[upbeat music] Welcome to the Base Takeoff Podcast. I'm Sean Melia. I have two, uh, regulars on here. I've got Jed Mahler and Paul Burke.
We're talking majors for the last 25 years. We're gonna be here for four and a half to five hours, guys. I hope your batteries are charged and everything's [chuckles] ready to go. Um, welcome. Yeah.
Well, I mean, what a pleasure to be part of this three-man crew. I mean, four and a half to five hours seems kind of light.
I thought you were going for, you know, a little bit, like, more of a normal PGA Tour round of six hours. But, um, yeah. No, it's, it's good to be here.
Anyone with a transatlantic flight might be able to fit this one in, squeeze it in between Boston and England. Bookmark this one. Yeah. [laughs] Um, so I've had...
Like, I've had this on my mind probably since, uh, the last major was played, what was it, 10 months ago, the British Open, the Open Championship- [laughs]...um, the way this, the season is set up now.
And I just wanted to... I don't know. I like, I like little markers, 25 years, 10 years. I thought it would be fun to just do a draft. Jed, you're a little on, like, the... You watched a lot of pro golf.
We talk a lot a- about golf. We don't talk a lot about pro golf anymore. Burke, you're, like, so deep into it. Uh, so we're gonna draft at the 20 or the, of the last 25 years, the most
important shots in major championship golf, 22,000 to 2025. Important can be whatever you want. If you read our text chain, you might, you might, uh, you might see that some of us had a hard time [laughs]
just wrapping our head around what the most important means. Uh, influential, um, consequential, meaningful to you as a person, funny, whatever it is. Uh, that's what we're gonna do today. Yeah.
Hand up, I probably asked 50 clarifying questions. Um, initially I thought we were t- picking majors, and then it's major shots, and then I was thinking about major moments and how to differentiate between that.
But then it's, it's just this potpourri of unbelievable content the last 25 years that you can get yourself going for so, uh, like anywhere.
I mean, uh, n- not to bury, not to, you know, put the cart before the horse, but we, we could have done our top five major shots at Valhalla alone. [laughs] And that course stinks. [laughs] And they had some of...
And they have legitimately some of the most memorable shots- Yeah...um, in the last 25 years. Like, there's a lot to choose from. So this exercise was...
I found myself, I'm a little bit of a procrastinator, so literally all day today, I would be, like, running around and I'd have my phone up and be like, "Nope, check this. Check..."
And I'd like, I just had this running list. I, I mean, it was, it's, I've got a ton. Jed, I don't know how you, how you did it, but- Yeah.
I mean, I think it was tough because most important means a lot of different things. I sent that on a text today. It's like, are we thinking most memorable or most important for the win, right?
There's so many different ways to do it. But if I started to just try to pull out in terms of overall context. So I think
there's those important shots that won a tournament, but then if you pull it back a little bit and look at their entire career and what they did after and... Yeah. It was, it was a fascinating process to go through.
One, I would say it, it made me feel really old, because 25 years I'm like, "Oh, that wasn't that long ago." Felt like, "Oh, my gosh, it was."
But also that teen- the 20-teens, it's like I remember those better than some of the ones in the last few years, which I also think speaks to golf and the directions it's heading and, like, that's not a good thing.
But it was a, it was a fascinating process to kind of recalibrate what I remembered and what was important. What, what was, uh, what was your process, Burkey? Like, d- how did you, how did you get your list started?
How did you beat the white page? I just wrote a few down, um, that I thought... I, I actually started with the majors that I remembered the most, and then, and then thought about certain shots.
And then, you know, as you sort of, like, massage the memory, everything kind of flows from there.
So, like, there are a few specific majors that I have in my mind that if you were to ask me, like, "What are the most impactful majors over the past 25 years?" I would rattle off pretty quickly.
But then when you think about shots, you know, they sort of dovetail off of those, and you think about moments. And so you really... I, I, I felt like it was more of a process
than, like, a reactionary, like, what are your favorite majors, 'cause so much comes to mind.
[laughs] And I, I'm telling you, like, in the last two hours, I've probably added 20 different shots to the list that I had 'cause like, oh my God, that was awesome too.
Um, and some aren't in the final round, and some didn't result in a win and, and, and all of those things.
And so, I, yeah, I started from my, the most memorable majors, which is probably the same list that, you know, all the basics have, um, and went from there. So I, I don't know.
It was, there was nothing formulaic about it. Jed, how about you? Yeah. So I did quick, like, closed my eyes, what could I think of, and that had some.
But where it really helped was I just printed out a list of all major winners over the last 25 years, year by year.
And then what helped too was where, printing out or mentioning where the, where the tournament was played, 'cause that jogged a lot of memories too, as soon as I saw what, where the course was.
And I was like- But you think, do you think venues matter? Depends, depends on who you ask, but yeah. I mean, that, I mean, it's, it, that was all part of the process. But like, yeah, you look at it too.
I mean, before we get into it, like, how bad, uh, coverage has held up from, like, the early 2000s. I mean, the same thing, like Red Sox World Series, right? Like, you can barely watch it.
Like, it's such a shame that some of these, going back and looking at some of these tournaments, these iconic moments are, they look...
Like, the '87 Masters is clearer than, 'cause they're shot on film, it's clearer than some of these iconic tournaments not too long ago. Yeah. So that-That was another special Especially like the pre,
that window of like pre-HD TV where every, where you get, you get stuff that's just not, just not good. Um Well, especially in the, in the British Open, um, like that early 2000s c- footage is, is awful.
Like I thought the Masters held up pretty well looking back at it. Um, but, but the others, it was... I, I agree with you, Jed. And speaking of old, Jed's printing stuff out. Yeah, so what was your process?
Jed's just printing things out, speaking of being an old guy. Oh, is that... ChatGPT, baby.
And, uh, so I, I sat down with a piece of paper and I wrote, I kinda went through and just like vomited out the ones that stuck out to me right away, and it came from like events, it came from pl- obviously you think about like the players who were consequential for the last 25 years.
So you've got, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna write down- Yeah... stuff that Tiger did, you're gonna write down stuff that Phil did, you're gonna write down stuff that Rory did.
Um, and then you might- Angel Cabrera. [laughs] Right. The, the big names. Um, and then you start to filter through and,
uh, there's, there's a wi- there's like windows of time too as I was doing this that I realized like, man, there's some summers where I just didn't watch certain tournaments for whatever reason, and then there's other ones where I remember being like where I was for a specific event.
I remember l- I remember Harrington's first one. I was at Worcester Country Club, like in the bar.
The British Open always matched up with the club championship, so everyone would play in the morning and then like spend the afternoon watching the British Open finish.
Um, and then there's other ones that you just, I have no idea where I was. I definitely missed them. I was either like you're traveling or you're with family.
Like, even the US Open sometimes gets lost in the shuffle for me because it was Father's Day.
Um, so anyways, but wrote down just a b- a list and then kinda went through, went through some transcripts and like f- tried to find interviews of guys talking about some of these shots.
I think for five rounds, and then we'll, we can kinda like go deep, but I think five rounds, that's 15...
If we're gonna pick 15 shots, we should have a pretty good, like, that's gonna be a pretty good encapsulation of what I think is the last 25 years of the majors.
Um, and then we can maybe throw out some other ones that we, that we like, some undrafted free agents, um, at the end.
So the way we're gonna do this is, so the rules, I guess like the strict rules are you gotta pick a shot, um, a- and then you can pick, someone else can pick a shot from that major. It doesn't like close out the major.
So if you've got another shot from the, whatever, 25 Masters that you think is more important than one that someone else picked, you can pick that, so it doesn't, doesn't close out the, uh, close out the major.
That's not gonna be on your list. We know that's off. [laughs] And, uh, so- So if we... So, so, so let's say someone drafts a shot from, it's a different shot but same major, right?
But we're, but the next person isn't necessarily in the draft order.
Do they speak about said shot or do they wait until the draft order to, like, 'cause we're already talking about the major, do we mention it then or just wait 'cause you gotta wait for your draft order?
I guess that's up, that's up to...
You can't just, you can't draft it, but maybe it comes up in conversation and- I'll be honest with you, I have so many here, if one of my shots comes up in one of your other majors, I think it's just gonna come up in conversation and I'll just go- Yeah...
in a different direction. Yeah. Yeah. You can pick someone else. I mean- All right. Sounds good...
when they're showing film on, uh, ESPN for the draft, they've got, they've got linemen blocking for the running backs, and sometimes those linemen are getting picked or the running back's getting picked.
Um, the way we're gonna do the draft, we're gonna do a snake, and the first pick will go to the person who's played a round of golf outside most recently, and the second pick will go to second most recently, and the third will go to the guy who hasn't played golf in the longest amount of time.
I've got October, uh, I played a, I'm sorry, November 7th was my last round of golf. Way. Yeah. That long [laughs]? Yeah. Yeah. Berlin Country Club, nine holes was the last time I played golf- Wow... outside. Yeah.
I'm November 8th. November 8th we had Indian Ridge's beef stew. Okay. Jed? Jed? Cracked Decem- I cr- I cracked December. December 7th- Yeah... was closing day. Yeah, that Plymouth, that Plymouth membership.
Is that where you played? Yeah. Yeah. It was the last day it was open. Went, went down- Yeah... to say good night. Yeah. [laughs] Yeah. Uh, so Jed, you got first pick. Burkes got second pick.
I've got the third pick, and, uh, I got the fourth pick, and we'll just, we'll snake. What an hon- what an honor. All right.
So, uh, yeah, it's like this is a tough pick 'cause I don't even want, like, I think this was literally one of the most important shots, but I don't even really like it in the whole thing, but we'll just...
I think it deserves a top billing. So in the number one draft for most important shot, going to the iconic Pebble Beach 2000 US Open, Tiger Woods. But do we know what shot it is?
This is a little wrinkle.
So my guess, 'cause I had a couple on here for that, his par save to keep i- in the last round I think he had a par save on 16 where he gave a fist pump and everyone's like, "What the hell's-" Yeah. Yeah, yeah...
like, "What's he doing?" And he, his goal for that day was to not have a bogey. That, yeah, fantastic answer, but that's not it.
The seven i- the seven iron he hit on, the seven iron he hit on six out of the rough onto the green. We're going, we're going Saturday morning in the carryover delay. He's finishing the second round, only has one golf...
Well, he has two golf balls. Hooks it into the water- [laughs] Yes... on 18. So good... only has one golf ball. Stevie doesn't tell him that he- And a f-... only has one golf ball. T- tries to tell him to hit iron.
