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Two friends – Dave Gerhardt (@davegerhardt) and Casey Ford (@fordpr) – share their love of golf in podcast form as they talk shop & chat with those who have made golf their long game.
00:00.00
dave_gerhardt
Case How excited are you? This is your week Man is this the week is it? Yeah, it's a good week. It's a good week.
00:03.67
Casey Ford
This is the best wake of the year is it not I think so what else what else rings up there if not masters week.
00:15.76
dave_gerhardt
Wnba playoffs maybe ah June the June same as the finals.
00:17.50
Casey Ford
And what what month does that start since you it's top of mind for you I don't know that's a good question I don't think they put those head to head now.
00:29.79
dave_gerhardt
Ah, yeah, it's a great week. The math the real real golf real golf is here. Um, what is okay so I so I I happen to catch I happen to flip on at the.
00:33.45
Casey Ford
A real real golf. Did you watch yesterday. Who's the event of the year
00:46.34
dave_gerhardt
And because I saw I saw a clip that said winning is hard and um, yeah Denny dumped one into the water in a playoff and yeah, the valera text something. so so I saw that I saw a clip I was like cleaning up some stuff and I saw that and then I went to Youtube Tv and I had it recorded.
00:53.38
Casey Fordakshay
Talking about the the Valero Texas open just.
01:05.29
dave_gerhardt
And I went to the end and I flipped on and it was like at the beginning didn't akshay have like a huge lead and then and then Denny just sucked sucked up a 7 8 whole lead and then I'm watching it and it's like on the seventeenth hole it's like for his eighth birdie in a row and I'm like wait what and then.
01:21.50
Casey Ford
Yeah.
01:23.57
dave_gerhardt
The announcers were like saying that this was the best golf duel that we've seen in a long time and I ended up rewinding a bunch of it and watching it and it was pretty wild and then then I flip I I go to like I don't I don't think this is real time. It was right after it happened and like. akshay's got like a eighty yard wedge shot and he calls in his trainer and and like goes and changes. It was like wait what is happening then I was mad at myself that I didn't see it from the beginning. So.
01:48.83
Casey Ford
You just real quick on that you know how? ah why he needed the trainer right.
01:53.42
dave_gerhardt
Um, no, did he have did he pop his elbow his shoulder back in.
01:55.37
Casey Ford
He put popped his shoulder out celebrating the put he made on eighteen to force the playoff. It was one of the great sporting events I've ever watched in my life he had like a 6 shot lead at the turn.
02:05.85
dave_gerhardt
Hold on hold on. So so sorry if this is not I don't even care if this is interesting for anybody else, but um, so but then they they both had birdie putts on 18 or no.
02:17.72
Casey Ford
Um, yeah, they both made birdie. They both tied with birdie so he caught him on 17 yes and nohay made his.
02:19.25
dave_gerhardt
Um, okay, so so Denny Denny putted first and made his whoa. Okay, and then he fist bumps celebrated because then they like he said I need to get taped up and the announcers couldn't figure out like why. He wanted to get taped right now but it was actually that he needed to get that shoulder popped back in.
02:39.16
Casey Ford
I'm not even I'm not a hundred percent sure it popped out but they said he threw his shoulder out and there was like some concerns about this week at the at Augusta hilarious but like a 6 stroke lead at the turn and Denny Mccarthy just went. Absolutely.
02:46.91
dave_gerhardt
Um, tamp.
02:51.60
dave_gerhardt
Um, he had a 6 that's crazy only only to dump only to dump a wedge in the creek.
02:54.88
Casey Ford
Blackout lights out and then he loses I was I was thinking yesterday. Um, Denny Mccarthy was playing so well, it was almost like I had money on okhay. That's the only kind of way you can be that lights out as if I have money against you. Um. But really, really great tournament I've I've underestimate over the years how much the players really like that course the Valero wherever the hell that is tpc wherever um, yeah, not you I always stop for years like this tournament's been great over the years producing victories like yesterday where someone needs to get to the masters this is kind of their last.
03:18.51
dave_gerhardt
Do they? Yeah yeah.
03:32.52
Casey Ford
Hope I think like jj spa did it a few years ago um but I always thought it was kind of a cake walk course. But obviously Rory played this this week a lot of big name guys played this week pretty good test I mean Rory he kind of thought he was an afterthought this week and just in the back of my head I was like well that's not great going into August and then I look his teeth are did he tie for third or third outright. So that's actually a pretty good week like these 2 guys akshay and Denny just went crazy. But for my money that's that that's the event of the year so far.
04:03.49
dave_gerhardt
I didn't want to do it to you this early on the pod but like Rory missed the cut at the masters last year so we got a we got a we know I'm glad he's playing. Well.
04:06.24
Casey Ford
The.
04:12.60
Casey Ford
He did but we talked we talked about this last week he he teed off in the afternoon and I think he looked at the scoreboard on 1 and he was like 6 or 7 shots behind ah Brooks or Rom and instead of ruined his whole week. So he's not scoreboard watching this week we're good
04:26.66
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
04:29.50
Casey Ford
Um, we'll get into picks in a second. But yeah, interesting time going into the masters I feel like the best players aren't really on top of their game. It's kind of anyone's tournament to win but Denny I didn't realize he had never won before. That's a guy you perenally just always see in the top ten fifteen and these kind of folero type events.
04:49.29
dave_gerhardt
Um, he's like he's like that guy that you're watching the event and you're like I feel like he's like he's a name like what? what? what is he do You have any idea what his world ranking is off the top of your head.
04:54.81
Casey Ford
Um, yeah.
05:01.81
Casey Ford
I know he's in the masters. He didn't need to win yesterday to get in so I really well that's probably a big jump from yesterday coming into but top yeah top 50 gets in the master so he I was gonna say he's probably.
05:07.99
dave_gerhardt
Um, thirtieth thirtieth in the world. Yeah up from last week. He's fit fit fifty first but he's a perfect guy that like um.
05:18.76
dave_gerhardt
So he would have been in he would have been in anyway and so do they do? They run the fifty. Do they run the top 50 like right as as of this week you get in so like Austin Eckorat who's 50 right now or is there a cutoff.
05:19.90
Casey Ford
Somewhere in the high 40 s but he probably got a big jump.
05:33.76
Casey Ford
No I don't think so I think ah I don't know if there's a cutoff but you've seen those fedex masters invites get delivered to people. Um, yeah, that takes they're not fedexing stuff last night at the local Augusta Georgia Fedex
05:42.20
dave_gerhardt
Oh yeah, that's right super early the whole the whole fake. The the fake fake stop Scott Stallings um
05:51.38
Casey Ford
It's so funny I for the past few weeks like there's been a couple first time winners who got in or not first time like Mel Nadi won a few weeks ago he got he got into the masters. Um, but I always forget like I always think like oh you, you win you're in but it's an invitational. So all these guys after they win are always like.
