Impact of Multi-Course Play on Golfers at Early Tournaments

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00:00Let me, you know, you look at Torrey this week,

00:02and this is different this week, guys.

00:03They go Wednesday to Saturday,

00:05not the traditional Thursday to Sunday

00:08with what the coverage that they're gonna have.

00:10Playing these early tournaments,

00:12whether it was you played or the guys playing now,

00:15how weird is it and different

00:16when you have to play these events

00:18where you're playing three courses,

00:20like last week, BJ West, two courses this week,

00:23two courses at Pebble.

00:25What does that do for you prep-wise, getting ready?

00:28What is that like?

00:29Well, that's when experience really matters.

00:31You know, the guys that have played these events

00:33year after year, there's value in that,

00:35and especially at the American Express

00:36where you play three courses like you just talked about,

00:39but playing three golf courses,

00:41preparing for that in Palm Springs,

00:43and then driving up the road to San Diego,

00:46and then you gotta learn two more golf courses.

00:48So for the rookies, it's already a very difficult start

00:51to the year.

00:52You know, you're trying to get your feet wet

00:53and you're learning all of these golf courses.

00:55So with that being said, it's a good point.

00:57But for me as a player, when I was on the tour,

01:00I always felt like their year really started in San Diego.

01:03It just felt like, you know,

01:05the crowds there were always incredible.

01:08It's a really, you know, you can have U.S. Opens out there

01:11like we've seen some of the more famous golf tournaments,

01:14and you typically have a really good finish at Torrey Pines.

01:17It's almost pretty much guaranteed.

01:18You turn around on Sunday and something cool

01:20is gonna happen on that 18th hole.

01:21So it's gonna be a fun week,

01:24but it's not as strong of a field

01:26as we typically would see,

01:28and we've seen a lot of top players pulling out,

01:29mainly because they don't wanna play Torrey Pines

01:32two out of three weeks, which is what it would be.

01:36Yeah, you were just mentioning Xander, Colin Morikawa,

01:39a few other guys have all backed out for this week,

01:42but we do have some names here, Smiley.

01:44Ludvig's gonna play, you have Matsuyama.

01:47I mean, Sanjay plays every week,

01:49so it's hard to say Sanjay.

01:50You can never not find Sanjay at a tournament.

01:52Finau's playing, Jason Day off of playing

01:54really well last week.

01:55So still some good names.

01:57Who are you looking at for the farmers this week

02:00out at Torrey?

02:02Well, I got a bone to pick with Sung J.M.

02:03He was my pick last week at the Amex.

02:05I mean, he had finished top 25 in that event

02:09every single year.

02:11He made so many birdies when I was on the coverage

02:14watching him at the first, you know, in Kapalua,

02:18and I'm just thinking, man, he's rested.

02:20He's gonna go out, have a great week,

02:22and just lays an egg on me and just misses the cut.

02:25Who I have my eye on, that's a great question.

02:27Ludvig's a great start.

02:28This is a golf course.

02:30You want guys that can hit it long,

02:31but carry it a long way, that are strong enough

02:34to get it out of the thick rough.

02:35You know, Harris Singlish is always the guy

02:37that you gotta look at this week.

02:38I know he's the guy that you don't look at,

02:41maybe undervalued a lot of weeks,

02:43but this week in particular, he's always played well here.

02:46I start at the driver and work your way back.

02:49Tony Finau's another player.

02:52If he could putt well, which he did at Kapalua, like him.

02:55There's some under the radar guys,

02:56like Jake Knapp, who played well there last year.

02:58Hadn't really gotten it quite going

03:01since the West Coast last year,

03:02but he loves this golf course.

03:04He's a player that could play well,

03:05and like really under the radar

03:07is a guy named Trey Mullinax.

03:10Hits it as far as anybody,

03:11and has had some success in this golf course

03:14coming off of surgery this past year.

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