April 14, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Pine returns to recap a full day in the world of sport! Highlights for tonight include:
Golf coach Marcus Wheelhouse on Rory McIlroy winning the Masters.
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Hello, joon a, good evening and welcome into Monday night
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Show producer as Miller Sich. We're here for an hour
talking sport with you. What about that golf this morning?
Incredible drama, unreal sporting theater. Rory McElroy chasing the major
he has craved for so long, and at the seventeenth
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time of asking, finally got his hands on that famous
green jacket, but not without a hiccup or two along
the way and having to negotiate a sudden death playoff
with Justin Rose. We're going to get you to Augusta
very shortly. We'll be joined by a former KIWI professional
and now top coach, Marcus Wheelhouse, who watched it all unfold,
to hear your reflections as well as you watched it
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all play out this morning. Also tonight, one of our
top Paralympic swimmers, Cameron Leslie, has committed to the Los
Angeles Paralympic Games. That'll be his fifth Paralympics and he's
trying something a bit different to kick start his preparations.
He's going to tell us more about that tonight and
on Monday nights. Of course, we rate the weekend, the
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Well as I say, incredible theater, unbelievable drama. On the
last afternoon at Augusta, As Golf's eighty ninth Masters Tournament
was decided via the opening sudden death playoff hole, overnight
leader Rory me Kackleroy seemed to have everything under control
and moved from his overnight score of twelve under to
fourteen under after ten holes in his final round, But
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then he dropped a shot on eleven and then got
to thirteen, where he has left himself the beautiful seaphest
handle just eighty sixth to the hall.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh y.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Oh, my goodness, can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Couldn't explain that a double bogie on thirteen. He also
boged fourteen to drop back to ten under, then birdied
fifteen to go back to eleven under. But Justin Rose,
who had started the day seven shots behind Rory McElroy,
had the most extraordinary last eight holes, carding six birdies
and two bogies. He got to eleven under, the last
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of his birdies This part on eighteen lose.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
How's a part to tie the lead?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Chance Justin Rose? Low leader's safe around all incredible part
from Rose. He was in the clubhouse. Then at eleven under,
McElroy had two holes to play. He birdied seventeen thanks
to this superb approach.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And going diner a shot very back as the crowds run.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So he put it in there and retook a one
shot lead. Heading to the last hole, the eighteenth, he
was twelve under, just needed to make par to win
the tournament. Hit a good tea shot, but put his
second into the bunker, then played a terrific third shot
out of the bunker to set up a very makeable
four foot part for par and the tournament, but he
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missed agonizingly to the left. He made bogey, dropped back
to eleven under and into the playoff with Justin Rose.
They went back to the eighteenth ten. Both men got
onto the green with their second shots. McElroy was closer
to the hole, so Rose putted first. For Bertie.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
The door is open again for McElroy to finish it off.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Rose made his par before McElroy putted for the win.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The journey it's taken to get here, for all this history,
Hackaway has.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
His master piece, our first green jacket for Rory McElroy,
just the sixth man to win all four majors and
complete a career Grand Slam.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
There was a lot of pent up emotion that just
came out on ninet eighteenth green and a moment like
the mix all the years and all the close calls
worth it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that's basically how it played out. Let's bring in
formal world number one ranked amateur professional tour player for
twelve years and now one of our leading coaches, Marcus Wheelhouse,
who was at Augusta. Marcus, thanks for joining us. Is
there anything to match the drama of the last afternoon
like that? At a major golf tournament.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Hello, Jason. It was pretty Cinderella like that, to be honest.
So I was, you know, I was thinking it would
be it'd be great to see either of those two
win for for for the various reasons. But but now
look to see Rory one was pretty special.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm not quite sure where to start, but can we
start maybe at the end. How on earth would Rory
McElroy have composed himself for a playoff after missing the
part to win it on eighteen the first time?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Well, I just I mean, I just, yeah, I've been
mate with great difficulty rather than me. But I think
that you know that that emotion certainly came out after
after he finally did it. But I think he's been
he's been very conflated and very he is wording in
the media, has been very about very much about you know,
just that whole keeping the presence and not sort of
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looking at better boards and everything else. So made it
would have been an absolute huge ountain to climb for him,
because you know, I mean, I just go back to Ponts,
you know last year when when him and Bryson down
the stretch and you know, he's missed a couple of
sort of pretty fid or puts in those last year
holes there at Pinehurst, And unfortunately he was a nervous
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system a couple of times this year as well, So
maybe he certainly had a lot of a lot of
mountains to climb. That's just short.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What did you say when he started to try us
strike trouble on his back nine? What did you see
from him during that little stretch where he where he
had a had a he dropped a shot on eleven
double bogue, thirteen, bogied fourteen back to ten under What
did you see during that little stretch that you know
from from Roy McElroy.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Well, I mean he's I mean from a from I mean,
it's pretty hard to fold him in the way that
he strikes a golf for but there's certainly a certain
pattern that seems to come out when he is unpressurre
and when he does fire, and I mean when you
get a body that fires as fast as he does,
it's pretty hard to think up. And that's you know
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where you know that shot and regulation in the seventy
second hold where he just left to the right seems
to be his bogey if you want to call it.
That or his memephsis and then you know, I just
take it back to seventeen on on even Saturday, you know,
like you see his putting stroke just get very quick,
through the through the ball, change paces. Maybe sometimes it's quick,
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sometimes it's slow. So I mean, look, everybody's got their thing,
but I mean, look, you can't follow them as a players,
and he's amazing, So I don't mean to sound critical,
but yeah, I mean he's just he's constantly trying to
control obviously in the motion. I think this is probably
this would down as being as the hardest victory. He
hasn't won a major for a number of years, and
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he's lost quite a few. He's been polarized in the
media in the last few years with this whole of
you know, sort of you know PGA Tour battle if
you want to call it that. So, yeah, there's been
a lot. I think has been a lot going on.
You know, he's got a divorce in it and real
kindling with his advice. There's been a lot going on
in Roy's life.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Indeed, well, yeah, you can understand the emotion at the
end when that part did finally drop. Just on Justin Rose,
he started the day, seven shots behind, the most extraordinary
last eight hole six bood. He's in two boge. He's
got up to eleven under. What did you see from
him today?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Look, I just think it's amazing. You know, he's forty
I think forty four, isn't he? You know he finished
set in last year in the open at Troon and
there he just he just keeps on surprising. You know,
really I think I'm not surprising, but just yeah, to
be doing what he's doing, I mean that's a hell
around that lan and then to vertical last. I mean
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I was sitting on eighteen yesterday for probably a good
hour and a half and you know, I mean there
was there was certainly more boats than pars. It's a
puff hole, you know, and from the get up and
do what he did and under that pressure, knowing you've
got to do to sort of show and post a score.
No phenomenal stuff from from Rosie as well. I thought
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it was a real he could be you know, should
eat anything wrong, you know, she'd be proud of himself.
He's he sat there and watched Maitland. I mean, I'm
sure he will have doing himself. But you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Saying, of course absolutely and that was clear at the
end as well. And bryceon d Chambeau starting the day
outright second paired with macl right Bertie the second actually
to briefly take the lead, but went downhill from their
unhappy final round shooting three over. Just the day too
big for Bryson today. What did what did you assess
from from him today?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
I heard, because I'm a little bit out of a
loop with with media silence and because you can't have
phones or anything in that in the and I've just
got back, But I don't know. I heard something about
him being on the range to the way out last night.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Was that true?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
I don't know. I mean it sounds like to me
his load for the week was pretty high. And and
I I think from a from you from life point
of view as a coach and and explain you so
you think it's only a certain the amount of energy
levels and and I think you just speed it out.
It's you know, it is it is high energy stuff
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that you're playing out out there for a long time.
And and to me it sounds like he just almost
worked himself. Yeah, it's too hard for the week and
and just lost energy. You know, it's it's tough then
to be, you know, to try and fight all those
emotions and you've got to be so you know, on
top of what your self talkers and all these different
things that sit around pressure and golf and also the
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physical side of things as well, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like you had but hard.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
So yeah, to me that I don't know, that's my
That was my sort of reflection.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, I'll have to check on that. Haven't heard that news.
But yeah, it seems like a slightly unusual approach given
given the magnitude of the day. But maybe maybe that's
that's his approach. So Rory's won all four majors now,
only the sixth player to do that. But I say,
this sounds so strange, but only five major season one?
Do we include him as an all time great?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Now? We have to, you know, like kids, you know
the amount. I mean, he's one to two players championships,
you know, multiple events and you know in the PGA
and been a world number one multiple times as well.
