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Go Low - 2026 Masters Reaction: Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Justin Rose, Cameron Young
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Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search 40s and free agents and listen now the volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing? Rory McIlroy make sure obviously subscribe to the channel. We like going live after these majors and after these big tournaments and at the beginning of the week. I did not imagine I would be sitting here In Northern California where I currently am actually my brother's office, Jared Allen back there or on this side I got for him years ago when I interned for the Chiefs. But I just, that was a thrill ride. That was a ride the guy essentially played back to back years and did the same thing on Sunday where your jaw is just hitting the floor going I can't believe what I am witnessing. So we'll talk about that. Some highlights. I wrote some notes on my phone. I was at a family gathering over the last couple days, had a wedding yesterday but just tried to not miss a shot of this tournament and it lives up to the hype every year. It really does. It's a special event and, and Roy, Rory McElroy has really elevated it. So let's just, let's start with Rory who I don't know if this tops the iconic nature of last year given that it was his first green jacket and given that it went to you know, a sudden death playoff against one of his Ryder cup teammates who had already lost in a sudden death playoff years previously to Sergio Garcia. But I feel like this is like one B like to me sometimes like well this is Tiger's best masters or the second best Masters. Pretty easy to rank it. This feels it's not number one but it's definitely not number two. And I, I think if we were just looking to describe Roy McElroy and this is what makes I think him such a great TV character as an athlete is you have no clue what's coming. It is truly this roller coaster ride of exhilaration that any single swing, you know there's not out of bounds on this course, right. So you're not going to pump it and have to re tee but you can hit the water, you can hit the trees, you can hit it way over greens or shorter greens and at any moment over the course of the last honestly three days and I think what makes this tournament, Ferrari such a thrill ride and I did a pod with Colin. If this was you know like when a baseball pitcher, like when Nolan Ryan or Pedro Martinez was on, like they were unhittable, right? The top pitchers, scubal whoever the history of times, Strasberg, Scherzer, Verlander, when they're on like in their prime, no one's touching them like they're going 9 12ks, one hit mowing guys down. But the best pitchers, what make them pretty special is like when they got their C stuff they can still go like one and run seven innings, five hits and just handle business. I thought Rory like, had a C plus game. C game. Even on Friday when he went low, he did not hit a fairway on the par five. He was punching out of all these crazy angles. He's making these crazy up and down birdies. He chipped in on 17 on Friday from, I don't know, 50 yards, and he shot 65. But if you watch him on Thursday, he was good. Friday, he was good relative to his score. But like Rory 65 and Scotty 65 yesterday, or would Cam Young shoot? Cam Young shot 65 yesterday. They did not look the same. But that's what makes this tournament so special. I just had a buddy text me who's a big golfer, and he's like, this is the only major of the four where Rory could have played like that and still been the champion. And historically, that's true. You don't. Tiger didn't have his A game in all the. In all the Masters. I bet if we went back and broke down some of Phil's wins, he didn't have his A plus game. Because you can spray it a little bit here. There are a ton of birdie holes, and there were so many moments that this is what happened last year when you're like, did he really just. Did. Did he really just three putt from right there, and then two holes later he's back to back birdies. I thought, like, the defining. It's not defining moment, but one of the defining moments of the last 36 holes for Rory was on Saturday when he comes out of the blocks. Let me pull it up. He comes out of the blocks on Saturday and he bogeys one he doesn't par to. And you're like, God, he's falling apart. And Cam Young is just going nuclear. Scotty's got already gone nuclear. And you're like, these guys are coming, bro. Patrick Reed at birdied one, birdie two, birdie three. And then Rory steps up to hole three three, and he drives the green. It was just like every single guy who's just hitting bombs has a 30 foot chip up the hill on hole three. And Rory, when it leaves his club, because he had just got off to a weird