Golfers Golf and Travel - Masters Friday

A look at the leaders from Thursday and another fun finish to James pop quiz of Ole Uncle Randy.  A fun look at Masters Traditions and what's going on this year at the Masters.

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

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

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Masters Thursday. Unfolded as something to truly behold. The greens, fiery and unrelenting, whispered their quiet challenge, while the players moved with a careful reverence, knowing that at Augusta National, nothing is ever given, only earned. Through it all, Rory McElroy rose into the early light of contention, his game in rhythm, his presence unmistakable. While Scotty Scheffler lingered close behind, steady, patient, and ever watchful, waiting for his moment. As champions do. The towering loblolly pine stood guard as they always have, framing every fairway with a sense of permanence. Not a blade of grass out of place. Not a sound of distraction. No phones, no noise. Just the purity of the game. And the echoes of history carried on a gentle Georgia breeze. Augusta revealed herself slowly. At the 11th, the game turned unpredictable. Scores stretching from brilliance to birdies, from birdies to nines, as the course reminded every player of its quiet authority. Jane Lawry found magic at 13, an eagle soaring through Amen Corner. While elsewhere, fortune shifted just as quickly as the beauty of Augusta revealed its edge. For a moment, Fred Couples captured time itself. Two opening birdies, a flash of the past, reminding us all that greatness never truly fades. And quietly, almost poetically, Jose Maria Olatabo turned back the clock, leading through six holes at the age of 60. His presence a living bridge between generations. But as the sun settled in and the air grew still, the true nature of Augusta emerged. The genius of Bobby Jones's vision, the subtle hand of Alistair Mackenzie, the firmness of the greens, the dryness of the fairways, all converging to remind us that this course does not yield to power alone. It demands thought, it demands touch. It demands respected days' end. Rory retired to the champion's room, put on his green jacket, no need to work on his game. While sipping on his beverage, he has earned as one of six of all time and gathering his thoughts of Augusta National and his mom and dad. And now, as we await the unfolding of day two, we are reminded once more that at Augusta National, the game is never just played, it is revealed, it is revealed.

SPEAKER_04 4:56

Scotty Chuckler just made a hurry for which he's been uh post on pole number eight and get a couple bothies early in the morning. Rory T's off this afternoon. Thursday was nothing other than spectacular. And uh with that young man, Rory McElroy, believe the troops. Anyway, James Al Geo coming from uh Works Catania out east. Where's that place? Uh here in Boston, Pennsylvania. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Reading, Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

Reading, Pennsylvania. There you go. Might get a little confused. Venture out there just to see exactly uh where you live, James, in your what is six, seven million dollars take overlooking uh what is it, the smoky mountains out there?

SPEAKER_01 5:46

The uh what let's go with that?

SPEAKER_04 5:50

Well, yeah, pillow, you know, we'll stop for breakfast. Um is uh last night uh for those that uh by the way, everybody, we are on about 70 major platforms, and uh if anybody wants to write to me, just write to me the ad golfersgolfandravel.com, very simple. Or uh you can go and uh go to our Facebook, golfers Golf and Travel on Facebook, on Instagram, or golf and or golfersgolf and travel.com, which takes you to our big media site uh in there along with that's our home corporation called the Distillery Channel LLC, which has on it our media links up to our Roku channels, which can be found at Excited Minds Media or Live EcoStyle. You go to Instagram for golfers, golf and travel, and uh you know it's uh we're like a mess of ants. You find us everywhere, um whether you want us or not, you know? It's terrible. But um anyway, the um James, what's going on? What's you've been watching the Masters or you've been you now, James, just for everybody so you understand, James is in the race cars, and we do have a uh a segment they're gonna be doing the summer, a little bit more focused on auto racing from F1 to mid-sized dirt tracks to NASCAR to the whole uh the whole left turn uh alumni alumni uh fraternity of people that uh end up going 500 miles and end up right where they started. I haven't really figured out that sport yet. What do they do that for? That's a little dumber than golf.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Well, it it's it's right uh uh it's right on par with golf. How's that sound?

