Soly and KVV are back with another deep dive episode – this time we look at four specific Masters tournaments:
2011 – a year famous for Rory’s collapse, Tiger’s Sunday charge and Charl Schwartzel’s closing run of birdies to win
1977 – Tom Watson holds off Jack Nicklaus to win the first of his two green jackets (59:40)
1980 – After winning the Open the year before, Seve Ballesteros goes wire to wire to win by four strokes (1:38:00)
1989 – Faldo emerges as the winner in a playoff after Scott Hoch’s infamous missed two-foot putt on the first playoff hole (1:59:45)
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Roback onto the Pod all right kbv we are back another Deep dive we are changing up our format a little bit for this in advance of the 2024 Masters we usually pick a year and look back at a full Year’s worth of Majors we each cover two
Of them instead we had a little special assignment asked you to go back to maybe a year we may never get to in terms of a major Deep dive and just look at some Masters as we look forward to our favorite week of the year kind of a free-for-all kind of could decide
Whatever you wanted to decide what you wanted to look into what you wanted to dig up harder than I thought it would be honestly because once you kind of get down a rabbit hole you’re kind of like well I’m kind of committed to this year
Here we go but take us to to what you’re going to cover today and and then I’ll I’ll fill you in on the two that I’m going to cover yeah I’m GNA go back to 1977 the year I was born uh which I didn’t even think of until just this
Moment so uh I don’t want to act like that was some grand plan uh I have always wanted to do one of these about one of the Masters in the 70s uh it’s uh a little bit in some ways it’s not quite as hard as I would say one in the 60s
Where the television coverage isn’t uh readily uh as sort of you know extensive but a super fun era of golf I I cannot tell you how much I love the outfits so I don’t know if you realize this but like guys golfers in the 70s basically are like Brooklyn hipsters rebooted I
Mean you cannot believe how sick some of the the drip is in these guys I absolutely like Rick massingale uh Tom Kite these guys could fit uh very easily in like flat Bush hanging out with some of Neil’s Bros it’s unbelievable fashion of that era well and if you’re listening
To this in your car we are going to have a visual element to this episode uh on YouTube we have a brand new no laying up Podcast YouTube channel we’re going to do our best not to you know we’re going to flash a bunch of stuff on the screen
If you can listen in your car but you may miss out on some of the visual elements uh of this episode always hard to balance those a couple of those things but I know I got a bunch of images uh from the ones that I decided
To cover which um I wanted to relive 2011 because it was Mayhem it was a a very Vivid uh memory for me and my getting back into my love of golf it was uh huge huge moment for a lot of reasons we’ll uncover a lot of those um and then
I also want to do something on sevie I I feel like the only time we end up covering seie on this pot is when uh some Oldtimer comes on and relays a story about sevy cheating and I think there’s probably more to the story he’s a decent player you know a little bit
Some total of his skills is more than cheating I think uh so I wanted to dive into 1980 Masters which I kind of thought might be more interesting than it was but there’s some there’s definitely some stuff in there to to chat about and uncover but 2011 is gonna
Be the bulk of my uh of my deep dive so we’ll we’ll start getting into that what’s your second year that you picked 1989 the Taylor Swift year of Masters uh very excited to bring you some anecdotes from that too that’ll that’ll wrap wrap
Us up bring us home I I think we could do you know we can almost do one of these for each uh each major championship when I mentioned the 2011 Masters what what comes to mind for you just off off the top this is not that
Long ago this is 13 years ago what what comes to mind uh is this Rory’s meltdown yeah okay it is that that’s good that you’re at least asking that question maybe it’s not as Vivid uh as we’d hope because it is one of the most exciting in terms of
Runs that were made final action ho outs chip-ins and maybe one of the more memorable collapses ever and it is gosh it let’s just get I’ll get right into it I I wrote out to start here that this is about as close to Peak as you can get in
Terms of Sunday action like despite the you know the ultimate winner not being a big name Charles schwarzel does win sorry to spoil that for people but God how dare you Phil comes in you know he’s the defending champion of the Masters and he’s coming off a win in the prior week
At the Houston open answering as fast as you can I bet you can’t guess who the world number one is right now uh it is Martin kimer Martin deval’s right out of the game at this point Sorry for oh that’s gonna be a fun but uh Lee
Westwood is number two in the world uh Phil is three Luke Donald four Graham McDow five Paul Casey six um in case anyone has any questions about the official world golf rankings and maybe European favoritism around this time Tiger Wood is number seven and falling fast Steve Stricker is number eight
21-year-old Roy mroy is the ninth player in the world Matt coocher 10th Dustin Johnson is the 11th ranked player in the world um Charles Schwartz is the 29th ranked player in the world and he opens the week at 100 to1 and listen I was not covering golf at this time be very very
Honest I had not heard of Charles szell before this Masters had you no definitely not where were you in 2011 what was what’s going on in your life at this point I’m 25 years old um hating my job probably in Chicago but I remember this Sunday so vividly I remember I was
Living on Berling Street in Chicago it was the maybe the nicest April day in Chicago ever we grilled out steaks on our on our back little tiny ass patio that we had and uh I just remember the sun absolutely beaming and sitting there watching the Masters and my roommate who
Was not a huge golf fan like freaking out about the action that unfolded the a certain player in particular that made a front nine run that is about as memorable of a of a major championship run as I’ve had in my lifetime it it doesn’t end up working out which is
Maybe not the reason that uh it’s as maybe the reason it’s not as remembered as maybe it should I this was this was big this was just huge for me I was this we were just starting a a fantasy golf league that would ultimately lead to no
Laying up starting and I just was starting to watch a lot of golf around this time period where where were you 2011 I was also hating my job at the Baltimore Sun I was really really hoping to get a new job at uh Sports Illustrated I had interviewed it SPS
Illustrated and they were like yeah like you can uh like freelance maybe for us and I was so excited I went back to the Baltimore Sun and said like oh you know SS Illustrated said like I could you know pitch him some stories and the sun was like yeah sorry like you’re
Exclusive to us like you’re not allowed to to write for Sports Illustrated so I spent most of 2011 kind of moping until ESPN came along and said would you like to interview for a job and so uh big moment in my life too Phil Mickelson
Does come in as the favorite at 6 to1 tiger is 9 to1 Westwood 14 to1 Nick Watney 16 to1 I couldn’t figure that one out I don’t really know where that one came from Martin kimer 18 to1 and then Rory Mayan Dustin Johnson and Luke
Donald are all 25 uh to one coming in um little note I found in the BBC’s Saturday gossip column Graham McDow and Ian polter uh had been told to curb their prodigious Twitter output by Augustin National officials uh McDow said that’s fair enough actually that comes from the Daily
Express but uh I I I know polter had had done some stuff around this time I I couldn’t find what I think Graham may have done some scrubbing around that time period but uh just found that funny a group of officials from a tournament that’s run
Once a year not a tour nothing like that just a one tournament is like hey guys you need to calm down the Twitter a little bit wow they did not want behind the scenes Master Secrets being revealed on gmax Twitter nine-time major winner Gary Player I
Believe you’ve heard of him says he has a feeling 21-year-old Rory mroy could win the green jacket this week he said Rory is so talented I just love the way he plays golf however we don’t know how he will rise to the occasion if he comes down the line on Sunday and he’s
Leading Gary player sponsored by DraftKings right you should have been a punter in those days let letting them people know what’s what’s up I’m getting worried that the question that was asked right before that was good morning Mr player how are you good morning sry I heard Gran McDow
Is Twitter is going all over this morning I polter revealing dirty secrets of austa but I like this mroy fella Japanese amateur Hadi Matsuyama has taken a last minute decision to accept an invitation to play at Augusta can you remember or think back to why this would potentially be a lastminute
Decision for Hideki and I don’t remember this part he’s the Asia Pacific am maybe it was just the Asian Amer uh champion at the time so he has a masters invite but thinking back to 2011 do you remember the would it have something to do with the Olympics we were not allowed
To participate as a pro yet in the Olympics it did not it was the he’s the 19-year-old attends University in Sendai an area area that suffered heavily when the earthquake and tsunami struck on the 11th of March monama said I’ve decided to play because so many people have
Pushed me the people at my University who have suffered and my teammates and my parents who made me start to play the sport of golf wow so yeah I did not remember um the world events kind of Co coinciding with uh with that obviously Hadi would go on to win the the masters
10 years later but around the mid 2010s I don’t I’m wondering if you remember this I I’m specifically thinking of the Charlie Rose interview that tiger did I think in 2016 tiger started to downplay his goal catching Jack Nicholas do you remember any of that about you know kind
Of saying it was never my goal to win 18 Majors it was you know 15 was always my goal for some reason I do uh I wrote a tiger essay at some point at ESPN uh that sort of talk referenced this Charlie Rose interview he was kind of
Like sort of Sly about it he was like no that Charlie Rose was like that’s not your goal and he was like no it’s never been my goal my goal is to win more like and he would sort of like kind of like be a little bit cheeky about it so I do
Remember a little bit of that that he kind of Twisted the the mythology I guess around it um and so there there’s a quote in here that from uh ahead of the master says but Woods is still eyeing Jack nichols’s record of 18 major championships it says it has always been
My goal to pass Jack from well before I turned Pro that’s what I set my eyes on in terms of golf I absolutely want to do it the Benchmark and gold standard in this sport is 18 so that if he ever tries to deny that he said that that
That happened in uh some time right before the 2011 Masters this is of course just coming off few turbulent years in the life of Tiger Woods um 2010 was the first Masters he or first event he played since the Scandal broke it’ss kind of a muted reception does not play
Very good golf in 2010 and end of 2011 and there’s just a bunch of question marks coming into the Masters for Tiger Woods but there are more players in the Masters field this week than there have been for 45 years as 99 players will te off on Thursday and Augusta National
Chairman Billy Payne says officials will take a close look at their qualification criteria to decide whether a change is required that comes from the Associated Press me and some of the boys been talking about twoo many boy people at the master Su well I looked in the in the
Qualification criteria and tried to find the difference this I did not uh examine this closely but there was an exemption for the top 30 leaders on the on the prior season’s money list which I that went away I do believe that went away but there if you finish in the top 30
Now in the FedEx Cup you do you make the Tour Championship you get in the Masters existed then but also a top 30 for money exemption and I believe that is what has gone away what is this comes up in my thing but now what is the you get to
Come back next year it’s like top 10 I think top 12 I think 12 is where it is now yeah so it used to be top 24 uh which will come up in mine which is a lot uh to invite back just for a high
Finish the top 16 in ties in the 2010 master so that has changed as well so they they did look into that qualification criteria um that was from the Associated Press Northern Ireland’s Rory mroy is turning into a big American football fan he has confessed a love for the NFLs
What team what team is Rory a fan of uh the Green Bay Packers the New York Jets oh my goodness Rory this there’s too many metaphors here for your your late stage Malay fa to be a Jets fan he uh is so intrigued that he brought he bought a
Football on Wednesday before tossing it around to kill time before impressing impressive opening round wow I wonder who he’s tossing it around with probably Phil you know good Buck s and Phil Phil is always warming up like a quarterback you know in the in the parking lot so
Thursday Rory and Alvaro Kiros shoot 65 to lead by two over KJ Choy and Y Yang Phil shoots 70 tiger shoots 71 Charles schwarzel shoots a 69 and on Friday Rory shoots 69 to get to 10 underpar open up a two-shot lead over Jason day who shot
A 64 uh on that Friday tiger shoots 66 and is three back at minus 7 he’s paired with KJ Choy on Saturday he shot a 31 on the back nine so that Friday afternoon uh coverage window he blitzed it with a 31 on the back this is Jason day’s first
Masters and he is going to be in the final group on Saturday Schwarz will uh shoots 71 and is six back at four under heading into the weekend missing the cut Grant McDow Martin kimer padrick Harrington and Hunter Mayan were some of the notables that missed the
Cut so we get to Saturday Rory shoots at 70 his lead is four going into Sunday over anhel Cabrera KJ Choy Jason day and Charles schwarzel uh Roy was one over on the day on Saturday through 12 holes but Birdie the two-p par fives and rolled in
A 30 foot birdie putt on the 17th tiger shoots a 74 um Adam Scott is in the mix at 7 under he’s five back and New York New York Times writes about a moment where Rory pours in that 30-footer on 17 and got a roar so loud that tiger had to
Back off in the Fairway ahead and remember around that Saturday evening looks like the the crowning of a 21-year-old Roy mroy this looks like uh all right we have a passing of the torch uh and written in the New York Times says the significance of the moment was inescapable Woods a four-time Masters
Champion whose shots have been have prompted so many similar Roars at Augusta had to make way for mroy who is poised to become the youngest Masters champion since Woods himself in 1996 seven this is the first time that no American player is among the top three
After 54 holes and only the third time since 95 that neither Phil Mickelson nor Woods is in the top five heading into the final round again let me repeat that the first only the third time since 1995 that neither Phil nor tiger were in the top five entering the final round that’s
They that was a hell of a run between seriously it really really awesome golf truly anchored by every single Sunday almost every single Sunday that one of those two was going to be in the mix said patient this is still Saturday patience has not come easily for the
Free willing mroy but it was his Hallmark Saturday on a muggy afternoon and his demeanor is so calm and his swing so steady that day a 23-year-old who has yet to play who has played all three rounds with mroy said he would he would be difficult to catch on Sunday
The way Rory Rory is swinging and the shots he’s hitting he can probably go out tomorrow and shoot 70 and win the tournament day said and if he does win this thing he’ll deserve it he’s played really well uh Roy would said a win for me personally it would be huge it would
Be huge and for the game of golf it would be nice as well it would be nice to get a major early and show some of the young guys that is possible I’m going to go out there and play as well as I can and we’ll see what happens four
Strokes are not a lot around this golf course oh buddy yep a that the truth man it’s so much worse than I remember it I somehow it’s it’s just so much worse than I remember it um but we get to Sunday Jim Nance welcomes you on The
Telecast with news that it’s going to hit 887 degrees on this Sunday that’s 30 Dees to our Celsius speaking friends out there the first uh first shot we see is Tiger Woods coming into the second green he’s got 164 in with his third not ideal but
He stuffs it and he goes on to pimp walk uh that putt into the hole on the second he’s of I mean it’s just a beautiful beautiful day that red it was a different pan tone on this day I I don’t know why this is just so vivid In My
Memory but that sun was just hitting tiger in a different way um and he had a lot of pimp walking going going on around this time but I really love back when he wore the dark red and not the like pink red uh that k s became more
His style later like the dark red just that’s why it worked so well at AUST like it was such a great contrast right and it’s worth noting Tiger’s using that Nike putter at the time that kind of not Mallet but that weird backed Putter and he’s putting terribly like they run a
Montage around this time of all the shorts short putts he missed on Saturday um but he gets up there and he drives it up near the third green and flips a beautiful flop up there to short range birdie he’s seven under five back not a
Lot going on just yet we get our first look at the young amateur Hideki Matsuyama skinny looking Hideki a lot more animated he chips in a couple times on this day and he’s just a lot a very different looking Hideki um his grips are like really impressive he’s got if
You can’t see on the podcast he’s got like bright blue grips on his thing here that’s sick so he uh he chips in on three and they uh you know they they make a mention of of the tsunami and and the effect it’s had back home and kind
Of that story that we talked about early on but I again I remember this so vividly because there was just a I mean the narrative was just right there in front of you like it’s the Rory show it’s a lot of anticipation he’s so young
He’s got a four shot lead we’ve seen all this happen so many times at the Masters and maybe I just you know what’s so vivid here is obviously how poorly he plays but it’s just a bad fit like it’s a really bad fit from our guy he’s got
