Open Championship Preview: Hole-by-Hole Breakdown + Heat Wave At Royal Birkdale Cillian Murphy [TDAfQrwFS4n]

Smylie Kaufman joins Charlie Hulme for a major championship preview edition of The Smylie Show, this time reporting on-site from Royal Birkdale ahead of the 154th Open Championship. Smylie's fresh off practice-round scouting with Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns and Tommy Fleetwood, and the two off campus break down how a UK heat wave has left the course baked kamloops water main break out, brown, and playing firmer and faster than usual with wind direction doing wild things to distance and club selection all week.

Plus: a full hole-by-hole walkthrough of Royal Birkdale using the R&A's course guide and Padraig Harrington's notes on each hole, including the redesigned par-3s and the new 13th where Jordan Spieth made his iconic bogey in 2017. They close it out james charles with contender picks for the week & dark horse names to watch out for.

Before all that: Charlie cranks the office heat and a fan to "simulate" Birkdale conditions, and Smylie details a rough night of jet lag getting into town.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro: heat wave banter & simulating Birkdale conditions

2:23 Smylie's practice round report (Scheffler, Burns, Fleetwood)

3:34 Course strategy: wind, firmness & club selection

6:46 UK heat wave, dry conditions & Open Championship ice cream

8:36 Hole 1

10:41 Hole 2

12:30 Hole 3

14:48 Hole 4

17:53 Hole 5

22:14 Hole 6

25:00 Hole 7

26:53 Hole 8

28:12 Hole 9

31:57 Hole 10

33:52 Hole 11

37:08 Hole 12

39:18 Hole 13

43:06 Hole 14

47:15 Hole 15

50:43 Hole 16

54:14 Hole 17

56:06 Hole 18

57:28 Course wrap-up: what to watch for at Royal Birkdale

59:41 Open Championship picks & dark horses

1:09:56 Sign-off & what's coming this week

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