06:07.60
dave_gerhardt
You still wait.
06:09.73
Casey Ford
You know like I don't want to assume historically they've always been but it's pretty funny that augusts they could just be like you know what now I didn't like the way Akshay finished that I didn't like the him throwing out his shoulder on a.
06:16.78
dave_gerhardt
But so but how but how does like in in that example, like of malnati ah like historically they invite all the winners of the last is it like of the last calendar year basically or.
06:28.49
Casey Ford
I think the last seat. Yeah, it's one or two years I think it's I think it might be 1 like ah Villegas gonna be back for the first time for in forever because he won lata the fall. Whatever um and that this year is the first year in a while they've gone back to the calendar year schedule. But.
06:35.71
dave_gerhardt
Because he won in the fall. My man.
06:45.89
Casey Ford
They also have the fall stuff they're looking back in because of the transition. So yeah, there's a lot of people that will be playing for the first time in a while but no Anthony Kim maybe 1 ne day but I was I was gonna say to you. There was a point on Saturday we did a lot of spring cleaning this weekend so I was at the Tv on there was a point on Saturday where I watched. 4 different professional golf events all right? Sorry professionals not the right word 4 different televised golf events and then if you want to add the drive chip and putt on Sunday morning. There was 5 this weekend that I watched correct.
07:13.76
dave_gerhardt
So you watch so you watch the valero Texas open you watch the augusta national women's amateur. So sorry the an why as we say it, you watched live Miami.
07:22.80
Casey Ford
The and why as we say it dave good yeah us amateur women live Miami watch a little bit of it. Yeah.
07:31.88
dave_gerhardt
Did you watch live Miami but ah and there was 2 more was there a lpga tour event you sicko.
07:40.62
Casey Ford
Well yeah, as ah as a hashtag girl dad I don't need to tell you that Nellie Korta won her fourth consecutive event this week which was and this week was ah it was a a match play event. So it's kind of wonky. It wasn't just best person's going to go out there and when so she had to.
07:47.23
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, she won back. She she won four weeks in a row damn.
07:55.90
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah, just kind of decent.
08:00.14
Casey Ford
Fight through brackets and that kind of stuff that's so interesting set up in that they do stroke play for a bunch of days and then I think when they get to 4 or or the last eight they do match play whereas the old Wgc Men's 1 they would do a huge bracket. Ah, but yeah, she won did I get to 5 valero live lpga.
08:12.64
dave_gerhardt
Okay, that was for yeah and why drive chip and putt. How's the drive chip and putt.
08:19.70
Casey Ford
And why drive chip and putt. That's five I only watched for like 5 minutes but they did say first one they ever did I think it was ten years ten years to the day aha was a participant so big big.
08:33.35
dave_gerhardt
He he was so he's been a flusher. Yeah.
08:37.74
Casey Ford
Big circle ah circle life moment there. Ah but I I'll tell you a quick story it got I don't I'm not here to pander. Um I did get wrapped up a little bit into the girl dad women's sports stuff this weekend with Caitlin Clark friday night
08:50.77
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah.
08:54.59
Casey Ford
Want to watch a little bit with my 4 year old daughter. But of course they put that game on it like a nine forty five tip yeah they because she couldn't been couldn't been in the six o'clock game for whatever reason, but um, so then on Saturday um um I get the ammo on.
08:56.14
dave_gerhardt
And done nine thirty at night I don't stay up for that.
09:12.51
Casey Ford
Um, did you catch any of this did you see any of it.
09:15.53
dave_gerhardt
Ah, no, all I know now didn't didn't see any of it I I know I didn't.
09:20.19
Casey Ford
So ah, Lottie Wood was her name. She won I just happen to watch you. She was one back or she was two back I think with like 6 holes to go I think she's a freshman at she's from ah the Uk but she's a freshman at Florida state she birdie's like 13 or 12 or something. So she's one back on the seventeenth t so I'm like this will be cool like I'll have my daughter come down and just maybe watch 2 holes a golf like every time she walks by it's guys playing golf like this would be cool. Maybe she like there's women up here. So I call her down. She's watching like um.
09:47.60
dave_gerhardt
Sure sir.
09:55.40
Casey Ford
Peppa pig so already I'm I'm fighting an uphill battle right? So I'm like watch this. It's ah is that he's favorite golf tournament. They're hosting women this week and probably not the right way to frame it tour like this is my not my favorite but this is where they play my favorite now but I was like watch this.
09:57.80
dave_gerhardt
Don't do do do to dooooooo 2
10:14.28
Casey Ford
Grow goes birdie birdie to win it. My wife happens to come down the stairs as like this the birdie on 18 is rolling in I don't know why I'm recording my daughter watching this for some reason I'm like my eyes are like Misty I'm like about to cry I don't know why. I'm just picturing this young girl I don't know winning at a Augusta my daughter there. My wife comes on the stairs and's just like what the fuck is going on down here I'm like this women's golf on I'm like crying my daughter's like watching peppa pig on her ipad pretending to pay attention. So quite ah, quite a golf weekend for me. Um, harder to put that on yesterday after watching a ton on Saturday but it was a huge golf weekend in our household really got me in the mood.
10:53.25
dave_gerhardt
It's amazing.
10:59.39
dave_gerhardt
So you're already deep you're already. You're already deep into the course that you're you already feel like you're like you've spent a bunch of time watching Augusta so you're already're you're ready for this weekend. There is something there is something about letting about about showing her ah golf. So we.
11:07.80
Casey Ford
Um, it look look crispy.
11:16.46
dave_gerhardt
Been trying to on on Fridays we usually watch a movie together as a family at night. Not that the kids don't watch Tv any other time. It's just like that's kind of when we try to pick something and now throughout the age we try to pick like something that we want to watch too like we'd get enjoyment out of so ah like this week we watched honey I shrunk the kids which is great. Um.
11:20.88
Casey Ford
Right.
11:32.35
Casey Ford
Yeah.
11:35.82
dave_gerhardt
Last week we tried to watch a mighty ducks and you know 20 minutes in the movie. It's all like Gordon Bombay's you know saga and so everyone was bored and they they ejected but.
11:47.92
Casey Ford
Yep.
11:48.54
dave_gerhardt
In all those movies. It's so interesting how like culture and everything has changed like in the in the mid 90 s like all the jokes were like about like all the boys would joke about like being a girl or something like that was the big Dis and like you know my daughter's sitting there watching then she's like she's sick. She's like wait. Why is it? Why is it a joke. Why did they all just say like.
12:06.80
Casey Ford
Yeah.
