Inside the 2026 Masters: Tiger’s Troubles, Augusta’s Genius, and the Business of Golf

The Masters isn’t just a golf tournament — it’s a masterclass in branding, scarcity economics, and operational excellence. In this episode of Making Cents of It All, Jesse Stakes sits down with the Tin Cup Club to break down why Augusta National continues to set the gold standard for sports events worldwide.

We dig into the 2026 Masters storylines, including Tiger Woods’ latest challenges and what his future means for the sport. From there, we explore how the Masters has built one of the most powerful brands in sports through intentional scarcity, disciplined tradition, and a fan experience that feels almost immune to modern commercial pressures.

The Tin Cup Club also unpacks the behind‑the‑scenes innovation that most fans never see — from Augusta’s cutting‑edge broadcast technology to the operational precision that keeps the course pristine and the coverage flawless. Whether you’re a golfer, a business leader, or someone who appreciates world‑class execution, this episode shows why the Masters remains the ultimate case study in doing things differently — and doing them exceptionally well.

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Jesse Stakes: Hey everybody, welcome to Making Sensitive. All I'm your host, Jesse Stakes, and I am really pleased to bring you the Tin Cup Club. We are back, the Masters is this week, and I couldn't ask for a better group of guys to talk about it and kind of…

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Jesse Stakes: Kinda celebrate what this week means.

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Jesse Stakes: Blakely, thanks for joining me today.

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Blakely: Hey, happy to be here, it's good to see you guys.

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Jesse Stakes: Wes, always a pleasure, it's been too long.

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Wes Altice: I know, it's been way too long, but goddamn, I love seeing y'all's beautiful faces.

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Jesse Stakes: Making me blush. Shelton, it's a pleasure, my friend. It's been, again, another one that's been way too long.

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Michael Shelton: I always enjoy seeing y'all, and I look forward to seeing all these beautiful mugs here in about 2 weeks in person.

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Jesse Stakes: That's true. Tin Cups coming up soon.

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Jesse Stakes: Pedron?

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Jesse Stakes: Cheers, it's good to see ya.

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Mike Padron: Double, it's good to be here.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, so I'm gonna start with you. What you drinking today?

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Mike Padron: Start with me?

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Jesse Stakes: Yes, sir!

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Mike Padron: Alright, I'm going with,

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Mike Padron: Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye. It is absolutely amazing stuff. There you go. And it helps that rye has a green label, so…

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Jesse Stakes: Always, white is right?

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Jesse Stakes: I'm gonna go side street here. Why the hell does rye always have a green label?

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Mike Padron: I don't know. That's something good to look up. I have no idea.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, get back to me on that one. Wes, what you drinking?

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Wes Altice: I got a little, Eagle rare for everyone today, so… Yum yum.

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Jesse Stakes: Shelton?

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Michael Shelton: Have a little Blanton's Gold in the Masters Logo Cup.

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Jesse Stakes: Mmm, low life, living the high life right there.

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Michael Shelton: Exactly.

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Jesse Stakes: Likely?

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Blakely: I got a little, Midwinter's Night Dram,

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Blakely: Act 12, Scene 2. It's a good one.

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Jesse Stakes: Nice.

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Jesse Stakes: No acts, no scenes, nothing from around the world, just a little bit of angel's Envy in my cup. So cheers, boys!

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Blakely: Cheers.

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Wes Altice: Cheers, gentlemen.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, my question to you guys…

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Jesse Stakes: there's a… there's a tiger in the room, you know? I mean, what in the hell has been going on for the last several weeks with Tiger Woods? I mean, like, this has been kind of the talk of the golf world,

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Jesse Stakes: Tiger Woods hasn't played competitive golf in how long now?

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Jesse Stakes: What is it, 2 years?

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Wes Altice: It's gotta be 2 years.

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Jesse Stakes: But they're still trying to… like, the talk of the golf world before the Masters for the last month has been, is Tiger Woods gonna show up at the Masters?

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Jesse Stakes: So, I mean, I'd love to just get y'all's opinion on it, because it's just… I mean, it's… I mean, in some ways, I think it's sad, but at the same time, it's…

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, it's hard, you know, I forget what movie it was, but they said, never feel sorry for a man who owns his own plane.

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Jesse Stakes: True. And so, it's hard to feel sorry for the dude, but, you know, I'd love to get your thoughts on it, Wes.

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Wes Altice: Yeah, I mean, that's a, you know, growing up, big Tiger fan, it's…

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Wes Altice: you know, it's sad, it's frustrating, god knows what he's going through. I mean, I can't imagine the pain he's probably going through with all the surgeries, and…

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Wes Altice: Obviously, there's some kind of addiction there, for this to be a recurring theme.

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Jesse Stakes: Do you think?

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Wes Altice: It's like…

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Jesse Stakes: It's…

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Wes Altice: it's just so… yeah, I just feel kind of bad for him that, you know, he's been this kind of elite athlete for so long, you kind of seen him as, like, this dude who doesn't quit.

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Wes Altice: And to see all this kind of happen to him, he can't kick something like this, I think there's… there's a lot of demons there, there's a lot of stuff that we probably have no idea about, and…

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Wes Altice: One, I wanted to get some help, but two, kind of…

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Wes Altice: kind of pissed at not being responsible. I mean, he could have killed someone, including himself, these past few accidents, so…

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Wes Altice: I kind of go through the spectrum of empathy, pissed off, you know.

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Wes Altice: I don't know how you guys feel about it, but it's… it's just a sad situation, in my opinion.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no, I think that's well said, but Jerome, what do you think?

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Mike Padron: I mean, I… yeah, I couldn't have said it much better. It's kind of funny, well, funny enough, I got tickets to the TGL event the day before, and I made a joke, like, when am I gonna see Tiger

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Mike Padron: like, play live again. I mean, I spent $200 on the ticket, and the next day he announces he's playing in the event, the tickets went up to, like, $2,000, and I almost sold them.

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Wes Altice: And.

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Mike Padron: And then I, you know, part of the reason for me not selling him was because, man, I get to see him play live, and I'm like, when am I gonna see him play live? And…

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Mike Padron: And I just decided to go ahead and go, and not… you know, a day later, all this stuff hits, and I'm like…

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Mike Padron: Shoot, man, now it's realistic.

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Wes Altice: Yeah.

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Mike Padron: when am I gonna see him play live again? And I think he was… he was trending. He was gonna play. I mean, every sign was pointing towards him playing.

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Mike Padron: And he was off in that event. You could tell it was just little things here and there, just with his short… especially short game. He was missing putts he shouldn't have, and his, you know, his chipping was off and everything else, but, you know, his full swings looked really good, and I think he was trending that way, but…

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Mike Padron: Obviously, there's other things going on,

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Mike Padron: In his mind, in his life that, you know, into recovery, and that's, you know, things that he needs to get work on, and…

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Mike Padron: And, you know, obviously none of us can ever… hopefully we're never in that situation, and you don't know what somebody's dealing with, and hopefully he gets, you know, the help he needs, and goes on from there, and…

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Mike Padron: And that's, you know…

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Mike Padron: That's all I can really say about that on that, but just get the help you need, and don't rush back, and, you know, hopefully we see him out there again at some point, but, you know, that's really not the important part right now.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, well, and on a side note, but kind of an important note, somebody else putted pretty well that day down at TGL, didn't they?

