I miss a green, for example. I'm already upset. When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.

And when I find my ball in a Friday egg. Friday. The dreaded Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday. Friday.

Friday. Friday. Friday. I'm about ready to run off the golf course.

Welcome to the Friday podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. And it is us open Thursday. I'm recording this right now in the B.

Dratty House on Wednesday afternoon. Actually, I just came back from the golf course. I walked the back nine out there with sahif

and a few other players. And I definitely have some thoughts on what I saw that I hope will kind of provide some information

and maybe some context insight for your viewing of the tournament that's happening right now and in the next few days.

A little bit later in this episode, I'm going to bring on golf historian Wayne Morrison.

We're going to talk about the Philadelphia School of Golf Architecture. This was a group of golf architects that basically changed the course of American golf course design

in the 1910s and 20s. And they were a massive influence on George Thomas, who was the most important architect behind the North course at L.A.

Country Club. So that's coming up a little bit of a historical deep dive with Wayne Morrison. But first, I just wanted to sort of empty my notebook on the back nine at L.A.

which I just walked as I mentioned. I think it's probably the more underappreciated nine at L.A.

And that's for a good reason. You know, the front nine at L.A. is one of the best collections of golf holes anywhere.

But obviously on the telecast this week, the back nine will probably be more prominently featured at least on the weekend. Right.

So I thought I'd go through the three specific parts of the back nine that I'm looking forward to. I wanted to boil it down. I had a bunch of notes on the back nine.

I really want to kind of narrow it down to three specific things to look for three specific spots on the golf course that I think you should keep an eye out for when you're watching the tournament.

And I'm not going to talk about the very famous par threes on the back nine 11 and 15 11 is the downhill reverse red and it's going to play very long and 15 is the extremely short little par three.

Those are going to be covered plenty this week. You'll hear a lot about them. I'm looking for some spots on the back nine that are maybe a little more under the radar.

But might show up in some form on the telecast. So going in order, my first spot on the back nine to watch is the approach to the 13th hole.

Now a lot of people are going to talk about the drive on 13. Basically, it's a very wide fairway. But if the pros hit driver, they'll have to hit a plateau on the left edge of the fairway.

That's about 20 to 25 paces across. I actually went out there and paste this earlier today. That's that's exactly the kind of nerd I am. I went out and checked out exactly how far across the plateau is it's going to be very hard to hit.

And it's hard to tell exactly where the ball needs to land in order to stay up on the plateau because it just kind of gradually slopes down.

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