Pull Hook Golf's 2025 Masters Special

In this episode, we kick off with the 2025 Masters Special and a shoutout to Devereux Golf. Matt Cook discusses his chipping yips and Buttsy's Masters traditions. We explore Tiger Woods' absence and rumors, announce a live event at Goldwater Brewery, and highlight top Masters moments. A recap of Tiger's 2019 win and Spieth's performances leads to an Augusta National course breakdown. We cover 2025 Masters betting odds, player picks, and a TGL vs. LIV Golf prediction. Discussions include Jon Rahm, Buttsy's new look, Phil Mickelson, Will Zalatoris' potential, and left-handed players at Augusta. We wrap up with sponsor shoutouts and upcoming events.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome back everybody to Pull Hook Golf, thepodcast.
I'm your host, Matt Cook.
Tonight, we've got Buttsy with us and we've gotthe 2025 Masters special presented by Pull Hook
Golf and we can't wait to dive in tonightbecause yes, folks, it is only about the
Masters tonight.

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This is the one episode throughout the yearthat we don't do recaps.
We don't talk about anything else other thanthe 2025 Masters Tournament.
But before we do start this episode and getinto everything, we do want to give a shout out
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Now I also want to give a shout out.
If you are an audience member, you have heardme say multiple times on this show that I am
dealing with the chipping yips.
Folks, I gotta give a shout out to our guy,Truck Golfer.
I actually—he is a real person, by the way.
I went out to see him.

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And he is real.
I got to meet him in person and my God, withinabout ten minutes, he absolutely not only
diagnosed what was going on.
I was basically dragging the handle throughholding on instead of giving it a little bit of
a release and keeping it connected to the bodythroughout the chipping form.

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And my God, did I start chipping it?
Absolutely beautiful.
So once again, wanna give a shout out to TruckGolfer for absolutely fixing my yipping issues.
Now I gotta put in the practice folks, and Igotta get that stroke right back in form.
But man, things are starting to look up andlook good golf game wise and, you know, Buttsy.

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I'm trying to catch up to Buttsy right nowbecause this guy, he is absolutely on fire.
He's obviously in the back doing something.
I don't know whether he's taking a Five HourEnergy or what he's doing back there.
He's ready to go, and my goodness gracious.
So yeah, I just had to give that shout-out toTruck, give him that little shout-out, buddy.

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Thank you so much for doing that for me andtaking a look.
And once again, he is a real person.
So that is absolutely awesome.
Now, like we do with almost all of ourepisodes, we've got the tee-off report with
Buttsy, which tonight is the Masters reportwith Buttsy.
Fuck.
I forgot about this.

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Here we go.
You ready?
You ready for it?
Because
Don't hold it against me.
People, there's a lot of traditions that go onwith the Masters.
And a lot of people do the same thing year inand year out.
Sometimes they go, they buy that food packagefrom the Masters.
I don't know if you've seen that, to where thepimento cheese sandwiches come and you get all
the spreads and everything, and you get somedrink recipes.

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But not saying that we did that, but I do wantto know, Buttsy, what's your favorite thing to
do during the Masters?
Drink.
Drink.
That
was the fastest reply for a report with Buttsythat I have ever seen, the Masters report.
You were obviously super excited about that.

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Drink.
That's yeah.
Drink.
Drink some more.
Not not till it starts, probably more towardsthe weekend because I, you know, do have some
responsibility during the week.
But, yeah, fucking absolutely just slug someadult sodas.
Fridge is full of pimento cheese and egg salad.

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So just really, like, cosplaying this wholefucking thing, like, pretending that you're
there.
Yeah.
A lot of drinking though, for sure.
A lot of drinking.
Get into the flow state without necessarilybeing on the golf course.
So you like to listen to Jim Nantz is what I'mtaking and
Absolutely.
Get into that flow state?

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Mhmm.
But yep.
Play the little the little piano music onrepeat, all throughout the house, in my car,
wherever I'm at, and just really just soak themoment up and get dialed in.
Maybe cry for five or 10 minutes becauseTiger's not there, and that makes it tough, but

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we're we're gonna have a good one this year Ithink.
I think it's gonna be fucking nice.
Achilles with Tiger.
Now, a lot of people are saying that theAchilles is a fake deal.
That he's just in love, doesn't wanna have toplay the Masters.
What's your take there?
Put on your tin cap for a second.
There is no fucking chance in hell that Tigerdoesn't wanna play in the fucking Masters.

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Are you kidding me?
Like, maybe if he's not ready.
If the game's not ready, I could see, you know,falling on that crutch a lot easier than just
saying, I just don't think I'm good enoughright now.
But if he's in shape and he could play, hewants yeah.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
He's gonna play the Masters.
Like, that's his event.
They should name it the Tiger Masters.

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The Tiger Masters.
It is something.
They call it the Tiger Roars when all of asudden something happens with Tiger and the
roars start going throughout Augusta National.
Now, I've never actually, I've been there oneyear when Tiger, I believe, was playing in the
Masters.
Was there three years, which over here to myleft.

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Oh, look at that one.
It's nice little, well, we'll get to the fullscreen here in a minute where you will be able
to see what I've got here with the littleAugusta National Masters flag signed by Jordan
Spieth in 2015.
So I was there in 2014, '15, and '16.
I wanna say Tiger played in '16 because I sawhim.

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Lindsey Vonn was his girlfriend at the time,and I was walking right next to Lindsey Vonn
out there going back to 2016.
And sure enough, Tiger didn't play thegreatest, but there is such a thing as a Tiger
roar when all of a sudden Tiger does somethingwell out there at Augusta National and you just
hear it through the trees, and it's a prettycool scene to see.

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But that being said, you like drinking duringthe Masters.
Have you ever gone to a bar and done like aMasters viewing party or anything like that?
No.
I haven't.
I understand we might have something like thatcoming up.
So Saturday's
Yeah.

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Dude, get into that.
Yeah.
Saturday's gonna be special.
Buttsy and myself, this is going to be thefirst time that we are doing a companion
podcast live Saturday at Goldwater Brewery forthe Devro golf event.
DriveBox is gonna be out there.
If you are here locally in Arizona, it is thespot to be.

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It is gonna be going on from noon all the waytill 7 p.m.
at Goldwater Brewery in Old Town Scottsdale.
Buttsy and I are going to be there doing a livestream broadcast.
So if you're not able to make it or you're notin the state, you can absolutely tune in just
like you are now whether it be on YouTube,millions.com or Rumble.

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We're gonna be across all of them doing a livecompanion to the podcast.
So you can mute your TV folks.
You know, it hurts my soul to say, go ahead andmute Jim Nantz.
But if you want our commentary throughout andit's gonna be something to where we're excited
about it, we're gonna be having a couplebrewskis over there at the brewery, and we're

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gonna have a great time.
So we're gonna be going from noon to one-ish.
I would say, you know, Buttsy and I, we tend toget a little wild, get a little fresh.
The drinks start flowing.
Who knows?
It might go for two hours.
We don't know yet, but it will start at noonPacific Time or Mountain Standard Time here in

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Arizona.
So we're pretty excited about that.
Keeping it moving, keeping it grooving.
Buttsy, you ready to go down memory lane forthe Masters?
Yeah.
Let's just remind everybody.
This is our Kentucky Derby.
Like, let's go.
Really?
This is it.
Memory lane, folks.
So let's talk a little bit about the topmoments in Masters history.

