Go Low - 2026 Masters Reaction: Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Cameron Young

This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? Rory McElroy. Make sure obviously subscribe to the channel. We we like going live after these majors and after these big tournaments. And at the beginning of the week, I did not imagine I would be sitting here in Northern California, where I currently am actually my brother's office. Jared Allen back there on this side. I got for him years ago when I interned for the Chiefs. But I just. That was a thrill ride. That was the guy essentially played back to back years and did the same thing on Sunday, where your jaw is just hitting the floor going. I can't believe what I am witnessing. So we'll talk about that. Some highlights. I wrote some notes on my phone. I was at a family gathering over the last couple of days. Had a wedding yesterday, but just tried to not miss a shot of this tournament. And it lives up to the hype every year. It really does. It's just a special event and Roy, Roy McElroy has really elevated it. So let's just. Let's start with Rory who. I don't know if this tops the iconic nature of last year, given that it was his first green jacket and given that it went to, you know, a sudden death playoff against one of his Ryder Cup teammates who had already lost in a sudden death playoff years previously to Sergio Garcia. But I feel like this is like 1B like to me sometimes like, well, this is Tigers best masters and the second best masters pretty easy to rank it. This feels it's not number one, but it's definitely not number two. And I think if we were just looking to describe Roy McElroy and this is what makes I think him such a great TV character as an athlete is you have no clue what's coming. It is truly this roller coaster ride of exhilaration that any single swing, you know, there's not out of balance on this course right? So you're not going to pump it and have to retee, but you can hit the water, you can hit the trees, you can hit it way over greens or shorter greens and at any moment over the course of the last honestly three days. And I think what makes this tournament for Rory such a thrill ride and I did a pot with Colin. If this was you know, like when a baseball pitcher like when Nolan Ryan or Pedro Martinez was on like they were unhittable right the top pitchers scoobal whoever the history of times Strasburg, Scherzer, Verlander when they're on like in their prime. No one's touching them like they're going 912 K's one hit moan guys down. But the best pitchers what make them pretty special is like when they got their C stuff. They can still go like one run seven innings five hits and just handle business. I thought Rory like had a C plus game C game even on Friday when he went low. He did not hit a fairway on the par five. He was punching out of all these crazy angles. He's making these crazy up and down birdies. He chipped in on 17 on Friday from I don't know 50 yards and he shot. 65 but if you watch them on Thursday he was good Friday. He was good relative to a score but like Rory 65 and Scottie 65 yesterday or what Cam Young shoot Cam Young shot 65 yesterday. They did not look the same. But that's what makes this tournament so special. I said a buddy text me who's a big golfer and he's like this is the only major of the four where Rory could have played like that and still been the champion and historically that's true. You don't Tiger didn't have his A game in all the in all the Masters. I bet if we went back and broke down some of Phil's wins he didn't have his A plus game because you can spray it a little bit here. There are a ton of birdie holes and there are so many moments that this is what happened last year when you're like did he really just did he really just three putt from right there and then two holes later he's back to back birdies. I thought like the defining it's not defining moment but one of the defining moments of the last 36 holes for Rory was on Saturday when he comes out of the blocks. Let me pull it up. He comes out of the blocks on Saturday and he bogeys one. He doesn't part two and you're like God he's falling apart and Cam Young is just going nuclear. Scottie's already gone nuclear and you're like these guys are coming bro. Patrick Reed at birdie one birdie two birdie three and then Rory steps up to hole three and he drives the green. It was like every single guy who's just hitting bombs has a 30 foot chip up the hill on hole three and Rory when it leaves his club because he had just got off to a weird start you're like where did he hit this thing and he's kind of watching it but he kind of does his lean and it rolls to the right side of the hill and kind of comes back and you're like he's got like a 15 20 foot eagle putt and to me that was the defining moment of the last two days is every single time that that damn was not just about to break but I mean flood Rory's house and ruin his tournament. He would come back with a birdie. He would make a big putt. He would hit a big shot especially today like he pumped some drivers in huge spots right down the pipe and I think there's an element of mental fortitude and mental toughness that he was able to carry over from 2020 because I don't think