I think we have to, don't we. I Mean, he's
such a talent and such obviously a huge name of
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the sport now, so definitely definitely got my vote.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What's Augusta like.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
It's it doesn't there for golfers, it's I mean, I'm
lucky to be I'm lucky to have been there eight
or nine times. And it's through the years when I
was with Foxy and twenty three for the for the
whole week, it's made. It's just phenomenal. The way that
the golf comers run. You know, I might be with
eight players, eight people now you know hunters and you know,
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just everything is. He's not a standunturned. It's phenomenal. From
the experience you have and the food concessions to the
just you know, the way that the thickenings run, to
just everything made. It's it's phenomenal. Now I'm in the
golf course condition obviously everything knows that you'll never unless
you see it and be it and feel it. You
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just can't really explain it made. And we never had
a disappointed person that comes, you know and thinks, oh,
I don't think it was going to get Yeah, it's
not good as I thought. You know, it's never happened.
So yeah, it's it's a mating place.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, that's a good description. Marcus. Thanks for joining us, mate,
really appreciate you taking the time and enjoy the rest
of the stay over there.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Oh thanks Jason, No, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You, Marcus, Marcus well house there who was there watching
it unfold? Your chance to react or just tell us
what stood out as you watched this morning? Oh eight,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty. Who did you want
to win? From the start of the weekend. I wanted
Rory to win before it even started, given the history
and how many times he said a crack at it,
and how this narrative must just be playing on his mind.
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And that continued this morning. But as Justin Rose started
picking up shots on his back nine, and especially when
he drained that part on eighteen to cart a six
under round and go to eleven under, I wanted that
to mean something, to at least give him a shot,
because he's never won the Masters either. In fact, Justin
Rose has only got one major title. And when Rory
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missed that part on eighteen to go back to eleven
under and they went to a playoff, I must say
I wasn't utterly gutted. I'm still pleased Rory won, but
Justin Rose seems like an utterly decent bloke who I
hope gets a green jacket as well. Now time may
well be against him. He's forty four now, Justin Rose,
and today may have been his best chance, But I
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hope he does. Jack Nicholas was forty six when he
won his last one. Tiger Woods won the last of
his forty three. Ben Crenshaw was forty three when he
won it, Gary Player forty two. So I hope Justin
Rose can win one. But what stood out for you
this morning? Oh? Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. And
I also wonder where this puts Rory McElroy in terms
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of our greatest ever male golfers. Now, Rory McElroy has
won five majors. Now, as I said to Marcus, fourteen
players have won more majors than he has. Another six
have won the same number he has. So he's one
of twenty one male golfers to have won five majors
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or more. But he's one of just six players to
have won all four a career Grand Slam. Jack Nicholas,
Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen are
the only other golfers to have won all four of
the majors during their careers. I just wonder which is
more impressive winning the most or winning them all. Clearly,
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winning them all is much harder to do. Otherwise more
people would have done it. But some very good golfers
haven't done it. Tom Watson, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Lee Travino,
Phil Mickelson. They've all won more majors than Rory McElroy,
but they haven't won all four. Twenty nine players have
won four or more majors, but just six players have
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won all four. Now just a caveat. Walter Hagen, who
won eleven, Harry Varden, who won seven, and Bobby Jones,
who won seven never played the Masters because it didn't
start until nineteen thirty four, But the others all did
and they couldn't win all four. Where does Rory McElroy
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now rate for you having completed this very uncommon feat.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine
two on text? Let's talk some Masters golf in the
wash up to the eighty ninth Masters. Hello Dallas Hi.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Parony, Well, what an achievement. I didn't think he'd do it. Actually,
I didn't think he would do it because it's, you know,
it's so hard.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
It's so hard.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
To win these golf tournaments, just like it is to
win Wimbledon or tennis, you know, to actually get that
final cut. And I think in a way, psychologically it
was easier for Rose because Rose had nothing to lose.
He was like going, you know, seven behind, going in,
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so in a way he can relax and so I've
got nothing to lose, Let's have a go at this,
you know. But it's harder for the guy I reckon
who's leading to in front Mackroy. It's sort of harder
because everyone's coming after you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
It's just psychologically it's really hard to lead.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I reckon for the Yeah, great observation, tell us you're right.
And they often say that in order to play the
best golf, and it doesn't matter whether you're an elite
player or a hacker who goes out of the weekend,
that you have to be relaxed in order to do that. Now,
how on earth you can be relaxed when you're having
your eighteenth crack at it, when you know, all the
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narrative is like, I've never won one. I had a
lead of four shots, you know, back in I think
it was twenty fourteen or whenever it was and I
blew that. You know, how do you stay relaxed? Where
As you say, Justin Rose seven shots behind to start,
no one really expected him to get there, and then
he starts reeling off all these booties on the back nine.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, well, he was just in the zone. He said
afterwards that it was just one of those rare moments
where he felt he felt strong, confident in his mind,
in his game, and everything was flowing. He just felt
he could do anything out there. And yeah, I'm really
I'm like you. I wanted Roes to. I wanted them
both to win because I really like Justin Rose too,
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and he you know'd be lovely if he could win
the Master's. But as he say, timent against them.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I was surprised, actually, Dallas, when I checked that
he's only ever won one major, I would have thought,
if you see me, how many is he won, especially
given the way he played today, I say, well four
or five? Just one for Justin Rows and never the Masters.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Yeah, yep, it's such as so as I said at
the start, it's so hard to actually win, to actually
cross that finishing line. Doesn't matter who you are, how
good you are, you know, you often see it Wimbledon,
that we're serving from the match, their knees week and
you know, and they double fold or something. You know,
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it's just a pressure and it's close or to actually
do it. You know, good on him, because I didn't
think he was going to do it, did you really?
Speaker 10 (18:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well? I know I think I did until the only
time I thought he wouldn't was when he when he
he was coming down the back and he always had
at least a share of the lead, and I just
I wondered, I guess around I think it was around
the what was the one he double bogied? He double
bogied thirteen and then bogied fourteen immediately afterwards, and I thought, okay,
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that was when I worried. But then he birdied the
next one pard sixteen, birdy seventeen. I thought he's home
and host. The second one was when he missed that
part on eighteen, which would have given it to him,
And I thought, how do you compose yourself after that?
Do you just think it ain't happening for me? It
will never happen for me.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Amazing? And that's shot on the playoff hole, that second
shot into the green. Wow, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Utterly magnificent. Dallis. Good on you, mate, Thanks for thanks
for calling the night and giving us your emotions. I
certainly had high emotions as more now. I was pacing
around and I got quite emotional when he won it.
Just you know, I don't really follow Rory McElroy closely,
but I'm honestly obviously aware of the storyline here. I
was quite emotional when he won, as was he. Peter says,
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I was, like you, wanting Rory to win from before
the tournament started. I have not watched a more dramatic
sporting event, says Peter. Good on your Peter, Thanks mate,
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty seven twenty six
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Speaker 1 (20:13):
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Speaker 2 (20:20):
Seven twenty nine on News Talk ZB talking the Masters.
What stood out to you and what is more impressive?
Winning them all or winning a whole heap of them?
Incredible that Rory McElroy's only won five, but in the
five he's won all four That is by father fewest
number of majors by those who have won the Grand Slam. Hello, Derek.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, look, I I remember when Firm Malchuson won at Murfield.
That was a British Open in two thousand and thirteen
or twenty fourteen. I'm not sure. He was brilliant that
day in a real good course that had incredible rough
but tremendous greens, and he landed everything on the green,
especially on the last day of the back nine, where
he I think he had eight out of the nine
greens and he only putted I think once or maybe
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twice in one one shot, but the rest was all
one part straight in and that game is first major
And as far as I'm concerned, five majors means you're
a great player. He's since gone on to do sex
I think of the age of fifty, but generally that's
that's I mean. Sevi Bellaceiros was five majors. So for me,
now he's going to be considered one of the greats.
And if you want to sum up Rory, have looked
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at that third day when he shot a sixty six.
He got to that fifteenth. Now, Shane Lowry got there
before him, and so did so did that English guy.
They both got there and they both they both laid up.
They went to the creek and they laid up, and
they both had a cross and then they both went
for what looked like presentable birdies, but both both Shane
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Lowry and that they missed those birdies. Now Rory come
up behind him. No thought of laying up. He went
for the whole, you know, he went for the hole.
He got an eagle. And then today you have a
look at the same hole. This time he was behind
the trees. No thought about laying up. No, he's got
to go around the tree and he's going to let
the hole. And he missed the eagle. Part, buddy, he
tapped them for a verdie and that that tells you
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all you need to know. I see another thing about him.
