TPC San Antonio Golf Course Preview: Keys to Mastering the Oaks

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00:00But I want to talk this week's action down in Texas, TPC San Antonio, about 7,400 yards.

00:06This golf course, a par 72 set the table this week for us, Keith, on how this tournament's

00:10going to play out for us, Donnie TPC, San Antonio.

00:14We've been coming here, the Oaks course, 36 hole facility.

00:17We use the Oaks course.

00:18We've been using it since 2010, a Greg Norman and Sergio Garcia collab design.

00:23So you know that you got to be a ball striker and probably not the greatest putter.

00:27I mean, Cory Connors, twice over the last six years as a winner, kind of proves that

00:31fact.

00:32A quick couple of keys for you, you know, you've got to be great on approach here.

00:35And it seems like I say that every week, but the last couple of weeks, it's been with your

00:38long iron play.

00:40This week, it's with your wedges, everything from 125 yards and in, you've got to be stellar.

00:45The second thing is that this place has some of the most horrific bunkers on the PGA tour.

00:50They have little outcroppings, fingerlings, everything, they have ragged edges.

00:53It's the complete opposite of what you see at Augusta National and people hate the bunkers

00:57here.

00:58They're really, really difficult.

00:59You got to be a great sand player.

01:00And the other thing I'd look to is that there's a really good collection of par fours here.

01:04And that's the place where guys are going to separate from one another when it comes

01:07to scoring.

01:08Those are my three keys for this week at the San Antonio Oaks course.