Masters Takeaways: Rahm vs. Koepka and a Mailbag with Shane Bacon

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Garrett and Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) kick off this post-Masters Tuesday episode by guessing what TFE founder Andy Johnson will shoot in his media-lottery round at Augusta National. They then give a thorough rundown of the Sunday duel between Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka at the Masters, touching on Rahm's strategy, ball-striking, and historic outperformance at Augusta, as well as Koepka's final-round lapses and outlook for the future. For the next segment, Garrett brings on Shane Bacon (@shanebacon), who spent the past week calling the action on the Featured Groups feed on Masters.com. Garrett and Shane discuss the ins and outs of broadcasting at Augusta National and run through a few mailbag questions from listeners. Lastly, Garrett is rejoined by Joseph to talk about the storylines they're tracking this week in golf.

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0:00.0	I'm Mr. Green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
0:05.0	And when I find my ball in a Friday egg.
0:07.0	Friday egg. The dreaded Friday egg.
0:09.0	Friday egg. Friday egg. Friday egg. Friday egg.
0:11.0	Friday egg lie. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	So Joseph, the Friday egg's own Andy Johnson won the media lottery at the Masters because some people just have all the luck.
0:42.0	And he is playing Augusta National today.
0:45.0	What do you think he will shoot?
0:48.0	It's a good question. I believe he's playing with persimmon drivers.
0:51.0	Before I answer that, Gary, am I correct that he also won a Friday egg event recently?
0:57.0	Is that true? I think I feel like he's won multiple Friday events.
1:02.0	I was going to say between a win at a Friday event and winning the Masters lottery.
1:06.0	Things are starting to stink maybe a little bit at the Friday egg.
1:10.0	So I don't know how corrupt things have gotten, but just seeing his name pulled.
1:14.0	It raises some questions. Persimmon driver in the playing the championship tease.
1:18.0	I think Andy, I haven't looked at the forecast today.
1:22.0	I've been more checking it for the tournament days.
1:24.0	I should have been checking it for media day.
1:26.0	I'm going to go with, this is a hard question.
1:28.0	Persimmon driver, long ago.
1:30.0	Persimmon driver PT three wood that he bombs, by the way.
1:35.0	That carries farther than the driver, but the driver gets run out.
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