Rain-Soaked TPC River Highlands Could See Low Scores This Week

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00:00We know that we can get some low scores.

00:02Anything with the course, anything with the weather, we've got to worry about this week.

00:06Well, Mike, I'm sure you can hear it above me in the tent that I'm in doing this broadcast,

00:11but it is raining, and it has rained here all day.

00:13And since I know you live in the Northeast, it has pretty much rained all spring.

00:17This place is going to be soft.

00:19We've moved from Sokmont up to the River Highlands, right?

00:22It's just, it's wet everywhere.

00:24The golf course is going to be very soft, very receptive.

00:26It looks like it's in fantastic shape.

00:28I mean, it is so green because the grass is so healthy.

00:31So the rough is dense.

00:32It's not five inches like Oakmont.

00:34It's a couple inches.

00:36It will hamper these guys from controlling spin and trajectory.

00:39But overall, this place is going to get taken advantage of.

00:42I mean, since they turned it into a signature event,

00:44the average winning score is 21 under par in the last three years.

00:48We've had winners like Keegan and Xander and Scotty.

00:50Scotty in a playoff last year.

00:51Remember the protesters came out.

00:54We had Tom Kim, you and I, and they moved the pin.

00:56And we're still under protest from the protesters, but neither here nor there.

01:01If you're going to play well here, it's a par 70 track, 6,800 yards.

01:05It's total target golf, right?

01:07You've got to put the ball and play off the tee.

01:09And once you do that, it's a wedge fest.

01:11So it's not so much that you need to be long or you need like super drivers of the golf ball.

01:16You need guys that are just have a great course management strategy off the tee.

01:21And then from there, it's attack with the wedge, and then you have to be able to putt.

01:25You know, it's par 70 scoring, which means you have two less par fives in this case on the scorecard,

01:30and you have a ton of par fours.

01:31You have to be a great par four scorer.

01:34And if you look at the past champions here, I mean, it's a who's who of those types of players.

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