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The hank Any Podcast is brought to you by Hani University. That is my website, hanuniversity dot com and that's where you can find out information about how to get better at golf. And number one, you can get lessons from me either in Scotts, Arizona or at the goth Practice in Highland Park, Illinois. That is where I'm currently teaching. And you can also register my free instructional videos on Hani University dot com. So the hank Any Podcast can also be heard on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. So check it out. The hank Any Pockets all right, This is the master's review. Scottie Scheffler wins his second Green jacket, the favorite going into the tournament, the far and away favorite, not even the close favorite, although he became I think only the second player that was rank number one and favored to win the tournament that ended up winning it. Many have tried. Obviously Tiger has done it, but Scotty Scheffler does it as well. Fantastic win, great champion. Kind of a no brainer pick as the favorite going in. Of course, it's never a no brainer pick picking winners at golf tournaments because anything could happen. But Scotty Scheffler wins, and he kind of wins. He kind of wins going away, which it kind of gives the tournament a little bit of a downer, if you will. I mean, not that he's not a great champion, not that he wasn't deserving, but of course everybody is hoping. You know, I'm not talking to golf fans, and I talked to a bunch of them in the last two days, and everybody was hoping there would be a little bit more drama on the back nine on Sunday, which so oftener is it Augusta But not this time. Scotti Scheffler too much, finishes eleven under power beats Ludwig Oberg, beats him by four shots. Now, Oberg is a twenty two year old just turned pro, incredible talent, playing in his first not only his first Masters, his first major championship, and he finishes second. Pretty unbelievable. But he loses by four shots. So it wasn't really like this was I mean, Scotti Scheffler was challenged to a certain extent. I mean, he shot sixty eight the last round. That's a great round. Oberg would have had, you know, he'd have had to shoot sixty he shot sixty nine, He'd have had to shoot sixty five the time. That's not probably not going to happen. Sunday at Augusta, Fleetwood finished four under. He shoots sixty nine. He'd have had to shoot sixty two on Sunday to time, so he was not in the golf tournament. Colin Morrikawa shoots seventy four on Sunday, he finish for under par. He would have had to shoot sixty seven, which would have been the low round of the day to tie Scheffler and Max Homa shoot seventy three, he'd have had to shoot sixty six to time. So a few players could have shot the low round of the day, the low round of the tournament and maybe come up with a tie, but on Sunday at Augusta, that's probably not going to happen. So the bottom line is it wasn't really close. Scheffler got off to a little bit of a shaky start, although he said he hit some really good shots, it didn't turn out great, and then he just started hitting great shots and it was a ball game over before you know it. Not a lot of wind blowing, a lot of wind blown during the tournament, only eleven underwins. That's a high winning score for Augusta, but not a lot of win on Sunday. So it really made the tricky twelfth hole play incredibly easy. When the wind's blowing, it's up there in the pines, it's swirling around down there at Amen corner, and it gets really difficult. You catch a bad gust, you mishit it a little bit, and next thing you know, you're in the water and the whole tournament changes. And think about it. Think about how many times you watch some Masters and something disasters happens on the twelfth hole and it didn't really it didn't really happen. And on the thirteenth hole they lengthened the thirteenth hole. I think it made it more of a hole where you absolutely have to hit a good drive to be able to go for it and too, And if you don't hit that great drive then you automatically lay up. So it seemed like there was less players going for it and too, and as a result, maybe a fewer disasters there as well. Not sure how that worked out. I guess it worked out okay, because the holes is a great hole. I mean I think that. Like someone asked me the other day, what's my favorite hole of Augusta. They asked me on Twitter, and I said, nonumber thirteen. Number thirteen is probably my favorite hole anywhere. Forget about Augusta. Forget about it. And I don't think it would matter whether it was short or long, or you lengthened it, or you lengthened it this much or you lengthened it that much, It's still going to be the greatest hole. If it's not in the years past a hard part five, well then you know, then it's a hard par four and it doesn't matter what the par is. It's a phenomenal hole. I think that the new tea box was worked out good. I mean, you know, I mean, probably a few too many layups for me the first few rounds, but maybe that had to do with the wind as much as anything. But not a lot of drama on the back nine. And Scheffler, you know, deserving. He's the best ball striker on tour. It's not even particularly close. I don't think he's the best putter. We know he's not the best putter, but he's not a horrible putter, and he puts good. At augusta matter of fact, he got around there. He got around the Masters in two three putts. And remember, before this tournament starts, I mean, I don't want to say I told you so, but I did tell you so. It boils down to three putting, penalty shots and two chips. And if you paid close attention to those are the three keys to golf eliminating your penalty shots, two chips and three putts. If you played close attention to those three things, they were on full display, as they always are they are at every golf tournament, but they are particularly on display at Augusta. You miss greens, you try, you're left with a difficult short game shot and maybe sometimes you don't get it on the green. You chip it over the green, you chip it off the green, you leave it in the bunker. Calm Morey kind of left it in the bunker on number nine. And penalty shots are out there at Augusta. I mean they're there on the front nine. If you hit it in the you know, creek on two or the landed in the bushes or up against a tree. But eleven the water on eleven, that Oberg hit it in the water there, that was party's over for him when he did that. Flashy had double bogie right there, essentially a two shot penalty hitting it in that lake where he did, having to drop where he had to drop. And you know he got the penalty shots on thirteen, the penalty shots on fifteen, A lot of players take them. I mean Jordan's Speeth, you know, made a bundle at at fifteen and that