Golfers Golf and Travel - Masters Preview Week #2

Ole Uncle Randy and James Algeo talk all things Masters,....from how much does it cost to park your plane for the week at Augusta airport, Augusta Women's Am. Leader, Rory's Menu, favorites to win, updates on Valero Open, and other topical hidden items in the professional golf world. 

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

As golfers golf and travel takes the air, it's Master's Week, and we welcome you.

SPEAKER_03 0:09

Good morning. As sure as the sun rises in the east, the dogwoods bloom and Magnolia Lane awaits. We welcome you to Augusta National for the 2026 Masters. We walk, not run to our chosen spots, entering early and leaving late. Enjoying a pimento sandwich, then shopping for many at home. Professionals are gathering on the practice range as we all collectively greet the first major of the year. The world takes a breath for a moment, listening to the echoes of the past, and all senses tuned with anticipation of history, ready to unfold. The beauty of Bobby Jones' creation calls this moment in time to serve us all. With the premier event unfolding before us, sensibilities, and world of golf standstill. This is more than a tournament. It's tradition, history, and moments that live forever. From the echoes of Arnold Palmer and the greatness of Jack Nicholas, to the unforgettable rise and return of Tiger Woods, and last year's tearful joy of roaring, completing the grand slam. We join each other in faith this year. We'll be better than the history that has been written for the many decades before. We come as sportmen, fans, and the golfing family to embrace these few days in April once again. Augusta calls us back each year as the sun warms tall pines. Let fairways and azaleas come to life. And the golf world awakens with the first drive on Thursday's morning of Master's Week. Today we take you inside the game, the stories, and all the good things in life that's around it.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

And uh joining me is James Algido. How's the world treating out there, James?

SPEAKER_07 3:49

Good. Everything's good today. Um you know, typical spring Pennsylvania weather where yesterday it was, you know, 7580 degrees. Now today it's like 15 and it's raining. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Yeah, well good. Well, congratulations, James. Um I had a call this morning uh from one of our friends that said you were boosted up to our uh board of directors and in there seated at the vice president. So congratulations. I did not know that it was happening, but No, me neither.

SPEAKER_07 4:17

But I'll hang enough, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Yeah, if you can find the paperwork on that and send it to me, I'll put it in your file.

SPEAKER_07 4:22

Um I'll make sure I get on it. And of course that comes with you know doubling my salary, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Uh it actually five times.

SPEAKER_07 4:30

Um I mean double five times, you know, the when you multiply everything times zero, it's still zero. So, you know.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

I understand, and then if I reduce it six hundred percent, you owe me money to work here. So our only political comment of the day. Sorry. Anyway. I'm still trying to figure out that math. How do you reduce it 600%? Okay, I got ten dollars.

SPEAKER_07 4:53

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that's worth with. Well I know we we try real hard not to go there on this uh on this level is how so maybe we should just continue on the go.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

I think maybe they're gonna that's why they're flying to the moon. They're they have the answer up there in the dark side of the moon.

SPEAKER_07 5:08

Well, I think they're going to look for help, actually.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

But wouldn't it be funny if they flew around the moon and they saw a sign? Uh this uh moon, uh, we throw on the earth for 12 bucks. You can buy the moon for a dollar, but we have found it. This is unendable. They keep thinking they keep thinking that the aliens are flying around in UFOs that we learned eons ago. There is no rewarding anything going on down there.

SPEAKER_07 5:35

Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Strangely enough, they have people that make a lot of money and they hit a ball a quarter of a mile, and then they take a stick and they hit it again. They try to get it into a hole four and a quarter inches, and and millions of people watch it. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_07 5:49

Yeah, I wore I wore two of them.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Yeah, yeah. Um oh god, where did that that just got off on the wrong foot somehow? You have to quit that. That Pennsylvania insanity. That's that's not good. That's Pennsylvania math, uh, as we know. Anyway, getting back to golf. This is Masters Thursday. The women are playing in the second day of the Augusta National Women's Amateur and the leaders. Shot crazy yesterday. And the latest on the leaderboard right now is uh Mayor Tengren is at 10 under par with a young lady by the name of Asterisk Tally, second at nine under par. And asterisk has been around for a long time. She is a great, great player. All these girls are are incredible. So what they do is they play yesterday and today to qualify. They only have uh 30, then will go to and play on Saturday at Augusta National. They have a day of practice tomorrow.

