The Drive with Josh Graham - Live from Wyndham Championship - Day 2 - 08/2/19

Drive with Josh Graham 5 Castle Dr. is 609. 20. Now back to the drive with Josh Graham will again Typically warrants Margaritaville country club will immediately get some of the big stories from the help us do that are good friend Ryan for Micah WXII joined us director on television follow on Twitter at Brian for Micah so far. The big story of the day you have to start with the guy going into the 17th hole goes birdie birdie matches Brent Snedeker what he did. Lester with the 50 not since and does not do that. Adam Spence and the Canadian 61,900 far is that where you start when you start looking at sea Spence and start to creep up and hear what 567 birdies on the front nine and then when you're 739 everybody starts to wonder and you should see the gallery start to gather around Adam Spence. If you pay will, Adam Spence and have a large gallery in the second round of the Wyndham. No one would've thought that but he did people start to get bus got that by the early is the problem with the second nine second part of his route was just to birdies I got it when I don't think you could say 61 is a flat number at all. It's an amazing thing here at the window when somebody starts to have a great round.

I don't know when radar went since it appeared on your radar screen, but always what they called early small video center. They have an it looks like a bunker media reporter sitting there and very early on people to start or under 500 on the part nine, starting to freak out all her situation over here shoot guns off people prepared disguise, creating a gallery it's it's the story and when you start thinking how something like this happens. I think you gotta go to last night. The rain hits and it rained quite a bit last night was almost torrential downpour in Greensboro what the course. It slows things down and as a result, the part about such field is they got such a good job with the drainage that the water to sit so yes it does slow things down and and the scores will be lower than they usually are, but it does drain so when people think all you got deluge of rain last night. There's not pulsing around doesn't hamper played on the streets down and Josh and I were talking earlier with this section relates to defenses against top players, and it is the rough agreement when it rains it takes degrees out of that defense all you have is the rock of these guys don't have that much when they do it will harm them. Right now they are scoring well because among the golf courses on tour. This is seen to be one of the shorter one by absolutely not what we talked about yesterday what the big guns don't come is because people really think the driver rather back the entire round of the lease.

These pros you and I plan work for wishing we had something more than a driver can put everything else for these pros there keeping the drivers in the bag. It is a short course and said the greens with the rough parts defense once it rains it rains as much as it has this week don't have much to fight you suspect that the course will get easier or more difficult around progress. I think what you are around professionals played around. I think once the sun starts to be down dry out pretty quick and makes it more difficult so you seen guys who played yesterday in the afternoon when those drive from all that rain they had a harder time in wealth the fields flip-flops for the second day, so those who are in the afternoon to do so well yesterday are tearing it up this morning to determine the afternoon players for McKay W. Excise director with us here. Another guy keep an eye on extorting screen to what's in the morning, much like Adam Spence in your thinking okay if greens are what courses dried out pretty low number three under his round was over. Do you feel like you missed an opportunity I do. I think yesterday when you're playing that afternoon heat that afternoon, fast greens, you know you're doing yourself a disservice. This was his route to make his move and he did two bogeys on the back nine.

You had three birdies, which is fine for you on your 100 should've torn up today or was he should've an XL either. He something in his back to going higher is not going to be amongst the top three in this tournament. The main thing about Jordan is look at the tournament that he plays 345 under in a day is outstanding, not at the window you need 678 under for a day just to be.

I always hear golfers talk about this course points at 1012.11 those of the most difficult cultural plot. If you find yourself being a bit distant and not his focus right in the middle as you make turn. That's when you can really start to get in trouble. What did you think makes this course, we already acknowledged what to make it easier than some of the courses on tour makes it difficult. One of the hardest things about this course is when you have momentum if the Donald Ross designed that it's going to take it away from you. There are there are certain spots in the course clusters of holes where you can really score but as you come up that 18 is very tough to birdie the 18th. Very tough night: key signature holes that can give you confidence either going to the back of the front nine on the back. Those are holes that can really you can actually do something but not here on the 18th hole sit there and as easy as we watch was it when he's not birding the 18th. You need a miracle shot from that fairway all the way down past the creek up the hill and it started by bunkers.

