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So 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.760 today's episode we sit down with Garrett Morrison, who is 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.360 the news hire the Fried Egg. So Garrett is a 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.280 now our managing editor and will be starting He just 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.119 started in June, so expect to see a lot more 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.480 content from Garrett. He will be writing, he will be 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.720 editing my hack words, and he will be kind of 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.360 building out more editorial for The Fried Egg. So should 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.240 have a lot more new stuff coming on the fried 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.600 egg dot com and enhance a lot of the stuff 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.480 that we're already doing with the newsletter and podcast and 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.240 content in general. So very excited to have Garrett on 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.160 and excite for you guys to hear his thoughts on 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.720 Pebble He's lived out here for the last couple of years, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.480 teaching at the Stevenson School, which is actually inside the 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.480 gates of Pebble Beach. So without further ado, here is 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.120 Garrett Morrison and our first of our pods from Pebble Beach. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.560 I miss the green, for example, I'm already upset when 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.680 I find my ball in the bunker. I'm really upset. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.720 And when I find my ball in a brid egg 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:28.679 Friday egg, the dreaded Frida egg, Frida egridagg bride egg Lie, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:29.920 I'm about ready to run. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:55.600 Off of the course. So you're moving to Oregon? 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:01.160 Yeah? Yeah, it's exciting. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:03.280 Portland area. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.839 Portland area just outside of Portland, in a town called 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.959 Happy Valley. And we could afford to buy a house there, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.200 which was the main motive to move away from Pebble Beach, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.440 which is not a place where we can buy a house. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.320 And so we are packing up all our stuff and 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:23.400 going north. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.239 That's exciting. What have you ever been? Have you ever 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.000 heard of that mcmhimon's pub course, Edgefield? 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:32.200 Yeah? I have. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.000 I went on a bachelor party there, like my best 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.800 friends bachelor party group of like college buddies that aren't 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.960 real golfers, and we had like the best time, Like 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.120 you know, we had guys that never played golf that 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.120 were like having a great time and it was so neat. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.520 It was like one of the coolest places I've ever bet. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.280 What's the course? 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.480 Like, I mean, it's not anything great, but it's just 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:00.120 like so approachable. You you walk in and the you know, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.720 the bar is like the clubhouse, and I think it 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.320 costs a dollar to rend a golf ball, but then 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.080 they give you, you know, just a putter and a 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.840 wedge and the longest hole is like seventy yards and 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.800 it plays like straight up hills and straight down hills. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.880 There's some blind shots and this little par three and 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.240 you know, you hit off mats. But it was it 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.320 was so easy to play, you know, and so fun 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.960 because like I think we spent spend like three hours there, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.120 and you get any non golfer out somewhere for three 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.800 hours on golf course. It's kind of a big success, right. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.120 I like incidental golf. That's sort of incidental golf. Like 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.720 you you go to a place to to drink some 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.240 beer and oh, hey there's a golf course there, maybe 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.599 maybe we should play, and people are into it, right, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.120 who wouldn't normally be into playing golf. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.800 They have an eleven hole course and a twenty two 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.080 hole course. Really yeah, and then it's like they do 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.960 like mcmenumons, I think, like a distillery brewery right type place. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.640 Yes it is. Yeah, there are other locations in Portland. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.400 They're like city locations of mcmentimon's it's a whole thing. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.120 I think this one's edge shield. Okay, you gotta check 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:16.480 that out. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.000 Yeah, definitely for sure. Yeah, there are some good places 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.719 in Portland. It's an interesting golf town because there's like 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.760 a variety of courses. There are the kind of serious 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.479 eighteen hole courses that you would expect to be there, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.520 but then there are a few places here and there 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.520 that are just kind of funky. In Oregon in general, 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.800 there's a lot of pasture golf. There's a lot of 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.800 backyard golf, just families, random people who have built golf 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.160 courses on their land. And there's the Portland Children's course 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.560 that Seamus is working on right now that might be 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.359 pretty cool eventually. And so it is a really interesting 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.839 like golf area because of the different options available, and 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.040 it's a little bit undiscovered up there, even though Bandon 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.880 is in the same state. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.280 I feel like the whole Pacific Northwest is undiscovered. Yeah, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.320 outside of like the places that have had a budget 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.920 to pay for marketing and pr Like, you know, everybody 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.720 knows about Sylvie's because they did it massive PR thing 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.760 when they opened Gamble Sands. You know, they they push hard. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.520 But then there's all kinds of places like that, you know, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.919 Wine Valley, that all the Dan Hickson stuff, you know, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.600 and then you have all that Chandler Egan. You're gonna 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.360 be You're gonna be deep in Chandler Egan. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.640 I'm gonna it's is gonna grow, Yeah, because I you know, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.039 Chandler Egan did the the first nine at Pacific Grove, 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.479 and so I've I've always sort of been interested in him. Obviously, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.760 he did the work at Pebble Beach that everybody's obsessed with. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.560 But yeah, he was located in Oregon for a lot 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.000 of his you know, kind of golf architecture career. There's 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.480 just a ton of Chandler Eagan courses around and he 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.239 did some interesting work. For sure. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.360 He's from Chicago, you know, Chicago neks. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.080 It always goes back to Chicago. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.360 Yeah. So you know, everybody tries to move into these 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.800 gates here at seventeen mile Drive. You're moving out, I know. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.440 Yeah, Well, you know, the reason I'm here is complicated. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.880 I'm a I'm a teacher at a boarding school, or 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.000 I was a teacher at a boarding school, I suppose 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.680 I should say. And so we moved here because I 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.080 got this job, and because we decided to live on 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.120 campus and I was a member of the residential faculty, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.920 and so we live here for free essentially, which sounds 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.360 like a really good deal, and it definitely is a 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.120 really good deal. But it's the only reason that we're 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.840 able to live here. And so, yeah, it's it's been 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.080 a lot of fun. But I'm also excited about about 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:46.840 the new adventure. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.880 Yeah. So you know, a lot of listeners probably don't know, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.200 you know that if they don't, if they're not on Twitter, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.440 if they aren't you know, reading the website all the time. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.800 Garrett is our new managing editor of The Friday eg. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.120 We're growing, It's got them from one to two. Got 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.880 a tall task o. We're doubling cleaning up my my 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:13.200 garbage writing it's not garbage any so, uh, Garrett, I'm 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.080 excited to have him come on here. And uh so 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.320 that's why he's moving from from Pebble Beach, which is uh, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:20.640 I almost feel for you. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.200 Yeah, you know, it's it is kind of a golf mecca, obviously, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.640 it's and and people have pointed out that irony, You're 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.880 you're you're going off to be a golf writer, a 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.320 golf journalist or whatever, and you're moving away from Pebble Beach. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:39.080 That doesn't seem quite right. But it's obviously a great 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.600 place to go on a vacation and to have like 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.880 a once in a lifetime experience. There are a few 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.720 better places for that. But to be a local golfer 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.040 in this area is a little bit weird because there 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.960 are basically two golf courses that you can play on 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.280 a regular basis affordably. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.960 They don't have a good local right at Pebble. 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.840 Beach, the local rate sucks. It's like six hundred dollars. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:07.319 Oh yeah, it's not a local rate. Yeah. So I've 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.480 played a lot of Pacific Grove Muni, which obviously is 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.280 one of my favorite places in the world, and that's great. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.720 I play at Monterey Pines a good bit, and those 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.360 are essentially the two courses that you can play on 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.400 a regular basis. You can the local rate at Poppy Hills. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.760 The NCGA rate is pretty good, but it's not like 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.280 I'm going out to Spyglass every Thursday and playing a 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.600 round of golf. You know, this is this is a 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.840 spot for vacationers. It's not really it's not really a 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.080 golf spot for locals. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.520 Yeah, it's it's ironic, how like you know, if you're 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.440 if you're not a resort guest, like and just the 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.240 whole area, because then once you get out there isn't 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.160 you know, there's a lot of golf, but there's not 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.880 a lot of golf that's like built for everyday play. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:54.160 No. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.920 And you know, like if you're not a member at. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.520 NPCC, which is one of the most expensive places in 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.840 the world, if you remember right, then you know there's 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.560 there's not much or Cypher's point, there's not much for 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.920 the you know, everyday golf. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.560 Yeah, I totally agree with that. Yeah, the places here 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.680 are built to be destinations, which is really cool. But 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.360 it makes the dynamic of being here and being an 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.480 obsessive golfer as I am, a little bit odd. So 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.959 I'm actually looking forward to the options in Oregon and 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.520 being able to go a number of different places, have 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.560 places to go with my kids. That'll be fun. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:36.080 What got you back? You know, I know you kind 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.840 of stopped playing golf when you were in grad school 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.040 and you you know, fell kind of away from golf. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.319 What got you back into golf? 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.360 I got back into golf after moving here and just 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.040 sort of taking walks around the area with my son, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.920 who was a baby at the time, so I'd have 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.000 them in the stroller and i'd be taking these walks 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.320 around the Pebble Beach area, which is where the school 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.960 I work at is located. Basically, this school is between 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.400 Spyglass Hill and Poppy Hills and Pebble Beaches just down 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.480 the road. So when i'd go out in the stroller 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.440 and take these walks, I'd see these awesome golf courses 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.120 and they seemed a little bit unattainable, but I of 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.520 course knew about them because I had been into golf 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.960 when I was younger, and I had specifically been into 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.559 golf course architecture, and so I had studied these courses 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.840 in a way and kind of knew them, and it 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.080 was cool to see them in person, just walking around 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:36.040 the neighborhood. Then one day I was down in Pacific 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.560 Grove again taking a walk with my son in the stroller, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.920 and I was at a Silmar State beach, which has 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:49.040 a great stretch of paths along the ocean, and I 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.040 was pushing him along one of these paths, and Pacific 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.920 Grove Golf Links came into view the back nine at 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:01.160 Pacific Grove Golf Links, which is routed through these natural dunes, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.439 and I just thought that it looked amazing. It looked accessible, 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.480 it looked like a place that I'd feel comfortable walking 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.439 up to and playing, even though I hadn't been out 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.840 on a golf course for a while. And so I 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.760 got interested in playing again. I played a little bit 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.800 at Pacific Grove. There are members of the faculty here 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.040 at this school who are really into golf, and they 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.800 started inviting me out for rounds, and so I got 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.640 my game a little bit back into shape, and pretty 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.120 soon I was completely obsessed with the game again, just 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.600 like I had been when I was twelve years old, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.920 you know. And so that's essentially how I got back 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:44.240 into playing. And you know, around late twenty sixteen, started 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.839 a golf Twitter account and began writing about the game, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.560 and that has snowballed from there. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.000 It's yeah, it's get back into it, and everybody, I 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.400 feel like, ever, I think that your story is a 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.640 common because I think so many people once they graduate 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.920 college or go to college, graduate college, there's there's a 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.520 lot of people that you know, the obviously there's golf 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.480 nuts that never fall out of it, but like there 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.640 are a lot of golf nuts that fall out of 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.520 it because like early on in life, it becomes if 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.839 you live in a city very difficult, or if you're 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.960 in grad school like or once you're in college, like 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.439 college was probably the time I played the least amount 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.360 of golf, yes, and and right after college because like 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.000 it's just it's expensive and it's hard to find the 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.680 time at that time in your life. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:37.280 Yeah, yeah, no, I basically didn't play at all between 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:44.599 ages twenty and thirty two, and I never even have 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:49.720 the impulse to go play. And yeah, I think part 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.840 of it was the cost, and also part of it 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:56.080 was just none of my friends played golf, right, Nobody 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.760 I knew who is my age, who was in their 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:04.760 twenties played golf. And that definitely changed once I started 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.720 working here and a lot of my friends were in 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.400 their thirties and forties, and part of what they would 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.120 do on the weekends sometimes is go out, find a 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.640 group and play golf. Uh, And so that gets you 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.360 back into it. But yeah, when I was in graduate school, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.760 I was in graduate school at Northwestern so in Evanston, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.440 which is just north of Chicago, and and there's that's 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.840 where Canal Shores is, and you know there's some cool, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.880 affordable options around there. Obviously, you know the golf well 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.320 in the area, but nobody I knew was going out 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.840 to those golf courses except for a couple of professors 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.640 here and there, and so I think that's a big 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:43.680 reason why. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.880 Yeah, yeah, it's hard. It's it's hard to go play 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:48.720 by yourself. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:49.960 Yeah, exactly. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.280 So with uh, with you've been you're the local here, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.280 mm hmm. We got this week, we got a big 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.800 tournament going on here. You know, I know you're moving, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.680 but there's an influx of people in Monterey. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.760 There seemed to be. The population seems to have increased recently. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.080 Traffic's a little worse, right right, traffic has become a nightmare. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.520 So what uh, what are your impressions? I know, you 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.400 know you've you've been out at Pebble you you covered, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.680 you were out there for the at and T you 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.320 played a media day, and then you've lived here obviously, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 so you've lived on grounds or what, uh, what are 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.960 you expecting this week at the US Open? 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.960 Well, I think we're going to see a classic Pebble 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.680 Beach US Open basically If there's not a whole lot 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.240 of weather, the golf course will still be challenging, but 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:52.040 relatively benign compared to say, Shinnecock Hills last year. And 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.160 if we do get a little bit of wind, it'll 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.280 get nasty really quickly. You know. The golf course is hard. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.840 It's obviously narrow. They've been working on making the rough thicker. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.440 The greens are presumably going to be going to firm 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.680 out as the as the week goes on. So yeah, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.960 I mean, essentially it'll be a hard golf course, but 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.000 I think it'll be really familiar to people who have 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.440 seen a lot of Pebble Beach tournaments. You know, they 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.120 haven't done anything radical out there. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.080 Yeah, that's I think one of the things with Pebble 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:30.520 is that it's the venue that requires like the least 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:35.000 almost work from the USGA, because they know how it is. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.960 They you know, they've come here so many times that 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.560 it's like, you know, they do this, and they do this, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.040 and then they're kind of set and ready to go. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.000 What what are your kind of general thoughts with how 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.720 they present the course for this week. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:57.680 So they have obviously brought in the mowing lines a lot, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.320 you know, that's the main difference that you'll see see 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:05.320 between how pebble beach is presented normally during the pro 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.880 am and how pebble beach is presenting during the during 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:13.600 the US Open. And so it's a couple of the 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.080 holes look a little awkward as a result, and you'll 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.639 see bunkers kind of lost in the rough. You'll see 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:28.159 holes that just seem like they should be wider, using 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.520 rough as a as a penalty. And so that's the 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.879 main setup move that I've seen out there. It was 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.480 just like this during the pro am, right, So they 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.760 they the USGA came in and started doing its work 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.199 a while ago. I believe we saw it during the 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.720 US Amateur like this as well. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.120 Right, that's when, right when they had started, you could 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.600 start to see where they were, yeah, narrowing up, like specifically, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.320 I remember eleven, which I think that's that's like one 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.680 of the downfalls of it is like I think eleven 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.720 would be, especially with the modern game, the way it 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.199 is one of the most compelling holes. If the you know, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.679 when people watch pebble this week, you can look at 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.280 eleven and you can say, wow, that fairway should be 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.680 double the size at least maybe maybe two and a 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.520 half times the size. And you look at this and 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.960 it's a you know, it's kind of one of those 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.879 three those shortish par fource, which it's not a short 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.800 par force, not driveable, but it's one of those driving 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.239 pitch holes that have become really fascinating. And you know, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.480 I think, like what's going to happen is people just 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.320 are going to hit iron up the left and you 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.720 know then or you know, fairway would up the left, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.440 and that's that everybody's going to do the same thing. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.879 Whereas that green, the way it sits, the angle of 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:53.520 it and the slopes of it, you have an opportunity 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.520 where driver up the right would leave you a really 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.760 weird shot. But people might pull driver to try and 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.120 get that you know, fifty yards shot because the mentality 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.639 of pros has been banged into their head. Get closer 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.760 whenever you can, and that would be that's like one 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:14.320 of those holes where it has the counterintuitive ability to 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.520 challenge somebody that that does the status quo. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.400 Right. Yeah, So eleven, just to just to describe it, obviously, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.800 it's a hole that plays uphill. It's about three hundred 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.720 and ninety yards. The green receives shots best from the left. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.440 There's the green is angled that way, it runs uphill 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.800 that way, and there's a bunker up hill very much. So, yeah, 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.399 so it's a very small grain. I believe the small right. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.360 To left right over that that's bunker. So if you're 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.080 over on the right, which is now, like you know, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.920 from where the right edge of the faraway is, there 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.439 should be forty more yards of fairaway exactly, but like 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.720 nobody's going to be over there, and that's where you 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:59.040 have this really weird shot with the green running away right. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.960 Well, so the thing that has happened in the setup 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.480 is that they've moved the fairway over to the left, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.760 as you've suggested right there. So they they've moved it 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.440 to the good angle into the green. Right now, you 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:13.760 don't really have a choice. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:18.600 You have to play a whole They hit it right correct, right. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.600 Lights here you go. Yeah, and for the twenty ten 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.800 US open, I believe that they did the opposite. They 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.439 moved it over to the right, which is which is 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.760 just sort of subistic. Yeah, exactly, I would. I would. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.480 You could argue that that's worse, and so maybe it's 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.160 a good move that if they were going to narrow 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.840 that fairway by half that they move it over the 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.919 other direction. But it's a good example of how the 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.280 course becomes slightly less interesting. You know, the eleventh hole 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.359 is not necessarily the most brilliant hole in the world, 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.360 even as it is, but the width of that fairway 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.840 and the way that the green receives from a particular 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.440 angle does introduce at least some sense of lateral strategy. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.040 See. That's the thing though I think about it, is 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:04.359 like that's a that hole. And this is something about 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.800 golf courses, like you know, you just get done with 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:13.000 a six hole stretcher, eight hole stretch on the ocean. Yeah, 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.520 really nine if you count three. So you just go 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.880 through like probably the most brilliant stretching golf and everybody 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.000 will bag on that hole, but I think it's a 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.320 brilliant hole. It plays uphill, it gets it's a connector hole, 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.320 but it's got like you know, you just played like 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.640 you know, you just had you know, if you wanted 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:33.679 to compare it to a song, you just had Jimmy 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.600 Hendrix wailing away on the guitar for like, you know, 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:42.680 three minutes and it's time to just you know, bridge 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.040 something to our next, our next interval, and it provides 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.800 like a really different hole than what you've seen the 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:53.240 last you know six, where you're playing up a hill, 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.159 you're you know, and you feel like you can get 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.800 one after eight, nine, ten, which is among the hardest 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:04.880 you know, three hole stretches in golf. 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.679 Right, yeah, And so it's gettable, but you can also 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.080 have a hard time on that hole. Don't you think 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.760 it would be would it be more interesting or would 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.800 it be just cliched if there were something actually guarding 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.840 the left side of that hole? So is to make 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.960 the play over to the left less attractive because there's 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.720 currently no reason not to go there. 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.119 Right to me, it seems like so there's there's like 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.359 seventy yards about of width that you could have. 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.360 Right, yes, yeah, it's huge. 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:35.720 So for maybe sense like that would be like a 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.720