Speaker 1: All right, everybody knows the results of the Masters from
Speaker 1: Sunday that Roy McElroy won, But what's kind of bubbled
Speaker 1: up to the surface is how emotional this victory was
Speaker 1: for Roy McElroy. And I'm gonna be honest, I did
Speaker 1: not get emotional watching Roy win the Masters.
Speaker 2: Because you had a wager elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Funny you would say that, but it got you right.
Speaker 2: It's so yeah, and it's funny. And we've we've got
Speaker 2: someone special on the line here too. We'll get to
Speaker 2: that in a second. But I I have not watched
Speaker 2: any of a golf tournament in probably a decade really, honestly,
Speaker 2: like a decade. And you know, we were we were
Speaker 2: out on the lake. My daughter had some clients for
Speaker 2: awake surfing lessons and they were at big golf fans
Speaker 2: and they just that's all they were talking about, was
Speaker 2: going to go go back and watch see if Rory
Speaker 2: McElroy can win, because he had a big lead at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the day. And I was like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I think, I'm gonna turn that on. They
Speaker 2: got me really interested in the story, you know, the
Speaker 2: Grand Slam thing. Kind of a dry spell. Again, I
Speaker 2: haven't watched golf in a decade. I watched the last
Speaker 2: six holes and then then the playoff, and the boy,
Speaker 2: the Masters is amazing at pulling you in for a
Speaker 2: while and it doesn't even look real. I'm like, am
Speaker 2: I looking at a real place? Is there a big
Speaker 2: bubble over this? And I got so into it and
Speaker 2: my wife walks in. She knows I don't watch golf,
Speaker 2: and she goes, are you crying? I was like, well, yes,
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit, but it's just the power of sports.
Speaker 2: It's just and just that I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was boohooing yeah again, just thinking about it. You
Speaker 3: weren't alone.
Speaker 1: And joining us is a longtime friend and his name
Speaker 1: is Rich Beam.
Speaker 3: He's the two thousand and two A champion.
Speaker 1: He's three or four time winner Austins the night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a good friend and a huge JB and Sandy fan.
Speaker 1: It has been for years, which always finds huge.
Speaker 2: One of our biggest yeah, one of our biggest fans.
Speaker 1: Rich Beam joins us. And what's interesting, Rich, I want
Speaker 1: you to tell everybody. Rich works for Sky Sports, which
Speaker 1: is the UK sports channel in the UK for the unwashed,
Speaker 1: the UK United Kingdom. You may know it is England,
Speaker 1: and uh, he does. He's a he's an analyst on
Speaker 1: the game. And he sits next to some big names
Speaker 1: in golf. One of them was Nick Faldo. While they're
Speaker 1: calling the Masters for everybody in the UK uh as
Speaker 1: they're watching it. It was Sunday night when they were
Speaker 1: watching it. But he told me that Nick Faldo came
Speaker 1: to broke down in tears watching this. Rich tell us
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yes, massive fans of you as always. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm just I love you guys. Got the band back together, right,
Speaker 4: But yeah, so I'm sitting there next to you and Murray,
Speaker 4: who's basically our Jim. Nancy kind of sets up the
Speaker 4: rest of us. And it was myself and Nick Faldo
Speaker 4: in commentary and when you know, and Nick had set
Speaker 4: up a couple of things beautifully. In fact, he said,
Speaker 4: you know, I bet you when Rory McElroy, if Rory
Speaker 4: McRory wins us on the seventi second, he's going to
Speaker 4: collapse on the ground, collapse into tears. Well, obviously it
Speaker 4: went into a playoff, but sure enough, after he made it,
Speaker 4: he collapsed on the ground. Rory did, and and Nick
Speaker 4: has never been shy of words, right, he's he brings
Speaker 4: a lot of great opinions insights into the game. But
Speaker 4: literally he stopped talking, and I was kind of looking
Speaker 4: at him a little strange, and I kind of thought,
Speaker 4: wait a second, where his eyes getting a little watery.