SPEAKER_04 7:39

Well, I guess they do have a loop. Yeah, golf golf starts at the clubhouse, ends at the clubhouse, and um that's true. And there is a golf course, you talk about mixing uh the genres. Uh at the Indy uh Indianapolis racetrack, there is a golf course in the center of the track, which some people it starts and ends in the same place, but that's usually the 19th hole, it's usually the golf house bar, you know.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Racing we don't quite do that, so golf may have a leg up on uh on auto racing there.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

And the other thing about golfers is is that they never run out, you know, out of bounds, uh throw a tire, or jump into the crowd. Uh rarely does that ever happen. So I did watch Ford and Ferrari again for about the fourth time the other night. If nobody's watched that, it's a great movie. Um I I I don't know if it was the Extended Cut, and I'm sure you've watched that movie.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

I did not remember that uh they traveled to where was it, Ferrari uh overseas to cut a deal with them, and then basically the owner just threw them out and didn't was not happy with with that merger opportunity. And uh forgot that scene, but boy, what a great movie. And uh yeah, I watched that to get ready to watch the Masters, you know, because Masters is on the same pace.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

It's far enough for the Masters.

SPEAKER_04 9:07

Yeah, for a little competitive edge. Uh we do we do focus before we get to the Masters yesterday. Um we are a part of us uh of what we do is travel. We'd go out and we visit golf courses, dining facilities, and we do celebrate what we call all the good things in life, which are golf, dining, sipping, travel, uh, course, recreation, family fun, and spas. And uh we threw spas in there because Joanne, who I share the four walls here, she said, why don't we throw in spas so that we can go and test those out? And I think that was more self-indulgence on her part, but it uh that does work because uh May 4th through 7th we are have been asked to go to and uh take part in learning a lot about uh the Brunswick Islands in North Carolina. Uh Octo Randy will be playing golf every day. Joanne will be visiting the in addition to playing golf one or two days, uh she'll be visiting distilleries and wineries and all the hotspots uh uh in the area. Um and we are hosted there by Pam Sheehan of Let's Golf dot com. And she hooked up the strip for people like us in media to go and really explore places around the world uh and in the United States. But I'll be playing Oyster Bay Golf Lanks at Sunset Beach, uh Sea Trail Resort at Sunset Beach. Uh I guess that's where we're gonna be staying at Sea Sail Ret Resort. Um eighteen holes at River's Edge and thirty-six holes at Sea Trail Resort. Wow. And then eighteen holes on Thursday at Carolina National. So I've got a lot of golf ahead of me. I better start getting getting those uh few golf swings in uh somewhere on the line.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

That sounds like a good time.

SPEAKER_04 11:05

Yeah, it's beautiful. You look it up. Uh it's gonna be about a 15-hour drive for us, so we're gonna have a lot of stops between here and there. It's gonna be an extended trip. Uh could end up uh beginning next week as we take our media credentials to the RBC Heritage, which is uh almost like a vacation for the golf professionals at um uh just over again uh on the coast. And they're about uh if anybody knows where Savannah, Georgia is, it's just about forty-five minutes from there. We're gonna be staying in Savannah. I love that town. It's just a great place to stay, a lot of great food, and and it's not that far away from the tournament. But the heritage has a long tradition of uh of uh Justin Thomas won last year and the iconic uh lighthouse uh tower that sits on the eighteenth hole. Um so we're gonna be uh going there. And then from there I think we're gonna either come home for just a few days or we might just stay down there until we end up bopping into the first week in May up uh going up into North Carolina into Myrtle Beach. We're sort of in that area. Why would we leave it, James?

SPEAKER_01 12:18

I don't know. That's a good question.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

We don't don't have a dog and don't have any kids in the house anymore. Um we have locks that we can lock and uh about the only thing that needs any attention is some of our plants, and I don't really care about I do care about those. Uh yeah, a woman, our friend across the street that uh be happy to do that. But yesterday getting back to the Masters, this is Masters Friday. It's uh beautiful day again. This is cut day and uh next couple of hours are gonna be people taking a look if they're gonna be around for the weekend or not. If they finish in the top twelve uh on Sunday, they get to uh come back next year. It's one of the ways that you get to come back. Yeah. Uh little trivia for you, James, and you wouldn't know this. Did you know that actually women can qualify for the Masters?

SPEAKER_01 13:11

I did not.