You have a look at the last couple of years
where he's won the Players Championship. He taken some charming
There's a lot of water on that course. He takes
so many chances. He skirts around the water with these
incredible shots. And I think because he takes so many chances,
it is one of the reasons he's so popular. City
Bellows service is the same to get himself into these
these trouble areas and I remember after he won the
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players Ry McElroy about a month ago, one of the
one of the commentators was saying, you know, on the
last day there, you got at a bit of trouble.
You ain't just going down the middle and attacking the greens.
And he says, look, I can play, and I pride
myself and being able to play in all parts of
the golf course. You know, Rory, that's not the way
you do it, you know. And then I noticed also
in the last couple of days here when he got
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to the eighteenth which is which is quite narrow actually,
and then you go down the middle and then yeah, yeah,
tapped the green from there. Now, yesterday he actually started
from right to left. He skirted across the top of
the trees, and then he faded a little bit into
the middle and then he went for the green from there.
Yet you have a look at him today. He actually
went down the middle and then he drifted once he
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got around the trees, then he drifted the other way.
And he did that in the playoff as well. So
it just shows that he's got versatility in his game.
Plus he didn't go safe. He doesn't understand a word
of safe. I mean this, and then at the end
there when when Justin Rose hit that great shot on
the eighteenth, he must have thought, right that said, if
Rory can get inside my part here, he'll probably deserved it.
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Sure enough he go inside. I mean not only did
he got inside, but Jason, you have a look out high.
He hits the ball once again, taking chances he take.
He wants to take chances. He just doesn't want to
go out and win a golf tournament the old fashioned way,
you know, down the middle of tap the green that No,
he doesn't do that. He goes for it. And I
think this is one of the reasons he's blown up.
And when else the US Open recently, and of course
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a couple of years ago to eleven, it was I
think with the Masters where he was leading by four
shots from the last. But there's things like that. I
don't think it plays on his mind as much as
he thinks. And I think he's got the luck of
the Irish with him a little bit today, I think.
And once again I think sports people love people who
are creative, and he's certainly creative around the greens and
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the way he takes these chances, and I think people
think to themselves, you know, Rory's going to try something special.
He's not gonna it's not going to be easy. And
today you look back on this. I think we'll be
looking back on this one day and saying this is
one of the great masters of all time. And Larry
Mize chipping into beat the beat Greek Norman a few
years ago, and of course let's not forget back. And
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I think it was eighty five or eighty six, would
have been eighty five when Jack Nicholas was about forty
six forty seven years old then, and he won that,
he won his six Masters. That was one of the
most incredible plays of all time. And of course the Jeens,
Sarah's and you know the shot who around the world.
We hear that a number of times over the weekend.
But I think Rory's right up there with them. And
I think, yes, getting back to the original question, Yeah,
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you've got to win five majors to be considered a
great and I think is always a time when you
win a major the way Rory's done. It wouldn't surprise
me if he was the next couple, because he's like
over a little bit of a hump, I think, and
I think at times you can see this confidence flowing
through them. And you saw it during the Players Championship
a month ago. He saw it. He was just he
just looked like he thought he was invincible. And then
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you compare him with this to Shambo with this this
he looks like he's the box are going out for
some kind of prize fight. And the way he's I mean,
his swing is so untidy compared to the smooth operation
that Rory McElroy is.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
If you seen Bryce and DCM both passing as well,
it's so unusual.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Derek, God, you look for a bodybuilder trying to pass.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He trying to get his biceps out of the way.
Oh brilliant, Derek. Good on you. The chant is always great.
Observations as always from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty talking of it a goalkeepza on text. I'll
get to those. Elsie's Jason. I heard his caddy had
said to him before the playoff, if you'd been offered
a playoff at the start of the week, you would
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have taken it. I guess that's well, probably true. Well,
because it's so hard to win these things, isn't it
so to get to a playoff and be in with well,
probably one, maybe a couple bore, with a chance to
win it after seventy two holes, You're right most golfers
to say, yeah, I'll take that. I'll take that. I
guess the fact that he had led by I think
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it was four at the most. I think he might
have been five strokes I had at one stage in
the final round may have only been four either way
to have that lead paired back because what did he
shoot on the scoring was one over, wasn't it? In
his final around? Yeah, one over, a one over seventy three. Meantime,
Justin Rose was shooting a six under. Incredible stuff, really
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great text through here from Ellison. It says I was
working at a golf event at the Hong Kong Golf
Club a year or a year before Rory McElroy turned pro.
He was competing in Nick Feldo's junior competition, the Feldo Series.
I remember at the time everybody raving about his swing
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and how talented he was. He finished runner up and
then he asked me to help him tie his tie
for the dinner and write his runners up speech. Now
he's a sleeperstar I was thrilled for his victory today,
love that Allison loved that he had a brush with
Rory McElroy before he became famous. And the Tiger Slam.
This one has pointed out achieved by winning four consecutive
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major titles, but not in the same calendar year. Nobody's
ever done it in a calendar year. Tiger's held all
four at once, but across years. This variation says the
sext named afterwards the only part who accomplished the fat.
Nobody else has done that. And I mean, winning one
is hard enough, right. It's taken Rory McElroy's seventeen attempts
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to win this one. Yes, he's one of the others,
but to win that one and then in and around
that to win the other three. I mean I heard
someone say the other day I might have even been
Steve Williams said that actually the hardest one to win
is the second one, because you win your first one
and say you know you've done it, but then to
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back that up and win another one and then more
after that is actually very difficult. Just that I just
put that to put that fader up at the wrong
time and got a bit of golf in the background.
But you know, five for Rory McElroy, it doesn't put
him anywhere near the top of the tree as far
as the most is concerned. But it's the Grand Slam
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which is the thing, and the fact that it's only
been done by five others and now six with Rory
obviously makes it incredibly special, incredibly special. How is he
feeling after he won?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
It's a dream come true I have. I've dreamed about
that moment for as long as i can remember. I
mentioned that I'd in the praize ceremony. But watching Tiger
here in nineteen ninety do what he did and winning
his first green jacket, I think that inspired so many
of my generation to want to emulate what he did.
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And you know, there were points in my career where
I didn't know if I would have this nice garment
over my shoulders. But I didn't make it easy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Today.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I certainly didn't make it easy. I was nervous. It
was one of the toughest days I've ever had on
the golf course. In a funny way, I feel like
the double boogeit the first sort of settled my nerves.
It's funny walking to the second tee. The first thing
that popping into my head was John Ram a couple
of years ago making double and going on to win.
At least my mind was in the right place and
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was at least thinking positively about it. But a complete
roller coaster of a day, you know, it felt it was.
It was very tricky out there. It almost felt more
like a US Open than than a Master's at some points,
just with how firm and fast the greens got. But yeah,
I'm just really proud of how puts back from you know,
from the double on one, from the double on thirteen.
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I don't know if I don't know if any Masters
champions had four doubles during the week, but maybe I'm
the first. But yeah, just just a complete roller coaster
of emotions today. And and honestly, you know, walk came
out of me on the on the last green there
in the playoff was you know, at least eleven years,
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if not fourteen years of pent up emotion, you know,
since twenty eleven. I think it's so ironic as well.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I got to my.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Locker this morning and I opened it up and there
was a note in there for minke Kel Cabrera and
just wishing me luck and ank Kell Cabrera was the
player I played with in the final day in twenty eleven,
so just it was sort of it was a nice
touch and a little bit ironic at the same time.
And it's been fourteen long years, but plankfully, I'm I
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got I got the job done.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And what about Justin Rose who came from not nowhere
but certainly came from a long way back to force
that playoff off the back of a sensational back nine
into the playoff but losing on the first playoff hole
when he could only make par, and Rory McElroy made
the Boodie that eventually gave him the Green jacket. What
were Justin Rose's reflections on the final day and in
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fact on the tournament as a whole.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
It's been an unbelievable week from day one. Obviously, the
golf course has been in gorgeous condition, the weather has
been unbelievable, has been the most enjoyable masters from that
point of view for quite some time, just being as
you would as you would painted up, you know, the
week has been that way, and you know, some of
the golf I've played this week has been probably the
finest of my career tee to green and even on
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the greens at times, you know. So the only thing
I can point to was to a back nine yesterday
with a pudder where I kind of let a few
too many get away easily, and I felt like starting
the day that that was kind of possibly gonna cost
me in the sense that I felt a little bit
too far back. I mean, seven backs starting the day.