SPEAKER_07 6:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

But these are really, really good players. A couple of them went and played the other day at Augusta and uh uh shot 64s. So apparently they can teach the men a thing about playing golf at Augusta National.

SPEAKER_07 7:02

Sounds like it.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Isn't that crazy? Um the Valero Texas Open is ongoing this week. They got a pretty good feel down there. The only ticket that can be punched to get into the Masters uh for you uh novices is that uh if you win certain men's tournaments, and and not all of them qualify anymore, and that's why I say certain, but this one certainly does, uh, is probably about the only other way you can get into the Masters next week, is if you win. So play well.

SPEAKER_07 7:32

Um so then so then there's a chance that the somebody who's not qualified for next week that's playing in this tournament, should they win, now all of a sudden they're changing their plans and they're going through Augusta next week, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Yep, they'll be going out buying some new underwear and uh, you know, saying, honey, I'm on the road.

SPEAKER_07 7:51

So Yeah, that's exciting.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Yeah, don't ever forget that golfers, no matter what level you play, it's just a golf trip. And um I just want to make light of it because of all the history it's centered around golf, because it's hard to become a world-class golfer. There's probably, in my opinion, five, six hundred guys that are playing on different levels in the country right now, that if lightning struck in the bottle on a particular day, that they might qualify. Now, you might not even know this. Every Monday of every professional tournament, uh if you're handicapped, I think it has to be within maybe a four or five, but you can pony up your money and play in a a local qualifier on Monday for one of two spots that will get you in a PGA tournament starting Thursday. That that happens every week.

unknown 8:38

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

And those are those are great stories because sometimes there has been in the past guys, uh, I believe it was Corey Connors years ago, was playing in the Canadian Tour, or maybe one of the it could have been um Corn Ferry Tour, and he was playing in Detroit, and he could have played there and gotten some pretty good uh money, or he decided to go play in the Monday qualifier of the PGA tournament that was in Detroit, and he qualified and he won. Life changed, and he's a great player. Wow.

SPEAKER_07 9:12

One day that's amazing. That's an amazing story.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Yeah, bang. I mean, and he is a great player, solid down the middle um kind of player, and uh it's it's uh it's truly, truly remarkable. This uh year um Tommy Fleetwood in this tournament is the highest ranked player in Valera Open. This guy, Tommy Fleetwood is one of the best guys, and there's so many good guys, but he's number four in the world, and he's playing down there, he's he'll be in the Masters next week. Brian Harmon, defending champion, uh, will be playing at uh Valera Open this week, and again, um just a tremendous hard-nosed uh bulldog out of Georgia. Um and uh they had a pretty good field down there. You got um Russell Henley is a top ten player. Uh 15 of the the field includes 15 of the top 50 players in official world golf rankings. Um and uh it's it's just a it's a really good field. It had a little bit of lightning down there this morning. So our good friend uh our good friend um art is down there ducking that. I wish they'd come a little closer for a little shot up isn't, you know. Never mind, we'll go down uh you know he needs he needs a little invigoration, you know, in the day. But anyway, some fun facts about the masters, uh, getting to that, and people might have heard this, but on again, you are not one that's been following golf in your world, uh right, James?

SPEAKER_07 10:44

I I mean occasionally, you know, like casually. Um you know, I mean I'll I I watch sometimes, I always watch the Masters. Uh, you know, get out and play when I can. So I I would consider myself a casual golf fan, not but not yet a hardcore golf fan.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

Yeah, and there's a lot of people like that in the country. I mean, r golf really is just it's a niche sport. Um very, very few people play it. Um very few people play it to where they can break a hundred, and if you can break a hundred, uh you are in probably the top five percent in the country. Yeah. Yeah. That uh I know we talked about that the other day. I was trying to squeeze that fact in before you know before we let it go. But yeah, if you're there, uh you're one of the few. Um after COVID, there's been about a forty-two percent increase in people participating because during the year of COVID, that was one of the few things you could do is get outside and recreate. So golf grew like crazy. And uh forty percent of that forty-two percent are women. Uh they're getting into golf. Um and uh a lot of them got into indoor, you know, uh golf when you're hitting a ball up against a wall, you know, now today those are all over everywhere where you can go and play virtual. I think you did that this last week, didn't you?