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And this is for some of you that, you know,aren't necessarily or new to the Masters.
I was actually out this weekend and some of theguys out there are not big golfers.
Some of them are not even golfers at all.
We were out at the lake here in Arizonaenjoying some boats and such.
And sure enough, they're like, hey, I tunedinto the podcast.
It's really good.
You guys are funny.

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We really enjoyed it.
And sure enough, this is for the newcomersthat, you know, maybe they don't watch golf on
a consistent basis.
Maybe they're new to it.
So let's go down memory lane here with theMasters and we got some top moments.
So first off, the number well, let's start offwith number 10.
Right?

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Let's start off with Louis Oosthuizen in 2012.
Do you remember what happened there, Buttsy?
No, Louis.
I kinda have a top, like, five in my head, butI what happened to Usti?
Yeah.
We're gonna go over our top fives in a littlebit, but I wanted to kinda put out some of the
big moments for everybody.
So these are considered kind of the top 10moments in Masters history starting with Louis

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Oosthuizen's albatross on number two.
Did it in 2012.
Fun fact.
Now, number nine, Nick Faldo's Sunday comebackin 1989 and 1990.
In two consecutive Masters wins, he defeatedScott Hoch in a playoff in '89 and Raymond

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Floyd in a playoff in 1990.
Both were examples of how Augusta's back nineon Sunday can turn into pure drama.
Pretty cool.
It's true.
Now, number eight.
Remember you'll remember this one.
Bubba Watson's hook wedge in the playoff.

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Oh.
Out of the trees, somehow hooks it 40 yardswith a pitching wedge.
Was it a gap wedge or a pitching wedge?
I don't
know.
I think a gap wedge.
Let's see.
Does it say because
he's lefty and I, like, nerd out on that shit.
I think it was a gap.
I think it's
a wedge shot.
So I think you're right.
I think it was a gap wedge that he hit, but hecurved it, like, 40 yards.

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Yeah.
Put a blinker light on.
Like, it was unbelievable.
Absolutely incredible.
And that was in a playoff win over LouisOosthuizen.
So unfortunately for Louis, he's got thealbatross and he's in here twice in two of the
biggest moments but not in a well, one in agood way, one not in a good way.
Now we've got Tiger Woods, his impossible chipon 16.

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Remember that one where all of a sudden theNike logo turns perfectly right before the
final drop and then you had the most awkwardhigh five handshake hug between him and Stevie?
That was fantastic.
We've also got and here's the tough thing.

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Greg Norman makes it on both sides.
So he makes it in some of
the greatest Where's Greg at in this?
the worst moments or the biggest collapses.
But his heartbreak in 1996 is one of thegreatest moments where he lost a six-shot lead
on Sunday and Nick Faldo ended up winning byfive strokes.

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So there was an 11-shot swing there.
Unbelievable.
2004, Phil Mickelson's leap for joy on theseventy-second hole making an 18-foot birdie
putt.
That is now his logo.
Fun fact there.
Mhmm.
I kinda enjoy going down memory lane with someof
the He was still pretty wide then too.

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And he he launched that wide body.
He got out Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was like Woody Harrelson in White Men Can'tJump.
I don't wanna go that far, but it was prettygood.
Larry Mize's miracle chip in in 1987 in aplayoff against Greg Norman and Seve

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Ballesteros.
And I was gonna touch on this.
That's one of my favorite moments.
But what strikes me there, and again, I'm nottrying to, like, go down the race road today,
but it was the whitest guy celebration thatthey're probably, like it's before the fist
pump, there was nothing cool about it.

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He was just like, yeah.
And it
was like, ZZ Top was playing in the background.
He was like, oh, baby, get here.
Did.
Like, it was just the fucking like, and it wasa great like, it's like he couldn't even
control himself.
And that just the whiteness came out there withhis
self-torid acts.
That is absolutely priceless, dude.

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Now, we also have Tiger Woods' first victory.
Our first major victory in 1997.
He was 21 years old.
I always forget that he was that young when hewon the Masters.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Didn't have that he didn't have that backlog ofexpectation.

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Obviously, what he did, you know, winning U.S.
Junior, U.S.
Am, all that stuff outside of the PGA Tour backto back, but and then he just arrived in great
fashion.
What did he win by?
How many did he win by?
Gosh.
He won by then-record 12 strokes.
Yeah.
He won by 12 strokes at the age of 21, dude.

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Like, could you imagine that today in thesocial media era that we live in?
How insane that would be?
Like, I
mean, dude, nobody was going at the golf balllike that then.
Like, you can hear it in the broadcast when yougo back and watch it.
Like, he's hitting it on spots of the golfcourse with three wood that nobody else had
ever seen before.

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And yeah.
Yeah.
That's when Augusta National decided we need toTiger-proof this.
Remember the term Tiger-proofing a golf course?
Yeah.
And it took, like, ten more years for people tokinda start to, like, like that was the
standard, right, to bomb it like that and
yeah.
Craziness.
Mhmm.

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Number two is Jack Nicklaus' historic Sundaycharge in 1986.
'Eighty-six.
Yep.
Yeah.
Forty-six-year-old Golden Bear mounted one ofthe greatest back-nine comebacks in major
history.
His eagle on the fifteenth and decisive birdieson sixteen and seventeen propelled him to a
record sixth green jacket.

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Jack Nicklaus, obviously, he had to be on thelist, but pretty incredible.
At 46 years old, we'd never seen anything likeit.
He caught a bunch of heat for that too.
He caught a bunch of heat for even being in thefield.
I think there was like, there's people sayinghe should let a younger guy in.
Like, he's washed up.
It's over.
What are you doing?
Taking a spot and yeah.
Sucker, boys.

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Fucking guys.
Jack Nicklaus, what are
you talking about?
Like
Another great hot take by the pundits in themedia.
Now, Gene Sarazen's shot heard around the worldsits at number one in 1935 with a four-wood
from 235 yards on the par-five fifteenth.

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Sarazen holed out for an incredible doubleeagle.
The shot tied him for the lead, and he went onto win in a playoff.
I did not know that.
Is it that I just got chills thinking aboutwe're watching somebody come down the stretch
at Augusta National.
Hole Number 15, they hole out on their secondshot for a double eagle and then go on to win

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the golf tournament, which at that point, onceagain, it tied him for the lead with the double
eagle.
That's three shots.
This is 1935, you said?
Yeah.
You know how many people can't hit four-wood235 today?
I know.
Is not thing.
That's melted.
A good old precision wood or persimmon wood.