Black sleeves with weird Stripes he’s got the Jeremiah hat going you know the pants just didn’t quite fit the same they just got the loose loose around the waist that the shirt just gets untucked throughout the course of the day and I again it’s just all images I I’ll sign
With how poorly he played on this day but man just look just look at this this young face uh this young buck who’s in the in the little Montage there with with the baby fat and uh kind of before his uh before his body started change but you it’s like a different person
Like it’s truly like if you he it’s like someone went on a makeover show or had like classic surgery or whatever like he just it’s dramatic how different he looks back then he also I to to raise ah head to the end he handles it with Grace
In class for a 21-year-old it is pretty remarkable like his interview afterward and how everything happened and how kind of to come to terms or how he came to terms with everything but so Tigers birded the first two holes uh but he steps up and makes a bogey on
He three putts the fourth he kind of blew it way left on that green but was unable to to get down and two which kind of signals what’s ahead of when he would hit do some incredible things the momentum would just stall out with some crucial Miss short putts uh even on this
Sunday but we get up there uh Charles schwartzel misses way right into the first green from the Fairway I mean from the middle of the Fairway an incredibly bad shot he’s probably 35 40 yards right of the pin uh do you remember what happens next for Mr schwarzel I do he
Bumps like a seven iron and rolls and rolls and roll I mean this is from this is not a greenside chip in and it goes in the hole for a chip in birdie at the first um you they feature him a little bit there he’s 26 years old his best
Finish in the major to this point is T14 which again I’m not mad at myself for not having heard of Charles schwarzel when I was a casual golf fan in 2011 but Rory steps up on the first T and just jams a drive down there the ho’s only
445 at this point he’s got one 32 in and he’s just looking like he’s going to Alpha this golf course his swing is so fluid in this time it’s really it’s really uh something to admire and he hits like just a very nervy shot he hits a pull um that
Actually gets really lucky and stays up on the top tier in the back left and he can kind of putt it from Green side but he runs the putt five feet by and misses the comebacker misses it left and that’s kind of a theme of what’s going to
Happen so remember thinking in and I I want to say it’s happened in real time but it might have been like on a rewatch somewhere years later like what is how different is history if that like first five-footer goes in because it’s pretty close and like if you just settled down
And all of a sudden you’ve made a par on the first after hitting a pole maybe he’s out of sorts the whole day but maybe not maybe he just like rips it down number two and and all of a sudden we’re off and he does shoot 70 and wins
Easily uh it just like one shot can kind of make you feel like oh [ __ ] like now it’s three Strokes like that’s my lead and this you know it’s just a hold different life I mean he walks off the first scen and leads two I mean it was
It was four overnight and Lead is two over schwarzel after that chip in we cut to tiger and he hits a huge sweeper into the front left pin on six I mean it starts he hits the ball and I mean the broadcasters like whoa like that yeah
One of my favorite shots of all time kind of he uses the slope right of like and I think my memory of this is that Faldo thinks that he’s done like a made a mistake that he’s pushed it right and instead like it does exactly Tiger’s
Like get left perect goes right yeah be perfect goes right across the green like a super underrated shot in the tiger Canon to be like you know what I’m gonna hit a sweeping draw into this like pin and be below the Hole uh on this shot we
You can you can get a little caught up in the lore of Tiger but reliving this shot and a shot we’re going to get to just a couple holes later for how to use the slopes at austa it’s not just like hit the ball into that slope cuz I
Watched a bunch of shots come into six later on and no one got the bounce he got but the his shot shape leaning into that slope in it ending up in below the hole like that the goal of that shot was to end up to be putting straight up the
Hill and you need to get enough momentum off the slope to do that without risking going left of that pin no one else pulled off that shot on this day like no one else hit that kind of style of shot into that front left pin takes the uh
The slope down there to about 12 feet uh sure enough absolute Drano walks in the putt before it’s even in the hole just steps it right in he’s getting the crowd going I mean it’s there’s some momentum there’s some cheers going on like it’s it’s feeling like a little something
Here this is his third birdie so far of the day uh we cut back to Rory he drives it in the bunker on two and then hits the face of the bunker with the second shot um he get you know from the middle of the Fairway he pulls his third shot
Into the left bunker and the pins all the way back right that’s not looking good but he does Scramble for par from that left bunker maybe he’s got some momentum going you know he still got his lead no he does not have his lead anymore because one hole up ahead
Charles schwartzel in the third Fairway lays back off the te lands one 12 feet right of the pin spins it left into the hole for Eagle charl schwartzel is tied for the lead at the Masters after three holes with a chip in on one and a hole
Out from the middle of the Fairway on the third hole it’s so easy to because of what happens at the end of this round versus Schwarz remember like oh man like obviously just went and took it but like some luck went his way like early I mean
Obviously he hit two great shots but you don’t chip in on one from where he was and then ho out on three without just it being your [ __ ] day dude but it’s so bizarre skipping like I I won’t mention schwarzel for a long time in the middle
Of the round because all right he chips in for Birdie on one holds out for Eagle on three he Bogies four and then pars five through 14 he made no birdies no bogeys from five to 14 before again his very famous finish at the very end but
It was just such a bizarre day like it really looking back on it’s like man Schwarz will sneak up and steal this how do we not see it coming and there’s a bunch of Mayhem that happens later there’s a lot of people that’s came up out of nowhere and almost won this thing
But we skip ahead to number seven tiger stuffs it using the slope again uh he makes birdie and we’ve got our first big fist pump of the day this is uh excuse this is Tiger’s fourth birdie of the front nine to go along with the bogy
That he made on the fourth hole um and it’s just like they’re they’re lingering he’s eight under par now he’s three back of the lead uh which is tied at 11 underpar with Rory and schwarzel at this moment Rory settles the nerves a little bit he hits a really sick wedge into
Three but he misses a pretty short birdie putt um and Schwarz goes on bogy for but Rory’s got the lead back but he’s just he’s just got the Hang dog thing going like just he just has this body language that just isn’t all the way there um tiger hits a great drive on
Eight he’s got three1 in from the left center of the Fairway and he hits what is honestly maybe the most Vivid shot of the decade for me I I just uh I I’m obsessed with this shot and the pin is all the way in the back left on this Sunday and it’s
278 up the hill that he’s got and he hits this shot and it is even with showing you the image here it is hard to describe how far right this shot starts I mean he hits a swooper of all swoopers and it gets up there and the key is it
Banks off the right slope of these uh of the Mounds around the green and doesn’t land too deep into this hole it is a little downwind doesn’t land too deep but the shape of the shot and the using the of the bank of that right side
Springs this thing all the way to the back left of the of the green all the way back almost right next to the hole I mean it’s it’s 10 12 feet away for eagle and it’s just an incredible shot rolls forever it’s just about it’s Peak golf
Shot right there and again you watch all the other shots come in in this day Rory goes long because he he land he doesn’t use the slope to kill it into the bank he lands it too far into the green he doesn’t have the right shot shape and no
One else some of the people that were Landing the shots farther left were actually getting kicked right by the left slopes like you just no one hit the right shot coming into that green tiger used the ground used the turf uh to get that moment and so if you put together a
List of his 10 most memorable Master shots I feel like three of them would come from this front nine yes one from the back night yeah there this is such a like I don’t know underrated is sort of a silly word with tiger because we we we
Rate the man very highly uh but there’s so many in in a masters that he did not win like shots from this tournament where I’m like wow that’s super remember I’ve I not only remember seeing that I’ve watched it on YouTube about 11 dozen times well it’s it’s you know you
Always did the Ken tiger comeback Ken tiger comeback he’s never really had a major comeback on a Sunday in a major like it you’re you’re waiting for that to happen and again he’s not playing very good golf at this time like it wasn’t this was a little bit of a
Surprise that this was happening and I just I I honestly do vividly remember like the buildup and like the move to the edge of the couch and up to that eagle putt because it was like holy [ __ ] if he makes this he’s within one and
It’s like again this is the era of the tiger Roars like have an effect on people like this is a a very real thing that’s happening so sure enough he steps up and drains the Putt and just lets loose a massive fist pump The Crowd Goes absolutely apeshit he walks off the
Green and just lets out an enormous [ __ ] yeah as he gets the ball out of the hole unmistakable like very unmistakable that that’s what he yelled you can tell he’s this is the tiger getting Yol era too like the uh the muscles there in the uh
In the bicep there and the and the trap are enormous his only top 10 the year coming into this was a T10 at the Cadillac championship and his most recent top 10 prior to that was a T4 at the US Open at Pebble the prior year
Like it it was bad like it was it was not the Tiger Woods that we knew um this is uh firing Haney not quite with Foley yet right like he’s I believe I believe so he might be with Foley I I I don’t quite know for sure where I can’t
Remember how long after the Scandal he Haney parted ways but it wasn’t that long because of Haney was like pissed that he had to answer questions about the Scandal and that what he knew and didn’t know and and of course then wrote the book about or Steinberg says
You’re his best friend and hany like what I’m his best friend one of my all time favorite anecdotes so tiger scorecard to this point says uh par birdie birdie bogey par birdie birdie eagle so he’s four under in his last three holes he’s 10 under par he’s within one and he was
Seven back an hour and a half ago like it is a huge huge run the flash leaderboard Roy’s at 11 under tigers at 10 schwarzel at 10 Cabrera and day are at eight under par Dan Jenkins tweets out at this point tiger had passed or caught five continents in eight
Holes good old um Rory continues to miss putts left uh he Bogies the fifth and Tiger Woods is tied for the lead as Rory walks off the fifth hole there is no one ahead of Tiger Woods uh on the leaderboard through he’s played eight holes and Rory and Schwarz will have
Played five holes at this point somebody need to get Rory an energy drink or coffee or something at this point super hang dogging hang dog and walking off five to my knowledge I have not fact checked this but I I to my memory and knowledge and please hit me with this if
It’s wrong I think this is the only time he ever held the lead on uh at a Masters on Sunday and did not win I’m struggling to think of another time when he would have he didn’t he never has the solo lead here today and he is up ahead on
The golf course so there’s kind of some birdie holes that it’s a little bit of an illusion a little bit of an illusion but no one is beating tiger at this point at the Masters when again two hours ago he was seven shots back uh it just it was a remarkable unfolding of
Events like people were just rushing to their televisions at this point tiger gets up and down from the uh from the left bunker on nine to shoot 31 on the front hasn’t held a lead in a major since the 08 US Open that he won and this is obviously the first time since
The Scandal uh that he’s held the lead in a major Rory it’s a a wedge into seven but he over spins it kind of hits the wrong shot but he drains the putt from the front Fringe gets it to 11 under has the solo lead again heading to
The par five he’s back we’re fine here we’re fine we’re totally fine here uh hits it over the green uh in two and cannot get up that it’sit a really bad chip uh on on on on the back there it’s not good so Tigers plotting along hits
This normal shot into the middle of the green on 12 kind of far away from the hole but just an absolutely devastating three putt I mean he misses a putt that it was not a long putt man like this is the distance I’ll flashed up on
Screen I mean it’s a a three-foot putt that should just be an easy brush in and a major championship and uh he misses it misses it left and just again just the momentum completely stalls out Cabrera Bird’s eight to get within one he’s right there with it with schwarzel um
Tiger’s got 187 into 13 and he just nukes a ball long and left long of the green screaming at it to get down and does not get up and down does not make Birdie on the 13 from 187 in KJ Choy Bird’s the ninth hole he’s one back schz chy was a killer
For a huge Masters killer totally schwarzel shoots 34 in the front despite holding out twice Rory has a good look for Birdie on nine misses it and is just hang dogging again he shoots one over on the front but is still leading the Masters heading to the back nine oh oh I
Remember like thinking okay like you know kids okay like he survived the worst part like maybe he just sell two par fives on the back like he’s going to be fine I think I feel like the announcers too are like well you know he’s he’s struggled a little bit but
He’s got the lead and uh he’s you know he needs a good swing here and he can win The Masters coming back coming home so CBS kind of messes up the Rory shot like there’s no setup to it it kind of rushes into into his shot and he
Obviously pull hooks it straight into the trees nobody knows what happens Rory audibly says is there out of bounds over there and F just goes what like it’s a really good moment what is there over there it’s a question that I’ve never uh actually know there can’t be because he’s in between two
Cabins like he it there’s no exaggeration here it is an absolute shocker as to how far left this ball is he said I felt comfortable on that t-shot all week it I just started a little left and I I having not been there I I or having not been there at
That moment I I I don’t he he might be right here because we remember that shot as being absolutely Dreadful but if it really did just start a little left and hit it I think it hits a tree and Ricochet is way farther left obviously it shouldn’t not many people hit the
Trees right off the tea and then when it does it’s kind of overhanging the left side should kick it right in theory but it takes a horrific bounce and goes backwards to the left and and then the the you know this again the image that
You have of him walking off 10 is what I have for the entire back nine the back of his shirt gets untucked and I don’t know why this bothers me so much but he just looks so sloppy the whole rest of the round and it just goes so poorly
It’s hard to describe how poorly this back nine goes for him doesn’t he get dropped from coverage at one point he does shock like in some shocking moments here that won’t cover next image we see is him trying to shirt between said yo get right here let’s let’s get your
Shirt tucked back in and let’s make a good swing lad I mean the camera like it’s like a blurry out of focus shaky camera that’s the only look that they can get at him between these two buildings I went to Google Earth to take
A a look at where it’s but I think it’s the two houses here at the bottom of this which is it’s not 100 yards off the tea it’s not I mean it’s it’s it truly is shocking how how short this t-shot actually went apparently Clifford Roberts used to sit on his porch which
Is one of these houses and watch the whole tournament like that was his kind of way of thinking so there really see much from there can’t apparently that was his Jam though he was just basically didn’t want to be bothered by people so he would just sit
On the porch and you know probably bark out or so Dan Jenkins said he’d not seen anyone hit it there in the 61 Masters that he had covered which if we just pause on that moment for uh that number for a moment that guy spent over a year
Of his life just at the Masters uh it’s kind of crazy but good life yeah again the iconic image of him just squaring up to punch a ball back out of the Fairway between he’s lucky there’s not more trees over there but it’s able to get it
Back into the Fairway and I keep meaning to go to that to that spot and stand and just take a picture you know like uh I’ll maybe perhaps I’ll put that on the list to share for things to take of um he has three-wood into 10 and hits the
Ball again he’s not out it’s not it’s not toast yet like if he can hit this ball up on the green or near the green chip up make bogey like we he’s you know lost a shot we minus 10 but he’s still the last group like he’s got the par
Fives it’s not over but he pulls this thing and it it for a brief second it looks like he’s about to lose the ball but then we see it reappear but it’s way left way down the hill goes all the way down the hill 10 yeah the the death spot
On 10 yes it’s bad uh and this time tiger narrowly misses a birdie putt on the 14th hole kind of his momentum is stalling out a little bit Roy’s collapsing and it looks like there’s about to be a four-way tie at the top with Cabrera Choy Scott and schwarzel
And maybe Rory if he can get up and down for bogy but his pitch from down low left it looks like he’s got kind of an opening I don’t know how this happens but hits a pitch and it just Nails a tree I I can’t tell if it’s a branch or
If it’s a tree limb but it just hits it and it goes dead left he’s now like long left hitting his fifth he barely gets it on and he two putts for triple and now it’s like dude you are you’re in you’re in some trouble here now you’re too back
