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What you need 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.680 to do is actually square face, so they'll dig down 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.240 underneath that bad lie and propel that mall right out 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:05.800 onto the green. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:07.320 Here's the thing. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.880 Playing out of a buried lion of bunker is completely 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.440 different than playing out of a nice clean lion of 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.880 green side bunker. You need to be aggressive on any 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.399 show weather it's sitting cleanly for its Friday Egg. Well 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.039 we've all faithd it redreaded Frida Egg not to be 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.280 feared though it's actually a pretty easy shot to hit. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.160 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another edition of the 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.320 Friday Egg Podcast. Today I am joined by Brendan Porath 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.320 of esp Nation and Sean Martin of the PGA Tour 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.840 to break down this week's Open Championship. Welcome on, guys, Andy, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:54.920 Am I having us back? 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.000 Am I your first international guest in Friday history? 0:01:58.560 --> 0:01:58.760 Yeah? 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.560 Sean Martin coming from Live on the ground. But now 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.440 we've had international guests. We've had Mike Clayton from Australia. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.880 All right, that's Richie rams Richie Ramsey from from Scotland. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.760 Yeah. So nice to you to be able to get 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.959 out of an airport terminal for this one. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:23.359 Sure, yeah, you know, have it fit you in. I've 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:28.639 been here for nine days so I'm well Scottish life, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:29.680 ask me anything. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.880 So yeah, you're you're respecting audio, you know this is 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.800 this is a rare appearance for you, not in an 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.320 either a media center or airport. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:44.840 Yeah, I hate the. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.600 Sound on my own voice, so I haven't listened back 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.560 to the shinnacog one, but I definitely kind of want 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.680 to just to hear what that that airport sounded like 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:51.600 in that podcast. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:56.639 Yeah, only psychotic thinge people listen to the podcasts they're 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:57.959 on or a video. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:59.680 I don't know how people do it. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.079 Yeah, you have to have a be psychotic. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.520 So Sean, how is it as baked out as everybody's saying? 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.400 What to give us some reporting from the ground? What 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.840 can you tell us it is? 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.079 And we got some little sprinkles this morning, so I 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.560 think and Tiger kind of talked about that we're we're 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.600 not quite at the point where we were. There was 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.240 talk of like DJ driving it into the burn on eighteen, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.360 which is four hundred and fifty yards, but you're still 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.600 you're getting guys talking about hitting three three thirty. I 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.840 mean it's rolling outever, I mean it's gonna be the 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.720 story of this open. There should be if you're having 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.320 your open bingo or open drinking game. I think hoy 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.680 Lake or Liverpool definitely has to feature prominently on the board. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.480 There's gonna be tons of comparisons to that, A lot 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.880 of hope for people who want to see Tiger Wayne 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.040 that he can kind of repeat that performance, and so 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.000 there are a lot of similarities there. I think that 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.520 you can see a lot of irons off the t's. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.040 You might see you guys not hit driver at all 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.040 for the week. Definitely a lot depends on the wind too. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.840 Of sharing the train home with a caddy, and he 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.080 was talking about how downwin the Paul just it does 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.960 launch once it hits the faraway, but really, if you're 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.000 into even a little bit of wind, it really holds 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.040 it up pretty well and it doesn't roll nearly as much. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.039 And I don't have my exact wind gauge on me, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.120 but I feel like walking around some days in the 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.880 morning and the afternoon, the wind does switching up where 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.160 holes can play down win in the morning and into 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.960 win in the afternoon. So it's just there's a lot 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.200 of variables. Of players are always are of the Open Championship, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:30.680 and I think that's definitely gonna be part of it 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:31.839 this week. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.800 Yeah, the weather looks pretty good for the week, so 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.919 it doesn't I mean, from what I've seen, it doesn't 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.960 look like there's going to be one of those crazy 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.479 Open Championship days yet, but with you know, pretty good 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.680 weather conditions, it you might escape that possibility of one 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.479 side of a draw getting like an unbelievably huge advantage 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:55.520 over the other side. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.680 Yeah, we don't have a lot of win in the forecast. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.120 I think like fifteen miles an hours the most, and 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.840 then Friday a little like occasional rain as they put 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.599 it in the mornings about the extent of the rain. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.880 So it's gonna be good for ice cream sales, it's 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.400 gonna be good for equity of the draw, so it 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.880 should be a pretty good, well runded Open Championship. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.600 So Brendan, what are you what are you watching for? 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.599 Do you have any random facts you remember from the 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.520 last time they open was at Carnoustie. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.080 Also, huh, I don't know. I'm trying to think you 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.880 want like random drama or random beefs. I think the 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.919 thing I loved most about the last time at carnelis 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.760 do is Rory's outfit. You know, I got the scripting, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.440 but he was, you know, amateur the time. He's doing 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.839 the deep V neck button up cardigan, you know, with 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.560 the floppy hair. It's just interesting. To think about how 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.360 far we've come in only eleven years and now he's 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.120 kind of the ripped guy and the the Nike blade 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.920 collars and the assortment of athletic gear. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.559 That was your favorite version of Rory Fat Rory. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.800 Yeah, it was like he was like pudgy Rory, kind 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.359 of on his way out of fat Rory. Really a 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.280 nice medium, happy medium there so hadn't quite hadn't quite 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.320 you know, he hadn't turned pro yet and made the 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.600 money to kind of plump up, you know. It was 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.000 just kind of innocent, pudgy, amateur Rory. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.760 So while we're talking about Rory, what do you guys think, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.120 do you think he's got got majors? And I mean, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:32.919 is the putter that big of a problem? 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:40.719 I don't know, man, I still have a little bitk 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.880 was so jarring. I mean, he was out the USA 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.960 was basically over for him at like am Thursday. We 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.560 were all riding that high of he wins at bay 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.520 Hill and he plays the fund group with the Masters 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.440 and obviously very heartbreaking loss, but uh had played well 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.440 for the most part and then just comes out at 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.760 Chinnacock and it's just I mean, was he nine over 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.520 after nine ten over after ten, it was he was jarring, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.520 and you know, I mean the Rory story is always 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.600 always plays well in soft conditions, and I just feel 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.520 like that exacerbated that storyline because it was firm as 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.280 fast and it was a very early ejection that I 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.320 just I can't recover from it yet, and I can't 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.360 quite take him this week. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.080 His his putter at Travelers now two years in a 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.120 row has been insane how poor it has been. It 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.600 must be something about those greens, because like, what was 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.840 it last year he went through three putter changes in 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.160 a week, and then this year he was I think 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.760 seventy second in strokes gain putting for the week, and 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.680 you know he's by far, like I think he was 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.640 three shots clear the next person in strokes gain tee 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.800 to green. So I don't know, it's it's just a 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.960 matter everything kind of coming together. But if he puts 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.239 field average, he's going to be in the top five, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.680 you know, yep, it's just getting him to put field average. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.360 Yeah, I don't know. I guess my discussion of his 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.120 sweater brought us here, But yeah, I just think he's 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.800 kind of a I don't know, not a bit player. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.720 He never is, but he's just like a part of 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.520 the crowd this week, I would say, I'm not like 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.200 I think, you know, obviously there's always he's one of 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.440 the top ten players in the world, there's always the 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.760 potential for him to contend. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.520 I just I don't know that he's putting well enough. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.600 He seems like he's working through a lot of different 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.800 things and trying to go back to a there's like 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.200 more natural swaying. He talks about oh nine, you know 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.040 fat Rory Sway. You know, things aren't always bad when 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.320 he got some extra weight on you. So yeah, it 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.319 seems like he's just kind of trying to figure out 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.680 some things. So I think he's just kind of part 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.320 of a larger group that's worth talking. Maybe maybe not 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.680 sticking out as much as he does that you know, 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.160 the Masters where we have that natural storyline we always 0:08:58.160 --> 0:08:59.920 want to talk about and some of the others. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.840 What storyline are you guys watching, Like, what storyline are 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.560 you buying most this week? Which is your favorite one? 