if let's say last year didn't happen and Sheffler wins or Fleetwood or just so just some random Rose just wins and Rory just finishes like 10th solid tournament but like the previous decade just kind of a non competitive top five or top 10. He 100% does not win this week. No fucking chance because when he had a six shot lead one this is a unique tournament to have a big lead because there are so many birdie and eagle holes right like a US Open. Let's say you had a four shot lead going into Saturday. It's not that big because at any moment you could double a hole and if you double hole someone else behind you birdies a hole all of a sudden your lead goes from 4 to 2 or 4 to 1. That's kind of the Masters but there's also an ebb and flow to the order of the holes. So if a guy's ahead of you and all of a sudden Rory is two back three back. I don't think he ever finished. He was two back but at one point in time today he was nine and Rose was 11. Rose is multiple holes ahead of him. So if all of a sudden he birdies one of the holes that's not like a lock birdie for Rory like if you birdie nine or you birdie 10 and you're then go from two to one shot back and that guy's two shots ahead of you. It's not a true two shot lead. So I'm watching it with my wife's aunts and a bunch of her family and you got to be careful about that when you're consuming it because you're so caught up in Rory who I think CBS I mean these last two years I don't know I don't know if the ratings will top last year just because of the storyline of Rory winning it but in terms of the on the edge of your seat excitement about nobody and I would imagine his father would agree with this. I would imagine his Caddie Harry would agree with this. I even imagine a little part of him doesn't know what's coming. Say this Rory I don't believe he's scared like I don't believe that he messes up. I don't even know if he's nervous. I just wonder even on 18 it's like bro got a couple shot lead maybe just hit you probably your five iron 225 yards. Why don't we just pump a five iron out there and then pump another six iron up to the green and just find a way to get an easy bogey. It's like fucking give me the give me the driver and he pumps it almost into another hole. I mean you see some bad shots on 18 right whether I mean most of them aren't hitting crazy hooks left. They're trying to cut that fade to lessen their approach distance and some guys like most of us mortals pump that thing into the trees right if most of us could clear that little sliver of of blue sky and we hit a cut we would be in the trees and like what are you doing. I sometimes to me it's not like I think this like Vanderbilt or see some of these guys they get really fast and they're like this guy this guy's choking because he's just unraveling and engulfs the game where you think and you walk much more than you play but if you just add up the time you're over a ball and swinging relative to the time that you're walking throughout of whatever 4 and a 4 and a half hour round the ratio is enormous on the side of walking not actually playing it's like football a football game whatever 3 3 and a half 4 hours depending on your pro but the actual game action you know I think people have done the math it's like 12 or 13 minutes like it's not that actual much action and that's the thing with golf well that's where it's in relation to like kicking or a batter and baseball like you get 4 ab's so what's most of your day not hitting thinking about the ab's especially if you're D8 you just sit there the whole time like this is not going well he's getting your own head and Rory clearly is a deep thinker who is just immensely talented and you know I there is a Phil Mickelson Jordan speed element of unpredictability and to me that's the key to golf right unless you're going to have this all time like I would obviously if I could choose any lane you just choose I would want to watch Tiger greatest player ever dominates everybody but even with Tiger is hey day and part of it was the equipment he could be a little unpredictable some of his most famous shots are around a tree at Pebble Beach out of the bunker over a bush over water at the Canadian open right they're not all the most insane putts the chip at the Masters like part of Tigers I would say must speak and legend was the crazy shit he was doing right it wasn't just out Tigers hit an eight iron from 169 hit three feet yeah all these guys can do that Tiger like Phil even more on steroids just their greatest shots are the craziest of shots because they found themselves in bananas like places like this you're not going to be there Kepka who was rattling off majors like it's kind of boring hit fairways hit the middle of greens to put Scottie is starting to become a little bit more thrilling but like he can be kind of boring when he wins too there is an element to in Jordan definitely had this and this is why Jordan became so famous in the mid 2010s now Rory has more game than Jordan right more powerful just just got more in the tank but he's got some of that like I don't know where this is going to go and I don't know if he's going to make the right decision which is the most relatable thing in golf it's like I probably should lay up here but you