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April 19, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, It's Andy Everett. Enjoy this podcast version of
The Golf Show from sports Radio AM seven sixty The Ticket.
All right, here we go. It's the week after the Masters.
The RBC is through two rounds and we're getting into
the meat of the golf season. Time for us to
talk though about the Masters, as we're going to recap
that for at least a few minutes here on the
show today, joined by Joe Caruso from the Joe Caruso

(00:23):
Golf Academy out at San Pedro and the driving range
of par three. You didn't get to go this year,
but I guess we were all treated to another epic Masters.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It was very entertaining. How's that sound? It was kind
of it was sloppy.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It was sloppy, and it was gut wrenching and it was,
oh my god, and what's going on next?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I know, right, it was not what I was expecting.
But but you know, it's Augustine. You don't really know
what's going to happen. And be honest with you, Andy,
we've been spoiled. We you and I have been spoiled.
We got to see Nicholas, we got to see Tiger
in their primes and you know when they're coming down

(01:04):
the stretch, they put their foot on the neck and
just like kept going, Yeah, the term is over. So
but this reminded me like Scott Hook and Faldo Faldo Norman.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
I thought this was another Greg Norman reenactment. When he
get on the water on thirteen, I'm like, Rory, what
are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Why didn't you go for it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Two twenty five. That's five iron to the back end
of the grave. Yeah, I mean it's something simple because
he's such a great long iron player, you know, he
draws the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It would have been perfect up in that.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I heard it observation on one of the PGA Tour
Channel shows and they said the mistake he made on
thirteen was obviously not going left. But he's the guy
on who it was said he didn't hit that layup
like he wanted to because he hit the layup too
far left and he wasn't too far from laying it
up in the creek by the time the ball started rolling.

(01:58):
So instead of having a straight shot to the green
so that you just hit into the back slope and
let the contour bring it back to the hole, he.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Had one of those shots.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
That was at an angle, and now you've got the
creek on the right and you've got the top of
the ledge on the left to where if you miss,
now you've got to put it down the ledge.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
He said. It was not an easy pitch shot.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now that doesn't mean he should have dumped in the
middle of the green, but it would have been better
had the layup been better.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
How about five iron to the back of the.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Gard Yeah, three putt, Yeah, it was the next hole. Yeah, hit, hit,
you still have a three shot hit whatever your longest
club is it in the back bunker.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I know, right, one of the best long iron players
to play the game, and if not the best, And
it's like, that's your strength, not your wedge.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's yeah, and he's never been a great wedge player
by PGA Tour standards. I go back to the twenty
eighteen Tour Championship when Tiger won and Justin Rosa was
the winner of the FedEx. Then when they were doing
the two things in one that year. That was the
year where Tiger and the gallery were falling him down
the eighteenth fairway and Tiger was hitting six and seven
irons closer than Ory was hitting nines of wedges, and

(03:07):
that's been That's always been Rory's weakness, if you asked me,
is his wedge game is when he's when his wedge
game is on, he's close to unbeatable. But most of
the time his wedge game is not on.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Right, Andy, last year the US Open, Brandall Chambly had
analysis about the whole thing on a podcast.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
He goes, people don't enter.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
He didn't lose that tournament on that pot, right, I
mean he lost the tournament because he missed the green
from one hundred and twenty eight yards and then nine
times to the right, and what do we see in
the masters twice to the right. So it's like it's
a weakness of his And that's why I was like,
he's laying up and I was like, man, hit five iron.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right, just small.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It was two forty five to the back of the
green and two fourteen or something like that to carry
the water, and you can hit it to the last
and then just hit your power shot to the left
side and if you if you three pint, you're still
you've still got a four.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Shot lead, right, I mean, he's fine, All right, Let's
see here.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I think when you're number one and Tiger, and we
talked to you, just talked about Tiger and Jack. They
put their the their foot on people's neck and they
kept going, I don't know that that's so rare because
it's hard to be the favorite. When he walked on
the golf course in on Monday or Tuesday last week,

(04:32):
he was expected to win the golf tournament, just like
Tiger was in the past, just like Jack was in
the past. It didn't always work out that way, but
when those two guys were in contention, it was a
done deal by the back nine on Saturday or Sunday.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
But Rory has scar.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tissue, so there was always going to be something that happened,
and it happened a bunch. And then the shot he
hit on fifteen, I mean, he hits seven iron from
two to ten with a snapbook around the tree and
he can't go back two Halsey at five iron in
the back.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Bump, right, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
He's one of the best mid to long iron players
we've ever seen. I mean, he just is high, towering
shots and he can nip it right off the ground
and power to the extreme and he lays up to
his weakness.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
You were talking about the Masters. I've never got to go.
Hopefully I get the Golden Lottery ticket this summer when
they start asking for your beds again, your submissions. But
there's no phones at Augusta National. There's no communication between
the fans. You have to be engaged in golf. You're
looking at scoreboards that are still manually operated, like the

(05:42):
Green Monster in Boston.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
You've experienced that, what's that like?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, I've been to a Super Bowl, like I told you,
I've been to a World Series game. I've been obviously
a lot of the Spurs Championships, and you can put
them all all together. Now, I haven't been to an ANHL,
so you can put them all together, and the Masters
blows them all away. You're the whole idea Augusta is

(06:10):
they take it's all about you.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's about you, and from the food they serve to
going to the finding a restroom and using the restroom
and how clean and organized, and you're moving and you're
never standing still anywhere to the twenty eight thousand square
foot you know souvenir shop, all right, you're standing in line.