And right as this happen is happening tiger stripes it off the 15th T he’s staring down the flag from the top of the hill and it’s a scene it is just a sea of humanity um Tigers is tied for the lead at this point after he walks
Off the uh off the 14th green we tie with Cabrera Choy Scott and schwarzel it’s Mayhem it’s absolute Mayhem no one has any idea what’s about to unfold over the coming moments but tiger stand at the top of the hill the sun again just hitting that red shirt a see if Humanity
On the hill there behind 16 behind six around 15 green and I just again i’ I’ve posted the video a bunch of times I’ve seen the video I see that 315 yard Drive he’s got 215 to the flag back right pin and he just makes one of the great golf
Swings ever it just is a perfectly controlled five iron and let’s loose the sauciest club Toral to this day that I’ve ever seen it is just the most nonchalant of like yep I’ve never never hit never hit a better shot this is the like fle no no no this is just a casual
A casual he doesn’t like president’s cupet it’s just a oh yeah that’s perfect like just a subtle little twirl and starts walking right after it lands on the green farity oh right right at it he never gives up and the crowd is going apit I mean it’s stuffed it’s maybe five
Feet and again Augusta illusion here he’s played the par five at this point this buts to take the lead outright this is to get to 11 under power and to have the lead outright and you hear it as he’s walking up Rory’s triple gets posted and there’s a massive groan
Around that CR oh I mean one of the loudest groans you’ll ever hear as a reaction to something they show schwarzel tapping in for par on another hole I think it’s 11 and Rory’s triple gets posted there and you hear another enormous gra like it’s this whole momentum shifting through this back nine
Uh of Rory’s triple and again no phones out there like you are waiting for something to get posted to hear that Roy’s in seventh place as he walks off the 10th green after teeing off in the lead on that hole we can Watermark this so Roy can skip all this part he can
Just go right to 77 when he listens to this pod this is going to be tough to relive five for Tiger to take the lead he misses it low right with that dumbass Nike putter that he just could not make just pitched in the lake at this point
That n i mean he is walking off that green he’s 5 under on the day he’s now on a five-way tie for the lead but even then you’re like dude you you’re GNA need a couple more here to finish it’s it’s it’s not good I remember thinking
Like oh he’s so pissed I me I think I’m probably not truly understanding like the intricacies of what the lead is at Augusta at this point I’m like why is he so pissed off like he’s hied for the lead like he all he needs to do is like
Maybe birdie one more time but it’s like a fake lead right like the guys haven’t played the birdie holes yet it’s you know that’s truly he knows that what’s come what he missed those opportunities and he knows that he’s going to walk to the 16th having just completely kind of
Blown his chance and at this time you’re probably thinking 12 is a playoff 13 wins and so if you get to 12 at that moment you get one more birdie like you probably are going to win good chance to win The Masters 12 might be good 13
Almost certainly going to be good enough Rory steps up he hits a good drive on 11 and back left pin over the water don’t know why we’re taking this one on with how things are going so far Rory but he stuffs it I mean you tell me how far how
Far this ball is away is that 10 s feet man maybe I guess probably 10 feet Augusta zooms can be weird with some of the angles I think it’s probably a little longer than than than it may look to the eye but all right Rory we’re not
Dead um steps up tiger steps up almost flies it in the cup on 16 but it skips long left about 18 ft KJ Choy kind of makes a he makes a bogey and is kind of losing a little momentum Rory’s got this birdie putt to get back within one
Misses it and runs three feet by no like no big deal Kevin he missed the comebacker and CPS has gone to Commercial and they never show it he missed a putt of no more than three feet I mean a tap in for par and I so like I
Again I’m watching this shot and I’m look looking at the score the the The Scorch that day I’m like no he can’t make bogey from there like there’s no possible way and I kept like scrubbing the the broadcast trying to find it and they come back at ibf is uh all they
When they cut back he’s like yeah he missed a short putt back at 11 while his ball is Airborne into the 12th grade like I get it he’s in seventh now but while you were away the leader completely just imploded yeah this is like one of the greatest collapses of
All time like can we please show this um I think this was the beginning of my understanding of like how much more painful a final round collapse in golf is compared to other sports like I haven’t covered any golf at this point but it is truly like falling down a
Flight of stairs for four hours it’s not just in in football like you drop a pass and it’s like oh my God you know we we lost we that was our chance whatever but in golf it’s just like you have to relive it in slow motion over and over
And over again every single drip drip drip is just a disaster and just feeling so like much empathy for Rory and even writing something in the Baltimore Sun about it afterwards being like man that’s like heartbreak uh personified yeah I mean and they come back from commercial Tiger’s missing his
Birdie putt on 16 um Cabrera’s hitting on the green on 12 and uh you know Rory hits it to about 20 feet on 12 right and it’s like okay you know all right that’s fine Jason day Bird’s the 13th hole now he’s at minus 10 and he’s tied for the
Lead again it’s just like I can’t even keep up with how often this leaderboard is changing and and the and the names that they’re changing in there Roy’s got a 2 footer for Birdie on on 12 you know if we make this we’re back to 8 under
Par again we have the par fives ahead Anything could happen whatever runs a runs a 20 footer about eight feet or I’m sorry runs a 20 footer about two and a half feet by no worries easy tap in par right no he pulls his two and a half
Footer left and it goes about three and a half feet by he misses the comebacker he misses that right it’s a double from 20 feet he had no three putts through three days he four puted this one he’s five under for the tournament seven over
On the day and he’s five back I feel like Ian didn’t Ian beger finin have some speech about like how painful it is at this point I I certain remember that like you could feel the empathy for like a fellow Englishman I guess in some ways like uh they’re kind of brushing past
He’s like a footnote at this point they’re showing his shots on tape delay already and it’s just like oh yeah he’s he’s having a tough day like they didn’t really Linger on it which I don’t blame him because there’s so much happening like again it so much happening I hate
To say we’re not done yet with Rory um he famously Yanks it left on 13 does the Hang dog and it splashes into the creek the most famous image just him head in his hand head in his elbow just truly cannot imagine cry yeah around going
This poorly a name we have not mentioned yet to this point um again this is cbs’s era of maybe not keeping the best tabs on the golf tournament again this is exua circumstances for for what’s going on but I I I I didn’t go back and double
Check this but I think the first shot we see from this guy uh is a birdie putt on 16 his name is Jeff Ogie and uh it’s his fifth birdie in a row and he’s tied for the lead now so yeah why not sure yeah a guy suddenly
Snuck up in time for the lead uh that might not be totally accurate they may have showed a couple of those shots but five birdies in a row uh to tie the lead uh Adam Scott then stuffs one on to 5 feet on 14 he takes the out right lead
At Jason Dave was in there even Tighter and misses the putt meanwhile Kevin I will give you A1 thousand if you can name the American who in the group ahead stuffs one on the 15th hole and makes an eagle to get within one back at this point
God SC plank I don’t know Bo Van Pelt that’s right no there’s no that’s right you don’t remember that I didn’t I have I I have watched this collapse before so I I’m not going to like it’s it’s sort of like cheating a little bit in the
Sense I would not have pulled bu Van Pelt out of it but I I do remember being like oh because there you know look there’s a fellow Dutchmen there a van I’m gonna you know I’m gonna catalog that in my brain at some point me and
Scott Van Pelt you know the van venberg is of Van pelts they’re so they’re like this you know Bo Van Pelt is now tied with tiger in one shot back of Adam Scott in the final round of the Masters Luke Donald steps up and rolls in a birdie he’s now
At minus 10 oh my it’s madness madness he’s one back and Adam Scott is in trouble on 15 after blowing his second shot uh way right tiger he fails to birdie 17 and 18 um pretty much a you know his momentum stalled out after you know missing Eagle on on 15 and not
Making the birdie on 16 he’s pretty much a dick to mcy in the interview afterward like what are you gonna do now you gonna hit the bur ball I’m starving I’m starving I got to eat he just like is very can’t lay of just answering the
Questions he was super Curt to the media at this time after all the Scandal and everything but Adam Scott manages to scramble for par and uh hits it to a foot on 16 absolutely stuffs it on 16 schwarzel Bird’s 15 to stay within one as Scott TAPS in right ahead uh but Adam
Scott has the solo lead at 12 under par uh and Schwarz will hits at about 20 feet under the par to the right uh 20 feet under the hole to the right of 16 Scott BLS Adam Scott blows it way left off the T on 17 ends up in a bunker on
Seven Green Oh Luke Don again Mayhem Luke Donald is finishing up on 18 he’s got an awkward stance around the bunker and hits this miraculous shot to the front left pin takes one off bangs off the pin and rolls off to off the green front right like horribly it was going
To go past the past the hole but rolls way back down the hill Rory’s been dropped from coverage they pick him back up to show him hitting a 5 foot par putt on 15 and missing it of course walks off the you know untuck shirt head down walk
Walking off to uh walking off the green uh there um while Adam Scott surveying his situation on 17 Schwarz will steps up and drains his pry on 16 Vern gives it a huge oh yes and he is tied Adam Scott for the lead Scott goes bunker to
Bunker hits it in the front right bunker uh hits a pitch out to 15 20 feet like not that not that close like kind of a long putt uh but the leaderboard at this at this time uh is showing us Adam Scott and schwarzel tied at 12 Jason d 11
Tiger pretty much out of it at 10: and already in the house but who are you pulling for at this point s when you’re sitting in your eating I think Adam Scott I think it’s Adam Scott right I think that was kind of he was the you know you’re probably just pulling for
The biggest name day was not really a name yet again this is his first Masters Scott a popular player I’m definitely rooting for him I don’t think or I think I think that was true I definitely was not rooting for Charles hell I don’t know who was rooting for Charles hell at
This point other than obviously respect to my fine South African friends so day day and Scott are playing together he’s got a 40-footer for Birdie on 17 uh and again he’s one back do you remember what happens with Jason day he steps up and drains a 40-footer and starts staring
Back down the Fairway at Charles schwarzel like he uh sorry this this put him at 11 under this put him within one but drains a bomb Putt and is like fist pumping like is looking back down the Fairway unmistakably at at schwarzel in the Fairway uh oh this will have some
Echoes In Mind s keep keep he’ll put a bookmark on that yeah so Adam Scott is uh again he’s sitting at 1200 par TI for lead has this par putt after hitting it in the b in the bunker looks like it’s going to slip away I
Call this a 18 20 footer probably for par and he drains it with the long putter huge clutch putt um so he’s still at 12 under par that was a huge moment I mean the crowds are really into it Schwarz was out of position in the right
Rough but hits this shot down the Elevator Shaft barely over the bunker to the back right pin it rolls up to about 12 feet pours in the putt on 17 third birdie in a row to take the one shot lead Adam Scott is aboard on the 18th
Green h but about 30 feet right of it they stuffs it in there tight but he’s he’s to back of schwarzel now schwarzel Stripes it on 18 and Adam Scott has a clean look from just right of the hole pretty much the same putt he would have
Two years later hit a good putt but it broke too far to the left and missed um he would get his revenge on that putt two years later um makes his birdie to get to 12 under pars and now day and Scott needs schwarzel to bogy but he’s
In the middle of the Fairway on 18 he’s getting ready to his shot and I mean you know how like cameramen get right behind a guy to film like not not crazy close but you’re gonna film from the middle of the Fairway he’s lining up his shot and
He turns to the cameraman and like tells him to back up like he’s like and the guy is not close he’s not close at all he’s shooting from pretty far away tells him to back up cameraman doesn’t so he like tells his caddy like get them to
Back up and I’m like it you it’s one time you’re like this dude looks nervous which of course you would be you got to hit one good shot and you’re going to win The Masters but it was kind of a bizarre scene of him asking the
Cameraman to move hits it you know 18 feet right of the hole a different putt from Scots though it kind of rolls back towards the front of the green and it’s pretty much over at that point I mean he’s not he’s not gonna three- putt that one you know they’re expecting two putts
For the win only needs one Charles schwartzel takes the 2011 Masters fourth birdie in a row the first person to Birdie the last four holes and win it’s one of those tournaments that you just look back like of course you remember that happening now but it’s you you it’s
Easy to forget the level of suspense of what was going to happen in this it could have gone so many different ways and this dude just came up and stole it when people talk about the Roars of Augusta they’re talking about the 2011 Masters like there was just [ __ ]
Happening all over the place not the biggest name winner but he did the damn thing and goes in to sign sign his card I don’t know if you can see this in the green in The Green Room hopefully you can’t but you’ll never guess who the
Scorer is when he walks in into the scoring tent it’s Mike Davis I don’t know why I don’t know why this just uh you know I I I did not see that that one coming was he working at I guess maybe yeah of USGA at this at this point and
Uh I don’t know why he’s the one tallying up the scores in there but um I just had to laugh about that one Rory hits it in close on 18 uh and of course just cleans up this little five foot birdie put no of course he did not make
This put uh did not go in uh he misses it left and shoots 80 80 that’s right again worth pausing at this moment it’s an it’s a I mean it is a horrific ride but the story for me is that he goes out and wins the next major by eight shots
At age 21 like this could have ruined him and it may have ruined him for Augusto we don’t know his interview is shockingly classy again for a 21-year-old he said look I got in that moment he’s like obviously I’m going to be disappointed for quite some time but
I got to look at the positives the positives were I led this tournament for 63 holes I’m very disappointed but hopefully it’ll build a bit of character in me which I think we can say unmistakably happened do you this is one of my favorite anecdotes I do you know
How Rory said that he got over this win I do not by listening to Adele every day in his car seriously I’m not I’m not even kidding there’s a I’ve uh talked about this at some point I can’t maybe it’s on a golfers journals podcast but
Uh he was asked what tune got you over the hump so that you could win a congressional later so this later they asked him he says it was aele uh I didn’t sing it quite as well as her but I played it every morning on every
Morning in my car so the song was stuck in my head during the week of congressional I have never heard that not quite Quad City DJs come on come on and ride it parentheses the train but uh own kind of magic there yeah some of the writing that happens
Afterward Joe Pas net uh panski uh said a a professional golfer cannot hide this is both the beauty and cruelty of the game there is no locker room to duck into at halftime no huddle in which a coach offers encouragement or a solution there’s only the next shot and the
Waiting scorecard and the bitterness bitter emptiness of a golf cup four and a half inches in diameter referencing the when Roy is walking off the 10th ho he said meloy is still only two stucks off the lead uh but it is clear that he will not win The Masters sure he tries
To convince himself otherwise if he can birdy the 11th hole but he misses theeven foot Putt and the minuscule par putt too well then if I can birdie number 12 he misses the birdie par and bogey putts a dreaded four putt he said I lost my speed he would say on the 13th
He snap hkes his drive into the water he drops his head to his chest and when he finishes the round with an 0 dropping him to 15th mroy hands his ball to a young fan he hugs friends he answers every question with dignity he said I
Thought I’d be okay he says trying to find the words that are not there he had his moment he wasn’t up to it what words sum that up he wanders under the oak tree in front of the clubhouse all around him are Cheers uh one of the
Things I remember that made me laugh and I think probably made like me another like reason to be a big Roy fan is someone like tweeted at him like hey thanks for letting me know that there were actually houses on the property at Augusta I don’t think I and he like
Retweeted it and was like lol like crying emoji and I was like man if you can laugh at that and laugh at yourself like you’re pretty grounded pretty decent fellow so this the same kind of time period Rory’s Twitter is like uh Yer Bombs all
Night with my friend it’s kind of f he’s got some funny old tweets that absolutely I I hope he never goes back and cleans up but AP says an interesting note looking back 13 years later instead of being compared to Tiger Woods mroy will now forever be linked to can you
Fill in the blank of ironic name of who he will be linked to Phil Mickelson that is Greg Norman Greg Norman wow um the final round score was the worst of a third round leader since kenin chur in 1956 that comes from um and then uh Dan
Jenkins just a footnote tweet um um from Dan Jenkins said okay for somebody asked him for the record how many more majors does tiger get he said a couple maybe if he can get some help from the competition and I found that quite foreshadowing for eight years from then
