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Jon Wright on the 1st round of the US Open, How hard it is to play well at Shinnecock Hills + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 3: US Open happening concurrently right now, first round play at
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  Speaker 3: Shinnecock Hills, a notoriously difficult US Open course. As we
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  Speaker 4: John Right, Welcome back to the Shaan O'Connell show. How
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  Speaker 4: are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: lot more than anything I can say, because I am
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  Speaker 3: not the diet in the world golfer here and even
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  Speaker 3: with my uneducated eye, I can see that this shinnacok
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  Speaker 3: Hills course is tear it up the field right now,
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  Speaker 3: and of course that's what it's known for.
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  Speaker 4: In the US Open. What do you see in first
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  Speaker 4: round play.
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  Speaker 5: John, Well, I'm seeing exactly what I expected, which is
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  Speaker 5: just a very difficult golf course. I had one of
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  Speaker 5: my most fun days in golf. We got to play
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  Speaker 5: the National Golf Links, which is across the street from
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  Speaker 5: Shinnecock in the morning, and then we played Shinnacock in
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  Speaker 5: the afternoon. And it was a regular Tuesday, just a
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  Speaker 5: regular run of the mid day at Shinnecock Hills, and
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  Speaker 5: I was I think I was even a professional golfer
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  Speaker 5: at the time, and I've really hit the ball well
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  Speaker 5: and I think I shot seventy five and it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: a US Open setup, so I'm not sure how much
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  Speaker 5: harder they can make it. But then once you tune
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  Speaker 5: into the US Open, you can see it. And they've
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  Speaker 5: had all kinds of weather today, lots of wind, they
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  Speaker 5: had a two hour fog delay this morning, and so
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  Speaker 5: it is testing every part of everybody's game. You're so
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  Speaker 5: you're just just for instance, sports Koepka, he had kind
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  Speaker 5: of slapped it around. He's one over part he got
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  Speaker 5: one hole to go and mid's the fairway by less
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  Speaker 5: than a foot double bogie. Now he's three over par
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  Speaker 5: and his lunch is not tasting very good right now.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not every course you play on the tour
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  Speaker 3: that beats you up like this. Do the guys in
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  Speaker 3: the field do they typically relish these challenges? Everyone is
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  Speaker 3: obviously playing the same course, so it's gonna be difficult
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  Speaker 3: for everyone. Is this something that the guys are like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to go tackle this because I mean it's windy.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about the weather, and you talk about the
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  Speaker 3: course layout, you know it's not going to be like
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  Speaker 3: a good day of golf for you necessarily compared to
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  Speaker 3: some of the scores.
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  Speaker 4: These guys are used to putting up. But do they
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  Speaker 4: relish it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's a saying in professional golf there's horses for courses,
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  Speaker 5: and some people love this type of golf and other
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  Speaker 5: players don't. Like I never liked playing tournament where the
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  Speaker 5: winning score was going to be twenty two under par.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't make that many birdies, But I love to.
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  Speaker 5: I love a golf course where where you apar is
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  Speaker 5: a good scorer, and that's always been the philosophy of
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  Speaker 5: the United States Golf Association when they set the courses
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  Speaker 5: up for the US Open, they want they want you
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  Speaker 5: to be right around par. And I was just talking
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  Speaker 5: to your producer. There's a great stat They've had four
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  Speaker 5: US Opens at Shinnikock and only three people have ever
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  Speaker 5: finished the tournament under park and.
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  Speaker 4: Two were the same year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I believe they were two under and one under.
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  Speaker 5: It it's not like they went to eleven or twelve.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's like I said, I played there many
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  Speaker 5: years ago. I had a great drive on the first
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  Speaker 5: hole and I had a perfect little sandwich and it
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  Speaker 5: took four bounces before it started to spin and barely
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  Speaker 5: held onto the green, And I'm like wow. And then
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  Speaker 5: you mix in US Open setup and US Open pressure
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  Speaker 5: and you're seeing exactly what we expected to see. And
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  Speaker 5: Rory McElroy's having a great round. He just bogied his
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  Speaker 5: seventeenth pole, but he's still too under par. And then
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  Speaker 5: the beauty of the US Open Heresjean is anyone can qualify.
