Valhalla Insights, Rory Diagnoses, and Other Lessons Learned from the 2014 PGA Championship

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

One day away from the start of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, Garrett and Joseph jump on the pod to discuss the insights they gleaned from rewatching the 2014 PGA Championship, the last major held at Valhalla. They chat about how the tournament played in 2014 and how this week's PGA Championship may play similarly or differently. Most of the conversation focuses on the golf course, both from a design and a playing style perspective, but there's also some discussion/dissection of 2014 champion Rory McIlroy's game, strategic approach, and mental attitude. The episode closes with thoughts on which players stand to benefit from this week's setup and conditions.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course So, Welcome to the Friday Golf Podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison and today we're talking
0:40.1	about Valhalla Golf Club. We're talking about Rory McElroy and we're looking back on some details of the 2014
0:48.3	PGA Championship which we think will really inform and illuminate what might happen this week during the
0:57.2	2024 PGA Championship. Here to discuss all of that with me is Joseph Lamagna. Joseph how you do.
1:04.4	Garrett I'm doing great I love talking major championship golf with you so I'm really
1:08.5	excited to do this. So we both watched the final round telecast of the 2014 PGA.
1:16.0	We used our we used our inside media connections to get a hold of this video
1:20.4	because it's actually not available publicly. Maybe it should be, maybe just throw that up on
1:25.6	YouTube, it would be cool to have it. But in any case, we got to watch this telecast and mainly
1:31.1	we were looking at it to collect some observations about the golf course,
1:35.0	how certain holes played, what kind of playing style Valhalla tends to prefer, all that kind of stuff.
1:42.0	But just to give people the high-level summary of what happened on that Sunday in 2014,
1:51.0	the tournament basically came down to a four-way dual between Rory McElroy, Ricky Fowler, Phil
1:57.6	Mikkelson, and Henric Stenson.
1:59.8	Now I had forgotten that Stenson was so involved in this final round, but he was actually tied for the lead at one point on the back nine.
2:10.0	In any case, the big drama was between Rory, Ricky, and Phil.
2:15.0	Ricky and Phil were in the second to last group.
2:18.0	Rory was in the final pairing with Bernard Viesberger.
2:21.0	Poor Viesberger was pretty much dropped from the coverage by the back nine,
2:24.9	even though he didn't like play that poorly until the final several holes.
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