The Long Game is back, Masters week is officially upon us, and Dave and Casey are ready to break down all things Magnolia Lane this week. First, they recap the exciting Valero Texas Open finish, Akshay Bhatia’s clutch (and painful) play, Lottie Woad’s impressive run at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and Kelly Norda’s dominant fourth straight LPGA win. The guys also talk eclipse-preparedness, share some leftover Netflix Full Swing thoughts, and discuss Jon Rahm’s 72-hole revelation.
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short game wise yes I can long game wise
no no I have
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back case how excited are you this is
your week man is this the week this is
the best week of the year is it not I
think so yeah it’s a good week what El
what else ranks up there if not Master’s
week WNBA playoffs
maybe and what what month does that
start since you it’s top of mine for you
the June same as the
finals I don’t know it’s a good question
I don’t think they put those head
to-head no yeah it’s a great week the
the re real golf real golf is here um
what is hey real real golf did you watch
yesterday okay so I the event of the
year so I I happen to catch I happen to
flip on at the end because I saw I saw a
clip that said winning is hard and um y
Danny dumped one into the water in a
playoff talking about the the Valero
Texas open yeah the Valero Texas open so
so I saw that I saw a clip I was like
cleaning up some stuff stuff and I saw
that and then I went to YouTube TV and I
had it
recorded and I went to the end and I
flipped on and it was like at the
beginning didn’t OE have like a huge
lead and then and then Denny just sucked
sucked up a seven eight whole lead and
then I’m watching it and it’s like on
the 17th hole it’s like for his eighth
birdie in a row and I’m like wait what
and then the announcers were like saying
that this was the best golf duel that
we’ve seen in a long time and I ended up
rewinding a bunch of WR and watching it
and it was pretty wild and then then I
flip I I I go to like I don’t I don’t
think this is real time it was right
after it happened then like ox’s got
like a 80 yard wed shot and he calls in
his trainer and then like goes and
changes it was like wait what is
happening then I was mad at myself that
I didn’t see it from the beginning so
you just real quick on that you know how
why he needed the trainer right no did
he have did he pop his elbow his
shoulder back in he po popped his
shoulder out celebrating the putt he
made on to force the
playoff it was one of the great sporting
events I’ve ever watched in my he had
like a six shot lead at the turn so
sorry if this is not I don’t even care
if this is interesting for anybody else
but um so but didn’t they they both had
Birdie putts on 18 or
no um yeah they both made birdie they
both tied so heau Denny puted first and
made
his yes whoa the O made his okay and
then he fist bumps celebrated cuz then
they like he said said I need to get
taped up and the announcers couldn’t
figure out like why he wanted to get
taped right now but it was actually that
he needed to get that shoulder popped
back in I’m not even I’m not 100% sure
it popped out but they said he threw his
shoulder out and there was like some
concerns about this week at the at
Augusta hilarious but like a six-stroke
lead at the
turn and Dan carsley just went
absolutely blackout lights out that’s
crazy only only to dump only to dump a
wedge in the creek I was was uh thinking
yesterday um Denny McCarthy was playing
so well it was almost like I had money
on OE that’s the only kind of way you
can be that lights out as if I have
money against you um but really really
great tournament I i’ I’ve
underestimated over the years how much
the players really like the course the
Valero wher H that is TBC wherever yeah
um yeah not you I always thought for
years like this tournament’s been great
over the years
producing victories like yesterday where
someone needs to get to the Masters this
is kind of their last hope I think like
JJ spawn did it a few years ago
um but I always thought it was kind of a
cakewalk course but obviously Rory
played this this week a lot of bigname
guys played this week um pretty good
test I mean
Rory he kind of thought he was an
afterthought this week and just in the
back of my head I was like well that’s
not great going into Augusta then I look
he teeth or did he tie for third or
third outright so that’s actually a
pretty good week like the these two guys
AE and Denny just went crazy crazy but
for my money that’s the that’s the event
of the year so far I didn’t want to do
it to you this early on the Pod but like
Rory missed the cut at the Masters last
year so we gota we gota you know I’m
glad he’s playing well I think we talked
about this last week he he teed off in
the afternoon and I think he looked at
the scoreboard on one and he was like
six or seven shots behind uh Brooks or
ROM and instead of ruined his whole week
so he’s not scoreboard watching this
week we’re good yeah um we’ll get into
picks in a second but um yeah
interesting time going into the Masters
I feel like the best players aren’t
really on top of their game it’s kind of
anyone’s anyone’s uh tournament to win
but Denny I didn’t realize he had never
won before that’s a guy you parentally
just always see in the top 10 15 of
these kind of um fullero type he’s like
he’s like that guy that you’re watching
the event and you’re like I feel like
he’s like he’s a name like what what
what is he do you have any idea what his
world ranking is off the top of your
head uh I know he’s in the Masters he
didn’t need to win yesterday to get in
so 30th 30th in the world really well
that’s probably a big jump from
yesterday up from last week he’s 51st
but he’s a perfect guy that like um top
yeah top 50 gets into the master so he I
was going to say he’s probably somewhere
in the high 40s but he probably got a
big jump in he would have been in anyway
and so did they do they run the 50 do
they run the top 50 like right as as of
this week you get in so like Austin ekro
who’s 50 right now or is there a c off
no I don’t think so I think it I don’t
know if there’s a cof off but um you’ve
seen those FedEx Masters invites get
