Geoff Shackelford

You know, these stories don't write themselves on a Sunday night, especially when you get a Brian Harmon win or something.

And they, you know, New Times, they look at you like, huh?

And Longhurst just brought the gin in.

Of course, we can't even bring something in.

And then he, of course, famously had a, he was hammered on the air on CBS.

He had a vase.

I have no idea how he got up and down that stand on 17.

It's scary.

But he did it.

Yeah, that's the newsletter world.

I can't do that.

And I understand why people do it.

But especially the last couple of years, it's it's it's actually fun to be there late, see who's grinding.

And and it does help to have that little bit of lubrication in case it's.

But I mean, the last two have been pretty special to write about.

But you can probably imagine there were a couple others recently that were were a little more more work.

It was incredible, Andy, and it unfortunately will make me more bitter and more obnoxious about the distance issue, but it was just stunning to see how certain holes played, what it was like to watch

certain hazards and bunkers have meaning.

Um, and, and really the setup was, uh, was just right in terms of being generous or yeah, I have my quibbles with whole locations, days used and some teas were up surprisingly short that weren't needed, things like that.

But overall, uh, the rough was perfect.