April 14, 2025 • 12 mins
Added to the drama of the moment, the PGA beats out NBA’s regular season finale.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Here we go into our number two of the program.
Thank you for making us part of your day. We've
got some nil news to get to coming up in
about a half an hour. We'll recap the Spur season.
We've got the playoff matches somewhat set except for those
who will play one and two in the play in games.
And we have one of the most epic Masters that
(00:25):
we've ever seen yesterday, with all kinds of drama. There
are people that are calling it the best ever. They're
comparing it to the nineteen eighty six Jack Nicholas come
from behind a win which was not expected at all,
but even more so not expected was Tigers in twenty nineteen.
But this is the best that you get the Masters.
I said this on Facebook last night. The Masters never
(00:49):
ever gets old. It never has a bad tournament. Sometimes
it out does itself, and yesterday it did. This morning,
I was listening to something rich Lerner, the host of
Golf Channel, in their Life from coverage. He said, yesterday
was full of more oh my gods and are you
kidding Mese than any event in the world. And I
(01:11):
would only second that by saying there were only oh
my gods and are you kidding mes with other expletives
laced into that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, that was only what was allowed to be on
TV exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And so the first one was when Roy makes double
at one and then all of a sudden he and
the Chambeau are tied, and then Roy loses the lead,
only to come back and get some birdies and take
the lead, and now he's got a four shot lead
after eleven. Hits it in the safe part of the
green on twelve, and he gets on thirteen and does
two shots perfectly, and then somehow hits the ball in
(01:47):
the creek, and then bogie's the next hole, and then
it hits the shot of the tournament on fifteen, makes
a good swing at sixteen, it misses the putt, makes
a better swing at seventeen and makes the putt and
then blocks it dead right in the bucker on eighteen.
You can't write this stuff, folks, It just you just can't.
You cannot script this. This is the best reality TV
that there is, So wherever it ranks, you can put
(02:08):
up wherever you want. It's one of the top ten
golf tournaments I've ever watched. It's probably one of the
top two or three masters i've ever watched cares. The
funny thing too, is because you talked about it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know what, the the NBA did a bad job
at scheduling games during Master Sunday is I was flipping
channels and then happened to catch I think it was
on ABC, but the Bucks were playing I don't know
who they were playing, and one of the sideline reporters
sitting there talking to Doc most overrated coach ever, it
was like, I don't even care about the game. He's like,
(02:38):
I just heard my boy Rory's doing well. He's like,
let's go Rory. And then they're like, yeah, he just
double bogie. He's he's now behind. So but but that
just goes to show you an NBA coach is not worried.
Granted as the last game of the season, it didn't
mean anything necessarily for them seating wise, but he's more
more concerned about, you know it, wants to know what
(03:00):
what's going on in the Master.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That goes back to the Tiger effect, because what Tiger
did is he made every athlete out there want to
go try golf. And I remember back when Michael Finley
played with the Spurs, he was a regular at Locinara.
Vinnie del Negro was a regular at Lockittara. I can
remember watching Brian Gathrye give David Robinson golf lessons and
here's this guy, you know, seven to two, with golf
(03:22):
clubs that are two or three inches longer than everybody
else's and he I remember one of the best tips
because I was sitting that was three feet away from him,
just watching this lesson. And David had a tendency to
stand too tall and needed to get down in a
better stance, and so Brian would push him to see
if he could push him off balance, and because of
(03:44):
the way he was standing, he could kind of get
him to David was two sixty, so you're not going
to push him very far, but you could make him
his lower body move. He said, Pretend that you're guarding
a chem olajah wan. How would you stand? So David
gets into the defensive stance. He goes, So that's how
I want you to I want you to be. I
want you to think that when you get into your
(04:04):
golf posture. And so he made it cool for athletes
to want to do this. Steph Curry, John Smoltz. All
these guys wanted well, John Spoltz was earlier than that.
But all these guys started playing golf because they wanted
to see what it was like with Tiger. And I
can remember I think it was in the two thousand
(04:25):
and one Masters where Tiger completed the Grand Slam and
I was doing our Spurs pregame host that day, and
Jay Howard was interviewing Terry Porter. It was the last
game of the season, so I had Masters on one TV,
the game on the other, and one of the interviews,
I think it was the Star of the Game interview,
and Terry Porter said, by the way, who won the Masters.
(04:45):
I'm going to watch it anyway, but I want to know.
And so they went back to me and we told
the world again who won, and he goes, I can't
wait to go play. And so here's a guy that
when they were kids they never thought about golf, but
that they they all are inspired by what he has done.