He's like, "No." And then, you know, finds f- finds dry land. Second round. It's Saturday, but it's his second round. Correct. Yeah. They're finishing it, and he had more golf balls, but he was giving them away to kids.
He left some in the hotel room.
He's giving away some balls to kids on the way, so he has to play the final six holes, he's got two golf balls, and then he hooks it in the water on 18 and has to play 18 with one golf ball. So if he doesn't do that...
So, you know, Tiger had said that, oh, he might be disqualified because he was playing a brand-new Nike ball, and he would've had to get the same ball from his playing part- partner to finish, which they wouldn't have had.But then they said he, he could have gone and like bought balls, but he would've gotten two shot penalty.
So he still probably would've won, but who knows? Who knows? So like- That's a, that's a butterfly effect. That's an awesome, that's an awesome pick. It-- S- so Steve Williams has told that, has told that story.
Um, there's a good... There's a great podcast where he goes and talks about each of Tiger's majors that he caddied it for him.
And Stevie Williams was also saying he was considering, he would've had time to run back to the hotel 'cause it was close enough to- Which is right there...
he was close enough, the room was close enough, he could've run, gotten the two golf ball.
Tiger was putting on the floor in the hotel the night before and just forgot to put the golf balls back in his, in his bag as well.
So I mean, the f- the, the thought of like Stevie Williams running back to the hotel hoping that the other two in the group would play slow enough that he could get back to Tiger is, um, is [chuckles] great.
That's, that's, that's the number one pick. Could've, everything could've, could've gone a completely different way. Tiger would've never won a major again.
By the time this comes out, he'll be 50, and it's, it's still to me, like of all the Tiger, at the time, he set the scoring record at that tournament where the rest of the field had the highest scoring of the, the, in a US Open.
And it's just like preposterous, like how good that was. [chuckles] Yeah. All with a solid core golf ball. Yeah, the Vapor, I think it was. Nike Tour Accuracy, sorry. That was- It was the-... Nike Tour Accuracy. Yeah.
Gr- Yeah. That was the ball. Yep. So anyways, all right. Let's roll right to the- No, he was playing with a Titleist at that point. He was playing a Titleist, wasn't he? 2000?
Uh, not on the research that my team put together. He was playing a Tour? Is he already? Okay. I, I know this one goes off the board. Uh- Because that was... He, he had just put it into play. Yeah.
I, I think you're right, Jed. 'Cause they had said like... Yeah, it was a whole thing. Yeah, a little wrinkle to the, to the greatest, the most forged shot.
So I, I know this one's just gonna go off the board so quickly, so I have to take it, but I'll start with a question, sort of how Jed did. What, what do golfers love to do the most, in general?
Not like what shot do they love to hit the most, but what do golfers love to do the most? They love to tell you about their round when it's done. Yeah. [chuckles] That's a good one.
They love to talk, talk to you about your round, give you shot for shot. Similar to that, uh, golfers love to complain, right? Like, they'll tell you, "I should've had a" - Oh, that's right. That's a good one...
whatever. Yeah. So what would we have if we didn't have Jimmy Walker's brilliant four-foot par putt in 2016 at the PGA at Baltusrol? We would not have the ability to complain about the worst major of the last 25 years.
So my first pick is Jimmy Walker's four-foot slider that encapsulated the absolute most dog shit major of the last 25 years.
[chuckles] That was- And by the way, the fact that it is so far and away, that arguably makes it that important, 'cause we love to complain about it. I love it. I love it.
That's- That's, that's why people tune in right there, for that type of insight. That's awesome. I love it.
So not to, uh, not to brag or boast, I was at, I was at Baltusrol in June this year, and man, it's so funny seeing like all the history in that place, and you've got like Jack's scorecards and all this stuff.
And then you've got this display of J- like of Jimmy Walker's bag and his caddy's bib, and you're like, "Oh man, what a, what a bummer of a, of a major that was."
Thought they would've like put that, put that to the side and stuff. But- No, it is prominently displayed when you, when you walk into the locker room.
That's my little tongue in cheek pick, but, you know, I do think that golfers love to complain, and it's the easy whipping boy, and if we didn't have it, what would we have, you know?
So, um, Ji-Jimmy Walker, who was actually like a really good freaking player. Yeah. Yeah. That's- Was he at, was he at, was he at second stages here or something, like he was going back to Q school? Yeah.
It's unbelievable. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. All right. Well- I know. I laid you out... I mean, you guys, you guys left me- Yeah. It was great... like LeBron on- Red... third pick here. Red meat.
[chuckles] Um, maybe Jayson Tatum. This is, this is my Jayson Tatum pick here. I, I...
How can you, how can you not talk about 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry with Tom Watson standing in the 18th fairway ready to win a major championship, only to hit it just too good, flushed it,
um- Still good... makes bogey, goes to a playoff, and then like, uh, like turned to a pumpkin, for lack of a better w- I mean, it just, the...
I think he made two doubles, and Stewart Cink just could've played lefty and, and won that playoff.
Um, and becomes like, you, Burke, you were talking about complaining, it's kind of the same thing where it's poor Stewart Cink wins, and people just complain about the fact that he won a major and stole possibly what would've been the,
the best story of this 25-year stretch of major golf. And like, people don't... I mean, they talk about it, it comes up, but it, it's almost like it's got buried so deep 'cause they just...
It, it was almost not too painful- I mean-... but it was so hard to watch... his, his birdie putt on 18 goes very under, um, appreciated that, that he made, you know, like a 15-footer from the back of the green.
Like, his approach shot rolled through, almost went over. But yeah, I mean, that was, that was a gimme. I mean- Yeah. And, and-... that shot was so good that Watson hit it too. [chuckles] I know.
And it's also like one of those golf finds- Oh, wait, hold on. What, what shot did we... What, hold on. What shot were you picking?
The shot is the, the shot is the eight- is the fair- the shot into 18 that, that took that crazy bounce- Is it re-iron?... and went long. Yeah.
A- and then of course, as golf goes, finds your weakness, and like Tom Watson over his entire career has been a shaky like four to six foot putter, and that's- He actually hit like a really good third shot too.
[chuckles] I, I know. It wasn't a bird- It was- Well, the birdie putt was from the back. No, no, it was, it was in the rough. He was in like the thick stuff- Yeah...
and he, but he used his putter, and he kind of like- Yeah, 'cause he's 59 years old... cham- it was, it was the right play. Yeah. So I, I looked at, obviously, 'cause I had that on my, on my draft board as well. But
I mean, I can't remember another tournament that I was at. I didn't even like Tom Watson that much and, but I was rooting for him. Like, I was f- I mean, every day, 'cause that first day, he'sOne shot behind.
Then he leads after the second round and after the third round. And I remember I had a, uh... I was in my buddy's wedding that whole weekend, so, like, it was all...
And he, we played college golf together, so it was all, like, we were all watching it. And then I just remember being so hungover on Sunday after the wedding, but just being so locked in and watching every shot.
And then, [laughs] and then to have him hit the, you know, quote-unquote perfect shot, where he flushed it, and he even said he hit it right where he wanted to. Um, and then to, to lose that- It's-... brutal.
Uh, yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. Yeah, he was 59. I would've thought he was, like, 65, you know? Like, he just, like, now that we're older- [laughs]... 59 doesn't seem- Yeah...
that, like, that crazy, but it just seemed like he was ancient out there doing it, and it was... That was a heartbreaker. That putt, that seven-footer for, to win for par on 18, that's the- Yikes...
that's the stroke that gives you nightmares. Yeah. Like, we've all done that decel. [laughs] It was so bad. Oh, I... That's the thing, I went back and started watching it. I couldn't watch it. It was awful.
He, he was basically tapping it in as it was coming to a rest, 'cause he knew [laughs] he was deceling into it. Yeah. I think he almost- That's right... misses the, the won, 'cause he's just trying to get off the,
trying to get off the golf course. But no, I mean, Jed, to your point, and, um, Sean, you might've mentioned this earlier, but y- that is, uh, you know, top three for me moments where I remember where I was.
I was watching with my parents. I remember the seat I was sitting in.
And my dad, who's, like, grew up, like, as, like, a- about the same age as Tom Watson and so, like, he's watching all of this happen, and he's like, "I cannot..." Like, he's going apoplectic.
I had barely had ever seen him like this- Yeah... um, watching a golf tournament. So yeah, that, that is... It's still an amazing golf tournament. Like, he should've won. He should've. Yeah. It's such a shame. That...
Yeah. And Jed, you nailed it too. I, like, he wasn't... He, he's of the generation that anyone who is our age, you didn't really, like, follow him.
The only, I, I don't know, like, maybe through some, like, he was a Ryder Cup captain in the early '90s. Like, I don't, I don't, I didn't really know who...
You know who Tom Watson was, just 'cause he was a legend and, like, won. He was also a captain after that too. And he was a captain after that too. [laughs] And that didn't go very well.
Um, but yeah, like, it just returned, it kinda created this, like, cool return to looking back at, like, how good he was. He won five Open Championships. He would've won six.
He was, like, a h- And the fact that he was doing it in a place where he was a hero, and it would've been,
like, in that, in that part of the world, it would've ma- would've been maybe one of the biggest sporting days, like, ever, is a, is a bummer. Does anyone, does anyone come close?
Is there someone else who does what he did? So I think yes, because- Yeah. Like-... people are so fit now and- Maybe in the future. Yeah, like someone who's- Yeah Yes... 59 or 60 having a chance to win.
And that's where- Those courses aren't long enough. Yeah. Oh, okay. And that's where I was going. And that's where my thought went on the... Well, 59's really not that old, right?
Like, Phil what, was 50, 51, 50 when he won? And so it, it, it definitely seems like if they get on the right course, it can be possible, and who knows what's gonna be on with technology and, and everything else.
But the fact that he really was playing a different type of game than everyone else during that time.
So one of the, one of the interesting things I'd seen was he, uh, was putting crappy earlier in the week, and then he found this little putting tip, and then he putted unbelievable.
And then it was obviously disappeared there on 18. But then was go- He played the, he played the British Senior the next week and putted awful. So if anything, it encapsulates golf so much.
Like, he's lost at sea, finds one little tip in his head. Yeah. Plays unbelievable. Does the putt back. Hits the, you know, ta- He doesn't even want the shot back on 18 'cause he thinks he hit it perfect. Yeah.
And then it all, and then it just doesn't work out. It's just brutal. Also, do you remember who his caddy was? No. Was it LaCava? No. It wasn't even his normal caddy. It was his financial advisor. Oh, geez.
