Exploring Golf Course Conditions and Player Performances

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00:00There are 16 guys under par and there are a lot of alarm bells being raised, but I mean,

00:09we've had this discussion a number of times on this show.

00:12It's a week where I think outside of Saturday where there was a little bit of a wind, hardly

00:16any wind.

00:17They had some weather leading in, so the greens are soft.

00:20The conditions are soft.

00:21It's not the longest course in the world.

00:23The defense system is, you know, maybe you can't hit driver on every hole and there's

00:27some rough.

00:28You know, when the rough gets up and you get out of position, that's where you kind of

00:31struggle.

00:32But you're going from something where the scoring conditions, the last two weeks really

00:35have been very, very good to, I just came back from Scotland and I'm still having cold

00:43sweats thinking about those 30 mile per hour left to right wins on the tees and just hitting

00:47the ball.

00:48It's just still going this high odd into space and never coming back.

00:52And I wonder, um, you know, I, I, you know, I don't, I'm, I'm going to do the bad journalist

00:57thing here of like asking you multiple different questions, but the discussions I want to have

01:01are one, you know, state of the game, John Deere, you know, like, are we raising alarm

01:07bells here?

01:08Or is this sort of like a mother nature?

01:10We can't really control this weather thing, but I kind of want to play out for and talk

01:12about a guy like Davis or even a guy like Scotty Sheffler, who I believe is not playing

01:17the Scottish this week.

01:19And I think if I, if my memory serves correctly, he played the Scottish last year.

01:23He did not have a good week.

01:25I remember that was a particularly bad putting week where there was some frustration we saw

01:28come through on the broadcast.

01:30And then I believe he was in like the T 40 range for the open championship last year.

01:34And I was like the first time he recorded a finish that was outside the top 15 or top

01:3810 and you know, maybe close to a year.

01:41So there are your three directions I want to go.

01:44You, you pick a lane and take me in that direction.

01:47Then we'll get to the other ones as we kind of move through the rest of the show.

01:51Well do you want to get into Scotty?

01:53Do you want to get into the Scottish?

01:55What do you want to, what do you want me to get into here?

01:57Cause I can go whatever direction.

01:59Well, let's, let's talk about, let's stay on deer.

02:01Let's just finish up deer on course conditions.

02:03And like, are you, are you raising the alarm?

02:06You know, we saw Hayden springers 59, you know, or is this you like a, I mean, cause

02:11there are other stats too, that were outside conditions where like Luke Clanton was, you

02:15know, and, and Thor Bjornsson were touching like mid one 80 ball speed all week long.

02:19And I mean, I send it out there, but it's, it's, it just, it just keeps bringing up this

02:25discussion of like the equipment, the ball, et cetera, et cetera.

02:29Like I just want to kind of take your temp check on this after a week like this, where

02:32the scoring is low.

02:33Yeah.

02:34Well, this golf course has never really tested a player's ability to, to hit all the shots.

02:41It's a point and shoot type of place.

02:43It's a ball strikers paradise, because if you execute, you're going to have 16 good

02:48birdie looks.

02:49And Davis Thompson is, as we've just noted, one of the best executors on tour of being

02:56able to, to pull off whatever shot he wants to and be able to hit the middle of the face

03:01and, and hit it where he's looking.

03:04So I'm not a raising the alarm bells about the John Deere.

03:07It's always been a shootout.

03:09We know that going into the week and you just got to show up and make birdies.

03:14Is it raising alarm about maybe going to different places?

03:18Sure.

03:19But I, I think you kind of know what you're getting to when you go to the John Deere.

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