Utah’s Black Desert Championship: A New PGA Tour Event

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00:00From the East Coast, let's take it to the desert.

00:05Utah getting set for the Black Desert Championship,

00:08the inaugural event.

00:09Keith, get us up to speed.

00:10What do we need to know about the third event

00:12for the Fall Series in this golf course?

00:15Well, we have a lot of fun every week

00:17talking about how unoriginal the PGA Tour schedule is.

00:20It's just the same events over and over again.

00:22Well, check that at the door,

00:23because this week we're going to a brand new place

00:26out in Utah, the Black Desert Resort,

00:28and their championship golf course.

00:30It is amongst the Red Mountains and the lava fields.

00:33I mean, this place is absolutely spectacular.

00:35And since we have 132 rookies in the field

00:38that have never played here before, right,

00:40we've got to look to some comp courses.

00:42The designer is Tom Weisskopf.

00:44I like TPC Scottsdale as a comp.

00:46I also like, last year,

00:48the Worldwide Technology Championship in the Fall

00:50was played at El Diamante down in Cabo.

00:52Wide fairways, a scoring fest,

00:54that's what we expect from the favorites

00:56and the guys down the board.

00:59Taking a look at this golf course,

01:00par 71, close to 7,400 yards.

01:02Keith, give us some players that we can check on

01:05to say, you know what?

01:06Hot top of the leaderboard, underdogs.

01:08What do we have this week to check out?

01:10Well, the favorites, I tell you guys,

01:11Keith Mitchell, three-putt on the last hole last week

01:13to lose, Bo Hostler, he loses in a playoff.

01:16Kirk Kitayama, he didn't even make the playoffs.

01:18He hasn't played since August.

01:20And of course, you've got Seamus Power, T11 last week,

01:23maybe, but these guys,

01:24they just can't separate from a field like this.

01:26This isn't Xander Schauffele and Scotty Scheffler.

01:29My early leans on the early line

01:30are the stud kid from Stanford,

01:32and that's Michael Thorbjørnsson, right?

01:34Sitting right there at plus 3,500.

01:36The number's been going up and down.

01:38He's extremely long.

01:39We're playing at 3,000 feet of elevation.

01:41The golf course, it will be a bomber's paradise.

01:43And the second guy is Jacob Bridgman at plus 6,600.

01:47Jacob's had three top 20s in his last four starts,

01:50and he's an excellent putter.

01:51He can certainly keep up with the scoring

01:53out there in the desert.

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