Charlie Woods Mic'd Up 9-Hole Practice Round at TPC Sawgrass

Hey guys, I'm Charlie Woods. Come play the back nine at TPC Sawgrass with me. All right, hole 10. I think it's like 295 to the run out. Should just be a good three wood at the base of that big tree over there. Straight through the middle of the fairway. Yeah, good ball. Aw, thanks Manny. So kind. Perfect. Wow, what a club. What a caddy. You're one for one. One for one. I'm so glad. It's definitely not driver. Yeah, it's not a hard hole, but people can make it a hard hole. I don't remember what I hit last year. Probably you're hitting a three iron of some sort. Like it's just muggy after that rain. All right, we got 155 back into stiff breeze. I think if I flight an 8, 160. I like 60. Yeah, like a flighted 160 ball. Yeah, eight iron. Should be good. Please go in. Oh my god. That'll work. It's not bad to start. No. I told you I'd get you a good number. Thank you, Manny. All right, well that looks like a gimme. So there we go. What a start. We got one more year left of school. Yeah, one more year high school. And then I think I leave. I think the date for when I leave is August like 15th. So it's just under 12 months left. Pretty much. Can you handle that one? I think I need to read, Manny. Firm and center, buddy. I'm gonna go plumb bob. Good putt. Good bird. Oh, it's a good start. One through one. Ain't no complaints. What's going through your mind right now? Course record watch? I'm on course record watch. Yeah. We're going for 56. Okay. Nine holes. Yeah, nine holes. Yeah. The Viking? Bjorn? I named him Bjorn. Yeah. I think on the website it said that it was a Norwegian Viking. Oh. No, but it was under Sweden. Was it? Yeah. On the website it said Norwegian. No way. Yes. I gotta look into that. I'm telling you. Manny came down last weekend. I was struggling with the driver. So he came down. We tested a bunch of drivers. We ended up actually in the same shaft that we fit in at the junior. Yeah, at the US junior. Yeah. This one's a little more fade bias because I wanted to see it cut more and take the left side of the golf course out of play. So this one wants to fall more right than my other one did. Yeah. QI4D 10.5 core head. Yeah. It's at one, I think, half a degree. Half a degree lower. Stronger. Yeah. Okay. This is one of those holes that's full go, buddy. Yeah. Is it, like, what, right at that tree out there? Yeah. You see the V? I would probably start it there, have it peel back, like, that 5-10 yard cut that you like to hit just right of it. Okay. Really good, dude. Is that gonna catch it? Oh, yeah. Perfect. Didn't really want to move too much. That was a really good swing, though. That cut the perfect amount. Yeah. It started a little off. One click left. I need to fact check this. I'll fact check. Are you fact checking? I want to fact check this. All right. Just got to keep scrolling. There it is. Sweden! Oh, it did say. Show the camera. No. Wait, wait, wait. Scroll. Sweden head covers. I feel like you changed in the website. Well, why don't we tell the people at home why you wanted Bjorn the Swedish head cover on your driver? It just felt right. Well, tell them the real reason. Well, my mom's from Sweden, and all my family is from Sweden, so they all live over there. Yeah. It's a beautiful reason to have that head cover. It's a little homage to your home away from home. All right, Charlie. I don't know if I can get there. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're at a position on a par 5. We got to lay up. Yeah, but I want to go for it, though. I'm not, but I want to. What's the layup? The layup, so if you look at the book, you got that tree there, right? That's at 140. Can we not hit over the trees? It's not what I'm seeing, but if you hit it, listen, listen, if you hit it here, which is, I'd say, at 180 shot over the left edge of this tree, you're going to be left with 106 to the front edge. So it's still going to give you a wedge. All right, what do you got? I got 7 iron. Okay, how far are you hitting it? I don't really know. 170 maybe? Yeah, I wouldn't hit it. Just try to take a little off it. Yeah, with the wind, I wouldn't hit it more than 175. Down ball. Oh, we're on dry land. Fine, a little heavy. A little bit. You actually, I mean, it's going to work out. I feel like you're still going to have a decent number because you hit it further left. I mean, would you actually even consider hitting that? I would, I really would. Just overdraw it, you know? What are you hitting, though? Probably 3 iron. Wow. It'll get to the front edge, just short left, easy pitch. Why did you pay me to caddy you, dude? Yeah, that's why you're here, Manny, to tell me not to do that stuff. 