Kevin Kisner on J.J. Spaun's Impressive Win at the U.S. Open

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00:00J.J. Spahn out of nowhere has come back and is just like the only guy that can hit a quality

00:05golf shot for the last hour and a half, two hours of the U.S. Open.

00:09And I thought the two drives he hit on 17 and 18 showed his resolve from the Players

00:16Championship and how he can handle that pressure in that situation.

00:20You were watching right there in front of him and as soon as the ball took off, you're

00:24like, and this is striped.

00:26And I mean, it's just incredible that under the biggest situation in his life, he probably

00:31made his two best swings.

00:32I thought it was a really cool way to come back from getting completely hosed early on

00:37in the front nine.

00:40And I think it all repaid him when Victor Hovland's ball settled one foot behind his ball in the

00:4418th green.

00:45I mean, how many times, Kiz, have you played in a final group or you're in contention or

00:49even seen somebody else, but you know the emotions of what it feels like of showing up on Sunday

00:55ready to go.

00:55You feel like you had a great range session and then you get out there and somehow it's

00:59like not coming out the middle.

01:01You're getting terrible lies.

01:02You're getting terrible breaks.

01:03You know, JJ Spahn's breaks at one, terrible eyes at the rough, and then he hits the flag

01:07at two.

01:08You've been there.

01:09What do you think was going through JJ Spahn's head through those first six holes where he's

01:14five over through six and all of a sudden, you know, all these dreams you have of winning

01:17a major championship feel like they just went out the window and it happened so quick.

01:22Yeah, it's amazing how quickly it can happen and I know there's no way he wasn't thinking

01:27like, obviously, this isn't my day, right?

01:30Like, it's so easy for that to creep into your head when those things are happening and I

01:34think the reset is such a huge deal for him.

01:37You know, I was telling Dan in one of the commercials, like, JJ was kind of out of my

01:42picture of winning the US Open when the rain delay happened, right?

01:44Like, we weren't even hardly showing him anymore.

01:47We weren't coming to you.

01:48And, you know, I tell people all the time, like, I hate rewarming up.

01:53I don't know if you did when you played, but I hate, like, after a rain delay or if I practice

01:58a lot in the morning and go eat lunch and then I, like, want to go play, I never can,

02:01like, get the feels again.

02:03So maybe JJ kind of found some new feels and Sam and Scotty did not on the rewarm up.

02:10I think the conditions obviously played a huge role in the, I call it kind of the second

02:15half of the final round.

02:16I think guys were hitting squirrely iron shots, trying not to touch the ground with the water.

02:20And JJ seemed to manage that the best, but it was a heck of a turnaround and I thought

02:27it was really cool that you got to be in that group to call those last few shots.

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