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Weeks on the Masters Tournament first round, McIlroy at the top and Scheffler's red-hot run
09 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What insights does Bob Weeks share about the Masters Tournament's first round?
Live from Augusta National, day one of the Masters. Oh my God, look at Bob. Oh my God.
Dude, I'm telling you, Bob. If someone flicks a dart at his shorts, he's done. Bobby, how many? This is 11.
Oh my God.
It's been a good day. I think this is... I hit double digits today, and I'm hoping to get to 20 this week.
Dude, Bob Weeks, I'm telling you. Uh-oh. You're going to choke out. What's your record down there, Bob, for Egg Sandy's?
I think I did 21 one year, but Graham DeLette used to try and challenge me, and most of the time they just kind of took it easy. I just got enough to beat him. That's all I had to do. He's kind of moved over to the chicken salad side now. Okay.
That's disappointing. See, I told you, man. Bob is a legend down there. When I saw him a couple of years ago, people would stop me and say, you know that guy? He eats six to seven of these every single day. You're an absolute legend around the park down at Augusta. Well, it's great to have you, Bob. We love seeing you down there. The backdrop is phenomenal. The weather looks incredible.
It's going to be incredible the rest of the way. I had the boldest take, which turns out to be the dumbest take, yesterday that I thought McElroy was shooting 75-75 and going home. He goes 5-under-67 today. How big of a statement was that from McElroy?
That's huge. I mean, he's only had one opening round better. His usual folly here is he'll shoot 72, 73, 75 in the opening round and then try to play catch up, and it never usually works. The only time he's been better than this was 65, and then that was the year that he did the Sunday 80, you know, hipping it into the hedge by the private housing here. So this is a great start for him.
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Chapter 2: How did Rory McIlroy perform in the first round, and what does it mean for him?
But what is it about the golf course where some of the best players in the world can start butchering it? We saw a pot eater today in the first hole just chopping broccoli beside the green. Like, what is it about that place? That's the best part about this is it looks, I won't say it looks easy, but it looks wide open. Yeah, it's just like move it out there and, yeah.
Yeah, find the green and then just chip it in or, you know, putt it. But the greens are probably the biggest offense. I mean, there are some big swales on there. There are some big dips and some big rises. And everybody knows what's happened on this golf course. You can go to every hole and say, oh, yeah, this is where so-and-so did this or this is where so-and-so hit it in the water and missed.
I mean, you go to the 12th hole and you're standing on the tee, it's 150 yards, and half the guys are putting it over the green or in the water. And that, you know, normally 150 yards is something that you can sort of easily get the, get it close anyway.
But it's just, I think there are enough little tricks out here, enough little bit with the wind, enough alleys, enough places where if you take a big risk, you're going to pay for it. unless you hit a perfect shot, that those things add up. And I think it starts to be a little bit of headworms for guys if they start to kind of rattle a little bit.
Rory's a guy who today could have gone off that in the early going because he wasn't playing great necessarily. But I think if you've only been here a couple of years, it's pretty easy to get the trains off the track.
Bob, Scotty Scheffler got off to such a strong start on the front there today. With the kind of golf he's been playing lately, good, maybe not the best by his standards, what do you see from him going into this weekend? I would love to see him involved in this with Rory going down another big one.
You know, I kind of liked what I saw. He's had some trouble off the tee this year. That's been one of his issues. And as Mark Zucchino has been pointing out, he wants to see the ball go up and have a little fade and just softly land. He hasn't been seeing that. It's been either the dreaded straight ball or a double cross. It's been inconsistent.
But I think you saw the Scotty Scheffler off the tee that Scotty Scheffler has wanted to see. And it's amazing how... When this guy gets a little time off, he goes back to Dallas and he works with his coach, Randy Smith, and they seem to be able to fix everything in short order. And so I do think that he can get it going.
He does have some more, you know, some bumps and stuff along the way that a lot of these players will have, especially on the greens here. But, you know, I think if that first shot is in the fairway a lot more, I think he could be a threat to be around here on Sunday. It would be hard to sort of keep him out of the battle, I think, more than worry about him getting into it.
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Chapter 3: What factors contributed to Scottie Scheffler's strong start at the Masters?
Yeah, he can grind, and it is key for him. He's got to get in the tournament early. I know that applies to everyone.
But, dude, he can't grind from ā if those guys keep making birdies, he can't grind from 9 and 10 back.
Like, you've got to ā No, you've got to stay with the pack, for sure. He's going to have to shoot ā you know, he's got to be under par tomorrow, right, Bob? But that's a big start for Nick.
Definitely. It's a great start, but he was, you know, I talked to him after the round. He was a little disappointed because he played the fives and one under. Now, he came in here with a strategy that he really doesn't think he can hit the par fives, or certainly not 13 and 15 with ease, and so in two shots.
So he's been laying up on them and trying to get those wedges in, and that was the problem today. He hit wedges that looked good. But the greens are a little bit firmer here, he said, and they're kind of rolling further than he wanted, rolling off the back, as was the case in one of them.
And so he's got to get scoring on those par fives, because there's not a lot of really good scoring opportunities on this golf course. But he looked good. I think he's strong mentally. And, you know, we've seen him get into, if he gets in the hunt and he gets down there, boy, that switch flips. And he just starts... grinding it away.
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Chapter 4: How does the absence of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson affect the tournament's dynamics?
We've seen him win against Phil Mickelson at Pebble Beach. We saw what happened at Oakdale when he sinks a 72-foot putt in the playoff. He loves that kind of tense moments, that grinding it out and to make a great shot to win. So you're right, if he can get himself in position come Sunday morning, I think I'd like to see him battle down the backside on Sunday.
Absolutely, with Bob Weeks. So you look at the leaderboard. Again, it's one day, and a lot of guys are still out there. But past winners who have had good rounds today, McIlroy, 5-under. Patrick Reed, 3-under. Spieth, 2-under, still on the course. Scheffler, 2-under, still on the course. Adam Scott, 1-under in the clubhouse. Matsuyama, even par in the clubhouse.
If I offered you a past winner wins this thing on Sunday versus first-time winners, which pool would you take?
Oh, I take the past winners for sure. I mean, Rory said today, you know, once you win one here, it's just so much easier to get in there and get in the hunt to win the second time. Because I think there's a lot of, listen, these guys, this is one of the few tournaments of the year where they're standing on the first tee on Thursday and they're nervous.
and a lot of the guys admitted to that after their rounds today. There was somebody obviously writing a story about it, was asking some questions. Rory admitted. He said, yeah, I'm a little nervous, but I do think it's easier to win the second time. The guy on that list that probably hasn't been getting a lot of attention is Patrick Reed, and he really played the golf course well.
I thought a couple of hiccups here and there, but overall, he's a guy to watch if... If you still have time to place a wager down here, he might be a good opportunity because he's been flying under the radar. He's been playing on the DP World Tour. He's won twice there. He's won here, obviously, before.
And I think he's got four finishes inside the top 12 since he won the Green Jacket back in 2018. So I like him. He's got lots of game right now. Bobby, we're going to let you fly, but be honest with us, pal. Six or seven egg salad sammies. How many silent ones did you rip during this interview? Why don't you ask Duthie tomorrow? Because he got up a couple times.
I try to time him when he's doing his solos, you know, and it's not good.
Okay. We'll ask J.D. We'll get the analytics on that tomorrow.
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