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Exploring Royal Montreal Golf Club: Smylie Kaufman's Insight
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9/26/2024
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Smiley. We know less about the venue this week. Royal Montreal
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Golf Club in comparison to other venues. We've seen more
00:09
regularly. Now. This is the second time Royal Montreal's
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hosted the President's Cup also hosted in 2007 hosted a
00:16
Canadian open in 2014. But for at least for me and for many of
00:21
the players this week that are out there on the international
00:23
American sides unfamiliar unfamiliar to them as well. So
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let's hear it. Give us your you walk the course. Now, you've
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done your course prep. Give us a little bit of Intel. So we
00:33
know what to expect out there.
00:35
I get really giddy when it comes to learning new golf
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courses. When I get on property. I just get excited. I just
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love, you know, trying to figure out, you know, what the
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play is, you know, how how the holes are going to play. What
00:49
are the easy holes? What are the hard holes, you know, where
00:51
the miss is. So that's a part of professional golf that I
00:56
loved, you know, when we went to new golf courses, I got
01:00
excited because I think some people
01:03
they like to show up to golf courses. They know how to play
01:06
like they don't have to do any work on them. Personally me,
01:09
like I loved just spending the time. I did this afternoon
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grinding on this golf course
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and
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it, you know, I think just a couple just overarching
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thoughts about the course in general is that it's
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it's, you know, it's a Parkland type golf course. It kind of
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runs together. It's not overly, you know, dramatic. I would say
01:33
everything's right in front of you. There's no tricks about it.
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And I think there's
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there's certain similarities. I picked up from Royal Montreal
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of other golf courses that
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it kind of reminds me of
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there's certain tee shots like on the back nine.
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There's this pond that kind of is
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is around this whole back. You kind of go up and back and it
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seems to always be on the left side of the fairway.
02:01
And it's not just like over there to the left. No, it's it
02:04
is
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it is the left rough. So, you know, you're standing on a
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fairly, you know, straight hole. Maybe has slight dog legs in it
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and
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that water is just on the left. And
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you know, when I think about golf courses that reminds me of
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that I've played Bay Hill comes to mind
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of of some shots that I stand there on that tee
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and you're presented with so many different options of what
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club to hit.
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You know, you can hit driver, you get a three wood, you get an
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iron, like you can hit whatever you want off these
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off these tee boxes to get one in play.
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And typically on most most of the holes, you know, the
02:44
first off, if you, you know, get it as close as you want to
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to that penalty area on that left side.
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Most of the time you have a better angle, you're closer to
02:53
the hole, you know, if you bail out to the right, typically
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you'd have, you know, an extra 20-30 yards playing out of the
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rough and and you're playing towards, you know, the
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the little gap that pretty much is in front of every single
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green.
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So
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there is risk and reward in that fashion. I wouldn't call
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this golf course a risk reward course because I think, you
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know, we talk about match play golf courses and and you've
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heard this from not only just, you know, people on TV or
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probably people that you've played with at your home course
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that say, you know what, this is a really good match play golf
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course. And I always laugh at that and say, well, technically
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every golf course is a good match play golf course. What
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makes a really good match play golf course? I've always kind
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of thought about it in that in that way. And I think of like
03:43
legit risk reward where, you know, there's you're presented
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with options of of what to do. It's like no strategy is like
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you can go for it or you're going to play out, you know, at
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a tip completely different angle. This isn't that golf
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course to me. It's straight in front of you. There's very many
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like very few holes that really dogleg everything just goes,
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you know, slight dog legs one way or another.
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Call it call it what you want. I didn't call it like just
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overly dramatic. So that's like the first thing that you need
04:14
to picture when it comes to Royal Montreal.
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