1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,399 Speaker 1: Hey, it's Fred and We're going to do something here 2 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:06,280 that I've never ever done before in the history of 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,839 Golf Smarter. And that's just riff. This is Golf Smarter. 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,160 I'm not interviewing anybody here. This is a bonus episode 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,160 that I'm just going to add lib on. Let it 6 00:00:18,199 --> 00:00:22,079 fly and see what happens. So I'll stay with me 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,679 because I can't wait to share with you my two 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,240 days at the Masters. It's been absolutely amazing to spend 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:40,240 those two days. I've been to multiple sporting events. I've 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,960 been to the Super Bowl, I've been to eight World Series. 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,759 I've been to five Baseball All Star Games. I've been 12 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:50,280 to the NBA All Star Game, ND five hundred NASCAR. 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:56,840 I've been to a couple WrestleManias, but nothing compares to 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:02,759 the excitement of the Master going to Augusta. I mean, 15 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:07,719 you know, it's everybody's bucket list, everybody who's ever been 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,599 around golf, it's their bucket list, and I get to 17 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:15,920 check it off. A little background on how I got 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:22,560 here first, So a Golf Smarter listener named Chett Hurwitz, 19 00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:27,640 who really is an amazing ambassador at Golf Smarter here 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,920 in Atlanta telling many of his friends, and then he 21 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:39,280 saw on Facebook. He saw on Facebook that a high 22 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,480 school classmate of his had written a memoir that was 23 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:50,439 being highly recommended. So Chet got the book, a book 24 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:54,519 called By Accident by joe Anne Green, and he started 25 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:58,599 reading it. And while he's reading it, he's realizing, wait 26 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,560 a minute, she keeps talking about her husband Fred. It's 27 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,840 the same Fred Green who I've been listening to for 28 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:10,919 a while. So Chet reached out to Joanne and in 29 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,719 twenty twenty three, Joanne and I took the civil Rights 30 00:02:14,719 --> 00:02:17,719 tour in the South and we stopped in Atlanta first. 31 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:20,240 We came in a day early and we met Chet 32 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,319 and his wife, who again my wife went to high 33 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,520 school with him, and you can hear my wife on 34 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:29,960 her podcasts in the story, and she also does the 35 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:36,039 introduction to golf smarter. That's my wife's voice. So we 36 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,159 met Chet last year and his wife and Chet and 37 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,280 I immediately start talking golf and the podcast, and he's 38 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:50,840 told me that he had been to multiple Masters before 39 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:55,879 and also has played Augusta National at least a half 40 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,319 dozen times, I think it is. And I told him 41 00:02:59,319 --> 00:03:01,360 at that point year ago, I said, if there's any 42 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:04,400 chance ever of me getting to come with you to 43 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,280 go to the Masters, give me twenty four hours notice 44 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:10,599 and I'll be there. And so over the last year 45 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,479 we worked on it. And if you remember last week's 46 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,000 episode or this week's episode with doctor Bob Jones, the 47 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,080 fourth Bobby Jones' grandson, he talked about Charlie Yates and 48 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,000 his one of his closest friends, Charlie Yates Junior. Charlie 49 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,840 Yates was a golfer in the thirties and forties and 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:36,319 a kind of a legend here in Atlanta. And chet 51 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,759 is also good friends with Charlie, and Charlie was the 52 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:45,240 one who provided He's a member at Augustin National, and 53 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,639 he was able to provide us with two members badges 54 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:54,719 for Wednesday at the Masters and then Thursday for the 55 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:58,800 first day of the Masters. We just got regular tickets. 56 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:02,479 And I'll break that down and admit it, but I 57 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,439 just wanted to share with you the introduction of how 58 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,759 I got here in the first place. As I'm talking 59 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,960 right now, I'm sitting at my gate. I'm about to 60 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:18,720 fly back to San Francisco this morning, and so I 61 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,319 just want to share observations and stories from my time 62 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:37,920 and we'll do that after this. Okay, augusta national amazing. Now, 63 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,839 first thing I want to tell you is that when 64 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:45,199 you okay, so he's talking, I hope you can hear 65 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:59,720 me over this guy talking, I'll just wait, Okay. Yeah. 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,160 The first thing I want to talk about is that 67 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:06,240 since most of us has to experience the masters, the 68 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:08,839 people who go, what they tell you, the ones who've 69 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:10,680 been If you've ever talked to people who've been there, 70 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:13,920 first thing they talk about is how amazing it is, 71 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:19,160 that how steep the holes are, and you really don't 72 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,360 get a sense of that on television. And it's true, 73 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,000 you really don't get a sense of how steep the 74 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,279 holes and the walking is and what a challenging walk 75 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,399 it is. So here's a piece of advice. When you're 76 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:35,360 watching it on TV, look at the player's head, the 77 00:05:35,399 --> 00:05:38,519 top of his head, and then compare that to the horizon. 