know hammy the hybrid right you know I probably shouldn't go at this flag I got the entire green to my right but I got that little sliver and I can fly that bunker and I'm going to do it like most of us just see pin hit it at the pin see the fairway try to that's not the way these guys play but that's the way they feel play that's the way Rory plays that's the way sweet play Tiger actually did not play like that but because he could be a radical up to T he just found himself having to do some crazy stuff but Tiger was like a Belichick levy level technique tactician where there's a freelance element to Rory that just I'm not even talking to story I'm not talking about his accomplishments or his history at this course there is an element to Rory if you're just sitting on the couch and you don't know much about him like personally what he's like as a guy if you're just watching the golfer it is a roller coaster and if you can get a great player who's a roller coaster that that's as good a television as you can get there was a reason in Tigers heyday in the 2000s he was the most famous athlete the most highly paid athlete there is a Phil was drafting right off him because Phil brought something to the table a little pizzazz that was just like what did he just do because at the end of the day like Tiger wouldn't do the dumb thing or Phil would Rory would Jordan would like Scotty not really even Scottie today which is insane he finished second in this tournament it's just like the story so far of Scottie's year is he's one round away right if he just instead of that 74 on Friday he shoots like 71 he wins his turn up by multiple shots let's just say he plays well that day shoots like 69 what if he runs away with this thing you know because I watched him yesterday and Jason Sobel's my guy anyone who's been listening to me for a while talking golf he's to come on this show he's the fucking man he asked him a question like I essentially what your round could have been on Saturday and I understand from Scotty standpoint like I just shot 65 at Augusta I'm actually within if things get weird striking distance of the defending champ Rory McElroy and he just called it like stupid question like I'm not which I get he shot 65 but I watched because the wedding was until five in the afternoon Pacific Standard Time and so when we were flying I was watching Scotty's round for hour and a half on my phone he probably could have shot 61 he he looked like Tiger meets Arnold Palmer meets Jack and his buddy but he missed a couple of plots it could have been really low really low and I just think Rory never felt like that the last couple days like it never felt like you know Rory was just a couple shots away from shooting 64 honestly it felt like he was a couple shots away from shooting 78 and that's what makes this tournament because at the other two real majors I know the PGA is a major but the US Open which is extremely difficult and the British Open which at any moment the weather can play a part if you're playing like Rory just play there's no chance you're winning because I get you have a six shot lead but he just his driver the first in Friday Saturday what looked like me or you not in terms of the distance but he did not quite know where he was going and he was just pumping it into the trees well he's one of historically the greatest drivers of the golf ball that to me clearly like I don't pretend to be some swing analyst but I played golf long enough to know like some just the timing something's a little off and there doesn't kill you because even at that course when you're a little off this is what kind of saved him is at Augusta when you're pumping it all over the map on the part five you're still burning on the part four is like you can still make a great four which he did sometimes but worst case scenario you're going to get a bogey like you have to for the most part unless you pump it into the water which he did yesterday which caused him to get a double bogey double double if you're going to get a double at Augusta and you're in the top I would say ten ish you're probably going to three putt right it's going to be one of those where you had a chip out you're putting for par in you three putt that's I would guess if we pulled out the stat the stats that's the majority of double bogeys at Augusta it's it's either a water ball you know on 11 or one of the par fives or a three putt on one of the par fours and like that that's it's you're not going to get a crazy blow up so it's basically going to be guys birding more holes than you birdie and Rory would go through these stretches where he would have a couple birdies and you're like God it feels like he could just rattle off five straight and then randomly and like on hole three or four like of that stretch he would just pump one way over the green way left of the green even early on the jitters like you know today I think it was was a whole three it was a whole four he pumps it way left on the par three it's like God it's just is he off again and I don't know what he said in the press conference I would be stunned if he said like God I just I didn't have a great feel that his greatest attribute over the last really two days but I would even go back to Friday when