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An actual wood.
It was made out of wood.
Sorry.
They did not make metal clubs back then, Idon't believe, for the woods anyways.
No.
Obviously, irons were always metal.
Now, let's go to the biggest collapses inMasters history.
Oh, God.
So 1985, Curtis Strange lost a three-shot leadon the back nine to finish tied for second, two

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strokes behind now anchoring legend BernhardLanger.
So
that should get Trot going in the background.
There's been some—we posted a clip today onsocial media about Bernhard and from last
week's episode talking about how, you know,golf is such a rigid sport.

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How do they not call this on him and so forth?
And there's been mixed reactions on that one,mainly that people want it called, but then you
get people that just don't understand the rule.
And yeah.
Some are just trolling.
But, yeah, it's been an interesting one onsocial media to watch.
Now in 1979, this is one I did not know.
Ed Sneed.

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Okay.
Remember the name.
Ed Sneed.
No idea he even played golf.
Lost a five-shot lead with nine holes left.
He finished tied for first in regulation, butlost in a playoff to somebody who got heat for
a couple comments about Tiger Woods and somefried chicken that was gonna be on the menu

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after Tiger won when he was 21, and that isFuzzy Zoeller.
Oh, Fuzzy did say that dumb shit, didn't he?
Yes.
He did.
He goes, oh, what's gonna be on the menu, friedchicken?
Little racist.
Just a bit.
Imagine that today.
Oh my God.
People would die.

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Yeah.
It's not good.
Yeah.
Ken Venturi, in 1956, lost a four-shot leadafter three rounds.
Finished solo second, one stroke behind JackBurke Jr.
Wow.
And listen, he did this as an amateur, it says.
Venturi nearly pulled off a fairy tale win, buthe shot 80 on a gusty final day and Burke

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junior made an astounding eight or made up anastounding eight strokes to win.
Alright.
Now we're gonna get a little relevant Wow.
For the next two.
K.
We got three left.
Rory McIlroy 2011.
Four-shot lead entering Sunday finished tiedfor 15th, 10 strokes back of winner Charl

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Schwartzel, a LIV Golf guy who happens to be inthe field this week.
What happened?
McIlroy shot a final round 80, including atriple bogey on the 10th.
That's where he hooked it all the way to thecabins on the left which are deep in there.
And sure enough, he ends up losing thatMasters, and he has not really sniffed it
since.

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So one of the problems with Augusta National,you can absolutely be in love with it and have
a ton of success, or it can steal your heartand crush it.
Ask Greg Norman, ask Rory McIlroy so far, eventhough I do like Rory this week.
Then in 2016, which I've got one of the ticketsright behind me, it is Jordan Spieth.

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I was there, and my little story that I like toshare year in and year out is all of a sudden,
me and a buddy of mine are on the 15th.
We're down by the water on the left-hand side,and all of a sudden, this guy turns to us with
the headphones on within the ropes and goes, Ijust gotta tell you.

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He goes, just wait.
Jordan Spieth just made a double bogey, hit itin the water on the 12th hole.
He goes, wait till everybody sees thisscoreboard change.
And we're just sitting there like, is hemessing with us?
Like he's not telling anybody else.
He just told me and a buddy of mine.
And all of a sudden the scoreboard changes andthere were people that, like, there were gasps,

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but there was like a cry as well.
You could tell somebody had a lot of money onJordan Spieth that all of a sudden that
scoreboard switched and they just lost it.
They go, ah.
unbelievable.
Just the rest of the crowd was just like
He shit all
the same.
The air was just gone out of the entire crowd.

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So that was Jordan Spieth.
He ends up now he bogeyed 10 and 11 headinginto the 12th.
Oh, you know what it was?
It was not the double bogey that he told us.
It was actually that he goes, Jordan Spieth hashit it twice into the water is what he said.
And that certainly quadruple bogeyed the par-313th, two balls in the water, and he was the

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defending champion, folks.
So that was pretty nasty.
And guess what?
He hasn't regained it since his game, really.
I mean, that's been the downturn for JordanSpieth, and I wonder if he'll ever get it back.
A lot of people say he's too good.
He'll get it back at some point.
Greg Norman, 1996 is the absolute winner for acollapse.

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Six-shot lead after 54 holes, finishedrunner-up, five strokes behind Nick Faldo.
He carded a 78, including missed putts and awater ball.
Faldo's steady 67 sealed Norman's fate.
It's often cited as the most famous collapse inMasters history.

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Yeah.
Do you ever see that 30 for 30 or it was thewhat are they called?
30 for 30s on ESPN?
I know what you're talking about.
I don't know if that's what it is.
You might be right but
Or 30 for 30.
It's 30 for 30 not 20 for 20.
Greg Norman, there is one on him where he goesback to Augusta National and relives his

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collapses.
It is phenomenal.
If you watch it, you could just see the painjust coming out of him as he talks about it.
Unbelievable.
That's that that lives with you forever.
It really does.
It really does.
Alright.
It is time, folks.
We've got our tour insider waiting in therealm.

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He is going to be coming on here.
His name is Mister Brent Grant.
We're bringing him in to the special Masters2025 as we're gonna go over our top moments.
Our top Masters moments.
Let's go ahead and bring him on.
Let's see if I can do this here.

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Here we go.
We've got him on and we're gonna go to triplescreen.
There we go.
Mister Brent Grant, how are we doing?
Actually, you're on mute.
Let's see if we can unmute you here.
Guy looks like he's been practicing some golfor something.
Yeah.
He's got like a Tom Cruise look to him rightnow with the white tee.

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He's got the hair poking through the backwardscap.
What's happening, Brent?
Been a while.
Sorry.
I have to do a firmware update.
You know how that screws up everything.
Oh, absolutely love that.
Alright.
That's what I was talking about, folks.
Here's the 2015 Jordan Spieth Masters flag.
There are tickets underneath that you cannotsee.
This will get hung at some point.

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I didn't know how it was gonna do with thelighting in here, but it looks like it's doing
pretty well.
It's a beautiful piece of memorabilia.
It's nice, but I like the blue label better.
Yeah.
The blue label definitely hits harder than somememorabilia.
That's for sure.
So let's kick it off here.
Let's go over our top five Masters moments, andlet's kick it off with you, Brent.

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What are your top five moments that youremember of the Masters in Masters history?
Well, they're kinda isolated with oneindividual.
Tiger's win in 2019 is probably up there, andthere were a couple of things that happened
during that week, specifically on Sunday, thatjust kinda stand out to me.

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One of which is when he was standing on thetwelfth green, basically right in the middle of
the green as Molinari and Finau had to hittheir third shots onto the green from the drop
shot, probably, like, the hardest, you know,65-yard shot in golf, which is just an absolute
baller move.
And then anytime he's won or in contentioncoming down the fifteenth hole, that par 5,

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that club twirl every time he hits, you know,4-iron, 5-iron, 6-iron throughout history.
Probably the purest club twirl time in golfhistory for me.
And then, honestly, you guys kind of alreadycovered a couple of them, but I love Jack's
"Yes, sir!" moment.
It's obviously fantastic that he was doing thatat 46 years old, and to win, I think that was,

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what, the sixteenth or seventeenth major orsomething like that, right?
It's crazy.
Crazy.
And then, yeah, Rory's straight-up pull hook.
I mean, that was one of my first memoriesactually of watching golf.
And, yeah, that one's stood the test of time.
It's quite possibly one of the worst golf shotsat one of the worst moments of all time.

