THE MASTERS...Bucket List Checked

those two days. I've been to multiple sporting events. I've been to the Super Bowl, I've been to eight World Series. I've been to five Baseball All Star Games. I've been to the NBA All Star Game, ND five hundred NASCAR. I've been to a couple WrestleManias, but nothing compares to the excitement of the Master going to Augusta. I mean, you know, it's everybody's bucket list, everybody who's ever been around golf, it's their bucket list, and I get to

check it off. A little background on how I got here first, So a Golf Smarter listener named Chett Hurwitz, who really is an amazing ambassador at Golf Smarter here in Atlanta telling many of his friends, and then he saw on Facebook. He saw on Facebook that a high school classmate of his had written a memoir that was being highly recommended. So Chet got the book, a book called By Accident by joe Anne Green, and he started reading it. And while he's reading it, he's realizing, wait

a minute, she keeps talking about her husband Fred. It's the same Fred Green who I've been listening to for a while. So Chet reached out to Joanne and in twenty twenty three, Joanne and I took the civil Rights tour in the South and we stopped in Atlanta first. We came in a day early and we met Chet and his wife, who again my wife went to high school with him, and you can hear my wife on her podcasts in the story, and she also does the

introduction to golf smarter. That's my wife's voice. So we met Chet last year and his wife and Chet and I immediately start talking golf and the podcast, and he's told me that he had been to multiple Masters before and also has played Augusta National at least a half dozen times, I think it is. And I told him at that point year ago, I said, if there's any chance ever of me getting to come with you to go to the Masters, give me twenty four hours notice

and I'll be there. And so over the last year we worked on it. And if you remember last week's episode or this week's episode with doctor Bob Jones, the fourth Bobby Jones' grandson, he talked about Charlie Yates and his one of his closest friends, Charlie Yates Junior. Charlie Yates was a golfer in the thirties and forties and

a kind of a legend here in Atlanta. And chet is also good friends with Charlie, and Charlie was the one who provided He's a member at Augustin National, and he was able to provide us with two members badges for Wednesday at the Masters and then Thursday for the first day of the Masters. We just got regular tickets. And I'll break that down and admit it, but I just wanted to share with you the introduction of how I got here in the first place. As I'm talking

right now, I'm sitting at my gate. I'm about to fly back to San Francisco this morning, and so I just want to share observations and stories from my time and we'll do that after this. Okay, augusta national amazing. Now, first thing I want to tell you is that when you okay, so he's talking, I hope you can hear me over this guy talking, I'll just wait, Okay. Yeah.

The first thing I want to talk about is that since most of us has to experience the masters, the people who go, what they tell you, the ones who've been If you've ever talked to people who've been there, first thing they talk about is how amazing it is, that how steep the holes are, and you really don't get a sense of that on television. And it's true, you really don't get a sense of how steep the holes and the walking is and what a challenging walk

it is. So here's a piece of advice. When you're watching it on TV, look at the player's head, the top of his head, and then compare that to the horizon. If the horizon is above his head, clearly he's going uphill. If the horizon is below his head, then he's going downhill. And you can really tell get a better sense of what the undulation is like when you're watching on TV. I have all these notes that I'm checking off in

my day here. So when we arrived Whennesday morning, we get our badges, and the first thing I'm interested in is going to the gift shop because I wanted to get a nome, right, a garden nome, and the line said it was eighty minutes long, and it's like, yeah, I'm going to pass on that for now, and Chat recommended that we just pass on that until later and go to a different, different store which is on the

fifth hole instead of the entrance main entrance. And because we had members badges for Wednesday, that gave us access to the Member's Clubhouse, the Member's pro Shop, the Member's gift store, Founder's Hall, and to get inside the ropes by the tree. And that's where the golf industry all hangs out. It is under the big tree, right outside the clubhouse, and that's where all the umbrellas are to sit and eat. If you've seen, you know or heard

about under the umbrellas. So first thing, because Chet has played there so many times, he was able to give me a detailed tour. And on Wednesday they had the putting contest. We didn't watch any golf. We saw a couple of golfers practicing on various holes, but we didn't see any golf that day, just but we probably put in thirty thousand steps walking the course and chet sharing details from tee to green on practically every hole and how to play them and the best viewing angles for things.