delivered to people oh yeah that’s right
super early the whole Tak they’re not
fedexing stuff last night at the local
Augusta Georgia FedEx fake Scott
Stallings um and it’s so funny I for the
past few weeks like there’s been a
couple first-time winners who got in um
or not first time like Mady won a few
weeks ago he got he got into the Masters
uh um but I always forget like I always
think like oh you win you’re in but it’s
an Invitational so all these guys after
they win are always like you know like I
don’t want to assume historically
they’ve always in it’s pretty funny that
austa could just be like you know what
no I didn’t like the way AK finished
that I
like in in that example like of
malady yeah uh like historically they
invite all the winners of the last is it
like of the last calendar year basically
last SE yeah it’s one or two years I
think it’s I think it might be one like
uh V jagas is going to be back for the
first time for in Forever cuz he won he
won in the fall La yeah the fall
whatever my man and this year is the
first year in a while they’ve gone back
to the calendar year schedule but they
also have the fall stuff they’re looping
back in because of the transition so
yeah there’s a lot of people that will
be playing for the first time in a while
but um no Anthony Kim maybe one day um
but I was I was going to say to you
there was a point on Saturday we did a
lot of spr uh spring cleaning this
weekend so I was I had the TV on there
was a point on Saturday where I watched
four different professional golf events
or sorry professional is not the right
word four different televised golf
events and then if you want to add the
Drive Chip and Putt on Sunday morning
there was five this so you watch so you
watch the Valero Texas open correct you
watch the Augusta National Women’s
Amateur the anoa as we say it Dave uh so
sorry the an W as we say it you watched
uh live
did you watch live Miami live Miami
watch a little bit of
it uh and there was two more was there a
LPGA Tour event you
sicko well yeah as a as a hashtag girl
dad I don’t need to tell you that Nelly
Corda won her fourth consecutive event
yeah she won back she she won four weeks
in a row damn and this week was uh it
was a a match play event so it’s kind of
wonky it wasn’t just best person’s going
to go out there and win so she had to
fight through brackets and that kind of
stuff it’s interesting setup in that
they do stroke play for a bunch of days
and then I think when they get to four
or or the last eight they do match play
whereas the old WGC men’s one they would
do a huge bracket uh but yeah she won
did I get to five fero live yeah LPGA
anoah anoah Drive Chip and Putt that’s F
Drive Chip and Putt how’s it Drive Chip
and Putt I only watched for like five
minutes but they did say first one they
ever did I think it was 10 years 10
years uh to the day uh AE was a
participant he was so he’s been a
flusher big circle uh Circle life moment
there uh but I I’ll tell you a quick
story it got I don’t I’m not here to
Pander um I did get wrapped up a little
bit into the girl dad women sports stuff
this weekend with Caitlyn Clark uh
Friday night I wanted to watch a little
bit with my four-year-old daughter but
of course they put that game on at like
9 :30 at night I don’t see that for that
yeah they could she couldn’t been
couldn’t been in the six o’clock game
for whatever reason but um so then on
Saturday I’m I’m I’ve got the amoa on um
did you catch any of this did you see
any of it uh no all I know no didn’t
didn’t see any of it I I no I didn’t so
uh lahy wood was her name she won I just
happened to watch she was she was one
back no she was two back I think with
like six holes to go I think she’s a
freshman at she’s from uh the UK but
she’s a freshman at Florida State she
birdies like 13 or 12 or something so
she’s one back on the 17th T so I’m like
this will be cool like I’ll have my
daughter come down and just maybe watch
two holes of golf like every time she
walks by it’s guys playing golf like
this would be cool maybe she like
there’s women up here so I call her down
she’s watching like um Peppa Pig so
already I’m I’m fighting an uphill
battle so I’m like watch this it’s uh
this this is daddy’s favorite golf
tournament they’re hosting women this
week um probably not the right way to
frame it to her like this is my not my
favorite but this is where they play my
favorite now but I was like watch this
the girl goes birdie birdie to win it my
wife happens to come down the stairs as
like this the birdie on 18 is rolling
in I don’t know why I’m recording my
daughter watching this for some reason
I’m like my eyes are like Misty I’m like
about to cry I don’t know why I’m just
picturing this young girl I don’t know
winning at Augusta my daughter there my
wife comes down the stairs and just like
what the [ __ ] is going on down here I’m
like this women’s golf on I’m like
crying my daughter’s like watching uh
Pepa Pig on her iPad pretending to pay
attention so quite a quite a golf
weekend for me um harder to put that on
yesterday um after watching a ton on
Saturday but it was a huge golf weekend
in our household so got me in the you’re
already you’re already deep into the
course that you you already feel like
you’re like you’ve spent a bunch of time
watching Augusta so you’re already
you’re ready for this weekend there is
something there is something about
letting about about showing
her uh golf so we we’ve been trying to
on on Fridays we usually watch a movie
together as a family at night not that
the kids don’t watch TV any other time
it’s just like that’s kind of when we
try to pick something and now throughout
the age we try to pick like something
that we want to watch too like we’d get
enjoyment out of so uh like this week we
watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids which is
great yeah um last week we tried to
watch a Mighty Ducks and you know 20
minutes in the movie it’s all like
Gordon Bombay’s you know Saga and so
everyone was bored and they they ejected
right but in all those movies it’s so
interesting how like culture and
everything has changed like in the in
the mid 90s like all the jokes were like
about like all the boys would joke about
like being a girl or something like that
