Go Low - Masters 2026 Predictions: Bryson DeChambeau will WIN, Aberg, MacIntyre to place Top 10

This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. The volume. Well, hello, friends. This is John Middelkopf in the Golo podcast. And the Masters is officially here. So very, very excited. I thought I'd do a little podcast from Los Angeles about Augusta because like many people, I can't wait. So we'll kind of go over some big picture stuff. Who I bet on. We'll take a couple of questions at Golo pod is the Instagram fire in those DMs from Rory defending Scotty at a baby Bryson and Rom, who I'm picking to win some top 10 bets, a couple of flyers, just a fun week. You know, you're either at the office or at work watching on your computer. If you're working at home, you got it on the background. Amazon Prime now is covering it. You got Jim Nance. You got Scott Van Peltin, Butler Cabin. It's just hard to beat. So very, very excited. You guys know the drill. Make sure you subscribe to Golo. We separated it from three and out. We have our own Golo YouTube page too. So we post everything up there and let's just dive into the Masters. I've been thinking a lot about this is, you know, we talk a lot of football, right? And the one thing there's multiple reasons for us explosion, right? It's a tailor made sport for television. Anyone that's been to an NFL game, the event is much better on television than in person. And the scarcity of the event, given that it doesn't happen. Like you don't have three games in a week. So you can't go, this game doesn't matter because they all matter, right? Whether you're playing high school football, college football or the NFL, every game matters. You practice all week, you game plan. And I think the power of the Masters, right? It's the only major that's played at the same event. But there's this build up every single year. And lately we've had, you know, the Scottish Yefflers, the John Roms and obviously Rory getting over the hump last year. So some huge names. It's historically tied with, you know, guys like Tiger, Phil, Jack, Arnie, you know, the biggest players, the most Gary player, the most important players in the history of the sport have won this event. And there's this element of the, you get the green jacket when you get into the club, right? Whether you're a champion or whether you're a member of the club. It's why there's always reports from the ground floor of like, I just saw a Roger Godeller, Peyton Manning walked by in a green jacket. And there's just something that almost feels, I don't know, unattainable to this event, right? Most of us, right? If you're listening to this and you're a big sports fan, more than likely you have been to a college or an NFL game. You have been to a major league baseball game. You have been to an NBA game, right? Most of us have been to an event or two. Some of us more if you're season ticket holders, right? But this is an event, even if you're an active like attendee that you're like, I've always wanted to go to the Masters, but I also acknowledge I may never go. It just may never happen. So there's this, it feels huge. It really matters NFL style. And then there's like kind of this mythology to, I just don't know if I'll ever get to attend. I mean, I hope I can attend one day, but there's no guarantee that it ever works out, that I ever get invited, I ever get access to tickets, that it just, it just might not happen. And I'm cool with that. Like I've come to grips with that. But for me, this event, and let's face it, we are in this world where non football in the sporting world, things have to feel really big, right? The NCAA tournament just happened. It felt big. Arizona against Michigan, Michigan against Yukon, Yukon against Duke. Those felt like moments, whether the games worked out or not. But going into the game, it felt really important. The World Series a couple years ago, Yankees Dodgers. Like it doesn't happen very much. It felt massive. The ratings reflected it. It was big. The Kentucky Derby always feels big. And this is the pinnacle of golf. And they've had a lot of momentum. The players rated well. Scottie Scheffler over the years, like they've had more interest, more people are playing golf now than ever. But this is the peak of the season. And this peak of the season, because so many casual people pay attention. I love golf. Playing golf, I'm actually playing tomorrow in Los Angeles, pretty fired up. But I understand that a lot of people don't like golf, think it's boring or historically have. And then slowly have got into it. And as you age, I mean, hell, LeBron James now is really into golf. And it was something five years ago he probably would have laughed at. Because as you age, you kind of come up, have an appreciation for it. And most of us, it's the one sport where you can play courses that these guys play, except this one. Because even if you play golf and know a lot of people and have a lot of money, probably very, very limited chance that you will ever step foot with your golf clubs on this course. Even if you get the hook up through work, through you win