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The First Cut Golf

06/06: Phil's U.S. Open future, why "drive for show, putt for dough" is wrong

The First Cut Golf

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4.4666 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jason Dufner's win at The Memorial is the latest in a strong season for statistically average (or below-average) putters. Kyle explains his argument for the game being won away from the green, and shares a possible explanation for Phil Mickelson pulling out of the 2017 US Open to attend his daughter's high school graduation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Back here on the first cut podcast with Kyle Porter, I'm your host, Chip Patterson. That's Kyle

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Porter. Kyle, the memorial is completed. This was the one tournament that we had where it'll be

0:34.9

a final tune-up for a lot of players as the next week,

0:38.6

the St. Jude in Memphis only has six of the world's top 25, a little bit of a thin field.

0:42.9

But this is a great tournament.

0:44.9

You know, of course, we had our fair share.

0:48.3

In case you didn't know, they do a good job of, you know, making sure that you understand

0:52.5

that it's Jack's tournament.

0:54.0

But there was a lot of good golf. I mean, look, like, there were so many

0:58.9

different points in this weekend. And the finish, which we will get to, which ended up with

1:02.7

Jason Duffner winning, the finish had some, some rain that kind of, uh, you know, slowed what was a

1:09.6

really exciting back nine that was shaping up. But in, in general, I would say from, you know, slowed what was a really exciting back nine that was shaping up. But in general,

1:13.2

I would say from the quality of star power on the leaderboard to just getting some pretty good

1:20.0

golf in spots from a lot of the key players who are looking at going into the U.S. Open,

1:24.8

a great week up in Dublin, Ohio. Yeah, I think you can make the argument that this is the best tournament that's not,

1:31.7

there's a lot of qualifiers here, but that's not a major, a WGC or the Players Championship.

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