was that was his tournament over before it really started for him. It's always the way at Augusta. Now, before the tournament, I said, if you can keep your three putts to a minimum and eliminate penalty strokes and the two chips, then you have your best chance to win. It's always the same formula, the penalty the penalty shots at Augusta. The two shot penalties are tough to overcome. A penalty on if you hit in the creek on thirteen off the tee, you get to drop it up there. You know, it's something you could you can kind of overcome. You hit your second shot in the water at fifteen, it's really a two shot penalty. You got to drop behind the lake, and that's going to be a tough one to overcome. You're looking at double there. You know, a penalty shot at eleven's kind of the same thing. Twelve certainly the same thing. So penalty shots equal double bogies and double bogey's equal not winning major championships. And it's one of the things that Steve Williams always used to talk about Tiger's former caddies that if we just can make it through the week, and he was always talking about this at major championships. We make it through the week without a double bogie, we'll win the tournament. And I would always think, you know, three puts limit your amount of three putts, and you know, Tiger would win the win the tournament. This was back in the day. That's all I was thinking. And in fact, he would have won four or five, maybe six Green Jackets during the years I coached him two thousand and four through twenty ten Masters, and he would have won those those Masters if he had limited his three putts to one or or less. And in fact, when he won in twenty nineteen, he only had he only had one three putt for seventy two holes. And that's the formula Augusta. Now, now, I measure three putts differently than a lot of people measure three putts. I measure as a three putt. If you use your putter from off the green and you three putt, I count that as a as a three putt. And the reason I do is because every player who plays the game would count that as a three putt as well. If if you are putting from a place that everyone in the field would have putted from. In other words, if you're a foot off the green at Augusta, every player on the field would use their putter from there, and every want new putts, and if they three putt, they're all going to say I three putt it on that hole. Now, let's say you're let's say you're ten feet off the green and you elect to use a putter, and somebody else might use might chip it. They may use a sandwich, they may use an eight iron, whatever they may, they may chip it. I'm not going to count that as a three putt because because you elected to putt that one. But if you're putting from somewhere where everybody in the field would use their putter, then that's a three putt when you when you add it up. So the three putts that are listed at Augusta when they list their statistics, they always listen to three putts. They're always misleading because because so many shots at Augusta, the ball will land on the green, it'll roll just off the green. You'll be six inches two inches a foot off the green, and you're using a putter for your next shot, and technically it's not a three putt, but we all know that it really is. So Scotti Scheffler two three putts. He had he had one penalty shot, hit it in the creek, I think it was on thirteen, and then that's no two chips. So that's a total of three. Right there, he beats Ludwig Oberg. He beats him by four shots. Oberg one three, putt one two chip. Remember, Scotty Scheffler had a total of three for the penalty shots two chips and three puts. Oberg five penalty shots. Now I count it as a penalty shot if you hit it in the woods and you got to come out sideways. Essentially that is a penalty shot because you hit a shot, you took a stroke, and you didn't cover any distance. Obviously, the water hazard is a penalty shot out of bounds of two shot penalty. A water hazard where you got to drop it back behind the hazard. That's essentially a two shot penalty. Lateral water hazard that's a one shot penalty, but five penalty shots for Oberg one three putt one two chip, that's a total of seven, and for Scotty Scheffler a total of three. And there you go. That is your difference in the tournament. A four stroke win by Scotty Scheffler due to penalty shots, two chips and three paces. Oberg has a distance he could he could cut that advantage down on Scottie Scheffler, but you cannot You can't. You cannot have your penalty shots, two chips and three putts equaling seven seven counted seven and winning a major championship. It cannot and will not happen. Now had he not hit it in the water on eleven, and you know everybody's like should have, would it could have if he didn't hit the water. If he doesn't hit the water, his total of penalty shots two chips and penalty and three putts is five, and he still loses, loses by two. Five is too big a number. You don't You don't win with that, And it's amazing how they can bowl down to that. You know, you see guys three putt two or three times in the opening round, or a three putt and a ball in the water, and you know they've lost three shots right there, and you know the commentators and you know the analysts, they'll tell you, oh, you know, his score is okay, you can still come and then technically can but the likelihood is very very low that it will happen when you when you have those kind of numbers. So you got to eliminate the penalty shots, two chips and the three putts if you are if you are going to gonna win golf to turns, and that's the formula, you know. I mean, now you got to get the ball up and in, you got to hit greens, you got to make putts. I understand, you have to do all that stuff. But this is the difference every every single single time I look at you know, Colin Morikawa. He his total was was five on the penalty shots, two chips and three putts, and you know he he loses by seven, so he he didn't have enough ball striking to overcome even that amount. Now, I mean, if he'd have played a perfect tournament, penalty shots, two chips and three butts, absolutely clean rarely doesn't happen, but absolutely clean it does happen, but rarely. If he played a clean tournament, he still loses by two shots. And why would that be? Because here's why that would be. And he pointed this out in his interview. He was talking about Scotti Scheffler and he said, on one hole, Scotty Scheffler drove it twenty five yards by him, which which was pretty commonplace. Scheffler's a long hitter. Calin Morrikow is not Augusta is not a great golf course. For a short hitter, a player like Colin Morikawa, if he was ever going to win an Augusta, he's going to win on a bad weather Augusta. This was a bad weather Augusta. It's a low winning score. Usually eighteen sixteen