He didn't, he didn't bring his normal caddy over, and he has, like, his, the guy giving him stock tips. He's like, "Ah, you wanna caddy for me?"
Like, he's his good buddy, like, it's, you know, one, one last run around Turnberry.
[laughs] And, like, what, what we haven't mentioned is, like, it's, it's the site of probably his most iconic win, at least in the, the Open Championship, if not, you know, obviously his Pebble win was, was pretty awesome.
But, um, yeah. And it's the last time they've, it's the last time they've had a tournament there. Like, it hasn't been back- Yeah. [laughs]... since, um, which is also crazy. And- I didn't even think of that, yeah...
was... I, I'm, I'm blanking on the name of his, like, famous caddy who had ALS and passed away. Was he still a- Bruce Edwards. Bruce Edwards. Was he still alive in '09, or he had already passed?
No, no, he was, he was gone. Okay. Which is, like, another- Um, he-... like, another layer of this whole thing. Yeah.
And it's the highest level of- So it's a great trivia question, which I don't know at the, off the top of my head. I think I know the guy's first name, but do you know who he was paired with in the final round?
Was it- Oh, no, I don't. Like, in that, in that last round in 2009? Yeah, at, at Turnberry. I don't know. I'm, I'm pretty sure it was, like, David Goggins or, like, some Aussie. It, it was a very random...
I, and I didn't, I'm, I'm not looking it up. I've got too many screens open right now. Um, but it was some rand- I would say-... like, random person... I would say that weighed into some of my thinking too.
Like, if this person doesn't win, like, who, who's the, who's, you know, who was gonna win, and how crappy of a major that would [laughs]... How would that affect- Yeah. Yeah.
I think Westwood missed, like, a five-foot putt on 18 for par or birdie that would've got him into the playoff. Of course he did. Um, all right, my next pick, we gotta, we gotta include Jordan Spieth here, 2016 Masters.
The first ch- His first penalty [laughs] shot, shot that he hit dead into the water. Um, so not his tee shot, takes a drop, dumps it in the water. Goes on to allow Danny Willett to win.
Would've been his back, second Masters. Uh, he has, he's won four since. Um-But, uh, yeah. That's-- I think, I think that shot now looking- I think he's won four since... I was kidding. Oh, [laughs] okay.
Now, now, [laughs] now since, um, now looking back on that and that stretch of golf he played is insane. Um, and he led, like, eight straight rounds of the Masters. S- it was seven. I, I watch- It was seven...
he led seven s- seven straight... So it would've been eight if he closed it out. You know, and- Yeah... and he was second, second, one the three years prior to that. Yeah.
Like- He, he very easily could've won in 2014 against Bubba. Yeah. Very easily. He-- And so I, I went back and looked at the transcript from this, and first off, he finished Saturday night very nervously.
He played 6, 17, and 18 three over par. Um, and before he left the grounds, he asked Cameron McCormick to come back, and they, like, were doing some work.
Uh, and he got asked, like, "When you left the grounds yesterday, why did you feel you needed to get Cam back here?" Um, and he said, "When you worked this morning, what was your confidence level?"
Uh, Jordan said, "It was much better. I didn't ask for him. He texted me and said, 'Hey, would you like it if I came back?' I said, 'Sure, it can only help me if he's here,' and he likes for me to be self-reliant.
But at the same time, the wheels kinda came off the last three holes on Saturday, and I think he felt that just his voice would bring my confidence back into my swing, and it certainly did.
And he knew it was wrong, and he knew that if, if we were, if he were here watching shots on the range, it would make a difference, and it did. My confidence going into the first hole was fantastic.
But listen, I had my B minus game tee to green, and I made up for it around the greens with my putter.
Ultimately, you just have to have your A game every single part, and I just didn't have those iron swings as it showed on the back nine." So that's what he said after, uh, after his loss. So, like, bad Saturday.
There was just, like, something brewing. Um, and I kind of like- He had, like, a five-shot lead. Like, you- Yeah... don't need your A game with a five-shot lead going into the back nine. He imploded. And I would say
t- if, if I'm talking about the importance of that shot, it's more on the negative side that we have to have Danny fucking Willett in our lives for the next- Well, that's the butterfly effect-... 30 years... right? Yeah.
Like, Jesus. There's a butterfly effect. This guy sucks. [laughs] His wife was, like, yelling at Americans and all this stuff on Twitter, or brother or something. The brother. And it's like, God.
Brother was the character, yeah. Like, this is- Yeah... the worst part. It-- Like, we've seen plenty of collapses,
especially at that venue, and Spieth had already won one, but, like, the fact that we have to have Danny Willett, like, that is to me- Yeah... that's why that's very impactful. Butterfly effect.
Butterfly effects are we have Spieth winning his third major in the last five majors, and in that, in, and at that point being, like,
uh, I think maybe four people in those five majors had beaten him, 'cause he finished second in the, in the PGA in '15. He finished third in the Open Championship and missed out on a playoff at, at [laughs] '15.
Like, no one was beating him in majors, and then this happens. He wins it, the Open in '17, and now he's just kind of, like, lost in the wilderness.
He's probably gonna retire with three majors, and you could look back and like, man, he could've win, he could've won four in, in that stretch of five ye- uh, of five majors. It's crazy.
So that's, that's, uh, that's my fourth, and then we go back to Burke. All right. Um, after my, uh, attempt at humor in the first one, I will go, uh, very chalk, uh, deservedly so.
Tiger's putt, 2008 US Open, Torrey, to get into a playoff just, like, I don't know. I mean, you, you look at that video over and over again. The greens were so bumpy. He had to lay up.
He hit his lob wedge onto the green from, like, 90 yards. It looked like he took, you know, cabbage out. Um, everything that that major was, I, I remember I was working on a trading floor at the time.
The Monday playoff, the last Monday 18, the last 18-hole playoff we'll ever see, um...
It, I, I, I get, I forget the exact numbers, but I think trading year over year was down, like, 25% on the American stock exchanges, um, from the, the previous Monday of, of, uh, that year.
Like, the, the same Monday of the previous year. It, it was... I don't know. Like, uh, so much [laughs] gets said about it, I don't need to say much more. But, like, it needs to be... It, it's crazy.
Guy had a freaking broken leg. [laughs] Yeah. Yeah. And now, like, 17 years later- And I could've picked, like, I could've picked a million shots- Yeah... from that tournament too.
Like, the, and I, if I, like, the, the Eagles coming home on, on Saturday, like, Stevie having to literally, like, pick him up, um, after one of his chip-ins. I mean, there, there were so many. But, like, it,
the whole thing. Like- It, it all led to that putt... again, you could've done a podcast on... Pe-people have. Um, so. Yeah. And then he only wins one more- He also checks, like-... after that too, right?
Like, he gets one more major. He's won one since that major. So if he doesn't make that putt, Rocco Mediate's [laughs] gonna be another one that's, like, Rocco Mediate, US Open champ. Um- That would've been cool, though.
I, I would've liked a little Rocco in the mix. That was, I was rooting for him. That was, but that, that meets, like, the iconic standard, right? So when we were talking about moments, like, that's one you all think of.
And yeah, I mean, it's, definitely deserves to be up there. Jed, this might be a good time before you make your pick to...
Do you wanna, do you wanna talk about your, like, complicated Tiger Woods, uh, rooting interest as a, as a, as a young man? [laughs] Before, before 2008, leading up to 2008. We've discussed this.
I don't know if, if you want to, uh, divulge just... You said you were rooting for Rocco. That's what made me think of it. Yeah. I, yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, it's a weird dynamic where I liked him,
then I was rooting for Steve Scott in the last US AM. Um, then was rooting for him, you know, rooting for him in '97 and everything else. And then I justI just thought he was a dick, like, and you could...
I mean, we could do a whole podcast on, like, the times he didn't shake the guy's hand after and just, you know, it's just little stuff like that drove me crazy for that time.
Um, but I mean, I'm super fortunate and feel thankful I got to watch the, you know, one of the greatest players ever during that time. So, like, thankful for all the memories.
But yeah, a lot of that I wasn't, I wasn't necessarily rooting for him, not a huge, wasn't a huge fan at the time. Now, would he-- If he makes a comeback, am I gonna root for him again? Yeah.
But I mean, it, it all depends. He's a lot, he's a different guy now than, he's a different guy now than, than he was. But well, I told you, like, now you got me all going, Sean.
But I told you, like, one of the, one of the moments, like, when it was over the 25 member, uh, 25 majors, I thought of Tiger interview where he's talking about how his finger popped out and he just popped it back in.
Like- His wrist. It was his wrist. Not even his finger. Yeah. His wrist. He popped his wrist. And then, like, was it Tom Verducci or whoever's interviewing him like, "Really?"
He's like, "Yeah, it wasn't a big deal, just, like, popped it back in." I think that was... Was that 2015, I think, when Jordan wins. But just that, that sums it up. Like, "Oh, Tiger, how'd you go?"
And he's like, "Oh, you know, I just popped, popped some bones back in while I was out there." So that, that- Bill McAtee. It was Bill McAtee. It was... I think it was McAtee. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I could see, like, Bill McAtee being like, "Really?" [laughs] Yeah. He's like, "Oh, really?" And then they just gloss over it. Oh, wow. What a pain threshold. What a warrior.
Like- Physically not possible to break your wrist. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I mean, and, and by the way, like, and this is a, a... And I think you were sort of alluding to this, Jed, it's a bigger sports conversation.
Like, I kinda root for laundry, especially as you get older, you realize that a lot of these guys might not be the best guys. [chuckles] It's just like a... Yeah. Especially golfers. Golfers stick around.
You might know a golfer for 40 years, right? You know- I mean, think about Tom Watson being 59. That guy was playing golf when he was 20. Yeah.
[chuckles] There was little things, like when he-- I think one of the first times he went to Augusta and they were like, "Oh, how was it driving in?" And he's like, "Oh, it wasn't a big deal."
You know, just like, it just wasn't giving you what you're looking for. But yeah. Anyway, so I hope that kind of touches on it a little bit. I do, I do think that he is, um... Again, we, we shouldn't...
I mean, I'm sure Tiger's gonna come up again, but I, I, I think that mindset is part of why he was, like, so freaking good. Yes. Yeah. Yes. And that... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you gotta be a robot. Like, you have to be...
You have to shut yourself out to so much stuff to be good at this game. All right, Jed, your pick. All right. All right.
