Geoff Shackelford

Cause it was, it was, um,

It was tough, but you could get some good lies.

You could get some horrible lies.

And Nelly had some incredible recoveries from it that my fellow Angelenos didn't really quite understand how good they were.

we can talk about that.

It was, I'm very, I'll err on the side of an ignorant cloud crowd over a, an obnoxious one.

And this was just a wonderful crowd.

The, the, the vibes out there were, were just amazing.

And, uh, and a lot of kids too, but yeah.

So to see the 10th hole, uh, play the way it did, uh, yeah, I put a stat in the newsletter today, the women largely laid up and even the ones who drove it, uh, got, uh,

you know, typically nobody really finishes on the green when they drive it.

And they still hit 69% of the green shots and regulation hitting into the green.

And the men this year were 73 all basically playing as a par three.

Nobody nobody laid up this year.

And

To me, if the data gurus who have driven this mindset of just drive the green and take your chances thing, I would hope they'd look at that number and go, huh, so we're only 4% better doing the bomb and gouge thing, and yet by bringing in all this stress with the –

The shenanigans that can take place going back and forth and the bunkers and the bottle brush trees and all the stuff you see there.

So I doubt they will, but I think it'd be interesting to know how those conversations go before the next Genesis based on what the women did laying up.

I think that's a discussion that's legitimate to have because, you know, I sit back there at that green a lot with Doug Ferguson over the years, and it does shock me that there's literally Alex Noren and Justin Thomas, who are some of the last guys to lay up, and Tiger hit a shot similar to this that hit a high-cutting, soft-landing wedge.

It's just unbelievable how many of these guys just hit this thing that's just coming in hot.