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Speaker 1: It is US Open week, the third major of the
Speaker 1: year at Pinehurst. I've been on site all week and yeah,
Speaker 1: this is going to be an interesting one. I think
Speaker 1: every time the US Open comes to Pinehurst, it's just
Speaker 1: a very very unique golf course and I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of different I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways to play the golf course. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different strategies to employ. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to be player dependent, and
Speaker 1: I think everybody is going to be trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how is the best way to get around this
Speaker 1: golf course. It's I mean, it's midweek and the greens
Speaker 1: are lightning already and they've had a little bit of rain.
Speaker 1: They're not massively massively firm, but they are very very fast,
Speaker 1: and there just isn't a lot of usable area on
Speaker 1: a lot of these putting surfaces. I'll give you a
Speaker 1: great example, so the that's I mean on the front nine,
Speaker 1: I think two of the greens that stand out, or
Speaker 1: the second green and the fifth green, And some of
Speaker 1: these greens look look very very big on TV. They
Speaker 1: they'll look very big in the telecast, but there's very
Speaker 1: little usable area on the greens, first of all, where
Speaker 1: they can pins. So if you look at the fifth green,
Speaker 1: which is a par five, it's a very it's a
Speaker 1: big green. There's a lot of space out there. It's
Speaker 1: a big, big putting surface, but there's really only a
Speaker 1: small part of the green that that it can put
Speaker 1: the pin positions on. And if the balls start rolling
Speaker 1: off the greens, which they are designed and tend to
Speaker 1: do here at Pinehurst, you're going to struggle. We were
Speaker 1: out today Brooks and DJ played with Phil Mickelson. Phil
Speaker 1: came so close here in ninety nine and I got
Speaker 1: to kind of pick Phil's brain and talk to him about,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of what he thinks about the golf course,
Speaker 1: what he thinks about how to play the golf course.
Speaker 1: One of the big differences is they really have changed
Speaker 1: the areas off the fairways. They've planted a lot of
Speaker 1: fescue grass, and they're kind of in a bunch of
Speaker 1: really clumpy pieces of grass. So DJ today one of
Speaker 1: the holes in the background was of fourteen hit the
Speaker 1: golf ball maybe a yard and a half left of
Speaker 1: the fairway and it nestled down right behind a giant
Speaker 1: clump of fescue. He somehow managed to get it on
Speaker 1: the putting service, but it could have gone anywhere, and
Speaker 1: that's less than it wasn't even two paces from the fairway.
Speaker 1: So I think that the strategy off the tee is
Speaker 1: going to be very important, and I think which strategy
Speaker 1: the players employ will kind of define I think this
Speaker 1: US Open. I saw Victor Hovelin's press conference day VIC
Speaker 1: saying he's going to try and be very aggressive off
Speaker 1: the tee with driver so that he has shorter irons
Speaker 1: in his hands and then can be way more conservative
Speaker 1: with the shorter I think that's a really good strategy
Speaker 1: unless you spray the driver. If you spray the driver,
Speaker 1: you just don't know what you're going to get. So
Speaker 1: if the driver goes offline, you're looking at any possibility.
Speaker 1: You look at the possibility of making a par you're
Speaker 1: looking at the possibility of bogie, or you're looking at
Speaker 1: some very very big numbers. And that was the interesting
Speaker 1: thing in talking to Phil about the way he kind
Speaker 1: of thinks about this golf course. He said it takes
Speaker 1: a lot of discipline, and what he meant by that was,
Speaker 1: if you do hit it offline, how aggressive are you
Speaker 1: on the next shot, because you could have only if
Speaker 1: you bomb one off the tee and it misses the fairway,
Speaker 1: you could have a much shorter club in your hand.