something like that under bar will win at Augusta. But this time it was eleven underbar. This is one where you could have somebody jump up and win. And actually, I mean with except for Scheffler, you know, the scores were pretty bunched up, starting with Oberg It's at seven hunder part and then going back to the guys at four. Those two players really separated from the field. This was one of those Augustas where with the exception of Scottie Scheffler, I mean, it was a very it would have been a very high winning score. A shorter hitter needs that kind of tournament tournament to win. You can't give up twenty five yards, you know. I always say distance is the most important factor in golf in determining your potential, and this goes at every single level. I always use the example with amateur golfers. I said, you know, you can hit it two hundred yards and you can play a nice, nice game of golf, but you're never going to be a single digit handicap. You can hit it two hundred and fifty yards and you can be, you know, a low handicapped golfer, but you're not going to be a You're not going to be a plus handicap golfer. That's not going to happen. You can hit it two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and eighty yards. You can be a really nice college player. You're not playing the PGA Tour. You could hit it two hundred ninety yards. You can play the PGA Tour. You're never dominating the PGA Tour. It's not going to happen. Distance determines your potential in the game when you're hitting it twenty five yards behind it. And Cayl morriy Kwa pointed this out. He said, I forget what hole they were talking about, but he says, Scottie Scheffer's probably hitting an eight iron and I was hitting a five iron. And no matter how good your iron game is, you see when you hit a more lofty club, you hit more underneath the ball, and when you hit more underneath the ball, you put more spin on the ball. When you put more spin on the ball, you're going to be more accurate with that shot. And you cannot stand back there and hit five irons and have everybody else hitting eight irons or certain players hitting eight irons. And it's the same formula the Tiger used all for all those years. Nicholas use a formula, Greg Norman use the formula. They they all use the formula. That's the dominator. Rory McElroy, that's his formula. And when you're Scotty Scheffler and you can hit it as far as he does, you're in in a position where you're gonna you're gonna reduce the par of the golf course. You reduce the part of the golf course because all the par fives are available to you. And when you're a short hitter, some of the par fives may be available to you with a long shot in. But still, once again, you're hitting a four iron, you're hitting a three iron, you're hitting a hybrid or a fairway wood, and the other guy's hitting a middle iron. It's no comparison. And and that that that is one of the things that separates greatness, I mean absolute, absolute greatness. You know, back in the day. You know, you know, you think back a few years ago, and and and Jordan Speith had an incredible run, and and he didn't have that formula. And that's why that form that that run was destined to not be a long run. It just it just can't be. Scotty Scheffler has the formula for domination in today's game. Now what is he dominating. He's dominating a bunch of players that at the current time are not are not playing very good. Now on the PGA Tour, there's a limited amount of talent because half of the talent went to the l I V Tour. But even when you look at all the players and throw them all together like they did at Augusta, there wasn't much happening out there with with these great, great players. I mean, Rory was not going good before the tournament. You know, he wasn't hitting any good. He had an emergency lesson out in Las Vegas from Butch Harmon, and But's the greatest coach has ever lived. I mean his record says that, you know, like like like my friend Bill Parcell says you are what your record says you are, and his record says he's the greatest coach ever. But what could he do for Rory a week before the Masters. He could do what he does best. He could pump him up. He could tell him how great he was. He could get him to play hopefully to his level by boosting his confidence with a little little mental approach and maybe a couple of swing thoughts here or there. But Rory hadn't been going good and he didn't go He didn't go good at Augusta. You know, Kepka hasn't been going good all year and he didn't go good at Augusta. And he's a major championship player, There's no two ways about that. Dustin Johnson hadn't been going good this year. He didn't go good at Augusta, even though that's a great golf course for him. You know, a lot of the other guys are a little a little too old, and you know Phil and Tiger and obviously all the injuries that Tiger has, so you know those guys are out You know, a Bubba Watson plays Augusta great, but you know it's he's a little past his prime, it seems right now. So who who's really out there? I mean, you know, when you look at John ramann't been playing good this year. This is about as easy of a major championship win as I can remember seeing it. To be honest with you, I don't remember seeing an easier I mean, I know I only won by four. I know it was kind of tight. You know, he only did what do you have a one shot lead going into Sunday? But boy, oh boy, who do you have a one shot lead over? You had a one shot lead over you know, a guy that that just turned pro playing in his first major. Guy played great. There's no oberg played great, there's no but but but still you know he won't go shoot sixty five? Okay?

The hank Any Podcast is brought to you by Hani University. That is my website, hanuniversity dot com and that's where you can find out information about how to get better at golf. And number one, you can get lessons from me either in Scotts, Arizona or at the goth Practice in Highland Park, Illinois. That is where I'm currently teaching. And you can also register my free instructional videos on Hani University dot com. So the hank Any Podcast can also be heard on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. So check it out. The hank Any Pockets all right, This is the master's review. Scottie Scheffler wins his second Green jacket, the favorite going into the tournament, the far and away favorite, not even the close favorite, although he became I think only the second player that was rank number one and favored to win the tournament that ended up winning it. Many have tried. Obviously Tiger has done it, but Scotty Scheffler does it as well. Fantastic win, great champion. Kind of a no brainer pick as the favorite going in. Of course, it's never a no brainer pick picking winners at golf tournaments because