78 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:42,480 If the horizon is above his head, clearly he's going uphill. 79 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:46,000 If the horizon is below his head, then he's going downhill. 80 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,639 And you can really tell get a better sense of 81 00:05:49,639 --> 00:05:52,240 what the undulation is like when you're watching on TV. 82 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,920 I have all these notes that I'm checking off in 83 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,480 my day here. So when we arrived Whennesday morning, we 84 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,279 get our badges, and the first thing I'm interested in 85 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:09,839 is going to the gift shop because I wanted to 86 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,879 get a nome, right, a garden nome, and the line 87 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,319 said it was eighty minutes long, and it's like, yeah, 88 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,399 I'm going to pass on that for now, and Chat 89 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:21,480 recommended that we just pass on that until later and 90 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:23,920 go to a different, different store which is on the 91 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,680 fifth hole instead of the entrance main entrance. And because 92 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,319 we had members badges for Wednesday, that gave us access 93 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,759 to the Member's Clubhouse, the Member's pro Shop, the Member's 94 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:43,279 gift store, Founder's Hall, and to get inside the ropes 95 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,839 by the tree. And that's where the golf industry all 96 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,879 hangs out. It is under the big tree, right outside 97 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,240 the clubhouse, and that's where all the umbrellas are to 98 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:57,199 sit and eat. If you've seen, you know or heard 99 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,399 about under the umbrellas. So first thing, because Chet has 100 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,920 played there so many times, he was able to give 101 00:07:06,959 --> 00:07:11,040 me a detailed tour. And on Wednesday they had the 102 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:13,600 putting contest. We didn't watch any golf. We saw a 103 00:07:13,639 --> 00:07:16,480 couple of golfers practicing on various holes, but we didn't 104 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:19,319 see any golf that day, just but we probably put 105 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,199 in thirty thousand steps walking the course and chet sharing 106 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:28,319 details from tee to green on practically every hole and 107 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:31,600 how to play them and the best viewing angles for things. 108 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:37,199 So at one point, where standing waiting to cross over 109 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:43,000 the fifteenth fairway and standing there, and I turn around 110 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,720 and I look and I'm thinking, wait a minute, is 111 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:49,680 that it is? And I walked up to this person 112 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,560 after watching for a few minutes, and I went page 113 00:07:53,079 --> 00:07:56,839 and it was Paige Spinner Rack on Wednesday. Well, Wednesday 114 00:07:56,879 --> 00:07:58,319 is the only day you were allowed to have a 115 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,079 camera there, and you can't your phones anytime, but I 116 00:08:02,079 --> 00:08:04,680 had a digital camera that I borrowed from a friend. 117 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:07,839 So I talked to Page for a minute. Told her 118 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:10,759 that when she first got started doing her YouTube videos, 119 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:12,959 that I wrote to her asking her to be on 120 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,680 the show and that she never responded, which is fine 121 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,399 because it was a podcast and she's a video star. 122 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,439 And just told her how happy I was for her success. 123 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:26,600 And we got a picture together. So then we take 124 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,399 off and now we're walking and we're headed up because 125 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,840 we're supposed to meet Mac Barnhardt who you heard a 126 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:36,519 couple of weeks ago for multiple times on the show. 127 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,799 Mac is Lucas Glover's agent, and Mac and I had 128 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,000 been texting and he says, all right, meet me at 129 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:48,480 noon at eleven point thirty, buy the tree front of 130 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,279 the clubhouse and we'll have lunch together and then Lucas 131 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,279 te's off at twelve fourteen, so we'll go over there together. 132 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,679 And I'm like, okay, that would be awesome. As we're 133 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,759 walking over there, there's a group of photographers walking in 134 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:06,120 front of us. You know, we're walking across the fairway 135 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,159 and there's a group of four or five photographers with 136 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,240 very large lenses, you know, official press photographers in front 137 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,200 of us. And I look over and one of them 138 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:23,720 is Ken Griffy Junior. And I was like Ken, he 139 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:27,480 goes yeah, I said, you're working here. What's going on? 140 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,919 He goes yeah, I am. And I said it's crazy 141 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:33,320 because I was just telling Chet a story about you 142 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,519 this morning. So on the drive over from we were 143 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,559 staying about an hour outside of Augusta It's which is 144 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,000 two and a half hours from Atlanta. We were staying 145 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,720 with a friend of his while we were going to 146 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:49,840 Augusta and on the drive over, Chet and I were 147 00:09:49,879 --> 00:09:54,120 sharing baseball stories. Chet's father was a renowned baseball writer 148 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,320 for the Boston Globe for decades, and so Chet and 149 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:00,600 I both have great baseball stories. We were sharing and 150 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:02,919 I was telling about the time that I was at 151 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,039 a game at the Seattle Mariners game and Ken Griffy 152 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,159 Junior and Ken Griffy Senior were on the same team together. 