Masters Friday: Rory McIlroy Races Ahead at Augusta National, Bryson Misses Cut

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 Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is April 10th. Andy, how we doing? Brendan! I'm doing great. How are you doing? Fabulous with another awesome day at Augusta National. Roy McElroy just wood shedding the field right now with an absolute catching fire in the last whatever hour and a half, two hours of his round. Six birdies in those last seven holes I think was the file number. Double up the leaderboard. Went from teetering from one to two ahead. It's a history. One point tied to going 12 under to the next closest to six under. It was interesting. Like the story honestly about an hour ago was like this incredible leaderboard. Rory, Tommy, Lowry, Burns, Patrick Reed, Rose, just like this amazing leaderboard at like seven to five. And then honestly like an hour later, really fast in real time, it's Rory has doubled up, we'll have the field. It's kind of startling how it happened. You know, chip in 17, we'll get to the, not blow by blow, but some of the specifics of it. An incredible, incredible flurry for the defending champ. Might be going back to back. Do we need to worry about it? The two goal lead is the most dangerous. Is he too far ahead to get in his own way here? Listen, you know, of all the courses in the world, you have a six shot lead and you are seemingly looking invincible. This would be the one that you're worried about. That being said, I just think there's so much self-belief from last year. So much trust and understanding of, you know, I know how to play this golf course. And if I limit my mistakes, I'm going to make a lot of birdies. And I think the big thing, you know, what made me flip my mind and pick Rory this week, I picked Scotty on the Friday egg. But what made me flip my mind and pick Rory was during practice round, I was just watching him hit a wide array of short game shots. And he seemingly was almost holding all of them. And I think like if you think about just, you know, where we are right now through 36 holes is just the incredibleness of how he has just like the scoring clubs right now. Wedges around the green and putting, he is just putting on a clinic. It's fascinating, you know. I wouldn't say he's like hit it exceptionally well. No, he's missing. You know, I was thinking when he made the one on 17, obviously, that's just a bonus total gravy. He hit it pretty far left and then he just punches, takes his medicine. You know, there was only one thing you could do there really. And I kept thinking about last year when he started like, you know, look, I sort of rode my luck. Like I rode my luck. I did get the breaks that you need to get to win around here. You know, maybe in prior years, he was getting those breaks, but, but, you know, you just don't get the outcome you want or you don't see them as well. Or you just didn't get the breaks. You didn't get there. There was no luck to ride and you were being tormented. And I kept thinking about the Ernie phenomenon, the Ernie Elf's phenomenon. I started looking back at like what specifically said of like when this place torments you, it just keeps tormenting you. And once it breaks and once it gives to you, it just keeps giving and giving and giving and whatever happened, he broke through to the alternate reality, to the other side where Bryson's making triples and going, going home early and Rory's lapping the field literally in an hour there at the end. And it feels like he's broken through the other side, whether it be 17, you know, the whole out, whether it's being able to birdie 13 and 15 without ever really hitting the fairway, you know, making all these birdies on par five. And these birdies on par five with continually putting himself in pine straw or out of position. Here's the Ernie quote that I found most press or most relevant. When a thing stains you, it keeps staining you. When it gives to you, it keeps on giving. I think we're at that stage right now. I've seen that with Gary Player. I've seen it with Jack. I've got a love-hate relationship with the place. It was always like a curse to me. It was not a romantic deal. And so that's what's with Augusta. It's not really for the greats, for the greats. I mean, if you're some, you know, middle and pro, whatever, but for the absolute greats who are quote, you know, expected to maybe win, it feels like it's a thing that either keeps punching you and punching you and punching you. Or once it starts to give, it really can. And we're sort of maybe seeing that phase at the midpoint here a year after he won it. Yeah, I mean, I think he felt it in the lead-up. He talked about in his pre-term at press conference how this was, you know, it was asked, what major do you see yourself having the most success at the rest of your career? He said, this one. Once you've won one, it's easiest to win another one here. Because obviously the course familiarity comes back here every year. And that being said, I think like an important note. I think he's played a lot of golf at Augusta in the last year. And I honestly, from last year, and I think this will get buried. Nobody's probably going to really talk about this, but the way he's playing the golf course this year is so much, so much more enlightened than even last year. And if you think about the way he played 17 last year in the first round when he was out of position, where he made his second double versus today, same pin, same hole location as the second round, or the first round of last year where he made a double, he's out of position. He doesn't put it up in the front part of the green, you know, where, which is like the natural place to punch out to. Just send it all the way as far as he can. Well, he actually played it way right, which gave him a lot of green. But like where that pin is, there's like a little, a rise and then a fall away. And it's on the fall away. And it's really weird chip from the front of the green where you're going up and over a hill. Today, he sends it way over right, which allows you, you know, he hits an amazing chip, but the chip was several degrees easier than if he's right in front of the green, which is like naturally where people would think to just throw the ball. This is, this is a guy that is is playing, is playing just truly enlightened golf. I think that I think last year, winning the Masters, despite winning, making four double bogies, and then now having this place where he actually enjoy going, going a bunch, you know, obviously, they did the the filming of the like, of the Amazon doc, he's been there a lot. He went there a lot in the last couple of weeks. He knows how to play the golf course so much more. And it's not in his head like I need to know how to hit this shot this shot. It's more looking at the golf course and saying like I can, this is how I can play this golf course. It's, it's amazing to watch. It's been an incredible first two rounds. And, you know, the scary thing for the field is he hasn't hit a fairway on a par five yet. What's interesting to me is, is, I think we're probably going to be spending a lot of time talking about Rory in the next two days and three days and maybe week. So I don't want to like use all the grand picture thoughts on a Friday night. But, you know, physically, he always had the game to win here. Like strategically, that developed over time from 2011 to call it like 2018 to then another phase and, you know, 23, you know, as he got became a smarter golfer. Now clearly like so physical, strategic, mentally like he's just freer. Now all three of those things are essentially peaking at their peak powers for someone who's very naturally gifted. And what