start, you're like, where did he hit this thing? And he's kind of watching it, but he kind of does his lean and it rolls to the right side of the hill and kind of comes back and you're like, he's got like a 15, 20 foot eagle putt. And to me, that was the defining moment of the last two days, is every single time that that dam was not just about to break, but I mean flood Rory's house and ruin his tournament. He would come back with a birdie, he would make a big putt, he would hit a big shot. Especially today, like he pumped some drivers in huge spots right down the pipe. And I think there's an element of mental fortitude and mental toughness that he was able to carry over from 2025. Because I don't think if, let's say last year didn't happen in Scheffler wins or Fleetwood or just, just some random Rose just wins and Rory just finishes like 10th solid tournament. But like the previous decade, just kind of a non competitive top five or top ten. He 100% does not win this week. No fucking chance. Because when he had a six shot lead, one. This is a unique tournament to have a big lead because there are so many birdie and eagle holes, right? Like a US Open. Let's say you had a four shot lead going into Saturday. It's not that big because at any moment you could double a hole. And if you double hole someone else behind you birdies a hole, all of a sudden your lead goes from 4 to 2 or 4 to 1. That's kind of the Masters. But there's also an ebb and flow to the order of the holes. So if a guy's ahead of you and all of a sudden Rory is two back, three back, I don't think he ever finished. He was two back, but at one point in time Today he was 9 and Rose was 11 roses multiple holes ahead of him. So, so if all of a sudden he birdies one of the holes, that's not like a lock birdie for Rory. Like if you birdie nine or you birdie ten and you're then go from two to one shot back and that guy's two shots ahead of you, it's not a true two shot lead. So I'm watching it with my wife's aunts and a bunch of her family. And you got to be careful about that when you're consuming it because you're so caught up in Rory who I think cbs, I mean these last two years, I don't know, I don't know if the ratings will top last year just because of the storyline of Rory winning it. But in terms of the on the edge of your seat excitement about nobody. And I would imagine his father would agree with this, I would imagine his caddy Harry would agree with this. And I even imagine a little part of him doesn't know what's coming. Say this for Rory. I don't believe he's scared. Like, I don't believe that he messes up. I don't even know if he's nervous. I just wonder. Even on 18, it's like, bro, got a couple shot lead. Maybe just hit probably your 5 iron, 225 yards. Why don't we just pump a 5 iron out there and then pump another 6 iron up to the green and just find a way to get an easy bogey and say he's like, fuck it, give me the. Give me the driver. And he pumps it almost into another hole. I mean, you see some bad shots on 18, right? Whether, I mean, most of them aren't hitting crazy hooks left. They're trying to cut that fade to lessen their approach distance. And some guys, like most of us mortals, pump that thing into the trees, right? If most of us could clear that little sliver of, of blue sky and we hit a cut, we would be in the trees and like, what are you doing? Sometimes to me, it's not like I think this like Vanderbilt or. See some of these guys, they get really fast and they're like, this guy, this guy's choking because he's just unraveling and engulfs the game where you think and you walk much more than you play. Like, if you just add up the time you're over a ball and swinging relative to the time that you're walking throughout a whatever, four and a four and a half hour round, the ratio is enormous on the side of walking, not actually playing. It's like football. A football game is whatever, three, three and a half, four hours, depending college or pro, but the actual game action. You know, I think people have done the math. It's like 12 or 13 minutes. Like, it's not that actual much action. And that's the thing with golf. Well, that's where it's in relation to like kicking or a batter. In baseball, like, you get four abs. So what's most of your day? Not hitting, thinking about the abs. Especially if you're a dh. You just sit there the whole time. You're like, God, this is not going well. It's easy to get in your own head. And Rory clearly is a deep thinker who is just immensely talented. And you know, there is a Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth element of unpredictability. And to me, that's the key to golf, right? Unless you're going to have this all time. Like, I would obviously, if I could choose any lane you would just choose. I would want to watch Tiger, greatest player ever dominates everybody. But