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Mac & Bone Show - Mark Greenhalgh Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Right now, though, we gotta get some golf expertise that's
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  Speaker 1: certainly not coming from Fitty and I when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to rules technicalities, we're going to talk about this to
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  Speaker 1: Shamba situation. Also, I'm sure I'm gonna ask a question
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  Speaker 1: about my man Scotti Scheffler's putting, because my got he
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  Speaker 1: missed an opportunity to win that damn tournament. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Open Championship, and let's do it with
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  Speaker 1: Mark Greenouch, who hosts Golf Shop Radio Network seven to
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  Speaker 1: nine am Saturday mornings. You're a golf guy, you're out
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  Speaker 1: in about on Saturday. Tune in here to it on
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  Speaker 1: WFNZ and Greenee nice enough to join us here on
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  Speaker 1: the Mac and Bone Show. Greeney, how you been man?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. It's a lot to break down from
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  Speaker 2: Friday through Sunday, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it, baby, and I wanted to bring someone
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  Speaker 1: in like you that's a legit golf guy and understands
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  Speaker 1: these rules. Listen. I usually fall on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the players because I usually feel like the golf rules
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  Speaker 1: seem so TICKI tech. I gotta be honest. Bryson was
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  Speaker 1: high stepping like he was Roger Craig for the Niners
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  Speaker 1: back and like that looks it looked like I can
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  Speaker 1: understand why it was penalized. Did he deserve that two
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  Speaker 1: shot penalty?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? And what you got to remember is that there
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  Speaker 2: are certain rules that are there to protect the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and golfers know, like if you're in the
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  Speaker 2: trees and you go into the trees and you're trying to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, find out if you can take a swing,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're going to hit a tree, or if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to hit a branch. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 2: take a practice backswing and you knock a leaf or
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  Speaker 2: a pine needle off a tree or a piece of
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  Speaker 2: bark taking a backswing, that's a penalty, right. And we
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  Speaker 2: all know, as you know, when you're a big time
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  Speaker 2: golfer you're playing tournaments, you know that if you're in
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  Speaker 2: that kind of situation, you're allowed to take your normal stance.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that, like if there's a giant
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  Speaker 2: palm leave or something in the way that you can
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  Speaker 2: like you know, get in there in a certain way
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  Speaker 2: to knock this thing out of the way, you can't
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  Speaker 2: do that. And I mean it's obvious that's what he did.
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  Speaker 2: He I mean, when you go back and look at
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  Speaker 2: it and break it down. I mean, his first couple
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  Speaker 2: of looks with his backswing looks like he's ticking some grass,
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  Speaker 2: and he goes in and kind of stumps it down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and then he doesn't touch it again.
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  Speaker 2: So it's obvious from me for that perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think because I looked at it and was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, he's got to know, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how to handle himself around his golf ball. I start wondering,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that was on purpose?
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  Speaker 2: This is a tough one. I mean, I'm of the
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  Speaker 2: opinion that it was unintentionally intentional. If that makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: is that he was thinking that, well, if I do
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  Speaker 2: my normal saying that it shouldn't be an issue. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and now remember people have picked on Patrick Greed.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Greed has become the huge villain because a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago, before he went over to live, there
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  Speaker 2: was a situation where he was in a sandy area
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  Speaker 2: and he kind of put the club down and was
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  Speaker 2: like taking the club back just to kind of see
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  Speaker 2: like how he thought the ball was going to react
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot. And the back of his club was kind
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  Speaker 2: of scooping some sand out of the way. Was it intentional?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, but maybe so, but he got vilified for it.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, this is no different from a Bryson's
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  Speaker 2: fish boat perspective. And I mean you can go. You
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  Speaker 2: can go several places. Lexi Thompson on the LPGA tour
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  Speaker 2: inside of a couple of weeks marked her ball back
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  Speaker 2: beside the coin slightly different than it had gone down,
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  Speaker 2: and it was captured on camera and they were playing
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  Speaker 2: preferred lies in your own fairway because of wet conditions.
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  Speaker 2: She took a preferred lie in another fairway and didn't
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  Speaker 2: receive any of the things that like Patrick Red got that,
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  Speaker 2: And it's no different. All of these are serious rules
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  Speaker 2: violations and they should all be treated that you have
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  Speaker 2: broken the rules, accepting and move on. I think I
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  Speaker 2: have a problem with it. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the players do. Of the petulent actions of him afterwards,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, accept it and move on. Man, you've been penalized.