But I woke up this morning just really grateful to
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be Sunday, Augusta. It's a special day in the game
of golf no matter what, and really wanted to go
and put a good, good account of myself. And I
felt like I got off to a strong start, and
then something happened for sure around around the middle of
the round. I just kind of went into the place
that you dream about going to, you know. I felt
so good with my game, felt so good with my mind,
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and I began to sense that I was playing my
way into the tournament. I was laser focused out there,
and then you know, really didn't look didn't look at
a leaderboard all day until the eighteenth green and realized
that that part I could hear from the crowd on
seventeen and I was right right in the mix. And
then on eighteen I figured Rory was behind me. There
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was you know, I needed to make that part to
kind of give myself some hope. So it's the kind
of part you dream about as a kid, and to
have it and hold it it was a special feeling.
And unfortunately the playoff they always end so quickly. You know,
that's sudden death. You don't really get an opportunity. If
you don't, if you're not the guy to hit the
great shot or hold the great part, you know it's over.
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So I felt like that's the natures sudden death, but
not really anything I could have done more.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Today it's justin Rose and just finally from the Masters.
Rory McElroy on the burden of not having won it,
having given it a crack so many times.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
I've carried that burden since August twenty fourteen. It's been
eleven years. It's nearly eleven years, and not just the
boy winning my next major, but the career Grand Slam.
You're trying to join a group of five players to
do it, you know, watching a lot of my peers
get green jackets. In the process. Yeah, it's it's been
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difficult and I've tried to approach this tournament with the
most positive attitude each and every time that I've shown up,
and this sort of cumulative experience that I've gained coming
back here each and every year, I just I feel
like I get a little more comfortable with the shots needed.
You know, I talked about it at the start of
the week, but you know, there's talking about it and
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actually doing it. And yeah, today was Today was difficult.
I was unbelievably nervous this morning, really nervous on the
first hall, as you witness with the double But as
I said, that sort of calmed me down, and you know,
I was able to bounce back and show, you know,
that resilience that I've talked about a lot, and yeah, no, look,
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it was a heavy way to carry, and you know,
thankfully I don't have to carry it, and it frees
me up, and you know, I know I'm coming back
here every year, which is lovely.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Rory McElroy on winning the Masters for the first time.
Sixteen away from it. We'll take a break and then
come back and right the weekend Party's Power rankings. Where
will Rory be on Partey's Power rankings. I'm sure he's
waiting on the edge of a seat to find out
as maybe you are. His power rankings up next on Zbeak.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Days.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Our rankingsway, Yeah, let's go with Piney's power rankings as
we as always on a Monday night. Rate the best,
the worst and the in between. Bits from the sporting weekends.
The Warriors a Melbourne mauling at Amy Park yesterday, haoulf
a thousand numbers again along the crane, Anderson goes on
(35:39):
a Sunday's troll. We'll bove defender within koie. They have
six dries in half an hour, Sit back and enjoy
rugby league perfection. Yeah, well I didn't enjoy that much.
Thirty six MILLI a half time better in the second half,
but still a forty two to fourteen defeat. Are we
ever going to beat the storm again? Sine Liam Lawson
(36:00):
crossing thirteenth at the bar Rain Grand Prix, but forced
to settle for seventeenth after he was punished fifteen seconds
of penalties for twice bumping into Sauber's Nico Holkenberg.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
We had really good speed where the couldn't really use it,
and to be.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Honest, so anyway, get overseach was you know, obviously lunching
quite late.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
I wasn't intentionally.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Obviously touching with with others, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Next up the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this coming weekend
seat Team New Zealand, losing their skipper. Three time America's
Cup winner. Peter Berling. Chief exec Grant Dalton says the
two main factors were time and money.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Just couldn't come to an arrangement.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
The team needs certainty and we need to know that
our key people are available. It just didn't come together time.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
For the essence, the next cut not a lot more
than two years away now and we have to move on.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Aukland FC another draw. That's five in their last six,
but twelve matches unbeaten, and in this one they came
back from two nil down against Sydney FC away from home.
Saka the strata again.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
The little one too for Sakai into the area.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Drives it across the face of gold Debree since it
deflected Real Squad midway through the second.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Half two till it finished four points clear at the
top with three games to go in the regular season.
The Premier's plate is still Auckland FCS to lose six.
The Highlander is getting some love, snapping a four game
losing Super Rugby streak with victory over the Fiji and
Drewer in Dunedas.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Sam Gilbert gets a heit of steam up goes right
to ruta by the bookin nikas the little goostep beick
and say Gilbert glvit, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
The try of the Highlanders.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
I'll finish this one with a trya behind the posts,
underneath the bar. Sam Gilbert scores and the Highlands forty
three Fiji and drew at.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Twenty after seventh on the table, just three points outside
the top six. Amazing what a win can do. Five
into the top half and sticking with Super Rugby, the
Crusaders back to the top of the table.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Full time at Sky Stadium and the Crusaders have.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Hung on with thirteen men.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
The Hurricanes were camped down in the corner.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
They couldn't get there. The Crusaders led by twenty fourteen
alt halftime.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
They have won this game.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Hupho sot Super Rugby Pacific game by thirty one points
to twenty.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Four last year now but of a distant memory is
the Red and Blacks are back on top. Across the
Tasman teenaged Aussie sprint sensation Goutcut, blitzing the field and
going well under twenty seconds for the two hundred meters
at the Aussie Track and Field Champs.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Here comes out cout. We knew we'd see this in
the final fifty, so let's watch the young superstar rights.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
He's flying.
Speaker 11 (38:39):
He will be the gout of this universe. Unbelievable. Two
point two two point two. It won't ch out in
terms of a record, but what it will do.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
It says, hey world, this is me.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah. The two point two is wind assistance, which is
why it doesn't count as a record. But nineteen point
eight four seconds absolutely extraordinary. See the Blues Super Rugby
O Picky champions, in huge part due to a spectacular
try from one of the youngest players.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Enfield, Oh no, intercepted by Sornzon McGee. She's got sixteen
minutes to run, Sorrenson McGee inside the bunch to two
half shirks. What teckle She's inside the twenty two McGee
for the right head corner. She's gonna go in here. Brexton,
Sarens and McGee, Oh my goodness me Brexton science and
McGee goes the length of the field and the plus
go out twenty six nineteen with least than ten minutes
(39:34):
to play.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Here that's how it finished. Incredible try from teenage fullback
Braxton Sorenson McGee to seal the win. Who Matt Payne,
the Kiwi Supercars driver winning at TOPA. He's the man
that has done an outstanding joint all week in for
Penright Racing. He is in the last three hours, down
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three three seconds at New Zealanders.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Live every millimeter of.
Speaker 11 (40:01):
This drive by young man Payne, who wins the Jason
Witchard's Trophy and picks up his second victory tone Pard
this weekend one.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But there can be only one. Number one the glory
for Rory. Rory McElroy, finally the owner of an elusive
green jacket.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
The journey it's taken to get here, for all this history.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Has his mastriplace had to be number one? What he recommends?
Did I leave it inything out? Did I try anybody
too harsh?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
For once, Pony, I'm on board. It's a change of blues.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
I only get to go to number three, but those
number one and two is just have to go on front, don't.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
They They do indeed, and those are Piney's power rankings
for tonight. Back again in a couple of weeks. We're
not here next Monday, Easter Monday. Back in a couple
of weeks seven to eight, coming up four to eighth
to final. A couple of bits of correspondence to mop
up Tony says Ponty, I reckon McElroy will win another
Green jacket. Now he's got the right game for Augusta,
and now the shackles are gone. You might be one
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of those London ones. You wait ages to get one,
and then a couple come along at once. Certainly been
a few who have won more than one. Eighteen by
Mike count have won the Green Jacket more than once.
Jack Nicholas the most with six, and then Tiger Woods
five times. Arnold Palmer won the Masters four times, Gary Player,
Sam Sneid, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson and Jimmy Demoday all
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won it three times. So it's not as though you
know you're one and done. Some people are. But yeah,
maybe it's a fact of life that you do have
to lose a bunch to win one, and then once
you've won one, who knows be interesting to watch the
career trajectory now, won't it of Rory McElroy and where
he goes from here? Because you feel like he's still
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got quite a bit of golf left in him. Five majors.
It doesn't seem like that'll be the final number by
any stretch in the imagination. How old would Rory McElroy be?
Thirty five? I think he's thirty five. I saw today
it could be a few more green jackets. Thanks to
Answer Melicits for producing the show. Thank you for listening
in Marcus Slash is on your radio after eight o'clock.
(42:14):
I'll be back for weekend sport this coming Saturday and
Easter Sunday too. No rest for us, well, maybe a
little bit of rest. Enjoy your week.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, joon a, good evening and welcome into Monday night
sports talk on News Talk, said B. I'm Jason Pine
Show producer as Miller Sich. We're here for an hour
talking sport with you. What about that golf this morning?
Incredible drama, unreal sporting theater. Rory McElroy chasing the major
he has craved for so long, and at the seventeenth
(00:47):
time of asking, finally got his hands on that famous
green jacket, but not without a hiccup or two along
the way and having to negotiate a sudden death playoff
with Justin Rose. We're going to get you to Augusta
very shortly. We'll be joined by a former KIWI professional
and now top coach, Marcus Wheelhouse, who watched it all unfold,
to hear your reflections as well as you watched it
(01:09):
all play out this morning. Also tonight, one of our
top Paralympic swimmers, Cameron Leslie, has committed to the Los
Angeles Paralympic Games. That'll be his fifth Paralympics and he's
trying something a bit different to kick start his preparations.
He's going to tell us more about that tonight and
on Monday nights. Of course, we rate the weekend, the
highs and lows and bits in between Piney's Power rankings.
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Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well as I say, incredible theater, unbelievable drama. On the
last afternoon at Augusta, As Golf's eighty ninth Masters Tournament
was decided via the opening sudden death playoff hole, overnight
leader Rory me Kackleroy seemed to have everything under control
and moved from his overnight score of twelve under to
fourteen under after ten holes in his final round, But
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then he dropped a shot on eleven and then got
to thirteen, where he has left himself the beautiful seaphest
handle just eighty sixth to the hall.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh y.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Oh, my goodness, can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Couldn't explain that a double bogie on thirteen. He also
boged fourteen to drop back to ten under, then birdied
fifteen to go back to eleven under. But Justin Rose,
who had started the day seven shots behind Rory McElroy,
had the most extraordinary last eight holes, carding six birdies
and two bogies. He got to eleven under, the last
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of his birdies This part on eighteen lose.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
How's a part to tie the lead?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Chance Justin Rose? Low leader's safe around all incredible part
from Rose. He was in the clubhouse. Then at eleven under,
McElroy had two holes to play. He birdied seventeen thanks
to this superb approach.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And going diner a shot very back as the crowds run.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
So he put it in there and retook a one
shot lead. Heading to the last hole, the eighteenth, he
was twelve under, just needed to make par to win
the tournament. Hit a good tea shot, but put his
second into the bunker, then played a terrific third shot
out of the bunker to set up a very makeable
four foot part for par and the tournament, but he
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missed agonizingly to the left. He made bogey, dropped back
to eleven under and into the playoff with Justin Rose.
They went back to the eighteenth ten. Both men got
onto the green with their second shots. McElroy was closer
to the hole, so Rose putted first. For Bertie.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
The door is open again for McElroy to finish it off.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Rose made his par before McElroy putted for the win.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
The journey it's taken to get here, for all this history,
Hackaway has.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
His master piece, our first green jacket for Rory McElroy,
just the sixth man to win all four majors and
complete a career Grand Slam.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
There was a lot of pent up emotion that just
came out on ninet eighteenth green and a moment like
the mix all the years and all the close calls
worth it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that's basically how it played out. Let's bring in
formal world number one ranked amateur professional tour player for
twelve years and now one of our leading coaches, Marcus Wheelhouse,
who was at Augusta. Marcus, thanks for joining us. Is
there anything to match the drama of the last afternoon
like that? At a major golf tournament.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Hello, Jason. It was pretty Cinderella like that, to be honest.
So I was, you know, I was thinking it would
be it'd be great to see either of those two
win for for for the various reasons. But but now
look to see Rory one was pretty special.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm not quite sure where to start, but can we
start maybe at the end. How on earth would Rory
McElroy have composed himself for a playoff after missing the
part to win it on eighteen the first time?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Well, I just I mean, I just, yeah, I've been
mate with great difficulty rather than me. But I think
that you know that that emotion certainly came out after
after he finally did it. But I think he's been
he's been very conflated and very he is wording in
the media, has been very about very much about you know,
just that whole keeping the presence and not sort of
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looking at better boards and everything else. So made it
would have been an absolute huge ountain to climb for him,
because you know, I mean, I just go back to Ponts,
you know last year when when him and Bryson down
the stretch and you know, he's missed a couple of
sort of pretty fid or puts in those last year
holes there at Pinehurst, And unfortunately he was a nervous
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system a couple of times this year as well, So
maybe he certainly had a lot of a lot of
mountains to climb. That's just short.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
What did you say when he started to try us
strike trouble on his back nine? What did you see
from him during that little stretch where he where he
had a had a he dropped a shot on eleven
double bogue, thirteen, bogied fourteen back to ten under What
did you see during that little stretch that you know
from from Roy McElroy.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Well, I mean he's I mean from a from I mean,
it's pretty hard to fold him in the way that
he strikes a golf for but there's certainly a certain
pattern that seems to come out when he is unpressurre
and when he does fire, and I mean when you
get a body that fires as fast as he does,
it's pretty hard to think up. And that's you know
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where you know that shot and regulation in the seventy
second hold where he just left to the right seems
to be his bogey if you want to call it.
That or his memephsis and then you know, I just
take it back to seventeen on on even Saturday, you know,
like you see his putting stroke just get very quick,
through the through the ball, change paces. Maybe sometimes it's quick,
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sometimes it's slow. So I mean, look, everybody's got their thing,
but I mean, look, you can't follow them as a players,
and he's amazing, So I don't mean to sound critical,
but yeah, I mean he's just he's constantly trying to
control obviously in the motion. I think this is probably
this would down as being as the hardest victory. He
hasn't won a major for a number of years, and
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he's lost quite a few. He's been polarized in the
media in the last few years with this whole of
you know, sort of you know PGA Tour battle if
you want to call it that. So, yeah, there's been
a lot. I think has been a lot going on.
You know, he's got a divorce in it and real
kindling with his advice. There's been a lot going on
in Roy's life.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Indeed, well, yeah, you can understand the emotion at the
end when that part did finally drop. Just on Justin Rose,
he started the day, seven shots behind, the most extraordinary
last eight hole six bood. He's in two boge. He's
got up to eleven under. What did you see from
him today?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Look, I just think it's amazing. You know, he's forty
I think forty four, isn't he? You know he finished
set in last year in the open at Troon and
there he just he just keeps on surprising. You know,
really I think I'm not surprising, but just yeah, to
be doing what he's doing, I mean that's a hell
around that lan and then to vertical last. I mean
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I was sitting on eighteen yesterday for probably a good
hour and a half and you know, I mean there
was there was certainly more boats than pars. It's a
puff hole, you know, and from the get up and
do what he did and under that pressure, knowing you've
got to do to sort of show and post a score.
No phenomenal stuff from from Rosie as well. I thought
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it was a real he could be you know, should
eat anything wrong, you know, she'd be proud of himself.
He's he sat there and watched Maitland. I mean, I'm
sure he will have doing himself. But you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Saying, of course absolutely and that was clear at the
end as well. And bryceon d Chambeau starting the day
outright second paired with macl right Bertie the second actually
to briefly take the lead, but went downhill from their
unhappy final round shooting three over. Just the day too
big for Bryson today. What did what did you assess
from from him today?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
I heard, because I'm a little bit out of a
loop with with media silence and because you can't have
phones or anything in that in the and I've just
got back, But I don't know. I heard something about
him being on the range to the way out last night.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Was that true?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
I don't know. I mean it sounds like to me
his load for the week was pretty high. And and
I I think from a from you from life point
of view as a coach and and explain you so
you think it's only a certain the amount of energy
levels and and I think you just speed it out.
It's you know, it is it is high energy stuff
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that you're playing out out there for a long time.
And and to me it sounds like he just almost
worked himself. Yeah, it's too hard for the week and
and just lost energy. You know, it's it's tough then
to be, you know, to try and fight all those
emotions and you've got to be so you know, on
top of what your self talkers and all these different
things that sit around pressure and golf and also the
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physical side of things as well, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Like you had but hard.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
So yeah, to me that I don't know, that's my
That was my sort of reflection.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah, I'll have to check on that. Haven't heard that news.
But yeah, it seems like a slightly unusual approach given
given the magnitude of the day. But maybe maybe that's
that's his approach. So Rory's won all four majors now,
only the sixth player to do that. But I say,
this sounds so strange, but only five major season one?
Do we include him as an all time great?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Now? We have to, you know, like kids, you know
the amount. I mean, he's one to two players championships,
you know, multiple events and you know in the PGA
and been a world number one multiple times as well.