SPEAKER_07 12:07

I did actually, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

How do you like that?

SPEAKER_07 12:11

I like it. It was a lot of fun. Uh you know, it's interesting, it moves fast. You know, for me I didn't you know lose any balls, so that's always positive for me, you know.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

So Yeah, and you can walk probably uh you know 10-15 feet, get yourself a beer, drink, uh, you know, soda or something. It's warm. True, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 12:27

You're not you know, you're not moving around quite as much, but you know, two for other guys. But it's it's yeah, it's a lot of fun. And and it was it it was me and two other guys, and you know, we picked a course and managed to play um you know the the 18 virtual holes in two hours. So, you know, it's kind of you know quick in and out, and it was fun.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Yeah, a lot of a lot of places have uh indoor leagues during the winter, and uh they are the tea times are set up and uh strangely it cost maybe a little bit less, but sometimes not a little bit less, you know. And the one that's in our town is booked you know, morning tonight. And they got about eight different pods in there.

SPEAKER_07 13:06

So but it was have you been? Have you have you tried the indoor setup yet?

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Oh I know I have to get a little bit of my have I tried it. Uh back in aught whenever 1995, I went to the PGA show, I saw the first what you could call um simulator.

unknown 13:27

Right.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

And then you could use them to teach. So I bought that system to teach. It was called the A-Star system, and you could synchronize uh uh your swing up against the one I had was against with Ernie L's. So when you swung the club, it would immediately synchronize your swing next to Ernie L's, and you could see where you were different in the positions and all that. Well, that's cool. So then as the years went on, that idea grew, and um a couple years later at the PGA show, uh they came out with you know, now to tell how far he hit the ball through spin and direction and all that. And that was brand new at the PJ show. So we set up a 40-yard indoor net uh impromptu. I mean, the PGA show is in a huge building. We were down there, we were building synthetic greens and golf courses at the time, and uh this guy came along with this, you know, device that showed how far you could hit it and the spin that was on it, and I said, Well, let's have the indoor long drive contest. He goes, What? And I said, Well, you know, yeah, let's do it, let's promote this. This is cool. And so we went and built a uh netted uh tubular frame uh indoor net within the indoors of this trade show that had 100,000 people coming to it on the center aisle, down the equipment section. We called it the indoor long drive contest. So and uh we set up it, and it was the hit of the show. I mean, we had lines of people coming to see, and we put up hourly winners, and then at the end of the day, we had the you know, the uh the hourly winner championships, and then at the end of the four days we had the grand champion. We had to go buy trophies and get them donated and get them engraved and blah blah blah blah blah, you know, and then that led to well, 9-11 came about, and uh a couple years later the show due to trade show shrinking and talking with people at um convention center, and they flew us down and they said, Well, what do you think about that driving thing? And I said, Well, why don't you just net the whole end of the trade show? 200,000 square feet. I think it ended up being 100,000 square feet. Well, it still goes on today where you can go hit real life golf balls, yeah. And on that area there are uh more companies than you can imagine now with amazing simulator um technologies. And uh people are buying them for their own private use in their own garages, they're downstairs, communities are putting them up. Golf courses, it's almost uh uh a demand that uh country clubbers you know need to have at their country clubs now, and they're not cheap, they're anywhere from minimum fifteen to probably twenty-five thousand dollars to install.

SPEAKER_07 16:23

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

But uh are they something? Yeah, you bet. They are have I been around it? Yep, from day one. We I was telling people back in um 2005, 2006, I said this is gonna be the wave of the future. They thought I was totally nuts, absolutely nuts. Um, people didn't they were really not uh looked at as something good in the world of golf back at the time, but now they are everywhere. And actually, you can buy units if you want to hook it up to your own TV and you want to do it just for your own in the garage, you know, set up a net in the garage that will uh do exactly the same thing for about five hundred bucks.

