never forget last year. Jose Maria was literally 10 feet away from the ninth, the ninth, the whole on nine, maybe 12 feet, 15 feet, one foot on the fringe. And he was chipping last year. A master. God, he's so good. I can't believe he's got to watch potty around the greens for the next, at least two days, three days. We do our third storyline on this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, story line. I almost forgot. We really zeroed in here. R&P, Rasmus Niergaard Peterson, big fan of Rasmus. He has a chance to do a rare, rare accomplishment. I don't know if this has ever been done. I'm going to call it the fiery Mackenzie double. He has the chance to win on two famed, arguably the two, you know, you throw Cypress, but the two best tournament courses that Mackenzie built within six months of each other, Royal Melbourne, and then obviously Augusta National. I love it. The Mackenzie double. R&P wrote. We spoke to a source close to R&P. Love the mindset there this morning. He wants to win the par three. He's like, I'm going to win the par three. And then I'm going to break through that barrier and win the master. And I'm not saying this was his, he has a mindset of I'm not going to be, he's not calling this shot here, but I can win the part three, break that curse, and I can break the rookie curse and win as a rookie. Also other cool piece of this was he, he was obviously in the net bank. He had his card locked up net bank much higher purse total than, than the Australian open the same week. He said to his team, I'm going down to Australia and I'm qualifying for the masters. And he went down one, the one, the Australian open to get in the masters. Here's the trend. R&P also humorous for this pod. We learned, learned that PBJ, piss beer, junior, his aware of his nickname does not like it. Who would prefer the gentleman in training? I didn't know that part. I heard the first part. I didn't know the punch line. The gentleman in training. The gentleman in training. No longer piss beer. Okay. Wow. He's still paying for the sins of his elders. Yeah. That's all right. All right. All right. But he can also be known as the gentleman in training, which I liked. I liked that is that it is a good day. That's a good one. All right. So I'll go, I'll go right behind them with my next. Yeah. I knew this is where you're going. We are just rumbling and stumbling and open up holes. We're putting it, putting the ball in the ground. RTDB baby. RTDB. Just open up holes. You could drive a truck through with on hell, Cabrera, Sammy Valamaki, and Jackson Harrington, the fridge. Just this is like a straight out of 2014 USGA cheekiness. I don't think they did it on purpose. I told Paul in the media center, I comped it to when they put Shane Lowry group together. And he fought back. Yeah. I think it's dead on. That's a great group. I don't know. I mean, come on. You got to get in fridge. Sammy and on hell who just, you know, swanters down the fairway. Great group. That'll bring up another storyline nobody's talking about. After them, what was Charles Schwartz, so Max Grazerman and Ryan Fox? Because we got Intel from people who may have to play that, you know, there's aim pointing impacts from the burly boys. So when they aim point, when the burliest amongst us aim point, you can kind of, you're integrity of the turf. Yeah. What? If you're in the next group. Yeah. It's tough that we, these are competitors who've been with the burly aim pointer say, you know, the comp, your integrity of the turf, you've been stopping around may have a bigger impact. Nothing against them. But we did. That was a good nugget we got from someone on the ground. What's your next tee time? This PJ's up. I can't wait to see where Peach goes. Yeah. I apparently botched my first pick. Yeah, that was a terrible pick. Yeah, it happens. We all make bad ones. I will go. Uh, I'm going to take the final tee time of the day. I'm going to take the, the two Brits and see who Kim Harris English Marco Penge, formerly known as Pengy currently known as Benji and see who Kim. I, I, I was part of a podcast that's covered Marco pengin. Great detail. Marco, Benj wins the masters. You know where to find us. I love this. Just the fact. I think that an underrated story from, uh, from masters of old was see who Kim in the heat of contention, breaking his putter and putting with it. Yeah. I'll never forget that. And putting with a three wood on 15. Also, you know, I wish I would have thought about the storyline. I bumped into some, uh, some friends of, uh, Harry English and we were talking about how he's got a real shot here. You know, every time he teased it up at one of these majors, low Englishman is in, in, in the, in the cards. And the, I was, I was the low Englishman, uh, you know, a couple of times in majors here. Love that. Love that. Good pick. That's a good pick. Back on track, baby. Um, all right. I bet I got, I'm up next here. Um, I mean, I'm just going to go with a chalky pick here. P Reed, Tommy Fleetwood and Akshay. But Tia has a lot going on there. Now, you know, I've got mixed feelings about going out and watching this. Obviously P Reed, really fast player, Tommy, aesthetically pleasing. Akshay's pace of play, it's just got to get better. It's hard. I, I was him back from being like peak watchable. It, uh, at the players, I was, that he was playing with Brooks and Tony Finau and I was very frustrated. I just straight up quit on it. I couldn't take it. More frustrated that Tony Finau was in the group or, or Akshay was in the, the pace of play. The pace of play. There you go. That's more frustrated. I'm glad that you haven't lost all objectivity. Yeah. Tony Finau, not in the masters first time in a while. Even though everybody in golf is doing their best to get them in there. Oh yeah. Five sorts of exceptions. They are. Fleetwood had a great presser today. Just talking about coming