even with Tiger in his heyday, and part of it was the equipment, he could be a little unpredictable. Some of his most famous shots are around a tree at pebble beach, out of a bunker, over a bush, over water at the Canadian Open, right? They're not all the most insane putts. The chip at the Masters, like, part of Tiger's, I would say, mystique and legend was the crazy shit he was doing, right? It wasn't just, oh, tigers hit an eight iron from 169, hit it three feet. Yeah, all these guys can do that. Tiger like Phil even more on steroids. Just their greatest shots are the craziest of shots because they found themselves in bananas. Like places you're like this, you're not going to. Going to be there. Koepka, who was rattling off majors like, was kind of boring. He just hit fairways, hit the middle of greens, two putt. Scotty is, is starting to become a little bit more thrilling, but like, he can be kind of boring when he wins too. There is an element to. And Jordan definitely had this. And this is why Jordan became so famous in the mid 2010s. Now Rory has more game than Jordan, right? More powerful. Just, just got more in the tank, but he's got some of that, like, I don't know where this is going to go and I don't know if he's going to make the right decision, which is the most relatable thing in golf. It's like, yeah, I probably should lay up here, but, you know, hand me the hybrid, right? You know, I probably shouldn't go at this flag. I got the entire green to my right, but I got that little sliver and I could fly that bunker and I'm going to do it. Like most of us just see pin, hit it at the pin, see the fairway, try to hit. That's not the way these guys play, but that's the way Phil played. That's the way Rory plays. That's the way Smith play. Tiger actually did not play like that, but because he could be erratic off the tee, he just found himself having to do some crazy stuff. But Tiger was like a Belichick Levy level technique tactician where there's a freelance element to Rory that just. I'm not even talking his story, I'm not talking his accomplishments or his history at this course. There is an element to Rory for just sitting on the couch and you don't know much about him. Like Personally, what he's like as a guy. If you're just watching the golfer, it is a roller coaster. And if you can get a great player who's a roller coaster, that that's as good a television as you can get. There was a reason in Tiger's heyday In the 2000s, he was the most famous athlete, the most highly paid athlete. There was a reason Phil was drafting right off him, because Phil brought something to the table, a little pizzazz that was just like, what did he just do? Because at the end of the day, like, Tiger wouldn't do the dumb thing where Phil would. Rory Wood. Jordan Wood. Like Scottie. Not really even Scotty today, which is insane. He finished second in this tournament. It's just like the story so far of Scotty's year is he's one round away, right? If he just, Instead of that 74 on Friday, he shoots like 71, he wins his tournament by multiple shots. Let's just say he plays well that day. Shoots like 69. What if he runs away with this thing? You know, because I watched him yesterday, and Jason Sobel's my guy. Anyone who's been listening to me for a while, talking golf, he used to come on this show. He's the fucking man. He asked him a question, like, essentially, what your round could have been on Saturday. And I understand from Scotty's standpoint, like, I just shot 65 at Augusta. I'm actually within, if things get weird, striking distance of the defending champ, Rory McElroy. And he just called it, like, stupid question, like, I'm not. Which I get. He shot 65, but I watched because the wedding wasn't till 5 in the afternoon, Pacific Standard Time. And so when we were flying, I was watching Scotty's round for hour and a half on my phone. He, he probably could have shot 61. He, he looked like Tiger meets Arnold Palmer meets Jack and his. But he, but he missed a couple putts. It could have been really low, really low. And I, I, I just think Rory never felt like that the last couple days. Like, it never felt like, you know, Rory was just a couple shots away from shooting 64. Honestly, it felt like he was a couple shots away from shooting 78. And that's what makes this tournament, because at the other two real majors, I know the PGA is a major, but the US Open, which is extremely difficult, and the British Open, which at any moment, the weather can play a part. If you're playing like Rory just played, there's no chance you're winning because I get you have a six shot lead, but he just his driver this first Friday Saturday looked like me or you. Not in terms of the distance, but he did not quite know where it was going and he was just pumping it into the trees. Well, he's one of historically the greatest drivers