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all right welcome back to the 106 PJ championship at vajala golf club where John Rah is joining us John welcome to your eighth PGA Championship what are your impressions of the golf course so far God it’s it’s my eighth already uh uh very good I was playing the front nine today when we got cold for for weather so I haven’t fully seen the front nine uh but so far Great Golf Course um you know you get an idea of how a course may look like on t TV and it’s uh you know it’s just as good if not better than than what I I saw on TV right itly I know they’ve added a few te’s change the grass and the fairways but uh it’s in incredible shape hopefully we don’t get too much water today and tomorrow and it can stay like this uh but uh it obviously presents a challenge um there’s been low scores in the past and I can see it cuz if you drive it well you can give yourself chances but uh it’s definitely a definitely enjoyable course out there in the and a test that’s great thanks John we’ll open it up for questions going at mic 1413 and 11 hey John uh I’m wondering what has sorry can you hear me here yeah I can hear you new employer uh I’m wondering what has changed uh about coming to the majors now that you have one under your belt the sorry what what what has change about coming to the majors now that you have a major under a new employer under your belt sorry I I’m not sure I understand what what you’re asking uh I’m curious I guess I’m curious to ask you like what is different about covering about coming to a major uh now that you are working for a new employer oh oh uh well it doesn’t really feel different uh obviously the the schedule has been a little bit different to what we’ve played in the past but at the end of the day it’s this shouldn’t really be a difference right this is uh a lot of what we play for right is is this tournaments and uh and getting it done so it’s um besides the the tournaments I’ve played and the different venues uh and the different flow to the schedule that really isn’t any other difference in that sense does it mess with your life schedule a little bit that you’ve just had a very different travel schedule this year than what you’re used to I mean not with my life no uh it changes a little bit yeah I mean I don’t think it was uh it’s it’s been a up until this point maybe a little bit less golf than what I’ve been used to in the past coming to this point in the schedule but from now on it’ll be very similar right so uh couple longer flights but besides that it’s pretty much the same John as a golf pro who’s a dad what advice would you give for Scotty shuffler oh well I think we’re all very different as parents right so I mean so early on the one thing I learned this early on is that parents are very useless when it comes to the survival of the child because they don’t depend on us for for anything besides you know maybe rocking them to sleep and changing a diaper that’s about it cuz uh for everything else mom is the one that they need uh but I would just say Obviously on the golf course do what you need to do and at home is at this point support your wife as much as possible right uh you obviously have to pick your your moments right you probably want to get some night sleep when you when you come back home and and recover but she probably needs a lot more rest than you do so I would say uh take a few of those sleepless nights for her and it’s also some of the best memories you’re ever going to have so uh try to enjoy it as much as possible hey John how’s it going um you were a little surprised to see how many PGA championships it has been for you now that you’re a veteran here you’ve been around the block I’m curious how your major championship preparation has evolved and changed over the years it’s is more the fact that I still consider myself quite young so to think that I’ve already played eight is uh is crazy uh I I think the preparation changes obviously the quite a bit because early on you don’t know quite what to expect it’s brand new the majors obviously are upscale to any other event you play so uh I think in my case it was controlling how much I wanted to do right like I wanted to come out here and spend extra hours practicing extra hours doing this and and maybe even sometimes changing things that you didn’t need to change right uh took me a little bit to realize that maybe the week before I need to get the work done at home and then this week just enjoy it and feel like I’m prepared to play the tournament uh there’s also I believe a a before and after once you won a major going to the next major knowing that you maybe don’t have the chip on your shoulder of not having one right so uh but I think in in my case at least was almost dialing back how much I wanted to do on those weeks eight and seven uh John um so I was I was curious um this is the uh largest uh corporate build when it comes to all the hospitality Suites around the greens as a golfer does that affect you like in terms of like ball placement or just seeing things when you have all these white tints everywhere does that does that you have to adj make adjustments on the course when there’s all these people you know hanging out in in spots that normally maybe wouldn’t uh you wouldn’t have people on a smaller smaller build of of sweets I think in some cases it helps uh if there’s a hole where you know it’s a little bit ambiguous what you see of the te it can give you some clarity that’s an example be St Andrews all these builds can help you where to hit it off the te when any other day you just have no idea where you’re going right so it can help you focus in in a couple different spots uh and then also the other way when The Stance are very big and the corporate is very big it can to an extent affect the wind a little bit so you just have to keep that in mind uh I think it was Phil who said uh and I’m going to trust him on this I don’t know if it was just what he was