00:00It's one that you got to sling a little bit.
00:03Not a bad one if you're a righty to hit a little toe ball, get that thing running down
00:06the hill, but another tee shot that I think fits a lefty better than it does a righty.
00:12Amen to that.
00:12I think it's easier to hit that power cut than it is to hit that controlled hook, but
00:17I love this for a lefty.
00:19The only thing I will say is one of the things you have to worry about on this tee ball,
00:27especially if you're a lefty, is the ball picking up earth on the golf ball because it can land
00:36in a very low area down there, and I've seen some significant earth balls there over the
00:42year that have derailed some guys' rounds, especially left-handers.
00:46So we are conscious of that, but you're a righty, which is good for us today, Smiley.
00:51But to me, again, the genius of Augusta National.
00:55If you want to turn something over there and hit it into that low left area of the fairway
01:00and have 140 or 50 to the front, that's a beautiful thing, and we can potentially make birdie from
01:05there.
01:05But you hang out that hook and you get on that high right side of the fairway, you've got
01:10an incredibly difficult second shot with the ball below, excuse me, a downhill stance.
01:17You've got a longer number in there than you would have had otherwise to agree that there's
01:23a lot, you know, we cannot talk about the 10th hole at Augusta National and not, you know,
01:29we're playing from the fairway here and there's cardinal rules at Augusta National and certainly
01:34number one of those cardinal rules to me is you can never go over the 10th green here.
01:41We saw Lottie Wode there, you know, went a long way to losing the Augusta National women's
01:47amateur last year when she went over the green here and it went into some bushes that sit
01:51there very close to the action.
01:53So it's a very difficult, much like the fifth, a very difficult approach shot, in my opinion,
02:01the wind swirling all over the place.
02:03And it's very, very difficult to get the ball around the hole here smiling.
02:08So what do you think we're going to do?
02:11Well, the problem is today, it depends on the right side of the green.
02:15And I never understood how players were able to take the shot on when guys hit it inside
02:21of 10 feet to the to the hole locations that are on the right side of the screen.
02:25I'm always amazed.
02:26I'm like, that is just such an incredible golf shot.
02:29People do not realize it.
02:30And unfortunately for us, we hit it in this right bunker and the pin is it.
02:36The pin is back right today and we are just enough on the upslope and we hit one of the
02:42filthiest bunker shots I've ever hit to 10 feet and we save par here.
02:46But let's talk about these hole locations on the right side of the green here, Bones.
02:50I mean, how difficult are these hole locations, man?
02:53I heard a great story from a from a caddy who caddies for a superstar player that was playing
02:59with Scotty Scheffler, Scheffler there a couple of years ago, one of the years Scotty won.
03:03It was the front right hole location.
03:04They were back there in the fairway and the wind was such it was swirling all over the
03:08place.
03:09They had six irons in their hands.
03:11And this other caddy told me he and his player were just trying to get the ball on the green
03:16anywhere on the surface.
03:17It was such a tough club hole and that Scotty hit a six iron to four feet and made three
03:22and they couldn't be.
03:24I just blew their their their tournament was over.
03:26They just blew their minds that someone could could could hit a shot that good that was playing
03:31so difficult.
03:32But yeah, those right hole locations are so tough.
03:34Smiley, to your point, that right green side bunker that we hit it in is absolutely brutal.
03:40You know, you've got virtually no shot to that front right hole location from the green
03:45side bunker so so so much to deal with there.
03:48And of course, if you you play anywhere near that flag and you come up short, of course,
03:52you've got that massive false front there that will take your golf ball some 20, 30 yards
03:57back down the hill and just so much to deal with here.
04:01The only other question I have for you, Bones, is that in my yardage book, I have Ray's Creek
04:06sitting at the back portion of the screen, the back left portion, of course, as we're heading
04:11right down to Ray's Creek on the following hole.
04:13But if you would you would swear when you walk up to the screen that it sits back to
04:18front, but it also has a pull to the back of the green and you just played a shot that
04:23was significantly downhill.
04:25So you would think that the green plays downhill.
04:28But I tell you what, when you're walking up to it, it certainly looks like it's pitched
04:32back to front.
04:32Do you feel like am I am I losing my mind here or help me out?
04:37Well, I believe that the green is back to front.
04:40But I also think that when you're putting from the front third to the to the to a pin
04:45in the back, which is tech would be technically uphill.
04:48It's incredibly fast because you're putting towards Ray's Creek.
04:52Again, in my opinion, I mean, these Augusta National caddies, these local caddies can't be
04:58wrong.
04:58They've been they caddy there, you know, every day that the golf course is open.
05:02They see they've seen everything out there, you know, 100 times more than any of us have.
05:07And they are factoring in this Ray's Creek, you know, thing relative to the reading the
05:11putts out there on every single putt in my in my experience out there on that golf course.
05:17So to your point, Smiley, I think it's it's it's it's very tricky and a bit of a mind bender
05:24in that it's how can it be this fast uphill?
05:27But it finds a way to be just that.
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