WEBVTT - Valspar Collegiate Invitational 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.159 It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.560 you every Wednesday. This week's guest Ryan Chrysler. We've had 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.720 him on the pod before. Works with me here at 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.560 the Floridian. One of the best instructors in the country. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.120 But Ryan, it's always a fun week for us here 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.920 at Floridian. We had the Valsbar Collegiate Invitational this week. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:25.880 Some of the best college teams in the country. Some 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.600 of the best college players in the country. Would we 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.280 have eleven of the top twenty at PGA Tour you 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:39.720 some of the packed stacked powerhouses Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama. I mean, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.920 there are some really good North Carolina. They're one of 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.240 the best teams in the country. Florida State one Luke 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:51.000 Clanton who plays at Florida State. He won. But it's 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.040 really cool for us because we've watched this now. I mean, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.760 how many years has this been going rc I. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.240 Think at least ten years, ten years. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.200 And one of the cool things that that we started here. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.720 The winner of this collegiate tournament gets an invite into 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.880 the twenty twenty five vals Bar on the PGA Tour. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.240 So everyone that's won this tournament is going on to 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.200 play in a PGA Tour event. I think Ryan, that's 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.600 one of the things that didn't you know, when I 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:19.920 talk to my dad, when I talk to some of 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.720 the old guard, that didn't happen as much. Amateurs, college 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.760 players were not getting the access to professional tournaments the 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.520 way they are now. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.800 Correct. Yeah, Back in my day, you get your car 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.200 through Q school and it's kind of gotten contracted a 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.640 little bit over the years. But now with PGA two 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.760 or you, all the players that are here this week, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.319 they have a chance to get a car, you know, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.880 and to get an event, an extra ticket, to punch 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.240 an event to a tour player, for a turn for turn, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.720 a tour tournament that can change your life in one week. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.960 Yeah, I mean, it is an amazing opportunity. You're a 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.080 college golfer and you win a tournament in March of 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.120 twenty twenty four, you know that you're going to play 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.520 on the PGA Tour, in APGA Tour event in twenty 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:08.160 twenty five. We've had some pretty cool winners here. I 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.560 remember coming here and that Oklahoma State that had Victor 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.639 Hovlin on it VIX one here. He's now a member here. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:19.000 But Matt Wolf, Chris Vin Tura, they were packed. I 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.480 remember watching Cameron Champ play here for the first time. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.800 We had Gordon Sargent play here this week, who's one 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.440 of the longest players. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:28.680 Ab won last year. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.800 Yeah, lud big Ever won this tournament last year. So 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.040 we have got to see kind of a we've had 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.920 a ringside seat to some of the next generation of 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.519 college golfers. But it's always and that next generation of 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.079 college golfers is going to be the next generation of 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:49.680 professional golfers on the PGA Tour Europe Live wherever, Asia, wherever. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.520 But it has been really cool to watch something. I 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.640 remember one year Oklahoma State was playing in our tournament. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.360 Wyndham Clark, I mean Oklahoma State is their cruising to 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.600 winning the team competition. Would win to make on the 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:07.359 last hole a man or something. He made double digits 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.960 on the last hole. Ninko was double digits the eighteenth 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.560 hole here at our club, the Floridian, very difficult finishing hole, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.320 water all the way from the te box, all the 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.560 way down the left hand side. It's just a very 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.080 very difficult driving hole. So we've seen over the last 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.079 ten years or see some of the best amateurs, some 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.800 of the best college players in the world who have 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.640 gone on to do great things. You know, Victor Hovlin, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.120 Camera Champ, Matt Wolf, you know Ludwig. I mean, these 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.560 guys are all studs playing on the big stage now, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.080 but when we're watching them play on this stage, they're 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.040 still making a lot of the mistakes that we talked about. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.800 So I wanted to go through kind of you know, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.120 the guy that won Luke Clanton, So eighteen birdies for 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:58.200 three rounds, one eagle, yep, six bogies and he wins 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.680 by five shots, win's by five shots. So we kind 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.880 of went through and did a deep dive on his stats. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.480 So for three rounds, one under or on the par threes, right, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.480 four under for the week on the par fours, nine 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.440 under for the week on the par fives, textbook championship 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.400 numbers I think right, So didn't really make six bogies 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:27.880 for the week, nothing special, didn't make any big numbers 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.520 to make no triples, right. So Gordon Sergeant, who I 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.400 think most people listening to this will know who he is. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.479 He played in the Masters last year. I mean, the 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:37.080 guy is a. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.520 NCAA champion in twenty twenty two. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.400 Yeah, he is a stud, right, He's kind of like 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.239 the prototype of what everyone thinks a college golfer will 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.120 look like. You know, there were a lot of people 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.520 when he played at Augusta last year or see that 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.960 early on in the week were saying, due to his length, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.000 could he be someone that contended. He missed the cup 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.760 by miles, not a diss against him, But my point 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.880 behind this is, so when we go and look at 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.480 Gordon Sergeant, who is everyone thinks he can't mess right. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.479 Everyone thinks that he will be playing and winning on 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.360 the PGA Tour sometime in the next two years. Right. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:17.360 So for the three rounds, twelve birdies, nine bogies, three 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.400 doubles and then on the eighteenth hole here par four 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.000 makes an eight, so a quad right, so easily one 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.919 of the longest hitters currently playing competitive professional golf. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.279 Right, I mean one ninety plus boss easy. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.359 I mean he cruises. You can go on, you can 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.280 go on Instagram, you can go on YouTube, you can 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.680 go on, and there are a million golf swing nerds 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.960 talking about his golf. The kid is a stud. But 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.000 he still makes three doubles and an eight on a 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.280 par four, nine bogies for the week, so the leader, Yeah, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.640 he only makes six more birdies. You would think that 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.520 that would be the thing that would be the calling card. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.880 It's not. It's the it's the quads, it's the doubles. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.720 And so when we looked at Gordon Sergeant for the week, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.919 one over for the far three. So he plays the 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.800 par threes in one over, which is pretty much about average. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.239 And we've talked about this on the pod before, Ryan, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.560 but I've told this story Jim Herman, who was a 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:21.080 member here at Floridian. Jim Herman, by his own admission, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.240 would be in that journeyman kind of mule. He's just 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.960 he is a rank and filed PJ Tour player won 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.719 three or four times one in Houston on a very long, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.080 big golf course, something that you wouldn't think someone like 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.800 Jim Herman would went on. But there was a kid 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.400 that I was teaching who was getting ready to go 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.360 play college golf Division I college golf at the University 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.360 of Michigan, and I said, hey, give his kid some advice, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.600 and I'll never forget that. Jim Herman said, hey, play 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.120 the par threes and one over for the week. You'll 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.120 probably have a chance to win. So the guy that 0:06:55.160 --> 0:07:01.160 finished second this week plays the par threes in one over. Right, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.960 the guy who wins the tournament two shots the leader 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.800 two shots back of the leader on par three par threes. Right, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.720 So you finish under par on the par threes elite 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.320 for the week, you are probably going to have a 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.240 chance to win the golf tournament just because the par 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.960 threes are so difficult. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.440 So especially here because we have five part three. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.680 Yes, so we have five par threes. So if you 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.880 can take advantage of that. But if you're over, if 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.200 you're even, if you play the par threes, and I'll 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.040 keep saying this, and I'm sure there's people listening or 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.800 say that. I'll say, heard this before, play the par 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.040 threes and even for the week, the guy wins this 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:42.200 golf tournament cleans up on the par fives, under par 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.240 on the par threes, four under on the par fives, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:46.760 are on the par fours for the week. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.440 Let the feel by two shots on that stet. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.360 Yeah, so he's minus four for three rounds on the 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:59.840 par fours and he wins that stat by almost by 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.360 three shots. So it just goes to show you, and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.520 I think a lot of players are going to be 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.280 under par this week on the par five. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.760 Almost every I mean, the list is super long here. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.560 How many players playing there's. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.240 Probably I'm doing a quick math here. Let's say there's 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:27.480 eighty players here, maybe a little bit more. Yeah, on 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.280 par five scoring even pars basically bottom half of the 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.520 field plus. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:38.960 Yeah, So everybody is going to expect and is taking 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.280 advantage of the part fast. If you're not taking advantage 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.360 of the par fives, regardless of what your handicap is, right, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.000 So if you aren't making so if you're in that, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:50.360 I think the. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.520 Way you take advantage of the parth right par fives 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.800 is you've still make any mistakes in the par fo yes, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.160 just don't make bogies on par five if it's too long. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.000 Do we really need to hit driver if we're automatically 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.360 going to lay up and if driver's networking, whatever, if 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.120 the fairways wider at whatever, your three wood distances to 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.400 thirty two forty I about three with off the tea 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.960 five iron, nine irons, something along those instead of maybe 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:17.880 a driver mistake, three wood mistake dropping from sixty short 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.000 of the water whatever. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.120 And we've got a stretch here at the Floridian. If 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.680 for those of you that haven't played here, the stretch 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.520 where you really want to take advantage of. Here is 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.160 on our front nine. We have a from from all 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.200 the way back, like a six hundred yard. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.200 Starting number five years. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.800 The fifth hole is around a six hundred yard but 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.640 they normally play it a little bit of Yeah, but 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:41.880 they're playing it over five. Yeah, they're over five fifty. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.840 It's a par five. Six is a driveable par four, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.600 and then seven is a gettable depending on the wind, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.280 but it would be the easiest, should be the easiest. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.920 It's a par five. So you've got par five drivable, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.920 par four, par five. That's where you need to make 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.160 your score. That's where you need to kind of pick up. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.520 So it's always interesting to watch when we have the 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.720 best college players in the country, watch them how they 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.120 play that that three hole stretch, how aggressive they are 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.120 and do they pick up shots? How many shots do 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.080 they pick up? So if you've got an easy stretch 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.840 of your golf course, every golf course has an easy stretch, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.640 and here at the Floridian, that is the easy stretch. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:31.280 Par five, drivable, par four, gettible reachable par five, right, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:36.120 so you could conceivably play that in four or five 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.880 under conably. Yet yeah, I mean, you could you could 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.680 go egle eagle eagle, but you're looking to not give 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.240 shots way. So again, we're watching some of the best 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.559 college players in the country, some of the best amateurs 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.480 in the world still make mistakes on gettible holes. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.920 Yeah, it's it's It's really great for because I had 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.680 one of our juniors on a team out there today. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.120 It's really great for him to see that the these 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.600 guys are human and there we were on seventeen and eighteen. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.800 That's where I saw our sergeant make make the quad 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:12.840 on eighteen and seventeen. The seventeenth hole actually played basically 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.200 right in the middle of the pack for the holes 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.200 they played at four point three shots over par and 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.280 it's basically a two twenty shot off the tee, maybe 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.320 into the wind today, so maybe it's playing two fifty 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.360 and then it's a wedge on the grind and where 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.400 the pin was today. I saw at least a three 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.520 plot from every player or what from one player for 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.559 every group that I saw, especially the ones that were the. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.359 Hole just getting out of position with a pott that's downhill, 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.400 got a lot of speed, it's probably windy. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.080 It's one of our signature holes. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.920 Yeah, green's exposed. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.520 It's exposed to the water. The wind's coming in off 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.280 the water. It's like three separate greens in wand today 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.120 the pinless kind of front right inside the bowl. If 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.839 you if you were out out side of the ball, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:06.400 you are pressing five plus eight nine feet to make 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.480 your two button, and a lot of them didn't. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.680 Yeah, and that is an example of positioning your golf ball. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.160 So you want to say, as a player, regardless of 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.800 your handicap range, figure out where the pin is. We're 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.040 watching some of the best college golfers. Who who there 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.000 are people playing in this tournament this week, the Vallsbar 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.760 Collegiate Invitational, who will be playing on the FGA Tour 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.880 in the next two to five years. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.280 Yeah, we have players who've played in the US Open. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.119 Yeah, we've got players major. Regardless of what your handicap 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.960 range is, take a look at where the pin is 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.920 and say, okay, let me give myself the easiest leave here. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.360 So let me lead this. If the pin's on a slope, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.559 say to yourself, okay, let me get this below the hole. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.040 It's going to be easier twenty five feet below the 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.080 hole than it is going to be to ten feet 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.160 above the hole. Let me look at where the easiest 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.240 putt is. Do I want to be right of the flag? 