Early Masters excitement, Spaun the Texas king, ANWA Heartbreak and disaster

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! Greetings and welcome to a Monday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 6th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! I'm doing pretty good. I'm going to say if I was going to describe myself one way, I'm a little road weary. Road weary? Yeah, well, we had a nice comfortable drive over. We were in trouble with comfort. It's a nice little scoot over from Atlanta, but a long day of travel. We've come a long way from driving the car where we couldn't get the convertible top to go back down and we had a nice drive over. We had a nice drive over, more on that later. Road weary, long day of travel. We're recording this late Sunday night. So you know what? This isn't going to be the ultimate table setter for the Masters. This is usually what this Sunday night episode is. It is going to be a great table setter for the Masters. I'll say I'm just going to put my hand up. I did not watch a ton of the Valero today. I couldn't get the coverage to go on the plane. And thus, you know, I then drove in great comfort across the way. But I got, you know, I watched enough. I caught the very end of it. Got something that would really chat my ass from it that we'll talk about later. But we had a big weekend in golf. Great weekend in golf. Gusta National Women's Amateur with their Ramco championship. You know, just a little mom and pop shop out there in Shadow Creek. Got the Lee Combs Sun Coast Classic. I actually, I've got a quibble. Why was it a great weekend in golf? Now that I'm reviewing the tape, why was it a great weekend? I mean, they had a lot of stuff happen. There were a lot of tournaments. I guess. I don't know. I'm ready for the Masters. I'm excited about it. I don't know if it was a great weekend in golf. JJ Spawn. It was a great weekend in golf. JJ Spawn is your winner. We've got PJ here on the ones and twos doing the producer camp. PJ, we're in Augusta. Wait, is the producer cam working? No, I don't have producer cam on. Hold on a second here. Our friends at Optum turned it on. You better turn that producer cam on for our friends at Mercedes-Benz this week. Oh, producer cam will be in effect. It's just not ready yet. It's literally just crawled in the door. I traveled all week all day from the west coast. I traveled late after a full day Easter. You know, my son flicking off the family pictures, throwing the bird up. It's just a long day. But we got here. There's apparently a cat that's dwelling in this house. I'm not thrilled about that situation. There's a cat door next to my bed. PJ called the cat Patrick Cantley. He welcomed PJ at the door. I introduced myself to the cat. I said, there was nobody here by myself to nobody in particular. I just said, hello, Patrick. I was on the plane and I couldn't get the photo to download. And all I got was the text message. Cantley is like at our door. I was like, what? That can't be right. What's going on? Little, little. I got the picture to download. There's a cat. I don't know. There's a little cat door next to my bed. Literally, I'm going to wake up and this thing's going to be meowing or like scratching my face. I'm not thrilled about that. But we're very happy to be here. I realized that Suni might be a house cat. Feels like every time, every time he gets a sniff of the wind, he kind of goes back inside. I mean, I guess that feels like we're lowering the bar like further and further. The house cat, the guy has four major championships in his career. That was more about Zander and Cantley and these guys who would just have PGA tour house cat, which is even worse than a major house cat. I think maybe discounting is 2023. Kazoo opened a France win where he got across the line there. But he is why a house cat. He's not in the master's field. He's not seeing you as far as I know. I don't think I don't think he is either. So why are we talking about him? We wouldn't bother you about him. We're on the topic of house cats. I didn't like what I saw from him. He thought Suni. It looked like he was going to win and then he just powered out. Yeah, second to last group. The sipping situation in yield benefits four months Sunday. But JJ Spawn did go for it. Eagle 16, birdie 16, Eagle 17 drives up to like 12 feet, kind of clips, races past. The guys that had Matt Wallace at the time was in the clubhouse. Early clubhouse lead. I think he's passed Charlie Hoffman as well as Mr. Texas. This was a question I had. It's a big deal. Two time winner now. Charlie only won it once. Now he had a bunch of seconds and thirds and top fives. But he puffs his chest out there like he's like, you know, the dean of the Texas open. As if he's, you know, Davis loved the third at Harbor Town or, you know, Jack at the Masters like he owns it. So what happens when an article says that he's number one in the all time Texas open power rankings ahead of Ben Hogan? This is what happens. My question is, is, is he, has he eclipsed Ben Hogan in your book? Spawn or Hoffman? Spawn? No, I mean, no, you're saying he eclipsed Hoffman this week. No, he passed Hoffman. He passed Hoffman as the best modern day Texas open player. I have to, I'm windy out there. You're nice to be low to the ground like JJ. It's a