With all the collapses that H happened around him for him to to win the 2019 Masters all the water balls on 12 Molinari getting wet multiple times I just found that uh tweet to be especially pression it 2011 that is longer than 1980 what I have it’s a lot but it is a
Fascinating rewatch fun rewatch I hate to say with Rory but it’s just again that’s part of what makes this tournament what it is is the possibility that that can happen and it has done that to many people over the years and uh it’s a fun one to relive it does make
Me think about we talked about this I think recently there’s doesn’t seem like there’s that that many collapses anymore right like the that era was more prone to collapses and now maybe like drivers are too big or whatever that it’s just harder to to blow a lead but like the
The coming of age of your golfing life is like seeing guys like completely fall apart and thinking that’s possible and now like there’s often kind of boring Sundays because you can sort of hang in there and shoot 70 and win majors in some ways and this is I’m I’m reaching
Back for this one and I don’t have a lot to to back this up with but the feeling of watching a lot of these putts I I’d love to for somebody to analyze how far putter technology has come in the last 13 years because it just seems like
These three four and five Footers that I know they’re nervy and I know like that’s the stuff that these guys seem to be able to brush in at a much higher rate than than what happened on this day between Tiger and Rory for the most part I’m just Rory had this Center shafted
Putter at the time gosh did it looked terrible throughout that entire day and Tiger’s putts just did not come off the puttered putter wow yeah it was it was it’s really surp but it just made me think like it I’m wondering if like with modern-day mallets or whatever has
Happened with jffs and waiting and all that and that’s kind of been again I I might be talking out of my ass on that but watching this was kind of like oh I would not be putting with that at the Masters that just not look good I bet
People who are designing Putters would say oh yeah yeah Putters are way better right now we all know golf is booming tea times can be a little hard to get these days I’m not the best at planning this stuff out in advance I usually you
Know I’m a day in advance maybe we can play tomorrow but you got to be organized you got to be ready to act quick you got to hit that 7-Day window if that’s what your golf course is challenging you with and when you want the best you have to act quickly or
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This is kind of in the era when people are starting to hint that like oh you know Jack he’s the greatest you know there’s no disputing that but maybe he’s past his prime they don’t want to come quite out and say it but they’re they’re not going to lay down and give him
Titles anymore which is really fun coming off didn’t he win in he won 75 no 75 was he won two majors but he didn’t win in 76 got you know he’s got 14 majors at this point he’s you know at the back then they’re still counting as
Am as usams so you know he’s he’s got more Majors than he gets to count now but he’s sort of feeling like you know he’s got some other interests he’s already kind of the all-time leading major winner having you know and so he’s feeling like okay like you know maybe
This is uh it’s not quite my my era of dominance anymore uh which is funny because like in 1976 in his down year at the majors he finished T3 t11 T2 T4 in the majors you know just doesn’t yeah can’t do it anymore uh I just want to
Pause here for a minute and talk a little bit about Jack Nicholas’s major record in the 1970s which oh my God we have talked about I think many times but I still feel like is worth reviewing at this point suly into the 1977 Masters in the last 28 Majors Jack has finished in
The top 10 24 times I would have guessed higher in only four majors in the entire first seven years of the uh of the 70s does he miss the top 10 in Majors it’s it’s got to be like I know we talk a lot about the 18 majors and we talk a lot
About tigers cut streak and whatever it’s just still like the most Bonkers stretch of like great golf over sustained period I think ever uh other than if we’re getting specific about the masters from 1963 to 1966 uh Jack’s record in those four Masters were first second first first
Like he didn’t finish his like Porter always does that thing like his average finish is like 1.3 three or whatever that of those Masters uh in the 70s he won seven Majors during that stretch it’s just kind of like you know these are his finishes in the Masters just the
Masters in the 70s eight T2 first T3 T4 first T3 so this is setting the stage for what I think thought was a little bit surprised to learn in research people saying like well you know he’s not like he’s not quite the dude that he
Once was so hail Irwin says uh in the pre- lead up to the tournament Jack’s presence is still known but his dominance is not felt so much anymore it’s not that Jack’s not playing well the other players are just better now they’re not afraid they don’t take a
Backseat to press releases you could put 25 names in a hat and pick any of them out you’d be nuts to call anyone the favorite so you know Jack’s not like a a [ __ ] talker but he kind of he kind of Hears A little bit of this you know he’s
OB guys don’t think I can play anymore he’s he’s playing a few casual rounds Barbara write that down bar apparently the back then I did not know this I’m super jealous of this I think the writers were kind of allowed to like basically like either this or the either
The writers were allowed to walk like with the players during practice rounds or Jack was like walking to the ropes and talking to the writers while he was playing practice rounds because there’s a bunch of stories about how he kind of has like a running dialogue with the
Writers and he tells this story suly about how he he’d come to Augusta a week before to sort of get ready for the tournament and he’s telling a story to Ken Dinger of the Washington Post and he says he walked up to the 13th green and
There was a live water moccasin on the bank and he says and when I got there there were two more I don’t know whether water moccasins make love or not but those sure two sure were intertwined this is the lead anecdote in a story about Jack Nicholas being back
At the Masters was two snakes Making Love on the screen austa having poisonous snakes I apparently I you know shocked me that uh maybe they just kind of eradicated snakes period but I’ve never heard about like poisonous snakes like hanging out on the a corner yeah
And and Jack you know that they were’re making love it just you know snakes snakes love each other it’s great Nicholas is kind of a little bit amused at the he’s says to the writers that at the links that Augusta will go to make Augusta Eden like including putting blue
Dye in the water and a special green mixture of sand and dirt that people sprinkle in divots and he shares a story about how that the thinks the officials are sort of sillier and slyer than they thought because uh the day before I think this TC will prove this because it
Fits in with his uh what he thought the Ryder Cup strategy was going to be a Marco Simone the day before he says you could hit out of the creek that fronts the green this is he’s talking about 197 6 because there wasn’t any water there then on the night before the tournament
They damned the green up only they didn’t tell us so guys were going for the green and finding their balls in the water they’re wet when they thought they should have been dry which I’m totally in favor of this in the future like this like practice rounds are like a
Crapshoot you don’t know what the actual whether the water’s going to run through race Creek or not you take your chances you have get your caddy out there walk in the course before because this another great ridiclous anecdote so this is where I think he’s like talking with
The writers on the Rope line because there’s some sort of action you’ll he’s he’s doing Jack Nicholas is doing an impression for all of you who hate my Impressions I want you know that Jack does Impressions too of Ben rright the English announcer and he he says well as
Ben Wright would say he’s got a wedge in his hand it’s the weakest part of his game he’s got a tendency to hit it fat and then Nicholas like takes a big smack and he goes ah you know what he’s right self deating Jack doing Ben Wright
Would pay much money for that uh Tom wisoff also kind of one of the favorites he’s finished second here four times but at this point he’s got the reputation for being kind of a dick like a super cerous with the Press so Nichols I said he was practicing Augusta the week
Before and the Press asked Tom why he didn’t deploy that similar strategy and wisoff said well some of us don’t have 10 million in our pockets so we have to go play Greensboro yeah so they ask him like kind of like ask him jack may not have
Had 10 million in his pockets exactly he may have like lost it all in whatever uh you know was a cryptocurrency scheme scam back then so they ask person is kind of asking why SC like hey how come you’re kind of a dick and he’s like I’ve
Never been that temp I’ve never been temperamental in Moody I’m easygoing uh it’s just when I’m playing bad I can’t stand mediocrity I care about what people think of me but the only person who knows me is me and I’ve never found myself to be a temperamental guy which
Wisoff then later like join the broadcast uh and be a part of like talking about other players which is you know I I appreciate like that wisc was super honest kind of a you know a truth teller back in the day I mean it’s well
Known but if you if you don’t know the iconic call in 1986 of Jack’s shot into 16 is from Tom wisoff it is truly I mean just a master class in like setting up a dramatic moment and leading right into it this is your moment I don’t know the
Exact line this is your moment this is your destiny it’s the one of the greatest shots of all it’s bone chilling it’s awesome yeah so also talked about but not quite as much is Young Tom 27y old Tom Watson who everyone at this point in his career is s calling a Flatout choker
He’s basically like people think if you think that like Xander has it difficult today people saying like oh you can’t get uh it done on Sundays you have no idea what it was like for Tom Watson in the 70s I mean he is you will this will
Come up here as we move along but every single question that Tom Watson gets is basically about like well how come you can’t handle the pressure on Sundays and at this point he’s already won a maj he won the British Open like two years prior but he’s blown he blew a lead at
Wingfoot on the final day um when hail Irwin won he had blown like tournaments coming into this year he’d won twice earlier this year but he had blown the players and Heritage uh after having Sunday leads and so people were basically like oh this guy like he just
He thinks too much he can’t there’s a lot of talk about how the Tom Watson should use his Stanford psychology degree to actually help him think his way around out there but maybe he thinks too much uh so it’s just it’s very funny to see um like just people like just
Kind of like flat out [ __ ] on him Byron Nelson just like sticking up for Tom he’s like he’s kind of taking Watson under his uh Wing as a mentor he says you know Tom is a good player uh he’s like Byron Nelson like having coffee like sitting there talking to writers
Like God I want I wish so wish I had been in this era of like the oldtimers just kind of hanging out on the patio like you know tell telling stories with the Press d j against you know yucking it up probably drinking with byr Nelson
Uh but he says Tom wats is a good player but he needs encouragement when he’s not playing well I don’t like the use the word choking that’s too strong a word I don’t like that definition because it’s degrading you know nobody’s going to win them all also not Lee Elder is playing
In this Masters for the second time uh he had qualified by winning the Houston open this year much less fanfair than when he played for the first time in 7 five which Lee is like super happy about he says I’m Lee Elder the golfer now and
Not a freak uh which was kind of a pretty compelling quote this is also the first tournament uh first Masters ever held without Clifford Roberts as the chairman Roberts retired and handed the Reigns to William Lane and apparently was uh at this point he’s 84 years old
Not in great health could uh could basally knock it out of bed uh most days and so he was watching the masters from home round one Hubert green is our first round leader after shooting an opening round five under 67 uh he would not hang on to the lead obviously
Uh but this would be sort of a memorable year for green this is of course the same year that he led going into the final round at Southern Hills and was told that someone had called in a death threat they were going to kill him during the final round but he ended up
Winning anyway uh don January and Billy ker are tied three katzer excuse me 69 defending Champion Ray Floyd shoots a 171 and he says afterwards that he thinks because he set the scoring record of the Masters the previous year the tournament committee was really out to
[ __ ] him this year doesn’t use the f- word I’m but he says conditions were the toughest I can ever remember for a first round Floyd said the pin placements I saw I’ve never seen in my 13 years I kept saying to my caddy boy they’re
After me they are really out to get us the original Patrick greed Ray Floyd fast forwarding into 1980s GNA be the next one like the the talk was leading up to it was always about the scoring and the record like that that that there’s some stuff that comes up in 1980
Too of like ah it’s gonna be so Ray Floyd is talking about like I mean it’s it’s going to be too soft the record might come come down this year like he was clearly very proud of his record that he said at Augusta hell yeah Nicholas opens with an even par 72 he’s
Frustrated with his putting Tom Watson quietly shoots a two under 70 uh in round two Tom Watson surges into a tie for the lead with a 69 he’s tied with uh if I give you his first name so could you guess his second name Rod I would say pampling but that
Doesn’t work in with the timeline that’s the only r Rod funi who shoots the second round 67 it’s not a person yeah exactly Gary nun of the New York daily news says yes it’s two days early but this is to prepare you for another one of those shocks the
Master’s golf tournament is so fond of delivering this is to prepare you for Rod funus fun no fun is not the disease that grows between your toes that’s fungus this is funi fith a golfer a man a master’s co-leader can we can we so right here’s
A great point to pause and just I I I struggle with this whole concept of look what Nicholas and all these guys did is incredible but if you want to understand why there’s so much yellow in that Wikipedia in the 1970s plumers the plumbers and firemen ERA
This is it’s not the same development of professional golf and it was way easier to stand out amongst your peers in that era of technology that ER of athlete like that that’s really not debatable really at this point the the money hadn’t flowed into the game yet and it
Was not recruiting the best athletes and uh it is a plumbers enironment era we have to say that I don’t see any lies there s Rodi is 44 years old at this point uh and he is not exactly the the the most uh apparent person who does not
Believe that Rod funus is going to win The Masters is Rod Fus F because he says to the Press afterwards have you heard about the book I’m going to write the title is the power of negative thinking if you’re think if you’re thinking bad consider how wonderful you’ll feel when
Something good happens cheer up think bad the mental Miss for big Randy yeah weirdly like fun is super talented uh it just hasn’t paid off that much at this point I did not know this this is maybe I should be ashamed of not knowing this for a guy who hold held these records
But he held the course record at Pebble Beach he held the course record at Riviera and the course record at mirfield uh doesn’t hold those any of those anymore but but obviously like a pretty talented player uh to that’s a a pretty good Trio of things he says but
This is after the negative thinking quote uh my putter fails me all the time and I fall apart I always seem to fall apart I guess in a way it’s frustrating to see what you can shoot only to see what you actually shoot I guess I’ve just always been a very poor
Putter he says listen if I happen to win The Masters they wouldn’t even have a coat to fit me I’m just going to tr go out there and try not to embarrass myself I need to see a picture of this guy this is uh fith what’s his first
Name again Rod so Watson could have held the outright lead after 36 holes but he Bogi 18 uh which led the writers to joke look at Tom Watson he’s even getting good at blowing 36 hole leads uh he’s asked in the Press presson afterwards hey does it irritate you to
Be asked about choking no Watson says because I expect it it’s not true but I know I’m going to be asked about it they asked him who do you fear what do you fear over the most over the last 36 holes myself Tom Watson says uh only two
Shots back at this point is Australian Bob sheerer who told the Press after his round that he nearly died a month ago of an acute pancreatitis uh he felt ill in Myrtle Beach and a doctor told him you’re right on the edge of death he put me in a
Hospital uh sharer said I had so many tubes running out of me I felt like a dog on a leash I couldn’t move four or five feet a Friday to keep his uh sugar in his blood he drank 10 CES and ate three candy bars during his rounds this top
Level medicine here I’m sure what athletes these guys are he also stated that uh right after right before the round he got a shot of vitamin B right in the backside apparently he said my pancreas still isn’t working right uh Nichol Nicholas at this point is lurking three shots back another amazing
Anecdote that I found and this is what I want wanted to bring up uh Arnold Palmer’s 43 years old at this point uh it looked like he was going to miss the cut uh after an opening round 76 but he surged back on Friday and he made an
Eagle to make the cut he’s basically like tiger at this point he you know he’s got huge crowds following everywhere he goes they really don’t care what he shoots they just want to sort of be I mean look at this handsome [ __ ] he is just you know the the
Epitome of like Americana at this point but here’s the anecdote I love after Arie talked to the Press about his round he was leaving the Press Center and he got stopped by a security guard who demanded to see his badge uh being Arnold Palmer he didn’t have one the
