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My thoughts on the back 9 at Royal Liverpool: - It’s not firm like 06 or 14 YET. If it stays like this, we are not going to be hitting irons off most tees like tiger and Rory did. Fairways are green from all the rain and lots of holes (back nine) are in to the wind. You’re hitting lots of drivers and it’s playing long. Very well could change by Sunday though. -Lots of dogleg lefts with into left to right wind. Draws preferable or you need to be able to aim way left for a cut. I can see why 2014 Rory did well with his preferred draws back then. Not too different to Wells Fargo and US open tee shots wise I think. -It is interesting playing mostly the same direction of wind for an entire 9, i can see it being awkward since you play with a right to left wind for 2.5 hrs on the front nine (swing is going to adjust as you play with the same wind) and then gonna have to play complete opposite wind on the back. -17 par 3 is no joke. 150 but wind will be primarily into and it’s a TINY green with runoffs on every side leading to BAD bunkers. Short tough par 3s are amazing -18: there’s OB really tight to the fairway on the ride side. (Pic below) OB extends all the way to the green and it’s no longer a short par 5. Reachable but with at least a 3i for me. -18 green: you’re gonna see a lot of potential TIO relief but usually the Open designates a bad spot for the drop which means it won’t be as egregious as PGATOUR drops. I’m playing the front nine tomorrow will share thoughts