Friday: Rory goes home after Masters win

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Last Sunday, we had maybe the most emotional golf tournament
in the history of golf tournaments with Roy mclroy's Masters win.
I still watch I've still been watching highlights all week
of that. Of course, I have the question is have you.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Know I've got a bone to pick with you and
I have a bone to pick with Yeah, because you have.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
A new Do you have a favorite TV channel?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Man?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah? Usually when I get here, you know, I throw
on ESPN or Fox Sports whatever whichever one is on.
I usually wait until about one o'clock because I can't
stand watching h d Bag former punter. But yeah, but
now I find I find myself when I come in Andy,

(00:52):
I find myself putting it on the golf here.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
There you go, and I converted you.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm like, hey, let's let me sit here and watch
round two of.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
The Scotti Cheffer George Speath all day. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
So, anyway, apparently Rory is visiting mom and dad in
Northern Ireland, and there has been no photos that I've
seen yet. I've been looking for a while of him
other than him touching down at Belfast at the airport.
The plane that he has on is a private plane,
so it has a tail number that can be tracked

(01:25):
by the stalkers out there that like the stalk celebrities,
and they tracked it to England last night our Wednesday,
and apparently he spent some time in England, not long,
and then got back on air Rory and took off Belfast,
which I'm guessing is about an hour flight from London
to Belfast. And then a van picked him up and

(01:47):
I guess took him to mom and Dad's house. But
I don't know that, unlike the I don't know that
there's paparazzi in Northern Island that are looking for him
or outside the home waiting for him to peek out.
But I hope one thing that he does do while
he's there, I hope he goes to to the golf
club and they have the proper party for those people
that were staying up at one o'clock in the morning

(02:08):
watching him perform.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
But by the way, Andy, you actually can just google
it and you can find Rory's plane number.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's it's legit. I'm I don't care what he's playing
right now. I don't care where it is, I don't
care who he is. I am a fan of Rory.
I think Rory is a class act and a great guy,
but I really don't care where his plane is unless
I'm on it.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, true, we do. We do have a we do
have a colleague here that occasionally with a pilot too.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, I didn't want to throw out throw that out there,
but uh, he occasionally will will meander. I don't know
what the website is been seeing where where the king
himself is at? You know, he's like, oh, well he's
down in you know, Puerto Rico, he's down on the Caribbeans.
Oh he went here?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Which king are we referring to? The only king there is? Andy, Well,
there's several kings.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
There is only well, for me, there was only one king,
and that would be the King, George Strait. Okay, just
making sure that obviously there was Elvis he was the king.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
But then there's lebron No, he has never been the king.
He's never here books about him being a king.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't care. That was something that the media gave him.
George Strait will always be the king, that's why was me.
And then there's Richard Petty, Yeah, Richard Petty king as well.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Anyway, Rory made it to Northern Ireland. They tracked this
plane and here I got a stat of the day
for you. Staut of the day. The audience in the
United States for the Masters picked at nineteen point seven
million yep, which if you do the math between that
in three hundred and thirty seven million people United States,
that's about six percent of the country what's watching the Masters.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
But those are NFL numbers.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Those are that nineteen million is an NFL Sunday afternoon
three o'clock. The playoff games will peak in the Super
Bowl obviously peaks more than that, but those are kind
of early Sunday afternoon, the doubleheader games.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
As far as people watching, But.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
In Northern Ireland, I think in the entire country of
Ireland there's about five million people because from census standpoint
they for population it's Northern Ireland and Ireland, even though
the countries are separate and have some separate government government stuff.
They're about five million people. Almost two million people were
watching Rory in the Masters. That's thirty seven percent of

(04:33):
the country stayed up until past midnight to watch Rory
win the Masters on Sunday, so.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Then there was a BBC a Northern Ireland reporter that
tracked down Rory McElroy's old principal, a guy by the
name of John Stevenson. And apparently when Rory was fourteen
to fifteen years old, he was winning golf tournaments all
over Europe and he was the next version of the
great golfer of of England or of any place in

(05:02):
the UK for that matter.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
And his dad went.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
To the school principal and said, we need to work
some stuff out here because Rory's going to be gone
some And so John Stevenson told the BBC Northern Ireland
that he started breaking some of the rules that didn't
apply to Rory, like when he had to show up
for class because he might be playing in a golf
tournament somewhere. And he said, I think I made the

(05:29):
right decision. Looking back on this in hindsight, he says,
young mackalelo, I can't do an Irish brogue. But young
mclroy was driving and putting at times when he should
have been studying. Indeed, there was an old joke in
his hometown where he was growing up. Have what do
Sullivan Upper High School and a bucker at Hollywood Golf