12:08.41
dave_gerhardt
Like and and so I do think like the more that I try to the more that I see those things I'm like yeah yeah I want to expose her to like to to women playing sports and I do I do appreciate things like that being able to show them like um actually last year no laying up did this? Ah awesome. They did they followed the Stanford women's golf team for a week and it was like an hour and a half like documentary on Youtube and it was awesome and we watched all of it on the couch together and it was it was it was really cool. Just those moments of like oh yeah, okay, this is cool so I can totally understand getting into something like that. Yes.
12:30.10
Casey Ford
Um, yeah.
12:43.42
Casey Ford
It's one of those things like you hear about it all the time but like you don't think you can do it until you see it and there's something of a like if if I if I haven't even recognized myself that my daughters never walk by and not seen just old men playing golf.
12:46.76
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
12:57.82
dave_gerhardt
Um, right? Yeah yeah, my growing up my cousin. She was an amazing golfer and like her dad always had her around the course and like.
12:59.49
Casey Ford
Like it was just this kind of click for me like oh yeah I guess and and look I I'll watch any golf I've said that forever but just when she walks by it's.
13:14.97
dave_gerhardt
When she was like in tenth grade. She was like she could hit the ball real good and like was hitting bombs and I like man that would be like that'd be the best feeling ever to have your daughters be like an amazing golfer and being out there on the course. Um, everybody's joining me right now because there's an eclipse and there's no school today here in Vermont. Um. This is the this is the the world. The the world location. This is the best location in the world for the eclipse today. So we're all we're all excited we have every version of eclipse classes we have ah you know we've run the gamut on making sure that nobody loses their vision today. So we have we have every precautionary measure that you could imagine. Yes.
13:40.50
Casey Ford
Do you have? ah your eclipse classes.
13:50.32
Casey Ford
Gotcha my wife asked me last night do you have eclipse classes and I checked my pockets and I didn't that's something I think you have to intentionally plan ahead for and I was like oh Amazon says they could get here by Wednesdays when's the next one couple decades.
13:59.28
dave_gerhardt
Um, yeah, yeah, you check your pockets hey I also um I spent some more time catching up on full swing this past weekend. Ah Tom Kim episode leading into the masters I thought I would bring up to you where.
14:08.13
Casey Ford
Good.
14:17.79
dave_gerhardt
Young Tom Kim goes to the masters for the first time and he accidentally stumbles his way into the champions locker.
14:22.99
Casey Ford
Credible. We talked about this a few weeks ago. How like I came to the realization I thought that that show's not for me I love it. It's really good like I'll devour it in 2 or 3 days every year it comes out but I don't get frustrated with the the. With the really um I don't know our repetitive stuff that we already know because that's for the masses they're trying to appeal everyone. That's the kind of stuff that is for me that kind of stuff like Tom Kim wandering into the the I like no one telling him? no.
14:50.78
dave_gerhardt
It was amazing. He well and but but he no one told him no but he was very uncomfortable like he was like I think I'm not supposed to be in here like I felt like yeah.
14:58.71
Casey Ford
You could tell it's like when a kid does something that they know they're not supposed to do but they're pretending they kind of don't know. It's like oh I guess no.
15:06.51
dave_gerhardt
Yeah I I actually thought of you I'm like oh my gosh Casey would be like an amazing person to like accent if Casey like accidentally stumbled into the champions lock room at Augusta like full full panic like just out of respect I'm not.
15:15.95
Casey Ford
I I withdraw from the tournament. Yeah, this one's on me. Yeah, totally one hundred percent yeah that kind of stuff like the I think it's in the first thirty seconds of the whole season but like Matt Fitzpatrick just lathering himself with sunscreen like that's.
15:23.25
dave_gerhardt
Um, not even going to play this week
15:35.94
Casey Ford
That's the behind this scenes stuff I don't feel like we get like a lot of that we've been getting a lot of tour personalities over the last two years maybe not for the right reasons but ah, that's just a cool reminder of like these are or like a the speed hadwin Ricky thing where they're just firing balls at the porta potty right? like I know that's like childish to but.
15:43.50
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah.
15:53.28
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, well I think I think because on Tv You just what we don't see on Tv You just see them play and then you realize like oh man, these people are they're traveling together every week. They're always around each other you know, even just like.
15:55.15
Casey Ford
It's cool like it's it's we don't get enough of that.
16:06.76
dave_gerhardt
Playing like local golf tournaments in Vermont you end up like having a couple buddies and you make jokes with on the range. It's like oh on that on that scale like you know there's obviously some stuff that goes on so it was nice. Um I'm up through the fitzpatricks episode.
16:14.72
Casey Ford
So what episode would you say you're through. Are you done? Are you just up through that 1 or like 6 or 7. What do you think of that one.
16:26.80
dave_gerhardt
Ah, um, it was good that was good. It was good I was I I don't I don't I didn't give you on I was trying to give you the answer you you were ah trying of think about like what were you looking for when you asked me that question. Um.
16:31.15
Casey Ford
Um, okay enough said.
16:40.71
Casey Ford
That's not what we do here. Dave.
16:42.33
dave_gerhardt
I thought it was I thought it was cool and I actually I was surprised at how open you know Alex was about being in Matt's shadow um because I wouldn't have guessed that from the outside I think being open but it's weird because it seems like they have a good relationship like it doesn't seem.
16:58.71
dave_gerhardt
Um, doesn't seem like they're like it doesn't seem like he's like resentful of like he can. Both things can be true like please please not right now. Both both things can be true like he he can want to be out of his shadow but he doesn't like have this like crazy deep hatred and resentment of his brother. Um.
17:02.58
Casey Ford
Um, no.
17:18.18
dave_gerhardt
Also just the juxtaposition of like makes you realize like how much success Matt has had and like to the average person. Nobody's going to recognize Matt Fitzpatrick but that guy's made like millions and millions of dollars. He's won a ton of time. Did he win the am and the junior am he won the he won both did you win both Ams. Do you know that? yeah.
17:37.33
Casey Ford
Ah I don't know if you won the junior he won the the US amateur and the US open at the country club.
17:37.48
dave_gerhardt
Baby. Okay, so he won that so he won the so right? Okay, so so he's won he's won a major like he's going on the private jet his ah you know his caddie is Billy Foster like then you got.
17:46.30
Casey Ford
Know Yeah, he's got the flashy braces I know he's good. He's get the he's get the attractive of fiancee.
17:53.75
dave_gerhardt
Not a more know he looks great now he they're they're off now he's like it's kind of a he's kind of a handsome young lad Now she she gambled and she and she won you know, like when those braces came off. It's all good.
