WEBVTT - A controversy at DLF, Houston setup problems, and Mickelson changes caddies 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.160 Now, the Shotgun Starting golf is full of mathematics. There's 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.680 a lot of setup work that we have to do 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.000 in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.399 to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.320 shotgun start. Here and there are. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.640 Alright, alright, alright? 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.560 Did do man? Dark? You are. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.080 Ingredients and welcome to my Wednesday edition of the Shotgun Start. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.600 It is Mark twenty seven, Shane. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.479 How we doing, Brendan, I love me a good golf hat. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.800 And for people that can't see this or see you, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.040 I gotta say maybe top three best golf hat I've 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.920 ever seen that you're wearing right now, so good. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.440 I procured it at the Royal Port Rush. It's a 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.560 good one rope hat we've we've I'm not a member 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.480 of Royal Port Rush. I know some people are sensitive 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.200 about getting hats for clubs. It's just a good look 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.280 at hat that I wanted and I decided to get it. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.039 It's a rope we've swung the other way. I think 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.600 a big one now is like the name of the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.399 club and the script or in some sort of typeface. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.520 I would caution not the ones that eliminate the vowels 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.880 and just start throwing letters against the wall. But there 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.800 is sort of a Jewish I didn't see those in 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.360 the pro shop, but there's a lot of So this 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.679 is just yeah that like whatever American Needles says it 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.200 in print. Now sometimes I like the little the tiny 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.160 little logo that with no words on it too, But 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.680 we're in a moment here where I think a little 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:54.080 more words are okay too on some styles, which brings 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.480 us to someone tweeted at us they were getting hollered 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.840 at by his wife or significant other. Why do you 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.040 have this hat? It was the Gnomeses hat, which is 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.920 you know that provokes a lot of separate questions for 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.640 many different reasons. But I think this person was complaining 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.040 about you have too many? You have just enough hats already. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.840 Why did you have to add this one to the collection? 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:21.560 Never mind the whole Swinger implications for it. But they 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.560 asked you, as an authority had of the day. I 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.880 think you've had like a hat room in your one 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.800 of your domiciles at some point, so we punped it 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.440 to you. How many hats is too many hats? 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.240 I mean it's a space issue for most people, right, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.519 So it's all about like how much space do you have. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.920 I would say for a regular non psychopath like me, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.359 with all the hats, I would say, when you're getting 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.640 north to thirty, that's probably too many. I think north 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.640 of thirty is probably to cut off, because again it's 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.799 like you can wear a different hat every day of 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.799 the month, you're probably good to go. I would say. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.520 It's a little bit like somebody once told me the 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.840 Coade hangar rule of shirts, right where you flip the 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.880 coat hangers the wrong way on January first, and if 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.120 they're still flipped the wrong way at the end of 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.720 the year and you'dn wear it for a year, like 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.960 get rid of that shirt. I would say, like do 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.680 that with your hats, like like stack them in order. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.960 Once you wear the hat, put it on the bottom, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.959 keep it going. And when you get to like the 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.320 last hat in your stack, if you have no interest 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.120 in wearing that one, that one that one can can 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:26.720 see the curve. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.960 Oh, that's an interesting I probably have right now like 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.560 seventy five to ninety to one hundred hats, and you know, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.280 I'm sure there are like fifteen to twenty that are 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.640 in the rotation, and then a lot of them are 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.240 like I'll be honest. Freebies like oh I could wear 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.880 that on the beach, you know, it just gets wet 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.120 and sand and salt. Or I could work out in 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.240 that one, but then you never actually do. And like, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.720 there's some I need to go through and find. I 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.080 mean some of these that I were given to me. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.480 I don't mean to be ungrateful for that that you know, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.760 an equipment brand of some or are just like really garish, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.280 like terrible. I have a great Live under par hat 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.960 that was so bad it's good. We'll get to the 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.440 DLF here in a minute. But like the Live under 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.000 par original that the tour sent me like six seven 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.360 years ago, has gone from so bad it's good. That 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.640 remains in my closet and I will never get rid 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.479 of that on purpose because I'd like to break that 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.320 out every now and then as a bit. But you're right, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.640 I need to. I like the code hainer. I've never 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.400 heard that one where if you flip it for a 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.039 year and it doesn't flip back, that's a great strategy. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.400 I like that with hats. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.720 Yeah, And I mean, like you know that the hat 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.200 thing you're still right about, like when you're in the 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.240 space we're in you get a lot of hats in 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:39.960 the mail, right, you get a lot of hats sent 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.440 to you. One good place to donate hats is like 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.720 a caddy yard. So if you have a golf course 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.000 in the area that has a caddyard, like a really 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.719 good place to take hats is somewhere like that, you know, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.920 because again, like maybe you've worn it a couple of times, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.080 it's not gross, it's not dirty necessarily. I mean, somebody 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.040 else could in theory still use that hat. So I 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.000 would say finding like any place where people are working 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.720 outside a lot is a good place to maybe take 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.960 some hats that you're not using. But yeah, I think 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.520 for a normal person, you know, that's maybe not in 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.159 the golf media spacer doesn't do like a social media 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.120 stick around it. I'd say thirty is probably a good number. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.760 Zwe love it. Speaking of caddies, we've got to start 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.560 off with some shotguns. Start catnip. I'm getting reports from 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.440 the ground at DLF, We've got some great stuff. We've 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.960 got a backboarding issue in Houston on the tour, but 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.480 on DLF really at one of our super Bowls. There 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.640 are multiple super Bowls. We don't just not just you know, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.680 we don't discriminate here. DLF is a super Bowl here 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.560 at the shotguns start, the Gary player. Of course Gary 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.360 is proactively or preemptively tweeting about it. He's talking about 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.080 as bunkers. Of course they've got the phone roll bunkers, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.560 the artificial you know. Barry Henson old front of the 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.520 program wants to a tutorial for us from there, a 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.000 personalized video that we were able to show of you know, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.640 him clinking and clanking the ball off these things. But 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.360 DLF and the Indian Open on the DP World Tour 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.480 really is kind of a staple. It was just one 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.279 of the great sort of you know, I won't say tragedy, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.680 because there were many way worse things of the pandemic, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.200 but one of the great misfortunes of the pandemic was 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.880 we had no hero Indie Open for like three or 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.200 four years so for this podcast. But we have come 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.960 back and come back with a vengeance. And speaking of caddies, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:33.080 I'm getting sources saying on the ground at DLF that 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.200 there are many caddies grumbling grumbling this week about a 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:42.120 potential yardage book issue, which brings up this whole like 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.040 yardage book debate Apparently the yardage books by and large 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:53.120 have gotten so good that it sort of marginalized the 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.640 advantage of a good caddy versus a bad caddy. As 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.039 one person explained to me, it's like you could just 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.240 have any brother come out and it's just read the 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.680 yardage book to me. But it's your brother and he's 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.120 your caddy, and that's what it goes. And there's some 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:10.280 older chaps grumbling about this, but apparently this one at 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.600 DLF because d LF is so bad. It's good, so quirky, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:18.160 so weird, so bizarre that you'd need, I guess the 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:24.640 personal annotations needed for this week are significant because hey, actually, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.840 if you hit it to that spot, it's not as 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.280 someone explained to me, it's become golf by numbers with 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.520 a lot of these yardist books, where's this one Gary player, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.560 the strategic master around that he is, has put them 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.280 in a blender that maybe hitting to these certain spots 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.520 eighteen that GOOFY eighteen being one of them, you're just 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.320 totally screwed angle wise. So there's a lot of grumbling 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.240 in the caddy yard apparently about this yardage book needing 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.440 too many personal notes at DLF and that's the kind 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.720 of course we would like to champion on this podcast. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.560 I will first say that for this podcast, could you 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.000 imagine a better news dump on this week than that? Like, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.360 it's got to make you smile from me. You're you're 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.760 like you, I listen. I know some stuff can rub 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.480 you the wrong way. A lot of things probably can 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.320 rub you the wrong wrong way. Brendan we've heard a 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.480 lot about him on this podcast over the years, chicken citrus, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.480 things like that, but uh, nothing, nothing, nothing's better than 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.920 than a good yardage book controversy and by the way, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.280 speaking of the bunkers in this event, I got a 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.360 good laugh out of this. You know, Gary Player was 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.160 tweeting about the bunkers or whatever he was saying preemptively, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.439 as you said, Mark Player responded to a tweet about 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.200 the bunkers they look like a bear but play like 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.680 a puppy about the bunkers, which I don't even know 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.840 what that means. I don't even know what that means. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.600 I don't I don't either. That seems like a mixed 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.760 metaphor of some kind. I don't really get it. Gary 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.600 Players quote my favorite bunkers. I'm not going to try 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.760 to impersonate him. That's k's a really good My favorite 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.520 book occurs. They prevent the ball from plugging in the face. Well, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.880 that is true. That is a statement of fact. Gary, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:14.280 by the way, they reduce maintenance cost parentheses, especially after 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.520 rain You can make them any color you want, which 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.760 is just where he's really taken me on a ride 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.880 and I am all in. You can make them you want. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.920 Brinted lead into it, like, let's make him red and 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.800 orange and green and weird. Like, if you're gonna say it, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:31.480 let's see it. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.040 Well, each each like roll could be a different color. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.800 You could do every color in the spectrum a rainbow. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:45.199 You can start making all sorts of statements about anything. Yeah, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.040 and in my opinion, they are esthetically pleasing. Now he 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.480 gets to the subjective a lot of statement of facts. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.640 They don't plug. Yeah, then he goes esthetically pleasing, where 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.199 I think gets into a more subjective debate. The all 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.679 earth thing, though, is what everybody got. I love Gary Player, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.760 just leaning it all the best to play it in 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.200 the India this week hashtag Gary Player design which I 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.160 just got to click on that. Let's see what we 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:17.760 got in here, Blue Valley, Wildstone Turn I mean, big seat. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.920 How many how many total? How many total tweets ever 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.440 with that hashtag? Can you count them all? 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.200 There's I mean, we're going I'm already at twenty fifteen. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.440 So yeah, I didn't scroll a very long. I just 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.520 went back about a decade of tweets a hashtag Gary Player. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.680 Listen, listen. Can I say something here real quick to 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.160 everybody out in this world. It is twenty twenty four, guys, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.440 twenty twenty four. Twitter, the way it used to exist, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:52.000 the whole hashtagging around things work. It doesn't work anymore, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.960 does it. Nobody uses them, Stop telling people to use them. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.000 Stop having these elongated, elaborate hashtags about your event. No 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.079 body ever, nobody ever does it. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.640 No, it's not a it's not a functional thing anymore. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.840 I remember when Shaq was like on Twitter and that 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.080 like remember like twenty nine to ten Twitter, it was 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.239 like Shack and that was like he would use hashtags 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:16.800 and it felt like you were supposed to be using 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.880 them then. But now that's not a thing anyway. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.520 It was it was. It was literally in a world 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.240 where the athletes that existed on Twitter were Shaquille O'Neill 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.560 and Stuarts and that was it. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:35.280 Yes, Yes, that was twit a bit of a bit 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.760 of a retort to Gary Player's design of Gary Players tweet, 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.840 This is more intel from the ground. I've just got 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.119 sources all over DLF getting at me about the caddyard 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.680 grumbles a separate issue. This is a quote, and just 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.880 imagine in a great accent. It's someone with a you know, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.440 year over year familiarity with DLF. You go around this 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.720 golf course and every year people start to say, ah, no, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.760 it's okay, it's getting better. It's only it's growing on 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.640 me or they're used to getting around it more now 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:14.760 end quote. It's absolute insanity response to that. It's a 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.000 response to that impersonation. It's absolute sanity. There are hints 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.800 of Gary Player everywhere. Gary will tell us this is 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.440 the greatest course in this part of Asia. Well he's 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.200 clearly never played it, so that comes from the ground 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.880 as well. Absolute insanity about people even suggesting that it 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.720 might be getting up, growing on them or getting okay. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.920 So this is from someone who's been around it many times. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.040 So that's your DLF update. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.079 You know, it's it's a bummer that Gary Player didn't 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.920 like lean into Gary Player stuff more with his golf 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.680 course designs, whereas like after like the sixth hole, you 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.920 had to do like a five minute plank, and then 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.960 after like when you made the turn, you had Now 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.440 he holds the clubs with his fingers, Like I wish 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.480 that that was a little bit more of his designs. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.880 You know, like like some Gary play one moment you 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.439 have to like reveal how many hours you've been in 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.040 an airplane, like to somebody like on a tee, and 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.040 then they maybe like back check you to make sure 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.760 you're accurate. Like, I just feel like you could have 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:10.960 leaned into this a little bit more. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.160 Start calling people fat. You know. He called me fat 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.720 once at the Masters, So I asked why. Oh yeah, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.719 I walked him in. I asked him to basically I 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.199 walked him into it. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.000 It was a yeah, yeah, Can I ask you this 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:27.440 was that? 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.800 Was that part of you losing weight with the Gary player? No? 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.560 Absolutely, I'm not that insecure of a Gary player. Anything 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.559 he says would drive me to do anything one way 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.720 or another. God No, I tell him it's about time 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.720 to get in better shape. But yes, I enjoyed. I 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.360 enjoyed being a huskier boy. I kind of I asked him. Basically, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.520 I got him there. I wanted him to just rip 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.200 on me for the content sake, basically is what it was. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.600 But yeah, that was his That could be part of 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.760 his stick, and the different colored bunker faces would be 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.920 a well, uh second part of intel. We're gonna jump 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:09.120 across an ocean here, maybe multiple oceans. We're not geographic experts. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:14.920 To Houston. The Memorial Park, another shotgun. Start catting at 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.000 seventeenth hole. I've wrote extensively about this in a club 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.960 TF tour tour guide. I got some good intel on 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.560 this seventeenth hole. Of course, this is Tom dok renovated 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.760 Memorial Park, maybe like the one of the best public 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.320 values in golf if you're a resident in Houston. It's 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.200 like I think weekend mornings, like the most expensive possible 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.200 rate is like thirty eight dollars. Sometimes it's twenty, you know, weeknights, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:43.400 and fifteen for senior. Amazing deal. So Dok has renovated 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.800 this course and they seventeenth hole supposed to be this 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.040 driveable four. But like guys are hitting like nine iron, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.080 nine iron. I don't know if you remember this, because 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.840 there's just like there's they just start hitting it two 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.640 hundred yards out there and then hitting at like one 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.160 hundred and fifty in like it just they don't they're 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.880 not taking it on. So Doak was there all summer 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:06.560 shaping and renovating this whole update to make apparently by 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.120 the tours, you know, wants more guys going for it, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.200 and probably Tom does too. I don't have any I 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.440 haven't talked to him and he might have, but haven't 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.040 talked to him yet. So they added like a more 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.760 they lengthened it and then added more like generous run 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.600 up right so like you could kind of hit a 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.040 cut and run it in there, you know, just to 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.440 promote more guys going for it. But maybe what he 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:36.680 didn't envision while doing this was the PGA tour putting 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.120 a giant backboard around the back and thirty five forty 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.200 yards up the side of the fairway where guys could 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.840 also now just wail away and get a soft landing 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.000 off the ivy on the wall along this drive of 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.960 a par four. So this a lot of people down 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.440 in Houston are like, look, we had this work done. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.120 There's intent with the hole of risk if you just 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.160 kind of if you do, you know, there's more you know, enticement, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.080 I should say to go for it, But there's also risk. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.920 Well some of that's been eliminated because you've got you know, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.640 the big green monster apparently just and it's not just behind. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.240 It's like running like thirty yards up the fairway on 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.200 the left where there's not the water. So like if 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.840 you're not going right for the green, even less risk 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.440 is just to whale away and just launch and it's 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.720 all short grass pretty much, so you're not getting some 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.200 nasty little drop zone or something like that. So guys, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.200 I love that dok making these work, this work, and 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.400 then just the tour slamming a backboard right on top 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:42.720 of it seventeen. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.120 So so it feels Brendan like you're saying, we could 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.640 see a rom at Riviera situation from last year. Remember 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.960 he banked it off the grand stand on seventeen to 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.160 like four feet made eagle. I think that was in 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.080 like the second or third round. Like, I mean, you 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.000 know rom won that week. I mean that that grandstand's 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.040 not there. I mean he's not making prety likely, So 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.919 I mean a chance here to really be influential, you know, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.440 and instrumental in the way that this thing shakes out potentially. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.280 Yes, yes, I mean I don't know if I don't know, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:16.000 if there's potential for that. Yes, it would take a 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.439 really big hit and a kind of lucky bounce. But 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.520 it's just one of these things where like you had 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.960 all his work done. Apparently Douk was out there a 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.719 ton like all summer. They shut it down in June. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.600 Also apparently the Green is like nuclear firm compared to 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.760 all the others because it's new, like it's a newish 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.159 green and it just hasn't taken as well as they 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.359 thought it would by now, so it's going to be 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.720 firmer and like you just have guys can launch it 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.840 in the green and bounce it off the backboard, or 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.960 launch it not even go for the green, take out 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.040 all the risk and just right off the fairway backboard. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.879 So I don't know. It's just an amusing thing. Notes 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.800 from the ground at DLF and now also a memorial park. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.320 You know, you know you mentioned the way it used 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.800 to play Brendan and A last I was playing a. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.200 I think it was a met MGA qualifier for the Ike, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.240 which is like one of their bigger events up in 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.639 the met area. And you know, you'll play these like 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.840 super short, relatively quirky Northeast golf courses in these qualifiers. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.520 You know, it's like a lot of them are between 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.560 sixty two and sixty four hundred yards not extremely long, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.119 but some can be very tricky, very quirky whatever. I 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:23.960 was playing with one other guy, so it was a twosome, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.880 and we get up on this back nine tar four 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.320 straight downhill like two ninety I think, max, okay, I 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.240 mean it couldn't have been three of yards, and there's 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.520 like a three group backup, and me and the guy 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.639 I'm playing with her were comfortably inside the number, like 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.439 I think we were both like one over and it 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.160 looked like two or three over was gonna get through. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.440 And Brendan, we are just watching dudes. There's like trash 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.720 out of bounds left and like super high like waist 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.879 high rough right, okay, And we are just watching dude 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.399 after dude snipe it left in the shit or push 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.320 it right and have to retea. And we were watching 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.480 this and I mean, I see about six dudes. Nobody 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.680 hits one even on the planet. I mean, I'm seeing 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.640 guys re tea over and over again. And I looked 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.440 at the guy and play with him like, well, I'm 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.600 not doing that. And I went nine iron lob wedge 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.440 into a part four and I can't. And as I'm 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.399 on the tee, I remember thinking to myself, nine iron 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.520 might be too much. 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