And now it's carried over to the Rorys and the
(05:06):
Schefflers and all of that. The twelve point seven million
people watched the Masters yesterday. It's the second all time
Masters event. I think Tiger did thirteen point two in
twenty nineteen remember also in twenty nineteen when Tiger won
that Masters, they moved the tea times up and CBS
went on the air at eight o'clock in the morning
(05:27):
because they finished eight o'clock here nine o'clock. In Augusta,
they finished at one thirty and the storms were coming
in at three thirty three forty five, and they didn't
get to do the outdoor ceremony. Then they just did
the TV win because the storms were approaching and they
didn't have time to do it. But they got the
tournament in time because of course, Augusta knows precisely when
(05:48):
the weather's coming, of course, and they knew within about
twenty minutes when it was coming. Here's something else to
think about. The next person on the list that has
won all three majors is Jordan'speith, and obviously Phil has two.
But Phil fills a shadow of himself right now, and
I don't think he'll be much of a factor at Oakmont.
(06:09):
But Jordan Speith needs a PGA Championship to can't capture
the Grand Slam. I don't think Jordan's game is there
right now. I think he's getting closer. He's still a
great putter. A great pitcher and chipper of the of
the ball. But I think the wrist injury he's still
trying to battle back from and to have the confidence
it's going to take to hit the shots you need
to and all these everybody's long on the PGA Tour,
(06:34):
but these next these next two golf tournaments are going
to be won by somebody that can just rip it.
And the fact is is Deshambeau talks about ball speed
and all that, and Royatt drove him every hole yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Not everyone pretty much. There were a few were when
when Roy hit three would yeah, But when Roy hit driver,
he still hit it past Bryce. Yeah. I mean every
time I was sitting here watching Bryce and tee off
and you could just tell he it was I'm gonna
put as much power behind this. And just again, what
are the one one of the one sounds that is
(07:06):
just very pleasant to hear? Obviously the flush golf shut it.
Not only is just that that and then you hear it,
and then also the college baseball, you know, the but man,
every every swing that Bryson took though, I was just like, oh,
that sounds like it's going four hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, and it did, and and and then he had
the left going with the Irons yesterday, and he had
the same thing on Saturday, and again last night he
was at the Augusta Driving Range working on his game
for whatever the next live event is going to be
for him. Speaking of that, we're still no work near
in any kind of an agreement.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I'm I don't know what the genesis of this
is or if there's anything to read into it. But
in his post round conference yesterday, which was held out
by the big tree that's outside the the press area
I guess, or the flash area that they call it. Uh,
they ask about the interaction between the two, and Deshambo
very comfortably and very directly said he didn't speak to
(08:05):
me the whole day.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't know if he did that to send a message,
or if it's a live PGA tour thing, or if
there's animosity between the two, but apparently the way that
d Schambau said it, it seemed like he was not
happy with that pairing and that there is some kind
of bad blood between the two of them. I have
no idea if there is or there is it, but
here I when Deshambau went to the to the live tour.
(08:30):
I did not like him. I thought he was the
most smug guy on the tour. I thought he thought more,
he had more, he thought he knew more about things
than everybody else, and it just was not a good look.
What he's done the last year, being very honest and
very open about what he's doing his YouTube stuff. More
people are watching Bryson on YouTube than they're watching golf
(08:52):
in general. I don't have a problem with Bryson. Did
I want him to win yesterday? No, I wanted Roy
to win the Grand Slam. Bryson is younger, Bryson's got
a lot of a golf left in him, and I'm
sure he'll win multiple majors going forward. He may win
one of the next two because of the length of
the difficulty of those two golf courses. But yesterday was
Rory's day. And here's one of the things I thought of. Okay,
(09:14):
he doubles number number one, but then on number three
he hits it right, and he's got a gap that
he can hit the ball to, and he hits it
on the green. Then on number five he hits the
ball left, and he's got a gap that he can
hit the ball through and he knocks it and he
hits it on the green, and on that one Harry Diamond,
his caddy was trying to talk him out of it,
(09:36):
and Rory looked over at Dottie Pepper, who was doing
the encorese stuff for CBS, and gave the and gave
the nod. Here's something else I'm going to give Augusta
a big time applause. For for many, many years, Augusta
Nashville had a very very strict rule that there were
that any group, there were only five people that were
(09:56):
allowed inside the ropes, the players and their caddies, and
the walking referee. Because every group has a referee to
settle rules ideals. They don't have to have some guy
you know, flying in on a cart like they do
on the PGA tour and wait ten minutes. There's always
somebody there that can make a rules decision. And a
couple of years ago, I guess CBS asked of a
(10:17):
they can have Dottie Pepper inside the ropes what she
is now? And then one of the things you've never
ever ever seen before at a Masters is the behind
the swing the shot link tracer on non TA shots
and be able to do that you have to have
the camera, plus you have to have the shot link
tracer guy. So there's there's the camera operator and the
(10:41):
shot lian guy are standing right behind the player on
every shot from the fairway and sometimes they would take
a wide shot and you can actually see them in
the fairway on TV. And if you go back ten
or twelve years ago, Agusta would have never let you
do that, but they understand that you have to have
We want to see where the ball going. We don't
want to guess where it's going and wait for it
(11:03):
to land. When we see that shot tracer, we know
kind of the quadrant of the golf course it's going
to be on, or how good or bad of a
shot it's going to be. And so they've opened it
up a little bit. The next thing for Augusta to
do is to have wall to wall coverage. They don't.
