Key Differences Between Links Golf and Traditional U.S. Courses
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00:06What is the main difference in
00:08your mind between links golf and
00:10what we're used to here
00:11stateside? I think there are two
00:13main differences. It's what
00:15happens when the ball is in the
00:16air and what happens when the
00:17ball is on the ground. And so I
00:19think the the wind of course we
00:21have wind here in the states.
00:22There are a number of locations
00:23that have that sort of feature
00:24but the way the wind changes so
00:26much over there and and here's a
00:28good example yesterday. These
00:29guys are out playing practice
00:30rounds and sort of a north
00:31northwest wind that makes the
00:33front nine considerably easier.
00:35In fact, I heard Bryson drove
00:36maybe four or five greens on a
00:38par fours on the front nine and
00:40made the back not considerably
00:41harder. We're going to get to
00:43the tournament and that wind is
00:44going to flip and it's going to
00:45turn to a south southwest sort
00:47of wind. So it you really can't
00:49have some sort of a set game
00:51plan here without knowing what
00:53the conditions are going to be
00:54and they're going to change so
00:55much that you have to have that
00:56sort of flexibility and ability
00:57to kind of say, well, I like to
00:58hit this type of shot in this
00:59one that maybe I got to do
01:00something different. So that's
01:01one two is you got to understand
01:04what's going to happen when the
01:05ball gets on the ground. I mean
01:06there are times where guys are
01:07going to hit shots that are
01:08going to land 30 40 50 yards
01:11short of these greens and
01:12because the ground is so firm
01:14over there, they can kind of run
01:16it in use the contours use the
01:18slopes to kind of chase a ball
01:19up to where they want to get it
01:20to go which is very different
01:21from what you see on most tour
01:24tracks here in the states where
01:26guys are hitting the ball high
01:27with a ton of spin. They're
01:28stopping it close to the pin
01:29and and that's how you're going
01:31to score on an American track.
01:32So it's it's it's it's
01:34delightful golf. It's pretty
01:36much my favorite major of the
01:37year for that reason the
01:38creativity that comes out and I
01:40can't wait to see what sort of
01:41test Royal Troon poses this
01:42week.