SPEAKER_06 17:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Yeah. And um you just gotta hunt around, but yeah, the technology is just amazing. You see the guys that are on tour have their m virtual you know, swing analyzers sitting there when they go out and they uh tee off. And uh and here's what it is. Okay, I guess we're gonna go down the minutia of what goes on in the world of golf today. So they set up these uh, you know, whether they're their trackmans or I give it what's the flight scope, I think. But what it does is it shows them when they go out getting ready to practice every day and they take it along with them. The pro is the one that handles it. They don't give it off to anybody for because they gotta pay the same thing. Um, unless they got a contract with track man or somebody, they're gonna be paying the same freight as anybody else. They don't hand them out just because you're a pro. And uh so you set them up when you go work out, and of course, the things that I you probably consider, James, when you go play, like humidity, temperature, elevation, wind, how you're swinging, down to the point where you want to tune in your seven iron to within one or two yards of how far it goes. I'm sure that's not what you do every time. The golf balls that you're hitting at a driving range probably have had all the dimples knocked off of them. Oh uh, they've been through the ball washer a number of times, which further knocks the dimples off of them. And quite honestly, at a driving range, driving range golf balls are only good for about two or three times, and then after that the dimples do wear off and they don't go very far. You ever go to a range and think, boy, these balls really aren't going very far?

SPEAKER_07 18:44

Oh yeah. I just figured it's me, but yeah, yeah. No, the the distance does tend to s seem a little bit different.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

It's a golf ball. So uh some driving ranges can go and buy balls that were waterlogged, you know, in golf ponds, which is a big industry. Uh wow. And then they can buy those for like a quarter apiece or whatever. But uh no, they just wear out. They get beat up and they you know, they're old and the dimples wear off and they just don't go far. But but guys on tour, uh, when they go to the tournament, they go to the driving range and they will have their exact golf ball that they use. So if you're a Srixan guy and you're Hydecki, Matsyama, he goes to the Srixan booth and they give him a ball of the exact ball he hits. If you're a titless guy and you're playing the pro v1, you get the exact pro v1 you're hitting. If you're a titless pro v left ash, you're getting a pro-left ash. If you're a tailor made, you're getting your tailor made. And yes, at the end of the day, they do have kids that sort those out, put them back in the buckets for the next day and make sure they're ready to go and all, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_07 19:51

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 19:52

So did you know that? That happened to turn out.

SPEAKER_07 19:55

I did not know that. That's that's actually a cool piece of trivia.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 19:58

I mean it would I guess it would make sense, right? Because if you're if you're a pro and you really are trying to dial it into within a yard or two yards, then you want to be hitting the ball that you're gonna be playing with.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

Yeah. Back in the day, Nicholas era, um Palmer era, um I went to the range. Basically, Nicholas would send uh his caddy down the range with his duffel bag, and he would sit there and hit five irons and drives to him. The drive and he would sit there and the five iron would come, land in front of him, one hop, and he'd just catch it in the duffel bag. Because they had to take their own golf balls. They to the tournaments. So yeah, uh things have changed. You can go to the tournament, get your own ball, and uh some of the tournaments was really weird though, is uh they give 'em everything, but then they'll charge them for the golf balls. It's like Oh really?

