Exploring the Unique Challenges of Linksland Golf Courses

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00:00But I'm looking at the scores, and it seems like they're having their way out there, aren't they?

00:05Well, Craig, first of all, thanks for inviting me on.

00:08And second of all, it might sound like hyperbole, but I love these two weeks of the year.

00:12Not just from a workload standpoint that basically the golf's over midday,

00:16but the difference in the type of the golf courses and the golf that they're playing and the wind conditions

00:22and all of those fun things that really add to the challenge,

00:25I think it makes it a lot more entertaining than the standard regular season stuff

00:29we see week in and week out on the PGA Tour.

00:32To address your question, the Renaissance Club, really, really, really lay out over there in North Burick, right?

00:37It has a famous neighbor in Muirfield that everyone's heard of.

00:40But this is Lynx Land Golf, and it's really well designed,

00:45but you have to somewhat temper how hard you want to make a golf course over there

00:49because if the wind kicks up, then it can almost become unplayable, and you can't have that happen.

00:54So you can't have crazy greens.

00:56You can't have, you know, all sorts of undulations in and around the greens

00:59because the balls just won't stop rolling, and that's kind of like the double-edged sword

01:04that they live by over there.

01:05What you're seeing over there today and what we're going to see this week

01:07is a calm week over there in Scotland, right there on the 1st of 4th,

01:11and I mean, they're on the coastline.

01:13You've got 65 guys under par right now with about eight holes left to play for the field in round one.

01:19Yeah, and I guess that's why I'm surprised to see so many.

01:22It's like, you know, normally, Keith, you'd come on this show, and I'd say,

01:25all right, you know, pick a winner for me based on what you've seen thus far,

01:28but it's like impossible.

01:29I see like a half a dozen players are six under par.

01:33I'm tracking Scotty Scheffler.

01:34Looks like he's three under.

01:36Oberg is three under.

01:37Did you have an opinion, I guess, going in on who could win a tournament like this?

01:42Oh, absolutely.

01:43Over at Read the Line, my company, we certainly filled out a full card.

01:46The guys that we were into early pre-tournament, Colin Morikawa, Sam Burns, Victor Hovland,

01:53Matt Fitzpatrick, and Max Grazerman, the local kid here from New Jersey.

01:57I mean, that's the five I picked to win outright with all different sorts of odds to start

02:01for many reasons why, but really what it breaks down to is that we knew that it was going to be calm

02:06and it was going to be a scoring fest, and we've seen that here before.

02:09I mean, Vegas set the over-under at the start of the week on the winning score at 16.5 under par,

02:14so we knew we needed some birdie makers like a Sam Burns, like a Victor Hovland,

02:18guys that are really aggressive with the way they approach the game off the tee

02:22and they try to score, so that's why I went with those guys.

02:25No Scotty, the odds are just too short, and with Rory coming off of what's been

02:29kind of a very up-and-down rollercoaster season, you know,

02:33he hits that career milestone at the Masters, but since then,

02:36the approach game hasn't been there, and now he's got his head shaved.

02:39I don't know.

02:39He must have a lot on his mind.

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