Speaker 1: Hey, it's Fred and We're going to do something here
that I've never ever done before in the history of
Golf Smarter. And that's just riff. This is Golf Smarter.
I'm not interviewing anybody here. This is a bonus episode
that I'm just going to add lib on. Let it
fly and see what happens. So I'll stay with me
because I can't wait to share with you my two
days at the Masters. It's been absolutely amazing to spend
those two days. I've been to multiple sporting events. I've
been to the Super Bowl, I've been to eight World Series.
I've been to five Baseball All Star Games. I've been
to the NBA All Star Game, ND five hundred NASCAR.
I've been to a couple WrestleManias, but nothing compares to
the excitement of the Master going to Augusta. I mean,
you know, it's everybody's bucket list, everybody who's ever been
around golf, it's their bucket list, and I get to
check it off. A little background on how I got
here first, So a Golf Smarter listener named Chett Hurwitz,
who really is an amazing ambassador at Golf Smarter here
in Atlanta telling many of his friends, and then he
saw on Facebook. He saw on Facebook that a high
school classmate of his had written a memoir that was
being highly recommended. So Chet got the book, a book
called By Accident by joe Anne Green, and he started
reading it. And while he's reading it, he's realizing, wait
a minute, she keeps talking about her husband Fred. It's
the same Fred Green who I've been listening to for
a while. So Chet reached out to Joanne and in
twenty twenty three, Joanne and I took the civil Rights
tour in the South and we stopped in Atlanta first.
We came in a day early and we met Chet
and his wife, who again my wife went to high
school with him, and you can hear my wife on
her podcasts in the story, and she also does the
introduction to golf smarter. That's my wife's voice. So we
met Chet last year and his wife and Chet and
I immediately start talking golf and the podcast, and he's
told me that he had been to multiple Masters before
and also has played Augusta National at least a half
dozen times, I think it is. And I told him
at that point year ago, I said, if there's any
chance ever of me getting to come with you to
go to the Masters, give me twenty four hours notice
and I'll be there. And so over the last year
we worked on it. And if you remember last week's
episode or this week's episode with doctor Bob Jones, the
fourth Bobby Jones' grandson, he talked about Charlie Yates and
his one of his closest friends, Charlie Yates Junior. Charlie
Yates was a golfer in the thirties and forties and
a kind of a legend here in Atlanta. And chet
is also good friends with Charlie, and Charlie was the
one who provided He's a member at Augustin National, and
he was able to provide us with two members badges
for Wednesday at the Masters and then Thursday for the
first day of the Masters. We just got regular tickets.
And I'll break that down and admit it, but I
just wanted to share with you the introduction of how
I got here in the first place. As I'm talking
right now, I'm sitting at my gate. I'm about to
fly back to San Francisco this morning, and so I
just want to share observations and stories from my time
and we'll do that after this. Okay, augusta national amazing. Now,
first thing I want to tell you is that when
you okay, so he's talking, I hope you can hear
me over this guy talking, I'll just wait, Okay. Yeah.
The first thing I want to talk about is that
since most of us has to experience the masters, the
people who go, what they tell you, the ones who've
been If you've ever talked to people who've been there,
first thing they talk about is how amazing it is,
that how steep the holes are, and you really don't
get a sense of that on television. And it's true,
you really don't get a sense of how steep the
holes and the walking is and what a challenging walk
it is. So here's a piece of advice. When you're
watching it on TV, look at the player's head, the
top of his head, and then compare that to the horizon.
If the horizon is above his head, clearly he's going uphill.
If the horizon is below his head, then he's going downhill.
And you can really tell get a better sense of
what the undulation is like when you're watching on TV.