saying about it was about his 18th sh second shot on 18 at mfield when he said he hit this perfect shot with the win left or right but the ball didn’t move the last few extra yards towards the pen uh because he forgot to account the grand stands that were there on the ferwind if you’ve seen those grand stand are pretty big so the ball doesn’t get affected by it up until it’s past or at least above those grand stands which can usually be about 50% of the flight so uh it can affect it I mean we’re talking about an extreme case and in in that sense but um it can definitely affect a little bit and sometimes yeah I mean if the pin matches the of the stands it’s hard cuz you can’t see it and it happens in a couple holes usually uh Phoenix Open on 10 has happened a few times where with all the crowd behind sitting on the hill the colors of the pen and the colors of the crowd is very difficult to differentiate one or other uh but it happens so often not only this week it happens quite a bit gotcha and you said this is your first time in in in Louisville um first time yeah how what um how would what would you say that bajala is com like what what course does vajala remind you of it’s first time playing it uh I haven’t thought about that yet it’s it’s hard cuz there’s a difference between the front nine on the back nine so when I was going down 10 11 I did get a similar feel to Medina in some cases right you get the big trees it’s a big property right uh in a little bit also kind of like last year right I it’s just more because of the size of the property and the trees and and the way the golf course may play uh but it’s not always an exact comparison but but bat m is the one that that came to mind first thank you John just to uh follow up on your prep work did you do anything different coming into this week versus Augusta obviously you had a week off coming into this week versus the Masters back to raining uh well obviously is different since I I wasn’t I wasn’t playing well I think the prep always changes based on where you are physically with your swing and and the time of season how you how you’re feeling with your game and how you’re physically right so prep work can change a little bit I wouldn’t say maybe the drills I do on what I focusing on changes but the overall plan doesn’t really change I don’t know if that makes any sense up to 18 followed by 17 John in line with that uh you talk about the physical work what when you’re in the middle of a run where you’re not getting the results that you want what kind of mental work do you do uh well well it’s tough cuz it it does it is in a sport what it can happen uh I think you need to assess what You’ have been doing right and and what state you’re in on the work you’re putting in like it could be that you’re playing good golf and simply it’s just one maybe one shot around or one certain moment around where it’s maybe you taking you from having a great result to what you might consider not as greater result in that sense maybe you just need to trust the process right sometimes you just get a bad balance and it is what it is and just you have to keep fighting through it uh this you know there’s also been times of my career where I would say maybe I wasn’t hitting at my best but seemed to just things just seem to go your way and uh you carry that confidence on for a few months and and got a lot of great results right so it’s hard to say it’s hard to say and then if you’re not playing good if you’re not swinging and good then at that point you maybe need to assess do I need to change anything technically what what’s going on right it could be so many different different ways to to feel like you’re on the roadblock that it’s hard to exactly pinpoint one of them hey John uh and as the rain comes down here I’m curious how much of an advantage do you think longer players like you will have this week at such a big ballpark like this uh how much of Advantage will it be off the tea for you guys when it’s going to be these wet and softer conditions well I I listen hitting it further is always an advantage right there a reason why almost generationally the longest of one of the longest players has been the best right Jack was the longest tiger was the longest Greg Norman was the longest uh Rory Dustin they’ve been the longest right so um there’s no surprise there right even seevi at his time was the longest I think the one that I can remember that maybe wasn’t the two that I can remember Ben Hogan and Nick Faldo that I can remember quickly I don’t mean to insult anybody right uh maybe David dval wasn’t the longest but I don’t believe he was short either so uh it’s always going to be an advantage it’s just simple as that this it requires maybe a little bit less Precision in certain moments and just the ability to have a shorter Club in anywhere anywhere it’s just that’s it I mean it’s it’s always going to make it a little easier I don’t think there’s any sport in which more power is detrimental right so uh it’s just obviously controlling it and using it properly then to follow up on that I know the weather’s been pretty nice on for Live Events so far this year have you had much practice in inclement weather so far this year and how do you think your game is going to shape up uh with conditions like this well grew up in Northern Spain where I think I saw more days than this than Sun so feel like I have plenty of experience in that in that area go next to 9 1 15 and 12 hey John um I think you might have answered this but um you’re talking about trying to pinpoint the issues with your game fight through it um have you narrowed down the possibilities of of what’s going on with your game like do you feel like you’re closer right now I mean I don’t think my game isn’t any sort of issues I didn’t play good at austa but so far I haven’t missed the top 10 so I know it smaller feels but I’ve been playing good golf it’s just the one major that I’ve played clearly wasn’t great uh have