18:03.37
Casey Ford
Yeah, ah real I believe I saw stuff where they were practicing going into the week I didn't see them yesterday. Maybe they're a contention but Alex apparently caddied for his girlfriend in the and 1
18:14.61
dave_gerhardt
Oh so that was another thing that was pretty cool seeing them just like hang out at the wake Forest practice facility and she's a player like did he play did he play college golf somewhere.
18:18.72
Casey Ford
Yeah.
18:26.91
Casey Ford
He must ah I mean how many guys can you know finish what like top 5 in the in the open and not play college call. He must have played I'm not sure we when I know Fitz went to northwestern but ah he he was his caddy for that us amateur at Brookline too.
18:31.18
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
18:41.51
dave_gerhardt
I Saw that just a young little young kid.
18:44.77
Casey Ford
So I did I did a deep dive in them before I went to that out here in the Boston area a few years ago so I kind of knew a little bit about his backstory and when Matt won us open was at last summer or two summers ago they had a lot of cameras on him and his his mom and his family.
18:58.32
dave_gerhardt
So.
18:59.91
Casey Ford
Um, so I kind of knew a little bit of the back story. So I actually thought that was one of the better episodes I've just the reason I asked that and maybe you were thinking I was going to go different ways. I've heard some backlash on that episode. But I to me that's like I think they're trying to show you in that different types of people right? There's like the superstar people. The rorys. There's the. Ah, young guys like the Tom Kims the the phenoms but there's also this other kind of journeymen um kind of grade of of amateur player who any we can have a great week now I just don't think people enjoyed that episode as much I think I saw a bunch of rankings and that was one of the.
19:27.33
dave_gerhardt
What was the bat. What was the backlash.
19:37.23
Casey Ford
Lower ranked ones? Um, but for me that was one of 1 of the more memorable ones.
19:39.40
dave_gerhardt
I mean what I have liked to see more about like this is why Matt Fitzpatrick chips cross-handed type. Yes, but again, that's not that's not what that. Yeah like when i.
19:48.58
Casey Ford
Right is now is that what Netflix is is trying to do yeah exactly like we need like ah we need like an outtake version of this that's on like golf pass or something where we're you know it's like the behind the scenes stuff that we would care about.
20:03.85
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, and and I I mean they're just so they're brothers. They swing it so differently like I think the whole thing is fascinating to me like um anyway we got to talk about the masters man we got I'm ready I'm ready to give you your glivy your your flowers. Your.
20:12.51
Casey Ford
Yeah.
20:19.17
Casey Ford
Do can I Just can I cut I Just before we get to that just before we go fully to the masters. We get to do a little housekeeping here where we're many weeks behind on this and we can fly through it but we haven't updated the title sponsor challenge in a while. Okay.
20:20.93
dave_gerhardt
My master's my master's knowledge. Yeah, you can You can go ahead.
20:37.49
dave_gerhardt
I Um I'm ready. Yeah.
20:39.60
Casey Ford
So we're going back a few weeks. Um I think it was called the Texas children's Houston open. You know what Texas children's does yeah, got be I'm not even going to check that one so that's an easy one. How about valspar.
20:46.30
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, it's got hospital got to be like a hospital like Boston Children's Hospital
20:55.66
dave_gerhardt
Um, valspar.
21:00.58
Casey Ford
Feel like this is one of the easier ones on tour not like a John John deere but ah or an at and t pro m but.
21:05.98
dave_gerhardt
I don't know is it like Valero is the next one and that's like that's oil and gas is valspar also oil and gas. Oh no, no, no wait stop stop stop stop is valspar paint.
21:16.67
Casey Ford
I would say it's in the camp. Yes isn't the isn't the trophy like a paint bucket or something. Ok.
21:24.39
dave_gerhardt
Let's go. You're asking me I have I don't know this you were like yeah what do you mean? Ah, it's the the Hero world challenge. It's all the motorcycles I like I've never noticed that sure let's go alright.
21:36.77
Casey Ford
Well, they have the motorcycles in every t box that's ah, that's why I had that reaction that one but there's so you got 3 out of 4 and you got most all of them. But there's 1 we missed? Um, and maybe this is too soon. But there's one term that we missed. Do you know what? Arnold Palmer does
21:53.83
dave_gerhardt
Um, iced tea is half iced tea half lemonade.
21:54.52
Casey Ford
I guess so yeah, um I I play with a guy that knew him once and they their take was Arnold Palmer does anything that can walk so we'll move on from that all right? So we're we're caught up. You know.
22:07.86
dave_gerhardt
Um, heyo. There's a clip hey I would listen to you know, listen my guys listen my guys on shotgun start and you know they're more enlightened like I'll see a golf course and think it looks amazing and they're like this is the worst golf course you could ever play.
22:12.47
Casey Ford
You don't hear that you hear the tiger on that a lot not not Arnold.
22:22.72
Casey Ford
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:25.17
dave_gerhardt
In the world and and so anyway Andy was saying that ah wherever they played what was last week Texas children's um, that Houston course is like a public course and it's very accessible and so that that part of it is that part of it is pretty cool but anyway shrink shrink the game. Let's talk about Augusta.
22:30.32
Casey Ford
Yeah, yeah, Houston.
22:40.31
Casey Ford
Um, yeah.
22:43.46
dave_gerhardt
Dude who's this the title sponsor here is ah I would be this is this is like the tournament though like tell me like if you're like how nervous would you be about you know.
22:45.79
Casey Ford
It's usually Mercedes rolex and at and t I think so we know what they do.
22:58.70
dave_gerhardt
Not just playing in this tournament. But if if you're like if you're some amateur or someone who got in randomly you know, deep deep in the world ranklings you got in here somehow you got to invite like this is the 1 place that like you show up like if you you know you walk into the wrong room at the Valero Texas open you're like okay oops my bad. Where's the bathroom right.
23:14.95
Casey Ford
Um, yeah, um.
23:16.94
dave_gerhardt
This place I feel like I would just be on edge from like the minute I got there.
23:19.51
Casey Ford
So I've been for practice around years ago it is it's that vibe everywhere you're like you feel like you're in. Um, yeah, well not as a player definitely as a patron ah you feel it.
23:29.54
dave_gerhardt
Um, did you feel that as a patron like as ah as a patron. Yeah.
23:39.22
Casey Ford
Every like just lining up to we got we got there so early it was like as the gates open up and you get there so early and there's constantly people reminding you like there's no running. There's but it's almost like a self-governing thing like the the mood is so ah, Principal Principal's office. I mean it's beautiful, but it's very buttoned up and you kind of know that going into it's people don't really push the limits speaking speaking of shock on start I was listening this morning. They had an anecdote from the an ah did you I don't know if you heard this, but the the girl who won um.
24:03.88
dave_gerhardt
Um, and.
