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Speaker 1: All right, we I believe we're moments away from connecting with a guy in Spain who's a big Bengals fan, since the Bengals are playing in Madrid in November. First things first, PGA Championship is happening not in Madrid, but in the suburban Philadelphia at aronom Inc. Will Grimmer is with us the second greatest golfer to ever come from Ohio State Law fifty nine.
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Speaker 2: He'll teach a lessons, am I saying that?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: How do you pronounce the name of this golf course?
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Speaker 3: I think it's ironom Inc. Yeah, okay, very good.
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Speaker 4: So fun fact, the architect who designed ironom Inc also designed Mcatiwa. So both wow tournaments this week, same style golf course.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: So this is just outside of West Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you know.
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Speaker 4: They haven't been to Philly for a major in thirteen years since the US Open at Marion and justin Rosewan.
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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be Philly's very excited.
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Speaker 1: All right, Philly's got to be very excited, more excited than they are for the Philadelphia seventy six ers who lost to the Knicks. Sorry, uh, what type of player does this golf course favor?
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Speaker 3: This golf course is long.
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Speaker 4: I believe they've added between three and four hundred yards since they last played. What the termament last week was the truest several years ago. With Charlotte being a anchor site for the PGA, so they rotate that around. So this is a Some players on the PJ Tour have played this golf course, but it hasn't looked quite like it has. It's going to favor someone who hits the ball along, who hits the ball straight, and it's gonna be cool and potentially windy over there this week, so it's going to be a little bit more of a i'd say US Open style test and maybe some PG Championships.
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Speaker 1: All right, So give me an idea of like one or two storylines that, like a casual golf fan should be paying attention to this weekend.
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Speaker 4: I would say the number one story, even though it's kind of like overplayed. It was almost like the Bengals winning a playoff game like every single year. Is Jordan Speith going into this week has the opportunity for the career Grand Slam. I would say Rory kind of almost overshaded that with the Masters each year, But the reality is he's the only current player that has an opportunity to win the career Glens Grant Slight at least this week, and then Scotty has a chance to do with the US hope.
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Speaker 2: So I read golf websites.
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Speaker 1: I go to golf dot Com, I go to a golf digest, I got to gambling websites like the Action Network.
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Speaker 2: Everybody loves Cam Young this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Well he's my favorite too, Okay, so explain Well, I just I think for him, it was a confidence thing and probably a little bit of a mental breakthrough to get that first win, and he did that last year, and then he he switched golf balls to a different make and model earlier this year within titleist, and I like, clearly it's working for him because he won the Players and he just won again a few weeks ago, and so he's already got two wins on the year. He's already essentially tripled his win total in basically as many as about four or five weeks here, and I just feel like his confidence is high. He's playing great golf. He bombs the ball, and that's certainly going to be an advantage, but he's also he's finding a lot of fairways.
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Speaker 3: Is is short games in a great spot.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned changing golf balls, so I want you to elaborate on that for me, because to me, every golf ball is the same.
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Speaker 2: I lose them all doesn't matter, but what is the difference.
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Speaker 4: So there's a lot of Every company, I would say, within their kind of tour department is probably going to release about somewhere between the neighborhood of like five to eight different variations of golf balls. And they all have different cores, different materials being made, and they're all to impact the things that players prefer. Softness, firmness, high spinning, low spinning, maybe total trajectory, all higher or lower flying ball. And again these things are very very important to the high level of golfer, just that next kind of level of intricacy that defines the game.
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Speaker 1: Now, you may have a sponsor obligation when I ask you this question, But if I need a sleeve of balls for one round, which for me, I need more than a sleeve, what should I get.
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Speaker 4: Titlest Okay, that's gonna be the answer. They are indeed the number one ball in golf, so that's going to be my answer.
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Speaker 2: Very good, Let me run a couple of golfers pasture.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if Oberg's at plus two thousand, top ten in five of his last six tournaments, steer me away or steer me tortum.
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Speaker 2: I love.
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Speaker 4: I love betting any kind of like a top ten or a top twenty five. Okay, you know, and at the same time you're correct, Like I was just pulling up strokes game teed de Green here and he's seventh on the list. And if you look at the other names on this list, you have Rory, you have Commore Cowi, you have Fitzpatrick, you have Scotty, you have Cameron, and now you have Levig. So again, all those players our favorites. He certainly belongs in the conversation, and I think it's more a matter of his only downside is his ability to close on Sundays and so. But you know, the other theory is that he's due to win with Scotty Scheffler.
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Speaker 1: A lot of folks are going to say, look, he is still the top rated player in the world.
