Why We Saw Record Numbers at The Sentry Over the Weekend

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00:00Smiley. This is something you said a lot on the show is if it's soft, if course is soft and the

00:06wind is down, these guys are going to shoot nothing because they're the best players in

00:10the world. And so obviously, you know, to your point, there was some wind here and there,

00:13but largely it was soft to enter the week. The wind was down. And I think I'm remembering this

00:18correctly in 2022 was there was not a ton of wind that week either, but maybe the course was a

00:24little bit firmer. So just before we dig into Hideki's performance, just course conditions

00:29and how they played into it. Is this something I've heard that they're already talking about

00:32changing the par five fifth, I believe it is to a par four, you know, trying to move from a par

00:3873 to a par 72. What were your kind of reflections on how the course played this weekend? You know,

00:44do you like seeing a score this low? Yeah, the PGA tour rules officials were meeting about that

00:50this morning. So they could put that in the summary before next year to try to change that

00:55fifth hole to a par four, which needs to happen. I mean, guys are hitting eight, seven, six irons

00:59into this hole for a par five. It played actually below four today, which is insane. So like we're

01:07talking about a par five that played below four point. Oh, there was an albatross from Taylor

01:13Pendrith on that hole today. It's the widest fairway ever with a bugger. Just quickly there.

01:18Did you see Brintley Roman's tweet on that where they asked Taylor Penderth? So they asked Taylor

01:22Penderth after, you know, how many albatrosses have you made? So I've only made three hole in

01:26ones, but I've made eight albatrosses. That's absurd. Have you ever made one? I assume you have.

01:33Yes, I have. But not more than one, right? Or maybe more than one. Nope, I've just made one.

01:40Just made one. Can you imagine making eight albatrosses? It helps your score. Two's on five

01:46help. Anyway, sorry. I texted my dad after I believe the Friday or Saturday round. So

01:56my dad's nickname is Squirrel Man. As you know, he gets up and down like a squirrel would from

02:01anywhere. And I said to him, I was like, you know what? I really do think that you could have shot

02:07under par today. And that is I'm serious. I'm telling you, that was the easiest a golf course

02:15will ever play. I believe it was Friday. I think there were 19 players that shot seven under or

02:22better. And then there were eight players that shot nine under. There were four players that

02:27improved their score by 10 shots. And one player, Davis Thompson, improved his score by 14 shots.

02:34So we're talking about what a difference this golf course, how it can play in wind like it did

02:39Thursday with the hardest day it played all week really because the scoring average was closer to

02:47actually two under par and where Friday the scoring average was closer to five under par.

02:52So a three shot difference. It's the only way you can protect this golf course is wind. Yes,

03:00you can make the par five fifth hole, a par four. So there's four strokes that you take away at the

03:05end of the week. But when you look at it, I mean, Hideki Matsuyama going from 35 to 31,

03:11are we still going to say, oh yeah, that's, that's much better now. It's just one of those

03:16golf courses, right? Like there's just, yeah, there's just no defense to it. The greens are

03:21just not firm. The fairways are so wide. Statistically speaking, the easiest screens

03:28to hit on the PGA tour year in and year out. I think over like 20 years, like one or two years,

03:34it wasn't the leader. So you hit tons of greens. You have four par fives and a three par threes

03:41and a drywall par four. So all that being said, I think that argument that everybody has in the

03:47office where you're just shooting, you know, the bull with, with the other golf guys in the office

03:53about, Hey, what do you think you would shoot on the PGA tour? And that one guy's like, yeah,

03:58what's your handicap? I'm a two. Well, you probably shoot, you know, an 85 to 90,

04:02something like that. I really do think if you were a scratch, it was zero and you played golf

04:08on Friday and Saturday and no wind. I think it plays true. Like I know they tuck the pins,

04:13but there's just, it's just not hard. Like I'm telling you, it's just not difficult. The,

04:19the, the challenge and maybe this is something that I'm overlooking a little bit is that there's

04:24so much slope that you're playing off of and that the pros make playing off of huge slopes, make,

04:31make it look really easy. So maybe I'm undervaluing that just a little bit. And, and also,

04:38I guess I'm, this argument kind of goes with when there's no wind, because if you have,

04:43you know, a 10 mile an hour breeze out there, it's enough to, to really move some golf balls

04:48into some bad places. So I'm just using the example of a Charlie Hume out there and he

04:53teased it on the PGA tour on Friday, Saturday, and you're close to a zero. I mean, I really do

04:58think you'd shoot in the seventies. I really do feel that way.

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