I have all these notes that I'm checking off in
my day here. So when we arrived Whennesday morning, we
get our badges, and the first thing I'm interested in
is going to the gift shop because I wanted to
get a nome, right, a garden nome, and the line
said it was eighty minutes long, and it's like, yeah,
I'm going to pass on that for now, and Chat
recommended that we just pass on that until later and
go to a different, different store which is on the
fifth hole instead of the entrance main entrance. And because
we had members badges for Wednesday, that gave us access
to the Member's Clubhouse, the Member's pro Shop, the Member's
gift store, Founder's Hall, and to get inside the ropes
by the tree. And that's where the golf industry all
hangs out. It is under the big tree, right outside
the clubhouse, and that's where all the umbrellas are to
sit and eat. If you've seen, you know or heard
about under the umbrellas. So first thing, because Chet has
played there so many times, he was able to give
me a detailed tour. And on Wednesday they had the
putting contest. We didn't watch any golf. We saw a
couple of golfers practicing on various holes, but we didn't
see any golf that day, just but we probably put
in thirty thousand steps walking the course and chet sharing
details from tee to green on practically every hole and
how to play them and the best viewing angles for things.
So at one point, where standing waiting to cross over
the fifteenth fairway and standing there, and I turn around
and I look and I'm thinking, wait a minute, is
that it is? And I walked up to this person
after watching for a few minutes, and I went page
and it was Paige Spinner Rack on Wednesday. Well, Wednesday
is the only day you were allowed to have a
camera there, and you can't your phones anytime, but I
had a digital camera that I borrowed from a friend.
So I talked to Page for a minute. Told her
that when she first got started doing her YouTube videos,
that I wrote to her asking her to be on
the show and that she never responded, which is fine
because it was a podcast and she's a video star.
And just told her how happy I was for her success.
And we got a picture together. So then we take
off and now we're walking and we're headed up because
we're supposed to meet Mac Barnhardt who you heard a
couple of weeks ago for multiple times on the show.
Mac is Lucas Glover's agent, and Mac and I had
been texting and he says, all right, meet me at
noon at eleven point thirty, buy the tree front of
the clubhouse and we'll have lunch together and then Lucas
te's off at twelve fourteen, so we'll go over there together.
And I'm like, okay, that would be awesome. As we're
walking over there, there's a group of photographers walking in
front of us. You know, we're walking across the fairway
and there's a group of four or five photographers with
very large lenses, you know, official press photographers in front
of us. And I look over and one of them
is Ken Griffy Junior. And I was like Ken, he
goes yeah, I said, you're working here. What's going on?
He goes yeah, I am. And I said it's crazy
because I was just telling Chet a story about you
this morning. So on the drive over from we were
staying about an hour outside of Augusta It's which is
two and a half hours from Atlanta. We were staying
with a friend of his while we were going to
Augusta and on the drive over, Chet and I were
sharing baseball stories. Chet's father was a renowned baseball writer
for the Boston Globe for decades, and so Chet and
I both have great baseball stories. We were sharing and
I was telling about the time that I was at
a game at the Seattle Mariners game and Ken Griffy
Junior and Ken Griffy Senior were on the same team together.
It was one of two years or one year that
they did that. And the story was the game I
was at, Dad was on second base, I think he walked,
and then there was a sacrifice fly. He's on second,
and then Junior comes up to the plate and hits
a home run. Well, in baseball, when somebody hits a
home run, if anybody's on base, they run, they cross
home and then they wait for the guy who hit
the home run. They wait for him to cross home plate,
and when they do, give him a high five, a
slap on the butt, and they go into the dugout.
Not Ken Griffy Senior. He's waiting for his son to
come to home plate, and as he crosses home plate,
Dad reaches up, grabs his hat and gives Junior a
noogie and it was the cutest things, a total dad thing.
So I when I met Ken Griffy walking across Augusta
National and I said, I was just telling Jet this
story about you this morning, and I told Ken the
whole story, and I said, you know, he gave you
a noogi and Ken looks at me, he goes, he's
still doing that. It was so good. So he looked
at me and he goes, is this your first masters
And I yes, and he said me too. Isn't this awesome?
So that was really amazing that I got to meet him.
So then we made it up there and we met.