Speaker 1: But Bill was saying that he thinks the strategy and
Speaker 1: the mind games that this course plays is Okay, you
Speaker 1: missed the fairway. You've got a short club in your hand,
Speaker 1: and you think, okay, well, let's say I'm only one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards one hundred fifty yards away. It's
Speaker 1: probably going to be a wedge. Maybe for a lot
Speaker 1: of these long hitters, and they're going to say, okay,
Speaker 1: do I need to be aggressive here and try and
Speaker 1: get this on. The problem is if you miss the green, left, right,
Speaker 1: or over the green, it's very very difficult to get
Speaker 1: those up and down. It's very difficult to make pars
Speaker 1: from there. So what Phil was saying was he likes
Speaker 1: the strategy of if you get in trouble off the tee,
Speaker 1: then lay it up short. And he was thinking, and
Speaker 1: I talked to a lot of the players. You know,
Speaker 1: so far this way you can score from the front
Speaker 1: of these greens. You can. It's very difficult to score left,
Speaker 1: right or long. So the play if you are going
Speaker 1: to miss a fair way is lay it up short.
Speaker 1: Then you can run it up a lot of these slopes.
Speaker 1: But like I said, if you miss these greens left
Speaker 1: and right or long, I mean sometimes you can be dead.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you're staring at you know, double triple
Speaker 1: quad by just missing the green. Because depending on where
Speaker 1: they put the pin positions, you could miss the green
Speaker 1: to left, to the right, over the green and basically
Speaker 1: have no shot. Try and hit a great chip. But
Speaker 1: the slopes here, the speed of these greens or are
Speaker 1: so fast that you could hit it over the green
Speaker 1: and then hit it all the way off the front edge.
Speaker 1: If you're on the left side of the of the
Speaker 1: green and miss it, you could chip it up to
Speaker 1: certain pin positions and it could run all the way
Speaker 1: over to the other side. So I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the strategy this week will be how disciplined can
Speaker 1: you be off the tee, and then how disciplined can
Speaker 1: you be if you miss the fairway, Because I think
Speaker 1: the winners here tend to be the guys that drive
Speaker 1: the golf ball the best. They tend to be the
Speaker 1: players that hit a lot of fairways. If you get
Speaker 1: the ball and play, then you can somewhat be I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can be aggressive, but you can
Speaker 1: somewhat try and take advantage of a good drive. I
Speaker 1: think good shots this week you were going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of really good quality iron shots that if
Speaker 1: you can get them pin high left, pin high right,
Speaker 1: twenty feet, twenty five feet, sometimes thirty feet. Sometimes just
Speaker 1: getting the iron shot that you've got to stay on
Speaker 1: the green is going to be a good shot. So
Speaker 1: I think this is very much a USGA US Open
Speaker 1: style of golf course this golf course is going to
Speaker 1: play very, very different than the last major we saw
Speaker 1: at Valhalla, where it was soft, it was very easy,
Speaker 1: everybody was shooting low, everybody was having good rounds. I
Speaker 1: just don't think we're going to see that. So depending
Speaker 1: on the way they set the golf course up. I
Speaker 1: asked you a couple of the players, if they gave
Speaker 1: you a score and said, okay, right now, you could
Speaker 1: not tee it up, what score would you take, not
Speaker 1: even teeing it up and take your chances? And I
Speaker 1: heard anywhere between even par to one under to two under.
Speaker 1: But you just don't know. I mean, somebody could go
Speaker 1: out and just light it up and shoot you four
Speaker 1: five six under. And I could also see even par
Speaker 1: one over, maybe two over. I could see that winning.
Speaker 1: And I think we could see some gaps between where
Speaker 1: the leader is and then where the guy in second
Speaker 1: and the guy in third is. We saw that in
Speaker 1: fourteen when Martin Kimer won here. There was a big
Speaker 1: gap between what Martin was doing and then what the
Speaker 1: rest of the field was doing. So I think strategy
Speaker 1: has been vital in the practice grounds. The players and
Speaker 1: their caddies are all talking about okay, how far up
Speaker 1: do we want to push our drive? Do I need
Speaker 1: to hit drive here? And then what are the consequences?
