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Grey Goose: 19th Hole Extra February 9, 2012 (3:09)

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The Grey Goose panel discusses Tiger’s opening round at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and why the BMW Championship won’t return to Cog Hill in 2013.

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-Welcome to Grey Goose 19th Hole Extra on GolfChannel.com, I'm...

-Welcome to Grey Goose 19th Hole Extra on GolfChannel.com, I'm Lara Baldessara alongside GolfChannel.com Senior writer, Rex Hoggard, and former PGA Tour member, Tripp Isenhour. Now, Today was Tiger's 2012 PGA Tour debut. He went with a-- He managed to post a 4-under round of 68. He was speaking all week about progress that he'd been making with his swing, with everything. What did you see today that showed that progress? -Well, I saw a very nice round of golf on the most difficult golf course in the rotation. Spyglass is a sneaky difficult golf course. It's got a lot of tough tee shots. It's got a lot of tough second shots. Tiger today, his swing, what I really like is Sean and-- Sean Foley and he tried to get rid of the rightness because they felt like the left miss, they could control better, and the problem was when he was missing it to the right, it was way right, and then occasionally he'd miss it left. They feel like that. You know, two of the fairways he missed today were just fairly to the left, the 13 and 14. I like where his swing is. I like everything what Tiger is and where he is in the process. -Absolutely. He addressed this. I mean, that's a great point you brought up, but he addressed this on Tuesday when he spoke with the media, talking about he doesn't have those foul balls. That's his word, not mine anymore, that he would have to go fine. When he was missing fairways now, it's by a pace or two. It was the same way in Abu Dhabi, and it was the same way today. You pointed out, he missed just two fairways. What I like the most is, he was very aggressive. He hit 7 drivers today. I mean, everyone says he's kind of relying now on that stinger 3-wood a lot, and he is, and it seems to be that go-to shot again, but he didn't have a hard time going out there and going after it. -All right. Well, the BMW Championship is returning to Chicago in 2013, but it's not going back to Cog Hill. It's going to Conway Farms. -You know, I feel bad for Cog Hill and the Jemsek family. They put so much money and so much energy into this, but the real victim and the real travesty here in my mind is the fact that the PGA Tour does not have a regular stop in the nation's second largest market, and what you could argue is probably the nation's best golf city, if you look at just quality of golf. I mean, Chicago has it all when it comes to golf. The fact that they're not going back to Chicago every single year still blows me away. You have to put an event there. -I couldn't agree more. In that market, there are so many wonderful golf courses. But if you want to repel players from your golf course, you just type in Rees Jones architect. They don't like seeing that. They don't like what he does to the golf courses. And I'm not saying all of them, but some of the more vocal ones have been obvious in the past. And I disagree with some of his design techniques as well because it seems like a lot of his green complex is repel iron shots, especially longer iron shots, and he just does a bad job in designing-- redesigning these golf courses. So, hopefully, you know, Chicago get it back. -All right. Well, thank you for joining jus on the Grey Goose 19th Hole Extra here at the GolfChannel.com. Be sure to tune in to the Grey Goose 19th Hole every Thursday and Friday night at midnight Eastern. See you next time.
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PGA Tour
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Cog Hill
BMW Championship
Sean Foley
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