2024 PDGA Champions Cup | FPO R2F9 | Saarinen, Mandujano, Gannon, Handley | Jomez Disc Golf

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Card: Silva Saarinen, Valerie Mandujano, Missy Gannon, Holyn Handley
Course: Northwood Park | Morton. IL
2HotGeese: Madison Walker, Erika Stinchcomb

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Front 9 Chapters
00:00 Start
02:08 PLAYER PROFILES
03:00 HOLE 1
09:38 HOLE 2
14:59 HOLE 3
21:56 HOLE 4
25:08 HOLE 5
28:24 HOLE 6
34:06 HOLE 7
39:02 HOLE 8
42:00 HOLE 9
46:23 PDGA LEADERBOARD CHECK-IN
47:07 FOUNDERS CLUB LIST

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I’m kind of battling with trigger finger
right now it feels okay it feels a lot
better better today than it did let’s
say yesterday
plane yeah I’m pretty upset about at
myself for those last two holes
especially so yeah I’m pretty pissed at
myself for that I know in 10 minutes I’m
going to feel fine but right now I’m a
little pissed I’m going to be thinking
about the Miss pot though for being
honest I feel good hit the gaps and make
made
pots I mean I’m feeling great uh you
know we never really know coming back
each year you know the Field’s getting
better 4 under might have been good
previously but it’s hard to know you
know and because I’ve been out here so
many times I just expected everything to
be pretty much the same I got to 18
which we have played in the past A
variation of it and um I don’t know I
just thought it was a par for so that’s
how I was attacking it in practice and
yeah it was kind of a nice trick that I
played on myself a little bit so yeah
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[Music]
[Applause]
hello and welcome to round two of the
2024 PDGA Champions Cup presented by
Bushnell this is our second major of the
year I’m Erica stinko I’m Madison Walker
we’re your two hot Keys honk if you’re
confused and haven’t been paying any
attention at all welcome to the world we
had a massive rain delay everything’s WI
you know there aren’t words let’s just
watch actually um this is round two it
as you can see in the b roll is going to
be rainy let’s check out our lead card
here Silva sain hitting the Fairway 91%
of the time Landing in circle tune
regulation 61% and 100% c1x putting we
got to see her last week at Music City
open and I’m excited to see her again
Valor manano no stranger to doing well
at Woods courses she’s
86% of the time finding the Fairway
unbelievable at Northwoods black 44% of
the time giving herself a look from
Circle 2 and making 92% of her Circle 1X
puts big money Missy always does well at
ledgestone and these courses out here
77% Fairway hits Circle 2 in regulation
at 50% and 92% c1x
putting last but not least Holland
Hanley 34% of the holes she is birding
in 2024 Circle 2 in regulation she’s 65%
and 76% of the time she’s making her
Circle one next putting Valerie Missy
and Holland all tied at four down Silva
in the lead at five down whole one is a
par three 455 ft downhill we only saw
one Birdie on it yesterday we’ve seen
very few in years past you can just see
all the technical challenges shooting
down from a hill there’s OB all along
the left side though they did add a wall
uh there is also a kind of a back stop
there um which is kind of nice for
approaches if you’re coming in too hot
you see a lot of backhand flip UPS and
sidearms that bail out to the right
which is all safe and in bounds let’s
immediately check in with
our third card third card yeah Rachel
turton must be starting out The Round In
Style she’s even par on hole one which
is pretty typical and just kicking
things off with a tap in Birdie on whole
to being under par at Northwoods at any
moment is enough to make you sky rocket
up the leader board ladies and gentlemen
welcome once again to the 2024 PDGA
Champions Cup disc golf tournament on
behalf of presenting sponsor Bushnell
the PDGA and the ledstone team we
welcome you to Northwood Park this is
the lead card for
fpo first off the tea box from OT
Finland Silva serin
[Applause]
you can see with all the layers it was
pretty chilly this morning nice brisk
wind yeah it was in the 30s for the
earlier tea times maybe creeping up into
the lower 40s at this point but very
cold and a pretty nice North chilly
North Wind as
well so it drops into the center that’s
good enough San
Antonio Valerie
Manu Valerie winning Idol wild last year
she’s really talented in the woods
really great shot shaping um through
treelined Fairways both forehand and
backhand and good at dealing with
injuries I mean at ID wild she’s coming
back from an ankle injury I know she’s
been dealing with that trigger finger
that she mentioned for a while now ooh
reaction gets a kick and the wall saves
her Beacon New York
[Applause]
miss this is the Missy
hole Yeah she should have a little
plaque or
something going Z jawbreaker Thrasher
looking really