We made it to the tree and I find Mac
and he's having a conversation with Jeff Ogilvie and his daughter.
So I kind of stand back and wait wait for
them to finish. And as I'm talking, I look over
his shoulder and there's Annika Sorenstam having a conversation with somebody.
And I look over to the right and sitting at
one of the tables under the umbrella, there's Nancy Lopez.
You have two of maybe the top five women golfers
of history standing there. It's like people are just you know,
schmoozing and happy to see each other and having a
grand old time. So I'm talking to Mac and he
introduces me to another person that he's talking to was
Derek Smith, who I actually met a couple times that afternoon.
Derek Smith is one of the part owners of the
Atlanta Falcons and the CEO of Choice Point. But then
we go and sit down for our lunch. We get
a table and it's Chet and Mack and myself, and
across the table are three gentlemen. And I'm going to
back up the story a little bit. When I landed
in Atlanta on Monday night, the first thing I did
was go visit Chet, and I I Chet. It was
a mile from Chet's house. We went and visited doctor
Bob Jones. As many times as doctor Bob has been
on Golf Smarter over the years, he and I had
never met, so it was really awesome to go to
us office and meet him and then spend you know,
hour and a half just chatting or chat and doctor
Bob and myself. So one of the things that doctor
Bob and we talked about this earlier. Doctor Bob and
Charlie Yates are very good friends. Well, Chat is very
good friends as well. With Charlie Yates Junior, as is
Doctor Bob and I actually this year I asked if
Doctor Bob would ask Charlie to be on the show
with him, and Charlie is very shy about that, doesn't
like to showcase himself, but he denied, so like, that's fine.
I just was hoping maybe we can do it. So
we meet up with Charlie Yates and he introduces me
to Derek Smith again second time. But now we're sitting
having lunch with Mac and sitting across the table of
these three gentlemen, one man probably his late seventies of
maybe early eighties named William Black, and his two sons
are sitting there, Stu and Robert. And we get talking
and I asked Bill. He introduced himself as Bill Black.
I asked him how long? How many times have you
been coming to the Masters and he said, well, my
first time I was fourteen years old, So you're kidding,
that's incredible. How have you had access like that? He
said family? And I looked at him. I said, keep going,
tell me more. He goes, yeah, my grandfather was Bobby Jones.
I'm like, wait a minute, your first cousins with doctor Bob. Yeah,
I said, we were with him the other night. It's incredible.
So here I am sitting with Bobby Jones' grandson and
two of his great grandsons and we had a wonderful
time and Bill told crazy stories, but it supported almost
everything that doctor Bob said. And hopefully Robert Bob Black
will be on the show because he's got a really
fascinating organization called Change the Course and I hope to
feature that soon on a upcoming episode of Golf Smarter.
Now I'm doing this little bonus episode because I've got
so much packed in leading up to episode one thousand
that I didn't want to change any of those, so
I thought it would be appropriate to put this on
the Sunday. And Okay, they're preboarding. I'm just going to
keep talking. Hopefully you'll hear what I'm saying. Because we
have access to the clubhouse and whatnot from the members.
We're able to walk into the trophy room and the
hallway of the main lobby of the Founder's room, and
it's a museum of Augusta and it's absolutely amazing. And
after spending two plus hours with Mac and then another
half hour or so with Charlie, we get back to
walking the course again. I'll tell you everyone talks about
how beautiful, how green it is. It's incredibly lush at
Augusta National as far as how green it is. It's
maintained perfectly, and you can see how fast the greens are.
But they're not allowed. The announcers are not allowed to
call the rough because it's not really rough. They call
it the second cut. When the ball lands on this
second cut, which we would think of as rough, the
ball is still ninety percent above the grass. You don't
lose the You're not going to lose the ball anywhere.
It's really kind of wide open, so you know. But
the course, the greens are so hard, the green complexes
are so big, and so have such elevation change and undulation.
