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00:00Jack Nicklaus is one of the few people that can say this, given his career list of accomplishments.
00:05And he's also like, he's at the age where he can just probably say whatever he wants to, and it's going to be fine.
00:09But, and this is just an excerpt, the Golf Digest tweet of his full press availability, press availability after Scottie's win.
00:16He says, Ben Griffin's a nice player.
00:18Seth Straka is a nice player.
00:20Nick Taylor is a nice player.
00:21But Scottie Sheffer knows those guys are not in his league.
00:24I don't, he probably did not mean this as a slam to those guys.
00:28I just think what's interesting about that to me is just the mentality of a guy that's won as many majors as Jack has, and just unpacking where Scottie is.
00:37And you kind of, you kind of started this conversation here of like, he's got the five tools and the six ones mentality.
00:42And just what intangibly what Scottie has, they're trying to kind of describe how that puts him in the same category as a Jack Nicklaus.
00:51Well, first off, Jack's not wrong.
00:53He's not wrong.
00:54He's, he is telling the truth.
00:56And unfortunately, you know, when you, when you sit up there on that podium, uh, when a, when a player like Jack Nicklaus, who's, you know, the, excuse me, is one of the most majors of all time, uh, says something definitively, it's going to be a headline thing.
01:12And that's going to be a headline thing.
01:14It's going to be looked at as a dig, but it's not at all.
01:17It's just how good Scottie is.
01:19And even Jack said after that, uh, I, I don't think I got to read the exact quote.
01:25Cause I, I saw just kind of somebody that interpreted it as I'd never was quite as good as Scottie is right now is the way I read it.
01:34But I need to go see that full quote.
01:36And so I can have the, uh, all of the contacts there, but he said something along those lines.
01:41Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and I, I think it's, yeah, it's, it's, I like that Jack said this simply because I think we ask people to be honest all the time in this arena.
01:53And then when they're honest, they get penalized for it.
01:55Uh, you know, and I'm not sure that Jack Nicklaus cares about like social media chatter at this point in time, but I just think it's interesting, you know, more so just the lens through which Jack views Scottie.
02:06And now that it's shocking that Jack thinks that Scottie is an elite tier, but just really, he's put, he's put them in the same categories as himself.
02:13Wouldn't you care about that?
02:14Shouldn't we care about that?
02:15If Tiger Woods says the exact same thing about Scottie, doesn't it add that much more of a, of a feeling of, of how good he is?
02:24Because this, we're talking about the debatable best of all time between him and Tiger.
02:30And he, he is saying these things glowingly about Scottie.
02:33Um, it's from my eyes, I, he's probably going to be the best player that I ever witnessed.