good oh or is it
dang rounding out the lead card from
Grapevine Texas Holland heny that faded
pretty hard for a thrasher
is Holland throwing a distance driver
here um that is a titanium Undertaker so
Fairway but attack oh no
slip
oh so much oh there’s a lot happening I
think she’s
safe Silva with a lot more of a typical
look at this hole about halfway down the
Fairway with a little approach left
yesterday was the third most difficult
hole of the day with only one birdie
today it’s the seventh most
difficult probably from more bars though
rather than more birdies I would guess
yep we’ll find out Holland trying to
throw a turnover sidearm it does fade
out a little bit at the end she’s going
to be on circle’s edge with a tester to
start the
round yeah Valerie said that um that
trigger finger mostly is affecting her
putt but strange yeah that sounds pretty
rough to deal with especially I’d
imagine in the cold any injury in the
cold so no birdies from our lead card
there were no birdies on the day as well
pretty classic whole
one Holland from circle’s
Edge going to miss
slow this hole is espe especially
frustrating to Bogey but almost 35% of
the field getting a bogey or
Worse Valerie not quite getting it high
enough to get in the basket Silva from
just outside the Buller
par there we
go this is one that you just kind of
have to put your head down and move past
because it is a challenging hole for
being a a downhill par
three feel like you could say that about
all the holes out here just head down
just keep it down don’t even look up
don’t ever look up just look at the wild
flowers and
um and if you look sometimes if you look
up your hat flies off CU it’s so windy
yeah not quite yet but um
spoiler another check in with the Chase
card now hna blo Rus attacking hole to
the hole we just watch Rachel turton
play on the third card hna just short of
the landing Zone but she’s still got a
patent pending shot shot and looks like
she’s going to attack the second part of
this Fairway oh
yeah man she’s world class at that shot
nice little tree reaction too you can
hear the rain starting up as
well nice
birdie yeah HTO has my number man I I
bog eat it every day it’s me too hard
it’s one of my favorite holes but it’s
it just just even with the great t-shot
getting up the second half of that
Fairway can be really difficult yeah
especially if your head is down and
you’re not looking at what you’re doing
at the
Fairway here it is again yeah it’s 505
ft the first shot is more of a saw off
backhand turnover maybe a forehand but
it’s a weird line uh your second shot
ideally is in this Landing Zone you get
to go really far down to the basket
congrats to the patreon winner Kate
Morrison yeah you did it you want to
a practice Round
Disc yay great yeah we are legitimately
stoked for you um we’re just tired but
congratulations um that second part of
the Fairway where Kate Morrison was
winning a lot of people are losing oh
man oh no that is
e I got to look up some synonyms for
nightmare you know like yeah I’m using
the same words every time but it’s not
good over there
Valerie with a really nice looking line
with a Vortex does get a little bit of a
roll and is going to be pinched but I
think lined up to the Gap
nicely we’ll just keep ath thesaurus in
front of us oh we should just use really
wild words that would be fun Missy with
a mantis push is a little more straight
maybe than you’d like but she’ll have
something to work with
Holland with a great line that also is
fading out a little bit more but being
in the edge of the woods right there
doesn’t necessarily take away your
ability to par the hole just might makes
birdie a lot tougher definitely easier
oh Silva catches a tree and still has a
lot of work to get out of there we’ll
call it a nightmare now mhm
let me see looking like she’s getting
aggressive here going to go turn over
little two turned and bad
reaction same tree for
Silva Holland forced to take a step out
sidearm approach
and she overturns it as
well okay yeah come on Valerie everyone
I mean don’t get me wrong conditions
were rough out there I mean I watched uh
so many people take doubles and triples
on the first like four or five holes of
the round it’s it was just hard to get
warmed up and with the looming rain and
it just was a it was a very weird start
to the day after being wearing shorts
all week by looming rain what Madison is
talking about is a giant storm wall all
the colors of the rainbow on the radar
with lightning
just imminent imminent a really nice
little technical out from Holland she’s
a around Circle too looking at a putt
for
par Missy’s third finds a little tiny
Gap but it’s going to find the opposite
side of the rough though she’s somewhere
in circle 2
land and she seems cool with it this is
like just weird to watch our lead cards
struggle so much right here but uh this