here as a fan first. He's so, he's so endearing. Listen, I, I'm not a, you know, I'm not a doom all private equity human being. You know, that's all private equity. God, the Blackstone had so bad. It's bad. It's real bad. So bad. It's so big after wearing such tasteful. He didn't have it on in the press. Tasteful. Probably for good reason. Tasteful stuff all, all year. And he's just like, oh, this is such a wonderful throwback to the days of yesterday or we're talking to Tommy Nakajima. We didn't even talk about it. And the 86 flashback from last Friday is wearing a master's hat. The rope. Yeah. Um, if we, we now have just, it's so bad. He was, he was awesome. Sent, give the money back and give the, give the hat back. Sent the money back. He's, he was incredible listening. He's a perfect nine wood course. That's what he said. Nine woods coming out. I, you know, this was illuminating actually. Um, this place can be firm. And you always listen to the, you know, what was Jack superpower towering long irons and Tommy, who's like everybody would put in like the top tier. And this is the difference between like the dudes, dudes and like the really good guys. Him basically saying like, I don't have the towering four iron. So I use this nine wood. Nine wood. There's a, it's always like forever. There are only a couple guys that have the towering nine or the towering long iron. I would actually put in there for your tea time, Peach, the pen, the penjman hits it high. He does. Yep. He does. Could be an asset this week. Could be live. Fleawood's a great podcast. I know a great podcast where you can hear about it if you're interested. That's the one thing that it wasn't talked about with penj was this high trajectory. Everything else was covered. So yeah, that's a great one. Fleetwood was fabulous. Was that your first on the snake or was that your second? Am I back up? That's my second. I don't, I don't get a snake. Let's do one more. Let's do one more each. All right. All right. Um, I'm going to take the, uh, Well, no, it's BP start. We're not going to take the snake. I'm going to go two for one here. All right. You guys can tell me what I want. Now we're just making. There are two millennial parents just for millennial fans only. The 2010s to 2021, 20s, Heyday. Oh boy. Where DJ Shane and J day, all one majors in that decade, or you could go speed rows in Bruxy. I was looking at the speed. So it's like just pure play millennial play. Those are the glory years of 2010 to 2020. Those are, those really jumped out to me. The speed groups, fabulous. I love the speed rows and Bruxy group. I like that one. They, they, they, uh, they're doing everything that can to, to get them in the, in the hunt. Why? What do you mean? That via t time. Yeah. What's it still got to play the ball? I think he should have gotten the max treatment. You talk about, talk about a jammy. That is that is was playing with tiger like two years ago in this master's. He's with the Japan open winner who's never played a major. It's like just fluked his way into the Japan open and Carlos Ortiz who I asked PJ, how is he in the field? He like top five at the us open. I mean, there was a, there was a real 20 minute, 20 minute moment. He literally could have won late on Sunday where you're like no, no way. We Carlos Ortiz can't win this. I believe we said we'd cancel the podcast if Carlos Ortiz won the us open. I mean, if you're max home, you look to your left and you look to your right and you're like Wyndham Clark, same deal. You see we're in Pulsini. You gotta be like, how did we get here? So all right, what's your next thing? I mean, if I'm on the board here, I got Laurie, Cam, Young and Mason Howell. My one anecdote here, I know I just jumped you. You could take that. I was taking it. The Mason Howell's got the Shake Shack sponsorship. Really? I was asleep. Interesting. Cause I read a tweet that went somewhat viral this week calling Mason Howell a true amateur. He's got the Shake Shack here. Clearly not. It's like a NASCAR driver. I love Mason Howell. Yeah. He's been a podcast guest. He's a big boy too. He's gonna be, I think Mason Howell's gonna be a problem. Watched him play a man corner today with Harrison Tank, little dogs barking out there. That was a fun group. Bubba had a weird. I got a follow up with Mason Howell about dog football. Yeah. Bubba had a really weird quote about being able to talk to him because it'd be a recruiting violation. Bubba's an odd dog these days. Bubba doesn't, doesn't, I don't know. The pop's not in the bat. He's kind of hobble. I was watching him. Watching him. I was kind of like, somebody pointed out though. It never looked like it came off that hot, but it just kept going. It just kept going. Yeah, fly it. Yeah. Interesting. Who's your last pick, Peach? I'll run this out here with, I'm gonna call this the hype beast group. Oh God. Make Woo or something. 12, 12.15 PM. You got Malbon, Freddy Couples, Minwoo and FIFA. Who's getting a lot of media attention this week. FIFA low pockety. High peace, hype beast only. There's gonna be a lot of social catnip coming out of that group. You know, I kind of love Minwoo right now. Yeah, agree. I think he got totally jammed with this tea time. What are you talking, anytime you play with Fred Couples, it's like the, that's like as good of a pairing as you're gonna get. You just listen to Freddy's stories for, for four hours? I think Minwoo has, has rightfully elevated himself into a position where he should be in one of these pre-match games. Can I ask you a question? Sure. Can you promise to be honest? Yeah. Should Minwoo be in the speed spot? I mean, that's just, that's not, that's detached from reality. I'm sorry. Based on, I think he has a better chance to win the tournament. Yeah, I don't disagree. I mean, DJ's playing with Lowry and Jade. I don't know. Like, come on. I think Minwoo is way above that