Fire Drill 032: Dawn to Dusk

back to another fire drill podcast. This is Alan Schifnik. Michael Bambergers here in Scotland in the press room. Matt Janelle is here in Scotland in the Russi's hotel and Um, it was the first rounds in the books. M here. It's been an incredible day of golf. Let's let's just get into it. Um, Michael, what did you see out there that Um that caught your eye and and just your thoughts on the day. Just a wild, wild range

of scoring. Uh, you know, it's amazing. I think Cameron young shot of sixty four here and you know, you want to do some simple math and say, oh, is gonna win this thing. I just never see that thing happening. But you know, I want to come to the old courses defense. How about you, guys? Man, I I it's just amazing to me how this looks like it's like the him alays where we're watching one big putting contest.

I mean, with the exception of the occasional bunker shot, this has been a big put show and it's you know, honestly, I'm I'm enjoying it. Yeah, I mean the course is playing incredibly short. I mean mcilroy on the fourteenth hole, part five, you know, it's six D and something yards. He had a little wedge into it. I mean it's just the ball doesn't stop rolling, but it's still not

easy to get it close. I mean because the Greens are just as firm and uh, the RNA had had some spicy flags out there where they used the mounding and the banks of the of the Greens. Is Defense, which I think is fine and Um, and so I agree that you're saying, Michael. I mean it's Rory's word was fiddly. I love that word. The Brits use it to describe like kind of a course that you can't overpower.

You have to you have to finesse and uh, if you play perfect golf, like like Cameron Young did, ahead of the wind, then there there's definitely a score out there. But I mean three under was good for tenth place most of the day and it's not like the entire field is going low. I mean if you play perfect golf, it's it's there for the taking. But Um, there's definitely

the course can bite back. And when and when you say that, Alan when you look at this spoard and you've got a lot of good golfers on the spoort, I don't see any of these guys doing a second day what they did today. For one reason is it took six hours in the wind to play this thing. Nobody can be mentally strong enough, except for Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods in their primes, to do that on

back to back days. Maybe rory to some degree, but I mean it will wear you out just stand that long in the wind and try to play golf shots on a fifthly golf course. But by the way, we started by saying for round one is in the books. I'm I'm still seeing golfers play the a t though this the round is still going. It's PM local time and golf is still being played without, without any irony.

I mean it's, it's, it's it's still light out right my my bad eye, and let's and let's, let us and let us and let us know, without irony, that Matt's wake up called today was, um, the call to the tea at six thirty five of Paul Laury, you know, group number one, now on the table, and company. That's a great story this morning. Tell the tell the readers about that. For the listeners, I mean the I had.

I had one of the greatest twenty four hours in my life as a professional in the golf industry, which, you know, ended with on the heels of an hour and a half worth of sleep and my my room overlooks the the fairway. Here I'm literally on the on the cross path on eighteen with a window cracked open, shades pulled, and at six thirty I thought I was,

I thought it was. It was a half state of dream and reality and my whole day then, my day had ended an hour and a half before with reflections of visiting old Tom's and young Tom's grave sites at the stroke of midnight with a few former colleagues at golf channel, after we jumped fences and scurried under fences and and and found their grave sites. And then an hour and a half after I fell asleep, I was woken to the call to the first tee of Paul lury from Scotland, uh, you know, and a nice round

of applause and that. And there was the start of the one Fiftie Open Championship and uh, it was tremendous. I just sat there and with my eyes closed and listened to another couple of groups go off until Phil Nicholson, uh, was called to tea and then I had to get up out of bed and pull the shades open to watch him, watch him stroll across the Cross way to, you know, a couple of calls of let's go fail,

let's go fail, and uh, and and they were off. I. Um, I wasn't out there, but from reading, from reading some of the the press accounts and the transcript, sounds like maybe Ian Poulter got got a little heckling or a smattering of booze. Um. Did you happen to hear Poulter go off, Matt, I did. I I was listening to a wide variety of players go off. I didn't hear any any booze and it just seemed that that just does not seem like this crowd at all. It's not

say it didn't happen. It would be. I was listening thinking would there be something like that? I didn't hear anything like that at adare manner and not nothing audibly to the point where they could actually hear it. But anyway, if it happened, I didn't hear it. Interesting, alright, just curious. But how it sound from the fourth floor of the russaks hotel? So also Alan, he's very English. Well, yeah, I mean that's not necessarily a good thing when you're

