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Mell and Hoggard: What We Learned at Phoenix (3:01)
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GolfChannel.com senior writers Rex Hoggard and Randall Mell join Win McMurry to share what we learned over the weekend at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
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-Hi, and thanks for joining us here on GolfChannel.com. I'm
Win McMurry, joined by a couple of Senior Writers here,
Rex Hoggard and Randall Mell. Nice to be joining you
both. For this little breakdown of the Waste Management Phoenix
Open, what are the three things that you guys learned
last week in Phoenix? Starting with you, Rex. -Why do
you have to go? I think we underestimate players in
how resilient they are. Maybe we underestimated [unk]. I'm not
quite sure, but if you look at the way Kyle
Stanley rebounded last week, all the talk was about it
could take him years to rebound from that loss at
Torrey Pines to come back and do it the very
next week. We saw it last year with Rory McIlroy
and coming back and winning the Open. I wouldn't be
surprised what we saw at this week with Spencer Levin.
-Yeah. And Kyle Stanley, I think when I learned that
he heals quickly, because he had to be playing in
pain, either with an open wound or a tender scar.
Either he heals quickly or he has a special gift
and then enabling amnesia. -Yeah. 'Cause he was able to
forget. -Amnesia can be a good thing out on the
PGA Tour for sure. Alright. What's another thing that you
learned? -You know, we sit and we talked all the
time about how we wanna make golf young and make
it hip and bring people to the game, and then
we get to Scottsdale in the 16th hole with such
a great party. But then players say, "Yeah, it's great,
but we only wanna see it one week out of
the year." I wanna see it every single week. Let's
take it to Bay Hill, our hometown event, for example.
I think it'd be a great addition. Let's do this
all over the country. I like to see he do
it at John Deere. I think he could add a
level of interest and [unk] -Rally the pins. I like
it. -Yeah. -I like the idea. -On that topic, I
learned last time I was there that it's much more
fun to watch that on TV than it is to
be there 'cause, Rex, I remember being there and sitting
there and this guy is over my shoulder, this idiot,
yelling, "Get into the hole!" every putt, so I moved.
And then I go to-- setup in another place and
then there's a guy yelling, "You're the man!" I guess
I'm too old for that. It's what-- -No-- -Were you
working? Were you working out there? -Unless you're guzzling beer,--
-Right. -then it's probably will be a lot of fun.
-You're working probably a little different. Alright. What else did
you learn, Rex? -Unfortunately, we learned that there is no
shelf life on second chances when it comes to John
Daly. He's got an exemption in the cutter. After what
he did last year in Australia, walking up the golf
course in Sydney, hitting all those golf balls, I don't
think he should have been allowed on any professional tour.
I think it's a sad testimony to the game that
we picked ticket sales over traditions. -I learned from Spencer
Levin that it's difficult to win a golf tournament when
you have cactus needles stuck in your buttocks and cactus
needles stuck in your ribs, you know. Spencer just got
himself in some very difficult positions there. And it will
be interesting to see if we have back-to-back story lines
of guys who collapsed and then win-- -And then come
back. -because Spencer is playing at Pebble. -There's jumping Choi
that can get ya. -Yes. -I've gotten guy; it's no
fun. -It's no fun? -No. -Alright. Thank you so much,
guys, and thank you for joining us right here on
GolfChannel.com.
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