of the golf ball. That to me clearly, like, I don't pretend to be some swing analyst, but I played golf long enough to know like something's just the timing, something's a little off and there doesn't kill you because even at that course when you're a little off, this is what kind of saved them. Is that Augusta, when you're pumping it all over the map on the par five, you're still birdie on the par four is like you can still make a great four, which he did sometimes. But worst case scenario, you're going to get a bogey like you have to for the most part, unless you pump it into the water, which he did yesterday, which caused him to get a double bogey. Double double. If you're going to get a double at Augusta and you're in the top, I would say 10ish, you're probably going to three putt, right. It's going to be one of those where you had a chip out, you're putting for par and you three putt. That's I would guess if we pulled up the stat, the stats that's the majority of double bogeys at Augusta. It's either a water ball, you know, on 11, or one of the par fives or a three putt on one of the par fours. And like that's, it's. You're not going to get a crazy blow up. So it's basically going to be guys birding more holes than you birdie. And Rory would go through these stretches where he would have a couple birdies and you're like, God, it feels like he could just rattle off five straight and then randomly like on hole three or four, like of that stretch, he would just pump one way over the green, way left of the green. Even early on the jitters, like, you know, today I think it was, was a whole three. It was a whole four. He pumps it way left on the par three. It's like, God, it's just, is he off again? And I don't know what he said in the press conference. I would be stunned if he said like, God, I just, I didn't have a great feel. His greatest attribute over the last really two days. But I would even go back to Friday when He built the big lead was just like head down. We're just going to keep swinging. We're just, there's enough out there. This course is scorable. There are so many par fives that I've proven to score well on here. There are par fours that if I do hit it straight off the tee, I'm going to have a short club in my, in my hand. But I am not playing well, you know, relative to typical master winners, right. Like last year he had a weird, weird Sunday, but he played well in that golf tournament. Like, I just don't view him playing well. But that's the, that's the reality with this tournament is if you have the knowledge, which he's been going here for 15 plus years, you have the like confidence. I've won this before. Like, that's one thing with Justin Rose, who to me is one of the best players of like the Tiger Phil era, right? He's honestly might be like a top 10 player of the Tiger Phil era, right? I'm talking like Ernie Ells, DJ Spieth, Koepka. Obviously, Rory, it's a fury. Like he's, he's one of the great players of that era. And he's got to be thinking when he goes to bed over the course of the month post Masters and just looking at the ceiling laying there, like, maybe the golf gods don't want me to win this tournament. Because there was a moment today you're like, he's going to do it. But this gets back to the. He's a couple holes ahead. It's like all Rory needs to do is birdie one of the holes that isn't viewed as like a lock. Birdie a nine, a ten, and then you get to the par five. Like today he didn't birdie either one of those holes, but then he knocks it stiff on 12. And when he birdies 12, you're like, okay, that's a big swing hole because he's got the two par fives coming up. He can birdie 14, he can, he can birdie 17. And if he has a multiple shot lead, really with a couple holes to go, he can just play somewhat conservative. But this gets back to the Mickelson thing. They even spee thing. They don't really have the conservative play mindset, which I respect. And as a fan of golf, as a fan of just entertainment, I'm glad. If Rory was one, if he was more boring in terms of the way he played, he wouldn't be as popular. But two, he wouldn't have as many wins, right? So it goes hand in hand. It's like I remember watching this documentary on Arnold Palmer and someone like, they, you know, Arnold Palmer was a big investor in the Golf Channel in 1994 or 1993, one of those two years they started the Golf Channel. And Arnold's. I don't know if it was like one of his holding companies or just him personally was investing a lot into it. And he's in a boardroom and I mean, at the time, in the mid-90s, Arnold Palmer's like, you know, pre Tiger, one of the biggest businesses, him and Jack and probably Greg Norman, just in terms of a business entity themselves. So he's got a room of accountants and lawyers. And I would imagine I've met a few business people that said you got to be