the raffle and you attend this event, most people that want to play this course will never ever get the opportunity. And so I think there's that element of that, the gym, Nance, hello friends, how pristine everything looks on television. I think they've adapted pretty well to giving us what we want as the consumer on our couch or, you know, in the office on our computer is we want to watch as many holes as many players in this event starting Thursday morning through Sunday as possible. And Amazon Prime is now carrying this. Augusta doesn't need the money. They could they just do not care. It's a very it's unlike anything else. I mean, it really is from the standpoint of like, we don't even need to sell this. I mean, CBS, I heard this couple of years ago on a podcast, like when they do a deal with the NCAA tournament or with the NFL, it's usually five, a 10 year contract, right? We're not giving you all this money for a decade long. They do yearly deals with the Masters because the Masters just want, even though they've done business with CBS now for as long as I can remember, it's kind of keeping it on your toes. They have certain rules that you have to follow. We don't call them fans. Call them the patrons, right? Which some of that stuff's kind of cheesy, but also you kind of appreciate it with Augusta. People are not allowed to bring phones in the venue. And I can't even imagine. Sometimes I was watching. It was last week, the Valero, Texas open and there are led big kind of hits into the trees, which he's known to do on Sundays. And there's like this group of people in a half circle behind them. And every single person has their phone open to video the shot. Most of those people, I can be guilty of this as well. You do something like that. If you're at a concert, then you like never look at it again. Like, why did I just take it in? And we don't do that as much anymore. And that's one thing that still happens at Augusta. And I just think that if this event goes well, because they're naturally the Rory storyline, you know, Bryson and Ron come in with a lot of momentum. Obviously, Scotty just had a second child, which I'm fascinated. I didn't know, you know, super young children could fly. Did he have his child in, you know, the Augusta area and fly his doctor out, which is something that's probably much more feasible when you have the means of Scotty. I'm fascinated to know the logistics. I didn't get the chance to watch his press conference yet, but maybe it takes a little bit of a load and pressure off of them that it's out. It's healthy. He can just play this event. He's been playing bad. Maybe it takes his mind off some of his struggles, again, all relative. But there's just nothing better than Augusta National. And to me, it's just the way it looks on television. Like the last couple of weeks, you just watch them and says, doesn't look great. I mean, last week and I get they had weather was just, I love golf. It was tough to watch. It did not pop on television. And that's why that it pains me to know that they might leave Hawaii is like kind of pops on television. The players really pops on television. Pebble Beach pops. Nothing pops quite like this. Some of those shots, some of those visuals. It's just the best. And I can't wait. And hopefully the master is a little like, you know, pizza, even when it's not great, it's still pizza. Like so, even if it's not Rory versus Bryson in the final in the final, you know, two some and the ebbs and flows of last year. And I watched the Amazon Prime deal on Rory, which I thought was pretty good because I think sometimes I remember in the moment thinking, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen. But then time happens, right? Life happens. You get the summer, you get football season, you have a child, you do whatever. And you kind of forget. You're like, God, that was pretty crazy. You just say that because you know it's pretty crazy. But you might, if you're not like some diehard Rory fan, Rory, the catty or there, you kind of forget the little details beside him chunking it into 13 rewatching on Amazon. You're like, Oh, yeah, he doubled the first hole to go in for a tie for the lead with Bryson going into hole two after having a two shot lead to start today. He doubled hole one. I can't imagine. And you're like, this is insane. It's no different. Like people use the analogy all the time, 28 to three. I bet if you sat down and watch the second half of the Falcons and Patriots, again, if you're a diehard Patriot fan or a diehard Falcons fan, you probably have a better remembrance of some of those moments than me. Like I just remember the Hightower Sack. But I bet you think that is what did I just witness? That's what I felt like watching Rory McElroy's Amazon documentary. I'm like, this is even more insane than I remember. And it felt pretty cool. It felt big. It was well timed. I think Shipknuck also came out with a book today talking about like his divorce, which I kind of appreciate. I saw someone on Twitter this morning say something like Alan Shipknuck gives zero fucks. Just put out the book