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It's great to 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.880 have them on board as a partner of the Frida Egg. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.800 Today's episode is with the Great Kyle Porter. Kyle is 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.640 golf writer se probably an editor, a big time title 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.720 at CBS Sports. You can find all of his writing there. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.279 He's also one of the co hosts of the First 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:52.000 Cut podcast. Kyle came on to preview the PGA at 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.640 Key Island this week, so we did our five things. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.360 We each came up with five different things that we're 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.520 watching this week. We had a little bit of a overlap, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.800 but as always Kyle had a lot of great thoughts 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.160 about the tournament and uh, you know what he's watching 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.639 this week. So, without further ado, here is Kyle Porter. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.919 I miss the green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.040 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.520 And when I find my ball in a. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.600 Bright egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida Egg, Frida Egg, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.200 Frida Egg, Brian Egg, Frida Egg brid Egg, Lie, I'm 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.200 about ready to run off of the hum course. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.560 Kyle, how's it going, I'm good, I'm uh, you know, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.680 we were just talking about this. Covering a major from 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.280 home is very different than being there. You and I switched, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.440 so you were at home during the Masters. I was 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.680 at the Masters. Now you're at the PGA and I'm 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.720 home for the PGA, And there are pros and cons 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.359 to both. But I'm excited. I don't know, man, I 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.040 get I get really fired up from for major weeks. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.079 It's just a ton of fun. You just you kind 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.880 of bathe in it for you know, eight straight days 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.880 or whatever, and it's tiring by the end, but it's 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:23.880 it's so much fun. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.080 Yeah, Yeah, it's majors are it makes a job so 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.079 much fun. It's uh, it's like so much work in 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.320 the lead up and then so much work during the week, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.120 and then there's the you know, kind of deconstruction of 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.480 the major at the end when you're you know, kind 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.800 of the fallout from everything that happens. But I mean, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.800 this is uh, this is legacies and everything. I mean 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.480 not to be cliche, but this is this is what 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.040 it all comes down to, right. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.560 How do you I was I was wondering. I always 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.280 wonder this with other people because I kind of go 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.760 back and forth, But how do you prepare for like, 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.480 I'm Major week, are you reading stuff a week in advance, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.000 a month in advance, are you like, like, what's your 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.200 what does your preparation leading in look like? 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.000 I mean a lot of what we do is with 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.440 the golf course, so it's it's focused a ton on that. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.840 And then I think it's just I just like watching 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.200 a lot of golf in the weeks leading up, you know, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.800 making sure to carve out time to watch and see 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.480 what's kind of happening, and it's I think this new 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.960 schedule kind of makes it a little weird because the 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.800 guys don't play a ton between the Masters and the like. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.920 I feel like we you could really conceivably not see 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.400 these guys outside of you know, they play Quail Hollow 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.600 or they play a valves Bar. But I think that's 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.360 one of the things with this new schedule, is it 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.599 kind of month after month after month of the Majors. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.200 Is that you know, there's a lot of tournaments in 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.520 between that don't matter a ton, is I miss? That's 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.240 the thing I think I like the most about the 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.160 Masters lead in YEP is how those guys are playing 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.560 so much on the West Coast. Then you get the 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.640 players and you kind of have this really good building, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.919 and I think having that PGA one month after it 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:11.839 loses that a little. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.920 What do you do well? I agree with you about 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.520 the lead in. I was singing about that. I think 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.960 the Players is even better than the Masters because there's 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.240 so many tournaments that those guys play with Arnold Palmer 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.160 and I mean there's there's like that six week stretch 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.039 where you're playing like at like at least four times 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.599 and most management yeah, and most guys are playing five. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.520 I don't know. Usually I like to read about the 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.440 course kind of the week before, and I agree with you, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.360 like I love looking at data golf and some of 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.560 the advanced statistics. But but sometimes with and I think 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.599 that stuff matters for the Masters because of the way 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.760 the lead in is, But for the PGA, you're like, like, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.520 just what happened at the end of February? Is it 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.760 meaning for the PGA at Kiowa? I don't know. It 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.720 doesn't seem like it, So I think it's kind of 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.160 hard to I think the PJA is a little bit 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.640 difficult from that perspective to to prognosticate, to kind of 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.680 figure out. But I just I love the course research. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.560 I love like Sean Martin did a great piece. Y'all's 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.440 fried egg video on on Kiola was awesome because I 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.559 like learning about the history of kind of the course 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.000 and the course architecture. Jeff Shackelford has done some really 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.160 good stuff with Who's the Who's the architect that redid it? 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.719 Scott Sherman, Yeah, he had a he had a two 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:41.520 part deal on the quadrilat Quadrilateral that is excellent. So 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.159 I just I love reading about all that stuff leading 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:45.880 into uh, into the Major week. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.520 I don't know this is we're doing our five things. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.880 So we did this with before the Masters. I think 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.560 we'll do this before every Major this year. We did 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.400 with Shane before the Masters. But you know, Kyle's on 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.440 for this one. But I think this leads into like 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.840 my first thing and like what I think about this Championship. Obviously, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:05.800 the course has a good deal to do with it. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.560 It's not one that we've seen a ton. Obviously we 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.960 saw it with Rory but a different time of year, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.160 and we saw it at the pgat the Ryder Cup 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.640 in ninety one. But I feel like this is just 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:21.120 a total crapshoot. This tournament. I feel like I I 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.400 just don't have like a great feel. I don't think 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.880 anybody's playing like dominant golf leading in. And that's one 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.040 of the things I think about with this tournament is 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.520 just it feels like there's twenty guys that probably could win, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.160 and I wouldn't be surprised if any of those twenty 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.760 guys won. I don't know if you feel the same way. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.240 So my very first I'm not kidding, My very first 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.440 thing that I wrote down is the top ten lax juice. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.160 And what I mean by that is other than Rory 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.400 uh and his man, I don't know his win at Quilhalla. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.240 It wasn't it wasn't super inspiring. It was good. I'm 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.680 glad he won. I think that when Rory's playing well, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.800 that's good for golf. But it was like I didn't 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.240 come away from that thinking like, oh, Rory's going to 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.480 go on a you know, just a heater right now. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.680 And you go down the board of the top ten 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.520 guys in the world and it's just like, I don't 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.480 know who JT's kind of hitting it well, but who else? 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.840 Like what else? DJ, Well, that's the thing you got. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.240 Rom hasn't been great, And obviously I think having the 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.920 baby's been like adjustment. I think that's something that we've 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.400 seen some people have these great, surreal performances when right 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.720 after they have a baby. But like, I think it's 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.920 a big adjustment. I think Rory went through it too. Yeah, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.080 and I think like Rom's going through it. He just 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.440 was on his press conference talking about like how they've 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.600 had to, you know, make adjustments since they had this baby, 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.320 like that they realized things didn't work. He needed sleep, Like, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.840 I think that's one of the things. But like, yeah, yeah, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.840 like you said, Bryson's not playing well, Xander's kind of 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.400 ben Xander. He's super consistent, but we haven't seen the 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.160 winds pile up. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.840 Yeah, and more, you know. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.199 And then you get Hatton who hasn't really done much 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:08.640 in majors and Patrick Reid. Yeah, I completely agree. Top ten. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.319 When you think about to last year at the PGA, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.200 how much different was we were talking about Brooks and 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.240 potential three Peete and how different just one year less 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.559 than a year really makes this feel. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.440 Yeah, totally. Did you see Rom talking about First of all, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.040 he goes into some details with his with like his 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.080 wife and kid, and I'm like, I don't know if 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.960 I need all of those, maybe just like cut it 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.000 in half and give me, give me half of it. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.760 But he was talking about how after the first month 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.560 they hired somebody like a night nurse or a night 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.280 name and whatever you call it. I was like, Oh, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.240 what's what's that like? That must be just be a 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.959 nice little route, a nice little path. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.560 To take you can afford it. It's a good luxury. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.680 To to kind of compound the thing that we're talking about. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.320 The leaderboard from twenty twelve is crazy, right. So you've 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.000 got Rory at thirteen, and then beyond I know you 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.360 want to talk about the Swedish pancake, but beyond that, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.120 it's Steve Stricker, it's Jamie Donaldson. It's all these guys 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.400 that you're like, what And I was curious if you 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.920 thought when it gets crazy windy out there, which it 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.560 did at times in twenty twelve, is that a thing 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.199 where nobody's hitting greens and so it becomes like kind 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.559 of a chipping contest. Is that why you see guys 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.360 like Stricker and those guys up there. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.480 I think so to a certain extent. But what's interesting 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.040 about that is that the really windy day was Friday, right, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.440 and Tiger and VJ were leading after Friday. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.320 VJ shot a sixty nine on Friday. Oh epic round, 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:54.520 I mean, unbelievable. The quotes that from that round are 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.960 just insane. I wish I had them handy. I researched 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.880 him for a piece I did for the PGA dot Com. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.560 But like the quotes from players about that round, like, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.360 you know, like I can't believe. One of the guys 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.920 was like, you know, if this was if I didn't 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.680 have to play a term in golf today, I would 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.400 There'd be no way I'd be out there playing golf, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:16.320 like you know. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.880 But but that see, that's the interesting thing is the 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.720 board really changed when it was soft and not windy. Yeah, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.680 when it was really hard, you had VJ and Tiger 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.400 at the top, and then it gets soft and and 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.480 Rory obviously blitz the field. Those guys fade. You know, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.480 I think this golf course, it's it's really interesting in 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.600 terms of and this kind of I think plays into this. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.000 I think it's anybody's kind of game. It's long, and 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.560 everybody's gonna look at the length and they're gonna say, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.160 you know, you need to vombit. But you can't spray 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.920 it at all, Like when you're off the course. It's 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.640 not good like out of the corridors. So I think, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.240 you know, there's set up flexibility. There's a ton of 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.960 flexibility with how Carrie Haig can set this golf course 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.120 up from distances. I don't think it's ever going to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.640 play the yardage that is on the card and everybody's 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.160 talking about, oh, longest major course ever. It's not going 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.800 to play that way any day. It's gonna be dictated 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.600 on the wind. But I think it's a golf course 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.800 where you have to place it so well. I think 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.240 it's almost more like sawgrass. It's just a beefier sawgrass 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.080 in a way. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.480 Yeah, I agree with that because when we think about length, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.679 and I was going through kind of the longest majors 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.440 ever because you know that's gonna be kind of the 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.160 hot like phrase or buzzword or whatever. But it's not 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.040 a It's a very different kind of length than Beth 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.959 Page or even in Aaron Hills, right, because you're you're 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.960 almost it's not it's not just like hey see how 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.959 far you can hit it, and then see how far 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.439 you can hit it again, and even like wingfoot was 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.000 a little bit like that because there's no there's no 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.640 trouble there, right, I mean there's no there's trouble, but 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.240 there's not there's no penalty trouble. And so that's where 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.079 somebody like I think somebody like Bryson and even a 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.280 rom is gonna have to be incredibly disciplined and patient 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.120 this week because because you can't, you don't just like 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.240 take the course on. You have to be so strategic 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.240 and careful about where you're placing the ball. I think 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.679 that's kind of plays into somebody like Jordan Spie Sands. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.720 Honestly, I agree like somebody, I think there's different types 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.240 of great ball strikers, Like I think Bryson's a great 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:35.000 ball striker. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:36.480 Yeah, but you. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.200 Know, I think one of the things he does the 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.480 way he, you know, is a great ball striker, is 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.480 he overwhelms golf course with his power. And he did 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.040 that obviously at wing Foot this golf course. If you 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.920 if you're a little off, you're out of play. The 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.080 guy that I kind of think of when he's hitting 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.760 on all cylinders who could play really well is like Fleetwood, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.200 where he's like surgical, where he is that the longest guy. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.960 He's plenty long, but he's just Fairway green, Fairway green, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.719 Fairway green. Or when we saw him, moll And I'm 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 not saying Molinard he's going to play well this week 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.679 because we haven't really seen him. But when I think about, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.160 like how Molinari played in twenty eighteen when he won 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.680 the Open, like that type of play is what I 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.600 think we'll we'll end up playing really well at this major. Yeah, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.720 you want to talk about Speith, That's. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:30.000 My number two is the Space Slam. We just we 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.160 just copied each other. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.280 We didn't send these to each other before. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.000 So the Speed Slam is and people keeps it. So 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.680 I got to get this off my chest because one 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.800 thing that bothers me is people keep saying, well, this 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.760 is his best opportunity since twenty eighteen. First of all, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.280 he played Quolhalla in twenty seventeen with an opportunity to 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.680 win the Slam, right right after he won Birkdale. Yeah, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.920 and that was actually his best opportunity because that was 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.960 as well as he's ever played, I think as a professional. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.240 I heard him on the No Laning Up podcast two 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.640 weeks ago. He's like twenty eighteen, I was just kind 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.040 of lost. I think he was actually talking about the 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:13.560 pgat where was it Bell Reeve and twenty seventeen was 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:18.560 actually his real, like hey, career Slam opportunity. But I 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.280 do agree. I do think I actually think this course 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.720 sets up well for him, and I think the excitement 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:30.920 for me with him is in whatever. The Byron Nelson 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.080 is not a great test of like where your game's at, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.600 But for him to come out and hit it like 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.440 he did, I felt like completely validated everything that led 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.080 up to the Masters. Because we see these guys go 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.880 on runs where they'll play great leading up to the Major, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.640 they'll play great at the Major, and then they'll just 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.440 fall off, like they'll just kind of have a dip 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.040 after that. It's a very normal kind of progression in 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.800 PGA Tour world. And he hasn't. He's still hitting it 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.160 like the best player in the world. So I don't know. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.360 I think there's a ton of reason. Is he gonna 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.640 win this week? I have no idea, but I think 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.120 there's a ton of reason to be excited about his chances. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.440 Yeah, I agree. I think one of the things you 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.080 hit onto earlier is it's a golf course, especially when 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.200 it gets when if it gets windy, and I think 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.120 it's gonna be have some good wind out there, like 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.600 you're gonna have to scramble because people are gonna miss 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.400 greens and nobody he just has. He's like the guy 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.920 that you look up at the end of a basketball 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.440 game and you're like, how did he get? Like, you know, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.120 how does he have twenty five points? He didn't even 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.800 like look like he did. Like he shoots sixty seven 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.720 and you're like, how did that? How do you shoot 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:41.360 sixty seven? 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.480 I always think it is that like Tim Duncan. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.160 Tim Duncan would be a perfect comparison, Like it just 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.760 goes about it in such a like fundamental way. It's 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.760 not like pretty, it's not rory, but it's just the 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.000 way he scores. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:57.440 He just scores. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.240 He gets the ball in the hole so efficiently. You know, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.720 he might not have the prettiest swing, but he's just 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.520 nobody scores better than him out there. And obviously he's 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.960 been playing so well. And I think I always like 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.480 when guys play well the week before and are in 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.320 the mix, but don't get it done. Like I think 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.720 that's like the perfect way to head into major is 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.480 to play well the week before, but not great because 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.720 then it just kind of clicks in the next week. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.879 Do you worry about him, or really anybody out there 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.800 having to work it both ways off the tea, Like, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.000 how much do you have to? Because I definitely think 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.879 you have to with some of your approach shots. But 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.440 is there a necessity to work it both ways off 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:38.760 the tee? 