So at one point, where standing waiting to cross over the fifteenth fairway and standing there, and I turn around and I look and I'm thinking, wait a minute, is that it is? And I walked up to this person after watching for a few minutes, and I went page and it was Paige Spinner Rack on Wednesday. Well, Wednesday is the only day you were allowed to have a camera there, and you can't your phones anytime, but I had a digital camera that I borrowed from a friend.

So I talked to Page for a minute. Told her that when she first got started doing her YouTube videos, that I wrote to her asking her to be on the show and that she never responded, which is fine because it was a podcast and she's a video star. And just told her how happy I was for her success. And we got a picture together. So then we take off and now we're walking and we're headed up because we're supposed to meet Mac Barnhardt who you heard a couple of weeks ago for multiple times on the show.

Mac is Lucas Glover's agent, and Mac and I had been texting and he says, all right, meet me at noon at eleven point thirty, buy the tree front of the clubhouse and we'll have lunch together and then Lucas te's off at twelve fourteen, so we'll go over there together. And I'm like, okay, that would be awesome. As we're walking over there, there's a group of photographers walking in

front of us. You know, we're walking across the fairway and there's a group of four or five photographers with very large lenses, you know, official press photographers in front of us. And I look over and one of them is Ken Griffy Junior. And I was like Ken, he goes yeah, I said, you're working here. What's going on? He goes yeah, I am. And I said it's crazy because I was just telling Chet a story about you

this morning. So on the drive over from we were staying about an hour outside of Augusta It's which is two and a half hours from Atlanta. We were staying with a friend of his while we were going to Augusta and on the drive over, Chet and I were sharing baseball stories. Chet's father was a renowned baseball writer for the Boston Globe for decades, and so Chet and

I both have great baseball stories. We were sharing and I was telling about the time that I was at a game at the Seattle Mariners game and Ken Griffy Junior and Ken Griffy Senior were on the same team together. It was one of two years or one year that they did that. And the story was the game I was at, Dad was on second base, I think he walked, and then there was a sacrifice fly. He's on second, and then Junior comes up to the plate and hits

a home run. Well, in baseball, when somebody hits a home run, if anybody's on base, they run, they cross home and then they wait for the guy who hit the home run. They wait for him to cross home plate, and when they do, give him a high five, a slap on the butt, and they go into the dugout. Not Ken Griffy Senior. He's waiting for his son to come to home plate, and as he crosses home plate, Dad reaches up, grabs his hat and gives Junior a noogie and it was the cutest things, a total dad thing.

So I when I met Ken Griffy walking across Augusta National and I said, I was just telling Jet this story about you this morning, and I told Ken the whole story, and I said, you know, he gave you a noogi and Ken looks at me, he goes, he's still doing that. It was so good. So he looked at me and he goes, is this your first masters And I yes, and he said me too. Isn't this awesome? So that was really amazing that I got to meet him. So then we made it up there and we met.

We made it to the tree and I find Mac and he's having a conversation with Jeff Ogilvie and his daughter. So I kind of stand back and wait wait for them to finish. And as I'm talking, I look over his shoulder and there's Annika Sorenstam having a conversation with somebody. And I look over to the right and sitting at one of the tables under the umbrella, there's Nancy Lopez. You have two of maybe the top five women golfers

of history standing there. It's like people are just you know, schmoozing and happy to see each other and having a grand old time. So I'm talking to Mac and he introduces me to another person that he's talking to was Derek Smith, who I actually met a couple times that afternoon. Derek Smith is one of the part owners of the Atlanta Falcons and the CEO of Choice Point. But then we go and sit down for our lunch. We get a table and it's Chet and Mack and myself, and

across the table are three gentlemen. And I'm going to back up the story a little bit. When I landed in Atlanta on Monday night, the first thing I did was go visit Chet, and I I Chet. It was a mile from Chet's house. We went and visited doctor Bob Jones. As many times as doctor Bob has been on Golf Smarter over the years, he and I had never met, so it was really awesome to go to us office and meet him and then spend you know, hour and a half just chatting or chat and doctor

Bob and myself. So one of the things that doctor Bob and we talked about this earlier. Doctor Bob and Charlie Yates are very good friends. Well, Chat is very good friends as well. With Charlie Yates Junior, as is Doctor Bob and I actually this year I asked if Doctor Bob would ask Charlie to be on the show with him, and Charlie is very shy about that, doesn't like to showcase himself, but he denied, so like, that's fine.