SPEAKER_07 20:49

That's kind of random.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

It is. I mean, you know, it uh Ben Griffin has a really cool series on Facebook right now, what it's like. And he played in the Ryder Cup. He's a really nice young man. And he says, you know, here's a day in the life of a golf bro, and it talks about getting up in the morning and you have to get your food, and his wife goes and you know, they he's a very has strict diet like a lot of them, and it just shows a day in the life. And I've and I told everybody, including my son, and all these trips I've been on, you know, we checked in when um in 2019, media team, we went to the memorial and uh my assistant at the time, we were staying at the same hotel the players were. And uh uh we were checking in right in front of us, Rory and his wife. And uh Rory's getting uh you know, getting his gloves out of the car, and he's got all kinds of suitcases. Of course, he flew into town in his own private jet. And I just said, Hey, you want you know I need some hands with all that, and it was just he and his wife, and my assistant and myself, and stand in line checking in the same hotel. And then we go up to eat, and you know, Matthew Fitzpatrick was sitting right Next to my assistant and I said, Why don't you introduce yourself to him? You know, because she was single and so was he, I think. And uh you know, we go out to eat other places in town and you bump into them. But you know, they're approachable. They're just guys. I mean, guys, I don't care who you are. You know. Um Yeah, if you're if you're winning and you have a lot of money, you're making a lot of money, you can take your family, live in a house, and have all kinds of you know, but it costs a lot of money to play on tour. Um it's they still gotta rent their place, they still gotta get get there back and forth. And from there. So anyway, Rory, the dinner. So this Tuesday night dinner, the person that wins the masters has gets to provide the menu for the upcoming Tuesday night dinner. And that it's the hardest meal ticket to get because you only you only get invited if you are the president of Augusta National or you have won a master's title. This is a true men's only club. Um and then Tuesday night, of course the the tournament starts on uh Thursday. Monday is a practice round, Tuesday's a practice round, Wednesday is one of the best days in golf when they have the par 3 contest and the families and the kids come out. But Tuesday night just for the guys. And uh the stories, there have been great stories that come out, but they the winner gets to call the menu. And by the way, he gets to pay for dinner. Gets to pay for the wine. Oh really? Strangest things I've heard of.

SPEAKER_07 23:45

Oh yeah, that works.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

Yeah. So Rory's 2026 Champions Dinner, Rory McElroy, one last year, the Grand Slam, one of the the top one or two masters that's ever been played. Did you watch that at all?

SPEAKER_07 24:00

I did.

unknown 24:02

Man.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Did you watch that Sunday? That Sunday?

SPEAKER_07 24:05

Yes. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

When he shanked that ball into the creek on 13, I literally yelled to the point where I woke up Joanne. I just said, What? You didn't just do that. How did what? Shanks it. I don't care what you want to call it. It was, you know, duff, dumb, nervous. His latest later sense at hole came out just recently. And it really because back in I think it was 2011, he had a big leading young kid, and and he went out on Sunday and immediately hit a ball into somebody's back garden on number one. And he went from bleeding to like took a 10 and it was done and it just affected him. And it was terrible. Anyway, so he has said that every time he stepped on that ground, you know, he just you know, something happened. Well he got nervous, you know, he had scar tissues, they call it. But they're not nobody better than Roy or Macaroy. Anyway, h this is his menu for Tuesday night. Starts with bacon wrap dates. You ever had that?

SPEAKER_06 25:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Yeah, I'd love to get that. Grilled elk sliders. Of course, go down to your local elk slider raw meat store, I guess. Yeah, I've never had elk. Uh rock shrimp tempura. And peach and ricotta flatbread. Now, I think of any of those things that I could eat, I'd try the I'd try the elk slider just to try it. Bacon wrap dates, I really would be into. Peach and ricotta flatbread. And I'm allergic to shrimp. So those three out of four I'm good with, you know? Well then, what do you think of yellow fentuna carpaccio?

SPEAKER_07 26:04

Yeah, I'm I'm on board. Let's let's go. How do we get in?

SPEAKER_02 26:08

Okay, that's the first course. First course. For the main course, champions can choose between Wagyu, filet mignon, or seared salmon. So maybe if you and I were masters winners, we could sit next to each other and split our plates and you know try one because they'd be in that.

SPEAKER_07 26:28

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Because you have to choose, you can't have both. It is the masters, sir. We gotta conserve our money. So they call it seared salmon with Irish shamp, which I'm not exactly sure what that is. Saute Brussels.

SPEAKER_07 26:44

I'm sure what that is.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

Saute Brussels, you like Brussels sprouts?

SPEAKER_07 26:48

I do actually.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Okay, you can have mine. I'll I'll slide those off the plate toward you. I'll trade you for glazed carrots with brown butter. Crispy Vidalia onion rings. I'm all into. Now for dessert, sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream and warm toffee sauce.