24:16.26
Casey Ford
Was been bloodty wode apparently before she made her putt on 18 a security guard came up behind her father and whispered in his ear. This isn't the u open. There's no yelling here right before his daughter is about to win the enma so they were they were they were debating like.
24:30.76
dave_gerhardt
Um, way what.
24:34.43
Casey Ford
Is this a master's thing or or like I guess the national thing or is this a Rogue security Garden We've all been through ah Rogue security guards your daughter.
24:35.49
dave_gerhardt
Um, like if if you when you're just supposed to be like and and that's such how is that even true. So so whoever Wins a masters. No one's leg yelling that's that get out here. It's no way.
24:48.88
Casey Ford
Well, that's what they were saying they're like you think Charlie was yelling when his dad won in 2019 anyway ah Gus is one of these places like they can have as many rules as they want I don't care like that place is so cool. That's fun.
24:52.13
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
25:06.12
Casey Ford
Um, and as someone who's been there. Dave they don't a lot of people don't know this tv doesn't really do justice to the course of how flat it is. It's like Florida it's flat completely flat. Um.
25:12.80
dave_gerhardt
Oh really I haven't heard that I've never heard that. Yeah.
25:22.51
Casey Ford
No, so yeah, it's ah it's a incredible.
25:23.79
dave_gerhardt
That's why what's why your boy can't can't make it a round and a half there because it's like walking everest.
25:29.78
Casey Ford
Exactly exactly. So you said right before we got on here. You had some picks you were drawing down. Ah do you want to you want you want to do some picks you want to get into some um I got some guys I think might be contenders and then some long shot guys. But however, you want to do it.
25:34.27
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd love I love to do there? Yeah and just just let it be known. Let it be known I'm coming for your ass. Ah with all this golf course stuff I'll be at the masters. Not sure when I'll but I'll be there like this is this. You know. First I had once once I got now I got now I've been to Pinehurst, the whole everything's open where where am I going to go I'm going to go to um ah pine valley seminal saboic augusta is it because I'm jewish ah there you know is is um.
26:05.19
Casey Ford
You're not going to Pine Valley no No no one can get into Pine Valley Pine Pine Valley is the harder than Augusta to get on please I know for I know 4 people that have played Augusta national.
26:12.25
dave_gerhardt
Not even Jj Redick so I'm coming I'm coming you know I get it. Do you? Yeah, that's pretty nuts that that's pretty wild I did like that Bob Craft Edelman Story you sent clip. You sent me.
26:20.96
Casey Ford
I don't know a single person that's played Pine Valley
26:32.22
dave_gerhardt
Anyway, I'm gonna so so for picks I decided to go with them not who I think is going to win I decided to pick 3 I got 4 picks I got 4 picks and these are Dave's who I want to win the masters. Okay are you? Okay, with that all right.
26:37.12
Casey Ford
Smart hey.
26:45.93
Casey Ford
Okay, who you want I like this? yeah.
26:50.18
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, this is who I want who do I think is going to win scottie schuffler I would love to see I would love to see ah a rom Rory Brook like I just want to see a stack like I want that to happen. That's not a pick. No this is just commentary. This is color commentary. This is Kyle Porter you know Dada here's my here's mistake.
26:59.38
Casey Ford
Is that a is that a pick or those your picks. Ok yeah.
27:09.48
dave_gerhardt
Who I want to win now this is not in a particular order number one who I want to win. Um, he hits the ball very far. Ah, he's very smart. He may have gotten himself in a little bit of a pickle with the golf ball video two weeks ago ah number 1 on my list of who I want to see when the masters is Bryson Dechambeau ah plus 3500 if you like those odds.
27:30.54
Casey Ford
I like it can we pause just for a second and just I'll give you the floor just a minute to talk about that video. He didn't even have to watch it to to get it but go for it.
27:44.60
dave_gerhardt
Okay, so so the the I'll talk about the video. Um super interesting. so so Bryson Bryson has a video on his Youtube channel where he played with a rollback a a rolled back ball.
27:48.72
Casey Ford
Let's set with the video if people didn't know what the video is.
27:57.41
dave_gerhardt
Apparently it was like a Nike it was like a older Knight was at Nike ball or something like that and basically what happens is the ball just kind of you know floats on him and so he hits like a big hook and he says oh I hit that a little bit off the heel and if that was my ball it probably wouldn't have gone here.
27:59.85
Casey Ford
Thanks I yeah.
28:15.62
dave_gerhardt
And everybody made a big deal without it because everyone's like Bryson unintentionally just advocated for the rollback now I so understand that but I also think he he's not He's not done everybody likes to paint him they like to shit on Bryson but like he's very smart. He. He knows about that what he's saying is he doesn't want to play with that ball. He wants to play with the new technology and so I under I understand that I like I think I think that's what he was. That's what he's trying to show he was trying to show like there is a big difference like this is how the game is now this is the ball that we use.
28:37.32
Casey Ford
Okay.
28:49.13
Casey Ford
Yeah, yeah, he's one of those guys I think he just people are are they have their finger at all times on the dunk button know I mean like anytime they can smell it. They're like we're going to dunk on Bryson and that I mean look a lot of these guys created their own world with that stuff. Um, but.
28:51.36
dave_gerhardt
Um, um.
28:57.37
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
29:04.18
dave_gerhardt
They did and golfers are you know we've golfers are the worst and there's always been that kid since you were playing in eighth grade and you got that you.
29:07.80
Casey Ford
Yeah, it was just.
29:15.56
dave_gerhardt
Kid with the collared shirt. You know, buttoned all the way to the top and iron covers in your group and you're like man what is this and that's how people feel about Bryson that's all right? So Bryson is number 1 on that list would love to see him when ah I love him. Love him see him get a award.
29:22.36
Casey Ford
Yeah, every every shaft the same length we Ah, we've all played with those kids.
29:29.56
Casey Ford
I will say he's probably the funniest pick I think it would be hilarious to see him like have to just like he's in the club now right? I think he tried to like film a Youtube video at the champions dinner and someone would get pissed off. Yeah.
29:34.17
dave_gerhardt
Thank you.
29:41.27
dave_gerhardt
Um, yeah, it'd be great. He should be there. He should be there um number two on my list. Not not not really funny one just as somebody that I like and I enjoy and he's grown on me a allows ah max home. Ah I'd love to see max be in the mix. At a major which is something I don't think we've seen Maxus plus 4000 ah you know I'm just giving you the odds you're going to ruin up I don't know it's as it's yeah, it's just yeah, plus 4000 that's what I call it 40 to 1.
30:06.87
Casey Ford
For that. What is it say I don't what read the numbers to me I don't think it's 4000 but is it for zero zero zero that's ah 40 to one they call it. It's but that's 40 It's forty forty to one odds I don't know I won't pretend to know it? yep.