They're hard to read. As you're able to see, it's
just a remarkable golf course. It's really beautiful. And the
master's tea boxes are much farther away than the members
tea boxes. It makes it almost you know, a fun
game to play if you're getting a chance to play there.
So one other thing before we left Mac we went
over to go watch the families and the little kids
doing just before the part three contest. So that's where
the little kids come out and they get to see
where see, you know, the families playing and whatnot. I'm
just checking my the phone. I'm on zone three and
they're on zone two. So let's take another break here,
and when we come back, I'll give you my impressions
of Thursday. I'll be back right after this. Okay, we're
ready to start again. And now I'm it's Sunday morning
at the Master. It's no, it's Sunday morning, and I'm
in my backyard. I couldn't record again. It was too
loud on a plane obviously to record anything. And then afterwards,
as soon as I landed, my wife was also in
Los Angeles during the week watching the grandchildren, and then
so we landed at the airport at the same time.
So I just haven't had a chance and we had
dinner plans last night. I didn't have chance to record
this second segment until now, and I've been trying to
gather my thoughts and talk about what Thursday was like
versus Wednesday, and they're completely different days. Wednesday was like
being at Disneyland, you know, I went shopping twice. I
shopped first in the morning, and then I shopped again
in the afternoon, and then as we were leaving, and
then Thursday is more like being the Thanksgiving Day parade. Right.
It's just a bunch of people lined up with mild
applause watching people watching the stars stroll by. It's kind
of like being a parade. Funny thing about this. My
younger son, who I've talked about for so many years
on the podcast, is the one who got me started
playing golf when I was in my mid forties. He
and I have had this ongoing thing about who do
you think is going to get to go to the
Masters first. Well, when he asked me that question, I
didn't realize that he had friends who go every year.
One of his closest friends from cob friend from college,
and her husband they go every year because she's from
that area and her mother has connections. And I was thinking, Oh,
I don't know, you know, you you going first, me
going first? I don't know if I'll ever get a
chance to go. But now that I realize you have
a chance to go, maybe your chances of going or
fifty to fifty. He's like, oh, no, no, no, I'm
going to go ninety percent. The irony to all this,
and again I didn't think I'd ever get to go.
The irony is that I went on Wednesday and Thursday,
and my son went on Friday and Saturday, so we
both got to go, but I got to go first,
and I had access to things that he would never
get access to because of Charlie Yates. So who again
we talked about with doctor Bob this week, So Thursday,
let's go back. So first thing, I wanted to get
a home. I wanted a garden nome. So as soon
as we got there, I got in line at one
of the stores, not the exclusive store that I got
to go in yesterday with my member badge, but they
didn't have nomes. But I went into one stores the
line was like thirty minutes long. The day before the
line was ninety minutes long, so I'm like pass, But
the thirty minute line is like, I'm going to do
it because I really want a gardennome for my putting green.
And I go shopping, I get my nome. I find
out they only have one per person, so I couldn't
get one for my son. So I told him, you're
on your own on that and then luckily, you get
to go to your car once. While you're inside. You
have one time you can go out and come back in.
You only get two entries with your pass. So I
after shopping again, I went to the car, put stuff away,
and then we came back. Our first stop was we're
standing near the approach on number three. And as we're
standing there waiting for the ball, you know, the guys
to tee off U all of a sudden a spotter
I'm standing next to the ropes, and the spotter goes
your feet, your feet, your feet, look off for your feet,
and a ball comes rolling and a guy on my left,
the ball hits his foot and rolls back behind the crowd.
So I immediately walk back and I get to stand
right behind. It was Patrick McNeely who was plus one
after two. I'm standing five six feet behind him. As
the ball is in the second cut. I remember they
are not allowed to call it the rough. But when
you look at the grass the second cut for recreational
players who play public golf, the second cut there is
kind of like what our fairways are like the ball
you can still see ninety percent of the ball. It's
sitting up there is no rough. This is not the
US Open, so there's always a great opportunity to hit
the ball. Well. Well, McNeely chipped up to a blind
shot and we don't know to applod or not. We
don't know if it rolled off the green, but the
people behind the green were plotting. It's like, okay, good shot.
