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00:00We always love having our boy Drano on.
00:02Andrew Drano Lano II, our boy, former PGA Tour caddy, the stuff of legend.
00:09Always good to have him on C2C.
00:11Drano, I know you cashed some fat tickets on Rory.
00:15How many times, because you saw that he was dealing, you saw that he had it.
00:23And how many times have you done that track and been on the bag at Augusta?
00:30And I've said this a number of times on this show, that there are guys that play this course well for, like, life.
00:38They know this golf course, and they know how to play it.
00:40They know where to hit it.
00:41They know where to run it.
00:43They know the angles.
00:44They know the greens.
00:45They know the speed.
00:47And they know exactly what they're doing.
00:50And guys that are even old, even Bernie and Freddie, they still know how to play that golf course.
00:55How many times have you seen it?
00:57And how many times have you done the bag at Augusta?
01:01Seven.
01:02So, yeah, I had five with Kenny Perry, one with Nick Faldo, and one with Len Matisse.
01:08So, yeah, that was some fun stuff.
01:10And I actually got shorted on two others that I qualified for.
01:14Kenny got hurt one year.
01:15And then I won with Chez Revy, but I didn't make it calendar-wise to the Masters.
01:21I got relieved in my duties.
01:22But anyway, you hit it on the dot.
01:25The uniqueness of that place is that, you know what, it's the only major that you play the same course.
01:30So everybody gains the knowledge, and everybody piles it up, and everybody stores all the memories and all that.
01:36And that's what makes it such a cool place.
01:38So you've seen guys, you said it to me in the break, that seven shots is not that big of a deal at that place.
01:48No, it really isn't.
01:49I mean, you know, look at 96, and, you know, Norman was walking away with a place, and Faldo just came out and just stomped, you know, just took over.
01:57And he just took it right to him.
01:59And it's one of the biggest comebacks ever, you know, like a 12-shot difference in score.
02:04But, I mean, yeah, it's just, it's such a fun, it's a course with a lot of edges.
02:09And I can say yesterday from watching it, I mean, they really, they gave those greens a real good haircut.
02:14I mean, they were really a lot faster than they were any of the first three days.
02:18And that's why you saw these guys jacking putts.
02:20How many times have you seen that Rays Creek come into play on a Saturday and a Sunday at Augusta?
02:29It's crazy.
02:30It's like the thing's got magnets in it.
02:33It is.
02:34I mean, I had, unfortunately, my guy, I was there one year with Kenny Perry, and we were running up the leaderboard, and we drove it down 13.
02:40And we had a six iron into 13.
02:43This was back before they pushed the tee back.
02:45And Kenny pounded it out there pretty good.
02:47He hit the prettiest six iron going right at the pin.
02:50And we're, like, in fifth or sixth place, and the thing just fell out of the air and into the creek.
02:55And you just look at each other, and you just, you know, I mean, it's, I almost have said that, you know, some of those holes are haunted.
03:01And I say that jokingly, but, I mean, it's crazy, you know, the stuff that happens there.
03:06And you saw a whole bunch of it yesterday.
03:08It is haunted.
03:10It's a unique place that it does things to, the back nine on Sunday, it does things to people like we've never seen.
03:20And we've seen meltdowns before there, like we've never seen in golf.
03:24But I continue to express on this show, and I know you've heard me how much I love the open.
03:31The open to me is so much better, it's not even funny.
03:34Like, for my money, with the wind, the rain, the cold, the weather, the Lynx golf,
03:41the difference in courses year to year, where they move around in the bunkers, everything about it, the fescue, everything about it to me.
03:51I don't disagree that the Masters is special and magnificent.
03:56It's just, for me, the open makes, it'll make a man out of you playing golf in that place.
04:03Like, I mean, honestly, it's just so different.
04:04What was it like for you to do the bag there as opposed to Augusta?
04:09Well, I mean, you know, you're exactly right.
04:12It's where golf was invented.
04:14So, I mean, it's not American golf over there.
04:16You have to play the golf, as they say, along the ground.
04:19And you've got to be real creative.
04:22And it's just, it's crazy, like you said.
04:24I mean, they do play different venues.
04:26You do have to learn those venues.
04:28And the weather, you can never count on it.
04:30I mean, it is its own animal.
04:33And the Masters is its own, the U.S. Open.
04:36We know all that.
04:37But, I mean, it takes a lot of talent and guts to win over there.