careful sometimes of listening to the advice of an accountant or a lawyer, because at the end of the day, some of the great business decisions aren't just black and white. There's some gray area, right? And you got to trust your gut. It's like a great play call, great golf shot, a great. You name it, right? Sometimes, like, ah, the numbers say I shouldn't put this guy up in the eighth inning to pitch here, hit here. But there's. I got a feeling he's telling. I just, we talked about it before. I'm going to go with my gut. Bochy won some World Series going with his gut. And the accountant got up in the room and said, arnold, I don't think this is a good idea. And Arnold's response essentially was, well, hitting some of the shots I did from the trees over the course of my career weren't viewed as good ideas either. But if I hadn't done that and executed some of those shots when everyone thought I was nuts, none of us would be sitting in this boardroom. And I think sometimes, like, that's part of the deal here. You gotta kind of go for glory. And sometimes you go for glory, which he has in the past, and you get burned. And in golf, it's not a team sport. It's not like you get to. It's us, it's the group. It's just kind of you, you know, you're like Reavis or Dion out there on an island. And you could feel it today. And the leaderboard, you know, with Scotty going nuts, Justin Rose, who felt like, is this guy inevitable? He's just going to win this thing? You know, Cam Young just kind of hovered. Sam Burns kind of gave it away early with a double And a bogey, I think back to back holes, but no one will remember in 20 years that like, yeah, he's kind of all over the map. It's like, oh, yeah, this guy, especially if he wins a couple more, which he easily could. It's like, yeah, Rory won four Masters. No one remembers that. Like, Peyton Manning didn't play that well in the super bowl, right? It's like, he's super bowl champ. That's all that matters. And as time goes, people forget the details. Hell, we were a year removed. When? A week ago or two weeks ago. I threw on that Amazon prime documentary on the final round last year on Rory. And you're sitting there going, this is way crazier than I remember. And there were times the last two days, because you're thinking about last year and there's so much content that came out about last year that you've consumed that. So it's fresh on your mind. You're going, this is kind of crazy. Like last year. And then he would lose the lead and then you got to gain it back. And it's like, listen, as someone that loves golf, but even if I didn't, I just love sports. The entertainment value of the last two days was 10 out of 10 feels pretty strong. But like minimum nine, nine and a half. I think it was elite TV because we all know what's on the line too, right? It's like, yeah, he doesn't need to win, he's already won, but this guy's going to just blow it. And essentially he kind of did blow it because the lead was gone, it had vanished, it was over. And then he would not only at one point in time today, he's down a couple shots and Rose feels like he could birdie every hole coming in. And that's the magic of it all, because like Arnold Palmer said in that boardroom, he just did some magical shit. He got it done, made some huge shots, didn't end up making a mistake that derailed him, and gets to essentially put a jean green jacket on himself, not a jean jacket. And now he's a multiple time master winner. Now his story of legendary status of like, well, can't compare him to Koepka anymore because over the last two years now he's tied and passed him. And we all know Rory Non Majors is a way better player than Brooks Speed and DJ and all like his other contemporaries of his era, Post Tiger Phil, he's the kingmaker, you know, and it, you know, Scotty's a good example of, well, he's Just one round away. Well, that's Roy. Probably be like, google my resume. Google some of my years of, like, one round away. Hell, I was one or two shots away. I could have 12 majors right now. So that's. That's part of golf. Hey, if I could have. And I. That's why Scotty, I think, kind of snapped back on so was like, Yeah, I shot 65. It could have been 60. I mean, that's. That's golf. That's every round. My. My 74 that I shot on Friday. Hell, could have been 78, probably could have been 72, could have been 70. That's. That's every round of golf ever. So I just think Rory sitting here, like, not my greatest performance, but, like, over the course of my work, I've earned it, you know, for every 28 to three or Malcolm Butler pick at the line of scrimmage to win a Super bowl in just the most insane fashion. There's that 13, three game against the Rams, which no one really talks about. No one really remembers. It's just part of the resume. It's like, it's one of the Super Bowls, you know, and this, to