Steve Sands

6.45 a.m.

You and Jesse have already had dinner.

You know, it's funny.

My middle son, Scott, was like, Dad, why are they teeing off so early?

I said, well, it's 156 guys.

They've got to get them around, and it just takes time.

at a major championship.

You know, normal rounds at, say, a PGA Tour event, like last week, for instance, in Charlotte, we were there at Quail Hollow, which is a major championship venue.

Yeah.

It's a PGA Tour event.

They were giving them, you know, in threesomes on Thursday and Friday.

They took five hours, ten hours, five, ten, five, fifteen.

Wow.

What's that?

You have some crossovers in, like, you have the shared tee box.

Exactly.

So exactly.

So at a 5'10", 5'15", pace on Thursday and Friday in threesomes and split tees with a full field at a PGA Tour event at a major, you know, you're talking 5'20", 5'30".

You know, it happens at the Masters just like that on Thursday and Friday, but nobody cares because you're just watching the Masters and it's gorgeous.

It just takes a while to get these guys around major championship venues, especially old school places like Aronamink that have a lot of shared, you know, not shared greens, but shared tees and crossovers where you have to wait on other groups.