was the big dis and like you know my
daughter’s sitting there’re watching and
she’s like she’s sick she’s like wait
why is it why is it a joke why did they
all just say like yeah like and and so I
do think like the more that I try to the
more that I see those things I’m like
yeah yeah I want to expose her to
like to to women playing sports and I do
I do appreciate things like that being
able to show them like um actually last
year no l up did this uh awesome they
did they followed the Stanford women’s
golf team for a week and was like an
hour and a half like documentary on
YouTube and it was awesome and we
watched all of it on the couch together
and it was it was it was really cool
just those moments of like oh yeah okay
this is cool so I can totally understand
getting into something like that yes
it’s one of those things like you hear
about it all the time but like you don’t
think you can do it until you see it and
something of a like if if I if I haven’t
even recognized myself that my
daughter’s never walk by and not seen
just old men playing golf right like it
was just this kind of click for me like
oh yeah I guess yeah and and look I I
I’ll watch any golf I’ve said that
forever but just when she walks by it’s
growing up my cousin she was an amazing
golfer and like her dad always had her
around the course and like when she was
like in 10th Grade she was like she
could hit the ball real good and like
was hitting bombs and like man that
would be like it’ be the best feeling
ever to have your daughters be like an
amazing golfer and being out there on
the course um everybody’s joining me
right now because there’s a a clip and
there’s no school today here in Vermont
um because this is the this is the the
world the the world location this is the
best location in the world for the
eclipse today so do you have uh your
eclipse
glasses we have every version of eclipse
glasses we have uh you know we’ve run
the gamut on making sure nobody loses
their Vision today so we have we have
every precautionary measure that you
could imagine yes my wife asked me last
night do you have Eclipse classes and I
checked my pockets and I didn’t that’s
something I think you have to
intentionally
I was like Amazon says they could get
here by Wednesday when’s the next one
couple decades I also um I spent some
more time catching up on full swing uh
this past weekend uh Tom Kim episode
leading into the Masters I thought I
would bring up to you where uh young Tom
Kim goes to the Masters for the first
time and he accidentally stumbles his
way into the Champions Locker we talked
about this a few weeks ago how like I
came to the realization I thought that
that show’s not for me I love it it’s
really good like I’ll devour it in 2 or
three days every year it comes out but I
don’t get frustrated with the the with
the really um I don’t know repetitive
stuff that we already know because
that’s for the masses they’re trying to
appe appeal to everyone that’s the kind
of stuff that is for me that kind of
stuff like Tom Kim wandering into the it
was amazing and like no one telling him
no well and but but he no one told him
no but he was very uncomfortable like he
was like H I think I’m not supposed to
be in here like I it’s like when a kid
does something that they know they’re
not supposed to do but they’re
pretending they kind of don’t know it’s
like oh I guess I I actually thought of
you I’m like oh my gosh Casey would be
like an amazing person to like accident
if Casey like accidentally stumbled into
the Champions locker room at Augusta
like full full Panic like I’d withdraw
from the tournament yeah just out of
respect this one’s on me yeah I’m not
even going to play this week totally
100% yeah uh that kind of stuff like the
I think it’s in the first 30 seconds of
the whole season but like Matt
Fitzpatrick just lathering himself with
sunscreen like that’s that’s the behind
the scenes stuff I don’t feel like we
get like a lot of that we’ve been
getting a lot of tour personalities over
the last two years maybe not for the
right reasons but uh that that’s just a
cool reminder of like these are or like
uh the spe hadwin Ricky thing where
they’re just firing balls at the porta
potty right like I know that’s like
childish to but it’s cool like well I
think I think because on just we don’t
see on TV you just see them play and
then you realize like oh man these
people are tra they’re traveling
together every week they’re always
around each other you know even just
like playing like local golf tournaments
in Vermont you end up like having a
couple buddies and you make jokes with
on the Range it’s like oh on that on
that scale like there you know there’s
obviously some stuff that goes on so so
what episode would you say you’re
through are you done or you just up
through that one or like six or seven um
I’m up through the
Fitzpatrick’s episode what do you think
of that
one um
it was good okay it’s enough said no it
was good it was good I I was I don’t I
don’t I didn’t give you an on I was
trying to give you the answer you you
were I was trying to think about like
what were you looking for when you asked
me that question that’s not what we’re
do here Dave I thought it was I thought
it was cool and I actually I was
surprised at how open you know Alex was
about being in Matt’s
shadow um because I wouldn’t have
guessed that from the outside I think
being open but it’s weird because it
seems like they have a good relationship
like it doesn’t
seem um doesn’t seem like they’re like
it doesn’t seem like he’s like resentful
of like he can both things can be true
like please please not right now both
both things can be true like he he can
want to be out of his shadow but he
doesn’t like have this like crazy deep
hatred and resentment of his brother um
also just the ju toos of like makes you
realize like how much success Matt has
had and like to the average person
nobody’s going to recognize Matt
Fitzpatrick but that guy’s made like
millions and millions of dollars he’s w
w a ton of time did he win the am and
the junior am he won the he won both did
he win both AMS you know that yeah uh I
don’t know if he won the junior he won
the US amateur and the US Open at the
country okay so so he’s won he’s won a