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.200 Do I want to be left of the flag. But 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.840 I do think it's interesting that when we are watching 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.640 a lot of these really raw college players, is how 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.280 aggressive they all are. How many I mean, I'm watching, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.839 you know, over the course of today, I went out 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.240 and I drove around and I'm watching college coaches shake 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.240 their heads watching the mistakes that I can't believe. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.000 The quad that Gordon Sergeant made today, I just can't 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.000 believe it. Water on the left side, number eighteen. It's 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.319 kind of like pebble beach on the eighteen. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.959 But how far is it? What the planet today? 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.160 We were pretty far back, so maybe four eighty. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.280 Okay, so it's four eighty. But you've got to figure 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.839 a kid like Gordon Sergeant hits his four iron how 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.880 far to fifty? Yeah, so he doesn't even need to 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.559 hit driver. There, he hits driver, right, he hits driver 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.480 and he starts it over the water. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.200 He starts it over the water and. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.080 It basically double crossed. It didn't cut, didn't do anything. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.360 We're just basically hit it right on a rope, lined 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.920 up right at the edge of the green, right side of. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.360 The green, thinking probably he was gonna cut a little bit. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.040 You know, that's probably brown fifteen twenty five out there, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.640 hit a dead straight right through it. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.480 And the wind's flowing from left to. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.559 Right to right, left to right for the player. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.080 Left to right. So picture this, so standing on the 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.200 eighteenth hole, water all the way down the left hand side, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:29.200 wind left to right. So this player, Gordon thinks, Okay, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.880 I'm just gonna hammer driver down there right the wind's 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.480 gonna push it. I'm gonna have nothing left because he 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:42.320 can take advantage of his unbelievable length, and again. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.160 He ends up having to drop maybe one hundred and 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.440 fifty yards off the team. Maybe I didn't see exactly 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.960 where he dropped from. It was close that he could 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.280 barely advance out past the tee. It was. It was 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.000 pretty close. So the players decided, you know, probably one 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.520 hundred and fifty other So he had like three probably 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.960 plus three hundred plus coming in. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.040 So what do you do that next? 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.040 Hits An Iron didn't see the rest of the hole unfold. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.440 I was back on seventeen waiting for Clinton to come through. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.480 But whatever the matter is, you just so. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.840 When you make an eight on a par four that's 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.840 almost five hundred yards, you've got to ask yourself. Okay, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.000 for a kid like Gordon Sergeant, he could hit five iron. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.000 We play this game all the time. I mean, look 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.440 at we talked about this in round offence all the time. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.960 You could literally go five iron, five iron, five iron 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.920 and not even have a putter and maybe two for 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.400 two putt for Bogie in that situation. Whatever. I don't 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.920 know where Vanderbilt I think Vannerbelt finished second. Let me 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:42.600 bring it up here. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:43.360 They finished second. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:50.520 As a team, they finished four shots behind Florida. Potentially 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.320 a par there ties the tournament. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:52.640 Yeah. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.680 I don't know how all the other scores unfolded. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.840 But when you're doing the math like that, he's going 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.400 to look back at this and say, yeah, okay, I 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.440 make there. Maybe we have a chance as a team 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.280 to make to win. There's a lot of other variables, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.720 but in just doing some simple math, his coaches will 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.240 be saying to him, hey, you make a par there, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.320 we have a chance to win this tournament potentially. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.560 Yeah. So Cole Sherwood sixty six. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.880 Today, Well here's the thing. R See if he does 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.080 make par instead of making an eight on a par four. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.240 They've got a hell of a lot better chance, yes, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.520 to have an opportunity to win the golf tournament. Yes, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.360 than finishing four back and not winning. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.240 They had the count of sixty six, sixty four, seventy 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.400 and then the fourth score was seventy two. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.520 Seventeenth hole, Bryan, it's a drivable par four for us 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.240 here at Floridian. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:44.200 Great great design. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.680 How many players were you seeing try and go for 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.160 the green. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.680 I'd not see anyone go for the green, not even 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.280 Gordon straight into the win today. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.600 Okay, so there's no real reward and there's no real 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.440 place to hit driver on our seventeenth hole. The winds 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.520 blowing like that, it's into you've got a better chance 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.320 if you take and driver of hitting it into one 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.800 of the bunkers, then you have by just. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.720 I would say if three is a relatively easy driving 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.680 hole or a driving course except for fourteen and eighteen here, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:18.520 and it's sixty yards wide with a foe iron off 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.840 that tee with some of you guys the way they 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.840 hit it sixty yards two bunkers out there, I mean 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:31.359 it's no layup right. The green is a diabolically creative, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.560 three greens and one type of green, and where the 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.240 pen today was just diabolical. Today's wind back right front, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:45.119 right side the bowl. Yeah, so above the hole. Seven 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.959 eighths of the green is above the hole, and if 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.960 you're above the hole, you're pretty much lucky if you 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.760 make your eight foot or comeback for apart. So a 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.200 great pen placement today. And again I get the stats. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.040 Played probably the ninth or tenth hardest hole. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.320 And how far is it. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.480 I didn't see exactly where they teed it up from today, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:12.520 but it's it's three seventy five maybe five. So Brooks 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.280 has done the famous commercial there, done that, so it 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.160 got the gain been on the green from every two 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.760 box there. So it's relatively driveable. It can be done. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.640 Not today with today's wind. But the greens today were 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.600 just lightning, which is really our main defense the green 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.520 complexes in the chipping and putting. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.120 Yeah, and so when it does get really really windy, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.560 the greens are going to get firmer. The greens are 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.600 going to get great today faster. Tell everybody listening, Ryan, 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.919 when you are out there in windy conditions, like we 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.920 saw the college kids today, and we saw them yesterday 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.639 do it was pretty windy. How is that going to 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.560 affect putting? And how is that going to affect short game? 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.280 It definitely affects putting. It may, especially when those greens 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.159 were exposed like seventeen and eighteen, they could add another 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.040 two or three cups depending upon where the grain is 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.120 coming in your angle. So it is a factor for sure, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.600 especially when it's gusting. It just makes putting really hard 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:09.280 when it's that windy. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.879 If you're putting, if it's windy and your downwind, and 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.680 you've got a twenty thirty foot foot putt and you're 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.200 putting down wind, it is going to have an effect. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.520 It's going to add big it's going to add speed. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.639 If you're hitting into the breeze, it's going to add speed. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.360 If you've got puts at or barking left to right, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.240 if you've got putts that are breaking right to left 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.240 the wind, if you are playing in a very very 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.760 windy conditioned day, you need to take that into account. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.840 Yeah, a lot of players never think about it. I 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.399 think whether it's uh, the ball is too low to 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:47.560 the ground, whatever, it makes a big difference, especially at 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.120 the speed of today's greens. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.480 One of the other things I always love about watching 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:56.040 all these college kids play is just the sheer, reckless 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.640 abandon that they drive the golf ball with. I mean, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:04.240 it's just you just do not see any kids today 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.920 have any driver swings that look like they are trying 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.680 to hit a fair way. 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.520 I would say give some of the kids today some 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.280 credits since it's been a couple hours and eighteen. There 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.320 were a few guys hitting iron off that tea. Yeah, 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.240 fairway woods off that tee. But everybody who did that 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.359 hit kind of the low fairway finder that we always 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.199 preach about. Yeah, just have. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.680 That low bullet, keep it out of the wind, keep 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:29.800 it out of the crosswind. 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.159 If I was I should have been keeping stats. But 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:36.280 everybody who hit driver there just either like sergeant, ride 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.840 the water or way right into the woods into the 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.720 cottages and you're making bogie from there. Yes, at best 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:49.240 you're struggling. So just these maybe based on the score 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.000 where those guys were playing, I was basically watching them 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.920 the leading groups coming in the smart play there with 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.000 the kids. How far they hit it these days, you 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.399 just banging out there of the bunker, get it in play. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.200 It's going to be two hundred maybe maxim get on the. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.919 Front edge of these kids. But just even if you 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.719 just get it up on the front. But I guess 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:18.679