I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset.
When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. And when I find my ball in a bride egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg, bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course. Welcome back to another edition of the Frida Egg Podcast. I can't believe it. It is Master's Week and for this year's Master's Preview, the Five Things about the Masters, we have a former champion of the Masters, Trevor Mwelman, who will also be leading the
CBS broadcast this weekend. So awesome to have Trevor on. He was he was excellent. I made him do some homework and prepare a few things about what he was looking for this Masters. So we talk all things Masters in a minute. Just a reminder of what we have going on on the Frida Egg this week for Masters Week. Right now, we have Garrett Morrison and Meg Atkins down on the ground for Annua. They are reporting through the Fridagg newsletter and the podcast on Annua and everything going
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your son. You played Augusta and Tpcsawgrass, and I remember you posting earlier this year that he was starting to outdrive you. I'm wondering how close are we to him getting you outright in around?
Yeah, first of all, it was an incredible, incredible weekend stuff dreams are made of. Really, to be honest, you know, when we play really difficult courses like Augusta National or the Stadium course, you know, the gap is still there. It's like I was speaking to him on the drive down from Augusta to to TPC and we were talking through the two rounds we played, and really my advice to him was, look, never had to develop a skill for understanding strategy. He's just never had to do it.
The courses that he plays in tournaments, our home course, it's all just pretty much right there. You know, you get the number with your measuring device, one eighty. Okay, I'm gonna land at one eighty like that. That's how That's pretty much how he plays. And all of a sudden, you know, we get to Augusta National, or we get too sore grass and now you know that one eighty to the whole location is all right. That is the max that you can finish it, because if you go
along here, you're dead. And so this means, now with the greens being firmer, you've got to land this thing seventy two, seventy three. You've got a little wind helping you, so it's playing sixty eight sixty seven. So a perfect example is we get to the first hole at Augusta National and he just smokes a t shot down there.
I mean, the kid was nervous, and you know, there was a few people standing around the tee because they knew that it was his first time playing the course, and he just absolutely pipes this awesome fade down the middle and whole location back middle, which is actually it sounds benine. The first green complex at Augusta National one of the toughest on the whole golf course. It is
tiny little areas that you need to keep the ball in. Also, it is the pretty much the highest or it is the highest point at that facility, so that green can be firm a little firmer than the others at times and he goes ahead. He's between five and six iron, and he just hits the five perfect and he lands it right out the hole and this thing just one balances straight over the back of the first and we're walking up to the green and I'm like, good luck from there, buddy. I mean, five is going to be
a great score at this point. And that was like, he's welcome to Augusta National. He's hit two perfect shots in a row and rarely now he's just trying to figure out how he can make bogie and so that's the skill that he rarely needs to develop. So when we play pro level courses like that, those are things that he still needs to get better at to control the scoring. So there's still a bit of a gap there. You fake my way around because I know where to miss it.
Yeah, that makes sense. It's just about you know, it's so much about misses when you get to the higher levels of golf. It's just you know, avoiding bogies. Right, He's making big numbers because of inexperience, which is which is understandable for he's a high schooler.
Right, Yeah, sixteen years old, played in a lot of tournaments, so he has that experience. But yeah, I give him a lot of credit because you know, he played back on the Master's Teas and we played back there together, and so it's tough. Yeah, it's really tough because he's not quite able to get over you know, some of the ridges, like the t shot on one, stuff like that. Five is another one now with that new back tea.
So he had a lot of a lot of long clubs into into the power falls and the par fives just weren't quite reachable.
Yeah. So we've got the Masters. We're one week out of Masters Week, and uh, for this, I I had you you prepare five things are traditional five things that we're watching heading into the Masters should be a excellent term and I can't wait for the first major of the year. I would uh, I'd love to hear what you're leading off with with your five things.
Well, first of all, I got to give you a hard time because this is the first podcast I've ever been on. Well, I've been told to do homework before I come on, so I'm not sure you know, I'm expecting a check in the mail for this, Andy, I gotta I gotta let you know it.
But here was a big ask. Five things.
You know, do you want my number do you know? Do you want my number one? Or do you want me to burn through all five of them?
Well, I want your number one. We'll go, We'll go back and forth. I've got five written down, You've got five written down. That's how this podcast goes. You know, you want to come it?
Okay, So it's a little give and take. It's not a one way.
STA like it. Yeah, we both, we both.
Here goes my number one. Okay, here goes my number one. My number one thing that I'm looking forward to is Rory mcelroyed to complete the Grand Slam, become the sixth human or men man to ever do it. And I think that is it's just that that is an extremely elite list in all of sports, and for him to have the opportunity to do that is quite incredible. And then you start to add the layers to that, the fact that seemingly this golf course is made for him.
You know, it's much like Ernie Els back in the day. You sort of think these guys should win two, three, four green jackets apiece with the way their game matches the golf course. So that's the one layer. The second layer is how popular he is. It's unusual. I'll say this as an international player that has been fortunate enough to live and work in America. It's unusual for an international player to be as popular as Rory McRoy is.
You know, Americans are spoilt with great athletes, and you know, if we drill down into our niche sport, you know, we've had had all the top stars here coming from America, and particularly right now in the game. You know, you got the Thomas's and Chefflers and Speeths and all of those guys. Homer who's extremely popular, but mclroy is more popular than all of them, and he's not from here,
and that's unusual. So that's another layer. And then the intrigue really is that he's had a few close calls there and he just hasn't been able to get it done. So if he does, there's two pieces. You know. Number One, he's going to have this pressure to start the week If he manages to get his way through that and he actually has a chance to win on the weekend, you know, how is he going to be able to deal with all of this extra weight. It's going to
be an incredible storyline. And if you know, never mind the fact that he's he's been one of the guys that is well maybe even the guy to put the PGA two on his back for the last two years. But if he had to find a way to win the Green Jacket and complete all of these various pieces, man, that will be, uh, for me, the biggest story since Tiger's winning twenty nineteen.
Yeah. I think the thing too about the Grand Slam with Rory is that in a way is like flying a little bit under the radar because he's had so many chances at it. It seems like, you know, like that the talking point of the grand career Grand Slam, it almost diminishes every year you have a shot at it. The same thing's happening with Jordan Spieth and the PGA.