He had a fifteen footer that he missed. It slid
to the left of the hole and he got the par.
Then we head over and we're at the number four
tea box and it's only like twenty yards from the
third hole which we just saw and the group of McNeely,
fanw and Dtrie and McNeely was closest to the pin
on that par and these are just notes. Then the
day before Charlie hs Junior told Chet, who you know,
they're good friends, told Chet meet me here at noon
tomorrow and let's have lunch. And so comes up to noon,
we meet Charlie and he's talking to some people and
he introduces us to these other guys and they're entrepreneurs,
fascinating entrepreneurs. And stay tuned because we made to get
a couple of them on the podcast coming up. I'm
working on it. And you'll know then at the time
that these are the people I had lunch with. But
Charlie then takes us into lunch inside the Founder's dining
room and then this is only people that can eat
in there. I'm pretty sure are members and their guests.
So we get to walk in and Charles at the
door was I think his name is Charles Cooley and
he was a past champion that wasn't playing anymore. He's older,
but he's still alive. Let's see here. Yeah, he found
his name and it was Charles Coody from Ableing, Texas.
He wasn't playing, but he was there. So he greeted
us at the door, said hello to Charlie, and we
go in and eating lunch in this Founder's room with
Charlie sharing stories. Again. What a treat, no hats, what
a treat, What a conversation we had afterwards. I have
to go to the bathroom and I'm walk down the
hallway and I'm standing outside the bathroom and this young
woman comes up to me and says, sir, do you
need to use the restroom? I say, yeah, I do,
I'm waiting here. She goes, come with me please, and
she walks me down the hall. She knocks on a
door of a different bathroom and saying housekeeping, and nobody responds.
She goes here, you go, and I get a bathroom
to myself. That's what goes on at the Masters with
the staff. It is remarkable how much every person there,
even in the parking lots, when you're in the parking
lot and you park your car, every single person is
welcome to the Masters. Welcome to the Masters, enjoy your day.
And that's just wherever you go. Later in the day,
I had to go to the bathroom again, you know,
I'm old, and I went to what are the public
bathrooms near one of the halls. He was near six
or something, and there's a gentleman, young man standing at
the doorway of this bathroom going, if you're going number one,
go to the left line. If you're going number two,
stay against the wall. Number one left, number two. And
he's constantly just ongoing and going and going. Fine to him,
and he was great, and he had his beautiful attitude
and he was fun. But this is all that he
was saying. Number one, left line, coming on the left,
number two, stay against the wall. So I said to him,
did you audition for this job. He's like, no, no,
I'm just doing this and it's fun. Said, how are
you doing? He says, this is my fourth year of
doing it and it's the greatest job I've ever had.
And it's one WEEKI year. I love this job and
you just get that feeling from every person you come
in contact with across the board. The staff was fantastic
and they'd really appreciate being there. Now we're going through.
We're walking and as we crossed some of the pine
straw under some of the trees, the pine trees, I realized,
wait a minute, I've got an empty water bottle with
me here. I'm just gonna fill it with pine straw.
This could be the greatest free souvenir I could have,
and there's nothing like it. This is the only place
ever to get something like this. So I filled my
water bottle with pine straw, some twigs I found a
pine cone, and some azaleas that were on the floor.
And so I have this bottle. Now when you open
it up, it smells so great. And the reason I
did this is years ago, my wife and I took
a trip to Alaska. We went on a cruise to Alaska,
and we got on a helicopter and took the helicopter
up to a glacier. And while at the glacier, I
took a rock and it was a you know, not
a boulder and not a pebble, but it was a rock.