windy day. I'm just going to say I'm a pop Lamania who I, who I shared a really nice ride across, across the state of Georgia with. What a bad text do you have on the ride over. But LeBron and other things. No, what else? He said, he said that he watched the whole LeBron Bob does sports video. And he said, he said, Andy, when you watch it, you're not going to like it because you're going to like LeBron more. Yeah, that's a lot of people are saying that. And I said, it's, you know, but that shows that we're fair, that we, we can take this in and still admit that, you know, hey, we like this guy more. But I'm going to pop JLM a little bit here. What'd he say? He's not even here to defend himself. He's staying in the fancy boy house. Yeah. He's got, he's got a good setup. But anyways, I'm a cat door. I know that JJ. Since the Texas, since TPC San Antonio, just like creates these horses for courses. Yeah. I think we should remove it from like his consideration of being just this great test. I mean horses, they're more like mules. Oh, that's so disrespectful to JJ. I'm not going with him. I'm joking. There's the ponies. I don't know. They're whatever. They're, they're dressage horses, not thoroughbreds. The Prancers. I don't know JJ. Big shot. Corey Connors. Can I, can I see you in Big Shot Bob? Sure. Big Shot Bob spit the bit. I mean, he set the 36 whole record and then just kind of stuck it in neutral for, I mean, why, it looked awful. Just rainy. Right. Small and of course. He's the rain king. Shout out counting crows. You know, he wins that, uh, wins at Oakmont. So, uh, Beats Bob by one. Muddy Mott at Oak. Yeah. Beats Bob there. And then this was just pissing down. I love the, uh, my favorite bit was, I think it was John Wood on the ground giving that caddy insight about why the fans kept yelling because all the water that accumulated on the tent when there'd be a gust, the water would go off the front and then come down on everybody. And that's why everybody was shouting not because of actual golf or play. Um, it was kind of a nasty, nasty weekend at San Antonio, but spawn is your winner. It has been just absolute pretty garbage. Yeah. I didn't want to be. It's okay. I, you are, you already drove by him once. I, I understand why you laid up on the second. He's been for, well, I wanted to mind my language there, but he's been really, really bad essentially since you, you know, for all year, all this year. You know what? He's been bad since what? Since he got sad all Ryder Cup. Yeah. Cause he plays a strict sign. He wasn't allowed to play with anybody cause he played. He played a grip. Matt Griffin's been bad since he got sad all Ryder Cup because he plays a back fly too. God. I saw butch Harman was shouting about the fan. Like, why are we still doing this Ryder Cup fan discourse? Butch Harman had a big aggregated article today. Yeah. They were bad with some April 7th. What are we talking about still? I know. Well, man, a man lost his job over that. Ray? Yeah. Well, you know, there was no PJF America president at Drive, Chip and Putt today. Oh, I'm kind of, kind of the CEO was there. Yeah. But no, no president in attendance. I wonder what Don's coming this week. The only thing thirstier than some of those helicopter parents would be Don. They'd be fight elbowing each other for camera time at Drive, Chip and Putt between those parents. Something to mull for later in the podcast. Can you come up with your, your, your top five lunch with the boys potential guests this week at Augusta Nash or not at Augusta. I was just going to say, I don't think. In Augusta. Okay. That we can do. I'm a little worried about the at Augusta national part of the film. No, it's definitely not going to be lunch with the boys at Augusta national, but lunch with the boys in Augusta. Top, top five dream list this week. Sure. You can reveal it later at the end of the show. Okay. Great. You have anything to say about JJ's block? I actually terrible anyone. No, I mean, I think this is pretty legit for his career. I mean, you talk about a real thing that's at stake is the worst major winner of like every decade. Oh my God. This is a real thing. Yeah. And every time JJ spawn wins helps. He's clearing the bar. He's not Sean McKee McKeel or or Ben Curtis like every win. He is. He's pushing past Todd Hamilton. And that's a big deal. JJ spawns a legit dude. I do just want to say like Todd Hamilton was two decades ago from JJ spawn. Who is going worse this time? Jimmy Walker's major. Jimmy Walker. No, Jimmy Walker was a problem. I know. I understand. Was on writer cups multiple. I mean, I honestly, I can't believe like JJ spawn. The way you want to talk about JJ spawn is he's getting farther away from being the worst possible major winner of this decade. I think this is important. Congrats. This is important stuff here. You know, yeah, sure. I mean, if you go into the 2010 like 2009 Lucas Glover would fit the bit, right? Even though he's had a long, really successful career. Sure. Man, 2010. See this is what I'm saying there. I haven't been many bad. I'd say the 2010s Gary Woodland is the worst major winner. Oh my God. No, what? I mean, why Yang's 2009? But yeah, I mean, Duffner would be in the mix. Duff. Duff. Duffner. Well, some of these like the game, like he got caught. He got caught. He just