playing in Scotland. But we won't get in. Probably why that that would be more inclined to have the booze. WE WON'T DREDGE UP. You know, fifteen cent tree politics share on this podcast. But so cam young goes out early. He's he's sort of them. He's he throws a marker down, I mean the tip of the CAP. I mean the guy is probably gonna be rookie of the year on tour. He's he's had some really good finishes. He made an

awesome run um at at southern hills. So he's a legit player, and not say he can't hang around, but to me that the man of the hour, the toast of the town, was rory mcelroy. I mean to shoot such an effortless sixty six where he was almost never in trouble and even even the one bogey he made, he's right in front of the green and he said he got too cute with a chip and it took a bad balance and you know that happens. But he looked totally in control, not only of his golf ball

but also his emotions. The crowd was very much on Rory's side. Um. You know, I think we've talked a lot already this week about how much this open means to the game of golf and then how much it means to the players to win a and open at St Andrew's. And as rory has become sort of the this global ambassador for the sport and probably the most beloved figure in the game. I mean everyone wants him to get this one and you could just feel that

energy in the crowd. I went out there and walked a bit and Um, so let let's talk about rory. I mean Michael. You follow him his whole career. Um, what did you see from him today and can you put in context what this victory would mean if he

can keep going? You know, I think it's a little bit like playing for right now, not to turn this into a political discussion of another sort too quickly, but he is playing for traditional golfing values, you know, and not this upstart live golf league, and in that sense it's a little bit like playing for your nation or your or your continent in the Ryder Cup and Um.

And that adds pressure and we've seen the pressure that just trying to win the master's Tournament, Um has on Rory and Um, I expect he's gonna play, you know, three really good rounds of golf, but to get it done all the way through Sunday evening in the seventies and hole is, no matter how good his golf is, no matter how strong his head is, it's a very, very tall challenge. Yeah, it's interesting because, oh, go ahead, no,

I was just saying that. You know, I I get all that and I seem I think that's like that's very obvious to me at this point of Rory's sort of life and career. It's really all about trying to get it done under pressure, like he's got to continue to try to uh make up for past, you know,

hiccups and but I think he's been poked. I think he's been poked, he's been perturbed, he's he's been reinvigorated or refocused in terms of the competitor in him and, Um, I think going back, you know, to the Canadian open and, you know, even watching him and and seeing him at a dare manner at the JP program and and knowing what this means, I just get the sense that there's the the childlike competitor in Rory has been has been, you know, uh prodded and and I think that there

seems to be in an extra layer of focus to him the last couple of weeks and it has a lot to do with live and it has a lot to do with the fight for competitive being annoyed. He's he's annoyed by the fact that he's going through all this and I think he knows that the way to continue to silence all this and let his game do the talking. He's as opposed to his talking doing the talking, is a better way for him to go about his business. Yeah,

that's really well said. I mean coming into this year the backstory on Roy the majors was he would get stage fright on Thursday, and he was. He had all these terrible first rounds. I kind of blew him out of the tournament and he's conquered. I mean there's three straight majors. He started with a really great round, put himself around among the leaders and he talked about this a little bit after his round. Now the challenge becomes Friday.

It's backing up one great round with another, because at both southern hills in the country club he kind of retreated a little bit in the second round and instead of taking the you know, the tournament by the throat and really putting his stamp on it Um, you know, he was his play was a little defensive and a little soft in the second round. So now he has a new challenge. Can he keep going forward and can

you build on this, on this round? But I thought it was impressive that he played with so much patience and restraint because, you know, roy has so much firepower. He could he could try to overpower this golf course,

but he he was very disciplined. He had a game plan and he stuck to it and and when he got in trouble on a couple occasions, he just got himself out of trouble real quick, played semi conservative shots and Um and, as you were saying, Matt, you know, Roy's lag putting was beautiful and when you think about the strengths of his game, that's not something that gets mentioned very often, but he had. He had some terrific two putts from six eight feet and even some from

off the green, like on the road hole. You know, he was way short of that Green. He rolled it up there and save par. So it's exciting. I mean, as Michael said, there's still a lot of golf to go, but Um, roy is the right man at the right time and it would be a thrill if he can just keep himself in this until the bitter end. And he doesn't have to do very much to do that tomorrow. In other words, tomorrow is not the round to put pressure on yourself. I mean, he's going to be playing late.