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  Speaker 5: If you have a handicap low enough, you can enter
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  Speaker 5: the local qualifier. You get through that, and then you
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  Speaker 5: can go to the sectionals. And you have a couple
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  Speaker 5: of good rounds, and you're playing the US Open right
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  Speaker 5: right alongside the professionals, and there's a couple of qualifiers
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  Speaker 5: in there. They are professional golfers, but they had to
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  Speaker 5: go through the qualifying to get in, and here they
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  Speaker 5: are near the top of the leader board. So I
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  Speaker 5: always love the US Open for that aspect of it too.
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  Speaker 5: Because the Masters is invitation only, the criteria for qualifying
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  Speaker 5: are very strict, but the US Open, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: if you're good enough and you shoot this course, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: let's go to Shinnecock and see what you have. So
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  Speaker 5: really lots of fun. And I think the regular everyday golfer,
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  Speaker 5: which I am one now, I like to watch them
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  Speaker 5: struggle a little bit. I don't. It's not as fun
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  Speaker 5: for me when I watch a guy shoot sixty two
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  Speaker 5: and sixty four. I love it when a guy's really
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  Speaker 5: grinding and getting up and down and making par putts
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  Speaker 5: and figures out a way to shoot two or three
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  Speaker 5: hundred part And that's what they're doing this week.
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  Speaker 4: So right now, what six guys?
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  Speaker 3: Seven guys under par at the moment, and obviously you
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  Speaker 3: got three more days of this, so everything and I
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  Speaker 3: think we'll regress back to the mean and Shinnakock will
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  Speaker 3: probably have similar results to what it has every single year.
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  Speaker 3: Whose game I mean, we see the leaderboard right now.
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  Speaker 3: Whose game is best fit for this course and maybe
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  Speaker 3: even these conditions.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's easy to say Rory because he's
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  Speaker 5: tied for the lead, but it is Rory and those
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  Speaker 5: types because Shinnikock. The one thing it's a bit generous
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  Speaker 5: for is you can the driving areas are generous, and
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  Speaker 5: that's unusual for a US Open setup. Normally, the driving
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  Speaker 5: areas are quite narrow. You hit it in the rough
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  Speaker 5: and you really are you really have to just hack
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  Speaker 5: it back to the fairway and see if you can
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  Speaker 5: get up and down for par The Shinnecock has some
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  Speaker 5: really deep rescue if you miss the fairways. But the
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  Speaker 5: fairways are pretty generous. So the guys who'd like to
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  Speaker 5: bomb and gouge it, like Bryce and d Chambeau and
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  Speaker 5: those types who need a little bit more wide driving area,
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  Speaker 5: they're they're gonna be a they're gonna have a little
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  Speaker 5: bit better time with a US Open setup like this.
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  Speaker 5: And he hasn't even teed off yet. We mentioned Bryce
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  Speaker 5: and We're delayed for two hours thanks to the fog,
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  Speaker 5: so I'll be interested to see. I think the morning wave,
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  Speaker 5: which you're they're just finishing their rounds right now. I
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  Speaker 5: think they got They probably got the worst of the
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  Speaker 5: weather because the fog and the cold and the wind.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's no fun. And I think the afternoon it's
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  Speaker 5: starting to get a little bit sunny, a little warmer.
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  Speaker 5: The wind is still up, but it's a little more doable.
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  Speaker 5: But well, I'm sitting at my desk, not completing a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of work. I'm watching the UFO. And so if
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  Speaker 5: you're calling me about your real estate, I'll get back
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  Speaker 5: to you.
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  Speaker 4: Let the man live all of your real estate clients.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, John right is our GISs here on the Shot
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  Speaker 3: O'Connell show, talking us open at Shinnecock Hills. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: some impressive putts made already. What are these greens playing like?