major like he’s going on the private jet
his uh you know his caddy is Billy
Foster like he’s got the flashy
braces not anymore no he looks great now
they’re off he’s got the
attractive he’s kind of a handsome young
l now she she gambled and she and she
won you know like when those braces came
off it’s all good real uh I I believe I
saw stuff where they were practicing
going into the week I I didn’t see them
yesterday maybe they’re out of
contention but Alex apparently caded for
his girlfriend in the uh ano oh so that
was another thing that was pretty cool
seeing them just like hang out at the
Wake Forest practice facility and she’s
a player like did he play did he play
college golf
somewhere he must have I mean how many
guys
can you know finish what like top five
in the in the open and not play college
gol he must have played I’m not sure
where he went I know Fitz went to um
Northwestern but uh he he was his caddy
for uh that US amateur at a young little
so I did I did a deep dive on them
before I went to that out here in the
Boston area a few years ago so I kind of
knew a little bit about his backstory
and when Matt won the US Open was at
last summer or two summers ago they had
a lot of uh cameras on him and his his
mom and his family um so I kind of knew
a little bit of the backstory so I
actually thought that was one of the
better episodes I’ve just the reason I
asked that and maybe you were thinking I
was going to go different ways I’ve
heard some backlash on that episode but
I to me that’s like I think they’re
trying to show you in that different
types of people right there’s like the
Superstar people the rores there’s the
uh young guys like the Tom Kims the the
phenoms but there’s also this other kind
of
journeyman um kind of grade of of
amateur player who what was the
a great week no I just don’t think
people enjoyed that episode as much I
think I saw a bunch of rankings and that
was one of the lower ranked ones um for
me that was one of one of the more
memorable ones would I have liked to see
more about like this is why Matt
Fitzpatrick chips cross-handed type yes
but again that’s not right is that what
Netflix is trying to do yeah exactly
yeah we need like a we need like an
outtake version of this that’s on like
golf pass or something where we’re you
know it’s like the behind the scenes
stuff that we would care about yeah and
and I mean they’re just so they’re
Brothers they swing it so differently
like I think that whole thing is
fascinating to me like um anyway we got
to talk about the Masters man we gotta
yeah I’m I’m ready I’m ready to give you
your give you your your flowers
your my master my master knowled yeah
you can just before we get to that just
before we go fully to the Masters we get
to do a little housekeeping here
where’re we’re many weeks behind on this
um and we can fly through it but we
haven’t updated the title sponsor
Challenge in a while I’m I’m ready yeah
okay so we’re going back a few weeks um
I think it was called the Texas
Children’s Houston open do you know what
Texas Children’s does yeah it’s got
Hospital got to be like a
hospital I’m not even going to check
that one so that’s an easy one how about
valpar
Valar this is one of the easier ones on
tour not like a John John Deere but uh
or an AT&T PR but I don’t know is it
like Valero is the next one and that’s
like GA that’s oil and gas is Valspar
also oil and
gas I would say it’s oh no no wait stop
stop stop stop is valbar paint yes let’s
go isn’t the isn’t the trophy like a
paint bucket or something D you’re
asking me I have I don’t know this
you’re like yeah what do you mean it’s
the the Hero World Challenge it’s all
the motorcycles I’m like have never
noticed that well they have the
motorcycles in every T box sure uh
that’s why I had that reaction to that
one but there’s so you got three out of
four uh no you got most of all them but
there’s one we missed um and maybe this
is too soon but there’s one tournament
we miss do you know what Arnold Palmer
does ice tea it’s half iced tea half
lemonade I guess so
yeah um I I played with a guy that knew
him once and their take was Arnold
Palmer does anything that can walk so
we’ll move on from that all right
so we’re caught up you you don’t hear
that you hear the Tiger on that a lot
listen my guys listen to my guys on the
shotgun start and you know they’re more
enlightened like I I’ll see a golf
course and think it looks amazing and
they’re like this is the worst golf
course you could ever play yeah in the
world and they’re and so anyway Andy was
saying that uh wherever they played what
was last week Texas Children’s um yeah
yep Houston that Houston course is like
a public course and it’s very accessible
and so that that part of it is that part
of it is pretty cool but anyway shrink
shrink the game let’s talk about Augusta
do who’s the the title sponsor here is
it’s usually Mercedes Rolex and AT&T I
think so we know what they do I would be
this is this is like the tournament
though like tell me like if you’re like
how nervous would you be about you know
not just playing in this tour but if
you’re like if you’re some amateur or
someone who got in randomly you know
deep deep in the world rankings you got
in here somehow you got an invite like
this is the one place that like you show
up like if you you know you walk into
the wrong room at the Valero Texas open
you’re like okay oops my bad where’s the
bathroom right yeah this place I feel
like I would just be on edge from like
the minute I got
there so I’ve been uh for practice round
years ago uh it is it’s that Vibe
everywhere you’re like you feel like
you’re you’re in uh did you feel that as
a patr like as a as a patron yeah well
not as a player definitely as a patron
uh you feel it every like just lining up
to we got we got there so early it was
like as the gates open up and you get
there so early and there’s constantly
people reminding you like there’s no
running there’s but it’s almost like a
self-governing thing like the the mood
is
so uh principal principal’s office I
mean it’s beautiful but it’s very button
up and you kind of know that going into
it uh people don’t really um push the
limits uh speaking of shotgun start I
was listening this morning they had an
anecdote from the