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He was leading by, like, four or five duringthe time as well.
So
He was.
Yeah.
It is crazy to me that when that happens to aplayer, because everybody wants the Masters so
badly.
Like, they wanna win majors, but they want theMasters.
Like, there's something about that green jacketthat's extra special.

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It's so special.
And when you lose it, it is crushing, andnormally you don't come back from that.
Just ask Greg Norman.
He never won.
Exactly.
Oh, God.
Now, let's kick it over.
So was that your five big moments?
I think it's four or five, I think.
Okay.
I love it.
Not for the suicidal.

(26:54):
Yeah.
No.
I had to try to mix in a little bit of teachingmoments and also just in awe of the greatest
Masters champion of all time.
So
Buttsy, what about you?
What are your top five Masters moments?
I think there's one that doesn't get enoughcredit.
I think he hit five iron from the pine straw,Phil, by the tree, over the creek, barely flew

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the fucking drink, just given the moment.
Obviously, Masters on the line.
Pretty fucking sexy.
I can't remember.
Did he make the putt?
Did he make you think he made the putt?
Oh, yeah.
He made the Yeah.
Cashed the putt too.
Obviously, if you're having a bad day ever, youjust pull up Tiger's chip-in.
That's like the crème de la crème.

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The only thing that would have made it betteris if they didn't cringe like it wasn't gonna
go in.
That part's really tough to me where
they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's like, you
know, where it looks like it's really andimagine, God, imagine a different storyline in
history where that ball stays there.
Oh, Chris DiMarco's career would be different.
Oh, my God.

(28:03):
Like, we're talking, yeah.
So I honestly believe there was a point inTiger's career where he could use his mind to
alter the movement of the golf ball.
I really do.
Jedi mind tricks.
It actually just happens.
There was just so much clutchness when itneeded to happen, and that obviously probably

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tops his list too.
But, yeah, the other ones I think we alreadycovered, the 12-shot win was super badass.
Jack winning, I think you have to respect that.
Then, the Mize chip-in is great.
And again, just the celebration killed it forme.
But
Wait.
Did it kill it or did it make it for you?
Because you had a great reenactment of it.

(28:46):
I mean, yeah.
I don't know.
He all but did like a front flip.
Yeah.
Just really, really fucking very Caucasian incelebration after that
Gives me Mister Rogers vibes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just yeah.
Hold it.
Yes.
Hello, neighbor.
Yeah.

(29:06):
But, yeah, that's that's probably
it for me, man.
I mean, there's a hundred other ones, but theones that, like, live rent-free in my head.
Yeah.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
They're my top five so mainly, it's kind of thesame as you, Buttsy, which is which is a little
weird, but Phil Mickelson's shot out of thetrees on the 13th hole.

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Absolutely phenomenal.
That one ranks very highly for me becausebelieve it or not, growing up, I was a Phil
Mickelson fan over a Tiger fan.
Like I was rooting for Phil in those moments.
I actually had a signed Phil Mickelson visorthat I have no idea what happened to that.
But that being said, his win and him jumping upand down was just massive.

(29:50):
The year actually that David Duval, whichButtsy doesn't like this at all, was wearing
all navy blue.
It was Sunday coming down.
He was on the leaderboard.
All the big names were up there and he ended uplosing.
So that really stands out for me.
Certainly, Jordan Spieth winning in 2015 standsout.

(30:14):
We had just signed him a couple months earlierto a deal and so actually had him sign this in
his house in Dallas afterwards, which waspretty neat.
Little flex there as the kids call it.
But realistically, my favorite two moments inMasters history are Tiger Woods winning and

(30:37):
hugging his dad, and then in 2019 winning andhugging his son.
Those two are just circle of life.
I don't mean to get deep here on this podcast,
It's good deep.
It's the Masters.
It's good deep.
Gotten way
deeper than that before.
We had Glennie on.
Yeah.
That's true.
It's giving me chills right now.
Like, my hair is standing straight up as I talkabout it, but it really is the circle of life

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and it was very much so that nobody everthought that Tiger Woods was gonna come back
and win in 2019.
I mean, I was sitting there crying with a buddyof mine to where it's like tears are just
coming down and like, you're just like, holyshit.
This is such an incredible moment of Tigerwinning and that roar that he gave.
I mean, does anybody do a fist pump better thanTiger Woods though in the history of fist

(31:23):
pumps?
I don't think so.
No.
I mean, Brent's a pretty
good one.
Brent's got a good one.
You do have a good one.
You actually do.
I would put you in the top 10.
For sure.
Brent's fist pump looks like he just, like, wona UFC fight.
Like, I mean, he has, like, I just knocked youout kinda it's pretty deep.
Real deep.

(31:44):
Really get some vibes going there.
Real quick in '19 when Tiger won, wasn't thereanother little slip up?
I forget who was right there with him.
Molinari and Finau.
Hit the
tree or some shit?
He okay.
No.
He went yeah.
So he went in the water on 12.
But he was still shit.
Flip the lead.
Tiger had, like, a one or two shot lead.
Tony was, like, two or three shots back, andthen it just slowly but surely, he just sort of

(32:07):
separated.
And don't forget Brooks.
Brooks was right there too because Brooks wasactually my pick that year.
Yeah.
And I was rooting for him coming down thestretch.
My body was a lifelong Tiger Woods fan.
We're in New York City in our shop and we'rewatching it on the golf simulator screen.
So we had it on like this 200-inch screenwatching The Masters sitting in the chairs and

(32:29):
man oh man, we'd locked the doors that day.
We're just like, we're not taking any anylessons, nothing.
We are going to sit here and we're watchingTiger Woods in his last attempt, and it was
awesome.
But yes.
So Molinari and I believe Brooks and Tony allhit it in the water on 12, then Molinari on 15.
It wasn't at the wedge shot in that he ends upclipping the tree?

(32:53):
I thought he pulled his drive just a hair, andhe had to hit some sort of, like He he did not.
Sort of and it just sort
of shot up and then it came down and into thewater.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what it was.
Good call.
So Tiger birdied that, obviously, and then
There it is.
The rest is history.
The rest is absolutely history, but 2015 wasalso a phenomenal year as well.

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Jordan almost, what, isn't he, like, the firstor second Masters winner ever to do it with a
triple or double on the scorecard?
Because in 2015, he had, I think, he
had a
double on 12 or something like that, stillended up winning.
And then the very next year was actually thatsame hole, only you double the score, and it
loses him the tournament.

(33:39):
Well, it's also pretty crazy that he had achance to win all three years.
So 2014, he was right there head-to-head withBubba Watson.
Yep.
And Bubba just overpowered the golf course.
Like, that was one where it was like, oh,Jordan just doesn't have the length in order to
compete with him at that point.

