We’re back and yes… Rory McIlroy won The Masters Tournament again. We spend a good chunk of time soaking that in, breaking down his setup, and asking the important question: did the gear matter or is he just That Guy?
From there we spiral (naturally) into golf ball rollback talk, wedges we probably don’t need, and putter grips we definitely blame for everything.
Then it’s a full Masters recap—who showed up, who absolutely didn’t, what surprised us, and which holes we’d personally ruin our scorecards on. We talk course difficulty, favorite moments, and make a few “we definitely called this” claims that may or may not hold up under scrutiny.
We also get into some recent gear buys (questionable), shout out our friends over at Fairway Times Podcast, lock in our one-and-done picks, and finish things off with a little trivia chaos.
Transcript
Dominic Colangelo: He knows it doesn't matter what's under a hood. The only thing that matters is who's behind the wheel. He knows it doesn't matter what's under a hood. The only thing that matters is who's behind the wheel. When I'm washing it, I don't stick to it. But again, with the driver right now, the driver sucks. I tried to activate my glutes as best I could. Now watch this drive. When I'm washing it, I don't stick to it. But again, with the driver right now, the driver sucks. I tried to activate my glutes as best I could. Now watch this drive. Hello and welcome back to Under the Covers, baby. It is Masters week and Rory has won another championship at Augusta. Massive news. Matt, Tell me about it a little bit.
Matthew Zampello: Dominic, how's it going buddy? I am fantastic. ⁓ Rory Daniel McIlroy, he's my hero. ⁓ Unfortunately on a personal note, my putter woes have crept into my full swing game and I'm just playing terribly right for the start of peak golf season here in Texas. So unfortunate times down here in the Big D, but.
Dominic Colangelo: You You really hate to hear it. You really do. But we also have Kevin here. How we doing, Kevin?
Kevin Spisak: What's up? I'm very happy that Patrick Reed didn't come anywhere close to winning the Masters. That's probably even bigger than Rory winning. ⁓ But like Matt's experimenting with some putters, I'm experimenting with the little iron set. put, it's a UST, UST recoil prototype 125s. in my old Mizuno 223s went and hit them. They are pretty nice. Yeah, I'm conflicted on if they're going to replace my 925 Forged now.
Dominic Colangelo: you did like them? They look sweet. What do you think the biggest difference is on those?
Kevin Spisak: They seem like they're flying the same distance but a lot higher. So that'd be pretty sweet for some stopping power on the long clubs.
Dominic Colangelo: You can already hit it pretty high though. So it goes even higher than normal.
Kevin Spisak: Yep, yep. I think they, for like the five, six, seven, I think it'd be pretty nice. more research to be done, but fun first ⁓ testing session here last week.
Dominic Colangelo: Well that'll be fun. Nice, I love it. Well, hey, what a freaking weekend, man. This was some great golf that was played. truly like, I had a great time watching it, I always do. But this one, was, Rory had that six stroke lead at one point, but it was always exciting. I think when Dustin Johnson had that massive lead, everyone's kind of like, all right, when is this over? Like, we get it, he's gonna win. But there was so much back and forth, so many things going on.
Kevin Spisak: Thanks
Matthew Zampello: And was just like, it's so Rory McIlroy, right? Like have a six shot lead, then you're down to zero and then you have a two stroke lead on the 18th tee box and then you blow it further than further right than you can imagine, right? And it's like, ⁓ gosh, Rory, please. He just, he's like the most poetic and great and also bad golfer at the same time. It's just like, it's. It's unbelievable, but he like draws us all in. can't, you can't take your eyes off it when he's on the screen.
Dominic Colangelo: That shot on 18, it was so bad that he somehow had a shot still. And as soon as he did, I was very excited. I didn't really know who to root for in this tournament. There was 10 people I would have been happy to see win. Unfortunately, Hao-Tung Lee, he dropped pretty quickly. ⁓ But two things about that. What is it? okay, my bad. Thank you. Thank you for the correction there. But two things about that. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Thank you.
Matthew Zampello: How tenly. How tenly. His name is How tenly.
Kevin Spisak: Ha ha.
Dominic Colangelo: I didn't see anything about his 10 until you text. And I looked at a score and it just popped up on the screen that he was plus one. Now I'm like, what is going on here? And then with that Rory shot, how did, how did they not follow that ball? Like it was them, him or cam cam young's ball was completely lost for like two minutes. And I was texting all the, know, maybe there's not as many cameras around for the, to kind of follow it and track it. But then after all that, there was literally a bunker cam right next to him, like right in front of him. So how did that bunker cam not catch it? It was very confusing what CBS was doing.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, they had no idea. I feel like what was going on all day. I mean, I felt like I was it was the biggest thing on golf Twitter yesterday was was probably about CBS and the camera work for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, we'll get to more about the tournament in a little bit, but first we have to do something that we all know and love, and that is talk about Rory McElroy. This is his 30th career win and his sixth major win, which is very cool. He joined some pretty cool company. ⁓ Obviously back-to-back Masters wins, fourth to ever do that, alongside Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods, and now Rory's on that list. Some pretty...
Kevin Spisak: you .
Dominic Colangelo: incredible company there and he also passes a couple people in major lists too and I want to say Phil Mickelson has six if I remember correctly but going into his scores he started off with a very hot 67 and it was looking like Rory again and had the lead and then another 65 to get that massive six stroke lead and then two shaky weekend rounds 73
Kevin Spisak: Thank ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: and a 71 to finish at 12 under. So kind of had us like a normal worry round where it's very roller coaster vibes. Don't really know what's going to happen. He seemed like he was under control most shots and then completely lost it in other ones. ⁓ But I think a very important question that we need to ask is what's under the covers? Kevin, why don't you take it from there?
Kevin Spisak: you ⁓ Yeah, so under the covers for Rory, his driver, he's got the QI-4D. ⁓ It's 9 degree but set at 8. ⁓ Fujikura Ventus Black 6X. He's been playing this driver's shaft for quite a while. When I think Ventus Black, I think Rory McElroy for sure. ⁓ He played the QI-10 5-wood in a Ventus black 9x so pretty stout boy there and then he also had a... did he have the QI 4D... no it was the QI 10 3 wood and then QI 4D 5 wood sorry I think I mixed that up but Ventus Black through and through interesting to intermix the QI 10 and the QI 4D in the fairway wood so something he likes about the 5 wood but Three wood is old trusty with the QI10. Yeah, Matt, what do you think of these tailor made woods?
Dominic Colangelo: I want to say, was he one of the first people that was using the Ventus Black or is he maybe the bigger name that started using them? Because I feel like he was kind of up there and that was one of those, whoa, this chap is sick.
Matthew Zampello: He's messed around with Tensai Orange too, if I remember that correctly, back in the day. But I think since Ventus Black has become a popular shaft in the... the tour world, he's pretty much been exclusively Ventus Black for the last few years. ⁓ I mean, he bombs off the tee. I think it's interesting that he put the QI 10 back in play because he was in the QI...
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yep.
Matthew Zampello: for a long long time. ⁓ i'm wondering if he just saw something he liked or maybe for augusta like Because ⁓ augusta you have to hit Like you have to hit cuts off of draw lies a lot is the big thing there And so I wonder if he was like able to cut it more or something like he had something With that specific three or five with that. He really liked where he was like, okay I I I need it to do x y and z and the other one can.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, I saw that his three would you know, it's stock at 15 degrees it was tuned down to 13.75 And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe when you deloft on the shaft adapter, it generally opens the face a little bit. ⁓
Matthew Zampello: believe that's correct. Yeah, de-lofting opens. Yeah, adding loft closes the face.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, so he had it kind of set up for that cut and he could just rip it. Interesting to go to 13.75 there on the three wood. And then his five wood was also de-lofted. So he's setting up cuts. I feel like Rory is kind of that guy that he can hit a draw or a cut at any time on command. And other guys... They're really steady on one, then when they go to the other side, they're super wayward. And I feel like that's been a difference maker for Rory here, winning the last two Masters.