Speaker 1: What is the risk reward of smashing driver? But if
Speaker 1: you miss it at all, you just don't know what
Speaker 1: you're going to get. You could get a decent lie,
Speaker 1: you could get a very very sandy lie, and then
Speaker 1: you could get a lie where you're struggling to advance it.
Speaker 1: You might have to chip it back sideways, you might
Speaker 1: have to go backwards. So I do think the buzzword
Speaker 1: for this week for every player is disciplined. And I
Speaker 1: think that the USGA and the US Opens like to
Speaker 1: test the player's minds as much as they like to
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Speaker 1: that is the fascinating thing about the venues that they
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Speaker 1: without limits. In looking at the interaction between the players
Speaker 1: and the caddies, there's a lot of conversations on the
Speaker 1: tea box. Okay, what are we doing here? How far
Speaker 1: up do we want to push this? Can we just
Speaker 1: hit the fairway here? Hit an iron off the tee.
Speaker 1: In Brooks's case, Brooks and in his caddy Ricky Elliott
Speaker 1: Brooks has got that driving Nike. It's a driving iron,
Speaker 1: it's a three iron. He can probably hit that to
Speaker 1: forty to two fifty in the air. So Brooks is,
Speaker 1: I think, is going to hit a lot of I
Speaker 1: mean his driving iron off the tee. He's going to
Speaker 1: hit some three woods off the tee. He is going
Speaker 1: to hit driver And I think the longer hitters do
Speaker 1: have an advantage here, but they only have an advantage
Speaker 1: here if they hit the fairway. If they don't hit
Speaker 1: the fairway, it's it's it's crapshoot. You just don't know
Speaker 1: what you're going to get. Who are the favorites this week?
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, you would think that this is a
Speaker 1: ball striker's golf course. You have to be able to
Speaker 1: control the flight of your golf ball, the curve of
Speaker 1: your golf ball, control the trajectory, control the spin. Ricky Eleduo,
Speaker 1: caddy's for Brooks, Keka said he bought that you have
Speaker 1: to play this course through the middle of the greens
Speaker 1: because if you're trying to come in on angles, and
Speaker 1: that was something that I heard a number of players say,
Speaker 1: you have to hit a lot of straight shots here
Speaker 1: because the way the slopes are the way the runoff
Speaker 1: areas are. If you overdraw that. If your drawer of
Speaker 1: the golf ball, you're right handed and you overdraw it,
Speaker 1: it's going to go left and then go further left
Speaker 1: down these slopes. Does it go down into the runoff
Speaker 1: area or does it keep going and go all the
Speaker 1: way down into where these fescue bushes have been planted?
Speaker 1: Are you on hard pan? DJ had a drive on.
Speaker 1: They started on the tenth hole today, par five. It
Speaker 1: was a little into the breeze and he just said, listen,
Speaker 1: there's no real reward for me trying to go there,
Speaker 1: trying to get there in two. So he tried to
Speaker 1: lay it up, blocked it just a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was there's a bunker to the right of the first
Speaker 1: or right of the tenth green, and he wasn't in
Speaker 1: the bunker. He was kind of on the top of
Speaker 1: the right side of it. And it was basically as
Speaker 1: hard as a cart path. It was like concrete. So
Speaker 1: that's the other thing is some of the areas around
Speaker 1: these greens they're baked out. It's warm here. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're going to get a ton of rain. So
Speaker 1: this golf course is going to play very very firm.
Speaker 1: This golf course is going to play very very bouncy,
Speaker 1: and I think we are in for a four day
Speaker 1: USGA US Open kind of war of attrition. You know,
Speaker 1: do you have the game to manage this golf course,
Speaker 1: but do you have the mental side to manage the misses?
Speaker 1: Because you are going to hit the players here this week.
