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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, yes, that time of year when we're watching Jim
Nance say hello friends from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta,
Georgia and the Masters. Yes, it's the Green Jacket, the
most coveted jacket in all of golf, all of sports.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Quite frankly, what I green as hideous. I'm sorry, it's
hideous unless you just want it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Congratulations mister Douglas, you won the twenty twenty five Masters.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here's your jacket. Do you have that in something like
a brown maybe maybe a tweed yes, classes with everything
I own.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The Uh, let's get to the Masters Club dinner, which
happened last night, and let's bring him in though, mister golf,
Ray Hustik joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now and mister golf. Happy Masters week, man, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Being It's awesome. I mean, this is the premier sporting
event on this or any other play in it. We
are in for a treat this week. And you know,
we can knock that jacket. But a lot of people
don't know that's made just down the street in Cincinnati
at Hamilton Tayloring. They've been making jackets for the Green
Jackets since forever. Oh but but back to the dinner. Yeah,
(01:14):
the cheeseburger slider.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I had that. Now I stop, you're stealing my thunder.
I was getting ready.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I've got the menu in front of me, and I
was gonna go over it with you.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man down Yeah, nine iron for goodness sake.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, faith geez man talk about kicking the door and
raise like, shut up, Blazer, I got this. Just be
quiet anyway. No, I was gonna go over this because Chuck,
you have not seen this, right, you haven't seen the
dinner that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I have not seen dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So the Master's Champion from the previous year gets to
choose the dinner for the dinner that happens, and then
all of the other Master Champions are there to attend
the dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm just bringing Chuck he he is.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Uh. I'm working him in ray on some gold well
not well golf obviously, but also I'm working with him
on some hockey as well for the Columbus Blue Jackets
and so on. So I was just kind of bringing
him up to speed on how this works with regard
to you know, the dinner and so on. Yeah, except
Tiger wasn't there last night, and I'm sure you you
(02:16):
I didn't see I'm sure I could have looked and
figured it out.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But why was he not there? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, he said he wasn't there just because of the
whole Achilles issue and just having had surgery. I expected
him to be there, and I thought they the people
I talked to, said that he was planning on coming
in for just the day, like a lot of them do.
And you know, they come in Tuesday morning, they go
to the dinner, and they spent, might spend the night.
Tuesday nights, a lot of them just get right back out.
(02:43):
So I was surprised he wasn't there. But they did announce,
you know, frederdly announced that new partnership with him and
with Tiger and the Masters, and they're going to build
that cool little practice and play area for underprivileged kids
and the Augusta, you know, downtown area, which is a
really cool area. So I was surprised that he wasn't there.
As well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I've never been there, you know, in that area, let
alone clearly for this, you know, to go and and
walk the course, and everybody says that it's much more
hilly than you realize, you know when you watch it
on TV.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Or what have you.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So yeah, and I don't want to steal your show here,
but we got to get back to the dessert last night.
That was the key. I mean that that melted cookie
with the vanilla bean ice cream. That was too good anyway. Yeah,
so that's your on it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But no, wait, so that's your We'll get back to
the golf course now, because since you brought that up,
we'll just continue with the other part. Because we talked
food a lot on the show. Cheese, We'll start with
cheeseburger sliders. These are the appetizers, by the way, and
it says serve Scottie style. I'm not sure what that means.
Do you happen to know what.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Service I saw? I saw a picture of it. I'm
not sure what it was. It was taller than it
was round. I mean it was a you know, it
looked like a drinking glass in its shape of the
but it was a slider on a small bun with
a big burger in the middle of a bunch of
other stuff on top. I think there's tomato. Maybe there's
some you know, crispy onion straws or something on there.
I didn't I didn't look that closing right there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Maybe some handcuffs on the side.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh no, and then firecracker shrimp is part of the
appetizer's sweet ti chili and saracha mayo for the dipping
for the fire cracker shrimp. Then you go to the
Papa Chef's meatball and ravioli bites again, you know, mister
golf and I'm looking at this, I'm like, you know what,
I literally love everything on this menu. And there are
(04:35):
a lot of years where I'll see it and I'm
like net pass.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, if I if.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I was a guy that had a green jacket and
I was attending, I was like, man, I'm probably I'm
probably gonna need to stop the taco bell or something before.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Right. Well, the guys like when the years when you
know Jose Embreal Esopol or John Rahm or on Hell
Cabrera one, you know, the guys for the next year like, oh,
what is the dinner going to be?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, you're right, got to get some pizza, you know,
stops run through the Golden Arches on your way exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Hey, by the way, Mike Elliott just sent me a
texta go Scottie style with fries on it. I know
you were on with Mike this morning, but he was
saying that that the Scotty Style is with fries on it. Mike,
thanks for saving me that, by the way, because I
seriously I did not know. Then you got the Texas
style chili. Then you got the main course, wood fired
cowboy RIBI yes, please, uh yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Fire that up mine medium please sound bitter? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And then for dessert, like you were bringing up, mister golf,
warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with vanilla bean ice cream?