SPEAKER_07 27:12

I mean, that sounds good, but man, after all that food, I don't know if I'd have room for dessert, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Well, they're they're called athletes, sir. So uh there is a uh you know, sitting around the table, you have Jack Nicholas and um, you know, all those still living. And uh we did have, I'm gonna insert here, uh our tribute to Arnie and Bobby, because after our last show I did uh create this song uh called Arnie and Bobby, and and I always wondered when particularly on this night, is if heaven is the way it's supposed to be, would they be looking down on Augusta? Because obviously if heaven works the way it is and Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan and Sam Sneed and all those that have passed go to heaven, they're gonna be playing golf every day. And the best is best of the best. But uh upcoming, what this is, is a song that I created and wrote with AI. I didn't always admit it when I'm using AI. And it's a song about exactly that. What is it like if Arnie and all those above take time to take a look at what's going beneath at Augusta National? So here we go. It's all about Arnie and Bobby Jones. Of course, Bobby Jones, greatest amateur of all time, created Augusta National.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

When April finds that Georgia sky is now there with Arnie start to rise. There's a place beyond the clouds above where the game is played in light and love.

SPEAKER_05 31:40

Now we join that heavenly team with those two days.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

They called the round of Tuesday comes for the champions. The leading close they small. We remember that Jack and Days. With the first team breaks the one Jack and guys started. Until Augusta calls them again.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

As we all know, had a little incident last Friday, which is troubling to everybody, but I am going to say it this way. With all the things that Tiger Woods has been through in his life, putting his body back together again from Achille tendon to the legs, to the accident that he was in that nearly killed him, almost lost a leg. The back surgeries, the knee surgeries. I it's endless in number of surgeries he's had, and he was once again trying to make a comeback, and there's no excuse. Never should be driving a car intoxicated, never should be driving a car impaired, never should be distracted driving. Not what I'm saying. However, the pressures that have been on Tiger all his life are immense and he has performed, and right now we all Tiger has decided to uh he's gotten special permission from a judge to leave the country to go into treatment. And we all wish, because that was the silence that came over the world of golf, after we all heard that it happened, there wasn't much to be said other than everybody collectively is hoping that Tiger gets a treatment to be lead a healthy, wonderful life when he returns. And that would be for his family, his friends, his kids, the world of golf, just to have a happy, healthy Tiger and be free of pain. I am sure the pain that he has because he had back infusions last year, he's had dcec dysc what do they call this thing? Dyscectomies um knee surgeries, and then his leg nearly being amputated, and just the abuse that golf gives, the travel. I mean, yeah, multi-billion. Everybody loves him. But let's uh let's pray for his good mental and physical health return. So to wrap up, I'm not a betting person. Uh just to let you know, just a brief look at that. Uh and again, more from a standpoint of who thinks who's gonna win next week. Scotty Scheffler is looks like the leading candidate still. And uh on the betting lines, um, John Romm, who plays on Live, is in second place. Rory's in third. Bryson is near Rory in third. And uh Bet MGM had Scheffler at plus five hundred. Whatever that means. You know what that means, plus five hundred? What do you put up a hundred, you win five hundred? Or how's that work?

SPEAKER_07 36:42

Yeah. Yeah, five yeah, five to one house. Five times are better.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

Now he's supposed to be having a baby this week. His wife has to be. I mean, everybody knows. Bennett, his son, now has become the golf all-star. If you've seen him every time Scotty wins, Bennett comes out and he has his little plastic club and ball, and of course he gets more TV time than his father does.

SPEAKER_07 37:30

So really?

SPEAKER_02 37:32

Yeah, and they're just a great family. Uh John Rahm and uh D Chambeau. My pick is actually D.C.

SPEAKER_07 37:39

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Yeah, coming from Liv, he's just one last time, twelve two times on Liv actually beat uh John in a playoff a couple weeks ago. But he was also in the finals last year with Rory and uh Rory just stared him down and took him down. And um you know. But I I he's just got so much power and and amazing golf talent. Amazing golf talent. And of course Rory and he had uh had a had quite the day at the US Open um a while back and uh where he prevailed there in the last couple holes. Um so there's a little scar tissue there for Rory too. Um now are you flying your private jet into the Masters this year, James?

SPEAKER_07 38:25

I am actually.

SPEAKER_02 38:27

Well, I thought again, this might not concern you. But the first thing you have to do is do you have a ticket or do you have to buy one late?