81 flag, 71 to cover the bunker, like to the front edge. So you probably want to land this around 75 because I got a downhill lie. It's out of the rough. Yeah, so it should be a good 75 shot. Start it just left of it and have it fall right. Yeah, ready to go. Perfect. It's perfect. Shot. Hey, we're putting. Yeah, let's take it. It's the right spot to be. Birdie, birdie, start. Not too bad. Got to make this putt first, though. It's always the hard part. Would you rather tell yourself that, like birdie, birdie, start before you have this putt to hit? Because I definitely wouldn't want to be saying that. I don't know. I don't think it changes the putter at all. Birdie in the first. It's always kind of a curse thing. Yeah, hopefully we overcome that today. Not today. So I'm, I'm very visual and kind of field based. JT actually a couple years ago tried to teach me how to do aim point. And I, I failed miserably, but I kind of see a line. So if I'm looking at this putt, I'll see the, I'll see it roll like up in here and have it kind of come in and go probably make it at like at a certain point in the cup. So I'll see it breaking and what speed it's going to go in at. So when I putt, all I try to do is try to roll it over this, like for this putt to be like right here and have it go in at a certain speed with a certain part of the cup. Oh gosh. Good catch, Cole. It hopped so hard on you. I knew you had it. Hey, there we go. Two, two. There we go. Bang. Uh, hole 12. It's a short par four. Uh, can't quite go for it today because the tees are back. So we're going to lay up with three wood because I think the runouts like 300. I just want to make sure this thing cuts. That any good? Should be money there. Yep. Nice. Perfect. Good ball. We're in the fairway. Yeah, that was sick. That was a good. I mean, honestly, when depending, like it could get stronger than this. Yeah. Like it's literally just full choice of what you want. Especially with this land. A good 15 mile an hour wind. Okay. Pin is front. A 91 flag. I think a flighted 95 just right of the flag stick. And then it should spin left. Didn't really turn it over. Straight ball. Good spot. So I got the TW grind in the 56. Because I used to use them in both. And then it was actually sawgrass last year. We got the SX in play, which is a little bit of a wider soul with more bounce. It's really nice out of the bunkers. And those like softer conditions with it being shaved off like right here. It's really nice off tight. It's really nice off tight lies too. So it's kind of like an all around wedge for me. And then I don't use a gap wedge. Which most people, most players do. But Mandy and I can get into that a little later on in the video. I think I just, I need to roll it like right up into here. And the grain should take it at the end. Yeah. No. Sit on the high side. 203. I wouldn't say a disappointing par, but it's a solid par. The next hole should be a decently long par three. But wind should be helping, so it shouldn't be too bad. Just try to get out of here with three on this next hole and move on. So we got the P7TWs. I actually, I used to use a graphite set and they were a lot lighter. And then as I got a little older, I switched to, started to go a little heavier. And then I went to steel shafts. After that, I was like, they just didn't feel right. So I just kind of started to use my dad's clubs and we bent them, I think two degrees flat from his specs. And then it just kind of, we went from there on these. And I haven't really changed them since. You got 161 here. Wind's down off the left, like we said. I'm going to try to ride the wind because wind's coming off the left of here. Yep. So if I start it just left of the flag, kind of in between the bunker and the flag there, it should fall right for me. Perfect. Maybe cut it a yard. Yeah. That should help the cause of my distance. Yep. I just got to go. Go! Fly! All right, we're putting. Can I front edge? We can chip it or putt it, but I mean, definitely the spot to miss. Yeah, we'll take it. So yeah, I mean, Charlie plays his irons pretty weak. He just, the way he delivers the club to the ball. My wedge is what, 49? Yeah. Plays a pitching wedge at 49 degrees. So I've seen a lot of my buddies have gap wedges at 48. Yep. And then, yeah, when someone's hitting eight iron, I feel really bad about myself after I'm chipping at six iron. Yeah. It's all about hitting it closer. Yeah. It's not a great hit for the ego though. Oh, almost stayed up there for you. Almost. Well, player's choice. You can chip this or putt this. What would you do tournament-wise? In tournament, I'd probably putt it because the fringe would normally be a little less sticky, but I kind of want to chip it for fun because why not? What do you chip that, 56? I'll go 56. Should have like, it's like 20 feet just off the green. It's back into the green. You got to make sure you catch ball