group. I agree. I agree. It's a good pick. It's a good pick. He's, he's a decent, he's a very nice little. I would put Minwoo in the no offense to Alex Norrin, who I like a lot. I would put him in the Cantley-Hovlin group. That's a good, that would be a good trio. All right. What about worst tee time? Can we throw a worst tee time out there? Is it Max? He's in the running. I had Weir, Wyndham, Puccini, but my other one was Danny Willett, Davis, Riley, Ethan Fang. I, you know, I had a. Just a nice kid's one. That's pretty bad. I hate to keep doing this to my boy. Beautiful line-eye. He's probably real in after, after our game on Saturday. Novak McKibbin and Campbell's not doing much for me. Not going to be a lot of people out there. I'm going, I'm going with Kurt Kiddiama, the kitty cat, Christopher Wright-Tan, and Casey Jarvis, who's played well. I don't know how I miss that. Really good player lately on the Euro tour, but there's just not going to be, you know, Arnie's army is not going to be out there following that group. You guys want your Nico minute? Sure. At Chevarro? Yeah. He was, on Monday, he was wearing a shirt, a baby blue shirt with a, with big hot air balloons on it. Look like something you'd put a four year old boy in. Yeah. Like for Easter, Easter Sunday. That's good. That's good. All right. That's worse tea times with a lot of storylines nobody's talking about mixed in. You know what? We're going to look, we brought up the apparel. I don't mean to be smirched what Nico is wearing. We're going to be comfortable. We're going to be, we're going to be in, in, in our scripting. Scripting. This is the Hurley. I was able to wear this because Dan Hurley lost last night. Was able to wear this. This is the Hurley. So one of my favorite new pieces at Bidratty. Go to bidratty.com. Use the promo code SGS30 and check out all their new spring stuff, all their new cool fabrics. We're going to be decked out every day in that, in that, in that gear. We've got our, I think our scripting what comes out tomorrow. I don't know. They shouldn't be scripting podcasters. It's a bit people, it's toned cheek or joking. I hope, I hope, I hope the photo shoot stuff doesn't come out. Oh, the photo, the photo shoot from the yards. That will never, it should see the way. So one of those things, this is your master scripting. Let's do a shoot. As we were doing it, there's not a usable shot anywhere amongst this. I mean, you guys are, are able to wear sunglasses. So it wasn't that, but I couldn't see. Just glaring sun. And I could not see one thing. I found a new respect for models other than just looking to track. Like actually it seems probably pretty hard because I couldn't get there. Anyways, onto the next storyline. Nobody's talking about. Oh, what are we going back? All right. All right. What do we got for storyline nobody's talking about? Have you heard about the parking gate this year? Oh, I didn't make a graphic for this because we didn't take a picture of the parking lot, but you could talk. I thought you were going to put it like a people camping. So anyways, a problem illuminated for the, for the green jacket. I hadn't heard about this. So, okay. A problem illuminated for the green jackets. They had to solve a prop parking issue. Love to illuminate it. Yeah. Okay. All right. It revealed himself. Nobody could be camping in the parking grounds. That, that is distasteful. So they instituted new rules this year. Okay. But here's the thing. When you put in new laws, new, new rules, you know, things change. Everything changes. So there's new rules. The parking lots now close. They, they close. You have to be out of the lots. Did they not previously? No. You have to be out of the lots at 10 p.m. I think I know people who left their car there overnight, not because they were trying to have some advantage. They just, you know, went out and went home or something. So the, the last now close and they reopened at 6 a.m. Unfortunately, you know, people are driving from high and far in here and people get here. This is the biggest day of their lives. Met a couple that woke up at 3.30 driving from like an hour away yesterday. They get here before 6 a.m. So what happens? The cars just start piling up. That sounds like a nightmare. So all of a sudden they traded, they traded a few people camping, camping out. Just in the lot to, to a traffic jam. And Washington road and every direction. This was, this reared an ugly head for, for Antwa where they debuted this on the weekend. Was a disaster apparently. Huge traffic issues at early hours of the morning with like people, the people that need to get there early in the morning are stuck in traffic. Yeah. So this has been, this is a, this is a storyline to watch. Oh, you want a good story. Speaking of camping, I love that. Heard a story unsubstantiated, extremely unsubstantiated that back in the 80s, that a traveling group from a different country, what they've been called foreigners back then, you could come in like Monday for nothing, like five bucks or whatever you could get in. And they stayed and camped in that pocket between where there's now a structure left of six green behind 70. It was, it was very dense woods then. And they stayed through the week and then they started like grilling something and the smoke ratted them out. Like they got, they got found out because. They got smoked out. Very urge or like old, one of those Augusta legends. But I heard that today that there was a group following one of their, you know, foreign icons and yeah, was camping there. This was a different era. Would not fly today. All right. What else do we got? We doing storylines with nobody else is talking about. You got some storyline. What else do I have her? Oh, post grad life. What else post grad life. This, these are just notables we should have talked about already. Anyways, post grad life can Kepka and Reed find life