It's the probably the size of a softball. And I
keep it in my freezer at home so that when
people come over and they open the freezer, if they
open the freezer or this conversation comes up, they're like,
why is there a rock in your freezer? I said,
because I pulled it off of a glacier and it's
thousands of maybe millions of years old, and I wanted
to make it feel at home. So that's made me
feel like I wanted to bring home some pines trot
from the Masters, and I have that. But a couple
people said, don't let the staff or let anybody see that,
because you could get in trouble for that. Really, okay, fine.
Never observation about Thursday play, and that would be the
speed of the greens. It is mind blowing to see
these guys that are twenty five feet away, thirty feet
away from the hole, and if there's any slope or
down hittle at all. They're hitting a five foot put,
maybe a three foot put, and the fact that they
can get that to the hole and stop near the hole,
or in some cases just keeps going. But the pace
of the greens, the speed of the greens something I've
never witnessed before, and I'm not too interested in playing
something like that, because it is really remarkable to watch.
And the pace of play on the greens. If anyone
ever gives you a hard time about your pace of play,
tell them to watch a professional golf tournament. Pace is
very slow. They're very, very deliberate about every single shot
they take. We shouldn't feel so badly about that. Also,
I can only term this as the roar of the
silence when you have thousands of people standing watching a
golfer and there's absolutely no sound at all. It's dead silent.
The respect, the anticipation is so thick on both sides
that you just can't imagine how quiet it is. But
then it either you'll then you can close your eyes
and know basically what happened. There's either you know, applause,
light applause, or there's oh, a giant grown from the crowd,
or they erupt in excitement and you could just tell
what's happening. We were standing with Mac at one point
the day that day and we heard a crowd scream,
you know, from the other side of the course, not
knowing what happened, but Mac goes up. Somebody got an eagle.
It was crazy. Okay, walking down the tenth fairway, Patrick
Cantley had just hit his drive on number ten and again,
this is a hole that you really can't imagine what
the down slope is like. And if you again on TV,
watch the top of their head versus the horizon and
it'll give you a real good sense of what the
slope of the you know, the downhill and uphill is
and which way they're going. So as we're walking down
this railway, can't we just hit his ball and he's
walking by us, and he's got a sandwich in one
hand and a drink in the other, and all of
a sudden he crosses over the rope, goes over to
a trash can and spits out everything in his mouth,
not throwing up, but just yeah, right, and then walks
back over the ropes, takes another of a bite of
a sandwich and keeps on going. It's like, wait, do
you like it or you don't like what is going
on here? That was like weird number nine. T Sergio
is about to tee off and he's just bringing his
club back a little bit, and all of a sudden,
we hear from behind him and he stops and he
turns around and goes sounded like a phone, And the
officials are sitting there. Police are sitting there. There's armed
police following every single you don't see them, but they're
following every single group on the side on the ropes,
but inside the ropes, and so everyone's looking around. Sergiot's off.
I'm over listening to these officials and they can't identify
where that sound came from. They're thinking maybe it was
a siren from off the chorus. We don't know. We
couldn't figure it out. Then I had a pimento sandwich.
You have to do it right. You have to have
a pimento sandwich while you're there. And the sandwiches and
the prices of the concessions. If you go to sporting
events at all, you know that prices at concessions are
pretty outrageous. Hopefully you can go to Golfsmarter dot com
and see. I'll post a bunch of my photos that
go with this episode my time from there, and hopefully
I'll be able to post it for you. But the
concession stands, I'm queuing up my photograph so I can
read some of the numbers to you on how crazy
it is. Ache salad and pimento cheese sandwiches buck fifty,
the other sandwiches barbecue, pork, Master's Club, chicken salad on
honey wheat, ham and cheese on rye, classic chicken three
dollars apiece. And these are not these. The food is good.
Breakfast served until ten am. Masters blend fresh brewed coffee
two bucks, Chicken biscuit three bucks, breakfast sandwich three bucks,
blueberry muffin two fresh mixed fruit, two fifty. Beverages, this
is amazing. Soft drinks bottled water, fresh brewed iced tea
two bucks. Then the alcohol Crown Nest, domestic beer, import beer,
white wine six bucks. That's expensive for them, right, And
then the snacks apple slices, chips, plain or barbee buck
and a half peanuts, bucks seventy five Southern cheese straws.