first here. Pin in or pin out, guy? We'll go out. Have some fun with it. Oh, it checked. All right. Well, we'll tap it in with the wedge. Easy putt. All right. Two under three, four. We've cooled off. We've cooled off, unfortunately. But it's a good three though. Long par four. Do not hit it left. This is one where Manny is telling me to slice it and don't go left. These are Charlie's notes. Driver, do not, do not underline go left. A lot of times it's good for me to kind of just get it out and just get it out of my system that, all right, left's no good here. And then kind of switch it over to more of a positive, like right's a good miss. Let's stay on that side. Just because like if I try to hit a bigger cut here and then it doesn't cut, it brings that left in. So if I start it more middle and then try to cut it a little less, my left miss becomes a little less dangerous and the right ball's fine. The right side. Do exactly what you said you were going to do. Up the right side. Perfect. We will take it and move on. Yep. Good ball. The do not go left worked. That looked nice, dude. Okay. You got 186, 168 cover. Not much room behind it. Seven, seven could go long. Okay. But I don't think eight gets there. Okay. I'd rather just take kind of chip a seven. Yeah. I feel like that. I have a little more control over that. Yep. Ooh, that's a big gust though. Yeah. Now with that gust, it's eight. It's eight. It's just a good stock eight. It's like middle of the green probably. Yeah. Perfect. It's the right spot to be. Wow. That's a ter miss right there. Not really a birdie hole when we're saying don't go left off the tee, right? Don't go left. Don't go long. Pars are good. There's a lot of don'ts. Pars are good. We haven't had a long one yet today so far. So I keep it very similar and very... I don't try to change how I read putts based on distance. So I'll still see it roll. So like in this case, I see the ball rolling like right in here. And then I just really try to visualize what the ball is going to do on each slope and how fast it's moving. The main thing is just really try to see the putt before I hit it. So I can get a good feel on it. And that's how I judge pace. It's really the main thing here. Oh gosh, that's slow. Go. It's unfortunate. A little meat left. Putt to save par. I mean, that was your first putt over five feet you hit today or I guess 15 feet. So just getting the speed down. Oh, went right. Oh no. Went right at the end. All right, I'll give you that one. Oh, thanks, man. Next hole is a good one. Yep, 15. It's a good tee ball. So longish par four, we got driver. It's kind of in between driver and 3-wood. It's really just player's choice. 3-wood takes the run out out of play. But with the conditions we have today, with it being softer, a little wet, and this wind kind of hurting, drivers should be fine. Just try to keep it up the right side. Be right bunker. Not the worst spot in the world. Right idea. Yeah. We got 166 out of the bunker. I think the wind, if anything, there's not much. It should be hurting. Like hurting it off the right. I play these bunker shots pretty similar to how I do regular. So the main two things is choke up on it a little bit and then try to catch it a little thin. Hopefully it works out. Worked out pretty nicely, I think. We got like 18 feet, I'd say. Right to left. Grain's taking it pretty hard. Say hi. Oh no. Can't even blame the flag stick. Didn't touch it. I literally was just like, dude, I think we need to take the flag out. I didn't even touch it. But all right. Tap in par. We got a par five coming up next. So this, this is one of the, one of the holes where for me, because I have a weird bag set up and don't play gap wedge, I'd go up to three iron. And then I have a driving iron and then I'd switch that out with seven wood. So they both go around 240, 245. But it's, it's really more like a different flight. Right. Like this hole is where that seven wood would be nice back into the breeze. I can kind of get away with it with seven wood. So I'm leaning towards seven wood this week. Yeah. You still got a couple. I still got another day to figure it out. You got your line? I don't. Well, you see the tree Island. If you split that and keep it within the green of the Island, you're perfect. Okay. So like just up the left edge. All right. Left edge of the fairway. Here's the, is the optimal line. Yep. Fairway. Good ball. Little rut of our line, but it's in the fairway. We will take it and run. We got two 39 flag balls. A little above my feet here. Three iron shouldn't be able to get there, but I've got seven wood. Cause I think I'm gonna go seven wood this week rather than the two iron. Just make a stock two 40 shot. I'll spawn it. Go. All right. We're dry. I think it's putting. We are putting in dry. I