in the real world after getting out of, after graduating from live. This is a new one. This is a new one. This was the early start was can live guys win at majors? Well, now how can live grads win at majors? We haven't, this is the first time ever you've been to live. You've been out of the fire. Can you win at a major? How about Reed's commentary about, about the tournament and like how. So good. Like, you know, for anybody that missed it, he basically talked about like how nice it is the feel of a golf tournament, a feel of golf tournament. And this is so true. Anybody that's played in their club championship has felt this probably and gotten to the finals or the, in the mix of a, you know, a club tournament where the range is busy and then it just like slowly dissipates out. And finally, if you're playing at the end, if you're playing the last pairing, you're the only ones there. You know, we saw this last year with like, it was like, you know, the stage was set for Rory and Bryson. They're the only two on the range, hidden balls. And it's like, you know, this, this great moment and there's almost like this tension between the players and Reed talked about just like, how that had been missing from his life and how nice it was for that to be back in his life. And it's like, yeah. That was a great quote. Like the dynamic of, I mean, as a podcast called the shotgun start, it felt pretty like in a personal attack, but he's not, not big on the shotgun start as it comes to a competitive environment. It did sound like, I don't want to say that was, was really spur the moment or fly, but it sound like he might have just been in Dubai and feeling it like, hey, I want to go back. I want to go back and do like competitive PGA tour golf. It kind of, maybe that happened quicker than we thought. Maybe it didn't, but, but the way he was portraying it. Great quote. Post grad life. One more story line. No one's talking about skip it aftermath. I think skip it might be screwing up players and players swings. I think we need to end skip it. I think I'm done. It feels like just a content. Thought to skip it card carnival. You've got these people in these stands urging everybody to skip it. Now there's caddies skipping it. They're getting in the way of pace of play for practice rounds. We watch one caddy to top it in the drink two feet in front of another hit a driver across. I just think we need to do away with skip it. I'm no fun league. I'm done with skip it. Thoughts on the hat. I mean, you know my personal thoughts on that. We might be sending PJ, PJ into the merch tent to get that get a skip it hat. We might for a potential, potential experiment to mess with you. Those are more, a few more story lines. I got a couple of that that you guys haven't seen yet that that I'll throw up here. One day more. Can Zach Johnson play four days after dominating three day events recently? Can he go back? Well, this is a question he could lean on with his friends on the lift tour. Maybe he could ask, I don't know, DJ. They're related. Yeah, they're related. They're Blades Masters champions. Maybe that's what they're going to be talking about. Wow, they could chop it up. Charles? Yeah, there's plenty of live representation. Sergio, he could chop it up with anybody. But I think DJ is top 10 last year here. People forget that. People do forget that. And then we have one from LaManya that I'll throw in. An anonymous player upset about an early morning tee time, not not thrilled, was not breaking news to this player. LaManya witnessed it live and this player was laughing maniacally at the fact that he had to get up early tomorrow morning. Just wait. Thursday morning. Thursday morning. Who could that be? Kiefer, Homa? Who's early? We're just going to throw an anonymous player. How Todd, maybe. Maybe that's like a big potty. What about Big Potty? He likes to giggle. Couldn't be Big Potty. All right, great. If I was Big Potty, I'd embrace the opportunity to learn from a legend. I mean, I hope he has the driver and he starts. I want to see Ollie's head explode. That'd be great. Pretty good. She could probably ask Ollie about it if he gets the driver. If it happens, I think I'm going to watch that Thursday morning. Do it. It's going to be great. It's my group. It's going to be great. Love it. All right. All right. What else do we got? Any other storylines? Quotables? Do we want to get the quotables? I don't have a whole lot. I don't have a ton. I think we've already talked about most of the quotes. I just have the quote of the week. The quote of the week. What is the quote of the week? Or the question of the week. Can you guess who this was asked to? It's from a media member. I think I know. If you had Tiger Woods in front of you right now, what words of encouragement would you give him? I mean, I think about like Justin Thomas would be a good person to ask this to. That'd be a good one. Rory. Freddie. Yeah. Freddie. Jason Day gave a good response to these questions. If you had Tiger Woods in front of you right now, what words of encouragement would you give him? Who would you ask this to? Well, this guy asked to Jacob Bridgeman. At least the number one player in the world. The Bridgeman was asked for his thoughts on what lecture he would give Tiger. What an insane question from someone who clearly has no concept of the current golf moment. And Bridgeman, like to his credit, demored and gave him something to work with. And everybody's thinking about him and hoping he can do what's best. Then this doofus follows with the same sentiment with Phil not being here. Bridgeman's never played with Phil. He says, yeah, I don't know. I don't know, actually. And he goes, is it going to be odd not to see Phil around here? This is Bridgeman's first masters. So he's never been here. He doesn't know what odd, even or anything. He goes, yeah, I've only played two tournaments in my life that Phil has been in. So not a big change for me. But maybe if I was a spectator watching on TV, but not a big change for me. Who's going at Bridgeman about Tiger and Phil? I can tell you, I was watching this unfold. But I have to give this person props because he also, I believe, I believe this was the same person asking about Tiger, rolled over to Jason Day and delivered this question for long time shotguners. This was a moment of our early masters podcast. When we found out that Jason Day was using balloons. 