Speaker 1: They will hit bad shots, they will hit bad drives,
Speaker 1: they will hit bad approach shots. It's what you do
Speaker 1: when you hit a bad one. I think that is
Speaker 1: going to be what how the whoever holds the trophy
Speaker 1: on Sunday, in my opinion, is going to be the
Speaker 1: player that manages their game the best. So who are
Speaker 1: the who are the favorites? I mean, you gotta think
Speaker 1: Xanderschoffle is a favorite. Is just coming off winning his
Speaker 1: first major championship. Scotti Scheffler. I saw Scotty and his
Speaker 1: Kattie Teddy Scott on Tuesday. They were just walking around
Speaker 1: the front nine with just a bunch of club and
Speaker 1: a putter, so they weren't even hitting any t shots
Speaker 1: or iron shots. They were just going out and going
Speaker 1: directly to all of the green complexes and then having
Speaker 1: balls kind of run off and then go play them.
Speaker 1: So I think Scotty's strategy. Listen, it's not even close.
Speaker 1: He's the best player in the game right now. He
Speaker 1: has the most confident of any player. He's coming in
Speaker 1: here off another win at Memorial, which is a very
Speaker 1: very difficult golf course, but it's a completely different setup.
Speaker 1: But the other thing that I think is always going
Speaker 1: to be a question at US Opens and the US
Speaker 1: Open venues is the setup. How fast does the usj
Speaker 1: want to get these greens? Wyndham Clark was saying on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night or Tuesday in his press conference that already
Speaker 1: the greens were borderline. Are they going to put water
Speaker 1: on them? Are they going to let them bake out?
Speaker 1: And I think the USGA likes they like even par.
Speaker 1: They don't have a problem if even par wins major championships.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that like that style
Speaker 1: of golf. They don't want to see a birdie fest.
Speaker 1: They don't want to see ten, twelve, thirteen under win majors.
Speaker 1: They want the test to be tough. Listen, this test
Speaker 1: is tough. I think a lot of these greens and
Speaker 1: they have been redesigned, but the green complexes. The original
Speaker 1: green complexes were never designed to be at the speeds
Speaker 1: that the modern day golfers and the modern day setups
Speaker 1: set up. They just weren't. These greens were originally designed
Speaker 1: when they would roll six, seven, maybe eight on the stemp.
Speaker 1: If these things get over ten eleven, we are going
Speaker 1: to see some carnage. The other thing is with how
Speaker 1: much back and forth. I think there will be around
Speaker 1: these greens where you'll see players mis agree. They'll be
Speaker 1: down in a runoff area if they've short sighted themselves.
Speaker 1: They know that if they if they hit the golf
Speaker 1: ball too far, it could run off the other side,
Speaker 1: or run down the front, or run down the back.
Speaker 1: So do they try and get quick or try and
Speaker 1: get cute and not judge how far they hit it?
Speaker 1: And I do think we are going to see players
Speaker 1: chipping around these greens and get it on the putting
Speaker 1: surface and then it's going to roll up. A good
Speaker 1: example is the fifth Green, the par five. The pin
Speaker 1: on Tuesday in the practice round was kind of front
Speaker 1: ish to the right. I saw some players lay it
Speaker 1: up over on the right hand side, chip it up,
Speaker 1: not chip it far enough, and then it basically went sideways,
Speaker 1: did a big loop, went sideways, went all the way
Speaker 1: down the left side, down into the bunker. I saw
Speaker 1: some players chip, some that didn't get up to the flag,
Speaker 1: same thing, rolled all the way up, then started to
Speaker 1: come back down on the left hand side, missed the bunker,
Speaker 1: rolled all the way down to the runoff areas, got
Speaker 1: behind a bush and they're staring on a par five
Speaker 1: where you're trying to make up ground here. I mean,
Speaker 1: there isn't a lot of There aren't a lot of
Speaker 1: birdie chances here, right. That's that's something that all of
Speaker 1: these players are going to have to deal with. I
Speaker 1: think the hard holes out here, the ones to watch
Speaker 1: are going to be two six eight, eleven, sixteen. If
Speaker 1: you could somehow for the week play those five holes
Speaker 1: and even or one under for the week, you are
Speaker 1: going to pick up maybe a stroke and a half,
Speaker 1: maybe two strokes against the field. So everyone out here
Speaker 1: knows what the hard hole are, they know what the
Speaker 1: test is, and they know where they're going to need
Speaker 1: to try and just hang on. I think every us
Speaker 1: OPENED and the USGA likes this, right. They love a
Speaker 1: very very difficult test, and they love hard holes, and
Speaker 1: they know that everyone knows kind of what the hard
Speaker 1: holes are. So, like I said, I think on the
Speaker 1: when we look at the hardest hole, I think one
Speaker 1: of the hardest holes is going to be the sixth hole.