me, is not going to top last year because it's impossible to do that. But it's just like, as time goes on, this will age. Not the biggest wine guy. So I. I use this, like, age like a fine wine. I don't technically know. Know what that means because I'm not a big, like, fine wine drinker, but clearly, as wine ages, I guess it clearly tastes better. That's what I think will happen with this, and we'll lose touch with the true nitty gritty details and just be like, he showed a lot of heart. He showed a lot of mental fortitude. He showed a lot of mental toughness, and he just found a way and he willed himself to this championship after, you know, essentially blowing a big lead on Friday, which. How often do you see these tournaments with a guy winning by, you know, five, six, seven shots? Not really how the Master rules works. I mean, it's why so many times in my memory I can remember this tournament going into extra holes because of the thrilling nature of the course. And the course is always such a big winner because we have such a history with the holes, especially on the back nine. You know how 10 curves, you know how tough that second shot on 11, for whatever reason, the hole 12 is the hardest par three. That's like 160 yards in the history of America. You know, the two par fives that 18th hole the drivable, you know, or I mean the drive on 18 is just, just feels like an iconic view. And when you get an iconic winner, it just, it's just one of those you remember. And I, I think Rory has just kind of cemented his status where a couple years ago I, I, I thought this is like, it's inevitable he's going to win more majors, but you never know. Like, you'd be like, I think Scotty's going to win five or six more majors. It's fucking hard to do, you know, I mean, it's just, it's just difficult. Like you do have to play four good rounds or you can't have one round that just derails you. Right? And it's just hard to not do that. Right. He's already won a ton of majors, right. It's going to be difficult for him. Like I, most people be like, he's got a bunch more in the back maybe. I hope so. I, I find him pretty enjoyable. But there's no guarantee that's not the way it works. I mean, we thought that with Jordan Spieth now, some of these guys, their games diminished. Clearly Scotty's still elite. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock bet, the official sports betting partner of the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic. 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Maybe he shoots a 65 on Saturday or Sunday and kind of like Colin Morikawa, you know, cooks the books a little bit and makes it look a little better than it actually was in terms of their competitiveness when you look back 10 years from now, but he just melts down. And you saw Sergio today just absolutely snapping his driver getting yelled at by one of the green jackets. You saw Bob McIntyre flipping off. I don't know, the cameras, the, the patrons, like, some of these guys just lose it and like, it's, it's crazy environment. But. Sorry, I lost my train of thought there. My point is, is that Cam Young who. Oh, I was talking about Bryson, and I thought, Bryson, listen, it's hard to pick a winner. Like, I mean, I bet on winners in golf. If you, the guy that you pick to win is just in the mix on Sunday and has a chance like that, that's an incredible feeling. Bryson not making the weekend is just epic failure. I think he clearly. I know Rom takes a lot of shit. Like, at least I turn on the TV Saturday and Sunday in the morning and watch Rom play golf. You know, Bryson was an embarrassment relative to the hype, and I bought it relative to winning these live events, relative to how good, you know, his status in the game is and should be based on his recent form. But this week and that performance on Friday, like, I'm not a huge fan of front runners because whether you're a golfer, whether you're a football player, whether you're, you know, a businessman. Like, life's full of ebbs and flows and most people are defined by their, their shittiest times. Like, everyone can smile and have a good time when you're, you know, winning games or making money or, you know, everyone's happy in the, in the honeymoon phase, when you first start dating someone, like, tell me two kids and, you know, someone loses their job four years later, how it's going, because that's how. That's what defines people through the toughness or the tough times. And Bryson, when times get tough, sometimes he just acts like a different human being. And this is why people push back. And I'm a fan, but I do get where it's like, oh, is this totally authentic? Is he kind of faking it? When times are going good and when times are going bad, he kind of turns into, like, the sulky guy. But I just think that, yeah, I couldn't have misread that one anymore. And