So j- I don't know if it's in order, but just because we had just talked about it, I am going back to 2016 Masters with Jordan Spieth, Spieth, but it's a different shot. It's, it's his- The next [chuckles]...
it's his second shot on 10 because- Mm... he had just m- he had just made four birdies in a row coming off that front.
So everyone, I think most people remember he had a five-shot lead, but after coming off four in a row, I think there's a little bit of, you know, did he blow his load? Kid show.
But, you know, like, did, how much does he have left? Now you gotta make the turn and you're five up. On 10, he kinda fans his drive and he has 200...
And the, the, even on the telecast, they're like, "Oh, he's, he's well back." I think he had 202 yards in on 10 from, like, the right rough, like, downhill, and he leaves it in the bunker and he makes bogey.
And at that exact same time, Willett makes birdie, so his five-shot lead went to three by the time he gets to 11.
I think for anyone that plays golf, has tried to hold on lead, all of a sudden when it goes five to three in a blink of an eye, you're like, three now feels like nothing, right? Three is like you're tied.
Then he bogeys 11. So by the time he gets to 12, he's already pretty shaky 'cause he's just given two back and missed some putts.
And I think, you know, there's moments in a round where you're trying to hold it together or keep it going. Like, if he hits a flush shot on 10, I think a lot of the stuff downstream takes care of itself.
I think between the kinda weak drive and that, missing that shot on 10, it just ended up leading to 12. So I just went further back and I, I think that shot on 10 was a, the one that really started the, the crack that
floodgates opened after that. 10, 10 at Augusta is such an interesting hole.
I think about, like, the shot Rory hit th- this past year where he dropped the club and they, like, the l- the, just the way, the shot you have to hit off that slope, the, the moment in time on the, in the golf tournament where you're either, like, in the dogfight, you know you've got 11 coming up, you know, you're like, you're already thinking- Yeah...
ahead a little bit. I mean, that shot is, it's so hard and it just becomes- I mean, when you said Rory at 10, I thought you were going a completely different direction. Oh, well, uh, that's another one.
I tried to- I was thinking about the second shot mainly. Yeah. Um, but, like, the nerves really start to, I think, amp up when you kinda walk down that hill and you gotta hit that shot up to that green.
Masters has such a advantage in this whole little game we're playing too- Yeah, I know... because- Eh, it's- Anvil Hollow... you just know the holes you, uh. [laughs] Anvil, Anvil. That's right.
So, uh, so I, I'm, like, looking at my list and I don't have them in any particular order 'cause there's so many, and I'm trying to, like, avoid the basic ones. So I'm gonna go a little bit off kilter here.
Wait, J- doesn't Jed have another pick? He's got two picks. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah. My bad. Sorry. No, you're fine. Jed, I didn't mean to cut you. [chuckles] Not familiar with the, or not adept. He's on the clock.
He can, you can jump in in one minute if you need. All right. Yeah, so no, no, my... All right. So the, I had the Watson one, so I'm trying to figure out who I'll...
And this is more of a theme of what we've been talking about. I'm going 2019 Masters, not, not Tiger Woods. Uh, are you going, are you going Francesco? 12 pole, Frankie Red Sauce.
Was that gonna be the one you picked that was next? No, I was going Francesco. I was like, no one, I was like, "Everyone's gonna pick Tiger. I'm going Molinari." By the way, I was going Molinari on 15.
I don't know if you're going on 12. I'm going on 12 because he had a two-shot lead. Ugh. He had a two sh- like, that's the other thing that people...
Like, everyone was falling apart, and I remember he dunked it, and I thought he was in the lead, uh, 'cause I just watched the whole thing not too long ago.
And yeah, two-shot lead going into 12.Says he hit the right shot, but obviously didn't work out, and then that's him close- But his shot on 15, so I mean, I- Yeah...
his shot on 15, I'm not gonna pick it now, but, like, that was so much w- like, it, that was a chunked wedge from, like, 80 yards that he just barely made it over the front of the water.
And the other thing about that tournament, uh, everyone remembers Tiger winning, but it was Easter morning. They moved the tee times up, so it was- Threesomes... yes, threesomes.
People were teeing off the back like you had... It was such a mind fuck of a tournament.
And whenever, um, th- they say this stat, I think they said it last year, or sorry, for this past Masters, they were like, "Well, this is, uh, the highest rated Masters since, like, the 2017 or tw- whatever.
It's pre-2019 because they didn't have the ratings that year because of the time that it was on. Yeah. Anyway, I sort of stole your th- I mean, you said it, obviously. No, no, that's...
And so we, we were thinking the same thing. I was just trying to, you know, figure out where that really cracked.
And he had made some solid strokes, and was putting well, and doing some good things, and then once he did that, it was, the wheels started really coming off.
But I mean, he was so so- and talk about the butterfly effect and what have you done after that. Like, he, he was s- he won the British the year before. Huge. And, and was- Beating Tiger. Beating Tiger. Yeah.
They were in the same group that Sunday, yeah. That's, that's the other thing about that. They made such a big deal about what a comeback 2019 was for Tiger. He was a legitimately good player going- Yes... into that.
Yeah. Like, between British, he, he won, uh, Tour Championship right at the end of the- Yeah... the prior year. So I always thought that was a little over, like, you know, because- He-... he was already b- coming back.
Like, he was already there. So- He was Bellerive. He was in-... it wasn't like Watson or anything. Bellerive too, which the...
And Brooks wins Bellerive, Molinari wins, uh, the Open, and they both hit the ball in the water on 12 at Augusta- Yeah... in '19. So I had- And so did Spieth now. That was like a wh- everyone hit it in the water.
And, and Poulter, Poulter too. And Poulter. Don't forget Pou- Poulter was right there. Um, also- Yeah... uh, this, I have, I have literally have, like, six shots listed from the 2019 Masters. Um,
Brooks left his putt short in the hole for birdie to tie. That was a... I mean, he hit this awesome second shot, and it just, he...
I think he ended up going slightly pa- well, he, he basically, if he hit it a little harder, he would've tied. Yeah, with Tiger in the fairway. Like, Tiger's in the fairway watching him hit that putt, right?
That he was in the group ahead of him. Tiger's shank.
So I don't know, Tiger was barely in the fairway on the right, and he hits this shank right layup that leaves him this, like, 40 yard, 'cause he knows he, he's got a two-shot lead on 18. Yep.
And he, like, this layup, nobody knew whether he was going for the green or not, and he s- leaves himself this, like, brutal 30-yard chip. Yeah. And he hits, like, I don't know, 15 feet.
But, like, [chuckles] it was not an inspire... Um, whatever. It was inspiring, but- It wasn't a, it wasn't a loud finish... he didn't take the lead. It was not a loud finish- No... for sure.
All right, Berkey, now you've gotta, you gotta regroup here. All right. So I'm gonna... Okay, I'm gonna go off o- I'm gonna go off of people that we've talked about. Actually, I, I guess we've kinda talked about it.
Um, I'm gonna go back to 2013 U.S. Open at Merion.
Phil had the lead, and he, uh, the 15th hole or the, the, whatever the par three is, maybe it's 13, it was a wedge, and he airmailed it and made double bogey, and ended up losing by one to Justin Rose.
Obviously, Justin Rose had some cool shots coming in, but, like, that wedge shot that he mis-dialed. And Phil, who, like, championships aside, i- in a weird twist of fate, is the greatest U.S. Open player of our time.
[chuckles] Yeah. I, I, I- I mean, him or Tiger... I mean, six, six- I mean, Tiger won, Tiger won three of them. Y- so yeah, y- may, I mean, maybe Tiger aside, but, like, six U.S. Open runner-ups- Yeah...
is pretty ridiculous. And you could pick from your U.S. Open Phil shots that you wanna choose from, but to me, that one he had, like, as much so, if not more, um, in his hands than, than Winged Foot.
And that, that, that wedge shot that he airmailed that led to a double, um, I will always remember that. That is a major I have- And it led to, and, and it led to-... zero memory of...
but it also led to Justin Rose winning his only major. Now he's come very close, and so, like, a little bit of sliding doors. Phil could be on the, you know, have the career Grand Slam. Justin Rose could be major-less.
[chuckles] Did Phil- So I, I don't- Phil won that Open- I, I actually remember watching that... that year too, right? Was that the thir- did Phil win the 13th? He came back the, he- And beat Stenson...
yeah, I'll, I'll say he, he- Or... No, he lost to- No, he lost to Seth... he beat, he beat, he beat, like, uh, who did he beat, uh, in 2013? Like, Westwood was up there. Yeah. Okay. So he bounced back and wins.
But yeah, it was the next major that he came back and won. Yeah. Yeah, I have no memory. That Merion, that Merion, uh, U.S. Open, I don't know where I was or what I was doing, but I was not watching that tournament.
Don't remember any of it. It's very strange. It's a total black hole. Yeah, I loved it. I thought it was a cool... Uh, I'm excited they're going back there. Um, I think it's a cool golf course for them.
Obviously, the rough was ridiculous, but, um, yeah, I don't know. Like, for, for Phil, like, Phil had that tournament. U.S. AM this year too. And the- U.S. AM's at Merion this year. Yeah, a little preview.
Should be good. Good contrast with the golf balls too. Watch those guys and then watch the pros maybe with a rollback ball. Um, anything else on that major? Sorry, interrupted.
No, it was just, like, I, I remember that one as much as I do Winged Foot. I was trying to pick a Phil, like, U.S. Open failure. Um, and that one was, like, kinda goes under the radar because of,
uh, what happened at Winged Foot and in Pinehurst, which was outside of the window of this exercise. But, um- Yeah... yeah. Uh, all right. I'm, uh, we gotta talk about Dustin Johnson,
uh, and the Whistling Straits shot he hits from the waste area/bunker in 2010. Finishes the hole and learns that he had grinded his club in a bunker- That's right...
that he did not think was a bunker, after a week of them all being told everything is a bunker. Um, misses out on the playoff.And Martin Kaymer wins another like weird, I mean, the guy's got two ma- Was it DJ Singh?
It was him and B- it was Bubba Watson was in that. I think it was just Bubba. It was Kaymer and Bubba.
And DJ gets the penalty and he's, he wins by a shot and then gets a two-stroke penalty and gets even just bumped out of the playoff. Like, he doesn't even get a chance [chuckles] to, to, to try to redeem himself.
Nick Watney was playing with him, right? Watney was there, like- Yeah. [laughs] Yeah, because he was in that group. Yep. And I, I went back and just watched, and DJ said,
um, "There were thousands of people standing up on that hill, Gatorade bottles, beer cans, cups, trash, everything sitting around my ball. I never once thought I was in a bunker. I never even thought I was in the sand.