anything could happen. But Scotty Scheffler wins, and he kind of wins. He kind of wins going away, which it kind of gives the tournament a little bit of a downer, if you will. I mean, not that he's not a great champion, not that he wasn't deserving, but of course everybody is hoping. You know, I'm not talking to golf fans, and I talked to a bunch of them in the last two days, and everybody was hoping there would be a little bit more drama on the back nine on Sunday, which so oftener is it Augusta But not this time. Scotti Scheffler too much, finishes eleven under power beats Ludwig Oberg, beats him by four shots. Now, Oberg is a twenty two year old just turned pro, incredible talent, playing in his first not only his first Masters, his first major championship, and he finishes second. Pretty unbelievable. But he loses by four shots. So it wasn't really like this was I mean, Scotti Scheffler was challenged to a certain extent. I mean, he shot sixty eight the last round. That's a great round. Oberg would have had, you know, he'd have had to shoot sixty he shot sixty nine, He'd have had to shoot sixty five the time. That's not probably not going to happen. Sunday at Augusta, Fleetwood finished four under. He shoots sixty nine. He'd have had to shoot sixty two on Sunday to time, so he was not in the golf tournament. Colin Morrikawa shoots seventy four on Sunday, he finish for under par. He would have had to shoot sixty seven, which would have been the low round of the day to tie Scheffler and Max Homa shoot seventy three, he'd have had to shoot sixty six to time. So a few players could have shot the low round of the day, the low round of the tournament and maybe come up with a tie, but on Sunday at Augusta, that's probably not going to happen. So the bottom line is it wasn't really close. Scheffler got off to a little bit of a shaky start, although he said he hit some really good shots, it didn't turn out great, and then he just started hitting great shots and it was a ball game over before you know it. Not a lot of wind blowing, a lot of wind blown during the tournament, only eleven underwins. That's a high winning score for Augusta, but not a lot of win on Sunday. So it really made the tricky twelfth hole play incredibly easy. When the wind's blowing, it's up there in the pines, it's swirling around down there at Amen corner, and it gets really difficult. You catch a bad gust, you mishit it a little bit, and next thing you know, you're in the water and the whole tournament changes. And think about it. Think about how many times you watch some Masters and something disasters happens on the twelfth hole and it didn't really it didn't really happen. And on the thirteenth hole they lengthened the thirteenth hole. I think it made it more of a hole where you absolutely have to hit a good drive to be able to go for it and too, And if you don't hit that great drive then you automatically lay up. So it seemed like there was less players going for it and too, and as a result, maybe a fewer disasters there as well. Not sure how that worked out. I guess it worked out okay, because the holes is a great hole. I mean I think that. Like someone asked me the other day, what's my favorite hole of Augusta. They asked me on Twitter, and I said, nonumber thirteen. Number thirteen is probably my favorite hole anywhere. Forget about Augusta. Forget about it. And I don't think it would matter whether it was short or long, or you lengthened it, or you lengthened it this much or you lengthened it that much, It's still going to be the greatest hole. If it's not in the years past a hard part five, well then you know, then it's a hard par four and it doesn't matter what the par is. It's a phenomenal hole. I think that the new tea box was worked out good. I mean, you know, I mean, probably a few too many layups for me the first few rounds, but maybe that had to do with the wind as much as anything. But not a lot of drama on the back nine. And Scheffler, you know, deserving. He's the best ball striker on tour. It's not even particularly close. I don't think he's the best putter. We know he's not the best putter, but he's not a horrible putter, and he puts good. At augusta matter of fact, he got around there. He got around the Masters in two three putts. And remember, before this tournament starts, I mean, I don't want to say I told you so, but I did tell you so. It boils down to three putting, penalty shots and two chips. And if you paid close attention to those are the three keys to golf eliminating your penalty shots, two chips and three putts. If you played close attention to those three things, they were on full display, as they always are they are at every golf tournament, but they are particularly on display at Augusta. You miss greens, you try, you're left with a difficult short game shot and maybe sometimes you don't get it on the green. You chip it over the green, you chip it off the green, you leave it in the bunker. Calm Morey kind of left it in the bunker on number nine. And penalty shots are out there at Augusta. I mean they're there on the front nine. If you hit it in the you know, creek on two or the landed in the bushes or up against a tree. But eleven the water on eleven, that Oberg hit it in the water there, that was party's over for him when he did that. Flashy had double bogie right there, essentially a two shot penalty hitting it in that lake where he did, having to drop where he had to drop. And you know he got the penalty shots on thirteen, the penalty shots on fifteen, A lot of players take them. I mean Jordan's Speeth, you know, made a bundle at at fifteen and that was that was his tournament over before it really started for him. It's always the way at Augusta. Now, before the tournament, I said, if you can keep your three putts to a minimum and eliminate penalty strokes and the two chips, then you have your best chance to win. It's always the same formula, the penalty the penalty shots at Augusta. The two shot penalties are tough to overcome. A penalty on if you hit in the creek on thirteen off the tee, you get to drop it up there. You know, it's something you could you can kind of overcome. You hit your second shot in the water at fifteen, it's really a two shot penalty. You got to drop behind the lake, and that's going to be a tough one to overcome. You're looking at double there. You know, a penalty shot at eleven's kind of the same thing. Twelve certainly the same thing. So penalty shots equal double bogies and double bogey's equal not winning major championships. And it's one of the things that Steve Williams always used to talk about Tiger's former caddies that if we just can make it through the week, and he was always talking about this at major championships. We make it through the week without a double bogie, we'll