of Rory Masters Week when he's defending champ talking about like his alleged affair that everyone's, you know, denied and his divorce. I'm like, God, this guy's kind of respected in a weird way. Just I don't think I could do that. But I just don't think he cares. And I don't think Rory cares that much either. Again, he's probably, you know, eating his wagyu steak right now with a with a glass of Pinot and just enjoying life with a smile ear to ear as he should, which kind of sucks because I've been thinking a lot about part of that documentary and it's well, you know, he's talking about it for his whole career is a lot of golfers his age, right? In their thirties. I'd allies Tiger Woods when they were young. He was their golf hero. No different than Kobe looking up at Michael, right? Or, you know, some of these guys that grew up on Brett Farve idolizing him, or now some of these guys with Tom Brady, that's who you look up to. And you finally get this moment after a decade plus your grand slam, you've won the career grand slam. You've really just cemented yourself as like an all time legend. I mean, he already was, but really, this, this was kind of the icing on the cake, whether he never wins a major again, which I think he will not necessarily this week, but just over the course of the next five years, hell, he might win a couple. And Tiger Woods doesn't attend. Like that kind of sucks. You know, there's been a lot of people like, I feel for Tiger. He's battling some issues. Yeah, we've known. We've known for 20 years. Tigers got a lot of demons. I know a lot of people with demons. I'm not trying to act like it's not a big deal, but like Pukinacua is down the road right now in Los Angeles in a rehab. I'm sure there are a lot of individuals there. Just like I bet if we drove to Palm Springs, the Betty Ford clinic, be fucking packed. You know, he ain't alone. And if you're Rory, like it probably would have been, I bet he dreamed about the moment of like his cheers and looking and seeing Tiger Woods. And then he looks and Tiger's not there. Like that sucks. I mean, that, that, that really sucks. So, you know, it's the first time in 32 plus years that Tiger and Phil are not attending this event. You know, Phil put out a statement. He's, they've had some personal health issues, which I'm not exactly sure. I mean, it hasn't been reported what's going on, but I just think that the good part right now about the PJ tour and these majors is for whatever, two decades. It was always considered to, you know, or always said, Tiger didn't move the needle. He was the needle, which is true. Golf was, I mean, a niche is niche. Like it was very limited to the amount of power it had in this country in terms of getting random people to watch a tournament, especially when I was a kid. And then he came around and he just became a fucking worldwide rock star that even if you didn't like golf and a lot of people did not 20 years ago, a lot of people did not 15. Hell, in 2019, when Tiger was on and Tiger was playing well and Tiger was in the mix, people tuned in. I remember Barry Bonds and the peak of his steroids use. When Barry Bonds got up to bat, whether you couldn't stand them or you were like me, you loved them. You watched him hit. And a lot of people thought like, how, what's going to happen when Tiger goes away? Well, Tiger kind of unofficially did go away in when he got in the car crash at Rift and ruined his angle. That unofficially ended his career. Never been the same. Never will be. I consider him now like unofficially done. Never playing again. Don't expect him really to ever play in these events that matter. Like those days are gone. And for a long time, it was like, you know, Jordan Speed, Brooks, DJ, can they carry it? I think there's enough momentum now with and live participated in this, just creating conversation, obviously Bryson and Ram, Bryson and Ram, big time. You got Rory, Scotty and some of these other random guys on the PJ tour who are really good. I think the Ryder kept buzz and golf just doesn't need him as much as they once did. I ideally he'd be 50 and still be pretty decent and still playing, but that's not the world we live in. He's currently in some rehab across the pond doing who knows what and Phil, obviously his career kind of unofficially ended on the PJ tour when he won at Kiowa and the one, the PJ championship was a pretty cool moment as well. But I think both those guys, they're kind of swan songs on the course were the 19 Masters and the 21 PJ championship. And they're never coming around again. And they're obviously not factoring in. I know Phil finished second here a couple of years ago with the crazy round on Sunday. But I think golf's in a position now where they can handle those guys going away. It's a big question with the NBA. Like in four years when Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and LeBron James are not playing in the NBA, what do you do? Because I promise you this, like the Thunder are not going to carry you. They just will not. And I think probably a lot of people are nervous. And that that was the case