But also I think like one of the nice things for Rory, and this is this ties into my big thing, is that we this year have Scottie Scheffler and John Rahm are going to take up some of that oxygen in the room. So you know it, I think storyline A is going to be Rory, but it's also Scotty Scheffler and John Rahm, you know, and they're you know, really like you know, John Ram three wins already this year, Scotty Scheffler seemingly kind of in the exact same form
where he blew the doors off everybody last year. So we have these other two guys that are kind of sharing that top of the game spotlight with Rory and and I think, you know that Grand Slam pressure is obviously always going to be there, but I don't think it's the top storyline. And obviously it seems like, you know, the official field list is it out, but you have Tiger also, they're taking up some of that oxygen. So the nice part for.
Rory he is he is the oxygen.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's unbelievable. I mean last year I couldn't believe, Like I mean, last year obviously was such a surprise, you know that he was playing, but the way that the attention on the golf course is just it's just nobody even comes close.
Yeah, I for sure he's He's a little further down my list because you know, as much as I've seen him do mind bending things throughout my career in the professional game, you know, I think his chances to win are much less than years that we've seen in the past, so so I slid him a little bit further down my list, but he's absolutely in my top five.
You know, the other thing about Rory that I wanted to say, I think that blade putter. I don't know if you caught any of this weekend's coverage you were playing golf, but he.
Looks infinitely I'm always watching it.
Infinitely better with the blade putter. It's not it's not a I don't think I have no mechanical things, but it just looks so good. It looks like a Potter that you would see a guy like Rory winning the Grand Slam with, like you know, just purely aesthetical based I love the blade potter look for Rory and not the big spaceship putter.
Yeah, I do agree with you. I got to say, you know, my critique over the years of Rory when he was struggling with this putting, and he doesn't really anymore. I mean, he's vastly improved his pudding last year. You might have to check this, but I'm quite certain last season he was in the top twenty in strokes gain putting, which is like legit. You know, that's a good putter
right there. But my critique of his putting through the years was, you know, when we watch him hit a driver, which is his weapon, or long irons, which is he's just probably the best in the game at this point, it's so athletic, it's so natural, like that club just becomes a part of him, Like he moves in unison with this club. It's like it's it's it's an art
form watching it. But when I used to watch him putt this is like five six years ago, it looked so stiff and wooden, and I just wished that he would find a way to start to look more like he did with his driver. And I got to give a lot of credit to him and Brad Faxon for finding a way to start doing that even when he was using the mallet, and he used the mallet to
put extremely well last year. But I love the mindset because when you listen to what he's been saying about the putt of change in the last two weeks, it's exactly that he's like, Oh, I love the way it looks. I feel like I could be a bit more athletic, a bit more reactive and just let the stroke happen. So When I heard that, I was like, oh, yeah, this is this is nice. We're we're on the right
track with this. So he seemed to overall put quite well at the match play, so hopefully you can keep step going.
Yeah, so what's your next thing?
So my first of all, you told me that macarroy is not number one, So what was your number one? Was? Was? What?
Well, it was the three of them, it was Rory Scheffler.
And but that's cheating.
Well, yeah, I know I cheat. I guess what. It's not cheating. It's my rules, it's my podcast.
I guess did you do your homework for this? Yeah?
I got I got five things here, I got I got, I got five things. I I just put the top three together. They're in a bucket. I feel like they've elevated themselves above everybody else. They're the three best players in the game, and you know, on a given day, it could be any of them. So that's why I put them all together. You know, this is the problem there.
They've all played too well, and they've all gotten into this one bucket together, and you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna runopolize my five things with three guys. You know that's the thing.
Okay, you see, this is my first time doing this, so I didn't know what kind of leeway I had, and I might be in a little bit of trouble because John Rahm is not in my five. So that is that is quite interesting. But here's my number two. My number two is the thirteenth hole.
All right.
Had the opportunity to play it a couple of times here over the weekend. It is it's a great change for where we are with the equipment right now. Lengthened the hole from around forty up to about forty yards around forty yards and so it's at five point fifty with the huge dog leg. But I think it's a huge storyline because you know, this is this is one of the most iconic holes on the planet. And for us to be at this point to where that hole needs to be lengthened in order for it to place
somewhat how it was designed is quite something. And it's also a a sign that, you know, Augusta National has had such an incredible ability or it's more evidence to show that Augusta National has had such an incredible ability to move with the times and the technology and how far these players hit it now. You know, if you just compare the distance of the course when Tiger on his first green jacket in ninety seven to what it's going to be in twenty twenty three, I mean, it's
hundreds of yards longer. And so that thirteenth toll is it's a cool change. It feels good. It's beautiful the way they've taken it back, and they've built that stone wall around there. The zaleas are absolutely popping right now, and it's kind of reminds me a little bit of eighteen. It's pulled back into a little bit of a shoot,
and you just feel like you have infinite space. My son actually said to me, Wow, I feel like I have from raised Creak all the way to like the eleventh fairway as space to hit it if I want, I can just hit it as far right as I want to and then decide, you know, how much I
want to try and hug or cut off if I want. So, you know, players still will have the ability to try and turn it just a little bit around the corner, and if they managed to do that, we're going to see anything from five woods and hybrids to fives and six signs in there for the approach, but going to be really cool to see how that hole plays.
Now, yeah, you know the thirteenth. I was curious. I wanted to talk to you about the thirteenth. So I'm glad it made your things. It kind of made my things in a once again, I'm bunching here, I put the back nine par fives. Obviously. Last year the fifteenth, the length thing was a huge storyline, and it played into that wind and it made it like you know, everybody that I think August obviously loves that momentous decision line and it made fifteen a momentum decision. And I'm
very curious this year with thirteen. You know how it affects it. And from the sounds of it, I think what's exciting about the change is that if you hit a really great T shot, you're going to be rewarded with, like you know, for a longer player, a five or six iron. It sounded like from Rory and Scheffler that's the type of shots. If they hit a really good drive,
they're going to hit into it. But that average drive, all of a sudden, it's not going to be a foregone conclusion that you're getting home into, or that you're going to want to get home into. If you're all sudden on that hanging lie with a five wood versus a four iron, there's a little bit more thought in the head. So for me, I think the back nine has the opportunity and we'll see how it plays out.
