Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk a lot about the Masters. We'll do that first amongst ourselves. Michael was there, then with Michael Wilbon, and finally with Steve Sands. But first, commerce.
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Michael Malone, I didn't see that coming at all. I just didn't see that coming. What are your thoughts? This is North Carolina. What are your thoughts on that? I might have believed Carl Malone or Post Malone before Michael Malone.
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All righty then. We are in different locations. Nigel is with me. Michael is away. Sean is away. Sean's always away. It's okay. Sean's a genius. Helps us out. We're going to talk about the Masters all day long. I'm going to make a few brief comments. Wilbon wants to talk about the Masters. Sands wants to talk about the Masters.
I watched every shot on Saturday and Sunday, most of the shots on Friday. Not as many on Thursday, but I watched a whole lot of this. How do you balance an afternoon Nats game? I went back and forth with the Nats and always missed when the Nats were scoring. But you know what? Over the weekend, always saw the Nats being thrown out at second or third.
The worst base running team in the history of baseball. And yet they swept. They did. Quick little sweep, get the brooms out. Yeah. So, I mean, normally I would talk about that at great length. Not today. Rory McIlroy won his second Masters in a row. There have only been three other people in the history of the Masters, 90 years of the Masters, who have done that.
Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Nick Faldo. Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus are the two greatest golfers of all time, and Nick Faldo's in everybody's top ten. He has six majors, the only majors that matter to him. The British opening got three in three of the Masters. The Masters is the most important tournament worldwide. Rory McIlroy has two in a row now.
Rory McIlroy has six majors overall and is a legitimate threat to get to 10. He is. He got lucky yesterday. He performed very well. He got birdies when he needed to. His shot on 12 was brilliant, but he got lucky in this regard. Justin Rose gagged. Over the back nine, Justin Rose gagged.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of Rory McIlroy's Masters victory?
Before I get to our day on Friday, which was unbelievable, I would just say there's different moments you can zoom in. The first has to be the three putt from inside of 10 feet for Rory on the par three fourth. He was terrible on the par threes on the front yesterday. Terrible. Plus three. And that's the first moment where you're like, okay, I've seen him miss these putts before.
Is the moment getting to move a little bit too fast for him? And he's starting to realize, what does it mean to lose with that lead that you built up over 36 holes? And you're going to the hardest one, the golf course, number five. All week long, he's been driving it in the 320 plus range. And he hits a great iron shot, settles in there. And Cam Young misses a par putt on number six.
He hits the correct shot. It just misses the slope, and it goes all the way down the putt that everyone has practiced in all the lead-up into the tournament. And he made these great par saves on the first couple holes. And he has probably the easiest of those par saves, and he misses it. And I think that's when Rory sort of settles back in.
This is as Justin Rose is making that big move and getting chesty after he gets that sweeping cut from the trees on number seven. And you're thinking, my goodness, he loves this place. He has all those second-place finishes. And then you get to 12, which even before the three putt on 13, he misses the green in a pretty straightforward shot. He's been brilliant all week with the short game.
He doesn't even hit the green. And I think once you see that happen, he realized this is slowed down to the point where Rory can control it as long as he stays out of the big water that lurks at 12, at 13. 12, he hits a great tee shot with a short iron. And then on 13, he hits it 300 plus. 50 yards and is able to hit a short iron into a correct miss to avoid the big numbers.
Yes, he had one more water hazard on 16. He went long on the hole.
At least on 16, it's easier to avoid because you can use the slopes out to the right and he hit it into the back spot, the sort of the tiger spot from 2005.
He made the most brilliant shot of the tournament for him, his second shot on 16, putting away from the hole, using the slope, getting it to one foot when it looked like maybe he had shot himself out of the tournament.
Yeah, and that's when these moments start to move fast. That's when you think about the institutional awareness of this course where you see these pins year after year and you understand how to use the slopes to give yourself better margins for error. But you think about it, you're like, Scotty just needed another couple of holes. He hits a shot that's almost on 18, but then it just skips down.
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Chapter 3: How did Michael Wilbon react to Rory's performance?
What food did you eat? So this is interesting. Liz made sure she had the pimento cheese. We wanted to make sure we had one of those new peach ice creams. But it was such a hot day. And I'm a big walker. I feel like you learn so much about someone's personality if you take them to a golf course. I am walking.