153 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:13,480 It was one of two years or one year that 154 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,960 they did that. And the story was the game I 155 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,200 was at, Dad was on second base, I think he walked, 156 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,399 and then there was a sacrifice fly. He's on second, 157 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:26,639 and then Junior comes up to the plate and hits 158 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:29,480 a home run. Well, in baseball, when somebody hits a 159 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:33,799 home run, if anybody's on base, they run, they cross 160 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,039 home and then they wait for the guy who hit 161 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,759 the home run. They wait for him to cross home plate, 162 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:42,559 and when they do, give him a high five, a 163 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,320 slap on the butt, and they go into the dugout. 164 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,240 Not Ken Griffy Senior. He's waiting for his son to 165 00:10:49,279 --> 00:10:53,240 come to home plate, and as he crosses home plate, 166 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,639 Dad reaches up, grabs his hat and gives Junior a 167 00:10:57,799 --> 00:11:01,159 noogie and it was the cutest things, a total dad thing. 168 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:06,120 So I when I met Ken Griffy walking across Augusta 169 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,519 National and I said, I was just telling Jet this 170 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:12,039 story about you this morning, and I told Ken the 171 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,480 whole story, and I said, you know, he gave you 172 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:16,919 a noogi and Ken looks at me, he goes, he's 173 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,320 still doing that. It was so good. So he looked 174 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,279 at me and he goes, is this your first masters 175 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:27,480 And I yes, and he said me too. Isn't this awesome? 176 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:30,919 So that was really amazing that I got to meet him. 177 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:33,799 So then we made it up there and we met. 178 00:11:34,279 --> 00:11:37,600 We made it to the tree and I find Mac 179 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,519 and he's having a conversation with Jeff Ogilvie and his daughter. 180 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,080 So I kind of stand back and wait wait for 181 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,120 them to finish. And as I'm talking, I look over 182 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:52,039 his shoulder and there's Annika Sorenstam having a conversation with somebody. 183 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,519 And I look over to the right and sitting at 184 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,080 one of the tables under the umbrella, there's Nancy Lopez. 185 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,759 You have two of maybe the top five women golfers 186 00:12:02,799 --> 00:12:07,039 of history standing there. It's like people are just you know, 187 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:11,200 schmoozing and happy to see each other and having a 188 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:15,799 grand old time. So I'm talking to Mac and he 189 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,960 introduces me to another person that he's talking to was 190 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,799 Derek Smith, who I actually met a couple times that afternoon. 191 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:28,000 Derek Smith is one of the part owners of the 192 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:32,440 Atlanta Falcons and the CEO of Choice Point. But then 193 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,639 we go and sit down for our lunch. We get 194 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:40,039 a table and it's Chet and Mack and myself, and 195 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:45,000 across the table are three gentlemen. And I'm going to 196 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:47,080 back up the story a little bit. When I landed 197 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:52,519 in Atlanta on Monday night, the first thing I did 198 00:12:53,279 --> 00:12:56,639 was go visit Chet, and I I Chet. It was 199 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,320 a mile from Chet's house. We went and visited doctor 200 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:02,360 Bob Jones. As many times as doctor Bob has been 201 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,919 on Golf Smarter over the years, he and I had 202 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:10,559 never met, so it was really awesome to go to 203 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,320 us office and meet him and then spend you know, 204 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,360 hour and a half just chatting or chat and doctor 205 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:23,960 Bob and myself. So one of the things that doctor 206 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:26,399 Bob and we talked about this earlier. Doctor Bob and 207 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,840 Charlie Yates are very good friends. Well, Chat is very 208 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,759 good friends as well. With Charlie Yates Junior, as is 209 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:40,159 Doctor Bob and I actually this year I asked if 210 00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:42,840 Doctor Bob would ask Charlie to be on the show 211 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:48,519 with him, and Charlie is very shy about that, doesn't 212 00:13:48,639 --> 00:13:54,519 like to showcase himself, but he denied, so like, that's fine. 213 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,120 I just was hoping maybe we can do it. So 214 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:02,000 we meet up with Charlie Yates and he introduces me 215 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,919 to Derek Smith again second time. But now we're sitting 216 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,840 having lunch with Mac and sitting across the table of 217 00:14:10,919 --> 00:14:14,879 these three gentlemen, one man probably his late seventies of 218 00:14:14,919 --> 00:14:20,600 maybe early eighties named William Black, and his two sons 219 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:25,480 are sitting there, Stu and Robert. And we get talking 220 00:14:25,559 --> 00:14:29,639 and I asked Bill. He introduced himself as Bill Black. 221 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,279 I asked him how long? How many times have you 222 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:36,000 been coming to the Masters and he said, well, my 223 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,440 first time I was fourteen years old, So you're kidding, 224 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,440 that's incredible. How have you had access like that? He 225 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,639 said family? And I looked at him. I said, keep going, 226 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,519 tell me more. He goes, yeah, my grandfather was Bobby Jones. 227 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,399 I'm like, wait a minute, your first cousins with doctor Bob. Yeah, 228 00:14:56,559 --> 00:15:01,919 I said, we were with him the other night. It's incredible. 