win the tournament. And I would always think, you know, three puts limit your amount of three putts, and you know, Tiger would win the win the tournament. This was back in the day. That's all I was thinking. And in fact, he would have won four or five, maybe six Green Jackets during the years I coached him two thousand and four through twenty ten Masters, and he would have won those those Masters if he had limited his three putts to one or or less. And in fact, when he won in twenty nineteen, he only had he only had one three putt for seventy two holes. And that's the formula Augusta. Now, now, I measure three putts differently than a lot of people measure three putts. I measure as a three putt. If you use your putter from off the green and you three putt, I count that as a as a three putt. And the reason I do is because every player who plays the game would count that as a three putt as well. If if you are putting from a place that everyone in the field would have putted from. In other words, if you're a foot off the green at Augusta, every player on the field would use their putter from there, and every want new putts, and if they three putt, they're all going to say I three putt it on that hole. Now, let's say you're let's say you're ten feet off the green and you elect to use a putter, and somebody else might use might chip it. They may use a sandwich, they may use an eight iron, whatever they may, they may chip it. I'm not going to count that as a three putt because because you elected to putt that one. But if you're putting from somewhere where everybody in the field would use their putter, then that's a three putt when you when you add it up. So the three putts that are listed at Augusta when they list their statistics, they always listen to three putts. They're always misleading because because so many shots at Augusta, the ball will land on the green, it'll roll just off the green. You'll be six inches two inches a foot off the green, and you're using a putter for your next shot, and technically it's not a three putt, but we all know that it really is. So Scotti Scheffler two three putts. He had he had one penalty shot, hit it in the creek, I think it was on thirteen, and then that's no two chips. So that's a total of three. Right there, he beats Ludwig Oberg. He beats him by four shots. Oberg one three, putt one two chip. Remember, Scotty Scheffler had a total of three for the penalty shots two chips and three puts. Oberg five penalty shots. Now I count it as a penalty shot if you hit it in the woods and you got to come out sideways. Essentially that is a penalty shot because you hit a shot, you took a stroke, and you didn't cover any distance. Obviously, the water hazard is a penalty shot out of bounds of two shot penalty. A water hazard where you got to drop it back behind the hazard. That's essentially a two shot penalty. Lateral water hazard that's a one shot penalty, but five penalty shots for Oberg one three putt one two chip, that's a total of seven, and for Scotty Scheffler a total of three. And there you go. That is your difference in the tournament. A four stroke win by Scotty Scheffler due to penalty shots, two chips and three paces. Oberg has a distance he could he could cut that advantage down on Scottie Scheffler, but you cannot You can't. You cannot have your penalty shots, two chips and three putts equaling seven seven counted seven and winning a major championship. It cannot and will not happen. Now had he not hit it in the water on eleven, and you know everybody's like should have, would it could have if he didn't hit the water. If he doesn't hit the water, his total of penalty shots two chips and penalty and three putts is five, and he still loses, loses by two. Five is too big a number. You don't You don't win with that, And it's amazing how they can bowl down to that. You know, you see guys three putt two or three times in the opening round, or a three putt and a ball in the water, and you know they've lost three shots right there, and you know the commentators and you know the analysts, they'll tell you, oh, you know, his score is okay, you can still come and then technically can but the likelihood is very very low that it will happen when you when you have those kind of numbers. So you got to eliminate the penalty shots, two chips and the three putts if you are if you are going to gonna win golf to turns, and that's the formula, you know. I mean, now you got to get the ball up and in, you got to hit greens, you got to make putts. I understand, you have to do all that stuff. But this is the difference every every single single time I look at you know, Colin Morikawa. He his total was was five on the penalty shots, two chips and three putts, and you know he he loses by seven, so he he didn't have enough ball striking to overcome even that amount. Now, I mean, if he'd have played a perfect tournament, penalty shots, two chips and three butts, absolutely clean rarely doesn't happen, but absolutely clean it does happen, but rarely. If he played a clean tournament, he still loses by two shots. And why would that be? Because here's why that would be. And he pointed this out in his interview. He was talking about Scotti Scheffler and he said, on one hole, Scotty Scheffler drove it twenty five yards by him, which which was pretty commonplace. Scheffler's a long hitter. Calin Morrikow is not Augusta is not a great golf course. For a short hitter, a player like Colin Morikawa, if he was ever going to win an Augusta, he's going to win on a bad weather Augusta. This was a bad weather Augusta. It's a low winning score. Usually eighteen sixteen something like that under bar will win at Augusta. But this time it was eleven underbar. This is one where you could have somebody jump up and win. And actually, I mean with except for Scheffler, you know, the scores were pretty bunched up, starting with Oberg It's at seven hunder part and then going back to the guys at four. Those two players really separated from the field. This was one of those Augustas where with the exception of Scottie Scheffler, I mean, it was a very it would have been a very high winning score. A shorter hitter needs that kind of tournament tournament to win. You can't give up twenty five yards, you know. I always say distance is the most important factor in golf in determining your potential, and this goes at every single level. I always use the example with amateur golfers. I said, you know, you can hit it two hundred yards and you can play a nice, nice game of golf, but you're never going to be a single digit handicap. You can hit it two hundred and fifty yards and you can be, you know, a low handicapped golfer, but you're not going to be a You're not going to be a plus handicap golfer. That's not going to happen. You can hit it