They didn't start the coverage until the last groups were
teeing off on Saturday and Sunday. I want to in
(11:24):
Paramot got to come on and do the streaming from
eleven to one. I think Paramont should be on from
eight to ten and every shot of the tournament should
be on some kind of a device, whether it's streaming
or over the ARTV.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, I thought that it was that. Didn't they have
an app?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Rob Well, the Master's app gives you selected holes and
featured groups, but they don't show they's nott the full live.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Broadcast until one o'clock. Well or for paramount at eleven. Well,
you know what, Andy, that's why they're augusted. They just
they do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, guess what, everybody that gets a ticket to show
up and not care next exactly, and everybody gets media
credentialed will do the same thing. And whoever is going
to show up at Rory's dinner next year, we'll do
the same thing as well. By the way, what's Roy
going to serve for dinner next year?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
As long as this not blood putting in Haggett. I
don't know if that's an Ireland thing or an English thing.
I think that's more English than Irish. But I see,
I think he needs to at least embrace the stereotype
and have Guinness there.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm sure. I'm sure there was a lot of Guinness
support last night throughout the entire country of Ireland and
Northern Ireland for that matter. All Right, the Spurs. Rieka
wrapped up the season last yesterday afternoon, twelve games better
than last year, and they did it for most of
the last half of the season without Wimby and Fox.
We'll talk about that, the future of them, and a
few other things basketball related. Next on the Ticket,
Here we go into our number two of the program.
Thank you for making us part of your day. We've
got some nil news to get to coming up in
about a half an hour. We'll recap the Spur season.
We've got the playoff matches somewhat set except for those
who will play one and two in the play in games.
And we have one of the most epic Masters that
(00:25):
we've ever seen yesterday, with all kinds of drama. There
are people that are calling it the best ever. They're
comparing it to the nineteen eighty six Jack Nicholas come
from behind a win which was not expected at all,
but even more so not expected was Tigers in twenty nineteen.
But this is the best that you get the Masters.
I said this on Facebook last night. The Masters never
(00:49):
ever gets old. It never has a bad tournament. Sometimes
it out does itself, and yesterday it did. This morning,
I was listening to something rich Lerner, the host of
Golf Channel, in their Life from coverage. He said, yesterday
was full of more oh my gods and are you
kidding Mese than any event in the world. And I
(01:11):
would only second that by saying there were only oh
my gods and are you kidding mes with other expletives
laced into that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, that was only what was allowed to be on
TV exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And so the first one was when Roy makes double
at one and then all of a sudden he and
the Chambeau are tied, and then Roy loses the lead,
only to come back and get some birdies and take
the lead, and now he's got a four shot lead
after eleven. Hits it in the safe part of the
green on twelve, and he gets on thirteen and does
two shots perfectly, and then somehow hits the ball in
(01:47):
the creek, and then bogie's the next hole, and then
it hits the shot of the tournament on fifteen, makes
a good swing at sixteen, it misses the putt, makes
a better swing at seventeen and makes the putt and
then blocks it dead right in the bucker on eighteen.
You can't write this stuff, folks, It just you just can't.
You cannot script this. This is the best reality TV
that there is, So wherever it ranks, you can put
(02:08):
up wherever you want. It's one of the top ten
golf tournaments I've ever watched. It's probably one of the
top two or three masters i've ever watched cares. The
funny thing too, is because you talked about it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know what, the the NBA did a bad job
at scheduling games during Master Sunday is I was flipping
channels and then happened to catch I think it was
on ABC, but the Bucks were playing I don't know
who they were playing, and one of the sideline reporters
sitting there talking to Doc most overrated coach ever, it
was like, I don't even care about the game. He's like,
(02:38):
I just heard my boy Rory's doing well. He's like,
let's go Rory. And then they're like, yeah, he just
double bogie. He's he's now behind. So but but that
just goes to show you an NBA coach is not worried.
