Tom Kim joined Soly from No Laying Up for a three hole, alternate shot match – but there’s a twist: irons only from tee to green. Watch as Tom and Soly put their T-Series irons to the test at Pablo Creek as they try to break par.
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Rolling Grant. Hi Grant. Four Grant. [Music] Let’s go. Well, if we hold this one, I think we got to hit the hit him with the night, don’t we? Okay. Absolutely. Do it. Do it. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. So, it’s threeh hall challenge. We have to try to shoot underpar, but can’t use woods. Uh, it’s a par4, par three, par4. How would you You got President’s Cup experience. How would we stagger out how we would uh set up the alternate shot? I think I’m a I I’m a pretty confident iron player, so if you can put me on the fairway. Obviously, we got the par three coming up. I think we I think we have a good chance. I have you budgeted in that I’ve been on paternity leave for a month and haven’t swung a golf club. I just want that excuse documented one. And is that part is that budgeted into the strategy as well? Yeah, I mean, okay. You know, again, think no driver’s help. So just just bunt it down there anywhere. No, I’m going to hit I’m going to hit it. We’re going to need we’re going to need a a decent one here. I think we got to get we got to make a birdie on one of them. Okay. Just letting you know. Your excuse kind of has brought my confidence down a little bit, but I just like the speed though. I I wanted you to factor that into the uh I just brought a ball just in case. Oh gosh, that that is not a strong endorsement. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Good thing I brought a ball. Is that okay? What was his name again? Grant. Grant. Is it safe? Can we get a signal? It’s in play. It’s in play. Okay. All right. Good. I know that right is worse than left on this one. That’s the only uh Okay. The only the only fact I was working off on that one. It’s a good strike. You just drew. Yeah. I’ve been doing speed training. Uh, which that speed looked nice. You got fast pretty quickly. I mean, you came out. I remember watching you wind him. It was like, man, this guy’s about to win at 160 mph ball speed. Yeah. And how how did you get fast as quickly as you did? So, obviously spending a lot of lot of time in the gym consistently. um my sequence got just got better and I worked on it little by little and like as I got stronger and also playing out on tour I was like it wasn’t my rookie season but because I won it became my rookie season but actually spending time out here playing with guys who were longer just automatically you kind of kind of give it a little extra you know constantly and you just get a little bit longer and longer you start playing with these guys and you start playing the longer courses you just adapt a little That’s been helpful for me. Like I’m sitting at in a tournament at 173 74 mph compared That’s 10 more That’s 10 miles more than I I started with. So definitely it’s been a big change for me. It’s been helpful. I mean, you can see the difference. Oh, way back here. Okay, we might get some relief here. Actually, this might be good. This isn’t that bad. This is We’re going to get some relief here. It looks like we get a drop. Thank you. We call official. Yeah. All right. Not ideal here, but what do you got? We’re not as bad as we thought from the team. 180 flag. I think we’d get some relief from this. 180 flag. Can you get it to cover the bunker, please? Sure. So, the top lip of the bunker on the front right corner is 170. Okay. Nearest point. Obviously, driver length. Oh, yeah. Great window here. How good’s your dropping ability? Not great. I’m a terrible dropper. I did kind of roll the bottom so bad. We got a deer running through the fairway here. Oh, that’s cool. Hi, buddy. Oh, we got another one. Two of them. That’s cool. All right, focus. So, front left pin. We’re obviously not ideal here in the left. Where are you aiming? What? How How do the math on this shot? 180 pin, 170 to the front right corner of that bunker. 170. Okay. What’s the math here? So, I think it’s going to jump a little bit. I think, you know, shorts a little better on the right. I got this limb kind of hanging out. So, I’m going to try to draw it, which is going to give me a little bit of extra yardage. The pin’s up on a little tear as well, just for the like if you if you do you want to be short, right? I think so. I mean, that’s a dangerous pin to get at from from this spot. And if like if you hit it in line with Grant there at the camera, it’s going to probably fall a little bit right towards the bottom. Good news is I made a putt from down there earlier earlier today, so I know what it does. Okay. All right. So, just going to try to draw a seven iron. If it’s short, it’s short. If it gets there, what’s your stock seven iron? So, I in a tournament, I’d probably go 180. Okay. Uh 182. It’s very slow right now, so probably it’s going to go 175 to 170, but with a draw in the rough should be pretty good. Yep. You got a prov