Speaker 4: I know there's allergies here, but I mean, and he
Speaker 4: literally he couldn't speak. His voice was breaking up. And
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, my co host or you
Speaker 4: and Murray the host, he's his voice starts breaking up.
Speaker 5: So I started breaking up.
Speaker 4: I'm going We're just three grown men that are just
Speaker 4: set there in a bond of tears. And I think
Speaker 4: the reason, you know, for us and even for Nick,
Speaker 4: more than anything else, is because the fact that you know,
Speaker 4: we saw what this golf, what this game can do
Speaker 4: to you, like it had broken Rory down many many times.
Speaker 4: He famously lost the US Open last year to Bryson d. Chambeau,
Speaker 4: and he talked about going up to New York, putting
Speaker 4: on his headphones and literally just disappearing in the city
Speaker 4: where you know, most people wouldn't know who he is,
Speaker 4: and you know, he talks about it. And this was
Speaker 4: his twelfth attempt at winning the Masters, which would have
Speaker 4: completed the career Grand Slam, and if you watched the
Speaker 4: entire day yesterday, you couldn't have predicted what was going
Speaker 4: to happen. Rory went from two up to one down
Speaker 4: after two holes, and then to four up and then
Speaker 4: had at one point in time he was seven ahead
Speaker 4: of Justin Rose and and then all of a sudden
Speaker 4: he collapses. Roy does and then comes back again. It
Speaker 4: was the strangest thing I'd ever seen. But I have
Speaker 4: to admit I am overjoyed not only in him winning,
Speaker 4: but I called you, Sandy last night and told you
Speaker 4: that could have been the coolest thing I've ever been
Speaker 4: a part of.
Speaker 5: And I was so proud to be a part of
Speaker 5: it because it was epic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Tricia, I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I want you to chime in it, because Tricia and
Speaker 1: I watched it Sunday night together and she was all
Speaker 1: into it.
Speaker 3: You never watched golf.
Speaker 1: What was it that drug you into the loud cheers
Speaker 1: and the clapping and the happy for Roy when he won.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I was watching it, first of all.
Speaker 6: Excuse me. I saw the clip of McElroy's four year
Speaker 6: old daughter Poppy sinking that long put, which was all
Speaker 6: over social media, so that kind of honed me in
Speaker 6: on him. But other than that, I mean just watching
Speaker 6: it and like the Master's really good at building up
Speaker 6: this system. And I like Michael Ray. I've seen him before.
Speaker 6: He just seems like a good guy, right, And you
Speaker 6: could see his emotions on his face when he was happy.
Speaker 3: With the crowd too, right, Tricia, the crowd wild.
Speaker 6: But as you could see, I remember I told you
Speaker 6: Sanders like, oh my god, I was like, he's holding
Speaker 6: on too tight, Like his face is all squinched up
Speaker 6: when he had when he bogeyed. Then you could see
Speaker 6: how happy he was when he got a birdie, Like
Speaker 6: he wasn't just stoic. You could feel the emotions with him.
Speaker 6: I think that's part of what sucked me into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: One of my theories too is again I haven't watched
Speaker 2: any golf in a long time. The Masters is unbelievable
Speaker 2: on the coverage, and uh, it just ropes you in
Speaker 2: like a movie in a way. It really got me.
Speaker 3: And they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't lose your attention breaking it up with Viagra ads,
Speaker 2: you know, So I thank you for.
Speaker 3: That, But I was rich.
Speaker 1: Rich called me Sunday night at the end of the
Speaker 1: tournament and he was in his car leaving Augusta National,
Speaker 1: and as we were talking, I thought, One, this guy
Speaker 1: sounds exhausted, and two, I think he's gonna cry when
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: When he was telling me, you were so wrapped up
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know better than anybody having played
Speaker 1: golf at the absolute highest level, and one at the
Speaker 1: highest level, that man, that's got to be tough to
Speaker 1: take when.