anoa uh did you I don’t know if you
heard this but the the girl who won um
what was her name lah
W apparently before she made her putt on
18 a security guard came up behind her
father and whispered in his ear this
isn’t the US Open there’s no yelling
here right before his daughter’s about
to win the enma so they were they were
they were debating like is this a
master’s thing or or like I guess a
national thing or is this a rogue
security guard and we’ve all been
through uh if you win you’re supposed to
be like and your daughter how is that
even true so so whoever wins the Masters
no one’s yelling that’s that get out of
here well that’s what they were saying
they’re like you think uh Charlie was
yelling when his dad won in 2019 yeah
anyway
uh gust is one of these places like
they can have as many rules as they want
I don’t care like that place is so cool
that’s fine um and as someone who’s been
there Dave they don’t a lot of people
don’t know this uh TV doesn’t really do
justice to the chorus of how flat it is
oh really I’ve haven’t heard that it’s
like Florida it’s flat I’ve never heard
that yeah completely
flat um no so yeah it’s a it’s a your
boy can’t can’t make it a round and a
half there because it’s like walking
Everest exactly exactly um so you said
right before we got in here you had some
picks you were jotting
down uh do you want you want you want to
do some picks you want to get into some
I got some guys I think might be
contenders and then some long shot guys
but and just just let be known let it be
known I’m coming for your ass uh with
all this golf course stuff I’ll be at
the Masters not sure when I but I’ll be
there like this is this you know first I
had once once I got now I got now that
I’ve been to Pinehurst the whole
everything’s open where where my gonna
go I’m goingon to go to um uh Pine
Valley
seol you’re Pine Valley Augusta is it
because I’m Jewish uh there you know no
no one no one can get into Pine Valley
not even JJ reck so I’m coming Pine
Valley is the harder than Augusta to get
on put I know four I know four people
that have played Augusta National I
don’t know a single person that’s played
Pine Valley yeah that’s pretty nuts that
that’s pretty wild I did like that Bob
Craft uh Edelman story you sent clip you
sent me anyway I’m GNA so so for picks I
decided to go with um not who I think is
going to win smart I decided to pick
three I got four picks I got four picks
and these are Dave’s who I want to win
The Masters okay are you okay with that
okay who you want I like this yeah yeah
this is who I want who do I think is GNA
win Scotty
Sheffer uh I would love to see I would
love to see a ROM Rory Brook like I just
want to see a stack like I want that
happen is is that a pick are those your
picks that’s not a pick no this is just
commentary this is color commentary this
is Kyle Porter you know here’s my here’s
my thing who I want to win now this is
not in a particular order um number one
uh who I want to win um he hits the ball
very far uh he’s very smart he may have
gotten himself in a little bit of a
pickle with the golf ball video uh two
weeks ago U number one on my list of who
I want to see win the Masters is Bryson
D
Shambo uh I like it plus 3500 if you
like those odds uh can we pause just for
a second and just I’ll give you the
floor just a minute to talk about that
video you didn’t even have to watch it
to to get it but go for it okay so so
the the I’ll talk about the video um
let’s what the video If people didn’t
know what the video is so brys Bryson
has a video on his YouTube channel where
he played with a roll back a a rolled
back ball uh apparently it was like a
Nike it was like a older n was it Nike
ball or something like that I think so
yeah okay and um basically what happens
is the ball just kind of you know floats
on him and so he hits like a big hook
and he says oh I hit that a little bit
off the heel and if that was my ball it
probably wouldn’t have gone here and
everybody made a big deal about it
because everyone’s like Bryson
unintentionally just advocated for the
roll back now I understand that but I
also think he he’s not he’s not D
everybody likes to paint him they like
to chit on Bryson but like he’s very
smart he he knows about that what he’s
saying is he doesn’t want to play with
that ball he wants to play with the new
technology and so I under I understand
that I like I think I think that’s what
he was that’s what he’s trying to show
he was trying to show like there is a
big difference like this is how the game
is now this is the ball that we use
yeah yeah he’s one of those guys I think
you just people are are they have their
finger at all times on the dunk button
you know what I mean like and any time
they can smell it they’re like we’re
going to dunk on brys and that I mean
look a lot of these guys created their
own world with that stuff um but did
golfers are you know we’ve golfers are
the worst and there’s always been that
kid since you were playing in eth grade
and you got that kid with the collared
shirt you know buttoned all the way to
the top and iron covers in your group
and you’re like man what is this and
that’s how people feel about every every
shaft the same length we we’ve all
played all right so Bryson is number one
on that list would love to see him win
uh I love love him see I would say he’s
probably the funniest pick thank you I
think it would be hilarious to see him
like have to just like he’s in the club
now right I think he tried to like film
a YouTube video at the Champions dinner
and it’d be great he should be there
someone would get pissed off yeah he
should be there um number two on my list
uh not not really funny one just a
somebody that I like and I enjoy and
he’s grown on me a lot it’s Max hom I’d
love to see Max be in the mix uh at a
major which is something I don’t think
we’ve seen Max is plus
4,000 uh you know I’m just giving you
the odds you’re going to what does it
say I don’t read the numbers to me I
don’t think it’s 4,000 but is it 400 Z
yeah that’s uh 40 to1 they call it plus
4,000 that’s what I call it 40 it’s 40
40 to1 odds I don’t know so Brighton is
35 to1 Max is 40 to one yep and those
are crazy odds for for anyone that’s you
know a former major Champion so good