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  Speaker 3: For what you could see?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they are some of the trickiest, most diabolical greens
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  Speaker 5: I've ever played on. I do remember on the eighteenth hole,
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  Speaker 5: I hit a really good shot and I was about
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  Speaker 5: fifteen feet above the hole and I literally tapped it
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  Speaker 5: and it barely missed the hole and went fifteen feet by,
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  Speaker 5: and I was just like wow. And I've seen on
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  Speaker 5: some of the coverage today as well where I believe
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  Speaker 5: it was jj' spawney hit his ball onto the green
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  Speaker 5: and it was right at the top of a knoll
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  Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, I can't believe it stayed there. Well,
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  Speaker 5: they cut to another couple of players and they come
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  Speaker 5: back and JJ's hitting it out of the bucker because
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  Speaker 5: the wind just tipped a little bit down one of
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  Speaker 5: the slopes and into the sand. So the greens are
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  Speaker 5: very difficult, and you mix in wind and and some
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  Speaker 5: rain and a little bit of cold, and they mix
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  Speaker 5: it even harder. And honestly, those are the big numbers
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  Speaker 5: that I've seen where a guy will get it on
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  Speaker 5: the green. He's out of position, but he's on the
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  Speaker 5: green twenty feet putting for par. You think, okay, he
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  Speaker 5: might make par, but worse, he's gonna make boge.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, he's three putts for a double
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  Speaker 5: and plummets down the leaderboard. And we're going to see
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  Speaker 5: that constantly. And I think I looked at the weather.
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  Speaker 5: I think as the weather gets hotter and the course
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  Speaker 5: dries out, it makes it even more difficult. But we
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  Speaker 5: do have to give credit to the United States Golf Association.
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  Speaker 5: They knew this weather was coming. And the greens aren't
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  Speaker 5: nearly as fast as they normally are because with this wind,
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  Speaker 5: the ball wouldn't even stay on them.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be my next question this wind.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you play if it's already a
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  Speaker 3: tough course layout, how do you play in this win
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  Speaker 3: on top of that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's for the mentally extremely strong. You
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  Speaker 5: have to be. You have to realize how tough it
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  Speaker 5: is and not get frustrated the minute. The minute you
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  Speaker 5: let this get you frustrated and you start to you
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  Speaker 5: start to press things and try to and try to
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  Speaker 5: get it all back on one hole. That's when it
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  Speaker 5: gets away from you and it's very difficult. And that's
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  Speaker 5: where a good caddy comes in as well. Where I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you're looking at Scottie Scheffler was all the way up
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  Speaker 5: to three over par. It's so easy for a lesser
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  Speaker 5: player to just say, you know what, this is too
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  Speaker 5: hard and then you just kind of give up. You don't,
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  Speaker 5: you don't quit, but you don't. You don't give it
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  Speaker 5: your best anymore. You're kind of frustrated, and next thing
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  Speaker 5: you know, you turn a three over par into an
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  Speaker 5: eight over par and you miss a cut. So it's
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  Speaker 5: just it's a real mental grind. These guys when they
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  Speaker 5: finish their round, they're they're going to be physically tired,
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  Speaker 5: but mentally it's exhausting.
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  Speaker 3: When you're battling. Everyone's battling. Kind of just to be
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  Speaker 3: at par is a bogee more daunting, or is it like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, well everyone's making these mistakes today, I can,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I can get back to the field.
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  Speaker 4: How do you process that when you're on a course
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  Speaker 4: like this.
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  Speaker 5: Well, honestly, that is the key, Sean. It it's when
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  Speaker 5: you get yourself out of position. You're no longer on
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  Speaker 5: an easier golf course. You hit a poor drive, you're
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  Speaker 5: still thinking Bertie. When you hit a poor drive into
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  Speaker 5: the deeper stuff at the US Open at Shinnecock Hills,
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  Speaker 5: you're trying to figure out, Okay, let's give myself a
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  Speaker 5: chance for par and no worse than bogey. And some
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  Speaker 5: bogeys are very acceptable when you're out of position at
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  Speaker 5: the US Open, And there's plenty of times when you
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  Speaker 5: are and you're happy with the bogey, and you'd gladly
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  Speaker 5: go to the next hole with that bogey because you
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  Speaker 5: can make that up with one good shot on the
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  Speaker 5: next hole and you're and you're right back to even par.
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  Speaker 5: It's the doubles and triples that just they'll kill you.
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  Speaker 5: And so yeah, you have That's another part of the
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  Speaker 5: mindset that I'm talking about is where you have to
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  Speaker 5: change your exs and you really have to be okay with, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: look a boge's fine here, Let's get out of here,
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  Speaker 5: no worse than that and go to the next hole.
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  Speaker 5: And it's very difficult to do, especially for these guys
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  Speaker 5: because they're used to they can hit any shot any time,
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  Speaker 5: and they're always thinking, berdie, is this a.