Is that your Is that your kryptonite, mister Golf?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh my goodness, that that's awesome. And the restaurant here
near our home that makes those, and my wife and
I sneak over there every once in a while. But
you notice red meat in every course except the dessert,
so you know Texas Texas food here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
This is great, right, absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I as I'm looking at, you know, last year,
because I never remember. You're one of those people I'm
always kind of in all because I could probably just
throw a name out at you, and you know, if
it's a relatively marquee name, you could probably tell me
what they shot last year and all of that. Now,
I'm not gonna test you on that, but I have
(06:19):
a feeling you probably would do pretty well. But I
started looking and just seeing, you know, the span, the difference,
how many shots Scheffler won by last year, and then
who came in second and so on. But when I
see that, do you see Scotty Scheffler as the guy?
I mean, he's the guy going into this to beat.
Is he still going to be the guy to beat
(06:41):
on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Is the question?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And I mean he had it was pretty dominating with
regard to his total last year at minus eleven.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, the thing about Scotty Scheffler is he's got every
single shot. He knows what he can do and knows
what he cannot do. He doesn't put himself in position
to hurt himself a lot. He plays a lot like
Nicholas did. He lets the other guys make all the mistakes.
Not to say he doesn't shoot low scores, because he does.
But you're playing those guys are playing essentially a par
(07:10):
sixty eight golf course because they can reach all the
par fives, right, So maybe not number two. So let's
say they're playing a par sixty nine. So you know,
essentially even par for them is twelve under par for
four days, so he shot one over what should have
been par I mean that shows you the difficulty of
this golf course because they can reach all the par fives.
But Scotty is just so solid. And other guys they
(07:32):
make big mistakes. So they try to pull off a
shot that's you know, too risky at the right wrong time,
and they short side themselves. You know, they're guys who
have not played Augusta a lot of times, even though
they've watched it on TV a million times. But they
put themselves in the wrong spot on the golf course
to attack a pin, or they attack the wrong pin.
And it's just so so much about the greens and
(07:54):
the contours, and you mentioned earlier. People don't have any
idea how hilly the golf course or how I'll complex
those green sites on there. And then they're not as
big as they look. All those camera angles are up
in the air looking down. The greens look bigger on
TV than they really are. And the effective location depends
on these greens is like it's size of a dining
room table in a lot of cases. So a guy
(08:16):
like Scotti Scheffler, who is just he's a mechanic, he's
got every tool, he's got every shot. He knows what
he's doing. Mentally, he's not panicking, you know. He just
plays his place, his way around and very workingman like fashion,
and boom at the end, everybody else is falling away
and there he stands with the trophy and that beautiful
Augusta green jacket.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
He goes off at ten fifteen, is in group fourteen.
He's got an amateur with him when I can't pronounce today,
and then he also will have Justin Thomas in his
group unless this has changed. But this is what I
was looking at earlier. And you know, Justin was really
close what two weeks ago, two or three weeks ago
he ended up? He ended up so close? Is his
game in form right now? Is he a guy to
(08:58):
keep an eye on this week as well?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Is he? You know? Can he work it left? Can
he work it right?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean, because that is something that you watch the
people who are analyzing all of the past winners and
howld you know the form that they have coming into
this week and you know those are the things that
affected But they've got to be able to work the
ball both ways at Augusta. You can't just be a
drawl hitter. He can't just be a fader. But I mean,
you know, uh, predominantly Jack was a fader, and so's Tiger.
(09:27):
But they could they could turn it over if they
needed to, right to left.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, yeah for sure. And it's windy, you do that.
