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Fore Play
  • 9/25/2024
Riggs | Fore Play
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00:00Pacific Dunes, our good friend Lynx Gems,
00:03also known as John Cavalier, great course photographer.
00:06He has ranked this course as the number one
00:08publicly accessible golf course in America.
00:11This is a 2001 Tom Doak design.
00:14It's got back-to-back par threes on the Pacific.
00:17It's got a couple of the most iconic par fours
00:19you'll ever see on the Pacific.
00:21It's incredibly well-designed.
00:23It's beautiful.
00:24We happened to get it on a day
00:26where it was foggy, marine layer.
00:28So foggy that you actually couldn't see at all
00:30past pretty much the cliff line.
00:32We're gonna play one of the most iconic par fours
00:34in the world today.
00:35We're just gonna play it in pure fog
00:37where you can't actually see the ocean.
00:39This is a 449 yard from the greens, par four.
00:44The other weird part about today
00:45is we got it in a complete opposite summer wind.
00:48The wind is pretty much always out of the north.
00:50In the summertime, it flipped this day.
00:52It brought in the marine layer,
00:53and we were playing it straight into a wind.
00:55Go to the tee here on four.
00:57I got mini driver.
00:58It was my weapon of choice.
00:59You can hear from the other guys in the group
01:01after I hit this thing.
01:03It was just a weapon that week.
01:04I was hitting it good, feeling really good.
01:06So I know the hole is long,
01:07but look, there's ocean all down the right.
01:09There's a whole set of bunkers up the left,
01:11and you're just trying to hit a decent one
01:13in the middle of fairway.
01:14I smoked this one.
01:15It felt great.
01:15I was excited about it.
01:17I want you to look at some of this footage
01:19of what this hole can look like
01:20when there's not a marine layer.
01:22Come on, buddy.
01:24This tee shot is just as epic as it gets.
01:27It's what this whole place is all about.
01:28It's why you fly, take multiple flights,
01:30travel, drive, go to Bandon Dunes.
01:32For a hole like this hole, it's as good as it gets,
01:35so I had to film on it.
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02:01Getting out to the fairway, as you can see.
02:03This is our look.
02:04We pretty much split the fairway right down the middle.
02:06We've got 187 playing into the wind, heavy air.
02:10I'm gonna let you listen to myself
02:11and our great caddy, Odie, talk through it.
02:14Oh, yeah, you can hear it.
02:15Yeah, I mean, it's like probably 187,
02:17then, you know, raw, then you got wind and heavy air,
02:20so it's probably a little over 200.
02:23As he says, it's playing well over probably 200 yards,
02:26so I've got a full four iron.
02:28You just gotta sack up and hit it.
02:32That thing, for me, was about as pure
02:34as a golf shot could be.
02:36I hit it right at the right side of the green.
02:39Once we got up there, probably 30 feet or so
02:41in kind of the middle right part of the green
02:43to this back left pin.
02:45Excellent shot, thrilled.
02:46Look at this view, even in the fog.
02:48You can hear the rugged ocean roaring
02:52as you're trying to putt,
02:53as your buddies are putting around.
02:55Wag putt from, let's call it, 30 feet
02:57straight into the wind.
02:59I whacked it up there pretty good, took a couple hobbles,
03:01maybe not the best, most purely struck putt in history.
03:04Comes up a few feet short,
03:06tough hole, giving strokes on this one,
03:07so we got a tester, a little bit of a tester here
03:10to get out of the hole and just buried it,
03:12drilled it right in the middle.
03:13You might be wondering what the red band is
03:15on my right arm.
03:16We got an IV that morning.
03:17We went to, I think, Bandon IV Lounge,
03:19and it was an excellent experience.
03:20I've never done an IV before,
03:22but you're out there, you're dehydrated
03:24because you're walking, you're having a few cocktails.
03:27Went with the IV, didn't really take it off.
03:29I thought it was kind of a badge of honor,
03:30and that's why I have a red band on my right arm.
03:32Excellent par, excellent hole.
03:34This is one of the coolest courses that's ever been built.
03:37Again, we got it on a foggy day,
03:39but that's also kind of part of the charm.
03:40You go out to Bandon, could be raining sideways,
03:42hail blowing 40 miles an hour.
03:44It could be a marine layer fog.
03:46It looked kind of mysterious and mystic and cool,
03:49so foggy day, maybe not the views
03:51everybody was built out for,
03:52but guess what?
03:53You gotta play the conditions that you got.
03:54Played it well on that fourth hole, which is phenomenal.
03:57Playing Packed Dunes, one of the coolest holes.
03:58We're thrilled with the par on that one.
04:08Four!