Security guard grabbed him and started to push him outside and Arie looked like he was ready to fight at the last second the guard realized who he was and stood down Arie turned to the press and said you almost had a hell of a story there uh with my fist and somebody’s [Laughter] Nose I would have loved to see Ary just clock a security guard and see how that would play out in Augusta so Ben khaw at this point in round three start round three is kind of making himself known he’s kind of thought of as like the next Jack Nicholas at this
Point a lot of her papers are referring to him as Jack’s Protege uh everyone loves how he kind of like overpowers courses he just putts like a dream overpowers totally was like an overow yeah uh he he it’s it’s people are sort of thinking like he’s annoyed
That he’s like kind of a putting wizard I think actually the historical comp is much better is Jordan spe because apparently kensaw like hits it long and then hits it wild and just gets up and down from everywhere and he’s kind of pissy that people don’t think
That like he you know they think that like his putting magic is gonna fade at some point he’s not actually gonna be able to hang in there uh he shoots a 69 to get to Seven under and he’s tied with Watson at seven under at the end of the
Day Rick Massengale shoots six under and uh Jim Colbert and Jack Nicholas are at four under uh and again in the Press 10 afterwards we’ve returned to the theme of Tom Watson choking uh this is an exchange that he had with the Press on Saturday night hey Tom wouldn’t you
Rather be coming from behind rather than leading Watson smiled no he said I’d rather lead than not be leading a minute later someone said considering you had a 41 on the back nine on Sunday at the uh the TPC don’t you think you choked Watson smiled no I wasn’t swinging well
At TPC do you get mad when somebody asks if you choke no and he smiled just to prove he wasn’t mad well did you choke no I didn’t believe in my swing when you don’t believe in your swing you don’t have the confidence in your swing it can
Break down under pressure he paused and then explained everybody chokes I choke everybody does when you’re swinging well you don’t choke as bad as when you’re swinging badly so it’s so did he sounds like he’s he talked himself into the fact that he was choking everybody chokes God I’m probably gonna choke
Tomorrow that’s so suly uh you know kensaw and Watson are they’re tied for the lead right you’d assume that they would be paired together right in the final day you would be incorrect back then the Masters did whatever the [ __ ] they wanted all right they pair Tom
Watson with Rick Massengale and then in in this last group and then put Nicholas and khaw into the second to the last group so like just Nicholas is actually kind of annoyed about this like he says Ben it’s later in the after the round he says Ben has every right to be upset
With a pairing the tournament is the only one that makes such pairings up like this on the final Say by right Ben should have been paired with Jim Colbert it was an advantage for me to be paired with him because if I’m paired with one
Of the leaders I know who I have to take out along the way not that anyone should be afraid to play with me but it’s harder for some kid to win his first major when he’s paired with me I feel sorry for Ben which I I kind of like
Hilarious to me that the Masters could just be it’s be like yeah whatever we’re gonna go ahead and do what we want we want Nicholas and kensaw in a in a shootout together I guess it was like the speculation was that it was sort of
A made for TV thing because it was like khaw was the upand comer like the next Nicholas and they wanted to people wanted to see a Throwdown I I think that you can’t should be able to do this if it’s a tie like instead of like defaulting to a tiebreaker of who
Finished first what like if you if you want to make if you’re tied and it doesn’t really matter but I just hate that it goes off of order of when you finished as a tiebreaker if you want to play God of like these three guys are
Tied but man is it going to be more interesting if tiger and Phil are paired together in this final round like go for that that’s good entertainment I think but what you’re describing but around this time too like I don’t know if they would mess with the pairings but um or
Maybe this happens even a lot later like they would move Arie to like the group behind leaders to be like even when he was out of it I remember one of these we did I forget what year it was I think oill or something they put him like the
Last group behind the leaders and more people were following that than the leaders just because they wanted him to play on TV as well sick that’s let’s you know what let’s throw the chaos in back to this day I mean it just makes me laugh that kot literally he was the
First in at seven under and didn’t even make into the final pairing say uh just got lapped so but at this point again back to the theme that Nicholas is is not quite that dude uh khaw gives a quote that will sort of haunt him throughout at least in the broadcast
Throughout the day he said uh we the other players are aware of Nicholas’s presence if he shoots what he’s capable of shooting but he’s going to have to play good on Sunday we are not as scared of him as we used to be Venturi will go over this quote about five times during
The broadcast the fin oh I bet he wishes he didn’t say that so on Sunday Jack comes out uh firing and makes three birdies on the front nine but he actually loses ground to Tom Watson and Rick massingale who make four birdies on the front nine Waton makes a turn
Leading by um one over massingale and four over Nicholas and this is where TV coverage picks up back then we are of course only getting the back nine uh and so Nicholas hits I’m not kidding an unbelievably good shot into uh into 10 and has this birdie putt for to
Hit it to that close on 10 is pretty uh pretty incredible he makes that birdie and so now the margin is just two and Watson hits his shot into 10 pretty decent uh sorry poor shot into the left bunker hits a really good chip to about
Three feet uh misses the putt so cannot like make it all of a sudden like the choking the choking started coming on people are talking about one of the things that makes me laugh throughout this thing is how much the writers love to talk about Tom
Watson and love to talk about how he looks like Huck Finn for some reason about 10 references about how he looks like Huck Finn I not sure I know what Huck Finn looks like I’ve you know read it way back in the day but uh not
Sure why Tom Watson was the person that they compared it to so is it that a fictional character like was it was it a movie or just a I was going to say just a book just a book yeah guess you could just invent that Tom Watson look like him anyway Nicholas
Is is really you know he’s turning on the heat whatever he pars 11 but uh I want to get to this here it’s literally one of my I want people to go look at this on YouTube thing because Nichols hits an unbelievable shot into 12 probably you know I want to say it’s
Like seven or eight feet and he rolls in a putt and his caddy Willie Peterson this is the era when caddies yes are so animated this is what he does the ball is going in he is in between the hole of Jack and he’s jumping in the air and
Whipping his towel around like you cannot tell me like this wouldn’t be an enormous like scandal in this current ERA if that happened uh you just don’t do that this is regular Behavior by the caddies back then and I think frankly we need to go back to this because it is
Incredible so there’s it’s not going to make my story but there’s one in in my part in 80 where uh a c is like walking in a putt on 16 for one of the players I don’t remember who it is and uh maybe it does make my part but he just gives a
Whole like no a devastated reaction like God if I caddy did that I’d be a little upset if you ever want to like have an enjoyable watch and just see like the Cades back then they had like amazing like afro and mutton chops and they they
Dressed like you could they all the way down like the v-neck of their shirts you know obviously not wearing shirts underneath because so hot and they would just like they would sit on top of the golf bag next to things and they would absolutely like pump their fist and jump
In the air uh it was an incredible era for style uh so this is this is sort of a silly thing but Tom Watson on 11 he had he hits it right of 11 he has like a bug on his ball and he cannot get this
Bug off he spends not kiding like a full 45 seconds or a minute like waving just bug away and the bug will not leave and he just finally look like all right and he just hits the ball with the hits the bug like the bug is like he just
Squashes the bug against the ball uh rolls it up and uh and you know makes par there so after Nicholas made his birdie at 12 he’s now only a shot back and so all of a sudden like the the the crowd is Going Bonkers like the Roars
Are you can see every look on Watson’s face every time Nichols makes a birdie they cut to Watson and he’s trying to sort of stay cool for some reason we I feel like we need to talk to the Masters about this they the official feed Cuts
Here so we don’t get to see like Nicholas play 13 14 or 15 which is like crushing uh because of what happens that the the YouTube feed just cuts back and we’re so I think my conspiracy theory in me is because of what happens next Nicholas Bird’s 13 while Watson is in
Back in 13 Fairway and Watson he kind of like puts his arm up apparently this is from Reading from Dan Jenkins reading from various sort of things and we’ll discuss it later Watson thinks that Nicholas is taunting him he thinks that he’s talking [ __ ] that he’s like hey go
Ahead and top that and it just it makes Watson pissed off so Watson gets the lead back after he birdies 13 he he’s like fired up at this point I don’t know what shot he hit into 13 because we don’t have any footage of it Nicholas
Pars 14 we come back coverage comes back with Nicholas almost chips in for 15 at eagal he just hit it long but he hits an incredible chip it’s sort of like a take that bin right for Mak talking [ __ ] about my short game uh just barely misses it meas birdie now Nicholas is
The outright leader at 11 uh but Watson punches back at this point he birdies 15 tied 11 so even the fans who want Watson to win at this point think that he’s probably going to blow it because he says he’s walking to 16 somebody leans
Over the Rope line says love you man but don’t choke just brutal uh Rick massingale pretty stalled at this point uh he’s eight under but he’s kind of out of it so you don’t say yeah you don’t say on 16 Nicholas hits it into the crowd so
Like just like way uh left it lands it ends up kind of bounces ping pongs around the crowd lands on some woman’s blanket and there’s like a three minute discussion about how what kind of drop he’s gonna take and so finally like they pick up the blanket and have Nicholas do
The drop he does the drop over the back of his shoulder which I feel like I would love if we could bring back that was awesome uh at this point like vuri just keeps bringing up the you know a major in Psychology at Sanford and boy
You know he just he got to be able to find his way to think his way through this final round did they do the uh this the sports psychologist go to see him to learn from him do they do he they do that line that’s one of my favorites about
Nicholas so Dave Anderson of the New York Times says at this point perhaps he’s is writing uh this in the sort of Sunday setup from Saturday’s thing perhaps Tom Watson is too smart many of the young golfers on tour never studied anything in college except greens when
They play golf they don’t think they react with his reddish brown hair and freckled face Tom Watson resembles Huck Finn with a sand wedge and a diploma so Jack makes par on 16 drives it way left on 17 meanwhile back on 16 Watson hits a really good shot into 16
But just misses the birdie putt so tension is is high high here it’s it’s it’s a match play situation here S as you might expect even though they’re not in the same group Nicholas hits a really like he pulled it way left left of the Eisenhower tree but he hits a incredible
Shot to 15 feet from way over there and he’s got a putt probably about 20 feet that I think like he thinks that he makes briefly like he kind of starts to lean forward but it just drifts a little bit left and so he’s like all right
Still you know tied for the lead at this point probably gonna get into a playoff like you know I’m not GNA I’m not going to have to do anything dramatic on 18 it’sit a good drive on 18 Wat and massingale both uh hit it like pretty similar to each other this is Rick
Massingale by the way I just want you to see this abute trip incredible it’s and also like this is Tom Kite oh my God Tom Kite look at the that look at that collar Jerry Colangelo caller find a new that’s a normal caller s find a new find
A new slant massingale and Watson are are kind of like right even with each other in 17 Fairway massingill hits a really shot to about 10 feet and wats goes over like literally 20 feet and looks in massing Gale’s bag to see what he hit like oh totally okay doesn’t ask
Him doesn’t say anything to him but like you know you’re allowed to sort of look or whatever and then Watson hits a really good shot to like like I think just probably 15 feet right of the pin uh pin’s kind of like left center of the green but there’s enough space for
Watson to kind of you know sneak one in there so Watson’s got a tricky Putt and he absolutely dri in and gives this like piss pump like full like side uppercut I’d say it Rivals like anything that tiger ever threw in terms of an uppercut just absolutely totally pumped up thinks at
This point like okay I’ve I’ve just basically sit back I mean he’s still pissed off at Nicholas at this point he thinks that Jack has been talking [ __ ] so Nicholas later says I you know he’s on uh AT&T at this point hits his drive and then hears the Roar and he says
Mentally I was not prepared for it I did not think Tom was going to make a birdie so he knows Nicholas now he’s one down that he needs a birdie and his original plan from where he was in 18 Fairway was to hit like a six iron to the middle of
The green or the back of the green and sort of give himself a putt but obviously like put himself in position to make a playoff he decides okay well I’ve gotta hit uh now I gotta get it close to the pin because Watson just made birdie he’s kind of in between
Clubs he decides to hit a soft six he hates like he’s like I hate hitting a a soft shot on a under pressure because just and he doesn’t have a great lie comes up I’m not it one hops into the front bunker I mean it is so fat uh you
Know we we think of Jack having never missed like any shots Under Pressure but this was not exactly like a a great swing down the stretch hits a decent chip out of there but cannot get up and down and so he makes bogey on 18 Watson
Is in the Fairway as this is going on you can see him turn to someone and say what was that for uh he thinks Jack has just made par because he didn’t sort of and someone says oh that was for Bogey and you can see Watson go let’s go just
Pumped up really yeah so uh Watson hits it on in you know just right uh right at the pin on 18 looks like he’s totally you know massingale hits it inside of him but again this is like a different era of etiquette because massingale has probably like a 10-footer Watson has a
20-footer massil goes ahead and putts out a turn and then like he leaves himself a three-footer and instead of marking it even he’s tied for third and probably G to make $28,000 or something at this point if he makes it he goes ahead and just putts out uh and let’s Le
Let’s the stage for Tom and so this is Vin scully’s call as Watson is lining up his putt on 18 he’s had to fight off some slurs about the fact that he’s choked this is his answer to all those critics how do you have a Vin Scully in
Your Arsenal too you know it’s s i just try my best did you practice that did you do any practice of that uh no I I did not I may have done visicol in the past amongst my friends but that was really good thank you uh so
We go into the uh into Butler cabin for the Tom Watson has won the Masters we go into the butler cabin for the Green Jacket ceremony and chairman William Lane uh is the New Augusta chairman he looks directly into the camera says I’d like to take a moment to recognize
Clifford Roberts our chairman of 40 years Cliff I know you’re watching and at the risk of losing my green coat I’d like to express to you on behalf of the Masters committee our deep appreciation for your 40 Years of creation imagination management that has made the Masters one of the most successful
Sporting events in the world uh Watson sits down on the couch they’ve already interviewed Nicholas at this point and he’s sort of explained about how he had to hit us s six or whatever Nicholas is right next to him on the couch in Butler cabin and the first thing Watson says is
I have to apologize to jack for what I said on 18 uh I did felt that when he made his Birdie on 13 I thought he was waving back at me to say hey top that and I do apologize apparently like Watson as he was walking off 18 green and having just
Like won the Masters like motherfucks Nicholas at this point basically like yeah like Jack you should not have done that that was totally un like uncool uh and Nicholas is like what the [ __ ] I on and Nichol like very class can you believe this guy guy guy said I was
Tating him Nichol said he was waving to the crowd uh after he made his Birdie on 13 He was not trying to talk trash to Nicholas uh and so he he slaps Watson on the knee and says oh it’s okay nobody and Watson is kind of much apologetic uh
Ray Floyd puts it puts the jacket on Tom Watson uh and the jacket is like three sizes too big like it looks like he is just wearing his dad’s jacket but Watson has answered uh his critics and and no longer as a choker uh obviously we’ll go
On to many more Majors uh including another Masters if they would have gone to a playoff it would have been the first time in Masters history that they Masters had a sudden death playoff and the playoff hole would have been number one uh that’s what they would had deci
Pred decided that they were going to play uh later in this year Nichols will become the first player to surpass $3 million in career earnings obviously like what you get from finishing like uh you know second uh at various tournaments this year the reason I brought up the Clifford Robert stuff in
September of this year Clifford Robert will show up at the club one morning go get his haircut get dressed in his new pajamas walk down by the water where the par three course is and shoot himself in the head somehow the gun ended up in an auction for golf memorabilia uh going up
For sale for $15,000 uh which uh Augusta quickly bought the gun uh to keep it off the black market for just weirdos and sickos Lee Elder finished 19th uh despite a first round 76 back then then uh you could get into the following tournament
