Jaime Diaz
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I think the setup now.
at all these majors, it's one of the greatest challenges in the game to get it right.
For example, I thought at Aronamink, I thought they actually went too far.
And it wasn't terrible.
It was interesting.
But it got to the point where nobody could really hit it close because of the hole positions and because of the firmness.
And, yeah, they were hitting wedges a lot of the time because the course wasn't that long.
But it still ended up with everybody having 20-footers for birdies or 30-footers.
And, you know, it was β
That's why the leaderboard got so bunched and it was so hard to separate.
Having said that, Aaron Rye, he played the best coming in and really was a definitive victory.
But I'm just saying up to that point, it was really like, wow, how do you show your superiority on this kind of setup?
And, you know, the PGA, not to pick on them, in the past, they've been the ones that were kind of U.S.
open light and might have been considered too acquiescent to the players.
I thought they wanted to get away from that at Ironman because it looked like early in the week it was going to be wet, number one.
And number two, the golf course wasn't that long.
It was like, man, we could have a 17-under deal here.
Who knows?
And so Kerry Hayes has always been pretty conservative.
He went kind of aggressively.