I think you're seeing, even when the, when he might be hitting it, you know, in the pine straw on par fives, it's all, he's so naturally talented. And now all that mental stuff is at that same level that it's, it's, you can still take a six shot lead and make history when you're not necessarily in full flight off the tee, so to speak. And yeah, it just keeps giving to him. And we watched him, we watched him on Tuesday, I believe, or no, what have been, what have been Monday or Monday. And, and he's just like, he's now doing the same amount of Intel gathering and continuous like, learning how to get better, play the course better. Like you said, like he's playing it much more intelligently this year. But now it's just the entire mental weight is totally gone. Like he's out there just kind of taking a stroll and the tension and the weight of it, taking a stroll with Harry and just, you know, gathering that Intel with that sort of mental freedom in a way that sort of, that can completely put you in line for any bit of good luck, any bit of bad luck, and have you ready to overcome it all. And, and so it's a totally new perspective, obviously, once you win it. And, and just to be able to free up like that, when you're not feeling that pressure, that kind of strategic part of your brain can activate in a much, much clearer way. And whether it's even like a Monday practice round, because there's pressure in that looks like Monday practice, like when you hadn't won it yet, that tension was felt. And so it's interesting how that's all coming together. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, right? You have something that's just weighing on you. Yeah. And when you have something really heavy that you're dealing with, it just limits your ability to, you know, process other information. It's, it's fantastic start for Roy McElroy. And it seems like, you know, it obviously a lot of golf left. Yeah, I would just point out, this is why we play the game. None of those guys behind him are going to, you know, not try it feel like it's over because this is a golf course where you can track down. We've seen, you know, a lot of comeback victories. But, you know, he now gets to kind of play, you know, he will see how he plays. I assume I would guess that he's going to play with the same game plan. Right. But you're, you're gonna, if he comes out tomorrow and plays solid golf, it is going to be really, really hard because these guys are going to start pressing. How far back is too far back now that he's run to 12 under? We tend to do this at, you know, Friday night check, a Saturday night check. Maybe it'll be a little more condensed tomorrow night based, you know, who knows what could happen. But, you know, he's changed the dynamic of the how far back is too far back question. He's got great players real, like real strikers only this weekend, right? You know, Reed, Rose, Lowry, Fleetwood, Wendy Clark getting, getting in the mix. Good to see him. Tirol Hatton, but like real strikers only. And Roy's just, you know, at a different level right now. You know, I think the thing I would say is, is that, you know, with it only being one guy, you know. Can we even do the game? Should we even? Well, it's just a question of like. Does he? So, you know, if you game this out, if Rory struggles tomorrow and he shoots 74, 75, then all of a sudden it's wide open. Any of these, any of these players can get in the mix. So I would say, I would say anybody at four or better, I'd feel decent. Decent. Decent. I mean, I with the, with the context that you have. Yeah, I think, I mean, you could even go to three. I mean, you're, you're looking at what you're looking at is like, can I go out? Can, can I go out if somebody's at three and shoot 65 tomorrow? They are squarely in the mix. What about the fact that there's, you know, zero precipitation and presumably these will only get firmer. That would probably play into a big lead hands. Well, I. Chasing gets a little harder if it course gets harder. I mean, this is, you know, there's so much refreshing things that you've, we've talked about with Rory over the last years and years of covering them. But, you know, we, before he won the Masters last year, it was like, wow, look at how great of a US open, firm and fast course player he's become. Yeah. And we have the firmest and fastest Masters we have seen in 15 years. And, you know, it's the only Masters without precipitation, I believe in 15 years. 15 years. Yeah. That's basically Rory's entire Masters career. So most of the players in this field have not played a golf course of the Masters like this. But you're, you know, what the conversation around Rory became, he has somehow transformed himself from, you know, a soft golf course merchant is what he was known as and do the world's premier firm and fast golf course player. And here we have a firm and fast Augusta National, probably, you know, a golf course that would be at the height of its powers in terms of like it and Shinnecock in terms of defending the pro game when it's firm and fast. And here Rory is boat racing the field. You know, we saw LA, Brookline, Pinehurst, obviously. We're talking about the recent Rory run and those kinds of setups. Yeah, it should be the course and the conditions aren't going to play into someone else's hands any more than they would Rory's, you know, as opposed to, you know, some situation that would allow a chaser to get back in it. But we'll see. It's all on him. An awesome, awesome Friday night show on ESPN. What a sensational finish, I mean. What's your, you know, it and I know broke PJ's heart, quite frankly, PJ would jump off the couch every time Camion would roll one in and then he would just come over the top with his own birdie and whether it be 12, 13, 15, 16, 7. Are we in a safe space? Yeah. Real house cat putts from Camion. 16. 16. Up hill right to the left where he left short. He was, he was flying too. House cat there, 17, not a great putt, putt at it either. But I, you know, I think Cam, Cam's going to be kicking himself. They didn't push it to six. So Rory leads. I don't, I don't know if you're, I, you might have relinquished Camion takes after the front nine on Thursday. I think, I think you need to, you need to back off of Camion takes for, for 24 hours. I mean, I'm Camion takes for it. The putt on 16 was, it was me. It was, it was not good. I would have liked to get it to the hole, but I, I'm not in a position to complain about anything that we want to do. Andy's leaderboard. Is that out the window? Is it just Rory McElroy? He's going out with burns on, on Saturday afternoon. You know, that's a storyline we have. Reed and Rose will be together. Then you have Lowry and Fleetwood. Oh, we got the Burns storyline. Yeah. You want me to queue that one up for you? What's the Burns storyline? What is this storyline? Nobody's talking about Sam Burns. He's currently, he's currently going to be in the final group. Why is no one talking about Sam Burns? I'm curious. Well, the deputy has to make a big arrest. Deputy's test with a big repeat offender. Yeah. Repeat offender. There's someone who's run rampant for, for now, decades, um, you know, tormenting the public. Sam Burns, uh, A known criminal. Not just a known criminal. No criminal. Deputy Sam is, uh, is left by himself, by himself because, uh, you know, we could do storyline number two while we're here because his, his, his, uh, is, you know, the lead officer on the case, Scottie, the sheriff is taking a donut stop. Well, he's just got his coffee on the dashboard. Yeah. He's topped it. Crispy cream or Dunkin Donuts. We have no brand ambassadors and he's just, there's criminals just racing by in front of him while he's in the Maybe the number one criminal of the fair police is on the loose. Rory. The guy that, the guy that says there should be a rollback and, and, and, and, you know, just generally believes in, in the, in the spirit of the rules of golf. What you get. Yeah. What you get. Yeah. That's chef chef. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chef, chef, they're hitting the water on 13 and 15. Is that when the cause, that when the criminals were flying by and he was just, you know, had the double donuts going. He took a couple of, couple of donut breaks today and, uh, and it showed. Yeah. I think like everybody was waiting. You know, Scottie, this was kind of the first uncharmed masters for Scottie. I, I, I wrote that like we are literally have lived in a four year since 2022. Essentially Thursday of 2022. Roy, or I'm sorry, Scottie or like the specter of Scottie has loomed over every single master's round, every single one of them. You know, if he's not leading, he's there and you're scared of shit that he's about to 32 or 30 and go past you. And he's not been outside the top 10 in four years. And, you know, just to be clear, he's no more player in the world and dominant. So we're judging this on the Scottie scale. He's sort of stuck in neutral and not looming over this at all. I shot 74. He's even par today. Let's 100% a factor in this Rory round is, you know, if you looked at the leaderboard last night and you're Rory, you're looking at it and it's like, okay, Scottie, I bet he expected Scottie to push to seven. I kind of felt like that, you know, that was what I thought would have happened today. As Scottie goes to seven, he played an exceptional round of golf yesterday and I thought he like just had a couple of putts that just didn't drop. And he was so close to shooting four or five on just a nuclear setup last night. Whoa. Yeah, I mean. And. There's a crime spree. He got the bad end of the draw. And then today for him to go backwards, you know, Rory has said in the last year, Scottie's incredible. It's just amazing to watch what he's done. He's by far the best player in the world right now. We're all trying to catch him. And for Scottie to come into the Masters a little bit, you know, middling by his standards. By his standards. And then to back up today, Rory had to look at that board and say there is nobody that is standing in my way today. And he took full flight. And I think a large part of this is Scottie has occupied the best player, players in the world's heads for the last three years and him going backwards on a day that was gettable. I think that freed him up. And I bet it freed a lot of players. Just one last bid on Rory. He we're going to talk about him a lot. If I told you he would have a record setting midpoint lead and his worst part of his game would be off the tee strokes game. Even I don't think it was even negative around two, but cumulatively it's by far the worst part of his game. Like it seems incomprehensible, you know, and sort of speaks to the magic of Augusta that you talked about last night. Right. Like it doesn't just have to be the guy just winning and gaining up running up the score off the tee. I want to get there. We got a YouTube comment from big Edis. Okay. I think this is an important point. Nobody's talking about how we'll we'll make this a little bit more nice, but how Bob basically screwed over Scottie. Did Bob the stink of Bob Bob's bad attitude get to Scottie today? I mean, look, bad vibes group. Well, the good vibes cam group, like those guys got hot together on the back, can made four in a row. Like I don't want to like say that's the biggest deal in the world and the difference, but it matters. It tangentially matters some way. You know, Gary, I followed that group this morning. Gary Woodland had a bunch of like awkward, like got himself out of position. It was just slow. Like he was taking forever to because he had to, you know, recover. And then you had the Bob Braddy, you know, bad mood Bobby and he was playing better today. Like that's a thing. It's kind of a thing. I know Bob missed the cut. Didn't talk to the media both times and then post this cheeky little Instagram photo of a gnome flicking off like a Photoshop gnome flicking off. I just like, you know, I love his personality. He's got some zip and all that. But like, you know, sack up and like talk to the media and then don't just go post memes on Instagram afterwards after you kind of were flipping off the inanimate pond. And I don't know, but it's, it's not a positive if you're Scotty. You can't blame that all on that. But I did think Cam and Rory were kind of flying together. Port Mason Howell, you know, he's got a great future ahead of him. But I think it mattered a little bit to Rory seeing good golf next to him. I talked a little bit about the golf course, how firm it is. So we've heard for years, like it's a huge disadvantage for first timers. And this is kind of a subplot that I'm interested in. And, you know, Rory kind of screwed up this subplot as he ascended here. Yeah. This field has never seen a golf course like this is playing completely, you know, they've seen it for a round here and there. You know, approximate like it's gotten crispy, you know, for periods of time. But I think like what's fascinating about this year is the way the really like ferocity of the course is different. And the general notion of where to go when it gets really firm is different. If you look at some of the first timers that playing really well, right hand is four under. Yeah. Ben Griffith is three under and Goderup's three under. If Rory was around where the other leaders are, seven, eight, something like that. These guys would have bonafide chances to win, be the first winner since Fuzzy's Eller. But I was I was talking with Ben Griffin after his round and he was talking about how, you know, he took some different paths than the perceived notion was. So if you saw on 13 yesterday, all the all the experienced players were pushing it up for that pin. When they laid up, they pushed it up close to the creek for that pin. And then they were bouncing it. They were hitting the low checker and they were bouncing it over. Ben Griffin laid up back. And what he did was he left himself a wedge, a fuller wedge that could get the requisite spin he needed to stop it. Ended up easy birdie for him. So if you think about these guys usually play it and there's always rain. So it's soft and it where the targets are. And this is partial. You could go to Rory too. Like Rory's leaving stuff in spots where he has tons of green to work with or he or he's pushing back to where he has like the ability to really spin it. And and he's also exceptionally good at producing a ton of spin on short shots. But if you I think some of these first timers. I think this golf course is playing so drastically different than most of the players in the field are used to because it's been wet. I mean, it's been wet and kitty litter has been everywhere because of the wetness. Phil was on the record a few years ago saying like, we never really played this golf course firm. Like four or five years ago. We just know and the Phil who's seen every masters. So I think what you're saying quite, you know, insightfully is that there may not there. There are first timers and then there are first timers not in name, but first timers in facing this course. And I think like what you're seeing is the guy that's that's lifted and separated has probably thought about Augusta National more than every other person in this field. Like it has been in his head. Yeah. And he's thought about every way, which way to play it. He probably I would I would guess and you know, he's never said anything publicly or you know, to this point, but