two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and eighty yards. You can be a really nice college player. You're not playing the PGA Tour. You could hit it two hundred ninety yards. You can play the PGA Tour. You're never dominating the PGA Tour. It's not going to happen. Distance determines your potential in the game when you're hitting it twenty five yards behind it. And Cayl morriy Kwa pointed this out. He said, I forget what hole they were talking about, but he says, Scottie Scheffer's probably hitting an eight iron and I was hitting a five iron. And no matter how good your iron game is, you see when you hit a more lofty club, you hit more underneath the ball, and when you hit more underneath the ball, you put more spin on the ball. When you put more spin on the ball, you're going to be more accurate with that shot. And you cannot stand back there and hit five irons and have everybody else hitting eight irons or certain players hitting eight irons. And it's the same formula the Tiger used all for all those years. Nicholas use a formula, Greg Norman use the formula. They they all use the formula. That's the dominator. Rory McElroy, that's his formula. And when you're Scotty Scheffler and you can hit it as far as he does, you're in in a position where you're gonna you're gonna reduce the par of the golf course. You reduce the part of the golf course because all the par fives are available to you. And when you're a short hitter, some of the par fives may be available to you with a long shot in. But still, once again, you're hitting a four iron, you're hitting a three iron, you're hitting a hybrid or a fairway wood, and the other guy's hitting a middle iron. It's no comparison. And and that that that is one of the things that separates greatness, I mean absolute, absolute greatness. You know, back in the day. You know, you know, you think back a few years ago, and and and Jordan Speith had an incredible run, and and he didn't have that formula. And that's why that form that that run was destined to not be a long run. It just it just can't be. Scotty Scheffler has the formula for domination in today's game. Now what is he dominating. He's dominating a bunch of players that at the current time are not are not playing very good. Now on the PGA Tour, there's a limited amount of talent because half of the talent went to the l I V Tour. But even when you look at all the players and throw them all together like they did at Augusta, there wasn't much happening out there with with these great, great players. I mean, Rory was not going good before the tournament. You know, he wasn't hitting any good. He had an emergency lesson out in Las Vegas from Butch Harmon, and But's the greatest coach has ever lived. I mean his record says that, you know, like like like my friend Bill Parcell says you are what your record says you are, and his record says he's the greatest coach ever. But what could he do for Rory a week before the Masters. He could do what he does best. He could pump him up. He could tell him how great he was. He could get him to play hopefully to his level by boosting his confidence with a little little mental approach and maybe a couple of swing thoughts here or there. But Rory hadn't been going good and he didn't go He didn't go good at Augusta. You know, Kepka hasn't been going good all year and he didn't go good at Augusta. And he's a major championship player, There's no two ways about that. Dustin Johnson hadn't been going good this year. He didn't go good at Augusta, even though that's a great golf course for him. You know, a lot of the other guys are a little a little too old, and you know Phil and Tiger and obviously all the injuries that Tiger has, so you know those guys are out You know, a Bubba Watson plays Augusta great, but you know it's he's a little past his prime, it seems right now. So who who's really out there? I mean, you know, when you look at John ramann't been playing good this year. This is about as easy of a major championship win as I can remember seeing it. To be honest with you, I don't remember seeing an easier I mean, I know I only won by four. I know it was kind of tight. You know, he only did what do you have a one shot lead going into Sunday? But boy, oh boy, who do you have a one shot lead over? You had a one shot lead over you know, a guy that that just turned pro playing in his first major. Guy played great. There's no oberg played great, there's no but but but still you know he won't go shoot sixty five? Okay?

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You know he had a lead over Colin Morrikawa. Colin Morrikawa. He hadn't been playing any good. I mean, I mean if you look at look at his season, I don't know what would he He had a top ten, one top ten at the Century Tournament of Champions he finished fifth. You know, he missed a couple of cuts, you know he had he won one time in twenty twenty three is at the Zozo. I mean he hasn't been going my own admission, he hasn't been going great, you know, But he didn't win once in twenty twenty. He hadn't had a good, good stretch. There's no you know, he's talking about how he's wanting to get his his game back. Max Homan. This was his great major finish for him, I think, his best ever, the second top ten ever in majors. You know, he wasn't going good. I mean, you know, he finished eighth at the Arnold Palmer. That's about the best that he did all year. A lot of mediocre finishes, you know, just just not a lot, not a lot of challengers, not a lot of changing. And then and then you take the form that Scottie Scheffler was in and on a golf course that he's he's very good at and with his length, and this is about this is about as easy as it gets for a great, great player. I mean, you know, sometimes that happens. Sometimes you're going good and nobody else is. And then there's other times when you know what, you play the round of your life, you play the tournament of your life, and somebody else does the same thing, and and and that's why there's a lot of luck involved in winning golf tournaments. But when you're the best and you play the best, and nobody else is even really on their game. You get a you get a walk away on the you know, just a walk in the park on the on the on the back nine. And Scottie Scheffler, you know, he just he hit shots. I mean that the shot that sums up the tournament for me with him is when he knocks it down there on uh on fifteen I think it was fifteen, And I'm listening to the telecast on the Serious Exam and Steve Melinick, you know, he's saying, well, you know, this is a it's it's a it's it's kind of He's two thirty two and to the green and you think this is kind of touch and go. Should he go for it? He's got a big lead, he's got three, so Steve Melink says he would lay up well. First off, Steve malink