2019. 2019. He was using balloons for his first back issues. And this same reporter did have the wherewithal to ask Jason Day, is a hero, do you still do that thing with the balloon to which Jason Day said, yeah, every now and then, mate, love the balloons. Essentially, what happens is you have to really understand why things go wrong in your body. For me, so for me, my diaphragm tightened up a lot. So the diaphragm, oh God, the whole medical thing. The whole medical dictionary. This is, you know, the transcriptor did not get this right. So when my diaphragm gets a little off, gets a little tight, then things start to react. And you know, I start getting a little tight. Other things happen, limits my range of motion through the swing and rotation. So then I creates bad tendencies. So he does a lot of breath work, works with the diaphragm. But still does those balloons, still working with balloons. He's still the balloon boy. Maybe he should look into, I mean, I loved, I loved the vest with all the birds on it. Yeah. That was objectively great. You liked it. All right. Maybe he should, he should talk to Nico about getting the hot air balloon shirt. Love that. The hot air balloon. All right. One more quote. I would just say Bryson, shouting out the Texarkana golf course is breaking 50 as a great master's breath was hilarious. Former, former, uh, Langford-Murrow golf course. Yeah. Uh, I, I hope one day they restore their Langford-Murrow greens. It looks really cool. Empty in the notebook. Any other quick odds and ends empty in the notebook. I know you have them though, but we're going to have live shows every night. A lot of these are evergreen. I gotta see if we got anything that has to go. We could do a great one. We saw was four caddies, uh, from number one T, you know, this is just a practice round tradition at this point. Four caddies in their white jumpsuit is Goddard up. It was Xander's caddy, a couple others. Spawn and kitty cat. They, they were looking at a provocative line off number one, like right into ninth, uh, ninth fairway off one that left right over the trees. They were, they were gunning it from that angle up and over the trees to one green. They were all there together, shooting it together. Interesting. Right at the leaderboard. That's a note from the board. Another note, uh, hearing rumblings. You know how they collect all the range data on the masters, uh, app and all that, that they might bring that to the live leaderboard. So if, so kitty cat pulls a nine iron on the third hole, or whatever the fifth hole, they will show you, well, here's this dispersion when he was hitting the nine iron on the range. And they'll have like, this are the data from, so that's interesting. I got it. I got a data overload. I got a data note. Yeah. What do you got on that? I talked to a veteran data collector today who told me he's veteran data collector. His favorite player is Patrick Cantley because there was lots of time to input the data. I got a, I got a couple of notes here. What else? I noticed the Bubba and, uh, Max Grazerman were playing together and I was just wondering, what do you think they were talking about? BK joined that group too when I picked that up. That was an interesting. By the way, we got to, we got to put BK and Reed in the like, Min Woo, right? Yes. Right. We're not disrespected in the Min Woo category, right? It was like sneaky people. We should be. Uh-huh. I don't even think any of them are sneaky at this point. I also just want to get in front of this. I think this is going to be a question on, on, on social media platforms. What's going on with John Rom's hair? Oh, the little like, The back. It's like a back mohawk. Yeah. I noticed that last night. I just think this is going to be a story when, when people see it on the, on cover. Oh, it'll go wild with that. Yeah. It is, it is like, wait. It's interesting. What is going on with it? What's going on in the back? It's a party in the back. It's not a mohawk. It's a different kind of party, different kind of vibe in the back. Um, yeah. What else? Yeah. Then I had one other question. I had a question for you, for you guys. As I watched him stand over a wedge for like 10 minutes. Oh boy. Is there a ride washable? Watchable. We encountered that yesterday. We watched him with Michael Brennan yesterday. Who apparently can't watch him. To save his life, Michael Brennan. Um, it was tough. We watched him with it. Yeah. It's hard. Methodical. I don't think he's watchable. I mean, practice rounds are extra grueling if you're trying to watch too. I think it's probably comes out even worse there. He's bad. Last, last one, one more note for me. Tiger is really not persona non grata as much as he could be anywhere. Right. Um, I don't think, you know, with what they had planned for the patch and the big rollout and all this stuff and tiger was going to be a part of that. I don't think the membership and the club and the master's tournament are super thrilled with the tiger and that's just, you know, tiger fills God and it just seems like not, I don't know if he was going to try to play, but it just, and he's told not, it just doesn't seem like they're super thrilled with how the timing of all that happened. Right. As they were going to do the patch seems like the PGA of America might adoptable too. Oh, thank you. Yeah. On the timing. Yeah. So we have no fill, no tiger PJ. By the way, last little bit of note, merge report. You had a great article in the merch tent today. No, I'm sanity. We had a, yeah. No, I'm everywhere. We got prices for the mahjong set, 395 for tiles, 100 for the board and 80 for the bag. I don't really play in the mahjong marketing place. So that might be a fair price. I couldn't tell you, but it seems like a lot of money. We also got word that golf channel ran rough shot over early access hours. Golf channel people came in and just started rolling around. They were apparently early access for the partners like UPS, Mercedes Benz. Yeah. Just, you know, let them in a little bit early to get some stuff and apparently golf channel hurt this. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. So that's your merch report. Read that online. Are we doing KVV through there? Yeah. We're going to bring him in. What time, how much more time you got? You got to go. I've got 20 minutes. 25 minutes. We got plenty of time. We could do KVV. I should do all my notes. I'm a few more notes. It's crazy that I have somewhere to go, but I do have a very important dinner date here tonight. You got stuff. KVV is coming in with this KVV three. Are you standing? Are you standing? We don't have a chair for you. It's been straight in the middle of you like a lounge. Yeah. Why don't you do that? Yes, you can. Do you have enough cord? Do you need to go over the top of BP? Yeah. There you go. All right. What's your KVV three? Oh, I don't know. Why are we stuck here? We don't matter. Just kidding. Okay. So I was devastated. My first one is kind of small. I was devastated to learn this afternoon that Tom Watson does a better Jack Nicholas impression that I do. I don't know if you guys saw him on live from, but he was talking like Jack. He was telling a story about one of the masters where Jack beat him, I think, 75. And he was saying, you know, that he's like, why did you hit six iron there? And Jack was like, well, it's because the club wouldn't win me the tournament. And it was so good. It was so much better that I'm kind of devastated. This is another example of athletes taking media jobs. Like what overranny as PN is like just all the people. Well, Dan Orolowski is probably going to be talking golf this week. He talked to College Hoops the other day for Pete Jay. It's just the Swiss Army night. Swiss Army night. See, it's been a lot of making Dan into a hot take guy. My second one, I was a little more serious. Bryson's got the weirdest vibe going on. I know this isn't going to come as a shock, but Shane Ryan wrote something today that came with just like a vibes check on every player in the field. And he sort of basically described Bryson's vibe as I'm going to get this right here. If you were going to rank his bad vibes, it would be just the unshakable upsetting sense that everything you see is artificial and exists atop a layer of unsatisfied yearning and incurable sadness. And like that's, if I were to sort of ask someone to kind of nail Bryson's whole MO, I think that would be it. Like it's obvious that Bryson has done a lot of work on himself and wants to sort of be seen as a kind of, you know, more mature person, person with a little bit more grounding. Yeah, an intellectual who doesn't want to be snippy and combative. And yet there's just like a little tinge of like this is all kind of a show. Like this is all sort of a living YouTube video. That's in pretty conspicuous layer and not tinge. And I am someone who I think has had a more sympathetic view of Bryson and a lot of people. I feel like I just, you know, I want him to find contentment and happiness. And I just don't know what exactly the answer is for him. But he, you know, it was interesting today. He, there's something going on too with him where he won't quite dig into where he's crying and you got by the green side in South Africa, but he keeps saying, I won't talk about that. And I just, you know, someone brought it up again today in the presser. Yeah, I definitely can't talk about that. And, you know, it's a little weird, like why he keeps hinting at it, but then like refusing to address it. You know, I don't know, like something in your personal life or whatever, did you have a bad breakup, something, you know, his father passing years ago was sort of a big part of his emotional kind of journey, but that's, that's been a while now it's happened. Anyway, so he was, of course, today he goes into the whole thing about, might change his clubs, you know, literally right before the tournament. He's been building out these new clubs. Personally. And, you know, someone's asking, well, you know, are you working with Betonardi to sort of, you know, do this? No, no, no, I'm just, I'm just doing them with myself. Yep. Which is insane. It conjured up an image to me of like Bryson with his 3D printer, like in the garage late at night and like sparks flying, you know, like just metal dripping on the floor. Yeah. Like how is this? Taking out samples and hitting them over his house. How is this like, is there, does the USGA person have to come in and like sort of check these clubs for, you know, their, whether they can form or not? It's kind of crazy. I will say, you know, I like asking these questions that sort of force these people to look inward on themselves. And so I asked them a question today and I said, you know, every time I'm on YouTube, it's like serving me up this algo of the secret of Mo Norman or like Ben Hogan's like uncovered footage, whatever. And his face lit up because he knew exactly what I was talking about. He's like, oh, I get that all the time. Yeah. Yeah. He loves talking about YouTube. Yeah. And so I was like, this is a good way to engage him because I'm going to meet him on his level. I'm, you know, right about Scottie's religion. I can talk about Bryson's religion, which is YouTube. And so I, but you know