It is a very tough hole and we rarely see people birdie especially seems like when you're having an incredible route except grants the parties. The whole to get the 59 and I think he birdie to close out his round so that's how you win. Wyndham championships.

I believe finding ways to hit on the difficult courses that might be true wherever you're at yesterday you were with us.

Brian and we play a game once a week where we throw Movieline at the voice of the – Joe while we carry – on Thursday night due to the rain last night. He was able to get all the calls and let you through some tombstone Adam while Joe while came through for you.

He really lets hear with their offer of being a starter to outside County wanted to marry is up to the task well drawn. Joe does and there's no policy for just the straight and seamless. Yeah like the picture we heard it touched the glove while a baseball you can always tell when something's happening. Okay when when you get to the fact that the broadcasters will address this year and Joe throwing into stone like the guy policies dialed in on all things – he throws that in there as well. Give me another Joe Wilde calls from last night.

There are some dark clouds above us here at BB&T ballpark pop-up storms around the area one outside County to anyone, but it's hard to rain will come through this area with the forecast and invent three-day men just on the best umbrella incredible so I'm all for working in these types of Movieline's every single week show at sports of triadic care to play along with her dumb game that we play with Joe but we often enjoy it. That was from almost famous. I didn't invent the reigning man I discern the best umbrella with the best work from Kate Hudson to I I'm a big Kate Hudson, Judge of movies but I see one where I don't like good point coming up with Matthew McConaughey and it's it's a goal. It's a very good point. This I think this is the week right here in the media, just like I am, you start to figure out okay.

It's almost here. Things are starting to ramp up the window. I view as the kickoff to the busy period of the sports calendar here in the tryout because last night was the first football game. We have, we had to watch it with the NFL preseason opener which means every week here on till February 8 working to have a college football or an NFL game to talk about the Wyndham is our kickoff to all of that which makes things a lot of it does. I tell my mom talking April football and basketball.

Her birthday was yesterday.

So happy birthday mom if I can say that that and about that will be the last time I really got a good conversation with her till the end of football about Ryan appreciate you being your man watch you tonight at six and 11, the night on W. Excise Sports Record Dr. formic on twitter Drive, formic guys were here in Margaritaville sexual country club site around to the Wyndham championship in just a bit to be talking with Elliott Hamlisch who is the head of the Wyndham rewards top 10 look forward to chatting with the other side Zion Williams the deciding factor in him choosing Jordan brand hello look who's back.

This is sports 609 22 the drive with Josh Graham going by the tournament director of the window razzle is on location with such hill country club inside Margaritaville.

More specifically, what is best if seated is as there is to my right, there's a band playing my lab and there is a golf tournament being played somewhere periphery of this mark, congratulations on the Wyndham rewards top 10 and fielding such a great deal here. You were just talking to our good friend David Glenna comes on right before us and I understand you believe this is the best deal you fat into decade. Well, we told the research and from top to bottom. It is a number of like 1200 and FedEx cup rankings in our a number of the world ranking this term against this is the best for 20 years so that says something about how the FedEx cup season is working with only three point that's really helping us a lot and then we probably restart nine guys in this field are trying to play that way and to stop and we have one of six or eight got the numbers 13 and 14 Webb Simpson and Chas Raby either one of them wins the tournament. What five dollars and besides number four and make an additional 8000 incredible when you look at the highlights Adam Spencer nine underpar in the neat thing is, when it starts to get around the golf course.

The guys having around like that you start to see the patrons convert the way that they did last year with Brent Snedeker shop 1100 window that appear on your radar screen with the Canadian guy. I guess I looked at it after his front nine and 700 through nine holes on my 2828 strokes to get around the front nine okay that's no same number that I think Brent shot either 28 or 27 last year on the back nine.

But it was it was his front nine.

It was his back correct his second shot back nine directorate. The course plan the way you expected.

What is had a lot of rain on the water on this listing place which you just have to go putting yourself in jeopardy. Stop. This allows you to play through the wet conditions and it's not it's not real golf in the fairway shot that's clean place the right course rain well this is very drains very well down all the creeks and and deposit. We have extra dollars on everything you second year here and I'm amazed how well it was draining quite a bit with so much training our last night that I think green 73 was underwater underwater visit was at work tomorrow. Anyway I love you, Chad Cromer and his team brings his own team superintendent. The staff they bring in some others. They help during this week.