You mentioned Jose lewis biased there. He's an amateur champion,
and that's the thing. They always put the US amateur
champion with the defending champion in this event. And Justin
Thomas is a guy who probably doesn't get enough credit
for his shot making ability. He can hit it low, high,
left to right, right to left, and he's got a
(09:51):
great short game. Can can he get his brain around
the putting on these greens to compete? And if he can,
he will be right and yeah, playing as well as
he did, you know up in Tampa. And then you know,
just the guy who's played in one major championships, he
knows what that's all about. And you got to believe
that when he looks at his best friend, you know,
(10:12):
and the and the kind of work that guys have
done to win major championships. Justin Jordan Speith won you
know a bunch of them, and Justin's won a couple,
but has he really won at the level that he
thinks he should have. No, just like you know so
many other guys that we talk about who have the game,
and you look at him on the range, you look
(10:33):
at him in the practice rounds, you look at him
on Thursday and Friday, and they're burning every hole and
hitting every shot at every flag, and you're like, man,
this guy. How does guy not win every single week?
But there's it's it's the mental. It's four long days,
seventy two holes on a golf course where the margins
for airs razor thin. But yeah, j T's got a
shot at I don't think he's going to be your winner,
(10:54):
but I would not be surprised to see him in
the top five.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I know how you feel about the live golfers for
the most part, unless you've changed your stance. For the
most part, I think, and when you look at I
think seven of the live golfers that are there are
past champions for as far as the masters go.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And then you start looking at.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Some of them you know that have not won a
Bryson d Chambeau, there's a lot of talk about him,
you know, Cameron Smith and then you know who else,
Oh Brooks, Koepka and Terrell Hatton and then the one
that clearly has won before but is a live golfer
and so on. He's in his young fifties. Does Lefty
(11:32):
still have some gas in the tank to do this?
Because typically people who win the Masters are what in
their twenties and thirties. Does he still have that he
knows every blade of grass, he still has the link,
but does he still have what it takes between the
ears combined with the physical part. We know he's in
great shape right now, and all that is phil a
(11:53):
guy really?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Or is his putting going to get in the way now?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I think the short game will be okay. Honestly, I
believe that shipping and is fine. I just don't think
he's playing enough competitive golf at this point in his
life to be able to hold it together for four rounds.
I think he'll shoot one good low number. Be fun
to see him come out Thursday and you know, shoot
sixty six or sixty seven, and you know, get all
the talk started. And I don't see it going for
(12:16):
four days to live guys. You know again, I maintained
that despite the Chambeau winning at Pineers, and I said,
there's no way he can win in Pineers, even if
he was just playing still playing the PGA Tour, because
he doesn't have the game for that course. Well, that
course a lot like this when the greens, you know,
are not too dissimilar. So I'm going to say again
this Chambeau with a lot of fireworks, but I don't
(12:37):
see him winning here. Although it's going to be fun
to watch him go at everything as hard as he can,
you know, two hundred miles an hour, all out. But
here's the thing. You got John Ron, you got Brooks, Kopka.
Rom's wanted a gust. Kopka hasn't yet but will someday
for sure. And Kepka was, you know, the major winner
just oh this week in Major, I think I'll just
go win, you know, for a couple of years. That's
(12:58):
what he did, right right, We none of us would
be surprised to see him compete or even maybe win.
But I still maintain this hit and giggle format that
they have. It is not something that gets you ready
for something like a US Open or a Masters's, which
is just so tough mentally.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, good point, very good point.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
We're already out of time, but we're gonna talk to
you again obviously later in the week.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I just you know who I'm really rooting for.
And I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He's not informed me so streaky as of late, and
I don't know what kinds of things could be going
on in his life. But man, I'm really rooting for
Jason Day. I wish I wish that somehow, some way.
I just I don't know, man, There's just something about
that guy.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That I like. I like his game. He's around here
all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, clearly he has a place over by Hoover
Dam and you know, he's out a couple of golf
courses that I've been at and so on. I just
I can't help but root for this guy. As a
transplant here in this area. I'm always rooting for him,
you know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
One of the great gentlemen in the game and loves
the game, would love to play well there, I just
worry about.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The potter, Yeah, yeah, for sure, all right, mister golf
Ray Hustik Man, time just flew by. I'm like, oh
my gosh, we're out of time already. But we'll do
it again on Friday. And then we'll be able to
talk about. At that point some of the second round
will have happened, and then we'll be able to talk
about first round and all that and what your thoughts
are going into the weekend and such. But thanks for
(14:22):
jumping on with us, man, and of course we'll be
watching and UH and I love when you uh, when
you come on and what you represent, especially this time
of year.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Thanks brother, Thank you sir, anytime you got it.