SPEAKER_04 13:12

Yep. And there's been they're highly unlikely. But uh the US Open uh typically played by men. Michelle Wee a number of years ago entered uh in qualifying. Uh the US Open, which uh again run by the US GA doesn't say f uh even though they have a uh an open a championship for women, the US Open is open, men and women. Uh Michelle Wee did great uh professional and great amateur, did try to qualify a number of years ago, and I said at the time I would love to have her win or even finish in the top, I think it's four or six, because that does qualify you to get into the masters. Wouldn't that be a hoot?

SPEAKER_01 13:57

That'd be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

Yeah. And uh but they the Masters uh does uh open they you know they love the amateurs and if you are uh the U.S. amateur champion, which this year is an 18-year-old fine young man, and the runner up, they both get um invited to come to the masters. Uh the mid-amateurs for people twenty-five and older, run by the USGA, and the champion there gets uh qualify. Actually, um back in my day, way back when, I played the mid-amateur national qualifying, and one year I did really, really well. Uh qualified for the tournament, and unfortunately it was in Hawaii. We had a conflict in our family. I had forgotten to tell my wife at the time that I had entered, and I ended up being a qualifier for the state of Illinois. They only had one spot at the time, and it was done in a thunderstorm. And uh I go home and I said, Hey, I qualified for this tournament. She goes, Well, that's great, except we gotta go do this. I'm like I cried for a week. Not that yeah, it was it was fun. The day of qualifying was an interesting day on its own. But um yeah, the qualifier this year is from Bloomington, Illinois. Uh young man, uh older, a little bit older, you gotta be over twenty-five. And uh, but the stories, the greatest stories are unfolding. So, James, what's going on in your world? Uh that quiz we had yesterday, people really, really enjoyed. Um, and so did I.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

So I mean, I did uh I did dig up some other obscure questions and facts if you want to uh continue down that road. You have your painting cap on if you got the cobwebs out of your uh out of your brain this morning with uh a couple of big pots of coffee, then uh maybe we can uh continue on.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

Uh you can let me turn on chat GPT so I get this all wait on give you a second to plug it up. Yeah, pull up my brain. Uh no, go ahead. That wouldn't that would not be any fun. Uh I yesterday I sort of regretted giving up the right answers. And uh Joanne says, Why do you do that? You're right on Spot. We listened to the show last night, and I said, I don't know. I you know, you overthink it. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Yeah, you did. I've done at least two of those questions you you overthought for sure. You were thinking out loud you had the right answer, and I was somewhat really impressed.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

So you know what that is, and the reason I focused this show uh uh in a very homey, homespun way, is that I have watched the Masters. I thought it was back in 1960, it was actually 1958, and I was uh young Randy at the age of nine. TV had just come to Freeport, Illinois, honestly, literally three years prior to that. And the first Masters uh came on air, and my dad, who did not play golf. In fact, how I got started playing golf is at about the age of six, my dad went out and bought an inexpensive set of clubs, went out and played one round of golf, hated it, literally came home. We had one of those metal garbage cans, you know, with the metal lid, and you know, they get dented and uh garbage was coming, and I looked outside and the and the golf clubs were sitting in the garbage can. I didn't even know what they were. And I was like, I you know, and my dad was on the road during the week and I asked my mom, I said, What's that? And she goes, I don't know, he just they're never gonna play golf again. He threw them away. I was just so hated it. I said, Do you mind if I get him out? She goes, No. So I got him out and I I I was big for a kid. I I you know, I r I had a sixth grade desk in my first grade class, so lived with a field in our backyard. And I really did nothing with those for two or three years. I just put them in the garage. I sort of hit 'em so I didn't throw 'em away again. But I didn't I didn't know what they were, honestly. I really didn't. And then uh at the age of uh nine, First Masters came on and you know, my dad called me in to sit and watch, and I think it was Arnie that won and uh, you know, my interest in golf uh started and so getting back to the show, I just wanted to keep it fun for, you know, the common man um and sort of bring the feel of of uh you know what why all the patrons, as they are called at the masters, go there and sit quietly and humbly and uh over the weekend we are gonna go into what it's like to be a patron. Uh the rules and regulations, how people get themselves thrown out. Uh in fact Mark Alcavecia was asked to be excused this week, a former golf pro at a very high level because he snuck a cell phone into the masters and they don't allow it. They really don't. They they uh they uh undo your ticket and pull it off and you are thrown out off, done, gone.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

That is one of the random uh obscure facts that I uh I found in my search.

