That wtf look and “No” absolutely killed me
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What a great episode last night. GR looks awesome and 'm digging these 40 min + episodes as well. Great stuff!
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I have a friend who does this every time. Second hole at his course. From the one ups a tree really impacts the tee shot, from the backs you can just blow it over the tree so they play that one hole from the back.
If you listen to Andy’s different pods, he is all about switching up the tees. In the one TFE event I attended, we played the morning 18 from the blues but in the PM round, Andy went around and set up his own tees. Some holes were tipped out, some were from the forward tees, others were somewhere in-between. This definitely made for an interesting round.
I do understand Big’s reluctance though, since it was a match, I’d want to stick to sanctioned tees in this case instead of having the sherpa create a hybrid routing. If it was just a random round, I bet Andy would’ve had a field day picking out different tees throughout the holes.
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I can’t help but think that if the Sarge had been in St Andrew’s, the big guy’s door would have been blown off of its hinges
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When the picture is truly worth a thousand words @Cody
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I assume separate tees is a non-starter for shooting purposes? Just too many extra logistics.
Seems more logical to let Big play from 6K and he gets the appropriate amount of fewer strokes.
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At DS it would have been a great time for those guys to play random tees that make each hole more interesting. For the match…no way. I just played DS on Saturday in their yearly Halloween event where they trick out the course and you are teeing off from random tee boxes and even cross county holes. Its an epic day of golf there.
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I think part of that for the PM rounds at TFE Events are that you’re playing alt-shot. No one’s posting their own score anyway, so the tees don’t really matter. It also can help speed things up since the potential for ejection is high in alt-shot (but not for me/my partner as the alt-shot champs at a TFE event).
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Ah yes, I did forget to mention that, sorry. But yeah, if you’re not posting a score or playing a match, I’m all for messing around with tees.
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It is hilarious that you threw his swing in here to rag on
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Wow. I disagree with every single take here. Exact opposite. Randys vibe all day over Merch’s passive aggressive chip on his shoulder thru these matches. Andy might be my favorite golf personality…he always makes me laugh.
Also, anyone else have the distinct feeling we are in for a mega icarito this season? I feel it in my bones.
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With the exception of Randy’s insistence on hitting cups and not screwing around with tee boxes. What are we doing here? Are we trying to have fun?
tee selection does not matter for filming. we simply go where the match is being played from.
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yeah I’m suggesting that they should play the match from different tees to make it better for Big, but it’s probably a pain for shooting between multiple tees / kills the flow of dialogue.
obviously the strokes net out the same, but I’d rather play from a more comfortable yardage than be hitting from 200 in all day with more strokes.
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The difference at Kingsley is that you can play the gold tees, for example, but there are actually different sets of gold tees. On four, it’s 411 from the upper tees, about 405 from the lower front gold, and 465 from the lower back gold. Nine has about a 30 yard difference between the golds on the south tees and west tees. 14 has two gold tee boxes, one at about 605, and one at 555. 17 also has two gold boxes, one at about 515, and one at about 550. For years, they used to rotate such that if the tees were on the front gold box on 14, it was on the back box on 17 and vice versa. 16 has a long tee box where the golds could be anywhere from 200 to 220 as well.
Short version: You can play the actual gold tees at Kingsley two days in a row, and it could be 150 yards longer one day than the next. There’s also a way back tee on 9 south that stretches it to about 230, but that’s never in play except maybe for the shootout at the member guest.
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Every time I watch this episode and see Randy open the door smiling, with the finger up like “give me a minute” I KNOW how enraged it would make me if I’d been waiting for him. Especially seeing him in a towel like he was showering up while I was waiting. That’s more of a ME thing than a Randy thing but man…I’d go nuclear
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The number of times I’ve been in @Cody’s position just absolutely fuming because someone is late and isn’t even bother to rush is…high. Some of my best friends are habitual violators and it drives me up an absolute wall.
It’s magnified by 100 on our 20 man Ryder Cup trip when it’s 10+ guys who are late to tee times and don’t care. Fun!
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I think at Ballyneal, they don’t even have a course rating on the card, and the yardages on the scorecard is just a range from back to front. Like the first hole is 380-320. There are long, snaking tee boxes with flat areas strewn throughout. It’s designed for match play where whoever wins the hole picks the next tee box. It could be a problem if you’re really a stickler about always posting scores.
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I used to have to lie about tee times for a certain group of friends because i knew they’d be 15 minutes late.
One of them took a Myers-Briggs personality test at work, and came back and said, “Oh…I get it now. You care about punctuality, that MATTERS to you.” I was like, “Yeah, that’s why I’m angry waiting on your ass all the time!” But it is clear that it’s a personality thing - some people literally can’t be bothered to be on time, and the only way to deal with it is to accept it and work around it.
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