Not even sure what that is two bucks, cookies bucks
seventy five and then the new one this year, the
Georgia Peach ice cream sandwich three Bucks. So I did
eat a Pimento sandwich. I did get to do it.
Would I have another one? Not by choice, but if
I'm back at the Masters, I'll do anything if i
can get another chance to go. So after we walked
around seeing various locations, watching different people play. Now, after
Lucas Glover finished the ninth Hole, we went and I
found Mac Barnhard again and he's chatting with the head
of New Era, the hat company, and we talk for
a few minutes and talk about what Lucas is doing.
He's just like I hope Lucas just has to make
the cut. He just okay, he's not having a good
dan on Thursday, but he's gonna put it all together
Friday and I'll make the gut. Well, unfortunately he didn't,
so we're sorry Lucas, and we're sorry man. But another
one of Max's client's, Danny Willett, did make it. It
was much louder on the grounds on Wednesday than it
was on Thursday, because there's a buzz. Everyone's just like
exploring and looking at things and getting a feel and shopping,
and so it was much louder on the chorus. Thursday
was much quieter. But here's something interesting. When you watch
it on TV, you hear the birds a lot, but
when you're there, you don't see any birds. I saw
two in the parking lot. You don't hear them. Occasionally
you might hear a couple of birds, but I think
it's because of these big microphones that they use for
television so they can get the sound of the club
hitting the ball. I think they pick up the limited
sound of birds, unless they're piping in phony bird noises,
it's quite possible. But I was really amazed at how
quiet it was, and even not even bird sounds. When
we were there on fifteen, can't Ley had a show
a couple of shots, a couple groups ahead of Rory
who had the same shot where he was off to
the left of the green on fifteen or behind the green,
and he chipped up and the ball just kept going
and went in the water. I saw Can'tley do that.
I didn't see I didn't get to see Rory do it.
But then at the end of the day, what did
I do? Two days the Master's for shopping spreeze if
I go play a golf course that I've never played
before and I play well, or it's a unique golf course.
Of course, I'm going to go shopping. I'm going to
do something, and by first I'll go to the sail
rack and see if I can find a shirt on
sale or otherwise I'll spend maybe ninety bucks on his
shirt or something. Well, I kind of went crazy. He
went shopping four different times and spent a lot of money.
I don't want to say it because I'm not gonna
just God, don't want my wife to hear it. I
spent a lot of money on a golf course I'm
never going to play. And then we had a two
and a half hour drive back to Atlanta, back to
Jet's house. And I just want to thank you for
letting me share this with you, because you're my closest
golf friend. I mean, we've been talking together for a
long time about golf, and I really am so excited
that I had the opportunity to share this with you.
And is we're only a few weeks away from episode
one thousand. I am blown away and I still don't
know who episode one thousand is, but I did reach
out to a bunch of some of the best people
that we've ever had on Golf Smarter to lead up
to it, and you're hearing it starting now with Doctor
Bob this week, next week and more. We're going to
hear people until everything's recorded. I don't want to say
who it is, but it's going to be a lot
of fun and I only want to send my regards
to the Pells family. I wish that we could have
had Dave Pell's come back again, but we lost him
a few weeks ago and I could not get him
to come back on the show one more time. The
other thing about the podcast is when I was introduced
to people, and I don't go a lot. I'm a podcaster,
you know. If I'm introduced as a podcaster like, oh,
you do a podcast, Yeah, lots of people do podcasts.
But here's the thing. I've been doing my podcast now weekly.
I'm in my twentieth year and I started a year
and a half before the iPhone came out, and that
gets people to go, ooh, that's interesting. So again, thank
you for bearing with me on this. I had a
great time. I can't wait to see what happens at
the end of the day today, when the Masters was beginning,
I had my two picks well Rory and Bryson, and
here they are on Sunday on the final pairing