Keith's Keys to Winning at TPC Sawgrass: Expert Insights

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00:00Keith's keys before we do the outrights. Keith's keys for this week.

00:04All right, the first thing I want is I want a good course manager. There's a

00:08reason that Scottie's the only guy that has ever repeated and defended as

00:11champion here. He's going for three in a row. I need guys. There's only been one

00:15rookie that's won here, won the players at TPC Sawgrass. So that was Craig Perks

00:19in 2002 and I still think to this day he doesn't know that he won. He chipped in,

00:23he's making eagles, right? It was all of a sudden it was like a barrage and he's

00:26like, hey Craig, you won. You know, he's the only rookie that's ever done it. The

00:29first key is that you've got to be a good course manager. You've got to know

00:32this place. You've got to have a game plan. The second thing is you've got to

00:35be a little bipolar there, Mike. And what I mean by that is when it comes to your

00:38iron game, there's some opportunities with the long irons, the par 3, 8, you

00:43know, these four par five, some of these long par fours, you've got to be good

00:46from 200 plus. And then you've also got to be good with a wedge in your hand.

00:49You know, the iconic island 17th hole comes in, you know, comes to mind first.

00:54But there's some other spots here. There's five par fours under 425. And

00:57then the third thing is, is that I think guys need to attack this place. I look

01:02at the, since we've come back here in March, the five winners, Scotty twice,

01:06Cam Smith, JT and Rory are all aggressive players. They are the type of

01:11guys that attack this place with their driver and they get after it and they

01:14want to score. I don't think you can hold back and be positional here and

01:17compete at this level in this event with this field. I think you got to get

01:21after it with the driver. And I think that, you know, that's my third key for

01:24sure. I'm looking for really good talented guys that could just pipe it

01:28down the middle.