229 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,240 So here I am sitting with Bobby Jones' grandson and 230 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:09,679 two of his great grandsons and we had a wonderful 231 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,679 time and Bill told crazy stories, but it supported almost 232 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:22,799 everything that doctor Bob said. And hopefully Robert Bob Black 233 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:25,799 will be on the show because he's got a really 234 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:29,480 fascinating organization called Change the Course and I hope to 235 00:15:29,559 --> 00:15:35,200 feature that soon on a upcoming episode of Golf Smarter. 236 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,919 Now I'm doing this little bonus episode because I've got 237 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:43,320 so much packed in leading up to episode one thousand 238 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:46,000 that I didn't want to change any of those, so 239 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,360 I thought it would be appropriate to put this on 240 00:15:48,519 --> 00:15:53,679 the Sunday. And Okay, they're preboarding. I'm just going to 241 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:59,240 keep talking. Hopefully you'll hear what I'm saying. Because we 242 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,240 have access to the clubhouse and whatnot from the members. 243 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,440 We're able to walk into the trophy room and the 244 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,879 hallway of the main lobby of the Founder's room, and 245 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:17,639 it's a museum of Augusta and it's absolutely amazing. And 246 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:24,320 after spending two plus hours with Mac and then another 247 00:16:24,399 --> 00:16:26,960 half hour or so with Charlie, we get back to 248 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:31,720 walking the course again. I'll tell you everyone talks about 249 00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:34,960 how beautiful, how green it is. It's incredibly lush at 250 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,039 Augusta National as far as how green it is. It's 251 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,360 maintained perfectly, and you can see how fast the greens are. 252 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,840 But they're not allowed. The announcers are not allowed to 253 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:50,200 call the rough because it's not really rough. They call 254 00:16:50,279 --> 00:16:53,200 it the second cut. When the ball lands on this 255 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,279 second cut, which we would think of as rough, the 256 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,480 ball is still ninety percent above the grass. You don't 257 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:01,639 lose the You're not going to lose the ball anywhere. 258 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:06,480 It's really kind of wide open, so you know. But 259 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:09,519 the course, the greens are so hard, the green complexes 260 00:17:09,559 --> 00:17:14,119 are so big, and so have such elevation change and undulation. 261 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:18,079 They're hard to read. As you're able to see, it's 262 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,440 just a remarkable golf course. It's really beautiful. And the 263 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:27,119 master's tea boxes are much farther away than the members 264 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,960 tea boxes. It makes it almost you know, a fun 265 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:36,960 game to play if you're getting a chance to play there. 266 00:17:38,279 --> 00:17:41,960 So one other thing before we left Mac we went 267 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,960 over to go watch the families and the little kids 268 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,920 doing just before the part three contest. So that's where 269 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,680 the little kids come out and they get to see 270 00:17:53,519 --> 00:18:00,279 where see, you know, the families playing and whatnot. I'm 271 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:02,160 just checking my the phone. I'm on zone three and 272 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,319 they're on zone two. So let's take another break here, 273 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,880 and when we come back, I'll give you my impressions 274 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:21,799 of Thursday. I'll be back right after this. Okay, we're 275 00:18:21,839 --> 00:18:25,720 ready to start again. And now I'm it's Sunday morning 276 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,720 at the Master. It's no, it's Sunday morning, and I'm 277 00:18:28,759 --> 00:18:31,759 in my backyard. I couldn't record again. It was too 278 00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:36,279 loud on a plane obviously to record anything. And then afterwards, 279 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,799 as soon as I landed, my wife was also in 280 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,359 Los Angeles during the week watching the grandchildren, and then 281 00:18:43,319 --> 00:18:45,920 so we landed at the airport at the same time. 282 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:48,039 So I just haven't had a chance and we had 283 00:18:48,039 --> 00:18:51,559 dinner plans last night. I didn't have chance to record 284 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:57,279 this second segment until now, and I've been trying to 285 00:18:57,319 --> 00:19:00,200 gather my thoughts and talk about what Thursday was like 286 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:05,319 versus Wednesday, and they're completely different days. Wednesday was like 287 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:11,519 being at Disneyland, you know, I went shopping twice. I 288 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,279 shopped first in the morning, and then I shopped again 289 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,640 in the afternoon, and then as we were leaving, and 290 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:24,039 then Thursday is more like being the Thanksgiving Day parade. Right. 291 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,240 It's just a bunch of people lined up with mild 292 00:19:28,279 --> 00:19:34,279 applause watching people watching the stars stroll by. It's kind 293 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:39,160 of like being a parade. Funny thing about this. My 294 00:19:39,279 --> 00:19:42,039 younger son, who I've talked about for so many years 295 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,359 on the podcast, is the one who got me started 296 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,759 playing golf when I was in my mid forties. He 297 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,440 and I have had this ongoing thing about who do 298 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:52,559 you think is going to get to go to the 299 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,839 Masters first. Well, when he asked me that question, I 300 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,319 didn't realize that he had friends who go every year. 301 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,680 One of his closest friends from cob friend from college, 302 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:05,400 and her husband they go every year because she's from 303 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,200 that area and her mother has connections. And I was thinking, Oh, 304 00:20:10,279 --> 00:20:13,079 I don't know, you know, you you going first, me 305 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,039 going first? I don't know if I'll ever get a 306 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,960 chance to go. But now that I realize you have 307 00:20:17,079 --> 00:20:19,960 a chance to go, maybe your chances of going or 308 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,279 fifty to fifty. He's like, oh, no, no, no, I'm 