00:00let's call him our resident caddy mick middlemo uh he's going to come in and talk a little bit
00:05about the masters and mick look i got a bunch to get in you know i want to talk about
00:10rory i want
00:11to talk about bryson i want to talk about iron play and bunkers and everything else but you're
00:16across the pond man you're you're in australia i want you to tell people i am in australia
00:23it's actually hard to watch the masters in australia because i have to get up at 3 a.m to
00:26do it okay that's what that's what i wanted to know that's what i wanted to i want to know
00:29are you watching are you watching live how many people are watching with you what time is it when
00:34the masters are coming on uh i got up at 3 a.m this morning to have a little bit
00:39of a look at it and i
00:40thought i would stay awake for a couple hours but i pretty much watched the whole thing till the end
00:44so mick uh are you over there with uh with dundee in the northern territory where are you at in
00:50australia i'm in i'm actually i'm actually in melbourne at the moment actually i was just on
00:54hold and you know i was actually i was a little depressed earlier but then i wanted to cheer
00:58myself up so then i watched some of your golf swings that i videotaped of you at the uh brown
01:03grass classic and then i actually it's just to realize that how bad your golf swing was and and
01:09i'm actually starting to feel pretty good about my own golf game wow hey you know what hey i'm here
01:14for you uh you know mick i help people in a lot of ways and if i can help your
01:18you know your uh your
01:20your your mental capacity there i'm all for it um look let's talk about a guy who looked pretty bad
01:26yesterday as well in the bunkers in bryson dechambeau look he had won i think two straight live uh
01:32events comes in here with a lot of people a little bit of hype for him and then he got
01:38in that bunker
01:38and because of the way that green plays he couldn't get out of the bunker what was going on there
01:44how
01:44do you how do you handle that with a player and and just talk about what happened to him
01:49you know the most ridiculous thing about it was when i when i listened to his interview he said he
01:53blamed the sand because it was a little softer than he thought it was i'm like seriously like
01:59you've never been to augusta before you've never practiced out of a bunker before i'm like seriously
02:04it was like the worst excuse i mean bryson dechambeau who i who i do like he's a good guy
02:09but his
02:11interview today was pretty short sharp and uh pretty average actually he he blamed pretty much
02:16everything but himself but maybe he needs to i mean he's got his five iron that he i don't know
02:21he
02:21what what did he do with that five iron that he i guess it was he invented yeah he 3d
02:27printed a
02:28five iron well maybe he should have 3d printed a sandwich i don't know it's just not not not going
02:33for it but he's also got those clubs make that he that everything's got like the shaft of a seven
02:38uh a seven or whatever so because of the way the uh the angle is for him he's a he's
02:43an odd cat
02:45yeah he's an odd cat you know one of the first times i met him i was at colonial golf
02:49club and we
02:49were looking at his clubs every club is the same length every club is like 14 degrees upright it's
02:55just yeah he's a weird cat but yeah i mean hey you know don't blame the sand of the gust
02:58i mean it's
02:59there's you can blame a lot of things in life but not the sand of the gust because it's all
03:03pure
03:03well i am so he just he just had a bad day i'm curious about the course itself because you
03:09know
03:09so much about this we hear it's difficult but can you explain just how quickly a bad round can spiral
03:14at augusta compared to other majors oh it's just the course is so difficult it's if you start to make
03:21bad mistakes at that course it'll chew you up it'll eat you up it's like you've got to have a
03:26wonderful
03:26short game to play there because if you start missing greens it's just it's so difficult it's so hilly
03:32people don't realize if you unless you've never been there you don't realize how the undulations
03:36and and everything can really really hurt you with that golf course and if you start missing the
03:41you know in wrong places the course will chew you up in a heartbeat but let's not forget rory won
03:47the
03:47tournament last year and he had four double bogeys when he won the tournament last year which is unheard
03:51of hanging out with our resident caddy mick middlemo and he's answering some of our questions about
03:56the masters obviously headed into day two today mick i did anything surprise you anything
04:02jump off the leaderboard of of you know kind of a head turner when you saw a certain name and
04:07you
04:07just look up there and go huh i didn't expect to see him in the top uh top 10 top
04:1120 yeah rory
04:13mick or rory yeah it's just because i'm deadly i'm deadly i was kind of deadly serious about it
04:21because i honestly thought that you know with everything that he had got going on this week
04:25you know the masters dinner all the interviews everything had to do he hadn't played in a tournament
04:29for a couple weeks i thought he might get off to a like an even par one under start and
04:34just get
04:35into his round but he looks like he's just so free right now that he's won the masters last year
04:41that
04:41you know if you listen to um freddie couple's interview today freddie couple said that the
04:46way he plays he might never not win the masters again because he's just so free and he's playing so
04:53relax now because you know when you play golf it's like if you have a freedom in your mind
04:59it's just what a wonderful game it is but when you start like getting stressed and stressed and
05:03stressed but like he's free now he's you know he's won the grand slam of golf he's he's just playing
05:09golf like it's amazing and i i can't see him losing from here i really can't well what what had
05:15uh what
05:16was up with sam burns yesterday because i don't think a lot of people expected him to go out and
05:19shoot
05:20the same score as rory you know and a five under is is it just because his ball striking was
05:25so good
05:26yesterday because everybody can that's kind of the not or not the not but kind of the thing about