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Mike Padron: I didn't feel like that was the part to bring that up, but yes, I, I got randomly select… I got randomly selected to go on the, on the main green, and…

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Mike Padron: And got to do a little putting contest, and I won $1,000, so, you know, likely I didn't sell the tickets, I made up money anyways.

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Mike Padron: I'm waiting for… I'm waiting for my TGL check, so I'm officially paid by TGL at some point.

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Blakely: I still… I still want to know how many putters, you… you used.

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Mike Padron: You know what's funny? They didn't let me do anything. They gave me a putter, they gave me a ball, and just said, go out there. I didn't get to…

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Mike Padron: do anything. I didn't get to put a roll of ball in the green, I didn't get to do anything. Yeah. So…

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Michael Shelton: made that putt, he would have been using that putter at 10 Cup in two weeks.

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Wes Altice: Probably.

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Mike Padron: Odyssey. It was an odyssey.

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Mike Padron: But, yeah, if that putter would have won me 25 grand, because I had a chance for a 25 grand putt, maybe I would have, yeah, you're right.

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Jesse Stakes: I don't see how you could not have.

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Blakely: Right.

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Mike Padron: Alright, so… Those greens are really, really fast, though, by the way.

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Jesse Stakes: So, I know you guys are not at work, but I'm going to kind of put you on the spot. Professionally, you're both physicians, you deal with people that are taking medications all the time, like.

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Jesse Stakes: do you… I mean, do you have a different perspective? And I'll throw it to… I'll throw it to Blakely first. Like, do you have a different perspective on this than what… what us as laypeople would, as far as… as far as with the… with kind of the prescription medication issues that he's had?

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Blakely: A slightly different perspective, because, you know, we all know, even if you're not in the medical field, these drugs can be dangerous, they're highly addictive, there are numerous court cases, and litigation going back, from the 80s, you know, where these…

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Blakely: prescription drug companies are pumping these highly addictive medications, making them, instead of a long-lasting time release, immediate release, which only increases their addictiveness, and pumping these as the new, the new pill, this is the new future. They,

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Blakely: I don't remember exactly when, it might have been in the 90s. They, like, introduced, pain as the sixth vital sign, and they're going to doctors.

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Blakely: Going to their offices, saying, hey, this is something that you have to treat, this is going to be tied into patient satisfaction. If you're not treating their pain, then you're not treating their illness, and these are the medications you need to use.

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Blakely: And we've seen now, throughout these past decades, that it can be very detrimental to people, their families, their life in general. And that's kind of what you see playing out here. There's no way for him to undergo

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Blakely: This amount of surgery, and we all know he wants to get back out there immediately, every time, so he's putting his body through a ton of stress, and it's only going to require him to take more pain medicine.

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Blakely: it's, it's no wonder that he's hooked on this stuff, you know? And that could be opioids, muscle relaxers, the whole gamut.

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Blakely: And him himself already, he's, you know.

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Blakely: pretty stout guy. It's gonna take a lot to manage him, even if he's just coming off of one surgery, let alone all the ones he's had and the years he's been on pain medication.

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Jesse Stakes: And… But… Sheldon, what do you think?

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Michael Shelton: No, I was gonna go with the pain being that extra vital sign. That is one of the things that got us into this opioid crisis.

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Michael Shelton: Because again, it's almost like you weren't doing your job if the patient was reporting pain after surgery. I mean, this is a big surgery, and, you know, if… it's… I don't… this is probably oversimplifying things, but you're going to be rated off if their pain level's a 2,

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Michael Shelton: So you give them more medicine to get them down, or you give them enough medicine where they can't talk when they leave the recovery room.

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Michael Shelton: you're gonna get a better ratings than someone who else, you know, goes out in pain. And I don't want to bash the opioids overall. Again, we use them every day in acute situations, but when you start having the more chronic pain issues.

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Michael Shelton: multiple surgeries, you have to… your body builds up a tolerance to these, and you have to start taking more and more and more to get the same effects, and then you start combining them with other… other prescription drugs, alcohol, other non-prescription drugs. It's just a slippery slope, and we do see it all the time. And you feel bad for him, like, obviously, as a person, we talked about, you know, as an athlete, or, you know, we're all sports fans.

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Michael Shelton: So I separate my sports fandom from the personal side of things. I have my own life. And obviously, as a person, you want him to get the help he needs.

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Michael Shelton: You're obviously glad, as Wes said, that no one else was severely hurt in any of these, because this will be a whole different discussion. But as the fan side of things, it is… you are somewhat disappointed, just the fact that he's not there. We, you know, it's… the tournament's a whole different… any golf tournament, any event, TGL, anything is different when

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Michael Shelton: when Tiger is there. I mean, 10 Cup 2019, we were almost waiting for the round to get over just so we could watch Tiger walk up the fairway. I have a picture of my kids in their underwear on the couch, you know, watching as Tiger did this when they were 3 and 5 years old. So, obviously hope he gets the help as a person, but, you know, as a fan, it…

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Michael Shelton: I think we were all looking forward to him trying to be back.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no doubt. Blakely, I kind of cut you off there. Was there something else you wanted to say?

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Blakely: Well, I mean, I just wanted to say, like.

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Blakely: kind of echoing Wes, I have, like, a myriad of feelings for this. I mean, my dad played golf with his buddies, and he would take me out, and, like, I'd ride the cart and hit a couple shots. So, I would have liked golf regardless. But growing up, when Tiger came out, and you see somebody, it's like, hey, that guy looks like me.

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Blakely: And…

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Blakely: he's killing it, you know? Like, this is something I can do. This is a place that I actually belong at, too. It really, you know, breaks my heart when I look at, you know, although

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Blakely: you know, I'm not gonna get to see him, and that's really what I wanna see, but…

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Blakely: this guy's come out here and had, what, 4 DUIs in the past decade? It's like, why are you… why are you doing this? Even though I understand addiction and everything like that.

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Blakely: Yeah, I just wish he could…

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Blakely: Somehow cope with whatever it is that's stopping him from

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Blakely: having a driver, or being… just being responsible, because the truth is, is that, like, if he keeps going on this path and is unable to get help, he's gonna kill somebody or kill himself, and both of those are gonna be tragic. I hate seeing a hero of mine growing up, somebody you idolize.

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Blakely: Going down this path,

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Blakely: And it also, you know, you feel like we're getting robbed of some of his, you know.

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Blakely: still great years. You know, had he never gone off the cliff in California, you know, he had just won not too long ago before that. Where would we be now? I mean, had he… would he have won another 10? 5? Get a major or two? Who knows? And I just hate that.

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Jesse Stakes: down.

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Wes Altice: But I think the… I think…

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Wes Altice: the whole not having a driver thing, and his reason is because of privacy, it's like…

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Wes Altice: Well, what else are you doing that you need all that privacy for, too? Or is it the drugs talking? So, I mean…

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Wes Altice: Excellent.

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Blakely: A million, I will drive for him.

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Wes Altice: We see all the NBAs.

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Blakely: Keep my mouth.

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Wes Altice: and everything.

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Mike Padron: Conversations with the president, apparently.

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Wes Altice: Exactly.

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Blakely: Yeah, yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: It was in between talking to Iran.

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Wes Altice: I'm in.

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Jesse Stakes: Do you think that he put him on hold to talk to Tiger? Do you think he just said, excuse me, Tiger Woods is calling? Probably.

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Wes Altice: She came back with you guys.

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Mike Padron: Yeah.

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Mike Padron: This is huge!

