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  • Andy.

  • Let's begin, of course with Tiger.

  • What was your analysis of what you saw in round number one?

  • Well, top of the morning to use the man.

  • Uh, you know, he he played some good golf.

  • I mean, he was very consistent and that's been the problem, basically, with his game this year that he's he's been able to get one thing going well, but not get everything going and he drives.

  • Drove the ball well.

  • He had 10 out of 14 fairways.

  • He had 15 greens and regulation.

  • He kept the ball in play.

  • Hey, only had the chip or pitch once, and that was the 10th hole.

  • His very first hold.

  • The other greens he missed.

  • He plotted the ball from the edge of the green, so he was consistent.

  • And I think the biggest thing the speed on this pots particularly like putting was really good.

  • Um, and when you see Tiger struggle with his putters, when the speed is often looked like he was locked in of the speed, so I think all in all, it was exactly the kind of round he needed to play on Thursday.

  • Tiger hasn't played well all season long Andy.

  • What about Augusta National?

  • Makes him turn it on in any given moment.

  • Well, this is this is a facility in a golf course that you really have to understand how to play it, and it takes a little bit of time.

  • Uh, and I think this is the one championship that you see a lot of the older players do.

  • Well, uh, you know where that's not the norm?

  • Because the knowledge and understanding where to miss the 10th hole, where Tiger, Mr Green on the left, to the front, right in a pin like placement was exactly the Onley place.

  • You could miss that, green.

  • And I think that's the kind of knowledge that you have and the fact that, you know, the dudes won here five times.

  • He drives in the gate and he thinks he can play well here on.

  • I think he'll have that same feeling for another 15 years.

  • Did a three hour rain delay helped Tigers game at all.

  • I think the biggest thing is that he hadn't finished his warm up and he hadn't gone out and actually started.

  • If you if you get the delay before you've actually started, then you go back and push the reset button and go through all your you know, we're all creatures of doing the same thing, uh, preparing for competition.

  • And he was able toe go back and go through his whole routine to start the morning.

  • And and I think that was fine.

  • Andy North, ESPN golf analyst Two time us, uh, open champion, joining us here on Keyshawn J Will and Zubin Tiger.

  • This afternoon, he'll be teeing off.

  • What will the weather conditions be like then?

  • Yeah, it's gonna be very much like it was yesterday afternoon.

  • It doesn't look like there's gonna be very much rain.

  • It doesn't look like there's going to be very much wind.

  • And the fact that the golf course is going to be still really soft, the scoring is just ridiculous.

  • I mean, if they made the cut right now, it would take one under par to make the cut.

  • Uh, the scores it's going to be the first round will be a record scoring.

  • He's gonna have to go on shoot 68 or better just to keep, uh, it pays with what everybody else is doing.

  • Last thing for you here, Andy.

  • the betting favorite price into Shambo.

  • Normally, I always give credit to all of our writers at ESPN dot com that do a great work covering golf.

  • But Michael Bamberger, the noted golf writer, just what an incredible piece on the Shambo in Sports Illustrated.

  • If you are inside the mind of this guy, if you're a golf fan, I just implore you to go check it out.

  • That's a free plug for that story.

  • Just incredible, because he's one of the most fascinating people in all of golf yesterday to under.

  • Despite that double bogey early in the round, what have you seen from him?

  • Especially for the casual fan that might just be getting acquainted with this Texan?

  • Well, you know, in all reality, he didn't play very well yesterday.

  • Uh, he made a mess of the 11th hole and ended up saving par.

  • He made a mess of 13.

  • It could have been worse.

  • Um, he didn't really have, you know, his best.

  • But yet I think what was really apparent is he just kept grinding along and kept grinding along, and he got to two over.

  • He got a couple of birdies and got it back then he got it back.

  • He stayed around.

  • Even then.

  • He made a couple of birdies.

  • At the end of the day, I think overall he showed an awful lot of maturity and patients that we haven't necessarily seen out of Bryson.

  • There's no question, the one little nugget that I think a lot of golf historians and people that love the game, like Andy and have watched for so long, have said, is the fact that yesterday to Shambo, in his twenties, shot a two under.

  • Larry Mize, who had one of the greatest Masters winds in the history of the tournament, also shot two under.

  • And I think it's fair to say, Andy, that Mayes might drive the ball just a little less further than Bryson is that fair There?

  • Averages were just about 90 yards difference, but that's the beauty of our game.

  • Any age, any you know any, the golf ball doesn't understand who's hitting it, you know, so if you can figure out a way to get it around, that's a really big deal, and there's a lot of ways to play this game and and they're not.

  • Langer UH, has been four under pars is low today, made a bogey at the three.

  • But there's another guy 63 years old.

  • Former champion understands how to play the golf course.

  • Uh, it's amazing how the light goes on for the older guys once they show up at Augusta.

  • Oh, by the way, Paul Casey has a two shot lead.

  • Andy after round one.

  • Not anymore.

  • Not anymore.

  • The guys were coming up fast and furious this morning.

  • What should?

  • What should a casual fan know about him, though?

  • Okay, he's been around a long time.

  • He's been a really good player.

  • He's been a top five top 10 player in the year, multiple times during his career.

  • Uh, he's he's gained a little bit of distance.

  • Uh, he's just a really solid player, he said.

  • I think he's had four or five top six finishes here at the Masters, so he knows what he's doing.

  • He's not gonna go away.

  • Um, but I think we'll see record scoring this year this year throughout the week.

  • I think that it might take 20 and you're part of wind and cases at least a good way toward that.

  • Starting out.

Andy.

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