was was a nice player. He was never a Scotty Scheffler two thirty two. The game is different today, two thirty two. What do you think Scotty Scheffer's hitting downhill from two thirty two? Four iron five iron? I don't know. I mean, he ain't hit much. I mean, he just isn't. I mean Scotty Scheffer from two thirty two, pumped up downhill mayb probably hitting a five iron. Maybe he's sitting a four iron. He's the best iron player in the game. He ain't laying up and he ended up hitting in the bunker. He got the whole green to work with running across the green. The surest way to be able to make a par is to is to get it over the water and just send it out there somewhere to the right. If it gets in the bunker, fine, and then you just knock it on the green from there and and and you go about your your your business. And he did he did that more. Uh. You know, when you've got that kind of distance and you've got that kind of power, see, it just changes everything. And and Scheffler is the best player. It's not even close at the current time. You know. I mean, the whole world golf rankings are screwed up, but they're not screwed up on the number one spot. That's for sure. He's he's he's by by far the best. And if he just puts decent, he's tough to he's tough to beat, you know, any any time he plays. I get so many questions on Scottie Scheffler. It's the person I get the most and people say, how does he do it? How does he do it? Like with that because people look at his swing and they go, you know, an, he doesn't have that good of a swing, because what people think is a great swing is a swing that's in balance and a swing that's esthetically pleasing. Although Scotty Scheffer's got a beautiful tempo to his swing. You know, the footwork is that's unique. I mean, there's there's no two ways about that. But he's not the first guy that's fallen all over the place. Justin Thomas has some unique footwork and Bubba Watson certainly did. And you know, Gary Player was off balanced pretty much every shot he always hit. But he's always off balance going forward. Scheffler's kind of, you know, jumping around a little bit. But here's what he has. He has incredible club face control. He can control that club face and that club face gets delivered to the ball all the time a similar way. And it's absolutely spectacular what he does. He is a great champion and he's an incredibly gifted athlete that that just can can just go about his business and never let anything bother him. They keep mentioning that on TV to you know, nauseum. I mean, he's just like, how many times are they going to say it? It's but it is true. Nothing bothers him, His emotion never changes. He just keeps plugging along. He's there couldn't be a more grounded guy in the world than this guy. And you know, it's it is a case of the rich get richer because the first time he wanted, Augusta's wife had to remind him that, you know, And as he was in a, you know, a panic mode before the round, his wife reminded him that no matter what happens, you know, I'm still going to love you, and God's still going to love you, and everything's going to be fine. And he goes out there and wins. And now you know now that he's done it so many times, and you know, he's won eight times in the last you know, a couple of years. He's done it so many times that that you know, this is nothing to him. Nothing shakes him, nothing, you know, and nothing bothers them, and he just plugs along and he hits it better than everybody. And he makes a couple of putts and that's all. It's it's uh, it's part of somebody. People got to do fantastic stuff to be able to beat this guy. He's a he's the dominant player right now and he's dominating golf that right now is lacking a lot of challengers to be to be honest with you, and the ones that are challengers, you know that you gotta look at Rory. You got to look at rom Uh. You can look at this Ober Uh. You know, I don't know who else you look at. I mean, it's just there's there's not a lot of guys and Ram had been going good and Rory hadn't been going good. You know, Kepka Major championships. He's a force, but he hasn't been going good. So you just got to You got a free run. That's what you got. And that's kind of the way. You know, it isn't in golf when when a player dominates. I always remember seeing that with with with Tiger and when we would go to terments, I would always think, Okay, I just got to watch out for Ernie El's got to watch out for VJ saying gotta watch out for Phil Mickelson because he was he was. He was greatness, There's no two ways about that. But after that, you know, I never I never thought, you know that anybody jumps out to a lead or whatever that will you know Tiger will catch him. And it didn't. Didn't think it was. It was you know in a way that there was so many challengers, there really wasn't. And it's the same there's even fewer today. There's even even fewer challengers and especially at this point in time. So Scotty Scheffler wins the master's great win and wasn't the best masters. But it's never a bad Masters. That's a great thing about the masters. There's never there's never a bad Masters, like there has there ever been a bad Masters. I mean there's there's it's one thing that's impossible. There could never be a bad Masters. All right, Hope everybody enjoyed the podcast. Hit the follow button on the iHeartRadio app, check me out on YouTube, Hank any YouTube channel, and no Filter dot net. All the great programming on No Filter and wherever you get your podcasts, you'll hear me. But I appreciate everybody listen, appreciate everybody following. I hope you all have a great day, and we'll talk to you soon on a hank Any podcast

You know he had a lead over Colin Morrikawa. Colin Morrikawa. He hadn't been playing any good. I mean, I mean if you look at look at his season, I don't know what would he He had a top ten, one top ten at the Century Tournament of Champions he finished fifth. You know, he missed a couple of cuts, you know he had he won one time in twenty twenty three is at the Zozo. I mean he hasn't been going my own admission, he hasn't been going great, you know, But he didn't win once in twenty twenty. He hadn't had a good, good stretch. There's no you know, he's talking about how he's wanting to get his his game back. Max Homan. This was his great major finish for him, I think, his best ever, the second top ten ever in majors. You know, he wasn't going good. I mean, you know, he finished eighth at the Arnold Palmer. That's about the best that he did all year. A lot of mediocre finishes, you know, just just not a lot, not a lot of challengers, not a lot of changing. And then and then you take the form that Scottie Scheffler was in and on a golf course that he's he's very good at and with his length, and this is about this is