Ryder Cup Insights: Player Profiles & Course Challenges

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00:00And so you, you played it and here's where I want to start kind of chatting

00:04about Ryder cup is if you are, I mean, I want some course notes,

00:09but really I'm intrigued to, to, for your takeaways as to immediately,

00:14is there a profile player that stands out or like a specific guy where you're

00:18like, this guy's going to feast on this place or on the flip side,

00:21is there a guy or a profile player? It's like, man,

00:24I know this person's high in the standings, but not so sure. They're going to,

00:28they're going to be a fit here at Beth age.

00:30Well, it was really fun to play. I was, I was excited to check it out.

00:36Obviously, you know,

00:37going to be working the coverage for NBC in September and, you know,

00:42just being back and playing the golf course. Of course I played in 2016 at the

00:49Northern trust. So it had been, you know, close to 10 years since I've been back.

00:53My memories were that the rough was thick that week.

00:57The golf course was hard, but it wasn't like this overly,

01:01this like Oakmont type of heart where these bunkers are just like situated,

01:06very, you know, on the edges of the fairways, not like this crazy,

01:10narrow golf course. There's some room off the tee, which I had enjoyed.

01:14I think it's the sign. I think it's really the sign that gets everyone.

01:18They see the sign. It's like, it's like almost like a sign, you know,

01:21you see like on a Jaws movie or something, you're like,

01:22I can't play this golf course, but, but really it's interesting.

01:26Cause that's not an uncommon take that I've heard from people.

01:29Yeah. And I remember there being more slope in the greens,

01:35uh, at least the first shoot, the front nine,

01:39the greens didn't have nearly as much slope as I remembered. I,

01:42I thought they were much more undulated than they were. Um,

01:47I believe it's a tilling house design. If I'm not mistaken, is that true?

01:50I believe that is correct. Yes. Um, anyways, the,

01:53the fairways, uh,

01:56we're actually widened a little bit in some spots, uh,

01:59as last year Keegan. Um, and I, maybe it was just,

02:03I'm not sure if it's just Keegan, but, uh,

02:05the U S obviously gets to set up the golf course the way they want.

02:09And based on what I could tell him and talking with some, uh,

02:12caddies that were there is that they're definitely going for a little bit of a

02:16wider fairway rough. That's not nearly as long as it typically is enough to

02:20where it's, it's a penalty, but not,

02:22not going to like cause you to not get to the green type of penalty.

02:26So they want scoring, which is how, you know,

02:28they set it up at Hazeltine.

02:30Was it probably the best example that I can give you is, is,

02:33is a, uh, kind of a bombers type of paradise for the most part,

02:36a lot of birdies. So, uh,

02:38that was my impression is that I think a player that has length off the T is

02:44going to be a huge, huge, um, um, asset to either of these teams.

02:50I think, uh, you'll see a lot of putts hold, uh,

02:54from that 15 foot plus range,

02:57which you always kind of see in Ryder cups,

02:59but I definitely think you're going to see some, some putts hold.

03:02Like I was, I feel like you can make any putt from anywhere on the green,

03:06which is a lot of fun for, uh, for the TV broadcast.

03:10So, uh, so you have, uh, putters that, you know,

03:14can get hot from that mid range.

03:15I think the, the length off the T is important.

03:19And the thing that I didn't like as from playing it,

03:24I did not like the bunkers, the bunkers, the sand and the bunkers were,

03:29it was like very, very heavy sand.

03:32And it doesn't appear that way when you look at it,

03:35but I found it to be very challenging to play out of.

03:38It's not a type of sand that you would be able to spend a whole lot in this.

03:42You're not picking a player based off of their bunker game on how they play in

03:46heavy sand.

03:46I'm just letting you know that I struggled out of it.

03:49That's fine.

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