I played my best golf no but I do feel the last few weeks especially coming off Singapore um I felt you know made a couple tweaks that you wouldn’t be able to tell is just very minor things like it could be ball position small things that have been uh made my game be consistently much better even when I’m home and in general just feel more like the norm right a little normal so uh I I never never felt like I was far off and when I say I’m not playing my best just hadn’t had my aame for a week yet uh but I still I’ve been close to my aame and B+ multiple times so uh yeah I’m I’m comfortable having to having play this year thanks one John hi a rider cup question if you don’t mind the the DP well to recently clarified that any suspensions you serve you get you can serve while playing still playing on live golf it sort of clears the way to to play as long as you pay any fines and pay and play for events just want to just clarify with you you always aware of this and if you plotted away the tournaments you can play the four tournaments so you can be eligible so yeah I just need need to look into it obviously I’ve wanted to play in Spain I’ll need to talk to them about you know how we can figure it out so I can play some events uh obviously Kelly’s due date would affect what tournaments I can and cannot play so I think I’m kind of waiting on that a little bit to then be able to form a schedule it does come to a point where I might need to play Four events late in the year but uh you know that’s can’t really get in the way of life in that sense right literally I mean it’s it’s our third child so I wouldn’t missed that for the world and if I have to play a little bit more in the fall I will but uh I based on that I can’t really tell you yeah what I’ll be playing I don’t know the some tournaments I would like to play but we’ll see if I can or not just confirm you’ll do everything you can to to to get into that Rider Cup team you pay the fs yeah I said I will do whatever I can to to be on the rider Cup team and I made that commitment to Luke and I want to be able to to be a part of it so um again the schedule is going to be the hardest thing in that in that regard John uh just uh a little bit about your character and your personality uh I remember at the DP world to a championship you waited for Nikolai to have like figure out whether he won or not to congratulate him why was that important for you to wait in the scores tent to congratulate him well I was going to wait till later on it was actually uh I believe it was Thomas Bjorn I think who told me to that I could go out there to him uh cuz he was there with his brother and I didn’t want to get on the way of that but uh I have huge respect for Nikolai hadn’t spent a lot of time with them till the weeks going up to WR a cup and we have certain things in common and when you share the stage with somebody you create a bond that is going to last a lifetime right and you know he’s he’s an incredible young man with such discipline and talent and uh he uh he definitely made an impression on me he was a very enjoyable rer a golf and on that 18th hole before I luckily made that put to tie the match he uh you know he just gave me a little nugget little sentence that that’s almost giving me chills thinking about it right I mean I’m walking up we’re walking up and he has a birdie Putt and we know we’re going to probably need an ego and he looks at me it’s like you know do what seie would do right and I don’t know if it’s what seie would have done or not but the putt goes in and afterwards when we’re celebrating he tells me I told you I told you and you know we just we had such a moment and we spent quite a bit of time in the rider cup that um you know felt like there’s certain connection with them in that sense so uh when he did what he did play in the back nine he did I was like man since I haven’t left I want to stay and and be able to go uh I’ve certainly appreciated when there people that went out of their way to to wait for me to maybe win and congratulate me like it’s happened in in many tournaments and uh you know I want to be able to be there for him in that regard Jeff John uh did you do any YouTube deep Dives on uh past tournaments here you know I did but the thing is even before this tournament was was announced I’ve seen a lot of obviously that the back nine I watched live what was going on in this in this tournament uh they’ve changed a little bit right I mean the fairways are different uh I think the greens for the most part are the same but they’ve changed a few T’s uh obviously 18 quite different 14 very different 12 being a little longer front nine a couple changes as well so one being quite different so uh you can’t always drive from it I know they had rain on the practice rounds that year and it was soft uh but it’s not quite the same Golf Course right it’s not really the same what’ you think of the finish in 2014 what in the Rory kind of playing up the last toll with Phil and Ricky and that did you watch see that one no I was watching live uh well it’s funny I think watching it uh we were a little bit like yeah we want to get it done you nobody wants to wait till the next day to maybe one hole and and I don’t blame Rory for wanting to do it right and uh I also don’t blame Phil and I don’t know if Ricky wanted to or not for saying no right but at the end of the day if the PG of America is making that decision you kind of have to go with it uh I can say if that was me in that scenario I would have tried to have Rory Nati off cuz if somehow I can get a birdie in there he needs to sleep knowing that he needs to par a relatively short par five but he still need to put that t- shot in play right uh I still think it was Brave of Rory cuz you know he puts it in that bunker hits it on uh not the easiest T put and hitting that tput in the dark uh I know he was feeling good but that’s that’s a quite a risky decision you know cuz camera always makes it look brighter