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00:00 I'm Brady Cannon for Sports Grid. The PGA Tours postseason is upon us. The top 70 players
00:12 in the FedExCup standings have advanced to the playoffs. The FedExCup playoffs will kick
00:17 off with round one in Memphis, Tennessee, TPC Southwind for the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
00:25 This is a very good golf course. It has been complimented greatly by a number of players
00:30 over the years, throughout the years on the PGA Tour, where it first started hosting events
00:36 on tour in 1989. This will be just the second year that it's hosted round one of the FedExCup
00:42 playoffs series. It is a course that features very narrow Georgia grass fairways with some
00:48 very penal Bermuda grass rough. You have to be excellent on approach here. It tends to
00:54 favor ball strikers. You have to be very good from tee to green, and you also have to feature
01:00 a good short game. It has very small, firm, and fast Bermuda grass greens. And because
01:06 the putting surfaces are small, you're going to miss some greens in regulation on occasion.
01:11 So you have to be able to get up and down. It is a par 70, a fairly short par 70 at just
01:17 a little over 7,200 yards, but the majority of the par fours, 12 of them, because it is
01:23 a par 70, are fall within the window of 450 to 500 yards. And then as far as approach
01:30 shots, most of them will come from the range of 125 to 200 yards. Now, as far as correlated
01:38 courses, courses that have a similar layout or where we see crossover success, I looked
01:44 at the 2021 concession where they played the WGC Workday event in 2021 in the state of
01:51 Florida. Also Sea Island where they play the RSM Classic, the Rocket Mortgage where they
01:56 just played, or the Detroit Golf Club, rather, where they just played the Rocket Mortgage.
02:01 Also Port Royal Golf Club where they play the Bermuda Championship. And then finally
02:06 Pebble Beach. And all of those courses, you'll see some similarities with TPC Southwind.
02:12 The metrics that I mentioned, 125 to 200 yards, the par fours from 450 to 500, the ball striking,
02:18 the tee to green work. If you can figure that into your handicap this week, you ought to
02:23 come up with a pretty good recipe for who's going to have success here in round one of
02:27 the FedExCup playoffs.
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