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are these guys will have an outside chance. It really depends on these first really the first nine holes. If they can, you know, miraculously get out in the, you know, four or five or six under par, then all of a sudden it’s game on. Was on SiriusXM radio, PGA Championship Radio earlier, CEO Derek Sprag came on as we’re going to take a look at the action from our two guys, Tony Feno and Bryson Dambo. And I’ll share that conversation with Derek Sprag in just a moment. very different moves to the ball. Yeah, both big guys, tall guys. Tony’s really tall and you can see how low his hands are and how far out in front. And then look at the difference in the length of the back swing. Bryson is going for the fences every swing. Tony is going to the fence right down the middle if he can. Trying to hit it out of Quail Hollow. Yes, he is. And Tony Phenom plays his cut. Bryson Dambo, baby draw. Both both of them hit their signature T-ball right there. So that’s we we had hoped to see a lot of that today. And looking at the hole locations and it was on PGA Championship Radio with Brendan Young who’s going to be over on the other stream this afternoon on ESPN Plus. He saw a lot of birdable hole locations for the US Open. If you have a number in the lead after 54 holes, normally if you just protect that number, you’ll win it. At Augusta for the Masters, very different. second night on Sunday, there tends to be volatility where someone could go four or five under and try and chase you down. And I’d ask Derek, what’s the mentality for the the PGA Championship? It’s DNA when setting up Sunday hole locations. And they’re more like Augusta where they they want there to be birdies. They want there to be roars from the gallery. They want there to be the opportunity for someone to go on a serious run, which could be from seven to 15 or for Scotty Sheffller. Yesterday was 14 through 18. Five under the last five. Let’s listen into them first. Yeah. I mean, even four. No, three’s fine. 84. The wind 12 13 is a seven. No, it’s got to be eight, right? 96. The numbers it says are still seven, but I don’t like 1037. I don’t really like it here. I like a good eight. Down a little bit, too. Yeah. Is this still one of these? Yeah, but just like try to flight it and uh Yeah, we’re just on it. It’s what 11:00 right now. Yep. And it’s on it or just left if it’s fine, too. Music bumping off in the distance. The conversation done. Steve Scott, what do we got in? Greg Boddine with the marching orders there. 189 for Bryson. Wind out of the left. Pretty good, but it should fit this front hole location. That’s very accessible. [Music] He’s watching it intently and that’s why that was not a great start with a club with an eight on the bottom of it. You said your key for him today was the iron game. Well, unforced air from middle of the fairway that it’s been his. That’s why he didn’t contend more at Augusta. mostly in. Just the tiniest bit on the left, but yeah, we’re trying to finish just barely left this flag, right? 10 steps closer. 179 for Tony Fe now here. And unlike Bryson, he has hit his iron so much better. Number six in proximity to the hole so far this week, averaging about 39 ft. Trying to bring it in left to right. Looks like he’s done a pretty decent job of it. Short. There’s the wind, George. One of them looks like it kind of got caught up in the wind and the other one kind of was going everywhere. So, still going to be tough. Both guys will be scrambling. I would assume where Feno ended up the easier up and down of the two. I don’t think there’s any doubt. Um, back to your point earlier, the pin the hole locations pin placements are definitely birdieable today. They’re are hoping I think they’re hoping for a few guys to take advantage of it and try to try to put some pressure on Scotty Sheffler. And if Scotty Sheffler plays like he did yesterday, I’d say it’s probably going to be a moot point. Burns 467 that’s already in the house. Three players of Porter on the course. Cory Connors, Harris English, Thor Bujorn, and Olison. They’re all late in the day on the backside. Connors playing the 18th. Harris English through 14. Olison threw 16 for much of yesterday and it appeared that 67 would be the low score for the third round. Then Alex Noran went four under his last five to shoot 66. I figured okay 66 is going to be the low number and Scotty Sheoffller somehow goes five under the last five to top that with the 65. Well, they got go they got the momentum going on the on the two easy holes 1415 and then miraculously they made some birdies on the green mile as they’re with us on ESPN plus George Samaricus and Scott Vlank with Bryson Dambo Tony Fen out just beginning their walk around Quail Hollow final round coverage if you want full final round coverage it’s now over on CBS Steve Scott walking with our tusome Dambo pacing off his third shot. Any idea how far onto the green he’s going to try and land this, Steve? Yeah, he’s walking right around where he’s going to do it. You know, it’s very doable from this left side, guys. It’s the the right side is the bad miss here. So, both these players have left it in a reasonable spot. Bryson’s chip is going to break, you know, two and a half, three feet maybe, but it’s working more up the hill. And he and he got a fortunate break to get it into the first cut of rough as well. It’s not in the primary cut, so should get some clean contact on it. Yeah, no doubt. If this ball was sitting in the thicker stuff, it’d be a much more be much more of a guessing game. The scrambling game has not been sharp though this week. 12 of 19 through three rounds. So, he needs to make sure he chips and putts. You’re going to miss some greens today with this wind. third shot. Keep going a little bit. And that’s an excellent approach right there which Steve mentions the scrambling numbers and that’s a nice start for Dambo. He led the field at the Masters through three rounds and that’s how he was in that final group. But you don’t want to be totally reliant on your short game to to save you. this week. 12 for 19 is not a phenomenal number and that’s part of the reason why he’s six behind Scotty Sheffler. Well, the real reason he’s six behind is because of his horrible finish yesterday. But if you leave yourself in like where Tony is here, your scrambling number should be pretty good. Feet up. Looks like there’s a great chance for two routine fours and moving forward. Tony pops it in. Paron one, which as we saw yesterday is not a bad way to start. Very few birdies and a fair amount of bogeies with the wind blowing like this. anything to this for Dashambo? Not really. If anything, it just kind of works towards the front of the green from his left to right, but mostly uphill. Such a difficult hole this first just to get off with a nice solid four. You’re you’re beating people for sure with strokes. Yeah, and it’s such a hard hole that it’s kind of a calming effort if you can just make par and get over there and bust one over the trees on number two. A lot of birdies for the field so far on this second hole. 14 in this final round here. Sharp dog leg left. Uh, it’s 457, but the way these guys are going to play it, the hole only plays about 420, 415 because they go right over the trees on the left. Both of these guys, if they hit a nice drive, they got wedge or some sort of wedge into this fairly benign hole location. Um, a little surprised that this one’s in the middle of the green. So, they’re they’re inviting birdies. Hold, please. Yeah, you can see the tallest tree there on just behind his cap, just behind his head. That little gap just to the right of it sets up perfect for Tony’s high cut. It’s about 308 around the corner, but yeah, it’s all about the trajectory you hit this one. Definitely helping on the wind. Goodyear blimp kind of right over this second fairway here helping guide these players with the wind as well. This one not quite high enough. Yeah, he didn’t like it. Hoping it’ll get through. He’s trying to cheat through the trees. Appears that it got caught up. Oh, please. Bryson going to take a different airspace with his T- shot. Yeah, he’s going to take it up the left side of that U in the trees there. I mean, he’s just had a little nothing into this second green all week. Yeah, four if you’re on the blimp. Yeah, this could be 150 or 60 foot apex right here. Hammer time. He hammered it. Hopefully doesn’t go too far. [Music] [Applause] And it’s ideal. You couldn’t drop it out there any He’s the only guy that could drop it out there. He mentioned he’s got to hit fairways. Two for two the first two holes. Tony Feno 69 yesterday trying to take it deep on Sunday. Same story for Bryson Dashambo. All smiles early with the driver. [Music] [Music] There are thousands of golf tournaments, the infamous six-man at the Clarksdale Country Club and the member guest at Cherokee and ProAams and amateur matchplay events. But really, there are only four golf tournaments. a victory at Bela. Another US Open Championship, the champion golf of the year. Maroy has his masterpiece. This is the PGA Championship. How good was that call at Augusta National, the great gymnasts? Mroy has his masterpiece. Well, Scotty Sheffller trying to win his third major championship. Wonder what the call will be later today if Scotty Sheoffller can get it done. If I were to give you Scott Bank, Scotty Sheffller or the rest of the field, who are you going to take? Scotty Sheffller. I mean, you can’t bet against the guy. He’s the best player in the world and he’s seemingly getting better each day. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Let me just double There’s the ball position. Steve Bryson Desamble only hit 353 yards on that one. Yeah, with about four yards a roll. So, uh, yeah, just a nice little monster carry at 349 right there. Tony Fen now, he’s got a pretty reasonable line this left. Pretty fortunate it got through the trees. Should be really no issue between he and the whole location. The only issue is just stopping this ball, right? But the green does slope pretty good from kind of back left to front right. So correct. I would say six yard could help. You’re not be able to stop it with spin. You’re going to have to stop it with trajectory. But if you can hit in that ups slope and let it trickle right up to that top center terrace. This hole is only located about 12 ft above the ridge that bisects this green. just wants to pick it up a little bit and just came out soft. Second straight hole. Feno just short with his approach. Maybe being a little cautious not to hit it past this hole location. Dambo longest drive on two today by 10. All right, he’s got to get these approaches dialed in. This is A1 position right here. distance. He struggles with short wedge shots to Shambo has to come back. It’s going to be a quick one right there. Would sure like to have that same distance putting up the hill. You were so spot on in punctuating how Scotty Sheffller was always either hole high or leaving himself uphill birdie putts yesterday. And that’s that fine line where Bryson’s just enough off with his wedges where that birdie putt goes from one you can be offensive with to slightly defensive lift with based on how far he carried it and where it ended up. Well, there’s no doubt that this next putt is a defensive putt. Um, but you’re right. That’s why Scotty is winning this week and has been winning worldwide for a couple of years. He’s just he leaves the ball in the right the right spot and is the best course manager there is in today’s golf. You’ve had top 10 and top five finishes in major championships. When when you bit a chaser, what have you done to try and create some momentum for yourself? Well, you bait the the the majors are the big best example of one shot at a time and don’t force it. Take what the course will give you and that’s kind of what these guys they feel like they need to force it. Um but you’re still going to have to play smart to give yourself putts. Bryce, like I said, Bryson would be so much better off if he was underneath the hole 15 ft versus above it. So, you’re going to have to make some of those though if you want to make a comeback. What’s the play for now, Steve? Yeah, he’s going to the wedge again. I mean, he could putt this one if he wants to, but pretty tidy chip there on number one. Feels pretty good about his touch around the greens off this very tight approach, but up the hill. Shouldn’t get away from him. A little low all the way. Okay, pretty solid. Yeah, it just I you know he’s going to have a little breaker here for a guy that is not his strong suit on these, you know, kind of makeable putts. You’d like to just chip him gimme like he did on the first hole. But if he gets away with a four after a kind of a not good drive, he’s all right. Are there times a made putt from four feet or six feet or eight feet for par? Can that be the catalyst to spark you as mundane as that sounds? Um, definitely. And and usually those putts are maybe after you’ve made two or three birdies and then you know this. Got it. So it’s later in the round. Yeah. The sixth hole you’re 300 through five and then you kind of mess up the sixth and you got a 12-footer for par and you make it and then it’s like let the horses run now. Got it. So it’s not like in the NBA where a shooter if they’re cold can make a couple free throws and then that maybe opens things up for them. Well, I think everybody’s different, but hey, if Tony’s making all his putts, I mean, I’d say these guys eventually are going to have some good chances at birdie. We have one for Dambo, Steve. Yeah, this one right here. I think this is a huge putt in so many ways. This second green is located right near the first tee and right near the practice range. This would give a whole message to everybody who is trailing Bryson that they would know that what he’s done right here. This crowd will go crazy. We’re about 15 20 deep around this green right now. 16 ft out to Shambo. Tough putt though. Look how he usually hit it and did not even get it there. Damn. Downhill and that’s short a couple feet. Yeah, that was I mean as soon as he hit it he he was like, “Oh my gosh, did I del that bad?” Defensive putt. Very defensive. And under 100 yardds in for a second. And that’s a missed scoring opportunity at two. Yeah. And unfortunately he doesn’t. Not that it’s that he’s not going to make it, but he left it 2 and 1/2 ft short putting down the hill again. A little tidler here for Tony Fee. Now he’s going to have to play this just on top of the hole. It’s got quite a bit of break to it. You can see how easy he hit that. But that was a that was a excellent stroke right there. You know, Scott, going back to Bryson, I thought it was very interesting in his warm-up on the putting green how he calibrates his putting. He had a launch monitor out there we were watching and very systematic approach. There’s not a whole lot of free flowing feel to it. It’s, you know, it’s it’s really a paint by numbers sort of scenario for him. Yeah, we were both watching that going, well, it must work for him because it it has up to this point, but it did not work on that first downhill 16footer. Definitely how his brain is wired for sure. Yeah, this one not a whole lot of break. Just get her started. cars across the board. Two down, 16 to go. Yeah, I think he’s still confused with how he didn’t hit that one hard enough. Taking some time to soak it all in on the second green. We’re going to go Tiger to the third. Scott another long very straight par4 at 493. Winds in mainly left to right but a little in. So that makes it a little more uncomfortable to hit the fairway. But once again the pin is kind of in the back middle of the green. A little bit easier spot than it was yesterday. Yesterday was on the back right and it was just on top of a little knob. A good drive here and you got to feel like you can get yourself a really good look at birdie. numbers for the third hole this week. Seventh most difficult and that’s the same story for this final round as well. Yeah, it’s just all about if you’re in the short grass, you can be aggressive to this whole location. If you happen to be in the rough, you’re going to just take what it gives you. Well, Tony’s found that left rough each of the first three rounds here, expecting the wind to push it more to the right. still working left to right like it has all week though. So, not a whole lot dissimilar. We’ll see if he learned his lesson and adjust a little bit. Yeah, I think he’s got his fourth one in that left rough, guys. Oh, man. That’s okay, though. He’s not going to be too encumbered by the oak tree in between him and the hole. No, except that one looked like it really sat down on the last bounce. So, we’ll just have to see what it is. But it’s not cutting for him off this tea. All right. For the man who was number one in driving distance through three rounds, I don’t think that’s going to change through this whole championship. He needs accuracy. No, not necessarily distance here. And he’s setting up for his draw. [Music] This one’s way left. The start line was like he was playing for a big cut and then just turned over. Clearly pulled that well left. Yeah, maybe he’ll get lucky and catch a cleaner light cuz it’s over there where all the people are walking and sitting and all that, but that huge oak tree is going to be a factor in his next shot. The PG of America coaching center powered by T-Mobile features state-of-the-art technology from Trackman, Top Tracer, Swing Catalyst, Putt View, and Sam Putt. Here’s PGA professional Joe Howlet with more from Frisco on the driving differences between our two guys, George Scott. there. We we saw we have two different very different unique builds, unique swings, and we saw some of that on the first hole. But, you know, there’s a little secret. When you get to that level, they’re looking for any way to get yardage that they can. And the secret, it turns out, might be in the ground. I’ve got a force plate right here. And believe it or not, when I stand on there, I I see all that activity going on. It looks like my brain wave activity when I was hitting the part of the SAT. To be honest, what these players are doing, and they practice it every day, is learning when to really push and springboard off the ground. Now, for the average player, I’m going to give you a little clue here. If you’re moving around on the back swing, you’re not enjoying this game at all. If you’re pretty stable on the back swing and then you’re moving around when you start swinging down, you enjoy it sometimes and other times you wonder where the game went. But what these players are doing is they’re learning at the last possible second to put a little pop in this shot. Here’s a good way to remember it and a good way to do it. When you get set to hit, I want you to feel like the real oomph with your body occurs right after you hear or feel impact. So, I’m going to get up here. I’m going to try and make that real oomph, right after impact. It’s nothing but rainbows and unicorns. May the force be with you. There we go. Here are these two guys. Curious what was your trigger in your swing. But first, let’s look at Tony on the left, Bryson on the right. Yeah, Tonyy’s set up to hit his normal cut and for whatever reason hasn’t been cutting on this hole for him. If he’s hitting the