what? He gave this really great answer about it. He said, you know, I remember when I was first getting on YouTube when it first kind of was a thing and I remember there was this video called the Hogan mystique. Yeah. And I would watch it on a loop over and over and over again while I would do my homework. He was like, I probably should have been paying more attention to my homework, whatever, but I just like was obsessed with watching it. And I kind of was like, I kind of said, you know, do you think ever to yourself that you're leaving like this historical record for like future people to be able to study what golf was or ball striking was or whatever this stuff now? He's like, Oh, you know, of course it was kind of leading question. But he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Like I feel like that is part of, you know, passing some of this stuff on and like leaving historical record. And I think he's right. Like I think it is like the same way that people would study like old gamers or old footage. People are going to watch this YouTube stuff that Bryson's done for decades to come. And like, there's you've just created a hundred Bryson T shambos, you know, a million breaching these shambos, we're going to see more of these kind of the price of the generation. Yeah, yeah. My fast pick is the fifth generation. Yeah. My final one, it's just the kind of you guys touched on this a little bit as the tiger stuff. You know, one thing the media story is always kind of fascinating and annoying me. But like there's one person out there who's asking all those tiger questions, right? And good, good for you. You write in a story, like people feel like your readers want to get the tiger dish of things. But then what I think bugs me a lot is like all these headlines that are like tiger on everyone's mind, you know, come at Augusta. That's just not true. He's on Jacob Richmond's mind. But like Jacob Richmond didn't come here being like, well, I hope I get asked a tiger. What's question? It's probably like, holy crap. You can see the pain. I was staying there one day went through this ringer and like, you know, he stood up there and gave like really good responses for like five minutes and you could just see him get done and just be like, oh, thank God. I mean, like if he walks off the boat. It's good for a day for like answering like in some kind of honest way. Like I think it was selfish or whatever to drive. Like that's you're risking like giving like being excommunicated from the tiger circle forever, just by being a little bit honest. Did we wait into that? That was a plausible. So, you know, but it's a tough position to put these guys in and then to frame it as if like they're the ones who brought up tiger throughout the day, like grabbing media people as they walk by and be like, hey, I just want you to know I have some tiger thoughts. I'm going to get off my chest. That's the way it was sort of framed in some places. I mean, he's not been like a competitor here since 2019. Even if he were playing, he's not the defending champ. It's just insane how we force him into this. Listen, then in some respects, like the Masters is with a best media is like gets produced all year for golf and also some of like the absolute worst. Sure. Sure. I think, you know, there's a real case to be made that of course like the Alanship Nuck's book about Rory is coming out this week, whatever. And I think it's like from my understand, I haven't gotten all the way through it, but it's fair. He did a very, you know, he'd worked really hard to kind of make sure that it wasn't sort of sensationalist or whatever. But of course, like the British tabloids and New York Post or whatever, immediately like rip the middle of it out of the context with stuff with the marriage and just use it to kind of like trash things and like surface rumors and stuff. And it's just, it's like using that, which is like a, you know, fairly nuanced and responsible, something that's been vetted by legal, something that he literally handed a copy of it to Rory to then like it becomes like a headline in the daily news and New York Post, just kind of gross. And the only reason they're doing it is because, you know, it's the Masters and they know that people are going to like be vampires and click on it who don't follow golf or whatever. And it just, I'm always like just in awe of some of the great media that's produced and always kind of like cringe at some of the, how bad the bad media makes the media look to the Masters is just something they have to kind of live through. Bryson was an interesting cap to the day. Let's see, I liked your diagnosis there. He's interesting. Tiger stuff, I think it's done though, right? Hopefully. Champions dinner. Maybe there'll be an anecdote or something, but that's it. Should we pick winners? Winners. You got KVV three. We got winners all the way around. Let's go four wide. PJ, you want to lead us off? Why don't we go PJ, KVV me and the NAND can cap us. Yeah. You know, I don't think this should come as a surprise to anybody. We're steering into it. I do love Xander this week, but Bride or die. It's go time. Cameron Young. Imagine if Cameron Young launched his own app. I mean, remember how we were saying that I should go be a copywriter for the Xander app? Yeah. If somebody could teach me how to code, I would do the camp young app. I would just do it. I think you could use AI now. Learn the code. You could use quad or whatever. Yeah, but you got to, you know. You were probably told when you left journalism school, learn to code. Yeah. So you missed your chance. Time to see this thing through. Can't leave now at the 11th hour. I'm planting the flag. I mean, the flags have been planted for a long time. Yeah. Kev, who do you like this week? I'm going to go with Ram. I really think that he has something to prove. He is one of the five best players in