he built the big lead was just like head down we just going to keep swinging we're just there's enough out there this course is scoreable there are so many par fives that I've proven to score well on here there are par fours that if I do hit it straight off the tee I'm going to have a short club in my in my hand but I am not playing well you know relative to typical master winners right like last year he had a weird weird Sunday but he played well in that golf tournament like I just don't view him playing well but that's the that's the reality with this tournament is if you have the knowledge which he he's been going here for 15 plus years you have the the like confidence I've won this before like that's one thing Justin Rose who to me is one of the best players of like the Tiger Phil era right he's honestly might be like a top 10 player of the Tiger Phil era right I'm talking like Ernie L's DJ speed Keppke obviously Rory it's a few like he's he's one of the great players of that era and he's got to be thinking when he goes to bed over the course of the month I'm just looking at the ceiling land there like maybe the golf gods don't want me to win this tournament because there was a moment today you're like he's going to do it but this gets back to the he's a couple holes ahead it's like all Rory needs to do is birdie one of the holes that isn't viewed as like a lock birdie a nine to 10 and then you get to the part five like today he didn't birdie either one of those holes but then he knocks it stiff on 12 and when he birdies 12 you're like okay that's a big swing hold because he's got the two par fives coming up you can birdie 14 he can he can birdie 17 and if he has a multiple shot lead really with a couple holes to go he can just play somewhat conservative but this gets back to the Mickelson thing they even speed thing they don't really have the conservative play mindset respect and as a fan of golf as a fan of just entertainment I'm glad if Rory was a one if he was more boring in terms of the way he played he wouldn't be as popular but to he wouldn't have as many wins right so it goes hand in hand it's like I remember watching this documentary on Arnold Palmer and someone like they you know Arnold Palmer was a big investor in the golf channel in 1994 or 1993 one of those two years they started the golf channel and Arnold's I don't know if it was like one of his holding companies or just him personally was investing a lot into it and he's in a boardroom and I'm at the time in the mid 90s Arnold Palmer's like you know pre tiger one of the biggest businesses him and Jack and probably great Norman just in terms of a business entity themselves so he's got a room of accountants and lawyers and I would admit I've met a few business people that said you got to be careful sometimes of listening to the advice of an accountant or a lawyer because at the end of the day some of the great business decisions aren't just black and white there there's some gray area right and you got to trust your gut it's like a great play call a great golf shot a great you name it right sometimes like I have a number say I shouldn't put this guy up in the eighth inning to pitch here hit here but there's I got a feeling he's telling I just we talked about it before I'm going to go with my gut Bochi won some World Series going with his gut and the accountant got up in the room and said Arnold I don't think this is a good idea and Arnold's response essentially was well hitting some of the shots I did from the trees over the course of my career weren't viewed as good ideas either but if I hadn't done that and executed some of those shots when everyone thought I was nuts none of us would be sitting in this boardroom and I I think sometimes like that's part of the deal here you got to kind of go for glory and sometimes you go for glory which he has in the past and you get burned and in golf that's that's not a team sport it's not like you get it's it's us it's the group it's just kind of you you know you're like Rivas or Dion out there on an island and you could feel it today and the leaderboard you know with Scottie going nuts Justin Rose who felt like is this guy inevitable he's just going to win this thing you know Cam Young just kind of hovered Sam Burns kind of gave it away early with a double and a bogey I think back to back holes but no one will remember in 20 years that like yeah he's kind of over the map but oh yes guy especially if you wins a couple more which he easily could have Rory won four Masters no one remembers that like Peyton Manning didn't play that well in Super Bowl right so he's Super Bowl champ that's all that matters and as time goes people forget the details help we were a year removed when a week ago or two weeks ago I threw on that Amazon Prime documentary on the final round last year on Rory and you're sitting there going this is way crazier than I remember and there were times last two days because you're thinking about last year and there's so much content that came out about last year that you've consumed that so it's fresh on your mind you're going this is kind of crazy like last year and then he would lose the lead and then you've got to gain it back and it's like listen as someone that loves golf