Matthew Zampello: sure.
Dominic Colangelo: thought of the that's a great point that there's a lot of draw lies that they need to hit those cuts that's a very interesting point have you Matt have you ever played any of those courses like ⁓ did you never play an Olympic club in San Francisco right like have you played one of those massively sloped fairway kind of courses
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I mean, the biggest one that comes to mind is Prairie Dunes. Prairie Dunes up in Hutchinson, Kansas is like really super hilly kind of in like these kind of dune dune scapes. Aaron Hills comes to mind of like really sloped fairways and then you have to hit cuts. But I think like the famous shot there, right, is 13. You're on a draw lie like your balls above your feet and you know the preferred shot into that green is a cut. That's the way to get close to that pin. So it makes sense those guys, they bring that for a specific shot. But I mean, I guess when you hit it 350 off the tee and you have eight iron or seven iron into that green, I guess the three wood that you put into play doesn't make that much of a difference.
Kevin Spisak: .
Dominic Colangelo: That's actually brings up a good point. he changed back from the 4D down to the I-10. And then Kevin, did he make any driver changes because that unreal stat where he only hit the fairway once or twice on all the par fives in the entire tournament. Like, did he make any changes on that driver or is that just like a nerby thing?
Kevin Spisak: I don't think so. I think he's been one of the guys this year that has been steady with the QI4D. You know, where Scottie's gone back and forth and some other players have gone back and forth or tried different things. I think Rory's been pretty consistent so far this whole year with the QI4D.
Dominic Colangelo: And then do I see he has a 9X? Is that just the most stiff thing in the world? Is that more than the flagpole?
Kevin Spisak: That would be quite quite stiff. Yeah 8x on the 3 wood 9x on the 5 wood You know heavy and stiff, you know, you got to really crank that thing to get it to flex
Dominic Colangelo: What's the one you let me try? I think it was your bachelor party or mine, but you let me, you were so excited you had the Rory shaft. Which one was that? Was that the 6X?
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm that was the Let's let's see that. I think that was a 6x. Yeah, that would have been Rory shaft the ventus black 6x And then in my 5 wood right now, I've got ⁓ Ventus black 7x
Dominic Colangelo: nice. I remember that thing ripped, but it just, was too much, too far right for me. Cause I wasn't swinging hard enough, but like whenever I caught it, ⁓ two or three times, it just flew forever. It was very fun to watch, but just not for me. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I feel like that's how the Tensei Orange is for me. If I try to take something off of it, I'm not really accurate. I feel like it's so stout that you gotta give it your all on like every swing, you know, unless you've got Rory Speed.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. What about those, what kind of irons is he playing these days?
Kevin Spisak: So his four iron is an older one. It's a tailor-made P760. And then he's got his famous Roar's Proto irons on the five through nine with Project X 7.0s. So let's talk about flag poles there. 7.0 is stiff. The Roar's Proto's are pretty fun. ⁓ They're a muscle back blade, kind of look like the TWs ⁓ or the older style. TaylorMade MBs. ⁓ Every manufacturer has some form of MBs. TaylorMade's current line of the P7 MBs don't really look like this much of a traditional blade. ⁓ But TaylorMade has sold these a few times in the past and we've kind of wondered how much the retail versions would match what Roy's actually playing. ⁓ But as far as you can see, just going off pictures and... Once you hear the Roars Proto, you could buy his exact specs. Just like you could buy ⁓ Tiger Woods. ⁓ Yeah, Matt, what do you think about those blades?
Matthew Zampello: I feel like he's played the 7x since I remember him coming out on tour. Like I feel like when I watched him come out when he was whatever 18 years old and he was like pudgy Rory back in the day, he was still playing. He was still playing those exact same project X 7.0s. ⁓ Yeah, I know he in Australia at the beginning of this year, he or at the end of last year, he toyed around with the ⁓ the cavity backs. ⁓ For a little bit and then he went back to the blades I believe what he said was the cavity backs went to left on him So he would hit it would it would it had more like offset Yeah, and then would draw too much for him. So he he kind of saw the ball falling left and then like that so Interesting he's back in the blades And then again on Saturday his problem was the ball going left ⁓ most most of time so Probably good switch. Yeah, I mean
Kevin Spisak: little more offset.
Matthew Zampello: Such a classic blade player, like he can hit the, he can hit five, four iron as high as he possibly wants to. It doesn't matter. he's like, he just, one of those guys that that's such a good ball striker. And it's crazy to me, like Rory's not that big. Like, I mean, he is strong, but like he's my size. Like he's like five, seven, five, eight or okay. Five, nine. and he like swings 7.0s. That's, that's pretty nuts. Like I, I can't imagine.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, it's 5 9.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ always been that fast and that strong or has his swing speed always, like has it exponentially grew?
Kevin Spisak: His speed is unreal.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, he's always had natural speed, like just, and I think the workout stuff that he's done is more to stay fast as he was when he was like 18 and 20 years old versus like get faster. I would say he's always been, he's always been one of the longest guys on tour since he came out.
Dominic Colangelo: sense he's a little bit like Jose Altuve he uses the the biggest the biggest bat possible but he's the shortest guy out there had to plug the Astros even though they suck
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, just without the cheating though.
Matthew Zampello: It's a great comparison.
Dominic Colangelo: Well, alleged. Amanda. Anyways, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was I was watching this weekend with Blake, and I hope he's listening. He was like, such a Rory hater because of the Amanda thing. And I was like, Do even know that it's real? He's like, Well, yeah, saw. Yeah, like, I saw a post about it. And I was like, Did you read into it?
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ you're bad. You're bad. Yeah. What do you read one from the Daily Mail?
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, I can, I can pair it to the daily bill. I was saying it's, it's like the, ⁓ the coach of Rable thing with that one girl where it's like, you take, yeah, you take, you take a picture of eight people doing this one thing and then you zoom in on them too. And it's like, ⁓ they must be cheating. They're next to each other. Like, come on.
Kevin Spisak: with Bruceini.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ Diana Rossini. Yeah. Except for Jimmy Buckets and that one girl, they were actually sleeping together, but that's all enough.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah, for sure, for sure, So let's get into these wedges.
Kevin Spisak: So wedges, he's got pitching wedge through 60, Taylor made MG5, so 46 degree, 50 degree, 54 degree, and then 60. ⁓ I won't make an error and say that a four degree gap is a six degree gap this week, or vice versa. So four degrees between 46 50 and 54 then a six degree gap between 54 and 60 and his 60 actually has a stamp on it that says 61 So he's playing it bent to 61 get a little extra degree aloft there Wow, but mg5 milled You know Taylor made has been doing that on some of their wedges and also I don't know if the Roars protos are like this but the TWs, they say milled grind on those irons too so TaylorMade is rocking that and it's a nice look, everyone likes a nice milled finish. But he's got the raw finish on all these, just looks really classic and then he's actually gotten his putter to match in that like raw finish, the raw metal with his Spider Tour X. Yeah, yeah, exactly and then ⁓ yeah, we'll talk about his putter a little more but you know, also removed the alignment, like the stripe. So he's just got the alignment line. It's pretty sweet looking putter.
Dominic Colangelo: We did. Wasn't that Morikawa that did that or who else did that?
Kevin Spisak: They've all kind of changed around like, Tommy Fleetwood has used a couple different alignment lines. Yeah, I Morikawa has as well. They all have some sort of like custom version that they're using.
Matthew Zampello: remember hearing this at one point, I think Rory's story is he gets a fresh 60 degree every week he plays. Yeah. So he has just a fresh lob wedge he can chip with and everything every week. Is that nuts?
Dominic Colangelo: Really? The first time I heard of someone doing that was Justin, no, was JDay. Yeah, it was years ago and he said it, I think it was every four weeks, way back when. That's insane. I was curious about wedges though. So you said it's a 60 degree bent to 61, but they stamped it 61?
