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I miss a green, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.319 for example, I'm already upset when I find my ball 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.600 in the bunker, I'm really upset. And when I find 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.199 my ball in a bride Egg, Frida Egg, the dreaded 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.800 Frida Egg, fridagg, Frida Egg, brigg Frida Egg, bride Egg, Lie, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:59.120 I'm about ready to run off of the hump. Hello 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.800 and welcome to the Frida Egg Podcast. My name is 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.520 Garrett Morrison and I am here live at the twenty 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:10.760 twenty two PGA Championship with Meg Atkins. Meg, you work 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.600 for the Friday Egg. I'm not actually sure what your 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.839 title is. I start every episode with fellow Frida Egg 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.120 employees by asking them what their title is. What is yours? 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.080 Technically miscellaneous. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:29.160 Shellmate? You know, general shellmate at the Frida Egg. Yeah, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.200 not too good at titles here at the Frida Egg, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:31.919 are we No? 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.720 Not really well so, Meg, this is your first time 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.280 on the podcast, so welcome, very exciting to have you on. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.600 You are here at the PGA Championship with me. We 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.600 are the representatives of the Friday Egg at this event 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.919 at Southern Hills We've been here since Wednesday, so we 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.120 got to walk around the course a little bit on Wednesday, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.639 and the first round on Thursday has just happened. It's 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.679 wrapping up right now. I think the leader board is 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.079 pretty much set. We're sitting here in the media center. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.399 We're in Radio Boo booth number three or four, I'm 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.320 not sure which one it is. Five wherever we are, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.640 we're right next to Kevin van Volkenberg, who is currently 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.600 recording an episode of The Shotgun Start with Andy Johnson 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.040 and Brendan Porath. So that's just to set the scene 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.440 for you here. But we're looking at the big board 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.320 right now. It's on TV, so players are finishing up. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.520 But I think things are pretty much going how they're going. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.600 So how was your day in general? What was like 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.399 the structure of your day? 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.520 The day was fantastic. Got out here pretty early and 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.560 immediately went out. Obviously, Tiger Speeth Rory we're out early 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.080 and I was able to follow them for a few 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.800 holes and then I kind of set up shop at seventeen. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.880 When we got here yesterday, we kind of went out 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.200 in the evening. Crowds had cleared out and it was 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.640 a lovely evening stroll kind of getting ours. You've been 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.320 out here before, my first time seeing Southern Hillston in person, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.840 so it's great to kind of get my bearings and 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.080 walk the course and see, you know, get a feel 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.720 for everything before all the craziness today. So seventeen kind 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.280 of caught my eye, just so much going on on 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.520 that short little par four. So I kind of set 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.599 up shop there and watched the first six seven groups 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:30.239 come through this morning, and I think the longest approach, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.840 what I think I saw, was around one hundred and 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.560 twenty five yards or so, so you know. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.360 They were all kind of pushing up to that zone 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.200 of that hole that is kind of it's all part 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.120 of this extended green complex. There's a bunch of crazy 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.600 undulations around it, and there's a creek that runs through 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.400 the middle of it, and all the shots were kind 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.320 of ending up there, so there was like these half 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.719 wedges and all that kind of stuff. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.480 Yeah, and so I watched seven groups, so twenty one players. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.280 Everyone in the fairway except for two and one Birdie 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:08.400 is what I saw. So I saw short long right 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.240 left spinning off the front. I mean that pin was 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:18.400 up close, you know, barely hanging on that front left edge, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.480 the trap right in front of it, and for you know, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.599 a half little wedge shot. It just was proving to 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.280 be pretty darn difficult for everybody. And I watched her 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:34.480 in the media center, JT and Ricky and kind of 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:39.200 afternoon wave and Harry Higgs just flew the grain. So 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.520 I don't think it was easier harder morning to afternoon, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:48.480 but a pretty perplexing little hole. And there's so much 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.160 more they can do with it too, with different pin 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.680 locations and move the tea up maybe and see if 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.760 people still pull driver. There's just trouble everywhere too. So 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.320 that was a great, a great start to the morning. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.680 Kind of came inside and then followed the supergroup for 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.719 the afternoon, which was just a thrill. I mean, still 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:09.640 coming down from. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.440 It, Tiger sith Rory. Yeah, you followed them for their 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.960 back nine, which was the front nine of the course. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.960 Yes, yeah, it was unreal cool but yeah, I mean 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.320 we'll get into it, I'm sure, but some some highlights 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:23.320 to talk about for sure. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.159 Yeah. Cool. Yeah, So my my basic approach was to 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.960 I followed a group in the morning through the back 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.880 nine and then followed another group another group through the 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.920 front nine, and so in the morning I followed Victor Hovland, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.560 Will Zalatorus and Cameron Smith, who were the group in 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.120 front of Tiger spith Rory. So I kind of avoided 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.520 the insanity, but I saw a few of the shots 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.440 from the from the Supergroup when I was looking back. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.720 And then in the afternoon I went along with John 0:06:54.839 --> 0:07:00.280 ram H Scottie Scheffler and sorry, the third one is 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.520 escaping me right now. Who is the third member of 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.160 that group, Colin Moore of course, Yeah, so that was 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.160 kind of the super Group in the afternoon, decided to 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.240 follow them. I was actually the only media member following them. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.320 So I think a lot of our colleagues here in 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.160 the media center may have followed the Supergroup in the morning, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.640 written their stories and then you know, maybe not gone 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.440 back out on the course, which was understandable because by 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.600 that point it was ninety degrees outside, the sun was 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.240 beating down, the wind was picking up. It was a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.480 lot less comfortable than it was in the morning. And 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.520 it was pretty comfortable in the morning, like you know, 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:36.680 it is nice weather. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.640 It was not bad at all. And yeah, to your 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:44.800 comment about everybody following that group, they're overheard multiple fans 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.760 commenting on look at all the people following, Look at 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.080 this entourage following, So yeah, I can officially say it 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.400 was part of the entourage, but yeah, it was. I 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.440 think it pretty much cleared out and everybody here in 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.880 this room was out following them and then kind of 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.600 came back in and took a break. So pretty wild 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.440 to that you're the only one with that group. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.720 I know other people inside the ropes who were following along, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.720 but I didn't. I didn't think I don't think it 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.720 was any you know, media people specifically, So yeah, I 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.640 don't know. Maybe maybe I'm maybe I'm the crazy one, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.880 but I just followed them for their front nine, which 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.440 was the front nine of the course, and they have 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.320 since finished up. So what we're going to do with 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.440 this podcast, it's going to be pretty brief from here. Basically, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.440 we just wanted to run through a few observations from 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.600 what we saw today. You've already talked about a kind 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.520 of course related observation with the seventeenth hole, but what 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.880 we want to do is have one tournament observation from 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.720 the two of us, So one observation of the play 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.480 that was happening, or you know, stuff that was has 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.240 occurred in this first round of the tournament, even though 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.160 that's probably all going to be a race by tomorrow. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.280 One course related observation, so what we saw from Southern 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:06.480 Hills today, One fan observation, stuff that we saw out there, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.920 and then one thing that we are watching for this weekend. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:16.240 So let's start with the tournament observation. I'll go with 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.760 mine first and the thing that I saw out there. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.400 And I'm not sure if the stats are going to 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.400 really bear this out at this point, but to me, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.679 there was a distinct difference between the morning and afternoon 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.320 waves today just in terms of the comfort level of 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.800 being out there and the shots that were required. The 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.240 winds were really calm in the morning for Tulsa, Oklahoma. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.760 For the forecast that we got, there were some kind 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:49.480 of random rustlings happening, some gusts that kicked up, and 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.600 some sudden places, weird little pockets of the course that 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.320 suddenly got windy in the morning, So there were some 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.400 of that unpredictability happening, But in the afternoon, it was, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.079 you know, at least what I felt was far more steady, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.199 and it was a lot hotter out there, and so 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.440 so far, there's about a shot difference between the two waves, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.920 a little bit less than a shot difference at this 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.120 point because I think maybe things have calmed down out 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.920 there in the evening. But looking at the leaderboard right now, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.559 we have a lot of people who were out there 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.080 in the morning at the very top, you know, most 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.480 significantly Roy McElroy and will Zalatorus. They got their work 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:34.000 done in the morning wave. Rory shot a pretty clean 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.600 sixty five. Will Zalatorus, who I saw for his front 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.120 nine shot sixty six. He was striking the ball really 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.160 well and he was putting really well. The putting stroke 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.360 looked smooth, like there were a couple of kind of 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.040 dicey short putts, a couple of where you saw that 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.320 hitch come in that he tends to have, But like 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.640 in general, his lag putting was great and it seems 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.800 like he's comfortable on these greens in a way that 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:02.520 he might not be on poem. What was one tournament 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:03.679 observation that you. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.320 Had back following Rory, I mean it was the driver 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:14.200 was just unreal. The drive on five. I think he 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.480 said in his post round interview that he duck hooked 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.840 it left in his practice in his practice round Wednesday, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.320 and so he's like, whatever, I'm just gonna go with 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.640 my fade. But the line over those trees, I mean, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.520 you're the driving range is right over there to the left, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.000 and so starting it over there and fading it. The 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.439 wind was helping a bit a bit, you know, pushing 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.080 it a bit with them and the bit to the right. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.640 So it made sense. But you know, to start it 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.840 left out there after you after you duck hooked it 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.480 in the practice round, I think tells you the confidence 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.280 he was feeling by that point in the round with 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:52.760 the driver. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:55.800 Yeah. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.920 I mean the story is Rory from the first round 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.880 and getting rid of the Thay struggle the Thursday a headache, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.440 and and and putting himself in a hole that he 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.240 can't dig out of for the rest of the tournament 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.680 has been has been the theme for him, and how 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.560 did how is he not completely freed up this evening 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.920 and and just loving obviously where he's at. I would 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.040 think there's some relief in coming out strong out of 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.400 the gates for the first time in a while and. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.400 That was his demon. But I wonder if this puts 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.640 even more pressure in like literally leading the tournament sure, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.920 you know, because what he's been doing in first rounds 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.199 in majors in recent history has been just taking himself 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.640 kind of out of the tournament. Now he's done exactly that. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.280 He's gone to the opposite extreme. So you almost hope 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.800 for like him being in that mix around T eight 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.320 right now, which is a couple of shots back, but 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.000 still very much in it. Now he's out in front. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.040 It'll it'll be an interesting test of nerves tomorrow maybe, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.200 but yeah, it is possible that that. You know, this 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.920 was kind of a hurdle that he had to get 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.520 over just playing well in the first round, right, So 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.400 what was he doing well out there? Like I didn't 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.160 see much of his round because I was following another 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.760 group obviously, what you know, he's had trouble with his 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.960 wedges and stuff like that. What what did you see 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.080 from him that was kind of different? 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.400 He was he was steady, you know, the hiccup on 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.719 the on the front nine. His second nine was that 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:35.400 six seven eight stretch. I thought, you know on five 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.160 after that drive getting up and down for Bertie was 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.160 all right, you know, let's took advantage of that par 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.560 five like I should. And then six and eight were 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.920 just tough long par threes. Yeah. Six was interesting. We 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.200 were sitting right on the tee, probably the closest we 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.800 got to them for the whole round, and he kind 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.600 of had a little hesitation, a little hiccup in his takeaway. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.160 And I mean, normally it's just smooth and perfect, that 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.840 sweet watch in real life and up that up close 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.280 like that is it's just beautiful. But there was a little, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 a little teeny little hiccup. He ended up a little 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.160 bit long there and just didn't get up and down. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.520 And there's gonna be, I mean, on these surrounds, there's 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.040 going to be you're not going to get up and 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.240 down from everywhere. And then you know, seven, the drive 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.280 one of the only way where drives out left but 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.160 recovered tap in par and then ate just in a 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.080 terrible position in the left front. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.320 But it was a tough hole. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:39.760 Yeah. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.320 I saw a few different groups make a mess of 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:43.760 that hole. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.840 Yeah yeah. And then the birdie on nine to kind 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.040 of end on a high note, you know, where it was, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.560 you know, getting a little shaky and you know, just 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.280 kind of got it in, got it in the house, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.800 got it in, you know, wrapped up, wrapped up. The 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.800 round well, definitely helps. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.320 And something to remember is obviously that his last major 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:09.160 round was at the Masters, that spectacular final round, and 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.600 after that he was representing to the press at least 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.360 that something had changed, that that had unlocked something in him. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.440 And so maybe he's maybe he's really proving that right 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.600 now that that would be great to see obviously. All right, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.760 so one course observation, why don't we start with yours? 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:33.040 Is there something other than the seventeenth hole itself that 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.000 caught your eye about the course this time through. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.960 When we walked it Wednesday, you know that we had 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:42.720 it to ourselves. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.320 Yeah, yeah, you see the Wednesday everybody everybody gone home, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.000 they're resting up for today. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.520 Yep. You see the wide corridors you see, you know, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.320 the with the true movel, how you can see through 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.920 the property so far, which is which is so so 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.400 neat and I mean I can't imagine it in O 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:08.800 seven plaustrophobic like that. But the course observation, you know, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:14.680 on top of seventeen was the tightness around six te 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.480 and then you you kind of walk past five green 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.920 and you get to three t two green, then you 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.600 get up to six green and seventies, right, there. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.160 Like literally right right back of the green. Yeah, it's 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.560 this narrow little strip of land clearly wasn't intended to 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.440 be a tea right and right behind the green that's packed, yes. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.560 There with people. There's the hospitality tents lining on the 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.320 left side of six, and there's just so it was 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.280 the most crowded part of the course is that area, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.160 and then seven was very crowded to with some hospitality there. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.320 Awesome for fans. You can see so much, so so 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:01.720 much from there, so many different shots a little you know, 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:08.360 claustrophobic for the for the players. Yeah, Tiger Roryan speaks. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.640 Teed off on six, then kind of walked a bit, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.880 had to stop as another group was teen off three 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.399 and then continue their walk on. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.200 I mean the problem has been created by the pushing 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.199 back of the third t into the middles in the 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.399 sixth holes corridor, and then the pushing back of the 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.760 seventh te basically right just tucked behind between the sixth 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.720 green and the property line. These teas were not intended 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.119 to be there. They're there. They're making it work, but 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.200 it's pretty hectic, like it's pretty smashed in there. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.480 For spectating, it's great, it's great, Yeah, it's great. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.240 Where would you stand, like specifically around there. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.320 Maybe beyond yes, yeah, behind the tea and then you 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.880 know the left side of six you kind of get 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.520 that whole vantage point six t all the way to 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.320 six screen and everything in between. That's a great if 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:00.800 you're a fan. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:01.359 Yeah. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.320 But the traffic, you know, you need a traffic copp 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:09.560 almost in there. The marshals, there are the volunteers. They're 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.720 not getting they're not getting paid in that, they're not 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.960 getting paid anything. They're not getting paid it at all. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.840 But yeah, they've got a job in there, that's for sure. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.640 Yeah. Yeah, it's a good place for a fan if 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.160 you don't mind like being around a lot of people, Yes, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.320 if you'd rather be someplace where there aren't a whole 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.439 lot of people around, there are other places on the 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.600 course that are a little more chill. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.240 But if you want to see action. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.200 Yeah, but that's yeah. Yeah, you see the approaches into 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.800 two and that's so. This is something about the course 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.679 that Andy and I noticed when we first visited the 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.119 course in twenty nineteen, these clusters of teas and greens. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.240 You know, Perry Maxwell was looking for natural sites to 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.400 put his teas and greens because he wasn't using advanced 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.520 drainage methods to get them dry, so he was looking 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.000 for places that would drain naturally. There are a few 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.440 specific places on the property that drain really naturally, and 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.320 that's where he put all his teas and greens. And 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.879 part of the result of that is what we called 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.240 these concentrations of energy, and that is certainly one of them. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.840 At that corner of the course where the fifth hole is, 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.280 the sixth hole, second, third, seventh hole, all of that 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.439 is kind of mushed into a little ridge on that 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.040 end of the property. Of the land rises up a 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.160 bit there, and there are other places on the property 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.680 that are like that. You know, I'm thinking of where 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.520 thirteen green and sixteen green are right by that little pond. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.000 You know, that's a great little concentration of energy. And 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.000 then in the middle of the course where you have 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.199 the first green, the third green, the seventeenth green, the 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.280 eighth green, that is a big time. You know, there's 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.080 a lot of hospitality there right now, but a ton 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.200 of people are in there, and it's noisy in there, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.040 and it's it's fun. I think, you know, that's kind 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.200 of where i'd like to be because there's a nice 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.119 variety in what you're seeing. So one quick extra course 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:13.520 observation that I had is that the back nine is 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.040 just so excellent at this course. I think that there 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.359 are some weaknesses in the front nine. The fourth hole 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.760 is just doesn't function for this tournament as it was 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.760 intended to function. The sixth hole is never one that 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.200 I was a particular fan of, So to my mind, 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.840 there are some weaknesses in the front nine, but the 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.360 back nine is just hit after hit after hit for me. Now, 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.800 what really made an impression when I first came to 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:41.600 the course was the opening and closing stretches of the 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.520 back nine. So ten, eleven, twelve in that beautiful little valley, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.440 they just use it perfectly. They're great holes. And then 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.800 seventeen and eighteen a spectacular short par four and long 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:57.439 par four finish and opportunity and a big brute of 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.480 a closing hole. So those things that really jumped out 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.840 at me when I first saw the course. But this time, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.040 when I was going through, I saw how great those 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.120 middle holes in the back nine are. Thirteen is a well, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.359 the tea isn't a ridiculous place over the twelfth green. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.919 Now I've wrote about this for the website. But it's 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.800 a true risk reward par five where some players are 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.320 going for it and some aren't, and that landing zone 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.040 is just this big gully, and so you find all 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.680 these strange lies and that complicates the decision about whether 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.960 to go for the green. The fourteenth hole is in 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.200 a weird spot on the property. It's like a nothing 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.240 piece of land, but it is the coolest green on 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.000 the course. And then the fifteenth you really need to 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.199 challenge the bunker on the left if you want a 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:48.320 good angle to the green, because the green slants so 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.840 severely to the left, you want to be over on 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.440 the left side as much as possible so that you're 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.640 not hitting down the slope of that green. The sixteenth 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.600 hole has this kind of tight driving zone where a 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.800 bunker in pinges, but if you lay up short of 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.600 that driving zone, you're back in that gully that crosses 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.280 the thirteenth hole that I was talking about. So just 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.480 looking at these holes, they didn't make as big of 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.000 an impression on me the first time I saw them 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.720 as the holes that are around them. But this time 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:21.840 I saw that, like every shot was really challenging these 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.199 players on those holes. And yeah, I just think the 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.160 back nine here is about as good as it gets. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:32.840 So it's so so good. All right. One fan observation 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:37.560 for you seen and heard. Is there anything out there? 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:43.720 Hi? You know, for following that the Tiger group. The 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:48.800 silly things I heard were not really in that group. 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.280 It was pretty tame they were. 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.800 It was an incredibly well behaved mom. Yes, following them. 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:56.440 I noticed this too in the morning. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:02.399