“We want carnage” w/ U.S. Open course setup man Jeff Hall
Fore Play
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🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Hall from the USGA joins the show to breakdown setting up Shinnecock Hills for the U.S. Open. How far back does the preparation go? How does he monitor the firmness? What will be the winning score? The guys also preview the tournament, get ready to head out east for a fully credentialed U.S. Open experience, and discuss Jimmy Walker's “backstopping” comments. Oh, and Dustin Johnson is coming off a walk-off eagle and 6-stroke victory!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey four play listeners you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast Spotify or YouTube |
| 0:06.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. It is a big week |
| 0:10.6 | It is a very large week. We are going to be out at the US open because it's US open week |
| 0:16.1 | Little announcement. We have a bonus podcast that'll be coming out Thursday morning |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to be talking all about our experience a bit Chinatown what the course looks like |
| 0:26.7 | Talking to some players having media credentials because |
| 0:30.0 | We are credentialed. We are we're official no big deal kind of a large deal |
| 0:34.6 | A big show we have Jeff Hall from the USGA course setup guy |
| 0:38.7 | We talked to him for a good 40 minutes. We do an entire US open preview |
| 0:43.9 | We got a nice house this week up at Chinatown beautiful house |
| 0:49.0 | I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was showing it to people all weekend because I had a |
| 0:53.5 | Did a little search on the internet of the address and boy where people impressed |
| 0:58.8 | I've been showing it to people like it's my house |
| 1:01.6 | Like it's like my family. That's my golf that is my vineyard. I think they have vineyard in their backyard |
| 1:07.6 | It looks vineyard you've heard sure there's a vineyard in the backyard. There's a pool that that's my tennis court |
| 1:11.9 | You know, yeah, that's my corridor. I've been using that word a lot the pool |
| 1:15.7 | It's very rare that you see a backyard where the pool is like a fraction of the backyard |
| 1:21.6 | Like there's so much green and the pool is just kind of in the middle of it |
| 1:24.8 | It's an afterthought and it's a great pool usually the pool dominates the landscape the pool and this thing is like |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, I guess there is a pool in that huge yard |
| 1:32.8 | You just you do a dip in the pool on your way to the tennis court and to |
| 1:37.5 | Squeeze some grapes in the vines |
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