but even if I didn't I just love sports the entertainment value of the last two days was 10 out of 10 feels pretty strong but like minimum nine nine and a half I think it was a leak TV because we all know what's on the line too right it's like yeah he doesn't need to win he's already won this guy's going to just blow it and essentially kind of did blow it because the lead was gone it had vanished it was over and then he would not only at one point that today he's down a couple shots and Rose feels like he could bury every hole coming in and that's the magic of it all because like Arnold Palmer said in that board room he just did some magical shit he got it done made some huge shots didn't end up making a mistake that derailed him and gets to essentially put a green jacket on himself not a Jean jacket and now he's a multiple time master winner now his story of legendary status of like well can't compare him to Kepke anymore because over the last two years now he's tied and past him and we all know Rory non majors is a way better player than Brooks speak than DJ and all like his other contemporaries of his era post Tiger Phil he's the kingmaker you know and it sure you know Scottie is a good example of well he's just one round away well that's Roy probably like Google my resume Google fit some of my years of like one round away hell I was one or two shots away I could have 12 majors right now so that's part of golf hey if I could and that's why Scottie I think kind of snap back on so bowl was like yeah I shot 65 it could have been 60 fuck I mean that's that's golf that's every round my 74 that I shot on Friday hell could have been 78 probably could have been 72 could have been 70 that's that's every round of golf ever so I just think Rory sitting here like not my greatest performance but like over the course of my work I've earned it you know for every 28 to 3 or Malcolm Butler pick at the line of scrimmage to win a Super Bowl in just the most insane fashion there's that 13 and 3 game against the Rams which no one really talks about no one really remembers it's just part of the resume like it's one of the Super Bowls you know and this to me is not gonna top last year because it's impossible to do that but it's just like as time goes on this will age not the biggest wine guy so I use this like AIDS like a fine wine I don't technically know what that means because I'm not a big like fine wine drinker but clearly as wine ages I guess it clearly tastes better that's what I think will happen with this and we'll lose touch with the true nitty gritty details and just be like he showed a lot of heart he showed a lot of mental fortitude he showed a lot of mental toughness and he just found a way and he willed himself to this championship after you know essentially blowing a big lead on Friday which I how often do you see these tournaments where the guy went in by you know five six seven shots not really how the master was works I mean it's why so many times in my memory I can remember this tournament going into extra holes because of the thrilling nature of the course and the course is always such a big winner because we have such a history with the holes especially on the back nine you know how ten curves you know how tough that second shot on eleven for whatever reason the hole twelve is the hardest par three that's like a hundred and sixty yards in the history of America you know the two par fives that eighteen told the drivable you know or I mean the drive on eighteen is just just feels like an iconic view and when you get an iconic winner it just it's just one of those you remember and I think worry is just kind of cemented his status where a couple years ago I thought this is like it's inevitable he's going to win more majors but you never know like you'd be like I think Scott is going to win five or six more majors it's fucking hard to do you know I mean it's just it's just difficult like you do have to play for good rounds or you can't have one round that just derails you right and it's just hard to not do that right he's already won a ton of majors right it's going to be difficult for him like I most people back he's got a bunch more in the back maybe I hope so I find him pretty enjoyable but there's no guarantee that's not the way it works I mean we thought that with Jordan speed now some of these guys are games diminished clearly Scotty's still leave today 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 with Hard Rock bet every night is a shot to build the same game Parley 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his driver getting yelled at by one of the green jackets you saw Bob McIntyre flipping off I don't know the cameras the the patrons like some of these guys just lose it and like it's it's crazy environment but sorry lost my train of thought there my point is is that Cam young who oh I was talking about Bryson and I thought Bryson wasn't it's hard to pick a winner like I mean I bet on winners in golf if you the guy that you pick the win is just in the mix on Sunday and has a chance like that that's an incredible feeling Bryson not making the weekend just epic failure I think I think he clearly I know rom takes a lot of shit like at least I turn on the TV Saturday and