On the Range and Poston interview
than a than a kind of a rigid to where you know you you see a dambo who you can you can see it it’s it’s very I mean it’ be tough to find any flexibility in it Sanders’s a little softer you talking about somebody that can torure three-wood 290 with a three-wood he can capture that in a heartbeat when a player someone like Xander so many people talk about his accuracy and his consistency in his finishes and as a result the power that he can generate gets underlooked a little bit but he has so much in the tank you know where he gets overlooked the most in my opinion the elite short game mhm Elite he’s top three on tour it was on display Val Halla too wasn’t it on the way to securing the W maker at the US Open as well he only hit eight Greens in the first round at Piner number two and shot even par so he made just so many up and downs he was seven for seven yeah that’s a recipe for disaster if you missed that many greens on number two as we saw time and again last week that place is just perfect by the way as a US Open venue it presented beautifully last week yeah I know there were opportunities to score they players weren’t completely bludgeoned I think there were little windows and pockets of of opportunity and the guys who were in formed took advantage of those moments Xander was one of the very few players who finished under par last week that was his seventh US Open that he’s finished in the top 10 incredible Xander will continue to work through the back here we already caught up with JT Poston on the Range a little bit earlier Steve Scott has done the same let’s hear from him all right thanks John down here here with JT now JT we’re doing the trackman performance center here today what is the trackman performance center and how does it help you uh it’s a way that we basically can track our Strokes gained our stats um and kind of make our practice a little bit more efficient uh it’s something I’ve started doing the last couple years and it’s kind of a way for me to uh kind of see re you know in real time what what parts of my game uh I need to work on what distances you know where are my where are my strengths as far as proximity and where do I need to work on it and um work on improving it now on a day like this how many clubs are you going through in a practice session like this and how is it relating to the golf course here at The Travelers uh well here you know you’re you’re going to have a lot of kind of scoring clubs in your hand if you drive it well and and so the emphasis this week is more kind of That 160 yards and in 170 yards and in and um trying to be really sharp with with your distance control there and uh as far as clubs go we I mean we’ll go all the way through the bag that’s kind of our routine on a Wednesday is to start with the wedges and hit maybe 20 30 balls with the wedges all random numbers just trying to hit them and then kind of do the same thing from uh 140 to 160 and then 170 to 200 you’ve had two victories on the PGA tour the John Deere in 2019 and then at the Windom excuse me the Windom in 2019 and then the John Deere in 2022 those are still events are upcoming this year how excited are you at this point of the year to get to those events as well coming up yeah I mean obviously great memories there and and a lot of success um obviously the two wins and then I’ve played well other weeks where I haven’t wanted those both of those places so um I love the golf courses I love the tournaments um and yeah I’m definitely looking forward to to be there and hopefully get another win appreciate your time thanks so much yeah thank you JT Poston part of an Elite field this week at The Travelers Championship $20 million purse on offer 4 billion to the winner along with 700 FedEx Cup points for the champion this week well what event it was here at The Travelers in 2021 72 holes was not enough to decide the outcome in fact 79 holes was not enough to decide the outcome what a thrilling sudden death duel between that man Harris English and this man Kramer Hickock both of these guys hard the first seven holes of a play and it went back to 18 once again Hickock was trying to win for the first time that was the putt he made in regulation on the 72 hole to force the playoff this was the second playoff hole that’s how close he came to ending matters right there his reaction says it all that looked good the whole way until it left out and so did this this stroke from Harris Engles it was true time again the man did not miss during that e hole sudden death playoff which finally ended in Victory for Harris English denying Kramer hickcock what would have been his first title out here on the PGA tour part of a rder cup year for Harris as well remember he was selected by Steve Stricker Stricker the US Captain with a captain selection the team at Whistling Straits 13 under par was the number that got to a playoff and that’s kind of where we’ve landed for the most part and that’s 12
