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The Scratch Project : PGA Championship Recap Day Three · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the scene.
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  Project Sports Network coverage of the PGA Championship.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And for the moment, I am flying solo.
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  Pods will be here shortly.
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  Alex Smalley continuing to lead as he has at least to have a share of it the entire
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  tournament.
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  Congrats to the young man.
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  One more day to go, but puts himself in a great position to win this one finishing the day.
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  Two under to push himself to six under for the tournament.
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  Let's bring pods in.
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  What's happening, pods?
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  Not much.
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  Sorry about that.
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  I was getting myself all put together.
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  Yeah.
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  It seems like even with the conditions improving weather wise, this course is still
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  playing really tough.
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  I it's just tough.
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  Right?
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  Like, I I think that's ultimately what it comes down to is the course is just tough.
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  Those those rough is just completely unforgiving.
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  You never know what's gonna happen.
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  You still had a bit of wind.
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  I I think it was less, and it's gonna be even less tomorrow.
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  But still 20, you know, 20 with gusts up into the thirties, that that's significant and
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  during the day.
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  Now it feels like it was improving towards the end of the day, where it was a little windier
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  to this morning and then kinda as the front is moving out that it's getting a little bit
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  better and why you saw so, I mean, you saw some good rounds today.
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  Right?
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  You saw a couple of six 65, bunch of 66, lot of guys moving.
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  John Rahm had a big day moving.
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  Rory McIlroy had a big day.
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  You know, should have finished with a share of the lead himself today, but bogeyed on 17, I do
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  believe, to kinda drop him back down.
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  But you got so many guys that are just within striking range now.
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  But what what can you do?
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  And I didn't realize this course was a par 70.
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  So it's obviously a shorter course to begin with, not a lot of distance.
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  So it's par 70.
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  So even not a lot of chance out there for eagles, which is how some of these guys
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  survive.
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  Right?
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  It's hitting that long ball, being able to drive the green in two on these par fives, and
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  now not having that, you know, that advantage in there.
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  I think it's affecting some of the long ball hitters that rely heavily on that distance.
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  Yeah.
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  There's not a lot of par fours you can drive too even if you're a longer driver of the golf
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  ball.
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  So I think there's, like, maybe one, two that you can drive, and even those are risky.
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  Because I know this is gonna seem a little irrelevant, but it's not.
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  I played, I I played the PGA two k twenty five golf game, you you know, like, when I'm
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  relaxing with my friends.
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  And we played, like, we played the, the course.
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  We played Aramec.
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  You know?
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  And it's a tough course.
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  Ouch.
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  So Ouch.
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  It's really like, there's bunkers everywhere.
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  The greens are protected in slopes, and the greens themselves are nasty.
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  Like, they slope.
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  They just they slope.
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  They're fast.
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  It's I I don't know how these guys honestly, after playing it probably about five, six times
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  last night, I really don't know how the leader right now isn't, like, only at minus, like,
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  three.
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  Still, it's so hard.
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  Brian Campbell shot a plus 12 today.
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  Yeah.
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  Jarvis with a plus eight.
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  Kern with a plus seven.
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  It's still doing damage.
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  Right?
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  Couple of plus fours in here.
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  Plus five.
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  Plus five.
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  Right?
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  So a lot of people still finishing well out of what they would usually, finish at on on a
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  different tournament and, not a lot of water hazards.
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  It's just this course can eat you up.
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  And even a guy like Scottie Scheffler, who had a couple of bogeys out there to get, today,
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  shot one over on the day, unlike him to do so.
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  But it really speaks to the challenging nature of this course in general.
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  Now you did have a few, like I mentioned.
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  You know?
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  Rory obviously had himself a good day.
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  Justin Rose shot five under.
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  Chris Kirk shot five under today.
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  So you had some guys that figured it out a little bit, but Alex Smalley continues to be
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  consistent round after round after round, and that's what's put him in a position now to lead
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  this tournament by two strokes.
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  Not a commanding lead by any means.
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  But if he goes out there and does it again, I don't see anyone really being able to truly
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  catch him.
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  Right?
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  Whoever moved today would have to do the same thing today.
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  I think Ram is probably the biggest name out there to kinda watch for.
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  Obviously, McElroy at four under or at three under rather shooting a a four under today.
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  But still that if he goes out and plays as well as he did today, which you think was pretty
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  darn good, it still only gets into six under.
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  Right?
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  So it's or seven under rather.
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  So there is a lot to be had out there still.