got passed by a different game, you know, right after his 2013 win just really rapidly changed. That's not fair. I mean, one interesting thing. And I say this, he's going to be here this week. He's running out of years on his exemption. Real conversation. How's like 20 years out, how's Cameron Smith going to be looked at? I wrote that. He had the players though, too. I wrote that in my little capsule that you gave me, Cam Smith. Like that was a hell of like a eight month heater that we were on at one point there. And then. Yeah. I think he just, he's the normal guy. He doesn't, you know, exceptionally talented, but happy once he hits the mountain top to just immediately climb down, take a sled all the way down. That's the thing he got to the top. But anyways, that, I think this is a real thing is you don't want to be the worst major winner in like an era. You don't want to be Todd Hamilton. I think I'd probably still take the major. I would too, but I'm just. Just be happy. I think that every, every time JJ plays well, wins. Like last year was super validating how he played in the FedEx Cup. I thought, um, I think obviously the runner up at the players, if he can have a nice run and get to six or seven wins, he's going to, you're going to look at it in, you know, the kids making TikTok videos 20 years from now. We'll say JJ spawn was a problem. He's, he's a, yeah. He, I mean, he pushed for Roy to the brink at the players. He's not a, he's not a fluke to see him when the text is open is not a surprise. He's been horrible though this year. He's been horrible. He got hot in the rain, looked miserable in his wet winter hat and gets across the line. Congrats to JJ's squad. Can we take a hard left here? Sure. Something that really bothered me. Did you see the end of this? Yeah, I did actually. Did you see a big shop Bob's caddy take out the phone to look at which way the wind was blowing? No way. He like held the phone up and like triangulated it. Bob asks like, where's the wind coming? And he pulls out his phone. Is that real? Is that allowed? It's apparently allowed. And what a preposterous situation. You think you can do that at Augusta? You can take out your phone and get the wind. You can't do it at any major. Greens book. That I know of. This is a joke. What a joke the PGA tour is that you're letting caddies, we've gotten to a point where the caddies don't even have to figure out where the wind is. Like you want to talk about de-skilling the game. He pulls out his phone to figure out where the wind is. Like what are we doing? I'm fresh off a two hour car ride from Atlanta that I was listening to Tiger's book where he said the game has become a lot less fun because he didn't roll the ball back. Like we'll get into special about how Augusta's become less fun because of it. But point blank, just technologies ruin golf, ruin the fun, ruin the skill. Tiger. I know tough couple weeks for Tiger, but pretty good golf brain. Who decided? You know what? Caddies shouldn't have to know which way the wind is blowing and they can use their phone. That's insane. I don't think I've ever, have they been doing this all year? I mean literally, he's hitting his third shot on the 72nd hole and the caddy pulls out his phone. I'm like, what the hell? Where are you at these days with Bob? Oh, you know what? We actually had JLM and I had a great conversation with PJ on our car. I have to say the conversation was crystal clear thanks to the technology in the car. Great technology in the car. But we were calling, and then Will called me. So I patched Will and, but we were talking to PJ. PJ took offense because JLM said that Bob's about the 15th best player in the world. And PJ's like, what are you talking about? He's the 12th, he's at least the 12th. And we're like, no, he's not. And we started rattling down the list and we eventually got to like, he's like the 23rd best player in the world. No, no, you were just throwing names by the end. I also would like to say Will Knights comes on the phone and throws out 30, which is egregious. 30. And then texted me 10 minutes later and said, I wrote it all out. How's it mit 16, which I think is fine. Well you took offense. The only reason this was a huge debate was you took offense. I think he was that Joseph insinuated that he was the 15th best player. I think he's better than that. All right. Where are you at with Bob? He's good. 17, 18, fine. Who's better? Tank or Bob? Different skill sets here. I know. I think it might be Bob. Thank you. And I love the tank. What about Victor Havland or Bob? Victor. No, not right now. Not right this second. He was a grumpy boy out there. A lot of curse words. Put the ear muffs on. He's always a grumpy boy. That's the whole thing. The microphones there. That shot on 17 was incredible. And it just came from nowhere. It was just in neutral. Then all of a sudden three shots I needed two holes. Boom. It makes the eagle. And then when he gets to the par five, he's just all over the place. Well, that's when the toe ball goes wrong. He hit the hard hook for him lefty into the stands. I'll tell you what. That little par three with the donut hole, right? I call it avocado. It's shaped like an avocado. You can make that the pit, the bunkers of the avocado, the pit of the avocado. There was some big Chipotle hashtag