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00:00Let's start with the weather and the golf course. Royal Troon on
00:06the Open Rotunda has been a frequent host of the Open
00:11Championship. It's Lynch style golf. It's on the ocean there
00:14in Scotland. Of course, weather will always play a factor.
00:18Keith, what we what are we expecting in terms of those
00:21conditions this week at the Open Championship? Ben, for this
00:26tenth return to Royal Troon and the Open Championship this
00:29summer, we're sitting on the west coast. So, we are open
00:32there to the Firth of Clyde or just the sea and the the links
00:35themselves especially the first six to nine holes run right
00:39along the shoreline and the weather already so far this
00:42week has been mild temperature wise anywhere from the high
00:45fifties to the low sixties and there's been a little bit of
00:48rain. It has been a very mild Scottish summer or spring so
00:52far with a ton of wet weather. So, the grass is extremely
00:55healthy over there. You better hit those fairways but more
00:57importantly, we gotta talk about the wind. There isn't
01:00going to be a ton of wind this week so far in the forecast.
01:02Now, we all we know that all of that can change in a heartbeat
01:06over there but what's most interesting is that the
01:08predominant wind usually runs from out of the northeast or
01:12out of the northwest down to the southeast which means the
01:15opening nine kinda plays downwind and then you play back
01:18into the wind coming home for the for the final nine. What's
01:22interesting is that they're predicting wind coming out of
01:24the southwest right off of the water which means that almost
01:27all of these holes are going to play with a crosswind. It's
01:30gonna be kinda wild. It's not what the guys would've expected
01:32if they played there in 2016 and it's definitely not, you
01:36know, something that they're that they're used to. You know,
01:38there's just not a lot of landmarks that to aim at when
01:41they go to hit and with having all these crosswinds and coming
01:44up with a game plan and then knowing that they need to adapt
01:47and adjust, it's definitely gonna favor the top players and
01:50the elite guys at the top of the board.