How often is market razzle looking you know, believe it or not I can look at it from time to time but I just not sure believe in much of it you know me like today was supposed to wash out not going anywhere like at 4 o'clock we haven't we had not had a drizzle earlier. North Carolina is it's it's just hard about the bathroom whether people but it's hard to predict whether an last year.

I don't know if you remember this they had 80% chance of rain every day on Sunday before the German word. I'm not looking over my boss right time we had for about an hour was it was only when we got one time so I just, you know, I'm not sure believe we certainly look at it. They got their own weather guy toward a and he said something out of reactive two days ago practice around and a lot of the feedback I got from people were here that could not better. 30 minutes signing every autograph he could in his first time returning 2013 seem to want to get in here and what he's gotten here how we perceive well. One of things I can't help because last year this year was it like the eight or something like that on the FedEx cup my so clever that goes from 125 to 70 cuts five players out of the playoffs, that's different. The last one 2500 hundred 7737 George like better shape top 30. So he comes in here and trust. When try to win this thing.

We can and he did not like torture. First time I think that helps us foster six really wants to want to be tortured so we got them last minute work with his agents. British Open sold them over there had a larger discussion with him.

I like you practice without the well looking at the top of the leaderboard with the top three are outside the United States and when I look at the field, the Wyndham has become one of the more international tournament we've seen when you factor the fact that you guys last 60 Have been from overseas and I think the last 23 is not something you know I do put attention to it. I think it's really neat bring in some of the best players internationally know so that these folks here in the Triad want to see some of these guys and I get tousually young guys like Victor Hovland is a kid from Oslo, Norway, and is a great great pleasure to be really good for long time so glad to see him play pretty well, but real quick. Every time he's finished practicing or playing. He doesn't think twice you go straight for the kids any source on any signs.

Everyone well tells me that that his parents brought about right and I know them and he's a humble kid you know he gets probably knowing he's talked to the kids smiled to sell 37 watching Preston is not is not a guy not operational guys sign millions autograph. I know what a pain but will need to remember that they were there and self self is your copy you. I'm super interested in loss on the scene that I do know that he said he and Ricky Fowler's. It's amazing and he said he was in contact with Tiger Woods Tiger Woods is trying to copy automatically qualify for right now is number 10 in the present outstanding.

You know what we wanted to do better. Better and it looks like right now Webb Simpson say that Memphis second last week about wanting in the U.S. Open recently as well. But one of the bigger draws you think you have your local time is it just Wake Forest but Raleigh and Charlotte I think you know when you look at Brent Snedeker and Webb Simpson every people want to see every time they get that first two, you no further opening day.

Maybe on Saturday missed many cuts around here either in the mix like this place. Webb and Shauna. I think what you 62 surround 63 grant Cyber-shot 59 6061. These guys this golf course. They love being here on the web.

This is probably Winston right in their lives in Charlotte. This is really the center of free places that he's got a bit Webb Simpson is 10 underpar five for fifth place through 13 here at Wyndham. I think you plan well enough to love this course is so last year -type or second blessing you can always get bogged down with work when you're working here even on the mediastinum and not just go out in the course and watch any of the guys like I force myself into this course before never it seemed I took him out on the course to put down the phone number to put down my my notepad to go out on the course for an hour and it was just delightful.

Especially with this field.

Considering how much work you have you ever get a chance. I was telling his mother that MMI seen a couple shots but I enjoy everything I do get to watch a lot of what what is the most satisfying thing about well I just love that will bring a first-class event to Greensboro Triad not just people trying to be here with people from Raleigh and Charlotte and even Danville and people open going to come down for the 60. We have people everywhere here that's what I had seen thus the growth that I like. We seen that consistently over the last several years and am looking forward to seeing what's next year for the bank record the Forrest Gump of basketball sports talk about this is 609 20 now back to the drive Josh Graham broadcasting live from the window. Second round that well underway will update you on the scoreboard and story that I think would've been the biggest story we're talking about going into an NFL football around here that doesn't seem like anybody cares about anymore.