30:18.86
dave_gerhardt
Okay, all right? So so Bryson is 35 to one max is 40 to 1
30:24.37
Casey Ford
And those are crazy odds for for anyone. That's you know a former major champion. So good. Good value there. Yep.
30:30.61
dave_gerhardt
Can't well so bryson is a former major championship max is not ah number 3 on my list is cam young cam young should be involved in a major if you're gonna do it. It just feels like on but it feels like a good one for him.
30:40.27
Casey Ford
You're going to do it. Why not do it there. Oh oh real quick I meant to do this at off the top with you. This has to do with him. Let's do a quick 4 person draft right now I'll give you I'll give you the first and last pick you tell me what pick you want but we're going to draft what I think are the 4 best players that have never won.
30:46.96
dave_gerhardt
Yes.
30:51.19
dave_gerhardt
Um, okay, okay.
30:59.38
dave_gerhardt
Um, okay, go ahead who so so we got cam young. Oh.
31:01.42
Casey Ford
So we'll have to each and whoever wins First this is a this is gonna be a long, a long term thing I got is debt I'm Goingnna call I'm gonna put Denny in there just because of yesterday. Maybe he's not met. You could argue with through the four should be but we'll put Denny in there bo hosttler.
31:13.88
dave_gerhardt
Um, all right, get it.
31:16.89
Casey Ford
Bo husler. There's a great article a few weeks ago or months ago on I think it was golf dot com there's like 16 guys ever that have made 10000000 on tour. No wins. He's one of them our boy ah Brent Brendan de young's on that list too anyway. So we got ah did did do up.
31:26.85
dave_gerhardt
Um, he's made that much money. Wow.
31:33.43
dave_gerhardt
Um, he didn't win Bret young never won so but yeah, yeah, ah.
31:35.17
Casey Ford
Denny not on the pga to ah Denny Bow Bow Hosttler Cam Young and tommy flutwood I'll give you the first pick. What do you want there.
31:49.13
dave_gerhardt
Now is this like who is most likely to to win or okay I'm gonna take cam I'm gonna take cam I can tell who's not gonna be. It's never gonna be. It's not gonna be tommy fleetwood I Just feel like he's just.
31:50.73
Casey Ford
Who just whoever wins the for their first term at first wins just a 4 person pod thing ah for a for a forsome pod here who we drafting out of this pod art. Really.
32:08.54
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, just to have that like just he feels like that like European stud but like wait a second Tommy he he never he never want like oh my gosh.
32:15.17
Casey Ford
But those are the guys that win like I can see him at like 32 winning the open. Yeah I mean like Tommy I'll say right now. Tommy fleet was gonna win the open at some point.
32:22.82
dave_gerhardt
Now like ah or went no way. Maybe yeah like he's 40 and it's like this huge historic like can you believe it.
32:30.26
Casey Ford
It's like a shame a Shane Lowery kind of situation I know he won like basically in his hometown that open but ah these journeymen guys who like they grow up playing in like terrible european weather at some point run into a victory whether it's Jane Lowerry whether it's ah, what's his name I god i.
32:33.19
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah.
32:42.34
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
32:47.41
Casey Ford
Remember his name Darren Clark all those years ago like he never had ah anything and then running into 1 towards you that was a major but okay I'm going to take fleetwood and I'll take be so you got cam and Denny I got I got bow and Tommy all right sorry to let's get back to your master's picks I just want to be on the record there.
32:49.57
dave_gerhardt
Um, Darren Clark
33:01.35
dave_gerhardt
Right? So so. so Bryson so bryson 35 to one max 40 to 1 cam young 40 to 1 and you want to talk about a guy I don't know nothing about gambling I don't know the course. How do they got my number 4 on my list is my man. Phil Mickchelson Ten Thousand plus ten thousand citizen it is that a hundred to one ten. it's it's tenth it's the number 10000 him and tiger him and tiger. It's a 1 with four zeroes.
33:24.87
Casey Ford
I many zeros they say face it Ten Zeros as like we get some money together and put on that. Yeah I mean they're they're tied Tiger and Phil are had the same odds. That's insane filled finished.
33:39.67
dave_gerhardt
This guy? Yeah tiger and Phil you finished second and I don't know and you saw that caddy video you just saw ceno's boy you saw the caddy video you sent me that guy's got the best green reader. He's the best green reader on planet earth on his bag.
33:44.10
Casey Ford
Second or third last year I mean he had a shot like a shot like a 52 on sunday.
33:53.70
Casey Ford
It tell tell that real quick because we get geno working on that now.
34:00.18
dave_gerhardt
Ah so ah, Phil gets a new caddy. He you know his brother Tim was his caddy. He gets a new caddy this guy John Scal John Yarborough something like that cjao messages me. He's like you won't believe this and the more that I've gotten to know this guy. He's like an onion where like he's He's like first cousin is Lindsey Lohan it's like he's just insists that in. Yeah, it's insane. It's he's just like he's a character and the more layers you go with him. You're like wait. What and he's like yeah I got so many things I haven't told you yet either and so he's like yeah I was I I played golf with this guy. He was a good buddy of mine of high school. He was a senior.
34:20.61
Casey Ford
Ceno your your golf coach. Yeah.
34:35.91
dave_gerhardt
Was a sophomore. He used to give me rides and I feel like we've all had that relationship with somebody and so he says yeah I message him you know he said oh thank you bla bla blah that you send me this video and Phil sends this video of like you know John Yarlborough is the best green reader I've ever worked with and he's like he's out there doing aimpoint and Phil's like come in here is this such a good video's like. Come in here real quick What do you think What do you think? so like here Phil makes a 30 footer boom next clip is like you know John's out there doing an aimpoint again he like you like it right here. Yeah right? The flag Phil makes another but boom it was like the best 1 minute Instagram video I've ever seen and so Phil at 100 to 1 with Johnny johnny y on the bag and Janko connection im. I'm saying I um I guarantee a top clip this for next week Guaranteed top 10 finish for Phil in the masters this week book it plus a bryson win. We got those guys. It's going to be a live a live centric top 10 that's all I can say.
35:18.80
Casey Ford
Wow.
35:27.65
Casey Ford
Well if you if you let me give you those odds. It's good. You might want to vamp for a second because it to take me a little while to scroll down for 5 minutes to find Phil at the bottom of this list. But um I want to find it. You have his top 10 odds there. Oh here we go ah 12 to 1 top 10
35:35.14
dave_gerhardt
Um, I'm just and I'm just on and but like no do I have his top 10 odds you're asking the guy who who cited him as I cited my first guy as plus 4000 you're asking me if I have the top 10 odds.