I think we have to, don't we. I Mean, he's
such a talent and such obviously a huge name of
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the sport now, so definitely definitely got my vote.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What's Augusta like.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
It's it doesn't there for golfers, it's I mean, I'm
lucky to be I'm lucky to have been there eight
or nine times. And it's through the years when I
was with Foxy and twenty three for the for the
whole week, it's made. It's just phenomenal. The way that
the golf comers run. You know, I might be with
eight players, eight people now you know hunters and you know,
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just everything is. He's not a standunturned. It's phenomenal. From
the experience you have and the food concessions to the
just you know, the way that the thickenings run, to
just everything made. It's it's phenomenal. Now I'm in the
golf course condition obviously everything knows that you'll never unless
you see it and be it and feel it. You
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just can't really explain it made. And we never had
a disappointed person that comes, you know and thinks, oh,
I don't think it was going to get Yeah, it's
not good as I thought. You know, it's never happened.
So yeah, it's it's a mating place.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, that's a good description. Marcus. Thanks for joining us, mate,
really appreciate you taking the time and enjoy the rest
of the stay over there.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Oh thanks Jason, No, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You, Marcus, Marcus well house there who was there watching
it unfold? Your chance to react or just tell us
what stood out as you watched this morning? Oh eight,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty. Who did you want
to win? From the start of the weekend. I wanted
Rory to win before it even started, given the history
and how many times he said a crack at it,
and how this narrative must just be playing on his mind.
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And that continued this morning. But as Justin Rose started
picking up shots on his back nine, and especially when
he drained that part on eighteen to cart a six
under round and go to eleven under, I wanted that
to mean something, to at least give him a shot,
because he's never won the Masters either. In fact, Justin
Rose has only got one major title. And when Rory
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missed that part on eighteen to go back to eleven
under and they went to a playoff, I must say
I wasn't utterly gutted. I'm still pleased Rory won, but
Justin Rose seems like an utterly decent bloke who I
hope gets a green jacket as well. Now time may
well be against him. He's forty four now, Justin Rose,
and today may have been his best chance, But I
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hope he does. Jack Nicholas was forty six when he
won his last one. Tiger Woods won the last of
his forty three. Ben Crenshaw was forty three when he
won it, Gary Player forty two. So I hope Justin
Rose can win one. But what stood out for you
this morning? Oh? Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. And
I also wonder where this puts Rory McElroy in terms
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of our greatest ever male golfers. Now, Rory McElroy has
won five majors. Now, as I said to Marcus, fourteen
players have won more majors than he has. Another six
have won the same number he has. So he's one
of twenty one male golfers to have won five majors
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or more. But he's one of just six players to
have won all four a career Grand Slam. Jack Nicholas,
Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen are
the only other golfers to have won all four of
the majors during their careers. I just wonder which is
more impressive winning the most or winning them all. Clearly,
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winning them all is much harder to do. Otherwise more
people would have done it. But some very good golfers
haven't done it. Tom Watson, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Lee Travino,
Phil Mickelson. They've all won more majors than Rory McElroy,
but they haven't won all four. Twenty nine players have
won four or more majors, but just six players have
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won all four. Now just a caveat. Walter Hagen, who
won eleven, Harry Varden, who won seven, and Bobby Jones,
who won seven never played the Masters because it didn't
start until nineteen thirty four, But the others all did
and they couldn't win all four. Where does Rory McElroy
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now rate for you having completed this very uncommon feat.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine
two on text? Let's talk some Masters golf in the
wash up to the eighty ninth Masters. Hello Dallas Hi.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Parony, Well, what an achievement. I didn't think he'd do it. Actually,
I didn't think he would do it because it's, you know,
it's so hard.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
It's so hard.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
To win these golf tournaments, just like it is to
win Wimbledon or tennis, you know, to actually get that
final cut. And I think in a way, psychologically it
was easier for Rose because Rose had nothing to lose.
He was like going, you know, seven behind, going in,
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so in a way he can relax and so I've
got nothing to lose, Let's have a go at this,
you know. But it's harder for the guy I reckon
who's leading to in front Mackroy. It's sort of harder
because everyone's coming after you.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You know.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
It's just psychologically it's really hard to lead.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I reckon for the Yeah, great observation, tell us you're right.
And they often say that in order to play the
best golf, and it doesn't matter whether you're an elite
player or a hacker who goes out of the weekend,
that you have to be relaxed in order to do that. Now,
how on earth you can be relaxed when you're having
your eighteenth crack at it, when you know, all the
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narrative is like, I've never won one. I had a
lead of four shots, you know, back in I think
it was twenty fourteen or whenever it was and I
blew that. You know, how do you stay relaxed? Where
As you say, Justin Rose seven shots behind to start,
no one really expected him to get there, and then
he starts reeling off all these booties on the back nine.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, well, he was just in the zone. He said
afterwards that it was just one of those rare moments
where he felt he felt strong, confident in his mind,
in his game, and everything was flowing. He just felt
he could do anything out there. And yeah, I'm really
I'm like you. I wanted Roes to. I wanted them
both to win because I really like Justin Rose too,
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and he you know'd be lovely if he could win
the Master's. But as he say, timent against them.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I was surprised, actually, Dallas, when I checked that
he's only ever won one major, I would have thought,
if you see me, how many is he won, especially
given the way he played today, I say, well four
or five? Just one for Justin Rows and never the Masters.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Yeah, yep, it's such as so as I said at
the start, it's so hard to actually win, to actually
cross that finishing line. Doesn't matter who you are, how
good you are, you know, you often see it Wimbledon,
that we're serving from the match, their knees week and
you know, and they double fold or something. You know,
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it's just a pressure and it's close or to actually
do it. You know, good on him, because I didn't
think he was going to do it, did you really?
Speaker 10 (18:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well? I know I think I did until the only
time I thought he wouldn't was when he when he
he was coming down the back and he always had
at least a share of the lead, and I just
I wondered, I guess around I think it was around
the what was the one he double bogied? He double
bogied thirteen and then bogied fourteen immediately afterwards, and I thought, okay,
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that was when I worried. But then he birdied the
next one pard sixteen, birdy seventeen. I thought he's home
and host. The second one was when he missed that
part on eighteen, which would have given it to him,
And I thought, how do you compose yourself after that?
Do you just think it ain't happening for me? It
will never happen for me.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Amazing? And that's shot on the playoff hole, that second
shot into the green. Wow, that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Utterly magnificent. Dallis. Good on you, mate, Thanks for thanks
for calling the night and giving us your emotions. I
certainly had high emotions as more now. I was pacing
around and I got quite emotional when he won it.
Just you know, I don't really follow Rory McElroy closely,
but I'm honestly obviously aware of the storyline here. I
was quite emotional when he won, as was he. Peter says,
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I was, like you, wanting Rory to win from before
the tournament started. I have not watched a more dramatic
sporting event, says Peter. Good on your Peter, Thanks mate,
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty seven twenty six
back with more of your calls after this on Sports
Talk No need for the DMO.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We've got the breakdown on Sports Talk cool oh eight
hundred News Talk Z.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Seven twenty nine on News Talk ZB talking the Masters.
What stood out to you and what is more impressive?
Winning them all or winning a whole heap of them?
Incredible that Rory McElroy's only won five, but in the
five he's won all four That is by father fewest
number of majors by those who have won the Grand Slam. Hello, Derek.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, look, I I remember when Firm Malchuson won at Murfield.
That was a British Open in two thousand and thirteen
or twenty fourteen. I'm not sure. He was brilliant that
day in a real good course that had incredible rough
but tremendous greens, and he landed everything on the green,
especially on the last day of the back nine, where
he I think he had eight out of the nine
greens and he only putted I think once or maybe
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twice in one one shot, but the rest was all
one part straight in and that game is first major
And as far as I'm concerned, five majors means you're
a great player. He's since gone on to do sex
I think of the age of fifty, but generally that's
that's I mean. Sevi Bellaceiros was five majors. So for me,
now he's going to be considered one of the greats.
And if you want to sum up Rory, have looked
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at that third day when he shot a sixty six.
He got to that fifteenth. Now, Shane Lowry got there
before him, and so did so did that English guy.
They both got there and they both they both laid up.
They went to the creek and they laid up, and
they both had a cross and then they both went
for what looked like presentable birdies, but both both Shane
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Lowry and that they missed those birdies. Now Rory come
up behind him. No thought of laying up. He went
for the whole, you know, he went for the hole.
He got an eagle. And then today you have a
look at the same hole. This time he was behind
the trees. No thought about laying up. No, he's got
to go around the tree and he's going to let
the hole. And he missed the eagle. Part, buddy, he
tapped them for a verdie and that that tells you
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all you need to know. I see another thing about him.