I just was hoping maybe we can do it. So we meet up with Charlie Yates and he introduces me to Derek Smith again second time. But now we're sitting having lunch with Mac and sitting across the table of these three gentlemen, one man probably his late seventies of maybe early eighties named William Black, and his two sons are sitting there, Stu and Robert. And we get talking and I asked Bill. He introduced himself as Bill Black.

I asked him how long? How many times have you been coming to the Masters and he said, well, my first time I was fourteen years old, So you're kidding, that's incredible. How have you had access like that? He said family? And I looked at him. I said, keep going, tell me more. He goes, yeah, my grandfather was Bobby Jones. I'm like, wait a minute, your first cousins with doctor Bob. Yeah, I said, we were with him the other night. It's incredible.

So here I am sitting with Bobby Jones' grandson and two of his great grandsons and we had a wonderful time and Bill told crazy stories, but it supported almost everything that doctor Bob said. And hopefully Robert Bob Black will be on the show because he's got a really fascinating organization called Change the Course and I hope to feature that soon on a upcoming episode of Golf Smarter.

Now I'm doing this little bonus episode because I've got so much packed in leading up to episode one thousand that I didn't want to change any of those, so I thought it would be appropriate to put this on the Sunday. And Okay, they're preboarding. I'm just going to keep talking. Hopefully you'll hear what I'm saying. Because we have access to the clubhouse and whatnot from the members. We're able to walk into the trophy room and the hallway of the main lobby of the Founder's room, and

it's a museum of Augusta and it's absolutely amazing. And after spending two plus hours with Mac and then another half hour or so with Charlie, we get back to walking the course again. I'll tell you everyone talks about how beautiful, how green it is. It's incredibly lush at Augusta National as far as how green it is. It's maintained perfectly, and you can see how fast the greens are. But they're not allowed. The announcers are not allowed to

call the rough because it's not really rough. They call it the second cut. When the ball lands on this second cut, which we would think of as rough, the ball is still ninety percent above the grass. You don't lose the You're not going to lose the ball anywhere. It's really kind of wide open, so you know. But the course, the greens are so hard, the green complexes are so big, and so have such elevation change and undulation. They're hard to read. As you're able to see, it's

just a remarkable golf course. It's really beautiful. And the master's tea boxes are much farther away than the members tea boxes. It makes it almost you know, a fun game to play if you're getting a chance to play there. So one other thing before we left Mac we went over to go watch the families and the little kids doing just before the part three contest. So that's where the little kids come out and they get to see where see, you know, the families playing and whatnot. I'm

just checking my the phone. I'm on zone three and they're on zone two. So let's take another break here, and when we come back, I'll give you my impressions of Thursday. I'll be back right after this. Okay, we're ready to start again. And now I'm it's Sunday morning at the Master. It's no, it's Sunday morning, and I'm in my backyard. I couldn't record again. It was too

loud on a plane obviously to record anything. And then afterwards, as soon as I landed, my wife was also in Los Angeles during the week watching the grandchildren, and then so we landed at the airport at the same time. So I just haven't had a chance and we had dinner plans last night. I didn't have chance to record this second segment until now, and I've been trying to gather my thoughts and talk about what Thursday was like

versus Wednesday, and they're completely different days. Wednesday was like being at Disneyland, you know, I went shopping twice. I shopped first in the morning, and then I shopped again in the afternoon, and then as we were leaving, and then Thursday is more like being the Thanksgiving Day parade. Right. It's just a bunch of people lined up with mild applause watching people watching the stars stroll by. It's kind

of like being a parade. Funny thing about this. My younger son, who I've talked about for so many years on the podcast, is the one who got me started playing golf when I was in my mid forties. He and I have had this ongoing thing about who do you think is going to get to go to the Masters first. Well, when he asked me that question, I didn't realize that he had friends who go every year.

