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Welcome to\u00a0GOLF.com\u2019s\u00a0\u201cSeen & Heard<\/a>\u201d video series, where we\u2019ll endeavor to give you an inside look at golf\u2019s biggest events through the eyes and ears of our onsite crew. On deck this week: The\u00a02023 Open Championship from Royal Liverpool Golf Club<\/a>. Let\u2019s go!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICYMI: John Lennon’s house and a round at West Lancashire | Inside Day 1 at the Open Championship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All of the GOLF.com on-site crew has officially arrived in Hoylake and they’re hitting the ground running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a day of getting their bearings at the host of this year’s Open Championship, Day 2 at Royal Liverpool was one of exploration. Even amid a busy day of press conferences, the abroad team made sure they got out of the media center (centre?) to check out all the sights and sounds Hoylake has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Colgan, GOLF.com’s resident media insider, shared that Nick Faldo would be back in the booth<\/a> calling the action this week. And, coincidentally, the crew ran into Sir Nick on their walk to the course.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Basically, he’s just kind of obsessed with working,” James says. “Came back out of retirement for this.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s not the only famous media run-in the team had on the day, though. Once they got through the gates, James ran into NBC broadcaster and fellow Syracuse alum Mike Tirico,<\/a> who gave some insight on what to expect from the course this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a lot greener than it was in 2006,” Tirico says. “If you go back and watch the [Tiger] Woods highlights in ’06, it has a brown [look]. One gentleman who used to be the head of the R&A would refer to it as ‘biscuit brown.’ You think of a biscuit over here, that color defines links golf in a warm summer. They’ve had a lot of rain here and it has not been that warm. This is the one spot in the world that has not had record-breaking heat in the summer … It was more like this in ’14, but not even this green.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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The lush conditions are sure to be welcome for the players who won’t have to navigate the baked-out conditions of yesteryear, but that doesn’t mean things will be easy. Especially with the interesting local rule the R&A will implement this week as it pertains to out of bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 18th hole, there is internal out of bounds<\/a> all along the right side of the fairway. The hole might look wide open and playable, but with the threat of a stroke-and-distance penalty with any loose shot, it becomes a knee-knocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Very very nervy,” senior editor Sean Zak says. “That’s one of the key things about Hoylake.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come Sunday, it very well could help decide who hoists the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the entire Day 2 recap from Hoylake in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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