hole does get the best of a lot of
people 60 or sorry 50% of the field
taking a bogey or worse it averaged at a
half-stroke overp par there were only
six birdies out of 48 competitors this
is just one of those holes that like a
lot of them out here if you were to just
kind of chill and play for par you can
make it look you know not so hard but
when you get aggressive and it is birdi
B too so it’s hard not to be aggressive
um also just imagine like waking up and
immediately like having to jump onto a
trampoline like it’s like you’re
Straight Into The Gauntlet you don’t get
to walk at all you’re just like
immediately in the flames in the flames
on the trampoline I got lost in the
analogy I’m not sure where we are I also
did Holland going to keep it to a single
bogey that was a nice little forehand
sky roller out I don’t know what to call
that it was cool
Valerie with a par there taking Strokes
on
folks single bogey for
see Silva looking at a
triple and her lead is
gone triples quads Quint you will see
them all at Northwoods
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bruise Valerie going to jump the whole
card with that one Kristen Tatar is even
on the round through four which is
enough to jump her into a tie for first
first with Valerie as
well hole three we skipped a couple
holes from previous years this is old
hole 5 it’s a U-shaped hole par five 790
ft you going to get as far down as this
first tunnel as you can second shot you
are trying to wrap this corner it’s
pretty technical most common mistakes
are uh short left ending up those trees
are pushing too deep uh and then the
last shot you are trying to hopefully
you’re set up to throw down this last
tunnel it’s not the longest of shots I
believe the two 250 foot steak is kind
of right at that corner once you wrap
around it um so it’s not the distance
that’s the problem but it is tough to
get into position to go for
birdie yeah even though this Fairway
looks really wide it’s a surprisingly
small Landing Zone to be able to attack
crashing into those trees on the right
side actually is not a bad play I think
better than the left generally even
better than being in the left side of
the Fairway in the wide open somehow
yeah the left side you just can’t get
around the corner from the left very
easily like you have to deal with these
trees the angle’s not there yeah even
where Missy is with a you know wide open
stance it’s going to be tough to get far
enough left on her second
shot so the rain isn’t too bad yet but
we are hearing some rumblies of Thunder
at this point everyone’s looking to the
sky
nervously Holland’s going to end up
really close to Missy on that left side
a great shot from Silva with a nice
right right
turning shot for most of the flight
little fade at the end and that was some
good distance as well yeah that was her
Neutron
crave wow wow all right that’s why she’s
on the lead card sick such a technical
shot with really demanding angle and you
can see this is what we’re talking about
here the angle’s just not quite there
for Holland to wrap around the corner
she ends up pushing too far into the
right
side Silva also she needs to go hard
left way before the
spotter she getsd she caught a tree
maybe yeah yeah weird reaction off a
tree going deep isn’t bad but it does
really extend the uphill angle of the
third shot footing can be tough down
there
too Missy trying to swing her own Heiser
in and I think is it rolling I think
think that was a good play to kind of
take some off and just try to hit a
landing
Zone Holland nut trying to get too crazy
here if you push too far straight this
hole gets really hard really fast
there’s a gully over there that’s really
that’s extremely difficult to get out of
so she says I’m just going to play this
one for
par is he lined up to one of the gaps I
swear that tree is is just my enemy I
like to land right behind
it ooh
let see keeping it pretty close to the
left side of the Fairway she’s going to
have a putt for
birdie Valerie in a really great spot to
attack yeah you really see the
third shot from such a good
position comes close to turning it too
much and going in the goalie but she
checks up in the little sea of trees
just short and right on the
green Silva with a similar play here
overturning it going to have some little
trees to contend with on the putting
green allen throwing four she’s probably
75 ft away something like that with
somehow the scariest approach shot at
Northwood Black dead straight and wide
open what am I doing here what is this
how did I get here you see what do I do
disc spin on that Branch it’s pretty
sick Valerie laying up for par let’s see
if Silva can get some green on the
scorecard
gosh look how dark it
is wow she’s such a good putter dang
what a bounce back too The Mitten wave
is also very good I hope we get to see
that in slow
motion such a pure put dead