I was off because I thought Cam, I thought I reversed him. I thought Bryson was going to do what Cam Young did. And Cam Young, maybe not quite to the degree that Bryson did, but I was like, everyone's picking them. And then at one point on Saturday, like, is this the best player right now in the world? Like, are you watching this guy? And then even a couple times a day, you're like, cam's gonna win this tournament. Cam's gonna win this tournament. This putter kind of let him down, which is weird because putter's fantastic. And by the end, you know, you just kind of out of it. He pumps one in the trees left. But he was good, man. He was. I, I thought, like, love him in Philadelphia. In a month at the PGA Championship, I, I'm going to double down on that. I, I, I think this is, this guy is poised one. Also, if Scotty's going to play like this, like, kind of muscle flex a little bit. Like, guys, I still got it. I still got to figure out just one of these rounds, but much closer than that. T, whatever the players, like, I got it, guys. Like, I, I'm right here. I finished second. I'm in shambles. I got the second kid. I'm not playing that well. Like, I'm still pretty good. But Cam Young, since the Ryder cup, has been a fucking monster. And we talk about this a lot. Most guys do not have 10, 15, 20 year dominant careers. That's for a very, very small percentage of guys. If you look historically, I'm talking like, hall of Fame guys, Potty Harrington, right? Marco Miro won a couple majors. You take advantage of that moment for a year or two when you're humming. Speed did it. And right now, Cam Young is humming. So you can have a year where it's like, remember when he finished top five in every major and won two of Them now, obviously winning two of the four majors is extremely hard, but like, he is going to be the heavy favorite. Excuse me, one of the heavy favorites for anyone with a brain going into the next three tournaments. Because especially the PGA and the. And the British. I have where's it Shinnecock is, which is historically very, very difficult course. Like, to me, I'm putting. I'm putting him ahead right now. Like, I just trust him and more than Bryson and John Rom. I mean, John Rom was obviously pretty disappointing. Rough kind of week for Liv, which I think sometimes people go back and forth on Twitter. It's like, I just want to see John Rom Bryson play well in these majors. Like, I just would like him in the mix. Morikawa went kind of nuts. 69, 68, 68. God. Sam Burns is going to have a chance over the course of the next week to think to himself, could I have won this tournament? It's another example of sometimes you get in these kind of modes where you have an opportunity and you never get it back. Like, how many times Sam Burns going to be like, legitimately in the last or second to last group on Saturday and Sunday of these. Of. Of a master specifically, I could see him winning a major, but like, for guy from the south, clearly a really good player. Just kind of had that meltdown early in the day today and it kind of derailed them. Max homa, sneaky top 10. Xander Schoffle actually having a good season. Spieth. I watched a decent amount of Spieth over the last three days. There was a stretch on Friday and Saturday where it's like he's putting like 12 handicap. Like, his putting couldn't have been any worse. He had a stretch of probably like 27 holes. Was like, I don't know how many other guys in this tournament are hitting the ball better than him. Like, if you just put Both guys from 180, from 150, from 200 yards, I would trust Spieth as much as I would trust anybody in this tournament right now beside, like maybe Cam Young. And then he would get up there from seven feet and it's like, did he just miss that putt by three feet? So I speak is going to have a week where it's like he finished 5:12, seven shots back. I mean, seven shots a lot. But he has to be thinking, like, I easily should have been like 9, 10 under I in a weird way. And this is a positive because I'm a big Jordan guy actually threw 100 bucks on him this week. He's Got to be thinking, I'm actually much closer to 10 under than I am to being over par in this tournament. And I think that's the truth. Like to me, Rory is much closer to being five under in this tournament than he was to be an 18 under and winning this tournament by six, seven shots. I think we'd all agree. I'm not trying to diminish or talk shit or anything, but like, it just, it's just a fact, you know, it really is. Like you watch Scotty and Cam Young, when they their peak of this tournament, they just looked way better than Rory did. I mean, Rory was just pulling some crazy shots out of his ass. You know, Scotty's just pounded down the middle, hitting it six feet, making the putt, but he just came through when he had to. And now he's won back to back