You know he had a good first round. If you shoot seventy tomorrow, it's it's terrific. UH, and I don't know what his mindset has been after you know these last three majors where he played first good round, good first rounds, but tomorrow he all he has. You know, Tigert uses is forever. All he has to do is play rory mcawrey golf. He doesn't do anything exceptional at all to just hang around, hang around, to hang around

and then be there come, come Sunday. Having said that, you've got a lot of talent all over this golf course and s good. You Know Scotty Shuffler and you

know Cameron Smith. I mean you know Dustin John. UH, that Dustin hasn't been a factor in a long time and Um, I think, as with rory, but in a different way, this lift stuff is maybe um stimulated dustin in a way that he needed, because he's just been coasting and for a guy who still has so much game to not even factor, I mean he's been, when he's going on two years out of even any kind

of win anywhere. So Um, for him, for him to make a strong push, I mean you would think if you make a list of guys that were born to win on this golf course, he would seem to be a he'd be on that Short list. So Um, he's a really intriguing. Name, Um, anyone else on the board that captures your eyemat? Well, say heath the gala. I mean we were just we're just watching and Gawking at him and his game. I mean I just I just love the way he plays Golf. I love that he

wears links Ole. He was out there in in in one of my favorite link soul hoodies. Uh, and he's at the old course. It's like he plays Goat Hill Park when he's in oceanside California. To go from Goat Hill Park and and pepperdine to win the you know, the open championship of the old course. We're in a link soul hoodie. I. How can I not relate, to relate to that. Uh, and I and he's he's got a lot of DJ in him just with his his his his length, his his stride, his presence, his demeanor.

He's really he's really kind spirited guy. I watched DJ for eighteen holes at a dare and he did not miss a shot. He was hitting, he played, he is he is hitting the golf ball. He's in total command of his game. In fact, he was reading his own pots Um. He had his brother in law on the bag at a dare and you know, I again I mentioned that the that we had a caddy who could help and read putts and and he he wasn't interested.

And Uh, he could have shot eight under easily and he missed a lot of short but so it's funny that his putting was off in terms of I guess, maybe the reds Um. For Him to win this, obviously putties. He's gonna have to have great reads and great putting.

So and he seems like kind of a classic links player who's not so focused on mechanics and just hit shots, like I saw on the telecast play some really fun, tricky, spinny Um shots that just showed a real flair and a real understanding of what you gotta do out there.

So that that I you know, I haven't I haven't seen as much of his game as I would like to this point, but from what I saw today, like he seems to get it and Um, you got you got a root for young players like that who who just take on the challenge and they're they're not playing track man golf and and they're they're they're just they're just making, you know, hitting golf shots. So that that was cool. He's having fun. A model for the a

model for that would be John Daly. UH, John Daily and Dustin Johnson are actually very similar in a lot of ways. Mega, mega talents uh don't have their nose in the artage book. Uh, played by feel, do their own thing and can't be dictated to. And if John Daily could come here and and and win here on the old course, uh, with Sabat like skills, uh, I think Dustin Johnson could do the do the exact same thing. You don't have to do it, you know, the Jack

Nicholas Way, or the Louis tizing way for that matter. Yeah, all right. Let let's talk about Tiger Woods, because you guys last night were ready to annoint him the champion. I kind of stayed quiet in that debate because I didn't quite share your belief, but I didn't want to be Debbie Downer. Um. But you know, there's gonna be

days when Tiger doesn't play well. But it was startling to watch him come out on the first hole, uh, Um, and dump it into the into the burn and make it and then hit a hit, a nice pitch, and then, you know, basically with a three FT or like that that double bogey was such a Gut Punch. Um, you know, there's some hard holes in the old course where bogey's fine but number one is not. Is Not a double bogie hole. And so Um, what what can we say about about tigers seventies six to day, which put him

in a place. He's still in it all right. Why is he still living at Michael? Let's hear it. You know he's Tiger I. I agree with the Alan completely that he has had over the course of his career a lot of bad first souls, including Augusta national, you know, driving it crazily offline here, you know, to drive it in a divot hole or you know, hit a foreign into a divot hole on a on a perfect shot and then dumping in the burn. He said Augusta wind

hit in his press conference afterwards. I don't know. Uh, it's hard to imagine. There's a hard and of Gusta win that's going to prevent you know that it's gonna knock the ball down twenty yards, because you should be, you know, at least five yards. Uh, past that whole but tiger woods, at the peak of his powers, had so much mental strength it would be even with having the red ass of having your first shot finishing a divot, it would be almost impossible to imagine not keeping the

ball dry and making at worst of five Uh. And then, of course, in his prime he would have come back from the double bogey. And that takes mental resolve as much as anything. And how much meant to resolve can any one person have? So, you know, it's uh, this game reveals your inner life like nothing can, and I think we saw actually a glimpse of of Tigers in her life today and it's it's a tough place to be.