(34:00):
Like you said, he's young.
Then all of a sudden, Jordan Spieth figures itout in 2015, and then it looks like it is
absolutely a given that he's gonna goback-to-back and then the debacle on 12.
Yeah.
Just such a good putter.
I mean, that's kinda what made I mean, if youhad to think about a guy that you would never
wanna play against in those two to three years,'14 to, like, '16, '17, that guy would be

(34:23):
terrible to play against because you're justsitting there going he's 50 feet away.
There's no chance.
Cash does it, like, three or four times in aday.
You're like, there's nothing I can do about it.
You hit it everywhere.
And it's like in, like, in the British Open.
It's like, what what are we doing?
So let's talk about that a little bit.
Let's get into our 2025 Masters analysis andbreakdown.

(34:45):
We've got betting odds, but I do want to talkabout the golf course first actually because
you're talking about it right now with himbeing such a good putter.
But I feel like at Augusta National, thosegreens are so fast that you have to have such
good touch, but they break a lot as well.
They break very, very pure, but they break aton.

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They're very undulating, like they're not easyto putt that well if you're not somebody that
can visualize the break well.
And I feel like there are guys that putt reallywell when a putt breaks a lot, and then there's
guys that don't.
Yeah.
Probably.
I don't know how to break that down by thefield, though.

(35:31):
Like, I don't know.
I've never really paid attention to who'srolling it.
Maybe Scotty doesn't putt so well when itbreaks a lot.
No.
I mean, for him, he's such an artist that, Imean, obviously, winning back to back is gonna
be, you know, an incredible accomplishment nomatter what.
And then if he does it this year, and he's mypick this year.

(35:52):
I actually got I got Rory correcting theplayer, so maybe I'll be a little hot this
year.
But, anyways, an artist like that, I mean,that's what makes Augusta so special, and
that's why a guy like Jack, a guy like Tiger,you know, they're just such, you know, pure
ball, you know, pure ball strikers, but in themoment, they can get up and down from anywhere
and then, obviously, cash on the greens andScotty just comes alive.

(36:15):
So I hope that's what happens.
It really does.
And I think it actually helps Scottie thatthere's big breaking putts because he can feel
it more so than a solid stroke, right?
He struggles with those short putts wherethey're a lot straighter.
I just think for Scottie that Augusta Nationalactually helps him visualize a little bit

(36:37):
better.
But there are guys that do putt really well atAugusta National, and then there are guys that
just don't.
Also, some things to note with AugustaNational.
This is a second-shot golf course.
It's been talked about for years.
You can spray your drives.
Tiger got away with so many wayward drivesduring his era that you can spray it because
the trees aren't low.

(36:59):
They're trimmed up so you can play out of thepine straw, you can play from other fairways,
you can get really creative.
So it's all about the second shot, the approachshot, and that's the way that it was designed
originally.
Now, with that said, you gotta have a greatshort game because if you miss a green, these

(37:19):
greens are diabolical, super fast, so you haveto have your short game dialed in.
So approach shots, chipping, putting.
That's where this
tournament lost its silk.
And that's why too Jordan Spieth, he's neverbeen the most accurate driver of the golf ball.
However, you see him even in the years that hewon, like the year that he won in 2015, he ends

(37:44):
up being able to hit shots.
I remember a shot that he hit on what was it?
Hole 11 from the trees on the right-hand side.
He just hit this squirter down there, got up bythe green, got up and down, and it doesn't ruin
a
But that's a type of golf shot that if youspray it like that at a normal golf tournament,
you're probably out of play.

(38:05):
You might be screwed.
You might be deep in the woods.
So it gives somebody with a lot of creativity.
Did you say a squirter?
A squirter.
A low little squirter that ran.
Yeah.
Not a...
Listen, I know where your head's at.
Trust me.
I understand.
I
love seeing a good squirter just like anybody.

(38:27):
Now, as we move into the actual odds for thisweek, if you guys took a look at the show
notes, I actually gave you every single playerand all of their odds.
And I'm gonna go over the top guys.
So we've got Scottie Scheffler, obviously, atnumber one.
He's plus 400.
Rory McIlroy is plus 650.

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Jon Rahm, plus 1,400.
Collin Morikawa, plus 1,600.
Ludvig Aberg at plus 1,800.
Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau at plus2,000.
Justin Thomas, plus 2,200.
Joaquin Niemann and Brooks Koepka at plus3,000.
Hideki Matsuyama at plus 3,300.
Tommy Fleetwood, Viktor Hovland, Jordan Spieth,Patrick Cantlay at plus 3,500.

(39:13):
Shane Lowry, plus 4,000.
Tyrrell Hatton, plus 4,500.
Russell Henley, plus 5,000.
Bobby Mac, Cam Smith, Min Woo Lee, and WillZalatoris at plus 5,500.
I'm gonna tell you guys right now.
I love all of those guys at plus 5,500.
Yeah.
We'll get more into that.

(39:35):
Corey Conners plus 6,000.
Jason Day, Akshay Bhatia, Sepp Straka, DustinJohnson, Sergio Garcia, and Tony Finau at plus
8,000.
Wyndham Clark and Patrick Reed at plus 9,000.
Keegan Bradley, Tom Kim, Justin Rose, SungjaeIm, and Daniel Berger at plus 11,000.
I'm gonna go deep with this.
Fuck it.

(39:55):
Matt Fitzpatrick, J.J.
Spaun, Sahith Theegala, Sam Burns, DavisThompson, Phil Mickelson, Brian Harman at plus
12,000.
I'm gonna remember all this.
Taylor Pendrith, Aaron Rai, Adam Scott, Ben An,Mav McNealy, and Denny McCarthy at plus 15,000.
Billy Horschel, J.T.
Poston, Michael Kim, Cam Young at plus 17,000.

(40:16):
Lucas Glover, Thomas Detry, Harris English plus20,000.
Nicolai Højgaard at plus 20 or Højgaard at plus22,000.
Stephan Jäger, Jagermeister, Laurie Canter,Rasmus Højgaard, and Nick Taylor at plus
25,000.
Charl Schwartzel, Max Grazerman at plus 27,000,or as Buttsy likes to refer to him as Timu

(40:41):
Rory.
We've also got Christiaan Bezuidenhout, JoeHighsmith, Chris Kirk, and Kevin Yu at plus
30,000.
Tom Hoge, Austin Eckroat, Max Homa, CameronDavis at plus 35,000.
Nicolás Echavarría, Nick Dunlap at plus 40,000.
Matt McCarty, Bubba Watson at plus 50,000.

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Davis Riley, Jonathan Vegas, and Matthieu Pavonat plus 60,000.
Adam Schenk, Danny Willett, Zach Johnson plus75,000.
Ángel Cabrera, Brian Campbell, ThristonLawrence, Rafael Campos, Bernhard Langer, the
anchorman, Mike Weir, Fred Couples, PatGossire, José María Olazábal plus 100,000.

(41:30):
That's a lot.
But now, knowing what the odds are, thisknowing what they are, this close to the
tournament starting in a couple of days.
Buttsy, last week, you said you love BrooksKoepka.
That's your pick this year.
Ludvig Åberg was another.

