Scottie Scheffler Leads Charge Into Tour Championship

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it's definitely interesting I mean it's a it's a basically new golf course from what it was before it's U not really at all the same um the greens since they're new are extremely firm which I think makes it more challenging it'll be tough to access some the whole locations and I think the that we'll have a bit to learn in terms of golf course setup um but overall we'll see how it plays it's it's so new right now that it's really hard to tell exactly how um all I know is it's just it's way different hopefully just make a few more birdies um more birdies and Bogies typically helps you know low scores um as far as the tournament goes you know treating it like every other event you know not focusing on the the starting Strokes or anything like that just going out there and trying to execute and do my best and um not really thinking too much about the results really the the thing that was most different is the firmness of the greens just um typically most of the greens out here slop back to front and you were um into the Grain and so you weren't really playing for a lot of balance on many of these holes unless you're a really really long Club in um and now I mean it's they are extremely firm you know especially the part 3es the part 3es I think provide the most challenge because the run-ups to the short of the greens are still fairly soft and so if you land it short it's probably not going to be bouncing up and if you land on the green it kind of Just Hits and and goes and so there's going to be a real challenge to that you're going to have to hit some shots that are pretty extraordinarily high in order to hold these green greens yeah I I would agree with that I think everybody's dealing with a little a little something at the end of the year um like you said it's been a long season um especially now with the way the new schedule is it's really is a Sprint to get here you know there's not really places in the schedule to take large breaks you know you have the beginning of the year where you're kind of getting you know warmed up in a sense even though you pretty much got to start the year ready to go but then you know March you have the players April Masters May PGA June Us open July you have the Open Championship and then you come to August and you got the FedEx Cup playoffs so there's really not a time of the year where you're taking a break until for us after either the President's Cup or Ryder Cup and so it definitely is a lot of a Sprint and I'm sure people got little aches and pains but you know didn't didn't play all year to just get tired at East Lake and kind of just throwing the towel so um you know it's a good competition this week I think uh the golf course is going to be pretty challenging and it should be a fun week um it depends how you want to describe it if you want to just have um a player that's playing the best at the end of the year I think that the playoffs will definitely identify that player um in terms of the you know the season long race it maybe not it's not always going to be the guy that plays the best the whole season it's going to be the guy that plays the best in these playoff events um and that's really what you're identifying is the guy that plays the best in these last three events and I it's a format that's changed a bunch over the years or sorry a few times you know in terms of when it first got started you had you know a year where I think it was padrick Harrington won two majors and maybe didn't make the BMW and I know he didn't make this tournament and so so arguably it wasn't really a great setup then and then you change the points to be a little bit less valuable in the playoffs but you still see a lot of volatility like you look at a guy like Keegan Bradley who shows up last week and has a great week and wins the tournament and now all of a sudden he's goes from not being in East Lake to having a really really great chance to win the FedEx Cup and so I think it provides a little bit of volatility which is good for the fans and I think it's it's also good for some players that are at um you know didn't have their best years leading up to get into the playoffs and all of a sudden turn a year that that's not their best into you know somewhat of a career year in terms of winning the FedEx Cup so a lot of volatility but at the end of the day you know golf is Golf and um the easiest way to solve an issue that you don't like in the game of golf is to play better that's really all it comes down to in our game is at the end of the day if you play good enough golf it will take care of itself

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