Riggs Vs Rancho Manana, Holes 4-6

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9/24/2024

Riggs | Fore Play

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00:00Rancho Manana.

00:02Fun little fact here, when I moved to Arizona four years ago,

00:05Rancho Manana, Cave Creek, Arizona,

00:07is the very first golf course I ever filmed at.

00:10I filmed on the sixth hole, par five, and we're back.

00:13We're gonna play. Now we do three holes instead of one.

00:16We do a little voiceover situation.

00:18So we're gonna play four, five, and six.

00:20Anybody who spent time in Cave Creek, Arizona,

00:22at the old Buffalo Chip, you know this place well.

00:24Not too far, just right down the street.

00:26Buffalo Chip might be the best bar in Arizona.

00:28But anyways, we're on the fourth hole.

00:30This is a 379-yard par four.

00:32We've got the mini driver in hand.

00:34We're just trying to hit a little cut.

00:36It's kind of a dogleg. Well, definitely a dogleg, right?

00:38It's way tighter up there at the dogleg than I thought it was.

00:40Luckily, I didn't know that. I was kind of staring this down

00:42because I didn't really know it was up there.

00:44I heard a weird noise.

00:46Wasn't quite sure if that hit something, but it didn't.

00:48We get up there. It's right in the middle of the fairway.

00:50We had 124 yards, but as you can see, it is severely uphill.

00:53So I thought this play at least somewhere in the 130s.

00:56I love having to fly my wedge to an elevated green like that,

00:59so I thought I'd hit a little mine iron.

01:01And this was a little thin.

01:03A little thin, but you can actually see the ball on this clip.

01:06It's cutting towards the pin, but a little thin.

01:08It's not going to stop, and it did not stop.

01:10It rolled all the way to the back of the green.

01:12I know people are going to look at this.

01:14It kind of browned out, patches around.

01:16I've said this before. I'll say it again.

01:18We had a record over 100 straight days of weather that's over 100 degrees.

01:20There's over-seeding coming in soon,

01:22so you're not necessarily spraying all the water that you've got right now.

01:25And that wouldn't really be a good use of resources.

01:27We've got a long lag putt here.

01:29I think everything's going to break right to left.

01:31Beautiful views out here, by the way, at Rancho Mañana.

01:33And a decent little lag putt there.

01:35Great pace, but not necessarily the best read in history.

01:38We've got a little left to righter.

01:40And money. Just barely got it there.

01:43Not the fastest greens I've ever seen.

01:45A couple of things about Rancho Mañana.

01:47I love the little understated golf shop logo.

01:50I've shown a couple of those before. Great look.

01:52And it's action-packed. I mean, this place has people everywhere.

01:54It's a little bit chaos.

01:56There's people crisscrossing on different holes.

01:58There's all kinds of players coming through.

02:00So when I'm filming, putting the tripod out, it's definitely a little weird.

02:02I always feel weird, but definitely weird there.

02:04163 yards on the par 3 fifth hole.

02:07I've got an 8-iron in my hands.

02:09This is one of the better swings that I've made.

02:11Pured it. I was trying to hit pretty much a little right of it with a little draw.

02:14That's exactly what I did.

02:16And it came out great. Landed pin high.

02:18We've got ourselves a great look.

02:20This thing kind of felt like it would snap a little bit.

02:23We've got ourselves a nice view.

02:25And I don't know how that one doesn't go in.

02:27I mean, I know, because I got it below the hole.

02:29And missed it low. Amateur.

02:31Here we come. We come to the par 5 sixth hole.

02:33It's a very short par 5.

02:35OB all down the left.

02:37And there's just another hole. I think it's the 8th hole.

02:39It's all up the right side.

02:41So you kind of hit it into the right fairway.

02:43Which is what I ended up doing. This is not a good swing.

02:45I hit it way right, and it never came back.

02:47So I was in the middle of the fairway on the 8th hole.

02:50Get up there. You know, we had to do the whole thing.

02:52These guys were playing. I had seen them earlier.

02:54Kind of let them play through, because I'm filming.

02:56They're like, haha, we're back. We're all hitting in the same spot.

02:58I got a 3-iron here. I had no idea what the yardage was.

03:00No clue. I think I was hitting it at that clump of trees.

03:02It was kind of my line. And I hit it pretty good.

03:04You can hear these guys kind of chiming in.

03:06Yeah, I think that's where he wanted to hit it. Nice strike.

03:08Great, great. So then we get up there.

03:10Things change dramatically at this point.

03:12Things change dramatically. I've never experienced anything like this before.

03:14And I was trying to convey it.

03:16But these guys that were on the tee, who I was chit-chatting with.

03:18A lot of fans out there.

03:20Saw a ton of people. Had a great time.

03:22Just kind of a little bit of the people's course up in Cave Creek, which I like.

03:24These guys were on the 7th tee.

03:26And they were like, dude, we saw your ball come racing down the cart path.

03:28We actually even tried to stop it.

03:30And we missed it.

03:32My ball, I have no idea how far it went.

03:34It went all the way down this cart path.

03:36Almost onto the green on the 7th hole.

03:38And I had no idea where I was.

03:40Away.

03:42And I hit a 7-iron.

03:44Right at that kind of sign.

03:46And had no clue.

03:48It came up just short.

03:50And then afterwards, I filmed this video of me driving back up the hill.

03:52And we can go fast forward through this.

03:54But I want you guys to realize.

03:56How far this golf ball rolled.

03:58That was hit right at the green.

04:00Probably would have finished 15 yards short of the green.

04:02With a little chip up the hill.

04:04Instead, I rolled all the way down there.

04:06So I hit a 7-iron.

04:08Just guessing.

04:10It was way uphill.

04:12I had no idea what the yardage was.

04:14About a foot or so for par.

04:16Pretty good effort, but just didn't get it enough.

04:18Nice views of the mountains in the background.

04:20Also great views throughout this.

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04:36I love those as well.

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05:00Rancho Manana.

05:02I've never gotten a break like that.

05:04I've always wondered if that could happen.

05:06The fact that my golf ball rolled all the way down that hill

05:08and didn't just go into some of the desert

05:10and just trundled its way down that little path

05:12is kind of miraculous.

05:14But I do love this spot.

05:16I've never played the back nine yet.

05:18I've gone out there and kind of filmed a little bit.

05:20Played the front.

05:22I got through a couple holes in the back nine.

05:24And it's lovely.

05:26So big shout out to Cave Creek.

05:28Big shout out to G4.

05:30Big shout out to that break.

05:32Because I got a good kick out of that.

05:34That was good stuff.

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