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00:00 a star pairing of Tom Kim and Roy McIlroy that shoot matching 64s on Sunday.
00:06 And that's the one that I kind of want to unpack a little bit.
00:08 Yeah, I think so too.
00:09 I think those two guys as we head into a signature event,
00:13 as we head into the US Open, just kind of getting the gauge for both of their games.
00:18 You know, we, as we know, Roy's been playing very well,
00:21 has had some, you know, all the stuff off the course that, you know, it's,
00:26 I don't, I would be just be speculating to, you know, if I was saying whether or not that is hurt or helped,
00:32 you know, maybe in some ways he can kind of get that off his mind and really focus on his golf.
00:36 And maybe that's a boost for him. I'm not sure.
00:39 But, you know, Tom Kim, a guy who has maybe had a little bit of an up and down go,
00:45 his caddy, of course, left for Ludwig Oberg's bag.
00:49 And he had Paul Tesori who went from Cam Young's bag to briefly Brendan Todd's bag and then ended up on his bag.
00:55 And I'm just wondering, you know, let's let's maybe start with Tom Kim.
00:58 So this is a guy that we haven't really talked about a ton this year of just what you think this this finish does for him.
01:05 As we head into a stretch of the season where he's played good the last couple of years,
01:09 like in this sort of June, July, you know, part of the calendar over the Scottish Open Open Championship.
01:15 Could this be sort of him hitting his stride this year?
01:18 You know, very well could be. But I think you got to start with when a guy is not playing well,
01:24 he's not had a good year and he shoots a six under on Sunday.
01:28 It's like, all right, let's let's just see what were the circumstances like?
01:32 Was he close to the lead? I mean, shouting distance. But who is he playing with?
01:37 Was it a random person? Well, one, it was Rory McIlroy.
01:41 So, you know, you get the biggest crowds and it's an opportunity for you to go prove to yourself, hey, you know what?
01:47 I can go out and play shot for shot with Rory McIlroy.
01:50 And that's what he did on Sunday. Like you said, shooting a matching six under sixty four.
01:55 I mean, that's huge, man. This guy, his best finish this year is a T-17.
02:00 After that, it's a T-24. I mean, the guy has not had a top ten this year until this week.
02:05 He's only missed three cuts, but he's done nothing, really nothing,
02:09 no type of real low rounds that we're accustomed to seeing from Tom.
02:13 Like we saw in Las Vegas, we saw Wyndham. And, you know, you just it's very odd.
02:19 It's his scoring average just on the weekend has just gotten worse and worse.
02:24 He's one hundred tenth on Sundays this year with seventy point four, too.
02:28 So that's a big step today. You are shooting sixty four. I mean, there's no doubt there's plenty of game with this guy,
02:33 but he's had a lot of hurdles this year. And I read that he said that he was in the bad draw.
02:40 Data Golf actually said you're actually been your top 20 and the correct draws.
02:46 But he I remember is talking to him at the players and he just switched back to his old coach.
02:53 His I think Sam Cyrus, his name, his name's kind of escaping me.
02:57 I'm like ninety nine percent sure that's right. Which was the coach he he when he had turned pro and was working with a coach.
03:07 That's who's that's what he came out with. And he's had a bunch of different coaches over the years.
03:12 I say over the years, really just over the last year and a half. He's kind of bounced around a little bit.
03:16 Cameron Cormack, Chris Cone, now back with Sam Sire. So I think he finally was getting settled.
03:23 You know, it's not easy going from, you know, having all the success to.
03:28 All right. Now my caddies left. I'm changing coaches. And I think it just kind of caught up to him a little bit.
03:33 Netflix. I mean, the stage just gets a little bit bigger. Right.
03:36 Expectations get higher. And I think for Tom, he's a guy that he he wants to be the best.
03:43 And if you've watched the Netflix episode of his, that was a feature that comes across.
03:49 He he wants to, you know, be friends with Scotty and and all these top players to pick their brains because he wants to be as good as them.