#ICYMI - Tiger vs Phil – 18 Holes, $9 Mil

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🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Tiger Woods. Phil Mickelson. 18 Holes. 9 million dollars. Hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down with neuroscientist Heather Berlin and sports physicist John Eric Goff to breakdown the science, both physical and mental, behind this epic match-up of two golfing titans. Photo Credit: DIRECTV.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary Aurelie and I'm Tugnais and this is playing with science. Today we focus our
0:15.5	attention on two of sports biggest titans. The gloves are off as Tiger takes on feel in
0:23.4	a winner takes all believe this nine million dollar match play event from Shadow Creek golf course
0:30.9	in Las Vegas. Yeah happy thanks giving man indeed Black Friday. Yeah Tiger wins this is definitely
0:40.9	Black Friday. All right. You know what's interesting about this is that it'll feature various challenges
0:46.6	along the way such as longest drive, the nearest to the whole, longest part,
0:53.4	like all the stuff that you bet on in a regular golf game when you're playing with your friends.
0:58.5	Yeah. So it's just like high stakes crazy golf. You know, and it's not been crazy at nine million dollars.
1:05.0	Make it interesting. Oh yeah. Helping us analyze the physics will have of course Professor Eric
1:10.4	Gough but joining us first to unlock the brain sciences neuroscientists and our dear friend Dr.
1:16.2	Heather Berlin. Heather, how are you? Hey, glad to be here. I was great to have you here.
1:21.6	So okay. So we were talking about like this is really how guys when they get together and play
1:26.2	golf they're like, yo man, let's make this interesting. Yeah. You know, like, hey, why don't we
1:30.0	go on? We'll put it on some more than 10 bucks a whole of it. Like, you know, and so, you know,
1:34.4	these guys are doing like on a massive scale with guys and women do all across the nation on
1:40.7	Saturday mornings everywhere to every golf venue that's open. It's an event that we could all
1:48.1	golfers can relate to directly rather than watching a PGA masters or something like that where
1:54.5	we're just two of the greatest players, you know, in the history of this work. So I'm asking you
1:58.2	this, what is driving some? Is it more money that will drive like nine million dollars to win
2:04.6	or is it more pride? Like, yo, I got to beat this guy because I can't on this particular day.
2:12.9	The money or the pride. It depends. It depends. People are going to be motivated by different
2:17.1	reasons. So, you know, it depends on number one, how much for us, I mean, for me, nine million
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