like he's obsessed about this place. Yeah. And it's just a fascinating aspect of this this week is like, I think the first timers actually aren't at a huge disadvantage because the golf course is playing so drastically differently than we ever see it. I mentioned Kitty litter and I got to get to this one. The storyline nobody's talking about. This has been just a completely unhospitable setup for cats. You come to Augusta, you expect Kitty litter to be everywhere. And we quickly saw Kurt Kityama, one of the stories of the first day, escort himself out. He had to leave the grounds to to to. We have a lot of new listeners. The Kitty litter is the is the green sort of pebble schmutz they put down in the very high traffic foot traffic areas that, you know, increases traction and doesn't make it a mud muddy, muddy trail. And this is needed almost every master's we've ever been to because there is some spout of spell of rain and there's always traffic. But yet, yeah, they haven't needed it. So it's inhospitable to the cats, both real and fake and imagine. House cats and you know, house cats are for new listeners. They are people that, you know, have some sterling records and in regular PGA tour events, but, you know, they they enter a major. They get a look at the big world and they have to run back inside their house. Well, we have a sterling record of arriving at the course in style this week because Lord today, man, we put on a little camp in the Burmester surround sound system. It was fabulous. What do you put your hands up? Some Ohio boys. I love to see you. Ohio boys just for me. The 3D surround system in our Mercedes Benz GLS. Easy morning commute into Augusta National. Absolutely fabulous each day. We're with Mercedes Benz. 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I have no time for this talking point or this narrative. I just, yesterday, a, a player who just won in dominant fashion two weeks ago legitimately laid up on a chip shot. Gary Woodland was behind 15 and full fledged laid up on the chip. Tried to lay one down to get it down the first base line. I can't, I cannot hit this shot on the green. So I'm going to lay it just short of the green and go from there. I think last night he was in peak just can't ground into a double point. We need that base runner. And like looking back, this chip that Scotty hit two seconds later, maybe not two seconds. Just guys, not really a fast player. So 65 seconds later Scotty hit a chip. That was probably the shot of the day on 15. I got, I got, I got a text while right after it happened from a player who's, you know, who's had a high finish in a masters. That was like, you, nobody has any idea how good that chip Scotty just hit was. It was fantastic. But I think yesterday afternoon Augusta National got right to the line. And I think they knew they were on the line. And what I mean by the line is the line of, of this is exceptionally hard. And if one little notch, like notch harder would have been over the line where it would have gotten a little silly. And I think they saw that they got to the line. They looked at the weather forecast where there is no humidity. It is delightful outside. It's been amazing outside. But I think this is the thing. When you have no humidity, these greens just dry out really quick and it's really hard to control. And this is what happens at Shinnecock and has happened to the USGA at Shinnecock is these like breezy, no humidity days. And it didn't get windy today, but you have to protect against it. And they put water down because they didn't want the story of the tournament to be that the golf course got out of control. And they also probably wanted to be able to push it a little bit more on the weekend. And if you lose the, if you go over the line during the week on Thursday or Friday, you lose the ability to get close to the line on the weekend. My expectation is that tomorrow will probably be the hardest it will play all week. I think Sunday they want to allow for birdies. Saturday, this sort of the misnomer that it's moving day at Augusta or moving day just generally in golf. I don't know if that will be the day tomorrow. Maybe it kind of hang on to your butt's day. We'll see. Can we just point out also? I was going to say there were 20 rounds of set under in the 60s. Most all of them were 69 and the one 65 was from the defending Jambu went nuclear. It wasn't like everybody's just throwing darts to post 67. So, so Rory McElroy round of the day 65 generational player. Up next we have Tirol Hatton. What is he a four time Ryder Cup or now at 66. Best ball strikers in the world for almost five, six years now. In the last two years you could make a case that top eight to ten player. He hasn't had a great year this year but in that ballpark. Up next Cameron Young 67. As good of a ball striker outside of Scotty and Rory I would say as there is in the game of golf. Just one of the players. So like the low scores were yielded to world world class players. Then you have like the 68s are our Fleetwood. Wendy. Wendy Clark a US Open champion and then you know Christopher Wright tan. Christopher. P Reed and you know what if he rested on 17 Chris Christopher Wright tan. Fenced it where? On 15 during day one because he pokes his head up. He's played an awesome golf. Yeah, fabulous. We talked to him at the players. The boys tried to put him through the combine. Very sort of dead pan Norwegian but he's great player. Oh, House Kat Cantley. Yeah, he's almost was waiting for you to throw that out there. House Kat Cantley. It was like for the record it was softer out there. Dottie on the broadcast says it's one bounce softer. I thought it was funny. Andrew Novak fantasy football guru. You see his quote? He said I three putted four times early today because I was not prepared at all for how slow the greens were. Just on the putting green and stuff. They were still rolling fast. I didn't realize how much slower they're going to be this morning. Yeah, it took me a little long to adjust to that. So, you know, Augusta did did they were at they didn't want to push it over the edge on a Friday. And so I suspect like they will get the course they want and the player, you know, the players in audience will get the course that you want. I had no problem with the way it played today. Quite frankly, like all these guys are like laying up on 13 and 15. Very few people are crossing. Some of it's downwind because you're downwind, but it's fascinating. I wrote my notes like 13 is 13 really back. Now, of course, they had to build this for postures tea in the woods. I saw Phil tweeted about how nobody went for it. Yeah. You know, I just have to say thank God for the new tea where it's not just a preconceived notion. If you hit the fairway, then you're going to have an eagle putt. I thought having the best player in the world have to hit a driving iron in because he didn't hit a great tee shot. He hit his driving iron. All of a sudden it brings all this risk. We saw Cam Young like what kind of jumpstarted his round. You could see as soon as he hit it, he was like, uh-oh. But he's hitting a longer iron off this. You know, one of the dynamics of that side slope, right, that particularly plays out more with like long irons is you get so trained by the ball above your feet that it's going to rip left. But one of the things is like you stand over a long iron and because there's less loft, it doesn't move as far left. Right. The more loft there is, the more left it pulls. And so you have this long iron and you have to trust that it's not going to turn as much. But it's almost impossible to trust because you so rarely hit a long iron off that crazy side slope. Like there are so few long par fours or par fives with