I met Eric Reed telling Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer exclusively that he's going to need during the national anthem to Camille and do so for as long as he feels any feels like it's probably going to be during the entire season like the main were all but moved on from the anthem process except for Eric Reed in just a few select others. None of the significant major star players are involved in this and never really was a star player that took me aside from calling Her neck and started it all. A full disclaimer here.

I feel like I need to have this every single time I address, subject I'm neither pro-nor anti-protest.

Michael protest is this doesn't break the law and it does it induce violence. I'm not going to tell you the right or wrong way to protect that's just me.

The NFL did not take action and telling Eric Reed that he had to stand for the same thing to Colin So by all intents and purposes, the anthem protest was legal and it certainly did not incite violence doesn't mean it doesn't matter to me. I don't pay much attention to the protest does not mean that I agree with the cause or disagree with it. My dad's a police officer.

I have cousins were police officers. So when the call is police brutality. My effective audit is a little bit different then say somebody who doesn't have anyone close to them involved in law enforcement, putting that aside, it does seem like that nobody really cares about the fact Eric Reed is taking me anymore.

Everybody has already expressed pretty loudly. One side or the other.

There on what Eric Reed is done so I do feel like it's not going to last the rest of the season. Not because it's going to be stifled by the NFL players Association. Instead, I just think Eric Reed can realize nobody else cares that he's doing.

I remember the back end of the season. He was being and nobody even paid attention to it.

Nobody even has to admit about it in the locker room anymore when it comes to protest things run their course and especially today with a new cycle that we currently have and how tight that is. It's very difficult to expect the same type of protest the same cause to have its duration expanded to 1/3 NFL season. I just don't think that's realistic.

I'd be surprised if he continues to do it. I think you will notice the lack of attention with it and we saw this week. He said he was good at picking me. None of the emails. None of the tweets I got as a result of that were regarding Eric read me at Scott Fowler on the show.

He said it definitely died down. From this time last year when the pampers were mulling over whether to sign a safety sign specifically Eric Reed. The two things. The biggest irony of it all. Now that I think were looking at this thing in hindsight.

The two things that could've ended this process two years ago, year after Rick started this thing before he got blackballed by the way, leading to a lawsuit in which you want to settlement what could've ended. It is the owners just signed up. He said he was going to stand in the fall and nobody needs after telling I don't think that happened.

The second thing is well within the NFL's control. They also just ignored it. I thought steam at the end of the 2017 season. The reason it was ignited and the conversation continued because Donald Trump started talking about it and did not nor what the president was saying that instead tried to force a policy in the last second and not put gasoline on dying embers and ignited it for another for another season. But I think the NFL learned its lesson.

I don't think you're going to touch this. I think it's just going to run its course and nobody's going to care anymore. You gotta figure out another way to get attention for your subject for your calls because I think kneeling during the national anthem. It's completely run its course. 367-7716 under the phone number you shall not support sub Triad if you care to chime in that way. A couple things that were talking about the day were talking about golf, movies I haven't seen 10 top.

I have Caddy shack bagger Vance happy Gilmore is my top three in that order. Then I'm also interested in the sport athletes make look most easy because golf is always at the very top for me right there with baseball but I didn't really consider NASCAR football is an interesting one to me as well. Hockey none of us would even try because were not nearly coordinated enough to stay in the first place, let alone do so backwards and having to hit people and score with other strategic elements to the game 336-777-1600 on Twitter at support sub Triad was in Spartanburg talking to reporters yesterday was the first time he went to one of these media goggles, meeting with 10, 12, 15 reporters since the New Orleans Saints loss at the end of last season. During the off-season when he got his gallows and he set his kickball tournament. He specifically request no questions about football. No questions about my shoulder injury doesn't address it with James Gordon in an interview. All we had was the all or nothing video or make a documentary that documented last year on Amazon and we saw just how severe it was so can walk up to reporters and just as he's been really all throughout training To this point has been no sign of Superman. It's just more candid cautious cam Newton, who had no problem talking about her shoulder and answering questions here something that he had to say in response to whether or not he was relieved to be able to throw that football last week 35 to 40 yards to let it rip it away cut it. Last year there were standard sign of relief for a lot of people.

I wasn't writing, so behind the scenes to make sure that I'm in the capabilities that I know I can steam expects me to be. That was yesterday.

