Previewing Field & Course for the Sentry Tournament of Champions

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00:00It is the century they used to start the pga tour with the tournament of champions

00:05We still will have a bunch of pga tour winners from a season ago

00:09Play out in maui to begin this week, but also some from the top 50 of the fedex cup points list

00:16From a year ago keith. Let's start with the field and who we will see at the century

00:21What do you make of the crop of golfers that will begin 2025 on the pga tour?

00:27It's been great breakdown. It's 60 guys at a field for 20 million dollar purse 3.6 million for first no cut event 72 holes

00:36Thursday through sunday. These guys are going to play the plantation course a par 73

00:41Almost 7600 yards the third longest course on the pga tour and we've been coming here for a long time for the first event of the year

00:49Since 1999 remember tiger winning here jt a bunch of times jordan speeth

00:54Uh the favorite and the number one player in the world. Mr

00:57Scotty scheffler had a little accident in the kitchen on christmas day. Um, whether it was dinner whether it was a knife

01:04whether it was the um

01:06Stem from his wine glass either way. He impaled his right hand and he needed a little surgery

01:11So he's going to be out for about a month

01:13So the top of the betting board is xander shoffley colin morikawa jt and a couple of others

01:18We have a really really nice signature field to start the year

01:22What do we know about the course, uh keith and who does it favor, uh in this uh heading into this week

01:30Well, you know what joe going into 2025 i'm going to give you keith's keys every week and the first thing is

01:36Bermuda grass putting these are the third largest greens on tour 8200 square feet on average

01:43And I tell you what they are slopey, you know

01:45Bill core ben crenshaw designed from back in 1991 and ben crenshaw could putt

01:50Ben crenshaw could putt he could test the putters

01:52It's bermuda grass and because we're out there on the island and we have a lot of trade wins

01:56These greens will be slow and slopey three putt avoidance is a big key number two par fours

02:02We get an extra one this week. I mentioned it already the scorecards par 73

02:06There's 11 par fours eight of which are under 425 yards

02:10It's a birdie fest on the par fours

02:12If you can score there

02:13You're going to do well against the field and separate and the third thing is is that and this is my secret sauce for the

02:18Week is that the guys scoring around the greens I mentioned those short par fours

02:23These guys have a lot of pitches into some of these green complexes

02:26There's a lot of elevation changes very very unique sort of short shots two good comp courses here

02:31Augusta national and riviera both places where you need your short game in the last five years

02:37The winners have gained more around the greens against the field than they have on approach and you don't see that a lot

02:43And that's why those are my three keys for this week at capolua