that kind of pitch that you would ever hit a long iron. And these guys, players today, they hit long irons like exclusively on par fives and long par threes. Long par threes are always from a dead flat lie. This is why we have to reinstate more long irons into the game because like it is a super high variable shot and Scotty's tournament like died on the 13th hole. I feel like we're in my cousin, Jenny, right now. And he just did not turn the ball, he just the ball didn't turn over as much as he thought it would. Just bouncing off some testimony or just bouncing off each other here. My cousin, somebody, some testimony, firsthand testimony, support your argument. Scotty Schaeffler. I didn't read the transcripts. Scotty Schaeffler, what went wrong on three iron on 13? I just didn't draw it enough. It's a hard shot for me because where I hit my drive there, we caught that tee ball into the wind again. I hit it as far as I can get it out there. Again, it's playing as a real momentous decision. There's still some trees in my way. So I kind of have to start the ball on that bridge, but off the slope, I felt like I could pretty easily draw it off. I just tried to kind of swing it with the slope. I didn't catch it that solid and it hung out there and that was where, you know, that was short of the creek, bounced in once. You know, he's trying to draw it off that pin. He's like, oh, that's a pin I can draw it to. And what you're talking about, it was a real shot he had to make as opposed to, you know, guys slain in their drives up around the corner for whatever, a mid iron or even a low iron, high iron, whatever you want to call it. But yes, it's that and 15 quite frankly as well. And then the thing that's neat about it is like, if you lay up, you have a range of options of where do you leave it? And that's where the Ben Griffin dynamic that he talked about. He was like, I watched all the he was like, it was cool because he was talking about watching guys that were playing ahead of him, right play and hit it to spots and he kept it back to that point. I won't add. I'll add Scotty put the sirens on. He was not happy about where it crossed when it went in 13. It was unfortunate where it crossed. It would have crossed a little further back. It would have been a much easier pitch for me to be able to get up and down, but I had to go all the way back to the drop zone because of where it crossed. Like we're talking about the positioning of where that wasn't a layup, but where you're coming in from matters. And he was just, you know, he got an unfair crop. I don't know where it hit the siren where it crossed. We have the soundboard doing. Should we get to can't hit spitball and can't hit Don even if we wanted to. That's that's the next step. We have we have nice looking live shows. Now the next step is how do we get the soundboard? We've and we've got Mercedes Benz for producer camp. Yeah, we do not on right now. You're just hearing the voice of God. Should we just dish out a hefty heaping of shame for the miscutters? The fellas going home early. PJ not a good week for the champions tour. We don't need that. Not that we expected one, but tough scene for the old's going home early. JMO couples, a lot of all couples. We are VJ Cabrera, Zatch, your boy Bubba, who's champion store Jason at this point going home. Tough week for the old's. They're all not so fast here. What you may think they're going home, but others are flipping this script. And this is this. They're just getting warmed up. Storyline. Nobody's talking about. Storyline that I am talking about. There we go. Not the major that matters next week. The senior PGA has been moved up to the week after the Masters. So you have Mike. We are literally saying in his post round quick quotes today that he will stick around. Use the range to work on a short game before he goes to the concession. All these guys seeing the forest through the trees. It's not about this week. It's about next week. Damn it. This is like, they took a dive on purpose. Why, why go out and take two more days of beatings at Augusta National when I need to not need to finish T33. And I can go practice on the world's best practice facilities. All right. Other missed cut, other missed cut notables. He didn't like that one. No, we stuck it to him. Bobby Mack played right into our trap. Bob Mack, who we've already disposed of. We've talked about him early. Min Woo Lee kind of a trendy pick this week to contend. I don't know if to win. He's gone early. That was a rough tournament from Min Woo Lee. Yeah. He's out. JJ Spahn, nobody expected that after the win, but come on. He's not had a good year. He's gone. Cam Smith can you continuing to be just, I guess, I don't know, kind of a pro golfer. I wouldn't say he's in DJ territory, but, but not, not a good week for Cam Smith at a place like, you know what, for about like five years there, we got, well, we're like, Cam Smith, Augusta, oh my God, the perfect match of skills. Going to win. And, you know, he's just kind of not been president of majors for several years now, a few years now. And then, you know, for the first time since 2023, there will not be a crusher on the weekend. No crusher's fans. Heartbroken. And then, as Bryson DeShambeau, post a hefty seven at the 18th hole starts the, it starts the whole well on the right side of the cut line and makes a triple going home early. Bryson, you know, puts himself in the green side bunker, takes two to get out on the second shot out. He, you know, just plays it way too low, rolls off the front of the green and makes a triple. I call him the trick or treat player at Augusta recently, you know, when he did the whole par 67 bit, he was really sort of snake bit and trying to figure it out. Then all of a sudden he's contending the last two years. Now, back to the MC territory, looked poor, looked poor, striking his irons, looked poor around the green, especially in the bunkers, doesn't seem to appreciate the sand here. And like where we've gone, I think you were calling it out from that Sunday last year. You know, he had a pretty admirable showing at Port Rush, but it's not been good at the majors. I know the crushers are zooming on Liv and he's won individually. It's been, I don't know if we broke through the alternate reality when Rory overcame those demons and conquered Bryson and that Sunday final round. I don't know what's happened. Go ahead. I have a real, you know, it didn't crystallize till today. Nobody talked about how Bryson basically just got beat by Rory and the trauma that might have, he walked off the second green and he had to have felt, I'm winning this golf tournament. I'm going to do it to him again. And then he had it flipped on him. Like one hole later. Three. So in 52 holes, since he took the lead on Rory at Augusta National, in the 52 holes following at Augusta National, Rory's been 23 shots better. At Augusta. At Augusta. At the Masters rounds. And he didn't play, he was like flat. Like everybody after he played is like, well, Bryson's going to get one of these other ones. Oakmont will be perfect for him. And he's been, yeah, and he's been mediocre to bad. And it's, it's, it's fascinating. Like, listen, like this is serious is when you have things go against you, it's real trauma to your golf game. And I wonder if, if he's got some of that with just some scar tissue from what happened on the other side, because typically when he's been in that situation, he has taken it to the other person and you know, he gets that lead. He's such a gamer, he makes putts like I think, you know, like one of the things, you, Bryson DeChambeau in the mix is a scary, scary player because he just gets, gets it done. And it doesn't look pretty. I don't think