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  Speaker 3: Place because of how notorious it is? Is this a
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  Speaker 3: place that guys will on a free weekend or in
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  Speaker 3: the offseason, We'll be like, you know, let me go
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  Speaker 3: get some reps in at Shinnecock. If they know that
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  Speaker 3: there's you know, a US Open date coming up, Have
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  Speaker 3: these guys put in extra rounds at Shinnacock in preparation
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  Speaker 3: for this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think so, especially the guys with private planes,
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  Speaker 5: because it's all the way at the tip of Long
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  Speaker 5: Island in East Hampton, so it's not easy to get there.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I think the traffic out there is a joke,
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  Speaker 5: so everybody, most of the fans are on coming off
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  Speaker 5: the train. But no, we had the US Open here
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  Speaker 5: I believe it was twenty eighteen, so a lot of
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  Speaker 5: the guys in the field have played it before. Brooks
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  Speaker 5: kept was the winner. Then I'm a little surprised at
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  Speaker 5: how well Rory's playing. He missed cut in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not easiest course to get to, but it's
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  Speaker 5: such an iconic golf course that it'd be one that
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  Speaker 5: if you were in the New York area, you'd probably
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  Speaker 5: go and play it. Play that one in National just
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  Speaker 5: just because it's such a great golf course. And these
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  Speaker 5: guys they have their schedules that they know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 5: When they get close to a US Open venue two
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  Speaker 5: or three weeks ago, they'll grab their plane and run
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  Speaker 5: up there and play it all day once and then
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  Speaker 5: go back to their regular tour schedule. So the good
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  Speaker 5: players have definitely scattered it out.
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  Speaker 3: I love and simultaneously hate that. That's the thing in
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  Speaker 3: golf when you could say, well, the guys who have
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  Speaker 3: their own planes. I love to do this because it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's just not something we're accustomed to talking about
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  Speaker 3: with other sports. I mean, plenty of those guys have
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  Speaker 3: the money for planes, but it's obviously more part of
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  Speaker 3: the golf culture and getting yourself around well to have
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  Speaker 3: their own plane.
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  Speaker 5: It's just say, but you know, yeah, yeah, no, it's
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  Speaker 5: uh for the guys that can afford it. A lot
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  Speaker 5: of them do. When I say that, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: them do the fractional ownership stuff, and so it just
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  Speaker 5: really for as much as they travel, it just it
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  Speaker 5: shaves hours and hours off their total travel travel time.
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  Speaker 5: It saves days per year where they can you know,
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  Speaker 5: and then and not to mention the fatigue and the
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  Speaker 5: lost golf club and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can you know, if you got that
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  Speaker 3: access to that and your family wants to be part
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  Speaker 3: of it, if you do have kids. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: there's a reason that's the other half lives that way.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ultimate convenience if you can pull it off.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't begrudge anyone, but it's just one of those
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  Speaker 3: things where're like, man, how would it be?
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  Speaker 5: I found the best way to fly private is with
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  Speaker 5: someone else's plane, because that way you never see those bills.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been lucky enough to be on private aircraft
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  Speaker 5: and I have no idea what the jet fuel costs
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  Speaker 5: or anything else. And that's the way I need it
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  Speaker 5: because I can't afford it.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's like summertime, right, It's like the boat thing.
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  Speaker 3: The best boat is somebody else's boat. It's the best.
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  Speaker 5: You don't want to absolutely true, you don't.
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  Speaker 4: Have to deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: Although the official stance of the Sean O'Connell show is
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and use other people's boats, bring gas money, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: don't put that on the boat owner. We're always chip in,
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  Speaker 3: all right that if you're a listener to this show,
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  Speaker 3: chip in.
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  Speaker 5: Or at least offer, Yeah, at least offer.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not with the jet fuel, I imagine that's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more daunting of a chip in.