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.200 I don't think that much out there. I don't think 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.360 there's like a super big need you know, a few 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.720 t shots that it could be helpful. Yeah, but one 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.639 of the things, you know, and where it could be 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.480 helpful is with crosswinds. You know, just being able to 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.399 hold stuff against the wind is kind of where it 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.240 might be most helpful. I don't think it's that big 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.080 of a deal out here. The fairways aren't that wide. Also, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.840 they don't they don't move that much. I mean, there's 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.720 definitely preferred shot shapes, but I think a lot of 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.560 them moving moving that left right's fine. There aren't a 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.639 ton of draw holes out there. Yeah, there's only a 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.560 couple draw holes where you would say, oh, you want 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.800 to hit a draw here. So I think that that's 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.120 good for him because that squeeze cut is kind of 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.080 his go to shot. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:30.000 Yeah, yeah, it definitely is. Yeah. I just think about well, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.920 I mean I think about Sawgrass where it's whatever the 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.240 third or fourth hole where you you have to hit 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.560 a draw off the tee or you hit it. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.960 There's nothing like that out here, yeah, just because you know, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.360 they don't have those like trees. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:43.480 Yeah, like that. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.879 It's it's just wide open. So they have bunkers that 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.480 make you hit shapes, but they aren't anything like Sawgrass. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.080 Man, I am so fascinated by and this is always true, 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.480 this is actually more true of us opens. But I'm 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.119 fascinated to see how guys strategize their way around on 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.000 the course, because you know, the thing you keep hearing 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.320 and I think you guys might have touched on this 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.200 on your video, is like it looks like it should 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.240 be a Lynx course, but you've got these almost Pinehurst 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.879 type greens where it's it's their bowls and their or 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.480 their upside down bowls, their volcanoes. You know. I think 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.760 I saw a quote from it might have been twenty 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.360 twelve somebody that was in contention saying like it's it's 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.720 very unlike a links course where you can't run it 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.879 up there. You have to hit a really high shot, 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.639 and the problem is you've got a twenty five mile 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.199 an hour wind knocking down that shot. So I'm just 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.760 I'm I'm really intrigued to see how guys kind of 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.280 handle that, especially if you know, like Rom said, it's 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.399 playing pretty fast and firm as it is early on 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:45.840 in the week. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.400 Well, I think that's what the really neat thing about 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.080 about this tournament. And I think that's why when I 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.280 when I thought about the majors, I thought this was 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.280 probably going to be one of the maybe the most 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.480 compelling one. You know, if you take out the Augusta 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.119 every year, you know, the most compelling one was just 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.080 because it's like the most opposite of driving range golf, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.720 like that idea of like the simulation golf where everything's 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.520 a perfect setting, flat lie, no wind, and you're just 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.600 hitting balls at a target like this, this golf course 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.600 you're gonna have. And one of the neat things is 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.879 it's easy to look at six through thirteen and you 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:26.800 say they all play in the same direction. But what 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.440 it does is it just kind of wiggles different directions 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.160 and the way die orients these holes. If you look 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.800 at it closely, you'll see that the t shot will 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.240 go one way, the approach shot will go a little 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.600 bit different way. So the wind, while you're playing the 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.800 same general direction for a large stretches of these of 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.919 the golf course, you're always playing a slightly different angle, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.159 which makes it just very uncomfortable. So really, like, you know, 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.800 they got the rangefinders, but if it's blowing out there, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.040 the type of golf where the number really doesn't matter, 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.200 you're you're standing there trying to figure out how many 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.919 extra clubs or you know, what's the wind gonna do. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.560 And then one of the other things that can be 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.080 really nasty out there is you're hitting these elevator greens 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.040 and you get a wedge in your hand is downwind, 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.320 that wind can knock the ball out of the air, 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.760 and with the greens elevated, it just hits into the 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:22.240