like he's not a visually aesthetically pleasing golfer. But what he does is he generally gets into the hole. We haven't seen from him since last year is just that kind of like the ability to just grind or grind to score out. I mean, he's called, he's called it a rivalry. You know, I got him at Piners. He got me last year. Love to go again. Like this is, I don't know if you want to use the word rivalry, but you know, we don't always get that in golf where it's pretty clear. You guys that are, you know, nominally at the top of the contenders list, almost every major seem to show up often against each other and not particularly maybe enjoy each other's company. And, you know, we, since that final round, we haven't really got it. A pretty disgraceful exit, if I got to say, like that, that now people are going to jump on it and say, Liv doesn't prepare you for the majors. Like Liv performance does not mean you're like, he's won twice in a row at South Africa, Singapore. That doesn't necessarily carry any weight. I'm sorry. I, I don't know if winning the, I don't want to, to make it equal opportunity offender here. Like, I don't know if winning the Valspar, if you know, so and so wins the Valspar means you're, you're locked and dialed for Augusta either. But JJ Spahn, I think that's the cut. Right. And he won, he wanted Joseph, who's coming on here soon. Put up Joseph's favorite, favorite, maybe. But that's a disgraceful exit for a player of his caliber. You can't do that. And he was a mess out of the bunker. So no crushers on the weekend, but they did make the graphics on, on, on Friday, the broadcast graphics and one of the most amusing graphic of the day. I know you were worked up about a stat last night on golf channel. I, this tickled me. Most active, active made cut streak, peach included none other than crusher, Paul Casey. I mean, we're stretching the limits of the word active here. He hasn't played a major since the open in 2022. And he only played one major in 2022 that open. So that's three, four, five, that's 12 majors. He's just been in a, I don't think that's active at that point. Right. He's now 13 majors. I think you got to get him off the graphic at that point. He's an active player, I suppose, but that, that graphic abused me nonetheless. Can I swerve into something? Please. Maybe this is, this should have been a storyline that nobody's talking about. Patrick Reed, bogey, the last hole. Do you think he did it to avoid going, going against one of his former, would he have been the defendants? I, so I think this was just a subpoena. It wasn't like a suit of any kind. There was service of some kind on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve. I can't remember. Yeah. Rory was staying there with his family on Christmas or Thanksgiving. He got served a lawsuit by Patrick Reed. No, that was a few years ago. Maybe waters. You know, Rory, if, or, you know, was by his peer standard, sort of a P read soft spot and sort of a defender of period. I think that probably did away with that or whittled it away. That would, you think he took a dive, just made a bogey to, to avoid the, to avoid the litigants pairing. Maybe the clay man could come back and be walking score or something for that group. Um, he's out. Uh, staying in. I have a question for you. Please. I love questions. You know, we debuted, uh, we need to get back to this series stats that matter. Okay. A few, a few weeks ago, maybe. Do you think that we can just put live stats and, and a bucket of stats don't, stats that don't matter? Uh, I, I think they matter less. Yeah. I, people are going to be mad that we're not, that we're saying this. I mean, certain people, um, might have met with some live folks today, uh, under the tree, just to hear them out. Um, yeah, I don't know how much weight you can put in those stats. Really. I'm not saying that they have no credibility, but it's hard to figure out how much to wait. Now, Teryl, Teryl is there in accounting and accounting for live. He's at the top for the Legion 13. Yeah. Not at the top of playing the weekend, but he hasn't played great this year on this. No, no. So maybe none of it matters. None of it matters. Well, I mean, look, we talked about this just last night when the ROM shot 78, like we're not at Sintosa anymore, man. Like, come on. Um, Rom admirably plays his way onto the right side of the cut line goes from 78 to 70. This notion of live does live prepare you for the majors? He was put to his test. He was not having it. Like Bryce did not want to talk about why he cries. You know, he was crying in South Africa quickly. Um, knock that down. They were asked him. He was asked, Rom, what's the adjustments coming from live events to the masters? What's that adjustment like? Rom none. Golf is golf. Well, I'm going to go to John Rom. I'm going to go to the record at John Rom, uh, uh, speaking at a prior major championship. He says, I see the appeal of the, that other people see towards live golf. I see some of it. Their points or arguments, but to be honest, part of the live format is not really an appealing to me. Shotgun three days to me is not a golf tournament. No cut. It's not a golf tournament. It's that simple. I want to play against the best of the world in the format that's been going on for hundreds of years. That's what I want to see. Now they've gone to three, they've gone from three to four days. But when he simply said it, no cut, shotgun start, not a golf tournament. Well, here we are. The golf is golf is now the line. It sucks when you have things on the record. I just, I'm not going to jail him here. I will say, you know, we, it's important to allow people to change their minds. That's true. You know, that's true. I mean, you can evolve your position. This one doesn't seem like there's more information in your bank accounts. Yeah. Yeah, it's fine. But I just, you know, he was a very outspoken critic of this isn't real golf. And I know they've gone to 72 holes. So maybe that's, that's all we needed to come out. I also, I also just like think like one of the hard things about the situation that they've kind of put themselves into and in ROM in particular is he's just added so much pressure to the four majors because now it's like, I have to play well in order to prove it to everybody else that, that, you know, this isn't impacting my career. Yeah. Yeah. What else do you have for the, for the week here for, for tonight? And, you know, we don't want to step on too much stuff over the week. I just, I just wanted to ask you about this hat and notion. He talked about, I think he flicked off. I thought the camera, I think he's like off the cup. He finally made a bogey. He was just flying. Yeah. He was a little, a little lip out. He was, he was, you know, self deprecating about the end. Just a quick notion of this. He, he's learning to play Augusta national. It's kind of interesting. There were too many times in the first few years where I watched it on TV as a kid, you kind of, oh, you hit it here to that pin. It feeds in. So when you try to hit the slope rather than being naturally, if you are more of an aggressive player, which most of the time I am, I would hit more towards, much, I would hit more towards the pin normally, not at Augusta, but I'd watch it on TV. So now I was aiming at the slope because I'd watched it on TV and watched the ball feed and I pulled it and I'd missed the slope and then you end up in a whole world of trouble. So then I realized you only see the great shots on TV and it kind of times it seemed to make it look easy where it's far from that kind of an interesting notion that maybe he's playing more aggressive as he learns Augusta learned and was deceived by the TV notion of playing the slope. I