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Yeah. When it was Rory. Right. We had Rory playing with Fleetwood and Rahm. And who was the fourth guy they were betting? Shane Lowry. Lowry. And they had split into teams. And it was clearly Tommy and Rom were playing, or Shane and Rom were playing Tommy and Rory. And they were definitely betting. Having a great old time.

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Yeah, I mean, and that's the irony and the sadness of what we just watched happen down the stretch today, because you're exactly right, that he has the energy, he has the crowd, and he kind of was the main character coming in to this Masters, playing the best of anyone, two wins on American soil for the first time coming into a Masters. And what did we talk about on Tuesday?

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His problem has been his Thursday score. Yeah. Anytime he plays well on Thursday, he's performed well in these majors. So you think two straight bogeys? Two straight, two double bogeys.

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Anything to add on that one, Nate? I think that the last time that we really saw him in a competitive major was at that U.S. Open, and he missed two short putts. And he has been doing all this work over these last however many months to get himself mentally to a place where he could overcome that. 14 today, he had a short putt.

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It was a birdie putt, but he pushed it ever so slightly right, rolled over the cup, Next hole, he doubles. Two holes later, he doubles and he finds himself seven behind. There's no energy that the crowd could give him. He just sapped the energy out of the place.

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It's such a pleasure to see you not eating for a half hour. No, Rory putt like whatever Sal dropped in the upstairs bathroom this morning. Oh, my God. We can't talk about that.

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Like, let's go through all the reasons here. It's a massive turnaround from a guy who, the last years ago, he came into the Masters, had eaten so poorly, speaking of eating badly, that his body was shutting down and he was getting dizzy and falling over here at Augusta. Is that you or Bryson? Both. Nathan today, Bryson four years ago.

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Bryson learned his lesson and has this interesting narrative arc where he's bounced back and starting really, I mean, House, you mentioned it. It started with his YouTube series where he really, all of the guys who went to live talked about growing the game. Only one guy has actually worked at it and done something different, has he?

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And so all of the energy on Sunday was around Bryson. He didn't quite catch Xander, but three weeks later, he walked into the U.S. Open. I'm telling you, he was the main character there, both for the fans, but also the players were watching him because they felt the energy change in Valhalla. It carried over to Pioneer's number two, and it's out there on the course right now.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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But we have been looking to anoint somebody since Tiger. And in a lot of ways, that's been the problem with golf. We got also used to having a guy, a Jordan, a LeBron in the sport. In the absence of it, you just pointed it out. It was hard to actually find the guy. Now for the last 10 plus years as Tiger's been hurt and out. So we keep trying to see if that's going to happen. It's not.

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And I think that's probably part of the reason why there's been a struggle to get more attention, more eyeballs on golf. I think Bryson winning the Masters could actually catapult him into that position ahead of Rory, even in this moment. I agree.

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The only good moment for kids on that par three contest ever, I think, is when Jack Nicklaus had his grandson take a tee shot and he made a hole in one. But at that point, he was a grown man. So that's the thing. If it's Jack Nicklaus, you can do whatever you want with your kids.

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You can lift your kids up. They're in the pod. We'll have our last meal, and then I'm going to retire. I've got to hang up the food.

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And are you going to be able to get corporate tickets because you cowered it out and didn't get the... Thank you for holding this over my head. The only person who complains more about that than my son is you. That's good. I'm going to egg him on.