left rough every day, Bryson is set up to hit his power draw and he just got over it and started left. And but just both of them. Tony’s more effort effortless looking, but he still hits it forever. You know, Bryson swings for the fences. That’s his long drive mentality. And it’s been very successful for him. Like it landed in someone’s lap with Bryson’s T-shot. There she is. Yeah. Now she doesn’t know what to do. Yep. Yep. Not quite played as it lies. No. What? So, for you to generate power, what was your kind of key in your swing or your your thought to to trigger it? It was definitely um a lot of what Joe was saying, you got to stay into the ground and for like myself, I always just tried to lengthen my back swing. Um you know, I was always always had maybe a 3/4 to short of parallel and if I really wanted to hit it further, I’d try to get all the way back. But listen, my power days were gone about 30 years ago. Actually, maybe 40. When I was in college, I was long. Not anymore. Once I started having surgeries, I was done. 40 year anniversary of your win as an amter in 1985 Western Open five times. Okay. Did we get Did we get the uh young lady moved or are they waiting still? Yeah, it’s it’s uh it’s it’s uh it’s tucked away down there. Okay. Well, that’s what I was uh Oh, how did it get under the Oh, okay. The great reveal. Yes. Okay. We We’ve seen it all, guys. We’ve seen it all. And this is going to actually be a really good break for Bryson. The birth of Bryson’s T-shot on the third. Yes. I’m just going to make I’m just going to What a beautiful lie. Sorry about that. Well, the grass should be all matted down there. So, he’s as far as the lie goes, he’s going to get a nice break. And she gets a side ball. Nice touch by of course, rangefinders, aka distance measuring devices in play at the PGA Championship as they have been last five years. PGA Tour just wrapped up a four-week test as well, so much more common place in the game. There’s the whole location on 327 on six off that right hand side. But Steve, I mean, all in all, seems like a really good break for Bryson. Uh yeah, real good. I mean, he can he’s going to have to go airborne very quickly though to get it over this willow oak tree that’s some 60 yards ahead of his ball. But if anybody can shoot a cannon up in the air, he can. But yeah, the lie. It’s all about the lie. This left side definitely more hospitable than the right side. Well, just the fact that it was on that mat and she’s sitting on it. No offense to her, but the grass is she and her husband. The grass is all matted down. So, it’s a tremendous tremendous break for Bryson. Yeah, everybody’s okay. Everybody’s good. He did the signed golf ball and everything. That was uh good on him. But it’s time to get back to business. She’ll never forget that moment. So, it’s 138. Look at her showing off the autograph ball in the background. Someone getting a video of it. Bryson in the foreground. You’re in the way, buddy. Yeah, it’ll be on Instagram or something before you know it. I don’t know how active she is on Instagram, but probably making rounds on social, but I still mine with cuz we’re trying to land at 146 with eight of our Y. Well, guys, Tony Fen now has played already. His ball hit this tree and it’s short of the green in the rough before the bunkers. Now Bryson, he’s going to go straight over it. Going moon ball. Good contact. Here’s a thud on the green. Chases towards that back tier and getting better. That’s a birdie putty can give a run. Well, this one Yeah. Uphill finally. Um good break. You know that’s what you do. you take advantage of a break that good cuz if you if you’re over there in that position in a squirly bad line, you’re pretty much in jail. Just hit it pure. What tree? TV does not do justice to how high hit that one. Yeah, that tree is a good 60 ft tall. Yeah, that is your that is the definition of like a specimen oak cloud scraper for a second. Get a laugh and a smile out of his caddy. No laughing matter for Phenoms third. No, he’s he’s scraping it around here. Well, we we didn’t get to see it, but his lie looked like it was just went right to the bottom. Yeah, it was it it was an okay lie that the tree is just so tall though. I mean, he he just didn’t have enough elevation on. Now he’s got about 65 yards here. He’s got room to work with. Plenty of green to let the ball release back. A lot of guess work out of this rough though. Yeah. Whether it’s going to release or and not horrible, but not he was hoping for more kind of jump out of that rough obviously. Hard putt for Tony birdie. Look for Bryson Dambo on the third green. Best run on the course. Harris English five under through 15. Began the day 11 back. He is now six back. Has worked his way inside the top 10. T7. Yeah. Yeah, five unders got a great chance of being a top 10, I think, particularly if the wind keeps kind of freshening. Two 67s from Cory Connors and Sam Burns. See if Connors can cash that low Canadian wager that SVP, Stanford, Steve, David Gordon were all discussing on the SVP pod earlier this week. It was between him and Taylor Pendrith. Cory Connors. Pend is three under with nine to go and five under. It’s a horse race. Connors has taken the low Canadian honors in a major four of the last five times. The game within the game. It keeps everyone entertained. Well, speaking of that, it would be entertaining if he could roll this in for a birdie three and get this crowd kind of uh charged up even more. And Bryson’s got one of these putts that a lot of that uh Scotty Sheoffller had yesterday, these uphill right to lefters. This is a much more horrible putt than he had back there on number two. really well done with, you know, altering his trajectory and then imagining and executing the proper distance over that tree. I mean, that was not a normal shot by any means, but his upright nature really helps him out of the rough. It helps him elevate. Now, he’s just got to roll some putts in on this championship Sunday. If you’re going to do something special, a few of these from this distance have to go in. 18 ft 11 in. I’m seeing about a cup and a half or two on the right. Just a little uphill. Just give it the right pace. Can’t be tative. No, those those days are gone. If he wants to have a chance to low round, he’s got to start giving these putts all he’s got at the third. Dambo for birdie. Needs to break. Just a little bit. It just looked like the ball hopped a tiny bit off to the right of where his line was lined up. So, solid par though. Just needs to start finding a way to get the ball close to the hole with these irons. People come to watch him play to see him hit the long ball, but the excitement starts with that short club. So that’s what he needs to get rolling. [Music] Back on one the final two walking towards that first TE. Alex Norin and Scotty Sheffller. Bryson now watching on after three straight pars. We’ll shift the focus over to Tony Fen’s par. Steve, this will be a pretty scrappy par save here. Working back straight up the hill. Just hit at the right speed on this one. Always need a couple of these big saves on a Sunday if you want to jump up the board. This would be a nice one. Oh, feow right in the jaws. Comes up short. just out of position off the tee and then made it worse by probably trying to get too much out of his second and catching that tree. So, if Tony Feno had one rule change, it would be to play 17 holes this week and go from one to two and straight to four cuz he’s pokey three all four days. I agree. That all has just had his number. Speaking of the fourth, here’s the par three. Well, this is a good place to start if you’re going to make start making birdies. It’s 192 yds. Pin is in the back left, but if you get the distance right, everything will feed towards this hole location. So, um, if you’re Scotty Sheffler, you got to love this cuz you hit it pin high and everything’s going to feed to the hole. So, that’ll be the task for both of these guys. But a good chance to get it close if you hit a quality shot. There was a hole in one here. That was the opening round from Eric Cole. Part of a 70 effort on Thursday. Went 703. yesterday. So was even through 54 holes and Cole is at one over on the day through 14. But a memory that he’ll always have with that ace the fourth at Coil Hollow. Yeah. Hit your spot. It’s 180. 188. Yeah. Maybe a hair in. Mainly right to left. Correct. Yeah, mainly right to left. If anything, actually, it almost feels like it’s helping a little bit. An eight cut is not going to be that conducive. No, I just I like even though it’ll you could do more of a straight ball, but I just like one that has a lot of spin. Good. Yep. This is the perfect Bryson Moon ball here. 192 at about 180 to cover to get on the green in line with that hole location there. Let me know if it turns in. Yeah, he’s hoping for a ball that just doesn’t grab real fast. Wants to fly it on and then just let it trickle back there. Great shot 14. Get the right club and well short and that breeze just started to kick back up into us. Just the same thing that happened back there on 17 yesterday. Well, you know, Steve, on the last hole when they were hitting their second shot, they were playing. It was downwind and they and they got it pretty close to pin high. That was a great swing. I don’t think there’s any way that both of these holes could be helping. Yeah, it was just it dances around. These crosswinds are the most confounding for these players. Yeah, I think so. 885. Yeah, that’s right. And we also know like it’s unbelievable even straight shot. Yeah, I got Antonio’s going between eight and seven. Chose the longer one with the seven here after watching what Bryson did. Yeah, the wind is the only thing that is really the only defense. So solid struck shot here. Could be a good one. It’s flighted just a little bit lower. Looks like it’s going to get there. It does. Carries the back portion of the green. Couple hops through into the primary cut. A Roth nestles down. Yeah, they definitely were both confused on this tee. So, two kind of not great shots. Tony needed Bryson’s ball flight. Bryson needed Tony’s. Exactly. There’s the leaderboard. Harris English, the only one who has made a move onto that first page who wasn’t already there. Bryson Desambo, a man of the people. I’ll give you a ball. Thanks to the nice lie. He’s six back of world number one Scotty Sheffller. [Music] Here’s what’s happening now on ESPN Plus. Featured groups and holes. The other feature group, John Rom, Siu Kim. They’re through the first. Rom at six under. Seeu Kim at five under. Trailing the leader, Scotty Sheffller. We have Feno and Dashambo who are at five under par as well. Featured holes 14 15 16. Dambo second on the fourth. after coming up 20 yards short here. This one can run away if it gets too far past, but took a little grab. Yep. Excellent touch right there. Yeah, I was kind of thinking if he if he liked the look of the shot, he has an easier win than Fee now just because the lie is going to be perfect. I think Tony’s is very doable as well. Uh very very doable. He might be able to chip it in. But yeah, that one from Bryson there. I mean, imagine chipping with a length of a club that’s a, you know, a sixiron, a normal sixiron for the everyday person. Yeah, we were looking at that, Steve, and it’s it seems a little awkward, but obviously he makes it work. He’s got he’s got his systems. All right, now Tony Feno here working back up the hill a little bit more. The back of this green that made his ball trundle through, he’s going to work back up from here now. chops it out. Very nicely done. Nearly holds it. [Applause] Well, couple more easy, pretty easy pars, but that’s not what they need on a whole location like this one. Fe now four under outside the top 10. One over on the day through four. little one left for Dambo’s fourth consecutive par. Not a whole lot here at all. just But you’re right, he he would have loved to get off to a one or two under par start through four holes like we saw a lot of these players earlier in the day just to get you get you some momentum, give a little bit of scare to Scotty Sheffler and everybody who’s ahead of him. Yeah. Well, you can’t force it. You just got to kind of make it. You can’t make it happen. You got to let it happen. And right now they have not gotten dialed in. But the fifth hole, pretty easy hole location. Uh, positioned well off the tea. You can attack dog leg right up the hill. Only 444, which seems like a short one here, George. Um, straight down wind. So these guys can pump it over that right bunker and literally have some sort of gap wedge, you know, meet regular sand wedge, you know, maybe a U wedge or an L wedge or something like that. So um put it in the fairway and this is very scorable. One of the air quotes easier holes at Quail Hollow Club this week. Today, like every day, it has been playing over par for the field. Yeah, we say easy, but there’s not this not an easy golf course and particularly in these conditions. Well, they the easier holes come in pairs of two at seven and eight, 14, 15. They do. They those are the only ones that I are easy, but this is a scorable hole right here in these conditions. Yeah. Couldn’t agree with you more. This is actually one of those fairways that really sits really nice and wide to your eye. And most of the drives sit right into the UPS slope there. Bryson might be able to get it just to the top of the the hill, but you know, it’s a just one of those inviting T- shots. Kind of a wide corridor as well. Front left flag 3:00 2:30. two for three off the tea today. Same wind direction as they had back there on four. Runs in the same direction on this golf course here. So, very comfortable. And he’s lined up to take it right over the right bunkers. And I believe he accomplished that. That is absolutely blistered. Yep. That’s about as good as it gets right there. That’ll play. Tony Feno is a guy who’s played he he’s got similar ball speed if he wants it to Bryson, but he usually plays in a little bit more third gear. Yeah, he he definitely, Steve, he definitely has the ability to really ramp it up. Yeah, we’ve seen him on social media over 200 mph ball speed, but he just kind of smooths it out there. This one heading a little left. Get a friendly hob. No, appears to be in the left bunker. Off to a soaring start in Charlotte, North Carolina. Final group on the first screen. Artusome still waiting for that elusive first birdie this final round. [Music] Driving distance comparison this week entering the final round and you see Bryson Dambo 337.8 leading the field second in strokes gained off the tea. It’s not like Feno’s short, but he’s 20 yards shorter than this Shambo and 36 in strokes getting off the T. You had mentioned Tony Feno’s ball speed was over 200 mph. Here are the two T- shots. 343 for Dambo and 320 for Fenow’s T-shot in the bunker on social media. He’s gotten there during CO when the PGA Tour had a hiatus. Tony Fenow pushed it to see how far he could take it. Got it up to 207. That’s Bryson Shambo’s been in that territory when he was training for the World Long Drive Championships. That was in 2021 and he had put on all this bulk and now he’s kind of figured out where he needs to be with his body and his swing to have more durability and longevity. He added all that distance and kept it. While Fenow on the other hand didn’t feel like his swing was playable getting the high 190s ball speed in competition or even touching 205 or 20110 for testing. So he’s still a long hitter, but he hasn’t tried to make it a weapon where he’s a top three or top five longest in the game even though he has that gear. Yeah. Well, he he takes a much bigger back swing when he’s going for that 200 plus. And obviously he’s much more comfortable with his, you know, his three quarter back swing and he still hits at 320. You can play from there, particularly if you’re in the fairway. Can he play from this lie of the bunker, Steve? Yeah, he can. He’s in one of these 61 bunkers that dot the landscape here at Quail Hollow Club. Right in the middle of it. Very clean line, no issues. Beautiful angle. Front left hole location here. It’s 131 yards. Little climb up the hill. Good line. If it’s the right distance, come back a little bit. Okay. Hard to be as precise out of a fairway bunker. Um but solid shot there. An update. Norin and Sheffler both in the fairway on the first. From there they each made bokei. So the lead at 10 under. Norin solo second at seven under three back. Rom Riley Poston six under par four back. And then it’s Shambo and Fitzpatrick among a large group of players. Five under par five behind. 50 to where I think he does. Yeah. Okay. So, what are we trying to do now? So, it’s 103. It’s going to hurt two yards from five. We can throw this five pass. Yeah. So, 110 almost to 10:30. Yeah. 10:30 or down to 10:30. 