309 00:20:22,319 --> 00:20:25,599 going to go ninety percent. The irony to all this, 310 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,240 and again I didn't think I'd ever get to go. 311 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,839 The irony is that I went on Wednesday and Thursday, 312 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,359 and my son went on Friday and Saturday, so we 313 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,799 both got to go, but I got to go first, 314 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:42,839 and I had access to things that he would never 315 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:49,440 get access to because of Charlie Yates. So who again 316 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:54,119 we talked about with doctor Bob this week, So Thursday, 317 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,640 let's go back. So first thing, I wanted to get 318 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,839 a home. I wanted a garden nome. So as soon 319 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,160 as we got there, I got in line at one 320 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,960 of the stores, not the exclusive store that I got 321 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,039 to go in yesterday with my member badge, but they 322 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:11,200 didn't have nomes. But I went into one stores the 323 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:14,000 line was like thirty minutes long. The day before the 324 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:16,880 line was ninety minutes long, so I'm like pass, But 325 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,559 the thirty minute line is like, I'm going to do 326 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:21,000 it because I really want a gardennome for my putting green. 327 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:27,000 And I go shopping, I get my nome. I find 328 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:29,039 out they only have one per person, so I couldn't 329 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:31,079 get one for my son. So I told him, you're 330 00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:35,640 on your own on that and then luckily, you get 331 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,599 to go to your car once. While you're inside. You 332 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,640 have one time you can go out and come back in. 333 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:44,279 You only get two entries with your pass. So I 334 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:49,440 after shopping again, I went to the car, put stuff away, 335 00:21:49,519 --> 00:21:52,559 and then we came back. Our first stop was we're 336 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:56,400 standing near the approach on number three. And as we're 337 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,319 standing there waiting for the ball, you know, the guys 338 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,400 to tee off U all of a sudden a spotter 339 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,480 I'm standing next to the ropes, and the spotter goes 340 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,400 your feet, your feet, your feet, look off for your feet, 341 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:10,440 and a ball comes rolling and a guy on my left, 342 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:14,200 the ball hits his foot and rolls back behind the crowd. 343 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,279 So I immediately walk back and I get to stand 344 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:24,400 right behind. It was Patrick McNeely who was plus one 345 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:30,079 after two. I'm standing five six feet behind him. As 346 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,039 the ball is in the second cut. I remember they 347 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,799 are not allowed to call it the rough. But when 348 00:22:35,839 --> 00:22:40,559 you look at the grass the second cut for recreational 349 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:43,519 players who play public golf, the second cut there is 350 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,440 kind of like what our fairways are like the ball 351 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:49,960 you can still see ninety percent of the ball. It's 352 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,359 sitting up there is no rough. This is not the 353 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:56,519 US Open, so there's always a great opportunity to hit 354 00:22:56,599 --> 00:23:01,079 the ball. Well. Well, McNeely chipped up to a blind 355 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,880 shot and we don't know to applod or not. We 356 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,319 don't know if it rolled off the green, but the 357 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,759 people behind the green were plotting. It's like, okay, good shot. 358 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,799 He had a fifteen footer that he missed. It slid 359 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,480 to the left of the hole and he got the par. 360 00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:18,759 Then we head over and we're at the number four 361 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:21,039 tea box and it's only like twenty yards from the 362 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:28,119 third hole which we just saw and the group of McNeely, 363 00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:31,839 fanw and Dtrie and McNeely was closest to the pin 364 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:37,759 on that par and these are just notes. Then the 365 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,079 day before Charlie hs Junior told Chet, who you know, 366 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,000 they're good friends, told Chet meet me here at noon 367 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:49,279 tomorrow and let's have lunch. And so comes up to noon, 368 00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:54,039 we meet Charlie and he's talking to some people and 369 00:23:54,759 --> 00:23:58,000 he introduces us to these other guys and they're entrepreneurs, 370 00:23:58,079 --> 00:24:02,839 fascinating entrepreneurs. And stay tuned because we made to get 371 00:24:02,839 --> 00:24:05,759 a couple of them on the podcast coming up. I'm 372 00:24:05,799 --> 00:24:08,559 working on it. And you'll know then at the time 373 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,400 that these are the people I had lunch with. But 374 00:24:11,799 --> 00:24:18,279 Charlie then takes us into lunch inside the Founder's dining 375 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,519 room and then this is only people that can eat 376 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:27,599 in there. I'm pretty sure are members and their guests. 377 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,720 So we get to walk in and Charles at the 378 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,720 door was I think his name is Charles Cooley and 379 00:24:36,079 --> 00:24:40,960 he was a past champion that wasn't playing anymore. He's older, 380 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:44,079 but he's still alive. Let's see here. Yeah, he found 381 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,880 his name and it was Charles Coody from Ableing, Texas. 