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  Speaker 4: But with the boats, you can at least do that totally.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Zach Blair, our local favorite who again
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: kho Zach is not having a good year on the PGA.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Toy's had a back couple of years. He's battled some injuries,
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  Speaker 5: but just like anyone else. Zach Blair went to the
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  Speaker 5: qualifying went through and shot a couple of good scores
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: and actually won his qualifying site. And he has burdied
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: his first hole, and when you bury the first hole,
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: you jumped to typer Forth on the leaderboard at one
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: under part. So it'll be fun to watch him see
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: how he does. Tony Fenow or another local favorite on
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: the PGA Tour, he was at the same qualifying side
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: as Zach and he was right there close and he
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: made a couple of late bogies and did not qualify.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: So I think Zach Blair is the one to watch
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: if you want to pull for a Utahan. Even we
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: did go to BYU. We gotta let it go.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: It's all right.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Sorry, once they become pros, it's you just go for
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: whoever's from the area.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I agree with that.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Scotty Scheffler came into as a tournament favorite for the
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: fifteenth straight major, and you know, I don't know if
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: the people out there listening, if your big time sports
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: betters or not, but the action was on him early
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: and now people are seeing the round begin and so
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: now they're fading Scotty Scheffler and feeling like it's not
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: going to translate for him with this course and with
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: his skill, can he play himself back to the top
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: of the field.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Well, if anyone can do it, it's him. And he's
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: two over par, which is what three shots out of
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the lead, four shots out of the lead, and he's
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: got only three holes to go, So if he can
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: get in it plus two, I think with the way
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: he hit it in the Cup. I was watching him earlier,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: with the way he hit the ball, and he got
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: a couple of bad breaks and missed a couple of
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: short putts, I feel like he's just fine because Scotty
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: can do things that the whole rest of the field cannot.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: And we've noticed that this year especially. He's got off
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: to a very poor start in a lot of events
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: and then made a charge through the last three rounds,
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: and some he's won and some he's come up just short.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: But if there's anywhere you can make up ground, it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: the US Open. And by that I mean Johnny Miller,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: for instance, won his US Open in nineteen seventy three
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: at Oakmont. He shot sixty three in the final round,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: which was a record by far at Oakmont or ever
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: in the US open and he was done with his
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: round almost two hours before the leaders, and he shot
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: all the way at the leader. Gordon won and he
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: didn't get to a playoff. He just wanted out right.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: So if you get one of those days where shinnecock
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter how hard it is, if you're just completely
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: in control of your golf ball and you get that
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: putter rolling, you can go from tie for forty seventh
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: in the first and it can happen really fast because
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: you don't have to shoot ten under, you shoot four
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: under it you leap frog about half the fields.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Total.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Aside here, do you have a horse in the race
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: in this FIFA World Cup?
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Oh? I always liked Spain. We have a couple of
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Spanish golfers on the University of Utah golf team that
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I'm still involved with, and so I pull for Spain.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: I think they're the favorite, even though that tie they
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: had the other day was a bit unsettling.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Just only the first game of the tournament. I think
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: they're going to be all right there. There's a reason
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: why they're favored so and their best player didn't come
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: on until after the half, so I think they were
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: And the obvious one is the United States, and I
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: never really give them much of a chance to do.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I hope they get out of group stage, and I
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: hope they win a game or two in the knockout stage.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: But after watching that Paraguay game, I'm like, wait a minute, Yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: maybe maybe they're sucking me in and making me believe
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: that they are good enough to maybe go all the way.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Who knows, you know what.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I'm ready to be hurt.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I'm ready to have my heart broken, John, if like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I'm going to jump all the way on this bandwagon
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: and have them exit, you know, in some tragic fashion.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: But you're a ute. We've been sucked into this before
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: where you're like, oh my god, we're going to do it,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: and then they break your heart. Yeah, nineteen ninety eight
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: comes to mind for the basketball.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll do it all together.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Uh, John, enjoy the rest of this tournament. Appreciate you
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: jumping on today.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Thank you, No problem. I gotta go practice, Sean. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: am actually playing across the pond myself here next month
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: in the British Senior Amateur.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Hello, where's that?
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: I'll give you some reports from Oxfordshire, England next month.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: That's awesome, love it. I'm going to be in I'm
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: going to be in London next month for Wimbledon. So
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: look at us, we're two sophisticated individuals.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Well, it's my first trip across the pond, so I'm
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: a little nervous about it that they play a totally
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: different kind of golf over there, so hopefully I'll be
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: able to figure it out.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Are you going private so you don't lose your clubs?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Be honest?
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what. I've been all over every discount
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: airline ever, because when I first got into the tournament,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I started looking at flats and I'm like, you've got
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: to be kidding me. Yeah, yeah, I can't afford that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: The gas prices. Fuel prices are outrageous right now. It's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: tough if you're in the flight buying world at this moment.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'll be an economy plus if I'm lucky.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: That's John Wright Golf inside our former University of Utah
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: golf Captain, decorated Utah golfer.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you, John, You're welcome.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Sean.
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