Sunday in the morning and watch rom play golf you know Bryson was an embarrassment relative to the hype and I bought it relative to winning these live events relative to how good you know his status in the game is and should be based on his recent form but this week and that performance on Friday like I'm not a huge fan of front runners because whether you're a golfer whether your football player whether you're you know businessman like life's full of ebbs and flows and most people are defined by their their shittiest times like everyone can smile and have a good time when you're you know winning games or making money or you know everyone's happy in the in the honeymoon phase when you first start dating someone like tell me two kids and you know someone lose their job four years later how it's going because that's how that's what defines people through the toughness or the tough times and Bryson when times get tough sometimes he just acts like a different human being and this is why people push back and I'm a fan but I do get worse like I just totally authentic is he kind of faking it with times are going good and when times are going bad it kind of turns into like the soul key guy but I just think that yeah I I I couldn't have misread that one anymore and I was off because I thought Cam I thought I reversed him I thought Bryson was going to do what Cam Young did and Cam Young maybe not quite to the the the degree that Bryson did but I was like everyone's picking them and at one point Saturday is the best player right now in the world like are you watching this guy and even a couple times today you're like came I was going to win this tournament Cam Young's going to win this tournament as putter kind of let him down which is weird because putter is fantastic and by the end you know you just kind of out of the pumps one of the trees left but he was good man he was I I thought like love him in Philadelphia in a month of the PJ championship I'm going to double down on that I I think this is this guy is poised one also if Scotty is going to play like this like kind of muscle flex a little bit like guys I still got it I still got to figure out just one of these rounds but much closer than that T whatever the players like I got it guys like I I'm right here I finished second you I'm a shambles I got the second kid I'm not playing that well like I'm so pretty good but Cam Young since the Ryder Cup has been a fucking monster and we talked about this a lot most guys do not have 10 15 20 year Dominic careers that's for a very very small percentage of guys if you look historically I'm talking like Hall of Fame guys potty Harrington right Marco Miro what a couple majors you take advantage of that moment for a year or two it when you're humming speed did it and right now Cam Young is humming so you can have a year where it's like remember when he finished top five in every major and one two of them now obviously winning two of the four majors extremely hard but like he is going to be the heavy favorite excuse me one of the heavy favorites for anyone with a brain going into the next three tournaments because especially the PGA and the and the British I have where's it Shinnecock is which is historically very very difficult course like to me I'm putting I'm putting him ahead right now of like I just trust him and more than Bryson and John Rom I mean John Rom is obviously pretty disappointing rough kind of week for live which I think sometimes people go back and forth on Twitter it's like I just want to see John Rom Bryson play well in these majors like I just would like him in the mix more a cow one kind of nuts 69 68 68 God Sam Burns is going to have a chance over the course of the next week to think to himself. I can I won this tournament? It's another example of sometimes you get in these kind of modes where you have an opportunity and you never get it back like how many times Sam Burns going to be like legitimately in the last or second to last group on Saturday and Sunday of these may of a master specifically I can see him winning a major game but like for guy from the south clearly a really good player just kind of had that meltdown early in the day today and I kind of derailed them Max Homer sneaky top 10 Xander Shafley actually having a good season. I watched a decent amount of speed over the last three days. There was a stretch on Friday and Saturday where it's like he's putting like 12 feet up like his putting couldn't have been any worse. He had a stretch of probably like 27 holes was like I don't know how many other guys in this tournament are hitting the ball better than him. Like if you just put both guys from 180 from 150 from 200 yards I would trust speed as much as I would trust anybody in this tournament right now beside like maybe Cam Young and then he would get up there from 7 feet and it's like did he just miss that putt by 3 feet? So I speed is going to have a week where it's like he finished 512 7 shots back. I mean 7 shots a lot but he has to be thinking like I easily should have been like 9 10 under in a weird way and this is a positive because I'm a big Jordan guy actually threw 100 bucks on him this week. He's got to be thinking I'm actually much closer to 10 under than I am to being