Speaker 1: I think sixteen is going to be a very very
Speaker 1: difficult hole. The second hole, based off of that green
Speaker 1: complex is difficult. Eight is no bargain. Eleven the second
Speaker 1: hole on the back nine Again, you get out of
Speaker 1: position there and you're really really going to struggle. The
Speaker 1: only two fives on this golf course are five and ten.
Speaker 1: That's it. Those are the only two real legit birdie
Speaker 1: chances I think you're going to have. And then the
Speaker 1: rest of it is just you hang on. You just
Speaker 1: try and get it to the house. Uh. Seventeen today,
Speaker 1: which is the par three, five irons, four irons for
Speaker 1: some of these guys. And yeah, that's well in excess
Speaker 1: of two fifteen to two twenty. And DJ hit a
Speaker 1: shot today in the practice round, hammered a four iron
Speaker 1: thirty feet left of the flag, just barely stayed on
Speaker 1: the green, didn't go down into the left green side bunker.
Speaker 1: We got up there and we're thinking, this is a
Speaker 1: very very good golf shot under these conditions. Now, the
Speaker 1: best players in the world don't think thirty feet is
Speaker 1: a good shot. They just don't. But us opens sometimes
Speaker 1: pin high, or sometimes anywhere on these greens, twenty to
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Speaker 1: I think this week is a lot about managing the expectations.
Speaker 1: I think the rounds are going to take forever. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're going to finish. I think there. I
Speaker 1: don't think people will finish on On I certainly don't
Speaker 1: think people are going to finish Thursday. The field's too
Speaker 1: big and the golf course is just too difficult. You
Speaker 1: are going to see guys playing hockey, ping pong around
Speaker 1: these greens. You know, miss a green, try and go
Speaker 1: for it, run it over the other side of the green,
Speaker 1: and we're going to see some big numbers and the
Speaker 1: pace of playof I think we're looking at in excess
Speaker 1: of five hours. I think we could get into six
Speaker 1: hour rounds this week because the test is just so difficult.
Speaker 1: That's what the USGA wants. They want this to be
Speaker 1: the toughest test possible. What does Rory McRoy do this week?
Speaker 1: He's saying that he's never felt better. He's saying that
Speaker 1: he's never had a better opportunity, he's never been more
Speaker 1: ready to win his fifth major. And we've talked about
Speaker 1: it on the pod before. I think it's just it's
Speaker 1: shocking to me given how great a player Rory McElroy is.
Speaker 1: He's hitting on the range today, he was hitting balls
Speaker 1: next to DJ and I mean it's hard not to
Speaker 1: watch him, right, I mean, he's hitting balls. He's just
Speaker 1: got everything. He's just so impressive as player. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see him win this week. I could see
Speaker 1: him get his fifth major. But if he doesn't get
Speaker 1: off to a good start he's I think That's been
Speaker 1: one of the issues that Rory's had in trying to
Speaker 1: win that elusive fifth major championship is sometimes in these
Speaker 1: majors he doesn't get off to a fast start. This
Speaker 1: is not a golf course. This, I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: This is not a golf course you can play offense on.
