Exploring the New Black Desert Championship on PGA Tour

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00:00All right, Keith, let's get into this week.

00:04Black Desert Championship, first time we are coming here.

00:08This is a new event on the PGA Tour in the swing season.

00:12What have you found out about the Black Desert Resort where we are going to be?

00:16Well, this is a pretty cool spot.

00:19That's the first thing.

00:20Southwest Utah is not like ski slopes and mountains that you would normally see.

00:25This is about two hours northeast of Vegas.

00:28So there's a lot of like Vegas texture to the terrain and it's lava fields and some

00:33red rock, you know, jettisoning out of the out of the out of the desert landscape.

00:37I mean, this is a pretty cool layout.

00:39Tom Weisskopf did the design.

00:41And I think when we go to a brand new place and when I talk about brand new, this is not

00:44just a brand new event on the PGA Tour.

00:47This is a brand new golf course that just opened last year in twenty twenty three.

00:52So we have no history there.

00:53There's one hundred thirty two rookies in the field.

00:56So a couple of things we got to kind of dabble with is how about some comp courses?

01:00So I mentioned Weisskopf, you know, he was the one that designed this golf course.

01:03Well, guess what?

01:04He also did TPC Scottsdale.

01:06We've got some history there.

01:07How about places like El Diamante, where we went last year for the Worldwide Technology

01:11Championship in the fall?

01:13Tiger spot there in Cabo, wide fairways, same similar type of terrain and maybe, you know,

01:18the Mexico open, another long golf course, par seventy one, seventy three hundred yards.

01:23But check that for a moment, because we're playing at three thousand feet of altitude.

01:28So the guys are going to get a little break on carry.

01:30But overall, I don't see anything stopping these guys from making a boatload of birdies.