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Riggs Vs Mesa C.C., Holes 13-15
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12/21/2024
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All right, welcome back and we are at Mesa Country Club. Trent Ryan famously shot a career best 87
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here just a few weeks ago. Mesa Country Club underwent a full restoration earlier this year,
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was closed for about nine months, just reopened and it's fantastic. The bunkering, the greens,
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just the general shape of the whole place. They did a fantastic job. They reshaped nearly all
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the greens. They rerouted three of the holes and it's excellent. We are going to start playing the
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blue tees. We're going to start here on the 508 yard 13th hole. This is a dogleg left that goes
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over the road and then all the way uphill for the last hundred yards or so. Setting up to hit a draw
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up the right side and just hit a block out to the right into the wrong, just the wrong fairway. So
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I don't even know how far we've gotten from here. I grabbed a six iron. The guys on the hole that I
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hit it into hadn't quite teed off yet. So I was trying to rush over there and hit from their
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fairway before they got up and I had to wait and make it awkward and weird. So I just hit a six
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iron. I actually hit it pretty good, but I believe I hit a tree and it kicked backwards and to the
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right. So for this par five, we're a little bit struggling. We're a little bit behind the eight
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ball here. A couple of smooth swings actually, just maybe a little bit open face, sending it
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out to the right. Not quite shaping it the way that we would like to, but luckily we're dressed
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well for the perfect gifts for everyone on your list. A little bit of an awkward situation here
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as we are just off the backside of the par 3 16th hole hitting, you know, the green. If you can look
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up there, the green is just right of those bunkers on the left. So I've got to hit over these young
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men playing this par 3. I got a seven iron. I thought it was about 160 or so. I wasn't 100%
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sure. And again, I'm just trying to get out of this situation. I'm trying not to hit this tree.
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I'm trying not to hit these people. I'm trying not to embarrass myself. Hit a seven iron, kind of pull,
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drew it a little bit and just caught that bunker. Not the worst spot. We got a chance for an up and
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down here after again, quite a bit of an embarrassing situation. A quick little zoom
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in, look at the bunkering. They did a great job with the re-bunkering instead of kind of the big
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circular, boring looking bunkers. They're a lot more artistic. They sort of carve into the landscape.
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Some maces looking good. We got a back right pin here, kind of a bowl. So I got a 54 degree wedge
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so I can swing less hard and kind of get it all the way back there. Actually hit a pretty good
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effort here. Got it left of the pin. It took that slope, took that bowl and got just behind the pin.
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Left ourselves a ticklish one down the hill. I really wasn't sure on this read. I thought it was
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going to kind of kick off this knob on the left. And then at the end, maybe come back a little bit
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to the right. Hit a pretty good putt, a little aggressive. It just never kicked right at all.
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Hung on the left side and missed. Get down there. Now this one's the one you really got to bear down
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and not mess up. But luckily we didn't. Cleaned it up. That's a bogey. We now move on to the brand
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new par 4 14th hole at Mesa. This used to be about a 230 or so yard par 3. Now it's a 316 yard par 4
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from the Blue Tees. Step up with the driver. Try to hit a better one than we did the last time.
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Pretty smooth swing there. Hit that one well. Kind of hit a little knuckler. So it went up the left
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side. It was kind of a pull, slight cut knuckler. Got up the left side and got all the way up there
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to only about 20 or 30 yards away from the green. I think the gun had it to this kind of backish
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pin at about 36 yards. So we hit that one pretty good. I got just a little, uh, you know, a little
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lob wedge here. Uh, greens are firm coming off the redo, so they're not quite fully settled yet. So
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just figured if I pitch this onto kind of the front middle part of the green, it should trundle all
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the way back there. And that was kind of exactly what it did. Roll back to about pin high. So we
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got ourselves a good look for birdie here to get back to even par on this little three hole video.
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Kind of think it's going to move just a little bit left to right. Under read it just a fraction.
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I broke a little more than I thought. So I've caught the right edge, but did not catch the
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hole. That is one over through three. We now move to the 15th hole where you kind of have to shape
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it a little bit left to right off the tee. It just ever so slightly dog legs to the right. So setting
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up to kind of hit one up the right center. And once again, similar to that tee shot on 13, just
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kind of open face, hit it decently out to the right, caught some trees, lost some yardage, but
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we got up there. We don't have the worst angle into the screen. It was about 135 into this par
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kind of got to just fly everything on the way there. And then the greens are a little firm.
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So I tried to just choke down and take a little bit off of a nine iron here. I hit it decently,
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but never really got it all the way up in the air. Took a little bit too much off. It didn't
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quite send it up in the air enough. And it just barely caught the green side bunker. Got a pretty
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straightforward bunker shot clubhouse in the background, long shadow. So it's beautiful out
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there. Amazing country club. We've now got the holdridge sweater, full sweater, by the way,
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little bit deep, but you know, nice tempo, nice strike. We've got ourselves a look at par here
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on the final hole of this three hole video. We will, by the way, be posting another video of
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16, 17 and 18. So stay tuned for that last one for a nice little up and down to remain one over
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on this three hole stretch. Pretty pathetic effort there. Once again, kind of under Reddit,
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didn't really have much conviction, much integrity to that stroke, but all integrity with the
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Mesa looking great these days. We'll be back for the final three holes in the next video series.
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