Uh if you were in the top 24 and then later that summer of course Nicholas would have his duel in the sun with Tom Watson where Watson would Outlast him at Turnberry pretty incredible stretch of Majors for these two guys as uh the changing the guard truly would sort of
Happen as Tom Watson not outd DED him not only once but twice uh another anecdote that shocked me that I found uh later this year Nicholas would win the memorial for the first time his own tournament he was so overcome by emotion that he told Barbara that he was going
To retire on the spot that he didn’t want to he thought that was the best way he could go out that it meant as much if not more to him as any of his Majors winning his own tournament Barbara talked him out of it uh and he would go
On to win four more Majors I meant to say this earlier but like that I always have to laugh at like oh Nicholas passed his prime pass his Peak 21 years later he topped 10 in the Masters top finished like T6 in 1998 still my favorite fact whatever maybe it
Was T8 whatever it was yeah 21 years later was still somewhat competitive in the Masters it’s just absolutely remarkable this is Dan Jenkins writing in Associated about um what was most different last Sunday was Tom Watson himself he was just about the gutti golfer anyone had ever seen he was the
He was under the most excruciating pressure from the first te to the next to last putt on every hole standing over every single shot he was the Tom Watson who was supposed to think up a hook a slice a shank anything outrageous take himself out of these things but for four
Long thrilling hours all he did was fire a round of golf so unexpectedly brilliant that he not only won the Masters for the second major championship of his career he also scored a clean knockout over Jack Nicholas how many Masters did Watson win two masters a US Open and then six British opens
Five sorry we’re counting that one it’s like we count this man those Majors for Speed like we’re just going to a quick break here to give a shout out to a new sponsor of no ling up that is of course mizuo if you do not know uh who mizuo is
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Of golf for more information visit mamas.com again for more information visit mamas.com now back to the Master’s Deep dive all right Kev that brings us to 1980 uh I know this will be a much much shorter effort uh for me than the the previous version because I was kind of
Hoping 1980 was a little bit more interesting than it was um I mean it does sound like it was interesting the you broadcast not so much um we we’ll get into that it’s what’s La it’s kind of lacking on the on the YouTube channel of of what’s remaining there I’m
Wondering yeah similar to what you were talking about in 77 I’m wondering why that is I it do they not have access to some of the footage or what it is but we’ll get to some of that um as I teased earlier Sprint up the stairs uh a lot of
Leadup hype about Ray Floyd and article is written uh in the Independent Record about how now he’s a family man I just found this interesting they documenta of he said if I had to do it all over again this is the way I’d want it said the onetime notorious
Playboy a swinger more off the links then on it a bachelor for whom golf was merely a way station in route to the fun set so after finishing a round he would whiz past the practice tea in a rush to change into a tuxedo he was seen in the
Smart places he dated the prettiest dolls in town Hugh Hefner’s Playboy bunnies debutant and starlets he swung he said the only time I worked on my game was when when I got short in the bank and that was often if I hadn’t been blessed with some natural talent I
Wouldn’t have lasted three years on tour anybody who thinks like it’s harder now with technology and the Press whatever fine sure but like writers back then would just straight up make inuendo about hey this dude’s laying pipe all over town like he is just absolutely any any doll who’s coming around his his
Motel Six at night they’re they’re walking home bowlegged by God that’s that’s how it is I mean the writers just didn’t give a F they would just say that [ __ ] especially in golf culture like even even some of Dan jiggins writing back into the 2010s was was a little bit
Like ah yeah I don’t I don’t know about that but on the third on Thursday Tom woff makes a 13 on the uh and Dan Jenkins writes uh wi coff at the 12th was a splendid sight for any recreational player who has trouble with his short irons or wedges on Thursday he
Kept trying to nip a wedge over the creek in the ball kept going into the water he would hit a shot then hold his hand out the cad to hand him another ball to drop five balls went in on Thursday on Friday he put two more uh in
The drink sevie by a steros gets out to tied for the lead with David Graham and Jeff Mitchell there would be a lot of names no names I should say that kind of filter through the leaderboard a lot is written about that about the uh the troubled state that American Golf might
Be in at this point um as the 23-year-old uh sevie is going to is going to romp to a victory here but on Friday Dan jenss writes one of the more exciting moments occurred long before bias steros as escapades on aan corner on Friday he hit the biggest hook in the
History of leftward trajectories at the 17th hole and his ball wound up on the seventh green roughly the equivalent at a of aiming at Kansas from New York and hitting Mississippi the result however was another birdie for sevie he took his three drop off the putting surface on
The seventh hit a towering blind iron shot that landed 15 feet from the flag at the 17 and ran home the Putt and threw his cap in the air the way Palmer used to I kept trying to think of like the logistics of being on seven Green
From 17t that is a that is like a 60 yard like dead pull hook like and making birdie uh that’s yeah that’s quite the quite the image seevi is 23 years old at this point he has uh this is he’s playing in his fourth Masters his prior
Masters finishes are t33 t18 T12 so he is gaining on it he’s not playing much in the United States at this time he uh he talks a little bit about not liking playing in the United States a little bit afterward but uh the Sunday morning
Paper uh as he takes the lead into the final round it’s it’s you know he shoots 6669 he’s got a four-shot lead after two rounds over Rex Caldwell and David Graham and then after the third round he is 13 underpar has a seven shot lead over Ed fiori the
Gripper so he shoot 66 6968 and the Sunday morning paper is singing sev’s praises saying he’s expected to establish himself as the new master of professional golf the lead was the second biggest ever only to Ray Floyd’s lead and then the uh the broadcast on YouTube it opens up in the
First like 46 minutes are with no announcers it’s just like cameras from behind the greens almost like a an isolated feed of some kind no announcers part of me wonders like if there’s just like commentary that they were not comfortable with having out there at
This point I I I really don’t know what it is and it’s you don’t see any of sevy’s shots until he gets to I’ll get to that but basically sevie gets out to a 10 shot lead at one point in this round he gets to he birdies the first he
Birdies the third he Bird’s the fifth he’s 16 under par and you can’t exactly quite tell you know who’s in second at that point but it’s a 10 shot lead and he gets to the turn and he Bogies the 10th hole he makes a double bogy on the
12th and Bogie’s the 13th and the lead is down to three so from a 10 shot lead all the way down to a three shot lead and we’ll get into some of that but just to comment on your camera thing that’s I noticed that in the 77 broadcast is
Basically like it’s clear that the cameras were not allowed to be inside the ropes in any sense like I don’t know whether it’s changed after Clifford Roberts passed away or whatever but all the shots of like Watson are from either the towers or like they’ll shoot like through trees like you’ll see literally
Like tree branches in the shot but you never get any like super close-ups that we get now of like the camera person walking like you talked about with schwarzel like that would never happen Back in 77 well and some some of the clips I could see from this as well had
Golf carts out out and about but everything was done via cable like there was no remote sending of a broadcast feed so there was like a cable like a literal cable tied to the camera that’s like strung out from the golf carts to get the the cameras around and like
Honestly during this telecast some somebody is in there just kind of like how we are with our little uh with our little slides and pictures just clicking through cameras to get to the right view like it’s not like a a clean cuts it’s like ah let’s cycle through eight
Different camera views and nope that’s a fan nope that guy’s still in motion right now nope that’s not right that’s not I mean extended periods of of uh some pretty wild stuff we’re playing with 1980 technology right now that’s the you know this is the Golden Era for
Us so uh the broadcast opens up and uh it’s Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicholas playing together uh on the 11th green and and Augusta National not looking pure in this time period between the cameras and you know just the area of agronomy and whatnot not looking pure
And it opens up with this shot of Arie hitting a putt from off the green on 11 and look how far back he takes this putter I mean he mashes this putt and my immediate reaction was like holy are these greens rolling out a five uh and
The answer is no he puts it off the green on the 11 he puts it into Martinez or whatever almost puts it into austa Country Club um and then he steps up and actually makes that par putut coming back uh in Arie fashion but um continue on with
Some of the entertainment aspects I just want you to look at this putting stance um he uh sorry now I’m I’m flipping through images like uh like they are I want you to look at this putting stance have you ever seen I I had to work my
Way back into this but apparently this is how Hubert green putted uh they don’t again they don’t have any graphics for who any of these players are man if you want to test your ability to die to you know to try to find names like go up
Back and watch some of these broadcasts and try to guess who these people are without the names flashing up on screen because again if you’re wondering why Nicholas dominates so much in this time period This is how one of the best players in the world puted I mean his
Hands are between his knees like it looks like he’s gonna hit his leg when he takes that back I’m just gonna real quick show you this is go back say this is Nicholas’s putting stance I mean it’s like they I kind of love back then that
That there was just sort of how it was done they everyone had their own unique kind of Crouch and like this wasn’t all this like technical [ __ ] it was just like hey like figure out a way to get the ball in the hole man and this is another another image of green green
Putting it’s almost like Michelle we tabletop with with the with the Crouch but it was uh yeah a bit a bit of a tough scene Huber Green living up to his name there with the green shirt green green striped pants green pants Green Collar again some of these Aesthetics in
This time period are just just incredible I believe this is um Gibby Gilbert just blowing smoke out of the out of his nose in the 17th Fairway as he’s ripping a heater in the middle of it I think my pictures are out of order here so I’m kind of trying to piece this
Together but The Telecast actually Begins the announcers don’t come in it’s only an hour and 26 broadcast on YouTube and they the announcers don’t start until the 46 minute mark and it just again I I wanted to choose this this one because I wanted to see the sevy like
Collapse here like that happens here and and the almost choke again with the the bogey on 11 double 12 and bogey 13 and he he had a six iron from 155 on 12 into the water short and into the water uh if you want to know how far the ball was
Falling by back then it’s so fun to like see these guys be like oh is it one iron or two iron into like 15 like 16 they’re hitting often like two or three iron like it’s just completely different era of skill test um I want sorry this was
Jack Newton who was ripping the heater uh in the in the middle of uh middle of 17 Fairway apology to to the Newton uh family there and GI giby Gilbert uh seie seie was quoted afterward about this collapse that he was having he said I say to myself you
Stupid you have comfortable lead now you lead by three you must try very hard look at you getting in the impression game I love it Sully you kind of have to well it is written out not with like how would how would that work right if if somebody is speaking in a second
Language as a journalist would you kind of fill in some little words that they miss or or any of that or do you type do you like spell out exactly what they said I think you you got to spell out exactly what they said like you we put
Something in quotes it needs to be something that was actually said I think it’s the important part Andie obviously felt comfortable enough speaking in English uh you know at this point in his career I think early in his career he didn’t uh he just spoke with a
Translator or whatever and so like I think you absolutely have to quote uh what the literal thing is he said Jenkins would say later when he when asked what he had felt at this point um what he might have been saying to himself he said the fight was on the
Inside for me what I say was son of beach literally jig tights that up b d h son of Beach uh the stalwart uh Gibby Gilbert birdies the 13th 14th 15th and 16th and then steps up and stuffs it on 17 which would have given them a look to
Get to um get to 11 underpar apologize I was not familiar with your game G the broadcast does not pick up seie until the ver the 15th hole and and sevie does make it birdie to get to 13 under and kind of get back out to that out to that
Lead but man they do such a great job I love watching this stuff of like letting the big moments breathe following sevie as he gets to 16t zoom in shots on his face like the nervous Twitches of you know fixing your pant pants and sevie does a a cool thing there’s throughout
You know I’m I’m trying to get I’m trying to immerse myself in this and try to understand the appeal of sevie right there’s so many people that speak with such reverence uh for this guy back you know back in this time period not a lot of his competitors but he fans love this
Guy one thing was interesting is after almost all of his shots he would take his hat off and just like let his face be seen and like he would wave to people and like he would not walk like he’ fin he’ finish a hole and they like take his
Hat off as he walked and like just he Vince Scully is the announcer he’s talking about this guy that has this Charisma again he’s 23 years old he’s not that well known to the American audience and now the great 23-year-old Spaniard is coming up to waving to the
Fans and I I know Scully from baseball stuff so I keep expecting to be that’s a foul ball down the line and so he hits a shot in the 16 and it’s he’s obviously playing the draw in there and you hear his caddy and his
Caddy goes eat it up be a one like I love this call that his CAD gives at it it goes long it’s the Bone shot it goes long uh there but um Gibby Gilbert steps up on on 18 can’t handle the pressure just rope hooks onean it goes through
The woods and on into that old practice area and it just shows it’s just kind of fun to watch sevie pair with this Jack Newton fella who’s you ripping these heaters coming up sevie uh sevie takes a one iron off 18 and uh they know it’s the first time in Master’s history that
Two forers finish in the top two they call them foreigners foreigners yeah I love it Gary what do you think about all these foreigners winning the Masters after he win I’m not going to try to do the impression here but U after he wins Vin Scully tells a story he said his
Agent Ed boded had been at a luncheon last week in London and he was introduced by the Toastmaster as the manager of professional golfer ballerino sevastos uh well they butchered his name a week ago but no longer Sano ballos in the aftermath Arnold Palmer would say I used to play that way um
Which you know you see a gray-haired Arnold Palmer you know whacking putts off the green out there and it just kind of is a an interesting quote of kind of this weird little time period kind of between the 70s and into of the 80s where um you know the the the star power
Was a bit lacking outside of sevie in this time Peri Watson does obviously does a lot in this time period but sevie would say after I’m going back to play the European circuit where I have a lot of friends over here I’m too lonely uh that loneliness said sevie uh made
Masters week the hardest I’ve ever had there was a very big pressure this week maybe I feel more at home in Europe and when asked about his up and down play he said when up is very nice when down is very bad which I think should be on a
T-shirt when up is nice very nice when down is very bad well let’s get casy on that I think that’s be I would definitely wear maybe the favorite fact that I uncovered on this one seie got a $55,000 check for winning first place Golf Magazine was offering up an extra
$50,000 if you would have broken the scoring record what almost doubling the pur a Golf Magazine almost doubling the purse if you would have broken the scoring record and he was 16 under through the fifth hole with three par fives to play and I think the record was
Was either 17 or 18 at this point I think it was 17 uh so I don’t know if he was feeling the pressure on doubling up his money or what but I just I could not I could not believe I found that fact said a Golf Magazine I’m like wait a
Golf mag no no literally Golf Magazine was offering up $50,000 uh which was heck of a lot of money back then but I’m kidding that does make me laugh journalistically about like here’s here’s someone we’re allegedly trying to cover oh and here’s a bunch of money from us for like doing
Well uh there was no Spanish press at the Masters uh they had all these foreign credential uh people and there’s no one from Spain that came this was sev’s 25th professional win uh at that age of 23 Dan jins wrote The Masters was bio’s second major championship he won
The British Open last July never did he deserve to lose it for he had simply lapped the field when he went to the last nine holes on Sunday with a 10 shot lead on everybody it raised the question of whether the American Pros are spending too much time getting rich off
Their eighth place finishes bios not only is not only immensely talented having both length and style but he’s obviously hungry anyone can stumble into one major championship it takes a rare ability of one kind or another to win two of them biaso seems destined to take many more Majors consider what his game