Kevin Spisak: It's just like on the back of the club there's a stamp just like Matt does stamping it says 61
Matthew Zampello: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ that's cool. Okay, I like that.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. It's just like a, feel like a lot of guys do that. I don't think he does a ton of stuff on there. I think he just has a little RM stamp on his and then, and then I think the actual lofts that he throws on there, but yeah, I mean with mild grind stuff, they can, what's cool about those is like they can make him the exact same bounce every time because they can save the mild grind inside whatever the machine and it just, it just pops it out the exact same every way. So when they, when they give him a new 60 degree every week, It doesn't feel any different to him every time he goes out.
Dominic Colangelo: Can we get into wedges real quick? Matt and Kevin, want to hear which ones have y'all tried? Matt, are you strictly Vokey or have you tried other wedges? Because I'm kind of feeling certain it may be a tailor-made Cleveland on my next round.
Matthew Zampello: I have never played anything outside of a Vokey Wedge.
Kevin Spisak: Sad. There's some good ones out there. I've tried a little bit of everything. I say that with a heavy preference towards vocies. I don't currently have any, but I like to the ones that I had in the past currently have some TaylorMades. And then I've got my RTXs or is it RTZs.
Dominic Colangelo: Sad.
Matthew Zampello: You
Dominic Colangelo: Tele-cam!
Kevin Spisak: backup new set is waiting for me to get into them here as soon as I feel like I'm losing some spin.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, because I mentioned it before, I tried the ZipCore and I think I really want to try those next. Those things are, they feel nice.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, Cleveland has made some very nice wedges over the years. I think that's like the only thing really keeping that brand alive, you know, where Dunlop hasn't just fully shut them down and gone, you know, all, all streaks on.
Matthew Zampello: You know with the wedges man, I just you know, I fix something that's not broken. You know what I mean?
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's fair.
Kevin Spisak: That's true, but you gotta branch out a little bit.
Dominic Colangelo: Kevin hates that term by the way, cause he will always change until the day he dies. He's gonna flip irons, wedges, putters, whatever until, until, I don't know. I don't even think if it works, you're gonna keep it. You just love trying things and I respect it.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, I have a good time trying things. know, a bunch of my college friends made fun of me so much for having all these different putters and, you know, saying like, that's why I was like bad at putting it's just because I was like, you know, switching them out so much. It's just like, this is like what I like about golf. I like testing stuff. I like trying out new equipment and seeing what works and what doesn't. You know, my PLD that I talk about so much now. is definitely the club I've had the longest in my bag so far. So not really trying to tinker with, you know, the putter itself, but I did just switch out for pretty nasty ostrich leather bett nardi grip on it. It is nice. Yeah, I had the I had the football, football leather super stroke on it, pretty much since I've since I've had it. And then I just switched it.
Dominic Colangelo: Did you really?
Kevin Spisak: Had to spend a little extra money at Bet Nardi for the head cover I wanted ⁓ to get free shipping. So it's just like, this grip is pretty dope. Let's throw it on there.
Matthew Zampello: HATE is gonna come after your ass, Kevin.
Kevin Spisak: that that ostrich was being used for something else. So, you know, being more sustainable.
Dominic Colangelo: Wait, Did you say PETA? PETA?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Is it PETA?
Kevin Spisak: thing is Peter. I had to think about it for a second what you meant.
Matthew Zampello: Sorry, sorry, I was thinking of Hunger Games and I was catnip.
Dominic Colangelo: I know, it's like, I think I know what he's saying. That's fair. Go put yourself as a rock or something. So speaking of putters, I mean, I don't even know if we have to say it. It's just kind of automatic at this point. Another spider has won another golf tournament. What kind of spider does Rory have though?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. Yeah, Spider Tour X short slant neck. So a little bit of toe hang. He's got the regular pure roll insert. ⁓ Black stepless shaft, pretty sweet looking. And then Super Stroke Pistol Tour 1.0 grip. it's this week he switched out the color. I haven't seen him if he's played this grip in the past, ⁓ but it was green like the Masters and had roars written on it. think in the past I had seen them with white and black, ⁓ this one was pretty cool.
Matthew Zampello: He played the writer the European Ryder Cup one for a while. I know that
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right. ⁓ But I read that with the alignment line. So he got rid of the, was it the Vizzi Striper, whatever they call it. ⁓
Matthew Zampello: He had the white one with the black line in the middle.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm, right. That's like what they do on all their spiders now and Apparently he was just like testing some different alignment lines and just thought that that one looked cool Even though he was having success with like the standard white and black line He just thought this one looked better and then switched and you know now has one ⁓ So pretty pretty sweet looking spider I feel like for the non mallet lovers The fact that he's got it more of like in a simple, you know colorway, I think that makes it a little bit more appealing. If you don't love spiders or if you don't love mallets and you're more of a traditionalist, spiders are kind of the way to go and this is maybe a path that could get some blade players to try a mallet.
Dominic Colangelo: What is a pistol grip? I've seen that a few times, but I don't actually, I haven't looked it up yet.
Kevin Spisak: It's like where the far end of the grip is a little bit thicker and like shaped to fit your hand like a pistol would be. Think of like how you'd hold a shotgun or a hammer or an axe. It has that like curvature. then yeah, for a super stroke, they have no taper on the way down to be the same width all the way down, but then the back of it, like where your fingers would go. more like shaped, you so it's more comfortable on your hands.
Dominic Colangelo: Hmm. I might need to try that because I've, I've been using the, the big five, the big boy super stroke for a bit. And I'm curious if that might help. We love a big grip, big and black.
Kevin Spisak: You Yeah. Yeah. I think you would like it. The pistol, it just feels nice in your hands for sure. Your big boy feels nice, but in my opinion that's almost like too thick where you lose some feel in the putter. I think you would like probably like a 2.0 pistol.
Matthew Zampello: The 2.0 pistol works great for my claw.
Dominic Colangelo: Ooh, okay. Why? Just zip.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, and they make a specific claw designed one or the one that Jordan Spieth plays is the 1.0 flat. So that's more of like a pentagon shape. If I end up not liking this ostrich leather, I think I'm going to try that flat. So 1.0.
Dominic Colangelo: You want to emulate Jordan Spieth's putting? You
Kevin Spisak: I just think I think that really like flat top would be nice to feel you know with your thumbs and just give you like a little extra like face awareness.
Dominic Colangelo: I like that. And going back to Rory's fit was pretty cool. Like it was very small details, but the whoop I think was green as well. The, the screw on his, on his Nike, like he had a couple of fun little like, ⁓ there's green. That's cool. It didn't match at all, but it was still fun.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: And then he's playing a TP5, I believe, unless he changed back to the TP5X. What ball is he using?
Kevin Spisak: You got the TP5 and he's got it marked where it says ROARS on it so easily identifiable that it's his ball. ⁓ This was where, I don't know if you remember on TGL, he was picked up on a hot mic talking about his TP5 and someone was like floored that it was the retail version, you know, or maybe it wasn't. We didn't hear the answer to that clarifying question, but Yeah, he's been, TaylorMade has been touting him as the TP5 has cured all of his golf problems and it's the best ball on earth. I'd love to know if it's actually a TP5.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: It's the higher spinning one too, right? He went to the more spinny ball. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, TaylorMade had to be backwards and the TP5X is like the Pro V1. The TP5 is like the Pro V1X.
Dominic Colangelo: Speaking of golf balls, I heard Gary Player talking about the rollback and I don't know, I'm kind of starting to agree with him a little bit. At first I thought it was silly and dumb, but the way he explained it, it's kind of, you know, as a golf purist, was saying was golf was made so you can control the ball and right now it's all about how far you can hit it. So it's almost like, and you're running out of room, you're running out of. ⁓ irrigation, grass, anything like that. So he's saying roll it back, make him hit 60 yards less and make them actually be players again and actually control the ball a little bit. And I was like, ⁓ wow, that is a great point. I didn't even think about how far back they've been having to push these tee boxes too. Matt, do you have any thoughts on that one?
Matthew Zampello: Oh yeah, I mean, I think the chairman of Augusta, he talked about it really well. It kind of said the same things, right? Like most golf courses that aren't Augusta national can't keep up with how far players hit it, right? So, I mean, if you just look at 13, 13 at Augusta has gone from five 10 and now it's like five 55 or something and tucked even more back in that corner. So.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, like I can see it. I would love to figure out a way. I don't think we should change. Like, I don't think we should bifurcate the game. So like, I don't think Ammoner should play something different than what the pros play. I do think we should all play somewhat the same thing. And I do feel like we don't play the same thing right now. I feel like the pros get access to a ton of the custom stuff and all that sort of thing. So I don't know. I definitely think they should roll it back. I really think they should keep the ball the same and they should make the driver smaller in my opinion. ⁓ But there's so many opinions on it. You can get to talk it for hours on this topic and everybody has a different opinion on it.
Dominic Colangelo: What would the smaller head do though?
Matthew Zampello: Just make it harder to hit, right? The sweet spot is so big. I'm not gonna lie, I've hit a couple way off the toe with my new Callaway Quantum, and it still goes really far. it's pretty unbelievable.
Kevin Spisak: Yep, same with my 440. Sometimes you just hit one you think is going to be dreadful and then it goes in the fairway and you're like, wow, technology is a great thing.
Dominic Colangelo: It's like Bryson was saying driver technology hasn't advanced in 20 years or whatever his.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Bryson is playing a crank driver, so I wouldn't take his driver. His driver takes with any source of...
Kevin Spisak: because he's not playing a ping or a quantum I guess.
Dominic Colangelo: whatever's weird. You With how Rory's career has gone, going back to Rory for a little bit, it's pretty incredible that he finally gets over the hump and wins the Masters to complete the Grand Slam. Massive for him, the people love it, it's great. And then, you know, next year he goes back to back, solidifies himself with that awesome company. ⁓ So he's so deserving to be in that.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: list of guys that have gone back to back and have won the Grand Slam, things like that. But it's also hilarious and so fitting and it's such a Rory thing that after he completes all this stuff and gets all these achievements, it's gonna immediately get overshadowed by Scotty winning the Grand Slam on his 30th birthday at Shinnecock.
Matthew Zampello: You think?
Dominic Colangelo: Oh yeah, for sure. I think Rory's had his time in the sun. think Scotty is back. His power fade is so back. He looked good, man. I think he's gonna be trouble.
Matthew Zampello: I don't know, man. I don't know man, I don't know. This puts, so Scotty has three majors? Three, four majors. He has four total majors, right?
Kevin Spisak: Yep, four, yep.
Matthew Zampello: This puts Rory tied with Phil, Nick Faldo, and Lee Trevino at six. And Brooks is at five.
Dominic Colangelo: majors.
Matthew Zampello: Five majors, that's right. I don't know man, Scotty doesn't love tough golf courses. I don't know if he's gonna love Shinnecock. Sheenock is hard. And I feel like he gets so frustrated at tough golf courses. I mean, I think what this does do is put Rory, like Rory is the best European player of all time, for sure. I mean, he's tied with Faldo in majors, but Faldo never won the Grand Slam.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: Faldo has three green jackets, believe, if I'm not mistaken. ⁓ And yeah, I just think he's definitely the best. Now, the only question I had is, because he's from Northern Ireland, technically it's part of England or the United Kingdom, whatever. It's so confusing. But do you think he becomes Sir Roy McElroy now?
Dominic Colangelo: think you're right there. That's a great point. Yeah. Right?
Kevin Spisak: that. Don't you have to be like knighted for that right?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, it's a knighthood and it's like Sir Lewis Hamilton.
Kevin Spisak: that.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, why did he, what does it take to get knighted? Because, well, were they waiting for him to win the Grand Slam to knight him? Because I feel like they would have done it by now.
Matthew Zampello: I know that's what I'm thinking, but he's got to be. He's got to be close if he's in the running for it. to see. Yeah. Nick Fowler has three masters. yeah. Yeah, man.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, and three opens.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it was after he won six majors and led the European team to the Ryder Cup. They're just like, we got to knight this guy. He's our guy, which I can totally see him getting, getting knighted and becoming Sir Rory. Kevin, I'm curious, what, what do you think, how many majors is he going to get to? Or is he going to, is he going to be done now?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah. I could see him peeling off like one or two more. I don't think he'll have much more in him after that. I think the younger guys coming up are gonna be really pushing him and Scotty is just gonna keep being Scotty here for a while. I could see like, know, Brooks ripping off another one once he gets his legs back under him being on. you know, the PGA Tour again. You there's just so many good players out there. I think the, it's kind of like when we talk about the NBA, just like, you know, me and you down like on the side, like the talent is so much better now than it was way back when. There's so many good players who are capable of winning like any tournament any week, you know, and I think, you know, Rory will, you know. have success for sure and continue to play well and he's still at the top of his game right now but you know asking for that many majors is really tough you know if he gets to eight majors that's pretty insane that's epic
Dominic Colangelo: I like that take about Brooks. Like he just loves the competition. He loves majors. So I agree with that one too. I could see him getting double digits. Rory.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. hasn't been... hasn't been my... Brooks hasn't been my favorite golfer in the world for his career, just with some of his, like, comments. But there's something about him being on the PGA Tour again that just... It just feels right and feels, you know, like he's back where he belongs and now I'm ready for him to go win the major again.
Matthew Zampello: I think Freddie said it best like after round one and Freddie was like he might never lose this tournament again Which was which was a sick call honestly, and that was so sick ⁓ I don't know like he's got so he's what he's like mid-30s. So let's just say he has Eight to nine really good more really good chances at Augusta still if he keeps if he stays healthy and that's just Augusta
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: I feel like he's going to clip another two at Augusta from the way like his the pressures off. He said it feels like his home golf course now like he's fighting another two and then I think he snags like an open or something at some point or maybe even a PGA somewhere. He definitely I mean he probably won't win PGA Frisco because I think he hates that golf course already is what I've heard so. But I I could see him at nine. I think I think I would put I don't know 10 is a lot I would say. I'd say nine. If you gave me eight and a half as the over under, I'd probably take the over.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, well I mean, I get it, but then if you look at Phil Mickelson, he won all of his majors when he was way up there. He didn't win his first one until he was like 34.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, he was late. ⁓ Phil's such an interesting... he's so hard to compare against though. I think Rory has absolutely passed Phil. think winning the Grand Slam, you've definitely passed Phil at this point.
Dominic Colangelo: That's true. Yeah, for sure.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, but how many how many majors would Phil have if he didn't exist at the same time as Tiger Woods?
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa, that's a great question. Yeah, how many number twos did he have? Way too many.
Matthew Zampello: I yeah, a lot, but how many majors if one of people isn't a dumb ass on 18 Tia wing foot? I mean, I don't know how many majors would worry if one of you didn't go to Nike, right? Like there's a ton of, there's always what ifs in this.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: if you didn't get the putter yips.
Matthew Zampello: Hey.
Kevin Spisak: Yep.
Dominic Colangelo: Matt, you have any, who else were you watching this tournament? Do you have any notes on, know, I feel like you probably have something to say about Justin Rose.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I was I was I was rooting for Justin Rose hard. I wanted Justin Rose to win for sure. He he deserves a green jacket. think he what my thought was, is can you tell the story of the Masters tournament history without including Justin Rose in the conversation now? And I don't think you can. I think he's been so a part of playoffs and high finishes that he's a part of Masters lore forever. liked seeing what Jake Knapp was doing. He had a good, good final round in there. ⁓ Terrell Hatton was the best live player, which was awesome. He was making birdies to coming down the stretch. ⁓ Max Homa played. I know. Yeah. Max Homa was playing well, which was good to see. Xander Schaafleit, Colin Moorkow, looks like he was limping down the fairway at the end and just like arm swinging it. And he got
Kevin Spisak: So, thank
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Who would have thought that would happen?
Matthew Zampello: Whatever it was, a top 10, which is crazy. Yeah, a ton of guys. was upset. mean, Cam Young, putter left in, which was tough. But that's his weakness is the putter. ⁓ Yeah, it was a great tournament. It was a thoroughbreds golf course, like I said. It was thoroughbreds only. There was not many fakers going around Augusta National at the top of the leaderboard this week.