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Speaker 2: He's the best player in the world. Take that.
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Speaker 1: When you're getting plus odds, would you will in any golf tournament? I think I saw plus four hundred for Scotty.
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Speaker 3: It's it's certainly it's certainly not bad.
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Speaker 4: Bet Okay, you know Scotty at the end of the day, he kind of he's starting to move into the tiger category for me, which is, you know, until you prove me wrong, you kind of have my vote. I mean, let's face it, a lot of people didn't think Scotty played that well the Masters, and we kind of sneeze on the fact that he lost by I believe one shot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for about five minutes on Sunday you thought, boy, he may do this right.
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Speaker 3: He's always lurking, He's always in the conversation.
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Speaker 2: Care where you are, where he is.
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Speaker 1: If you're at the top of the leaderboard, you're still looking over your proverbial shoulder.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he's starting to create the quote Scotty effect, kind of like the type where you see his name on a Sunday and you start to hit the panic button a little bit. So he's definitely he's definitely a favorite for show.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any long shots that you might go look? Their odds aren't great, but why not there's good value here.
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Speaker 4: I really like Ricky Faller just because he's back in the field in a major this week. It's not the Masters, right, You're back to a full field of one hundred and fifty plus guys and he just shot a Sunday sixty five last week. It's kind of weird saying it for a guy that like was is and was as popular as Ricky is, but like he's totally flying under the radar. He's later in his career, the like he doesn't have to do the press conferences anymore about like when you're going to win a major, bue because people almost don't care about him as much anymore. And I think it puts him like to me, he just seems to be playing a lot of good golf this year, and I could just see him freewheeling and having some fun next week and getting in contention.
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Speaker 1: I like the change of the PGA Championship they made a couple of years ago where it was kind of buried in August, and now it's it's shortly after augusta, it's before the US opened, so that the major's calendar everything is really tight.
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Speaker 2: Right, it's over by late July.
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Speaker 1: Do you like where they have situated the PGA Championship here in the middle of May.
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Speaker 3: I do. I do.
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Speaker 4: I think it just creates a little bit more continuity if like the Masters was like kind of way out on an island and then you got the three and over three months at the end of the year. And I also think with the Olympics is starting to get more and more respect and so with that being every four years in August, it doesn't put them in an awkward position of like what do you do about the PA and the Olympics? And so it just the weather still is good enough in the north, like it's gonna be good weather in Philly. You can still have it all over the country in May, and it's uh.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a good for the I always felt like once you got past the Open Championship, the PGA Championship was on an island, like it was sort of like the forgotten Major, And now it takes center stage here in the middle of May, which is prime golf season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I tell a lot of people like I actually think over the last half decade to a decade, the PGA has been the most entertaining major because it's had the most playoffs and it's had the most finishes within one shot. And I think they pick a wider variety of styles of courses, like they'll go to just vastly different climates and places, whereas like the US opens notoriously difficult, the Masters is Augusta, and obviously the British is overseas. So I think there's a fun variety to the PGA, and it just it always produces excitement on Sunday. So to the casual golf fan, it's you could make a case for it being the most entertaining to watch on a Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out to Mcatiejuah this weekend and I'm going to watch the PGA Championship from suburb Be in Philadelphia, and then I'm gonna get the itch right and I'm gonna want to fix my swing.
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Speaker 2: What can you do for me?
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Speaker 4: Well, you can come down and see me at my facility at LAF fifty nine. And we've we've made some good progress with you.
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Speaker 1: Now, well those who have played with me would debate that, but that is more of a statement about me and less of an indictment on you.
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Speaker 2: But yes, we've we've made some tweaks and they have paid off. The hybrid.
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Speaker 3: We started making some serious I.
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Speaker 1: Am no, I am no longer unwilling to take the hybrid out of the bag. And I told you this winter I cannot hit this club, so I don't even try.
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Speaker 3: And now I at least bring it out. It at least makes its appearance.
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 2: Where can folks learn more or sign up for lessons? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: So my Instagram page post a lot of videos and content there as well as YouTube, Instagram, Willie g Underscore, Loft fifty nine, Twitter, Grimmer twelve underscore well, and then my countylinkcounty dot com backslash will Grimmer Golf.
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Speaker 1: All right, will thanks so much lost Loft fifty nine. That's our golf expert that you see
Speaker 1: All right, we I believe we're moments away from connecting with a guy in Spain who's a big Bengals fan, since the Bengals are playing in Madrid in November. First things first, PGA Championship is happening not in Madrid, but in the suburban Philadelphia at aronom Inc. Will Grimmer is with us the second greatest golfer to ever come from Ohio State Law fifty nine.