Combines the length of a younger Jack Nicholas the boldness of a 1960s Arnold Palmer and the putting Touch of Ben Kena Dan’s pretty everything I stumbled on in the last couple days researching this Dan’s stuff is pretty preent in predicting out what’s going to be he doesn’t call you didn’t call you a
Future star if you didn’t you know if you called you a future star you probably ended up being one Dan you know like there’s some stuff that historically like you know I love about Dan but I love so much about him that it’s like a you know you just kind
Of maybe write it off to some of the era but man what a what a great like Observer of the game what a sort of smart uh and you know when he wrote about you and said you were gonna be great it you know exactly what you said
It usually came true because he had se you know he had been covering the game since Hogan and he he knew who had the the look and who was the deal uh shame he never quite wrapped his arms around tiger and in fact I think like when he
Put his like top five of all time did not include tiger in it he was sort of still annoyed the tiger never quite uh got what Jen jenss was about but uh yeah but a fun read in all these going back could have been some other stuff going on with that as
Well that maybe maybe wasn’t the highlight of Dan J’s career yeah again not a whole lot in this I was hoping for for more out of this one but I found an interesting article that was kind of circulated Everywhere by the Associated Press which was uh TV looks for Quality
Golf and I just found a lot of the Nuggets within this article very interesting this was 44 years ago uh talking about you know golf has always been a little unique in the other major sports athletes compete for more points runs or goals golf alone believes that
Less is better similarly golf looks at its declining television ratings and explains that although less may not be better it isn’t really worse it’s the quality of the viewers not the quantity no sporting event is more reflective of this elitist philosophy than the Masters which begins today and will have its
Final two rounds on CBS Saturday and Sunday it’s an invitation tournament with only a select few playing and only a select two advertising Cadillac cars and travelers insurance you won’t see any Shilling for Beer soda or small cars products for the masses on the Masters you will see half as many commercials as
Normal because the Masters is very picky about interruptions but CBS won’t lose anything it just charges twice as much per commercial and the two sponsors don’t seem to mind they’re just happy to be there quote you buy the Super Bowl for the numbers we buy the Masters for
Its high and special demographics said Dick Simon director of corporate TV for Darcy mcmanis the Ad Agency that buys half the Master’s commercial time for Cadillac it’s the higher income mail we’re trying to reach said Simon this is golf’s lot in life with so much Sports
On the tube every weekend golf is never going to be top rated programming golf is alive and and well there’s just very effective counterprogramming against it said Frank chenan the executive producer and director of CBS coverage this will be CBS 25th consecutive Masters and chinan has skillfully pulled off pulled
The strings on 22 of them uh he would famously go on to do every Masters through 1995 so another 15 years after that at the tournament Players Championship in March the big names came out of the pack to stir things up Lee trino won it by beating challenges from
Golfing greates Jack Nicholas and Gary Player all that was missing was Arnold Palmer hitching up his trousers although ratings were down in two-thirds of the 1979 tournaments and were also were televised that were also televised in 1978 advertisers are not deserting golf they know that at thousands of private
Country clubs around the country that are watching golf not boxing trinian said the top rated golf events in 79 were Bob Hope and Bing Crosby because they are celebrity tournaments that attract the French fan and in recent years NBC and ABC has understood this better than PBS in the past chinan has
Opted for more pure golf instead of an occasional quickie feature or interview but chinian is changing his tune a little the drooping ratings have something to do with it so does the fact that CBS is doing 20 tournaments this year so CBS is jazzing things up by putting microphones on players he two
Weeks ago at the Heritage Golf Classic when Tom Kite told the nation that John schroer was playing the course in slow motion miking up players in 1980 44 years ago I did not have that my th this whole article you you could almost print again in 2024 like none of it’s kind of
Seems dated or anything other than at that time 20 tournaments seemed like a lot they thought they were oversaturated with 20 tournaments try 48 that are on television now and uh but the model of yeah few less interruptions we don’t care about the declining ratings it’s getting reaching the right people the
High income people I just found that to be very for almost a half a century old article that to be very interesting one of the things I read in the Clifford Roberts uh piece uh was was that he for the entire time that he was the chairman
Told CBS four minutes of commercials per hour that is it that no more than that and that was the standard for ever and at US Open they would have 10 minutes 12 minutes at all the other Majors they would sort of jam their commercials in but uh C Roberts was basically like if
We’re signing a one-year contract every year because we want to be able to walk away from it if you ever violate the terms of this we you will not get to broadcast the Masters and we don’t care if the ratings are lower we are going to have a product that we want on
Television and that’s part of what made the Masters the Masters totally I mean you read the making of the Masters the David Owen book that is you know popular read this time of year it details all this it their philosophy in 1956 was like the right way to build the profile
Of a tournament it was not about the short-term commercial gains it was like we’re GNA do everything to make this a great experience for viewers attendees everything and look at where this tournament is now in 2024 all right all I got sorry that was light know
Yeah yeah uh we’re going to go back to 1989 we’re going to spring forward a decade and I will you know Skip some of the early tournament Preamble here uh as we sort of get to because the ending of this is really what’s the the meat of
1989 the defending champ is Sandy Lyall uh of Scotland uh the favorites coming into this Masters are Greg Norman sevy of course uh Tom Kite and young Mark covia so it is cold as F this year this is going to be a miserable slog of a w Master’s Jenkins is writing the aelas
Are practically Frozen there was Wind and Rain blowing hard all week but guess which recent nlu podcast guest is our first round leader Kenneth Green not quite although Kenneth will appear later Lee Buck travina at age 49 is the solo leader after a first round 67 uh trino of course memorably hated the
Masters for many years changed his shoes in the parking lot swore off of ever coming when they made one of his sons pay $15 for a badge was just in general uh Clifford Roberts one sent him a note saying you know I’d like to meet over coffee and have like a discussion about
Why you won’t come to the Masters trino wrote back I don’t drink coffee and ignored him uh that’s how sort of annoyed he was but at this point Lee is sort of softened a little bit he is uh at 4 9 years old he has a new baby uh so
You can imagine s with you’re going through the exhaustion of having a new baby at 37 38 years old what what it would be like for Lee at 49 uh but Lee is you know in the muddy windy weather is sort of making it so that everybody’s
T-shots kind of get hung up uh they’re not allowed to roll out so this uh surprisingly gives an advantage to Lee who says I’m a mutter I can get around this course now of course Lee is super colorful they bring him into the Press uh tent afterwards and they say can you
Take us uh through your shot by shot Mr Travino and he says man I’m a Mexican I can’t remember all those shots uh they say were you I don’t even that doesn’t even make any sense say someone with a wife who’s Mexican I don’t know what to say about that was he
Emotional when he finished uh the Press asked him he says I’m not an emotional individual when it comes to my family yes but golf no when I’m finished I’m just looking for a beer how are the greens out there today Mr javino well they’re fine in practice rounds but when
The tournament starts they put STP on them and they get real slick why did he think so many years that he couldn’t play here he says well you know Jack Nicholas told me I could always play this course and I said Jack I’ll play you in A1 thousand Nassau if you play my
T- shots and I get to play yours he didn’t say anything after that if Jack had to play my itty bitty t-shots he would have quit the game and opened up a pharmacy in Ohio Kino talks a little bit about his tortured history of the Masters he said
He no longer changed his shoes in the parking lot sitting the trunk of his car because quote I’ve upgraded to a van asked if he had any regrets about hating Augustus so much he said sure I always have regrets when you talk as much as I do you’re gonna put a shoe in
There every once in a while he said that a man walked up to him before the tournament and looked at his swing and said you know what buddy you won’t break 76 and he said I wouldn’t have taken a quarter of that and I’m a Gambling
Man uh trino had dropped 22 pounds this year before the tournament uh and said that uh he was feeling great but also said that uh if I’m leading on Saturday night I might not even show up on Sunday I’ll probably have a heart attack in my hotel interestingly enough the uh
Writers at the previous year Tri only know at this point he’s 49 he’s he’s still into the Masters on his five-year exemption from winning the PGA in 1984 but in the Masters the previous year had shot 8381 to miss the cut and in the parking lot the writer caught up with
Him by his car and I’m in a bit proxim this quote because the writers use bleeps in this instead of the actual swear words but I think uh I’m going to try to use what I think the actual swear words are uh so if you’re driving in
Your car listen to this with your kids uh you know put this on mute or tell them to cover their ears I hope to [ __ ] these [ __ ] [ __ ] don’t [ __ ] bother to send me another [ __ ] invitation next [ __ ] year trino said after missing the cut last year but he’s
Changed his tune and he’s Started Loving the Masters this year one of the columnists Larry guest of the Orlando Sentinel said that Travino leading the Masters at 49 was as improbable as George Bush doing fundraisers for the Democrats or Willard Scott squeezing into a leotard for a performance of Swan
Lake or Princess Diana whipping up a batch of chitlins do you think they had like a sheet like a traveling sheet of of like of phrases like this like all right I’m gonna work this one in there I’m G I haven’t used that one yet no I’ve used
That one in three years I can use that one the the Willard Scott is fat uh jokes are very prominent uh during this like the the political cracks are uh there there was no stick to sports back then you could just make kind of like
Cracks all so Nick falo is a shot back at three under and Scott hul uh who has not won a tournament in five years on the PJ tour is at two under conditions are even more brutal on day two uh but guess which recent nlu podcast had the
Round of the day Kenneth Green Ken green that’s right he shot 67 on a day when the average score was 75.8 uh FDO and trino are tied at three under uh trino kind of hangs in there spite of 74 sevy and khaw and Scott H and Ken green are all kind of hanging
Two Strokes back uh green is the talk of the press tent for some of his previous Antics uh so I think he covered some of these in the Ken Green interview which I hope everyone will listen to but in case anyone didn’t he admits during the the uh Prest interview afterwards that he
Called Magnolia Lane ugly previous years those trees just don’t do it for me green said I was talking with my caddy about on the range today and I said I think they’re I still think they’re ugly sorry it’s just a drive with trees they press says why don’t you like Augusta he
Says I guess I’m just more of a down-to-earth person I have a hard time understanding their ideas for example the average golfer has no chance to play this course they ought to do something and let the average Joe play here maybe a national raffle they’d love it it
Would be one of the biggest Thrills they’d ever have and they’d raise a lot of money this was of course the year that he was sneaking his buddies in through the gate uh because he only had four four tickets that his ex-wife was withholding from him uh so he’s sneaking
Them in not only through his trunk but he’s like telling them to like sneak around back through the like where the driving range is a couple of them get nabbed by the Pinkerton he says maybe I shouldn’t have said that that they were sneaking in because my guys couldn’t get
In at this point uh he tells the prince the press that his goal is to throw a putter in every water hazard on the PGA tour before he’s done with his career he so far he’s up to eight Putters thrown in lakes does when Putters are good to
Me they’re good when they’re bad to me they have to die an ugly death I have to report um since the podcast episode he do tell a story where he threw one uh in the water I believe off the 10th green at at Pebble Beach or at some point like
Hucked it from decent carry from the beach then that somebody went diving for it uh whoever that was emailed me as after the podcast episode was like I’m the one that got the putter like I have I have the butter that I pulled out of there piece of golf memorabilia uh Gary
Of the D Dayton Daily News said that green was as about another one of these about as out of place on the PGA tour as Madonna would be in a covenant God I hope that in 20 years people aren’t dunking on my writing we dck on some of these columnist from
Newspapers uh a lot of people think of me as a rebel or a Maverick green said I just don’t fit the mold I’m just not polite all the time I couldn’t fit the mold even if I wanted to what’s the M of a golfer anyway a stone-faced guy who’s
All polite all the time and doesn’t say what he thinks I can’t do that uh he had to sort of he flung his wedge at his uh bag during his round where he saw 67 and the crowd booed him and green got sort of pissed at him he had actually been
Fine earli that year for flipping off a woman uh who had sort of booed him he says I was in no mood for that green said this is about the Masters again after he flung his wedge and got booed if those people did something wrong at
Their job and I booed them they’d be mad too I hope well you know what if they’ have kept it up I might have gotten into it with him we would had a big Master’s brawl this is the of damn you people go back to your sh maybe Arnold Palmer would have joined
In on the brawl and just start beating Masters people’s asses the weather still stinks in round three but Ben khaw is able to Surge out to a fourstroke lead before play is called because of the weather Travino stumbles badly uh at this point and is on the way to shooting
81 when play is called uh when they’re on 13th green falo finishes five shots behind khaw he’s just all over the place he kind of thinks he’s basically blown his chance he’s shot a 77 uh he’s five Strokes back and he basically goes immediately into thing
And and tosses there a lot of talk of Putters he throws away a Putter and and picks out one of the other seven Putters that he’s brought from England at this point uh seevi is lurking at even par and guess who is uh back for more pain
And suffering Sol is Greg Norman who serges up the board with a 68 uh to get in contention everybody is miserable about the weather can we can we pause on that just say like biggest takeaway from this whole all of our deep Dives is the longevity and the the major championship
Prowess of Greg Norman and just the constant nature of him being in in the in the thick of it an unbelievable like not only an unbelievable dick but obviously an unbelievable golfer uh more ways than one oh damn it so I walked into that one um like a walk on
The beach never did I imagine in my professional life would I be podcasting at 46 years old about another man’s giant penis but whatever this is the Pinnacle of my professional life clearly um so anyway so everybody’s still miserable about the weather at this point uh when a van
Drove out to pick up valdo and Travino they hopped in and the van ran out of gas immediately apparently Travino went ballistic on the guy because they had to get out of the van and sit there in the rain and wait for another van to come
And uh falo was asked what trino said and he said it is simply [Laughter] unrepeatable again choking is sort of like a prominent theme here like everybody all the people are are pointing out whether you know kenshaw has the stuff to hold on even though kensaw is one of Masters at this point
Whether Norman has the right stuff to finish off on Sunday whether Faldo has the has the stones to finish Alo even though he’s w a British Open at this point has sort of been he’s been gaining the reputation among the English press especially that he cannot close on
Sunday that he will wilter you know Wilt under pressure was big Randy the one just running the press Center at this point was it just like if you hadn’t won six Majors like oh you must be a I like guys that win yeah it’s a bunch of
Little boys out there maybe it’s kind of hard to close these things that might be the truth here other than like I would say modern game like spe who obviously has a bunch of Majors is there anyone who has one Majors who people are like oh they just they’re I don’t trust them
At all like could close in a way I mean it’s a great maybe Phil uh but Phil has sort of you know turned that reputation around in a lot of ways like if Phil was leading by three Strokes at the Masters in a month you know there’s no way that
I would think like oh Phil’s totally going to blow it I’d be like well Phil’s probably going to win yet another major like this is of course he’s going to hang in there is it roaring you answer that question H that’s a good question I you know Roy doesn’t in the I
Mean that’s a good question because he it’s not like he blew the lead in St Andrews like he got walked down he was you know really never he didn’t make any screwups at Lac when with and Windam won it’s I feel like Rory’s not gonna blow a
Lead at this point but he’s probably not gonna go out and like just blow the doors off anybody or or hit those shots that are gonna you need the one shot in both of those you needed it really just not hit the bad wedge at LCC and really