center ready dang it she did it she she
waved with her
Mitten Silva’s one of only five birdies
today this hole always plays hard but
it’s that still puts it only in the
middle of the
pack great putt from Missy to converting
on the birdie from out of
position and tough start for Holland
going three Bogies in a
row some smart decision making there but
bummer when it does not pay off yeah
then you’re like might as well get
aggressive
sometimes Silva and Missy carding their
first birdies let’s check in with the
score or Chase card here henna ahead on
the fifth hole this is a short par three
downhill 307 ft going over OB and henna
absolutely Parks this thing this is such
a small Gap and it you have to tea off
from the left side of the tea pad to
open it up but it’s still only what 6t
wide 8T wide teeny tiny it is and back
to back fins lacing the Gap we love to
see it best friend
birdie that’s so
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uh hole four there’s an out of Bounce
line all the way down the right hand
side that you can find if you catch any
of the trees it’s a very specific shot
shape but not really one that a disc
does this is kind of uh a little bit of
a throw and hope hole and deal with what
putt you
have there’s out of bounds on the right
hand side of the Fairway that can come
into play if you catch any tree and kick
hard
right uh can you believe that that ad
break was 5 hours these ladies have been
off the course for 5 hours it is now
3:30 p.m. what a change and look at that
wind it sure picked up during those 5
hours found somewhere to come from yeah
look look at all the trees just like
swaying in the
background oh wow what a great shot from
Silva
so this hole is challenging even in calm
conditions but having a crosswind makes
the angle control required to hit this
Gap really difficult but look at Valerie
mandano so good it’s it was so crazy to
have all of this wind coming off of the
fields I mean we’re used to being here
in the summer and it being pretty calm
and having a lot more foliage so to prob
one of the hardest Woods
courses that exists in this country and
then adding 15 to 20 mph winds was just
felt like a it sure did look at it all
your game plans are just out the
window no plans just
chaos also I’m just going to emphasize
one more time it’s been five hours I’ve
never had a break that long we had
enough time to go back to our Airbnb and
watercolor
paint yeah it was really stressful
actually just trying to build drama
don’t tell him how nice it
was oh wow oh my gosh she’s so good man
that’s into a pretty much a straight
headwind a slight crosswind but wow talk
a slight little koi Smile as
well oh we love it we sure do I could
watch Valerie play all day I could watch
that little smile all day look at her go
Silva has this tree on the right to
contend with just a little bit but she
is a pretty linear Putt and it’s not
even a a big deal to birdie this hole
she straddles out towards the tree yeah
just the I don’t understand the methods
but I love the results uh-huh
great I see missing a really short one
low pretty similar distance coming back
here dealing with the left to right wind
it’s weird you they give us time to warm
up before the round and you’re able to
warm your putt up but like it was very
cold I I don’t think I can tell you how
cold it was right here people were also
scrambling to catch the shuttle to get
to their
whole you know whatever it is yeah we
had about 30 minutes to uh get all of
that done and yeah you you can see
Holland holding her hat on it it’s crazy
how many times my hat blew off in the
woods okay but Valerie and Silva just
birding it like no big deal they were
two of only six birdies on the day too
so
wild whole five we just saw uh our Chase
Card play downhill 307 ft all of this
area is out of bounds um you can see the
staked area that keeps extending all the
way down the right side of this Fairway
you can reach this one pretty easily
with a mid-range or even a putter you do
occasionally see fast speed discs
there’s technically a couple gaps but
everyone’s aiming for the one let’s see
if I can point it out on the right there
kind of the largest one in the middle
that’s um not that one no Silva went
between the two
towers which happens a surprising amount
of times yeah yeah it does and she lands
safe if you do not land safe it is a
mandatory drop zone that is um about
what 80 ft away Valerie yes hitting the
Gap but coming in so high
so hot right now
mhm Valerie going meteor there oh no o
lucky so lucky oh oh unlucky I now I
don’t know what’s happening what did she
throw
um um look at the window she it’s a tail
this is a tail one by the way that was
an Athena and she’s way too much power
to be thrown Fairway driver as hard as
you
can that was this is wild that was pure
chaos yeah the wind not getting quite as