with golf with Tiger Woods. And now I think that we saw earlier this year, the players that Cam Young won it like did five million people watching. You're like, OK, this is all going to be OK. And this week draws in a lot of casual people. And I think the Roy storyline, obviously Bryson and Rahm, I think is a big deal because one of those two guys, I think as it wouldn't shock me, both of them are in the mix come Sunday. And obviously Scotty playing well. I mean, I think the Masters, which has had some random winners over the years. But I also think that kind of speaks to the crew of guys in the PGA tour at the time. I'd be stunned if our leaderboard doesn't look incredible. I mean, just look at the winners over the last handful of years. Even the 20 year was DJ couple years of Scotty, Rory, Rahm. I mean, we have had last year, the final group is Rory and Bryson. A couple years before it was Rahm and Brooks. I mean, you're getting the heavy hitters coming around. So I'm really fired up. And that's what I think makes this tournament so cool is unlike a lot of majors, where it's 150, 152 guys, someone told me is 91 players. Well, there's a lot of when you win the Masters, you technically can play for your entire life. And there are a lot of guys that get in like the US amateur winner, you know, international players that win certain events. There's like 30 guys that can win this tournament. And that honestly feels extreme, but it also feels like the guy Matt Fitzpatrick, if you just did a power ranking or Bob Backentire, right, or Tommy Fleetwood is in this tournament as much as say, Scotty or Rory, right, or has equally as a chance. And over the last couple of years, I love Rory last year. You know, and I love Bryson last year. Now, I parlayed them all. I didn't have them individually. But it was pretty clear like a heavy hitter was going to win. It doesn't feel like that right now. Like I'd be stunned, honestly, of Rory Top 10. I just think he's in a good mood. There's got to be an incredible feeling walking around the grounds with this green jacket. Every clip I've seen of him, he's had a massive smile. This is. I it doesn't professionally. This has to be one of the most surreal cool weeks of his career. Might be. And I bet he might say this later on in the season. He's like that was one of the more genuine, just excitement level weeks I've had to be around a golf course in a long, long time. And I just I don't expect him to win, you know, and Scotty. I think it's really hard. The kid, the play has been off. But, you know, I think we have this group of, you know, Mathis Patrick's, Cam Young's, Bob McIntyre, Ludwig, some of those guys just this is a great opportunity. And I think that makes it really fun. You know, more a cow with his injury. What what is that going to be like? Xander, you know, Justin Rose was in a playoff here last year. He already won this year. He's a guy that's had a ton of success here. Adam Scott, previous winner, older guy. That's the thing about this tournament. You know, a guy can be playing really shitty. Like I put a little money on Jordan Spieth over the Texas events and you're watching like this is tough to watch. But then he could show up here and all of a sudden be tied for the lead on like midday Saturday, because this is an event about course history, course knowledge, comfortable in the environment. There's a level of nerves involved in this. All these guys talk about the way the the Greens are so difficult. I was talking to a buddy. I'm not going to give away because he wanted to keep it under wraps who got the opportunity to play here like a year ago. And he's, you know, a high handicapper, like probably like a 20. But most of us, you know, he plays a decent amount of golf. He's got a lot more into it. He said the caddy because you go out with a caddy points at a place when you're on the green to putt and you're like, what? Why would I hit the ball there? He's like, trust me, you got to hit it here. Tap it. You know, it's like a 15 foot putt and it's a crazy break. And he's like, and not in a million years of that caddy didn't exist. I would aim like a ball outside and my ball would have ran off the green. And there's clearly a level. This is why a couple of years ago, Phil Mickelson finished second. This is why Justin Rose can shoot like 64 on a Sunday because your understanding of the Greens, which is a big deal. It's why Jordan Spieth, I'm just not going to count them out. And my pick to win the Masters this year is Bryson DeChambeau, which a couple of years ago, you would have laughed me out of the room. You're like, you're picking Bryson DeChambeau, who famously called this like a par 67 and then proceeded to shoot like 76. And everyone and their mother, rightfully so, made fun of him. I don't think Augusta was happy with those comments. He was talking about like hitting balls over trees on the other holes. It's like Bryson, just play the fucking golf course, especially because you famously, you know, a lot of people have said it's an advantage to be able to draw the ball. Well, anyone that's watched Bryson DeChambeau's