And I would just want to say this too, but I mean he showed a lot of grace and a lot of class really coming in after the round and answering every last question, which he has done pretty much his whole career, but even today it was with like, you know, a little bit more, almost definitely depth, but also sort of wistfulness, like I won't be doing this forever. And I saw oh it to the game just to explain myself and I and I think he should get I think he's I mean, he does get credit for that,

but he should get probably more. We just watched him walk up the eighteenth fairway and he had driven it into the Valley of sin and then he three putted from there. Almost four putted, I mean drove. He hit that third part by four, four FT, maybe five five. He made a good part coming back to save par and off the cap and gave a nice to wave a decent crowd. UH, still still there, you know, but it was. It was well past nine o'clock in the evening.

There wasn't a crazy crowd and it's I just was feeling a little sad that if, if this is, if this is it for him and the and the open on an afternoon, late evening. Um, it just looked sad all that. You know, it just he just looks broken. He does. And then when he's climbing up the you know, I've noticed this a lot over the years actually, but especially, uh, since since the car crash. Uh Uh. He puts on a brave face in terms of his walk and in his actual literal face and then the second he's done

it sort of all comes washing out. And when he walked over that bridge that takes you from the eighteenth green to the to the scorer's scoring area, the limp was much more pronounced immediately. And then when he was done with his press conference and he had to walk

down four steps. You know, in his youth, of course, like any you know, young person, he would have hopped down the steps and he's literally holding onto the is it called the door jam, you know, the side of the door and sort of gingerly, understandably careful he walking down these steps. So you know, we're seeing a guy with a lot going on in his life, physically and

emotionally mentally. Yeah, and it was interesting because even early in the round, I mean obviously when you take a double bag on the first hole and any human being that's gonna be an emotional letdown. But I mean his distance control was so off today. I mean there was he was coming up twenty, thirty yards short with iron, you know short irons in his hands, and he flew

some Greens. I mean you still get you'll get hard bounces and you get run out, so it will put you in weird spots, but he was doing it on the fly. It just felt like he didn't have any feeling in his hands and it certainly showed in his putting. I mean his speed was off all day long and Um, these Greens didn't really change overnight. I mean he's been practicing on this speed and it just, it just kind of you just didn't have it today. and Um, you know,

tiger is not immune to other emotions. You Know Rory talked about Um. You know how keyed up he was for this round and you kind of have to get over that and just settle into playing golf. We know how badly tiger wanted it. He prepared so hard this week. I mean he pushed himself harder than it for any other round this season really, and as far as the pre tournament prep and you know, it just he may have, it's funny to say about Tigers. He may have been

a little overwhelmed by the moment, you know. and Um, it's okay. It happens to every athlete, happens every human. But Um, there there is an element of melancholy because we know the end is appears like it's near and everyone was hoping there'd be something special and something miraculous that he could summon on this golf course that means so much to him. But he just didn't have it. I Alan I completely agree with that assessment and I'll tell you why. Because for years like his whole career.

He geared himself for, you know, sixteen or twenty, you know, maybe twenty four rounds and that was amazing how he would do that. But this year he really was gearing himself for one round in particular and that was today's round. I don't think he went to Augustin National. I think he had much of a chance. We so it happened in the southern at southern nils that even play in the US Open at the country club and he's probably

wise to do it. So the one thing he really needed to go well was this one round today to set up the Friday round. And it didn't. And I think you're right. I think, uh, you know when your body is good and you're in every major and you know if this one doesn't work out, you got the next one. Is disappointing if you don't play well. But he doesn't have that. He had everything geared towards this one round and I think Um just as a as

a as an issue of mental frailty. Uh, it is understandable and Matt and I were saying yesterday nobody gets geared up and ready and prime to play meaningful rounds. Let the legend grow rounds like Tiger Woods does, but life interferes. It's important to remember it's not just the leg. I mean there's a guy who had five actories before

the car crash and and compensating for the leg. Then you know, if you're playing a lot of golf and you're compensating for the leg, that can cause a lot of other shoes, not only, you know, not only in your swing but just physically. So again, I think broken is probably the best word to describe him. He's he's he's he's not right. Well, just very briefly, just beyond the physical issues, I mean, I know this is really harsh,