SPEAKER_04 18:51

Uh oh. I'm sorry, I didn't answer that.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

And actually I wanna I want to kind of elaborate a little bit on something of one one yesterday's question when I talk about the one one question was about being reversed. You may not know this. Um the designer of the original course in the order that they are originally designing, but decided to reverse that when they were gonna have to build a brand new clubhouse after the members voted and decided to keep the original clubhouse that is still there today. So he switched them back after the first year of the form. So the course was actually designed the way it is today. Because they had thought about building a new clubhouse, and then when they scrapped that idea, it went back to the original the original design. That's why it was only reversed for that first year.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

That's interesting. Supposing Bobby Jones and Clifford's Roberts took a look at that piece of property, they immediately said, Well, I can see the you know, the the golf course here is just built for it, you know. And uh the the way they would lay it out, Bobby Jones would uh lay down a little piece of turf and some balls and they'd sort of rough it in, and then he'd hit balls from point A to point B and say, Well, this is where we want the traps, wherever he would drive it, you know, and then they would sort of drag their foot in the soil and say, Okay, let's put a trap here and put the edge of the fairway there and you know, go on.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

Pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

Yeah. So what other snarled bits of wisdom do you have for me?

SPEAKER_01 20:40

So I guess I have a collection of clubs used by the winners. Right.

SPEAKER_04 20:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

There's one winner who does not have a club there.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

I'm thinking I'm going through all the winners. Same state.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Not not quite that way, right?

SPEAKER_04 21:29

Pretty coupled. And he didn't want to he didn't want to put that wedge in that he had that iconic wedge on twelve.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

I guess not. That's uh but that's you know, that wouldn't be the one that would be the one that would be in there and they they don't have it.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

So did they mention that club as being the club that he would have chosen?

SPEAKER_01 21:47

No, they didn't they did not, but I I didn't come across that that shot while uh doing research.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

Yeah. Huh. That is interesting. The uh I f you know, and guys get clubs all the time. And uh I know Tom Weisskoff name you might well we talked about him before. He kept uh he kept playing the same clubs for years. I mean I could imagine, but he never won. Um uh he was always a runner up to Jack. He went to college with Jack and uh um you gotta you gotta treat that cold, James. Yeah, you're better you better get some cough medicine. I can hear you.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

My dog barking at the UPS guy as he's walking up the driveway.

SPEAKER_04 22:40

Yeah, I had that happen one time in my house, and the guy says, What's going on? I said, Oh, my wife just came home.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

So I was just like that went over well. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

That is interesting. Um that would be interesting to see what yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 23:00

Be interesting to see what No, it'd be interesting to see all the different clubs that you know I was going back through Oh yeah. You know, I mean I can't imagine Jack uh it'd be interesting to see what Jack Nicholas won at six times what clubs he might have left behind. Uh because if he left one for every time he won, he'd almost have a full set. You know, uh he played his own McGregor clubs. Uh they often said, here's the fun fact for you, is that uh he played the McGregor golf ball. And back then they didn't have the technology that titles has. Of course, the majority of players play titles today. But uh they did found an old box of his McGregor golf balls, and this is legend or lore. I don't know, I believe it's true. Is that when they x-rayed him, they found out that the center of the ball, uh the centers were always off center. I mean, he had well he had no idea. But they said if he would have had balls that were actually round, you wondered how many of those uh 19 second places that he made had in the majors would have been first places, you know. Wow. Yeah, think about that.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

So that's wild.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

Okay. Any other questions, young James?

SPEAKER_01 24:12

Sure, yeah, I gotta c I got a couple. Um the 12th hole, right? R three. Yeah, par three. You know, nice easy hole, but the twelve hole is known for being a dangerous hole, right? Right. There was one person who birdied that hole four days in a row.

SPEAKER_04 24:37

Oh my god, this is random trivia.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

I found some really random crazy ones.

SPEAKER_04 24:44

Birdied four days in a row. That one escapes me too. I'm gonna go bah on that. Total, total dead.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Scott replied.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

Well, Scott's actually a broadcaster on uh broadcast this week. Uh is that right? Huh. Amazing. Oh, that's uh that's a good week. Four twos add up to eight, and that um twos are always good in the cards.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah, that's that's only one of eighteen holes, so it's easy it's easy to go sideways on November 17.