05:30augusta everybody talks about the pure ball strikers really tend to play well there
05:35sam burns is one of the best putters you'll ever see in your life and if you can putt at
05:40you know if
05:41you're one of the best putters ever i mean augusta is the place for you and he hasn't really had
05:45much
05:46success there but i mean he he struck his irons well yesterday middle of the greens like you said
05:50play middle of the greens and then just yeah he just he putted great but he he's a good guy
05:56he's
05:56you know one of scotty sheffler's best friends and you know they play a lot of practice rounds together
06:00so you know obviously he's learned a little bit from scotty and scotty scotty's not in you know
06:05scotty's in a good position too i mean two under um he's he's in a great spot but i like
06:10i said i
06:10really can't see anybody you know toppling rory at the moment i'd be really really surprised if
06:14anybody beat rory at the moment we are joined by former pga tour caddy and our good buddy mick
06:19middlemoe make the caddy on the morning shift i know you're saying rory's probably gonna win this
06:24but who would be your pick if they won it would break the internet this weekend oh justin rose
06:34and you know and i know justin rose really really well he's uh he's caddy's one of my best friends
06:39and
06:39you know and i would love rosie to win it because he deserves you know he's he's such a class
06:44act and you know he's been beaten in the playoff twice now with the masters once by sergio and
06:48obviously rory last year um i would love him to win it and you know i was loving watching his
06:55golf
06:56this morning until he you know until he bogeyed 17 18 but he's still in a great spot and if
07:01anybody
07:01could win it i would love it to be rosie more than um your rory for sure mick just a
07:06couple more
07:06things before i let you go i did want to get your thoughts um you know obviously with the ceremonial
07:10tee shots yesterday and jack nicholas and tom watts and gary player all those guys do a little
07:15bit of media session they were kind of asked about the the distance that the golf balls have been
07:19you know getting off the tee and they all kind of share the thought that this thing needs to be
07:24reined in a little bit the guys are hitting the ball too far i'm just curious where you stand on
07:28this issue and if you really think that it's something that pga needs to address moving forward
07:32well the pga are going to they have addressed it and obviously it's not going to happen overnight
07:38um it's going to happen within the next probably two or three years i think but they will but i
07:42think they will roll it back i mean these guys hit the ball so far now these guys hit at
07:46330 340
07:48um you know where bo hits at 140 150 i mean you know i think bo's going to be looking
07:53for a golf ball
07:54that goes a little bit further um so mick i need one that just goes straight can they invent one
08:03that
08:03goes straight no matter what yeah that'd be good uh if looking at your swing i don't think they i
08:09don't think there's one that goes that straight might like a polish it but um but no i i think
08:14they eventually will roll it back it's going to take a few years um and honestly my opinion is that
08:21you know the golf courses these days you know if you can make them harder you can you can bring
08:29the
08:29fairways in you can make the greens harder the golf ball i guess is i mean these guys hit it
08:34so far
08:34now these guys hit at 340 i mean you look at um cam young when he won the uh players
08:39championship he
08:40got 370 on 18 370 is a long way to hit it so i guess these guys i mean the
08:45pga tour is like
08:46concerned that the ball is going too far and i and i believe it is as well so they'll roll
08:51it back for
08:51sure uh mick real quick um you know tigers had his issues and another uh another moment a couple weeks
08:58ago and now he's getting some help is he if he continues on this path are we not gonna actually
09:05get to see him do that ceremonial first tee shot once it becomes his moment or you know because it
09:12his his image is really starting to kind of be a problem i think for the pga with all his
09:17issues
09:19um you may see him hit a better ceremonial t-shirt than jack did that's for sure uh jack's shot
09:25wasn't great he nearly killed someone in the crowd but um yeah no i think tiger i don't think
09:30you'll see tiger play golf again on the pga tour or the uh champions tour i think he's done um
09:35i think
09:36tiger needs to focus on better things in his life right now than you know he's got a lot of
09:41stuff
09:41going on obviously he's addicted to paying pills and he's got things going on and he needs to uh he
09:47needs to take a break from golf um i honestly don't believe you'll ever see tiger woods tee it up
09:52in
09:52another golf tournament again i really don't wow um that's crazy stuff man mick uh you you're
09:59drinking a beer right now man are you going to try to get to bed early so that the wake
10:02up time's good
10:02what are we dealing with tonight um there's a chance i'll have a beer with my dad my 88 year
10:07old
10:07father's sitting out on the couch right now he's got a beer in hand he's probably wanting for me to
10:11come back and have a beer with him but uh yeah i'll definitely do that you know it's funny as
10:14i asked
10:15mick to help me fix my swing and he said i'll just move to australia instead
10:20yeah there's this uh moving to australia was going to be a little bit easier
10:25and the good thing is roger goodell's over here at the moment too in the same place he's over here
10:30at melbourne right now getting ready for the uh promoting the nfl for coming over here and um so
10:34yeah i'm looking forward to that game as well yeah you can't escape us mick man hey uh tell your
10:38dad we said hello man enjoy that beer and uh we'll talk to you again soon yeah he well he's
10:43part of
10:43the mafia as well so we're good to go all right can we hang up on mick now good stuff
10:51man love it
10:52thanks man appreciate you guys thanks so much to mick middlemo for joining us you can find him on
10:58twitter at mick middlemo we also have him posted on at 929 morning shift if you want to find him
11:03a
11:03bit easier
11:04I don't know.
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