than it really is right I can imagine it was quite dark we’ll go next to 6 2 19 and 12 John it’s going to be almost a year now since the PJ tour and Liv came together or piff came together with a framework agreement that is still sitting there on the sidelines um obviously when you went over you had certain certain thoughts about why you went you see now what seems to be somewhat disarray going on in the PJ tour Rory wanting to get back on the board not getting back on the board Jimmy done leaving yesterday off the board saying that his his voice is no longer valuable to the to the board when you’re looking from the other side which is where you are now what are your thoughts so you guys keep saying the other side but I’m still a PJ to remember whether suspended or not I still want to support the PGA Tour uh and I think that’s an important distinction to make I don’t feel like I’m on the other side I’m just not playing there that’s at least personally um I wouldn’t know what to say cuz I it would just be uh not here say but hypothetical cuz I don’t know what’s going on on right um I haven’t really spoken enough to to know about what’s going on on the board and you know obviously people are not going to be willing to be sharing that information with me since I’m no longer a part of those discussions so uh I couldn’t really tell you I I I’m going to say what I’ve said all along I hope we reached a resolution um and and a resolution that’s that’s beneficial for everyone but uh I couldn’t really tell you much about what’s happening in here there’s questions asked of him what what a good resolution would be what would you really want to see what would you want to see well I think at this point you know PF PJ tour DP World Tour and maybe even some of the other governing bodies need to get together and see what that looks like because everybody was going to have a different idea and I think everybody’s going to have to give something back or have some compromises to to make that work right uh we’ve heard Rory mention that world tour the best players in the world playing together and yeah I mean I agree I would love to be able to see that uh like I’ve said many times we have the opportunity to put golf in a different level of the map and make it more Global than ever and I fully support that idea yeah just following on from Alex’s question there how impatient are you to see some kind of resolution do you feel like damage is being done John damage to what to to golf overall in terms of you know the viewing public and the the standing of the sport compared with other I think I think this is uh this would be some decisions and and negotiations that can’t be taken lightly so it should take quite a bit of time to get it done properly I wouldn’t want to see something rushed just to get a resolution and not be comfortable for everybody and having just just pushing the issues down the road right so uh since I don’t know what’s going on behind Clos I I really can’t tell you but I think they they should take their time to make this work properly and I don’t know if that takes one 2 3 5 six years I don’t know what that might be like but I I don’t I don’t feel like I’m feel on any rush to to make something happen today right I think we have a position to set up golf in a very positive way for decades to come and you the people that do this for a living that are far far smarter than I am to get together to come together to be able to to make it work we’re finishing up with 1912 and then down here with one what were your initial reactions when Jimmy Dunn uh resigned and then why is it so important to you to distinguish that you’re still a PGA Tour member but suspended uh well I did not know until I was having breakfast this morning I saw it on on TV I had no idea uh and and Jimmy’s been great to me and my family so I just wish him nothing but the best I haven’t really spoken to him so I don’t know what’s going on uh and I think it’s important cuz I’m a PJ tour member and again like I still I’ve said however I can I would like to support it right so even though I’m playing full-time on live golf like I’ve said many times had I been allowed I would have played some events earlier on the year and if I allowed in the future and not conflicting with my schedule I would play in the future that’s why I think it’s important the PJ tour has given me so much and has given me this platform and the opportunity that I’m not going to really turn to the side and throw it away and go against him because I’m not going against him hey John you were asked earlier just about what are your memories of like previous events here and and one thing you maybe didn’t mention was was the riter cup and I assume you probably watched that live just what what are your memories of that and I’m not trying to stick it to you as you know you being part of Team Europe I’m just curious what what you kind of thought about that well did you know playing with Anthony K I did I did mention I’m like hey man it’s great to play with you and I know we’re going to Valhalla but I told him cuz that was 16 years ago now wow so I was 13 and as a 13-year-old I was very upset when he walked off the green on 14 after beating Sergio I was like man that’s not fair he such you know what and we laughed about it I made him feel pretty old but it was funny to talk about and talk about the wrer cup in that sense and I think that the very next thing that I think about right there is B Weekley you know just walking off the tea doing his thing uh maybe not the two of his memories but um having a few Spanish guys I know Miguel anel was there you think of uh Hunter Mayan put on 17 uh there’s just a few moments right I mean the US team played great that week and they got it done but there’s just a few things where that I can remember that just highlights in that sense right and yeah Anthony Keem walking of the tea is the first thing that comes to mind that’s a Spaniard obviously all right one