Speaker 3: You lose at the highest level too, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: So to see him win and a guy like you
Speaker 1: said they've been kind of knocked down and dragged out
Speaker 1: and threw it for the last eleven years, I can
Speaker 1: see why as a player you definitely were happy for him.
Speaker 5: Most definitely.
Speaker 4: And I'll and you guys both know my wife Sarah,
Speaker 4: and I'll give you one even better. After I got
Speaker 4: the phone with you, Sandy, I called my wife Sarah
Speaker 4: and I told her kind of what.
Speaker 5: I was kind of going through.
Speaker 4: She goes, you see, look what you've put me through
Speaker 4: for fourteen years when I was out for you around
Speaker 4: you know, finally I finally kind of understood it all
Speaker 4: because I think as a player, you're always rooting for
Speaker 4: the good.
Speaker 5: Stories and you're room for the good guys.
Speaker 4: I mean nothing against Bryson, but to complete the career
Speaker 4: Grand Slam, something that he's been trying to do for
Speaker 4: eleven years, and he's prepared for it so many different ways.
Speaker 4: And this is a big deal because he now just
Speaker 4: becomes the sixth male golfer to ever complete the career
Speaker 4: Grand Slam, And so it's a very If it is
Speaker 4: a sporting.
Speaker 5: Feat, it is massive. This is a huge deal.
Speaker 4: And so to you know, to be a part of it,
Speaker 4: to watch somebody. I remember when Tiger did it back
Speaker 4: in two thousand and I think it was two thousand,
Speaker 4: it was almost just like one of those things that
Speaker 4: it's inevitable, right because he is so great and he
Speaker 4: just breathed right through it. But it took Rory eleven times.
Speaker 4: It took him on his twelfth try to finally do it,
Speaker 4: and he'd had a little bit of hard break. He
Speaker 4: famously went into the last round in twenty eleven with
Speaker 4: the lead and then kind of fell apart. But just
Speaker 4: to see him go through this time and time again,
Speaker 4: you're just like, holy cow, I mean, like, how much
Speaker 4: can this guy take? And then to watch him have
Speaker 4: this great lead, and then all of a sudden on
Speaker 4: thirteen and fourteen it slips away, and then he produces
Speaker 4: some great shots on fifteen and seventeen, and then lets
Speaker 4: it slip away on eighteen again. And it was just
Speaker 4: the most roller coaster of emotions because you want him
Speaker 4: to win, you want to witness history.
Speaker 5: Want to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: But the way that he did it, You're not going
Speaker 4: to get any better theater than that, I can promise
Speaker 4: you hardly in any sport.
Speaker 3: Rich.
Speaker 1: I just looked it up. You know this, but others
Speaker 1: might won't be curious. Rich's best finished at the master's
Speaker 1: fifteenth place. That's prett damn good man.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: It was pretty good that my first year there, and
Speaker 4: then after that I figured out exactly how hard it was,
Speaker 4: and I kind of.
Speaker 3: That, you know, part of it.
Speaker 2: What was going through my head watching it is you know,
Speaker 2: like Sandy and I were at the Longhorn two thousand
Speaker 2: and five Championship, one of the greatest moments in sports,
Speaker 2: but not not emotional like this. But what's so different
Speaker 2: and Rich you can you can elaborate on this is it?
Speaker 2: It is a it's all on your shoulders, your shoulders,
Speaker 2: and it's all in your head. It is not a
Speaker 2: team sport. Yeah, where the team sports you can always go, well,
Speaker 2: there's there's a you know, so many variables with so
Speaker 2: many different players and moments. This is all on you
Speaker 2: and the the mental game with it. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just to expand on that. And then part two of
Speaker 2: it is do do most golfers see therapists regularly? To
Speaker 2: manage that.