To me, I thought it was dirt." Um- And wasn't there an official right there too or something like that? Yeah. The whole thing throughout, I mean- Yeah, 'cause he was like up in the...
I mean, they had to clear everyone out. It was like a scene to get, to get to his ball 'cause he hit it so far off, uh, off line. It... The, the weird thing is they, they- Just it's like perfect DJ. It's perfect. Yeah.
They had made a point on that telecast that all sand were, was, were bunkers.
Like, they had talked about it on air during the week, which, you know, and which I think is funny that they pressed that with us, but then who knows how much they actually informed the players, right?
It's DJ, so who knows how much re-information was retained in there. But w- unbelievable wild scene, and it could only happen to DJ. But I, I'm pretty sure you're right.
And there's an official right there, like during that whole process. So to, to make that call was crazy. Like, no m- DJ has no majors yet, has come close. Yeah. No, that was- He's like at the peak of his power.
He's, he's probably the... He'd be the best player not to have won a major at that point, if you're having that conversation. And then he would go to Chambers Bay and do what happened there- And that-...
which might come up. But, um- Yep. That sounds- And it was, uh... And that was 2010, right, we're talking, listening straight? Yep. Yep. So that was the same as when he...
Remember he was, uh, way up at Pebble and then blew that lead super early in the last round. Oh. Where he's trying to hit a lefty and like in the- On two. That's right. Like, he made like a triple on two. That's right.
[laughs] Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he- So that was all at the same, that was all happening at the same time too. Yeah. And he blew up at the Open Championship. I don't... I can't remember what year.
He hit it OB like late on Sunday, had it right to Fowler. It was Derek, Derek Clark's. It was cl- So that was at, that was at St. George's. Okay. That's,
um- He blasted one right on, like his second shot at a par five, I think. Yeah. All right. We're gonna go back to talking about Tiger for my next pick. Fourth round, opening the fourth round here.
We're going to the 2013 Masters. We're going to the 15th hole. We're gonna go to the wedge that he slams off the stick and the- Dropped it out... and the ensuing- Oh, yeah... drop that, uh, that happens,
and maybe should've been disqualified. Ends up continuing to play. No. He was, he was kind of like... We hadn't really seen Tiger at that p- You know, it was 2013. He's had that kind of weird stretch of four years.
He was just rounding back into form, wearing a horrible bright yellow shirt. Yeah. Yeah. That disqualifying shit was awful. You d- everyone drops their ball next to the divot if they're hitting.
No one drops it in their divot, in the history of golf. Well, it... So one, what, how about contrasting rules between what we just talked about and this? But isn't there a quote where he says- I have it here... was...
Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. I have the quote. I went back and confirmed. Great. I found- Yeah... I found the quote. Um, I just... Yeah, he said, um, "How hard is it that second shot on 15 after getting a bad break like that?"
That's what he was asked. He said, "Well, I went down to the drop area. That wasn't gonna be a good spot because obviously it's into the grain. It's really grainy there, and it was a little bit wet.
So it was muddy and not a good spot to drop. So I went to where I played it from, but I went two yards further back and I took, tried to take two yards off the shot of what I felt I hit."
[laughs] What an insane- Two yards is kind of nothing. [laughs] "And that should land me short of the, that should land me short of the flag and not have it either-" He said two... He actually said two yards? Yes.
He said, "So I went back to where I played it from." Two yards.
"But I went two yards further back and I took, tried to take two yards off the shot of what I felt I hit, and that should land me short of the flag and not have to hit it either, ha-have it hit either the flag or skip over the back.
I felt that it was going to be the right decision to take four right there, and I did, and it worked out perfectly."
Uh, he devo- he avoided disqualification because the error was discovered after he signed his card, but the committee reviewed it before the round ended.
They used the now defunct rule 33-7 to waive disqualification and apply the two-stroke penalty instead. And he just kind of like, he was, he was in the hunt.
It's kind of a, one of those just got neutered a little bit- By the way... from a, from a, from a moment Tiger. It... I'm sure you went, I'm sure you went and watched that shot.
If it doesn't hit the pin, that thing's snug. Oh, yeah. It's a, it's a tap in birdie, and he's on his way, and instead he makes six, seven, eight. I think he makes, he ends up making an eight on that hole.
So yeah, just a kind of a, like one of those moments where people bring it up and, and it just, it doesn't feel that important, then you go back and look and you're like, "Oh man, this..."
Just the timing of the year, like the year it was, he was back. Yeah. He was kind of back in the hunt again. Um- He became the number one player in the world that year, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think that was... Right.
Dude, that's when he was really and truly back for that like little stretch of, I don't know, like '13 through '19 where he had another good run. Obviously some injuries in there too, but, um, yeah.
So that's my, that's my start of the fourth round pick. It's off to you, Burke. I know. This is so tough. [laughs] Um, we could've done just like Tiger the entire time. Okay. So, eh, I've already kind of done that theme.
I will go to, uh, 2020, uh, Harding Park, Morikawa's, uh, drive that he hit. By all accounts, probably not a great guy.
But, uh, like to me, that drive that he hit on 16 for eagle, especially given the timing of everything, there was like nothing going on.
Everyone was just like dying for meaningful stuff.Um, it was a sick major championship. You had Scheffler, Bryson, Matthew Wolf was in there. I'm probably missing, like, another couple, a couple guys. Scotty?
A ven- a ve- I think I said Scotty. Oh, okay. Did I s- Yeah. Yeah. You did. Uh, i- and, like, a venue that you're kind of like, "This is gonna be really cool," like Harding Park. This is awesome.
I mean, we had the President's Cup there, um, you know, uh, a little bit prior. And I don't know, like,
to step on there as basically a college kid and hit that golf shot, which was just so [chuckles] perfect, um, and then make that putt, I, I don't know, like, that...
At, at a time, like, I'll remember exactly where I was. I was in, like, you know, whatever.
Uh, that, that will always st- Like, in the 2020 majors, you know, obviously you've got the Wingfoot and you've got the DJ Masters, which should be just expunged from the record.
That, that to me was a legit, like a legit major. Like, that tournament felt like the juice. I'll, I'll always remember that one. You're just trying to get on Collin's good side. Is that what you're trying to do?
Just trying to- Oh, no, I don't like him at all. I actually think he's whatever.
[chuckles] I mean, the fact that he might end his career with two majors and they're both, like, wrapped around COVID and no fans would be... What, like what a fascinating, uh, thing that would be.
Same with- I mean, Harding Park was probably, like, a normal college tournament for him. The fact that he won a British Open is, like, literally preposterous. Yeah. It's- Yeah...
it's obv- But that, like, when you talk about shots, like actual shots, like that won him a ridiculously competitive golf tournament at a time that was also really weird. [chuckles] And, um, yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
I, that just really st- has always stuck out to me. Yeah. Could be like maybe the greatest... You could argue it's one of the greatest, like, par four tee shots in major championship history.
JJ Spaun also this year at, at Oakmont. That's, that's another, uh, 17. Like, that, that goes so under the radar with his putt, the putt that he made afterwards. He flagged that on 17. Yeah. Yep.
And gave himself a very easy two putt birdie that allowed him to be able to make par on 18. Like, that is just off the top of my head, but you don't have a lot of drivable holes that late in the round at majors. Yeah.
Yep. Jed, what do you got? What were you saying, Jed? Y- yeah, you- Yeah, no, that's perfect. Uh, going into what I was do- I got 2016 Oakmont US Open, Dustin Johnson's second shot into 18, which he flagged, right?
So we- we're, this has worked out well based upon what Sean had talked about as well. So he's blown majors, doesn't have any yet.
He makes a unbelievable putt on s- or he actually knocks it like four feet by on 17, makes it coming back, which was huge.
Stripes the drive on 18, but- And those greens were, like, what, like, running 15 or 16 that week. Like, they weren't- They were- They didn't have the rain they did this week or this year.
They were, they were ridiculous. And so part of it was will he be able to, to pull it off and hold it on? And don't forget, there's the random penalty which he still doesn't even know- Yes, yes... if he's getting. Yes.
Thank you. It happened on the fifth ho- it happened on the fifth hole. He's on the 18th hole playing for his first maj- or, like- So good... for winning his first major, and they still don't even know where they have it.
But one of the sneaky things that I love about this shot is- Wait, hold on. Hold on... it was one- Just go back to the, go, go back to the penalty. Like, describe what the, the perceived penalty would have been.
The ball... Yeah. It was like, well, they ended up giving him a shot. So it was the ball moved on the putting green on the fifth hole. And they- And his partner, Westwood, was like, "Nope, nope. Didn't move." No.
"Didn't move." No. "Didn't move." Playing partner said it didn't move. He was like, "I didn't see it move." And they, like- A- and it's, and then this is coming off the, the craziness- [chuckles]...
at Whistling Straits, which we just talked about. So, like, these rules, I cannot imagine playing and not knowing what my lead is or what I have going on. But one of the, I think,
awesome things about that shot is it was, I, it was one of the first years that they had Shot Tracer from the fairway.
And so that, he's 192 or so- he hits six iron, which, like, how often do these guys ever have to hit six iron into- Yeah... into holes anymore, right? Or fives. And
when, uh, the, it was one of the first shots I thought about when Sean, you threw out, like, what were the best shots in the last 25 years.
But it's because I remember the Shot Tracer and this just gorgeous ball flight going dead straight and just falling off slightly to the right.
And so it lands to four feet, but he needs to make a four-foot putt with, like, a foot of break in it. And it's crazy that he- But he doesn't think he needs to make it. He doesn't even know it.
And so un- like un- just an unbelievable shot. And I remember still seeing it. B- I looked it up today just to go see it again. I was like, "Yep, that's as, that's maybe even better than how I remembered it."
So it was a combination of technology coming in and Dustin getting it, but also it, it helps so much too, because it makes his Masters mean more, right?
And that was a junky Masters, that 2020 in the mud and everything else, you know. But it, now it means more, 'cause now he's got two majors because of it.
Would also say that leaderboard, like, was a mess, um, with, like, Scott Piercy was, like, in the mix coming down at the end too.
So when you're talking about clubs that have to put up for Oakmont, right, that's a big win for Oakmont too, to be able to put up Dustin Johnson as their champion than, like, Scott Piercy or some of those other guys that were in it, like Brendan Grace, Kevin Na.
