WEBVTT - Ep. 108 - Open preview with Brad Faxon 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.400 Welcome to the Clubhouse with Shane Bacon, presented by TIF 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.639 dot Com by the PJ Tour. I am your host, 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.800 Shane Bacon, and it is Open Week, British Open Week, 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.240 Open Championship Week. You can really call it whatever you want. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.400 I am not gonna yell at you about that. And 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.040 if you don't want to travel all the way to 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.840 Scotland to play a course like car News Tee, you 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.479 and your golf buddies can book a tea time at 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.239 Chambers Bay Golf Club and experience the thrills of a 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.760 link style course right here in the United States. 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Check that out and yes, it is Open week. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.120 I will unfortunately not be in Scotland because we at 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.000 Fox have the unique opportunity to bring you a little 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.240 afternoon golf after you finish up watching the Open in 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.560 the morning. The US Junior Amateur will be on FS 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.880 one uh the semifinals or Friday two to four pm Eastern. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.560 The Championship is on Saturday one to four pm Eastern, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.160 so make sure you check that out once you wrap 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.440 up with your Open Championship viewing, because it's gonna be 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.960 great stuff. These young kids get just better and better 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.040 and it really looks like you're watching professional golf when 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.960 you watch this. And it's at Baltics Roll of course, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.560 a major championship venue. So headed out that way tomorrow 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.039 and we'll be there for the week and the weekend 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.800 and then Sunday morning. I'll be able to get up 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.400 after we wrap up the Championship on Saturday and check 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.319 out check in with Carnousti, which looks extremely dried out, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.960 which is awesome, very brown, which is awesome, and the 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.920 greens look like they're in unbelievable shape. So it's gonna 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.760 be a fun one. It brings. I think I think 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.360 the conditions bring in a lot more players. I think 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.520 you're gonna hear a lot of people talk about Tiger Woods. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.880 I talked with that about I talk about that with 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.960 Brad facts and the guests this week just about um, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.440 you know what type of player can benefit from conditions 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.239 like this, So it should be a lot of fun. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.440 The Open is one of the most fun viewing weekends 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:12.919 of the entire year, just because you get to get 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.120 up super early and you know, get the coffee brewing 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.480 and lay on the couch and watch golf, and then 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.080 you get to go play golf in the afternoon, that is, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.919 after you watch the US Junior Ameter on the f 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.639 S one C. I am such a business guy. Do 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.080 you hear that? 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Osio the world's best bags. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.960 All right, to my summer best friend, That's what I'm 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.519 calling them, My best buddy of the summer, A guy 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.560 that I spend more time within my wife Brad facts 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.640 and up next, and we welcome back into the clubhouse, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.840 a man that has avoided my request to quote unquote 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.760 pot it up. That's why you get so annoyed, is 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.160 it's the way I referenced brad facts and you hate 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.000 the way that I say pott it up. I love 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.400 come never. You know, you're such a millennial. You know 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:59.720 I don't have that vernacular in my vocabulary, but I'm 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.280 gonna start using that. Maybe people think I'm cooler more 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.000 contacts that way. Yeah. So you and I have spent 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.960 basically the entire summer together, and I hate to even 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.080 bother you on a day that that we're not having 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.640 to work together, but I appreciate you coming on. You know, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.880 I I love chatting with you about kind of golf 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.479 courses because you and I are both kind of golf 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.000 course nerds. For goodness, say so, we just got a 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.040 chance to do the US Senior Women's Open at Chicago 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.359 Golf Club, and we're basically salivating the entire broadcast. But 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.840 when you look at pictures of what we're going to 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.599 see this week at the Open Championship, you're seeing a 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.479 golf course today is a historic Open Championship golf course, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.000 But it looks the way that if you're going to 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.040 close your eyes and think about an open venue, it 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.360 looks exactly like you'd think it's burnout. The fairways look 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.200 like they're gonna run forever, but the greens are still 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.400 in good shape. And you know, for people like you 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.120 and I, it's gonna be an exciting week to watch 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.960 because it feels very much like a real Open. Yeah, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.240 you're ready, it feels and it looks it looks like 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.960 burned out, no control over the golf ball in atlant 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.080 and you know a lot of rubbed the green bouncing 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.040 and Carnewsti or or is affectionally known by many of the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.120 the players as car Nasty. When the Open was there 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.320 in ninety nine, you know, Paul Lord somehow managed to 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.719 win that thing in a mere seven over part, you know, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.120 roughly eight ft high, and then the finish by John Vanderbilt. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.440 People remember those two Opens there. But I'll tell you what. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.760 We played the Senior British Open there a couple of 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.120 years ago, and you know I've played Carnusti in the 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:35.760 Dunhill Links Championship. It's a fabulous golf course until the 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.119 last couple of holes and then it's very I would say, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.960 out of character, what would think of Links golf and 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.840 British golf with these creek beds that run through those 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.320 two holes. But nevertheless of those two holds are impossible too. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.159 But it's one of my favorite courses and the same 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.599 my favorite story is when when Ben Hogan came over 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.960 to plays one and only British Open he played at Carnews. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.599 The d ended up winning that event to win the 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.440 first three majors of nineteen fifty three. And then I 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.159 couldn't get back in time to play the PA Championship 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.119 to win the Grand Slam because he took the boat 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.360 back and it wouldn't get back in time. You don't 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.360 take the boat anymore, you're telling me that's not that's 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.200 not an option. No, I don't want to be on 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.680 the q E two. But it's just it's just there's 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.120 so much great history there the course. You're gonna have 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.280 to have a little bit of everything here. And and 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.360 I love the RNA's approach to the Open Championship is 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:41.279 unlike what we expected a US Open, for um hard 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.720 to be the score of the winning score around part. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.359 I think the U s g A has a different 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.359 amount mentality of the RNA. The RNA so dependent on weather, 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.440 and you know that's gave me course is difficult Ternbury 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.160 and eighty six when Norman one mirror field when Els 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.960 one had very very high if I don't remember hitting 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.400 so right rough there and it was over my belt 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:09.520 high obviously Carnoustian. It can be as difficult as they 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.680 wanted to be. But it's fun when it's fast, you know, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.360 when it's narrow, and when the wind blows so that 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.800 the RNA hopes to have some wind. It looks like 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.080 the forecast is for some steady, um warmest weather for 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.200 over their high sixties. Nothing crazy, but as you know, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.240 it changes in a minute. Yeah, it was. I want 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.600 to get into kind of a couple of names and predictions, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.760 and of course we'll talk a little tiger there as well. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.600 But I wanted to ask you, because I know you've 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.240 got some interesting stories across the pond in your career. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.400 What was your first introduction to links golf? Not in America, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.560 if you will, but links golf, you know, in Scotland 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.800 and England and Ireland. First time I ever played in 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.080 England was in the Walker Cup at Royal Liverpool or 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.680 hoy Lake as we called it, and it was the 0:07:53.720 --> 0:08:00.680 first time I crossed the Atlantic and that hotbed of 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.600 golf and Royal Liverpool looking at St Anne Birkedale, you 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.160 know they're all tied in there within a half an 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.720 hour's drive of each other, and some other great qualifying courses. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.680 But I think what blew me away was, well, there 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.840 were two things that brew me away, but playing the game. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.240 Part that brew me away was how irrelevant yardage was. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.840 And what I mean by that you played over there 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.040 to know that you could be in a in a 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.480 situation where you might be in the rough down wind 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.000 from two hundred yards and hit a nine iron and 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.160 it just bounces and bounces and bounces, and then you 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.000 could have a shot from a hundred and thirty yards. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.520 It could be a foreign and might not be enough. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:47.040 So it's I love the old school mentality, even with 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.120 the technology and new equipment, of having to think about 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:56.240 a trajectory rather than what club and what yards. You know, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.480 it's really about containing and controlling the golf ball. Yeah, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.679 I mean, so many people talk about you being a 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.679 great putter. I know that that's something that's followed you 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.080 around your entire career, but I don't think you've ever 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.240 really gotten the credit. This is a compliment you're getting, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.720 by the way, I don't think you've ever gotten the 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.560 credit for being such a great pitcher. I mean, your 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.559 your ability to get the ball up and down from 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.160 around the greens is something that a lot of the 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.439 people that played golf with you throughout your professional career 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.160 talk about. You had to have loved being over there 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.240 just simply because you could be so creative around the greens, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.520 not just with these approaches that you're talking about, but 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.880 just you know, looking at a pitch shot knowing there's 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.920 twelve ways to play it. We felt we saw a 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.800 little bit at Shinnikock. We're gonna see a lot more 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.959 of that at Carnoustie, I'm sure, yes. And it's a 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.440 different kind of chipping and pitching. You'll see a lot 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.920 more guys bouncing the ball along the ground, putting from 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.080 farther away because it's so baked out and dry. Uh. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:52.480 You'll see less sixty degree wedges used for pitching. You know, 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.760 you might see you know, the odd pop punker shot 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.920 around the green where guys taking a sixty outer has 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.640 to get a lopshot over one of those those bunkers. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.240 But you know, the greens of Carnunsity have a lot 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:04.760 of folk to them, and there's a lot of rough 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.440 around the greens. So finding a fairway, you know, like 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.800 everybody to play. If you can find the fairway, find 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.319 the greens, you're gonna be a big advantage and the 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.600 start of carnysity. I mean, the holes are so different. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.040 You have holes where you gotta draw it. You got 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.520 hole where you gotta fad. You got a long part, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.559 four sharp parforce. You've got holes that go into the 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.000 way and against the wind, and it's it comes at you. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.000 In the first four or five holes, they turn every 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.360 different way. And then when you get to the par 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.439 five six, that famous hole or Hogan took it down 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.640 to the left side between the bunkers and the obi 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.880 where most players lay it out to them right now. Um, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.960 it's there's so much choice, and you know, you and 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.840 I would have a battle to see who has the 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.120 most great logos and who has played the most top 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.160 hundred courses. And I bet if we sat in the 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.120 room and had a beer and just said, Okay, what 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.640 are your favorite courses? Those courses have so much choice 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.599 and so much option, and that's what you'll see it. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.280 So do you feel like you're a lot of the 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.360 a lot of the things we're hearing from the players 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.679 is that driver is going to be out of these 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.120 guys hands. And you already mentioned hoy Lake. I'm sure 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.920 if you had a dollar every time somebody says who 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.600 we like this week, you're not gonna have to retire 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.240 and never have to worry about working on the broadcast 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.680 team anymore. But it's it's gonna be brought up a lot. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.360 It's gonna look like when Tiger one, when you hit 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.000 one driver. All week long, we've heard Phil Nicholson say 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.880 you might not have a driver in the bag. Tiger 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.400 said to day he feels like this is his best 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.440 chance ever. Does this eliminate distance? And when I say that, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.959 does it mean does this eliminate the bombers? And allow 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.960 basically everyone that's a media medium distance short distance hitter 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:45.000 to contend this week if they play well around the greens. Absolutely, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.000 And and you know when Tiger won there and Mcarroy 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.000 want at Wylak, they did it in different ways, but 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.480 they weren't hitting driver and every hole for sure. And 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.920 it's not that you can't, but you have to be precise. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.920 And you know, it's amazing that You could have a 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.720 bunker that's you know, seven yards by seven yards wide, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.600 and it seems like a ball that's ten yards left 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.720 or right of it. They all end up in that bunker. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.920 For some reason. The way that the design works, balls 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.040 end up kicking to those bunkers, which, as you know, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.480 or death. On the golf course, it's like a hazard. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.320 You got to hit it out sideways. 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Zip Recruiter the smartest way to hire. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.080 Now let's get back to Mr faxon do you believe 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.480 that that this is Tiger's best chance, not just this 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.040 week but the Open Championship in general. Do you feel 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.240 like this is Tiger's best chance to contend? Considering he 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.320 can look at holes, green back to the t he 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.040 can use strategy, you can hit a lot of those 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.920 long irons. Do you feel like going forward? Uh, and 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.200 and focus is always around Tiger Woods, that this is 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.880 the best major he's going to have to win. Well, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.920 it depends are you're talking about this year in the 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.760 next few years that he plays. I mean, he seems 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.520 to be getting back and stronger and um contending in 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.520 different ways. Now, you know, we used to see Tiger 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.880 win by driving it far, hitting great approach shots, and 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:16.040 putting like nobody's ever putted before. And now you know, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.160 we see him contend by having one of those three 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.760 things working, but never all three things working. So he 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.920 needs to find a way to ramp up the consistency. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.880 I love Shamblie's comment that when he went around carn 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.720 Neusti yesterday that it will be the best chance Tiger 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.480 has to win because he doesn't have to draw the 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.160 ball and there were only two holes that he has 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.840 to draw the ball. And I'm pretty sure if if 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:42.600 that's the place Shamblie is accurate, those will be three 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.240 with or two iron holes for him. Yeah, it's it's just, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.360 you know, the comments we're getting from carnoustis crazy. I mean, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.040 these guys are hitting thirty yard drives. We saw it 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.800 a little bit last week at the Scottish Open. Ricky 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.920 was hitting forward in fifty yard drives and uh, it's 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.840 it's gonna take. I don't think patients is the right word. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.320 I just think a game plan. Whoever has the game 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.200 plan that I feel like it works the best, not 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.120 for Thursday, not for Friday, but for all four days 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.480 and I wonder if if you have to look at 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.120 at a guy that's really really smart when you know 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.440 the guns go off. I mean, I I know Jordan's 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.440 speed struggled this year with his game, and I know 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:22.800 if he doesn't win this week, it's going to be 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.320 the first calendar year that he hasn't won since he 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.440 was a kid. If ever, but you think about a 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.760 Jordan's speed, and you think about a guy that has 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.720 has has definitely I would say, you know, taking a 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.360 bigger leap than most of these young guys as somebody 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.320 that can outthink a golf course, no doubt. And the 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.440 variable is going to be the wind in the wind direction, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.880 strength and wind and where it blows from. And an 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.040 experience always makes a big difference if you've played the 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.600 course in these different conditions. But there are some players 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.880 and speak your games. I would put Justin Rose in 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.560 that category of guys that know how to be precision 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.080 like a machine like when they play, but still have 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.760 a knack. They have the ability to to find a 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.840 way when they're they're awf a little bit to get 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.840 the ball up and down or get it in the 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:17.320 fairway with enough length or enough pop and that's why 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:23.560 Tigers got a chance here. And there's something about I 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.640 would maybe you should have said this earlier this year. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.600 There's a spirit that comes out when you go over 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.240 to play in Scotland, and I think you throw away 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.320 the rules and I don't mean the rules of golf, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.640 but the rules of what you normally do, and you 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.920 know you're you're hitting shots to avoid pop bunkers, to 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.440 leave yourself longer on approaches because you know they're dead, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.640 or else you're you're getting up and hitting a four 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.240 hundred yard drive so that you can have a two 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.640 hundred yard eight iron to a six hundred yard part five, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.960 there's there's so many or else you'll play on number six, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.120 you'll play with three iron, five iron, seven iron and 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:59.760 walk away with the best part of your life. So 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.760 there's going to be so many different options, so many 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.480 different choices out there that that a player. And you 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.440 you said you don't like the word patients. Maybe it's persistence. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.480 You've got to have something that keeps your nose to 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.959 the grindstone here and realize that this isn't a normal 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:21.720 Open championship. Carnousti is different um and then it's gonna 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.760 make you hit some shots, and especially these last three 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.200 holes seventeen and eighteen, two tough parfloors that are parallel 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.120 to other different directions. Um one of them is always 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.959 amazingly difficult. So it'll be it'll be interesting to see 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.399 what wind comes up the carnst and what type of 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.520 player or players can do the best there. You know, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.359 I'm not sure I've ever played a golf course for 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.080 the first time. When I first played Carnousti, where I 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.440 stood on the t on, I would say three, four, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.960 maybe five holds. You mentioned seventeen this is the best 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.359 example of it, and had no clue where to go 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.640 and stand on seventeen for the first time, I had 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.520 no deal where the fairway was. I mean, you know 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.600 that's I think seventeen is tougher than eighteen, you know, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.040 ten times out of ten unless the winds right behind you. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.560 But you know, when you I was watching I was 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.760 watching the Sergio Padrick Open the other day on they 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.960 had on Golf Channel, and you know, you're hitting long iron, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.200 long iron. It's like you said, it's a completely different 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.919 strategy and you have to commit to it, and then 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.479 you've got to go out there and hit the golf shots, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.760 and so you know, you can stand on sixteen T 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.040 two three four five under par and feel pretty good 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.560 about yourself, and you can walk off shooting even very 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.520 very easy. I mean, it has to be the toughest 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.920 three whole stretch that you finish in just about any 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.920 major championship, right. No, I agree with you that I'd 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.359 love to see by the end of the week what 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.360 the percentage of Green's hit on sixteen are, especially when 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.360 the ts way back there. It's two D twenty yards. Uh. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.359 It's it's a complete inverted saucer. It's a Donald Ross 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.000 style degree not a Donald Ross screen, but the style 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.480 where it's high in the bill and it runs off 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.520 on all the sides. If if you're gonna land it short, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:03.040 it's got to be just a perfectly placed, a shaped shot, uh. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.240 And it goes off far enough that there's never an 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.560 easy pitch or chip or whatever it is that you're 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.760 gonna hit. And then seventeen, you know, if it's down wind, Yeah, sure, 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.640 it's a it's a short, shorter T shot, but you've 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.520 got to keep it short of those that burned the crosses. 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.040 And it's it's never in a situation where guys are 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.959 going to drive it across that burn. For some reason, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.680 the founders of the game figured out that that t shot. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.840 And you know, if it is down when God bless you, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.280 because when you play eighteen, you're gonna see the toughest shot. Yeah, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.359 that eighteen toldly, you know, you cut the ball as 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.640 a lefty eye, draw it as the right. You can 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:40.800 land a shot of the ante screen, have it go 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.760 out of bounds, left of the green. It's it's the 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.760 damnest thing I've ever seen. And never mind the creek 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:47.760 you get across the O B on the left. The 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.680 ghost of John Vandervelt. I mean, it's I can't wait 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.560 to sit down and watch this. Then, yeah, you know, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.959