(41:51):
Akshay Bhatia and Keegan Bradley.
Any changes to that lineup for you?
Well, I'm currently still processing the namesthat you just said.
And I think I'm on number like I'm in betweenlike twenty-seven and fifty right now and I'm
kind of still trying to make a pull there.
But I like Brooks.

(42:12):
Still liking him?
Still like Brooks.
I love Brooks.
Think we're gonna see a pretty strong showingby the LIV team, and then maybe that guy that
just got out of jail.
The old guy.
Ángel Cabrera.
Might just might just blow people away outthere.
Okay.
Alright.
Brent, how about you?
This is, you know, your first stab at this forthe 2025 Masters.

(42:36):
Yeah.
I mean, obviously, Scottie's my number one guy,but I would love to see Hideki Matsuyama get it
done again.
That's, by the way, my fifth moment is himwinning and his caddie bowing to the flag.
Oh, that's pretty good.
Yeah.
Yep.
I do love that.
Love both
a lot of respect for that.
Yeah.
A lot of respect for both of them.
They're really cool dudes.
Speak perfect English, by the way.

(42:58):
Really?
Yeah.
Yep.
They do.
It's been it's been a media trick.
A lot of people don't realize this, that HidekiMatsuyama just pretends like he doesn't speak.
The
big thing is they don't wanna make a mistake.
So they don't want to say something and thenhave it, you know, be wrong.
Well, there's that and there's also thesavviness that you don't have to do media if

(43:20):
you're not speaking English.
So he gets away with so much because he justpretends like he doesn't speak it.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's pretty damn good.
It's a great move.
Even Phil Mickelson came out because he wasobviously in the dinner when Hideki Matsuyama
gave the big speech and he did it entirely inEnglish and everybody was just like, what the

(43:43):
fuck?
Yeah.
He is yeah.
They couldn't believe it.
I walk up I walk up behind him at the Sony, andwe're on the side of the range.
He goes, what do you think of my wedge?
I was like I grabbed one.
I was like, yeah.
I grabbed it.
I was like, you don't like bounce?
He goes, nope.
I go, then it's good.

(44:04):
I would be saying the weirdest shit just tofuck with people.
I'd be like, I ate a piece of bird shit on 13,and they're like, cut.
And then I go, you're done.
Sorry.
I eat the barbecue.
He's awesome.
Now last week, I was talking about how I likeRory McIlroy.
Also, obviously, like Scottie Scheffler.
That's, I mean, if you don't like ScottieScheffler coming into the Masters with how he's

(44:28):
been trending, then I don't think you'venecessarily been watching.
Justin Thomas is another one that I did.
I don't think I mentioned him last week.
He's trending in the right direction.
Almost won the Valspar.
I always get the Valspar and the Valero mixedup, but I gotta remember paint, oil.

(44:49):
Paint, oil.
So paint comes first, then oil.
So the Valspar, and that was the one thatViktor Hovland won.
I don't love Viktor Hovland this week.
Just there's something about his game right nowthat I don't love, but I do love Justin Thomas.
Another one that I'm gonna say it and I'm justgonna go with it this week because I'm gonna be

(45:16):
betting on him.
Min Woo Lee.
I'm going Min Woo Lee.
Want to see it.
I wanna see the blow up into the stratosphereof popularity for Min Woo Lee.
If he wins.
He's ready.
I listen.
He won, and he showed some signs of fear.
Yeah.
But he got it done.

(45:36):
He did.
And that's all that matters.
Because once you get it done, it's off of your,like, the monkey's off your back.
You end up being able to play a little bit morecomfortably in that final round, and I think
it's gonna be awesome to see him playing wellcoming into the Masters, and he's got the game
for it.
Like, he bombs the golf ball.
He does.

(45:56):
Skip putter.
It's short game too.
Great putter.
Great short game.
Sprays the shit out of it.
Right?
That's his one knock, and this is the golfcourse.
What do you think could
you said.
You can absolutely do it at Augusta National.
Justin Rose would be another guy that I wouldhe always kinda seems to pop up in these major
championships, and it'd be interesting to seeif he got it done this week.

(46:16):
I mean, he'd probably retire if he did, to behonest, which I would You
don't like Max Homa?
I heard he broke the record today for mostrange balls hit on a Tuesday.
Yeah.
Is he still playing?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Him and Joe oh, by the way, we never announcedthis on the podcast.
So I have a source that, the whole dramabetween Max Homa and his caddie Joe Greiner,

(46:39):
they have split.
What's They
are no longer together.
So Joe Greiner was the one who ended up firingMax Homa.
And it all comes down to the fact thatapparently, when things are going wrong in Max
Homa's world, he is a blamer.

(46:59):
He blames everybody else except for himself.
Mhmm.
And then also, that when he's not playing well,it's a super negative environment and nobody's
happy.
So he decided it is time and he has moved onand, there's some bad blood there.

(47:19):
So just as a heads up, my source is close to,this is the Joe Greiner side, obviously.
I don't have the Max Homa side, but, I justknow
that,
some shit
is going down.
That's unfortunate.
They're really good buddies.
I mean, they go way back.
They're both I mean, Joe was great, on the tourwhile I was there, and he was a super nice guy.

(47:41):
So for him to make that sort of a decision,it's tough.
But I could see it.
I played with Homa in, like, I think him andWyndham Clark in, like, 2018 or whatever, and
they were both playing bad, and it wasmiserable out there.
So I can't even imagine.
Yeah.
And apparently, that is the word off the streetwith Max Homa.
He's sponsored by Lululemon.
So, hey, maybe the world really just, you know,golf just doesn't matter anymore.

(48:05):
He's a Lululemon sponsor now.
My dark horse this week is a guy that's beenplaying phenomenal coming in as well.
Billy Horschel.
I feel like Billy Horschel is potentially gonnabe the Chris DiMarco of this year.
Please, please stop.
I do.
I love—
him.
Please, please stop.
I think he's gonna do great.
And he was clutching the TGL.

(48:26):
They won the championship there.
So he's riding some momentum here.
But guys, let's talk a little bit about thebattle between the leagues.
So we got the TGL league.
We've got the LIV Golf League.
Okay?
Now, there are people on both sides that sayboth aren't real golf.
So this is the battle between the leagues thatcertain people say is not real golf on both

(48:50):
sides.
So who's going to have more players in the top10?
The TGL or LIV Golf?
And I will give you this caveat before you giveyour answers.
There are 20 players playing in the Mastersthat are on TGL.
There are 12 players from LIV Golf that areplaying.
Why don't we start with Brent on his answer?

(49:13):
Who's gonna have more top tens?
TGL or LIV Golf?
I'm sorry.
So the guys that are currently top players inthe PGA Tour versus the guys that are LIV Tour
players.
Is that what you're telling me?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
That's gonna be a real tough one.
I think it's gonna be the oh, I'm sorry.
No.
The TGL would be the correct answer, I believe,for 500, Alex.