Dominic Colangelo: that old man walk.
Kevin Spisak: Okay.
Matthew Zampello: No amateurs made the cut as well, which is usually the sign of a tough golf.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, tough last round for Cam Young. We were just talking about him a couple weeks ago when he won and excited for how well he had been playing. ⁓ I was excited to see if he had won, looking at if anything had changed on what's under the covers for him from his win a couple weeks ago. But he's just so freaking strong with his long game. He is very fun to watch. love his swing and his little pause on the backswing. ⁓ But you know, you were asking, know, was Matt watching? You know who he wasn't watching? It's your boy P. Reed because he went way down. Way down. I would have liked to see him go down even further. You know, he's still finished with T12, which is still too good for him.
Dominic Colangelo: It awesome.
Matthew Zampello: We didn't
Kevin Spisak: But he wasn't in contention. I said I was desperately not wanting Rory to have a blow up. And if Patrick Reed would have won, it would have really ruined me. That'd be like the Steelers winning the Super Bowl. ⁓ I am so happy he did not get close.
Dominic Colangelo: I was actually, had a pretty good, like Bree and I had a pretty good back and forth about that. So I already mentioned that I had no clue who to root for in the back there, but what we were rooting for is I didn't want somebody to lose the golf tournament. Like I didn't want a blowup to happen. I wanted somebody to win the tournament. I wanted someone to go nine under on the final round to get to that, that spot. It almost happened. Rory really tried to make my, my heart be crushed.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: But yeah, he ended up holding it out and it was great. It was an awesome finish for everybody. mean, obviously you hate to see Justin ⁓ Rose go so low, but you know, I think it was still a really fun finish.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, Rory with how he finished he really had the heart pump in with his tee shot on 16, putting it over the green when you know, everyone's kind of licking their chops on 16 thinking that you know, if you hit it on that slope, you're gonna be you know, a kick in for birdie and he puts it over the green and that chip shot I was like down that hill that's gonna be a very tough chip shot and he almost makes it and then 17 he misses the green on his second shot again and he almost makes that chip. And obviously his tee ball on 18 goes super wayward. ⁓ was trying to give it away and then making hero shots to save his bad shots. It was nuts.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it was unreal.
Matthew Zampello: I loved seeing Shane Lowry eject himself. That was fantastic. was a big fan of that. Gave me more of Shane Lowry ejecting himself in the final round. ⁓ Sam Burns ejected himself, not a real player. out of here. They continue to tell me Sam Burns is the best putter on tour. every time they cut to him, I see him missing a putt. But every broadcast we watch, though, this is the best putter on tour.
Dominic Colangelo: That was great. Who says that? wow.
Matthew Zampello: It's like maybe, but every time I see him, have like a putt that matters. It doesn't go in. I TBD on that one. I thought Rory. I thought Rory was going to make the putt or the chip shot on 16 from Long of the Green because he was basically in the tiger spot. Right. And I was like, man, wouldn't it would be wild if that ball crept over and had.
Dominic Colangelo: exactly the same, it seemed like.
Matthew Zampello: roars on it or something that would be that would be the most insane thing in the world and when the putt when he hit the putt I was like the the funniest part was he was gonna that that would have been replayed with you know he was putting off the green instead of chipping for the next 40 years or whatever but he didn't make it yeah I think the it got so hot it was starting to some of the overseed was starting to die off
Kevin Spisak: Oh my gosh. So, thank
Dominic Colangelo: There was a lot of putts. Why was that?
Matthew Zampello: is kind of what I was hearing. So it was kind of getting a little bit Bermuda-y ⁓ and the Bermuda was kind of coming through. And if you start chipping off Bermuda, it just gets really hard to chip and it kind of was like they got it really firm and fast, which is great, but it just makes it a little bit iffy to chip off that stuff. So a lot of guys just went to the putter. I think usually it's a little bit more thicker at Augusta around the greens. And so it's easier to chip off of.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm, okay.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, if he would have made that chip on 16, that would have seemed so staged. You know, like, I don't know how you could stage it, but it just it would have felt that way. Right.
Matthew Zampello: NFL rigged.
Kevin Spisak: You said with ⁓ with Stan Burns, I quick pulled up his stats. ⁓ Strokes Gain putting, he's 12th so far this year on the PJ Tour. Last year he was first in Strokes Gain putting, so the broadcast might not be wrong.
Matthew Zampello: See? They keep telling me he's the best part of the world. I have yet to see it. Because he doesn't make anything that he needs to make.
Dominic Colangelo: so somebody that I continue to root for, he really kind of fell off a little bit on that Saturday around, but I think Aaron Rye is going to make a big splash. One of these years, ⁓ he won the par three contest and that's usually a death sentence for the masters. Cause you never win both, but his, he has really good game and the double glove is just, that's just fun. You know, like nobody does that and they're black, which is just hilarious. Like. All the choices he's making just make me giggle, but I think he's such a good player. think he's just gonna eventually he's gonna get a lot of wins under his belt.
Matthew Zampello: He is one of the nicest guys. I've actually had a personal interaction with Aaron Rye. Quick story time. I ⁓ ran the range at Colonial one year, the Colonial tournament, and I was giving out golf balls. And it was the Sunday and the Formula One race was on. So I had the Formula One race on my phone behind the little stand where I was giving out golf balls. And Aaron Rye came up and I didn't even know anybody was there. And he's like, hey, can I get Pro B1s or whatever he wanted? And I was like, ⁓ yeah, sorry, sure. And then he was like, ⁓ is that the Formula One race? And he came over and watched the Formula One race with me for like five minutes because he's super in the Formula. Yeah, he's like the nicest guy in the world. He always said, thank you, I really appreciate it. A lot of guys just grab the balls and just take off. They don't look at you for another second. But he was by far one of the nicest guys that you'd had an interaction with all week, that I did.
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa.
Kevin Spisak: Nice.
Matthew Zampello: I always secretly root for Aaron Rye. think he's a super good dude.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice. I feel like you always love to hear that where you always think, I win billions of dollars, is my personality gonna change? If I get super famous, am I gonna change? I feel like Aaron Ryder seems like one of those genuine dudes, you know?
Kevin Spisak: That's awesome. Yeah, I think these players have such a big opportunity to like really make someone's day and You know like just grabbing the balls and moving on like, you know, sure you can do that but like when the The player tosses a ball to a kid or hands a glove, you just really altered their day and it took such minimum effort. ⁓ You really like to see that.
Dominic Colangelo: I think the last thing we can kind of recap with the masters, I wanna go through our draft board real quick, if y'all would humor me. So some quick hitters, did you have a plan to do this later?
Matthew Zampello: No? Let's do it.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, sweet. So starting off, I'm go a little bit quicker. If you want to interject, interject. A lefty did not win. Kevin's crazy storyline. Jordan Spieth did not win. Rory did not miss the cut. Big news, he did not miss the cut. Yeah, that was my crazy storyline. Cause it's not that crazy. Well, it's crazy now, obviously, cause he just won back to back, but like.
Matthew Zampello: Did you pick it Dom, that's a good
Dominic Colangelo: There's been big names that do so well and then they just fall off that next year. It was a possibility, it wasn't my best. Chris Gotterup, he was my first timer to bet on. And I feel like him and Kevin's guess with Ben Griffin, they're both neck and neck all day. I didn't actually see where they finished, but they both had really good rounds I feel like.
Kevin Spisak: Got her. Yeah, got her up finished to under at t24 and Griffin was t33 at even par. He Griffin was plus five on Sunday, which kind of sucked.
Dominic Colangelo: He was he was right there with got her up though like the entire time so that last round must have been it then huh
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah after day three Griffin had him by I think two or three strokes and then He just fell apart
Dominic Colangelo: Okay, well hey out of all the first timers, Matthew, you had Marco Penj and he was he was top 50 as well. I feel like we all did really well with our first timer picks. Missing the cut. You might have helped me out with this one, Kevin.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I like it.