but it is true. Something happened that morning that changed the course of his life and it's a tragedy and we don't know what happened or why it happened or how it happened, but we know that it did happen. And he's an you know, presumably he's an honest person with himself. He must recognize that. So in additional the physical pain he's enduring, there has to be a tremendous

amount of mental pain. It's like what happened on that day and we don't know the answer, and I'm not pretending I do, but we can imagine that tiger must be asking that question, because how could any sentient human being not pose that question to himself for herself? Yeah, I mean it wasn't a fender bender. He was traveling at an incredible rate of speed. I mean there's an element of recklessness, or maybe something more than that. That Um,

that has gone on. Accounted for your right and Um. So. So now tiger t is off tomorrow right around ten am local time, which means he'll be finishing call it three thirty. Um. That's probably the peak of of the day. Right. Everyone who wants to be at this tournament is going to be there, potentially an incredible scene on eighteen. If you know, it looks pretty likely he's gonna be missing the cut. I mean we know tiger is gonna fight

hard no matter what. He's not gonna give up out there and if he gets off the hot start, then who knows? But Um, let's let's just say, you know, it's clear he's not gonna make the cut and it's going to be an emotional moment because I think there's definitely a sense of farewell. He's probably never gonna play another open at the old course, you know, in five, six, seven years, and Um that seems highly unlikely. And who knows if I'll ever make the plane flight over here again.

Who knows if he's even going to turn up but next year's majors at all. I mean there's so many unknowns for this guy. So I think everyone's sort of girding themselves for what's going to be, uh, some sort of goodbye tomorrow. We won't know how significant it is until, you know, years from now, but it could be very much. You can imagine his personality type. If the two extremes are Hogan, who turned his back on tournament golf, and Arnold Palmer, who couldn't do it, obviously tiger was. My

personality type is much closer to Hogan. So you're absolutely right, Alan. Uh, we don't know how meaningful this round tomorrow is going to be in terms of closing chapters. And we're talking about a golf course where he's now, you know, an honorary remember the R and a and what he flat out says is his favorite golf course in the world. It's it's powerful stuff, it's poignant and it's moving and

it's wistful. I know where I'll be tomorrow. Uh, tomorrow afternoon here St Andrews, which is processing all of it. I mean my first week at sports illustrated as the golf photo editor, uh, while key opened. Uh, that was the first week that I that I became the official, you know, golf photo of s I, and we have mark Mulvoy here and we all worked together at S I and and coming back to you know, I'm we're already wistful over the fact that we're just here at

this open and what it all means. So the idea that tiger maybe, you know, taking that cap off one last time, waving goodbye to this crowd, waving goodbye to us right, waving goodbye to us, all of us, Um that has has that are here and who have made this journey or or witnessing all this. It's that. I mean, wow, it could. It's going to be a powerful moment. I remember Jack, remember Arnie, remember Tom Watson and Um, you know what we'll be telling grandkids about about being here tomorrow.

And it is incredible because those guys were in their sixties or older, you know, and and here's tiger, who's Uh mid forties, but it's Um it's just, you know, the the most dominant Golfer of all time. There's no question, and I think there'll always be the sense of of what might have been. If, if, if things have gone

differently away from the golf course. But that's just that's part of what's what's made this last act so poignant is thinking about what could have been and what might have been and making peace with what is not just for Tiger but for us. When when you won here in two thousand and five, you know, I wrote the

game story for S I and I I got. He played the last round with a laugh the ball and I got a lack the ball alone and lath ball is like this guy should win opens at the old course forever because he's just too good and too smart. And that seemed right. But then there was also Dan Jenkinson said the only thing can stop him as a bad marriage or bad back. Well not. Both those things could be correct and you know, we don't know the answer yet, but we can see the direction that it's going.

Still cheers going on behind me. It's tent golf right now. I've now I've now changed rooms. This has been an interesting open for me logistically. But if I look out my window I can see the top of the press tent and I can Um, I can get a little glimpse of the bay and I heard those cheers as well. So I don't have quite visual you do, but I've got the ombat noise. It's amazing, so cool. Yeah, I can add a beautiful sunset too. I mean the pink clouds. What a time to be out on the golf course.

