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LIV Golf Hong Kong Preview - The League Itself Podcast - Episode 62

·1 hr 3 min·5 clips

Can Anthony Kim prove his Adelaide win wasn't a fluke on a course that perfectly fits his game?

Hong Kong starts with sleep math. The hosts are trying to want every round while also admitting the U.S. window is brutal. South Africa will make life easier later, but first comes this stop, the opening grind of a heavy three-week run. They like the course enough to suffer for it. The actual plan sounds less glamorous: alarms, bits and pieces, and catching the finish when the body allows it. Once the schedule complaints are out of the way, the preview gets sharper. Putting matters here, and last year's Hong Kong numbers give Peter Uihlein's T6 a pretty clean explanation through a strong strokes-gained putting profile. Phil Mickelson stays in the conversation as a what-if. If he were playing, one host had him as a top-10 candidate. This is also the kind of event where weird names do not feel that weird for long. The hosts point back to Martin Kaymer being a solo leader two years earlier, which keeps them from laughing off the stranger parts of the board. Graeme McDowell becomes the long-shot case: T8 and T12 history in Hong Kong, plus a 150-to-1 price that is at least worth staring at twice. Matt Wolff is the cleaner argument. He sounds wrong for the course at first. Then the numbers show up: fifth off the tee, seventh in approach, and second in Data Golf ball striking. That changes the room. His T45 and T42 here do not exactly sell the ticket, but his current tee-to-green form keeps him alive. That is the episode's groove. A player sounds off, the stats get checked, the course fit gets argued, and the hosts decide whether the surprise is real or just noise. Caleb Surratt gets that treatment too, with the 75-62 split from last year and his putting reputation leaving room for a run. AK lands in a more realistic lane. Nobody is calling a win, but a top-10 after the Adelaide attention would mean something on a course that fits him. By the end, the hosts sound tired already and still completely in. Three straight weeks of LIV Golf are fun, long, grueling, and exactly the kind of league stretch they want to grind through with listeners.

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A Hong Kong preview that balances rough U.S. viewing times with course fit, recent data, and a few live long-shot names.

This Hong Kong preview gives equal weight to the schedule and the golf itself. The U.S. viewing window is rough, and the next three weeks are framed as a long LIV run.

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Hong Kong sleep schedule, sleeper picks, and a course where the numbers do the talking.

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