the world. And I think he would like to remind people. I don't, you know, we all know kind of how I feel in general about the live stuff. But I think like he's played well enough to know that he's like coming in pretty sharp. And I think like grievance helps him. And the stuff with DP World Tour is going to be like a good, you know, motivator to basically be like, Oh, really? You want to hold a Ryder Cup without me and like a cycle where I won the Masters? You know, and I think he'll probably have a pretty good public relations argument anyway. Like, oh my God, you can't leave the Masters champion at home. And I just feel like we're trending to a time when he is going to, like if he gets off to a good start, I think he's going to be really tough to beat. I have a rom too. That's my pick. I don't need to add a whole lot. You've covered the bases. Andy, who do you like? All right, I picked, you know, I'm covering my bases because if you only listened to the Friday pod, you heard me pick Scotty. I have, I've swerved. I love this. I love doing multiple picks. Oh, I love sitting on the fence. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, well, you know, I, I, I, I had to make a decision before I got on the ground. I've seen the loses. I saw the, so, so, so some good shots. I saw some shots I wanted to see. I saw sharpness. And I did, this is a time-honored tradition. Get on the grounds early week. I'm not picking Rory. I'm picking Rory. Oh, come on. I love that back to back switch. Just, I'm not dead. Come on back. I love it. I was almost, if you were going to pick them, I was going to go back on my rom pick. That's great. Screw it. We ball. Take Rory. I love it. This guy, this guy watched a hype video today and was in. This guy saw a hype video. There was a, there was that. The hype video before is pressing. I almost, I almost brought it up when we were talking about the press room before. That was ridiculous. I've been coming to press conferences since that building was open. Were we supposed to clap? It's the first time they've ever put a hype video on. I actually asked if we were supposed to clap. That was bizarre. Please clap. That's a great pick. That was not good. That's a great, honest to God. I, I sold. I mean, that's a great pick. We're going back to back. He delivered, he delivered for me last year when I picked them one and done. We were touting gambling, pot, gambling, pot. It's going to deliver for you when, this year. I love it. The guy wins. He's got the fourth best thoughts. When a guy wins back to back, do you know who puts the coat on him? It's chairman. It's chairman. Yeah. The chairman. Let that be it. I found that out after I didn't know during my pod. That's why you do a pre-pod. Yeah. That's it. So you can make a pick. I can do two preview pots. Not a lot of podcasters can do two previews. You can make a pick and then you can make a different pick. You know what I will say is if he's three shots in the lead on Sunday, like house money, baby, what do you have to lose? Like you can absolutely come running down at people and you're basically like, you know what, if I, if I don't win the Masters, oh well, people will still think it's a good defense. This is the thing I said it earlier. I just think he, he like fully, there's a freeing aspect to something when you know you don't have to play perfectly. And last year, making four doubles. Yeah. You made four doubles in one. Shaved that down. I love that we spent 10 years picking Rory. He's like, oh, I just like the juggling routine. I think he's got to figure it out now. And then he wins it. We're going to still just keep doing it. F that we fall. We're going. We're going. There we go. When do you think the first Masters, it's 2026. What year is the first Masters where nobody reasonably expects Rory to win? Not for a while. He did say I've got 10 more. So can I raise my hand please? Is this the first Masters where nobody thinks Jordan Spieth is going to no one. No, I'm sure there's some people out there that so this is the actually the first masters that you have to worry about. Jordan, so that may be the one I actually got you know early this season when he was putting really well. I thought man like we could get back in the mix here and then he was putt it horrible. He doesn't matter to go. It doesn't matter. It matters a little. It matters for Joe. I'm more worried about the. Go with God Sam Burns. You know, put your way to T 48. I don't know. This is deputies week. Yeah, the deputies are in the street. All right. That does it for a shotgun start preview of the Masters. Kevin, thank you for joining us PJ PJ to say PJ has been stressed about producing this would be the understatement of the year year review ended. This is you've been working on this the day. I made him get a camera too. I made it a real camera through a wrinkle in that PJ PJ's you know approval rating always sky high, but you've been working hard and been very anxious about this. So thank you for your work here. Andy. Great to be with you again for another Masters. We will be doing dailies every night after the conclusion of play Sunday. Maybe maybe five minutes before. Sometimes we'd like to go like jump the gun. Nothing's going on on Friday. That's what I said. Making that putt on Saturday night. We're going to jump in our GLS and scoop back to the house and get going here. But every night, Thursday night, Friday, Saturday night, and then we'll figure out Sunday. Honestly, like it's like sign off. It's incredible that we get to do this as a job. We have no no harbor, no cockiness or delusion about the the who's responsible and it's the audience. So thank you guys for listening, giving a damn, paying any amount of time or attention to this now hour and 45 minutes. Can't wait to cover the Masters with you guys over Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We will talk to you then.