WEBVTT - June Pro Golf Check-In: U.S. Women’s Open, Scottie’s One Win, & the Fitzpatrick Brothers 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.920 When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.320 And when I find my ball. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.920 In a bride egg Frida egg, the dreaded Frida egg 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.840 Frida egg, Frida egg egg Frida egg, bride egg. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.080 Lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.720 Welcome back to the Friday E Golf Podcast Today. I 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.160 am excited to be joined by Joseph Lamanya and Kevin 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:45.840 van Valkenberg to just. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.040 Do our monthly check in. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.960 We've got the US Open Hurdling Down Memorial coming up 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.880 as well as the US Women's Open at Riviera, so 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.240 that should be actually a super fun event for the 0:00:59.280 --> 0:00:59.960 Women's Open. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.640 I think one of the. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.640 Neat things about that is that golf fans general familiarity 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.480 with Riviera from their hosting of every year's LA Open, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.240 but seeing a completely different style of golf being played 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.360 on a very familiar course. I'm really looking forward to 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.000 locking in on that this week for the US Women's Open. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.640 Lots of coverage of that on Golf Channel. So I 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.960 am joined by Joseph and Kevin. We're going to kind 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.600 of break down three storylines that we have enjoyed and 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.160 hope keep going. One thing that we're going we would 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.520 love to change if we were the golf Szar. 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It's you know, it's June. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.680 It's in that sweet spot in Baltimore where the humidity 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.320 hasn't arrived to sort of just absolutely murder you. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.239 And it's it's lovely. The pollen is fine. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.239 I played golf yesterday, played really bad, but the lovely 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.240 walk around Falls Road down there in Montgomery County with 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.080 some friends. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:21.960 That's great. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.040 That's great, doing great, Andy. This is one of my 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.680 favorite times of the year. You know, we've got NBA 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.880 Finals and playoffs kind of wrapping up. I think the 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.720 golf calendar. I love the little Colonial into Memorial stretch 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.920 and then the US Open also right. I don't want 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.360 to be disrespectful to the Canadian Open that's in there too, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.320 but this is a nice little run of golf, and 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.320 as you mentioned, the women playing at Riviera this week, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.560 so I think the golf tank is full as we 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:47.680 record this podcast. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.120 I don't think there's anyone, including Jack Nicholas, that loves 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.640 the Memorial more than you. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:53.880 So I am. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.920 You know, I've got I've been on a little golf hiatus. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.480 I have some golf coming back into my life soon. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:01.960 Uh. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.720 I'm excited. I'm going to Abandon Dunes. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.680 I've decided I'm going to play Hickory the whole time there. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.760 So I've decided that I am I'm kind of done 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.360 with modern technology for a while, Uh, which I tend 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.840 to do. So I'm gonna play real golf with with 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:21.480 the Hickory's. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.560 Will you play it? Like all the way back? What was? 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.440 How do you choose what tea is there? 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.239 Part of the reason I've wanted to do the Hickory 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.120 is so we're doing a Friday golf trip so that 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.640 I just can play with everybody there at the same 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.560 roughly the same tea box and and not be just 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.159 hitting wedges into every green. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.320 So I'm excited. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.719 I you know, I played, Uh, I played a couple 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.920 of months ago when we were in Scotland with Hickory's 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.080 on the old course, and it's just so much more fun. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.400 I mean, the hazards have so much more impact. You're 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.800 actually thinking about like, Okay, I'm need to get this 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.000 over here because I won't have a wedge with the 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.640 supreme stopping power in my hands to just make the 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:13.040 hazard irrelevant. So I'm excited about that. I'm uh I 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.039 and that'll carry us right into the US Open. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.880 So i'd have I might have seen you hit one 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.720 of the greatest shots that I've ever seen hit with 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.200 a hickory club, which was and into that eatinghole. Was like, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.320 and you hit a click, like just just a beautiful 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.680 baby draw two about four feet. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.960 Yeah, I forgot about that shot. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:34.359 I might have. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.719 I might have texted a professional golfer that we both know, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.560 and it was like, Andie will not brag about this, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.560 so I want you to give him some ship next 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.440 time you see HI about how freaking good this was. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.120 Yeah, that was one of the better shots in my life. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.479 Honestly it was. Yeah, it was like the four iron 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.479 I think was. Yeah, I'm glad I remembered it since 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.560 you apparently forgot it. So I don't remember really any shots. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.640 It's you know, I mostly I'm you know, probably what 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.000 you could say is my issue on the golf courses. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.000 I remember all the bad ones. I don't remember any 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.080 of the good ones. I remember heading good drive into 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.920 the Admiral Bunker on the reverse course and then having 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.919 to like shovel a ball out because I was so 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.240 far up on the web. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.880 That's really the only shot I remember from that, Right. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.160 You're kind of like Paul Aisinger. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.599 How Paul Asinger would always talk about pressure, and sometimes 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.680 you'd make the point I think appropriately on the pod 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.599 like that seems to be a little bit of a 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.359 window into the way Paul Aisinger thinks that, you know, 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.040 maybe he was always dealing with pressure, and you always 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.200 talk a scar tissue and the spots that guys don't 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.000 want to go on golf courses. It sounds like that 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.880 might just be a reflection of the way you experienced 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:38.240 the game. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.280 Uh yeah, yeah, I would say that negative self talk 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.400 is an issue on the golf course as well as 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:51.200 life for me. So I always am amazed at I've 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.080 always I've told this story before. I was at the 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.240 John Deere one year and d eight Points came off 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.960 the golf course after shooting seventy six, and we had 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.160 a mutual friend and I was with that that person 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.960 and Da Points comes up, I mean, everybody shooting sixty seven, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.720 you know, and Da comes up and he's you know, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.680 obviously with someone he's really comfortable with and he's like, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.320 can you believe all the bad breaks I got? I 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.000 mean a sprinkler out here, this there, And I just 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.040 like watched in Marvel as this guy explained away like 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.040 how he shot seventy six, And I thought to myself, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.920 if I would have walked off that golf course and 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:40.160 been like just like so disappointed with myself. But he 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.480 had literally like a misgiving for every shot and he, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.240 you know, he in his mind, should have shot sixty eight. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.200 And I was like, that's the difference between you know, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.640 many there are many things that are different, but that's 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.440 one of the biggest differences, is like I just can't 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.040 get rid of It's it's interesting you tell you like 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.920 the sports psychologist KVB. You just did a Q and 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:13.360 A with Julie Alion, a famous sports psychologist. But you 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.880 know they talk about staying in the present, and honestly, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.720 like I've said this to some people recently, I am 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:25.040 a better golfer today than I was, but I'm worse 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.600 at everything, every skill of golf. I'm a worst potter 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.440 of worst short game. I might be a better short 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.600 game player, I have a worst iron player or worst 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.240 driver of the golf ball. But literally the only thing 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.240 I'm better at, and I think it's because of kids, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.800 is like just like not getting bent out of shape 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:47.680 about a mistake. And it's because like you literally just 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:52.120 you know, with a young child, just sit and you know, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.320 have to clean up shit all the time. Like things 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.160 never go the way you wanted to go. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.440 I didn't think Da Points mentioned ten minutes into this 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.720 episode of the Frida Egg Pod, We're already off to 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:06.320 a hot start. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.160 The Da Points thing like it's burned. I'll never forget it. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.720 It's like, I mean he got lapped by the field 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.520 and it came off the golf course and it was 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.440 like he acted like he played the round of the day, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.960 but he just got bad breaks all day. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.800 And it's like this is just this guy. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.560 Lives in a completely different universe than me on the 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.319 golf course. And that's probably why I'm not very good. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.480 Listen, I would love to I've gotten a little better, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.679 I would say negative self talking the last year or so, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.559 I finally just realized, like, yeah, you're just bad at golf, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.880 like but that's okay, Like enjoy it and like you 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.800 don't have to throw a tantrum about you know, not 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.240 being whatever. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.880 So I'm handing up wet up yesterday and I was. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.880 Like, that's good, Like I kind of you know, I'm 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.480 i gonna get a for more strokes when I go 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.040 play a member guest somewhere. It's you know what, I'd 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:01.319 say this to people that struggle. Everybody sucks, you know it, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.520 And I think it's part. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.800 Of like what we did one of the things that's 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.640 nice if you can, you know, keep the perspective as 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.960 a as a journalist when you interact with these PGA 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.400 tour players, Like some of them will come off the 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.080 course and be like, I just suck right now. I'm 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.480 not good, and you're like in your head, you're like, well, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.800 you're like the fifteenth best player in the world and 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.280 you're saying this and it's like twenty five handicaps. They'll 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.760 be like, I'm not very good, and it's like, well, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 news flash, like nobody thinks they're actually good. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.200 That's a good chipping there you go. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.160 It's good segue in a couple of my guys that 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:45.800 we're going to discuss today about. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.640 Let's start with the limits open. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.240 Let's give it a shine riviera, let's do let's each 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.360 knock out one thing. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.760 We're looking forward to in particular at Riviera. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.040 Go ahead, Kevin, I'm just. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.640 Really looking forward to to seeing Nelly Corda like on 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.280 another classic American golf course, like the best driver of 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.080 the golf ball in the game sort of maybe figured 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.120 out US opened a little bit at Aaron Hill's last 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:16.200 year was has been particularly bad in US opens for 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.600 as talented as she is, And to me, that's just 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.120 like the lead story. If Nelly could come in and 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.800 win this major, I think it would mean such a 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.600 huge thing for like her personal legacy and career already 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.439 and you know whatever, I'm getting a little bit bored 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.480 of like the grow the game, boost the game. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:37.719 What does Nelly need to do. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.160 For this and that I think that's all kind of 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.320 sort of a little bit of nonsense in some ways, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.240 but just for her own like, hey, I'm I'm the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.600 real deal, Like I'm one of the great players of 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.000 this era or maybe any era. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.600 I think that would be be huge. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:59.120 Just for casual women's golf fans or people that haven't 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.680 tuned in to women's golf. This year, Nelly Korda is 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.480 having a absolutely sensational year. Her finishes in twenty twenty 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:14.359 six and her star Star first, second, second, second, first, first. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.200 And T eight. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.280 So T eight is her worst start of the year. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.240 Pretty incredible, obviously. I yeah, Joseph, I'd. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.080 Love to hear yours and then I can go into mind. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.640 I'm kind of switching mind in real time here because 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.120 I think Nelly Korda is the most interesting story. And 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.560 part of what I'm excited to watch about her play 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.760 is that Riviera is a weird golf course. I love Riviera, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.120 but it for a lot of the best players in 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.319 the world, they have trouble with it, and I think 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.320 it's hard to capture exactly why, Like I have some theories, 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.800 but I think it's just a funky golf course that 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 even some of the best players in the world, they 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.400 get there, everything looks fine, but then they just struggle. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.920 And you see it was Scottie Shaffler. Tigers struggles there 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.120 are well documented, I think maybe overstated at times because 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.040 he didn't always play there that often. But I'm just 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.880 excited to see if the best player in the world, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.319 Nelly Korda, can get it done, or does she similarly 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.800 kind of get spooked by a golf course that just 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.160 challenges people in different ways than they're used to, like 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.880 part of what I think happens at Riviera, and I 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.160 need to I would need to look into this a 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.320 little bit more, but I feel like, yes, the greens 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.520 are bunky and a little bit different than people are 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.120 accustomed to putting on, and they can get a little rough. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.959 By the end of the day, they break a lot. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:33.640 But I also think there's a lot of. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.040 Shots for being pin high isn't good enough, and that 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.920 if you're just a little off you're so used to 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.640 on the PGA Tour and presumably on the LPGA Tour too, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.640 that shot being okay, and it's not at Riviera. I mean, 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.320 ten's obviously an example example that quirkiness kind of turned 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:51.719 up all the way to the max. But there's a 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.440 number of other holes where you can hit something pin 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.679 high in eighteen feet left of the flag, towards the 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.400 fat side of the green and it's not in a 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.280 good spot. And I just don't think that's something that 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.280 a lot of professional golfers are used to. So I'm 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.360 interested to watch Nellie navigate that puzzle. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.080 You know, what I think it is is that older 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.160 golf courses have a lot more slope in the greens, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.800 and what you end up oftentimes when you're pin high. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.560 Is that you end up with that twenty foot putt 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:23.560 and it's just. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.520 That one that you're afraid of ripping away from you 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.840 as it gets past the hole where it's like you 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.560 have to play so much break that the putt then 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.800 turns into this downhill ripping away putt when it's going 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.920 to the hole. So then it what you end up 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.840 doing is you end up being afraid of like, Okay, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.160 this is gonna roll five feet by, but it's like 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.000 five feet straight up the hill, but you're still anxious 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.560 about It's the only time when there's a lot of 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.880 slope in the greens, it's the time, especially with pros, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.000 where you get psychologically. What I think what pro golfers 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.160 are so great at when I watch them putt is 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.040 the pace and the authority that they hit it with 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.560 is so clearly I'm not even thinking about the next putt. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.920 But when there's slope on the greens and they start 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.680 to see, okay, this can run away from me six 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.160 seven feet, that's the time it psychologically gets in their 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.880 head that creates doubt and then it leads to I 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.160 didn't hit it hard enough, and now I have the 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.080 three and a half footer that I have a cup 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.120 of break on. So it's like that combination of like, Okay, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.440 this result's bad, but actually the not committing to it 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.320 result could be worse. And now, like every statistician is 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.840 gonna be like, oh, you make X number of putts 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.600 more from three feet than from five and a half feet. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.240 But I think if you talk to like almost every pro, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.440 if you gave them just a dead street five and 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.200 a half footer up the hill versus a heavily breaking 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.040 three and a half footer, they're taking the five footer 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.800 up the hill. I mean that's like sitting on a 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.200 practice mat or your perfect practice mat in your house 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.880 just knocking down putt after putt, you know, versus a 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.360 putt where you're like, okay, I have to marry break 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.160 and speed. So I think that's the thing. It's like 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.480 most I would say golf courses that the LPGA and 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:27.120 the PGA Tour plays play on is in the kind 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.760 of in the era of green speed, you know, outside 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.080 the classics. It's like this era of like green speeds 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.960 are this so we can't have this much break but 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.920 all the classic golf courses have that much break that 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.800 they don't allow architects to build with. You know, modern 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.520 society has caused this, but that's the difference I think. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.640 Yeah, I think Nelly's very much going back to her 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.120 just for at quick sec like a vibes putter in 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.200 a lot of ways too. If she misses a couple early, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.720 that's starts to kort of frustrate her and get in 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.320 her head. But if she just you know, makes a 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.040 few shorties like early, it starts to kind of build 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.600 confidence and she is much less like sort of tentative 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.840 around stuff. So we'll be watching, you know, Thursday, just 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.359 to see, like, can she just get off to a 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.000 good start and shoot, you know, seventy sixty nine somewhere 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.000 in there and kind of make the beginning part of 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.000 the tournament and be like, all right, I'm already ahead. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.359 Of like where things are. I don't have to kind 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.640 of make some furious rally to make the cut. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.400 Yeah, I mean getting off, getting off on your front foot. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.080 As Paul McGinley would say, it's just such an important thing, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.320 you see it with every major. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:44.520 Showing tremendous metal out there. Nuddie carter I. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.199 The thing I'm most excited about is. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:53.440 I think we is we always talk about Riviera with 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.040 the men and like what an architectural wonder, what a 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.840 strategic golf course, and you know when it's when it's 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.040 playing firm for the men, it has a lot of 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.800 implications of like if you're out of position, it's hard 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.680 to hit it close, it's hard to score. I think 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.080 like we're actually gonna see how the strategy was played, 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.400 it was designed to play this week. In some regards, 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.639 I think the Kakuia approaches are going to be a 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.280 huge problem. I'm just gonna put that out there now. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.880 They're they're gonna there's gonna be complaints. The greens are firm, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:31.280 the approaches don't release or don't like allow the ball 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.080 to bounce in, So that's gonna be an issue. But 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.080 that being said, like we're gonna actually get to see 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.040 decision making and strategy on the tenth hole. It's not 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.000 just a uniform strategy of like blasted left the green 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.800 and figure it out. Some of the longer hitters, uh 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.800 and the women's game will be able to do that, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.639 but most players are gonna have to hit the approach 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.359 shot and thread it between the bunkers, avoid the right side, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.160 and it's gonna be really fun to watch a lot 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.280 of the holes play out. Mech Alway and Meg Atkins 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.640 from our team did a wonderful video which I would 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.680 implore everybody to go watch on our YouTube page that 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.760 broke down a few of the holes at Riviera. And 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.720 and what's the neat about it is it's like kind 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.520 of actually more how the normal golfer plays rivi Era. 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.920 It's not just bashlor driver up there. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.120 Like particularly the eighth hole, the split fairway hole, we're 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.359 gonna see people go right and left. You know, modern 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.560 men's game is all left right and and it's a 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.359 really it'll be a neat dynamic in the sense of 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.719 like we're going to see these holes played wildly different 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:41.800 than we're used to. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.320 So I'm I'm really excited about that. 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.600 Like the fifth hole, to me, would be one that 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.560 I would park myself on just because you know, you're 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.920 gonna have like a that missing right off the tee, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.320 not missing, but hitting it up the right side and 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.880 having to play over the mound with a longer club 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.199 is going to have a lot more more implication than 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.560 in the men's game where it's a wedge, it should 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.080 be super fun to watch. I think, like I think, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:12.240 given everybody's familiarity, Like you know, Riviera is a great 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.600 venue for the for for this kind of tournament. Another 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.760 it made me think, like another venue i'd love to 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.879 see the women play a huge event at is TPC 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.000 saw Grass. That would be so fun because like what 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.600 you're tapping into is familiarity, Like everybody always goes, Oh, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.119 Women's Major should be at Augusta National. Why don't we 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.280 have a women's Major at TPC Sawgrass. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.080 Yeah, it's a great idea, like a Solheim Cup. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.479 Yeah, yeah, Well the PG Tour probably would charge too 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.480 much rent for their strategic partner. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.119 That would be incredible. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.320 If you're listening, Brian roll Up, this would be huge, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.760 be huge for ratings, huge for the for the overall game. 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.159 You could get it sponsored by some AI bullshit like 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:56.720 be awesome. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.159 Uh, let's get to storylines. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.560 So these are like, yeah, the premise of this is 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.520 these are three kind of like drawn out stories or 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.680 stories that are happening in golf that we'd love to 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.680 see continue on the path for a given period of time, 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.960 and and and we could kind of dive into each 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.800 one that we picked out and and why we want 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:20.760