(49:37):
Thanks.
Buttsy, what about you?
Because you've always kinda sided a bit withthe LIV side.
Oh, I think I think LIV dominates the TGL andthe Masters.
Here we go.
Yeah.
I think so.
I thought you're You're talking No.
I'm not trolling at all.
I've been this.
I like My dark horse is Patrick Reed.
Okay?
That's pretty good.

(49:58):
He doesn't even play golf anymore.
Oh, he plays plenty of golf.
Alright?
He sends me videos of him playing golf everyday.
Alright?
That's not true.
But yeah.
I no.
I see LIV doing really well here.
I think Cam Smith's gonna be in the top 20.
I think we're gonna have a pretty good showing.
I really do.

(50:18):
I really honestly do.
Everybody's like, yeah.
There is one guy that could even remotelycompete.
One.
And he has not done well at the Masters.
Trot golfers with Buttsy here.
He says Patrick Reed, top 10.
Absolutely.
What's up, Trot?
Long time no see, buddy.
It's it's it's one thing to shoot these guysdown because they're playing bad.

(50:39):
It's another thing to shoot them out of itbecause you just haven't heard from them
because they're on the LIV Tour.
Like, they still know how to they're gonna show
up.
That guy's name?
He's from Spain.
Sergio no.
The other guy.
What's the other guy's name?
Jon Rahm.
Rodriguez?

(50:59):
No.
Rahm.
Yeah.
That guy is the guy that won the Masters by,like, four.
Yeah.
He disappeared.
Jon Rahm.
Jon Rahm has not had a good year this year onLIV Golf.
So I was in preparation for this, by the way.
I wanted to be as educated as possible.
You know, I turned heel on LIV.
Didn't wanna watch any LIV throughout the year.

(51:21):
However, I've been catching up.
And I looked at the stats, went in, took a lookat what they're shooting each round at each of
the events, taking a look at all the guys thatwere on the or in the Masters this year.
And I gotta tell you, I was not impressed withJon Rahm's, like, leading into the Masters, but
the oddsmakers have him in the third slot.

(51:43):
Like, he's plus 1,400 right behind Rory McIlroyand Scottie Scheffler.
Who I think lives in a small TGL.
They're gonna smoke TGL, so they're absolutelygonna kill them.
So I think everybody knows where I'm at withthis.
I am 100% TGL on this one.
K.
By the way, speaking of turning heel on LIV, Ithink the PGA Tour has also turned heel on LIV.

(52:07):
Have you seen that?
Have anybody heard about this?
Have you seen this?
It's not going through.
At this
point denied the deal.
Somebody I was standing on TPC range, andsomebody was like I was like, have you, like,
see because I've got no emails have happenedsince they said they talked to, you know, the
big man.
And, and so I just yeah.
I was on ESPN this morning.

(52:27):
Oh, they denied a $1.5 billion.
Oh, oh, okay.
So it's going well then.
It's
great.
Wait a second.
I did not see this.
Yeah.
ESPN.com, the PGA Tour, vetoed, or vetoed,denied, whatever, said no to a $1,500,000,000
deal earlier, late last week, mid to late lastweek.

(52:50):
Obviously, nothing's gonna happen this weekbecause the only thing that matters is the
Masters, and the Masters owns all of golf.
So
That's it.
So let's stay focused because you're about togive a can of worms just absolutely open
Pandora's box.
We'll get to that next week maybe.
But that is interesting.
I did not hear that one, and I am not I wouldexpect that it would have blown up on X.

(53:11):
Like, I would have seen just post after postafter post.
Well, they're kinda like I said, no emails havegone out.
No press releases, no letters from Jay oranybody.
So I think a
lot
of this stuff is sliding under the radar as itsays.
By the way, speaking of sliding, what ishappening to Buttsy's face, Matt?
Have you noticed what's

(53:31):
He's got a magic carpet now.
And, I gotta tell you, it's in solidarity withKeegan Bradley when he had his mustache going.
I do believe that Buttsy it's just anabsolutely phenomenal look for the man.
How are you pulling off Uncle Rico?
Like, I don't know how you're doing that.

(53:53):
You couldn't be more man of the people.
More like, less of Uncle Rico, and yet at thesame time with the mustache, it's you are Uncle
Rico.
The moose, dad.
It's game time, man.
This is just a sporting
mode for over that mountain over.
This is a this is a sport mode thing for me,and I'm in it.
I'm I'm in
Buttsy's gotta get ready for his his his TGLdebut.

(54:14):
Absolutely.
I got my, you know, my debut's on the We're
trying to do something
with that.
Aren't we, Buttsy?
And what's that?
I said they're trying to do something withthat.
What do you mean?
He's already in.
It's no.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, it's big.
Like, I'm hearing from, like, multiple people.
It's, like, a big deal.
I'm just excited.
Sell some tickets, man.

(54:35):
And, you know, my brother is my brother'scaddying for me.
Oh, thanks.
Out there.
And he has the stash going, and I feel like Ihad to match him.
And it's sport mode, and we're both in sportmode now, and they just look like killers.
You look younger and yet older somehow.
I like that.

(54:55):
It's impressive.
So Phoenix United is just like the Yankees.
Well, the Yankees have lifted their facial hairpolicy, but Trud's throwing out there that, you
know, you're kinda looking like the Yankees.
They really?
With the mustaches.
Phoenix United ass.
They
forced him to shave.
That's fantastic.

(55:16):
That's not true.
Black too.
Yeah.
You should absolutely dye.
You could be like, oh, what's his name?
Oh, back in the day, he had the black mustache,famous actor.
The goal is to while we're on the subject TomSelleck?
Tom Selleck?
Burt Reynolds?
Once we cross this barrier right here and I canstart keeping some like

(55:39):
wax on
me during the day and
curly Please don't do that.
Yeah.
I wanna look like a curveball pitcher from likethe twenties here pretty soon.
Wackersley.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
That's that's it.
Yeah.
You hit it on
the head.
That is the vibe.
Plus, he has no idea who that is.
Might know
who Dennis Eckersley is.

(55:59):
But as I was looking at the LIV Golf side ofthings, oh, yeah.
I will tell you guys that were actually cominginto this week that were trending.
So Joaquin Niemann, he's won twice so far thisyear.
You've also and Joaquin Niemann, for whateverreason, does not play well at Augusta National.
He'll finish in the top 25, feel like maybe top30, but he'll be towards the back end of that.

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I don't know if he's one of these guys.
When I brought up guys that putt well onundulating and big breaking putts, I don't know
if Joaquin Niemann is one of those guys.
So unfortunately for Joaquin, I got him out ofthe top 10.
You know, Bryson has been Bryson.
Bryson never plays great on LIV Golf.

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Outside of the one time in West Virginia whenhe shot a 58, that was the only real time that
I remember Bryson doing anything big out there.
Brooks Koepka has played well.
He's been up there.
Tyrrell Hatton, Cam Smith has not.
Bet Phil plays good.
Dustin Johnson has not played well.