10:30 is fine. Coming down with a draw on the five the left edge of the five, I should say. Yeah. If he hits this a little deep though, you can run this off the back portion of the green. You got to favor just a a flag stick right of the hole here. Yeah. And he’s counting on spinning it back, too. I think it’s really flat up there. I don’t think he’s going to be able to spin it back that much. Get there. It’s coming, but that’s probably not even going to stay on the green. And it’s not just again another wet shot in that scoring zone. And he ends up outside 15 ft this time missing the green. Yeah. But every hole he’s been confused by the wind, which is not uncommon. I think a lot of people are going to be confused by the wind, but he seems to be more confused at this moment than most everybody else. Well, this is pretty cool. PGA Junior League is bringing friends, families, and communities together through golf. All with expert PGA and LPGA coaching. Find a team near you at pga juniorleague.com. I remember as a teenager growing up at playing PGA Junior Series events. It’s always fun to get to play a Junior tournament that had any affiliation with the PGA of America had a certain cache to it. So nice to see the PGA Junior League program as well. It is. And I I agree with you. I remember playing in the PGA Junior Championship down in at PGA National down in in West or Palm Beach and yeah, that was like a badge of honor. You got to play in a PG of America, you know, big event. I remember just playing in like a qualifier and they gave you a sleeve of balls and PJ of America ankle socks and I wore those out for god knows how long I was in my caddy days in high school and college. Oh, absolutely. Listen, it was a badge of honor to uh get anything from like the big golf organizations, you know, and they do a wonderful job of promoting junior golf, which is the future. Flag is out. Shambo thinking he can make this one. Yeah, I think I think he can. He’s got a clean line. He’s got the putter right away. Didn’t even think about the chipping this ball. He’s got about a two cup left to right break putt. Tony Fen may go first though if they’re going by order of distance from the hole. It was kind of one of those hole locations that it it the back stop was more to the right of it. It wasn’t behind it. And so I mean he flew that ball 25 or 30 ft longer than he needed to. Yeah. Did Bryson That’s the kind of shot where you need to hit the the one bounce and stop, not trying to spin it. You know, kind of the the Scotty Sheffler type wedge shot. This one’s got a little left or right when it gets close to the hole. Yeah. Did he get it or not? Nope. Wiggling right. That went well right off the putter head. Yeah, that’s not as much. 20 foot birdie putt off the green for Dambo. Yeah, Steve, the hard part here is judging. We’ve seen it all week. Ball coming out of this first cut has been pretty inconsistent. So, if he get great contact and kind of skip through that, then he’s got a chance. And he’s only got about four inches of that first cut of rough to go through. So, It’s kind of a little uphill and then it flattens out, but he’s got to play it almost a couple cups left or right here. Not an easy one to hold. He gave it a little extra for sure coming out of that cut and it whistled on past. Yeah, you can kind of see it there. You just kind of make sure it gets through that. It’s been very inconsistent this week. You know, we’ve been watching for four days all these different great players and it’s been a lot of struggle out of that how it’s going to come out of that sticky cut. Shambo’s had three birdie putts in the 17 to 20 foot range on two, three, and five, and it’s come up empty. Well, unfortunately, he’s got about six feet coming back here. Yeah, this was this was definitely gunned by. And I mean, look, he’s he’s he’s hit three of the first four fairways that he tried. And hit the green on the other hole that he missed the fairway on. Just not getting these scoring clubs dialed in. He, you know, we we chatted earlier in the week and it sounded like he wasn’t 100% happy with the distance control on his irons right now. No, I agree. And that puts a lot of pressure on this club. Shove right just as much coming back for Bogey. where he was in the fairway at Shuffler bogeying one. This could have been the spot he made things interesting if he had gotten in there tight. Makes birdie. He’s at six under four back. Show some show some signs of life on the front n inject some energy into the gallery and the crowd following him. Instead, he’ll be fortunate if he’s tied with Fenow at four under, one over on the round. Curls that in for Bogey. Kind of barely snuck that one in there. He’s Bryson’s got to look back at yesterday’s finish yesterday and just really be kicking himself the whole night. I mean, with he was five shots lost to Scotty Sheffller in that green mile stretch there. And that just kind of wears on you overnight. It’s got to. Well, when you start out a little flat like it’s like it’s been starting this round, it’s wearing on you even more. got to put all that behind you and you know there’s still time to make some sort of run but you can’t make any more mistakes like that if you look at these final five tea times final five groups there isn’t a single player under par right now yep and coming to another difficult par hole 252 yd downhill sixth winds kind of in left to right which just adds to the difficulty of this hole um hard to hit this green from this elevated tee in the in the kind of wind in left to right swirling makes this a very difficult par three also have had a hole in one here that was seawe came on Friday 252 yards it was playing that day see that scorecard yardage that’s the longest hole-in-one in major championship history had a 64 tied the low round of the just made a birdie on the third. He is one over on the round at five under five back of Scotty Sheffler after the Dambo bogey. Tony Feno has the box on the sixth. If you look at his stats on the PJ tour this year from 225 to about 250 yards, he is sixth in proximity to the hole. So Tony loves his long irons here, but this one, like Scott said, downhill, left to right, very challenging green to hit in regulation here with all these factors in play. A little left trying to cut it into the bunker. It’s not the worst leave in the world, but yeah, that thing, you just try to hold it up against the wind a little too much and it never felt right. Yeah, you know, and it’s so much downhill with the wind blowing, particularly this direction, it is hard to maintain control of your golf ball. And that is the thing that probably annoys guys at this level more than anything. Yeah, just another hole with a crosswind. I’m just going to throw it up in the air. 246. Yeah, I’m just going to throw this up in the air. No worries. I think this swing will show a lot of what sort of fight he’s got in his mind right now. Well, he said he was going to throw it up in the air, so he’s going to take all the elements into play and hope for the best. [Music] It’s coming out right. That is not a great spot. Nice greed for Feno. [Applause] Bryson is going to have a pretty difficult up and down there with the slope of that hill. before Dash Shambo. These guys outside the top 10 at four under par with the share of 11th. They are trailing by six. Here we go. Every year you ask same questions, still get them wrong. The Waker Trophy, which is 32 lbs. What weighs more, the W maker or a NASCAR tire? I would have to say the Waker Trophy. Sounds like a trick question. Tire has got to be more heavy. I would think the tire has to be lighter cuz they’re trying to keep weight down. Or maybe they are trying. I don’t know. Uh let’s go to W maker. Of course, the calculations with this thinking through what the NASCAR pick crew and the team wants to accomplish with getting their whip on the track. It’s got to be lighter to go faster, right? So, How about the day for Harris English cha-ching 665 he’s T3 and then Scotty Shapler bogeies one bounces back with a birdie on two final round coverage now on CBS or you can stream with us on ESPN plus for our featured group George Savica Scott plank and Steve Scott is out with Bryson Dambo and Tony Feno who’s bunker bound perfect perfect five for five yesterday seven for eight out of the bunkers this PE it to go. And one of the steepest greens on this property right here. And at least he’s kept it below, but that was not his best. Now, Bryson is going to play fairly quickly here. He’s got a little bit of room to work with, but the green will run away from him to his left right here. He’s going to have to get a little bit of spin on this ball and hit it just in the right spot to get this thing close. Yeah, that’s a tough shot. Using the wind to the best of his ability. Scrapes the edge of the cup, rolls out to 10 ft or so. A great shot, but now he’s got another difficult part. He’s looking over at Greg Boddine like how did that not spin a little bit? Just kind of floated on him. coming out of that first cut has just been incredibly inconsistent. Greg Bod gets a lot of looks throughout the course of the round with Bryson Dambo. Greg Boddine, I believe, was the longtime caddy for Tony Phenob back in the day. I believe you’re correct, George. So there’s it’s a family affair. Synergy in this group. They split back in July of 2020. So they’ve both had time to get over it. Been a few years. Might be a a fun catchup at this point. Not that the two haven’t crossed paths, but not as frequently as they once did with Bryson playing on live. During their time together, they had won the Puerto Rico Open. And since then, Tony has tacked on five more wins. Most recently, the 2023 Mexico Open, but he’s been living today with a lot of hard putts, Steve. Yeah. And the last one he had back there, number three, like this, he left short. This one’s another one easy to left short if you don’t give it a little juice up this hill. He does, but didn’t have the line. Yeah, playing playing difficult again just as it was yesterday afternoon. Sun’s out, winds up, greens are getting tougher to read and tougher to putt. [Music] Look at the putt for feed out. He was thinking it was going right and it went left all the way. Bryson trying to determine what the exact fall line of this green is in this putt. It should just fall to his right ever so slightly here. Well, yeah, he should have had a really good look at it when it raced past the top edge of the cup. Let’s get you the distance here. So, we’re on the sixth grade with Bryson Dashambo. He’s got 8’4 in for par. to stay seven back. Last look at the cup to Shampo. Precisely done. Really good save. [Applause] just is not doesn’t have the fire yet. I don’t know if he’s going to get it. Yeah, you need it at minimum one under through six, but you can go on some serious runs. Seven through 15. It has to start right here at the park. I don’t think there’s any question he’s got. If he hits one of his really nice drives like he’s been hitting today, he’s going to have seven or eight iron to this green. And the pen is in the easiest place possible to make a three. You can use the whole green, middle of the green, just behind it, and everything feeds down there. So, the penalty area is definitely staring you in the face, but a couple of well executed shots and you have a real chance at a at an eagle three. Second easiest hole all week. Bunch of eagles today as well. This final again, nine eagles for the week. Five have come in this final round. Yeah, I think like I said, this is uh this is the kind of gimme hole location on this whole green. So, this is where you got to start taking advantage of it. And really, even you know, George, the wind is going to be a little in, but it’s off the right, so it’s the most comfortable wind for guys to hit ball. you know, it’s what they prefer to hit balls in on the driving range or when they’re practicing. So, you really need to get up here and hit your standard driving range driver, which always goes long and straight. Well, the Goodyear blimp is basically straight right to left here. So, that means it’s the nose of it is going right into the wind. And you’re right. It’ll be out of the right, right to left, helping more down the eighth. But yeah, it’s going to be let’s just call big important fairway to hit here about 330 yds past all the bunkers. T-shot plays 11 yds down as well. This I think this is a huge T- shot for Bryson. I think this is the this is the goal. If he can get this ball in the fairway, he can have seven or eight iron into this hole and make a three. No doubt. We have liftoff. Talking to the wind trying to get it to come to the left a little bit and it’s that’s perfect first cut, but he’s so far down there. Might even be in the fairway. He should be That’s the launching pad. Yeah, that’s right in the first cut. Looks like a little ups slope from my vantage point. It is. He should, if he’s ever going to lick his chops, this is the time to do it. walking down to this one. Definitely had his heart in his throat just a little bit as that ball was in the air. Didn’t quite move as much left as he wanted. And this should be a comfortable T- ball for Tony. Take starting it up the left hand side trying to work it back into the wind perfectly. [Applause] Nice bounce. A lot of roll out. He’s in the guard spot, too. Two good ones from our feature group on the par five seventh. Harris English already in the house with that 65. We’ll see if they can reach this par five and two. Have eagle putts upcoming. That’s next. [Music] coming up next. May Aronomic Golf Club in New Town Square, PA. That’s outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If you want to get your tickets as the PGA Championship returns there, register for tickets. Visit pjampionship.com/register because registration closes soon. And in that conversation with PJ of America CEO Derek Sprey saying how excited they are to go to Philadelphia next year, especially with the momentum that the PGA Tour had last week with the true champ truest championship at Philly Cricket Club. And I’ve heard very good things about Aronomic. Oh yeah, I played there a while back. I think they’ve redone it somewhat since then, but uh beautiful property. Um great conditions. It should be a tremendous place to host this championship. Well, the good news for our Tusome was there was a 1:40 Eastern tea time and then a two o’clock tea time. They had a buffer in between. So Steve, so far they’ve been able to play and move freely freely. You haven’t had any backups here at Quo Hollow. Yeah, I was just about to say I mean I I always when I play my rounds of golf, I always kind of look through six holes, you know, how long has it taken me to play six holes? Well, it’s about an hour and 15 minutes through six holes. That’s a three-hour and 45minut pace. That’s lovely. Dangerous whole location if you’re going to take it on in two. Both these players right at about 200 yards here. The wind is really whipping down this fairway back from the green to the fairway into these players. They know it’s a little bit more right to left. The flags up on the grandstands and the speak easyy over here is are moving right to left more kind of down the eighth hole, but got a lot of beautiful mansions to the right here that kind of block some of the wind and make it shift and move where it feels like it’s more in your face, but I feel like it’s more right to left. Yeah. And the shot is I mean it’s hard from 200 yds, Steve, to dial it in, but you’d like to land it pin high just a four or five steps left of the hole location and it’ll feed right down there by it. Yeah, we we got a nice little bowl right over here. Actually, it’s not even a little bowl. It’s a pretty big bowl. I mean, this is a it wouldn’t surprise me if both these guys had really good looking eagle putts here. Yeah, you hit a quality shot and you’re going to be within 20 ft for eagle. [Music] It doesn’t feel like it’s into the players just at the moment. So, more right to left. Tony, this is low and more to the left. Trying to catch the big left side of the bowl here. That was to get down. It’s a little deep. I don’t think it’s coming back, is it, George? is trying holding up there. Eagle putt ahead for Feno, but that ball just didn’t have the trajectory on it, Scott, at all to stop what he needed. He’s been hitting this kind of low flat. Yeah. Piercing ball flight. Yeah. And he is not pleased that it did not catch the ball. Um not really the eagle putt he was looking for. Now Bryson’s got a nice cushiony lie right here. Yeah. 190 cover. I mean, he doesn’t have to take it at this hole. He can take it anything inside that front greenside bunker there, and it’ll be absolutely perfect. But he needs about double the trajectory that Tony just had. Well, he’s probably going to get it, too. This might definitely higher. This is way left. Yeah, this is looks well left. That’s bad miss. some below average iron shots at least. Feno on the green, but Bryson shaking his head in disgust as he misses the par five, seventh and two, losing that one way left in the bunker. PJ professional Joe Howlet with some tips to improve your iron play from Fris. George Scott, it’s kind of the magic mix when you get down to the irons. When we watch the guys off of the tea, they’re just really driving hard, trying to put as much power as they can into that ball. One of the things you’ll notice when the players go to their irons, a little bit of drive and a little bit of turn. The key is for us who play on a regular basis and maybe don’t play at that level. How do we get this magic mix? So, I’m going to give you a very fun and simple little drill. You’re going to start with your feet together and you’re going to drop your left foot back. So, as I get up here, I’m going to start with my feet together. I’ve dropped my left foot back. Now, this is a test. So, as I hit this ball, if I’ve got too much drive, I’m going to have a hard time keeping my balance. I got to make the mix a little better. I need a little more turn. If you’ll let your hip, your left hip follow where your left foot is, you’ll find out that you can keep your balance and hit a really quality golf shot. It’s a magic mix. It’s just not magic. Thank you, Joe. Love seeing those type of drills to have you simulate the right feel in the swing. second glance at what happened with Dashambo second. You know, it’s hard to tell from this angle, but he looked like he was trying to hold it off with his right arm, but man, that thing just started left and kept going and and that is a totally an unforced error not to hit it somewhere on this screen. And it’s not comfortable for Bryson to hit a hold off fade. He he likes working it from right to left. I I know. And it I guess I guess he fell. Really? All they need to do is hit normal shot. Like if you hit it over that bunker, it is going to feed down there to the hole from the fairway. Not that it’s an easy shot, but didn’t think Tony’s was very good, but it was awesome compared to this one. I mean, he easily missed his target by 40 ft on a much easier lie, too. So, just a big miss. But, I mean, this one’s doable here. He just has to kind of get this thing going and it’s going to funnel down there. there. He’s got to play maybe a little left to right break overall, but there’s not a whole lot of break here. I think he can get this down inside of four or five ft. Oh, I would think so. It’s just where he gets it to fall off the ledge and get the speed right. And that’s about right on the speed and the direction’s not bad. Pretty good shot. Could be birdie number one upcoming in this final round for Bryson Dambo. Yeah, and you would dream that you would hit your second shot right there and catch that hill and trickle down there where that one is putting for three. But maybe something good will happen. We just want something to happen at this point. 