Speaker 1: This is a golf course where you're trying to play defense,
Speaker 1: and rarely are you going to get opportunities to play offense.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, and I'll keep saying this, this
Speaker 1: golf course, the setup, and what the USGA likes is
Speaker 1: they like to have players play defense when they should
Speaker 1: be playing offense. And they love them. They love them
Speaker 1: to play offense when they know they should be playing defense.
Speaker 1: And so great ball strikers, yeah, great ball strikers will
Speaker 1: really really like this place. And if you are coming
Speaker 1: into this tournament this week with a lot of really
Speaker 1: really good form, I think you would think you would
Speaker 1: have a chance. I do think that on golf courses
Speaker 1: like this that are this difficult, where the test is
Speaker 1: so penal if you miss shots, you could also see
Speaker 1: not a household name leading on the leaderboard, go leading
Speaker 1: on Thursday, not a superstar, not someone that anybody would
Speaker 1: have picked in their fantasy. They could be leading because
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, they just don't know anybody.
Speaker 1: They don't know how hard the golf course is, so
Speaker 1: they're just firing at every flag and you could get lucky,
Speaker 1: you could have a great ball striking week, play super
Speaker 1: super aggressive and if you're on, yeah, maybe you can
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. But I think respecting this golf
Speaker 1: course is something that's going to be very very important
Speaker 1: and strategy getting around here and thinking your way around here.
Speaker 1: The other thing is with as long as the players
Speaker 1: are going to be out on the golf course, As
Speaker 1: I said, these are going to be very long rounds.
Speaker 1: It's hot, it's dusty, it's lenxy, it's the ground is hard,
Speaker 1: it's tough walk. You have to stay focused. You drop
Speaker 1: your focus for one swing out here at Pinehurst this
Speaker 1: week and you could be making double or triple. So
Speaker 1: I think the winner this week is going to be
Speaker 1: a combination of really good ball striking. You're going to
Speaker 1: get You're gonna need to get lucky. You're gonna need
Speaker 1: to get some good breaks. You're going to need to
Speaker 1: have some good fortune, you're going to need to get
Speaker 1: out of jail free card and so we have seen
Speaker 1: that in the past here. I think there's a very,
Speaker 1: very rich history here at Pinehurst. There have been some
Speaker 1: great battles here, Phil Michelson and Payne Stewart in ninety nine.
Speaker 1: The golf course that Martin Kimer played here in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: A lot of people at the end of that week
Speaker 1: thought what golf course was he's playing, because it certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't the golf course that everybody else was playing based
Speaker 1: off of the score that he shot. A big time
Speaker 1: US Open USGA type golf course, a big time US
Speaker 1: Open USGA set up. And I have no idea who's win.
Speaker 1: I have no idea who's gonna be on the leaderboard.
Speaker 1: But I think we are in for an exciting four days.
Speaker 1: If you like really tough golf courses, if you like
Speaker 1: to see the best players in the world challenged basically
Speaker 1: from the first t shot until the last put on eighteen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love this week because I think that's what
Speaker 1: we're going to get. I do think Pinehurst at the
Speaker 1: end of this week, Yes, the winner will be the star,
Speaker 1: but I think Pinehurst will also be one of the
Speaker 1: stars of the show here because it's a great golf course.
Speaker 1: It's a great design, and it's a very cool golf course.
Speaker 1: It looks cool. I think it'll look great on TV,
Speaker 1: and I think gets your popcorn out because there will
Speaker 1: be some carnage. There will be some unbelievable shots. There
Speaker 1: will be a lot of shots that a lot of
Speaker 1: people watching will think that's not great, it's kind of mediocre.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't been out here and haven't walked
Speaker 1: around and been inside the ropes and seen how difficult
Speaker 1: this test is, this is a tough one. And I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see who hoists the giant trophy on Sunday.
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