Masters. And this tournament, I think is, and I mentioned this to Colin, I think it's elevated its status. You know, sometimes we thought for a long time, how do we do without Tiger? This tournament's always been able to kind of carry itself on its own a little bit. But I think Rory has re elevated it, obviously in the way. In the fashion in which he played, but that was as just a fan and lover of entertaining sports. Like, I'm not a huge soccer fan, but if you tell me I'm about to watch the greatest World cup game ever, I wouldn't miss it for the world. Right? I'm not a huge hockey guy. The Olympic hockey. Those games were incredible. Let me repeat incredible. I'm a big moment. Things that matter in terms of athletically, that carry over culturally. And that's where I think that Rory has kind of elevated kind of this thing. And for a guy that we saw what it meant to him last year, this one I haven't seen everything because we hopped right on. But having your dad there, the moment with his family, I just. It's going to be difficult. And I think the only thing he can chase now, I guess I'll end on this is like all time great status because at this point in time, like, what else? He's won every major. He's won the Masters twice. He joins Tiger, Jack and Nick Fo is the only guys to do it back to back. It's like, what he's just chasing now, like other great golfers, he's just chasing this list of humans. Like, what's his next goal? Could I win nine more and catch Tiger? I mean, it sounds crazy, but like, what else are you going to use to Motivate you. Like, what else is. Why would he ever play some of these random events ever again in his career? It's very difficult. You know, where at this point in time, his, you know, ship nut just reported he's closer to being a billionaire than not a billionaire, golf wise. I mean, these last three or four years, he's playing at such an elite level. He's dominated these majors. And now the accomplishments, like, he's actually done it. It's not like, oh, he's really close. He's playing at a high level. He's already accomplished the majors years ago, but, like, he's clearly one of the best. It's like, this guy's winning the Masters. Last year, he won the players, like, how do you stay motivated? And that's. That's really difficult. You know, it's easy for some guys where they just have the one event, like, every single year. It's like, I want to win the Super Bowl. I want to win the Daytona 500. I want to win, like, this guy. There's a tournament every week, you know, and as this thing changes, you can't just. Part of golf. It's not just the four majors. You know, he's a big part of the PGA Tour, the reimagining of it in terms of the elevated events. And he's got to go, like, how does he get up for it? Which I. I've always said this forever. I have nothing but respect for humans that still grind when financially they have nothing to gain in terms of their life is completely set and they've accomplished what they need to in said field. And I think the thing with Rory is what's going to be his. Like, Tiger was just a psychotic sicko like mj, like, Tom, you know, that's not Rory. He's adm. Like, I'm not. He said, I'm not wired like that. I. I heard a question on Friday when I flew back from la. When I was driving home, I flipped on, like, PGA Tour radio on Sirius, and it was press conference. And they asked him, do you ever feel intimidating to your partners? And he's like, that's not the way I play golf. They're essentially saying, do you ever feel kind of like Tiger woods out there? Like, you intimidate the field? And he's like, that's not the way I'm wired. That's the way I think. And he's being honest. That's not. And that's the way Tiger thought. It's not really the way, like, speed or Phil think they're trying to play really good golf. And how he can stay motivated at this point in time, I'm going to be fascinated to watch because I. For us to be entertained for the game of golf, it's pretty important that he stays motivated, right? Like in just in terms of. In shape, practicing, like, best case scenario, LeBron, Tom Brady, like, into their 40s, they were still very driven. And he's clearly a driven, ambitious guy. But it's going to be fascinating if he's able to sustain it, because at this point in time, like, he's just kind of chasing ghosts, like chasing debate shows like Rory or Tom. Tom Watson, you know, Rory or Ben Ho, like, that's. There's nothing left. Money, accolades. It's just to just keep racking them up. And part of that motivation in golf is, like, you got. The practice is so important. That's what you have to do leading up to these events. And it's going to be fascinating to see if he's able to maintain sustainability staying. And stay dialed in. What a Masters. Adios. And Congrats to Rory McElroy.
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