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Jesse Stakes: God. You know, it's… the part that I… this was years ago, when he had first had the vertebrae fused. I remember on 1010XL in Jacksonville, Florida, they had a… they had somebody on the radio, and they were talking about, there's no way in the world he could swing as fast as he swings a golf club and not…

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Jesse Stakes: Continue to herniate or hurt the… harm the discs above and below where he had the two fused.

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Jesse Stakes: And I… you know, not that… I don't even think that the back has been the focus. I mean, like you said, he had the car wreck. I mean, he's…

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, he's torn his Achilles tendon, he's done all kinds of stuff that's, you know, outside of just the back. I just… I just think it's a… I mean, I'm… I'm kind of with… with what you said, Blakely, and what you said, Altus, I mean, to me.

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Jesse Stakes: get a driver, I mean, that solves… that solves the bulk of the legal problems that the guy's had. It doesn't necessarily fix his personal problems or fixes the substance issues, but, I mean, at least then he's dealing with personal problems, he's not putting anyone else at risk. That was… that was my biggest thing with it, is that…

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Jesse Stakes: It's… just like drinking or anything else, it's like…

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Jesse Stakes: call… I mean, for most of us, somebody say, call an Uber, and it's like.

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Wes Altice: Yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: If you're him, I mean, Christ, like you said, he's got unlimited funds, you can pay somebody.

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Wes Altice: Here's a security detail at his house, I'm sh…

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Wes Altice: Probably not a hard phone call to make real quick to get someone, and his house isn't that far from the golf course he was practicing at, so…

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Blakely: And they know what's going on there.

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Wes Altice: Hell yeah, 100%.

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Jesse Stakes: Yay!

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Wes Altice: No doubt.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, flip… flip side of this, Phil Mickelson is also not playing in the Masters. It's the first time since 1994, I believe, that either of the… or that both of them have not been in the Masters field, which I think is kind of crazy.

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Jesse Stakes: about that. But, that's, I mean, 32 years. So, I mean, there's not really been much information about why Phil's not playing. He's missed a ton of live events this year with, and they keep citing family issues. Does anybody else have any insight, or has anyone else heard any rumors or innuendo out there?

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Wes Altice: I haven't heard much of… anything. I mean, we all know his wife liked to battle cancer, so maybe…

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Wes Altice: maybe there's something there, I have no idea. Maybe there's something with him. I know in the videos, you kind of see him, he does look a little… like he's thinning out a little bit. I don't know if he's doing shots or whatever, but he just doesn't look…

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Wes Altice: I mean, this is all just speculation. I have no idea, but I would not be surprised if maybe he's dealing with something.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, I was surprised that he… that he… because he did get out to a live event, like, 2 weeks ago, and then to… and then to miss the Masters. I would have thought, I mean.

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Jesse Stakes: pick and choose one of them, I would have thought he would have chosen Masters on that, but…

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Mike Padron: But Justin Rose on that is my only thought on this. It was… somebody asked him about that. This is the first time in 30 years with neither one of them, and Justin Rose said, you know, with the greatest respect to those two, I hadn't even thought about it.

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Michael Shelton: Until Jesse mentioned it earlier.

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Michael Shelton: That was my one thought. I mean, my literal whole thing was, you started bringing up topics, and you said Phil Mickelson, I was like, I honestly have not thought.

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Michael Shelton: that person in probably at least the last 6 months. I mean, it's almost like he's always out there on social media. I'm not a big social media person, but there's always something. He's always out there, seemed to be needling someone, or… and I just… once you said his name, I realized, like, I have not heard it. He's been on radio silence for, like, at least 6 months.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah. Alright, I got a question for all of you. Where the hell do I watch the Masters this year? Because, I mean, it seems like they're… it seems like they got bits and pieces of it everywhere. So, what are y'all's thoughts on that? Padrell, what do you think about the coverage this year, and how split up it is?

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Mike Padron: I mean, I think they're trying to hit every market, as it seems like. You've got the app, you've got Amazon, you've got… I mean, everywhere. It's like March Madness, it seems like.

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Mike Padron: I mean, I guess the more the merrier at this point?

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Mike Padron: all these Amazon Primes and everything like that, so I guess Matches is like, well, we're gonna go that way, too. So, I believe this year they're adding Amazon Prime.

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Mike Padron: I'm not mistaken. So, it's the way of the future, so you might as well jump on it as well. So it seems like you've… if you want to watch every shot, you possibly can, so…

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Mike Padron: You pick your… you pick where you want to watch it, you can pretty much find it.

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Jesse Stakes: I mean, you got, you got Paramount+, ESPN+, Prime Video, Masters.com on the app, and then you've got, like, all the… basically CBS and every one of their affiliates, it seems like they're covering something.

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Michael Shelton: I think it's a brilliant strategy. We talked… we're gonna talk about the topic here in a minute, but if you make it… the coverage so hard to find at all times, everyone's gonna be, you know what, there's one place I can watch coverage all day long, and that is the app for Masters.com.

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Blakely: I've been, I got my iPad in the locker at work, and so I play.

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Blakely: setting that bad boy up and posting up when I'm not busy. Because, you know, we grew up where

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Blakely: you gotta be at the house, in front of the TV, at 3pm when it comes on, you know?

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Blakely: And then, when you go take your pee break on commercial, your brother's yelling, hey, it's coming back on, you gotta run over the couch and get back in front of you.

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Blakely: me that I can just watch it wherever I want, whenever.

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Blakely: I love it, and the Masters app, we were talking about it before, is probably one of the best, best apps in the world, you know? They allow you to watch a couple different feature groups, now you can tune in to see the player you want to see, basically the whole tournament.

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Blakely: I remember a few years back, when Bubba Watson,

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Blakely: hit that, hell of a cut shot from the woods on 11. I watched that in my car. I was driving down.

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Jesse Stakes: to your point, I mean, like, last year, we did 10 cup, actually, on Masters Weekend. And so, I had it on my phone the whole time, where it was like, I literally was watching golf while I'm playing golf on the Masters app. And I thought it was… I mean, it made it… it made you feel like you weren't missing anything, ever.

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Jesse Stakes: But, let me play devil's advocate here for a second, too, because, I mean, like, you brought up a good point, Blakely, like, when you're a kid, and you could only watch it from 3 to, you know, 3 to close, basically, like, and you had to…

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Jesse Stakes: you know, when you're in the other room, and you're doing something else, and your brother yells at you, or somebody yells at you to come watch, because Tiger's about to hit a ball, or somebody's, you know, something great just happened, and you're hauling tail back into the, you know, back into the living room, jumping over the couch, there's something fun and exciting about that, too.

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Blakely: Definitely. There's… I mean, there definitely is that, but I think in today's day and age especially, we're all becoming used to this streaming service. And when I get to this time in April, my azaleas are blooming, you know, we just had Easter.

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Blakely: I'm ready to be inundated by the Masters, and I think they do a… they know that. People want that. They do a good job. It's coming every which way. No doubt. And I can't get enough of it, regardless.

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Jesse Stakes: Hey, and just to date ourselves, when you said, hey, a few years ago, when Bubba Watson won the Masters, that was 12 years ago, my friend.

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Blakely: I'm an old man, what can I say? I, you know… Unplugged.

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Jesse Stakes: we talked, I mean, we kind of brought up the fact that you've got… you've got, you know, Augusta National, and Shelton kind of hinted at it, but, you know, they really have done a fantastic job of branding themselves. I mean, and it's, like.