about as easy as it gets for a great, great player. I mean, you know, sometimes that happens. Sometimes you're going good and nobody else is. And then there's other times when you know what, you play the round of your life, you play the tournament of your life, and somebody else does the same thing, and and and that's why there's a lot of luck involved in winning golf tournaments. But when you're the best and you play the best, and nobody else is even really on their game. You get a you get a walk away on the you know, just a walk in the park on the on the on the back nine. And Scottie Scheffler, you know, he just he hit shots. I mean that the shot that sums up the tournament for me with him is when he knocks it down there on uh on fifteen I think it was fifteen, And I'm listening to the telecast on the Serious Exam and Steve Melinick, you know, he's saying, well, you know, this is a it's it's a it's it's kind of He's two thirty two and to the green and you think this is kind of touch and go. Should he go for it? He's got a big lead, he's got three, so Steve Melink says he would lay up well. First off, Steve malink was was a nice player. He was never a Scotty Scheffler two thirty two. The game is different today, two thirty two. What do you think Scotty Scheffer's hitting downhill from two thirty two? Four iron five iron? I don't know. I mean, he ain't hit much. I mean, he just isn't. I mean Scotty Scheffer from two thirty two, pumped up downhill mayb probably hitting a five iron. Maybe he's sitting a four iron. He's the best iron player in the game. He ain't laying up and he ended up hitting in the bunker. He got the whole green to work with running across the green. The surest way to be able to make a par is to is to get it over the water and just send it out there somewhere to the right. If it gets in the bunker, fine, and then you just knock it on the green from there and and and you go about your your your business. And he did he did that more. Uh. You know, when you've got that kind of distance and you've got that kind of power, see, it just changes everything. And and Scheffler is the best player. It's not even close at the current time. You know. I mean, the whole world golf rankings are screwed up, but they're not screwed up on the number one spot. That's for sure. He's he's he's by by far the best. And if he just puts decent, he's tough to he's tough to beat, you know, any any time he plays. I get so many questions on Scottie Scheffler. It's the person I get the most and people say, how does he do it? How does he do it? Like with that because people look at his swing and they go, you know, an, he doesn't have that good of a swing, because what people think is a great swing is a swing that's in balance and a swing that's esthetically pleasing. Although Scotty Scheffer's got a beautiful tempo to his swing. You know, the footwork is that's unique. I mean, there's there's no two ways about that. But he's not the first guy that's fallen all over the place. Justin Thomas has some unique footwork and Bubba Watson certainly did. And you know, Gary Player was off balanced pretty much every shot he always hit. But he's always off balance going forward. Scheffler's kind of, you know, jumping around a little bit. But here's what he has. He has incredible club face control. He can control that club face and that club face gets delivered to the ball all the time a similar way. And it's absolutely spectacular what he does. He is a great champion and he's an incredibly gifted athlete that that just can can just go about his business and never let anything bother him. They keep mentioning that on TV to you know, nauseum. I mean, he's just like, how many times are they going to say it? It's but it is true. Nothing bothers him, His emotion never changes. He just keeps plugging along. He's there couldn't be a more grounded guy in the world than this guy. And you know, it's it is a case of the rich get richer because the first time he wanted, Augusta's wife had to remind him that, you know, And as he was in a, you know, a panic mode before the round, his wife reminded him that no matter what happens, you know, I'm still going to love you, and God's still going to love you, and everything's going to be fine. And he goes out there and wins. And now you know now that he's done it so many times, and you know, he's won eight times in the last you know, a couple of years. He's done it so many times that that you know, this is nothing to him. Nothing shakes him, nothing, you know, and nothing bothers them, and he just plugs along and he hits it better than everybody. And he makes a couple of putts and that's all. It's it's uh, it's part of somebody. People got to do fantastic stuff to be able to beat this guy. He's a he's the dominant player right now and he's dominating golf that right now is lacking a lot of challengers to be to be honest with you, and the ones that are challengers, you know that you gotta look at Rory. You got to look at rom Uh. You can look at this Ober Uh. You know, I don't know who else you look at. I mean, it's just there's there's not a lot of guys and Ram had been going good and Rory hadn't been going good. You know, Kepka Major championships. He's a force, but he hasn't been going good. So you just got to You got a free run. That's what you got. And that's kind of the way. You know, it isn't in golf when when a player dominates. I always remember seeing that with with with Tiger and when we would go to terments, I would always think, Okay, I just got to watch out for Ernie El's got to watch out for VJ saying gotta watch out for Phil Mickelson because he was he was. He was greatness, There's no two ways about that. But after that, you know, I never I never thought, you know that anybody jumps out to a lead or whatever that will you know Tiger will catch him. And it didn't. Didn't think it was. It was you know in a way that there was so many challengers, there really wasn't. And it's the same there's even fewer today. There's even even fewer challengers and especially at this point in time. So Scotty Scheffler wins the master's great win and wasn't the best masters. But it's never a bad Masters. That's a great thing about the masters. There's never there's never a bad Masters, like there has there ever been a bad Masters. I mean there's there's it's one thing that's impossible. There could never be a bad Masters. All right, Hope everybody enjoyed the podcast. Hit the follow button on the iHeartRadio app, check me out on YouTube, Hank any YouTube channel, and no Filter dot net. All the great programming on No Filter and wherever you get your podcasts, you'll hear me. But I appreciate everybody listen, appreciate everybody following. I hope you all have a great day, and we'll talk to you soon on a hank Any podcast