overcompensated for the hill. Mission accomplished. Good shot. Little, little thin heel ball there. It's fine. Good miss. I think we're putting though. I can't see the ball. I'm just kind of guessing. No, we're putting. All right. That is one where you don't want to hit it right. Right. But it worked out. So no complaints here. Uh, same as 14, you got to like 40 footer uphill. At least you know how hard to hit it now. So it's going a little left early and then it should straighten out. There's a little ridge old that I have to putt over. So we'll see what we got here. Nope. All right. We got it there. You got a good, get a good birdie look. Yeah. Good birdie. All right. We made birdie. All right. Onto the famous hole. Yeah. What, uh, for this one all day. What are your thoughts? Tournament, uh, tournament round going into walking down to 17. Don't hosel shank it. Are you serious? There's no way that's your actual thought. Dude, I'm just trying to make contact. I think right now my record in the soul is four greens in regulation and four two putts. I'm hoping we can keep that streak. I mean, I didn't, we didn't come all the way up here just to hit it in milligrain. We're Hey, we're, we're dry. We're putting, I will take it. It didn't cut though. Didn't want to hit like a white one that like plugged in the bunker. It's fine. Safely aboard three days is great on, on the green. We'll take that every day. Let's let's get it to the hole pal. All right. We got like 50 feet. It's got a, up a big ridge going left to right. It's breaking a good bit, like three, four feet. Another one. Just try to get the speed right here. All right. Honestly, not bad, but we will take it. But nice three. All right. We made a three. Take those threes. All right. 18 is a T ball. I've been, I've been thinking about for a while. Okay. Talk me through it. Just another, another golf hole in it. Yeah. It's a weird one though. Cause drivers drivers just a lot. Yep. And you kind of have to take it over the corner, but three would, it's probably a three wood. Okay. Um, just cause I don't have to take it over the corner. Yep. It's easier to draw it for me. Cause seven, seven was just not enough. Cause I hit, I hit three iron or two iron last year and had a long way in. Okay. So I think it's just a good, good three wood down there. Yeah. I like it. I've been thinking about this tee shot for a while. That first tree is 270. That next one's 300 through. Okay. We're never getting to that 300 one on that line. So you've got more room, right? Than you think. Yeah. I kind of want to have some fun with it and hit like a stinger draw. This is your world, dude. Yeah. You know, might as well. Wow. I mean, how money is that? That's gotta be such a good tracer. That was awesome. I really wanted to do that. I've seen it on TV so much. I'm like, I have to try this. That was, that was probably one of the coolest shots I've ever seen. That was a great one. It rose with the fairway actually carried kind of far and then took off, like hit the jets. Like that's, that's where driver would have, I think almost gotten to. That was sick. That's one of the, that's one of the coolest shots I've hit. I mean, I've seen it on TV. I'm like, I have to, I have to give this a try. Uh, 196 out of the rough, but this rough isn't really penalizing at all. Uh, wind off the right. If anything is a touch of help. Uh, don't, don't really want to be long here. Just kind of middle of the greens. Like a good ball. 180 shot. Just right on the flog stick. Oh, slip. Catch it. Are you putting? Hey, we'll take it. We'll take it right on this hole. We had a birdie putt on 18. Birdie putt on 18. I'm happy. That was a very well struck nine holes, my friend. I will take it. Yeah. Swing was a little better than last weekend when you came down. Dang. Colby got me down. All that matters is it's ready now. Yeah. Game time. For this putt to finish. It's all uphill going, going left the entire way. It's more so going left early in this first ridge. I mean, this is just another one. Just try to get the speed right here and really visualize the speed here. Oh my gosh. That broke a lot more. Oh, and it's short. All right. We got work to do. All right. Grains going a little left towards the water. Black Hill wants to kick it right early though. It might. I think we're from where you're starting, but it should be coming. It's going to kind of want to fall last. Should be coming through with enough speed. A little double breaker. Just try to get this there. Oh. Didn't kick right early. All right. Good work. We'll take an under par nine holes out here. Yeah. Anytime. Thank you. Pleasure, buddy. Pleasure. Yeah. Thank you guys for watching. That was the back nine at TPC Sawgrass. Shot, I think one under par. And hope to see you guys soon. Catch you next time.