But to have not just one, but two momentous decisions, which I think is really great and obviously elevates those par fives in the thirteenth. It's just such an icon and strategical. Having that kind of left shot rewarded and having a little bit more room on the right is really you know, it's an exciting thing because it presents almost more of a choice, right.
Yeah. I was in the fifteenth tower last year, so I really experienced fifteen and paying a lot of attention to it, and with that wind playing into on fifteen, I wanted more players to be able to go for it. You know, it's such a small target and that green is so shallow with the shaved bank in front down into the pond, and then you know, if you just fly it over the back, it's a pretty steep downhill
toward the pond. On sixteen. You don't have to hit a terrible shot to hit it into the pond on sixteen. When playing your second shot into fifteen, I mean it comes in there as the ball is descending, it's landing on a steep gradient, and that ball just takes off. So for me in the past, the beauty of the par fives on the second nine at Augusta National is that you can get seventy percent of players going for it into Like I think that's the magic number because
then you're going to see threes. You're going to see sixes and sevens and eights because guys are going to rinse it. They're going to get into the creek or into the ponds on fifteen, and so you're going to you're going to get some spread, some volatility, some excitement.
That's what I'm looking for. Last year, the way fifteen played, in my opinion, with the wind back into too many guys laying up, and then as an announcer selfishly, you know, I've just got I got to describe the same wedge shot over and over and over again, rather than being like, oh, this guy's trying to go for it. Anything could happen here, So you know, hopefully this time around, we find that nice balance to where, yes, it is a massive decision
that the players need to make. It's it's a bit of a risk that they're going to take, but they want to take it because there's like this carrot dangling of I can make a three here and get some crystal from the clubs. So you got to find you got to find that nice balance to where we can have the risk reward.
Yeah. I've said this on this podcast, but I think I think the number of iconic shots over the recent years has has skewed towards fifteen more than thirteen. Obviously, you know you always have the fill one from the
trees on thirteen. But if you think of recent years, you have that Sergio shot where he kissed the flag, you have the tig I thought the Tiger shot was just like that was like the most Tiger Woods shot of all time, just like clinical execution, twenty yards or twenty feet, right, just like let the slope bring it in a little bit and like dialed in perfect number. And I think that's the thing. One of the tricky
things with Augusta. Obviously, and this is this is by no means a critique, but you know, they love the two T boxes. You know, they have the back tee and the member tee and it's a very you know, when you're on the grounds, it's so clean, it's so you know, wonderful and simplistic. But one of the tricky things that it presents is when you get an odd wind like that into the wind on fifteen, it limits
how much flexibility you have. You know, being able to move that tee up twenty five yards because it's into the wind would be really nice, but they just don't. They don't have that flexibility with the two T system. So that's that's a tricky thing. And I hope you know, my guess it sounded like I remember last year, the talk was like what a weird wind you know to have out there. So hopefully that that wind isn't around
this year because it made it made you know. The other thing about that wind is like seven downwind, what a nightmare? That second shot is howling down you know to that shallow green, shallow elevated green. Like if you think about the way that wind interacts with the course, it is it is a brutal, brutal wind to play that golf course.
In Yeah, for sure. The last couple of days it was the southwest, which is ordinarily what you would get this time of year. So when you're playing the first hole, it's a little bit down and out of your left m hmm. When that north wind starts to kick up, then then three of the par fives play into the wind,
so the scoring opportunities are a little bit less. But yeah, when seven is playing down wind, it is an extremely difficult second shot because first of all, you're hitting off of a downhill lie, so the ball is naturally going to launch lower. You're hitting four or five yards uphill,
so that's making it even more difficult. And then yeah, you have so little space from front to back that you can you can stop the ball and if it's if it's taking you know, if conditions are are are right, you know that bowl with a short iron even it's gonna be taking a five or six yard skip on the first bounce. And at that point, really you only have seven two yards to land it in and it needs to be just over that steep bunker.
And it has to be struck perfectly. If you catch it a little on the toe, it's gonna take a little bit bigger that was one of my big like underrated, like first like first time. Spending a lot of time on grounds last year, one of my big takeaways was just how shallow that green is. Like TV almost does it.
You know, it's jallo, but like you just like when you're standing behind that green and there's a great spot to stand right behind it, and you're just like, holy cow, like you have to hit this shot so perfect to get you know, and obviously there's some helping contours, but what a great little green that is. I'll do my third. Since I had the par fives, the back nine par fives, I'm blumping things. I'll do my third here and then
we'll kick it to you for your third. One of the things this is a personal inclusion that I'm looking forward to is the no cell phone policy on the grounds. It applies to press also for all the people wondering I personally. You know, at first it's jarring, you know, like you live with like you know, I don't know if you do this, but I tap my my pockets, you know, make sure I got my wallet, my keys, my cell phone. You know. That's like a thing I do a lot during the day, and it's always darting.
You're like walking out of the press center. You can have your phone in the press center. Walking out of the press center, it's like, oh no, I got to run back to my seat drop my phone off, you know. But going out there, it's like a digital detox week for me. I think it's spectacular and I think, like so one of the things that I would I would I was going to write about was just the magic of Augusta National. The magic of the roars of Augusta
National really centers around the atmospheres that's created. And one of the things I just love that I fell in love with with the week was the no cell phone thing. You have all these people that come and you know what cell phones are is a distraction At golf tournaments, you know, people are filming things, people are looking on Twitter, people are looking at the score or the leader boards. So what happens at the Masters and what the magic I think of the Masters really is is that you
have all these people that come in. They're with the most important people in their lives, their brothers, their fathers, they're you know, significant others, and there they have the undivided attention they're having like a euphoric experience because they're
with this person that means so much to them. They're at a place, it's a bucket list place, it's probably somewhere that they're coming one time in their life, and they have no distractions, and their undivided attention is on this sport and what's happening, and what happens there is that you just have these roars that don't exist because
somebody's not looking at their phone. They're not looking and it's just it's an unbelieve It was the thing that I just couldn't believe and I couldn't wait to just like, you know, ditch my phone in the press center and go out in the day and just be amongst this, like you know, these people that we're all having the best days of their lives, and you know among like you know, these are all you know, you it's so rare that you get an opportunity to spend a day
or an entire week amongst tens of thousands of people having one of the best days of their lives. And that's what happens out there. And for a journalist, you know, for me, you know, all I'm thinking about is is the golf tournament and what I'm watching, I have a notepad,
you know, I'm writing down notes. But you know, what you're able to do from from a work side is get really lost in the golf and like you're you don't have social media, you're not worried about a tweet you're sending, You're not worried about, you know, anything that's going on other than what you're watching. And it's really a special thing. And it's amazing that they're able to do the cell phone thing in the modern day.
Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one, Andy, I like that one a lot. And we just experienced it this weekend. You know, we arrived on site, we just left our phones in the cabin, didn't didn't look at them for two days. And like you say, what it allows is it allows you the ability to truly experience what's going on because you don't have this distraction that you're constantly looking at or replying to people or
researching something or you know, looking for information. And so it is there's something freeing about that to where you can just enjoy this amazing experience of being at Augusta National. And so the fans on our like you say, actually watching, actually paying attention, actually noticing the little things. Firstly, the sounds and the noises are different, because you know, on an ordinary week on the PGA tour, this a lot of shouting going on. There's a lot of shouting going
on because people's hands are full. But now all of a sudden, you get to the Masters and you'll hear more clapping because people have the ability to go ahead and clap. You just ordinarily don't hear clapping anymore. It's just people shouting when you had a good shot, and there's it just feels different when you're there and when
you when you're there for the Masters. I've noticed they have this campaign going right now on their social media channels, bring your Best, and you know, you see it walking around, like people wear their best clothes or they wear, you know, the shirt they bought from the merchandise facility there the shop, and they dress up and they look good and they
feel good. And there's people wearing long pants to come and watch, or woman wearing dresses, and it just it's kind of like back in the old days when you know, people would dress up to fly if they were flying somewhere. You know, guys would wear suits and ties and women
would have dresses and hats and stuff like that. It's it's a it's a throwback in that sense, and it just adds to the mystique and the the the traditions and the respect that that people have for the tournament and and for the for the for the place Augusta National. It's a good one.
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Trevor Emmlman. What's your what's your number three?
My number three is Scottish Scheffler defending as world number one. Now I have a slightly different take than your first point when you cheated and lumped them all together and so and here's my take. I think because Tiger Woods is playing, and he is whenever he teas it up is the biggest storyline, So he's going to suck up a bunch of oxygen. Macarroy trying to complete the Grand Slam is going to suck up a bunch bunch of oxygen.
I think that Scotti Scheffler is coming into this Masters as the world number one, as a guy who's already won a bunch of times this year as a defending champion. I actually feel like he's coming to this Masters with less pressure on him than any of the other top dogs. I feel like he's flying under the radar, and particularly with the way he handles things and the way he
carries himself. Everything is so calm, so matter of fact, So I have faith that what will be will be, And you know, I just work hard and do my thing,
and I accept whatever happens. Like the whole mindset, the whole way he carries himself, and with all the other storylines going on, I think he's coming in flying under the radar, playing unbelievable golf, the undisputed number one as we sit here, even though it changed hands a few times over the last few months, and trying to become let me think, I hope I don't get this wrong, but I'm wanting to say the fourth person to win back to back Masters, we have Jack, Tiger and Nick Faldo,
I believe, are the three that have won back to back. Do you think I'm missing anybody there? I don't think I am.
I think you got it. You know your master's history seems spot on.
So I I gosh, he's my favorite right now. He's my favorite. And this is not like recency bias. This is because, like you touched on, we've got a lot of guys playing great. You throw Max Homer and they can throw a few other players in there, guys that have played well there in the past. But with where he's at, the experience he had last year, he's gonna have all those great memories flooding back as he comes down Magnolia Lane, and there's going to be so much
else going on. I don't think he's going to be pulled and pushed in all sorts of different directions. I think he's just going to cruise the first few days. I just have a feeling he's gonna win again.
I feel like this was it's like playing out almost exactly like last year. You know, he didn't win this week at the match play, but for all intensive purposes, it felt you know, getting to the final four of that tournament feels like a win. You've played exceptional golf to get there. He swapped bay Hill, the Bayhill win last year with the players win. This year. Yep, he won once in Scottsdale, and it's like again, he comes in to this Masters like you described as almost an undercard,
and I'll never forget. Like I've talked about this, I was watching Tiger on Friday and Tiger was playing maybe two to three groups ahead of Scottie, and the patrons obviously were swarming Tiger as he's trying to make the cut. He's putting out on nine green and I, you know, all the everybody leaves as he finishes putting. I'm still standing behind that green and I look and obviously you
get a great vanish point to eight. You see that majestic that you play up on eight from the back of nine green, and I see Scotty Shuffler just walking. He's running away with the tournament at this point. You know, he's building this lead and nobody is following him, and I'm just thinking, this guy is the hottest player in
the world. I think at that time he had won three of five events coming in and he gets the luxury of playing number world number one with no patrons around, and I just think, like, what kind of like there's never been that circumstance before where like a player like is electric would be storyline one a in any other year, and here because a tiger, Tiger's attempt to make the cut and just the miraculous return to golf that he had.
You know, Scotty in a way just got to just like Saunter his way to a Saturday where he had a big lead. And I think that's like something that is just kind of playing out again this year with all the different stories that are going on in golf.
Yeah, I have a great feel about it. And you know, he's really created such a brilliant chemistry and relationship with his caddy, Teddy. And you know Ted's had a lot of success around that golf course too. He was on the bag both times with Bubba and then he got
his third time. He was around with the winner last year with Scotty, and those two guys just they beat off of each other in such a positive way, and it never seems to be any panic or any I never seem to watch Scotty Sheffler and go man, he's the way out of his comfort zone right now. And this is I really look forward to watching in the next ten or fifteen minutes. I think that, you know, there could be some sort of explosion. I can never ever ever get that feeling, you know, I get that
feeling when I watched Turtle happen. I get that feeling when I watch Rory McElroy. You know, Rory McElroy can make six birdies in a row and then make.
An eight, and this would be in the spot Speith.
Is in this bucket. You know, I know you're down on speed. I still ride for speed, Andy, I still ride for him.
I'm worried about I'm worried about my Smith stance.
I still think. I still think he's got another major in him. To be honest with you, because really, all he's missing right now is to run into a hot putting week for four days. And that could happen to any of us. It happened to me when I won the Masters. I wasn't I wasn't a great Putter, So that can happen to any of us at any any moment.