YouTube channel, let alone watched him play over the course of his career, especially since he has this new kind of swing setup. He works the ball right to left, which can be an advantage in his comfort level, because they don't allow green reading books at the Masters over the last couple of years. I mean, he was two down going into Sunday and it was tied for the lead after. I'm trying to do the math here with 17 holes to play. And two years ago, he finished tied for sixth and he did not play well in the weekend. Last year, he finished. I guess two years ago, he finished tied for six and shot 75 73. Like to me, this is a guy I will be stunned. If Bryson DeChambeau doesn't win the Masters or I mean over the course of his career, I'm not saying I'm going to pick him this week. Who knows? It's hard. I think over the course of the next five, six years, Bryson DeChambeau is going to be a Masters champ, which will be incredible. No player could win the Masters and people be more interested in what he would pick on the menu. Like, is there a chance you're getting a chocolate protein shake? Is there a chance you're just getting like a grilled piece of chicken and some brown rice? I mean, you probably do some swanky shit, but I think he wins. He's played great and live for whatever that means. But to me, whether you're playing a muni or whether you're playing the toughest course in the world, if I'm playing one on one against John Rom, which he did in South Africa and I beat him in Sunday, like that's saying something because a lot of people are going to pick John Rom this week, who also I wouldn't be shocked if he's in the mix as well. If there was a bet where you could take Rom and Bryson, one of the two guys to be in one of the final three groups on Sunday, that would be an auto hammer to me. I'm taking Bryson of the two, but you can get them right now. Hard Rock Bet nine to one. I just think if you can hammer him top five, top 10, I'd just be stunned if he's not in the mix. I really would. I think he's confident coming in. I think the last couple of years has given him the capability to go, OK, I can play here. OK, I'm comfortable in this environment. I got Rory a couple of years ago at Pinehurst. He got me last year at the Masters. The other thing, and I was thinking this like a basketball coach, a football coach, Rory on the dock said that after hole nine, when Rory Burdy's Bryson misses and Rory is a four shot lead over him, he said walking the whole 10, I looked at Bryson and I thought he's out of the tournament, which turned out to be true. But if I'm Bryson, I would use that as motivation. And. Yeah, I don't know what else to say beside he's my pick. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet, the official sports betting partner of the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic. We talk football on the show, but the NBA playoffs are right around the corner. And with Hard Rock Bet, every night is a shot to build the same game parlay and score a major bucket, maybe like a hot hand to drop 30. The big man to control the glass with the double double point guard to dish out five assists. 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It has not rained much. And currently, it is rock hard, which it could play very difficult in terms of obviously the putting around the green, chipping around the green could be diabolical. If you miss approach shots, you are down. You are rolling off the green, different angles. It can be very difficult chipping and approach play. To avoid crazy hard chips, approach play is key. Say what you want about Ludwig. He's had some, he definitely imploded at the players. Hard for me to say that last week when he had a lead and then it started a torrential downpour and crazy wins and he played like shit. There is not a guy that I am more confident. If all the players in the field, I won't count Scotty because historically he is a top 10 master. There is no one I like more to top 10 than Ludwig at plus 180. He is going to be kind of a sexy, trendy pick to win. It is hard for me to pick him to win when he just doesn't win very often and when he is leading these tournaments or tied for the lead, he is something weird happens. But one thing he does and this is what he shares in common with Scotty is his floor is extremely high. So to me plus 180 to top 10, I don't like it. I love it. And there is a reason what does Ludwig do. He can work a fade, work a cut. But to me when I think Ludwig, I think a drawer of the golf ball. High ball flight, drawer of the golf ball. Bryson DeChambeau fits this place. Well, why do lefties have success? Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, Mike Weir have success here because those guys, they are ball flight, not a draw. They can play a cut whether it is on hole two, whether it is on hole 10, whether it is if you get behind the Rory shot last year on hole 15, they can cut the ball at the bunker on hole 18. Sometimes it is a harder shot for the right hander that if he plays the cut there, he is in the trees and he is fucked, which we have seen happen sometimes. Bob McIntyre has really turned into a high level golfer. I mean, you watch him, I kind of appreciate the body type. To me, you get him top 10 plus 230. So I am taking Bryson to win 9-1. I am taking Ludwig and McIntyre to top 10 plus 180 and plus 250, excuse me. Now, I am going to take a couple of flyers. If you have watched him play this year, he is all over the map and any time you look up, and I did this the other day at Valero, he was between two trees. I think I saw something online where someone is like, no one is more likely if you see someone in the trees, if you are at a golf tournament and go, I wonder who that is for it to be Jordan Spieth. He can be all over the map, but that is the thing with Augusta. This is not the players. This is not Oakmont. You can spray it around a little bit and course knowledge and just kind of understanding the moment and being comfortable in the environment matters a lot. Now, am I confident Jordan Spieth, like would I put a lot of nuggies on it? No, but when you can get Spieth at 50-1, to me, there was enough there to be like, I'd like a little magic and I'm biased. I just want to root for the guy. Now, something I'm a little more confident in, I know he just had a bad week, but if you tell me this place is rock hard and it's playing hard and this is a tournament between 20 to 30 guys, like I've seen this song and dance before. There's a guy named Brooks Kepka that broke it down years ago that why he's successful in majors. He's like, you can cut out half the field immediately. Then the next half, they're just going to be overwhelmed by emotions. And then the next half of the next group, who even if they are mentally dialed in and can handle everything, their game is not going to be really playing well. So then you're at such a small percentage of people who's actually playing well and you can handle the pressure that they don't really know how to navigate mistakes. Now, Brooks is not putted well this year, but Tita Green, he's been excellent. And if you tell me that this course is like ball striking is going to be put at a premium because the Greens are going to be rock hard and this isn't the DJ Fall Masters where it's soft and balls are stopping on the green. I'm going to take Brooks at 50-1. And I look, I bet it has him 50-1. Like I like having a little juice on a guy that's comfortable in the bright lights. Now, if you don't want to bet him to outright win, to me, top 10, top 5, like I can see scenarios where Kepka is just in the mix in this event. Now, my one flyer, I know a lot of people have brought up Justin Rose. I'm going to go with another former champion who's in his 40s just because I like the odds of 75-1 and that's Adam Scott. One thing I did is I actually have a parlay with Adam Scott to win and Ludwig the top 10 last week, which he did. But Adam Scott's a guy that I threw a couple of nuggies on at 75-1 to just hope kept lighting in the bottle. I think there are a lot of people around Cam Young. Personally, for me, Cam Young I'm going to place a very aggressive wager at the PGA championship in a month at Aronamac. I think Cam Young wins at Aronamac. He wins the PGA championship or he wins the open. I don't necessarily see him winning this tournament. Could be wrong and I'm a Cam Young stan. I'm rooting for the guy. Xander is the guy that I think is flying into the radar a little bit. I think Morakawa would have been a sexy pick if he hadn't fucked up his back at the players. I think, obviously, Fleetwood's a guy that can turn on, but he's been off. He's always wearing different clothing, a little weird because he can't get a clothing deal. He heard some details on that. Kind of weird that business therein that way, but he probably made a lot of money on Nike in his prime. So to recap, Bryson, my Flyers are Brooks and Speed in terms of little longer odds and my big time Flyer is Adam Scott. My two top 10 bets are Ludwig and Bob McIntyre. I think what makes this event so cool is you just turn it on and you just feel good. There's something about how pristine the grass, the vibes look. When it goes viral that you get a sandwich for two or three dollars, when you get a beer for three dollars, that stuff doesn't exist anymore. I got a small coffee and I get it. I'm in Beverly Hills at this hotel. You go downstairs, I just get a cold brew for the afternoon. I need a little juice and they're like, that'll be $10. I'm like, Jesus Christ. You go to the airport, you're like, I'm so thirsty and then you get a water. It's like $12. This is egregious. But what am I going to do? Fuck and go to the bathroom and drink sink water and like, they got you by the balls. The Masters could rake people over the coals. I see it with the Players Championship. Those things went viral this year. How expensive everything is. And to me, that's always something that you share on group tax like, God, I want a pimento cheese sandwich. Or do you know what the key is? You go with the barbecue chicken and you mix it with the pimento cheese and it melts in your mouth. I'm like, hell yeah. So I'm excited. I really am and I can't wait for this