Welcome to the First Cup podcast. I'm Greg Dusharm, and tonight we have the A team, myself, and

Mark, welcome to the show. How was it out there today?

It was great.

Look, it's been a fun couple of days.

Colonial is a wonderful venue, obviously, in Fort Worth.

There's a great town, and the players are in good spirits.

The weather is off the charts.

I mean, someone forgot to switch the wind machine on because this golf course ordinarily is defined by cross winds and And sort of heavy gusty West Texas winds, but it's been idyllic out there. It's hot and so you better be in shape

But it was a fun afternoon. It was a grueling afternoon because of the heat, but otherwise two thumbs up.

Were you at all and we're going to get into many of the players here tonight, because this is,

tonight we're going to get into some of the top players in the, on the stacked leaderboard.

We're going to move through it somewhat quickly, give you a little bit of a rundown here and

we're going to try to get to as many players as we can.

But were you surprised at all that Harold Varner the 3rd gets to 11 under par and get we're going to try to get to as many players as we can but were you surprised

at all that harold varner the third gets to 11 under par and we'll talk about him in a minute but

were you surprised no one in the afternoon wave caught him um well the golf course definitely does

play it harder in the afternoon in the morning because it's june over here in Fort Worth and the hot

texas summers they got to keep the greens watered and and they spritz them through afternoon in the morning because it's June over here in Fort Worth and the hot Texas summers,

they've got to keep the greens watered and they spritz them through the middle of the day around

like the noontime hour. You'll see them syringe. And then in the evening they give these things

a drink because the golf course really browned out some this afternoon in the fairways. But the

greens are still very receptive. But that being said in the afternoons, I wouldn't say they're crusty. They're not like a major championship green, but the guys in the morning have the better time of it. And with a full-sized field, now, remember, ordinarily, this is an invitational with 120 players. Now, now you've got the full field. There's a whole bunch of traffic through there in the morning and the afternoon waves. So come to the end of the day, you know, the ball doesn't roll as smoothly.

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