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  But if Alex Smalley can continue to play the way that he's been playing, I think he comes
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  away with a big win in this tournament, but he's gonna have to fend off some dogs, coming
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  after him.
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  I would say most notably for me, John Rom, after his three under bid today, seems like
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  he's kind of figuring this course out, and it seems like the conditions tomorrow are going to
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  be the best they have, all tournament.
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  Yeah.
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  I still think when it comes to Alex Smalley, if he can do this again, he's probably gonna win
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  the tournament going in at, I don't know, minus eight, minus nine.
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  Ram like you said, Rambo, McElroy, they're gonna Rose even, they're gonna have to have
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  another round at probably even better round than they had today, and they had a pretty good
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  round by all stretches of the imagination.
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  But if Smalley can keep playing consistent post a minus two, minus three under, they're gonna
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  have to really push.
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  Like, I don't see him losing unless he just implodes on Sunday and post, like, a plus
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  two or something.
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  He started off his round with a bogey on one, but was able to kind of, like, calm it back
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  down and to go out there and to shoot, you know, at least three under the rest of the day,
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  after that.
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  Right?
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  So, you know, suffice to say the twenty nine year old probably feeling a bit of pressure and
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  having that, but also there I feel like there's a lot more pressure on the guys that are
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  playing from behind, especially that are gonna be teeing off early in the day, not knowing
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  where that you know, where the leader is going to be at the end of the day.
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  You have to come out and to shoot another 65 or a 66 tomorrow to even put yourself in a
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  position to win this with expecting that, you know, Smalley and Ram are going to post, you
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  know, this two, three, four under range that, you know, he's kinda been in over the course of
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  the week.
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  So it's gonna be a really a really awesome finish, like you said, and and Smolly could
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  implode.
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  Right?
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  It it could be one bad hole that kind of sinks any one of these players off the leaderboard
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  and out of the tournament.
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  And now you have what's shaping up to be a really incredible Sunday at the PGA
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  championship, and I think everybody's looking forward to tuning in and, watching all the
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  coverage this, tomorrow on Sunday.
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  Yeah.
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  It's pretty I mean, yes, she's up by two, but it's still very gettable, like, the lead is
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  because Smalley and, again, Smalley is like a younger rom.
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  Just consistent.
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  That that's what he does.
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  He's consistent all the time.
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  Now do I think that he's gonna have a different experience tomorrow?
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  Absolutely.
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  Because I don't think Smalley has been leading in a major tournament going into Sunday ever.
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  So this is gonna be very new.
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  It's one thing to be leading in a regular tour event.
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  It's a whole another thing to be leading the PGA championship going into the last day.
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  No doubt.
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  No doubt.
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  And gonna be feeling that pressure.
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  How does the 29 year old Smalley handle that?
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  This would be his first major win if I'm not mistaken.
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  But he's played really good golf this year.
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  I think they, today, I heard the coverage say that he's had five top 25 finishes.
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  So he's been swinging fairly, fairly well.
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  Did not play in the masters, so doesn't have, you know, any of that experience as far as the
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  major Hey.
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  He wins this.
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  He gets an automatic bid.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Well, which you know what?
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  I I hope he does hang on to there.
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  It's nice to see some new names always, towards the top of the leaderboard and, really
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  incredible run that he's been on.
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  It's, it's extremely extremely, gratifying to have a, group of people.
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  Sorry.
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  I'm trying to
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  find some photos from today.
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  I I had some golf experiences of my own today.
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  But
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  It's it's extremely gratifying to see some new blood as well up there leading the pack versus
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  just, you know, Rory, Ram, Sheffler.
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  Like, it's nice to see, you know, these last couple of weeks, especially, you know,
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  Postmasters seeing uh-oh.
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  I'm gonna see.
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  Excuse me.
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  It's nice to see someone who's not those three.
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  So, like, we got to see Matt Fitzpatrick take home the plaid jacket.
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  We got to see, you know, him and his brother, Winded the Truist, and then we got to see Cam
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  Young take one.
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  So now it's gonna be really interesting to see if another relatively newer face of the PGA can
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  take home a big one.
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  And I think that's good for the game, ultimately, that it, breaks
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  Creates new stars.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  And at 29, he's not, you know, any by any stretch of the imagination, the youngest
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  player, on the tour or anything.
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  But this is would be, like I said, first major championship win for him.
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  It would be nice to see someone who's been playing well get a chance.
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  This isn't a fluke.
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  He's been playing well and playing consistent.