(06:38):
It says, you know thirty five minutes at this sign,
but they have people outside talking to you about the
history of Augusta, what this used to be, what that
building was, this is what they're adding. And you never stop.
You're you're always walking, you're always stepping. It might be slow,
but you're always moving. And it's to the extreme. I

(07:02):
think they have like twenty five hundred people working. You
go through the I've heard you got through clean. You
go through the souvenir stand.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'll take that shirt, that shirt, that shirt I want
xcel so and you back it up and they ship
it to you.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You walk in and you look at it and you go, okay,
men's section, women's.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
T shirts, sweatshirts.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Hats, and then all the whatever cups, umbrellas, chairs, and
it's twenty eight thousand square feet and all these people
standing around, sir, how can I help you? I go,
can I have a large and eleven mannequin on a twelve.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Twenty two thirty one?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know, you just keep looking around and all of
a sudden it's fifteen hundred bucks and then.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
You walk up to and money well spent too right
to pay.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
And you're not standing still, You're kind of just kind
of moving along.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
When you get up there, there's two people standing there.
They go, sir, are you going to carry or are
you going to ship? I go, we're going to ship.
And they have this bag ready for ship. Boom boom
Boom's perfectly organized. They go walk right outside, follow the
little sign around the azelias and go right to that
next door. You go to the next door's ups dressed

(08:20):
in green, not brown. And you walk in there's like
eight or nine people holding these little computers. Hand them
your license and you're walking in the line and he goes,
they tear this little tab off, sir. Now we're right.
There's a window. Twenty is open. You walk over. If
you're standing there three minutes it's too long. Yeah, And

(08:41):
and you walk out the door and you're standing there
going what just happened?

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Right?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So it's it's incredible, incredible, incredible place you have to go.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
You have to go.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
There's nothing like it, this sporting event, there's nothing like it.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
All Right, here's a couple of stats that I think
are just ridiculous. We know that Rory made four doubles
on the week, which nobody's ever done before, and won
the Masters, but he also put a three on the
scorecard thirty times. Yep, that is a ridiculous number. Nobody
did that either, No they didn't. It's not Tiger, not Jack.
Nobody did that. Well, it just.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Tells you, you know, how great his mid iron play is.
So the par three's the long par fives. Him hitting
long irons to five woods or whatever, he's hitting into
eight and so on. That just tells you what kind
of player is. You know, he can make a lot

(09:37):
of birdies with those clubs in comparison to I don't
really know that many people on the tour that can
do that.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Baby Scottie. Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
The other number Justin Rose, who made a good run
and got in the playoff. He made ten birdies on Sunday.
That's another remarkable sat. Yeah, Justin Rose looks incredible. I've
always thought that he would be the most gracious winner
of the of that tournament.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
He's an incredible person. But they I think the just
I wanted to root for him, but then you had
to root for Rory. That's just it just wasn't well.
I told Y wanted on eighteen just finished this thing off.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I heard the story and I did.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Justin didn't comment on this, but I heard the story
that even a part of Justin rohadse.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Wanted Droi to win in the playoff.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yeah, I mean the Europeans, they really back each other
closer just because of how they grew up. They're closer
because of the junior events that they play in and
the DP Tour. You travel together and lived together.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
And as I know, Scotland's this way. I'm sure Ireland is.
There's generations of families that belong to the same golf club.
It's integrated into what they do. The numbers for the
Masters were nineteen million at the peak. At the peak
on Sunday to the playoff, that six percent of the
United States population was watching it. In Ireland almost two

(11:06):
million were watching Rory. That's thirty eight percent of the population.
We're watching Rory win the Masters. And so I went
to a club last year, two years ago called Maury
Bay in Lucymouth in Scotland, and the four caddies we
had was one lady that was twenty four and her
three brothers and they were all members of the club

(11:28):
and their family had been founders of the club going
back into the early nineteen hundreds when the golf course
was first built, and their grandparents and great grandparents founded
the club, and now their generation was at the club
and it's a little fishing village in the middle of
on the north shore of Scotland, and the entire history
of their family was we belong to this golf club.

(11:51):
We work at this golf club, we play here. We're
all decent players. The girl that caddied for me was
the club champion and one of the top amateur players
in the UK. And it's just in doctrine into what
they do. And I think all of Europe is kind
of that way, and that's why they win a lot
of Ryder Cups.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think so too.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
And I think the again, when when I was playing
the travel over there. Everybody's on the same plane, you know,
everybody's in the same hotel. It's not like here where
you drive into Austin and you're going to play an
event in Austin and there's fifty hotels that you can
stay at that are nice.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Right, unless you have a resort like TPC, everybody's gonna
stay wherever they want. And even then there's probably twenty
players that didn't stay at the at the Marriott.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know, I was the first time they had it there.
I was talking to Grant Waite and I go, let's
stay at CPC. Goes no, man, I'm on a budget.
My budget's this every week. It's not my budget yet.
So there's a lot of players, Like if there's one
hundred and forty four, I'm pretty sure one hundred or

(12:58):
at the you know, the the Holiday and garden in
or whatever they call it now. So it's the again
over there. It's just playing overseas is different, all right.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
We got some tips of the week to get to
Rory made it back to Northern Ireland, see mom and
dad and I guess celebrate with his friends at Hollywood
Golf Club. We'll get into that and some tips and
the next three majors coming up. Or Taylor made for
Rory and I don't need to pun the golf club,
but Taylor.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
They are certainly Taylor made for him.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
We'll talk about all that coming up.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
It's eight fifteen on the ticket.
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