good so Bryson is a former major
championship Max is not uh number three
on my list is Cam
young Cam young should be invol you’re
gonna do it why not do it there if
you’re gonna do it it just feels like on
it feels like a good one for him oh oh
real quick I meant to do this off the
top with you this has to do with him
let’s do a quick four-person draft right
now I’ll give you I’ll give you the
first and last pick you tell me what
pick you want okay but we’re going to
draft what I think are the four four
best players that have never won okay so
we’ll have two each and whoever wins
first this is a this is going to be a
long a longterm thing so we got I got is
I’m going to call I’m gonna put Denny in
there just because of yesterday maybe
he’s not you could argue with who the
four should be but we’ll put Denny in
there all right Bo
hostler B Hustler there’s a great
article a few uh weeks ago or months ago
on I think it was golf.com there’s like
16 guys ever that have made 10 million
on tour no wins he’s one of them our boy
money wow Brendon D Young’s on that list
too um anyway so we got uh he didn’t win
never won not on the PGA
tour um Denny bo bo uh Hustler cam young
and Tommy
Fleetwood I’ll give you the first pick
who do you want
there now is this like who is most
likely to to win or just whoever wins
the F their first tournament first wins
just a four person pod thing a four a
four a foresome pod here who we dra okay
I’m gonna take cam I’m gonna take cam I
can tell you who’s not gonna be it’s
never going to be it’s not going to be
Tommy Fleetwood I just feel like he
really just yeah just to have that like
it just he feels like that like European
stud but like wait a second Tommy he he
never he never want like oh my go but
those are the guys that win like I can
see him at like 32 winning the open you
know what I mean like Tommy I’ll say it
right now Tommy was going to win the
open at some point no way uh maybe yeah
like he’s 40 and it’s like this huge
huge historic like can you like a Shane
a Shane Lowry kind of situation I know
he won like basically in his hometown
that open but uh these journeyman guys
who like they grow up playing in like
terrible European weather at some point
run into a victory whether it’s Shane
low whether it’s uh what’s his name God
remember his name Darren Clark all those
years ago like he never had anything and
then ran into one towards you that was a
major but um okay I’m going to take
Fleetwood and I’ll take bow so you got
and Denny I got I got Bo and uh Tommy
all right sorry to let’s get back to
your M just want to be on the Bryson so
Bryson 35 to1 Max 40 to1 cam young 40
to1 and you want to talk about a
guy I don’t know nothing about gambling
I don’t know the
course how do they got my number four on
my list is my man Phil
Mickelson 10,000 plus 10,000 said is is
that 100 to one how many zeros 10 it
it’s 10 it’s the number 10,000 I think
he said 10 zeros I was like we could get
some money together and put in that him
and tiger him and tiger it’s a one with
four zeros this guy they tied tiger and
Phil had the same odds that’s the Phil
finished second or third last year right
he finished second I mean he saw C video
just saw jenko’s boy you saw the caddy
video you sent me that guy’s got the
best green reader he’s the best green
reader on planet Earth on his back tell
that real quick cuz we got jenko working
on on that now uh so Phil gets a new
caddy this you know his brother Tim was
his caddy gets a new caddy this guy John
SC John yarboro something like that
jenko messages me he’s like you won’t
believe this and the more that I’ve
gotten to know this guy he’s like an
onion where like he’s his like first
cousin is Lindsay Lohan it’s like he’s
just insane jko your golf coach yeah
yeah it’s insane it’s he’s just like a
he’s a character and the more layers you
go with him you’re like wait what and
he’s like yeah I got so many things I
haven’t told you yet either and so he’s
like yeah I was so I played golf with
this guy he was a good buddy of mine in
high school he was a senior I was a
sophomore he used to give me rides and I
feel like we’ve all had that
relationship with somebody and so he’s
like yeah I messaged him you know he
said oh thank you blah blah blah that
you send me this video and Phil sends
this video of like you know John yo is
the best green reader I’ve ever worked
with and he’s like he’s out there doing
aim point and Phil’s like come in here
is this such a good video he like come
in here real quick what do you think
what do you think so like here Phil
makes a 30 footer boom next clip is like
you know John’s out there doing aim
Point again he’s like you like it right
here yeah right the flag Phil makes
another part boom it was like the best
one minute Instagram video I’ve ever
seen and so Phil at 100 to one with
Johnny Johnny y on the bag and ajango
connection I’m I’m saying I I guarantee
a top clip this for next week guaranteed
top 10 finish for Phil in the Masters
this week book it plus a Bryson win we
got those guys it’s going to be a live a
live Centric top 10 that’s all I can say
well if you if you let me give you those
odds it’s going you might want to Vamp
for a second because it’s going to take
me a little while to scroll down for
five minutes to find Phil at the bottom
of this list but uh I’m just and I’m
just un want to find do you have his top
10 odds there oh here we go uh top 10
you’re asking the guy who cited him as I
cited my first guy as plus 4,000 you’re
asking me if I have the top 10 odds fire
up this the star link and give me his
odds
um no I like it um
I mean that would be if Phil Mickelson
won the Masters this week that would be
tiger uh and like 86 Jack on steroids
right yeah be because he he he’s
struggling to get top 50 in a 64 team uh
league and live so do it doesn’t matter
he’s GNA turn around uh I’ll get I’m
I’ll give you one what one one last pick
and then I’ll shut up and I’d like to
hear your your thoughts for this my last
my last thing is like the um the number
one the number one player who I do not
want to see win this week like I do not
I do not need a Windam Clark Masters win
like if someone if Windam wins the
Masters like that’s not what I’m looking
that’s not what I’m here for this