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Jesse Stakes: Wes is wearing a hat, so anybody who's watching this on video will see, like, I mean, it's… like, I mean, there's… there's almost a luxury…

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Jesse Stakes: feeling to their brand, and it's like, I don't know… I mean, I don't know that you could say that they actually tried to do that. I mean, Wes, do you think… I mean, do you think that they've really put a lot of effort into, like, making their brand, like, a luxury item, or, like, I mean, how do you think that they've created such an exclusivity or feel to this?

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Wes Altice: Well, one, nothing is by accident with Augusta National and the Masters. I'm sure they probably saw this and was like, okay, now we got something, but I think the exclusivity comes from

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Wes Altice: how hard it is to get in on the grounds. And this is the only place you can get this stuff, is on the grounds, unless you want to pay

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Wes Altice: Double or triple on the secondary market, which it seems like they're gonna try and cut back on.

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Wes Altice: what was the number? I think they're gonna do, like, $100 million in sales this year is what they're projecting. It's like…

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Wes Altice: I don't think they charge anything outrageous in the shop, like, it's all… if you went to the PJ Superstore, I got a Peter Millar shirt, it's the same, you just get the logo.

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Wes Altice: for the Masters on it, so, I mean… You know, they…

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Wes Altice: they don't gouge you in any way, but I think the… as far as it being a luxury item, I think it's more of a…

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Wes Altice: a token representing what the Masters is, you know? It's special, people enjoy it. When you get there, you're fully consumed by it, and then…

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Wes Altice: You wear the gear, and I am fully consumed by it.

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Michael Shelton: I mean, like I said, I used that word exclusivity earlier on. I think that is probably the biggest driver. Just from an overall golf standpoint, though, you know, we think about the majors, we think about these golf, you know, we'll just go with the majors. For the most part, we're switching courses every year. This is the one course that is the same every single year. We know how difficult it is with the lottery to get tickets.

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Michael Shelton: I think… I don't know if they had all this in mind, we'll say 20 years ago, but it's like, over the course of time with the new technology and how sports have evolved, I think early on, they realized what they had, and almost the more they limited it.

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Michael Shelton: you know, they're… they're public entities, they… they receive tax breaks and things like that, whereas Augusta truly is a private institution, so they don't have to be… they don't have to tell you what they're spending, they can do all these things kind of behind the scenes that a lot of other clubs cannot.

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Michael Shelton: But just that exclusiveness of it, the fact that, you know, look at the courses we played before, we've gone to Sawgrass and played there, and that's kind of the allure to play those. We know, for the most part, we're probably not playing

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Michael Shelton: Augusta anytime soon. And I think they kind of play on it, and I think they do it… they've done a great job. I mean, you think of the big brands out there, like the NFL, how well they do to protect that logo. The Masters pretty much has probably done that

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Michael Shelton: 10 times better than the NFL.

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Jesse Stakes: 100%.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I mean, obviously, the one word, like you guys already mentioned, you talk about is exclusive.

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Mike Padron: And I think what also drives it is…

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Mike Padron: major tournament of the year, it is the first major tournament, as referring to the players, which I have a soft spot in my heart for. You know, it is also the beginning of the major season, so that also has something going for it. It is, like Shelton mentioned, the

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Mike Padron: is very exclusive, you can't ever get on there. You can be in the lottery for 20 years to try to get tickets, and you're never gonna get in. And you could go another 20 years from now, 40 years into it, you're never gonna get… you're still not gonna get a practice round.

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Mike Padron: And then another thing, they do so well in just the branding of it. Look, I'm not even wearing Masters clothes, and I am covered in the green, the azaleas, and in every single

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Mike Padron: golf brand. I mean, the title is green. Today, Lab Golf, which I'm a huge lab guy for putters.

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Mike Padron: just came out with their Lab Putters Masters Edition for $1,700 for just a putter. I mean, so they're… they're profiting off just…

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Mike Padron: the colors of the Masters. I mean, think about just… they're not… there's nothing on there that says Masters, or anything like that. It's just a green and gold on there, and they're selling it for $1,750, and I guarantee if I go on there right now, they're probably all already sold out.

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Wes Altice: Oh, they were gone under an hour.

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Michael Shelton: How many did you buy, Madrone?

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Mike Padron: God, no question.

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Mike Padron: I did buy a head cover, though, but…

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Mike Padron: I did buy a head cover. But…

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Mike Padron: It's just… it's not only that, it's the branding, just, like, if you see an Azalea, what's the very first thing you think of? You think of the Masters. You see green. I mean, it's just, well, that must be a Master. Like, I… you know, it's just… they've done such a good job with it, of just the marketing side of it, that has nothing to do with the Masters, but you just think of it, and it's…

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Mike Padron: It's… it's crazy, a place that we've never been to, and we may never, ever get to go to. Hopefully one day, but…

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Mike Padron: Well, we, sorry.

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Mike Padron: Sorry, goose. Sorry, goose.

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Jesse Stakes: Stay awesome.

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Mike Padron: I haven't been to.

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Jesse Stakes: AI Padron.

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Mike Padron: I've never been to.

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Mike Padron: I'm…

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Blakely: Didn't get them.

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Blakely: Yeah, but…

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Mike Padron: We've got green Jordans, that's the closest I'm gonna get. I have, with the green swoosh on them, that's my, that's my Master's edition.

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Jesse Stakes: You bring up a good point, Blakely, I mean, like, all of these brands, and I know you said the same thing, Padron, but it's like, all these brands, like, take advantage of the fact that, like, you don't even have to put a logo on it anymore, you just have to use the colors. Yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: you just have to have that pine green, and it's… and people know what it is, white and pine green, and if you throw a little yellow in there, somebody's thinking Masters.

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Blakely: Hell yeah.

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Wes Altice: 100%. All day, every day.

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Michael Shelton: I also love the fact, like I said, I don't have to have the sound on, but all of a sudden, they show that little clip of the car or the drone going down Magnolia Lane, and you start hearing the Master's theme in the background. You all know it. And then Jim Nance, hello friends.

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Michael Shelton: all the terminology, they just do things so differently up there, and it's… it's… I cannot wait.

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Blakely: They do everything… Perfectly.

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Blakely: But everybody can make mistakes, right? Yeah, I'm from Georgia. I love the Masters. My family is from Augusta. I spent plenty of summers there growing up. Augusta is not the Masters, okay? That place completely changes that week.

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Blakely: it's, you know, it's… it's… Augusta proper doesn't have that country club feel, like the Masters does, but…

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Blakely: Last year, When they changed the, the theme song, from Ray Charles?

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Blakely: But I can't get down with that.

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Blakely: We need to change that back immediately.

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Jesse Stakes: So, you tell… I mean, you bring up a really good point, because, I mean, you think about it, the Masters is in Augusta every single year.

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Jesse Stakes: I would think, with as much golf tourism that exists, and I mean, you're in a… you're in a hotbed for it. When you look south of Augusta to, you know, to Florida, or to other parts of Georgia, or north into the Carolinas, you've got… you've got tourism out the wazoo, everywhere. I mean, hell, go to Alabama, to the… to the west.

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Jesse Stakes: And it's like, you've got probably one of the, like, the most recognizable flags, or the most recognizable logos.

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Jesse Stakes: And it's… like, how has nobody developed Augusta, Georgia, which, to your point, is not necessarily… it doesn't look like the Masters. I've been in that town multiple times. It's… like, it could… it could use a facelift, it could use a shot in the arm.