activation. They call it an avocado green and they were giving away guacamole. Oh, they do actually call it an avocado green. That started this week. Look at you. I walked into the activation board. It feels like you're just playing right into the PGA tour. I didn't know that. They had the drone overs. It's like, people call that a bagel. It's more of an avocado. That's what they call it. You know what the activation was? If you birdie the avocado hole, you get the fire emoji, no matter what you've done leading into it on the scoreboard. Will they give you like an extra cup of guac if they get a birdie or something? It was like, yeah, it was David Ford, Max, and somebody else were doing it. If they made a birdie or a par. Hey, you know, there's a lot of Max's on the tour. Max Holman. Are we just at the first name basis? That's disrespectful to Max Grazerman, Maxwell Moldovan. I would say. Max McGreeby. Is Maxwell Moldovan on tour? No, but even the professional. I would say Max Grazerman. There are two name guys and there are one name guys. I would say Max Grazerman. He's a full name guy. Like I. But when you say Max, I'm just supposed to infer that's Holman. I think. Okay. Interesting. You know, Sneaky Contender for the worst major winner in the 2010s. I think it's probably Woodland. Mollinari is actually. He I. I was like number one in the world, essentially. Best player in the world for about 15 months. I just I just don't think the whole body works up to snuff with others. God. Yeah. I mean, he's been a good run though. This is I don't think he's I think I think it's like Woodland or or Glover, you know. Yeah. He's not somebody you're going to do a retrospective on big deep dive on Frankie Mollinari. Like the 86 gauntlet Tiger having to go through Frank Mollinari is not going to get the same respect as going through. This is the thing though is like he's got so he's got three. He's got outside of his major. He's got two PGA tour wins and then he has, you know, four or five European tour wins. Anti Bob, anti Frank. You're just very jingoistic over here. You're just seems like all these foreigners as we quote the 1986 seem anti that Bob like that that backboard in situation on the avocado hole is so objectionable. It's so absurd. I mean, they're hitting them over the grandstands. The one guy bounced it right off the the like perfect play right off it and it fed on the other guys are just getting drops. Ludwig, I think, whipped one right into the stands, right? And rattle around in there. Everybody's shouting and hollering. Just like ridiculous on a part three. You cannot have the like you're not going to see that at the Masters. I listened to your very insightful podcast with Brad Fax and talking about lasering off the ropes. You're not going to get there. Not going to be lasering off ropes for backboard situations or grandstands for backboard. I would say only super creative players know how to backboard at Augusta. There's really only like you did it. That's what you're talking about. 17. That the only one like real talk that like kind of comes like maybe eight. It's close, but you're hidden from so far away. No, I know. I know. But there's really nothing like if you have to strain to figure out where you would even come close to having to take a job. The tour is such a joke. I lost so much respect for the tour today with the damn phone. The phone for the wind is so soft and then their constant backboard practices where they are like almost encouraged backboards and then their social people will be like, big shot. They will. They really will. They celebrate all the, they celebrate all these important sort of practices. You know, these officials, you know, they'll be here this week. They kind of double up. You'll see your friend can tack it or 10kak it as you occasionally screw up. He's going to be, it has to be like, you know, going from Applebee's to, you know, wherever a state council or the French laundry or something like, Oh, well now we don't have the wind 35 TIO. Today, my afternoon just freed up. I don't have my cough button here with PJ. I've needed the last week and a half, but yeah, it has to be such a step up for those guys coming to Augusta. I'm like, Oh, is this legal markings in your book or no? Anything else from San Antonio? Finau just there was like a lot of bean out buzzer. Finau. It's like a dog with a bone. I did think he saw it soon. He got fire ants relief. Is that the first successful fire ants relief I've ever, are they just speaking of tack it? They're just handing out fire ants relief. No. Do we need to add that one? I mean, how is this happening? You think about, if you watch with the tour on tour, you get relief from, and then you go back to deputy Sam Burns and the US Open not getting water. The relief from the, from the, from the fairway, the water on the fairway is, it's pretty wild. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you what was a relief for me when I got off the plane today, I hopped in a fresh Mercedes Benz GLS to make my drive from Atlanta to against. 