(05:50):
Club have in common?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
What Andy.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Rory was never in either of them.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's a hard one. So it was that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was agreed that that Rory would.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Roy would get.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
His classes done, he would take his exams, and his
friends would help him. You know, whatever he missed in class,
he would make up at night when it was too
dark to play golf, which basically he hit golf balls
from sun up to sundown most of the time when
he was a kid.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I mean I would assume, or I would at
least hope that that former principle is close sort to help.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Roy says I to him and says, thank you for
letting me out of school.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, because otherwise that's not a real good look. Oh yeah,
I've bent the rules for this kid. But all the
other kids mat we iron thumb man stars get to do.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
What they want to do. If you're good, you get
to make the rules. As long as you don't. You know,
here's the thing is, if I let you out of class,
are you going to get your work done? If you're
not in class, And most people would slough off and
not do that. But if you still get your work
turned in on time, and you still do all of
your your essays and your math problems and all that

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kind of stuff. Who cares if you're in class or not.
But most people would abuse that. It's like when we
went to when we had COVID, everybody worked remotely at home. Well,
some people sat on their rear end it did nothing
and still got paid.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I wonder what that was like.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
And others still worked even though they were told that
there was no disciplinary for them not working.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
And so.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
If you're going to like, I work when I'm on
the road, so I'm not just you know, laying in
a terrible hotel bed five hours a day and sleeping
the whole time. There's stuff I got to get done.
I can do it on a computer. It doesn't matter
if I'm in this building or somewhere else. So that's
how I get it done. My days are are long,
and that's the way it's going to be. So I'm

(07:49):
not complaining you to steal with it. But so if
Rory got his work done, I don't really care how
he got it done. And he's got a high school degree,
he did not go to college, and he went pro.
Right away, I'm going to say this too, there is
I'm sure there are players on the PGA Tour that
are playing now and making a living that really had

(08:12):
to work really hard to get good. And there's others
that just had it and that's how they got great.
And Roy McElroy as a twelve year old was breaking
seventy on a routine basis. Maybe it was at Hollywood
Golf Club, or maybe it was at a harder golf
course like Royal County Down or what Upoort Rush, but
he was a scratch golfer as a middle school kid.

(08:37):
And I think that that you can always, maybe, I guess,
work hard enough to get good, but to get really
really good like Roy is, I think you got to
have some natural ability. I think it's like a pitcher
that can throw a hundred. As Kevin Costner said in
Bull Durham, the gods came down and turned his right

(08:58):
arm into a thunderbolt. Not everybody can throw it one
hundred miles an hour, no matter how hard you work out.
Not everybody can hit a seven iron from two hundred
and ten yards like Roy did. And unless you are
just gifted to be able to do.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
That, not everybody can run four one nine like Xavier Worthy.
Did you know we've talked to talk about that you
might be able to shave like a tenth or point
one one or whatever it is. But uh, you just
it's the way your body is is developed and comprised of.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
So.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I would assume at that point it's like, why
would his parents just not homeschool.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'm not sure they even had homeschool back in the
day in Northern Ireland. And that may be just an
American thing. I don't know, I know, I know, I know,
like in Australia, if you're a good golfer, you don't
you don't go to regular school, you go to an academy.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean, is Australia. Australia is not even real Andy,
Come on now, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I know people from there. I know people that have
been there, or at least alleged that.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
They've been there. Yeah, Australia is not a real place, Andy.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's a it's a former prison for the English, the
English bad guys.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
It was settled as English convicts.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, the all those in the in Europe are in
the UK that didn't like their the attitude of their
their citizens. They put them on a boat and said
get off here and we'll we'll come back with the
next load next month.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It was the Originalao Bay.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
It was not as bad as guandana Obay. There just
wasn't anything there except wildlife that you had to fight
and kangaroos and those gigantic spiders all.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
That kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, So Rory's there, Like I said, I hope
he uh gets to go to the club and have
a fight with everybody in the club. And he's scheduled
to play next week with Shane Lowry in New Orleans
at the Zurich Classic. Uh and so far he has
not withdrawn, so my guess is he'll be back in
New Orleans. It was just Rory and his daughter Poppy.

(10:58):
Erica didn't go uh and I guess she had stuff
to do back in the United States. So there you go.
All right. They're playing at hilton Head today and this
weekend and then off to New Orleans next week. More
basketball stuff to get to. We'll take a look at
the Eastern Conference matchups, Jay Billison's comments, and the latest
that we know about Pop.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's five point forty five on the ticket