Kevin Spisak: top wait sorry pause pause for pause for a quick second you said t top 50 does that get an asterisk because he's the second player at t49
Dominic Colangelo: No, it says T49. There's a, there's a four nine next to his name. Yeah. Yeah. Suck it Kev.
Matthew Zampello: No.
Kevin Spisak: He
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, that works Kevin.
Dominic Colangelo: So our next round was who misses the cut. And Kevin, you chose Cam Smith, which that was accurate, right? He didn't do too hot. John Rahm, think that was the most, besides Rory missing the cut storyline, that was probably the most exciting and out there miss cut picks. It was awesome. I mean, he was one stroke away from it.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, he stinks.
Kevin Spisak: Mm-hmm. I saw a wild video about John Rahm using a zero loft putter and
Matthew Zampello: I just got bad vibes from him. I got bad vibes so I had to pick him.
Dominic Colangelo: And then he got mad on Sunday, I guess, and went, what, 10 under, whatever score he got.
Matthew Zampello: He's Dak. He's Dak Prescott. I tweeted it this week. He's he makes birdies in garbage time when it doesn't
Dominic Colangelo: That's so true. We need to clip that for sure. So I had Brooks Kepka. Go for it.
Kevin Spisak: He had some putt that came up crazy short and he was was like mouth on the camera. like, how is that possible? And then this guy goes into like this big explanation for why like Zirolof putters like put backspin on it because he basically like hitting down on the putt and it was hilarious. It felt like the description you read during our last show about Bryson's clubs. ⁓ Same exact vibes and it was great that like Ron's kind of like a hothead with that stuff and someone just put him in his place.
Dominic Colangelo: That's awesome, you dork. Kevin, do you happen to have the ⁓ scoring averages per hole pulled up?
Kevin Spisak: Ha I don't, I could get it pulled up here pretty quick.
Dominic Colangelo: Pull that up and then I'm gonna talk about my miss cut pick, Brooks Koepka. based on previous rounds and tournaments, he was doing pretty rough and he's still kinda getting his sea legs a little bit. ⁓ I am probably the most happy to be wrong about Brooks missing the cut. I love watching him play. He looks sick in the mock necks. He had four days of mock necks which...
Matthew Zampello: while
Dominic Colangelo: That's not normal, right? Like he's normally a polo guy. It looked awesome.
Matthew Zampello: It's like a tire homage.
Dominic Colangelo: Oh, okay. It's got like the textured look to it. I might have to give you some of those.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. While while Kevin's looking these up, I want to touch on Sergio I feel like we can't talk about the Masters without talking about Sergio. What he did on 2 tee box. that was so funny. He looks like a little child out there in his yeah in his stupid little fireballs costumes and his stupid and then he and then he goes and takes a chunk out of the tee box and then for good measure it's like Like usually when you slam your driver and you break your driver, they're like it's like accidental
Dominic Colangelo: Thank you, yes. Speaking of dorks, dude.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: He hit the bottom of the shaft on a metal cooler stand. Like, yeah, it's gonna break. And then one of the green jackets got in on him, going off a Ford T-box. One of the rules official came and kind of was like, ⁓ you know.
Dominic Colangelo: He knew what he was doing. I couldn't believe that.
Kevin Spisak: It's such an idiot.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ really?
Matthew Zampello: Gave him a little warning, a little slap on the wrist, but.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm. Out of all places to do that, like he knew what he was doing the whole time. That's not being red and doing something like he knew the implications that he was doing. And then he went and picked up John Rahm's bag as like a, what, like an overcorrection? Like, let me be nice for a second.
Kevin Spisak: Okay.
Matthew Zampello: I... Yeah. Yeah, he's so I feel like he's gonna be like Like you know how like Rory can go play I guess so whenever he wants because he's like, know the master's champion Although he still has to play with a member. I think They're like Sergio is gonna call up and be like, hey, can I play and they're like, nah
Dominic Colangelo: We're good. They're giving them the Wyndham Clark treatment at Oakmont.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Alright, what you got Kevin?
Kevin Spisak: And what was your question about the toughest holes?
Dominic Colangelo: So, our favorite holes, I'm just curious what our favorites did in the realm of difficulty. So, Kevin, your favorite hole was number one, T. Olive. What was that ranked on the hardest holes for the weekend?
Kevin Spisak: one, ⁓ I don't have it in that. ⁓ Let me hang on. Pause. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Very good.
Kevin Spisak: Okay, so number one is the sixth hardest hole of the weekend at 4.179 strokes. So 1.79 above par.
Dominic Colangelo: Dang. Okay. And then number three was Matt's choice, Flowering Peach.
Kevin Spisak: Number three was kind of down there, one of the easier ones. 14th hardest hole. That was actually under par, so 3.9.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Nice, and that was more like a, that's a cosmetic hole. Like you weren't liking it because of how hard it was. It's just a cool hole.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I love the green. I love the choices they have to make off the tee. I love the wedge shot that they have to hit in. I love how small the little green is.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, and then mine, I like number eight just because of ⁓ the potential for what could happen and kind of the creativity you need sometimes. What was that on the list?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, the potential and the creativity and all of that leads to the easiest hole on the course. potential for birdies.
Dominic Colangelo: Beautiful. Which makes sense. You kind of called it whenever with the trivia question, you kind of called it where it's like, the hardest hole isn't going to be a par five. know, like people are going to score on those.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, so we said last year, my trivia question was what are the three hardest holes? And the same three were the three hardest for this year, 5, 11, and 17.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice, okay. That's cool. Hey, anything else on the masters? I feel like that was a really good little recap we had there.
Matthew Zampello: was was 11 the hardest? Five was the hardest. I always, I never knew. ⁓ I, yeah, I got a couple more, I got a more small things. ⁓ par three contest need a hit on it. Kevin Hart and Kelsey get, off of the TV. It's time to, we need to bring back the same Viva masters. ⁓ that was dumb. I hate it. Hated everything about the par three contest. I refuse to watch it anymore. It's, it's not
Kevin Spisak: Five. Yeah, five was the hardest last year,
Dominic Colangelo: I was kind of happy that I didn't have to listen. I was watching on my phone at that point and I was like, are they on screen? What is happening right now?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, stupid. ⁓ The gnomes, the gnomes are out of control. Yeah, they were. I saw one sell for like twenty thousand. It was like one of the rare ones or something. That was like what someone put on there. I think it was like the highest ever that one sold for. That was crazy. I hope they go away forever. I think this is the last year or next year's the last year of them. I think they were doing it for 10 years. So hopefully, hopefully the gnomes go away.
Dominic Colangelo: Really?
Kevin Spisak: Okay.
Matthew Zampello: and then Masters Halls.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah, I was gonna say that too.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, that's all Mrs. Under the Covers would would would was talking about. She's like, have you seen all these masters halls that people are posting on on TikTok and stuff? And some of them are crazy. I mean, they bought the entire like I was in the shop. You these people bought the entire shop. It's like I walked out with I mean, I walked out with a good amount of stuff, but like I didn't you wouldn't have seen me in like
Dominic Colangelo: I can't believe that.
Kevin Spisak: Okay. .
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ that's a lot of stuff. You would assume like, ⁓ that's like a normal amount of things that guy's carrying. But like these people had bags full, like double bags full of stuff.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, cause everyone's, they're spending like six to 10 grand on stuff cause they they're going and they're making the best out of it. They're like, Hey, aunt, uncle, cousin, friend, brother, sister, what do you want? I will buy it for you. And then they're, I don't know, some of these people, they're making their money back, just doing a haul on Tik Tok with views.
Kevin Spisak: you have our matching diva tools that you can show?
Matthew Zampello: I don't have, ⁓ I do!
Dominic Colangelo: Yes!
Matthew Zampello: I already have mine in the bag. But I got the under the covers group some matching divotools.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ baby. We need more of that. We need you to film one of those for the TikTok.
Matthew Zampello: No, then I think I got like a whiskey glass, ⁓ whiskey glass. ⁓ then... ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: football, football, sports, golf, man, man stuff.