2026 GLS. Oh, what was your favorite part of it? Cause I also hopped in to different one. They've outfitted our, our, our great team that's, that's here to cover the masters this week with some, some best in class vehicles. I mean, honestly, there's all sorts of gizmos that, which I'm sure there's more specific language we can speak to about it. The thing has some giddy up that things a thoroughbred. I mean, it's a very roomy, safe, comfortable golf, golf trip, buddies trip, sized SUV, right? Really comfortable, luxurious. But you know, I have a, I have a quote unquote luxury line SUV now it's older. It felt like I had just taken, put rocket boosters on this thing. I was flying. It was great. And on the dashboard, they have this projection thing. Now I'm again, I have an older car where it tells you how much over the speed limit or what's the speed limit and how fast you're going. The directions is next level because I gotta say, like when you use Apple car play, like I'm, I like to listen to music, which you can do. I like having my music up, but then you can't see the map. But with, with the, the display is that you can only, Joseph didn't know what I was talking about. Cause I'm like, I'm like, you need to lean over. To into the driver's seat. And you can see this and it tells you which way to turn. They have so much giddy. You weren't, you were listening to an audio book. I was listening to, we were listening to some tunes, the sound system, the Burmester sound, 3d sound system. It was awesome. We bumped it up a little. We got, we got, we got rolling when we got into Augusta bumped up the music, put the windows down 65 degrees. It was, it was fabulous. We're going to, we're, we're be cruising around Augusta and our Mercedes all week. Very fortunate. They offer a wide range of SUVs from compact to full size with up to three rows of seating, all with flowing lines and precise edges to balance elegance and aero dynamics. I'll tell you what, I did the, the climate control up and down and there's like this red and blue lighting, like trim lighting. All of a sudden it was going from red when I want a little more heat down to blue, like the thing is just dialed all the way around. You can customize your driving experience through a vast array of interior or exterior options or the hundreds of in vehicle settings that can be personalized to best fit your needs. Innovative MBUX AI learning capabilities, recognize your habits and driving preferences to create your unique driver profile. That's the thing. I just like hopped in this and had to go to get over here. I wanted to sit in that bucket seat, come and just figure out all the personalized settings. We're going to do that tomorrow. We can visit MBUSA.com slash the dash masters for more. That's MBUSA.com slash the dash masters for more. Big thanks to Mercedes Benz for supporting us this week. All right. We'll be in Augusta all week for the masters, but first we had the Augusta National Women's Amateur on Saturday. Maria, Jose, Marin, not Jose Maria. Maria Jose, Marin, Marin wins by four, cruises around on Saturday. Thanks to a tough, tough Saturday for Astros Talley. Started as the favorite. Started the week as the favorite. Got to the final round as the favorite. Went for a free. Prohibitive favorite. Had a, I mean, she finished six shots off the lead, but it was really steady. Obviously full credit to her. How well she played. Obviously, for those that missed, there's complete meltdown by Talley on the back nine. She bogies the 11th and then makes a seven on the, on the part three 12th, which the 11th was her first bogey of the entire championship. So she had played to that point 46 holes of bogey free golf. Obviously a tremendous player. I think the best amateur in the women's game and, you know, I think could be a future star. I think, you know, she's 17 still, as I would point out, stars are made at young ages in the LPGA game. And I think she's on her way. But obviously a big thing that's going to be hanging over is, is what happened on Saturday. And I think what's interesting in the short history of ANWA winning at Augusta National is extraordinarily hard. And we've seen some of the most dominant players. The like one that comes to mind is Rose Zhang. Before she won it. Before she won it. She had it. Struggled. It was a, it's a. In a way, we've never seen her like she won every amateur thing ever. She was in it. She won it. And then like there was that Sunday, the Saturday, I guess at the ANWA. It was like, oh, we've never seen this from her. Even when she won it, it was. Yeah, it was holding on. And I think like there's, there's just, this is what, you know, Curtis Strange said all those years ago, you make the turn and it's just, it's just a different beast because you're, you're not just chasing a championship. You're chasing history. And I think like, you know, I think you can make an argument that ANWA has become the biggest championship in all of women's golf. I think obviously the US. Championship, not just amateur championship. Yeah. In terms of, of what it, what it brings for notoriety, name brand, I think you have a better chance of, of asking a regular golf fan who won the ANWA than you have, who won the last year's US women's open. Interesting. It has fully, it has really entrenched, entrenched itself. It feels like it, they have it situated well leading into the masters. And I think the Saturday finish works really well for it too. I watch it with my kids early. It's great. It finishes Saturday right before March Madness kicks off. It is