Ah, yes, that time of year when we're watching Jim
Nance say hello friends from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta,
Georgia and the Masters. Yes, it's the Green Jacket, the
most coveted jacket in all of golf, all of sports.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Quite frankly, what I green as hideous. I'm sorry, it's
hideous unless you just want it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Congratulations mister Douglas, you won the twenty twenty five Masters.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here's your jacket. Do you have that in something like
a brown maybe maybe a tweed yes, classes with everything
I own.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
The Uh, let's get to the Masters Club dinner, which
happened last night, and let's bring him in though, mister golf,
Ray Hustik joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now and mister golf. Happy Masters week, man, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Being It's awesome. I mean, this is the premier sporting
event on this or any other play in it. We
are in for a treat this week. And you know,
we can knock that jacket. But a lot of people
don't know that's made just down the street in Cincinnati
at Hamilton Tayloring. They've been making jackets for the Green
Jackets since forever. Oh but but back to the dinner. Yeah,
(01:14):
the cheeseburger slider.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I had that. Now I stop, you're stealing my thunder.
I was getting ready.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I've got the menu in front of me, and I
was gonna go over it with you.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man down Yeah, nine iron for goodness sake.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, faith geez man talk about kicking the door and
raise like, shut up, Blazer, I got this. Just be
quiet anyway. No, I was gonna go over this because Chuck,
you have not seen this, right, you haven't seen the
dinner that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I have not seen dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So the Master's Champion from the previous year gets to
choose the dinner for the dinner that happens, and then
all of the other Master Champions are there to attend
the dinner.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm just bringing Chuck he he is.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Uh. I'm working him in ray on some gold well
not well golf obviously, but also I'm working with him
on some hockey as well for the Columbus Blue Jackets
and so on. So I was just kind of bringing
him up to speed on how this works with regard
to you know, the dinner and so on. Yeah, except
Tiger wasn't there last night, and I'm sure you you
(02:16):
I didn't see I'm sure I could have looked and
figured it out.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But why was he not there? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, he said he wasn't there just because of the
whole Achilles issue and just having had surgery. I expected
him to be there, and I thought they the people
I talked to, said that he was planning on coming
in for just the day, like a lot of them do.
And you know, they come in Tuesday morning, they go
to the dinner, and they spent, might spend the night.
Tuesday nights, a lot of them just get right back out.
(02:43):
So I was surprised he wasn't there. But they did announce,
you know, frederdly announced that new partnership with him and
with Tiger and the Masters, and they're going to build
that cool little practice and play area for underprivileged kids
and the Augusta, you know, downtown area, which is a
really cool area. So I was surprised that he wasn't there.
As well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I've never been there, you know, in that area, let
alone clearly for this, you know, to go and and
walk the course, and everybody says that it's much more
hilly than you realize, you know when you watch it
on TV.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Or what have you.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So yeah, and I don't want to steal your show here,
but we got to get back to the dessert last night.
That was the key. I mean that that melted cookie
with the vanilla bean ice cream. That was too good anyway. Yeah,
so that's your on it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But no, wait, so that's your We'll get back to
the golf course now, because since you brought that up,
we'll just continue with the other part. Because we talked
food a lot on the show. Cheese, We'll start with
cheeseburger sliders. These are the appetizers, by the way, and
it says serve Scottie style. I'm not sure what that means.
Do you happen to know what.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Service I saw? I saw a picture of it. I'm
not sure what it was. It was taller than it
was round. I mean it was a you know, it
looked like a drinking glass in its shape of the
but it was a slider on a small bun with
a big burger in the middle of a bunch of
other stuff on top. I think there's tomato. Maybe there's
some you know, crispy onion straws or something on there.
I didn't I didn't look that closing right there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Maybe some handcuffs on the side.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh no, and then firecracker shrimp is part of the
appetizer's sweet ti chili and saracha mayo for the dipping
for the fire cracker shrimp. Then you go to the
Papa Chef's meatball and ravioli bites again, you know, mister
golf and I'm looking at this, I'm like, you know what,
I literally love everything on this menu. And there are
(04:35):
a lot of years where I'll see it and I'm
like net pass.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, if I if.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I was a guy that had a green jacket and
I was attending, I was like, man, I'm probably I'm
probably gonna need to stop the taco bell or something before.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Right. Well, the guys like when the years when you
know Jose Embreal Esopol or John Rahm or on Hell
Cabrera one, you know, the guys for the next year like, oh,
what is the dinner going to be?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, you're right, got to get some pizza, you know,
stops run through the Golden Arches on your way exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Hey, by the way, Mike Elliott just sent me a
texta go Scottie style with fries on it. I know
you were on with Mike this morning, but he was
saying that that the Scotty Style is with fries on it. Mike,
thanks for saving me that, by the way, because I
seriously I did not know. Then you got the Texas
style chili. Then you got the main course, wood fired
cowboy RIBI yes, please, uh yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Fire that up mine medium please sound bitter? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
And then for dessert, like you were bringing up, mister golf,
warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with vanilla bean ice cream?