for me, too, so it’s going to even spin less. That’s right. Oo. Ah, it’s going to be short. Go. How short is that? Oh, it’s like it’s hanging on the lip of the bunker. Is it really? I still see it. It’s in the rock. Grant, where is it? It’s in the I see it. All right, that’s going to put my Oh, I don’t I might have to hit that left-handed, actually. This is going to get really interesting. Oh, boy. Look, I’ll take the blame for that. For putting you putting you over here on the left and making play with my golf ball. I didn’t realize we were that was a problem. We It’s going to be a fun shot. Um All right. Well, if we hole this one, I think we got to hit the hit him with the night, don’t we? Okay. Absolutely. Even though we don’t have opponents here. Absolutely. This actually isn’t I I will run around the green if you if you chip us in. This isn’t that that bad. A little above my All right. So, what’s the what’s the What are you doing here? I’m going to open the face of a 58 a little bit. Uh ball’s a little above my feet. Okay. I feel like if I hit a pretty high one, I can land it both on the green and it should I love that. Or if I hit don’t get all of it and it lands on that down slope, it should trickle down anyways. I agree. The higher the better. Okay. Wow, that was a firm bounce. Yeah, it’s firm out here. It’s actually pretty good. That was that was firm. I kind of thought they would fall a little right. These these greens are like carpet. So, I think you can make this one. But I’m going to need your help on this one. It’s my first part of the day. They’re nice and they’re nice and smooth. Nice and fast. Okay. Uh you tell me what you get out of a point. I still don’t know how to do that, but um I feel like So, it’s going to go right early. Okay. Looks like the grain’s following like at the end. It’s really It’s going to be It’s going to straighten out the end. Grain should be right here. Okay. So, probably going a little that way. Yeah, I see the right early and it shouldn’t do much once it gets closer to the hole. I agree. So, you think like a ball out or I would say edge? Yeah, like ball out max. Okay, I would is where I would have it. These greens are fast, right? They’re fast. Okay. Go. They’re not that fast, man. I talked you into that. Hey, pass for me. Just came from a tournament. You got to you got to meant to be. Our backs against the wall now. Okay. Good news is we have a 220 par 3 coming up next. Good news. Also, we can switch to Rome 1X if we want. Do you like playing like if you uh what’s more fun in like President’s Cup? Playing alt shot or playing four ball? I think there’s more pressure in alternate shot. I think it’s actually more fun alternate shot. That’s really fun. I think it’s way more intense. It’s easier to follow for fans, too. It’s one ball in play and it’s goes fast. I think guys screw up more when it’s alternate ball, too. Yeah. I think cuz like the the one thing about the American team they’re so good at is that one guy will hit out of play. One guy will shoot even par, the other guy might shoot like three under, but they’ll have like nine birdies. They cover it all up. Like, you know what I mean? Like one guy might make triple and one guy might make birdie. Doesn’t matter. And like it’s just it’s it’s so frustrating. It’s a different animal. It’s match play, especially team match play, is such a different beast. All right, we’re up a box, but this is a tough little pin. Probably got I’m guessing about 200. It is. Nope. 191. It’s to cover the bunker. So to cover the bunker in line with the pin 179 and the front left is like 174 playing down three yards it says. And so everything does feed down to the right to this pin on the whole green. So just kind of like landed at Grant. I would say that’d be perfect. What club you got here? I got sixiron. Sixiron. Little firm greens. Yep. Well, I I would say firm greens, but I also told you that last putt was fast, so I’m a little nervous to give you give you any course information here. All right. Stuff one and I’ll make it. We are one over, so I’m going to be a little aggressive. Okay. Try immigrant. It’s all right. Okay. Go. How short is that? That land soft. Wow. Went nowhere. All right, we can give this one a little run. It’s a good thing I actually misled cuz that you would have been in the bunker actually. Big swinger here. Yep. There’s our mark. It’s actually not that fast, huh? Overall up. I agree. And like I think if if we’re going to miss it, like a little pass isn’t bad because we’re going to go uphill. So Well, we need to make it, right? Because we’re trying to shoot. We got to break car. I agree. I mean, that doesn’t mean I blow it off the green, but let’s see here. Like it kind of coming in right where you were or so even just a little left of that. What pace are you seeing here? You going to try to dive it in or um I mean we’re just going to try to make it. So, I see the ball kind of rolling over right around here. Okay. And whatever you kind of want to do with your speed to kind of match Okay. What’s going to go through there? It should be starting to be down from where you were pointing. Yeah. I mean, it’s like after the first 10 ft, it’s it’s all downhill. Okay. Looks really good. Looks really good. Do it. Do it. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. I’m so I made that. First take. First take. Oh my goodness. We’re still alive. Let’s go. Oh my gosh. That was so good. Good read. Good read. All right, we’re alive. Oh, it’s amazing. I got to find a good two iron now. All right. Easy two. These are the kind of greens where you can know like 10 feet out like that. There’s there’s nothing that can hit to make it miss. Oh, now I got my heart rate up. All right, I can smoke one here. All right, Sully. So, very similar situation. We just did night night. Yep. So, we did that a little early. It’s the same situation. I’d like to change the result, the outcome. I’d like to win and not lose. Okay. So, hit a good one for me. Okay. What ball What What ball flight are you thinking? Um, I kind of just hit a draw with this thing. So, I’m just going to kind of go it’ll it’ll be under this tree limb anyways, but like just inside this tree limb. Okay. And I think either way it probably should stay short of bunkers. But hang in. Sit. Sit down. Just stay out of there. Flush that. Oh, way short. Yeah, we’re good. Nice and close. Fairway. That’s what happens when you hit two iron. That’s going to be a decent angle at that right pin, too. It’s be a long shot. We get We can We can absolutely burn this. Yeah. What’s it? How far is it? 186. Okay. All right. We got a decent angle. I’d love it if we were closer, but 186 flag. Um, what’s it to cover that bunker on the right? Well, I got 174 front in line with Grant there. The top of that bunker is 179. Okay, perfect. Uh there’s not a whole lot good to the right of that pin. So I think again just kind of something little left of it. Right. It Yeah. Little left of it. Okay. Plenty of good places to putt from there. Need to channel my inner presence cup right here. Let’s go. Coming down the stretch. Going right at it. Let’s go. Oh, he loves it. Great shot. Great shot. See, now there’s pressure on that putt. There was no pressure on my putt last hole. Uh, I would need to make that one. Great shot. Knew it when he is that six. Yeah. Yeah. Knew it when he hit it. Hell yeah. I love it. All right. You’re going to read this one for me. Corner right in. Yeah. What a shot, dude. Thank you. you I you know it’s funny like I I don’t know about you but wouldn’t you want like a longer putt or even like a shorter putt like it’s there’s some pressure on this one 6 feet and percentage from 6 feet on tour is not as high as people think what would it be about 60s something% from I don’t know from six feet I think the 50% mark so they say this is probably inside six Yeah, I think it’s just six, actually. Yep, just six. All right. Green here. And the hole sitting on the side there. I mean, yeah, you do the you do the aim point math for me here. All right. The slope’s definitely going left. So if you aim point and like on Bermuda also, do you have to add grain on top of the aim point? So what I like to start with, I definitely just like to start with aim point and then play grain. Okay. I feel like it’s just easier for me to calibrate. So I kind of had it like overall kind of right here. Okay. Again, all depending on your speed, of course, you can adjust for whatever you want to feel like. That’s just a reference point. Yep. It’s kind of like to do aim point anyway. Just kind of have your reference point and then kind of go in and feel it. I think this goes in, man. All right, Sully, do it. Bury it. [Music] Shoved it. Is that good? No, that wasn’t even close. Listen, that was not a good effort. You can make that. Ah, is that good? How do I make the bomb and miss that? It’s very pressuring. You got it. I mean, come on. That was such a bad putt. My touch is not is is slow to come back. All right. All right, we fell one short. We’re very ner That was a lot of pressure. Yeah, we lost the challenge. I was the one feeling the heat there. Sorry I let you down. Sorry I let you down. That was a great great shot in there. We tried. I’m hitting that putt again. Where’s that P? Please. That was not a hard putt. I over overthought that one. A little too hard, I think. Yeah. All right. Well, if I missed it three times, then it was Wasn’t meant to be. Was not meant to be. It’s amazing in golf how you make you made a 60footer and then you miss a sixfooter. That was fun. Thanks for sharing some of your President’s Cup experience there. I’m glad we got one moment that we can remember. I know. Damn. I’m 0 for two in the night night. That one’s on me. That one’s on me. I’ll wear that one. He’s going to do the You want to get in on your foot? Oh, did I miss? Yeah. you out of it. You actually end up getting Oh, miss low. Well, again, not that easy, huh? You hit it so hard I got full. They are. Wow, that thing snapped. How’d you miss it? Right. Special talent. I give up. That’s a shame. I cannot make it in three. That thing broke so much. [Music] First take