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Jesse Stakes: From people who would inject some funding into it, and it would probably help the citizens out a lot, too, if you put a lot of great jobs there.

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Blakely: Yeah, 100%. I mean, it was, at one time, the capital of Georgia was the second largest city, might still be the second largest city in Georgia. But it…

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Blakely: to your point, there are a lot of good golf courses there. Tiger, the elephant in the room, actually just helped revamp a course. I think it existed.

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Blakely: to the 50s or 60s, yeah, the patch. And it looks really nice now. So, I mean, people are doing some things, but yeah, it's not as much as what could be done, considering it's the home of one of the most famous golf tournaments, in my opinion, the most famous golf tournament in the world. Yeah, no doubt.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt. You know, it's funny, like, one of the things that I kind of… I wrote down as notes for myself, even, with this, is, like, it's scarcity economics, is what I think that the Masters does so well. They've got, I mean.

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Jesse Stakes: they've made tickets, like, famously hard to get, to your point, like, when you're talking about it, Padron, as far as, like, for just practice round tickets, people join a lottery every single year, and they wait for that, you know, that email to come to them and say, sorry, try again next year, or, you know, congratulations. You have won the opportunity to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on buying practice.

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Wes Altice: Practice round tickets.

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Wes Altice: And I'll do it! And I'll do it every time!

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Jesse Stakes: Every single time, I will go. The other part of it is, like you said, merchandise. You can't… I mean.

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Jesse Stakes: And like you said, there's a secondary market for it, like, you can find some stuff.

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Jesse Stakes: But the reality of it is, is that the majority of the stuff that's sold in Augusta at the Masters, you're not gonna find anywhere else. You might find some knock-off stuff, you might find some other things, but there's a whole market where people go in there, buy as much as they can, and they're out selling it online the next, you know, the next day, when they get out of there.

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Jesse Stakes: And then the… one of the other things I put down, and just as a reminder to myself, because it was like, it's such a cool thing.

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Jesse Stakes: the concessions are cheap. Like, when you walk… when you go on the grounds, I mean, you're spending 4 bucks for a beer still. You're spending a couple dollars for a pimento and cheese sandwich. Like, you're… you're buying an ice cream, a peach ice cream and sugar cookie ice cream sandwich for, you know, for less than $5.

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Jesse Stakes: Where you go to the players, you go to any of these other sporting events, and it's $18 for a beer, and if you bring a family up there to buy something, you're not getting out of there for less than a C-note.

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Wes Altice: Correct.

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Mike Padron: I saw you can buy the whole menu for $72, I think somebody said.

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Jesse Stakes: I've done it.

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Jesse Stakes: That and a stack of beer cups!

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Wes Altice: Guilty.

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Wes Altice: Guilty, guilty, guilty.

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Jesse Stakes: So, but one of the things… like, where it kind of takes me is, like.

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Jesse Stakes: The operational excellence that they have

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Jesse Stakes: at Augusta National, and the way that they run, not just the golf tournament, but the way that they maintain the golf course, to me, is… it's second to none. I mean, like, in my mind, like, historically, I always… it made me think of Disney World. Like, I thought of, like, it's Disney World for golfers, is what I always kind of said, but I mean, like, it's…

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Jesse Stakes: You want to talk about technological advances? Like, for something that looks so traditional.

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Jesse Stakes: They really… there's… there's a lot of technology packed underneath that hood for something that looks like kind of an old classic car. Yes? Wes?

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Wes Altice: Yeah, there is… so much technology going to all of those grounds, it's unbelievable. I mean.

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Wes Altice: just the tunnel systems they have now, not sure…

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Wes Altice: A lot of people know this, and it's been coming to light recently, but…

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Wes Altice: they… the players now can literally drive into Augusta National, go into a tunnel, take an elevator up to the player locker room, and go out to the range. They don't have to go…

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Wes Altice: anywhere else. They don't even have to see a spectator or a patron.

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Wes Altice: Until they want to, until they get on the grounds, but…

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Wes Altice: just the sub-air system, how they can control how much water gets in there. I mean, they have different sized

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Wes Altice: divot cutters. So different shapes of divot covers that they can go into their nursery, get that, go back onto the grounds, and almost match the divot patterns

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Wes Altice: Exactly.

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Wes Altice: I remember when I went.

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Wes Altice: On number 12, there was a guy, literally, guy would hit a shot, he would literally run, grab the divot, put it in a bucket.

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Wes Altice: And wait for the group to finish, and then replace the debits.

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Wes Altice: Like, no… and I'm talking, like, even a little speck of the divot, he was picking up. Like, there was no excess of dirt anywhere. They picked it up between every single group, and that right there just said enough to me. I'm like, okay, these guys don't miss a beat on anything.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt. Blakely, you've been out there, right?

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: So, what was… what was it that stuck out to you?

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Blakely: I mean, like… like Wes was saying, the whole place is just pristine. Like, on the course, it's just pristine. And I know they had that whole thing talking about mud balls, I mean, it is a soft place and everything, but when you're walking around, watching them hit the shots, the…

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Blakely: the…

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Blakely: not the rough, I guess, but the first cut, you know, looks like the putting greens of some of these places we go to, you know? I just couldn't get over how every blade of grass is just in the right place.

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Jesse Stakes: 100%.

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Blakely: And then you come back the next day, and it looks the same, you know? It's like, didn't we just play golf here? Someone was, actually talking to me, I don't know where we were, but they were like, man.

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Blakely: they're letting the amateurs play on Saturday, they're gonna mess the course up.

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Blakely: They would need a nuclear bomb, you know?

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Blakely: In order to mess this course up, they're gonna have this thing fixed in a matter of hours.

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Jesse Stakes: Oh, God.

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Jesse Stakes: I'll tell you the most impressive thing to me, like, when I've been on the grounds, is the bathrooms. Like, I mean, anybody who goes to sporting events knows how dirty bathrooms can get at a sporting event, and the fact that after every time you came out of a stall, there was somebody cleaning

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Jesse Stakes: The bathroom, like, cleaning the toilet immediately, right behind you, was… that was one of the most amazing things that I've ever seen.

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Wes Altice: Yeah, I think, and just to piggyback on that, even if when you're walking around the grounds.

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Wes Altice: the TV stands, the concession stands, the bathrooms, they're so camouflaged.

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Blakely: Oh, yeah.

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Wes Altice: almost don't know they're there. Like, you literally have to be on top of it, and know where you're going for some of the bathrooms, because I walked up, and I'm like, holy crap, where'd this come from? Like, it is wild. So, sorry, go ahead.

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Jesse Stakes: No, you're completely good. Shelton, what… No.

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Michael Shelton: I agree that they're… I mean, they're just on a whole other level than a lot of other places. Again, sawgrass is going to be near and dear to most of our hearts here, but…

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Michael Shelton: I was watching the drive chip and putt this weekend. I watched some of the Augusta Women's amateur there, and…

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Michael Shelton: They were doing some just live coverage before there, and they were doing little drone shots of each hole.

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Michael Shelton: And this was live camera, TV, blah blah blah.

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Michael Shelton: AI could not have made a better-looking picture than what it looked like in reality. I mean, you just look at the bunkers, I mean, it almost looks like there's not even a single grain of sand that is sitting out there. It's unlike anything else, any other golf course I've ever seen. And granted, these are holes they're not playing on. This is all getting ready for that, but…

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Michael Shelton: it is just amazing what they do, and I know, I think, I was reading about the staff they have, how many volunteers they have. I think going back to that exclusivity of it, is the people that go there and work this event.

