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Speaker 1: It's the son of a Butich podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, Claude Harmon, back from a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks off, but wanted to kind of recap the

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Speaker 2: US Open from a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Wyndham Clark is the winner, wins.

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Speaker 2: His second major, is second US Open, which kind of

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Speaker 2: puts him in a pretty elite category. I mean, I think, listen,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of players, not a lot, but

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Speaker 2: there are players that win one major and that's kind.

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Speaker 1: Of it for them.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of players that have won a

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Speaker 2: major and really never won a tremendous amount after that.

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Speaker 2: But Wyndham Clark now has two US Opens, one at

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Speaker 2: LACC and then one at Shinnecock, which is old school, iconic,

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Speaker 2: tons of history. And I think when we look back

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Speaker 2: at the weekend and the week it was kind of

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Speaker 2: a really tough US Open. The course played a role,

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Speaker 2: the weather played a role. It was windy. The ample

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Speaker 2: Fairways talked about it in one of the pods, I

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Speaker 2: did you know, kind of previewing what we were going

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Speaker 2: to expect at the US Open, But being on side

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Speaker 2: all week, Fairways were pretty generous and I think everybody

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Speaker 2: knew that going in, so there was room to drive

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Speaker 2: it off the tee. The wind played havoc. Sometimes it

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Speaker 2: was in, sometimes it was down, sometimes off the right,

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Speaker 2: sometimes all the left. So I think one of the

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Speaker 2: interesting things about Chinnacok the way the golf course is designed.

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Speaker 2: There are stretches of golf course where you're not going

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Speaker 2: to play the same wind on back to back hole,

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Speaker 2: so forces you to think, forces your shop making, forces

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Speaker 2: your creativity. I think the USGA really likes going to

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Speaker 2: places like Shinnacock because they kind of like that style

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Speaker 2: of golf where somewhere around even par is going to win.

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Speaker 2: Not a lot of birdies, but I think you could

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Speaker 2: learn a lot when you watch majors from how players

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Speaker 2: play it. I think you can learn a lot when

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Speaker 2: you watch majors about your own game and learned some

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Speaker 2: things that can really really help you.

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Speaker 1: Chittacock was brutal.

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Speaker 2: Only three players broke parr all week. I think there

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Speaker 2: are some definite lessons to learn from that wind of

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Speaker 2: clerk Go's wire to wire one clear of Sam Burns

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Speaker 2: four under, only the ninth man to lead every round

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Speaker 2: in the US Open, opened with sixty four. He played

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Speaker 2: with Dustin Johnson the first two rounds, so I got

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Speaker 2: to see a lot of it Thursday, played late early

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Speaker 2: on Friday, and I think that was kind of the

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Speaker 2: luck of the draw. That was the side of the

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Speaker 2: draw that you wanted to be on. So when he

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Speaker 2: was playing late on Thursday, Win kind of died down

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Speaker 2: sixty four, shot three over on Sunday seventy three and

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Speaker 2: still won a major. So over par on Sunday wins

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Speaker 2: a major. So he basically survived that golf course. And

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Speaker 2: I think that's something that you have to do to

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Speaker 2: win a major, but it's definitely something that you have

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Speaker 2: to do at a US Open, on a golf course

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Speaker 2: like Shinnakok, where it is survival. Yes, made a bunch

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Speaker 2: of birdies on Thursday, got the luck of the draw,

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Speaker 2: was on the right side of the draw, played the

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Speaker 2: first round in the best weather you could hope for.

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Speaker 2: But on the weekend it was a lot of just survival.

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Speaker 2: How he could get through Saturday, how he could get

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Speaker 2: through Sunday. Even though he had a pretty good lead

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Speaker 2: going into Sunday, that lead dwindled quite quickly. So the

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Speaker 2: idea that you have to as a regular golfer, that

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Speaker 2: you have to be perfect that you have to hit

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Speaker 2: perfect shots. I think major championships and the guys that

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Speaker 2: Clark hit twenty of thirty six green so that's right,

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Speaker 2: round sixty percent. Still won the US Open. Twenty greens

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Speaker 2: of thirty six. He scrambled almost seventy percent of the time,

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Speaker 2: third best in the field, gained more than stroking a

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Speaker 2: half on the greens. That type of golf. To win

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Speaker 2: a US Open, it doesn't demand perfection. You have to

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Speaker 2: be incredibly positive. A lot of it is about accepting

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Speaker 2: where you've hit a shot. Now, through the first two rounds,

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Speaker 2: I saw Windom Clark hit a lot of loose shots,

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Speaker 2: but he missed them in places that he was able

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Speaker 1: But he's still hitting the golf ball offline.

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Speaker 2: And as I said, the fairways were wide, I mean

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Speaker 2: there was plenty of room.

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Speaker 1: To move your golf ball around. Off the tee.

