What's up, guys? Rick here with your preview for this week's Players Championship. I am very excited about this. If you're watching on YouTube, clearly, I'm not at home. I'm not in the stack cave, but I'm in the next best thing. I'm about a couple hundred yards away from the 16th green here at TPC Sawgrass. I can tell you, the course looks immaculate. It looks fantastic. A lot of energy around this place, the run from API

with a burger, or not a burger comeback, a Batia comeback. And going right into this week,

there is a lot to talk about for the first time in a while. It feels like there are some

question marks at the top of the board. We're going to go through the course, the players,

we're going to use stats, logic, reason, trends,

whatever else you want, and we are gonna rock this preview.

So without further ado, let's jump into this.

I will say our listener league for this week is live,

but also is the players and majors pick three. So that is the contest that we run every

year on Splash. This was way more popular than the one in Dunn we did last year, quite honestly,

just in terms of the feedback that I got. And this is where you pick three golfers for each

one of the players and the major. So you're going to pick 15 golfers in general. So for this week, it's like you could play Scotty Roy Fleetwood. And you're going to get their money and you can't pick them for any other major championship. So that's the way this works. It's a very fun format. That is live. It's already about a quarter of the way full or so. Link is in the description for everything that you need there.

Let's talk about TPC Sawgrass.

I think the biggest thing is the driver, okay?

And the stats tend to bear that out a little bit.

So the cost of rough, the penalty for missing the fairway, is about four-tenths of a stroke, but it gets ratcheted up quite a bit on a handful of holes.

The fourth hole, the seventh hole, we'll throw the tenth in there.

The 14th, the 16th, and the 18th are all about

half-shot penalties if you miss the fairway. The other thing to consider is there's almost

two-tenths of a stroke difference between a short drive and a long drive. So the way that I

calculate this is basically was this a drive that was longer

than average on that hole? If so, what was the scoring average? If it was shorter than average

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