Navigating Harsh Weather at Golf Tournaments: Smylie's Recap

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00:00Thursday was quite ridiculous.

00:03We kind of talked about that on the Wednesday

00:06one and done pics when we went live.

00:08I really felt like that morning was me.

00:10Brutal can be cold, can be gusty, can be windy.

00:14And it was it was really hard.

00:16And I was very fortunate to not have been walking in those conditions

00:20because it would have been brutal just to even be out there in it.

00:24And I felt bad for all the guys that that had those morning tea times.

00:28And surprisingly, it wasn't as lopsided as I kind of thought it might be.

00:34I think guys like really rallied from the morning players

00:36that played in the morning, like Keegan Bradley being a guy

00:39who we're definitely going to talk about.

00:40More cow is kind of right at the split.

00:43But that Thursday, man, especially considering Wednesday,

00:47you know, the I mentioned kind of right around that one

00:51and a done deal that we're expecting to get rain.

00:54We got like a tenth of an inch.

00:55So there was just hardly zero rain.

00:58And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the golf course was already Sunday.

01:04Look at as far as just how the golf course was playing from a firm

01:07and fast perspective.

01:08Now, I had a question for you because I we're looking at aerial shots

01:12of the course right now.

01:13You can tell the greens are very crusty, you know, glassy.

01:17You have a note in here that says soft fairways.

01:20And I know and we saw that play out like Jason Day got a mud ball.

01:23I think I was 15 or 16 or something like that.

01:25So I know they were soft.

01:27We're looking at aerials where they look like brown in a lot of spots.

01:30Yeah. What was the sort of contrast there in terms of how they were firm

01:35in some spots, but just stayed wet in other spots where you could get a mud ball?

01:38It it was unusual.

01:40You know, like the fairways smelled burnt a lot of places.

01:46Like when you're walking

01:48and certain spots, you just you almost could smell the how

01:54how burnt the fairways are.

01:56But you're right.

01:57There were so many areas that were just kind of soft

02:01and then others that were just rock hard, like hard pan and firm.

02:06Really weird.

02:08And the golf course played unusual from tee to green.

02:11Now the greens were not unusual.

02:14They they were just dead.

02:15Pretty much there was hardly zero grass on these greens.

02:19Let me send you a picture.

02:21I sent this to.

02:23Oh, let's see some live producing here.

02:25I sent this picture to

02:28Solly when when Keegan was like eight under through 11

02:33and he had like Keegan's over instead of this picture.

02:36I said, Can you just imagine if the wind blew today?

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