Paul McGinley

I mean, the distance the guys hit the ball nowadays.

Jon Rahm was the average, the longest hitter at the Aranamake a few weeks ago, which is also firm and fast.

And he averaged 349 yards was his average drive.

There's no doubt it'll clear 350 this week in terms of average driving from the big hitter.

So that's not going to be the challenge.

In fact, watching them driving is going to be a little bit boring because they're all going to hit the fairways and they're all going to hit it a million miles down there.

The challenge is going to be the second shots and can you hold it on these greens?

And then you're going to see a big determining factor in terms of who's going to win.

is who's going to be able to chip and particularly putt around here.

And that's the common denominator if you look statistically over the winners around here.

I mean, Goosen putted the lights out, one of the best performances ever in a U.S.

Open in terms of on the greens.

Koepke did something similar.

You know, Corey Pavin obviously won around here.

He was a brilliant putter.

And way back in the day, Ralph Lloyd was maybe one of the best of his generation when it came to the short game.

So short game is the big determining factor here, I think, in distinguishing who's going to win and who's not.

Yeah, well, first of all, that exchange was quite mild.

John, having played on tour for nearly 30 years, the poor caddies get it from everybody.

And I don't care, there's not one player who doesn't, the caddy doesn't get it at some stage.