lucky there the wind is so cold too I
can’t explain how cold that wind
is H’s choice of Fairway driver is
blowing my um it is it feels it feels
silly it feels
silly but you know we’re not there there
no and uh it was a lot of wind look at
she’s coming back that’s where the M uh
basket is down there what this is
something no one has ever
[Laughter]
practiced once again yes we realize
she’s on lead card and we are not but it
is funny
yeah Valerie not really left with
anything it looks like they’re on the
putting green lays up
I wish I wish we could we should
probably talk about it less but like I
don’t think people
understand how hard this was out here
today yeah trying to get your F trying
to get your focus back after already
waking up really early and you know it
was it was hard too because you you know
you crack your hand warmers in the
morning and then you forget to put new
ones in your pockets right as they’re
running out of steam is right
now really specific example there
uh there was only eight birdies on whole
5 today less than we normally
see o I love the slow-mo rain
shot it’s also nice cuz you can actually
see the rain a little bit more that’s
what I’m saying it doesn’t really look
that bad on screen but it
is it looks pretty bad it it was worse
than it looks though yeah it it
was whole six five 564 another par 4
really love this hole you need to carry
dead straight for a long time and then
just have the gentlest little Fade to
right here ideally setting up perfectly
for your second shot I love a forehand
on this shot cuz I like to work up the
left side but if you want to you can
throw a backand up for whatever reason
one of the hardest gaps on the course to
hit that little 15 to 20t Gap just
before entering Circle two of the screen
you need about 300 ft I’d say to get to
The Perfect Landing Zone yeah a little
more is nice but uh 300’s about right
for sure Silva right around 280 and
filtering off to the left it is pretty
brutal over there there is not much to
work with it kind of baits you though
you you kind of feel like you can still
get there or at least bite off some good
distance and I am just a just a simple
fish that took the bait today oh poor
thing it’s nice shiny hook with a nice
wiggling little little insect on it
a Valerie hitting the landing Zone
pretty
perfectly a little bit of across wind
here you can’t feel it as much of the as
the last hole but it was the left to
right left to right wind one thing about
uh the way all of the trees are right
now without the foliage is the wind it
causes the wind to swirl a good bit uh
it’s really difficult to know when it’s
going to gust and from what direction
it’s not very
consistent looks pretty though on camera
right all everything blowing around all
the green Sila finding a gap though wow
yeah that was very
impressive no one’s hooking that fish
today I don’t really know fishing
terminologies yeah
you didn’t need to say that yeah you’re
right this is a pretty typical play just
kind of throwing something as hard as
you can at this Gap and dealing with
whatever comes of it because is the more
the harder you try to hit that middle
Gap this is what happens it’s it’s crazy
how weird your shot can get is he
definitely early releases it look like
it slipped right out of her hand
honestly
this looks great though no way oh
man that would have been a absolutely
insane
birdie what a correction just dead
center I like that our arms are up like
it was such a Pure Line I like how it
was slow enough that it didn’t kick
wildly off it’s just right in the Bull’s
Eye oh chips her forehand just a little
bit deep she’s about 20 ft
away thankfully checks up short of the
Vernal pond on the green
oh veral okay all
right this is why she’s on lead card
Silva’s putting when on is
dangerous all in for birdie from Circle
Edge ooh veral Bond mhm
this played as the fourth easiest hole
of the day there were nine birdies but
only 21% of the field taken
Bogies it is interesting cuz at least
for these first handful of holes the
majority of the stats are from a time
that was easier to play in this morning
without so much wind though perhaps more
rain you never know but
it was colder too well it yeah it was
cold maybe not colder because it was
pretty cold right here another checkin
with Rachel turton on ho eight yep on
third card it’s super clean
round one under
wow she has so much power she came out
to um the kind of the organ swing last
year uh Beaver State and Portland open
which she’s playing again this year and
she won kapich day open uh over in
Europe uh she’s a someone we’re going to
see a lot more of them happy to see some
of these check-ins what is this what
there’s a lot of wind coming off of the
field on the left hand side also
primarily a tail I’d say kind of tail
Left
Right hna struggling just to get to that
Gap but no way wow just this is insane
then just pipes