You never know what this crazy game. But yeah, Scheffler's just like so if you look at the Big Three right now, and I use that term so loosely because the real Big three were I mean, what those guys did paulmer Nicholason player was insane. These guys have a very very long distance to go to to get into that realm. But with the current Big Three, you know, like I said, Rory can be pretty volatile. Not in his demeanor. He's extremely level headed and calm and thoughtful
and mega intelligent. Rational, He's very rational, but with his game, you know, it's a little bit of a roller coaster. He can he can, he can do anything out there. Ram is the most volatile of the lot by far. You know, he's like a bull in a china shop, just you know, he's almost And I enjoy watching him too, because he's one of those athletes where he needs a little chip on his shoulder, he needs he needs to be angry with someone, it feels like sometimes to get his best out of him.
Not all the time, but maybe maybe maybe it's you not including him in your five.
Maybe if he listens to this, he's going to be like, you know what, these TV guys have no clue what they're talking about. I'm going to go out there and prove this guy wrong. And that'd be awesome because I'd love to have a bit more Spanish flavor in that
champion's locker room, so that'd be great. But so you look at those two and then you look at Scotty and he just, you know, even though he's a big, tall presence, strong, hits it a mile like, he just kind of cruises around without much fanfare, and that is almost his strength from a mental and emotional standpoint. So yeah, I feel like he's coming in flying under the radar without as much attention as what he could be getting rolling in as the defending champion and current world number one.
I got a great feeling about that guy. But you know that's not going out on a limb. I have a great feeling about him every time he tease it up.
Yeah. Yeah, one last thing on Scotty that I think, you know, when watching Tiger for years, he got spoiled with, Like when things even felt like they were unraveling, Tiger would always seemingly hit a shot. And one of the things when you're good at everything, when you're good at every single aspect of golf, you know that shot can come from anywhere. It can be an iron shot, it could be a t shot, it could be a chip shot,
or it could be a putt. And I feel that same way with Scotty is that when things even feel like they're beginning to unravel a little bit for him, he might make a twenty five footer and and turn things around, or like last year, chip the ball in from seemingly, you know, a disaster just waiting to happen. So you know, with Scotty, he's got that that knack
to just hit a shot. And I you know, when Bryson de Shamba played golf and wasn't a long drive guy in YouTuber, I kind of felt like he had that where he would he would just make he wasn't, you know, he would just make a thirty footer or you know, hit a long drive and get that. And there's certain guys that that win a lot that that seems to happen to you. They just hit shots that other guys don't hit in the moments that they really need a shot, and Scotti. Scheffler certainly has that I've
got a guy. I've got My next one is Cam Smith. I think that to me, this is this is one of the big questions. Obviously, the last major championship we saw, we saw one an unbelievable performance from a player that had been knocking on major championships doors, namely the Masters at the Old Course, where he went out and just played one of the best back nines I've ever seen. He's still fifth in the O W JR despite really not playing any golf that would be ranked since the
FedEx Cup playoffs. He won the Australian PGA in twenty twenty three at the very end, or in twenty twenty
two at the very end of the year. But this year I don't think we've really been anybody's been really thrilled with the results and missing the cut of the Saudi event six and twenty six, which which might sound okay, but when you could consider forty eight players in a field, not great results and you know his his Master's record, he's got He's got four top tens, which include a T three last year, a T two and a T five in six appearances this golf course is you know,
for a lot of the virtues of why Jordan Speith plays well here, Cam Smith plays well here, And you know, I think he's the guy that I just wonder what we're going to get from him, and I you know, he could go out and be in contention, that wouldn't surprise me. He could go out and miss the cut, that wouldn't surprise me. And I think, like, you know, I really wonder if he wasn't playing on the on liv where where we would feel with him going into
this Masters. Obviously last year he was really one of the players of the of the year, and this year he's got no juice because he hasn't we haven't seen him play a a like a top flight event, unlike
these other guys. I think that's the thing with these elevated events, like you need to play competitive golf, and the PGA Tour in a way has never been more competitive with these l events, with these top players playing regularly or designated And here's the guy that you was at the top the peak of his game last year in the summer, and now we see he hasn't really played of extremely competitive event since last July. It was almost a year ago.
Yeah. Look, I have a ton of respect for Cameron Smith, a ton of respect for him and for his game, and I truly believe that if he didn't make the change, we wouldn't be talking about the Big Three. We'd be talking about the Big four right now. Yeah, And he would absolutely be in that conversation with chef lo Ram and McElroy, and we probably would have had a fourth
world number one in this time. As those three guys were handing it back and forth or or shall I say, snatching it from each other with great golf and wins over the last few months, I truly believe that he would have been in that group doing the same thing.
The ability that he has on and around the greens is like something we haven't seen since Peet's heyday, you know, in that twenty fifteen kind of era, and his long game was improving so much, with tons of pop in the bats, sneaky long rarely at times, and the way
he won the one hundred and fiftieth Open. He has that intangibles, He has that inner determination, that that big match temperament, the ability to stand up on the biggest stages and pull off shots that people at home are sitting going, how on earth did he just do that in this moment? And so he rarely is a full package. But like you say, it's been a little bit of a case of out of sight, out of mind, and then you know, so far in twenty twenty three, he's
only played two events, very lackluster golf. And I believe they play this week in Orlando.
In your town.
There you go, he'll have another event. Be extremely interesting to see how he performs there and seen as though you know you've got these buckets of things for your points, I'll throw I will throw DJ and Bryson into that
same camp Smith bucket. DJ. I'm less concerned about of the three because you know, he just has this way about him of you know, I know that I'm great, I know that I'm elite, I never panic, I'm never concerned, And so I think he may be able to bounce into it, having won there before and and knowing the course really well. But with those three guys, like you say, if they had to have a top ten, I would
be okay. Yeah, look, these guys are elite golfers. But if if any of them or all of them missed the cut, I just wouldn't be all that surprised either.
I mean, I mean Bryson. I'm more worried about Larry Yes and Bryson's rivalry, you know, than than anything. Well, I'm worried about him taking down the shortest driver in the in the in the tournament, Mice clipped him by one. Yeah, forget that.
Ye yep, I won't forget that. I'm struggling to keep a straight face on that one.
Almost it almost was my fifth dade.