Like, there was a bunch of guys kinda in it. So I, I think that was a, that was a big moment, and it ended up being big for his career too, and kinda sad he just disappeared, but.
No, I think that's, I think that's an awesome- On the heels, on the heels of what happened at, at Chambers Bay the year before too, like 2015. Yeah. Three putts, 18. Yep. To lose to Spieth.
I mean, that guy should have six majors. [chuckles] Like, what are we doing? It's- What a- Yeah.
It's funny also, like doesn't-I think Oak Guan obviously is like a tremendous test, but, you know, 2007 Tiger kind of kicked one away and like one of the great shots was Angel, because the, the fairway on 18 was impossible to hit that year.
I think it was '07 was when they had it at Oak Guan previously. Um- Yeah. With the doc, Don Hill. That, and his drive on 18 sealed it against that. He beat Tiger. Like he, he was...
I mean, people talk about Wai Yang, but Angel kind of went right up against him. Then he went to jail. And then came back and is playing in the Masters. Yeah. I think Jed's got another pick coming back here. Yeah.
Um- Is this his last one? This is your last pick. I will go... I'll, I'll go 2022, Scotty, uh, his, his fourth putt on the green on 18 that he knocked in, that he knocked in the hole.
Come on, his chip in was so good on the third hole. You couldn't. [laughs] That's where I thought you were going. That's- He, he still, like he still wins by three, I think.
But he f- like that's a four putt and the, that was like one of the longer putts that he, that he had. Like, if he misses that, he could've been, he could've kept going back and forth for a while. So it was...
I remember the four putt, like I remember it being a four putt, but I went back to watch the progression of what it was. There's actually a key moment in it.
So after he misses his third and it rolls back to, it's a foot and a half, two feet, like it's not easy. The crowd, instead of being like, "Ugh," like silent, they get up and they start like clapping.
Like, everyone's laughing about it, and I think it broke the stress a little bit for him, and he was able to roll the next one in. But I don't know. What happens if he's on there and he like just...
Even if he wins, but say he six putts or something crazy, like maybe it's not the same Scotty after that.
So I think rolling in at that four putt, that was probably the max of, of what you wanna do on that hole to be able to get it in there. It kicks off his- I mean, what-... his career. What, uh,
I, I don't know how you can tell this in a more succinct way than I will, but how could you have back-to-back Masters champions- Four putt...
that four putted back-to-back holes, like the 18th hole, the 72nd, and then the first hole the next year. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Which r- which Rahm four putted for double [laughs] and then went on to win.
And, uh, uh, the, the other thing about that four putt was the four putt and also Scheffler then sharing afterwards that like he was like sobbing to his wife before, like that morning, and he wasn't sure if he could- That's-...
if he could do it. And, and then, so like in my mind I'm thinking, "Well, this might be the only major this guy wins," 'cause he sounds like he might be a little bit of a head case, and this was just like his one.
He chipped in on three. He's kinda settled him down, but then he four putted eight- the 18th hole, and he's talking about how he wasn't sure if he could do it. And, and then now he's, now he's Scottie Scheffler.
But like, I think it g- I, I think it laid some doubt at, at, uh, in, in some people's minds of like, "Oh, this guy might just be a, like a one hit wonder here," and he's clearly not.
That was all part of the context too, right? And I'm glad you, you mentioned that. Yeah, we didn't know that until after, 'cause he, he had played so well.
But yeah, he was having a hard time, you know, dealing with the, the thought of winning, which makes him human, right? So I think that's also why, I mean, I, I, now I root pretty hard for Scotty for stuff like that.
And I bet you we see... I think he's gonna win a bunch more majors, but I do think we see something l- like, like that at some point down the road, right? 'Cause it's in there. Um, yeah, that was, that was,
that was one that came to mind, and I think that, that'll kickstart just an unbelievable, um, run of majors that we get to hopefully watch for a long time. Berkey, what do you got? All right, so that's it. I'm out.
You're out. All right. [laughs] You're off the clock. Draft board is complete. Draft. Yeah. All right, I feel good about that draft. You can clear out the war room, clean up the sandwiches.
Y- You can all stand up and applaud whenever people do. All right. So, uh, man, s- just this might be my toughest pick. I'm really regretting picking Jimmy Walker with my first pick now.
[laughs] It was good, uh, it's good for content though. [laughs] Uh, I, it, I'm actually gonna end up picking like people I don't like for all of these picks, which is actually kinda crazy. Literally all of them.
Um, I'm gonna go with what I think is, and, and Jed, I know you have, um, been to this exact spot, and I still think it could be like the legitimate greatest shot [laughs] ever hit.
Um, like from, from not a luck standpoint or like just the, the physical skill that it took for Bubba Watson to hit a hook shot in 2012 from the pine straw, in the right pine straw in the playoff, um,
against Louis Oosthuizen. Like I, I've been down there. I've seen it.
It's un- unfortunately, since I've, uh, so I went back, like I think it was there the year after, and, um, and then since then they said it's changed a little bit. Jed, you might have some, um, insight.
But like, it, it, it is an obscene golf shot to hit on like a regular day and then to do it in a playoff. I think it could be the greatest physical shot of all time under pressure. Like j- not from like...
So Jed, like, um, DJ's shot into Oakmont is like an amazing shot, but people have that in their bag. Uh, uh, I just don't... I- I'm still like in awe every day.
Like it's an ama- it's just, like it's a crazy shot and, and it deserves to be on this list. [laughs] And um, I, I just, it's crazy. So like I, I had it as an honorable mention and I debated it.
I was for Dustin Johnson, his career.
But, and sometimes I think s- sometimes when you're standing in the middle of the fairway, sometimes it's even harder 'cause you have like the built-in excuse of like when you're in a crazy spot that you let it fly and try to hook it around.
But that shot in itself I think is, is one of the greatest shots ever hit in, in major championship golf because also like, will we ever see the ball curve that much again?
I mean, maybe Bubba can still do it, but like I, I don't know. And like literally out and, and around.
But, but I also think like, 'cause we're doing most important because that he has-Another Masters and everything else, like it, it really does, it makes it even more important.
But yeah, it's one of the most unbelievable shots. Like, I love the camera work when it just goes up, and then all of a sudden you see this ball just like coming, and everyone's so shocked. It's like, yeah.
I mean, like- That's one rewatch... what do you think it hooked? Uh, I mean, like 50 yards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which- I mean, it went, it went out like an L. It just went out and then just like went.
And then, then, and then went to like 10 feet. Yeah. Like [laughs] Yeah. I, I don't... Like- Yeah. Unbelievable... again, like I, I know, I don't... Bubba's not my favorite golfer by any stretch of the means.
I do find myself, or when I, especially when he came to TPC Boston, I did like make a point to go watch him just because of the curve that he puts on the ball, and it's just something that really no professional golfers do, and it's entertaining to watch.
But that shot, again, like if it was in a practice round, you'd be like, "Oh, I'm gonna fuck around and hit this shot." But like, no, he was in the playoff for the Masters [laughs] and did it to win. It's a great one.
And, and took another one out of, from Louis, right? That was Lou- Was Louis in that playoff? It was Louis. Louis also made a two on the second hole that day, so. Yeah, I know. Another shot I wrote down.
Like that w- Yeah. Like if he wins, right, and then m- and does other stuff, that would be, that, that was in contention. But because he didn't win, he, you know, so. Yeah.
It just becomes like a cool thing at Sunday at 2:00. Doesn't quite make the, make the leap. Burke, I'm surprised you didn't pick out Schwartzel's chip in on the first hole of the Masters.
You talk about that every freaking year we do a Masters pod. It's number one on my list. I'm not even joking you. [laughs] You picked Jimmy Wang. [laughs] You're like the Cleveland Browns. It's number one.
Just throwing picks away. It's, it's the best. It's the, it's... So people talk about... I mean, if anyone has listened to me on this podcast, I, like I talk about, it, it's, it's the most underrated shot of all time.
Um, it just like in the gravity of things, the fact that it was Charl Schwartzel and that like, I don't know. I love that golf. I went back and watched it. I have it linked here. I watched it like five times. Yeah.
It's so good. It's so good. It's like a, he used like a flat faced iron of some sort. I don't know- It was-... if he's talking about what club it was... the most loft.
I, I don't, I don't know if he's ever said it, but there's no way it could've been more than a seven iron. Yeah. If not like a five. Yeah. It looked like a five iron, like a kind of mid to long iron.
I mean, it's so good all the way across that green.
That was just after, just after Rory and Angel had teed off, and again, the 2011, which was a great tournament in and of itself with like four guys coming down the stretch, JD, Adam Scott. Yeah.
But yeah, Schwartzel is just such a noob that I couldn't put him [laughs] Well, speaking of noobs, I'm gonna give, I'm gonna drop my last pick here. Uh, guy just retired, long illustrious career, 30 years old.
Mito Pereira's tee shot on 18- [laughs]... at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills is [laughs] like- I love that shot... it, it might be- I love that shot...
it, it's, it might be one of the most important shots in this, this, uh, this century. Justin Thomas gets his second major.
Um, it, it kinda like, it just another little death blow to Will Zalatoris who, like the farther we get away from that summer of him at the US Open and the PGA Championship and like almost winning a few majors and now his back's bl- Like what an incredible, what an incredible shot to hit.
And then like Mito, now Mito Pereira leaves, goes to Liv and decides like he doesn't wanna play Liv Golf anymore. He's just retiring [laughs] from professional golf. Like- Like what a crazy s- That...
set of, of things that were set into motion on that one- That's so good... just horrendous tee shot. I mean, so incredibly... I watched that this week. I mean, it is incredibly bad. And did you put...
You, you might have put that... Did you put that in the newsletter, Sean? I did. This or last week's? I did. Yeah, 'cause he- Yeah... 'cause he retired, so I threw it in there. I gasped at how bad that...
Like, I remember it being terrible, but that finish in... The, the thing is, like for, he goes so fast. Like he goes up to hit that shot- So fast... so fast. Yep.
And it's, uh, if we can learn anything from these guys, like don't be like Mito on 18. You know, like he, he just steps up, that's his most scared off. It's just, it's tough to look at.
But I think one of the things that was interesting, and you call it, it's like what that does for Justin Thomas, right, in, in his career. And it's, it's weird that we all found these, these bad shots that
end up being the most important or most impactful either for that player or where it helped someone else take off. It w- Yeah, that was crazy. That was, that's a tough one.
