We were like 2 kids in a candy store today for the first few hours today.
Followed Sergia, Fowler, and Na for a while. Heard Fowler say on the driving range he wasn't feeling good about the round today. Wish I would've laid the house on that.
Na looks fantastic. Ball striking is solid.
Sergio looked shaky at first, but seemed to get better as the round went on.
Then we went and checked out Dustin, Day and Reed. Got to shake hands with Dustin, and Reed, so I'm pretty sure that makes us all friends.
The rain came in hard, and we waited around for a while and then thought there was no way they were going to get the round started again so we left. Big mistake. Everyone left, and if we would've waited we could've been walking along Dustin, Day and Reed all afternoon with nobody else around. Oh well. If you guys would've seen what it was like at 4:30 you would've have blamed us.
As we were pulling away it was lightning just a few miles south...really shocked they restarted.
But my favorite moment of the tournament was this: On the podcast we have some fun with the names of golfers, in particular how every announcer pronounces different players names. Nobody pronounces "Finau" the same...but the ultimate is Emiliano Grillo. I've heard "Grill-o", "Gree-yo", and "Gree-lo". I love Grillo, hes been a draftkings sleeper for months, he's been fantastic in yahoo fantasy golf...so I made it a point to follow him for a couple holes, and cheer him on (trust me...I was the only one doing that. No doubt the guys he was playing with, Jimmy Walker, and Russell Knox were a little confused). But as his caddy passed me I asked him how to pronounce his name...I said..."is it Grill-o?". I fully expected him to blow me off, and instead he stopped looked at me and smiled, and nodded! I said, "It's Grill-o?" He nodded again, and smiled, and I turned my head and saw Emiliano, he had clearly heard me asking about his name. He looked at me...we locked eyes...he smiled......and for that one second in time ........................................me and Emiliano Grillo had a moment. A bonafide moment. Just two bros on a golf course having a man to man moment. I know he felt it to.
I didn't follow him the rest of the day. I wanted our bro moment to be our last memory of each other. I think he wanted it that way too.
In all seriousness, the course looks great, but it took a beating today with the rain...more rain is coming tomorrow. Not sure how it will shake out tomorrow, but there's rain in the forecast for Saturday as well. I'm hoping for a Monday finish because I know I can get free tickets from a vendor. Fingers crossed.
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