382 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,440 He wasn't playing, but he was there. So he greeted 383 00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:53,319 us at the door, said hello to Charlie, and we 384 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,720 go in and eating lunch in this Founder's room with 385 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:04,160 Charlie sharing stories. Again. What a treat, no hats, what 386 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:08,599 a treat, What a conversation we had afterwards. I have 387 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,079 to go to the bathroom and I'm walk down the 388 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,960 hallway and I'm standing outside the bathroom and this young 389 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,960 woman comes up to me and says, sir, do you 390 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:18,519 need to use the restroom? I say, yeah, I do, 391 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:21,559 I'm waiting here. She goes, come with me please, and 392 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,039 she walks me down the hall. She knocks on a 393 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:28,799 door of a different bathroom and saying housekeeping, and nobody responds. 394 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:30,599 She goes here, you go, and I get a bathroom 395 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,119 to myself. That's what goes on at the Masters with 396 00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:41,279 the staff. It is remarkable how much every person there, 397 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,079 even in the parking lots, when you're in the parking 398 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,720 lot and you park your car, every single person is 399 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,319 welcome to the Masters. Welcome to the Masters, enjoy your day. 400 00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:57,960 And that's just wherever you go. Later in the day, 401 00:25:58,759 --> 00:26:00,839 I had to go to the bathroom again, you know, 402 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,759 I'm old, and I went to what are the public 403 00:26:03,839 --> 00:26:08,039 bathrooms near one of the halls. He was near six 404 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,559 or something, and there's a gentleman, young man standing at 405 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:15,680 the doorway of this bathroom going, if you're going number one, 406 00:26:15,839 --> 00:26:17,559 go to the left line. If you're going number two, 407 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,799 stay against the wall. Number one left, number two. And 408 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,359 he's constantly just ongoing and going and going. Fine to him, 409 00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:26,839 and he was great, and he had his beautiful attitude 410 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,000 and he was fun. But this is all that he 411 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,799 was saying. Number one, left line, coming on the left, 412 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,759 number two, stay against the wall. So I said to him, 413 00:26:35,079 --> 00:26:38,400 did you audition for this job. He's like, no, no, 414 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,000 I'm just doing this and it's fun. Said, how are 415 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:43,079 you doing? He says, this is my fourth year of 416 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,400 doing it and it's the greatest job I've ever had. 417 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,640 And it's one WEEKI year. I love this job and 418 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:51,440 you just get that feeling from every person you come 419 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,400 in contact with across the board. The staff was fantastic 420 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,480 and they'd really appreciate being there. Now we're going through. 421 00:27:00,599 --> 00:27:03,880 We're walking and as we crossed some of the pine 422 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,799 straw under some of the trees, the pine trees, I realized, 423 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,680 wait a minute, I've got an empty water bottle with 424 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,039 me here. I'm just gonna fill it with pine straw. 425 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,680 This could be the greatest free souvenir I could have, 426 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:21,839 and there's nothing like it. This is the only place 427 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,599 ever to get something like this. So I filled my 428 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,799 water bottle with pine straw, some twigs I found a 429 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,000 pine cone, and some azaleas that were on the floor. 430 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:34,480 And so I have this bottle. Now when you open 431 00:27:34,559 --> 00:27:38,359 it up, it smells so great. And the reason I 432 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,079 did this is years ago, my wife and I took 433 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:43,319 a trip to Alaska. We went on a cruise to Alaska, 434 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,799 and we got on a helicopter and took the helicopter 435 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,599 up to a glacier. And while at the glacier, I 436 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:54,160 took a rock and it was a you know, not 437 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,279 a boulder and not a pebble, but it was a rock. 438 00:27:56,599 --> 00:28:00,359 It's the probably the size of a softball. And I 439 00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,279 keep it in my freezer at home so that when 440 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,400 people come over and they open the freezer, if they 441 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,759 open the freezer or this conversation comes up, they're like, 442 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:11,559 why is there a rock in your freezer? I said, 443 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,920 because I pulled it off of a glacier and it's 444 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:17,839 thousands of maybe millions of years old, and I wanted 445 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,240 to make it feel at home. So that's made me 446 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,960 feel like I wanted to bring home some pines trot 447 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,880 from the Masters, and I have that. But a couple 448 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,200 people said, don't let the staff or let anybody see that, 449 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,079 because you could get in trouble for that. Really, okay, fine. 450 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,720 Never observation about Thursday play, and that would be the 451 00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:47,000 speed of the greens. It is mind blowing to see 452 00:28:47,079 --> 00:28:50,240 these guys that are twenty five feet away, thirty feet 453 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:53,839 away from the hole, and if there's any slope or 454 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,359 down hittle at all. They're hitting a five foot put, 455 00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:59,920 maybe a three foot put, and the fact that they 456 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,680 can get that to the hole and stop near the hole, 457 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,279 or in some cases just keeps going. But the pace 458 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,640 of the greens, the speed of the greens something I've 459 00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:13,839 never witnessed before, and I'm not too interested in playing 460 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:19,079 something like that, because it is really remarkable to watch. 