thing to get going. Let me answer a couple of quick golf questions from the at go low pod. This is from, so you just Instagram me. I will answer your questions here on the pod. This is from Jared. I've heard you mention that golf has really taken off in the last five years. Made me think of all these golf simulator businesses that seem to be popping up everywhere. I went to one recently that served good cocktails and it was fun. Have you ever been and did you enjoy it? They seem to be popular enough. Although, do you see those being a fad and eventually suffering the same fate as top golf? I think they are. I went to one probably in the last six months in Scottsdale. Same thing. It was really fun. We had some drinks. We got some advertisers. You know, they're the girls could come. There are a bunch of dudes there could bring their girlfriends or their wives. A couple babies were there. It was just an easy hang. But I enjoy it more in top golf. Hot take. I don't really like top golf. Never really did. If I'm hitting outside, I just would rather be on a driving range. Now, I get the first time I ever went to top golf. I went in Vegas, which Vegas is top golf has the big screens in the back with the games on. It's pretty cool. It's right there on the strip. But like if you told me, hey, you want to meet me at top golf, my first reaction is probably, no, not really. Where if you go, hey, I got this cool place, got sweet simulators, they got a bar, you want to come have a beer and hit some shots, I'd probably be interested. Do I think it's a little fatty? Probably. Do I think the simulator now I don't know about the costs? You know, because you know, like top golf, you got overhead costs. It's expensive. The time I went to one in Scottsdale is pretty empty. So, you know, I don't know what you need to make your money and just to break even. It's not a cheap endeavor. So, you know, the simulators by themselves are not inexpensive. My guess would be, are they everywhere in five years? Probably not. But I don't think they hurt currently. I'd probably bet against them big picture, but I could be wrong. You know, technology has just exploded in all of our lives. I do think it's pretty cool to just be able to go to a simulator and it's like, you want to play Pebble Beach? You want to play Augusta? You want to play St. Andrews? You want to play, you name it, you can play the course. That aspect of it to me is pretty cool. I do enjoy that. So, maybe I'll be a little more, maybe I won't totally bet against it. Would love to hear your thoughts on Tiger's trainwreck or Tiger's wreck and DUI. Kind of ironic on your last podcast on Go Low, you said Tiger is back. I think I talked about this a little bit on a football mail bag. It was hard for me to watch, and I didn't really. You know, I saw the clip of him talking to Trump, which I was with a buddy last night, and I saw this reported that most people think that Tiger called Donald to try to get out of the DUI. And it was reported like, at that time, Donald was in Air Force One and you can't get a direct line there. So, he called Tiger. And a lot of people, you know, in the golf world, Trump a couple weeks ago said Tiger was not playing in the Masters. And it was almost like Donald had called him like, hey, I didn't mean, because then Tiger had claimed that he was trying to play. It was almost like Donald just happened to call Tiger at that time. Is what a buddy of mine thought. It was more likely than Tiger called him to get out of the DUI, because he would just call his lawyer and then that guy, they got direct lines of Donald like, what's he going to get him out of the DUI right there? Which maybe he did, but it was just, he didn't feel that again, I could only watch like five minutes, I didn't really watch much of him hiccuping in the back. When he was doing the different things, he looked pretty normal to me. He clearly pops a lot of pills. That's been pretty well established. He literally had them all on him. I've said forever. If you like doing something a lot, like I really enjoy talking for a living. It's one of the only things in life. I'm decent at right most things I can't do. I can't do DIY projects at home. I can't, I can't do a lot of things. So the things that you can do, and if you get good at them, if you professionally, if they become lucrative, you almost like triple down and it becomes a defining aspect of your life, whether you like it or not. Golf has defined this guy's life since he was two years old. He became one of the most famous athletes of his generation, any sport worldwide, because he could swing a golf club. And he's a golf nerd. Like he's a golf nerd. He can talk golf. He can like he just the golf world is in his soul. Well, the only way that he can play at this point in time with, I don't know, 50 surgeries, there's like 25 that we know about. There has to be countless more that we don't. He has, you know, essentially a fake ankle. He has a fused back. He has a fucked up knee towards Achilles last year. He'll never, if you and I were in the same scenario with those injuries, our golf career