Royal Troon Golf Course: A True Test for Every Golfer's Skill

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00:00Is it playing out the way you kind of thought it would or you've been surprised by the by

00:06the way this this opens unfolded?

00:08Yeah, so being in this industry and covering golf courses every single week, as soon as

00:15I got the true and walked it for three days, I was like this golf course ask you more questions

00:19than any other golf course I've seen.

00:21Some courses as you know, like you got to be good with your driver, better on approach

00:24like they cater to certain players.

00:26Here at Troon, you have to do every single thing well, like a true major test should

00:31ask of you.

00:32But even at Augusta, it caters to longer drivers, and you can get away with a driver putter

00:37type build.

00:38At Troon, you got to be dialing every single club in your bag.

00:41But with the wind, I would I didn't want to get too crazy with the wind at Troon because

00:46as you know, from being in Scotland, it could switch in a minute.

00:49So I looked at the projections, but I didn't want to get too deep into it.

00:52I will say the first two days of wind was a completely opposite direction than I was

00:57experiencing when I was there.

00:59Today we're seeing it coming the way that from the north where I was watching it the

01:04entire week.

01:06And that truly makes the front nine play like a TPC deer run, but it's going to make the

01:12back nine play like the hardest nine holes I've ever seen.

01:15It is kind of benign right now.

01:16But if it picks up at all in that direction, hole 11 is going to play to like a four nine.

01:22I'm not even kidding.

01:23It's going to be absurd.

01:24So I'm excited for this afternoon.

01:25The guys tee off obviously very soon, so it should be very fun.