it that’s okay so she was like 50 ft
behind the keypads that was like solid
375 dead straight I think yes oh but
then she misses the what a I don’t know
what we just saw that was the most
ridiculous
bogey that hole has seen this weekend
yeah we’ll make a little ribbon
for wow the the shot up the gut that was
crazy when I walk up to a shot I’m
looking for the Target I’m looking at
obstacles around the Target specific
Landing zones confidence is everything
and the edge dis golf Rangefinder gives
me exactly
that hole s we’ll see if we can do that
a bit more uh calmly it’s a par 4 552 ft
uh you can take the Gap that the Drone
is flying a lot of women going to take
the Hiser and Landis sh of that teapad
which is 325 ft that’s the old hole we
used to play here a handful of years ago
this tunnel is can can be deadly if you
choose choose to get aggressive and
attack for birdie um this isn’t a bad
one to play for par but I mean that’s
not really why these ladies are on lead
card I suppose um it did play I believe
is one of the hardest holes
yesterday check out that wind whipping
yesterday it was the fourth most
difficult hole today it’s also the
fourth most difficult hole oh cool Silva
taking the straight gap which is
definitely the more intimating of the
gaps with a neutron Echo and she is just
a bit on the left side but it’s a really
pretty
shot Valerie also working the route that
the Drone flew getting a nice reaction
off the fence shall be right in the
middle of the Gap they’re getting
aggressive Holland this is the more
common play yeah I feel like on these on
all of the holes at Northwood you never
you kind of just like pick which holes
are going to be your you know why not
holes oh why not you my layups aren’t
working I guess I’m just going to send
it oh no okay that was a good final tree
hit
there and everyone’s why not holes are
going to be different You See Holland
just laying up everyone else just going
big ah such a pretty
shape little early Missy having trouble
in these conditions and gets a pretty
rough kick to the left side maybe
Holland’s why not is this shot though
you can see how this Fairway can get
really long really fast also a reminder
that hna just threw this from here from
farther than here all the way there
which is
crazy Valerie getting through a lot of
that wooded right side we’ll see if she
has a way out
though there’s no way out it really
feels like that sometimes sometimes I
swear the woods are Whispering that to
you when you’re in there Missy and the
honeysuckle oh
man not able to fully Pitch
Out Holland just taking her medicine
pitching to the middle
and a nice final upshot that that’s
going to be another bogey for Holland I
see with a really tricky fourth
shot lands outside the
circle Silva back to even par after that
triple bogey on ho two so impressive
after coming back and dealing with these
rough conditions her putt is just
looking amazing yeah Valerie behind a
wall she’s really good at these shots
though that was so impressive W really
high
level Missy for a bogey
save it’s left side this is a tricky
little green it does drop off about 20t
past the
basket Sila’s so close to getting a par
on this one first putting error we’ve
seen from her
today what an amazing upshot in parsey
from
Valerie she’s really breaking this
course down into pieces and it is
working especially in these conditions
Missy really struggling on the front
nine
yeah yeah Val is just really good at the
strategy of the game like she really
plays golf out there you
know Hollen not far off but getting some
pretty nasty kicks aggressive playing is
not quite working but she’s recovering
and keeping everything to single Bogies
which at Northwoods is surprisingly a
good thing yeah it’s still once you get
enough of them you’re like all right
okay there was only two birdies on whole
seven Stacy ronley and Haley King
that’s awesome Rachel tur two down
through the front nine enough to slide
into a tie for third hole 8 is the most
wide open hole of the day at 325 still a
low ceiling to deal with you can go the
way the Drone flies on a flex line or a
lot of people take the hid their line
out to the right side of those trees and
hopefully skipping in to the screen the
basket’s elevated with these decorative
rocks around it it’s a really cool green
but can be challenging if it’s windy or
if you’re just not feeling elevated
baskets Valerie choosing the Hiser line
with an ESP onx that looks really good
gets to about 28
ft this one was nice he didn’t feel the
wind quite as
much that is a little too high from
Silva pretty typical error on this whole
what do you think Spike
Heiser I think Holland goes deep in the
woods that’s looking great oh I liked it
me
too didn’t even see those
branches business Holland yeah is here
today some hardcore
business like the merger is not going
well you know
yeah oh yeah Missy