would be done. We would not be at most, maybe we get an elliptical and the son would feel good. Well, look at Tiger. What does he like to do? He likes to lift, likes to work out. So he likes golf and working out. Those are like his two things that he does. He has unlimited money now. And I just think it's, if you tell me that the rehab or whatever works and he no longer can take the powerful pills, I'll tell you, he's never swinging a golf club again. He's never playing the champion's tour. He's more likely to be in a wheelchair in 10 years than he is fucking thriving on the golf course. And clearly he has abused him and had issues with him. But I just think if the pill thing goes through like Tiger Woods in a golf club, it's cyan are it's over. That's all she wrote. So I just think that a huge part of that pill addiction that he has is because of what he does. Right now, I obviously it has addictive qualities and people that don't play golf or lift weights have been addicted to these is ruined countless people's lives. But I think it's directly correlated to what he loves to do. And that's pumping iron and fucking playing golf, which you can't have that many surgeries and lift clearly the amount that he does and play golf, which is not a normal movement on a body that is like duct taped together with just a couple Tylenol and Advil. So I think it's just a sad story. He's led a chaotic life. I think when it's all said and done, you know, the story of his life is going to be closer like Elvis or Michael Jackson or something just outrageous that it is just Tom Brady, so it's just yeah, made me sad. But it also is what it is. I mean, I just, yeah. They say basketball is a game of runs. I think golf is a career of runs. Do you think Scotty is ending a generational run and will slowly regress? Speed had one of the best years the game has ever seen in 2015 and has not come close to that since. It's a great line. If you look historically at the non all time great players, they have a stretch of a year or two where they pounce. And Marco Mira, right, won the Masters, won the British Open. I was looking, been looking at joining this club around where I live and Tom Lehman is redoing it. The year he won a major, he also like top two to another major and had like a two year career where he really peaked. Now guys like Rory or Dustin Johnson or Kepka can make Bryson wrong. The all time great players have long careers. I would put Scotty under that. Jordan kind of took advantage of his 2015-17 window and since has kind of been average. You know, Justin Thomas kind of took advantage of two or three years, three or four years, a little longer, right? But if you're an all time great player, Tiger won a 97, won again in 2019. Phil won PJ event in the 90s, won a major in 2021. Right? So those guys can go through lolls. Golf can be to me like baseball as a hitter where you can just have, you know, a hitter can just have an awful month. Like an all time Hall of Famer can have a month where he bats like 180. Golf can be like that. You can just have a couple years where he's in the mud. Rory had some weird years between like 2014 and 2000 last couple years, right? And then you figure some out and then you flip it back in. To me, Scotty is much closer to a Tiger, a Phil, a Rory or at least what I would imagine his career being. Then just like, you know, Scotty had the craziest three year run. Now this might be the best three years of his career, but I would imagine five years. Scotty is still a major factor or in 10 years. He might go through some crazy lolls that, you know, the great players do. Tiger did, Phil did. But I would expect like, is he going to win 20 majors? No. But is Scotty more likely to win eight than never win another one? I would say yes. Could be wrong. Golf's really hard. The competition's never been harder. Like you said, you can go cold for a while and then you start overthinking it. You start overcompensating. But I don't know. I think Scotty is somewhat of a master of his craft. And the other thing is he's been winning for a long period of time. I think when you watch him play, he's, you know, like Spieth, for example, can be very inaccurate. It's like he's just, to me, Scotty, even when he's a little off, like he was off of the players and he still got top 25, you know? So even when he's off, it's still not crazy off. It's not like, oh, this guy's, what is going on here? Which he's going to have one of those events where it's just like he missed a cut. It's inevitable. But to me, he's under much more control. Now we'll see. Maybe this week is terrible. But I would bet he's more likely to have a long, lustrous career than like a short lived four-year window. Even if that four-year window is the best golf he ever played, right? Tiger won Torrey Pines in 08, but the best year of his career was 2000. Right? Started playing well again four or five years later and then played great in 2018 and 19. So when you're an all time great, which I do believe Scotty is, you can kind of figure it out even through the walls. Enjoy the Masters. I will see you guys later.