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Michael Shelton: they feel that obligation to do so. They're honored to be there, and they want it to be that exact event, going to fill… the guy who went out to fill out the divots, like, you know, I would think in another course, I could have my son go out there and do that. They take pride in that, that whenever they walk away, you can tell that didn't happen, that…

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Michael Shelton: I mean, there was no grass missing. But just the picture of it, you could not have made a better

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Michael Shelton: AI-generated picture of what that drone showed flowing into the… I think it was the 17th green.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, no doubt. It's interesting you said that, because when I was up there for a practice round, I had asked one of the volunteers, I'm like, how do you get to be a volunteer here? And he kind of laughed, and he goes, well, my grandfather was a volunteer, my father was a volunteer, and now I'm a volunteer, and they passed it down generation to generation.

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Jesse Stakes: And it really was almost a birthright. It was something that they felt incredibly fortunate to be a part of, so…

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Blakely: And you know, those… some of those… sorry to cut you off, but some of those volunteers get to play.

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Jesse Stakes: They get to play one day. They give them one day on the course, and if it rains, or if, for whatever reason, if an act of God happens, and that day gets canceled, they do not reschedule it.

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Blakely: Do not respect.

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Wes Altice: Nope.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah. Padron, I know that you haven't been out there, and I know that you haven't had the opportunity to be on the grounds and walk around Augusta National and go see the Masters yourself.

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Jesse Stakes: But as a person who has watched it on television for many years, what is it to you that stands out?

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Mike Padron: Jealousy.

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Wes Altice: Yeah, that was beautiful.

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Mike Padron: I love the three of you.

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Mike Padron: I mean, on video games, I've walked the grounds plenty.

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I mean, and they probably, like Shelton said, the video game probably doesn't even do it justice.

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Mike Padron: No, like, it looks fake. Like, even looking at it, like, I have… I have on the TV on here, I have live from, and it's on basically this entire week, it doesn't leave my office. But it looks fake, and I, like, the closest thing that I can relate to it is the players and walking around, and those grounds, to me, look like…

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Mike Padron: outstanding, and, like, I went this year, my brother-in-law and my sister went with us to the players, and they hadn't been to the players, and…

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Mike Padron: 20 years, 20-plus years, and they were walking around those grounds, and I'm telling them, like, can't you believe this? And they had been to the Masters a few years ago, and they're like.

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Mike Padron: you gotta go to Augusta. And they're like, this… this is amazing, like, yes, I agree with you, but you… it… you just… I can't describe it. It's like, it's just… you just can't.

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Jesse Stakes: When Tiger and TGO cut you your check for your putting winners, take it and buy a ticket.

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Mike Padron: Shoot, it's free money.

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Mike Padron: I mean, I… yeah, I can't… I mean, I guarantee that the putting green is probably less manicured at TGL than it is probably at

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Mike Padron: Costa.

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Wes Altice: There's no debating that. I'll put money that is the case.

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Mike Padron: And it's fake.

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Wes Altice: And it's fake, yeah, that's the wild part.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, so to kind of round this off, and like, I'm gonna throw it around to everybody, but Blankly, what are you most excited about watching this year? Like, in the 2026 Masters, what's exciting to you?

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Blakely: Well, I mean, I guess I'm kind of excited that it seems like anybody can kind of get out there and win it right now. There's a couple of people that are a little hot on tour right now, but…

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Blakely: Obviously, when you think about it, it's like, well, Scottie Scheffler is the best guy out there. He's gonna win it. But he hasn't really been winning anything right now, but he's always in there. Cam Young looks good. He's coming off of a win at a pretty good event, you know, most of us would say.

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Blakely: Then you have people, who just always do well at the Masters. Like, Rose is always up there, Shoffley's always up there. It just, right now, I can't pick

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Blakely: a winner, so I feel like anybody could do it. So that's what's really most exciting.

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Blakely: Well, you saw what happened last year, right? That's what's most exciting about it to me, aside from just the basic fact that the Masters are coming on this week. And I just, I mean, I get really pumped for that.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt. Padram, what are you most excited about?

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Mike Padron: Yeah, I mean, I was… I would have said the exact same thing when you first asked that question, because this year, I'm doing… actually, Mikael got me to join this little one-and-done thing.

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Mike Padron: And it's every week in the PGA Tour, and I didn't realize Just doing this thing…

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Mike Padron: How, like, just how much parody there's been this year.

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Wes Altice: season.

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Mike Padron: in… in the tour, and it's crazy the different names that are in there every week, and I just… the people that are just hot right now, and the big names aren't really…

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Mike Padron: there right now, going into the Masters, where normally somebody is standing out. I mean, you got… Fitzy's been playing very well. Like he said, Cam Young's playing well. I mean, Scheffler is the odds-on favorite, but he's not…

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Mike Padron: he hasn't been… well, he hasn't been playing well, but if you look at his finishes, his worst finish is, like, T20 or something. So it's like, for him, it's not well, but it's like, yeah, but for anybody else, they take that any day of the week. Or, you know, so it's like…

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Mike Padron: it's just… you don't know what's gonna happen, and I think that's what's most exciting about the Masters. And you've got these guys that are just built for the course and always do well. The Justin Roses, like he said, that are always there.

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Mike Padron: The Shoffleys, the Hatons that are always playing well, Patrick Reed is always up in the top 10 in this, and then you got the Liv guys, I already mentioned Hatton, but DeChambeau and, and Rahm that are always playing well this course.

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Mike Padron: You know, Kep goes in majors, it's just…

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Mike Padron: you just never know what's gonna happen, and what's, you know, what's going on on Thursday and Friday is gonna be completely different than Saturday and Sunday sometimes, and somebody's just gonna come out of nowhere.

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Mike Padron: And I think that's… for some reason, this tournament always lends itself to that. It's always tight enough to where somebody just makes a run. And I think it just makes it different than any other tournament for me.

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Jesse Stakes: No doubt. Sheldon, what about you?

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Michael Shelton: I think the parody being a little more open than I feel like historically it has been. I'm not going to mention a lot of those names. I do think, obviously, last year was historic, Rory completing the Career Grand Slam. I'm curious to see how he comes up and follows that.

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Michael Shelton: There was a big winner on the PGA Tour last week, who I think is now in the Masters, who would be very interesting to see how Gary Woodland comes out and plays.

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Michael Shelton: The Liv guys, if you look at the odds for this tournament, two of the top four are Liv, and DeChambeau and John Rahm. And then again, you mentioned Brooks being back. There's too many things right now, I'm just really excited to get out there and see that first tee shot on Thursday.

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Michael Shelton: there's not one particular thing, I'm just ready for it all. I love this… these four days.

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Jesse Stakes: Wes?

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Wes Altice: Jordan Spieth, actually. Alright. I'm kind of interested to see what he does, because he's been playing some pretty quiet, good golf. The putter hasn't quite been there.

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Wes Altice: But…

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Wes Altice: since there isn't, like, you know, Scotty, you know, isn't doing Scotty things, is this kind of, like, a little…

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Wes Altice: Welcome back to Augusta, Jordan Speed. So, I'm… I'm interested, I'm kind of pumped to see what he does this week. That's my…

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Wes Altice: probably the thing I'm the most excited about, because I would like to see him on some more leaderboards and bring back that old fire.