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  You don't finish in the top 25, you know, a a handful of times in a in the short you know, in
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  the first half of the season yet if you're not playing good golf.
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  So would be really awesome to see him go out there and get himself a win.
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  But we'll have to see, and we're all gonna have to tune in tomorrow, to find out if he's able
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  to pull it off.
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  Yeah.
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  I would have to argue too, when it comes to golf, anyway, that the primes are very
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  different than your traditional sports like soccer, football, baseball, basketball.
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  You know?
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  You can play golf professionally, Dave, even if you get a late start until you're, like, 50.
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  Furek played in the PGA Tour until he was, like, 52 before he went to the Champions Tour.
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  You know?
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  And these guys are only getting healthier.
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  They're getting stronger.
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  They're getting more mechanically sound fundamentals, and these guys can play for a
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  long time.
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  Like, I honestly think if Scheffler wanted to, if Rory wants to for that matter, those guys
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  can probably play until they're almost 60 professionally because their swings are
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  effortless.
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  You know?
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  They're still incredible ball strikers at their age.
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  Well, and the part of the game and why it is, tends to be for, that you hit your prime a
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  little bit later in that is because it's not just about sheer athletic ability.
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  Right?
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  It is, you it is pressure.
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  It is the mental game, which is why Tiger Woods was such a phenom because he came in as a very
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  young man and was able to perform at the highest level, no doubt, because he had been
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  swinging a club since he could walk.
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  Right?
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  So and you have a lot of these people that are or a lot of these guys that are growing up and
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  kind of in that.
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  Rory McElroy being a great example of that and why he is the the professional that he is,
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  Scheffler, a lot of the same, you know, on his side playing in the collegiate race.
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  Not common, though.
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  You know?
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  Well, I to it speaks to how hard it is to make it in this sport But to get to that level and
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  to continue to play, at a at a high level and to do it week after week after week.
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  Right.
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  But, Bubba, I think that, personally, because you had two phenoms like Tiger Woods, and then
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  right after Tiger was starting to come to the end of his run, you had McElroy enter the scene
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  and do what he did when he was young, It kinda shifted expectations in golf for these guys to
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  almost be like AAU, you know, travel ball team.
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  Like, oh, wow.
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  Well, these guys have to be that good when they're young now.
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  Forgetting that these guys are not only are they professionals, but Tiger Woods and Roy are
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  one of ones.
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  Like, they're not the norm.
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  They are not the common professional golfer.
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  They are phenoms.
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  Like, they are they came into their own in a very young age, whereas Scheffler is just now
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  hitting his peak, and he didn't start winning until he was, what, 27?
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  28?
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  Yeah.
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  So I mentioned I got to have some fun out on the golf course today.
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  Now I didn't swing the clubs at all, but I was out with the veteran golf association
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  supporting them with operation combating veterans suicide.
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  A great shot of all these amazing people that, were joining us.
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  This is the view I wanna go for right here.
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  35 veterans, and and members of the VGA of South Dakota and Nebraska.
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  I got to go take part and, to shoot a bunch of film out there today.
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  I had an absolutely wonderful time hanging out with everybody.
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  Operation combating veteran suicide, our foundation that I'm the director of marketing
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  and PR for.
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  Got to tag along.
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  Got to meet a bunch of great people.
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  I had an absolute blast hanging out with everyone, and what an amazing course at Tatanka
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  Golf Club.
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  Really impressed with the with the with the course as I always have been.
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  I got to play out there last year.
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  Had a really great time doing that.
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  Trying to find a good, maybe a little bit of a video that we can play here.
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  Hey.
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  Bubba, could you move me backstage really quick?
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  I gotta go to
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  Yeah.
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  So huge shout out to the VGA, the Veteran Golf Association.
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  If you are a veteran, I highly recommend that you get to check it out.
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  Really incredible time that I had with everyone out there.
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  Very blessed to have the opportunity to support other veteran organizations as well as our own
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  operation combating veteran suicide.
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  These amazing golfers out there competing against themselves and one another, some great
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  medals.
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  Every one of them, a veteran or a relation of a veteran.
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  Huge shout out to Tonka Golf Club who is just amazing.
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  Amazing course in Niobrara, Nebraska.
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  If you're ever in Northeast Nebraska or around in Southeast South Dakota close to where I am,
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  I would love to go out there with you.
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  So had a blast with everyone out there today.
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  Appreciate being able to support our veterans in, everything that we do, and it was really
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  great getting to go out there.
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  Also wanna shout out the Skunk Golf Classic, our sponsors, Skunk Golf, the hat that I'm
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  wearing.