461 00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:21,559 And the pace of play on the greens. If anyone 462 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,279 ever gives you a hard time about your pace of play, 463 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,880 tell them to watch a professional golf tournament. Pace is 464 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,200 very slow. They're very, very deliberate about every single shot 465 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:38,319 they take. We shouldn't feel so badly about that. Also, 466 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:43,119 I can only term this as the roar of the 467 00:29:43,319 --> 00:29:48,240 silence when you have thousands of people standing watching a 468 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:54,680 golfer and there's absolutely no sound at all. It's dead silent. 469 00:29:55,279 --> 00:30:02,319 The respect, the anticipation is so thick on both sides 470 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,359 that you just can't imagine how quiet it is. But 471 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,680 then it either you'll then you can close your eyes 472 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,119 and know basically what happened. There's either you know, applause, 473 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:20,079 light applause, or there's oh, a giant grown from the crowd, 474 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,400 or they erupt in excitement and you could just tell 475 00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:27,400 what's happening. We were standing with Mac at one point 476 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,599 the day that day and we heard a crowd scream, 477 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,440 you know, from the other side of the course, not 478 00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:37,279 knowing what happened, but Mac goes up. Somebody got an eagle. 479 00:30:38,359 --> 00:30:45,200 It was crazy. Okay, walking down the tenth fairway, Patrick 480 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:50,240 Cantley had just hit his drive on number ten and again, 481 00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:52,920 this is a hole that you really can't imagine what 482 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:57,440 the down slope is like. And if you again on TV, 483 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,480 watch the top of their head versus the horizon and 484 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:06,440 it'll give you a real good sense of what the 485 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,640 slope of the you know, the downhill and uphill is 486 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,920 and which way they're going. So as we're walking down 487 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:16,240 this railway, can't we just hit his ball and he's 488 00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:19,319 walking by us, and he's got a sandwich in one 489 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:20,839 hand and a drink in the other, and all of 490 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,960 a sudden he crosses over the rope, goes over to 491 00:31:24,039 --> 00:31:27,599 a trash can and spits out everything in his mouth, 492 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,559 not throwing up, but just yeah, right, and then walks 493 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:35,880 back over the ropes, takes another of a bite of 494 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,640 a sandwich and keeps on going. It's like, wait, do 495 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,440 you like it or you don't like what is going 496 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:47,079 on here? That was like weird number nine. T Sergio 497 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,359 is about to tee off and he's just bringing his 498 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,920 club back a little bit, and all of a sudden, 499 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:58,079 we hear from behind him and he stops and he 500 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:04,319 turns around and goes sounded like a phone, And the 501 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:08,200 officials are sitting there. Police are sitting there. There's armed 502 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,400 police following every single you don't see them, but they're 503 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,279 following every single group on the side on the ropes, 504 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:21,319 but inside the ropes, and so everyone's looking around. Sergiot's off. 505 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:26,319 I'm over listening to these officials and they can't identify 506 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,599 where that sound came from. They're thinking maybe it was 507 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,200 a siren from off the chorus. We don't know. We 508 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,400 couldn't figure it out. Then I had a pimento sandwich. 509 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,880 You have to do it right. You have to have 510 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,440 a pimento sandwich while you're there. And the sandwiches and 511 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:45,759 the prices of the concessions. If you go to sporting 512 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:48,759 events at all, you know that prices at concessions are 513 00:32:48,839 --> 00:32:52,799 pretty outrageous. Hopefully you can go to Golfsmarter dot com 514 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,920 and see. I'll post a bunch of my photos that 515 00:32:56,079 --> 00:33:00,519 go with this episode my time from there, and hopefully 516 00:33:00,559 --> 00:33:02,480 I'll be able to post it for you. But the 517 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:06,519 concession stands, I'm queuing up my photograph so I can 518 00:33:06,599 --> 00:33:09,200 read some of the numbers to you on how crazy 519 00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:14,480 it is. Ache salad and pimento cheese sandwiches buck fifty, 520 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,799 the other sandwiches barbecue, pork, Master's Club, chicken salad on 521 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,400 honey wheat, ham and cheese on rye, classic chicken three 522 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,559 dollars apiece. And these are not these. The food is good. 523 00:33:26,079 --> 00:33:29,920 Breakfast served until ten am. Masters blend fresh brewed coffee 524 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,440 two bucks, Chicken biscuit three bucks, breakfast sandwich three bucks, 525 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,799 blueberry muffin two fresh mixed fruit, two fifty. Beverages, this 526 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,920 is amazing. Soft drinks bottled water, fresh brewed iced tea 527 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,000 two bucks. Then the alcohol Crown Nest, domestic beer, import beer, 528 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,319 white wine six bucks. That's expensive for them, right, And 529 00:33:56,359 --> 00:34:00,480 then the snacks apple slices, chips, plain or barbee buck 530 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,079 and a half peanuts, bucks seventy five Southern cheese straws. 531 00:34:04,279 --> 00:34:07,039 Not even sure what that is two bucks, cookies bucks 532 00:34:07,039 --> 00:34:10,599 seventy five and then the new one this year, the 533 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,519 Georgia Peach ice cream sandwich three Bucks. So I did 534 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:17,920 eat a Pimento sandwich. I did get to do it. 535 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:22,039 Would I have another one? Not by choice, but if 536 00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:24,119 I'm back at the Masters, I'll do anything if i 537 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,559 can get another chance to go. So after we walked 538 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:33,199 around seeing various locations, watching different people play. Now, after 539 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,079 Lucas Glover finished the ninth Hole, we went and I 540 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,760 found Mac Barnhard again and he's chatting with the head 541 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,519 of New Era, the hat company, and we talk for 542 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,960 a few minutes and talk about what Lucas is doing. 