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Wes Altice: But again, man, it's Masters Week, let's go.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah.

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Wes Altice: I love this week.

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Jesse Stakes: Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, for me, I'm… I mean, not that I didn't enjoy doing it and watching it all together last year, because we did 10 Cup on the weekend of the Masters, but I'll be excited just to kind of park it and watch the golf.

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Jesse Stakes: Because I felt like last year I didn't get to… didn't watch a ton of it, in comparison to what I normally do, so I'll be excited just to… just to kind of… to veg out in front of the television and enjoy the coverage, like you guys said.

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Jesse Stakes: Alright, Mike, I'm gonna flip it over to you so you can run through our picks for the weekend. Or for the week.

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Mike Padron: Well, it's gonna be just like last year, except hopefully the finishes is different, because… I came in last.

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Mike Padron: Alright, so we're gonna go in reverse order from the way we finished last year, so I'll be… I'll be going first.

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Jesse Stakes: Who came in first? I just was… I just was kind of curious. Who actually won last year?

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Mike Padron: That doesn't matter.

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Michael Shelton: Seriously as…

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Blakely: Yeah.

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Mike Padron: Jesse, Jesse and Wes, Jesse by a whisker over Wes.

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Jesse Stakes: That's true.

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Mike Padron: Blakely came in third, Shelton fourth, I came in last. So we're gonna go reverse, and then we'll snake it. So Jesse, when it comes to you, you'll have back-to-back picks for this week, and then back through, and I'll have the last pick.

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Michael Shelton: They should have relegated the 5th place person last year.

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Wes Altice: Just to double check, we can't pick the same person once we pick them once, correct? Sure, yeah.

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Jesse Stakes: Did you pick the same person twice?

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Wes Altice: No, like, throughout the whole major city.

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Mike Padron: Right. So once, let's say, you know, whatever, I'm gonna…

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Mike Padron: Yes, once you pick somebody for the Masters, they're done for all the majors. You're done for the season.

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Wes Altice: For you as the individual. Got it.

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Mike Padron: Correct.

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Mike Padron: Alright. What's crazy… what's crazy about my first pick is I've… I'm calling it a risk.

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Mike Padron: But… it shouldn't be. But I'm going with Scottie Scheffler. I just think these… I think this little time off…

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Mike Padron: Although it wasn't… it was, you know.

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Mike Padron: His wife's time off for him.

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Mike Padron: I think it's gonna do him well, and he's gonna come out and play some good golf. I don't know if he's gonna win at all, but he's gonna… I think he'll do a, you know.

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Mike Padron: Top 5, top 8, and win me some money this week.

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Mike Padron: Alright, Sheldon, your pick.

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Michael Shelton: I think I had him last year, and he's played very well, just hasn't seemed… he puts himself in contention and hasn't been able to close that out, but again.

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Michael Shelton: His swing, I think, is probably the best on tour. Ludwig Oberden.

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Mike Padron: Hmm, I love it.

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Blakely: I like that one, because he was on my list of people to pick.

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Mike Padron: Uberg.

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Mike Padron: Alright.

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Blakely: And…

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Mike Padron: I've already got Cam Smith penciled in for you.

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00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:21.670
Blakely: Yeah, I was gonna say, you can take solace in the fact that I picked Cam Smith last year, and I still finished third.

457
00:49:22.740 --> 00:49:23.360
Wes Altice: Other than that.

458
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:28.090
Blakely: I still stand by my reasoning for that.

459
00:49:29.090 --> 00:49:30.200
Michael Shelton: Pick him again, Blakely.

460
00:49:30.200 --> 00:49:33.840
Blakely: You know, sometimes it doesn't happen. I'm gonna go with Rosie.

461
00:49:36.850 --> 00:49:41.710
Mike Padron: I love it. That's my one and done, by the way, this week on that one league I was telling you about.

462
00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:44.300
Mike Padron: I'm going… I'm going against the, the…

463
00:49:44.750 --> 00:49:47.570
Mike Padron: I'm trying to get somebody that not everybody's picking.

464
00:49:47.870 --> 00:49:53.029
Mike Padron: So… Rose for Blake Lee. I'll just…

465
00:49:53.910 --> 00:49:57.039
Wes Altice: I'm gonna go ahead and take the first lib guy, wrong.

466
00:49:58.530 --> 00:49:59.340
Mike Padron: Love it.

467
00:50:03.370 --> 00:50:05.849
Mike Padron: Alright, Jesse, back-to-back picks.

468
00:50:05.850 --> 00:50:09.210
Jesse Stakes: Alright, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna do Bryson.

469
00:50:10.680 --> 00:50:13.970
Mike Padron: I already started typing… I already started writing it before I even said your name.

470
00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:21.960
Jesse Stakes: And then, I'm going to take… Matt Fitzpatrick.

471
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:22.540
Mike Padron: Hmm.

472
00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.160
Wes Altice: You son of a bitch.

473
00:50:25.160 --> 00:50:25.870
Mike Padron: Yeah.

474
00:50:25.870 --> 00:50:27.559
Wes Altice: That was my… that was the second one.

475
00:50:28.130 --> 00:50:30.120
Mike Padron: I like him, I like him a lot this week.

476
00:50:30.120 --> 00:50:31.720
Wes Altice: Dammit, do it, dammit!

477
00:50:31.720 --> 00:50:33.330
Mike Padron: Ever since he lost the braces.

478
00:50:33.830 --> 00:50:34.150
Wes Altice: Yeah.

479
00:50:34.150 --> 00:50:34.860
Mike Padron: really good.

480
00:50:36.300 --> 00:50:42.440
Wes Altice: Oh, boy. Let's see, I… You know what?

481
00:50:42.730 --> 00:50:47.869
Wes Altice: I'm gonna put my faith into Mr. Xander Schauffleck.

482
00:50:52.990 --> 00:50:58.109
Blakely: Well, I'll probably get some shit for this, but I'm gonna go with Matsuyama.

483
00:50:58.110 --> 00:51:00.190
Wes Altice: I, I don't hate that.

484
00:51:00.900 --> 00:51:03.570
Blakely: I wanted to pick Xander Sharpton, but you just took him.

485
00:51:03.570 --> 00:51:05.580
Wes Altice: I don't hate that.

486
00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:10.289
Mike Padron: You guys are killing me. My last pick might take me a little bit. You guys are killing me right now.

487
00:51:16.170 --> 00:51:21.190
Michael Shelton: I like how we're saying good picks, but all these are the top 10 favorites to win.

488
00:51:21.190 --> 00:51:21.800
Wes Altice: I mean…

489
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:22.750
Michael Shelton: Yeah, I mean…

490
00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:27.129
Blakely: There's only 5 of us, and you get two apiece, right? So…

491
00:51:27.130 --> 00:51:29.280
Michael Shelton: I think the lowest right now is…

492
00:51:29.570 --> 00:51:32.439
Michael Shelton: Rose is down there, I guess, but…

493
00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.199
Blakely: You're only gonna be picking 8 people.

494
00:51:36.390 --> 00:51:37.540
Blakely: A year.

495
00:51:37.710 --> 00:51:41.330
Jesse Stakes: And you're going for the best finishes, so it's… so you're really…

496
00:51:41.860 --> 00:51:46.390
Jesse Stakes: They try to pick someone who's a way… who's kind of a way-out thought, it really kind of hurts you if they…

497
00:51:46.390 --> 00:51:51.069
Blakely: Yeah. Unless you think you're really gonna win, you're gaining nothing, you know? Correct, yeah.