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  Speaker 2: Accept what you did was wrong, and move on. He
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  Speaker 2: still hasn't accepted it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to ask you about that, and
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  Speaker 1: you just answered it like I and I like Bryson.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I like Bryson is just because he's interesting, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean a lot of the golf guys
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  Speaker 1: just seem kind of cookie cutter. He's interesting and different.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that. But yeah, it, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: did seem like he got carried away there. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: will say this, I'm surprised we've got some Texters standing
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  Speaker 1: up for Bryson. I didn't necessarily see that coming. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the point that two Texters have made is
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  Speaker 1: and Scotty Scheffler actually brought this up yesterday. He defended Bryson, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's not a cheater, and the point is
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  Speaker 1: that these golf rules, it's it's kind of unfair to
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Bryson who's high profile because everything they
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  Speaker 1: do is televised and kind of scene. Do you buy
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  Speaker 1: into that? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And no, I mean sometimes it can be something. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look look at what Tiger Woods did. If you remember
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  Speaker 2: the Masters years ago, when Tiger hit the flagstick on
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and the ball ricochet back into the water and
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  Speaker 2: he went back to where he hit from and he
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  Speaker 2: made and he made a comment in the press conference
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  Speaker 2: that he dropped it like I don't know, like a
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  Speaker 2: foot off to the right or something like whatever comment
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  Speaker 2: he made, they went back and they almost disqualified him
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  Speaker 2: for that because he made a comment. So there are
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  Speaker 2: if yes, your high profile, you're gonna be you know,
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  Speaker 2: looked at more. But the point is is that it's
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  Speaker 2: not like a caller pulled in and made reference to this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the officials are watching the telecasts, so they're
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  Speaker 2: seeing every shot that's made by every player that's being
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  Speaker 2: that's being covered, and they also generally have in major
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  Speaker 2: championships a rules of fish walking with every group. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that rules official didn't quite get as close
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  Speaker 2: as maybe he could have and had a better perspective
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  Speaker 2: of it. So that's when you know the TV coverage
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  Speaker 2: comes in and makes a play of that. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean Scotty's going to be under that, Rory's going to
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  Speaker 2: be under that. You know, if you're in contention, you're
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  Speaker 2: always going to be under that. But that's helping to
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  Speaker 2: protect the field, is the way I look at it. Again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm somewhere between a traditionalist and kind of the
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  Speaker 2: new wave of people. I can see the traditional waves
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  Speaker 2: of things, I can see some of the newer wave
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  Speaker 2: of things. I never liked a person sitting on their
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  Speaker 2: couch calling in and getting a rules violation claimed on somebody.
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  Speaker 2: But if the officials are watching, I have no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Mark Greenouch is with us. You can listen
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  Speaker 1: Golf Shop Radio Network on WFNZ seven am to nine
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  Speaker 1: am on Saturdays. All right, Greene, We're getting a great
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  Speaker 1: question from the Texters about Scotty Scheffler on seventeen. Like
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  Speaker 1: Scotty Scheffler, look, I thought he should have just got
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  Speaker 1: it out in the fair way and tried to play
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  Speaker 1: in that way on seventeen. I'm rooting for Scotty, and
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  Speaker 1: it felt like for a moment he went full Michelson,
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  Speaker 1: which is so weird for him. But the ball he
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  Speaker 1: ends up getting a reprieve and being able to drop
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  Speaker 1: it with no penalty. Because it's Explain that to me,
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  Speaker 1: because that felt like that has to be the luckiest
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  Speaker 1: rule link that he's ever gotten in his life. Explain
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  Speaker 1: that situation.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a different one that you a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times. You see at the Open Championship where they
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  Speaker 2: set those metal gates. They don't do the ropes like
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  Speaker 2: the PGA Tour and other events do they do those
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  Speaker 2: metal gates on some of the final finishing holes because
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  Speaker 2: they know and again, those golf courses a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times are different because of the way that they're set up.
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  Speaker 2: They're so old school that everything's kind of on top
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  Speaker 2: of each other. So they set those metal gates up
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  Speaker 2: and they don't want to have to keep moving them around,
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  Speaker 2: so they put up they designate that in area that
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  Speaker 2: people automatically get relief from, so you know, if any
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  Speaker 2: like on eighteen, if you hit it far enough right
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  Speaker 2: on eighteen onto the right side of those metal things.
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  Speaker 2: They basically have areas where that you're going to drop it.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen it before, they actually have areas marked
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  Speaker 2: off every let's say fifteen or twenty yards sometimes where
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  Speaker 2: you automatically get to pull the ball into the closest
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  Speaker 2: one of those areas. No potion of the whole in
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  Speaker 2: this instance. They basically say that if you hit it
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  Speaker 2: out into the masses of people, that you get to
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  Speaker 2: bring it back over to the to the core side
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  Speaker 2: of that gate and drop it off. So that's a
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  Speaker 2: standard issue thing with the Open Championship, So no big
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  Speaker 2: deal there.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, man, I was happy. I was happy he got
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  Speaker 1: the break and he got the birdie, but could not
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  Speaker 1: finish it off. All right, Granny, that was a tremendous
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  Speaker 1: performance by you. And you'll be happy to know half
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  Speaker 1: the Texters like what you're saying. Half the Texters are
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  Speaker 1: mad at you. That's the way it should be. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing your job. Listen, listen to Grady on Golf
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  Speaker 1: Shop Radio Saturday morning, seven am, right here on wfn Z.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, brother, appreciate the expertise.
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  Speaker 2: All right, have agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks