Exploring Royal Montreal Golf Club: Smylie Kaufman's Insight

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00:00Smiley. We know less about the venue this week. Royal Montreal

00:06Golf Club in comparison to other venues. We've seen more

00:09regularly. Now. This is the second time Royal Montreal's

00:12hosted the President's Cup also hosted in 2007 hosted a

00:16Canadian open in 2014. But for at least for me and for many of

00:21the players this week that are out there on the international

00:23American sides unfamiliar unfamiliar to them as well. So

00:28let's hear it. Give us your you walk the course. Now, you've

00:30done your course prep. Give us a little bit of Intel. So we

00:33know what to expect out there.

00:35I get really giddy when it comes to learning new golf

00:38courses. When I get on property. I just get excited. I just

00:42love, you know, trying to figure out, you know, what the

00:46play is, you know, how how the holes are going to play. What

00:49are the easy holes? What are the hard holes, you know, where

00:51the miss is. So that's a part of professional golf that I

00:56loved, you know, when we went to new golf courses, I got

01:00excited because I think some people

01:03they like to show up to golf courses. They know how to play

01:06like they don't have to do any work on them. Personally me,

01:09like I loved just spending the time. I did this afternoon

01:13grinding on this golf course

01:15and

01:17it, you know, I think just a couple just overarching

01:21thoughts about the course in general is that it's

01:25it's, you know, it's a Parkland type golf course. It kind of

01:28runs together. It's not overly, you know, dramatic. I would say

01:33everything's right in front of you. There's no tricks about it.

01:37And I think there's

01:39there's certain similarities. I picked up from Royal Montreal

01:43of other golf courses that

01:46it kind of reminds me of

01:48there's certain tee shots like on the back nine.

01:52There's this pond that kind of is

01:54is around this whole back. You kind of go up and back and it

01:58seems to always be on the left side of the fairway.

02:01And it's not just like over there to the left. No, it's it

02:04is

02:06it is the left rough. So, you know, you're standing on a

02:09fairly, you know, straight hole. Maybe has slight dog legs in it

02:13and

02:15that water is just on the left. And

02:17you know, when I think about golf courses that reminds me of

02:21that I've played Bay Hill comes to mind

02:23of of some shots that I stand there on that tee

02:28and you're presented with so many different options of what

02:30club to hit.

02:32You know, you can hit driver, you get a three wood, you get an

02:34iron, like you can hit whatever you want off these

02:37off these tee boxes to get one in play.

02:39And typically on most most of the holes, you know, the

02:44first off, if you, you know, get it as close as you want to

02:49to that penalty area on that left side.

02:51Most of the time you have a better angle, you're closer to

02:53the hole, you know, if you bail out to the right, typically

02:56you'd have, you know, an extra 20-30 yards playing out of the

02:59rough and and you're playing towards, you know, the

03:03the little gap that pretty much is in front of every single

03:07green.

03:08So

03:09there is risk and reward in that fashion. I wouldn't call

03:13this golf course a risk reward course because I think, you

03:16know, we talk about match play golf courses and and you've

03:20heard this from not only just, you know, people on TV or

03:24probably people that you've played with at your home course

03:27that say, you know what, this is a really good match play golf

03:29course. And I always laugh at that and say, well, technically

03:32every golf course is a good match play golf course. What

03:36makes a really good match play golf course? I've always kind

03:39of thought about it in that in that way. And I think of like

03:43legit risk reward where, you know, there's you're presented

03:47with options of of what to do. It's like no strategy is like

03:52you can go for it or you're going to play out, you know, at

03:54a tip completely different angle. This isn't that golf

03:58course to me. It's straight in front of you. There's very many

04:01like very few holes that really dogleg everything just goes,

04:05you know, slight dog legs one way or another.

04:08Call it call it what you want. I didn't call it like just

04:11overly dramatic. So that's like the first thing that you need

04:14to picture when it comes to Royal Montreal.

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