Wes, how are you man? Hey JR, good to be with you man. I'm surprised we didn't play Lizzo Bout Damn Time in terms of the intro music for Rory McIlroy because it's now been 11 times he went for the career grand slam and he got it on number 11.
He got it on number 11. We're gonna have to get your thoughts on some more Lizzo tracks. I'm a little off on that one, okay Wes? Well listen. That's all I know. That's my limited expertise on that particular artist. I'm gonna have to go into my phone and find some more Lizzo songs. I'll leave that alone.
I think if I say anything else about Lizzo I might get in trouble. So we're gonna move on from that, okay Wes? Moving on, yeah.
Most definitely getting on. So yeah, so that guy Rory McIlroy, he finally did that thing yesterday. He finally won the Masters. He actually admitted afterwards that he actually doubted himself as to whether he can get the job done.
And I mean after all of these years you could basically tell that this was eating him up. Is he now gonna go on one of these surges like he did in that first stretch from about 2011 to 2014? Do you think that's in store for him? Yeah, that's kind of the million dollar question here because you would think that okay, this has defined him basically for the last decade plus, right?
Trying to get that green jacket. Trying to complete the career grand slam and you know, join Jack and Tiger and Ben Hogan and Gary Blair, Gene Sarazen as the only players to ever win the grand slam and that's defined him for like the last decade. Now he's finally accomplished that. So does he go on and say okay, well I've got to set a new benchmark now. I've got to have, you know, let me get to 10 majors. I think probably Tiger and Jack at 14 and 18 are likely out of reach. Can I get to 10 majors?
What's my new benchmark? What's my new goal to achieve here? And I think that he's got a good chance to do it. He is only 35 years old and he's in a physical prime and he's, and he's relatively healthy and he takes care of himself. But the one thing he's got to fight, actually two things, he's got to fight complacency and he's got to find contentment.
It's like, okay, I accomplished this now. Now I'm good and now I'm just satisfied and I'm happy and he can't get complacent if he wants to be, I think one of the all time great because right now I'd kind of have the back end of the top 10 or top 12 all time. And certainly that, that's nothing to sneeze at, but if he wants to get in that group, I think with like Palmer and Gary Player and sit at the table with Tiger and Jack, he's got to win a couple more of these, of these major championships. And if his irons are going to be like they work, that's always kind of the weak part of his game JR is the iron play. We know driving, he hits it a mile and he always gains off the tee.
The short game can, you know, come and go, but by and large is usually pretty solid. It's usually his iron play that lets him down and his iron play, say for that wedge that he hit on 13 where he didn't even double, his iron play was number one all week. So if he's going to hit his irons like that, then there's a lot of guys out there in trouble and he's going to be the man to beat every week.
Wes Reynolds is joining us, host at Vson, as well as the long shots podcast. Now that he has accomplished this by, by winning the masters and being part of the grand slam club, Bryson DeChambeau little bit on the outs right now that given a whole live and PGA golf situation, is he kind of the next guy up that we look at and go, Hey, uh, when are you going to go ahead and win the next one? He's certainly on that short list.
I would also put Scotty Scheffler out there. Scotty, by the way, and Rory are the co-favorites for the PGA championship neck month at Quail Hollow, where Rory has won that, that Wells Fargo championship held there four times. But Bryson is certainly on the short list and look, he won, he won at Pinehurst, you know, Rory kind of gave it away to him, but somebody has to take it when somebody gives something to you. And Bryson DeChambeau certainly did at Pinehurst number two last summer. Bryson, if you look, I know it didn't end well for him on Sunday, but you kind of saw the fans, you know, like a gladiator walking into the arena and I've been everybody in that line on the way to the first tee.
There are very few athletes. I have seen the perception change so rapidly because Bryson DeChambeau, a lot of people didn't like him. They thought he was weird and thought he was arrogant. And now all of a sudden he's smiling and he's happy.
Wasn't smiling yesterday with the result, of course, of the final round at the masters. But he, he, I think his taste kind of changed a little bit. He's mature. So certainly he's on that short list. We can't forget about Xander Schauffele. He does have two major championship possession or trophies in his possession right now with a Wanamaker for the PGA with the Clara Jug for the open championship. So, you know, you've got, I think like a group of like four or five there at the top that have pretty much been the known quantities at the major championships over the last couple of years. When you think about being able to get everybody together at the masters, we heard from Bryson DeChambeau even that Rory wouldn't even look his way. I mean, these are two relatively young guys.
How much longer are they going to be out here beefing? Well, well they shook hands on the tee and then Rory kind of went in the tiger mode because tiger would never talk to you during a round either because he was steely eyed and focused. And there's a reason why that guy won 14 major championships.