overpowering this tournament and I think that's the truth like to me Rory is much closer to being 5 under in this tournament than he was to be an 18 under and winning this tournament by 6 7 shots. I think we'd all agree. I'm not trying to diminish or talk shit or anything but like it just it's just a fact you know it really is like you watch Scottie and Cam Young when they're their peak of this tournament they just looked way better than Rory did. I mean Rory was pulling some crazy shots out of his ass. You know Scottie's just pounded down the middle hitting at 6 feet making the putt but he just came through when he had to and now he's won back to back masters and this this tournament I think is and I mentioned this to Colin I think it's elevated its status you know sometimes we thought for a long time how do we do without Tiger this tournament's always been able to kind of carry itself on its own a little bit but I think Rory has re elevated it obviously in the way in the fashion in which he played but that was as just a fan and lover of entertaining sports like I'm not a huge soccer fan but if you tell me I'm about to watch the greatest World Cup game ever I wouldn't miss it for the world right I'm not a huge hockey guy the Olympic hockey those games were incredible let me repeat incredible I'm a big moment things that matter in terms of athletically that carry over culturally and that's where I think that Rory has kind of elevated kind of this thing and for a guy that we saw what it meant to him last year this one I haven't seen everything because we hopped right on but having your dad there the moment with his family I just it's going to be difficult and I think the only thing he can chase now I guess I'll end on this is like all time great status because at this point in time like what else he's won every major he's won the Masters twice he joins Tiger Jack and Nick Faldos the only guys to do it back to back like what he's just chasing now like other Greg golfers he's just chasing this list of humans like what's his next goal could I win nine more and catch Tiger I mean that sounds crazy but like what else are you going to use to motivate you like what else is why would he ever play some of these random events ever again in his career it's very difficult you know where at this point in time his you know ship not just reported he's closer to be being a billionaire than not a billionaire golf wise I mean these last three or four years he's playing at such an elite level he's dominated these majors and now the accomplishments like he's actually done it it's not like guys really close he's playing at a high level he's already accomplished the majors years ago but like he's clearly one of the best it's like this guy's winning the Masters last year he won the players like how do you stay motivated and that's that's really difficult you know it's easy for some guys where they just have the one event like every single year it's like I want to win the Super Bowl but I want to win the Daytona 500 I want to win like this guy there's a tournament every week you know and as this thing changes like you can't just part of golf it's not just the four majors you know he's a big part of the PGA tour the reimagining of it in terms of the elevated events and he's got to go like how does he get up for which I've always said this forever I have nothing but respect for humans that still grind when financially they have nothing to gain in terms of their life is completely set and they've accomplished what they need to in said field and I think the thing with Rory is what's going to be his like Tiger was just a psychotic sicko like MJ like Tom you know that's not Rory he's like I'm not he said I'm not wired like that I heard a question on Friday when I flew back from LA when I was driving home I flipped on like PGA tour radio on serious press conference and they asked them do you ever feel intimidating to your partners and he's like that's not the way I play golf they're essentially saying you ever feel kind of like Tiger Woods out there like you intimidate the field and he's like that's not the way I'm wired it's the way I think and he's being honest that's not and that's the way Tiger thought it's not really the way like speed or feel think they're trying to play really good golf and how he can stay motivated at this point in time I'm gonna be fascinated to watch because I for us to be entertained for the game of golf. It's pretty important they say is motivated right like in just in terms of in shape practicing like best case scenario LeBron Tom Brady like into their 40s they were still very driven and he's clearly driven ambitious guy but it's gonna be fascinating if he's able to sustain it because at this point in time like he's just kind of chasing ghosts like chasing debate shows like Rory or Tom Watson you know Rory or Ben I guess there's nothing left money accolades it's just to just keep racking them up and part of that motivation in golf is like you got the practice is so important that's what you have to do leading up to these events and it's gonna be fascinated to see if he's able to maintain sustain and stay dialed in what a master's audio congrats Rory McElroy. This is an I heart podcast guaranteed human.