498
00:51:51.070 --> 00:51:51.480
Michael Shelton: auto.

499
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:52.940
Blakely: Spread, there's no…

500
00:51:53.350 --> 00:51:55.610
Mike Padron: Alright, Shelton, who you teaming up with, Oberg?

501
00:51:56.600 --> 00:52:10.140
Michael Shelton: I'm going to go… this guy breaks my heart so many times in life, so he probably will again this year for this. He doesn't give… he doesn't break my heart because I pick him, he picks because someone else has him, but Tommy Fleetwood.

502
00:52:10.720 --> 00:52:11.250
Mike Padron: Tommy.

503
00:52:11.250 --> 00:52:12.240
Wes Altice: I'll be…

504
00:52:13.580 --> 00:52:14.809
Jesse Stakes: Be a feel-good one.

505
00:52:15.560 --> 00:52:16.250
Wes Altice: Yes.

506
00:52:17.140 --> 00:52:21.160
Mike Padron: Alright, only because I'm gonna go with a horse for the course.

507
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:25.009
Mike Padron: I am gonna go with Captain America.

508
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:27.150
Wes Altice: Patrick.

509
00:52:27.450 --> 00:52:28.010
Mike Padron: Agreed.

510
00:52:28.010 --> 00:52:28.680
Wes Altice: Indeed.

511
00:52:28.680 --> 00:52:29.660
Jesse Stakes: I like it.

512
00:52:29.900 --> 00:52:33.269
Michael Shelton: Like, would you talk to them recently? They're buddy-buddy from back in the day.

513
00:52:33.270 --> 00:52:35.910
Blakely: He spent some time in Augusta.

514
00:52:35.910 --> 00:52:36.370
Wes Altice: You should…

515
00:52:36.370 --> 00:52:41.189
Mike Padron: Only because I don't… only see because I don't see him… I don't see myself picking him again the rest of the year, so…

516
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:43.750
Jesse Stakes: Not unless you want.

517
00:52:43.750 --> 00:52:45.240
Mike Padron: Alright, so we got…

518
00:52:45.910 --> 00:52:58.150
Mike Padron: Yep, it's true. Padron with us, Scheffler Reed, Shelton, Oberg in Fleetwood, Blakely Rose in Matsuyama, Altus Rahm and Shafleil Stakes.

519
00:52:58.370 --> 00:53:01.320
Mike Padron: DeChambeau and Fitzpatrick.

520
00:53:02.430 --> 00:53:05.430
Mike Padron: And not Matthew Fitzpatrick, it's the brother, right?

521
00:53:05.550 --> 00:53:08.349
Jesse Stakes: Yeah, sure. I don't think he made the field.

522
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:12.059
Blakely: We're doing this off a money one, correct?

523
00:53:12.060 --> 00:53:13.889
Mike Padron: Money won in the tournament, yes sir.

524
00:53:14.190 --> 00:53:15.350
Blakely: There we go.

525
00:53:16.040 --> 00:53:20.749
Mike Padron: And I'm gonna create a FanDuel lineup out of these, too. Nice. Just win my own money.

526
00:53:20.750 --> 00:53:24.299
Wes Altice: Interesting, no one taken the defending champ.

527
00:53:25.780 --> 00:53:28.079
Blakely: He's gonna be on a hangover.

528
00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:30.660
Mike Padron: You gotta save some, you gotta save a big guy for later.

529
00:53:33.110 --> 00:53:37.989
Mike Padron: I mean, Scheffler… Scheffler… I could have gone Scheffler-Rory there, it would have been… would have been a nice little one, too, but…

530
00:53:38.620 --> 00:53:44.660
Wes Altice: I mean, I'm sure all of us are gonna probably have Sheffler in our lineup if we're pickings. Oh, yeah.

531
00:53:44.660 --> 00:53:45.420
Mike Padron: That's true.

532
00:53:46.650 --> 00:53:58.790
Jesse Stakes: So I don't know if they still have it, they have a… yeah, they do. They have a parlay right now for Bryson DeChambeau, top American, Jon Rahm, top European, and Roy McIlroy, top UK or Irish player. And it's… it's…

533
00:53:58.930 --> 00:54:04.640
Jesse Stakes: plus, $13,900, so 10 bucks will get you a $1,400 payout. I mean…

534
00:54:04.640 --> 00:54:05.040
Mike Padron: the…

535
00:54:05.300 --> 00:54:08.010
Jesse Stakes: It's not a bad, not a bad…

536
00:54:08.010 --> 00:54:08.809
Blakely: I think I might…

537
00:54:08.810 --> 00:54:09.130
Michael Shelton: No.

538
00:54:09.130 --> 00:54:10.409
Blakely: Clip in on that.

539
00:54:10.410 --> 00:54:10.980
Jesse Stakes: for 10 bucks.

540
00:54:10.980 --> 00:54:14.580
Mike Padron: Is that a… is that a special on Hard Rock?

541
00:54:14.980 --> 00:54:18.399
Jesse Stakes: It's one of their parlays that they have out there. I mean, it's a long shot, but it's, I mean.

542
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.420
Mike Padron: Oh, I see. It's one of the exclusives.

543
00:54:20.420 --> 00:54:21.020
Jesse Stakes: Yeah.

544
00:54:21.690 --> 00:54:23.159
Mike Padron: Alright, I'm all in on that.

545
00:54:24.770 --> 00:54:28.300
Mike Padron: I was gonna buy… I was gonna buy a lab putter, but I'm gonna do that instead.

546
00:54:28.850 --> 00:54:33.860
Jesse Stakes: I mean, you only have to… you can take the $10 bet, if you win that, then you can buy a couple of lab putters.

547
00:54:33.860 --> 00:54:34.210
Wes Altice: You're good.

548
00:54:34.210 --> 00:54:34.770
Mike Padron: Perfect.

549
00:54:35.510 --> 00:54:37.120
Wes Altice: Buy one for all of Team Europe.

550
00:54:41.850 --> 00:54:45.579
Jesse Stakes: Alright, boys, it was fun. Nice to get back together, I can't wait to see you guys in a couple weeks.

551
00:54:45.580 --> 00:54:47.250
Blakely: Yeah, coming up soon.

552
00:54:47.250 --> 00:54:47.690
Mike Padron: Alright, man.

553
00:54:47.690 --> 00:54:48.360
Jesse Stakes: Thank you.

554
00:54:48.360 --> 00:54:50.440
Wes Altice: Cannot wait, boys. Cannot wait.

555
00:54:50.700 --> 00:54:51.470
Michael Shelton: Take care, boys.

556
00:54:51.570 --> 00:54:54.050
Jesse Stakes: Blakely I feel sorry for you guys.

557
00:54:54.220 --> 00:54:56.629
Jesse Stakes: But you'll enjoy it, we'll enjoy your company.

558
00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:59.070
Blakely: Oh, whatever, man, fuck y'all.

559
00:55:02.120 --> 00:55:05.450
Jesse Stakes: Alright, catch you guys down the road.

560
00:55:05.450 --> 00:55:05.770
Mike Padron: Guys.

561
00:55:05.770 --> 00:55:06.090
Michael Shelton: Hey, bud.

562
00:55:06.820 --> 00:55:07.490
Wes Altice: See ya.