I mean the poor Irish kid who had like the four twelve tea time. He's he's playing under playing through quite a scene out there. You know what I'M gonna do? I'm gonna Tomorrow Morning, I'm gonna Hook up my microphone, I'M gonna stick it out my window. Uh, it's not a euphemism for anything other than I'm just literally gonna stick my microphone out the window and I'm gonna Record the start of tomorrow's play and we can play that as part of tomorrow night's podcast. I love that. I

love that all right. Well, I think I think it's best to end on this wistful moment Um. We'll see. I mean he's still tiger woods. He might have so much red ass sill shoot sixty eight tomorrow and make the cut by, you know, two strokes, like it's anything's possible. But Um, you know that that's what makes that's what makes this game fun. Anything can happen. So any any

final thoughts? Michael? You know, I it's an interesting common because I think that he played angry golf and hard golf and hit it hard golf and it worked really well at Augusta national, and then he had the ability to change speeds and make the pitch shots and the ship shots in the pudding. But here that's not gonna work because now, I mean, you know, rory played a six yard part part five with the driver and a wedge, but this course right now is fiddly. Is Rory says,

inquires so much vaness. There's no overwhelming this golf course with strength or red ASS or anything other than real really patients. Uh Uh. And I think we're gonna see that, you know, for the next for the next three days. Well, I can't wait. I wonder, you know, eight under today. Do we think? Do we think the winning score based on sort of what's happening? I guess it's really just all just a matter of the wind right. I mean

that's the only that's the only thing. But you know, something around eleven, twelve under, ten under could potentially win it. Is that? What is that what we're thinking? It could, especially if if the weekend wins are strong, which has been forecast in some places. I mean, again, no disrespect to Cam Young, but let's say, let's say Rory, rory is a de facto leader. You know, if you shoot

three or four tomorrow, that's a great score. That gets into nine or ten and then, you know, five under total on the weekend would be amazing if you're in the leads up. Michael, excuse me, Michael, I said fifteen. That was this morning when we were just kind of bussing. I think that's a that's a great number, Um and, but it is so weather dependent. I will say the

RNA they've they've trotted out some new pin placements. Even guys who played this course a lot and turn rounds that haven't seen Um, I think that they're recognizing how short is playing. They're going to use all the humps and hollows and Swales on the Greens for Defense and there's gonna be some very, very challenging pins, which is fine. By me I mean, Um, you know, it's you gotta do something to make an intion. If they're gonna have short irons, you can't just give them easy pins. So, Um,

who knows that? I think. I think anything from twelve eighteen is in play. It just depends on the wind the UH. You know, I forget when we uh how often. Some like some guys play the dunhill links here every year and they really really know this golf course and I sort of forget that because we're not here very often and rory, of course, is one of the one of those guys. Dustin Johnson is too, to a lesser degree.

Uh So, I think it's like Augustin national in that way, where experience does count for a lot, even though guys have won their first time here as well. Um, uh so I think we're gonna see a very elite leader board. You know, we already have a good leader board. Will have a better leader boarder by the end of Friday or, you know, a leader both. More failure names and that's

only going to increase over the weekend. You know, decades ago calm Montgomery told me he had a formula for choosing the winning score you take the first round lead, you double it and you add one. So eight hundred times two, that's sixteen plus one is seventeen. So that would be collins very unscientific method. He said it's remarkably accurate.

I've never actually done the math on that, but Um, so anyway, that's what's fun is not knowing right like, because if the temperature drops and the wind comes up, it's just a survival test. And if the wind dies, then it's it's guys are gonna attack and it changes hour to hours. So it's kind of fool hardy to predict,

but that's the business we're in. Yah. Well, I'm going to bed early tonight, early in terms of the the standards of of the or the precedent that's been set throughout the pacing of of my my travels us two and a half weeks Um and I promised to have a ton more energy tomorrow and looking forward to uh, walk in some more golf with you guys and and taking it all in and watching what's gonna Happen, certain most certainly with both Tiger and Rory Matt don't be

surprised if the first name you hear tomorrow morning is Mark Calquebeca? Yes, he's. He's in that first group and I think they'll give h well, I don't really know how it works in the second round, but but typically if you've got a an open champion winner in the threesome,

he gets the honor on Thursday for sure. I don't know if that would if that would apply for Friday, but anyway, you he'll he'll hear the long American name, Mark Calcaveecki at some point, uh, between six thirty and six thirty sixty five and six forty tomorrow morning, or eight hours from now, as we like to say. I love it. I love it. But before we go, let's let's tip our caps to our sponsors who help us, Um, come to these tournaments and bring all this fun coverage

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the most important part of this whole deal. Thanks for tuning in. We will be back at you after the second round the salent Schipnuk. That was Michael Bamberger and Matt Janella. This was another fire drill podcasts from St Andrew's. Thanks for listening. Goodbye. Put another log on the fire. Are we hear us? Get the time? H