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:11.439 Go ahead? 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:19.240 Sol non Hideki division. I do love that that Hideki 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.680 Tiger Rueknox pairing. I'm all in on Russell Knox. The 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.360 last Scottish win in the Open came at Carnoustie in 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.600 nineteen ninety nine. Two of the last three Scottish winners 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.600 were at Carnoustie. I just think a guy who is 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.680 playing very well, is on a good run of form, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.240 he hits it dead straight and the course is going 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.960 to play short. I just have high hopes for Rude Knox. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:44.760 I know it's not like one of the major storylines. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.960 We're getting pretty off topic here. We're gonna start talking 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.839 about probably the Eastern Amateur next or something. But I'm 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.520 in on that, and I think I've been on Brooks. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.000 I think, I mean Shinnacock was firm and fast, and 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.840 I think winning at Shinnacock. I don't know that Brooks 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.319 ever doubted his ability, is full of confidence, but I 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.600 think winning at Shinnecock I think showed all of us 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.000 a lot, and I would think showed him a lot 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.480 too that I mean, he already knew he could play majors. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.040 It's now eleven straight majors, where twenty first are better. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.160 But I mean, I feel like, if it's really firm, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.240 really fast, we saw what Brooks did at Shinnacock, I 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.680 think it's gonna be all about iron and play, and 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.439 I think, you know, I think Brooks is a name 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.800 to watch, and if he did, that'd be three majors. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:27.400 I feel like the firm conditions might mitigate distance a little. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:32.000 In the distance advantage, I think you'll see. I mean, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.960 guy like Zach Johnson all of a sudden has a chance. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.480 I love Molinari with the way he's playing. But what 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:45.119 about Hideki No no top ten since Hawaii. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.640 Yeah, Caddy changed this week apparently too. According to my 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.120 friends in the Japanese media, it's a little shake up 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.040 in Campadecki trying to mix things up a little bit. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.360 I don't know, I you know, he had the heartbreaking 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.319 loss of the PGA. Any of the wrist injury risk 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.120 injuries are hard to come back from, shaking confidence from 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.080 the PGA, and I could see, I could just see, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.640 you know. It's just it's been a dark time in 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:15.360 Hideki land. But I do. I like Molinari a lot 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.920 and knocks. Both those guys hated so dead straight, but 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.760 as firm as is too. Any sidesman on the ball 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.199 and the ball's gonna bounce anywhere. So Rue and Francesco 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.120 to the hottest players in the world, and really to 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.320 the straightest players in the world, so I'm also all 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:29.600 in on those picks. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.000 I mean, I think the biggest story, you know we're 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.080 sitting here on Tuesday, is gonna be the course and 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:37.680 is the course. And it's hard to say that with 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:42.040 Tiger in the field too, but I just I think, 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.040 like in all the lead up days, this is just 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.400 so extreme and different from what we're used to, even 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.840 for the Open and and like I hate to play 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.000 into the line of baked out. Baked out. Yeah, you're 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.120 gonna hear that every three minutes, and you're gonna hear 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.280 every synonym for it used throughout the weekend. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.560 I just I'm like fast by it. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.720 I'm fascinated by seeing the best in the world try 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.360 and play it, figure out how to play it. Seems 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.880 like we're getting. For me, like the biggest storyline is 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.760 that there seems to be a really clear cut, like 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:16.480 divergence of strategies. We hear Rory and DJ and Ron 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.080 and some of these other big hitters saying like, well, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.840 it's burned out. The burned out effect for them is 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.520 that the rough is now whispy and they could they 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.120 feel like they can play out of it. That may 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.679 be kind of a I don't know, a poor strategy, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.839 but that's the way they're thinking. So they're gonna vomit 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.480 over everything, and and they're not worried about missing, you know, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.480 the fairway. You know, of course there are different parts 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.040 of missing miss fairways that are worse than others, but 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.840 they just feel like the burned outness of it has 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:52.559 has made it more of a bomber's a bomber's paradise, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.080 I guess this week. And then there's the other other 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.200 track of you know, strategy, like a speed saying I'm 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.439 just gonna you know, growler thinks I can just hit 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.160 floor irons all day, and you know, I just really 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.520 find that so fascinating. We don't we don't see this. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.840 We don't see a course deliberately like this so often 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.320 and the way it's really and there seems to be 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.040 no uniform response to how to play it. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.400 Yeah, I think Carnousti's been known as the toughest Open 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.400 Championship course for a long time, one of the toughest 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.960 venues in all of golf in it and it kind 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.800 of is that way because of how narrow it is. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.080 But you know, with the distance thing in it being 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.880 thinner in the in the wispy long stuff that actually 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.839 might you know, take some of the teeth out of 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.280 the the golf course where I you know, remember growing 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.319 up watching at Carneuci like ninety nine, like yeah, that 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.560 if you missed the fairway was just dead. And and 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.559 if it's a little bit thinner and it's going to 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.760 be a little more unpredictable. But at the end of 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.720 the day, I think when you've got a wedge in 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.360 your hand, is going to I mean, it's a lot 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.240 less you know, challenging, and it's the longest golf course 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.760 in the open rod to and obviously the firm conditions 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.240 will make it play much much much shorter. So I mean, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.880 I imagine with the with what I've been seeing, the course 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.280 is you know, seventy four hundred yards probably playing sixty 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.160 eight sixty seven hundred yards and if you you know, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.520 adjusted it for how firm and fast it is, right Sean, Yeah. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.200 The thing that kind of helps with the whole bomb 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.120 and Gouge mentality is that the greens are very green. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.880 They've kept them very healthy. You know, I think we 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.400 saw St. Andrews in twenty fifteen. What happens if they 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.680 get the greens a little too speedy, then all of 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.840 a sudden, you know, twenty twenty five miles wind ghost 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.800 comes and which isn't too uncommon here and you got 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.000 to stop play. So that'll take out some of the 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.040 necessity to play to angles. But I talked to Russell today, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:57.480 Russell Knox, and he said he thinks that angles are 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.280 going to be big this week, and that Carnousti, you know, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.280 walking around today, it's the way it's bunkered. There's always 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:06.880 seems to be two A lot of times there's two 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.280 sets of bunkers that you might be able to carry one, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.800 but then you're bringing the other one into play, and 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.680 guys might be able to do what Speed did last year, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.080 where you're intentionally aiming at the rough because you know, 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.680 the rough is maybe a quarter shot penalty, maybe even less, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.280 while as a pop bunker, especially here where they seem 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.480 to be the deepest pop bunkers I've ever seen at 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.800 a links course, is maybe a one shot penalty or 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.360 at least three quarters of a shot. But I don't know. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.120 You just you can't roll around this place without abandon 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.160 even with the rough being wispy, you know, Russell talked 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.560 about a really experienced links player. He thinks he is 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.520 going to win here when you look. You know podrig 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.160 One here, he's a links player. Paul Lourie from Scotland 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.160 one here. I think four of the seven winners here 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.320 have been from the British Isles. Tom Watson won here. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.000 He was a master of links. So I think that 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.720 I don't know. I don't think Carnoustie, even in these conditions, 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.480 allows guys to just kind of play with a punity. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.800 I think that you'll see a lot of driving irons 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.240 and I don't know, I just it seem it seemed 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.040 hard for me. I'm not one of the top players 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:10.280 in the world. It seems hard for me to walking 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.840 around today to just see opportunities for guys to just 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.160 blow it all over the place. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.720 I think, you know, what I'm kind of watching and 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.240 what I've been thinking about a little bit is you know, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.680 we've had all the slew of first time major winners, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.600 and obviously Brooks has been kind of the first of 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.320 that crop to get the second major title, like we 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.200 have Dustin john You look at down the world rankings, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.320 Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose, top three players all 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.440 only have one major championship. Then you go, you know, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.480 you've got Jason Day, You've got Patrick Reid, you've got 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.600 Henrik Stenson, Sergio all all first time you know, one 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.880 time major winners. And I think there's a big, you know, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.280 opportunity for these guys to you know, separate themselves and 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.920 put them into another pantheon with a second major win. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.680 And what you were just describing made me kind of 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.919 think of like, you know, great links player that has 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.800 won an Open Championship is Sergia. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.800 Yeah, uh, Sergio a little runner up here, you know, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.400 seven little heartbreak. But also to go like go back 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.359 to the stats, Uh, five of the seven winners here 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.919 in the Hall of Fame, and that doesn't include pottery 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.879 who's going to get in? So basically six of the 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.400 seven players who've won here Hall of famers. I think, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:27.800 I think when we had a class winner. So I 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.240 think that kind of falls into what you're saying. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.680 I'm a big Copka kopka guy. Again, I can't you know, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.400 I don't know that I'll pick him back to back, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.600 but uh, from from a Link standpoint, I kind of 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.679 like Fleetwood. He seems, you know, based on what we 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.560 saw at Shinnecock. I don't know if he's like as linksy. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:52.040 A player, as like a course record holder at yep yep, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.400 but obviously a different, different kind of course that keep 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.240 saying that you'll hear that once or twice. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.240 Uh yeah, I think of the euro group, fleet was 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.720 kind of that's not really a trendy ear of a 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.600 dark horse pick, but he's the. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.639 One guy like on the English side. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.399 And Knox, I mean, I've seen you've been tweeting all 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.040 week about Russell Knox Sean and they took you, you know, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.879 less than ten minutes to get into him today, but 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.280 you know, it's kind of hard to ignore his form 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.040 really through that like role X Series Ron and and everything, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.760 you know, the links the links portion of the schedule. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.159 So I think I think Knox and Fleetwood are my 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.840 two favorite Euros. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.199 So we got a question from Kyle Davis, who who's 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.359 asked is the Open the best overall major when you 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.600 take into consideration TV coverage, road of courses, the RNA 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.159 setup and you know, just links golf all that comes 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.080 with it. What do you guys think about that? 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.280 It is for me and I wrote this a couple 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.399 of years ago and kind of reheat it and update 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.560 it every year. I don't know what what I think 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.960 the modern Open, and. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.400 I'll i'll say maybe the last decade. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.600 Has really branded itself really well. I just think it's 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.159 really distinct and my and this is this is a 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.440 personal opinion. So my personal interaction with this championship just 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.600 seems more meaningful than others. I don't know why. Like 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.480 I just feel like I remember more often of like 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.360 where I was and remember taking it in more when 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.359 it was whatever Tiger in two thousand and five, or 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.840 Tiger in two thousand, or you know Phill in twenty thirteen, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.720 Rory in twenty fourteen. I just remember more about My 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:38.840 personal interaction with this tournament just feels extra special. I 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.919 like all the others too. I love the Masters, I 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.359 love the US Open for a very different reason than this. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.639 But I don't I don't. I think just there's so 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.800 many things about this that TV coverage, this time change, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.440 which I think is really really fun for a US 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.040 audience for one week a year, it's not fun. This 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.080 isn't something we want to do, right Liarly. I think 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.040 it's that's I think that actually plays into the identity 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:08.679 of the tournament for US audience, and then obviously just 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.919 a style of golf. It's so refreshing. We're going to 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.320 Bellery in three weeks or whatever. It's just it's nice 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.919 to know that you can rely on this and this 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:23.080 may be a kind of a you know this, this 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.399 may be even an extreme case for firm and fast, 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.879 but you just know the visual of it is going 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.919 to be so different from from what we're used to 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.800 and and I just think like the way it's really 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.880 the RNA has branded it over the last decade. They're 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.439 very very consistent and specific and clean, and I just 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.560 think that they put on the best championship. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:46.639 Yeah. I mean I grew up in California, so I 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.959 think you know, your final group was teamed off at 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.679 like seven am, and so it was pretty awesome. It 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:54.280 was so early. I mean, you can watch the whole 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.480 thing and then you know it's over by like before 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.480