I think this is Larry Miser's last Masters if I'm if I'm not mistaken, so a shout out to the eighty seven champion.
It's unbelievable. Last year, I think Garret Morrison from our team tracked Larry Mice and all the shots he was sitting in. I mean the them ount of three woods that he was sitting. It was just three wooding it to death, you know, driver through work.
Yeah. I remember playing a practice round with Gary Player in two thousand and nine when he was playing his fifty first and final Masters, and I was joking with him as we were playing because there were nine greens that he couldn't reach in regulation, and he actually, we need to go check this but his score was like seriously respectable. I'm wanting to say, he shot like eighty or eighty one and he couldn't reach halfway greens in regulation.
And here's a guy that would have been been maybe in his late sixties, right around seventy, and he goes out and still has the hands and the nerve to be able to chip and put his way around Augusta National. I mean it was like it was like, you know, in two thousand and nine, I could still play, I was defending champion, but his eighty or eighty one would have been like me shooting sixty eight. You know, like it would have been a great round of golf.
If Jacob your son's smart, he would he'd be watching how Nice and Sandy Lyle dissect Augustin National and taking some notes. He you know, you've got that every shot capabilities. He should be studying those rounds seeing where they leave the balls because they can't get you know, they can't definitely can't get it pinned, but they can't get you know, it's like it is like a masterclass in how to
get around that place. Is when you watch some of these past champions play, they're they're kind of in their twilight years. Is like those guys have played it so many times they know exactly where to where to missshots to still make the pars and and and take advantage of certain spots. What's your what's your fourth thing?
So before I get to my fault, I'm just gonna lean in on something that you just said that. That's another reason why I love scottis Schiffler's position so much for me, out of the top three right now, he has the best course management and strategy. The way he manages his ball and chooses his shots, with his capability and what the golf course is offering him, he's he's he's wise beyond his years.
In that strategy aspect, There's there's a certain like it's almost like humility. I think one of the things that happens when you're one of the best players in the world is you feel like you can take any shot on and with all you know, with you know, a lot of times you take the shot on and they hit it. And that's the spectacular thing about those elite, elite players, as they can hit shots that nobody else
can hit. But Scotty is very very smart with when he when he with his risk management really around there around any golf course, and and that we've seen with I think Jordan, I think Scotti Scheffler. He's basically just a you know, at this point it's young in his career still, but he is a a effectively longer Jordan Speith. You know, he's got that skill around the greens and
on the greens. Maybe not quite as as magical around the greens and on the greens, but that thing, like with Augusta, so much of it is like you're going to run into a bunch of birdies out there when you're as long and a talented sky shuffler. It's just keeping the bogies off the cart. We see it every year, you know, we see guys that make you know, makes five six birdies around and you know they probably walk away thinking, oh, I could have won if I hadn't
made that six on fifteen and thirteen. You know, not not subjecting yourself to the big numbers is so much a part of playing Augusta National. All right, what's your fourth thing?
Yeah, his strategy reminds me a lot of Jack and Tiger, but here and saying Tiger Tiger is my fourth before on my list. I apologize to him for sliding him down from his rightful place.
He's at number one to make my list.
Yeah, well you see, you know that's a fail right there. That's a fail right there.
That's my job. I have a contrarian blogger.
I mean, you had cell phones on this, but you don't have Tiger Woods on the list. You know, that just shows where your mind is.
That But anyway, I knew you were going to have it. I didn't want to. I don't want to cover common ground.
Oh you see, I'm playing checkers, you're playing chess. You're like, well, I know he's going to have this, so I'm going to have a little bit of this. Okay, I like that. So Tiger is my number four. It's not that long ago since he won his fifth Green jacket in twenty nineteen, but so much has happened to him personally since that
win in twenty nineteen. And you know, like we touched on earlier, anytime he pitches up at a tournament, particularly a major championship, the whole dynamic of the week changes. It brings a whole different energy and experience to everybody, whether you're a patron in this case, or a journalist or another player, and we'll see, you know, watching him closely and speaking to him regularly and watching him closely at his tournament out in La the Genesis. The game
is still there. And you know, there's a part of me like, as I'm slowly but surely getting rid of the the golfer mindset, like I can still play kind of thing, but there's a part of when I'm watching him, like I'm still mad at him. My whole career, I was mad at him because he was so good, and I just I couldn't understand it. I couldn't fathom it. I knew that there was going to be no amount of work that I could put in to be able
to match what he was doing. And so you know, while I was competing was I was constantly mad at him because he was so damn good. And now still you look at what he's been through and the way he's still able to play. Still got tons of speed, so I'm not worried about that. Still able to move the ball both directions, trajectory up and down. He still
has great distance control with the irons and wedges. The wedge game might be better than what it's ever been and he still has the touch on and around the greens, so all of that is still there reps. So you know, he's always been a guy that's spoken about reps to be able to be ready, and now he's only had this one tournament in LA to be able to dial a lot of those fields in his playing fields, so that is a question mark. And then the walk. You know, the walk, we know how tough the leg is. We
saw him in LA. You know, the shoes on and off, he's adjusting the sock and the brace and everything that's going on there. He's wearing shoes that are extremely firm and stable and they basically like lock your foot in, so that he's got a hard platform to be able to walk on. And even though that he's made great strides with his gait and the way he walks to be able to limit the pain, you can still see
how uncomfortable he is. And we measured this weekend. If you playing the Master's Teas at Augusta National, you're in for between seventeen and twenty thousand steps on massively undulating terrain. So you know it's not just the walk and the terrain, But then when he's hitting the shots. Has he done enough work, enough testing, enough practice on hitting these shots from uneven lies and all sorts of different stuff to where he knows exactly how that leg is going to react. These,
to me are the question marks. I don't doubt his talent and his skill and his ability at all, but I'm just wondering, you know, how this leg is going to be able to react when the gun goes off.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's That's one thing I think that is looking good. It looks like it's going to be a warm week in augusta, which I think it's really important for the rest of the body beyond the leg.