Granted as the last game of the season, it didn't
mean anything necessarily for them seating wise, but he's more
more concerned about, you know it, wants to know what
(03:00):
what's going on in the Master.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That goes back to the Tiger effect, because what Tiger
did is he made every athlete out there want to
go try golf. And I remember back when Michael Finley
played with the Spurs, he was a regular at Locinara.
Vinnie del Negro was a regular at Lockittara. I can
remember watching Brian Gathrye give David Robinson golf lessons and
here's this guy, you know, seven to two, with golf
(03:22):
clubs that are two or three inches longer than everybody
else's and he I remember one of the best tips
because I was sitting that was three feet away from him,
just watching this lesson. And David had a tendency to
stand too tall and needed to get down in a
better stance, and so Brian would push him to see
if he could push him off balance, and because of
(03:44):
the way he was standing, he could kind of get
him to David was two sixty, so you're not going
to push him very far, but you could make him
his lower body move. He said, Pretend that you're guarding
a chem olajah wan. How would you stand? So David
gets into the defensive stance. He goes, So that's how
I want you to I want you to be. I
want you to think that when you get into your
(04:04):
golf posture. And so he made it cool for athletes
to want to do this. Steph Curry, John Smoltz. All
these guys wanted well, John Spoltz was earlier than that.
But all these guys started playing golf because they wanted
to see what it was like with Tiger. And I
can remember I think it was in the two thousand
(04:25):
and one Masters where Tiger completed the Grand Slam and
I was doing our Spurs pregame host that day, and
Jay Howard was interviewing Terry Porter. It was the last
game of the season, so I had Masters on one TV,
the game on the other, and one of the interviews,
I think it was the Star of the Game interview,
and Terry Porter said, by the way, who won the Masters.
(04:45):
I'm going to watch it anyway, but I want to know.
And so they went back to me and we told
the world again who won, and he goes, I can't
wait to go play. And so here's a guy that
when they were kids they never thought about golf, but
that they they all are inspired by what he has done.
And now it's carried over to the Rorys and the
(05:06):
Schefflers and all of that. The twelve point seven million
people watched the Masters yesterday. It's the second all time
Masters event. I think Tiger did thirteen point two in
twenty nineteen remember also in twenty nineteen when Tiger won
that Masters, they moved the tea times up and CBS
went on the air at eight o'clock in the morning
(05:27):
because they finished eight o'clock here nine o'clock. In Augusta,
they finished at one thirty and the storms were coming
in at three thirty three forty five, and they didn't
get to do the outdoor ceremony. Then they just did
the TV win because the storms were approaching and they
didn't have time to do it. But they got the
tournament in time because of course, Augusta knows precisely when
(05:48):
the weather's coming, of course, and they knew within about
twenty minutes when it was coming. Here's something else to
think about. The next person on the list that has
won all three majors is Jordan'speith, and obviously Phil has two.
But Phil fills a shadow of himself right now, and
I don't think he'll be much of a factor at Oakmont.
(06:09):
But Jordan Speith needs a PGA Championship to can't capture
the Grand Slam. I don't think Jordan's game is there
right now. I think he's getting closer. He's still a
great putter. A great pitcher and chipper of the of
the ball. But I think the wrist injury he's still
trying to battle back from and to have the confidence
it's going to take to hit the shots you need
to and all these everybody's long on the PGA Tour,
(06:34):
but these next these next two golf tournaments are going
to be won by somebody that can just rip it.
And the fact is is Deshambeau talks about ball speed
and all that, and Royatt drove him every hole yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Not everyone pretty much. There were a few were when
when Roy hit three would yeah, But when Roy hit driver,
he still hit it past Bryce. Yeah. I mean every
time I was sitting here watching Bryce and tee off
and you could just tell he it was I'm gonna
put as much power behind this. And just again, what
are the one one of the one sounds that is
(07:06):
just very pleasant to hear? Obviously the flush golf shut it.