Is that your Is that your kryptonite, mister Golf?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Oh my goodness, that that's awesome. And the restaurant here
near our home that makes those, and my wife and
I sneak over there every once in a while. But
you notice red meat in every course except the dessert,
so you know Texas Texas food here.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
This is great, right, absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So I as I'm looking at, you know, last year,
because I never remember. You're one of those people I'm
always kind of in all because I could probably just
throw a name out at you, and you know, if
it's a relatively marquee name, you could probably tell me
what they shot last year and all of that. Now,
I'm not gonna test you on that, but I have
(06:19):
a feeling you probably would do pretty well. But I
started looking and just seeing, you know, the span, the difference,
how many shots Scheffler won by last year, and then
who came in second and so on. But when I
see that, do you see Scotty Scheffler as the guy?
I mean, he's the guy going into this to beat.
Is he still going to be the guy to beat
(06:41):
on Sunday?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Is the question?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And I mean he had it was pretty dominating with
regard to his total last year at minus eleven.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, the thing about Scotty Scheffler is he's got every
single shot. He knows what he can do and knows
what he cannot do. He doesn't put himself in position
to hurt himself a lot. He plays a lot like
Nicholas did. He lets the other guys make all the mistakes.
Not to say he doesn't shoot low scores, because he does.
But you're playing those guys are playing essentially a par
(07:10):
sixty eight golf course because they can reach all the
par fives, right, So maybe not number two. So let's
say they're playing a par sixty nine. So you know,
essentially even par for them is twelve under par for
four days, so he shot one over what should have
been par I mean that shows you the difficulty of
this golf course because they can reach all the par fives.
But Scotty is just so solid. And other guys they
(07:32):
make big mistakes. So they try to pull off a
shot that's you know, too risky at the right wrong time,
and they short side themselves. You know, they're guys who
have not played Augusta a lot of times, even though
they've watched it on TV a million times. But they
put themselves in the wrong spot on the golf course
to attack a pin, or they attack the wrong pin.
And it's just so so much about the greens and
(07:54):
the contours, and you mentioned earlier. People don't have any
idea how hilly the golf course or how I'll complex
those green sites on there. And then they're not as
big as they look. All those camera angles are up
in the air looking down. The greens look bigger on
TV than they really are. And the effective location depends
on these greens is like it's size of a dining
room table in a lot of cases. So a guy
(08:16):
like Scotti Scheffler, who is just he's a mechanic, he's
got every tool, he's got every shot. He knows what
he's doing. Mentally, he's not panicking, you know. He just
plays his place, his way around and very workingman like fashion,
and boom at the end, everybody else is falling away
and there he stands with the trophy and that beautiful
Augusta green jacket.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
He goes off at ten fifteen, is in group fourteen.
He's got an amateur with him when I can't pronounce today,
and then he also will have Justin Thomas in his
group unless this has changed. But this is what I
was looking at earlier. And you know, Justin was really
close what two weeks ago, two or three weeks ago
he ended up? He ended up so close? Is his
game in form right now? Is he a guy to
(08:58):
keep an eye on this week as well?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Is he? You know? Can he work it left? Can
he work it right?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean, because that is something that you watch the
people who are analyzing all of the past winners and
howld you know the form that they have coming into
this week and you know those are the things that
affected But they've got to be able to work the
ball both ways at Augusta. You can't just be a
drawl hitter. He can't just be a fader. But I mean,
you know, uh, predominantly Jack was a fader, and so's Tiger.
(09:27):
But they could they could turn it over if they
needed to, right to left.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, yeah for sure. And it's windy, you do that.