00:00:21
Speaker 2: He'll teach a lessons, am I saying that?
00:00:22
Speaker 1: Right?
00:00:23
Speaker 2: How do you pronounce the name of this golf course?
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Speaker 3: I think it's ironom Inc. Yeah, okay, very good.
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Speaker 4: So fun fact, the architect who designed ironom Inc also designed Mcatiwa. So both wow tournaments this week, same style golf course.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: So this is just outside of West Philadelphia.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you know.
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Speaker 4: They haven't been to Philly for a major in thirteen years since the US Open at Marion and justin Rosewan.
00:00:48
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be Philly's very excited.
00:00:50
Speaker 1: All right, Philly's got to be very excited, more excited than they are for the Philadelphia seventy six ers who lost to the Knicks. Sorry, uh, what type of player does this golf course favor?
00:01:01
Speaker 3: This golf course is long.
00:01:03
Speaker 4: I believe they've added between three and four hundred yards since they last played. What the termament last week was the truest several years ago. With Charlotte being a anchor site for the PGA, so they rotate that around. So this is a Some players on the PJ Tour have played this golf course, but it hasn't looked quite like it has. It's going to favor someone who hits the ball along, who hits the ball straight, and it's gonna be cool and potentially windy over there this week, so it's going to be a little bit more of a i'd say US Open style test and maybe some PG Championships.
00:01:36
Speaker 1: All right, So give me an idea of like one or two storylines that, like a casual golf fan should be paying attention to this weekend.
00:01:43
Speaker 4: I would say the number one story, even though it's kind of like overplayed. It was almost like the Bengals winning a playoff game like every single year. Is Jordan Speith going into this week has the opportunity for the career Grand Slam. I would say Rory kind of almost overshaded that with the Masters each year, But the reality is he's the only current player that has an opportunity to win the career Glens Grant Slight at least this week, and then Scotty has a chance to do with the US hope.
00:02:07
Speaker 2: So I read golf websites.
00:02:09
Speaker 1: I go to golf dot Com, I go to a golf digest, I got to gambling websites like the Action Network.
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Speaker 2: Everybody loves Cam Young this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Well he's my favorite too, Okay, so explain Well, I just I think for him, it was a confidence thing and probably a little bit of a mental breakthrough to get that first win, and he did that last year, and then he he switched golf balls to a different make and model earlier this year within titleist, and I like, clearly it's working for him because he won the Players and he just won again a few weeks ago, and so he's already got two wins on the year. He's already essentially tripled his win total in basically as many as about four or five weeks here, and I just feel like his confidence is high. He's playing great golf. He bombs the ball, and that's certainly going to be an advantage, but he's also he's finding a lot of fairways.
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Speaker 3: Is is short games in a great spot.
00:03:01
Speaker 1: You mentioned changing golf balls, so I want you to elaborate on that for me, because to me, every golf ball is the same.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: I lose them all doesn't matter, but what is the difference.
00:03:10
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of Every company, I would say, within their kind of tour department is probably going to release about somewhere between the neighborhood of like five to eight different variations of golf balls. And they all have different cores, different materials being made, and they're all to impact the things that players prefer. Softness, firmness, high spinning, low spinning, maybe total trajectory, all higher or lower flying ball. And again these things are very very important to the high level of golfer, just that next kind of level of intricacy that defines the game.
00:03:40
Speaker 1: Now, you may have a sponsor obligation when I ask you this question, But if I need a sleeve of balls for one round, which for me, I need more than a sleeve, what should I get.
00:03:51
Speaker 4: Titlest Okay, that's gonna be the answer. They are indeed the number one ball in golf, so that's going to be my answer.
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Speaker 2: Very good, Let me run a couple of golfers pasture.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if Oberg's at plus two thousand, top ten in five of his last six tournaments, steer me away or steer me tortum.
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Speaker 2: I love.
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Speaker 4: I love betting any kind of like a top ten or a top twenty five. Okay, you know, and at the same time you're correct, Like I was just pulling up strokes game teed de Green here and he's seventh on the list. And if you look at the other names on this list, you have Rory, you have Commore Cowi, you have Fitzpatrick, you have Scotty, you have Cameron, and now you have Levig. So again, all those players our favorites. He certainly belongs in the conversation, and I think it's more a matter of his only downside is his ability to close on Sundays and so. But you know, the other theory is that he's due to win with Scotty Scheffler.
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Speaker 1: A lot of folks are going to say, look, he is still the top rated player in the world.
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Speaker 2: He's the best player in the world. Take that.