Just hit one ball close at some point at St Andrews and would have greatly improved his chances yeah so uh on Sunday they have to finish up the final round uh on Sunday morning it’s the first time in like you know maybe 10 years or something they’ve had to finish
The Saturday round on Sunday khaw comes back to the pack a little bit and so falo kind of starts out just like blaze in the front nine four birdies on the front nine on the back nine he he makes on 16 one of the pretty putts that you’ll ever see just curling like
Downhill 18-footer he says afterwards that there it was kind of like On The Fringe he couldn’t Mark the ball there he had mud on it so it’s even more impressive that he made the putt with mud on it and then on 17 he rolls in a
40f footer that hits the cup going like Windam Clark speed uh just roll I mean it goes dead in the heart and so but if he ventur thinks that if he had missed it it might go off the green and F says later like I I hit just a two like
Totally fluky putts during the day like I you know so like again like fate playing a pretty like obviously skill takes it to make the putt but you know a little little difference here can make a big difference so his only mistake of the day is he bogie 11 but he had
Birdied 13 14 16 and 17 to shoot 65 and so Jes miserable rain I’m like I’m going to show you here this is later in the day they are squeegeeing the uh the greens like in between groups that’s how and every drive that they hit they’re basically saying hey there’s casual
Water where I’m hitting and they are allowed to drop I didn’t really know this but like with casual water they basically are like go find a dry spot so when FDO in the playoff later he gets to move his ball like 20 yards right on 11
And get like a way better angle into 11 where he eventually like wins the Masters uh I I was like wow like the Casual water rules are I’m not familiar with that at all it was kind you it’s anywhere you if you’re you have to get clear of um water coming up from
Your shoes where you’re standing which yeah that I’ve seen yeah 20 yards that’s not that surprising the drainage probably wasn’t nearly as good then as it as it would be now and yeah you can get some massive massive relief drops from that so he finishes at five under
He’s in the clubhouse like 40 minutes before the leaders come in he should have been joined by Greg Norman who was at five under but came and was in the middle of the Fairway on 18 and hit a five iron that came up short of the
Green and could not get up and down and he bogied to what was eventually V the playoff uh nor serly yes seriously today years no I’m today years old learning about an 89 Miss call from Norman I did not oh yeah he should have like if he
Makes par on 18 he’s in the playoff with f and Scot later he Norman says afterwards uh I think this is like a week later because he he stormed off and didn’t talk to the Press but he eventually says I hit the best five iron
Of my life I thought I was about 8 feet from the hole and it just spun back I’m really disappointed but I did a good job of hiding it Scott H who I barely talked it all about plays really well and this is kind of a shame that he’s gonna go
Down as one of the biggest chokers in history still now people joke like what rhymes with choke Scott H uh because he gets to six under through 16 holes with no bogeys on on a day when it is miserable I mean it’s like 48 50° the rain is the guys have umbrellas or
Whatever but on 17 he’s kind of over on the right side in like where the Mounds are there’s it’s a little different now but there’s you know there trees now but he he’s got an open but uphill shot to the green and just full icarito 20 yards
Over like it hits the back edge of the green it just goes zooming down the hill and Venturi is immedately like he’s dead he’s making five or six right there it’s I I think he’s he’s he’s in serious trouble there I don’t think he’d make way more sixes than you make fives from
Down there one of the things that’s awesome about Venturi is he calls like he doesn’t subscribe to the rule of like don’t call the ball when it’s in the air the shots up and he’s like oh he’s he’s in big trouble this is bad this is
Really bad and you see it like land and it’s like oh man Kevin shur knew his [ __ ] like he was sweet so Hoke hits he’s got like this really nippy wedge off of very wet grass from like but we’re from behind 17 green so it’s like right of 17 green but from our
Perspective like the pin is is upright and he’s way down left hits the nippi wedge that you can possibly imagine I mean it is as good as a wedge as you would see hit by anybody today vuy like while it’s going it’s like oh my God that’s brilliant and the ball almost
Goes in I mean it like rolls right over the edge of the cup and like comes out to five feet coch later said it was like the best you know chip that he’d ever hit in his life he’s got a five-footer but Ben khaw who’s been struggling kind
Of all day he’s made a couple Bogies he’s not drips in a 25 foot putt uh before hul has you know hul is waiting to sort of for his par putt kensaw gets to five under with this 25 footer and the crowd was pulling for kensaw clearly
Goes nuts kensaw does the speed thing he doesn’t even take the ball out of the cup he takes off his his visor and he’s like walking strutting along the Rope line just completely like the crowd is Going Bonkers and you can tell like Hoke feels like a little bit rattled because
Of what has gone on because now he has to make this putt to hold the lead he doesn’t know I think at this point what falo has done so he’s thinking like oh [ __ ] like CR on are gonna be tied pull like a a awful like little pole that
Nips the edge of the cup it’s it’s painful to watch falo and Hoke and cruncha are all tied at five under FDO is obviously into in the clubhouse uh they both drive it like right down the middle khaw and and hul they’re absolutely like position a just right of
The bunker kensaw hits he goes first hits a terrible iron shot I mean when the ball in the is in the air wheny says oh no not there not there ends up in the left bunker uh he he hits a a decent um like chip out from
There but it’s not like not great it’s probably 10 11 feet uh hul hits an unbeliev not unbelievable a pretty good five iron to be right of the pin he’s got maybe 20 feet and he rolls in really rolls a putt that just probably mitches
By like two three inches I mean it is a really good putt you feeling like all right Scott H’s gonna be in a playoff kensaw has a par putt that I like you think they’re saying this putts gonna go in this is the best putter in the world
Like absolutely Ben crenchaw this is the moment he kind of lives for I would think this is one going go in doesn’t even hit the hole like khaw is like shook like he cannot believe that he just pissed away a chance to be in a
Playoff of the Masters so H and FDO in a playoff the playoff is it starts on 10 uh hul has never been in a playoff at this point in his entire career FDO has of course lost a playoff to Curtis Strange in the US Open prior to this so
He has sort of weathered a little bit of uh playoff stuff it the the drive that falo hits on 10 he goes first first because he they do the flip of the tea and fou it’s horrendous I mean it is probably it probably goes too he’s using
A pron at this point and hokus has a metal driver it probably goes 230 240 off the te it sits up on the top of the hill and he’s got 235 into the hole holy [ __ ] yeah it doesn’t even make the Hill hul Hits a beautiful like rope draw down
The hill probably 40 50 yards past FDO uh wecop on the broadcast says you know it’s virtually impossible for falo to hit the Green from here and he’s right falo like dumps it in the right bunker kind of he he’s he had a stance where like his left it was kind of downhill
His left foot was lower than his right so like to be able to get F’s wh Scot basically say it’s impossible to hit the grain from there I mean Nick FAL could maybe do it but I don’t see hoax only got 190 left he hits a really good shot
He’s probably 18 feet below the hole I will show you the pick here you think like I’ll take this uh you know to sort of like you know what looks like could be T putting the Masters any day like this is you know this is where he’s got
Basically all he’s got I call this this probably closer to 30 feet like it’s it’s not it’s yeah it’s a not you expect a two Putt in that situation though for sure this is what FDO does when he chips out of the bunker he’s got this to make
Par uh does not make it and called 1820 footer for those of you listening yeah yeah so then we come to H hits what I would say is not the worst leg putt but immediately again Venturi is like oh boy that’s no gimme that is no gimme uh you
Know I I to me like right here it looks like oh like it looks like a gimme you just tap that in right it’s they keep saying it’s like way more downhill than you would look um I don’t know T green is super severe uh so you know you think
So hope gets up to this ball and look at how he’s lined up here I mean I I I wish I could draw like lines on this but look how his footline is and where the putter is aimed I mean it is just like it’s almost like he’s playing it like it’s
Gonna break like uphill to the right or something it’s it’s just like I don’t know it’s kind of Bonkers so as you may know Scott hul misses this putt to win The Masters I mean he’s he had taken I would say at least a minute and a half
Maybe uh maybe a little bit more before he set up to hit this put and everybody is like you know oh man like just too long apparently krenshaw was watching on TV from the interview room and was like Jesus hit it like to saying you know that he was taking too
Long hul throws his putter in the air uh and you know is the famous shot of like he catches his Putter and then goes over to kind of just walk and just be like whoa like what have I done he’s got longer coming back he’s got like a three
And a half footer just to avoid losing the Master’s with a you know with a for on uh he does make the one that comes back uh but at this point like he’s he’s sort of shook he keeps looking up at the sky again this is where there’s like so
Much casual water they both hit pretty darn good drives again hul is probably 20 yards longer than falo and falo has to take like a he gets a kind of an advantageous drop because he hits it in the middle of the Fairway and gets to go
Way right on 11 and hits I would say one of the most coldblooded shots that you will ever see I mean he has to sort of like flirt with the water certainly has to flirt with it like kicking left into the pond but hits to an unbelievable
Like probably a 25 foot on Levan at this point is playing like 485 with Pimon Woods you know coming into this so he I think he hit like three iron into there H steps up does not hit a uh a good iron shot it sort of flails way right uh it’s
Just off the green he chips it to four feet but he of course never gets a chance to uh have put again because falo rolls in a 25-footer to win The Masters uh don’t have the shot of it but raises his hands up in the air sort of looks to
The sky is just like almost kind of in shock uh and and Scott H has to sort of like you know gives him a quick handshake has to reckon with like holy [ __ ] like I just missed a two foot putt that would have won the Masters said he
Couldn’t help but think about the gravity of it all uh said that when he went to go and Putt he said well this is for all the marbles to himself self uh this is for this is for immortality uh probably not the best uh thought asked
Hoken to press pin afterwards um do you think you took uh too long over the Putt and he says he pauses for a little bit he says yeah if they took if we took that long on if they gave us that long to putt on tour we would probably have
Eight hour rounds valdo says he held the door open for me and it felt like Destiny you’d sit there it’s tough you sit there and you’re thinking well he’s got that to win I wasn’t really thinking anything you never pull against a guy but well he missed it HX says I wasn’t
Nervous over it it was strange maybe there was a split second of indecision Where I Stood over it and how to play it but I knew what I wanted to do but between my brain and my hands they didn’t get the message and then as Hox
Sat down with the press as he offered one of the darkest quotes I think I’ve ever seen he said all I’ve got to say is I’m glad I don’t have a gun right now oh my God yeah could have been said in just you think probably was like but still
Like it’s a pretty dark joke to make uh Hook was not the most popular guy on tour uh which I did not know at this point so there was actually a poll that was he was named the least popular golfer on tour a bunch of tour players
Uh by the Dallas times heral the assistant managing editor Charles Cooper sent out this poll he pulled 147 tour pros and 50 of them returned ballots and hul got the most votes hul and his agent dick Madigan declared the poll bogus declaring that only three players had
Actually wrote in his name but uh the editor of the times Herold said that uh hul got the most votes and it wasn’t even close this kind of bugged hul for a while again he was sort of thought of as like oh by the way that that putt on 10
His only three putt of the entire yes yes people kind of thought that he just was sort of a pretender I mean he was 33 years old at this point uh and he won the Varden trophy in 86 with a a scoring average of 70.0 eight critics complained
That hul had not won the PJ Tour event that year and he had lowered his average by entering marshmallow events the ancient and honorable vardan trophy is in danger of becoming a joke Thomas Boswell wrote in Golf Magazine and that rhymes with hul uh Rick Riley wrote in
Really beautiful column uh a couple years later the people what people didn’t know about Scott hul is that in 85 his son was I think his three-year-old son was kind of limping around and they took his his son Cameron they took him to the hospital to sort of
Get make sure you checked out they thought maybe he had a sprained ankle and they had X-rays and they thought maybe that they had cancer he had bone cancer and so they did all these tests and on his femur and he turned out he
Had like a a spot that was sort of a rare disease but it wasn’t cancer it was called Kela k k kingan I think is how it’s pronounced medication got better but he had to stay in the hospital for a while and during that time in the
Hospital like they got to meet all these other families with all these other kids and so they bonded with a bunch of these people and all these other kids kept dying like when they would sort of have to like you know hear news of like oh
Those people we met in the hospital like our our son ended up passing away and it sort of like haunted Hoke for a long time and between like that and the missing the putt at the Masters he had determined years later after his son had left the hospital I want to win a
Tournament because I want to make a donation to that hospital I want to want people know that like their medical bills can be covered if they can’t um think and so he kind of just like sort of kept himself at this like not a lot
Of fans but this sort of hung on him because he was kept like saying to his wife like he felt his pressure because he wanted to like make a donation to this Hospital uh he said after the Masters he this is all from the Riley column he packed himself Cameron and his
Daughter Katie and that treasonous putter into their Plymouth Voyager and drove to the next stop on the disappointment Trail at Hilton Hill along the way the magnitude of the myth sunk into his brain and settled in his heart I feel like I’ve let you down he
Told his wife as they drove I feel like I let you down and mind my parents and your parents and your friends but more than that he felt like he had let down the hospital I couldn’t sleep for two nights ho said my dad couldn’t sleep chip Beck who’s his best friend couldn’t
Sleep I guess when your friend has just blown the thing that you yourself has dreamed of winning it’s a little hard to take this is Riley still choking on tour is considered something of a disease and the general belief is that it’s contagious Hoke be king to any Gathering
Of tour players what Charlton hon was to the Red Sea he would walk up and they would part some guys would see me and they would feel so bad they wouldn’t know what to say and they would sort of duck hul sought out Ed Sneed who had
Needed one par putt over the final three holes in the 1979 Masters to win and bogey them all he lost in the playoff to fuzzy Zeller and his only one-1 tournament since back in 1982 just be patient with the medius sne told him because they will never allow it to die
So two years later hul won a tournament in Las Vegas and with a winning sort of purse was like $200,000 huge huge purse for that time and he announced in the trophy ceremony that he was donating $100,000 to that hospital that he was basically the difference between first and second
Place plus another $10,000 is a thank you for what they did for his son and so R the closing line of Riley’s column is hey how about we take that poll again of like who’s the least popular player on tour so wow yeah I wasn’t expecting that
Journey to end that one I you made that that you made me want to go back and watch that one by the way that was that describing that action was like holy [ __ ] that’s it was surprised me all I had ever really heard was like oh yeah
Scott H missed a short pot and I’m certain I’d seen the replays but when you really like watch the broadcast and at this point we’re getting like three and a half hours of broadcast on the thing like it’s sort of you know we’re getting a full this is like kind the
Masters is really I feel like coming of age as it broadcast uh product it’s just the images you flashed up there the golf course too matures a lot in 9 years from 1980 because that uh they got bent greens at this point and it’s h it’s a totally different experience because
That I don’t want to tell people not to go back and watch 1980 but there just wasn’t a whole lot there to react to um and yeah this is starting to get in the area era when the Masters becomes this massive television product also I don’t
Hate this uh split screen here where we show the guy the guy who’s about to get uh you know they do that a lot in this era of like uh we show the player what’s happening and then we show his opponent who’s like has to eat it if totally and
Gosh I hate the zoom in on a putt as it’s in motion like keep the player in the frame so we can see their reaction to it yeah that’s I got coverage takes for anything so all right kbv that’s going to bring a wrap to our M
Historical Masters Deep dive I call this one f for fun Masters uh I think that kind of fits the uh fits the fits the the description of uh the description fits for what we covered here today but absolutely we’re super amped to flip the calendar over here into master week next
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