You have a look at the last couple of years
where he's won the Players Championship. He taken some charming
There's a lot of water on that course. He takes
so many chances. He skirts around the water with these
incredible shots. And I think because he takes so many chances,
it is one of the reasons he's so popular. City
Bellows service is the same to get himself into these
these trouble areas and I remember after he won the
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players Ry McElroy about a month ago, one of the
one of the commentators was saying, you know, on the
last day there, you got at a bit of trouble.
You ain't just going down the middle and attacking the greens.
And he says, look, I can play, and I pride
myself and being able to play in all parts of
the golf course. You know, Rory, that's not the way
you do it, you know. And then I noticed also
in the last couple of days here when he got
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to the eighteenth which is which is quite narrow actually,
and then you go down the middle and then yeah, yeah,
tapped the green from there. Now, yesterday he actually started
from right to left. He skirted across the top of
the trees, and then he faded a little bit into
the middle and then he went for the green from there.
Yet you have a look at him today. He actually
went down the middle and then he drifted once he
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got around the trees, then he drifted the other way.
And he did that in the playoff as well. So
it just shows that he's got versatility in his game.
Plus he didn't go safe. He doesn't understand a word
of safe. I mean this, and then at the end
there when when Justin Rose hit that great shot on
the eighteenth, he must have thought, right that said, if
Rory can get inside my part here, he'll probably deserved it.
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Sure enough he go inside. I mean not only did
he got inside, but Jason, you have a look out high.
He hits the ball once again, taking chances he take.
He wants to take chances. He just doesn't want to
go out and win a golf tournament the old fashioned way,
you know, down the middle of tap the green that No,
he doesn't do that. He goes for it. And I
think this is one of the reasons he's blown up.
And when else the US Open recently, and of course
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a couple of years ago to eleven, it was I
think with the Masters where he was leading by four
shots from the last. But there's things like that. I
don't think it plays on his mind as much as
he thinks. And I think he's got the luck of
the Irish with him a little bit today, I think.
And once again I think sports people love people who
are creative, and he's certainly creative around the greens and
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the way he takes these chances, and I think people
think to themselves, you know, Rory's going to try something special.
He's not gonna it's not going to be easy. And
today you look back on this. I think we'll be
looking back on this one day and saying this is
one of the great masters of all time. And Larry
Mize chipping into beat the beat Greek Norman a few
years ago, and of course let's not forget back. And
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I think it was eighty five or eighty six, would
have been eighty five when Jack Nicholas was about forty
six forty seven years old then, and he won that,
he won his six Masters. That was one of the
most incredible plays of all time. And of course the Jeens,
Sarah's and you know the shot who around the world.
We hear that a number of times over the weekend.
But I think Rory's right up there with them. And
I think, yes, getting back to the original question, Yeah,
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you've got to win five majors to be considered a
great and I think is always a time when you
win a major the way Rory's done. It wouldn't surprise
me if he was the next couple, because he's like
over a little bit of a hump, I think, and
I think at times you can see this confidence flowing
through them. And you saw it during the Players Championship
a month ago. He saw it. He was just he
just looked like he thought he was invincible. And then
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you compare him with this to Shambo with this this
he looks like he's the box are going out for
some kind of prize fight. And the way he's I mean,
his swing is so untidy compared to the smooth operation
that Rory McElroy is.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
If you seen Bryce and DCM both passing as well,
it's so unusual.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Derek, God, you look for a bodybuilder trying to pass.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
He trying to get his biceps out of the way.
Oh brilliant, Derek. Good on you. The chant is always great.
Observations as always from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty talking of it a goalkeepza on text. I'll
get to those. Elsie's Jason. I heard his caddy had
said to him before the playoff, if you'd been offered
a playoff at the start of the week, you would
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have taken it. I guess that's well, probably true. Well,
because it's so hard to win these things, isn't it
so to get to a playoff and be in with well,
probably one, maybe a couple bore, with a chance to
win it after seventy two holes, You're right most golfers
to say, yeah, I'll take that. I'll take that. I
guess the fact that he had led by I think
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it was four at the most. I think he might
have been five strokes I had at one stage in
the final round may have only been four either way
to have that lead paired back because what did he
shoot on the scoring was one over, wasn't it? In
his final around? Yeah, one over, a one over seventy three. Meantime,
Justin Rose was shooting a six under. Incredible stuff, really
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great text through here from Ellison. It says I was
working at a golf event at the Hong Kong Golf
Club a year or a year before Rory McElroy turned pro.
He was competing in Nick Feldo's junior competition, the Feldo Series.
I remember at the time everybody raving about his swing
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and how talented he was. He finished runner up and
then he asked me to help him tie his tie
for the dinner and write his runners up speech. Now
he's a sleeperstar I was thrilled for his victory today,
love that Allison loved that he had a brush with
Rory McElroy before he became famous. And the Tiger Slam.
This one has pointed out achieved by winning four consecutive
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major titles, but not in the same calendar year. Nobody's
ever done it in a calendar year. Tiger's held all
four at once, but across years. This variation says the
sext named afterwards the only part who accomplished the fat.
Nobody else has done that. And I mean, winning one
is hard enough, right. It's taken Rory McElroy's seventeen attempts
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to win this one. Yes, he's one of the others,
but to win that one and then in and around
that to win the other three. I mean I heard
someone say the other day I might have even been
Steve Williams said that actually the hardest one to win
is the second one, because you win your first one
and say you know you've done it, but then to
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back that up and win another one and then more
after that is actually very difficult. Just that I just
put that to put that fader up at the wrong
time and got a bit of golf in the background.
But you know, five for Rory McElroy, it doesn't put
him anywhere near the top of the tree as far
as the most is concerned. But it's the Grand Slam
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which is the thing, and the fact that it's only
been done by five others and now six with Rory
obviously makes it incredibly special, incredibly special. How is he
feeling after he won?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
It's a dream come true I have. I've dreamed about
that moment for as long as i can remember. I
mentioned that I'd in the praize ceremony. But watching Tiger
here in nineteen ninety do what he did and winning
his first green jacket, I think that inspired so many
of my generation to want to emulate what he did.
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And you know, there were points in my career where
I didn't know if I would have this nice garment
over my shoulders. But I didn't make it easy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Today.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
I certainly didn't make it easy. I was nervous. It
was one of the toughest days I've ever had on
the golf course. In a funny way, I feel like
the double boogeit the first sort of settled my nerves.
It's funny walking to the second tee. The first thing
that popping into my head was John Ram a couple
of years ago making double and going on to win.
At least my mind was in the right place and
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was at least thinking positively about it. But a complete
roller coaster of a day, you know, it felt it was.
It was very tricky out there. It almost felt more
like a US Open than than a Master's at some points,
just with how firm and fast the greens got. But yeah,
I'm just really proud of how puts back from you know,
from the double on one, from the double on thirteen.
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I don't know if I don't know if any Masters
champions had four doubles during the week, but maybe I'm
the first. But yeah, just just a complete roller coaster
of emotions today. And and honestly, you know, walk came
out of me on the on the last green there
in the playoff was you know, at least eleven years,
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if not fourteen years of pent up emotion, you know,
since twenty eleven. I think it's so ironic as well.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I got to my.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Locker this morning and I opened it up and there
was a note in there for minke Kel Cabrera and
just wishing me luck and ank Kell Cabrera was the
player I played with in the final day in twenty eleven,
so just it was sort of it was a nice
touch and a little bit ironic at the same time.
And it's been fourteen long years, but plankfully, I'm I
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got I got the job done.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And what about Justin Rose who came from not nowhere
but certainly came from a long way back to force
that playoff off the back of a sensational back nine
into the playoff but losing on the first playoff hole
when he could only make par, and Rory McElroy made
the Boodie that eventually gave him the Green jacket. What
were Justin Rose's reflections on the final day and in
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fact on the tournament as a whole.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
It's been an unbelievable week from day one. Obviously, the
golf course has been in gorgeous condition, the weather has
been unbelievable, has been the most enjoyable masters from that
point of view for quite some time, just being as
you would as you would painted up, you know, the
week has been that way, and you know, some of
the golf I've played this week has been probably the
finest of my career tee to green and even on
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the greens at times, you know. So the only thing
I can point to was to a back nine yesterday
with a pudder where I kind of let a few
too many get away easily, and I felt like starting
the day that that was kind of possibly gonna cost
me in the sense that I felt a little bit
too far back. I mean, seven backs starting the day.