But I think it's good. I hope that the, we, my brief between Rory and Bryson DeChambeau, I think it's, I think it's an interesting one certainly because when Bryson came on the scene and started winning and won that first major a few years ago, nobody was as long as him off the tee. He was the longest hitter with the driver of anybody in the game. And I think that kind of got under Rory because Rory was one, was the longest hitter and he kind of became a little bit obsessed with the driving distance, which like, I got to get it out there with Bryson and that I think weighed on his mind a little bit. So there is a little bit of a tension or a rivalry between the two. I mean, you know, there'll be core everybody is in golf, right? For the most part, but there is that little rivalry and, and, and I'm all for it. I think that's what the game needs right now with it being so divided with some of these players on live, some of them on the PGA tour, there doesn't look like there's a reunification anywhere inside. A lot of things got to happen for that to take place. But I think it's good that we have these rivalries at the major. So I hope it keeps going. Wes Reynolds is here with us on the JR Sportbreeze show Coast to Coast.
You mentioned the thought process and the ideology of someone like, like Tiger Woods. We know another surgery, he was not available. Now dealing with that Achilles, we got a, an April Fool's joke that he would be back in here available. I think about all of his surgeries and injuries and I say to myself, man, just, just take it easy a little bit. Is this guy gonna keep coming back to play?
Is he looking for that next stage of his life? Like what's going on with him? You know, there's a part of me, JR. Look, I think, I think we all like seeing him back in over the last few years.
It's like, oh cool, Tiger is back. And then you see him play and you see him just struggling physically and not the same guy, like the old fighter that doesn't have it anymore. And he probably doesn't, he really doesn't have it anymore. I think top guys now, does he want to keep playing and go to PGA tour champions when he turns 50? I don't know if that's really worth it as well, unless he just wants to compete and I'm sure he could go out there and beat all those guys. He's still much longer than May at the 50 and over circuit guys.
There's a part of me that's kind of like, you know, leave us with the good memory, leave us with the good, you know, don't, don't leave us, you know, with the guys that doesn't have it anymore. So there's part of me that would wish he would take it easy a little bit with the golf game because we've always kind of hold held onto that glimmer of hope, right? That, Hey, he did it in 2019 when people didn't think he could do it. And he won the masters that maybe he can do it again, that maybe he can do it one more time.
I just don't see it. I just think that the injuries and everything and the, you know, not only at all has just taken his toll on the guy. Yeah.
Um, I'm hoping he hangs out with his son, like pass it on tiger, just pass it on a little bit. Yeah. Let's room Charlie to get on the PGA tour next. Yeah.
Let's, let's stop beating yourself up. West Reynolds is here with us. Host of the long shots podcast, a courtesy of Vison.
You mentioned it. We got to wait about a month until we have the PGA championship. Obviously Rory is hot. Scotty Scheffler, another favorite. Uh, who are some other big names that we may want to look out for that we don't necessarily hear about?
Well, the guy that has the PGA championship, want to make her trophies, Andrew shop lady's kind of finally starting to get physically right. He missed about two months of this season with a rib injury and he, and he got his way, fought his way into the top 10 yesterday at quail hollow. He's certainly going to be on a short list. I think Ludwig O'Bear, the big Swede, uh, who had a bad finish yesterday and ended up going, I think bogey, triple bogey and bounced his way down from the top five to, I believe a tie for seventh. But this is a guy that's got the game, I think to win majors at least longterm. And, uh, you know, going to quail hollow Rory McIlroy of course is going to be his favorite. Like I mentioned the fact that he's won four times there, but there was somebody, if you're looking for a dark horse, there was somebody that he, his game has been all out of form.
He switched club manufacturers, he switched caddies, he switched swing coaches because he had a miserable year dating back to last masters, but ends up in the top 10 this week. And he's one at quail hollow. Maybe keep an eye out on how Mac Toma plays over the next month because I tend to like guys that have done well and had previous success at certain courses. And he is course of course is one at quail hollow. So that might be dark horse, but it is tough to kind of look past the big three or the big four at least.
You're probably going to have at least one or two of them on your betting card for sure. Yeah, most definitely. Well, Wes, thank you so much for coming through and providing your insight. Where can people follow, keep up and listen to you with all your work with Vson as well as the launch podcast? Yeah, sorry. I'm on the Twitter or the X, whatever it's called at West Reynolds and the number one on the end of that name and can also follow us at Vson.com.
That's V-S-I-N.com. Hey, Wes, thank you so much. We'll catch you on down the line. Okay. Yeah, I appreciate the time, man. Thank you.
