Break80 Podcast

We are at the halfway point in the 2025 Masters Tournament, and with moving day in a few short hours, the stars have shown up for the 89th Masters.

After a couple disappointing double bogeys to finish his first round, Rory McIlroy came back with a sterling 66 on Friday to climb back up the leaderboard and back into the conversation heading into the weekend. Will this be the year he gets the monkey off his back and completes the grand slam?

Bryson Dechambeau also played a much cleaner round on Friday than he did the previous day and finds himself a shot back of the leader after 36 holes. Can the YouTube star find a way to put on the Green Jacket this Sunday.

Scottie Scheffler was frustrated at times, but played well enough to hang around heading into the weekend. Leader Justin Rose has to know that the world number one player is lurking, just 3 shots back of his lead.

We will talk about the stories so far, including Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer battling to try to made the cut at ages 65 & 67 at the same time, young spaniard Javier Ballestar got in hot water for urinating into Rae's Creek.

We will talk this and many more topics, including our predictions on this Masters midway point episode of the Break80 Podcast.

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Masters week is finally here and we have John Ellis joining us live from Augusta National to talk about the playing of the 89th Masters Tournament. John is the caddie for the current number 11th ranked player in the world, Wyndham Clark.

He will give insight into what he is seeing from the course so far this week, what it takes to win at Augusta National and how his guy Wyndham Clark is preparing for the tournament.

If you are looking for some insight into the golf course and the tournament, this is the episode for you.

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After a brief recap of the Valero Texas Open and LIV Miami, we are talking all things Augusta National this week as we preview the 89th Masters.

Augusta National is once again ready to host the first major of the year. We go through any changes to the golf course or its setup, and discuss whether anyone can beat Scottie Scheffler at a course that suits his game so perfectly.

Will this be the year that Rory finally has his breakthrough at Augusta? He comes into the Masters in top form and looking primed for the elusive Green Jacket. Will it be a coronation for Rory or another year of heartbreak?

We will talk about who can possibly win the tournament from the players in the field and other interesting storylines from this years playing of the Masters.

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After building a 5 stroke lead in the final round, Min Woo Lee avoided a major meltdown and a birdie barrage by world number one Scottie Scheffler to secure his first PGA Tour victory at Memorial Park in Houston.

Besides Lee and Scheffler, Rory McIlroy made a Sunday charge with 8 straight 3's on the scorecard to come roaring back from a slow Thursday round for a top 5 finish. We will discuss all the events topics from Min Woo Lee's drive on 16 to Alejandro Tosti's antics in the final group.

In the wildest event of the week on the DP World Tour, the Hero Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club only had 3 players finish under par and almost 70 rounds at 80 or above. We will talk all about this wild event on a crazy golf course.

Tim breaks down this week in YouTube golf, including the Wes Bryan vs. Jason Day match. With LIV Golf having a creator classic this week, we look at the question, will the creator classics need to adjust to be sustainable?

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The boys were back on the road this last week when they headed down to the Chattanooga area to play some great golf courses.

In this episode, Mike is joined by Javi to talk about the trip, one in which we played Chattanooga Country Club, Sweetens Cove, McLemore Resort's new course called the Keep and finished the trip off by playing Lookout Mountain Club, which is a Seth Raynor golf course on top of the mountain, which was recently renovated/completed by Tyler Rae and Kyle Franz.

Some stories will be told, tips given, courses reviewed and talked about and much more on this travel talk episode.

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Rory McIlroy kept his hot 2025 season going with a Monday morning finish in a playoff beating JJ Spaun to capture the Players Championship. McIlroy was able to win the tournament without his best stuff, which should scare the rest of the tour and set Rory up for a huge year on tour.

We dive into the championship to give our reactions to a variety of things, including another Creator Classic that had some good golf and some bad golf at TPC Sawgrass.

LIV Golf was back at it this week in Singapore and Joaquin Niemann came away with his second victory of the season. This victory prompted Phil Mickelson to make some wild comments on social media about Jaco being the number one player in the world.

Finally, Donald Trump claimed to have won another club championship this past weekend and we are here for the comments on the social media sites.

This and more on episode 132 of the Break80 Podcast. You can subscribe on Apple, Spotify and YouTube for weekly golf content.

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Global Head of Engineering for Golf Pride Greg Cavill, comes on the podcast to discuss the NEW Max Align Grips, the Golf Pride philosophy and new golf technology.

There is so much more to a golf grip than just rubber and Cavill goes into detail about when to change grips, the benefit of fresh grips and some of the tours favorites. 

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The Arnold Palmer Invitational once again gave the best players in the world a stiff challenge and Russell Henley used a timely chip-in eagle on the 16th hole to surge to the victory at Bay Hill. Henley was helped by Collin Morikawa's short game woes on the back 9 Sunday en route to a one shot victory.

We will dive deep into what makes Bay Hill's setup so challenging for even the best players in the world. Tim has played the course, so he will give some inside knowledge into the setup and some holes that are specifically challenging.

On the LIV golf circuit, Sergio Garcia got a win in Hong Kong, but the bigger story may be that Dustin Johnson took last place. We will discuss if this is the end for Dustin Johnson, if he even cares that he is playing horrible or will he resurrect his game at say Augusta National.

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Every wonder what it was like working with Tiger Woods in the 90's? If so, we got the guy for you. Larry Bobka has been in the golf club business for over 40 years. He has worked with Wilson and Titleist among other companies. Larry will give us some great stories, among them, fitting a young Tiger Woods once he was signed by Titleist.

Larry gives some stories and tips from a lifetime of club fitting and boy has it changed. The days of banging clubs on curbs to bend them has been replaced by all sorts of data and equipment to build clubs to precise measurements for individual players. Larry will talk about both the good ole days and the newer generation of fitters.

If you listen long enough, you will even get a great Tiger Woods story from Arby's!

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Joe Highsmith went from barely making the cut to his first PGA Tour win with an exemplary weekend at the Cognizant Classic to kick of the the "Florida Swing" at PGA National. Jake Knapp fired a sizzling 59 on Thursday to jump out to a lead but was not able to keep the good playing going through 72 holes as he and the rest of the field were passed by Highsmith on the weekend to grab the title.

Luke Clanton made another PGA Tour cut and got his tour card through the PGA Tour University accelerated program. It has been a spectacular and unique rise for Clanton who has done it mostly by great play in PGA Tour tournaments. We even dare to raise the question about the number one amatuer in the world... Would Keegan Bradley think about making him a captains pick for the Ryder Cup this fall?

With Angel Cabrera coming back to the Masters and a former Australian biker gang member qualifying for the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, we dig into some of the felonies committed during PGA Tour events. Jeff will also discuss a current legal situation between Tony Finau and some agents he had early in his career.

Tim dives into this week in YouTube golf which saw John Daly and his son take on Grant Horvat and Phil Mickelson as the big YouTube golf of the week.

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