Speaker 3: Great question?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'll answer the second question absolutely, because it's not
Speaker 4: just managing what you're doing in there, it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's managing the scrutiny that you have other people. I
Speaker 4: can't imagine what Rory would have you know, what he
Speaker 4: would have done today if he had lost, if he
Speaker 4: had not wanted after control the questions that you have
Speaker 4: to answer to the media afterwards if you choose to
Speaker 4: talk to them, which I think he would have. But
Speaker 4: the devastation that he must have felt having it so
Speaker 4: closely in his grass only to watch it slip away.
Speaker 4: I think that would have been like I wouldn't I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have been surprised if he just says, you know,
Speaker 4: I guys, I'm gonna take a year off I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm tired of this because it truly is a mental
Speaker 4: beatdown and to have it in your graphs like that JB.
Speaker 4: And then and to lose it like he did last
Speaker 4: year in the US, so that was soul crushing. But
Speaker 4: you're right, it's just you and your caddy out there.
Speaker 4: I used to I used to say, you know, nobody
Speaker 4: really cares anything that I do on the golf cour
Speaker 4: except for me, my caddy, my wife, and my accountant.
Speaker 4: That's the only three people that really really you know
Speaker 4: what I shoot. And so but it's just it's much
Speaker 4: more than that, because you especially with a guy like
Speaker 4: Rory who wears his emotions on his sleeves, he's carrying
Speaker 4: the weight of the world with him because he knows
Speaker 4: not only he's not doing it for just himself obviously,
Speaker 4: but what it means to you know, his family. His
Speaker 4: mom and dad famously had to work. His dad worked
Speaker 4: two jobs in order to afford what he did to
Speaker 4: in golf, whether it's travel, equipment, lessons, things like that.
Speaker 4: So mom and dad sacrifice a lot and to be
Speaker 4: able to repay them in spades like he already has.
Speaker 5: But to complete the career, Grand Slam. That's just.
Speaker 4: It's a heroic story and I just you know, the
Speaker 4: hard part about it all. I like you said, Jab,
Speaker 4: sometimes you do have you know, you have to answer
Speaker 4: to other people because there'd be a lot of questions
Speaker 4: are going to be asked if he did not win,
Speaker 4: and that would.
Speaker 1: Have been just crippling for those of you who may
Speaker 1: not know what the career Grand Slam is. That's winning
Speaker 1: all four of golf's major championships, the Masters, the PGA Championship,
Speaker 1: the United States Open and the Open or the British
Speaker 1: Open in a career. Only six people have done it,
Speaker 1: and that's why this story with Roy McElroy is such
Speaker 1: a such a big deal. So Rich, thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us today. It's always fun talking to you. And safe travels.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. What do you travel?
Speaker 1: Forty forty weeks a year something like that.
Speaker 5: I travel about thirty five weeks a year.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to cut back a little bit, but yeah, sis,
Speaker 4: thirty five weeks a year. But I mean, the great
Speaker 4: thing about it is I get to see a lot
Speaker 4: of this country. And the drive from Augusta to to
Speaker 4: Hilton Head is it's very quiet, which is good and
Speaker 4: bad because you're alone with your thoughts and all the
Speaker 4: people that are living up there.
Speaker 5: But it's it's actually pretty serene.
Speaker 4: You get three and a half hours of just kind
Speaker 4: of quiet time, no cell phones because there's nothing out
Speaker 4: there for service.
Speaker 3: But and then those damn DJs call you right in
Speaker 3: the morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I literally have skipped about five phone
Speaker 4: calls because I'm like, even if I answered, they're not
Speaker 4: gonna be able to hear me because I've got one
Speaker 4: bar and it's it's fading fast. But no, it's always
Speaker 4: great talking to you guys. I've obviously been a massive
Speaker 4: fan of the JB and Sandy Show since the day
Speaker 4: that I put in Austin, So I'm glad that you
Speaker 4: guys are are doing your thing again.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Rich, Rich, hang on, don't