How you doing everyone Tom Teaberry here.
Welcome to a Memorial Tournament round
table joined by Dave Holmes, Adam King,
10 TV and the one and only skip Mozick and
Anthony Rothman from our sister station.
97.1 the fan Dave. A year ago John ROM.
We're standing on 18 on Saturday.
I'll never forget he's running
away with the tournament and you
said to me you go wait a minute,
what's going on and you know we
we both thought it man he just
got bad news to someone you know.
What what, what the heck is going on?
And you know he was running
away with that tournament,
but following his third round,
he was informed that he had COVID
and was not going to be able
to finish and had to quit.
How much is that in the back
of his mind as he comes in this
year? Well, I mean, I don't think
he'll be at the short north pounding
shots till 3:00 in the morning.
On Wednesday night.
I mean, maybe he'll be. Maybe he'll
be avoiding the crowds a little bit.
He has some bad memories here,
but he also has good memories here too.
I think if you're John ROM you take away
from the fact that you really should
have won this tournament multiple times.
You were the best player in the field
by far the year he got dequeued.
It wasn't even close. He was playing.
Maybe the best golf this tournaments
ever seen over three days.
So I think for him, yeah,
there's a little bit of demons,
but he's exercised that already.
I think he's in good shape to be the
favorite in this golf tournament.
It is one of the weirdest scenes that
we have ever witnessed on a team,
you know,
Sunday you get the handshake
from Jack Saturday.
He's killed over hands on his knees,
realizing that I just lost north of
$1,000,000 and a runaway tournament
win. You know, Adam Patrick Cantlay has
won two out of the last three memorials
and and and I think you know his reaction.
Last year he was shocked at how it went
because it wouldn't even close the way
Rahm was playing and he would have.
I don't know how he could have lost it.
On Sunday, what do you think's a
cantley's mind as he's the defending
champion and like I said he's won
a two out of the last three. Well,
I think there's a couple things when
you look at winning a golf tournament
you never wanna win the tournament.
In that way you wanna know that you
went out there and played the best
golf that week and I think that
probably sticks with him a little bit.
But the good thing is he had already won it.
So he proved that he can dominate
merfield and I think this this
course is such a shot making course
you get in the right spots.
As you. We've we've talked so much
with the way Jack designed it.
That he's now played his way
around here in a dominant fashion.
He knows what you have to do
to win it at Merfield.
And now you just gotta come
back and replicate that.
And once you do it twice,
the confidence really starts to build.
You start to get those courses on tour.
A lot of these players do that
feel like your home course.
All this is where I'm I'm going to
show up and and and I know this
one. You know, Anthony,
the Memorial Tournament is not a major.
But if you talk to the guys on tour,
this is one of their favorite stops.
They love coming here.
The players are pampered and quite frankly
they run this thing like a major Jack.
Nicholas is the greatest golfer of all time.
You think about the tribute to Bobby
Jones with the masters you know,
will this tournament one day be a major?
Should it be a major?
OK, those are two different.
Those are two different questions, right?
No, no, absolutely right.
That's what I'm just saying.
Those are very two very good questions.
Distinct questions the course is
major worthy. The problem is,
if you're a major like the US Open and you
want to really protect par as a great score,
I think the course would
have a tough time doing that.
Most occasion it doesn't have to be that way.
We've had, you know,
the PGA Justin Thomas wins it
at 5 under gets in the playoff.
I think that's OK,
but you start getting into 1215 under par.
People start thinking well.
Is that course really major worthy?
But we've had it all right?
Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup, Presidents Cup,
and the course could easily.
Supported it's a stadium type course.
Now it has the infrastructure to do it.
The issue that I think would be
interesting to ask Jack is would he
be willing to give up a memorial
one year to have a major?
Or is it only good enough if
we have or major additions?
Should
it be a major period? Should they
add a add a add another major?
Being a fifth major,
yeah, I don't think that's
imperative to have to do that.
We're we're pretty much Rocket
rock solid into the four majors.
I could see it being one of a PGA
Championship at Muirfield Village.
We've clearly shown we can
support it from a fan standpoint.
The course can support it, and like I said,
it's part of our history that we've
played international events here.
It's just whether or not Jack would be
willing to give up a memorial to do it,
and maybe he wouldn't have to do that.
We had worked in memorial during.
Moving, but I think that they should.