I mean, I, I, I will say JT doesn't, to me, doesn't get enough credit for his shots that he hit in that playoff there. Like he, that drive that he hit on the par four was- Another good, another good short par four-...
nails... tee shot. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. 16, I think. And I forgot that Mito took himself out of the playoff too. It's not even just that he lost. Oh yeah, double. Yeah, he made his double. Finishes, finishes third. Uh.
Yeah. I mean, he c- he could've, he could've made bogey from after hitting it in that ha- Like the hazard was in the middle of the fairway. Like he could've. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, he had to take a tough drop I feel like, and then hacked it up to the back of the green. Did he hit driver? Oh, it was a driver. It was, like- Yeah. Yeah, and, and it was three wood all week, right?
Like everyone was hitting three wood there and- Yeah. Yeah. I mean, JT hit a shank on the sixth hole that, that final round and just kind of like hung in there and deserves a ton of credit.
He hit a shank at the, um- Um, but it's like he's got two majors. They're still PGAs, so there is still, you know, he's gotta win something that's not a PGA, I, I personally think. Yeah, I actually- But just a w- I mean,
if, if Justin Thomas- I somewhat disagree with you, Jed. Like, I don't know that that did much for... It, obviously being a multiple major winner.
Gets him two maj- I, but the fact that it was the PGA and the way that it happened, I don't think anyone necessarily thinks of JT as better or worse.
I don't think it, I don't think it impacts us, but like in the record books, it's a lot to have two majors versus one is a big difference, right? No, I, I, I- Especially-... agree with you. Like- Yeah.
And I just, that, and that's the first word I went. And if he wins another one or something, now he's like really cooking. Like it, what a bonus for- Totally... and, uh- He's one shy of Spieth. Yeah.
Like, he needs one more and he's tied with Jordan Spieth after all that talk in '15 and '17 about Spieth being the golden boy and like kinda blowing away this o- Didn't-... the rest of his peers.
We could be in a world where they retire with the same amount of majors if he gets one more. And may- like maybe he will. Maybe he'll have another one more like crazy week. Um-What do you mean, JT? Yeah.
Yeah, he could easily win another major. Yeah. That's a, I, I'm not saying easily for anybody except for maybe Scotty right now winning a major, and Michael Thorpe Bjornsen of course. Didn't... Of course.
But didn't, uh, doesn't the JT thing, isn't this also where he says, like, that dick thing the next, uh, was it at the champions dinner the next year, where he's like, thanks Mido or something for doing it for him?
He's like, "Oh, I should thank Mido for being here." Yes. I think you're right. I think you're, he's, I think you're right.
So like now that the, now the guy's not, like, that it's even a bigger dick comment now that the guy doesn't even play golf anymore. Yeah. Like, he's, the moment forced him to retire and Justin's thanking him for joking.
That's a- All right. Good one... good cl- that's a great closing hole too. I just think, like, wandering creeks just mess with pros if they're in the right areas, and that hole just, it, it created y- it...
I mean, JT talked about that, how hard that tee shot was. Was Steve Williams on his bag that week? Who was on his... No. Who was on his bag? I guess reg- regular caddy Just his regular caddy? Oh, it was... No. No.
It was someone, he had someone like- It was Bones... was Bones on his bag? Yeah. I was gonna, I almost said Bones. I think it was Bones. Yeah. Yeah. It was not Stevie. That was stupid.
'Cause I remember, uh, I kinda remember him walking, like, after he won and may- maybe kind of, I think I kind of can see Bones walking there with him. Yeah. Yeah. That, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
Um, that's pretty funny how many we had the same. There was another great Southern Hills moment too that I had on my list. The missed pu- where one of the missed putts? Was it- Yeah, the Goose and Furyk- Yeah... sink.
Yeah. Sink three jackin'. That was a wild sequence of, like, 20 minutes. Just guys missing putts. Wild. What year was that? 2005? No. 2001? Hmm. Three. Three? Yeah. That was a... Southern Hills has had a bunch of majors.
Kind of freaking another place you forget about. After all your Valhalla talk, no Valhalla picks for you, Berkey. I thought we were gonna, I thought we were gonna get, like, Rory playing through on Phil, Alpha Dog.
I had that. I mean, so- I had, I had, I had the, uh, the tee shot on 18 when he fired it up their butts on trying to play through in the dark.
I ha- I mean, geez, we could do another podcast for honorable mentions, but, uh, the original Valhalla I had was Tiger's tee shot in the playoff that people still don't know whether some, one of the fans, like, threw it out, like when he runs backwards-
Oh... um, against Bob May. Oh, the Zephyr film shot. That's right. The ball just comes out of, like, just bounces down the- It comes out of nowhere. Yeah. [laughs] It comes... There's a million fans around- Yeah...
and it's in a bush, and then all of a sudden it's shooting. You have to go look at the...
I mean, I had it up, but you have to go look at the video of where it just comes shooting out, and everyone's like, nothing happened. And this guy's, like, waving. He's like, "I got it. I got it." Yeah.
[laughs] That, that putt Tiger hit to force the playoff was also another, like, Torrey Pines-like putt- Exactly... against Bob May. That putt was insane. Bob May's putt was sick. Like that, again, you go back- Yeah.
Yeah... and then, and then Tiger's first putt in the playoff, the one where he does the point, the- Yeah. Yeah. He chases it in... puts it in. Yep. Um, and then you like- That was,
that was, that was Pete cheering for Bob May time. Like, yeah. I was like, "Hey, do the point."
And also in that, [laughs] in that tournament, I wasn't gonna go, like, too, uh, like, esoteric, but he played with Jack Nicklaus in his last PGA for the first two rounds, and Jack had to make equal on the last hole.
You have to go look up the shot. And he literally from the fairway, I think it was like 120 yards, left it, like, on the lip to make the cut, and everyone was going bananas.
Like, it was a ceremonial thing, and of course he was like, "Oh, yeah, gotta make it." Um, that was, it, that's very underrated. Yeah.
Ano- another one I had on my list, just to do some honorable mentions, was that bunker shot Tiger hit at Carnoustie in '18 was very much like, "I'm back." It was on the 10th hole. On the 10th. Yeah.
He got, I think he g- I think he got the lead, and then he made a double coming, like, maybe the next hole or on 12. But I remember him hitting that shot and thinking like, "Oh my God, he is, he is back. He's healthy.
He can hit a really hard shot [laughs] and he's whatever he was, 45, 44." Yeah, that was another one I had on my honorable mention. Jed, what do you got? No, he wasn't even, he wasn't even that. It was 2000...
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was '18, 'cause he won in '19. He won the Masters in '18. We, we literally hit almost all mine one way or the other.
I did have, it's not most p- I, the Matthew Fitzpatrick bunker shot 18 at- Yeah...
at Brookline, and I think that's, I think that's, there's more, like, of a personal connection for us, just because I could s- as that week was going on, I was really hoping it was gonna be a memorable US Open or a good US Open.
You know, just because it's in our backyard and, you know, we're, we were able to go to it and, and, and soak up the atmosphere.
So the fact that that ended in, in a cool style with an awesome golf shot that we'll remember, I had that one on the, on the honorable mention list as well.
Anyone have Phil just batting his putter, just chasing down the ball and slapping it at Shinnecock? No, I didn't have that one. I mean, I, I remember it. I just read that, the Shipnuck book.
Um, I didn't want any Phil really. Other than what, what's said. So I, I had Phil. I had, like, I, I thought the 2004 Masters was one of the, the, like, in the, in the moment was, like, just an amazing Masters.
Like, you're watching it as a relatively young kid, like, I thought that was amazing. Did you have the putt on 18 or what'd you have as the- I had the putt on 18. Have you watched- I had the putt on 18...
the after, like, the, the aftermath of that?
Th- that, like, he makes the putt and then the walk he makes up to scoring, like, they, you know, they f- they do a better job now of, like, following, but that scene was insane after he won. That was a mob shot.
Everyone was rooting for him. Yeah. It was crazy. It was awesome to, to watch back.
You know, th- I, I do find some absolutely not correlated symmetry between, you know, Phil breaking his drought and then the Red Sox winning, like, later that year in, in October. Like, you know, I, I don't know.
That stuck in my mind. I did have, this is more of a moment than a shot, which is where I was sort of-I, I do think, um, after Hideki won in 2021, his caddy, like, bowing to the course- Yeah...
is, like, one of the coolest things. Totally unplanned, like, not scripted at all. Some photographer just gets the shot. Yep. Like, I, I think that's one of the great golf, uh, photos of all time. Yeah.
Like, I, I, I think that will live on forever. Yeah. It should. Yeah. Yeah. And it's...
Like, when I just did the screen grab of all the major winners, and, like, what's the first thing that came to mind when you looked at one of those tournaments, right? Or any of them.
The Hideki win was definitely one of the ones. I just...
Honestly, I didn't, like, know enough of the shots off the top of my head to have it qualify, but that moment and everything else, definitely one of the best moments. And that was it.
The last r- the last round was kinda bland. His third round was where he really, like, kinda grabbed- After the delay... um, correct. Yeah. Yeah. The Y.E. Yang chip-in in 2- 2009. The- Uh, that was, like,
the beginning of the end for Tiger. Who knew, like, two months later, all hell- Yeah... would break loose. I know. Yeah. There's a, there's a couple good quotes I, I got from that. I- Yeah. But
Tiger was talking about, like- Henrik, Hen-... making... He stuffed one on 13 and missed the putt, and Yang made birdie on 13, and then Yang chipped in on 14, and it was like
he just, like, two blows to the chin that kinda... I, I don't think people... Like, that little two-hole segment there, Tiger talking about, like, "I just... That was, that was it. That was the moment."
Like, 50-footer that Henrik Stenson rolled in to win- Yeah... the British. That was, that was unbelievable. That battle then, that stretch, that was a...
I think that was a, a final round that doesn't quite get its due for whatever reason. But when, when we talk about, like, just m- memories that pop, I think that...
Was that the year that Phil wore that stupid, like, paper clip thing, remember, on his hat to, like, make sure it fits? Yes. [laughs] And he played all week with, like, the, the- It- it's like the binder clip.
Not even the pa- Yeah, yeah... the binder clip. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The binder clip on his hat. Like, that's the random stuff that popped in my mind when I was going back through this.
Cam Smith putting around the road hole bunker in '22- Had that... is another one I have, I have written down. And if, if he doesn't disappear off the planet. I have Rory making par for that one. Yeah.
I just have Rory making pars e- every single hole- Yeah... on, on that round. I can't believe you didn't have anything from this past, uh, Masters shot. I know. I... Yeah. I mean, listen, you gotta zag sometimes. Fraud.