Not only is just that that and then you hear it,
and then also the college baseball, you know, the but man,
every every swing that Bryson took though, I was just like, oh,
that sounds like it's going four hundred yards.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, and it did, and and and then he had
the left going with the Irons yesterday, and he had
the same thing on Saturday, and again last night he
was at the Augusta Driving Range working on his game
for whatever the next live event is going to be
for him. Speaking of that, we're still no work near
in any kind of an agreement.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I'm I don't know what the genesis of this
is or if there's anything to read into it. But
in his post round conference yesterday, which was held out
by the big tree that's outside the the press area
I guess, or the flash area that they call it. Uh,
they ask about the interaction between the two, and Deshambo
very comfortably and very directly said he didn't speak to
(08:05):
me the whole day.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I don't know if he did that to send a message,
or if it's a live PGA tour thing, or if
there's animosity between the two, but apparently the way that
d Schambau said it, it seemed like he was not
happy with that pairing and that there is some kind
of bad blood between the two of them. I have
no idea if there is or there is it, but
here I when Deshambau went to the to the live tour.
(08:30):
I did not like him. I thought he was the
most smug guy on the tour. I thought he thought more,
he had more, he thought he knew more about things
than everybody else, and it just was not a good look.
What he's done the last year, being very honest and
very open about what he's doing his YouTube stuff. More
people are watching Bryson on YouTube than they're watching golf
(08:52):
in general. I don't have a problem with Bryson. Did
I want him to win yesterday? No, I wanted Roy
to win the Grand Slam. Bryson is younger, Bryson's got
a lot of a golf left in him, and I'm
sure he'll win multiple majors going forward. He may win
one of the next two because of the length of
the difficulty of those two golf courses. But yesterday was
Rory's day. And here's one of the things I thought of. Okay,
(09:14):
he doubles number number one, but then on number three
he hits it right, and he's got a gap that
he can hit the ball to, and he hits it
on the green. Then on number five he hits the
ball left, and he's got a gap that he can
hit the ball through and he knocks it and he
hits it on the green, and on that one Harry Diamond,
his caddy was trying to talk him out of it,
(09:36):
and Rory looked over at Dottie Pepper, who was doing
the encorese stuff for CBS, and gave the and gave
the nod. Here's something else I'm going to give Augusta
a big time applause. For for many, many years, Augusta
Nashville had a very very strict rule that there were
that any group, there were only five people that were
(09:56):
allowed inside the ropes, the players and their caddies, and
the walking referee. Because every group has a referee to
settle rules ideals. They don't have to have some guy
you know, flying in on a cart like they do
on the PGA tour and wait ten minutes. There's always
somebody there that can make a rules decision. And a
couple of years ago, I guess CBS asked of a
(10:17):
they can have Dottie Pepper inside the ropes what she
is now? And then one of the things you've never
ever ever seen before at a Masters is the behind
the swing the shot link tracer on non TA shots
and be able to do that you have to have
the camera, plus you have to have the shot link
tracer guy. So there's there's the camera operator and the
(10:41):
shot lian guy are standing right behind the player on
every shot from the fairway and sometimes they would take
a wide shot and you can actually see them in
the fairway on TV. And if you go back ten
or twelve years ago, Agusta would have never let you
do that, but they understand that you have to have
We want to see where the ball going. We don't
want to guess where it's going and wait for it
(11:03):
to land. When we see that shot tracer, we know
kind of the quadrant of the golf course it's going
to be on, or how good or bad of a
shot it's going to be. And so they've opened it
up a little bit. The next thing for Augusta to
do is to have wall to wall coverage. They don't.
They didn't start the coverage until the last groups were
teeing off on Saturday and Sunday. I want to in
(11:24):
Paramot got to come on and do the streaming from
eleven to one. I think Paramont should be on from
eight to ten and every shot of the tournament should
be on some kind of a device, whether it's streaming
or over the ARTV.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, I thought that it was that. Didn't they have
an app?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Rob Well, the Master's app gives you selected holes and
featured groups, but they don't show they's nott the full live.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Broadcast until one o'clock. Well or for paramount at eleven. Well,
you know what, Andy, that's why they're augusted. They just
they do whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, guess what, everybody that gets a ticket to show
up and not care next exactly, and everybody gets media
credentialed will do the same thing. And whoever is going
to show up at Rory's dinner next year, we'll do
the same thing as well. By the way, what's Roy
going to serve for dinner next year?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
As long as this not blood putting in Haggett. I
don't know if that's an Ireland thing or an English thing.
I think that's more English than Irish. But I see,
I think he needs to at least embrace the stereotype
and have Guinness there.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm sure. I'm sure there was a lot of Guinness
support last night throughout the entire country of Ireland and
Northern Ireland for that matter. All Right, the Spurs. Rieka
wrapped up the season last yesterday afternoon, twelve games better
than last year, and they did it for most of
the last half of the season without Wimby and Fox.
We'll talk about that, the future of them, and a
few other things basketball related. Next on the Ticket,
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.