weekend that’s all no disrespect to wam
he’s a great player I just feel like
that’s like a it feels to me like a Lou
usasan being in the mix like a just one
of what’s wrong with Lou Louie Louis is
one of my alltime favorites Lou is great
he had a he had a great run like two
years ago go it’s just one of those
names like I just want when it’s a major
I want to look at the leaderboard and I
want to see the guys there like it’s
like seeing Brian Haron up by six shots
on Sunday you’re like so anyway all
right what do you got it uh real quick
I’ve been saying this a lot recently
there’s no player I’ve done a 180 on
more in the last probably year or really
ever in my golf fandom uh them wind him
and it wasn’t even that Netflix episode
it’s because he meditates
no I the best part about that Netflix uh
his episode is it’s mostly centered
around him working with um kind of like
a mental coach this woman who helps him
kind of stay yeah it’s like he had a a
lot of anger issues uh when that came
out now tell me tell me what tell me
what you think was that was that really
a bad
shot uh the week that came out that that
weekend I forget what tournament it was
but like the first clip I saw him was
like hitting one in the water and just
like I love that just completely
snapping I love it like in fairness that
that episode was filmed the year ago so
maybe things have gone backwards but uh
his odds are are just crazy high for who
is I think arguably the second best
player in the world in the last 12
months right who’s been better than him
other than Scotty in the last year going
back to last year’s Augusta uh and his
what were his odds he was on my list
um he was 30 to1 I mean come on 30 to1
is is crazy give some context here I
think uh Purdue we’re filming this
Monday morning Purdue is plus
220 against Yukon tonight and they’re a
huge
Underdog so is
that two to one that’s two that’s
roughly two yeah a little more than two
to one tonight so like 100 would win two
whatever two and change we’re talking
about 30 to 30 one for the second best
player in the world right now he’s I
don’t know if he’s played I gu I don’t
think so right he was one of the guys
that said he wouldn’t play until he
could qualify um Scotty’s four to one so
like think of those odds is
Scotty uh almost you know eight nine
times more likely to win than wind maybe
but it’s almost so it’s like I
appreciate how good Scott like just to
think like think about how good Rory is
a golf right how much pressure to feel
like if you’re Rory going into this this
Mass
or even Scotty I guess Scotty Doesn’t
Have Scotty has less to lose than Rory
Rory’s never won the Masters but just
like to be that good and everyone
expects you to win The Masters has got
to be just it’s an insane feeling well
he’s the hardest kind of guy to to beat
because he really doesn’t make mistakes
so it’s just he’s gonna party to death
and then if he gets hot on the putter
he’s like that’s the thing with Scotty
like he he’s not the greatest putter but
he just doesn’t make big numbers so he
doesn’t need to make a ton of birdies
because he’s going to be so close that
he’s gonna make x amount of 10f Footers
that he needs to make around a weekend a
week and that’s the thing it’s like it’s
so hard for these guys we always talk
about like oh Roy’s never won the
Masters like you have to outplay not
just yourself but like everyone’s best
week like OE or Denny McCarthy shooting
a
32 or sorry what you shoot a 28
yesterday on the back nine like you
never know when that’s going to happen
so you just got to take the odds when
you got the value when you get them so I
got I wrote down a bunch of people uh
Rory I’m going to bet Rory every single
year in the Masters till he gets one um
it’s just my pledge so 10 to
one I hope he’s I think he’s playing
well he came in third this week uh to me
it doesn’t matter if you’re playing well
heading into Augusta because many people
play three great rounds here and they’re
playing well and then they blow up on
Sunday so it’s really about yeah well
just like how do you how do you get on
the first te and you know the key to
playing Great Golf is having no
expectations and how do you just get on
how does Rory get on the first te and
he’s like you know what [ __ ] it like it
just how hard is that to do right I know
we keep bringing this up but like he’s
talked about it for a year now to tell
you how important is to him is he’s like
I can’t look at the scoreboard if I have
an afternoon tea time at the Masters
like I can’t look at the scoreboard when
I’m off the first te and see oh [ __ ] I’m
six back then you make a bogey in your
first few holes like now I’m seven like
you can you can’t you can’t do that in
golf because it’s such a long ride and
if you scoreboard watch you’re going to
be just killing yourself all week so I
think it’s for him it’s like just
playing in the moment so he never plays
the Rory never plays the week before uh
the Masters too and he played this week
so U maybe he’s uh this could be his
year uh had a wild week in Texas but uh
did you watch or see any of the coverage
from the spe experiment this week the
spe experiment no just like him playing
was it not what he did at at oh he oh
like his opening round you know the
speed score card where it’s just like
looks like your daughter was drawing on
it like it’s zero Parts he make he makes
a million birdies and a bunch of doubles
and bu I think he had an eight and a one
back to back or something or he had he
had an ECE and a triple or something uh
do yourself a favor after this take a
look at the relief he got yesterday he
hit the clubhouse on purpose to get
specific relief uh like went like 250
yards out of the way just to hit the
roof of a clubhouse just so he could get
relief which is I wouldn’t call it the
spirit of the game but uh he’s driving
the ball well and he’s and he he was so
up and down he still finished top 10
he’s on my list this week he’s uh 20 to1
I think that’s those are pretty good
numbers Hideki matama is playing really
well too he won earlier this year he’s
kind of been in contention um or at
least top 10 a lot of the the
tournaments coming down the stretch here
I mentioned wind him at 30 to1 another
guy 30 to1 I like leig did you see the