You mentioned Jose lewis biased there. He's an amateur champion,
and that's the thing. They always put the US amateur
champion with the defending champion in this event. And Justin
Thomas is a guy who probably doesn't get enough credit
for his shot making ability. He can hit it low, high,
left to right, right to left, and he's got a
(09:51):
great short game. Can can he get his brain around
the putting on these greens to compete? And if he can,
he will be right and yeah, playing as well as
he did, you know up in Tampa. And then you know,
just the guy who's played in one major championships, he
knows what that's all about. And you got to believe
that when he looks at his best friend, you know,
(10:12):
and the and the kind of work that guys have
done to win major championships. Justin Jordan Speith won you
know a bunch of them, and Justin's won a couple,
but has he really won at the level that he
thinks he should have. No, just like you know so
many other guys that we talk about who have the game,
and you look at him on the range, you look
(10:33):
at him in the practice rounds, you look at him
on Thursday and Friday, and they're burning every hole and
hitting every shot at every flag, and you're like, man,
this guy. How does guy not win every single week?
But there's it's it's the mental. It's four long days,
seventy two holes on a golf course where the margins
for airs razor thin. But yeah, j T's got a
shot at I don't think he's going to be your winner,
(10:54):
but I would not be surprised to see him in
the top five.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I know how you feel about the live golfers for
the most part, unless you've changed your stance. For the
most part, I think, and when you look at I
think seven of the live golfers that are there are
past champions for as far as the masters go.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And then you start looking at.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Some of them you know that have not won a
Bryson d Chambeau, there's a lot of talk about him,
you know, Cameron Smith and then you know who else,
Oh Brooks, Koepka and Terrell Hatton and then the one
that clearly has won before but is a live golfer
and so on. He's in his young fifties. Does Lefty
(11:32):
still have some gas in the tank to do this?
Because typically people who win the Masters are what in
their twenties and thirties. Does he still have that he
knows every blade of grass, he still has the link,
but does he still have what it takes between the
ears combined with the physical part. We know he's in
great shape right now, and all that is phil a
(11:53):
guy really?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Or is his putting going to get in the way now?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I think the short game will be okay. Honestly, I
believe that shipping and is fine. I just don't think
he's playing enough competitive golf at this point in his
life to be able to hold it together for four rounds.
I think he'll shoot one good low number. Be fun
to see him come out Thursday and you know, shoot
sixty six or sixty seven, and you know, get all
the talk started. And I don't see it going for
(12:16):
four days to live guys. You know again, I maintained
that despite the Chambeau winning at Pineers, and I said,
there's no way he can win in Pineers, even if
he was just playing still playing the PGA Tour, because
he doesn't have the game for that course. Well, that
course a lot like this when the greens, you know,
are not too dissimilar. So I'm going to say again
this Chambeau with a lot of fireworks, but I don't
(12:37):
see him winning here. Although it's going to be fun
to watch him go at everything as hard as he can,
you know, two hundred miles an hour, all out. But
here's the thing. You got John Ron, you got Brooks, Kopka.
Rom's wanted a gust. Kopka hasn't yet but will someday
for sure. And Kepka was, you know, the major winner
just oh this week in Major, I think I'll just
go win, you know, for a couple of years. That's
(12:58):
what he did, right right, We none of us would
be surprised to see him compete or even maybe win.
But I still maintain this hit and giggle format that
they have. It is not something that gets you ready
for something like a US Open or a Masters's, which
is just so tough mentally.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, good point, very good point.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
We're already out of time, but we're gonna talk to
you again obviously later in the week.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I just you know who I'm really rooting for.
And I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
He's not informed me so streaky as of late, and
I don't know what kinds of things could be going
on in his life. But man, I'm really rooting for
Jason Day. I wish I wish that somehow, some way.
I just I don't know, man, There's just something about
that guy.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That I like. I like his game. He's around here
all the time.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, clearly he has a place over by Hoover
Dam and you know, he's out a couple of golf
courses that I've been at and so on. I just
I can't help but root for this guy. As a
transplant here in this area. I'm always rooting for him,
you know.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
One of the great gentlemen in the game and loves
the game, would love to play well there, I just
worry about.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The potter, Yeah, yeah, for sure, all right, mister golf
Ray Hustik Man, time just flew by. I'm like, oh
my gosh, we're out of time already. But we'll do
it again on Friday. And then we'll be able to
talk about. At that point some of the second round
will have happened, and then we'll be able to talk
about first round and all that and what your thoughts
are going into the weekend and such. But thanks for
(14:22):
jumping on with us, man, and of course we'll be
watching and UH and I love when you uh, when
you come on and what you represent, especially this time
of year.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Thanks brother, Thank you sir, anytime you got it.
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