But I woke up this morning just really grateful to
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be Sunday, Augusta. It's a special day in the game
of golf no matter what, and really wanted to go
and put a good, good account of myself. And I
felt like I got off to a strong start, and
then something happened for sure around around the middle of
the round. I just kind of went into the place
that you dream about going to, you know. I felt
so good with my game, felt so good with my mind,
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and I began to sense that I was playing my
way into the tournament. I was laser focused out there,
and then you know, really didn't look didn't look at
a leaderboard all day until the eighteenth green and realized
that that part I could hear from the crowd on
seventeen and I was right right in the mix. And
then on eighteen I figured Rory was behind me. There
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was you know, I needed to make that part to
kind of give myself some hope. So it's the kind
of part you dream about as a kid, and to
have it and hold it it was a special feeling.
And unfortunately the playoff they always end so quickly. You know,
that's sudden death. You don't really get an opportunity. If
you don't, if you're not the guy to hit the
great shot or hold the great part, you know it's over.
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So I felt like that's the natures sudden death, but
not really anything I could have done more.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Today it's justin Rose and just finally from the Masters.
Rory McElroy on the burden of not having won it,
having given it a crack so many times.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
I've carried that burden since August twenty fourteen. It's been
eleven years. It's nearly eleven years, and not just the
boy winning my next major, but the career Grand Slam.
You're trying to join a group of five players to
do it, you know, watching a lot of my peers
get green jackets. In the process. Yeah, it's it's been
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difficult and I've tried to approach this tournament with the
most positive attitude each and every time that I've shown up,
and this sort of cumulative experience that I've gained coming
back here each and every year, I just I feel
like I get a little more comfortable with the shots needed.
You know, I talked about it at the start of
the week, but you know, there's talking about it and
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actually doing it. And yeah, today was Today was difficult.
I was unbelievably nervous this morning, really nervous on the
first hall, as you witness with the double But as
I said, that sort of calmed me down, and you know,
I was able to bounce back and show, you know,
that resilience that I've talked about a lot, and yeah, no, look,
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it was a heavy way to carry, and you know,
thankfully I don't have to carry it, and it frees
me up, and you know, I know I'm coming back
here every year, which is lovely.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Rory McElroy on winning the Masters for the first time.
Sixteen away from it. We'll take a break and then
come back and right the weekend Party's Power rankings. Where
will Rory be on Partey's Power rankings. I'm sure he's
waiting on the edge of a seat to find out
as maybe you are. His power rankings up next on Zbeak.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Days.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Our rankingsway, Yeah, let's go with Piney's power rankings as
we as always on a Monday night. Rate the best,
the worst and the in between. Bits from the sporting weekends.
The Warriors a Melbourne mauling at Amy Park yesterday, haoulf
a thousand numbers again along the crane, Anderson goes on
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a Sunday's troll. We'll bove defender within koie. They have
six dries in half an hour, Sit back and enjoy
rugby league perfection. Yeah, well I didn't enjoy that much.
Thirty six MILLI a half time better in the second half,
but still a forty two to fourteen defeat. Are we
ever going to beat the storm again? Sine Liam Lawson
(36:00):
crossing thirteenth at the bar Rain Grand Prix, but forced
to settle for seventeenth after he was punished fifteen seconds
of penalties for twice bumping into Sauber's Nico Holkenberg.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
We had really good speed where the couldn't really use it,
and to be.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Honest, so anyway, get overseach was you know, obviously lunching
quite late.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
I wasn't intentionally.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Obviously touching with with others, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Next up the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this coming weekend
seat Team New Zealand, losing their skipper. Three time America's
Cup winner. Peter Berling. Chief exec Grant Dalton says the
two main factors were time and money.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Just couldn't come to an arrangement.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
The team needs certainty and we need to know that
our key people are available. It just didn't come together time.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
For the essence, the next cut not a lot more
than two years away now and we have to move on.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Aukland FC another draw. That's five in their last six,
but twelve matches unbeaten, and in this one they came
back from two nil down against Sydney FC away from home.
Saka the strata again.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
The little one too for Sakai into the area.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Drives it across the face of gold Debree since it
deflected Real Squad midway through the second.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Half two till it finished four points clear at the
top with three games to go in the regular season.
The Premier's plate is still Auckland FCS to lose six.
The Highlander is getting some love, snapping a four game
losing Super Rugby streak with victory over the Fiji and
Drewer in Dunedas.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
Sam Gilbert gets a heit of steam up goes right
to ruta by the bookin nikas the little goostep beick
and say Gilbert glvit, I'll get.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
The try of the Highlanders.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
I'll finish this one with a trya behind the posts,
underneath the bar. Sam Gilbert scores and the Highlands forty
three Fiji and drew at.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Twenty after seventh on the table, just three points outside
the top six. Amazing what a win can do. Five
into the top half and sticking with Super Rugby, the
Crusaders back to the top of the table.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Full time at Sky Stadium and the Crusaders have.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Hung on with thirteen men.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
The Hurricanes were camped down in the corner.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
They couldn't get there. The Crusaders led by twenty fourteen
alt halftime.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
They have won this game.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Hupho sot Super Rugby Pacific game by thirty one points
to twenty.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Four last year now but of a distant memory is
the Red and Blacks are back on top. Across the
Tasman teenaged Aussie sprint sensation Goutcut, blitzing the field and
going well under twenty seconds for the two hundred meters
at the Aussie Track and Field Champs.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Here comes out cout. We knew we'd see this in
the final fifty, so let's watch the young superstar rights.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
He's flying.
Speaker 11 (38:39):
He will be the gout of this universe. Unbelievable. Two
point two two point two. It won't ch out in
terms of a record, but what it will do.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
It says, hey world, this is me.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah. The two point two is wind assistance, which is
why it doesn't count as a record. But nineteen point
eight four seconds absolutely extraordinary. See the Blues Super Rugby
O Picky champions, in huge part due to a spectacular
try from one of the youngest players.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Enfield, Oh no, intercepted by Sornzon McGee. She's got sixteen
minutes to run, Sorrenson McGee inside the bunch to two
half shirks. What teckle She's inside the twenty two McGee
for the right head corner. She's gonna go in here. Brexton,
Sarens and McGee, Oh my goodness me Brexton science and
McGee goes the length of the field and the plus
go out twenty six nineteen with least than ten minutes
(39:34):
to play.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Here that's how it finished. Incredible try from teenage fullback
Braxton Sorenson McGee to seal the win. Who Matt Payne,
the Kiwi Supercars driver winning at TOPA. He's the man
that has done an outstanding joint all week in for
Penright Racing. He is in the last three hours, down
(39:57):
three three seconds at New Zealanders.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Live every millimeter of.
Speaker 11 (40:01):
This drive by young man Payne, who wins the Jason
Witchard's Trophy and picks up his second victory tone Pard
this weekend one.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
But there can be only one. Number one the glory
for Rory. Rory McElroy, finally the owner of an elusive
green jacket.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
The journey it's taken to get here, for all this history.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Has his mastriplace had to be number one? What he recommends?
Did I leave it inything out? Did I try anybody
too harsh?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
For once, Pony, I'm on board. It's a change of blues.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
I only get to go to number three, but those
number one and two is just have to go on front, don't.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
They They do indeed, and those are Piney's power rankings
for tonight. Back again in a couple of weeks. We're
not here next Monday, Easter Monday. Back in a couple
of weeks seven to eight, coming up four to eighth
to final. A couple of bits of correspondence to mop
up Tony says Ponty, I reckon McElroy will win another
Green jacket. Now he's got the right game for Augusta,
and now the shackles are gone. You might be one
(41:05):
of those London ones. You wait ages to get one,
and then a couple come along at once. Certainly been
a few who have won more than one. Eighteen by
Mike count have won the Green Jacket more than once.
Jack Nicholas the most with six, and then Tiger Woods
five times. Arnold Palmer won the Masters four times, Gary Player,
Sam Sneid, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson and Jimmy Demoday all
(41:30):
won it three times. So it's not as though you
know you're one and done. Some people are. But yeah,
maybe it's a fact of life that you do have
to lose a bunch to win one, and then once
you've won one, who knows be interesting to watch the
career trajectory now, won't it of Rory McElroy and where
he goes from here? Because you feel like he's still
(41:52):
got quite a bit of golf left in him. Five majors.
It doesn't seem like that'll be the final number by
any stretch in the imagination. How old would Rory McElroy be?
Thirty five? I think he's thirty five. I saw today
it could be a few more green jackets. Thanks to
Answer Melicits for producing the show. Thank you for listening
in Marcus Slash is on your radio after eight o'clock.
(42:14):
I'll be back for weekend sport this coming Saturday and
Easter Sunday too. No rest for us, well, maybe a
little bit of rest. Enjoy your week.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
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