clip this week of him driving the green
without a driver the driver
head I did um that’s pretty cool it
didn’t break it just flew off so I’m
like a little bit like it’s possible but
I did watch a video with him I did watch
a me me and my golf which is a great
YouTube channel these guys just kind of
do golf instruction they did a segment
with him on driver and he just like
effortlessly it made you real I think I
think in my world I hit the ball pretty
far like I can carry at
280 uh which is pretty cool he gets out
of there no warmup and this first drive
of the day he carried at 310 and I’m
like oh my God like his drive his driver
is just so insane and I think he’s a
great fit for for for Augusta so I I
love I love ludvig I wish he was like a
wild person like a want to like him more
because I wish he was like a wild
personality it’s like why I love why I
love Bryson he’s so long and he’s wild
and he just has a great personality with
lvic I’m like H he’s kind Scotty
personality but I think you might just
be making the case for him right cuz you
need I think you need a kind of guy that
has no like pulse good for For Better or
Worse right like if he’s what is he 22
23 like if he is the lead on Sunday you
want a guy that looks like he you know
has a resting heart rate whatever like I
don’t think of like’s never won think of
guys that are like manic on the golf
course like spe won but I don’t think
spe’s won since he’s become this
whatever version of speed’s been the
last what seven or eight years where
he’s just kind of just a wild golfer out
there and and is all over the place um
but a lot of the guys I think are just
those kind of rock solid guys like
Scotty’s the perfect example of
that uh who else do I have real quick uh
Willie Z zorus like one of the best uh
stroke scin Strokes gained record at
Augusta not a ton of rounds but um he’s
played well recently a few times uh
Russell Henley playing well just one of
those random guys you’re like oh [ __ ] I
didn’t bet on Russell Henley um I bet
he’ll be
contention and I’ll give you one I’ll
give you two long shots here Eric Van
royan either first round leader or
winner at 250 to one EVR or or as you
would say 25,000 to one and Ryan Fox
same out odds 250 to one his father was
a I like those alltime New Zealand rugby
player um those are my those are my
picks for the week uh and I will always
be rooting for Tiger
um and just to jump on your bandwagon my
least valuable person I don’t want to
see win uh Sergio would probably be top
of that list always yeah not even close
not even no chance he makes the cut
Sergio all right I’m excited I’m excited
to watch some golf I will watch the golf
this weekend I promise you that um how
many days you think good luck to Bryson
um definitely
Sunday definitely Sunday afternoon like
Sunday definitely I’ll probably watch a
BN a bunch of it on Thursday afternoon
Friday afternoon Saturday’s the day that
I TBD but I’m excited um I got a real
quick I know we’re going I get one inob
B for you all right if you get the time
we can close on this let’s do it um this
came out of a quote this weekend I
saw um from John ROM now of the Liv tour
formerly PGA he said uh just I’ll put it
this way inob B professional golf events
uh doing 72 holes for a tournament are
you in in aobi on that
because JN is in on that now I didn’t I
don’t I know he knew going to live that
they did 54 but he’s been he’s been
talking a lot about this but he came out
yesterday and said I don’t know if I’m
alone in this but I definitely wouldn’t
mind going back to 72
holes yeah it’s great I appreciate the
honesty he got the bag and he still can
critique the format I think that’s
fantastic he might lose a leg they might
come for a leg or something they might
cut off his Club you know they might cut
off his you know you got to be careful
out there but um yeah I think you’re
right uh I’ve never had any success in
any tournament really so I don’t have
any um I can’t have any I don’t have any
personal anecdotes to that I I can get
hot for like a round usually I’ll shoot
81 81 then I’ll shoot 73 it never
happens the the other way um but I’m an
advocate of that I think it all doesn’t
matter I think a year from now there’s
going to be one golf tour and it’s going
to be four rounds and we’ll back to
normal I I was with you for a while now
if I’m the tour I’m like let’s just wait
these guys out because they these people
do not want to be on in the golf
operations business the players don’t
seemingly want to be on the tour uh all
they complain about is that they’re not
getting into Majors which they knew
going into this leaving the tour if I’m
the tour I’d be like if we wait a year
and just don’t give in anything like is
that is some are these guys just going
to leave or just pretty pretty wild I
mean he he if you were yaser you’ve
shelled out how many billions of dollars
for all this not that they care and you
hear your the guy you just gave what
like 500 million to says if there’s ever
a way Liv could go to 72 holes I think
it would help uh help this argument a
lot the closer I think we can get live
golf to some other things meaning PGA
Tour the better is that what you want to
hear after you just give a guy a half
billion dollars like three months
ago just ridiculous I’m I’m I’m by the
way I’m in on uh 72 holes for golf
tournament put a bow on that and John is
too so happy to have
John
oh you unplug your
headphones I just was saying Bryson come
on the Pod sorry what were you gonna do
well the karma Gods unplugged shot the
headphones right out of that yeah Bryson
come on the Pod and uh good luck to
everyone this week with uh Master stuff
my wife said to me yesterday do you want
to host a master’s party on Sunday I
said that’s fine everyone just has to
leave by like 1:00 before it starts hey
you’re you got a you got a little you
got a little golf date you’re going to
hit some go to the simulator have a beer
that’s Thursday the golf all right all
right all right good luck good luck
everyone Masters um Good Luck uh
everyone else in Rory come on the pop
he’s talking the long game they played
the long
game they got to play the long
game experi and they play the long
G you’re talking the long game that much
control they experien and they played
the long game