35:44.83
Casey Ford
12 to 1
35:51.45
Casey Ford
Fire up this this starlinking and give me his odds. Um, no I like it. Um I mean that would be if Phil Micholson won the masters this week that would be tiger and like 86 Jack on steroids right? at.
35:54.53
dave_gerhardt
Ah, starling.
36:06.29
dave_gerhardt
Yeah I'll give you 1 more.
36:08.92
Casey Ford
It would be the most because he he he's struggling to get top 50 in a 64 team league and live so we'll see.
36:15.29
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, does it doesn't matter. He's gonna turn on I'll give um, ah I'll give you my what 1 1 last pick and then I'll shut up and I'd like to hear your your thoughts for this this my last. My last thing is like the um, the number 1 the number 1 player who I do not want to see win this week like I do not. I do not need a wyndham clark masters win like if someone if wyndham wins the masters like that's not what I'm looking. That's not what I'm here for this weekend. That's all, no disrespect to wyndham he's a great player I just feel like that's like a. Feels to me like a louis oosthuizen being in the mix like ah just one of those guys you're like oh Louis is great. He had a he had a great run two years ago it's just one of those names like I just want when it's a major I want to look at the leaderboard and I want to see the guys. There.
36:51.80
Casey Ford
What's wrong with Louis Louis louis one of my all time favorites.
37:03.57
Casey Ford
Yeah, yeah.
37:06.71
dave_gerhardt
Ah, it's like seeing Brian Harmon up by 6 shots on Sunday you're like so anyway, all right? What do you got.
37:11.20
Casey Ford
Yeah, ah, real quick I've been saying this a lot recently. There's no player I've done a one eighty on more in the last probably year or really ever in my golf fandom them Wyndham and it wasn't even that Netflix episode.
37:25.39
dave_gerhardt
Because he meditates.
37:29.21
Casey Ford
Now the best part about that Netflix is episode is it's mostly center around him working with um, kind of like a mental coach. This woman who helps them kind of stay. Yeah, it's like he had a is a lot of anger issues when that came out.
37:37.37
dave_gerhardt
And Julie. Now. She's like no now tell me tell me what tell me what you think was that was it really a bad shot.
37:48.87
Casey Ford
Ah, the week that came out that that weekend I forget what tournament was but like the first clip I saw him was like hitting one in the water and just like d d d d like just completely snapping like go in fairness that that episode was filmed a year ago so maybe things have gone backwards. But.
37:59.36
dave_gerhardt
I Love that.
38:08.83
Casey Ford
Ah, his odds are are just crazy high for who is I think arguably the second best player in the world in the last twelve months right who's been better than him other than scotty in the last year going back to last year's augusta and his what were his odds he was on my list. Um, he was 30 to 1 me come on 30 to 1 is is crazy put give some context here I think ah purdue we're filming this Monday morning purdue is plus 2 20 against you on tonight and they're a huge underdog.
38:46.52
dave_gerhardt
So is that 2 to is 2 with 2 20 be 2 to 1 that's 2 That's to roughly 2 to 1
38:48.76
Casey Ford
I know people and I know people know how odds works. Yeah, a little more than 2 to one tonight it's like a hundred move win to whatever to and change. We're talking about 30 to 30 to 1 for the second best player in the world right now he's I don't know if he's played I guess I don't think so right he was one of the guys that said he wouldn't play until he could qualify. Ah.
38:55.46
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah.
39:08.31
Casey Ford
Scottie's 4 to 1 So like think of those odds is scotty almost you know 8 9 times more likely to win than windham maybe but um, so.
39:09.32
dave_gerhardt
I know.
39:17.83
dave_gerhardt
Ah, it's almost so it's like I appreciate how good Scott like just to think like think about how good Rory is at golf how much pressure to feel like if you're Rory going into this this masters or.
39:30.62
dave_gerhardt
Even Scotty I guess scotty doesn't have scotty has less to lose than Rory Rory's never won the masters but just like to be that good and everyone expects you to win the masters. It's got to be just it's an insane feeling.
39:37.71
Casey Ford
Well, he's the hardest kind of guy to to beat because he really doesn't make mistakes so it's just he's going to party to death and then if he gets hot on the putter. He's like that's a thing with scottie like he is He's not the greatest putter but he just doesn't make big numbers so he doesn't need to make. A ton of birdies because he's going to be so close that he's going to make x amount of 10 footers that he needs to make around a weekend. Ah a week and that's the thing it's like it's so hard for these guys. We always talk about like oh Roy's never won the masters like you have to outplay not just yourself but like.
39:57.53
dave_gerhardt
So right.
40:03.60
dave_gerhardt
Yeah.
40:16.53
Casey Ford
Everyone's best week like Akshay or Denny Mccarthy shooting a 32 or sorry, what do you shoot a 28 yesterday on the back 9 like you never know when that's going to happen so you just got to take the odds when you get them the value when you get them so I got I wrote down a bunch of people. Rory. I'm going to bet Rory every single year in the masters till he gets one. Um, it's just my pledge so 10 to one I hope he's I think he's playing well he came in third this week ah to me it doesn't matter if you're playing well heading into a augusta because many people play 3 great rounds here. And they're playing well and then they blow up on Sunday so it's really about like.
40:50.49
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, well just like how do you? How do you get on the first T and you know the key to playing great golf is having no expectations and how do you just get on the how does rory get on the first T and he's like you know what fuck it like it just how hard is that to do right? I.
41:04.35
Casey Ford
Well I ah I know we keep bringing this up but like he's talked about it for a year now to tell you how important is to him is he's like I can't look at the scoreboard if I have an afternoon tea time at the masters like I can't look at the scoreboard when I'm off the first t and see. Ah, shit I'm 6 back then you make a bogey in your first few holes like now I'm 7 like you can you can't you can't do that in golf because it's such a long ride and if you scoreboard watch you're you're going to be just killing yourself all week. So I think it's for him. It's like just playing in the moment so he never plays the Rory never plays a week before ah the masters too and he played this week so maybe he's ah this could be his year had a wild week in Texas but ah, did you watch or see any of the coverage from the speed experiment this week. What he did it. Ah.
41:42.74
dave_gerhardt
I see you got Rory i.
41:50.20
dave_gerhardt
You this speed experiment. No just like him playing was it not good. No.
41:56.19
Casey Ford
Ah, you ah like his opening around you know the speed scorecard where it's just like looks like your daughter was drawing on it like it's there's zero pars I think he had an 8 and a one back to back or something. Yeah, it an Ace and a triple or something ah do yourself a favor after this.
42:00.84
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like he makes he makes a million birdies and a bunch of doubles and bunch of boat. Yeah.