don't know. It's kind of the anti, anti-strategic notion, but he's apparently just not playing the slope or trying to feed it, but playing at the flag more based on TV deception. Outside of Ray, Ray, who, who are you most surprised is on the board? It's a good question. It's a good question. Howton, howton Lee. I mean, I've defined the board T7. He's on the board. I think, I think given last night, it's gotta be howton. Said he spent the whole night on the toilet. Incredible stomach ailment. Incredible quote. Thanks to you. I was getting shrimp last night at a place that I probably shouldn't get shrimp and like you got to watch yourself around Augusta. Yeah. And so maybe, I don't know howton was on the toilet all night. Yeah. You had the shrimp on the order. I was like, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, switch. Where were we going? Switched chicken. I almost brought it up. Thank you. We both caught it. We were thinking the same thing. So howton maybe didn't. He was on the toilet. He's T7. Good for howton Lee. He's surprising. Brooks Kepka, he's in the mix despite allegedly having his driver on A1 instead of B1. There was some notion that maybe, I don't know. I had someone joke to me. Maybe Bryson was in there tinkering around and he said they didn't notice it. He played the whole first round with the settings off and then noticed it last night on the rage, kind of comical. Maybe there's some question about whether that was actually the case. At the 36 hole mark, who is your top challenger? Is there one you can, like, when this is going to evolve, I would throw out Justin Rose for me. Yeah. I watched most of Justin Rose's round. You know, in a way, it felt for most of the round outside of the run in the middle of the round, a lot like Saturday last year at the Masters. The guy hit it so good. He's hitting it so well and he just couldn't buy a putt. And so much to the point where right before he went on his run, he got, I've never seen him really get so frustrated, you know, visibly frustrated, animated. Like he threw his hands up on the eighth green after he missed another makeable look. And, you know, again, I kind of feel for this guy because I think he's going to sleep just like he did last Saturday, feeling like, hey, I missed my chance here to like, I think he probably feels like he should be sitting at 800. He missed his shorty on 17. He missed some really good looks. He got off to a slow start with a bogey on one and a par on two. I think he missed a short putt on three, too. So he just, this was kind of a redux of last year and it's going to be, can he get hot and have Rory come back to the field just like last year? Love it. Love it. For me, he's clearly, there's a lot of like really game chasers. It's just Rory's six and seven ahead of them. Yeah. But Rose stands out to me. I would, you know, I think I'd go with Reed. He plays a draw. The conditions are really hard. You know, we're seeing it like this. Does that play on firm? I mean, tends to run. Well, I think like you're seeing a lot of players lay up on par fives, particularly 13 and 15. Then it becomes your wedge game. When the greens get really firm, you miss more greens. Yep. And then it becomes about your short game. And this plays, and then he's a player that likes to move the ball right to left. So he has a better chance to hit some of these tough tee shots that people struggle with, whether it's 13, 10, 9. Like he's just built really well for Augusta National and he's built even better when it's firm. Good. It's interesting. He's a great contender. You know, barring Rory doesn't just, you know, keep it out in front. Really good leaderboard. Great courses set up as well as it could be and a great leaderboard with the Rory back to back story alive and well. Quick awards, rapid fire awards. We did graphic of the day. We did a good guy, Jerry Ward. I mean, we're on the hunt for one. We don't, I saw a couple nominees, but it just felt like it wasn't in the spirit. We do have another father of a superstar player that would like the good guy Jerry Ward, we're told. Yeah, we did. We did Mike Thomas. I don't know if he found out about that or not. I'd like to point out this is not an award just for fathers of, you know, otherwise we might have given it to Scott Schuffler at the Ryder Cup for awkwardly handing out poker chips to police officers. It seems like the man, we are, does seem like we're good. We're big. We like the fathers. We're good on the father beat. Maybe not Mr. Potty. We got to learn more about Mr. Potty. Speaking of that brings us to a storyline that nobody's talking about. Okay. Was the potty, was big potty subject to bad plumbing this week? It seems like the latrine in the material, in the military outpost may have had bad plumbing and the potty was actually fine and functioning. The plumbing was bad because pot heater was asked, what was the problem yesterday? I watched him. Oh, he was all over the place off the tee. He said, my driver broke yesterday morning about 10 minutes before the tee time. I put in the backup head and we were playing around with weights and we was really happy with the original driver. We found out yesterday different weights in the new driver. There were different weights. So it was an error and we kind of cost me a lot, but we learned from it and fixed it. It was better today. So just bad plumbing. The potty was fine, just bad plumbing from the troops there. What other storyline do we have? We got another one. We got another one. Houston, we have a problem. We've got the biggest Maxfly presence at the master since one of the capital P problems of the 90s, John Houston, was strolling around here in the vintage high crown Maxfly had. Ben Griffin is in the mix. We haven't seen this from Maxfly since one of the players that made me fall in love with golf, John Houston at the master. That's not true. John Houston in the 90s at the Gus National. I think the Maxfly hat was lovely. I loved him in his Maxfly hat. He was a microwave man out there. He was. The guy I could just put up for that. He's coming for that crown. Unfortunately, our guy Fax, Fax didn't think John Houston was probable. Oh, you put that specific question to him. I was after a few too many drinks. By us. By us. By us. By us. The hand up, I was worse for the wear the next day. That's when we got the 10 finger Bob Estes. He refuted and said, John Houston wasn't a problem. Oh, wow. Interesting. Other storylines nobody's talking about. Magnolia Lane traffic problem every morning we go by it's like halfway backed up all the Mercedes coming in. A lot of traffic on Magnolia Lane this week is everybody getting there on time. Couple transportation storylines nobody is talking about. The last one will we ever leave on time this week? We're over for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday, over five, over five. No, we are not leaving on time. We've been averaging 10 to 15 minutes late. Feels like you always have someone to blame. You're ready to point a finger at somebody. All I know is I've been out here bags packed on time every morning. I was taught as a young boy, you know, if you're not 10 minutes early, you're late. I wish my colleagues felt every one of these majors, you know, we kind of do a rotating who gets the master. What the people don't know is you have the master and your nice little own shower. Others might have to split a shower and go staggered start here. You know what the players just out here in this cast in this version. Listen, the players we were we're in a far worse setup. We're splitting, splitting a shower between three. I had the master there and guess who was down there on time was always first in the shower to make sure I wasn't