SPEAKER_07 38:36

No, I still have to buy one. I'll just scout one at the door.

SPEAKER_02 38:39

Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. So I have mine hanging on the uh my bulletin board. There are paragraphs of rules on the ticket that I have. And I mean that seriously. We'll go into that in our next show. I'm gonna read that whole that whole ticket badge that I have. But if you get into it, there is an official lottery that you can submit yourself to every year, and if you win that, the face value of the 2026 badges are$125 for Monday and Tuesday, the practice rounds,$150 Wednesday for the Part 3 contest, and$160 for the tournament days, if you get picked in the Masters Lottery. And that goes on every year, and people do get those and they do buy them. Now, if you don't have those and you're still going, uh there are different places where you can buy them online, visit seats listed, master's tickets starting at around$27.21. But that doesn't make any sense because the average price is. Are you ready for this? Would would it would it just be you going alone or would you be taking anybody? Just you. Okay. Uh the average uh for the four days is$9,680 today, sir. Thursday listing showed the average is$9346. The four-day pass listing. Are you ready? Four days. If it's$9,300 for one day, well, that would be what, roughly$36,000. Anyway, for the four-day, you get the four-day pass for$50,000 even. Don't have to round up.

SPEAKER_07 40:24

That's an easy check around.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

Now, if we could mark that down 600%, we would be living large. Yes, we would. Buy all those you can, take them to the White House and say, I'm marking these down 600% just for you. And that would only cost them I think it's 300,000 bucks at the time. So yeah.

SPEAKER_07 40:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:45

That'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_07 40:46

That would be great.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

They'd have to put a drive-thru right next to the new um, what's that, dance hall they got going up or the new ballroom. And again, I think I heard too, he's putting up a new um um basilica because I think he wants to be Pope. So he's got that coming in the backyard.

SPEAKER_07 41:09

Why wouldn't we want that?

SPEAKER_02 41:10

But if they have a drive through, I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 41:13

I was gonna say, so back to the lottery thing now. My question is, how many people enter the lottery and then how many do they pick? So like what percentage of people that enter the lottery actually get picked the buy tickets. I'd be curious to see what those statistics are.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

Uh those details are on the Artemis III missile. And uh as soon as they come back, you can look those up because that is not giving. Okay, none of that. So let's just assume this a lot enter and few win.

SPEAKER_07 41:41

Not many. Yeah. Okay. Yes, that's that would be the assumption.

SPEAKER_02 41:46

But there are, I mean, they're not, you know, it's not like ten of them. There are there are quite a few people that actually get them. I would give the masters credit on that. You know, it's all good. Um and you cannot sell or trade those. I mean, they have rules on them. You can't do exactly what these online places are doing. I mean you know, if they find out that you gave your, you know, the tickets basically were handed down through wills and trusts for decades. That's how you get 'em.

SPEAKER_06 42:12

You know.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

So um New York Post has reported that four-day pass is starting at twenty thousand five hundred and Sunday passes are above eleven thousand on Stub Hub. Uh I did check Stub Hub last week and it was$8,700 for the Wednesday R3 contest.

SPEAKER_06 42:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

That was about$30. Uh$30 outside my uh my my budget. Well, my private plane is the thing that costs a lot, and that's why I wanted you to fly your private plane because I wanted to give you how much it's you know, if you if you fly it down there, you gotta park it somewhere, right?

SPEAKER_07 42:52

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

Okay. Augusta regional expands operations significantly for Masters Week and it adds overflow parking, coordinates aircraft parking, across the main terminal ramp, east operations area, and north overflow ramp pad. The 2026 fee schedule exists, and ramp fees are charged per day per arrival based on maximum landing gross weight. So if I fly my ultralight in there, I'm gonna die it for a week before. Um the ramp fees run from 125 bucks to$3,000 per day per arrival. Depending on the size of the aircraft. One runway there is shut down to park up to 300 private jets.

SPEAKER_07 43:46

And I bet they I bet they fill that thing up.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

They do. I guess the city government also noted public vehicle parking rates rise during Masters Week. Who thought they would do that?

