Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00Smiley. We know less about the venue this week. Royal Montreal
00:06Golf Club in comparison to other venues. We've seen more
00:09regularly. Now. This is the second time Royal Montreal's
00:12hosted the President's Cup also hosted in 2007 hosted a
00:16Canadian open in 2014. But for at least for me and for many of
00:21the players this week that are out there on the international
00:23American sides unfamiliar unfamiliar to them as well. So
00:28let's hear it. Give us your you walk the course. Now, you've
00:30done your course prep. Give us a little bit of Intel. So we
00:33know what to expect out there.
00:35I get really giddy when it comes to learning new golf
00:38courses. When I get on property. I just get excited. I just
00:42love, you know, trying to figure out, you know, what the
00:46play is, you know, how how the holes are going to play. What
00:49are the easy holes? What are the hard holes, you know, where
00:51the miss is. So that's a part of professional golf that I
00:56loved, you know, when we went to new golf courses, I got
01:00excited because I think some people
01:03they like to show up to golf courses. They know how to play
01:06like they don't have to do any work on them. Personally me,
01:09like I loved just spending the time. I did this afternoon
01:13grinding on this golf course
01:15and
01:17it, you know, I think just a couple just overarching
01:21thoughts about the course in general is that it's
01:25it's, you know, it's a Parkland type golf course. It kind of
01:28runs together. It's not overly, you know, dramatic. I would say
01:33everything's right in front of you. There's no tricks about it.
01:37And I think there's
01:39there's certain similarities. I picked up from Royal Montreal
01:43of other golf courses that
01:46it kind of reminds me of
01:48there's certain tee shots like on the back nine.
01:52There's this pond that kind of is
01:54is around this whole back. You kind of go up and back and it
01:58seems to always be on the left side of the fairway.
02:01And it's not just like over there to the left. No, it's it
02:04is
02:06it is the left rough. So, you know, you're standing on a
02:09fairly, you know, straight hole. Maybe has slight dog legs in it
02:13and
02:15that water is just on the left. And
02:17you know, when I think about golf courses that reminds me of
02:21that I've played Bay Hill comes to mind
02:23of of some shots that I stand there on that tee
02:28and you're presented with so many different options of what
02:30club to hit.
02:32You know, you can hit driver, you get a three wood, you get an
02:34iron, like you can hit whatever you want off these
02:37off these tee boxes to get one in play.
02:39And typically on most most of the holes, you know, the
02:44first off, if you, you know, get it as close as you want to
02:49to that penalty area on that left side.
02:51Most of the time you have a better angle, you're closer to
02:53the hole, you know, if you bail out to the right, typically
02:56you'd have, you know, an extra 20-30 yards playing out of the
02:59rough and and you're playing towards, you know, the
03:03the little gap that pretty much is in front of every single
03:07green.
03:08So
03:09there is risk and reward in that fashion. I wouldn't call
03:13this golf course a risk reward course because I think, you
03:16know, we talk about match play golf courses and and you've
03:20heard this from not only just, you know, people on TV or
03:24probably people that you've played with at your home course
03:27that say, you know what, this is a really good match play golf
03:29course. And I always laugh at that and say, well, technically
03:32every golf course is a good match play golf course. What
03:36makes a really good match play golf course? I've always kind
03:39of thought about it in that in that way. And I think of like
03:43legit risk reward where, you know, there's you're presented
03:47with options of of what to do. It's like no strategy is like
03:52you can go for it or you're going to play out, you know, at
03:54a tip completely different angle. This isn't that golf
03:58course to me. It's straight in front of you. There's very many
04:01like very few holes that really dogleg everything just goes,
04:05you know, slight dog legs one way or another.
04:08Call it call it what you want. I didn't call it like just
04:11overly dramatic. So that's like the first thing that you need
04:14to picture when it comes to Royal Montreal.