Eventually on the back nine, late in the day, Liz goes, we just have to take a shade break, which was necessary. And we found this quiet corner to the side of 14 and just watched the last four or five groups come through. And just to see how they were working spin to get to this back left corner, I think gave her a new appreciation. But for food, it was pretty simple fare.
We had access to a to a.
Chapter 4: What insights did Steve Sands share about the Masters?
hospitality area that gave us some really good food, had a great smash burger there, and were able to stay for an early dinner and had some unexpected sushi rolls, but nothing too crazy on the food front.
Wonderful. You mentioned logos before. I think you've used the phrase logo bingo as to what people wear. I always have to peacock, yeah. How great is this? McElroy's dad's wearing a Seminole shirt. Oh, yeah. The Seminole people are so happy because of that.
They have the green jackets who are hanging out with them. I mean, it's fun to see how small the game is when you're playing those types of courses. And then, of course, you have Tommy Fleetwood, free agent Tommy Fleetwood. Looking for shirts and hats. And he goes to the AGC Pro Shop.
Chapter 5: What were the memorable moments from Michael's trip to Augusta?
I mean, we should send him a TK show hat or something like that. It would be great if he would wear that hat. He's one of us. You know, so that, okay. So you had a great time. I'm very happy about that. And the masters itself lived up to whatever billing it might've had. It really was, it wasn't the greatest played masters, but it was certainly as exciting as anyone ever, right?
Yeah. And it's tough because sometimes you break down an 18 hole day of golf. I often do it into three sections of six holes and you try and establish, you try and extend, you try and maintain.
uh whether that's you're trying to come back into the you know into the race trying to hold a lead you saw that yesterday the most exciting golf probably happened in that middle section just based on yes who was going to take the lead and then there's just a stillness that always seems to come over the second nine no matter where the leaders are you just look at the water on 15 on 16 how quiet everything becomes when there's so much at stake so even if it feels like
It was a little calmer just in terms of dramatics without Eagles, without these huge birdie putts pouring in because a lot of that happened earlier. Just to see the correct decision making and the really solid up and downs for some of these players was tremendous to watch.
They're great, great players playing the most important tournament in the world and the most familiar course to all of them. We will take a break. Michael Wilbon will join us when we return. I'm Tony Kornheiser.
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Chapter 6: How did Rory McIlroy's strategy impact his game?
I mean, we'll never know. If Scotty Scheffler makes that birdie on 17 and he's within one, does Rory take Driver out on 18? What did you think when Rory took Driver on 18?
That's what he does, and everybody on the tour knows it. Yes. That's what he does. It would have surprised me if he hadn't taken Driver out. And he hits it right. No, he was true to who he is. And I was glad. The thing that Rory is better about, and there's a lot of guys who are good about it, including Justin Rose, is that Rory, he's got enough. He's in his head probably too much.
And I'm sure it has hurt him at times in his career. But, wow, he can take you inside not only his head, but half the other people in the field too. And just he's the best at explaining. Who knows what he's going to do when his career is over if he does television. I think he may be the best I've ever heard at explaining what is going on now and why is it happening.
And Rory does that, and he's done it enough in real time. that you have a sense of what it is he's going to do. And, no, he was going to take out a driver on 18 no matter what.
Luckiest moment of the day for Rory was on the second par 5 on the back. His approach shot could have gone backwards, could have rinsed, could have gone in the water. It was the worst shot he made all day, I think. I don't know, except for the drive on 18.
Yeah, but, I mean, that shot was, look, it was on top. I know that's how that was called, and I didn't think that in real time. In real time, it hit on top. And if it hits the face... That's one thing, but I didn't think it did. And Rory didn't catch the breaks other people caught. Who hit the tree yesterday with an errant drive right in front of the fairway?
Cameron Young ends up in the fairway every tree.
Every tree he ends up in the fairway. Cameron Young had so many breaks during the week. that he could be kicking himself if he didn't win.
Let me ask you this. Did you think, so as Rory, before the birdies, did he get birdies on 7-8 or 6-7? He got two birdies in a row, then missed a couple, then got two more birdies on 11-12 or 12-13, whatever it was. Did you always think that Roy was going to win. There did come a point where all he had to do was tread water because people were dropping around him.
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