Matthew Zampello: Football sports. And I bought a nice windbreaker. So that's it, a normal amount of things, not anything crazy.
Dominic Colangelo: Well, there you go. Here's my haul. got a marketing kicked my ass with this one. I needed a water bottle. So I got the golf ball Ouala. I think you can see it's got a little dimples in it. It's ridiculous, but I'm like, nice. I'm going into work meetings like at our office and I have Breeze like sky blue Stanley. That's as, I mean, bigger than my head.
Kevin Spisak: Thanks. Oooooh
Matthew Zampello: Nice.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: I'm like, need something that's a little bit more sleek and can fit in my golf bag. So this is a double win.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: I was mad I missed out on the release of that. That's a sweet water bottle. I just got the black one that's the same but no dimples.
Dominic Colangelo: If I find another one up here, I can get it for you.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, snag it for me.
Dominic Colangelo: So Matt, you mentioned that ⁓ you kind of talked about Gnomes earlier in the week, but it wasn't on our podcast. I wanted to give a little bit of a plug for ⁓ the Fairway Times. Colt Peters, he was nice enough to reach out and kind of do a little bit collab with us and get Matt on his podcast. So go check that out. The Fairway Times, Spotify. I think he's kind of on everything that we are as well. But... ⁓
Matthew Zampello: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, did you want to speak on that a little bit? I had a couple of notes.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, he's a super cool guy, you know, connected through the internet. So internet friends, a little 90 day fiance, you know, whatever. And then, you know, now we're, think we're gonna do a PGA championship, maybe preview up here on Under the Covers with Fairway Times.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ it was a great podcast. mean, like y'all didn't stop. It was very well executed. The y'all's talking points were awesome. Like, ⁓ I really love the, the segment that y'all had on, he used AI to kind of help himself with his betting portfolio ⁓ and I never really thought of it that way, but he was basically compiling different things on how do players do this on Augusta. So he was basically saying that a six and seven iron play needs to be the best. And it's a lot of people think it's putting, but it's a lot of those approach shots. I mean, nowadays that's where Gary player was kind of mad where it's people are hitting a seven iron into a par five. So like people are hitting shorter clubs, but like, I really liked that idea. And like, that was pretty. It was really cool. was like, dang, that's a great way to use chat GPT. Like, what are we doing?
Matthew Zampello: could be helpful for my one and done picks instead of doing it on, know, that feeling in my gut, you I gotta start using Claude.
Dominic Colangelo: Just vibe. Well, you need to change something, so maybe you should.
Matthew Zampello: I know, I know. No, yeah, Colton's super cool. Definitely go check him out. And we're gonna have him on our podcast for the PJ Jamieship preview. So that'll be fun stuff. And maybe he can do some, he'll do some AI stuff with us for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: beautiful. I love it. Yeah, be on the lookout for that.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ Did you guys see Logan Olsen's like limited release putters that he did on Instagram?
Dominic Colangelo: He's done more already?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, like fresh, fresh off the press. He did, it was like over the weekend for the masters. It was like 25 putters, 825 bucks. You had to be like the first ones to message your specs. And then he would like send you an invoice, I guess. And I was like, ⁓ man, this would be so cool. But you know, it's gonna be right handed. You know, I'm screwed. I'm scrolling through his Instagram story. He's like, sorry lefties, but I promise the next release is only for you. So, ya boy might be ready to spend some money that I really don't need to spend, but I might have to spend. It'd be dumb not to, right? If it's a limited Logan Olsen lefty, I think I'd have to do it.
Dominic Colangelo: you If you can, you have to. Just sell those new Mizuno's that you got, your little Facebook marketplace back and forth and then you'll be just fine.
Kevin Spisak: Good point, good point. Good point. I am excited. I gotta turn on notifications for every time he makes a story so I don't miss it.
Dominic Colangelo: Matt, can you ask our CFO if we can expense it on our account?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, for sure. mean, we can, we can expense whatever you want. mean, then, you know.
Dominic Colangelo: We're talking to the C-suite here.
Matthew Zampello: You know what?
Dominic Colangelo: Dude, that'd be still cool.
Matthew Zampello: We'll just, we'll take it out of our ⁓ paycheck in 2027.
Dominic Colangelo: There you go, nice.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, yeah, that's a point.
Dominic Colangelo: So TaylorMade also dropped a new Pyter. ⁓ TaylorMade also dropped ⁓ a new Pyter.
Kevin Spisak: You
Matthew Zampello: I'm still a bearded little snake.
Dominic Colangelo: Tell me, drop that new puddle.
Kevin Spisak: You
Dominic Colangelo: Matt, you start talking, because clearly I can't.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, ⁓ okay, ⁓ so TaylorMade, we got some golf equipment news that just dropped today at the RBC. So TaylorMade dropped a new Spider lineup and Titleist released pictures of the GTS Fairway line. Big thing to note there is their silver faces to see some loft, I think, for those clubs. think that's the new trend now, Kevin, it seems.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, Cam Young had been playing in the GT line a tour prototype with the lighter face So he switched over to the GTS for the Masters And it was a familiar look for him to be able to see that solar face think they look absolutely sweet. ⁓ can't wait to get my hands on one of them.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I know. ⁓ I'm hoping that I get some maybe some shop credit at the member guest I have this week and maybe pick myself up a a gts at a later date is my my thought.
Kevin Spisak: That would be incredible.
Dominic Colangelo: It's kind of like pre-order one. Is that doable?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, because you just get shop credit and you can kind of spend it whenever. So I might just, you know, once they're out, you know, go back and snag one. So we'll see.
Dominic Colangelo: this.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, not a ton of news. The RBC heritage. It's a pretty quiet week on tour, you know, right after the Masters. I think Harbertown is like, I don't know. A few hours away from Augusta like it's not very far. Yeah, exactly. So Harbertown golf links really fun, cool course, probably one of the most unique courses on tour that they play. It's like super narrow fairways really short.
Kevin Spisak: I think it's three hours to Hilton Head.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ tight golf course originally designed by Pete die, but this year is the first year of the Davis love third redo. So he completely went in and kind of tore up the golf course and revitalize it a little bit, brought it back to that original Pete die state. So that's going to be really fun to see. ⁓ and I can't wait to, I love this tournament. I think it's really chill vibe and it usually always brings like a pretty good leaderboard towards the end. And I think anybody can win there. We've seen bombers to, you know,
Kevin Spisak: Okay. Okay.
Matthew Zampello: players of Brian Bros caliber when that went out there. So anybody can really pull up. Anybody can do anything.
Dominic Colangelo: Brian, Brian Harman's of the world.
Matthew Zampello: No, was Wesley Bryan. Wesley Bryan went out there.
Dominic Colangelo: Oh, he did? Oh, he did! I thought you were just making a joke. was like, yeah, I mean...
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. No, I'm not making a joke.
Kevin Spisak: What do you have against Brian Harmon? He won an Open Championship.
Dominic Colangelo: No, that's what I'm saying is like, he does well at this course because he can like navigate super well, you know? So I was like, I was kind of playing into the Brian joke there.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ thought you were taking a dig at my lefty brethren.
Dominic Colangelo: absolutely not. guy's sick.
Matthew Zampello: But like also long players, like really long hitters do well at Harbor Town as well because like the shorter guys still have to hit driver. Whereas like somebody like Dustin Johnson can just hit four iron off every tee. So like that also really helps for accuracy. So yeah, it's it's a cool, it's a cool golf course. I'm super excited for it.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice, well, I think that's a perfect time to get into our one and done's. Just a little bit of a recap, you know, we had a few different episodes going on throughout the week. ⁓ You know, kind of a master's recap, our normal under the covers, but just to kind of go back. So Matt, he chose his one and done about a month ago. And it really, I mean, I don't hate anything about it. For some reason you hated it. You tried to go back and forth a bunch you ended up taking Ludwig Oberg and then he ended up at 21st place Sorry, I'm doing a little bit of math in our head. So for majors we decided to double our points so 21 but then he gets 42 points for our one and done's Kevin He went with hit one of his favorite golfers Victor Hovland
Kevin Spisak: .