SPEAKER_04 25:15

Scott for Planck was very interesting. He was a type one diabetic through his life and always had uh measure measure sugar and any actually, you know. Uh there is a golf pro today that's playing on Twitter doing it at a very high level. Also type one diabetic and uh and uh has the the actual insulin pump in his back pocket and uh so yeah, fun fact about diabetes. Um diabetes, I guess is how you pronounce it.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Next failure coming up from that.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

Three eagles and one rosette eagle. See, eagle probably two or eight and thirteen and then she probably threw another one in on a par four, if I had to guess. I can't believe you had an eagle three par fives. Alright, who it is it go ahead, tell the story.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Justin Johnson in 2015.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

And it was it was all on it was it was all on par five.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

All par fives, I was wrong.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Yeah, of a four par five Eagle three, and then 30 the other one.

SPEAKER_04 27:29

That the year he won, hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Yeah, the boys have lived did not do well yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

I was I saw that. Yeah, that's uh that was uh kind of ironic. They uh they may all not make the cut, depending upon what happens without.

SPEAKER_04 27:47

Uh Sergio, I think, was leading the bunch at minus one, but uh, you know, they were s they were predicting, and I thought too, the way reading the the I don't follow Lou at all. I have no there's n I don't get it. I mean, I really don't. Um but that's okay. Um the the thing is is that we all know that they play courses where they don't torture their players, they play them short and wide fairways and pins in the center because they don't want their players to be embarrassed and they don't have a field that is deep and rich in talented as the PGA tour does. And quite honestly, most of us said they're in the world of golf when Liv came about when they took the money. Why work on your game? You know? I mean, you got the money in the bank, you're not gonna work on the game, you know, like you did in the PGA tour. Uh because you got the money in the bank. No reason to, you know, no motivations. And when the idea came up to take a play in the majors, um, well, okay, that's great. Um but um uh it just you know, it never it never ever resonated with anybody that they were going to um keep their keep their skill sets up. And the sad one is is actually Cam Smith. What a great player. I mean he won the he won the opening, won the players, and then he and honestly he I he's really sort of said he doesn't and he's playing in the in uh the masters right now. Um but god he had such talent and that talent you have to really work on and to keep that knife sharp. And he really hasn't done much of anything. It was just John Rahman and and De Chambeau sort of were d you know doing well on Live. Uh Deschambeau beat Rom a couple three weeks ago in a playoff, and Deschambo he won the week before, but both of them are doing well, thinking, yeah, they're coming out of here in form, but they're not. Um it's just a whole different I think there's a still me personally, this is my I think there's still a psychological side to it that, you know, they took the money, they left the tour that made their living, that made them the people they were and uh and they went to live. And now they come back, you know, you know, Brooks Kepka came back, Pat Reed. Uh he's uh no longer with Liv, playing over in the DP World Tour to earn his card back to the PJ tour next year. Brooks Kepka came back, everybody loves him, what a great talent. Um love everything in the way he approached him when he left. And uh but you couldn't fault him for taking the money, but uh the the fact of the matter was uh it's just hard to keep your skill sets up.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

So And most of most of those guys, if not all of them, have played in the Masters before, right? So they have experience on that golf course.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Uh that is really an interesting statement. Uh not necessarily. Um they might have I don't know. I'd have to go through that list. That's an interesting statement. Um I would say at this point in time, probably most of them are getting in because they won either won the masters. I mean, if you take uh Dustin Johnson and um Sergio, Patrick Reed. Um, they won the Masters, so they get invited back, you know, every year. And um you know, Lefty isn't here this year. He's uh there's something going on in his family that he's not really playing. And um but they they always are there, so that would be four of their whatever, ten or eleven. I don't know. I really off the top of my head. I don't know. But uh they get in by either being in having their world ranking points, which would have to be in the top fifty, or the basis of their finishes in the majors, in the other majors, like the US Open, uh the the British Open, now called the Open, or the PGA. But the PGA would be an interesting one because they'd have to be a member of the PGA. So you know, so it's a whole bunch of different rules that the masters have to get in. So any other trivia hot spots that you gotta do.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

That was everything that I had for today.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