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It is as young jock once said it is going down, imagine how frustrating last year must've been for candid frustrating and terrified where you're an athlete, your entire life pretty much are playing football or at least three quarters of it is 30 years old, so I imagine 25 of those years spent playing football and you been relying on the physical abilities God gave you an order to win a Heisman Trophy and win a national championship and to be a number one pick in the draft and furthermore the NFL MVP with the Carolina Panthers and to go to a Super Bowl it is that physical skill set that no other player at that position is ever had that gotten him here, but also that athleticism that kept him on the field with the injury that no other quarterback in the league would've been left in the game playing against the brown against the saints. There's no other quarterback I'm convinced please that game, no matter how bad the backup option is KM is so good they thought he could win football games better chance to win football games with a quarterback that could not physically.

And if your cam your mind still telling you that open receiver is body would not do would not execute what his brain was communicating to the rest of his body that has to be terrifying. And I think that's what I heard when cam Newton was talking right there, a little bit of caution yeah I threw about 3540 yards last week. That doesn't mean I'm 100% right now that doesn't mean I'm back.

You don't see what's going on behind the scenes at home trying to prepare my body on a daily basis just to complete training can doesn't mean you won't get there.

That doesn't mean you won't be able to play the VP level last year it was six into an he was at 69% completion percentage. During that time. 10 points higher than it was any other point in his career with a banged up shoulder into thousand 1711 and five request 33,000 yards passing on the season.

He was able to do that with a bum shoulder and start doing that I'm not questioning it but it was just interesting that KM usually can take away any question by just watching her smile flashed a good show decided to be introspective and thought and candid and just crosses when talking about a folder that was an interesting decision. You are listening to WSU Salem doubles Greensboro, High Point one of your listening whatever signal it is. We appreciated it is the Triad sports up with Josh Graham, 609 20 record first arrived with no more because every year I always love reading, bringing telling us what's happening, what's taking place here last hour and 20 years here when you look around and taken to another level.

So you really don't what you think the story is candy right now… On the leaderboard now with what you like about standing like these and other really low while one really go one day to include himself hanging around room right now around when you look at the rain.

I really thought when you loan number. I really do not drain you in the fairway want to rain and we have a lot of really expect Rose Lake Road water out of the dam or not.

I magically do, and they lost last got it ready this morning amazing around every year.

This secret range of condition zero like do anything about it being one of the shorter court for driver bag guys rain. What options do you really try anything green golf course is the condition of the green anywhere and harden with us here on twitter and_hearted from the Greensboro news and record what you think makes this course or challenge is not a charmer, where you can go out and sleep on one issue in this term you need everybody you tournament official that next year since the week off next year. Aside from the four lawyers reason they didn't come this well also lose $500,000 and an impact talk to him to change this week will talk to and it looks like John will drop down to which these guys are thousand dollars one last night. The international aid of the last 1623 L here are from overseas. What you make of it is this feeling is made up for a lot of those are international whatever reason there are a lot of internationals coming to the American game now American colleges and their coming out ready to play international history of the last 23 what you think primary is obviously local. You playing somewhere so close to home, whatever like living in Charlotte Wake Forest Raleigh and I but on top of that is 13th in the FedEx cup when the report noted on top of that, the president standing atop automatically qualified appointment Tiger Woods in the Ryder Cup what you think top of my poison into right down to display the course feels like one last so be one of the top players in the game is recognized and again and he knows he can come here this week except for the win at all.

You go area for a long time I think about Triad area. I really feel like the window and how room when the reward and help players usually proceed playing here in Brownsville. I think wise in the calendar wouldn't have been for a long time to attract a lot of this is a party largely try and very well know you are aware what 12 years ago this tournament has a history of reinventing itself over and over there everybody, nobody money out of much of money is more than once. JC's Jason big-money people come in and take over all got involved what I love the most. You have a great respect about it when you hear the other four years ago is something that sticks out this one something that you always draw back on when you think that you would mind reading course notes did nothing wrong but they save this golfer and got schooling again.

There was a time there was more than one sculptor fall beyond the fall season and talk about drop it off entirely with web.com. Thousands think of 2007. They made the move come across the road so to always appreciate your insight think playing along with and harden your heart and bring.com and the Greensboro news. Interesting stuff was. I am soon and also cam Newton Drive