50 feet for Feno’s Eagle. Same sort of thing. Just kind of get it going and he’s going to hit this about 12 feet maybe and 12 15t putt and just let gravity do its thing. Yeah, he doesn’t have to give it a whole lot here. It’s the first time this week this hole has been down to this bowl area. It’s all be on the periphery on the top shelves of this uh beautiful green here in front of maybe one of the most beautiful mansions you could ever look at. Well, maybe George will let us come over tonight. Yeah, I I hope so. I hope so. You play your cards right, we’ll see what happens. Yeah. All right. Now he’s looking out to the right. He knows this one’s going to move to his left quite a bit. Just drip it over the slope, though. Yeah, that’s plenty of speed, I believe. Picking up speed. Needs it to go right. He’s not going right. But that speed touch, tremendous. Yeah, very good touch. Yeah, when you have those putts, George, where your back’s kind of to the hole, it’s really hard to pick the right line and get the You’re just hoping for the right little runway to to catch it and guide it in. inside 8 ft to Shambo to get to five under. Well, I know it’s early in well relatively early in the proceedings of this round, but I mean this is kind of the mustake time. You have to you got to make this you got to find a way to make a three or maybe even you get lucky and make a two on number eight. Yeah. Um the hole will be reachable. You said it’s early. It’s almost getting late in this proceedings that these guys want to put any pressure at all on the top of the leaderboard. Yeah. From where he was 200 yards out. You walk away with five here. you just a kick in the teeth. Yeah, this what left edge putt here at the most. Yeah, that’s about it. Just uh working up the hill a little bit. Nice. Very similar to the putt he hold back there on number six. Honestly, Dambo cans it. Finally, we got something. The lid is off. First circle for either scorecard comes from Bryson at the par 57th. Feno a look of his own. Yeah, this just a inside right. Not a whole lot to this one here. putting been really his Achilles heel throughout his career. We know how great of a ball striker he is. He could just have gotten this thing to get a little hotter overtime. He’s probably double his victories right now. Nonetheless, a nice birdie to get maybe get the ball rolling the right direction for these two guys. Good bounce back after the bogey on six. Fina went over on the day at four under. He is T12. Bryson Deambo back into the top 10. And another good hole if you want to try and add another circle on the card here at the par 48. Absolutely. This is almost this is as big of a gimme as they can give you on the eighth hole. Playing downwind right to left. The TE’s not even very far back. It’s only 299 to the front edge on line with the hole location. So for these guys, um that’s basically right up their alley. It’s just a smooth driver or maybe even a 3-wood for Bryson. So um this is a great chance if you’re going to make any noise, it needs to start here. It’s the one two combo. The par 57 third easiest hole today. The par 48 the second easiest hole today. There are there have already been four eagles on the par 48. Yep. A quality T-ball here. And you are going to the flattest part of the green and the straightest shot right to the hole. And he’s looks like he’s pulled a 3-wood out. Yeah, definitely not driver for Bryce. It’s way too much. We got a lot of help on this wind now. They’re kind of turning the corner. Might even be his fivewood. Yeah, he he could probably hit a big fivewood up there. The fivewood just a little higher. A little more spin on it. Yeah, these flags are But it’s this is like a long par three right here. Well, they need to play it like that and somehow make a two out of it. Yeah, pretty much straight down wind. Just kind of get it up in the jetream and fire it right at it. Do not have to clear over this greenside bunker to get access to this hole either. No, it’s a straight shot. Get in the hole. This is drawing towards it. And he lashed from Dambo. Oh, it wasn’t quite enough, but he left it in a really good spot. Well, if anybody’s seen his break 50 series, looks like a lot of the shots that he plays off the tea in that one. Firing it to the greens. Tony going driver. Yeah, which his little cut fits pretty well here with the wind down off the right. Yeah, he can play. It shot plays a little uphill for sure. So, he could flight this one down and kind of let it run up that slope a little bit more. Trying to cut it in there. looked pretty good as well. Cut on a good line and a little more over spin. Tried taking a peek at the grain. Oh, that’s up just short. Roll back a little bit. Still going. Yeah, that grass is cut so tight right there. Now he might even roll into the first cut which makes it just a little more tricky. Two yards away from being in the perfect spot. Feno and Deambo just short. They’re on the par 48. Scotty Shuffler the leader by four. I’m Go get there. The wind is switched. It’s down right now. [Applause] Welcome back to feature group of the day. Bryson Dshambo and Tony Fen. Now we’re going to look at some of Bryce’s missteps. Bryson’s missteps today. Had a downhill putt on two and left it woefully short. Totally miscalibrated the speed of the green right here on the fifth. He’s got a little L wedge to the green. Hoping for a nice tight shot and way past the hole, even off the green. And he’s back here. He’s totally confused. with the wind. It is swirling, but same hole. After rifling his birdie attempt well past the hole, he misses that. Winds up three putting for Bogey. Finally gets it in position after a couple of wayward shots on seven and makes a birdie. So, um it’s been a struggle so far for Bryson. He really needs to get something going and get this crowd into the game. Um, that would be the best thing he could do to help him propel him forward to kind of catch up. Steve, how hard is this shot? Yeah, it’s not too difficult at all. I mean, he went right to the wedge. Didn’t even think about the putter on this one, even though it’s really mowed tight. But I think he wants to try to fly this. You can’t two hop this in the first cut. You’ve got to get this one, you know, one hop before the green, the next hop’s got to get on, then it trickles and releases. Right. But it’s pretty much uphill all the way. Right. A little uphill and a little right to left. But he could make this one. Yeah, it looks it should look good to his eye. Boy, very aggressive. Too aggressive. and kind of the sigh of aggression hasn’t left him yet. Yeah, he kind of he must have bounced it just enough off that tight line, Steve. Yeah, it it was so tight. I I you know, I’m surprised he didn’t even just look at the putter there and see what he what it felt like. I I I don’t know. I guess he just felt like he needed to take some of that break out in the first half of the shot. I don’t know. This these green surrounds are the tightest I’ve ever seen possibly. Yeah, they’re uh they’re they’re better than most greens. Yeah, 100%. Tony from the first cut. Trying to judge how it comes out. Came out a little bit fiery. Yeah. So far up to this point, these guys have just not been really really sharp. Yeah, it’s interesting. You play in threesomes for three rounds and the the pace of play has been 5 hours plus and now you get on a scenario where the pace of play is going to be, you know, we’re tracking under four hours right now. So, it kind of speeds everything up and the last thing you really want in a situation like this is to really feel like your your mind is sped up and all of those things. a final round such as this, it will tend to do that anyway. But I I think that’s that’s a part of it that you have to always factor in. It’s like what sort of speed are we going to play at? And you have to be mentally ready for it. That’s an excellent point. Leaderboard resets. Scotty Sheoffller 11 under four shot lead over Davis Riley who’s even on the round at 7 under par solo second to Shambo at five under T6 three players are at six under par if Dambo can roll this in he would jump up a spot trail world number one Scotty Sheffller by five and have a share of third just such an important round of golf I mean when he played on the live tour. You don’t have those opportunities right now for World Ranking Points. He’s fifth in the RDER Cup standings coming into this week. This being a huge week to make sure he continues that steady climb towards the top, those top six, get to the RDER Cup. Well, this would help his situation if he could figure out a way to make this one. Yeah. Got to focus on this P. You’re right. He saw it as it went by. Oh, broke the other way. That’s kind of what Tony Feno on his chip shot thought it was going to be breaking in right to left and it straightened out and missed the hole to the right. So, right there it starts. Completely caught him by surprise. And it’s not the first thing that’s caught him by surprise today. Well, the whole slope of the green rolls towards this left side from the right, but there’s just a little part of this corner over here that that tilts the other way. And I think that’s where this hole is located and it fooled them. Yeah, just a little sneaky spot that they probably spent couple years trying to figure out where exactly to put the hole. Good benefit for Tony to have seen that one right there. Should be able to get this one down. He didn’t fully believe that it was going to go uh go left, but he snuck it in there. Use the whole left side of the cup to get that one to fall back to back. Bernie Spow even on the round. began play at five under and has Ste had to fight his way back to five under par and had to fight that one into the hole. [Applause] Fino Dashambo headtohead all tied up each guy at even about to finish up the front nine par4 ninth on tap and here is the after they had fun on seven and eight incredibly he gets slapped right in the face here at 532. The good news is it’s playing a little bit downwind which will help but incredibly long difficult hole. uh pins in the back, right? But this is probably as tough as any hole location they have on this screen and maybe the toughest hole location that we’ve seen so far today. So, you’ve had your chances through the first eight. Now, we’re going to give you a real test on the ninth. One of the tougher ones at Quail Hallow. what you’d expect with it measuring more than 530 yards as a par4. Well, a nice little rest, but at least the tea is at the front part of this teen ground back here. Only about 38 yards to that fairway bunker down the right. But all these players have really been cutting it close down that left side, trying to bite off a lot. And both of these players will do the same. Well, Tony’s got to start it down there with his little cut. Now, this is not moving. No. Left into the thicker stuff. 730 right now. Yeah. I mean, this hole really a it’s a par4 in name only. It’s only one yard. It’s actually one yard longer than the par five seventh that they just played. Yeah, but but a much more difficult angle of T-OT, but there is no penalty area. Correct. No trouble around the green. But this one is going to be really set. He’s got to be really frustrated after that par back there. That is just annihilated. Just has to miss that pine tree and stayed in the rough as well, but he’s so far up there. He’ll have a good angle. We’ll see what the lies are like for Feno and Deambo as they are well behind the leader Scotty Shepler Sunday at the PGA Championship. [Music] This is ESP. PN plus 107th PGA Championship. Charlotte, North Carolina, Scotty Sheffler, 11 under par, four shot lead. Some trouble on the fifth. 18 ft for par. Davis Riley is solo second. He’s a hole ahead on the sixth. Harris English done for the day. John Rom even on the round. Alex Norin couple over. What’s the final margin if you’re picking? You put Scotty Sheffler over the field. How much does he win by with the conditions? And unless he has a fantastic finish, probably three to four. I mean, that’s he’s going to make somebody come catch him and that’s going to be hard to do. Harder so for Dambo and Feno when they miss the fairway on the ninth. One of the toughest holes at Quail Hollow Club. And of course, Scotty Shufflers just made his par putt on five, so he stays at 11 under par. Well, guys, both of these lies over here in these in this left are no good at all. We got some tree issues, but mostly the lie issue. Yeah. You know, as you’ve said all week, Steve, the rough has just continued to grow with the rain and now the sunshine and it’s just it’s probably it may be twice as thick as it was starting Thursday morning. Yeah, for sure. For sure. They they got to get the mowers on this stuff pretty soon. I mean, I’ve seen longer, but this stuff it just sits down to the bottom. There’s there’s a good mix of this overseed ryrass and the Bermuda with all the warmth that’s in there. So, it’s very dense and it’s really just nestled down. I I don’t know if either of these players can reach the green. Well, that’s saying something for guys that swing it this fast and are this strong. Yeah, they’re going to they’re going to have to give it all their might. He caught a fair amount of ball there. And did he ever slow down? It might be one of the better shots of the day. Spectacular from Tony Pino. That’s unbelievable, guys. I mean, just such an amazing golf shot right there. Now, Bryce Bryson’s lies a little bit worse, I will say, but none of them were neither of them were very good. Well, that’s the beauty of swing speed and strength. Musling out of there. What a shot. front portion of the green released perfectly here. It seemed like ah this might have a chance. Well, Bryson saw the blueprint here. Let’s see if he can plug it in. Yeah. Much Oh, yeah. I was digging that one out. And he did get it on. I can just slow down. Actually, those are two about as good as you could possibly do from over there. That is something for both of them. I mean, that was a full throttle eight iron right there. Yeah, that was that was like hitting the hitting the hammer on the bell at the state fair. He went after that one so hard trying to break the world record. Things are shifting. These guys are one back where second is. So Tony Fen now makes and he join a log jam of players at 600 par T25 behind Scotty Sheffller leading by five and Sheffller on the T at the par 3 six and I think Scotty is obviously just doing what he needs to do. He’s like I said you’re going to have to come catch him. Is the course playing as you had expected for this final round? Well, it didn’t seem as windy this morning and coming out here, but I think the wind has picked up just enough and it is a little warmer and drier today than it has been. So, it’s it’s actually playing harder than I expected. I thought they might have a chance to, you know, get on some runs and just other than a couple of guys early this morning, hadn’t seen it. There’s the flags flapping. The wind sustained 10 to 12 miles an hour. where we’ve had wind gusts in the 20 to 23 24 mph range. That was wind forecast for the remainder of the day in Charlotte. I mean, anybody that’s played 10 holes or less, there’s only two guys under par for the day. So, there’s not a lot of scoring going on here at the last four, five, six groups. Well, guys, if this PGA Tour and professional golf thing doesn’t work out for either of these two guys, they can turn into magicians because they just pulled a magic trick right there. I mean, those lies were just they shouldn’t have been able to do what they just did. Well, both of these guys have an incredible amount of talent and strength, and they both showed they both showed new world, new age golf right there. Certainly takes a lot of strength to move it out of the rough like they did in the final resting spot. The Shambo 21 ft for birdie feet now 4 feet. Yeah. You know, honestly, George, in general, they don’t play rough like this very often on the PGA Tour anymore. This was used to be kind of normal or or not normal, but a dozen times a year. Now they’re playing uh something that’s different, but no problems here. The hole is kind This one for Bryson. He He’s looking at a little downhill. It’s got to move from right to left a a cup cup and a half or so. Not severely downhill though. Not like they found on the second hole, for example. 70%. Well, yeah, he really hadn’t hit a lot of great putts. This would be a tremendous time to start hitting them. might be do like a little bit more. already put on the way for Dambo. Did he give it enough? And there it is. Excellent. Six more of those and he’ll be right where he wants to be. Two birdies his last three holes out and under 34 share a second. Five behind Scotty Sheffler. Well, that was a tremendous three right there, George, from a horrendous lie off the te so Tony could knock it in. We You could have won or lost a lot of money on this group. Oh, I I would have lost the house, the farm, everything. You have a farm? No, not really. Just a cat. This ought to be pretty straight here, right? Yeah, there’s there’s not a lot in there at all. Feno to match him. Brushes it in. Three in a row for Tony Fenel. Let’s carry that buzz to the backside. Feno also out in one under 34. Also at six under par, tied for second. Five back is Scotty Sheffler. He now looked pretty disheveled after six holes, didn’t he? He certainly did. And he is igniting in the middle portion of the course at Quail Hollow. Nine down. The remaining nine still to go, Scott. Yeah. Other than the 11th hole, between 10T and the 16th T is where you got to make your hay. Um, these are all birdieable holes. 10, if you drive in the fairway, you’re knocking it on the green. 11 has been unbelievably hard with the wind switch, but the other ones, this is your chance. And it really, really, you need to birdie number 10 if you want to get some [Music] momentum by the numbers. Part five’s three of the five easiest holes this week. Quail Hollow Club. Yeah. And I think that’s just these guys hit it so far that you can’t go back far enough. If it’s a par five, they’re getting there in two in most cases if they hit it in the fairway. So, this is another chance to Tony Feno’s got a chance to make a real statement on making a run in the middle of the round. Looking at the leaderboard, it is packed behind Scotty Sheffler. You got seven, eight guys with a share of second at six under par and a bunch of players at five under as well. Very cluttered as guys are jockeying for position to either grab a spot in the top 10 or maybe a finish solo second, third, fourth. That that that leaderboard right this second looks like a synopsis of the last two years. It’s been Scotty Shetler Sheffler head and shoulders above everybody else. Fen keeping the honor to the backside. You’re right. He’s had a pretty good supporting cast, but Scotty Shuffler has been the lead actor in this play. Now Tony Fen, he finished tied for third in the US Open last year, falling to Bryson Dshambo by two, but has not crossed the finish line in a major himself. 