Smylie Kaufman Talks 2 Standout U.S. Presidents Cup Selections

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00:00The United States team and the captain's picks from that side, 100% understand why Max Homa

00:10and Brian Harmon were picked this week.

00:12You know, I had question marks about why, you know, why these two guys, because Max

00:17has is in his form, you know, his best finish in his last seven starts is T33.

00:23You know, he's the highest of any of the guys in the official world golf ranking.

00:28But there was a way in which you said, you know, a guy that's not driving a good, like,

00:32do you really want to take him?

00:35But this golf course, you could send it around, you could find the golf ball as long as you

00:38don't hit it left.

00:39It seemed like to me, that's the only miss you can't have.

00:44And if if Max is playing from the fairway, or if you, you know, put him on, let's say

00:49the, I believe it's the odd holes, which is would be all the par three holes.

00:54And so you have a guy that's ironing a good and he's a great putter.

00:57And you know, the dog that he is, it's like, okay, that makes sense.

01:00And then I think Brian Harmon, like if you, if you had to like, tell me a couple of players

01:05to pick of just like how this course plays and, and like certain guys that would be a

01:11good course match for Brian Harmon would be a guy, Corey Connors would be a guy, Colin

01:16Morikawa.

01:17These are just players that, that are going to put the ball in the fairway can kind of

01:21hit different shots, eliminate one side of the golf course, give themselves nine, eight,

01:26eight irons and, and, and give, and, you know, rely on, on their product, maybe not

01:30Corey Connors.

01:31He's not a great putter.

01:32But yeah.

01:33Yeah.

01:34Well, and let me give you some discourse stats for anyone who, you know, you noted a little

01:39bit that there are only two par fives on the course.

01:41That's because Royal Montreal is a par 3535 70.

01:45These sort of unofficial yardage is just shy of 7300 yards.

01:51You were talking about that renovation happened in 2004 and 2005, 17 greens are redesigned.

01:5770 of the 71 bunkers were rebuilt to your point, added some different tee boxes, the,

02:05the, the surfaces, the, the greens, colors, approaches, tees, and fairways are all bent

02:12grass with some PO mixed in.

02:13And the rough is that Kentucky bluegrass that we've already discussed a little bit.

02:17Yeah.

02:18I didn't mention the rough.

02:19I didn't really get answer your question.

02:21It's it's patchy in areas like in the fairway.

02:24I didn't, I didn't see it to be some crazy long rough.

02:28So if Bay Hills a 10 or whatever, whatever 10 is the, you know, where you drop it, you

02:33can't find it.

02:34Right.

02:35Type of video you see on Twitter.

02:36I would say that this rough is, is medium.

02:39I thought it was going to be a lot worse to be honest around the greens though.

02:43That's a different story.

02:44It's thicker there.

02:45It's thicker there.

02:46Which to me was surprising.

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