I can't get all the way into the
should like it's being disrespected,
but I think it certainly could.
I think it'd be interesting to see
how it plays out as time goes on
because you know you you think about
Bobby Jones and what he meant to
the game of golf and and you know,
you know Augusta is a major and
you go down there and score.
And I see a lot of similarities between
skip between Mirfield village and Augusta,
and from the way they run it and everything.
I mean they run it like like.
Like a major, you know,
skip the other thing we have seen.
We have seen many first time
winners at Muirfield Village.
That then go on to win a major.
I mean,
it's like this is their proving ground.
Why
do you think that is?
We've seen it and it's been talked about.
Anthony mentioned it.
Everybody has mentioned it it.
While it's not a major,
it is a major championship
venue is Muirfield Village.
So I think if you can win at Muirfield
Village you can win anywhere in my opinion,
if if that golf course can play so
difficult can play so tough depending
on the conditions and we've seen guys
you mentioned that you know from Rose.
To to Dechambeau to whoever you wanna
to Hideki a couple of years ago.
But for every one of those
you've got your Roger Maltby and
you've got your Bart Bryant shop.
Yeah, there you go that have not,
you know,
not to say Mcgirt won't find lightning
in a bottle at some point in the future,
but it's not like what we've seen
with with some of these other guys.
But my point is,
it is major championship worthy
is Mirfield village,
and I think that's the reason why
you've seen some high profile
winners over the years.
Alright, handicapped time we're
going to stay with skip Skip.
Who wins this year's memorial and why?
I tell you the the the odds on
favorite has to be John Ram,
but my formula for years has always
been to go back to the previous years
leaderboard and see who finished.
Third OK, who finished third last year?
Scottie scheffler.
That's my pick.
That's a good pick. That threatens
the 3rd place trended out OK
for you. It's yes numerous times.
It's amazing. I mean go
back and look. I have to drive
across state lines and I have
to drive drive to Indiana's not
gonna crawl it on my skin with
this inside information formula.
Yeah no idea this was attract
this over the years I'm going
with a guy that's one of the top
ranked players in the world.
He's 11th ranked in the world and I think
he's been knocking on that door a lot,
especially here at Memorial.
So I'll kind of still a little bit
out of out of skips playbook there
with having to have had played well.
Here I'm going with Zander shafley.
He's finished top 15 three
straight years in a row here,
one in New Orleans top five at Byron Nelson,
finished 13th at the PGA.
I think he's one of those guys
that certainly has the talent.
You'll wonder about him and round four,
but maybe he's the guy that finally
has enough experience on tour.
Certainly has the talent and I'm going
to go with the X man Zander Shotley.
Alright, I'm going with John ROM
because I feel like he is owed that I.
I know that he's struggling
a bit right now, but.
He loves this golf course and I just,
you know, I I will never forget Dave
is standing there thinking what in the
world's going on because this kid was
running away with this golf tournament.
I think he's going to come out with the I.
Just think he's going to pick up where
he left off and and I I wouldn't be
surprised to see him go wire to wire.
Who do you have?
Well I got to check to see if my
guys ever finished third place,
but if he hasn't that's troubling.
My guy would be Justin Thomas
he we forget about it.
I mean he really could.
He likes Mirfield he does and
he could have won the market.
The work Day member he dropped that,
I mean, 70 foot bomb on 18.
Thought he had Colin Moore account
with beat at that point so he's almost
won here before he's playing well.
He just kind of backdoored
his way into a PGA Ish.
But I think he's really playing
good enough to win this thing.
He has some history here.
I'll take Justin
Thomas. Alright, Adam.
My guy is someone that maybe is
history at Muirfield isn't the best,
but he's been dominant on tour,
he just hasn't been able to get
over the top in recent weeks and I
I just feel like Victor Hovland's
going to show up at this tournament.
Victor hovland.
Really, yeah, well now
I'm nervous he's Victor got his name
is literally Victor. How can you watch
his game? He's such a shotmaker he and
he's always up there on the leaderboard.
He just these last couple
tournaments. He just hasn't
been able to get over the top. I think
he walks into the the and I'm
going to give you the rock.
That's a good pill.
This guy's picking based
on name. It was either going to be
Victor hobbling or Cameron Champ. He
was gonna go chamfer chamfer
Victor champ Champer Victor.
He went with Victor. I like it. Alright
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