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  They are hosting a charity golf tournament on June 27.
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  That will be up in Minot, North Dakota.
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  Really grateful, to Skunk for supporting everything that we do here in our golf coverage
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  on the on the SCENE Project sports network.
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  So if you are in the, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota area, you wanna take part in
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  a great tournament supporting the Minot Public Schools, it's at Apple Grove Golf Course.
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  Skunked is skunkdgc.com.
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  I know there's still some openings there for, the tournament coming up here June 27.
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  We are really grateful to Skunk for everything that they do for us.
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  I know Pods is appreciating all the gear that they have sent his way as well as I have.
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  I had it out on the course with me today.
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  Just a really great time getting to support our veterans, getting to be a a part of an amazing
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  event, and looking forward to doing a lot more with them.
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  So just wanted to shout out, of my good friends in the VGA, the Veteran Golf Association of
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  South Dakota and Nebraska.
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  Got to meet some really amazing people, Tyler Voigt and WD.
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  Appreciate you guys for being on with us and, looking forward to a lot more, information
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  coming out from them, a lot of, really great stuff coming from them.
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  So, just wanted to shout that out real quick.
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  Happy that I got to spend some time out there today.
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  How was it?
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  It was good, man.
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  Weather was nice.
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  Little overcast, but not cold by any means.
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  I sat out there, really just working the first hole.
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  Got some really great footage, everybody teeing off in their approaches and some great shots on
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  the green.
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  This course is absolutely magnificent.
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  It really is a top 10 course, in the world.
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  Just amazing the rolling hills of Nebraska right across the Missouri River from where I
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  live.
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  Absolutely incredible.
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  I hope we all get the chance to go and, hit it together, pods.
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  And, yeah, here's a little clip.
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  Pottery, you can see the course just absolutely amazing the way it comes off of one there and
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  then down the hill and you play coming through the valley.
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  There's a couple of spots where you come up on the hill.
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  You're driving across creeks and challenging.
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  I I mean, the course is extremely challenging, but absolutely beautiful.
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  It's in such great shape all the time.
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  And shout out to Troy Harter, the PGA pro over there.
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  Just a really great guy.
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  Allowed me to go out last year, and hit nine, just to shoot some content and everything.
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  So really grateful to be out there, getting to provide a little bit of service, only to the to
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  the golf association, but to the course as well.
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  So looking forward to working with them, for a long time to come.
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  I mean, really, there's there's three.
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  I have a really nice public course right outside of town here, and then we have, what
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  they they termed them themselves this, but they call it the Pebble Beach Of South Dakota, which
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  is down along the upper hill.
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  So, on the other side of the river is Springfield, South Dakota, and they have a
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  course that runs right along the way there and a couple of holes that go right along where you
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  can see down into the Missouri River Valley.
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  And just just a great spot, a a great place for a couple of really incredible courses, and very
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  grateful to live, you know, a ten, twenty minute drive from either one of them.
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  That sounds amazing.
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  I'd I'd love to play those courses.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, if you ever make it out here, we're playing a whole grip of golf.
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  Right?
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  Obviously, skunks being a big part of what we do.
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  So we're really looking forward to growing this over the next several years and really building
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  something that is where everyone can get together, where it's not just about us on the
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  course and shooting, but it's about bringing other people together and really building a
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  community of golfers that all, you know, kinda think alike and and share similar values.
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  And that's what's great about the Veteran Golf Association is because it's just that.
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  And and I spoke with a a a gentleman today, David Pierce, who's a general in our, I do
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  believe in the air force.
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  And he was the honorary captain out at the Big Liberty Cup last week.
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  I do believe it was in, Pennsylvania, I wanna say.
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  So that's a national VGA tournament.
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  And what in the military, what you'll have is that, the officers don't necessarily hang out
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  with the the the guys that are below them.
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  Right?
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  You you're very segmented away from your noncommissioned and your officers.
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  So we have, what the VGA does is it brings anyone who's a veteran together.
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  And and he pointed out that that's really cool to see, you know, guys that were in for four or
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  five years, but also guys that were in for thirty.
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  Right?
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  And you have all of them together united by their service to their country.
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  They all come from you know, they know the challenges that they faced as a veteran of our
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  armed services, and they're all united by that and the love of golf.
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  And for me, it doesn't really get any better than that.
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  I'm so glad that, you know, I can kind of find my way into these organizations because of our
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  affiliation with operation combating veteran suicide.