One of his closest friends from cob friend from college, and her husband they go every year because she's from that area and her mother has connections. And I was thinking, Oh, I don't know, you know, you you going first, me going first? I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to go. But now that I realize you have a chance to go, maybe your chances of going or fifty to fifty. He's like, oh, no, no, no, I'm

going to go ninety percent. The irony to all this, and again I didn't think I'd ever get to go. The irony is that I went on Wednesday and Thursday, and my son went on Friday and Saturday, so we both got to go, but I got to go first, and I had access to things that he would never get access to because of Charlie Yates. So who again we talked about with doctor Bob this week, So Thursday, let's go back. So first thing, I wanted to get

a home. I wanted a garden nome. So as soon as we got there, I got in line at one of the stores, not the exclusive store that I got to go in yesterday with my member badge, but they didn't have nomes. But I went into one stores the line was like thirty minutes long. The day before the line was ninety minutes long, so I'm like pass, But the thirty minute line is like, I'm going to do it because I really want a gardennome for my putting green.

And I go shopping, I get my nome. I find out they only have one per person, so I couldn't get one for my son. So I told him, you're on your own on that and then luckily, you get to go to your car once. While you're inside. You have one time you can go out and come back in. You only get two entries with your pass. So I after shopping again, I went to the car, put stuff away, and then we came back. Our first stop was we're

standing near the approach on number three. And as we're standing there waiting for the ball, you know, the guys to tee off U all of a sudden a spotter I'm standing next to the ropes, and the spotter goes your feet, your feet, your feet, look off for your feet, and a ball comes rolling and a guy on my left, the ball hits his foot and rolls back behind the crowd. So I immediately walk back and I get to stand right behind. It was Patrick McNeely who was plus one

after two. I'm standing five six feet behind him. As the ball is in the second cut. I remember they are not allowed to call it the rough. But when you look at the grass the second cut for recreational players who play public golf, the second cut there is kind of like what our fairways are like the ball you can still see ninety percent of the ball. It's sitting up there is no rough. This is not the US Open, so there's always a great opportunity to hit

the ball. Well. Well, McNeely chipped up to a blind shot and we don't know to applod or not. We don't know if it rolled off the green, but the people behind the green were plotting. It's like, okay, good shot. He had a fifteen footer that he missed. It slid to the left of the hole and he got the par.

Then we head over and we're at the number four tea box and it's only like twenty yards from the third hole which we just saw and the group of McNeely, fanw and Dtrie and McNeely was closest to the pin on that par and these are just notes. Then the day before Charlie hs Junior told Chet, who you know, they're good friends, told Chet meet me here at noon

tomorrow and let's have lunch. And so comes up to noon, we meet Charlie and he's talking to some people and he introduces us to these other guys and they're entrepreneurs, fascinating entrepreneurs. And stay tuned because we made to get a couple of them on the podcast coming up. I'm working on it. And you'll know then at the time that these are the people I had lunch with. But Charlie then takes us into lunch inside the Founder's dining room and then this is only people that can eat

in there. I'm pretty sure are members and their guests. So we get to walk in and Charles at the door was I think his name is Charles Cooley and he was a past champion that wasn't playing anymore. He's older, but he's still alive. Let's see here. Yeah, he found his name and it was Charles Coody from Ableing, Texas. He wasn't playing, but he was there. So he greeted us at the door, said hello to Charlie, and we go in and eating lunch in this Founder's room with

Charlie sharing stories. Again. What a treat, no hats, what a treat, What a conversation we had afterwards. I have to go to the bathroom and I'm walk down the hallway and I'm standing outside the bathroom and this young woman comes up to me and says, sir, do you need to use the restroom? I say, yeah, I do, I'm waiting here. She goes, come with me please, and she walks me down the hall. She knocks on a door of a different bathroom and saying housekeeping, and nobody responds.

She goes here, you go, and I get a bathroom to myself. That's what goes on at the Masters with the staff. It is remarkable how much every person there, even in the parking lots, when you're in the parking lot and you park your car, every single person is welcome to the Masters. Welcome to the Masters, enjoy your day. And that's just wherever you go. Later in the day, I had to go to the bathroom again, you know, I'm old, and I went to what are the public

bathrooms near one of the halls. He was near six or something, and there's a gentleman, young man standing at the doorway of this bathroom going, if you're going number one, go to the left line. If you're going number two, stay against the wall. Number one left, number two. And he's constantly just ongoing and going and going. Fine to him, and he was great, and he had his beautiful attitude and he was fun. But this is all that he was saying. Number one, left line, coming on the left,

number two, stay against the wall. So I said to him, did you audition for this job. He's like, no, no, I'm just doing this and it's fun. Said, how are you doing? He says, this is my fourth year of doing it and it's the greatest job I've ever had. And it's one WEEKI year. I love this job and you just get that feeling from every person you come in contact with across the board. The staff was fantastic and they'd really appreciate being there. Now we're going through.

We're walking and as we crossed some of the pine straw under some of the trees, the pine trees, I realized, wait a minute, I've got an empty water bottle with me here. I'm just gonna fill it with pine straw. This could be the greatest free souvenir I could have, and there's nothing like it. This is the only place ever to get something like this. So I filled my water bottle with pine straw, some twigs I found a pine cone, and some azaleas that were on the floor.

And so I have this bottle. Now when you open it up, it smells so great. And the reason I did this is years ago, my wife and I took a trip to Alaska. We went on a cruise to Alaska, and we got on a helicopter and took the helicopter up to a glacier. And while at the glacier, I took a rock and it was a you know, not a boulder and not a pebble, but it was a rock.

It's the probably the size of a softball. And I keep it in my freezer at home so that when people come over and they open the freezer, if they open the freezer or this conversation comes up, they're like, why is there a rock in your freezer? I said, because I pulled it off of a glacier and it's thousands of maybe millions of years old, and I wanted to make it feel at home. So that's made me feel like I wanted to bring home some pines trot

from the Masters, and I have that. But a couple people said, don't let the staff or let anybody see that, because you could get in trouble for that. Really, okay, fine. Never observation about Thursday play, and that would be the speed of the greens. It is mind blowing to see these guys that are twenty five feet away, thirty feet away from the hole, and if there's any slope or

down hittle at all. They're hitting a five foot put, maybe a three foot put, and the fact that they can get that to the hole and stop near the hole, or in some cases just keeps going. But the pace of the greens, the speed of the greens something I've never witnessed before, and I'm not too interested in playing something like that, because it is really remarkable to watch. And the pace of play on the greens. If anyone ever gives you a hard time about your pace of play,

tell them to watch a professional golf tournament. Pace is very slow. They're very, very deliberate about every single shot they take. We shouldn't feel so badly about that. Also, I can only term this as the roar of the silence when you have thousands of people standing watching a golfer and there's absolutely no sound at all. It's dead silent. The respect, the anticipation is so thick on both sides

that you just can't imagine how quiet it is. But then it either you'll then you can close your eyes and know basically what happened. There's either you know, applause, light applause, or there's oh, a giant grown from the crowd, or they erupt in excitement and you could just tell what's happening. We were standing with Mac at one point the day that day and we heard a crowd scream, you know, from the other side of the course, not knowing what happened, but Mac goes up. Somebody got an eagle.

It was crazy. Okay, walking down the tenth fairway, Patrick Cantley had just hit his drive on number ten and again, this is a hole that you really can't imagine what the down slope is like. And if you again on TV, watch the top of their head versus the horizon and it'll give you a real good sense of what the slope of the you know, the downhill and uphill is

and which way they're going. So as we're walking down this railway, can't we just hit his ball and he's walking by us, and he's got a sandwich in one hand and a drink in the other, and all of a sudden he crosses over the rope, goes over to a trash can and spits out everything in his mouth, not throwing up, but just yeah, right, and then walks back over the ropes, takes another of a bite of a sandwich and keeps on going. It's like, wait, do you like it or you don't like what is going

on here? That was like weird number nine. T Sergio is about to tee off and he's just bringing his club back a little bit, and all of a sudden, we hear from behind him and he stops and he turns around and goes sounded like a phone, And the officials are sitting there. Police are sitting there. There's armed police following every single you don't see them, but they're following every single group on the side on the ropes, but inside the ropes, and so everyone's looking around. Sergiot's off.

I'm over listening to these officials and they can't identify where that sound came from. They're thinking maybe it was a siren from off the chorus. We don't know. We couldn't figure it out. Then I had a pimento sandwich. You have to do it right. You have to have a pimento sandwich while you're there. And the sandwiches and the prices of the concessions. If you go to sporting events at all, you know that prices at concessions are pretty outrageous. Hopefully you can go to Golfsmarter dot com

and see. I'll post a bunch of my photos that go with this episode my time from there, and hopefully I'll be able to post it for you. But the concession stands, I'm queuing up my photograph so I can read some of the numbers to you on how crazy it is. Ache salad and pimento cheese sandwiches buck fifty, the other sandwiches barbecue, pork, Master's Club, chicken salad on honey wheat, ham and cheese on rye, classic chicken three dollars apiece. And these are not these. The food is good.

Breakfast served until ten am. Masters blend fresh brewed coffee two bucks, Chicken biscuit three bucks, breakfast sandwich three bucks, blueberry muffin two fresh mixed fruit, two fifty. Beverages, this is amazing. Soft drinks bottled water, fresh brewed iced tea two bucks. Then the alcohol Crown Nest, domestic beer, import beer,

white wine six bucks. That's expensive for them, right, And then the snacks apple slices, chips, plain or barbee buck and a half peanuts, bucks seventy five Southern cheese straws. Not even sure what that is two bucks, cookies bucks seventy five and then the new one this year, the Georgia Peach ice cream sandwich three Bucks. So I did eat a Pimento sandwich. I did get to do it. Would I have another one? Not by choice, but if I'm back at the Masters, I'll do anything if i

can get another chance to go. So after we walked around seeing various locations, watching different people play. Now, after Lucas Glover finished the ninth Hole, we went and I found Mac Barnhard again and he's chatting with the head of New Era, the hat company, and we talk for a few minutes and talk about what Lucas is doing. He's just like I hope Lucas just has to make the cut. He just okay, he's not having a good dan on Thursday, but he's gonna put it all together

Friday and I'll make the gut. Well, unfortunately he didn't, so we're sorry Lucas, and we're sorry man. But another one of Max's client's, Danny Willett, did make it. It was much louder on the grounds on Wednesday than it was on Thursday, because there's a buzz. Everyone's just like exploring and looking at things and getting a feel and shopping, and so it was much louder on the chorus. Thursday

was much quieter. But here's something interesting. When you watch it on TV, you hear the birds a lot, but when you're there, you don't see any birds. I saw two in the parking lot. You don't hear them. Occasionally you might hear a couple of birds, but I think it's because of these big microphones that they use for television so they can get the sound of the club hitting the ball. I think they pick up the limited sound of birds, unless they're piping in phony bird noises,

it's quite possible. But I was really amazed at how quiet it was, and even not even bird sounds. When we were there on fifteen, can't Ley had a show a couple of shots, a couple groups ahead of Rory who had the same shot where he was off to the left of the green on fifteen or behind the green, and he chipped up and the ball just kept going and went in the water. I saw Can'tley do that. I didn't see I didn't get to see Rory do it. But then at the end of the day, what did

I do? Two days the Master's for shopping spreeze if I go play a golf course that I've never played before and I play well, or it's a unique golf course. Of course, I'm going to go shopping. I'm going to do something, and by first I'll go to the sail rack and see if I can find a shirt on sale or otherwise I'll spend maybe ninety bucks on his shirt or something. Well, I kind of went crazy. He went shopping four different times and spent a lot of money. I don't want to say it because I'm not gonna

just God, don't want my wife to hear it. I spent a lot of money on a golf course I'm never going to play. And then we had a two and a half hour drive back to Atlanta, back to Jet's house. And I just want to thank you for letting me share this with you, because you're my closest golf friend. I mean, we've been talking together for a long time about golf, and I really am so excited that I had the opportunity to share this with you. And is we're only a few weeks away from episode

one thousand. I am blown away and I still don't know who episode one thousand is, but I did reach out to a bunch of some of the best people that we've ever had on Golf Smarter to lead up to it, and you're hearing it starting now with Doctor Bob this week, next week and more. We're going to hear people until everything's recorded. I don't want to say who it is, but it's going to be a lot of fun and I only want to send my regards

to the Pells family. I wish that we could have had Dave Pell's come back again, but we lost him a few weeks ago and I could not get him to come back on the show one more time. The other thing about the podcast is when I was introduced to people, and I don't go a lot. I'm a podcaster, you know. If I'm introduced as a podcaster like, oh, you do a podcast, Yeah, lots of people do podcasts. But here's the thing. I've been doing my podcast now weekly.

I'm in my twentieth year and I started a year and a half before the iPhone came out, and that gets people to go, ooh, that's interesting. So again, thank you for bearing with me on this. I had a great time. I can't wait to see what happens at the end of the day today, when the Masters was beginning, I had my two picks well Rory and Bryson, and here they are on Sunday on the final pairing