42:15.80
Casey Ford
Take a look at the relief he got yesterday. He hit the clubhouse on purpose to get specific relief like went like two hundred and fifty yards out of the way just to hit the roof of a clubhouse just so he could get relief which is I wouldn't call it the spirit of the game but he's driving the ball well and he's and.
42:28.76
dave_gerhardt
I Love that and.
42:34.44
Casey Ford
He he was so up and down. He's still finished top 10 he's on my list this week. He's ah 20 to one I think that's those are pretty good numbers. Hadeki masam is playing really well too. He won earlier this year. He's kind of been in contention or at least top 10 a lot of the the tournaments coming down the stretch here. And mentioned windham at 30 to 1 another guy 30 to 1 I like Ludig did you see the clip this week of him driving the green without a driver the driver head that's pretty cool, right.
43:00.20
dave_gerhardt
I did um it didn't break it just flew off. So I'm like a little bit like it's possible but I did watch a video with him I did watch a me me and my golf which is a great Youtube channel these guys just kind of do golf instruction. They did a segment with him on driver and he just like. Effortlessly it made you real I think I think in my world I hit the ball pretty far like I can carry it to 80 which is pretty cool. He gets out of there. No warm up in this first drive of the day he carried it three 10 and I'm like oh my god like his drive. His driver is just so insane and I think he's a great fit for for. For augusta so I I love I love ludwig I wish he was like a wild person I like want to like him more because I wish he was like a wild personality. He's like why I love why I love Bryson he's so long and he's wild and he just has a great personality with Ludwig I'm like ah he's kind of got like a scotty personality.
43:51.68
Casey Ford
Well I think but I think you might just be making the case for him right? because like you need I think you need a kind of guy that has no like pulse good for for better or worse right? Like if he's what is he 22 23 like if he is the lead on Sunday you want a guy that looks like he. You know has a resting heart rate at whatever like I don't think of like Bryson's never won think of guys that are like manic on the golf course like speedath 1 but I don't think space one since he's become this whatever version of speeds been the the last what seven or eight years where he's just kind of just a wild golfer out there and and.
44:13.38
dave_gerhardt
And like my boy Patrick.
44:30.65
Casey Ford
Is all over the place but a lot of the guys I think are just those kind of rock solid guys like Scotty's the perfect example of that who else I have real quick Willie Z, Zalitoris like 1 of the best ah stroke screen but ah strokes gained record at Augusta Not A Ton of rounds. But um, he's played.
44:41.39
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, so.
44:49.81
Casey Ford
Well recently a few times Russell Henley playing well just one of those random guys you're like oh fuck I didn't bet on Russell Henley um I bet he'll be in contention and I'll give you one I'll give you 2 long shots here Eric Van Rooyen either first round leader or winner. Ah, 250 to 1 or or as you would say 25001 and Ryan Fox same out odds 250 to one. His father was a all time New Zealand rugby player. Those are my those are my picks for the week and I will always be rooting for tiger.
45:11.47
dave_gerhardt
Evr is.
45:17.49
dave_gerhardt
I Like those like that.
45:28.54
Casey Ford
Um, and just to jump on your bandwagon. My least valuable person I don't want to see when Sergio would probably be top of that list. Always.
45:37.17
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, not even close. Not even no chance he makes the cut Sergio all right I'm excited I'm excited to watch some golf I will watch the golf this week and I promise you that um, good luck. Good luck to bryson. Um, definitely sunday.
45:44.20
Casey Ford
How many days you think? yeah.
45:52.53
dave_gerhardt
Definitely Sunday afternoon like Sunday definitely I'll probably watch a bunch a bunch of it on Thursday afternoon Friday afternoon Saturday is the day that I tbd but I'm excited um all right hit me. Yeah, let's see it.
46:02.13
Casey Ford
I got that real quick I know we're going I get 1 inner o b for you if you get the time we can close on this. Um, this came out of a quote this weekend I saw ah from John Rom now of the live tour formerly pga. He set up. Just I'll put it this way in ao be professional golf events doing 72 holes for a tournament are you inner or nao be on that because John is in on that I didn't I don't I know he knew going to live that they did 54 but he's been He's been talking a lot about this but he came out yesterday it said. I don't know if I'm alone in this but I definitely wouldn't mind going back to 72 holes.
46:43.74
dave_gerhardt
Yeah, it's great I Appreciate the honestly he got the bag and he's still can critique the format I think it's fantastic. He might lose a leg they might come for a leg or something they might cut off his club foot. You know they might cut off his you know that you gotta be careful out there. But um, yeah I think you're right.
46:51.14
Casey Ford
Literally.
46:59.49
dave_gerhardt
I've never had any success in any tournament really? So I don't have any I can't have any I don't have any personal anecdotes to that I can get hot for like a round usually I'll shoot eighty one eighty one then I'll shoot 73 it never happens that the other way. Um, but.
47:00.95
Casey Ford
Um, we.
47:13.37
dave_gerhardt
Um, an advocate of that I think it all doesn't matter I think a year from now there's going to be 1 golf tour and it's going to be 4 rounds and we'll be back to normal normal.
47:19.13
Casey Ford
Look I I was with you for a while now if I'm the tour I'm like let's just wait these guys out because they these people do not want to be on in the golf operations business. The players don't seemingly want to be on the tour. Ah. All they complain about is that they're not getting into majors which they knew going into this leaving the tour if I'm the tour I'd be like if we wait a year and just don't give in anything like is that is some are these guys just going to leave or just pretty pretty wild I mean he if you were yass or you've. Shelled out how many billions of dollars for all this not that they care and you hear your the guy you just gave what like 500000000 to says if there's ever a way live could go to 72 holes I think it would help ah hope this argument a lot the closer I think we can get live golf to some other things meaning pgator. The better. Is that what you want to hear after you just give a guy a half billion dollars like three months ago just ridiculous I'm I'm I am by the way I'm in on 72 holes for a golf tournament to put a bow on that and John is too so happy to have John.
48:29.83
Casey Ford
Ah, you unplug your headphones.
48:33.23
dave_gerhardt
I I just was saying bryson come on the pod. Sorry what were you going to say.
48:36.49
Casey Ford
Well the karma gods unpllugged shot the headphones right out of that yeah rice and come on the pod and good luck to everyone this week with master stuff. My wife said to me yesterday you want to host a master's party on Sunday said that's fine. Everyone just has to leave by like one o'clock before it starts.
48:52.65
dave_gerhardt
Hey you're good. You got ah you got a little you got a little golf date. You're gonna hit some go to the simulator and have a beer and and watch the golf right right? Good luck. Yeah Bye Bye right.
48:56.71
Casey Ford
That's Thursday. All right good luck everyone with the masters. And, Rory, come on the pod.