Unexpected Leaders Emerge in Golf Tournament Roundup

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00:00The players, round one, couple of things here.

00:03First of all, Lucas Glover, six under, to start the day.

00:07I mean, you gotta be kidding me with him.

00:10You know what's funny, Mike?

00:12Yeah, go ahead.

00:14When I did all my stats crunch this week,

00:17guess who comes up at the very top of my list?

00:20Lucas Glover.

00:21And I didn't do anything.

00:22And here he is.

00:23Looks like he's going to catch the first round leader ticket.

00:26And then your boy, Captain Chandler Phillips

00:29here at six under, 12 holes in.

00:31And he's got a few holes to go.

00:33But Pharrell said this before, and it's true.

00:35Usually when you get majors and you get the players,

00:40you want stacked names at the top of the leaderboard.

00:44Now, you don't exactly have that now.

00:47Hopefully by Saturday and Sunday, you will have that.

00:50But as I saw someone making a joke on Twitter earlier today,

00:53it almost seems like a continuation of the Puerto Rico

00:57Open at the top of the board right now,

00:59because we're off to a bit of a slow start with the names that

01:02are at the top of it.

01:03Well, we've talked about that all week, right, Mike?

01:06You and I were on the radio show last night.

01:09You get a lot of randomness at this particular tournament.

01:13Stephen Ames, Tim Clark, Fred Funk,

01:16Jerry Kelly was a fixture on this leaderboard

01:18back in the day.

01:19You remember Kelly from Wisconsin.

01:23Ian Poulter was runner up here twice.

01:25So it's not always Sergio and Tiger and Scotty and Mickelson

01:29and Davis Love and Couples, the guys that

01:31have won this thing before.

01:33There's a bunch of other guys, Matt Kuchar, Webb Simpson,

01:37Siwoo Kim.

01:38There's a bunch of other guys that

01:39are kind of that tier two, tier three,

01:42even further down that have been major players at this

01:47or winners of this event in the past.

01:50It's that type of randomness that you get at the players.

01:52And we talked about it as well.

01:54I think it's a real testament to the Pete Dye design.

01:57The guy, it's his masterpiece.

01:59And it doesn't necessarily cater to just

02:01one particular type of golfer.

02:04No, it does not.

02:05I know one thing.

02:05It won't be catering this Saturday and Sunday

02:07to the likes of Justin Thomas, Victor Hovland, Max Homa.

02:11Those guys flying away this morning with six, seven,

02:15and eight overs on their rounds.

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