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00:00Rancho Manana.
00:02Fun little fact here, when I moved to Arizona four years ago,
00:05Rancho Manana, Cave Creek, Arizona,
00:07is the very first golf course I ever filmed at.
00:10I filmed on the sixth hole, par five, and we're back.
00:13We're gonna play. Now we do three holes instead of one.
00:16We do a little voiceover situation.
00:18So we're gonna play four, five, and six.
00:20Anybody who spent time in Cave Creek, Arizona,
00:22at the old Buffalo Chip, you know this place well.
00:24Not too far, just right down the street.
00:26Buffalo Chip might be the best bar in Arizona.
00:28But anyways, we're on the fourth hole.
00:30This is a 379-yard par four.
00:32We've got the mini driver in hand.
00:34We're just trying to hit a little cut.
00:36It's kind of a dogleg. Well, definitely a dogleg, right?
00:38It's way tighter up there at the dogleg than I thought it was.
00:40Luckily, I didn't know that. I was kind of staring this down
00:42because I didn't really know it was up there.
00:44I heard a weird noise.
00:46Wasn't quite sure if that hit something, but it didn't.
00:48We get up there. It's right in the middle of the fairway.
00:50We had 124 yards, but as you can see, it is severely uphill.
00:53So I thought this play at least somewhere in the 130s.
00:56I love having to fly my wedge to an elevated green like that,
00:59so I thought I'd hit a little mine iron.
01:01And this was a little thin.
01:03A little thin, but you can actually see the ball on this clip.
01:06It's cutting towards the pin, but a little thin.
01:08It's not going to stop, and it did not stop.
01:10It rolled all the way to the back of the green.
01:12I know people are going to look at this.
01:14It kind of browned out, patches around.
01:16I've said this before. I'll say it again.
01:18We had a record over 100 straight days of weather that's over 100 degrees.
01:20There's over-seeding coming in soon,
01:22so you're not necessarily spraying all the water that you've got right now.
01:25And that wouldn't really be a good use of resources.
01:27We've got a long lag putt here.
01:29I think everything's going to break right to left.
01:31Beautiful views out here, by the way, at Rancho Mañana.
01:33And a decent little lag putt there.
01:35Great pace, but not necessarily the best read in history.
01:38We've got a little left to righter.
01:40And money. Just barely got it there.
01:43Not the fastest greens I've ever seen.
01:45A couple of things about Rancho Mañana.
01:47I love the little understated golf shop logo.
01:50I've shown a couple of those before. Great look.
01:52And it's action-packed. I mean, this place has people everywhere.
01:54It's a little bit chaos.
01:56There's people crisscrossing on different holes.
01:58There's all kinds of players coming through.
02:00So when I'm filming, putting the tripod out, it's definitely a little weird.
02:02I always feel weird, but definitely weird there.
02:04163 yards on the par 3 fifth hole.
02:07I've got an 8-iron in my hands.
02:09This is one of the better swings that I've made.
02:11Pured it. I was trying to hit pretty much a little right of it with a little draw.
02:14That's exactly what I did.
02:16And it came out great. Landed pin high.
02:18We've got ourselves a great look.
02:20This thing kind of felt like it would snap a little bit.
02:23We've got ourselves a nice view.
02:25And I don't know how that one doesn't go in.
02:27I mean, I know, because I got it below the hole.
02:29And missed it low. Amateur.
02:31Here we come. We come to the par 5 sixth hole.
02:33It's a very short par 5.
02:35OB all down the left.
02:37And there's just another hole. I think it's the 8th hole.
02:39It's all up the right side.
02:41So you kind of hit it into the right fairway.
02:43Which is what I ended up doing. This is not a good swing.
02:45I hit it way right, and it never came back.
02:47So I was in the middle of the fairway on the 8th hole.
02:50Get up there. You know, we had to do the whole thing.
02:52These guys were playing. I had seen them earlier.
02:54Kind of let them play through, because I'm filming.
02:56They're like, haha, we're back. We're all hitting in the same spot.
02:58I got a 3-iron here. I had no idea what the yardage was.
03:00No clue. I think I was hitting it at that clump of trees.
03:02It was kind of my line. And I hit it pretty good.
03:04You can hear these guys kind of chiming in.
03:06Yeah, I think that's where he wanted to hit it. Nice strike.
03:08Great, great. So then we get up there.
03:10Things change dramatically at this point.
03:12Things change dramatically. I've never experienced anything like this before.
03:14And I was trying to convey it.
03:16But these guys that were on the tee, who I was chit-chatting with.
03:18A lot of fans out there.
03:20Saw a ton of people. Had a great time.
03:22Just kind of a little bit of the people's course up in Cave Creek, which I like.
03:24These guys were on the 7th tee.
03:26And they were like, dude, we saw your ball come racing down the cart path.
03:28We actually even tried to stop it.
03:30And we missed it.
03:32My ball, I have no idea how far it went.
03:34It went all the way down this cart path.
03:36Almost onto the green on the 7th hole.
03:38And I had no idea where I was.
03:40Away.
03:42And I hit a 7-iron.
03:44Right at that kind of sign.
03:46And had no clue.
03:48It came up just short.
03:50And then afterwards, I filmed this video of me driving back up the hill.
03:52And we can go fast forward through this.
03:54But I want you guys to realize.
03:56How far this golf ball rolled.
03:58That was hit right at the green.
04:00Probably would have finished 15 yards short of the green.
04:02With a little chip up the hill.
04:04Instead, I rolled all the way down there.
04:06So I hit a 7-iron.
04:08Just guessing.
04:10It was way uphill.
04:12I had no idea what the yardage was.
04:14About a foot or so for par.
04:16Pretty good effort, but just didn't get it enough.
04:18Nice views of the mountains in the background.
04:20Also great views throughout this.
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04:36I love those as well.
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05:00Rancho Manana.
05:02I've never gotten a break like that.
05:04I've always wondered if that could happen.
05:06The fact that my golf ball rolled all the way down that hill
05:08and didn't just go into some of the desert
05:10and just trundled its way down that little path
05:12is kind of miraculous.
05:14But I do love this spot.
05:16I've never played the back nine yet.
05:18I've gone out there and kind of filmed a little bit.
05:20Played the front.
05:22I got through a couple holes in the back nine.
05:24And it's lovely.
05:26So big shout out to Cave Creek.
05:28Big shout out to G4.
05:30Big shout out to that break.
05:32Because I got a good kick out of that.
05:34That was good stuff.