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Speaker 2: He putted unbelievable for the week. I mean, he putted

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Speaker 2: I think if you're going to win a major championship,

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Speaker 2: I think if you're going to be in the hunt,

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Speaker 2: a major, but specifically at the US Open, specifically on

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Speaker 2: a golf course like Shinnecock, you have to put well.

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Speaker 2: He did that on Sunday, got out of position. I

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Speaker 2: think it was on the fourth hole. I think if

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Speaker 2: I remember correctly, the sixth hole, missed the green there

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Speaker 2: and then hold another. You know, pretty lengthy putt for

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Speaker 2: short game. If there's thirty six greens you can hit

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Speaker 2: and you only hit twenty of them, that's not I

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Speaker 2: think what most people think.

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Speaker 1: You do to win a major championship.

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Speaker 2: I think most people think he had all the greens,

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Speaker 2: And like I said, I think when you watch major championships,

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Speaker 2: especially late, and you watch the players that win, they're

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Speaker 2: doing a lot of things that aren't necessarily the things

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Speaker 2: got to try and get up and down and get

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Speaker 2: the ball in the hole. Sunday, sixteenth hole, par five,

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Speaker 2: you have to take advantage of those. He didn't take

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Speaker 2: That's not perfect, that's you know, kind of showing a

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Speaker 2: tremendous amount of resilience. On Saturday, same hole late in

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Speaker 2: two different ways made eagle. There two different ways to

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Speaker 2: of the par fives. You have to take advantage of

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Speaker 2: you have to take advantage of those sometimes that means

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Speaker 2: making birdies, but at a bare bare minimum on par fives.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about it before on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Bogies are tough and they're the legit chances you have.

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Speaker 2: So he doesn't on Sunday, he doesn't birdie the par

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Speaker 2: gets out of position off the tee on sixteen makes birdie.

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Speaker 2: a non negotiable for your game, or it needs to

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Speaker 2: be that. You have to take advantage of the par fives.

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Speaker 2: Taking advantage of the par fives is not making bogies.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to bogie one of the par fives,

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Speaker 2: to look at the par fives on your golf course

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Speaker 2: like a major championship to where, Okay, I'm playing my

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Speaker 2: the par five's flat, just an even par. Most of

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Speaker 2: us are going to play par fives and play a

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Speaker 2: course that has four of them, So two opportunities on

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Speaker 2: and you're paring the par five.

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Speaker 1: That's a positive.

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Speaker 2: You're you're picking up shots against what is going to

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Speaker 1: Is kind of a myth, right, It's grind.

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Speaker 2: It's who can get through the really really difficult stretches

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Speaker 2: of these championship golf courses. But for yourself as well,

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Speaker 2: are the easy holes that I have really good opportunities

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Speaker 2: to make pars If they're short holes, maybe those could

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Speaker 2: be your birdie holes. Lesson number two from watching the

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Speaker 2: the four Majors are is a great score. You know,

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Speaker 2: first round of the Masters every year we always you know,

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Speaker 2: think about from a strategy, Hey, parr one under, get

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Speaker 2: You're looking, okay, how low can I go today?

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Speaker 2: How many birdies can I make? When you watch golf

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Speaker 2: good start? Major championships, thinking, okay, if I choose par

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Speaker 2: three players at Shinnecock broke parr for the week, So

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Speaker 2: Parr was elite.

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Speaker 2: Keith Mitchell shot four straight even par seventies, the first

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Speaker 2: man in US Open history to do that. Four rounds

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Speaker 2: of quote unquote boring golf. Just even Parr made history.

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Speaker 2: Didn't do anything. Fancy had a chance to win on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: most regular handicapped golfers they ruin rounds trying to make

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Speaker 2: birdies that really really were never there. Biring it, you know,

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Speaker 2: tuck pins, taking the hero shot, shortsighting themselves and for

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Speaker 2: the majority of us, that's a recipe for disaster, right.

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Speaker 2: And I think the smart play is play to the

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Speaker 2: where's your safe miss before you pull the club, take

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Speaker 2: your medicine if you're out of position. Playing sometimes boring golf,

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Speaker 2: be honest is winning golf, right. And that's kind of

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Speaker 2: something that I talk about a lot. But I think

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Speaker 1: I've said this all the time.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people watching professional golf that

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Speaker 2: follow it think tour players are elite at, you know,

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Speaker 2: making birdies and eagles and stuff, and yeah they are,

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Speaker 2: but they're also elite at making pars and they're also

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Speaker 2: elite at making birdies. So the things that I've been

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Speaker 2: talking about on the pod, the things that I talk

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Speaker 2: about in lessons, you know, controlling your start line, where

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Speaker 2: I think par golf and playing par golf.

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Speaker 1: Is a decision. It's not an accident. It's not the default.

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Speaker 2: Rarely do I see regular golfers halfway through there for

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Speaker 2: Most tour players, that's what they do, right, They go

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Speaker 2: But I do think that when you watch me your championships, Yes,

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Speaker 2: improve your golf rate. Reviews of Ribe, wherever you get

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Speaker 2: your podcasts. It's the Son of a Butcher podcast