I think that people people forget, you know, you get the leg was obviously a catastrophic injury, but you know, the back was not in good shape before the leg, And I think that's one thing that he got kind of a bad weather draw last year when he was playing these tournaments with with how the you know, almost every major, it had to be one of the coolest collection of major championships and weatherwise in the history of golf. And hopefully this one it looks like it's warm, Hopefully
the rain stays away. Obviously, walking on wet, big golf courses is a little bit more taxing than when it's a little bit firmer. So anything Tiger does doesn't surprise me. Yep. So I think that's the way you have to look at it is he could do anything. The ultimate wild card at this point in his career. And like you said, I mean, I couldn't believe the speed at Riviera that he had. I mean that he was out driving Rory. It was nuts. It was absolutely crazy.
You could argue, you could argue that he made Rory change his driver, and then Rory's been on a two months like excursion trying to find the right set up with his driver. Yeah, you know, when I spoke to him about it at Waste Management, he said that, you know, he put a click extra of loft on there going into riv just to get a little bit more spin.
But then the face looked a little funky because it appeared more close to him and it was a bit more upright, and he didn't feel like he could go with this power fade that he was hitting, so he was hitting spinners. So he said that that was the reason Tiger was kind of knuckling it past him there because Rory said he was hitting spinners and wasn't quite catching the middle. But since then, you know, he's been on this process of trying to find a driver that
he can dial in. Looks like he finally made to do that this week at the match play.
All right, my final one is looking for one. We've got a slew of top players that don't have a major, some of them with a lot of major success and just haven't done it. A few with not a lot of major success that are playing the best golfs of their golf of their career. So we've got Patrick Cantley, Max Homer, Xander Schoffley, will Z l Taurus, Cameron Young,
Victor Hovelind, Sam Burns, Tony Fenow. To me, all of those guys are kind of in this bucket of players that you know, they're not quite first page favorites, but you know some of them are you know, going to be top five favorites. But you know, all of them, you know, seem like they should win a major. But unfortunately for all of them, there's only four of them available, and there's some really really good players just in a
tier above them. So to me, you know, all these guys, you know in the burns, the Homa and the can't lay bucket is kind of like, let's see some success, and then you've got guys like Cameron Young, will zl Torus, Xander and Fenow who have been in the mix late on a Sunday and just haven't gotten it done.
So after all of that, are you going to tell me one name out of those that you like most for the Masters?
I think Cam Young is a tough one to ignore based off of what we've seen from the last two at the PGA and the Open, and then what we saw from them this week that I think that there's you know, there's certain players that are a little bit different, and watching Cameron Young hit a golf ball, I think is a little bit different. I'm a little worried, you know. I think Zal Torris would be my pick if if there wasn't, you know, the struggle. I think coming back
from the injury has been tough. Obviously he said make some swing changes and the putter's not been great lately. But I think Cam Young to me looks like a guy that is going to win some major championships.
Yeah, he sure does have the tools. Enjoy watching him play man the the the explosion and the speed that he's able to create pretty much only with his downscreen because he pauses at the top. So, okay, he has this massive load, I'll give you that, and he's loaded up, but then he doesn't keep that momentum going. He has this little pause and then the speed that he creates
from that pause into impact. It is if you can watch that live, if you have, you know, for any fans out there, if you go to a tournament and he's there, make sure you go and watch that.
Yeah, I get it down the line view of his driver. I think real quick on Cam Young before we move off this. It's unfortunate. Obviously Cam Smith is the story of the Open and then story b one Bee is Rory not getting it done. But Cameron Young, the dry the shots he hit down the stretch absolutely deserve a you know, he's the forgotten guy, but like I'll never forget, you know. I was kind of toggling between those two
groups in the tribe. He hit on sixteen and seventeen were unbelievable coming down the stretch that lines the lines he took in the commitment in just what you're saying, this speed is just out of this world and then obviously eagling eighteen.
Yeah, the thing that would concern me about him getting the wind next week would be the lack of experience around that golf course, the fact that there's no Greens books at all, but there have never been at at all now, but they have never been at Augusta National, So you can't fast track your experience through using the Greens book. But to counteract that, the caddy chains to Paul Tassori, who's been around there a million and one times,
could absolutely help him. And I'll just throw my name out the out of those Kent player has all the experience. He has a very very rounded game, brilliant short gamer and putter smooth stroke, so I'm not worried about any speed control issues, So I would throw can lay out with those group of players that you had mentioned.
He's gotta there's got to be. He's just too good to not contend at these majors.
And Home is obviously in there too, but hasn't had really any success at all so far in major championships. So that's the next step for him is to step up at the big ones and rarely say Okay, look I'm I'm for real, I'm here. I'm a problem for you guys.
His his year has been unbelievable, and I think if you look at him statistically, he's gotten a little bit longer, the iron play is ultra elite, and he's really good on and around the greens. It just hasn't It's like what it just I feel like he's kind of in the same bucket as Scantley. It's just like it hasn't happened. And I imagine I think he's going to be in the mix late at something this year, if not more than one of these majors, because he's just playing too
good a golf. Yeah, I mean, like the results are unbelievable.
What I keep saying to him before I get to my fifth one, what I keep saying to him is, you know a lot of players believe that when they get to majors they have to do something different, and really you don't. Max Homer just needs to go there and play his game and stick to his strengths and bring his strategy to Augusta National and have belief in it because he has everything it takes to win there.
For sure. Here's my number five. My number five is live players playing first time all year in the same build as PGA two players interested to see what the dynamic is going to be. There's a lot of moving parts to this. There's lawsuits and all sorts of things going on. There are friendships that have been strained, There's been things that have been said in the media. So just rarely fascinated to see how the sun falls on the biggest stage at the biggest tournament in our sport.