You devastated my my ego without question. No question. I love it. I think it's great. I learn a lot. Uh uh we gotta continue that. Uh because, you know, and the next major coming up is gonna be the PGA. Uh and there's a major every month, and that's a whole different uh different gig on itself. Um but anyway, uh I was just trying to explain what we do. We're just trying to bring this down to what the common man is like. I'm gonna be focusing on. I like to do the music and I like to do the entries to the shows. And again, everybody I work on the lyrics and the words and the meaningful of that. I do use AI music to try to create it um because that's because I can. I find it interesting. Um and um and a lot of people like the music that I've created. And if somebody wants to play it or you know, recreate it in their own live version, I always work with them to take it over on that. But uh I've got a song uh the entry to this uh to this show was based upon what happened yesterday. And basically at the end of the day, yesterday, when if you listen to the entry to the show, Rory at the end of the day uh because he was leading and because he's now relaxed, because he's now got the Grand Slam decide at the end of the day, they said, What are you gonna do? And Rory said, I am gonna go up and put on my green blazer and go up to the champion's lounge and have a drink and count my blessings. And uh that's why we got into that. But um I enjoy the music. I actually gonna have been asked to have a whole show of music, which we will at the end of this. Uh tomorrow I'm gonna be focused on what it's it like to be a patron. Um and uh if young James is around, that'd be great. Uh it's gonna be a great day. We're gonna focus on the menu, we're gonna focus on the rules, how you get a ticket. Well, I'm gonna read the ticket that I have. Uh the the because it's not only a ticket, it is a contract. And it can be pulled at any time. Anyway, anything else? Young James?

SPEAKER_01 34:13

That was all I had for today.

SPEAKER_04 34:15

All right, well, I gotta get back to watching. Um I've got my comforter out there, I got my notebook, I got my you know, I've got uh I've watched every Masters since 58. How many might that be? That would be about 70 of them. Close. You know, something like that. That's crazy. Anyway, upcoming it'll be new uh music I created for the show. It's focused on Masters Thursday, which were things that happened yesterday. You'll hear a little bit about Rory, or hear a little bit about Scotty, and a few of the things we've talked about. But anyway, thank you, James. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

It was fun, always is always yep, always a good time.

SPEAKER_04 34:50

All right, and uh we'll talk to you tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Sounds good.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

And everybody be safe out there and uh remember always leave a better footprint because that's just what my grandfather said to do. But upcoming is an instrumental I created um pertaining to Master's Thursday.

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Masters Thursday. Here we go. Unfold it as something to truly behold. The Greens, fiery and unrelenting, whispered their quiet challenge, while the players moved with a careful reverence, knowing that at Augusta National, nothing is ever given, only earned. Through it all, Rory McElroy rose into the early light of contention, his game in rhythm, his presence unmistakable, while Scotty Scheffler lingered close behind, steady, patient, ever watchful, waiting for his moment, as champions do. The towering Lovlolly pines stood guard, as they always have, framing every fairway with a sense of permanence. Not a blade of grass out of place, not a sound of distraction, no phones, no noise, just the purity of the game, and the echoes of history carried on a gentle Georgia breeze. Augusta revealed herself slowly. At the 11th, the game turned unpredictable, scores stretching from brilliance to birdies, from birdies to nines, as the courts reminded every player of its quiet authority. Shane Millary found magic at 13, an eagle soaring through A-Men corner. While elsewhere, fortunes shifted just as quickly as the beauty of Augusta revealed its edge. For a moment, Fred Couples captured time itself to opening birdies, a flash of the past, reminding us all that greatness never truly fades. And quietly, almost poetically, Jose Maria Olatabo turned back the clock, leading through six holes at the age of 60. His presence a living bridge between generations. But as the sun settled in and the air grew still, the true nature of Augusta emerged. The genius of Bobby Jones' vision, the subtle hand of Alexander McKenzie, the firmness of the greens, the dryness of the fairways, all converging to remind us that this course does not yield to power of love. It demands thought, it demands touch, it demands respect if day's end. Rory retired to the champion's room, put on his green jacket, no need to work on his game, only rejoice in the satisfaction of being a grand slam champion. While sipping on his beverage, he has earned as one of six of all time and gathering his thoughts of Augusta National and his mom and dad. And now, as we await the unfolding of day two, we are reminded once more that at Augusta National, the game is never just played, it is revealed.

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So, anyways, Olmika Randy for the Discovery Channel LLC production of Golf Golf and Travel. James L Gill, Olika Randy. We'll talk to you next time.