330 yds past that left bunker. And this one’s going left. That is not what he wanted off the tea here. Looks like it’s found the sand. He doesn’t hit many of them left. Most of his shots turn left to right. That birdie, he just Bryson just flew off that green like he was on cloud nine. And that’s going to provide a lot of adrenaline surge to get him over this 330 yard carry he needs right here on this bunker. Well, the wind is right to left. Probably not helping, but it should help guide his ball. [Applause] [Music] He’s going to take all of it if it carries. Oh, and it does. Oh. Oh, and he got a nice bounce out of the thicker stuff into the first cut. So, game on from right there. Scotty Sheffller just bogeied the six to Shambo walking up to his ball. four behind can reach the par five 10th in two. He’s in second. Can he make things interesting on the back nine? [Music] Being on the Corbridge financial team is an extreme honor to be able to represent our organization of PJ Professionals and Associates. They’ve been a a fantastic organization to support the PJ professionals. Us 20 guys, we’re representing 30,000 people. Uh, it means the world to us. My wife and kids were in the clubhouse. My wife had sent me a picture and Scotty Sheffller was playing with my kids on the ground. Just to have those experiences is incredible. I’m playing a practice round today with Rory Shane and Padre Harrington. I work at the Bears Club in Jupiter with our members. They got a hold of me and contacted me and said, “Let’s play a practice round.” There’s going to be a crowd, so I’ve never really done that. My locker’s right next to John Rom, Adam Scott, all those guys. Just being in the same room as them is pretty special. Hopefully, we can all show up and show out for everybody. Part of what makes the PGA Championship so special, that Corbridgeidge financial team of 20 golf teaching professionals who are part of that 156man field each and every year at the PGA Championship. Steve, what do we got here on the 10th? Well, Tony Fenow’s right in the middle of this bunker. He could take a chance with a a fairway medal if he wants to. Got really no lip issues here. This doesn’t seem like an issue. this whole location all the way on the left hand side today. Kind of right on where the fairway change. It looks like he’s got that old Nike Vaporfly three iron that they haven’t made in a long time, but he just can’t get rid of it. He may be trying to push it up there on that kind of just short right of the green. Give himself a really manageable chip shot. Yeah, it’s going to be just outside of 270 right here. I mean, if he hits a good hard one that gets a little run, he could catch this up to the front edge. [Music] That’s come out right though. Look out crowd. [Music] Deep into the crowd. You’re going to hit like cart path or something. It looked like not real sure where that ended up. Not great. You throw it up in the air, too. Down, too. So, 130. Okay. We’re just trying to You like just bring this down the middle of the green? Yeah. Right center of the green. Starting line. Okay. Yeah. At least that’s fine. Well, this would be a good time, George, to get his distances right with an iron. He hasn’t been great at it yet. He’s got 232 to the front, 252 to this hole. [Music] Be short right. Wow. Not the worst leave in the world. Got plenty of green to work with. Yeah, you could see the little the ridge that the hole location is on. But yeah, not not horrible at all. He’s he’s been pretty good from that kind of shot here in the last year. Really, he’s gotten much better. But these guys will be leaning on their short games for their third to the par five 10th. PGA professional Joe Howlet has more on the short game. Speaking of chip ends, one of the things that you’re going to see with the best players in the world, and you’re going to see this with Bryson, definitely very noticeable how he gets the club very upright. Here’s some keys. If you really want to hone in on your chipping, quiet your legs down. You don’t need power on this shot. You need stability. So, this is what we’re going to do. Weight a little bit forward on the left leg. A good drill. Pull back up on your right toe. Now, all I want you to do, hold up a little more upright and stay still. That is the key. Just stay still. Let the club do all the work. We’re here. You can do that. And you’re struggling with chipping. You’re going to find you’re on a road back to better shots. And remember, if it’s a little sketchy, don’t get uptight. Go upright. to live by with Joe Howland seems to be. But all those tips are really good. I mean, for if you’re a average player watching and you want some little drills and stuff, those have been very helpful in my opinion. Bit of a shaky start for Scotty Sheffller. One over through six. Has only hit two out of six greens. Yet his lead has grown. His 10 under par with a four shot advantage. I think Well, Hollow’s teeth are getting sharper with the hot and dry and a little extra wind. Steve, did you find Tony Fenel’s golf ball? I did. Yeah, he took the cart path down here a little bit. Got this thing almost hole high, but it’s across the path now. He’s got nothing in his way, but he’s got a real bird’s nest of a lie over here with a green that’s going to run away from him. Uh, if he keeps this one on the green, I think it will be a miraculous shot. It’s kind of downwind as well. the green works away from him. He’s got a lot of things going against him here. Yeah, he needed the he needed that ball to stay on the cart path up by the curb so he could get his hands on it and figure out a way to drop it into a better lie. Huh. Honestly, I think a smart play here would would be to not challenge this flag right here because you could knock it over the green into the other bunker which is no bargain. You almost have to play this left and kind of almost short and left just to try to keep it hole high. But back nine of a major, you’re right in this thing. I think you got to you got to chance it. Yeah, there’s probably a very small little spot that he could land it, pull this off, but it’s going to be minute. Yeah, Marker Banick’s going to walk up here and kind of scope things out. Yeah, he’s looking left right now. I think that’s the the most prudent play, but I think it’s going to take a small miracle to go at the hole and stop it. He’s looking at the other bunker over there to see if that’s a feasible option or not. If this lie was better, I would say you could be more aggressive, but this lie is just not as good as he needs. Scott, how would you pick and choose your spots back Sunday to major in contention on the chance? You know what it it’s different every single time. Um where he’s at, this is the hard decision. Yeah. Does he really think he has a chance to catch up or does he just say, “Okay, I’m in trouble. Let’s just take our medicine there.” He’s looking up here. He’s going to go directly at it. Did he get enough of it? Doesn’t appear so in the bunker. Yeah, that was always a possibility coming out of a lie like that. But his bunker play has been other than the sixth hole today, he’s uh been tremendous. So maybe he felt like, well, it’s worth the chance. If I end up in the bunker, I feel pretty good about it. Pivotal moment for Bryson Dashambo. Yeah, plenty of green to work with. Not a ton of break between he and the whole location. be a good lie on the flat. I mean, no reason not to chip this one up there within four or five feet. Yeah, the last one he had similar to this, he hit he bounced it a little bit and and lost the spin on it and knocked it 12 ft past on eight. So, I think I think this line’s got a little bit more cushion under it, Scott. Played it lower with some spin. Slow down. Way too much. won’t even hold the green does. That boy that ball is rocketed too. I think I mean this is gener this basically like chipping off of Bermuda green and if you don’t hit it absolutely perfect. You don’t get the spin on it that you’re counting on. And there you go. It goes 10 12 feet past fourth for Feno. Same sort of shot right here. Pretty flat line in the bunker. Pretty well done. Perfect from the speed. [Applause] Well, so he’s been pretty successful out of the bunker this week. And out of the bunkers, you generally know what you have as far as your lies. So, he did a much better job of getting the distance right. off the tea. It seemed like both these guys were probably positioned to potentially take advantage of this par five10th. Hasn’t been the case. No, I kind of figured Tony taking that long iron would be able to get it up there, but Bryson was in two. And Bryson was in the perfect spot. Tony at least hit it in the green. Hit it on the green. Yeah, they thought with Tony playing that three iron from the bunker, the leave would be somewhere where he could have a legitimate birdie shot. Yeah, they’ve kind of stubbed their toe a little bit here. Although Bryson does have a chance. It’s just about 10 times longer than he wanted. Yeah, at least he’s going to be working back up the hill. This hole is just a tricky one to find over here in this middle left portion. So many of these greens here at Quail Hollow kind of go up and then fall away in the back. This one kind of perched on that middle portion right on the highest point of this 10th green. This one just ever so slightly up the hill. 13T birdie putt. Really kind of needs it. Doesn’t get it. Boy, did move a whisker or if anything, it moved towards the back of the green, which I think was the opposite of what they were thinking. just where this hole is located, it it’s just got a a lot of repelling nature to it and a very very challenging read. Hard putt for Feno to stay four back. This one should be a little easier read here, shouldn’t it, Steve? A little right to left. Yeah, I think that’s about it. I think he’s right kind of in the flattest part of it. Still nothing easy. Definitely a hole where you don’t want a lot of stress on a par putt. And that would never be thought about moving. Well, that’s how you stop your momentum right there, George. It’s a spike strip on the road. ended that birdie run in a fiery crash on the 10th really for both of them though after Bryson’s miraculous birdie on nine and here we come to the 11th which has played incredibly difficult here this weekend with the wind switch back in your face off the tea uh the green is really hard to hit uh much less get it close and the pins on the back right here so been a fairly difficult place to get it close uh since it slopes away from you So paramount to drive it in the fairway to really have any chance to get get pen high. Dashambo has the honor. If anything, maybe there’s just a fraction of wind out of the left as well, but mostly into Bryson here. A full 320 yards to cover that far bunker. And it’s going to take his mighty Sunday best to get over that. I think you got to be a little bit cautious more out to the right today. Yeah, I think so. And that’s a different line than these guys thought they were going to be taking. Yeah, this is a little right of center here. That should be perfect. Fifth fairway today for Dambo. Please. Thanks, guys. Definitely one of the more challenging T- shots here on this back nine. That one a little higher than I thought he’d hit it. and he’s leaking a little right hoping to catch the fairway and he did well back the right moon ball. Our guys are at six under Shambo T3 Tony Feno inside the top 10 and five under. The lead is 10 at the PGA Championship. Hit the green at the PGA Championship with ESPN Bet Sports Book. Start off the tournament with $100 in bonus bets when you make your first wager of $10. Download the ESPN Bet app and sign up with promo code birdie to get started today. Hey, we need some birdies, George in a big way. There’s the mint club, the VIP lounge where you can get access as part of ESPN Bet. Good spot to kick back and relax this week. Take a load off of here. Trying to follow that final group in the back nine. They’re about to make the turn, spinning the wheel. And who is going to win? Scotty Sheffller, the odds on favorite. Maybe you win the golf pack. There are some of the seats. Yeah, I think his name was on every one of those slots on the wheel. Uh Sheffller 10 under par, but not really playing very tight, you know, kind of tight as tight as in good, you know, kind of holding it close to the vest. So, one under on the day. He’s three back at seven under par. Still say lot lot could happen on the back nine. Oh yeah. I would I was going to say it’s not like fully interesting yet, but it’s inching towards that. And there’s some guys that are coming to holes. Even our guys that you could at least on the leaderboard start, you know, start poking your head up a little bit. Shambo not fully out of it, but would have to do something spectacular shortly. Yeah. Trying to Yeah, he’s trying to pitch it. Yeah, exactly. Should heard it 710, right? Yeah. This is a very challenging shot for Tony Fee now. 204 all the way back to this pin. Plays even three yards up from that into the wind. It’s got to play at least 215 220 here. But the back of this green falls away. Yeah. So distance control is even that much harder. That’s pretty good though from that distance getting it pin high even though it’s 30 ft. That’s actually a great shot to this to this hole. This green has been really difficult. Steve. Yeah, it’s diabolical how it falls out in the back. Bryson almost 50 yards past Tony. He’s only got 155 yards and he’s going to have to steal one here. Kind of like he stole one on the ninth 158. That’s playing 16 over 10:00. Yeah. So, you feel like do you feel like over 10:00 is just barely too much if anything? No, I think it’s great. Okay. Aggressive one. Scott, it’s time for him to summon some of his best iron game of the week right now. Yeah, he’s been trying to, you know, match the back swing to the distance, you know, to the clock numerals. to get his distance and it hadn’t been working. See if it works this time. He likes it and he should. That’s a really good shot today at 11. Surprisingly, that ball checked up pretty fast. Seemed like I was going to release whole high. Sho can stroll up with the putter. Final round coverage of the PGA Championship now on CBS. Let’s get to the board. John Rob making the turn part of the ninth. One under 34 at seven under. He and Alex Norin each in second. Three back of Scotty Sheffler. Bryson Desambo, Adam Scott and Fitzpatrick. Some of the names at 600 par including English, Vegas and Poston and Tony Feno T10 even on the day. It’s really bunched up three shots behind Scotty Sheffller. You know, it’s basically where we started the day except that the back of the top 10 pack has made it a little bit closer. All in all, these are two pretty good looks for birdie on 11, which there hasn’t been many of them. These are two great looks. Bryson’s not going to have much break at all on his. Couple tricky reads though. The screen is just like voodoo to read. Yeah, they have done a nice job of finding little places that they probably have not used during any kind of tour event that they’ve had here. And guys have been fooled all week. George Sabriquez, Scott Verplanka on ESPN Plus with Steve Scott. The lead was 11 under at the start of the day, currently a 10 under. Guys began the round and five under par, six shots back. A world number one Scotty Sheoffller, Tony Feno right now. That’s where he is on the 11th green. Yeah, I think it’s one of these putts that’s going to break right to left the first two/3 of it and it’s going to flatten out a little bit at the end. It won’t continue breaking. They got the speed. Uh, just hung out. Not bad though. [Applause] even today through 11. Now, this is as great of an opportunity as you could find here at 11. I think it’s just a little peeler from left to right here. I think he’s got to play it just on the left edge, maybe barely outside. It’s going to be a little speedy. as it kind of works down the hill. This green, second half, the green falls towards the back portion of the green, but it looked like a pretty elementary read here. Well, if he could somehow make this, this would be the first really roar of significance to get him back sort of in touch, but I mean really can’t wait much longer. No, I think a birdie here is a big separator, too. I mean, this is an easy hole to make bogey. How it’s playing into the wind. So big drive, beautiful second shot. You got to pay it off. 16 ft 7 in. Had so many in this 16 to 20ft range today for Bernie. And he made the one on nine and missed the one on 10. The Shambo ready to roll it. Well, right all the way. He’s back to the confused state that he kind of had earlier in the day. hasn’t quite been sharp, but with how the last four, five, six groups have fared, one under is a pretty good number. It’s just hard to make up ground when you’re spotting that much to Scotty Sheffler to begin the day. Over 12 now, Scott. Very true. Uh, this hole generally plays harder than the 11th hole. But man, downwind, downhill, guy, if you can hit this 21 yardd wide fairway, the hole location is once again in a spot that you can get it close. You can use the hill to your advantage. As long as you get it to the hole location and a little past, it’ll feed back. So, if you know these guys hit a good drive, they got a wedge in. If they hit a nice wedge, they’re going to have a very makeable birdie putt. But the hard part is getting it in the fairway off the tee. [Applause] It’s one of those holes, Scott. I mean, you only have 21 yards wide of fairway to hit to. And ball just hangs in the air a long time if you get it a little bit offline, but the wind is helping kind of in a nice direction for the hole. [Applause] Yeah. downwind when the ball won’t curve quite as much. So, you really ought to feel pretty comfortable on this on this T- ball if you’re a guy at this level. Got a hole location here you should be able to get it close to if you hit the ball in the fairway. [Applause] Shambo going to go full send. [Music] The answer to that is yes. That was so beautiful right there. And in the fairways. Well, unfortunately for him, he’s in that spot where he hadn’t been able to get it close. About 70, 80, 90 yards. Drove it well. Six out of 10 fairways and long sets up nice for Tony’s left to right fade. Yeah, that’s a good one, too. He now get T- shot of his own. Scotty Sheffller the leader at 10 under par. Our guys need birdies in bunches on this back nine at Quail Hollow. [Music] There’s no more misunderstood idea in the world of competitive sports than legacy because it means something different to every man. Rooted in long ago ambitions and dreams. Can’t tell you what this means to me. An old man. If I say anymore, I’m going to have tears in my eyes. Really? And so the true prize of a major championship isn’t a sterling silver trophy or an enormous check, but something that lives in the distant mountain mist of tomorrow. What it means is a mystery, even to the golfer who wins it, and can only be revealed in time. [Music] Part of what makes this week so important, the 107th PGA Championship. The PGA of America, the engine behind this great event. And the more than 30,000 PJ of America golf professionals are why we love this game. Scotty Sheffller loved his driver on Saturday. Hit 13 out of 14 fairways. Today, two for six. He’s one over through eight holes. How do you read where the leaderboard is right now, Scott? Well, Scott, he’s still in control, but he’s not as sharp as he was nowhere near as sharp as he was yesterday. Um, it’s just hard to score now in the last five, six groups. It’s just what, just a couple guys under par that have, you know, that have only played like 12 or 13 holes. So, it’s tough. Watch out for John Rum. The first time he won a major US Open at Tory Pines, he birdied 17 and 18. Came from behind, finished with a kick, got that first dub. He could make up three shots on the back nine at Coil Hollow. Oh yeah. And the good news for John Ram is he’s a he’s ahead of Scotty. And if he’s making if he starts hitting the run on, you know, 10, 12, 14, 15 ahead of Scotty, now you’re starting to put some pressure on him. And Scotty 0 for two on the two birdie holes, seven and eight. Part didn’t put either close to within 15 feet. Had close to 20 foot birds. Yeah, I saw that. Two pulled drives um which was he was doing early in the week and none yesterday or only one yesterday. So it’s not as sharp. These guys are down not fully out. Feno five back to Shambo four back as we are here on the 12th. It’s time for the magic to happen here for Big Tone 116. This whole location kind of in this low portion of the green. You can use the back stop over there. A little back and left of the hole if you want it. Yeah, this is the easiest whole location on the green. Well, that one didn’t set very well though. Wind is picking up where it’s straight down. It’s hard to get the ball to spin the way you’d like it to. Bryson hit a 350 off the tea right here. Almost think he’s too close here downwind. I think he’s got to use that sideboard over there on the left and bring it down a little bit if he does right at it. I mean, he’s got to be so precise. on it or Yeah, it’s it’s the shot he hasn’t been great with, but he needs some greatness now. There we go. Pretty great. I think that was actually a lot harder shot than even than it looked obviously on television, but with the wind blowing like that and the ball coming in flat to be able to stop it. That’s special talent to get within three of the leader shuffler. That short wedge from Dashambo in this final round. Yep. finally got the distance where he’s pen high. [Applause] George Savik is Scott Mlank watching along in our broadcast booth up by the 12th green. It’s Steve Scott the Shambo at 7 feet 6 in. She now 25 ft. Both of them for birdie putts. There are are three smiling faces as it’s the final day of the PGA Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. [Applause] Rom behind these guys. Couple tea times in there close on the 10th for Birdie to make it a a twoshot deficit to Scotty Sheffller. How leaderboard aware will Scotty be on the front nine versus the back nine? Uh well, Teddy Scott will be leaderboard aware. Not probably not on the front nine. Back nine, you’re going to probably once you get to the 12th T, 13th, you might want to start getting a sense of where you’re at. Doesn’t mean you want to, you know, really focus on it, but a lot of times you just want to be aware, but barely aware. Steve, are they visible all over the course? Yeah, there’s one just 60 yards to the front right of the screen that they could look at if they want to. I haven’t observed that they have seen them. The these guys don’t need to look at the scoreboard yet, Steve. They need to make birds. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, are you just seeing them every hole or is it every few holes or? Yeah, they’re they’re they’re they’re plentiful out here. No question. Every couple holes from Tony. He’s got to play this two or three cups out right to left. And he did. And if it’ll hook, pretty good putt. It’s had a lot of break in that [Applause] [Applause] Bryson’s got a difficult 7 foot 6-in putt down the hill. I think you think it will lean to the left at all, Steve? Yeah, I think this one’s definitely going to break left. It’s a tricky read in this front portion right here, though, where they’ve got this hole located. It definitely moves left. I think he has to play it outside the hole. And it’s it’s got a little speed to it, too. But you just you’ve got to step up there and really commit to this speed in this line. I don’t think he’s he hasn’t really been shy with his putts by any means, but uh it’s a read that you have to know. Yeah, and you would prefer to be on the exact opposite side of the hole from here, but getting a wedge in there this tight would be a nice way for him to capitalize and gain some momentum. Yeah, at some point he’s got to run the tables here. Only six holes left after this one. Shambo to cut it to three back. Timid stroke. Yep. just has not been that George when the Greens are this fast and firm in a tournament of this magnitude the slightest bit of doubt or trepidation trepidation is just it’s magnified [Applause] par 10 11 12 Yeah and sadly he was a pretty prime position on 10 and 12. So he’s probably going to look back and go, man, that much sharper and I would have been right there. John Roms just birdied the 10th. Couple birdies, rest parts, clean card, the lead two for Scotty Sheffler, who’s missed the fairway on the ninth. He’s hit two out of seven fairways on the front on the front nine. Starting to get some drama at the PGA Championship little bit. And this hole will add some as well, but it is playing straight down win. A little more uphill like it used to be kind of downhill. Now it’s uphill. So that will help the ball release to the back. And the whole location is probably the easiest one that they have on this green. So if they can get the number right, you can go right at it. being 212 to the hole. I think you got to you’re trying to pitch this ball upper 190s here. I think that would kind of be the the shot. Maybe just a a nice high sixiron for Tony and probably a seven or eight there for Bryson. Yeah, it’s kind of hard to tell. Yeah. What club it is, but but some He needs something that is going to in calm conditions fly about 190. Yeah, 195. His lofts are so jacked up. I mean, they’re 8 degrees stronger than normal lofts, 10° some case. Well, yeah. So, you’re right. It say 200, you need this is your basically 193 to 194 shot. It does play uphill six yards from this teing ground. Okay. So, 15 down 197 just under full eight. Yeah. So, let’s slam this eight short because we’re hitting the eight. So, which is 210 and it’s helping at 13 just Yep. So there eight iron trying to land it 8 yd short. So that’s about a 205 carry. Not a bad line. Hit hard. [Applause] just flew it a little too far. That ball really sailed. It just comes in so flat from this teeing ground here. Very challenging par three. Tony’s ball comes in a lot flatter typically than Bryson, so he’s going to have to land it much shorter than that. Left. 0 for two hitting the screen on the par 313. More to come. It’s the final round of the 107th PGA Championship here in Charlotte, North Carolina. [Music] [Music] Well, just eyeballing it. But that seems like it’ll hold about 17,213 Miller [Music] highlights. Only one man will find out later today when they get one of the coolest trophies in all of professional golf, the Waker. It seemed like it was no doubter that Scotty Sheffler was going to win. At one point early in this final round, he had a five shot lead. That is down to one. John Rom has a birdie opportunity on the 11th to tie it at nine under par. Rom a couple under. Scotty Sheffler a couple over on the front nine. Be in a very surprising turn of events. Scott, I agree. And to be quite honest with you, all these guys that are six under or better that are still on the golf course, they are with the way the back nine plays here, they’re not totally out of it. I mean, if you hit 14 and 15 and then can get through the last three, nine or 10 under might win the golf tournament. If you’re in the clubhouse at 10 under, you might be hard to catch. Steve, what’s the vibe like with your group and on the course as the complexion of this PGA Championship’s completely changing? Yeah, they can’t just get one to go though. I mean, they just can’t get over that hump right now. But you’re right, the leader is kind of coming back. So, pars are okay, but there’s going to be a lot of volatility in those last three holes. We know this one a little left to right and not his best chip right there for Tony. No, the only good thing about that is it’s below the hole. And as the week has gone on, that has become more and more important. the these screens have just kind of gotten faster every day. If you’re Bryson, if you can’t putt him in, you might as well chip him in. And this one is makeable right here, guys. It’s just has a barely right to left break. He just gets this onto the green. Let gravity do its thing. Yeah. Should be quick. Yeah, it’s kind This one’s going to scare the hole. Did he get enough of it? No, it just came out chunky. And man, leaving it with those kind of putts right there for pars is just that is just like a cardinal sin. That was far from his best. You just hate doing that, too. He’s just like, “Really? I left myself with another one of these.” Stressful par putts for both guys. Mhm. Well, this is just about the worst leave that Bryson could have left himself. He was kind of on the edge where that first cut meets the second cut, but the second cut portion of that rough right there was not very long. I didn’t think he was going to be able to just I thought he’d be able to get good clean contact with it, but apparently he didn’t. Well, you know, it’s kind of the broken record out of that first cut. It has been incredibly inconsistent with how guys have been able to manage it. I mean, not Bryson, everybody. Well, this a huge putt right here. You can’t let this one go at this stage of the game. No. And it’s one you can’t be aggressive with. So, you just got to do your routine the best you can and hit the putt and hopefully find the bottom of the hole. I mean, you have to hit it so easy. And look at that. How far it rolled past. You have to hit it so easy that you you lose about 50% of your like control of the face where you can accelerate through it. It’s just hard to be that good all the time. We are all tied up at the 107th PGA Championship. Back-to-back birdies for John Rom. He made birdie out of the fairway bunker on the 11th. Rolled it in from 15 ft. Three circles his last four holes. He and Scotty Shepler co-leaders at 900 par. Steve, this putt is much easier. Not saying he’s going to make miss or whatever, but uphill anyway. Yeah, you got you can be aggressive with it. Too aggressive. Yeah, just powered it right through the break. And that’s not him yet. Oh, that’s further than Bryce’s. The speed of the greens is uh turned into a real issue. They’re definitely getting that championship sheen. They definitely have it. Yeah. And normally the speed of the greens is not that big a deal for these guys, but it’s becoming that way. Even with the door open for the Shambo and Feno, they will lose ground on where the co-leaders are at at 9 under par. Yeah. And this is what you really hate. these for bogey. Yeah, you could play this outside the right of the hole here. [Applause] He now at four under. Falls out of the top 10. Now T14. This shouldn’t have much to it. Straight back up the hill. This one definitely got by extra foot and a half though. I mean, this is this is a good three feet here, guys. Dambo makes bogey as well. Pretty disappointing for both of them, I’m sure. I mean, it’s the hole’s playing hard because the green is so firm and quick around that location, but man, the Shambo would need a shuffler type finish yesterday when we went five under the last five. Yeah. And this is the place to start it. These guys can get there. The whole location is not in a spot where you necessarily can get it close off the tea, but right bunker pretty good, particularly if you’re in the front of it. probably a three-wood again for uh maybe both of these guys. This was the finish. Sheffller to two feet on 14 yesterday made eagle birdie 15 part 16. Actually had a good chance at birdie then birdie 17 birdie 18. Five under the last five holes that got him to 11. Right now the co-leaders are at nine. Dshambo’s in five under. If he matches what Scotty Sheffller did in his third round, at least the last five holes, he could post 10 under par, then things get very interesting for well, do you want to be on the on the 18th TE with a one or two shot lead and feel more I mean comfortable. Even a two-shot lead’s not comfortable with that T-OT. So, if someone can get in there and post a score, the green mile might have more to do with the ending than anything else. Three-wood for Dambo to the 14th. Definitely a little wind out of the left and helping here. It’s going to take a A great golf shot. That right greenside bunker. Not awful today. No, this is where you really got to take a chance in my opinion. Yeah, I think he can fly it on the green with this club if he hits a good one. And it’s leaking a little right. Will it get the left hop [Applause] into the gallery? I don’t think that’s real great. It’s not going to have really anything to work with greenwise. Thanks. Y let’s see what Tony can produce right here. And you’re right. You have to take an aggressive line right here. You have to got to flirt with that penalty area if you’re Tony. You really do. Especially with the left right win. Pretty solid one’s towards that right edge of the green, too. Well, if this one will get in the bunker, it’ll be okay. And roll. Oh, but it barely got in the bunker. Steve, that is not going to be nearly as easy as it could have been. Tighten it up in Charlotte, North Carolina. anyone’s ball game, which I didn’t think I’d be saying this late in the stage at the PGA Championship. [Music] The course doesn’t move. The opponent does. Ahead, behind, around the course, up and down the leaderboard. Both are the enemy. Not either or. Yes. And to win a major, you’ll have to beat the course and your fellow [Music] competitors. Look at how things have unfolded at the PGA Championship for this final round. Scotty Shepler was at 11 under had a three-shot lead, but he was five up on John Rom. Those two finally meeting at nine under par and our co-leaders Sheffller through nine. Rom up ahead on the 11th. Rom T- shot on the 12th. 350 yds in the fairway. Just hit his wedge onto the green. So he’s got a birdie putt on the 12th to try and get to 10 under par. Sheffler greenside at the par five 10th in two. He’s in that bunker just left of the green. So Rob putting the screws on Scotty Sheffler. Yeah. which I’m not sure any of us really fully believe that anything like that would happen, but um the door has now been opened. I wouldn’t say opened totally wide yet, but there’s definitely a crack. It seemed like five was too much ground to It sure did to make up from where Rahm was. He does have that pedigree, and if he won today, he’d have three4s of the career grand slam and would be going for the career grand slam at Royal Port Rush. He’s already won US Open at Tory Pines and the Masters two years ago. He is that kind of talent. There’s no doubt about it. How’s this for Feno? It’s doable right here. He’s going to have to carry a lot of this bunker though. But he can get this one up and down. Yes, he can or make it. Nearly did. What a shot. So, he hadn’t quite given up yet. He’s still giving it a shot. Bryson have anything to work with? Let’s watch Feno’s replay first and then we’ll get that update. Yeah, landed. Look how soft that land. That was wonderful. Wonderful shot. So, what’s what’s Bryson facing, Steve? The only good thing he’s got is he’s got the wind into him right here. He’s going to have to kind of float this up in the air. Had to move some baggage out of the way over here from the gallery. But, you know, with this wind into him right here, this is this is a not a bad deal. But, he doesn’t have more than about 12 ft of green to work with. Can’t fly this too far onto the green at all. [Music] [Applause] Boy did very well with that. What a golf shot that was. Touch of class. Yeah, I was thinking that was going to be uh lot. I mean, he’s just there’s not much green to work with right there, Steve. I mean, you got to hit it perfect to get it right there. That close. Oh yeah. [Applause] Back to the golf shot. Both these guys hunting birdies on 14. Those were just exquisite hands by both of them right here. Bryson even more so. I mean, just no room of green to work with at all. He landed in the exact spot he had to land it. Looks like they both get out of here with three. Fina first to go. That’s a birdie. Nice bounce back. a lot of artwork for Feno. Four birdies, four bogeies, even par. It’s been a a bumpy ride. Shambo in there tight. That was more of the touch that he has shown on the live tour being the number one in scrambling on that tour. Bryson Birdie going to take something magical these last four holes. He’s three behind Ramen Shepler. [Music] Yeah, an hour ago it looked like a snoozer. Now it’s turning into a golf tournament and our guys are completely out of it. Hold the phones. I said three behind. Scotty Sheffller has just birdied the tenth from 9 ft out. Sheffller at 10 under. One shot lead over John Ramy is four up on Bryson Dashambo who needs a good T- shot if he’s going to reach this par five and two. Yeah. And this hole has been playing the easiest on the golf course for the week. You hit the fairway here, you are hitting it up here either on or around this green. It kind of you can see it repels everything away from you, but the guys they have destroyed this hole. 15 eagles this week. I guess 586 is not long enough for a par five. George Steve, what’s this T-shot like on 15? Well, you have to challenge the oak trees down the left. I mean, we’ve seen these players blister it over them earlier on. If you can get this one down the left closer to that penalty area, you can shave off 25 or 30 yards on the approach as a dog legs up the hill on the left. Well, with his length, he just needs it anywhere in the fairway. Hard wind left to right here. I think it’s going to be okay. Oh. Oh, not sitting down horribly though from the camera view. So, I would say the worst thing is he’s going to be able to get up around the green. Maybe not on it. Let’s see if Tony can get a little bit more elevation on this golf ball right here. Yep. As a cutter, a little tougher shot, too. And this one is going right. Well, right. Spray by Feno. Final round coverage now on CBS of the PGA Championship. How we doing? Our feature group, Bryson Nambo, Tony Fen. Now they’re playing the par five. Scotty Sheffler sweating it but up one. [Music] really good. The crowds have been awesome this week in Charlotte, North Carolina. They did deal with a lot of rain. Pop-up storm yesterday morning, storms Tuesday and Wednesday. gave more than 5 ines of rain since two Fridays ago. It had been soggy to begin the week and were awarded on Sunday. Rush hour traffic on a Sunday. Yeah, the day we’d all been waiting for. Players, caddies, PG of America, us in the media and the fans who wanted to watch their stars compete for the PGA Championship. turning into a twoman back and forth. Sheffller and Rob. Feno and Dashambo both off to the right. Yeah, I think Fenow is deep in there. Steve, you got eyes on it? I do. He He is He is in some a bit of a spot of bother. Just taking a look at Bryson’s ball. That ball’s sitting up. Okay, he’s going to he’s going to have to slash and burn it up that hill, but Tony’s got a tough one. He’s going to be standing on the path, but the relief would actually put him in the evergreen tree to the right. So, he he’s going to pretty much just play it. Play stand the on the path and play it. It’s in the grass and the edge of the pine needles. Can he get it? Can he get it? How far up there do you think he can get it? I I think he just has to chip out short of the water, honestly. I I think he would be really he’s going his back swing is kind of limited where you know the evergreen tree kind of one of the branches kind of hangs in there where his back swing would be. Yeah, he’s already going. This way. This way. That way. Figuring out if he wants to take a drop path based on the stance. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We’re just moving off there ever so slightly. Go ahead and take a stance again. where where you don’t have it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, where the club head is? He must think he can get a better a better location for a back swing because his relief is further into the tree. Yeah. It’s questionable. I will say that. I want to get in there. You want to get in there. You know what I mean? Like I want you to think it’s a little more visible. I think you got to go a little more. You got to be perpendicular to this. Yep. Exactly. Right where you had it. Right there. Okay. So, he’s taking relief from the cart path. We’re not down there, but it looks like to keep it on grass, he’s going to be standing on the cart path, isn’t he, Steve? I think so. I think he’s got to he keep if he keeps it where it is, he will be standing on the path, but his back swing is kind of impeded. This is a kind of a this is what you call a pickle. Yeah, I can’t tell, George. He has he picked up the ball yet? I can’t I can’t tell if he’s actually gonna take relief or not. We’ll find out in a matter of months. I’m looking at 15. No. He’s not going anywhere. Fe now figuring out how to manufacture a swing here. [Applause] Couldn’t even get enough back swing to get it in the air, I don’t think. But he did. That’s how strong he is. Did you see? How long was that back swing? A flick of the wrist. Yeah, pretty much. Well, good as he could do. Well, here here we go. How far can M Bryson muscle it down? Well, it looks like he’s going to take his fivewood here. He’s got 248 up this hill, 223 to the front. You know, it’s off a down slope as well. He’s going to probably have to, you know, kind of chop down and cut this ball, get the face really open, and see if he can chase something up there. Yeah, chances of getting it on the putting surface are not good, but if he can get it up there between the bunkers really on either side, he’s got a great chance of making a four. Well, he’s got a lot of golf ball on this one. heading down the left side. Might sneak through it. Fluid up there. Wow. Stay. Oh, and it just looked like it just nestled right to the bottom. He got a whole lot of golf ball there to fly it onto the green. How is that as a spot in two to play from? I don’t if if his lie is as bad as it looked like when it dropped to the bottom. It’s not great. If it if he can if he’s got cush underneath the ball where he can elevate the chip shot, I think he’s in great shape. Steve, take us through this third for now. Well, he’s a bit on a down slope right here. He’s got a good ways into this hole right now. Got to climb some six or seven yards up from that fairway to get to the green. He’s got re room of green to work with though. Wind out of the left. Yeah, one of these. I just think the five are the test. Definitely some hurt on the wind though. And left to right. Well, not too difficult from there except that he’s hitting for hitting his fourth shot. So, bad T-shot really cost you on this hole. There’s a chance to make a birdie. Dambo still has a chance. So, I’m familiar with the acronym KISS, which you know what that means. Keep it simple, stupid. Well, our PGA professional Joe Howlet has a different one in mind when it comes to iron play. It’s just plain and simple. That’s all it is. George Scott, one of the things uh that all of us here as instructors and golfer is the swing plane. What is the swing plane? Where is it? I don’t want to make it too complicated. I want you to yourself a little test. It’s very simple. Go find a wall, stand against it, take one step forward. Now, you might do the side of your house, you’re probably not going to want to do your momentos on, and you probably want to get an older club, not your brand new iron, but if you take that one step forward, as you swing back, you’re find the club will hit the club head will hit somewhere above your shoulder. This is the Hall of Fame. If you try this drill and you find that the club head hits down here, that’s the hall of shame. So, use the Hall of Fame a step away. Feel the club hit up here. You’re going to know your swing is on plane. Good luck. You learn something new every day, right? You certainly do. Every time we check in with our guy Joe Howlet. Steve, you up greenside? Yeah, I took a look at the lie and you know it’s okay. I’ve seen a lot worse this week. The most difficult part of this one, it it definitely runs away. He’s going to have to land this short of the putting surface and just let it trundle on. But I think he can get this one within six or seven ft. He’d much rather be on the other side of the hole though where Tony is kind of working back up the hill though and into the wind more more importantly. Yeah, I think that you know hitting it left like he did. It looks good on paper, but you just almost always rather miss the screen to the right. Yeah, I think if anything maybe he was trying to hit in that left greenside bunker. That would have been that would have been good. Yeah, that would have been a better location. Just so hard to control where he was. But, you know, testament to his strength to get the ball past the hole though. I mean, mere mortals would not have been able to even remotely attempt that. No. And fly it that far. Downhill lie out of the rough that But he’s not a mere mortal at this point. Pretty straightforward here for Tony out of this really tightly moan approach cut. Well done. Should escape with a [Applause] par. Avoid the damage this point in the season. Top 10 would go a long way for Tony Fen now. He’s T8 at five under. Well, both of these guys uh obviously Bryson’s playing for an automatic spot on the RDER Cup team. You know, this is a only got three or four chances to get points. So, very important to finish as high as he possibly can if he doesn’t win. And Tony needs a little boost. Top 10 in the major would be great. I think Bryson’s thinking about that though. He wants to get up and down for birdie. Yep. Let’s see if he can have a deaf touch like he did back there on 14. He’s going high. So now or go in. What a shot. Thing of beauty from Dambo. He’s got the might. He’s got the touch. I mean that that that is brilliant. That’s almost like an old school flop shot. You know, before you could really spin the ball and have all these, you know, extra lofted wedges. That was brilliant right there. Got a chance. Got a birdie to the house. That’s where the lead currently is at 10 under. Birdie 14. Should be a birdie on 15. Those were two just exquisite little flop shots on these last two holes. It’s a par for feno. Pretty good considering where his t-shot was. Yeah, just unfortunately it’s getting late but yes, nice save the Shambo for backto-back birdies. He’s now within three of Shepler. It’s been a struggle, but he he’s obviously not a quitter. He’s he is fighting it to the end. Now the fun begins. 16 17 and 18. Well, and this is six. Starting with 16. This is where he could really take advantage of his length. Um downwind a little right to left off the tee. He could hit wedge to the screen which would be a massive advantage. Um, but this hole generally is just so difficult. If you miss the fairway, guys are hitting in the water, hitting in the bunker, they’re three putting is just the hole is just one of the hardest two or three holes on the golf course easily, but really one of the hardest two or three holes you’ll ever play. And they you can see them walking back. They’ve moved this tea back so far. [Applause] George, you and I would take a left off the 15th green to the T- box. These guys take about a hundred yard hike to the right. It was so stunning that not only Norin but Sheffller as well both played the green mile in two under the final three holes. Yeah, anything’s possible. Um, well, for Bryson, it’s all going to start here with the T-shot. If he can hit another bomb down the middle, then I wouldn’t totally give up on him yet. But he’s going to have to hit another really good wedge shot below the hole to make putts. So, we’ll see. I’m sure he loves this T- ball cuz he can just it’s a huge huge platform here to hit it over that bunker. So, this should be right up his alley. If you remember yesterday, he thought the wind was more out of the right. Back in the shoot of trees, you don’t feel all the wind and he thought it was more right to left and he left it in the right rough. And this was kind of the beginning of his demise here on the green mile. If he could play this green mile like Scotty Sheffler did yesterday and a couple under, uh, he might have a chance here come 18. Well, yeah, this will be very difficult. If you’re standing on the 18th with one shot lead and somebody’s posted a a score, you got work. They push this bunker and this tea back about 335 yards to cover this bunker. This seems a little right. Will it carry? No. Didn’t look like it. It didn’t appear to carry the bunker, but if it didn’t and it’s down in the bunker, which we just got where it is, if it’s down in the flat with a decent lie, it’s not horrible right there. Yeah, the ball usually hasn’t stayed on the faces the way they kind of pack the faces of these bunkers. So very much Augustaike. Same sand as they have at Augusta National. So it all kind of funnels down to the bottom. Feel Sweat begging for some wind help and I just don’t know if it’s there. [Applause] Looked like bunker as well. George appears to be two for two in the bunker. The Shambo trailing by three. Starting to find it on the back nine. Birdie’s on 14 and 15. Couple under on the day. He’s marching up the leaderboard T3 at the PGA Championship. Go get As players navigate their way around the course this week, danger will be looming in the form of the green mile. The last three holes at Quill Hollow have been called a nightmare over the years. And here’s why. In the PGA Championship in 2017, there were more double bogeies or worse on these three holes than there were birdies or better. Of those, 12 or triple or quadruple bogeies, and that matches the number of triples or worst on the first 15 holes. A lot of the danger comes from the water and play. Since the PGA Tour returned here in 2003, more than 1,800 golf balls have found their way into the water in this stretch of holes. All that to say, in recent history, no finish in major golf has been more treacherous to navigate than this one. Not Wingfoot, not Kiwa, or not even Carnasti. When it comes down to it, no one is safe walking the green mile. It’s our guy, Peter Burns, and he speaks the truth, doesn’t he, Scabberflake? Yeah, the last three holes on this golf course will definitely put you to the test. Are both the lies in the bunker pretty similar, Steve? Yeah, Bryson’s feet are going to be just a little bit above the ball, which it just gives you a little trepidation of catching it a little thin. I I don’t think the lip is going to be an issue. They both have 171 yards. And so Bryson, that should be just a nine iron for Bryson, but his ball was only about a yard and a half from covering this bunker. And very important yard and a half that he missed. Both lines are very clean though. And little front left hole location. I mean, it is doable here. This is not the hardest fairway bunker shot I’ve ever seen. You’re drawing there from that bunker. Well, the wind should help this ball kind of feed to the front left pin. Yeah, for sure. You can start this towards the middle and just let the wind do what it wants. So, you just don’t want to get this riding on the wind. And that’s probably just hurting a fraction as well, though. Yeah, they’re saying two to three:00 wind. So that’s basically across possibly hurting a touch. Caught it solidly. Now the wind is turning it. This looks pretty good linewise. Real good. What a shot by Bryson Dambo. It’ll stay there. Boy, just that that’s so he had such a great shot to end up released into the gummy first cut. What a shot. That was so solidly struck right there. [Music] [Applause] Yeah, very demonstrative. [Applause] He should have been. What a shot. He almost deserved for that ball to just slow down and stop and give give me a putt at it. Tony flights it a little bit lower. He’s going to have to pick this one a little better. And if he cuts it up against the wind, it will hit a little softer. It’s got to hang on a little bit though. And it did. And he cut it up against the wind and it hit a little softer. Tony Top and Bryson. What a shot that was. Even better. Ball of Tony Feno. Looks pretty straight from there, doesn’t it? Those are actually two excellent shots from that fairway bunker. Yeah, there haven’t been many closer than Tony Feno. He’s going to have one of the best approach shots that we’ve seen today at 16th. Yeah, which you wouldn’t probably expect out of a fairway bunker. Veno inside nine ft. There just been four birdies on the 16th. Feno could make it five by the field. Well, it’s generally a really tough hole and it’s it still is. How would you grade our two guys? Feno even through 15 to Shambo a couple under. Oh man, I would It’s tough. They’re playing They’re playing in hard conditions in a huge tournament. So, they’re both good, but it it just feels like they’ve both just left a ton out there, doesn’t it? So maybe maybe a B and a B minus, you know, and I don’t want to be it’s hard. It’s hard. I can just tell you it’s hard being right here and getting and performing the way you want to. So not quite A, but definite B’s. What about you, Steve? Yeah, I mean, look, I I think Bryson has done so much well green to T uh excuse me, T green, but on the greens, I mean, putting wise, C minus for sure. Uh, but but I mean, like a shot like this, this thing came down from the stratosphere and just had a little too much draw spin and Tony’s, like you said, Scott, kind of faded and landed a little softer. I mean, it’s all these little fine points right here. It’s hard to, you know, really knock anything they’re doing from on the full swing, but around the greens on the greens. They just haven’t converted. And I and the greens are harder and faster than they’ve been all week. And the wind still blowing. So, it uh got to be very precise. This this place, it’s amazing the how much drier it is uh here compared to Wednesday. Oh, yeah. Before we started this golf tournament. Uh pretty wild. Well, Bryson’s going to have to kind of buck the trend here to make one out of this first little cut that has just basically been so inconsistent throughout the whole week, throughout the whole field. You know, guys, it comes out hot, comes out soft. You know, it hops, it doesn’t hop. You know, it’s just like when Bryson hit it over the back of the fifth green, he knocked it seven feet past on a trying to make it and then three putted. Phil. Yeah, I like the putter. I I don’t like the wedge from here. He was thinking about chipping and talked to Greg as he was walking up the green and said, “I might chip this, but I like this play.” He’s only got a couple inches to go through of this first cut here. Well, he’s going to have to figure it out quick. Looking for three straight birdies. Dambo loes it to the right. Yeah, you could see it. It just kind of hopped coming out of that stuff. See there? It just got up in the air and that just I don’t know. Just, you know, it’s just hard to make them from there. It’s been proven all week. We haven’t really hardly even seen that many good shots. This one should be very makeable. Yeah, pretty much straight up the hill. Maybe a fraction of left to right in it and back into the wind, too. So, just got to strike it solidly. Feet out for birdie. Oh, man. just ran out of steam far 16. Well, which was fine, but after hitting that brilliant second, I know he would like to have had a putt that had a better chance than that. Little one for par dambo. Three and a half ft. Man, not a whole lot here. Just trying to make good solid strokes. That’s it. made it. The Jambo stays at seven under three behind the leader, Shuffler. What’s in store at the par 317? Oh, just one of the harder holes you’ll ever play at 216 today with the wind coming a little bit in from the right. It’s going to be so hard. You’re going to have to take such a big chance to hit it close to this whole location. Um, middle of the green, if you get the right bounce, it’ll kind of feed over there. But in general, this green just repels all incoming shots. So, very difficult to make birdie. Bryson Desambo yesterday was a co-leader standing on the tea at the par 317th at seven under par and then this happened. Yeah. hits it high hooking and then all of a sudden it the wind got hold of it and in the water has to drop his third from the drop area. Yep. And and hits this past the hole. But you said it right, George. You even with the conditions, the only thing you can’t do is hit it in the water. and he’s hitting like his eight or nine, whatever iron. It was unfortunately for him, it was a really bad timing on a mistake. Double bogey. Like the confused look should have been why am I 30 to 40 ft past it and then have to putt for par. I know, man. It’s easy easier said than done. Yeah. Very very easy from where we’re standing when you’re facing the hardest hole on the course, a quail hollow. Yeah. And the wind just kind of swirls through here. So that’s one of the things that makes it so dogone hard, too. Yeah. I’m looking at the flag on 16. It’s kind of mostly right to left, maybe a little into. Then I’m looking at the flags on top of the grand stands and the You don’t want to look at the flag on this green, I don’t think. Got to look at the ones on the grandstands. That’s really the true wind there. Well, this is a little bit of a uh I I don’t want to compare this place to Augusta National, but you have to trust your wind chart on the back nine at Augusta National. Whatever the what the wind is when you make the turn, you need to always remember what that was. Um and it kind of here, like you said, the wind is blocked by the buildout. Um some of the big huge trees around and what stayed short and you got to get the wind right on this shot into the wind here. Move the bag. Yeah, it’s not a seven iron. It’s It’s dead into us now, dude. What’s front? Let’s get front. If you cover front, it’s going to end up You’re going to end up with a great B 10. So, it’s 196 front downhill. That’s six yards. So, 190. I mean that that gets over front edge all day long. Exactly. Let’s go ahead and big uh big draw, but let’s bring it down on the right side of the Got it. There’s one word that describes this whole terror. Yeah, he’s trying to hit the only shot that you can get close. A big high draw landing kind of in the right front right part of the green and have it release. Similar to the shot he tried to hit yesterday. It’s turning on the win. I like the line if it’s enough. And it is, but it didn’t release very much. Still tremendous golf shot though right there. Oh yeah. No, that’s fantastic. It’s just This is This hole is about as hard as they get coming down the stretch. Yeah. Good golf shot to safely protect seven under and likely finish in a share of third. Yeah. 200ish Steve hard holes to force the issue and try and make birdie when you got 17 and 18 and and you’re you’re coming from behind. Yeah, there there’s there’s no question of how challenging and diabolical this one is if you’re having to make birdie. I mean that that’s why the run that Sheffller went on yesterday at the end, it could have won him the golf tournament. I mean we’ll we’ll see. But yeah, it feels that is true. And this hole location here is the one that if you take it on and your T-ball lands firm, if you get past this hole, it’s going in the water. It’s going into the penalty area. Um, seen that happen a million times playing on this golf course. So many factors to put into the equation here, but now ready to pull the trigger. Time to play the draw. Oh boy, this is dangerous. Will it let find dry land? Not even close any better. I can’t hit any more solid. Tony saying I can’t hit it any more solid. Makes you wonder what the plan was. Uh, I don’t know cuz they if he was planning on the perfect shot, but obviously the wind switch, but I mean that was a good that’s 30 yards shy. It’s not like it was just off and took a bounce off. No, that was 30 yards short of where he was trying to fly it. I don’t think real uh Scotty Sheffller realizes how fortunate he is. John Rom has had three consecutive birdie putts inside 13 ft on 13, 14, and 15 and has missed all three. Well, yeah. 13 was a great shot, but 14 and 15 he should have been closer than that. So, he’s really fortunate he has a birdie and he like you said he had a couple he had one really easy up and down he didn’t make. So, here we go. The golf course is winning again. Shuffler still leading by one. He’s on the par4th. Rom starting the green mile. We’re midway through it and it’s thrown its first haymaker at Tony Feno on the 17th here flat flat here flat 121 you know that’s right here so if you want to want to move off that cover I mean we obviously got to play some hurt yeah 18 so 103 left yeah 100% a little different angle too you’re at 22 right there 122 right 22 and off the right. Okay. Uh if we’re trying to I mean ideally trying to push this how far? 15. Yeah. I was going to say like Yeah. 15 to 16. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. How far do you think that is right now? Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I’m just adding a few. Yep. Exactly. Okay. Yep. Again, with just patience, right? A hole. Let it work in. Yep. Right now, 20 sounds perfect. Okay. Bryson just walked by me go walking up to the green. And he said, “That’s exactly what happened to me yesterday. Hits a wall of wind and fell down into the penalty area.” Tony Fen now about 120 yards here from this drop circle. Sit down. So fight. Oh, this might be the one that gets left of it. And fortunately, there’s rough. Yes. The one time The one time all week. You’re glad there’s rough. Yep. You’re dry, Tony. So, if you’re hitting that, if you’re on going at it and you’re back there at 200 instead of 120, there’s no way that’s staying out of the uh penalty area cuz our vantage point deceiving. It seemed like Tony was way left where if it had been 20, 30 yards right, maybe that catches the front portion of the green. Or was that not even going to straight up? Well, Steve, you’re down there. It looked like it was well short. Yeah, that that was going to be short. It might have caught the front right portion of the bunker maybe if it was far enough, but it would had to been pretty far right to cover. Yeah, it definitely got eaten up. George Sabarika, Scott Verplank, and Steve Scott with our group on the par 31 17th at Coil Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. What Bryson Dashambo has been able to do in majors over the past couple years has been remarkable. Think about last year was runner up at the PGA Championship. Very next major wins the US Open. missed the cut at the open this year in the final group at the Masters. Finished T5. Right now he’s T3 here at the PGA Championship. You’re a go at Augusta. He was T6. You throw out the open, he’s been top six in every major. Yeah, he’s he’s been amazing. Um, I know Rory won the Master to complete the career grand slam, but RScotti’s really been the only one consistently better. Uh, over that over the period that Bryson’s played in the last six majors. Oh, got it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I mean, well, it’s it’s been impressive. Don’t sleep on Xander Schoffley. Yeah, that’s true. Xander Schoffley. Um, you’re right. He did win two of them. He’s got two in that time. So yeah, for uh if we just count two, Xander Shuffley is by far the best player, but over this six tournament swing, it’s been awful impressive to to reiterate your point and this will be really important for him uh to make this US RDER Cup team, which I know would be a big deal for him. They should pick him anyway, but if he doesn’t make it on point, I mean, if he didn’t make it on points, they should probably pick him or they should pick him. But you always want to make it by yourself. Four top 10 finishes last five major appearances. How come, dude, it seems like they don’t evaluate or it’s not publicly evaluated a guy’s record when they’re making a captain’s picks. like if a guy’s had a three and 10 record and you’re on the fence with someone else and they just haven’t and I know it’s a team game and you also have Sunday singles but my experience is it comes down to uh at the very end of the team comes down to personalities everybody’s good you’re not picking a dog but some guys have I know some guys play better than other guys but also some guys play better in certain situations than other guys um all the guys you’re looking at are are great players, but I think it, you know, we’ve used the chemistry deal and it’s worked over here now, but it never but it hadn’t worked overseas yet. Whereas Europe, they just find the chemistry amongst all themselves. But do you never hear them publicly say it has to be US will say we want good personalities, everyone has to get along. I’ve never heard the Europeans say that. They just say we want the 12 best players in the room and they which is exactly what you they picked Ludvik Oberg who hadn’t even played in a major yet. I’m with you. They correct. Well, that’s why they’ve dominated the last 20, 30 years. It It’s been wild how one-sided it has been and now it’s just gotten so inongruent where home field advantage in the RDER Cup so monumental. Yeah. What are the twists and turns for Dashambo’s birdie putt? Yeah. Right to left at the beginning. It’ll kind of flatten out. It won’t continue to move from right to left when it gets to the hole as much. Probably just be a good two puck to be honest with you. And it’s going to be Steve. You’re down to this green. It could you could have a 30footer and it could break five different ways. Yeah, there’s there’s a lot going on where this hole is located. It’s kind of right on that spine where it kind of climbs up and then the back part falls away. kind of like the 10th hole as well. Very tricky reads around this hole. I mean, that was a that was a wonderful putt. Just a really hard putt to read. Yeah, just I think everything on this screen is hard to read. Let’s see if Tony can make a wonderful save for Bogey here. Just a little karate chop chip. for shot. Hit it. Uhoh. That’s for double. Matt Wallace three underpar solo 19th. Tony makes he’d join him there. Otherwise, two underpar. You got a group of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight players. Yeah, you know, Harris English had that great round early today and it’s it’s going to hold up right there at the top five. You know, what a round. Cha-ching and RDER Cup points and and more good status in the world of golf. Speaking of RDER Cup, Harris English’s Caddy, Eric Larson. believe the only caddy to caddy for three different players in the RDER Cup. Anthony Kim in 2008 winning effort. Jeff Overton 2010 and then Harris English 2021 at Whistling Straits. Another win. Scotty Shepler birdies the 14th even on the round two shot lead and a big putt for Tony Fenel here just to should just kind of finish barely left or right. Okay, good effort there. Sometimes there’s just nothing you can do about it, George. I you know, obviously he said he felt like he hit a good shot and he probably did, but if the wind switches in your face, what are you going to do about it? Same thing happened to Bryson yesterday. Dambo makes par. [Applause] 71 holes down. We got one to go, Scott. Yeah. And what a what a hard hole it is. Um it is playing a little downwind. It is left to right downwind, so that does help. Um, but you just have to stand up here and hit a golf shot off the tea. There’s plenty of fairway, but there’s hazards everywhere. And then this green is another one that is just really hard to get the ball close to. Pins in kind of the traditional back left location, bringing the creek into play. Um, if you don’t drive it in the fairway here, this hole’s uh very difficult to deal with. And it is the toughest hole on the golf course for the week, which I fully understand because you can one swing here is going to one swing can determine whether you make a three or a seven. There’s not many holes that are that dramatic. It gets all the way up there, doesn’t it? Yeah. One word. How would you describe the T- shot on 18? I intimidating. I’m all for it. I’m just saying. But these guys are talking. I mean, Bryson, isn’t it? It is. He’s even going with three-wood. I guess all I’m saying is I just don’t want this thing to turn back into us and be driver. I’m not talking about it. If you’re 5050 I like three wheels if you’re a 5149 driver. Let’s be a man. Yeah, I’m with it. That’s why he loves him. Let’s be a man. He’s going with the He’s going with the big stick. I drive it all the time. Yeah, you’re right. Yep. Not okay. Bring out the boomstick, Bryson. I like I like the boom stick here. This is uh I think the fairway widens up for him with the driver. Honestly, they were they were talking about that. So, he’s just said, “All right, be a man.” Yep. He can clear that kind of left side of the creek. And you know, the wind is left to right here. You just got to get out of his mind what happened yesterday. And that ball kind of riding on the wind. Yeah. Just hit a good just normal swing and it should be fantastic. [Music] Oh, this is hammered just right of the creek and falling right. It needs to get a little right, doesn’t it? Well, it’s going to be up. I’m pretty sure it’s stuck on the side of the hill in the It did. There you go. It will be awkward stance, but clean lie. If he likes hooking it, he’s really going to like this one. That is his natural shot shape. All right, let’s see if Tony can kind of just fire it just right at that line. I mean, that ball just needed to fall right an extra touch and it would have been absolutely perfect. [Music] This one on a little better line. Quick pick up of the T. Good one by Feno. My oh my, I how things have changed in Charlotte. John Rom has actually just made another bogey. Scotty Sheffler has taken full command of the PGA Championship. [Music] Welcome back to final round coverage here of our featured group on ESPN plus the PGA Championship. The ball position for Tony Fenow and Bryson Dashambo living dangerously but he’s on dry land 343 got 26 yds between the two. Would you rather be Dambo further ahead or feno in the middle of the fairway? I think I’d rather be Fen now just cuz you have a normal flat lie, but I’d also like to be be able to hit it as far as both of them. But George, at this point, I’d take where Bryson is and be thrilled. It’ll be a ball above his feet pretty well. But the lie sitting up very nice in that first cut. [Applause] Tough hole. hole location here. Back left. Wind’s blowing off the left. Green kind of feels like it’ll feed to this hole, but then at the end it kind of teases you and goes back the other way. So, really hard to hit it close on this one. Yeah, with that wind out of the left like this. Now, you got to take a pretty aggressive line that creek. I mean, this is such a just a dangerous little hole location here. That’s from 187 right here. Yeah, at this point middle of the green’s a pretty good shot. See if he can end on a high note. Yeah, trying to turn it from right to left. It’s just not going to turn. Well, they got it pin high, but just off the surface. Well, Scott, how aggressive do we get here if we can semicontrol our golf ball? Well, if anybody’s going to be aggressive, it would be Bryson. I mean, if he feels comfortable with a solid hit, this should help that he’s on this little hook lie. Start at the middle of the green and let it just feed back there. I mean, if you think about how upright his irons are, too. I think this is kind of a a good scenario. Anybody with a flat iron, the toe that would kind of dig in first, but this this might turn out in his favor. As awkward as it is. Well, that and the fact that he’s hit 350 off the tee and he’s only got 150 in. 1035 one of those. He’s definitely got to cross a little bit of this creek up here in front of the green if he wants to be on a direct line with it. But just get this thing on the top shelf. That’s the really the order of business right now. Get it on the top shelf. Give yourself some sort of 15 20 footer if you can. They’re doing the advanced mathematics right here. It’s just so much guess work. How much left is this ball going to come out of this lie? That is the that is the big guess here. Yeah, whatever it is, you got to stay tall right here with the feet being, you know, five, six inches below the golf ball here. Got to keep the chin and the chest very tall. What you really got to do is make sure you start it far enough right cuz he already likes to draw it. And he did trying to work it way back. Oh, it just didn’t come out at all. That needs to stop. Oh, that catches the false front to the intermediate cut. Yeah. Yeah. He’s had to hit it way out on the toe, which is hard to do. Ball’s sitting on that fluffy sticky grass and you’re well below the well below the hole. Hard shot. A lot to be decided as far as where the leaderboard’s going to shake out behind Scotty Sheffler. Barring disaster as Dambo gets a big round of applause. Two straight years he’s in contention at the PGA Championship runner up last year. Currently tied for third at seven under par up and down and he would post seven under for the week. And it would be his third straight round in the 60s after an opening even par 71. The state of his game with the T5 at the Masters. Another top five here with another eye towards the US Open at Oakmont. I would say I don’t think he’s playing his best golf. I think if he could tighten it up just a little bit and cut down some of the, you know, whether it’s with the wedge distances, some of the putts, um, I don’t think he’s playing as I think he’s got a huge still a huge ceiling above him. So, he’s got another gear. I think he does if he if he gets his just a little bit more in control of, like I said, iron distance. You know, he was talking about getting a new set of irons that he thinks are going to be better. man, if he does that, he’s going to be another another guy that you’re going to have to deal with besides Scotty Sheffler, which is interesting. When he first came on the PGA Tour and we made so much of the single length irons, the thought was he’s going to be a really phenomenal iron player. Yet now it’s kind of inverted where he’s able to bludgeon courses off the tea, has a good short game, streaky putter who can putt really well, but the iron game has been inconsistent. Steve, what do you make of Bryson Dashambo, not just this week, but coming up the remainder of the season? Yeah, I mean, look, he he’s always a force as far as he hits the golf ball. I mean, he puts the ball in play and gets some wedges dialed in. I mean, and rolls a couple putts. I mean, he’s always going to be in the top 10, top five like he has here at the PGA. Three of the last five years he’s been in the mix here. But, uh, you know, doesn’t look like it’s going to really materialize unless somehow this goes in and Scotty Sheffler has a bit of a train wreck coming in. Well, if honestly, if he gets this up and down, he he’s probably going to finish T or or second second alone. He’s got a good chance at second. John Rom just put it in the water. John Ram back on 17. Totally falling apart. Well, it’s a pretty basic pitch and run. Not a not too big of a slope up this green. Very gradual. Little right to left break. Yeah, just needs to get the speed right. And that one kind of checked up. Pedestrian effort from Dambo with his third. Yeah, he’s not happy with either one of those two shots, last two shots. And there’s a real good chance that uh Scotty Sheffller’s going to end up with about a six-sh shot victory here. Rom’s going to six. Bryson. It’s going to be a battle between JT Poston and Bryson for second. JT Poston in the right bunker off the tea on the 16th. Yeah. And so far from what we’ve seen in this last three or four groups, the Green Mile hasn’t been nice. Green Mile would be a co-leader with Shuffler. Shuffler just birdie 15. He’s at 12 under. Feno’s third on 18. Little right to left chip and run down the hill. Get going a little bit. Just another sticky out of that deep out of that first cut. It’s been a recurring theme. How about Sheffler was two over on the front nine. Only had two fairways. Now Birdie’s on 10, 14, and 15 is three under on this backside to go from a five shot lead early on the front nine. Co-leader with John Rom to the lead potentially being uh back to five. Um it’s it’s already at five. Rom’s hitting four. Well, it hasn’t. Yeah, hasn’t been posted yet, but yeah. Hey, this is probably for outright second right here for Bryson, which like I said, I don’t think he’s really he’s not even on yet. Of course, Scotty was off for a couple days this week, too. Um, it’s amazing how this golf course keeps everybody in check. So hard to just run away and make a boatload of birdies. But this one, this is one of those makeable putts right here. It’s a little up the hill. Should move from his right to left ever so slightly. Not a ton of break though. Can Dambo get up and down on the 72nd hole? Burns the edge. [Applause] Wow. That’s a shame. But still another solid high finish in a major championship. Those scoring at home, he ties the clubhouse lead which is with Harris English who just moved up to T4. Harris English at six under par uh Sunday 70 for Bryson Damro. Six under for the week. Hit a nice putt. Just begging for it to hang on. [Applause] Almost got him some Tony F. Almost hit Tony Fenel with his putter and then was apologetic. Feno brutal finish. Yeah, that’s too bad. Double on 17, bogey on 18. He plummets out of the top 10. That’s a 74 for Tony Fenow. T20. Yeah. At the PGA Championship. This golf course just brings out when you have a little weakness in these conditions. It is exposed everybody really except for Scotty Sheffller. John Rom somehow making bogey on the 17th. So, oh, it’ll be more than that. My apologies. Yeah, he’s But here’s the leaderboard. Scotty Sheffler at 12 under. Dashambo six, English at six. Looks like Rahm’s going to fall to six. JT Poston would be the closest chaser. The Scotty Sheffller performance is what? Fill in the blank. Uh it’s just it’s phenomenal. She’s just clearly the best player day in day out in the world today and is as close to the great players of the last, you know, the Tiger Woods type run. Not saying he’s Tiger, but he is clearly the dominating factor in golf. Scotty Sheffler in route to major number three will be his first time winning the PGA Championship. What a show he has put on this week. And how about Quail Hollow? Remember, final round coverage now over on CBS. Quail hollow resilient with all the rain that we had for Steve Scott and Scott Replank. I’m George Savikas. Big thank you to our producer James Davidson, director Scott Johnson, as well as Heather Wilson and Ian Green and all the hardworking men and women behind the scenes for the week that was on ESPN Plus. So long from Charlotte. We’ll see you next year in Philly. [Music]
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Dechambaue has gone down in quality since he started on Liv. Not so much most the rest of them but in 2-3 years ahead i think he lost 60% of his quality. But its not strange, 99% of golf players lose most dedication and willing to put in effort when big money rolling in. You se to the same in soccer players going to Saudi or America .. they go down fast after 1-2 years. And make more than enough on commercials and social media than sport results. And idiot people that idolize this has to pay for it.
If golf was a regular work, those players would be a higer level staff. Not the owners, not the ceo .. and they would have massive of pressure every day to deliver results, from employees and owners, stock market and much more. And they probably earn during a full year what those players earn in just a week or two. And I'm sure they put almost 30-40 more time then those players.