And when you take a look at the two buckets of players, the two tours. You got the PGA Tour and you take a look at the last three or four months on the PGA Tour with the advent of the designated events, I mean, it is like iron sharpening iron out there. We got the best players go and at it, go and at each other. Yesterday at the match player another brilliant example. You know these guys are toe to toe like, Okay, that's what you've got, That's
what I've got. Weeks off, they're grinding because they know next week I'm gonna have to go up against this lot again, and they are rarely bringing it. I mean the product the actual golf as man, it's been impressive to watch. I'll go there with you. It's never been better. I hate to say that, because you know, just not to disrespect previous generations of players, but man, is it fun to watch these guys just going at it so
they are they are in tip top form. I mean, these guys are like thoroughbreds, just like waiting to come out of the gates here for this Masters. And then you look over at the other tour this week. They're only going to play their third event of the season. They're lightly run. They are playing against the same forty seven forty eight guys all the time. Competition, with all due respect, is just not as stiff as what we're
seeing out of the designated events. The fields aren't as deep, and you know, how are their games going to be able to match up to the magnitude of the Masters when they haven't been competing all that much. And that's
just the golf side. Then you start to look at the mental and emotional side when you know, as these players are going to be interacting with the media, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me as a as a golf fan that all the media hasn't rarely had that much access to these players, and when they do have tournaments, it feels like the questions
aren't necessarily all that pressing. And that could be different at the Masters, because now you know there's going to be a vast majority of people in that press building being able to ask some some really hard hitting questions, and how will that throw them off? If any will it,
will it not? You know, I was a type of player that quite honestly, you know, maybe I was just mentally weak, but I purposefully did not do pre round interviews because I was concerned that I would ask be asked a question that could get stuck in my mind or that could get me thinking in a direction that I that I didn't necessarily want to in that moment as I was about to compete, So I had to absolutely crawl into my shell, my cocoon and be mega,
mega focused. So there's just so many question marks to see how everybody is going to react and how it's going to play out. So for us as fans, it's going to be fascinating.
Yeah, you know, it's just unnecessary. I feel like so much golf is limiting your stress, you know, you see it with having just easy tap in powers versus when you're you know, having to make five footers all all round long, like eventually you're going to crack. And one of the things that can add stress is just being a little bit less comfortable than usual. Maybe you don't have as many friends on the driving range. Maybe you just feel a little bit less awkward or a little
bit more awkward walking around than you usually do. And also like a little it's just a different feel than what you're used to in these fifty four hole no cut events. You know, when you tee it up in a major championship, everybody talks about that first tiat Augusta just hitting different. It's going to hit a lot different.
I think for some of these guys that haven't played competitively, you know, at a high competition level since really last year, the last Year's Open, I think, you know, I also think that like we could probably look at like we're starting to see the returns, but like guaranteed money in an offseason might not be the best combination for some of these guys. You know, there might be a little bit less I don't want to call them to work
ethic or anything. And obviously, if one of these guys comes out and wins, but the early results of the big payout guys, the courses, of course, haven't really fit their games. I think great and that if I was live, I'd probably be trying to pick courses that fit my
my big money acquisitions. But I think, you know, when you look at some of these guys games early in the year with the guaranteed money in a in a real offseason, they haven't been as sharp as they you would be if they were playing on the PGA Tour.
Yeah, you know, for me, I understand your point. I probably want a biggest sample size before I go ahead and say that, and I will qualify everything. I said, Wow, we'll add this extra layer. You know, is it Dustin Johnson or Cameron Smith? Do they have the ability to be able to win the Masters next week? But well, you know, it just remains to be seen how this run up has affected their game and their preparations. So that's why it made my list because I am excited to see how it all plays out.
Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be fascinating. It's a little bit different narrative than last year's Who's going it's going to be? How are these guys playing good point with with regard with regard to picks, it sounds like you're on team Scheffler this week.
You know, I hate making picks this early in proceedings. Maybe I'll take a leaf out of your book and say one and pick five. You know your your five points turned into about ten. But I will go because you know I'm on here now and you've asked me to do this. I'm gonna take Chefler as my pick, and I'm going to take Sun j m as like. I don't know what you want to call it, like a outside shot dark horse. I don't know what type of explanation you want to give give on that one.
I like that. I like that you're given given a sleeper, right, that's.
A sleepers I like that. I like that that's cooled sleeper pick.
I mean, it's crazy that some I think that speaks to the talent level that Sung Jim is actually kind of a sleeper. All right, I'm gonna take I hate that I'm doing this. I've taken Rory he You know, what are the reasons. I told myself two weeks ago that I wasn't taking anyone but Shuffler, and I've I've talked myself into Rory my my sleeper. I don't think he's a sleeper anymore. And this this was my sixth thing. If I had decided to bump something out mid conversation,
I had this one ready. Jason Day. What an unbelievable year so far from him. He looked phenomenal at the match late. It seems like he's just getting better and better every week is the thing. The distance is back, the iron play is great, and you know, the one thing you never have to worry about with Jason Day around the greens and on the greens, that's what made him such a great player. And the Masters records unbelievable.
I think there's gonna be I don't think he's necessarily a sleeper that long, but for people listening to this podcast, he was a sleeper for the Masters like six weeks ago. So I feel like I've staked my claim there. It's a great it's a.
Great sleeper pick. I'm so pumped to see him playing well. You know, if you take me back about eight months or so, like I so badly pick him for the President's Cup team, like I so badly wanted to pick him. He started working with Chris Como just over a year ago. Chris is one of my best friends, and so I had some inside knowledge on what they were doing, what they're working on, how things were starting to improve, how he was starting to really believe and understand the process
that they were on. And I knew he was going to start playing better. I just knew it because I could I could see the trends. I could see, you know, when Chris would share some videos with me of their practice sessions and stuff that Jason was starting to do. I knew he was going to start playing better. It was just a matter of him being able to be more comfort to be taking it to the course. And I so badly wanted him on the team for the
President's Cup because, you know, we rarely needed experience. We needed somebody who'd been there before. He's a former world number one, Major Champion, Players champion. The guy's done everything there is to do, and we needed a little bit of that. We needed a bit of big name firepower, and I just unfortunately couldn't couldn't quite get there. His
game wasn't there yet. But it's been so so impressive the way he's played this season, and yeah, earlier this year, like in January sometime, I tweeted out that he and Fowl are going to have big years, and I just get that feeling watching them, watching how comfortable they're starting to get. So I like that day pick. That's a good one.
Yeah. Well, hey, Trevor, thanks so much for coming on giving us your valuable time here and good luck, good luck. The first year is the lead lead I guess an analyst, lead analyst for I'm butchering the title here an hour and a half and lead lead analysts at the at the Masters. It's uh it's I can't wait to uh hear uh here intermixed with me being out there here your hear your calls on the on the TV.
Yeah. Thanks, I'm really pumped about it. It's going to be full circle for me too, to be back in Butler cabin, sitting next to Jim Nantz call in the action. It's it's gonna be great. I can't wait.
Well deserved, You've been fantastic this year on CBS and CBS has been unbelievable. How much, how much, how much you guys have taken your broadcast to the next level this year.
Well, I appreciate it. I enjoyed this check.
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