like just a pre-remo TV slot. Yep. That was hard to watch though. She jumped, dropped in the bunker. She just hits it in the- Oh my, that was a bad decision. And then drops, hits it from the back bunker through the green into the water, decides to replay from the bunker instead of crossing and hitting- If you were going to ask me the scariest thing that you can do in golf, one of the scariest things would be, you told me, you have to drop in a bunker because that means that you probably just rifled something out of bounds. Through, yes. Yes. And that, now I have to drop in a bunker and it's probably going to plug, which it did. But there was also this notion of like, was there an over-club challenge happening? Like it was crazy how she was, it wasn't just 12 obviously in the bunker lawn, but all through the, like 14 she airmills. The wedge on 15, I was like, was she just ripped it through and all closer to the water on 16 than the green? I couldn't believe what was happening. Like every hole just rip, now your brain's racing adrenaline a bunch of stuff, but it kept happening over and over again. It has to be adrenaline. You know, that's the only thing that you could, you could, or- Or an over-club challenge going on. You don't know what's going on with these guys. That'd be a devilish old chance. Just time to do it today, Antloch. Yeah. Number one amateur, the best amateur player. I mean, when you're trying, when you're trying to get the biggest payout, if your player's in the mix, you just got to get them in the champ, you got to get them to win the championship. You always expect it- But there's no payouts for an amateur. I'm just saying, as Lupin, you know, you're always expecting a little more tip if somebody wins a club event. That's not what you're doing the over-club challenge. It was awful. It was hard. When she did it at 15, I couldn't believe it was like an airman, a total airmail job. And that wasn't enough, a second shot. So that was tough to watch. Certainly at 12. But congrats to Marie. Cool story. Plays at Arkansas. Whoop Pig rolling around. She's our little brother, walking off the green with her, walking to score. It was a good scene. Very good. I think it's going to be a fossey there. Very cool. Yeah. It's just a cool championship. And I think like- Looks soft. Of course looks soft. I don't think that's going to be the case this week. It rained today, but I think it's going to, you know, looking at the weather. Early weather forecast seems to be all systems go. Speaking of women's golf, let's go to the Aramco championship at the Shadow Creek. Lauren Coughlin just boat races the field. Absolutely whips. Nelly Cordo was around mixing it up for a little bit, but Lauren Coughlin was up like five the whole time I was tracking it. She wins by five over Leona McGuire and Nelly. Congrats to her. Like an incredible, incredible like just ascended bona fide. There was always that fat like, oh, did she just get this, like get this win or she had a hot several months and made this Soulheim team. She's a bona fide top American women's player on the LPGA and has been now for some time. You know, when you look back on any players career and pro golf, when you, you know, especially if they're American or European, you know, those players that can stack Soulheim or Ryder Cup team appearances on top of each other is a big deal. And for her backing up and knocking down a second consecutive Soulheim Cup, really big time career for, I think like someone who would be described in the women's game as a late bloomer, you know, someone that, you know, probably a lot of questions in her mind and with her friends and family at certain points of like, is she going to hang it up? And now she's, you know, playing among the, you know, some of the best golf of her career. Yep. So, for winning the Aramco championship at Shadow Creek, winning by five anytime is a sign of like a full flight, really skilled player at Shadow Creek. At the Lee Combs Suncoast Classic on the corn fairy tour at Lakewood, we have Jeremy Gandon beats Mitch Meisner and J. Card, the third among others. This is that at that Lakewood golf course where Matt, every once infamously set up a full then chair in the middle of the fairway due to slow play. But Jeremy Gandon, the Frenchman who went to Kansas State, I mean, imagine going from France to Manhattan, not Manhattan, New York, Manhattan, Kansas, kind of an incredible journey. So congrats to Jeremy for winning on the KFT tour. It's a great Monday Q tweet. You know, maybe this is a tough episode for the, for the behind the moat. Yeah. But this is a great synthesis. My struggle with the corn fairy socials. Obviously, Ryan French Monday Q provides great coverage of, of this tour. There were some great stories on the leaderboard. Gandon and his unreal feet to finish. Mitch Meisner, who finished one spot short of getting his card last year and overcame the Gibson College. They were so bad he switched to left handed and saved his career. J. Card, a former opera singer. Did you know this about J. Card? I heard he was into the music opera opera opera singer who in 2024, DQ'd himself from Q school after noticing a scoring error that no one had noticed. Ian Gilgan, not from Gilgan's Island from Florida, from University of Florida, survived childhood cancer at 15 Cole Hammer, struggled at times as a pro, but at great year, all of them and more were in contention. Today, they have tweeted three times about the event. That's bad. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Three tweets. Like, what's this? What they have a social media team. Corn fairy. How do they not then? I know. I know. How do you put on multi-million dollar purse events and have nobody covering it? I don't know. I feel like the private equity boys would need to see the cross-tap. Shai ask, roll-app about it? Yeah. Maybe that's why. Should I go to the travelers and ask them there? Obviously, Ryan is exceptional at what he does, but there was a marketing efficiency. There was a place for that. And I don't... Yeah. The KFT, one thing they've been able to... They've just not capitalized on is telling those kinds of stories. The tour has at times been able... How do we make a mid-class ranking file guy into someone sort of... You've seen a little bit of Ryan Gerard, other players like that. You can kind of get their personalities popping or at least some of their background story told. I don't think it requires a ton of investment. No. If you're going to play a corn fairy tour event, you might as well have something covered. I guess I struggle with the whole thing is like, if I said to someone, hey, your job is just to know everything about everybody on this tour. Wouldn't there be like 400 people lining up to get that job? Yeah. Yeah, it should be. Work for cover golf. Aren't there enough golf fans? I feel like... Yeah. That is a cool job. The opera singer thing I didn't know about. That's a cool bit. He was comfortable because he was wearing his beat ratty. Yeah, sure. Congrats to Jeremy Gandon on the win. I think that covers our weekend of golf. Let's get a master's fact of the day. I saw this from Jared Hitchcock on Twitter. This is related to our 1986 flashback where Tommy Nakajima was prominent and present in a lot of that coverage playing alongside, I believe, is Watson there in the final round. This is shared by Jared Hitchcock at old Nakajima tale. This is from someone who was translating for him. I was translating for Tommy Nakajima at the Masters one year. He explained to reporters that the sounds of golf at Augusta National were unique and that they brought out an understanding of the game to him. Tommy ordinarily played with a metal driver, but at Augusta he played persimmon because the sound of wood driver striking up a lot of ball and the way it echoed off the pines was singular and a rewarding part of the overall experience. He said the sound of metal was simply out of tune with the place. So even though persimmon cost Tommy a bit in terms of performance, being that one with the entity of Augusta National elevated his game enough to compensate. I love that. What a tale. This is from Dick Helmstetter, the inventor of Big Bertha. So that's the source of that. How about that? Love. I might be losing to you. Tommy Nakajima just elevated very high on my list of players that I want to know more about. I mean, think about that now. Any player, like obviously different world, but A, like I'm not saying persimmon, but some sort of... Well, nobody can do it because they're all paid by the equipment. That's the one thing you notice while watching 86 is there's not... You've got a hat sponsor. You've got a clothing sponsor and that's it. But other than that, you're not getting crushed. I was talking about the Tiger book later. It was amazing about how freely he talks. So yeah, my putter is just an answer to and then paying answer to and I've putted with him my whole career. But then I copied this and essentially the Scotty was an answer to and my Nike method was an answer to and I've put it with an answer to. Like he doesn't say that in the ads. He can't say that out loud. And then like he's just letting it rip. But like think about that with a guy... It's incomprehensible now. Like I'm not saying go down to persimmon, some sort of slight disadvantage, but for me, it will feel more appropriate and in tune with the experience. Right? Like that just seems impossible today. What a romantic notion from Tommy Nakajima. That's master's fact of the day. What time are we going live on Tuesday? Peej, what time are we going? 3.30 Eastern time. Okay. Live show. YouTube link. Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon. 3.30 PM Eastern time. Hey, I got a quick storyline nobody's talking about. I had a battle with someone. Hell yeah. A knower today. A golf head, like big time knower, raised it to my attention. It's not an original thought, but Jackson Coyven won again today in college. They're like, why is he not? It's kind of a fumble by Augusta that they didn't invite him. Now they can have these special exemptions. They kind of can invite whoever they want. Guy's dominating. He's winning everything. He's like wins, not just, you know, wager cross tabs or whatever, wag or whatever. He's winning like everything. And it's like kind of a fumble that they should have just invited him. Seems like get him a rep. He'd certainly be competitive. It's an interesting notion, I thought. And I was looking back at it. They invited Sergeant, just total special garden, Gordon Sargent. It was the NCAA. It wasn't at the time. Yeah. They did him and Kazuki