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00:00Is there an option of like a good player, Keith, in your mind that can't win this thing just based on mindset and how this course sets up?
00:07Well, you mentioned his name earlier. It seems like Rory's been checked out since the Masters.
00:11He wins the career grand slam. I mean, the things that he was saying, you know, all these guys work with sports psychologists.
00:18The things that he was saying in the press room the other day were the exact polar opposite of what everyone else is saying as they self-talk and they try to build themselves up and get ready for this challenge.
00:28And Rory's like, well, you know, I think we'll figure out the driver. I think we'll do this.
00:31Like, there's no thinking about this place. I mean, it is as hard as hard can be.
00:37Every single shot is tested. And as we break into the keys, the first thing that you need to know for this week is that it's a first shot golf course.
00:45We hear this all the time. Like Augusta's a second shot golf course, blah, blah, blah.
00:49Oakmont is a first shot golf course. If you don't get the ball in play off the tee, you are dead.
00:53Because from there, you are reeling for every single shot, finishing that one hole.
00:58And then you've got 17 more holes to play.
01:01So if you're not getting the driver in play, and we've seen his struggles in Canada and at Quail Hollow, I mean, he's got to figure that out.
01:07And I just don't see how he magically does that between now and tomorrow. It's just not going to happen.
01:12The second key is that these greens are humongous. They're like St. Andrews.
01:17It's like nothing you see over here in the States. They have all sorts of bumps and swales and plateaus.
01:22And in the recent renovation done by Gil Hans, they added 24,000 square feet of green space over 18 holes.
01:29You're going to see 100-foot putts this week. You're going to see gravity take over for golf balls.
01:34If you cannot lag putt here, you've got no shot.
01:36And the third key is that if there was a theme song for this place, it'd be Enter Sandman.
01:41I mean, cue the Metallica. Forget the Hokies. Forget Mariano.
01:44They have 168 bunkers here. You're going to run into trouble at some point.
01:48The church pews, the famous ones, it's 110 yards long and 40 yards wide.
01:52I mean, if you can't play from the sand, if you don't have any around the green acumen, you are going to be toast.