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  But I'm extremely grateful just to get to know these men and women now and to have another
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  community to really tap into and to be able to serve them.
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  And, you know, if I get to run around with a camera a little bit on some really great
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  courses, following them around and sharing their stories with the world, then so be it.
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  So today was a little test run of not only what, you know, they do, but what we can do to
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  provide into that.
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  And the VGA is doing, you know, thirty, forty five events during the year.
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  So we're gonna have lots of chances to get back out there with with all of these amazing
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  veterans and active duty military.
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  So huge shout out to them.
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  A huge shout out to Tatanka golf club there in Niobrara, Nebraska.
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  I I cannot recommend that you go and play that course once in your life more than I am right
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  now.
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  So, Pods, anything that you want to address about the tournament, and going into Sunday
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  before we get out of here?
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  Not really.
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  I think that it's gonna be tough.
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  These are gonna be the hardest pins that these guys have seen yet.
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  And I honestly think, like, what we touched on earlier, if Smalley can just stay consistent,
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  avoid any blow up holes, I really think it's his tournament to lose.
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  And, I was gonna point out earlier when you said that he bogeyed the first hole.
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  Hey, man.
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  Rather bogey the first one than bogey the last one.
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  Yeah.
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  Especially if it's gonna cost you.
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  And it looked like Rory, was gonna put himself in a position to enter the clubhouse as, you
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  know, as the leader earlier today and, you know, bogeyed on 17, saved his par on 18 after
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  a pretty difficult shot.
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  But this, this course and with the way that the wind with the way that the course turns so
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  much, right, it's going back and forth that sometimes you're hitting into the wind and
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  you're having to club up maybe one or two.
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  And then the other way, the wind's behind you, and it carries that ball an extra 15 feet
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  taking you from landing on the green with a a nice chance at a birdie putt to putting you 15
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  feet beyond the green in this thick rough scrambling to try and save a bogey.
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  Right?
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  So this, this course is one of the toughest that I've ever seen out here, as far as, you
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  know, especially being just a a par 70, right, that it it doesn't get much more difficult than
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  this.
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  And what an awesome course, to put the best of the best out there against one another for the
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  PGA championship.
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  It just doesn't get any better than this.
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  Looking forward to an awesome competitive Sunday.
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  It really is anyone's you know, Smalley has to play well for himself to pull out a win, but
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  he's gotta stave off some legends in the game right now.
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  He's gotta stave off a John Romm, a you know, a Scottie Scheffler needs to play pretty well
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  himself to put himself in a position, but that's not beyond him.
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  And Rory McIlroy shot a 66 today.
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  He's nipping at the heels, figuring this course out, it seems.
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  It's really who can avoid the mistakes.
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  Right?
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  And, that's gonna be the tale of Sunday.
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  And with the course conditions and the weather conditions kinda being, I think, the best that
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  we're going to see over the week, even with the challenging pin locations, I wouldn't be
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  surprised if you saw a few more 60 fives out there, maybe a 64, and maybe that's exactly
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  what it's gonna take from somebody to beat out Smalley because it seems like he's got this
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  course kinda dialed in right now and has performed through all of the really difficult
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  times well.
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  So maybe it's, you you know, the 29 year old Alex Smalley who goes out and has himself a day
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  tomorrow, shoots a 65, and really runs away with this one.
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  Only time will tell.
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  We'll all be tuning in tomorrow.
• 27:52
  PGA championship.
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  We followed it online.
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  I know there were streams on YouTube today.
• 27:58
  All all great types of great coverage of this event.
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  So make sure you're tuning in, and then come back here with us at 06:30 tomorrow evening.
• 28:06
  We're gonna wrap up the weekend's coverage of the PGA championship, and, have a great time
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  with us right before we head into our other stream at seven for seven eight nine to recap
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  We really appreciate everybody tuning in with us this week as we cover a great weekend of
• 28:30
  golf action.
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  My name is Bubba Starts.
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  I was joined tonight by my cohost, Pods.
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  We will be back again tomorrow at 06:30, and we may have some special guests with us to recap
• 28:41
  the whole weekend.
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  So you guys be good.
• 28:44
  Podcast version of this will be going out, tomorrow morning, and you can listen to that if
• 28:50
  you missed it and get caught up on the tournament and get ready for action on Sunday
• 28:55
  there as well.
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  Appreciate everybody.
• 28:58
  Pods, have yourself a great night, sir, and we will see you tomorrow for our day four coverage
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  of the PGA championship.
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  Have a good one.
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