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Phil Mickelson has actually had the best yearon LIV out of his entire time on LIV.
He looks great.
Like, yeah, I think he might have a week.
I think it's all those lessons from GrantHorvat.
Probably.
Maybe that's what it is.
Just can't
he He's
smooth, baby.
He's just he's just so good.
He's so good.

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Good.
I golf.
Then you got Sergio Garcia, who has beenplaying some golf.
Please stop.
But here's the thing.
LIV and Brooks talked about it.
Bryson talked about it.
Actually, Bryson talked about it more thanBrooks.
The golf courses that they're playing, Brysonwants to see them be harder golf courses

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because they're too easy.
And Doral was one of the best ones that, yeah,you know?
So Doral was a real test heading into theMasters, but that was won by Marc Leishman, who
is not in the Masters.
Kiradech had won a European event, didn't he,earlier this year?
I believe you're right.

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So technically, he is the most recentfull-field winner from LIV.
You know what I do love about the Mastersthough?
It is proven time and time again.
Even if you're not playing great, if you havehistory at the Masters, you can come in and

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change your entire year at Augusta National.
Well, it's like you said earlier, man.
The conditions of the golf course are solelyunique to that place.
And if you've gotten it done there before, youknow a little something, like, you know, plus
you have the confidence.
I would imagine that's helpful.
100%.
What are the players, what are the players thatjust show up out of nowhere at the Masters?

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Phil's done it.
Phil's, Sergio was not playing great when hewon, like, right before he won the Masters.
He had played there so many times.
Win in that tournament that year.
Bubba Watson for one.
He wasn't playing well going into his secondMasters win.
You've got
But guys, Brooks

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Koepka just happens to just show up when themajors happen.
Major guy.
Oh, so he's just a major guy.
You can't really take that for anything.
Dustin's had
a couple of Dustin's had a couple of, I mean,he won the Masters.
So, I mean, obviously, he knows how
it Yeah.
But he
won it in November.
He won it Oh,
did he win the 20?
Yep.
Yeah.
That's right.
I don't think Dustin Johnson wins a Mastersunless that happened.

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Because he's yeah.
See, so that bullet cut, man, it's it's it canbe freaky when things get firm.
Yep.
I'm trying to think of other guys, but that's apretty good list of guys that weren't playing
well coming into the Masters and thencompeting.
Yeah.
I mean Justin Rose take by Brent either.
I don't either.
He plays well there too.

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I mean Yeah.
And he's far from done.
No.
God.
He would retire if he won that though.
Yeah.
I would.
I look at a guy like Tommy Fleetwood.
I don't know if Tommy Fleetwood is the a greatpick at Augusta National, but you know one
that, is a kind of a sneaky pick right now.
I mentioned to you guys, I love the guys atplus fifty-five hundred, which was Bobby Mac,

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Cam Smith, Min Woo Lee, and Will Zalatoris.
And by the way, Cam Smith is one of those guysthat didn't play well in this first year of
LIV, came to Augusta National and played prettydamn well.
But Will Zalatoris
Mhmm.
Is a guy who his very first Masters came insecond.
Yes.
He has short putting issues, but if you watchWill Zalatoris, his ball striking is so good

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when it comes to his approach shots that I feellike that's one of the reasons why he has
played so well there.
What did he do?
He finished second his very first Masters, andthen his second Masters, I wanna say, he was
top five.
Or he was top five in his first, and then hissecond one, he was second.
Is that right?
So he got his immediate jump from the KornFerry Tour.

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And then I think in three of the four majors orsomething like that that year, 2021 or 2022, I
think he placed top 10 in all four, but in twoor three of them, he placed top three.
I mean, he just shows up because he did such anelite ball strike.
The problem is, you know, when you startmissing putts like that, even if your short

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game's on, if you're hitting to three, four,five feet, you're missing those.
You know, those are two, three, four bogeys around that you just can't really survive out
there.
If it's playing easy, if it's playing hard
I think Zalatoris does well though on bigbreaking greens.
I think that's part of it.
Yeah.
Because when you struggle on short putts,especially ones that are a little bit straight,

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that's a little bit of the yippiness.
But when you have to play breaks in thoseputts, guys tend to do a little bit better when
it comes to that.
And Will Zalatoris happens to be one of thoseguys potentially.
So I do like Will Zalatoris coming into theMasters even though he hasn't been playing
well.
And again, Cam Smith with his putter, and hehas played well at the Masters in the past.

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So I don't know.
I talked to a buddy this morning that broughtup a good pick that I don't hate either.
It's Robert MacIntyre.
Well, I don't hate that.
Lefty.
Yeah.
Lefties have such an advantage at AugustaNational.
I wanna say that one of the big publicationsjust came out
with an article. Yeah.
an Yeah.
Yeah.
About lefties and the advantage.
That does not apply to me because I'm fuckingout.

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Okay.
But, yeah, if you're a lefty that hits a fade,it's pretty nice for you out there.
But that's always been a debate, right?
Like, what shot shape works best at theMasters?
And, I mean, the guys who have won the mostMasters faded.
So, I mean, is it really?
But then again, like, you look at Bubba, he canmove it both ways, but he won it with hitting

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the hook.
So that was left to right, obviously.
But, yeah, that's crazy.
I never even thought about that until you justsaid Bobby Mac.
I mean, he's hungry, man.
He's dangerous.
He's dangerous.
He can play some golf.
I just don't know how well he'll play atAugusta National.
We're gonna find out.
Oh, yeah.
Min Woo Lee has played several.
So, I mean, he's definitely—I don't know who hehas on the bag.

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I mean, obviously, you know, we've seen whatTed Scott has done with his two Masters
champions.
I think he's got four under his belt now.
So the looper is huge there.
That's an understated piece of information thatthe looper is probably 65 to 70% of what those
guys get done out there, depending on thecaddy.

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I fully agree.
That's according to Pepsi, but, you know,whatsoever.
Makes sense.
It does.
Yeah.
Super serious.
Well, heck yeah, boys.
We got through it.
I'm pumped.
The 2025 Masters Special presented by Pull HookGolf is in the books, folks.

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I mean, that was pretty gosh darn solid if youask me.
I was pumped all week for this.
I normally don't get nervous for episodesanymore, but
because I was coming on.
01/1968.
And before the show, I was like a little kid.
I was running around just kind of a little bitexcited, just like a little nervousness to the

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whole entire thing, and I just love theMasters.
It's such a big deal.
And it is the one week, the entire year that Ilove the absolute most.
There is not, in my opinion, I asked this to Xas well or Twitter.
And sure enough, it was overwhelmingly thatthere's not a better week in golf than Masters

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week.
And they have the coverage this year too,right?
Like, you're gonna be able to watch every shothit on the driving range with a pro tracer,
like, way more fun for the fans.
Way more.
Augusta National's putting in a ton of money.
Tiger Woods is going to design a municipalcourse out there and have it be more accessible
for lower-income families and so forth.

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So pretty cool stuff that Augusta National doeson a year-by-year basis.
And Fred Ridley's done an absolutely incrediblejob being the chairman of the board there at
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