00:00and when scotty's just absolutely mother effing himself and we're like this it's like this guy
00:05just won how many times the last two years and has this huge lead in the uh world ranking in the
00:12first or i should say in the owgr and he's i mean first by a mile and this guy still is just so
00:19competitive that it doesn't matter if it's considered to be a silly season event down
00:23in the bahamas this guy cares about every single shot which made me think about man this this could
00:29be just ping pong uh four v four and he's gonna get fired up for it he's a high competitive player
00:35so is rory and it's a reason why he's the best in the world of what he does and what i was gonna ask
00:41you was have you have you noticed a difference in how scotty sheffler has i wouldn't say treated the
00:48media but noticing any tendencies that remind you at all of tiger woods when he eventually you know
00:54maybe from that 2000 year and beyond where you started noticing um scotty and tiger showing any
01:01uh similarities when it comes to media and how these handled it for sure i love that you asked that
01:06you know for all those years when i was doing the i was always in the booth and then i would go down
01:10to the interviews for nbc and now i'm not just but now i'm just in the booth not doing the interviews
01:15but during that time smiley that was the tiger heyday rory was coming along phil was in his heyday all
01:22these great great players you know coming around and hanging around but at the top of that list
01:27was always tiger and one of the things i always used to say to people all the time is nobody handles
01:34his responsibility more of being the number one player in the world in the face of the game when
01:38he's competing than tiger i'm talking about when he gets out of his car until he gets into his car
01:44and that includes the media obligations that includes the tv the podcast the radio the newspaper
01:50guys all that kind of stuff he knew that that was part of the job scotty understands that that's part
01:55of the job as well he might not love it as much because every time he does anything being who he is
02:01it's going to either be scrutinized criticized or praised but however it is it's always going to be on
02:09and that's what comes with the territory of being such a great player and the one similarity i will give
02:16between the two of them which i find so fascinating and i absolutely love it they do not play fools if
02:27you don't ask a good question they will let you know not in a rude way not in an abrasive way but
02:34they'll just let you know that they are giving you excellence and they demand excellence from you and i love
02:43that they understand that the cameramen the audio people the writers the tv people everybody involved
02:52this is the highest level of sports this is network television this is national tv worldwide global
02:58audience these are the best people on and off the air and the writers are included in that those people
03:04are the best golf writers in the world and if they don't ask a good question or if a tv person
03:10doesn't ask a question that scotty thinks is a smart question or a good question he is not afraid smiling
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