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Holy gee, Bob Joey.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

I just wonder how much you can fly from Chicago too much. So anyway, I guess to fly your private jet down there. Cost about$2,500 an hour. It's an hour and a half down there. So an hour and a half times two would be what? Three hours times five thousand an hour. Pilot, co-pilot. So we got five thousand plus five and ten thousand. We got uh three hundred dollars a day for seven days and twenty one hundred. Housing fees I looked up when you rent a house for about six grand for the week. Anyway, uh anyway, uh we have brought this show to a crashing halt, hopefully not in our D8.

SPEAKER_07 46:30

As we always do.

SPEAKER_02 46:31

Yeah. And uh I've got the upcoming everybody wanted to hear the story about my youth finishing out the show. And uh anyway, James, thanks for uh chiming in today. You know, Master's Week is cooking and it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's just gonna get better from here. We're gonna find out who wins the women's amateur on Saturday, the kids show up on Sunday, the weather next week looks spectacular. Middle 70s, low eighties, no rain, and uh as I said, they control the weather. Yeah, now you know that.

SPEAKER_07 47:00

I'm sure they do.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

I'm sure they do, because I see it every Sunday on that. Uh but uh anyway, James, let me know when you uh like to return and we'll uh fill up the airways with more of our dribble drivers. Yes, we do have that. People are much better at the end of the show than they were at the beginning. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 47:21

Black and white screen sitting beside my dad at seventeen. Well, maybe younger, but I still recall the quiet hush when the shadows fall. Voices soft but the moment loud. A game of kings before a crowd. Didn't know then what it would mean. But walk on the green, green grass of August to see. I've been dreaming of that green green grass and gust. But legends rise in the game, still trusts you. From whispers past to the Sunday roar, it calls you back like it did before. Through every swing, every tear, every gust. There's something sacred about Augusta. And all these years, I still feel that pull to that green, green grass. What dreams are full. Crowds behind him, hearts all Jack with that focus still in his eyes. Gary steady as the George's guys. They build a story the world still sees. They call on the game's first victory. And every spring there it goes lest. Across that green, green august to grass. Six green jackets, a record still. A master of nerve, a master of will. And I watched it all year by year, from youthful cheers to a quiet tear, the final off that golden day. When time itself just stepped away. And every golfer, every fan stood still for the golden bear of the land. I've been dreaming of it. A different kind of feel is paste. From diamonds to the falling climb to that Sunday roar that stopped all time. I come back with no one could plan. A victory deeper than just a man. And I felt that surge like we all must on that green, green grass of Augusta. Wednesday laughs on the par three stage. Kids beside legends, age to age, drive chip putt, dreams just getting born. On that sacred Sunday morn, the women's amateur writes its song. Where the future's been all along. And Bobby Jones still walks those lines. And every hip and every pine. To mend those sandwiches, simple and true. For a dollar fifty, just me and you know running here. Just walk and speak. Respect for the game for his story. Patron twists, not just fans, they understand what best place to mend. It's more than gold, it's something deep. A promise that the place was built to keep. Tears of joy just to wash the way every doubt, every year away. All forgiven at heaven's gate, the Grand Slam dream at last complete. Right there on Magnolis Street Thursday morning, the sun breaks through. And in that silence you almost see Arnie smiling from eternity, a gentle wave through the sky above. But can't you build all respect to love? And in that moment the world feels right. It has history opens with more than light. I've been living with a three crap of a custom. From black and white to the colors of trust, from my father's side to my own lifespan. It's been a journey. No one can plan through every gust. There's something holy about a guster. And all my days I've carried that call to the green, green grass.

SPEAKER_02 53:11

And uh upcoming in our next adventure, we've got uh young Joanne's gonna be joining us, coming into the crowd, featuring all her travels and outlooks on life, which we're really looking forward to in a way that uh is really, really meaningful for us, and uh happy to have her join us on the trails. So, anyway, this old Uncle Randy for the Distillery Channel LLC production of Golf for Golf and Travel, James Algeo, O'Uncle Randy, we'll talk to you next time.

SPEAKER_04 53:46

Let it buy you the way of the future.

SPEAKER_02 53:50

Always remember, leave a better footprint. That's just what my grandfather says.

SPEAKER_04 54:03

Leave a better footprint.