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oh cool play Holland skips over the
decorative rocks that sun coming out not
everything is terrible right yeah
there’s hope maybe Love is Real maybe
Love is
Real Valerie or birdie
yes so good smooth and she moves to one
down on the round so impressive in these
conditions yesterday we really didn’t
have any wind it was pretty ideal a
little cold in the morning but not bad
at all and the best rounds that we saw
were five one five down and a handful of
fours I think there were only like what
maybe eight ladies under par something
like that um total so to be under par
out here at any moment feels great
Missy just struggling a little bit on
the green
today guess every day can’t be your
day it can’t all be big money all the
time sometimes it could just be like a
medium amount of money
yeah I was hoping the b-roll was her
prancing off the teapad after her good
shot Valerie one down moves into solo
first wrapping it up hole nine a
previous hole of the Northwoods blue
layout OB on both sides it’s a par 4 63
ft you see forehand you see backhand
Flex shots uh you just want to land in
bounds about 300 ft if you can split the
hole in half um you don’t usually see
people get hyper aggressive trying to
bite off a ton off the tea just because
the op is tighter than it looks second
shot you usually work the right side of
the Fairway and try to get on the
green get a birdie yeah easy
easy this one I don’t know to me this
one does it doesn’t feel easy but it
feels so getable it’s only 600 ft yeah
the t-shot is just the perfect shape
though to be extremely challenging to
attack on you have to really trust
either a flexing shot or a very very
gentle straight to maybe right finishing
shot Silva is so so good at that exact
shot shape and you can see her right in
the middle decently far but a lot of uh
problems you can run into is Heering out
on the left side out of bounds or
turning one over right that right side
corner comes up surprisingly quickly
Holland does a good job of eliminating
both of those issues by keeping it low
but it’s going to be a tough second shot
for
birdie yeah it is interesting to have a
hole with a t- shot that looks kind of
wide open but realistically your second
shot is often longer than your first
yeah and it even though it looks wide
open the shape is very particular yeah
and the ceiling is low as you can see
about 3/4 of the way down the shot Hall
and trying to keep it low but it is too
low I see a good bit of Bogies on whole
nine as well and it’s from this left
side trying to recover people catching
those trees and kicking OB left again or
pushing that right side a little too
hard Missy navigates it really well she
doesn’t try to get too aggressive I am
wrong she’s on the
green yeah she just hit the angle
perfectly and got the ground
play Sila way up here thr stand
still goes a little
deep about 25 ft for birdie it’s nice
though they bubbled out the OB on the
left side of the green so you can afford
to be more aggressive if you want is
this where Valerie’s t- shot landed yeah
God that’s so far
mhm look like her upshot had some good
Pace on it does catch a tree and roll
just a
bit Holland’s third just looking to put
this thing close get off the bogey train
and she does
strangely only five birdies on this one
today this is one that is reachable by
everyone in the field but to reiterate
very specific
shots
nice Valerie looking good on the putting
green gets backtack
birdies honestly impressive at Northwood
period especially today
Missy hits left side chains falls out
looks pretty
frustrated Holland GNA take a
par Missy and Silva also going to have
to settle for that to wrap up the front
nine of round
two yeah 7 hours
probably only two to
go one more check in with Rachel turton
on ho 11 two holes
ahead getting a little water action
she’ll be inside the circle with a
slightly downhill
putt
wow strong looking putt just taking
advantage yeah when she can to get those
birdies and that’s what’s so important
at Northwoods not pushing too hard three
down through 11 though she’s doing some
pushing in Solo third right now Valerie
taking the lead uh ahead of Silva on
scogin sliding up with a two over on the
round evina sliding up with a three over
it’s wild out there yeah just being
around even par is good enough for a
good time uh even two or three over is
fine yeah look at Haiti Lon one down
moved up eight spots Holly Finley one
down through 13 has moved up 14
spots wo yeah uh and we are moving into
the back half of round two this is like
Moving Day part one so come hang out and
watch people slide up and down the
leaderboard thanks again to the founders
club uh you guys rule we got nine more
we’ll see you in a bit I’m Addison
Walker I’m Erica sting and we’re the two
hoies h
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