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Speaker 1: When you're getting plus odds, would you will in any golf tournament? I think I saw plus four hundred for Scotty.
00:04:51
Speaker 3: It's it's certainly it's certainly not bad.
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Speaker 4: Bet Okay, you know Scotty at the end of the day, he kind of he's starting to move into the tiger category for me, which is, you know, until you prove me wrong, you kind of have my vote. I mean, let's face it, a lot of people didn't think Scotty played that well the Masters, and we kind of sneeze on the fact that he lost by I believe one shot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for about five minutes on Sunday you thought, boy, he may do this right.
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Speaker 3: He's always lurking, He's always in the conversation.
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Speaker 2: Care where you are, where he is.
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Speaker 1: If you're at the top of the leaderboard, you're still looking over your proverbial shoulder.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he's starting to create the quote Scotty effect, kind of like the type where you see his name on a Sunday and you start to hit the panic button a little bit. So he's definitely he's definitely a favorite for show.
00:05:36
Speaker 1: Do you have any long shots that you might go look? Their odds aren't great, but why not there's good value here.
00:05:44
Speaker 4: I really like Ricky Faller just because he's back in the field in a major this week. It's not the Masters, right, You're back to a full field of one hundred and fifty plus guys and he just shot a Sunday sixty five last week. It's kind of weird saying it for a guy that like was is and was as popular as Ricky is, but like he's totally flying under the radar. He's later in his career, the like he doesn't have to do the press conferences anymore about like when you're going to win a major, bue because people almost don't care about him as much anymore. And I think it puts him like to me, he just seems to be playing a lot of good golf this year, and I could just see him freewheeling and having some fun next week and getting in contention.
00:06:22
Speaker 1: I like the change of the PGA Championship they made a couple of years ago where it was kind of buried in August, and now it's it's shortly after augusta, it's before the US opened, so that the major's calendar everything is really tight.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: Right, it's over by late July.
00:06:36
Speaker 1: Do you like where they have situated the PGA Championship here in the middle of May.
00:06:40
Speaker 3: I do. I do.
00:06:41
Speaker 4: I think it just creates a little bit more continuity if like the Masters was like kind of way out on an island and then you got the three and over three months at the end of the year. And I also think with the Olympics is starting to get more and more respect and so with that being every four years in August, it doesn't put them in an awkward position of like what do you do about the PA and the Olympics? And so it just the weather still is good enough in the north, like it's gonna be good weather in Philly. You can still have it all over the country in May, and it's uh.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a good for the I always felt like once you got past the Open Championship, the PGA Championship was on an island, like it was sort of like the forgotten Major, And now it takes center stage here in the middle of May, which is prime golf season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I tell a lot of people like I actually think over the last half decade to a decade, the PGA has been the most entertaining major because it's had the most playoffs and it's had the most finishes within one shot. And I think they pick a wider variety of styles of courses, like they'll go to just vastly different climates and places, whereas like the US opens notoriously difficult, the Masters is Augusta, and obviously the British is overseas. So I think there's a fun variety to the PGA, and it just it always produces excitement on Sunday. So to the casual golf fan, it's you could make a case for it being the most entertaining to watch on a Sunday afternoon.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out to Mcatiejuah this weekend and I'm going to watch the PGA Championship from suburb Be in Philadelphia, and then I'm gonna get the itch right and I'm gonna want to fix my swing.
00:08:04
Speaker 2: What can you do for me?
00:08:05
Speaker 4: Well, you can come down and see me at my facility at LAF fifty nine. And we've we've made some good progress with you.
00:08:11
Speaker 1: Now, well those who have played with me would debate that, but that is more of a statement about me and less of an indictment on you.
00:08:18
Speaker 2: But yes, we've we've made some tweaks and they have paid off. The hybrid.
00:08:23
Speaker 3: We started making some serious I.
00:08:25
Speaker 1: Am no, I am no longer unwilling to take the hybrid out of the bag. And I told you this winter I cannot hit this club, so I don't even try.
00:08:33
Speaker 3: And now I at least bring it out. It at least makes its appearance.
00:08:36
Speaker 1: All right?
00:08:36
Speaker 2: Where can folks learn more or sign up for lessons? Yeah?
00:08:40
Speaker 4: So my Instagram page post a lot of videos and content there as well as YouTube, Instagram, Willie g Underscore, Loft fifty nine, Twitter, Grimmer twelve underscore well, and then my countylinkcounty dot com backslash will Grimmer Golf.
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Speaker 1: All right, will thanks so much lost Loft fifty nine. That's our golf expert that you see