wasn't delaying my colleagues. There you go. Good for you. Last award quote of the day, peach. Actually, couple of words. Worst outfit was a toss up between Marco, Penge. Adidas is just committing crimes against humanity with some of those. Adidas like legit needs to be stopped. God her ups little teal thing with the pants and stripes was a complete crime. Nike didn't come in right behind Nike, but a worse week for Penge was a disaster. You can't put him in that kind of thing and expect him to play well. So that's worst outfit. Those are awards quick rapid fire words, but quote of the day, last one, Pige, you pick this up and put it in the script. I did. I think it was great. Jim Nance, obviously doing doing the masters for the broadcast as always. Prominent governor, Florida politician, Ron DeSantis is introduced to Jim Nance under the big oak tree. I'm standing there. I'm waiting for Joseph, another person who was not on time and I agreed upon time today. So I'm milling about. Nance is talking to the Santas around behind me and a young woman comes up to comes up and stands in front of me and is talking to an older gentleman. And she just leans over and says to the person she's with, do you think that this is a liberal's worst nightmare right now? Ron DeSantis talking to Jim Nance. What's wrong with Jim Nance? Is he partisan? I don't know, Joseph, but I were trying to research about that. But just, you know, the scuttle you hear in the South, man, that's it. Can I bring a fan quote in? Please. I was watching, I had a great morning watching Rose, Kepka and Spieth. I found myself rooting for Spieth, honestly. You did come into lunch with that. I was going to ask if you were okay. Pity rooting? It seems like is that where this came from? Honestly, I feel bad for the guy. Didn't you press again? Didn't talk. Yeah, he didn't talk. I was ready for it. I had some questions. Well, is it because nobody asked until Wednesday afternoon? He said, all right, I'm not talking to anybody. You didn't want me. I was ready. I had a good question in the holster forum. Probably won't get to ask it. But I felt bad for the guy. You know, this guy, he thought he was going to bring a guest to Disney's probably for the rest of his career. And at this point, turns out it was Patrick Reed. At this point, he just can't get his game ever to fully click. And I have to think that it's a mental issue. It's close, though. It's so close. It's got to be a mental thing. Today, the putter was just so bad. It was so bad. He hit it beautifully. Like, you know, if people always can wash away strokes and golf, and I think it's hilarious when people are like, well, I could have been four or lower. Jordan Smith should be under par. He should be. Yeah. He should be on in the top 20. He should probably be around two or three. The way he's played the first two days. But this is Vanna. I was walking by a father and son that were clearly big speed fans. And the son who's like probably 32 is saying to his dad, because, you know, this was after he didn't birdie eight when he should have. Because, you know, he just doesn't have the firepower. He can't keep up with these guys and take advantage of the opportunities. That's depressing. And he said it in this just, and I just wrote it down. And it was just like, man, I think I'm full circle. I'm rooting for the guy. What if he wins the career slam at the Mink? Maybe he comes back. You know what? I think I feel bad for the guy. People will believe it. Yeah. He's like a great human, a good human being, good guy. And the trajectory is just weird to win that much at the biggest stages that young and then just not be kind of in the fight. And I think at this point, it's a mental thing. He said he's been close for like literally four years. Yeah. And it just doesn't seem like he can get over the mental scoring hurdle. And he's like caught in this like doom loop in his mind. Is what I feel like he's at. If it's not one thing, it's the next thing. And he's gone down all these deep rabbit holes of trying to fix himself. And at the end of the day, like there's just something going on in the head. And I would recommend, you know, I think it's great week this week for the Rotella man. Bob Roteller. Yeah. Roteller. Bob Roteller, get over there. He's out with the tank tomorrow. So, you know, off the bus intimidation, having to play next to the tank. Shout out real quick. Just we talked about the guys missed cup walking home and shame what their tail between their legs. Just a shout out serious shout out to Colin Moore. Like clearly talked about how like, you know, his legs like you can't get there. He, you know, acquitted himself just fine. You know, and clearly has dealing with that injury. Didn't look like he would play as late as Wednesday, Thursday morning. Makes the cut fairly comfortably. Just wanted to give him a hat tip for that. Yeah. And Brian Campbell, averages 270 off the tee. I have to say though, he's in it. It's a firm and fast setup. That's what you get when you, when you go to the University of Illinois. Fine education. Billy, work your way around the course despite deficiencies. Okay. Given a lot of good, great Luke Merrick, Luke Murray conversations out there this week. We might be back. So we're going to start doing BC minute more often. I see the, I don't know if you've seen this peach. We're in the mix for John Blackwell, a big, big portal. Looking like a $5 million number. I don't know if I like that. I do like the idea of John Blackwell on our team though. Pretty good. That means we should sign off. We have reached the end. We're not doing portal minute. Oh, I got it. ILLINI in the chat. There we go. Let's get the hell out of here. Friday night in Augusta. Hey man, this is amazing. This is one of the most popular players of his era, you know, in full flight, you know, six clear, a course that can be everything we want it to be an incredible pack of chasers. We're going to be going live every night. Saturday night will be back here when play finishes up that final pairing of Rory and Burns clean up on Saturday night. Thank you all for continuing to follow shotgun start fried egg. The newsletter is as good as ever. Just flexing our muscles here with Kevin and Joseph Lamagna's Ryan Gerard project. Amazing stuff coming out. I think we'll probably bring Joseph and KVV in tomorrow night. We're going to bring Joseph in tonight. Have a little boys session, but we, we, we, we might run a fall out of abundance of caution. Abundance of caution that we're going to get, we're going to get some written approval for what we're bringing them in for. Didn't want to end up in the Calcovecchia zone this week. So we're going to, we're abundance of caution. The amount of text that as you guys were going, Joseph and I were going back and forth on like, Oh, I don't know about this one. I think we agreed on the right decision. All right. Well, we'll get Joseph and KVV. I don't know, Jim. Read their work in the newsletter. I don't know about this one, Joe. I just don't see it tonight. KVV's been killing it. Read the Ryan Gerard diary. Gerard is amazing. Thank you for listening to shotgun start. We'll be back with you. Where did he end up at? Saturday night. He was talking about even, right? He could be, he could be the new, uh, he could be the new Matthew. Matthew. You're battling master. Everybody enjoy your Fridays. Enjoy your Saturday mornings. We'll be back with you late Saturday night after play. Hey, hey, what, what, what, what? One retired golfer made the cut. Who? DJ. DJ. Yeah. We got to call it out. There we go. One ceremonial, ceremonial champion made the cut. Everybody knows the aces. All right. We'll talk to you Saturday night. We'll talk to you Saturday night.