Higa, just special invite, then became codified later to be this is NCAA champion, has been Hiroshi Tai, Lasasso forfeited his that slot. Give it to Coyven. I'm not saying just that's what you would say out loud, but give that to Coyven. I think they should have a spot for like an exemplary amateur player. I'm sure they have at times, you know, maybe the 80s, but it just felt like it's kind of an interesting notion. Coyven could have had him. I like that take. That's a master's storyline nobody will ever talk about after these last three minutes. What's your, what's your, what's the thing you're most excited about this week? I don't know yet. Honestly, like the live boys, the two live boys. Being, I think the favorites or among the three favorites where we have questions about Scottie Congrats news of the news. You can use Scottie and his baby, Remy, by the way, that's out. That wasn't out yet. Another boy. Problem. The whole family is here. He might be telling Remy on Monday morning, I got to go out to work today. I can't believe Meredith, the whole family. God bless him. I had a kid. I'm not traveling. I'm not. I'm just staying home. But you know, big ups to her and the whole fam. Ben, it's, I wonder how Bennett's handling not being the, the new. Yeah. It's always, you've got a lot of experience with that. Yeah. It's usually the middles that struggle though. So right now they've got an old neon. Everybody's got their perch. You know, they're claimed to fame. It's the middles where they start fighting, flicking off the camera during Easter pictures. So congrats to Scottie. I don't know. Like Scottie, it worries, you know, the back. I don't think that's a thing, but it really feels like ROM's the favorite right now, but we don't have the book necessarily like, Oh, data golf says the stroke scheme approach are as good as they've ever been. It's, but you know, it's St. Apore and Hong Kong and South Africa and Riyadh. And so I think that for me is what I'm most interested in here at the top of the week. And I'm going to throw this out there. It's going to offend you significantly. Last year, Rory winning the Masters was clearly a start of the week. That's clearly the best outcome would be the best story. Greatest thing that could like that story a best, best for the pod or the notebook or your gamer Rory wins the Masters. Best story this week. I think it's Jordan speed went into Masters. I don't think it's going to happen. I think like, what's the best story? I haven't even thought. I understand. We were joking about it on a text chain. Jordan speed got in contention on Sunday. This place would be an absolute, like I'm trying to go, what could approximate anything like last year? I think speed with getting in contention would be a madhouse would be just exceptional for this Masters. Yeah. There's no way. Is it going to happen? No, there's no slam thing. Scotty wins the third. That's historic. Ron wins the second. Bryson probably winning would be up there. That would be a massive, massive story. But I think it'd be like, what could set the place on fire like we did with the 86 look back or last year with Rory? I think good speed is the only thing right now. Brooks would be. Brooks would be interesting. I don't know that he has the crowd. He doesn't, but it'd just be six majors and one away from the Grand Slam. That's true. What are you excited about? We're going to do our big preview on Tuesday. Honestly, super excited. Joseph's never been anywhere on grounds, hasn't been on a ticket or anything. So he gets to see it for the first time as a member of the media, a credentialed member of the media. So that always, I'm always excited about first timers, spins around. And then honestly, I'm just excited to be without my phone for the majority of the days. It's going to be wonderful. Not a drop of rain. Doesn't look like very minimal knock on porcelain or whatever the courts, whatever this counter is. We said we were going to do 35 minutes. We're past that. All right. Let's go. Let's sign it off. We're going to hit the ground running tomorrow. Going to Augusta full week. We're live on Tuesday at 3 30 Eastern. So you know, if you want to just ignore the word. We'll house for our folks in the UK, in Ireland. Sure. They're going to enjoy prime time, prime time pot. Sure. There you go. Get on the YouTube. We'll be live on YouTube at 3 30 on Tuesday full masters. We're going to have two full days there. Press conferences, part of the pavement, giving scuttle butt, getting scuttle butt, collected notes, the whole deal. The website is humming to check out the friday.com. We've got a ton of stuff going up. We've got Kevin and Joseph with us. We've got PJ. It'll be a great week. We are really humming. We're ready for masters week. A ton of preview content. We got a lunch coming out today by the time we listen to this. Really? Yeah. Lunch with a legendary catty. Lunch with a legendary catty. Love that. All right. We will talk to you on Tuesday at 3 30 live. If you can't be there live, obviously it will be all in your pod feeds. Prep you for the masters. Pump for the, what Thales thereafter, Thursday, Friday, Saturday night after play. And then we'll wait for another masters with shotgun start. Very excited to be here. Ready to get going tomorrow. Talk to you guys on Tuesday.