[laughs] Um, I thought, again, this was more when we were talking about moments. I think the 2002 US Open at Bethpage was a huge moment for golf, like the fact that it was a public golf course.
You know, I, I couldn't re- I, I remember Tiger winning, but there wasn't, like, a seminal shot, I think, at that US Open. The weather was the story that week. I do think it was... Yeah.
I, I do think it was really important for the way that we thought about golf, like, from a public access perspective. I, I, I think that that, that was a pretty good one. Um, we didn't...
Nobody mentioned Tiger's chip in 2005- I know... at the Masters.
I actually had DiMarco's chip on my list on 18 that lipped out that would've won him that exact Masters after Tiger went bogey, bogey on 17 and 18 after chipping in on 16. That was the first shot I wrote down.
For what it's... So the- That was the first shot...
it was such a fun exercise be- because yeah, there's the shots that you remember, but then trying to calculate it back towards, uh, it, its overall importance either in that tournament or for their career.
Then all of a sudden I saw stuff flying, flying down the board. Yep. Yeah. Um, another random- Dude... one I had was, uh,
David Toms' hole in one, 2001 Atlanta Athletic Club on Saturday, that that thing was rocketing off the green. Um, hits five wood, flag stick, and he ends up...
A- and then on Sunday ends up getting up and down on 18 to beat Mickelson by one. Um, but yeah, he's like, hit, he hits... I, I have it on video.
Hits this five wood that, like, hits the middle of the flag stick, comes, drops right back down. Unbeli- like, wins the tournament by one. It's, like, crazy. I had that, but because he...
I mean, he was a great player, and his swing at that time was like a model golf swing. Like, people used to- Yeah... teach that move. And then every- Oh, you can't teach it now. You can't teach... It's, does... Yeah.
So that's where I didn't do...
I literally had it on the board and I took it off because it, it just became not that important because his, he didn't do much after, and then, like, the whole game changed and that swing doesn't even, you don't even see it anymore.
But he's thought of, but t- I mean, a- and, and Mickelson- Yeah... had not won a major at that point, but David Toms is now a major winner, which is way more important to just be a major winner than not.
And it's also a crazy shot and, like, his up and down. I don't know, kind of a sneaky good, good major although, uh, you know, another good one, Atlanta Athletic a couple years later.
Jordan Spieth has two 18th hole tee shots. Got balloons popping up. Um- What, what was that? I don't know. It just reacted to my putting my two fingers up, I guess. [laughs] Um, um, the 18th shot at St.
Andrews in 2015 where he, like, pull hooks it up against a post and m- ends up making par and not being in that three-man playoff on a Monday with Zach Johnson, Leishman, and Oosthuizen. Uh, was it Oosthuizen?
Zach Johnson ends up winning. We were very close to Spieth winning the first three majors of the 2015 year.
And then there was the year, I can't remember what year it was off the top of my head, where he was, like, incandescent at the Masters. Was that '16, 17? And he sh- he, he was gonna shoot 63 and he clips the tree on 18.
Um, it was the year- Is it later, eight?... Patrick Reed won. It was 18. 18. 18. Yeah. Hits the tree and just kinda, like, goes from possibly shooting 63 to I think he made bogey and shot 65. Mm.
I think, I think he was, like, birdie for 61 or 62 or something. [laughs] Yeah. He... Yeah. It, it was, like, low and he might've made a double or... Like, it was bad on the last hole.
He had to take it unplayable right off the tee. Yeah, 'cause he hit that... I mean, he hit tree, like, 10 yards off the fair, [laughs] off the, off the tee box.
Those are two ones that, like, butterfly effect, especially 15. I mean-Obviously, Rory's tee shot on 10 in 2011, like that's Well, especially when you see, like, [chuckles] dead left that would have to go. So I, I...
Jed, and I, and I, and I've told both of you this, but I, I went in 2012, and the first thing I did was go to the, the tee on, uh, 10.
And I just asked the marshal, we were there like super early in the morning, I was like, "Hey, where did Rory's tee shot hit?" And he pointed to [chuckles] a place that I'm like, "No." It's like right there. Yeah.
Like right [laughs] It's, it's like there. And he's like... I...
And the, the marshal, uh, great guy, he was just like, "I've been doing this for 20 years, like I watch every single tee shot that comes off here, and that is exactly where it went." And I was like,
man, he almost kind of got lucky to even get through as far as he, as he did on his tee shot. [chuckles] So I got some, I've got some, uh- It's crazy. It i- it is crazy... I've got some Instagram ones people shared.
Um- Oh, they did. Oh, nice... yeah. We got Matt Fittes, which we talked about. We got Bubba Watson's hook shot. Uh, Jon Rahm we didn't talk any- we didn't talk about him at all.
Um, this person just mentioned both birdie putts at Torrey that he hit. I'd say the one on seven- We didn't talk about Rahm or Kep- Koepka I know. Um, those two. Rory's approach into the pl- in...
Rory's approach on the 19th hole on Sunday. Speed Squad on 12. Tiger's birdie on 16 in 2019, when he almost made a hole in one. Um- Good one. Zach Johnson tee box practice swing. [chuckles] That's a good one. Oh, yeah.
[chuckles] That's a good one. That... I mean, when we talked about moments, that was like literally one of the ones I thought about.
But Rory, like the beauty of Rory's Masters this past year is that, I mean, you could choose his chunk on 13 as a moment, or his, uh, you know, his, the fact that his ball hung up on 11 as a moment. Yeah.
He had like- They were all just... he had like seven or eight shots you could pick just from- I know [chuckles]... from that, from that round. So good. Yeah. The shot on seven, the shot on 11, 13, 15, 17.
Yeah, it's crazy. Seven, yeah. God, that was a good one. Yep, yep. Thir- three. I mean, he talked on Shot and Start about th- that third, that bogey, that birdie on three being like maybe the most pivotal moment for him
as well. Sure, but he also birdied four. Four and like- I know... you don't birdie four. Yeah. Bryson's shot on, at Pinehurst we did not talk about either, which is- I... Yeah, I had it on there, but- Yeah...
it, yeah, might have some- Yeah... subconscious Liv bias we [chuckles] went in with. No, we did good on Justin. Yeah. Yes. I also think that shot is different- Yeah... if he has to get up and down,
um, to force a playoff. I think, I think there's like- I know... I think there's a little, there's something a little different. It, it's still so good. Oh, it's awesome. I mean, I- It's a- [chuckles] it's awesome. Yeah.
Uh, I just think it, the dynamic is a little different. He's got like, he's got at least a little bit of life if he makes bogey from there versus having to make a par.
Rory also hit driver off that tee, which was idiotic. Yeah. Did they both hit driver? Didn't Bryson hit driver? Yeah, but Bryson was hitting driver- Everywhere... all over the place, so. All right.
Any last, any last thoughts? Yeah, there's, there's... I'm trying to see if I didn't mention anything on my list. Yeah, the Valhalla one, um, the Ricky... Yeah, we mentioned that one.
I have, I have the- I mean, there's just so much... I have Phil's bunker shot at Kiawah that he holed out on. It might have been like the f- Oh, yeah...
early in the round there, and it, that just felt like one of those- Five... Oh, he's gonna win. [chuckles] He's gonna win this. That was the... For me, that was the first moment.
Old, oldest major champ, like 50, 51, right? Like- He was 50 at the time... like 50, 50... he was about to... Yeah, he turns 50 in that, uh, that June, I think. Um, yeah, but just a crazy- Yep... crazy shot.
That's the only one from that tournament that, that stood out to me. S- honestly, I like, I think I didn't pick some of the Brooks stuff because he got worked so hard [laughs] at- So hard... Kiawah. Like Phil out...
Phil played him and outmaneuvered him with diff- different tactics and stuff, right? And I don't know, that's, that was- And his Oak Hill PGA was like kind of boring. So was his Bethpage PGA. Yeah.
The most famous thing about Oak Hill P- PGA is Michael Block. Yeah. That's a good one. Well, and the, at Bethpage, it was when they were cheering against him, right? I don't even remember- Yeah...
the shots, but I just remember that pissed him off, and he got fired up and won. Uh- He was like eight shots ahead. Uh, I mean, they were just rooting for something to happen. Yeah. Got tight. Yeah. Yeah.
DJ made it a little bit, little bit fun at the end there, but- Right. Yeah. I think it was more Brooks. Yeah, whatever. But, um, [sighs] man, that's good.
Well, when he comes back to the PGA Tour, we'll get to know him better. 'Cause he was such a presence on the P- We'll sign with the next one... he was such a presence on the PGA Tour before. That's a good point.
I, so we don't, we don't need to- Talk about a guy that just- We don't need to, we don't need to devolve this into the Brooks, but he will gladly take a year suspension and be like, "I'm good." Like he, that...
It is like the perfect situation for them. They need to suspend him for a year, which is probably what he wants. Yeah. Yeah. And everyone saves face. Yep. Like that's it. Yeah. And it's not even a year. It's August.
He didn't- Like he... That, it's gonna be... T- he's gonna play the m- He didn't like the PGA Tour. Yeah, he's gonna play the majors. Yeah.
He's gonna play once a month from April till July, and then August he'll be off the list, and he'll be playing golf again. Like no one starts playing golf at this point until April, a lot of these guys.
It's not that complicated. Yeah. It's just not that complicated. And by the way, you're a five-time major winner, you have a lifetime exemption anyway, like you're on the tour next year. Yeah. Yeah. You're fine. Yeah.
You go play some DP World stuff or- He wouldn't-... just hang out at home...
he wouldn't want to play the r- the, the prerequisite amount of tournaments that w- are required to get you into like the next year's schedule anyway. Yeah. Yeah. What a character. What a character.
Um- It's also full cir- full circle 'cause he started on that low-level European tour. Yeah, Challenge Tour. Like that was his whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's where he went. He'll have to go back.
Is his brother even still on Liv? Oh, I have no idea. That's a good question. I don't really care though, so [chuckles] I think that's when he like started souring.
He's like, "Well, they're not paying my brother a million dollars a year to be the worst player on this [chuckles] tour." Yeah. Let's bring in Anthony Kim. Yeah. Wild. All right. Well, that was fun. It was. 90 minutes.
Yeah, it was good. Enjoyed it. 90 minutes. We got 15. All right. And, uh- Good to be on with you guys... yeah. Thanks, Jed. Thanks, Berkey. Yeah. Thanks, guys. See ya. See you, boys. Bye. See you guys.