04:41And, I mean, Rory already did that.
04:43So, I mean, you know, and even Phil, they never thought Phil could do it.
04:47And Phil actually buckled down and got it late in his career.
04:50But, I mean, St. Andrews, let's face it.
04:52That's where these guys, honestly, they all want to win there.
04:55And you heard Rory yesterday in his interview.
04:57It really hurt to lose to Smith there a couple years ago.
05:01So, you know, yeah, you're right.
05:03I mean, it's fun.
05:04And the fans over there, they're so knowledgeable.
05:07They know the game.
05:08It's a complete, I mean, it's crazy.
05:10And it is going to be really chaos this year when they go to Ireland and Rory's just won.
05:15Well, and he's, you know, at that place, at Port Rush, I mean, that's going to be insanity.
05:21Who do you think, who do you think has suffered more?
05:26Are Rose at Augusta or Phil in the U.S. Open?
05:33Boy, that's a tough one.
05:34I mean, you know, I like Justin Rose.
05:36I mean, to be the guy, to be the part of a trivia question, who's lost two playoffs at Augusta.
05:41I mean, to be that close.
05:43I mean, you watched it yesterday.
05:45I mean, you get to that point, the 72nd, or in his case, the 73rd hole.
05:50I mean, that is just crazy.
05:52And people have no idea what these guys put into it with everything that they do just to get to that point.
05:59I mean, I'd have to say, for me, it might be Rose.
06:02When you watched him miss that five-footer on 18, Rory, and you've seen him at Pinehurst do the same thing like three times.
06:13When you're standing there holding a bag for a guy and he misses a putt like that, how bad does the knife feel in your chest as well as his when he misses?
06:27Because I don't know.
06:28I said earlier on the show today, because I used to be a golfer.
06:32And when I played, I was pretty good when I played every day, seven days a week in California.
06:36But if I missed a five-footer, I was completely effed for the next three or four holes.
06:42I was double, double bogey.
06:44And I was cussing.
06:45I was smoking.
06:47I was yelling.
06:48What does it do to you and your golfer when you miss that five-footer on a 72nd hole?
06:54How do you win after that?
06:56I don't ever – no one can explain that to me, how he still won.
06:59Well, I've got to tell you, you know, I've always said this, you know, the tour's been around for 60 years or whatever, and I've never seen a caddy hit a shot.
07:08But, I mean, our main job is to be there, you know, in that instance and try to get that page turned.
07:15And I heard that Harry Diamond went up to Rory and he said, Rory, if I told you on Thursday that you'd be standing here in a playoff, would you take it?
07:25And I heard that Rory said yes.
07:27So, you know, to Harry Diamond's credit, that was a great thing to say.
07:31I mean, it's over with and done with.
07:33And then I knew it was real when Rory got up there and blasted that drive down the middle with a fade.
07:39I mean, he absolutely creased that thing.
07:43And, I mean, he was always going to be by Rose because, obviously, he's longer than Rose.
07:47But, I mean, it was like I was a little bit nerved up on that to think, like, the same thing you're thinking.
07:52Well, what's he going to do here?
07:54But you know what?
07:54To his credit, kid's resilient.
07:57And he carries himself well.
07:58I don't care what anybody says through the thick and thin.
08:01You know, and I've had interaction with him.
08:03He's always been great to us, signing stuff for our foundation, et cetera.
08:06So, I got no qualms with Rory, you know, regardless of what he chooses to do otherwise with tours and this and that.
08:13All right, so, respectfully, I got one minute.
08:17When you saw him sink it and win and throw his club and fall to his knees, what did it do to you?
08:25Because I was all kinds of shook up because my mother-in-law and my uncle are all from Belfast and they're drunks and they're in heaven.
08:33And you know they were drinking whiskey in heaven.
08:36What did it do to you when he did it?
08:38I mean, I'll tell you, I was elated.
08:42I mean, I didn't care anything about the bets.
08:44I was so, I mean, my mom is Irish and she's not with us anymore, so I know what you went through on that deal.
08:50But just for golf and, you know, given my 25 years to golf and my position that I did, I was happy for the game of golf.
08:59I was really happy for Rory to have that relief off his shoulders because it's kind of a bad rap.
09:04But you know what?
09:05The kid kept coming and he got there and, you know, that's all I can say.
09:09I mean, I'm still.
09:11We think it was the best sporting event of the year.
09:13Great.
09:13I love you.
09:14Great job.