Dominic Colangelo: Awesome to see him playing well. He ended up at ⁓ like a really good round on Sunday, ended up being 18th place, tied for 18th. So that's 36 points for Kevin. And then I went with Xander who ended up T9. So I'll get 18, just kind of one of those where he always plays at the Masters. But to go into our totals, Matt is currently at the bottom of the leaderboard.
Kevin Spisak: You
Dominic Colangelo: at 517 points. Sorry for laughing. Kevin is right there at 307 and then I'm currently sitting at 186. So I gained a little bit of room on Kevin there, not too too much. feel like it's gonna take, it's one tournament, two tournaments that's gonna knock me down. I just know it.
Kevin Spisak: hahahaha
Dominic Colangelo: So I.
Matthew Zampello: Well yeah, you picked all the good players. have no, can't pick the good players anymore. That's gonna be your downfall.
Dominic Colangelo: I mean, that is not true. There's 19 tournaments. You don't think there's 19 good players that I can choose?
Matthew Zampello: I still. Not according to Brian Rolap.
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, Dom didn't pick players who are like 200 ranks.
Dominic Colangelo: Alright, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I do this with the NFL version of this all the time where I try to get too cute with it and I always just get toasted. So I'm just seeing what the opposite feels like. Choose all the good guys. I mean, my worst choice was Dumondes, just saw him and he was a 49. So I'm like, I might as well just pick guys like big, the thoroughbreds as you call them. That's too much talking. Matt, let's just get right into it. Who are you choosing for RBC Heritage?
Matthew Zampello: is it? Yeah, as Kevin called this man one time, the frumpy boy, Matt Fitzpatrick loves RBC Heritage. He used to use the head cover of the whatever clock tower or ship tower, whatever thing, the logo of RBC or Harbor Town. Yeah, Matt Fitzpatrick loves this place. Frontmaster.
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa!
Kevin Spisak: you
Dominic Colangelo: All right, Kev.
Kevin Spisak: Oh, that's a good pick. I thought about Fitzy there, you King Frump with his sketchers and all. He, like you said, previous winner. I am going to go with Russell Henley. Had a great final round of the Masters on his birthday, turned 37 and was just on fire. I thought he was going to like keep it rolling there and make a few more birdies. It just I ran out of steam a little bit at the end. ⁓ No, I can't pick Russell Henley. I picked him already. Wow, I am so dumb. All right.
Matthew Zampello: Did you really?
Dominic Colangelo: Maybe you didn't.
Matthew Zampello: Did you see why you pick your next pick? Did you see somebody tweet that somebody put Russell Henley is the Coles of golf?
Kevin Spisak: That's awesome. Yeah, actually sorry, don't cut that out. I I picked Russell Henley before we started the pod in my one and done. That's how I've been keeping track of who I've used. ⁓ Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will use Russell Henley.
Matthew Zampello: I thought that was so funny.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ gotcha. Okay. So do you still want them? All right. Nice. Okay. ⁓ man. So I had in my head and I was kind of hoping that Matt would choose them and I'm surprised he didn't. ⁓ I was, I'm either between Jordan Spieth or Patrick Cantlay. And I think I'm going to go with Patrick Can't lay officially lock it in.
Matthew Zampello: good pick. Jordan Spieth can't keep it on the planet. He's gonna hit so many trees this week.
Dominic Colangelo: you Well, that's the thing. He missed the cut whenever he won, you know, but then he had two days, two extra days of rest. But yeah, that putting stroke is just scary right now. So I don't touch it.
Kevin Spisak: it.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: He won this tournament in 2022, he's got it in him.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. All right. Well, I think there's a solid pick there. What's up?
Kevin Spisak: Wait, wait Dom, did you mention in your picks, you said between Jordan Spieth and Cantlay, did you mention 2022 that they were, Spieth won and Cantlay was the...
Matthew Zampello: in a play.
Dominic Colangelo: that was his playoff. I knew he lost in a playoff, but I didn't realize it was against Speed there.
Kevin Spisak: Run around.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Yeah.
Kevin Spisak: I was hoping I didn't just tune that out and not listen when you were saying or when you were talking, ⁓ but you lined it up perfectly.
Dominic Colangelo: Nice. Beautiful. love it. All right. I think that that brings us to the beloved Kevin trivia corner.
Kevin Spisak: So, a trivia question that doesn't count, but because of the Masters, because of our last episode, ⁓ we talked about having 18 for 18 greens in regulation. Who was the only other player to do it? I'm sure you guys looked it up.
Matthew Zampello: at the Masters? This week?
Kevin Spisak: Yeah, Kevin Na- No, no, no. Kevin Na was the last one before Tyrrell Hatton and only one other person's done it. I had 100 % assumed you'd look it up right after we talked about it.
Dominic Colangelo: Cool. No, I only knew about Kevin ⁓ What was your guess?
Matthew Zampello: Not tiger. Tiger.
Kevin Spisak: King of the backwards hats.
Dominic Colangelo: hats? Justin Thomas?
Kevin Spisak: No, Jim Furyk, 2009.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ the backwards hats, that's a nice pull.
Matthew Zampello: Mmm.
Kevin Spisak: ⁓ That should have maybe been the actual trivia question, dang.
Matthew Zampello: That's a good poll.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, that was a good one. I like that. So what's your other one?
Kevin Spisak: But so ⁓ RBC Heritage, Justin Thomas is our reigning champion, reigning ⁓ winner to put on the red plaid jacket. Kind of odd that they do the jacket right after the Masters, but hey, everyone's gotta have their thing. He won in a playoff last year against who?
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ man.
Dominic Colangelo: Damn dude.
Kevin Spisak: And a reminder for our listeners, if either of them get it right, me and the other person will chug a beer. Big prize.
Matthew Zampello: It was somebody obscure.
Dominic Colangelo: Dang it, dude. Was it Brian Harmon?
Kevin Spisak: not Brian Harmon.
Dominic Colangelo: UGH!
Matthew Zampello: now It was definitely somebody super... ⁓ Andrew Novak.
Dominic Colangelo: What?
Kevin Spisak: Son of gun, you got it. my gosh. How on earth did you pull that out?
Dominic Colangelo: Dude! ⁓ I remember that! That was such a random one!
Matthew Zampello: I remember because he was playing super well, everybody thought he was gonna make the Ryder Cup team, and he hosts his own football podcast.
Dominic Colangelo: That's awesome.
Kevin Spisak: No way. I can't believe that.
Matthew Zampello: Kevin, I'm a golf encyclopedia.
Kevin Spisak: my gosh.
Dominic Colangelo: Alright.
Matthew Zampello: Encyclopedia.
Dominic Colangelo: encyclopedia what a pull man that was ice
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I'm pretty good at that one. That was good stuff.
Dominic Colangelo: You
Kevin Spisak: How on earth did you get that?
Matthew Zampello: Dude, was going back in the archives and I remember, I remember because he had just won, Andrew Novak had just won something else recently. And I remember he was playing super well. And then when you said it was somebody obscure that kind of let me narrow it down. And I just remember that he, that everybody was talking about him getting on the Ryder Cup after that.
Dominic Colangelo: Dirty dog.
Matthew Zampello: I know, I know. Sorry guys.
Dominic Colangelo: What you got Kev? I got my fave Budweiser.
Kevin Spisak: I got a nice Bud Select in my cabs mug. Shout out Play Off Season coming.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. I didn't bring a mug, but we'll see how this goes. ⁓
Kevin Spisak: You'll probably still beat me.
Matthew Zampello: Beautiful.
Dominic Colangelo: Perfect sign off. Follow us if you aren't. Can't wait for RBC Heritage. Masters is awesome. Rory is awesome. Patrick Reed is not. Thanks for listening.
Matthew Zampello: Patrick Reed is a beautiful boy and he will be back. He will be back for blood.
Dominic Colangelo: We'll see you next week.