543 00:34:48,039 --> 00:34:50,599 He's just like I hope Lucas just has to make 544 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:52,800 the cut. He just okay, he's not having a good 545 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,639 dan on Thursday, but he's gonna put it all together 546 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,320 Friday and I'll make the gut. Well, unfortunately he didn't, 547 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,280 so we're sorry Lucas, and we're sorry man. But another 548 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,159 one of Max's client's, Danny Willett, did make it. It 549 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,239 was much louder on the grounds on Wednesday than it 550 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,480 was on Thursday, because there's a buzz. Everyone's just like 551 00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:15,599 exploring and looking at things and getting a feel and shopping, 552 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,000 and so it was much louder on the chorus. Thursday 553 00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:23,400 was much quieter. But here's something interesting. When you watch 554 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,480 it on TV, you hear the birds a lot, but 555 00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:30,280 when you're there, you don't see any birds. I saw 556 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,039 two in the parking lot. You don't hear them. Occasionally 557 00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:36,280 you might hear a couple of birds, but I think 558 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,079 it's because of these big microphones that they use for 559 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,320 television so they can get the sound of the club 560 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,760 hitting the ball. I think they pick up the limited 561 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,079 sound of birds, unless they're piping in phony bird noises, 562 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,119 it's quite possible. But I was really amazed at how 563 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,480 quiet it was, and even not even bird sounds. When 564 00:35:56,559 --> 00:35:59,960 we were there on fifteen, can't Ley had a show 565 00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:03,800 a couple of shots, a couple groups ahead of Rory 566 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,280 who had the same shot where he was off to 567 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,639 the left of the green on fifteen or behind the green, 568 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,000 and he chipped up and the ball just kept going 569 00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,280 and went in the water. I saw Can'tley do that. 570 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,559 I didn't see I didn't get to see Rory do it. 571 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,280 But then at the end of the day, what did 572 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:26,079 I do? Two days the Master's for shopping spreeze if 573 00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:28,119 I go play a golf course that I've never played 574 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:31,639 before and I play well, or it's a unique golf course. 575 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,360 Of course, I'm going to go shopping. I'm going to 576 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,159 do something, and by first I'll go to the sail 577 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,840 rack and see if I can find a shirt on 578 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,440 sale or otherwise I'll spend maybe ninety bucks on his 579 00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:45,199 shirt or something. Well, I kind of went crazy. He 580 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:51,159 went shopping four different times and spent a lot of money. 581 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,760 I don't want to say it because I'm not gonna 582 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,559 just God, don't want my wife to hear it. I 583 00:36:56,679 --> 00:36:59,079 spent a lot of money on a golf course I'm 584 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,599 never going to play. And then we had a two 585 00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:05,840 and a half hour drive back to Atlanta, back to 586 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,039 Jet's house. And I just want to thank you for 587 00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:12,880 letting me share this with you, because you're my closest 588 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,239 golf friend. I mean, we've been talking together for a 589 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,119 long time about golf, and I really am so excited 590 00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:19,960 that I had the opportunity to share this with you. 591 00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,599 And is we're only a few weeks away from episode 592 00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:27,679 one thousand. I am blown away and I still don't 593 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,119 know who episode one thousand is, but I did reach 594 00:37:31,199 --> 00:37:34,440 out to a bunch of some of the best people 595 00:37:34,519 --> 00:37:36,679 that we've ever had on Golf Smarter to lead up 596 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,760 to it, and you're hearing it starting now with Doctor 597 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,239 Bob this week, next week and more. We're going to 598 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,159 hear people until everything's recorded. I don't want to say 599 00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:49,079 who it is, but it's going to be a lot 600 00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:52,679 of fun and I only want to send my regards 601 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,599 to the Pells family. I wish that we could have 602 00:37:54,639 --> 00:37:56,880 had Dave Pell's come back again, but we lost him 603 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,880 a few weeks ago and I could not get him 604 00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:03,119 to come back on the show one more time. The 605 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,559 other thing about the podcast is when I was introduced 606 00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:11,079 to people, and I don't go a lot. I'm a podcaster, 607 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,039 you know. If I'm introduced as a podcaster like, oh, 608 00:38:14,159 --> 00:38:16,679 you do a podcast, Yeah, lots of people do podcasts. 609 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,079 But here's the thing. I've been doing my podcast now weekly. 610 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,559 I'm in my twentieth year and I started a year 611 00:38:23,559 --> 00:38:25,760 and a half before the iPhone came out, and that 612 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,559 gets people to go, ooh, that's interesting. So again, thank 613 00:38:30,639 --> 00:38:32,679 you for bearing with me on this. I had a 614 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,639 great time. I can't wait to see what happens at 615 00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:41,360 the end of the day today, when the Masters was beginning, 616 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,280 I had my two picks well Rory and Bryson, and 617 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,079 here they are on Sunday on the final pairing