00:00It's so annoying to me that golf has become, from a four-hour game, by the way, I play in three hours with my buddies, to a five-and-a-half-hour game, and it's acceptable.
00:12Now, I know there's a lot of reasons, and there's probably a lot of caddies listen to this later and say,
00:17Ah, Finch, you don't know what you're talking about.
00:19We've got to walk back 100 yards to the back tee every time, and I agree with that.
00:23Golf has become ridiculously slow and laborious, and that pros have to walk back 100 yards to the back tee, so there's an extra 200 yards per hole, so that's 3,600 yards extra they've got to walk to what we would, walking off the green to the regular tee.
00:40So I understand a lot of that, but the detail and the winds out of the right, I don't need to spend a minute talking about the fact that it's coming out of the right.
00:51It's seven-and-a-half-mile-an-hour, and on Thursday, it was eight-and-a-half-mile-an-hour, so that's an extra half a yard different.
00:58Like, the player knows.
01:01It's an eight-iron with a little draw, or it's a hold-up seven-iron.
01:04Why does it take so long?
01:06I don't know.
01:07That's a great question.
01:08Well, you know what?
01:10Another Jack Nicklaus note that comes to mind is that I think that players are constantly always trying to figure out how to prepare for majors the correct way,
01:18and Jack Nicklaus has come on, whether it be the memorial where he's talking about stories on how he used to prepare for the Open Championship,
01:25how he'd get there earlier than everybody else, play the course, and all the different winds that it may present from a span of seven days,
01:35and it just kind of reminds me of how players overcomplicate the game at times,
01:41where Jack would just go play, figure out the different winds, and from there be able to kind of get a feel of how the golf course plays,
01:49and I think there's plenty of really high-level players now that could probably use that advice,
01:55and instead of going on your range before a major championship and hitting a thousand golf balls,
02:02like, it's not that complicated.
02:05It's different, isn't it, now?
02:06And in defense of the players, they're just doing what everyone's done, you know, the last couple of decades.
02:13They spend more time in the gym now because it's all about speed and how far you can hit it.
02:18That's, you know, 95% of the game.
02:22So there's that that we never used to do.
02:24We'd stretch in the morning or ride a bike for half an hour to warm up, something like that, 40 years ago.
02:30Peter Thompson, my great mentor, I'd say, what did you do to stay fit and strong?
02:34And he said, well, I walked, of course, so he'd go on long walks.
02:37That's all he had to do in his mind.
02:39But anyway, I don't get the, hey, I'm playing nine holes on Tuesday afternoon
02:47and nine holes Wednesday morning in preparation for a major.
02:51I just don't, I don't get it, but they're talking about saving our energy.
02:56We've got to stay on our gym schedule, all of that sort of stuff,
02:59whereas really in a major, get to know the course, especially an Open championship
03:04or even, say, the US Open where the rough's so thick and the greens are so fast.
03:09Get to know the course.
03:10Get to know where not to hit it.
03:12Yeah, I'm with you.
03:13I could never play a tournament without at least two full practice rounds.
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